Are you sure??!

I received a card from Ikea today in the post. On the card, there is this statement that reads 'Over 53% of Singaporean men has never or rarely visited a website with adult content.'

AS IF! My big fat foot! Did they include the population of ah pehs and uncles who doesn't own a computer or don't know how to use them?! Hence the 53%. I bet my last dollar that any hot blooded male (straight or otherwise) who owns a pc, laptop or pda, has freaking visited 'a website with adult content' the last time he touched the damn thing.

Super DUHZ!

Flour, sugar and eggs

I finally found something to entertain myself! And no, it doesn't need companionship... It's baking! Okie, actually i already knew how to bake long ago, but i just found the passion for it again recently.

Two things: First, i do not have a proper oven so currently i can only bake in this pathetic little toaster oven. And cos the oven is so small, it tends to burn the crusts even before the insides are cooked. So to lower the temperature of the oven, guess wat i have to do? Manually open and close the oven door! And to control the temperature of the oven? Switch off and on the main power. Pwwweeeeh! I seriously need a proper oven. Anyone wanna buy an oven for me for Christmas? :)

Second, i do not have an electric whisk so i have to beat and whisk the batter by hand. Do u have any freaking idea how tiring that is?? I think i have developed arm muscles....

Back to baking, i made chocolate cupcakes and oats & chocolate chip cookies so far (hey! i started only 2 weeks ago!). Below are some pictures. Doesn't look very nice but they are tasty (they are all gone)!



Chocolate cupcakes



Oats & chocolate chip cookies in progress

Baking in progress



Final product! Oats & chocolate chip cookies. :)

Object of desire - item 5,017

I fell in love

When i first set eyes on ur brillance

Too pretty to hold

Too expensive to buy

Now my heart is sunken

I'm not cheap! I knew that long ago.

Your result for What's Your Price?...

I'm worth $939 million! (18 dealbreakers.)

You're really, really expensive!

If we put you on the market, it looks like you'd be worth $939 million. Of the 42 different scenarioes, you said you couldn't be bought on 18 of them.

For the record, every time you refused to do something for any amount of money, it added another $50 million to your score (hey, I had to assign it SOME sort of dollar value).

So, you're not easily bought. To score in this category, you must have said NO to close to half of the questions. You were probably okay with some of the more innocuous stuff, but where you were being offered money at the risk of permanently affecting yourself or screwing over a friend, it was much harder for you to say yes. It's easy for people to insist that they're not easily swayed by money, but it your case it seems that's actually the truth - and that probably makes you someone people can put a great deal of trust in. You stick to your principles more strongly than most people do, and that's something to be proud of!

Feel superior. Next to you, most people look sort of cheap.

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I am Plato or maybe Aristotle?

Your result for The Find Your Philosophical Era! Test...

The Ancient

38% Ancient, 6% Medieval, 19% Modern and 38% Post-Modern!

Congratulations! You are: an Ancient!

Ancient philosophers share an unabashed elitism. Although the Greeks are considered to have invented democracy, they would have laughed to scorn many of our 21st-century democratic ideas. Ancient moral philosophy is slightly more hedonistic than anything that followed it; the Ancients had strict ideas about right and wrong, but the obsessive pursuit of perfection, the compulsive need to do one’s duty no matter the cost, belong to later eras. Being good was neatly tied up in the Ancient mind with being happy.

Rather than criticizing the work of their predecessors, Ancient philosophers found themselves alone in a bold new world. Their first attempts at studying the world are still some of the best. This is the era of Herodotus, the father of history, Euclid, the father of mathematics, and Plotinus, the father of meaningless metaphysical bullshit.

Some typical ancient philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus, Herodotus, Euclid

Some ancient artists: Homer, Virgil, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Pindar, Sappho, Praxiteles

Typical ancient art forms: epic poetry, lyric poetry, farce, satire, sculpture, dialogue

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Buffet Buffet

I was watching Mediacorp's Channel 8 programe Buffet Buffet (it's a show about where to get the best buffet deals, duhz) in the evening. And i saw this, Shangri-La's The Rose Veranda's dessert buffet! What caught my attention wasn't really the desserts (Okie, okie, it was. Who am i kidding? The desserts look fabulious! :P), but the variety of tea they serve there. An amazing 102 blends of tea! Cool! I love tea (and coffee for that matter, and alcohol and...). If i didn't remember wrongly, the buffet costs $28++ inclusive of the free flow of tea! I wanna gooooooo.... Date anyone?

The only down side to this is Shangri-La is not exactly very convenient to get to and the buffet is only available on weekday afternoons. So u either have to apply leave or get an MC! Haha!