Yummy mushrooms...

Rabbits....looking elsewhere...

Ooohhh....Caterpillar!

"Je ne veux pas travailler" by Pink Martini

I wish you love...

How I found this song.

This song...I remember hearing this song many years ago in a movie by Arron Kwok and Kelly Chan...

Suddenly cannot remember the tune...but remember vividly in my mind...it was a lovely song.

I google it...and found the movie, "And I Hate you so", search in youtube for the movie...
Watched the last part...and I was lucky to have english subtitle for the movie in youtube...
Got the lyrics for the song...

Google for the title of the song...

And got..."I wish you love".

A classic song...
As it turns out...according to wikipedia...tons of singers sang this song before throughout the years...

Frank Sinatra, Laura Fygi, Natalie Cole, Nat King Cole, Lisa Ono...Rachael Yamagata...etc...

The music was written by Léo Chauliac, with French lyrics under the title "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?" by Charles Louis Trenet.

The English title and lyrics are by Albert A. Beach.


It was a sad song, I have to say...

It makes me sad...listening to it.

But I like it.

"I wish you love..." by Rachael Yamagata

I wish you bluebirds in the spring
To give your heart a song to sing
And then a kiss, but more than this
I wish you love

And in July a lemonade
To cool you in some leafy glade
I wish you health
And more than wealth
I wish you love

My breaking heart and I agree
That you and I could never be
So with my best
My very best
I set you free

I wish you shelter from the storm
A cozy fire to keep you warm
But most of all when snowflakes fall
I wish you love

My breaking heart and I agree
That you and I could never be
So with my best
My very best
I set you free
I wish you shelter from the storm
A cozy fire to keep you warm
But most of all when snowflakes fall
I wish you love

But most of all when snowflakes fall
I wish you love.

Sticky key??

The "shift" key on my keyboard is acting funny recently...
And so...I keep pressing my shift key...
And it suddenly activate the "sticky key" option...

Huh??

Sticky key?

what's that??

Well...

Yah...try that with your keyboard...press "shift" key 5 times...

To deactivate...press both shift key...or control and shift key.

I din try them..i just happen to got it suddeny and read about them online...

Curious...u try yourself.

Caffeine OVERDOSE!!

Time is 5.28am.
And I cannot sleep.

DAMN those free-flow Macdonald breakfast milk tea.


I am dying from caffeine overdose.
I drank 3 cups of tea this morning.

And the consequences is...

Despite being DEAD TIRED...and WIDE AWAKE for the past 23 hours...
I REPEAT, I cannot sleep.

And what is worse?

The worse is...I cannot sleep for the next 12 hours because I need to go to work soon which my schedule runs from 6am till 6pm...

THIS IS INSANE!

LET ME SLEEP!

I WANT TO SLEEP!

The music below.

Everytime I hear this tune below...

I will lose control.

I will dance Tango with my feet and air cello with my hands...

As if I really know how.

I wish I do.

"Libertango" by Astor Piazzolla/ Yoyo Ma

"I will...

go play basketball..
or watch a movie..
or watch tv..
or study korean lor..
or study thai..
or play my guitar..
or go shopping..
or go st james see girls..have a drink..
or just ride my motorbike to enjoy some wind.."

These are the answers from my brother QC, to the question in my posting below.

There are too many things he can do when his pc breaks down.

There are too many things I can do as well...
But then, I will still sulk.

Ha...

"how am i gg to live without my pc for 1 week..."

XN is sending out her pain to me.

"go home dunno do wat..."...she worries.

Her PC is down and is going to be sent for service.
Apparent, it will take a week before it returns.

And so...

I give her some suggestion.

FrilLyObjeCT says:
watch TV

FrilLyObjeCT says:
read a good book?

FrilLyObjeCT says:
have a nice long bath..

FrilLyObjeCT says:
cut ur nails..

FrilLyObjeCT says:
sit around and sing a song?

I have tried my best.

And she replies..

"i think i'll juz sit ard in a daze...haha"

It really shows how dependent we are on our computers nowadays.
XN is reduced to a dazing without it.

