Cookies Theory...

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In the cookies of life, people like you are the chocolate chips.
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...Anonymous

Andrew & Lili Prewedding Film "IMAGINE"

Hi Friend,

Thought I would like to this prewedding concept "Imagine" by The Paper Cranes. This video is basically the bride-to-be is sort of imagining what her wedding day would be like. The creator, Santo (Susanto Widjaja) just won 2 Australian Awards for his videos!

Andrew & Lili Prewedding Film "IMAGINE" Same Day Edit Love Story from Paper Cranes Productions on Vimeo.

The Richest Man in Babylon

It's been a long time since I have read diligently. And I was shopping at bookstore 1 month ago and looking aimlessly as I don't know what books to buy. Then I noticed this book, The Richest Man in Babylon in one of the self-help shelves. "Heh, I had seen this books around on the shelves for years." So I bought the books half-heartily, as I really thought it is just a another book as "Rich Dad Poor Dad"

The Richest Man in Babylon is a series of financial stories. These stories are set in ancient Babylon and relate the story of a Babylonian regular guy who used some basic financial sense and built up a great deal of wealth. Some of the language used, is a bit strange, as the author attempts to sound like this is an authentic tale from the ancient days, but the messages are simple and clear.

The stories themselves are of varying levels of quality. There are 2 great stories, a fair number of middling ones, and a few that left me confused as to the reason for their inclusion. Many of the stories had overlapping concepts but they were explained and applied in different ways.

Singapore Toy Games & Comic Convention 2009

Went to Singapore Toy Games & Comic Convention 2009 last Saturday with Galvin. Going there is part work part personal. The toys in the convention are nice and awesome, but it was secondary motive to me. Taking the opportunity, I looked out at the different cards game and take the effort and time to learn how their cards games and rules works.

GEPL 21st Birthday - 25th July 2009

Today is GEPL 21st Birthday. We have 4 programmes line up today in order to celebrate the birthday, (Birthday Bash is one of them). The past pre-events is from 1st to 3rd Saturday of July.

Birthday Bash is fully signed up since 2nd week of July (60 participants). The programme is as follow: 1) Storytelling 2) Buddy Reading 3) Board Games 4) Foods consists of sandwiches, jelly and of course Birthday Cake (Chocolate ones)

Murphy's Law has decided to pay me a visit today :)

2 hours before the programme: I was rehearsed and preparing my main story, Pip and the Squeak by Ian Schoenherr. Er...the problem is I don't know how to pronounce the name of the author.

I called up few colleagues but sadly they were not in. Wanted to call Miss V but decided to leave her as last option. In the end, managed to get LJ, together with MJ, they pronounced the author's name for me. Funny part -> Then I realised that the author is a German, I have a German colleague in my office... so I called him up and he has given me a perfect and correct pronunciation

1 hours before the programme: All foods arrived and I have briefed all the event assistants.

30 mins before the programme: No lighter for the candles. Quickly went to opposite coffeeshop to buy one. 70 cents.

5 mins before the programme: Children went in the room and VERY excitedly. But the programme started 15 mins late due to the latecomers.

All ran well until...my photographer told me that there is low battery in my camera. So no photos on the cake, food and...

Hurray! The programme is over!...(I made an exception today, I ate a CHOCOLATE CAKE!!! )

Molly's 1 year celebration - 23rd July

Molly, the mobile library celebrated her 1st year birthday on 23th July (To be exact, it should be 1 year 3 months, if you can remember the day Molly is launched ). Feel so good to be there.

Due to Molly, I was involved in the making of Adventures of Molly series, 4 sets of books altogether. And the books are available for loans right now...They are listed as below and can be found @ all Public Libraries @J SING ADV

Adventures of Molly. Always on the go! - (Foldable book)
Adventures of Molly. Friends, unite!
Adventures of Molly. Little bike's rescue
Adventures of Molly. The proud racer

The Solstice Cup

Refer to my previous 2 Audio-Visual Review, Galvin commented that my reviews are improving.(Think he needed minimum editing compare to my previous review) So happy to hear that. Another of my review, please comment on it. Thanks

The Solstice Cup
Rachel Dunstan Muller.

Do you believe in Otherworld? The Celtic folklore believes that the Otherworld exists. Mackenzie’s twin sister, Breanne hurt her leg when both of them were in Ireland five years ago. And she is still limping. The doctors have no clue and explanation for it.

Now they are back again. Breanne mocks at their Aunt Joan for her usual superstition on Celtic myths. However, Mackenzie is certain that Aunt Joan is right. The willful Breanne is being cursed by Faeries, Nuala one night. Will Mackenzie able to save her sister in time?

Rachel has often used twin sisters in her books but for The Solstice Cup, this is the first time she has used twins as the main characters. The suspense in this mystery and fantasy book will keep children from aged 10 to 12 years old engaged to the story.

The simple and short length sentences offer children the transition to longer chapter books easier.

Gourmet - Korean drama

Finally, I had finished watching 28 episodes of GOURMET (Korean Drama) in 4 days...ignoring people in MSN (Of course not to Miss V and Miss K), skipped my reading routine, stopped checking e-mail in weekend and Opps!, running plan.

From the title, you should know that the drama is about cooking. Romance should be part of it since it's a Korean production. Shall skipped the synopsis in this posting. I feel that the whole drama is well-done, even in the smallest detail such as the extras, the different languages used in the show and etc.

P.S. For whose who know me well, you will know that if I love certain song/s or show/s. I will re-watch it over and over again.

For example, I have watched "The parent trap" 20 times in 8 days while I was in Australia. Or I kept listening to the same song for 1 whole month (at home, at work, in the car and sleeping).

So it is not an exception this time round. In the last episode, I love this particular scene when Sung Chan (male lead) proposed to Jin Soo (female lead). The whole scene is so funny that I kept repeating it for 20 times. And played around with Korean/Chinese language or Chinese/English sub-titles. Did Sung Chan successfully proposed to Jin Soo, it's for you to find out.

How can I miss the soundtrack, going to hunt for it...

HWA! @_@ I am in luck...

I always have no luck in lucky draws or lotteries (that why I stopped playing). In June, I causally took part in the OCBC credit card lucky draw. The prerequisite of the draw was that the cardholder has to use X amount of dollars.

I happened to use that X amount of dollars to buy my NEC laptop. The lucky draw has 2 components, 1) 2 Transformer tickets with popcorn vouchers (popcorn + 2 Coke) or/and free 6 months subscription of "Simply Her" magazine.

To my surprised! I actually won 2 Transformer tickets ,which I gladly asked Galvin along last week, as I know he likes Transformer.

Unknown to me! second surprise awaited me. Today, I received a subscription acknowledgment from "Simply Her". I have won the free 6 months subscription. Hurray!