The Giddy Tigeress gifted me with the gift of FIVE wrapped up in Tiffany Blue and wrapped in signature Tiffany bow style! Doesn’t it look pretty? Actually the Tiffany thing is another story which I’ll regale you with another day.

Anyway, I was gifted with five questions I must answer on a Friday after I receive this gift. So what d’ya know? Its a Friday today (albeit late in the evening but still Friday!) and here are my 5 answers.

1. To watch or participate?
In what? Sometimes I watch, sometimes I participate. Mostly, I watch THEN participate once I know the rules of course. Call it pride but I hate making a fool of myself.

2. Malls, catalog shopping, or the Internet?
I can’t answer this one with just one. C’est non possible! I mean, here I am, writing beauty reviews and shopping deals so just being limited to one is like taking me to a buffet and telling me I can only have the salad leaves! But if I truly can only have one, I’d say malls. I like seeing things in person and testing them out in real life. Catalog shopping intrigues me, but I’ve never bought anything from a catalog (unless you could online catalogs). Internet shopping is awesome because I get to buy stuff I can only dream about otherwise, which I restrict to non clothes and shoes. But for practical purposes, I’d still have to say the mall - that way I know it fits!

3. A bath or shower?
Shower. I like the feel of the water and besides, having a shower uses 1/5 of the water needed to run a bath so that makes me environmentally friendly right?! However, nothing beats a warm bubble bath scented with aromatherapy oils and flower petals for a relaxing soak guaranteed to ease away the strains of the day. Ahh…. I wish I had a bath… I need to relax!

4. To talk to people by telephone, in person or by e-mail?
This depends on the level of comfort I feel with a person. I like email for the edit factor, but I’ve found that its impractical and not usually the best form of communication with people because nuances are lost and you have to depend on emoticons etc to get your message across correctly. At least over the phone or in real life you can gauge a person’s response and reactions.

5. Typing or writing?
I’m faster at typing for everyday but I still like hand writing messages or cards. In this generic impersonal world, the personal touch is still best.

Gosh! Looking at those answers, I never did give just one answer did I? And with this, I tag thee:-

• Wuching
• Cheesey
• Yuinyin
• Pink Elle
• Beetrice

I’ll be watching out for your answers next Friday y’all!

Its the long weekend, with Wesak Day on Monday. I’ll be catching up on sleep and house chores and the dreaded ironing. I have to. I have no more clothes left for work! Hope you have a weekend that’s more fun than mine!

Yours fluffily

There’s a new movie coming into town and I, the kiasu one am up there with the best of them, fishing for free tickets to attend the premier and formal dinner at JW Marriot. The movie is Made of Honour that stars Patrick Dempsey aka McDreamy of Grey’s Anatomy. Let it be known now that he never appealed to me in Grey’s (when I watched it).

Reading the synopsis, I reckon this is a typical chick flick - boy and girl are best friends, girl gets married, boy suddenly realises he loves her, boy tries to sabotage the wedding… doesn’t it sound like My Best Friend’s Wedding with roles reversed? At least in My Best Friend’s Wedding, there was the droolicious Rupert Everett (never mind that he’s gay) to provide the eye candy. I’m not quite sure that Patrick Dempsey will do it for me.

All that aside, Nuffnang is offering free tickets for anyone who plays the Flip Flop Fishing game and gets the highest scores. Not only free tickets but the whole “wedding dinner” works with bagpipes (?!?!) and a full 8 course dinner at JW Marriott where diners are required to dress formally. I have a gown hanging in my cupboard that I know will do perfectly for the occasion and it needs some airing

So, here is my highest score. I know it isn’t all that high, but its the best I can do seeing as I’m approaching busy times ahead with no time to play fishing games in sight.

Now the clincher is this - I am going to be maid of honour at my sister’s wedding. I have no idea what maids of honour do except hold the bride’s flowers - haha! - so, yes an expedition to the movies with the dinner, dress and the works will do the trick nicely!

I hope this fishing expedition brings in the big one! Moby Dick here I come!

