I had just went to this U Petgamart place at Lorong Halus. I made a membership thing there recently. Not very recent, in fact. I made it last year.
Middle of last year. And forgot all about it. They told me I had to wait two weeks before I can collect my membership card. I said "Two weeks!? So long?" They said ya. And so I said Ok. And then I went back almost one year later.
I had lost the temporary card they had issued to me. So they made me write on the back of the receipt to acknowledge that I had received the actual card.
It was really funny because all the while I was standing there waiting for them to find the card that was not collected for such a long time, there were a thousand things I did.
Shopped for Chubby's new dryfood (Hey, with membership I get 20% off, but then I realised the things there were priced quite expensively so at the end of the day after that '20% off for members', we were paying normal market rate)... And then there were countless little things here and there we could get for the dogs.
Most importantly, there was a Great Dane there, whose colour was white with speckled black, who looked really like a cow with the head of a bat (his ears were cropped).. They called him Ah Dai... HAHAHAHAHA...
I thought it was an appropriate name for Kilo too.
Oh, and did I forget to mention there were a couple of cats a cage too, that kept mewing for attention. And that cat cage was located right beside a dog cage that had a sign there that reads: Please do not touch the dogs. The black Pom BITES.
And right above the dog cage were many cages that were filled with, guess what. Mice.
Yes, mice. So hard to find in Singapore and right just as I gave up looking for it, I found them.
I bought enough items to make it $29.10... so I wanted to NETS it.
Then they said they do not accept NETS unless the purchase was above $30.
What luck.
So I threw in a mint bone for the dogs that cost about $1.20.
Ta daaa... they let me use NETS... and with that, the following photos were taken:
And finally this weird photo was taken; I don't know but it must have been because the camera was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD that it captured an 'X' in his eye!!!!
CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 11:26 pm
I'm Blue Dabadeee
Ooh, don't you miss that song!!
At work, I had the priviledge of sitting directly beneath the new air-con. We have 3 huge units of air-con that is cooling the air over the Service Control and the Contracts department.
A little bit extra of me sitting there, but then I had the 'honourable' best seat of right beneath the newest unit out of the 3.
Which, in other words, makes my seat the most freezing cold one among all.
It's not as nice as you think it would be. I need to type fast, and sometimes it's not condusive at all because how fast can you type with numb fingers?
So numb, the insides are frozen that if you whack it realli hard with a piece of hammer, I'm sure they'd crack off.
Look! My fingernails have all turned blue :(
I was glad though, that since I don't know when, I have always had an infactuation with jackets. I don't have many jackets and sweaters to boast though, I probably only have 8 (and counting). I've ordered another one recently and I am so going to show all of you when it comes.
You all remember Chou Chou right? Yes. My darling chou chou that all of you will NOT smell even if I offered it. Only my Chubby darling would be able to appreciate it with me!!
And yes, the very same chou chou that is this very blog you are reading, is named after.
Though it really should be called chouchou.blogspot.com. Unfortunately, that is already taken by someone else. I guess I just have to settle for 2nd best.
So, yes, that jacket had the exact same 'skin' as Chou Chou's original skin. Chou Chou's original skin had little pictures of toy soldiers, dolls, teddy bears and rocking horse all over it. It's still around but very tattered and torn already. The threads are coming apart and all the print of those toys are really quite faded.
It was love at first sight (among many other love at first sight things, of course).
I'd upload a picture of it for all of you when it comes.
Meanwhile let me show you a photo of a bowl of very delicious noodles that costs $11.
I personally call it the OMG noodles.
The first thing I noticed about it was how the 'tao ge' were all plucked out. Sometimes they had the roots or the leaves left right? But no, this one was completely removed, which explains why the tao-ge only had the white crunchy middle part left.
The next thing I noticed was the satay stick at the side.
It costs $3 per stick, and contains a very miserable two cut pieces of abalone, that I assure you is as chewy as it is crunch. Crunch as it is chewy. It was thick enough for you to slowly relish the feeling of biting into an abalone. It was dipped in some sort of diluted oyster sauce too, so it's not too dry (anyway there's the thick soup you can dip the abalone in before you eat it).
Next, in case it had also escaped your attention because it camouflages well with the brown-based thick gravy.. is the shark's fin on the right side of the bowl. Seriously I don't know why am I eating this anyway. I know about shark-hunting and how cruel it is but really, I think the same effect as shark's fin can be similarly achieved with very well-done tang hoon, so there is actually no need to kill sharks.
Of course, there are pieces of scallop at the bottom of the bowl that I had not been able to take a photo with because the whole thing was in a mess after I started attacking.
