This is great. Mini-sized Garlic bread. VERRRY nice.
I love Garlic!! Pepper rules, but sometimes it's nice to eat Garlic and irritate the heck out of everyone you talk to (think: Garlic breath).
It's weird that how something that tastes so nice actually will smell like sh*toot* to another person when they smell it from your breath.
I've been blogging very very rarely, I know... but that's cos I've been rather pre-occupied with a new drama. Called Ying Ye 3 Jia 1.
Probably my first idol drama theat features the popular idol drama couple: Ming Dao and Qiao En.
I hate Idol Dramas that make me cry. I like those funny and ridiculous ones like KO One (acted by that pretty boy band Fahrenheit long before don't know what Wu Zun joined them).
Ying Ye started off pretty funny and relaxing, about this group of 4 really good friends in school about one month before they graduate.
Then in the show, Ming Dao got shot while protecting Qiao En. It was supposed to be a simple operation (or so the doctor claimed) that only require the extraction of the bullet. Who knows midway they actually accidentally broke one of his major vein.
Now this scene sort of made me squirmed in my seat. The blood just squirts out like it was shot through a high pressure pipe. The doctor was covered in blood. Heck, even Ming Dao's face had little blood droplets to complete the gory effect (the gun shot wound was somewhere on his side so imagine the blood fly all the way to this face!).
So his condition worsened through the night and the doctor made his mum sign this form to reject emergency treatment should the condition get worse (so that the patient can die in peace rather than suffer through the emergency treatment and may not even survive at all).
So there they were, his mother, Qiao En, Qiao En's dad and the two other best friends (they make up four altogether, remember) were standing in the hospital room as the doctor pulled out the life support.
I almost frigging cried my eyeballs out.
*dabs her eyes with tissue*.
By the way, I realised I only saved and forgot to post a blog post on 19th July 2008. Please scroll down and take a look. It's about Lily's handphone.
PS: I'm using SE C902i now. Explains alot about why the pic quality these days have been AWESOME (Photos from Yakult post onwards are all C902).
CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 11:31 am
Something to Munch about
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Today in one of the rarer post, I want to talk abit about food.
Throughout my two years at the company, nothing good to look forward to came out of it. As in, something I could look forward to that make me smile as I walk back, thinking of it.
Haha!
I am easily bribed. So it came to pass that.... on the 2nd last week of mine with the company (yes, I am serving my notice period having already tendered in last Friday)... They purposely teased me by getting a Yakult dispensing machine.
Yakult is just another drink, but LOOK AT THE FRIGGING PRICE....
I almost went crazy.
Now on average, I drink 2 bottles of Yakult a day, and have been religiously visiting the toilet for big business. HAHAHA..!
Talk about cheaper methods of detox!
CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 10:05 am
Lily's Hello Kitty Phone!
Saturday, July 19, 2008
I've been wanting to update this but always forgot.
Lily has left the company SO LONG already and now I'm only jus tstarting to blog about her phone.
I'm never a great fan of Hello Kitty. I once was. Tried to,more like it. The Hello Kitty I liked was back when it always had a rich red coloured ribbon on it with a sort of checkered shirt with red overalls on.
I saw the exact same one at Taka and wanted to buy it (to Des' disbelief).
Gave up the idea because I have far too many softoys already.
But then I saw Lily's phone and I was absolutely stunned because although I don't really like the cat, I could imagine how much a person who likes that cat without a mouth would also LOVE to own that phone.
She bought it in HK at the pricey ... um.. price of I think $6-700 dollars.
Quite ex if you ask me.. for a phone that has relatively no features. Yes. None.
Except, you could call the keypad a touch phone if you wan. You can use a stylus but not on the screen. Just on the keypad.
Here's a picture of it...
Another cute part of the phone was that in the office, most people don't know what handphone models that our colleagues are using. Unless you lunch together of course and see your lunch buddies typing SMS-es furiously away on their keypads, or yakking on their phones.
Lily doesn't lunch with me often but I noticed the very small and easy-to-miss phone because she was always wearing it around her neck. The little thing was so small and sweet like a little trinket.
