My poor mum tripped & fell this morning & dislocated her elbow. She was sent to hospital by an ambulance & got her X-Ray done. At first, the Dr can't see any fracture & as such put her on anaesthetic to relocate the elbow bones back in place.
She finished her op after lunch just now & did an X-Ray again after she woke up from the anaesthetic sleep. It was then tht the fracture was revealed... Errr.... actually not really a fracture. More like a piece of bone "chipped" off!
Fortunately the Dr say it should be ok to remove the chipped piece of bone without much harm to the future use of the elbow. However, you'll never know with Drs this days....
She's scheduled to be operated tomorrow to either piece back the bone / if tht's not possible, to remove the bone.
Hope she gets well soon from this ordeal without much side effects on her elbow....
Monday, 29 June 2009
Friday, 26 June 2009
The King of Pop Died!!!!
Unbelievable! The King of Pop Died! I mean the Legendary Michael Jackson! When I read it at 7am this morning, I thought it was an internet hoax (again.....)!
Like Ms. Storm said, she never expected to be able to see MJ die in our life-time.
I understand what she meant, cos' it's juzz beyond us to imagine tht a legend wud die (if at all), whatmore before us. Amazing tht he tried so hard / so many ways to remain youthful looking (like sleeping in a pure oxygen chamber - coffin like if u ask me), and yet died before actually turning old & wrinkly.
Call me sick lar... but am interested to know how he wants to be buried / cremated / hung over the clift of some Himalayan outcrop & left to "embalm" in the freezing weather / a huge musoleum with Terracotta figurines of Elizabeth Taylor (during her younger days) & his many "children".... I know... sorry... It was really nasty of me.... can't help it!
I used to like him a lot.... Beat It! Billy Jean! Thriller! etc... but post Blood on the Dance Floor..... errr.... let's just say his music & looks really veered off (actually looks wise, it veered off earlier... Still ok @ Thriller - dracula teeth & all). *I swear I'll be "visited" by him this evening if I continue on this "nasty" note.
Ms Storm also updated me tht Farah Fawcet died yesterday too... In her own words "what kind of crazy Thurs is tht huh?" Died of cancer after battling it for 2-years...
Thursday, 25 June 2009
The Wonder That is Mother Nature
Antarctica Frozen Wave pix's - Nature is amazing!The water froze the instant the wave broke through the ice. That's what it is like in Antarctica where it is the coldest weather in decades. Water freezes the instantit comes in contact with the air. The temperature of the water is already some degrees below freezing. Just look at how the wave froze in mid-air!!!
Amazing Striped Icebergs
Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions. Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with melted water and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form. When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can freeze to the underside. If this is rich in algae, it can form a green stripe. Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the
ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.
ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Book Review: Eleven On Top by Janet Evanovich
It's about a lady bounty hunter - Stephanie Plum who always seem to get herself thrown into garbage dumps / dodging bullets & basically throw herself into dangerous situations (most of the time unwittingly). She has a childhood sweetheart, Joe Morelli & at the same time is attracted to another cool, calm & collected bounty hunter, Ranger (just Ranger.... no surname & not even sure if tht's his real name! Bet it's a name to hide his real name tht's actually quite funny sounding tht he doesn't want ppl to know).
1 day she's just fed-up with tht kind of life & called it quits. She tried to change career, but not having any previous experience (besides hauling criminals), she had to start from the bottom (or as the way thing progressed - from the top actually).
1) A clerk in a button factory - should be a safe enough behind the desk job. But she lasted less than 24hrs because she refused to "provide" sexual favours to the boss. Along the way, she managed to "acquire" a few bullet holes on the back screen & body of her car (presumably fr her enemies)
2) Work in a laundrette - Kan Kleen, operated by a Mama Macaroni. (oh btw, her employment was automatically terminated when her employer got blown to bits thanks to the bomb planted in Stephanie's car, but Mama Macaroni decided to take over & drive instead. Suffice to say, despite Mama Macaroni's "bulk" there's not much left to be collected after the explosion).
