Monday, October 27, 2008

黄莺莺 - 酸甜

黄莺莺, 原本的艺名叫黄露仪。 忘了何时,她开始用本名。
名字不重要,歌唱得好听就好!

她是我小时候的偶像!
啊!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

这首非常好听, 却不很流行。你也许听过。
她的经典歌曲实在太多太多了。


酸甜 词∶彭学斌 曲∶Di G. Carella

黎明之前
戴上了自由与期盼的项链
等著起飞
地上人间
来来往往陌生又熟悉的脸
反覆著亲切
反覆著疲倦
故事总在上升坠落之间
慢慢沈淀

青春
亮得刺眼
模糊了虚幻真实的视线
岁月
换得一些
失去一些

我的名字
穿越了整个世界
经历过一次次华丽的冒险
因为平凡所以羡慕著永远
等待是体验
生命是刻上了记忆的唱片
装饰著孤单与温暖的音乐
有一天沧海化成纪念
我会含著微笑的泪
酸甜
u..a..
酸与甜

对我而言
心是寄放一场场感情的店
有的长住
有的匆匆一瞥
你用一生的时间来眷恋
我很感谢

青春
亮得刺眼
模糊了虚幻真实的视线
岁月
换得一些
失去一些

我的名字
穿越了整个世界
经历过一次次华丽的冒险
因为平凡所以羡慕著永远
等待是体验
生命是刻上了记忆的唱片
装饰著孤单与温暖的音乐
有一天沧海化成纪念
我会含著微笑的泪
酸甜
酸与甜

Candy Candy

Yes. I am crazy.

Just not long ago, I posted this.

Yesterday, after our swimming lesson, we went to Marine Parade. There was a pasar malam (actually, more like morning lah, not malam :P), and I was walking around and saw Candy Candy DVD.

My brain must be working weird then, I bought it. heh heh heh

So if any one wants to reminisce the past for a moment with this classic famous cartoon, feel free to borrow from me! :P

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Hort Park

After the popiah/laksa, we just did a bit of shopping at the NTUC and bought some stuff. Cannot remember buy what also.
Age is catching up, memory is failing some times. Perhaps a lot of times ...

Since we're in the west, decide to pop over to Hort Park, which we had wanted to go for the past many weeks.

We just walked around the place without any aim. Went to the other end which supposedly will link up towards Kent Ridge Park as well, but we didn't move on from there. Not in the correct attire. We wore sandals there, but the path to go further seems to be a little more muddy place, and appears to climb up higher as well.
Damn hot weather you know, it was 4+pm!
I'm not crazy even if I am SiowKow.

Some pictures taken within Hort Park, probably can arrange another time to go again, and go further to Kent Ridge Park. *shrug* We'll see.


After the walk, we drove to McDonald along Farrer Road to take a quick bite. More like greedy than hungry lah, but terrible, I mean the fries tasted horrible (although edible), and the coke is somehow not good as well.
Just rested there for a while before heading back home. :)

My Cosy Corner

Last Sunday, hit a wall when visited Coronation Plaza for the popiah.

Today, we went again at around 2+pm to check it out.
It was opened. :D

So we ordered 2 popiahs, and 1 laksa.

See the supposedly delicious food we had:


The size of the popiah is normal. Laksa is a little small in size, without much incredient except for beansprouts and fishcake. No cockles, no prawn.

Another closeup picture of the popiah. You can see the eggs at the topmost part of it. Hmmmm.

Overall, we think the popiah is not bad, but a little pricey at $2.20 each.
The laksa is definitely considered expensive, at $3.80 per bowl. I probably can finish 2 bowls in 5 minutes or less. It tasted ok though.

Bloody full. *burp*

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Lost & Found

Ahhh. The lost man has been found.
He called me this morning to complain that the mobile phone cannot work.
Cannot call out, cannot receive calls.
Erh ... ... ... ???

