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 Sheylara,
They gave you an arguably crappy topic and you found a real interesting angle!
There is something about the “citizen journalism” you see practised that just gives me a queasy stomach feeling. Is it voyeurism? Some kind of vicarious drug?
There also seems to be an insidious expectation that just because you blog, you necessarily must have pretensions to the high art of journalism. That’s just patently false. Sure, some do have the ambition, while others are just happy to chat to themselves and their friends in a public forum. Much like an overheard conversation at Bugis.
You should write more on this. I for one would be real interested to hear what you think. Why is it like this? Is it just “growing pains” and naivete? Is Singapore leading or lagging in developing a mature blogging/citizen journalism culture? (Don’t mention the ABS!!)
btw, I prefer to comment on your blog here because stomp makes my eyes water;-) … a designer’s nightmare on elm street!!
pratalife: Thanks for your comment. :) I would love to write more on this… but it’s a hassle writing serious articles cos you need to do the research and get all your statistics and quotes and whatnot right. Haha. Nowadays, that kind of thing is a luxury I have no time for! :P
But I suppose I might just do it if I bugs me enough. There are many issues that bug me. I just don’t have the time to write about them.
Why don’t YOU write something? You seem to have pretty sound views on the whole issue. :)
a good read :)
I hold similar views regarding to what extent is PDA inappropriate.
Honestly, I think there are truckloads of voyeuristic crap on STOMP.
Do you know that there’s an initiative to shutdown STOMP? I wrote a post about it and compiled a list of really lame “news” on STOMP. ^^
Stomp out STOMP