the speed of time

Moving Forward

2009-03-12T07:24:00.002+08:00

My wonderful husband has been doing a fantastic job and I'm enjoying every minute with him. However I still feel insecure.

Moving forward means having to leave some things behind. Maybe I'm trying too hard to drag everything and everyone along with me.

It's an emo day. :(

First update after the Wedding - Sad pics of naked men

2009-03-03T22:25:00.004+08:00

Whoa haven't updated for so long... Kinda dusty in here -cough-

So much to say about the wedding! Want to complain about vendors, spill the bloopers and most importantly Give Thanks!.... but I'm still waiting for more photos from our photographers to go along with the post.

Just wanna comment about the article I read on MSN news: http://news.sg.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=2678362&page=1

About two dozen male students wanted to state the bare facts and voice what they say is the naked truth … so they staged a nude protest around the streets of Manila's "University Belt".
The light-hearted demonstration by members of the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity was a comic response to a column written in a Philippine newspaper columnist that had branded the group as a 'gang'.
The students also took the opportunity to complain about a looming tuition fee increase.
They want the Philippine government to impose moratorium on fee hikes due to the global economic crisis.
As you can see they had nothing to hide except their faces.
Monday's protest drew a big (and highly amused) crowd. Police officers were at hand but took no action.
Clicks on the numbered boxes for more images ...

I know they were doing it for a good reason - The amount undergrads pay since our time have been (increasingly) disgusting (especially when you know where the money goes. Ask Eugene!).

However, the focus shifts when they tell you at the end that there were 9 pics showing them in full glory. Like any normal person you'd click! That's what I did, and all that were shown were skinny racks of ribs and blurred out pruney butts.

Wah lau. No wonder they wore ski masks... :p

Painting and Pirates of the Caribbean

2009-01-25T15:53:00.002+08:00

On Chu Xi, I'm painting door frames and practising "He's a Pirate" , the theme song from Pirates of the Caribbean.

If only you can see me playing our grand piano with paint on my clothes and hair in between drying coats.

The goal is to upload my first piano video on YouTube. Have seen other Pirate videos and a lot of them are playing a simpler version - the left hand is not as gruelling as the one I've been practising. And the comments to them were good job u're a genius I wish I could play like you. I wonder what sort of comments I will get.

Woo hoo.

Very soon, I will be famous.

Ok better stop dreaming. Who do I think I am? I'm F***ing painting doors on Chu Xi!!

Restlessness

2009-01-22T22:07:00.003+08:00

That's what I'm feeling nowadays. My friend was telling me that she wants to quit her job and take up something really different, like flower arrangement. I thought it was a great idea and I'd like to join her - she'll do flowers and I'll grow bonsais into vulgar shapes.

Today was a no-lesson day and I spent the time re-typing 3 practical worksheets, running around school catching people to go for science remedial, getting cupboards made for band and guitar, and played superhero by freeing a colleague who was locked up in the Maths room by an idiot student.

Rushed down to Eunos to meet Eugene to choose our wedding car before the showroom closed. He was all black-faced cos he waited too long and said he'd never trust me again (to be punctual). I was mad for the entire afternoon until he got Choey to come over to talk to me.

Sometimes I wish I had done my honours and continued my studies. Then I can be like Eugene who gets paid even when he sits at home with his parrot, eating oranges and playing computer games.

Can't wait for SYF to be over soon. =gloom=

Happy Birthday Yen Swee

2009-01-17T10:59:00.007+08:00

It's a Friday and everyone was flying around for classes, CCAs, department meetings, making students stay back and other sian school stuff AFTER curriculum time. Hate Fridays. People are suppose to dress down, slack and make merry. I THANK GOD FOR SATURDAYS.

Was really lacking in manpower while preparing the birthday celebration cos everyone was so busy. Yen Swee was NOT suppose to know what we were doing so that he'd be surprise and overjoyed and touched to tears. I mean, it's supposed to be different and who said birthdays must have cake? So it was Shh and shhh there... when he walks past cover this cover that. Then our cover was blown when he told me my food was ready for collection downstairs.. kuakuakua

What the heck... might as well get him to carry his own pizzas since there was no one else to help.

Looks nice right. Birthday boy has to blow all the candles at one go. Mary said I will have bao ying during my wedding dinner.

No one understood his Korean birthday song.

Supposed to do it all in one breath but he cheated.

We ate from the greasy box.

He ate like a King.

The celebration interrupted his meeting. I bet he was secretly happy.

Happy Birthday Yen Swee! May all your dreams come true la.

What's with Ang Moh Airports?!

2009-01-17T01:28:00.005+08:00

My 16-year old brother was detained by London Airport customs when he arrived, like how I was detained in Adelaide Airport a couple of years ago for over an hour. These were the questions they asked:

Where are you heading to?
My ans: My boyfriend's flying school.
His ans: My brother's hostel.

Do you know its address?
My ans: Nope. He's picking me up.
His ans: Don't know. He's picking me up.

How much money did you bring?
My ans: Not much.
His ans: I'm broke.

I don't believe you can be travelling alone like this. You're just a kid!
My ans: Why.. thank you :D
His ans: Ok I know I'm short. You racist or what?

How many people are there in your family? What are you planning to do here? How will you celebrate Xmas? Tell me about your bf... blah blah blah...

And they just kept asking stupid questions while pouring everything from your luggage, swabbing your toothpaste, checking your wallet, and before you know it, you have already told them things even your mother don't know about as they shake your loose beige granny panties to see if anything falls out.

Conclusion: If you are a young Chinese, travelling alone and you do not know exactly where you are going, be prepared to lose your dignity, be detained and checked for drugs.

Ulu Sunset Chicken Wings and Chocolates

2009-01-14T20:46:00.008+08:00

Choey took over the wheel one day....

.

and drove us to the notoriously difficult to find Sunset Grill and Bar!!!

Like a pro he located it deep inside the curly wurlys of Seletar Airbase.

Although I honestly have tasted better hotdogs...

and Eugene's grilled fish looked like hospital food...

Their BUFFALO WINGS made the trip worthwhile!!!!!!

Can't even sit still to take a photo. Kids.

Burp, said Choey

Eugene was like "go for the level 10 wings and nothing less!!" Turned out that Level 2 was already very very siong but also very very song!!

As Choey puts it, 2 thumbs up!!

Eugene returned from Chiang Mai with customised chocolates for us!!!!

I'll wait until after the wedding when my weight won't matter and then eat them.

Choey knows that something is wrong with his name but he can't quite put his finger on it. Poor Choey.. Always get bullied by Daddy...

NUS Softball Team is selling similar customised chocolates for Valentine's Day! Go to http://lywk.x10hosting.com/chocoholics/ if you want to give something different this year!

2008 O level results for Chemistry

2009-01-12T22:22:00.004+08:00

O level results were released today.

Last night Lincoln saw me on msn and asked if I was excited.. to be honest it totally slipped my mind. If you were like me typing out wedding dinner schedules and contact lists and only remembering that I have yet to have dinner at 10.30pm, you'd understand.

I came to school and the first thing I managed to squeeze in doing before flag raising was to transfer a deposit of 1.3K to my photographer and videographer via internet banking. Then of course it's the classes I go to on a Monday, and at about 9 am Mrs Chang came running to my cubicle and exclaimed that we hit a 55% distinction, and 100% pass for Chemistry. I swear it took at least 5 seconds for it to take meaning - that no one failed (I have some who I've thought were pretty gone cases in my class) and that 1 out of every 2 students scored an A.

WOW

Well I did a lil jig with her, and rushed to do what every teacher was doing, be the kiasu aunty and nudge people out of the way to see the namelist. Kiwi was overwhelmed, poor thing. But no one cared. LOL No one scored lower than a B3 from my class! NO WAIT... WHO IS THIS PERSON WHO SCORED A C6?!??!??!?! ok, nvm, just 1 person.

We got to the hall at 2pm, and I realised my heart was jumping jumping. I have no idea why since I already knew their results like 4 hours ago. The P as usual took forever to do his speech, but I must say it felt real good to see that Chemistry was almost the only subject (other than Tamil) to perform better than the 2007 batch.

Was half cursing that I had to bring my current 4E6 out of the hall and back into the chem lab at 2.30 when the rest was dismissed. I was the most unpopular teacher there but HEY I want to stay in the hall too with my ex-4E2s!!!!!!!!! Bugger.

