~*Harmonie's Sentimental World --心情日记*~ ~*Harmonie's Sentimental World --心情日记*~ 
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canto Shou fang Kai, Da Chang Jin, FF
Read abt the Cantonese Version of "手放開". It is titled"明知做戲" and sung by 吳雨霏.
Super Sian!
I bought a whole big pack of M&Ms at lunch time.
Shit, anti depressant , polar bears
Made Ah Du burst out laughing while he was singing "Heaven Knows" at Muchuan last Monday. Must be the discussion abt SHIT by Monsters dang prior to that song, which made me kept thinking of "shit" whenever Ah Du sang "she". Apprarently he overheard my conversation with Esther. Paiseh har, I must be gigling too much.
If u dunno what I mean,
here's the 1st 2 verses of the lyrics.
Shit (She's ) always on my mind
From the time I wake up Till I close my eyes
Shit(She's) everywhere I go Shit (she's) all I know
And though shit (she's) so far away I
t just keeps getting stronger everyday
And even now Shit (she's) gone I'm still holdin' on
so u understand now?
Anyway orginal lyrics of "Heavens Know' can be found here http://www.infoclub.com.np/entertain/music/lyric/WW3800.htm
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Working life really makes me feel so "pek-chek" at time, so I took these anti-depressant given by my sis.
Dun ask me how she got them....
Yeah, this is no joke. Chocolates, according to her, are anti-depressants. Apparently what you see here is just a vial containing M&Ms.
Eating chocolates make u happy, rite?
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Chanced upon another TY Polar bear while window shopping on last Sun. Bought it without hesitation. Yah, I adore TY polar bears, have quite a few in my collection. :p
Paw (this pic was taken from the net, as I am unable to download the original pic taken with my old phone) was the 1st polar bear I have. It was a gift from a friend.Latte & paperdolls
“想用一杯 latte 把你灌醉”....
Bet the first time you heard this, you must be thinking "latte 是提神的，怎么能灌醉？"
Guessed I must have been drinking too much latte recently that they failed to keep me awake.
Drank 3 glasses of latte yesterday, One in the morning and two at Muchuan. Yet I was feeling so sleepy, really struggling to keep awake.
See, I am intoxicated by Latte.
(Tried out this new photo editing software recommended by my friend. The original pic of latte was taken in Taiwan. Haha)
Paperdolls
I remember when I was young, I din have any Barbie dolls or any other dolls to play with. Paper dolls were the "replacements". Had such a fun time dressing up the dolls with new clothes (yeah in 2D form), think I even went to the extent of making DIY paper dolls and designing clothes for them. How I love to "make" those long princess gowns for my paper dolls.
Hmm, you might be thinking why I suddenly brought up this topic, when it has nothing to do with the above. Haha it was because just a couple of days ago, saw Funkyjazz put up quite a few paperdolls ( created by her from this website http://www.stardoll.com) on her blog.
Want to try out on my own too, but too bad I do not Flash player installed on my notebook... Owwwww.
Anyway these are my favourites.
Rojak post (31 March to 12 April)
Quick run through of past two weeks’ events Did a rather lengthy personality test some time ago ( u may wish to visit this page : http://www.whobirdyou.com/test.asp)
31 March-- have dinner at Newton Food Centre with ex-colleagues. (see, i seems to have been eating good food recently). We feasted on sotongs, kangkong, fish dumpling soup, chicken wings, hokkien mee, orh-lua, 2 plates of hang-he ( hahaha if u are wondering what the heck "hang he" is, dun think of them as 2 English words, but dialect phrase. Still dunno what it is, it means: Sting Ray lor!).
1 April : went to SP to support Mrs Wong in her Talentquest competition. A sweet April Fool's day for her as she was award the Champion in the solo category segment of the singing( Not an April Fool's joke ok ). Mrs Takeshi and I were 不顾形象`by cheering at her when she appeared singing the theme song and collecting her award. Not only taht, we imitated one of the contestant in the emcee category whenever she start to peppered her speech with the phrase "very very". It really get on my nerves whenever she mentioned "very very" whenever she made an introduction, like:
"Let's welcome our very very first contestant on stage."
