Ranting #14

Planet Earth is dying

read the Straits Times today and saw this article with a big 'ball' in the middle... pains me to see this warning... but i believe this is inevitable... considering the damage done by fellow human beings... haiz... human just take our mother Earth for granted... exploiting her and according to a UN-sponsored study (that costs a hefty US$24 millions...), 60% of the world's grasslands, forests, farmlands, rivers and lakes had been depleted...

think in another 50 years or so... our dear Earth will not be able to take it anymore and thus, die... haiz... but come to think of it... she's already protesting... with all the earthquakes... changes in weather due to El Nino... increase in disease outbreaks... depletion of freshwater and fish and forest reserves... but i think that's just the consequences as a result of all the exploitation... chinese call it 自食其果...

my love for the environment (and animals) led me to study environmental engineering... though the course never really go into detail of how to save our beloved Earth... and thinking abt that... how many people in my course really love the environment... haiz... which reminds me what regina told me abt our class as every year during the annual coastal cleanup... our course mates will always be absent... and it's always the batch missing out of the 4 batches of the course... well... me and regina still makes an effort to go... but that is provided we do not have lessons or tests on that day... but in general... the coastal cleanup thingy always gets a poor response from all the people taking env engrg... maybe they dun wish to get their hands dirty but just wish to pay a little sum and see other do the dirty work...

this reminds me of Singaporeans... at least Singaporeans are the type to donate the most amt of money but not take part in community or volunteer work... even the community service done by students are just to take a metal tin and solicit donations for a flagday... that's why every saturday in 2005 has a flagday that's ongoing... sometimes even on wednesday itself...

but then... everyone (including me) is used to all the high tech stuff and the hygiene and convenience of technology which is bad to the environment... just like me typing this ranting out and wasting energy, which is driven by all the fuels and thus depleting them... haiz... so quite contradictory... i love the environment but i love the convenience of technology too... haiz...
maybe sometimes we should just 回归大自然... but with such a huge population on Earth... i doubt it will be easy...

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talking about taking things for granted... think it's human nature to take things for granted when they are free, be it monetary or otherwise... in relationships... sometimes a partner might take another for granted too...

but i think this is bad... so maybe people who is reading this now should use a minute to think of people or things that u have taken for granted before... like ur parents? ur partner? ur friends? or the environment, like the sun, moon, stars and the wonderful things Earth has provided us?

do something if u think u need to when there's still time... cos life's short... u never know whether u will get to see them tomorrow...

Ranting #13

SICK... haiz...

been sick since wednesday... but the good thing was that i got to enjoy the long weekend from thursday (due to the ever wonderful MC)... though thursday was spent sleeping at home for the whole day...

even though i was sick... saturday was spent in the bird park with my dear lele... had been planning for it for quite sometime so sick oso must go... haiz... think i liked the penguins and the ostrich best... lele hated the ostrich though... maybe becos they dun have feathers covering their butts... lele is that fussy...

no motivation to blog lately... only boredom is my only motivation... thinks no one reads my blog anyway... haiz... so i can rant all i want... haha...

wondering when regina, jj and lian juan got the time to meet for lunch or dinner, or even mahjong maybe? (so ljj can see me in person...) planned one long time ago... but dear regina kept postponing it until she forgot all abt it... haiz...

school starts this week for mudpie again... haiz... poor him dun even have a break or holiday... the disadvantages of a part-time degree... think he seldom has the time to meet me already... haiz... not to mention not being able to dance around the coconut trees together... haiz...

life's so boring lately... sometimes i wished i'm back in school... so at least i'll be so busy til i forget boredom... can even save money cos i'll be too busy to shop or enjoy musicals... haiz... can't wait for the new sem to start... even though most people dun wish that to happen...

Random tots #10

Forbidden...

saw this error msg when i was trying to retrieve some info from MOH...

Error 403--Forbidden
From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:
10.4.4 403 Forbidden
The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD NOT be repeated. If the request method was not HEAD and the server wishes to make public why the request has not been fulfilled, it SHOULD describe the reason for the refusal in the entity. This status code is commonly used when the server does not wish to reveal exactly why the request has been refused, or when no other response is applicable.

did a print screen... so this is actually what i see...




quite duh right... this is not the 1st time MOH gave me this error msg le... think they must be so 拽 (arrogant?) to phrase the error msg like this... and somemore... the info i need is just about avian flu... maybe it's top secret... haiz... maybe i try later... even though i was told 'Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD NOT be repeated.' haiz... no choice... poor hardworking me need to work....

Random tots #9

Passed the point of no return...

One year ago... I have made an important decision in my life... and so far... I have passed the point of no return (humming to the tune of 'the point of no return' from phantom of the opera...)


I had made the decision to stop procrastinating and start my weight loss program... haha... actually it was all motivated by regina... since she lost nearly 15 kg after just one year of hard work... and also... crazy enuff... but all the gers in my uni class starts to become slimmer and more skinnier... so me intend to follow their footsteps to try and lose some weight before i becomes the fattest ger in class...

as all the people out there should know... losing weight is not as easy as A B C... it takes so much determination to start... well well... since i see regina everyday... i'm just simply motivated by her to lose weight... hahaha...

then came the may-aug holidays... me haven lost any significant weight then... haiz... but my supervisor at my temp job, Jasmine, actually shared with me her weight losing method which she paid so much by going to her doc weekly for her weight loss management program... well... that seems to help... but together with regina's method of regular exercise... think the synergetic effects actually helped me to lose a great deal of my stubborn fats...


one year later... which is today... i have lost 8 kg only... (cos my aim is to lose 10 kg in a year...) as a result of my close monitoring of the food i ate and getting enuff exercises (or stretching)... all natural without any slimming pills or meal replacement thingy... well... shall aim to lose a further 5 kg this year... anymore than that then i might get blown away by the wind... (not really though... haha...)

please wish me luck in my weight losing thingy... so please dun ask me out to eat too sinful things and supper too... shall update on my progress next year... if this blog still exists...




P.S: Do you know that the childhood songs 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' and 'The Alphabet Song' have the same tune? At least I didn't know that until yesterday when Glenn Ong and The Flying Dutchman mentioned it on Class 95... amazing isn't it...
and dear all... please comment after reading... either in the post itself or in the tagboard... thanx...