Well four ex-students actually located me in the lab... almost cried when 3 of them thanked me.. The 4th one almost did it when he who told me I owed him 1 mark (he scored an A2 instead of an A1). I didn't know what to say. Had to get back to the lab before I burst into tears.

Another student whom I taught chemistry to when he was in sec 3 smsed me to thank me. I have this feeling he probably smsed everybody who ever taught him.. even VE teachers. Was glad that I was important to him too!!!!!

The best part was hearing my my brother's results. That bugger scored 5 A1s, 2 A2s and a dumb B4 for English. Damn it. Told him since primary school to read more books that lazy bum. But I'm proud of him. Eugene is even prouder and said that he sees some of himself in Sijun. Just cos they are both 9 pointers. Idiot.

Ok back to mundane school life tmr. And Yen swee please don't ever buy salmon rice for me again.. the portion is meagre and I still smell it it my mouth :S

=update=
Another 4E2 student smsed me his thanks... :'(
OMG I'm feeling emo now

Inflamed Taste Buds

2008-11-06T09:36:00.006+08:00

For the past few days, the left side of my tongue has been having this nagging pain and this is what I see in the mirror:
You know how neat and tidy your taste buds are usually arranged on your tongue right? Well suddenly 3 or 4 of them are poking out of line and look a little fatter than the rest. And these lil *&@^%# are causing me pain when I eat and brush my teeth.

This morning I got really worried and thought I could be suffering from some weird tongue disease. So I searched online and to my surprise, I'm not the only one in the world with havoc taste buds (whew).

Look at this (useful) story:

"A former co-worker had a reputation of being absent on Mondays or Fridays. She always had some lame excuse, but one day she called and said she could not come to work due to 'an inflamed taste bud on her tongue,' claiming this would prevent her from being able to speak or answer the phone. Some people will do anything to get out of work."

I should get more of these then I don't have to teach anymore :D

Daniel Nathan Reed, Associate Professor from the College of Dentistry, The Ohio State University said,

"Inflamed taste buds are very common. The primary reason for the change is usually trauma. This can be from hot, spicy, or hard foods that can cause local inflammation."

Eureka! Of course! Trauma from SCHOOL ADMIN!

"Biting your tongue is another very common cause. In 7-10 days, it should be back to normal. If not, contact your dental professional."

Er.... too lazy.....

I surfed on for home remedies and saw that

some
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crazy
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people
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actually
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BITE
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off
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their
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taste
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buds!!!

Another NUT CASE from a discussion forum:
"Should I clip off an inflamed taste bud with nail clippers?"

OH-AM-GEE!!! OUCHYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Someone else replied, "Yes, and cut out your entire tongue while your at it. Also, cut off all your fingers too, so you won't be able to use a keyboard anymore."

ROFL!!!!!

I'm NOT going to bite/clip off my taste bud thank you very much. Maybe it will go away soon.

Then another person said,
"hmm I don't know about that, I'm had an inflamed taste bud on my tongue for more than 7 years and its still there."

SEVEN FREAKIN YEARS!? Gimme that knife...

Another one: "I get those after eating salty foods, like fries or chips. Not much you can do until it pops!"

Huh? I never knew taste buds could pop!! Imagine how it feels like when the little buggers starting popping away - it'll be like eating those crackly candy which fizzles in your mouth.. pop.. POP... POP!

I wonder what comes out when they pop. Ewww.

I'm thinking about what happens to the taste bud after it's exploded/cut off. Will a new one grow back? Like a lizard's tail??? (You know how the new tail will look like.. it always looks funny and smaller and never quit fits the lizard anymore. Will the new buds look smaller than the rest??)

You know what.. I think if my buds are removed they will not grow back.

In fact the existing ones would commit suicide rather than face my mom's leftovers.

Choosing wedding photos rant

2008-10-30T19:03:00.013+08:00

I have to RANT so *warning* long post ahead.

Yesterday I left school a bit earlier to choose our wedding photos from the bunch they took from our indoor and outdoor shoots. Before I left my married-with-kids colleague told me to stay firm and not get too easily swayed by their hard-sell tactics and fork out too much extra cash for additional wedding photos and then later regret it. I have heard stories about couples running into debt doing this whole wedding thing and needing to borrow money just so that they can pay. I can only say that those people are NUTS. If you can afford it go ahead. If not, don't make other ppl dig out money to pay for your wedding unless it's a gift from them. It's just irresponsible.

When we got there this was what happened.

1. A woman (not our usual very sweet and nice coordinator Lily) sat us down and proceeded to spend at least 30 minutes telling us about our package and what it's 'lacking' (Funny.. when you guys sold us the package last year your colleague told us how wonderful it was)

2. She showed us before and after photos of other brides and how they can magically change them using photoshop, and how skilled their IT person was.

3. She 'warned' me that the photos I was about to see are NOT yet photoshopped and I may be disappointed with some of them, but she assured me that I will still look good after photoshopping (She couldn't have made it ruder just to get the point across that I don't look perfect hor!)

4. The stack of photos of us that she was holding was so precious that she was reluctant to let us hold them or lay them out on the table the way we prefered. She insisted on showing us the photos 3 at a time, and reminding us how good we looked in each and every picture.

5. Whenever we chucked a photo aside, she'd say she didn't understand why we did not want it. (I don't think it's any of her business). She even said Don't mind me being kaypoh ah (I mind actually) Are you insecure about yourself here? We will photoshop it! Don't reject it la! (I was telling myself to remain calm and enjoy the process with Eugene than to be bothered by her)

6. When we realised we have chosen 2 times as many photos as we should have, she quickly took the pictures away to hide, then proceeded to tell us why we needed to purchase a 2nd photo album for so many photos.

7. When I told her we are NOT getting a 2nd album and I want that pile back to discard more photos, she told her manager and immediately he came over and told us how important a 2nd album will be to us (Yah to level that table with 1 short leg?) and said we have to pay like $2800 more.

YAH RIGHT. OVER MY DEAD BODY.

8. I told him firmly that we didn't have any money to pay. (yep it's a lie. If we don't have 2.8K we're really pathetic. But no way are we handing it over to such rude people). He told me to use my credit card. I told him I have better use for the money. Now hand over the stack.

9. The woman reappeared reluctantly with the stack of photos and Eugene and I proceeded to discard more photos, no doubt causing more and more pain to the woman judging from her face.

10. A 2nd man appeared (big boss) and he said loudly WHY SAVE MONEY ON YOUR WEDDING! ONCE IN A LIFETIME YOU KNOW! 2K MORE ONLY WHAT. OTHER PEOPLE PAY MORE THAN YOU. AND YOU CHOOSE SO LITTLE PHOTOS, YOUR ALBUM WOULD LOOK UGLY LA! I HAVE TO PAY MY ELECTRICAL BILLS YOU KNOW. YOU CHOOSE SO LITTLE PHOTOS, HOW CAN I PAY FOR THE AIRCON AND THE LIGHTS?!

(Siao ah! That's your own problem! Wat's it gotta do with us!? And if our album will be ugly, why the hell does your package include so little photos in the first place?? Just so that your customers can make ugly albums?!?!?)

11. At this point I was this close to getting up and killing somebody but I put on the brightest smile and batted my eyelids and told him I'm sorry but we really do not want so many additional photos (WAIT! WHAT THE HELL AM I SORRY FOR!?)

12. He gave up and walked away. The woman proceeded to tell Eugene that this kind of money cannot save. The bride would love the photos and he has to spend. Then Eugene told her if his bride wants the photos he will pay. BUT SHE DOESN'T! (bravo Eugene!)

13. Woman sighs (how dare she sigh at us!!!!) and let us relook our photos without saying much. Probably thinking about how much less commission she's going to get.

14. We finally decided on the photos that we want and still exceeded the number a little and have to top up $65 dollars for each additional piece. We paid $585 more but were happy with our choices. The woman by now sighed every 1 minute or so, as if trying to tell us what a huge mistake we were making. We have wasted a total 5 hours with these people and SHE'S THE ONE SIGHING?!?!?!

To be honest, I thought we'd be bought over and end up paying thousands more. Maybe they were trying too hard and rubbing us the wrong way, and maybe we would have gladly handed over the money if the person serving us was kind and gentle Lily.

