mOOnies and lanterns 2008

not too sure how the yogurt can go together with mooncakes, but yea, these are prepared by the kids! keke.

thank God they remembered my moonies with yolk!
the guys really suck at games.. or maybe the girls are juz better. =p

and so... tis week's price to pay for coming in 2nd for games... (of cos the 1st are the girl powers!)

ah-hem, some really awkward poses they have over here... apparently only sk enjoyed himself. zzz.

we all lurve lanterns!

and the end... byebye lanterns...

8 lessOns frOm the Olympics...

... to be applied in LOVE.

point #4 caught my attention... really sad case.. dun ever be in that situation...

strange sightings on the roads...

1. an unassuming pickup... but on closer look.. it has a thailand number plate! it actually made it that far across m'sia to singapore!!!2. construction vehicle.. not sure wat its called.. but once again, on closer look, it's lifted from the ground! hydraulic-something-lift it's called. learn something new everyday.

3. the usual jam + the unusual carpark Full sign. unusual for suntec at least. and we get to see which are the more expensive lots in the marina area. hehheh.
4. a scary vehicle sighted travelling at night. very scary, and more so if its the 7th month. the gods need to travel from temple to temple too?
5. and finally! a pok-pok lookalike mercs! its a new car.. but y does it look like some old mercedes? retro is in.
and pls pretend u cant see the number plate, cos i am too lazy to remove it. will i be sued or something?

freebies!

mooncakes and muffins dun go together...

but these are freebies for me in the span of a few days!

didnt know that starbucks and kenny rogers had such great service.. and it pays to be a girl. *winks*

mary had a lil lamb...

i had the awesome privilege to watch the performance of a few super duper creative men sing the "mary had a little lamb" song.

i even had it video-ed down!

might consider to put it up.. if there is demand for it. keke.

~sneak preview of the cast~

super entertaining FUWA! hahaha...

omg... tis is me.

... and tiffany and joann! wa!

SOT 2008 Graduation

in a blinking of an eye, the SOT students are graduating. seems like yesterday when I graduated. keke..

nevertheless, we are simply so proud of our pple, esp of those who availed their time, effort and money to go be trained.

it was a mad rush on sunday morning. but i managed to snap some pics, and the funnyest-pic-of-the-day had to go to none other than our dear handsome peter (note: peter and handsome goes together, it's kinda a trademark thingy. =p)

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

Of fruits & chOc (fOndue)~

mustered up courage to drive to the ever crowded geylang... juz to get FRUITS! cant help but took a pic of durians while holding my breath. keke.and headed back home for choc fondue! it's been ages since we last made a choc fondue by ourselves. more to come plsssss! =)
initially turned out to be a disaster, but glad saved the day! hahah. shall not blog abt the unglam parts though.

singapOre firewOrks festival!

i visited the singapore fireworks festival!

it was mad rush to:
1. enter the CBD.
2. find a parking lot amidst the few-thousand-over available parking lots in suntec.
3. find a table in the food court.
4. squeeze past the crowd, most of which are the watch-for-free audience. (hehe for once, i am watching the fireworks with a paid ticket.)
5. climb up the never ending steps to our seats.

but still, i caught the fireworks! yayyay!

my humble abOde phase aug08

~excited!~

chill out.

finally had a chance to attend an event as a participant instead of an organiser. really much less stressed.

the cost of the event, or rather the food, was $5 per head. and i muz say that it was good, cos i like pasta. keke.
the place was somewhat ulu, and we made 3 u-turns before we found the place finally. abit like the 3rd place. but i would say much nicer.

the night went on with some games, performances, dances and songs and stuff. quite hilarious some of them.

hmmz, there were alot of hiccups along the way too. like the mic cannot work, the screen showed some out of point desktop pic of the laptop being plugged, the i/c played the wrong song, but the weird thing was that, how could they juz laughed it off so happily. maybe we are too stressed back home. when i look at other pple run an event, it seemed so easy. y. y. y.

