Giant Q-tip

This post marked my first encounter with a cotton flower 9th of May.
I’ve never seen one before in my life, not even on internet.

knowing that we urbanites rarely get to see such flowers, Alvin’s dad plucked a cotton bud from his office and gave one to me.
I named the giant cotton bud, Q-tip!

When I first received Q-tip, it was like this.


Not like what I pictured it to be - real fluffy, like those dandelions flowers with a tuft of fluff when it flowers.
My Q-tip was like hard rock la. How to dig. Hurhurhur.


Hence, I waited and waited fer it to flower, eager to see how it’d turn out.
Day 1, nothing happened.
Day 2, nothing happened.
Day 3, nothing happened. Picked it up and examine it looking fer the slightest crack. NONE.
Day 4, nothing happened. Squeezed it.

TMD.
It had been 4 days and nothing happened. So I decided to pick up the phone and dialed to complain to the mister,

‘Aye, I think the bud die already la! How to flower? No water at all.’

‘Just wait and see la!’

Geez, yes, I have no patience. Ha-ha.
So irritating. Thus, after hanging up, I dumped it in a lil’ clay cup on my display board and cleanly forgot I had Q-tip!

Thus when I did remember about my giant Q-tip one fine day, (1.5 weeks perhaps?) imagine my surprise!

I looked up towards the display board and this was what I saw!

Yes, it didn’t turn out to be what I’d perceived it to be, a fluffy cotton ball.
My Q-tip had instead split into 3 parts!
Where’s the fluff, man.


It has been more than a month from the time it blossomed.
It is now softer and woollier.. maybe gearing itself up to make many regular sized Q-tips or cotton balls?!
When the day comes, I’d try to use it to remove my nail polishes and update about its quality. Heh heh.


Currently, Alvin’s dad is growing pots of Q-tips at his house and they’re just growing taller and healthier each time I visit them!
The best has yet to come! I get to bring a pot of Q-tips home one day! ^^

03S08 Steamboat at Nat's - 20th Jun

(yikes, I realised I fergot to include out form teacher, Ms Lam, in the photo!)

Nat kindly offered his place fer steamboat fer our class gathering!

He called the guys, I called the girls.
Glad that there was a large turnout!
And I finally get to try putting loads of cheese slices in the steamboat after I witnessed how cheese made the stew more delicious at Korea.
Hurhurhur.

That's about it, but I must record what happened earlier on at Sheng Shiong Supermarket when the guys and I went to shop fer groceries! (Yea, the guys always say our class consists of 9 guys and 1 girl.)

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Me: Nat, did you get the quail eggs yet?

Nat: No? What's quail eggs in Chinese?

Me: Why? I think it's called An Quan Dan.

Nat: You sure? Sounds like safety egg* to me, haha.
[*'an quan' means safety in chinese and 'dan' means egg.]

Me: Ya! How come I never think of it that way before.. Haha, I think so, I am sure la!

Nat saw a Sheng Shiong worker nearby and called out fer her.

Nat: Aunty, 　请问安全蛋在哪里？
(Aunty, may I know where to find the 'an quan dan'?)

Aunty (hollered): 哦，安全套啊？安全套在那边！
(O, condoms ar? Condoms are there!)

Me (shocked): Aunty, 怎么安全套？! 我们要安全蛋！
(Aunty, what condoms 'an quan TAO'?! We want 'an quan DAN'!)

Aunty:哈？
(Huh?)

Me (exasperated): 安全蛋啦！Quail egg, quail egg..
('An quan dan' la!)

Aunty: 哈哈哈，你讲的是鹌鹑蛋啊~ Paiseh, Aunty以为你要按全套！Sorry sorry, 鹌鹑蛋在那边。。
(Hahaha, you mean 'an CHUN dan' ar?~ Paiseh, Aunty thought you want condoms! Sorry sorry, quail eggs are there..)

Everyone laughed.

After the aunty left, I looked at Nat: Nat! OMG!!!!! Hahahahahaha, I am so sorryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I swear I thought it was pronounced as 'an quan dan'! Please don't tell anyone!"

Nat: Walao, your chinese cmi leh.