At the end of the day, these are just pictures. We are happy with having those we like and spending within budget and are contented. The experience of taking these photos with Eugene was more important and real than fake photoshopped pictures on paper.

And the money that we've saved from this? We can buy more thoughtful wedding favours...flowers for the bridesmaids...angpows for helpers.. the list goes on....

To the Boss of my Bridal Studio : I hope your aircon breaks down HEEHEE

The Contemporary Asian Art Fair

2008-10-16T19:13:00.019+08:00

Eugene and I went to the Contemporary Asian Art Fair held in Suntec last week. I have never gone to any contemporary art exhibition before, other than those my grandfather used to take part in (he does traditional chinese water colour and oil paintings). As you can tell some of his wonderful genes passed on to me, from the amazing stickmen I can draw.

Anyway, YS's wife MJ gave us 2 complimentry tickets!!!! (That saved us 20 bucks!!)

These are some of the art pieces which caught our attention.

Buddha dreaming of a Starry starry night? Done by a Thai artist.

The Kung Fu babies were really cute.

A woman covered entirely with black hair, like individual strands of hair pasted on the body. And she's wearing a gas mask. Wow. I have no freakin idea what Murari was trying to tell us!

Eugene insisted on taking this. Isn't she breathtaking?

Overlapping Images by a Korean artist.

You know the cow which is flying? If you take a closer look he is actually hum chio-ing! And he reminds me of Moo ice-cream.

No these are not real books.

See I told ya!

Imagine the amount of time it took to twist wires into this.

Who is fatter/blacker? Tough choice.

This is my favorite!!!!

Even the shadows were cut out of thin metal. And look at the vibrant colour in the mirror!

Will you ever look at your used condom the same way again?

I don't know if the apple can actually go through the twig when catapulted. But I like the hairy detail and shading on the arms.

Would you buy this picture for RMB 1,000,000? Do you know what the heck it is???

An egg attacked by lots and lots of sperm!!!! If you're trying to conceive rip off your wedding photo and hang this on the wall above your pillows. Guaranteed your sperm will be very inspired to swim damn fast!

I felt so much when I saw this picture. When my two pet clown loaches (Black and Jack) died, I cried.

Yes though they are fish, they are still '3 lives', as named by the chinese artist. People often overlook that.

After walking a bit I saw this , and took a closer look.

5 lives gasping for oxygen from no more than 4cm depth of shallow chair water. How ironic. Is the artist trying to show us how difficult it is to survive in China? Poor fish.

Mama Mia! It's ABBA!

An art exhibition is not complete without some nudity. This costs RMB 5,000,000!!!!!

And this old man was telling somebody that he's got 2 paintings of nude women at home and none of them cost so much....

Ji Ko Pek....

I thought this was serene with such sweet colours. Imagine this in our new apartment with white walls and white furniture.

I just don't get this one. A photograph of sunflowers photoshopped (??) so that the background is all white! And I remember it costing quite a bit too.

According to Eugene this looks very much like one of our friends.

I wonder how he knows how she looks like without pants on.

Turnip body parts . Anyone turned on already?

Somehow this charcoal drawing reminded me of my
grandfather, though I have never seen him cycle or own a bicycle like this.

Same eyes, same nose, same lips.

Imagine the elephant flapping his butterfly winged ears to try and fly away.

A painting that looked like a blurry photograph.

A black salamander with fancy flowers on its tail. It costs SGD 24,000 and was already sold when we asked about it.

A baby one which Eugene and Choey loved! Costs SGD 5000 and comes with the little tatami!

And of course there were many other pieces which were also really nice/thought-provoking/vulgar. And most of them were really expensive!

We were so tired after 3 hours of walking and trying to appreciate each and every display. So noob! They were giving out free Coke Light and Herald Times (??) as well. Weird freebies at an art exhibition. If only they were giving away the baby salamander for free :D

The Best Way to Die

2008-10-06T20:39:00.004+08:00

A couple of days back Hobs and I were discussing the best way for him to die. If he is to jump from his flat, someone will still have to scrape him off the ground. And he'll look really ugly with his face split open and brains spilling out. I recall a friend who died after she jumped - the last we saw of her was just before she was pushed into the flames - she had stitches all over her face (Bride of Frankenstein style) to keep whatever's left (not much) inside.

Another friend who hung himself had a deep red mark around his neck when we saw him to say bye for the last time...

(Hey I'm no jinx k. For the record they were not really my close friends.)

It really takes big balls to jump or hang oneself. So Hobs can forget about these 2 options.

I said if he wants to die, go gas himself with carbon monoxide in a car. Sweet way to die - painless, peaceful and he'll still be in one piece. But he mei chu xi... no car...

Then I told him go take a bath and cut his wrists and let the blood flow... but he said no bath tub at home -_-

Wah lau! This guy want to die still so troublesome!!!!

You know what Hobs? Like what YS said at the train station:
"The best, most considerate way to die is to open up the coffin, jump in and close the lid."

No la, forget the coffin (it's expensive). Just dig a hole and jump in. We will be waiting up here with shovels to fill it up for you!

XD

The Hollywood Feeling

2008-10-03T14:23:00.010+08:00

I had some people asking me what happened to my blog. It's so flattering cos I had no idea it had so many 'readers', judging from the average number of comments I get after every entry (0) I thought only Eugene reads my blog. And that's just cos he needs to check if I upload any sia suay photos of him.

And you know what else is flattering?

TAKING OUTDOOR WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHS ON A PUBLIC HOLIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We were getting all panicky when people started telling us how bad our phototaking day was. It was scheduled on 1 Oct 08 aka "Hari Raya/Children's/always-rain/ren hen duo" day.

For 2 days in a row before the session it poured like mad and we thought SHOOTS we'd be posing under an umbrella with very flat hair.

Well guess what! It was a magical day with no rain (the few drops that came and went at 7.30pm don't count)- just lots of love in the air and (Indian) tourists on the streets.

We had to go to town in our getup to shoot the city skyline. And everyone was amazed to see us posing, pouting, kissing and running with the dress held up to my knees. 2 aunties were so kaypo that they hung around our photographer just to steal a peak from his camera. Groups of Indian men took out their mobile phones to take pics/videos of us. One asked if he can 'participate with' us (???) and Eugene told No it's OUR wedding photos. He shrugged sheepishly before walking away.

Everywhere we went people stared and smiled. This must be what TV stars/MPs/cute puppies feel like when they walk on the streets - extremely important and loved by the whole world.

This illegal pic was taken by Eugene using his phone.

Choey passing me my flowers (so cute)

No illegal pics of Eugene unfortunately... Though he looked really good in his tuxedo!! *beams*

Ok la one pic showing the groom.. if not later he angry.

Wedding Bells Blues

2008-07-13T17:22:00.005+08:00

Who said getting married is expensive and complicated?

We can just go to Fort Canning Hill, sign, and everyone clap clap, then eat springrolls and cheng teng, take some photos, then long zhong deng chu koon. Short, sweet and happy.

But noooooooo.. we have to be conformists.. must follow traditional Singaporean chinese style...

Look at what we've done so far (and we took damn long to settle all these la!!!!!)

Wedding date - check

Banquet venue - check

Banquet menu - check

Wedding rings - check

Wedding gowns - sorta decided. Except for outdoor shoot gown, tea dress and Eugene's suit.

Guest list - trying to keep the numbers down.

And our wedding is next February. Seems like we're quite on the ball and well-prepared, yes?

Apparently NOT.

Cos in this country, you can't get married if you haven't

FIRST

GOTTEN

A

BLOODY

FLAT

"AIYOH!!!!!!! No flat HOW TO GET MARRIED....?!?!" shrieks X
(let X be relative/friend/colleague)

It's getting a weeeeeeeeeee bit annoying.

Not like we're not trying! How bout you find one for us hmmm?

GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

The Optimist calls me Prophet Pan

2008-06-10T23:54:00.009+08:00

Eugene the (Mindless) Optimist sounded so depressed just now.. it was heart wrenching. He kept talking about the unfair nation, our bleak future and how he can take his revenge on those (I think he meant HDB) responsible for our plight.

