I'm that girl

Inspired by that guy

I’m that kid who first wanted to be a policeman then a soldier and then an astronaut as my library of new words increased in that order.

I’m that sister who told you that there is no such word as skeleton because I am your older sister and if I have never seen the word before then it must be non-existent.

I’m that same sister who later found out that the word did exist but was too embarrassed to admit that it was my mistake so all I said was “hmpff”

I’m that woman who when the going gets tough wishes that she is still 15 and when the going gets tougher, wishes she is 2 years old.

I’m that toddler who apparently sat through a full 8 course wedding dinner in Taiwan and demanded to be given regular portions from all 8 dishes which resulted in you being scolded by your mom for trying to overfeed me.

I’m that same toddler who taught myself how to use chopsticks at 10 months because I was too impatient to wait to be fed.

I’m that little rascal who so exhaust my uncle and aunt after one afternoon of babysitting that they vow they will never have kids.

I’m that friend who makes a better listener than talker.

I’m that person who looks confident and collected on the outside but is actually a wimp inside.

I’m that same person who ran the stanchart 10km last year and will be doing it again this year even though I absolutely hate running

I’m that girl whose sense of direction is heaps better than most guys I know

I’m that daughter who found it easier to tell you “I don’t know” than to go into great details as to why I don’t ask my husband what investments we have at the moment, how much they are worth and how much the companies he invested in is making etc etc.

I’m that daughter whom you worry can be read by others like an open book or as you always like to say “Your intestines form a straight line from mouth to anus” (roughly translated from mandarin)

I'm that wife who wishes sometimes that I was still single even though if I had to get married all over again, I'll still choose you.

I'm that woman who married you even though all I ever wanted in life was my own car, my own house and my own dog and no husband.

I’m that daughter in law who is finding it more and more difficult not to roll my eyes and give a shart retort whenever you go into one of your how to be a good Christian wife sermon.

I’m that daughter in law who is wondering what will happen if one day I told you that I never was a Christian, am not interested in becoming one and only pretended to become one because your son says you want us to have a church wedding.

I'm that employee who wrote this during office hours when I should be concentrating on generating protocols instead.

Yes I'm all the above.

Friday

Alright its friday!!!!!
Even though I will be busy this weekend, I’m still glad its friday.
Here is a little something to make the friday afternoon past a little faster…











And my favs out of the whole lot…




courtesy of my bored colleagues...

Hubbz's bird day

Next friday is Hubbz's bird day.
I've already decided on where I am going to bring him - Mag's wine kitchen.
I saw a review of the place in Chubbyhubby's post and have been fascinated ever since.
So fascinated in fact that I called them up yesterday to make reservation for 2....for this friday
and sms Hubbz to keep this friday free...

Lucky I noticed my stupidity this afternoon...and called the restaurant to change it to next friday. They must be laughing at my sotong-ness after they put down the phone.

Haiz *palm to forehead*

No wonder Hubbz was asking me why he needs to keep this friday free.

年紀越大的時候

幻想會不會越多
狂想症是不是會更嚴重
拋開一切去做心靈旅行的衝動會不會越大

還是

20歲所作的夢﹐30歲後連想都不敢想
20歲敢說的話﹐30歲後會越往肚子裡吞
20歲想做的事﹐30歲後會更不可能實現

Happy Mid-Autumn!!!!!

Rubbish in my hole

Have you ever felt like the whole world is having a party around you but you are stuck in a deep grubby hole that you can't get out of...and in the meantime, people are throwing all their rubbish over your head into your little hole?

I was feeling somewhat pissed at work today. And terribly disappointed in some of my colleagues. I guess it was to be expected. Afterall, its every man for themselves plus now that the company functions on fulfilling KPIs instead of just completing tasks, its been getting steadily worse. I can no longer count on my colleagues to perform tasks in the grey areas because everyone just tells you that its not on their KPI or that its not on their priority list. I understand that there are a lot of projects going on at the moment but hey, its not like I am asking for things which I should be doing myself.