So terok huh. First disappear and I have to run around to look for him. I did.
Yesterday went back home, he not around. Went to downstairs coffeeshop, unlikely for him to be there. Went to the Blk511 hawker centre, not there too.

Then went to Blk418 coffee shop, cannot find either. Went to Bedok Interchange and search, see no sign of old man.

Then went back to check Blk526 before I went back home, and then re-visited Blk526 again at 10pm.

So I declared him to be missing, although I know a big likelihood is that the mobile phone has no more credit.

$6 credit is indeed too little, but hey, he is the one that said he does not make a lot of calls! @!#$&%^#$#%^%&(*&*&#$%#$

So before went to look for him again earlier, went to get a top-up card. This time I got him a $18 credit.
Of course, I cannot siam the chance of telling him off about using the phone so much, taking into consideration that he is likely not to make use of the phone that much.

So this time round, told him to charge the phone everyday for 2-3 hours instead of checking the battery bars on the phone.
And told him explicitly that calling out cost $$$, and receiving calls are free.

Will that sink in?
Hmmmm

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Missing

This afternoon, my brother's maid called me, and asked if I had passed the mobile phone to my father, and whether the prepaid card had been topped up.

Of course I did.

She said the number cannot get through, and subsequently, my mother also called me to ask me what happened to the mobile phone.

Hmmm. How the hell I know?

So I left work around 5pm, then went to Bedok to take a look.

No one at home. Passport is somewhere in the home also.
Just that no matter how I call, the mobile phone just cannot get connected.
I taught him how to use mobile phone also, albeit a crash course.

All the credit used up? Maybe. It's only just Sunday that it was topped up (although with just a $6 credit), but he said he won't have a lot of phone calls to make anyway!
Maybe cheapthrill caused him to make a few more calls.
$6 credit can be easily used up actually.

Then went back again to take a look around 10pm. Still not home.
Sigh.

Have to report police soon.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Time Management - Randy Pausch

A few months ago, I posted a blog entry about "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch.
And a few weeks ago, as I was trying to help my nephew Benjamin check his computer problem, he told me he bought the book, and that Randy Pausch had passed away in July 2008.

One thing is that, I would probably get the book from him to have a read.

As I was trying to search for some time management stuff on internet, his name appeared on some of the search result, and I took some looks at some of the sites.

Here's a 76-minute video on Time Management by Randy Pausch.
See if this video can be of any help to check on your own personal time management.

Alamak! I have no time to finish watching it! hehehe

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Radish Cake & Chocolate

Today woke up pretty early, at 7am. Early for non-working day. Probably due to sleeping early the day before. Slept at 11pm yesterday night, partly because of the anti-histamine which I took as well, to curb my running nose.

Anyway, so early wake up also do nothing, so just read newspaper. By then, it's like 9am already.

Switch on TV to watch the new Free-ti-air channel Okto.
Nothing interesting to me, except it shows "The Three Investigators". It's the detective series fiction by Alfred Hitchcock, and it's the kind which I read when I was in my late primary levels.
Just a little refreshing to watch a bit of the stuff on TV.
Didn't really finish watching. hehehe

Went out to buy some electrical wire for our salt lamp.

After lunch, went over to visit my mother. Alas, she went out! I was supposed to go there to get some stuff for my father anyway. So took the stuff, and off I go to the old home, where the old man is.

Passed him the stuff, and more importantly, the mobile phone for use. Have to teach him a bit on how to use it, you know. Suaku is mountain tortoise. :D

Then clean up the toilet a little for him, somehow, it was a little dirty at that time.

Then went for a little walk, and back home to rest a bit.

Then as we watched TV, they shown something about popiah, at Coronation Plaza. Then I said, let's go! And off we go.
Damn lucky too, "My Cosy Corner" is closed. And they don't sell popiah on Sundays too! Since travelled that far, decided to switch to Sunset Way, to get the nice nice radish cake.
Didn't take picture of it, yet.

