Hi all! These are the pictures of Durian plants.

My D24 Fruit!

Yesterday, I mentioned to someone that I actually grew two pots of D24 fruit outside my flat but she laughed it off as being "ridiculous". She thought that I stayed in Malaysia in the D24 Fruit plantation! Well, I am not trying to "boast" about my D24 fruit. Not to worry, I will prove my words with photographs. I will take pictures of the plants and post them in my blog. So, stay tuned and watch this site for the photographs, which should be "published" by end of this week. Haha! :D

A Strange Dream

Last night, I had a strange dream. I dreamt that I went to a place which looked like a theatre or something of that sort. I met my old primary school classmates there. One of them is my best friend. Anyway, I still recalled talking to him and he told me he was attending a wedding ceremony. Somehow, I felt I was not invited to the ceremony, so I started walking out of the theatre. Then I walked down the streets towards a church. I did not know why I walked towards that particular church. It looked familiar though. Maybe I had gone to too many churches already.

As I approached the church, I realized that the people there were all dressed up smartly and they were preparing for a ceremony - a wedding ceremony. Out of curiosity, I went towards the table which had a few photo albums on top of it. Near the table was a poster-size portrait of the wedding couple. When I took a closer look at the portrait, I recognized the lady in the portrait. She was my ex-pupil who I had taught four years ago and she had graduated last year. I shall not reveal her name. Haha! Funny, isn't it?

Later, I went back to the theatre to meet up with my friends. We boarded a bus which took us to the SAME church that I had gone earlier!!! What a coincidence! Another strange thing I realized was that that church was very near to the theatre where we boarded the bus. I could see the building where the theatre was from the church. If you travelled on foot, it would probably take you ten minutes or so to reach the church as you could cut across the roads and buildings. But if you travelled on bus, you will take you about the same time as working because the bus had to go a big round to reach the church.

I did not get to watch the wedding ceremony because my wife woke me up after I got off the bus. Haiz... I guess I can only attend the wedding ceremony again tonight. Haha...! :D

Uninvited Visitors

These are SOME of the uninvited visitors which pop in this evening. They might have lost their way home or they could have lost their home!! Whatever it is, they are in the midst of dying while I am writing this blog entry. Farewell little visitors!!

What a morning!

I guess this morning was the WORST morning I have. This morning, as usual, I took my boy to his play group. After settling him in his class, I drove back to my in-law's place. That was around 9.10am in the morning. As usual, I would stop near the parking lot and signal to park my car. Just as I was about to reverse into the parking lot, this taxi from behind horned and flashed at me. I took nothing about it. The taxi made way and I reversed my car into the lot.

I got out of my car and walked towards the lift lobby. I saw this not-so-old lady getting out of the taxi and walked towards the lift lobby as well. She was looking fuming mad as though a lightning bolt had struck her! She saw me and instantly shouted at me in her perfect English, "Don't you know how to park your car?!" Then, she started pointing to her chin and said that she had knocked her chin against the seat in front while she was in the taxi. I looked at her and said that I was sorry to hear that. She continued to say that she would have flung out of the taxi if not for the seat belt she was wearing. She went on and questioned me if anything should happen to her, how I would answer to her parents. I told her that was a carpark and cars and taxis are not supposed to be moving a high speed. She rebuked and blamed me for reversing "out of nowhere". I told her I did not reverse "out of nowhere" and I did signal before I reversed my vehicle. She admonished me for trying to argue my way. I was stating the facts and was told off!!! She continued to point at her chiny chin chin and repeated her "pain and suffering". She insisted that I appeared "out of nowhere" and reversed, almost knocking the taxi and caused the taxi to brake suddenly that made her chin to hit the seat in front. She went on to tell me that she had been living in that block since she was young, and that she had not seen me before. She kept asking," Where do you stay?" and "Which level do you stay?" I did not reply her as I did not know what she would do. So, I told her I did not live there (which is true). She started to "interrogate" me,"You don't stay here? Then why are you here?!!" (Notice the double-exclamation marks? It is to show the volume of her voice - super loud!) I kept quiet for a while as I did not want to answer her questions.

Suddenly, she yelled, "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?" I was caught by surprise as I did not really know how to answer her. So, I just looked away from her direction. I did not argue with her, so I asked her what she wanted me to do. She repeated her "sorrows" AGAIN, pointing to her chin AGAIN and said I did not even want to apologise to her!!! No choice. Such a fierce woman standing in front, so I apologised for "causing" her "pain". But she said I did not even apologise in the first place. Anyway, I wanted to get away from her. So, I pretended to go away to the next block, she followed and shouted,"Are you going away just like that?" I turned back and asked her what she wanted me to do in order to stop that "argument". I suggested that she could make a complaint or something. She took my "heed" and asked for my number. Number? I said that if she wanted me car licence plate number, she could go and see it in the carpark. So, when she went to check out my car plate number, I got into the lift and went off. I got a bit scared as I did not know what she would do to my car. She looked so "educated" as she spoke a strong accent of "good" English. I wonder why she came back early in the morning. I think she might have a bad night the night before and she was probably asleep when the taxi stopped suddenly.

I was HIT!

Ya, right! As you can see in the photographs, the rear of my vehicle was knocked by a lady driver yesterday afternoon about 2 plus. I was just driving out of Sim Lim Square, waiting for the traffic along Bencoolen Street to clear, when the vehicle behind hit my car. So today I was busy going to the Borneo Body Care Service Centre to get it assessed. The initial figure came up to be in the range of $2200 to $2500 at least. Initially she agreed to claiming from the insurance, but after she went to make a report at the insurance company, she was persuaded by one of the agents to settle the case privately. If not, she would have lost her no-claim bonues for her car insurance. She called me after I reached the carpark at the void deck. I agreed to have it assessed at an authorised (so-called) workshop, and the bill came up to be slightly more than $800 which she willingly paid for it. She was going overseas tomorrow. I learnt that she was working in a company selling vitamin ingredients for all sorts of things, like beverages, milk powder and even animal feeds. Wow!

Happy Birthday, Singapore!

Thanks Clarice for sending me her scanned copy of the National Day Parade's ticket. I managed to make two copies of the ticket and sneaked into the parade. :p