It's his birthday

Not today, but next Tuesday.

Blessed birthday, Sweetie.

xoxo

(why such an early post? That's because I won't be in the country to announce this)

I am taller than 160cm

Things I've learnt over the oh-so-sumptious-roadtrip and shouting-cheesy-songs-to-the-mic weekend:

1. I can eat seafood without staining my clothes.
2. I am taller than 160cm.
3. I can sing out of tune effortlessly.
4. I've the smallest breast size compared to my friends.
5. I can remember the lyrics to Lemon Tree, Barbie Girl and Everybodyyy ya.....
6. I love hanging out with my beary girlfriends.
7. I AM 48kg!! (ask Daniel, he saw the scale I weighed on)
8. All my girlfriends have UOB Lady's Card except Janet.
9. All my girlfriends have Carebears FB application except Janet (get the hint, jan?)

Woman vs Pest

It was the final show down today. With weeks of sleepless nights, i had had enough!!! It was woman vs pesky mosquitoes!

Imagine the scene of 2 Texan cowboys on opposite end of each other in a deserted town and a small bundle of hay blown in and rolled in between them...


Profiles:
Woman
Height: 160cm
Weight: 48kg
Weapon(s): 750ml Shieldtox Attack; 15x7cm, 144-page Sudoku on the Go book; a pair of strong hands
Strength: Could stand a room densed with aerosol; lower EQ, hence the anger

Mosquito
Height: between 0.2 to 0.5cm
Weight: Not disclosed
Weapon(s): Sting, wings
Strength: It flies

I walked into my mosquito infested room with my shiny bottle of SA. I knew I was going to taste victory very soon. I stood in the middle, lifted my SA and held the actuator down for as long as i could. The mosquitoes were alarmed that there was an attack. It marched out from various corners. I was surrounded. They came even closer to me, hoping that I'd spray on my face accidentally. How smart! I targetted on every mosquito individually. There was a one to one battle. Man, they were strong. They don't drop like how the TVC showed. But they were definitely weakened. They flew slower. A little disoriented. That was when my Sudoku comes in handy. A swap and that was the end of one of it. Had another 5 more to go. I came out from my room after the 20 minutes ordeal. I won. I smirked.

Kung Fu Fighting Panda

I watched it with Daniel over the weekend. And this is way, way better than Happy Feet. The story is not fantastic but bearable for a movie that runs for 1.5hours. The plot's easy to follow but also questionable. After all, this movie is made for kids.

But I'm surprised that the government didn't ban the movie seeing that there are so many pig characters in it (remember those days when the g'ment censored part of the Dragonball series on TV because of the pig character?).

And to those who had watched and stayed till the end, YES, we did stay till the end :)

Infested!

Lately, mosquitos have infested my house. And i reckon these are not the regular mosquitos which could be killed with the trusted Shieldtox or Ridsect. When i put on the electronic mosquito repeller, it doesn't work either!! What's more frustrating is that these maggots fly in pairs, waltzing around the mosquito repeller. How disrespectful! Mosquito has just entered my most-hated-and-will-make-sure-that-it-will-die-a-painful-death list.

It's so hard

Sarah posted this on her Facebook:

life is too short to hold grudges, to stay angry
life is too short to be bitter
you COULD stay angry but what is the point?
just wasting energy

It's true that life is too short to be wasted on things that could only make you look ugly and bitter. But guess what's even harder - to make room for forgiveness. Nevertheless;

forgiveness is hard at first but it gets easier
slow to get angry, quick to forgive
love harder, and laugh louder
spend the time wisely
you won't get it back

Lord,
Help me to be a nicer person. Help me to let it go. Help me to release my bitterness. Help me, please. It's just so hard but i really want to.

It trots out of my shelf

My kids were snickering while flipping through the pages of this book. I thought if this could amuse them that much, it should be a good read. Man, i was really in for a surprise. I was lost as I slogged through the pages.

This is a parody of Harry Potter (you see the similarity in the names? Harry Potter, Barry Trotter?). Only difference is definitely NOT child friendly. Too much filth. No wonder my kids snickered!


To begin with, I'm not a huge Harry Potter fan. I can barely remember like 3 names - Harry (duh!), Ron, Hermaine (see, I can't even get the spelling right). As this is a parody, Gerber changed the names by a letter (or two), and by the 4th character introduced in the story, i was lost.

Much of the story reflects quite closely to the original but with a little more twist and scandal to it. And because it's a parody, the plot was loosely built, expecting the readers to understand the why's and how's of the story. I've never read any Harry Potter books and have only watched 3 of the 5 movies and am still trying to make sense of the last sequel i watched, you can perhaps imagine how confounded i was.


You'll probably love this book if:
1) you're a guy
2) you hate Harry Potter
3) you want to put yourself to a challenge (like i did)