We've been trying to ballot for a new flat since last year. And this time round, as 3rd-timers, he was so so so so sure we'd get a Commonwealth flat. I did warn him that with our lousy queue number (better than last time, but still lousy), we'd probably get nothing in the end again, and it'd be better if we didn't get our hopes too high. Aaah.. Pessimist Pan, he said and waved me off. He brought us to recce our future home and we even talked about what we could buy from Sheng Shiong, the ah pek supermarket, to prepare his favorite ah pek dinner. It's bad, developing feelings for something which you're not sure if it's really going to be yours for long... like a new boyfriend, or a pet fish. We sank too deep.

We have the dream, like all the not-so-rich-but-geh-kiang-wan-to-be-married couples have, the dream of a nice little place of our own, just right smack beside the MRT station- so we don't have to get a car so soon, hence also doing our part to save the earth by preserving its depleting fossil fuels and not contributing to global warming (>_<). Commonwealth was the perfect place to realise this dream.

Then when I told him just now that a friend of mine, a 1st timer, managed to get the flat, he was so upset.

"This just means we're destined for elsewhere better," I told him.

"Where, Prophet Pan?"

"Which ever place we're getting next time. "

"When is next time?"

"When we are richer and have the money for a resale flat... condo... or landed... heh..."

"Ok. So that's when we're... 35? Good. We'll have the money to buy that. But will we have the money to buy the time we would've lost?"

Unfortunately, Prophet Pan doesn't have an answer....

What happened to my Optimist???? :(

Read. It can change your life.

2008-06-03T10:25:00.015+08:00

wow it's kinda dusty in here *coughs*

Starry was complaining that there's nothing new for her to read in my blog anymore..

Well speaking of reading...

I was telling Anthony the other day, while I was eating his raisins, that they always remind me of one of Roald Dahl's stories, and he said

Wow I didn't know you read!

Grrrrrrrrrr.......

LAO NIANG READS K!

On the first day of school, when I was in Primary 1, all we needed to do for English class was to COLOUR Nimmy the Alien and his spaceship. (teachers take note: always conduct quality lessons k)

Wow. That was Difficult. -_- And I wasn't prepared as I didnt have any colouring material.

This girl beside me, who has been boasting to everyone that her mom teaches in the same school (so we should worship her cos she's special), took out a glorious set of colour pencils, 36 colours in all, still unused and looking very fine in their box.

I asked meekly to share her pencils, and she gave me an extremely poisonous stare!

Well what was I thinking? I was looking very plain sitting beside the Princess, with her stupid long hair tied in stupid pink ribbons, and her stupid pink My Little Pony bag. My hair was plaited with simple black rubber bands and my bag was a squarish dark blue canvas one. Obviously I wasn't good enough to share her pencils, and much less be her friend.

She handed me a GOLD colour pencil, and quickly shifted the box to her side of the table such that it was out of my reach, and started to colour. It was like:

Hey, you got your pencil. Now use it and quit bothering me.

I had to colour the entire picture in 1 colour. Nimmy, his spaceship, the grass they were standing on, the tree, the sky and the sun. And when we handed up our work, our teacher frowned at my picture and I could've sworn I almost heard a sigh, which meant

Oh wow. Another one of those retarded kids in my class this year.

Then, during recess, a classmate's mom approached our table and said to Little Miss High and Mighty, Oh wow, your mom's a teacher? You must be really smart.

She proceeded to take out a book and asked, "Can you read this?" she asked, pointing at a random word in a book.

"Eh....eh.....eh........" was the retarded reply.

I decided to kaypoh, and without missing a beat, announced,

"Cucumber"

Suddenly I was the centre of attention. And the 'teacher's daughter' was nudged out of the conversation, and later I heard that she actually ran out crying and without looking fell into a ditch and messed up her hair and was too ashamed to climb out and so lived there forever.

No. Actually, she switched schools during the 2nd week or something. Probably couldn't take the intensity of Primary 1 and went back to nursery to play with pink toys.

That incident changed my life. And hers.

Anyway, I'm proud to announce that I went to the library yesterday, after 1 year!!

When I stepped in, I felt strangely happy and at peace. That happy feeling didn't last very long cos it became too cold, and I was already wearing a cardigan! And they were complaining about shopping malls wasting energy. They should check out Marine Parade Library!

And there were adolescents sitting around in some Starbucks-wannabe cafe and reading/doing homework and chatting and looking cool while trying to keep warm by sipping 6-dollar mochas. Duh. What happened to the good old library with just books and tables and chairs and quiet people who read?

Anyway, since it was too cold to stay and browse, I picked up 6 books, 5 of which were recommended by the library, and 1 was about wedding photography.

Maybe I'll talk about the books in my next post!

(do i hear some snoring already?)

Highlights of January 2008

2008-02-08T12:05:00.000+08:00

Eugene drinking his Mos milk tea at the same time nourishing the tree growing out of his head

"Hmmmm ... should I get the tight-fit one or .... "

To get a closer picture of him, I went into the changing room and locked the door, to his dismay. He was warned about the faulty lock and thanks to me we were locked inside for a good 5 minutes before their staff heard my cries and let us out.
Eugene just stood there and -_-''' the whole time. How helpful.

A softball cupcake with his name on it. But instead of his no. 18 they ran out of green icing and gave him the unlucky 13 :S

There was a cake underneath the cap!! But no one had the heart to eat it.

Rip off of the Month: Long John's Silver (outside Plaza Sing) $2 mini garden salad.

Kitty Venus

2008-01-07T21:49:00.000+08:00

In Loving Memory

200_ - 4 Jan 2008

KITTY VENUS

"I know I was designed to be

Adored by all who encounter me

With glossy fur and emerald eyes

My glory's sure to mesmerize

Those hapless humans who think that

A dog's a dog; a cat's a cat

Will surely come around to see

The miracle that is me."

All the Man that I Need

2008-01-07T21:11:00.000+08:00

I used to cry myself

To sleep at night

But that was all
Before he came

I thought love had to hurt

To turn out right

But now he's here
It's not the same

And in the morning

when I kiss his eyes

He takes me down

And rocks me slow

And in the evening

when the moon is high

He holds me close

And won't let go

He fills me up

He gives me love

More love than I've ever seen

He's all I've got in this world

But he's all the man that I need

24th SEA Games Experience

2007-12-22T14:21:00.000+08:00

This was the most memorable holiday I ever had. It started off with a Bangkok trip with Fandrie:

Anyone can tell that this is Mark Richmond with the SEA Games liason officers in Bangkok Airport, thanks to my photography skills.

I could stay here forever cos...

...this was the view from our hotel room on the SEA games opening night.

S$7 (?!) sharks fin in a food court. Fin real or not I dunno la, but it's good enough for me.

"Hmph. You eat shark. Don't friend you already."

Then I bravely headed to Korat for the SEA games while Fan left for Isreal.

Red carpet sia.. looks a leetle beet sleezy.

The hotel even had their own cow!

The Tom Yam Kung was unforgetable! So was the Pad Thai!

Jennifer and Wong Ah Teck were great company.

At the field....

Cute and sweet Renu.

Cute and radiant Irene.

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And of course with Eugene dear... the very reason for me to be there

Scared chao da.

Match started and no. 18 was up to something....

zooming in..... top right corner: \(^o^)/..... no. 18's handy work. Oiii... concentrate on the game leh!!!!

2-base hit by Eugene!!!

Kenny hits and Eugene ran like his life depended on it.

"...No. 11.. may we have your signature... your homerun very 帅... -giggles-"

Bronze medallists! Rarrhh!!

We want to lie down to admire our medals cannot ah

Now we want to toss our caps high high!

No. 18's cap flew to outerspace

So proud of you dear.. Thank you for sharing this with me :)

He pops The Question Part II

2007-12-01T11:20:00.000+08:00

Took down the previous post because it was so depressing. Don't want to think about it, because there are other better things to talk about, like:

HE POPPED THE QUESTION AGAIN, AND THIS TIME IT'S FOR REAL

Once again, I was sleeping when it happened.

"............will........... me......." he said while nudging me to wake up

"....huh..?"

".....will..... marry....... me....."

"oh..... (omg this question again... diao...)- got ready to roll away and return to dream land-

".... ok ok I kneel down okay" -and he awkwardly tried to kneel on one knee, ON the bed-

"Will you marry me?"

