Tuesday 6 March 2012

Doing what's right?

We are often told to do something we like, pursue our dreams, reach out for the stars. It's okay to fail or be poor. Just do what you like. You will be happy as long as you love your job.

I totally agree with it.

However, we must not forget that we have duties to fulfill and that there must be dough on the table. Our duties forced us to take up different positions in life.

This is something we should think about, pause for a moment and reflect.

Wednesday 22 February 2012

Sushi Buffet

My friend commented about this Ang Moh in office. She has an impression of him viewing Asian girls as sushi buffet.

Tuesday 21 February 2012

101 Decisions

Suddenly, I've numerous decisions to make. Seriously, what the hell... Could someone drop me a hint?

First and foremost, what to do with my career? My bonus is all right, nothing fantastic though. However, my boss is expecting me to move into a new team/portfolio. She has left the door opened for me. Am I suppose to take up the challenge or move into a new job?

Next, my toastmasters club. This is a heart tugging situation. 2 club members and myself need to step up to be part of the new exco or the club will close her doors for good.

What am I suppose to do? I can't commit myself to the duties for club president, VPE or VPM.

Sometimes, growing up sucks.

But no matter what, time will continue ticking and I need to make a decision quickly and move on.


Sunday 19 February 2012

Roti Prata

There's 2 roti pratas on the plate. One's a nice circular shaped whilst the other is slightly tore.

If your lover picked the slightly tore prata and gave you the nicely shaped one, that is prata love.

J&M shoes

Finally bought a pair of J&M shoes. My girlfriend stumbled upon this brand last month and has since been recommending it to me.

The shoes feel very comfy; plus the designs of the shoes are rather unique/trendy.

It costs $32.90 for the pair I bought, but after a 20% discount, I got it for $26. A fairly decent price for a pair of causal shoes.

Available at Metro, BHG, and - don't know what's the name gerly shop at Ion.

Was tempted to buy another pair, but it doesn't make sense if I could only wear them during the weekend. Resisted the bloody temptation.

Sunday 12 February 2012

Dad

I just need a Dad to look after the family. 

I just need a Dad to care about my mum and brother. 

I can be disregarded.

Sunday 29 January 2012

My secondary school Kakis came over to my place for Lunar New Year gathering. We had the usual Lo Hei and steamboat.  I wasn’t feeling well so I had to abstain from having any booze and snacks. That totally sucks when my fridge is bustling of beers, M&Ms, moscato and bailey. I missed eating the fattening Bak Kwa.



Good to know that everyone is progressing well in their careers. Dave is with Goggle and will be heading to Beijing for work.  Jason will reinventing the old supreme court with his current firm. How cool is that? Can’t wait to see the fruits of his labour. Dante is working on his family business; and had just completed his hectic CNY delivery of goodie bags. Luke the aspiring and motivated teacher, is ready to take on the challenge of teaching primary 1 children and cultivate the love of Chinese language. 

As for myself….  

Things are going terrific… not trying to make an overstatement, but things are all right as well. Got a promotion last year; but it meant little to me because I find the structure of how one can raise through the ranks dubious. I’m at the crossroad at the moment, so I really need to take time to decide what I should do. 

Nevertheless, life is good. Take care and Happy Chinese New Year. 

Oh… and my girlfriend. She just started her new job at . I trust she will do well and soar to greater heights! Family and friends, let us work towards a better and brighter future!



Wednesday 25 January 2012

Sunday 22 January 2012

A Simple Life


Hello,

Below is a speech that I’ve prepared/presented, inspired by Gareth Stein’s Racing in the Rain. I was voted best speaker during my club's meeting by sheer luck(the better speaker was disqualified as she exceeded the time given).

Here goes:

Often, I wondered. I wondered how life would be if I am slightly different. 

In my world, I can only see things in black, grey, blue and white. I see green as grey, red as black.I would love to chew and enjoy the sight of a red apple.  My tongue is long, flat and loose.  It is an ineffective tool for pushing food around in my mouth whilst chewing. I have no words that I can rely on, and gestures are all I have. I attempt to speak but humans classify it as barking.  But at least they take care of me. My name is Rufus. 

I can’t remember much of my family. I didn’t even know who my parents were. After I was born, I was placed in a bucket with my brother. It was a terrible experience. I heard rain drops and thunder, and we were out in the blistering cold traumatised and hungry. After an hour of whining and being soaked in rain, we were picked up by a lady. 

