Another 1 of my super boh leow conversation

Alvin- Awesomeness says:
eh she want u to buy car with her
?????? says:
err...
?????? says:
i think i got no $ for 1907 model lancer leh
?????? says:
should be very x! cuz so old leow
@@c_gal~running........ says:
wei
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
oh wait... ya lor.. like 102 years liao
?????? says:
yar lor
?????? says:
so old. muz be worth a lot of $
?????? says:
u tink it runs on normal petrol or coal?
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
maybe msia will claim it's their car
?????? says:
but malaysia invented car mah
?????? says:
they oso invented shit
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
haha...　
?????? says:
so i think they can claim all our shits all theirs
@@c_gal~running........ says:
wa lao
@@c_gal~running........ says:
u all hor
@@c_gal~running........ says:
v evil
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
eh i gtg do work.. so cindy asking u to go with her buy second hand car
?????? says:
but hor cindy, u buy the 1902 car leow is bery mafun de
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
my friend bought a toyota starlet 92 left 2 years for 6k
?????? says:
i think no spare part leow & not easy to buy coal nowadays
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
i hear that one wont die one. nuclear holocaust also will survive kind
@@c_gal~running........ says:
sai la
?????? says:
haha. so u tink nxt time we shit muz pay boh?
?????? says:
check with ur malaysian wife leh alvin
?????? says:
wat's e levy? cuz too x then i try not to shit so much leow
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
er.. but they lowering the maid levy for indonesia
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
think they want to claim that maids originate from msia liao
@@c_gal~running........ says:
tts v hard for u lo.. u r so full o shit
?????? says:
u so lucky! got malaysian wife originated from malaysia
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
ya lor.. she can cook hainanese chicken rice, laksa, and chilli crab
?????? says:
so u tink 2morow malaysia will come to sillypore & claim back all e malaysian wifes boh?
?????? says:
so heng lor u!
?????? says:
so remember to check with ur wife on the shit levy ok?
?????? says:
& tis discussion is so boh leow. i got to post it in my blog leow
@@c_gal~running........ says:
both of u r so full of shit ley
@@c_gal~running........ says:
pls thr is no discussion lo.. is only u talkin lo
?????? says:
i tinkn nxt time i grow old i can publish a book on sibei boh leow, yet interesting & sibei smart conversation by me. hahahahahaha
@@c_gal~running........ says:
n hor ur shit levy is most exp coz u r so full of shit... u better go take up part time job
?????? says:
but at least i know 07 lancer is made in 2007 & not ask Q like how old is ur lancer huh? hahahahaha
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
ok.. checked. 1kg levy 50rm.. but if u pay the person weighing it 20rm can liao
?????? says:
i mean how old is ur 2007 lancer huh? hahahaha
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
fuck leh ck..
?????? says:
my dad malaysian got discount boh?
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
so he can cook chilli crab ah
?????? says:
if got then can i claim all shit in my famili from him alone?
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
ok u're ignored liao
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
cindy when u intending to get car
@@c_gal~running........ says:
i nv see properly can anot
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
go sg carmart look see lor
?????? says:
can. he oso can cook bak kut teh & chicken lice
@@c_gal~running........ says:
u ppl so mean ley
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
go ur house eat bahkutteh leh
?????? says:
onli ur wife can come. we onli welcome malaysian
@@c_gal~running........ says:
i love bak ku teh
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
and when u getting more otah
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
cb
?????? says:
cuz they r the smartest ting on earth. they invented so many tings
?????? says:
u tink if i give up my sillypore citizenship & becum malaysian then i will becum smarter boh?
?????? says:
then i can invent someting or i can juz claim a lot of tings r invented by me?
?????? says:
& cindy, dun be so evil leh! eat bak ku teh later eat ur relatives by accident how!
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
nahbeh u really verbal diarrhoea leh
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
ha
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
marcus jio sprint thurs
?????? says:
thurs? thought we going to the gym leow?
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
before gym
?????? says:
ok. wat time?
?????? says:
630 at tpy?
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
think so
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
k la gtg
?????? says:
bye. ok. let me noe
@@c_gal~running........ says:
i nt scare
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
all the best for ur car shopping cindy
@@c_gal~running........ says:
coz all r ur relatives
?????? says:
y u say these kind of mean tings abt alvin!
@@c_gal~running........ says:
hai alvin is nicer.. though he is oso v evil for tellin u
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
and go watch super junior 'sorry sorry'
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
haha
?????? says:
i going to watch rtm 2
?????? says:
i want to invent things oso
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
fuck off
Alvin- Awesomeness says:
night asses
@@c_gal~running........ says:
haha
@@c_gal~running........ says:
watch ntv7
?????? says:
i cannot belive it. alvin wants to F cindy!!!
@@c_gal~running........ says:
sai la
?????? says:
he said it leh
?????? says:
neber noe he oso like pork. hehe
@@c_gal~running........ says:
he likes u ok.
@@c_gal~running........ says:
u 2 gays
?????? says:
i am not but i cannot stop pple from loving me lor
?????? says:
cuz i am so lovable. hahahahahahaha
@@c_gal~running........ says:
*puke*
?????? says:
dun jealous leh!
?????? says:
at least alvin likes to eat pork mah
@@c_gal~running........ says:
wa... i need to be jealous of u meh
@@c_gal~running........ says:
n no lo... alvin likes mutton
?????? says:
tat is quite true oso
?????? says:
u r more like a pig than a goat
?????? says:
my mistake
?????? says:
haha
@@c_gal~running........ says:
pls go n die
?????? says:
i tried but hell too packed leow. hahaha
@@c_gal~running........ says:
dun blur
@@c_gal~running........ says:
u haven try hard enuff
?????? says:
i swear i did but they told me u r going soon leow & after you there is no more space in hell leow. hahahahahahahaha
@@c_gal~running........ says:
aiya... den u can go 1st lo
@@c_gal~running........ says:
coz i think i sure live longer than u one
@@c_gal~running........ says:
hahaha
?????? says:
think they prefer bbq pork leh. hehe

