I'm lovin this song

I'll be rich if I am a Panda.

From the news.

Statue made of panda dung sold for US$45,000

BEIJING - A former Swiss ambassador to China turned art collector has forked out 300,000 yuan (US$45,000) for a replica of the famed Venus de Milo statue -- made from panda dung.

Children from the southwestern province of Sichuan, the home of China's beloved giant panda, made the unusual statue with the help of famous sculptor Zhu Cheng, popular Web portal sina.com reported.

An employee at the Henan Art Museum, surnamed Zhao, on Friday confirmed to AFP that a statue made of panda faeces had been sold to Sigg, Swiss ambassador to China in the 1990s, who spent a total of one million yuan on artworks.

The statue was the main talk of the show, attracting people not because it was a replica of a famous sculpture, but because of the material from which it was made, the report said."From time to time, people get closer to the statue and smell this yellow Venus and some claim it smells nice," it added.

Pandas are good at earning money and are generally paid high salary. Here are the stats:

• In 2004, each panda earns 3.6 million RMB (similar as 450,000 million USD) .The President of the United States, President Obama earns $400,000 a year.


• Usually one panda a year cost 6000-10000USD for basic cost: meals and airconditioning, basic medicine. But it's worth it as you can mould it's shit and sell for much more.


• But pandas are not very materialistic creatures. All they want is bamboo. So all the earning are used in preservation of pandas' habitat and its construction, as well as wild scientific research, promotion in preservation educations

Guys don't you wish your ladies/gf can be pandas?

Happy Birthday to MEE!!!

This year's 22nd birthday felt like a 21st.

It feels great to be a 21 year old princess, just that I've really passed my 21st and it's the 22nd birthday I was really celebrating. I had two whole cakes for my birthday this year, one from my family, one from siong's family.

My mom got a nice cake, however its not a cheesecake which I always want for my brithday - a standard request every year. She prob got it coz she liked the cake and getting the cake for my birthday was probably a one-stone-kill-two-bird aim. Neither did I blow any candles. I told her there's no need to and I'll just go out and slice the cake for them. So when she waited long enough at the living room the day before my birthday, she called asking when will I cut the cake. So I cut and then they took the slices and ate and watched TV. So I went back into my room. That's all I did.

My birthday was really a blessed one! Siong brought me to good old JB City Square for Ostrich and Steak on the rock! Then it was a classic cheesecake and a new cake flavour (which I had forgotten!) at Secret Recipe! Spent the whole day walking around, never really bought anything...but it was a day of good food and jolly feeling! Prob its also coz I've spent $450 at Watsons the week before, that's why I've tightened my wallet! Wonder how I managed to spend $450 at good old watsons? HAHAHAHhAhahHAHAhha!!!

Dinner was some fried Taiwan Chicken. I also found a shop that could do stamps for me at a cheap rate. Prob make afew stamps and see how it goes from there.

Shawn's mommy insisted that I should have a cake to cut on my birthday, so out we went to get a cake from Q Bread. It is another cheesecake! and I had Alison, Si Lie, Celest, Calieus, May, Sam, Uncle, Auntie and Siong to celebrate with me!!! =)))))))

This year's Birthday brought me one of the best birthday presents I ever had. Siong got me a Whiteboard and a Swarovski Red Heart necklace. Auntie got me a nice Levi's top. God blessed me with somethings I had missed out, but treasure now.

Thank you all!

IVP wushu competition

For the first time since I had known about this competition, I am sitting as a spectator.

I've been competing for the past three years without fail and I still remember the first year I had competed. Every year is a different experience and my goal was always to grasp at least one Gold. But I never did. The best I had done was the first time I competed, in the National Wushu Competition, obtaining 2nd for my fist form. After that was always a decline.

It should be a lack of focus. It is now a regret and I wonder if I could ever, after 10 years of wushu practise and now not practising anymore because of work, still obtain a Gold somewhere somehow. Maybe I should go train in Tai Chi as what Wei Han said. Too old already. Am I?

All my life I just lacked the focus. I had always wanted to go Nepal, but Ivan beat me at it, left only after 6 months of planning. I had planned 6 years.

I really want to continue training in wushu. Just when I felt my competitive life had started, it ended too soon. But because of work, because of various other reasons, I had stopped. And as I see my friends and people I once knew in De Wu, how thay had remained focus and made a name for themselves, I blame myself for not being strong enough to heck the barriers and move on.

Ups and Downs

It's been some time since I was here. Been working very hard and trying to play as hard too.



The first month of work was really the honeymoon period...where everything was fresh and I was still wondering why my predecessors left my position so quickly for various reasons. Although I have been working OT since the first day of work, doing surveys way after office hours, I thought this job was great as I am meeting people and coming up with new ideas every day (coz I had the time to think) . I'm also learning new marketing stuffs everyday.



