Interesting way of delivering airline annoucements

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You know you’re an Au Pair in the USA when…

Recently joined this group in Facebook. The points below are so appropriate and applicable. To let you know more about the lives of au pairs in the USA, I decided to post this in my blog. Of course, not all the situations are true for all au pairs. This depends very much upon the kind of host family you have and the family situation they are in. I would say that about 60-70% of the points stated are true for me. The point about napping…oh, so true! Ha!

You know you’re an Au Pair in the USA when…
…you always introduce yourself with : ‘Hi! my name is (your name), I’m from (country) and I have (number of children you are taking care of) children!!’
…everybody is greeting you with a ‘Hi.How are you?’
and you can’t respond fast enough, so you say it first!
…the worst thing is, when the dad is working from home
…you know what a S’MORE is
…you spent all your money at the MALL and you still have nothing to wear
…you hate Dora, The Wiggles and Thomas
…you say silly instead of stupid
…you go to PLAYDATES
…you’ve seen more movies in one month than in your whole life at home
…you drive over 30 minutes to a friend and you think it’s not far
…you only have other Au Pairs as your friends
…you can make bacon
…you say ‘like’ and ‘totally’ every three words
…someone has asked you stupid questions like:
- ‘do you have cars in your country?’ - ‘You don’t have Valentine’s day?’ - ‘Where is your country?’
…you don’t think it’s wrong to have cake AND ice cream
…you park as close to the store as possible so you don’t have to walk even one yard too far
…you cherish moments of silence more than ever before
…you notice yourself saying ‘GOOD JOB’ a hundred times a day
…you wonder why you slept the whole night long so uncomfortable and you notice the next morning, you slept on a barbie, a lollypop, sandtoys etc
.…you need to be creative to find new punishments because a time-out doesn’t work anymore ;)
…you have to admit to mistakes you never did or put the blame on you day for day
…you’re sure you don’t want own kids within the next 100 years
…you know now exactly how difficult it was for your parents to have little kids and you feel like saying thanks for all you’ve done to your mum and dad every day
…you’re ready to drink anytime of the day
…you start to love disney movies again and can copy every passage of them
…you’ve learned what it means to be patient
…you know what a LCC is
…you know that you should never SHAKE A BABY !!!
…you take a nap after you drop off the kids at school(even though you just woke up 2hrs ago :D)
…you are DRIVING to the busstop to pick up your kids, which is only 200 meters from your house.
…the kids call you mum cause you spend too much time with them…
…you think $160 every weekend just for shopping and coffee are not that much
…one cup of coffee doesn`t make you awake anymore, it just makes you alive
…you or your friends are KELLERKINDER!!!!
…you miss the good ol’ days when you were able to go to the bakery and get real bread w/ real butter (not that American shit called bread..haha)
…you don’t walk into the bank, you use the drive in to get your money
…you use Purell instead of washing your hands
…instead of singing songs from the radio, you’re singing childrens’ songs

An Irish Blessing

May the road rise to meet you

May the wind be always at your back

May the sun shine warm upon your face

May the rains fall soft upon your fields

And until we meet again

May God hold you in the palm of His hand

This is why I like Andy Lau

Andy's concert in Chengdu, China. The fan was whacked by security officers after giving flowers to Andy. Andy Lau jumped down to defend his fan despite the concert being ongoing. Andy rocks!

幸福跟你无关

年轻时，
人总是在寻找让自己幸福的理由。
如果可以怎样怎样，
就会多多多幸福。
如果可以跟谁在一起，
世界就会多多多美丽。
其实，很多人最后还是不幸福。
我想，幸福是可以跟别人无关的。
当我们想不通这点，就会陷入苦恼。
也会强求，乞讨，甚至用威胁来换取所谓的幸福。
幸福，也许会来得很缓慢。
但，它绝对不是来敲门的售货员。
也不是唐三藏千山万水取西经。
我想，幸福可以跟别人无关。
很简单的，
从自己看世界的丑态时，
从自己看内心的空虚时，
从一个深呼吸和微笑
重新开始。