Oh, and she loves pink. She ADORES pink. More often than not, she wears pink to the office, so the phone fitted in nicely as she was always playing with the phone by throwing it between her two hands while talking to us.
Now here's the unlocked phone:
See touch-keypad?
Looks nice eh? If you like it, check out the menu page!!:
Yes. It is a damn blardy cute phone.
CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 9:40 am
Sentosasa
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Weird eh? Because of the numerous cameras that were taken there (I would say 70% of which turned out to be extremely blur photos. The other 20% were decent and the remaining 10% were out to ridicule me), we had renamed the folder as Sentosa, Sentosasa, and I believe the next two other cameras were going to be Sentosasasa and Sentosasasasa.
Yup. Four cameras. I had the honour of preserving only those that are clear enough to be up.
Seems like my hp camera is not the only jia lat one. HAHA..!
This is one of my most hated photos from the outing. I don't know when was it taken, how was it taken, WHY was it taken. Damnit.
Looking at it, I'm reminded of a particular character in Warcraft III, called Bloodwrath. . ..
Did I forget to mention that day that the weather was really HOT..?
Walking along the sky garden roof of Vivo City, the heat was so immense that you could feel all the pores on your face opening. Ouch.
We didn't visit alot of attractions. As locals, the price of the tickets were really not attractive at all.
Like, it costs $8 just to visit the Merlion.
As any of you would have known, there is absolutely NOTHING interesting in the Merlion, say, except for the souveneir shop, which is just like ANY OTHER souveneir shop in Sentosa.
What I'm trying to say is, it is so boring that even a souveneir shop is more interesting!
And if what you want is a good view of Sentosa, you should have went for that Tower Ride instead. I can't remember the name but it has Tiger Beer ads all over it.
We decided to take a photo with the Merlion instead, from the outside. As with what all the other tourists are doing, but the photo turned out like that:
Xiaodi, we wanted the Merlion to take photo with us. Not your foot.
In case you were wondering, that foot didn't come close enough to touch the stray hairs on my head, or else I would have grabbed his leg and he would have ended up in that little fountain. Grrrr.....
The trip was also sort of a Singapore trip for our Malaysian colleague, CH. HAHAHA.. Oh yea, I suddenly just realised he's also called CH, same as Milo.
But then we ended up trying many things for the first time ourselves too... such as the Sentosa Express train, the train that runs across the Link Bridge to Sentosa.
I wouldn't say it's slow or what. It's quite fast actually, except it has to be faster during the weekends assuming that the crowds are huge. Most tour buses are still fetching their guests in directly, plus it was a weekday that day, so the Express was relatively empty.
Just so you know, CH was holding onto the card for the Sentosa Express. Works just like our EZ-link, except that after the whole outing when we were back to the main island, we peeled it off to reveal the RFID chip inside.
I was amazed that the sh*t is tiny.
I think it is probably one eighth of my pinkie's finger NAIL.
We were hanging around the same area taking silly photos, okay, I have got to mention this just for the heck of remembering it when I read this post years later from now... that someone at the office actually thought that we were taking photos with REAL birds. Can you believe it? I mean, not when the birds look like THIS:
Like DUHHH!!?!??!
And then... some sexy bikini girls walk past (some people wear bikini to everywhere around Sentosa)... and Xiao Di started to nose bleed...
I also discovered that day that Jaryl is camera-shy...
Some other notable mentions include.. well.. we went to Underwater World. Although without the word 'water' in it, it would have became Underworld.
That place was dark because some of the exhibits were sensitive to light after supposedly living deeeppppp under the seaaaaa where not much sunlight could have reached.
However, believe me, nothing was darker than the Owl enclosure at Jurong's Birdpark, haha!
I had the privilege of being able to touch a pufferfish :) A saltwater little bugger who was tame enough to touch.
I mean, he was minding his own business of course, he didn't deliberately came over to let you pat him on its head. You were supposed to place your arm in and act 'natural' e.g. by NOT MOVING AN INCH so while the fishes swim past, they would brush past your hand.
All was fine up until Jaryl suddenly splashed water all over us when he took his hand out of the water too quickly. I jumped back and shouted at him in fright.
