creative inventions

hello y'all!

back in rainy singapore late last night. krabi's been amazing. i miss the clear turquoise water and the flour-like sand already. like, who wouldn't? it was rather a short-lived experience though. and we ran into many financial crises. it was a fortunate thing we managed to scrape through the 5 days with very lil resources. taught me a dear lesson of never leaving for a travel trip with insufficient money!

anyway, i came across an interesting read when i was checking my mails.

EGG HOLDER

Realy cute egg holder. Just don't forget yourself and take one of these spoons.

CUP & COOKIES

Smart cup in which you can put 2-3 of your favourite cookies. You don't need extra plates. It's made for right handed and left handed.

ANIMAL CORN HOLDER

Like corn? But it's eatable only when it's hot. Get a little help holding on to your corn with these cute Animal Corn Holders. Choose from Pig, Dog, and Cow.


BANANA GUARD - Protect Your Banana!

Are you fed up with bringing bananas to work or school only to find them bruised and squashed? Banana Guard allows you to safely transport and storage individual bananas letting you enjoy perfect bananas anytime, anywhere.



LOCK-CUP

Lock Cup - Anti-Theft Coffee Cup. Are you tired of others stealing your coffee cup? Well now there’s a solution. The Lock - Cup has a hole which prevents most people from using it. Only the owner of the cup can use his/hers shaped key to close the hole.


PENGUIN TEA TIMER

Making tea, though easy to do, is also time consuming. Once you pour the hot water into the cup, you must patiently hover over it, waiting for the tea to steep. Well, the Penguin Tea Timer happily does the waiting for you.
Place your tea cup under the beak and set it to the desired time. As you turn the timer dial, the beak lowers the tea into the hot water. When time is up, a bell sounds and the penguin automatically lifts his beak, removing the tea bag from the water.

TRANSPARENT TOASTER

You love toast, but you always burn it? Than, this invention us for you.
This transparent toaster allows you to see the bread while it is toasting so you just have to take it out when the colour is right. This idea is based on a transparent heating glass technology.


BUTTER CUTTER

One Click Butter Cutter controls your portion as an important part of staying healthy. This ingenious butter cutter delivers one standard pat with each click of the handle.

GIANT REMOTE

Never lose your remote again!
With giant buttons, this extra-large remote is easy to use and impossible to lose. It’s a 6-in-1 remote so you can use it to control your TV, VCR, DVD player, satellite, cable and auxiliary A/V device. It even features glow-in-the-dark buttons, so you can easily find the remote in the dark.

DAYCLOCK

What day is today? You don't know? Then you need a DayClock. It’s uniquely designed to keep track of weekly events like your golf day, card night, movie night, and so much more. It’s ideal for vacations and cruises when it’s easy to lose track of the day.

CRIME SCENE TOWEL

Chalk outline crime scene beach towel - be the coolest person on the beach!

LASER SCISSORS

Laser ScissorsCutting a straight line has never been easier. Just aim the pin-point laser and follow the line. The scissor blades are stainless steel and cut very clean with a micro serrated edge.


TOILET SEAT LIFTER

‘Who left the Toilet Seat up?’ The PeaceMaker will end the battle of the toilet seat. Merely step on the pedal to activate the lifting mechanism. When finished, remove your foot from the pedal and the seat gently comes to a rest where it started.


ILUMINATING CAR SLIPPERS

Do you get up at night to drink water, go to the toilet...Do you wish you could see in the dark? Remarkably bright LED lights are triggered by your footsteps and light up the floor 30 feet in front of you; ultra-soft plush style are extra comfortable and cozy warm.

"THE THING" - INFANT PILLOW

The Zaky is an ergonomic infant pillow designed by a mom to mimic the size, weight, touch, and feel of her hand and forearm to help her baby with comfort, support, protection, and development. The Zaky can help calm your baby and help your baby sleep better through the night.

TRAVELER'S PHRASE BOOK T-SHIRT

If you are traveling a lot and don’t always know the language of the country you are visiting, then this T-shirt is for you. It has a phrase book printed on it so just point a finger at the pictogram you need and then point it twice at the question mark, which means, “Where is it?” and in no time you have found what you were looking for… or not.

i don't really get how this works. sensor?

