Fingers

The Fortune Telling Handbook: The Interactive Guide to Tarot, Palm Reading, and More
by Dennis Fairchild, Julie Paschkis (Illustrator)

Book Description
This step-by-step guide to reading fortunes reveals trade secrets from a psychic's private files, offering instruction for predicting future events. Learn from an expert astrologer how to prepare a room for conducting readings, how to use handwriting analysis to zero in on a person's character, and how numerology may aid in performing annual predicitons. Palm and Tarot reading are explained in depth. The Fortune-Telling Handbook also features exercises to help the reader develop proficiency in each of these classic divination arts, along with space to record the results.

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This was one of the books I've bought online recently. Was pretty happy n excited when i found the long-awaited books lying on my bed [few nights ago] when i got home. Been reading the books I've bought the past few days as well when I have time on hands.

On the very first night, the very first thing I did was to flip to the palmistry section n started digging. haha.. pretty generalised readings that's simple to follow along. Neat! Would make a cool gift for any beginner or friend who's into such stuffs.

Here's a lil preview of what's from the book. Shall touch a lil bit on the readings for my fingers as an example.

Fingers [thumb]
You're able to see another's point of view and give freely when the tip of your thumb bends back easily. If the thumb arches freely backward, you do what others tell you and are overly concerned abt the thoughs of the neighbours. Your heart rules your head and may have trouble making rational decisions. Very sentimental and a bit unrealistic, it's difficult for you to "live and let live."

The Real Price of a Big Mac

I seldom take note of news happening ard me, but if its interesting and/or catches my attention then tats news! ha~ Here's one I'm gonna post up here [copy n paste actually]. Extracted online from Newsweek, Entertainment.

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The Real Price of a Big Mac
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock discusses life as a human guinea pig

WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Brian Braiker Newsweek
Updated: 12:42 p.m. ET Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 27 - Sometimes inspiration strikes in the unlikeliest places. After gorging himself on Thanksgiving dinner in 2002, Morgan Spurlock was watching TV with his belt unbuckled and his pants unzipped. On the news was a report about two girls in New York who were suing McDonald’s because, they claimed, the food made them overweight and sick. At one point in the report, recalls Spurlock, a representative for the fast-food chain claimed its food was, in fact, nutritious. It was at that precise moment that Spurlock, who runs his own production company, says "the bells went off." He decided to make a documentary—his first feature-length film—in which he would, in an attempt to explore why Americans are so fat, eat at McDonald’s three times a day for 30 solid days.

One year thousands of fries and tens of thousands of calories later, Spurlock has an award-winning film in the can. Titled, tongue planted firmly in cheek, "Super Size Me," his documentary was a surprise hit at Sundance last week, winning Spurlock the Best Director prize in the documentary competition and drawing comparisons to the work of "Bowling for Columbine" auteur Michael Moore.  With regular visits to the doctor, interviews with experts on fast food and chats with regular folk on the road, the viewer gets a front-row seat as the formerly fit filmmaker eats everything on the menu, packing on the pounds, and looking—and feeling—worse in each successive frame. McDonald’s’ response? The home of the Happy Meal declined to comment in the film but has released statements saying that its menu offers an array of choices, some healthier than others. Spurlock, 33, spoke with NEWSWEEK’s Brian Braiker about his wild, fattening trip since that moment of tryptophan-induced inspiration.

You ate three meals a day at McDonald’s for 30 days for this film. What happened to your body over the course of that month?
My body just basically falls apart over the course of this diet. I start to get tired; I start to get headaches; my liver basically starts to fill up with fat because there’s so much fat and sugar in this food. My blood sugar skyrockets, my cholesterol goes up off the charts, my blood pressure becomes completely unmanageable. The doctors were like "You have to stop."

You saw more than one doctor?
I was seeing three different doctors over the course of this, just so I would really have a fair balance between all the people so nobody could say "oh, it was doctor bias; it was physician bias." Each of these doctors was doing their own blood tests and each of the blood tests were going to three different labs so there was no way lab error could be an issue. Everything that happens to my body over the course of the film was caused by this diet. And everything that happened to my body was caused by this food that I got at this restaurant. I didn’t eat anything—no gum, no candy, not even a Tic Tac—everything that I put in my mouth came from over the counter at McDonald’s. Even the water. I wouldn’t even drink water from outside, that way there would never be a question that "oh there was probably something in the water somewhere else when he was traveling around." I only drank bottled water from McDonald’s.

How much weight did you put on?
I put on about 25 pounds in a month.