I probably will sulk all day.

What about you?

How will you live without your PC for a week?

Tell me about it.

Listen...can you hear the music?

Yeah...!

You learn something new everyday.

Today, I learn how to add music to my blog.

Enjoy!
Music by John Legend.
"Save Room"

Low blog rates NOT because I am unhappy.

I have been observing my blogging rates and patterns...
As I have conclude earlier...the happier I am...the more I blog.
But judging from my recent rates...
I probably will hit my lowest record.

But that is NOT because I am unhappy.
Oh but I am unhappy with something definitely...
And that is...

NOT HAVING INTERNET ACCESS TO BLOG WHEN I AM DAMN HAPPY.

And so...
I am actually rather happy recently.
Just that I dun have the access to blog.

ok...it's us again...

I remember we did more than two silly shots in front of the STOP sign...
I will dig out more next time...promise.

Yo!...It's me and my brother AGAIN....

STOP!...LooK!...and...Dodge!
How hilarious...

This is ME in a yellow dress...and my brother.

"Hey...you are quite pretty when you are young...but what happen to you now??"

Thank you for your comment.
But how come I dun feel flattered at all.

Yet another monkey story...

And so...I was surfing the net for more monkey stories...
after RS and XN show me their interesting discoveries...

I found this.
It's called "The Hundredth Monkey Theory"

"The Japanese monkey, Macaca fuscata, had been observed in the wild for a period of over 30 years. In 1952, on the Island of Koshima, scientists were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand. The monkeys liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes, but found the dirt unpleasant. An 18 month old female named Imo found she could solve the problem by washing the potatoes in the salty ocean water, improving the taste of the potato. She taught this trick to her mother. Her playmates learned this trick and taught their mothers too. This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by numerous monkeys in the troop and observed by the scientists.

Between 1952 and 1958, all the young monkeys learned to wash the sandy sweet potatoes and make them more palatable. Only the adults who imitated their children learned this cultural improvement. Other adult monkeys kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes. In autumn of 1958, something startling took place. A certain number of Koshima monkeys were already washing their sweet potatoes, the exact number is not known. The hypothetical number given was 99. Then it happened. The hundredth monkey learned to wash the sweet potatoes. The added energy of that hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough. Almost everyone in the tribe was washing their potatoes before eating them, but a surprising occurrence was observed by these scientists. The habit of washing the sweet potato had jumped overseas. Colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop at Takaskiyama began washing their sweet potatoes.

Although the exact number may vary, this Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon means that when only a limited number of individuals knows a 'new way', it remains the conscious property of those individuals. However, when one more individual manifests this new awareness, the field is strengthened, a critical mass is reached, and the awareness becomes the conscious property of all. This new awareness is communicated mind to mind.

http://pure-research.net/healing/light/monkey.html

And so...what have you learn from this experiment this time round?
Try observing the young ones...and learn something new for a start.

Another monkey story...

This story is from XN, she sent me a link via msn.

Well, humans like to observe their distant relatives to know themselves better.
And this time, it is about gender preference.

They found out that, male monkeys like to play boys toys.

"It's thought of as a sexual stereotype: boys tend to play with toy cars and diggers, while girls like dolls. But male monkeys, suggests research, are no different (see a related video report).

This could mean that males, whether human or monkey, have a biological predisposition to certain toys, says Kim Wallen, a psychologist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Wallen's team looked at 11 male and 23 female rhesus monkeys. In general the males preferred to play with wheeled toys, such as dumper trucks, over plush dolls, while female monkeys played with both kinds of toys.

This conclusion may upset those psychologists who insist that sex differences – for example the tendency of boys to favour toy soldiers and girls to prefer dolls – depend on social factors, not innate differences."

How interesting.

You may want follow the link below to read the actual article.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13596-male-monkeys-prefer-boys-toys.html

Monkey story...

I was chatting over the phone with RS a few daya ago,
and she told me an interesting experiments with monkeys about culture influence...

This is roughly how it goes...

