豆浆 really goes with 油条 !! At least that's our conclusion last night at Dhoby Gaut - 要一起吃下去味道才会是最好!
But some 豆浆 does not go with some 油条, at least that's the case for my best friend who had caught the eyes of a smitten girl. I shall keep their anonymity but it suffices to say that the girl was named after a season where leaves turn brown and everything was a romantic hue.
Bur romance was far from my friend's mind when he pleaded with me and his kakis to deliver him from his misery. This was a last ditch attempt since all his endeavours to show his indifference failed - she just don't get it!
Having been hounded repeatedly by her still, he decided to execute Project Winter Sonata... It became all the more imperative since he has received unequivocal signals that she wants to meet him and eat him on his birthday.
With that, I was tasked to deliver a crushing blow for her to beat a hasty retreat by leaving a message on his facebook wall.
Preferring to leave me to my fecund imagination rather than nstructing what to write, I penned,
"David and I suggested that you go to Dempsey Hill on your b'day since it's going to be a romantic hangout for first-time couple like you. Speaking of which, when are you going to introduce WenZhao to us huh?"
As I explained later, the first statement would propel her to ninth heaven if she thinks that she is part of the "couple" in question. But the second.. the mention of WenZhao, will unleash the power of heart-crushing palm (碎心掌)
Monday, October 6, 2008
JJ Lin 豆浆油条
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Children's Day
By this children's day 2008, I have already received:
(1) 3 accompaniments for Mamamia, Youth without Youth, and Painted Skin.
(2) Puteri mas durian puffs which come at the expense of 2 hrs and a slight fever from the rain
(3) A seductive smile with cool and demure disposition at Jazz @ Southbridge
(4) A cocktail evening at The Iguana
(5) A two-way "Will you be ...." and "Are you sure?" replies.
And finally, the best gift of it all,
(6) a most scented lavender
With it, October 1st will never just be Children's Day, China's New Year, or Hari Raya. It is Lavender Day.
Thank you for the Lavender.
I will cherish it and most importantly love it.
(1) 3 accompaniments for Mamamia, Youth without Youth, and Painted Skin.
(2) Puteri mas durian puffs which come at the expense of 2 hrs and a slight fever from the rain
(3) A seductive smile with cool and demure disposition at Jazz @ Southbridge
(4) A cocktail evening at The Iguana
(5) A two-way "Will you be ...." and "Are you sure?" replies.
And finally, the best gift of it all,
(6) a most scented lavender
With it, October 1st will never just be Children's Day, China's New Year, or Hari Raya. It is Lavender Day.
Thank you for the Lavender.
I will cherish it and most importantly love it.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
La voiture... La biere... La femme....
Quote of the day
Low self-esteem can really debase a person to a level which one does not rightly deserve. Let's not shortchange yourself anymore. You deserve the best.
A black-and-white image retrieved from my memory stream saw my French tutor posing an interesting question during one of those tutorials in NUS many years ago - "Why are cars and beer in French feminine and not musculine?"
"Maybe la voiture and la biere sounded more cool than le voiture and le biere", my classmate offered.
After a few non, mais c'est interessant, we were eager to find out the reason behind that professor's playful smile.
Because they make men crazy, he quipped, that smile still plastered.
Yes, they make men crazy. (You must be thinking "Huh!?.. 这样也行?" ..... 是的. 这样也行)
It was a night of cars, beers and women - the mood of F1 racing, the intoxicating beers and the beautiful companions all around in that little jazz bar that seemed almost forgotten by the outside world.... until much later in the evening.
Some went for the cars. Others had a revelry of beers and car feel. Still, the luckiest of it all had all three, particularly if one has a drop too much and relishing the chill of the evening wind but finally ending with waiting in vain for NR7.
But this too, will soon pass...
And so that evening of the 27th Sept 2008, the curtains came down in the usual fashion of a great play, concluding the magical moments of the evening that had transpired. Where what had been savoured that evening, only in one's dreams can they be revived...
Low self-esteem can really debase a person to a level which one does not rightly deserve. Let's not shortchange yourself anymore. You deserve the best.