Random tots #8

My pie pie and I



everytime during exams then me and pie pie will be super sticky to one another... maybe it's becos of all the exam stress... this time round... it's pie pie's exam... cos i'm doing IA so no exams this sem for me...
pie pie's exam is just 2 days... tmr and the day after tmr... he has been busy since sat i presume... that's why haven't met him during the weekends... but think he must be feeling real stressed up lately so me popped up at his area to visit him today...
pie pie has the bad habit of peeling his fingers' skin when he's stressed or nervous... when i met him today... he had already peeled 5 fingers and thus... bleeding... poor pie pie... if only i had met him earlier to help him forget his stress...

been thru alot with mudpie... it's like a roller coaster ride... having both ups and downs... but has been amazing how we managed to be together despite the problems we've encountered... more amazing is how our love for each other blossomed after a relatively short courtship... i'll never forget the times when we spent our vacation together... how we enjoy the carefree time together...

our second anniversary is coming... really hoping for a break so that we can have the time to ourselves and not worry about the daily hassle of work... but the super broke financially challenged us do not have too much budget to go overseas... maybe on that day itself u might find both of us dancing around the coconut trees in sentosa (or some singapore offshore islands) to some indian tunes... haha...

Ranting #12

The past weekend (updated with pix)

Saturday... was supposed to go to the bird park with lele and parents but dad actually said he wanna go next week during the Easter weekend... so no choice... have to wait one more week for the outing with lele...





anyway... mom still brought lele out to Lot 1 in CCK... just to let him run about in the kiddy palace... haiz... me tagged along as I wanted to go collect and buy tix from the Sistic outlet there... upon reaching there... there was this booth near City Chain giving out free Coke... Coke light and Coke light lemon that is...
as lele simply loves coke (and even know how to say coke...) me and mom took a can... but when my super fussy lele drank a sip... he shook his head to tell us how he dislike the taste of coke light... haiz... a 20 mth old kid can actually be so fussy when maybe 30 yrs ago... people dun even have the chance to drink coke unless it's the festive season... how the days have changed...

poor me was stuck with a can of coke... not wanting to waste it... i took a few sips... even though coke is supposed to be unhealthy... (once read that it can promote osteoporosis... even if they took calcium supplements that day... once u drink coke... all ur calcium's useless... and oso India's coke contains 2 types of pesticide... not to forget the sugar content in coke and how fattening it is... read this...) but seriously... i gave up after drinking like more than 10 sips... haiz... calcium's gone for that day... (note: tax... coke's bad... give it up man...)





after trying to catch lele out of kiddy palace for (i think) 30 minutes... we bought bread for him and went home... the super hum sup (hmmm.... attracted to the other gender?) lele actually stared at a young pretty ger sitting at the bus stop when he's on the bus... (think guys out there must envy lele cos he can blatantly stare at pretty gers and have gers smiling and waving at him... and sometimes even gets a hug from them...) the ger smiled and waved at him... and lele can't seem to get enuff of her as he kept looking back at her even though the bus had moved off from the bus stop... haiz... think he's a real testerone rich mammal... haiz...


saturday nite was spent celebrating zhengyi's b'day with eileen, pf, jj and hui... even though we are like 3 days early... anyway... the nite was spent playing mahjong again... haiz... east and south wind took 3 hours... luckily there was 5 of us... so i can even bathe while they play...

(thanx to eileen for posing for that pix with the menu...)

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sunday... nothing much... tuition sux big time... maybe i din prepare enuff... haiz... feel so stupid... haiz... wanted to go visit mudpie but was so lazy (lazier than lazy) and slept the whole day... and nite time... i drove after nearly one year without touching a car... luckily the car din stall... but think i need to drive more often... so maybe next time when u see me on the road... please pardon my slowness... think i only drive around 4 times even though my licence is already 2+ yrs old... haiz... wasted...

still remember the time when i drove in langkawi... haha... screamed and whined throughout the whole trip when i was behind the wheels... travelled at a constant 60km/h... even when turning... haha... think those passengers in the car that time must be worried for their lives... haha... those were the carefree days...

how i hoped i have enuff $$$ to go on a trip somewhere... need to save up... financially challenged now... haiz...

Ranting #11

Relationship blues...

yesterday was a lousy day for my buddy... cos his gf broke up with him... poor buddy... i'm so worried he will do something silly... cos i think he really love that ger... haiz...

i always say their relationship reminds me of mine with mudpie... maybe both of them are good guys who are always being bullied by us gers... but mine definitely is stronger than theirs...

mudpie and i were actually on the verge of breaking up last week... but luckily everything's solved... our break up is not really because our loves for each other is gone... but is more like we are worried about not being able to have more time for each other and so breaking up might ease each other's burden... however... we realised that a break up is much too painful for both of us to take it... cos we really love each other too much...

maybe shakespeare is right... the course of true love never did run smooth... so in order to experience true love... one have to face with problems that might present itself in the relationship...

"The course of true love never did run smooth." --From A Midsummer Night's Dream (I, i, 134)

Lysander and Hermia are in love in this whimsical tale of love and magic in the woods outside Athens. Hermia's father, however, insists that Hermia marry Demetrius, and goes to the Duke of Athens, Theseus, to complain that his daughter is disobedient, and to demand that Theseus invoke the law requiring a daughter to obey her father or else die, or enter a nunnery. Theseus tells Hermia that her father's authority over her is complete and absolute, and she must obey him in this regard. Once left alone, Lysander and Hermia ponder their situation, at which point Lysander reminds his beloved that true love is always beset with obstacles. He suggests that they elope the next night. The theme of true love not running smoothly (and the problems this brings) repeats again and again in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

so sometimes maybe instead of just breaking up... maybe one should learn how to give and take in a relationship... if one is unable to learn how to accomodate each other in a relationship... what will happen when they get married? divorced? no matter divorce rates are going up...

so maybe one should learn how to accomodate one another... and not break up due to differences in character... this reminds me of the enzymes and their substrates... each enzyme has their specific substrate to work on... and they will work on that one and only substrate... so maybe these people are looking for their specific substrate... but how true is this in real life relationships?

for the moment... me and my mudpie will be sticking to each other... trying to accomodate each other... maybe until the day when there's a third party to break us up... i keep my fingers crossed...

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Random tots #7

Tired

I'm tired of being the person that people expect me to be... tired of doing things that i dislike... tired of going places i dreaded going... tired of giving up hopes and desires... tired of listening to people... tired of being taken for granted... tired of being neglected... tired of everything in life...

I'm tired... really tired...

Ranting #10

Robots

went with my buddy to Lido today for an exclusive screening of robots... it was some skippy peanut butter thingy... well... since i get free food and free movie... i tagged along since his gf is busy with some other functions...

my buddy even tot there will be some celebs but no... there wasn't... but nevertheless... we still sit in the theatre to watch the show even though we have plans to sneak off halfway thru the show...

