Filed under: Salsa
Went to the SISF party last night and surprisingly, this year there are so many attendees! Didn’t really dance much becuz my ankles decided to act up again and every step was a pain.
Abit sad that i missed taking part in the rueda circle even though I registered for it. Well, it was $900 vs rueda so not much contest there!
Wonder if they made it this year…
Whilst sitting around, I watched the JJ rueda team do some social rueda and they’ve seriously gotten better. It was nice to see them execute the super complicated moves and watch the caller shout out the loooooong commands with the hand signals and all. Almost had me wishing that i was on the team for a moment there.
And I just realized that most of the people I know in salsa are on some performance team. I feel inadequete! hahahaah…and to think that when i first started out, i was quite determined that i’d join a team someday..how things have changed! Ah well…
Filed under: MEOW!
I hate it when food that’s meant for me disappears. Like why can’t people just eat their own food???
It’s mine, mine, mine…do you hear!!!!!
*roar*
Filed under: MEOW!
There’s a saying that there’s no such thing as a stupid question. I beg to differ.
All questions when asked out of context are stupid questions. It’s not a matter of whether the person asking is smart or stupid, but that the question itself is irrelevant to the situation at hand and therefore deemed stupid.
That said, if you asked a stupid question but are convinced that it is not a stupid question, the onus is on you to justify and validate why since no logical connection can be easily or quickly made. Simply insisting that it isn’t a stupid question doesn’t quite cut it. In fact, the very action of insisting that an irrelevant question is appropriate with no validation is the very thing that will convince me that most of your brain cells must be fried.
Which brings me to the point that if we spend more time talking and less time making sure that the point we are trying to make is understood, the conversation isn’t going to go very far. In fact, all that one is generating is noise. If you’re just concerned about saying your piece but don’t care if the other party understands it, what is the point of saying it all in the first place?
Some people baffle me with their noise and irrelevance.
As you can tell, i’m in a bad mood today.
Filed under: travel
Heartache. Paid off most of my accommodation for my UK year end trip. Painfullllllllllllllllll.
But guess the upside is that I don’t need to think about “escaping cash” on the trip there.
Filed under: MEOW!
Do you like foie gras? Personally, i’ve never tasted it before so I don’t know. Though alot of people i know like animals and who keep pets like to eat this awful, awful dish.
I’m finding it quite difficult to reconcile my disgust for the fact that people endorse and excuse animal cruelty because of their gluttony and the fact that other than this small little very disturbing fact, I really like these folk on a day to day basis!
PLEASE DON’T EAT FOIE GRAS. I’ve heard it’s really tasty but think of how the goose felt! I know it sounds stupid to “think of how the goose felt” but honestly, animals have feelings too. And I’m sure anyone who has ever owned a pet before knows that. Feelings aside, it’s torture day after day, from the day the goose is born, it’s force fed until it’s ass ruptures and tummy bursts and dies. C’mon, all that for a freaking piece of liver?!!!?!!?!?!?!?
And why would anyone in their right mind want to pay premium dollar to eat a diseased liver? It’s DISEASED!!!! I feel so angry and sad and sorry for the ducks at the same time that i feel like crying.
And really, you should not eat it just because atas people eat it okay?! It’s not atas at all.
And no, not thinking about it but still eating it doesn’t help matters at all. You’re still eating it!!!!
I hope all the people who eat foie gras get reborn as ducks in their next life!!!
Bah. My friends, these people.
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Foie Gras means “Fat Liver” and is originally from France. Getting a liver so plump and tender comes from overfeeding the goose/duck until it has fatty liver disease. Let’s check out how they really get it this way.

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First of all, the geese are fed very often, even when they are not hungry.

A metal pipe is shoved down their throats and food is shoved through the pipe directly to their stomachs. This is what plumps up the liver.

They are stuck in tiny cages with no room to move or walk. Their legs bloat up from standing all day.

They don’t have much time to sleep because before you know it, it’s feeding time again. Sometimes they try to defend themselves, but it is quite useless.

They are forced to eat until they are dead or until their bodies cannot stand this torture any longer. See how much food is cruelly stuffed into this goose from the stomach all the way up to the mouth. Sometimes their stomachs split open. Imagine the amount of pain these animals are in.

This overfeeding causes them to crap a lot so much so their butts get badly inflamed and they bleed at the ass.