Man, I believe I'm torturing myself because ever since waking up at 9am, I haven't had breakfast yet :(
Now that I am reminded about breakfast, I would like to end this blog post with a totally non-related photo of a new transportation container that I got for Joon.
I used to love the colour Pink immensely especially when I was in secondary school. Everything in my pencil box was pink (except the pencil box, I don't know why).
Then after that came Pink Withdrawal Symptons at which I hated everything and anything to do with pink.
But then it seems like those are gone now because I bought this container because.. guess what.. of its colour.
Sweet isn't it? Suits Joon so much!
CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 10:05 am
Sucky Photos
Sunday, April 20, 2008
The photo subjects were extremely cooperative. But the camera wasn't. 5 megapix.. Phhfff... Which part of these photos are screaming 5 megapix!?
If you ask me.. I'd dare to say Carl Zeiss lenses are still one of the top in HP cameras. Go Nokia!!
In return, let me refresh all of you abit with photos taken by my ex-phone, Nokia 6500 Slide. Let me remind you that unlike the earlier two photos that were taken under natural sunlight (supposedly cameras perform best under natural sunlight), though Chubby's photo was in a dark room..
The following two photos taken of a mineral water bottle.. Okay, more like rain-water bottle... was done during night time, and only under yellow fluorescent light. . and yet the results were so much better....
In other words.. Don't buy the Viewty if you want a good camera (ignore whatever LG says). Damn, I feel like I've just downgraded.
And just in case you were wondering.. the water tastes weird.
I was mildly pissed off with work on Friday. Someone indirectly said that I wasn't doing my job which is downright weird because all I had to do was to key in figures that THIS person was supposed to pass me, and then hand it to Finance. Remember one of my old posts in which I said that some adults, despite being our senior, are just not worth respecting?
When I heard about it, I started to wonder about this blog post of mine because I never thought I had to even be reminded of this theory again.
But as I've said earlier on, I was only MILDLY pissed because:
1) On Friday, naturally everyone's mood is good. 2) I more or less expected this kinda shit coming from that particular person 3) Everyone knows that particular person is like that 4) His (or her) theory was equivilant to a student being given homework and did not pass it up.. and then the student tries to blame the teacher.. wtf?
I guess this is where people come in and remark that you meet ALL SORTS of people in the working world. But you know, sometimes you know you will meet this sort of people, but then you wonder why?
Why is it that some people are given work and yet they just can't do the work properly?
Okay, enough of this little small whiney talks. I need to go scrub Joon's cage.
CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 11:29 am
I heart African Grey
Saturday, April 19, 2008
You know.. I really seriously considered getting one, especially when I was at this bird shop at Serangoon North the other day and one of the baby bugger actually stepped up onto my hand!!
(Subsequently another one bit me within 15 minutes later but let's not talk about that. One word to describe: Ouch.)
I went home and youtubed a little on African Greys to find out more about how much they can talk.. And boy can they REALLY talk..
And sing too! In fact, here's a super short clip of a cute Grey called Einstein, singing Who Let The Dogs Out...
Here's more if you can't get enough (of Einstein)
CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 7:59 am
New Phone (again)
Sunday, April 13, 2008
I have lost count and will no longer bother to keep track about the phone.
My 6500 Slide had been bidding its time ever since I dropped it on the 3rd day after I bought it.
I don't know why but I had never been so 'suay' to drop a phone within the first week of purchasing it!!
My mood was tremendously low for the next few days after that as I even contemplated the stupid option of selling it off and buying a brand new (scratchless) one.
Talk about obsession.
Des is using this Nokia 6300 phone that belongs to the company. As anyone would have, he did not bother to take good care of it at all. As luck would have it, the phone retains its track record for having NOT dropped a single time at all!
Talk about that guy, he went ahead and got himself a.. guess what.. Peach-faced lovebird. An olive green one. I don't really know the correct term for it.. but anyway, it's a little baby whose beak is still mostly black (as they grow into adults the black part actually goes 'away').
Taken with the lousy company handphone, here's the pic of it. I noticed that when I handled it, the littlebugger KEEPS trying to fly towards my face. I soon found out why... it likes to hide underneath my hair and stay there quietly.
Such a darling! Don't be appalled by the quality of the image. I know it's been a long time since the images I uploaded were of this standard but.. hey.. it's always good to remininscnce <-- Did I get the word correct? Looks wrong.
