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Sunday, October 21, 2007
It's nearly the end of October, and I'm sick again. What else is new? I'm always falling sick one way or another, ha! Work has been absolutely nuts. And I'll be going to work in abit. It's crazy, alot of things. Like this blog, for instance. I used to get so caught up in the hits and comments, and now it's just....bleah. I'm going to miss my regular readers, the craziness of linking, fansigns, and whatnots. Those were the days blogs meant more than just...this. This, is the sure sign of a blog that's closing. HAHA! Will wonders never cease! Bing, stop blogging? HAHA. Not that anyone comes here, and I really don't care even if they do. I have nothing else to write about my life. And it's also not for your perusal. Ladies and gentlemen, adieu. Unless I post again in a month or two. Bing! at 8:15 AM | (7) comments | Blogroll Me! Saturday, October 06, 2007 Wow, it's been ages! Updates! - Nothing! My life is boring! HA! Or so I am leading you to believe because you will believe anything I write here, won't you? ;) Bing! at 9:50 AM | (1) comments | Blogroll Me! Saturday, September 22, 2007 'Baby don't you cry, gonna make a pie, gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle. Baby don't be blue, gonna make for you, gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle. Gonna make a pie from heaven above, gonna be filled with strawberry love. Baby don't you cry, gonna make a pie, and hold you forever in the middle of my heart.' Every once in awhile, you'd see a movie that tells you about life using food. Things like how you're supposed to feel, what you're supposed to do, and how happy endings are inevitable if only you'd do something about it. In Waitress, Jenna makes wonderful pies with titles like 'Earl Murders Me Because I'm Having An Affair Pie' (You smash blackberries and raspberries into a chocolate crust). She invents a new pie in her head as some sort of catharsis everytime she encounters a situation, and they're always delectable for the customer. And in Stranger Than Fiction, Ana Pascal saves the world with her cookies. It's like taking a step back into a woman's world, away from the high-powered jobs and the need to be accomplished and loved. It's falling back into domestication, the only place where only women, traditionally, have the power, and then taking it back into their hands, and turning it into their place of solace, where everything is under their control and they're free to express themselves. They have unconsciously used a very traditional role that many modern women today express revulsion or indifference towards, as a tool to empower themselves. These women created foods out of love and passion, pouring their dreams and hopes and fears into every pie or cookie they made. If you ever eat a home-made meal or a cake baked from scratch, you have fallen under her spell, because she loves you or hate you with that dish, and whilst you'd never be rid of it, you'd have tasted the world in that dish because you will never have another one exactly like it ever again. Bing! at 10:47 AM | (4) comments | Blogroll Me! Wednesday, September 12, 2007 So I finally saw Britney Spears on the VMA, and I feel bad for her. She could still dance, but you could tell that her heart's not in it. And she doesn't look like she's happy being on stage - it's just a mechanical performance. Her eyes weren't focused, and she sort of just walks around on stage. Not to mention that was one of the worst lip-synching I've ever seen. Dear Britney, I do hope you make a great comeback someday! Sarah Silverman was way out of line, calling her kids the "two most adorable mistakes". VMA, WTF'S GOING ON?! Bing! at 7:47 AM | (0) comments | Blogroll Me! Saturday, September 08, 2007 Wow, it's been so long since I've posted anything here! And I honestly can't remember where I've left off! So let's recap in little useless bits: - Work. Sometimes it drives me crazy with frustration and worry, other times it's the thing that keeps me sane. I'm glad Sap is back from her trip because it's really fun to have her around. And I'm glad the FSC is still holding on together, although we haven't had any food outings in awhile, but hey, this is our 'detox' period! Sometimes I wonder if I'm spending too much time with my colleagues, because hanging out with co-workers after work is quite new to me, since in previous jobs I'd rather hang out with friends, or my colleagues needed to go home asap to prepare dinner for their families, that sort of thing. Alot of times, the popular thought that 'colleagues can never be your friends' kind of stings. Sometimes, I can totally understand why. Other times, it's detrimental to your need for building meaningful relationships with other people. - Non-work. Being busy with things, like birthdays, get-togethers, and meetings and whatnots. - I really REALLY don't like it when people use 'whatever' on me. Like, what's up your ass. - I think I'm spending a relatively unhealthy amount of time on the