MODERN LADDER

Realy cool modern ladder.

LATEST DESIGN WAITER/WAITRESS TRAYS

Anatomic tray, for waiters. No more dropping trays. We just don't know is it comfortable.


comfortable or not. this definitely makes for a great waitressing tool!! no more spilled martinis. =)

WHEEL-MOVING BENCH

Whether you want to sit on the sun or in the shade, near the river or under the tree... now you have your movable bench, to sit wherever you like.


Click here for original source.

zouk out '07; the gist

i've been trying to upload clips of the zoukout for this post but it's been a horribly frustrating effort so i'm just gonna talk about it till i get the rest of the pictures when zoe sends me the photos.

i met soo many people that day. colin, ben, YATING whom i met on my way in (she was on her way OUT), STANLEY NAM aka smiling tiger, leftfoot's kenneth & bryan with their new squeeze, and god knows who else...

colin was damn funny when he saw me. he made 2 peace signs in front of me to get my attention when i was semi dancing to get into the mood. i couldn't make out his face because his back was to the lights but i knew it must be someone i know otherwise that would be quite an idiotic move, right? but no, he's not idiotic, he's just really funny! haha. and he was real excited about graduating and getting his faculty pass for SM. i was overjoyed for him.

charm was supposed to be with us but she got turned away because she didn't bring her ic. poor girl. i didn't get to meet up with her after that. saw her approximately for all of 2-3 mins. a french guy was also turned away because he didn't have his passport with him, michelle chng casually told me afterwards. so sad to be turned away because of a lack of documentation proof right? felt so bad for charm.

poor zoe was abandoned by daphne and her friends but the lucky girl have got other groups she could join, like yours truly. i actually went with an assortment of people and got introduced to some. met daniel who was head of events some donkey semesters ago before he passed it on to daphne and vivian. michelle wong from M&P was also there but she retired home pretty early. she was pretty zonked out.

formed a pretty neat party crew consisting of: sharon (my colleague), michelle chng, zoe, daniel, allan and damn i can't remember the last guy's name. my memory fails me sometimes! i'm sorry!

basically, that was the outfit.

had a bit of initial problem getting sharon because she got into her friends' vehicle when she was supposedly tailing behind me (i was looking for zoe's cab along the main road of st james). it was hard coordinating with michelle and zoe because they both don't know each other and i was quite frantic that michelle wouldn't be able to catch up with the cab but as luck would have it, she was by the road when i spotted her! some coincidental shit. it was necessary to cab in because the roads were blockaded from walking in. darn smartasses.

we were well settled after an hour or so of queuing, mad running from 1 end of the entrance to another to find sharon, and generally soaking in the cheer of the festival.

nearly got acquainted with this girl, fiona. pretty girl but mabok. was a bundle of fun, wanted us to call her princess fiona. she also really wanted to hook us up with her male troops. she went on and on asking if i was single, if any of my guy friends are my bf. working through the girls like a pro pimpin' whore. she was definitely fun but we couldn't have found out more as we soon left in search of a better spot!

because there were 3 michelles that day, naturally people would want us to react to michelle 1, michelle 2, michelle 3 and so on. to add a lil irony, i'm also known as michelle wan and people would be very very amused to be informed of that lil fun tidbit. they usually go NOO you're kidding?!?!

met ice man kenneth at the same spot that fiona found us. i managed a new girlfriend ah comment and he gave me a cheeky smile.

spotted bryan with his pretty muse whom zoe thought was hot.

saw pauline but didn't think she saw me.

time for some pictures!

with michelle chng waiting for charm & sharon to get their wrist tags.


daybreak!


