A girl so brave

A girl so brave you won't believe
Born in a lioness' den yet lives

Lion fed and lion groomed
Adult she grows then meets her doom

The lion growls and sinks its teeth
The girl hangs on as she breathes

Badly hurt as she may be
She returns hoping to be free

Try as hard as she might
Healing isn't easy fight

Lost her goals and all support
She bravely slowly heals each trot

The lion will strike again she knows
Brave little girl hangs onto hope

The magic of Toothpaste

Never did I realise the effects of tooth paste till my mother suggested I clean my super black earrings. Well, I did it today out of curiousity and woah, amazing, the earrings came out brand new. But since i didn't take the before picture, I decided to work it on my ring. Which isn't black as the earring but I hope it showed a little improvement to at least convince my blog readers to try on their super black whatever.

Before:



The process:



And after! (tadah..):

Another good eating place

I'd like to introduce you to... The hype of HK cafes hasn't truly died down.. so there I was enjoying the yummy pork chop spaghetti along east coast road (next block from Killiney):

At Chinatown Pasar Malam

Quite cool isn't it? I discovered this shop while getting restless and fatigued from walking the long stretches of the 'Hua Shi'. Yeah.. this year isn't very exciting, very few shops and fewer shoppers too... But I wanted to see for myself anyway... I didn't like that I missed it the year I was in Canada. Luckily Vancouver more than made up for that. :) CNY is something you have to experience is be celebrating. Sometimes, as one gets older, one needs more to get into the 'feel' of it.. cos its no longer about angpows and goodies anymore...

I think this is like my best le...

The bowling at Downtown east is quite cool.. you can kind of choose the 'wallpaper' theme and they have pictorials at every shot you make.. that's tuned to the theme you choose...

I choose Vintage the aftershock of Edward's 17th century kind of taste.. :P

I'm not a good bowler but this is one of my bestest score.. so allow me to share my joy with all.. :)

Twilight Series...

Just completed the fourth and last book this morning at 4am!!! Haha.. I remembered I read eclipse till 5am (Saturday) and had to resist the urge to go on as I had family events on both days of the weekend! Seriously, its been a long time since I'm this mad. But either affected by the madness of Bella, or just the refusal to control myself especially when on holiday.. I've been living zombie.

Shall not dwell further on this amazing series.. but touch on my apalling visit to the post centre. Well, I was about to post stuff that cost me only 30 bucks.. but can you imagine postage actually cost more! lol.. Its like, the taxes costing more than an air-ticket...

Well, I've got a yet more appalling story to tell.. Just yesterday, my distant aunt was kind of like so super worried that her son of age 25 will NEVER marry, that she asked me to be her daughter-in-law! Appalling indeed.. she made it sound so real it was hard for me to laugh at the joke.. but yea.. I think parents start to worry.. I think my mother might too, at my inactivity with the opposite 'species' especially since we're at this age where we should be moving towards the big M.

Well, either way, I'm finding it harder and harder to communicate with this opposite 'species' I'm having trouble figuring out why too. But heck it, enjoy life as it is.. all will fall into place.. :)

Where there's a will there's a way..

You wont believe i was so desperate to read the sequeals i went straight to borders first minute of my spare time.. couldn't find it... I was too hungry (after having no apetite for these few days.. was actually glad to be hungry).. so came home..

Think i left out the fact that the day I was looking for popular at bras basah (to buy twilight) I hopped by the national library to pick out three random books. I finished one today after food, deciding I'd check online to see if the library might somehow have new moon. Dun have.

Well, in my desperation, I FOUND THIS:
http://mynewplayground.wordpress.com/e-books-downloads/twilight/

Yes omg.. I'd never imagined I'd be so desperate to resort to reading e books. Things I do when i'm just too free. THe bad thing about ebooks is, you dun get to flip. You kind of get to scroll, ya, that's abt it.

Now, back to my ebook.

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Is just so enchanting I'm so sorry to the igakusei who warned me against sleeping late.. I mean, i knew the story from the movie so i just HAD TO GO ON~!

Anyway, the book is so very mesmerising cos Meyer managed to inject humour, mystery, romance, action... i think everything thrilling to me you can think of into her book!!!

And actually to my devastation.. there are like 3 sequeals to Twilight and I think I'm gng to die by the time I finish them all(Or turn vampire)! Haha....

I'm already becoming vampirish.. sleeping so little.. doing so much.. feeling adverse to food.. you know its weird. Cos usually when I didn't sleep enough, I tend to eat more.. today on the contrary, I didn't feel like eating at all! Then again, my appetite all week hasn't been very healthy so.. not too weird after all.

And I just had to highlight the differences just in case in another year's time i end up entangling the movie and the book not knowing which is which anymore! Ahaha... In the book, the girl wasn't so smart, She didn't find out everything via google or some book store in the secluded shopping area. That descendent of the special tribe told her everything! And... she didn't escape via the hotel so easily, she had to wait patiently till the time was right and trick Emmett then run off! There's many more, but overall, I think the movie got the idea, thought I'd say you just have to read the books to fill in all the burning questions about VAMPIRES.

Movies from books..

Oh oh.. before I start on the book, let me first comment on movies that derive from story books. You know, its just a movie, so they tend to have to stick to visual restrictions, time restriction (2-3hour) etc.. so they tend to cut off certain stuff. And to romanticise things, they even change the ending of the books! I remembered clearly that which i watched in Canada, my landlord lent me the book that contained a collection of stories by Somerset Maugham, which I onli read The Painted Veil. In the book, the woman never loved the man, but in the story, she eventually found love! Sigh... I guess, sometimes I prefer to be awaken of reality, but today is not that times... :)

Pple who amazingly live forever..