　

Evian Roller Babies

Breakdancing baby Yamakasi. I just had to post this ad. It's beyond cute (though creepy to some). Wish Lackie could master 1/10 of these tykes' seamless little feats. :p

Another boh leow conversation

?????? says:
& dun be so jealous leh
?????? says:
l oso neber look down on u for using cheapo faceshop product leh
Alvin- Sisley for sissies says:
er... pls lor
Alvin- Sisley for sissies says:
nivea is like the best lor
?????? says:
although u can tell it is not working cuz u still look like fuck mah
?????? says:
while i look like lee hsien loong now lor
Alvin- Sisley for sissies says:
lam pa lor
?????? says:
ur black head r so big tat i thought u got 2 nose lor. hahahaha
Alvin- Sisley for sissies says:
cannot be lor
Alvin- Sisley for sissies says:
cos the seaweed thing is very branded lor
Alvin- Sisley for sissies says:
from korea leh
?????? says:
hahahaha. korea is the poor man's japan
?????? says:
korean bery happy to be mistaken as jap but not the other way rd lor. hahahahahahaha
Alvin- Sisley for sissies says:
so where is sisley frm
Alvin- Sisley for sissies says:
bring tmr leh so i can show u how to maximise its effects
?????? says:
err... i tink it is Krypton but my cousin says it is from france lor
?????? says:
err... my cousin says it dun work on pigs de leh. hahahahaha
?????? says:
so i tink u better stick to ur 2 nose blackhead

Sunday Dragons 1st trophy

We have finally won someting in a major tournament. We came in 3rd in the Minor Final for the inter business & club open. I am not extremly happy cuz I noe we can do better but yet we chose not to. I feel this 3rd place in a Minor Final is just a reminder that we are not good enough to make the Grand final. Haha.

Alvin is right to say this is the best the team can do at the kind of effort they are willing to put in so I cannot expect more. The pig is also right when he said that we are now behind PLK although we started ard the same time. We used to be better than them but they are now ahead of us leow. Our aim should be to beat PLK 1st before we can dream on taking on the bigger teams. ZY commented we can still improve & we juz need to lose some weight & improve on our strength. Err... of cuz we noe that lah. We also noe if we train more then we should get better results. We put in more then we up our chances of better returns but noeing & doing are 2 different tings ba. Haha.

Overall I am still glad we did better & improve on our past results, especially the gals. They also got into a Minor Final in the Gals Open. Really fantastic effort! Really happy for them & I expect better results from them if they are willing to put in more which I noe they are capable of & willing to.

Feeling really tired after this race. Dun noe why? Wonder whether it is the age or realilty bites??? hahaha

Alvin is GAY!!!

Alvin- Swine says:
eh.. if i use blackhead remover cream, then after that must use toner?
?????? says:
err... how e fuck i noe?
?????? says:
my cousin said yes
?????? says:
my cousin was tinking which gal asked me tis q. hahahaha
Alvin- Swine says:
er...
Alvin- Swine says:
pls lor
Alvin- Swine says:
guys also got blackhead one leh
Alvin- Swine says:
she got use greentea blackhead cream from face shop before?
?????? says:
but where got guys use toner de?
Alvin- Swine says:
but must close the pores right? so must use toner?　
?????? says:
she said yar
Alvin- Swine says:
if not bacteria and dirt will collect and cos a pimple right?
?????? says:
but she said face shop stuff is for cheapskate. hahahahaha
Alvin- Swine says:
nahbeh
?????? says:
someting like tat. hahahaha
Alvin- Swine says:
how to use that one ah?
Alvin- Swine says:
the greentea one
Alvin- Swine says:
is it just apply on nose and wash off? or must wait?
Alvin- Swine says:
cos dunno how it removes the blackhead
?????? says:
u muz let it dry on ur nose then u peel off
?????? says:
u idiot!!!
?????? says:
& my cousin said sk2 is e bestest
Alvin- Swine says:
how to peel off? it doesn't peel leh
Alvin- Swine says:
rub off can la... but doesn't peel like pore pack kind
?????? says:
my cousin is really sad tat some of my fres can't read
Alvin- Swine says:
i not sammi cheng leh
Alvin- Swine says:
er... it's in korean
Alvin- Swine says:
the back
?????? says:
hahahahaha. then who u bought it from?
Alvin- Swine says:
if i noe korean i won't be stuck with msian liao
Alvin- Swine says:
someone come to sch and sell
Alvin- Swine says:
so i pretend to buy for shuwen for myself lor
?????? says:
true oso. my cousin said it is either peel off or rub off
Alvin- Swine says:
ok.. actually if u save this conversation it's more gay lor
?????? says:
i am going to post it on my blog leow

A friend in his food

Look what my BIL found in the sambal on his plate last night?


