MADONNA & GUY RITCHIE SPLITZ!

yes yes... OOOOH.... everyone is talking about it... yes yes.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3200954/Madonna-and-Guy-Ritchie-to-divorce.html
According to UK's Telegraph... they are planning to settle the divorce before Christmas!!!!
Well.... Personally.... when i heard about this 'shocking' news.... i was:
"IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!!!!" I actually had a bet with myself... that they probably split after 6 to 7 years... well you know.. the typical 7 Year Itch Curse... oh well... its quite close to my guess... 7.5 years... *yawn*
its interesting... 2007 and 2008 seems to be the year for divorces and breakups... more separations than getting together... well for those that are getting married.. or going to get married or even foolish enough to plan to get married... please... THINK IT OVER.. NOT ONCE, NOT TWICE BUT THINK IT OVER AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!!!!

and for those (in my honest opinion), who get married because they want to get a STUPID HDB Flat through the government... are... simply S T O O P I D and digging their own graves of emotional and mental stress.
speaking of this reminds me of weddings... and the topic of weddings just makes me wanna ARGH!!! i simply dun agree the 'typical' Singapore style wedding!!! i feel its the wrong mentality, and its just purely for the sake of pride!!!!! and not for the purpose of love!!!! this issue makes my blood boil!!!!!! i hate marriages for the sake of 'believed love'. stoopid stoopid... insanely S T O O P I D!!!!

casting!

Oh my gosh!!! Remember Niffenegger's novel: The Time Traveler's Wife?
Well.. the movie is made and the cast of "The Time Traveller's Wife" is out...do you know who is acting as Henry DeTamble??? The man who could time travel... the man who is supposed to look frail, the book lover man who is insanely in love with his Claire Abshire?
*HUGE SIGH!!!!* Its the beefy Eric Bana opposite the young Rachel McAdams.... Oh dear oh dear.... Why oh why... is the beefcake acting as Henry??? In the first place... I don't understand what's the problem with those directors and casting people.. Haizz... Don't get me wrong... I have absolutely nothing against Eric Bana, I just feel that the roles that he has done are wrongly cast on him... Prior to this role, he was cast as Henry IV... Com'on.... Henry IV? The overweight and mighty brute? Eric looked far too 'fit' and 'hot' for a man like Henry IV (well.. check you European History then!!!) I mean.. acting skills a side.. i am in no position to critic or judge... but aesthetic? what happened??? no one bother to consider the suitability of the appearance of the roles anymore???

Right... back to The Time Traveler's Wife casting... if you were to ask me... My top choice for Henry DeTamble??? hahahaha... It GOT TO BE NONE OTHER THAN.....
PAUL BETTANY

and for Claire Abshire? I have 2 choices actually... either
NATALIE PORTMAN
or CLAIRE DANES...

Saffron Le Ballerina

Saffron Le Ballerina

hmmmmf

phew.... a small moment to breathe now... but not enough to update much... my hard disk crashed and its sayonara to my pictures, musik and videos.... we'll have to wait to i try to get them back by burning a massive hole in my wallet (not literally!!!)
till then, let's pray that all my files CAN BE RETRIEVED!!!!!! sigh.... i need more time in a day to complete everything i want to cover!!!! i'm not slow... i am just too ambitious to cover to many things..hahahhaha

THAI AIRWAYS - Smooth as Silk....

where should i start.... let's start from the beginning of my london trip... my exhausting flight to bangkok, then to london..... firstly i had to say how much i love airplane food... i love the way they packed everything in small trays and they try so hard to make it looked yummy and interesting... and for the taste... i love it... its so 'packed' and compressed and 'artificially tried' to a certain extent.
Here's my first Thai Airways meal: Chicken Noodles... the noodles were quite yummie...
My Lunch: Salmon and Spinach Fettucine - Good Effort!!! pasta was good...
Breakfast before i touch down in Heathrow, London: Mushroom and Cheese Omelete with chicken sausages... I thought the yogurt from Meiji was rather cute...
Whilst returning from London.. this is not too bad.. Thai sauce Chicken with rice....The strawberry tart was rather attractive looking...
After that i had breakfast again.. which was similar to what I had before... and then for the final meal, before i touch down at Singapore... i had Spicy Prawns with Rice... it was ok... but i had to say... these food did 'configure' my bowels system...
i could not resist when i saw this article in the Thai Airways onboard magazine Sawadee... CHECK IT OUT:
Its an INTERNATIONAL flight... and it showed a quote from Elijah Wood.... could someone PLEASE PLEASE tell me that... the chap in the picture is not ELIJAH WOOD.... but TOBEY MAGUIRE!!!! one's american.. and the other an irish!!!!!!

make your friends smile :)