As I put my hand back in and asked him what happened, I soon found out for myself.
Some of the more daring fishes were biting, except of course they didn't have teeth, so it was more like a sucking motion that felt like a kiss.
Now it was weird to receive a kiss when your hand was underwater and there were people standing all around.
Before he could tell me what made him splash us, I subsequently splashed him with water as well when I got 'kissed'.
"See, that's what happened." and that short sentence saved him from alot of explaining.
We then went to the tank behind the Touch Pool (sounds wrong), were it was filled the creature that led to Steve Irwin's downfall. Stingrays. Except I'm sure they didn't put those poisonous stinging ones capable of killing into the pool.
But still, I approached warily. Nevertheless, those rays are still huge and look quite scary to me. In their enthusiastic attempt to get feed from us, they would splash water.
Here's a notable mention to one of my favourite stingrays who hung out around us all the time we were standing there.
I remembered him because he had a heart-shaped face. If you don't know what I mean, you will know now:
Here's a video as well where you can see Heart-Shape in action!!
I found a familiar sight at Kuishin Bowl as well. I used to only see their legsand not know how the crab actually looks like. Then I saw it at Underwaterworld. Or rather, if it isn't the crab I actually ate, then at least it must have looked similar to this:
Oh, we finally caught a photo of Jaryl as well. Two photos, actually:
This photo doesn't really count because he was blocked. We spent alot of time at the Underwaterworld because of the air-con. It was actually really cold. Abit TOO cold.
He probably doesn't know this photo was taken because he had his eyes closed throughout the ride.
This thing was a great experience. I have a mild phobia of heights but this is really a great experience that you should try. I forgot how much it cost but they actually allow ticket sales for 3x ride.
You can ride this thing up and ride that.. I don't know how you spell it.. toubagan?toubaccan? tobacco? ... anyway, that little sliding down ride down again and again, thrice!
Their slogan: Once is never enough.
The day's wonderful journey ended with a late dinner at Subway.
Of which I would like to add: One Subway meal is NEVER enough.
CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 10:59 am
Sentosa
Saturday, July 12, 2008
You know it's quite amazing how property prices are going up.
Needless to say Sentosa property prices are shooting up as well. And I just can't forget how one guy's family is benefitting from it all since when we all heard he was staying at Sentosa, everyone went "Huh?! That place can stay one meh?"
He was a school friend. Not a close one.
I didn't have an inkling of how mega-rich you had to be to stay at Sentosa (it's on another frigging island for goodness sake!) especially after he stole my stupid Billabong wallet with approximately $40 plus dollars inside.
I was pissed because there was a US $20 note inside, and as most of you know, I LOVE the number 20 because it was Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's jersey number.
I didn't know he took it until... guess what... his girlfriend came and asked me how come I know her boyfriend. I said "What you mean I know your boyfriend?"
She said "He has your neoprint ma."
"Which one?" I asked.
"The one with the cartoon badz badz maru frame".. she said.
Now that neoprint of mine I had only JUST taken it and placed it in my wallet. You see, we had a neoprint machine in school (I HAVE NO IDEA WHY!?), so having JUST taken the neoprint, I placed it in my wallet, promptly left it on the table and when I turned back to get it, it was gone.
To summarise the whole incident, he has got to be the only one who had taken it.
So there you go, girlfriend gave him away (they didn't last for more than 3 months in case you were wondering).
I don't blame the girlfriend though. She did her part and tried to force him to return it to me. Eventually another guy friend helped, and he promptly returned the wallet WITH EVERY CENT GONE. My GIRO fareward was inside (EZ-link was not out yet) and it was left with a very honourable amount of 3 frigging cents.
So don't blame me if I don't have good impression of people staying at Sentosa, including those mega-millionaires/billionaires.
I went again recently when I took leave with my colleagues on Thursday.
It was quite funny because all of us were able to take 'group leave' together due to us being in different departments.
To cap, there was one each from IT, HR, Customer Service, even a temp and me from Sales. Of course, we were missing two more from the Contracts and Finance department in order to really top it off.
