when people you know are now celebrities...

What would you do?

I just found out that I knew another "celebrity" last night. Had a good 1-2 hours of going OhMY GOD OMG OMG... googling him etc ... "Cool man"? cute? Girls drooling about him? I could only laugh and laugh and laugh.

Couldn't stop laughing that the nerd I knew back in my secondary school days is now tauted as the new "cool man" and have girls drooling over him. All I remember was JA and I used to laugh about how tall he was and that he got to "bow" whenever he spoke to normal shorties like us. We paid extra attention to him because he sat across us at tuition classes, and annoyingly always get every single thing right, scored the highest marks in almost every single subject and spoke 3 languages very fluently. He was good in debates, poetry, and those Chinese "siang sheng".....blah blah blah. What else? Yeah, he could paint very well. Fantastic essays- I used to steal his essays to take a read, and then felt really bad about the rubbish I wrote. Damn. Annoying nerd.

But he got to be cool now, right? Haha.. I could sense sourness coming from my hubby after he looked at "Cool Man"'s photo. ROFL. HUbby announced that it was already very late, and I should get some sleep. This morning when i complained about my pimples, someone mentioned that it was because I slept late. hahaha

Well, I wish Cool Man all the best, and I am so happy for him. He deserves his "celeb" status. He is someone you know know will make it big one day, with his attitude and capability. I wanted to leave a note on his blog, but chickened out.

What language will your children speak?

If you have a child, what language will you use when you speak to him/her?

Many people will not have a problems, because they only speak one language. What if you are multilingual. Will you be pressurised to speak to them in English?

we sponsored the party..

yeah we did. We sponsored it. At least the tax money from our families would have contributed to it.

Won't have been as annoyed if it was ah neh. It probably wasn't ah neh. When these featherless shuttle cocks smoked and opened their windows, we heard their conversation and we heard what language it was. Bloody hell, took tax payer's money to come here and party, smoked, and left ashes on my car!

To top if off, they put up a notice the next day." We apologise in ADVANCE if we have disturbed you. Today is my birthday and a perfect reason to party."

What in advance? After people complained?It wasnt even there in the next morning. It only appeared when we came back late an night.

So, it was your birthday, and the whole block have to put up with your loud music at 3 am in teh morning, so that you can have your birthday party? Get lost! If everyone has a right to keep to whole block up if it is their birthday, we will have a party every week.

A party-above you

It is 2 minutes to 12 o'clock, and the flat of above you is having party.

Ah neh music
Ah neh dance.
Pounding the dance floor-which is my ceiling.

DO you think i should go up with a cleaver or a broomstick.

My peace in this block of flat of civilised neighbour get disrupted because of this stupid ah neh. Damn it.

Fed-up

人善被人欺？ 好心没好报?

I am totally fed-up. I am fed up of people trying to put things into my mouth.

I am fed-up of someone saying that I find others a trouble, when I have never felt that way, and definitely never say or hinted anything about it! That undermine my friendship with others！ 不要把你的问题转到别人的身上去！把被人也拉下水。Sigh.

I am fed up of having to use these phrases so many times in one day: "No, that is not true", "We did not say that!"

And I am totally fed-up, when I try to help others, and they turn back and bite me.

不要在我的面前说我的朋友的丈夫好可爱。。。。。不要故意所一些话让别人以为他也对你也有兴趣！听了就发火。不要在我的面前暗示你们私下有来往。听了就发火！For goodness sake. What would people think when they hear it? And I bet that guy don't even know what you say about him behind him! What do you want me to do? Go and tell my friend? haha... Nope. You wish! You want to flirt, go and flirt far far away. Damn it. Don't come and disturb my friends. I might explode one day. You dun want to bear the brunt of my explosion. Just ask my little brother. He quickly wished the person good luck, when I say I might explode. 哈哈

£25 congestion charge for 4x4! Hurray

I am evil, I am sooo happy that they are gonna slap £25 to those gigantic 4x4 and big cars. No, I am not an envious wretch who wants a slice of the rich. I am just an angry driver, and have some conscience for the environment. These gas guzzlers are not only bad for the environment, they should not be used in the narrow London roads as well! My little car would be squeeze while parked between them. I can always spaces between two of these huge cars are almost always wasted. Only a tiny car like mine could get in. And I know these owners know that they waste the next parking space. Some of them did not bother to park in the "centre". If they take up two spaces when parked, and two tiny lanes (et at junctions, you cant go straight because this car which is turning right partially block your lane), then it is just right to get them to pay! No one needs such a big car in the city.

On the other hand, I am disappointed that they are going to have only 3 categories. exempted- £0, normal (£8) and those suv £25. Between 0 to 8£, i wish that they have a £4, for people who bought smaller cars, but these cars are not small enough to meet the 120g requirement.

The TUBE should pay me money, to stay away

Yes, I am a curse and jinx to the london tube, or maybe the tube is a curse for me.

I rarely take the tube but for the last couple of times I took it, whole lines closed because of signal failure, people jumping on tracks. Is it me, or is the Tube that bad?

I cant recall a single outing in the past 3 months where there was no incident or delays to the line.

At minimum, like yesterday on my way "out", I was told there is a bit of delay on my train because someone was sick. On my way back, they line had to be closed for whatever reason. I was just so tired, that i sat at the platform and just read newspapers, until the line resumed again. I was lucky I guess, because they close the line in another direction for a much longer time.

Another CNY

This was my third CNY here.

CNY here is different from CNY at home.

There is no new clothes, and no ang pows, no decorations etc. We also did not have the usual CNY food like lap chiong, cookies, etc. Most of these things could be bought here, but they are very expensive. Moreover, this year, the 1st day of CNY fell in the middle of the week, where it is just another normal working day.

Nevertheless, we had friends over for a steamboat. Steamboat is becoming a norm for us, I guess. It is the simplicity of wash, cut, dump and eat. That leaves a lot of time for talk talk talk. And this is also the "dish" which allowed us to have chicken, pork, fish, cuttlefish, prawns, crab.. etc without sweating it out or burn a deep hole in the pocket.

Yes, there is something missing. In fact, I found that I could hardly "detect" or "feel" another year had passed. Time just seem to flow continuously, without some punctuations which mark the beginning of another year. Every day is just another day. The only sign of passing time is the change of seasons. Change of activities. Change in the clothes you need to wear. Change in the number of hours you need to sleep. And as winter is coming to a close, the cherry trees begin to blossom.

That is life... am I missing anything?