" I'm very very happy, very very honoured"
Even when she spoke in Chinese, she 'd say "非常非常".
Arghhhh!
That's y when it was announced that the other contestant was the best Emcee of that night, Mrs Takeshi was clapping her hands and said " VERY VERY good".
I almost fell off from the chair laughing.
After the event, we headed of to sushi at Cineleisure followed by catching the movie ICE Age II - The Meltdown.
Despite reviews giving it a rating of 3 stars of out 5, we all enjoyed the watching it. it was definitely better than Chicken Little. Like the lst movie, the audiences laughed the most everytime the squirrel appeared, under different circumstances and using all sorts of methods to grab the last acorn. It was still grabbing acorns when it was in Heaven (only for a short while though).
2 April: Early KTV session within LingYing members. Only 3 of us and somehow we weren't on top form that day. I was down with runny nose and they kept on teasing me afterwards when it was proven that the runny nose symptom would stop if only i was eating. Ate ice-cream, it stop. once i stop eating, I need tissue again. Then snacked on biscuits, bubble tea. while we shopped. As they put it ---"要吃还是要流鼻涕". Of cos I can't be eating non stop and by the late afternoon, i chose to declare being defeated and when home to sleep. SO Yoyo, that’s why I din attend the BBQ. 不是不给你面子哦。
8 April (sat) . Went to AMK central to support Mrs Takeshi ,who was acting in a skit (or rather a forum) titled 168. The topic was on gambling and it was related to the issue of the building of the IR and exclusion clause which will be introduced. It was more interactive than I expected. I thought that when they meant the audience can give views on what can done to make the situation better, they (audience) only need to voiced their views from the floor. Turned out tat they have to go up on stage and act as the character.
Forgot when it happened. One evening, my bro and sis returned home, carrying a big tank containing……
Sis named her crab “Pidd” while bro named his “Jay”.
Jay as in Jay Chou??!!!!
Ohhh, shall I talk to this crab in this way:
“ Oei, Jay! Dun anyhow crawl!”
Yah , talk Crab.. opps, I mean crap. :P
One of the sentence from the results was “在一旁等到沒人時才上前去欣賞那幅畫，正是屬於等候型的人。”
Guess it was deduced from my answer to this Question:
你特地去美術館看某幅有名的畫時，由於太受歡迎了，所以那幅畫前擠滿 了人潮，這個時候你會怎麼做呢？ 1) 一直站在遠處觀賞
2) 推開他人，擠到前面去看
3) 在旁邊等到沒人了再去欣賞
4) 只好死心，買明信片或海報回家看
Perhaps this also applies to other aspects in my life.
Well, something happened last week, and since I had finally voiced my views on that. I dun wish to talk abt it anymore.
站在一旁不去欣赏画，不代表对那幅画没兴趣。
不问问题并不代表没有疑问或没兴趣。而是没机会发问。
有时，“礼让”不见得是件好事……
如果一个人耐心地站在一旁，等着看画的人看完画。但过了许久，看画的人还赖着不走，你认为那想看画的人还会傻傻地在一旁等吗？
Today:
One.
Randomly picked a copy of CLEO mag, without really paying attention to the freebie attached. It was only after I had paid for it, then I realized that the mobile phone screen cleaner happens to be in purple. (there are pink and orange versions available)
Two.
Went to Patissier again! I feel a need to pamper myself.
Hence I indulged in a slice of Mango Basil Leaf cake and a slice of Strawberry Shortcake. 
I know you all lao-nuah liao, haha.
Three.
Have been pretty busy, stressed and getting tired easily for the past few weeks but it really warms my heart to know that I have good friends around. Like the nice lady (haha sounds formal) who ended up liaising with the person-in-charge when all I asked was if she has any recommendations for booking of a room for function.