For the past week or so though, I havent been meeting people. I havent been thinking. I have only been trying to chase time, the same feeling like trying to chase after your shadow in the evening sun, aiming to plant both your feets on your head but each time you move, the shadow's always ahead of you. And the midday sun has been so shrouded by cloudy skies (with haze recently... even NEA website's so loaded it's not loading) so you're prevented from the simply goal of standing in your own shadow from head to toe.



I'm also not really learning new marketing stuffs. But I'm still learning - about how to twist words so that I don't say the wrong things to bosses and partners, at the same time trying to stay as honest as I can. It's such a meticulous and delicate balance, I'm not careful enough and I kept shattering it.

Keeping in contact with overseas bosses is also mind blowing. I've been working for more than 12 hours this week so far, simply because I spend more time collating everything and trying to make things short and sweet in view that bosses are busy people, esp overseas. Then when things are short and sweet, people start to assume missing information and then make the wrong assumption, often to a negative side.

Then it makes no sense to rectify the assumptions which may require long emails when the reason why everything happened is because I wanted to keep things simple. Trying to rectify probs may also make me look like I am arguing, esp when the boss specifically told you ' no time to read emails'. So I went ahead to do my stuffs, threading on my toes, yet I still recieve a 'Who gave you the approval?!" So I went back to square 1, seeking approval for every single breath I take.

Its not like people in the same hazy island are anymore contactable too. Somehow when I need things I could never get to them. Then when they needs things (which are ALWAYS very urgent, more urgent than mine), being the person who strive to nv miss a call, I am always there and I became a messenger, doing more things when I have not even settled my own issues I wanted to raise to the very same person. Somehow. Then when everything is finally done, and I raise my issues, "Oh! I get back to you in a while" then the same whole process repeats. TMD.

All hell broke loose and I spend my nights worrying what kind of emails I will receive the next day. Sometimes I even felt like I should not sleep but wait for my boss to reply 3-4am emails so I can quickly get things stright.

Now I know why my predesessors left. But I'm gonna stay. If this is the kind of trials God has in mind for me, then I'll just take it in my stride and prove myself. Although I feel that many of my so called mistakes were are driven by circumstances I dont understand, leading to many misunderstanding, I don't think I need to stand up for myself. I just have to do my job, be more stringent (that is if i get my good slp) and try to stop those stress acne from popping.

Bracing myself for the arrival of bosses tml. They are finally back. Bad news is I am expecting some form of compiled and burning lecturing and they have probably lost their faith in this one who aced the interview. Good news is since they are back and things will go on right once again.

Funny times

I received a email from Candice that reads this.

The Vanilla Pudding Robbery

This is just too funny not to share an article which appeared in The Dublin Times about a bank robbery on March 2.

Once inside the bank shortly after midnight, their efforts at disabling the security system got underway immediately. The robbers, who expected to find one or two large safes filled with cash & valuables, were surprised to see hundreds of smaller safes throughout the bank. The robbers cracked the first safe's combination, and inside they found only a small bowl looks like vanilla pudding. As recorded on the bank's audio tape system, one robber said, 'At least we'll have a bit to eat.'

The robbers opened up a second safe, and it also contained nothing but vanilla pudding. The process continued until all safes were opened. They did not find one pound sterling, a diamond, or an ounce of gold. Instead, all the safes contained covered little bowls of pudding.

Disappointed, the robbers made a quiet exit, each leaving with nothing more than a queasy, uncomfortably full stomach.

The newspaper headline read: 'IRELAND'S LARGEST SPERM BANK ROBBED EARLY THIS MORNING'....

Shawn prompted me to search for this wickedly intelligent Thai bank commercial after reading this email.




Then as usual I began my search for the infamously intelligent and humourous thai advertisements. Seems like there has been lots of updates over the past few months! Here's a series of commercials promoting a coffee that will boost your energy level, enabling you to multitask well.







The one below is nothing intelligent actually... just in your face and so plain dumb i'm laughing at it's stupidity =P



Its amazing how thai people make fun of themselves and their own country's uniqueness - ladyboys and lots of infamous ghosts stories









This is one that I didn't like. But I guessed that Siong would like it, and I was right. Talk about ego-centric men who like to make us women look silly. ARUGH.

Message in a Bottle Survives Epic Journey

Last year, a high school student named Corey Swearingen put a letter in a bottle, sealed it up, and dropped it in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Florida coast. It was kind of an experiment for school. In the letter, he appealed to whomever came across the bottle to contact him and let him know where in the world it showed up. Amazingly, someone did.

About 16 months after the bottle was dropped, Swearingen's marine science teacher heard from someone in Ireland. The letter had made its way across the Atlantic Ocean and washed up on the shores of the Emerald Isle, found by a 17-year-old and his Dad while out for a stroll. In an interview with Florida Today, Swearingen said he never expected the message to be found.
Can't blame him for pessimism. After all, the wine bottle, which, according to Swearingen, is being put up on display in an Irish pub, did face long odds. But it's hardly the first message in a bottle to survive a perilous journey.

