Reason #217 why having ulcers sucks

#217: I can't brush my teeth properly.

~Seamonkey~

Overheard on the intercom on a stucked train...

"Sorry for the inconvenience caused (awkward pause) this train a lot of problems."

~SeamonkeY~

Plough On

A note of encouragement found on the 136 steep steps I take daily to work.

~SeamonkeY~

Lion Muzzled

Spotted this at the train station I commute to for work.

The Courtesy Lion also seems to be ready with a hug. I would think twice about hugging this one though.

~SeamonkeY~

Just a Jog

Today I went for a jog.

I loathe to jog. Took up the regime 2 years ago but only stuck to it religiously for a year. Nowadays I jog to accompany Kennth Coles or to blow off steam. Today, it was for the latter reason.

I was in love with a festival for 4 years. 10 to be exact. 6 years as an audience member and then the last 4 years as a punter. I traveled with it to Sri Lanka to see how beautiful it was 2 weeks before the tsunami; to South Korea to have live octopus; to Australia to taste Barossa Valley wines but I never have to travel beyond Singapore to see what the festival represents and the joy it brings to people.

No matter how we parted ways, it was still the best career high for me for 4 years running. The people who slogged behind-the-scenes with me to stage it were some of the most fiercely loyal friends I will ever meet. Today, I heard it being dissed and I didn’t have enough balls to stand up to defend my ex-love. So I can only jog.

~SeamonkeY~

New Toy

This is my new toy - a gift from my aunt.

I like it because it

1) looks like a spaceship from a cartoon

2) oddly goes well with the colour scheme at home

3) turns this chicken

into this chicken.

I feel like a Nigella Lawson moment coming on.

~SeamonkeY~

Salvation Army has done it again

$48. Beat that Lorgans

Things that come back and bite you in the ass

Guy I just met 24 mins ago at a business meeting: Can I ask you a personal question?

SeamonkeY: *confused* Yeah…sure

Guy I just met 25 mins ago: Did you get married late last year?

SeamonkeY: Erm, yes. Were you at my wedding?

Guy who now looked vaguely familiar: Not at the wedding. But I’m the guy who was wearing the sweet round my neck which you had to bit off on your hens night.

Seamonkey: *enlightened* Oh. My. Gawd.

Auntie Discovery of the Week

We made a choice of getting a white table top for the kitchen and now each stain, scratch and discolouration is driving us nuts.

Help came in the way of a “magic sponge” from Daiso, recommended by a friend who swore by it. Just add water and viola, no more stains like the Dynamo commercial. And since we were in the vicinity of a Daiso yesterday, we decided to try it out since it’s only $2.

We managed to dig out the right sponge and now I’m swearing by it too. No more stains on the table top now. And its special ingredient that makes it “magical”? Melamine.

I wonder what’s the secret ingredient in Dynamo.

~SeamonkeY~

Recession so how....

while in a shower i felt propelled to diary a recession post here.

the catalyst? a close primary school mate got pay cut of 10% and force leave 2days in a month. my dad's boss wants him to choose X number of workers and retrenched them with immediate effect. today i heard from my colleague even SPH staff were forced to go on 4-day work week and becos advertising pages have shrunk so much they are forced to shrink the editorial reviews as well. And blatantly they asked "do you really want the editors to cover on your new MP3.... a sunset industry" and right down to staring at my own sales figures and typing into excel to derive the difference from sales target.

conclusion - market's bad bad bad.

so while showering just what the hell was I thinking of....a recession post? add on to the current doom and gloom stories...as if the paper headlines werent enough?

lets look at cost saving measures, ridiculous yet logical ones...enuf to put that SMILE back on yours and my face! :-)

my brain cells are frantically scouring through the house for cost saving measures sure to take you thro this recession. here they are........