I can't help but shudder just looking at the pic and imagine leh, it could've been chewed and swallowed if undiscovered. Ew ew ew EW!!!

With the hoo-ha surrounding the food poisoning deaths of late, I don't think the authorities are going to go easy on this one when we report it. It's one thing to know at the back of your head that food prepared outside of home is never hygienic, but it's quite another to actually see a bloody cockroach in your food.

BIL was furious and started kicking up a ruckus with the stall owner. "Is this how you run your stall? What happens if I had eaten this? You're history if I report you!" To which, the boss apologized and offered the excuse that someone had not covered the pot of chili properly the night before. Uhh, excuse me, our problem izzit?

The best part was after we showed them the offensive cockroach, they did not even bother to remove the contaminated pot of chili. It was still sitting there waiting for some hapless patron to scoop, eat and die of food poisoning. Redemption FAIL.

They offered to waive the rice off the bill, and we were like WTF lor. So buay sui. Want to waive, waive the whole goddamn bill or don't even bother. Damage control FAIL. First thing to shut a patron's mouth after such a damning thing has occurred is to waive the entire bill. Not that we would've taken it, cuz we have that much integrity, and we would still report this case anyway to save others from the terrible fate of munching on cockroaches.

Anyway, if you look closely at the pic, the cockroach is missing half its body. BIL was convinced the other half was already swimming in his stomach. Ew ew ew EW!!!!!!!!!! I had a roiling tummy and diarrhoea after that dreadful meal. Nevermind that I suffer from occasional bouts of diarrhoea. I am convinced it was the cockroach that brought it on.

Lackie, being the evil little cow that she is, was damn happy her dad ate a cockroach. Kept gloating and gleefully shrieking, "My daddy ate a cockroach! Hahahahahaa! Daddy loves to eat cockroaches!" Faint.

Babi's 32nd Bird Day

My smerri babi turned 32 today. And he was not a pleased moorwen. Kept lamenting about what an old man he's become. "Embrace your old age with grace." I told him. "Welcome to another day closer to the grave." Morbid lah, I know. But that's the way we talk to one other. Hey, whatever keeps our marriage afloat. :p

For the emperor's big day, I conspired with my MIL to surprise him with a homemade birthday cake. I put two and two together and came up with the bright idea to make sweet potato huat kway. Since MIL is so into her huat kway-making phase now and my babi is a such huge fan of sweet potato, well, you get my drift lah.

TA-DAAH!! Presenting my babi's birthday cake (completely unfindable anywhere else)...


It was supposed to be a surprise and I already pakat with MIL and FIL to keep it hush-hush so that we could present it to him, birthday candle and all. But big-mouth BIL had to blow the secret by announcing to my babi the minute he flounced in through the front door. "Aye, they made birthday cake for you leh." *slaps forehead* DUH!

Birthday presents. Who can do without them? No one, that's who. Despite my babi's violent protests that no pressies were required, blah blah, I could just tell that he did not mean one word of it. Like any other pressie-hungering moorwen, he was just gagging for me to bestow upon him an awe-inspiring gift that would prove just how deep my love for him is. Kekekekeke! After all, why would anyone keep hinting a month before his birthday..."Aye, don't buy for me anything ah. Really leh, I don't need anything." Ingenious. LOL!

I mean, seriously, can you say no when your hubby makes this face at you...


....while standing in the midst of some very fine watches at Dickson? Ok ok, so I caved in to my babi's sad puppy eyes and dropped some serious dough on his birthday pressie. I mean, can any softhearted woman say no to a face like this? I think not lor.

So I whipped out my plastic and handed it over for Babi's much-lemmed-for BALL watch. Akan datang for a pic on this bank-breaking investment. It's ok...all I have to do is eat giam pia and grass for remaining months of 2009. About time I went on a diet anyway. Besides, anything for my moorwen is worth it. :p

Finisher of 42km

Got the cert. 1 strike off my list & many more to go. Timing sucks!

She is ready to accept Christ

Yesterday was Day 2 of Chinese New Year and we were all gathered at my aunt's place for the usual festivities. Halfway through the nicest lunch I've eaten there in nine years (ayam buah keluah!!!), a family arrived for visitation. They were introduced as the family of my mom's cousin (he is a pastor). I feel a need to mention that because I have a pretty low tolerance for Hallelujahs and their kind.

The young stranger that came with them sat down with my 92-year old quadriplegic Ah Ma, held her hands, looked deeply and earnestly into her eyes for a good half an hour. Even then, it didn't once occur to cynical old me that he was brainwashing her; it just struck me as odd that someone would display such keen interest in an immobile nonagenarian. Apparently this Brylcreemed-to-death tub of lard was my mom's cousin's daughter's boyfriend (this would be the first time we were meeting him).

