我的豁达论II

奇装异样盼引蝶
暗自其乐目光聚
原还以为羡旁人
招蚁满身沾自喜

浮众自夸千金散
硬要比人略一筹
几百一斤山珍味
只许他处物上等

观其言止尚可悲
自尊怎用物衡量
小事并非命全部
胜了嘴皮现实何

世上富人满街是
必有能仕比吾强
心宽体扩常心对
快乐或许平常些

夫子论语千古传
世世代代学者尊
谦恭本是人该有
怎么到你未留痕

平凡生活又如何
难成小卒贡献无
嫌弃他身先量己
你我不过孰世尘

钱财乃是身外物
生不带来死不去
谁有多来谁又少
幸福快乐最重要

"20000 Leagues Under The Sea"

See ~ I found this very small octopus kia in our cold dish at the DnD. I dug and managed to find another one but "giantic" in size octopus.

See the difference in their size!

They looked almost the same in all areas except for the size. I wondered how it feels to be the smaller one for a change.

Hmmm....

难得今天好天气 ...

春天的脚步越来越近了，到处都张灯结彩，非常有过年喜气洋洋的气氛。花儿似乎也听见了春的呼唤，连路边的小花也开得非常妍丽。

难得今天好天气
可是天空下起了毛毛雨
难得今天好天气
花儿照样开得好美丽

看~你看，难得今天好天气。。。

女人最幸福的一刻

这是去年朋友Linda生下小Issac时，我帮她拍的照片。我兴起拿了包礼篮的纱布扎在她的头上充当婚纱，然后小Issac在她怀里熟睡。只用了很简单的手机相机拍下画面，没什么更改，照片里的她好幸福洋溢。 。 。 之后，我把照片做成了一张贺卡送给她。

人家说女人在做新娘时最美，那抱着小Baby当了妈妈的女人最幸福了！ 看, 她又美又幸福！

小Issac现在已经长大了, 我几乎都认不得他。

:)

"Where am I going to put my things?!!!!"

Encountered a classic example of an ugly Singaporean @work in the bus yesterday.

A lady occupied a doubleseat in the usual sardine-packed feeder bus. She looked quite beautiful in my opnion with jet black long hair, fair skin, nice make-up with long sleeves white shirt and black pants. Because she was carrying quite a few things with her, thus just conveniently took the other seat to put her laptop bag and stuff.

Up come an old auntie (about 60 plus years old) with her maid. The auntie although can walk, but have weak legs. I saw her maid holding her hands while she boarded the bus. As the bus was quite packed and there are no seats available except the one next the lady. I was standing next to them, thus heard their conversation.

The old auntie approached her and asked politely in Mandarin:" Excuse me Xiao Jie, Can I have the seat inside?"

To my horror, that beautiful lady give the old auntie a hard stare and answered very rudely and loud:" WHERE AM I GOING TO PUT MY THINGS THEN?!!!"

I couldn't believed my ears at all and began to stare at her. The old auntie was a bit taken back by her rude reply but still smilely explained to her:" Xiao Jie, there are no other seats, please. Otherwise I will take them..."

The lady didn't really budge after hearing the plea from the old auntie. I could not take her rude behaviour anymore and commented:" Seats are meant for people lor ~!!!" and gave her a hard cold stare.

The lady throw me a dirty look but then embarrassly proceed to move her things away from the other seat for the aunty. I swear from her look, I could almost hear her cursing "Big Fat Pig"at me in her head... Throughout the journey, I looked normal occassionally looked her way lest she might thought I am afraid of her. And she of course looked gumpy and kept throwing dirty looks at me. As if I care... Honestly, I am prepared to quarrel with her if she dare answer back. I have never met such rude person before especially a lady somemore.

Don't know why, after hearing her rude remarks, she no longer looked beautiful, in fact she looked hideous !!! Funny remark. I also don't know where she can put her things.

