~ A little experiment I had with helps from my lovely friends over the last weekend, we were trying to create that fine dining experience in the comfort of your very own home (read: cheap, no I should use the word "less expensive" instead).  I guess we did alright.. I mean.. the looks of them foods on the plate was pretty neat, the taste could have been better, the joy though is priceless! and oh... the burnt finger, it is oh so painful.. OUCH! ~

~ a conversation at work went like this:

gado-gado: how long have you been in IT line?

butter chicken: been doing this for the past 3 years.

gado-gado: oh sweet.. so what did you do before that?

butter chicken: oh back in my home country doing some admin work

gado-gado: and here you are doing this and doing it good I see...

butter chicken: well, I'm alright I guess.. considering I don't have any cert or diploma or anything like that

gado-gado: oh wait.. what?!?! and how did you learn all these then?

butter chicken: google.... just google it up... it's all there.. (shake shake head, smiling)

gado-gado: owww..... (shake shake head, not smiling)  ~

~ Introducing a little friend of mine, BUBBLE who will be joining us the Gentle Giants down here in the Lion City very very soon, right?! right?!

~ You've probably heard it so many times, that highly successful people are the ones who never afraid of stepping out of their comfort zone, taking that chances, facing the risks, challenging themselves, finding out what's standing on the other side of the fences feels like. But for some people, let alone stepping out from their comfort zone, to even think about taking that step already give them a shiver.  Suddenly that sense of security and familiarity that they have long belong to is gone, and to make things worst, guess what... sometimes once the step is taken there is no going back, like it or not. And what if it is the often-cruel mother nature that force us to leave our comfort zone? You wouldn't even have the choice to not stepping out.  So yeah, it could be a very scary picture.

So how to do it right and safe then? sadly speaking my friends... I think there is no a right or wrong answer to that question.  But I guess before you decided on anything, you should ask yourself how contented you are with who you are, with what you have or how you go about running your life and such, if you are happy then please learn the fact that we sometime need to stop looking for what's best for us but instead, making the best out of what we already have.  Otherwise, brace yourself, step outside the circle and may luck be with you.  After all, like how I always tell myself, it's better to die knowing that you have tried and failed rather than not knowing anything at all.  Right?! no!? oh hang on, a little voice in my head just have to say this out "but, sometimes it's easier said than done", you bloody fool!

So be it taking that job offer you are not even sure of, getting up earlier than you usually are, going up and talk to that someone in the office you have a crush on, changing your diets, going back to what was once a familiar place after a long absent, taking a different route to your workplace, wanting to take that relationship up to another level, saying out what you really want, and et cetera,  how often do you step out of your comfort zone?

Step outside the comfort zone you, the son of the earth! how's that for breakfast huh!?!?

Oh yeah, on a totally different context...  "what if the person you trusted the most are the one who keep disappointing you?"

Cheers. ~

~ what do you call it when a person can hardly find himself in the mood to update his blog? I'd say it's a symptom of having professionally-consumed-by-a-physically-demanding-and-mentally-taxing-work-that-one-has-to-endure-in-daily-basis-just-because-its-substantial-value-to-the-continuance-of-human's-life-left-no-room-for-a-man-to-walk-away-from-what-have-become-his-destiny kind of lifestyle.

or maybe not!

Okay what's up there was a big dollop of sarcasm of the exact opposite to what I'm currently having.... and I think that one was a cracker and that makes for an update because it actually took me an hour to write it.

You'll hear from me soon... if not later. DOH!?!? Cheers ~

~ Do you know that you burn as much as 120 kilojoules at least for every hour you watch a TV? And around the same goes with sleeping. In comparison of course you get to burn more kilojoules if you're doing other activities which is more demanding physically, say, mowing the lawn let you burn at least 800 kilojoules... the more kilojoules you burn the more fat you burn, right!

Doesn't really matter what you do throughout the day because afterall, by the end of the day what really count is the number of kilojoules you have successfully burned right? Some people could actually manage to refrain themselves from doing any heavy activites but yet still can keep their bodies fit and healthy. I think now I know how, here let me break it down:

- 9 hours of sleep at night = 1350Kj
- 2 hours watching some clips from the internet = 250Kj
- 1 hour reading some detective novel = 100Kj
- fall asleep while reading the book, 2 hours = 300Kj
- 4 hours of watching TV = 500Kj
- on a good day, plus 2 more hours of TV = 250Kj

Total Kilojoules burned = 2,750 Kilojoules

That's quite a lot of kilojoules burned in a day isn't? Oh wait I think it reminds me of someone who actually does this..... oh yeah.. you go girl!!!!

and I ain't bluffing

Cheers..... ~

~ If there is one thing this little country big city of Singapore never fails to do is offering a world-class entertainment. Throughout the year this little city is jam-packed with an array of all sorts of entertainment; musical performances, plays and theaters, international gourmet festival, international movie festival and I guess everything else you can imagine, is there if you know where to look for, well sometimes you don’t even have to look for it, because the millions dollars advertising campaign on them acts will definitely gets your attention and before you know it, grows into you.

In some extreme cases, it will even make you feel like the fool-est person ever if you actually missed or don’t bother to go out and see what is all the hoooohaaas about, then before you know it, you’ll start hating yourself you eat 4 packets of instant noodles, wash it down with 2 liters of chocolate ice cream and then bitch-slap yourself while crying over a dead cockroach. So because I don’t want to feel that way, I have sworn before the life of the batteries on my alarm clock (what?!?! It is a very significant role that alarm clock has in my life okay!!! It will cause a serious damage and maybe some casualties if it’s not working, dead serious!), that I will go and check out as much gigs as I can on this year ongoing Mosaic Music Festival held at Esplanade. It has already started last Friday and it will go on till 18th of March, Sunday. But because I’m cheap tight (did I just say that out loud?), I can only afford to buy one admission ticket to see José González; Swedish Singer-Songwriter (you know that Sony Bravia TV ads where millions of colorful balls rolling down the street?! That song playing in the background is one of José’s hits. –click here to view the video-). Not to worry though, because there are lots of free performances being held at few of the indoor and outdoor venues. Plus I’ve just got myself a digital camera a few weeks ago and haven’t got a chance to really play around with it, so yeah I think I can learn a thing or two on taking good concert photos. I promise I’ll post some pictures later.

Now I have to excuse myself, need to get myself ready for tonight’s gig and that translates to long afternoon nap. Cheers… ~