Are These Really Cakes?

Attitude

"Attitude is a simple word that makes a big difference" - Anonymous

Jealousy Management

Control your jealousy before it controls you!

I am highly annoyed with many small minded people around me. Although they are inefficient in many aspects with particular reference to work, they are highly efficient and effective in spreading unnecessary rumours and passing on messages like a traitor mole.

I felt like Dave Buznik today. If I was asked to control my anger, then these small minded idiots should be sent for jealousy management!

ps: Still Angry!

Growth

"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once" - Anonymous

Happy Valentine's

No one knows you better than your own siblings.

My siblings tried to cheer me up during this year St Valentine's Day with tulips in vibrant colours. Unexpected gift always brings so much pleasant surprises!! ;-)

You Are What You Eat

I finished reading Janet Evanovich's Thanksgiving yesterday. Like Evanovich's previous books, Thanksgiving is light-hearted, full of laughters over dinner table and got me thinking of eating a lot while I was reading - bad news ;-p

Why?

Everyone who knows me well are aware of my "methodological" eating pattern.

(1) I don't like others to take food from my plate. A few of my female friends are experts in this department.
Pancake: Hey, you don't want to order any food?
Friend: Nope, I am full.
And then 15 minutes later when Pancake's food arrived, Friend got excited and asked: Mine if I take some from you? It looks delicious.
Pancake: Actually, I am very hungry today, I honestly don't think this portion is even enough for me. I will order another plate for you.

(2) I dislike when they "donate" food into my plate. Some of my friends (female and male) are forever on diet. They want to appear as they are thin because they are naturally thin, not "strict-diet-thin". When our food came, they surgically divided their food into 1/4 and 3/4 portions, and needless to say they take the 1/4 and they throw the 3/4 portion into my plate.

Are they thinking I am the garbage truck? For food's sake, please stay at home and munch on corn cob if they are going to waste food in that manner.

(3) I particularly hate it when others spit bones into their spoon and then using the same spoon to scoop food (even if it's not from the plate of food we are sharing). Can you imagine we are eating the dumps of others?

The following proverb is always mentioned in our dinner conversations: We work to eat, if we don't eat then what is the motivation to work?

So to all who are reading: Appreciate Food and naturally you would Appreciate Life.

Waffles = Square Pancakes

Warning: If you are looking for intellectually-stimulating article, then you can ignore this particular post of mine today. Today is one of those moments that I want to write on my rambling, rattling thoughts.

I don't watch much of The Simpsons and not particularly excited when my students told me The Simpsons movie is coming up soon. Everytime I watch The Simpsons, I recalled a joke from an old coursemate many years ago. She told me I "characterically-resemblanced" (the condensed term is from Pancakeism's terminology) Lisa Simpson.

Why? Because in our mid-20s when girls were all excited to find a husband before they graduate. I was back then very opinionated, overly-inquisitive, liked (and still like, occasionally) to indulge in the thought that I am very overweight, I used to say geeky-looking Milhouse Van Houten is intelligently-cute and I have a large forehead. This is why you'll never see me in red dress and red shoes with a string of pearls.

Well, look at the bright side, Lisa Simpson has an IQ of 159 and is tagged as one of the brightest fictional characters in animated television series.

Cafe and Cakes

While I was in Milan and Turin last March, I saw many cool cafes and delicious cakes that really have motivated me to start a cafe business of my own. When I am stressed these three weeks, I am keeping my balance by visualising myself walking into my own cozy cafe that is filled up by strong coffee aroma and many one-bite cheesecakes. This image is soothing and motivating.

It is a good feeling to wake up in the morning and eager to go back to work. But the fact could be: Grass is always greener on the other pasture.

Ambiguous

Superwoman

I am listening to Gary Cao Ge's 1st album these three weeks, and I particularly like this song named: 刮目相看. The narrative of this song says: 世界有太多竞争，而最不可能打倒的敌人叫做自己；只有战胜自己，才有光荣的一天 (my interpretation in English: There are uncountable competitions in this world and the most challenging enemy is yourself. The glorious day occurs when your tomorrow is better than your yesterday).

Everywhere we are, we will tend to find people who are "claiming territories" and/or trying to put us down. If we are too self-complacent, we'll become the "rabbit" in the "rabbit & turtle" story.

Groundhog Day

I recalled when I was a first degree student, a good friend told me about an interesting movie called Groundhog Day. At the time when my life was interesting (or I assumed it was interesting and exciting), I didn't really appreciate the message of this movie.