Dear Lady,

All of us paid for the bus fare, thus we have the same rights to occupy a seat. Bus seats are meant for people and especially for people who needs them. Have you been too busy and concerned about other things like maybe your looks and money that you didn't know you should give up our seats for pregnant women and old people? Well, then again, it might be your first time on a feeder bus, so usually this is what polite people will do.

If you think you are carrying too many stuff and needed space for them, take a taxi. By the looks of your Fujitsu laptop and shopping bags, I definately think you can afford it. Don't come and squeeze with us on the already very crowded feeder bus.

With that, we thank you very much and hope not to see you again !!! :P

ps: So much for the good looks... But too bad got an ugly heart. Tsk Tsk...

Regards,
Photosophize

Big Girls Don't Cry...

Last night, I couldn't sleep. I was feeling so down. The much anticipated company annual Dinner and Dance was a total flop. Not only that it damped our partying spirit, but some of us were humilated in front of our bosses and fellow colleagues. Even worse, the insensitive organising committee seems to think the MC is doing an ok job and didn't stop him before the situation got ulgy. Unfortunately for them, it did, the situation was hideous.

The MC - Desmond Lin aka jerk think that it is funny to host the night in a heavily-accented American English which irritated a lot of us right from the start. The crowd responsed coldly to his call and was never warm up. The show was boring and the jokes were bad. We had to entertain ourselves by poking fun at his badly accented English. But that not all...

I assume the organising committee would have gone through the programme with the event company and thus could not understand why they would allow games which undermine women and lewd jokes to be in the show. The committee should know that most of us are conservative sort and would never have appreciate such jokes. How can they allow the horsing game which I think really just want to make fun of women in a very rude way... Not only that, the jerk MC actually "sexual harassed" one of older female colleague by saying that she is akin to Europe - "very developed in all areas" already... I was so pissed off by the way he conducted the game that I had to go toilet to cool down halfway through.

Then the ultimate blow came at the last game. Instead of giving the first and second prizes directly to the winners, the event company and organising committee seems to think that it is fun to keep the potential winner in suspense. They wanted the two potential winners to fight for the prizes. How? By guessing the total weight of the participants, but he had done so in a very malicious way. That jerk went around to select participants to go on stage without informing them what he is going to do with them. He actually came to me first and asked me to go up as one of the participants. As I was still angry with the way he treated the other female colleagues in the earlier games, thus I rejected his request. But he didn't give up and go away, even dare to ask for my name and commented that I was so fierce. Unfortunately, he went away and look for another of my colleague who sportingly agree to do so.

Our table had a shock when he announced that the potential winners had to guess the weight of the participants and he even brought in a weighing machine to weigh every one of the participants ! I immediately understand why he had chosen me because I was very very big size. I was so scare and chills were sent down my spine, I was almost exploited by him to be the butt of the joke. Worse, my poor slightly big size colleague is still on stage going to be exploited by him now. She was panicking... What an evil man! Obviously, the situation is getting tense and ulgy, but none of the organising committee stepped up to stop the show.

I wondered if my colleague did not swear when she was off stage, will the organising committee realised that something is wrong? I mean the chairman was still smiley and all while the game was going on... How can they, all highly educated people be so insensitive? I really feel sorry that this had to happen to her and I don't think anyone of us should deserve this... It pains me and heart wrenching to see her crying so hard at the lobby after the show. I can totally understand what she is going through. It also gives me shudders to think that I was suppose to be that person to be laugh at. Since when is big people's weight is funny and laughable? I wondered why those idiots can laugh with them...

Sad... Mood dampened, Ego Bruised, Self-Confident Shattered, Heart Broken. After all that we have done, educated, look presentable and even with a proper job, people still looked at us as jokes and we are still discrimated because of our body size. Actually, if we have a choice, don't you think we want to be normal? But we can't. Some of us are just born with the fat gene, weight just pound on us even when we eat normal. For us, nothing comes easy as we got to fight the sterotypes images that people had of us.