A black-and-white image retrieved from my memory stream saw my French tutor posing an interesting question during one of those tutorials in NUS many years ago - "Why are cars and beer in French feminine and not musculine?"
"Maybe la voiture and la biere sounded more cool than le voiture and le biere", my classmate offered.
After a few non, mais c'est interessant, we were eager to find out the reason behind that professor's playful smile.
Because they make men crazy, he quipped, that smile still plastered.
Yes, they make men crazy. (You must be thinking "Huh!?.. 这样也行?" ..... 是的. 这样也行)
It was a night of cars, beers and women - the mood of F1 racing, the intoxicating beers and the beautiful companions all around in that little jazz bar that seemed almost forgotten by the outside world.... until much later in the evening.
Some went for the cars. Others had a revelry of beers and car feel. Still, the luckiest of it all had all three, particularly if one has a drop too much and relishing the chill of the evening wind but finally ending with waiting in vain for NR7.
But this too, will soon pass...
And so that evening of the 27th Sept 2008, the curtains came down in the usual fashion of a great play, concluding the magical moments of the evening that had transpired. Where what had been savoured that evening, only in one's dreams can they be revived...
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Chinese Literature
小小词典 (Little little dictionary)
绝世: (verb) to cause the end of the world
美女: (noun) a beauty
Hence 绝世美女: the woman who causes the end of the world
黄蓉 (born in 1203, died January 31, 1273) is also a 绝世美女.
For the uninitiated, she is a fictitious character in 金庸's The Legend of the Condor Heroes (射雕英雄传), and is the the witty wife of 郭靖.
She is my most favourite character in Condor, and the reasons why this 美女 is so 绝世 are:
(1) A marvellously witty woman who uses her intelligence to support the man she loves - 郭靖.
When I was in primary school and reading Young Generation magazine, there was a story featuring a simple-minded fellow. He wanted to be intelligent, and was told to go to the mountains where he would meet a wise woman who would tell him where to get his brains. When he finally reached there, the old woman introduced him to a wonderfully kind-hearted and smart woman (who could be called a 绝世美女 in her own rights). Immediately, he saw it - marry a smart wife and you will be smart - (wonderfully meaningful even though I was a kid when I read this). So 郭靖 is lucky to have 黄蓉 who gives him advice in his darkest need and they always escape unscathed.
(2) 黄蓉 has strong 正义-ness. Which was why she was so endearing to 東邪 西毒 南帝 北丐 中神通. Despite her stoic feel, she sheds tears (e.g. when Hong Qi gong was injured) on occassions, and this reveals her woman-ness in her... her fragility yet her determination to overcome all odds (well, she found a clam that healed Hong Qigong) - simply charming.
(3) 黄蓉 is adept in 打狗棒法, and despite she being the first woman beggar leader in the beggar sect, she wouldn't mind running against conventions.
(4) 黄蓉 is super chio... at least in the eyes of both 郭靖 and the obnoxious 楊康 who wanted to taste the swan's flesh. But it may be aptly said that 楊康 learnt some 哈蟆功 from 歐陽鋒, so he is a quientessential 癞哈蟆 (sorry lame here)...
绝世: (verb) to cause the end of the world
美女: (noun) a beauty
Hence 绝世美女: the woman who causes the end of the world
黄蓉 (born in 1203, died January 31, 1273) is also a 绝世美女.
For the uninitiated, she is a fictitious character in 金庸's The Legend of the Condor Heroes (射雕英雄传), and is the the witty wife of 郭靖.
She is my most favourite character in Condor, and the reasons why this 美女 is so 绝世 are:
(1) A marvellously witty woman who uses her intelligence to support the man she loves - 郭靖.
When I was in primary school and reading Young Generation magazine, there was a story featuring a simple-minded fellow. He wanted to be intelligent, and was told to go to the mountains where he would meet a wise woman who would tell him where to get his brains. When he finally reached there, the old woman introduced him to a wonderfully kind-hearted and smart woman (who could be called a 绝世美女 in her own rights). Immediately, he saw it - marry a smart wife and you will be smart - (wonderfully meaningful even though I was a kid when I read this). So 郭靖 is lucky to have 黄蓉 who gives him advice in his darkest need and they always escape unscathed.