~the hosts for the night and the jam hsiao singalike~

~do they look like they are even singing the Beethoven's Symphony No. 5? but yes, they were. and yes, singing. haha.~

pegs for sale!

glad's first attempt at trying to make some extra cash...

$4.50! who wants ping me!!!! hehehe..

wat ppl say & wat it usually means.

blah blah blah. ok... blah blah blah. ok... blah blah blah. ok...
(can we end the conversation now? i see no point in continuing...)

you like durians? no i dun. yes u do. ok i like durians (and i'm saying it cos u insist so that we are able to move on to the next topic.)

do u love your job? love, if not i would have quit long ago. DOES NOT MEAN i dun love my job. (can quit doesnt mean i will quit.)

are u facing some problems? maybe. it means yes, and pls ask me wat problems. (i may or may not tell u though.)

wat do u do to a person who is hurting? it means i am hurting. period.

ou xiang!

6th gold and still going strong! FIERCE!

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and his FIERCE diet, all thanks to mel's research...

Breakfast
Phelps kick starts his day and his metabolism with three fried-egg sandwiches, but with a few customised additions: cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and, of course, mayonnaise.

Amuse-bouche out of the way, he throws back two cups of coffee and sits down to an omelette - containing five eggs - and a bowl of grits, a porridge of coarsely ground corn. He's not finished yet. Bring on the three slices of French toast, with powdered sugar on top to make sure there's no skimping on the calories. And to finish: three chocolate chip pancakes.

Lunch
With breakfast wearing off and the hunger pangs biting, Phelps downs half a kilogram - ie a whole packet - of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches. On white bread with loads of mayo on top. To remove any chance that his body will run out of fuel, he washes this down with about 1,000 calories of energy drink.

Dinner
Time to load up on carbs for the next day's training. Another half kilo of enriched pasta goes down the hatch with a chaser of an entire pizza and another 1,000 calories of energy drinks. And so to bed. As Phelps told US television channel NBC yesterday: "Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do."

DF go go go!

thanks to all who had logged on to pen your support for DF!

cya guys on 1 sep!

suppOrt!

click on phOtO to support the girls!

my pressies over the weekend!

it's great to get some gifts every now and then! whoowhheee!

~airflown!~~tis' very singaporean~

the southern ridges.

a day well spent at the southern ridges, or at least part of it...

~tis' BEFORE the walk... dun even wan to see how i look like AFTER the walk... zzz...~

from the henderson waves...thru the forest...to the alexandra arch!cant believe i conquered 1.3 km of walk in my slippers!!!

and i met weiwei! i mean her relatives...
and finally.. happy birthday singapore... =)

the craziest thing...

The craziest thing I have done for love is ... cross stitch.. haha..
Catch Wall-E in cinemas from 28 August 2008

learn something new every day!:

how come i neva knew MR BEAN is a restaurant / cafe kinda place? all along i tot it sells soya bean!

hmmz.. learn something new every day...

kerrrrmit the frrroooogggg.

spotted kermit in a car...and i am pleased to introduce to u..
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weiwei, kermit's long lost relative.

insurance needed!

i am dreading the archiving thingy... there goes my nails... is there insurance for my nails? =(

lookalike!

tis is gary from 森林帖...

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and tis is mel from bedok south north...
nb. refer to below violent objection from mel

look like hor!!!!! i have celebrity fren! hahahahah!

violent objection:moral of the story: dun pray pray, everything oso can print screen.

VOTE!

take a vote. the one on the left or right nicer?

superband QF #7

retro night... we had allocated seats, and surprisingly for once, i am able to snap nice pics of judges and hosts! 小松 is very handsome!

my kids were having fun being retro and green. haha.

and so i attempted the same thing. ended up looking like ah-ma! grrr.

ONE ROCK SHOW CAN CHANGE THE WORLD!

"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God,
to those who are the called according to His purpose."
-Romans 8:28-

o'er the weekend.