Cheers to MY and only MY Poverty

I don’t like to be poor
but I deeply appreciate my poverty.
for the past months,
I have been very poor.
I told myself, I would bring you
to your long overdue dentist visit
once i got my paycheck.
I worried about many things
and felt utterly hopeless
but still
I slept through the nights
like a drooling baby
I cursed and lamented
to the ceiling fan
about what a bitch the world has become
then I swore to kill this mean bitch
and would never surrender to its claws
I deeply appreciate poverty
because it forces me to
gain new perspectives
and cultivate a wicked sense of humour
to mock at myself
which is difficult when one has
everything
and everything comes too easily.
but honestly, what is my poverty
compared to those who are truly suffering?
but what depresses me is the fact that
the world is controlled by those in power
and so are our lives
even when we don’t regard money
as the path to happiness
the powerful and rich
have rightfully made the world so.
and so the manipulation goes.
and goes and goes.
finally my paycheck arrived.
I went to do my groceries today.
and realized i didn’t need many things.
I am truly happy and rich
in my own twisted way, I think.
this is a simple tribute to my constant poverty
which I appreciate while I am alive and kicking
and always hope to float above it
heads up
I will always kick life’s ass, you bitch.

Books to read

(The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books that you love.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ/blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

My sign

The last few lines about loves to travel, loves to dream, dislike being at home and restless, very true! However, I'm not saying I believe in star signs. This is just for fun.

Taiwanese talkshow on Singapore’s politics

Have been trying to post the Youtube video onto the blog but it can’t seem to work. Anyway, go to the website and watch

Youtube text link

It’s a Taiwanese talkshow talking about Singapore’s democracy and transparency and comparisons with Taiwan’s political scene.

Counducted in Mandarin and Hokkien.

Why am I still single?

Winnie, you’re single because you don’t want to settle

You, more than others, have a fairy tale fantasy of how things should be. Ever since you were a kid, you’ve probably dreamed of the perfect wedding, coming home to a white picket fence, dog, and 2.2 kids (how does that work, anyway?). When someone asks what you’re looking for, you don’t skip a beat: You’re likely to have a handy checklist that details your perfect partner. Hair and eye color, height, religion, education, career, interests, the list goes on.

While it’s great to have standards — Hey, you shouldn’t have to settle, after all — there’s one slight glitch in your master plan: No one has made the grade in real life — at least not yet. Next time you’re out with someone, keep yourself from mentally checking that list, and give love — and others — a chance. That special someone who you’ve written off may be perfect for you after all…

Why are you still single?

If I were...

If I were a month, I would be:… May

If I were a day of the week, I would be:…Friday

If I were a time of day, I would be:…6pm

If I were a sea animal, I would be:… a whale

If I were a direction, I would be:… North

If I were a sin, I would be:… gluttony

If I were a historical figure I would be:… a Victorian Princess!

If I were a planet, I would be:…Pluto

If I were a liquid, I would be:… ice-tea

If I were a stone, I would be:…a diamond

If I were a tree, I would be:…a maple tree with maple syrup!