"....Er... ring... where's my ring " I answered while waving my hand at him sleepily.. half awake and quite amused at the sight of a huge guy trying to keep his balance on one knee on a waterbed. Even sleeping on one is difficult, trust me!

"There! The ring is there!"

My eyes shot open fully and I felt something around my left ring finger. He had slipped it when I was asleep.

".... Ha.....?" I tried to focus hard on the ring but it was dark and I couldn't really tell what it was exactly.

He was still staring at me sheepishly and waiting for an answer.

"Er.... You're not kidding me right.... Is this plastic...?"

"What?! No!"

"Ok ok, turn on the light......................."

"Oh my god... Is this for real....???"

".............................. So ???????"

"Er.................... ok.............ok................ Wait..... Aren't you supposed to slip on the ring AFTER I say yes???!!!!"

-he shrugs with a triumphant look on his face-

So this is how I got proposed to. Once in a life time thing, and he did it backwards.

Apparently, he was also extremely worried for a long time that the stone is not big enough, and said he wanted to get one as big as his fist if he could. -_O ??!!!

But I really do love the ring. Thank you dear :)

Eugene's Birthday and other 2007 Highlights

2007-11-26T21:35:00.001+08:00

It was Eugene's birthday on 18th Nov and there was a cake waiting for him after we got back from Siok Kan's wedding on 17 Nov at around 11. 45pm and 32 seconds. He never had a clue on the way home!

See his paiseh face. When he opened the door and saw the cake he refused to step in and I was stuck outside for a good 5 seconds.

It was Sandy who trotted over to Holland V's NYDC to get the cake.

The family with a very gian Sandy eyeing the cake.

Birthday Lunch! Must eat mee sua for birthday. Or mee sua substitute - shanghai ramen with cream of chicken soup zhnged with mushrooms and carrot.

Birthday guy with cable cars.

Birthday guy stuffed with meat and "can eat no more"

Right after that statement, Birthday Guy chiong for chocolate fondue.

My present for him was a Canon Ixus70 digital camera (thanks for the tip Kelvin, he loves it) and 1up's girlfriend [:

AND THE FOLLOWING ARE RANDOM PICS TAKEN BY ANNE AND KELVIN'S IXUS 70 OVER THE YEAR. I APOLOGISE THAT I COULD ONLY UPLOAD THESE OUT OF THE THOUSANDS THAT SHE PASSED TO ME TODAY, AS MY WIRELESS INTERNET CONNECTION IS WEAK LIKE MEE SUA.

ENJOY, the Highlights of 2007!

Super duper Mango Milkshake! Must try! Some shop at Marina Sq. Been there 4 times and ordered the same dessert 4 times! And still cannot remember shop name!

At the zoo. The only non-scandalous pic from the collection, that's why it's here.

All of us at Siok Kan and Mingwei's place eating popiah! Fandrie was late!

See how upset we were with her latecoming? Heh.

Posted this so that you can see the pretty bride with her pretty friends wearing pretty shoes.

All of us again (without the shoes). Without Fandrie. Late again.

Eugene should've worn his gold shirt, gold tie, gold pants and gold shoes to go with my gold dress.

"Why are you not including my other gold shoe in the pic?!" -and Eugene rolls his eyes-

This is the first time I've ever worn a raincoat in my life!

5 minutes later from this pic, raincoat ended up in the bin. So environmentally unfriendly... I'm ashamed of myself ]:

I've could've danced all night.

Champions!!! First time I ran in years. And for a $5 Popular Bookshop voucher each. We all agreed it was worth it =D

Muffin and Hammy

Outside Jeremy's restaurant, where "the food is better than the service". Ahahaha! But seriously, thanks for the drinks Gorilla [:

2 Kittens :D Very cute!!!

2007-11-24T01:39:00.000+08:00

From YouTube: "Stina and Mossy (the two cats seen in this video) usually fight instead of talk, so this was an odd moment. They kept "talking" for about 1 hour, constantly. We've had alot of laughs over this clip.. =)"

The translation:

The Reason To Live

2007-11-24T01:08:00.000+08:00

I had a student who once asked me,

"What is the point of staying alive when we're all going to die at some point of time? Why do we torture ourselves to study and then torture ourselves again to work just to stay alive when our lives are going to end anyway?"

I told him, "We stay alive to do the things we like to do, to be with the people we want to be with. Some caveman way back in time recognised that the key to survival in society was competition. If you want food, you better hunt for it yourself. If you put in more energy, you gather more food and have a better chance of survival. Hence if you want to continue to live to do the things you like, for eg. eat expensive ice cream with your girlfriend, you better study hard and get a good job with good pay to afford these things. That's the point of studying and working hard. And you live so that you can eat nice ice cream and be with your girlfriend. That's the point of living."

I got a blank stare from him. Heh.

The only person I'm living for now is Eugene.

The only thing I'm living for now is YouTube.

Ok and maybe my cca too. That's 2 things. [:

Slightly better now

2007-11-22T21:20:00.000+08:00

I feel sliiiiiiightly better now

Eugene actually dropped by at my house today before his training to pass me his comb

And my sis gave me a supa large pack of facial cotton from watsons which says on the package "40% more free" premium quality cotton.

Thanks people [:

Anyway the tour agency called and said the driver couldn't find my bag either.

Can't believe the huge haversack can dissolve into thin air -_-

To whoever's got my bag

WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-scowl-

RANTS RANTS AND MORE RANTS

2007-11-22T01:42:00.000+08:00

Feeling really really really really really low.

Just returned from the trip to malaysia with my students. Was already having sleepless nights at least 3 nights prior the trip wondering how they would perform and if anyone would lose a leg or something.

The trip went preeeeeeetty ok considering the rubbish job done by the tour agent. The biggest sabo was that the orphanage seemed to have no idea that the students were coming and seemed pretty pissed at us for screwing up their carnival with our arrival. Can you imagine the scene: my students, after weeks and weeks of practising, travelling all the way from Singapore, all ready to perform for the children, were as good as being told point blank that hey we don't need your music now. And the tour agent himself assured me again and again that everything is arranged. They know you are coming and performing and they are eager to have you. You will help out with other chores as well and donate some items, yes, don't worry, everything is taken care off. We have arranged for many schools from Singapore to help out over there before so everything will be fine.

Yah, my ass.

But the students played well enough and the head mistress told me herself at the end of the session that she was glad we came because our music inspired her children who were just being started on a music enrichment program, and wished we had brought more songs with us. So yeah it turned out well. The school exchange was quite alright too because I have insisted on personally arranging it with the student leader and the only surprise we had was the wonderful planning done by our host. Everyone enjoyed themselves I guess.

Except me, cos I was constantly on my toes mentally preparing for more and more screws ups. And lo and behold, there were other surprises in store but I really don't want to go into that now.

Next time, be it Africa, North Pole or Timbaktu, I will liase with the organization myself. The tour agents can just sit back and shake leg and slot in good food, good coach (not one which has a fantastic suspension which makes you feel like u're in the middle of the freakin choppy china sea) and use the time freed up from liasing to interview and select quality coach drivers. (our instructor was trying to help the driver with the route back to school, and was chastised for being unclear with his directions. Hello! Whose job was it to know the way around in the first place!??!)

But we managed to pull it off admidst the sh*t and I didn't even freak out once. I think.

Now that I'm typing this, I'm reminded of why I never go on guided tours in a huge group anymore.

Well the best part is this -

I left my luggage on the bus. Yup. My bag is gone gone gone gone. Bye bye.

And I'm pissed because I only have 1 comb and it's in that see-saw bus and I dunno when I will finally be able to comb my hair. I'll probably have to buy a comb first, but that would mean I have to leave the house with messy hair. And I don't want to leave the house looking like a siao zar bor. It's a chicken and egg situation.

And you would think a warm shower at home would make everything right? Nah. My towel was nowhere to be found and there was just a little more than half a drop of shampoo left in the bottle.

Then somehow since our painful ride back from Malacca, I have been thinking of how I pushed my french horn and piano aside ever since I started teaching. My students can probably make better music than me now.

Maybe I should quit my job and do my own thing for 3 years.

And eat what?

Oh I know what I'm doing really well: I've achieved Mastery of Invisibility after just 3 days in Malaysia. I don't think I'm living in a home anymore.