And not to mention the nice gentlemen (haha, my gor lah), despite having a tight schedule, gave me this answer “You know I will always make myself free during that period every year. ” , when all I asked was if he will be free to attend that event (not to help out in that event).
Thanks pals, u know I appreciate your help very much. Din wanna mention any names cos I dun want to be seems as gloating.
As for my other friends, I’ll let u know the date when I meet up with or see you online. U know it’s not safe to release the details here. Especially there is this super “eng” Carlton person, whom now very “eng” and went to read my friends’ blogs upon seeing I haven’t been updating this blog recently. Haha, scared liao huh.
Four
What a strange feeling it was, when I least expect someone to answer my questions, he actually took time to answer them and yet, when I expect someone to be truthful to me turned out to be avoiding give honest replies.
For the former, I was just trying my luck. Cos I know he seldom talked abt such his personal matters and …... (Shan’t say more abt this.)
As for the latter, all I can say is that I am not stupid nor over-sensitive. Everyone knows that something’s not right when a person refuse to answer to you questions directly, changes topic and ends up shooting questions at you, or excuses himself/herself.
Perhaps it is one of those “nature of forces” theory – u receive something, u lose something… to maintain the balance....
Five
Finally, there is a Public Holiday this month (Good Friday), I really need a break. Especially the decision I have come up with. Dunno how we will be breaking the news to her.
Going to catch up with my poly friends, sec school friend and others over this weekend. Looks like I will be feasting again....
Taipei trip -- Day 3
Day 3 -- 6 March 2006 (Mon)
What I’d term as “High High High” ( or 高高) day. :P
As we visted the tallest skyscraper in the world --- Taipei 101 and the second tallest Ferris Wheel at Miramar.
Ok , once again, I shall begin my 流水账。
Had breakfast again at the hotel’s café. Same old stuff, just that the hams were replaced by a dish of fried tow-kuah.
Took the MRT to Taipei Main Station as I need to exchange the old $500 and $100 notes which my mum had passed to me at the 台湾银行. Yeah, NTW$700 more to spend. That is abt S$35.
Before I continue, let me insert this highlighted section of the MRT line for easy reference later.
Decided to visit the 24 hr Eslite Bookstore (城品书局) located at Junction of Ren Ai Rd and Tun Hua Rd. Hence we took the train and alighted at Zhong Xiao Dun Hua (忠孝敦化) Station.
More details of the bookstore chain can be found at : http://www.eslitebooks.com/
As we walked past the buildings, I spotted the optics shop德恩堂 , which products had been endorsed by Li Sheng Jie last year. Haha, so guessed what I did? I thought of passing by the shop, to “beo” if they still have posters of him hanging in their interiors. That was what I did after we had visited Cheng Pin, and to my disappointment , there were no signs of “Him”.
Now back to城品书局 . The thing abt Taiwan is that their signages were placed rather at a distance, hence even with maps in our hand, we were still unsure we were on the right track as we could not identify which street we were at after walking past a few buildings.
Asked a lady and her reply was “噢，往前一点就是了。” If we were in Singapore, we will interpret the “前一点” as tin the building was very near, that is, the next building. But 在台北“混”了两天，knew that their “前一点” could mean that it was located at a few buildings ahead. And true it was. We had to walk passed a building, and a construction area, then crossed a road and saw this building:
This Eslite bookstore took up a few levels of the building (B2 to lev 2, if I am not wrong) and though it was known as “24 hr” bookstore, not every level operates 24 hrs. When we reach there, it was ard 10.30am. Haha, blur blur me decided to explore B2 first, where the stationery department is located. And even though we were greeted by some stands that act as barricade as the lift doors opened, we simply went straight ahead to the department as the doors were opened.
Had a feeling that something was amiss when we din see anyone at the counter, but heard some voices coming out from the room behind the counter. Still presume that it was early and there were no customers other than us, and we still explore around while waiting for some staff to come out from the room.
