a peculiarity of the sisterhood

we had a conversation just now..on some pecularities of daily lving or life in general..

was asked, "did you notice, that people tend to yawn at the same time?"

and i said "no? do you?"

it's strange but he thought it was some matrix like glitch in a system like the occurence of dejavu in the matrix the movie, that people tend to yawn at the same time (simultanesouly)..i just thought it would be purely a mattter of coincidence or several factors brought together, like the post lunch+aircon+soft sofa, that make more people sleepy and more people tend to yawn..


so i asked him something which we talked about the other night, even though this is more of a ladies sort of question

"do you know, that women tend to have their menses rescheduled to coincide with that of the othe women they are close to?" "how do you explain that?"

does that happen to you?

it does for me. i happen to have, in each period of my life, a few close female friendships and companionships..and overtime each time i notice our menses will reschedule such that, that time of the month will happen at about the same time of the month... and i have a feeling this does not only happen to us!


my theory on this, i told the husband..the theory of course deduced solely from watching a few animal documentaries:

animals which are non-social like our domestic cat, they have their menses at different times..how do i figure this?..well i suppose, because i think if they do the neighbourhood will be very very noisy at the same time of the month..


but other social animals like ...errr.. lionesses in africa..seem to welcome the male lions at the same time, or from what i gather by watching national geographic channel. i mean all the lionesses seem ready and able though not necessarily willing to get it on at the same time..meaning, they probaly have their time of the month at the same time...

does it make sense?

or i am just rambling??

or even imagining about the time of the month thing??

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even the background sound doesnt match..hahah

but i like it. this song. for the start of the weekend. (la vie en rose- you know dianaser sang tis in french during her wedding)

its also a nice throw back your shoes, turn down the lights, sink into the sofa, and get a hug and kiss type of song :)

on another adventure

eversince we got married, we have been to a few trips. bali, lombok and phuket...

all within 6 months! i know we are awful...terrible..tsk tsk

but all along we have been planning and pinching here and there and travelling is our indulgence.

and we have been planning another one.
for this end of the year, we have explored a few options...


and the decision

is


finally


on



INDIA!


we've got the india LP, read as many posts on the necessary forums. consulted a few people here and there.


we know a lot of people think the country is dirty and chaotic. we have no illusions that it is otherwise, therefore we had planned to do a half-half trip.

the hardest section we thought we would do a pre-organised trip. the gtt, the golden triangle trip we decided to sign up with muhibbah travel (muhibbah= muslim + organised trip= parents wont freak out and think that we are crazy)


that would have covered about 5 days of our trip, and the plan was to do the remaining on our own.

so today we headed down to the the agency.


spent two hours there. i have already did all the research i think i could have done. even knew all the necessary train numbers (the agent took out a "India Trains at a Glance" guide and was suitably impressed that i knew exactly what he was looking for in that convoluted book of train timetable). you know i even quoted the distances between the cities..kwakwakwa..

and am pretty knowledgable about the heritage circuit.

so he knew we know our stuffs..phfft..

stil the agent told us SINGAPOREANS CANNOT BACKPACK in INDIA....only the hare krisnas types can take it he said.

and had something else in mind..


as always, we like to keep our options open and since we always work on and around a budget, we told him what we wanted. we stated our budget. our wants and preferences.


and right now, we are awaiting for that plan. it wont be a package tour. he got something tailored for us...a combination of plane, trains and automobiles..instead of what he said the "india train rides that us singaporean cant take"


you know, i was looking forward to the train travelling..



but we'll see for now. waiting for emails, going to do some comparisons.


and we'll decide..


but the trip is sort of confirmed.


we've booked our air tickets to delhi!

a song for the soundtrack of my life

i havent had music here for some time..

but i thought, for the fun of it, i'll put tis up since i blogged about it. buble has a cover of this, so can compare. tis one is more old skool but i love it.

some music just conjure certain scenes of your life..and when i first heard this by ninasimone, i thought this would be a good song for the soundtrack of my life. if i can have one.

at least for a part of it.

for the time when we woke up at 6 a.m. the first morning after our wedding day. finally the wedding was over, and it was the start of a new life. we woke up early to catch a cab to the airport for the first flight to bali. it was quite a rush, but we just couldnt wait to go and leave for the holiday together.

this song. perfect for that moment.

wanderlusty notes

hmm...some people have been planning their next holiday eh!

