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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Hey there! Saw you at Essential Brew but as I was quick to leave didnt get to talk to many including yourself.
I didnt know that DS Lite can blog. This is so cool.
Paddy Tan: Hiya! :) Good to see you again, although we didn’t get to chat. Yeah, I also didn’t know DS Lite can blog until recently! Just wish Wireless@sg would buck up! :P
Hi, err.. think can forget about Wireless@Sg. I almost pull out my that very little hair left when tried surfing at Coffeebean. There is signal but just kept kicking me out every 30 seconds after I logged in.
Paddy Tan: Yeah, I know, I’ve seen a lot of bad press surrounding Wireless@sg. But I don’t want to pay for mobile broadband (yet). Haha. So, no choice, gotta put up with it. Sometimes you might get lucky, like earlier at Essential Brew, I actually managed to stay connected for more than half-an-hour, until I shut down my DS. ;)
No need thank la. I like reading, interviews of hot gamer babes included. Good to see gaming growing slowly but surely for the next generations like you haha. I started more than 2 decades ago lol.. still remember singapore’s first lanshop too. Its all leisure for me now :)
Wireless@SG is like your bastard child where it was all fun and fanfare when they created it. Next thing you know, now nobody want to maintain it and allow it to degrade into oblivion.
I have to say I am very impressed that you ACTUALLY typed so much on the DS lite. Even when I have a full keyboard on the Nokia E90, I can’t see myself typing so much in one sitting unless I am really really bored.
The last time I wrote any much on a mobile device (sans laptop) was on a Palm PDA where the graffitti (writing recognition) was second to none.
Ditch the DS and use an iPod Touch. Much better
Oh mine….Didn’t know that you can surf and blog on NDS….Unmm…interesting. NDS gets one point up from PSP…but PSP can watch movies, can NDS do that too?
I’m pretty sure the Goonster will tell you that the PSP has wireless connectivity and can surf as well as the DS, being the rabid Sony fanboi that he is :P
BTW, one thing I’ve noticed about WirelessSG, connecting via handhelds seems iffy and dodgy.
But connecting via a mobile PC is a lot more reliable and stable. I’ve had no problems surfing and even gaming via my Lenovo, but my 838Pro has trouble even connecting properly.
Probably because you need a tranceiver output that can fry your brain before the WirelessSG signal becomes usable.
did you try Macdonald Wireless?? I think their’s is more stable. as there’s not so many users.
My cousin stay in changi village ( within the wireless@sg area). She bought a laptop just because there’s free internet. lol. But according to her. sometime it’s good and on some day really bad. but overall I think she can still live with it since it’s foc.
Where and how much for the DS browser?!
Apparently it’s no longer in production you know? I’ve had such a hard time looking for it… Unless I order from online. :(
DS very useful ei? FYI, You can also watch movies, play mp3, organizer… etc.. on the DS…! Did you also know that you can run linux on it? Pretty cool ya? If only it could make phone calls…. *:)*
Kool I don’t know DS can do that… :)
Wah so lucky you. :D
modchip: Wah you can install Linux on this little device?? Can do normal Linux stuff also?
Haven’t personally tried it, but I think it would be on a pure commandline usage, and maybe usual commands apply. Do a search on “DSLinux” if you want to find out more. ;)
Here’s the homepage of DSLinux: http://dslinux.org/
cool, will have a look when I have the time. Thanks.
Liquid Ecstasy: Gaming is certainly growing as more and more people get attached to computers in this new technological age. I think that’s a great thing!
JayWalk: Well, sometimes, typing on the DS for a long period of time beats sitting around and doing nothing. :P
Jesta: I would love to. Christmas present for me? :P
Monster: I don’t know. But the Goonfather says NDS can watch movie too. I’m not interested, though. I’d rather watch movies on the big screen.
Mince Pye: Are you saying that laptops fry brains?
JokeDiary: Nope, haven’t tried McDonald’s. I tried Starbucks once. But the connection kept coming and going and never stuck for more than 2 minutes. Irritating like hell.
Shelly: Will talk to you on MSN about it. :)
modchip: Phone calls on DS? Haha. Well, the Nokia Ngage tried to do that. :P
arachno: Lucky? But many people own a DS nowadays.
Hehe, I actually had an N-gage (QD), good on the phone side, a little so-so on the games side. *sigh*