Alternative Food

Food blogs are really popular these days, and everyone wants the latest ratings, pictures and photos of the funkiest eateries and restaurants. But take a look at this dish.

This is taken courtesy of chessbase.com where they did a write-up on Mexico where the current World championships are ongoing. "Talking about bugs: look what was on the menu that evening: cactus caterpillars in the sea-food ceviche. They were edible (of course we did!), though not particularly delicious or addictive."

This Cartoon was produced by Fred WOLF

Recently David and I came up with a silly direct English to Chinese translation.

Dont lie, you are humming those words to the tune of the cartoon theme song. Its going to stick with you for the rest of the day. My sincerest apologies. The anchovies made me do it.

Kookaburras wear Kookai

I recently posted that someone mentioned a brand called Kookai. The fact is, when i posted that some weeks back, i had no idea how Kookai was spelt. I first started out thinking it started with 'C' but my overarching idea was that a brand that sounded like 'CUKYE' should be trying hard to be cool and trendy so decided to go with the double 'K'. I have thus been vindicated. Having seen only a picture of the store, i still think i would not buy anything from there. Even if they do have a male line.

P.S. I do not know who the people in front of the shop are nor what they are doing.

Thesis Weariness

Because i am doing so many graphs and presentations of thesis results, i have decided to do a more valuable study to mankind than my self-indulgent chess stuff. I hereby present the results.

It was found that guys expressed words of love to their female partners a mean 495 times a week. Such expressions included lines like 'Your hair nice what', 'No dear, you do not need to lose more weight' and 'Yes, of course you need that new pair of shoes.' Similarly, female partners told their boyfriends that the latter do not say enough 'i love you-s' to them an average of 437.5 times a week. Such sentences encompass examples: 'Why you do not care about me!', 'Why you do not care about me!, you think i am fat right?' and ''Why you do not care about me !, i need a new pair of shoes'.

The difference in mean times men said they loved their girfriends vs the number of times the girlfriends demanded otherwise did not reach statistical significance (t = 0.574, p > 0.05). In conclusion, based on these findings, girlfriends should remember how much their boyfriends love them and stop complaining about non-existent 'facts'.

Acknowledgements to the couples who agreed to take part in this study for free. Your data is invaluable to relationships around the world.

P.S. In no way is this study aimed at my personal life. As a researcher, i must be un-biased and objective. This study is dedicated to all men anywhere in the world who suffer. May you remember to be nice to your other halves. And may they remember to do the same. Or just remember things.

cheeseCAKE

If you do not know yet, my favourite band is CAKE. When i tell people this, they tend to sing or hum the song "I will survive". This song though was not composed by them, but they resang the cover. And it is far from my favourite song. Having said that, i have been trying desperately to buy their 2007 album, 'B-sides and rarities' (shown in picture). Somehow it just takes very long to come to Singapore or Perth. But Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears, now those punks are everywhere. Sigh.

I recently read this great piece of literary genius, 'david was hurling "siao gina!", i was cursing in my mind and i have a loud horn after that, i had no time to horn her before that.' all rights reserved to this sentence.

On a related topic:

WAGAMAMA sounds vulgar

Went to Wagamama with David and Eufei for lunch and i must admit i didnt realise it was actually a japanese place until i saw the menu. It was rather nice the whole setting and the food. Price is above 10 below 20 and the ice cream at $2 a scoop for black sesame, green tea, lychee was the most worth it. Chefs are Asian but cant be sure if they are really authentic Jap. Sorry no more vouchers to give but i think the place was worth a try. At subi train station.

Photos courtesy of Eufei. All in groups of 3. But not all phones on 3 network.

I love psychology that doesnt help people.

Psychologist's Hotline

If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly.
If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2.
If you have multiple personalities, please press 3,4,5, and 6.
If you paranoid-delusional, we know who you are and what you want. Just stay on the line so that we can trace the call.
If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.
If you are depressed, it doesnt matter which number you press. No one will answer.

Shadow Writers

UWA recently had a book fair and i managed to find 2 books by Singapore writer Colin Cheong, who is really not bad. My parents think he is rather good too. Its very Singaporean though the topics he writes about which might not be to everyones taste. However, the cover of one of his books has him posing in the shadows and it kind of threw me off that the picture looked at bit like me. Whether this is a fortunate or unfortunate occurrence i leave you the readers to decide. Well, at least he has published a book or two.

Some comments on church service

Last week's church service made me think of 2 pointers that i want to share here.

1. During educell, Bijia was sharing that when she was young she wanted to grow up and be a clown. She wanted to run away and join the circus. Well, i am not sure that studying in UWA really counts as being in a circus but its kind of like running away i guess. And you could also make a case for there being freaks and babboons around the campus. But i feelglad for her being one of those lucky ones who managed to fulfil their childhood ambition.

2. For sharing about tithes and offering, Jacyln (?) said that sometimes giving offering is so hard because you feel like doing something else with the money. There is definitely a lot of truth in that. But what in the world is KOOKAI? A sense of aged-ness dawned on me when she gave an example that maybe instead of giving offering she could spend the money unwisely on a Kookai t-shirt. Its sure sounds like a kooky (strange or eccentric) brand! It should adopt a kookaburra symbol as its logo or something. And yes, Kookai is not in the dictionary. But if this episode has taught me anything; its that: Buy Kookai, Sure Pok Kai (Chinese dialect for 'bankrupt').