i'm lost.

Some things forgotten

This post consists of a number of things I wanted to share, but have forgotten to. I think they're definetly worth the time to dig it up and share.

Funny Mohawk dog we saw in LA last year (still hating that trip).
Just another nostalgic moment, suddenly felt like it so i searched for the movie poster.

Watched this Audrey Hepburn classic and knew why millions (and I) would fall in love with her.

Watched this Alfred Hitchcock classic, shot in SF, and knew again why we love to speed up our heartbeats with his movies.

politiks

I read this post, initially linked on a Singaporean blog MrBrown. Tracked down to the original full post and really liked it.

STFU
So the MIWs got their massive ministerial pay hike (not that things were going to turn out any different).

Whoopdedamndo.

Now shut the fuck up and get out of my face.

I don’t want to hear anymore about your justifications and rationalisations. Obviously you guys have no intention of listening to any of the people, so why should we the people listen to you. As someone once said, this has ceased to be a conversation. You tells us what you want and you go ahead and do it whether we the people like it or not. So what’s there to say. So shut the fuck up and enjoy your riches. Just don’t tell me you are doing this for my own good or for the good of the country.

For the past 2 friggin days, the ST has daily devoted 5-8 pages to the MIWs justifications for the minsterial pay hikes. Enough of that already.

Shut the fuck up.

You’ve got your money, but must you also have the last word as well. Take your fucking money and go fucking choke on it. Just shut the fuck up and get out of my face. I am sick of your bullshit.

I knew that things weren’t going to be any different this time, but still the idealist in me were hoping, just hoping maybe for once the MIWs were going to listen to the people this one time. That maybe respect, gratitude and the admiration of an entire nation is worth more than the couple of million dollars they were going to get. Well I guessed wrong.

Sometimes I have dinner at a coffeeshop near my house and there would be this old lady. Hair all white, back bent over with age. And she would be going from table to table collecting the empty drink cans to exchange it for money. Its hard for me to eat looking at her. I’d like to help, but she only wants my empty drink can and not my money. She may be old, she may be poor, but she still have her pride. And I can’t help but wonder, what exactly is our millionaire ministers doing for her and the thousands like her.

Am I exaggerating?

read on

I think a lot of younger Singaporeans feel tha same way too. Younger as in in their 30s and 20s, starting to understand the dirty nature of politics in our country. At a point we are not doing too much to change it, but I can feel the winds starting to blow. Hope by the time I move back, the revolution will begin. It will be the time of our lives.

Leisure Sunday ( a totally 1 week late post but it's cool...)

At Crissy Fields

Our Japanese picnic Bento, with crazy Jap drinks.
the scenery with GGB as a backdrop.
I dunnoe his name, but he sure looks farney!the wind blowing his facial hair, so he can see again... ...
Thats his roomate. Didn't get to talk to their owner. but i know they're the same breed as the dog in the movie: As Good As It Gets.
Walking on, another view of the GGB.Cool hotdog stall sign
stopped by Hayes Valley to shop and for a quick bite at Citizen Cake.
warm chocolate cake... but the chocolate sandwich cookie is better!

things i see, here and there

By the way,

Happie Belated Easter Sunday

pic might be from cuteoverload.com

Went to Japantown for a ramen dinner on friday night. On the way I saw this beautiful sight.

Suzu's Chicken Karaage Ramen

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By the way, I went to the local store and guess what I found.

La Vie Pastillines

I loved it when I was a kid. I found it in the local store. Kinda funny. And of course I bought this one. Just a nostalgic moment. If you remember this candy too, pls leave me a comment so I will not feel left-out :(

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Giant Anglepoise 1227 in black - Limited Edition


To Celebrate the 70th Birthday of the Original 1227 Anglepoise Lamp we have created a three times life size version of the lamp which is handmade in England.
£1,660.00 ex VAT (!!!)

Did you notice the look on the seniors' faces? priceless.

well actually, the price is pretty tight too!

anyone?

Birthday laughs~

The only reason I can conjure up of why we celebrate birthdays is survival.

We rejoice to the fact that we had successfully survived XX number of years — give ourselves a strong pat on the back, and then go to bed only to wake up to another tomorrow when we continue fighting.

