The Moo Moo Song

C told me this there is a song for cows, it's about moo-moos. He promptly played me KLF's version of Justified and Ancient. You know...the one that goes, "They're justified, and their Ancient....". Why is it a moo-moo song? Because apparently the first couple of line goes like, "All bound for Moo Moo land...". Somewhere later in the song they sing about how "they drive an ice cream van". HUH?!!

So I don't geddit....how the hell can cows drive ice cream vans??! And why should they?? I figured if they are driving any type of vans, it should be MILK vans, not ice cream vans. I mean, they produce milk, and then they do milk runs. But ice cream???
So I decided to google of the lyrics of the song, and guess what, it's not moo-moo land, it's MU MU LAND!!! Duh. So this song is not about cows, and so of course it means, these cows do not drive ice cream vans. AHAH! But then...what the heck is a mu mu land?? And who's justifiend and ancient?? I scratch my head.

So I decided to search the net for a REAL cow song. And this is what I found, now that's what I call a cow song. It's seriously quite funny. Moo.

Food for Thought

Recently I stumbled onto someone's food blog . It's a really lovely blog and my first reaction was - WAHHHH!!! something after my own heart. The blogger is a very young adult, reading her blog brought back sudden memories of long ago when in my worldismyoyster years I was an avid foodie with a passion for writing and checking out all the newest and "in" restaurants and eateries this tiny island had to offer. It helped that my then-bf had a passion for food and pocket deep enough to cover our regular food jaunts around the island. Of course, in the course of our relationship he put on 20kg thanks to my passion for eating.

Passion for food is also what brought YP and I together some 6yrs ago. We were both contributors to a now defunct online food review site, and have been good friends ever since. Of course now, things have changed, with YP being engrossed with the 2 males in her life, if now we eat out together we are either at Lei gardens or Hua Ting. Not very adventurous but it's food for the soul.

Reading joone's blog awakened a latent memory that I was one a passionate foodie. I still love food, and I love to cook - culinary skills have improved tremendously over the last 4yrs thanks to a keen interest in feeding my dear beef tartare. What is startling is coming to terms to the fact is I now prefer simpler meals. Pretty sure much of it is because of my yoga practice, over time my body has evolved to only want simple comfort food. Tofu with rice and veggies, or just some steamed fish. Plenty of soup. I'm just happy with that. Most of my yoga teachers and friends who practice seriously find themselves naturallly inclined towards a vegetarian diet as the body starts to reject complex protein and oily foods on its own. My own process has probably started, though at heart I'm still a foodie, I don't think I will ever be a vegetarian completely. I STILL NEED MY FISH!!!

Now.....here's a complicated thought - as a disciple of the cow movement, I'm part cow but cows are supposed to be herbivores!! thus cows = vegetarians. Cows don't eat fish! So...I guess I'm not a cow? Is that why I chant OM instead of Moo

Labourious Day

Wooohoo...public holiday today. And I spent most of it at....you guessed it, yoga. Well actually a 2 hr class with Viv, and then another 3hrs gossiping with Meei and Linda, which is very typical of us. Gossips complete our zen experience for the day. Makes us whole. And gives our mouths a spirirtual experience. LOL. The challenge in class this week for me is Astavakrasana - I could do it decently on my right side but with some difficulty on my left. Today at class as it was so packed and we were nearly mat to mat, YP was given a good close up of the dirt under my feet as I extended my legs out to my right side. LOL. Here's a lovely pic of the pose borrowed from yogajournal.com.


In class today a motherly lady probably in her 50s next to me was doing her poses with ease and grace. Very graceful like a dancer. And she's very flexible with very long hamstrings as well. Watching her bend forward touching her nose to her knees I feel a pang of envy. Wah, despite all these years of practice my hamstrings seem to have frozen up instead of getting longer. Envy to her.

Finally, C gave some positive comments about the new blog layout. As I expected, he wondered about a cow theme in an apparently yoga-doggy blog. Yeah, maybe I should rename the site. Mutterings of a Moomoo Yogini??

Horrors!! Powered up megan to post my blog today only to find that (GASP!!!) the cow image is positioned differently when using Safari. PENGZ SAN...... headaches of all headaches. Yesterday as I laboured intensively over getting the layout right I had to use my company laptop, as apparently megan (or Safari, rather) could not download blogskins correctly. The blogger preview tool is also somewhat misleading as I realised it doesn't show the actual real real layout. :P

ANYWAY...back to work tomorrow. A full week of meetings. Expect it to be labourious, tedious and fraught with tension. Then dog show on Sunday. Still in 2 minds if I shoud show Holly, thanks to lack of discipline on my part (guilty!) and being a sloth in her show training. Of course, my excuse is - she's an airhead.