This time ok. The shop is opened, and they still have radish cake! So we bought 1. It's not cheap ok! But it's nice. We ate before.
While there, they sell cakes as well. We decided to have 1 single slice of "Best Ever Chocolate". Yum! Yum!


By then, it's like 6pm already, so headed way back home. On the way back, stopped by at Far East Flora, as the 花痴 wanted to buy some flowers to put at her office desk.
花痴? Who? Don't ask me! :)

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Villa Marina

Yesterday, after work, went to Villa Marina.

Karinna's colleagues have some sort of 'pre-Deepavali' celebration at one of the colleagues' home at Villa Marina.
Thus, it's Indian food catering! :D

First of all, the place is nice. The pool looks great!
Then the food is good. Probably not cheap, since it's about $17 per head for the food catering. You have nasi bryani, tandoori, naan, mutton curry blahblahblah.
All tasted pretty good actually.

Actually it is more of have the colleagues mingling around with each other, building rapport etc etc. Some of them brought their kids along as well. Not many, just less than 10 kids actually.

Food lasted around 9pm+, then it was adjourned to the Karaoke room. Since it is not a single race group, so all choose only English songs. And due to the age group, the songs are not so new songs. hehehe
ABBA, BeeGees, BarryManilow. My goodness! Oldies, but goodies.
I sang one song. This song. :D

Then the Indians had a special session. They did some indian dance! hehehe
Kinda cute.

It was around 1130hrs that we left, and gave her colleauge and his family a ride back home.
Tired.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Noise?

Sigh.

It wasn't my intention to put music background for the previous posting of the slides. Didn't even know it was there.

I am not sure how it got in, maybe it was defaulted to have the music in there, and I didn't notice.

Somehow, when web pages play music without my 'consent', I didn't really like the idea. No wonder I always keep my computer volume to super low all the time.

I have to admit though, that many years ago, when I created my own website, putting background music in there is a novel idea.
Now I think, such novelistic stuff disappears as age goes up. hehehe

Well, that's a few more post before the music goes off from this blog. Before that, catch the funny face before it disappears from the first page of this blog!
*giggle*

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Matthew's Birthday

Today is Matthew's birthday celebration. Actually, the actual date is tomorrow, 13 Oct, but of course, the earlier Sunday would be a better choice for celebration.

So we went there around 1pm, the earliest to be there. The rest of the people roll in slowly, his friends and my other siblings etc.

Most of the pictures I didn't take with flash on, so it didn't turn out well. Anyway, I'm not into photography, so sue me! :D


Then we went back around 4pm, coz' my mother-in-law was tired. Need to rest a little bit.

The saga continues, not for birthday-related stuff, but for settling the troublesome old folk of mine.
Don't really want to write much on that now, stop reading. hehehe

Friday, October 10, 2008

PSP

Today, after settling the electricity and water supply at Bedok home, I went to collect gift redemption from NTUC Income at Bras Basah.

It is a promotional gift for purchasing Vivolife Insurance. Anyway, that should be the last time I get any more insurance plan. No $$$ already!

So here it is, the Slim and Lite PSP from Sony, courtesy of NTUC Income.

Actually, I had wanted to give to my nephew Eugene, but he rejected!
How cool huh?!??!?!

What am I supposed to do with this PSP then? Hmmmmmmmmm

Old Home

Right now, I am back at my old home, my old Bedok home.
Yes, it is still our property, although we have not lived here for a long time, at least for me.

This is the living hall, quite empty now, but somehow, already has bags of useless stuff inside there. I checked earlier, they were my brother's files from his NTU days. Not sure why it ended up here though.
This is also the place I slept when I was young, at least until my army time for what I can remember. I slept just outside the main door. I am the 看门狗.

This is the kitchen. It was renovated once when we stayed there, at least the floor tiles looked newer than the living room's.

Next, the master bedroom.

