being singaporean means...

pushing a trolley to this queue, totally ignoring this sign.

today, tomorrow and so far

today i... 

fried my first fish - terriyaki salmon in olive oil

tomorrow i...

will wake up in time and go for the body combat class

and so far...

i have been eating salad with fish (tuna/salmon) for the past few days (dinner)

i love lunches...

..with my grandparents! cos dinners are always so rushed and no time to hang out after. today we went east coast for carl's jr then walked along the beach a bit. nice weather and breeze.

at carl's jr.

can you tell my grandpa's very full?

my grandma's camera shy.

my grandpa's unfinished portobello mushroom burger.

leftovers.

saw kids cycling and people having a dip in the water. i just love the beach just it's so relaxing and calming, especially on days like today when there's no crowd and you see a few people cycling, skating, swimming and fishing. the world is great on days like that!

i love my grandparents!

sianz

... cos i missed my body combat class. i can't believe my alarm rang and i turned over and slept back! i just ran 15 on the treadmill and it just doesn't seem enough!

hot!

iPhone named 2008 Gadget of the Year

After they tallied the votes, iPhone came up a big winner in the 2008 British Technology Awards. It not only claimed the award for Gadget of the Year but won the Best Mobile Technology, Most Stylish Technology, and Technological Innovation of the Year awards, as well. iTunes also won honors, seizing the Best Music Technology award for 2008.

the memory of running, by ron mclarty

i've had this book for ages. but i don't know why i've never blogged about it or highly recommended it to someone else. i guessed it just faded away after i read it. maybe it didn't get as much hype as "the kite runner", or it wasn't written by someone who had massive success with previous books, like mitch albom's "the five people you meet in heaven". so i guess it got lost in my collection.. until last week. i spent a slow week re-reading the book and i really appreciated it.

a fat slob who is a alcoholic and depressed, smithy ide is forty and sad. he hates his job and his apartment. smithy doesn't have friends and still goes on vacation with his parents. his sister, bethany suffered from a mental illness that led to her disappearance. the tragedy never detached itself from the ide family.

when his parents die because of a car crash, smithy goes on the road on his bicycle, one night in a drunken stupor and carried on across america. he meets all kinds people - sick, in need of help, unreasonable. he helps and listens, falls in love along the way. with a bag and his bicycle, smithy ide is on a quest that leads him to a better life.

this is a debut novel but it is filled with lots of heart. smithy's emotions are real, and you feel his happiness and pain, wonder and sickness. you read with fervor when smithy talks about bethany's past, and many chapters leave you hanging on to the very last word, as you wait for the author to go back to that incident. the novel is a joy to read and now's the time to say it.

I HIGHLY, HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!