FOP at the indoor stadium! macho keng with a hello kitty watter bottle. =pvisit to the singapore art museum!

visit to the toilet at esso station along clementi
1. way big key chain for that ONE key, and
2. why is 'ladies' depicted by an empty fuel tank? *frowns*

pump it!

after oh-so-very long, i finally gathered my courage to go to the gym again! was welcomed with a pleasant themed class surprise. nice!

p.s. warren, you're hot!

the thought-provoking dark knight

Excerpted from the GUARDIAN

A vapid hero, surrounded by ciphers. A one-note villain. A ludicrously elaborate plot, taking what seems like a (wasted) lifetime to unfold. Those who consider The Dark Knight the best film ever made, in spite of these attributes, are entitled to their view. But not, surely, to the claim that this woefully disappointing hodge-podge says something useful about the central predicament of our age.

That it purports to do so is wearisomely inescapable. The film's very poster manages to tip us the wink, proffering an image that seems to have more to do with 911 than with any scene actually occurring in the movie. Not, though, that The Dark Knight is otherwise short of heavy-handed references to the war on terror.

Gotham is challenged by an "agent of chaos" who has superseded the ordinary decent criminals who previously plagued it. He wears a suicide-bomber's explosives-packed coat and shows videos of hostage executions he has conducted. Special measures are required to deal with him, and those who apply them become morally conflicted.

The city's protectors, even the most virtuous of them, are corrupted by the thirst for revenge. They torture, terrorise children and engage in extraordinary rendition. They resort to blanket electronic surveillance of the city's population, and end up at each other's throats.

All of this is welcomed by the enemy, who encourages his interrogators to abuse him and reveals that his key objective has been to destroy the moral authority of the city's public guardian, since this will guarantee more chaos than his own actions ever could.

Such stuff may indeed seem to have the makings of a fable for our times. Unfortunately, the potential elements of any such message are lost in a welter of Hollywood cliches that may or may not be relevant. Thus, the Joker's nihilism turns out to have less to do with Bin Laden's boringly purposeful agenda than with the gothic playfulness of the traditional movie mega-villain.

Hang on, you may say. We're talking allegory here, not docu-drama. No need to get too literal about all this. Yet, the confusion matters. It provides a smokescreen behind which the task of weaving all of those casual allusions into some kind of coherent whole can be persistently ducked.

Is total surveillance a smart way to catch terrorists, or a crime against human dignity? When a ferry-load of good guys decline to save themselves by blowing up a ferry-load of bad guys, is this to be seen as virtue or squeamishness? Extraordinary rendition seems to deliver the goods. Does that make it okay or not?

The film certainly recognises a conflict between the vigilante fighting evil unfettered and the lawman with his hands tied by the rulebook. Though the lawman seems to have been accorded higher moral status, he is the one who turns bad. Batman protects the city from learning of its official champion's misdeeds by claiming them as his own. An act of virtuous self-sacrifice, perhaps, to atone for his own past lawlessness. But he is basing the city's salvation on a lie.

All of which would doubtless be explained away easily enough by the scholars of Bat-philosophy. The ambiguity of it all is the point, see. We live in times when the distinction between good and evil has evaporated. Our fates depend on the flip of a coin, like those of the lawman's victims, not on what is right. Cool, man!

Whatever. Certainly, Hollywood's other superheroes also seem to be losing their moorings. Yet if they can offer us no succour, then their time has passed.

The Dark Knight's ethical indigestion will be the death of him. For, without morality, there can be no saviours. Once you've arrived in Mad Max land, you don't need another hero.

shut yOur trap!

i am so intrigued by this plant that i have to post it up. somehow it juz reminds me of some of the 'traps' lurking around in the office. and most of the time, they happen to be a specific species/breed with similar characteristics. e.g. more free time than others who have to juggle between work and family, perhaps, their families have lesser pple.

disclaimer: any views or opinions presented in this email which are of a personal nature are solely those of mine, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

since when?

since when the HK dollar is called the "Special Administrative Region Dollar"? the Special Administrative Region simply sounds like some exclusive area in Resident Evil, somewhat like the Umbrella Corporation? hehheh.

obviously dissatisfied...

from the not-so-filling BBQ, glad and weiwei decided to move on to 2nd round!

MOF!