World takes drastic measures on swine flu

Egypt's order that all 300,000 pigs in the country be slaughtered to travel bans and putting the kibosh on kissing.
Egypt ordered the pig slaughter even though there hasn't been a single case of swine flu there and no evidence that pigs have spread the disease.

Britain, with only five cases, is trying to buy 32 million masks.

United States, President Barack Obama said more of the country's 132,000 schools may have to be shuttered.

At airports from Japan to South Korea to Greece and Turkey, thermal cameras were trained on airline passengers to see if any were feverish.

Lebanon discouraged traditional Arab peck-on-the-cheek greetings, even though no one has come down with the virus there.

The World Health Organization raised its pandemic alert to the second-highest level, meaning it believes a global outbreak of the disease is imminent.

Googling

I was looking through my blog stats and I found out someone Google 'mast....ate at mid valley' which then led him/her to my site.



The only time I used the word 'M....' was for the newspaper report i found and copy pasted it as my blog post.

So, i'm guessing with the M word on the blog, I'll be expecting more P_ _ _ _ _ _s =0

Oldies fetish

If you don't know yet.. I have a thing for oldies..

Lite FM was playing oldies continuously at 1am while I was driving home.

A Bee Gees song was played. It brought back nostalgic feelings of when my dad played the oldies at home and he sang it during karaoke sessions.




Then there was also Starry Starry Night Night by Don Mc Lean. I YouTubed and found a video of the song with Vincent van Gogh's art as video. Double joy!!


I knowww the songs and heart it :)

F.A.T

Mum and I saw these work of art in Parkson Pavillion. Absoloutely adorable.

It is so wrong when a skinny person whines about how fat she is. A pretty common psychological problem among the females at where I am.

I do believe I've gained a few pounds since I came back from USA in December 08. From January 09 till now, I've walked wayyyy lesser but planted my butt on a chair for wayyy more hours than before. Thus I don't think I've been burning away as much calories as I've been putting in due to food consumption. The only exercise I get is walking up the stairs to the car park of uni. I need to start burning sooon!!

YouTube

I love Wednesdays coz I can watch ANTM on you tube.

And NOW, I reaaalllly love Britains Got Talent tooo!

This 12 year old is good!!! His name is Shaheen Jafargoli.

Much better than Susan Boyle I think :)

But.........
Hollie Steel comes, and blows everybody's breath away! Even mine!!

Aside from singing there's also dancing in Britain's Got Talent 2009!!!
Flawless is flawless.. Eye and jaw dropping :D

And their competitors.. Diversity ...!

Ah, some people are so talented.

Remeniscing #5

The closest I've come to being near a dog because I know he wont bite :)

Better than a flu shot

Miss Beatrice,The church organist,
was in her eighties
and had never been married.She
was admired for her sweetness and
kindness to all.One afternoon the pastor
came to call on her and she showed
him into her quaint sitting room.
She invited him to have a seat while
she prepared tea.

As he sat facing her old Hammond
organ,the young minister
noticed a cute glass bowl sitting on top of it.
The bowl was filled with water,and in the water
floated, of all things, a condom!
When she returned with tea and scones,
they began to chat.

The pastor tried to stifle his curiosity
about the bowl of water and its strange
floater, but soon it got the better of him
and he could no longer resist.
'Miss Beatrice', he said,
'I wonder if you would tell me about this?'
pointing to the bowl.

'Oh, yes,' she replied, 'Isn't it wonderful?
I was walking through the park a few months ago
and I found this little package on the ground.
The directions said to place it on the organ,
keep it wet and that it would prevent
the spread of disease.

Do you know
I haven't had the flu all winter.'

I dig

I don't dig events held at Chinese restaurants. The ones where we book a number of tables, then choose to pay for a list of food as the course meal, then the guests comes and each sits at their assigned round table, awaiting the arrival of the food one by one.



What is the point?



It feels like watching a movie with a group of ten friends but only being able to chat with the person sitting next to you.

The course meal makes everyone sit at their places, chat with the other seven or nine people at the table, unable to mingle with the rest because the food served comes one by one, requiring us to just sit and wait. Not exactly a meaningful time spent especially when it is a birthday party.

But of course, with family gatherings comes the chance to see babies. Adoroble nieces and nephews. The next generation, making me an aunt ;p

I dig babies:) not the dig digging dig but the like dig.


Ariel is no more a baby but yet still my favorite doll. Unfortunately she only digs guys. She doesn't respond to ladies. She willingly gives my brother the 'miang' look, smiles at him and even kisses him!


Then there's Ariel's sister, Ashley. The new-comer into the family. A darling indeed.


There's also Kai Shen, born 5 months earlier than Ashley. The chubby little thing already has two mischevious older brothers.


Aside from kids, things to expect in events like this:


Alcohol, where theres bound to be at least one drunk relative at the end of the day. Nice? Nope, i don't think so.

Karaoke- sometimes...umm.. no comment

J. Pops baby donuts

I was in Pavillion last Sunday, tried on the red dress, watched Shinjiku Incident and I saw something cute at J. Co's Donut. It looked like Dunkin Donut's munchkins.



It is a rectangular box containing 24 mini(baby) assorted flavoured donuts. I made the server named me the flavours of each donut in the box, but I doubt I can recall most of it.

Furthermore, it was bought as a birthday present for someone. Hence, I didn't get the chance to taste it. But, I think J.Pops as a birthday present is something unusual, instead of giving the customary box of chocolate. At the end of the day, no mater donut or chocolate, it's going down the birthday boy/girl's digestive system with sugar high glee :)

*slaps hand on forehead* Ouch!

