Counter

Great, 8 more days to go and Miko and I will be attending Jolin's Dancing Diva Concert! Having a counter is good as it reminds me on the number of days left for events that I will be looking forward to.

Suddenly this thought came into my mind, what if we were fitted with a counter? Counting down the number of days we still have left alive. What are your views on that?

Spine-chilling... If that kinda bizarre thing ever happen to mankind I will not be able to see the day I expire... because I will be liquidated way before I hit my deadline (due to heart attack).

Luckily we are not tagged with an expiry date, so feel free to spend our days resolutely.

Yeah! I am soooooooo looking forward to the concert!

Being Happy

I read an article about learning to be happy in the latest Her World. I simply love one of the paragraph composed by the author.

[ Appreciation for what you have, of not comparing yourself to others, is an important factor in happiness. Once people start to compare themselves to others, feelings of resentment, jealousy, anger and unfairness come in. It's called relative deprivation. We may look at someone and then think we have to be thinner, richer, prettier. When you compare yourself to others you will never find happiness. ]

The above sentence is really crucial to whether one will be happy with their lives. Many times we tend to do too much comparison. Well, it is healthy to strive to become better, but comparison over trivial stuff is really extraneous. Not only it makes you become less confident about yourself it will also tarnish the relationships with others.

What if you are the object of such disdain? Ask me, I am always being treated as such, like a target board, 'kena' lots of darts before...

Between friends, I usually laugh over it after I have bitched about it to some mutual party (MP). Guess bitching to a MP does help releasing some negative energy inside me, trying to see the comparison as a joke so that I can get the endorphins out from my body. I can't deny the fact that it irks me every time and bemoan why I am always the object of scrutiny. Helter-skelter, its pointless to ask WHY, I have to learn to battle it off.

OK enough of the discussion about happiness, I have found another way of discharging all my excess energy by working out at the gym everyday. It's really cool to work out alone, I took my own pace at the cardio workouts and doing some light weights. It was quite fruitful, after weighing myself at the gym, I loss about 1.5kg... hahaha. I wasn't able to loose a lot of weight because I cannot resist all the good food around me, moreover I had a great chef at home... it will be a pity not to finish what she had prepared everyday for the whole family am I right? hehehe, I am a sucker for good food.

Yesterday I drove my car and parked at the gym for 3 hours, bloody wrong move, it cost me $16.50 for parking! Wah you know its just not justifiable to pay so much for parking! Therefore I took the mrt today, and it only cost me $1.30. That is what I call efficient cost saving and I was quite proud of myself. Proud for taking the initial step of relinquish my car and hop on the public transport.

My life's been good to me so far, I will stay motivated and happy.

Prejudice!

If your employer were to make you choose between family and your career, what will you choose?

To me the answer is obvious, I do not want to spend my entire life working in this kind of selfish and brainless company.

So much for all those giving birth campaign and encouragement from our leaders in Singapore. To really see increase in birth rates,

Firstly you have to educate the employers in Singapore to give us women the same treatment that they provide to our male counterparts.

Educate them not to discriminate women who are trying to produce future leaders for our country.

We should also be given the same career opportunities and advancement in all aspects.

I still cannot believe it! They will say such things to me, that pregnancy will affect my job physically and mentally, also they have to get other people to cover my duties while I will be away for 3 months maternity leave. (Don't be mistaken, I am not pregnant yet.)

I thank our government for giving us the subsidies and perks as a form of encouragement, but being a modern women nowadays isn't as simple as it looks. We are constantly facing the same amount of pressure that our men received and on top of that we still have to face social/ family issues.

How to strike a balance?

Vineyard and market place

Recently I went to this very cool vineyard and would like to share the beautiful photos with you. Opps busted, since when there is a vineyard in Singapore!

Well, I got to know a new friend and she is currently staying in Australia. Sharon was very generous to share her weekend road trips with me and showed me the beautiful photos she took during her adventure. I have gotten her permission to post her photographs on my blog because I really loved them!

