on hols

after the D&D, short break for myself den a wk of fun for the kiddos

very hectic for mi but reli looking forward to having time off wif my kiddos and play! play! play!

i feel good!

on holidays mood tdy oredi

can’t wait for the D&D in a few hrs’ time and den off to the highlands for mi

i felt like thur was my last day working and wanted to finish everything

happy wif my progress but needs to tie up all the loose ends on fri

on leave, not idling

it feels good to take a break from daily routine

on half day leave tdy and felt quite productive tat i managed to visit goh’s workshop for one-stop servicing

i got back home by 4pm which feels like such a luxury

i even got to catch abit of ‘golden ferris wheel’ (direct translation)

petrol prices

damn exp!   95 oredi more den 2 bucks / litre

sigh!  anyone wana go JB pump petrol?

the test

true friends CAN stand the test of time and misunderstandings. 

in the first place, true friends would not jump to conclusions and would give each other the benefit of the doubt.

i m disappointed yet again.  i guess there’s some truth in friends VS colleagues after all.
 

sms

i dun like sms
the tone of the msg can b mis-interpreted in too many ways

i hate composing sms.  i like to keep it short so tat it doesn’t exceed one msg yet i tink short msgs can come across as being curt

the onli form of sms i like is internet sms since i m typing on a keyboard

so singtel is still the best

seeing light?

something unexpected happened tdy

i was tinking wat does it mean?  mi has ‘grown’ in some ways?

anyway, too lazi to tink so much

it’s juz a job.  doing it as well as i can while maintaining work/life balance is how i see it

after all, it’s impt to get priorities in life rite and work muz NEVER rank at the top

你是我心内的一首歌

another song for the karaoke

王:你是我心内的一首歌
王:心间开启花一朵
s:你是我生命的一首歌
s:想念汇成一条河
王:点在我心内的一首歌
王:不要只是个过客
s:在我生命留下一首歌
s:不论结局会如何

合:好想问你
合:对我到底有没有动心
合:沉默太久
s:只会让我不小心犯错
王:不小心犯错

s:点在我心内的一首歌
s:不要只是个过客
王:在我生命留下一首歌
王:不论结局会如何

合:你是我心内的一首歌
合:心间开启花一朵
合:你是我生命的一首歌
s:想念汇成一条河
王:想念汇成一条河

s:好想问你王:好想问你
s:对我到底有没有动心
王:对我到底有没有动心
s:沉默太久王:沉默太久
s:只会让我不小心犯错
王:不小心犯错

合:点在我心内的一首歌
合:不要只是个过客
合:在我生命留下一首歌
合:不论结局会如何

我要快乐我要能睡的安稳

我要快乐我要能睡的安稳

these are another 2 lines tat keep repeating in my mind 

又被爱伤了一遍
无所谓当作成长
刚刚走开的人
烟还点着味道却淡了
我并不是天生爱寂寞
却比任何人都多
就算把世界给我
我还是一无所有
我要快乐我要能睡的安稳
有些人不抱了才温暖
离开了才不恨我早应该割舍
我要快乐哪怕笑的再大声
心不是热的全都是假的
只有眼泪是真的
把从前想了一遍
谢谢了伤我的人
想做乐观的人
每种雨声听了都不冷
我并不是天生爱寂寞
却比任何人都多
就算把世界给我
我还是一无所有
我要快乐我要能睡的安稳
有些人不抱了才温暖
离开了才不恨我早应该割舍
我要快乐哪怕笑的再大声
心不是热的全都是假的
我的决定是对的

在我心上用力的开一枪

a*mei sang tis during her concert and i luv the song

happened to hear it on radio but sang by a guy (mayb 杨宗纬 ?)

在我心上用力的开一枪
让一切归零在这声巨响

these 2 lines kept repeating in my head and i can’t resist humming them all day

人质

我和你啊存在一种危险关系
彼此挟持这另一部份的自己
本以为这完整了爱的定义
那就乖乖的守护着你
相爱变成猜忌怀疑的烂游戏
规则是要憋着呼吸越靠越近
但你的温柔是我唯一沉溺
你是爱我的就不怕有缝隙
在我心上用力的开一枪
让一切归零在这声巨响
如果爱是说什么都不能放
我不挣扎反正我也没差人质在这一刻得到释放
相爱的纯粹落得如此下场
你满意吗我们都别说谎

A*Mei concert

真好看！ after 5 yrs, her showmanship has improved by leaps and bounds.  things i luv abt her concert:

• the selection of songs were mainly 非主打 yet 耳熟能详 and all so familiar to fans.
  i luv singing along wif her.  a true enjoyment!
• hearing ah mei live is worth every cent of the ticket.   her voice is so power!
• i luv the stage and watching her walking ard
• i luv her showmanship.  her 互动 wif the audience
• the sheer no. of songs tat i got to hear…wow!   especially during the encore
• the overall 气氛 of the concert.  the highest part is during the encore when she got everyone to stand.  she didn’t manage to do tat 5 yrs ago

i can’t wait for her next concert.  hope it’s not another 5 yrs!

