Just got back from a really relaxing trip up to KL with Nicky and Kelvin. And must i say that i've my hats off kelvin for kicking up fusses at 5star hotels. We got a really nice room facing 'ground zero' and the petronas.
We had a lazy day of massages and good food, shopping dvds and ending with a martini nite at the winebar at Zouk...then winding down with a long bath with beer and a book.
We were just saying that we should be doing this once a while. The only thing i dread are the bus rides.
pics up soon.. as soon as i get em~!
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pastry personality
Sometimes people can be referred to being a doughnut. Sugar coated on the outside, and pretty empty on the inside. My reply to that was that if i was being compared to the likes of pastries, i'd rather be a chocolate eclair then.
The Cake From the Moon
Nicky and I went down to China town last nite. Mooncake festival was on~~ and we were both really excited as the last time we were down in Chinatown armed with our cameras was on Chinese New Year... a couple of years back. I was expecting little ones with a small lantern, lovers hand in hand watching the moon, and Ah-Maas seating around eating mooncakes with the auntie aunties.
As we were reaching our destination, we saw the road closure with policemen - a sign that it's a big event happening... that got me even more excited.. it's been a long time since i've had such an excursion.. just snapping in the crowd.
But no.... sadly, the both of us were pretty taken aback when the street were filled with people watching some stupid 'cannot-make-it' performance, some stupid mother pushing her stupid baby chair in the already impossible to move crowd, and according to nicky, "that's the ugliest Chang'er I've ever seen".
And to add to the lament, we saw less than a handful of kids holding on to a lantern. And most of the lanterns we saw were bastardised electronic ones in the sad shapes of Spiderman and Hello Kitty making awful noises and shitting out bubbles.
The best thing last night? - A terrific dinner at the Food Market. The authentic old skool hawkers selling $2 carrot cake and pork rib rice ( which i waited for too long for! ). And while we were waiting for the food we commented on the way things have changed. How the food market will probably go thru some govt revamping, making it into a stupid air-con food court complete with the bright sign boards and brown trays. As i wrote several posts before, how most of us will never recognise this place that we use to live in. To me, the biggest regret is how my children will never see Chinatown like how chinatown use to be, how the old national library use to look like with the good old S-11 outside, where the merlion use to be, how people took ferries to Ubin from the little ferry point at Changi... etc.. the list goes on.
And how sometimes i find it a really redundant argument when they try say that we have to preserve our culture, and our past, and blah and blah and blah, when they are crashing everything down. A total joke if you ask me.
I makes me angry actually.
Very angry...
slim jim...
Now this is why Apple's ipod minis are given at almost every other product promotion.............
(images from www.Apple.com)
Now with all the controversy going on with what you can or cannot say on blogs, i find that it's becoming more and more redundant having a blog. Say for example, I want to say that a certain brand's handphone isn't good or is a total piece of crap - like the one i'm using now; does that mean that i can be sued for wrongful placement of a certain product and may be made to pay back lost sales legally? What is legal anymore?
Whatever.
My brother just went back to Aust. Hung out with him 2 full days at obscure places like i mentioned in the previous post. Apparently these place were the last defence points before the fall of Singapore. The 2nd last being Sunset Way (near Clementi) and the final area being this place near Holland Village. These were places where the last of the Australian Troops held their ground before the Surrender. Before these more developed places, we were at places near the coastline north west of Singapore. Where the troops were defending gainst the straits invading Japanese.
The conditions at these coastal areas weren't your sandy beaches or rocks with nice holes to hide in... they were swamps - muddy grounds with lots of pests and potential disease. Truely.. when i was there the 2nd time, it really made me think of how it could have use to look like.
We also visited Kranji Memorial Cemetary. My brother told me that it was a 'spiritual' experience for him. Working on a project with thousands of physical miles away from where it happened..and from decades of years apart from when it happened - and now being where the root of it all....
What struck me were the ages that these Soldiers were at that time. Most of them in their twenties, early thirties, the youngest ones it saw were 18, 19 yrs old. Made me wonder do kids like me these days have what it takes to do what they did? Apart from prancing in the uniform and playing soldier for 2/half years in National Service, ultimately when it comes to that.. Will i run or will i stay and fight? Hmm.. I'm infantry, puts me in a safe spot of collecting bodies after the artillery.. ha.
Can't seem the get the picture uploader to work... will try again latar....
i hate...
I hate a runny nose and that sore throat.
I hate needing to reach out for that bos of tissues on my table every 30seconds.
I hate the not knowing if I'll be feeling better tommorrow.
I hate needing to tune the temperature of the aircon every 5 mins to suit my body.
I hate getting realising that I am actually sick.
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