Think that this show is funny... well... only at the end of the show though... but there are some things that i've learnt from the show...

1. 'Delivery' of a baby robot is that by the deliveryman delivering the spare parts for the baby. 'Labor' means the hard work in assembling the baby robot. But i think the best part in the 1st 5 minutes is that baby robots come with volume control... meaning that if the baby is crying too loud... u can just turn the knob to lower his volume of crying... if only real babies have that...
2. the transport system in robot city is better than the world's best transport system... it's more exciting than a roller coaster ride and you will definitely stay awake throughout the whole ride...
3. that 'got screwed' has got the same meaning as 'being cheated'...
4. You can shine no matter what you are made of.
5. In a fight among the robots... they also like to have wrestling matches... and also... a fight for justice will definitely not miss out the best fighting scenes from LOTR... the part with the big elephants and legolas trying to shoot arrows at them... which in this case... piper shooting toilet plungers... (dunno what's that... click on the link...)
6. When u are surrounded by a group of meanies and u know u can't fight them... dance to the song by Britney... 'baby one more time'... and u can win the fight... (alright... even though that's only for gers... but in the show... the feat is done by a male robot fitted with female bottoms...)
7. the mixture of jazz and funk is junk...
8. the diet of a robot consists of bolts... and they like to pour oil onto themselves... and there's even a song of 'singing in the oil'...
9. that people... or i shld say robot like bigweld have such good temper that even though rodney tumbled his dominoes... he never scold him... and the dominoes can only be described as 'a sea of dominoes'...
10. robots can fart with their arms... how interesting...

well... think u can learn something even when looking at kiddie movies like this... buddy even commented that the producers of 'ice age' didn't disappoint...

anyway... i laughed real loud for the wrestling and britney parts... luckily everyone was laughing... and actually half the theatre are kids...

btw... borders having 20% on books, musics and stuff til 17 march... only for students and teachers... and huifang actually told me she got the box set for the Lemony Snickets series... wow... 3 books at $64.95... didn't know she's so willing to spend...

that's all... it's late le... *yawnzzzz.....*

Random tots #6

Horoscope

my weekly horoscope from free will astrology:

Scorpio Horoscope for week of March 17, 2005
It's a good time for you to think about your relationship to human beings who haven't been born yet. Is there anything you can do to be more conscious about making your life a gift to the future? What might you create that would enhance the destinies of our descendants? How can you conduct yourself so that you will not only help preserve the wonders we live amidst, but actually enhance them? As you ponder your possible contributions--and maybe also take practical action to deepen your commitment to them--keep in mind this thought from Lewis Carroll: "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward."

anyway... this is the same horoscope that u can find in I-S magazine...

Ranting #9

Busy... Busy... Very busy....

but just before i forget... better let me rant about the sucky Singnet service I'm having now...

any Singnet subscribers remember the free Broadband Video-On-Demand (BBVOD) thingy in Dec last year? hopefully someone remembers... but anyway... I'm cheapskate enuff to try the free service in Dec... but i remembered that I read thru the T&Cs many times to check whether I need to pay for the subscription for subsequent months if I access that site at that time... well... think my english must be lousy or what... but i think they wrote something like u dun have to pay if u dun subscribe... okie... so me tried that thingy to see how 'good' it is...

Apparently... people who had accessed the site before knows how pathetic the things inside are... so me being the easily bored type... just went in look look see see and logged out... that was the one and only time i went there... in the meantime... i didn't subscribe to any service channels...

problems starts the next month when i received my net bill saying i need to pay for the access in jan... when did i ever access it in jan? so i called Singnet to ask abt the billing error...

well... i called the billing number... but when i mentioned the Singnet BBVOD... the operator actually transferred me to Singnet hotline even before i can say another word... think i waited a good 3 minutes before I hear some human beings' voice... i told the operator my problem and the next moment i know... and no prize for guessing it correctly... i got transferred back to the billing dept... it took a good 5 minutes before some human voice got on the line... (that is after i got real sick of the irritating music they played...)

being the super impatient and easily irritated me actually scolded the operator... ( if u happen to be that operator... sorry... that's ur REWARD for transferring here and there...) and i demanded to know the reason why i'm charged for something i didn't use at all... (okie... maybe for once during the free trial period...) think the operator knows i'm pissed... she explained in the nicest tone that when i logged in that time (in dec), i'm automatically subscribed to that BBVOD service(wtf)... that sentence she told me won her another reward from me... a super big scolding (plus a bit of cursing) about the T&Cs that I've read...

think the only thing she can do at the moment is to help me terminate the service immediately (for good... meaning forever and ever)... but i added that i did not use the service at all in jan... she promised to refund me the money for the current (jan) month... but which she didn't... nvm... wasted a good 13 minutes of my monthly talktime while the whole conversation was only a good 5 minutes... kns...

in feb... there was no crediting of the promised amount that the operator agreed to waive off... i think it might be because she dun have the power to reverse the charges... nvm... but the good thing is they never charge me for feb...

but problems starts again in March when i just got my bill last friday... 11th that is... i realised that they charged me for that service again... the volcano in me nearly erupted (i do hope i can erupt and phew hot lava over the whole of Singnet...) and i immediately called the billing dept reagrding the charges again... well... when i said the word singnet BBVOD... the operator actually wanted to transfer me over to singnet... having learnt my lesson... i immediately shouted, "I"VE GOT BILLING PROBLEMS!!! DON"T EVER TRANSFER ME THERE!" think the operator finally understood my fury...

well... i related the same old problem to her and ALSO stated that I've called the billing dept on 14th Jan to terminate the service for good... she said the system reflected that too but is puzzled why i'm still charged... i gave her another piece of my mind (plus very slight cursings...) think she must be feeling pissed too... cos she immediately asked for my number and said the relevant dept will contact me earliest in 5 working days depending on the 'queue'... i nearly died... but the advice she gave me was to ignore the charges and singnet will credit that money into my account the next mth... okay... i believe u... but if i dun get that refund... i'm going to complain like siao already...

i wonder how long i will need to wait (i hate to wait) to get the fateful call... if i dun hear from them this friday... i will call and complain...

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so my good old advice to people using Singnet Broadband... please do check ur bills regularly to see whether u r being overcharged...
AND never believe them if they offer any FREE TRIAL period thingy to try... if u must try... please call them immediately to terminate after trying...





P.S: anyone wanna guess what is 'Disodium salt of ethyl [4-[p[ethyl (m-sulfobenzyl)amino]-a-(o-sulfophenyl)benzylidene]-2,5-cyclohexandien-1-ylidene](m-sulfobenzyl) ammonium hydroxide inner salt'? it's something very common in our daily life...
if u guess correctly maybe i'll consider treating u ice cream (will be either andersen's or gelare... i'm not that cheapskate k)...