 

bark cafe

the pri skool gang has been trying to fix up a reunion

bark cafe was one of the suggested venue

it’s at changi chapel which means it’s near changi prison and so near my place, cool!

not bad a place to chill out tat’s close to home.  shows soccer so tat should draw some crowd

time has stopped

at least for my clock in the living room

i was tinking y i felt tired though it’s onli 11.30 pm

i onli realised the time has stopped at 12.30 am, an hr later

notepad lite

wah….i reli need to open my txt files in an editor tat shows the position of the field

otherwise, i going crazy soon from doing car….it’s been a long car day

more car to do tml

Drx Medispa

citibank is so nice, gave mi a free body massage at tis place called DrxMedispa.  it’s juz opp eng wah at suntec

from the shop front, i nbr expect the premises to b so spacious.  they haf 30 treatment rooms!

it was a beli good session.  not juz normal massage but they do treatment using tis special oil (some special concoction tat smells nice and not pungent kind) on meridian points.

my Tapas Moxibustion treatment was beli chinese medicine based but wifout the medicine smells and in a nice white spa setting

i luv the treatment room, got bathtub and shower facilities in the room itself, wah!

i was so relaxed i fell asleep during the session.  so wonderful!  i luv to sleep when i go for spa coz i feel tat it’s beli restful sleep and good for recharging

post treatment, they explained the package and treatment services.  no hard sell at all and the staff was so friendly when i onli came for a free session.   i oredi feel like coming back again.

if i dun oredi haf a spa package, i’ll definitely get a package from them.  nbr mind, i can still go for their alacarte services when i’m in the area.   beli good experience, i would highly recommend tis place to friends.

check out the website.   nice background(music)!

washing sweetcorn

we were having steamboat on tue’s nite and i was tasked wif removing the skins of the corn

i happily peeled off the skins, broke the corn into 2 and dumped everything into the pot

shupin exclaimed tat the corn needs to be washed

y?  i wondered since the corn is all wrapped up

she explained tat farmers spray insecticide under the skin to protect the corn

oops!

yahoo mail

i did something super intelligent late one nite.  i decided to change my yahoo to a super high security one.   guess wat?!   the very next nite, i can’t recall my new password and i haben been able to access my yahoo acct since

the worst part is, i haf to answer a security question to retrieve my p/w.

the question is simple, wat is ur fav color?   i haf tried ALL the colors of the rainbow and it’s still wrong!   ARGH!

Please Note: If you don’t enter an alternate email address for your account, you will only be able to receive a new password by providing the Secret Answer to the Challenge Question you entered during registration. If you forget the answer to your Challenge Question and do not have an alternate email address listed on your account, you will not be able to receive a new password.

lappy up, wireless dwn

lappy is back safe & sound but i can’t surf even when wireless is connected

i can onli use a cable for the time being.  yes, it’s faster but still one more step to plug in

transfer by cable

mi laptop going to b re-imaged again tml

and i juz got a new cd-rom drive tdy, for free!  coz still under warranty

anyway, i was chatting wif my IT support (ah cai lah!) and i was lamenting i 
need to burn disc for back-up tonite

he cleverly taught mi to use my router to transfer files to bro’s lappy using cable

4G transferred in less den 10 mins.  wah!  no need to burn disc liao

The Almighty Orange, Dissected

i luv oranges!  i peel them painstakingly using a knife and take xtra care not to cut thru the white fibre.  i usually eat 2 at a go.  according to mum, i used to luv oranges so much when i was little, tat daddy would buy a dozen a time for mi

but i dun take fruits regularly and i’m not a fruit juice fan except for starfruit juice when
i haf sore throats

and of course i luv all things wif apple.  i’m more a cooked apple fan den raw apple.

Orange peel, pulp, or juice: Which one has the most vitamin C?

Orange pulp wins, according to the authors of the book SuperFoods HealthStyle. The pulp has twice as much vitamin C as the peel and 10 times as much as the juice. And here’s what all that nutrition means to your body.

