30th August

It's 30th August!

It's my wife's birthday!

It's Karinna's birthday!

Happy Birthday! ;)

Eve and the Fire Horse

Today went to Karinna's friend's home again. See show lah.
Same place where we were shown those reincarnation stuff.

Again, one of those spiritual shows.
Eve and the Fire Horse


It's essentially about 2 young girls being involved in religions. Religion is always a very sensitive topic. The humour projected in the show is meant to view religion in a slightly open-mindedness.

Nice indeed.

Sleeping Parrot

This is not an advertisement for the food stall. It's more for the small parrot in the picture.

It is sleeping! Sleep standing. :P

Actually, can see it sway left and right while sleep-standing. Quite interesting. Of course it never fall down, bird's instinct huh?

Detox

We bought some detoxing drinks on Saturday. Then we started our detoxing on Sunday.

It's some drinks, which after drinking, you don't really need to eat.
I haven't eaten any solid food from Sunday - Tuesday. First 3 days, the instructions are to stay away from food, just use the drinks for breakfast/lunch/dinner.

From today onwards, can eat other food, but should try to refrain from taking carbohydrates. What's new? As long as no carbo, your weight should drop.

Actually, my weight has dropped about 3kg since then. Cool huh?

I don't know how long more this is to be continued.
I need my char kway teow and hokkien mee. Ahhhhhhhhhh. :P

Kung Fu Baby

I was surfing the net while waiting for some replies from other people before getting back to work, saw this clip:


Kinda cute.

Fifth Element

Was watching 综艺大哥大 and heard this song playing in the background.

This was the famous song-scene from the movie "Fifth Element". It's so damn cool!


Wonderful isn't it? :)

全能俏妈妈

我们都爱她！

Yesterday is another pretty long day. After our lunch at home, we went to CGH to see my mother-in-law. Her blood pressure was a littel high, so she went to hospitalise herself on Friday.

Guess she should not be staying beyond tomorrow. Should be fine.

Next, we went to Eastpoint Mall. The dog food we bought previously had worms in there. So exciting! My dogs must have been happy with the extra ingredients.
Then, went to see sinseh again for some 补药.
By then it's about 4pm.
Went over to Toa Payoh Hub for a walk before heading to MediaCorp. Had an early early dinner there, then walked around.
And wow, bought some expensive stuff to hopefully cut down our weight!
Money really no enough!

Then it's almost six. Drove down to MediaCorp. We were there to support 全能俏妈妈! Karinna's ex-colleague's wife joined the contest. Needed support, so we are asked to support. Ok lah, not an issue, I am a good cheerleader. :D

Didn't take a lot of pictures. Just a few, seated a little far anyway.
Had to wait wait and wait. It's not a 'live' show, so they had to do some re-take once in a while.
Somemore. they are filming 2 episodes together, so it's a little draggy. We left at close to 11pm, and they are still filming it. :D

饶天亮 - 做你的爱人

Last Sunday, we went to Giant Tampines. At the Video CD area, I bought a CD. Essentially, that's a compilation of songs composed from China, 中国风.

Actually, it is not just songs. It's actually karaoke-kind of video CD. It has 2 CDs of 16 songs each with its music video.

Like I said, I'm a sucker for nice songs which are usually not played on air often on our radio stations. And there are really a couple of songs that, in my own personal bird's eye view, fantastic!

This is one of them:


饶天亮 - 做你的爱人

词曲:谢军
歌手:饶天亮

我时常一个人独自彷徨
也时常一个人独自流浪
我希望你能回心转意
再像从前那样的爱我

我知道你不会把我遗忘
也不会抛弃我独自飞翔
我时常留恋在你家门前
盼望你能够看我一眼

我一生中最爱的人啊
我醒来梦中还是你的样子
可不可以再爱我一次
让我学会做你的爱人

我生命中最爱的人啊
请不要拒绝心中火热感受
可不可以再爱我一次
做一个幸福的女人

New Lift

Finally, after many months of enduring dusts around our flat, the Lift Upgrading Programme has resulted in the lift working near to our door.

It's never going to be lift-level landing for us, so we have to live with half-level landing.

So here's the new lift that will serve my home unit.

Being cheap-thrill, have to take a photo to commenmorate the first day of the lift working at our unit area.

Still, the whole thing is not completed yet. Still have painting works to be done I guess. Not sure how long more.

Anyway, it's an expensive lift. :P

Swimming Lesson 1

Today is a packed day.

