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The French Stall

Have been talking about visiting this famous "The French Stall" for a long long time as it's quite famous and near to our place. Finally, we made mind our mind these few days to pay it a visit today. Was thinking to go over around 6:30pm as we heard it's very full most of the time and no reservation is accepted. However, the whole thing got delayed because of the stupid air con problem at our new place. The air con here has been more than 10 years and it got problems on and off. So we encountered our first problem a few weeks back after moving in no more than 2 months. I do understand that the landlord was trying to save money and to push responsibility to us but it's too obvious that it's hardware problem as it's so old. At the end, he just insisted to repair it instead of changing the whole thing. Hopefully, this would last for at least a few months more. If not, we may really need to "argue" with the landlord to fix this thing or find ourselves another new place.

Anyway, it's really great to have such a nice meal after this long argument over aircon and to be frank, the food there is really great and delicious. The most important thing is it's very affordable. It cost us about S$30 per head for a full three courses French meal and all four of us are very happy about it. Guess we would drop by quite often from now on as it's really cheap and good. ; )

Match Point

Discovered a convenient DVD renting machine, Cinenow, nearby my place and watched my first movie, Match Point, by them this morning.

The introduction said "This whole movie is about ambition and obsession, the seduction of wealth and the discordant relationship between love and sexual passion. Perhaps most importantly, however, the story reveals the huge part luck plays in the events of our lives, refuting the comforting misconception that more of life is under our control than really is."

And the opening really put me into thinking and wondering. It said "The man who said "I'd rather by lucky than good" saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't, and you lose."

The guy murdered his coquette in the end because she got pregnant and wanted him to devoice his wife who's the source of his wealth and comfortable living style. So he killed her and his baby in order to keep this thing covered and lucky him that the police did not discover the truth.

I can't believe that people would do this but I guess that's what happened in the real world. People is willing to do anything because of their obsession of wealth or the so-called high social class. Guess I won't as I have been taking "money" quite lightly and I believe I'm willing to look for other types of fulfillment in life say career, family or children to exchange the so-called fortune. I believe I don't need TONS of money. Sufficient is enough but my standard of sufficient might be quite high also.

The Happiest Thing is No More Than Meeting Old Old Friends

OH MY GOD!! That was the only words that I could say yesterday morning when I saw Yun Li's message on my blog. We were junior high school classmates back in Taipei which was more than 12 years ago. We last met at somewhere near home before I left for Singapore. After that, I have never heard of her. She found me on line by typing "Jenny Yang" which lead her to my blog. Heard one of our another classmates found her via internet also. Just one morning, I found back two of my old old friends.

We have sort of a bunch of classmates in junior high and we went to the same tutoring centre back then. However, we sorted of losing touch after we entered senior high. I can't describe how surprised and happy I was yesterday morning. Got to meet you guys again either in Taiwan or any other part of the world. ; )

藥罐子的生活

這幾年身體都不怎麼好
可能是之前的底子就不好
再加上這幾年來隻身在外
生活跟飲食都不太正常
這幾個月益發嚴重

上個禮拜決定開始我調養生息的計劃
因為狀況真的不太好
第一個就是開始看中醫
基於我之前的就醫經驗
我應該是全身上下都有病

然而這個醫生還頗有趣
我進去坐下他第一句話就是"你很有自信"
可能是我那種處變不驚的態度讓他講出這樣的話
然而開始把脈後的第二句話就是"你不常跟人講出心裡的話"
第三句話是"你很強"
倒還沒有醫生注意我這一面跟我講過這些話
看起來這位應該是算命師而不只是醫師吧
不過我還是把這些當作是讚美

不出意料之外
我肝, 腎, 脾, 胃, 心, 子宮都有問題
而且工作跟生活的壓力及不良的睡眠品質讓情況加劇
老實說我倒不覺得我的壓力真的很大
畢竟大部份的壓力都是自己給自己的
不過醫師讓我警惕的一句話卻是
"你這麼強卻把自己的身體搞成這樣以至於力不從心"
我才警覺到我其實是可以做得更好
不過沒有健康的身體是萬萬不能

所以我也就下定決心開始好好調養我的身體
不碰生,冷, 酸, 辣, 茶及其它刺激性的食物
這應該會是個長期戰役
不過我相信及早開始是對的
所以以後要是聽到我不能吃這個那個的也請不要訝異
希望我會有個更健康的身體來接受未來更大的挑戰

Man of Letters

Went for Man of Letters yesterday and it is local musical presented by NUS Centre for the Arts. One of my directors passed me two free tickets the other day and I did want to relax a bit in Singapore these two weeks before I start my next traveling again.

We actually got a bit of lost as I made a mistake on the exact location so we were late for about 30 minutes. The show was really quite good and better than what I expected originally. The music is quite nice and they used some Singalish as the background was Singapore back at 1950s. The whole thing turned out to be very entertaining. To be frank, I was quite surprised at the end of the show. Now, I'm much more interested in the Forbidden City which would be held again this Sep. That should be even better I think as that's more professional.

希望酷刑

對喜歡自己的人
最好的回報方式是也能喜歡對方
但是當所有的情況都不允許的話
那就應該要明確的拒絕
因為任何一絲絲的希望
都會變成無止盡的酷刑
而那就叫希望酷刑

很難斷定我現在是不是在這個酷刑裡
但我相信我不會讓自己難過下去

我也不會讓其他人因我而承受這個酷刑
如果沒有明確的心意
就無需浪費人家的時間跟心力

年齡的增長與歲月的洗禮應該讓我成熟許多
而用更負責任的態度正面的面對我的人生

House Warming

Only had our house warming on 29th April though we moved in early April because Ceci and I were quite busy in April. So finally, I got time to prepare some home-made Taiwanese food and invited some of our friends and my colleagues over for dinner. I did cook quite a lot when I was here the first year as we got a group of people staying at the same flat and I was not as busy at that time. These 2 years, I only managed to cook like this 2 to 3 times per year as I'm quite busy and it's not easy to get everyone together. Hope everyone enjoyed the dinner and hope I would got more time to organized event like this and cook for everyone. : )

Going Back Home

I flew back to Taiwan last Thursday evening because my dad went for an operation that morning. Actually, I knew that he was doing some check up in the hospital and may need to go for some operation. I thought it might be this week and I did plan to fly back last Saturday. However, he actually had the operation on Thursday morning and originally they didn't want me to know. I called back last Thursday morning and I felt the way my mom talked was a bit abnormal. Then I called my cousin to check out what's happening and realized that my dad was in operation already. Immediately, I decided to flew back though I know that's not a big operation. I just didn't want to leave my mom alone to take care of my dad. I never knew that my parents have such a big influence on me because I couldn't think of anything else after knowing this news. At that particular moment, I knew it's time that I need to "GO BACK HOME" after almost 5 years outside.

However, after almost 10 days in Taipei, I realized that I'm not used to the life here already as I do not have my own space like what I do in Singapore and the lifestyle is very different. Guess the biggest challenge I got right now is to maintain the lifestyle I like and want in either Singapore or Taipei as well as to spend more time with my parents and take care of them.