internet. And placing an unhealthy amount of expectations and importance on things that go on in the internet. It's a fine tool to keep in touch and whatnots, but I guess nothing can replace the physicality of communication. There's alot to be said about using technology to help or enhance communication and relationship-building with people, and whilst I'm a firm believer that the internet can NEVER replace a good talk over coffee, I find myself suckered into having long-drawn melodramatic dialogues over MSN that mean more than they should. That's not to say that MSN-conversations are meaningless (hey don't go, I still want to talk to you online!!). But I guess it makes me a little wary about how much importance I place on things like this. I'm uncomfortable with the instant perceived closeness that MSN brings, because it forces a one-on-one dialogue that takes out the vital elements of an actual conversation, while introducing new elements like the boldness of faceless communication, and easily misconstrued signals like a seemingly affectionate statement or a nonchalent one-word reply. Yet at times, it's really all that's left for some, and it frustrates me to no end that I have to sieve out the meaningful from the meaningless of all this. Bing! at 10:40 AM | (1) comments | Blogroll Me! Saturday, August 25, 2007 It's a lazy Saturday! I love sleeping in. Wish I hadn't signed up for bible study though, because that would mean another onslaught of ten Saturday afternoons gone (I think there are still 5 more lessons)! Still, this part 2 of Old Testament is pretty informative and really interesting, and in a bid to keep my brain strong and healthy, more new information never really killed anyone. :) There's this link I found on Lifehack.org, The Ten Habits of Highly Effective Brains, and a couple of them caught my attention (or perhaps my brain is hardwired to recognize certain cues from a bunch of words so certain parts are more appealing to me). 'Practice positive, future-oriented thoughts until they become your default mindset and you look forward to every new day in a constructive way. Stress and anxiety, no matter whether induced by external events or by your own thoughts, actually kills neurons and prevent the creation of new ones. You can think of chronic stress as the opposite of exercise: it prevents the creation of new neurons.' The most frequent mistake I make is 'outsourcing' my brain, being the lazy bum that I am. Even in school, I'd copy my homework from other people (shhh!). Of course at work, I'd do (mostly) everything myself, which isn't very good as well if certain matters call for more hands (or brains). Yesterday was S's last day with us, before she shuttles back to Cambridge. We had lunch with the Boss, and in the afternoon even had a chocolate fountain fondue party, which everyone pretty much OD-ed on. Which is good because somewhere in the deep recesses of my (selective) memory bank, something tells me that chocolate is always good for the brain. :) Have a great weekend, yall! Bing! at 10:45 AM | (2) comments | Blogroll Me! Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Nothing to do at work this week, save for the inevitable bumming around, scuttling around, and having tea time after tea time. I like tea time because we eat utter rubbish all the time and clog up our guts, and we talk funny things and be all chilled out. Work rocks. God, I'm so exhausted. PMS really sucks. I just ate a ton of junk food while watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on DVD, and now my tongue feels numb. Wenn says I owe her Graduation Cookies. Hmm...I'll have to think up a really good recipe for that one! On the other hand, we have way too many cookies in the pantry already! *hints to Wenn* Bing! at 11:08 PM | (3) comments | Blogroll Me! Monday, August 20, 2007 Knackered! I seriously think this blog won't keep very long! We had some bread from Istanbul today, courtesy of WY, and it tasted really nice, sweet with marmalade undertones. Mmmm. Maybe I should make berry-filled scones. I wonder if they have that. Bing! at 6:52 PM | (1) comments | Blogroll Me! Sunday, August 19, 2007 I need a new blog. I hate this. I need a new one. I don't like people reading this. I'm angst up. I hate you. I don't think I can stop it. Bing! at 2:26 AM | (1) comments | Blogroll Me! Saturday, August 18, 2007 Another new site design! The things I do during my free time. Last night, I ventured into the world of Japanese drama serials for the second time - Let's Go Train Man. It was actually really fun to watch! So that's that, please comment on this new design! I know you love it because I do! Hehe! Bing! at 12:06 PM | (4) comments | Blogroll Me! Friday, August 17, 2007 After a year of using the previous template, I got sick of the browns. Of course replacing it with green isn't much of an improvement. I'll spruce this up, I promise! So this week's been fun, and I'm always longing for rest. Now that I've got it, it's only wise to make use of it and be a bit more sedentary! This restless habit