CNY damper

It was an innocuous move. Yeah the stiffness in the back was building up esp when had to walk and sit, sit and walk for such long period but I thought it should be able to hold up for a while.

The day started quite beautifully. Had a long sleep, ignored the alarm, ignored the sun and slept and slept and slept.. woke up and finish up another terry pratchett. In bed (reading in bed is heavenly..it means that you are having a lazy day ahead and can afford some reading in bed :D). Washed up and jest with a dog a bit. Had lunch (yup I mention that I slept in right). Went to the kitchen and saw that the dog has pee-ed on the newspaper (thank goodness he's finally got it) so decided to clean it up a bit. Bent down and.....

then the sharp pain struck.

I couldn't even continuing squatting and sat down on my side. Took a bit of willpower to roll over and stand up. Now I am partially immobile - try walking like a lopsided stickman and see if you are as mobile as you think.

Sigh. I still thought I can go run off some of the bak kwa that I have been gorging on...

Day 1 CNY

(source:http://project365.hasby.com)

Though I really still cant feel the CNY mood yet (despite seeing so many people in red - I think I have never see such masses of people in red that I think maybe it has broken some Guiness World records), hope everybody had a good time catching up with their clans! :)

Pre-CNY

Still nursing a slight hangover from last night..too much chicken stock cubes (we estimated that 5 cubes of knoss chicken stock went into that 1 pot of steamboat soup!), too much wine (but I still made it home safely), and generally drank too little water.

But I wonder if I heard the right thing last night when one of the guys was trying to "lelong" me off. If I heard what I thought I heard, the answer was surprisingly candid, though I was rolling my eyes and laughing it off.

太谨慎咯。

xxxxx

Qiao is back!

Met her and some of the rest for dim sum breakfast. Supposedly at Red Star at 9am, and I thought I was late. But when it was 9.10am and I was still at Havelock and no sms/call..I know that I wasn't fashionably late enough. Team habit is hard to change :/

And when I reached the door of Red Star, the door was closed shut. Dammit! Not open!

Then it was frantically trying to find another dim sum place in the vicinity (another restaurant was also closed, guess they are taking a long break too) and thanks to ZA, we managed to find one shop at Smith Street that is opened on the eve of CNY.

When Jun zi was asking the lady at the next table to help us take a photo using lil's BB, for the second shot, the lady actually said "Ok, now funny face!". We were like O_o.

Looking around the table, it suddenly dawn on me - 我们都老了成熟了。

Waiting for that photo with the "funny face". Hah~

Zee Avi - First of the Gang to Die

Imeem bought over by My Space - sucks (gosh what rude language. But I can't think of any other adverbs). Means that I can't just embed any song clip if I cant find any nice vids.

Totally no CNY mood; cant even go away. Bleh.

Meet Gino the dog

Was mooshing around the lappie and the dog was at my feet..when I accidentally hit on the photo booth icon, and the lappie cam was activated..

hmm..

grabbed the dog and had to struggle a bit (that's the reason why there weren't any much photos..it's almost a wrestling match trying to hold him in position or tug-of-war to get the camera strap/pouch of his mouth)

Here goes.

And then off he goes before he gnaws my hand off.

Shaggy little rascal.

Have your (sustainable) fish and eat it!

Got this link from a friend, who I am surprised to have caught up with in such unlikely event, and not knowing that he has became such a fervent environmentalist.

http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_offices/singapore/wwf_singapore/singapore_seafood_guide/

It's all about exercising your consumer power, to decide where you want to spend, how you want to spend, and in the process, condoning/condemning the way how certain businesses are run. In the long run, only when there is enough consumer pressure or financial incentives, businesses with good governance to the people, land and other natural resources they use can then be sustainable.

And with the CNY festivities coming around, voices urging to refrain from the the shark fins are heard more often. It was even brought up during one of the PAP platform. While the online version offers scant info, the full writeup in Straits Times only show how "politically correct" the two young PAPs were.

Shark's fin a matter of moral suasion

Home Alone Doggie

Reached home and the first thing that I saw when I opened the door was...

an upturned basket (which had previous been full of tidbits, cookies, snacks - short of one granola bar and one 马蹄酥 cos I found their wrapper on the floor) and a floor of crumbs.

And a very happy and excited dog wagging his tail till his whole butt was shaking.

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