AVB on the last set.


still very hyper.


zoe & 2 michelles




plastic destruction


sunrays pelting down? nah! it's the lights from the stage.


moving images are soo unflattering.


zoe's a small bundle of fun.


look at what becomes of the beach. think of how much cleaning up is required.


me: "turn around everyone!"


the advertised water slide which looks much more magnificent than it really is. dan wants to be in the picture! haha. cute.


a moving image!! dan took the camera away before i could stabilize it because he wanted to take my picture from a better angle. sweet guy.


i took many of these home. they're lying on my table now.




the pack.


mich babe was pretty darn zonked out. a walking zombie whom manages to accomplish our goal of staying throughout! i had to put on an ugly sad face to match her zonked but still very pretty face.


alvin sung is drunk drunk drunk! or just super darn tired.


loving the stage set up of the hip hop arena which we stayed for a good 1-2 hours.


the red lady who was swaying away to the live band arena's music performance. except that the bands aren't performing anymore.


bumping into my smiling tiger stanley was another hilarious incident. i was soo happy to see him and we hugged for the longest time. he had a few rounds of champ and was pretty intoxicated. i was perspiring from the heat and he saw sweat beads all over my forehead and swiped it all away with the back of his hands. i thought it was so very him! hahaha. at one point, he carried me and held me up for a very long time and we danced like that. i allowed him to. we were ex-colleagues and used to be on very good terms. afterwards the girlfriends were like.. did he really kiss you on the lips? i was like.. he didn't, it was on the cheeks and told them of his orientation. promised to meet up for singing and coffee more often! i miss hearing his injection of r&b style in his singing.

still couldn't get the clips up on imeem but i figured 1 should suffice for now ;)



see y'all when i'm back yo!

stuck in my head

L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one I see
V is for very, very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore

i love it singing it in the showers or just anywhere!
in a very light mood right now. trying to get videos uploaded but imeem is working very slowly. packing is done but i think i overpacked. might need to take some stuff out later. 5 days of beach life is just what i really want.

bliss.

it's a crazy world out there

omgosh it's 1ish in the afternoon and i've have yet to sleep a wink.
for those of you who miss zoukout/underaged/etc, too bad!! seriously.
many pictures to prove the highly excitable fun factor.
but good things you gotta wait and it's not exactly very nice to call zoe up just to send me the pics now so that you freeloaders get to enjoy the pictures at your pleasure. haha.

something honestly very weird happened just now. i was followed home again. this time by 2-3 guys. and one of them actually kinda resembles my ex (although i can't be certain it's him), whom i actually spotted at the beach when we call it quits after dancing up a storm close to 7ish AM. i thought that guy was gonna approach me but i was well sheltered by my guy friends. they were really protective and at times, fierce. which was a good thing. and i appreciated it tonnes. it makes partying with them a whole lot more fun and safe. it's better than those guys whom don't give 2 hoots about whether you're harassed or not. these true gentlemen actually made it a point to shield us girls who got carried away sometimes from all those perverts. or drunkards if need be.

although i was still amazingly very hyper (because of all the adrenaline rush) well after the party ended but i wasn't very conscious of the fact that we were being followed so i wasn't really in the know. i guess i just hadn't expected it to happen a second time so soon. but those guys were weird. they wore caps and shades. i think my guy friends were really defensive and made it impossible for that guy (whom i think look like my ex) to come near me. i noticed he was joined by 2 other guys or so at the entrance, also the same time when i met my friend. i presumed they followed me all the way from harbour front station control to my house. initially, i thought nothing of it (i know i should have alerted somebody since i keep seeing them at every corner). but when i entered my lift, some random guy shouted my name which made me froze for a while and without warning (i thought he was gonna halt the lift!) uttered these few words to me - "mind your words". it was still ringing in my ears when i entered my apartment.

i'm plain puzzled by the irony of it all.

something lovely

a quick weekend of zoukout before i'm gone

my luggage are half packed but i reckon i won't be needing to bring many things over. viv needs to go through the itinerary her dad prepared for her. someone needs to remind her or that silly klutz will forget all about it.

i got a first-hand account from a gf who just came back from krabi - she put it down to "it's all about snokelling, diving and kayaking at krabi".

can hardly wait for the 5-day physical retreat. =)

$1.80 worth of childhood goodness

went downstairs to get dinner with sis.
and bought these for snack treats.

