So these decorations have been around for a while... definitely more than a year, most likely two, because who was gonna decorate the office during MCO?
But since this week's theme is weird, it made me think: Isn't it weird to have Christmas and Chinese New Year decorations together...and what's more, in June?
Psst...actually it's normal...why waste decorations by taking them down? :P
The other day I saw this motorcyclist wearing this helmet.
We were at a traffic light and we both turned right. When he turned the corner, I saw the ears flap, and the insides of the ears were pinkish-orangish. So I think it was Stitch!
At the next traffic light, I managed to snap this photo since he was right in front of me. When the light turned green, he moved off and again, the ears flapped in the wind! ♥
Edit 28th June:
I saw the motorcyclist again! This time I managed to get a photo that shows a bit of the inner ear.
Doesn't it look like Stitch?
At work, there are people who ping others with just a “hi”, and wait for them to respond before asking their question. I can’t remember whether I have written about this before, but I always feel that it is a waste of time…it takes an extra exchange to get to the actual message!
Then Google Chat (which we are using at work) added reactions to messages. So when someone pings me with only a "hi", I am always tempted to just respond with a "wave" reaction. But that would not give them a message notification, and they wouldn’t know that I have “responded” until they come back and check our chat. So it’s not a good thing to do…
However, the other day someone pinged me at night with just a “hi”. This one I can understand… he was in a different time zone, and on that day I had been doing some night work to support that time zone. So it was to check whether I was still there or whether I had logged off for the night, in which case, further messages would likely be unnecessary.
As it was, I had logged off and only saw the message in the morning. This time, I decided it wouldn't be too bad to respond with only a wave, since they wouldn’t be waiting for my response anyway. But I didn't want them to think that I sent the wave right after they sent their message, so...
"Sleep" -> "sunrise" -> "wave"
Clear enough? :P
So after posting about 911’s song yesterday, I listened to their other new songs. I found a few good ones, such as In Another Life, Light Me Up, and Alive.
I couldn’t find the lyrics to In Another Life, and somehow I managed to write them out myself. (I don’t even know why I wanted the lyrics so much, probably because it sounded like a story and I wanted to know what “in another life” had to do with it?)
So here are the lyrics (as best I heard, but I think I got most of them right because the words were quite clear), without the repeated parts:
I gotta bite the bullet
I can’t just stand this side of the glass
I know I can’t keep looking through it
I gotta build my courage up and open the door and walk up to the counter and say
Hey what’s your name
How’s your day been
I wanna know when you’re on a break
Can we pull up a chair and sit down
Throw a little conversation around
Chorus:
‘Cause you know you know when something is right
It’s a perfect night when the stars are in line
I don’t care about time
‘Cause if it’s not me now, then it’s me in another life
Three weeks later, it’s going all good
Lucky for me I was your type
Now I can’t get you out of my head
Everything about your smile and your hair
Now you said you’ve been hurt before but it don’t matter
If your heart’s too high then throw me down a ladder
Gonna do whatever it takes
Step by step I’ll find a way
[chorus]
No matter what it takes
We will find a way
I will find the way to your heart
[chorus]
I love this line: If your heart’s too high then throw me down a ladder. Nicely figurative. :D
I heard this song a long time ago on the radio and loved it, but didn't look it up. Recently I heard it again and finally did look it up…and was stunned to find out that it was by 911. I did some research and found out that they released a new album in 2014 called Illuminate… The Hits & More, which contains some of their hits plus a few new tracks.
So here I present you
I Do:
There are some things that are only broken at night.
Such as the name of this sports complex here. In the daytime, the lights are not needed and everything looks fine. But at night, the name cannot be read any more! (especially from further away)
This whole week, because of this photo theme, I kept an eye out for broken things or things that I could break to make a photo opportunity. Never have I wanted to break things so much! :P (I even took a photo of the shells of an egg that I had broken to make bread, as a backup photo in case I didn’t find anything else for the photo theme)
At the end of the week, I finally broke something!