Then a man came out, obviously shocked to see intruders. But then he politely informed us that the department does not operate until 11am and we can explore Level 2 which operates 24 hrs. With that he closed the door. Perhaps he didn’t close the door and that’s why he didn’t scream at us. Keke.
Explored Level 2. Saw quite a few magazines with MeiLian’s hubby featured on their covers. Spotted a few other foreign magazines (craft work magazines lah) which I often bought in Singapore, but they cost more in Taiwan. So I just explore ard, browing through those books relating to design (for fun only) and then browse ard their top seller lists. Didn’t purchase any books as firstly, those can be purchased in Singapore and secondly, they will simply add on to my baggage weight.
Flutterby was different; she bought a few books as she was attracted by their packaging. Yah “packaging”, one of the books actually came in a straw bag.
Next agenda: 忠孝东路走九遍。
Since we were at忠孝东路, we decided to do a real life version of Power Station’s song – to walk down Zhong Xiao East Road 9 times. See we have pics to prove.
See we were really at different sections of 忠孝东路. Can see that at times I was tired, at times I was lost.
Hahaha. Gotcha! The truth was actually more of a 忠孝东路拍九遍. It was such a long road. Walked once already left us dead tired. Especially where we bought some local snacks such as Pineapple tarts and baked muah-chee along the way.
And much to our surprise, we had actually walked from忠孝敦化 Station to 国父纪念馆 station! Initially tought of having lunch at one of the cafes in one of the shopping centres, but we dicided to give it a miss as we dun seems to be able to find the café, hence we decided to try out the take-away available at 7-Eleven.
Flutterby had heard that their take-aways, especially Chicken Cutlet Rice, are very delicious. She managed to grabbed the last pack (ard S$2.50) and I purchases a seafood Mui-fan .
Kaoz. Really tasty man! 连便当都这么好吃！ And the meat was sooooo thick.
Because the food was so delicious, we couldn’t be bothered with those office workers who walked past and stared at us (cos we simply just sat down on the corridor to have our meals). Hmmm, 听起来有点凄凉，怎么我们沦落到在街上吃饭了！haha.
Guessed what? We were super blur! After our meal, we simply took the train back to Taipei Main station, forgetting our main purpose to walk along 忠孝东路 was to visit Jay Chou’s shop –Omni, which was located there. We totally forgot abt it until the next day, when we were abt to depart Taipei and saw a restaurant also named Omni at the airport departure hall!
Ok, next stop: 台北车站 (Taipei Main Station), to explore the tallest skyscraper in the world (is it still the tallest this year?). We had done our homework and knew that there is a free shuttle bus which will take us to the building from the MRT station.
Website of Taipei 101: http://www.tfc101.com.tw/
Already went “wow!!!” as we approach the building. Of cos we went snapping pics of it exteriors. Went into the mall, and snapped some more pics. Took pics of the lobby, took pics in the lifts (we seems to have fun taking pics of relections).
Reached Level 5, which is the entrance to The Observatory (89th storey). Contemplated buying the tickets as each cost NTW$350 (S$17.50). Rather expensive hor. Fannie told me that for her Taiwan trip last year, she and her friends simply just stroll outside the building, “wow” at it, took pics and left liao. Flutterby and I decided to purchase the tickets in the end, simply because 我们竟然都到此地了.
Quite an experience, especially the lift ride. It took only abt 37sec for us to reach 89th floor from 5th floor. Can really feel the pressure in our ears. When u looked up at the lift’s ceiling, you can see stars shining ( and we went “woah!!!!”).
The observatory was like a mini science centre. Saw wall panels of different designed but on a closer look, they were actually made up of the patterns “101”. Each wall panel also states a short trivia of the building. Then I went around the area, taking pic of each trivia. Flutterby somehow found that her dressing that say was similar to one of the female model in a poster and asked me to take another “kee siao pic”, where she posed exactly the same way as the model.