How did you feel at the end of the month?
[Laughs] I felt terrible! I felt so bad because I put on this weight so quickly my knees hurt. I was so depressed. I would eat, and I would feel so good because I would get all that sugar and caffeine and fat and I would feel great. And an hour later I would just crash—I would hit the wall and be angry and depressed and upset. I was a disaster to live with. My girlfriend by the end was like "You have to stop because I’ve had it." It really affects you in so many ways that I think a lot of people don’t realize, very subtle little things. Over the course of the film you see my transformation, and it’s not pleasant.

Why McDonald’s specifically? Why not Burger King; why not Subway?
McDonald’s is an icon, a cultural icon, a cultural phenomenon and nothing represents America and the American fast-food way of life more than McDonald’s. The chain has 30,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries on six continents around the world. It has truly influenced how we eat, how food is made and how, really, other cultures are starting to eat. All these other food companies have started to follow suit, from franchising and how they manufacture and distribute their food, McDonald's is a trendsetter. So for me, the idea of picking McDonald's was, one, to pick it as the icon for what it represents. It represents every food, in my opinion; it represents every company. Also in my opinion it represents the one company that more than anybody else could really make a difference. McDonald's could institute change that everyone else would also follow. It could do away with super-size portions and everyone else would say, "Wow, you know what? We don’t need to do this anymore either. We need to make a difference." If they would truly champion a change for healthier menu option—it would happen across the board.

But doesn’t it boil down to individual choice?
I think there is a level of personal choice. In the film it’s not like I’m saying fast food is the sole problem. In the film we examine a multitude of issues that cause the obesity epidemic, personal choice being one of them. McDonald’s every day feeds 46 million people worldwide—that’s more than the entire population of Spain. You’re talking about one company that has a huge impact. I think that sure you can argue personal choice, but on the same point, if there aren’t healthy menu options available, and there isn’t nutrition information available to people who come there to make a choice about what they’re going to eat, you’re really limiting your argument on some levels. Their marketing and advertising from the very beginning really targets kids. Children from such an early age are just so washed over with the idea of the happy clown and the Happy Meals and, oh, look, there’s a playground, let’s go there for fun. I know kids whose parents have never taken them to McDonald’s, but if you ask them what their favorite restaurant is and they’ll say McDonald’s—and they’ve never even been in one! That’s pretty scary.

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Moral of the story:
Too much fast food's bad for health! Too much of everything's bad too!

Lost Thoughts - Part II

Here's more tots [jotted dwn last Nov] i found from my note book to be shared...

Suddenly I haven't any idea what to write anymore. I've lost the words in my mind. I've changed. I feel numbed ever since the day I know I've lost myself. When? Actually I myself too haven't any slightest idea. Ha... Pathetic fool. A great big fool especially when it comes to matters of the heart. A big fool I was, I am and I shall always be. I hang on to the past, unable to let them go. I live in those memories, refusing to wake up, refusing to face life in reality. I seek solace in them. I seek solitude in them. Sigh... Whatever! I just refuse to wake up. I'm afraid of the future, hmmm... am i? Hell... I haven't any idea what on earth am I writing either.

 

Sometimes I really wish I could just compose something nice. But my mind's completely blind, blank! Hey, that rhymes. Ha.. Poems, poems, poems, how I wish I could rekindle my mind for them again. I'm like completely shut down with no power anymore. Everyday I'm like a living dead. Zombie, if you would say. But I guess it shouldn't be that hard if you really try. If only I could find the power of my life back again, then trying won't seem so hard a thing. With a pen in my hand, here I have pin down my mind. Now didn't parts of these words here rhymed?

Lost Thoughts - Part I

Happened to be flipping through a note book of mine just now. This was written sometime back last yr ard Nov. Tot might b good to share these tots up here in my bloggy~

Whenever I wanna jot my thoughts down, my mind just stops thinking. It's as if it doesn't want those words to become memories, to be lived or exist. But there're other parts of my mind that does want to see those words, to be remembered again when read once more one day.

Life, a BIG contradiction!

Damsels in Distress!!

PUSH! PULL! PUSH PUSH PUSH!!! Damn! Why?! Why cun i push it in?! Why? I'm afraid that I wld break it if I pull it up too high too! Oh man... what luck! Tot I could have enjoyed my rainy Sunday, now this kinda shit happens. Omost on the verge of crying if it weren't for Lisi there beside me. But hey, Im not such a weakling, cry baby yet. *hrmp* Gotta try control my anguish. Both Lisi & I took turns fiddling with it. HA! Didn't work. No one's around either to help us in the mess I've gotten into. All around it was quiet, not a soul in sight. It's all my fault! I shouldnt have gone n pull it up too high earlier on! Now I cant get it to go down!!

