Clearing the back log… here we go!

1. My ex is: an ex for a reason

2. Maybe I should: move to the UK/NY/HK/Australia for awhile

3. I love: too easily

4. I don’t understand: Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

5. I lose: focus easily

6. People say I: should drink more water!

7. Love is: not just passion and compatibility, but also respect and admiration.

8. Somewhere, someone is: dragging a Christmas tree along their snow covered lawn into the house, about to decorate it with tinsel, lights, baubles and ornaments.

9. I will always: turn the chair away from me before I sleep.

10. Forever is: never forever. I don’t believe in forevers anymore.

11. I never want to: settle for something less than what I deserve.

12. I think the current US President: is a refreshing change.

13. When I wake up in the morning: I wipe the drool away, turn off the aircon and jump straight into the shower, no dilly-dally! Get UP and Get Going!

14. My past was: messy with sparks of awesomeness!

15. I get annoyed when: SICC keeps sending me rubbish by post! Save the planet people, stop printing useless minutes and notices and stick them online instead. At least have an opt out function in place.

16. Parties are for: all

17. My dog is: across the rainbow bridge.

18. My cat is: non-existent.

19. Kisses are the best when: you least expect them. Like when you’re walking on the busy side walks of Hong Kong and he stops you in your steps and turns to give you smooch. Hot!

20. Tomorrow: I’m going to spend quality time with the family! Auntie Wendy is in town

21. I really want: to see snow again…

22. I have low tolerance for people who: don’t have a good head on their shoulders.

23. I am tagging: everyone

…a company would name their product collon (colon), especially when it looks like a cross section of a small intestine too?

I don’t know why, but I’m not at all enticed into patronising this restaurant which recently opened at China Square.

It’s just the phrasing on the signboard… hmmmmm…

Anyone knows what’s wrong with the menu from The Secret Garden at Middle Road, Sculpture Square?

On a side note, if you haven’t been there in awhile, prepare to be utterly disappointed. They’ve change the concept to cater to the students from the art schools around. It has a more canteen-self-service feel to it, nothing like what it used to be. Service was appalling and food quality was a far cry from what it was previously.

Meme from “ditzy”

I know these memes are sometimes pointless, but I always love reading what my friends post. Learn something new about them everytime. Plus, I need to clear my backlog of drafts. So here we go.

1. What time did you get up this morning?
Alarm rang at 7am, hit the snooze, woke up at 7:45am (Shit! I’m going to be late!)

2. Diamonds or pearls?
Diamonds

3. What’s the last film you saw at the cinema?
Blindness (6/10)

4. What’s your favourite TV show?
Can’t settle on just one show – Heroes? Any Jamie Oliver production?

5. What do you usually have for breakfast?
Marmite on toast

6. What’s your middle name?
Leow

7. What foods do you dislike?
Durian, Jackfruit, Liver, Chicken feet, the jelly part of the century egg, pineapples.

8. What’s your favourite CD at the moment?
Justin Nozuka

9. What kind of car do you drive?
Rav4 in Australia, Mum’s Nissan Sunny, on occasions Dad’s baby Jag

10. Favourite sandwich?
Ham & Cheese, or Chicken Avacado (You can’t make me choose! That’s just too difficult)

11. What characteristic do you despise?
Arrogance

12: Favourite item of clothing?
Boxer shorts

13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, you´d go to:
Greece

14. Are you an organized person?
Depends. Yes and No.

15. Where you’d retire to?
Countryside in Europe, or maybe Australia

16. What’s your most recent memorable birthday?
Surprise 21st birthday

17. What’re you going to do when you finish this?
Sleep! I’m on a mission tonight to sleep early!

18. Furthest place you’ve ever been?
West Coast U.S.A (Los Angeles and San Francisco)

19. Where are you now?
Singapore. In my bedroom.

20. When’s your birthday?
This Saturday

21. What’s your shoe size?
39/40

22. Who’s the last person you spoke to on the phone?
My mum.

23. How many pets do you have?
None

24. Any new & exciting news?
I’m an Auntie? But that’s not exactly new news.

25. What you wanted to be when you were little?
- Marine biologist
- Golf caddie driver
- Flight Stewardess
- Hotel Owner

26. How’re you today?
Sleepy.

27. Favourite flower?
Tulip

28. What’re you listening to right now?
Ray Lamontagne – Empty

29. What’s a day on the calendar you’re looking forward to?
31st December 2008 – Coz this year is a poopie year and I can’t wait till it’s over.

