15.9.10
Au revoir
Just as my world was about to fall down, someone came just in time to help support the weight! I appreciate times like these when GOD really sends someone, to tell me that it's still worth waiting for and don't give up. Even if it's a stranger, or someone I barely know, someone thousands of miles away... but I feel it. He meant what he said and it was honest... it reached me deep inside. Thanks Guillaume - thank you for your existence and thank you for proving what I believe in exists.
12.9.10
Congrats Eylene :)
One of my close friends just got promoted from "single" to "married" today.... It was a beautiful wedding, and I was very honoured to be there as it was only a small function mainly for their families.
It was at Giraffe, the "glass" restaurant standing in the middle of Dhoby Ghaut. I had been there once, and I like the way they decorate it with many giraffe statues. Lunch was buffet style, with a great variety from cream of mushroom, potato salad, chicken salad, pennes in tomato sauce, butter rice with raisins, beef, deep fried fish cutlet, colorful peppers, chicken satay, eclairs, cream puffs, bread pudding and chocolate mousse. I didn't have everything of course, my tummy is already big enough :( Then we witnessed their solemnization. The bride was almost in tears!
In the recent years, I have only attended 3 friends' weddings. But this is different as she is a close friend of mine, the others are more like good friends that I catch up once in a while. Everytime during the wedding ceremonies, I would feel a little emotional... but I think I have gotten over it! It's the 4th wedding now. Instead, I feel truly happy for her when I see the happiness glowing from her face and how compatible they both look.
I hope this marks a great start for her second phase of life!
p.s: Another dinner and solemnization on Friday!!
It was at Giraffe, the "glass" restaurant standing in the middle of Dhoby Ghaut. I had been there once, and I like the way they decorate it with many giraffe statues. Lunch was buffet style, with a great variety from cream of mushroom, potato salad, chicken salad, pennes in tomato sauce, butter rice with raisins, beef, deep fried fish cutlet, colorful peppers, chicken satay, eclairs, cream puffs, bread pudding and chocolate mousse. I didn't have everything of course, my tummy is already big enough :( Then we witnessed their solemnization. The bride was almost in tears!
In the recent years, I have only attended 3 friends' weddings. But this is different as she is a close friend of mine, the others are more like good friends that I catch up once in a while. Everytime during the wedding ceremonies, I would feel a little emotional... but I think I have gotten over it! It's the 4th wedding now. Instead, I feel truly happy for her when I see the happiness glowing from her face and how compatible they both look.
I hope this marks a great start for her second phase of life!
p.s: Another dinner and solemnization on Friday!!
I like being a geek
I got my geeky spectacles today. Thrilled. So I went around doing my stuff in my new big squarish glasses. And something quite funny happened today on the train home. I noticed this man sitting opposite me glancing at me. I didn't think of anything. Then my sister told me I had the leftover of the awesome Awfully Chocolate ice cream bits on my chin... I thought that must be it. Then at Tanah Merah, the man alighted... before he exited, he stood at the door and was looking at me again. So I looked his way and he actually winked at me. I actually felt flattered, I would be disgusted in the past... but anyway he wasn't horrible looking, so I reluctantly gave a smile. I didn't really know how to react then. I wonder now if anyone has befriended anyone you met on the train? What's the perfect excuse to get talking? :)
9.9.10
Are you fit to be choosy?
I am really turned off by someone when he tells me after looking at a picture of the opposite sex, she isn't his type. Well, we all have choices and preferences, I respect that. But telling me that just by looking at a picture, that is just shallow. If you judge a person by a photo, you're merely telling me you've read a book by just reading the title or looking at its cover! No wonder he hasn't been able to find a girlfriend for years, the problem with him is he thinks too highly of himself and expects something that is beyond his capability. Sorry for the ranting, but that's very childish behaviour and I reckon he's better off buying a Vietnamese wife by choosing from the catalogue. I don't like to matchmake and it isn't really my forte. Sometimes my friends happened to get together because they hit it off well. And no, I don't allow people to pick from pictures like they are ordering food from a menu. Don't give me the BULLSHIT someone is or is not your type from a photo, because then you're bloody shallow. He even had the guts to tell me another friend is prettier but too bad, she's beyond what he's capable of providing just because I know my friend too well. So disappointed with the species of men these days... If you don't meet someone in reality, don't give me the crap of "your type", because a relationship is not based on "your ideal image of a maiden". I just wish I had the courage to tell him, "Look at yourself in the mirror and ask if you're capable to attract the type you're WISHING for!".
