Arggh! Using mobile phones to popcorn!

I saw a clip where mobile phones are used to popcorn, and now I am very tempted to try it!

Waahhhh!

I've already sorted out the phone logistics in my head after I was done with the clip.

I'll probably need 3-4 phones to surround the corn, and i'll need 3-4 phones to call those phones/ I could arrange for 2 phones to call the other 2, and we'll get 4 phones working!

I'll just need the kind cooperation from everyone at home, to lend me their phones! :D

But I've also been told that it doesnt work. :(

Why, why, why not?

I would think that I'm rather bent on trrrrying it, and IF it doesn't work, there's always the conventional microwave to rely on!

But if it does, then I wonder what my phone's doing to my brain.
eeks!

I wanna popcorn with mobile phones now!!

insignificance.

The feeling of insignificance has been bothering me lots lately.

At the moment, I'm feeling smaller (significance wise) than a leafcutter ant.

At least those ants know their place and are darn sure of their role in this big big world out there, whilst cartering those leaves around the forest to churn mold.

I on the other hand, have not progressed anywhere in particular for a good long time.

As Steve Jobs puts it across "It's all about connecting the dots"... "and to trust that these dots would somehow connect to the future".

I totally agree with Stevie and his dots, but however at this point in my life, I feel as if the dots aren't even around for me to doodle onto.

There are many things that are worth more than I am at the moment, and it's sad to realize that, something as petty as a text message holds more value than I do at the moment.

Ahhh I am such a dispensable being.

I guess it is time to get myself some new perspectives.

of phlegm chowders and pubic hair

Funny how whenever in my conversations, the words "fucking boring, or bloody hell comes into the picture, mommy would wince when she hears it.

Yes, she told me countless times that she doesn't like hearing them, and I've explained to her countless times that I've adopted the word "fuck" as my pseudo punctuation, and it's really all part of my train of thoughts, like how Singaporeans would love to end the sentence with a lah or a leh.

I personally think it's retarded, and a hypocrite to alter the intended words into something that people would find acceptable, just to please the listener/the society.

Take when mommy comes home from the supermarket, and suddenly realized that she's forgotten to buy something that she intended to (milk maybe?), and she would exclaim "Shoot! I forgot the milk".

Well, based on my mom's replacement of swearwords, I have this awesome idea that Shit and bastards should be the happening swear words of her generations.

Hahaha.

Come on, I know you're cussing, and attempting to conceal the shit into the shoot, the basket from the bastard doesn't really make much difference, and I am rather sure back then my grandma wouldn't understand a word either....

On a serious note - Yes, i do know that my mom is trying to set a good example - but she could always replace them into other exciting words of exclaimation what!

"Oh my sweet lord, jesus" would highly amuse me for instance.

since cussing in general is about the utterance of the unspeakables by society's standards...

some suggested ones could go like....

Pubic hair 

booger licker

phlegm chowder!

Mother friendly ones could go like....

dancing papayas

egg custards

polka dots..

When all else fails... "twat" sounds suitable - but it also makes me sound as if i've got speech problems.

Urgh! Well. You get the idea! At least something random would be amusing la!

Same goes for people my age,

I have this ex bestie who conceals her love for cussing. Lately, she fancies fashioning herself as a "oh i'm such a sweet-helpless little thing that's too weak to lift a finger, and since I am so pretty, I deserves to be doted on, and treated like a princess" type of girl.

Fucking attitude of hers annoys the shit off me, which probably explained why she got axed off from my list of friends.

Back from digression and to the multi faced actress - with people she tries to impress, and act chichi, as she replaces the intended Fuck, into freak.

The construction of her sentence goes like this... "Freak! did you just cut ur hair short?!"

Darling, I'm sure freak sounds less offensive - especially after you just called the intended darling a freak while commenting on the outlook of her hair.

Dumbass.

I would rather anyone calls it eff-ing than freak.

You either cuss, or dont mutter a fucking cuss word at all. There's no sitting on the fence here.

Take censorship for instance.

Bleeping the cussing off the movie dialogue is equally retarded too.

All that bleeping takes away the flow of the speech, and kills the expression of emotions, and I'll end up with no clue on what is going on.

I am also dead sure that the kids watching would be able to fill in the bleeping blanks despite the bleeps. How ingenious!

*for the worried - I was inspired from my evening conversation with mommy, but no, we weren't even near quarelling.

Between exterminating the effs off my speech repertoire, and the roaches off her kitchen, I must say that she's losing the battle bothways. Hahaha.

I also found this very amusing!

Pubic hair mowing!

So cute! Too bad, not my pubes tho..
hurhurhur.

Post birthday celebration for BD!

I arranged for a little sailing trip on a Keelboat sometime back, to celebrate BD's 25th birthday, after his UK trip. :)

Interesting experience.

I tried my best to capture the glistening reflection in the sea, and this is about as good as my patience could produce.

I might have been a male magpie a few lives ago, seeing that all that glitters and glistens prettily seems to appeal to me! I am not surprised if I was the dumb magpie that drowned for it's love of shiny reflections!

Posting up some random shots of us during the sailing trip, to show off the good weather!

Nights before, I fretted about weather, and cross checked with all the possible weather forecast that I could lay my hands on. All cited high possibilities of a slight shower in the afternoon, averaging an 80% possibility of precipitation.

