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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Hmmm interesting, hope the book finds its new fairytale. Sometimes people like your book lose their fairytales and give it up for worldly things, the lucky ones find a replacement but most just go on and forget what it’s like to have a fairytale.
Oh mine…..you wrote a story? Was trying to read…but too small
That’s so old school!
Something I never really got around to doing.
Haha :D
peeks: Hmm, your comment is interesting. I think everyone secretly wishes to be in a fairy tale. I guess that story came out of my subconscious unbidden. Haha.
Monster: You can click on the picture to view the larger version. :P But it’s not really a story. Just some nonsense.
yh: Haha, old school indeed! I grew up loving books and words and writing. Don’t think I’ll ever lose that! =)
Your story was surreal and quite meaningful. And peeks’ comment was similarly cheem.
To put it another way, the fairytale can be likened to be our innocence of youth, and the book is us. Once we lose that innocence from exposure to the outside world, it’s really hard to get back.
Yeah that’s it – wah, interpreting prose is fun. Reminds me of Eng Lit classes. :)
You got nice handwriting!
I would keep a written journal, but my handwriting is rather questionable. No idea how I ever get through interviewing people.
Wow, you really like and can write. I really hope that I can write like you. I have so many things to write but I’m just such a lousy writer that everything I want to write took me a hell lot of time and at the end of the day, I just scrape it because I can’t convince myself that it’s good enough.
when you change career, you can tell us more thing that ‘cannot be told now’, or even publish your diary. Can even make into a book title ‘Sheylara’s diary: The untold story’, haha.
Someday, when your in Hollywood, you can auction that. LOL! :D
mooiness: Haha, I like your interpretation, too. I think what’s more fun than interpreting prose is to discover how people interpret your prose.
CrashWire: Thanks! I’m a bit surprised to hear that, though. I kinda think my handwriting looks a little squiggly in there. =P
JokeDiary: As with everything, it takes practice to be good at something. I’ve been writing since I was like 5 or 6. After so many years of writing, I suppose it starts to come naturally.
bigmac: Haha, good idea. I might just do that in the future. :P But I doubt I would change career, though. I love acting too much!
modchip: Auction? Wow. Er… don’t think I’ll ever become so famous that people would want to buy my ratty little diary. :P
“Auction? Wow. Er… don’t think I’ll ever become so famous that people would want to buy my ratty little diary. :P”
Think positive my dear. You can, if you want to… just follow your dream. :D
Hmm another R.K Rowling in the making ? Maybe that was how she created Harry Potter. Probably that may be your calling since u write so well.. I can picture u with a kid in your lap reading the first chapter of “Life & times a part time actress”.. lol, but seriously the dairy looks really pretty.. locally avail, i may get myself one & ask u to autograph it :)
So True… so many lesson here..
1. Everyone have they happy zones, no matter how small there are.
2. There are bigger and better thing out there.
3. We don’t appreciate what we have until we loose it.
To me anyway…
modchip: Haha, I know what you mean. But there’s a limit to positive thinking. One has to be realistic and know your own limitations! :P
Starstruck: Don’t compare me to Rowling lah. I’m not worthy!! :P Don’t think storywriting is my calling. I’ve tried writing novels since I was 11 but I never succeeded cos I don’t have the discipline or the imagination to go beyond 2 chapters. lol. I guess the only thing I can ever write are autobiographies, but then I’d have to be famous in order to write it… if not, no one would bother reading. :P
arachno: Interesting observations! :) I love how you guys interpret my nonsense because it makes me sound smarter, lol.
Smart ones are those who don’t know they are smart or they don’t show it anyway… ;-P
What about those undecided ones? Sometimes I think I’m smart and sometimes I think I’m damn stupid. Haha. :P
I have several notebooks for writing too. When you’re famous, you’ll be glad you have them and used them.