The Annual Greed-List Part Deux

Dear All,

Just wanna say a huge THANK YOU! for all the wonderful presents and affection showered on me during this Christmas season and also for my birthday =) I am incredibly blessed and lack nothing in life, even before the bounty I've received as of today =)



Thanks for being a part of my life, for being a part of who I am today, and for taking an interest in what happens in this lil corner of the internet. Thanks for all the LOVE!

I hope in some way, I'll be a blessing to you too in the coming year =)

Blessed Christmas! and have a wonderful 2010 ahead of you =)



PS: It's my last year as a twenty-something. WOE.

Simple Pleasures in Life: Being in the Top 3

Mr B: today i was on bus with two female colleagues

Me: yesh yesh

Mr B: one of them told me the other thinks my junior is suai. so i say ok. need my help?

Me: k....

Mr B: then she carries on to say that the other thinks another colleague is 2nd suai
then the other colleague says i'm number 3 !!!
i'm in the top 3!!!
yay!
and there are only 4 male colleagues! :D

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Strange friends have I.

Irony

As I walked along Orchard Road today, in my usual in-between the states of reality and reverie, strains of my song du jour got plucked right out of my mind and floated down the streets.



I immediately looked around to see where the music was coming from and to my surprise, it was the tune being used for Destinee diamonds by Lee Hwa (hellooo outdoor advertising). Strangely ironic that a classic song of heart-break and separation be used as a soundtrack for an ad for diamonds -- a symbol of undying affection. Perhaps that's why the song used was the French version; the English lyrics would've been too obvious.

The Annual Greed-List

It's now 20 Dec and you, my dear reader, have but 5 days to shop for MY Christmas / Birthday present!

You: What??! Woman, have you no shame??
Me: Shame? No, none whatsoever.
You: ... oh.

*cough*

As I was saying, my presents. Yes.

If I were to put up my honest wishlist here, you'd find that it's hardly a reasonable sort of wishlist. For example, I would love to receive a Canon EOS D50. Or a Powerbook, or a Mazda 3, or tickets to Europe / USA ... But yes, you can ignore this list... it's more a fantasy list than anything else.

Anyhoo, since there is at least one person (Hi Spelling Bee!) who's asking me to update my wishlist, here it is, in all its greedy glory. And since I am particular about the stuff I use, am finicky and hard to please, it would be a good idea to at least refer to this list before making the financial commitment :P

- Individual colour pencils from Urban Write or Art Friend, especially in the brown / red / pink tones. I have a HUGE box of colour pencils so I don't need a box. I prefer individual ones cos I don't like breaking up a box of colour pencils when I just use a few colours when I go out.
- Unlined notebooks for the doodler in me.
A5 size is handy, A4 is oookaayy, A3 is too big.
- A set of coloured drawing brushes from Urban Write @ Orchard Central (terracotta range pls!)
- A set of brown coloured drawing pens again, from Urban Write @ Orchard Central
- Zara checkered shirt (bring me shopping!)
- Sunglasses (bring me shopping!)
- OPI nail varnish (ask me what colours I want!)

To avoid like the plague:
- Scrapbooking materials (will collect dust)
- Wallets
- Bags
- Chocolate fondue set (have received 3 so far)
- Mugs, cups, photoframes, electric toothbrushes and rechargeable batteries.

Holmes, Sweet Homme

i know exactly how i wanna spend the time in between work and the Christmas party on Christmas eve:

Sherlock Holmes

I don't care if it scores 2% on Rotten Tomatoes (which it didn't).

There are two good (very good) reasons to watch it:

1. ROBERT DOWNEY JR!
2. JUDE LAW!

IN
ONE
GLORIOUS
MOVIE!

LUST. LOVE.

*wipes drool off my keyboard*

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

by Robert Frost

Comic Relief

So the other day, my colleague emailed me saying "PLEASE COME TO MY DESK RIGHT NOW. I NEED YOUR EYES", I sauntered over 1 hour later after his second email "WHERE ARE YOO?", only to find him hunched over at his desk, as if in great pain.

I asked, "Yo, what's up, what's the emergency?" and he said, "THIS!"

He showed me a powerpoint presentation, done using the crayon template in MS Powerpoint *cringe factor 10*, with plenty of colourful starbursts *cringe factor 15* that DON'T MATCH. OW. It's the visual equivalent of scratching your nails across the blackboard. To top it all off, as a crowning glory, the entire breathtaking presentation was done using COMIC SANS FONT.

*hyperventilate* excuse me, I need to calm down.

COMIC SANS is NOT A FONT. It is an ABOMINATION. Never, ever ever use it. Delete it from your list of fonts, if possible. Please, for the love of all things good and pretty, use Arial or Helvetica Neue. At least people won't snigger when they look at you during the presentation.

With that, I leave you with a video discussing both sides to the issue: Comic Sans--Trash it or junk it?

Comic Sans from Sam and Anita on Vimeo.