Anyway, I've just found out that photos taken with the LG Viewty is not as clear as a 5megapix ought to be. In fact the photos taken with my Nokia 6500 slide seems much better. I realised that this is probably because of I haven't taken the plastic sticker thing out from the lense, resulting in blurry photos, as you can tell from the side. Yup, this photo was taken on a cloudy morning at 8 plus AM.
Let's hope I keep the phone in this condition. BUAHAHA..!
Anyway, you noticed something.. I always can only take photos WITH the handphone. I can't take photo OF the handphone (mirrored image not counted). That's abit.. sad.. actually.. but have no fear, there are a trillion photos of the Viewty online...
And if you actually say it's name fast enough, it actually sounds like 'beauty'.. viewty beauty.. viewty beauty. They sure put in alot of brains for this one.
CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 12:29 am
Achmed the Dead Terrorist
Sunday, April 06, 2008
CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 12:34 am
Toilet Paper Issues
Saturday, April 05, 2008
On this rainy Saturday afternoon, after our International Marketing paper (I shall dwell abit more on that later), I would like to blog about, of all things, toilet paper.
Most people think that just because you are locked in the confines of a toilet cubicle, no one can see what you are doing.
I'm not sure if most people think that way after what so many movies have showed us that it is really possible to have a freaky society with surveillance possibly taking place anywhere and at anytime (I think Bourne movies are one good example).
However, I don't think any government wants to know what takes place within toilet cubicles.. yet.
Sheryl Crow, correct me if I'm wrong, actually said that we should all use toilet paper considerately.
Her idea of considerately was for 'small business', one square. For 'big business' use three squares. Of course, critics jumped upon this and went crazy.
As one of the masses, I think that using one square alone is kind of ridiculous. I think her argument was that we are going to wash our hands after we leave the cubicle anyway, thus one square (or three squares) of toilet paper is enough.
I think as long as you use below 4 squares for either big or small business, it's reasonable. . . But then there are people I absolutely do not understand.
It started off when I was in Temasek Polytechnic.
It's something everyone knows that girls go to the toilet in groups. Thus I was one of these girly group excursions to the toilet. The toilet was virtually empty except with our own people.
I was using the toilet when I heard a fierce rolling sound. I was abit shocked really, but I finally guessed what sound was that.
It was the sound created when someone pulls forcefully at the toilet paper that is attached to that 'roll-holder' against the cubicle wall. Thus creating a loud 'zarr-ing' sound.
You should hear that zarr-ing sound for yourself. It wasn't just a short one you know. It was like that person's ass was so big, she had to use a quarter of the entire toilet roll to wipe her *toot*..!! Let me remind you that Temasek Polytechnic uses JUMBO toilet rolls. Those super duper huge ones.
Wtf. Super inconsiderate. It's no wonder sometimes we enter toilets and realise that there are no more toilet rolls already.
It happened again. Recently. At work. There were only 2 cubicles in the ladies toilet. I entered one as the other one was already occupied.
And then I heard the same furious zarr-ing sound so familiar from my Polytechnic days.
I'm sick of this. Can someone explain the rationale behind this? Because even if it is THAT time of the month for the ladies, you don't have to use THAT many toilet roll (absorbing blood is what your pad is for, not stuffing toilet roll pads there. Laurier F rulezzzzzz)!!
It's like, that person is repeatedly pulling you know. If you ask me I think easily 30 squares were unrolled by that person! Maybe even more!!
I didn't bother to hang around after leaving the cubicle just to see who that culprit is. Can't be bothered.
Some Singaporeans really are disgracing the rest of us. Free also don't need to like that right? Want to open your handbag and stuff the toilet paper inside or not?
Okay, on to a lighter and then finally ending with a serious note. Mum says I am too good at describing dirty and disgusting things (e.g. dog ticks and maggots on beds) so I thought I'd try my hand at some more.. delightful descriptions. First of all, once again... apologies to those who hate chocolate. The next few lines are not meant for you.
I just had the privilege of enjoying this superb combinatino that I thought everyone should try...
Eat a Ferrero Rocher... and then while chewing it in your mouth, take a sip of (any brand of) Full Cream Milk. Mix it with the tongue.
Heavenly bliss!!!
I think it works best for Ferrero Rocher because it has that little bit of crushed nuts on it. Plus, there is a biscuit ball too, that helps to absorb the full cream milk.
Because if you just eat plain chocolate, it will just get washed down when you sip the milk, but with Ferrero, the creamy milk gets to swirl around in your mouth to mix perfectly with the milk chocolate which obediently stays in your mouth due to the nuts and the biscuits' absorbtion.
........ Arrr.........
Okay, now you are still leaning back and trying to imagine the taste.. I shall bring you back thunderously to reality. About my stupid International Marketing paper.
