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Okay folks, i'm trying out this new tool from blogger. Alright, it may not be a 'new' tool for some of you may already be using it.


Testing this from my blackberry, so if this work, i may drop an entry here and there everytime i feel like it. See, i can even attach picture.


So now, my blogging has truly gone mobile. If so, come by often to catch up on what's new going on :)

We're Back!

Endless

... conference calls all nite this week on the same subject matter, starting at 9pm and end after midnite. Just ended the first in this series not too long ago. People talking all at once, and it's so hard to hear thru the different accents. And, i don't like to take conference calls at home. Once i fell asleep only to wake up to voices of people saying their 'byes' and loud beeping tone of them dropping off the line. The call had ended with me sleeping halfway thru it. How embarassing! Did anyone ask for my opinion or shout out to me during the call? I never did find out.


Sitting thru these calls without saying a word is my best forte. Just hope no one hears me snore.

Shane at 7 and 18 Years Old

Shane at 7 years old:



Shane at 18 years old:



:)) Just kidding.

The beautiful gang @ work commented how Shane looks like Kim Bum, one of the cute boys from Boys Over Flowers, the hottest K-Drama that everyone is talking about. I emailed the gang the above two pics last week with the same caption and now i'm showing it to you. Any similarity?


I don't think Shane looks like Kim Bum though, certain angle maybe but i realise, the older Shane gets, the more he looks like his father.


Since i know some of you are curious how his father looks like, here's a shot of Shane and him taken a few years ago in Bangkok. See here: http://www.moblog.com.sg/blogger/blog.asp?uid=341586EF-A4A8-4011-B747-B75AFBD21490&bid=506B3558-B85A-4100-8D5C-B31D261456FF


I haven't seen x-man for a while now and since he's not someone i think of fondly, it's best i don't see him at all. It's weird, everytime we start treating each other somewhat nicer, we'll end up fighting. We can even fight via SMS. It's like a curse and it's really draining.


Anyway, have you start watching Boys Over Flowers yet? If not, you should start now. Filming is still ongoing although KBS is already showing it, currently at episode 16 and there are another 8 - 10 episodes more to go. To watch earlier episodes, sign up at www.veoh.com and search for 'gbn english ohmiyask'. These uploaded episodes by this person 'Ohmiyask' have English subtitles and the quality are very much better than those found on Youtube. Here at Veoh, you get to watch a full one hour episode in a single vid rather than in several parts. However, you will need to download the Veoh player first befrore watching. Another website you may like to try is www.tom365.com which have Chinese subtitles. Again, you need to download their player first.


If you need a recap of each episode, go to www.dramabeans.com.


I downloaded all the episodes to my Archos and even bought the newer Archos 5 so that i can watch it on the beautiful higher resolution screen everywhere i go! At home, i plug the Archos into the TV and re-watch earlier episodes all over again. I must have rewatched them at least 5 times now. If you think i'm crazy, read on.


This coming March school holidays, i'm shipping Shane and myself to Seoul. Haha :)) my flights are paid and confirmed but i haven't quite decide where to stay yet. Although i have a reservation made at The Shilla but i'm waiting for Grand Hyatt to come back with a better deal. I know Grand Hyatt is way out at Mt Namsan but it does have a spectacular view at nite and there is an ice skating rink right in front of the hotel. The plus point - well, BBF or BOF whichever way you called it - had a few scenes filmed there, hence my choice of trying to get a room in Grand Hyatt Seoul! Indeed, i'm incurable. Don't laugh at me please.


Every girl needs her knight in shining armour and i'm off searching for mine!! ;p

Thankful

Indeed i am. When God closes one door, He will never forget to leave another one open. With that, i'm really very thankful and grateful that while x-man chose to venture on his path, He sent some other angels down for me and Shane. I'm very fortunate. I have met many good people in my life, some stay, some move on and i know they are/were in my life for a reason. For those who no longer stay by my side, I do think of them from time to time. I miss them.


Apart from a family that loves me unconditionally, it's a true blessing to be surrounded by good people who care. I am thankful i have a kind boss who looks after me and a bunch of smart, kind and crazy-like-me girls at work whom i enjoy laughing and working with day in, day out. We have fun but we do work hard. I think my work place is one of the rare few where people actually build friendships and are comfortable with each other. So comfortable that i show them my trophy stretchmarks at every chance i could and never forget to remind them constantly that i'm actually the smartest of them all :)


Stretchmarks, that's like the branding of motherhood and i'm immensely proud of them! The markings are a permanent reminder that i'm a fighter, a tough cookie and if you dare trample all over my kid, i'll repay you million times the same.


Which then brought me back to the reason why i chose to stay single. Read http://shanewei.blogspot.com/2008/08/fontok-na.html.


Maybe someday i will meet a really really nice and good man but for now, my only man is Shane.


Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Mark sent me a Chinese text message which i understood half and guessed the other half. I on-sent it to my girls and if you received one from me tonite, consider that a lucky charm and be glad you are on my VIP list!