Yesterday afternoon after work, I spent some time watching drama with my mom and laughed at a few lines the leading actor was sharing with his wife. He told his wife: Why don't we go out have picnic like the old days? I am tired of the routine - wake up, work, meetings, meals, headache, sleep. I need a break from this routine or I will burn out. His few lines have awoken me.

I am very tired of my current routine. I need to find new activities to re-energies my life. Currently, every sector of my life is suffocating me especially my friends. I have many friends who only turn to me when they need help or who like to spread toxic thoughts so I could appear vulnerable in front of them.

Groundhog Day or Groundhog's Day is a traditional festival celebrated in the United States and Canada on 2nd February. In traditional weather lore, if a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day and fails to see its shadow because the weather is cloudy, winter will soon end. If the groundhog sees its shadow because the weather is bright and clear, it will be frightened and run back into its hole, and the winter will continue for six more weeks.

The story of groundhog has taught me an important psychology lesson: If I refuse to come out of the burrow, dark thoughts will persist. Now, my important task is how to get rid of the "many winters"?

Will You Be Mine?

Nancy never fails to make me laugh ;-)))

Grey Matters?

Coming from "numbers" background, I always use numbers to advise my unmarried female friends to marry younger man. Why? Say for instance, if my friend and her husband were of same age, they get married when they are 35, have their first child when they are 36, they will be 56 when their first child enters university gate. If mandatory retirement age stayed at 55, both of them would be retired by that time, and children's education would eat into their pension fund. Therefore, for children's welfare sake, please marry a younger man instead, at least 5 years their junior. To my married female friends, please don't be alarmed by what I have just said. There is another reason why I have proposed them to marry younger man than man of their age or older: by doing so, they have bigger market to avoid the "selection bias" ;-P

Demi Moore is 15 years senior than Ashton Kutcher (still married). Susan Sarandon has been with Tim Robbins since 1988 (still together).
Of course, we also have failed examples such as Cameron and Justin, Faye and Nicholas. Cameron Diaz is at least 7 years older than Justin Timberlake (recently broke up). Previously, Faye Wong was 12 years older than Nicholas Tsen (broke up in a bad way). Was age an impeding factor in the failure relationship of Cameron's and Faye's, or were there other obstacles?

My uncle Kee married 7 years ago with a Thai woman (she was 23 years old then) at least 12 years younger than himself. Recently they had argument and his wife left home leaving him to take care of my young cousin Phuntirra. Many relatives put the blame on their age differences without taking into consideration their differences in appreciating each other's culture and language for example. Mr Scorpio is 1 year younger than me, and I initiated the breakup due to other reasons and I don't believe those reasons are age related. I know I am creating more cobweb than solving the maze by elaborating on this age issue. But, one advice: if mandatory retirement age were to delay by 5 years, then you could consider increase the age of your prospective husband by 2 years (for example, 35 + 2 = 37 years old), and vice versa :-)

My 3-Fish

Part I

I hardly buy accessories besides loop earrings. Necklaces always catch my hair and bracelets make me too girly, so I only like earrings and rings. Few weeks ago, I spotted a 3-Fish ring designed by Frank Owen Gehry for Tiffany & Co. and it was really "Love @ First Sight". I love the 3-Fish design for many reasons: (1) I always love fish - to me it's a symbol of life, live and forward-looking; (2) the 3-fish bind together reminds me of the strength with unity; (3) I can always spot Frank's design even at one glance - simple but hip and (4) I always have strong preference towards chunky rings. So, this 3-Fish is going to be the only accessory item I am going to buy for myself this year to reward my hardwork and to motivate me to work smarter ;-)))

Part II

Besides loop earrings, I only wear accessories bought by my family. I love the wristwatch my parent bought me last birthday. I love the bangle my mom bought me when I was overly-indulged in "crystalogy" last year (my mom is good in hidden messages behind her gifts. She basically wanted to tell me it was irrational to place too much belief in crystal healing power ;-p). I love the hip-chunky ring my Sis Woofhams bought me when she and my brother-in-law were in Sydney last winter. I love the colourful chunky ring my brother bought me during his overseas working trip two years ago. I wear the two rings on alternate weeks to stay as a non-discriminating big sister. These gifts are symbol of their unconditional love and also a reminder of my responsibility as daughter and sister. Wearing them made me feel complete and confident ;-)))

What Kind Of Cake Are You?