has got to go! Maybe I should go run in the park in the evening. Then again, I'll get sick and wipe another healthy week off my life. But enough of this jabber! The family PC is getting on my nerves abit, and I'm in the process of transferring my horrendous list of bookmarks to my fast!sleek!efficient! laptop. Does anyone know the least painless way of doing it? Right now I'm copying and pasting URLS, and something ain't right I'm tellin' ya! So, please leave me your kind comments regarding this new blah-looking site design, and try not to make me hate you while doing it. Thank you. :D Bing! at 7:59 AM | (3) comments | Blogroll Me! Sunday, August 12, 2007 Yay, I've been tagged by Wenn for a meme! I love memes. Memes are fun. Ok, moving on... 12 Layers Layer 1: On The Outside Name: Bing Birth Date: 14 March 81 Current Status: Single Eye Colour: Brown Hair Colour: Dark brown Layer 2: On The Inside My Heritage: Hainanese? Um. My Fears: Anything that involves me falling from great height, like a plunging elevator...yikes!!! My Weaknesses: Plenty~ Being impatient, being emo, being restless, yada... My Perfect Pizza: Tons and tons of cheese, tomatoes, olives, capsicum, spicy meatballs...and not a trace of pineapple :) Layer 3: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow My First Thoughts of waking Up: Arrgh, I can't sleep in! My Bed Time: 12 midnight ++ My Most Missed Memories: having my brain filled with an obsession, a thought, a piece of happiness Layer 4: My Pick Pepsi or Coke: Coke McDonalds or Burger King: Macs Single or Group Dates: single Adidas or Nike: Nike Tea or Nestea: Tea Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla, the world's favourite flava!! Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee Layer 5: Do You… Smoke: Nope Curse: it has been known from time to time, although the older I get the less I curse...I hope that's a good sign! Take A Shower: Duh, yes Have A Crush: oooh yeah Go To School: Now? nope Want To Get Married: yes Believe In Yourself: I guess, I'm not sure...hm, wow, I think that's a no! Wtf. Think You’re A Health Freak: I know what's good for me, but I loooove comfort foods. But I guess I'm healthier than some of my friends. So I guess that's a 'no'. Layer 6: In The Past Drink Alcohol: how in the past is past? yeah Gone to the Mall: yes Been on Stage: yes, like those little competitions for art and stuff. Eaten Sushi: mmmmmmmmmm yessss Dyed Your Hair: yes, I tend to dye my hair twice a year Layer 7: Have You Ever… Played A Stripping Game: no, but I've seen a REALLY BAD example of a stripper! Changed Who You Were To Fit In: no, it's too tiring for me! I'm lazy like that :p Layer 8: Are You Hoping To… Get Married: yes (deja vu) Layer 9: In A Guy Best Eye Colour: not red or white or yellow! Best Hair Colour: Black or brown, none of that punk-style loltks Short or Long Hair: depends on the person, it may suit his face Layer 10: What You Were Doing A Minute Ago: eating chips like it's the last bag of it on earth and getting all grossed out with the salt Hour Ago: dinner! and watching Gilmore Girls on DVD Four And A Half Hours Ago: having cell group at W's place, eating cake because it's SM's birthday! A Month Ago: Getting all scatterbrained at work because I can't forget the awesome Tibet vacation A Year Ago: Working in GIS, being crazy and emo all the time Layer 11: I Love: junk food I Hate: the aftermath of eating too much junk food I Hide: my secrets. duh. I Miss: chocolate fondue...with marshmellows, mmm. I Need: a lot more Layer 12: Tag 5 People Whoever who wants to do this Bing! at 8:37 PM | (2) comments | Blogroll Me! Friday, August 10, 2007 I dreamt that I was eating berry-flavored cereal last night. I think this post did it. I also think I've been reading one too many food and craft blogs. Bing! at 7:52 AM | (0) comments | Blogroll Me! Thursday, August 09, 2007 Happy National Day! It's lovely to have a public holiday to have a breather. So yesterday I had a really bad start in the morning, what with people constantly breathing down my neck and all, but it got better as the day wore on. I even managed watch Disturbia and enjoyed it quite abit! Orchard Cineleisure was so different last night, filled with young punks and wannabes and students. It used to be a quiet place where not many people liked to frequent, but I guess things picked up after it opened up more movie theatres. So today looks like it's set for more busy things, and I'll be going out in a bit, although my room desperately needs cleaning up! And since it's National Day today, let me list five things I absolutely adore about this country! :) 1. Food. Although I'll admit, I'm not much of a foodie. But where else could you find such a succulent smorgasboard of international food? I mean, c'mon, I could find chocolates from Germany and France right here, and great Japanese food, and other stuff. Granted, it's not as authentic as the real thing, but who gives a shit, right, when it's in fact quite awesome here already! :) 2. People. Yeah, I know, I don't like people and