And I'm tired as it's already half past 3 in the morning. But I'm afraid to sleep cos I'll dream about work again.

Nah. I really want to koon. Thanks for hearing me out. I feel better already.

Salt and Peanut Butter Sandwiches

2007-11-03T10:41:00.000+08:00

"Don't eat so much salt la....Stop... STOP... I SAID STOP AH!!!!!!" Eugene thinks if I keep up with my current level of salt intake, our children will be motherless even before they learn to talk.

Just the other day I polished off almost an entire pack of 斌斌米果 in one sitting as it's so wonderfully salty. I chucked a packet to Aunty Kiat who was at the same time startled to see so many wrappers while emptying my dustbin, and 2 packs to Anne who selflessly volunteered to share the sodium.

When other girls declare "I have a sweet tooth" people would think awwwwww she's so cute... so girl girl....awwww. You don't hear people telling them that if they don't burn the sugar they're gonna look like Queen Latifah in 2 months. But when I tell people about my passion for salt they'd lecture me about my blood pressure and kidneys and how they'd never donate one to me if I ever needed them to. Really makes you think about the kind of friends you make eh -scowl-

But now, I'm going to make a life-changing decision.

-drumroll-

I AM GOING TO REDUCE MY SALT INTAKE

Why? Cos last night during staff dinner, I mistakingly poured like half a bottle (??!!) of soy sauce instead of vinegar into my shark's fin soup (don't start with the stop eating sharks thingy, I need the mercury)

And to my horror it tasted absolutely fine. And the 9 other people at my table liked their serving just as it was served. Shiling, who refused me her kidney when we were in Hong Kong, watched me swallow the whole bowl, and probably resolved that very moment she'd rather throw her organ on the floor and step on it than to let me have it.

So I need your help. You can put me in a straitjacket so that I cannot zhng my food with salt or soy sauce.

Or remove the sodium when you see it on the table. Or share my potato chips/chicken in a biscuit/curry twisties. Or pledge your kidneys to me so that I live to see my kids get married and have their own kids. That's what friends are for, right? RIGHT????

Speaking of friends I have to tell you about my dear Anne who saved me from

THE BUTTER GAU PEANUT BUTTER BOH SANDWICH

"有福同享有难同当... I take half of your sandwich and you take half of mine", she said.

(notice her sandwich with a nice thick layer of chunky spread whereas mine has a thick layer of butter and less peanut butter)

What a pal!!!!

YouTube Intermission

2007-10-27T12:08:00.000+08:00

Great! It's finally the weekend! And I dunno what to do about it :(

Actually I have powerpoint slides to prepare for Monday's class but I'm terribly distracted by YouTube. Been watching every episode of The Nanny available, streaming 7-minute short clips and piecing random episodes together in no particular order. Love Niles!

Been stuffing my face with Japanese these days - Waruku (best paper hotpot) with Anne and gang, Waruku again (fried ice cream not so good but had a 10% off the bill cos we found out the supervisor was an ex-bandmate!) with Ks, Ichiban (best salmon head soup and softshell crab handroll) with the mister, and Sakae (best.. er.. mascot?) with Liling and gang.

And I totally forgot about Starry's birthday cos the week's been crazy... I'm so sorry dearie..

Starry Starry dear

I'm so sorry I forgot your birthday

Daniel's the important one anyway

You still have the flower I got you last year?

Speaking of birthdays, Fan was on MC on hers. I know you don't want a celebration lady.. b..b..bbbut do you have to avoid us like this??? =puts away noisemakers= you still want your pressie on Monday?? I know you're secretly excited.. you are!

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Eugene was awarded Team Player (Softball) of 2007 last week.

Unglam pic of Team Player after the awards ceremony

The sandwich he made and hid in the glove compartment for me.

Zhng-ing my banana chocolate sundae with Mrs Loh's banana.

Now back to YouTube!

Xiao Long Cu Bao

2007-10-15T18:16:00.000+08:00

YAY! We're going somewhere in December!!!

Was half afraid that I'll end up wasting the holidays because of his matches, but today we booked a 4D3N holiday in Bintan's Nirwana Garden for $301 per pax. Had to pay $50 bucks more for the sea view as rooms with a garden view are fully booked. Don't really care for the view; they can paint a window on the wall for all I care and I'd still be happy that I won't be stuck here during term break. Anne and Tricia both enjoyed the place with Kelvin and Renjie :D

Not bad eh :) compare this with Tioman's Tropical Coral Inn which we stayed for an agonizing 3 days

I was actually afraid that Eugene would collapse the bowl cos when you sit on it, it shifts 0_0

Anywhere would be better than Tioman, anywhere!

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Sua ku us went to Ding Tai Feng for the first time.

Me (not looking like myself)

Eugene tucking in

Look at how Eugene fills his small dragon soup bun (xiao3 long2 tang1 bao1) with a lot of vinegar. They should have a xiao3 long2 cu4 (vinegar) bao1 in the menu for him la. If you can't tell what he's saying the monologue is below.

-confused- ".. Why don't you eat..?"

-exasperated and does some funny la1 mian4 action- "... I can't eat with a camera in my face!"

He didnt know he was on video la hahahaha the silly guy :D

Then greedy me wanted to try the grilled bacon-wrapped enoki mushrooms on skewers from this shop beside Peninsular Plaza.

Looks nice hor. I still remember those I had by the roadside in Hong Kong... heavenly!

What we had looked like what you see in the photo, except that the bacon consists of 90% fat and 10% meat. PUI! Poor Eugene looked like he was going to puke after eating just one piece :(

Rushed to Mos Burger and downed 1 large iced milk tea to dilute the fat. The yellow lighting was good so being vain pots we took some pictures :D

He looks great in this one :D

His eyebags are bigger than his eyes la. So cute :D

And now I'm home writing this and having my 2nd cup of chamomile hoping it will remove the fat.. yeah who am I kidding... :(

UGH! No more fat for me for the next 2 weeks else become pui pui like eugene.. ><

Attempting to Feed the Hungry Pitcher

2007-10-11T19:07:00.000+08:00

Tick ... CROSS CROSS .. tick.. CROSS CROSS CROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm a marking machine these days - Chemistry and music (yes we have music exam too. Fun to set the paper but not fun to mark) Helped Fan mark her lower sec science too. These students are hilarious -

Answers from our 14 year olds

1. The process describing a sperm fusing with an egg (i.e. fertilization)

Student's answer: sexual intercourse

2. Name the type of cells which you see in the diagram (sperm and a fertilized egg)

Student's answer: bacteria and amoeba

3. Chemical process taking place when heating calcium carbonate (i.e. thermal decomposition)

Student's answer: heat decay (ok this is a rather smart answer, I must admit, but too bad, still wrong! WRONG! WWWWRRRRONG!)

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Eugene said he'll meet me after his training at 10.45 pm to have his dinner. Usually when this happens we'll end up in Dunman Food Centre or Kallang 24 hr Mc Donalds/KFC. But 2 nights ago I offered to cook for him. And so this post is about

The Iron Chef attempting to feed the Hungry Pitcher

(and I tell you, when I was searching online for a chef hat picture, this scary photo popped up and scared the daylights out of me)

~Shudder~

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I had 35 minutes to whip up something decent. No problemo. Gathered all the ingredients in 5 minutes. He hates celery but that's the only veggie I have in the fridge. Too bad ha! (Harwin, it is confirmed that you can't feed ayam brand chilli tuna to cats as it swells their upper larynxes)

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Noodles in hot water chucked in microwave. Celery diced. Canned tuna lid pulled back. No sweat.

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Noodles out of oven, drained and tossed in cold water (like pro) while celery sat in hot water.

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Egg on teflon pan. Celery drained. Blotted fried egg with kitchen towel.

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OMG Just look at this!!! Look like hospital food la!

(started to panic) I need garnishing! I need colour!

If only I had some red chillie and a Ginsu knife. Can make a star or a sotong thingy like in the photo. Quite pro hor. If he didn't like his dinner I might also use the knife to slice him up thinly heh

I don't believe this! We have two freakin refrigerators and all I could find were two sad looking tomatoes way past their prime. My brother saw my butt sticking out from the fridge and cracked up.

