1500 days of walking together...

To see a world in a grain of Sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.



William Blake
Auguries of Innocence

Lip my stockings!

Watching Lost in Translation, the 'Lip my stockings' scene never fails to make me laugh.

LIP MY STOCKINGS! LIP MY STOCKINGS!

Tokyo's night scene looks really exciting. the city is beautiful at night. Mr Goh has a tentative plan to go to japan together end of this year.... don't know if that's going to happen.

watching the show... you'll feel the attractiveness of the unknown, the untrodden roads, the stuff you don't understand, or comprehend.

you wish you know it all, but you don't really want to know it all.

I don't know what i'm talking about.

had cny lunch at Mr Goh's place today, two days after my dental appt. got my braces tightened again and the dentist added another bracket at the back of my tooth. VERY SUPER THE UNCOMFORTABLE AH! my tongue is perpetually touching the bracket, I feel like i've got tongue piercing done.

-AHHHHHHHH-

Told mr goh i can only eat sharks' fin, birds nest, and the like (things that no need to chew, just cut into smaller pieces and swallow kind).....

then his mum really made sharks fin wor. that was probably the only thing i could eat properly... i cannot even eat the sambal prawns (one of my favourites!)

I had to survive on tau hway on thursday. And yong tau hoo, with lotsa tau hoo on Friday. And panadols EXTRA. and trying to position my tongue in such a way it doesn't touch the bracket below when I go to bed. And I couldn't she-pick properly, felt that i'm lisp-ing. (which made me say Lip my stockings, too)

what to do... AI SWEE MAI MIA.

Mr Goh has also been commenting that i'm behaving like a mad woman these few days. He attributes it to my hairstyle, says he feels that long hair no longer suits me anymore since I AM NOT GIRLY AT ALL. The long hair was just a facade to lead him thinking i'm demure and girly and gentle BUT now he says he knows the truth about me.

So I rewarded him a few punches, giving much more force than I thought I could.

He now wants me to stop going for body combat classes.

Hurhurhur. Can you see my 'xiao lao shu'??

I ran like a MAD WOMAN along Orchard Road today.

packed my bags and sped out of the office by 615pm.

All because of Chingay... the roads were gonna be closed at 630pm and the CROWDS WERE SWARMING IN.

Boss asked if i'm going to watch the parade...

I'm like, yea, probably from home, in the comfort of home, with my mandarin orange green tea and kueh bangkit. (although we can potentially catch a glimpse of the parade from the toilet window in our office building, or I could be 'kiasu' and go to FF at paragon and 'chope' the treadmill nearest the window to view the parade)
I can't believe people actually bought tickets to watch the chingay. =_=

and the lights in town hor... were there since xmas leh!


saw a few of the floats


and the string of makeshift toilets...


Mother asked me, chingay hao kan meh? but cos there was nothing else better showing on tv, we watched bits and pieces of it....

and I was quite impressed lei! esp the when the thai lion dancers appeared. five humans stacked on top of one another leh! last time cheerleading, i do shoulder stand on vynesh, I already very the scared liao!

mr goh very bad, he asked me if i would want to be an MP someday... i said i haven't thought about that before and i asked him why.

"Then you'll get the chance to dance hip hop in the middle of orchard road"

so yeah, obviously i missed watching the new gen MPs dancing hip hop section.

=_=

The Protégé

Andy lau carries the weight in the movie, is the amoral 'banker', and describes drug dealing in the way i like it-Economics.

Louis Koo, though looks unflattering, is the comic relief and he carried his role well too. I like how he shivered with fear towards the end of the show... still manage to look so 'shuai'. Muahahaha.

Mr Goh's jaws dropped when he saw how bloated Anita Yuen became. I saw how sacrificial mothers are when they become pregnant.

Zhang Jing Chu's acting was FANTASTIC, also a bit spooky.

Daniel wu... was just being daniel wu.

THIS IS THE SHOW TO WATCH THIS NEW YEAR.

It's a highly ENGAGING show. You'll be ADDICTED.

I want to watch it again and again and again!

Chu Er & San 2007

Accompanied mum (aka Empress Dowager) to her massage session yesterday at Wellness Village Spa. So while she's at it, I entertained myself by walking about Panpac, taking pictures. Trigger HAPPY! HAHA.

Noticed the patterns around the hotel... Big Orange/Yellow/Red lanterns; rattan chair, cupcakes, the carpet and my sling.
There's a huge cake made up of many many little cupcakes... If only they're real! I think it's to celebrate Panpac's 20th birthday.