I have never been to Australia, nor any vineyard so far, really envy friends that get a chance to live overseas either for work or studies. In Singapore all we can look forward to during the weekends are either shopping, catch movies, go clubbing, la kopi, blar blar... If not go for tanning (or blocking for my case) in Sentosa. Usual and predictable..

But if you live in a big country like Australia, you can do different stuff like rent a car and drive to another state, county or some rural area, visit the farms, feed the farm animals, ride on a pony, skin a sheep... hahaha

Ok lets look at Sharon's master piece, pictures were very well taken.

Grapes! Grapes! I never see grapes like this before! (Me = city tortoise... "city ku")

Their cup cakes were so colorful, at first glance I thought they were some decorations for the table, too beautiful to be eaten!



Hey this is a unique animal call Alpacas, it resembles a sheep in appearance but is larger and has a long erect neck. They were sometimes mistaken as a camel or llamas. They were breed for their fibre (wool) to make into blankets, sweater, hats etc.. Sometimes they were bred exclusively for their meat as well, sad... looked so cute!




A typical working farm dog.




Bet these clocks were hand made! Artistic!

Fruit jams.

Road trips are fun, my only closest experience was in Malaysia. Most of the time Jeff was the one behind the wheels, I was the navigator. Furthest distance was driving up all the way from Singapore to Penang. Tiring but fun, best part about road trips was able to stop anywhere we liked and enjoy scenery along the way.

I am glad to know Sharon through my blog, thank you once again for allowing me to post your photographs!

St. James (DragonFly) & Lovely Darlings

I had so much fun last Friday night, we were supposed to go Powerhouse to see some muscles and biceps but in the end we were refused entry due to overwhelming response. Ha surprise right? Now you know not only boobs can attract a big crowd, men's' muscle can achieve better responds.

Dennis F. is really a very rich man now, that night it seems like 1/4 of the Singapore populations were there at St. James. Branded cars like Porsche, Jaguar, Ferrari, were valet parked right at their door steps. Car parks were so full till car park attendants reject all the valets as well. But they didn't put up the FULL signage outside then entrance and I drove right into their TRAP! I was stuck in the middle of a downward slope unmovable for 30 to 45 mins... I wanted to reverse out from the slope but there were 4 cars behind.

No one seem to care at all, the attendants just stood outside happily chatting away and enjoying the view of the traffic jam! They didn't stop cars from entering the car park even though they knew it was already jammed below. In the end other drivers got down from their cars and gave instructions to the attendants to get the cars out. So stupid! Sometimes I wonder why didn't they do something about the jam right from the start. Anyway that was the only set back for the night, was supposed to reach there at 8.30pm instead got into the club close to 10pm... all thanks to the jam.

I was right into party mood once I got in, my usual gang was there, Miko, Marilyn, Kelly and Esther. Miko's darling Desmond was there with his colleagues, Esther was there with her darling too and she brought other friends along. Ended up the party group got bigger and bigger, I even met my secondary school friends apart from Kenneth.

Comment from an Anonymous

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Glutton": Just wanted to say that other than your husband, and those usuals, like miko, esther etc, u dont seem to have any friends. Kinda poor thing.

Sense some jealousy here? Anonymous said I have my husband and my usual friends like my DB gang only. I am puzzled,

firstly, my husband and my family is of course my everything, I am always filled with love around them. Fortunate and lucky me.

secondly, if today I have only ONE true friend, I am considered the luckiest person in the world. It's quality and not quantity that really truly matters to me. So what if you have more friends than I do but then at the end of the day they were all a bunch of hypocrites and bad mouthing you behind your back all the time? Yes you are right, I do experience that a lot and have grown wiser.

By the way Anonymous, how many husbands do you want so that you are not 'kinda poor thing'?