In 2009, a message in a bottle washed up on the shores of England. It had been tossed into the waters near the Bahamas nearly five years previous. Incredible

There's even a case of a message in a bottle helping a family find a new life. In 1979, Dorothy and John Henry Peckham dropped a message in a bottle in the Pacific Ocean while on a cruise. Amazingly, the bottle found its way to Southeast Asia where it was picked up by 31-year-old Hoa Van Nguyen.

Nguyen wrote back and began a correspondence that eventually led to the Peckhams helping to sponsor Nguyen and his family's immigration to the United States.

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I believe that this is the work of God working His miracle on earth! I could never figure out how fragile glass bottles could survive sea storms, potential rocks and the constant curiousity of sea creatures (I think they would be curious!!!) to carry it's message across the surface of the earth when tough steel tankers ships are always at the mercy of mother nature! It must then be God's work to build faith in the hearts of those who dared to try =)

Don't Get Burnt Marketing Campaign

In the NEWS! A lorry with high density metal trunk caught fire from a surface spark after a speeding bird ran it's beak into it! Fortunately the bird was fine. Unfortunately the fire slowly consumed the trunk and the driver only came to realise when a passing drivers started horning and to signaling him! LOL!!!

If such a thing really happened I think the first thing that would come into a Singaporean's mind is to buy the lottery plate number of this lorry. It's a kid up there by the way. =P

'Singapore Customs has launched a public campaign, "Don't Get Burnt", to in an effort to eradicate illegal cigarettes. With the use of traditional and new media strategies, the campaign draws attention to its icon - a burn mark - that emphasises the consequences of dealing with illegal cigarettes.'

This reminds me of the time I worked in BAT when my boss was telling me all about this and that a campaign will be launched soon. That was last year in June 2009. It's September 2010. How soOoOooOon!!!!

But I must say the campaign tagline and icon is very well done. The way they have the icon printed and integrated onto the moving advertising medium makes it highly noticable and catches any passer by's attention to see if something is really burning! I must say the designer had done a good job. The burning mark also mimicks a cigeratte burn through a paper, which anyone and everone would be able to easily relate how it would look like. Finally a creative warning advertising effort by the Singapore Government other than the usual 'In Your Face kind' and the 'WARNING, DO NOT xxxxx, IF NOT FINE $xxxx' kind. At least I do not see any big red warnings on the lorry.

Their micro-site is very well done too. You should take a look if you've landed here. Your computer screen will even look like someone had burnt a hole in it.

http://www.dontgetburnt.sg/#media-gallery?id=1

You'll also notice that apparantly the police have been spying and taking pictures of offenders. Before this, they most probably gave people a warning and a second chance. But with the Don't Get Burnt campaign in full force, I don't think they'll give any chances.

And to all smokers who like to frequent Malaysia or JB, do take note of this not-so-new regulation. It is an offence to buy, smoke or possess cigarettes without the SDPC mark. Offenders can be fined a minimum of $500 per packet for possession or jailed for distribution of cigarettes without this mark. Think twice.

Virgin to launch space tourism in 18 months

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - – Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson said Monday that Virgin Galactic is on track to offer commercial space travel within 18 months, and that space hotels are next on the drawing board.

Virgin Galactic, which aims to become the world's first commercial company to promote space tourism, has already collected 45 million dollars in deposits from more than 330 people who have reserved seats aboard the six-person craft.

Branson also has visions of establishing hotels in space, which well-heeled tourists can use as a base for shuttle flights over the moon.

"We are looking at hotels in space. We love the moon," the tycoon said

I had aspired to be an astronaut in my early primary school days... a weird ambition for a little girl isn't it? I remembered being amazed by this planetary book I had, and being the only kid in class who could name all the planets in order to my science teacher. Perhaps what I wanted was to be at the top of the world, able to admire mother earth, and the other mysterious yet beautiful planets, moons and stars with my very own eyes.

But somehow along the way I lost it. I'm not sure why...

I no longer aspire to set foot in space anymore. Perhaps I was influenced by my church teachings... that we should not disturb the peace of space, God's magnificant creation. Perhaps after all the spaceshuttle explosions I was a tad frightened. Perhaps its because as I grew older I understood all the possible dangers and high risks of the adventure.

Such that I am actually against Richard Branson's space empire ambition. It sounded to me like Gundam.... are we going to act like God and build a 'man-made planet' in the near future? Isn't Earth with all the wonderful colours, sights and smell, good enough a place to live in?

If I have a store...

I will make it into somewhere we like, not what we think others might like.
I will make it into something that shows who we are, not what people want us to be.
I will make it into a place where people walk in with pure inquisitivity , and then walk out with a full understanding

We should do something like this once a lifetime....

