Where Are You Christmas?

I love watching Christmas movies and cartoons. I miss this song so much after our old pc crashed with my beloved trove of songs. It's by Faith Hill and from the movie 'The Grinch'. Thanks Spooky for playing it on your blog. No wonder we are sisters.  :)

"Where Are You Christmas"

Where are you Christmas
Why can't I find you
Why have you gone away
Where is the laughter
You used to bring me
Why can't I hear music play

My world is changing
I'm rearranging
Does that mean Christmas changes too

Where are you Christmas
Do you remember
The one you used to know
I'm not the same one
See what the time's done
Is that why you have let me go

Christmas is here
Everywhere, oh
Christmas is here
If you care, oh

If there is love in your heart and your mind
You will feel like Christmas all the time

I feel you Christmas
I know I've found you
You never fade away
The joy of Christmas
Stays here inside us
Fills each and every heart with love

Where are you Christmas
Fill your heart with love

What We Can Do

Restrictions. Boundaries. Shut up and no questions.

We're bred in a society that tells us what not to do, rather than what we can do.

The rationale behind could be the niggling fear within the higher ones that with inquiring minds and adventurous explorations, there will be questions abound. Coming out with an answer requires much work, so why bother encouraging questions in the 1st place?

While certainty can put minds at ease, it's not healthy for the growth and development of the nation. We need to get those brain juices flowing. So what if we plummet into an immeasurable situation? A situation which one is unable to derive a solution still with all the tools and knowledge at hand?

The answer? We need to create something out of nothing. We need assumptions, presumptions, experiments, hypothesis till we can prove a theory. A new theory.

What's the worst scenario if an upper one can't provide an answer to its people? I can't think of any. Unless one wants to take those useless pride into account, the selfish want of avoiding red-faced scenarios, which is pure bullshit. C'me on, we're all humans. It's better to share the puzzle with the people, get plenty more questions and have one of em stumbling upon a great discovery. Rather than shying away & be the king in your own land and a pauper in the eyes of the world, stop imposing your opinions on others and allow the people to grow and expand their horizons.

It's not necessary to provide an answer to each question. Encouraging the process of thinking itself is a great step forward.

So now tell us what we can do. And let us get cracking.


** I am one of those who say, "No, we can't do this. We can't do it that way..." and all the blah upon reflex, normally out of die-hard habits. This post is written upon reflections that I'm guilty of imposing self-barricading restrictions or what Buu will say, limiting beliefs. :)

If it sounds all too grim, pls forgive me. I'm just writing to remind myself or if there are actually any other ppl reading this blog that next time round that what we could do is go, "Hey, we should experiment this way and see if it works" or "Hey, that new road over there might just lead me out of this iffy place".

It takes practise to shake off the mentality of wanting to be certain of the way we solve a prob, and not willing to take the risk and plunge into infiniteness. I've started, and want to be reminded, just like this. :)

Erm, if this post does sound cryptic.. pls do let me know. I'll need to fine tune my style of writing in that case. I did not encrypt any hidden meanings, honestly. Just a generalisation of our everyday life. Till the next post, cheerio~

Christmas wish

My wish for Christmas is

... for him to stand up on his feet again.

Camp's here, bye bye Buu

I'm going to Port Dickson tomorrow!!! Sun, sea, beach.... here I don't come!!! hahaha...

Holiday season is so not for me. I'm attending to duty calls again. 1 day in PD and 1 day in Seremban. And then I come back KL jadi widow. Yes yes.. camps starting. I can hear ye kukubirds yelling. Take care of my hubs for me, okay? Lucky kkbs, get to have Penang food. I so envy.

Aitelliu... the kids can really really cry very loooong. I sit outside also can hear, meaning should be quite loud also. Although I've been together with Buu since he joined the company, I haven't really seen the camps in action. Tonight my first lor. And they tell me the teens can do it too. And with a lot of cendol. Waah. So rugi, knot see.