1) turn off the lights if you dont need them (understand that making love in teh dark is exciting)
2) shower together for husband and wife (definitely save water, builds relationship)
3) if your pantene has finished, add lots of water in it, shake it and continue using (cut botak if you can, that saves even more)
4) if u need to work OT - my mum say work in the office, dont use our own electricity!
5) introduce the 3use1flush. 3 urines/shit then flush once. ops if the person before you had a big business, too bad!
6) water from the washing machine can be recycled and use to "flush" the toilet. but if you have a small family with little washing, add on method (5)
7) get an NTUC Union card, you get linkpoints, rebates and can redeem home appliances.
8) dont blow-dry your hair, sleep wet
9) dont shrug off pamphlet distributors, sometimes they give out "one for one voucher"
10) your 3in1 is cheaper than starbucks latte
11) iron your 5-day work apparels all at one go
12) if you own a gym membership, pop by the gym daily to shower before coming home
13) wan a PSP. try mocca
14) no need your old xbox, turn your old goods into money. cash is king
15) read the news on channelnewsasia.com (in the office, not at home), saves you $ 30-35 a month from buying straits times.
16) go deliberately without your wallet and beg for alms.
17) charge your handphone, Ipod and shaver in the office. rechargeable batteries also can
18) call your friend and deliberately put down the phone. Incoming call's free.
19) send sms via online sms facilities
20) sign up to receive all sorts of promotional sms. i got away with a $6 manicure@ Raffles Place
21) dont spend too much time writing this blog, becos electricity bills are ticking away

bye ~~

~6th Sense

The Long Road Home

After being married for 2 months, Kenneth Coles reveals that the best thing about marriage is that he no longer needs to send me home after dates. Apparently the long road home after dropping me off is akin to what Marcus Fenix experienced as he fought off locusts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENRj8YplXFc

~SeamonkeY~

Wanted

I thought the picture posted by Interpol of Jerry Ee was kind of...hmm cheery, compared to the the rest of the crminally wanted.

~SeamonkeY~

I m deaf mute and dumb

Felt like an idiot as i typed the password just now.
Still wondering why Seamonkey need to choose a highly challenged password

..or has it been too long since i log in?

As we approach the Lunar New Year, let me be the first to say Gong Xi Gong Xi on this blog of ours! Mary Janes HUAT ah...... Princess I know you are rolling your eyes.... 6th Sense "Lunar New Year is Cheena one wat...."

Anyway, the feeling of pouring words on Mary Janes make me feel like old times. Times when I write blogs at work, check stocks at work, la kopi eat breakfast and clock in late, times when I work 4hours a day, and disappear for the other 4 hours. Goodbye to you my dear fren.

"Welcome" to WOW - Working on weekends =p , to turning up sharp at 0830am, leaving office after 0830pm, push my brain cells to full capacity for full 12 hours, becoming deaf mute and dumb on the 13th hour, doing market visits while pa-toing, having dinner@9pm, sleeping by 1130pm.

~Life of 6th Sense, now deaf mute and half dumb

Going Nuts

I’m really excited about Chestnuts this year as it's the first time with such a big group and on Valentine’s too (I hope they dun thrown eggs at me afterwards for running this special occasion. Ha.)

Watching Chestnuts is an annual tradition for me, started when Colin, LN, Mister Yeo, Kennyboy were roped in for production during our “theatre-days” so catching it year after year has always been about reminiscing times when the pay doesn’t matter but good company and humour were musts.

And it turned into another fine form of tradition kicked off only three years ago for Kenneth Cole and I when Colin bailed out on me for an installment. KC was asked to be a replacement for him. He actually thought it was a ploy to ask him out for another date.

And now I’m going with catch it again with 10 of my friends - 2009 seems to be off to a rousing start.

~SeamonkeY~

The aftermath

Photo by Mark Lee

The wedding is over but we are still relishing the moments. When you see stupid grins on our faces while spacing out, you know we are reliving the memories in our heads again.

A quick note of thanks to the bridal party though gawd knows if they actually read this blog!

Wedding Party on Saturday...
Customary Sisters - yes, the last one to get hitched amongst all. Good thing they are still on hand to help out because I can't imagine if I have to haggle for my own bridal self that morning.

Customary Brothers - have to say I am suitably impressed by Kenneth Cole's old college buddies especially after they brought him to St James for the stag night.

Eric and Hua as Emcees - we still prefer Eric's exaggerated versions in the car rides but guess it is a wedding after all (thanks for the tissue, Hua!)

Yuxin, Candy, Leng - for holding the fort at the reception

Wedding Party on Sunday...
Lara & Sixth Sense - real door bitches at the door and lovely, lovely speech! For the record, I did not have to pay them for those wonderful gushes of me, me and I mean us muahahahah. And for making us declare our love pledges on stage!

