Wednesday 31st May 2007

Sandwiches

Nyum nyum... sandwiches made... tuna, egg, beef... I think i liked the egg sandwich best.

My only complain is it is not filling at all. Sure, my stomach was happy for a couple of hours, but in no time at all, I was clearing up my supplies of Oreos and chocolates. Nothing can replace starch like rice and potato in my dictionary of food.

Monday 21st May 2007

another summary

So, wat else happened this month? A couple of things worth mentioning. I finally treated myself to a PC at home with Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 no less. A very fine machine indeed. I'm happy. I don't know enuff to be able to spew out the specs here, but sufficient to say, it's fast, it's pretty and it has many new games inside. Yes, I'm happy indeed. :) Started giving my mom lessons in using the PC, and boy, I really pity her having to put up with my teaching. Another proof that I truly am not cut out to teach. I am ashamed to admit that I do get rather impatient when she has trouble doing a double-click. *Note to self: Stop being such a jerk*

She is now truly gungho about the mahjong tiles matching game and pretty much knows how to turn on the game blind folded. haha.

Another bit of news is not so great, well at least for me. SF finally moved out. Cycle of life and all that. She is now a proud owner of her own place with beloved hubby, many many miles away from us. Sigh... no more beautiful singing and great company in the house. And with LP on her honeymoon trip, the flat seems less like a shared flat and more like any ordinary single family flat. :(.

On a lighter note, mom finally made use of the new oven. Made some egg tarts. Ah, extremely yucky yucky. Haha, I complained so much my mom has sort of made it her mission to try and improve her "skills", researching all she can about egg tarts on the internet. Unfortunately, she has yet to give the 'practical' another run. :P

Monday 14th May 2007

Family Dinner

Over the month, I'd get inspired to write something witty or jot down a few words worth musing over (inspiration usually catching up on me during shower, of all places, sheesh) but like all great ideas out there, these tend to be swept away by a big fat broom called time. Anyways, ideas always get reused, researched, recycled, reshuffled, redone,... (yes, I'm sure u catch my drift) over and over, so i'm not too concerned about the universe's lost of my precious input for awhile.

So anyways, May is like a red big banner with "Mother's Day and Don't U Forget It" Written in BIG splashy fonts written across it (at least for a week or so), and the Lam family has ridden on the bandwagon and treated ourselves to a family dinner at KM recently. Ended up buying 3 cakes that day, 2 for the dinner (D mousse & M fruit cake) and another (peppermint chocolate) which we had at home just before. Glad to c everyone and once again, looking forward to the next big event. :)

Sunday 6th May 2007

drop jaw K

I've never been a big fan of karaoke, believing that no one can ever sing well enough in any one of the sessions to ever pass "good singing", and thinking the environment, bad choices of songs selected and horrible sound system added with occasionally shrieking mikes easily drowns the best of singers and just plain destroys any worthy listening songs. The only reason I'd drag my butt off the couch for a K-session is purely to meet up with friends. Consequently, I usually listen to comments about amazing singing at the karaoke ("he sounds exactly like the real singer", "she totally rawks") with a big dollop of salt. But we mortals live on earth to be proven wrong, to learn and be humbled everyday of our lives, and I was totally eating my humble pie and floored by the heart stopping karaoke session a group of us organized. The said person who threw me off my nonchalant orbit was J, one of our totally cool choir members.

She was totally amazing and displayed absolute brilliance in her singing, tackling all the different pitches of some of the most difficult songs as easily as I imagine Tiger Woods would swing his stick at that little ball. I know it sounds extremely clichy, but she sounds way better than the actual singers and boy, the actual singers were amazing to begin with.

Having bragged on and on about having had the lucky chance of enjoying her singing, i'd like to say it was great fun listening to the rest. They were totally great, and the duets were all so nicely coupled. Ah... so many great singers out there. Long live Karaoke!

Tuesday 10th May 2007

Maymonth

After months of living in a scrambled up limbo, where books are stacked in disorganized rows in the hallway, where things go missing and thrown away and later on regretted, and worse of all, sleeping in a bed covered by a layer of dust, our home is finally in a clean and orderly state.

Currently reading: Shadowmarch by Tad Williams - About a fantasy land where there are 4 sides in a kingdom, 10 days in a week, 30 days in a month, and 12 months in a year. Too early yet to know anymore. All I can state now is, knowing Tad William's penchant for weird imagination, I will be in for a very confusing read.

Just finished reading: 1) The Dead Zone by Stephen King - About a person who has the power of premonition through touch.
2)Insomnia by Stephen King - About an old man whose wife just died. He started having insomnia followed by strange experiences
3) Knight's Dawn and Wizard's Funeral by Kim Hunter - About a man with amnesia who became a mercenary.