Diary of a Young Wife

Monday :
Now home from honeymoon and settled in our new home. It's fun to cook for Tim. Today I made an angel food cake and the recipe said, "beat 12 eggs separately." Well, I didn't have enough bowls to do that, so I had to borrow 12 bowls to beat the eggs in. The cake turned out fine though.

Tuesday:
We wanted a fruit salad for supper. The recipe said, "serve without dressing." So I didn't dress. But Tim happened to bring a friend home for supper that night. They both looked so startled when I served them, I think it was the salad.

Wednesday:
I decided to serve rice and found a recipe which said, "wash thoroughly before steaming the rice." So I heated some water and took a bath before steaming the rice. Sounded kinda silly in the middle of the day. I can't say it improved the rice anyhow.

Thursday:
Today Tim asked for salad again. I tried a new recipe. It said, prepare ingredients, then toss on a bed of lettuce one hour before serving." I hunted all over the place for a garden and when I got one, I tossed my salad into the bed of lettuce and stood over there for over one hour so the dog would not take it. Tim came over and asked if I felt all right. I wonder why? He must be stressed at work, I'll try to be supportive.

Friday:
Today I found an easy recipe for cookies. It said, "put all ingredients in a bowl and beat it." Beat it I did,to my mum's place. There must have been something wrong with the recipe, because when I came back home again, it looked the same as when I left it.

Saturday:
Tim went shopping today and brought home a chicken. He asked me to dress it for Sunday. I'm sure I don't know how hens dress for Sunday. I never noticed back on the farm, but I found an old doll dress and it's little cute shoes. I thought the hen looked really cute. When Tim saw it, he started counting to ten. Either he was really stressed because of his work, or he wanted the chicken to dance. When I asked him what was wrong he started crying and shouting out "why me? why me ?" Hmmm....It must be his job.

Tags: Jokes, Funny, Humour, Wife, Husband, Cooking, Recipe

Exiled / I Not Stupid Too - movie review

Exiled - starring Nick Cheung, Roy Cheung, Josie Ho, Lam Suet, Francis Ng, Cheung Siu Fai, Simon Yam, Anthony Wong & Richie Ren. With this set of cast members, I wouldn't have let this movie out of my grasp especially with Johnnie To as the director. 5 members of a gang up, after overcoming their differences, to undertake one last crime assignment together.

They were supposed to be hired killers to finish off a particular guy. So happened, another gang, led by Simon Yam, turned up and turned the tables of 5 of them. One was badly hurt and they were hunted down. Sadly, this injured gang member passed away and left behind his wife/child.

While trying to escape, they bumped into a security van transporting gold bars where they helped the head security to ward off a planned hijack. In the end, together with the head security, they took off together with equal shares in it with tens of millions each. Apparently, Simon Yam's has taken their dead member's wife/child as hostage. With loyalty in their hearts, they went to bail the wife/child out with their share of gold bars. Simon Yam was totally wiped off the face of this earth in a gun battle with the remaining 4 gang members unable to escape the death trap too.

Not much of a story to follow but it just point to loyalty/friendship towards a dead gang member and due to too much killings, this movie was banned in Malaysia. A Cantonese version.

I Not Stupid Too 2 - starring Xiang Yun, Richard Low, Selena Tan, Jack Neo. A solid good Singapore production which is maturing day to day. If you want a solid laugh with good/original jokes/humour, this is the movie but it's in Mandarin.

About how students in a secondary/high school behaves. The movie showed the respective students' home life and how it affected their behaviours in school. How 2 brothers who neglected by their busy business-minded dad and their dragon-like mom who scolded without giving them a chance to explain. It also showed the life of another student, who has a dad who would beat him even for a small mistake.

It went to the length of highlighting a teacher's weakness in conducting his class which eventually led him to be ridiculed by the public. Though quite emotionally, the in-betweens have tremendous good laughs.
Tags: Movie, Review, Cinema, Exiled, I Not Stupid Too, Nick Cheung, Francis Ng, Xiang Yun, Jack Neo

Beer Spa

I have been blogging about Spa resort centres in Malaysia on 6 Nov 06 and 2 Dec 06. Such wellness lifestyle in Malaysia is getting more prominent. But another kind of spa lifestyle is found in Czech Republic and also mushrooming in Austria (Landhotel Moorhof) and Germany (Kummeroer Hof). It's called the Spa Beer.

It was believed that a Spa Beer opened up by the Chodovar Brewery in Chodova Plana is the world's first Spa Beer where every sense is enveloped in beer; the bubbly sticky liquid on your skin, the hops in the air, to the beer in your mug.

You can also try the brewski facial: an über gooey face mask made from ground hops, malt, honey and cream cheese. These half hour bath treatments start at about US$55. The guests are charged US$150 pounds for weekend packages, and can indulge in a range of health treatments including beer wraps. Beer is believed to have many positive effects on the skin and skin conditions. Maybe the men, upon hearing the word beer, may change their mind on spas. Imagine you can swim in a pool of beer.(source: Zee News, Realbeer & World Leisure News)
Tags: Spa, Beer Spa, Czech Republic, Chodovar Brewery, Chodova Plana, Landhotel Moorhof, Kummeroer Hof, Travel, Leisure, Lifestyle

Visitation at the Desert Villages

Friendly guys who were ready anytime for a picture.
Large empty land. We were approaching another village again.

I wonder what made my colleague to move the camera towards the left, was it just because he wants to make sure that I was in the centre since that was my camera he was holding....hehehe. The ladies in this village came out from the house behind me the moment we arrived and greeted us with some shouts (their custom).

Too young and not daring enough to wander around with strangers around.

Clay brick houses.

