Wheat and dairy free diet

I was busy past few days... coz closing.. then lots of things to do...

I have less than 2 weeks of study period.

I learnt something new today. I was at Times Bookstore again and I read in one of those body toning books that wheat and milk cause bloating in the stomach... I had wheat bread and cheese for lunch deh... The book suggest that if you went on 2 weeks without wheat and dairy products, you can feel a big difference... mmm.. I must try it... My tummy is kinda bloated, not sure whether it's related... that means no milo and bread also... should stick to soya bean for protein and rice for carbo.... I did a research on the web and found this website: http://www.wheatanddairyfree.com/wheatdairyfreeintolerances.htm

This is really amazing.. after all those talks about how important wheat and milk are to our body... I will start the wheat and dairy free diet from now onwards onwards... Hopefully my tummy will flatened a bit...

I've just did an analysis of wheat products..
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_noodles)
Crap... a lot of food has to be ban.. Listing here:
1) Biscuit including Oat biscuits because Oat is also as bad as wheat
2) Yellow noodle
3) Mee Pok and Mee Kiah
4) Ramen-actually I didn't know it.. no wonder my tummy is bloated.. I love ramen..
5) Udon
6) bread (I eat all the time, duh...)

Dairy products to ban
1) Milk
2) Cheese
3) Butter
4) Milo
5) Teh terik
6) Pizza
7) Basically anything with dairy stuff in or on it...

Acceptable noodles:
1) Bee Hoon-made of rice flour (rice is acceptable according to the article)
2) Laksa Bee Hoon-made of rice flour
3) kway teow and hor fan-made of rice flour
4) Dong Fen-Mung bean starch noodles (I'm not sure about Mung beans)
5) Mian Xian-(Not sure)

Sianz~

All those talks about body toning and engaging personal trainers.. I think only the rich can do it... I'm a seasonal exerciser - if there's such a word.. There's no choice for me, because my exercising routine will either be restrained by work, school or financial crisis... or sometimes even mood swing.. hee.. I don't think I will ever be thin you know unless I kana critical illness or miracle happens.. or I become rich enough to engage a personal trainer....

You know, I may have stepped on the tail of one of the manager, if this is the correct phase... because I forgot to do something she asked... and she look pissed in her usual lazy way.. one thing abt her.. she always have the 'lazy' impression.. if you know Kit Chan, the Singaporean Singer, yup.. that kind of 'lazy' impression.. if you know what I mean.. She's only 3 years older than me (my sis's age) and she's already the manager of SEA.. incredible... there's only 3 possibilities, either she's a scholar (distinctions in all her qualification) or she has good connection... or she's just plain lucky.. She became the manager here when the two company merged.. you know then the usual office culture difference etc... some of the original staff here a bit buay tahan her.. coz she's slow in approving her things.. because she's the manager so she has to approve everything and she's not very immediate abt that... then here, the way it works, if you miss the submission period, the invoice can only be processed next week.. so it's sometimes very frustrating... especially if you have people chasing very closely behind you for payment.. can really die, coz the payment procedure is out of your control... .. anyway back to the main point... I was suppose to chase for some spreadsheet from many people but somehow, I sort of delay it, when I finally did it and went to ask her questions abt it, she looked kinda pissed.. actually I also dunno why the urgency to chase.....I was suppose to consolidate all the spreadsheet in the end, and still missing the August batch which will only come in Sep. So the report will not be complete rite? So wat's the hurry leh??? Whatever... bosses are always rite... right?? then she was asking about the namecards which she passed to me to tabulate.. in June... hee.. I was doing this very very slowly because it's boring and of low priority among all the other things.. anyway, this is her personal things.. and she was talking about why so long.. I was at the tip of saying that I'm not your secretary because that's what I was told by the other (more organised and approachable) manager that I should not be doing secretary works... but I think better of it.. dun wanna start a war... I still have to stay until November you know... I think I will switch to other kind of jobs after this... there's like no potential of converting into a perm and the chance of escalation looks very slim to me...

Yeah, about the novel, The Magician's Guild. I did something crazy and on impulse.. I went and bought all 3 books (the whole set) from Sans Bookstore.. it's cheaper than buying from a normal bookstore.. At this moment I was reading towards to end of Book 2. The girl Sonea finally agree to be 'educated' in magic in the Guild. Then there's this High Lord (Head of the School) who Sonea discovered by accident was learning black magic (consider evil magic here).. The High Lord knew she knew and made her his personal novice to keep her mouth shut and also to keep everyone who knew abt the secret from exposing the truth.. Really reminded me so much of Ragnarok.. they even use magic spell like stunstrike, forcestrike and heatstrike.. well the names are different but the idea is there, using different elements for magic... unlike harry potter, the author of this trilogy does not give the name of the spell used...

Dream again!!

