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Slow Down and Live

Today I came across a very interesting read in The Daily Bread reminding us to take time, slow down and live!  For once I thought it's really one of the wisest thing I've ever read regarding new year resolutions. 

Many times I have lots of plans and resolutions for the new year and too often, these commitments crowd my life and made me rush through things, meeting my own deadline, making me very impatient with my family and somewhat, derided me of the joy of living!!

In the Bible, Psalm 1, it was written, "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of he ungodly.....but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law doth he mediate day and night."  Here's a person who enjoys the peace of blessing of God and is not frantically dashing all over to make a living.

Carol Odel who writes a business column says that slowing down can positively affect our lives at work and at home.  She encourages everyone to slow down , and even welcome red traffic lights and using the time to meditate.

So this will be one of my resolution this year: take time to live.  Enjoy red traffic lights!  Breathe!!  

Switch from Ice-cream to Gelato

I never know that gelato can be as good tasting as ice-cream, until I tried it today with Jevon.  I have walked past this Bravissimo brand of gelato many times and was attracted by the way they display the product - every tub has about 6 big heaps of nicely decorated gelato sitting on it.... it is as though you can imagine how it will turn out in your hand... and you just wanna taste it.  It's visually very appetising.  Much better than the traditional flat looking tub of ice-cream at the counter. (worse still, the scariest look is an almost finished tub of ice-cream looking very hollow and little)

If this thing looks good, the taste is even better.  With only 6% fat compared to 22% in normal full-cream ice-cream, I had not expected it to taste as good as my favourite Hagaan-Daaz.  The best part is.... it cost less!!

Here's Jevon and me licking away in happiness with his favourite flavour, Cookies & Cream, photo taken by myself. 

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Unforgettable King (Kong) friend

I had a nice dinner with an old school mate of mine from Nanyang Girls High at Don Noodle yesterday.  We haven't had a chance to chat and meet like this before as she was away in UK studying and later went on to work there as a lecturer. 

It's amazing to see how my dear friend grew from a quiet girl of few words back then to a confident lady now who is not only a professor at one of the more prestigous colleage in UK, but also being invited frequently to lecture overseas. The best thing is, she specialises in what used to be my pet subject, Chemistry.

I also just realised why she is called Mimi and not King Kuok as we also knew her as.  Imagine being Chinese, the name goes like this: King-Kuok Hii.  Most people overseas would mistakenly call her as King Kong High.  In her own words, "King Kong is already very big sounding, let alone "High"!!  There were quite some funny encounters with her Chinese name and so in the end she used her pet name called by her family, Mimi. 

By the way, her chinese name, 庆国， is also pretty unusual for a girl, as it means "celebrate National Day" which is more commonly used as a guy's name.

I jokingly told her it would be really fun to see other's reaction when they imagine someone masculine and big named King-Kong appearing and what a surprise they will get when they see her, a pretty young Asian girl!!

Had wanted to upload our photo taken together but something's wrong with the USB connection to my phone today and looks like I have to try it later.  So till then, the suspense of the appearance of this King Kong lady continues....  Stay tuned!

Mimi Hii

Resolve 2007

Every year I made some new year resolutions.  This year there is this video clip which provides another angle which I have not thought of before.  It is a piece of work from a friend who introduced me to Vox.  Enjoy!

Resolve 2007

Life is Beautiful

Everyone of us were once an adorable baby..... we were given life....

This blog is dedicated to all who believes that life is beautiful... no matter what hardship or challenges we are facing today, the fact that we are existing now (and reading blogs) is an amazing thing.

Let's strive to live life to the maximum... take care first of our health, our mental and spiritual state and our physical body.  It is the primary responsibility of our existance.