kulat / fungus

What's new in this picture?

2010-03-22T22:35:00.002+08:00

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Hey Babe!
What's new in this picture? (;
Chun or not?

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The clock!

Sistas

2010-03-22T22:19:00.004+08:00

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Here are the 2 kid sistas Gail and Babe in black during CNY. Goofing off. Cute no?

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Another one.

Baby Name: Eve/Eva/Ava/Hava/Chava

2010-01-11T23:16:00.000+08:00

Original Meaning: Life (Hebrew)

Chinese Bible translation: 夏娃
Literal translation: Summer Baby

Babe suggested: Tiger Lily

Any other suggestions?

Encouragement for Malaysia

2010-01-11T23:09:00.002+08:00

Psalm 92

A Psalm. A Song for Shabbat.

¹ It is good to praise the LORD
       and make music to your name, O Most High,
² to proclaim your love in the morning
       and your faithfulness at night,
³ to the music of the ten-stringed lyre
       and the melody of the harp.
⁴ For you make me glad by your deeds, O LORD;
       I sing for joy at the works of your hands.
⁵ How great are your works, O LORD,
       how profound your thoughts!
⁶ The senseless man does not know,
       fools do not understand,
⁷ that though the wicked spring up like grass
       and all evildoers flourish,
       they will be forever destroyed.
⁸ But you, O LORD, are exalted forever.
⁹ For surely your enemies, O LORD,
       surely your enemies will perish;
       all evildoers will be scattered.
¹⁰ You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox;
       fine oils have been poured upon me.
¹¹ My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries;
       my ears have heard the rout of my wicked foes.
¹² The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
       they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;
¹³ planted in the house of the LORD,
       they will flourish in the courts of our God.
¹⁴ They will still bear fruit in old age,
       they will stay fresh and green,
¹⁵ proclaiming, "The LORD is upright;
       he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him."

Proverbs 10

²⁴ What the wicked dreads will overtake him;
       what the righteous desire will be granted.
²⁵ When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone,
       but the righteous stand firm forever.
³⁰ The righteous will never be uprooted,
       but the wicked will not remain in the land.

Hey Kid! You're Looking Good!

2009-10-04T22:06:00.000+08:00

Art!

2009-09-30T19:55:00.001+08:00

For the full article, read here. Wish I could be there to see the whole lot.

The Right to Offend - The Guardian

2009-09-24T17:28:00.000+08:00

I agree wholeheartedly with this article.

So now you know how I think.

View of Balik Pulau

2009-09-14T23:54:00.000+08:00

This is a panorama from a series of pictures taken from the peak of Jalan Tun Sardon on the way to Balik Pulau. Taken on 15th June 2009, on the way to celebrate my birthday, with my wife, parents, babe, sam & lyndsey.

Lu-ver-ly, no?

Penang Guitar Festival

2009-09-14T22:21:00.000+08:00

The Penang Guitar Festival was held on 29th August 2009. Details here.

Brian asked me to be the token bass player for this "guitar" festival thing, and after some hesitation, I agreed.

I gave a workshop on playing the bass by ear, at least that's what I think I blathered about during that one hour. Here's a picture of me during that workshop.

And I played two songs for the night concert. It was supposed to be 3 songs, but I had to cut one off because the whole concert was running over-time. Here's a photo from the performance.

Then the videos. Not really proud of them. I was nervous and my hands were cold. But they'll do:

There's hope at least that it brought me a few seconds of fame.

Pretty Women ....

2009-04-06T16:21:00.000+08:00

Some time back I had a CD or cassette of Sondheim's music from Broadway. At that time I did not know who Sondheim was and where his music was played. But that record was really jazzy and mellow. Wonder where it is now, maybe Abe would know. But this one song always had my attention. On the plane from San Francisco to Hong Kong, I watched Sweeney Todd and then I found out how this song came to be.

Pretty Women
by Stephen Sondheim
from Sweeney Todd

Pretty women
Fascinating...
Sipping coffee,
Dancing... pretty women
Pretty women
Are a wonder.
Pretty women!

Sitting in the window or
Standing on the stair
Something in them cheers the air.

Pretty women
Silhouetted...
Stay within you,
Glancing... stay forever,
Breathing lightly...
Pretty women,
Pretty women!

Blowing out their candles or
Combing out their hair,
Even when they leave
They still are there.
They're there

Ah! Pretty women, at their mirrors,
In their gardens,
Letter-writing,
Flower-picking,
Weather-watching.
How they make a man sing!

