Top Ten Signs That You've Had Too Much Of The 90's...
10. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally insert a "9" to get an outside line.
9. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
8. You hear most of your jokes via email instead of in person.
7. Your idea of being organized is multiple colored post-it notes.
6. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
5. You chat on-line regularly with a stranger from the US, but haven't spoken with your next door neighbor yet this year.
4. You e-mail your work colleague at the desk next to you to ask if they're ready to go to lunch. (Aren't we guilty for this one... hahahahah)
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 4.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
1. You try to enter your password on the microwave.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Strange Facts
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts-Charlemagne, and
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33
Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts-Charlemagne, and
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.
Monday, January 22, 2007
THE Proposal
Many a times, in a woman's life, there will be moments when you wonder about how life would be like through your 20' right up till 30s. Will you be married, start a family, have kids, grow old with your partner, your soul mate as many would call it.
And many a times, you wonder, if making a decision is the right one you would make, and you realise, all your life, the "what if's" syndrome will haunt you in every possible way, especially when things go wrong.
Marriage proposal was not necessary for me, i always figured, you know you're going to get married, and long distance relationship is as to the extreme as it is.
I remember this saying, watching "Taken", ok, yes,I am a movie, drama, books freak at times but... i love it! So, anyway, Dakota Fanning was saying this:
Sometimes the best way to move into the unknown is to take familiar steps, small steps. To do ordinary things to deal with something that is in no way ordinary. We're always going someplace new, all the time. Familiar things just let us pretend that we aren't moving into unfamiliar territory. You take those small familiar steps, and you try to be honest, not to live as if nothing had changed but still to go on with your life. But there are times when what you need is a piece of how things used to be.
So, folks, 21st Jan, at 8.00pm (SIN time), 7.00am (CAN time) and 12.00pm (Denmark time), Lars said, "Idah, will you marry me?" and that changed everything!
It felt real than it was months ago, a man and not just any man, the man you know you want to spend the rest of your life with, proposed to me! not the neighbour next door, not the friend i know, not anyone else, but me! :)
On behalf of all the Mondays that i drag for so many years, this is one Monday i will not forget! I am actually smiling and dont need 10 mugs of coffee to keep my sanity level to normal rate. Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.
And many a times, you wonder, if making a decision is the right one you would make, and you realise, all your life, the "what if's" syndrome will haunt you in every possible way, especially when things go wrong.
Marriage proposal was not necessary for me, i always figured, you know you're going to get married, and long distance relationship is as to the extreme as it is.
I remember this saying, watching "Taken", ok, yes,I am a movie, drama, books freak at times but... i love it! So, anyway, Dakota Fanning was saying this:
Sometimes the best way to move into the unknown is to take familiar steps, small steps. To do ordinary things to deal with something that is in no way ordinary. We're always going someplace new, all the time. Familiar things just let us pretend that we aren't moving into unfamiliar territory. You take those small familiar steps, and you try to be honest, not to live as if nothing had changed but still to go on with your life. But there are times when what you need is a piece of how things used to be.
So, folks, 21st Jan, at 8.00pm (SIN time), 7.00am (CAN time) and 12.00pm (Denmark time), Lars said, "Idah, will you marry me?" and that changed everything!
It felt real than it was months ago, a man and not just any man, the man you know you want to spend the rest of your life with, proposed to me! not the neighbour next door, not the friend i know, not anyone else, but me! :)
On behalf of all the Mondays that i drag for so many years, this is one Monday i will not forget! I am actually smiling and dont need 10 mugs of coffee to keep my sanity level to normal rate. Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
2007
I have no idea what is wrong with me, either aging is in the process or my brain has decided to take a break from the world, you know, i think it's the other way round, it's overworking, mush and gerard use to tell me, whatever number of thoughts an average person thinks, i have double.
"In this sad World of ours, sorrow comes to us all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares."
"Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite."
That was said by Abraham Lincoln.
As i reflect on 2006, conjuring up enough memory cell left, the good things that came to into my life, the things i wish i had done or said, the people i wish i could shoot (well, not that many, really).
I have met a man i want to spend the rest of my life with, start a family, something i never thought would happen in a million years, well not to me, maybe to everyone else, well, now that it's here, it's happening to me, i want to embrace it whole-heartedly, look back and see this young lady that drinks, smoke and dance in her own world looking on to this grown woman and know it's ok.
Last few years has allowed me to grow and taught me many things about life and people, family, work. I don't want to relive most of it... a lot of it was hard work and it's certainly work I don't want to have to do again. Yet I don't regret it... well most of it anyway.
