<-- Taken during a trip to Paris, family vacation. The previous day i asked my French Manager(FRANCK) to coach me French language. Haha. What audacity i have! But i treat him as a friend so i don't care. He's the manager of 3 restaurants in Pan Pacific Hotel. I wanna learn French language is partly because if in the future i have the capabilities i would like to call Paris my 2nd home. The old colonial buildings just call out to you to leave the buzz of modern highly technological-fied society and befriends with the romantic yet full of inspirations country.Alright after calling FRANKIE about the guest's reservation and telling him what happened, i feel more at ease cause he said it's a small case and he'll call him up and reconfirm everything. PHEW! At last i wouldn't feel that tensed and worried anymore.2 NEW MOVIES THAT'RE A MUST WATCH!- Step Up 2(more of a in-your-face commercialised, as discribed by MEL) TRAILER
- August Rush(an ophan in search of his parents through various encounters with people & touching them with his gift of music, a modern Mozart) TRAILER
Suppose to watch these 2 movies today but since August Rush's timeslot and location of the cinema sucked horrendously, MEL(WEN MIN) & I decided to postpone it. And ALEX's(colleague) prepaid 'emptied', i think since i can't contact him at all, so i can't tell him where to meet & stuff. Was so fed up. Never mind...
So MEL and i decided just to meet up, as promised, at Changi Airport T3. I don't know what's so great about Popeye's but what you see on the photo SERIOUSLY ISN'T what you gonna get. They're bloody cheaters, of your money and feelings. Just think carefully, is Popeye's worth it? But still had that for dinner since MEL wanna try. And the counter person who served us literally looked like this tech whiz from the movie, The Italian Job.
We chatted alot almost everything & anything under the sun. From metrosexuality/homosexuality - tabloids, tampons - really explicit stuff, personal life - work life, and etc. And i have just found out in Dictionary.com, they describe metrosexual, or should i say LINK, to being similar to homosexual males. "Errr... Hmmm..." Not that i don't know what's the meaning of metrosexual but i didn't know it's being linked with homosexual males. Alright then if that's the case...
MEL and i basically have no restricted topics and she's quite open, and that's what i like about hanging out with her. We're frank with each other & etc. A great person to always hang out with.
P.S Ehh MEL, if you're reading this you ought to be TOUCHED OK!
She left at 8/9+ to send off a friend and we finally meet up at like 11+. Wow... this is how she treat me after my last outing with her 3 months ago. But never mind, i get to explore the newly opened T3 abit(but spent more time stoning) and found out that there're alot of JC students going overseas. Exchange programes? Then saw a dad saying prayers to his daughter, with mum, dad, daughter in a circle head facing down. GOD BLESS YOU ALL! Passed by a group of Japanese students and their cheeks are like super rosy. Haha. Became a 'freelance' photographer when this japanese ma cik(aunty in malay) asked me to take a photo of her with 2 other people(relatives/friends).
Bade MEL goodbye with a goodbye kiss(haha, as if) then i made way to my bus Berth at Bedok Interchange, and that's when i saw LU CHUAN. Catch up abit then he suddenly tell him he's not yet 18, then he looked at his watch(12am on the dot) and say that he's finally 18. I HAD A SHOCK! I WAS LIKE, HUH? YOU SURE ANOT? He even let me see his IC and no kidding... 20th March 1990. I couldn't believe my eyes. It was so sudden and random... Haha. Anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY LU LU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
YOU'RE BORN IN THE ZOO
WITH THE MONKEYS & ELEPHANTS
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
Since your name is LU
I've decided to dedicate this to you!
Since you're 18, no longer a playful youth
It's time you grow up & create a success that huge!
And he even told me that he's one step closer to death. -_-" Can i just slap your face? It's your birthday and you say this kinda thing. CHOY! But then... Life is very unpredictable. Who knows what will happen the next day. Who knows i might 'fly' to heaven earlier than you?
Life is scary, full of spontanous surprises, awaiting for you to chua tio and see how you apprehend & react to circumstances/situations.
Labels: August Rush, french, Happy Birthday, metrosexual, Popeye's, Step Up 2, unpredictable
YESH! TOMATOES! IT'S GOOD FOR REDUCING SUNBURNS, well i mean eating/munching tomatoes frequently and your sunburns wouldn't be that severe. It's shown on SAT(approx. 1pm?) "Documentary of the Week - Truth about Food", aired on Channel News Asia. And if you want to know more about what food can bring tremendous benefits to your body, this is THE documentary to watch!
