Bo Liao Sotongus

Being super bo liao energetic tonite, Jiew Hee and I are joining the used to be atas thing to surf net in cafes.

Tml's on leave to attend jiew Hee Primary School friend ROM,so think will be staying up late today.

Anyway, yesterday met up with a credit card addict connosieur. The bugger knew every single unique benefit of approximately 15 credit cars that were shown to the panel.

Think tat's all for now, although I think I should be posting something tml while Jiew Hee is kooning. Mayb i take a photo of her slping face and post it up

Sick Sotong Dreaming of Dinosaurs

Its been quite a lousy year for me so far.
Have used up more than half my MC allotment by July this year.

Its not that I'm chao kenging or want to tuang, but my body seems prone to infections all year round. Have been genuinely sick (although my family don't believe me).
This shows that doctor friend=easier mc=kengster, which I'm one not

Currently having another sore throat and coughing has been keeping me awake. More importantly, that's why I'm blogging so early in the morning as I'm remaining outside the bedrooms so I dun disturb Jiew Hee from sleeping.

Caught ICE AGE 3 DAWN OF THE DINOSAUR big hoohah 3D at the expense of extra $3.



The film was not bad, the characters, especially the babies were waay too cute and sure to have many merchandise coming out. The story plot was not bad, but its a rather "boy" film as Manny the Mammoth and friends went against the odds to save their friend Sid the giant sloth.

Many scenes involving the psychopatic obsessed Scrat and the ever present acorn and Sid's new family is sure to have the entire family doubling in laughter. However, as I watched the 3D film in Tampines GV, the whole experience was a mere so-so. Not really worth the extra $3. Futhermore, I felt my eyes were straining quite a bit at the end of the movie

All things said and done I give the movie 3.5/5 due to standard plot, ok action sequence but max cute factor.

HQ glamshot

HQ glamshot, originally uploaded by newhik.

Sorry Mdm Ling but I couldn't resist trying my hand out at editing shots. I tarik a lot liao
Didn't spend too much time on it, but tried 2 free online editing sites, Picnik and FotoFlexer

Overall, both sites have some trouble connecting to either Facebook or Flickr where I stored my photos.
Picnik offers more choices, but one would have to upgrade (pay I guess) to use those features, wherelse Foto Flexer has less options have more access to them.

Tried the so called smart cut out options in both sites, but couldn't quite ge them to work propertly, I guess I have to fiddle with them more.

Finally, the saving of the photo for Picnik takes forever, no matter what time I tried. FotoFlexer again is slightly better, but i couldn't find the photo that was "saved" into my Flickr account

Sotong's retreat

Has been another long long time since I last posted.

Nothing changed too much, my plans has gone down the drains and its back to the old drawing (scheming) board.

My place has turn out to be the lastest (cheapest) hanging out place for the gang.
having a pretty decent games collection

1. Monopoly and Risk,which has been with me since Primary School,
2. Saboteur and First Hand, which we used to play at games cafe
3. New (but second hand Wii), which i, ahem, has been acquiring new games for
4. My condo's Tennis and Swimming pool to burn off some of the decadent food we have been indulging lately, although I think we only manage to burn off the drinks and not the food calories.

Just passed HQ glam shot to her, please check her blog

That's all for now, hopefully I can decide whether to buy a new camera at the IT fair this weekend and turn this blog into a more picturesque one.

Niece Story 2

Just another story to share about my niece.

Apparently, the Singaporean blood runs very true in her veins.
A few weeks ago, shhe told her mum, tha she's the Second Best Mum in the world.

That's right, a child of 6 years old is already starting to compare her mum to other peoples.
Where else in the world does the comparison behaviour is worse, other than Singapore.

Apparently the reason is that her best friend's mum treats her kid to McDonald's once a week, while my sister in law is a strict disciplinarian, who won't even allow her daughter to have candies on the odd days.

However, the "sensitive" daughter still patted on my sister in law's back, saying " No. 2 is still good, yar?"

Anyway, life is going to be quite interesting in my end of the pool, but we'll see how its goes then.

DECISIONS ABOUND!!!

Very late Hello to 2009

Its been almost 1y 2 m since I last post anything.
Has been too lazy to share anything on net, especially since no one's reading it.

My brain just started kicking back into its musing mode, so I expect to have more updates in the future.

And now, just some funny things to get off my chest, all thanks to my weird but cute niece.

Apparently, there's a wide gap in bringing up kids in Germany and Singapore.
My niece, on an occasion, remarked to her child care teacher that my brother had been very good on his last visit, neither did he try to drown or bite her.

Yes, she said drown n bite. Of course on hearing that, the teacher was alarmed and thought my niece was subjected to child abuse. My sister in law was asked to meet the teacher for I think, they would be reporting to the authorities if such incidents happened.

But of course the "biting and drowning" was more of playing on the part of my Brother.
My dad used to do much worse during our time.

As he was a "Kampung" boy, he taught us that in order to swim, you have to drink....drink pool/ocean water. He would just grab our leg from underneath (he's quite a good diver") and pull us into the water (think he watched too much Jaws liao back then).

That, I think was a good example of negative teaching, as compared to the positive teaching that is more lauded in current worldview of child upbringing. But one thing good for negative teaching, is that it will ensure you pick up things much much much faster, I would say. Dunno what the experts feel about that, but I guess I'll end off here

Pop in just to say something

Been's so long since I've posted.

Anyway this update is more like a written reminder to myself.
Half way thru my 27th year alive and has been nagged many times that I shouldn't be living my life like the way I'm doing, nary a goal to achieve.

I know this is true but I just keep procrastinating about stuff that i should have done monkey years ago... Haiz....

Hence, within the next 1 month, I promised to either revamp this blog, learn more about bloggin or such. Hope I remember to see this and keep my promise