A day at the beach

Pair of sea birds soaring majestically across the ocean
Foaming blue waves crashing so hardly on the shore
Wind dissolves leaving crystals gleaming on the blue surface
And I wonder,
what actually lies beyond the sea..

Salty water sandy beach
Cold breeze caress on the cheeks
On shore little young kids spade and shape
Castle kingdom built and collapse
Smile and laughter pure gentle ecstatic
Classic country songs playing melodiously
Flashing back the good old days dramatically..
A sip of happiness ruby apple, and I hum with the lyrics
Harmony, serenity and vastly
The beauty of God’s creation lies just in front of me
I called it a perfect day at the tranquil beach …

-jasmine | beach- 

Life is like a joke

Dear diary, can you listen, could you speak?

How often does a joker smile from the bottom of his heart?
Does a clown led a happy life when he is unmasked?

I am sad. I am miserable. I am depress. Some people had told me about this at the back. Some passed the messages through their mouth, and some try to tell through their eyes. My heart kept trembling. I can really feel the heart aching for such a long  time like never before. I am afraid I will turn out to be a cold person from the inside but stay as ordinary as normal as I could on the outer surface.  I am afraid I would. But how about the time when i am facing you?and you?  Deeply I breathe. My tears rolling but anyhow I am making sure my tears do not run down from the eye sockets. I kept pondering all these while. It’s not up to me to choose. If only i could choose but i can’t. It’s all fated. Fingers are all in different length. So unfortunately, so unluckily and so disheartening to say, i belong to the shortest one. Tomorrow i will be fine, but the wound will kept uncovered forever inside.

p/s: This is a gloomy, depressing post. Please bear with me, i am still in the midst of sorting out my emotion. I am not having PMS or whatsoever.
I wanted to write and express about this all these while, but i was thinking how to write in such a way that nobody can understand what is the greyish part which kept inside my heart, and nobody can guess what i am trying to express and after all, it will continue like what it may be now.  Moreover, I still have to bear with the circumstances through the rest of my life. The world is never fair. Seriously this is really not a poetry, neither a joke or something funny. This is truly a thing which cause my chest pain when thinking about it.

A little updates

Holiday is around the corner. The coming hols—3 days in a row is really a long awaited one. After so much stress pile up each day at work, for God’s sake there is a little time to unwind. *wink*

Here comes a little update.
It had been a month plus since my brother left for Russia to persist his tertiary education for a duration of 6 years. Still, I remember vividly one month back we busily shop for his belongings, the time we send-off at the airport, countdown for the next return…so on and so forth…What’s more, through the pictures posted in the internet, what he is experiencing now, the life he is leading now is entirely dissimilar from what we’re having here, from the cultures, civilization, places to climate, seasons, and the list goes on. Of course, most of the nights we keep in touch chatting through the msn, seemingly there isn’t any distance or barriers between the two spaces…

It was yesterday night and the conversation went like this:

jasmine says: how much u cut your hair over there?

aqueous js says: I cut myself.

aqueous js says: my hair is easy, I’m using the ‘teeth type’ scissor to cut.

jasmine says: you cut yourself? back part how to cut?

aqueous js says: back part ask my friend to cut.

jasmine says: y like this one…O.O…oh my god!

aqueous js says: after they cut your hair, they sweep it and weight it. Money count by kg…kao…!

aqueous js says: everything here is money. When you buy things and if you need plastic bags you need to pay. No free plastic bags. If you bought lotsa food stuffs, then you pay 1 roubles for small de and 2 roubles for big de…

jasmine says: wakao…~ how many times?

aqueous js says: 1 time…

jasmine says: you cut your friends hair?

aqueous js says: they cut themselves.

jasmine says: O.O|||…well…as long as you don’t cut a hole or accidentally get hurt…

aqueous js says: easy la…u see my pic, does it looks funny? no rite?

aqueous js says: is normal..meaning is ok to cut myself lo…

jasmine says: … … … … … …

At Ikea Store

Ikea is a little shopping paradise. I was at this favourite store on Saturday evening scouting for a TV stand. Well, I just need a moderate TV bench instead of a whole huge TV storage unit, something which is not too high and not too low, something which look simple yet elegant to enhance the living room.

