vitamin d
really feeling blue today due to lack of vitamin d.. been 1 week now, haven't taken it as now u see it, now u dont... even the usual supplement doesnt seem to do it anymore... sheesh.... really feeling terrible.. since when do i have the addiction? i didnt ask to take it in the 1st place, but was kind of forced upon me... now, supply is short and run out very fast.... i wonder when will the withdrawal syndrome go away....
tying a tangled knot
was quite a lovely wedding at 4 seasons.. it was simple and low-key, and quite different from those traditional ones that i've always attended.. the emcee didnt talk much, there is a small band that sang all the love songs selected by the couple.. it was a bit loud and not very good.. but bearable lah...
there wasnt any yamseng, was very ang-moh pai cheers when all the family and close frens went up stage.. was strange, cos somehow it's not really a chinese wedding if there is no yamseng... but like i've said, so dignified and low-key..
food was a disappointment, would expect better for such a gd hotel..
another thing that kept bugging me during the dinner... moo kept asking mw why i looked so upset and moody.. it will probably upset him to read this blog..
u know how when we gals attend a wedding with or without our bfs, we will tend to think or imagine ourselves doing the same, walking down the aisle, tying the knot with your bf..
BIG PROBLEM! i imagined me and him walking down the aisle... i turned to look at him in bliss... then just like a comedy, there was the sound of casette tape jamming.. then rewind, replay and jammed again.. i dont see moo... i saw another person!! then i tried so hard and so long to superimpose that person's face in my imagination with moo's instead, but his face just didnt come on.. WHAT HAPPENED? suddenly i cannot see myself getting married to him, but that other guy... how can this be?!?!?!?
is it cos all his family responsibilities and obligations getting to me? his job status? do i feel that i'm more unlikely to marry him cos his career is currently in the hang? do i feel more imprisoned cos he and his family are getting too close? or, somehow there is something more for me going on with the other person??
my recent life's like that
You feel as if you have missed out on a great deal that life had to offer and you go about trying to make up for past failures. Naturally at times you get depressed and you try to compensate for your 'missed opportunities' by living your life to the full. This is what, perhaps, may be described as 'living with exaggerated intensity'. In this way you feel you can break the chains of the past and start again - and it could be that you are right.
You are very orderly, methodical and self sufficient. You demand and need the respect, recognition and understanding of all those who enter into your sphere on influence.
You need a friend - a close friend - and you are willing to become emotionally involved with the right person, but you are very demanding and particular in your choice of partners. You are constantly looking for reassurance and it is perhaps because of this that you tend to be somewhat argumentative, but you try to hold back - careful to avoid open conflict - since this might reduce your prospects of realizing your hopes of establishing a warm caring relationship.
Whatever has caused the situation, you just don't seem to be able to sustain or maintain relationships as you would wish to. What you really seek is to be able to develop a relationship with someone with whom you can truly share: Love, Serenity, Peace and Quiet. But you are a very demanding person and it is your nature that leads to disquiet and discord: you are like the tide, flotsam and jetsam... One minute you experience 'highs' and a few moments later 'lows'. This obviously will introduce discord into any relationship and with this demanding attitude - the ideal state you desire is unable to develop. Despite the urge to gratify your natural desires, you impose a considerable self-restraint on your instincts in the belief that this demonstrates your superiority and raises you above the common herd. You are extremely critical of everything that is presently going on around you and you find it difficult to listen to or to take advice from anyone. You enjoy the original, the ingenious and the subtle.
You really like doing what you do and, more than that, you like yourself. Your attitude to work and to life is that 'If it's not fun - then don't do it'. You want to be liked and respected, not for who you are but for what you are - and it seems to be working.
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really find this very true... the older i get, the more i want to get of everyday normalities.. it's like there is some wild inside of me who has laid dormant for so many years, being good, being obedient, and being shy, that now wants to burst out and do more outrageous stuff... more and more frequently, i find myself speaking out, dancing in public, being generally more demostrative and proactive.. cos truthfully, sometimes procrastination sucks..
when time is short, it is really a pain when no one dares to step forward to do it.. i face this most often during work.. it's not that i'm not shy, i'm also a scardy cat sometimes.. but heck! sometimes, u just feel like kicking them in the butt, and asks 'what the h*** is wrong? just get it over and done with.. ' so then find myself taking the lead a lot of times...
yes, i'm very much demanding of the people around me, esp my loved ones.. yes, i do have my fair share of friends.. guess would have more, but i strongly believe in giving and taking.. that's a very impatial side of me.. u give as good as u get.. it takes 2 hands to clap, etc etc.. sometimes, i have the tendency to strike a person out of my contact list if i find there is no reciprocation there esp since if i have taken a lot of effort myself.. maybe you could say that friendship is without conditions, but come on, that's not really true for all...
