burp!...

Bread...

Onion rings...

Wild mushroom cream soup...

Spaghetti Bolognaise

Wagyu Sirloin

... and just like that, a new dynasty has arrived.

one of the G4 members recently got a Birkin.

oh, hang on, that was a few weeks ago. 

she got a Birkin few weeks ago.

she now got a Kelly.

in little less than 2 months, she got both a Birkin AND a Kelly!

and so i humbly (& happily) hand over my crown and my title, for there is now a new platinum peanut in the G4 gang. 

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All hail Wen! All hail Wen! All hail Wen!

his royal shallowness in the making... sigh.

like mother, like son. 

hiaz.

hahahaha

there are swiss army knives, and then there are swiss army knives.

got this multi-tool few days ago.

actually, i was supposed to get a simple wire cutter, but somehow my eyes got transfixed to this wide range of swiss army knives. 

the hypnotic powers of cold steel somehow had this power over the weak minded, and as my eyes moved from a SGD5 cutter to a SGD45 keychain knife, they kept chanting, "why stick to the pathetic one trick pony when you can get more?"

"why stick to a 5-tool toy?"

"only 10 tools? surely you can do better than that..."

and at the end, after 10 minutes of staring, i got this: a 15-tool monster!

let's see... 4 screw drivers, a saw, cutters and pilers, scissors, can and bottle opener. heck, there's even a cock screw and an awl (actually, i have no bloody idea what am i to do with that when i go camping, but what the heck).

oh, and there's a knife somewhere in it too. 

& the damage? let's not talk about the damage here. 

point is, that i got the best of the best.

now all i have to do is to get me a tent, some gas canisters, so that i can go camping and try out the monster.

Equanimity... Ooommm

equanimity. 

now that's one word i have not heard for a long while. 

in times when our lives are measured by either success or failure, we forgot how to be zen about things. 

we forgot that trauma is survivable, and that we can't be too corky when we succeed.

we seem to think that setbacks are bad and defeats are unacceptable. 

that can't be more wrong.

too many toys... or is it?

sometimes i think i might be buying the boys too many toys.

then again, if the boys enjoy the new stuff, who are we to say it's too many.

*shrug*

My precious...

woohoo! waited almost 7 months for it.

and it's a damn good looking piece of tin can. 

Dun try, won't know.

'nuff said. 

17th April... Cats... sucks!

did i say it suck'd? well it did.

but what to expect when the crew did lip-synching? whatever happened to the live-singing version? 

next time, please bring back the UK production. 

Frank conversations

Read this excerpt on "Psychological Today" recently. and it somehow kinda reflected on a recent conversation i had with a friend. she claimed that we had different views in seeing things. i said that we had the same views, just that she was not willing to see the common grounds. 

no two people are alike. & when we do things that friends are disagreeable with, it should not be seen as i don't respect their views. sometimes, it just means we each choose a different path. 

most times, a different path means a rockier route. who wouldn't want to follow the crowd and take the easy way out? who wouldn't want to leave office at 6 and spent the night with loved ones by the sofa and just nuah at will. it's so much easier. 

but when i dun follow the group and take the "advice", it doesn't mean i deliberately choose to ignore friends, or i love them less. or judge them in a bad light.

sometimes, we choose a different path coz (at that point of time) it's the best option. i dun choose them coz i wanna piss friends off. 

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whatever it is, it's good to have frank conversations with friends. 

i think we lack those these days. 

frank conversations. 

i just hope that in the heat of arguments, we dun lose the main purpose of having such conversations in the first place - to express own belief but respect each other. 

"Irritations are inevitable in relationships. It's just not possible to find another human being whose every quirk, habit, and preference aligns perfectly with yours. 

We each have differing values and ways of looking at the world, and we want different things from each other. Such differences derive from our genetically influenced temperaments, our belief systems, and experiences growing up in our family of origin.

Sometimes, little irritations may code for deeper problems. It's as if ice cubes become an iceberg. Think of ice cubes as free-floating irritants —bothersome but meaningless. But small problems coalesce into a vast, submerged force when they take on a different meaning in your mind—when you add them up as evidence of a character flaw or moral defect. 

you begin looking for evidence that your partner is self-absorbed—and of course you find it. 

Every annoyance in a relationship is really a two-way street. Partners focus on what they're getting, not on what they're giving. But no matter how frustrating a partner's behavior, your interpretation is the greater part of it. What matters is the meaning you attach to it."

excerpts from Psychology Today, April 2009

ps: people, no comments on this entry please. i just wanna leave it as it is. thanks.