Thursday, September 27, 2007
yesterday was busy busy.. after lecture, met up with delph to go whitesand coffee club for her interview. very sway, went there only syawal and fauzan working.. not say not good lah. but i wanted to see daphne, charles and elvi too.. but something i gotta admit. the working ambience is sooo cool.. sofa seats are everywhere, the lightings damn soft, the whole place is juz so nice compared to most outlets. think this is the only one comparable to TCC. syawal very cute. we went down to ws for intervies then she say delph can go to RH and work. hahaz.. i know she want me and delph to work together. like that if i know, dun need go all the way down to ws liao. hahaz.. sat there and chill till abt 2 and then we left. wanted to go down to raffles to buy my bro's crumpler, but rence and shawn at orchard and ask us to go over wheelock. ok loh. then go down there. finally decided on the 98 dollar black bag. wanted to buy either the shoulder strap or the handphone pouch but thought better of it in the end. after that, walk a little while around orchard and then i went home. at night, went to the cooking class with mummy. i learnt bake rice, yakitori and crepes. not too bad. but you know in the workshop, after the chef cooks and then he has to distribute rite, nobody go help one leh. as in help to put the sauces for each and every individual bowl, put vanilla ice cream for each plate of dessert and stuff.. only i go and help. nvm.. i gave myself extra helping.. hahaz!! oh.. in taka while me and delph are walking around(cuz i was looking for bags), i saw the guess bag. $229. haiz.. and another bag that caught my eye. its a brand called "my flat in london" . omg. the design is soo nice. and very ..... nice lah.. then i went home and googled it.. http://www.myflatinlondon.com/MFILmain3.htmlta-da! this is the link. gals can check this out.. but.. dun bother kowing the price. one normal size bag cost abt $861. yah.. and the other small bag, which caught delph's eyes, is abt $200 something. some of the bags are dunno wad designed for paris hilton and dunno wadeva stars lah.. my mum wanna get me a ds-lite leh. but i dunno whether should i buy it on my own or wad? min say i stupid when i ask my mother dun buy. hahaz.. dunno lah. juz find that not in need of one mah.. then my mother spent a lot on me liao.. hahaz... but then again, if she really wanna buy for me, i can't possibly reject her, can i? hahaz.. ok. ting sent me this email which i find it quite intresting. enjoy! Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what langua ge do people recite at a play nd play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. There is a two-letter word that perhapshas more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP." It's easy to understand UP , meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ? We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special. And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP . We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP ! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP , you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP . When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP. One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now my time is UP , so............ Time to shut UP.....! a bit lengthy though.. but kinda intresting.
oh yah.. there are is a Ratatouille workshop that chef yong( the chef who taught me on wed) will be holding. sound intresting. doubt i will try it at home if i go.. hahaz.. he gave us 2 blog addresses which he updates regularly. he holds loadz of cooking classes and workshops. so if anyone intrested for the upcoming xmas season, may check out his classes. there are menus and the pics of wad is gonna be taught.
http://www.cookwithpassion.blogspot.com/
http://www.culinarywizard.blogspot.com/
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