So there I was, seated at the dinner table, licking inky buah keluah off my fingers and partaking in a lively conversation with my dad about internet TV. Suddenly, Mr Brylcreem stood up and grandly announced to my aunt in the presence of all, "I have spoken to your mom. She is ready to accept Christ." Jesus, all that was missing were the trumpets that heralded his announcement.

KNN, all conversation immediately ground to an abrupt and stunned halt. You could almost go around scooping everyone's jaws off their laps. I think I may have squirted buah keluah out of my nostrils from being subjected to such trauma. My aunt (who is herself a Christian) recovered her composure and firmly told him, "I don't think so. My mom is senile and barely knows what she's saying. Five minutes later, she will forget she even said that."

Mind you hor, my Ah Ma has been a staunchly pious Taoist devout her entire life, until stroke rendered her a near-vegetable and senility ravaged her lao tao nao. When she was mobile, she would worship and pray to every Taoist deity until the cows came home. How dare this pompous s.o.b. guest of a guest presume to practice his brand of Christian fanaticism in my aunt's home! We were, of course, too polite to tell the jackass off to his face, but the bombarding came fast and furious after his group left.

My dad (he's agnostic) was especially tulan, ranting, "It's precisely the predatory behavior of fanatics like these that besmirch the good name of Christianity! He was preying on Grandma's fears to manipulate her into converting." Everyone agreed that it wasn't right. If and when any one of us decides to embrace religion, we know exactly where and who to turn to without being told.

I know it's irrational to be tulan with my Ah Ma, given her pitiful circumstances, but I am. She is actually entertaining thoughts of converting this late in life because she felt that Taoism let her down. What the fuck?? I cannot tahan simpleton mentality like this lor. Her sense of entitlement where religion is concerned is astounding. To her 简单头脑, religion is an investment that should and must reap rich rewards and earn her a rightful place in Heaven *major eyeball rolling*. The fact that she's been supposedly pious her whole life and still winds up in the state that she is today...her puny mind just cannot compute how and why. Frankly I'm quite disgusted that she banked in religion for her own selfish agenda. Not to sound harsh or mean, but what distinguishes her from the suicide bombers? Both are fanatics (albeit in different degrees) in pursuit of a common ultimate goal...to get their asses through the Pearly Gates.

If you're guessing that I'm not too fond of Ah Ma, you're right. I've never liked her attitude towards religion and how she's always imposed on her loved ones, bossing them around like they're chess pieces on a board. It's a known fact that the Nonyas are very much a matriarchal society, and until her physical downfall, she'd always ruled her family with an iron fist. She refused to let my mom pursue her dream of flying because "air-stewardesses are sluts who sleep with pilots." *peng san* She was damn heng to have my mom as her daughter lor, everything also "yes, Ah Mak". Because if she kena me as her daughter, I sure aspire to be a bargirl and marry a Hokkien butcher just to spite her.

As for whether or not she should convert to Christianity, there's a time and place for such solemnities to be decided/executed. During a CNY visitation with an unfamiliar household isn't one of them lor. I liken these sanctimonious preachers to demons who should be cast out of homes, minds and bodies. So there!

Schwimming schwimming

Haro everyone, it's been so long since I posted something on Ah Pek and Ah Um's blog. I hope you didn't miss me too much...hehe. I've been busy throwing tantrums and generally making a nuisance of myself (e.g., like insisting on wearing my Princess dress when it's still hanging out to dry and going absolutely psycho when told that I can't). But last Sunday's schwimming schwimming was so fun I have to blog about it.

You know hor, kids like me are so gian to go gai gai I will lie just to go out. Actually I woke up with some kinda tummy bug on Saturday liao. I had totally no appetite, which was not only weird to Ah Pek and Ah Um, but a freaking anomaly lor. If there's one thing I'm never without, it's my appetite to mum mum. I thought it was strange myself when my favorite McDonald's kiddy breakfast failed to make me lao nua. I mean, not only did I not lao nua, there was actually no nua to lao. The sight of my favorite pancakes make me nauseous. But you know what, I'd much rather be whupped than admit I'm sick lor. Pass up my chance to go schwimming schwimming? Neber!

So I pasted on my bravest face and decided the show must die die go on. Tell me if I don't look to-die-for cute in my pink swimsuit? I think I do lor. Absolutely like bak zhang hor? Now imagine me in an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny yellow polka-dot bikini. Hullllooooo....take a queue at the back of the mile-long line if you're thinking of adopting me. Me not shui bian wun lor. However, I will consider going home with you if you hand over that packet of chocolate Pocky. Keke.

Anyway, it was an early rise-and-shine. Ah Pek burst into the room and woke us all up in his usual bright and cheery manner that I sooo adore. I was sleepy as hell, but upon hearing that we were going schwimming schwimming, I flew out of bed in a hurry. Damn if I'm going to be left behind lor. After an unappetizing McDonald's brekkie which I forced myself to swallow a few pieces of pancake (entirely for Ah Pek and Ah Um's benefit, lest they think I'm too sick and cancel schwimming schwimming...horrors!), we headed for the new Sengkang Swimming Complex. Yipppeeeee!!!