Chun Lians

Round and about the spa place

And it's off to visiting mother's friends!


Wanted to wake up at 8am today... but woke up at 11 instead! Mr Goh had to give me a long endless morning call before i finally woke up.

Intended to go to FF for some workout, but ended up using just the sauna, before we had to leave for 'Just Follow Law' at Vivo.

The show is not bad, but not fantastic. Mr Goh enjoyed it though, said he can identify with how 'arrows' are shot in the company, and how everything must 'black-and-white'. I thought they have gone overboard with product advertisements. Gone are the days when the sponsors are only made known when the credits roll. Fann acted well, surprisingly and Gurmit is just... gurmit. we both felt Mark lee would have made a better Lim Teng Zhui. And as usual, jack neo will not miss having those heart warming scenes in his movie.

This girl, sitting next to me, was LAUGHING DAMN LOUDLY. like, HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR! HUR HUR HUR HUR HUR! which was quite annoying. I hate watching shows with a bad audience.

We walked about Vivo and they have this shallow pool at their top level. The pool looks damn dirty lor. Usually, the base of the pool is tiled blue to create the crystal clear blue waters effect, but this one is tiled BROWN (obviously trying to discourage people to swim in it). But hor, still a lot of kids swimming in it leh! and they come prepared too! swimming trunks and towels! -Faint- walked another metre further from the swimming kids and we saw this couple washing their feet in it. EWwwwwww.

Trigger happy moments again. I'm really having a lot of fun with the collages. Many thanks to ~* ros *~ for the tip!


Vivo is definitely not a place to go have your dinner! The really good restaurants have such long Qs! We settled for SHIN KUSHIYA.

Clockwise from top left: Warm Mixed Salad with citrus soy dressing-Yummy! Japanese potatoes with fish roe-not so yummy. Grilled rice with minced chicken fillings (Mr Goh says this is the Japanese BA ZHANG). Me making the pregnant fish kiss, which now i think is quite lesbo. The restaurant-which plays bossa nova music, making it... not so jap. Mr Goh prying open his jap ba zhang. Inside the jap ba zhang. Our yakitori and etc. Middle: SHIN salts-with spicy, plum and green tea flavoured salts.

Food was not that fantastic. Quite salty leh. I think the Yakitori place at Cuppage (I think called Kushinjin) is still the BEST wor. served HOT, not warm. And not too salty. and the staff speaks Jap. and the music... hmm, i don't remember the music.

Do try out Kim Gary Hong Kong restaurant at Vivo, but you may have to queue for at least 30 minutes or more.

Random thoughts:
Mother made noise about me going to Bai Tai Sui before the Lunar New Year. =_=

I only ate TWO mandarin oranges (at once, just now) for the past few days. Will have to finish as many as I can tomorrow....before my dental appointment on Thursday morning!!! Sure DAMN PAIN... na bei.

time for bed.

Chu Yi 2007

Sis, bro-in-law and the boys came for lunch. My teeth (molars, i think) are still aching from chewing all the bakkwas, duck, chicken, etc. It stays SORE for another one hour or so but that ain't stopping me from eating all the goodies. will just have to gym again after CNY.

Knowing that everywhere will be 'ghost towns', we decided to bring the boys to watch a movie.

En route to Marina, the four of us squeezing at the back (the trees behind us look velly nice hor?), while the two men take the front seats. Mother decided to rest at home.

But hor, nothing really suitable for the boys leh. All like adult films. Dunno how come finally decided to watch Epic Movie (which is rated PG) BUT IS SO NOT PG! SHOULD BE NC 16 or something! It's GROSS AND BRAINLESS! SUCKS TO THE MAX! Don't waste your time watching it.

The little one felt SICK after the show ...

but it turned out that he kenna stomach flu... on the first day of CNY!

This video was taken at the arcade, with axel on the para para machine and er... a monkey dancing behind him....

The attendant at the arcade actually came over and told me to delete the photos/videos I took inside the arcade RIGHT THERE AND THEN, UNDER HIS SURVEILLANCE. He stood like next to me, staring at me...I was so mad! I already told him I won't take any more pics liao. So irritating! so, i bo bian, have to delete the photos lor.... GOOD THING I SAVED THIS CLIP. and to spite the system/rules, I took pictures of the boys using my camera phone. HAR. I can't figure out why I cannot take pictures in the arcade!

Someone pls explain!

GONG XI FA CAI!!