Longest Journey by Powered Paraglider

WHO:
Benjamin Jordan
WHAT:
8,008 km (4,975.93 miles)
WHERE:
Tofino (British Columbia) to Bay St Lawrence (Nova Scotia)
WHEN:
15 May 2009 to 24 August 2009

The longest journey by powered paraglider is 8,008 km (4,975.93 miles) and was achieved by Benjamin Jordan (Canada) flying west to east across Canada from Tofino (British Columbia) to Bay St. Lawrence (Nova Scotia) between 15 May 2009 and 24 August 2009.

Cool stuffs to put at home

This is COOL! My home will be filled with such cool stuffs next time! Definately!
http://freshome.com/2010/09/21/cool-out-of-the-box-lamp-design-from-yeongwoo-kim/

And I will porb need this next time too. Lol! 'This mattress was designed for those people who want to hold their partner in their arms all night long without feeling the presure in the arms. This will effectively prevent the arm pressure and you can also pitch feet in the slot and easily find the most comfortable sleeping position.'

http://freshome.com/2007/12/21/love-mattress/

Fossil - I like it!

I have always been fond of this brand. It's designs range from classic to classy, yet always retaining its true vintage outlook.

I could wear this on the weekdays to add to my professional business wear...

and this during the weekends for the rugged and no-boundaries me!

This is Siong's choice, simple yet sophisticated, truely an art!

And I got my eyes on this vintage bag. A bag that could easily walk you from the 1930s to the 21st centuary. A design that resists all trends and time!

A weekend of board games

The last weekend was not as eventful, but not less exciting either! Friday was a day of catching up with some overdue work. Siong's mom being the super nice mommy around packed super nice fish and minced meat porridge for us! I felt it was abit over priced though. Come to think of it, I think I had developed a liking for fish and porridge recently. My choice of dishes usually comprise of some freshly sliced fish... of note, this Fish Stomach and Skin porridge I had on Sunday for dinner at Tao PaYoh. It was fabulous. They really give you the omega 3 filled stomach fats and big well cutted slices of skin, nothing less! Apparently the stretch of eateries have good and well-known food, just that it is well hidden, tucked away behind other shops and snacks stores. I'll make sure we have something else from there again the next time we are nearby! And take some pictures too!

Following that, the saturday was a day with afew hours spent with my beloved NTU wushu juniors and meeting the freshies. It seems like there will be some potential in this year's batch... but its just the beginning and its hard to predict as many people usually leave during the first few weeks. It simply a matter of who stays.

The rest of the evening was great fun and laughter with Mickey, Jessica and dearest Siong at Coffee Nations, our favourite hideout! I transported my full size cluedo all the way there... and the rest of the day was like - Siong got jealous that Mickey and I were "spending too much time together in the Spa" so "with much chance and effort he made his way to the room and forced mickey out of the spa pool onto the bed" and Mickey " wasn't too happy with it" so he " jumped into the pool to destroy our nice little private time together finally" . But coz we can't stand the idea of sharing the same spa pool with mickey so when "mickey jumped into the pool, both of us scurried out and gave the whole pool to him!"

You gotta be there to find the whole thing funny! JESSICA PLEASE SET THE NEXT CLUEDO SESSION!!! YOu gotta win AT LEAST ONCE! kekekek...

Sunday was great. It was church then BBK then having good times at Jurong Point! I still prefer the weekdays though when there is less crowd. It's better for my temper too. We had lunch at our long missed Banquet... and then MOVIE!

DON'T watch cats and dogs unless you are a primary school kid or accompanying a pri school kid. The kid would easily rate it 5*. If you are not a kid, it becomes a 1.5* - credits purely going to the really cute animals.

Then it was the porridge dinner mentioned just now and SETTLERS at Fu Kai's place. I'm lovin the game! But I still like cluedo currently, unless I become a expert in Settlers =) I want more board games weekends!!!! Like once a month?!

My next Handphone...

Is gonna have a keypad,
Is gonna be throw, slam, fling and drop proof,
and is gonna be able to cut the sending of that sms to the wrong person with the quick touch of a cancel button.

Very important

THIS IS GONNA BE MY NEWEST LENOVO!

THE Lenovo Ideapad S10-3T

Just look at this beauty! You can swirval the monitor round, then press it down clamped with the full sized keyboard and start doing natural touchscreen actions!

Way to go Lenovo! Juice the Apple!

How I wish it comes in all black! I'ld get it without second thoughts!

Did I ever mention I am a big fan of Lenovo?

I only owe one laptop in my life before and thats my precious Lenovo ThinkPad T60. I got it more than three years back during NTU's freshman week 'IT Fair' and I must tell you had never regreted the choice I made. It drained my POSB account, but it's thru thick and thin with me. For three hard years ( I do not have the habit of shutting down my PC and even when I carry it around, I simply close the lid and move off), after being dropped from heights as tall as me with my arm stretched and being man handled by aircrafts personnal with placed naked in a lauggage, it never fail me. Not once had it died before. My T60 saw me through my university and was my best friend. It was always there for me =D

THE SMRT PRESTIGE

THE SMRT PRESTIGE.