I know how many friends I have got and also know who are sincere and who are not, I don't need your pity. Thank you very much.

Glutton

I swear I am going to finish all this within days.... And believe it or not it has been like that since weeks ago... or since I came back from Japan. I am suffering from some paranoia syndrome, suffocating myself with all those junk food, tidbits, chips, chocolate to relieve the syndrome. One very Big side effects of all these gluttonous... I might not be able to fit the door when I get out....

My prince handed me a small pile of 50's last night, I was shocked and asked him are you sure this much! He looked at me and said in a very certain tone, yup for you, so you can go out with your friends and have money to spend.

My sweet heart! The reason why I wasn't certain about the sum was that I felt I don't deserve to be given so much $ as I really have nothing to do! Haha, no need to clean the house, wash the laundry, cook... run errands... no kids to look after (in the process). Anyway, I have to use the money to pay for my car installment and other bills too. Need to cut the expenditure low since he is bringing in the dough back. I will spend wisely!

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Sun Block Day

I set my priorities right, and I am not easily influenced by my friends as I know what I really want for myself. Even though my friends and I have differences, we were still able to enjoy the same activities together. I was able to maintain my fair complexion even though I was basking under the sun with my darlings last Saturday. Miraculously everyone got tanned and burnt except me! You want to know why? I practically soaked myself in in sunblock lotion every 2 hours, making sure every part of my skin was well blended with sunblock lotion. On the other hand, my darlings were also busy applying their suntan lotion too, it was like marinating some meat ready for barbecuing ... hahahaha, we had got 2 flavours, sesame and mayonnaise which is suntan and sunblock respectively.

When I got bored blocking under the sun, I helped cute Megan picked sea shells and stones. Luckily there was Megan around, she was keeping me company rather than I keeping her company! I enjoyed picking seashells, kinda been ages since I last did stuff like that. The most satisfying part was when I heard Megan complimenting that the shells I found was really lovely and she liked them a lot.

We will be scheduling another day for tanning and blocking in Sentosa soon!

Tickle Me® Elmo

As you know I am a WOL, I have nothing to look forward to except for things that is FUN! Jeff was afraid that I would be bored at home, and worried that my mind will still be too occupied at the unhappiness that has happened regarding work decided to get my laughing mood up high. One night he was watching the repeat telecast of 娱乐百分百, the host was showing off his new toy which is Elmo. When anyone tickles Elmo, he not only laugh, he moves, roll on the floor and eventually stands up on its own.

Jeff was quick to know that I will definitely love this toy, came back in the afternoon and gave me a very big surprise! He went to Toys R Us and bought it for me just to cheer me up! I really couldn't stop laughing when I saw Elmo laughing, it was amazing. Toys have "mutated" now it not only talks, it moves and they are afraid of being tickle! Whahahaha hilarious! Jeff said if I am sick of Elmo I can play with a human size Tickle Me Elmo, I ask who? He said, Me La! hahahaha So adorable!

It's really worth watching Elmo's stunt, do download the video below and you will sure to burst into laughter! It's a great way to cheer up someone! Enjoy!

Leave me your comments on the above video ok! hehehe

Japanese food episode

Can't believe it, I am still at the topic of Japan, I really missed those days there.... although I have been there for only 7 days I already can't get use to the life in Singapore. Ahahaha ridiculous and exaggerating right! I thought so too, sounded lame... But the fact is that I am able to see my darling every minute and enjoying each other's company was the most rewarding. Though we live together, we do not really get to spend quality time alone together, you know, as in just the 2 of us? Even so I must say that my marriage life is as wonderful as single life! Who says marriage is the end of romance in a relationship?

This post is delicate to all the food lovers, especially if you are like me as I simply loves Japanese food. I love to take photographs of food so that I am able to remember how they looked like or what I have eaten. Tell me how not to get fat?! Life is great if you do not have to watch your diet and eat whatever you want. Hahaha, my life is great!