Will the real bastard please stand up

Just watch the news, a disabled man had been robbed of over a thousand dollars, which is meant for his living for the next few months.

And we often hear old people being robbed. These bastard robbers, they should be stab over and over again until they die of blood loss. BASTARD.

"human lover"??

Yesterday while waiting for Gab to fetch me at Woodlands, an Indian stranger said to me, "Wah, you have a penguin tattoo~ YOu must be a human lover!"

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I was thinking, what is a "human lover"... and I don't have a penguin tattoo. I said to him, "It's a dolphin."

He then said "Oh, sorry, dolphin. So you must be a human lover ya?" I didn't know what to answer him. First of all, did he really mean "human lover"? Secondly, I don't love human. hahaaha... I think human is ugly compare to animals. So, I don't know what to answer, I just looked at him, puzzled. He reached out his hand and said "Nice meeting you!", shook my hand and left...

He reached out his hand, if I don't take and shake his hand, it's sort of rude. I shook his hand but I was wary. I was thinking, next, perhaps he'll try to con my money... but he just said nice meeting you and left....

I think he meant "animal lover" instead of "human lover". But how can anyone mixed up these 2 words?

Why do I always encounter weird stuff? hmm... perhaps, because of "laws of attraction", I'm weird, so I attract weird stuff and people. hahaha...

Btw I'm really proud of my dolphin tattoo. Been complimented many times, at restaurants, etc. Everybody seems to be very interested with this dolphin tattoo of mine, which makes me very happy. hehe...

My second Manado trip

Came back from another diving trip. It was soooo nice, being pampered from the beginning till the end at the resort.

***I'm definitely still in holiday mood... :( this morning I had a vivid dream of going to airport, heading for another diving holiday! ***

One lesson learnt this trip, ALWAYS, always buy travel insurance. What an experience, this trip, 4D also not so "zhun4". My flight was supposed to be at 09:25 Saturday. It didn't fly. There was a volcano erupted near Manado airport. Other airlines were flying, but perhaps SIlkair wants to be on the safe side. WHich is fine. But the staff and even the supervisor or something, did not give us satisfactory explanation and didn't handle the situation well. They said there'll be an announcement at 1pm. It never came.

My friend Sally went asked them around 1:30pm. Finally they told us it's not flying that day. The scheduled time will be at noon 12:00 the next day. But they didn't give proper explanation and everybody's temper started to get hot. The supervisor's attitude made things worse. Then he gone missing. Left the female staff to handle a whole bunch of angry passengers. So poor thing.

At the end, SIA's manager came instead. He's very professional, very good attitude, gave proper explanation. So everybody is ok after that. It's not that we're being unreasonable, we just need an acceptable explanation why the scheduled flight is 12noon the next day and not anything earlier than that (since that other airlines are flying). So we went Changi Village HOtel for a free night stay. Free dinner. Free breakfast. The stupid hotel people tried to segregate us to different area with different food than other guests but we don't see why they had to treat us differently and we insisted on having the same food. We said we'll pay and claim with airline. But in the end, they didn't charge us.

Each of our room is entitled 5min of IDD call on Silkair's bill. My friend made a 10cent local call and the staff asked her to pay for it.... ridiculous.

Anyway, in the end, we got to fly as scheduled. Thank goodness most of us have bought travel insurance, we can claim at least $400 for 24hrs of delay. At the end of the stay, the flight delay about 3 hours again. We were all hoping it will delay for one whole day. hahahahaha..... but it nvr happened.

I never thought I'd use the claim for travel insurance. But this time really did. So, buy your travel insurance, my friend.

Ok, time for some photo.

See, I like to take bugs' photo even when underwater~ hahahaha...

Pretty pink/purple crab. Its got eggs~

I.AM.FAT.........................

My photo of the trip~~ my first pygmy seahorse~ First time I saw pygmy seahorse. I only took two shot as there are people queing to take photos. It was quite deep, can't stay too long, NDL (no decompression limit) was ticking... I was like take one photo, check my dive comp, take one photo, check my dive comp.... My point and shoot Sony T100 finally rendered me good photos. happy~

Know what I focused on in this photo? Rubbish........ I thought the stuffs in the center was the shrimp.... lookalike, isn't it??? hahaaha. sooo funny... I realised this only after I browse my photo on land.