The lady gave us milk and took photos of us. Soon, she informed us that she has posted our pictures on the internet, and hopefully someone would adopt us. She named me Rufus.
A few days later, she passed me to Hansel, and that was the last time I saw my brother and the lady. Hansel brought me home and introduced me to his family. Hansel, like me, has a brother. He is staying with his parents and has a pretty girlfriend. 

On weekdays, I am left alone at home. I would spend hours doing nothing, wandering from room to room, napping from spot to spot. I could only stare out of the window and watch random birds fly by. I yearn for the house to be bustling with people. 

Sometimes, Hansel would leave the television on for me to watch. I would climb onto the sofa and make myself comfortable. There are 101 television show s to watch! My favourite is the Disney cartoon channel. I love the cartoons like Ben 10 and Phineas and Ferb.  I was told that variety is good, so I do watch discovery channel and Spanish football.  It allows me to broaden my knowledge.
I do get nagged at when someone realised that my fur were all over the sofa. My favourite time of the day is to accompany the parents to watch Taiwanese talk shows. Taiwanese girls speak in a cute, high pitched tone, and they are nice to look watch too. 

Because of the experience I had earlier, I am terribly afraid when it rains. I would shiver uncontrollably and often, the people at home would call me a scary cat. I do not understand why they call me a cat when obviously I am a dog. I tried to correct them many times but all I can give was a disapproving look. How I wish I could shout “I am a dog, and I have a voice”.  

I am also very intrigued by the human behaviour. There is this thing called the personal computer, where they will spend hours typing or watching. They are able to communicate with one another using this website called facebook. It’s very puzzling because I see a lot of pictures, and they communicate with each other using words. Since they are able to speak, wouldn’t it be better to talk to each other? 

I tried using facebook, but my paws are too fat for the keyboard and I can’t remember any alphabets after C. 

Another item I find baffling is the motorised vehicles. They seemed to love it so much when there in it, but hurried away once the vehicles come to a stop. The interior of the vehicle must be kept clean, and often it smelt too clean for my liking. I dislike taking the vehicle as it always makes me my head spin. Once, I puked in the van and received a stern scolding from my owners. This is the reason why I always like to take a piss at tyres when I go for walks. 

Also, I am made to wear a dog tag. It does not add much weight to me, but I disliked wearing it. I know it contains my name and address, but I don’t see humans wearing any tags and from of identification stating their details. This is so bizarre to me. Why must humans discriminate against dogs?

I understand that Hansel is in toastmasters, and it would be so cool if he wrote a speech about my life.  How I wished I could develop the ability to speak. I would just need to speak to him for 5 minutes, so he need not rack his brains for ideas on what to present for his next project.

1Q84

I've completed my first Japanese literature book and I'm darn proud of myself. Thank you Haruki Murakami.

Wednesday 18 January 2012

1Q84

1Q84.
The book has taken my body and soul. I am so hooked on the book, I take 10 minutes toilent break just to indulge in reading a couple of pages. 

I bring my book to the loo? Nah … I am reading from the iPhone. A 700 paged book. How the earth am I supposed to complete it via iPhone. 

2Q12

Thursday 12 January 2012

Baby Photos

Facebook. 

It connects us. It allows us to share our thoughts, our lives, and our photos. 

I know you are over the moon with your new child. I would be gay too if I have a child of my own. However, have it ever cross your mind that it is a little too overwhelming to be posting photos of your kid every day? 

Every fucking day, I see a bloody photo of you and your kid. Come on! Get a freaking life! Why are you posting photos of your kid every day? Baby XXX, 2 months old. Baby XXX with granddad. Seriously, WTF WTF. 

I am so gonna block your posts on FB. Tonight is the last night that I spot another random nonsense photo on my wall. Good lord ….  

Wednesday 4 January 2012

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/12/23/english-pronunciation/


If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.
After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud.
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité

Tuesday 3 January 2012

Sunday 1 January 2012

Day 2

The dust has settled, along with the frustrations. We talked about it. 

Manchester City Football Club also lost their first match for 2012, thus my beloved Manchester United is still level on points. This year is starting with a new spin. 

Just had my first supper of the year at Fei Fei Wanton Mee (飞飞云吞面, 62 Joo Chiat Place). It is one of my favourite supper places, indulging on the crunchy noodles and spicy chilli. 

However, the standard of the food has dropped a little, and there is this sour smell near the stall. *Was it from the ingredients used in cooking my noodles? It fucking better not be. Overall, it is still a good treat for the stomach but the price of $3.20 for a small bowl is a little on the steep side. Inflation/greed has caused the price to rise from $2.50 a bowl(when I first patronised the stall).

Regards, 
Big Belly Wanderlust