Me and my favorite person in the whole wide world. Me and Ah Pek are like sooo tight lor. No one can break our bond. How much do I love Ah Pek? Hmmm, let me count thee ways...
1) I love Ah Pek for bringing me go gai gai every weekend, no matter how tired he is.
2) I love Ah Pek for buying me Yakult every time.
3) I love Ah Pek for feeding me Pocky every time.
4) I love Ah Pek for bringing me to McDonald's for brekkie and my favorite French fries.
5) I love Ah Pek for the expensive Baby Gap clothes that he buys me.
6) I love Ah Pek for bringing me to the movies and for the huge tubs of popcorn and giant Cokes for me to slurp on. Sorry I fell asleep at Wall.E...it was too chim for my puny head to comprehend.
7) I love Ah Pek because he spoils me silly and entertains me all the time, even when I demand he accompany me watch Doraemon and Barney for like the 10,000th time.
8) I love Ah Pek because he cheers me up and makes me laugh.
9) I love Ah Pek because he never says no to me.
10) I love Ah Pek because he bring me go schwimming schwimming.
11) I love Ah Pek because he is my one and only Ah Pek. :)
12) Oh yeah, I definitely love Ah Pek because he orders Ah Um to make Ribena for me. Ah Um is damn lousy. She is like sooo lazy she can't even run a simple errand for me lor *rolls eyeballs*.

Ah Pek lancing lancing wif me in the jacuzzi. Bet Ah Um is jealous lor. I mean, Ah Pek never even lancing lancing wif her. Ne ni ne ni boo boo to her lor. I have Ah Pek all to myself.

Ah Pek and I doing our NZ Samoan warrior thing. Ah Pek can give Gene Simmons a run for his money, but not me lor. All I have is a short, under-developed stump of a tongue. Neber mind, at least I gave it my best shot. I always have lots of fun making funny faces and posing wif Ah Pek.

Nabeh, I want to go that way; Ah Pek wants to go this way. I dun care! I die die must have my way, otherwise I will kao peh until the whole schwimming structure collapses. That's just the way it's gonna be. My way or the high way.

In case you haven't noticed, I happen to be Ah Pek's favorite arm ornament. He has me on his arm everywhere we go. Who ask me to be born so to-die-for cute leh? Boh pian. Ah Pek simply cannot resist the urge to pick me up and swing me to the skies. Weeeeeeeeee!!!

That's Ah Pek hitting the water feet up, making quite a splash there. Whooshing down the yellow and blue slides respectively are my cousins, Peixian and Peiyi. Nabeh, win liao lor! Everyone had tons of fun playing with the slides except me. Just cuz I'm little, the lifeguards see me no up and refused me access to the slides. Bloody spoiler! I was so furious I sulked and threw a hissy fit in public. How dare they!!

The first time Ah Pek and Ah Um took me schwimming schwimming at Tampines Swimming Complex. I was a chicken shit and didn't dare take the water slide by myself. After riding pillion a few times on their thighs, I decided to give it a go. Not so difficult after all. Now that I know how to slide on my own, I how lian yaya papaya and refuse to stick to Ah Pek and Ah Um liao...everything must do by myself. I'm an independent woman in the making ok...mai pray pray hor!

Anyway, Sunday's schwimming schwimming ended wif me lao sai in my pants (told you I had a bad tummy when I woke up). Orh-be-good...Ah Um was ordered by Ah Pek to clean me up. Not only she had to clean me up *sticks out tongue at Ah Um*, I earned myself a gorgeous new dress becuz I couldn't very well walk around wif shit in my pants, could I? Wooo hooo!

My take on Sunday Dragons

Had a discussion online last nite with Kennix & XP on the team. XP insisted that we are too -ve and it has affected the morale of the team. She can't understand why we set standard 'so high' and who did we base it on. Is the team consulted? And are we fair to the team when they failed to reach the standard set by just a few of us? She also claimed that the team feels louzy and pressurised to go for training as not all enjoys training.

I agree with her to a certain extent, but my Q is what the direction of the team is? Do we want to compete? When we race, do we want get whacked or do we want to be united as a team and put up one helluva fight? If we do not mind getting whacked all the time, I agree our training is too tough and we got to relax. If we want to see results, then we got to train hard. There is simply no other way to achieve results. XP commented on how -ve we are & why we can’t look at the +ve side of things. Instead of showing our disappointment that onli 3 turned up for training, we should be happy that there are 3 and look forward to more. Haha. That I can't agree with as db is a team sport and every1 needs to have a common goal. Every1 should try to work towards it hand in hand de mah. It is not that we do not want to encourage the team or look at the +ve pts, but the truth is there is not much +vity displayed by the team at all. I really dun understand the pt of saying 'well done!' when it is really crappy lor. It might sound lame, but before pple start complaining; maybe they should reflect on what they have done for the team instead of asking what the team can do for them.

I have to clarify that the committee is not the 1 that sets the standard of how fit or how hard 1 should train. The standard is set by the rowing community who is competing in the same sport as us. The team indicated that they would like to do better for future races after the June race and that is the onli way to do it. Work hard, put in more effort instead of complaining & living in your own world. The team wants to be better without effort. How can that be possible??? I am really tired and sian leow. I think this will most probably be Sunday Dragons’ last race if we are competing in the Regatta.

