I always look forward to the snack lady in Japanese trains. They always have interesting food box or bento set. This time I got Daruma bento on the train to Niigata. Daruma figures are popular in Japan. Daruma is known as Damo in China is said to be an Indian monk who traveled to China.
Here is something I tried in Niigata, kuzira sashimi or whale
meat sashimi.
Press Release: (2nd May 2008)
LABOUR DAY RELEASE – RESPONSE TO MR SENG HAN THONG
We refer to Mr Seng Han Thong’s reported response to WP’s Labour
Day press release.
It seems that Mr Seng, a labour MP, has conveniently forgotten to
address WP’s questions about his ex-boss Minister Lim Boon Heng's
insensitive comments. Instead, he side-steps them by querying
whether all employees of Hougang Town Council (HGTC) are
Singaporeans.
For the record, the staff of HGTC are all Singaporeans. However WP
recognizes the contribution of foreign workers and is not against
their employment. For instance, HGTC does not object to its
contractors deploying foreign workers in the estate.
The WP Labour day message raised three issues pertaining to workers
in Singapore in view of the changing economic circumstances, the
government policy on foreign manpower and the government's attitud[...]
Almost exactly a year ago, a crazy old man told me (in Chinese, of course) that I will be phenomenally successful, “not just regular successful”. That before this can happen, I had to unlock the secret to my success. Apparently the key to success is different for everybody, but I had the good luck to be stuck with the hardest of them all: “conquer the Chinese language, my girl, and you will conquer the world.” That scared the hell out of me. Why couldn’t I have something… simpler?
It’s a fine language, a beautiful language, that much I’ll grant you—there is no other language quite like it. Four words in the Chinese language come together to say so much more, so much more eloquently and spectacularly and succinctly, than what I could say in four sentences in English. It’s my native language, and, contrary to popular opinion, I speak it everyday, along with
Hope you guys enjoyed your lovely Labour Day!
It is good friday today!!
As least for me....
Resting at home now, taking a big break from my property
work. Colleagues will be covering me.
Getting too stressed up now so will be concentrating more on
Pitstop Cleaning and Modelling!
Mr Ng knows I been getting very cranky and hot tempered so he
asked me to stay at home and become a temporary Tai
Tai...
Food and shopping he will cover....
I got a lovely man!
I going to watch TV now....Bye Bye!
Wei, tomorrow i got to wake up very early to train my new
workers hor so dun think I really got super good
life.....
Met up June! She is now flying high! Great to see you again
sweets! Remember fly korea let me know hor!
Went out with Mr Ng yesterday late because I got to train the
new worker!
Yup! I love him too!
On the phone again and again......
Si ti ko peh.... he kept lo[...]
.. made worst.
No doubt it’s Friday where most of us will rejoice in madness, I’m as good as struggling in the silly red sea. The serenity and uninteresting happenings arousing all my boredom.
Oh my G-spot, where have all the Friday excitement gone to?
Well, maybe Saturday’s crazy revision lecture has been quite a lil spoiler so far, oozing away some of the joy, then again…
ROAR man!
Keep on ROARING man!
So I thought i have seen it all.
emo drunks that go emo on ya, pouring their heart out when they drink some.
or the highly active drunk that would play tug-o-war, tries to strip you down and make you go dancing with them.
Then came along the happy drunk, which this particular species would laugh and laugh and chirp on night long and then, fall asleep there and then the next moment you think they are sober.
of course, in my semi-professional drinking career, i have the opportunity of meeting the she-devil drunk, which by any means - number of drinks does not correlate to the level of sanity soberness, meaning they never get drunk (seemingly).
also, the combination of the above 4 - the suka-suka-see-mood drunk. Who if anyone had landed up at the wrong end of her claws before, will understand what i meant.
Last night, i ventured and fell into an abyss beunknowst to me.
i encount[...]
Damn. I have this pair of hands itching to play mahjong.
The game 2 nights ago is still lingering in my mind and I cant get over the exciting “Should I eat? Should I pong? Omgosh. Arghhhhh…”
Oh, and I za hu-ed twice. Much to my friends’ chagrin. Hee.
It’s now the hols, and without a job, I’m feeling so utterly bored and without a goal in life. It’s only the first day that I have nothing lined up! Freak. I need something to do.
Something along the lines of… mahjong. Heh.
On my trip to the Bike Asia a while back, I took a copy of the Freewheeling Magazine and while flipping through, I noticed a small article inviting all lady vespa riders for a day of fish spa.
Having already been to the fish farm about a month ago and thoroughly enjoying myself with the Vesporeans, I was definitely interested in attending this convoy. Plus, it is always nice to meet new people :-)
I reached the Piaggio Showroom pretty early and watched the people streaming in one by one. I saw familliar faces like Leonids and Moon_Star from the Vespa Club as well as many other new faces.
I’m actually a little surprised at how naturally easy it was for us to bond with each other even though many of us are meeting each other for the first time.
One of the first ladies that I met was Azizah, whom I admired the embelishments on her ET8 Scooter. It looked so royale!
Azizah tells[...]
On being discrete.
Had a drama event this week.
White Shirt enters shop; goes into a corner and starts inspecting
merchandise. He proceeds to pick a few for purchase.
Blue Shirt enters shop; carrying a plastic bag. He too, proceeds to
the corner. BS then pulls a pair of black heels from the plastic
bag and flings it at WS.
"Are these the shoes you were looking for?"
And to everyone's surprise, he proceeds to punch WS. Not very
professionally either. I lated noted that WS did not bear any very
obvious wounds or bruises. I would expected him to put more grunt
into it.
WS didn't retaliate and instead seemed to just trying to protect
his face.
The building security was called in. BS and WS were separated. BS
was then hustled out of our store, as WS is a customer, he got to
stay in. Whereupon he proceeded to use our store as a place of safe
refuge.
BS was stalking [...]
-Angsty post ahead-
I know you are much older.
I know you are entitled to your opinions.
I know you think you know much better.
I know you think your way is best.
The problem is while you are much older,
Your opinions are not mine.
I do not share your outlook.
I do not wish you to push your outlook onto me.
I want to lead my life, my way.
I don't want to lead it the way you did.
I don't care if you think your way is best.
I want to do it the way I think it's best.
I don't want to hear what you think about everything in the
world.
I have opinions of my own.
I don't need to sit there and listen.
To you, because you think yourself superior.
I don't need to sit there and listen.
To you, in that condescending tone.
That whoever shall disobey you,
Is beneath you, is foolish and requires a talking to.
I hate that you have gotten under my skin.
I wish I could ig[...]