Hopeless

Spent some 3hrs again trying to fit a cow image onto the blog template and position it correctly. Hopeless at it.

Ungrateful beef sukiyaki even had the gall to comment that the new blog layout is boring, vs the msn one. Duh!! msn is bloggin for idiots. Blogger.com clearly isn't. 6hrs wasted is 6hrs of my life that could have been better spent on other things. All this just so I can make a moo happy. But nooooo...... my efforts ain't appreciated. Think I should stage a cow-protest. Populate his garden with cow-dung or something. :P

Append at 11.10pm: FINALLY!!!! Managed to put the cow in a decent position and move the rest of the paragraph down. Gawdammnthing took me 6 hrs today. Eyes burning. But a small victory. Check out the neat scrolling text at the botton of the page too. Mooooo.....

One last bit....

Beefpotpie was whining about why he had to vote and who moved his fences. WAHLAU....cow disciples like me never ever had a chance to vote all my life. Wishing that there was some contest in this area but noooooooo....... no hope. Bro mentioned that I should move out to potong pasir or tampines if I so badly want to vote. :P Hey, I mean, all singaporeans should be given a chance to decide who they want to govern their country right??

Speaking of moos, the COW moove signs are back!! They have been spotted on orchard road...and wah, this time...they are SPOTTED cows!! Hinted to C that he should nab one. Heehee. But apparently quite difficult as they have been strongly piked down into the ground, their sponsors knowing that ugly singaporeans will try to steal them for fun. LOL

Grumbling Moos

Was in a pretty grumpy mood today, as this morning had to sacrifice meditation class to go all the way to MOE to be the surety for my bro. I didn't get any b'fast, thinking we could finish at 10am and then all head down for some kaya toast and eggs (which seems to be the de riguer b'fast for my sat mornings). All throughout the journey and our wait at MOE I whined, complained and cussed. That's actually pretty bad behaviour. Wah, I've degenerated to one of those shrews. Damn, this is what lack of food and lack of zen does. Not very zen leh. Or should my mantra now be IAMSHREWWWwwwww......?

Anyway, headed down to killeney kopitiam where bro treated b'fast. After 2 eggs 2 toasts and some thick milo, I'm a much happier camper. Made it in time to the Led class at noon too. Mood improved tremendously.

Uh oh, I had $300 in sookee vouchers expiring today. Bohpian, have to go shopping. Decided to try and buy something for mother's day. Ended up with a nice-ish semi-precious pendant. Nice-ish because, frankly speaking, SK and LH and Goldheart and etc jewellery standards.....are bleh. Poor quality and butt ugly designs. $99 for a diamond pendant? Forget it, I'll buy some good cubic zirconia stuff with that at a costume jewellery store thank you. Not to mention all the hdb aunties and their grandmothers will probably own 101 of these cheap 'diamond' jewellery.

The bright spot however, was the fruit stall outside of the sookee shop in toa payoh...selling DURIANS!!!! Wah...the whiff of the fruit permeated the entire store as I was browsing jewellery. I was hooked. End up with $30 of ang-heh durians. Finished 1 box already, and by jove, this is THE BEST stuff I've had this off-season. Worth my $$. Happy camper again.

Protests

After much deliberation I've decided to move my blog here instead, thanks to complaints and whines from both YP and the beef stroganoff about the shitty comments function in msn spaces.

EXCEPT....blogger.com is not exactly as friendly for me to use as msn spaces...BECAUSE it's not a theidiotsguidetoblogging like msn is. I have to find a host for my photos, and edit my own template code (wahlaueh, I'm like the ignoramusidiotus when it comes to this). Spent some 3hrs surfing (and suffering!) in blogskins.com cuz thinking I could find a nice skin to use. Yeah sure I found several, but gawd I really have problems editing and changing the codes so make the layout usable for myself. GIVE UP. Back to using the standard templates that blogspot provides. Pengz.

Old blog is here. I look upon it with fondest memories.
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However I'm in 2 minds if I want to keep bloggin here or maybe move back to msn spaces. Sianz. Also dunno how to move my previous blog posts here if I ever want to. I don't have any problems publishing comments to their comments in msn, but how come they keep having problems? maybe they are a bad msn customer. Bleh.

Actually I started this blog space at blogspot at the same time I created the one at msn spaces. Just that I decided to stay at msn because of it's easy user functionality (read: spacesforblogidiots). That's why there's one previous post below written eons ago in Feb.