Reality Bites

The onli reason I am blogging on the 2nd day of the Dragon Boat Festival was due to the fact that the 2 day event turned out to be a single day event for us. Did not make the semis for any of the events we took part. Failed miserably to reach our targets. This 800m competition proves to be a reality check for the team; I hope. We lack the endurance, strength & technique to compete with the REAL competitive teams. We were always neck to neck with the rest of the fields till the 600m mark. While the rest are ready to charge, we began to slow down. Haha. The last 200m is wat differentiates a good team from the leisure one.

I was really glad to see Xiao Pang so disappointed cuz it means she wants to be better. She was telling me tat she is also sian cuz she dun feel every1 is as disappointed as her. Haha. Told her it is their 1st race & now they noe the standard of the competitive teams so it is up to them how they want their future races to go. Win, lose by boat length or lose by no. of buoys?

The guys did ok but still not good enough. Not enough power to pull away while we were leading & not enough endurance to last the race. The truth is the better teams trained way harder than we did & they totally deserve to kick our ass. Really glad this race provides a reality check for the team. How well we want to do really depend on ourselves. No doubt we have fun during races but is the way we want the club to continue???

Training & S'pore Dragon Boat Festival

The last land training saw a great turnout of 5 pax. No point carrying on so it will be the last land training organized by me. Guess I was expecting & hoping too much. Every1's commitment & priority is different. So sian sometimes. Haha. Starting to feel the sport is not as fun as it use to be leow. Alvin was telling me today abt retaining the good rowers but I told him it be hard cuz sooner than later pple who put in more will want to see results. Seriously dun tink the team can keep pace with some of the better rowers. The pig keeps telling me how badly he wishes to win something for all the efforts he put in & how enjoyable & fun it is to row with pple tat has the same objective & is willing to put in effort & commit. Can't really argue with him on tat so I guess it is pointless & not possible to ask him to stay with the team leow. I would also like to win something with this team but I guess it is juz not possible. This team is so fun to row with but so frustrating at times to train with. Wonder whether I should row with a more committed team for future competitions??? Hehe. But this team is so close to my heart that it is juz not possible to give it up oso. A lot of good pple & friends & we have so much fun training & toking cock. Haha.

We got quite an ok draw for the coming competition. Some of the better teams were lucky to avoid us in the Heat. Hahaha. Not expecting great results but praying for some miracle. Hehe. Told every1 our results will show the level of commitment we put in. Hope the team can manage their expectations. Looking forward to seeing the gals in action. Hope they can do well & make it past the Heat. Jia you & fly high! Sunday Dragons! Sa! Sa! Sa!

The Bestest Gift Ever!!!

Received 1 of the most wonderful & bestest gift from some of the nicest & coolest pple on the planet. Just want to say thank you, especially to Cass & Cacy for doing the bulk of the hard work. Thanks!!!

My luve luve relationship

There is nothing I luve more than training hard. Pain is good cuz u noe u r alive got to be 1 of the smartest ting tat came out of a man's mouth. Some pple might call me a slave driver but I juz luve to stretch my own limit & sometimes the limit of my fellow team mates. Hahaha. Totally luve the painful expression on their faces when they r pushing themselves.

Jokes aside, I am really pleased with the last circuit training conducted by the pig. Although not a lot of pple turned up but glad to see 12 ON rowers showed up on a public holiday & spent their whole morning pushing (mostly me & the pig) & motivating each other.

Cass kept saying I set bery high standard for them but tat is the onli way I noe tat we can be better. If some1 out there got a better suggestion on how we can be better with doing less, pls let me noe. Hehe. I always feel we can do more, train harder & be better. Hate it when pple tink they can be good juz by toking. But guess sometimes I expect too much from tis amateur team. Will try to slow down a bit. Errrr ... but who am I kidding!!! Not possible!!! We juz got & NEEED to train HARDER! Cass, look out for the next circuit training!

Who wants to live forever?

"Every day is my best day; this is my life. I'm not going to have this moment again." - Bernie Siegel


Babi looking lost and bewildered even though he's got enough grass to graze until he explodes.

My babi is the typical Aries character...perpetually discontented and wants more even when he's got everything going for him in life. Don't get me wrong here...I don't mean he's not thankful for what he's got...sure, he is, but somewhere deep in his complex, Arian soul, he feels this deep gnawing sensation that something is still missing.

Are rams genetically predisposed to Attention Deficit Disorder? I would like to think not, but...

I hate to attribute this to something as generic and flaky as astrology, but the coincidences are too magnificent to dismiss. Almost every Arian I know possesses this character quirk. They're all a bunch of fiery, passionate people who are lively, likeable go-getters. As a result of their likeability, they ascend very rapidly in life. They're easily ignitable and calm down just as quickly. I'm sorry to say this, but they've also got the attention span of a severely under-developed, under-nourished fly.