If I were a bird, I would be:…a robin

If I were a flower/plant, I would be:…a lavender

If I were a kind of weather, I would be:… the period between spring and summer

If I were a mythical creature, I would be:…an unicorn

If I were a musical instrument, I would be:…an euphonium

If I were an animal, I would be:…a labrador dog

If I were a colour, I would be:…purple

If I were an emotion, I would be:.. deliriously happy

If I were a vegetable, I would be:… carrot

If I were a sound, I would be:… a cute little girl’s voice

If I were an element, I would be:…gold

If I were a song, I would be:… any happy love songs

If I were a movie, I would be:… The Notebook

If I were a book, I would be written by:… God

If I were a food, I would be:… Dark chocolates

If I were a place, I would be:… Heaven

If I were a taste, I would be:… sweet

If I were a scent, I would be:… cotton candy

If I were a religion, I would be:… Christianity

If I were a word, I would be:… love

If I were a body part, I would be:…eyes

If I were a facial expression, I would be:…a sweet smile

If I were a subject in school, I would be:… literature

If I were a cartoon character, I would be:… Pocahontas

If I were a shape, I would be:…a star

If I were a number, I would be:… 19

If I were a piece of jewelery, I would be:…a necklace

If I were a piece of furniture, I would be:…a bed

If I were a car, I would be:…a convertible




Sylvia
June 18, 2006 at 9:10 pm

hahaha… what in the world is a euphonium?!

Winnie
June 19, 2006 at 11:20 am

That’s the instrument that Secai was playing before he became drum major. A big thing that you sort of had to hug and blow into it?

Sylvia
June 19, 2006 at 3:57 pm

orrr… now, i wonder why you chose the euphonium?!hee.. ;)

How do you see me?

To everyone who reads my blog, I would assume that you are my friends because I only use the blog through friendster. Can you do me a favour? I really want to know how people see me, especially my friends. Can you go to this site and do the Johari Window for me? It’s on how you see me. I guess with the answers, I would be able to see what my strong or weak points are and be able to work on them. Please leave a name or a nick that I would be able to identify you with. Thank you!!




Kid
June 16, 2006 at 2:39 am

Hey, who is Sylvia Lu? Her selections on Johari and mine so similar wor…i was thinking of whether to select religious but then decided to choose something else. If so, ours would be exactly the same sia.

Winnie
June 16, 2006 at 3:24 pm

Sylvia Lu is a S’pore PR, Indonesian Chinese that I got to know here in the States. You know why you have almost same choices? You kow the same person - me! Hehe…

Kid
June 19, 2006 at 9:18 am

wah biang…didnt know you could come up with this…trying to be funny yah! smart. okay..you must intro me to Sylvia Lu when both are you in SG, think we should get along real fine

What Colour?

I was listening to 93.3FM through net radio and they were doing this colour test. Found it to be VERY accurate, at least for me.

Now between four colour combinations, please choose one:

a. Orange + Yellow
b. Red + Yellow
c. Purple + Pink
d. Green + Pink

I choose Purple + Pink, and woah….!

Orange + Yellow

你過於保護自己讓人覺得太過現實，考量太多現實層面的狀況會讓你太過理智，顯得過於保護自己，一旦覺得不快樂的時候就馬上拒絕對方，這樣的態度自然阻擋了追求者的出現，而且記得要把對舊情人的愛完全放掉，才能重新找到新感情。

Red + Yellow

因為你的強勢把追求者嚇跑了，基本上你太過大男人或大女人主義，具有強烈的掌握慾望，處處想要佔上風，所以你會想要約束對方，但這樣的態度反而會讓人不敢接近。

Purple + Pink

太過被動的等待愛情是你的致命傷，如果想要被人追求就得先轉變生活圈，才有可能會遇到好的對象。選擇這個顏色的人個性會比較保守而且對愛完全理想化，雖然平時可能給人家的感覺是非常開放的，但是她的內在卻非常傳統，一旦談戀愛就做好嫁人的心理準備。

Green + Pink

眼光太高而且愛挑剔別人的你，讓人有距離感不敢靠近你，試著把標準放低一點，追求者自然會出現!

I am Cinderella!!

You scored as Cinderella. Your alter ego is Cinderella! You often find
yourself doing a lot of housework, but if you are patient, your hard
work usually pays off. You are prone to losing things, so dont rush
through everything.

Cinderella 81%
Goofy 75%
Sleeping Beauty 69%
Peter Pan 50%
Pinocchio 44%
Ariel 44%
The Beast 38%
Snow White 31%
Donald Duck 25%
Cruella De Ville 19%

Which Disney Character is your Alter Ego?created with QuizFarm.com

Sylvia

June 1, 2006 at 4:11 pm

i’m the beast?!

hahaha…