Hello my lovely Asian friends and readers. How many of these could you identify with? I'm 1:35--2:14 and 2:17--2:37 (It ends at 2:37 as I don't stop the other party from eating while editing the pictures.) I know my hubby could totally be that guy at 2:29.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Saturday, April 06, 2013
I'm Jumping on the Instagram Bandwagon
I'm jumping on the Instagram bandwagon as I saw one of my best buddies on it today. I would also give my Turtle friend credit for being one of the many blogger friends who instigated me to be on it. As for now, Twitter isn't twittering for me yet. I've still got a long way to conquering all networking tools as I'm only on less than half of what is depicted in this picture.
Here are my chi cats and I saying hello from Wagamama London as my profile picture!
Well, London was so 1.5 years ago. I do have an Instagram account since a while back. My only followers are my sister, a friend and an unknown. I used Instagram filters for some photos when I first installed the app and I thought it was compulsory to sign up as a member. So I have a grand total of 4 pictures inside before I realised I need not upload my pictures there in order to use the filters.
Click on the button below to get to my page. I would be uploading more photos once I get the hang of it. As for now, I'm still a noob exploring and wondering what makes Instagram so much fun.
Here are my chi cats and I saying hello from Wagamama London as my profile picture!
Well, London was so 1.5 years ago. I do have an Instagram account since a while back. My only followers are my sister, a friend and an unknown. I used Instagram filters for some photos when I first installed the app and I thought it was compulsory to sign up as a member. So I have a grand total of 4 pictures inside before I realised I need not upload my pictures there in order to use the filters.
Click on the button below to get to my page. I would be uploading more photos once I get the hang of it. As for now, I'm still a noob exploring and wondering what makes Instagram so much fun.
Thursday, April 04, 2013
Suspended Coffee & Chop-ing Food
Recently, a photo with an inspirational story on suspended coffee has been making its round on my Facebook newsfeed with about 38k likes and 30k shares. Have you heard of this story? It goes like this:
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We entered a little coffeehouse with a friend of mine and gave our order. While we were approaching our table, two people came in and they went to the counter. "Five coffees, please. Two of them for us and three suspended."
They paid for their order, took the two and left. I asked my friend, "What are those 'suspended' coffees?"
"Wait for it and you will see."
More people entered. Two girls asked for one coffee each, paid and went off. The next order was for seven coffees and it was made by three lawyers - three for them and four 'suspended'. While I was still wondering what the deal with those 'suspended' coffees was, I enjoyed the sunny weather and the beautiful view towards the square in front of the café.
Suddenly a man dressed in shabby clothes who looked like a beggar came in through the door and kindly asked,"Do you have a suspended coffee?"
It's simple - people pay in advance for a coffee meant for someone who cannot afford a warm beverage. The tradition with the suspended coffees started in Naples, but it has spread all over the world and in some places you can order not only a suspended coffee, but also a sandwich or a whole meal.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have such cafés or even grocery stores in every town where the less fortunate will find hope and support?
If you own a business why don't you offer it to your clients... I am sure many of them will like it :)
[Source of text: Click here
Disclaimer: I've amended the original text to be in the past tense and also made minor edits.]
~~~~~
Initially when I shared the story, I was a little sceptical that Singapore would pick up this culture. Then on the second of April, somebody in Singapore set up a Facebook page "CHOPE FOOD for the NEEDY" which has since garnered 4.2k likes. (For my non-Singaporean friends, "chope" is a slang to mean reserve.)
This is such a meaningful act though I think it would be a little daunting for those interested to partake in this pay it forward movement when they try to explain to the hawkers what their intentions are. It is a lot easier for me to explain to them in English but many of our hawkers are Chinese-speaking. I'm already formulating Mandarin and dialect sentences in my mind and trying to find the vocabulary of certain terms.
Have you heard of suspended coffee? Does your hometown have this practice too? Would you partake in it?
~~~~~
We entered a little coffeehouse with a friend of mine and gave our order. While we were approaching our table, two people came in and they went to the counter. "Five coffees, please. Two of them for us and three suspended."
They paid for their order, took the two and left. I asked my friend, "What are those 'suspended' coffees?"
"Wait for it and you will see."
More people entered. Two girls asked for one coffee each, paid and went off. The next order was for seven coffees and it was made by three lawyers - three for them and four 'suspended'. While I was still wondering what the deal with those 'suspended' coffees was, I enjoyed the sunny weather and the beautiful view towards the square in front of the café.
Suddenly a man dressed in shabby clothes who looked like a beggar came in through the door and kindly asked,"Do you have a suspended coffee?"
It's simple - people pay in advance for a coffee meant for someone who cannot afford a warm beverage. The tradition with the suspended coffees started in Naples, but it has spread all over the world and in some places you can order not only a suspended coffee, but also a sandwich or a whole meal.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have such cafés or even grocery stores in every town where the less fortunate will find hope and support?
If you own a business why don't you offer it to your clients... I am sure many of them will like it :)
[Source of text: Click here
Disclaimer: I've amended the original text to be in the past tense and also made minor edits.]
~~~~~
Initially when I shared the story, I was a little sceptical that Singapore would pick up this culture. Then on the second of April, somebody in Singapore set up a Facebook page "CHOPE FOOD for the NEEDY" which has since garnered 4.2k likes. (For my non-Singaporean friends, "chope" is a slang to mean reserve.)
This is such a meaningful act though I think it would be a little daunting for those interested to partake in this pay it forward movement when they try to explain to the hawkers what their intentions are. It is a lot easier for me to explain to them in English but many of our hawkers are Chinese-speaking. I'm already formulating Mandarin and dialect sentences in my mind and trying to find the vocabulary of certain terms.