I'm always complaining about Singaporeans being small-minded and selfish and proud. Still, we're not half-bad when it comes to honesty, and being warm and sincere, and friendly, and rather open to new things, and being determined and hardworking. We don't have serious corruption issues here, and I like the sense of security here. I don't constantly worry about having to cover myself so I don't get leered at, or worry who's going to rip me off, or be all paranoid and shit about who to trust. I like our quality of service, and our quality of products, and our efficiency. I like the mesh of old-style and modern, of high-brow and low-brow, like waltzing past Prada or Gucci in Takashimaya, and then going to Chinatown to buy beads and herbal tonics, or Little India for an eyebrow threading session, and then watch old men play chess and look at their caged birds, and occasionally eat breakfast at Cafe Cartel or kopitiam, and get befuddled with ordering coffee in dialect like teh si siew tai, kopi gao... 3. Shopping. I think we're good enough as it is. :) And we don't get annoying salespersons following you all day from mall to mall (yes it happens, in Shanghai). 4. Education. Stuffed up, and screwed up, and everyone's all stressed with no creative outlet. But you have to admit, we're pretty damn good academically compared to the rest of the world, and to achieve something like this amongst the citizens in such a short amount of time is no mean feat! I relish in the fact that I could get Lolita here, go to a Neil Gaiman book signing, and know geeky people who adore Star Wars as much as I do. I love the people's appreciation for good prose, and how we can have Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows right on time without a hitch. I love how the stuffed up system made people want to do more for themselves, and make them brave in broadening their horizons. I love how people like backpacking and travel and loving the global life instead of being frightened by the world. 5. Greenery and cleanliness. I know it's tiresome and cliched, and made some people obsessive-compulsive along the way. I've been to many places, and Singapore is by far the greenest. I mean, if you're not counting Australia and New Zealand and other far-out places with rolling meadows and hills and whatnots. As a city, we're pretty! And we're clean, and we're polite about using the toilet (queueing up, and most of the time flushing...), and we don't have certain streets that smell like manure because the sewerage system's gone wonky... We have drinkable tap-water, and I think that's pretty amazing enough! I love this country. :) Bing! at 11:56 AM | (4) comments | Blogroll Me! Tuesday, August 07, 2007 RETARDS!!!!! At last the time has come when it's all fucked up at work. Why should I care? You're fucked up as it is. AAARRRGGHHH!!! Bing! at 11:55 PM | (0) comments | Blogroll Me! Monday, August 06, 2007 Just when I thought all's well, I went and bought some soya bean milk and drank a small carton of it. And now I'm all grossed out again, bleugh. That's it, scientific study concluded, I'm never drinking soya bean milk again! Wonder what's in it that makes me feel sick every time. O, what am I to do during my menapausal days? Bing! at 8:52 PM | (3) comments | Blogroll Me! Sunday, August 05, 2007 So everything that was planned yesterday didn't go as planned! Nonetheless, I had some fun. Got some new tops and a couple of eyeshadow things. I ate at Carnivore again on Friday, so yesterday was a fine foodless state until evening. Also, we celebrated our dearest cousin JS's 21st birthday! Happy 21st Birthday JS!!! You da man. Now you go out and do all the Fun Stuff! Was thinking of giving this site a revamp of sorts, like adding more craft-sy things, and more doodle-y things, more photo things...and basically be like the new-age yuppie bohemian mamas that my recently-updated Blogroll is full of. I'm sorry I had to take away the archives because I have a sudden urge to be private like that. Anyway it's all here in the first place, so nothing to get all uptight about. I miss the good old blog days when I could blog shit and get like 50 hits a day. We were the pioneers dammit!!! Now it's full of wannabes and posers and mamas and tabloids and cutesy-angst, and people get dooced or sued, so I can't blog shit, and I don't feel comfortable blogging shit anymore, so all I can do now is write...nice things. :) Which is nice in itself. Anyway, I'm sure you're heard it all before in the archives. It ain't what it used to be... *waves of nostalgia...spasms* Oh well. A blog is a blog, so BOOYALL if THIS is what you rely on to know me better. SUCKAS!!!! Oh my. Angst-rush was nice. :) Hadn't felt that in a long time. Heehee. Now I've got to go, so have a nice weekend! Bing! at 9:49 AM | (1) comments | Blogroll Me! Thursday, August 02, 2007 I love Japanese craft. It's a shame I don't have the patience, or an art studio for that matter. So just to perk up your day, here's a delectable picture of felted penguins in a dish!!!!  