kay's musings

happy 2012

2012-01-11T18:24:00.000+08:00

Wow. 2011 went by just like that.

It'd been a decent year. Nah, actually it had been a pretty crazy ride.
I'm not complaining. Just stating the facts. Besides, most people love roller coasters.
The chicken hearted me used to hate it. I would do it cuz I didn't wanna miss out. But I couldn't understand why would people want to put themselves thru something crazy like that.

Then I leaped off the edge towards the end of November, and fell in love with the adrenaline rush.

I think it changed me for life.

Happy 2012. I'm embracing it. :)

Glee 3D Concert

2011-08-25T18:46:00.000+08:00

listening to glee's kurt's version of 'I want to hold your hand'...
~~~
Caught the 'Glee 3D concert movie' preview last night.
If only the cinema crowd was more spontaneous and everyone could get out of their seats and dance to the music. That would have been super awesome.
Still, I had a good time singing along to all the songs.

"Yeah you got that something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something
I wanna hold your hand"

Funny coz it actually did start out with a mini debate about holding hands.

2011 Q1, not too shabby

2011-04-08T05:53:00.000+08:00

listening to gary cao's 'Bei Ge Wang'...
~~~
Oh man, the first quarter of this year is over! Before we know it, I'm celebrating my fiftieth birthday... *shudder* Let's see what's been going on in my life:

Jan
These guys must be among the nicest folks I've met. Not the usual aloof Korean pop stars with difficult artiste manager. Btw, for the few of you who knew about the funny little story, this was what I wore. Note to self: NO CAPS WHEN HOSTING EVENTS (with cute men). Hahahaha...

Char came back for holiday and we held a hen's party for her. So sad I'll be missing her wedding in NYC this month! :( Grr... my only gripe about work is that we can't take leave during certain periods.

Feb

Happy CNY! Happy Valentine's Day!

Chinese New Year is always a happy occasion to me. I love spending time with my family and friends. I love lohei and CNY goodies. A few things happened during the Vday period, including a partying session with the crazy Cupid gals.

March

March starts with the letter 'M'. Malaysia starts with the letter 'M'. I was in Malaysia a couple of times in March.

Was in Port Dickson with listeners for a 3D2N trip. Lovely trip. The listeners were great and the indoor pool within the hotel room was a wonderful bonus.

The weekend after, we headed over to the new mall in JB for a Theresa Beauty roadshow. It was my first time hosting a roadshow overseas. Pleasantly surprised that some Malaysian listeners turned up for the event. The other spokesperson Jin-jie, is a cutie. The jokes she cracked were hilarious. Pretty fun experience.

Into the 8th day of April. Let the good story continue to unfold!

Not your regular aunt agony

2011-03-25T16:54:00.001+08:00

listening to stef sun's 'Dang Dong Ye Jian Nuan'...
~~~
Didn't really like this song when I first heard it. Thought it was one of those 'emo-wannabe' songs. After listening to it for another couple of times, it slowly grew on me. Like some people.

The days zoom by so quickly I'm getting whiplash from trying to catch a glimpse of the past. Some friends got married, some got pregnant, some gave birth. A few of them found love and a few of them lost love. Such is life. Mine is like a scenic little path along the countryside. Mostly tranquil, not much excitement, at times boring but generally interesting enough to keep me entertained. When you've reached a grand old age of 100, you treasure a peaceful and smooth-sailing life.

Was chatting with Q and she commented that I usually give pretty good relationship advices. Yayaya, you ask where did there come from??? Like all backseat drivers, I direct very well. Maybe I should start my own Antithesis of Aunt Agony column.

Q was upset because her ex had changed for the worse, so reconciliation was probably outta question.

Antithesis Aunt Agony's words of wisdom:

When a bowl is broken, there'll always be a crack. And if now the bowl is chipped and cracked and used and smelly with fermented food inside, why would you still want it???

Past revisited

2011-02-09T08:58:00.000+08:00

listening to fish leong's 'Ni Hui Bu Hui'...
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Checked on a galfriend last night over a pint of beer at Blooie's. She went through a rough patch end last year when she broke up with her boyfriend. I guess you really lose yourself when in love. Not a pretty sight. So glad she's recovering well, meeting new people and all.

While catching up, suddenly thought of an email which I'd received long ago: "No male strippers allowed". It reminded me that sometimes losing yourself can be a pretty experience too. Except my lost & found counter has stopped functioning since then.

Movie time

2011-01-27T10:43:00.000+08:00

listening to far east movement's 'Rocketeer'...
~~~
Not much of a movie buff coz I can think of better things to do with the two plus hours. However, that being said, I really like the shows I'd caught recently.

Love, and other drugs

Jake & Anne, the hottest onscreen couple so far. Imagine their babies if they were real-life couple. Then again, Jake with Taylor Swift (on/off romance) would make quite good looking babies too.

The part about Parkinson's disease hit a little close to home coz one of Mom's best friends suffers from it. We've seen her gone from an active healthy fun-loving lady, to a bedridden shriveled shell that depends entirely on her husband, the maid, and tube-feeding. Not a pretty sight :(

Hereafter

What happens after we die? Different religions have different takes on this. The agnostics have their own views too. Btw, French language sounds yummy and Brit accent is quite nice.

Black Swan

*sing song voice* Psycho...
But Natalie Portman is so hawwwwt! The sinewy bodies of the ballerinas make me wanna sign up for dance lessons too. The toes and feet however, are quite painful to look at. So scary! I'm quite pleased to recognize the term 'plié' from my pilates class. It makes me feel... less ignorant. Hurhurhur.

Next on my list: 127 hours and probably The King's Speech.

Another GLORIOUS year begins!

2011-01-04T19:46:00.002+08:00

Happy New Year!
This is just a quick note. I'll be back soon.
Very busy these days. I'm not sure what I've been up to, but it sure feels busy.

2010 had been amazing. Some incidents were quite dramatic but all in all, the year was a joyride.
I miss 2010 already, but I think 2011 will be just as brilliant.
Now, gimme some time to gather my thoughts.

BRB.

Trick or Treat!

2010-10-31T17:59:00.000+08:00

The kids from the childcare centre at our office premise dropped by for some 'trick-or-treat'ing last Friday. At 1130 in the morning, we were attacked by ghosts, witches, princesses and fairies. There were a number of UFOs as well. I think their parents were too busy. They sang, they danced, they partied with us. There were lots of candies for everyone. I even managed to steal some from the kids. We all had a good time.

My convo with some of the children as they came in.

Kid 1: Do you know who am I?
Me: Eh... a princess?
Kid 1: No!!! I am a fairy!
Me: Ok, hello fairy.

Kid 2: (in Spiderman outfit) Do you know what am I?
Me: Eh... Spiderman?
Kid 2: No!!! I am vampire Spiderman!
Me: Hello vampire Spiderman!

Kid 3: (looking at me) What are you?
Me: I... am... a.... (paused for dramatic effect) DEEJAY!
Kids: (in chorus) Hello deejay!!!

Hurhurhur... Children are so gullible. :)

TRICK OR TREAT!!!

Sara Wee was overwhelmed.

The 僵尸 smudged the blood on his cheeks.

Feeding time at the zoo.

My colleagues actually dressed up for this.

It's cool to work in this industry, isn't it?

I had to go for a campus event, so no outfit for me.

No worries. Photo editing works too.

Happy Halloween!

Fishy biz

2010-10-20T11:47:00.000+08:00

listening to cha ban sheng's 'Tai Tou Ming'...
~~~
Kids are funny sometimes.
My five year old nephew called my aunt to ask for some guppies.

Jord: Yi-po (grandaunt), can you give me two of your guppies?
Aunt: Sure, I'll bring to Chor-chor (great grandma)'s place on Saturday.
Jord: Thank you. I will give you my fighting fish ok?
Aunt: Erm.. it's okay. Thanks Jord, but I don't need your fighting fish. Keep it for yourself.
Jord: Take it take it.
Aunt: No it's alright.
Jord: Ok. Bye.

Two minutes later, my aunt's phone rang again.

Jord: Yi-po, I am Jord.
Aunt: Yes dear?
Jord: I think for a while and I think you MUST take my fighting fish.
Aunt: I don't want your fighting fish.
Jord: I take two of your guppies, so you must take my fighting fish. My fighting fish is very strong and beautiful. It is .... (spends five minutes telling my aunt how good his fighting fish is.)
Aunt: But I don't want it. You can have the guppies, but I don't want your fighting fish.
Jord: No. You MUST take my fighting fish. I will bring on Saturday. Ok. Bye.

That's how my fifty year old aunt, who tried to give away my cousin's guppies, ended up with a fighting fish. Which died in her care after two weeks. Jord still doesn't know. Oops.

Drunk texting

2010-09-29T07:35:00.001+08:00

listening to tian fu zhen's 'Ji Mo Ji Mo Jiu Hao'...
~~~
Drunk texting cracks me up. C walked into the studio on Monday and stood in front of me.

C: WTF did you message me on Sat?
Me: What?
C: Go check your outbox.

"I'm in betw whr qe we ewweede andnext palve"

I think it happened when C couldn't find me at the party. In my defence, I don't think it was THAT hard to decipher the message. *shrugs* Oh, and apparently when Robin asked how the party was, my reply was that my shoes were killing me and I'm gonna marry Lee Hom. With crazy spelling errors.

Well, at least I got my facts right. :D

Fall season: Mulberry Alexa. Mine!