Selamat Hari Raya
My dad views every man I go out with as a suspect for potential boyfriend! Thanks Dad, how trusting!!? Parents, they just can't wait to see their children get married off, isn't it?
I met up with Yus to check out Geylang Serai for Hari Raya festive mood... It was the first time in my life to visit the place during Ramandan. I feel like a mountain tortoise... like I have missed out all the vibes that was going on there in the past. Like Yus said, it's not the same anymore. The Malay Village is as quiet as mouse, with most people at the tiny food court and the food prices are not cheaper than elsewhere. I also didn't expect all the shopping to be in the form of local bazaar, local term we call it pasar malam. So everything almost were under the white tents... but we also explored a few malls and food places around Joo Chiat road. I especially like the 2nd storey hawker where there was a great variety of food and all halal I supposed. The lighting was pretty at night too and we had the colorful drinks which looked quite poisoned with artificial colorings. I chose the lime juice, because it was the most normal looking!! I also had my favourite deep fried banana balls, which must be giving me my dose of pimples outbreak now :( Then I also had the S$5 henna drawing on my hand, I love it :)
It was nice catching up after so long... and we talked about my Europe plan next year! Well, I think there's definitely lots of homework to be done!! Yus, I hope you're up for it and thanks for introducing me the food I never tried before!
I met up with Yus to check out Geylang Serai for Hari Raya festive mood... It was the first time in my life to visit the place during Ramandan. I feel like a mountain tortoise... like I have missed out all the vibes that was going on there in the past. Like Yus said, it's not the same anymore. The Malay Village is as quiet as mouse, with most people at the tiny food court and the food prices are not cheaper than elsewhere. I also didn't expect all the shopping to be in the form of local bazaar, local term we call it pasar malam. So everything almost were under the white tents... but we also explored a few malls and food places around Joo Chiat road. I especially like the 2nd storey hawker where there was a great variety of food and all halal I supposed. The lighting was pretty at night too and we had the colorful drinks which looked quite poisoned with artificial colorings. I chose the lime juice, because it was the most normal looking!! I also had my favourite deep fried banana balls, which must be giving me my dose of pimples outbreak now :( Then I also had the S$5 henna drawing on my hand, I love it :)
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| Joo Chiat Road |
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| The colorful poisons |
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| My henna drawing |
It was nice catching up after so long... and we talked about my Europe plan next year! Well, I think there's definitely lots of homework to be done!! Yus, I hope you're up for it and thanks for introducing me the food I never tried before!
8.9.10
It's geeky time
It's very funny that today I went to the optometrist/optician and he after examining told me my eyesight has "improved". WOAH??! My "degrees" on both eyes have fallen, despite my increase in computer usage in the last 2 years. How strange!? But I decided to keep the prescription for the new spectacles as the ones I have now, as they work just great. I wonder how accurate that automated refractor is?? I saw the numbers on the slip and they differed quite a lot! It probably explained why I can still see without my glasses? LOL. Then I was asked to sit in a small corner where I had to read tiny letters and differentiate numbers on green and red background. I enjoy this much better than visiting a dentist ;)
Looking forward to my new geeky frames.
Looking forward to my new geeky frames.
5.9.10
Yum (01) - Spicy cucumber
The other day, I went grocery shopping with mum (one of my favourite things). We picked up so many ingredients for the upcoming days. She decided to try doing up this dish which she had at her friend's. In the end, I was the one whipping it up! But it was a lovely try.... I think I could have finished the whole plate.
I never used to post entries on stuff I cooked. I have lost many of the good recipes I had since. Guess I should start compiling again.