Oh, tiny cute frogfish. Felt like taking it home. Sweet baby~~

Big squid~ laying eggs on a rope. We were fighting current like crazy to take photos of the squids.

This is a hole of a worm. Its wall is rock solid~! Amazing. Like our cement wall~

Ever seen live scallops? They move like cartoons.

Clownfish and Gab's video camera. We're trespassing clownfish territory. haha.

My first sharp photo of bubble coral shrimp. THey are so transparent.

Beautiful resort.

Manado's black sand, black beach.

Even the clouds look nicer there.

Me and friend chilling.



Oh look~ UFO coming~!

Just look at the clouds..... Soooooo beautiful.

Amazing sunset.
Notice the differerent colour and shade of the cloud at different time.v



Manually patched photo. It's just sooo breathtaking....
The diving was great. Vis not so great but it was ok. It rained almost every night but day time, it was sunny. Thank God for that. Only a bit cloudy on the second last day, but we had sunshine here and there. So it was good enough.

The staffs there were soooo friendly and helpful. The dive guide is very very good. I'd definitely go this resort again if I'm going Manado again.

Our group photo~~

I like photos of my back a lot. hahahaha....

Oh, check out all my photos here :
Ocean_goer photobucket

and
Gab's photo (from video camera's still shots)

求签

My mother went 求签for me one day. And the 签said, I'm someone who "天塌下来当被盖"。haha... crude translation : if the sky falls on me I'll use it as blanket, hahaha.. meaning, I won't worry about anything. And my mother said its's so accurate. hahaha..

I've went 求签 twice I think. But I didn't like it. I felt funny. It felt stupid. No offense to the God, but that's how I felt. I find it hard to get the 签 out from the container. I never figured out how. I saw people did it with ease. The way I shake the container, it's just no way it's goign to come out. I tried changing the way I shake it but.. no difference. So I felt I was very stupid, kneeling there, shaking this thing for soooooo long and it's not coming out. Anyway, it's not important. Don't think I will 求签 again.

A lot of cute stuff

I can die from all these cuteness!
Read it here, the fennec fox baby is sooooo sooo extremely cute!!
Fennec fox baby

And then the piglets. wah.... sooo kawaii..... the way they sleep quietly in the humans' arms.... soooo "sayang".... I want one!!

Kitty

Remember my previous post : Funny kitty?

She's always around that area. In the morning if the timing is right, I still see her. If I see her I will say "Meow~ (morning~)" to her, and she will always reply "Meow~ (morning~)" to me. hahahaha... I just love her so much. I've bought cat food for her but I thik she's well fed by the taxi driver so she's totally not interested in my cat food.

She's the friendliest kitty in my neighbourhood. I just love her so much.

A "love", for me?

Today afternoon, I went out to do some errant. When I came back, after I got down from the car, I saw a love in the air~ Yeah, literally, a "love" in the air~! Look at this! Click it to see a larger picture.
When I got down from the car, the love was almost finished. I took out my handphone immediately and took a shot. 2,3 seconds later it's gone, cos the wind was very strong. So I wasn't able to take a second shot.

How lucky huh? It only remained in the air for a few seconds. And I saw it. CK said they made the love shape for me. hahahaaahahha. I nvr think it that way but I think he's right. hahahahahaahahhaha.....

The pilot(s) (I dunno if it's made of 2 planes but I think so) are quite brilliant, cos the love shape was almost perfect. hmm. A "lovely" day today~

Cereal is awful

I decided to join my diving friends to Manado one month ago. I had long wanted to lose weight and re-started going gym after CNY but have not been losing weight. After I had purchased my air tickets, I decided to take "drastic measure" to lose weight so that I look better in bikini. hehe. And I had been taking milk and cereal for lunch since then. It's been 3,4 weeks. Today is the start of another week.

