Simba was very much alive.
I could not believe my eyes when I saw her.
Everything was white and hazy.
She stared at me with huge beady eyes and started purring.
I rushed to carry her, sayang her, smell her and kiss her.
I could feel her warm body against mine.
I could feel her soft, silky fur.
I could smell her distinct soft toy smell.
I got swollen lips after kissing her.
Hugging her, I ran around the house to find the rest.
I squealed with obvious delight
that Simba was still very much alive.
Nobody heard me.
Nobody saw me.
I screamed and waved wildy.
But still,
nobody could hear me,
nobody could see me.
Something drew me
further and further away...
Like a giant vacuum cleaner
sucking me from all the whiteness.
There I lay in my bed
but Simba was gone.
How I miss her.
Telling myself that she had gone to rainbow bridge,
I made a mental note not to watch too many lion videos.
Friday, August 01, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Christian the Lion
Simply heartwarming!
There are many versions of this video on youtube. However, I like this the best.
More write-ups and photos of this affectionate lion here.
I stumbled onto this as one of the related videos --
Lion & Ferret Playing
Damn, now I want a f**king lion!
Where's Simba???
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Edited to add:
My hp mysteriously recovered!
Sometimes, life is a mystery.
There are many versions of this video on youtube. However, I like this the best.
More write-ups and photos of this affectionate lion here.
I stumbled onto this as one of the related videos --
Lion & Ferret Playing
Damn, now I want a f**king lion!
Where's Simba???
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Edited to add:
My hp mysteriously recovered!
Sometimes, life is a mystery.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Spotted… Gluttons at MELT
Buffet is the best kinda dinner for gluttons like us. Hence, we decided to check out MELT for deardear’s belated birthday dinner two Sundays ago.
We stuffed ourselves silly. Even though the variety of food wasn’t that impressive, the food tasted good and that’s a minus 1 point, plus 1 point to break even for Melt.
1st dish
1. seafood salad
2. mango sald
3. papaya salad
4. chicken salad
5. mushroom salad
6. smoked mackerel
7. smoked salmon
8. smoked snow fish
9. Thai beef salad
Appetite-inducing! Love the mushroom salad best even though I’m not exactly a mushroom-person.
A sashimi platter is a good way to begin the meal. For fans of soba, we both didn’t quite like the soba there.
Kh’s drink. It’s some mango drink which tasted great.
Mine. It is a mixed of all kinds of berries. Sure is a great drink if you enjoy Panadol for kids.
Kh opted for the western fare
While I chose the Asian (Thai, Indonesian style) one.
Kh really whacked the cold seafood like xiao.
He had two plates!!! I only helped by eating whatever he peeled for me. Even though I don’t really like cold and sweet seafood, I must say that they’re really succulent.
The oysters were fresh but I could not really stomach them and felt the compelling need for me to swallow them immediately. Two was enough for me. The best oysters are still the ones at The Cliff. Remember the $13.90 price tag per oyster?
I ended the savoury course with more sashimi, sushi and smoked fish.
Looking around one last time to see if we should get anymore before we started savouring the desserts.
We decided to take a coffee break before we proceeded for desserts and chocolate fondue.
Delectable desserts
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Review in summary for MELT The World Cafe
Food: * * * 1/2
Food is great. Seafood and sashimi were very fresh. Pity about the limited variety of main courses.
Ambience: * * * *
Comfortable. Classy but not uppity.
Service: * * * *
Service was excellent. Wait staffs held eye contact with me even though kh was the one doing the talking and vice versa. It gave us the impression that they were acknowledging both of us no matter who was the one talking. The manager would randomly stop at tables to make small talk with patrons and enlightening patrons with which buffet dishes were new on the menu etc.
Price:
Value-for-money if you’re gluttons like us
The bill came to a total of $150++ after 15% discount.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Who’s the boss?
After the dinner, we went to Kbox. I haven’t been singing K with him for a looooooooooooooooooong time. My main motive was to shortlist a song for this company KTV singing competition.
Jolene in a singing competition??? Yeah yeah… I boh bian coz my group nobody join la. Too many past year champions liao and they are not eligible to participate so this amateur and another stage-fright-colleague must go save the group. I have the sneaking suspicion that I would be booted out at the very 1st round.
Yeah, so anyway, we had lots of fun singing. I missed singing OUR 恋爱频率 together…
Oh yes, the night before, we went to catch the “The Dark Knight”.
Before the movie started, we had more than an hour to waste so guess what we did? We wasted our money on Sweetland machine!
