pictures

The pictures from the Christmas dinner at my house are finally up. Over a month late but why not?



or go here to view the whole set.

Also I have posted up the pictures we took on Tuesday at the Flower Festival 2006 at Sentosa.



Some of the other pictures from my KL trip are also ready. I will post the link and samples here in due course...

new stuff

As you can see...I have adopted a tiger,imaginatively named Cubby the tiger. Do play with him. He loves to play as all cubby tigers do. I had wanted a tortoise or a dog, but they ran out of stock for tortoises and the dog was too un-doggy-like.

Also I added music to this site as I did for the other one. The song of choice is The Distance by Evan and Jaron

The sky has lost its color
The sun has turned to grey
At least that's how it feels to me
Whenever you're away

I crawl up in the corner
As I watch the minutes pass
Each one brings me closer to
The time when you'll be back
You're coming back

I can't take the distance
I can't take the miles
I can't take the time
Until the next time I see you smile
I can't take the distance
And I'm not ashamed
That I can't take a breath whitout saying your name
But I can't take the distance

I can brave a hurricane
And still be standing tall
when all the dust has settled down
But I can't take the distance

I still believe in feelings
But sometimes I feel too much
I make believe you're close to me
But it ain't close enough
Not nearly close enough

I can't take the distance
I can't the miles
I can't take the time
until the next time I see you smile
I can't take the distance
And I'm not ashamed
That I can't take a breath
without saying your name

I can brave a hurricane
And still be standing tall
when all the dust has settled down
I can't take the distance
I can't take the miles
I can't take the time
until the next time I see you smile
I can't take the distance
And I'm not ashamed
That I can't take a breath without saying your name

And I can't take the distance
The distance

Kinda mirrors how I feel sometimes...

Dar...turn on your speakers!

Yesterday went down to pick up my baby from her place. We then headed to The Esplanade where she wanted to book the practice room at the library@esplanade. It only cost$6 for an hour. Not only that, the practice room affords a nice view of marina bay. The only downside to it is that the room is not soundproof and that people can look into the room from the outside. Not quite the set up if you are one of those who suffers from stage fright and acnnot bear scrutiny.
After the esplanade we headed to Plaza Singapura where Agnes went to look for her book for her upcoming piano exam. It seems that the particular book of exam pieces is out of stock islandwide. We then walked about the building a bit including going to Carrefour to buy Agnes's Green tea.
After that we headed home to 'get something' before heading out for dinner. I had a craving for black pepper crab. So we headed to Joo Chiat where I knew a couple of places that sold good crab. The one I wanted to go to (Eng Seng)was kinda empty which only meant that the crab must have been sold out (we had got there about 8 I think).The crabs sold there sell out rather fast. Normally people queue up from 5.30 just to be amongst the first to be in line. So we drove around abit until we got to the end of Joo Chiat Rd near Katong Mall. We ate at Crabs & More instead.



They serve an amazing 20 different varieties of crab!



I must say I rather enjoyed the meal, as Agnes dutifully observed. It came up to nearly $58 which would be considered money well spent. Maybe next time we go to Eng Seng.

After dinner we took a walk along Joo Chiat Rd until we came to near the 'seedier' side of it. We then turned back as I did not feel comfortable bringing my darling to such places.

We headed back to Sunny and then took a drive to the airport. We walked around as usual and then stopped by the Burger King for our now-customary tea.

Went home.

Outrage in the Muslim World

In September a danish newspaper published a series of caricatures which also depicted the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb shaped turban. Understandably muslims the world over were upset. But there are ways and means to express outrage.
Attacking embassies, bomb threats and violence against foreigners do not constitute the right way. In fact it only helps to perpetuate the myth that Islam only knows to express itself through the barrel of a gun. The caricatures in themselves were admittedly in bad taste, but I think greater harm has been done to the image of Islam and the teachings of the Great Prophet by the actions of those who claim to be outraged by the cartoons. When we will learn that violence never solves anything, and in this case only gives more ammo to the very people who hold misguided notions about Islam and what it espouses.