March 15, 2005

March 3, 2005

  • Solving this jigsaw puzzle and posting about this sweepstakes for Big Red makes me eligible for free Xanga Premium for life...



  • This makes me angry, and sad


    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=548475


    how can a parent ever think of prostituting his/her child for anything?


    wouldn't your paternal/maternal instincts drive you to do things so that your child can have it better, instead of the other way round?


    the article says that some of the defendants have been abused themselves as children... would it really feel acceptable because you were brought up in the kind of environment where it's ok to have your child raped in exchange for a pack of cigarettes?

February 24, 2005

  • Ties are snakes

    they lie in a pile on the couch, entangled amongst themselves,
    messy, edging you to pick them up and to hang them back on the rack
    where they belong. neatly

    and when you do

    they slip and slide between your fingers; smoothly, quietly
    slithering from your grasp back towards the couch as you get distracted
    by something on TV

    i can almost see beady eyes sneering at me from the tip of the tie
    (come, try again, catch me if you can). devious creatures

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    slightly obsessed with tamil/hindi-influenced music recently. 
    first heard of this artist from Cafe de Mar Vol. 5:

    | Download of the day: A.R. Rahman - Rut Aagaye Re (From 1947 Earth)|

February 17, 2005

  • i have converted

    i think you can tell a lot about a person by their diet.  i
    must admit to be a bit of a discipline-freak and have always followed a
    strict diet my entire life (well... till now. read on).  i've
    never liked red meat growing up, opting for the "more healthy" veggies
    and fish/chicken instead.  i wouldn't drink water after my ballet
    lessons as i was told it'd make me fat.  sometimes
    i'd walk past McDonald's just to torture myself with that
    distinctively McDickies smell of french fries.  during
    college i went through an entire semester living on salads made of
    tofu, salad and beetroot.  occasionally i'd splurge and have
    turkey + salad in pita bread.  and no desserts, of
    course. or if i did or i'd binge on super generous portions of
    icecream and throw up afterwards.  it gets a little
    scary when you can no longer tell what a "normal"
    portion should look like.  pretty miserable eh

    since dating peter though, i've converted to a healthy diet consisting of things i'd never touch before: red meat (steak! burgers! lamb! pepperoni!), diary products, creamy dressings... but
    you know what, i haven't gained any weight since the conversion
    AND am feeling lots healthier.  for one i'm no longer walking
    around with bruised legs looking like a battered woman  :)

    thanks love

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    for valentine's day i made a really easy-to-make but yum rack of lamb.  click here for recipe

    thanks jamie oliver. 
    btw i used pesto instead of making the mint sauce. 
    still v good.  for you recipe junkies out there, nigella also has a very good site 

     

     

January 27, 2005

January 25, 2005

  • lost and found


    i have a tendency to stuff things in my coat pockets, bags, etc and forget about them, which means i'm misplacing stuff all the time


    upside though, is i'm often pleasantly surprised when i open bags i haven't used in a while or put on a jacket from last season and find these long-lost treasures: hair scrunchies, bobby pins, old IDs, my mom's antique ring, change, used boarding passes....


    today it was a CD that peter burned for me a little while ago - perfect timing coz i was just getting tired of my music library at work


    what have you lost and found?


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    great tune to bob to:


    | Download of the day: 50 cent - Disco inferno |

January 24, 2005

January 22, 2005

  • My cheeky cats


    have a habit of chewing holes into my sweaters.  i have yet to see it actually happen so i do'nt know which one to punish for sure, but i have a feeling it's Miso



    (picture courtesy of peter)


    you see, Hobbes is the one who screams and wails for attention but i've always suspected Miso to be the quietly rebellious type.  she likes to chew on my plant (which can just about be certified clinically dead anytime now) and i've seen her gnaw at my fleece throw whenever she's bored


    bad cat


    result: i'm stuck with a few "artsy, funky" looking sweaters with random holes here and there.  at least Miso chooses to chew in random patterns and and the holes are perfect and round so they can marginally be passed off as intentional ("oooh stel that's a cool sweater you're sporting!") 


    yeah right, i wish; most of the time i just get - "poor stel, another sweater ruined?"


    *sigh*


     

January 21, 2005

  • i'm having a candy and it's sticking onto my braces


    but i can't really reach into my mouth and dig it out with my fingers, sitting at my cube and all


    damn braces