Shallow, Thy Name Is Man

Friday 24 March 2006


Of course, not all.

I do wonder, sometimes, what men are looking for in a woman.

Quite often, I am asked what I am looking for in a man, so how about me turning the table around and ask you guys instead?

From these 5Bs, namely: Beauty, Body, Boobs, Butts, Brain, which will you be most interested in? Oh, don't give me the crap that personality is most important, coz I know more often than not, men are indeed shallow when it comes to women. Of course, not all.

Who doesn't like a pretty face? I will also take a second look if I walk past a 'pretty-face' man. Beauty, is subjective. Cliché, yes. What you think is beautiful may look like 'ship wreckage' to another! Truthfully, I think first impression counts. At least if I like how you look, I won't find you annoying to begin with!

Last week, I was at a pub with Ange. When she went to the ladies, a guy came over with his friend and started chatting me up. He asked me:

"What is a pretty girl like you doing here alone?"

"I am with a friend and she just happened to visit the ladies"

"Are you a local?"

(Well, well, I decide to play along a little . . .)

"No, not exactly"

"Where are you from?"

"Thailand" I answered.. (Not exactly a lie, that's my one-quarter heritage)

"No wonder. You have nice features and your eyes are big. Most Thai girls are very beautiful. So what are you doing here, on holiday or you're staying here?"

"Holiday with my family"

"Errrr… as in husband or?"

"Yes, with my husband"

"Oh..your husband is one lucky guy but where is he"

"He's with friends - boys nite out"

"Oh, you are not afraid he is out with girls"

"Sometimes it's best not to know too much. Ignorance is bliss"

"You are so pretty. If you are not married, I would love to date you. Actually, I don't mind you having a husband"

"But I MIND"

With that, he quickly excused himself . . . For all you know, that guy could well be married too!

Has the mariage institution became so insignificant these days that it has dropped to the lowest regards? Is it really that fun dallying in meaningless and frivolous affairs? Maybe so. Forbidden fruit is poisonous, deadly but yet has this natural appeal that most men desire to have just a little bite. Lust. One of the seven sins.

To put this across plainly: Apple tastes sweeter when it's stolen, is it?


N70, Quite Disappointing!

Wednesday 15 March 2006


I'm disappointed with the quality of Nokia N70 photos . . .

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Shane in a Shell - Ikea . . . mar 14, 2006


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Shane with cousins . . . feb 26, 2006



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Shane @ Din Tai Fung (Wisma) . . . feb 25, 2006

(I know, we ordered too much food for the two of us)



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the same pic, in a smaller size, still not sharp! hmmp!



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We, taken in the cab . . . feb 25, 2006



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A grumpy Shane . . . feb 28, 2006


The pic below is taken with my previous Sony Ericsson K750i. Look at the picture quality compared to those above. The same enlarged size but the pic taken with K750i is definitely clearer and sharper. Bear in mind this pic is uploaded to bloggers website and the other ones taken with N70 were uploaded to Flickr. Actually, bloggers' pics resolution is not as good as Flickr, but from this comparison, you would think otherwise and I can only conclude that the problem lies in the cameras.

Taken with my K750i . . . Jan 25, 2006

What a huge difference right??? Both phones have the same 2 megapixel. Sony has an in-built autofocus function whereas Nokia is just a point-n-shoot phone camera. Also, N70 speaker's is a little muffled and now, I can't retrieve back all my Shane's pics taken with this phone and some mp3 songs my brother uploaded for me! They were there one day and completely gone the next!! I have given up all hopes of retrieving them now and I intend to use this phone until Sony Ericcson releases all their new up-coming cellphones.

Another beauty I'm eyeing - Sony Ericsson K800i!!

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It’s a Cyber-shot™ 3.2 megapixel digital camera with autofocus, built-in xenon flash and image and video stabilizer function and a small and sophisticated feature-packed 3G mobile phone all in one. Ready for any moment, anytime.

Although it's only available in boring black color and quite business-like-looking but its features are definitely uber cool!


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The only setback is that I have to get another memory stick as this K800i uses only Memory Stick Micro (aka M2). The ‘M2’ media is approximately one-quarter the volume of ‘Memory Stick PRO Duo’ media, yet only about 1.2mm thick. ‘M2’ media is designed as an externally removable media with a controlled eject function to prevent users losing the media. Following the trend of mobile phones which operate at 1.8 volts, the ‘M2’ has been designed as dual-voltage media. In addition to 1.8 volt support, the media offers 3.3 volt operation which is required for existing ‘Memory Stick PRO’ compatible products.

But I'm not complaining coz It's a Sony!!


Beautiful Sunny Day...I mean Sunday

Sunday 12 March 2006



Sunday is my lazing around day...normally.


