Thank you!

Sporks 2012 / 02 & 03

2012-02-13T18:44:00.001+08:00

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Kumxia Whitney Houston 1963-2012

2012-02-12T11:04:00.001+08:00

From CNN: Whitney Houston Dead at 48.

El Bulle Beer!

2012-02-11T18:40:00.001+08:00

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This is a nice red.

2012-02-11T11:42:00.001+08:00

I don't enjoy many wines, so i am happy when I chance on one I like :)

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Sporks 2012/01

2012-02-10T13:13:00.001+08:00

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Movies 2012/03 Phantom Menace 3D

2012-02-09T17:31:00.001+08:00

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Clumsy Steamboat Dinner

2012-02-08T21:45:00.001+08:00

Good old friends shared this bottle of light white French wine at a clumsy steamboat dinner.

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Happy birthday Charles Dickens

2012-02-07T07:59:00.001+08:00

Here is a screen grab of Google's tribute to Charles Dickens' 200th birthday :)

Chopsticks 2012/05

2012-02-06T12:26:00.002+08:00

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There is a first time for everything!

2012-01-26T20:00:00.001+08:00

Cow lung...

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MH - Have a happy dragon year ahead!

2012-01-25T21:27:00.001+08:00

Mo's wagyu burger

2012-01-22T14:34:00.001+08:00

Mo's Burger's super wagyu burger reminds me of a ramli burger :P

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Old School Chair

2012-01-19T21:51:00.001+08:00

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OOP Art

2012-01-19T21:22:00.001+08:00

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I may just have been OOP-ed.

2012-01-19T15:37:00.002+08:00

OOP = Out Of Picture

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Chicken Rocks!

2012-01-18T17:39:00.001+08:00

We were in Melaka last Boxing Day, and we found ourselves at a 1 month old Hard Rock store, just a block from the famous chicken rice balls place.

Should the Hard Rock Cafe, opening Dec 2012, have their version of chicken rice balls, they should call it Chicken Rocks! :)

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Movies 2012/02 Red Tails

2012-01-18T17:18:00.001+08:00

Is it true that there is no release date in Singapore?

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Kumxia Aoka

2012-01-15T16:22:00.001+08:00

Leather checkered Crumpler case :)

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More wine appreciation

2012-01-14T21:20:00.001+08:00

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Appreciating a good bottle of wine

2012-01-14T21:15:00.001+08:00

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Spring cleaning

2012-01-14T09:36:00.001+08:00

Found these 5 Star Wars Pez dispensers, still in their original packaging! But the candy had all melted & turned black, so the crew had to be freed and cleaned.

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Good Luck Maiko

2012-01-12T10:56:00.002+08:00

Good Luck Maiko by Chiho Aoshima

Chopsticks 2012/04

2012-01-11T19:20:00.001+08:00

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Have a great evening

2012-01-11T19:01:00.001+08:00

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Happy dragon year

2012-01-09T20:13:00.001+08:00

Here is wishing one and all a happy and prosperous year of the dragon.

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Dinner

2012-01-09T19:40:00.001+08:00

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Movies 2012/1 Ghost Protocol

2012-01-08T16:15:00.001+08:00

Starting to track movies watched in the cinema. First 1 of 2012 is Mission Impossible 4 Ghost Protocol.

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Paul Frank elephant 3 of 3

2012-01-08T13:28:00.001+08:00

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Paul Frank elephant 2 of 3

2012-01-08T13:26:00.003+08:00

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Paul Frank elephant 1 of 3

2012-01-08T13:26:00.001+08:00

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English Pronunciation - Dec 23rd, 2011

2012-01-06T15:17:00.000+08:00

**from: http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/12/23/english-pronunciation/

If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.

After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité

My Month Four

2012-01-05T08:36:00.001+08:00

Probation is 6 months... new responsibilities on the horizon.

