Family

I guess each family has its own drama moments.

My own family. K's family. Some of my friend's families.

Why do some families have a no or less drama life compared to other families?

Hmm...

What the??

What a crushing way to die...Gosh.

Article extracted from ST online.
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Jan 22, 2010
Sat on boyfriend; killed him

CLEVELAND (Ohio) - AN American woman had pleaded guilty to killing her boyfriend by sitting on him, reported MyFox National on Friday.

Mia Landingham, who weighs 136kg, sat on her much smaller boyfriend, Mikal Middleston-Bey, after they got into an argument in August last year, reported police in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr Middleston-Bey only weighed 54.4kg, said the police.

According to a Fox8 report, Landingham was sentenced to three years probation and 100 hours community service on Wednesday after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter. She was immediately released from jail.

The report said that Landingham's attorney said there was a long history of domestic abuse in the couple's relationship and asked Judge Carolyn Friedland for leniency, saying Landingham had no prior criminal record.

Landingham apologised for squashing the father of her children. The couple have three children together. 'I just want to say that I am sincerely sorry about this situation. I wish I could take it back,' she said.

However Middleton-Bey's family were unhappy with the result, with one of his sisters saying: 'So basically you can say that I can go sit on somebody and get probation? I feel there wasn't no justice.'

Currently reading up online about:

• the Navajo Indians
• their history
• their relationship with the land they love so much
• their culture
• their food
• and their curent efforts in preserving thier culture and customs

In a way, I wish and hope that our own local clans are doing their best to either document or preserve the cultures and customs of the various dialects there are in Singapore.

Chasing Pirates - Norah Jones

Both K & I found this song extremely bizarre when we first heard it.
Chasing Pirates?? huh?? Plus, the melody was rathermonotonous and strange...

But I guess, it's one of those songs which strangely grows on you after hearing for more than a few times...Here's the song. you can gauge for yourself if you like it or not on the first listen.

Type type type

For those who are interested in finding out what their typign speed is, I came across an online test which actually calculates for you...:)

You can try it out here.

Mine's at 66wpm. :)

Culinary pursuits

My first attempt at making foccacia bread failed haha.

It was quite disappointing! The dough and smell all seemed perfect!

But it came out of the oven a little hard and crusty. Wasn't as fluffy as I thought it would be!
But the fragrance was there alright...haha.

It looked a little like Indian chappati actually lol...No pics though. No point taking a pic of a crusty hard piece of bread haha...

Hmm, nevermind, I shall give it a try again next time!

Health Screening

Went for a health screening yesterday. A yearly thing organized by the company.

Verdict so far:
- I apparently am 162cm and not 161cm. Hmmm.
- BMI’s at 17.9 so it’s quite alright. You can go do the math haha.
- BP is mighty fine
- Body fat analysis is good. 21.3% body fat.

Waiting for the other results to come in.
Hope my cholesterol level is as excellent as what last year’s report showed! Haha…

Words of Wisdom

It is always not nice to be caught in between two people.
Both literally and figuratively.

Geeky gawky

Currently reading up online about "Social Awkwardness"

This pic of Tweety always makes me smile. I hope it brings you smiles too!

Rash

I’ve got a funny little rash on my face. :(
A little itchy *scratch scratch*

Not sure of the cause as yet but there’s two possibilities.

Once the rashes go away, I’ll need to start on an elimination process to determine which product actually caused the rashes…bleah.

Watcha Say - Jason Derulo

We were singing this during one of the car rides. Catchy catchy tune. :)

wtf

I’ve got a taiji master as a colleague.
I’ve got a somewhat half bo-chup person as another colleague.

Was inadvertently sabo-ed this morning.

Cheenatown!

We went to Hong Lim Complex today. :)

My yearly duty as daughter to go buy fish maw, red dates, chinese sausages, dried sea cucumber, dried scallops, white fungus, black fungus and whatever other dried goods stuff my mum needs for her CNY cooking.

There's this shop at Hong Lim which I always visit. Their goods are relatively fresh and prices are reasonable. I don't really know the name of the shop though. Teck Soon Trading I think. Haha, I know where they are situated but can't really remember its name. ;p

She asked for less things this year. Only fish maw, red dates and chinese sausages. So it was a relatively easy shopping trip.

K was having a fun time checking out all the weird and bizzare chinese herbs. He happily pointed out a pile of dried lizards which were each stretched out on a stick. Lol.

There were also some seriously odd-looking foods or herbs which we couldn't identify. There was a pile of yellowish things which looked like puffed-up scrotal sacs of some unidentified animal. Errrr.....

Popped by the 2nd floor as well to grab some CNY decorations for the house hehe...My dad's going to complain about me being too cheena again haha.

It's always fun in Chinatown. I like the place!
Lots of interesting things to see hahhaa. Maybe I'll drag him down there again on another day. :)

Battery low

I've not been feeling my physical best over the last few days.
Ok, that sounds a little strange. Let me rephrase.

I've not been feeling very well the last few days. Mind over body doesn't seem to work well these days too haha..

Feeling feverish but when tested, my temperature's okay. Feeling breathless at times.
Climbing a small flight of stairs is enough to leave my thighs feeling jelly-like.
Feeling like too much things are going on around me and like as if my head's spinning from all the comings and goings. And the appetite's almost going out the window.

I was at K's place this afternoon and I was totally concussed from 3-plus till 5-plus. Couldn't peel myself off the bed.

I don't like being this way at all. I don't like being weak. :(
Maybe a short run tomorrow evening will do the trick.

Je dois practiquer un peu

Je m’en fiche! Parce qu’il est vendredi!

It est long temps que jai commencé etudier la langue française. Environs 3 ans je pense. Si j’avais plus des opportunités pour practiquer la langue, je pense que je serai meilleur en la.

J’ai un mal de tête a partir du moment que je me suis levé ce matin. Bah…je ne me pas sens bien jusqu’à maintenant. Ma bidouille aussi…

Oui, je sais, cette” post” est un peu bizarre…mais je ne peut pas penser justement maintenant….zzzzz.

Je veut rentrer chez moi....

zzzzzz

Woke with a headache. Those aches which make your head feel extremely heavy and groggy. Eyes are heavy-lidded today too. I’m just stoning at the desk right now.

*wails*

Social networking

In my line of work, I sometimes deal with other counterparts in other countries.
I meet them in my travels and during conferences and meetings.

Naturally, a number of these folks are on my Facebook.
Some are working level staff, some are directors, some are middle managers, some are CEOs.

A director of the equivalent of my organisation in another country contacted me via Facebook today. Was asking me some questions about work and clarifying some stuff.

Lol, he was apologising profusely as he had misplaced my namecard and didn't know how else to reach me except via Facebook.

How interesting haha.

My King

I spent a grand total of only 15 minutes with K today.
But it was enough to light up my entire evening.
My otherwise bland evening.

I still have a dopey grin on my face despite me saying bye to him on the train about 2 hours ago...:D

*battle cry*

Feeling a little exhausted now....Don't know why haha.

It's only Tuesday!

Jiayou jiayou jiayou!!

There's 3 more workdays to go till the weekend!

Battle on!!!!