unable to sustain/maintain relationships... that scares me, cos it may come true yet.. i once mentioned to a gf the shelf life of mst r/ships is 2 yrs, esp jobs.. hmm, think it goes back to the part of being very demanding.. i wonder why i'm still not contented with what i have.. esp. on the bf part.. so loving, giving, caring, humourous, not too bad-looking and good family background.. so what more do i want.. i wonder.. a self-made, worldly one? better-looking, more polish and sophisticated? hmm... do i want the unattainable, the forbidden?
yep, if it's not fun, don't do it.. what's the point of life otherwise? not that you must always have fun all the time lah.. but i do try not to give myself unnecessary grief, esp if work is not involved.. sometimes i get impatient when frens or colls dont dare to do this, dont dare to do that.. lose face lah, pai seh lah... sigh.. you are the one responsible for making yourself happy.. if getting a tattoo, shaving bald and getting a belly button pierce make u happy (but painful!) just do lor... dont care what other people say..
let's all endeavor to take life with a pinch of salt... let's try to break out of our shell.. let's dare!! :)
losing my body (shi shen)
actually, it's shi shen as in losing my voice.. all because of my craving for teppanyaki.. had this really gd one in bangkok, place called obashi at MBK.. so since came back, i wanted to eat again.. so friday, moo and i went up jurong hill... it wasnt as fantastic as i expected.. lots of smoke, and the chef used a lot of garlic on everything.. guessed that;s how i got the throat inflammation, cos garlic is drying..
sat morn, wah can feel the sore throat liao..
sun, it got better.. but then moo and his family decided to eat at delifrance.. and got me to eat some of the fried stuff.. that's it.. i lost my 'shen' that night..
now is still very husky.. i threatened to sing songs to all my colleagues 'jing ye ni hui bu hui lai' by leon lai.. why i sing this song is cos quan yi feng in one of the old comedy was crazy about this song and always sang it every opportunity arose..
good thing about my voice was it got me out of lunch preso today, and possibly a conference call tml.. haha!
honry treatment
yes that was a deliberate spelling error.. what it was, was 'honey treatment'.. it was something that i saw on a flyer for a beauty salon in bangkok.. the salon name is Pornkrap which led to my colleague who commented 'do everything in bangkok sound so yellow?' hmm.. somemore the salon slogan was 'we served one man but many women..' like some alternative 'entertainment' bar, if you know what i mean..
there was something on the flyer called 'eyelash long ker'.. duh, my colleague and i laughed after stunned for a while, are they actually meaning eyelash extension? wonderful! and eyelash curling becomes cuRing.. haiyoh! since i wanted to do it, we decided to find one salon that at least could get the spelling correct.. talk about consumer confidence.. we are so easy to please..
my colleague thought i was very wicked to always correct people's spelling.. hee! but that's fun and humour.. it's finding entertainment out of the most unfortunate things..
what other unfortunate things are there? well, what's rampant in the shopping centres there are these horrible imitations of brands like LV, Gucci, Burberry etc.. my goodness.. there were a few very enterprising shops which want to capitalise on more than 1 brand at a time.. and i dont mean 1 item, i brand..
there is this terribly ghastly burberry imitation of a wallet with it's signature brown checks which looks fine enough on its own.. but perhaps the manufacturers thought to provide value for money, they decide to add the LV cherries on the checkered print. what's worse, is there would be a couple of 'spoiled' cherries that are purple.. purple!! not red.. tsk tsk! we wonder how that come from..
weird designs for the weird tastes...
In a town called fantasy....
| Your Brain's Pattern |
You have a dreamy mind, full of fancy and fantasy.
You have the ability to stay forever entertained with your thoughts.
People may say you're hard to read, but that's because you're so internally focused.
But when you do share what you're thinking, people are impressed with your imagination. |
Pink PUNK
| Your Hair Should Be Pink |
Hyper, insane, and a boatload of fun.
You're a traveling party that everyone loves to follow. |
bangkok damage
19 tops (all but 1 are casuals, can last me till well next year... )
6 brooches
4 pairs of double coloured triangles
3 pairs of single coloured triangles
3 bags (1 as fren's pressy)
2 pairs of shoes (1 for colleague)
2 pairs of earrings
machiam singing 10 little indian boys......
did eyelash curling there, only Baht 300, less than half price here.. man, hooked want to go there again and again.... :)
serial/serious dating...
| Your Ideal Relationship is Serious Dating |
You're not ready to go walking down the aisle.