I always find it amusing that such a variety was hanging out together.
In case you were waiting for the photos, I won't be uploading them yet because five of us went that day and I WAS THE ONLY ONE ... who didn't bring a camera.
HAHAHAHA...
Give me more time to collate from the other four before uploading the nicer ones up okay? :)
I also want to share with you this aura-photo thing that I played yesterday.
Was actually shopping for a present for my brother's girlfriend but as usual, as with buying everyone else's present, I always managed to sidetrack.
Yes, we came across this shop that offered those aura-photo-taking thing. Sort of can tell what kind of person you are by the aura that was photographed down.
Des hated this. He had taken it years ago and they told him he had of a heart of gold and was abit too honest for his own good or something.
Which was true because people have told him before that he could be read like a book. I mean, you may find it a good thing but really it's not THAT good a thing in the outside world.
I can tell you that there are some people who get a kick out of dancing on your tension lines by saying really sensitive things and 'gek' you... so the LEAST you can do is to show that you are emotionally unaffected by it (via your facial expressions... body language... you know the likes).
That aside, my main colour that was taken was something called Wildflower Violet and ultraviolet.
There was this other lady who then came to analyse for me what those colours meant. As she saw the photo (it was taken with some sort of weird-looking polaroid or something), she exclaimed that the colour either meant that I have very high intellect, or I prayed/meditated alot.
I wondered if it had something to do with my parents giving me 'qi'. Otherwise, I am the high IQ individual who just paid them $5 to give me some lame readings.
I'm not too sure of the analysis though.
There were a few things she said that is accurate: I need more sleep as my aura shows that I'm quite tired that's why certain colours are very weak. But I find that any passerby could tell me the same thing judging by my dark eye bags.
There were a few things not accurate: She said I need more food (are you kidding me!?) and that I am someone who is easily influenced by others.
I think alot of people are far more susceptible to being influenced by others. And I thought Cancerians were known to be stubborn, crabby, and a stay-at-home person.
Anyway... $5. Never mind la. Just don't go to those fortune-tellers that try to persuade you into buying crystals after that ;)
CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 10:54 am
On Leave Today
Thursday, July 10, 2008
This is my first official leave where it is not taken due to Exam / Project / Sick but don't want to use MC (we have cash incentive if we do not take MC for the whole year, or for more than 2 days per year).
A few things happened that I would like to update all.
Blogging is probably the only way for my mother to totally keep up with me. I feel more like I'm blogging to update HER than the rest of you, since most of you ARE already out with me at some point in time.
Des had this silly little infactuation with a particular kind of song bird, called Matah Puteh, or 'white eye' in Malay.
In short, Matah Putehs are the type of small little birds in exquisite little cages (that could cost up to the THOUSANDS, and I'm referring to BOTH the cage, AND the bird) that Uncles at kopitiams usually hang up and listen to while sipping coffee.
Apparently he had kept these birds before (as in, waaaay before he was even 20 years old) so he had some inkling on what is considered 'good' and what is considered 'not-so-good'.
I mean, I've been with him a few trillion on times on these little kopitiam excursions and honestly, to me, these birds ALL SOUND THE SAME.
The only difference I could tell, however, were their elaborate cages, made of expensive materials such as rose wood, with super intricate carvings of dragons and phoenixes, and accessorized with things like ivory and mother-of-pearl.
What the HECK.
Anyway, here's a picture of one of Des'. Though, thankfully, he didn't buy those silly little expensive cages for it. He bought an $18 plastic one.
We call it Baby, because, well... it IS a baby.
Baby is a little unstable. Older birds tend not to crash into the sides of the cages whenever you go near to hold the cage, especially if you hold the cage up to your face.
It's been said that Putehs recognise their owners and tend to stay very calm when it is the owner holding the cage, but acts abit fidgety and nervous when it is another stranger that is holding their cage and looking at them.
Anyway, part of the reason why Des had a spare 'nice' cage at home was because Baby is not used to WHOEVER holding its cage and crashes around like a Pinball (what an apt description that I came across while viewing a Puteh internet forum). As such, Baby almost crashed out of the nice cage because those cages don't really have very stiff 'bars' unlike those metal ones that parrot use.