Random tots #5

wonder how many of us actually forgot about our same gender friends when they got attached （重色轻友）? some of my friends do... some don't...

came across an article in today's paper... shall put the whole article here...

Friends are not like hotels StraitsTimes Interactive
You can't just check out of a friendship when you enter into a relationship
By Janice Wong

"SHE used to be my classmate.


We shared the same hobbies, borrowed each other's lecture notes and had long telephone conversations.

All that changed when she had a boyfriend. She would cancel our appointments whenever he asked her out.

The first time it happened, I shrugged it off and even squealed in excitement for her.
The second time it happened, I was annoyed but only remarked casually that I seemed to be on her B-list of friends.

The third time it happened, I swore never to ask her out again.

She did not make amends. I guess the growing distance between friends can't be felt when one seems joined at the hip with one's partner and have him as a companion for all of one's activities.

Then, they broke up. She called me in tears at midnight and I consoled her. All was forgiven.
It felt good to put aside petty misgivings and stand steadfastly by a friend in times of adversity. Isn't that what friends are for?

Our friendship resumed. But when she found another man, suddenly, her weekends were reserved again. Whenever I called her, she sounded preoccupied and anxious to get off the phone. Later, she became completely incommunicado.

A year later, I got a call from her; she was distraught. She told me her boyfriend had dumped her and asked that we meet. I declined and ignored her subsequent calls.

I did not say what I was thinking: 'My friendship is not a hotel. You don't walk in and out, as and when you wish.'

No matter how head over heels in love I may be - and no matter how a man's charm may make my hormones rage - it never gets to the point where he takes priority over my close friends.

It's a no-brainer. My friends have proven their mettle and stuck with me through thick and thin, while he has merely entered the picture with goodness-knows-what intentions.

Even if I were married, being with my husband would still not override time spent with my close friends. I know of people who stop seeing certain friends or resort to seeing them on the sly just because their spouses do not approve of them doing so.

A spouse will never be able to support one's emotional needs entirely and he or she has to understand that some of these needs will have to be met outside, by friends.

Friendship brings other problems. As my social circle widens, I find it increasingly difficult to discern who my real friends and fair weather ones are.

I often feel I am invited to parties and sought after as a friend for no other reason than that I am a journalist and can, hopefully, be a means to free publicity.

The more people I know, the lonelier I feel. I am a sentimental soul who prefers the comfort of old friendships which hark back to a time when I was simply Janice, minus the fancy title and trappings.

This is why I am not entirely sure that I did the right thing by quitting that friendship. Was I too demanding? Should I have given her a second chance?

After all, we really got along and it was not like she committed something treacherous like cheating me of my money, betraying a secret or stealing my boyfriend.

Still, I have had enough of being taken for granted. Being single and available does not mean my time is any less valuable than hers.

When it is consistently a case of one person giving and the other person taking, it is time to take stock of the friendship and, perhaps, call it quits.

Like courtship - or even more so - friendship requires time, effort and reciprocity.

While courting parties can demand commitment of each other directly, the expectations in a friendship are usually implicit, subtle and unsaid, and as a result, more prone to neglect.

You may love your friends very much, but if they don't hear from you for an extended period of time, it's only human nature that they wonder just how much you really care about them.

As the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr said: 'In the end, we remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.'

Don't misunderstand me. Couples who are newly in love are naturally consumed by each other to the exclusion of everything - and everyone - else. I don't begrudge that. I certainly didn't expect my friend to pay as much attention to me as she did when she was single.

I also accept that when life exerts its pressures and one's career picks up pace, some friendships fade away. But I would be happy to rekindle such friendships.

What I bristle at is being relegated to a nobody when romance calls and then being treated like some sort of stop-gap measure when it ends.

So let's take some time out this week to have a drink with a dear old friend, say 'How are you?' and be sincerely interested in finding out how they are.

I have never been so busy or so popular to the extent that I have no time for an old friend.

Nor, I pray, will I ever be so.

Send your comments to stlife@sph.com.sg "

this article actually made me think twice about how i treat my friends... and oso how they treat me... think when one gets older... friendships became harder to forge...

in a world where everyone's in the rat race... think true friends are hard to find...

my close friends are those that i knew from school... be it secondary school... jc... or university... only a handful are from work or outside... maybe i have forgotten how to befriend people... or just friendships are harder to forge?

but definitely... nothing beats a good gathering with friends... chatting over coffee talking about the good old days...

Ranting #8

Expect the Unexpected

the past weekend was a week full of unexpected events...

let's start with friday nite...

>> was expecting to rot at home to do my report and help my colleague edit his report... in the end... tax called and suggested going for a cuppa... was actually quite reluctant cos pie might be unhappy abt me going out so late at nite... but unexpectedly (the 1st unexpected thingy)... he gave me full consent... so me not wanting to waste a friday nite went with tax and vincent... luckily tax drove... or else dun ask me out in the middle of the nite...

anyway... we went west coast park... dropped by a 7-11 and bought some stuff before going over... got this new Twisties Fizz... limited edition somemore... supposed to taste like those carbonated drinks... thus the name fizz... but once we tried... we understood why it's limited edition... COS it's so disgusting... kaoz... think the taste super duper weird... vincent even commented it should be limited edition cos people will only be fooled once... haha...

anyway... had a good chat with them... though i had a mini headache since afternoon 3 pm... when we wanted to leave... tax and vincent actually went to try out the playground... haha... so old already still play... aiyoyo... but think they will think that i'm more childish... by being fascinated by the big Mac there... but me tried the big big structure that looks like the pyramid there for the first time... think i whine too much cos i'm afraid of falling... haha... so paiseh... imagine there are kids around who managed to climb up like a monkey and an auntie (which is me) screaming and whining on the way up... that will be so malu...

