the fastest finger

i have a lunch partner for the past 2 days cos i roped in apple to help me in the completion of a survey results compilation assignment. even with much rush, going all cuckoo-eyed .... it is still NOT DONE. and it leaves me to complete them all by myself tomorrow.

RARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

no more lunch partner.
even the interns have left. (today's their last day)
oh the woe of a quiet and cold office.

GYABOO!

belated presents are good, its like celebrating your birthday twice over. 'this bag has many side pockets, and you better put your handphone in one of them' nagnagnag. 'u better take care of it!' nagnagnag

thanks, for pointing out that ...
1) i am boring
2) i am blur
3) i speak bad english
4) i am a pet mouse next to you all.
5) my self-confidence plunges.

thanks for
1) helping me keep up with trends that i otherwise couldn't have afford. my birkenstocks, havianas, my purse, my bag, my watch. eunice - clothed by FM.
2) making up for my blurness or help counter it.
3) correcting my grammer
4) being there with me in foreign lands.
5) driving me home
6) letting me irritate u guys with the milch accent. "ariigatoogozaimasu"

GYABO!!!!

artistic emotions

很像胸口挤满了什么
闷闷得
思绪
感受
隐隐约约
有如心脏是银幕的static
似有若无
那是 说不出 的感觉
画画 是把这种感觉 表达在线条与颜色当中
曲子 用旋律 捕捉了这个概念
指尖的轻重 是随着心脏的起伏
还是心脏的起伏 是随着指尖的轻重？
就连作词人 的文字
也是断断续续
就好像 相机 怎么也不能代替眼睛所能看到的。
剧本是借由角色，
虚构的情节
把黑白的static
变成有逻辑 有连贯性 的故事

画
曲
词
戏
书
就好像 相机 怎么也不能代替眼睛所能看到的。

eu can knead

my 1st attempt. tried it out with normal rice, shredded carrots & sweet potato filling. haha!! (smileys are drawn on) ok now, i just need to get the seaweed and the correct seasoning & filling. yosh!

Japanese cooking

learning to cook has always been part of the "to-do" in the holiday list. was into sushi making eons ago, my pralines failed terribly, so till date I am still best at maggi mee. if you want it to sound better, you can say you know how to cook ramen - which is essentially SHIN ramen.

in our last movie date, drey gie & i suggested a japanese potluck! I wanna try my hands at this ;D ...

Onigiri! (Japanese rice balls!) sushi is just too difficult. kawaii-deshio?

found a online help to easy onigiri making . and was superly inspired by this.

we can always do other easy ones like soba, somen. & the japanese egg-wrapped fried noodles.

and you know what is the best part of it all? DAISO. japanese cooking is not expensive anymore!

drey & maggie: when when when?

zzzzz

eunice wants to put the jacket over her head
sleep
dream and hope that no one notices her.

zzzzz...

// here's some intelletual sparring //

"The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. The winners are:

1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which
renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. "

Hoi An

byebye Hue, we are going to.....

HOI AN.

The midpoint stop during our bus ride was at Lang Co beach. Beautiful beautiful beach. i really love the scenery with the sprawling beach infront of me and the surrounding mist. After hopping onto the bus, we drove through the Hai Van Pass which separates North and South Vietnam. Used to be a mountainous route and now the Vietnamese has built a tunnel which makes it easier and safer.

lunch was trying out the Hoi An's specialty - Cao Lao. And I drown it down with BABABA "333". Vietnam's local bia (beer).

fiona read from her book that white rose (another specialty) had shrimp & frog filling. FROG... during our shopping, we saw an old lady selling it by the roadside, and many locals coming out of their shops to buy. (which tempted us) we asked the lady in the bookstore we were in what was inside the innocent hargow (prawn dumping) like wrapping and she said prawn and beans. No frogs! so we tried. It was nice and tasted very much like hargow with a kueh like texture.

an old lady with her plate of white rose.

after a difficult time locating this place, we were abit apprehensive about eating there because it was at a ulu place + they were ALL locals. we decided to take the risk and had our stomach satisfied with the above. it was the vietnamese wrap your own 'po-piah' except it was rice paper & not popiah skin. and besides veggie, you can wrap a springroll inside your spring roll, or wrap in an egg (which had tau-gay wrapped in it), or the satay. vegetables aside, it was superb. and the female boss seeing that we were tourist, stood by to wrap our popiah and to feed us with it. (after she left fi & i proceed to remove trace of tau-gay discreetly) vietnamese are a friendly lot of people, and after the boss went away, the lady sitting beside us helped us with the ever-understood sign language. Ba Le Well Restaurant is a MUST-go. At this point, everyone has to applaud Fiona for eating veggies.

the rest of it are spent shopping, and we need no photographic evidence of that.

return of (super)tutor

adopted sijia's tuition kids and the 1st session happened last night. 1st time that i'm teaching such a young kid (Pri 1), and being so used to the get-straight-down-to-the-books approach, it was kinda difficult for me to half teach & half cajole her. It is hard to be so harsh on such a young kid when midway u see her maid bringing in a glass of milk for her, she tells u about the drawing she draws and then requests for a story to be told to her - about crows. WHICH TOTALLY CAUGHT ME BY SURPRISE. eunice can tell u no story! (unless u wanna hear stories about my mum.)

so..... i was like "whoa... are u testing me?"
little girl: (innocent look) "actually i have a story in my mind already"
me: "OHHh... why dont you tell me then?" (i thought i was very clever to have turned the situation around in my favour)

out came her paper and pencil, so as she told her story.. she was drawing the beaker and stopped midway in her attempt to draw a crow.

little girl: "i dont know how to draw crow, can help me draw?"

eunice so CANNOT draw to save her life. but i had to do it right.... so the end product looked like a chicken, to which she said "aiyah, nevermind"

sijia *laoshi, HOW??? i hope she doesn't ask me for any story or drawings!

*ps: she actually referred to you as sijia laoshi. hahaha. u hear liao u wont paiseh meh?
pps: apparently the crow story she told me, is the one u told her, i swear she is testing me. haha

tonight is round 2 with her Pri 3 brother.

Season 2 - The return of the (super)tutor
Episode 1: crow drawing

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