Morning, we went to see sinseh. My coughing still gives me problem. It has been plagueing me for the past 1 month plus.

After that, we went to eat our lunch. Karinna said her colleague told her there's a minced pork noodle stall that's VERY NICE. Indeed, the queue was long. She queued for nearly an hour just to buy the noodles.


To me, to queue for food for more than 15 minutes is a waste of time. Anyway, it's so-so to me, and ok for her also. So don't really warrent such long wait for the food.

Then we went for our appointment with our financial planner. Basically to see what he has prepared for us, and what he would advise us to do in order to achieve our long term goal.
Not so bad, got a better glimpse of our current insurance policies, and noted some of the pitfalls that lie within these policies.
Some of his recommendations, we followed. Some we need to think through and consider. Generally, overall is still pretty ok. Have to gauge our own comfort level as well. Anyway, arranged another meeting this coming Friday to give him our reply too.
By then, it was already about 5pm.

We loitered around for a while, at a little bit of food, then went to Bayshore. We have our first swimming lesson there.
Yes, wearing my sexy swimming trunk again. *giggle*

Well. We swam well.
Hands/legs cannot coordinate well. Breathing cannot control well. Kicking cannot execute well. How interesting.
Have to learn breathing. :P
And I somehow swam swam swam, and went into the deeper depth level, and when I tried to stand, obviously cannot stand on my feet!

Of course, I have to struggle. Jump up and down to catch my breath. Galang gabok!
So the coach has to give me a helping hand to bring me to safe ground. D'oh!

Karinna fared slightly better, coz' she's taller. She also did go into the deep depth once, and she only realised after she reached the edge of the pool. Lucky her eh? :P

Then came home in 1 piece, ate dinner and checked email and watched TV.

Time to rest.

Olympic

We all know it's the Olympic time.

I'm not following it a lot. Just checking results here and there.
I watched the swim with Tao Li in the final. Never expected her to win, so just watch to see how far she can manage to go. 5th is already very good.

Today, the most promising team from Singapore wins the semi-final for the Women's Table Tennis. Wow!
That means at least a silver medal. Long awaited after 48 years.
The only one which was won by Tan Howe Liang in 1960, I wasn't even born then! :)

At least now there's another to talk about. Not bad for a tiny red dot!

I didn't really watch the table tennis semi-final match. Think there was not live telecast. I was sort of 'reading' live for the result though.
Very interesting, especially for the last 2 matches.

The numbers were like getting on par with each other so constantly, the atmosphere in the 'live' ground must be very thrilling.

Final result, 3-2 in favour of Singapore.
Cool.

Sudoku!

Ha ha ha!
Finally made it!

Don't think I can do any better for this level anymore.

Casper's Birthday

Yesterday was Casper's Birthday, other than National Day as well.

So we were there to celebrate for the toddler. Now he can walk a bit more than last week, still not as stable though.

Just a day of eating eating eating and eating. Wah. My weight!

Some of the pictures taken from yesterday:

I look cute isn't it? *wink*

HE HE HE HE! My uncle is sooooo funny! HE HE HE HE

My sleeping position is unique right?

Hey! Don't keep looking at me drink milk! Want to steal is it? *bleah*

Ahhh! Finally my head is bigger than that guy behind me!

I'm doing serious work now. Do Not Disturb.

See my muscles! Strong right?! Ah mah! Open your eyes for the photo!

Casper's Birthday Cake

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to Casper ...

eh! My birthday you know! Give me my cake!

I wanna mesmerize you with my smile ...

And finally, a short video clip of Matthew playing ball.

East Coast Morning

This morning we went to East Coast. Karinna's colleague's daughter wanted to see a real dog, so we brought ours to showcase. :P
Sort of. :)

The little girl Megan is about 16 months, pretty cute. As usual, shy at first, need a bit of warmup then she feels safer to play a bit more.

We were at Carpark C1, which is somewhere in between the McDonald area, and the old Big Splash area.
Lots of people there, and there were a lot of tents setup along the beach! Cool!

Damn. I wanted to go toilet to pee, then followed the signboard, and had to walk until the McDonald area there! 15 mins one way! Crazy!

By the time I went back, sit around for a while, little Megan had to go home already. :P

Then we decided to walk to the old Big Splash area (now called the Playground?) for food. Ate at Carl's Junior.

Beauty and the Beast

Yum yum. *burp*

I chose the Bacon Swiss Crispy Chicken combo meal. Other than a bit salty, it was good. :D

Still hungry. How?
Fret not!