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>> saturday was much worse... supposed to go to my JC physics tutor place for mahjong... but when i reached the nearest shopping mall... one idiot (sorry... i'm real mad!!!) actually told me he forgot about the whole thingy... kns... really feel like strangling him at that moment...

anyway... the biggest shock came when we realised the teacher actually went out without his handphone when we reached his place... was 'invited' into the house by his dad but got chased out again when he needs to leave the house... nvm... we went back to the shopping mall to get some aircon cos the day was so so so hot... then the teacher called... apparently he tot we meant 11-12 at night when we actually meant 11-12 in the daytime... haiz... big misunderstanding...

nvm... went home after spending the remaining sum of money i have on SPCA stuff as there was a booth outside the shopping mall... haiz... went home to clean up after a vomiting child who got choked on his sweet... haiz...

nite time was spent celebrating eileen's b'day... think it was the 1st time we celebrated at the hawker centre... usually we will go to some restaurant to eat... thus burning a big hole in the pocket... but this time round... our clever b'day ger actually suggested hawker centre... hmmm....

anyway... chatted and eaten... realised 6 of us ate 8 plates of food... and to think that they actually dun look full to me... (i'm full after 5 minutes... why? read this...) we went shopping around the newly renovated Beauty World Centre before deciding to go somewhere for a chat... wanted to go coffee bean at west mall but peifang 'invited' us to her shop... since her shop is very near my home... of cos i'm in favor of it lah... however... one stop before my place (as there's a bus that connects my place to her shop) i just said the mahjong word... and suddenly... everyone (except peifang... cos she needs to go back to work) alighted at the stop near my house... haha... the power of mahjong...

mahjong was enjoyable (when was it not???) but draggy as the east wind took nearly 2 hours... haiz... after the east wind... everyone was tired and left...

called pie... and unexpectedly... he asked for a break in order to forget me... the sky just seemed to fall onto me... what happened? haiz... and thinking that i'll be newly single soon... cried myself to sleep...

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think this was one of the worst sundays... haiz... went tuition and home after that to sleep to forget my sadness... msg pie to meet him for a talk... and thank god i actually did so... managed to save our 2 years short of 33 days relationship...

after which i actually sent him home after winning scissors-paper-stone... cos we were actually debating who to send who home... since he was sick so i insisted on sending him home but he said the decision shall be decided by the game... but i managed to win... haha... so sent him home and fed him medicine...

nite time... pretty late on a sunday nite... buddy actually called... though i'm supposed to meet him tmr (today that is...) for dinner... but his call is kinda unexpected... tot he wanna call off the dinner... but actually... he quarreled his gf... kinda reminded me of myself when he's describing her... haha... think he and mudpie are really good guys... good but poor thing... haha...

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unexpected weekend... with lotsa drama... but it's history... mistakes shall be learnt and not repeated...

Ranting #7

FRIDAY!!!

it's finally friday... well this week my pie was super busy to spare time for me cos he needs to study for his exam 2 weeks later... but luckily i'm sick/too tired to go anywhere... so he's still a mudpie and not a mince pie...

happen to talk to tax one fine day on msn and was telling him in a week i only know 4 days... that is MONDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY... cos u will know monday due to the monday blues... friday as it's the prelude to all the fun u gonna get on weekends and saturday and sunday cos it's days of FREEDOM!!!

but come to think of it... my weekends will be very packed... too busy in fact to type my IA report and do editing for my colleague... haiz... think have to sit down and do some time management... haiz...

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It's a day of raining diapers...

As I happen to work in a production plant for diapers... that's what i see everyday... but today in particular... (maybe i'm too free or what lah...) as the conveyor belt is not working well... it's simply raining diapers... imagine a mother of a newborn seeing all these diapers... maybe she'll be very happy... haha... all the free diapers for her to use... but if it's lele or EnEn... think they will cry or run away... (they both have sensitive skin and diapers give them rashes...)

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well well... slacking again cos it's friday... was complaining to a fellow colleague that my pay is even worse than O level grad doing temp jobs... haiz... maybe i shld come to office to sleep half a day then start doing work...

anyway... something in the papers that caught my eye today...

NMP chided for bad language in House StraitsTimes Interactive

"A FOUR-letter expletive and another impolite word blurted out in Parliament earned new Nominated MP Ong Soh Khim a stiff admonition yesterday for 'dishonourable conduct'.

The mechanical engineering academic was apparently heard uttering the word 'shit' once and 'rubbish' several times at the close of a debate on the Education Ministry's budget on Tuesday.

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He said he had received several complaints from MPs that Dr Ong had, towards the end of Tuesday's sitting, 'uttered certain unparliamentary words'.

The 35-year-old had also interrupted Deputy Speaker Chew Heng Ching who was chairing the sitting then.

'Having considered the words unparliamentary, it amounts to dishonourable conduct. She has also breached the Standing Orders for interrupting the chair,' said Mr Abdullah sternly.

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Looking discomfited, Dr Ong read out her apology tersely, from a prepared sheet.

'I'm new and I have not been long in this House. I wish to apologise to the House, the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker for use of any language not suitable for this House last evening,' she said.

She left shortly after, skipping her slot to ask two questions she had earlier filed on manpower issues.

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Dr Ong had earlier put up a spirited argument against university fee hikes.

The last time an MP had to apologise in the House for unparliamentary language was in 1995.

Then-opposition MP Ling How Doong had directed the words 'talk cock', 'bastard' and 'asshole' at fellow opposition MP Chiam See Tong when Parliament was debating a censure motion on the Singapore Democratic Party and its chief, Dr Chee Soon Juan."

It must be interesting to sit in the House to hear those unparliamentary language... but did the MPs or whoever that attends the Parliament actually have to learn certain parliamentary language or certain vocab to use specially in Parliament... no wonder not everyone can be a MP... hmmmmm....

another article from yesterday made me more determined to 减肥...

With a waist like hers, she's got a slim edge StraitsTimes Interactive

"Ms Choi, whose waist measures 21 inches, is one of the participants in The Slimmest Waist competition, one of 12 competitions to be staged at the three-day Shin Min Daily News Record-Setting Carnival which starts tomorrow at Suntec City.

However, she was not always this svelte. In 1998, she weighed more than 70kg when she was pregnant with her first child. Her doctor told her then that she was in danger of suffering from weight-related illnesses such as diabetes.

So she started on a regime to lose weight. It included dieting and jogging for about 45 minutes, three times a week. And she kept at it for about three years. Tomorrow, Ms Choi, who weighs 40kg now, will be put to the test in a beauty pageant-style event to determine the winner......"

well well... think it's time for me to set my target at 45kg and waist of 23 first... haha... if one fine day i manage to achieve that... i will join Ms Universe... haha...

also a very interesting article: How will men cope without women? StraitsTimes Interactive

" LONDON - IN AN experiment designed to test out one of the oldest arguments in the battle of the sexes, a British village is to be temporarily stripped of its womenfolk to see if the men are able to cope.

The stunt will be carried out in Harby, a tiny community in northern England, and filmed for a BBC television 'reality' series called The Week The Women Went, The Times newspaper reported yesterday.