You Are Strawberry Cake

Fresh, sassy, and romantic. You're a total flirt, who never would turn down a sugary treat. Occasionally you're a bit moody - but you usually stay sweet!

What Kind of Cake Are You?

My Reflection

Few months ago, a student of mine was infatuated with a young guy of her age and she came to seek my advice on: "How do I know he also likes me?". Many times I found that I am playing multi-roles in my life. I answered her half-heartedly while I was marking her script at the same time: "You knew when he reciprocates by doing things like you do, having things like you have, loving things like you love. In another words, he likes to become a man version of yourself".

Yesterday she came to see me, and she told me: "Cher, Cher, You are right about the guy whom I was infatuated with. I see me in everything he does and I like that feeling. We are currently an item".

I never believed how one simple line from me could bring such profound change in a person's life, sorry, two persons' live. May be I am really the Guru of Love who solves everyone's relationship questions but not my own ;-P

Totally Spice

No matter how hard my life is, I would always make sure I look the best in front of camera ;-P

Ask For The Other Hand

I have been thinking on many things lately. How I wish I wasn't that moody during the new year week, then it would be more fun. Though not many have noticed (I am outspoken, but I usually prefer to share joy than problems) I was hitting the trough of the moodiness, I have tried very hard not to show I wasn't myself. Thanks God for the "invisible strength" that my late granny has lent me (I always believe her assistance whenever I am down), I have managed to come out of my little dark world.

If I wasn't so moody during the new year week, on the other hand, I would have more time to share jokes with my mom and my Sis Woofhams. I would be able to help my family more. I would like to visit Mr Scorpio at his father-in-law's house. I would laugh more. I would be happier.

Therefore, I have decided I am not going to waste another second of my life to experience the similar trough again. I, therefore, now am chasing after and trying to bring back the "Happy" Me.

That's how the school of Pancakeism supposes to be ;-p

Below are pictures of gifts for my sister-in-law during my brother's and sis-in-law's betrothal day.

No More Titanic

I couldn't believe I'm writing a new post for my one-month-abandoned blog again. The past one month was not very good for me - I was moody over a number of things. I always believe God is taking care of all good people and I happen to be one of them. I Thank God for giving me good parents to lead me out of the dark tunnel of my thought. I Thank God for giving me good siblings to share with me uncountable happiness. My sister's clever words and my brother's jokes have managed to pull me out of the dark thoughts. I also want to thank my good friends like Mac and SY who have diligently sent me text messages, e-mails and cards to remind me I haven't been neglected by the world. With all their love, I promise not to sink into another wave of moodiness or else I will let them down.

Hope it's not too late to greet everyone a Sweet Lunar New Year of Fire Pig :o)

By Invitation Only

Since I was 9, I have always wanted to be a bridesmaid. To date, no relatives or friends have ever invited me to be one.




May be I don't look stunning (but I thought we always prefer bridesmaid to be less attractive than the bride) ...
May be I don't have qualities of a bridesmaid (what exactly are the qualities?) ...
May be I am too outspoken (I will speak more than the MC?)
May be my role is more suitable as a prop ... Might Be. Could Be.


Now that I have past the "bridesmaid Wannabe" phase, bridesmaid or not is no longer an issue to me. However, comments received for not inviting to be the bridesmaid are more upsetting though.

• Sorry, they have decided to invite all the 20s young women as my bridesmaids;
• Hey, you might not look too good in that dress because that design is for younger women;
• Hmm, I don't know how to put across to you, but the best man prefers bridesmaid to be around his age;
• Would you mind to be the advisor telling us when the groom's team arrives?
• Oh! If you don't mind, could you lead the bridesmaid team in the singing part later. They don't exactly have good voice like yours.

Actually I don't mind. I really don't mind. Despite all have just said, I am still very confident of myself, especially I don't look my age.

Managing Relationship

Eleanor Roosevelt once said: Nobody can put you down without your permission.

Nancy has hardly failed my expectations - another wise advice on positively managing relationship.

Decorates Our Heart

Can anyone tell me what should be the most rational reaction when you bumped into an ex boyfriend, and he tried to treat you like a stranger when you were about to greet him?

Pancake's answer: Ignore him, further reassures that you have made the right choice 6 years ago.

Deception Point

In today's report, US President George Bush announed that: "These technologies" will help us become better stewards of the environment, and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change.