My Off Day, no cooking, that means no washing of dirty oily plates. Come to think of it, my plates are hardly oily, coz I hardly ever fry anything, except for those that oozes out from meats when I'm baking them in the oven. But I do fry eggs sometimes, but I used only olive oil.


I went to Geographer on Friday nite. Yes, it will be my favourite haunt for the next few months to come. Reason number One - It's another Thai Pub!! No more going to Golden Mile for the time being. The Thai Pub there has more or less lose its flavour... sigh, can someone bring back its former self please!


Geographer is located on 2nd level of Block D @ Clarke Quay. Started last October. I wasn't aware of its existence until last Sunny Day nite.. I mean Sunday nite when I received 3 missed calls...from a Singapore cellphone lah! As usual, I'm not in the habit of returning unknown missed calls, especially from a cellphone.


The caller called again and it turned out to be my bestest buddy - Ken! He is back in town and is performing @ Geographer.


I knew Ken the same time I knew Max. Or I knew them both together the same nite. Ken - the percussionist with my favourite Thai Band - NOVA, is a very nice gentleman! Max was the lead male singer in Nova Band back then when I knew him.


The Nova Band this time is a 'refurbished' one. Except for Ken, the other two guitarist and Lisa - the lead female singer, the rest are new faces to me.


I was busy with Shane during weekdays, and I only take a break on alternate Fridays or Saturdays, relaxing and chilling out with my friends, or just lazing by the pool. So I didn't have time to meet and catch up with Ken. In fact, Ken went Taiwan with Max last year after their stop in Singapore and it was him (Ken) who gave my blog the one-missed-call entry last year. He really is a good friend, always looking out for me when I go drinking at the Thai Pub back @ Golden Mile then. I remembered how he celebrated my birthday at the pub with Max and Ange, another bestest buddy (3 weeks in advance coz he and Max would be gone by the time I turned a year older), Ken got me a 'fishball' birthday cake, piping hot and fresh out of the fryer and God knows where he got the candles, lighted and planted them on the fishballs.

I remembered getting teary eyes when I said goodbye to him at the airport last year. So glad to have him back again. He is really a good friend. A great buddy. Cheers to Sisterhood! =)



Finally, I went to Geographer with Ange last Friday. Two silly drunkards!



Ken, deliberately looking dumb.







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Pole Dancing @ Geographer. The dancer on the right is prettier, sweeter than the one on the left. I was seated right in front where the action was!


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Saturday (March 11, 2006)

Our Silly Shots!


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And I finally completed my tour @ The IT Fair today!! Yippee.... got what I wanted, a new desktop!

I'm currently using IBM ThinkPad X40. It's for work. Like it, except it belongs to my firm. I deliberated for quite sometime, not knowing whether to get a laptop or desktop, checking around and finally decided on this deskstop - HP Pavillion A1377D. This set came with a free all-in-one color printer (HP PSC 1402) and they also gave me a free upgrade to 1024MB DDR-2 533MHz Ram. But its processor is only a Pentium 4 - 519K (3.06GHz; 1M L2 Cache; 533FSB). I actually wanted to get the one with Pentium 4 Processor 640 (3.2GHz; 2MB L2 Cache; 800FSB). I don't really know how big the different is, although the sales guy told me 'not much different lah' but the price sure is a lot 'different'. I opted out the free upgrade to 19" LCD, sticked to 17" and received a further $200 off.

So now I can finally install my Adobe Photoshop!! Yeh...bye bye wrinkles cha cha cha!!!!!

You know what, I love the Epson printer, the one which you can scan in old negatives and print them out, looking very nice! Maybe I'll get them next time for Dad. Dad has a huge collection of photographs, of us, his cute kids when we were young, since babes!! Taken with his all-time favourite Rolei camera. Dad loves Rolei cameras, he used to work in Rolei in Germany in his early twenties. He actually converted most of his photographs into slides, so very often, when we were younger, we would gather around our living room after dinner, eagerly waiting for Dad's projection show, eating ice-creams. We don't have a screen, and so Dad projected it onto the wall. We loved the in-between changing of trays moments, coz we can performed hand-shadows show on the wall! Dad is a camera/photography freak, like Me. Maybe I inherited this from him although he loves to take us as his model, unlike me, photographing myself most of the time! LOL.

I saw the new Sony W50, with ISO 1000 and 6 Mega Pixel. There's an inbuilt 32 mb internal memory as well, so you can at least save those last minute pics when you have max-out the capacity of your memory stick, although it may not save a lot, but if you don't mind the print-out quality, you can save quite a lot in VGA or 1 MP mode. It's very light though and it can take very good quality pics despite taking with shaky hands but the flash must be turned on. This acts like an anti-shake function and this is what we call High Sensitive ISO function. The higher it is, the better your prints will be, whether in low light or shooting fast moving subjects or with shaky hands! A pity it's not in the T-series, otherwise, I will surely get it. T-series are often very sleek and sexy and they come with internal folded-optics zoom lens.

