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I am immobilized. Feel paralyzed on my right side. 

I've not been hit by some terminal illness, but right now I can imagine how that feels like.

This Household McGuyver had just spent the entire weekend stripping old paint off the living room walls. Every single muskle in my right arm-wrist-fingers and my neck have been stretched to their max and my two feet are swollen from standing on the narrow ladder steps for a consecutive 8 hours. My knuckles.. my joints.. is this what they call arthritis?

AND ALL THIS SUFFERING.. is just the result of part 1 where I strip off the old paint.

I foresee difficulty in clicking my mouse at work with my right hand tomorrow. And no high-heeled shoes for my poor swollen feet.

Gah! I need a weekend extension! And please can it come with a full body massage!

\(X_X)/

p.s. Za no pictures yet, it's a war zone right now.

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I feel like I should write something

I've had a very busy life since the last week of Dec.
Mostly work, some home improvement stuff, very little social stuff.


It's less than ideal, but I think the busy-work part is tapering off now. Still have a busy 2-3 days to go, but with clenched fists and teeth I will make it.


Other plans for the near future is to spend more time doing spring cleaning. GooeyGecko suggested we do up the living room. Conceptually a modern and clean finish, with special request by Poppadum for it to be bright.

(Those ceiling to floor windows are to die for..)

With limited funding and resources Gooey says he will use his own and Poppadum's muscle powers to paint the place. I think with all these work-things I can at the most help out through generating brilliant Household McGuyver ideas. I spent several hours biting my nails today. mm, I meant I spent several nail-biting hours conceptualizing how to best utilise the green and white scheme to suit my living room. I prepared a sketch too.


I will be easy on the furniture and accessories - budget constraints. The main thing to do now is to rid off the antique furniture set that's taking up an unreasonable amount of space. I think we will all be happier sitting on the bare, clean floor.


Hope this all goes as planned, not like the numerous times where we gave up after half-hearted attempts to redo the living room.


And this is my first New Year's Resolution for 2011!


Cheers


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Unimpressed

One wonders why global giant use dinosaur IT system.


One is making use of time waiting for global IT system to be ready, multi-task to write blog with wait time. Global IT system not making it easy for One to move on with life to update the next cell.


One is sleepy and will no longer await global IT system to twitch its little virtual finger no more.
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I'm not an anti-social animal!

If you know me you'd know I'm designed to eat, drink and be merry.

For the benefit of those who don't know me personally, let me just share with you that I'm a person who likes to eat, drink and be merry. And I believe I do a good job of eating, drinking and being merry.

I'm not an anti-social animal! I have my demands for respectable social time! With friends and especially family. Don't keep me chained to my desk!

Oh wow I'm soo sleepy right now I'm dozing off with Koollie in my hands..

Night night everyone!
Night night PushyP!

Zzz.

My Bouncy Entry

Blogger is strange, it allows me to enter my blog entry via my android only in the 'Edit Html' tab instead of the 'Compose' tab. Also whenever I swype some text into this box my window keeps bobbing to the bottom of the text box.

Bah humbug I give up!!

Me goes bed.
Zz.

Hair Secrets

The secret to long hair is..


To let it grow.


And.


Don't get it caught in a fire a zipper or a scissors' blade.

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That's all the time we have tonight. Stay tuned tomorrow for another episode of 


Hair Secrets - Secrets that are No More.
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Vainpotty

Yeah tried the natural look over the weekend but didnt post pichas till now.

Lagtop lighting gives amazingly good skin!

Yeah I am vainpotty so so so?

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Tab Tab Tab.

Yeah my phone is large, isn't that bleeding obvious. 
Just to bring to your attention it's also a really small computer.


Now that's all cleared up, can we move on with life and talk about something else?
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Strange Thoughts.

I raised this topic today and thought it makes a substantial topic for a brog entry so I'm bringing it right here.


Before the age of the dinosaurs and for the longest time, I lived life wondering why people do strange things, some to the extent of doing things that make me angry. 


Gradually it occurred to me that they do the things they do and I feel the way I feel because there is no common understanding. 

I'd like to point out that communication and understanding are 2 separate matters. Yeah surely communication needs to take place before understanding happens. But having communication doesn't mean understanding is sure to follow. Understanding requires empathy which is not required in communication. 


Empathy is the one single one one thing that is really rare and I doubt it truly exists. It's a 7 letter word packed with a whole lot of considerations that you can begin to collate and publish as a technical paper. Key points highlighted.. To empathise you need to first - understand the background of someone, 2nd understand his priorities and values. Smaller pieces like habits and emotions follow.


Of course these are difficult information to obtain - Man's mind is a really complex organ. It would be idealistic asking you and me to have all this information at once. If this happens we will turn into homogeneous replicas like in Matrix.


That's why we are - Man. 
Or, Woman, if you like.


Nonetheless the minimal we could do is to try to listen. 


"I may not agree with you right now but if I don't listen, I will never know. If I never know I will never understand. If I never understand, amiability goes to the dogs."
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Happy 2011!

hi to those still awake!

I've much to say but very very very sleepy!

Wanted to first log my greeting then follow up with loads of solid entries later...

wishing sweet 2011 dreams!