(2) 黄蓉 has strong 正义-ness. Which was why she was so endearing to 東邪 西毒 南帝 北丐 中神通. Despite her stoic feel, she sheds tears (e.g. when Hong Qi gong was injured) on occassions, and this reveals her woman-ness in her... her fragility yet her determination to overcome all odds (well, she found a clam that healed Hong Qigong) - simply charming.
(3) 黄蓉 is adept in 打狗棒法, and despite she being the first woman beggar leader in the beggar sect, she wouldn't mind running against conventions.
(4) 黄蓉 is super chio... at least in the eyes of both 郭靖 and the obnoxious 楊康 who wanted to taste the swan's flesh. But it may be aptly said that 楊康 learnt some 哈蟆功 from 歐陽鋒, so he is a quientessential 癞哈蟆 (sorry lame here)...
To 靖哥哥, she's his 蓉儿...
Wonder if 蓉儿 will travel from Tampines to Joo Chiat to buy durian puffs, then to Boon Lay for 靖哥哥??
I have to ask 靖哥哥 to see if he is lucky enough! This lucky bugger!!!
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Mamma Mia! The Movie - Money, Money, Money
Quote of the Day
"If my ideal girfriend is 100%, then she is 200%."
This song rocks! You should watch the movie and see the fantasies accompanying this song!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Mama-Miaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.....
Quote of the Day
"You don't really have to apologize if you lead me to the wrong way. Right or wrong way, I am spending precious moments with you. To me this is all that matters."
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Terrific! Mama mia has been a play which I have wanted to watch but the price tag of the seat seemed too prohibitive... at least that was the situation many years ago as an undergrad. Thus when the movie came out, it sent me on the high. But the evening and accompanying confabulations at AMK Hub with SL LLG ended rather late for us to watch it by the time we realise it was on screen. So that was a no go.
Almost like a blessing in disguise, Sharapova asked if I would be the beholder of a second free ticket. Had one dangle a piece of juicy meat over a starving bulldog, one would get the same reaction that I exhibited... only difference is that I don't bark. I merely bit meekly, but tightly... as the opportunity came.
The ABBA music in Mama Mia blew my mind. Chic, classy and cool.
On the same day, Sha gave me a book by Nicolas Spark - The Rescue. Since then, I have been swallowing it in my bus ride, train ride and idling thing. Painfully protracted in some scenes, the reader is rewarded with breathtaking relief towards the end.
Thanks Sha.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Sing to the dawn
The computer screen revealed what I was looking for, and a smile came over my face.
"Slack like shit", I mused. "That's precisely why the words slack and shit begin with the letter S."
There were those occassions when I groaned under the towering weight of assignments in Semester 1, only to reap the profits later in this semester. Classes were so obscenely minimal that strangely, you just felt somewhat derisive of the whole thing.
But sing to the dawn it gave, for this opens a whole new world of possibilities with what I could do with all these free time. Naturally, gunning a driving license came to my mind.
Going out with friends also become a more easier affair, with BBQs, lunch and steamboat dotting my calender. Careful to watch the waist, cardio exercising is also dovetailed into my schedule.
Alas, "all these would soon pass", and to cite one of the timepiece advertisement, "不在乎天长地久,只在乎曾经拥有". Once the real working starts next year, all these good times would be a footnote to my life history.
"Slack like shit", I mused. "That's precisely why the words slack and shit begin with the letter S."
There were those occassions when I groaned under the towering weight of assignments in Semester 1, only to reap the profits later in this semester. Classes were so obscenely minimal that strangely, you just felt somewhat derisive of the whole thing.
But sing to the dawn it gave, for this opens a whole new world of possibilities with what I could do with all these free time. Naturally, gunning a driving license came to my mind.
Going out with friends also become a more easier affair, with BBQs, lunch and steamboat dotting my calender. Careful to watch the waist, cardio exercising is also dovetailed into my schedule.
Alas, "all these would soon pass", and to cite one of the timepiece advertisement, "不在乎天长地久,只在乎曾经拥有". Once the real working starts next year, all these good times would be a footnote to my life history.
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