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?!
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Ha ha… to my untrained eye… it all seems superficial…
wah.. only if u worn a knee-length skirt…
den will be damn 淑女 looking wor…
Well Qiaoyun, looking fantastic as usual….but you already know what kind of comments will be heading your way….and towards your-you-know-where. Hahaha….!!
Shall just sit back and enjoy the comments that follow.:P
:) pretty pretty
Good luck on the auditions! :D
I like the top…very sweet. Haha, I acted as Little Miss Muffet when I was 4 yrs old for the kindergarten’s concert…I don’t think my costume was as nice…:P
Anyway, all the best!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!! LOL!
nice top. looks like sth I’ll wear haha. all the best for the auditions..
Miccheng: I’m sorry but I don’t get you. What is superficial?
cowgoesmoo: That thought did cross my mind. But I don’t have a knee length skirt leh. I look like kok in knee length skirts. Haha.
Stan: lol, thanks. All these comments are a little disconcerting. I’m hoping for more comments on how nice my clothes are, can? lol.
SC: Thank you. ;)
modchip: Thanks!
Steffi: I’m sure you looked very cute!!! Actually my outfit doesn’t really look like any Miss Muffet dress, so I dunno why I named it that. Haha. Maybe the ruffles just made me think of Little Miss Muffet. :P
Derrick: Huh? =)
Starmist: Thank you very much!!
QY> that’s what u think lah.
do try on 1 next time when u go shop, and take a foto in the dressing room for review later on lor.
No offence lah, but usually only *cough SHORT cough* gals look kok in long skirts.
u tall enough wat.
Besides i tot awhile ago u just acted as a teacher?
cher cannot wear mini-skirts 1 leh.
will be damn machiam GTQY, Great Teacher Qiao Yun.
The difference between being mature / cute / fun look. I’m no fashionista, so it makes no difference to me.
I don’t like ruffles (the stuffs on the top not the potato chips)!
They make me look kinda old. :P but you have really nice legs! =)
cowcow: I have bought knee length skirts before lah. And tried on many in dressing rooms. But buy already end up not wearing cos I can’t find anything to wear with that doesn’t make me look nerdy. Haha. I’m still doing the teacher role. Yah lah, gotta wear long skirts in that show. Some look ok, some look …. eew.
Miccheng: I see what you mean. But I think even if one can’t form an opinion on fashion, one can sometimes feel it intuitively. Like for instance, if I look at abstract art, I can’t tell if it’s good or bad or what it means, but it might evoke negative or positive vibes in me. Most of the time, when we people watch, we don’t really analyse their fashion anyway, we just know one thing: whether it looks good or not, and that’s what’s important, right? :P
uglyfatchick: lol, thanks! My ruffles were meant to do exactly that, anyway, i.e., make me look old! :P
Very nice