Blade of grass

If we thought vegetarian food choices must be limited and pathetic, well that perception will likely change if one has given the vegetarian feast at Uma Ubud a try. Yes there's no meat, but there's plenty of everything else, and vegetarian is not only just vegetables, mushroom and tofu. The creativity of the food here is amazing, so much that one doesn't miss meat at all. Yeah, I chowed down more than usual because everything is so yummy. Yum.

Uma Ubud rocks. It's the perfect place for a yoga retreat, one can just be here for a loooooooooooooooong time.

The Truth According to Puppetji

In Philosophy class today we discussed enlightenment and Don showed a video of Puppetji. Puppetji is hilarious, I tell you. It really gives meaning to a difficult subject to understand and makes learning so much fun. I have a new guru and his name is Puppetji.


Check out Puppetji at his website here for more fun and hilarity.

Schizophrenic Fish

C has a nice community of discus in his fish tank, which I proudly helped populate of course. There's Melon, a bright red beauty rather bimbotic in looks, Snow White III, a baby faced innocent darling, Bozo the Clown, who looks like he's everyone's friend, and Spikey, a blueblack striped meanie who looks like the street ah beng. Of course, over time their true nature in reality is actually Melon the Bimbotic beauty who is a genius in disguise acting stoopid (by playing possum so she doesn't get beat up); Snow White the babyface who's actually the biggest Ah Lian aka Don't mess with me or you are dead; Bozo the Happy Face who is in fact the real ah beng who beats everyone up (except Snow White); and Spikey the ah beng lookalike who in reality is the ultimate wuss who gets beat up by everyone.

moral of story --> don't judge animals by their looks. Proven by the fact that Pretty Holly in reality is actually Stoooopid Holly.

Pinky

Pinky 'twas this new 8GB ipod which C got me recently. Except I don't need a new ipod (I have 4 already, why would I????). Alright so I have a new pink iPod. To cut a long story short, new iPod could not sync with Mac because new OS is needed. New OS had to be bought. Which led to Mac sent to macshop to get speakers and soundcard fixed (i.e more $$ spent). All this in a bid to enable new Ipod to be syncd. Of course, before new Ipod can be synced, new Ipod mysteriously went missing. I guess some fortunate bloke out there picked up a brand new unused electric pink iPod for free. Ending of story = no Ipod, but spent nearly $500 on OS and maintenance. Counting the $250 pinky cost, that's a deadloss of over $700. $700 could = brand new Tod's shoes.

OUCH.

Of boys and toys

Rex is on his way to Russia, probably to be the getaway car of some russian mobster. He's been a good car, serving C faithfully these days, despite the abuse. C was quite coy about the new toy of course. One of the questions I posed was, "so, how many horsies under the hood?". Answer: "Less than 200". Next question, "How many biscuits and hollys is that?". Answer: "depends on if you want to go straight, or forever drive in a curved direction". ouch. Ha ha ha. Obviously bis = go straight, and holly = not very bright. Poor Bis. Very sweet but rather depressed. And Holly, well, very pretty but also very stupid.

Still on the search for Hootie. Never found. Still sad. I miss him. However, there is a recent emergence of the new Mooove flying cows at various patches of roadside. Hmm. The plot thickens.

In rememberance of Hootie

Hootie. Little red fish with the big innocent eye. Always happy. Always innocent. Never minded that he wasn't in a designer bag like Slick always is in, never minded that he didn't get to go on outings daily like Slick does. But now, gone forever. Perhaps trampled by 1000 careless feet at orchard road. Or perhaps he tired of his second-rated (vs slick) life and decided to break free and run away. I miss his big big happy eyes. I tracked back to all the places I could have possibly lost him, but no sign of Hootie. My heart is broken. There'll never be another Hootie again.

I hope he's at peace wherever he is. Off to a better life. My heartache is so immense I had to buy 2 pairs or new sandals to comfort myself. Oh where Oh where art thou Hootie? I contemplate putting up a MISSING ad with a reward offered. Oh where oh where has my little fish gone? :(

The Black Hole

It's the point of no return for me. I'm so hooked on the latest (yes another new one since Mar 29 update) K-drama Tae Wang Sa Shin Gi I'm watching k-drama all the way through 1.30am everyday. It's a bit like Final Fantasy and LOTR mix. Even on my business trip to BKK for 2 days, I was afraid to let TWSSG go, yes, ol' faithful TWSSG DVD came along with me. Even chose room service rather than go out for meals or even to the spa just so I could watch the DVD on my PC. Ohhh yeah.

The OST is great. Great great great. Just like Jap anime or fantasy. Beautiful Song!!