Thursday, January 19, 2006
Relief
Relief according to Webster:
1) removal or lightening of something oppressive, painful, or distressing
2) one that takes the place of another on duty
did both today... amen.
1) removal or lightening of something oppressive, painful, or distressing
2) one that takes the place of another on duty
did both today... amen.
Monday, January 16, 2006
Highlight of the day!
Friends have commented that I am a very pessimistic person. Heck... I myself admit that I am a pessimistic person. I have a tendency to look on the bad side of things. Cos I reason that, hey, that's the worst that can happen. So I prepare myself for it. If things dun turn out that bad, then it's a sort of "added" bonus and then I go celebrate.
The cliched question : is the glass empty or half full? Optimistic people will view it as half full. I view it as half empty. Cos the worst that I am thinking: that's all the water that I have. It's time to ration it. If I survive, woah that's a good thing! Ha ha.. ok ok.. i hear people murmuring: cynic
So, in a bid to be not so pessimistic, I decided to think positive. So i shall endeavour to think of at least one highlight of the day. I guess this will make me appreciate the smaller things in life better and not take things for granted.
So here goes, the Highlight of today was....
The reopening of Golden Shoe Market!! Yeah! Hello to (still relatively) cheap food once again! Prices have gone up from 50 cents to 80 cents depending on which store you go to, but in return, you get more spacious seating and a cleaner environment (I guess that eliminates or at least reduces the occurance of finding fried mouse in your economical rice. I am not joking, it happened a few years back).
But more importantly, the opening of Golden Shoe Market signals the return of my beloved coffee! Ever since Golden Shoe Market closed, I had to go cold turkey for more than 6 months and settle for other kinds of coffee. Located on the 2nd floor, you will see it once u go up the stairs nearest to OUB plaza. Called AH POH COFFEE, they serve the best coffee! The best Kopi Tiam coffee I have ever tasted! Screw Starbucks, Coffee Bean, TCC, Spinelli, etc etc. Just give me Ah Poh coffee anyday. Ha ha.. bliss for only S$0.70 (no increase in price!). Woo Hoo!
And how does bliss taste like? Not too thick nor too thin, just the right sweetness and creaminess, with a hint of chocolate. It's that good till people queue for it (I have heard other people joking that the uncle puts opium in it to make people keep coming). And with the reopening, the stall holders have become more enterprising. They now offer ice coffee in bubble tea packaging! Such convenience!
So if you are willing to bear with the queue, the coffee is well worth the wait! Guaranteed!
Hmm... why does my highlight of the day sound like a foodie review???
The cliched question : is the glass empty or half full? Optimistic people will view it as half full. I view it as half empty. Cos the worst that I am thinking: that's all the water that I have. It's time to ration it. If I survive, woah that's a good thing! Ha ha.. ok ok.. i hear people murmuring: cynic
So, in a bid to be not so pessimistic, I decided to think positive. So i shall endeavour to think of at least one highlight of the day. I guess this will make me appreciate the smaller things in life better and not take things for granted.
So here goes, the Highlight of today was....
The reopening of Golden Shoe Market!! Yeah! Hello to (still relatively) cheap food once again! Prices have gone up from 50 cents to 80 cents depending on which store you go to, but in return, you get more spacious seating and a cleaner environment (I guess that eliminates or at least reduces the occurance of finding fried mouse in your economical rice. I am not joking, it happened a few years back).
But more importantly, the opening of Golden Shoe Market signals the return of my beloved coffee! Ever since Golden Shoe Market closed, I had to go cold turkey for more than 6 months and settle for other kinds of coffee. Located on the 2nd floor, you will see it once u go up the stairs nearest to OUB plaza. Called AH POH COFFEE, they serve the best coffee! The best Kopi Tiam coffee I have ever tasted! Screw Starbucks, Coffee Bean, TCC, Spinelli, etc etc. Just give me Ah Poh coffee anyday. Ha ha.. bliss for only S$0.70 (no increase in price!). Woo Hoo!
And how does bliss taste like? Not too thick nor too thin, just the right sweetness and creaminess, with a hint of chocolate. It's that good till people queue for it (I have heard other people joking that the uncle puts opium in it to make people keep coming). And with the reopening, the stall holders have become more enterprising. They now offer ice coffee in bubble tea packaging! Such convenience!
So if you are willing to bear with the queue, the coffee is well worth the wait! Guaranteed!
Hmm... why does my highlight of the day sound like a foodie review???
Sunday, January 15, 2006
BIG FOOT!