Have you heard of suspended coffee? Does your hometown have this practice too? Would you partake in it?
Saturday, March 30, 2013
The Evening The Leopards Went Meow
It was our division's gala night two Fridays ago. It was a safari theme and hence our department agreed that we should all be clad in leopard prints.
I like how my department is so cohesive. I always count my blessings to have such great co-workers turned friends in the organizations I've worked in so far.
A few weeks before the gala night, the gals were even helping one another to look out for leopard prints apparels and also lending various apparels to those who needed them. We started preparing for the gala dinner by early evening and was helping one another with lining eyes and sticking faux lashes in the office.
I would let the pictures do the talking. The resolution isn't sharp as all the photos were taken using handphones.
Spot the only guy! We all felt he could really blend in with us gals.
The props kinda soften the whole fierce and hawt leopard feel.
Even our immediate boss was game to put on those ears and be silly like us.
Leopard prints in various patterns and sizes
and various colours too!
Car buddies? Thank you for the car rides always.
The snake felt really leathery and slinky. The last time I held a snake was at the zoo when I was 4 and this snake felt really different. Oh, and it was warm too. I was amazed. The man said it was under the sun before that.
Just 8 photos for the night. There aren't many photographs of my colleagues at work but only during events as we are working in an organization which prohibits the use of image-capturing devices.
We often discuss how some nosey relatives and friends of our parents would try to dig out more information on what our job scope is from our parents. Most of the time, our parents don't exactly know what we do even after explaining to them. Hence one of my colleague (who is about our parents age) suggested to tell our parents to convey the message to these nosey parkers that we work in a secret organization whereby we have guards behind us pointing guns to our heads as we work. We all thought that was really funny and decided to try it out for fun some day.
PS: That was the first time I put on contacts and had heavy eye make up after my cornea infection. Sad to say, my eyes really could not take anymore of these despite only having them on for a few hours. So I'm back to specs and no make up or light make up days again.
PSS: The leopard print dress I'm wearing belongs to my mum. When I took out the dress from my bag to show my colleagues, they were all amazed and immediately rained stuff like "Is your mum very skinny?", "Is your mum very young?" "Wah! Your mum is very happening!" Yes, my mum is more happening than me.
I like how my department is so cohesive. I always count my blessings to have such great co-workers turned friends in the organizations I've worked in so far.
A few weeks before the gala night, the gals were even helping one another to look out for leopard prints apparels and also lending various apparels to those who needed them. We started preparing for the gala dinner by early evening and was helping one another with lining eyes and sticking faux lashes in the office.
I would let the pictures do the talking. The resolution isn't sharp as all the photos were taken using handphones.
Spot the only guy! We all felt he could really blend in with us gals.
The props kinda soften the whole fierce and hawt leopard feel.
Even our immediate boss was game to put on those ears and be silly like us.
Leopard prints in various patterns and sizes
and various colours too!
Car buddies? Thank you for the car rides always.
The snake felt really leathery and slinky. The last time I held a snake was at the zoo when I was 4 and this snake felt really different. Oh, and it was warm too. I was amazed. The man said it was under the sun before that.
Just 8 photos for the night. There aren't many photographs of my colleagues at work but only during events as we are working in an organization which prohibits the use of image-capturing devices.
We often discuss how some nosey relatives and friends of our parents would try to dig out more information on what our job scope is from our parents. Most of the time, our parents don't exactly know what we do even after explaining to them. Hence one of my colleague (who is about our parents age) suggested to tell our parents to convey the message to these nosey parkers that we work in a secret organization whereby we have guards behind us pointing guns to our heads as we work. We all thought that was really funny and decided to try it out for fun some day.
PS: That was the first time I put on contacts and had heavy eye make up after my cornea infection. Sad to say, my eyes really could not take anymore of these despite only having them on for a few hours. So I'm back to specs and no make up or light make up days again.
PSS: The leopard print dress I'm wearing belongs to my mum. When I took out the dress from my bag to show my colleagues, they were all amazed and immediately rained stuff like "Is your mum very skinny?", "Is your mum very young?" "Wah! Your mum is very happening!" Yes, my mum is more happening than me.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Google Reader Retiring?
Argh... I really hate change even though the only thing constant in life is change.
I must be the last person to know that Google Reader would retire in July 2013. I found it a little strange that my bloglovin started to have a few more followers last week.
Here comes the noob questions:
Is Google Reader the same as the blogger followers as seen on my sidebar as Google Friend Connect?
Is this also the same as the reading list on the blogger home page upon logging in?
I usually get updates from my blogger-google reading list since it is more convenient to have it all in one place when I log in to my blogger account. I dread to think that I have to open another tab to log into bloglovin just to get updates. However, if everyone on blogosphere is gonna use bloglovin, then I don't see an issue in this change.
What are you people intending to do? All switching to bloglovin from July onwards? If so, follow me here or click the bloglovin badge on my sidebar. I think bloglovin can't keep track of who follows who so do drop me a message if you have followed me.
I must be the last person to know that Google Reader would retire in July 2013. I found it a little strange that my bloglovin started to have a few more followers last week.
Here comes the noob questions:
Is Google Reader the same as the blogger followers as seen on my sidebar as Google Friend Connect?
Is this also the same as the reading list on the blogger home page upon logging in?
I usually get updates from my blogger-google reading list since it is more convenient to have it all in one place when I log in to my blogger account. I dread to think that I have to open another tab to log into bloglovin just to get updates. However, if everyone on blogosphere is gonna use bloglovin, then I don't see an issue in this change.
What are you people intending to do? All switching to bloglovin from July onwards? If so, follow me here or click the bloglovin badge on my sidebar. I think bloglovin can't keep track of who follows who so do drop me a message if you have followed me.
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