Code Orange: Super Stuff

Oranges are one of nature’s superfoods, according to Steven G. Pratt, MD, and Kathy Matthews, authors of SuperFoods HealthStyle.  Each orange packs over 60 flavonoids, 170 phytochemicals, and a healthy dose of vitamin C.

Good Stuff Keeps You Going

And all that healthy stuff in oranges may help prevent a host of health conditions, including arthritis, asthma, high blood pressure, blood clots, colds, and even cancer. Oranges have got you covered from A to Z.

no change after all

despite my best efforts, i couldn’t get the dates for accomodation changed so
HQ, i won’t see u

i’m quite relieved to leave the dates as they r coz it’s so stressful to haf to
reschedule so many things

hair massage

guess wat?  now hair salon oso got shoulder massage

my haircut was disappointing.  my ’new’ stylist has left since my last visit 2
mths ago and i m disappointed wif the results of my latest cut

i’ll change stylist again till i get someone i like

in fact, i tink i’ll cut hair at sungei wang again.  tat was a good cut i had in jun

the shoulder massage was quite good but considering wat little privacy the
salon has, it’s not the most ideal place to haf ur shoulders bare and massaged.

i much prefer having shoulder massage while seated compared to lying on my
back during facials

alma mater

QQ & YY

QQ caught in mid-yawn while gor gor drinks water

chicken horfun VS ipoh horfun

we went to GM and dot ordered the shredded chicken horfun which we specified muz haf mushroom like ipoh horfun

in the end, she got tis horfun wif chicken chunks tat is beli not ipoh horfun lor

tink my chicken wif spring onion and ginger is still the best 

kiddos @ central and clarke quay

YY’s lego robot

got the kiddos lego last wkend for them to exercise some creative juices

YY & his robot

sushi-go-round hiscore 42510

from tis afternoon

opera

sigh…the sushi-go-round site isn’t dwn. i played on bro’s lappy

juz tat my firefox oso can’t play

conclusion, i using opera…can u imagine using 3 different browsers concurrently…siao

GE women’s run

we did it!

marie’s surprise

i thot of tis juz before her last day in the dept.   to surprise her on her first day in new dept

i thot the line “from ur ex” is hilarious…hehe

and sunflowers are so hardy!  i planted the props on her desk on sat but the flowers lasted till mon wif no prob

mango pudding fish

the dessert, mango pudding, was served in the shape of a fish at marriot!

reminds mi of CNY

wedding dinners

Qn : wat do we do before a wedding dinner?

Ans :  eat sausages, drink bubble tea and bao ang baos

asiatravel

beli cool site.  instant confirmation of rooms!

and many in SE asia are paid upon checkout so u dun even get charged upfront for the room

not the cheapest room rates but it’s so much easier den to see cheap room rates but can’t get any rooms in the end eg. asiarooms

great recommendation from HQ

change and change of travel plans

first, i discovered tat the agency couldn’t get rooms for mi though i haf paid in full….ultimate frustration!

den HQ managed to help mi secure rooms online

but bro is on reservist tat wk which made us retink our travel dates

so nw it’s back to a reshuffle of dates for both transport & rooms AND my appts

守得云开见月明

Work Horoscope Friday, November 16

Here is your Work Horoscope
for Friday, November 16:

It’s a fine time to look to foreign shores. Whether exploring untapped markets or drawing inspiration from other cultures, you’ll be able to charm others and absorb knowledge like a sponge. Move slowly.

sushi-go-round is dwn!

mi haben played for so many days!  so upset!

firefox

first it was msn, den it was yahoo mail & meebo hanging last nite

tdy, my java & IE is acting up so badly i had to get help

temporary resolution is firefox and i got tabbed browsing finally!

neopets birthday!

my beloved neopets is having its 8th birthday!  happy birthday!

QQ birthday bash @ home

post dinner, we were too full to eat the cake

we sang song, cut cake but onli took a slice. the whole strawberry shortcake is still in the fridge.

and i got a bigger one tis time coz i thot the small one won’t b enuff…too greedy!

Heed the signs that say you’ve been at the same company for too long.

wow! i couldn’t resist reading the article when i saw the header

does the order of the questions correspond to the significance of the answers?

i luv the first question. so common sensical yet often the hardest to get an honest answer abt

The original article :

What criteria should be used to determine if you have been with the same company too long?

Your question reminds us of a friend of ours, an investment manager at a highly regarded company in the Midwest, who drove to work one morning, parked his car in the usual spot, and then found he simply could not bring himself to get out of the car. “I guess I stayed on the farm one day too long,” he joked later. When we asked him what went wrong, he answered, “It wasn’t one thing. It was everything.” No wonder he drove home and called in his resignation.