On a totally non-related note, I realised that I don't like myself recently. Feel that I'm behaving like a grouch. My evil alter ego, that bad soya, is taking over me... and I don't like it. Haih.. mood fluctuates like siao onii.

The saving grace for today is when Buu & I decided to have a piece of char siew for a son and was gently reminded that we also have a piece of siew yuk as a daughter. hahaha. Sorry, TJ and Ailin. Mummy loves you both. Daddy loves you both too. That made me so much more cheerful. See, the wonder porcine does. Praise pork!

And I have a confession to make. I pigged out on Roti Babi again yesterday at Yut Kee. The price is so damnfarkin expensive, I noes. But yours truly here is oh-so-degil laa. Too irresistable sia, but I satisfied my pork pangs. Hee hee hee. *rubs tum tum* Colleague Linda ordered the fried mee hoon which was not bad. Wet with lots of "liew"= ingredients like fishcake, vege, prawns and rubbery sotong (a bit overcooked). I shall go back for the belacan fried rice next time round. :)

By the way, I might feature my new maid back at hometown in the next post. So stay tuned. Nighty nite, peepz!

Rice ball bento

Remember I mentioned before that I'd made some onigiri and inarizushi? Here're the pictures. As you can see, the rice is glistening a tad too unnaturally. My bad. I overestimated the water level and the rice turned out too wet and squishy. I was kinda horrified & had actually thought of throwing the whole pot of rice away. Disappointment aside, I still managed to keep my sanity in check and decided better against committing the unforgiveable sin of wasting food. Pheww..

Twas also the first time I experimented or rather medddled with the furikake family! Hehe. I added the wakana and okaka furikake to different rice balls. They really upped the flavour of the rice balls. The wakana rice balls were nothing to shout about, compared to the okaka ones. I also dabbed sakura denbu to add some colours and features to the rice balls. Nice kah?

Top tier: Rice balls molded into various cutesy shapes: teddy, star & heart.

Bottom tier: Failed octopus sausage, inarizushi and a nori-covered onigiri.

By the way, surprise.. surprise... my fave of the day was actually the nori-covered rice ball with plain rice and plain inarizushi. The latter is not featured here. This is actually Buu's bento. I did not take pictures of mine coz they were eaten during the time my car broke down. The hot dog was a failure as a result of my inferior cutting skills. But that will not deter me from experimenting more in future. wahahaha.

Half-eaten teddy. Guess who bit him??

The driver la. Kejam sia. (=.=)''

Rice topped with: Okaka furikake (left), sakura denbu (mid) & wakana furikake (right)

My bento on I-forgot-which-day.

Nice no more

Enough al-rea-dy, no more Miss Nicety. If you think I'm gonna be an effing doormat that you enjoy wiping your stilettoes on, may piss be with you and rot in purgatory (R.I.P.). I do not appreciate being taken for granted. I can be nasty when I want, but somehow I chose not to.

Wheew. I'm slightly appeased with that shoutout.

It's infuriating when you treat people nicely, and they treat you back like an imbecile. I have all the patience in the world but that doesn't mean I'll put up with someone else's sheit, until & unless I feel the person deserves a larger capacity of my patience.

I refuse to let that snot spoil my day, so... *takes deep breath*

... here's a post of my lunch for the past 2 days. Does it look miserable? Definitely 'karrrer-ful' la, i noes.

Oats with wakana furikake, sakura denbu and nori

Anyways, I never knew oats could be yum being savoury. Furikake is so multipurpose *hearts*. Honestly, the wakana furikake tasted way better here than in the onigiri. I much prefer the okaka furikake which I used on the first day coz I'm really partial to katsuo-bushi. Added Korean roasted nori in the oats too for erh.. fiber! That pink stuff in the middle is sakura denbu, sweet stuff. Need to find a chance to use the sake and shiso furikake soon! Can't wait. *glee*

Deadline

What is the point of setting a deadline when you ask for it everyday? Don't call it deadline, call it "lifeline" coz you make it sound as if your whole life depends on it. So what if I sound like a jerk? I do not feel like being kind to anyone here right now.