It's made from 3 long crispy Japanese cucumbers fried with hae bee hiam (or sambal udang kering in the malay terms) and mum added a tiny pinch of salt (it was already salty enough). Hae bee hiam is like a spicy mix from dried shrimps, shallots, chilli and garlic cloves. I pounded it myself using the stone pounder (mum likes it the traditional way, not today's electric blender).
I never used to post entries on stuff I cooked. I have lost many of the good recipes I had since. Guess I should start compiling again.
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| Japanese cucumber fried with hae bee hiam |
It's made from 3 long crispy Japanese cucumbers fried with hae bee hiam (or sambal udang kering in the malay terms) and mum added a tiny pinch of salt (it was already salty enough). Hae bee hiam is like a spicy mix from dried shrimps, shallots, chilli and garlic cloves. I pounded it myself using the stone pounder (mum likes it the traditional way, not today's electric blender).
Superfriend
Emotional needy friends are taxing. Why do some friends always give so little and expect so much in return? Life can be unfair but such friendship is equally as bad. One of my close friends really has the habit of asking me out last minute (especially when she is feeling down), and whenever I ask her to join my planned activities with others.. She always gives me the same excuse that she's not sociable. I am not borned sociable and no one truly is! She complains about no one being there for her when she needs, how about vice versa? Sometimes I can't help but feel sorry for her... I want to be there and try to, but there is so much you can ask from someone. Friendship is precious, especially one you put in so much effort and time but sometimes it evolves over time. There is so much you can do to make it work, but there is also so much you have no control over. I don't ask much from my friends, if you put in this much, I try to do the same... or even a little more if I can. But I am no super human, so don't have high expectations!
2.9.10
Mr Holmes
Sherlock Holmes certainly is a delight to watch.
It's a detective story based in London in the 1890s. They were still building the tower bridge!! LOL, it certainly brings back lots of fond memories of London, not to mention how much I miss the English & Scottish accent! Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr) is an amazing character, he brings every scene to life and everything about him is unpredictable. I very much like how he remembered everything he came across and turned out to be some kind of evidence. John Watson (Jude Law) too, I'm so smitten with that side burn and moustache ;) I didn't realise he's Jude Law till the credits - Shame, I know. But I have to admit I'm not a sucker for pretty faces, which is why I didn't notice till now. I appreciate someone more for the style and character (E.g. my favourite Ewan McGregor). Lord Blackwood sure reminds me of someone I know... and that is not funny. In fact, pretty scary. It's 2 hours long and I just finished the movie, it certainly keeps me wide awake... very impressed and still very fascinated!
p.s: This reminds me that I always address a friend as Mr Holmes ever since the movie was out, well it is really his last name :) And he's English and a sheriff. Doesn't it kinda fit?
It's a detective story based in London in the 1890s. They were still building the tower bridge!! LOL, it certainly brings back lots of fond memories of London, not to mention how much I miss the English & Scottish accent! Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr) is an amazing character, he brings every scene to life and everything about him is unpredictable. I very much like how he remembered everything he came across and turned out to be some kind of evidence. John Watson (Jude Law) too, I'm so smitten with that side burn and moustache ;) I didn't realise he's Jude Law till the credits - Shame, I know. But I have to admit I'm not a sucker for pretty faces, which is why I didn't notice till now. I appreciate someone more for the style and character (E.g. my favourite Ewan McGregor). Lord Blackwood sure reminds me of someone I know... and that is not funny. In fact, pretty scary. It's 2 hours long and I just finished the movie, it certainly keeps me wide awake... very impressed and still very fascinated!
p.s: This reminds me that I always address a friend as Mr Holmes ever since the movie was out, well it is really his last name :) And he's English and a sheriff. Doesn't it kinda fit?
1.9.10
If you think...
money can make the world goes round???
Serving national service and getting money for recognition?! Geez... to think that the government can come up with this. My dad was thrilled hearing this, little did he know if he was even one of the "Some 300,000 Singaporeans" as quoted and bear in mind, those money are going into CPF, not cash! Read on (especially the comments).
Serving national service and getting money for recognition?! Geez... to think that the government can come up with this. My dad was thrilled hearing this, little did he know if he was even one of the "Some 300,000 Singaporeans" as quoted and bear in mind, those money are going into CPF, not cash! Read on (especially the comments).
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