Obviously, most people don’t decide they’ve over-stayed at their companies in such a dramatic fashion. Usually, angst about work creeps in, and then builds until it consumes you. And that can happen early or late in a career. Gone are the days when, after graduation, you took the best available job and stayed for as many years as you could possibly stand, frustration be damned. These days, it is not unusual to hear of perfectly legitimate careers built on multiple job stints.

So, to your question, how can you tell when it’s time to move on? We wouldn’t set out specific criteria as much as offer four questions to help sort out an answer.

The first is so simple it almost goes without saying, but the fact that a lot of people don’t confront it, including our friend who ended up stuck in his car — a Harvard MBA, by the way — suggests we should go ahead and put it out there: Do you want to go to work every morning?

This is not a matter to be over-brained. Does the prospect of going in each day excite you or fill you with dread? Does the work feel interesting and meaningful or are you just going through motions to pull a paycheck? Are you still learning and growing?

We know of a woman who worked in consulting for seven years. She loved her firm and had originally planned a career with it, but suddenly started noticing that she wished every weekend was five days long. “Basically, I felt like we were putting together massive books in order to make recommendations to people who knew more than we did,” she said. “Every day at the office, I felt a little bit more of a hypocrite.” She now happily works on the “front lines,” to use her phrase, in the marketing department of a retail company.

Second, do you enjoy spending time with your co-workers or do they generally bug the living daylights out of you? We’re not saying you should only stay at your company if you want to barbecue with your team every weekend, but if you don’t sincerely enjoy and respect the people you spend 10 hours a day with, you can be sure you will eventually decide to leave your organization. Why not make the break sooner rather than later and start cultivating relationships at a company where you might actually plant roots?

Third, does your company help you fulfill your personal mission? Essentially, this question asks whether your company jibes with your life’s goals and values. Does it require you, for instance, to travel more than you’d like, given your chosen work-life balance? Does it offer enough upward mobility, given your level of ambition? There are no right or wrong answers to such questions, only a sense of whether you are investing your time at the right or wrong company for you.

Fourth and finally, can you picture yourself at your company in a year? We use that time frame because that’s how long it usually takes to find a new, better job once you decide to move on. So peer, as best you can, into the future, and predict where you’ll be in the organization, what work you’ll be doing, whom you will be managing, and who will be managing you. If that scenario strikes you with anything short of excitement, then you’re spinning your wheels. Or put another way, you’re just about to stay too long.

To be clear: We’re not suggesting people quit at the first inkling of discontent. No matter where you work, at some point you will have to endure difficult times, and even a deadly dull assignment, to survive a crisis or move up. But it makes little sense to stay and stay at a company because of inertia. Unlock your door and get out.

YY in TKD uniform

handsome hor!

Lying On a Nail

aren’t we all guilty of tis abt certain things in life?

Once there was a young woman who didn’t like her job. Everyday when she came home from work, she told her husband how terrible her day had been, how tiring the work and how unreasonable her boss. “Leave that job,” her husband told her.
“Oh I will,” she said. “But not yet. I have too many friends there for me to leave just yet.” And so she complained until the days became years and her family grew to five. “Leave that job,” her children told her. “Oh I will,” she said. “But not yet.
I have seniority and four weeks vacation I can spend with you. I’m not ready to start over just yet.” And so she remained unhappy at work until the years became decades and her children had children. “Leave that job,” her grandchildren told her. “Oh I will,” she said. “But not yet. There’s only seven more years until I reach thirty years of service and can retire. So I can’t just yet.”
I know this woman. And so do you. And there are scores like her. This reminds me of the story about an old dog half-asleep on the porch of the general store, moaning and groaning in the sun. “Why is your dog acting that way?” a customer asked the store owner. “Oh,” answered the man, “he’s lying on a nail.” “Well, why doesn’t he move?” “Because it’s not hurting him bad enough.”
That’s true for people, too. We convince ourselves the pain is not bad enough to leave the workplace we know. But we’re wrong. Prolonged work pain is damaging. Some damages our self-esteem, kills our passion or destroys our dreams. Some emerges when we compromise our values, quiet our voice or hide our talent. Some happens when we’re seduced by power or believe our own myths of importance and significance. Some occurs when we look the other way, say yes when we mean no or forfeit the promises we made to ourself.
Wilbur Wright, of the Wright brothers fame, once commented, “We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.” I know that exhilarating feeling of being so passionate about something I was working on that I couldn’t wait to get back to work. And people who are winning at working know that kind of passion, too.
They get excited about work. They thrive offering their unique gifts and talents. And when things change as they sometimes will, they refuse to let a soul-depleting boss or environment hijack their self-esteem, passion or dreams. When work becomes work, they stop lying on a nail and do something about it.
 