"Siao ah! So long zhong for wat?! Wah.. but your egg fry until quite nice la"

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Eugene stepped into the kitchen during my weak attempt to colour the dish. He startled me and in my haste I even spilt some of the curry powder on the counter la .. :( super no skill.. haiz

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With an icepack perched on his shoulder (top left corner), the hungry pitcher devoured his noodles, including every single cube of celery.

-burp-

He was happy.. So was I :D

He pops The Question

2007-10-04T20:58:00.000+08:00

Ok I have have to admit it. Facebook can be pretty addictive.

I had so many presents sent to me in just 4 days. Really, the way they make you send gifts at every possible opportunity keeps the site going.

Would you be excited if a friend gave you a bunch of carrots in real life?

"siao ah! go gib your mother la!"

After receiving so many things from your friends, you're obliged to send something back (knowing very well that most of them probably mass-sent the items anyway). So I proceeded to spend 1 hour sending ice-creams, vegetables and eggs. (Those of you who received something from me, it was a personal thoughtful gift. I do not mass-send my items, sompa)

Adopted a panda too and named him Pan Panda. Was even enthusiastic enough to buy a bed, stereo system, ferret and hamster for my room only to be told (after the long meticulous process of choosing and adding the items) that I DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH COINS (again).

grrrrrrrrrrrr

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

Anyway, back to the main story.

HE POPPED THE QUESTION

"Oi.. Why you turn me down...."

Huh?

"I asked you................................................... (meekly) Will you marry me...."

You did??! When?!

"When you were falling asleep on your bed before my (softball) training..."

-scratch head-

"You said No and turned away........................................ and fell asleep" (kua kua kua......)

He calls that A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL?? Trying to catch me when I'm semi-conscious.. sly one!

Anyway when it finally sank in I couldn't stop laughing... he's really really cute sometimes :D

Lots of marking to do now that the exam papers are in... I fell asleep for about 15 minutes holding my red pen and almost drooled on a terrible sketch of what's supposed to be a carbon dioxide molecule:

diao.....

Ok I'm going to go figure out how to feed my panda. Ha! Ciao!

Top 10 Reasons Why Facebook Pisses Me Off

2007-10-01T20:06:00.000+08:00

(This post is not about you, Eugene, so you can skip it)

Top 10 Reasons Why Facebook Pisses Me Off

10. Cos everyone wants me to add them on Facebook. Why can't they add me? (yes apparently I have lazy friends)

9. The site is bursting with so many applications they make me dizzy.

8. The useless News Feed: "WWW is now friends with XXX... YYY wrote a sticky note to 2 people... "

zzzzzz....Seriously...would you care if I were to give Starry a great white shark for her Facebook aquarium? huh? HUH???

7. OK, I just found out that I don't have enough coins to send Starry a great white shark. HMPH.

6. Every move I make on Facebook can be seen by all my friends. (see point number 8) I find more privacy in my own blog. Here. Seriously.

5. "Ooh lookie! Someone is sending me a flower! -clicks on link to receive- .. wait.. where's my flower? Oh ok someone called Obiwankanobe made this application.. yes yes I'm adding it so that I can see the flower.. oh I have to send a flower to other people first? No.. no.. skip that.. Wait.. where's my flower? Er... h..h..hello? -clicks around hopefully-"

4. Substitute flower in point number 5 with beer/high5/banana/whatever damn thing that can be sent to you and then mysteriously disappear after wasting your time.

3. The Define Me application says "Nobody has defined you yet. Be the first."
okie.. let's see... -spends 10 minutes defining myself, clicks enter- "Sorry. You cannot define yourself. Only others can define you."

WT...?!

2. I have mysteriously joined Oktoberfest twice at 7.41pm without knowing, and invited myself to join it again at 7.42pm.

1. I wanted to spank Eugene. After sending the spank and reloading my home page, I had also requested for me to spank myself 3 times -_-'''

Kinky.

Saturday Shopping!!

2007-09-30T23:17:00.000+08:00

Went out shopping with Fan Fan on Saturday. She drove in her red lil Picanto (bumpy ride as usual, but no near-death incidents this time) and we headed down to Bugis first.

The Saturday crowd was madness!! We stopped outside OG along the row of eateries and I had One Tonne noodles (heehee I still find this funny after I heard the pun from Martin Yan on his show). My char siew wasn't red or chaoda enough, and Fandrie was supposed to have her shredded chicken noodles but it came in huge pieces. Instead of sending it back she said it was alright and proceeded to daintily remove the chicken skin and bones while talking about astrology and astronomy which I don't know nuts about.

We went to OG first and halfway that woman sneaked out giving the excuse that she left her phone in her car.. and just when I was getting worried for her after she's gone for too long, she came back with 2 bags bought from the pasar malam!!

OG got boring, so we headed down to Bugis Village (bag galore!) and I bought TWO bags!!! That's almost 70 bucks spent in less than 15 minutes!! Gah...

But this Little Miss shirt was the best purchase!!! 12 for one piece, 20 bucks for 2!

Fan and I each bought one. She's Little Miss Curious and I'm.......

Actually I think I'm a rather obliging person (am i not?? hmmm at least people tell me I am ..) and far (shi wan ba qian li) from stubborn but she's so round and cute (actually Fan wanted her first and I wanted Miss Curious but our purchases swapped)

Then she wanted her skinny elastic pants (which no one in the whole wide world can wear except her and maybe some starved people in Africa but they won't look half as hot of course) and the entire Bugis doesn't have her size, so we had to either head for Lilliput, or this shop called Bega in Marina Square.

So we went to Marina Square :D

I think the shop actually waits for her to come in and buy cos no one else can squeeze into them. (They gave her a VIP card lo!) She's has killer buns sitting on top of her killer long legs!! And me? Like one ba zhang... haiz

I got her some tops to try (NO WAY it's too YOU! she said). She amused me by trying them on and I could tell that she secretly loves how she looks in them.. hehehe You can't hide your lying eyes Fandrie.... I'VE GOT GOOD TASTE!

In the end she got her skin tight hot pants and no tops (bleah) and she was happy and we headed for Carrefour for pineapple juice for her mom and....

THIS!!!!

This is the best wasabi peas ever! Huge can for under 4 bucks, crunchy and shiok enough! Eugene hates it :D He doesn't know what's good stuff!

Fan bought a can, and I bought one for myself and one for Tricia to thank her for a favor (<3 u gal)

and look..!!!!

J..J...J...JUST LOOK at what happened to my can in just 2 days!!!

Totally Cleaned OUT! My sis so nice.. left some pea skins for me... thanks ah...

And I only had some for breakfast lunch and dinner! This is the problem when you live with 5 other people in the house ... grrrr)

The peas are so so so so so good. (Fandrie got so mad with us twice for 1. hiding her peas and 2. really finishing them, so you can imagine how good they are!)

mmm MMMM MMMMMMMMMMM!!!!

I dedicate this pledge to our beloved crunchy peas:

We the Wasabi Pea Lovers of Singapore
Pledge ourselves to be forever lovers of this crunchy savoury snack
Regardless of breakfast, lunch or dinner
To build salty fingers and runny noses
Based on our withdrawal symptoms without them
So as to achieve happiness, sore throats and catfights over who gets the last pea

hahaha I know that was stupid! Anyway I modified it from Mark's We the Potato Chip Lovers of Singapore pledge :D We should say this every morning! Everyone says I look like a zombie before 8am .. Now I have something to wake me up!

Ok it's late, need to invigilate tomorrow.. kinda boring.. oh well.. Toodle-loo!

Mystery body part

2007-09-29T18:05:00.000+08:00

I'm kinda sick of looking at the layout of my blog... how do people actually do up their blogs? People actually design their own blogskins right?? Can I rip off someone else's?? :p

Anyway, I had a craving for steamboat recently (mus be due to the super cold weather couple days back) so I suggested one of those Ma La Huo Guo shops in Geylang. He picked me up from school at around 6.30pm and we headed for the place.

"Eh you know how to go or not? Take out the street directory leh.."

Flip flip flip... I searched for the map and we matched map 73 with 56 then 18 then 1747652o9 (why do they design street directories like this!??)

" I know how to go la.. let's go" (I was pissed with the maps... join here join there.. -_- anyway don't start on the typical girls can't read maps thing, cos I CAN READ MAPS K!)

Then he got me started on ranting about work (pity Eugene's ears... but that's what boyfriends are for) and soon we found that neither of us was focusing on the road and we were quite lost.

