Faulty faucet

The tap in my nose is broken.
(Sniff! Sniff!)
And it has been dripping mucus ever since yesterday morning.
(Sniff! Sniff!)
D*mn! I am seriously wasting precious water here.
Which reminds me, gotta drink some more, else I will get dehydrated.

(Gulp! Gulp!)
Ok. Feel better today.
With all the bird flu and whatever flu going around...
I dun want to talk about it.
Scary, isn't it?
If diseases are not enough, natural calamities too has been unleashed around the Asian region.
Maybe Mother Nature thinks that there are too many humans and animals in the world,
It is time to wipe out some weaker ones...
Is the world really coming to an end?
Worse, terrorists are also lending a hand.

(Sniff! Sniff! Stupid nose!)
I must have caught the bug from FM.
I took his car on Friday evening, when we are suppose to attend a Dinner and Dance.
And he wasn't feeling very well then.
But anyway, the D & D is been organised by the Navy Logistics Organisation (or something like that), NLO for short.
I was bored, being seated at the table full of bosses...
My only consolation is that Harry was also present...
And I was seated next to his boss!!

The food was served s-l-o-w-l-y...
(Reason: There was a 'superstar' karaoke-like singing competition going on, and they dun want the audience to get distracted.)
So, what happens was, the first two courses of cold dish and 'shark-fin' soup were served,
Then it was three 'Anybody-can-sing-better-than-them' contestants, singing their hearts (and guts) out.
Ok, I was not trying to be rude...
BUT I WAS HUNGRY!!
(Sniff! Sniff! Get tissue, quick!)
And when I am hungry, I can't concentrate very well.
What's more, our table was directly in front of that pesky loudspeaker!
Eeewww!!! The sound system was horrible.
There were occasional feedbacks from the microphone...
Minus marks! Minus marks!

The emcee saved the night.
He was very funny, poking fun and almost everybody who was been 'forced' up the stage.
He told a girl on stage, in a fake Indian accent,
"My mother called me from India, she asked me why I wasn't married.
So I asked her what kind of girl she like.
My gosh! (Pause.) She described an angel from heaven... You!!"

Man, that was like the sweetest thing...
Of course, everybody laughed.
Did I mention that the emcee was also proficient in Chinese, Hokkien and Malay?
The only language he can't speak was Tamil.
Considering that he was a Mr. XXX Singh. (Sorry, I forgot his name.)
That was probably an act.
(Sniff! Sniff!)

The rest of the food then came promptly,
Time check, almost 9:30pm already.
Three more contestants, grand lucky draw, and prize presentation for the winner.
So many activities, so little time.
(The programme should end at 11pm.)

Well, what's next are the boring details of the judges' comments on the contestants,
Bad jokes from the emcee, prize presentation, jokes from the emcee,
Lucky draw, more bad jokes from the emcee.
The whole thing is over at 11:15pm.

In case you are wondering, no, I did not meet anyone there.
There were mostly old men and young punks.
Strictly not my taste...
(Sniff!)

What is this news about XiaXue losing her endorsements, because of some comments she made about toilets?
What has hair and nails gotta do with the toilets?

Geez, I am almost afraid to post anything here already,
I won't know when my head will be chopped off!

Updates

Oh yes...
Busy again with making bead jewellery.

Quite therapeutic. I needed it.

Check out the updates at Fiona's Bead Bar.

Gross~~~

I boarded a feeder bus the other day.
Saw an empty seat next to a middle aged lady.
Great, got seat liao! I thought.
But when I reached there, guess what I saw?

The lady had her left foot over her right thigh,
And her right hand was busy scratching in between her toes.
Eewwww~~!!!

May I add that the lady was actually quite well-groomed,
Her finger-nails and toe-nails were painted a dull-red.

Yucks! The mother of all aunties~~!!!

大雨 就要开始不停地下，
我的心 我的心 已经完全的失去方向。
带我到没有爱情的地方。

New toys for Bryan

I want to get some new toys for Bryan (pet name for my Bao-Bei).
* Productivity Suite - Office 2003
* PC Games - Railway Tycoon 3, Hotel Giant...

Bryan must be very happy to know that I am going to get these toys for him.
But h*ll, I have to wait till I get my bonus at the end of the year.
Haiz~~, money not dry yet...

I need a few more piggies...
'Fiona's motorcycle lessons' fund,
'Fiona's desktop replacement' fund,
'Fiona's new furniture' fund, and
'Fiona's disneyland, USA' fund.

Maybe I should get a pay-pal account and just ask my faithful readers to donate.
You will donate, right??!?
Heehee... Kidding only lah~!
I am still in debt over Bryan, so until I paid up, no more other muses for me yet.

I am only THINKING about the motorcycle lessons.
Won't be taking any vehicle lessons anytime soon.

Anti-virus

I have just finished un-installing my "3-month only" anti-virus software that comes with my Bao-bei,
And installing a brand new 1 year OEM version.

Phew! Lucky for me, it only took less than half an hour.
I should count my lucky stars, I have broadband.
Everything has to be done online.

Registration, online.
Activation, online.
Download updates, online.
Download latest virus definitions, online.

If I am still using the dial-up plan, I won't be blogging right now.
I would still be seated in front of my Bao-bei,
Drumming my fingers on the table,
Waiting for the downloads to be complete.
It would take hours...

Where have all the floppies gone??
My Bao-bei dun even come with a floppy disk drive,
So let's not ask whether is a 5.25" one, or a 3.5" one.
Ask any tech-savvy 3-year-old kids out there,
And they will only recognise the good ol' cd-rom disc.

"Mommy, I want Barney!"

I heard a kid, clutching a cd-rom package, yelling at the top of his lungs, towards the direction of his mommy.

It's kinda ironic, right?
I mean, during our time is already bad enough...

Teacher: "Children, where do eggs come from?"
Smart Alec: "Supermarket!"

Gosh! Because we grew up in the concrete jungle, kampong life is seldom heard of.
Food is ready packed and available on shelves.
I am such an end-product. I can't even name all the vegetables properly, without help.

Kids now probably doesn't know what marbles, four or five stones, zero-point are.
All their childhood games are contained within the thin round plastic disc, which you insert in a machine.
They are probably playing marbles and five stones using the tiny little thingy call mouse.
And their childhood friends probably only existed online.

Click, click, click... I win!!

Hectic Week

I must be getting old.
Previous visits to the worksite does not affect me much.
It does now… Very painfully…

One of the perks for working many years in the same company is the accumulation of leave.
I have worked for many years in the same company, and I am entitled to 21 days of leave.
I still have more than half that number of days to clear.
So, listen up, I will be working on a four-day week from now till the end of the year.
And you ain’t going to stop me!

The advantages for being a girl, is the ability to skim through the newspapers for sales and offers.
The girls in the office are so excited this week, because great sales are happening in most of the major departmental stores.
Hence, after-office hours are never dull anymore.

I had a hectic week at work.
Hectic because I am hardly at my desk the whole time.
People calling my extension must be getting fed-up, because the calls are answered by a machine,
Asking them to either hang up, or leave a message.

"Your call is important to us, please leave a message, and we will get back to you as soon as possible…"

Hehe, the wait begins after you have left a message, not knowing when the other party will call you back.
And they always return the call when you happened to have left your desk.
Then they leave a message on your phone.

"Arr, I am returning your call, please call me at XXX."

Funny. Happens all the time.