I have drifted away from friends, and I have gained some friends. Friends have moved away from me, and some have moved back to me. The friends I cherish most are still a firm part of my everyday life - and that means more to me than I could explain.
I have become a better person... I have hurt some people and been hurt in order to become this - but I think they too would say it was well worth it.
I have learnt to live, to cherish the moment, to take life as it comes, to be happy, to smile when I don't feel like it, to open myself up and most importantly to love.
I know this year will be better than the last, watching my life pass me by, i don't want to waste my day... *i feel a song here...* Now that the year has come, time is ushering me off, pushing me from my back, saying it's time to move forward, it's now or never missy. Saying goodbye has never been a friend of mine. I feel equipped to tackle whatever is thrown my way...
"In this sad World of ours, sorrow comes to us all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares."
"Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite."
That was said by Abraham Lincoln.
As i reflect on 2006, conjuring up enough memory cell left, the good things that came to into my life, the things i wish i had done or said, the people i wish i could shoot (well, not that many, really).
I have met a man i want to spend the rest of my life with, start a family, something i never thought would happen in a million years, well not to me, maybe to everyone else, well, now that it's here, it's happening to me, i want to embrace it whole-heartedly, look back and see this young lady that drinks, smoke and dance in her own world looking on to this grown woman and know it's ok.
Last few years has allowed me to grow and taught me many things about life and people, family, work. I don't want to relive most of it... a lot of it was hard work and it's certainly work I don't want to have to do again. Yet I don't regret it... well most of it anyway.
I have drifted away from friends, and I have gained some friends. Friends have moved away from me, and some have moved back to me. The friends I cherish most are still a firm part of my everyday life - and that means more to me than I could explain.
I have become a better person... I have hurt some people and been hurt in order to become this - but I think they too would say it was well worth it.
I have learnt to live, to cherish the moment, to take life as it comes, to be happy, to smile when I don't feel like it, to open myself up and most importantly to love.
I know this year will be better than the last, watching my life pass me by, i don't want to waste my day... *i feel a song here...* Now that the year has come, time is ushering me off, pushing me from my back, saying it's time to move forward, it's now or never missy. Saying goodbye has never been a friend of mine. I feel equipped to tackle whatever is thrown my way...
Monday, January 08, 2007
Blimey, Thousand Apologies!
| You Belong in the UK |
 Blimey! A little proper, a little saucy. You're so witty and charming... No one notices your curry breath |
My Trip
I am back home, well, it's Monday, and i am at work, needing coffee more than ever, with bloodshot eyes, i need sleep badly.
Reached Singapore late evening on Friday, and went to my sister's place which was 10 minutes away from the airport, greeted by Gerard and Genie at the airport, it was really nice to see them.
Unfortunately, i could not sleep at all, it was not my bed, and sleep came at 1am and sun came at 4am, as my mind was nagging whether Lars has reached Montreal safely. Saturday night, same thing, wondering whether he has reached Quebec safely.
Last evening, i came back to Toa Payoh, the smell of dog crap, courtesy of our friendly neighbours could not have made me happier.. I AM HOME!
Sasi was home, and it's nice, my bed, my cat, my pillows... all mine and still freaking sleep would not come cos Sasi decided to nag the whole night!!!
So, here i am typing on my blog, doing some personality blogging thing from Mush the moron blog, and feeling sleeepy yet again.
My stories about Denmark coming up with pictures to see.. My next countdown trip, Quebec in March.
Yawn!
Reached Singapore late evening on Friday, and went to my sister's place which was 10 minutes away from the airport, greeted by Gerard and Genie at the airport, it was really nice to see them.
Unfortunately, i could not sleep at all, it was not my bed, and sleep came at 1am and sun came at 4am, as my mind was nagging whether Lars has reached Montreal safely. Saturday night, same thing, wondering whether he has reached Quebec safely.
Last evening, i came back to Toa Payoh, the smell of dog crap, courtesy of our friendly neighbours could not have made me happier.. I AM HOME!
Sasi was home, and it's nice, my bed, my cat, my pillows... all mine and still freaking sleep would not come cos Sasi decided to nag the whole night!!!
So, here i am typing on my blog, doing some personality blogging thing from Mush the moron blog, and feeling sleeepy yet again.
My stories about Denmark coming up with pictures to see.. My next countdown trip, Quebec in March.
Yawn!
Blogging Personality..Hmmmm
| Your Blogging Type Is the Private Performer |
 Your blog is your stage - with your visitors your adoring fans. At least, that's how you write with your witty one liners. And while you like attention, you value your privacy. You're likely to have an anonymous blog - or turn off comments. |
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