I wish I could have written you something that didn’t sound contrived, or something that would make the world see how much I love you. But I’m really just not that good with words - not when it comes to you anyway. So I’m gonna let someone else do the talking - two someone elses, for that matter - since I think they’ve already done an awesome job explaining why I don’t need to form a contingency plan for a future without you.

For the one whom I can’t wait to cuddle up at home with every night; with whom I fall asleep, side by side in matching beanbags in front of the telly; who understands all my weird non-human languages that I bark at you in; the one who hunts for rubber bands in the middle of the night when I vocally demand for one in my sleep; the one I miss every single second that you’re not right next to me; the one next to whom I will wake up, every morning, for the rest of my life. I love you.

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Macaron is an interesting concept, as far as Singapore’s dining scene goes anyway. A dessert restaurant that doesn’t serve you post-dinner sweets, but treats FOR dinner, it’s not a particularly common sight on our sunny shores. (It might well be the first one, but I’m not 100% sure of it so I shall claim ignorance for the time being.)

Now, my bunny is not that big a fan of desserts. Give her meat - cow, pig, poultry, game, anything - and she’s happy. But desserts? She’s the sort who’d swap her dessert for an appetizing-sounding appetizer, whereas I’m the one who’d forgo my starter to indulge my sweet tooth. (Actually, I’d probably just insist on all three, but nevermind that.) As you can imagine, it wasn’t too easy a feat to convince her to try this new-ish establishment. Read the rest of this entry »

The biggest problem that I’ve found with this photography hobby of mine is that whenever I travel, I spend about 15 minutes packing the clothes and other amenities but about 3 days deciding on what camera gear to bring with me. Do I bring my 30D or can I bear to just fly with the film camera? How many rolls of film do I bring if I’m going film? How many less can I bring if I’m bringing both? Which film camera should I bring - one of the little ancient ones or my 1V which has the added benefit of sharing lenses with my 30D. Or do I just focus on the travelling and screw the cameras…….. nah. Maybe just the Ricoh. Flash, tripod, which bag can fit all? It never ends.

Now that my camera (body) collection has hit 6 - and will increase to 7 on Saturday, also bringing the total number of brands with interchangeable lenses to 4, which is the biggest problem I forsee - my shoulders are getting tired in anticipation of where my indecision usually leads me: bring as many as I can heft around. (Let’s not even talk about whether or not to bring my laptop, which I do on longer trips.)

Come August, I’ll be bidding goodbye (for a while at least) to my Asahi Pentax ME, which I’m permaloaning to a dear friend who flies off to Hong Kong for the foreseeable future. I’m flying on the 14th on a short pre-Vietnam trip to Hong Kong, and will be bringing the Pentax up with me to permaloan to her. It’s also just occurred to me that I should probably fly up with the Pentax (and its 2 lenses), the Ricoh, and a couple of rolls of film, which would mean that for the first time in my multiple-camera-owner life, I’ll be travelling with my Crumpler 4 million dollar home, instead of the 7. My shoulders rejoice!

Michelle from syntaxfree found and rescued a pregnant cat, who has since given birth. Her home, however, is way too full of cats already to be able to house all 5 of them, hence she’s desperately looking for adoptive cat-parents for the since we all know the fate of unadopted kittens left to the overcrowded SPCA.

I really wish I could take one - or two or twenty - but unfortunately there’s a clause in our tenancy agreement in which we’re not allowed to keep pets. I’m trying to convince bunny that they’re possible to keep incognito, but I don’t think I’m succeeding. Oh well, maybe our landlords will have a change of heart. Just in case I succeed in my venture, I’VE GOT MY EYE ON TIGERLILY AND/OR JACK SPARROW. (Yes, they have ridiculously cute names too.)

For more information, please see the following posts

Fuzzballs Seeking Good Homes
If You’re Smitten, Adopt A Kitten

on her blog, and/or email her at syntaxfree at gmail dot com.

Edit: Looks like all the kittens are still there, WHAT’S UP PEOPLE? WHY ARE ALL OF YOU SO HEARTLESS. Bah. Also, I’ve decided that if I make a breakthrough with the landlord/bunny, I want Smee. Smeeeeeee. SMEEEEEE! *melts. (andjacksparrowandtigerlilyanddavyjones.)

Simplify media is a lovely app that allows you to access your iTunes collection from a network of computers. It’s safe, it’s legal (since the music is just streamed and can’t be burnt onto a CD or anything on the non-host computers), it’s free and it makes life easy. Just download it, install it, add other computers to your network and share. Both mac and pc friendly.

(via geeksugar)

So I’ve got a couple of new toys (and possibly another one coming soon *crosses fingers*), of which 2 belong in the kitchen - my Tefal Pro Fry deep fryer (which I have no idea how I lived without before this), and my Cuisinart ice cream maker. Now, I don’t know about you, but it seems only logical that when two really awesome, sexy kitchen toys appear within 24 hours of each other, there must be an underlying message: Deep Fried Ice Cream. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s strange, really, that someone who spent more time out of the country during my university “stint” than in class hasn’t had a magnificent grad trip doing x-months touring [insert continent]. But it’s okay, since - like my classmate pointed out - I did get to see a decent amount of the world over the last 3 years.

That said, I’ve been itching to see somewhere new (quickie trips to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Thailand etc don’t count!) and now that everything is sorted, Vietnam it is! I’ll be spending 9 days in Hanoi, Ha Long Bay, Hué and Hoi An (the 4 Hs), half with bunny then going the rest of it alone. I’m really looking forward to it, since I’ll be starting work soon after. Hello cheap french food, deeelish Vietnamese food and I shall prepare to drown in a veritable lake of sublime Vietnamese coffee!

The rest of the world will have to wait till next year and the year after (and the next few years after that). Major upcoming trips on the books (for now) are Tokyo, Maldives (which didn’t happen, unfortunately, this year), Sydney, London, Morocco and Egypt. All in good time.

I probably owe you guys an explanation for what happened to my blog, especially those of you who happened to appear just when it was somewhere in the middle of being done up. I was actually just trying to change the theme of my website when one of the asides I was using caused a malfunction in Wordpress (then v1.5, ‘cos I’ve been too lazy to upgrade and hey - why fix what ain’t broke?), so I figured I might as well just reinstall my Wordpress (and upgrade it to v2.2.1, the latest stable release as of this week), and then slowly do my designing.

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Thanks for all the replies! The rabbit signifies your partner, the key represents your hopes/dreams/aspirations, and the bridge is your life. My story was #1, and bunny’s was #2. #4 was VICTORIA HO. NOT ME. NOT BUNNY. Oh, and uncle - you die, we going to tell mgmt. :)

A good friend of mine, Tessa, has just started a new food blog of sorts! Super cute name, and pretty pictures of yummy food (I can say that the chocolate cupcakes were yummy from first-hand experience marharhar), add a dash of interesting tidbits about ingredients - the first one resulting from a rather amusing, panicky sounding call I received around dinner time today, and you get a good read. This not-so-chin-chai cook demands that you click the link! :)