2010-09-21T09:33:00.000+08:00

listening to lee hom's 'Ni Bu Zhi Dao De Shi'...

~~~

My precioussssss... You are here....

Out of stock in Singapore. Out of stock in London.

Grape was sold out, last piece in plum.

Of course I had to have you in my arms.

My precioussssss...

I will hug you to sleep again tonight.

Project Perth

2010-09-21T09:05:00.003+08:00

listening to xie anqi's 'Cui Ruo'...

"为什麽我不觉得快乐也不觉得难过"

This song leaves me kinda conflicted. Is it really nice? Is her singing good?
There's something wrong about it, but there's also something right about it too.
Ah well, as long as I enjoy it.
~~~

August was a month of travelling. Company cruise, work trip then followed by a mad dash to Australia to check on my brother who was hospitalized. He would be in crutches for a while and forever set off metal detector at airports. But otherwise, all is well. Thank god!

Hospital next door sounds more glamorous than where Bro was admitted.

Friendly resident attending to Ducky looked like guy from Entourage.

Minus the stubbles.

(pic from canoe dot ca)

Pet Duck was happy to see us.

Look at his wide smile:

Cut along the dotted line:

Flower and I made it a point to eat well at breakfast.

These mushrooms and bacon strips rocked my world:

Crepes the day after.

Took some to the hospital for kiddo too.

Paris in Perth:

Spinach and ricotta cheese crepe.

Tasted better than it looked:

Though we were busy shuttling between the hospital, the supermarket and the hostel, it felt less tiring than my Jogja/ Bali work trip. The situation wasn't ideal, but anyhow I love spending time with my family.

Go speak English yourself

2010-07-22T08:36:00.000+08:00

listening to gigi leung's 'Shi Jian Hai'...
~~~
Some people really get my goat. Or donkey. Or elephant. Or some kind of animal.
R read me a letter published in the papers. This person was complaining about the bus driver not being able to speak English. Such letters always get me very irritated.

EXCUSE ME. THIS GUY IS A FRICKIN BUS DRIVER. WHY ARE YOU DEMANDING SO MUCH FROM HIM???

Why don't you say he should speak Malay and Tamil too, since these races also made up a significant percentage of the population? Make him go for German/ French/ Italian classes too, since YOG is coming up and there would be foreign delegates in town. Singaporean bus drivers must all learn to speak Spanish as well, coz Spain won the world cup (this makes no sense but I don't give a hoot). Why don't YOU go and learn how to speak Mandarin or Malay or Tamil, depending on what the race the driver is? He's a BUS DRIVER. Just make sure he drives the bus bloody well, and that should suffice!

Let's do a trade-off: the bus driver will go learn how to speak English and you shall go and learn how to drive a bus. I think it sounds extremely fair.

How much do I ♥ World Cup? Lemme count the ways...

2010-07-13T14:43:00.000+08:00

listening to lady antebellum's 'Need You Now'...
~~~
Finally the football fever has gone down.
Besides watching the action, most of us had a good time checking out the cute footballers. Yes pretty things make us happy, but somehow, my friends love to burst my bubbles.

In one of my emails to SL, told her I wanna go Argentina and look for hunks like Higuain:

Handsome right???

SL was enthusiastic about Argentina but not the men. In her opinion, Latin American men could turn out too slick and oily. All she could remember about her past experience in Buenos Aires was how they were hit on by twenty-two year old boys. Well babe, at least they didn't look like this:

Hand of God here, any taker?

Then on gchat with YL, after gushing to her about how adorable Jesus Navas is, how good his eyes look...

Even my straight male colleague thinks he's HOT.

My friend insisted such men don't exist.

me: bye bye.. i going spain and argentina liao

YL: ok, go, and then realize that all the men on the street look like puyol.

不要!!!!!! Geez!!! Thanks. Where's your positivity??? You're supposed to be concern about my happiness, no? That's what friends are for, no?

Anyway, I'm sure if I tell them I'm going to Korea to look for hotties, e.g.:

Song Il Guk

I can always count on friends to rain on my parade and tell me that I'll end up with this:
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Shinjuu

2010-07-10T02:18:00.000+08:00

listening to usher's 'OMG'...
Usher's da man He's still rockin' it. I can't stop chanting 'omg' bits.
~~~

Dinner with J at Shinjuu last week. It's cool how J's so passionate about Jap cuisine, he's actually doing apprenticeship after office hours, at one of the Japanese restaurants. I'm into jap food too. To be more accurate, I'm into TUCKING in to the food. Hurhurhur. :)

Mainly grilled stuff at Shinjuu. Food's pretty good, but/and a little salty. Probably so that customers can chase them down with a pint of beer or some sake. Anyway, salty works for me, so no complaints there.

Some food pictures:

Orange thing in the bowl is the talk of the town these days: molluscs that predict winning football team. I'm not taking revenge on Paul or his relatives, though I have to admit I was a lil' annoyed when Germany beat Argentina. I craved tako sashimi then.

White strips of stingray with dollop of mayo and some ikura. Oh yums. A good alternative to the usual preparation of sambal BBQ. Chewy without being tough, flavourful... Went well with light Sapporo beer.

I can't imagine I'd ever eat this willingly!

At least not at the usual chicken rice stall.

Guess what:

Grilled platter. Decent selection.

Tori ume shiso:

This was excellent! The meat was succulent and had a nice bbq scent to it. The taste of the plum and shiso leaf also complimented the chicken. Yums.

Hungry must eat.

Thirsty must drink.

Kanpai!

Minnie Mouse is a boy

2010-07-05T14:35:00.001+08:00

listening to beyonce's 'Why Don't You Love Me'...

There's nothing not to love about me,

No no there's nothing not to love about me,

I'm lovely.

There's nothing not to need about me.

No no there's nothing not to need about me.

Maybe you're just not the one

Or maybe your just plain......DUMB

Wahahahaha!!! I love the lyrics coz I feel exactly about myself. Yes I do have a self-esteem problem: HIGH SELF-ESTEEM. *guffaws*
~~~

Little R turned one in June!

Happy birthday kiddo!

My cousin recounted the story about how she heard the children's crazy laughter from their playroom. It piqued her curiosity and she went over to check it out.

This is what happens when you are a little boy with a cheeky sister:

It's my birthday. I do as I please.

2010-06-24T23:05:00.003+08:00

listening to guo caijie's 'Yan Huo'...
~~~
1. Spent the birthday morning yesterday vacuuming the clinic before my parents started work. Was feeling smug and happy for cleaning so well, until I was mistaken as a part-time maid by a new patient, who came to queue up early.

Lady: They're not here yet?
Me: Nope, they'll be here at one pm.
Lady: Thanks. (awkward silence) So, you've been working for them for a long time?
Me: ... ... I'm the daughter.
Lady: Oh!!! (more awkward silence)
That's when I started to skulk away quietly.

2. Went for muay thai. Arms falling off. Legs falling off.
Only thing that's not falling off is the weight. FML.

3. Dinner with the gals. Thank you for dinner, cake and pressie!
I love how the cake only has one big candle and eight small ones on it. Such accuracy. :D

Forever 18:

4. Rushed home during the England vs Slovenia half-time.
Sigh... Slovenia, why you lose ah? North Korean team is in a damn sad position now. They may become miners after they return home. Don't think they'll be singing 'hi-ho, hi-ho', like the dwarves in the Snow White story. Argentina, you're my only hope now.
Oops. I digress. More cake with the family.

Strawberry shortcake. Very delish:

ps: No wonder the weight is not falling off. FML again. :P

Jogja? Ulu... NOT!

2010-06-24T22:39:00.000+08:00

listening to yan jue's 'Xie Xie Ni De Mei Hao'...
~~~
Back from Jogja. Cleared up all the misconceptions I had about the place. Can't wait to return in August!

Alfresco dining facing the Pramanam temple:

Best ayam goreng in the WORLD!!!

Complicated batik procedures:

Lovely stay in Sheraton:

Peace and tranquility at Borobuduh:

Made a wish at the Borobuduh. Hope it comes true...

The Back-up Plan

2010-06-15T15:35:00.000+08:00

listening to charlene's 'I've Never Been To Me'...
Kev's blasting it in the office. We're crooning to the tune. Sometimes my job is fun like that.
~~~

Managed to catch rom com 'The Backup Plan'. If you're planning to try one of those fancy schmancy water birth thingy, you may wanna watch this show for it. It's freaky. J.Lo is kinda adorable in the movie. But more importantly, the leading man is CUTE! The decent humorous bloke-next-door type. My type!

Stan is hot and Stan is nice and Stan loves Zoey.

I likey!

Showed R the below picture and he drooled too.

...

Stan is hot and Stan is nice. We likey!

Loving 2010

2010-06-04T15:34:00.001+08:00

listening to lady gaga's "Alejandro"...
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This year is starting to look pretty good and boy am I glad! Some of the fun stuff that's happening:

a) Power Over Cervical Cancer Ambassador
My second year supporting this movement. Please pledge your support as well, by clicking here.

b) Work trip/ tour group

Guess where I'm going next.

Clue 1:

Clue 2:

Bingo. Yogyakarta and Bali. Lemme know if you wanna join me.We can take pictures together at the Borobudur, then chill out at Seminyak beach. Oh and you may win for yourself another trip for two to Bali. Details coming up shortly. Watch this space.

Before and after makeup

2010-05-31T09:24:00.000+08:00

listening to zhong shuman's 'Gei Zi Ji De Xin'...
~~~
The wonders of makeup:
Small beady eyes -> Luminous peepers
Flat honker -> Sharp regal looking nose
Dinosaur lass -> Hot va-va-voom babe

The hosts' descriptions are hilarious too.
"化妆后，被电到。化妆前，被打到。"
"你这种素颜的样子，警察会抓你吗?"
"你哪里有眼睛???"
"如果她卸妆，她先生一定会跟她离婚。"
"根本就是诈骗集团。吓死人了"

Twenty years later

2010-05-26T09:07:00.001+08:00

listening to s.h.e's 'Ai Jiu Dui Le'...

~~~

Something silly for some midweek fun.

In twenty years' time, I'll look like ang moh. Hahahaha!!!

Go try it.

Bali bali small

2010-05-23T01:14:00.000+08:00

listening to m.i.a's 'Paper Planes'...
~~~
Processed some of the pics taken during the trip for fun. I ♥ tilt-shift.