Eighty women will be put up at a hotel for seven days, leaving their husbands and sons to grapple with babies, washing and shopping.

The BBC has described the forthcoming series as 'an intriguing social experiment', but some locals are less sure, the report said.

Such is the worry that the village - and especially its men - might be portrayed in a bad light, the entire population is to hold an emergency meeting, The Times said.
The producer of the series told the paper that while some men were expected to cope well, in other households 'domestic chaos will ensue'. -- AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE"

think today's paper has a lot of articles... shld read them hor... btw... from wednesday's mind your body supplement from ST... got this very interesting site for me... The Holford GL Diet... anyone who wanna slim down should read thru that site k... maybe it really helps...

anyway... do u think sly and maia will marry one day? tot they would yesterday cos the Registry of Marriage showed an application made by them on March 2... hmmm... unless they wanna become britney and her poor childhood friend... haiz...

P.S: Eileen... dun be angry hor... ur Sly not getting married yet...

Random tots #4

this is the song that is currently playing in my head right now... a chinese song by mavis...

范晓萱 – You Don’t Trust Me At All

曲：范晓萱 词：范晓萱/周俊伟

You don't trust me at all

You don't love me anymore

我正等着你回答我

You don't trust me at all

You don't love me anymore

其实你不用急着敷衍我

* 从来不曾要求 你为我做什么

只要你一直抱着我

说你不了解我 但至少会去试着做

去喜欢 每个我*

# You don't trust me at all

You don't love me anymore

我正等着你反驳我

You don't trust me at all

You don't love me anymore

以前你都会对我说没有 #

Repeat * *

You don't trust me at all

You don't love me anymore

You don't trust me at all

You don't love me anymore

以前你都会对我说没有

Repeat * * #

Random tots #3

here are some measurements that i manage to get from lele yesterday... wanted to blog last night but fell asleep even before i manage to turn on the computer... anyway... here's it:

lele's height: 83.5 cm
lele's chest: 19 inches
lele's waist (or tummy): 20 inches
lele's butt: 22 inches
lele's weight (last measured at the doc's): 12.7kg
lele's age: 20 mths old

well... i think lele is too tall for his age... think if he grow any taller then i can't bring him to movies already... not to mention not being able to go on the MRT or bus for free... haiz...

Random tots #2

here's a very interesting site for all : Things to do when you're bored... try it...

and do tell me if you really tried any of the listed act...

Ranting #6

BUSY... VERY BUSY...

have been real busy these few days... doing work and socialising...


did a very paiseh thingy on sat... me wore shorts to Raffles City!!! so malu... cos that stupid pie actually wanted me to go his place after my tuition... so i tot if i travelled from clementi to toa payoh... i dunnid to wear jeans or skirt mah... who knows the guy he was supposed to meet at city hall actually made their appointment later and so poor me have to wait for him at city hall area too... in shorts somemore... paiseh... but went Jason marketplace to shop and try to hide there... haha...

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had a very frustrating incident at NTUC Fairprice at Bt Timah Plaza on sunday... was at the Delicatessen wanting to buy some ham for breakfast for the coming week... waited for like 3 minutes as the only person manning the counter was serving a super fussy customer who actually bought some pieces of ham and requested the staff to put 2 pieces of it into each bag... think there was a good 5 bags... what a waste of bags...

okie... think another guy actually saw this and came over to help... so there are 2 staff serving the growing queue ( or i shld say crowd) now... he actually went to serve another customer who came after me... nvm... good-natured me tot the poor staff who was serving the fussy customer will take my ham after finishing with her... never tot that after serving her... he went directly to a caucasian who JUST approached the counter with his trolley...

HELLO!!! i'm there standing for a good 5 minutes and he went to serve a caucasian? is it because i look like i cannot afford to pay for those ham and only standing there to ADMIRE them... or that i'm too short to be seen... or i'm too asian looking (a lot of people actually tot i look like an indonesian maid... esp when i go market with my mom... who is so much fairer than me...)

or simply i'm not obvious enuff? cannot be mah... i wore a super striking top leh... if he cannot see me... then i think he should go to some eyecare specialist...

anyway... the TALL caucasian actually saw me waiting there for quite a while and gestured for that stupid counter staff to serve me first... luckily he did... or else malicious me will definitely complain to his bosses... I used to work in NTUC too k... and my good old buddy works there now too...

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back to tuesday... monday was just another BLUE Monday... and typical me will be feeling demoralised... demotivated... and also depressed...

That's just because it's MONDAY...

tuesday is another busy day... saw this heart wrenching article... actually heard it in the news yesterday but just couldn't keep myself awake to watch the news on Channel U at 2300... and also missed Desperate Housewives last night due to tiredness... so sad... =*(

anyway... here's the article: Dead: Man at foot of block Dead: Wife, 2 kids in flat StraitTimes Interactive

"FIVE hours after an unidentified man was found dead at the bottom of a Tampines block yesterday morning, police uncovered a more horrific tragedy.

On the 12th floor, his wife and two young children lay dead too, side by side in the master bedroom of their five-room flat in Block 470, Tampines Street 44... They were all dressed to go out and had their shoes on...

The mother had bruises on her neck, but the children had no visible marks on their bodies...

Last night, police had not established what happened and were not ready to classify the deaths as anything other than unnatural...

In addition to the bodies, several handwritten notes in English were found in the flat.
The Straits Times understands that they hinted at financial problems faced by the family. No signs of a struggle were found, nor was there a smell of gas...

Some of Mr Lee's colleagues and neighbours knew he had money problems.

A Comfort taxi-driver, who wanted to be known only as Mr Low, 39, said: 'Last Thursday, Simon sent me an SMS. He said he was in trouble. I called him back and asked him why, and he said he owed the banks money, and asked if he could borrow $2,000.'
But Mr Low said he did not have the money.

Mr Lee's neighbour Cindy Seah, 45, had a similar encounter.
'Last Thursday morning, he said he was in deep trouble. He said he 'played shares' and owed a loan company a lot of money and that the interest was due, but he had no money to pay it.'
Madam Seah, who lives just below the Lees' flat, said he tried to borrow $3,500 from her.
She refused as she did not know him well enough, and added that her husband was away at the time.
She did offer him some advice, however. 'I asked him to tell his wife about it, but he said he could not as she would divorce him.'
She then tried to persuade him to turn to his relatives, but she said he told her his parents were old and not working.

Neighbours spoke of how loving the couple were, and how Mr Lee loved his children a lot. They said they had never heard the couple quarrel..."

haiz... money problems that leads to all these unhappiness... here's another related article:

'His children were so beautiful. Why did this have to happen?' -- MR TAN, owner of a provision store
Neighbours shocked; kids, 11 and four years old, described as adorable and parents loving StraitTimes Interative

"LOVING couple. Doting parents. Adorable children.