I dreamt about my mum again last night.. It had been so long since I've dreamt about mum. This time the scenario include my grandmother as well... My mum and grandma were in the coffins and you know usually the undertaker will seal the coffin to prevent decomposing. Then I was very puzzled as to why my mum's hand was outside the seal... I wanted to ask someone and then I though I saw the hands moving.. I was really scared.. I stared at the hands again and they were really moving!!! The Mum sort of opened her eyes and sat up... I was actually so happy until I was crying... I asked why she took so long to come back. She replied that she was waiting for grandma. The grandma also woke up from the coffin... this was really weird.. I had this dream like towards the morning because by the time grandma woke up, my alarm clock was ringing... I'm not sure whether this dream came about because my sis was talking strange things.. she was saying that every since she moved to the balcony, she hadn't been sleeping well... she kept waking up in the middle of the night. She said she felt as though someone or something was watching her... Well, because the balcony was small, the mirror was placed very close to the bed. I told her maybe it's the mirror.. she wasn't sure but she used a towel to cover the mirror.

Anyway, last evening was the last lecture with the ABC lecturer. He was really good, cause he's like an entertainer lightening up the lecture. I always feel happy attending the class, because he's so humourous!! and so extremely animated... and he could crack jokes out of anything... in comparison to the other lecturer, haiz.. it's like in another world... I was very truthful in the survey. You know the survey for us students to get back at the lecturers?? So sad, I dun think I will have any more lectures with ABC lecturer...

I've made a resolution, I want to improve myself and make myself as resourceful as possible.. if not, it's really hard to get into marketing.... I saw on the internet somewhere that it's good to exposed yourself through volunteering... Mmm... I think I can consider that.. will be a good exposure... and I will slowly abandon all my comics and novels and start picking up business magazines and newspaper... I hope that so my blog will be covered with lot's of marketing theory and stuffs... useful stuffs and not just unless junks... Will work hard.. Yeah!!!

Examinations on 11 and 14 September. I've received the entry proof.. that's about the most flimsy piece of entry proof.. Oops...Anyway, I target to finish reading the lecture notes of one of the subject: Consumer Behaviour this week... coz there's so much to cover. Then will move on to look through the past year questions with the help of the textbook... That's my study plan. Hopefully next week can start on the other subject: Introduction to Marketing Management.

Not so good comment

Our presentation went very smooth last evening, but the lecturer felt that there's still lacking in term of information... so sad, and we put so much effort into this.. anyway, I was looking forward to her exam tips and she's not giving any.. and next week is the last lecture... will she give any tips???? Oh dear, I really doubt leh.. so scare of her paper... her lecture notes are like picture book to me... not very informative... Tick Tock.. exams coming soon... Sighz~

I was very stressed up these few days.. Also dunno why, a bit distracted and like keep doing wrong things at work... haiz~ and working here can be so difficult.. there's so much procedures and nobody to guide you on the procedures.. and the people here are so weird... if they know the procedures are slow, they should have give the instructions earlier right? One of them told me to order software from the HQ.. so I did, how am I supposed to know that I need to go to another system to create an approval form? I ordered on Thursday and realised on Monday(because I send an email enquiry to the only email address I can find on the real-time ordering system) that I need to do so... after I did, the manager couldn't seems to be receiving the approval form in her account... I was so stressed because these softwares are needed this week, one batch is needed tomorrow, I dun think will be able to make it... I've just finally figured out the steps..need to save it first before sending... Previously, I was sending it straight away.. does that sound very weird to you? It's okay, just blah blah-ing nonsense ... sianz... and I dunno what to comment about the managers here... maybe they are so busy and stress... I dunno... very hard to seek help here....I'm very stressed by them also.. sometimes, so many events and so many instructions until I blur...

I'm reading a new novel again. Borrowed this from the library.. I saw this at Times bookstore the other day and thought it looks good.. and I was lucky to see it at the library.. it's very like Harry Potter and the name of the book sounds like something from the computer fantasy games.. magicians, guilds, alchemists, novice etc... like Ragnorak Online... yup I used to play that once.. but stop very long time ago.. this is the first time (other than Harry Potter) that I'm reading a fantasy novel... so far so good. It's about a girl living in the shabby part of the country was discovered to possessed magic when she successfully hit a magician with a stone.. It appeared that the magician was using a magic shield and the stone actually passed the shield and knock the magician unconscious... The girl was very scare and ran away.. a boy was killed by mistake because of this. At this point where I stop, the girl was seeking refuge in the Thieves' hideout using her magic talent as a excuse to stay there...




My birthday's coming next month.. I've planned my wishlist.. I asked for a Kinokuniya discount costing abt $21 and a mini radio... We have this birthday wish system among a couple of us girls. We say what we want and the rest will pool money and buy it.. we find this very enjoyable.. before this, we are always cracking our head of what to give for someone's birthday.. then someone came up with this and from then on, we confirm are buying gifts that will make people happy because that's what they wanted... heee.. nice rite?? the budge for this is only around $50+/- lah.. money is hard to earn you know..