I wanted to give up taking cereal but yesterday I saw this Kellogg's cereal looks nice. So today I'm eating cereal again. But.................... it tastes awful............................ The cereal is shaped like a stick, looks like a branch. And its texture and taste are also like a branch......... *faint* It's really really awful..... As I'm writing this... I wanna throw up. Yucks. That's it. To the dustbin it goes.

One thing to note though, with cardio exercise and weight training, and lunch consists of awful cereal, I did lose weight. *almost* a kilogram. Not significant but it could be because I'm gaining muscles as well (I do about 45min of weight training) which is heavier than fat. I just hope I won't gain back weight once I stop eating cereal....

Cruelty of life

I was watching a tv programme with my mum yesterday. It was about the difficulties faced by an old couple, whom the husband has had business failure, became a taxi driver after that and then... he had a stroke. Now he can't work, has difficulty walking. His wife who has been a housewife all these years, have to go out and work. It was tough, to both the husband and herself.

The expression on the husband's face, made my heart wrenched. Even when he's not talking.

I think my father's expression was not unlike this man on the show, when he knew he had kidney failure disease, about 5 years ago. Perhaps, I chose not to look at that time.. I am lucky. I have a very strong mother. She was on the verge of breaking down too, I know. But she hangs on. I don't know if I can ever be as strong as my mother.

The couple on the show, both their daughters left them, just like that. The elder one, sent a message to her mother, telling her to regard it as if she never gave birth to her. What a cruel thing to say. We won't know what happened in that family. Perhaps they have their problems, perhaps the daughter think she did not have love in the family. Perhaps the parents dote their daughter well but the daughter just left with some men. We outsiders will never know. However, unless the parents had been an extremely irresponsible parents, saying that to your mother, is such a cruel thing. Just leave the old folks on their own, is even crueler. But I can't judge them. Because I don't know what happened in the family.

It's just that, the look on the man's face, really bring back sad feelings when we first knew about my father's condition. I didn't pay much attention to my father. And he said something that made me regret what I have not done enough : concern. I will never forgive myself for that. Years passed. I still cry every time I think of what he said. I don't know if I will ever stop crying when I think of that. We had hurt him for not concerning enough. Hurt him so deeply. The scar is there. I don't know if what I can do now will make that scar heals a bit better. But I try. But still, I will not forgive myself for the pain and hurt we caused.

Therefore when I watched the show, that the 2 daughters left the parents just like that, I feel extremely sad. Us being the sons and daughters, really should care more about our parents. We can't just run away...... They are our parents, we have their blood....

Life is cruel. That's what I always say and it is true. Life is not just about great things, happy things. I do not think I am being pessimistic but I am merely speaking the truth.

The most important thing in our life is health. But not everybody lives healthyly till the day he/she died. Somewhere some people, are just going to suffer with sickness. Somewhere some people, will be struggling with starvation. Somewhere some old people, are living alone, suffering from starvation, starvation of food, starvation of love. This is, the cruelty of life.

Great news

It's such a great news. Resorts World at Sentosa, I think this is the hotel at the integrated resort on Sentosa? They, most likely, will not to put shark fins in their restaurant menu when the hotel officially opens. What a great news isn't it?

They are working with WildAid and Acres organisation and will have a fund to sponsor, support research and conservation effort related to marine life.

If some special VIP guests request for shark fins, they will oblige, said the management, it is a business decision. But shark fins will not be on the menu. "We believe we can make a difference", said the spokeswoman. Hell yeah~! What a wise decision!

It is such a happy thing to know that a commercial entity would make such decision. It makes a difference, a big difference. At least it is a start.

I think shark conservation education is working. When I mentioned about this news to my mother and my aunts, to my surprise they all said it is a good thing~ My mother has long supported "say no to sharkfins" but my mum, in my opinion, is quite open minded about things (except sex that is!). So it doesn't come a surprise for me that she agrees that wedding dinners should not have sharkfins.

When 2 of my aunts also agree that we should not eat sharkfins because it is cruel, I am really surprise. Most of the elderly might be aware that the way sharkfins are obtained is cruel but most of them regard "face" more important than whether or not sharks are dying in the sea. Because traditionally, sharkfins is a must in Chinese wedding banquets. So, I really think shark conservation education is working. Way to go~!