look at what $1.80 used to get us back then..



i know ericia love the bee bees and told my sis that.
sis wanted me to bring some for her if i'm going to see her later.
such a sweet gesture.

aight people!
gotta prepare myself getting dressed and all for annie's 21st birthday BBQ at her place.
viv just knocked off.
so i'm going to get dressed now.
i'm sucha slob.

the peiwen hiccup

cat called me this afternoon when i was in the midst of cleaning my room and brought me the news that i failed finance.
i repeated what i thought i just heard and she confirmed that my name was on the list.
what list, i thought.
i was waiting for her to crack up, expecting it to happen anytime soon...

anyway, i found an old photo of viv and myself taken last september during the DC presentation.
she was still in her braces then. and i just had my daikin girl haircut. hair's a bit sloppy due to the strong breeze that day. i hate messy hair (on myself that is).



digression aside, cat finally couldn't bear to shock me further and burst out laughing!
she said the administration office laid a top slip of paper bearing my name and details on jiawen's result slip. said she'll help clear the error with the office. who knows, maybe because we both have the wen word at the end of our names.

dear summit folks

i'm taking up the jan summit job!

besides myself, michelle chng will also be taking it up. =)

the very infrequent affair

caught up with anya last night over dinner in town.

finally had a chance to check out the ambiance at Giraffe Restaurant & Bar.
we had a nice huge comfy couch seats all to ourselves and the soft lighting was perfect for having heart to heart talks. the music was jazzy and playing softly in the background.
i love the scenic view overlooking the greenery in the dark cityscape.
perfect for chilling out with a companion you haven't seen in ages.

she had ribeye and tiramisu.

the girl gotta have her tiramisu. and i love the effort they put in adding a festive mood to the cake.



we had teas.
i have a thing for teas these days compared to the past where a glass of red was my constant preference. i cant recall when but i just decided to go off alcohol for a while.

anya is the second person to tell me that sweet desserts are a sure cure for days of depression. manda was the first. i still remembered. =)

i thoroughly enjoyed the quaint lil dinner & heartfelt catching up sesh.

she updated me about her trip to japan and made a sudden sombre remark on the importance and advantage of enjoying a travel experience with a life partner. that carved a deep impact on me and i made a mental note to self to explore the vast possibilities of touring overseas with a future partner - something which i've never done before.

she's still as lovely looking and always pleasant to have around.



spotted boon chong and made our way home together.
aww i really miss the taurus clan!

a night of mambo

or was it?

we felt like we were in phuture when the dj spinned rihanna's umbrella and beautiful girl by sean kingston.

cat passed a funny comment saying that the dj seems to be heartbroken.
because there were many sad love songs last night.

met soo many ppl there.
saw tangrui and briefly updated him about each and everyone of the anderson gang.
he's gg to start his course in SIM next semester.
bade our goodbyes and exchanged contacts.

i also saw barnabas.
been donkey years since i last saw him.

there were a few cute guys spotted but i think they are all too young.
and i don't really go for cute guys.
i prefer my man to be manly, not cute.

saw dal, jason, weekiat and louis. i was quite excited when i saw weekiat and louis cos i thought leon would be around. but when i asked about leon, they told me he was sleeping at home! haha. and i seem to be bumping into dal and her gfs a lot in the ladies.

viv and ziyang were great company but they left early because the girl's got a curfew.
ericia later told us she love watching the pair of them dance because they were really great fun.
i agree!

couldn't stand the massive crowd anymore and left for supper at geylang.
ericia said she dreamt of eating the dim sum at geylang even in her sleep and well, we were nice and fulfilled her fantasy crave.



work was alright.
but could do with a bit more cash.

gearing up for zoukout next.

monochromic desires

the croco prints kinda reminds me of a shoe design the ex once laser before.



i've always love clutches.
the better to club/party/sashay/etc with.

i own about 2 cool looking clutches. and several zip-designed purses i doubled up as clutches.

this one just about takes the cake.


it's roomy and handy to carry around.


the new wedges i gloated about!


it's flattering and miniaturized the feet.