Villagers were bathing at the bottom of this waterfall.

The bare chested ladies asked me to join them.

I'm not prudish. I just didn't have extra clothes.

View from top of the Blanco Museum:

Seminyak beach where we worshipped the sun.

Less crowded and commercialized than Kuta Beach.

Surf shack where I learnt surfing.

After the lousy first spa session,

we checked out a second place which was highly recommended.

So much better!

Plot of greenery next to the spa.

Bali bali good

2010-05-23T00:41:00.000+08:00

listening to adam lambert's 'What Ya Want From Me'...

~~~

Back from Bali. I can finally understand how some people can pay homage to the place multiple times a year.

Checklist for an awesome holiday:

a) Good references - friends (SA, E, Jens etc) told us where to go for food, spas and clubs. Ku De Ta, Ibu Oka, Dirty Duck, Breeze, Made Warung... I'm only sorry we didn't manage to squeeze clubbing into the agenda. SL, if you're reading this, let's arrange a trip there just for beach and clubbing when you're back from UK for holidays.

b) Nice villa - free upgrade to the two bedroom villa, with gadgets like iPod speakers and DVD player etc thrown in. Convenient location. Friendly hotel staff. Oh, there was a good looking pair of Australians who sunbathed while we had breakfast. We would consider that a perk too.

c) Easy going travel companions - Nobody killed anybody. We managed to have a good time together. Average rating for three of us was 8.75/10. And the deduction was mainly due to the sloppy spa which our driver brought us to. Luckily there was another spa session which saved the day.

d) Beach - sun, sea and sand. What's not to like? The boys roasted themselves on the beach while I attempted to drown myself.

e) Surfing - fun but scary! Thought it would be similar to wakeboarding but I was awfully wrong. The first few times when I was swept under water by the currents, I thought I was going to see light at the end of some tunnel. Turned out to be sunlight. Subsequently when I saw the waves looming over my head, I knew how to grimace, sigh, and wait for the salty water to engulf me totally. Btw, for a first-timer, I wasn't too bad.

Then there was also the:

Legendary Kuta cowboy - There's a slight misconception here. They don't have to come from Kuta beach. They could be from any beach. While I was out in the ocean, clinging onto the surfboard, waiting for the right wave to come along and sweep me away (HELLLLOOO... FOCUS HERE. I AM TALKING ABOUT THE WATERS, NOT ANYTHING ELSE), my surf instructor suddenly asked if I wanted a 'boy massage'. I refused but he went on and on about it. I pretended my ears were stuffed up and I didn't understand English. Bad idea to offend him coz I was kinda far away from the shores. FYI, he looked more like the cow rather than the cowboy. After rejecting his offer for a torturous ten minutes, I jumped with joy when a huge wave came and swept me to the shore. I really have no idea why women, from what I heard especially the Japs and Koreans, went for them. Gimme Lee Hom anyday.

Last but not least, let's not forget the:

Shopping - I like shopping. I hate bargaining. Bargaining is an art and I suck at it. I bought a mosaic bowl without wanting to buy it. Bargaining is stupid and I hate it.

百德孝为先

2010-05-12T16:01:00.000+08:00

listening to langhua xiongdi's 'Xiang Ni Jiu Xie Xin'...
~~~
Someone gave me a poster about filial piety and most of the gals in the office were teary-eyed after reading it. Maybe coz we are at that age when we can see visible changes in our parents. Our dads are no longer the handsome strapping young men they used to be. They have more white hair on their heads, they hunch a bit more these days. Our moms are no longer the chirpy young lasses they used to be. They now have more wrinkles everywhere, and coarser hands from work as well as housework.

These days the thought of not seeing my parents upset me immensely. I get very paranoid about them dying. So I warned Dad and Mom, please don't die too soon.

Anyway, here's the article:

当我老了，不再是原来的我。

请理解我，对我有一点耐心。

当我把菜汤洒到自己的衣服上时，

当我忘记怎样系鞋带时，

请想一想当初我是如何手把手地教你。

当我一遍又一遍地重复你早已听腻的话语，

请耐心地听我说，不要打断我。

你从小的时候，我不得不重复那个讲过千百遍的故事，

直到你进入梦乡。

当我需要你帮我洗澡时，请不要责备我。

还记得小时候我千方百计哄你洗澡的情形吗？

当我对新科技和新事物不知所措时，请不要嘲笑我。

想一想当初我怎样耐心地回答你的每一个“为什么”。

当我由于双脚疲劳而无法行走时，

请伸出你年轻有力的手搀扶我。

就像你小时候学习走路时，我扶你那样。

当我忽然忘记我们谈话的主题，请给我一些时间让我回想。

其实对我来说，谈论什么并不重要，

只要你能在一旁听我说，我就很满足。

当你看着老去的我，请不要悲伤。

理解我，支持我，就像你刚开始

学习如何生活时我对你那样。

当初我引导你走上人生的路，

如今请陪我走完最后的路。

给我你的爱和耐心，我会报以感激的微笑。

这微笑中凝结着我对你无限的爱。

To my dear sons and daughter,

On the day when you see me old, weak and weary,

Have patience and do try to understand me...

If I get dirty while eating, if I cannot dress on my own,

Please bear with me and remember the times I spent feeding and dressing you up...

If when I speak to you, I repeat the same things over and over again, do not interrupt, listen to me,

When you were small I had to read to you a thousand times until you went to sleep...

When I do not want to have shower, neither shame nor scold me,

Remember when I had to chase you with your thousand excuses to get you to the shower?

When you see my ignorance of new technologies help me navigate through these worldwide webs,

I taught you how to do so many things, to dress appropriately, to fight for your rights...

When at some moments I lose the memory or thread of our conversation,

Let me have the necessary time to remember, and if I cannot, do not become nervous,

As the most important thing is not our conversation,

but simply to be with you and to have you listening to me...

If ever I do not feel like eating, do not force me,

I know well when I need to, and when not to...

When my tired legs give way and do not allow me to walk without a cane,

Lend me your helping hand, the same I did when you tried your first faltering steps...

And when someday I say to you that I don’t want to live anymore, that I want to go to heaven,

Do not get angry for one day you will understand,

Try to appreciate that our age is not just lived, but survived...

Someday you will realize that despite my mistakes, I always want the best for you,

And I tried to prepare the way for you...

You must not feel sad, angry nor ashamed having me near you,

Instead, try to understand me and help me like I did when you were younger,

Help me to walk, help me to live the rest of my life with love and dignity,

I will pay you with a smile, and by the immense love I have, always had for you in my heart...

Road Trip!

2010-05-07T08:50:00.002+08:00

listening to jay chou's 'Chao Ren Bu Hui Fei'...
~~~
Yippee! We're going away! The reminder email made me LOL. We're gonna have FUN!

dateThu, May 6, 2010 at 9:18 AM
subjectRe: Last Min Short Break

Road Trip Update:

1. P has already made reservations at a restaurant (so efficient).
2. We got a GPS loaded with Malaysia's maps (don't think we'll get lost)
3. My bro's car has an iPod adapter so anyone with music can bring your iPod (P will bring his)
4. The meeting time at XXX is 8:30am. We set off promptly at 9am. (Lunch is on whoever is late)
5. Do not bring your LV luggage, there isn't much space in the car once we get in. I will be distributing a plastic bag each to contain your belongings (that's the baggage limit on W's Not-A-Virgin Airways).
6. Pi, no coolers. We will be making a couple of stops for refreshments and stretching to prevent Deep Vein Trombosis (on board exercises will be demonstrated by our lovely Still-A-Virgin C).

Another good song - 无法割舍

2010-05-07T07:18:00.002+08:00

listening to peng jiahui's 'Wu Fa Ge She'...
~~~
Heard this song while driving home after dinner at the usual BKT hangout. Could be due to her voice, could be the lyrics. Could be both. Goosebumps worthy.

Like this para:

当两个人的关系只剩以前
　　我剪断我们之间那条线
　　想放你飞向蓝天越离越远
　　但你却拼命飞往我心里面

Like this too:

该割舍却又无法去割舍
　　是伤痛让成长的过程更深刻
　　在月下会想念但不再等什么
　　离开很像幸福的曲折

I'm not a big fan of the music video, but go ahead and take a listen anyway.