These were some of the screenshots i managed to grab secretly from my handphone. In fact I brought my camera but wouldn’t dare to do so because of the hawk eyes scattering all over. 

So, which one pleased the eyes? Which one to choose from? 

Number fourth looks okay but too low. Number fifth looks just nice, sleeky, modern because of it’s glossy appearance. The height is just alright. The tempered glasses at both side are the two sliding cabinet’s door. The four stands/legs made from aluminium i think. I love white.

What’s more, i think i can have some decorative stuffs such as a round table lamp, just like the picture shown, or a floor lamp, to create some soft ambience in the living room. I believe it will looks good.  :)

Teeth story_TWO

A new day has come. I got my braces installed on 16 Oct 2008 (Thursday). I took one last glance at my teeth in front the mirror before I went to the orthodontic, and told myself everything will be okay.

Everything that will come necessarily will come. The orthodontist introduced me a new invention of the braces with the same price. It’s still consider the conventional braces but with the damon brackets look and most important is the result can be achieve faster, approximately one year.

The orthodontist started to glue the brackets on my teeth. They are like mini metal legos with a gap in between to hold the wire. Every tooth gets a metal lego bracket. The glue was dried with an ultraviolet light. Once all the brackets were installed, the wires were then fit on. The orthodontist locked all the anchors and my braces were done!

The whole process took about two and a half hours. The next second i realized I can’t open my mouth any wider. The feeling of pressure on the teeth was weird, I felt incredibly discomfort and annoyed even until today I still haven’t get used to it. I got a toothbrush specially made for braces, a proxy brush, some wax, and a packet of pain reliever.

My first meal was absolute painful. I had swallow a whole bowl of panmee because I can’t even bite a taugeh or a fishball, the teeth hurt like crazy. I bought lots of ice-cream and yogurts to soothe the soreness. And I can’t bite bread, so I bought my favourite cakes. What a way to lose weight! *giggling*

For the rest of the meals, I took carrots-potatoes-broccoli-corns-salted vegetables porridge to go with szechuan fermented beancurd.

The next tightening will be in two months time – mid december.
No more good food in the weekend. It can be really torturing.
But, sooner everything will worth the pay.

Supermama got a prince

The sky turned dark at 7. It was raining cats and dogs and the wind blew wild and strongly. I was driving so cautiously on the way back home and all of a sudden the handphone rang. Thinking in mind it was Ts who asking me where to have dinner again..

To my surprised, Supermama’s husband brought me a good news in the thunderstorm evening. My dear colleague supermama, had just gave birth to a baby under the caesarean section! They got a Prince! I felt touch at that split second. I truly felt happy for them!

With this new born, they made up to four in their family!

Sweet congrats!

Confectionery treats

See what I’ve got…

BreadTalk® is kinda nice.

These are what I craving for… *grin*
A perfect treats by Aunt Betty’s friend — Ms. Jessy.
Yes, all are from her including J.CO, Kinder Bueno candy bars..

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Why we need to have a good night sleep?
Because we need to function well both mentality and physically in the daytime!

Take a water container and soak your legs all the way to knees for about 20 to 30 minutes before you sleep. At the meantime read something light, don’t read anything stimulating. It keeps you warm and relax…

An excellent treatment for people who suffered from light insomnia, for example me..

Bugs attack my rice!

Time passes really fast. The weekend has come and gone..

Ts was busy painting the fence, from dawn to dusk.
It was 2pm, I saw him painting under the unbearable strong hot sun. 3pm, he was painting under the drizzling rain. I had a peep at 4pm, the sun seems coming out again. 5pm, it was breezy outside. However, he surrendered at 7pm when there was a heavy downpour and suggested that we pay and ask somebody to finish up the job… Hell the weather was playing with him…! *eyeballs rolling*

I was busy cleaning out my kitchen and noticed that there were actually hundreds of tiny little black bugs invaded my rice!

Once I open the container’d lid, these uninvited guests were trying to crawl out. Guess they wanted to grab some fresh air after got trapped in the rice container for centuries!

So I sat down and waited them to crawl out and catched one by one into a plastic bag. after 30 mins… and soon 1 hour… i can’t catch all of them! because there were too many!