i bought both at +20bulbs for 99$ each.
ps: with a further 10% off for dbs card holders.
pps: i was also wildly impressed with the shop assistant's enthusiasm and service but i heard she's only helping a friend out (!!). amazing service.

viv and ziyang's booty shaking contest

realized i could upload 3gpp movie format to imeem.com.
and i just did!



aight the video doesn't do viv justice. her booty shaking was in similar fashion to belly dancing - y'kno the vibrating sort? but hers was way too short. think she was camera shy!

creepy stranger

i miss singing for hours on end, X times per week.

yesterday saw the SIM clique singing at a certain partyworld in clementi.
pity we didn't take any pictures.
although i did filmed a short clip of viv and ziyang shaking their booties to see who can shake the best. and although viv needs some cajoling when she knows i'm going to film it.
haha.
but i can't upload it due to the frustrating format of the clip i.e. 3gpp movie.

finally get to meet up with sheena and manda.
had our usual tete-a-tete updates.
and as usual, couldn't bear to leave each other at the end of the night.
if only there are more nights like these - i really miss singing and lounging about just reminiscing about the good days, hearing friends surprise you with good news..



picture perfect.


i wonder when will we be hanging out again?


i've yet to meet up with a lot more people - anya, ying, claris, gerrard, ping, rox, aimee&leon, joanne&shan, THE summit crew, essy, mich, charm, nic and god knows who else...

onto a stalkish incident that happened last night.
i had always been cautious of my surroundings esp at night when i'm travelling home late.
and last night was no difference.
i was followed home by this chinese singaporean middle age man all the way from bugis (i remembered seeing him there when i was with the girls).
he had a folded chinese newspaper under his pits and carried a departmental store plastic bag of sort.

i will try to re-enact the whole scene with as much details as i could remember.

with a lil knowledge of self defence, i always had my handphone in the palm of my hands, ready to strike if i'm caught in a bad situation. my ex once told me, having a hard object in hand can create a hard hit to the guy and aim for the nose, i was told. because the guy in question would then have lil/no hands to subdue me (what with using his hands to cover his nose), rendering me free to escape.

i also tested the guy to see if he was really following me. i don't really want to make a mistake but neither do i want to give any chances. i actually slowed down my pace to see if the guy would hurried me by (this usually happens a lot due to the late hours and ppl everywhere are rushing to get home). but he did not. i walked really slow. but he'd walk even slower. he kept a very safe distance, so much so that when i deliberately tried to swing my head right and left to see if i could acquire a better image of him, i simply couldn't make out how he look like. the worst thing was, i was all alone.

when i reached my block, instincts told me not to go up as yet.

i walked in circles around my lift. and he followed suit!! i thought to myself shit what should i do. and i did the very michelle wan thing. i confronted him. why are you following me, i raised my voice. he let out a huh and inched in closer. i swear i was going to cry. there was no one around me. my main hp line was flat but fortunately, i brought a spare phone out and started dialling manda's number. i also started to walk towards the carpark to see if i could get any assistance. i saw a car washer attendant!

when manda picked up the phone, my voice broke. i held back tears. the man hung around the estate for a long time even when i was shooting dagger stares at him (i was already in safe hands with the car washer as companion and manda was on the phone to comfort me). i swear that guy was a psycho. he had no clue how the estate works and actually walked into a dead end. he wouldn't walk there if he really lives here.

i was on the phone with manda the whole time and the guy made several detours, giving me the creepy stares. he finally turned into a corner and disappeared. i couldn't really see where he was going in the darkness.

i phoned my lil sis and my voice broke a second time. she came armed with a long brolly, holding both ends of it and resting it on her hind shoulders, looking ready to strike. she actually walked around the estate to see if the guy was still around. i followed behind, answering her every questions. she was so cute and i started to smile, no longer as frightened.

but i was still very shaken by the incident.

it was a lucky thing i was alert.

bx's bday clip

3 gym rats

and 2 proud stooges.