Super awesome music

2010-05-05T10:45:00.005+08:00

listening to pomplamoose's 'If You Think You Need Some Lovin'...
~~~
In Eric Cartman's words, this band is

'SUPER AWESOME'!!! Watch the video coz it's amazing!!!

If You Think You Need Some Lovin by Pomplamoose

If you think you need some money, well honey that's just funny, cause I got none

(no money, ain't got no money)

If you just want conversation, go somewhere in the nation, not in my house

But if you think you need some lovin', oooooo that's fine

Well cause if you think you need some money well you can't have mine

If you think you want some conversation try a pick up line

But if you think you need some lovin', oooooo that's fine

If you think you need a shrink you're draining down the sink, well go take a hike

(ain't got no time for your baggage)

If you think you need a fix don't put me in the mix, just stick to wine

But if you think you need some lovin', ooooooooo that's fine

Cause’ if you think you need a shrink, well I'm out of time

If you think you need a fix, I'm not the fixin' kind

But if you think you need some lovin' well that's fine

think you need some loving oooooooooo that's fine , yeah that's fine

Baby R again

2010-05-05T09:33:00.000+08:00

listening to b.a.d's 'Shi Qu Lian Luo'...
Thought of this song while walking home last night. B.A.D actually won Best Group in the Taiwan Golden Melody awards in 2002. Where are they now? Erm... no more. Such is life. Fame is transient.
~~~

Cousin asked if I'm planning for Europe yet. The weak pounds and Euros work in my favour. And of course, there's always baby R to tempt me too:

Baby Shower

2010-05-03T23:54:00.000+08:00

listening to estelle's 'American Boy' on repeat mode...
~~~
Changed the blog colours again. White never really works for me. I have always preferred black. 勉强是没有幸福的.

We threw a baby shower for L and Jo. As usual, we had too much food. Some pictures of the party taken beautifully by one of the dads-to-be.

Missing some of our friends:

Beautiful things usually taste crummy,

but not these cupcakes!

They were the tastiest pretty lil' things:

Even though she was in US,

thoughtful C sent her messenger.

He jumped over the wall to bring us lotsa goodies.

Kinda like Santa Claus:

比比看, 谁比谁大?

Can't believe that my gals are popping soon!!! The little boys will be arriving in May and July. It seemed like it was only yesterday that we went to NYC and got sloshed together. I could even remember coming back from a work trip, and joining them at the club for J's hen party after dumping my luggage at home. OMG. Super omg. Someone please pass me a brown bag. I'm hyper-ventilating.

All the best to you dear gals as you get ready to embark on the new journeys in your lives. To the little ones, your crazy aunties and uncles are all waiting to say hi :)

Love,
Kay

Call me Zorro

2010-04-29T09:27:00.000+08:00

listening to alicia keys' 'Put It In A Love Song'...
~~~
According Daily Mail UK, "researchers found that when a light is turned on at night, it triggers an over-expression of cells linked to the formation of cancer".

Suggestions include using eyemasks when you sleep. That's why I'm happily using mine. :)

The beach beckons

2010-04-19T14:05:00.002+08:00

listening to rihanna's 'Rude Boy'...
~~~
Methinks it's time to for a getaway. DND. Planning in progress.

Congratulations, YL!

2010-04-19T13:49:00.001+08:00

listening to huang pinyuan's 'Shuang Yu De Ze Ren'..
~~~
Congratulations to my dear friend! So happy for you! :)
Your first Star Award leh!!!

May this award be the beginning of all things awesome and wonderful that are lined up for you!

Details on YL's blog.

Charlie bit me

2010-04-16T11:23:00.001+08:00

listening to rene liu's 'Wo Men Mei You Zai Yi Qi'...
A lot of friends are telling me that the lyrics for this song is very well written. I agree that the 压韵感(rhyming) and choice of words is pretty clever. Pity it has no resonance for me.
~~~
Youtube's turning five this year. Wow. TIME magazine came up with a list of top 50 videos. The little boy's accent is so endearing and his brother Charlie has the cheekiest grin. Have a good Friday, y'all.

Jack in the box

2010-04-15T15:53:00.000+08:00

listening to by2's 'Zhe Shi Ai'...
~~~
What's cuter than a Jack-in-the-box?

It's...
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.

Baby-in-the-bag!!!

Baby R and his jiejie (who is also very cute, sings in German a little, but a loooot grouchier)

Baby R

2010-04-14T13:23:00.001+08:00

listening to s.h.e's 'Ai Shang Ni'...
~~~
I know everyone thinks his/her kid is the cutest, his/her nephews and nieces are the most adorable. In my opinion, most children are lovable. Until the parents' pampering turn them bratty. That's when we should keep them in the dungeons and throw away the key. The parents AND the kids. I'm quite a fair person.

Anyway, I don't have a kid. Let me gush about one of my little nephews instead.

Baby R who lives in Switzerland:

Baby got sick after his trip back to Singapore.

Fever, flu, runny nose...

He even fell on his face coz the medicine made him drowsy.

Poor thing!

(Food mess images below may cause discomfort to OCD people who plan to have children)

I'm glad you're feeling better Baby R!

Auntie Kay's planning to use you as an excuse to visit Switzerland.

Hurhurhurhur :D

Eat Play Live (not Elizabeth Gilbert)

2010-03-29T14:00:00.003+08:00

listening to alicia keys' 'Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart'...
She sounds amazing in this song. Go check it out.
~~~
I had my own version of Restaurant Week(s). Ate enough to feed an army. // Brunch at Wild Honey with JF, Rozz and Hock. English breakfast and a cuppa refreshing Queen Bee. Yea... // Jap dinner at Wahiro with J and his friends. Melt-in-your-mouth tuna belly, yuzu ice-cream and sakura ice. Ooh... // Forlino for lunch with Fred, L and N. Crab salad and molten chocolate lava cake. Wah... // Taste Paradise dim sum with YL and the gals. Foie gras dumplings and soon Hock fish. Mmm... // I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm getting sick of food already.

The past two weeks had been turbulent, but maybe there's sunshine after the rain. We're crossing our fingers for you. Two important lessons learnt from this episode: 1) Some men are good. Some men are bad. Some men are downright retarded and ridiculous. 2) Besides our family, friends are life's presents to us. Which means I am a gift too. Hahaha.

The station celebration was held at St James on Saturday. You can't imagine how much I hate the idea of performing in front of a crowd. Hosting is not a problem, singing is. Thank god it's over!

SH and I singing, playing and freaking out on stage.

To our dear mentor from LWS Music school,
I hope you weren't too disappointed.

I refuse to feel morose even though it's tomorrow. Shall just get busy with muay thai, gym and pilates. Clinic work will help too. Lead a good life. Go team!

Why some stars don't show their faces

2010-03-25T10:32:00.003+08:00

listening to dan hill's 'Sometimes When We Touch'...
~~~
While this song was playing on air this morning, my itchy backside cohost decided to search for the singer's picture. We started laughing like mad when his face appeared.

"And sometimes when we touch

The honesty's too much

And I have to close my eyes and hide

I wanna hold you till I die

Till we both breakdown and cry

I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides"

Quite sappy, sentimental, romantic right?

Wait when you see what Dan Hill looks like, you WILL close your eyes and hide, you WILL die if he holds you, you WILL break down and cry, and the fear in you WILL NOT subside. In fact, the fear in you will grow to an enormous amount and kill you eventually.

This guy looks like a joker I tell you. Presenting:

...

DAN HILL!

Funeral

2010-03-25T07:07:00.000+08:00

listening to berlin's 'Take My Breath Away'...
~~~

There's an ongoing wake next to my house and it seems to be bustling with activities. Is it morbid and warped if I find funerals quite jolly? Not all funerals, only those of people had lived to a ripe old age and departed peacefully, people who could be remembered fondly by their loved ones.

鱼

2010-03-23T17:41:00.000+08:00

listening to a-lin's 'Fen Shou Xu Yao Lian Xi De'...
~~~

A couple of days ago, I saw the bottle of fish medicine that's still sitting in my house and I thought of my poor dead fish, Frankie. The one that committed suicide by jumping out of the container onto the floor.

Today I was reminded of Frankie again. I miss my fish but for today, I especially miss that period of time when I had it. I hope you have fun with your fish since you had wanted them for quite a long while.

When cussing helps

2010-03-18T23:00:00.004+08:00

listening to olinda cho's 'Hopelessly Devoted To You'...
呸!
~~~
I have samba drums beating away in my head again. Stupid flu bug. Mom thinks it's due to the weather, the hosting gigs and the over-fretting.

It's a trying period for someone close and the worst thing is, we can't help much. The sense of helplessness and anger is definitely not aiding the headache situation.

A faster remedy would be this: *ahem*...... !@#*&^$W%^!~<+`\)

Better.

苦中作乐

2010-03-13T20:31:00.000+08:00

To be honest, it wasn't exactly 苦 since Harry and I had a pretty good time at the charity carnival.

The stall that probably raised the most money. Everybody loves their bosses and wants to give them baths:

Met D and his little girl. She's so cute! But without Yakult as token of goodwill, she wasn't very smiley:

You climb into these huge inflatable balls and they're then filled up with air. Voila! Now you can walk/ climb/ scramble across water. Like the pugilists from olden times, you have now mastered the art of 水上漂. Poise and elegance not guaranteed:

I love these Kangoo Jumps shoes! Thinking of buying a pair, except they may add to my herd of white elephants. Due to my sudden whims, I have a safari of weird, useless things:

Quick Summary

2010-03-13T20:14:00.000+08:00

listening to davichi, seeya & t-ara's 'Wonder Woman'...
~~~

a) Thank you L for the cutesy Lollipop phone. I feel twenty years younger, holding the saccharine pink mobile in my hand. Getting bored of the iPhone, my female kid cousins now look at me with new found admiration. I am their cool elder cousin again. Haha.

b) Met up with K and Jenn at Hyatt. I was impressed by K's patience towards children. We think she's almost ready for motherhood. And since Jenn is considering a third kid, there's a likelihood that in one or two years' time, my two friends are gonna be pregnant around the same period. Fwah.

c) What does it mean when someone's reminded of you while watching Forrest Gump? My reply to him: Cool, I never knew I looked like Tom Hanks. *rofl*

Need.Breather.Soon

2010-03-10T22:42:00.003+08:00

listening to jamie cullum's 'I'm All Over It'...
Mm-kay.
~~~
I WANNA GO AWAY!