Yup.. it's that Chinese new year shopping frenzy again. Was super irritated with the huge throng of crowds EVERYWHERE... Geez.. but can't blame them. With the past week of constant raining, everyone was finally relieved to be able to do some shopping when the sun finally peeked I guess? I can just imagine those shop-o-holics in cold turkey stage.. ha ha *let me out... let me out.. need... shopping... *
Unfortunately, I had to do some shopping of my own. Had to get some nice heels for Chinese New Year. What makes it even more urgent, would be other half's mother's superstition. She believes that during Chinese new year, it is not good to get shoes cos in cantonese, shoes are called hai. So she believes that if u buy shoes during this period, u will be sighing for the rest of the year, indicating a lot of troubles. Other half is strictly banned from buying shoes during that one whole month. Me? I just follow it for precautions sake. (But then again, I have been told that I sigh a lot... so it isn't a huge difference to me! Bwah ha ha ha)
Ok, I digress with that Cantonese superstitious tid-bit. Back to the main point. Looking at the crowds, I was crediting myself for buying clothes in HK. At least i eradicated long queues for the fitting room! But it doesn't stop my woes there... Buying shoes have always been a huge headache for me. Being a size 40 in SG is not a good thing. When I see a nice pair, i will only be disappointed when they tell me that they do not have the available size. I even suffered the ultimate insult of the sales girl telling me to try on the men's version of a pair of moccasins... (i bought the men's version by the way).
And from young, Dad has been making fun of me, saying that I should look for size G (G for GIANT). I could even share shoes with my bro! And yesterday night, my idiot friends made fun of me saying that the huge foot prints they found in JB were actually made by me and not the suspected yeti like creature.... BAsket
So a quote from the movie IN HER SHOES: Diets don't work, clothes don't fit, but shoes will always fit... yeah... right
Unfortunately, I had to do some shopping of my own. Had to get some nice heels for Chinese New Year. What makes it even more urgent, would be other half's mother's superstition. She believes that during Chinese new year, it is not good to get shoes cos in cantonese, shoes are called hai. So she believes that if u buy shoes during this period, u will be sighing for the rest of the year, indicating a lot of troubles. Other half is strictly banned from buying shoes during that one whole month. Me? I just follow it for precautions sake. (But then again, I have been told that I sigh a lot... so it isn't a huge difference to me! Bwah ha ha ha)
Ok, I digress with that Cantonese superstitious tid-bit. Back to the main point. Looking at the crowds, I was crediting myself for buying clothes in HK. At least i eradicated long queues for the fitting room! But it doesn't stop my woes there... Buying shoes have always been a huge headache for me. Being a size 40 in SG is not a good thing. When I see a nice pair, i will only be disappointed when they tell me that they do not have the available size. I even suffered the ultimate insult of the sales girl telling me to try on the men's version of a pair of moccasins... (i bought the men's version by the way).
And from young, Dad has been making fun of me, saying that I should look for size G (G for GIANT). I could even share shoes with my bro! And yesterday night, my idiot friends made fun of me saying that the huge foot prints they found in JB were actually made by me and not the suspected yeti like creature.... BAsket
So a quote from the movie IN HER SHOES: Diets don't work, clothes don't fit, but shoes will always fit... yeah... right
so the onward quest for finding the right shoe... sigh...
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Taking stock of 2005
Wow.. it's 2006 already... another year has passed! I was taking stock on what has happened the past year... and frankly nothing comes to mind. Nothing spectacular... sigh.. am I jaded or what?
So instead of writing down new year resolutions (i never follow them, so why start), I decided to reflect and ponder on things that I loved and hated (or continue to love and hate)
10 Things I love and treasure (in no order of merit.. I am just writing what comes to mind)
1) Friends (real ones, not the series).... oh what will I do without them?
2) Home cooked meals ... a rarity for me so I treasure them a lot
3) Holidays (public and overseas)... once u start working, you appreciate them more
4) Family... nuff said! Ha ha
5) Personal time... to do the stuff I want
6) Manga & anime... nice artwork, interesting original storylines. It's boring when everyone starts to do remakes, remakes and remakes.. especially hollywood
7) Music... music soothes the savage beast... music is the common language...
8) Sleep... haven't been able to get good sleep... can the sandman come visit soon?
9) The great outdoors... there's just something about the blue sky, dotted with clouds, green landscape that is extremely refreshing... New Zealand, here I come!
10) Perfect eyesight... I wish I can just lose those glasses...
10 Things I hate (once again, in no order of merit. If u see ur name on top of the list, it doesn't mean I hate u the most.. I just hate u.. ha ha ha! kidding!)