I TOOK IT TODAY!!!!

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This exclusive service is offered on Mercedes and London Taxis. The spacious interiors and contoured seats make for a relaxing ride whilst music of your choice soothes the soul. And if you desire to read, the wide selection of magazine on board provide food for thought.

With Prestige, you can expect impeccable service and more. From being able to hold a conversation to delivery of quality customer-service, and even down to donning business wear when they are behind the wheel, all our drivers take great pride in the fact that they are setting benchmarks when it comes to service.

Ensuring you have a pleasant journey is important to us. Equally important is your safety which is why the Prestige fleet is equipped with a safety lock system that prevents the opening of doors when the vehicle is in motion.

So, leave the driving to us. Travel to your meetings in style with Prestige by SMRT Taxis.

To book a Prestige service, call the SMRT Taxis hotline 6555 8888 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 6555 8888 end_of_the_skype_highlighting. Booking fee for Prestige service is $8.

Its super big and spacious... I can cross my legs on the chair! It's so smooth , maybe I can play monopoly deal or even cluedo on the ride!!!

LUXURIOUS! At a price of $2 more.

Back in the Office

I'm back in the office again.

NOt that I'm not glad to be here, its just that I know today's gonna be a long day cuz I only had 4 hours of sleep, and the day before, 5 hours. And I thought yesterday was supposed to be a luxurious day whereby I can sleep early after watching some anime.

I got my anime but not the sleep. Some work that I had been oweing for some time was needed and thus I worked on it. There goes what I thought is the first time i'll get my luxurious 9 hours of sleep since I started working. I could only blame on my bad time managment as mentioned in the previous post. It was a good push to get things done though.

4 and 5 hours of sleep is the kind whereby you don't feel tired enough to fall sick, neither do you feel alert enough to close the lid of the flask tightly before mixing the boiling hot contents in it. (Got scalded early in the morning. What a way to wake up.)

Blogwalking

Is this some sort of new marketing tactic for online businesses?! Somehow such people (maybe even machine) would leave a often out-of-point comment on my chatbox and have their name linked.

Some time ago I was fighting this anonymous coward whose name is "." . Yes. DOT. who hurled rude remarks on my blog and is still in hiding. Now I have people like miki, supposedly a sexy sara and girls with cute braces praising my blog when I know there is nothing to praise about. Especially when I have half written senseless posts like My BB cream story that only had a picture and some SPF which only I know corresponds to which BB cream! And oh! miki claimed that its very information. Bow wow wow.

I left a threat note on the chatbox a few weeks back threatening to report their blog or leave bad comments if anyone attempts to advertise on my space without my permission. But. I hate to admit, they ain't a tad threatened for their website does not allow any form of reporting or commenting.

I do think that they do targeting as I don't see such phenomenon on my friends' blogs.

Maybe I should check out what is BlogWalking.

Update: Increase Traffic Rank with Blogwalking
Blogwalking, Is a powerful technique to increase your visitors or traffic by visiting your friends blog or even someones you don't know. In This way you can totally increase your traffic in alexa and have a lot of numbers of visitors in your page that result high page impressions by adsense or any other ppc program.

Now I get it! It's another way round the all-so-clever Adsense! You leave a praise, then your link and then people will go to your blog feeling all goody goody! Then Adsense will notice that new IP address and you get the cents! For awhile I was thinking whether I should try earning some extra allowance from Adsense without spoiling the serenity of my blog.. but this is irritating and mindless. As a marketer, I know the big money people pay to advertise on Adwords and simply having traffic crossing over their adverts to gain those tiny cents is not within my code of ethics. I won't attempt blogwalking on other people's site.

I won't stop people from blogwalking here, but at least make enough sense in your comment if you want to earn from my click.

Update:What is blog-walking ? Blogwalking is a technique to increase blog traffic by visiting other blogs and leave your marks there. The other blogger is then expected to reciprocate by visiting your blog.

This sounds more reasonable but I maintain my stand. Make sure you leave a reply worthy mark before expecting any reciprocation.

Update: Now my blog is a gathering place for Blogwalkers. -,-. Hi all.

Mad rush to sleep

I've been officially working for two weeks already/ only and I feel like I have worked for 2 months already although it still feels like it was only yesterday when I just entered the company. I am glad my colleagues and superiors really do trust me in my work and I am not treated like a innocent fresh graduate. They do place high expectations on me and I am glad I am given ample opportunities to learn and do my part. This was already in place the first day I stepped in and I am given five projects to work on already, of which three of them I am playing a leading role with good guidance from my superior. Therefore with so much to do and so much done already, I feel like I had worked for 2 months already, but time had passed so fast, I could still clearly remember my feelings and events that took place the first day I stepped into my space in the department.

