Friday 22 June 2007

Try it out on your own photos

Came across this cute option, go on & try it out ;-) (click here)

Turn your photo into a jigsaw puzzle
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As a display at galleries to be admired
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My favourite yet - distort photos & turning them into wonderful artistic spheres

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Distortion of buildings - Sydney opera house, lighhouse in Victoria & Sydney downtown buildings



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Distortion of nature - tree, sunrise and polar bears

Thursday 21 June 2007

An embarrassing moment

Yesterday the most embarrassing thing happened - I was attending a health talk (in the office premises) and I blacked out, fell off the chair and bumped my head on the wall. I left the talk and my colleague had to assist me since I’m wobbly on my feet. As I neared my office, nearly blacked out again - a gentleman came to help as well, but I don’t know who (since I was not attuned to my surroundings then). *Sigh* so embarrassing - although I am not a public figure, I do conduct training once in a while and attend meetings with staff from other departments. I do hope things will be soon forgotten (& very quickly too - I hope). Through this incident, found out that a lot of people do care for me :-) - a caring colleague from the next department came to me with ointments etc. I guess I gave them all a fright, I was told I looked frightfully pale even under all the foundation and blusher. The last I experienced the same was during the orientation week @ university years ago.

Wednesday 20 June 2007

A bevy of movies

Feeling very excited this morning - just heard over the radio, premier of the Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix will be on 10th July. Even, if I am unable to obtain tickets - it'll only be matters of days/week(s) before I get to catch the movie :-) . Other movies that we have been looking forward to: Transformers, The Simpsons and Pixar's Ratatouille. Just checked the Cinema Online - Ratatouille will only be shown in August, we are betting on it to be a bone tickler (our funny bones).


In our to watch list:
end June/ early July - Transformers (click here for the link to watch the Transformers trailer)
mid-July - Harry Potter & the Order of Phoenix (click here for the link to watch the HP trailer)
end-July - The Simpsons (I love them - duh ... click here for the link to watch the Simpsons trailer)
August - Ratatouille (click here for the link to watch the Ratatouille trailer)

Our preference's quite diverse except I do not and will not and shall not watch scary movies. When everyone is raving on one particular movie - I borrowed from someone and watched it - fast forwarding all "scary" parts just to know the gist of the story :-p

Tuesday 19 June 2007

Good ol' schooldays

How much is the doggy in the window? The one with the waggily tail … and so the song goes. Me and my pals - when we were in lower secondary, we’d be extremely happy/excited whenever the main events for assembly wraps up quickly and we get to sings songs such as the above (led by beloved Mrs Abraham). Amongst other songs that we used to sing will be a song about
spaghettis and meatballs, a song about a farmer in a dell (can’t remember exactly) but the tempo gets faster and faster as the song progresses – it was all great fun.
Now I recall, the song goes:
The farmer’s in the dell
The farmer’s in the dell
High ho O merry O the farmer’s in the dell

Yikes, that’s all that I can manage to jog from my memory (a good 14/15 years ago
;-P). Today’s entry is to capture this happy memory … before I forget even more as time goes by.

Monday 18 June 2007

Hang on for ten minutes

Today is one of those days in which I will ask myself this question - whether I should be holding my tongue? Well, a lot of times depending on situations - not learning to hold your tongue in check may land you in hot soup. I am usually not argumentative but when situations calls for my assertive side to be more pronounced - I will do just that. We read the following from a book called "Drop The Pink Elephant" a gift from my brother one X'mas. Roughly one portion says, when you are in a situation where you are about to reply an e-mail in anger, hold on for a while (lets say 10 minutes) i.e. hang on and do not click on the send button to shoot the e-mail that you have been furiously typing away!!! . It is something that hubby and I try to apply in our e-mail writing/replies as well as prior to voicing out our thoughts because in the heat of the moment, actions taken by you may unwittingly land yourself in bigger problems than when you first receive e-mails/hear of remarks/statements that does little to complement you or far from the truth.

So, remember to practise take 10, have the facts ready/ recollect your wits prior to taking the next step and especially do not react when your emotions' in turmoil
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Sunday 17 June 2007

Coffee 1,2,3

A coffee connoisseur I am not but I do consume quite a fair bit of coffee everyday. Let's see, I start my day in the office with a cup of Aik Cheong black coffee. If I am having breakfast with colleagues, depending on the venue - if it is the cafeteria I will have my usual cup of "Nescafe see" or Nescafe with a little bit of sugar and evaporated milk - once in a while we will indulge in coffee and toast at O’Briens. Second cup of coffee will be consumed during lunch time (if I have my food at certain kopitiam near my office, I'll most likely be having white coffee). If I don't, I may have my second cup at about 4 or 5 p.m. (Aik Cheong again) when I need a little pick me up else it'll be Nescafe or O'Briens during evening 'yum cha' with colleagues after work. Last cup of coffee for the day will be a nice hot mug of Nescafe gold - introduced hubby to this and now he doesn't quite care for the normal Nescafe anymore.
On weekends, we may indulge in a nice cuppa coffee made with the coffee maker - since this is an indulgence, I'll prepare on weekends only accompanied by pancakes and half boiled eggs (hubby's favourite breakfast combination).


Today, we picked up a packet of Coffee Bean's Colombia Narino from KLCC after our shopping. Quite a fruitful day - our first stop was Corus Hotel for the Clarks warehouse sale - today is the last day, a lot of designs that we favour - our shoe sizes no longer available. We went on to KLCC next, and I am very pleased with myself. Why you may ask? Finally managed to convince hubby to buy a new pair of shoes - something comfy at 50% off. As for me, the first shirt I pulled out from the stack is just so adorable (Nike baby tee) - I just have to purchase it. My other stop was La Senza - they are having a promotion 3 pairs of brassiere for RM129. I like La Senza quite a fair bit coz it's comfy :-)

Now a brief write up on the newly purchased coffee, the Colombia Narino is cultivated in the state of Narino, the premier growing region of Colombia, this coffee is hand-picked by workers at privately owned family farms who take great pride in their production, preparation and grading of each coffee.

This particular one (pictured above) is described as having a full, creamy body with well-balanced flavour and full, rich aroma. The aroma is so inviting but as it is quite late now I shall resist the temptation and have my usual gold – Nescafe Gold; else I may be counting sheep while my hubby's in dreamland ;-P