i like to make my friends happie :) yes.. we only lived once, and wat's more satisfying and happier than making the people we loved smile???
it was an entire day of shopping... heehee...
i began my expenditure at Raffles City... i bought pink roses for some of my students who were doing a school show performance at Victoria, and a purple rose for Mei Sing (their ballet teacher) and then i thought... maybe Mei sing will probably feel a little peckish when the girls are dancing... so i bought her a bag of jelly beans to peck on..heehee.... i bought them cards to give them my well wishes for an awesome show :)
next off, i had to scout around for a good gift to get for my ballet teacher who was having her birthday the following day... i thought about getting a cake and flowers...but i thought...hmmf probably not... so i pop into Crabtree and Evelyn and grabbed her some nice clotted cream cookies and teas, nicely wrapped in a pastel carrier...and a card from Prints... whilst at Prints, i bought 2 boxes (a lime green and a purple) for both Mei Sing and I to put barang barang....
then off i went to give these pressies to my lovely people... then after Victoria Theatre... i pop by Fullerton to get cheesecakes for a friend, but.. guess what, their pastry house has closed down... so i thought.. hmmph perhaps One Fullerton might have some good stuff in the restaurant.... oh mind... i was wrong... perspiring like nobody's business, i walked over to discover that the restaurants that used to be by the river bank were no longer there, and the only decent place is, STARBUCKS..... i was on the verge of walking all the way to Marina Mandarin to try for cheesecake... but... looking at the time... i guessed rather not... and at that point... i think i am probably getting quite a tan from walking in the sun...
so i pop into Starbucks for a refreshing Chocolate Cream Chip with a shot of Hazelnut (de-li-cious!) and 2 slices of cheesecakes.... yums yums... i can't wait... bearing in mind.. i have not eating anything apart from tiny portion of beehoon from my mum's.
off i went to Thomson plaza to give my ballet teacher her birthday present... but alas... to find out that her dance school is shut... and i was in a complete lost... keeping my fingers crossed, i rang her to see if there was any other way to hand her, her presents.... (she was rehearsing for NDP). she suggested that i drop the present off at her place... phew... so off i embarked into the north... i got there, still perspiring.. hahhaha... and rang her door, but no one was there, her maid was out and my teacher's mummy was in there but i think she was probably locked in...oh dear... so i hanged her present over the gate.. and off i went to my next gift-giving place... gave my friend the cheesecakes which did make my friend pleased and smiley! it made me smiley too!!!
and then to my final place...Raffles city again to meet Elaine...it was a saturday... i was all keen to catch up on my James McAvoy fever at the cinemas with 'Wanted' and 'Penelope', but all my kakis were not free, and elaine who was killing time before she meet up with her bf, suggests that we go walk walk... just as I was waiting for her, i bought myself a ring from Swatch, which i did set my eyes on them for ages... the ring was from their pilot collection, when they first had jewellery. it looked like and enlarged, tripled, chor-lored version of my mimioui. I looked around topshop and other apparel stores, tried some clothes on but non catches my fancy much... but i did fancy some chunky male watches in Agnes B for meself... the female ones were far too dainty and minute for a chor-lor me... but the price was... ahem ahem... overpriced for an Agnes B.
anyway... met up with elaine... and then we go walk walk...showed her the watches whilst she set her eyes on a necklace (that had a whistle, and a pendant). she said she really really love it, but dun wanna burn a hole in her pocket... i did thought about getting it for her for her upcoming birthday with the other sistas...but... i thought about it.. i rarely goes into town..and since i was there i should just buy it... so i had a great opportunity when we pop to the loo, and she left first to go walk walk around, and i sneaked into Agnes B, and purchased the necklace... the shop staff were hilarious.. they recognised me from my previous visits and i told them i needed to buy that to surprise my friend, they were very cooperative, they hid me in the corner of their counter, and quickly wrapped the present up, and i made haste in writing her a note to wish her happy birthday in advance and hope this surprise will make her smile! and it did... that warms my heart, and it was the best feeling everyone can have...
joyfully, we made our way to Shokudo for unravelling the surprise and to wait for her man, and of cos.. FOOD!!!! the one thing i was waiting for!!!! ahhahaha...
Here's elaine and her present surprise!
Snapping about for her blog entry too...
and the real present!!! pink star that has a cursive B on it, which did looked like an E actually...
Elaine testing out the whistle test... her commanding weapon for casper.. hahahahaha
and of cos, me and my buys... my Swatch ring on my left, and my new Dior Tralala lookalike from River Island
elaine and i

dream kitchen

ahhh... give me this and i will marry you... whoever you may be....

kallang, the stadium and the view

this is the national stadium of singapore... abandoned and awaiting it's refurbishment and new makeover.... sad in a way that this massive icon of singapore is left to rot under the hot sun and acid rain... oh well... its like people right.. some of us are left out there to survive or to die.... depending on what one choose...


was with the school and the kiddies out for dragon boating by singapore river... a picturesque moment facing pebble bay...

National Museum of Singapore @ nite

Gosh oh gosh... how can i not post this??? well... better late than never...
Walked through National Museum of Singapore one evening about 9ish, 10, after an evening of Giselle in the Park by Singapore Dance Theatre. It was my first visit to the museum since it's opening in 2006 (I have not been in Singapore for a while..) Some of my colleagues and I were cutting through the museum to get to the subway station... and WOW... i was shuttering away like a little girl in wonderland...








Surrounding David by Indonesian Artist, Titarubi

PRiVé

singapore has a lil' island within singapore... yes yes.. it is a man-made island, and oasis for the rich and posh (some say atas).
it was a public holiday and some of us needed a getaway well sort of... and we decided to go for brunch at this great looking place in the scorching heat.
PRiVé @ Keppel Marina... a little island tat reminded me of a scene of Newport Beach from The OC, or something like Miami... with boats/yacht awaiting, tanning in the sun...
Teardrop sculpture by Sun Yun Li (i think it was also by the same person tat did that amazing sculpture at Suntec)
and i spy with my lil' eye... it's Sentosa's Underwater World from a distance...
Jetty
we ate at Bakery Cafe, as the Restaurant was not opened on a public holiday... the food to be honest, was a slight let down... perhaps i expected more... much more at such an atas/posh place....
meising and i were inspired by a idealistic getaway.. i was geared with my bright pink bikini, and she was in her orchid garland braclet. oh... of cos.. not to forget the SHADES!!!!
my very first shades that i bought.. instead of my previous ones that was ill-fitting which came along as freebies when i bought harpers... me heart me shades from MJ :p