Fooot Tabbing

Tabbing my foot as I eagerly anticipate the arrival of my beloved... 

It's gotta have a name. All my stuff have names. When you name 'em you love them better.

I'm calling her Koollie. Still contemplating but Koollie sounds like a good deal. Anyone has better ideas?

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Tainted World... the Legacy..

Humbug, my shampoo is now my conditioner as well.

No I wasn't attempting to create a 2-in-1 formula.

After using the tainted shampoo tainted conditioner followed by a conditioner routine, my hair feels a little over-conditioned. 

Egad hope my hair doesn't all fall off in a week!!!

And then happy ending..

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Tainted World...

I have this set of gym-sized shampoo and conditioner that I wanted to consolidate into the home-sized bottles coz my supplies of shampoo and conditioner were running low.

I began with this gym-sized shampoo, and squeezed it into the home-sized conditioner.

To my horror I realised I squeezed shampoo into conditioner. And I had too little conditioner to begin with! 

NOW IT'S ALL TAINTED................

So my home-sized conditioner bottle now contains shampoo.

It took me a while to deliberate on my next move. Eventually I took the tainted conditioner and dumped allllllllll its contents into the home-sized shampoo.

So now I have tainted conditioner and tainted shampoo. I figured the shampoo's cleaning properties should still work with the conditioner inside.. Prolly less drying for the hair?

And then happy ending!

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"Hi can I get your order?"

I don't know, can you?


See, Pushy took time out to bring me for luncheon today. We I wanted to see the new Nexus mall around the block so Pushy trailed along. We parked a looong way from the mall. Approaching the mall entrance there were about 55 people shoving brochures of different kinds into our faces. Spa & beauty.. Food.. Hair services.. Shoes.. Food.. Laundry.. More food.. Brochures of all genre.


We picked only the food ones and threw the rest away. Environmental amiability has gone to the dogs. Amongst the several food brochures a buffet high-tea one caught our attention. I like buffets. I like buffets but I feel bad suggesting to eat buffet when I know I tend to complain of over-eating after I do justice to the buffet. Pushy could tell all these from the little twitch at the corner of my eye... and then we found ourselves checking ourselves into the cafe.


The cafe.. I quite liked its ambience, it had a piney fragrance because everything was from Ikea - Land of Piney Smelling Furniture. Happily Joyfully and Gracefully, we informed the staff we will be having our buffet high tea, and proceeded to discuss the food order using the food order form provided to us.


(10min later)


One staff came and muttered something under her breath, something about the salad bar not being ready. That would indicate the high tea buffet was not available. She politely informed us that if we want to try their buffet we can come back tomorrow to try it. Otherwise if we wanted to try the buffet items today we could order them ala carte. Ho hum.


So ok we went back to the food brochure and decided to take the set lunch instead. We informed another staff and the staff informed us that the set lunch is not available because the salad bar was not ready. Sigh.


Deterred, Pushy and I looked around to find food inspirations from other tables. To our horror and amazement, no one at other tables had managed to order anything - there was no food. We were all sitting there like ducks. Sitting ducks.


Ok back to the menu. Ala carte section in the menu was fabulously done up, nice pictures & many words and good variety. I wonder how much of that was available. Anyway the prices were atrocious so Pushy and I ordered only the more worthy stuff.


All in all, I liked the piney smell of the place. And I think that's about it.


All in all in all, it is very strange to distribute the flyers selling promotional meals and then everything is unavailable and then pray that the customers will not order those. I wonder what the cafe management was thinking there. What a waste of time!   X(


Ho Hum.
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Days of Lull

A lot had happened these several weeks so much so that I missed out on all the blogging.


Fun stuff include..


Participating the Standard Chartered run. I only had capacity for the 10km so I'm not going to show-off much around here. Also I got caught on those running paparazzi pictures looking super duper ugly. Aghh I am disappoint.


Here's some nicer shots for the good memory.

Baws brought a live Christmas tree to work and designated it to be seated next to me. Everyone helped dress it up. I'm learning to like talking to it since no one else's interested to talk to me. They don't have the capacity to deal with my witty-humour tsk tsk. I've liked it as my new friend ever since.

My team also joined forces and leveled up the office decor for Christmas. The social committee then got inspired by us and decided to conduct a best-decor team competition. So much for originality.


We won anyways. Not surprising since we totally had to work OT to put all these together.

And while we got busy in office, I thought I began to hallucinate when I saw these dancing mobile phones and had to do a double-take. The phones were bobbing to the groove of the dance tracks blasted on nearby speakers. Then they stopped and hugged each other. Lol infinity!

And then we had a team luncheon buffet-style at Carousel. On the same day we gathered round the Christmas tree and exchanged gifts. It was done earlier since there were people taking holidays over the subsequent days before year end.

In the midst of all these office action, Pushy and I attended a really entertaining wedding lunch on a Sunday afternoon.


The theme was Alice in Wonderland.

Also I attended Owl's wedding dinner. So many weddings occurring towards year end I wonder why? Owl's hubby was a funny chap. Cute couple.

Congratulations to the lovely couples and I wish them good blessings.
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Rabbid ♥ You

My best impression.

Yes my right eyebag CAN fold.. Woot.

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