Those were the phrases a neighbourhood in shock used to describe the Lee family, whose four members were found dead yesterday.

Mr Simon Lee Kok Hwa, 40, was found at the foot of his block at 8.20am yesterday morning. When police entered his flat on the 12th floor five hours later, his wife, Madam Wee Chye Lian, 39, and two children - Jonathan, 11, and Sheena, four - were also found dead inside.
The news was too much to take for many of the neighbours who knew the family, which had lived in their midst for the last seven years.

Even the owner of a provision store at the ground floor of the block, who wanted to be known only as Mr Tan, 60, could not stomach the tragedy.

Bursting into tears, Mr Tan wailed when told what had happened: 'He would buy whatever his children wanted. His children were so beautiful.

'Why did this have to happen? I am so sad.'

The shopkeeper saw Mr Lee and his family several times each week.
'They were hardly alone. Whenever I saw them, they were in a group. They were always so happy,' said Mr Tan.

He said Mr Lee stopped by his shop frequently to pick up sweets and ice-cream for his children.

Two floors down from the Lees' flat, tears were also being shed at the flat of Madam Ani Aboh.
Madam Ani's sister-in-law, Rose Anwar, 35, got the shock of her life when she saw Mr Lee falling from his living room window.

She said: 'I was shaking when I saw it, and quickly called my sister-in-law to go downstairs with me.'

At first, they thought only one person was involved.
When it became clear that the whole family was gone, Madam Ani also burst out crying.

The 37-year-old housewife said that she was very fond of Mr Lee's two children.

She last saw Mr Lee two weeks ago, when he stopped by to give her some old slippers and some shoes which his children had outgrown.
She said: 'The couple looked very happy. i just can't believe it.'

The neighbours described the family as close-knit and friendly.

They often dressed simply, and Madam Wee normally wore little or no make-up.

Both children, all agreed, were 'adorable' and courteous, greeting everyone they saw with shouts of 'aunty' and 'uncle'.

By all accounts, they were doted on.
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Why? That was the question everyone who knew the family asked yesterday.

Some said they knew the Lees operated on a tight budget, but added that they were always generous, and that the talk of financial woes just did not square with what they saw.

In fact, said Madam Ng (Sheena's nanny), Sheena's mother gave her $450 just last Friday as advance payment for the girl's next term in playschool.

Said Madam Ng: 'Her parents came to pick her up, and invited me for dinner. They also said they were going to the supermarket to pick up groceries. Everything seemed fine.'
She added, sighing: 'I've looked after Sheena since she was two months old. She's like a daughter to me.

'If Simon really had money problems, he could have called for help. It's not unsolvable.

'Why did he have to end things this way?' "

well... it might be easy for Madam Ng to say 'he could have asked for help'... but he did... but no one helped him... do read thru the 1st article again... he did asked for help but there's no help for him... anywhere... maybe death was the last resort for him...

haiz... money makes the world go round... money... on all accounts... is the root to all sins... but we can't live without money... and we work for money... being a slave for money...

there are much more things that money cannot buy... true love... sincere relationships... nature...

why must be make our lives so miserable just to get enuff money?

I hope to get the answer to that... but in the meantime... I'm still a slave to money... still cannot get out of that vicious cycle... haiz... BAH...

Ranting #5

TGIF!!!

I'm sick... running a fever now... so sianz... why do i get sick on a friday night and not on a simple weekday so i can have the excuse to get MC and not go to work? haiz... feeling very light-headed now... but after rolling in the bed for 45 minutes... i couldn't get to sleep and so intend to blog and rant abt my situation until someone out there(other than my father) got the heart to ask abt how i feel right now...

got a message from my ex-tutee this afternoon... informed me that she got BBC for her As... well... not really lousy... but always think that she is capable of getting better grades... however... pretty evident that the A level standard must be getting lower or the youngsters nowadays are cleverer...

92.3% of A Level students obtain 2 A and 2 AO passes including GP ChannelNewsAsia

"Students who sat for their A level examinations last year did better than those in 2003. Results released by the Education Ministry on Friday showed 92.3 percent of students obtaining 2 A and 2 AO-Level passes, including General Paper.
This compared with 90.4 percent in 2003..."

Back to my ex-tutee... told her that a ex-classmate of mine actually got into NUS Architecture with the same grades... but however... that was like 3 years back... so maybe as the students are getting cleverer and cleverer and there are so many people getting so good grades... maybe it might not be easy for her to get in that course... that is if she wanna take that course...
heard that she's working in great eastern... think pay must be quite good... but anything with pay higher than mine is good... cos i'm just getting pathetic IA pay at the moment... haiz... still trying to survive with that...

my current tutee is a JC yr 2 student taking As this year... hopefully she can get A bah... will try my best to teach her... but then... tuition tmr but me feeling so lousy due to fever now... dunno can make it to her place tmr not... haiz... shall see the situation tmr...

Ranting #4

Just stepped back into the office from lunch... realised the linkway between the cafeteria and the lobby was infested with ants... it seems like they are having a mass exodus... so scary... anyway... my workplace (not in the office of cos) is simply infested with all the creepy crawlies... millipedes everywhere... millipede-centipede crossbreed sometimes... but think i once saw a millipede-centipede crossbreed in the office toilet... lizards... small beetles... cockroaches (eeeks!) and not to forget the previously mentioned ants...
think the pest control people that the company hired didn really do a great job or just simply the whole place was built on the insect kingdom... so we are actually the ones disturbing their peace...

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lotsa travel fairs lately... think there's a silkair travel fair this weekend and the NATAS travel fair on the 18th to 20th... shall book a tour package and get out of s'pore for some fresher air(though developed/developing countries have lousier air quality than S'pore)...

btw... there will be a career and education fair this weekend and a IT show next week... think march is really a month of fairs...

Ranting #3

Saw this in the papers today...

"THREE students from Hwa Chong Institution collapsed while taking part in a school cross-country run and had to be taken to hospital.

One of them, a 14-year-old in Secondary 2, fainted 45 minutes after the run started last Friday and was warded in the National University Hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) for heat stroke...

The other two, a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old boy, both in their A-level year, were warded for heat exhaustion. They were discharged two days later, on Sunday.

They were among 4,500 secondary school and junior college students who took part in the annual event, which this year required the students to run 3.6km at Turf City, the old Bukit Timah race course, last Friday afternoon. The run was held there as the place could accommodate the large number of youngsters participating.