Went to see the damper (the big round structure which is to stabilise the building) and watch a short multimedia clip on its construction. Then it’s was my turn to strike a kee-siao pose. I looked at the view, and gave a “ 哇！这么高。要跳楼肯定死” look.
If you think we weren’t kee-siao enough, sorry lah. There’s more.
When we went back to 5th floor (the pressure we experience when the lift was descending was greater, really need to swallow saliva to ease the discomfort), saw 2 colourful Day and Night scene of the Taipei 101 building , and we continued our “kee siao phototaking”. Then upon seeing the lift lobby was covered with mirrors, we experiment taking pics of our reflections.
Ok, here are some of the pics taken at Taipei 101
Next stop was New York New York, another shopping mall located opposite Taipei 101. Saw a Statue of Liberty. Then I suggest buying a sundae (not ice-cream cone, as it will create a mess when the ice-cream melt) and pose exactly like Liberty, except we have ice-cream cup instead of torch in our hands.
Thought I could quickly get away with it, but Flutterbly seems to be a perfectionist when taking pics. She commented that my hands were not stretch out as straight as Liberty, and made me pose again. I can see the group of guys (locals) who were taking pics before us stopped to look, and those motorists waiting for the traffic junction glancing in our direction. 真丢脸！ Then it was Flutterby’s turn.
Apparently what we did inspired the guys. Flutterby saw them digged out a bottle (looked like detergent bottle) and they took pics again, mimicking our poses. Hahahahaha.
With that we left Taipei Main Station and proceeded to剑潭station. Notice that there were ppl giving out supplements of the tabloid 苹果日报. Really regret not taking it then, come to think of it. It would serve as a great souvenir. Further more the reports were all on Lee Ang having won the Best Director for Oscar. Remembered last year in Singapore, supplements on the Superstar were sold for $0.70 each, not given free.
Next place of interest on our “agenda” was Miramar Ferris Wheel 美丽华摩天轮, the second tallest Ferris Wheel in the world. Had seen pic of its structure with green neon light gleaming when the sky is dark. It was abt 33 storey tall and the ride cost NTW $150 on weekdays and NTW$200 on weekends. .So u can see why we decided to visit it on Monday instead on Sunday.
More info on this website: http://www.miramar.com.tw/
Took a free shuttle ride from 剑潭station. Was wondering why Flutterby stated in her notes that there is no free shuttle bus for return ride from the Miramar Building though I saw the schedule at the bus stop. Then realized that she had mistaken the Chinese phrase “末班车 22:30 （回程不载客）” as no return rides for all. Anyway it was great knowing that we have free shuttle rides, hence saved $ on transportation.
Had dinner at one of the pasta café opposite the Miramar building. Then we into Miramar and took escalator up to the 5th floor, where the entrance to the Ferris Wheel is located. Noticed that there weren;t many people hanging out in the large mall. (When I checked with JQ a few days later, she mentioned that they seldom hang out on weekdays.) And much to our surprise, we were the 3th and 4th people (out of the 4) who took the ride at that round. We were prepared to wait for at least 30 mins (that was what we had read in forums and other reviews).
Remember I had mention abt the term “半票” used it Taiwan/ When we went to purchase our Ferris Wheel tickets, the ticketing staff kept on asking “全票还是半票”. And Flutterby whispered to me:
“Huh 有半票？可以坐一半就跳下来？”
And I just shooed her away, saying that it might have a different meaning. Actually I was also unsure what the term mean. And when we got off the Ferris Wheel, we saw that the couple continue their ride. Hence I presume they had bought tickets for unlimited rides.
When I questioned JQ on the term “半票”, I really burst out laughing when I thought of the comment Flutterby made. “半票” is what we would termed as “concession or discounted tickets for students/army guys”. Hmmm so the ticketing staff might have thought we are students. ( hey Sips, 人家都觉得我们年轻了，看你还敢叫我们Aunty吗！)
The whole ride took abt 17 mins. The view was so beautiful. Can see Taipei 101 afar. Too bad our cameras failed to capture the night scene well.
That’s all for Day 3.
