GOD'S PLAY AND MAN'S CREATION
I have got three mosquito bites - one on my hand, another about 10cm away from my elbow and the last one is on the side of my lower leg. All of which happens to be on the right side of my body. The good news being that thank god to people or the mosquitoes with the eye for asymmetry, the marks on me looks perfectly like a good piece of art now. However, everything comes with a price to pay and the bad news is that it's beginning to start making me feel like a monkey, trying to scratch those three deadly bites. Everytime I try to ignore them, the itch just got worse and somehow, they seem to have spread to the rest of the body and making me scratch everywhere.
It's been such a long time since I've got mosquito bites. To think that I actually got them here in Montreal! I guess the mosquitos here just need to make me wake up and realise that they are in no way inferior to the ones in our tropical island!
Now that I'm getting all these bites, I'm beginning to relive the times when my grandma's house had so many mosquitoes that we ( my cousins and I) can actually play with different techniques of catching mosquitoes. The traditional two hand clap was far too easy and non challenging for us. After some time, we upgraded to one hand slapping against the wall which did not prove to be a very popular method for us as it will often leave behind the flattened corpse with blood stain on our white-wasked wall. Then, somebody started catching the mosquitoes with one hand and the rest of us began to follow suit. At that time, mosquitoes seemed to have provided us with another form of game to play other than our usual hide-and-seek or catching.
Or if we were to get bitten and have those lumpy bites on our body like what I have now, we will use our nails to etch out faces or flowers on the lumps. Those were the times when we can still indulge in playing even in the moments of pain and irritance!
Well...maybe I should learn from then!!! There...that's what I call the PLAY of GOD with a stroke of boredom is MAN"S CREATION ---- my happy face on the lumpy bite!!!
THINGS I KNOW AND NOT KNOW
"There are some things that I know I know and other things that I know I don't know. All of which are better than those things that I don't know I don't know."
-from some random website...
我和瓜的故事
从小， 我就对好多食物感到敏感，有着许多的不爱。 甚至是大家都爱吃的西瓜，哈密瓜，木瓜。。。我都一律不吃。 可能是前世被瓜打到头了，怎么样也说不出我对它们的反感。 于是，小小的我常在心底里佩服我爸，为什么他什么食物都敢吃。 就因为如此，他也就自然而然地成了我们家中的“第一号”垃圾桶。
一直到去年， 我是一个不折不扣的“什么瓜都不吃”的大傻瓜。
但也不知道是什么原因，可能是在梦里又被瓜敲了一下下，就在一个很偶然的一天，我突然有了那么样的冲动， 想要去改变自己。于是，我就决定先克服自己对瓜的反感。还记得那时是在自助餐里， 我就拼命的去拿瓜，木瓜也好，西瓜也好，哈密瓜也好。。我都拿了好多好多。 开始吃的时候真的好难受。 就在我一口瓜接着一大口水的这样子持续了半个钟头左右。好不容易的剩下最后一块时，我才发掘其实这些瓜并没有我想象中那么难吃。总算完成了我的使命，我心中含有着一种说不出的喜悦和满足感。
也许就如小时候的我会问：“是不是小孩子长大了什么食物都敢吃了？”
我想，在我敢于去尝试去吃曾经讨厌已久的瓜时，我可以说自己真的是长大了。
在我拿起那块瓜的那一刻，我也已步入了成长中的另一个阶段吧！
THE OFFICIAL BALCONY CAPITAL
Another interesting bit...
"Quebecers spend the equivalent of two weeks per year on their balconies. Balconies
are most popular among retired people and middle-class families. The city is
considered the official balcony capital with more than one and a half million
balconies (71% of metropolitan area residents have at least one). "
(quoted from Tourism Montreal)
MONTREAL BAGELS
I have just discovered something interesting about Montreal Bagels! They are famous but I have never really known the reason why till I read some trivial matters from the Tourism Montreal...
"Montréal bagels are different from New York and Toronto bagels in that they are made with eggs and are baked in wood ovens. In comparison, New York bagels are made with water and
are spongy, while Toronto bagels are usually baked in gas ovens. "
So, next time, I'll know why they are not as spongy when I eat one again. Not a big fan of bagels though. I only appreciate it more when someone told me that it's good for your teeth as you chew on it...
