Happy & Prosperous New Year Ahead

Hey, here's wishing everyone out there a fun filled Chinese New Year. Forget the calories, stuff our faces and enjoy the Dog year ahead of us. May it be filled with the things you wished for...Happy Chinese New Year...

Luv,

Puffyrazzi

Chinese New Year

春节 is here! It is also known as the Chinese lunar new year and marks the first day of the first month in the Chinese calendar. Legeng has it that a monster by the name of Nian could infiltrate homes silently. It came to the people's understanding that Nian was sensitive to loud noises and the colour red. Thus this brought to the current customs during Chinese new year where everyone don red clothes and using firecrackers.

On a personal note, i love Chinese new year cos it's a time for me to feast away. Be it abalone, fish maw, sea cucumber or mama's Hainanese Chicken Rice or meatballs, they are nice dishes to share with the family on a special reunion. Part of the fun comes from baking cookies and making minuscule meat floss popiahs with my erjie ( the size of our mini popiah is about half of normal on sale ones!) The TV in my house is virtually switched on for most of the time to add to the festive mood.

During the 2nd day of chinese new year, MIB 3 will be back and our family will get really busy showering them with attention. The living room would then be strewn with toys and the house gets really noisy...With MIB 3 around, i'm sure Nian would stay away cos he'll be terrified of their loud voices...haha.

Ahhh...the joys of Chinese New year....

HAPPY TOGETHER

Me and you and you and me

No matter how they toss the dice,

it has to be

The only one for me is you, and you for me

So happy together

Guild + MushMom

MIB III Celebrates!

MIB III celebrates a landmark event today. It is the birthday of the founding and oldest member, LL. And the whole world rejoices... bring on the presents!

Slime

Wow! The most most bouncy monster i've encountered so far. They can be found in abundance near every town on the map. Its large population meant good training for the beginning stages

Superstitions

Do you believe in superstitions? Personally i'm not one to be affected by such old wives tales, just fascinated by them. I am now sharing with you some of the more common ones i stumbled upon while surfing the net :

BRIDGE
If you say good-bye to a friend on a bridge, you will never see each other again.

CLOCK
If a clock which has not been working suddenly chimes, there will be a death in the family.

FINGERNAILS
It is bad luck to cut your fingernails on Friday or Sunday.

KNITTING
It's bad luck to leave a project unfinished. The intended recipient will get bad luck from the unfinished item.

ROCKING CHAIR
If you leave a rocking chair rocking when empty, it invites evil spirits to come into your house to sit in the rocking chair.

SHOES
Do not place shoes upon a table, for this will bring bad luck for the day, cause trouble with your mate and you might even lose your job as a result.

It's bad luck to leave shoes upside down.

UMBRELLA
Dropping an umbrella on the floor means that there will be a murder in the house.

X
The number of Xs in the palm of your right hand is the number of children you will have.

January & February Birthdays!

4 Jan : Happy 27th birthday Joan.

23 Jan : Desmond Wong's big day. Stay healthy stay young! 33 ain't that old yet. :D

? Jan : Sheng ri kuai le Mr Xie (lao ban).

1 Feb : Jeremy's 26th birthday.

10 Feb : Yoz Shin Yen! Great year ahead of you. Do enjoy yourself to the max yah?

29 Feb : This date is non-existent this year. Anyway, many happy returns of the day, Xiuhui!

絲路

星星就是　窮人的珍珠　

你的笑　支撐著　我虔誠　的最初

狂風沙是　我單薄衣服　穿越過　亞細亞　的迷霧

雲破日出　你是那道光束　帶著平凡的我　走過奇蹟旅途

Stump

A continuation to my introduction of Maple monsters. The stump looks like an uprooted tree. It is not much of an attacking monster as it is extremely slow. Can be found almost anywhere on the map.

Bored to the Core

I'm still alive! No updates for several days but i'm still alive and kicking. I've been keeping myself occupied with some meaningful endeavours... =D

First and foremost a hearty congratulations to Sheau Ching and Shin Yen who announced their engagement on New Year day! What a brilliant start to a brand new 2006! Shin Yen has been a buddy for 13 years of my life and i truly wish her well.

In midweek, it was rendezvous with 2 old pals whom i have not seen for many years. I enjoyed a heart-warming dinner at Crystal Jade Seafood Kitchen on Thursday night with Yi Min and Fely. It was my first time meeting up with Yi Min (AKA Dr. Wan) in 6 years and with Fely in 3 years. Appearances and habits may have changed significantly but friendship remains strong.

Yesterday was Gromit day. Watching Gromit and Wallace capturing the were-rabbit that was savaging the crops of the villagers preparing for the Giant Vegetable Competition tickled my funny bones to the max! It's shocking how simple movements of Gromit's forehead can emote so many different expressions....

Working today... Bored... "-.-

Hello Asshole!