I phoned my dad up asking for advice on this. All he said was that we jus hadta try pull it up more den push it in with force to get it down. Said it's possible and just get help from another guy if the need arise. What reassurance man. Wat an advice. Hmm.... it seemed like ages before we saw help. But then the guy was with a gal, he seemed pretty skinny. Din really wanted to approach him to help [Im not being mean by saying he aint got strength okay! Moreover, he was at the other end, too far away to call out to].

Lisi carried on trying while I carried on muttering in despair. I tried to help pull it up while she tried pushing it in. To no avail. Sigh. After what seemed like eternity, FINALLY i spotted an uncle coming [up the slope]. Okay, so it's now or never! I dun wanna b stuck there for Lord knows how long more... Gotta be him to save us all. Well at least he wasn't skinny. Average built, but I believe & trust tat he's got the strength we needed. So i summed up my courage, walking bravely yet calmy in style towards him. Slowly advancing with a pounding heart. He, upon hearing my desperate plea for help, smiled and in an egoistic stance came to aid us.

Within secs, I witnessed the kind uncle pulled the handle, push the button in & released it effortlessly! Viola! Just like magic! WOW! Never underestimate the power of a male's strength. A gleam of light shone from my eyes. I'm so happy! Almost half an hr back then I tot that this was the end. That's it.. I'm in for trouble. Trouble with my dad's car, with the darn handbrake! Good thing this gentlemen was ard to help release the handbrake for us. Haha... phew. Damsels in distress saved.

Now what were you thinking?? Hur hur hur???? *wicked grinz*

Black Jack

3rd Day of Chinese New Year

I'm having a family gathering cum bday celebration for one of my uncles @ my aunt's place. Well tat's wat my mum told me n kept reminding me tat i'm to be present on that day a wk or 2 beforehand. It's been a year since I last seen some of my relatives. Kinda happy & excited yet nervous cos it's been a long time since we communicated. Felt kinda stranger. Hid most of the time in my cousin's room [I lived just a few blocks away n m closer to her since we grew up together, well... omost] waiting for the uncle n aunties n married cousins to come give me my ang baos. Hahaha!!

It wasn't until one of me other cousins came popping her head into the room asking if i wanted to try me luck with some black jack before i decide to crawl outta me shell. *grinz*

Outside, it was raining. Really really really really heavy heavy heavy down pour, non stopping. Inside, me n my cousins were gambling by the oval table. lol... We were actually winning quite a bit at 1st [each stake was $2] with the banker loosing $. Hiak hiak! But after dinner lady luck didnt seem to b shinning well on my side nor my cousins' side. Darn! By the end of it all, I lost abt $15 i guess. A few lost $30+. Think all those who played had lost quite a sum. Lucky banker cousin, he won the most, I believe a 3 digit amt no doubt. haha.. but since it's like a once in a yr thingy, everyone had fun, so who cares. We all had a great bashing time joking ard the table while playing black jack.

Big can of sardines @ phuture

Wow! In all my years of clubbing life, this is the first time I ever felt like one of those sardines in a can @ phuture tonite baby~ It's barely 11pm!!!! Cool~ Music rocks shit too! N the brandy dry's making me head for the ladies [to pee not puke, mind u. haha...] Damn, took me quite some time b4 i could squeeze me way out from the big big can of sardines. Lucky Barnaby reserved a table for us inside phuture, otherwise we might not haf a place to stand even.

Moments after getting outta the "can", received a call from Darren. Great, he's outside the club! Shall catch up with him n the jeremys later. After finishing my biz inside the cubicle, I opened the door. Guess what?! What a surprise! Lucky me eye balls din popped out. Hey hey hey, wat did yer know, it's April right in front of me. Cool.. we were both caught off guard. Erm.. wat a nice place to be catching a sch mate [from secondary sch n poly] in eh? April told me more of our poly-mates were waiting outside the toilet. Now... no wonder I tot I saw some familiar faces while on my way to the ladies. Think i spotted Kendrick, rare sight indeed. Caught up with Andy a lil outside. There were GX, Ethan [seemed to have put on a lil xtra bit of meat to his skinny frame, good.] n a few others, couldnt make out their faces in the dark. The gals havent arrived yet other than April.

Wah hahaha ho ho ho! This is so fun, so shiok! Fancy meeting so many frens in a nite at zouk/phuture. Earlier on, it was Skittles [another Andy] at the entrance. U can say he's a regular @ zouk, nevertheless still happy n surprised to b spotted by him right outside the club's entrance. woo hoo.... What a Chinese New Yr man! Jus when I tot I was oredi lucky enuff for the night, I saw Guna when Joy, Barnaby n I were making our way down to winebar for a 2nd round of drinks. What a night, what a night.. boy oh boy. Spent most of the nite @ phuture for the music was best there. Though not much of a space to dance, but still njoyed listening to the music while standing like some statue. Really too damn packed i tell ya... din get much chance to hang ard me frens i saw for the nite either, however it wasnt hard finding Darren n his frens since they were pretty near Phuture's entrance. Haha...