I took the gamble and went ahead with my plans!

Well back to the trip...The captain brought us sailing about the islands surrounding Singapore, and ventured a little, to the Malaysian waters. I had a great time enjoying the peace and tranquility, bobbing along with the waves, listening to baby explaining the fundamentals of sailing, observing what the captain was up to, and the captain's quite a funny fella!

The wind/breeze ensured that my hair was at a constant mess,

Whipping about, slapping my face and defying all rules of gravity...I soon tied it up, to keep it out of my face!

Kite flying!

Weekend outing for me last saturday, was to bring me out for kite watching at Westcoast park! It was waaaaaay too crowded to do any kite flying, so we merely watched. :)

Sitting in the car, I gazed at the distant sky filled with kites, and I got pretty happy and fidgety, just staring from afar...

There was all sorts of weird kite designs on saturday... It is really quite a pretty sight!

As it was a sea of kites, the ones that caught my attention would be the mega huge ones, like the weird tiger kite, and the happy flying Doraemon!

A huge yellow jelly fish, before it sprawled onto the ground. :)

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Found a couple of other pictures in my camera.

Was fooling around for ideas for a coming project, and these were my suggestions to my boss.

Props were dug out from my personal stash of everyday items, not forgetting my extensive collection of dummy products laying around at home.

It is moments like this when you realise that I do take my work rather seriously at times! Especially if it's fun! :D

Created 2 colour settings of the product line for ladies.

Nothing spectacular.... but I figured that considering that no pictures related to my job was ever posted up here, so this should hold up fine for introductions!

Showed the pictures to Derrick the next morning, and he gave the green light for the suggested direction of the set up, and I spent the entire work day shopping for props!

Love it! :D

While I was sourcing for a pair of black "manly" shades for the guy's line, I chanced upon a pair of purple aviator shades! It looked so cute next to my EZ link holder, that I couldnt resist taking picture!

I wore it out for my Kite outing!

It's purple! That simply cannot go wrong! :D

Hahaha!
Speaking of purple, here's a picture of my dessert!

Chilled out with Ben sometime last week over at 2am dessert bar, and i ordered the dessert named Purple.

It was a display/mix of purple potato puree brushed across the platter, with lavander marshmallow, scoops of purple/blueberry sorbet, and cassis jelly displayed across the slight puree, then topped with froth bubble and a sprinkle of purple flower petal.

Gorgeous!

As usual, the presentation is absolutely fantastic!

I love the place and ambience. Having probably tried half the dessert menu there already, I really do have to say this... the serving size was probably designed with a little birdie's tummy in mind...(think canaries and budgie sized birdies!)

I cleaned up my dessert plate in a record breaking time of 10 minutes, and i am usually quite a slow eater!

I also think that I am probably not destined to be the type who would enjoy fine dining to its maximum pleasure, solely because its portions would NEVER satisfy my appetite! Hahaha.
*Ben's chocolate H2O was just insanely disgusting (to me)

It was just pure dark chocolate mixed with Evian to create some Dark chocolate souffle brownie consistency - paired up with ginger puree. Urgh!

So bitter and rich in taste. Bleah!

Colour blind discoveries

Some time back, BD showed me a particular website that had horrible colour choice displayed across the site, and I exclaimed: "I swear the web designer must be color blind".

It was a horrible clash of varying shades of blue splashed across the website.

Gosh! It hurt my eye just observing the colours, and I was taking a dig at the web designers for his horrible choice of clashing blues.

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During lunch time chatters today, I was curious to know if it is possible for web designers to be colour blind, and I decided to ask the colleagues on their thoughts on colour blind web designers (and if it is even remotely possible) - since they're mostly in the trade.... they should know best, right?

Apparently, it is possible to be colour blind, AND still be a web designer, but it is definitely not advisable.

Following that, Jhene then shared with us an interesting trivia - that only men are colour blind. Hmmmm.. is that really so?

Being ever the curious kitty I am,

I did some post lunch search, and what Jhene said was half true.

Colour blind traits occurs predominantly in male, of which 5-8% of men in the world are colourblind, while only 0.5% of women are found to inherit the trait.

Colour deficiencies are always inherited from the mother, and females rarely suffer from colour deficiency.

Other interesting colour impaired facts that I discovered along the way are....

Only less than 1% of the population sees in black and white vision, while the prevalent colour deficiencies usually centers around green and red.

A colour impaired friend once shared with me about viewing colours from his perspective, and to my discovery, he actually views red as brown.

I am most surprised to find out that colour-blindness is apparently a carry over of the survival/hunting trait of a primal hunter, which is probably why colour blind is predominant in men.

Animal camouflauge are designed to mimic the patterns of plants, instead of the colour - the colour impaired hunter is able to spot the hidden prey amongst the plants easily, as the colour of the animal does not blend with the surrounding, even if the patterns do.

Therefore in World War II, colourblind men were sent on special missions, due to their decreased ability to see green, which in turn increased their ability to see through and detect camouflage.

How cool is that?

*Not to worry if you are unable to decipher the mosaic picture on the top of my post. Only people with red-green deficiencies would be able to read the mosaic picture as the number 5.

Majority of the normal, and those with total color blindness would not be able to read the numeral.

I found a few Colour Blind test, and you could give this one a try!

Have fun!