Busy weekend

Last weekend was like whirlwind.. very busy... For the past few days had been working on the slides for the presentation later. Well I feel good because everyone praised my presentation. I admit that the first draft was not very good because I thought it's just a presentation as in like a lecture? But lucky lucky lucky, our presentation was postponed till today.. thus give us a chance to see what the other group has done. We were speechless as all were very professionally done.. some making the best out of their multimedia talent.. will multimedia skill I don't have, but copying skill I have.. I see the trend of all the groups' presentation and try to upgrade our presentation and it's like a total makeover done... very impressive.. I'm also very impressed... but it's all very lucky that I finally knew where to get good quality - those cars wallpaper have very impressive and good quality pictures.. I just choose and use them accordingly... I made the background black and at once the presentation looks very classy... will put the slides here after presentation tonight.

My weekend was no rest. On Saturday, meeting for presentation discussion. Our meeting place was the Coffee Pacific at Raffles Link. The initial time was 10.30am then postpone to 11am then eventually to 12nn.. All the while I was in bed and was real glad to catch a few more winks of sleep... Then it's discussion and running thru' the slides.. I'm a tiny little bit pissed when I was ordered to change this change that.. like an employee like that.... Yeah yeah.. I know, I'm a bit unreasonable, but someone are really born with commanding talent and it can make me a bit pissed when they like order people around like, "You do this, You do that." Maybe I'm not use to it? I dun think I will ever get used to it... but then, without these people around, it's quite hard to get things done right?? Anyway, we discuss until ard 4.30pm and one of the team member invited us to his relative's chicken rice stall... it was nice although oily.. I had two glass of chinese tea that evening... and I think I will stay clear of chicken rice for a long time.. hee..

On Sunday, my sis made me help her move her things from the rented room.. It was on the second floor of the flat.. It's bad to live on the lower floors where there's no lifts.. it's so tiring to move the things up and down.. Dad borrowed a big lorry to help shift her stuffs. Only me and Wu Yi were doing most of the climbing up and down as sis packed her stuffs.. it's really a very good exercise siah.. keke... I was very irritated by the flat owner's kid.. a boy of about 8 yrs old.. he was loitering outside the flat watching us shift and chanting something.. very irritating.. reminded me of a black fly.. I have no comments about the lady owner.. u can judge from my previous blog... whatever... it took us very long to shift here and there and then drive one street up to our place and shift the stuffs again.. There's a big television, a standing fan, one shelf, one low stand for the tv and a big dressing table... and of course all the clothes and other stuffs.. very tough.. back at our place, I took a shower as soon as I as able to and went to nap... then my sis made me help her.. we "decorated" the balcony with the furnitures and try to pack as much as possible.. very sad, as of today, I still have bags of black rubbish bags full of clothes stack in my room...

New tibits

I don't snack much. Trying to control my diet , I have banned potato chips.

My favourite tibits happens to be Pretz Pizza
I bought this under the Japan section at NTUC:
but I really prefer the my favourite version because some how the texture is not to my liking..

I saw this new Pretz at NTUC also at the Japan section, and I really love it. It has a unique taste. Even though it is taste like the snack version of green peas.. very nice..and super crispy... Yummy..


I've checked out the glico website. There's so much more flavour but too bad I can't find all of them in Singapore..

Today had a crazy day because so many deliveries need to be prepared... hopefully all went smoothly..

Clearing Up

I was busy on Saturday, clearing up my room.. or rather a small section of my room to make space for sis to move her things in.. I dump a lot of stuff.. I still have a big section to clear, but I'm so tired.. maybe next time bah...

I've finished watching what I had left for One Piece... very exciting.. keke.. but I can't stand why Robin is so stubborn.. I mean her nakama went thru' so much trouble to save her and yet she doesn't wanna be saved... God, I love the last scene of this episode.. have cut that out to show you... it's so cool.. the six nakamas standing looking very cool to convince Robin that they will save her no matter what... *sighz* It's hard to find nakama in this centuries you know...



I did a bit of my assignment on Sunday.. and rather hastily... The topic is "Marketing shaped consumers' needs and wants". Mmmm... and there's a restriction of 1500 words... that's very few words you know.. I've done my version.. have to wait until the rest of the members to discuss... they like not interested or worry leh.. how arhh... also very sianz already...

Car keys

My sister had slept over on Tuesday night. She dropped her car keys and her cashcard was taken from the car.. She was super worried and I went with her to the police station on Tuesday night. We went pass the town council place which was directly behind the police station. My sister thought how come there's so many people. But it's only the town council meeting where residents can come to meet the town council people to complaint. The Police station was empty with only one policeman there.. He was very friendly and helpful when my sister reported her loss. He even give some suggestions to put my sis to ease. We stayed there very quite some time as my sis make her report. We also chatted and at one point one of the door in the police station made a slamming sound.. that was kinda eerie given that this was the 7th month. The policeman was laughing that it was just the door and it's always like this. I said this neighbourhood was a nice place but the policeman reminded us that it used to be a cemetery here. He asked whether we had even taken the last train before... I said I had and there was nothing.. He said he had seen headless things before... well.. different people different vision?? Anyway, my sis was very stressed for the feared of losing her car. The fact that the thief only took the cashcard proof that he/she was not a driver.. The police suspect a youth. But there's not gurantee that the thief will not gather someone who knew how to drive to take the car away... It was unforunate it was already late at night and the next day happened to be National Day, public holiday.. car workshop may not opened. I borrowed the steering wheel lock from my dad. I remembered seeing one. Dad managed to find it.. it took a while to secure the steering wheel...