This is the first time all the students from the institute's six levels, comprising the former The Chinese High and Hwa Chong Junior College, took part in the run...

The highest temperature that afternoon was 34 degrees Celsius... the school took 'adequate precautions' before and during the event. 'We had two ambulances on standby and water stations along the route. All the students were also told before the run that they should stop if they feel tired.'......"

Full article: Three students collapse during school run - one in ICU StraitTimes


This reminds me of the Road Run during JC days where everyone in school has got to run... even though big fat lazy me hates to run at that time but what can i do when i don't have a MC? well... i managed to skip the first Road Run in my life in year one during my first 3 mths stint in NJ... cos they actually scheduled it after I got my O levels results... so knowing that I cannot get into NJ anymore... I just simply slept at home while the others run in the hot sun...
However... things were not so rosy in year 2 in JJ... think they were clever to schedule it before the release of the results and furthermore... since I'm year 2 already and was the PE representative of the class... i had to go...
can't even remember whether did i actually run thru'out the whole thingy but at least i remembered the day to be much more cooling... even though we ran beside the PIE and into the neighbourhood estate...

back to the case... those kids have to run in a 34 degree centrigrade weather to turf city from their school... quite a feat I should say... as one fine day I was walking to turf city from The Tea Party @ Sixth Ave Centre with pie... I was already flustered at the hot weather and was simply complaining... that one fine day was one of those days where the skies refuses to shed a single tear for the poor meltable me standing under the sun's bright radiation...
anyway... they are all poor kids... maybe the school should scrap the Road Run thingy for the good for all students... NOT one school but ALL schools so that things like that won't happen anymore... but then I thought these type of thing (heat exhaustion) happen quite frequently? okay... not heat stroke though... cos last time when me in sjab doing service at sports day... i saw so many cases of heat exhaustion... yet none of them made it to the papers... haiz...

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I have been busy these few days trying to help a colleague edit his thesis... have been upset recently cos my dear pie actually scolded me for the past 2 days... hopefully everything's fine now... was considering should I stay in hostel next sem? cos I really cannot tahan the 2 rascals in my house... esp the attention seeking EnEn... and by the time term starts... both will start running after each other and scream my house down... how to stay at home lidat? haiz... still considering...

I'm hungry now... shall look for something to eat... realised Nissin cup noodles has got 6.5g of saturated fats per serving... real sinful... considering the fact that my daily intake should only be 15g of sat. fats... haiz... shall look for something else to eat then... haiz...

Ranting #2

A World of Flowers Dried flowers

Too busy yesterday to update my blog... yesh... i'm finally busy in office... but I'm slacking in the office even though there's work for me to do... shall do sloooowly so at least those work can keep me occupied for the week....
yesterday was pay day... but no one is free to help me spend my hard-earned money... which is good as I can keep it for myself... (dun bother trying to help me spend though... i appreciate your efforts...)

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well... i'm supposed to talk about flowers in this post... not those flowers that one gets on V-Day (which reminds me that I didn't get any this V-Day but got a super expensive watch instead...) but those flowers which are dried and made into floral tea... (gers out there dun bother taking out dried flowers from the already long gone V-Day... i personally think that they are not for consumption but only for decoration/declaration purposes...)I think Jason's @ Paragon sells a variety of floral tea... but the price is as beautiful as the flowers themselves... I used to remember my mom bringing me to now gone Tangs Studio(the one in Ngee Ann City) at least 10 years ago to buy floral tea... well... think that's when i started to get to know floral tea...
anyway... i forgot all about the tea until the very act cute Stella Ng (sorry Stella's fan...) endorsed the Genki floral teas...

Then good old Eileen (who happened to work in Guardian for a while) actually asked me to share some floral tea after her friend managed to slim down after drinking them daily... we actually went to look at Genki's ingredient and tried to find the same flowers to avoid buying the product... However... think due to our lack of knowledge of flowers... we didn't know what flowers they were talking about and decided to get just rose, mint and jasmine.

Rose, being the symbol of woman (well... think the Da Vinci Code mentions more than once in the whole book), is supposed to help 养颜 (or maintain beauty)...
Mint is used to make one feel refreshed and jasmine... well i think it's for the taste and smell only? since people like to drink jasmine tea because it smells good... so maybe that's why we chose jasmine...

all these happened before CNY and during CNY... I had an overdosage of floral tea and had diarrhea for a whole week... maybe that's why her friend can manage to slim down after drinking daily... or maybe those flower buds are not as fresh already...

On the past sunday, my mom and I actually went to buy more dried rose for tea... and after stepping into the shop in Bugis, I actually chose more than just the simple rose buds...
i bought lavender... which is supposed to promote sleep(even though i can sleep the moment i touch my bed...) and calm the nerves... camomile which is good for headache and migraines which i'm prone to having them whenever i study and also cramps of the u know where... more jasmine... chrysanthemum, white one to be more precise... and also Globeamaranth Flower... which is good for the respiratory system and good for reducing cholesterol levels...
Actually I only know the chinese name to the last flower which is 千日红 but with the help of this site... I finally get to know globeamaranth flower...

Well... til this day I have not tried those tea that I've newly bought... will update if there's any effects after drinking the tea... be it good or bad... haha....

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Btw... just to update on the baby case... the 23 yr old was found to be a student of SIM... Eileen's school... "According to Shin Min and Lianhe Wanbao reports, the woman is a final-year business degree student at a local educational institute, who lived with her parents and a brother in their five-room HDB flat." Full report at Dead infant dumped: Police quiz suspect's boyfriend StraitTimes

Today's Straits Times is filled with O level results stuff and Oscars... but found something interesting... Rice used as glue on ancient walls StraitTimes

"BEIJING - RICE fills the bowls on many Chinese tables - and also the cracks in its ancient buildings and maybe even the Great Wall, state media said.
'The legend that ancient Chinese craftsmen used glutinous rice porridge in the mortar while building ramparts has been verified,' the official Xinhua news agency said in a report.
Archaeologists researching an ancient wall around the city of Xi'an, a former imperial capital and home to the famed terracotta warriors, were stumped by the ingredients of a resilient mortar holding bricks together.
The hardened paste reacted similarly to glutinous rice in chemical tests, Mr Qin Jianming, a researcher with the Xi'an Preservation and Restoration Centre of Cultural Relics, said.
The 12m wall was built during the early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Xinhua said rice might even have been used to build the Great Wall more than 2,000 years ago. -- REUTERS"

Interesting read... haha... back to work... before that... time for some Entertainment too...
Babyblues... this reminds me so much of my house at the moment...