I love Fridays! I love thinking that it’s almost the weekend.
It rained today. I picked Jeremy up from work. Orange umbrella and a backpack – as if he’s coming home from elementary school – so adorable. Hee hee.
Edda is mouthing less, but I won’t talk about it too much. Don’t want to jinx it.
Nursing school is full until fall of 2008. Bleh! Argh!
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Scientific name: Cocos nucifera
Common name: Coconut!
Location: Singapore
One of the columns I love to read (but haven’t read much of recently) is the “My Turn” articles from Newsweek. It’s basically of normal everyday people, writing an 800 word article on some topic that’s important to them. It’s an interesting snapshot into people’s lives. The RSS feed is:
feed://feeds.newsweek.com/Newsweek/MyTurn
One particular “My Turn” I found hilarious…
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14868182/site/newsweek/?from=rss
Hrm… A friend of mine is having a broomball party this Sat, and they needed some extra people. That’s cool. I fired off an email to all my single friends. Not a one replied. Only Shwe. 🙂 Oh well. Perhaps single people are boring as well? 😛
Tonight, I finished off Guitar Hero 2’s hard mode, passing all the songs, and I managed to get 13 deep into the Expert songs. Why is this important? it’s not. Just fun. The bummer is that my GH2 disc is scratched so some of the songs won’t play properly. That’s a huge bummer. I’ll probably contact the manufacturer and see if they will be nice at all..
Also another huge bummer, Wed night, on my ride back home in the dark, my super nice $$$ bike light, came off my handlebars, and proceeded to launch directly into my front wheel. Of course, the wheel won, and the power cable got cut in half. Grr. I’m probably out a benjamin for that one… sigh. Choon and Pei-Sun gave me a ride home thankfully. It gave me a chance to catch up with them and have a yummy falafel wrap for dinner.
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Scientific name: Pinus caribaea
Common name: Pine tree
Location: Singapore!
I never really embed videos at all, but here you go! This was the Nintendo Wii system that I wanted to buy, and the Rich currently owns..
I don’t think anyone comes to the office anymore besides me and Nancy. Everyone is at home for the past 3-4 days? It’s sorta demotivating. Fo sho. I guess I’m bored now…
I took the bus downtown this morning to go to a doctor’s appointment. Our apartment is just a minute away from the subway station and bus terminal. During rush hour, I prefer the bus. The bus originates from the terminal, so I always can get a seat for the 45 minute ride.
The buses come every 8-10 minutes so when I showed up and no one was in line, I figured a bus had just come. I pulled out some note paper and was sketching some drawings and I didn’t notice the people lining up behind me. To prevent crowding at the bus terminals, there are metal fences that ensure everyone stands in single file in the order they arrive. It’s like being herded.
By now, there are about 15 people in line. Anyhow, the 180 pulls up and as it comes to a stop, a little old lady cuts in front of me to get into the bus first! I have no idea if she was 2nd in line or if she dissed all those other people in line too.
She doesn’t look evil, huh? Singaporeans are known for being rude and the aunties are the worst offenders.
Of course, since I was downtown, I did a little window shopping for Jeremy. Look what I found at Burberry – perfect for the office. Oh yes, and the manly bracelet too.
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I have to say that IDing palm trees is not easy.
Scientific name: Areca catechu
Common name: Betel Nut Palm
Location: Singapore
Where the infamous betel nut comes from!
Hey Doris, do you have the dumpling receipe? perhaps I was thinking of making some for a potluck… I guess I’ll buy the skins at Ranch 99.
Emy left early this morning.
Last week, was a crappola week for me. Probably one of the worst weeks I’ve had in a long time in terms of mood and just general happiness. I’m not exactly what sure what the reason was. It wasn’t the weather since it was only gloomy on Monday. I don’t really want to attribute it to it being Valentine’s Week, but I can’t say that being alone wasn’t a factor in my mood.
Friday night, I got dinner with Rich and some of his friends. We ate Japanese and went to shoot pool and play ping pong afterwards. It was a lot of fun. The night was of course, not without gossip. There was a girl there that was jonesin’ me fairly hard and I’ll say that my interest level is low at the moment. I keep thinking back to Choon’s comment about giving a girl some time to really show herself, and she’ll become that much more special. He’s right, that’s where you really really like _love_ someone, but don’t you need something there to drive you that far? Shoot. For once I’d like a girl that I’m excited about.
Saturday, I put in a 60 mile bike ride for training for the Wildflower Triathlon. I need so many more miles underneath me it’s not even funny. Also I went to Li Pei Zin’s house for CNY dinner. They gave me the usual quizes ab out girlfriends and such. Incidentally, Mom, Li Pei Zin says the gilfriend bounty is either up to $10,000 or you have to throw some diamonds in the deal. 🙂 As always it’s a 12 course meal, where we only eat 1/5-1/4 of each dish. I horsed around with the grandkids a bit, and the young one, Eileen, reminds me of Vince. I’d hoist her above my head, and when I’d let her down, she’d scream, “Again!” at the top of her lungs. 🙂 Maybe all kids do this. ha!
Sunday, was dim sum at the crazy packed Koi Palace. We got there at 9:45 and didn’t get seated until 11. We were ticket #94 and there were 74 active tickets ahead of us when we got there! Later on, Lynn and Pei-Sun were hosting a CNY cookie party. We made the crispy cookies called “Love Letters” that ended up being very labor intensive. We had to have a charcoal grill and grill each one in a special tool, and then peel and fold them. Of course, we only had 2 tools, and so it was slow. I think we made maybe 50 cookies which is not much at all. In the kitchen, Lynn was making pineapple tart cookies, and I swear, she made like 500 of them. 🙂
Also my ex, Jocelyn showed up to the party, and I pretty much ignored her. She didn’t show up until late into the evening, which was good, since it was less time that I had to ignore her for. 😛 It was her brithday yesterday, and I’m probably being a hardass for not talking to her, even on her birthday, but it’s good for me anyways, to keep strict separation. Too bad Sunny didn’t show up. I would have found the meeting of the ex’s to be somewhat amusing. 🙂
Also, I’ll throw this little piece of gossip at you. I’ve been organizing a bunch of “singles” events, basically inviting all the single people I know out to do stuff. It’s been a lot of fun, since I like organizing stuffs, and I can say that it hasn’t been in vain, as there are now 2 potential dates? relationships? possible that are coming out of this. Sweet!
Oh sorry, no pictures too since I went cameraless this weekend. Hopefully Choon will be able to post a photo or two in his copious spare time these days. 🙂