I didn't know that tomatoes had such effect on your body until i watched it. Tomatoes actually tackle the free radicals(seem to be bad) that attacks our genetic information & etc in our body and tomatoes can be used to fend them off thus for some proven scientific reasons, it's able to tackle the UV rays and reduce the severity of sunburns. I thought tomatoes had only healing effects, like having good complexions? Since i'm more prone to sunburns when i'm 'over-cooked', my menu consists of TOMATOES now. To be precise, my supper(after work - 11pm, i can get real hungry) will be cherry tomatoes and only that. Cherry tomatoes can be used for snacks too. So if you people want to have a good & healthy supper/snack, give cherry tomatoes a pop.
Next up it's Spinach. Haven't you always been watching Popeye popping the spinach into his mouth and getting all strong? Well, they didn't associate spinach with STRENGTH though, BUT with improving memory. Yes, spinach can improve your memory, but insignificant enough to be considered scientifically proven. So for lao ren(elderly) like me who suffers from short term memory or even early dementia, you might want to try spinach. HOWEVER spinach would not be in my menu cause spinach is not my kind of greens. Perhaps someday?Finally, it's all about red wine. It has been proven that red wine does help reducing your chances of getting cardiovascular disease(heart disease). Red wine has been compared alongside with Vodka & Grape wine. And of course red wine has a more significant result. Don't be amazed that Vodka does help too. French people drink ALOT of red wine at the same time consume alot of meat however it's proven that they have a lesser risk of getting heart disease. So consider taking red wine in moderation, like once per day/meal? "Waiteress, give me a glass of Saltram Maker's Cabernet Sauvignon please."
Next SAT it would be "Truth about Food - Aphrodisiac" Ooooo... It's getting all HOT in here...
Speaking about French people... Does a man even give the other man a kiss on the cheek as a form of greeting? Cause the other day at BRUNCH when i'm standing host i saw this male pilot(i suppose from his uniform) doing that greeting to another male guest. So i was like, EYES BIG BIG with QUESTIONMARKS POPPING ON MY HEAD. Well this is what we call, culture shock! I'm guessing the pilot is from AirFrance since he said "Merci", which means Thank You in French. Hmmm... now i know why France is a romance country.
And yesterday(SUN) i don't know why my this FRENCH Manager, with the name of FRANCK DELEN, has been super good to us. Buying Macdonalds for the whole staff. I think he personally dropped by Marina Square's Macdonald. I was shocked when he asked me what i want from Macs, of course with his strong french accent i managed to figure out what he's trying to say. He's a good guy, seemed to me but my assistant managers think otherwise. FRI when i was standing as host, he even came up with his skateboard and said hi to me and asked me how BRUNCH is copping and whether was there a lack of manpower, cause that day was super duper full house. And of course he's in his causals, not in his suit. He's VERY TALL but quite skinny. When i talk to him, i need to tilt my head. Same goes to my colleagues and assistant managers too. Haha!
What the most heart-warming incident happened on that day was, there's this family with 2 kids and when they exited the entrance(of BRUNCH) where i was standing host at, i said "Bye Bye" & waved to them then this kid said "God Bless You!" and without hesistant i said the same to the kid too! I just felt very delighted and my heart really felt very good when he said it to me and i returned it back to him. It's just feels that you will go "Awww..." at the sight of it... Haha, i'm thinking too much. But it's really something different when an adult said it to you as compared to a kid. The parents even smiled at me upon the kid saying that. It goes to show how well has the kid been brought up.
And today i saw this blog post, http://sometimesifart.blogspot.com/2008/01/my-last-post-as-nsf.html , from KIM's personal message. I clicked it. My heart went all out for him. When you read this post, you'd understand why. Now i'm having the jitters about NS...
Just now i had a chat with my MEL(WEN MIN), and this is the starting of the conversation...
ME: "Oh? you're losing your voice?"
ME: "HOW COOL IS THAT?!(being sarcastic)"
ME: "You're getting all husky voice and pubes growing thicker..."
ME: "Haha!"
HER: "Huh? what is pubes?"
(after awhile)HER: "WHAT NONSENSE!"
HER: "YOU'RE CRAPPY."
ME: " Isn't it great to have a crappy and nonsensical friend? Haha"
...(privacy)
what a sick mind & gross mind i have... Haha!
Labels: culture shock, french, heart-warming, red wine, spinach, tomatoes, Truth about Food
<-- Taken during a trip to Paris, family vacation. The previous day i asked my French Manager(FRANCK) to coach me French language. Haha. What audacity i have! But i treat him as a friend so i don't care. He's the manager of 3 restaurants in Pan Pacific Hotel. I wanna learn French language is partly because if in the future i have the capabilities i would like to call Paris my 2nd home. The old colonial buildings just call out to you to leave the buzz of modern highly technological-fied society and befriends with the romantic yet full of inspirations country.