Me: You too what! You also don't know! At least I got 2 words correct, better than nothing!


And so, we had to repeat the joke of the day a couple of times over dinner whenever a new batch came in.

Gawd, my ears were burning hot when the Aunty shouted 'condoms, that way' in a crowded supermarket.

Slumber! 14th Jun

Slumber party - The next morning after the night out at Marina Barrage.



Candice made Chawanmushi fer us!
*Slurps!*

P.S.: The chawanmushi cup was a present given by Sweet Serene!! ^^

Marina Barrage - 13th Jun

Picnic under the stars was fun!



Prepared the glorious wonderful food/snacks o'er at my kitchen!

Where's Candice?!
No Candice, no chawanmushi fer the night.



Trooping off to Marina Barrage's roof garden!~




Kite flying was 'exceptional'.

The crème de la crème kite surpassed all at an astonishing height of 3 storeys and basked in its short-lived glory for about 3mins.
Wow. What a mean feat. Amazing bunch aight!



Presenting the awesome Kite Flyers'!

We forced our smile whilst Candice looked the happiest as she felt her kites (she bought them) had done her proud.



It was rather dark before I remembered we still had to picnic.....
Monkeyed around before setting up the picnic sheets.



Dinner was splendid (more like overdid, Alvin last minute pangseh-ed la) - Fried chicken with Japanese's curry rice, baked cherry tomato and quail eggs wrapped in honey glazed bacon, salmon mayo sandwiches and Lays potato chips dipped potato-egg mayo.. FULL.

Fer desserts - Durian puffs, which were superdeliciouly creamy soft and light!
Aunty Regina's daddy sponsored!



Taking photos was never so fun with glow-in-the-dickssticks!

This was exactly what Aunty Regina said to the 2 lil boys who went up to us, 'These are glow-in-the-DICKS!'

I am mad serious.
-EPIC- We love it.


For additional copies of Aunty Regina's 101's combintationof*wordsandmoans tracks, come join us fer outings or e-mail me at gmail.com if you care fer a 'flu-fug*'.



Many jumping attempts for the supposedly wonderful lighting effects to be caught on camera.. and you know it's time to get a dslr.



The night's still young.
After a few rounds of 'g.i.d.d. disc throwing', we headed home fer our slumber party!

Mr Park & Mr Ho's Sg Visit! 12th Jun

Received a call from an archi junior, Melissa, one morning a week after I came back from Korea..

'Mr Park is coming to Singapore, would you be free to take him around?'

YESSS! Of course!
I planned to visit my ex-colleagues at Seoul but I hadn't had the time!
Even made a detour and brought papa to my ex-office at Anguk. Alas, the only time we had was a Sunday, so I quite dissappointed that I'd be missing a chance to say hi..

So, w-owe w-owe w-owe.
It was like God planned, Mr Park came to Singapore instead!


Moreover, amongst all colleagues, Mr Park was the closest to me as he was my direct supervisor, the vice-principal architect!
We even converesed in Chinese as he was learning the language.


2 years passed, he has been promoted to a principal architect~
Plus, he now has a Brazilian name, Ricardo, given by the client (the project which I worked on)!
And yes, 2 years on too, the project has yet to be finalised!!o.O



Now there - Met Mr Park (in blue) and Mr Ho at Vivo City
(Melissa and I gave them bakwas as souveniers)

Personally don't know Mr Ho as he only joined the team after I left.
He just seemed so aloof to the point of being unfriendly.

Who's boss, huh? Hur. Haha

Mr Park's the total opposite.
One of the ideal bosses.



Treated them to durians after lunch at Dian Xiao Er - Extremely glad Mr Park liked it!
Mr Ho didn't really like it.



At Merlion's Mouth, Sentosa.
We found out that we're actually supposed to be holding onto a photoshopped Merlion statue at the souvenier stall!

And yeap, this was the first time I met Melissa too!
Sweet girl.


(I'm sleepy.. shall end abruptly)
Just wanted to say, regrettably, I had to leave them after the Sentosa trip as I had to rush off to prepare for picnic at Marina Barrage in the evening.