A Mind of My Own

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It looks like an act of god. This Mustang’s roof was seriously damaged by a chunk of ice that fell from the sky suddenly. A witness was just next to it changing his car’s tyre when it happened. He was very fortunate that it was on the car and not his head.

Speculations that it may have come from an airplane’s lavatory but there was no blue tint which indicated that it was. Wow, now I know that airplane’s ice from the toilet has blue tint. I was wondering if the ice really fell from the sky and not a passing airplane, what would Mr Carlos Javage say?

Ah, 4D fever. Every week, numbers are randomly chosen and put up for anyone who have bought it to check if they have won. How to buy 4D lei? Actually, you must buy it with some sense. If you were in an unofortunate car accident, check which part of the vehicle was banged up. If you got hit from the back, buy the number backwards. If you got hit in the front (mind you, you have to pay for 20% of damages caused, by law, you are in the wrong because you hit someone, duh, unless in the case of DK. It wasn’t really his fault and yet he had to pay for it. How to stop your car when it’s being bulldozed by a commercial bus?), buy the actual number.

If you have changed all 4 wheels of your car, buy iBet (all permutations of the 4 numbers la). So many ways to buy 4D. I can’t possibly list them down. Oh, if you really into it, just buy those books that contains pictures and the numbers.

[Note: I'm just stating what I know. I'm not encouraging anyone to gamble on 4D alone. There is no garantee on winnings hor.]

Cute Overload has posted 18 pandas from China Daily. There’s a contest to name all of them, it ends on Feb 5. So, quick! Brainstorm for names! The pands sure are cute! I wuv ‘em!

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I had read today’s newspapers about Xu Wei Lun being in coma due to a serious car accident. Her assistant who suffered somecuts was driving the car but she was in coma because of internal bleeding. I thought that she would be able to make it until I read 死亡. A quick search led me to her bio written by her fan.

She was born in 1978. Life for her was very short. I’ve watched Taiwan’s Meteor Garden which shot F4 to higher heights. F4 has since disbanded. Frankly speaking, they have no vocals to speak of In terms of looks, Vic Chou looks good with his chin-length hair. Vaness Wu has cut his short which definitely looks way better for him. Wei Lun had acted in it but I can’t seem to place her in any character, maybe it’s because I didn’t watch all the episodes.

Speaking which, Japan’s version of Meteor Garden is going to be shown next month on 都会. I wonder if the guys are handsome or not. There’s no point in watching if the guys are not attractive, right? Life’s short, so we must fully utilise it.

I was thinking of lunch. I just lost my appetite, almost, when I read the links provided here on the swimming marathon in Amazon. Talk about removal of private parts due to this fish latching on inside. A link provided by another blogger talked about this doctor purposely removed a 35-year-old married man’s most important organ due to stress (he claimed).

By reading such reports, it seems safer to swim in pools rather than the deep unknown. However, there have been reports in the recent past with drownings, even in a condominium jacuzzi. Apparently, water can both save and kill any person. It doesn’t matter where you swim in, the sea, ocean or pool.

Swim at your own risk, even with the life guard around.

I wished that there’s an Immunity necklace for me to wear, you know the necklace that is always an important feature in Survivor, so that no one will ask me when it’s my turn to get married. Marriage is something that is sacred, I repeat, sacred. I felt as if I was being forced into marriage last night. Yes, I know, age is catching up on me and I will find it difficult to give birth once I hit the big 3.

I had a dream when I was younger, the kind young naive girls think. I would get married before 20, have my 1st child at 21 - 22, have another 1 at 24 - 26, be the young mother, retire by 40 because my kids should be able to work already and enjoy doing my favourite stuff such as travelling and writing during retirement. Look at me now. I am still unmarried.

Everytime my maternal grandma hears my voice, she’d go “Got find anyone or not? Make sure choose the right one hor.” Did I mentioned that she’d like great grandkids? I’m really starting to worry about going to dinners. They should be relaxed and I shouldn’t be the focus of when I’m getting married! It’s already difficult to attend weddings to catch up with friends, so please stop asking me.

I don’t know why.

Now, had this post had just contained that above line with such an eye-grabbing title, you would have killed me. You don’t want to click and to read this 1 sentence that doesn’t add any value to this post title, do you? I have clicked on some interesting title such as “I hate you!”, “Why I hate banks”, “You should buy iPod”, etc only to read the emphasis on the title and nothing to why it was banks are hateful, why you hate me and why I should buy iPod.

If there’s no good reason why I should buy iPod other than “It’s cool looking!”, please, don’t be the salesperson for iPod. Apple may just start to lose its shares.  I read new posts on Wordpress if the title catches my attention. I had clicked on this post about banks and all I read was that bank customers are lousy. Nothing to describe in what ways they are lousy. Well, I can tell you, it’s a lousy post. Just by this meaning, you know what I mean by lousy.

Top blogs don’t get to the top just by writing adjectives. They contain nouns, pronouns, active, passive, adverbs, past, future and present tense. They also contain coherent sentences to convey their meanings. They don’t hinder web experiences.

Aye, I’m in a picky mood today.

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I feel seasick. I’m not at at sea. I just feel nauseous from wearing my glasses all day. I can’t seem to find my centre of gravity. I feel like dumping the glasses but I can’t see anything further than my arm’s length to function properly. I have been looking at the various clinics that provide lasik. I don’t know which clinic to choose. There’s SNEC, TTSH, Lasik Surgery Centre, Eye Care Clinic, Lasik Surgery Clinic and a lot more to choose from. The price range is mind boggling too.

Since I’m not into contact sports, I doubt that I will be miserable without sports for 2 months No swimming for a month, sounds ok to me. Now, I just have to book an appointment for the evaluation on whether I’m a suitable candidate for it. I hope I am. First, I shall have to decide on which clinic.

There are different ways of cooking eggs. You can

• Soft/hard boil (soft boil as the egg is still runny. Just add some pepper and soy sauce)
• Poach the egg (with photos included)
• Steam the eggs (also known as custard, water is added to make it smooth)
• Omelet
• Sunny side up (fried on one side only, I love it when the yolk’s still runny!)
• Scrambled
• Egg flower (where the egg is cooked in the soup and separated before it gets cooked to form thin wisps of egg)

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I may have missed out some methods to cook the egg but I think some of the methods mean the same thing. I simply love it when the egg yolk’s runny. It’s a mess if it’s on the plate but not when it flows in your mouth

I like to enter contests and see if I will win something, anything. Heh. I’m entering this post in engtech’s contest. Now, I wonder if my title is valid. Oh well, here goes nothing.

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There’s only about 3 weeks to February 14. Ah, the famous date that everyone knows, except for babies. It’s the day where the hearts are all around. The day where the roses are out in buds to full blooms. The day were you declare your love to your crush and hoping you won’t be crushed. The day where you profess your life-long commitment and hoping you won’t be regretting it.

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