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| (this wasn’t done on purpose…) |
In the middle of a game, I suddenly noticed a plastic piece on the floor, which I recognized as the end of my badminton racquet! I’m not sure whether it had just fallen off when I noticed it, or whether it had been a while. Anyway, there were just a few points left in the game, so I picked it up and held it in my hand till the game was over. It’s not like this affects the functionality of the racquet… right?? (dunno whether there’s some hidden balancing usage that I am unaware of? :P )
I’ve glued back the piece now, but I noticed that there are other crack lines on the plastic piece. So I wonder whether something will break off again…
(The actual Photo Friday pic is of course the first one… the scene looks prettier, and it has a better caption ;) )
I remember that a long time ago, I read something about trying to compliment other people more. It was some sort of positive-thinking / make-the-world-a-better-place kind of article. Once in a while, I will think of that and try to give compliments when I notice something nice. But it doesn’t happen often, because I seldom speak that much…However, it’s still better than swallowing back compliments that are on the tip of my tongue, which is what I tend to do.
Another time, I wrote about this comment I posted on someone’s video. At that time, I didn’t think of the article; I just wanted to tell the person who made the video that someone noticed the little details that he had made the effort to put in.
Because we all like it when our effort doesn’t go to waste…
Anyway, I really have this tendency to stop myself from saying things sometimes, when I feel like they are not useful. And compliments would fall into this category. (nasty comments are best swallowed when they are not useful :P ) So that’s something I’m trying to change… With online posts, I sometimes go back later and force myself to type the comment that I stopped myself from writing earlier. When speaking…it’s more difficult because after the moment passes, some things cannot be said any more.
In any case, that’s where the title of the post comes about: Let’s not leave nice things unsaid. That is a vow that I make, although I am not sure that I can deliver!
I received a new docking station at work. While connecting it to my external monitor, the connection didn’t seem to take effect…so I fiddled with the cable, plugging it in properly… The monitor still showed nothing, but then suddenly my laptop seemed to have been switched off. I was extremely perplexed - what happened?
Then I somehow noticed that the top of the docking station (it is a sort of cube with rounded edges) had a little space between it and the actual body of the docking station. It seemed slightly pressable. I had a bad feeling about it…and checked the user manual.
And as suspected…the top of the docking station is the power button.
Who was the idiot designer who decided to create a hidden power button that you can press accidentally without knowing that it is there or that you have pressed it? And especially when that power button will shut down your PC without any warning? Did you think that people will go "wow" when they discover that button? More likely they will curse you to death! Bring out the voodoo dolls! *poke poke*
I already knew that a docking station’s power button would switch off my PC…it was learned from experience when I first used a docking station (I tried to switch off the docking station but instead it powered off my PC :P ). But I don’t blame them that much because the button was clearly a button!
(Note: It’s a HP docking station.)
The other day I felt that Captain Tetra looked like a tired and grumpy old bear, with its messy fur covering its eyes. (nothing wrong with a grumpy old captain though...)
But then I pushed the fur away from its eyes, and in the following days suddenly realized that Captain Tetra looks so much younger! Hahaha...
The other day I had Nestlé’s onde-onde ice-cream during the Hari Raya celebration at the office.
Here’s what it looks like:
The package says that it is a pandan-flavoured confectionery with a gula melaka and coconut filling.
My ice-cream unfortunately seemed to have melted and re-frozen… it was out of shape and when I opened it, there was gula melaka syrup outside the ice-cream. However there was still filling inside the ice-cream, so it seems it was not that badly melted. The pandan taste was not very strong, and this is the “frozen” kind of ice-cream instead of the “creamy” kind, but I liked the gula melaka coconut filling. (I don’t know when I have ever disliked gula melaka :P )
It’s a little funny to note that while actual onde-onde has gula melaka syrup inside, and coconut flakes outside, when converted to ice-cream, coconut flakes can’t remain outside and therefore are relegated inside the pandan part! Haha…
This week's photo theme is grass.
It made me think of this square of grass that I posted not that long ago!
This time I found another type of grassy area:
There's even some "stray" grass outside the road divider!
(This was taken while waiting at the traffic light at the Krystal Point roundabout. Beyond the divider is Krystal Point!)
On the way to work, I heard a DJ saying on the radio, "Since today is the 1st of June, we are officially in the middle of the year."
Er... WHAT??
This is like saying that the year 2000 is the beginning of the third millennium… :P
Then on the way home, I heard another DJ say, "These past two years have reshaped a lot of people around me. Take me for example. I used to be an L. Now I'm an XL."
Hahaha…now that’s funny. When he said he used to be an L, I didn’t get what “L” was…I just heard a word like “elf”. It wasn’t until the punchline came that I realized it was L and XL.
I came across this, and just had to post it so that I can find it again in future.
A car that seats 659 people? That would be amazing...and probably gigantic. :P
Edit (27 June 2023): The latest insurance policy has just arrived, and they have updated the seating capacity to a boring "5". :P
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