30. What’s the last thing you ate?
An almond

31. Do you wish on stars?
Shooting ones.

32. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be?
Grey

35. Favourite soft drink?
I don’t like soft drinks. If I had to make a choice, 100plus? Fanta Strawberry?

36. Favourite restaurant?
Changes all the time, for now White Rabbit

37. Hair colour?
Brown with skunk blonde

38. What’s your favourite toy as a child?
Mickey mouse

39. Summer or Winter?
Winter

41. Chocolate or vanilla?
Vanilla

42. Coffee or tea?
Coffee

43. Do you want your friends answer this meme?
Yeah!

44. When’s the last time you cried?
Sunday night

45. What’s under your bed?
I don’t have an “under your bed”.

46. What did you do last night?
Paint my nails

47. What’re you afraid of?
The dark

48. Salty or sweet?
50/50 – Sweet on top, Salty on the bottom. But if possible, vertical division is the best!

49. How many keys on your key ring?
1,2,3,4!

50. How many years have you been working in your current job?
1,2!

51. Favourite day of the week?
Saturday

52. Do you make friends easily?
It takes awhile for me to warm up.

53. Do you like finding out all this stuff about your friends?
Yeah!

TAG YOU’RE IT!

A friend emailed me this morning
“Happy Hump Day”!

Me, being the illiterate I am, had to check on Urban dictionary just to double check it wasn’t an inappropriate comment.

Hump day
Wednesday, the middle of a work week (Wednesday); used in the context of climbing a proverbial hill to get through a tough week. The middle of the week, implying that you have to get “over the hump” before you can anticipate the weekend. The term was not originally intended to carry a second, more risqué meaning.
-Urban Dictionary-

If that’s the case…

I don’t know about you, but I find this quite wrong! I took this photo at a gas station in Malaysia.

There are quite a few references to that word, but these are the ones I’m talking about:

Nip may refer to:

credit: Wikipedia

Of all words, couldn’t they have chosen a more P.C. name like Chocolate drops or choconuts?

By David Thomas
Last Updated: 9:13PM BST 12 Aug 2008

To most of us it has always seemed obvious that an octopus has eight arms.
But experts have now revealed that this assumption is wrong – as two of their long tentacle-like limbs are in fact legs.

A study by scientists at Sea Life centres across Europe found that the invertebrates move across the sea bed using their two rearmost limbs, leaving the other six free for the important business of feeding.

Researchers who observed the creatures in action found they push off with the “legs” and then employ the other tentacles to pump themselves along.

The study, the largest of its type carried out, was designed to show if octopuses favoured one side or the other.

But it found that octopuses are ambidextrous, though many seem to favour their third arm from the front to eat with.

Octopuses either swim or crawl across the seabed.

If they need to move fast they can shoot a jet of water from an opening in their body.

Scientists from 20 centres across Europe analysed data from 2,000 observations of common octopuses to get the results.

Claire Little, a marine expert from the Weymouth Sea Life Centre in Dorset, said: “We’ve found that octopuses effectively have six arms and two legs.

“Observations showed that they use the rearmost two to get around over rocks and the seabed.

“They also use these two legs to push off when they wish to swim, and then other tentacles are used to propel them.”

15. Wake the dead!
If your hand falls asleep while you’re driving or sitting in an odd position, rock your head from side to side. It’ll painlessly banish your pins and needles in less than a minute, says Dr. DeStefano. A tingly hand or arm is often the result of compression in the bundle of nerves in your neck; loosening your neck muscles releases the pressure. Compressed nerves lower in the body govern the feet, so don’t let your sleeping dogs lie. Stand up and walk around.

16. Impress your friends!
Next time you’re at a party, try this trick: Have a person hold one arm straight out to the side, palm down, and instruct him to maintain this position. Then place two fingers on his wrist and push down. He’ll resist. Now have him put one foot on a surface that’s a half inch higher (a few magazines) and repeat. This time his arm will fold like a house of cards. By misaligning his hips, you’ve offset his spine, says Rachel Cosgrove, C.S.C.S., co-owner of Results Fitness, in Santa Clarita, California. Your brain senses that the spine is vulnerable, so it shuts down the body’s ability to resist.

17. Breathe underwater!
If you’re dying to retrieve that quarter from the bottom of the pool, take several short breaths first—essentially, hyperventilate. When you’re underwater, it’s not a lack of oxygen that makes you desperate for a breath; it’s the buildup of carbon dioxide, which makes your blood acidic, which signals your brain that somethin’ ain’t right. “When you hyperventilate, the influx of oxygen lowers blood acidity,” says Jonathan Armbruster, Ph.D., an associate professor of biology at Auburn University. “This tricks your brain into thinking it has more oxygen.” It’ll buy you up to 10 seconds.

18. Read minds!
Your own! “If you’re giving a speech the next day, review it before falling asleep,” says Candi Heimgartner, an instructor of biological sciences at the University of Idaho. Since most memory consolidation happens during sleep, anything you read right before bed is more likely to be encoded as long-term memory.