Lunch at My Place

I decided to have an early Christmas lunch. Friends came, they hung ornaments on my tree and we ate. Here's the spread:

Lapis, Chocolate Cake (with tons of Brandy, courtesy of MW), Chicken Sio (sweet ketumbah gravy thing).

Chap Chye Kering (dry) and Pong Teh

Seedless Grapes, Mango Pudding, and Fried Ikan Bilis to munch on. Oh So Good!

Catch your Cheating Spouse

I was driving back from my cousin's place when I saw this cab in front of me:

The website : www.catchcheatingspouse.com.sg

So I took a look. The company is Kokusai. But that's not what made me "giling kepala" (translated: shake my head).

One of the links takes you to a site where you can buy a book, join a club, and get freebies too!

All for the cheap cheap price of USD$37.00

Here's an excerpt:-

"You'll know in a few minutes that you'll receive a step-by-step guide showing you everything you need to know so you can find out the truth once and for all about whether or not your spouse is cheating on you. Then you can get back on track with your life. No need to spend all of the years and heartache to achieve success. Just follow the instructions and start getting results immediately. And with my instant money-back guarantee, there is literally NO RISK for you."


I mean, I know you can find almost anything on the internet. But this is just sad.

If nothing happens after 8 weeks, you get a money-back guarantee.

Weird, this world we live in.

Scientists discover clue to growing new breast tissue

This appeared 5th Jan 2006. At least, that's what it says at the top of the article. (Right click on the title or else you lose this page).

Here's an excerpt:

Researchers suspect that mammary stem cells play an important role in the genesis of some breast cancers. If a stem cell carries genetic errors, it may start producing cancerous breast cells, in effect becoming a “tumour factory”. This may be why some breast cancers return after apparently being eliminated by chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy targets fast-dividing cancer cells, but the stem cells may prove more resistant as they do not reproduce so quickly. This would mean that, although the primary breast cancer is killed by the treatment, abnormal stem cells are left behind to continue turning out cancer cells, restarting the tumour.

“The ultimate objective is to create a drug that will, in effect, switch off breast cancer cells,” Dr Visvader said. “To do this, the exact make-up of genes expressed by normal and rogue stem cells will need to be determined. Then a drug will be designed to engage with and neutralise the faulty feature of the stem cell.”

Reading it made me think about this inspirational thingamajig that was floating around some time back. To learn the value of a year, ask a student who's failed his end of year exams. To learn the value of a month, ask the mother of a premature baby... and so on and so forth. I'm sure you've seen it.

Anyhoo, I'm thinking of someone I know who has breast cancer. She doesn't have long to live. If only they found a way to sort this all out BEFORE she goes... what if the answers come a day after? or a week? or a month? At what point will I NOT think "What a waste... if she had held on just one more day/week/month they might have been able to save her..." 

I feel guilty now. She's still here, now. And yet I'm thinking this way.

To the people in my life who I don't see very often - I'm sorry. I should try harder. I know. But please do understand that there are other people in my life who I'd regret not seeing more than others. (My family, for instance.) And so I try to make extra time for those people - just in case. Just in case their time is up and I never get to see them again. Just in case.

"There's always tomorrow / the weekend / next month"... what if there isn't?

Packaging is Everything

Recently I found out that Louis Armstrong did a version of "Oops, I did it again" way way back in 1932 for the Decca label. Obviously it didn't take.

And no wonder. It was draggy, he wasn't a hottie and all that sax was just too overpowering.

Sex, on the other hand, sells. I mean, red pleather and choreographed dance moves - who could beat that?

Baba King - Singapore Expo (hall 4)

While this isn't strictly from my kitchen, the food was yummy enough that I decided to post some pics :)

The Aunt and Cousin from Germany are here for 12 days and we took them to Baba King at Expo for lunch today. As some of you may know, Peranakan cooking is such that tastes differ from home to home, and today's spread was no exception. While some of the dishes tasted similar to the ones I grew up on (from mum's kitchen), some others had variations. The chap chye, for example, is typically cooked without carrots in my home, but the one we had today had some in it. Still, it's recognisable so I'm not going to bitch about it. Enjoy :)

Kristang Beef Devil Curry
Itek Teem







Otak Otak
Sambal Belimbing
Achar





Chap Chye
Kangkong Belacan

Global Warming Hoax - final

I was mistaken. Apparently there are only 8 parts. Do note, tho, that in parts 7 and 8 some bits seem to be repeats of earlier sections. But if you sit thru and listen (while multi-tasking and doing other stuff on your computer) there's also new stuff meshed in with the old.

So the conclusion? Go ahead, Use energy, Emit CO2 and Send Bulbs to Africa! Peace all...







And here's something else...

Global Warming Hoax - cont'd

parts 4 to 6...









stay tuned for more! (parts 7 to 9 coming up next...)

Global Warming - Man-Made Hoax?

Maybe it's NOT our fault after all? (9 parts altogether - I think.)