..so have i!

my holiday plans have been changing so very often though..

just last night during dinner we did some mental calculations on the finances..and we decided to ditch our last plan. eventhough i am a bit sad. i have even gotten the LP!

but i figured, its wiser to put more into our savings, you know in case something unplanned i.e. pregnancy happens. nevermind that we may get a small yet tidy sum for the year end bonus..we need to build the nest for next year and beyond.

but that same very night, the ever so wanderlusty me, came up with alternatives.

we just might fly somewher nearer yet not so near. someplace that used to starts with a C now known as something else..similar sounding, but starts with a K..then proceed on to a place that starts with a D..and possibly another place that starts with a S.

if we do get there, i'll blog about it. but only after we have a nice cup of tea and maybe some scones.

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here's what i wrote about kohphangan

i cant remember where we stayed..but at kohphangan, eat at
hiatus if its still there.

i cant recommend any accomodation at phangan coz the majority of accomodation at main hardrin beach were just the backpackish places. and 3 yrs ago that fitted us just nice. if you are planning to be there for the fullmoon thing, be sure you go to phangan and get your rooms a few days BEFORE the party.

at samui, chaweng has the most variety of accomodation and is also the hub of activities. saying that i love bophut for the rusticness..

but let's say you want to go new-agish after the partying and do a colonic cleansing (that's what that place is famous for), i can reccomend the sanctuary..

about the weather..it may rain in dec..but i think there will still be quite a lot of people especially those escaping from winter europe.

nearing that two year itch..

i have not been blogging about work here. you know, i used to blog alot more about work when i was at fmkt. real names and all. and i used to whine and complain and bitch about it..now i dont do such things online..tsk tsk..eventhough i soo soo miss my itsanismn days when i felt more 'free' to blog. i miss the girl with the sun in her hair..

now, i dont feel comfortable blogging about work here, even the good things, for many reasons.

i had blogged about my decision to do a switch to what i am doing now. i cant remember what i blogged then..but let's just say at 25 i had that thing called quarter life crisis, got disillusioned and wanted to do something more meaningful.

so now i am almost 2 years into this new job . and you know 2 years is the time when you get what i call the 2 year itch (that's about how long i stayed at the last job before i call it quits), coz its the time when you have sort of learnt the ropes, the social structure, politics and all..and you start to wonder whether you are in it for good...

i had a moment of reflection the other day. i felt something that i didnt get to feel when i was at my previous job. maybe i abit perasan or delusional..but i felt powerful.

is that a good excuse to like the job? ..hahahah..i was 'powerful' or rather somewhat instrumental in 'free-ing or moving' markets previously. but that was like a stupid perverse kind of power.


i like it better now.

well, of coz the job is not a perfect 10. it gets dreary sometimes. i have whined.. and silly agendas crop up which distract us..but to risk sounding like one of the taglines for our corporate ads, i think i really found some meaning here...

like in the past few days, i had looked into some people's eyes..and i see clearly sadness..and from it i see my place in this scheme of things.

plus i always think i am somewhat luckier being here because here it isnt really quite the struggle, because they, well most of them, understand what they need to do, and we understand that need.

so yeah, sometimes i do complain about the job..but who doenst? no place is an utopia but one must work out one's tolerance ratio to a job. detachment-attachment.

take the job as just a job so that you wont get burnt out or dellusioned..but the same time, for me at least, i need to have my heart in it. and the ones i work with are the ones that give me a whole lot of heart. they can be the sweetest people i have ever met and they can be the ones who make you feel sad (on how unfair the world seems)

so yeah, i have sucky working hours, the job is not as glam as what i had, the pay wont make me super rich. but for another one year or perhaps two..i can still see myself doing this.