life's lil pleasures

i bought my first pair of wedges. pearl ivory white with round toe. and sky high. i didn't think i'd like it initially but rowena was pro-wedges and advised me to get it. peiqi thought i look better in wedges compared to the other stiletoes i had on the other foot. likewise for the opinion of a male company - that'd be bx. i thought why not? since i don't have one. i love heels. but i can't walk a mile in it.

i also bought a nice lil black clutch on the side.
so vintage.

i had another fab night with the motley crew; anderson gang + row + cherie. made plans to meet row & bx to work out tomorrow evening. gotta really work out like mad cos i'm training up for the trekking trip to mount ophir with tl, coreen and terence which is coming up in jan.

met anya & firuz outside the cathay and promised to catch up with each other soon.

pictures of bx's ambush birthday shindig are out!



the gist of the story goes that bx had no clue of a warm fuzzy (warm cos we thought the pizza would be served piping hot and fuzzy cos we really wanted to make it oh-so-special for him) dinner was awaiting his arrival. he didn't had a clue that we were gonna be springing this surprise on him. but as usual, every surprises have their minor screwups and bx suspected something fishy but went along all the same. anyway, i bet he had no clue that we had a plan in the making the whole time! rowena had to coordinate really well with us making sure that everything goes according to plan. and more importantly, she mustn't bring him to the restaurant before full force arrived! that was the hardest part, trying to match THE time with everyone's schedules.

we were actually enjoying our dinner inside the restaurant (pizza hut) and one by one, each of us came up with excuses to leave the table to present him the cake which katt & jr got on their way before joining us.

(L-R: katt, don, row)


he was standing at the cashier (sneaky fellow wanted to pay for the meal) when we wanted to surprise him from the back and we were all stunned by his appearance! nevertheless, he was really touched (i think).



The decade(nt) Anderson crew. (intentional pun)

(L-R: don, peiqi, bx, me, katt)


and when i said they deserve the cutest couple award, i didn't only mean in the looks department.



had a stayover at bx's house and another night of fun catching up on the latest gossips!

ps: had a very indulgent hearty chat with the dearest girls from SIM over the course of the day- Ericia and Vivien. =)

kudos to katt for the picture spread.

short update before i rush out

everytime I do a post, it takes a minimum of 1.5 days to appear.

i'm weirded out by the pervert who stays 2 blocks away.
he's constantly looking in at my window.
and sometimes i'd be undressing and he'd be staring in.

the reason(s) behind my smile

excerpts from Essy's blog:

i also made a really goood girlfriend
hehe ms kueh kueh
she can make me laugh and its been really long since i laughed so freely
and lots of funfunfun to be with and unassuming
and our talks are always so diverse (:

i feel so blessed to know such angels

this is why this hidey hole's agardeninmyheart
because:
我的心中每天开出一朵花 :D

a dedication

I'm tired. Finally sent my handphone for repair. Important data and precious SMSes kept and collected in the form of writing.

Receiving Essy's call puts a smile on me last night. Time to wrap things up with the finalizing of location and date of the Summit gathering. Oh and I love hearing her cute voice too. ;) It was a nice recess from the bad day at work.

It was great seeing Sequeena at work. The poor girl was full of dread for her education. You must believe in yourself, girl. If you don't, no one else will. Remember you used to share with me your dreams? How hard you fought to get to where you are now? You must get back that fighting spirit within yourself. It's still a long journey ahead. Be careful not to start off on the wrong footing. It's worrying how you lost the motivation to excel within the first 6 months. But you'll be fine. Gotta find yourself and know what you really want. Been so long since we last worked together but the brief chat with you was good enough. =)

Had a crazy-fun day yesterday but it was a mad dash from place to place.

Still, we managed to pull the surprise off!

HAPPY FAB 23, BEIXIAN

You've been a truly great friend for the past 10 years. Gee. Didn't realize it has been that long. I love seeing how you and Rowena interact. It's fascinating how you 2 always does the funniest things to make friends laugh. Humour resides in your blood. It never failed to put a smile on me. If there were a cutest couple award, I'd gladly bestow it upon you 2 lovebirds.

Many more 10 years to come, old buddy!

I promise photos when I receive them.