I wish.....

Been a busy week but I suddenly have so many thoughts in my mind.. can't remember yesterday's thoughts now (yes.. memory fading.. aging). There are many things I wished for and if my wishes come true, I truly believe the world will be a better place... I wish that...
All humans can eat less meat and be more compassionate. It is obvious by now to those who read news reports - it takes xx more times of crops to rear one cow, we would save so much land, resources if we could eat less meat. Compassionate... share your food, or at least don't waste them. I remember Boon Chong told me once that one of his ex-colleagues always asked for more rice when he orders lunch from a food court, but he will always leave a thick layer of rice behind when he's finished lunch. When asked why, he said he's worried the plate is not clean enough, so he will only eat the rice that did not come into contact with the plate!!!! Horror! Using precious rice to line his plate. Disgusting!

Human population should come under control, and people should just get out of places that are not suitable for inhabition... I have long wanted to voice this, but I am sure lots of humanitarian groups will hate me for this. But isn't it so true that there are not enough resources in this world to sustain the ever-growing human population? Why are all other beings subjected to the natural life cycle, but human get to artificially extend their lifes (through medical means) and at the same time terminate other creatures and also squandered resources in the name of economic development... besides diseases, we really don't have any natural predators .

only video/computer games that promote goodness exist. Humans are sinners, it is SOOOOO true. Most popular games are those that includes violence, vices. The latest review I read in the papers is about a game that allows you to walk around in the "city of liberty" to assume a role of a new immigrant who found work for the thugs and gangs. Apparently it included many gun-fight scenes that look very real lor.. Why waste time worrying about how to educate, influence, control and limit access, etc... if you know it's bad, just ban it lah! It they don't exist at all, then no need to worry mah, why waste time and resources doing damage control.. If such games are popular it only prove one thing.. that people actually would like to do bad things, but since they can't (or at least someone would need a BIG motivation to go against the law) do it in the real world, they do it happily and without qualms in the virtual world. Children, teenagers or adult, there will be some kind of influence from such games. And who says we must be open and allow companies to be creative? Pathetic man... the only reason for those companies to create such games is simply to make money lah. And those suckers who really pay and play, are just fooling themselves to say it's fun.. when truly they are satisfying their own secret dark souls in them to do some evil.
Thats why I like Nintendo WII.. sports, cooking..good clean fun.

Ok, enough of nagging here.. going to bed now.. good night. Tomorrow is weekend, hurray!

Catching up with Friends...

Its a nice feeling to catch up with good friends. This week I happened to do that a few times ..
Wednesday - Facial and chat with my trusting and caring Beautician Jennifer, and had a nice dinner chat with fellow Libran and good mate Bee Yean at "One-Ninety" in the Four Seasons Hotel. Finally got to try the liquor jellies - "cocktails can eat". Their new menu with smaller size appetisers and main courses is simply wonderful!

Thursday - had a good chat over phone with Ching, my dear friend in Sydney. Too bad we had to cut short our conversation when work got busier.

Friday - The lovely and funny Catherine Li arrived from HK and made a dinner date with us fellow bloomies. Dinner was great fun, followed by a nice chat at Nectarie in Clarke quay.

Saturday- went roller blading with Nancy, Arthur and Amanda. We all had great fun, and the kids went for a swim in our Condo pool after that, and played on the "WII" . Had a good chat with Nancy, sharing our parenting experience.

Childhood

Childhood memories are most precious. I suddenly remember I have not taken a picture of Ying Hong and her daily playground gang before, so when I had a chance to watch them play this Monday late afternoon (thanks to being on early shift), I got them to pose for 2 pictures.

Last weekend was fun too, I had a chance to quickly shop at Raffles City and had a nice sandwich brunch at "Ah Teng's Bakery" at Raffles Hotel, such a nice and free feeling! This was all while Boon Chong was out in Toa Payoh and Bukit Merah running errands with Ying Hong tagging along. We subsequently met at National Library to read some books, then head to Hans Cafe before heading home. Was fun!

Sail...Sail....Sail....

I started the day early today to make sandwiches and chinchow drinks for our sailing outing with Mike & gangs. My earlier worries that YingHong might be bored, or BoonChong feeling left out were unfounded. Yvonne was so nice to accommodate Ying Hong and played all sort of silly games with her in good fun.... the girls surely had great fun. We even dipped into the sea for a short swim.
What a great Sunday outing.. thanks to "Dugong Mike"!

Love is in the air....

Met our neighbour in Pasir Ris Park playground this Saturday morning, and she related an episode where she got a client's email on Friday afternoon 2 hours later she heard that he had passed away. She was shocked and recalled reading an article about the importance of expressing your feelings to our loved ones everyday so you won't have regrets when unexpected events strikes and take your loved ones away forever.... I believe we all have been reminded at some point in our life about this, but I must say I am guilty of not expressing gratitude and love everyday. So often, we are so busy and get led away by everyday tasks and events.. but we can certainly make an effort to remember to be nice and expressive towards our loved ones.
Then in the afternoon at Nerissa's church wedding, Father Terence again touched about what Love is -- is to Care, Share, Bear... this is soooo true.. and a promise to stay together needs lots of efforts to hold true. Communication and reviews are so important.
It was a wonderful wedding, and I am SO truly happy to see 2 young people being sure, brave and committed enough to make their vows to each other.. Congratulations and Many years of love-filled happiness to Nerissa and Brendan!

Interesting Steamboat place for lunch

Peiling and I went to "Guo Fu Zhen Guo" chinese restaurant at China Square Central for lunch.. for the first time!!! And it was a good experience and pleasant surprise. We ordered the ala carte buffet set and found the portion to be larger than our expectations, quality is satisfactory, and the complimentary side dishes such as pumpkin cakes and xiaolongdao are quite tasty.
Really don't mind going there again...
Friday's after-work drink with Eepin and Haresh was quite fun too.. have not done that for a long time. Joined Amanda and Caroline at a Japanese Barbecue restaurant in Chijmes afterwards, and was just in time to order desserts together. Great that they have my favourite mochi with macha ice cream and red bean.. and it was a novice idea to grill the rice cake myself over the barbecue!
Good start to the weekend! Indeed... the culinary experience continued this afternoon... we had our own home-made Chocolate fondue with fruits and walnut bread..well.. will revert to healthy eating tomorrow...

A nice house-warming party

Joyce's house-warming party last saturday evening was a pleasant gathering. Well, it was not meant to be my gathering... since she invited most of her colleagues, but was a pleasant surprise to see a few familiar faces. Not to mention her well-renovated apartment is warm, cosy and real cooooool.. Even YingHong had a great time playing in Clara's room.
Was also interesting to look at Jame's Lego collection of his Star Wars mini-fig, and the big LEGO Eifle Tower.Forgot to take a picture of the kitchen which has a well fashioned island in the middle...which looks like a perfect place to knead pasta dough!!!
Looking forward to a cooking party there soon..... hee.e..