Oh.. I bought the Osim Uzap... now see whether I can have a trimmer slimmer body or not. Give me six months!! Haha...

Little young man was pretty restless most of the time. Fortunately I brought along his stroller, so he can comfortably sit in it playing his PSP while his Mommy loses herself in all the gadgets! But I rewarded him with a Duckie Tour again later that evening. I was so exhausted, I actually dozed off!!! Shane had to wake me when we arrived back at Suntec. So embarrassing!!




Its cheaper when you are not a tourist! Half price okay. Just show your ID.


What's Cooking?

Saturday 11 March 2006


(...two days ago news)

I enjoy cooking. Tremendously. But I really hate washing up after the big act.

Me and Shane have been eating out lately coz Mommy Bird was busy with work.

For dinner tonite, I decided to cook pasta for Shane and the same boring steak for myself. I bought too much tenderloin last week, and my mom-in-law (ex) kept reminding me to finish up whatever I have in my fridge before doing that grand pasar-shopping again.

She came to my current place before for dinner and she was shocked with the amount of food choking-up my cold-storage! So instead of boring steam vegetables, I decided to finish up all that were bought months ago. Except Shane's food. I made sure his were not more than a week old.

I ran out of spaghetti and decided to use Thai Rice Noodle instead. This rice noodle is often used to make the famous Phad Thai and now, I used it to make pasta for Shane!



You have to soak the noodle for at least 15 minutes before boiling them in hot water.




See, here's his favourite sausage and I'm slicing it up to attract him into eating later.

I used to buy Prego's pasta sauce for him, but as I often will refrigerate the unused portion, it'll take sometime before I used it all up. As Shane is the only one eating pasta, I'm kinda worried about keeping the sauce for too long, thus I'm now using Ayam brand pasta sauce. It has tuna, cheese and traces of mushroom in it. This small can is enough for me to cook one meal for Shane. No leftover.

Next for me, the same usual boring steak. This time, I used black peppercorns, salt, peppercorns meddley and dash of cayenne pepper, the super hot type. Topped it up with fresh garlic and baked in oven for max 15 minutes.





DADA....here's Shane's rice noodle pasta with sausage plus bits of bacon bites and my humble simple steak... Tuck in now!!






They said, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach! That is the most accurate statement ever. See how my handsome prince enjoyed his pasta - going straight for the sausages!! Yummy!




But I HATE this!!!! Arrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!




A grouchy Shane after dinner coz I refused to let him have his police car which was kept in the store.

Excuse Me, Are You A Model??

Tuesday 7 March 2006


Nay, model I'm not. Not tall enough, end of story.

Not that anyone had ever asked me that but it's pretty obvious I'm not one.

But most people are curious as to what my occupation is. Hmmm... is that important?

The same with age. People like to ask: "How old are you?"...It's just figures I know, but is it really that important?

Somehow, I always ended up as a 'beauty consultant' or someone working in the 'beauty industry' to most people I meet.

Once, in a hair salon, I was asked, not once but THREE times by THREE different people, whether I'm in the beauty industry!!

I really cannot understand. Can't they be more creative? Perhaps I'm an engineer working in the PCB assembly solutions firm involving SMT, firmware & circuitary design and creating exciting prototypes...maybe for XXX-brand mobile phone or XXX-brand mini media player.

Or maybe I'm a food technologist for Yakult? Or perhaps I worked in the lab, specialising in genetic engineering? Or a nurse?? Or maybe I'm a CID?? LOL...!!!

But why beauty industry? I have no clue.

I once met this guy through a friend of mine, and we were at East Side. The same popular unintelligent questions will never ceased to form in everyone's mind, the same with this guy. He asked me my age, I mumbled a not-far-from-the-truth figures but when asked what I'm doing, I gave a very-far-from-the-truth answer. I told him I'm a lecturer!!

He was dumbfounded.

But of course, I gave very convincing answers to his interrogation. Endless actually.

Maybe I should be an actress instead. LOL!!


You Deserved It!!

Wednesday 1 March 2006


TNP, Wed (March 1, 2006)



Isn't it obvious??


Maybe I'm looking at this article through stained broken glass or I may have grown cynical but I totally have no sympathy for such philandering disgusting creature. Even persuading his wife to allow his mistress to stay under the same roof? Has this man no respect for his wife at all? What kind of a man is this??

To this man = You Deserved It!!!