cultural clash - i'm obsessed with soft and furry toys...grrr... :)

read my sis' blog about poor, abused nurses.. hey, treat them with respect ya? As a good friend of mine once told me.. "Nurses are the most courageous people in the world. Everyday, they face two of the worse things that can happen to mankind - Death & Disease..

no other job is like that..

took a well-deserved break this evening from studying and went to watch Showtime! starring Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro. Quite a silly show but light-hearted and mindless enough not to intrude with my fact and concept-saturated mind... two days more to the exams so got to make sure i don't overtax myself now in case i fall ill (touch wood!)...

Really thank God for some wonderful people around me who have been incredibly patient and supportive these couple of days and weeks as I struggled to get myself ready (especially mentally) for the exams.. i surprised myself with how frantic I became at a couple of points in time, especially when I thought I wouldn't be able to finish covering even the basic few topics (I have finally managed to cover them at least once through, so I know I should be able to go into the exams to "bullshit" even if the exact facts or concepts don't come to me :p)... guess it really isn't that easy to get back into the exam-study mode so many years after leaving University... I even became, as very frank but nonetheless wonderful Karen says - "boring" :O.... eeks.. :p but really glad for the nice emails and phonecalls i got from kind, understanding and supportive friends... must treat everyone to coffee after exams...

ROBODEX 2002 - a "large-scale exhibition in the world to gather human symbiotic robots" is to "provide people with "love" and "dream" through robots and to realize a society where humans and robots cohabit with each other."

would you want to marry a robot one day?

Matwix - Matrix a-la Looney Tunes

The Sony Clie PEG-NR70V is extremely tempting.. i sometimes actually wish my IBM Wordpad C3 will die on me so i have an excuse to get this... :p

Center for Online and Internet Addiction.. I think I really do have Cyber Mental Illness! - "Problematic Internet use associated with significant social, psychological, and occupational impairment... Symptoms include a preoccupation with the Internet, increased anxiety when off-line, hiding or lying about the extent of on-line use, and impairment to real-life functioning. :O

this is so.. so... random...

I'm happy sitting here in my sarong
And I don't care
If you think that it's right or wrong
I hear them whispering
Saying he's queer, he's a fool
But I don't care as long as I think that it's cool
It's my sarong

it's from this page on how to wear a sarong...

two very different stories about being different but being accepted:

- TV Beans
- Land Of The Dots

nice... :)

the clouds this morning are really dramatic...

had a nice chat with famous local watercolourist Ong Kim Seng when he dropped by at shop today. Very nice and amiable guy (even laughed when i reminded him to update his website often! :D) Gave me a whole bunch of suggestions on how to travel around Nepal and Tibet and which Himalayan treks i should take when i go there...

only managed to go around Kathmandu for photography when i was there in Dec of 99.. he apparently has done almost all the treks except for two with really obscure names.. he even did one trek that was for 29 days - the annapurna circuit i think! Very inspiring.. he travels around alone too... quite cool... but can't go there this year cos of all the Maoist activities. Quite thought-provoking how Maoism could be so big there in a little mountainous country..

Nepal for trekking next year...? umm.... :)

< P L A Y >

seems like housewife in houston is getting a cultural shock... eeky MTVs... :p

here's a list of things that seem to be "in" for people of my generation at this moment...you may disagree but this is my personal observation:

1. studying for exams (cos they decided at some moment of insanity to study some more, even though they already have a good degree, in a good job, happily acquiring the 5 Cs..)
2. diving (or thinking of learning how to dive, or buying dive equipment, or planning a dive trip, or something dive-related..)
3. digital cameras (cos everyone else has one so i must have one too..and besides.. i am..)
4. blogging (so i need a digicam so i can put my picture on the blog so that.. err...so that..i can become famous? err.. lame...:p)
5. getting married (cos the biological clock is ticking and HDB flat has come sooner than expected and whatever)
6. trying to get rich by acquiring assets and being in the "correct quadrants".. (all thanks to mr kiyosaki..)

here's a short list of stuff that seems to be going "out", at least for the moment:

1. starting own internet business
2. travelling around the world (throwing all cares to the wind, refusing to join the rat race)

oh well.. something like that...i'm too tired to think anymore.. back to the books!

spoonerism \SPOO-nuh-riz-uhm\, noun:
The transposition of usually initial sounds in a pair of words.

Some examples:
* We all know what it is to have a half-warmed fish ["half-formed wish"] inside us.
* The Lord is a shoving leopard ["loving shepherd"].
* It is kisstomary to cuss ["customary to kiss"] the bride.
* Is the bean dizzy ["dean busy"]?
* When the boys come back from France, we'll have the hags flung out ["flags hung out"]!
* Let me sew you to your sheet ["show you to your seat"].
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Spoonerism comes from the name of the Rev. William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), a kindly but nervous Anglican clergyman and educationalist. All the above examples were committed by (or attributed to) him.

what's this my sis is doing??

rise and shine and ..... study.... :(

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Allegations that the Sept 11 crash into the Pentagon never happened.. huh?

had the good fortune of being acquainted with amazing Canadian sidewalk artist Chalkmaster Dave at last year's Busker's Festival at Clark Quay.. highly talented and funny guy..

just got another email from him... with nice cool new batman etc. pics.. see...>>

have been trying to submit my Income Tax Return for the past 30 mins!!! grrr.... must be jammed with all the submissions from the rest of us last minute type people.. sigh... lalalalala....

deadline has been extended to 18th April leh.. no rush lah... aiyoh.. just like all these people queuing up for the ezlink card... so kiasu...



Snaking lines of commuters formed at Orchard MRT station, but a TransitLink spokesman said many queued up for the "wrong reasons".

just wondering if drinking Brand's Essence of Chicken with Cordyceps will worsen ringworm infection.. here's why i think it will.... Ringworm is actually a fungus that looks like a worm... and Cordyceps? Fungus that looks like a worm too!! :O

:O:O:O:O:O:O:O

C C O O C C eeks! :O Ringworm, It’s not a worm, It’s a fungus!

did a goods delivery to a secondary school this morning and struck up a conversation with the lady at the reception desk. she was just in the midst of downing this massive dose of tablets and i found out that she has Lupus. Have heard about it before but never bothered finding out about it. she told me about how precious good health is and how we should be thankful for good health..

What a great piece of advice...