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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LOL, this would have made top news in Stomp… :P
Is this Novena Square 2? Next time, I wanna join in the fun!
P.S. Seriously, you don’t have to blank out the number plate for people like them!
Now, if only they had a clamp rather than just tissue and paper.
Prime candidates for Parking Idiots.
Hmmm… that site hasn’t been updated since late 2006!
I think the problem lies in differnt country got different culture. Singaporean are more “straight” (law abidding, by the book) where as our northern neighbour are more “flexible” (anything also can just dont get caught). Also I have driven into Malaysia before, seems like our neighbour are not as constraint by limited land, thus as long as they are able to park, who cares, how many lot were taken. Just my five cents worth.
I would have let the air out of the person’s tyres.
honestly I would do the same thing man..write a nice message for the driver to keep… ;)
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interesting actions by the people.
wonder what else to do to annoy the car owner?
At least the Singaporeans didn’t leave a brick on top of the roof like what I had read in Stomp.
This sure deserve a place in parkingidiots.blogspot.com
Just wondering, why did one of the note sorta accused the car owner as a Malaysian? Do they have bad rep in Singapore? *no offfense please*
modchip : Thats a Malaysian car plate (starting with JJW). Singaporean car plates start with S** and ends with an alphabet
Well, I gotta admit we’ve got some pretty bad “parkers” here, can drive but can’t park, but I’ve never seen anything so remarkable.
This is mild compared to the BeautyWorld case where the car’s side mirror got ripped off and bonnet scribbled with a “Please Park Properly” in permanent marker ink.
http://jaywalk.blog-city.com/dumbass_of_the_week_ix.htm
modchip: The license plate on the car indicates that it is a Malaysian car.
hahah some one posted on stomp….. http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=22894
Ahhhhhh…. thanks Rykarx and Jaywalk! Now I know. :D
I just had a thought: Anyone with THAT amount of junk hanging in the car probably didn’t notice the paper…
Park a truck in front of that car, tit for tat
krisandro: Yeah, probably. ;) But I have no reason to post in Stomp when I can post in my own blog, right? lol.
Miss Loi: I don’t know, haha. I don’t want to cause people any unnecessary trouble in case the guy really had a good reason for parking that way. :P Yeah, it was in Novena Square 2.
Jesta: I think the tissue and paper are funnier. :P
acroamatic: Haha funny site! Looks like even Singaporeans park like this JB guy. :P
juzMe: Yeah, you’re right. Malaysian laws are more lax, I guess. ;)
moby: Waaah evil O_o
Jason Ho: lol… I wish I had managed to check whether the vehicle collected more notes later. But it was gone by the time we left the building.
Ashtar83: Well, the really evil stuff would be to scratch his car or draw on it or something. But I’m glad nobody did that!
motd: Wah someone left a brick on someone’s car? Haha.
modchip: It’s kinda like juzMe explained. Malaysians have more relaxed police, so the citizens bend the rules all the time, especially motorists, who will just park anywhere and flout traffic laws. So, when Singaporeans see a car with a Malaysian license plate flouting laws, they will tend to be like, “See, those Malaysians!!”
But it’s kinda like semi-friendly neighbour bickering. Malaysians also have stuff to say about Singaporeans, I’m sure. lol.
Steffi: Yeah, sometimes I park really badly and have no time to adjust because I’m late for an appointment or something. But never as bad as this one! Haha.
JayWalk: Wah… fierce, man!
Rykarx: lol.. interesting! But I wonder why the guy never photographed the notes. Maybe he was one of them who wrote the notes!! lol.
Jesta: Hahaha… nice observation.
flyflyworm: Yeah, that’s a great idea!
There are so many people here in the USA that to this! Makes me sick.
I love that people let the driver know he was an idiot.