Why I Didn't Write

Why I didn't write...

1. recuperating from an accident scare
2. excited over the arrival of my sis and baby Lucas
3. No internet connection at home
4. new home is still 80% undone...demoralised
5. 7th month
6. busy gorging myself with food
7. no hello kitties on my birthday..BUT got a cool ipod, courtesy of TS.
8. submitted the hardbound thesis
9. fussing over the curtain designs and cost

You're My Hero

Hello Kitty simply looks too angelic, even in a Zorro suit and cape. Can you imagine a life size Hello Kitty in this suit? I would like to see one in front of me. It would be hilarious.

What if there is no tomorrow?

Something happened, and I don't wish to elaborate on it. Met with an accident. But all I can say is, I was reminded again, that we have to treasure our loved ones now because you never know what will happen tomorrow. I always have this paranoid feeling that I will never live long, maybe it's got to do with my background. And I have seen death more than once. I know what it is like to see someone going through it. But with all busy lives that we live and the "take for granted" attitude when we get too complacent with life, cherishing your loved ones becomes all forgotten.

What happened had got me thinking about the past. Too much to say, too little to cherish. I could not get over what happened, so I gorged myself with food, and some super unhealthy ones at lunch today. This is what I ate for lunch at the NIE canteen, in order to appearance:

1. fried mee goreng
2. chicken wings
3. fried potatoes
4. chocolate cake
5. camomile tea
6. apple

For me, I am going to "live like I never lived before, and eat like I never eaten before". Till I get over, feel better and regained my sanity. The only thing that can uplift my spirits now is to see a thousand hello kitties dancing in front of me...

Encounter with the third dimension??

Sugar, my golden has been behaving rather strangely these days, ever since the 1st day of the Hungry Ghost Festival which was 3 days ago. She usually goes to a huge grass patch near our place and likes to run and poos there. But this time round, when we brought her down, she refuses to go to there. She would be dragging on the floor, you can imagine. Yesterday, I brought her there again, she sniffed around for a long time in one corner edge of the field and quickly ran off from it. And she was really in a hurry to leave the place. It was scary. I was scared. And Ryan said, he was going down with me because he knows I will be scared. So sweet.

Really wonder what she sensed, or feels. Ryan said she has been looking into one of the rooms in my mother in law's place and looking quite intently for awhile. They said dogs can sense these things. I just hope she does NOT start howling one fine day during this time of the month, that will probably freak me out. She is a really timid and quiet doggie. If I was reprimanding Ryan, you will see her slowly retreating away, to a corner of the room with eyes looking down. That's a guilty looking dog for you.

Work has began!

We have finally gotten our keys, after some hoohah from the lawyer's office. And demolition work has begun, the false ceiling beams has gone down. Because it is the hungry ghost festival, we had to use a hammer to knock all corners of the house before we start work. Better to act upon then to ignore. We have gone through the final revisions to our design, not doing anything fancy, but we are going for a classic modern design for a comfortable and cosy feel. We have all the furniture ready to be moved in as soon as the cleaning is completed. Our designer gave us a timeline and we could sort of monitor what is happening at each stage. Some pictures of a showflat that looks ultra posh to live in!And the colour scheme is definitely so me.

Good Times is topped with a Awfully Good Ice cream

my new haircut, not much of a difference though... food centre @ Jalan Kuras yummy...It is awfully good and awfully ex too. Rich chocolate ice cream, there are only two I know, awfully choc and haagen daz.

We took a visit to our previous homeplace and had our favourite ice cream and had our hair done at our hairdresser there. It is really a nice place to stay, with Pierce reservoir opposite and amenities that are not your usual neighbourhood mega shopping mall and foodcourt. Here, we can enjoy lush greeny have quiet moments away from the bustling crowd in those new neighbourhood estates. If you happen to be around this area, check out the bread shop that is open from 7pm through the night. Remember those good old smell of old fashioned bread? Crowd there everyday to buy those sweet smelling bread...it's good!