Response: further confirms Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is indeed a truth?

Cake

Can we have the cake and eat it at the same time?

Since last July, I have experienced betrayal, marginalisation, experienced loss of a friend and a pet, heartbroken and unnecessary office politics and feeling fat. I have looked out for miracles to reduce my unhappiness, but to no avail. I have sent numerous prayers but I am receiving new wave of disappointment after the old wave disappointment simmers down.

Sometimes I wish I am Peter Pan, never grow up and never want to understand the complexity of adult life. I wish sometimes I knew the answer to everything and therefore not wasting time to pursue things that won't fetch satisfactory outcome. Kenny once told me, if we knew everything then what's the point of living. We need surprises to spice up our lives.

Yesterday I watched and observed Heather Graham in Cake and I was upset for her role Pippa. After thinking through many problems, Pippa turned up at one of her love interests's house only to find that he has got a new girlfriend. Sorry Pippa, I have called but you never answered. She visited her best friend's house but she had no time for her. Sorry Pippa, no. Eventually She went to the ball alone and saw the other love interest was also at the same function with his ex-wife. Her father got the award, she wanted to receive the award on his behalf but it turned out her father has assigned another person to accept the honour for him. Reality, many times, bites.

Shallow Them

This is not giving myself an excuse to grow bigger.

However, I am so proud of myself these days with my replies when others commenting on me being "Too FAT".

Busybody: You are fat now. What do you eat?
Pancake: Do you find me prettier? Yeah, I have athletic built, so I prefer myself to look slightly chubbier. I look ugly when I am too thin.

Busybody: Wow you look so fat now (making hand gesture that my face has grown double in size, and my body has expanded three times)!
Pancake: Is it? I don't find it that way. You must have seen it wrongly. In fact, I have lost weight.

What Time Is The Right Time?

I saw the "romance version" of Uniquely Singapore advertisement few months ago on MTV. Guy met the lady while shopping for souvenir. He took the wooden cat first while she liked it too. He chased after her asking her for a drink. Ultimately, at the end of the day, he gave her the wooden cat. She was impressed. They are in love.

In my mind, only three types of grown up men would do things like that guy in the advertisement:
(1) He is a casanova;
(2) He is a gigolo;
(3) He is under pressure to get married under 24 hours time so he could inherit his grandfather's 5 billion assets.

I don't know how many have shared similar experiences. In real life, I have made initiative and the guy commented to our mutual friend that he wasn't ready for a relationship that soon. In real life, I have also decided to wait a while, and the guy said he has waited too long so he decided to move on.

Is it really boil down to the time factor, or right from start I am just the theory of second best.

Home

Most people who are familiar with the Taiwanese entertainment industry would usually associate Jacqueline Wu with acting than singing. In actual fact, she cut an album in the early 1990s and I particularly love this song of hers named "Home". I've tried to locate this song on YouTube, but to no avail. This particular chorus she sang has really caught my heart:

"Your heart is the home that I would love to return to at the end of the day".

Wedding & Marriage

My brother and my future (in 2 weeks time) Sis-In-Law are currently at the pre-nuptial depression phase. In one week, you could hear them arguing, quarrelling over minute matters umpteenth times.

Although I don't believe in marriage myself, I believe it is not easy to find THE ONE. Sometimes you see someone you like, but s/he doesn't reciprocate. Sometimes you don't like the person but s/he pesters you like a housefly. Sometimes both of you have feelings for each other, but you choose to ignore the feelings for fear of rejection. Sometimes THE ONE appears but at the wrong time. To sum up, it is not easy to find that someone, therefore you should treasure her/him when you have found that someone and not taking each other for granted.

So, I reminded my brother and his fiancee that "People plan eloborately for their wedding, but they often forget to plan for their marriage".

Incredulous

I totally understood the main function of a polygraph. Friends told me the polygraph could help to detect lies. Yes, I knew but I am a sceptic. I don't believe the polygraph can detect sincerity.

On 17th January 2007, I read about a report on a retired Chinese couple, Tian Zhendong and Ding Shuhui (former construction expert and a university professor from central Wuhan China), have advertised for a daughter to look after them in place of their son who has emigrated to Canada. AND, more than 100 candidates have signed up to try their luck. The couple used to visit their son in Canada but they could not get used to life there and their son didn't want to go back to China. But does the availability of a "rented" daughter help to solve their family problem? Are these candidates see it as a societal responsibility or a mean of employment? I have too many questions on this news report when I read it. I couldn't help analysing on this issue.