We didn't ask for much and only wanted respect as how you would treat a normal person. But I guess Singaporeans are not matured enough to do so yet. If so, then leave us alone. We would be thankful for that.

Big Girl, don't cry anymore. What goes around will comes around... Btw, before I forgot, SCREW the Scale , the Jerk and Organising Committee !!!

以前和现在

以前的人

我不入地狱，谁入地狱？

２００８年的人

我不能让人看见我入地狱，那成何体统？你就可以，因为你较卑微。。。

封建的年代...

Bill Gates' Last Day at Microsoft

You all have to watch this!

If you have not heard of it, Bill Gates is retiring from Microsoft. I heard from news that he quit his day job, so that he can concentrate more on the charity work he founded. He has donated most of his fortune to charity!

Woh, I also need money Mr Gates. Donate to me too!!! Haha.

Of course, someone of his status and creativity cannot just have an ordinary speech, so his farewell speech is in form of a video. Not just any video, but quite an entertaining one. He "acted" as himself seeking employment from his famous friends like Hillary Clinton, Obama, U2, Al Gore, George Clooney etc. It is quite hilarious watching him struggle to proof to them that he can do their work. I don’t think that really him, but he trying to be humourous.

Now, I really like Bill Gates. Humourous people are charming. Hee hee. :)

Botak Jones - American Botak in Factory

Tuck away between the factories ...

Is anything but a common looking Kopitiam ...

Inside it, there is this stall …

No, I am not talking about the sequel of the movie “American werewolf in Paris”, but another expat decided to bring in their hometown food to Singapore’s hawker centre. This time round, he is an American and botak (bald in Malay)!

His name is Jones, Botak Jones. (Hee Hee)

True to his blood, the food he served is very American I think - the portion are huge ~! I have read about his stall on newspaper before and he has also appeared on TV too. I reckon his food should be quite nice since there are so many reviews, so off I went to bring my mum and brother along to try them out.

Three of us ordered:

Their price is still relatively reasonable and the portion is huge, but the food we ordered is not within my expectation. I should say it is really an acquired taste. Not sure if their food is really that authentic, if it really is, I worry for the Americans. Their food is so fatty and salty. Is like they been too generous with everything, portion, meats, veges, the fats, the cream and even the salt…

The Caesar salad is ok, but I find them a tad too creamy and too salty. I can’t really taste the cheese in their dressing.

Their Cajun chicken breast is not really as tender and juicy as they claim to be. I find it dry. I don't know, but American seem to like that kind of texture. They considered it to be tender and juicy. For example, Carl Junior also served similar texture Chicken Breast and said that they are tender and juicy which is not really so. They must really try our Hainanese Chicken to know what is tender and juicy chicken meat. Anyway, the spices, cheese and cajun sauce combination make the chicken breast meat a bit too salty for my liking.

Their fries although sprinkled with special concocted spices didn’t really have much flavour. Don’t get me wrong, not that it is not salty enough, but somehow they didn’t really have potato flavour. Maybe it is because they are served cold. The only thing that is “really good” (not that we have a lot of choices) is their coleslaw which is light and just nice.

However, the ultimate disappoint is their turkey sausage. I must ask if their turkey sausage is manufactured in Dead Sea or something. It is so salty that I don’t think it is safe for human consumption. (Worried that my brother might have kidney problem after that…)

Didn’t really taste the BBQ chicken wings as I was too full and tongue too numb from all the salty food to taste anything else. In fact, I didn’t manage to find my grilled chicken. I had to "da bao" them back for my other brothers.

I have to say their service is actually quite good, but given all that fats and salt content in their food, I don’t think I will be back again.

Verdict: Beh Jiak - Cannot be eaten in Hokkien. (New Hokkien rating system – Table coming soon) I am rating them based on what we ordered. I find all of their dishes too salty for my liking.