That being said, eveynight therefore became a mad rush to sleep. I have to wake up at 7am lastest every morning so I can prepare and leave by 7.30 am to catch the 8am company bus and reach office before my official working hour starts at 8.30pm.

This means I have to start sleeping ideally by 11.30pm. For the past few days I had work to do even after my official working hours ended at 6.15pm, and then I'll try to find some time, usually less than an hour, to spend with Siong, then go home, often reaching home after 11pm. Then I quickly check my personal mails, fb, quickly bath, dry the hair and go to bed... everything before 12am, often getting more tired due to the mad rush.

This weekend however was a welcomed break. Althought the mad rush to sleep is still there, I got to spend my weekend window shopping at Marina Square and Vivo City , have Kenny Rogers, beach at Sentosa, rewarding lunch adventure after church, tandom bike for the first time at East Coast and Karaok at Tanjong Katong. I know that such fun filled and well spent weekend with friends and my love will be hard to come by next time... and I am also feeling the drain of having packed so much activities into two days. For one thing I have not started on decorating my work note book nor started anything on scrapbooking, something I have been wanting to do for a very long while now.

I have been missing on my weekly anime and also rather behind my blogging for I had lots of entries I wanna talk about. I have not been reading my basic bible knowledge nor touched the bible.

It's time to work something out.... a weekly schedule that I should follow... like... I'll try to read my BBK and verses from the Bible at least twice a week.. and to have read and prepare myself before every BBK lesson. But then again...it's gonna be another schedule squeezed into the time I use to rush to sleep.

Gotta work on time management.

My BB Cream Story

25PA++
20PA+
45PA+++
35PA+++

Early Morning dislikes and the good kind of Evenings

Top in the List
Feeling super hot and stuffy but sneezing and having mucus threatening to flow at the same time. Feeling hot and sneezing do not match each other.

Second in the List
Waking up from long nightmares that causes headaches

Third in the List
Feeling most humid after washing my hair and having to walk in the hot sun with no wind from my home to the MRT. (This did not occur this morning fortunately)

All these on top of having to rush and unable to laze in bed for half an hour.



Oh... but it was a good evening yesterday!

Top in the List
Meeting up with a old friend from my secondary and junior college for dinner and having a good ketchap and a jolly good time.

Second in the List
Having found my $1 but VERY BEAUTIFUL stickers near my place. Brings me back to the childhood days where stickers are cheap and not-glamour-fied by some art shop selling them at premium prices even when they aint as good as what I've gotten at $1 before. That was in the primary and secondary school days =D Got about $13 or $14 worth of em.

Third in the List
I managed to get a nice durian cake for my mom and some very good traditional mooncakes for shawn's family from Bakerzin at a good discount! Burnt my pocket but feels good coz I know they'll be happy!

A new Parcel

In about 7 hours time, I'll be waking up and preparing for my first day of work.

It's my first job and my first step into the working society. I am not officially a working adult, no longer the student I've been for the past 14 years of my life.

Amidst all the excitment , abit of sadness as I end my 'wake up at 12 noon weekdays' life.... and a pinch of stress looking at the time I'm left for my own personal hobbies, there is a Biblical quote in today's sermon that should set the foundation for my career path.

Philippians 2:3" Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves"

I'm not good at explaining things so let's hope Shawn has something on his blog that I can link to =P

If U're in a relationship, married or none, read this. U'll know why at the end.

MARRIAGE

When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I've got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.

Suddenly I didn't know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised the topic calmly.

She didn't seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why?

I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me, you are not a man! That night, we didn't talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. But I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Jane. I didn't love her anymore. I just pitied her!

With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my company.

She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces. The woman who had spent ten years of her life with me had become a stranger. I felt sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take back what I had said for I loved Jane so dearly. Finally she cried loudly in front of me, which was what I had expected to see. To me her cry was actually a kind of release. The idea of divorce which had obsessed me for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now.

The next day, I came back home very late and found her writing something at the table. I didn't have supper but went straight to sleep and fell asleep very fast because I was tired after an eventful day with Jane.

When I woke up, she was still there at the table writing. I just did not care so I turned over and was asleep again.

In the morning she presented her divorce conditions: she didn't want anything from me, but needed a month's notice before the divorce. She requested that in that one month we both struggle to live as normal a life as possible. Her reasons were simple: our son had his exams in a month's time and she didn't want to disrupt him with our broken marriage.

This was agreeable to me. But she had something more, she asked me to recall how I had carried her into out bridal room on our wedding day.

She requested that every day for the month's duration I carry her out of our bedroom to the front door ever morning. I thought she was going crazy. Just to make our last days together bearable I accepted her odd request.

