I'm getting old

I really am.

Noawadys, I don't like to go clubbing that much. I prefer to sit down at a quiet place, drinking and chatting.

I also get teary easily.

Even when Shane tells me he loves me, I will get teary too.

He often said I am his princess and he is my prince. And even when I feel I looked ugly and all messed up, he will tell me: "Mommy, you are not ugly, you are so beautiful. You look like a Princess!!"

He is always so sweet to me.

Maybe I'm really getting old and getting all so sentimental. This song that is currently playing is older than I am. It's one of mom's favourite song. I heard this song when I was very young and this song always remind me of Mom. And I played this song over and over again when I was pregnant with Shane and I will sing softly to him, changing the lyrics to: "Papa loves You, Mommy loves you..."

Shane is off this weekend to Papa's place and he was very excited and happy about it prior. Sometimes I didn't want him to go. And sometimes I feel he should spend more time with his Dad. And sometimes I question myself, does his Dad really love him??

Never mind that, I love Shane very much and I guess that is sufficient for him for now.

A Tribute

. . . to the Best Mom in the world - My Mommy . . .

We live in a double storey house in Malaysia and we never had a maid. Mom does everything herself, from washing to cleaning to cooking to taking care of all our little needs.

Mom has 5 kids and I'm her youngest girl. The pampered rebellious one. But her love for me never withered.

I was a sickly child.

Mom stays by my side throughout the nite with no complain whatsoever whenever I have an asthma relapse. Mom nurses me back to health and always ensure I eat on time. She wakes up early in the morning to prepare lunch for me to bring to school and my water bottle is different from my classmates. My classmates carry nice strawberry shortcake water bottles whereas Mom makes me carry a mini hot water flask. She fills it up with super warm water that still stays warm even after 8 hours! Sometimes, I pour away the water and secretly drink chilled coca-cola instead!

Mom sews well. She makes me little dresses. Little bags.

Mom quits her teaching job to be a homemaker and to spend more time with us, her beloved kids. She is a dedicated wife and a great Mother. And she inspires me so much that I wrote in my karangan (essay in Malay language) that I want to be a housewife like her when I grow up! I was 9 years old then.

Mom bakes the perfect chiffon cake, light, soft and just right. And in different flavours. I like her orange chiffon cake the best. She uses real fresh orange juice! She bakes the best pineapple tarts that melt in your mouth, makes the best otak-otak that you will never forget, cooks the most healthiest and delicious dinner every nite. We always look forward to Chinese New Year coz we get to eat all her delicious homebake cookies! Whenever we have cravings for KFC, she whips up her version of delicious fried chicken that even comes with coleslaw and mashed potato for us. We have homemade Chinese Pao for breakfast, yummy tau-suan and I love our little popiah session at home. Everyone help out a little except Dad, coz he's the head of the family and Mom serves him the best that she can. It really is so fun eating and laughing at the dining table. Oh, Mom can cook Penang laksa! The BEST!

Mom doesn't like us to eat out coz she feels that those outside food are mostly rich in MSG and OIL and that is also why Mom enjoys cooking and baking so much. She loves us and wants the best for us. All we need to do is tell her what we feel like eating. Her hobby is to try out new dishes, new cookies, new kuih-kuih, new desert and we are her guinea pigs but we gladly offer our service to her. Anytime!

Mom is really the best cook ever. She only needs to taste the food once and can duplicate the same dish with nearly the same taste. In fact, nothing that I eat now is anywhere near her cooking and baking skills

Mom doesn't spend unnecessarily. She hardly spends on herself. Mostly, she spends on us.

Mom is a genius.

Mom is amazing.

And Mom passed away on May 13, 1990.

It was a Sunday that year.

It was a Mother's Day that year.

I know the tenses should all be in the past but in my heart, she is still very much alive.

And suddenly I'm the rebellious little girl again. The little girl who misses her Mommy when Mommy is far away from home for far too long.

I love my young man!

My Current Wallpaper

This is the current wallpaper on my handphone. Shane drew this for me the other day in my office. It's a picture of him and me. Did you see the big heart at the top with two arrows pointing at 'me' and 'him'? Yeah, the heart does look like an apple though. Shane said the heart and arrows represented him 'kiss-kiss' me and me 'kiss-kiss' him.... so sweet of him rite?

I'm really blessed. God gave me Shane four years ago and Shane gave new meaning to my life. It's amazing how God closed one door on me but open the other. Shane completes ME! Everyday I learnt something new from him. It's really delightful to have him by my side. My constant companion. See the bread art he did for me in school. So cute.

Shane's Bread Art

So what have I been doing lately? Nothing much except work. But I managed to go home for a short while with Shane to chill out. See that below? Dad's new experiment.

Our Persimmon Tree: Before & After A Haircut

And Shane chilling out:

I miss my Penang Laksa!! Sedap!!

It's so good to be home, isn't it??

Btw, I'll be starting my driving classes next week. I have booked 2 days each week for the next 3 weeks, a total of 24 lessons! That's 4 lessons per day, each lesson lasts for 1 hour 40 mins!! I know I'm crazy. My friends are worried whether can I take it, coz it's like driving for 8 hours straight with only 10 mins break in-between!! I know, it can be tiring, but if I don't do it this way, I probably will take another one year or so to get my license. I have made it my resolution to get it this year. Then I can apply to be a part-time taxi driver at nite ... teehee =)

Taking A Break

From blogging . . until next month.

Click here =>Shane+Wei @Moblog <= for the last few pics to complete the Sentosa series...

Enjoy!!!!!!


XOXO

Sunny Sentosa!

Photoshop is driving me crazy!!! Except a few tricks like adding text, border, filter or soft-glowing my pics to make me look like a fake snow white, this photoshop thingy is driving me NUTS!! I felt like tearing my hair out!!! I tried to cut and paste all my pics into one jpg file, so that I need only upload ONE file to flickr and when you click on my page, it won't take forever to load all the numerous pics but??? Finally when I succeeded, it turned up so tiny that the largest size on flickr is like the size of my thumb!! Arrgghhh.... this thing seems easier than it really is!! Anyway, here's some pics taken on Saturday @ Sentosa with the babelicious Miyuki!! She is back from Tokyo for her two-week holiday break but is going back on Wednesday. I will miss her badly until her term breaks again in July!! She will then be back in Singapore and we'll have fun again. With her around, I'm like a child again! We have our girly talks and sleepover party and I remember 'catwalking' in front of her during those old times!! Time flies and she's now a blossomed 15-year old lass, sweet and pretty. She is very much Shane's big sista and Shane loves her loads! And she's my most amazing young friend.


Meanwhile, just enjoy the pics here, I'm too lazy to write or explain anything now. This photoshop tricks are draining away all my energy!

Dinner Time!

ps: all the photos shown in this box here were taken with my new Sony w800 phone which has the same 2 megapixel camera like the N70. Can you see the 'huge' difference in the picture quality as compared to N70 (see below below..)?? Halfway at the beach the batt in my T3 died on me, fortunately I have this phone!! The pics were all great!!

Shallow, Thy Name Is Man

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!

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

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

Shane with cousins . . . feb 26, 2006

Shane @ Din Tai Fung (Wisma) . . . feb 25, 2006 (I know, we ordered too much food for the two of us)

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

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

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!!

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!

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 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.

Pretty Lisa

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.