Fotos from YY’s birthday

fotos from jun tat i got from bro’s fone

 

cupcakes

cute little cupcakes/muffins from SY

Explore. Dream. Discover.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds with your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

Bananas Galore!

i happened to read tis interesting piece of news abt a container of bananas falling off from a cargo ship near dutch islands

the result : lotsa washed up bananas!

i luv tis quote.  hilarious!

“I think everybody on the island has a bunch now,” said Gossen Buren, a shipping official at the local lighthouse.

and according to the report, lotsa stuff has been washed ashore on the islands including thousands of tennis shoes, aluminum briefcases and children’s toys….wow!

new white shoes

mi was quite upset tat i didn’t haf shoes to go wif my outfit on fri

after much fussing, i decided to go shoe shopping @ dmk

as always, i find something to my liking which i grabbed

and my new shoes got some praises which is a bonus…hehe

DMK VS Charles & Keith

i wonder if it’s juz mi but i dun own any shoes from Charles & Keith reason being all their shoes are too narrow for my feet

i haf lotsa shoes from DMK since it’s conveniently located next door to office

their designs change beli regularly and always got sale which pleases mi

blue cars galore

i was quite tickled when i saw my neighbours’ car parked side by side and couldn’t resist parking wif them

to cut or not to cut

still musing over tis since last wk

the relatively cool weather over the past few wks has helped prolonged my decision making process.

will definitely cut in the end, juz a question of when.  i m curious myself to see how long i can stand my hair…haha

crushed powder

i dropped my sweet potato before i even opened it.

the powder cracked and was so smashed tat it’s like loose powder.  which is exactly how i haf been using the crushed powder.

car washing day

sun is car washing day again!

parking outdoors plus the frequent showers mean my car gets dusty and dirty so quickly

YY can’t help mi wif the interior tdy…sigh

and the car needs a long overdue vacumming….no time for vacumm 2 washes in a row.

ZY’s blog

i onli realised tiyan has a ‘new’ blog from mypaper’s site

on good friends

i made tis observation abt my buddies which i tink is beli interesting

APPEARANCES DO NOT MATTER TO GOOD FRIENDS

1) my super bling necklace from HK has won many raves from colleagues so i noe it’s cool

the first time i wore tis to a wedding, the guys commented i look like ‘Mr T’ (some old wrestler tat i nbr heard of, faint!)  definitely not a compliment lor!

 2) my super stylo new hairstyle – again, i noe it’s nice coz so many colleagues haf commented.  some thot i permed my hair, others thot i set it everyday.  and of course, some ppl noticed my new hair-do from friendster

the gang saw it for the first time and went ‘why ur hair so messy?’  not one word of praise lor!

3) clothes i wear – andy commented my top is thin lor…ya, can see my fats rite…haha

well, not a single comment from the gang

i tink the real reason is being buddies, our friendship has gone beyond being skin deep.

no matter how ugly i look, it doesn’t affect our friendship

similarly, it’s next to impossible to get any praise from the gang coz we see beyond appearances.  so while i find the egs above quite funny, i m oso beli appreciative of my buddies and gang

hols plans

mi was thrilled by the JS promo but had to wait till the last min before i can make up my mind.  in fact, my stress level goes up whenever i plan hols for family

mi wana to go HK but tix were snapped up.  i could haf got the tix too since i knew as soon as the promo started but i took forever to decide

den dot suggested taipei which sounds cool too but tat’s another super hot destination.

nbr mind, at least i noe when there’s next a promo, to book for these 2 places first!

mi oso realised how diff i m when travelling wif family compared to travelling wif frens

i m beli decisive and easy when travelling wif frens

but wif family, i haf thousand and one worries :

issit the skool hols?
issit TKD grading?
issit a Sun, will YY miss his TKD lesson?
issit the 15th or 1st of the lunar mth?  mum goes vegetarian for the day and needs to pray at home.
issit any major chinese festival?   mi had to take into account ching ming & dumpling festival.
is the place safe?
will they b bored?  wat’s there to do?

was in 2 minds if i should revisit angkor wif family but promo tix onli left if we spend a wk there which i’m worried will b too long a time.  oso, temple visiting is hard work.  on one hand, waiting for QQ to grow up, on the other, mum (and moi!) is getting old

anyway, mi haf made my choice.