5 monkeys were locked in a room with a bunch of bananas in the centre of the room.
Whenever the moneys tries to touch the bananas, cold water will be splash at them.
And soon, they no longer tries to eat the bananas because they knew of the consequences.

Then, one fine day, one of the five monkeys was replace by a NEW monkey.
The new monkey, not knowing the about the water splashing punishment,
approaches the bananas.
While all the rest of the 4 monkeys uses all means to stop the new monkey from doing so...
To avoid the water splashing punishment.

Soon enough, the NEW monkey learn that he cannot touch the banana because something bad will happen to him. He learned this through his inmates, by hook or by crook.
Yet, bearing in mind, he was never been splashed by any cold water, since he was introduce.

Then, one fine day again, one of the 4 old monkeys was replaced by another NEW monkey.

The same thing happened again.
The new monkey will go for the bananas, while the rest stopped him.
Eventually, as we have guessed.
No monkey dares to pick the bananas.

And the same thing happened overtime, all the old monkeys were replaced one by one by new monkeys.

At the end of the experiment, the room is left with 5 ALL new monkeys in the room
which all of them had never experience any cold water being splashed at them before...
since they day they were introduced into the room.

YET, NONE OF THEM DARE TO GO NEAR THE BUNCH OF BANANAS.

The moral of the experiment...
never underestimate the power of cultural influences and teaching against instinct.
And it sets me thinking...

Someone says...

"QY...will you marry me?"

Am I suppose to be flattered?
He is a good friend of mine.
He is a gay.

He just wanted to get a HDB flat.

Of course, there are incentive to marry him.
Quite a few in fact.
But, there is no love.

Maybe he do love me, he claimed.
As a friend of course.

But, sorry my friend.
Thank you and sorry.

One day, if I am ever going to marry anyone.
I will love him...and I want him to love me.

Maybe it sounds naive.
But I really wish.

I saw someone who looked like him.

I was at the pasar malam today.
I haven't been to one for a long time.
Feeling hungry...I walked around to look for food.
And saw someone...who looked like him, selling kebabs.

It shocked me for a second...or two.

How is it possible?

Indeed...not possible.

He was not him.

Of course...silly of me.

He sells kebab.

He might be a Turkish or Greek.

No wonder the resemblance.

I queue up for the kebab...because of him.

The queue was unusually long...and he looked up at me...

"Sorry, 5 minutes , ok?"

I smile back.

But I walked away.

I just wanted to look at him.

His kebab looks really good.

But...I do not have the appetite to eat anymore.

I cannot imagine what happen if i ever see that man again.
Not the kebab man, but the man he looks like.

I am not even sure if i want to.

Today...

I saw someone who looked like him.

"But..my rabbit is white...."

I was teaching my primary 1 students to draw rabbit this week.

And one student in particular refuse to colour his rabbit.

I asked him why.

He replied.

"...my rabbit is white..."

I tried to convince him that this rabbit he draws is a magical one...

"This is a special rabbit in wonderland...and you can colour whatever colour you like."

"But...my rabbit is white"

...almost in tears....as he tries to explain to me why he can't colour his rabbit.


What can I say.

In the end, I made him colour all the rest of the things in his drawings...the grass...the clouds...the sun, the flowers...and leave his rabbit PURE WHITE...

As he happily did.

At Home Yet Not At Home

RS called up from France and said

"QY!...are you 'LOOKING TO MEET SOMEONE???!"

"What?!?? what do you mean?"

"You said that in your blog!"

"MY bLOG?? I changed my blog address recently. I think i informed you with my new address, right?"

"yah...but www.athomeyetnotathome.blogspot.com is working and someone posted something about "looking to meet someone!, I thought it's you!"

"really??!?..wait I check."

And here it is.

www.athomeyetnotathome.blogspot.com

Why not check it out yourself.

Though I also hope to meet someone...ALL THE TIME...

I SWEAR....

THAT IS NOT ME.

Headache

I am having a gigantic headache RIGHT NOW!
And it's KILLING ME!

Btw, did I also mention that I have been feeling nauseating since yesterday...

PUKE!