After months and months of waiting, another buddy of mine has delivered! Baby Kaira arrived on thursday (19/07/07) evening. She's truly a bundle of joy... I think she is going to be one man-killer when she grows up!! Looks like mummy steffy... has loads of hair, big eyes, double eyelids, long lashes... and top it off with dimples!!! Goodness gracious!!  The mummy looks radiant and all when we visit.. that is one happy mummy!

 

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Came across a pet shop over the weekend and saw a professional rock climber doing his thing... was really rather funnie!

 

Walked out of my room last nite to see a dough on top of 2 toothpicks walk out of the toilet (aka my godbro in his skinny stretch jeans)... WHAT IS WITH THE YOUNGSTERS DESE DAYS?!

 

Honestly, i understand that these are things you call fashion and the whole the-bagged-jeans-belted-across-the-genitals-with-a-handspan-of-boxers-showing-on-top-and-your-crotchline-suspended-somewhere-in-the-region-of-your-knees look was quite the "in" thing previously... but the whole drop crotch skin tight stretch jeans thing... the pegging of the junction of seams that forms the crotch on stretch fabric pants, somewhere in the mid to upper-thigh range... is just as bad if not worse!

 

ESPECIALLY with men.  

 

I can accept skinny jeans on girls.... that is if they are skinny enuff to carry it off rather than force their brobdingnagian arse/thigh into it. People like me... shd not EVER try skinny jeans. It's just absurd, comical, derisive, derisory, farcical, laughable, ludicrous, preposterous, and downright ridiculous to see an elephant wear tight jeans.

 

When things happened and you know it could have been avoided... or at the very minimum, minimize the effects... who is to blame? Is it Ignorance, Arrogance or just plain Negligence? I seriously do not know...

 

Wondering wat i am blabbering about? Oh well.... My godson's head is abit flat on one side which developed in the first few months. So, to a certain degree, he sometimes look like a rugby ball.. hahaha. But pple all say is ok cos when young, the head shape even if abit crooked... it will move back into shape as they grow up. But now, his odd head shape is causing some prob... His face is now imbal...left side is smaller than the right side. then at times his left eye seems smaller than his right eye...so, based on some recommendation, annette brought him to seek osteopathy consultation. Doc said his learning abilities may be affected due to his eyesight which in turn is affected by his skull.

 

 

 

Asked my cousin if she wanted to go for pedicure and i've gotten the strangest and most drastic answer anyone  can get....

 

Ewey: Eh, wanna go for pedicure?

Cousin: dun want unless i remarry

Ewey: ..............................................

Ewey: LoL... need to be so drastic anot?

Ewey: Anyways, what has pedicure gotta do with remarrying!??!?!?!?!?!?!

 

Anyways, as it goes... it was simply becos she felt that she need to do housework (which i den pointed out if she uses her feet to do housework cos I'm asking her to go for pedicure and not manicure!) and she said, wear covered shoes.. no way to show off!

 

I tot my immediate family was mad. This cousin of mine is not any better... what has all the above reasons gotta do with remarrying!?!??!

 

On a bright and sunny day, couple of frens and I went off for lunch at Junction 8's subway... and a conversation about grammer came up after one of them (the most clueless one actually) asked what's the difference between LIVE and LIVE. (Namely, LIVE Earth and LIVE the Dream) cos she was getting a tad confused abt the meaning of both. So there we were explaining abt different meanings even thou it was spelt the same way and then the conversation moved on to grammar, past and present tense. At this point you must think that it's really rather boring... of all things!! GRAMMAR LESSON?! But noooo............ nothing is really truly boring esp when i am ard!  Anyways, as the story goes... i decided to tease the clueless one abit and asked her if she knew wat is the past tense of LIFE?

(Background of farney friends: RL is the a  tad clueless one, SM is a baby maize field and LL is the mega sized corn field)

 

Here's abit of a really *sweat* conversation....

RL: Huh? Past tense of LIFE? Got meh?

EW: Got la... it is.... D.E.A.T.H!

SM: eh... thatz future tense la! Not past tense!

EW: Oh yeah... correct correct. After LIFE is future tense...

RL: Erm, den wat is the past tense of LIFE?

