Pretty Clever Random Musings

Here are excerpts from a friend's blog who took it from a blog he really liked, whose author had also taken from elsewhere.

-More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.

-Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

-Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

-I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

-Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in the world did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.

-There is a great need for sarcasm font.

-Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what was going on when I first saw it.

-I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.

-I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

- I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

-The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.

- LOL has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".

- I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

- Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

- How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?

- I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!

- Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in' examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and said "Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)..ummm...Goonies"


- While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and I instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.


- Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.


-Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.

-I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

- Bad decisions make good stories

-Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from, this shouldn't be a problem....

-You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything productive for the rest of the day.

-There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

-I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

- "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.

-I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'

-I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?

- I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

-When I meet a new person, I'm terrified of mentioning something he/she hasn't already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.

-I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.

- As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.


-I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

-Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, hitting the G-spot, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I’d bet my ass everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time...

-It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.

-I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.

HAHA.

My favourite game (or GAMES)

I'm going to come right out and say it. I AM A GAMBLER.

I know I am one because when my dad got sick last year and i wanted to give up something I loved to kind of pray for his health, I gave up drinking. As opposed to gambling. I figured there was an upside to gambling (can win $$$!) but drinking was expensive and bad for health (but oh so yummy!). So, I have stopped drinking alcohol for 15 months. Fwah!

Since I have stopped drinking, more energy is now devoted to my other favourite thing. GAMBLING. I love the thrill, the possibilities, the games. From roulette to black jack to poker to my main love - MAHJONG... I love them!



Isn't the dude who invented Mahjong the most brilliant ever? There are so many ways to win, so many different rules and levels of playing, such intricacies, such ingenuity! And its such a wonderful communal game, unlike chess where only two people play,Mahjong requires 4 players which makes for perfect chit chat-ing and catching up.

Ok, enough time spent extolling the merits of the game. Right now, I need to find more MJ kakis. I do. Right Yona?

Almost a year...almost

With the advent of facebook and twitter and what not, it is getting increasingly easier to communicate your updates to your friends, family and the extended community. Hence, the non-action on the blog cos it's just so much easier on FB! Or perhaps I'm rationalising to all THREE readers I have out there. HA.

So what has happened so far since the last entry?

1) Boo has grown even more!



2) Boo#2 AKA Matthew Yeo was born. On the stroke of midnight on 18th May 2009. Just missing sharing a birthday with Aunty Wendy by a minute!



Look at him, isn't he a sweetie? Now that one of my best friends is a mother of 2, watching her deal with the 2 boys has more or less killed off any semblence of maternal instincts in me.

3) DN got hitched! At the risk of sounding unnecessarily dramatic, I've waited for this day a LONG LONG time. Not just for DN to get married, but for her to marry a good guy. :p



So many things have happened this year, that once again reminds me of how life is so transient. And how I'm so lucky to be surrounded by so many true friends that I have known for decades. (And yes, we're now old enough to claim knowing each other for decades.) Preparing the powerpoint slide show for DN's wedding made me realise that we've really all gone through so much together. I must admit that I shed a tear or two whilst drafting my speech. Very drama, I know.

Looking back at all the milestones, plus the unfortunate juxtaposition of a wedding with a funeral just jolts the mind into some sort of weird space where happiness and sadness co-exist with nostalgia and gratitude. (I'm rambling again, I know)

Marriages, divorces, births, deaths, sicknesses. Boy has time flown by mercilessly since the days we terrorized our SC teachers. Thank God for these friends that have become family. I know we're in it for the long haul.

BOO Update

I am unapologetic about the no blog action since Feb, obviously because no one really reads my blog, except maybe Angel...ahahah. But today, I feel inspired to update it. And so here goes one on Boo.

It was really not too long ago that Boo looked like this....


And now, he can stand on his own, walk on his own, eat on his own (kinda) AND he looks like this....


And yes, my avid facebook updating of Boo's pics have caused some overseas friends to think that he was my son. How embarrassing on so many levels. The primary one being, I have posted more pics online than the real mother. On a secondary level, HAVE I BECOME SO FAT THAT I LOOK POST NATAL??? BWAH!

Anyway, I have tried to curb facebook behaviour but since this is a BOO update and no one really reads my blogs except Angel who is a fellow BOO fan... here are more pics!










And lastly, Isaac the LOLLY KIA.
Quoting DN: "Gosh looking at this picture you would never have guessed their postal codes"




xoxo

Family

Reflection, such an overused word. But yet I cannot think of anything other at this moment. So many things have happened this year and the only thing that keeps popping up is how despite all the shit, I am so blessed. I am so blessed with such a wonderful and loving family, tho you really may not be able to see the love if you hang out with us. We're all executors and believers of tough love, my family. Words are spoken nagging-ly, and more often than not in a loud tone, profanities (ok mostly from me and Connie) fly about, and slitty eye glares (otherwise known as the XXY)abound. But yet amidst all this, I know we all love each other so deeply that we try so hard not to think about the possibility that we may not all be around in the future. And in this vein, this post will be about looking at the happy family pics and not obsessing about what the future may bring.

These pics were taken on Connie's trip home in April.
Family pic with Ruby (our fav little cousin/younger sista from a different mother)


Solo pics of each of us, taken with Connie's big ass, expensive and HEAVY SLR shit camera. We took it while she was at the buffet getting food. HAHA. Check out all the act cute poses.












I guess one really cannot ask for more than a loving family. I not only have that, I have a loving extended family as well. I love my aunts (most of them anyway), my cousins (ok, only two of them), but its more than I could ask for.

Christmas 2008

The night started with Carols by Candlelight service at my church. We do try to go every year. Its kinda nice, the church sets up a stage at the carpark and huge screens so everyone can sing along to the carols.

This year was in my opinion more crowded than usual. BC thinks its because times are hard, so more people try to find God. I sort of agree with that.









After carols by candlelight, we went to Zouk for Mambo Jambo Christmas Eve! Mambo sure brings back memories but somehow the songs are different. I highlighted this to Andrea and she so very kindly informed me that RETRO now is not the RETRO we know. As RETRO to the young kids now are like songs from the nineties. F**K. And I waited the whole night for Debbie Gibson and Uptown Girl. So sad.

But it was an wonderful night with my girlfriends! I think its the first party night out for me since i stopped drinking but i still had fun! (Thank god for the mambo music??)

Me and BNN. One of my bestest GAL PALS and TIC. A party is NOT a party without her.


LALA! This picture is precious because less than an hour later, LALA was off to LALA land! HAHAH. She is the best and you only get the best when you're with her.


DDG Entourage




What could be a more perfect Christmas Eve night? Church with the family then partying (to mambo no less) with girlfriends? It was sure a bright spark in this doom and gloom recessionary environment.

Treachery

Ok, so the title of this post is a little drama....but since that word kept popping into my head, together with the words "devil's spawn" i picked the lesser of the two evils.

So, this treacherous thing - a situation of truth being so much like fiction its hard to believe. Girl meets boy, Girl marries boy, girl realises boy is not THE ONE. Then boy DATES girl's BFF. (obviously BFF status is now removed). AND, Ex-BFF gets knocked up out of wedlock and pops out an illegitimate BABY before Girl and Boy's divorce is final.

Ok, so to those saying "so what? girl left boy first!" I say this to you, put yourself in the situation, and tell me you won't be grossed out. Or maybe you won't be, and in that case, you can continue to rot in the world of multi plugs and multi scokets, cos I certainly don't subscribe to that kind of behaviour.

*PUKE*

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