I've recently came into contact with two such shows that has pple living forever.

First off is the Mummy Returns where Michello Yeoh lives of the lake of everlasting life. Can you imagine a thousand year old girl? Well, at least that's what her daughter's supposed to look like.

I'd say, I see a more REAL situation in Twilight. That Edward Vampire seriously gives off the thousand year feeling! You can feel from the way he speaks and his expression that he's not a 21 yr old! THAT IS WHAT I CALL A MOVIE.

Anw, that's all for now, i'm so fazed with Twilight I went immediately to popular to purchase the book! And I'm so gng to read it now. Ciao! :P

My belated Christmas present..

Came all the way from Boston... All wrapped up.. in.. guess what?

SCOTCH TAPE!!! Omg.. the entire parcel was taped up in transperant tape.. i was still musing over how to open it.. then the great invention came into mind... -pen knife-!!!!

Sakae

Its interesting how expensive Sakae has become... However this trip to Sakae is unlike all the previous ones that were so boring as the food is just so the same!

And the decision to eat there I thought was rather amusing too...
Me: "Why are we walking here? (referring to the food street) Thought you not hungry?"
Her: "Ya horz.. I dunno leiz..."
-Walk Walk-
Me: "Oh, i think there's a sakae at that corner.."
-points- the other party looks
Her: "Really meh? At the corner?"
Me: "Ya! There.."
Her: "Yes! Got sakae lei! See!"
Me: "ya.. I saw.." -duhhed-
Her: "You want to eat sakae ah?"
Me: "I anything one la.. You want to eat sakae anot?"
Her: "Hmm.. I also anything la.."
Her: "Hmm. Let's eat sakae. Ok. Decided. Later we come eat."

We had very very interesting stuff like this smoked salmon with asparagus.. omg.. haha.. somtimes the converter belt can be so fun!



And the surprising thing was... This came to us without us ordering! Haha.. can you imagine? The Red Plate turned cheaper.. but.. but.. less quantity...

Another Drooly picture..

Omg, Has anyone tried the warm chocolate lava at TCC??? Gracious it is so delectable! Even looking at it makes one drool!

Keep active!

I once asked a friend when feeling down, what would she do?

For a question so open-ended, it was quite a surprise that her answer came so straight-forwardly. She said

"I'd keep myself busy"

Yea.. so she didn't elaborate but I didn't suppose she wanted me to probe further. Think its quite self-explanatory, her answer. Keep yourself busy! Do things! Keep occupied! You know, its a little hard for someone jobless, motivationless, goaless...

Think sometimes it can be very difficult to cheer oneself up. I'd suggest talking to friends. But I do even know of pple so dejected that talking to friends sometimes only make the friends concur with her sour situation! OMg.. seriously..

Well, you know, the world is full of unfortunate pple, worse come to worse, I'd say (keep this as last resort), when in shit, think of others in deeper shit. :)

Falling asleep

Have you ever wondered what makes you fall asleep?

THe thought just occured to me yeesterday... I was wondering, what kind of thoughts were floating in my mind the moments before I fall asleep. What kind of thoughts go into the head once it hits the pillow? Somehow I cannot remember. Why is that so?

Do I think of the things that's hurting me? Or do I just think abt things that are sweet to my heart? You know, I tried making an appoint to remember the things that are in my mind last night.. but ta-dah, I've clean forgotten them today. I guess its just a whirlpool of too many thoughts ba... :)

Anyway, great to be able to fall asleep.

New Year

Seriously, its just another day? Why do pple have to make it so super special? What makes just yet another 365 days so super special?

I dunno, why do people have to make resolutions in the New Year? Why do pple have to reminicise about the past? Why brood over whatever's already gone?

I dunno, but I happen to be one such person. Although I do not believe thoroughly in the resolution thing, but a NEW YEAR seriously makes one re think about what has gone over the past year. For me, I actually thought about what has gone past the past year>>S<<.

Since I dun even remember when, from watching tv shows, I have instilled within myself that there exists TRUE LOVE on earth. But you know, TRUE LOVE is merely words, i think I shall bestow it some definition.

TRUE LOVE in what I believe to be the common sense, is everlasting.

TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES.

but how do you know its alive? pple say, when an old man and an old woman goes hand in hand down orchard road, passerby are witnessing TRUE LOVE.

TRUE LOVE INVOLVES HOLDING HANDS.

When the old woman retricts the old man's intake or sugar/salt/coffee/smoke, we say its TRUE LOVE.

TRUE LOVE CARES FOR THE OTHER PARTY'S WELL-BEING.

Such is very very retro true love, how about youngsters? Will youngsters know if they experience true love? I've seen boys gng after ladies. They will be at the ladies' beck and call, go through all to make the lady happy. Does that constitute to true love too? Does gng through the orchard jam just to purchase her favourite dessert and send it to her room constitute to true love? Does buying her romantic chocolate as gift constitute to true love too? How about helping the girl you love prepare for her presentation the next day? Does that sound like true love to you?

Hmm... I guess, true love doesn't count such acts. True love has to be felt. You know, the tv likes to say, songs like to sing.. there's this tingling sensation. But how long can this tingling sensation last? Will you still feel the tingling sensation if your man is so busy and claims he has no time for you? Or when your man begins to find you a burden as he is tired of asking you out and taking the initiative towards you? What happens after that? What can keep two persons, who believe they have found their true love together?

Sigh... big sigh... What happens when you realise the only thing you've lived for doesn't exist?