I'm not complaining. I'm just a tad bit exhausted. If you gimme a teeny weeny short break, away from everything including early mornings and even human interaction (but I don't want supernatural encounters either!). I promise to be back good as new, raring to go again.
*starts formulating plan*

Taking a leaf out of the 'South Park Guide to Life' which Robin gave me, I strive to be cool.

叉烧不见天

2010-03-04T09:46:00.000+08:00

listening to timbaland feat. katy perry's 'If We Ever Meet Again'...
Will somebody who understands this music video please enlighten me?
~~~
Robin and I decided to check out this famous wonton noodle stall in Tiong Bahru. According to reliable sources, they serve one of the best char siew in town. We arrived slightly earlier than its official opening hours (not because we were kiasu hor!) and were lucky enough to be the first few customers. At 1030am, the crazy queue started forming. After I said neh-neh-ni-boo-boo to those waiting in line, we tucked into our plates of goodness.

I shall borrow L'oreal's tag: "Becoz I'm worth it." TOTALLY YUMMY! Springy noodles, just right amount of seasoning, big juicy wontons and mostly importantly, the special 不见天 char siew.

Quiz time: Which part of the pig does the 不见天char siew come from?

I spied this with my lil eye at RWS

2010-03-01T17:13:00.000+08:00

listening to jj lin's 'Di Ji Ge Yi Bai Tian'...
~~~
Was at RWS last week for work and Zappy was parked next to this car. I thought it was a hoot and snapped a picture of it.

I guess when gambling does become an addiction, you will really sell off EVERYTHING. But just out of curiosity, would people really bring gold bars, bottles of old liquor, Rolex watches and pawn tickets when they visit the casino?

Babble

2010-02-18T19:41:00.000+08:00

listening to ding dang's 'Ni Wei Shen Me Shuo Huang'...
~~~
a) They stopped Autumn's Concerto for a week coz of CNY specials. I have to wait till this Sunday before I get weekly fix of my fav drama of the moment. Bugger. I have to fill the void with episodes of 'Glee' and 'Family Guy', as well as music videos of songs from the soundtrack. Congrats Ding Dang, I finally approve of you because of '下一站，幸福'. A classic example of 爱屋及乌.

b) Went for lessons at THAT music school just now. Fun! The teacher was very encouraging and nice. If I were him, I would just tear my hair out from exasperation. When I said 'my hair' I meant the student's (yes, mine). Watch out for the performance in March. Let's hope I don't make a fool of myself.

c) With compliments from Lock. Below is a ridiculously funny article. Perfect for pre-Friday mood. Weekend soon! Our pugilistic duel at Windyville in two days' time. Are you ready, guys??? :D

Valentine's Day & CNY combo

2010-02-15T00:32:00.003+08:00

listening to xu jiaying's rendition of 'Gai Zen Me Ai Ni'...
~~~
This year, we get two for the price of one.

The dong-dong-chiang Lunar New Year 初一 meets the westernized Valentine's Day on 14 Feb 2010. We bugged Dad to give flowers to Mom, and he actually went out to buy some. Sounds romantic right? Except he came back with kai-lan flowers 芥蓝花, which we brought over to Gramma's place to fry with mushrooms for 初一 dinner. Ah well, at least Dad was innovative enough to present the vegetable to Mom in a vase. Practicality and corny jokes rule the Heng household.

hellokaein's Vday special
Qn: Simplify 2i<6u.
From one of my fave comic strips. Happy Valentine's Day!

hellokaein's CNY special
招财进宝, y'all!

去旧迎新, 接来好运 - Happy CNY!

2010-02-13T15:06:00.001+08:00

listening to jay-z & alicia keys' 'Empire State of The Mind'...
~~~
Counting down to the arrival of the Year of the Metal Tiger.
This e-card is from my station and click on this link for rock metal animated version.

I don't play mahjong but these cupcakes say it all.
Here's wishing everyone an awesome Lunar New Year!

虎啸一声山海动，龙腾三界吉祥来

Bento making

2010-02-08T15:38:00.001+08:00

listening to some headbanging rock music playing from colleague's desk...
If I am not dead from all that noise, please kill me already. *agony*
~~~
Saw my 21 yr old part timer's photos on FB.

She and her little friends made bentos for their other halves. They made rice balls in the form of piglets and sausages that resembled octopuses. It's saccharine sweet but I doubt I would ever do that. Think there's a song that goes something like that: 已不是做梦的年龄.

Let's leave such activities to the youngsters. I will go prune my plants and practise my qigong.

Spring cleaning

2010-02-07T18:56:00.007+08:00

listening to girls' generation and super junior's 'S.E.O.U.L'...
~~~
Exactly one week before the Lunar New Year arrives.

Packed the car boot and removed items like CDs that I haven't heard, my old diaries, tennis balls, souvenir gifts from events, TCM notes etc. They'd been with me coz I thought I would listen to the discs, read the journals, play tennis and use the gifts some day. Problem is, that particular some day still hasn't arrived. With the help from my sudden surge of impulsiveness and my mother's nonstop nagging, I got rid of many things.

~~It's also a good time to declutter my life. Old sms messages, gchat convos, msn history are good for reminiscing but that's all they are used for.~~

Too many words. What I'm trying to say is: let's just throw away all the useless things.

Power of music

2010-02-03T17:52:00.011+08:00

listening to michael bublé's 'Haven't Met You Yet'...
~~~
Felt a bit smothered today. Not unhappy, only a tad bit blah. Probably the euphoria from the weekend activities has fizzled off, and life seems to be back in the doldrums. Sluggish at work until I had a pretty good lunch with Ms Chong at the Korean restaurant.

However, that contentment didn't last long enough. By the time I left the office, my head was hanging low enough to touch the ground. SIAN in block letters.

Then I heard this song again over the airwaves. After tapping my foot to the beat and singing loudly along with Mr Bublé, I felt so much better again. Never underestimate the power of music :) Come on, y'all, let's sing it together. All you need to know is one single line: ♥ I JUST HAVEN'T MET YOU YET!♥

ps: Buble and the female lead looked so natural and happy in the MV, I went to google about her. Turns out she's his fiancee. :D Everyone on cue right now: AWW......

Power Party + JY&Candyce's wedding

2010-02-03T07:52:00.006+08:00

listening to hu yanbin's 'Kong Wei'...
~~~
January whizzed by before I could even blink. Probably coz I was away for a while. Wish there were more than seven days in a week so I'll have time to hang out with the family, help out at the clinic more, meet up with friends, sleep and do absolutely nothing. Basically, I'm lazy and I treasure my anti-social moments.

Managed to make this amazing discovery while chatting with E on GoogleTalk:

less free time=more work=more money=more opportunities to slack off=more free time

Let's call this equation 'irony'. The formula fails when you're busy with random useless things that don't rake in the moola, e.g. watching Family Guy and XXZXF, surfing online shopping sites etc.

Power Access party last Friday
Dinner with LN, SH and the rest before we headed over to the club to meet the rest of the colleagues. It was like a big reunion gathering before CNY. Each year, the alumni grows, but everyone is always jolly and glad to see one another.

Candyce's wedding on Sunday
One of those celeb weddings/ media playgrounds. Hosting the event was kinda pressurizing coz you could sense everyone judging you. I'm glad I didn't screw up.

The groom was exceptionally emotional (XJ, does this sound familiar? *rofl*). He cried so many times I lost count and I'm sure he didn't weep because of his loss of freedom.
1) Cried while saying the weddings vows.
2) Cried while performing for the wife. Btw, the new song which he wrote, played and sang for her was poignant and lovely.
3) Cried when his good pal JJ Lin made a surprise appearance after pretending to miss the wedding.
We also took an interesting picture during the dinner. This must be the first time in history that such a photo had been taken.

The blissful looks on newly wed couples are the reasons why I love weddings despite attending so many. It was evident how much JY adores Candyce and I'm happy for them. All the best, Candyce and JY!

What can you get for 40 USD?

2010-02-01T17:34:00.004+08:00

listening to norah jones' 'Chasing Pirates'...

She looks different these days. More mainstream. Period.

~~~

We celebrated D's birthday dinner at Long Beach on Wednesday. The group tucked into a sumptious spread of bamboo clams, prawns, both chilli and black pepper crabs, and a lot more food.

CY who was back from his work in Hong Kong, told us about his month-long stint in Ethiopia. He took a month off to do voluntary work there. Very noble so we shouldn't laugh, but our silly friend ignored the existence of weather dot com, and packed for the trip based on his own impression of the country. It was hilarious when he told us how he only brought shorts, coz he thought Africa would be hot, then ended up wearing two trackpants and still shivering. BTW, there is Wi-Fi connection in certain regions of Ethiopia, and people don't really regard you as God just because you have a mobile phone in your hand (iPhones included).

His experience at the feeding house was a humbling tale to all of us at the table. The usual meal dished out at the feeding house consist of flat doughy bread and 2 scoops of yellow bean soup. Nothing is wasted during meal times. The plates are re-used at least four times with minimal washing, and the leftovers on the plates are collected in buckets to be re-distributed at the end of meal time. Kinda like tapao-ing, except you're packing home scraps from ALL the tables in the restaurant. I guess hygiene isn't the priority when you're starving.