Colin (Pauline) & Kits - electrifying on stage. You two should go on emcee-dates and crash other weddings. If Pauline was there, you would have made a great threesome.

Kenny - for entertaining the kids with balloons and bubbly. Only you can do it lah...

Emma - for getting a lot of make-up involved and making me look bridally.

Mello & John - now I WANT an iphone

Jonathan - for covering bases forgotton :)

Mark & Ribena - the super-wedding-coordinated couple who captured truly memorable wedding moments (Mark) and making it worry-free (Ribena) for us.

Pio, Surath & Danny - for making it possible for Kenneth Cole to dance with me and granting us really inappropriate songs at a wedding

Last but not least, to all who were there who made it fun, fun, fun.

~SeamonkeY~

Stupid Things

Stupid (but very key) items Kenneth Cole and I "discussed" over the new house
1. the position of the toilet roll holder ("Because its very hard to fold if the roll is found on the left of the throne when we are both right-handed")

2. the design of the toilet roll (he wanted those with spring-back middle that holds the roll and covers that prevent the paper from getting wet. It was too ugly for me and let's face it, it would take a shorter time for me to finish the roll than putting an actual one into the contraption.)

3. the position of the dining table lights ("But why must we have the lights right in the centre of the table?" "Why not???")

4. the colour of the surface top that the chicken bowl is placed upon ("Black accentuates. White just makes the bowl look stupid.")

5. the non-acceptance of my DIY furry red chair at the our new pad ("It doesn't go with anything." "Seen too much action.")

Sure. Laugh at me now. Your turn will come.

~SeamonkeY~

Commitment Rash

My rashes are back again.

This time round, my dear colleagues suspect its an allergic reaction to getting married.

~SeamonkeY~

Reno Rash

To add on to the fear of shopping, we suspect that the new house is also giving me a mysterious rash.

The rash came on two weeks ago which a doctor accounted as a "virus that manifested itself as a rash instead of the usual fever or flu". But upon monitoring the fluctuating outbreaks, we realised last night that its pretty much tied to my visits to the house which is undergoing renovations right now.

This must be a sign to stop me from intervening in Kenneth Cole's plan for decor-domination or nit-picking with contractors. I have a sneaking suspicions that he is secretly pleased I am now banned from the nest till renovations are over.

Fine. Guess I can't help out with the cleaning-up after the reno as well for the sake of my very sensitive skin. Muahhaahhhh.

~SeamonkeY~

The Fear of Shopping

The first piece of item that we bought for the house was not a big-ticket item like a sofa but the wash basin for our bathroom. I called it the "Chicken Bowl" because its oriental motifs reminded me of those bowls with rooster designs I used to eat out from when I was a kid. The bowl was to offset the masculinity of the all-black bathroom. It was love at first sight when Gracie and I spotted it, much to the contrary how Kenneth Cole felt when he saw it. It took me 2 hours to convince him to that the $65 item will be the signature item in the bathroom after his first sight of it and give and take, another 4 weeks before the actual sighting, of me setting his expectations of it.

The second piece of item we bought for the house was the mattress. Well, the mattress and the bed frame packaged in one anyway. For a very cautious person, Kenneth Cole closed the $4,000 deal in less than 2 hours. The mattress felt good, the frame was in a clean design we like, and the salesman was g-o-o-d. The trouble with impulse buying is the post-purchase dissonance that comes with it the day after. It starts gnawing at you and you feel compel to check up on the internet to see if it was really that good of a deal. As it turned out, it wasn't. In a nutshell, we paid premium prices for a housepouring drink which was repackaged in a martini glass served by a cute bartender.

Kenneth Cole will most definitely be spending the whole day today mulling over it. I just want to forget the incident with...more drinks.

~SeamonkeY~

Personal Hygiene on Board..Not!

There I was, minding my own business on the MRT, sitting in a corner seat when the commuter next to me started to Clip. His. Nails.

Thoroughly disgusted, I text Kenneth Cole of my dilemma. Is it rude to get up and leave for another seat? Then he will know that I am leaving because I am dissing his act of clipping nails on train. Should I be bringing my shaver on my next train ride so I can remove my leg hair on my way to work as well??

In an effort to make sure no nail clippings get caught up in my hair, I flipped like a shampoo model. Thank goodness the trauma was over in two-and-a-half stops and he stopped at his pinkies.

~SeamonkeY~