Entries from April 2008 ↓

Blogging fun #1

I cannot thank Kimberly enough for introducing me to the screengrab add on for Firefox. It allowed me to grab this without my cracking my head about how to go about getting the whole page instead of just the visible area:-

Please click to enlarge only if you are interested

Blogging fun #2

To make my blogging thrill complete, I’m finally going to meet fellow blogger Pablopabla tomorrow! Unfortunately, despite us being fellow foodies we’d probably be only meeting over teh tarik (or nescafe kau kau kurang manis in my case) and roti canai at breakfast. Still, its not the food but the company yes?

So, blogging is not all about politics and politicians turned bloggers have got the wrong end of the stick. Blogging should be fun fun fun!

Yours fluffily

Before Chinese New Year, I bought me some “lucky bamboo” and Wuching accused India, my pet tiger, of humping the vase. Well yeah she looked like she was doing it but still… Anyway, I had 6 stalks of healthy curly wurly green lucky bamboo soaking up all the water they could drink in their vase of water crystal things.

Over the last 2 weeks, I noticed something odd happening to 2 of them. One stalk was yellowing from the bottom upwards and another was yellowing from the top down. I have no idea how or why it happened this way, but it did. I was then reminded of Giddy Tiger’s prosperity plant that was pining away for something. If its you and me GT, its something in the October air - I reckon it might be because October is the start of fall/autumn?

Anyway, so today, I decided I’d had enough of looking at sickly bamboo plants and decided to wrap them up to be tossed. See how odd they look?

Only after I’d laid out the newspaper and taken the picture did I notice how apt the picture on the paper was. It was an ad for some home loan but the little boy looks like he’s flabbergasted at the state of my lucky bamboo plants!

Or maybe they weren’t so lucky eh?

Do you?

I do.

I cannot bear to see books placed upside down on shelves.

This irrational “fear” stems from a story I read as a wee kid. I cannot remember the title of the story now, but it was a boy who would not keep his books properly on the shelf and would stack them upside down or any old way. One night, he woke up to find that the words were falling out of one of his books that was placed upside down!

He of course embarked on an adventure to return all the words that had fallen out into the empty pages of the book. I don’t quite know why that story made such an impact on me, but it did.

Until today, I cannot stand to see books placed upside down on a shelf or anywhere and will always turn them upright anywhere I go. I’m afraid that I’d pick up the book and find the pages empty, with all the words piled on the shelf in a messy pile.

I was reminded of this as I was packing up some documents into a bag. My colleague was helping me stuff the documents in and they went in head first. I was quick to stop him and to turn them around before placing them into the bag bottom first. Story or not, I did not want to end up with a bag full of empty paper and random words!

What’s your irrational “fear”?

Yours fluffily

I just got this email in my mailbox:-

I’ve just WON A TOYOTA HIGHLANDER!

Not only that, I’ve also won GBP1 meeeelllioonnnn = RM7 meeellioonnnn !!

I didn’t know what a Toyota Highlander was so I looked it up.

Excuse me while I hyperventilate.

An SUV! Nevermind that the Malaysian Government wants to increase the price of petrol for SUV users soon. With my new FREE Toyota Highlander and my RM7 million I can afford all the petrol I want so … nyah nyah!

Ooh… let me provide that Barry guy all my personal particulars yes? And while I’m at it, I think I’ll provide my bank account number too - how else are they going to deposit all those millions into my account?

If you are nice to me, I might just let you ride in my new Toyota Highlander SUV

zippedy doo dah… zippedy day…

Buddy you’re a boy make a big noise
Playin’ in the street gonna be a big man some day
You got mud on yo’ face
You big disgrace
Kickin’ your can all over the place

We will we will rock you
Singin’
We will we will rock you

It was a very very busy weekend for me with work going on through the weekend in Singapore. A full day’s meeting on Saturday left me totally washed out, until I was offered tickets to see We Will Rock You at the Esplanade Theatre. Did I want to? You bet I did!

I was planning to go anyway, but thought that this weekend might be too rushed. So yes, I was super duper thrilled and perked up immediately at the offer. Free ticket some more, who don’t want?!

Did I enjoy it? Of course I did! The music was awesome (and loud) and I was bouncing along on my seat although the people I went with were of the more staid persuasion and found the music “too loud”. Sigh… Here, read the synopsis of the musical if you don’t know it already:- Continue reading →