Old man’s bottle mishap leads to his death

A SINGAPOREAN died of heart failure after his penis became stuck in a soft drink bottle, reported Sin Chew Daily and China Press.

The incident happened when the 77-year-old man used the bottle to masturbate.

China Press reported that the senior citizen got his private part into the bottle and only sought help after his penis could not be dislodged from the bottle despite trying various ways such as applying soap water.

Doctors tried to alleviate the man’s suffering by cutting the bottle below the neck but to no avail because by that time, the skin around the penis had started to become inflamed, causing him to be unable to urinate.

His misadventure later led to other medical complications causing his death.

Shinjiku Incident

Shinjiku Incident is the third movie I've watched in three consecutive days.
First, it was He Is Just Not That Into You, and second was Confessions of a Shopaholic.

All three had obvious contrast plot wise. While He Is Just Not That Into You was a romance movie, Cofessions was a chick flick based on its chick-lit book, Shinjiku Incident was more of an action packed movie and spoken in three foreign languages - Japanese, Mandarin and Cantonese.

I'm neither fluent in any of the three. But, I did watch it because of raving reviews I received from friends and from the movie critics. Furthermore, I read somewhere about Japanese fans running up to Jackie Chan crying because they didn't want him to die at the end of the show. Come to think of it, I've forgotten how he died.

One things for sure, Daniel Wu's role in this movie was pretty contrasting to the other film he has done before. I'd say this movie was a booster for him in his career. Having his handsome face slashed across with a knife and getting his hand chopped off - That's the most vivid memory I have of the movie. Then, he acting as a hippy drug addict - Not the same man we usually see in his other movies. Kudos for him.

As for Jackie Chan, he needs to know that he is old. Too old to be having crushes or romantic scenes with oh-so obvious younger chicks, on screen, I mean. There wasn't any chemistry between them, making me avert my eyes everytime one of his mushy scenes happen.

Yes, reviews have told us that he doesn't do much of his pro martial arts in Shinjiku Incident. When I read about him being weak in the movie, I expected him to be really weak. But, he was actually the sort-of hero for the bad side.

In conclusion, it was tough for me to relax when every word uttered, I had to read the subtitles to get the meaning. Furthermore, some parts were draggy but I couldn't close my eyes or make my mind wonder off because I had to concentrate on the subtitles, hoping for an awesome interesting scene to come. Other than that, it would have been a nice movie if I didn't read the reviews beforehand, thus putting my expectations of the movie on a much higher bar than it really was. On the other hand, it does give me an idea of what goes on in the dark side of Japan. It really exist, from what I heard.

The red dress

Before I watched Shinjiku Incident in Pavillion, I tried on more dresses. With the limited time I had, I browsed through the store quickly, picked out whatever I thought looked nice, went into the changing room and tried on the dresses.

The one I fell in love with was the hot red one!



Since the last time in the dressing room, I'm currently into collared dresses, not the tube dresses or sphagetti straps ones.

IMEEM: Plain White T-1234

1,2,3,4 - Plain White Ts

IMU Arm Wrestling Competition‏

HAHA.. I think this is one event worth watching... The chance to see muscular men of IMU !
*flipping through my organizer to see if I can go watch it*



;P

A day in Midvalley Megamall

Accessories are a girl's bestfriend. I'd say, whenever a girl goes out, she needs to be wearing at least a pair of earrings.

Today, I was gonna meet a bunch of friends at mid valley. I wore a dress yesterday to Pavillion, and so I decided to rummage through mu wardrobe for something else.
Since, it wa sjust mid valley, a skirt and a simple top would do.

I did accessorize with my favourite things.

A bracelet given by an awesome friend on my birthday.


A pair of earrings I bought with my hard earned cash.


And this necklace.... One of my most precious and priciest possession. It took me three days of going in and out of the shop, cracking my head on whether I should buy it or not.


Alas, I did and I love it to death !


The five of us gathered at the cinema floor. We finally had the time and chance to watch 'Confessions of a Shopaholic'.


Taking pictures is a must.




The memory of doing all these itsy bitsy stuff shall be kept...







After the movie, we had lunch at The Gardens. A tiny shop specializing in oyster soup mee suah. Two had the mee suah and the other three had spicy chicken chop rice set.


Food was alright.





Except that eating the rice set felt like eating KFC chicken with white rice. Highly unusual for me.




It was Fashion week, and there was a runway set up.







I met mum and dad at Madame butterfly.

Be prepared for gluttonny look.
I bought dragon beard...

Was trying to eat it as nicely as I could, but the peanuts were falling off...

So I'll end this post with... ngaum! :)

Sweet Chat @ Midvalley

After my friends went off, I met up with my parents and we decided to have tea. Mum introduced us to Sweet Chat. It is a dessert corner in mid valley, 2nd floor.


The ambience was alright.






I love scones. I fell in love with scones eversince having the best ones in New York! Unfortunately, the ones at Sweet Chat were horrible. It was dry. I shauld add EXTREMELY dry. It was hard to swallow. It felt like eating an overbaked muffin which had too much flour. The sad thing was also that scones were in the set tea menu, so I saw many people from other tables having scones too.



But, I'd give them a two thumbs up for their durian cendol, durian pancake and herbal soup!!! I crave for more as I write. They were pretty generous with the things they put inside the herbal soup.






It was a feast indeed minus the scones!