See you this Saturday! [PLEASE FORWARD]

Jasmine's photo exhibition will start this coming Saturday, 5th January. The opening ceremony is at 11am. Do drop by if you are free - I will be there (I think I am the MC...).

Details of the exhibition: -

Date: 5th - 19th January, 2008 (Opening Ceremony is at 11am on 5th)
Time: 9am - 6pm
Venue: InnoCentre, G/F Tat Chee Road, Kowloon Tong

All proceeds from sale of bookmarks and postcard books will go to Home Care for Girls.

Bak Bak + kitchen.

Snaps.

每次在報章看到有關虐待小動物的消息，心情都很沉重。

過去兩星期，已經有3宗虐待小貓的報道。今天報道那一單，是小貓咪被活生生攔腰斬死。

此刻的我，眼眶通紅，心裏除了憤恨外，便是無限的問號：究竟什麽樣的人，可以做出這種非人類的，近乎禽獸的行爲？爲什麽可以對一些手無寸鐵的小動物下毒手？

這些我不能明白的事情，每天都在發生，在Darfur，在阿富汗，在美國，在中國，在香港。對象可以是動物，更可以是人。偶爾找個方便的藉口，更多時什麽也不用説，話殺便殺。

在這個沒有道理，沒有良知的時代，我必須相信，那頭小貓，現在正快樂地在天堂裏跟其他小動物玩耍。

Singapore - Iggy's.

在新加坡5天内，有兩天跟伯伯去了Iggy's 吃午飯。Iggy's 開店只有短短幾年，但已成爲世界最佳餐廳第60位。當然要去看看它有幾厲害啦。

吃後感是，一次極美好的dining experience。味道固然好，賣相超吸引，但更重要的是服務一流（很多高級餐廳忽略了的細微細眼事，這裏都照顧周到）。勁加分。環境舒服，不是那種super fine dining atmosphere （令人透不過氣！），而有點像香港怡東酒店的Cammino般，加上counter位，很homey。

（還有還有，我們第二次去吃午餐時，可能經理認得我們，可能他覺得我又美麗又可愛（！！），也可能因爲見到我帶了一部“懶”pro- 的相機，以爲我們是食評，所以免費送了我們兩道菜，由3-course lunch變成5-course lunch！！！開心到飛起！）

講到尾，吃飯最緊要吃得身心愉快。而Iggy's做到了。

以後多個理由去新加坡。


Assorted mushrooms tart.







Tomato souffle.







Wagyu beef.







Gnocchi and truffles.







Pina colada souffle with home-made coconut ice-cream.

Singapore.

Before I met BB, I had never been to Singapore, and I had never wanted to go there. Everybody says it is a boring place with boring people and even more boring weather (even the Singaporean say so!), so why bother?

Then BB came into the picture, and I discovered that there are actually people who would WANT to go to Singapore for holiday. What a revelation!

BB and I just came back from our holiday in this "Lion City". Having been there twice now, I have to agree with BB that, contrary to general public view, I think this country is far from boring, and I can definitely see myself visiting there again very soon.

A country with lots of shopping malls and restaurants and hawker centers and mega cinemas can never be boring!

(心情異常煩燥，想打人。)

妖。

放工，搭小巴回家。我先上小巴坐低，未幾，有對中年男女準備上車，但那女的突然說了一句：“咦，無得一齊坐喎。”然後這對男女便選擇等下一班車。 留意，當時車裡面有起碼７個單座位，還有一個在司機後面的雙座位。

我目擊一切，當堂O晒咀。

車程只是１０分鐘，真的是分開一陣都會死嗎？難道做連體嬰緊要得過趕回家輕鬆吃飯看新聞？兩個加埋成百歲，重玩痴纏？

每次遇到這些人，我都會很疑惑：究竟他們在想什麼？

如果你是這一類人，千祈不要告訴我，我會勁藐你的。

（第一階段發洩完畢，１５分鐘後打壁球，繼續洩憤。）

Memory and sulking DBJ.

For those of you who, like me, find the concept of memory fascinating, you must read this article from the November issue of National Geographic.

I always thought that people like Drew Berrymore in "50 first dates" do not exist. I mean, how can a person have a memory span that lasts only one day?

National Geographic introduces us to a gentle, friendly old man named EP, who has zero memory. He cannot retain old memories nor can he form new memories. He wakes up in the morning, eats his breakfast, goes to his bedroom and lie on his bed to listen to the radio, and then, forgetting that he has eaten breakfast, he wakes up again and eats a second round of breakfast, and then goes back to his bedroom to listen to the radio. Sometimes he will have breakfast a third time. His world is now, and now only.

Every person is a stranger to him, even if that "stranger" has met him for 200 times. Every TV program re-run is a first time excitement to him. His life is nothing like you and I can imagine.

But -- he is happy, worry-free and stress-free. (Although his family may feel otherwise - it must be heart-breaking.)

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About two months ago, I booked through my travel agent air tickets to Singapore in mid-December (I am flying this Sunday). The ticket price was HK$1,700, a bargain mainly because I booked early. The deadline for confirmation was 28 Nov. Due to some and miscommunication, the travel agent did not confirm the tickets on the due date, and as a result my booking was cancelled, and I had to re-book my tickets yesterday. As any seasoned traveller will know, try buying an air-ticket 6 days before departure and you are bound to be ripped-off.

The price of the ticket I have to pay this time for the VERY SAME flight is HK$4,300, more than double of the previous price. (I am flying with BB so it's twice the damage.) I almost fainted when I was told the "new" price. I spent the past few days sulking big time and thinking what I could have done with the price difference - dinner at Petrus, new mobile phone, donation to charity, huge Christmas present for my parents, even a trip to Bangkok(!)... anything BUT giving to the blood-sucking airline.

As I was reading the article this morning, I couldn't help thinking, if my memory failed me and I could not remember having booked the tickets for a much cheaper price, then I wouldn't feel so bad about it. I might even think $4,300 is a bargain!

Now I wish I were EP.