Loopie - Joop

It's finally done! i've finished what i'd promised hao-e. i can watch TV now! cool!

Have been trying to upload these pix for weeks! Gosh! We went to the XL Tennis Open last month (it's been a month!). It was the semi-finals we watched. Here are some pictures from that day, which was breezy yet sunny (hao-e got burnt!). Loads of fun, but we didn't stay long. eyes and neck were sore after the first set. ha.

Once upon a time, there was a man who roamed the earth searching for paradise. He walked and walked, through the heat and humidity of the tropics, over hills and valleys, trudging along on the dry, hot sand in the deserts, swimming across the wide and deep oceans. he was giving up from exhaustion, when finally he spotted the bluest piece of water on earth. it was blue like the sky, so blue that he couldn't tell where the water ended and the sky began. it was beautiful - unspoilt wonder. he was content.

Good Morning Good Morning! Woke up today thinking "is it Friday yet?" then flopping back into bed reminding myself "it's thursday, one more day to the weekend" Work has been hectic, as it heats up towards accreditation, there are brochures to be printed and displayed, folders to be made for "show and tell", minutes to be hurriedly written, policies to be signed with immediate effect... in short, it's last minute. work hasn't been very fun lately cos everyone's stressed and worried that some major screw up will happen, people are unhappy with each other, blah blah... you know the works. Last evening we were at L'oriental for dinner with Oliver who was here for the week. Oliver is Matt's co-worker (apparently, they don't quite like to use the term colleague here) based in London. Don't know whether i've told you guys before, Orbis House in London is right smack in central London, like 2 steps away from Oxford Street/Circu...

Am back at work today. Took 2 days off this week, yesterday and the day before to prepare for something that hao-e has been wanting me to do all year! one down, one more to go in 2 weeks time. wish me luck!! For a population of 60k, we have been having a lot of fatal accidents recently. this weekend, we've had the 9th person die as a result of an accident. I know the number is pretty modest but there are only 60k of us here you know, compared to the 4++ million in singapore. if you know what i'm doing now, you would know i get the super first hand gory details of where, when, how and why they didn't make it. To be honest with you, i've been trying to drive really carefully here, cos the bikers here are so "hiong" and you don't need to do much to get a bike license here - in fact, a lot of them are WITHOUT licenses - they weave in and out of traffic in the non-existent "3rd" lane. I've always wondered why bikers don't stay in the cen...

Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain, telling me just what a fool i've been.... It was supposed to be april showers, but it seems like the rain came late this year. it's been fairly rainy this month. hmm...

Have you heard of the Fritzl case in Austria? I've been following it for a while now. Basically it is a sick sick case of a sick sick man who imprisoned his own daughter in the cellar for 20 years and fathered 7 children with her. sick sick sick. all this while his wife knew nothing about this and thought that her daughter ran away to join a cult. gosh... i remember a similar case back home where the girl was mentally challenged. where do these SICK men come from? Today's headline makes me want to puke my breakfast of english muffins out. He says he's not a monster . If he ain't one, i ain't gotta betta name for 'im. i hope he gets a harsh judgement and punishment. i don't know how the kids would be able to take it. they'll prob have to change their last name. GOSH! SICK!

The one thing, which i confess i will never do, and will not even entertain the thought of doing unless:- 1) lightning strikes me and i lose my memory; or 2) a car hits me and i lose my memory; or 3) i lose my mind and my memory along with it; IS.... RUN. Running for short bursts i can do, i.e.: 1) after the bus or any long object that has a schedule that it sticks to,or a schedule it refuses to stick to; or 2) for 10 mins waiting for aerobics class to start so that i don't feel so cold; or 3) when chased by dog or any four to six-legged animal. Running for anything above 10mins or more than 1km? Regrettably, NO WAY!!! I recall the nightmares I had before NAPFA 1.6km in primary school and 2.4km later on. OH! and don't forget the annual "marathon" at McRitchie. i swear i always imagine a cough/cold/fever/headache just to wiggle out of doing it. I DETEST RUNNING! There, I said it. But some people do, and they test themselves on very exotic terrain, i might add. A frien...

Which do you think is colder? Iceland or Greenland? Many would tell you the Iceland is really not that icey while Greenland is really not that green. talk about naming things badly. D tried to explain to me why they were so named. Iceland was discovered first and was named "Iceland" cos it was really quite far north. But that proved to be a PR disaster for new immigration. So they figured that the next land they found in the region would be called "Greenland" instead to conjure up some false sense of "heat" and milder weather. Ha.. thought i would be fooled? silly D. he laughed more than i did. hoping to be spend some time there this summer. fingers crossed.