Ribena and Vitamin C

since my posting on ribena, i haben been buying them in cartons for the kids.

GlaxoSmithKline pleaded guilty in a New Zealand court in March to 15 charges of  breaching fair trading laws, after two schoolgirls tested its claim that the blackcurrants in Ribena had four times the vitamin C of oranges, but found almost no traces of the vitamin in Ribena. GSK was fined NZ$227,500 ($167,500). The firm said in a statement on Monday that it had launched a television and print campaign in Australia and New Zealand apologising for stating an incorrect vitamin C content.
The firm also says sorry for claiming that blackcurrants contain four times the vitamin C of oranges, because it may have misled consumers into believing Ribena contained four times the level of vitamin C than in the same quantity of orange juice

while grocery shopping recently, YY again asked for Ribena AND he pointed out to me tat Ribena is Rich In Vitamin C Goodness.

Goodness Gracious!  I corrected him immediately tat Ribena is NOT rich in Vit C!  and i reminded him of the schoolgirls who discovered this.

he got as disgusted as mi abt their packaging being as misleading after all these mths tat he put back the cheer pack straightaway

the point here is not tat we r boycotting ribena

the fact is , we do like drinking ribena but as consumers, i need to b able to make an informed solution.  i gif the eg of Coke.  When i drink Coke, i noe it has little nutritional value, is mainly sugar and water but I choose to drink it coz i like it

same rule applies to Ribena, i m not as concerned over Ribena has ANY Vit C at all but i m upset y they still claim to b Rich in Vitamin C Goodness

tis is contrary to wat they list as Ribena facts on the aussie website.  they don’t haf a SG website.

Ribena Vitamin C Claims In “Ready To Drink” Products

In the past, nutritional information panels on some Ribena ready-to-drink products stated an incorrect level of Vitamin C. The testing method used to determine the level of Vitamin C was unreliable and GlaxoSmithKline Australia was unaware of that at the time. The Vitamin C claim has since been removed from the packaging to reflect this.

well, they certainly haben done tat in SG and i intend to complain abt tis

phone scam

i haf been getting emails abt tis scam.
http://www.spf.gov.sg/mic/2007/071018_supcourtphonescam.htm 
 

i mentioned it to bro who told mi he oso kena the scam.   it’s a china girl speaking in mandarin claiming it’s the voicemail of the Supreme Court.  he juz hung up coz he knows it’s rubbish.  govt svc uses english of course!

she will go  这里是新加坡高等法庭 …blah blah blah

Challenges and the remembered

Challenges come in three broad categories: easy, difficult and impossible.

Those who take on the easy have a safe and boring life.

Those who take on the difficult have a tough but satisfying life.

Those who take on the impossible are remembered.

brenda sent thru the above and i m reminded of Lim Goh Tong when i read the last part abt taking on and achieving the impossible.

a truly revolutionary idea will always b thot of as being impossible, crazy, insane, unrealistic as it challenges our inner belief system of wat is rational and possible.

and it takes the great to turn impossible into possible

ANYTHING is possible!
 

toys

though it’s easy to get excited about the latest developmental toy, many older babies prefer to play with plastic food containers, plastic water bottles, TV remotes, and other “grown-up” stuff.

my first thots on reading the above were how true!

the attention span kiddos haf for the most expensive toys is unfortunately quite short

but they nbr tire of playing wif bottles and pans.  and opening bottle caps trains motor skills.  juz b aware of choking risk.  incidentally, most toys come wif parts tat teach kids to screw and unscrew, fit smaller containers into bigger ones and there’re of course make believe kitchen sets

so it means tat playing wif the real stuff will reap the same educational effects

at one stage, QQ play wif the rice scope so regularly tat we need to ask her for it at dinnertime

Red Devils VS Gunners

there was a match on sun but i wanted to watch the jacky variety show tat had dicky cheung on the program

so bro had to toggled bet the 2 channels

it’s easy to tell when Man U scores coz i can hear the cheering coming from my neighbourS, not juz one family but a few hor!

too bad gunners equalised in the 90 mins, somemore Man U had an own goal.  i wish Man U picked up the 2 more points 

and i luv C Ronaldo!