3) With her "superb" track record of causing havoc in all her previous jobs, she had to move her career direction downwards... To be exact - down to the bucket, where she works as a "1-leg-kick" (Canto: Yat Kiok Thek, which means 1 person do all chores) in a fast food restaurant called Cluck-in-a-Bucket. She has to say corny stuff like "Thank you for visiting Cluck-in-a-Bucket. Have a clucky day!" & she has to cluck like a chicken for customers who asks for it (imagine tht happening in KFC... For the life of me I can't imagine someone wanting the order-taker to cluck). The last day of her employment, she was stationed at the drive-thru counter taking orders. It was her last day, because someone (1 of her "pals" she managed to cause some real injury in her previous job as a bounty hunter) pulled up the drive-thru counter & pass her a gift wrapped package (it ticked!). In panic, she accidentally threw the parcel into hot boiling oil tht was meant for frying chickens! Again in panic, her co-worker sprayed water from the fire-extinguisher. Kaboom!! Let's just say Cluck-in-a-Bucket became Cluck-in-ashes.
4) Trying to safe Stephanie from herself, Ranger offered her a position in his firm, running searches on ppl they had to catch / spy on / provide security for (Ranger is both a bounty hunter & a successful business man providing security & surveillance services). She borrowed Morelli's SUV to get to work, but being the disaster magnet she is, the SUV turned to dust along with his rickety garage when a bomb exploded as soon as Stephanie left the car to enter Morelli's hse (where she's staying until "things settles down"). So she ended up getting a Ducati fr Ranger (cos' any bomb planting will be obvious as there's no nook / cranny to hide it) & a loaded gun to protect herself.
She tried to solve the mystery of events tht happened to her lately. Someone seriously wants her dead - but who? She had a suspect, but he's supposed to be dead. Turned out she has been barking up the wrong tree & the mystery unravelled towards the end (of which she very nearly got killed if not for Ranger). Will not spoil the ending in case you want to read it.
Though it seems I have written quite a lot abt the book, but actually there are more disasters to check out tht I did not mention above. The ending was quite abrupt though. It was as if even the author is sick of coming up with more disasters & just decided to end it with Steph nearly got killed, Ranger saved her & the culprit reprimanded (oh not without the normal criminal spill their beans on why they do this / that... That is "sooooo..... normal" for criminals to do - i.e. explain themselves... being sarcastic there).
Overall an ok read, but pretty far fetched most of the time. Exaggerated version of a walking catastrophe.
1 day she's just fed-up with tht kind of life & called it quits. She tried to change career, but not having any previous experience (besides hauling criminals), she had to start from the bottom (or as the way thing progressed - from the top actually).
1) A clerk in a button factory - should be a safe enough behind the desk job. But she lasted less than 24hrs because she refused to "provide" sexual favours to the boss. Along the way, she managed to "acquire" a few bullet holes on the back screen & body of her car (presumably fr her enemies)
2) Work in a laundrette - Kan Kleen, operated by a Mama Macaroni. (oh btw, her employment was automatically terminated when her employer got blown to bits thanks to the bomb planted in Stephanie's car, but Mama Macaroni decided to take over & drive instead. Suffice to say, despite Mama Macaroni's "bulk" there's not much left to be collected after the explosion).
3) With her "superb" track record of causing havoc in all her previous jobs, she had to move her career direction downwards... To be exact - down to the bucket, where she works as a "1-leg-kick" (Canto: Yat Kiok Thek, which means 1 person do all chores) in a fast food restaurant called Cluck-in-a-Bucket. She has to say corny stuff like "Thank you for visiting Cluck-in-a-Bucket. Have a clucky day!" & she has to cluck like a chicken for customers who asks for it (imagine tht happening in KFC... For the life of me I can't imagine someone wanting the order-taker to cluck). The last day of her employment, she was stationed at the drive-thru counter taking orders. It was her last day, because someone (1 of her "pals" she managed to cause some real injury in her previous job as a bounty hunter) pulled up the drive-thru counter & pass her a gift wrapped package (it ticked!). In panic, she accidentally threw the parcel into hot boiling oil tht was meant for frying chickens! Again in panic, her co-worker sprayed water from the fire-extinguisher. Kaboom!! Let's just say Cluck-in-a-Bucket became Cluck-in-ashes.