From Serangoon to Geylang....

How did we end up on PIE heading for TUAS!??

Anyway we took 1 freakin hour to find the shop (but it's a good thing... if a guy knows Geylang inside out then maybe got something wrong le)

Eugene was super happy to find parking at the bus terminal, especially when parking was apparently free!

Anyway, at 15 bucks per pax with fresh seafood, dumplings and free flow of drinks, very reasonable wor!

Should have taken pictures... the crab claws were about as large as a FOOT LONG SUBWAY SANDWICH!

Can you imagine how large the actual crab was?? Bigger than the steamboat pot la!

Anyway

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DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS?

I still remember seeing it for the first time when I was still a little girl, my maid bending over the kitchen sink washing it. And I thought she was washing a piece of dish cloth.

Compare and Contrast

Well Eugene had no idea what it was! I took a couple of pieces, threw them into the pot and made him eat 2 pieces.

"Eh Bio Engineer... You sure you have no idea what this is??" (poor dearie.... everyone expects him to know everything about every single organism on earth)

"Er... don't know... It's quite chewy though... What is it?"

"Don't tell you... Here, have another piece" (heehee)

(He ate it, looking very confused)

"Ok la... Tell you ...."

IT'S PIG'S ARSE!!!!!!!!!

I swear he flinched and almost spat it out!!!

But that would mean he's HJ right... So he adjusted his composure and said "Oh.. ok... hmmm" and swallowed the morsal.

My poor dearie still has no idea what that is (it's ok... Fandrie the bio teacher doesn't know either)

Shhhh ... You people don't tell him ah!

Tic Tac Toe Queen

2007-09-22T00:05:00.000+08:00

Eugene and I had nothing to do after dinner at Soup Spoon (the place where the cook stuck a knife into his manager. By the way they don't give you a piece of chocolate anymore :( and Eugene as usual pui out the corriander he found hiding in his coleslaw.

We walked around in Raffles City aimlessly and to summarise it all:

1. We saw people holding roses and queuing up at a perfume counter. I wanted a rose too but the ones they were giving out looked quite sian already la... the petals were all fully opened and looked almost black. Eugene said you wan ah, I'll go get for you. But I stopped him cos no point la, the ones he bought me for my birthday were much nicer :D (these things happen only once a year, quite sad)

2. I really needed to pee and we headed for the toilet. Then I suddenly remembered that I needed a pair of light colored heels to replace the ones that I broke in school (heng not in class). And according to Eugene when I was thinking about it I stopped dead in my tracks in the middle of nowhere and seemed as if I was contemplating to hold my pee so that I could get my shoes.

" I cant get you women la. How come can suddenly change your mind one. Think about shoes only then can forget about the toilet."

Interesting observation. He's the bio scientist so i'll leave him to figure that out.

3. After peeing popped into Robinson's for shoes and all damn expensive la and mostly for aunties.

4. Decided to go to Bras Basah Mc. Grabbed a large diet coke and I took out my marking and he looked a bit sian so I put that aside so that all my attention was on him. Then he didnt know what to say -_-

So at this point I decided to play tic tac toe behind a worksheet. He groaned cos he hates the game. You know why???

Cos this genius has NEVER won me at tic tac toe before!!!!!

Ever since we started playing the MSN version online he has never won a single game.

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT???

Ok so someone who was on the Dean's list, writes formulae comprising damn cheem looking symbols for calculating dunno what rabbit knee ligament tensile strength and rubbish like that, cannot win tic tac toe?

So there we were with my red pens playing the most boh liao game in the world. I think he made it more boh liao by actually taking at least 20 seconds to make each move. (ok actually it was just one move). He took so long I had a chance to take him in action before he noticed:

Quite cute hor

Then he discovered that he was caught and it will probably be published:

Then he acted pissed:

"hmph dun want to play with you already"

(takes a peek to see if i'm buying it)

After like 10 rounds he got so demoralised and decided to work out how much Power of Love we each had for each other (see first post) and it turned out that i have 0.29 more than he has for me.

OMG

Liddat how can???

I told him to recall Le Chatlier's Principle and I will make sure the situation shifts so don't be too happy. And he said the usual yeah rights and looked damn YayaPapaya and proud la. But quite cute oso.

The sweetest thing he said tonight was that he wants me to marry him tomorrow.

(blushes)

Only if you win me at tic tac toe first?

When would you expect a proposal from your guy?

2007-09-21T08:38:00.000+08:00

We were having this conversation at Kallang Mc on Wednesday night after watching Live the Dream at Media Corp (Shauna went through by the way). Was feeling like crap after an incident in school regarding a doctored MC submitted by a student and had to play detective the whole day and night. It was around 10pm and we were having dinner and Eugene insisted he didn't want to share my chicken nuggets.

Then I asked him, "So when are you going to propose?" (you may think that I'm very brave to ask this, but he talks about it like aunties talk about price of fish so it's no big deal between us)

:-O <- this was his face before he broke into a huge smile (was he embarrassed or wat?) and asked why??? "Cos you were asking me about rings and how many carats I'd want and stuff like that.. that was around 2 months ago? Excitement cooled off liao ah?"

"No la... er... I shouldn't talk too much about it ma... Then when it happens it will be when you least expect it, " he said rather sheepishly (quite cute)

"Issit.... Or is it cos you changed your mind about it?"

"HUH? why?? No!" (defensive mode)

"It's ok la... understandable. Cos no push factor for you to propose ma. "

"HUH? what? wat push factor?"

"There are a few reasons for a guy to propse k.. you dunno ah... "

"Ok what are they....?"

Then I listed down the factors I manage to come up with as I spoke (I was trying very hard not to sound crappy, this kind of thing, the girl must be the expert)

1. He feels he's losing the girl.
2. He wants to move out but doesn't have enough money. (laughter from him)
3. Pressure from girl. (no i'm not guilty of this)
4. Pressure from parents.

"And none of them applies to you at this point of time... this relationship too comfy for you hor ;) "

And then he exclaimed, "WHAT?

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE POWER OF LOVE!?"

"(very calmly) Define the Power of Love please hor" (cannot let him win)

So for the next hour we debated about what is the Power of Love and the scientist in him kept throwing out Newton's law and formulae and rubbish. Heng I still remember enough Physics to counter attack, if not ah, he think he can smoke me so easily!!!

We came up with the following method on what is the Power of Love and how it can be calculated. Extremely nonsensical and stupid and long but it was so funny how we arrived to a conclusion.

So (fanfare and drumroll) Tada! Here you are:

(warning: if you dunno your O level physics, you better dun read and just scroll down for the overall formula la. If you are the kind who ace quantum Physics in University pls dun read oso in case you vomit blood)

How can you calculate the Power of Love?

Consider P = W/t where P is power, W is work done and t is time

Since work done = force x distance,

Therefore P = F x d / t where P is power of love, F is force of attraction, d is distance traveled by the couple and t is the total time they were together.

The force of attraction between 2 people is measured from the extent which they need each other emotionally, physically and mentally. This can be quantified by a questionnaire which is filled in and totaled up to give a number.

Sample question:

1. How often do you meet up per week? (for example 3 times)

2. How often on these occasions do you feel more obliged than wanting to meet? (for example 2 times)

3. Resultant force in this case would be 3-2 = 1

The distance traveled together is a metaphorical one. It can be quantified by the length of time the couple has been together. The longer the time spent together, the further the relationship develops. Therefore the distance traveled is directly proportional to time.

How much you are willing to spend on your partner must be taken into account. You may think at this point: Wah liddat millionaire benefit la! I so poor sell my socks oso not enough to buy expensive gifts can?!

Thus the accumulated monetary value of gifts must be divided by the monthly income to give a more realistic figure, giving us G/I

Recall: P = F x d / t

Since d α t and taking into account G and I,

d = Gt/I

hence P = F x Gt/tI

= F x G/I

Hence I conclude that

Power of Love =Force of attraction x value of Gifts / Income

So Eugene damn lucky la... cos he has very little income from his tuition (although he gets 2K from his research but he insists that's not income lar) ! wah lau...

And worse still by the end of it all he took all 3 of my nuggets and ate them WITHOUT ME NOTICING!! (then some more act act like want to buy more for me)

So much for the Power of Love -_- '''
diao....