I wish a polygraph could help to solve my problem ie. I am doubting on candidates' sincerity.

Actually, I have been sceptical on "sincerity" since young.
Friend: Oh I totally understand your loss of your grandmother?
Pancake: How could you understand my loss when you aren't me?

I am also sceptical of love and relationship. That's why my love always ends up like an envelope with no return address. I never make it clear who is the sender because I don't know how sincere is the other party. Concerning of rejection, I let my love unclaimed, eventually it ends up in a pool with no proper acknowledgement and no appropriate accreditation.

iCon

Dogopoly

Wonder how do the deck of Chances & Community Chest cards (from the original London version of Monopoly) look like in this version?

Wedding Speech

I was checking the list of "Things Must Do 3 Weeks Before Wedding" yesterday and it occured to me that I might need to prepare a "Elder Sister of the Groom" speech.

I read a poem for my sister during her wedding 4 years ago. In fact, it meant to be a song that I wanted to sing. I always like to visualise myself on the stage singing aloud companied by my talented piano skills. Fact is I can sing but I play piano + organ +keyboard like a toddler! Anyway, we were all very stressed with time 4 years ago (everyone was not in Brunei, and not easy to organise things in under 2 weeks), so finally I read out the poem in bilingual way. To me, I sounded crap but I must emphasise those words were really meant from the bottom of my heart. Well, the saving grace part was - my father's friend called early the next morning praising on my wise choice of words.

In order not to show up on stage worrying I sound crap again, I have decided to prepare a speech 3 weeks in advance this time.

The first version of my speech begins this way: "Ladies and Gentleman, Thanks for joining my family .....". Nah, too formal to my taste.

The second version begins like this: "The first time I saw Susie, I knew right that very time that she'll be the One for my brother ...". Nah, sounds too cheesy.

Then ........ The fifth version reads: "Germaine Greer said a successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person ......". Sounds like I am delivering a lecture.

Finally, words read better in the seventh version. Hopefully, I get a 10 minute slot to say it out loud during my brother's wedding. Want to find out what I wrote. Check out my blog on 14th February!

Well Groomed?

Last Tuesday, I was at a salon during lunchtime to get a scalp massage and relax.

I was chatting with the shampoo girl when two of us were shocked to hear a girl crying! When both of us turned our heads, we saw a girl sobbing and pulling at her own hair in the other seat. We heard she cried: I don't want this hair. It's awful. It's awful. I am so ugly.

The hairstylist was blowing the girl's hair when she was pulling her hair at the same time. At that moment, I was wondering what's the point to blow her hair nice when all she wanted at that time was to get up and leave the salon ASAP.

The mother walked closed to the daughter and said to her: You look fine. You look OK. (In fact, her mother was telling the truth).

Girl shouted at her mother: NO, I look awful. My hair looks like maggi-mee (read: instant noodles). It's not supposed to look like THIS. It should look like soft curls that this Japanese girl is having. Not THIS, I want is THAT. I don't want THIS. I want THAT hairstyle. I look awful. AWFUL.AWFUL.AWFUL.

The mother patiently stood next to her daughter and the hairstylist: You look ok, trust me.

The girl continued to cry and continued to pull at her hair. Twenty minutes later, both mother and daughter left the salon, with the teenage daughter still sobbing as if the hairstylist had just murdered her favourite pet!

The hairstylist turned to me and said: Mrs X has only one daughter, she really pampers her. Despite her busy schedule, she attends to all her daughter's needs.

I sat in my chair and let those words sank in my head, and I began to work on the following correlations:
Schools teach us words and numbers.
Parents teach us values.
If Mrs X treated pampering as part of her loving, then where do good values and inner beauties (such as patience, sharing, understanding, respect elders) stand in her view?
Exterior beauties are good to admire from a distance, but they will change with time and age.
If that teenage girl believed her permed hair has made her ugly, her lack of respect to her mother and the hairstylist have made her uglier.


She should learn more from Nancy.

I Am So Proud Of You

I have been reading other blogs these 2 days and found out that there are too many written on: My New Resolutions, What Have I Done Right in 2006, What Made Me Laugh in the past 365 Days etc. etc. Guess what I want to say here is: I am running out of title for me to recap on 2006 - the year that very well could be called a turning-point in my life. Why?