Anyway, the result of this afternoon's major emotional overhaul is that I did something which I now feel is pretty stupid of me. I won't go into details but boy am I hoping that I can somehow reverse time. I really have to learn to just stay quiet when I am not thinking straight.

In the meantime, I will just have go burn extra joss sticks at the temple in hope that I win first prize 4D or toto so that I can quit my job, stay at home and shake legs.

Haven't had much to blog about these days. Brain not in tip top condition as well since all I seem to be feeding it recently is work and more work. My life, at the moment, seem to be a perpetual cycle of work, dinner and sleep peppered with regular bouts of gym sessions. Hmm not good.

Since my brain juice ain't working at the moment, I'll just share a couple of things I discovered this past week.

1. Courtesy of the local tabloid news (TNP), I found out that mad cow disease could be now be blamed on Indians. Yep. Thats right. Apparently some scientists in Europe have postulated that because Indians have this funeral ritual of floating their dead down the Ganges river, the decaying bodies end up futher downstream where the bones were then collected by bone collectors who sold them to animal feed factories to be grinded down and shipped to Europe as animal feed. Weird huh that a country which, up til now, has never reported any cases of CJD is now the reason why the world has CJD.

2. Courtesy of my good friend in australia who is currently dating a kenyan, I found out that Kenya actually has Seoul Garden restaurants. For those who aren't familiar with the place, its a singapore owned mass market korean bbq buffet joint with branches as common as Starbucks. So yeah, I deeply apologise to any kenyans for ever thinking that Kenya is very ulu (backward). Now that I got over the shock that one can easily find asian cuisine in Kenya, the next question I would like to ask is if the Seoul Gardens over there serve bulgogi zebra or spicy ostrich or perhaps honey soy giraffe? I am currently trying my hardest to brainwash my good friend into marrying her kenyan hunk in the very near future so that I will have an excuse to fly to Kenya and find out for myself.

3. At a time where everyone is lamenting on the new low that humanity has sunk to (as seen on the various reports about Hurricane Katrina), it was very heartwarming to hear a story about how 6 year old Deamonte Love took care of his 5 month old brother, cousins and some other playmates in his apartment block after they got separated from their parents. There has been a lot of comparison between American hurricane and the Asian tsunami lately with many finding it vastly ironic that the most advanced country on earth has also got the prize for humanity at its worst. I guess memories these days are short. In the aftermath of the Asian tsunami, there were also looting aplenty, rapes and even stories of criminal groups trying to take the orphans for their own selfish gains. I suppose shootings werent that common here because most of the victims of the asian tsunami were poor farmers and fishermen rather than cityfolk who had easy access to firearms. With Hurricane Katrina, I've learned that history will never change. Crisis of any kind will always bring out the best and the worst in menkind. We should never forget that its only placed next to black that white will appear in its purest form.

Break time

The computer at home has been acting up the last couple of days. Every time I tried to upload stuff to flickr, it tries to load for 5 minutes and then tells me the page cannot be found…#(&^%(@)&^]

Wednesday night was even worse. I couldn’t even get the flickr login page to work. Even msn.com couldn’t be loaded. I also couldn’t view any blogs at all. That’s when I decide it’s a sign for me to retire early for the night. Good thing I had an exhaustive workout in the gym otherwise I would probably still be staring at the ceiling after an hour. I am wondering if its all that anime stuff that hubbz been downloading that’s making my uploading stuffed up or it’s Hurricane Katrina that’s causing some problems with the connectivity with US sites or perhaps Starhub is angry with us for some reason or perhaps the computer at home just decide not to like me at all. Guess we will never realise how extensive and integrated the internet is with our lives until the day it doesn’t work. I can’t imagine living my life now without the internet (or the other truckload of electronic gadgets I use on a daily basis) and yet it wasn’t really all that long ago when I first got introduced to the internet via mirc.