US$40 could feed 1000 Ethiopians with a meal. The cost of our seafood dinner was enough to stop three thousand people from going hungry. *gulp* In CY's words, 'We probably rolled a six to be living in Singapore, and a triple six to be where we are.'

Yupperoos. Grateful, I am.

沒那麼簡單

2010-01-29T14:45:00.001+08:00

listening to a-lin's 'Yi Qian, Yi Hou'...
~~~
Quite a number of good singers released their albums recently. Quite a feast for the ears. Here's a song which some of us at the station like. I think I sound very much like this lady Huang Xiaohu or the Taiwanese compere Li Jing (or in YL's words, 'a tranny') coz of the bad sore throat.

Ok, I exaggerate. My voice is low like Huang Xiaohu, but I definitely can't sing like her.

沒那麼簡單就能找到聊得來的伴
尤其是在看過了那麼多的背叛
總是不安只好強悍
誰謀殺了我的浪漫

沒那麼簡單就能去愛別的全不看
變得實際也許好也許壞各一半
不愛孤單一久也習慣
不用擔心誰也不用被誰管

感覺快樂就忙東忙西
感覺累了就放空自己
別人說的話隨便聽一聽自己作決定
不想擁有太多情緒
一杯紅酒配電影
在周末晚上關上了手機舒服窩在沙發裡

相愛沒有那麼容易每個人有他的脾氣
過了愛作夢的年紀轟轟烈烈不如平靜
幸福沒有那麼容易才會特別讓人著迷
什麼都不懂的年紀
曾經最掏心所以最開心曾經
想念最傷心但最動心的記憶

10 minus 2, minus another one

2010-01-23T14:40:00.004+08:00

listening to tokio hotel's 'World Behind My Wall'...

The androgynous lead singer caught my eye while I was watching MTV.

Gal? Guy? Gal? Guy?

Wiki-ed for the answer: guy, with his identical twin bro in the same german band.

How did we survive without the internet previously?

~~~

Had a nice dinner, followed by a lovely chat session with some of my fave people in the world. Friends since thirteen, we've seen one another through the good, the bad and the ugly times. Keeping a big group together isn't easy, but I'm glad we managed to do it somehow. Now that another member is going to be posted overseas, the gang shrinks further. :( *sniff sniff*

Oh well... maybe this time we can organize a trip to visit PH and finally fulfill our dream of travelling as a gang.

Hmm. Let me see...

2010-01-20T23:17:00.005+08:00

listening to j-lo's 'Louboutins'...

~~~

Since I'll be staying in bed tomorrow to nurse the cold and sore throat, I guess watching a good movie would help to kill time. Just got a random email from C, telling us how awesome '500 Days of Summer was', and how he also enjoyed 'Paranormal Activity'. Timely suggestion.

Hmm.

1) I like Joseph Gordon-Levitt from his '3rd Rock' days.

2) The idea of not believing in love strikes a chord. Not being cynical. Just sensible.

3) I'm a chicken-shite scaredy cat at heart. Ghosts don't scare me but I hate sudden noises. It'll be hard to blow my nose, cover my ears and close my eyes at the same time. And imagine how damaging it would be to my already raspy voice. Eat my shorts, Rod Stewart and Bryan Adams!

Not hard to guess which I would watch.

update: In the end, brainless humour won.

I watched Family Guy 'Something something something dark side' and read the South Park book that Robin gave me. I'll leave '500' for another time, probably when I'm feeling more intelligent.

下一站, 幸福

2010-01-20T08:56:00.004+08:00

listening to pin guan's 'Wo Yi Wei'...
~~~
I'm going to get a lot of flack for gushing over drama serials, but I ♥ everything from '下一站,幸福'! The soundtrack is great too. It's my weekly staple.
AHHHHH!!! Why does Sunday only happen once a week???

Hungry? Go there.

2010-01-19T23:16:00.005+08:00

listening to pixie lott's 'Cry Me Out'...

~~~

Taking pictures is fun, but sorting them out is not. A bigger torture is the editing and touching up.

Boohoohoo.

Thanks to YL and SA, I got the Pan Pac rooms at a steal.

Clean bathroom = happy bathroom

Our daily food. Chaozhou's specialties.

1) Braised geese.

2) Oyster omelettes

The Singaporean version can't compare.

SIMPLY CANNOT COMPARE!!!

3) Yam desserts

The Teochews love their yams.

I am Teochew. I love it too.

Wo Si Teo Chew Nang

2010-01-15T15:00:00.000+08:00

listening to g-dragon's 'Butterfly'...
~~~
Back from China.
Saw where my dad grew up.
Ate a lot of geese.
Found out I'm already a grand-aunt.
Spoke so much (broken) dialect.

Conclusion: being a Teochew is fun.

Meet the Heng-sters

2010-01-06T02:33:00.000+08:00

listening to huang xiaohu's 'Mei Na Me Jian Dan'...

I like her voice and this song grows on me too.

~~~

In a few hours, I'll be on my way to trace the ancestral roots.

To look for Very Heng, So Heng, Chin-chia Heng etc.

See ya.

Just before 2010 arrived

2010-01-04T19:45:00.003+08:00

SL and I at Cacio e Pepe.

8.5/10 for food.

10/10 for service:

Reminds me of Harry Potter.

The fourth book.

Check out what E is holding.

It's the Goblet of Fire:

Sushi Yoshida #1.

Nom. Nom. Nom. Nom. Nom.

Sushi Yoshida #2.

SLURRRRP.

Best prawn soup ever:

Sushi Yoshida #3.

Thanks J for introducing the place.

And the lovely bubbly:

Thought we would go Gatecrashers after Timbre.

Bailed out eventually.

Ended up at prata place.

Making of the old fogeys:

Christmas Day (Dinner edition)

2010-01-04T19:20:00.002+08:00

Left N's house in the evening to go back and wash up. It was almost time to head over to XJ and E's place for Christmas dinner with my gals and the affiliates.

The beautiful, talented, amusing Miss Mischka.

Her best friend Tasha the turkey taking a quick nap:

Lawyer, dancer, sailor, chef.

E is the epitome of 女强人 and 强女人:

A mouthwatering spread.

My photos don't do justice to them:

I feel like chicken tonight:

Not one but TWO desserts. Guess the flava:

Almost ready for our hilarious competition.

Btw how many times did the name 'Fiona Xie' come up?

13 adults. 12 bottles.

And a ~~patridge~~ dog in a ~~pear~~ mango tree

I ♥ my gang!

ps: there'll be a three way contest among DHS, CHS and RI one of these days.

Place your bets soon.

Christmas Day (The lunch edition)

2010-01-04T19:18:00.000+08:00

Every year at this time, we'll eat, drink, make merry and think of what outrageous items to bring for our ridiculous gift exchange.

Too many bystanders spoil the food:

Lalala... we love lala soup:

Oxymoron. Vintage looking new thing:

Square pizzas. Delivery boy must have been doing bike stunts:

This is NOT wantan noodles. This is delish pasta.

Yummy otahs in the yellow bag and tasty salad is not shown:

Lychee martini cheesecake! *hic*:

To die for choc log cake. Repeat: TO DIE FOR!

Proud parents-to-be:

Seeing double:

Erm, SA, you've got something on your head:

Group shot of the uni pals taken by Dr B with the oldish new camera:

Don't play mahjong with the recipient of this underwear:

Ridiculous gift exchange #1. Methinks he no likey:

Ridiculous gift exchange #2. Methinks he likes it more than her:

Winner of ridiculous gift brings home the bacon (ham):

Next year this time, we'll have new members to the group. Pretty excited about the arrival. Wonder what kind of silly presents we should prepare for them... :D

Hello 2010!!!

2010-01-02T17:27:00.001+08:00

listening to ding dang's 'Qin Ren'...

~~~

It had been a splendid week leading up to the brand new year.

Mon: Desserts with SL @ Cacio e Pepe

Tue: HJ and Ed's wedding @ Conrad

Wed: Dinner with J @ Sushi Yoshida

Thu: Countdown @ Timbre Mobile

Fri: Madness @ YL's new place

Too many pictures and I can't finish editing them (and the Xmas pics are not done either)! Anyway, one of my mantra for 2010 is to think positively:

If I have a stye in one eye, I rejoice becoz I don't have styes in both eyes.
If I have styes in both eyes, I rejoice becoz I don't have cancer.
If I have cancer, I rejoice becoz I'm not dead yet.
If I am dead, I rejoice becoz I don't have to go to work.

Here's presenting my first parking ticket of the year:

I rejoice becoz at least it's not a fine for $100 :D

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!!!

Romanian diplomat a suspect in the hit and run case

2009-12-30T08:43:00.001+08:00

listening to chilam and hu xing er's 'Ai Guo'...
~~~
I should be posting pics taken over Christmas weekend. Or blogging about HJ's wedding last night. Or squeal in excitement about the upcoming family trip and future new additions to the Bizcom group. Basically write about fun stuff.

NO.

Now that the news is out in the open and is widely reported, I can express my anger. You know that hit and run case which involves a diplomat's car, three victims (one of them dead) and a so-called car burglary? Basically if that Romanian Minister Plenipotentiary Silviu Ionescu is the culprit, he walks free becoz of diplomatic immunity. And the victims may not get compensation coz diplomats' cars are not covered by insurance.

草菅人命

I'm not going to assume that the guy is guilty since he's now only a suspect. Let's hope whoever's guilty, that bloody cowardly useless piece of amoeba, owns up soon. Or that his guilt eat him up so he withers into nothingness. Or simply just let the ghost of the dead victim haunt him forever.

I wish you good health

2009-12-28T06:28:00.005+08:00

listening to leona lewis' 'Happy'...
~~~
Less than five days before we bid farewell to 2009.
Wow.