Had a gathering yesterday. I bought frozen chicken wings, bacon, hotdogs, fish steaks, nachos and salsa sauce on Tuesday evening after work. That evening, after I returned from the police station, I marinate and prepared the kabab... I saw this recipe on the Internet... It says to wrap the bacon around the chicken and pierced with skewers.. I did 3 sticks with 3 pieces each and put in the freezer. Yesterday morning, I woke up at about 7.30am to defrost the chicken and fish... then I went back to sleep.. I work up again at ard 8am to marinate the fish and chicken.. then I drop back to bed until 10.30am to get dressed and eat breakfast. and got ready.. I ate the not nice Chui Kueh and Chee Cheong Fan and left...

Chui Kueh's apprearance

Our group projects

I went to class yesterday without notes, I brought along some blank papers to take down notes.. but after I went home, I didn't even bother to transfer the notes onto the lecture notes.. heee... I just went to bed... haa..

Anyway, we had some of our classmates presenting their work.. we felt really gulity because our presentation doesn't look as nice as theirs.. the most fortunate thing that had happened was that our group was supposed to present first, but the lecturer postponed that day's lecture and we will be presenting in the make up lecture which happens to be on the last 3rd week of the whole course... and we are really heng(lucky), because we get to see how the other people performed. Well, we feel really guilty... hee.. I think some of the groups have very good multimedia designers among them.. they did wonders with their slides.. I wish I can do something like that.. Anyway, our topic for our group project is repositioning 3 car brands in Singapore market. That was tough for me, because I know nothing about cars.. so i volunteered to do the slides instead... luckily we have to car brands fans among us... I saw the other's group topics are so much easier.. about fashions trends, popular every day product brands like tiger beer... Mmmm... i hope because of our chim topic, we will get marks for our effort?? heee... Oh well...

Last night was cold.. the wind was howling like mad.. you know like the sound of ghost crying... Have to close all the windows...The sky was red.. maybe because National Day is coming??

Oops!!! + 2 movies...

I forgot all about the class tonight. I've actually removed the notes from my bag last night. Now I have no notes to bring along. I actually thought I had a free evening. It just suddenly popped in my head this morning.. SHIT!!! There's class tonight!!! Anyway.. can't cry over spilled milk...

It took me a long while to do up the Sungei's blog.. first time doing things like that.. like taking up a lot of time...

I'm so tired and sianz today.. feel like sleeping already.. I had a China peach for breakfast and another before lunch.. thought I can skip lunch, but too hungry to do so.. The China peaches were from the 7th mth offerings on Saturday.. now my home has plenty of fruits.. Yesterday, my dad said we must set up a table to give offerings to 'good brothers' (the wandering spirits)... He claimed that Mum used to do it every year.. Mmm.. maybe there's such a thing... last time I dun really questioned Mum and she didn't actually explain her actions... But I think it's something like this.. we just displayed the goodies, lighted two candles and placed joss-sticks around the table... Mmm... well we did just that, hopefully it's correct.

Actually I was totally confused over all the religion things... By right, my mum had converted into Buddhist before she passed away and me and sis followed on the same day.. By all rights, Buddhists don't practise burning of hell notes and stuffs like these.. coz we all believe that our spirit will proceed 'up there'.. Burning of money is actually a Taosim act and it's for the spirits 'down there'. You know, wanna tell you that we actually had a very unpleasant time during Mum's funerals.. because all the relatives especially Mum's side of the family, practised Taosim.. even Mum when she's still alive... so even though the conversion into Buddhism, we faced a lot of unhappiness among the uncles and aunties when we didn't wanna burn anything.. we were under so much pressure and these idiots are giving us more... we decided to follow their wishes in the end.. I'm totally confused about what's right and what's wrong.. I mean, Mum's already gone to a better place.. I've actually heard comments that the aunties are very worried that Mum will suffer because we kids don't know what to do... Yeah, I really dunno what to do... all the ceremonies and stuffs... I'm still confused... and I'm always asking myself whether what we are doing are correct... And the best part was what, after that funeral last year, I didn't even smell the presence of this noisy relatives....not even once...and I'm ever so glad...Some nights ago, I saw on the television that Bright Hill actually discourage people to burn paper money because it's not part of the Buddhism practise and it also pullute the air and environment.. I fully agree with this... but now is 7th month and I'm still burning paper money.. I've cut down a lot of burning actually.. usually by right, 1st and 15th of every month should burn something.. I stopped all that because I dun have time for that... I want to keep things as simple as possible.. really...