In another two months or so, i'll be celebrating my birthday. Another year older, oh well, that's not really something to be happy about, or is it? Who wants to grow older? Maybe when i was ten or eleven. But now i wish time will stand still. However, i'm slowly accepting the fact that i'm no longer young. Some very fine lines are starting to appear and i'm slapping on anything that promises younger looking skin.


Ahh.. La Mer, my puppy, come to Mommy!

Fading

My passion for blogging is somewhat fading. Or perhaps i am. I no longer have the urge to tell the world what i did today, ate yesterday or the cutie i'm seeing tomorrow. Age is catching up, and soon i know this place will become a page of the past.


My past.


I wonder.


How often do people reminisce? And when they do, do they have any regrets of things they did or things they hadn't do?


My candle is burning, still going strong i hope and before You blow off the flame, let me live with no regrets.

Do You Pray?

En Kai was laid to rest three days ago, exactly nine days after his birth. I was told of him way before his birth.


I cried the day i heard about him which was the day of the Club 21 sale. Agnes bought two beautiful small blue rompers. I was admiring it and she told me her sister was expecting a pair of twins. I congratulated her but what she said next broke my heart. One of the twins had anencephaly, a congenital birth defect that occurs in approximately one in one thousand pregnancies. En Kai was the younger twin with anencephaly.


I cried the day i knew he left. I saw his picture. He was a very beautiful baby, in fact, the most beautiful i have ever seen. And he was brave, very brave and so full of love, so much so that his grandmother had to gently tell him to let go before he queitly went home to God.


Anencephaly, in laymen definition is "baby developed without a brain". It is a defect in the neural tube that fails to close and develop around 25th days into embryonic development. Most anencephalic babies do not live past a day and it's amazing En Kai live to nine days.


Dear readers, if you do pray, may i request you to say a silent prayer for En Kai and for all babies with this unfortunate condition?

"There is no foot too small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world".

命中注定

你相信命中注定吗？ 我相信。


所有在我们周围发生的点点滴滴和遇见的人，都已在我们出生之前被决定了。


但是有时候我不甘心，也不放弃，为我身边的人努力，加油，要找到属于我自己的天空。


你呢？


Alright, a weak attempt at trying my hand at Chinese. With help from Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 and http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt, i managed to type that out in slightly less than an hour :)


A while ago, i came across an article about rainbows and someone once asked me what do i want at the end of my rainbow.


Have you ever wonder what is really at the end of your rainbow? I was told, in fairy tales, that there will be a pot of gold at the end of the colorful walk. Is it really so? I don't know, i will never know until i'm there, isn't it? Will the rainbow i created have a pot of gold too?


No, not really a pot of gold. Rather i want it to be something that surpasses all my earthly wants. Or someone.


Yes, someone. I want to find someone at the end of my rainbow. A grown man. A responsible man with the heavy world on his broad shoulder, supporting it with a steady gaze, holding it up with a pair of strong hands. He may be tired from holding it too long but he will never back down, never give up and with his proud face looking up at the world on his shoulder, he will continue. He may tear, for that is human nature, not a sign of weakness. He may get temptations, he may make mistakes but to err is again, just human but he will soon learn the difference between good and evil. He may get discouraged, disheartened, but he will see himself through. He may experience setbacks but setbacks are like slingshots, once he learnt how to use it to his favour, he will overturn the table. He may get badly beaten, badly crushed but he will learn to pick himself up, bearing the scars of his downfall and face the world with even more determination.


Before the last light on my fading rainbow goes out, i want to see a responsible grown up Shane.


That will be my ultimate pot of gold.

What A Waste!

Did you all catch 'The Little Nyonya: The Final Chapter' aired earlier at 9.55pm? Really, if that's the best Mediacorp can come out with, i would rather they save it for their own private viewing. It's like adding insult to injury. With the greater audience terribly upset over the ending a week ago, i'm surprise at the pathetic finale. Now, more fuel will be added to the burning forest.


Instead of the 'blockbuster' it originally was, TLN has now officially become a laughingstock! And instead of pacifying the viewers, Mediacorp has just single-handedly flushed the whole show down the toilet. This finale should never have happened.


What an unfortunate waste of the three-minute airtime.

3.5 Days

I've been busy. Thanks to Chris who told me that someone has uploaded all the episodes of The Little Nyonya on Youtube, so i googled for it on New Year's Day. And i found it - http://www.youtube.com/user/Mediacorpfan.


I caught this show when i was channel surfing last Monday and it got me hooked in that two hours. I don't understand how certain things happened but now i do! All in three and a half days. Thank you Mediacorpfan!! Must be hard work for you.


Btw, why was the photo studio named 'Nanyang' when the Chinese words are something else? And in a pic i saw on TLN Facebook Page, the name was 'Sin Chew'. Did someone get confused in Mediacorp?

Anyway i was very glad when the elder evil sister was slapped last week and indeed, like someone who wrote in the papers, i am hoping she receive another big slap again on the last episode come Monday. I will await eagerly with two large buckets of popcorns and an evil smile.