To continue with last year's 'tradition', mr goh came by to pick me up to go china-town-ing after reunion dinner.

maybe we've had too full a reunion dinner, or maybe we've too tired out by the spring cleaning the day before.... but both of us were really tired! Mr Goh saw the crowd in chinatown and asked if I'm having second thoughts.... my throat started to feel itchy (cos of too much bakkwa and didn't drink enough water) and my mouth hurts each time i speak (ulcer in direct contact with braces)....

So i told mr goh, let's go back.... we couldn't find a parking lot either.

and then, out of nowhere, he saw a parking lot.

alrighty, we'll just get out and FEEEEEEEL the CNY atmosphere from a distance. There's this Hong Kong dessert stall along the street opposite Chinatown Point.... and how can mr goh resist his favourite GUI LING GAO right? I had Ginger soup AH BOR LING. my tummy was as big as mr goh's.

and this picture was on the wall of the dessert stall.... there was also another picture of her in ANOTHER dessert stall along the SAME street, and in a bridal shop along the SAME street as well.
I tried to replicate it.... albeit unsuccessfully..... I had no idea I was grinning like a silly pig.
and along the same street, we came across these pictures of Chinatown in the 50s or 60s....
The five foot street...check out the little girl's hair.

The electric tram goes from outram to geylang.... see the police? still wear SHORTS!

This picture is like how classic. Can you imagine yourself bathing like THAT??

And then there's a news article on Titanic

I told Mr Goh, it should be quite exciting to be living in the 50s/60s ah... lotsa things happening and transitioning.... but he added that it's also the dangerous period la... huge income gap la... and that I'd probably would be a 'MA JIE' if I were really living in that era...

yea. we are in fact a fortunate lot. Have a Happy and Prosperous Piggy Year!

I'm proud to be a PIG!

Going NUTS

I peeled 86 ginko nuts in 1 hour 15 minutes.

I went to the (super packed) NTUC with bro and lost the bet on guessing how much is the total payment for all the stuff we bought. So, I had to pay for it plus treat him to lunch.

Yesterday, we finished 80% of area cleaning. Bro helped clean the fans and windows, wiped tables, sofa, and surfaces.

Doing housework is such a major workout. You do the squats, stretches, lunges. You push, pull and twist. You squeeze your abs and butt. You stand so long that your feet hurts. you just basically, sweat it all out. I guess doing housework is more productive than going to the gym, since you get to burn fats AND see a sparkling clean house at the end of the day. BUT going to the gym is more enjoyable.

The Empress Dowager is damn gan-jeong spider and is saying all the 'niao' hua... she thinks everyone wants to pick a fight with her, when she is the intolerant one n wants to pick a fight with everybody. BAH.

Dad called from melb and I almost felt like getting a ticket and going there RIGHT NOW.

i'm just hoping for a safe dinner later...

Love Bugs

I love double entendres. 'Love Bugs' is one of it.

U either get bitten by love bugs and fall head over heels in love, OR u think that love bugs.

Eric 'robert' lim has this on his msn nick: Bang Bang Bang the whole of Feb. Simply put, he's an army boy who loves to bang. Haha.

Valentines' Day is also known as Hallmark Day since it has been estimated by the Greeting Card Association (didn't know got such an association wor) that approximately one billion cards or 'valentines' are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas.

And on this day, lovers express their love for each other, send flowers, chocolates, cards, bears and whatever the shops are selling or whatever the other lady on the street is holding.

Cult culture it has turned into. Good money making for the retailers it has become. Most girls would heart all the gifts and flowers... but there should be a little more effort and heart put into getting all these commercialised gimmicks.

Something like this would definitely rock her world:


Boss made this for his wifey. It says, Be My Valentine. That's like how SWEET.

Beats having everything else all the ladies on the street are getting. :D

Happy Valentines Day everybody!

I feel like a boy

In a moment of bravery (or folly), I chopped off my hair (ok, mich's stylist did).

My body was stiff as rock. Palms were sweating and I gasped as the chunks of hair fell on my lap.

stylist: You very nervous ah?

I: YES! It's been TEN years since I have hair this short!

I haven't seen my nape (other than times when i tie my hair), nor feel the prickly short shrubs of hair there for years.

And short hair totally spoilt the rebondedness (and waste the money) I done (and spent) less than 3 months ago. That's something else to add on top of the heartache.