I watched this chinese movie 《爱。。。断了线》. I dunno the english title of this but in direct translation, it means, 'Love.. the broken line'... anyway.. the setting was in China where this guy was playing with a backdated version of MSN.. using a radio to locate other parties for a chat.. I didn't know such a thing existed.. There's no such craze in Singapore... Anyway, this guy hooked up a girl and after a few ridiculous conversations, the guy realised that he was talking to a girl back in 1981. That about 20 years ago. The guy was telling her a lot of future news and the girl was really excited as all the 'predictions' become real. However things get a bit way out when the girl realised that this guy was the son of the man she loved now. Unfortunately, the mother was her best friend. The girl was so depressed for a very long time. Being a timid girl, she silently watched as her boyfriend and her best friend got close. She didn't stop this relationship from blossoming instead, she decided to step out since she felt that the future has been fixed. She confessed to the boy about her decision. One day, the boy was searching among his parents' stuff and accidentally found out the identity of the girl. (She being the closed friend of his mother). He was very guilty because he felt that the girl's decision was largely his fault for disclosing his identity. The ending of the movie was irritating because it showed the boy tracking down the girl (who is now the same age as his mother) but didn't approached her. Instead, he threw away the radio... that's really confusing.. because I wanna know what happened to the girl after that.. the movie should at least say something rite?



I preferred the other movie in Korea, 'Siworae(2000)' or 'II Mare 2000', about a love that blossomed because of a mailbox.. I dun remember the name of the movie, but it's about the mysterious mailbox which can teleport mails between two timelines. The timeline happens to be 2 years apart. A guy staying at the house two years ago was able to communicate with the girl living in that house two years later. They actually tried to meet each other and finally succeeded in the end.. That was really romantic.

Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve

We went to Sungei Buloh yesterday.

We went in the afternoon, which I think was a bad time because it was low tide and there's not many birds around.

It was very windy here, nice and cooling. On the way back, we actually spotted lots of fishes jumping out of the water. Somthing must had frightened them. Some quite big judging from the amount of fishes jumping out..

Some of the pictures I've taken along the way. Didn't take much because there's nothing to see, honestly. Or I'm a bad nature spotter..



We spotted this big lizard along the way. It's very brave standing there with humans walking around... The rest of the lizards just ran away as fast as their fat legs can carry them.



This cute turtle just thought I have something for it's stomach.. It just swam nearer and nearer.



More scenaries:



This is a weird scene because the fallen tree was chopped very neatly as though by a saw or sword, and it's lying like a tree skeleton on the ground. Was it cut by someone or what?



This is the nest of the crab, which I'm not aware of the name. Maybe someone can enlight me? There's plenty of such holes all over the swamp, so the crab family must be very big.



I like this view, like an ancient abandoned house in the movies.










This is the prawn pond, but I don't see any prawns..


Here's a neat pictures of bamboo plants. Somebody actually engraved their names on the bamboo stem.. of course it's quite unsightly, so I didn't take a photo:



The back view of my dad, aunt and sis..heee...



I have great likings for path, so see all my photos of path. I think it's amazing because it sort of indicate that there's always a path in life, however, you can't really see what's in front because the future is so distant.






This is the photo of the scenary I've taken on the way home... it's a bit like travelling in the countryside.



In fact along this road is the lane that leads into the Sua Ding Chu (Country House) of my grandmother.. my aunt grew up there.. I remembered that place...I was like 4 years old.. I remember durain trees and rambutan trees.. it's really very countryside.. unfortunately, the government claimed the land for military usage.. so this whole place belongs to the military... so sad... We can't actually spot the lane.. it's like vanished totally...

7th Month: Can't find them

My sister and I had decided to visit Guang Ming Shan (Bright Hill Crematorium) to pray and make offerings to Mum since I dreamt about her like last week. Anyway, the dreams kinda stop after we had made the decision. I woke up and headed for NTUC to but fruits. I bought chinese pear, China peach and guava. I bought two sets because I thought it's appropriate to pay our respect to our father's side grandparents as well. Anywa, I also bought some paperplates which I thought will make our offerings more presentable. I bought a can of pokka chinese tea and 3 tea cups... well for visual satisfaction. Then i headed to buy two packet of vegetarian bee hoon... it was a killer... coz the uncle charged me $5 for the two packets.. i hate vegetarian food partly because of their killer price... they cost the same or more than normal dishes... anyway, i met my sis who drove to fetch me at the bus-stop.. well, we were actually quite new at this and my dad didn't want to come along. Anyway, the place to pay respect was different from where it was during Qing Ming Festival.. they shifted that to the other side of the building.. took us a while to find that out... we bought paper money, clothes packages, joss-stick and candles... I find it weird that the auntie sell one candle in a set of joss-stick and candle... who pray using one candle leh?? her reason was that the place don't encourage people to burn candle... i think it's just her tricks to make people more two packets instead of one duhh... we set up two table... which i feel is this case although my sister didn't feel it to be like that.. but i feel it's weird to make mum share with grandparents.. she may find it uneasy.. anyway, we lighted the candles and joss-sticks and were suppose to visit their resting place to invite them out.. we always find mum without failure.. I'm guilty of not remember her 'house number' but I remember her position... but strange that we couldn't find grandparents.. i called dad many times to check on the number but we really cannot locate it.. i feel they are not willing to allow us to find them... it's just this weird... I feel it's because dad was not around.. they seemed to only recognise dad... this was the case before... there was this part of the cemerony during the offering where we have to asked the ancestors whether that had finished the offered food... we have to throw either two coins or two moon shaped thing (don't know what's it called) to check.. if the coin is one head and one tail, that means the meal is done and we can keep the things... usually only dad is able to make them 'finish' the meal... anyway, the invitation of grandparents is not very successful because first of all, we can't locate them, and secondly, we couldn't seemed to light the candles... crap.. something is wrong.. so we just pack and leave after mum 'finished' her meal...