This is really gross! I knew that they were harmless..yes right…but there were thousands of eggs, which haven’t hatched and embryos which still hibernating cozily in the “rice-womb”. Hell the rice were not solid anymore. Most of them were unfilled in the inside…Ended up I threw the nearly 10kg of rice away…! But truly, I dare not eat it!

Wasted! Wasted! Wasted! Sinful! Sinful! Sinful!

Throw anything also shouldn’t throw rice!

Hell next time i should buy 1kg instead of 10kg of rice.

 

Teeth story_ONE

Dear diary,

I had a hard time figuring out how to stylize you to make you look warmer yet elegant but to no avail, because of my foolishness not knowing anything about html or java scripting. But please diary bare with my stupidity, i’ll brighten up your days, a little each day!

I always have faith with this orthodontist in PJ area because she did a good job for me when I had my two wisdom teeth surgically extracted a couple of months ago. The price charged was quite high, 1 tooth 500 bucks, 2 teeth 1k gone. Still, I willingly pay for her extensive experience and considered services.

It was before Raya time I went to the orthodontist and had my X-ray taken. This time I want to get my braces installed. Thinking of my hard-earned sweat and blood money, i think i will go for conservative steel brackets which cost 4k and still that’s hell lots money count!

They have damon system, which is transparency white brackets made out of ceramics which cost 5k, they have lingual braces where the brackets are cemented onto the backside of the teeth, making them invisible in front of your friends, which costs up to 10k, or even they have brackets make from real gold and i wonder will they cause pressure and drop the jaw off?!

Well, my front teeth are just so disorganized where I having problem taking photos, smiling and laughing in front my friends and relatives all the times. I can’t help and blame anyone for this catastrophe but me myself of eating candies like nobody business during kids time. Imagine I like to drop a sweet into the mouth before I sleep, and it melts off when I woke up. . . so I was actually eating those sweets in my slumberland right?! O.O…….. Besides, I used to be my own dentist where I loosen the shaking milk teeth with my own hands and end up some of the teeth grown-up disorderly. It’s all childhood nightmares and disgracefully mentioning here…This phenomenon became worst where I like to/used to grind my teeth while I sleep…well…

hohohoo kekeke *wink*

And so, the dentist ask me to bite on some kind of plasticine to get my teeth mould and she need some times for analyzation. Not until today I called her up and she explained briefly to me and glad to hear that it will takes roughly 1 year or 1 year plus which is less than 2 years to get my teeth done/straight.. And sooner, may it be in 1 week time I will get bonded with metal strips and bands all over my mouth.

The truth is, it’s going to hurt!
The truth is, no more chupa chups!

Dear diary,
all I want for 2009 Christmas is my straight front teeth, my straight front teeth, see my straight front teeth!
Gee, if I could only 
have my straight front teeth,
 then I could laugh like nobody businessssss………!

Tucking into freshly-baked cuppies

Baking is kinda fun. It can let your imagination run wild. My favourites cozy pastimes, during the weekend or sleepless night. Sad to say I am still hanging at the entry level, not to mentioned lame green tea mooncakes, eggtarts, choco muffins, cakies and etc… which I made in the past, which I think it’s all lame..

Practice makes perfect. This time, it was Marble Cuppy I named it.
Get ready all the ingredients.
• 250g butter 
• 250g castor sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 250g self-raising flour
• 4 tbsp milk
• 3 tbsp cocoa powder
• paper cups 

Mix butter and sugar, add in the first egg. Beat well after each addition of egg until creamy. Add in vanilla, flour and milk. Mix until well-combined. On the other hand, add 3 tbsp hot water to cocoa and mix into cocoa paste. Stir in irregularly direction.

Pour some cake mixture into paper cups. 

 

Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180℃ for about 45 minutes till golden brown and cooked.

Delicious cocoa smell wafting through the kitchen .. so strong as though i am drowning in a choco-mud-pond.

     

After 45 minutes, it’s ready for serving! Freshly baked cuppies straight from the oven..*clapping* *winks*

For a better taste, add some topping like raisins, almonds, hazel nuts, cashew nuts, blueberries, chocolate chips, smarties ..according to one’s preferences.

Come..let’s eat!