Malaysian girl tops in S’pore O-Level exam

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This piece of news made the front page of the Singapore Straits Times online yesterday. This brilliant girl is not the only one who has been studying in Singapore, as there are so many more Malaysian talents who have been invited and welcomed to study in Singapore.

Most amazingly, Singapore press had no qualms to introduce this Malaysian girl in the front page of its website.

I know for a fact that schools in Singapore not only welcome foreign students to apply to study in their schools, but their principals also travel to other countries during the school break to recruit scholars to study here!

Have I ever mentioned that my cousin's husband who runs his own company in KL and have possibly created hundreds of jobs, have been living in Malaysia for close to 20 years, and his PR application is yet to be approved?

My long lost first love

During my trip back to my parents in November 09, I rediscovered my faithful first love. It is at least 16 years old, which my mom bought for me to replace manual labour. When I baked my first cake which was a Marble Cake, recipe courtesy of Reena's mom, we beat margarine and sugar using rice scoop and a huge metal basin!

Then I had my first cake mixer, which is a National. Unsurprisingly, it still works perfectly fine today. In fact, I hated to admit this to Sig.Ot, but the National is more user friendly than my giant Kenwood. To top it off, I suspect that the cake quality is also better with the National!!! Maybe the secret lies with the double beaters and the smaller sized bowl also allows all the ingredients to be mixed in better.

Tag

1. Adakah anda rasa anda hot?

Tentu sekali! Kadang-kadang boleh kedengaran "sssssssssssssssssssss"

2.Upload gambar kegemaran anda

Semuanya Eddie. Biar saya cari gambo dari dulu-dulu dan scan.

3. Cerita pasal gambar?

N/A

4.Bila kali terakhir makan pizza?

3 minggu yang lalu

5. Lagu terakhir yang anda dengar?

Virtual Insanity - dalam program Singapore Idol semalam. Laki yang nyangi lagu tu sangat bangus. Yang lain semua tak leh pakai.

(Disclaimer- Itu kali pertama saya menonton Singapore Idol)

6. Apa yang anda buat selain menyelesaikan tag ini?

Baring di atas katil (7.25am)

7. Selain nama sendiri anda dipanggil nama apa?

Yes dear. (tak tipu! suami tak panggil saya dear, tapi "yes dear")

8. Tag lagi 6 orang

Maaf kena repeat sebab para pembaca saya terhad.

a. Yummymummy
b. N/A
c. Kechik
d. Khemy
e. N/A
f. Elise

9. Siapakah orang No.1 pada anda?

Kawan baik sejak sekolah.

10.Kata sesuatu mengenai orang no 5

N/A

11. No.3 ada hubungan dengan siapa?

Hubungan menyusu dengan munchkin.

12. Bagaimana pula orang no.4?

Ini komplikated sikit. Saya tak tau kalau dia ingat, tapi kali pertama kita berjumpa adalah masa kita di Darjah 6 main bola jaring. Masa tu, khemy sekolah lain.

13. Pesanan kepada orang no 6.?

Mulakan blog.

Miss Universe 2009

Whichever way you want to perceive it, either I get to watch telly on Monday morning or why am I watching Miss Universe???

The past 10 years or so, many people particularly women have argued the irrelevance of beauty pageants and how these pageants belittle the true value of women. (That perhaps explain the quality of contestants we get in Malaysia and Singapore.)
As I watched the final 15 (no Asian) parade which was swimwear, I did not think anymore of it. If anything at all, having watched reality shows such as ANTP, Miss Universe is definitely a more dignified version of a beauty show minus catfights.

Oh and check out the irony of the swimsuit event. They got rapper 'Flo Rida (pronounced rider)' to perform 2 songs DURING the swimsuit parade. This has got to be a rapper music video wet dream!!! He started his performance surrounded by 83 women in bikinis who had to dance to the song "Jump." Poor women, especially those who couldn't dance.

Even though no Asian made it to the final 15, Ms. China won Ms. Congeniality while Ms. Thailand took Ms. Photogenic.

Anyway the evening gown event took my breath away. Ms Kosovo and Ms Venezuela were absolutely stunning! Ms South Africa has got this hot sexy thing going for her. Ms Venezuela looks like a Hollywood movie star from the 40s and Ms Kosovo has got the elegance of Audrey Hepburn. Ms. Kosovo is so gorgeous. You have got to see her strut down the runway in that blue dress and the hairdo. It took my breath away. But I don't think Kosovo nailed the interview. Sigh... if she does not get it, lets hope Venezuela does.

Is it just me?

When I was a kid, I used to watch Ms Universe on telly with my cousins and 6th aunt. Forget about feminism, sexism, demeaning women etc. We just watched it purely out of admiration for the beauty of the women and their dresses. My aunt used to marvel at South American beauties with their very exotic looks. In those days, mainstream media was limited to local papers, RTM 1, RTM 2 and TV3. The event gave us a glimpse into almost 100 different cultures at the same time, eventhough a distorted one!

Today I went through the list of contestants. My aunt is right, the South American beauties are gorgeous. I also look at our Asian neighbours' representatives.

Well, is it just me? Everytime when I see an Asian girl posing, or trying to pose with a sultry expression it just reminds me of bad soft porn (think Asian FHM). Very few does it well, or perhaps I expect Asian women to represent a more wholesome image; smiley with warmth and sincerity. Or perhaps they just can't quite carry it off. Perhaps to look sultry, you need to have a certain look.

Anyway if you haven't got anything better to do, do browse through the contestants. I did not realise that they are ranked for popularity even before the finals, and our country's rep ranks last.

