Po-Piah-Aii-yoh!

Just woke up from yesterday's popiah party at my home which was, hmm.. good in some ways and bad in others.. My mother's care group was invited over to have popiah and kueh-pai-tee for lunch.. And so the peeps came.. Audrey came whilst I was still asleep, followed by Diana and Esther, then Uncle Dennis and his family.. then Uncle Cliff and Auntie Annie.. then I can't remember anymore.. But what pissed me off was there were some people who weren't in the care group but were here! I know they were at my grandmother's invitation (who could question them, right?) but I thought it was supposed to be a care group thing?

I know Christians are supposed to be loving and all, but show some logic here.. Why not invite other non-care group members? Say.. those who are new to Angora to reach out to them; those who are usually on the periphery of church-related activities, to encourage them to be more participative? But.. who was I to comment on or question the invitation? I would be hung, brought out to be sun-dried, chewed up and spit out by her.. okay I'm exaggerating.. but something of a cold stance against me would ensue for a good 3 to 4 days..

Ok.. so come and eat.. eat and eat.. eat eat eat.. park your silly asses at my dining table and eat away.. without consideration for those who haven't eaten.. it's supposed to be popiah not a ten course dinner y'know?

I was also reminded of a particular individual who once labelled me too cheena to have possibly been in NgeeAnn's supposedly "English-speaking" Mass Communication course.. oh whateva.. the follies of youth.. how naive. Don't they know that bilingual (and i don't mean being able to just curse/swear in both languages) mass communicators are what's current in the media today? I mean just look at Diana Ser, who speaks fluent English and Mandarin whenever she's a TV journalist/news presenter for MediaWorks' news channels. Oh go on and be blinded by what you think is hip, cool and funky.. go and hang with your English group.. We'll see whether you make it pass the mandatory written test for all mass comm wannabes..

I was also told that a prominent individual in church was heard telling the "truth" about my grandmother's cooking.. In front of my grandmother, she can be heard praising her cooking; behind her back, that lady was telling others that she "had to say those things because my grandmother had put in effort... blah blah blah.. pure lie= lie, white lie= lie.. Shouldn't you have known that, Mrs "No mind of your own"? In my opinion you just didn't dare offend my grandmother.. Piss off.

I don't understand why my parents' care group members have to consistently ferry the pastor around... Granted he doesn't drive, used to have problems walking, Christians have to be nice, BUT, I have on many occasions seen how this kindeness was abused and taken for granted. Is there no bus, no taxi? That you have to rely on the fire engine or the ambulance(private joke)? It's also funny enough how some people think that young adults cannot be counted on for things like leading in ministries/feedback, whilst others in the church highly recommend we get involved in these things.. I guess some people are just different.

Anyway, Diana, Esther Chan, Audrey, Annabel and I were contented with playing Puzzle fighter on the PS2 yesterday night.. Watched Singapore Idol afterwards and The Champion concurrently..

It's down to 4 in SI.. Taufik, Sylvester, Olinda and Deaf-phne. I think Syl did well yesterday.. maybe it's cos' the genre suited him.. he should be glad that yesterday's Asian Pop genre came at such a crucial stage in the competition. Why crucial? You see, out of the 4 finalists.. we know little Daphne is the weakest. Her rendition of Penny Dai's Wo Yao De Ai sounded a lot like an 8-year old girl trying to win Jerry Yen's heart with the song.. Yet however, she like another undeserving finalist and rumoured boyfriend, Christopher Lee, has a fanbase comparable to the number of people who queued up for Hello Kitty at McDonald's few years back.. Ok.. exaggerate again.. but I'm sure their crazy pubescent fans would have dumped their entire allowance on sms and phone calls to the SI hotline voting for IDOL 1. So barring the situation where Daphne's fans haven't got enough money to keep her in the competition, it's a 2 horse-race between tomboyish Oli and relac-one-corner Taufik towards elimination.. I thought that of the 2, Taufik fared worse.. So he's my call for the chop..

I haven't been totally caught up with this entire SI fever as yet.. my sms count for MediaCorp's version of the immensly popular AI still remains at nil. However, I have no qualms dialling 1900 112 1903 or sms-ing 3 to '43657' to vote for Mr "cheena-pok rocker" Sylvester should the need arise.. I might just do that.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat passed away this week. Labelled a "significant moment in Palestinian history" by US President George W. Bush, rather I think it's a more significant moment in the revelation of the chronicles of the Bible, with regards to the Palestine people and their relations with Israel, God's chosen nation, in their quest for a independent state. Maybe I'm wrong.. But this is just my observation, be it skewed or not..

It's weird how I only tune into news channels like BBC or CNN on Cable TV only when major happenings occur around the world. There were the 9/11 attacks, the capture of Saddam and now the death of Arafat.. i'm sure there were others which have surely slipped my mind..

Okay.. joke time..

What's worse than having a pimple in 1 nostril?
A pimple in each nostril

I read somewhere the other day of a lady answering, if my memory doesn't fail me, a question from the British version of "Who wants to be a millionaire?"...

Host: Which team has players whose nicknames are the Galaticos?
British lady: Galatasary.
Terence: !?!!?!?!

Come on everybody!
I say now let's play a game
I betcha I can make a rhyme out of anybody's name
The first letter of the name, I treat it like it wasn't there
But a B or an F or an M will appear
And then I say bo add a B then I say the name
and Bonana fanna and a fo
And then I say the name again with an F very plain
and a fee fy and a mo
And then I say the name again with an M this time
and there isn't any name that I can't rhyme

Arnold!
Arnold, Arnold bo Barnold Bonana fanna fo Farnold
Fee fy mo Marnold Arnold!

But if the first two letters are ever the same,
I drop them both and say the name like
Bob, Bob drop the B's Bo ob
For Fred, Fred drop the F's Fo red
For Mary, Mary drop the M's Mo ary
That's the only rule that is contrary.

Let's try..

Arafat!
Arafat, Arafat bo Barafat Bonana fanna fo Farafat
Fee fy mo Marafat
Arafat!