I thought it was pretty cool of the lecturer that he said we could write our OWN exam questions.
How many lecturers would offer that? Of course, he said, there was a catch.
As students, our questions would probably be too simple, so he would rephrase it abit to make it more suitable for an exam question.
The whole class was game.
Each project group took charge of a different Chapter of the lesson and there we went, compiling and writing model answers for each of the questions. I've never seen such a cooperative class that I was sure would make many lecturers proud.
Come exam day, honestly I have to admit, I had only briefly looked through the lecture notes but I had spent most of my time MEMORISING the compiled answers by the class that was emailed to everyone.
I never thought I could memorise so many things at my age. HAHAHAHA!!
At exactly 9am this morning, I sat myself down at my exam seat. Before even looking through the 60 MCQ questions in Section A, I flipped right to Section B where the structured questions were. I had memorised so much for it I thought I had better jot down on the question paper what I had STILL remembered.
Imagine. My. Shock.
For awhile I thought I was going to puke.
The questions were not rephrased at all. It was totally different. Totally. Totally. Like.. I know he taught this theory in class because I vaguely remembered it, but then I absolutely did not study it for the exam because no one compiled anything about this waterfall theory and sprinkler theory.
As I was bullsh*tting away into the answer booklet, I was so engrossed that I almost typed WATER SPRINKLER theory. Wth. He would have laughed his arse off.
CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 5:24 pm
Stephen Chow and the Magical Mucus...
Friday, April 04, 2008
Remember how I always tell all of you that when I am supposed to be studying, I will do ANYTHING but study!? Yes. This is what is happening now.
I would like to share with all of you this video. I watched this when I was really really young and it remains firmly (and fondly) etched in my mind. :)
Enjoy. HAHAHA....
CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 6:59 pm
Birdy Rescue
Now sitting very quietly at my feet minding its own business (Chubby left it alone cos he is quite blind and didn't see it)... is a very very small mynah bird. Myna. Mynah. Aiya, whatever...
In fact, it's a baby Mynah.. Yea. I think it's spelt Mynah.
As most of you loyal blog-followers of mine probably already know, this is not the first damn time it is happening. In fact, the previous time was roughly around my 21st birthday.
Thinking that Mama Bird would be responsible enough, I left the baby birds as they were, at the false ceiling of my room.
Bad idea. Over the next few days a super pungent smell started coming out of nowhere in my room. It's like, you get a whiff of it as and when.
I knew it was something that had died up there.
Still, I must be quite possessed because I didn't care. And then suddenly I had maggots dropping onto my bed through the hole in the false ceiling were my lights were.
So THIS time, I decided that although against many people's advice, I will take down the stupid baby bird(s).
Couldn't find a thing, though I could hear the baby birds crying their lungs out.
Must have been at the top of the roof all the time, and not at the false ceiling as I had thought.
Fine. I left them alone as I had previously. Until this very morning when I had wonderfully taken the day off, the baby birds really decided to be adventurous, crawl out of their nest, and promptly fell through a hole in the roof and with a loud THUD that woke me up, landed on my false ceiling.
I heard some struggles that caused their nails to scratch across my hollow false ceiling.
Unwillingly, I woke up and then went for breakfast, asking my maids to go and check.
They found 1 survivor. The other two had died from the impact of falling from the roof down to the false ceiling. Bad thing was I'm not sure if the sole survivor was totally unhurt or what. Probably it was lucky enough to land on its two dead siblings thus was miraculously saved from the same fate as the rest.
I've just fed it bread dipped in Milo. Haha! Just pure Milo powder. No other condense milk or whatever added.
Man, I should really take a photo or something. It is so cute. It's much smaller than the ones I reared the other time, but it's kind of eerily quiet for a baby bird.
The previous two I kept (before they promptly flew off and only came back to steal Kilo's food because they know he's not fierce or anything) had thrived on the bread dipped in Milo concoction to the point that they would scream and shout at anyone who walked past them because they want more food.
This little fella at my feet right now is really.. weirdly.. quiet. Either injured or tired out from the scare he had when he dropped down.
Finally uploaded the photos of the little monster. . . I took a break in-between this blog post and realised that it is impossible for that little monster to be injured. He wakes up, on average, every 15minutes and scream for food... This is like worse than a human baby...
Which.. is why.. I'm gonna name it.. xiao yao guai!!!
The first thing I noticed about it was how the 'tao ge' were all plucked out. Sometimes they had the roots or the leaves left right? But no, this one was completely removed, which explains why the tao-ge only had the white crunchy middle part left.