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Live is Evil spelt backwards

2012-01-04T18:25:00.001+08:00

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JS2 Xmas gift (in a larger size)

2012-01-03T21:50:00.001+08:00

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Chopsticks 2012/2&3

2012-01-03T18:56:00.002+08:00

!t a Japanese restaurant.

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Chopsticks 2012/01

2012-01-03T11:53:00.001+08:00

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Crumpler vs Coach

2012-01-03T11:15:00.002+08:00

Fata got me this Crumpler (Europe) Glamskin Shoplifter bag for my last birthday, in black. Here is a screen grab from Crumpler.eu:

A few weeks ago I saw a similar pattern, but in leather at a Coach store, here is a screen grab from Coach.com:

One goes diagonally in fabric and the other horizontally in leather...

Vintage Telecoms logo

2012-01-02T17:01:00.001+08:00

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The Big & Small Of It

2011-12-31T13:08:00.001+08:00

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Dinner for 3

2011-12-29T20:17:00.001+08:00

After nachos n buffalo wigs.

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Dinner for 3

2011-12-27T20:10:00.001+08:00

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Kumxia Patische

2011-12-27T19:24:00.001+08:00

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My New Lippy

2011-12-26T07:39:00.001+08:00

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Kumxia Wah & Cheng

2011-12-25T12:42:00.001+08:00

My very first Coach thingy :)

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First bottle of Xmas

2011-12-25T00:19:00.001+08:00

Lake's Folly, Hunter Valley, 2000. Bottle number 05024.

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JDv2 Xmas gift

2011-12-23T13:59:00.001+08:00

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JDv1 Xmas gift

2011-12-23T13:58:00.001+08:00

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JS2 Xmas gift

2011-12-23T13:57:00.003+08:00

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JS1 Xmas gift

2011-12-23T13:57:00.001+08:00

From a successful afternoon of shopping for Xmas gifts for the 4 J babies.

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Gotta look on the bright side of things?

2011-12-23T11:19:00.001+08:00

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3 days to Christmas

2011-12-22T20:39:00.001+08:00

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Pre France breakfast

2011-12-08T08:02:00.001+08:00

Max-ing out on local food before tonight's flught to Paris :)

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Lippy for France

2011-12-07T23:48:00.001+08:00

Had given this to the niece but she 'lost' it... hhhmmm...

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My Month Three

2011-12-04T15:52:00.001+08:00

Into mont

h 3, been editing for 2ish weeks, it was fun.

And 4 more sleeps to Lyon, France! :)

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Chopsticks 2011/38

2011-11-23T16:06:00.001+08:00

Blurry photo in a very dark pub :P

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Kumxia JS, snr.

2011-11-21T07:44:00.002+08:00

Got three weeks to break them in for France :)

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Chopsticks 2011/37

2011-11-18T12:23:00.001+08:00

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Mr Sun supporting the elephants

2011-11-12T14:48:00.001+08:00

At paragon.

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Customized Sauce

2011-11-11T19:10:00.001+08:00

12 ingredients to conjure up your very own personalized sauce!

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Happy 111111!

2011-11-11T10:15:00.001+08:00

Have a happy 11th of November 2011! :)

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2011-11-10T21:39:00.001+08:00

Tonight's 2nd Dinner

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Birthday Lunch

2011-11-07T14:10:00.001+08:00

Had the the same thing, same day last year, except last year it was breakfast :)

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Kumxia Fata

2011-11-07T09:21:00.001+08:00

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Capitol Building

2011-11-06T15:16:00.001+08:00

It's been empty about a year now.

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My New Toy

2011-11-06T09:46:00.001+08:00

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Vintage Tokidoki LeSportsac

2011-11-05T10:10:00.001+08:00

A gift from Fata from at least 4 years ago :)

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I so like!

2011-11-04T16:27:00.001+08:00

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MIL made lunch :)

2011-11-03T13:24:00.001+08:00

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Chopsticks 2011/36

2011-11-01T20:34:00.001+08:00