Christmas came and left. I had a smashing time celebrating the occasion with colleagues, friends and family. Lots of presents. Roaring good time. Ate too much. Drank even more. Exchanged ridiculous gifts like Tiger Balm, a blow-up male stripper and cold hard cash. One of the nights, fourteen of us (including a dog) polished off twelve bottles of wine.

After basking in the holiday bliss, I went to clinic over the weekend. Instead of just helping out, I was learning to treat. Back to reality when you see patients suffering from cancer and other critical illnesses. You start thinking about how their lives, their families' lives are affected. You start imagining such things happening to yourself. Hypochondriac in the making.

So one of my Christmas wish is for the sick to get well. I'm not noble. I'm just easily depressed. I prefer my world to be perpetually filled with rainbows and daisies. Here's wishing everyone good health for the new year...

All I want for Christmas

2009-12-20T14:18:00.000+08:00

listening to rachel yamagata's 'I Wish You Love'...

Went through a couple versions. Eartha Kitt's, Nat King Cole's, Michael Buble's and Ol' Blue Eyes' too. But I like the one Yamagata did for the soundtrack of 'Prime'.

~~~

This Christmas, I will buy myself an army of frogs and house them under my bed.

Then I'll buy a sackful of spiders and release them in the garden.

While they eat up the evil mozzies that made me sick, I will munch on my pills from the doctor, sip on my TCM medicine, and use a Sharpie marker to play 'join-the-dengue-rashes' on my limbs.

Happy Holidays!

Virus, virus, go away!

2009-12-15T20:55:00.003+08:00

I am an awful patient.

When I'm unwell, I turn into a big baby, which is fairly moronic. While driving home today, I was whining for my parents. The drivers in the next cars were probably freaked out by my scrunched up face. Grow up, Kay!

Doctor said it's probably viral fever. I could have caught the chill when I went for MT last night. My eyeballs hurt, I'm having a fever and stupid bodyaches. I'm uncomfy all over. I'm blogging to remind myself how I hate being sick. And the worst thing about falling ill today is that I can't go for more MT training this week. *sulks further*

Go away u icky virus!!! :(

U want six packs?

2009-12-14T06:41:00.005+08:00

listening to the corrs' 'Happy Christmas (War Is Over)'

~~~

This video is tacky funny, but I'm not sure if it's really worth 15million hits.

I rolled my eyes so much I had to manually turn the eyeballs back into position. Her other videos are quite hilarious though.

Yes yes. Happy Monday *snort* to you too.

Zzzzz...

Wahiro @ Katong Mall

2009-12-11T22:30:00.002+08:00

listening to la roux's 'In For The Kill'...

Duckie was blasting this from his room.

The vocal's a tad screamy but it's still good.

I'm loving electropop these day.

(SL, if u're reading this, thanks to you... in a good way of coz!)

~~~

Funny how I'm blogging about Jap cuisine when I just had Japanese food today. Then again, everybody loves Jap food.

Dinner @ Wahiro last Sunday to celebrate J's birthday and to mark Wahiro's last day at Katong Mall. They're moving elsewhere. The omakase meal was mind-blowing and the dinner company was great fun. Thanks to J for asking me along! (How come I seem to be thanking people a lot these days?)

The pair of antennae was still moving when we stepped into the restaurant. I think it was trying to tell us not to pick it. But alas! Now you're alive. Now you're not:

Mr Lobster, sorry but you're yummy:

Sweet Japanese baby daikon with spring onions:

In that particular sake, all that glitters IS gold:

Someone told me it's bamboo clam and some kind of fish cake:

Seared hotate and some unidentified brown rectangular stuff. The white vege at the bottom had a texture like 淮山. I believe it's japanese yam aka yama imo:

When these were served, there was silence at the table. Way too good! The uni was light, sweet and delish. I always love to burst ikura fish roes in my mouth so that my tastebuds would be enveloped by the flavour:

Another quiet moment as everyone slurped up the bowls of goodness. Myojo cup duck porridge doesn't even come remotely close:

Black sesame ice-cream and yuzu sorbet to clear the palate:

Overall verdict, I'll borrow CGSH's fav words: simply orgasmic!!!

Surround smell

2009-12-11T21:23:00.000+08:00

listening to z-chen's 'Dan Xin'...

~~~

Rule of thumb: the better the vocals, the simpler the music arrangement.

Z-Chen has a good voice, but I think Kit's version is more soothing.

After the station event on Sat, I met up with the Bizcommers coz Char's back.

Again.

Such pretty-looking drinks at Timbre @ Old School.

Pity the Bitchy Peachy tasted rather icky:

After the rest went home, the four of us headed for some comfort food.

Me an' my homies havin' tau-hway.

So ghetto... Check out the huge ass rubbish bin next to us:

BTW, our smiles looked forced coz the bin really stank. :(

Nerd = /nɜːd/

2009-12-04T01:33:00.001+08:00

listening to yoga lin's 'Xin Suan'...

~~~

I am a nerd and proud of it.

I like watching Big Bang Theory.

One of my fav comic is Dilbert (and Pearls before Swine).

Today, I also found out that the word 'actress' used to mean 'prostitute', that the Queen of England would probably pronounce 'coach' differently from us lesser mortals, and I finally learnt the International Phonetic Alphabet properly.

The dictionary is going to be my best friend for a while. :D

Just for fun, read these:

women
thyme
nougat
exam
viscount
hyperbole
differ

Mirror image

2009-11-30T01:54:00.002+08:00

listening to the insects chirping outside my window...

~~~

I'm savoring the tranquil solitude at 130am in the morning.

No rush to fall asleep, since I don't have to wake up at ungodly hours tomorrow.

Hyak hyak hyak.

Celebrated Banana's birthday at PS Cafe.

This pic is great.

It reminds me of Christmas, and Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass.

I wonder what it is like to be me in that parallel universe.

Update: the photographer asked how come I didn't credit him for the pic.

Oops. My bad.

The above wonderful pic was taken by the talented Dr Benana. :D

Beat it, beat it...

2009-11-27T03:17:00.002+08:00

The normal bruises after lessons look like this:

After today's class, I found a new design at the back of my thigh:

Hahahaha!!! Reminds me of this:

Results are out

2009-11-26T15:08:00.003+08:00

PSLE results out today.

Coincidentally, results for AC Nielsen's listenership survey is ready too.

Today is a happy radio day for us.

Both stations are in Top 10.

恭喜老爷，贺喜夫人!

Google Wave

2009-11-26T10:33:00.004+08:00

listening to dingdang's 'Ni Wei Shen Me Shuo Huang'...

~~~

Thanks to N, I hopped on the Google Wave bandwagon.

Now I have the power to bestow!

Started out with eight
I currently have seven.
Buzz me if you want.

ps: please don't ask me what Google Wave does.

Haiku attempts

2009-11-25T17:05:00.001+08:00

listening to cai minyou's 'Ji Mo, Hao Le'...

~~~

Don't need a reason.

To post a picture of this.

I like the movie.

I hope you are well.

Eating your turkey and pie.

Watching NFL.

Not American.

Don't celebrate Thanksgiving.

But I like the sale.

One month to Christmas.

Time to go out and buy gifts.

Retail therapy.

These haikus are crap.

Because I am exhausted.

Time to go away.

Mon blue? No, Tuesday Boo!

2009-11-24T13:47:00.004+08:00

This is one of those days when you just feel angry angry angry.
I can find fault with almost everything.
ROAR.
Wednesday should be better.

W&J's big day

2009-11-12T09:08:00.006+08:00

listening to pin guan's 'Bi Xiang Xiang Geng Xiang Ni'...
~~~
Another one of my fave gals ties the knot!
Happiness is when you see your friends in bliss.
Congrats dearest W and J!

(Pretending to look) bright and chirpy at 6am:

A fleet of Rushes rushed over:

So pretty, so deadly.
Jess and her mom stayed up the entire night using syringes to inject hot sauce into sweet peppers. Imagine the guys' looks when they bit into the innocent looking vege.

(fr left to right): lime and lemon medley, bitter grass drink with bitter gourd cubes, condensed milk and syrup suspension topped with whipped cream and marashino cherry:

You hold the key to the maiden's room. Mr Watermelon, please guard it well:

The gorgeous couple with the bride's parents:

Signage made by our resident artist, XW:

Many many balloons! Yay!

So proud of ourselves for setting up everything in two hours. Note to the rest of the gals, no more garden weddings in Singapore allowed. My purple dress became deep purple coz of the perspiration. Yes. Eww...:

W looking radiant and pretty in the magical wedding kua：

福禄寿. Domino effect:

Happy birthday to W&J! The only pic that passed the Censorship Board:

Finally. After too many years.

2009-10-31T11:09:00.005+08:00

The postman came on Thursday to deliver the piece of news.

My heart almost leaped out of my mouth from palpitating too fast.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,

I hereby declare myself, 王医师.

Finally. I'm a certified TCM physician!!!

YIPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Poor bear bear!

2009-10-14T09:50:00.002+08:00

listening to sky wu's 'Ni Shi Chun Feng Wo Shi Yu'...
~~~
Poor little bear! We were laughing at you so hard during our shift today.
I hope you recover from this childhood trauma.