I am so proud of myself for a long list of things that I have done without regrets, and the top 5 in the list are:
1. I have learnt that "to not let others take you for granted is to not give that liberty in the first place";
2. I have cut down on unnecessary spending and started to adopt "less is more" attitude when come to cosmetics and toiletries shopping;
3. I have decided not to compromise on my choices to avoid unhappy consequences that I knew right from start;
4. I have picked up the courage to ask a guy out on a date and didn't regret my decision even when he didn't show up; and
5. I have started to appreciate the beauty of "solitude" (not loneliness, not seclusion, not isolation, just simply implies more space for my own privacy).

Adam's Dilemma With Alive

Yesterday I watched the Alive's "Popumentary", albeit it was not professionally documented, I salute their passion in music and the courage to set up an "old man boyband" at their age. For some who are not familiar with this HK boyband who used scheming plot last year to publicise their first song "Adam's Dilemma", this band is made up of actors and freelance models ie. Daniel Wu, Terence Yin, Andrew Lin and Conroy Chen.

Some commented on this boyband being no talent and unable to differentiate themselves from other boybands. I found this argument rather unjustified. Although they did not exhibit good singing talent (except Andrew Yin who cut a mandarin abum few years back) + always forgot lyrics and mixed up dance steps on stage, I believe this is the uniqueness of their team. I personally feel that these boys shouldn't given up such easily. To start with, singing is an entertainment. Why bother about fancy costume design, artificial dance steps and not able to meet the entertainment quotient of HK entertainment industry. To me, they sang with their heart and passion, and that's the beauty of music.

Personally, I believe with the right coaching, Daniel could be groomed as a good director one day. Andrew should have the confidence to run his own art gallery. Terence can set up his own music company instead of letting people telling him what to do all the time. Conroy could be an entrepreneur in eatery business in HK & Macau. However, IF Jackie Chan sings and Andy Lau sings. Why no one gives these boys a second chance in singing? Is it because they are too humble? Are their existence too easily taken for granted? Are they too easily manipulated into thinking that they are useless?

If I were their parent, I would tell them: Never let others dictate your dream. Work harder, work smarter and show the world - You Can!

Double Happiness

My entire family is currently very busy with the wedding preparation for my youngest brother, Dato K. I am glad that in less than 4 weeks, we have finalised on guest list, venue, costumes, photography, wedding favour, bouquet, ballroom decor, dowry & traditional gifts for the bride's family ..... I believe those who have had prepared for wedding previously would understand the list could go on forever. Well, I must clarify at this point, albeit busy, it is fun to be part of the wedding preparation crew. Now, day in day out I am well known with this question as if I have it printed on my forehead: So, how much discount could you give my brother?

It's another 1 month before my brother's wedding. In the past 4 weeks, I have learnt the skills of sure-win bargaining, better photography, flower decor, how to accessorise, good make-up tricks, and Chinese & Peranakan wedding customs. For the first time in my life, my mother entrusted me with the duty as ASSISTANT to my brother's "Mei Poh" (direct translation from HanYiPinYin: "MatchMaker"). I must emphasise, this is an extremely important and heavy task. Why? In my teenage years, I had to beg my mother for 5 consecutives years before she allowed me to pour beaten eggs into her sharkfin soup for our CNY's eve dinner. So, now you can understand how heavy are my shoulders - but I do very much enjoying the pressure, though. Well, to begin with, I know more of these customs than most "Mei Pohs" because I was well trained by both my grandmothers since the age of 13. I won first prize in my Secondary 5 English essay competition with my essay written on Ethnic Chinese Wedding Customs where my mentor of the essay was my paternal grandmother.

I know it is still far too, too, too early to discuss on baby names because I don't think younger couples like my brother and his wife would like to start family this soon.

Anyway, I told my brother few months ago that both me and Woofhams would be Godmothers to his children. My brother believes in "Stop at Two" policies. So, I told him, if they were two boys, they would be "Keegan and Kieren". If they were a boy and a girl, then they would be "Keegan and Ariella". If there were two girls, they would be "Ariella and Ailsa".

If I have left out important details (read: wedding preparation), don't forget to drop me a line or two to remind me in the comment box.

Happy New Year 2007 and a fruitful year ahead. Cheers!

Speak Of Resolution

My resolution for 2007:

I love this psalm with cool picture in my sister's blog, don't you agree?

Waiful Thinking

HeHe ... The best time of the day is when I am reading & laughing at Nancy. She's brilliant!