Mr Goh laughed at me when I told him I'm upset over my 'hair loss'. =_=

I truly feel for the girls in America's next top model who had to chop off their tresses now wor. It's like cutting off a limb. It's silly I know... but i really do feel the ache, ESPECIALLY after my shower..... GOT NO HAIR TO WRAP UP IN TOWEL!! (yes, I have a habit of wrapping my hair like a turban after i bathed)

But i guess it's a refreshing change.... I may even consider a shorter hairdo, when this one goes out of shape.

and the boy throws his tantrums

Sometimes, you need a taste of your own medicine to truly understand how annoying your own behaviour is...

i always nag at mr goh whenever he stays out late with his colleagues on weekdays... and recently, it has started to eat into the weekends as well. Mostly due to work, of course, with an occasional drink or two. It's all part of work, he says.

yea, i can understand that. But I just need to nag. that's all.

Perhaps it's inherent in all of us to nag. The only difference is frequency.

So when mr goh got mad and slammed my phone (well, kinda) tonight, I knew oh-oh. I hit the wrong button.

Mr goh: So, you're still going out so late? It's midnight!

I: yea.

Mr goh: where are you going?

I: I dunno yet. we'll decide later.

Mr goh: by the time you get home, it'll be what, 3am?

I: well, at least not as late/early as 5am (like you)!

Mr goh: ok lor. bye.

Yea, counting scores is bad bad bad.

Still, i went out to meet my friends, just for a quick supper. I justified my actions thinking he was just being irrational because of the company/person i'm going out with. And I hardly meet this group of people, unlike him and his colleagues. (okay, counting scores again)

In any case, it's late. don't want to think too much. go sleep, and tomorrow will work out by itself.

So Koo...

I'm in love with Louis Koo!!!!!!!

check out his blog:
http://www.kootinlok.com/blog/content.php?new

The Eternal Embrace

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a pair of human skeletons (believed to be a couple) buried 5-6,000 years ago.



This is like how Romeo-and-Juliet.

Til death do us part.

And in this case, they probably proved the statement wrong. I wonder what their love story is like....

I think I'd like to live in the Shakespearean era.... lotsa romanticism, lotsa love in the air, lotsa trials to go through.... i want a hero in shining armour to sweep me off my feet, meet me at the secret meeting place every night, and bring me fresh flowers every day.

and finally, to die in each other's embrace.



A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun for sorrow will not show his head.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punishèd;
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.


great, Mr Peh just shed new light on this pile of skeletons. Perhaps they were having a struggle before they died, he says, cos he's an engineer and he needs to consider all kinds of possible scenarios.

I don't care, I still want to believe they are LOVERS!

Setting straight some ideas on gays

I came across this article in ST today.

"Setting straight some ideas on gays"

yea, such headlines catch my attention better than "Floods could cost XX country XX dollars"

So, naturally, I was thinking... okay.. homosexuality between people..what's up this time?

BUT NO.... Known as the "sexual partner preference testing", this is actually a research on the sexual orientation of SHEEP!!

Apparently, 5 sheep are placed in a 5m by 3m 'arena', of which there are two ewes (female sheep) in heat and two rams (these 4 are restrained in stanchions) while one young ram is free to choose which ewe or ram it wants to hit on.

The scientists then watches, and keep score. what the.... being a very visual person, I was trying to picture the experiment in my heavy head

The results: slightly more than half the rams tested are heterosexual, 20% 'swings' both ways, 15% is asexual and the remaining is gay.

Holy sheep.

This kind of experiment also have!! Can someone tell me if humans are genetically similar to sheep??? First, there's Dolly, now there's i-dunno-what-you-call-this...

The scientist of this research argues that such research shows that sexual preferences is biologically determined in animals, and could possibly be the case for humans too. =_= So, the case is, if we know/think/are certain that homosexuality is natural, we can (i) engineer it, (ii) find ways to prevent it (injecting hormones to foetuses was suggested), and/or (iii) change people's perception abt it (i.e. viewing it more as a disability, like infertility, rather than stigmatising it)

I don't know man... this reminds me of the times I write GP essays, there are so many ways you can argue. My 'feel' is that sexual orientation can't be genetically inherent in all of us.... There are so many other factors: the environment, the people you hang out with, media/social influences, blah blah. How can it purely be science?

We fall in love not because we see with our eyes, but we feel with our hearts. We feel the connection and the chemistry. We search for our soulmates, without a blueprint. Yes, along the way, we learn about the types of attributes/character we're looking for in the one, but there can be tens of thousands of people out there who is humourous/caring/loving/responsible/understanding/mature/make lotsa money/handsome/and-the-list-goes-on.