They get all excited and passionate over something, and go all out for it...but their fire dies just as quickly. Few things in life can hold their attention and interest for long. I can only conclude that Arians crave for variety in life, not so much of excitement. The mundanity of routine bores them stiff. They are individuals who bore easily, may it be with hobby, career or love life. They constantly crave for that elusive, often-unattainable something...but they're usually unable to put a finger on what exactly the missing piece of puzzle in their life is. So, like the typical ram that they are, they get bored and disillusioned.

Trust me, when a ram is sibeh sian...his entire surrounding resonates with his sentiment. Those near and dear can feel it like one can feel a ram charging at and goring at her with his horns.

For any thing to hold their attention, much less passion...that thing has to constantly evolve to keep them on their toes. Arians thrive best when something out of the ordinary (not even necessarily something major) happens (as seen in how the 3 little girls incident momentarily lifted Babi from his mood rut). The Arian will absolutely die a slow, tortuous death when they have to experience or deal with the same thing day in and day out, over and over again.

Babi has a healthy conscience, so he is likely to suppress what is bothering him until it eats him up inside. While I can understand where he's coming from, I don't see why life has to be about doing something or going places (by that I don't mean go jalan jalan hor). I'm an atypical Leo who finds comfort in familiarity and is perfectly happy nua-ing at home doing nothing day in and day out. Am I happy the way I am? You bet your sweet, ambitious ass I am.

I am digressing here, but I do want to air my humble two cents on life...

Who wrote The Book of Life that living has to be about the vibrance of constant action? Living is about being happy. If one is happy rotting in bed all day and that is what truly brings a smile to his face, then one is living. If one is scaling Mount Everest thinking to himself, "The things I do to make myself feel that I am living", then one is merely pretending to live.

Living isn't about getting somewhere in life. The only final destination we will all surely and eventually get to is death. All else in life is one long, turbulent process, some more turbulent than others. Why hasten the process when you can slowly savor what you're able to make of life (notice I don't say 'what life has to offer')? In my words, don't take life too seriously. If you're unhappy with the way you're living (notice I don't say 'your life'), then do something about it.

I know exactly what John Lennon meant when he said, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." Because that is exactly what is happening to most of us, whether or not we're aware. Life isn't for us lowly mortals to contemplate...it's for us to live and suffer through. It is, however, in our hands whether or not we're happy, as we head towards our collective, irrevocable fate.

While we're preoccupied thinking we should be doing this and that, we should've gotten here or there, comparing and complaining...life is passing us by because time waits for no man. Life doesn't revolve around what you need to know, it revolves around what you need to understand. So, while I'm waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, right now my futile existence alone is satisfactory.

"Some people live to be. I just live." Susie de la Chappelle

The meaning of life

I am sure all of us at different stages of our life will question wat is the true meaning of life? Things have been going well for me. I just got promoted (dun noe whether it is a good ting. hahaha), dragon boat team is doing well & almost everyting is going smooth but I just dun feel alive. Can't feel the excitement of life.

I encounter a really cute incident today that makes me feel alive again. After gym, I went to buy sushi as usual. I saw 3 little girls with $6 in their hand queuing up to pay for their meals. The cashier told them $6 is not enough as their bill came up to $6.95. Tink they saw the ad outside tat says $0.99 per plate of sushi. They ate 6 plates but forgot to calculate GST & service charge. Hehe. 1 of the little girl started to dig in her huge school bag for the additional $0.95. Guess they were a little nervous cuz there were quite a few of us at the cashier. Heard 1 of the little girl blaming her fre with someting like "I told u so it is not $6 lor". haha. In the end, I told the cashier that I will pay the $0.95 for them & asked them to stop digging. It was such a cute incident & the smiles on the children faces make me realise wat the meaning of life is all abt. Hehe.

Ah Pui's 拿手好菜

"I want to eat some more." My eyes widened in surprise as Babi reached over and pilfered some of my share.

This is, mind you, after his second large helping and a bowl of ice-cream.

"I thought you said you're already full." I watched him stuff another forkful of pasta into his mouth.

Chomp chomp chomp chomp, his molars worked wonderfully efficiently. "I am. But it's so yummy."

I must admit I derive no small amount of satisfaction watching Babi stuff his anorexic face with the pasta I cooked.

Usually Babi is damn plastic. When asked if he liked what I cooked, he would nod his head and perfunctorily pay lip service. "Yeah, I love it." And then take all of like three bites before retiring from the dinner table. Can tell he super 勉强, super 应酬 wun lor. Actions do speak louder than words where gastronomics are involved, as far as Babi is concerned. If he really loves the food, he'd go for seconds, thirds and still pinch some off my plate. He would stuff himself so full even Eno couldn't bring him salvation.

Then he would spend the rest of the night, miserably bloated and whining about his killer bout of indigestion. Haha, I certainly feel honored that my pasta was worth braving an evening of gut congestion for.

Can't really blame him for doubting my culinary skills also lah, having previously subjected him and my in-laws to the dining trauma of The Steak Tough Enough To Concuss T-Rex. That was some excellent shit.

If you like your meat about as chewy as unprocessed buffalo hide.

All post-T-Rex-Steak announcements that I was going to cook were met with pure, wet-the-pants-horror and open skepticism, until I redeemed myself with Deep-Fried Prawn Balls.

Suddenly I wasn't such a terrible cook after all.