4) Trying to safe Stephanie from herself, Ranger offered her a position in his firm, running searches on ppl they had to catch / spy on / provide security for (Ranger is both a bounty hunter & a successful business man providing security & surveillance services). She borrowed Morelli's SUV to get to work, but being the disaster magnet she is, the SUV turned to dust along with his rickety garage when a bomb exploded as soon as Stephanie left the car to enter Morelli's hse (where she's staying until "things settles down"). So she ended up getting a Ducati fr Ranger (cos' any bomb planting will be obvious as there's no nook / cranny to hide it) & a loaded gun to protect herself.
She tried to solve the mystery of events tht happened to her lately. Someone seriously wants her dead - but who? She had a suspect, but he's supposed to be dead. Turned out she has been barking up the wrong tree & the mystery unravelled towards the end (of which she very nearly got killed if not for Ranger). Will not spoil the ending in case you want to read it.
Though it seems I have written quite a lot abt the book, but actually there are more disasters to check out tht I did not mention above. The ending was quite abrupt though. It was as if even the author is sick of coming up with more disasters & just decided to end it with Steph nearly got killed, Ranger saved her & the culprit reprimanded (oh not without the normal criminal spill their beans on why they do this / that... That is "sooooo..... normal" for criminals to do - i.e. explain themselves... being sarcastic there).
Overall an ok read, but pretty far fetched most of the time. Exaggerated version of a walking catastrophe.
Technology Has Taken Over Our Lives!
Arrgghh!!! I can't send out a single work related e-mails & receive any e-mails. How to work like tht....
What's more difficult is to pretend tht I'm actually productive when I practically can't do anything without my e-mail. what to do.... What to do...
What's more difficult is to pretend tht I'm actually productive when I practically can't do anything without my e-mail. what to do.... What to do...
Monday, 22 June 2009
Movie Review: Terminator: Salvation
Before even going for the movie, 9/10 of our friends told us tht the movie was lousy / doesn't meet the mark when compared to all the other Terminator movies. So we were debating whether to go or not for the movie.
Finally we went last Sunday & caught the morning show. Maybe I went in with very low expectation, so it did not turn out as badly as I thought. But my hubby still did not like it much. He still prefers the previous Terminator movies where it was non-stop action & thrill. This movie has its slow / boring moments.
Christian Bale's acting was really lifeless, expresionless & he alwiz have d same look whether when fighting / when his helicopter is crashing / when on a life/death fight wif d robots / when lie dying & Marcus (d hybrid) offered to donate his heart... Expressionless through it all! I'd thought he shud at least look grateful lar.... d guy is giving away his life leh! **shakes head**
I liked Marcus (dunno his real name). He managed to display some complex emotion at the right time. Some of the most notable scenes where I thought was particularly good were :
1. when he found out he's actually a machine (I actually scolded Christian Bale when he distrusted Marcus juzz cos' he's a machine. I think I actually said "Stupid" out loud without realizing & promptly sink down really low in my seat... hahahaha..... but no reaction fr the rest of the movie-goers though... so suspect they agreed.... :-p)
2. when trying to enter d gates of Skynet & d robot let him enter because he was a machine.... tht had a mixture of sadness & anger... I actualy felt sorry for him there
3. when he found out he was duped & he was actually sent by Skynet to infiltrate d humans
Overall? If not for Marcus, dun think I can find much to like abt d movie....
Finally we went last Sunday & caught the morning show. Maybe I went in with very low expectation, so it did not turn out as badly as I thought. But my hubby still did not like it much. He still prefers the previous Terminator movies where it was non-stop action & thrill. This movie has its slow / boring moments.
