Welcoming the Year of Cow.

If you notice around you (in Singapore I meant :P) you will see on some open area where there grass patches, there are colorful cows "grazing".

I vaguely remember last year this media company Moove Media who are a subsidiary of Comfort Delgro did similar advertisement. Since their mascot is a cow so & ushering the year of the cow, they pull out the same trick again.

I am so fascinated with these cute cows, can't help stopping my car in a car park, walk near to them & snap these pics. Trust me, all the other drivers driving past that corner heading towards the expressway was really wondering what am I doing...

But I think the effort of taking these pics were worth it. They are really so cool & cute.

What a way to start the 牛 Year

Last week, my status at Facebook was - Joanne broke her wrought iron gate!! Oh no!!

Isn't that great! I can have such great strength to break my own gate. Frankly I really don't know what happen. I just as usual put the keys in & open it.

It started to have some cracking sound but I ignore it. Later when I attempted to close, it can't be closed. After trying a few times (end of the day - rather slow in mind), then I saw the hinge of the gate was sheer off at the joint!

Seriously I have no idea how can this can be happening as wrought iron gates are meant to very tough & hard! Tried calling people to come & fix it but to no avail. Its either they charges me exuberant prices or no workers around...

I have no choice but live with a broken gate throughout the Chinese New Year...

See below. This is the broken hinge.


And this is what it should be.

Its a sign... The Fall of Merrill Lynch

Please don't say that I am being bias or even superstitious. Over the last couple of weeks or months, I guess there were so many news regarding all the leading banks around the world either filing for bankruptcy or being taken over by another bank or even whatever news there is... Hearing all these really makes us wonder - are our money really safe in the banks now?!?!?!

Guess this is really up to me to decipher nor comments whereby at this moment it may really up to God Bless the Banks.

Why out of a sudden I shown interest on the current economy? Not that I am always obnoxious regarding what is happening around me, but some times I rather keep my opinion to myself as not to offend other people which may have other point of view.

Well what prompts me to write this passage is really this.... Last week I was doing my pre boxing day shopping (boost Singapore economy OK) at Marina, I come across this.



My husband being an ex Merrill Lynch says the bull is the symbol of the bank. I just wonder why is this bull so weirdly sculpted? Should it had the head facing or looking upwards just like the original Bank symbol?



I walk closer & try to see whether is there any write ups or wording to describe the sculpture & I saw this...


No wonder Merrill got taken over by BAC (Bank of America) & its Asia chairman is resigning!!! This is because the sculptor sculpt the bull head facing downwards which symbolize a tired & restless bull without any charge. On top of this, this sculpture was done June 2008. This is almost the beginning of the WW financial crisis.

Haiz... Bad Omen!

Christmas Eve Dinner

It was rather "last minute" where we decided to eat at home for Christmas eve. Not wanting to pay the outrages dinner & also avoid the squeeze as well. I remember last year we invited a few friends for Christmas dinner & we ordered Cold Storage ready dinner. They were actually quite good too.

This were what I manage to whip out after an afternoon shopping at NTUC Finest.

The entire meal that I started cooking since 3pm in the afternoon


This was the platter of food which include... drunken chicken wings, sausages, honey bake ham, my homemade mash potato & white button mushrooms simmer with chicken stocks.


This is the chinese style dumpling soup from the chicken stocks balance from the chicken which I cook in the afternoon.


Then the must have veggies. Salad


Trust me I was tired after all these cooking.

Ok ok I live up to my Nick...

Yes my nick is Layzze because as most friends know I am generally quite a lazy person.
It has really been a crazy month! Lots of work, lots of errands to make & it has been so overwhelmed that I almost don't have much time to do the stuff that I like to do like blogging for example :)

So what really did happen? Well I went for a holiday to China - Sanya. Scenery was nice but people wise a bit... Probably because that is a touristy place & their main source of industry is Tourism.
Anyway I will share some pics here soon. But prior to this I need to solve my photo website Photobucket. Lately it just refuse to allow me to upload :(

Then I had a change in reporting boss Again... hahahaha. I was telling my staff the other day.. in 2 year of time frame I think I change 5 bosses! Change boss also means a bit change in job scope. More things to do.

What else. Oh ya collected new car. Busy adapting to it & thinking what to change kekeke...

hmmm these are the major happenings. I will really write more soon!

Getting the Nose Fixed

Friends of mine will know I do have on and off nose problem. Either sneezing or an infection that leads to a fever. Lately this nose of mine is also not giving any problem less. It get painful which causes a migraine and I would say this is not something that I wish to bear along with.

Therefore today I went to see this ENT (Ear Nose Throat) specialist at Mount Elizabeth Hospital. The clinic name is YH Goh Ear Nose Throat, Head & Neck Surgery. Sound scary thou.

Dr Goh is friendly & he has such good complexion that I even thought he is an Aesthetic doctor instead.

Well Dr Goh is very knowledgeable in this field & after consultation + a scope view (eeks) into my nose. He deduce I am not suffering from Sinus (Phew) but its more of an Allergy.

He gave me a list of Food that I should abstract... see below
Some of the food that you are taking may actually be making your allergic symptoms worse. It is widely believed that what you eat may be a bigger risk factor to your ENT symptoms than inhalation (air borne) triggers. Some of the commonly encountered food allergens are:

Main Food Group
Milk & Dairy Products
Chocolate
Peanuts
Eggs (egg white)
Chicken
Wheat
Alcohol

Minor Food Group
Citrus food
Banana
Coffee
Tea
Chilli

Plus a bunch of Anti Histamines for Day & Night + Nose sprays + Nose Wash!!!


Haiz....