HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"My office harddick just crashed."

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This wsa on Kok Weng's MSN nick this morning...

Waahhaha...I burst out laughing like a hyena!!

Yum Yum

Some stuff I'll be dishing out for the weekend...with the eager approval of K.
Rough concepts in mind already...but actual execution remains to be seen hehe.
Will react and play by ear when standing at the stove lol.

Pong Tau Hu with loads of bamboo shoots
Bee Tai Bak witih liver

Other dishes akan datang.....:)

Naggings from The Coll

I don’t need this early in the morning.

Anti-competitive behaviour? Against competition principles? Watch our behaviour? Be careful about exclusive tie-ups?

You’re no longer a regulator. You’re with a private entity. Start being a little bit more flexible or has 10 years slaving for the agency pigeon-holed your mind? Stop hinging on competition principles and all the crap about regulations and policies and laws!

Aiyo. Geez.

It's been ages since I last griped about The Coll.....
Trying to improve my karma a little hehe...
But irritating me first thing in the morning warrants an entry to let off some irritation. ;p

Gatherings...Meet-ups...

Is it just the simple allure of June?

Or the fact that people are sub-consciously giving themselves a pat on the back for a good half a year gone by?Gatherings are suddenly pouring in.

Uni. Sec sch. Ex-colleagues. Classmates. Another batch of ex-colleagues. Family. Colleagues.

It is nice in a way. Catching up.
Yeah, always nice. If it's with peeps close to your heart. :)

Downside is that, sometimes you seem to run on stretched time.

Le Travail Dur

~Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not mean anything.~

Drew Carey Show - Whose Line Is It Anyway?

For those who have seen this before, watch it again...
It's hilarious and well worth a second laugh...;p

Let's Walk

La route est tres loin mais ...

Nous marcherons ensemble toujours....

Oui? Mon bebe?

Over the last 5 days...

bacon rolls, tofu, broccoli, baby corn, soba, prawns, eggs, croissants...

enoki, buna shimeiji, button mushroom, french toast, minced meat, asparagus, scallops...

prawn paste chicken, stingray, kang kong, satay, roast duck, red algae jelly, atap chee...

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'nuff said.

I wish I am

In bed right now or..
Having an eggs and hashbrown breakfast in Paris right now or...
Traversing the streets of Barcelona right now or...

Hiking next to a little forest stream in Malaysia now or...
Kayaking in Thailand now or...
Having a body scrub and massage now or...

Wrapped up in winter clothes and crossing the Swiss Alps now or...
Munching on fresh sashimi in Hokkaido now or...
Sitting on a camel in Egypt right now or...

Frolicking and tanning on the beach in Bali now or...
Sitting in a gondola in Venice now or...
Learning to be a passador in Brazil now or...

With k now.

Of Food and Experimentation :)

Dinner Yesterday
- Seared Scallops on a Bed of Sauteed Buna Shimeiji Mushrooms
- Pan-fried Fillet of Cod
- Enoki and Asparagus Wrapped with Bacon Strips
- Watercress in Pork-Ribs and Red Dates Soup

Dinner Today
- Tofu Soup with Minced Meat and Sprigs of Spring Onions
- Egg Omelette with Red Onions and Prawns
- Stir-fried Dou Miao with Fresh Button Mushrooms



Woot Woot!

That Warm Fuzzy Feeling When....

...You go about doing marketing and buying groceries…with someone in mind.
Someone special and dear to you.

...You are doing something with that someone, for that someone.

...You go to sleep with someone as your last thought in mind and wake with that same special someone as your first thought in mind.

...After a hard day’s work, you meet up and go home together.

...You think about him during the day and a silly grin plasters your face thereafter.

i am simply not a morning person.

Woke on the wrong side of bed today.

Perhaps it's also cos I had interrupted sleep.
Was woken at 515am cos the folks were leaving for their Hokkaido trip.
Tried to doze for a while more before getting up at 545am again to bid them a safe trip and bonne voyage.

Tried to nap again and subsequently woke again at 7am feeling darn lethargic, tired and a tad grumpy.

I did what I told myself not to do.
I caught a cab to work. And the amount I spent could probably feed me lunch for at least 3-4 days.

Zombified dumbo.

Listening to K's compilation of songs now...soothes me somewhat a little.
But it's making me miss him much much more as well.

Come back to SG quickly baby...

Kudos to this blog!

I've always had a short attention span.
I'd move from one small project to another one.
I'd hop around from a liking to another.

It's amazing how this blog has managed to stay on.
For so long.
4 years is a long time to me.

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Went through some of my old posts that day.

I'm pretty much the same emo self.
Older in some ways. And hopefully wiser in other ways.

There's a marked difference in the way I write though.
The standard of English seems to have dipped in a constant downward curve.
And I seem to still not be able to express myself clearly.

Hmm mm. Ah Well.

Have I been immersing myself in too much Mandarin and dialect for the last few years lol.
Perchance it's time to get re-acquainted with English?

Haha. :)

Mister 4401

It's almost confirmed.

The car will most likely be sold.

Parents got into an accident this morning.

Nothing too serious. No one was hurt.

But it left Dad shaken and upset enough.

And it left Mum with a rather adamant thought of selling the car.

Good in a way. Bad in a way.

But if it buys them a peace of mind in the future.

And if it buys them less expenses.

Then I guess, it's more good than bad to sell the car off.

Plus, Dad's getting on with age.

Reflexes and concentration getting slower.

Perhaps it's for the best that the car is sold.

They can join the crowds and start cabbing.

Hmm.

One of my goals for this year has hit a snag.

It's rethink time.

:(

Why is everyone going overseas to live/study? :(

Parwin is leaving for Brisbane on the 8th of June.

Evangeline is leaving for Brisbane too on the 15th of June.

Adel is leaving for Plymouth, London in Septemer.

1 of K's excolleague is studying in the States now.

Another of his ex-colleagus will be heading to Aussie land next year as well.

Andrew is going to Monash next year after his Army ends.

Lester is in Melbourne now.

Kenneth is in Sydney now.

Fariz is in New York now.

Gurmit has been in Perth for the longest time.

:( :( :(

I Don't Feel Like Dancing - Scissor Sisters

For when it's a dowdy drowsy dreary afternoon.
Makes for a good quick perk-up! :)

Listening to it now while trying to sort out some work stuff hehe.

Bitter Heart - Zee Avi

Zee Avi - up and coming.
Malaysian singer whose expanding her career in the States.

This song is worming its way into my heart.
Lovely tune.
Somewhat sad lyrics.

Lovely.

"My bitter heart (of mine) is getting a little fragile"

people...

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We always take people for granted. We do.

We need to make a conscious effort not to.

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We all drop into a routine after a while.

Its always a comforting thing to have some semblance of order or structure in your life.

And then we start taking others for granted as well.

That they'll always be there.

That they'll always be the same.

That they'll never change.

That they'll be around for you if and when you need them.

I guess.

It's a constant and conscious effort not to slip into such a mode.

Easier said than done.

I find it hard to practice this.

I lapse into autopilot mode more often than not.

I'm trying though.

To improve on this.

Are you?

Books, Les Livres

page by page
a book
thin and threadbare
unfolds

inked
blotched
a tad yellowed
a tad frayed at the edges

read
reading
read
between the lines

pondered on
sieved through
thought on
picked through

page by page
a book
thick and voluminous
births

clean and clear
crisp and new
pristine white
fresh and ready

ink
inking
inked
will ink

lines
paragraphs
chapters
volumes

dream

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I don't want to wake from the dream

I want to make it mine

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