Yet, there would only be one who has the ability to tug your heart strings.

Is that something that science can prove?

I doubt.

Attack of the crow (s)

I was attacked by a crow this morning!!!!!!

There I was, this harmless, unarmed girl, walking along the pavement at a leisurely pace (read: non-threatening at all), eating my Char Siew Bao, enjoying the morning breeze.... soaking in the warm sunshine... thinking how wonderful today will be...

WHEN A BIG BLACK BUGGER CROW USED ITS CLAWS TO GRAB MY HAIR


Momentarily stunned, I could not react at all. I felt a heavy thud on my tiny head for a split second.

First thought: Bird shit arh!!

Then I saw the black creature... taking off, extending its wings.

Then second thought: BAD LUCK!!!


I kept touching my head after that, ruffling through my hair (or what's left of it).

I told Mr Goh and he asked me if i was injured. Hm, not really, but I was shakened. He then told me to Google Crow attack and see how lucky I am. This is what I found:

1) Description of the crow: Large, black, winged bullies with a chilling caw and a look-you-in-the-face, beady-eyed arrogance.

2) In Japan: That still leaves them with plenty of work; there have been hundreds of reports of birds swooping down on people during the spring nesting season. Crows usually attack from behind, kicking or pecking at the victim's head. (which was similar to what happened to me...these sneaky fellas)

3) and in Singapore: Still a nuisance despite on-going cull programme! by Tanny Chia , CNA

The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore had more than 23,000 crows shot and 2,000 nests destroyed last year. But despite this, the birds are apparently still a nuisance.

One resident was recently attacked by some crows. They are incessant noise-makers and messy scavengers and are also not adverse to stealing to meet their housing needs. Small wonder that crows continue to be a source of irritation for some in housing estates.

But to a Tampines resident, these birds pose a bigger threat: he was attacked by them on three occasions. The latest happened while crossing under some trees along Tampines Avenue 1. "When I was about to cross the road to the other side, I felt a strong swoop over my head. I looked up and I saw a crow, about to attack me. And tis' not the first time - I've two other bad experiences before in the Tampines area," said Yap Chew Leong.

He believes that crows attack him because he dislikes them. Sharing his belief is Filipino Nora Farnco, who had similar experiences.

"They fly over our heads, and then attack with their claws. And then they go into the trees. And then, I walk into the garden, if I turn back, the same they attack. I think they attacking me because they notice me - I drove them away," said Nora Farnco, a Filipino maid.

Are these neighbourhood residents really a danger? A Nature Society member says 'no'. According to him, the birds could have been only protecting their nests from perceived danger. He is also uncertain as to whether crows can recognise faces. (I'll have to disguise myself if they do)

"I can't confirm this fact that they can recognise people. But reports from the Singapore Gun Club has said that they have to change their crew and change their cars in order to get near to shoot them. Probably this is one of the best illustrations to say that crows are highly intelligent," said Sutari Supari, Nature Society (Singapore) Bird Group.

Intelligent perhaps but to many this is not a plus point. To control their populations, Tampines Town Council uses crow traps and culling continues. But the ENV says the solution lies in denying crows their food source, and residents can do their part by ensuring that refuse is properly bagged and disposed of.


4) FAQs about crows:

What do crows eat? Everything (including human hair meh?!)


How smart are crows? smarter than many undergraduates, but probably not as smart as ravens

How many different calls do crows make? lots, but most of them still sound like "caw" (i've realised a new found meaning for caw-peh caw-bu)


Do crows make good pets? YES, but they're very illegal. (WHAT?!?!)


Comments from family & friends after I related incident:

I: Hey.. better be safe today. ride carefully. I got clawed by a crow this morning...
Bro: Wah Lew, i got pigeon shit on my bike lor.....
I: Faint. =_=

Sis: How come claw you? Your head got food ah?
I: ... apparently, crows can recognise people's faces... I'm going to take another route to the bus stop tmr
Sis: ok, be careful tomorrow. maybe u can try dressing up as mama
I: Faint twice.

Mr. Goh: Are you injured? Why you never use your bodycombat skills on the crow?
I: Bodycombat never teach me to 'head' crows... (told Goh about pigeon shit on bro's bike)
Mr. Goh: Hahaha... you better check with your mother... (and see how she's doing)
I: Faint (3rd time)

Related it to HR...
HR: The stupid crow is just jealous that your tresses are blacker!
I: :D This makes the most sense!

and Happy Birthday HR! the tulips are for you!