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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I think it is the culture of Singapore that makes Singaporeans politix numb. No wonder Singapore SoPo blogsphere is very pathetic (sorry Singaporeans, just calling a spade, a spade). Countries like Msia, Thailand, Philipines etc. have people who fight for themselves for political rights.
Not saying that Singaporeans are wrong, it is just how things are done in Singapore. Each country is different. Some people care, some don’t. For some countries, Obama’s victory is important.
I unfortunately agree with you that Singaporeans tend to care on what they have in front of them more than anything else. Is it really apathy? or is it plain boh-chupness? I don’t really know. But i do hope that we as a society do ‘evolve’. It does seem rather sad that we as a “world class” country do not have “world class” citizens.
oh no! this is typical ‘自扫门前雪，那管他人瓦上霜’ culture!
Compared to the rest of the world, Singapore will not be affected as greatly by Obama’s win.
Even though Obama is inheriting alot of problems from the Bush administration, his predecessors have dealt with much worse.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, considered one of the greatest American Presidents of all times, had to deal with the Great Depression and World War 2. All this while being paralyzed from the waist down and suffering from heart problems. He died in office after serving an unprecedented 4 terms as President. He’s the only man to have served more than 2 terms as president.
In comparison, the war in Afghanistan, Iraq and the subprime mortage crisis is nothing compared to what FDR faced. Though I will be watching Obama with great interest, I wouldn’t be offended if I was labelled as being apathetic; afterall, greater men than he have already come forward.
hahaz
over priced rice…:P
hahaz
That is singapore lor… we are like “yeah, that handsome boy won” next moment you are busy with your work again…
This is the first time that I’ve really cared about ANY election. In the UK it’s just changing the faces while keeping the same old stuff, over here it’s well… but in this case it was incredible.
Obama is a great speaker and I hope that he’ll be a great leader too.