Just in case some for you dunno what Sweetland machine is… here is a video I found on YouTube
The end result? A huge bag of sweets; a Stitch music player and some unfortunate-looking Disney soft toy as the jackpot price and $70+ poorer.
Actually there were more variety of sweets and snacks but we gobbled them up while scooping the sweets onto the platform.
Fancy spending $70+ just like that.
It was soooooo addictive!
Another machine which I got hooked was the one where you can win Sony PSP, PS3, Asus notebook, Sony Ericsson mobile phones etc. I was really hooked onto that. We reached the 2nd top bar a few times but we just could not get the last bar to coincide. The Wheeeew… Whoopee sound effect from that machine is still ringing clearly in my mind.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The Dark Knight
It was very exciting. I love the charming Christian Bale as Batman and I applaud Heath Ledger for the convincing portrayal of Joker.
I forgot many parts from the first installment but still, the excitement and pace of the movie is worth 4 stars.
Rating: ****
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Red Cliff
One word – AWESOME!
It made me wanna pick up a Romance of the Three Kingdom book. It made me wanna learn more about Chinese History. It made me curse and swear that there is currently no Idiot’s Guide to Chinese History in English on the market.
I love to watch the warring tactics and strategy as well as the battle of the wits. Oh yes, there are many small funny moments in the show which bring comic relief to a warring movie.
Can't wait for the 2nd installment.
Rating: ****1/2
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Get Smart
It's lame but not as lame as I thought it would be. I'm beginning not to dislike Anne Hathaway so much after this show.
Rating: ***
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Hancock
It wasn’t as bad as what the critics reviewed but I do agree that I can’t see a solid plot and direction of this movie. Nevertheless, the movie was quite entertaining and original.
Rating: ***1/2
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Replies to tags
20 Jul 08, 13:05
June: Hi Jolene... I'm June'80 from LD =) Recently started my own blog. I've added u, hope u dun mind. My blog add is ahjune.wordpress.com =)
Of course I don’t mind! I’ll drop by your blog soon.=)
23 Jul 08, 11:17
from LD: Hi Jolene. I notice that you seldom come to LD recently. I sent you a pm. I hope you will be able to check and reply soon. I won't leave my name but you will know my nick when you check the pm.
23 Jul 08, 11:18
from LD: I don't usually tag but I hope to see your reply. Thank you.
Replied you on pm! =)
28 Jul 08, 00:35
tiffy: I am glad u shortlisted something!! Thats nice. Has the date been fixed? I am ready to attend the wedding! take care.
Will keep you informed. No worries about it! You must start to prepare your speech liao. HA!
We stuffed ourselves silly. Even though the variety of food wasn’t that impressive, the food tasted good and that’s a minus 1 point, plus 1 point to break even for Melt.
1st dish
1. seafood salad
2. mango sald
3. papaya salad
4. chicken salad
5. mushroom salad
6. smoked mackerel
7. smoked salmon
8. smoked snow fish
9. Thai beef salad
Appetite-inducing! Love the mushroom salad best even though I’m not exactly a mushroom-person.
A sashimi platter is a good way to begin the meal. For fans of soba, we both didn’t quite like the soba there.
Kh’s drink. It’s some mango drink which tasted great.
Mine. It is a mixed of all kinds of berries. Sure is a great drink if you enjoy Panadol for kids.
Kh opted for the western fare
While I chose the Asian (Thai, Indonesian style) one.
Kh really whacked the cold seafood like xiao.
He had two plates!!! I only helped by eating whatever he peeled for me. Even though I don’t really like cold and sweet seafood, I must say that they’re really succulent.
The oysters were fresh but I could not really stomach them and felt the compelling need for me to swallow them immediately. Two was enough for me. The best oysters are still the ones at The Cliff. Remember the $13.90 price tag per oyster?
I ended the savoury course with more sashimi, sushi and smoked fish.
Looking around one last time to see if we should get anymore before we started savouring the desserts.
We decided to take a coffee break before we proceeded for desserts and chocolate fondue.
Delectable desserts
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Review in summary for MELT The World Cafe
Food: * * * 1/2
Food is great. Seafood and sashimi were very fresh. Pity about the limited variety of main courses.
Ambience: * * * *
Comfortable. Classy but not uppity.
Service: * * * *
Service was excellent. Wait staffs held eye contact with me even though kh was the one doing the talking and vice versa. It gave us the impression that they were acknowledging both of us no matter who was the one talking. The manager would randomly stop at tables to make small talk with patrons and enlightening patrons with which buffet dishes were new on the menu etc.
