Restaurant City

Despite being busy, i still find time for restaurant city.. :)


I *heart* my restaurant!!

Almost Perfect II

One of Shane's birthday wish is to always have dinner every year with the two persons that matter most to him on the one important day of his life. He told me so last year. It didn't materialised then but this year, it did. Yes we had dinner with X-man that nite, on Shane's birthday nite.


X-sis (X-man's sis) called to speak to Shane while we were at the restaurant. When she knew we were having dinner with X-man, she was extremely delighted and i could hear it in her gleeful voice. She said, "This is like a happy family again". Yes, to the many strangers that we walked past that nite, to the lovely attentive staffs at The Tavern that nite, indeed, we looked like one. We chatted, laughed, teased Shane, made silly jokes, shared food. It was the perfect setting for a happy family portrait, except we were not what they thought us to be. We were anything but perfect. We were just almost perfect.


This time, Shane did not ask any embarassing question in the restaurant, instead while in the car, he asked us why we were able to talk to each other like friends now?


I did not answer. Nor did X-man. And Shane, being older and slightly wiser than before, did not ask again.

* * *


Love of My Life
by Carly Simon

I love lilacs and avocados
Ukuleles and fireworks
And Mia Farrow and walking in the snow
But you've got to know

That you're the love of my life
You are the love of my life
You are the love of my life
You are the love of my life

From the moment I first saw you
The second that you were born
I knew that you were the love of my life
Quite simply the love of my life

I love Lucy and pumpernickel bread
The Statue Of Liberty and chocolate ice-cream
And falling into bed
But get it through your head

That you're the love of my life
You are the love of my life
You are the love of my life
You are the love of my life

From the moment I first saw you
The second that you were born
I knew that you were the love of my life
Quite simply the love of my life

You are the love
The great love of my
Of my life

Why Oh Why??

Finally, my schedule for the rollout next year is confirmed. I'll be gone for almost a month in January. I don't dread the work but i hated to be away from Shane, i am begining to seriously wonder how am i to last that long without him? It's already killing me now thinking of that.


Yes, if you don't know already, my life revolves around my son. There's no one i love more than him.


I know i am definitely gonna max out my mind thinking about him constantly. Fortunately there is 3G phone and webcam altho i doubt i'll be happy with that but i know i ought to be thankful at least. Shane will be just starting his Primary 3, attending the morning session for the first time and i don't know how my babybird will cope with this transition without mommy being there?


Oh, why can't money just drop from the sky??

Farmville

So i skip the whole month of August and finally i'm back on my blog only to post an entry on Farmville? Am i so frivolous?? Yes i am, and i want to show off a bit on what a wonderful farmer i am on Farmville :)


This game is actually a good way to relieve my mind off the servers, off the deployment schedule, off the-many-things that are fast taking over my sanity.


So, this is me, on Farmville...am i cute? Please say Yes. Humour me, will you? Oh, com'on...

I recently dyed my hair a lighter brown, hence the choice of this hair colour, it's call 'Light Brown Flippy Hair' on Farmville and since my actual hair can't be so thick and flowy, i am glad to at least 'own' it on FV :)


This is my farm, a 20x20 plot.

I 'trapped' my girl in the middle of the hay bales so that i can 'harvest', 'plow' and 'plant' faster. She walks too slow na.

Farmville is on Facebook, go play.

Soon...

No, the death of MJ did not cause this blog to die prematurely nor was i too distraught to write. I just wasn't in the mood to put anything down (and that has nothing to do with MJ). But i did some re-config to my blog template though, i'm sure you can tell. That, my friend, didn't need too much delving into my thoughts. I have much to write actually, to tell you but before i can do so, the thoughts sort of mangled up.


Write i will, soon. But how soon, i don't know.

Goodbye Michael Jackson

"...the greatest entertainer that ever lived"

Twitter

Apologies folks, i'm busy with some stuffs to put my thoughts down coherently, so meanwhile, pop over to my twitter page where i'm kinda active these days...

Click on the pic

See y.o.u. there! :)

The Passing of The King, Michael Jackson

The world is in shock with the sudden demise of the King of Pop. The world mourns for him, say what you want but if you can for once, separate his personal life from his music, you will see a brilliant, talented man, a great entertainer, a magical chameleon who brought music to life. MJ was truly the music icon of our time, his legacy will live on, his music will never be forgotten.


I grew up listening to Beat it, Thriller, Billie Jean and even tried doing the moonwalk with my brother.


And who can forget the "We Are The World" cause that he championed?

Watch the rest of them here


MJ, Rest In Peace.

Coming Home

Shane has gone for a two-day sleepover at his BFF's, totally making it meaningless for me to come home. I didn't wanna come home.


But i still did. Suddenly the house seems too big; the dinning table is too tidy without his toys lying around strategically; the tv room sounds eeriely quiet; the piano feels lonely without its master; the drums yearning to be thoroughly jam up; the flight of stairs up to the rooms seem to take forever; the bed in my room is definitely too big, too cold, too neat; everything is just not right.


A home without Shane suddenly seems so wrong.


I want him back.

Nokia E72

If you, like me, is a fan of Nokia's E-series, especially its monoblock with QWERTY keyboard, you'll be excited with the new E72, scheduled to be released later part of this year.

This new E-beauty, only 0.1mm thicker and 2.5mm wider than its predecessor, spots many new features, some of those which i like include:


1) Updated version of its operating system - S60 (3rd Edition Feature Pack 2) with a longer battery life, speedier interface compared to E71 plus many others.

2) Improved messaging software suite and supporting of multiple email accounts.

3) 5.0 megapixels camera, a much more pin-sharp images.

4) Higher sound quality - with active noise cancellation.

5) An iPod-like navi key.

6) *3.5mm audio jack - a standard for music headphone, which means what you use for your iPod can now be used for E72. No more carrying two different headphones around (unless of course if you need the one that comes in the box for whatever purpose you need that for).


Read the specs at the official Nokia site and watch the video below. You will love the new Nokia E72.


I fell in love with it already!!