But you may be ready in a couple of years.
You prefer to date one on one, with a commitment.
And while chemistry is important, so is compatibility. |
things we learnt from ah yap, the penang tour guide
went to penang over the weekend for team-building.. one of the local tour guides (we called him ah yap privately, cos he is mr. yap) there was very entertaining.. re-wrote some of the pronunciation in the dictionary lor..
1) hilly =
he-liAY: penang is half the size of s'pore. we have 700,000 people, but s'pore has close to 4mio. about 60% of the penang is made up of he-li areas..
(wah, now our penang geography very good liao..)
2) foreigner =
fo-rain-nerAY: this restaurant is very popular. fo-rain-ners like to come here...
(yap, that's what we are, for-rain-ers...)
3) cabaret -
ca-bri-lyAY: this nite-club has many ca-bri-ly ladies, they can do the cha-cha..
(hee, any relation to cabury chocolates??)
from him, we also learnt a very powderful word, like yesteryears.. also learnt some deep sentences from him..
1) AY: this is a hotel, where
people stay..
(wah lau, does he mean there's animal hotels too??)
2) AY: in the olden days, this was a shopping centre where
ordinary people go..
(so they have different classes for shopping for extra-ordinary people...)
basically from him, we now that there are now 3 classifications of people in penang ie. ordinary, for-rain-ners, and trendy... cos he likes to refer to yuppies as trendy people.. my colleague, lefang, said that no wonder we dont get to go to this shopping centre, cos we are for-rain-ners, not ordinary and trendy...
sometimes, he has a french accent too..
fren's name is le4 fang1, became 'leh-fang' (strong french accent)... the chendol stall became ze chendol stall..
he said to my colleagues during a stop-over at a chendol store.. "do not 'clutter' at the roadside, cos it is very dangerous." but my colleagues are not chickens lor, they dont clutter...
elsewhere, the english is very powerful too.. saw a banner for a beauty salon.. to emphasize the stubborness of the cellulite, the words used were
'obstinate cellulites'.. the cellulite with an 's' behind.. cos not one mah...
other funny incidents...
drove past a tonic restaurant.....
AY: this restaurant serves v good tonic soups.. aphrdisiacs.. no need tungkat ali.. after he drinks, he will be like bitney spears' 'hit me baby one more time ah'...
drove past UOB bank..
AY: s'pore also has some properties here.. on your right, you can see UOB bank.. so u can go back to s'pore and tell your frens, u saw UOB bank in penang in a very lovely bungalow.. on your right, is the post office..
(wah.... so exciting.. the post office... )
but he is very very nice lah.. without him, the tour would just be another boring one... so kudos to him.... will miss him now that i'm back...
sounds boring, not true at all...
| Slow and Steady |
Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy.
They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder.
It'd really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment.
They expect you to examine everything carefully from every angle and then usually decide against it. |
| Your Seduction Style: Au Natural |
 You rank up there with your seduction skills, though you might not know it.That's because you're a natural at seduction. You don't realize your power!The root of your natural seduction power: your innocence and optimism.
You're the type of person who happily plays around and creates a unique little world.Little do you know that your personal paradise is so appealing that it sucks people in.You find joy in everything - so is it any surprise that people find joy in you?
You bring back the inner child in everyone you meet with your sincere and spontaneous ways.Your childlike (but not childish) behavior also inspires others to care for you.As a result, those who you befriend and date tend to be incredibly loyal to you. |
What Kind of Seducer Are You?
frozen lizards...
was moo's gd fren's wedding solemnisation at robertson quay.. was an outdoor event, with food from beboz, previous b.boss.. was a small cosy gathering, less than 30 people... quite unique, and much better than just doing it at ROM...
later was 2nd round at opposite cafe iguana... for my long awaited drinking session with my team mates.. they had dinner at tapas tree first, and the serving was so small, they ended ordering more food at iguana..
there were these mexican popiah and crepes thingy.. quite good, but since i'm not an adventurous eater, i didnt try much.. except the popiah, which had slices of mushrooms in between..
we went all out for the margaritas, basically, the frozens... ordered the mango, soursop (weird!), blue berry and the strawberry.. the mango was the best, quite citrus, the blueberry was like bubblegum, soursop was quite good too, and the strawberry was so-so.. not much fruity taste.. was quite disappointed cos expected the margarita would be stronger.. maybe cos of the ice, but they ended up quite diluted.. didnt even get up...
but was a nice gathering.. this guy, EC, was just full of crap.. and he's so loud that a few times, another colleague sitting beside him complained she was going deaf... haha! was great to include some guys this time round, else it's almost always gals and mj...