Wednesday, August 01, 2007 I read an exceptional post on Tea & Cookies, titled: Is There a Food Gene? I regret to say that I am one of the unfortunate few people in the world who don't like their mothers' cooking. I wish I do, but I just can't make myself love the bland taste of seaweed-and-minced-pork soup. Or the dry lumpy fish that is cooked half-heartedly in a rice cooker with careless sprinkles of soya sauce on it. Did I mention the occasional odd vegetable, that is stir-fried in nothing more than chopped garlic and vegetable oil? In her post, Tea mentioned that she had to embellish her food to make it taste better. All I remembered was shoving down my dinner, and at the stroke of midnight, ravage through my very secret, very big stash of chocolate, potato chips, and cup noodles. And when I couldn't shove my dinner down my throat, I would open a can of something to go with the food (which is a daily fixture of rice, steamed fish, and stir-fried vegetable - note the singularity of this. Never in my life have I eaten a multicolored homecooked stir-fried vegetable dish). Needless to say, my bewildered parents nagged and chided, and my growth became stunted, becoming the shortest person in class in the least amount of time it took for me to grow. Furthermore, to add to my bad luck, my excesses were based on nothing more than a horrendous amount of salt or sugar, thus, I have failed to blossom into a food connoisseur. My mother is a food person. She loves restaurants and discounts and spices. She loves to eat, but she doesn't experiment much with her cooking. I, on the other hand, love to cook (only recently), but don't really like to eat, or compare the foods I've tasted, or even remember what they taste like. I love though, the rush of cooking, the reactions between each ingredient, how seemingly inedible things come together to make, say, cookies, and how people love the cookies, when in essence, they're only lumps of heated up oily flavored dough. I love everything about cooking. From the little swirl on top of a chocolate chip, to the reckless extra dash of vanilla essence, cooking is a grandoise display of bravado combined with careful expertise, and the end result almost always ends with, if not happy satisfied faces, then peals of laughter from unsuccessful attempts. Bing! at 9:35 PM | (0) comments | Blogroll Me! Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Reads of the day: Who Are You? 'The essence of jnana is to discover who you are. Like japa, jnana also involves a distinctive method, which is a variety of via negativa, a 'negative route'. Very simply, one assumes a meditative posture – sit in a quiet place and quiet the mind – and then begins to question who one is. The suggested answer is "neti neta" – "not this, not that." In other words, you will discover who you are by realizing who (or what) you are not. For example, if you ask, "Am I my body?" you can come up with any number of arguments to support a 'No' answer. (1) If you were to lose your arm, you would still be you (in your entirety). (2) Your body looks completely different today from how it looked when you were an infant, yet it is the same 'you'. (3) Every single atom of your body has been replaced in that span of time, yet it was you and still is you.' Aristotle’s Email – Or, Friendship In The Cyber Age - Tim Madigan ponders the mysteries of friendship. 'While I haven't (yet) re-established connections with lovers from long ago, I have availed myself of the opportunities of Google to find former classmates, teachers and friends from years past. I'm amazed at how quickly, even after twenty years or more, we can pick up where we left off. There's something about email's democratic nature that makes it easy to send a message to someone you haven't talked to in decades. A phone call out of the blue seems too potentially disturbing, and a written letter seems too formal; but email makes it seem quite natural to contact acquaintances from years ago. Should they choose not to answer, one can shrug it off with an "Oh, well, that’s how it goes." But should they reply, it can be the continuation of a beautiful friendship.' That Dropped Doughnut: How Soon, and How Often, Will It Come Back Up? 'Wanting to believe that something is "still good!" is not, after all, restricted to things we eat. In life, the five-second rule translates into hanging on to rotten boyfriends long after we know the relationship has spoiled or suffering from the misguided notion that pregnancies can't occur if the contact is brief enough. Believing in the five-second rule requires an appreciation for risk, as well as an equal combination of naive optimism and self-loathing -- hoping for the best but willing to admit you deserve the worst, should the worst involve salmonella.'Bing! at 8:08 PM | (0) comments | Blogroll Me! |
I like to put things into
words and then see them string up and let people laugh at them like it's
confetti. Chocolate makes my day and I love trees and rivers and this
makes me seem quite the idiot but really, I'm a silly billy.