Cow lung...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Mo's wagyu burger
Mo's Burger's super wagyu burger reminds me of a ramli burger :P
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Chicken Rocks!
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
Is it true that there is no release date in Singapore?
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Spring cleaning
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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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
Happy dragon year
Here is wishing one and all a happy and prosperous year of the dragon.
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
Movies 2012/1 Ghost Protocol
Starting to track movies watched in the cinema. First 1 of 2012 is Mission Impossible 4 Ghost Protocol.
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Friday, January 6, 2012
English Pronunciation - Dec 23rd, 2011
**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
Thursday, January 5, 2012
My Month Four
Probation is 6 months... new responsibilities on the horizon.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Crumpler vs Coach
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...
Monday, January 2, 2012
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