In Memory of Stephen Gately...

2009-10-12T06:36:00.002+08:00

listening to boyzone tracks on repeat mode...
~~~
For those who still don't know, Boyzone member Stephen Gately, 33, died on Saturday in Marjorca while on holiday. I am sad becoz I like Boyzone. They were from my time, and they were one of the rare boybands who had members who could sing really well. Even sadder coz Stephen Gately was my fave Boyzone dude.

Here are some clips of the boys when they appeared on the Taiwan version of 'Don't Forget the Lyrics'. RIP Stephen Gately! :(

EZ-link card replacement. Have you done it?

2009-09-30T08:23:00.010+08:00

listening to joey yeung's 'Chi Di Zhi Lian'...
~~~
When I heard the vox pop gathered by our News Team, I seethed with anger over the ridiculous interviews given by my fellow country men.
Singaporeans, you are a disappointing lot!

The ez-link card replacement exercise had begun in January and will end on 30 Sept. Nine months have passed, and suddenly you realize today is the last day. You hurry to the card counter, only to find out that the rest of the population shares your sentiments.

So what do you do now?

You complain. You 'kau-pey'.
About how long the queues are, how inefficient the counter staff are, how EZ-link office should extend the time... It's always easy to point fingers at others. Maybe it's time you grow up and do some self-reflection.

If you know of anyone who bitches about the long waiting time at the ez-link card counters these two days, please give him/ her a slap on my behalf and say this: WHY DIDN'T YOU DO IT EARLIER? OBIGOOD.

**update: Just found out from my coworker that those holding on to their Giro ez-link cards were unable to change their cards until they receive a letter from EZ-link office. However, the letter which arrived only recently, instructed them to exchange the old giro ones for the new normal ones, then apply for Giro feature in future. WHAT??? That is the stupidest instruction I've ever heard!

To those affected commuters whom I had insulted earlier, without knowing the complete truth, I sincerely apologize. I shall now turn my wrath towards EZ-Link (formed by LTA) for its foolishness.

Hen Party Shenanigans

2009-09-28T14:37:00.004+08:00

When you reach a certain age, your liver functions start going down.

You feel ill after a night of partying.

We learnt it the hard way after L's hen party.

~~~

Everything started pretty tame and proper. We gals went for our beauty regime at Aramsa Spa, followed by dinner at Les Bouchons at Club Street.

Dinner was delish:

After dinner, we went to check out the dodgy lil night club recommended by our friends. Did I say dodgy? I meant DODGY. The lady in charge (ahem!) told us to use the other door to enter the club. This was what it looked like:

It was the weirdest experience ever. Doubt any of us would do it again. Eye-opener? More like eye-sore. For drinks, we ordered this. We couldn't wait to polish it off and run away:

Last stop. Pump Room. For some proper dancing and partying:

At least we had a crazy good time there. The band was pretty funny. We sang along to songs and boogied to the music. Of course, alcohol helped and we had a roaring good time. In fact, so good we all ended up with hangovers and massive headaches the next day. But for our good friend, it's all worth it:

I am the queen becoz:

2009-09-26T13:42:00.002+08:00

Wen Bie (rock version) during F1 concert

2009-09-26T13:40:00.001+08:00

I heart Jacky Cheung before.

Now I heart him more.

F1 Rocks (some called it F1 Rot)

2009-09-26T12:48:00.005+08:00

I struggled for five minutes and eventually decided to give up on my revision, for the chance to catch A*mei and Jacky Cheung on the same stage.

Thank you YL for the F1 Rocks concert pass!

VIP lounge with free booze, food and most importantly, AIR-CON!

A*mei's performance was a lil lackluster. Her voice didn't carry through. Later I found out it was the sound system's problem.

What a let-down!

Jacky Cheung Hok Yau!!!

After a long 40min break, Jacky Cheung finally came onstage. The God of Songs also apologized for the long wait, even though it was 100% the organizers' fault. Then he went ahead and laughed at his own crazy rocker image. The crowd was tickled by his sense of humor and everything he said was witty and funny.

I may not know most of the canto tunes he sang, but I had a good time bobbing my head to the music. He was awesome! That's why Jacky Cheung is the God of Songs!!! Wheet!!!

Conclusion: The organizers may have rotted, but the Asian performers rocked.

Lucky

2009-09-21T10:15:00.002+08:00

listening to shanice's 'Don't Break My Heart'...

~~~
Not the duet by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat.
I am. I was VERY lucky yesterday.

We were all sitting in our own cars at the road junction. Most of us also noticed the minor accident across the road. I was wondering if the police car in front of me was dispatched to settle the dispute. The car beside me inched forward. Everyone was just waiting for the lights to change.

Suddenly an SUV from the opposite side of the road lost control and rammed into landed on top of the road divider. Its bonnet also hit the car next to mine. The broken parts, including the bumper strip, flew into the air and landed on surrounding cars. My eyes followed the trajectory of these flying pieces and I couldn't stop gaping. Everything happened so fast but I felt like I was watching an action movie played back in slow motion.

The policemen and the affected drivers alighted to inspect the damages. When I left, the SUV driver was still revving his engine desperately, trying to get his car off the divider and the other car.

I'm just glad Zappy was spared.

The scenario:

Checked out the aftermath on my way home.

The railing has been replaced with two cones and some plastic cordons:

Letter to my blog

2009-09-11T23:05:00.000+08:00

listening to fang datong's 'You Are The Sunshine of My Life'...

~~~

Hello my neglected blog,

How's it going?

Sorry I've been too busy and lazy to post updates. Writing a proper entry takes time and like how it is with money, I never have enough. Oh, you can blame it on Twitter too. It's way easier to come up with 140 letters of inane babble than a coherent blog post.

I was planning to change the header picture. Had already chosen some photos that I'm satisfied with, but arranging the layout takes too much effort. It doesn't make sense to spend an additional five minutes to come up with something people don't really pay attention to. Yes I'll complete it. Definitely before 2012. (that's supposed to be Doomsday. We'll see how it goes.)

Anyway, please don't think that I'm blogging now out of guilt. I'm only doing this because I just finished my run and I needed to cool down before I jump into the showers. Which is about now.

See you when I've more time on hand, or when my life gets more exciting, or depressing, or something. There're a few weddings coming up as well. Maybe I could write a few paras about them too. We shall go with the flow k?

Au Revoir!

Luv,

When Man's best friend turns on him

2009-08-26T15:38:00.003+08:00

listening to rong zu'er's 'Hen Mang'...

~~~

This is the first sight that greeted me when I stepped into the Okinawan customs:

How reassuring.

Is she representing us in Miss World? NOOOooo!!!

2009-08-25T08:42:00.004+08:00

listening to chen weilian's 'Fen Shou De Qing Shu'...
~~~

OH.MY.GOD.
I cringed for the entire three plus minute.
I don't mean to humiliate the poor girl, but she is really really bad. And if she's ready to take part in a public contest, she should have already braced herself for criticisms.

Watch out for 00:27 when she ransacked her mind to recall what she's majoring in.
In my cohost's words, 'it's like a horrible accident which you can't take your eyes off'.
Lady, Speak Good English Movement is back.
You HAVE TO click here and watch it, then die a slow and painful death with me.

I ♥ Taipei - part 3

2009-08-19T20:40:00.004+08:00

Whoa. Look who's on a blog roll.

Once per day for three days in a row.

*smirk*

~~~

Even the Taipei friends praised us for our discerning choice in restaurants when they heard we were planning to visit Tripodking.

Apparently you have to book at least two weeks in advance if you want a table on the weekends. We were super duper lucky to get seats coz we only called the night before. Well, guess nobody really goes for lunch at 2pm on Thursdays.

Price list for the hot pot ingredients:

Wahhhh!!! Free flow of guess-what's-this! *quiz time again*:

Old skool dessert shop at Ximending:

N.Y Bagels near the 24hr bookstore:

That concludes my food trail in Taipei. Coming up: Okinawa.

Refresh this page, y'all.

I ♥ Taipei - part 2

2009-08-18T21:20:00.002+08:00

Basically we were in Taipei to stuff our faces.

And I'm proud to say, we did it amazingly well.

Lunch at Shin Yeh.

Btw, they have a local branch at Liang Court.

I've always liked sweet potato porridge.

Now I like it even better.

Braised meat (欣葉卤肉):

Pan fried pig's liver (煎猪肝):

Pickled radish omelette (菜脯蛋):

***Ohhhh... this is fun. Guess what's this:

Dinner at Korean restaurant with RZ and his gf:

I ♥ Taipei - part 1

2009-08-17T16:38:00.004+08:00

The more you can't do something, the more you wanna do it.

Doctor's advice: try not to eat oily spicy food, milk or coffee etc.
Kay's brain: try not to EAT oily SPICY FOOD, MILK, or COFFEE ETC.

Luckily, my brain has never been very strong. So I overpowered it pretty easily.

Though I can't eat most stuff, I can at least look at them, right?

Presenting... Taipei food galore!

Good stuff no bluff.

Tu Hsiao Yueh's Tan Tsi Noodles (度小月担仔面):

Tu Hsiao Yueh's Minced Meat Rice (度小月肉燥饭):

Mister Donut's erm... donuts:

Street stall dessert from Tong Hwa night market (刀削冰):

Best sausage EVER (九塔香辣味香肠):

SOMEBODY STOP ME!!! *stomach growls very angrily*