..well..uhmmm maybe until the day it gets to the point i have to spew it out like i did in itsanismn. when it gets to the point where i just can have a heartattack and collapse....


but nah, we have done our share of fire-fightings..and what i have right now isn't a bad deal...

food for thought

the last few days, since my MIL was not in, we have been eating a lot of meat. particulary red meat. my MIL's meat of choice has always been fish. she is particular about what she cooks for the family and fish for her is the healthiest meat. i have to say i am thankful that i have food prepared for me and appreciate it that she has the family's health in mind when she cooks but we have been having so much of that with vegetables that sometimes i do have craving for meat.

and yesterday, we had asked the domestic helper (on loan) to prepare daging masak kicap. the stew was so delicious coated with glistening oil (something my MIL wouldnt actually aprrove) which makes the beef even tastier, i had saved some for today to have for my lunch...


so i truly love my beef. i eat meat. i know i once said i wanted to try to be a vegetarian, but it's difficult. i only can cut down on chicken (which i dont like for many reasons) but red meat, i'll eat.


one thing that crossed my mind and disturbed me as i chewed on the beef last night, was a report or rather news i read last month on the banning of australian beef to malaysia.

let's just say i am pro-animal welfare (hence also a big reason why i dont like chicken). and as what said of the ban, i read somewhere that pure halal ritual slaughter prohibits stunning so its pretty worrying to know that some approved abbatoirs practice stunning.

makes me wonder what our MUIS's requirements are for halal slaughter of lifestocks.

what a little moonlight (and smoke) can do...

the family went on a holiday and we had to jaga the house plus a domestic helper, so instead of the usual guys night out, we decided on a night in..and invited friends who once were regulars at 7bg.

he misses those days you know.

its been sometime. 6 months to be exact, cause that's how long we've been married and how long they have not been hanging out at the house like some of them often used to..

we had a crackling good time as the full moon shone bright (with a moonbrella, that's the new name for that halo we saw). and as the fire crackled and coal burnt to ember....

i got to observe a few things. nothing new, but just an affirmation of a few things..

there seems to be a standard format to their conversation or rather sentences. most times sentences seem to end with the word that begins with 'S'
something he said about accentuating their identity.

and the FHM answers to questions asked ..
"why do hurricanes have female names?"
" because all hurricanes have a hole in em"

hmmm...

it was fun. just to chill, eat and talk. makes me look forward to the next time the folks go for another trip.

i know i promise some peeps a round of it. i will try ok.


and oh, since the MIL was away..i also get to do a CFF: alioliolio

egg story

the other night i had a strange dream..in my dream, i was eating telur penyu. and in that dream, there was hana beside me eating telur penyu as well..after i finished mine, she urged me to have more, and pointed to the ground, where there was a nest and a huge penyu laying eggs...

is that warped or what? i am also amused..figuring out what the dream meant.

anyway, i can't remember if i did take another telur penyu, or whether a pang of guilt hit me and i stopped...all i know is ..i havent had a telur penyu for a very long time.

some random rambling

- i m feeling a bit wasted these days..not in that way..more like i feel like i cant do much or not doing much. out of the office stuck in the west doing something quite silly. sigh.

- only consolation is i get to meet a friend for lunch.

- another consolation..i am in the west, but still near the last civilised place of the far west..according to my own definition. where the air and food is still good. therefore i manage to get myself another tarako treat.

- was talking to her about our N/T marathon the other day. how we liked it..and how he thinks its funny take on mid-life crisis....and i started talking about mid-life crisis and how i like to avoid it..hahahah then i thought again, my god! i am not even near there yet, but i am already planning for it.

