Can I Play Like Him?

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During times when I need to listen to soothing music without the voice, I turn to instumental tunes especially played with acoustic guitar. It's simply light to the ears and peaceful to the mind. It's also important that it's played well without abrupt pause here and there which beginners like me normally do due to mistakes and losing track of where we are in the piece. *LoL*

Thus listening and enjoying others at play is simply a welcome. I really envy this guy. He has got lotsa techniques resulting in the wonderful acoustic effect. It's really not easy to play fingerpicking style what not with such polished skills.

Needless to say more, hope you like it as much as I do!

Heavenly Food

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SUNDAY, 27 APR 2008

11.30 am : Stomach growling. Went hunting for food.

3.30 pm : Returned home. Yum, whacking time!



First and foremost, started off with the appetizer...Chukanan Mangoes!


Look, I purposely kept some flesh for you. Look, how juicy it is!

Next, milk + egg loaf. Not as soft as expected but still within minutes, I'd taken a few pieces. Tasted slightly sweet with subtle egg taste. Didn't taste any milk.

Vitamin and carbo aside, here comes the protein. Pistachios! Plant source protein minus the cholesterol, saturated fat and additional cooking oil. So healthy, you think so too?

Oh ya, nearly forgotten my favourite beverage. As you can see, I just bought a Riva Coffee, apparently a product of Brazil. Giving this brand my first try. Tasted immediately. In my opinion, the taste is similar to Nescafe Classic. However, this 100g costs about the price of 200g Nescafe refill pack. Wanna know how I make my coffee? Simple. 1 tsp coffee powder + 1.5 tsp creamer = bitter, not tasty but low cal. Once a while, I'll make it the easy way with Aik Cheong Premix White Coffee or sorts.

If you think I'm trying to save money. Not really. Here's my bills for this trip alone.

But why do I have such eating habits?

1. I like to think that I eat what I want, minus extra oil or any other stuffs I don't fancy but adds to my calorie intake in a conventional meal. (errmm.. ignore the chips)

2. I can eat by myself anytime & anywhere at my liking.

3. I can take half and leave half for my next hunger pang.

4. I don't have to go to crowded and stuffy coffeeshops for food.

5. I can choose to buy whichever brands under promotional prices.

6. Last but most importantly, I feel more satisfied (contented, not full) than after a meal outside.

Big Loss

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I felt so thirsty but plain water was as usual not in mind. I reached for the fridge looking for chilled refreshing oranges. Sad.. nowhere to be found. Neither were presliced pineapples or mangoes. Any guavas to nibble? None. Any pickled 'kedondong'? Neh, too bad. Mom hadn't reloaded any.

Then, I stumbled upon this...a big juicy pomelo. "What a lucky day!" I thought. Yum, it's one of my all time favourite fruits. I'd gulp the whole thing up, no joke.

"Now, where's the knife? I shall slaughter this baby and bury my face in it."

If you've ever seen or removed the skin before, you'd know the civil way of doing it. But most times, i cut it into quarters just like oranges before removing the skin. Of course, some part of the flesh would be exposed. Seeing this, I'd tear it off and put it straight into my mouth. Fast and easy way to the purpose, huh?

"OK, knife..here I come with my precious."

"Euwww... why so slimy....something is wriggling on my finger."

" Euww.."

Puppp!! I dropped precious with a loud thud. Took a close scrutiny and ....

Sob... there went my refreshment. I was defeated by tiny creatures. How depressing... What to do, in the end just had to drink plain water.

Blog and Make Extra $

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I may be considered new to the blogging world. You may simply judge from the amount of posts in this blog. Before this, I blogged on and off in my Friendster. That's more of the boring happenings in my life.

Eventually, I began to realize blogging can be anything besides a online diary. You may blog about your interests, yummy foods, celebs, your dissatisfaction...you rant and vent all your anger in your blog, you sell things, you narrate all about your travel experiences, etc. It's a site you call your exclusive own where you work on it from time to time. You welcome visitors, readers whom you don't first know and they like your blog, they think the two of you have the same wavelength. Exactly where I'm heading.... I don't wanna blog anything or everything in general. I'm going specifically into my interests bearing in mind that someone out there may stumble upon, share and enlightment me on our interests and WE CLICK!

I've been reading a food blog constantly for a while and the author is a homemaker. One of her posts says that blogging does not require one to have perfect writing skill. She's claim to work on hers wih just basic writing and photograpy skill. That struck me with "I can do that!" However, I'm not a great cook like her. "What should I write about then?" I thought for a long time before I realize I can share things I know well. Things I see it my way which usually does not concur with people around me.

What's more? One can generate income with their blogs! How great is that! I only see how it works after reading up and seeing proof of success. True enough, you earn without any initial fees required. You don't need to go for any trainings or sort or slave for anyone the conventional way. What you've gotta do is just write, garner traffic to your site and put up ads at your blog.

Once your blog passes a minimum limit of posts, you are welcomed to register your blog with PayPerPost(PPP). Once your blog is approved, you're open to many blog ads opportunities. Meaning, once you accept the offer, you are to write your post about the service/product as per the guidelines. Eventually, your pay as offered will go into your PayPal account.

This is my first offer and hence, I'm looking forward to my first payment. Can't wait. Hear from me in my coming posts!

Officially Unfit

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Missed dance class yesterday, mood was lousy cause thumb was lousy. Woke up at 7 instead of 6am this morning to drop in to a clinic. Too bad, I haven't got a camera to capture the look of my thumb now. Silly me shut the door on my thumb last Friday. I was thinking of foregoing medical consultation and let it heal by itself. Apparently it doesn't seem that way. The bruise has eventually spread from the bottom to the entire nail bed over the days. Though the throbbing pain has gone, the swell still remains so much so that I can't bend/wriggle it.

Currently, I write like I never held a pen before. Starting the ignition of the car requires me to use my left thumb instead.

From the clinic, I was referred to a hospital for further checkup. Didn't know it's that serious."They might need to drain off the blood clot from your nail bed to reduce the swelling", I was told. Ok, that sounds pretty scarry knowing that my thumb will be anaesthetized and probably the nail removed in order to do that.

To cut the whole story short, I went to TDMC. Did an x-ray which confirms my initial thought that it was unnecessary, got my medicines and paid. Luckily I've foreseen the high charge considering it's a private hospital. Knowing my RM50++ wouldn't suffice, I withdrew another RM200. Sure enough, according to the receipt, RM98.20 for consultation, disposable(huh?), medicine, x-ray and admin fee. Some anti-swelling+painkiller alone already cost RM48.40. Definitely gotta claim them back. LoL.

For a temporary disfunctional right thumb, I was granted a 3 day's MC. Yay..but no yay thinking I'm gonna rot at home with no swim, no squash, no tennis, no reason to speak, no tv. Well, I'll laze on bed and go online 24/3. This blog needs my attention besides my Vietnamese endeavours. Sigh, I've got a tennis game this Sat.