Today is my nephew Casper's 1 year old birthday! Going there later to celebrate for the little boy.

And later this evening, going to another friend's place. New home after gotten married.

Today is such a busy day!
AAAAaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Mee Rebus

Today didn't come home for dinner.

Karinna sometimes prefer to eat out, so we had our dinner elsewhere today.

I decided to go Parkway Parade, we haven't been there for quite some time.
Also don't know what to eat there, didn't know there's a Crystal Jade there also.
So just went to the food court at the basement.

She wanted to eat beef. Die die must eat beef. No beef hor fun, so she chose beef noodle. Still beef right? :P
Since we're at Parkway, so I decided to eat the famous Mee Rebus.

Bee Rebus is actually a damn damn expensive food. Not much ingredient there, just bean sprouts, some toufu, and half of a hardboiled egg. Lost of green chilli perhaps.
Costs $3.70 for a plate. Wow!

Technically speaking, it is not bad, but I am not too fussy with food.
So doesn't affect me much as long as the food is not too awful for me.

After the dinner, just walked around, and went to Giant to buy things.
Buy buy until happy happy.
Not really happy when I feel like I have no money. hehe

Took my medicine already. Not sure when I will start feeling ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz again.

Drowsy

早上, 不应该吃药
现在, 我很想睡觉
睡觉, 问我要不要
苯鸟, 纵然也知晓

Group Insurance

Sigh. This Group Insurance thing is driving me crazy. Been working at it for the past few months, and still not able to finalize fully.

First, I have certain budget constraint.
Second, have to know what is required under legislation law. At least I know there is this thing called Work Injury Compensation, which although not compulsory to buy insurance, it is mandatory for company to provide for staff.
So if company never buy for the staff, then if anything happen, employee can get compensation directly from company under Singapore Manpower law.

And different companies have different packages etc, different coverage scheme, different Room and Board plans, a bit difficult to compare properly among them.

With some handicapped or people with medical conditions in my company, it makes it even more time consuming to have it done. Generally, they cannot be covered. Stupid insurance thing.

Anyway, don't really want to delay it much longer. I am giving myself at most until end of this month to have this settled.

Now it's more or less streamed down to 2 companies.
Whichever gives me a better deal wins.

Overall, I lose. :D

黃瑞文 - 無法調整的頻率

I'm a sucker for songs that are not so well known.

This song was like almost 20 years ago, think I was still in the army then if I remember well.
It's kinda refreshing voice at that time. Interesting to me.

Song-wise pretty ok, and I think there was another song from him which was better. Can't find it online yet.
In fact, I have the cassette! Still have it! :D


作词：何启弦
作曲：蒋三省
编曲：陈志远

再也无法调整的频率 让你我不能相聚
只为那刻意逃避 干扰了美丽的相遇

曾经想要帅性的收集 你留下的孤寂
谁知道漫漫长夜 留下的只是泪水

从来没有想过忘了你
从来没有想过离开你
只是在你冰冷的双眼里
却容纳不下我的爱情

从来没有想过忘了你
从来没有想过离开你
只是在你冰冷的双眼里
却找回我的爱情

Olympic Swim

There were some sort of talks about going swimming few months back.
One is to let Karinna exercise, while not exerting too much pressure on her knees.
Second, it is possibly another form of physiotherapy for the knee joint.

In short, need to exercise lah.

So after visiting my parents today, we went to Eastpoint Mall to buy things. More specifically, buy a pair of swimming trunks and goggles for me.

See the sexy trunks I bought, and the goggles in the box:


We went to Tampines Swimming Complex around 6pm. Took a while to get a carpark, still got it of course.

Since I am such a good swimmer, and she a great swimmer too, we went to the "Teaching Pool" to teach ourselves the essence of perfect swim!
Practising to be a frog for about 45 minutes, and we called it a day for the swim.

Didn't try my puppy-style today though. The place was too crowded, and it's not easy to demonstrate the unique skills at crowded pool.

After the aquatic workout, went home for dinner, and feels great with ached arms and legs.

Next swim, not sure when, but we got swimming lesson on 16 Aug! Cool huh? :D

Financial Planning

Yesterday, went with Karinna to meet a financial planner.

Objective is basically to see how we can try to achieve financial freedom at certain point of time, if possible at all. :P

Wah. Talk very long siah.

Met him up around 7.30pm, then talk talk talk, and by the time ended, already close to 11pm.

On the way home, that person slept all the way, while I drove. Alamak.
Zhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.

What shall I do today?
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz? :D