Wantunn mee

Last night Cordelia slept in my room so before we sleep (in fact, every time we wake up in the middle of the night too), we normally check that she’s nicely covered since she has a endency to kick her blankets off (all 5 of them).
So I’m covering her up and pulling the sleeves on her jammies down to cover her arms when suddenly she sits up. I’m thinking oh no.. she’s awake and won’t want to go back to sleep. Instead she starts yelling, “I don’t want I don’t want” followed by “I pah yeh yeh” (translates to I beat grandpa).
And thats the story of how I got whacked a couple of times last night by my sleeping daughter. I wonder what she was dreaming about?

Part I
These days I’ve been having odd dreams.. wonder what’s the cause.. or maybe I’m just remembering it more?
Anyway, last night I dreamt I was buying 4D. The odd part was it was in letters and I was buying the word “FAT BASTARD” (before anyone brings it up, I haven’t seen that episode of Austin Powers for ages. Really). So I go hand in the slip with the word to the counter and suddenly realise (I don’t know how this idea got to me though) that I was buying a permutation of all the letters in the word. And it cost $408. Maybe I should layoff the 4D buying for a while? Luckily I didn’t tear anymore curtains this time around.
Part II
Going to work this morning, I was waiting for the lift as usual and when it arrived, there was the creepiest boy alive standing in the lift. And he was standing in the exact center of the lift. And he had the creepiest smile on his face. Good thing I took a quick check behind me and saw the sun was out. I didn’t check if had a shadow though as suggested by the qoomonster.

I’m not sure if it’s just me or are drivers in Singapore generally getting more and more annoying, irritating, impatient, selfish, *append favourite expletives here*?
Example 1: Diving out of the carpark from HDB hub on Saturday (my wife was driving), paid the parking and was putting the cashcard back into the reader when the car behind started honking. What is the matter? 10 seconds to put a cashcard back into the reader is too long? To top it off, after we exit, we see the guy cut from the left lane to the right and then back to the left before heading into the PIE, all without signalling.

If that was you Mr Black Mitsubishi Lancer guy, shame on you.
Example 2: Drove to Ikea for a spot of shopping today and noticed that at most maybe 2 in 10 vehicles bother to signal when changing lanes. Am I missing something here? Did signalling while driving become optional lately (maybe I need to get a copy of the latest basic theory and check it out). On the flip side, many drivers seem to regard other people signalling as the trigger to speed up, close the gap etc etc. I’ll bet these are the same guys (could be gals as well) that don’t bother to signal.
Example 3: Went for a jog in the evening and as we were finishing up, we needed to cross the street to get back home. Came to a filter lane with a zebra crossing and as I was about to cross, I noticed a car coming at pretty fast speed so I stopped to make sure he would stop. Which of course he did not. So here’s news for you A**hole. People stop at the zebra crossing cos it looks like you’re about to run them down. Not because they can’t make up their mind whether or not to cross. I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt that maybe you’re distracted cos you’ve just discovered you have a bad case of herpes or something.
Example 4: After making it across the filter lane and waiting for the lights to change in my favour, I see a car heading across the junction and changing lanes back n forth at the same time. Yes, you Ms Lady driver who is TYPING out an SMS as you’re driving. If it’s that important, pull over and do it instead of trying to increase the fatal road accident statistics for Singapore. Or maybe you’ve just discovered you have a bad case of herpes (or whatever) too (and you caught it from the guy in example 3).
There. I’m done. And I had to create a new category just for this as well. Sheesh.

I think I’m going to sleep more towards the middle from now on

Ok, so this is a TRUE story.
Last night I was dreaming I was in the toilet doing well, you know.. poop. Anyway, I’m trying to grab the toilet paper and it’s really tough. I simply can’t get it out of the roller.
So I pull harder.
And harder.
Until I hear a ripping sound.
Followed by my wife screaming at me: “Eh! What are you doing!”
At which point I wake up and discover. I’ve been pulling on the curtains and the sound I heard was actually me ripping a HUGH hole in it.
Oh Man. My mum was telling me it’s double layered.. how in the world did you manage to rip it up?!?!?
Pictures tonight.. if it hasn’t been taken down and thrown away by then.
I should sleep in handcuffs.
Once again. A TRUE story.

Cheers dudes.

The best thing for winding down on a Friday night.

Cladding on the Esplanade in Singapore.

Finally got one me one of those laptops with a see through screen…or not…