This is the other bedroom, where my other siblings shared. My grandmother used to sleep in this room too. Not sure how they all squeezed in the room, guessed all were pretty petite and small size back then huh?

This is actually an extension of the living room. Our unit here is supposed to be like 2-Bedroom, '2'-LivingRoom like that. So this is the extension. This is also the place where I upgraded my sleeping area. Slept here after my army I think. :P

So there it is, my old home.

I am here today to wait for the electricity and water supply to be re-connected for use. Have to get this done in order for my dad to stay here.
Well, that's another problem which has to be handled.

Monday, October 6, 2008

小甜甜

Taiwan politics is damn funny.
I found this on the internet.
To all the people who live their childhood in the late 70s, this will sound familiar.


Of course, the original is like this:

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Wines

While we were at Suntec before watching the concert, we walked around and bumped into Wine Fair at Carrefour.

Went in kaypoh kaypoh, taste a bit here and there, and in the end, bought 4 bottles of wine.
2 Moscato, 1 Ice Wine, and 1 Riesling.
There's a free gift of 3 Crystal Glasses when purchase is over $99!
We supposed to have it, but they run out of stock, and requested that we go down again in next few days to collect.

Since we're done earlier today, we went back to Suntec to collect the free gift, and had simple dinner at the same time.
Somehow, Karinna had already in her mind wanted to get a few more bottles. In the end, another 3 bottles of wines were bought.
1 Ice Wine, 1 Riesling, and 1 Chianti Classico.

All in all, total 7 bottles over yesterday and today. Here's the 7 bottles.
Snow White and the Seven Bottles, minus the Snow White. *puke*

In the centre is the Chianti Classico. The two by its sides are the Ice Wines, then followed by Rieslings, and then Moscato.

Cool right? :) Want a sip?
This is the Moscato, sweet dessert wine. Should be easy to go with anything, coz it's sweet! Just like me! We just opened one bottle to drink. Still have quite many glasses of it in the fridge!

Next, the Riesling, some sort of dessert wine with a touch of white. Not exactly my kind, but ok.

Sweet Sweet! That's Ice Wine! :) Cannot go very wrong with that.

Finally, a red wine, Chianti Classico. I know nuts, just drink. Supposed to be good!

After the 7 bottles appeared in my car, about $239 disappeared from my pocket.
The magic of wines ... ... ...

Funny Faces

Because while waiting for the cars to clear and get out of Suntec yesterday (after watching concert), Karinna was too bored and decided to take some pictures.


Please! Laugh at her! Ha ha ha!

天长地久演唱会

昨天, 和老婆去看演唱会。 天长地久演唱会。
地点在新达城六楼。时间八点正。

我们大概是六点钟抵达那儿。随后吃了些晚餐,再逛一下街,买了点酒,就差不多是进场的时间了。
没有爆满,但还是挺多人的。

我们坐在后排位置,大约离舞台有一百米吧。当然不能仔细看到艺人们的脸,只能靠大荧幕了。
听歌就没问题了!都是唱将!

台湾歌手赵咏华、伍思凯、千百惠、孟庭苇、潘美辰和本地歌手黎沸挥。

首先出场的是黎沸挥。 他唱最少,两首而已。其余的歌手有五,六首歌吧。
接着是孟庭苇, 还是那么的有气质。跟她习佛有关?
再来是赵咏华。 她最活泼乱跳的, 而且会带动气氛。很好!
后来就排到千百惠了。这个也许是多数人最陌生的名字, 不过我认识!
然后是潘美辰了。还是一样的帅气形象。舞台魅力很棒!
最后是伍思凯, 非常好。 气氛十足,魅力十足,唱功十足。一级棒!

唱着唱着,已经十一点多了。演唱会结束了。奇怪的是,没人留下来喊“安歌”!
年纪大了,都该回家睡觉了。嘻嘻。

因为太远太暗了,拍到相当乌漆麻黑的,也没啥好拍的。看看吧!