1) Taxi drivers... some can be extremely irritating... but sometimes can't do without them... esp in rainy season
2) Work... necessary evil.. no work = no pay, which then = no play (bloody evil cycle)
3) Rain (before I get hate mail, I am talking about the elements, not the Korean singer/dancer)... I absolutely hate to get my feet wet....
4) the supernatural... absolutely pertrified of them
5) cockroaches and lizards (anything of the creepy crawly and reptilian variety)... bloody critters...
6) Surveyors/Charity seekers/ ppl who stop you when u r walking down orchard road... as much as I can understand what they are going through and the rejections they face (I was once one of them), there are days that I just do not wish to be disturbed...
7) Kiasu Singaporeans... I absolutely cannot phantom why they have to be the first ppl to rush in when the train doors open just to get seats?? Especially the "ah so". That is SG's version of desperate housewives
8) Females who are too lazy to take out their EZ link card and resort to putting their entire handbag on the gantry reader... Another kind of the female species that I do not understand although we are of the same kind. They think the gantry readers are Xray scanners of some sort which can detect their Ezylink cards in their already bulky handbags filled with god-knows-what. It's even more hilarious when the gantry fails to detect the card and these females start to flip their handbags like the bags are pancakes... but these idiots do not have the common sense to move to the side to search for the card. The just continue to flip the bag in all directions possible, causing a major jam at the gantry. SIgh.. the kitchen is at home dearie...
9) Eating noodles, especially the super thin ones ("mee kia" variety)... at least at this point in time with braces. The top and bottom row do not meet, making eating noodles extremely difficult since I cannot chew them. I have lost count of how many times I have choked and made a public embarrassment of myself becos I have to wolf down all the noodles in one go. Not a pretty sight. Have since resorted to asking the stall holders to cut my noodles...
10) Moving house... woah.. once experience is enough..
So instead of writing down new year resolutions (i never follow them, so why start), I decided to reflect and ponder on things that I loved and hated (or continue to love and hate)
10 Things I love and treasure (in no order of merit.. I am just writing what comes to mind)
1) Friends (real ones, not the series).... oh what will I do without them?
2) Home cooked meals ... a rarity for me so I treasure them a lot
3) Holidays (public and overseas)... once u start working, you appreciate them more
4) Family... nuff said! Ha ha
5) Personal time... to do the stuff I want
6) Manga & anime... nice artwork, interesting original storylines. It's boring when everyone starts to do remakes, remakes and remakes.. especially hollywood
7) Music... music soothes the savage beast... music is the common language...
8) Sleep... haven't been able to get good sleep... can the sandman come visit soon?
9) The great outdoors... there's just something about the blue sky, dotted with clouds, green landscape that is extremely refreshing... New Zealand, here I come!
10) Perfect eyesight... I wish I can just lose those glasses...
10 Things I hate (once again, in no order of merit. If u see ur name on top of the list, it doesn't mean I hate u the most.. I just hate u.. ha ha ha! kidding!)
1) Taxi drivers... some can be extremely irritating... but sometimes can't do without them... esp in rainy season
2) Work... necessary evil.. no work = no pay, which then = no play (bloody evil cycle)
3) Rain (before I get hate mail, I am talking about the elements, not the Korean singer/dancer)... I absolutely hate to get my feet wet....
4) the supernatural... absolutely pertrified of them
5) cockroaches and lizards (anything of the creepy crawly and reptilian variety)... bloody critters...
6) Surveyors/Charity seekers/ ppl who stop you when u r walking down orchard road... as much as I can understand what they are going through and the rejections they face (I was once one of them), there are days that I just do not wish to be disturbed...
7) Kiasu Singaporeans... I absolutely cannot phantom why they have to be the first ppl to rush in when the train doors open just to get seats?? Especially the "ah so". That is SG's version of desperate housewives
8) Females who are too lazy to take out their EZ link card and resort to putting their entire handbag on the gantry reader... Another kind of the female species that I do not understand although we are of the same kind. They think the gantry readers are Xray scanners of some sort which can detect their Ezylink cards in their already bulky handbags filled with god-knows-what. It's even more hilarious when the gantry fails to detect the card and these females start to flip their handbags like the bags are pancakes... but these idiots do not have the common sense to move to the side to search for the card. The just continue to flip the bag in all directions possible, causing a major jam at the gantry. SIgh.. the kitchen is at home dearie...
9) Eating noodles, especially the super thin ones ("mee kia" variety)... at least at this point in time with braces. The top and bottom row do not meet, making eating noodles extremely difficult since I cannot chew them. I have lost count of how many times I have choked and made a public embarrassment of myself becos I have to wolf down all the noodles in one go. Not a pretty sight. Have since resorted to asking the stall holders to cut my noodles...
10) Moving house... woah.. once experience is enough..
