Month: January 2007

Sometimes I just want a simple meal because sometimes I’m to lazy to cook.

Yeo’s can of Vindaloo Chicken caught my eye at the supermarket the other day, so I thought I’d give it a try.

Continue reading A Bachelorette’s Simple Meal

Everytime I’m out with my friend or we meet up for coffee or meals, his phone will ring.
“Hello?” he’d answer softly, so I’d know right away that his girlfriend was checking up on him.
If coffee is extended because we have a lot of things to talk about, his phone would ring again. The girlfriend calls again.
One day, I decided to be straightforward and asked, “Do you have to speak to XXXX (his girlfriend’s name) every hour of the day? Is it compulsory?”
You’d think I was a jealous b*tch trying to steal him away, but noooooo, it’s just that if he’s helping out with something, let’s say my computer or my car, and it takes time, so when his gilfriend keeps calling, isn’t it annoying for him? He’s trying to get some stuff done but the girlfriend keeps checking on him!
He said that it’s not what he wants, but it’s what his girlfriend wants to do, that is, to have lengthy conversations with him when they don’t meet.
I suppose it’s understandable, but if he is busy and he doesn’t call you back an hour later, will you bug him every hour until he finally cuts his outings with friends short, so he can call you back and chat til bedtime?
I’d feel suffocated if my partner did that to me, calling or sending me text messages every hour when I’m busy!
However, love is a funny thing, I guess. When in a long distance relationship, every small bit of effort is compulsory to keep the relationship going strong!
But it’s still annoying – super possesive!
How frequent do you check on your partner – every hour, every 3 hours, every 6 hours, once a day or less?

My friends and I tried to bring back our childhood games during my tiny new year countdown party. One girl suggested Spin The Bottle. Some innocent ones didn’t know how that game is played.
Everyone sits in a circle and there’s an empty bottle in the middle. Someone may decide to spin it first, and he or she will kiss the person the bottle faces when it stops spinning. Of course, if it is of the same sex, you need not kiss the person. Well, unless you don’t mind. It is then the turn of the receiver of the kiss to spin.

When it faced me, the spinner gave me just a peck on the cheek. Phew, and he was booed for being a coward. Luckily he didn’t kiss me, because I think I would have fainted!
When it was my turn, I was horrifed to see it facing my friend’s boyfriend. I said I’d just kiss his hand, but some of my girl friends (nasty b*tches!) insisted i kissed him properly. I said noooooo, he’s someone’s boyfriend! But they egged me on, and I refused, seeing how his girlfriend was not comfortable. (He used to chase me high and low when we were younger, and she is still not comfortable with the fact that we’re still good friends.)
One girl finally decided to demonstrate how it was supposed to be done. She grabbed the guy by the neck and gave him one long French kiss.
I just sat and stared. What the hell!
Don’t think his girlfriend was happy about it, either, as she was pretty red in the face.
This reminded me of one of the episodes in Desperate Housewives, where Gabrielle kissed Tom, and Lynette revenged by kissing Carlos back!

What the heck is FENG SHUI all about? You hear it so often until you’re bored with it. I’ve got friends and their parents who are firm believers of it.
It began as a Chinese practice of arranging things and space around to enhance harmony with the environment. It also involves the philosophical, astrological, mathematical and religious elements of the person, for example, your Chinese astrology animal, and your birthdate and time of birth, your sun sign, etc …. A lot of stuff!
I realised my friend has a lot of feng shui stuff in her house.
I asked her, “What’s this thing for?” as I pointed to a dangling thing.
She’d reply, “I dunno.I forgot.”
“What about this?” I asked, as I pointed to the yellow cat.
“Er, you know that one. The cat that welcomes wealth …. that a lot of Chinese shops have at their cashier counter?” She answered.
“Hmmmm.” I was not entirely convinced that it worked.
“So, you’re expecting money to walk through your door?” I asked.
She gave a sheepish shrug.

She even has magazines for feng shui tips! But she tells me that her parents bought it, and she doesn’t read it. I can believe that, because when I picked it up, it was covered with dust. ;P
That 3 ancient coins tied together, if kept in your wallet or purse, helps create wealth opportunity, or something like that. I can’t remember, I read it somewhere. ;D
The arrangement of many things can lead to good feng shui. For example, the direction the main door of your house is facing, which direction you’re facing when you sit in your room in the office, where toilets in your house are situated, which direction you’re facing when you’re sleeping and a lot more.
Leading feng shui ‘masters’ in Malaysia who both have been on tv are Lilian Too and Joey Yap. If I’m not mistaken, Joey Yap is pretty young and not as commercialised as Lilian Too.
Even the western countries believe in feng shui. They’ve got consultation for building feng shui. [link] Nowadays, architecture and real estate are often linked with feng shui, too!