Baby's head got stuck for a couple of seconds and before anyone managed to get over that shock, Baby had reversed and free-ed itself.
Within the next 2 hours, the $18 plastic cage was bought and Baby has been placed in it ever since.
How do we know Baby is a... baby... Well, according to Mr. Bird, he says that younger birds tend to have a tilted tail or something. As you can see from the photo.
Here's an example of an older and more stable bird:
This bird is unnamed. I liked this little fella because when I held on to his cage, he wouldn't give a sh*t. As in, he stands there, cool and calm, like as if he and I have known each other for an eternity.
It was a new bird that Des had recently acquired from a Bird shop. He is known to be fickle-minded. Having just bought the bird, he complained that it was sleeping abit too much and was being too lazy.
However, it performed like any other normal Putehs whenever he hung it up at the coffeeshops.
But still, he wanted another one, so he went back to the shop to ask to exchange for another.
As he went, I stayed in the car and waited.
From afar, I saw him choosing another bird and aiming it already. As he had confirmed it and came back to the car to get the unnamed bird, I locked the doors and threatened to drive off.
Eventually he won (because he stood in front of the car and you don't expect me to knock him down, do you?)
Sweet darling Joon has also been accompanying us on these many Kopitiam visits too!!
It's quite funny because once in awhile Joon would scream out loud with her piercing voice in such a way that the entire flock of Putehs in their cages would shut up for one and a half second or so before resuming their birdy chatter.
A good Puteh not only has to have a nice voice, it has to have a loud voice too. I think Joon beat them all handsdown, haha.
I had lunch with some of my colleagues the other day too.
We came back early and were seated in a row along Uncle Thomas' storeroom.
Xiaodi was pointing out that Jesslin was wearing her new Armani jeans that cost $300 plus.
Then Jesslin asked Xiaodi how much was his Levi's. "$150." was his reply.
Before they could ask, I volunteered "Mine cost $20".
Hahahahaha!! I could even remember that I bought it in Bangkok at Ma Boon Krong,if that was how you spell it.
I'd like to add another unrelated small mention here as well as I'm blogging beside my fish tank and am reminded once again.
My Frontosa died. Hunted down, I'm sure, by Cherry.
Remember in my previuos posts I've always mentioned how scared it was of Cherry although it would bully my Mono?
I couldn't find it one morning when I woke up... but when I came back from work there was a bit of left-over that was just enough for me to identify it as my Frontosa (like, I could see all the other fishes!! which other one could it be?!).
I was quite sad though it was not the first time this happened with Cherry around. Des, having found outabout it, once again started his You-Should-Get-Rid-of-Cherry talk.
Yea, I know it's cruel. But then what makes a Frontosa different from those feeder fishes that we always feed to them?
At least this one is one life VS many little feeder fishes lives (though a much more expensive one!!).
I admit that it saddened me a little because I had had that little Frontosa bugger for quite some time and I thought all should be going well.
I must have had him for more than half a year already.
Just in case you are wondering, no, I won't be getting another.
For now I'd like to concentrate on getting something less carnivorous.
I MAY be getting an Eclectus soon :)
It's my dream bird and I've been looking for one since forever (actually, since the start of this year), but haven't been able to find a Male one (males are green, the females are red).
Unfortunately, I have about one plus week more to go till the Eclectus hatches from the egg before anyone can determine whether it's a girl or boy.
If it's not a boy, then so be it, but it really is a funny feeling to be awaiting the birth of something.
Speaking of which, I have two colleagues recently who had just given birth.
Yvonne had just celebrate her little prince's first month, while Joseph's wife had also just had a little emperor a few days ago who will also be the only grandson in their family if I'm not wrong since I had only seen 2 of his nieces who is so absolutely charming (they plucked flowers and gave it to me when we visited his farm).
Now I'm hoping that the Eclectus is also a boy too. HAHAHAHAH...
Ending post, a funny clip that I happened to find from one of Jack Neo's movies:
That aside, my main colour that was taken was something called Wildflower Violet and ultraviolet. 