SISTIC

had to go sistic to pick up the tix.  i usualli go to 7-11 @ bedok interchange to pick up tix.

to my astonishment last wk, the 7-11 is no more.  it’s been incoorperated into sheng siong when shop N save closed dwn.  nah beh!

i checked the sistic website for other pick up locations.

most ppl will suggest city hall but hey!  got ERP leh!

den mayb tampines, prob is it closes quite earli @ 7pm or 8pm so no guarantee i can make it back to tam by tat time.  somemore need to pay parking, stoopid rite

in the end, i settled for SISTIC itself. 

SISTIC stands for Singapore Indoor Stadium TICketing mah. 
tis place is so near office, no ERP and opens till from 10am to 10pm.  wat more can i ask for?

PINK disappointment

eeks!  no PINK eau de parfum, onli the body lotion and body wash….sigh!

PINK

yea!  strawberrynet got carry VS liao!

i can finally replenish my PINK which i finished a while back!

and i oso need to get my Aramis Surface Optimising Cream!

time for some online retail therapy…anyone wants to order together wif mi, let mi noe

Work Horoscope for Wednesday, November 7

Like an office butterfly, you flit from place to place helping things get on track so they can move ahead. Remember to inspire as well as direct for the best effect. Take time to listen, and record woes or troubles.

Crater of Diamonds State Park

i wana go to tis place!  the largest diamond uncovered is over 40 carats!!  OMG!!

i m no diamond fan but can sell, rite?!   if u ask mi where is a dream honeymoon location, of course tis place lah!!

姐妹们, 我们一起去发财吧！

The Crater of Diamonds State Park is an Arkansas State Park located near Murfreesboro in Pike County, Arkansas, USA containing the only diamond bearing site in the world that is open to the public.

Any diamonds, semi-precious stones, rocks or minerals you unearth are yours to keep, regardless of their value.

goggle maps sux

google maps didn’t even haf the road closure info at old airport rd

streetdirectory.com rules!

YY, TKD and TKD warriors

i was doing my research on the STF website when i found the news abt the TKD warriors visit in jun

i saw a couple of picts and couldn’t help watching the videos of the warriors breaking planks.  the kids were irresistable and so adorable!  young lives so fragile and so precious.

incidentally, YY first got his inspiration to learn TKD from watching these videos.  he enjoys these clips as much as mi.  in time to come, he’ll haf clips of his own, of him and the sport.

i suddenly thot of how 微妙 the whole thing is, tat mi catching the warriors in action resulted in YY picking up the sport and getting involved wif the STF.
everything seems to b intertwined in some way.  i guess tat’s karma?

i broke the news to QQ tat i can’t bring her for her colouring competition coz it coincides wif the camp.  she wasn’t terribly upset and juz asked if i need to go help out everyday den.

Subprime loans shake banks

juz read tat charles prince has stepped dwn as citigroup’s chairman and CEO following an announcement of losses up to 11B instead of the 2.2B reported in sep for Q3.

Citi’s stock closed down 2.0 percent at 37.73 dollars Friday. Its shares have slumped 21 percent from 47.72 dollars on Oct 1 prior to the release of its latest earnings. The price has fallen 32 percent this yr.  wow…

juz last wk, Merrill Lynch chief Stanley O’Neal stepped dwn after posting losses of 8B in Oct due to the subprime crisis

the problem wif learning hanyu pinyin first

children r smart, too smart for their own good

while they can read better since they learn hanyu pinyin, they end up doing onli tat

READING HANYU PINYIN !

YY left certain sections blank and when i questioned him, he said it’s becoz he can’t read wifout the hanyu pinyin in those sections

mum & moi were searching for books wifout hanyu pinyin from NLB and it was a daunting task which we failed

becoz of the over reliance on hanyu pinyin，children r taking a much longer time to learn the actual chinese word coz they r distracted and onli paying attention to the pinyin

and tis problem can haf devastating results on their 华语掌握和运用能力 !

in order to use chinese input by pinyin, one needs to know the word one wants coz more often den not, there are multiple phrases wif the same pinyin.  tat’s y so many 错别字！

and being lazi, i dun even choose the words i want from the list provided coz i onli use the keyboard

instead, i use my own 联想 to get the words i want

eg. i wanted to type 倩女幽魂 tdy

of course MS duno tis phrase lah!  so i got 前女 when i type qian nv

i decided to go wif qian 倩 first den nv 女

next i typed you which gave 友 so i tried you jing tat yielded 油井 instead of 幽静

i had to type 幽静的 before i got the you tat i needed

lastly, i typed hun tat gave 昏 so i did hun po 魂魄 instead

it sounds pretty complicated but it works best for mi.  i juz need to delete the words i dun want

preggy 流莺

marie, dot et moi had the sea coconut from 126 on fri evening

it was pretty rushed as dot was going for her circuit lesson while i had a steamboat dinner date at bro’s place

marie was supposed to wait for DH @ geylang but we advised her against it in case ppl mistook her for preggy 流莺

in the end, she ended up being dumped by moi in front of ubi driving centre

 

Why You Should Nix Midnight Surfing

Why You Should Nix Midnight Surfing

Surfing the Web before bed may seem like a relaxing, low-key activity. But it could rob you of something very important (hint: it’s not your identity).