Read also: http://cloudmuse.blogspot.com/2007/11/botak-jones.html

你涨价（所以）我涨价

石油价涨了 全世界“肖”了
很多财团眼红了 消费者的天灰了

只有天晓得日子多么难过
可既然说
你涨价所以我也得涨价
什么都定局了
我们还能怎么呢？

期待薪水会跟着涨吗？
那是求之不得但又求不得
像天造地设一样的难得
喜怒和哀乐 由石油价来主导我们来观测

从王菲的 “你快了(所以)我快乐” 歌词改编成

救命啊 ~！我们(消费者)快不行了。。。

Ban Dan - Sick ...

SICK.

I was just telling my insurance agent proudly that I have not been sick since some time ago. Then suddenly the next day - Sick. God must have thought that I am reminding him about it...

Sore throat. Flu. Inflammation. Fever.

Drank two bottles of Liang Teh liao, but temperature still soaring. Going from 37.1 to 37.7 degree . Think I am going to see a doctor later.

Fever usually can get one day MC, but that someone I know can get more days woh... But shucks, am sick on the wrong day. Probably get one day nia cause tomorrow Friday and weekend coming. Still thought of negotiating for more MC days. (:P)

Bo cai... Sniff... Sniff...

Hai, I should be so lucky too...

会抓老鼠的都是好猫？

突然想到中国已故领袖邓小平的一句名言：

（四川音）“不管是黑猫，还是白猫，会抓老鼠的都是好猫 ！”

真的是这样吗？

就算黑猫本性不好，天生懒惰，平时大部分的时间都在睡觉，偶尔兴起抓一两只老鼠“交差”，它就算是好猫吗？

那如果白猫本性不坏，性格大咧咧，是只很尽忠职守的猫咪，大部分的时间都很认真的在抓老鼠，那它算不算是只好猫呢？

怎样才算坏？

抓老鼠时，一次不小心打破了主人心爱的花瓶的白猫？

还是故意偷懒，离家出走好几天，玩到饿了才回来找吃的黑猫吗？

如果你是主人，你会比较疼哪只猫咪？

可惜。。。

或许因为黑猫会撒娇，所以主人就会愿意忽视它的缺点，觉得它捕抓一两只老鼠就很棒了，所以一直很得宠。然而，尽忠职守的白猫，虽然比较有用，但它不会撒娇，所以没讨得主人的欢心。再来，白猫就因为打破了主人心爱的花瓶， 而被赶到大街上睡个两三天。。。

故事告诉我们世上有多少东西是公平的，猫跟人一样，要会识趣，会“做人”。

新的一年大家学做人吧！

新的一年， 新的开始！

去年过得不太顺利，虽然有一些意外的收获，但似乎好事都多磨，花钱如流水，人际关系也不太好，最重要的是没有桃花。。。好像还有祸不单行的事件。。。去，去，去， 坏事全都走开！！！

今年我要旺旺旺~！！！

Resolution for 2008

Become Healthier

Physically
Losing weight has always been my top priority. It is not an easy task especially when I got a lot of weight to lose. Anyway, somehow, somewhat it didn't work. This year, think I will do something new - I want to become healthier !

I will be a vegetarian on Mondays (to detox) and also make sure that I will go to the gym for at least twice a week. I will try to eat less too.

Financially
Save up. Things are becoming more and more expensive. I might have a stable income now, but it is not as much when compared to most of my peers. In my friends' words, I have choosen stability over higher returns. Now that I am older, I have to be responsible to myself and my family. Am worried that if anything happens to my job or me, I might not have enough savings to tide my family or myself over. So, I guess I have to manage my finances seriously from now.

Mentally
Not that I am mentally unsound or something, but in a way, I feel that I have been depriveing myself of happiness. I tend to worry a lot over small, meaningless matters, so in the coming new year, I want to be happier~!

Think less, Appreciate more !

Hmm... What else do I want to achieve this year?

Thinking hard...

Ps: My computer is down, so I might not be able to write for some time. :) Anyway, Happy New Year everyone ~!