LL: I got something corny...can say? (at which she actually kinda giggled at her own cleverness... )

And at this point, i got distracted (apparently i'm not mad enuff to thk of such things....)

SM: I know i know.... *burst out laughing*

RL: Wat is it????

LL: EW you tell RL la....

EW: I dunno leh...

LL: Aiyoh! The past tense of LIFE is SEX loh!

 

*EW faints*

 

Of cos what follows was another bout of discussion abt how true it is despite it being so annoying!

 

So i was saying... I am trying to quit.

 

Instead of suffering the miserable effects of going cold turkey (i dun believe in cutting down.. Can cut down means can increase back up. The case of "1 more today is ok!" always happens and the end result is always the same. Back to square 1), i decided to try something out....

 

Nicotine Patches. Went of to a pharmacy to buy them last weekend... twin pack (eack pack has 7 pieces and last 7 days) for $54. Almost equal to the amount i spend 1.5 weeks on cigs considering 1 pack last me abt 1.5 to 2 days.

 

How it works: The Nicorette 16-hour Patch was developed as a simple and discreet method of delivering a controlled dose of nicotine as part of a self-help treatment known as nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). When applied to the skin, it replaces some of the nicotine provided by cigarettes.The nicotine in the Patch is slowly released and absorbed through the skin.

 

 

How i feel so far: I've used it for 3 days and i'd say it's actually pretty effective so far.

 

1) I dun feel the usual withdrawal symptoms (yawning, tearing, runny nose, loss of concentration, irritation and mood swings) like i did so many yrs ago when i simply went cold turkey in an attempt to quit.

 

2) Thou it removes the symptoms, it does not really remove the cravings completely. As in, the habit of wanting a puff... morning, after meals, during coffee breaks etc. In general, I will feel restless but it's not difficult to overcome becos i dun feel the effects as mentioned in point 1.

 

In general, I'd say it's a pretty good way to get started on the quitting. But i think determination is still very important....

 

Check out http://www.nicorette.com.au/default.cfm for more on this...

 

Yeah... itz the Q word. Almost seem like a vulgarity to us... smokers that is.

In fact, how many smokers out there have given up... quitting? It's always a dilemna isn't it? What will be our choice?

 

1) Tell people you are quitting so that you can tell yourself that you cannot run away from the decision... but suffer the "pls loh, you quit quitting issit?"

 

2) Dun tell people you are quitting...but end up not quitting cos "No harm to no one cos no one knows, and I simply cant quit"

 

I am proud to choose option 1 this time round. For the 3rd time in my life, i am attempting to quit.  1st attempt 10 yrs ago was for religious reason. 2nd attempt was due to peer pressure (my frens din wan me to smoke). And now, my 3rd attempt. For health reasons. Not that I'm afraid of dying or watever... seriously, the scare tactics on the cigarette boxes and tv ads and bus shelter ads... heck them. To smokers, we know the dangers... we just generally cannot be bothered. It's not that we are smoking in ignorance. But more like "It wun happen to me."

 

Anyways, back to the health reasons part.... since young, I don't have particularly strong robust lungs. I get coughs as easily as i get mossie bites. As i grow older (yes, i am ageing!), i realise that my cough problems almost never go away. A cough develops into bronchitis before i can say 'Olaaaaaaaaaa!". Every medical cert i get states "URTI" aka upper respiratory track infection. And that infection never seem to completely go away. In fact, the frequency of the attacks are getting closer and closer. I tot, sure is high time to try do something about it.

 

I am trying and I really cannot guarantee I will never pick it up again. It's only day 3.... Quitting is hard.

 

It is once again the month of june... where 2 of my family members (out of 5) celebrate their hatch day.

I had my mummy to myself till i was 6.... for 6 yrs, all to myself. Ever since then, there was not a year i din have some other extra sibling sharing my mum's special day together. But in 2007, i dragged my mum away... out of the country for her birthday! Muahaha..  but sigh, i realise... it's never the same without the rest of the extras! Hahaha... so there, we came back and went out for dinner with the rest of my family. Bro's birthday was 29th and mum's was on 25th. Lucky dude.. my bro... for the first time, we celebrate on nearer to his day den to my mum's.

 

I love my family. I do.