We’re talking about sleep. In a group of people who reported spending up to 2 1/2 hours a night browsing sites on the Internet, over one-third of them also had some kind of problem with their sleep. Here are some better bedtime rituals. (see below ↓)

It appears that high-excitement media inhibits drowsiness (watching late-night TV made sleep time less productive, too, in a recent study). The light your body is exposed to via TV screens and computer monitors seems to mess up your natural sleep/wake cycles and rhythms.

Here are better ways to ease your body into sleep mode.

• Love your routine. A consistent bedtime helps you sleep better.
• Do some gentle stretches every morning. Here’s why this helps.
• Put on a pair of warm socks. This is what it will do for you.

RealAge Benefit: Getting 6 to 8 hours of sleep per night can make your RealAge as much as 3 years younger.

hanyu pinyin sentence

tis is wat i mean by the side effects of the current pri skool chinese syllabus

hanyu pinyin sentences r, in my opinion, totally rubbish!

i would rather my son write the wrong word or leave blanks if he doesn’t know how to write the words.  how children can be taught to tink such sentences r acceptable is totally beyond mi!  is the syllabus preparing our kids for chinese input by pinyin??

from YY’s chinese SA
mei mei zai xie zi。
ba ba zai du 书。
ma ma zai xuan yi。
哥哥 zai 画画。
小狗 zai shui jiao。

Doodle Friends

hey!  tis application is fun!

and i saw kripsy kreme….omg!

Work Horoscope for Monday, November 5

sibeh chim

Like a waterfall rushing over a precipice, you’re full of energy and hurtling through the void happily. Take in the wider vista on your merry way, and be prepared for the still pool of relaxation at the bottom.

handwriting

i keep a notebook tat i use for my to-do

sometimes, i will add stuff tat i did and cross them out, in red!  coz it feels good to haf completed stuff

anyway, i digress, my point is i hate my messy handwriting

but i can write neatly too if i make a conscious effort

which i sometimes do when i rem

i luv seeing my own neat handwriting afters

first aid

mi sliced my finger accidentally on a calendar tonite

YY & QQ rushed to fuss over mi

YY fetched a plaster tat he tore open to stick on my finger

i wanted to use my aloe vera gel but the whole bottle has disappeared for the past few wks

luckily YY was quick thinking and lent mi his tiny bottle of aloe vera gel tat i kept in his pencil box for emergencies

chinese zodiac signs

somehow, my discussion wif dot tis afternoon led to a debate over the chinese zodiac signs and the yr of birth

i knew marie is tigress so i assumed 73 is yr of tiger since her bday is in dec

i oso thot sven is cow coz his birthday is before CNY

but dot insisted 73 is yr of ox so leads mi to wonder if marie is actualli ox and not tiger

and i oso realise tat i got it wrong for sven too, he should b rat and not cow den

the culprit!

it’s my Bling Bling Livia namesign tat’s causing the blog to hang!

KPE

i found it liao!

last fri, mi was on PIE before the opening hr of 10am
when i exited at kallang bahru, there was a sign tat reads KPE(ECP).   i saw one more sign along the slip road but i didn’t see the exit to KPE so i was reli puzzled

on mon, mi finally saw the KPE(ECP) sliproad along the sliproad to Kallang Bahru

on tue, mi took the ECP & saw KPE joining ECP juz after fort rd.  got TP stationed at the entrance to ECP somemore

trouble shooting

mi is so sick of my hanging blog tat i decided to strip it of some codes

i suspect one of the widgets to b causing the stoopid blog and IE to hang too

halloween

neopet’s Halloween theme

我要努力！

work hard, play harder

yr end approaching, need to close out the stuff on hand

i m reminded of YY & QQ’s fav lines :

我要忍着痛！ 我要忍着尿！

Daylight Savings

starts tis wk!

i noe sydney time is nw 3 hrs ahead of us but i forgot abt the rest of the world

rushed back from lunch for 1pm which was pushed out to 2pm coz poland oso got daylight savings, i foresee mi getting confused over the timings of my calls for the next couple of wks