This boy was having running nose due to the winter season now.

Another cow being slaugthered upon our arrival.

Picture was taken with the village elders.

The girl on the right has some sort of permed hair?????

Our only ma'am in our group said that if any one of us are interested in the girls, she can talk to the respective mothers immediately.




One of the kids was wearing a army general type of uniform in the following village. Someone must have taught to put up a 'good' sign when taking pictures.




Our ma'am saw this 2 little girls standing faraway from the main group of people.










Another cow, forgotten whose cow was this......the few guys who was supposed to be besides the cow disappeared somewhere behind taking photos.

To be continued ..........

Tags: Journal, Life, Diary, Sudan, Travel, Desert, Village

Soul Plane / United 93 - movie review

Soul Plane - starring Tom Arnold, Kevin Hart & Calvin 'Snoop Dogg' Broadus. Kevin lost his dog (flew out of cargo section) & injured himself in the airplane toilet. Due to this, he received a US$100M compensation and he told the reporters outside the court that he will have his own airline with the money. Indeed he did. His new airline's maiden flight will be from Los Angeles to New York. His plane is in purple colour and all its wheels has sport rims.

His cousin somehow got Snoop Dogg as a pilot where they found out that he has flying experience via the flight simulator game only. The upper deck on the airplane was a disco area where there is a live DJ and live band. The first class section has new seating arrangements where everyone can move comfortably.

His cousin almost made a mess in the plane by converting certain section of the plane into a casino area then change it to a dance floor with pole dancers. It's a goood comedy movie where you'll see different people with different needs especially with the only white family in the plane. There was a toilet attendant in a spacious toilet too. The captain, Snoop Dogg passed out as he took too much dosage of drugs and the co-pilot passed out cold when he fell at the jacuzzi area. In the end, the new owner landed the plane and created history for a new way of travelling.

United 93 - starring Daniel Sauli, Lewis Alsamari & JJ Johnson. This movie was adapted partly based on the airplane that crashed prior to hitting any targets on 9/11. It showed various passengers checking in including the terrorists (right from their hotel rooms). The terrorists managed to reserve all first class seatings. After taking off, they waited for the right moment before seizing the control of the plane when a stewardess opened the pilots' door.

From then on, it was chaotic as 4 guys pushed their way through and killed off the 2 pilots instantly. One of the terrorists flew the plane and another 2 gathered the rest of the passengers way back into the end of the plane. One of them had a bomb tied to his body. You could passengers making calls via the in-flight phone or via their mobile phones (who cares whether it will disrupt the plane's electrical systems now). Tears, fear, confusion & numbness came about. At the same time, the movie moved on to showing 3 other planes hitting the World Trade Center and also the Pentagon. The intelligence on the ground was trying to put the pieces together. It was total mayhem at many control towers.

Eventually, the control towers received notice that flight United 93 was also hijacked. With death knocking at their doors, the male passsengers agreed to combine their strength and overcame 2 of the terrorists. Another terrorist stood just outside the cockpit and managed to delay the passengers from going into the cockpit. By the time that a few of the passengers got into the cockpit, the airplane was directed downwards by the terrorist pilot. Too late. Intense movie and you really feel for those passengers in there. Though it may not reflect the true scenario but at least the movie did anger the public on the showing of this movie in USA.

If not mistaken, both of the movies were not shown in Malaysia. Censored too?
Tags: Movie, Review, Cinema, Soul Plane, United 93, Tom Arnold, Snoop Dogg, Daniel Sauli, Airplane

USA's $4.5 Trillion Financial Scandal

How true are the following reports thus far that US Treasury Secretary has been arrested in Germany and news have been covered up as it involves a number of top ranking people in USA and Europe. And if this is real, it will be the world's worse financial scandal of all time which could even trigger the fall of US Dollars and maybe even the EURO.

Biggest Scandal in U.S. History Covered Up By U.S. Corporate Media - Inform America

U.S. Treasury Secretary Arrested in Germany - World Reports Limited

Treasury Secretary Paulson Arrested in Germany as Bushbox Crumbles and Disgraces America Again - After Downing Street

White House Still Not Talking about $4.5 Trillion Wanta Settlement - The Artic Beacon

The above happened within the last week of year 2006 till 30 Dec 2006.

Want my feedback? I think it's a hoax as it did mention that the International Court of Justice ("ICJ") has subpoena Henry Paulson to the ICJ. ICJ is located in The Hague, Netherlands anyway. FYI, the ICJ only settles (1) cases involving countries pertaining to international law or legal disputes and (2) will give legal advisory on those disputes submitted by international organisations and agencies. Only states may apply or appear before the court. An arrest could not be made or issued by ICJ on the spot even though it involves states as there are procedures to be followed.
Tags: USA, Euro, US Treasury Secretary, Germany, Financial Scandal, International Court of Justice, Wanta, Arrest, $4.5 Trillion

Long-Haul Budget Airline

A collaboration between 3 major low-cost carriers ("LCC") could trigger a strong competition to the long-haul distance. AirAsia, the no. 1 LCC in Asia could be teaming up with Virgin group's Sir Richard Branson and Sir Stelios Haji-loannou of EasyGroup, the parent of EasyJet. The new venture could be based in Malaysia itself.

The alliance could pave the way for AirAsia to penetrate the European routes and vice versa for both Virgin and EasyJet to have access at the LCC Terminal in Malaysia and from thereon, other Asian routes. Smart move! (source: The Star)

Will the new collaboration bring air travelling more affordable to many more people especially overseas bound countries?

Tags: AirAsia, Virgin, EasyJet, Travel, Airline, Low Cost Carrier, Tony Fernandes, Sir Richard Branson, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, EasyGroup