Fun, isn’t it?

The only associated bonus is people being exceptionally nice to the birthday person.

And I had a whole week of that.

Well, maybe only one person was mean to me. Or rather, a whole group of them up there was waiting, to jump on me unsuspectingly, when I thought life was just getting to be a tad sweeter following my trip to Hawaii. Bad news from afar…did you really really have to do that?

With that said, just try to just focus on the positive for once, in this blog, and let me share some silly moments of MY week, this year.

had celebratory lunches with colleagues on different days, and on the legitimate day itself, I got a *free* half day off. Actually, I didn’t do much on the supposed working half of the day, except bask in glory of the cupcakes that the slut made me.

Sunshine & I

40 of them, all gone in 5 seconds as soon as I blew off the candles. Vultures, I would call them, as I have to fight to hoard 4 for myself, abusing my superior birthday authority.

Then I scoot away at noon, for a long overdue visit to the de Young museum which is holding a special Vivienne Westwood exhibit. The walk to the museum was very delightfully green as it is situated in the Golden Gate Park. And of course, my day has a perfect sunny day.My dinner - proscuitto pizza @ firewood

Following that is a well-deserved entree of a 90 minutes session full body massage. Not long enough I have to say.
And the cherry on icing for the night would be catching Will Ferrell’s latest movie — Blades of Glory!!! Also in the movie was Jon Heder, better known as Napoleon Dynamite. That movie got me hooting and laughing in hysterics. I forgot every problem I have, for the entirety of the movie. Gosh… …

Then I reached home and saw the box vcd of Happy Birthday, the Chinese movie by Rene Liu and Louis Koo, which I particularly went to buy on the eve of the bday. It was opened, but unwatched, sitting on my coffee table. See, it was my plan to watch it alone on my birthday, so I can cry myself to sleep. But in the end, I have no courage to watch it. Because I already know how sad it is going to make me, I don’t think I will need to really watch it.

The next day (Saturday) was the day for the official party. Sayaka decided to have it at her place, inviting everyone to come and be merry. She has just finished her tedious architectural tests and needed the drinks. And indeed, friends, colleagues, ex-colleagues and some strangers were there to give me their best wishes. I got drunk and started yelling at everyone, with joy, of coz. Got a bunch of nice presents, a fruity cake and most important of all, a balloon.
Honestly, I was waiting the whole freaking week for a balloon. Seriously. I just bought one for my manager’s birthday a week ago.

My Jimmy's bday

And remembered how fun they could be. The first one that Yoshi got me escaped en route, and I drunkedly yelled at him so much that his gf went to get one more when she dropped by after that mishap. Heeeheee. I felt powerful, and satisfied.

It was actually Geisha's bday on the 31st. I gave her that bacon flavored bone.

At the end of the party I was playing Super Mario Brothers 3 until sayaka came to turn off the TV (!!! Just like my mom in the past !!!) and someone had to drag my silly drunk ass home.

AAahhhhhh…happy birthday to me.

Otters holding hands

For all the disgustingly-in-love couples out there... enjoy!!!



p.s. stole it from Flying takko...hahaha

Day 4 in Aloha Heaven

One last day before we leave the island. It is Anna's birthday and R&R day.

Decided to vist the Bayview Coffee Farm. I didn't realised that Hawaiian KONA *kopi* is premium quality compared to other shites like Peets/Starbucks. So i drank some (i normally don;t drink coffee) and it was sooo smooth.
Vintage canisters
I bought that gunny sack as a souvenir.. It was an used up one I handpicked in the factory, real old and stamped *extra fancy*, like me.
macadamia nut tree
coffee beans before it was processed.stopped by another black & white beach.
me me and me
white graffitti
stopped by for some real good sushiand then for the Lu'au dinner - a traditional hawaiian feast, now for tourists only, haha.showing off my tickets
my bitches
He is the *The Rock* lookalike.
food, it is only okay~
the cute girl sitting next to usgetting drunk on free flow of Mai-taisafter the Lu'au, photo time with the dancers
stopped by a beachside pub for a *Sunset Breeze*, hawaiian music and dancing barefeet on the sand... it was the perfect farewell before we had to leave...unwillingly.

but I will be back again!