"Hobby Career"

I'm close to completing the requirements to turn my hobby into an income stream. I call it "insurance against job volatility ". Am pretty excited by it.

Pivot

Late Sunday evening, the boy was showcasing how acrobatic he can be both on and with the shopping cart, much to our chagrin. At wits end, I look at The Big One and ask, "Shall we all kill each other?" The response came without hesitation, "Yes!"

I have not seen the boy since that evening... no, we have not killed him, we simply deposited him at a safe house run by my folks, his doting grandparents.

It's been quiet.

Way too quiet.

Chain Letters

I get really mad when people I know (note, not friends because once they send me one, they are no longer classified as "my friend" so yes, if you don't want to be my friend, go ahead, send me a chain letter!)

It usually starts off very nicely, with an inspirational story and ends with, if you don't send it to 10 people within the next 10 minutes, you will be cursed!

And because I usually don't send it to 10 people for the simple fact that I don't want these people to be cursed if they don't get to send it to the next 10 people and then the next 100, and then the next 1,000, and...., I simply get cursed for stopping it on its track.

Better still, going by 6 degrees of separation, I am very likely to receive the same thing twice, thrice and so, the curse I'm on gets doubled, tripled and so forth.

I'm already cursed for this lifetime and so is my dog (if i had one).

So, there is really no need to send me another one.

"Persistent Ordinary Person"

The big one is very fond of this description he coined - A "Persistent Ordinary Person" is someone who doesn't learn from other people's experiences. Such a person only learns from his own set of experiences.

On the same line, I think I'm the "Persistent extraordinary human optimist" who learns neither from other people's nor own experiences. For example, I am apt to forget that food from a particular store tastes questionable and that I really shouldn't patronise them again.

...this percularity drives the big one crazy.

The appetite of my 3.4 year old.

Given the opportunity, the little one will chomp his way through the entire plate of chicken rice and still eat all my shrimp dumplings just for lunch!

What he ate yesterday:
Breakfast: 9 ounces of milk, 1 Char Siew Pau, 1 mega-sized Siew Mai & 2 eggs.
Lunch: 9 ounces of milk and half a packet of noodles
Dinner: Almost 1 plate of Ayam Penyek, 2 sticks of mutton satay, 1 goreng jackfruit, a third of a whole coconut & 4 big spoonfuls of Tauhu Telur.
Supper: 9 ounces of milk

What I ate yesterday:
Breakfast: 1 Pau, 1 egg & 1 cup of coffee
Lunch: 1 plate of chicken rice, 1 cup of coffee
Dinner: 2 mouthfuls of his Ayam Penyek, 4 sticks of mutton satay, 2 goreng jackfruit, about 4 spoonfuls of Tauhu Telur and the rest of the coconut.
No Supper.

>>>Why do I still weigh 3.5 times more than him?

Foodscapes by Carl Warner

Amazing pictures created from stuff you find in the kitchen...

Big IS Real

What hits you on a monday morning as you take the train to work? On the back page - mind you, this is one prime spot in media - of a magazine, I couldn't see front page but it could have been Torque. Anyway, so there it was, an ad by NEC with the headline, "BIG IS REAL"

I think they were selling Plasma TV. But all I could think was, WTF??? Big is real?

My life is real but it ain't big at the moment, not especially on a Monday morning on the way to work, with 5 more such days to go before the weekend!

Life on the ledge....

The big one and I saw this lady sitting on the ledge of Benjamin Sheares Bridge yesterday. She was alone then. The police had not gotten there yet.

Our exchange this morning:

He says: the call was made b4 we pass the bridge/ we pass at 5.50pm

I says: yes / how would you feel if you found out nobody called and that she jumped?

He says: bad / but now she will face fine and jail / more depressing.

I says: i can't decide how I'd feel.

He says: she is already depressed with life /if added with fine and Jail, she will not hesitate to jump the next round /she need to declare herself psychologically un-stable /if not life will be even more meaningless

I says: that's a very public place to choose to decide whether or not to die or not/ I think she was looking for help /or attention /whatever /anyway, i'm glad somebody did call the police

Taking a loooooooooooong break

The boy hasn't been going to school since the end of November when he fell ill after a school outing. He still sniffles, he still coughs, but at least it's been mangeable. Will see how it goes after Chinese New Year. Talk about Chinese New Year, it's going to be tricky navigating those visits without falling into an asthma-inducing food trap.

Credit

Had lunch with a colleague and paid with my credit card. He went, "Oh, you are paying with credit, I can pay, I have cash!" Huh??? And then I realized why he said that so I burted "But I pay my bills on time!" I never had that perspective until today that using a credit card means you can't afford to pay.

Language

I have less problems with Finnish English than Chinese English or Japanese English or Korean English... drive me nuts trying to decipher what they mean. Usually, it's something that goes this way and that way too! So by trying to move in 2 directions what happens? You end up standing in the same ******** spot! Fish talking to trees may have better luck.

Relationships

Don't know why this topic keep coming up in conversations these few days. Maybe it's all about the new year.

Anyway, maybe the clue about having happy relationships with your close one(s) is all about not trying to make them everything. Think what businesses are doing nowadays! The key word is, "OUTSOURCE"!

So, if you need company, outsource it to a DOG! If you need intellectual stimulation, find somebody smart to talk to. If you need to watch a movie, go with your friend, or neighbour! If you need help with cleaning, call spickn'span or whatever those cleaning companies are called nowadays.

This way is much better don't you think? And I bet that the sum of all parts is definitely going to perform way better than the sum of one individual.

Hahhaha!

Re: Kiwi!

Hahhaha.... someboday else posted this as a response!

Kiwi!

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

New Year Resolution

(1) Consume less
(2) Save more &
(3) Be happier!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008!