- huuuuuuhhhh...watching MTV now..i am watching for the first time buble's mtv of a remix of one of my favourite ninasimone's song. pls listen to nina's version if you can. it's not buble..it's nina. she does it better. really! ..no offence to buble, but he spoils the song for me :(

okay dats all for silly ramblings. i have to get ready for work now...

oh..the silly ramblings come at this hour coz we have our sleeping pattern adjusted so that we are in bed by 10 and awake by 4am. guess its not a bad thing..you know, fasting month is near..

some math for u

tis is for the husband...

* 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives a result of 12,345,678,987,654,321

* Multiply 21978 by 4 and you get 87912, which is the original number in reverse.

* 12345679 multipled by a product of 9 gives a nine digit sequence of the factor used. For example, 12345679 × (1 × 9) = 111111111, 12345679 × (2 × 9) = 222222222, etc. (This only works for single digit multiples of 9.)

* 142857 is known as a cyclic number: the individual digits always appear in different positions when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. (142857 × 2 = 285714, 142857 × 3 = 428571, 142857 × 4 = 571428, 142857 × 5 = 714285, 142857 × 6 = 857142.)

* Pick any prime number larger than 5, multiply it by itself (i.e, find the square of the prime number you picked), add 17 to it and divide it by 12: you will always get a remainder of 6.


or do you already know these?

i did say, i like home-made ice-cream..

havent tried any of jamie's stuffs yet...


but yesterday, thanks to hot weather and soursop abundance...

i sorbet up da fruit!



the girl is back to eating, after that nasty stomach flu ;)

a series of (un)fortunate events

if you do the numbers or believe in patterns....

9/11 is my birthdate, which also is that date of the WTC attack

77 is the birthyear..and 7/7 is the date of the london train attack...

seems 'swai' eh...

but despite these bad happenings....


i actually think my life has been filled with a series of fortunate events.

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it was a a good night out. a three-in-one-er..

and i really had a great time. at each one of them.
really needed that.



thanks babes..it was so schweet. everyone. everything.
e yummy cakes. e books (hahahah..ok..i shall try eh..)

n doing the catching uping was definitely really nice :)

doodles

i've been too busy n distracted to blog...but let's see..

one morning last week, i woke up early and felt terribly nauseaus. i had a drink and slept on it again..but soon after breakfast i threw up. and then again twice that morning.

my PILs were asking, if i was going to do a pregnancy test.....hahaah...

but OF COZ NOT...coz i was 100% sure i wasnt..well..i had that regular visitor that very day so i couldnt possibly be.


i actually had one nasty stomach flu.

a train ticket to G. a winter date.

"A sun dwells in this place and even its shadow is blessed.
In this palace a multitude of pleasures capture the eye and suspend the intellect.
Here a crystal world teaches marvels.
Everywhere Beauty is carved, opulence is manifest."

watch local

we caught a movie last night.
perth: the geylang massacre.



i shant say its a nice movie. coz it is not. it got quite gory and i had to cover my eyes at the last parts.

i dont plan to catch the maid. but i think the aunties sitting infront of us did and were comparing with that one. coz at the end of the show heard them mentioning that perth is a low budget film..a remark which we found funny. i think they were expecting a glossy slick singaporean movie.

which it wasnt.it's grityy . and some people say it pays homage to 'taxi driver'

it shows the otherside of singapore, its underbelly, that the folks in stb wont show to the world. heck..its only showing in four cinemas islandwide with odd screeening times..makes me wonder if it was intended that way so that not so many people especially the ang moh types get to catch it coz they get cursed a lot in this show..

i liked it.

he enjoyed it. esp the reservist scene.

*the show has a lot of expletives. all the hokkien CBs....KNCB..and their variants. so it has a M18 rating. at the door, the ticket man took a lot time to scrutinise us..hahahahahah i am amused and slightly flattered of course.

* the lead character, played by limkaytong, is named harry lee. his ex-sup and fren is called angryboy lee. at one part of the show, the angryboy said something like

"harry, dont worry. i'll take care of you. we are a family. we take care of each other. you know who we are, we are the lee-s"

...people laughed at that part..