Thank you

Thank you Lord for your Grace and everything in my life.

Scraps

Been doing some big time spring cleaning: got about 20 cds to sell to cash converters, threw out a whole lotta rubbish (school notes, photos, useless christmas and birthday gifts)

But I found scraps of paper on which i scribbled down my random thoughts, circa early 2004 ( post A-levels). pretty entertaining. Let me share two:

(i think i was scribbling this while doing mundane and mindless data entry at a well-known bank. Lesson for banks: don't hire post-A level kids. We are kind of careless when computing important client information. haha)

10 a.m. : Listened to Tori (Amos) on player

10.30 a.m: Thinking of buying SP's (smashing pumpkins) Siamese Dreams

11 a.m: Salivating at the thought of Siglap Food Centre's rojak. Reads two news articles

11.20 a.m.: Yawn

11.40 a.m.: Evesdrops on others talking about their children

12.00 p.m.: Loo time!

12.01 p.m. : Weekend creeps into my head

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(my draft for a collage made from magazine scraps. For my valentine at that time, using bits of lyrics from various songs by Ash. I cringe upon reading it now. haha, so childish for a love poem, not original somemore.)

Move closer, set my mind on fire,
something in your glances puts a spell on me.

As the world fades all around,
feel it taking over,
the warmth of skies at sunset.
I want to linger in this glow.

You're all that I can see. (I've got a good feeling)

You're a constant source,
you're a shining light.
Incandescent in the darkest night,
An epiphany you burn so bright.

You light up my life, dude.

One is a gun with a dart for my sweethart

i want to be one of those girls singing and playing tambourines at the end :)

A rash obsession

so i have been holed up at home becos of an untimely outbreak of rashes but discovered another sitcom to obsess over.

The big bang theory.

It's Beauty and the geek as an American sit-com. And the scary thing is as these nerds spew their scientific jargon, i understand what they are saying. omg. my years of study of physics, chemistry and biology has not gone to waste. hahha

And i must say, these MIT nerds are pretty adorable.

Do sample some of their inane but witty dialogue. haha

Leonard: We need to widen our circle.
Sheldon: I have a very wide circle. I have 212 friends on myspace.
Leonard: Yes, and you’ve never met one of them.
Sheldon: That’s the beauty of it.

–

Penny (clueless but socially adept blonde neighhbour of the nerds): I’m a Sagittarius, which probably tells you way more than you need to know.
Sheldon: Yes, it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun’s apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.
Penny: (puzzled) Participate in the what?

Knowledge is power!

It occurred to me that the greatest insult is "She doesn't read".

(read: You are a Philistine, stupid.)

haha.

So read more books.

Also in the Psychiatry fiction bookshelf, the below sequence of reading will be nice:

The Bell Jar: Young girl gets into bad depression, recovers? ( we never know)

segue to:

Tender is the Night: Young Schizo girl marries a psychiatrist, he tries to take care and love her but eventually he's the one who
falls apart and needs therapy after several years.

Fitzgerald kinda will get the bloody sad Plath-ness out of your system.

Endangered/extinct posh nosh in Singapore

I am mad.

The not-so-healthy foodstuff that I love have all disappeared with great stealth or reduced to one retailer in the past four years.

First up, the crunchy love-to-bits of Teddy Bear cookies, Teddy Grahams. It mysteriously gone off the shelves of Cold Storage, NTUC and even Jason's (an expat supermarket). I did my field research and all gone.



In lovely flavours from honey, choc chip to oatmeal, these cute and yummy bears all gone. They were my essentials during the endless days and nights of cramming for A Levels. such comfort from the childish snack, but why were they taken off the shelves?

I suspect it's some trans-fat ingredient that the Health Sciences Authority of Singapore found in the cute biscuits. And I reckon the same fate followed another All-American goodness in a cup, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.



Oh my, these little cups of delight. Peanut-buttery goodness layered with some unknown chunk of crumble and layered with chocolate. Feels like putting on a kilogram with each buttercup but worth it, I say.

All gone from the retailers in SIngapore too, it's a conspiracy i believe. A subtle boycott of American products that are unhealthy.

But saving grace comes in the form of a tin box full of curiously strong mints. My Altoids! How can I live without these Panadol-looking examples of greatness in a mint. A breath of fresh air in Singapore where it's hard to get a decent mint. What? Only Fisherman's Friend or fast-moving ( really fast) consumer mints like Eclipse, Frozz or Clorets (sounds like a bleach can.)



Rough, strong and stronger. And in a retro-looking tin box. How cool is that. The boxes serve as great storage for knick knacks and other random things like namecards and earrings.

Credibility goes to the company from retailing even portable battery chargers in the shape of the Altoid box! charging your ipods with a box of mints. Beat that!




Alas, all good mints come to a terrible end in Singapore too. Only Candy Empire imports them now and the price has spiked from $3.50 in 2006 to $4.90. Why!?!

Just keeping my fingers crossed that rising food prices don't snatch away my last indulgence that is my clinking box of Altoids in my handbag. Shoo!

Spinal Tappin'

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.