NDP 2007

It is Singapore's birthday tomorrow! This time of the year gives me flashbacks of those days in NDP 05 when I went through the whole preparation as one of the conductors of the NDP choir. You will not realise the whole magnitude of it all unless you have been a part of it. It was gruelling alright...what viewers see on TV is the the culmination of a lot of hard work put in for months and months. Weekends burnt, I burnt under the hot sun, students burnt and perspire, smelling like sour milk left around for days under layers and layers of costume, people faint, tempers flare, and all you can imagined in that hot months of July and August.

But through it all, NDP 2005 was an event to remember. The four of us (the conductors) had so much fun. These are some memories we had as NDP conductors 2007:

1)Our matching white costumes which send students walking pass singing to the tune of the Wedding March
2)Who can forget the vietamnese inspired cheongsam that looked made us look a little like high class dimsum waitresses?
3)Running after the milo cart in eagerness for cups and cups of milo in all of our glory
4)Laughing at each other's makeup and hairdo (some trials ones looking like characters from Simpsons)
5)Running in to the show halfway in front of thousands of people with heels and all because the show couldn't wait for our hair to be done
6)Braving the sun and rain...and smiling despite it all
7) Inching our way with our students to get a picture of Taufik Batisah (Singapore Idol then)
8) Sharing jokes with students, taking pictures with them.
9) Being treated like divas every weekend.
10) Having KFC every weekend!

Can you spot me in front of the choir? :)

Let's Kick Start the Week!

Part of the legacy of people like Ella Baker and Septima Clark is a faith that ordinary people who learn to believe in themselves are capable of extraordinary acts, or better, of acts that seem extraordinary to us precisely because we have such an impoverished sense of the capacities of ordinary people. If we are surprised by what these people accomplished, our surprise may be a commentary on the angle of vision from which we view them.

Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom

Dream a Little Dream...of Paradise on Earth

I have found the paradise to get some sanity back from the hustle and bustle. Voted the NUMBER 1 beach resort in Asia, it must be quite a place. This place is going to be the next stop in my holiday calendar. I cannot afford to go too far and this will probably be the first and last holiday for this whole year! Don't know why, but this year seems to pass very quickly...can you believe it is August already??

See those suntanning benches? I can already imagine myself, sitting by the beach, sipping a cool glass of ice lemon tea with TS and Ryan now. It is Friday! I can afford to Dream A Little...

Can you see 3-D?

Question: Cut this orange into 8 equal parts with just 3 cuts. Can you figure out the answer?

Thoughts From a 'Critical' Car Critic

We went to the launch of the volkswagon Jetta. We somewhat agree that there is no 'nice' car that really deserve that kind of money. I mean, how to justify paying 100 grand? After countless test drives on Japanese makes, we just could not gratify paying even half that 100grand...just don't feel safe at all, the car feels like taking off after 90km/hr or some that took forever to pick up speed. Okay, just admit it, we are real fussy people when it comes to the car we drive. These are some of our quirks about getting a car:

1) Design - is it a timeless and classic design?
2) Comfort - seating space, leg room...
3) Doors - does the whole car shakes when the door shuts?
4) Dashboard - look at Saab cockpit dashboard, that's the benchmark
4) Sides of car door - leathered? or just plastic exposed?
5) Pickup speed - if you see vans overtaking you, ahem...time to turn back.
6) Fuel consumption - does this baby drinks alot and leaves you dry?
7) Body of car - it matters if you want a safe car that won't be bumped off.
8) Boot space - not too much a factor but must be decent size
9) Backside - think twice about mpvs or hatchback cars especially if you have children sitting at the back. After this, you will notice how close your head to the window frame of the back and you will imagine...some cars, only leave 5cm of space between the back window and your head!
10) Horn - this matters!

Remembered one day when someone beeped me from behind and I really thought it was a small car, cos it sounded like a..."BEEP". When I took a look, it was hilarious to see a huge hyundai sante fe. Just imagine a big guy speaking in high registered folsetto voice. Doesn't it occur to the car-makers that the car should have a voice that match its outlook?

Well, a solid car to us must come with solid doors, and a power pact solid horn. It is the voice of the car, after all. So we have decided, if there is no solid, car out there within our means, we are staying put with our van, aka our bumper car, which we have no complaints at all. It is one hell of a solid van. You rock, Bumper!