Danielle~

5 more days to go b4 Danielle's gonna b back from HK for 2 wks. Happen to get to know this "hong kong fairy tale princess" [sorry, tats another diff story which i shant go on abt] thru Darren [indirectly] last Aug or so i think. So it's gonna b me 1st time meeting up with her, hanging out with her, talking with her, bitching with her! Cool! So excited, so scared, so excited, so nervous, so excited~ Im actually pretty shy in front of ppl, hope i wun get tounge tied or feel awkward when i see her then.

We decided dat im to bring her to Seah St Deli [at raffles hotel] for this 7-layered chocolate cake. Absolutely sinful! Absolutely killer! Absolutely chocolaty! boy oh boy~... Im gonna KILL her with tat big slice of cake b4 she kills me 1st i tell ya! kill Kill KILL!!! *sinister laughter* Muah HahAHaHaaAa!!!!

Chinese New Year... it's all abt the potatos! *grinz*

it was noon soon. woke up in bed today feeling a need for the loo, had some kinda dream again. [nature's call] think its abt some toilet dream? dun rem... i oways haf dreams abt the loo/toilet whenever i need to pee [erm.. yes pee... P-E-E.. pee!] though im still asleep. rem theres this one toilet dream tat was pretty grand. haha.. went with a bunch of sch mates on an excursion to a big building of toilets... all sortsa toilets, from the normal kinds to those tats built in a locker to even an eygptian deco kind [erm dun ask me how the real eygptians' loos r like, no idea either. haha]. every floor, everywhere, all u see is jus toilets, toilets, n more toilets! Cool! lucky i woke up in time if not i might haf pee on my bed! haha... so can u consider this a a wet dream? *evil grinz* k jus kidding...

hmm.. it's the first day of the Chinese New Year [CNY]. Somehow I didnt felt anything for it... not at all excited. Pretty dread it, i dunno y. Guess I prefered the Christmas season better. At least all the shops wont close during that holiday season. Not much places to go since most of the places will b closed during the 1st 2 days of CNY. Mum's mum died when i was 15, since then till now we dun gather at mum's mum place anymore on the 1st day. Guess since then it sorta became a tradition to go catch a movie with my mum, dad n bro on the 1st day after wishing me dad's parents a happy new yr. We watched Fantasia [chinese movie starring louis koo]. Damn funny! kept hearing my bro n mum who were beside me luffing all the way thru. the whole cinema was filled with laughter, esp this one gal who's laughter was really loud. heh heh... even the kids were njoying the movie, cld hear em loud n clear too. well at least tats something cheerful. laughter!

Din really buy any new clothes for the new yr, din really see the need for it, since i still haf a couple of new clothes that werent worn yet since i bought em a yr or more ago. Decided to wear my new demin dress today. Damn! I put on some weight, the dress felt kinda tight, cun breathe! *gasps for air* Demin dress $63, earrings $6, necklace $13, watch $165, tote bag $25, mules $35, gasping for air in tite dress.. priceless! haha.. [prices are all made up, xcept for the dress cos it still had the price tag on it.. wooo~] imagine i was slimmer back then when i bought the dress >_<

guess its abt food today. had a very heavy brunch @ pizza hut. then vietnamese food @ marina square for dinner. vietnamese food was great! the drinks r jus as good! *slurps slrups* yummy yummy!!!!! mmmm mmmmm.... definately will go back there again to savour more food. if anyone's interested in trying the vietnamese food from this place, it's jus opp mos burger at marina sq, hmm well thinks its more of like near by or beside rather than opposite. they may not b the 1st but they r the best! n i totally agree! so who wanna go try out the food there with me the nxt time? hands up pls! lol... hmm think the price's pretty alright still.

okay... if u've manage to make it thru to this bit... u must have been wondering [tats if u've read the title]... then wat abt the potatos?? haha.... paitence comes to those who wait then =p

Actually theres nothing much abt the potatos *gotcha*... But me being a potato lover, a book caught me eyes while i was in Carefour doing some window shopping before dinner. The ultimate POTATO cookbook by Periplus!!! Wow! This i gotta get! A whole cookbook on potato recipies! tsk tsk.. though i cun cook, but think the book wld come in handy some day. Its a good book, pretty simple to follow instructions, lotsa photos. with nutrition facts abt each dish and/or a lil fact or cook's file for some. even covered a bit on potato varieties, covered 17 kinds [including sweet potatos though its not a true potato]. Trix, if u r reading this... mayb u might b really interested in this cookbook! *grinz* mayb we cld whip up a potato meal with it. theres recipies for soups, salads, pizza, patties, tortillas, etc. Saw a few that shld b pretty ez to make, there's the potato pancake, bacon and onion rosti cake, potato croquettes, potato salad....mayb one day we the Fab4 cld whip up a potato feast for one of our gatherings. hee... I LOVE POTATOS! Yeah~