Yours fluffily

I was stuck with a 6 hour wait yesterday. I wasn’t travelling and it was work - don’t ask

Anyway, it was a very very boring 6 hour wait and given paper and a pen, I ended up with these:-

It started innocently enough with some doodling about 2 hours into the wait. And I don’t know what possessed me but it evolved into ducks and birds and any number of creatures thereafter (if you can recognize them, that is). Another 2 hours later, and my wild side was showing:-

ROFLOL! The mountain at the top probably represents my secret wish to visit Japan and the pig with the party hat probably is my hidden wish to throw a party LOL…. Subliminal messages indeed….

I’m no artist as you’d probably guess by now. Yet another hour and a red pen later, many animals were wearing strange and puzzled expressions with exclamation marks and question marks over their heads.

Oh and I don’t know if anyone watches the Disney channel. If you have kids and the Disney channel you’d have seen the segment called “Spot the Hidden Mickey” at some point. You see, apparently all Disney cartoons or even shows have a “Hidden Mickey” somewhere. It could be in the spots on the back of a dog or a puddle on the floor… anything that forms the 3 circles that make up the Mickey logo.

Well, in the midst of my doodling, I suddenly spotted a Hidden Mickey on the table!

Did you spot the Hidden Mickey?

Let’s try this again……

Too free? Yes!

Yours fluffily

One day late, but here I am, wishing all mommy bloggers who read my blog a Happy Mother’s Day!

We don’t make a big deal of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day in our family. We happen to be averse to crowds so we usually have our celebration dinner a week or two in advance. Last week, Mom had her do at her favourite Korean restaurant where we stuffed ourselves to the gills.

So, this week, on the actual Mother’s Day, we decided to keep dinner simple… well relatively so.

There was starter of fried black pepper prawns served with potato wedges.

Main entree was a medium rare grilled rib-eye steak marinated in black pepper and stout and served with a green salad and pasta.

And for dessert, we had a freshly baked cheesecake that everyone seemed to enjoy. The fact my Dad actually had a double helping and proclaimed it was “Not too sweet” despite my protests, told me it was a bit of a success!

I’m happy to report that my Mom and everyone else enjoyed the food tremendously, and we loved the idea of dining at home where we could sit around in comfort without having the hassle of driving around looking for parking and squashing with legions of other diners, and then taking out the bit of plastic to swipe an astronomical amount for sub-standard set menu food.

Besides, dining at home was also relatively cheap! I think I’m going to have to do something similar when Father’s Day comes around.

Yours fluffily

I know I have fans. I must have. That feedburner count doesn’t get that high if no one’s reading my daily… ok ok… not-so-daily fluff right?

Anyway, Wuching wanted to know about my fans.

By Wuching’s definition of fans, I have only 2 that span the ages of technology and nostalgia.

The Modern - wireless, remotely controlled gizmo wonder

Panasonic ceiling fan with remote control speeds. Cools a treat on hot days but is usually off because I get some strong winds up in my castle in the sky.

The Old - nostalgic, yesteryear still going strong.

Hands up who remembers this KDK table top fan from their childhood? You don’t see these around much anymore. This says its the deluxe model! I suppose its because it comes in 3 speeds.

I grew up with this fan that used to belong to my late grandma. As a kid, she would scream at us if we went too near it while it was on, lest we stick our fingers between the wire screen and have them lobbed off by the fan blades. Many years later, it was wrapped up and kept in the store room until some time last year when I asked my mom if there was a spare fan around the place. You see, I’m too stingy (and inefficient) to get an air conditioner fixed up in my “study” so I figured a table fan would do in the interim.

It does work, and it serves its purpose. And I get some pleasure and a big dose of nostalgia using it because the whirring it makes as it turns reminds me of the nights as a kid when I’d creep into my late gran’s room to sleep. I had a room of my own but I went through a phase when I couldn’t sleep unless it was in my gran’s room. So, yeah, this fan reminds me of those days.

Perhaps it should look a bit more like this:-

And those are the only 2 fans I have in my house.

Over to you to tell me about your fans:-

• Rinnah
• Giddy Tiger
• Andie Summerkiss

Yours fluffily