We had brunch (breakfast and lunch) at Upper Thomson and i chose a dim sum shop.. ordered prawn dumpling, siew mai, etc... cost $14 and not very nice...

We picked up my 'Wu Yi' - 5th aunt. My sis was very close to her and because she's moving back, she needed Wu Yi to take a look at how to organise the place.. There was the problem of having lack of storage because my sis has a big dressing table and a big tv as well as one shelf and a drawer closet to move into my room... there's really no place to squeeze.. it's all very headache until dad, I think couldn't stand our female debate over this matter and said we should convert the balcony into a bedroom... that sort of solve all the problems.. coz at least there's storage.. it was decided to put up curtains for pirvacy if necessary and there's a tiny arugment over curtains as well... haa.. it's really hard.. we decided to visit Ikea to walk around but dad refused to go even though he was talking about this curtain design which we don't really understand... that's a bit errrr... Mmm... but he's like that loh.. anyway, Ikea was very packed because of the sale going on... This was my first time there since the place was not convenient to me at all... we take a look at the cupboards and bed especially... we were hungry and bought ikea hotdogs for snack.. the dogs were nice but I find the curry puff a bit too oily... and I dun like the attandance's attitude.. he didn't quite hear my order the first time and did not look very pleased when I mentioned my right order and her wanted to charge me $3.50 for the items which cost $3.00... The set meal came with hotdog bun, a curry puff and softdrink for $2.20, but I wanted orange juice instead...we had the soft drink cups and we noticed that there's no 'freeflow' sign anyway.. there's one on the tea/coffee machines though... but i just help myself with the refill.. nobody say anything any way.. hee.. we shop around further and I bought 3 cd box which I hope will make my old cd collections neater... it looked like an earthquake in my cupboard at the moment..

I'm pretty tired at this moment.. and although I wanted to watch the 3rd episode of Blood now, my eyes are really heavy.. I think i will end my day after this.. cheers!!

Blood+

http://www.blood.tv/

I've started the anime, 'Blood+': Click here to view anime
Quite a bloody anime right from the first episode. I'm now at my 3rd episode. About monster who kill human. The anime started with monsters attacking a village merciless. Then a girl with evil eyes and emotionless expression started joining these creatures slaying people. It was still quite mysterious to me.. Then a girl named Saya with short hair lost her memories stayed with her dad, an older brother and younger brother. From the look of it, they were not her real famiy members, but everyone treated her like family. Then this girl met a strange man with a creature arm at the school and witness a creature killed her teacher. The strange man gave her a kiss to force blood into the girl. Saya started to have eyes like the girl at the beginning. She killed the creature effortlessly. All this was witnessed by her older brother who came to the school looking for her. When Saya woke up in the hospital and could not remember a single thing. She however remembered the incident at school and was really afraid and upset especially after she overheard a conversation between her father and a foreigner. She wanted to know more about her past....

Pissed!!

I think there's something wrong with the people here.. or all Singaporeans are like that. Even here where there's freedom around, people still like to kapo what you are doing, as though they are the HR managers? People like to walk past my place and peeped at what I'm doing. Here, high cubicle walls are useless when it come to piracy. Oh please lah.. these people eat snake more than I do and they do it so openly... eat breakfast at 10am, chit chat talk crap so loudly as though they want people to know that they are having fun.
I was surfing the net playing some games because I was bored... there's nothing urgent going on, then these group of girls walk past my cubicle and out of instinct, I will switch screen and one practically shouted, "No need to switch already, I've already see you!" Helloooowwww, do you like to announce you are eating snake even though you have nothing much to do??? I know they like but I don't...So sickening... Complaint done... counting down the minutes and I'm going for my class... a bit sianz..and sleepy...

Yeah, yesterday I had my aerobics, my feet don't hurt so much and I'm more agile.. hopefully this remains so forever...