Price:
Value-for-money if you’re gluttons like us
The bill came to a total of $150++ after 15% discount.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Who’s the boss?
After the dinner, we went to Kbox. I haven’t been singing K with him for a looooooooooooooooooong time. My main motive was to shortlist a song for this company KTV singing competition.
Jolene in a singing competition??? Yeah yeah… I boh bian coz my group nobody join la. Too many past year champions liao and they are not eligible to participate so this amateur and another stage-fright-colleague must go save the group. I have the sneaking suspicion that I would be booted out at the very 1st round.
Yeah, so anyway, we had lots of fun singing. I missed singing OUR 恋爱频率 together…
Oh yes, the night before, we went to catch the “The Dark Knight”.
Before the movie started, we had more than an hour to waste so guess what we did? We wasted our money on Sweetland machine!
Just in case some for you dunno what Sweetland machine is… here is a video I found on YouTube
The end result? A huge bag of sweets; a Stitch music player and some unfortunate-looking Disney soft toy as the jackpot price and $70+ poorer.
Actually there were more variety of sweets and snacks but we gobbled them up while scooping the sweets onto the platform.
Fancy spending $70+ just like that.
It was soooooo addictive!
Another machine which I got hooked was the one where you can win Sony PSP, PS3, Asus notebook, Sony Ericsson mobile phones etc. I was really hooked onto that. We reached the 2nd top bar a few times but we just could not get the last bar to coincide. The Wheeeew… Whoopee sound effect from that machine is still ringing clearly in my mind.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The Dark Knight
It was very exciting. I love the charming Christian Bale as Batman and I applaud Heath Ledger for the convincing portrayal of Joker.
I forgot many parts from the first installment but still, the excitement and pace of the movie is worth 4 stars.
Rating: ****
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Red Cliff
One word – AWESOME!
It made me wanna pick up a Romance of the Three Kingdom book. It made me wanna learn more about Chinese History. It made me curse and swear that there is currently no Idiot’s Guide to Chinese History in English on the market.
I love to watch the warring tactics and strategy as well as the battle of the wits. Oh yes, there are many small funny moments in the show which bring comic relief to a warring movie.
Can't wait for the 2nd installment.
Rating: ****1/2
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Get Smart
It's lame but not as lame as I thought it would be. I'm beginning not to dislike Anne Hathaway so much after this show.
Rating: ***
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Hancock
It wasn’t as bad as what the critics reviewed but I do agree that I can’t see a solid plot and direction of this movie. Nevertheless, the movie was quite entertaining and original.
Rating: ***1/2
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Replies to tags
20 Jul 08, 13:05
June: Hi Jolene... I'm June'80 from LD =) Recently started my own blog. I've added u, hope u dun mind. My blog add is ahjune.wordpress.com =)
Of course I don’t mind! I’ll drop by your blog soon.=)
23 Jul 08, 11:17
from LD: Hi Jolene. I notice that you seldom come to LD recently. I sent you a pm. I hope you will be able to check and reply soon. I won't leave my name but you will know my nick when you check the pm.
23 Jul 08, 11:18
from LD: I don't usually tag but I hope to see your reply. Thank you.
Replied you on pm! =)
28 Jul 08, 00:35
tiffy: I am glad u shortlisted something!! Thats nice. Has the date been fixed? I am ready to attend the wedding! take care.
Will keep you informed. No worries about it! You must start to prepare your speech liao. HA!
Sunday, July 27, 2008
My main line is spoilt!
Hey peeps, kindly contact me at my sms line. Silly tailtail dropped my hp and it could never be revived.
I've gotten a spare hp from tailtail! You can still contact me, just that I don't have many of your contacts as most of them were saved in the memory of the spoilt hp. Also, I can't sms for nutz on this hp.
I've gotten a spare hp from tailtail! You can still contact me, just that I don't have many of your contacts as most of them were saved in the memory of the spoilt hp. Also, I can't sms for nutz on this hp.
In love with the rings at Love & Co.
I must be head over heels in love with the wedding bands at Love & Co. to dream of them during my short evening nap just now.
I was just about to give up and start drawing out my own designs to be customed-made. Fortunately, tif recommended me to take a peek at Love & Co. before doing that.
They have such a huge range of uniquely designed bands.
We have shortlisted 3 pairs and might be making a trip down again. =)
I was just about to give up and start drawing out my own designs to be customed-made. Fortunately, tif recommended me to take a peek at Love & Co. before doing that.
They have such a huge range of uniquely designed bands.
We have shortlisted 3 pairs and might be making a trip down again. =)
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