19th Jan~

Yesterday's been a pretty rainy day. Rain started pouring in the afternoon till late night. WOO hoo... Wat a nice weather! I was practically stoning my way thru work all day. [guess ive been like this since last nov or dec. bad bad.. simply no discipline. ought to b spank i tell yer!] U could see cats n dogs jumping dwn from heaven man, and if u pop ur head outta the window u might hurt urself from the desending animals. Gosh... guess i was day dreaming again as oways. Well, can u call tat as creativity? haha.. neh *shakes head* i doubt so.

Work has been going real real real real real slow, slower than a snail even. I HATE it when i cun get stuffs done when i haf stuffs on hands to do. Still not much has been done since the past few wks. oh man, im slacking... even worse than usual! i haf no ideas in my mind, seems like i couldnt think anymore, my mind's a complete blank. even if i were to copy other ppl's design, i cun. design turned sucky. simply dead. yah dah yah dah yah dah... alrite.. enuff complaining.. dis aint the main pt of the blog here baby. heh heh....

Actually it's been a pretty okay day at work [ignoring the poor work production], nice weather made me feel like sleeping. if oni i was off somewhere nice, perhaps a nice villa on some pasture, somewhere over looking a field of flowers or with a nice scenery, with the nice rain outside, pitter pattering on the windows. i inside the house, sitting comfortably by the window sipping to a cup of hot hot tea while reading my nice books, anticipating wat the characters in the book wld do, etc. With some light soothing jazzy music at the back. Ah... wat an enjoyment. relaxing. Total chill out man! Mmmmm mmmm.... okie there i go again...*SNAP* I'm back in the office room again. hee.. gd thing my colleague had some jazzy music playing, at least tats not too bad.

Earlier on at noon, we planned [well sorta of.. pretty last min] a surprise for my colleague. Her bday's on the 22nd [one of me my fav nums ^_^] which so happens to b the 1st day of the Lunar New Yr [public holis] this yr. So we had a pre-bday celebration with her. Had a pretty fun time together eating the cake [chocolate cake~ yummy...], taking pics n stuffs. Lucky for June we din saboh her face with any cream. Guess we've all matured n stop the childish acts of attacking ppl with cream from the cake like we usually did for the rest in the past yrs. Haha.. or mayb we din wan to ruin our nice clothes with xtra cream. We all look great! hehe... June wore pink, Ruoshi wore pink too, dino wore red while the rest wore black. So it was a very pink n red n black celebration.

Oh yeh yeh yeh... not to be left out..... it's me dearest, darling, lil bro's 15th bday on the 19th! awww..... I gave him a BIG TITE HUG the moment i got home n saw him. heh heh.. i sped towards him with all my might, gave him a kiss on his back while hugging him real tite, refusing to budge until he omost fell onto the floor! okay okay... mayb i was jus exaggerating a lil. anyway... i jus shoke his hands while wishing him a happy bday, nxt a few hugs with a few pecks on the back of his shoulders then a spank on his butt. haha... hmm din gave him any pressie. guess the hugs n kisses wld b sufficient eh.. but he didnt liked it much i guess. haha heck care! But hey! I got him a bottle of baileys though. tats my 1st decent pressise to him in all his 15 yrs of life man! Actually its a xmas [2003] cum bday [2004] pressie. Cheapo neh neh me! haha... bad of me too... fancy encouraging him to drink alcohol even b4 the legal age of 16 in s'pore. tsk tsk... But i dun really like baileys, so creamy.. yeeeeww! but guess it's alrite if u add it to coffee n stuffs. ^_^

Had a mini dinner with mum, dad n bro to pre-celebrate me bro's bday on Saturday instead. Saturday's been a pretty packed day for me. Went shopping with Joy for a new dress for chinese new year. [too bad we din get any] then next we each had our hair cut, met up with my godsis n her fren for a lil while snapping photos away b4 i finally move on to join my mum, dad n bro for the dinner celebration. had some nice chinese food at a resturant at Suntec. the food was absolutely fab! GREAT! TASTY! Amongst the dishes... I liked the shark's fin, soft shell crab n the pig's meat best! was one big chunk of the shoulder from the pig cooked the shanghinese style, yeh i think so. was really tasty! yummy!!!!!

After the yummy-li-cious dinner on Saturday, I went with me godsis n her frens to watch a movie marathon organised by 93.3FM in conjunction with their b-day celebration [see! theres so many bdays mentioned in this blog eh.. shld b retitled the bday blog eh? hahaa]. Watched 3 movies respectively...

