Why can I never get a straight answer from a man? We’re planning a trip to Guernsey (an island) dead early tomorrow morning, so I need to know what time we have to leave so I can set my alarm.
Me: What time do we have to leave home?
Piers: No earlier than an hour before the time we have to be there – which is an hour before we sail (6 am).
Took me 11 minutes of questioning, during which time I got more riddles, before I received the answer: 4 am.
Piers “invented” a really delicious Asian snack combo: Prawn crackers with hoisin sauce! So proud of him!
I also found this awesome lemongrass-flavoured prawn crackers at Tesco. From Netherlands, but makers were Indoneisan settlers. Tastes so great when you dip into hoisin sauce (sparingly)!
Yeah I know my photos are missing from my blog header. Looks very funny, doesn’t it?
Nanny Wen (aka Buggy Wen aka Davienne) says it reminds her of Harry Potter’s moving picture people.
Guess my photos are taking a break. They’ve gone into hiding because it’s been raining a lot in England and the weather forecast says it’s going to hail tomorrow.
IN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER!
Crazy or not.
I thought I’d be in discomfort for a year because I was finding it impossible to get used to Invisalign in my mouth. But just 11 days into it, I hardly feel it anymore.
Was playing on my iPad before bed last night when I suddenly couldn’t feel plastic in my mouth and for one horrifying moment, thought that I had forgotten to put my aligners back on after dinner, which was ages ago.
Turned out it’s just my mouth has started to adapt.
Quote of the day
Me: I want a pet duckling!
Piers: LOL why!!!
Me: Cos they’re so cute.
Piers: All baby things are cute! Except babies.
A transport provider in the UK just sent me an e-mail asking me to take part in an online survey to help improve services.
So I go there and answer two questions (age and last time I used the service) and they say:
“Thank you for your time. Unfortunately, you do not qualify for the survey as this time around we are looking to survey our more senior customers (over 60) only.”
WTF fail.
Was googling the difference between biscuits and cookies and got linked to a Yahoo! Answers page. This guy’s answer made me LOL.
“The difference between the biscuit and the cookie is the Atlantic.
Plus, American biscuit more like a savory scone
Plus English biscuit is an American cookie.
Plus English or American cookie is in your computer to do stuff that no one really understands.”
Being too ambitious (or greedy). Two heaped bowls of ricotta and spinach tortelloni in bolognese sauce, with six sausages and three baby zucchinis thrown into the mix. A roll of garlic bread and a bottle of wine. Delicious!
Yay I got white tulips! My favouritest flowers. :)
England has the most beautiful flowers. Tulips and roses in white with pale pink. Gerberas in strawberry milk pink. Makes me happy!
Just read in detail about foot binding in ancient China. I always thought they just wrapped up the feet during infancy to stop them from growing.
But, no! They wait till the girl is 4-7 years old, then break her toes and arch bones so that the toes can curl under the sole. Without anaesthesia.
After wrapping the monstrous creation tightly, the girl is then forced to walk on her broken feet so her weight can help crush them into shape. The feet are crushed and rebound daily for like two years! WTF is wrong with people?!
24 Comments » 
Very cool! I think no matter what you call yourself, its about the posts you leave behind that make a difference, as a person with training in journalism, please do not lead us into the mundane as the new paper has alleged, but boldly go where few dare to tread, Showbiz intrigue! Ha Ha Congrats on the new look and name!
Thank you, Suresh! For being the first to comment on my new blog and for your support! :) Well…. I don’t know about intrigue, ha ha, but I try my best not to be boring. :P
Hahaha looks like you stop weaving dreams too! Nice design, but I must say I’m not used to the cheena you.
Haha. You know, after looking through hundreds of templates last night and downloading and trying out tons, I decided that the one you’re using is possibly the best, and I would have used it if you weren’t already using it. Didn’t think it would be a good idea to have the same template as you cos that would be so unoriginal. :P So I settled for this. But I do like the bold colours.
Well, get used to the new me. It’s like getting used to my new haircut, right? Just takes time!
Told you WordPress was the coolness. =D Welcome to the dark side mwahaha.
great skin you’ve got there. chinese. haha.
Crash: Yeah, I know :) Just that I couldn’t do it before cos my first webhost didn’t have blogging script auto installers.
Toki: Thanks….. haha. Right. :P
Cannot migrate the old stuff over ah?
Yo.. nice new blog.. spiffy!
Qiaoyun’s a nice name. :)
Ashuras: Can… copy and paste every blog one by one. Don’t think it’s worth the effort though, since I don’t think people really read archives :P
Kindred: Thanks! :) Good to hear some affirmation!
Fabulous Blog … Better than before….
Gorgeous Outlook … Your bf will be impressed…
Nice Name … Qiaoyun is like building a Bridge to Fortune…
All the Best to your career!!!
Thank you very much, Justice! =) I like your interpretation of my new name, hehe.
Hi… Qiaoyun!
That will take a bit of getting used to. Congrats on the new name and the new blog. =)
What won’t take any getting used to is your writing – always first rate. And that I can now subscribe to your RSS feed.
Cheers!
Heheh, thanks, Kenneth! :) My RSS feed is dead at the moment. I’m still a noob at using that technology and I somehow killed it without knowing how. And now I don’t know how to fix it. Haha.
hello qiaoyun, long time once again. hi swordplay too. i guess i’m one of those who have trouble calling you Qiaoyun. took me erm… 30 seconds to figure out exactly how to address ya ;p good to hear ya’re still in EQ2, i’m stuck in the world of Dota or CSS, and numb’s stuck in WoW. well, gtg, cya around.
Oh… ahhh, didn’t read your comment here before I posted the one in your Carlsberg post. Notice that you are using feedburner instead of your actual feed.
Perhaps it wasn’t configured properly. I suspect you have to remove the “feed:” from the feed URL you used in Feedburner.
QY… to celebrate the cheena mama bold outlook of your web.. let’s shop for some BOLD BRIGHT super chio super cute stuff in KL!!!
Windborn: Hi you again. You and numbie keep showing up after long absences, haha. Don’t worry, call me a few more times and you’ll get used to it. =P
Acroamatic: No, the problem now is that my wordpress feedburner plugin has generated auto feeds, which are now redirected to my dead feedburner feed. I have deleted my feedburner feed, but, well, I don’t know how to get rid of the plugin redirection. Deleting the plugin doesn’t work. =(
Wang Wang: OKAY! =) I need sponsors! =D
care to chat…
I commented on the first post ever on this blog. Now I feel like I am part of it. Can’t wait to see what you write here :)
Hi, I accidentaly clicked the December Archive thingie and found this —
Cool! Haha. Never knew there could be such thing. :D
Haha, yeah. Many things in life you won’t know till you personally encounter it. :P
like modchip… a lost wanderer:P
now wondering y u changed ur name on the comments….
@Sheylara: Ya know, I call myself a follower of your blog, but I never read your first post till today… sheesh, some follower, huh?:) Well, better late than never, I guess… But I can honestly say with the benefit of hindsight that had I read this way back in 2005, I would’ve sensed the same potential that I did when I first chanced upon your blog in 2008. Here’s to your success always!