I still enjoy my occasional trips to Montreal's famous bagel shops in town, Fairmount and St. Viateur to get just that one bagel! The bagel itself may not be worth that journey (40 mins by foot or 20 mins by bike) but the trip along the way is definitely worth the going! Maybe it's because it's such a small shop set in the old and interesting residential neighbourhood of Mile End, I spent such a long time searching for it the first time that when I finally got to the shop and eat the bagel, it seemed awfully tasty and unexpectedly gratifying!
Oh,maybe they are better used as decorations too!!
BERRIES IN SEASON
One of the good thing that comes along with summer is all the fruits that comes available! It's berry season now and raspberries, blueberries and blackberries are everywhere! They were selling 3 boxes for $5 at a local supermarket, provdigo, and I bought 1 box of blueberry and 2 boxes of raspberries the other day. For some odd reason, I was in the mood for some baking yesterday and baked a 8" blueberry tart with lemon meyer cream! Personally, I think the taste and appearance went off quite well. Regrettably, I should have taken a better shot of it since such times where I get the inspiration to bake stuff are hard to come by!
TRADING WITH ONE RED PAPER CLIP
This is unbelieveable!! Check this out!! A trade which began with one red paper clip and ended up as a house in Saskatchewan!!
http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/
MOVIE MARATHON
The good thing about watching movies here is that you can do those movie marathon or movie hopping since there is only one ticketing attendant at the ground floor entrance to check your tickets. After that, you'll be more or less ON YOUR OWN! By that definition, it means that you can wander off from cinema to cinema and no one bothers to check on you.
So, because it is so expensive to watch a movie each time, we just have to make the most of our ticket! My friend and I just went for a mini movie marathon on tuesday. We watched 2 movies in a row...CARS and LAKEHOUSE.
Oops!! someone is going to chop off my head because CARS wasn't on my TO-WATCH list initially but I ended up watching it now!! It just so happens that the timing was just right for us to watch the movie with LAKEHOUSE which was supposedly the movie that I was interested in. However, it ended up that I like CARS much better than LAKEHOUSE! The cars are just so cute!!!
Anyways, by the end of the second movie, I was already exhausted and having a slight headache... I just can't imagine how my friends can go watch 5 movies in a day!! I have to hold it to them!
THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE THEORY
What on earth is this parallel universe theory?
I just watched the Lakehouse yesterday. Maybe I should not go too much into the details since it's still not out in Singapore and this will become a spoiler if I were to spill out too much...
But still, it just did not make sense to me how you can meet up with someone living 2 years ahead or behind you. Ridiculous, isn't it? Then again, my friend does has a point too. It's the 'magic' of cinematography. Nothing is impossible! BUT still....some things ought to make abit more sense, don't it? The magic still has to come from somewhere... I guess someone needs to inplant some chip into my head to make me stop this big fuss and just enjoy the movie in the name of a movie...
HOW I WISH THAT THERE IS REALLY SOMETHING CALL THE TOOTH FAIRY...
Maybe I had eaten just a bit too much of ice cream this past week, my tooth wasn't at its best performance today.
I was practising my smile in the mirror ( yes, it's my daily routine that came with my self-obsession) when I noticed some browning in between my central incisor and my lateral incisor. On closer examination, I thought that my gums are retreating further down than what they had been that-some-time-ago. Panic-stricken, I began to brush my teeth in the most thorough manner that we were taught to in primary school - toothbrush at an angle of 45 degrees, moving it in a continuous circular motion and ten times each part. Up, down, outside, inside and on the chewing surface. That did not get rid of the browning. So I decided to do some flossing. Either my gums were too delicate or I was simply too rough with my own set of teeth, blood started to paint over my teeth and I felt some sensational trigger of pain in several parts of my gums. The more I flossed, the more blood there was, the more pain I felt and the more I got into the flossing, with that naive thought that once the pain stopped, my teeth and my gums will be back to normal. Obviously, it didn't work and after a mere 10 minutes of self-inflicted abuse, I just had to stop.
It only took me that no-more-than 15 minutes of trauma to realise that it is time for me to go to the dentist. If only my months of procrastination to make a dental appointment had not got the better of me, if only I had done my daily routine of flossing, if only I had not indulge in so much ice-cream for the last couple of weeks, if only there was something called the tooth fairy...
Meanwhile, I just have to wait for my dental appointment on Friday. NO MORE ICE_CREAM PLS...
COOL CARPARK ATTENDANT
I spotted this very cool carpark attendant while walking around old port the other day. Thought that she was some punk who is about to draw some graffiti on the cars until I saw her putting the summons on it! Too bad I wasn't able to take her front view...