Christian Bale's acting was really lifeless, expresionless & he alwiz have d same look whether when fighting / when his helicopter is crashing / when on a life/death fight wif d robots / when lie dying & Marcus (d hybrid) offered to donate his heart... Expressionless through it all! I'd thought he shud at least look grateful lar.... d guy is giving away his life leh! **shakes head**
I liked Marcus (dunno his real name). He managed to display some complex emotion at the right time. Some of the most notable scenes where I thought was particularly good were :
1. when he found out he's actually a machine (I actually scolded Christian Bale when he distrusted Marcus juzz cos' he's a machine. I think I actually said "Stupid" out loud without realizing & promptly sink down really low in my seat... hahahaha..... but no reaction fr the rest of the movie-goers though... so suspect they agreed.... :-p)
2. when trying to enter d gates of Skynet & d robot let him enter because he was a machine.... tht had a mixture of sadness & anger... I actualy felt sorry for him there
3. when he found out he was duped & he was actually sent by Skynet to infiltrate d humans
Overall? If not for Marcus, dun think I can find much to like abt d movie....
Hepi Besday to Me.....
Hepi Besday to Me.....
Hepi Besday to Me.....
Hepi Besday to Me..... Eee......
Hepi Besday to Me..... :-P
Actually should post this article on 19th Jun.... But was too lazy to even go on-line, so only started writing now....
Wht I did on d day? Nothing much....
Eat....
Sleep....
A teeny-weeny bit of house cleaning
cook lunch for hubby
Watch TV
Sleep again
& finally dinner with hubby @ Alson Kelana's Jap Restaurant... Love d sashimi there.... smooch smooch smooch!....
for those who tried to call me but didn't get thru.... sowee.... must have fallen asleep / something.... then when I saw d # of miss calls.... errr.... nevermind.... :-p
Overall, it was quite a good b'day.... a quiet & relaxing 1... juzz d way I like it....
Hepi Besday to Me.....
Hepi Besday to Me..... Eee......
Hepi Besday to Me..... :-P
Actually should post this article on 19th Jun.... But was too lazy to even go on-line, so only started writing now....
Wht I did on d day? Nothing much....
Eat....
Sleep....
A teeny-weeny bit of house cleaning
cook lunch for hubby
Watch TV
Sleep again
& finally dinner with hubby @ Alson Kelana's Jap Restaurant... Love d sashimi there.... smooch smooch smooch!....
for those who tried to call me but didn't get thru.... sowee.... must have fallen asleep / something.... then when I saw d # of miss calls.... errr.... nevermind.... :-p
Overall, it was quite a good b'day.... a quiet & relaxing 1... juzz d way I like it....
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Book Review: The True Naomi Story by A.M. Goldsher
This is A "Little Black Dress" Book where most of them are chick reads....
Naturally it's about Naomi. It's supposedly written by Naomi to give her version of her Biography vs. the many Biographies on her in the book store. Oh... u must be wondering who's she to get her Biographies written... forgot to mention she's a rock star. Or rather she & her band, consisting of Jen (keyboard, background singer & song writer for this band), Travis (bassist & Jen's bro), Frank Craft (drummer).
Some of the descriptions of the recording & the phases of development of their rock group are quite technical tht there are times I wonder if the write is also involved in the industry. Of course it's not all smooth sailing. It started really nice with best friends Naomi & Jen jamming together in Jen's room, both of them have supportive parents when they said they don't want to go to college (although their results certainly qualifies them), but tht bond disentangled as they shoot to stardom overnight. I won't tell the ending. Suffice to say it's a happy one.
Ok for some light reading...
Naturally it's about Naomi. It's supposedly written by Naomi to give her version of her Biography vs. the many Biographies on her in the book store. Oh... u must be wondering who's she to get her Biographies written... forgot to mention she's a rock star. Or rather she & her band, consisting of Jen (keyboard, background singer & song writer for this band), Travis (bassist & Jen's bro), Frank Craft (drummer).
Some of the descriptions of the recording & the phases of development of their rock group are quite technical tht there are times I wonder if the write is also involved in the industry. Of course it's not all smooth sailing. It started really nice with best friends Naomi & Jen jamming together in Jen's room, both of them have supportive parents when they said they don't want to go to college (although their results certainly qualifies them), but tht bond disentangled as they shoot to stardom overnight. I won't tell the ending. Suffice to say it's a happy one.
Ok for some light reading...
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