Lazy Thursday
My day started late today. Wanted to get the family to go watch Shrek 3 with me, but it only opened today, implying crowds at the box office, thus sis voted against it. As such lazed about the house the entire afternoon. Finally managed to pick up my JLPT 2 notes towards lunchtime, only to be distracted by a DVD movie my sis borrowed from the library. Surprisingly, this 1987 movie (Qiu1 Tian2 de4 Tong2 Hua4, i suppose the title rings a bell since there is the TV serial Korean by the same name) starring Chow Yun Fatt and Cherie Chung was highly enjoyable. And touching. It apparently won Best Picture some time back in the 1980s. Set in NYC in the 1980s, it actually took me quite a while before I figured out where the film was set, hai, quite lousy. :P Though some parts of the romantic drama was kinda predicatable, still really liked Chow Yun Fatt's character -- a fobbish Chinese "ringleader"-type of figure. Hilarious during the typical fob scenes but really endearing at the more 'tender' moments. Tis a pity he seems to have taken up more ornamental roles in those big-name-director/Hollywood productions these days.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Give me anything.... whatever...
If you've been watching TV recently (or just keeping your eyes open in general, since these ads are all over the place), you prob would have noticed the two silly telly ads on a new local product- Anything (carbonated soft drink in 6 flavors) & Whatever (6 non-carbonated types of tea). My mum has been getting rather irritated with these ads (You can watch them at their official website here) , and calls them "wu liao", but i guess the concept behind this product is somewhat interesting. According to the managing director of the company, he came up with this concept cos ppl always say they can have "anything" or "whatever" when asked what drinks they want. I think I can somewhat empathise with that. However, I tend to think that most ppl DO NOT really mean it when they say they can have anything/whatever. Like, they have these few drinks in mind, or these few beverages they always drink, but am prob not dying for anything in particular. Anyway, just for the novelty of it, my colleagues and I went to NTUC after lunch to get a few cans of these beverages (It's buy 5 get 1 free now at NTUC!) and I tried a Whatever. I believe I got White grape tea, but thought it tasted kinda bland. The can has very general ingredients (so as to keep under wraps the identity of the drink) but I was just curious... Doesn't like AVA require detailed nutritional info etc to be displayed on the can? Seems somewhat unSingaporean :) In any case, I think such unpredictability is a little too much for me. I do not like buying cans of things whose contents are a mystery... If I'm craving for something, I'll need to tikam (for a long time if I'm unlucky) before I can get the drink I want. Somewhat of a torture if you just want a familiar favourite drink eh.
If you've been watching TV recently (or just keeping your eyes open in general, since these ads are all over the place), you prob would have noticed the two silly telly ads on a new local product- Anything (carbonated soft drink in 6 flavors) & Whatever (6 non-carbonated types of tea). My mum has been getting rather irritated with these ads (You can watch them at their official website here) , and calls them "wu liao", but i guess the concept behind this product is somewhat interesting. According to the managing director of the company, he came up with this concept cos ppl always say they can have "anything" or "whatever" when asked what drinks they want. I think I can somewhat empathise with that. However, I tend to think that most ppl DO NOT really mean it when they say they can have anything/whatever. Like, they have these few drinks in mind, or these few beverages they always drink, but am prob not dying for anything in particular. Anyway, just for the novelty of it, my colleagues and I went to NTUC after lunch to get a few cans of these beverages (It's buy 5 get 1 free now at NTUC!) and I tried a Whatever. I believe I got White grape tea, but thought it tasted kinda bland. The can has very general ingredients (so as to keep under wraps the identity of the drink) but I was just curious... Doesn't like AVA require detailed nutritional info etc to be displayed on the can? Seems somewhat unSingaporean :) In any case, I think such unpredictability is a little too much for me. I do not like buying cans of things whose contents are a mystery... If I'm craving for something, I'll need to tikam (for a long time if I'm unlucky) before I can get the drink I want. Somewhat of a torture if you just want a familiar favourite drink eh.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Flower jargon
Someone from the WWW just came to my website and identified two of my 'flower' pics! That was pretty cool :P To be informed of the scientific names of my plant subjects. Was also told by this Mr/Miss Botanist that the 'orchid-like' flower I snapped in HCM City is actually not an orchid, but a Trumpet Vine. Upon looking at my own flower pic again, I realized the difference. When on my National Orchid Garden tour, our guide told us a simple (and usually accurate) way of identifying an orchid. He said something like orchids usually have this lower 'lip' petal that looks diff from the rest of the petals. Which is true-- my flower pic didn't have that extraordinary 'lip-like' petal. :P
To the Botanist who left those comments on my blog... Thanks for those educational titbits. Haha though I wonder if you were so mortified to see the flowers either unidentified or incorrectly named that you thought you should educate this ignorant girl a bit.. :P Do you work at the Botanical Gardens?
Someone from the WWW just came to my website and identified two of my 'flower' pics! That was pretty cool :P To be informed of the scientific names of my plant subjects. Was also told by this Mr/Miss Botanist that the 'orchid-like' flower I snapped in HCM City is actually not an orchid, but a Trumpet Vine. Upon looking at my own flower pic again, I realized the difference. When on my National Orchid Garden tour, our guide told us a simple (and usually accurate) way of identifying an orchid. He said something like orchids usually have this lower 'lip' petal that looks diff from the rest of the petals. Which is true-- my flower pic didn't have that extraordinary 'lip-like' petal. :P
To the Botanist who left those comments on my blog... Thanks for those educational titbits. Haha though I wonder if you were so mortified to see the flowers either unidentified or incorrectly named that you thought you should educate this ignorant girl a bit.. :P Do you work at the Botanical Gardens?
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