This was my second attempt at cooking seafood mushroom pasta. Babi specifically requested for it. Until this dish came about, my so-called 拿手好菜 was deep-fried prawn balls (made from scratch and a Chee family recipe).

I had barely shut the door getting into the car when he suggested, "Aye, pui eh, how about you cook pasta for dinner tonight?" Har? I was exhausted, having just gotten off my 7am to 4pm shift. The prospect of having to toil in the kitchen when we got home didn't exactly appeal to me at that point.

But, I rationalized, Babi must really love my pasta to actually be requesting for it. So I decided I would do the right thing and 委屈 myself yet again. Besides, I'm not known as his 伟大 wife for nothing lor. :p

So off to Cold Storage we went...


Nothing but the freshest ingredients.

The sweating, peeling, chopping, dicing, boiling and frying finally yielded...

Seafood Mushroom Pasta Mark II.


The product of 1.5 hours of blood, sweat and near-lopped off fingers in the kitchen.


My baby up close and personal. Babi has already requested for this to be our future potluck contribution. ;)

The Singapore Flyer Accusation

"You went Singapore Flyer izzit?" Babi asked me first thing in the morning, his expression unreadable.

"Har?" I blinked at him, furiously rubbing crud from my eyes. If there's one thing I produce damn well, it's eye shit...copious amounts of it. I'm like Bak Sai Factory lor. At any given time there'll be crud caked at the inner corners of my eyes, hence my tendency to check every other minute. "What? When? Since when I go Singapore Flyer?"

"I saw the ticket." KNN, I actually saw the doubt in his eyes.

"What ticket? What the fuck I go Singapore Flyer for?" I wasn't very amused this time. KNN, I'm the person least keen to go for this fleece-tourist type of attraction lor. I'd rather pay $29.50 for a nice meal at Sushi Teh. But that's beside the point.

"Yesterday lor, you went Singapore Flyer, right? I thought you were at work?" Came the non-too-subtle accusation.

"Of course I was at work lah. Where's the ticket? Show me."

"On the TV table lor. If you didn't go, then who went?" Babi demanded to know.

"How I know? It wasn't me." The only culprit that popped up in mind was Babi's brother. Maybe he went and carelessly left his ticket stub on my TV table so that my husband could see it and accuse me, the idiot.

"Mi, who went Singapore Flyer yesterday ah?" Babi demanded of his mom, who was lounging on the sofa reading the papers.

His mom looked up, "Oh, papa lor. He went with his taxi kakis. You know cab drivers can get to go FOC wun?"

"Oh."

"KNN, want to accuse me!" I blustered. "See lah, mi, your son accuse me of going to Singapore Flyer and lying to him about it!"

"Har?" Went his mom. "How come leh?"

"Because I was supposed to be at work yesterday. He thought I lied to him and went Singapore Flyer instead!"

"Haiyo, you ah!" His mom turned and admonished. "This kind of person. Don't even trust your own wife!"

If Babi felt sheepish, he tried to hide it. "Aiya, ask only mah. What's wrong with asking?"

"Ask your kuku bird lor. You were accusing me!" I smacked him on the head.

"Ask! Next time get the facts right before you start accusing me! Accuse me again and you die!" I wagged a finger in his face.

"Yeah lah." His mom agreed. "Never ask start to anyhow guess liao. Haiyo, this papa oso lah. His kakis jio mah, so they went together. His company can get to go free still ok lah, otherwise pay $29.50 to go....yau kwee ah!" She then launched into her usual gahmen-out-to-cheat-us-taxpayers-of-our-hard-earned-money diatribe.

My good name cleared, I went back to sleep. Babi set off for work, relieved and probably feeling damn stupid for doubting the most wonderful wife on earth.

That evening I was still magnanimous enough to forgive his massive faux pas and cook him a nice pasta dinner. Babi claimed it was the most delicious I'd ever cooked. Haha, I wonder if he was still paiseh about his morning idiocy. :p

*choke* *sputter* *spew*

I am being poisoned. Toxified. Toxicated. Gassed. Surely, and not even slowly.

You see, I literally live with a skunk. Each time Babi lets off one of his silent but deadly killers, the stink wafts its way insidiously into my nostrils, assaulting my brain and massacring my senses. I am often left reeling from the catastrophic aftermath.

I am so chum lor...alone in this silent torment, resigned to a plight of kena olfactorily brutalized. Every single day some more.

His stinkbombs are sooooo bad they can wake me from the dead (I'm a bloody heavy sleeper lor). Satan himself would run screaming in the opposite direction should Babi pummel him with the fury of his farts.

They particularly stink to kingdom come when let off under the duvet, which Babi is damn fond of doing. Or I'd be stupid enough to be nua-ing somewhere in the line of fire, and he would let rip a blast right in my poor, unsuspecting face.

Waaaah laaaaan ayyye!!!!!!!

Is it his diet? My babi eats healthy as far as I'm aware, and he neither smokes nor drinks. Those utterly noxious fumes of his are by-products for sure, but of what exactly?! Any help please please pretty please? Desperation begets desperate measures.

I find happiness in slavery and servitude to my Babi, but getting fumigated out of my own room ain't my idea of reward for being wife numero uno. :p