Proof of heaven as you're living,
Pretty women! Yes, pretty women!
Here's to pretty women,
Pretty women,
Pretty women,
Pretty women

[update]
I remember now. It is this CD.

Abe, what happened to it?
Anyone want to get it for me? Here. My birthday is 15th June.

X-rated Ad on FB

2009-04-06T09:40:00.001+08:00

Saw this ad on Facebook today. It's in Malay, I'm guessing that's how it got past the censors. Too bad for you who do not understand.

darn these things .....

2009-03-29T13:26:00.001+08:00

This oven/burner thing here is called ...... a "range". Who knows these things anyway?

This past Thursday I went to Ranch 99 to buy grocery stuff to do some cooking, bought chicken bones for soup, bought dumplings, bought 白菜 to cook.

I went back home, turned the oven on to pre-heat, and put a pot full of water to boil - yes that very pot in that picture. Then I go prepare the beef slices to put in the oven, crack some eggs to make an omelette (the stupid spell checker is suggesting that I spell it as omelet, who spells it like that? American people?), etc. I was happily doing that and suddenly I noticed that the oven/stove/burner thingy was dead. Lifeless. I panicked. Already cooked the rice.

What do I do? I grope around the oven/stove/burner thingy looking for a switch or anything, could not find any. Tak guna! It was late and I did not want to go out to look for food.

Anyway, what would we do with out the internet? I looked up burner thingys which go off in the middle of cooking. First response was to find the circuit breaker. Why didn't I think of that?

So I look at the circuit breaker, the switches were labeled. I looked for an oven/burner/thingy .... could not find it. To be fair, there was a pair of switches in the tripped position, which looking back, I should have reset.

So I go back to the internet, go to the GE page and look for product help, since that thing is was their product. What do I find? I see under cooking products, this oven/burner/stove thing is called a "free-standing range". Who thought of that.

Anyway, it all made sense after that, and I saw that the circuit breaker for the range was tripped. I reset it and it was ready to go. All that took an hour or more.

By then I had already kept my raw food in the fridge and eaten bread.

Anyway, I continued with the chicken soup. It was good.

Darn those ranges.

Most religious leaders are fools

2009-03-28T15:09:00.000+08:00

'Most religious leaders are fools' says this dude. Can't blame him.

"You're" or "Your"

2009-03-25T11:55:00.000+08:00

Lots of people are so dumb that they cannot differentiate when to use "you're" or "your". Surprisingly most of these people come from supposedly "native" English-speaking countries.

OK, you can't blame the Americans, they can't help it. But how about the others?

Flowers and pretty things ....

2009-03-25T11:36:00.000+08:00

While waiting for Terry to get me last Friday, I stood in front of the apartment leasing office and noticed how nice the flowers and trees were. I think it is spring now.

Anyway, being the stereotypical asian person who likes to take pictures, I took out my trusty Sony Ericsson P1i and started to take some pictures.

Not bad for a camera phone eh? Or is it phone camera?

Flowers are nice and pretty and I like to take pictures of them, but like all things pretty, they tend to get boring after awhile. If they can't make intelligent conversation with you or are interesting enough to hang around more, you just have to move on.

Kids make much better photo subjects. The well behaved ones especially.

Meet Josiah.

blind people and their dogs

2009-03-25T10:25:00.000+08:00

Something I heard on stand-up comedy from tv .... "What is it about blind people that make them like to walk their dogs?" ..... hehehehehehehe ....

that so cracked me up.

Windward

2009-03-24T13:41:00.000+08:00

Last Friday (20th March), I followed Terry to the young adults group called Winward at Full Gospel Assembly of God San Jose. It is a Pinoy church. The people there were really fun.

We got there early, and then someone (I think it was Cynthia) uncovered the keyboard and asked who played? I said I did and got asked to play right away. It felt really good to play after so long. I was surprised I could play. God is good.

That's me playing with George on the guitar.

Group photo when it was over.
Terry is the tallest guy at the back who looks Korean. Cynthia - the leader is in front second from the right.

lola gave birth ... update

2005-11-29T12:44:00.000+08:00

labour began about 5:30 am , 29th Nov 2005
a litter of 6. 3 males 3 females.
groovy!

lola gave birth

2005-11-29T10:03:00.000+08:00

guys, if you see this,
lola gave birth.