White Tea

I was at the bookstore browsing 'Shape' magaine. It was mentioned in the magazine that white tea is a healthier choice than green tea and black tea. According to http://coffeetea.about.com/od/typesoftea/a/whitetea.htm,
'White tea is similar to green tea, in that it's undergone very little processing and no fermentation. But there is a noticable difference in taste. Most green teas have a distinctive 'grassy' taste to them, but white tea does not. The flavour is described as light, and sweet.' It's better because: There is also considerably less caffeine in white tea than the other varieties (15mg per serving, compared to 40mg for black tea, and 20mg for green). Lipton has a version of white tea.. Hmmm, I should try for better health??



My favourite tea is jasmine tea and green tea. Jasmine tea has a sweet taste and heavenly smell. I have a friend who dislike Jasmine tea for the sweetness. My favourite green tea is Fancl green tea powder. I find the taste thicker than normal teabag mainly because it comes in sachets of green tea powder. Because of that it is claimed as a healthier choice of green tea because you are drinking every part of the tea which you normally won't be able to when drink teabag. But unfortunately, I have to stop because it's too expensive to mantain. It comes in 100 sachets a box costing about S$50.



So, now I think this instead:


It's free from the pantry.. keke..

Anyway, according to the same magazine, it warn us that the normal food we consider to be healthy are not actually as healthy as we believe.. dishes like Chee Cheong Fan, Yong Tau Fu etc are not as healthy as we think it is. God, this magazine is making us eat grass??? Coz if that's the case, there's nothing we can eat.. maybe all the pills advertised on the magazines? A bit insane...

My Favourite Links

I'm doing up my links by my sidebars.. These are some of my favourite websites. Let me give some reviews for each.
Oldiefrenz: A group blog consisting of me and my primary school friends where we share our stories
ifzzz's friendster: My friendster with my personal details and link to friends
Keeptouch Forum: My favourite online hangout
Games Link Collections: Links to some of the classics of games I've come across
Anime Online Collection: I love this website. You will love it too. You can watch anime online without downloading.
Kokoro: Romantic flash love stories in chinese. I love the stories and the music.. but can be quite depressing because most have sad endings.
Pucca and friends: I love this.

Tastebuds, dreams and a new novel

I had 3-in-1 instant cereal for breakfast. I took from the pantry. But frankly speaking, I prefer Quaker Oats instant cereal, chocolate flavour.. maybe because of the oats and the chocolate.. but the funny thing is that I don't actually like oats very much. Our tastebuds are really funny. Say for example, I have a friend who hates pineapples but love pineapple tarts... and the way preference of everybody is so different, it's really amazing. My brother for example like rice without anything on top... he can eat it dry and plain with fried cutlet.. Recently a group of us are planning a bbq gathering at East Coast Park (National Day, August 09, 2006. Coz it's a public holiday!!!). The favourite and the most difficult topics of all to talk about is food. It's really a challenge to prepare the stuffs... of all the food list, there has to be one person who dislike the food. People can dislike simple things like apples. You know, an apple a day keeps a doctor away? And some people will reject meat completely.. meatless bbq can be a bit stressful.. because Singaporean's style bbq consists of mainly chicken wings, hotdogs and all meaty stuff.. it's hard to make us bbq vegetables.. I saw the westerns recipes and that tough ingredients and cooking method.. they can bbq really anything, but it's a tough job to me... because we are using charcoal and cooking under uncontrolled temperature and strong wind condition and sometimes lightless too... and the place is like so far away from home.. it's tough to prepare like a feast. I can't complain much because ever after my 'turn-vegetarian-for-2-months' period... I kinda eat less meat if I could help it... I still eat, but not as much as previous.. partly also for health reason... and I hate fishballs and related food..but goodness.. I also hate most green vege.. there's only a few greens I will eat willingly.. Kang Kong, Cabbage, Lady Finger, Eggplant... I dislike greens that taste bitter.. some vegetables really do.. like Cai Xin etc... yucks.. Weird har...

Anyway, I had stop having dreams about mum.. maybe she's really gotten irritated that I dun understand what she's trying to say?? heee.. can happen to me... anyway, i dream 2 weird dreams from last night, but I forget about the content now.. It was quite vivid when I woke up.. and I was really confused.. I think it's something that I would never do in real life.. what a pity.. really can't remember... There's only some dreams in my life which I can remember up till today.. I remember dreaming twice about war in Singapore.. it's really funny because imagine escaping from my flat's window successfully.. goodness.. I live on seventeenth floor.. it was really weird like watching my own movie.. once I dreamt that I can float around.. it was really nice.. because I can actually enjoyed the thrill and excitement even while dreaming... In some dreams, I can even make comments which I will surely make if it really happen in real life... It's a bit like I'm actully thinking in my dreams??? About falling dreams... it happen a lot for me.. I read somewhere that falling.. always got a shock...I guess that's what bungee jumps are like?? .. but I can always carry on sleeping...

I had lessons last evening.. the lecturer was really funny talking about his horrible experience at the dentist.. I think he's really an entertainer... He's in the wrong line???

I've rented or rather bought a novel from rental bookstore... Bought the lastest Dark Series book called, 'Dark Demon' by Christine Feehan.