I told Jane about my wife's divorce conditions. . She laughed loudly and thought it was absurd. No matter what tricks she applies, she has to face the divorce, she said scornfully.

My wife and I hadn't had any body contact since my divorce intention was explicitly expressed. So when I carried her out on the first day, we both appeared clumsy. Our son clapped behind us, daddy is holding mommy in his arms. His words brought me a sense of pain. From the bedroom to the sitting room, then to the door, I walked over ten meters with her in my arms. She closed her eyes and said softly; don't tell our son about the divorce. I nodded, feeling somewhat upset. I put her down outside the door. She went to wait for the bus to work. I drove alone to the office.

On the second day, both of us acted much more easily. She leaned on my chest. I could smell the fragrance of her blouse. I realized that I hadn't looked at this woman carefully for a long time. I realized she was not young any more. There were fine wrinkles on her face, her hair was graying! Our marriage had taken its toll on her. For a minute I wondered what I had done to her.

On the fourth day, when I lifted her up, I felt a sense of intimacy returning. This was the woman who had given ten years of her life to me.

On the fifth and sixth day, I realized that our sense of intimacy was growing again. I didn't tell Jane about this. It became easier to carry her as the month slipped by. Perhaps the everyday workout made me stronger.

She was choosing what to wear one morning. She tried on quite a few dresses but could not find a suitable one. Then she sighed, all my dresses have grown bigger. I suddenly realized that she had grown so thin, that was the reason why I could carry her more easily.

Suddenly it hit me... she had buried so much pain and bitterness in her heart. Subconsciously I reached out and touched her head.

Our son came in at the moment and said, Dad, it's time to carry mom out. To him, seeing his father carrying his mother out had become an essential part of his life. My wife gestured to our son to come closer and hugged him tightly. I turned my face away because I was afraid I might change my mind at this last minute. I then held her in my arms, walking from the bedroom, through the sitting room, to the hallway. Her hand surrounded my neck softly and naturally. I held her body tightly; it was just like our wedding day.

But her much lighter weight made me sad. On the last day, when I held her in my arms I could hardly move a step. Our son had gone to school. I held her tightly and said, I hadn't noticed that our life lacked intimacy.

I drove to office.... jumped out of the car swiftly without locking the door. I was afraid any delay would make me change my mind...I walked upstairs. Jane opened the door and I said to her, Sorry, Jane, I do not want the divorce anymore.

She looked at me, astonished, and then touched my forehead. Do you have a fever? She said. I moved her hand off my head. Sorry, Jane, I said, I won't divorce. My marriage life was boring probably because she and I didn't value the details of our lives, not because we didn't love each other anymore. Now I realize that since I carried her into my home on our wedding day I am supposed to hold her until death do us apart.

Jane seemed to suddenly wake up. She gave me a loud slap and then slammed the door and burst into tears. I walked downstairs and drove away.

At the floral shop on the way, I ordered a bouquet of flowers for my wife. The salesgirl asked me what to write on the card. I smiled and wrote, I'll carry you out every morning until death do us apart.

That evening I arrived home, flowers in my hands, a smile on my face, I run up stairs, only to find my wife in the bed - dead. My wife had been fighting CANCER for months and I was so busy with Jane to even notice. She knew that she would die soon and she wanted to save me from the whatever negative reaction from our son, in case we push thru with the divorce.-- At least, in the eyes of our son--- I'm a loving husband....

The small details of your lives are what really matter in a relationship. It is not the mansion, the car, property, the money in the bank. These create an environment conducive for happiness but cannot give happiness in themselves. So find time to be your spouse's friend and do those little things for each other that build intimacy. Do have a real happy marriage!

If you don't share this, nothing will happen to you.

If you do, you just might save a marriage.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

A CHRIST-CENTERED MARRIAGE IS A MARRIAGE THAT IS SURE TO LAST A LIFETIME.

So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate. Matthew 19:6.By Stephanie Halmilton

My Angel

said this:

"The state of your life is merely a reflection of the state of your mind"

Evolution

Charles Darwin's theory of Evolution is a widely debated topic with its own fair share of controversies and arguments. Nonetheless, the theory has sparked the inspiration and creativity of various artist and people with a different purpose around the world... and these are what they see or envisioned.


I think these artists are trying to show how men have evolved to be dependent on the electronics we have. It's amazing how snails survived the evolution process.

I know I have the tendancy to just become like this.

When something drastic happens along the way....

How we may just end up back in the waters after supposedly crawling out from it millions of years ago...

And this is my personal favourite. Short and sweet. To the point. =)

Bukit Timah Hike!

Siong took a day off from work to help me out my flea. The booking did not went through thought and we went hiking at Bukit Timah Hill instead!!! Boy has it been long since I last stepped foot on Singapore's tallest hill! The terrians and tracks have changed slightly, but I am glad the things I like: - the fresh air and greenery, the permanantly good weather among the forestation and not to mention, the gushing stream of cooling clear water along the Jungle Fall Path.