A lifetime of torture for this. Is it worth it?

p.s: i copied the following thingy on foie gras from this blog that i read. I’m guessing she shouldn’t mind the plagarism too much since, well, she doesn’t endorse foie gras either.
Filed under: Random Blather
I have, after years of procrastination, scheduled my appt with the podiatrist. Finally.
I will be going on Friday and hopefully, they will be able to cure me of my perpetual feet ache and misery.
Based on what I gathered online, seems like I have the feet of a 60 year old.
I’m so screwed.
Filed under: MEOW!
The way some people deal with a problem is to run from it.
Instead of facing the problem head on, they create excuses for themselves and their irrational behavior. Instead of thinking of ways to improve the situation there and then, they shove the problem under the carpet and hope that it’ll just magically go away. They choose to register their anger via non-compliance, hidden rebellion, withdrawal and seeming to act oblivious to everything. This behavior quietly shouts: “You bug me and I’m going to punish you for thinking counter to me.”
Oh c’mon, wake up!!! Ignoring a problem doesn’t make it go away, it only causes it to snowball. If you add enough snowballs, you can create a mountain. Then one day, just one additional snowball to the pile will cause an avalanche. And when the earth falls over your head, don’t start wondering what caused it.
We control the way our life turns out. If you allow someone else to make the decisions for you or steer you down a path you do not wish to go, then you are every bit as guilty as the one you are accusing. Nobody can make you do something you don’t want to do. Nobody can control your thoughts, your actions, your behavior. Don’t go around blaming someone else for taking charge or making a decision that you did not want to make.
Filed under: Random Blather
So I finally found a place that does great steamboat. I generally hate steamboat. I find the food bland, overcooked and tastes of either chilli sauce no. 1 or soy sauce no. 2. The soups start off tasteless and become thick, gooey and starchy at the end. Not to mention i enter the shop smelling like a nice perfumed lady and exit a tasty sticky human-masquerading-as -a-food-particle. Not my cup of tea lah.
So, when i say that i finally found a place that i actually enjoy eating the steamboat, it’s really quite something!
I’m very happy. This is the only place that you don’t have to drag me screaming and kicking to eat there. I don’t even mind smelling like food after!
The shop is at Golden Mile shopping center, and it’s the only one around. In fact, all you need to do is to follow your nose to the wafting aromas of sizzling pork and you’ll soon find yourself in front of the shop. They use charcoal so your food doesn’t get chao tar before you can eat it and the area on which you can fry the stuff is just nice. You can’t fry more than what you can eat at the moment so every mouthful is hot, sizzling and freshly cooked! Best of all, they give you pork lard!
Pork lard is very important. It’s the thing that makes food yummy. Ever tried char kway teow without pork lard? Yes, I’m sure you get my point eh? So the food comes out very tasty! And somehow, you don’t have to add any meat into the soup but it ends up very delicious still…my guess is that the juices from the meat (and yes, the oil from the lard) trickle down into the soup, adding flavour to it whilst the meat is cooking! So all the meat retains it flavour (finally! Not boiled and tasteless!) and the soup is yummy!!
Oh, and the sauce they provide is damn good also!
So i highly recommend the place. Do go if you can!
p/s: it’s $35 for 2 people, though personally i think the portion is just nice for 3.
Filed under: Random Blather
Is it marriage season or what?!!!
Why is everyone either getting engaged, holding the traditional tea ceremony/banquet, buying a house or ROMing all at once suddenly? Lemme see….
Engaged/Buy House – Wan’er, Bearie, Priscilla, Irene, Gaik Leng
ROM – Adelynn
Traditional - Donovan, Lynnette, Chiron
….and counting!
It’s like everyone rushing to make it before the due date or something! Scary! This year..at least $900 down the drain lei!
The best part is…some of these folk have been dating for less than 2 years before tying the knot. Perhaps the myth about finding “The One” is not really a myth afterall. Perhaps if you didn’t “know” at the start, then you should just well forget it, stop wasting your time to work it out and look elsewhere! Perhaps a true sign that you have found “The One” is that even after a loooooonnnng time, you still behave like a (to borrow pris’ words) “newly minted couple”. Or perhaps, you need to tie the knot when you still feel like a “newly minted couple”. Hahaha….
Oh, I dunno. What do I know about marriage anyway. I am totally so not into the whole thing….for now, that is.
I miss alot of things. Things i never gave a 2nd thought to. Things that most people take for granted.
It’s always greener on the other side isn’t it? But it never is, is it?
I guess the most difficult thing is to decide which side you want to be on, and the people that you will need to answer to for the change (or lack of change).
Some have it easy; they are born knowing what they want thereby there simply does not exist the need to choose.
What should I do?