This story was buried by the press- and has only been recently released by British Intelligence:

Osama Bin Laden himself decided to send George Bush a letter in his own handwriting, to let him know he was still in the game. Bush opened the letter and it appeared to contain a single line of coded message: 370HSSV-0773H. Bush was baffled, so he e-mailed it to Condi Rice. Condi and her aides had no clue either, so they sent it to the FBI. No one could solve it at the FBI, so it went to the CIA, then to the NSA. With no clue as to its meaning, they eventually asked Britain's MI-6 for help. Within a few minutes MI-6 cabled the White House with this reply "Tell the President he's holding the message upside down"

2006 Wishlist

1. DigiCam
2. Gain weight
3. Apple iPod
4. Cairns
5. Promotion xD

'Tis a Season To Be Jolly

Have a jolly yuletide season and happy new year everyone!
Best wishes from Puffyrazzi

The beauty of Kong

3 hour 10 mins. A very thin-veiled message was sent through the big screen, on how human's lust for fame and fortune can be placed above everything else. Through Kong, we saw the purest form of love; a love that transcends the species and language barrier between himself and Ann Darrow.

Set in the Great Depression era, it is every man for himself. Carl Denham was depicted as the heartless brute who was willing to do anything for money. The portrayal of this character brings to us the realisation that in us, there IS a small part of Carl Denham. All of us are selfish and like him, the human race has been exploiting various specimens of nature.

Kudos to a great Brontosaurus stampede scene complete with accompanying raptors, a jaw-breaking fight between Kong and the T-rexes and giant centipedes (megapedes?) crawling out of tree trunks. To Ann Darrow, i applaud you for a great set of lungs =)

Very enjoyable and evoked a lot of thinking. Sadly in the end, the beauty did kill the beast.

Orbis Screeny

Heaven is a place on Earth

Welcome all to another food blog. I believe there are many fans of Japanese food out there. Me myself is not exactly a big fan, for one, Japanese food is ice cold, and i prefer steaming hot food. Of course, raw food is not one to agree with my digestive system either xD. Here, i have posted a walkthrough of the nice yummy photo during my visit to the land of the rising sun not long ago. After all, my blog is one of a laidback nature with travelblogs popping up every once in a while. Enjoy and let the saliva flow!




Flight to Kansai Airpot

Osaka --> Nara --> Kyoto

Maibara --> Aichi --> Gamagori city

Hakone --> Mount Fuji


































Yokohama --> Tokyo

Tokyo Disneyland

Narita, Tokyo

Flight from Narita Airport to Singapore

Red Snail

Similar in appearance to the blue snail, this is a tougher and more stubborn opponent. During my beginner stint , i used to loath this snail to death cos it took up a lot of time to get rid of it. Now, no problem at all!

Screen shot

In a glance

In a blink of an eye, another year has just swept past me. Fortunately ( or unfortunately) this year is pretty much uneventful . It’s the time of the year to make new year resolutions for the coming calendar but I really am not the kind who is into making resolutions. Most people break them anyway, so what the hell…

Career wise, I have improved tremendously since my novice days. It is still pretty daunting to make important decisions that will affect tonnes of output, but the job gets easier as my confidence grows. People in the lab are very close and intimate and we hang out together, which is great for working relations. Of course for every fast friend, you get a bitter rival. You can never escape the politics bitch nor the cunning backstabber. On the other hand, learn to live with them… haha…This year I welcome 2 new-found friends, li’l sis Annie and Jianwen but lost a great buddy who has since relocated to New Zealand. The lab has not been the same without him…

I’m also finding more ways for my money to grow, but of course that’s my secret…heehee

As for my family, everyone is in the pink of health, with no big health threats so I’m thankful for that. Papa, Mama n Puffy are enjoying a quiet retreat back home ; dajie is busy with the MIB ; erjie is shuttling between kuching , shah alam n kuantan ; finally Frosty is sleeping and eating his days away.

I am also glad that my peers are finding success in their chosen paths. My friends in Singapore are all immersed in never-ending workload and are still able to find time for birthday celebrations and gatherings. Also a word of thanks to Hsin-hui and Tong Wooi who looked me up when they dropped by from UK and Canada respectively. As for Chih Yin (who recently started blogging too!), thanks for keeping in touch. Our friendship means a lot to me as well. Of course I can’t forget Joyce… we did ‘many’ things together , in fact more than we did when we were in KE. We still watch F1 every fortnightly and now exchange maple tips.

My gratitude to 闷蛋 for supporting this site and for being an ardent reader.. xD

To wolfie, I Love You. Thanks for sharing all you have with me.

In 2005, we saw the debut of Lost and Desperate Housewives. And TV is saved from catastrophe following the demise of popular sitcoms ‘Friends’, ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’, ‘Frasier’ and ‘Sex and the City’. A fresh change from the saturation of reality shows 24/7.

In sports, a good year indeed. Federer dominated, Alonso drove like a man possessed, Chelsea swept all before them, Liverpool beat the odds to lift the European Cup, emergence of Michelle Wie in golf, Valentino Rossi’s dominance was unbeaten , Joscelin Yeo won more SEA games medals for Singapore… wait..i don’t really care about that last bit. :P

Not a very good year for the global community as a whole. The year started badly with the Boxing day tsunami which affected the regions too close for comfort. Who’d expect more were to come like the Bali ‘encore’ bombing and Pakistan quake? Another incident that I recall would be the England tube and bus simultenous bombing that came a day after the announcement that London would be hosting the 2012 Olympics. I was in Kyoto when I heard the news and was shocked beyond words, coupled by the fact that I had a few friends residing in London. Also, not to mention the bird flu scare that rocked the region for much of the year.

And now, 2006 is a few weeks away. Time to sing Auld Lang Syne… and a toast to a better year in store. Cheers!