What A Hole

In my whole life, I have probably encountered only 1 or 2 people who do not swear, at all. Swearing is so common, even my mother swears. Her favourite phrase is "dog poo" in hokkien. Most of us have our favourite words or phrases. (Please comment and share)

Most of the expletives we use have been uttered so freely for years, we no longer pause and think what it actually means. Take for example somebody cuts into my lane without signalling his car and I say "asshole!" If you actually visualise an asshole (albeit a real one) it is actually quite funny. Why asshole? I suppose it's rather self-explanatory being the exit point of our waste system.

How about "f***" and its various uses as an adjective, noun or verb. Why ever "f***"? I find this rather odd seeing that humans are sexual beings.

However I do take offence when swearing is directed at someone's family. I strongly feel that if you are upset with someone, just take it out on the offending person. There is no need to involve the rest of the family. I did make an exception to this rule once when someone on the bus stole money from my bacpack 12 years ago on metro bus ride from Kota Raya. I cursed the thief and his next 7 generations. I must have been inspired by the legendary Puteri Gunung Ledang, or was that the Langkawi legend?

We or most of us swear so regularly that most cuss words have lost their effectiveness or oomph. For example "oh s***" is so common to express unpleasant surprises and "f***" to mark the beginning of deep s***. In fact deep s*** is funny. Imagine standing in a puddle of poo!

Language in my opinion also determine the oomphness of a swear word. Until today, I still find hokkien words to describe the male and female reproductive organs to be outrageous. I generally reserve the use of those words for exceptionally pissing off occasions ("piss off" is a recognised phrasal verb in English).

Well, my swearing days are numbered since Eddie is picking up words very quickly these days. I will soon resort to spelling, if not in English will then be "p-u-k-i-m-a-k."

22degree Halo

I have witnessed this for the first time today. It was HUGE. It looked like a rainbow which formed a perfect circle around the sun. Sig.Ot was sun lounging and reading when he saw this in the sky and called out to me. He joked that it must have been that hole in the ozone!

The halo around the sun is caused by ice crystals 5-10km up in the sky. Sunlight is then refracted in hexagonal ice crystals.

Anyway it was spectacular and so perfect, it must be a good omen for all of us.

bersambung... Tag - 2

TAG 2

1. Apakah perasaan anda sekarang? Saya terasa lapar

2. Saya nak makan? Assam laksa!!!

3. Saya tak suka? Orang yang tidak beradab, khasnya laki yang tak buka/pegang pintu untuk perempuan mengandung / dgn anak-anak

4. Impian saya? Kereta saya ada pembesar suara:- "Boleh matikah kalau bagi saya lalu dahulu???!!!" / "Jangan ingat u pemandu jantan saya akan takut pada u. Saya tau bertinju ala thai" / "Saya tangkap gambar kereta kau dan paparkan di laman web saya!!!" Tapi masalahnya, mereka tak kan paham bahasa melayu lah...

5. Haiwan yang saya tak suka? Kuching!

6. Saya harapkan? 2 lelaki sial kurang ajar yang berkulit gelap dengan nombor kereta johor yang menghalang kereta saya tengah hari ini, akan terkentut sambil terberak semasa mengurat perempuan malam ini. Lepas tu bila mereka pergi tandas, takde kertas tandas ataupun paip air.

7. Jika boleh putarkan masa? Saya akan mengulangi semua yang telah saya lakukan sekali lagi.

8. Saya pada 10 tahun akan datang? Berehat di sebuah rumah pantai di Thailand bila-bila saja saya teringin melapangkan hati.

9. Handphone saya adalah sebuah? Sudah HILANG!!!!

10. Saya pernah bercinta sebanyak? Alamak, kan dah cakap. Hanya sekali.

11. Kawan-kawan saya? Berbagai-bagai.

12. Pernah dikhianati? Belum lagi, harap-harap tidak akan dikhianati.

13. Apa yang hendak anda lakukan terhadap orang yang mengkhianati anda? Rasanya saya akan menyumpah orang tu. Kalaunya laki, biasanya sumpah tu berkaitan dengan zakarnya dan penyakit kelamin. Kalau pompuan, hmmmnnn... biar saya pikir

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Poe di-tag

Tag Bahasa Ibunda

Saya telah dicabar oleh Khemy untuk melengkapkan tag yang berikut:-

TAG 1

1. Bekas kekasih saya adalah : Tiada sebab saya suci. Suami saya adalah kekasih saya yang hanya satu.

2. Saya sedang mendengar : Bunyi penyaman udara dalam bilik tidur.

3. Mungkin saya patut: Pergi tandas sebab sakit perut.

4. Saya suka : Berpacaran dengan suami saya setiap hari Jumaat

5. Sahabat-sahabat baik saya : sesiapa yang sudi membaca blog saya, rasanya 3 orang kut.

6. Saya tak paham : cara orang Singapura memandu kereta

7. Saya kehilangan : N85 saya semasa membeli belah di Robinson.

8. Ramai yang berkata : tak sangka saya kahwin dan beranak

9. Makna nama saya : sentiasa muda

10. Cinta itu adalah : untuk remaja-remaja yang gilakan NKOTB, ryan giggs, keanu riggs dll

11. Di suatu tempat, seseorang sedang : cuba meluahkan hati kepada kekasihnya, "Masalahnya bukan anda, tapi saya."

13. Ayat SELAMANYA membawa maksud : kesan-kesan regang perut yang tidak akan pudar

14. Telefon bimbit saya : sudah hilang!!!! (2 bulan yang lalu)

16. Saya paling meluat apabila : berdepan degan orang yang kurang ajar.

17. Pesta/Parti adalah : apabila saya berumur 20han dan menari di atas meja di Rohas Perkasa