1] Silver Hawk [Chinese movie starring Michelle Ye]
2] Stuck on you [English movie starring Matt Daemon]
3] Magic Kitchen [Chinese movie starring Sammi Cheng]

Loved the 1st 2 movies, while i tot the 3rd one was kinda crappy. or perhaps i was getting a lil tired when it came to the 3rd one? 1st 2 movies were both very funny. had a bashing time luffing, esp the 1st one. ^_^ Omost towards the end of the 3rd movies, my godsis's frens couldnt take it anymore n headed home 1st. Me n my godsis made it thru n dash for the nearest MRT at once after the 3rd movie ended. Phew.. wat a nite. Reached home abt 7.20am on Sunday. Slept at dawn[7.50] n woke at dusk[5.30pm]. lol...

the Gown...

Few of u might have been wondering abt the gown im to get for being my fren's bridesmaid rite? well... here's the progress so far...

I met up with my fren last wed eve after work to go hunt dwn for the gown while she hunt dwn one for her tea ceremony during the customary wedding. It's the 2nd time of the hunt. The 1st wasnt really tat successful... though tat time i saw a dress tat i really like n wont mind getting since it was pretty cheap too [it was on sale], by the time we got back to the place to buy it, they were oredi closed. Bummer man! Nvm, will get it the nxt day or so then, but my fren told me to wait. Ended up not able to get hold of tat dress, wat a pity... kinda sad... boo hoo hooo... haha. So here we are out on the hunt again. *growls* hunt.. yeah~ This time we noe roughly wats it we r hunting for, so we were pretty quick n fast in the search. Started at Centerpoint Shopping Center, then OG, then Orchard Edmerald [saw a nice red cheong sum there which looked great on my fren, but she din get it cos its not cheap], then Takashimaya. We spotted a few nices ones n tried em on @ taka. Hmm but after trying em on, they din look as great anymore. So before our final stop at Wisma Atrium, we grabbed some ice cream [i had durian n dark chocolate... shld haf gotten the belgium chocolate with the durian instead.] for dinner. Yes! Dinner! Low fat ice cream. We've been trained for this "stunt", so pls dont try this folks... haha.

Okay so last stop was @ Daniel Yam in wisma. Again... kept trying on all the white gowns [well omsot all] i cld find. Finally managed to settle on this one gown. Full length, halter neck, bare back kind with a short "tail" trailing @ the back. overall its a pretty simple gown, pretty in its own simple way [on me that is. hahaa... so thick skin!]. Pretty simple, simply pretty. okok think u get the pic... but it aint cheap to me. i never spent anything like this on a gown b4 ever in my life! *Gasps* But lucky my fren offered to subsidise half of the price. Phew! I was happy n touched. She said she not only wants me to look pretty but also feel comfy in the gown n most importantly i must like wat i will b wearing. Awwww.... *sniffs sniffs* Then she shld haf offered to pay for the whole gown mah. haha... ok im jus being greedy! So i ended up paying abt $80 [after the gown was given a discount] for it. Could say it's a not bad bargain for me then. [hmm mayb i could wear the gown for syndy's wedding in future eh? heh heh...] Now i gotta get shoes to go with the gown.. oh man! headache~ even more shopping. tiring man~

Personality VS horoscope

Did some personality test some time back. Came across something abt my horoscope too. So here are the results. U be the judge n see whether what's described/said abt me is true or not.

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Personality Test Results [sentences/words in bold are what I feel is really true]:

Who I Am

I'm a woman who celebrates life
I have an optimistic outlook and believe in enjoying the good things in life. Life should be "balanced" with lots of time for fun, spontaneity, and romance. I refuse to settle long-term for a boring job or doing something just because it's expected of me. Love is the same way. I can't pretend to care for someone if I'm missing a deep connection. I have lots of friends who really enjoy hearing my jokes and great stories. I'm ready and able to experience romance and a powerful "spark" with someone special. My biggest challenge may be finding time to connect given my busy (and often frantic) life.

What's dating all about to me?
Finding a loving relationship is an ongoing journey for me. I try to learn from each date and new experience and move on. Falling in love comes naturally to me. It doesn't have to make sense. I'm ready to "go with the flow" and see where it leads.

Because I thrive on new adventures and excitement, long-term relationships can be boring. And when I'm bored, I typically try to shake things up. Deciding when and with whom I'm ready to "settle down" is a special challenge for me.

[Guess it's 99% bold eh? hahaha]

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Me Horoscope [sentences/words in bold are what I feel is really true]:

Aries is the cardinal-fire sign which translates into life loving and highly energized and this describes their needs concerning love as well. As a partner they make life exciting, albeit occasionally tiring, and you cannot help but feel rather joyful and light hearted when you're in their company. It's that blend of innocence (the lamb) with pure power (the ram) that is so captivating about an Aries mate.