I've been following this series for a long time.. It's a romance series and yeah.. contains plenty of sex scenes.. but it's a romantic setting.. anyway. I was explaining this series to my classmate last night.. The series are really about a specie called Carpathian.. they are creatures who look like human but with supernatural powers.. that can turn into animals, fly and have strong psychic powers.. and all the men and women are beautiful.. as according to all the stories in this series.. anyway, these creatures are weak in day time and they are extremely powerful at night.. they sleep in the day by burying themselves under the earth and shutting down their body system.. like a dead... but these are the good guys and they live in peace among humans.. but sadly these creatures are in danger of becoming extinct especially after a war which took place many years ago.. and another main reason is that that ratio of girl to boy population is way apart: there's not many females born among the race.. and because the Carpathians can live for a long time, the male need to find their lifemate fast because they started to lose their sights of colours and emotions after hundreds of years.. and if they are not strong enough mentally, they can become vampires... One of the mission of all Carpathian male is to protect the world against vampires and they are always out to hunt them.. anyway... lifemate for them are as they call it two halves of a whole.. so there's only one lifemate for each male... so if they miss each other, than that's it... the male will either have to kill himself or become a vampire.. anyway, the romance series started when the race realised that their lifemates can be found among human.. females with psychic powers can be safely converted into a Carpathian... so start the many romance stories between Carpathian and human...Actually I personally feel that there's no need for them to worry about that extinction.. they can live like forever, so why bother? The record of their age is like 1000 or more... can you imagine?? If there's really such a race in the world.. they will be like living God... Anyway, the settings are quite nice and romantic.. except I need to rest in between novels because the plots are basically the same for all the books except for the characters and locations... but it's nice to read once in a while though...
Anyway, if you are interested, the official websites with reviews and summaries can be found here: http://www.christinefeehan.com/.

Chee Cheong Fan for breakfast

I just had Chee Cheong Fan for breakfast. The lady put sweet sauce, chilli, oil and fried onion.. and I made myself lipton tea with milk. I saw someone has HL milk in the fridge. Dunno whose, but I take and use.. hee... a few drop to make my tea into teh instead of teh-o... anyway, the Chee Cheong Fan cost $1.60 for only 2 pieces.. For this price I can get Chee Cheong Fan with side order like egg or hotdog or luncheon meat outside.. so expensive..



I dun have mood to blog yesterday, coz nothing to write. Yeah yesterday my supervisor praised me that I have quite a good record and impression here. I was a bit surprised, I'm just doing my work mah.. isn't that what everyone's doing?? anyway, I dun think it matters, unless they are thinking of promoting me and increasing my currently miserable pay.. else it's all pretty unless.. I'm already thinking of refusing the extend of this contract.. Coz I'm finding this job boring and even meaningless..

Anyway, I've finished the novel 'The Traveller'. Sorry, a bit lazy to write the review, but the ending has no ending... i think there will be a follow-up novel.. but it's quite nice... If you look at the cover of the book as below, the guy riding a bike should be the new Traveller because in the story, he's the only person riding a bike. He had an elder brother who had the same ability but wrong intention for the ability. Both inherited the gift from their father who appeared to have died when they were kids. However, that may not be the case as mentioned in the later part of the story...



My current book which I borrowed from the library is going to bored me to death.. I think I will visit the rental bookstore later and get something nicer... The day already so boring and still have to read boring books?? this is extremely torturing...

Actually, I has been wondering, how to trim my tummy leh.. it's like sometime bloating and sometime not have that feeling.. it was weird. My sister was commenting about it.. she warned me to be careful in case I ended up like mum... but how to.. okay.. yesterday I was trying to do sit-up when my stomach cramp quite badly.. it's like something is sucking from inside.. Eeek... maybe try again today??

Tonight has lessons again.. i sincerely hated that lecture hall.. because there's no table... how to study without a table? can't even put a cup of water... they are really mean...

I watched a bit of One Piece yesterday... I like Sanji more and more.. he's more emotional sensitive than Zorro.. take for example when Luffy was getting so mad he actually was telling Usopp to leave the crew, Sanji sensed what was coming out of his mouth and gave him a hard kick to stop the sentence.. although it was too late because everyone got the meaning... but he's the only one with enough sense to try to stop it... then after Usopp left the crew and he and Chopper heard about a Tsunami coming, they actually pretend to get close to the ship and yell with all their might to warn Usopp without revealing themselves.. that was really neat... and he's always the one who like to move into action alone and finding out about things himself... and was always trying to remind calm and cool when facing with danger... the only thing about him is that he smoked a lot.. although it look cool... but he really smoke too much... Yesterday I was laughing too much at Usopp for becoming SogeKing (With his own lame theme song)... and Sanji was sensitive enough to not hurt his feeling because he understood that Usopp did not want to face the crew with his original face after the big scene he had made over the ship and the big quarrel and fight with Luffy... I think I like him more then Zorro now.. keke...

I've finished reading my Love Hina comics.. sighz... really no money to buy more comics... and also need to get my storage in order before I increase my collection.. else, there's no place to put anything...