History of Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
Bukit Timah was one of the first reserves established in 1883. All the reserves were worked for timber except for Bukit Timah. In 1951, the reserve was further protected by legislation and is now adminstered by NParks.

And this is the route we took

1. South View Path
2. Catchmeet Path
3. Resticted/ Blocked up routes =P
4. Diary Farm Loop
5. Seraya Loop
6. Jungle Fall Path

We hiked about 3 hours in all, and here's some pictures!

Helpful monkeys helping each other with grooming,and the most adorable monkey with his usual antics =)You get to see strange wonders of nature if you take the nature paths... and enjoy the cooling nature walk with occasional burst of warm sunshine from a break in the canopy.
Towards the end of the route along the jungle fall path, a refeshing stream of clear cooling water serves as a great reward from the long hike and exercise =)And after going round and round the nature reserve, we finally reached the summit! At 163.63m high... TADA!!!! After disembarkment from the summit, we had a full lunch with fishball noodle, char kuay tiao and nasi lemak, lots of sugar cane drinks and a cooling avocado sea coconut for dessert!

Then a good rest treating our sore legs and tired bodies =P

A repost from Jan 12 2008

A Willing Heart, A Willing Spirit. Listening comes from the heart. No judgement, no expectation. It's a process of love.

I found it meaningful in a new way once again.

Food Galour in First Week of Aug!

Siong got his first job! It's nothing related to his field of work and today was already the second day of work ( I was lazy to blog). The working hours aint really ideal for our on-going studies on Patou-logy, but most importantly is that he likes his job and there is GOOD FOOD around his work area!

We did a mini celebration on the finding of a new job after his second interview(although it wasn't confirmed if he would get the job yet at that point of time =P) and had lunch at a restuarant below his workplace.

It's called Hong Kong Street Family Restuarant, damn good Zhi Char at competitive price in a air-conditioned environment. Sounds too good to be true yea? The prices are like any other Zhi Char you find in Singapore Coffee Shops, just that this is clean and comfortable with food gaurenteed to make your tummy happy and your weighing machine smoke. They serve very quickly too.

And of course I ordered my top fav when it comes to Zhi Char - Hotplate Tofu! Served piping hot with generous amount of miced meat and super fresh prawns ( pictures don't lie). We also ordered Beef Hor Fun, another must have dish in the Zhi Char industry. Again the portion was generous and they gave as much beef as the noodle! The beef was tasty and done very well, not like those over cooked tough beef we sometimes get elsewhere. It was more than enough for two people and we were glad we din order more! Our tummies were rounded!

Address: 273 Thomson Road #01-01 Novena Gardens Singapore

There was some work needed to be done by the week and we checkedin at Coffee Nations again. Coffee Nations recently changed their menus. Although I welcome the change, I still prefer the old menu and set lunch. But oh well, I'll be waiting for better recipes to come up next time!

We had Carbonara, Chicken Karagage, Europe Platter and Coffee with some orange flavouring (Did not get the name though). the Chicken and the Coffee was new and it was crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside. Nothing much interesting to the taste though. The coffee was too sweet for me so Siong had it instead and I ordered my usual fav, Amerrato Latte. Perhaps it was because of the orange they had in the coffee, it tastes unique (more towards the conotation of weird) but it's a chief reccommendation so if you feel daring you can try it. =P

SUPER Happy National Day 2010!!!!

It was homemake pancakes in the morning with some burnt ones....Siong brought me to ECP for some fun before he starts work officially... he makes good effort to keep his girl happy! He tried roller blading for the first time. I was the better one there and became his walking stick for a beginner. I saved him many times but he still had a couple of falls (Ai yo yo....) but still came out unscathed, save for some muscle sores at the end of the day. Blading @ East coast was fun (during national day), even if Siong probably scared the wits out of the people behind him by many near-trips... He got me thinking how cool it'll be to be dancing and blading at the same time! Siong brought me to his grandparents place in my short shorts, I hope I havent made a bad first impression! We also managed a trip to 1-Altitude gallery @ One Raffles Place - the best view I've seen in SG so far! Everything was BELOW us! And to end the night, a nice instant noodle meal (which Siong disrupted the cooking process and the hotdogs exploded and the brocolli melted) and a cheesy desert with his family. Great way to spend national day metinks too :DDD

I did this post in 5 mins.., a template was provided by dear Siong!!!! Kekekekeee!

And everything was picture perfect!

I'm falling I'm Falling!!!!!Yun to the rescue!!!! =pAt one altitute, we were greated by people in red shirts at the 63rd floor.
And an amazing view from the 64th storey!

I can pick up the IR with my fingers!

Shawn's height was just nice for the view. I had to jump or look through the glass! There's aircon in the toilet or it will become like an oven!

And I'm a happy girl with Helium Balloons!!!!