They don't understand the meaning of the word routine, however, and boredom is the number one killer of Aries romances. Aries loves as boldly and as strongly as it experiences life. From sports to personal challenges Aries are usually not happy unless they are moving after something.

With Mars as their ruling planet often times their entire lives are about channeling and putting that immense power to work for them. It's not uncommon to find an Aries firmly committed to a long term volatile arrangement that leaves those around them wondering why they would stay. The truth is they often thrive on that kind of intensity and it can do far less damage than existing within a relationship that has grown routine and stagnant. When an Aries loves they LOVE.

The partner is hoisted up onto a pedestal whether they want to be there or not and they become a treasure to be protected and guarded passionately. The love of an Aries life often becomes the driving motivation for their challenging goals and the phrase, "I did this for YOU" is one heard in many of the best Aries relationships.

Aries Sexuality
An Aries sexuality is driven, powerful and almost a feat of showmanship when they are truly captivated. Since Aries tend to be action/goal oriented sex can become a series of higher plateaus involving anything their fertile imaginations can conjure up. Aries are the zodiac show-off and the bedroom isn't excluded from their dramatic and captivating ability to get partners undivided attention. The more appreciated they feel the more they invest in their lovemaking and private boundaries exist only to give an Aries something to leap over. Marathons of passion, spontaneous liaisons in the most unexpected places and inexhaustible stamina are all part of the Aries basic sexual make-up.

The Long Term Story
Lots of pampering and a lot of attention are needed with an Aries lover as they thrive on feeling they are number one in your life. They love to do the initial chasing and are usually not attracted to being chased but once their heart is given you can't ever over-do your displays of affection. While they can be jealous and possessive you cannot show the same qualities and any kind of clinging is a sure fire way to drive them into new pastures. Under all the Aries bravado and show is actually a rather innocent child who simply wants to explore the wonderful world around them and to be appreciated. The more encouraged they are in either area the more exuberant they become.

Positive Traits in Love
Exuberance, expressiveness, passion, generosity, adoration, protectiveness, adventuress, fun loving, creative and energized lovemaking, and devotion.

Negative Traits
Temperamental, jealous, possessive, ego oriented, inconsiderate, reckless, fickle [SO DAMN TRUE!]

What an Aries Likes
Being number one, A positive attitude, A life loving comrade, A partner who has style or a 'look', Being Seen Getting gifts, Loyalty, Being active together. Romance and dazzle. [oh my, true!]

What an Aries Dislikes
Being bored, Being chased, Sloppiness in a mate, Criticism, Anything mundane, Feeling unappreciated, Feeling inferior, Losing, Having to repeat things. Displays of insecurity. [how very true too]

Aries Love Keywords
Dramatic, romantic, original, passionate, energized, creative, spontaneous

[heh heh... so now some of you peeps out there know what's me horoscope then eh]

pimples r sad ~

ARGH!!!! I M SO MAD MAD MAD! SO ANGRY!!!! My mum threw away my pimple gel/cream! ARGH!!! HOW COULD SHE!!!!! Sobs sobs ...... SO MAD!!!!!! Now i need to waste $ to go get a new one. DAMN! The tube of gel hasnt totally been used up yet man. ARGH! My poor pimples.The gel i use for the pimples aint cheap man. I HATE wasting $ unnecessarily! Darn! Hmm, the gel din seem really tat effective but i dun care! sobs sobs...... my pimple gel. boo hooo hooo ... my pimples feel so lost without it!!!! GRRrRRRrrr...... MAD! OH pimple gel oh pimple gel, where art thou for? come back to me! So mad so sad.....*screams* call me behaving like some unreasonable child for all u want... i dun give it a damn! i jus wan my pimple gel back!!!!! *stomps feet* ARGH!!!!!!!! IM SO MAD!!!!! Im FUMING!!!!!! *pulls hair* ARGH!!!!!!!! *SCREAMS*


K, feeling jus a tiny weeny bit better now after letting off some fume. off to bed. Will continue fuming when i wake up later. Shall confront my mum abt my pimple gel when awake. GRrRRRrr...... sobs... poor pimples ... *screams*


ARGH!!!!!!!! MAD MAD MAD!!! FUMING!!!!! Boo hoo hooo >_< sad

Opps~ I did it again!

Was suppose to meet up with my godsis today, but it was sorta postphone to another day cos another fren of ours had something else on. So decided to do a bit of sty [my room] cleaning today. In the end, I went blading instead, haha ... godsis dun kick me if u see this. hahaha...

It's been a mth since i last went blading or vballing. legs really getting itchy, wan some rolling action yeah~ so ECP here i come! Met up with Darren n Jeremy there. Been some time since i last saw em too. Glad to be seeing Darren again b4 he gets his ass back to KL again. haha...

I didnt had my guards on today, cldnt b bothered with em. All went pretty well at the start. lol.... As usual we blade for a while & rest for a long long while. Well, at some point i Omost fell once when i blade past some branches on the path, but lucky i managed to keep my balance. Scary! But hey im getting good! woo hooo hooo! While we guys were making our way back after having some tasty, sweet coconut juice from the hawker [YES! The hawker stalls r finally reopened after the long long renovation! FINALLY!! It's abt time they reopen for biz too man], i lost balance n fell! Guess I shouldnt haf spoken too fast abt not falling eh?! DAMN! OUCH ouch OUCH!!! Too bad Darren who was behind couldnt prevent me from my fall. Thanx anyway. Sobs... another scar or 2 [on my left knee] to add to my collection of scars in total! Tat does it!!!!! No more trying to act cool while blading again! Tats it! 2nd time trying to do the snake slalom while speeding along ECP. No more slaloming @ ecp without guards on again for me, no no no more! boo hoo hooo ... my poor knee, me n my ego, acting cool shit! hahaha! Oh well i deserved it anyway. lalalalalaa.......

Oh yeah... Jerremy, thanks for ur "ko yok" plasters man. =)

After blading, I still gotta rush to meet my parents n bro @ Chinatown to catch the fireworks there. It's abt 34 yrs [think so] since we Singaporeans ever witness real fireworks display man. This I hope not to miss. Like some kid eh i? Hell lotsa ppl abt, wat a crowd! Freaking scary. Lucky i managed to find my parents n bro. @ 7.30pm, the fireworks started going off...for 5 mins it went BANG BANG BOOM BA BAH TAH DAH BANG BOOM BOOM BOO! Cool! Jus like how it was in the movies. But.... but... but... we couldnt see it go off! Simply too many ppl abt, we cldnt make our way to the place where we cld witness those fireworks. Our spirits werent dampen cos of tat, the BING BANG BOOM BAM BAM was loud enuff to keep us amused. We joked with each other, saying this is oni part 1. Part 2 is waiting for us back at home when we catch it on TV news. haha... Part 1 to be heard, n Part 2 to be seen on TV.

A whole New Year

1 day down, 365 days more to go. caught yer there din i? dun forget there's 29 days in Feb this yr.

Time flies, turning older again by another yr [as oways]. Doesnt matter how old one's turning into, as long as u noe u have ur great pals with u, it's more than anything one cld ask for. ^_^ Though this yr the gals in fab4 [lisi, trixy, syndy & i] shall each haf her own plans and might not haf the chance to meet up as much, its kinda sad/depressing to even think abt this. Nevertheless as wat Trix said, there will b a day we all reunite again. it wont b far... for the time being, guess I jus gotta make do with being in Singapore still. Earn/save more $$$ n travel ard the world. Fulfill my own dreams [still working tat bit out] n start living my own life instead of jus being a follower [kinda reminds me of Sam in LOTR, but i'm suppose to be more like pippin in LOTR. haha...]. Gotta make my own stand! Yeah!

On new yr's eve, we had our feast together, last dinner together for fab4 + victor in 2003. Ate until we were all so full man! Nxt we kept taking pics of us b4 xchanging our xmas pressies. Hell lotsa pics n fun! Squashing onto each other, heads all stuck together, snapping snapping snapping away~ Wasnt after a long while b4 we finally opened our pressies. Hope the gals liked wat i gave. I loved wat they gave me. I got a num of stationary stuffs from Syn; eyeshadow & an eeyore tumbler from lisi; a cookie, incense scent burner & sesame street toy figurines from Trix. Felt like a kid again. keke... Nxt we all played Malaky, some sorta bluffing game. I was winning in the begining, but came in last at the end. Guess my ans given were getting crappier n cornier as the game progressed. We all had a really bashing time luffing all the way.

Spent the start of the new yr still at vic's place with the fab4, ate our rice dumplings for branch [breakfast + lunch = branch], yummylicious~ I liked the red bean filling one best. Watched 3 movies, [ monster inc., taxi 2 & 3 ] straight in a row. Woo hoo~ Had canadian pizzas n over toasted garlic bread for our 1st dinner together in 2004. heh heh... Great fun with the gals! Syn wun let it pass, not until we had a game of scrabbles with her. I was so bad at the game that i needed an xtra pair of eyes from syndy. thnx gal! Came in 2nd last though.

It's been really a long time since we gals had such fun. May many such days come again where we gals will meet up again n haf just as much fun together. Oh yeah i havent given Lisi her hug yet >_< *grinz*