Saturday, September 29, 2012

You Just Happened to Catch My Eye


Juz wanna share this touching story from NMK...it sounds so much like a movie...

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"A man is dining in a fancy restaurant and there's a gorgeous redhead sitting at the next table. He's been checking her out since he sat down, but lacks the nerve to talk with her.

Suddenly she sneezes, and her glass eye comes flying out of its socket toward the man. He reflexively reaches out, grabs it out of the air, and hands it back.

"Oh my, I am so sorry," the woman says as she pops her eye back in place.

"Let me buy your dinner to make it up to you," she says.

They enjoy a wonderful dinner together, and afterwards they go to the theatre followed by drinks. They talk, they laugh, she shares her deepest dreams
and he shares his. She listens.

After paying for everything, she asks him if he would like to come to her place for a nightcap and stay for breakfast. They had a wonderful time.

The next morning, she cooks a gourmet meal with all the trimmings.
The guy is amazed. Everything had been SO incredible!
"You know," he said, "you are the perfect woman, are you this nice to every guy you meet?"

"No," she replies. . .
"You just happened to catch my eye.""



Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Love/Lust – What’s the difference? o.O


Came across this interesting article on yahoo(http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ask-expert-love-lust-difference-073035358.html)
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"What is lust?
Lust, infatuation or attraction is “just an intense desire”. This is characterised by lots of excitement and urgency, which is chiefly based around sexual excitement.

This attraction can either be related to physical attractiveness, intelligence or any other parameter that you peg high your life and that gets you excited.

Sometimes it can be marked by negative feelings like insecurity, lack of confidence and commitment. But as is commonly known, this feeling invariably disappears if you lose contact with that person for a considerable period of time. This is seen very commonly in long distance relationships.

What is love?
Although this starts with the feeling of attraction, it goes beyond that and is a more longstanding, slow-grown feeling. It develops as a sense of warmth in the heart of another person. There is a better understanding and mature acceptance of the other individual. Thus, it gives strength and stability to the relationship. All this helps one to plan their future together with confidence and clarity.

It’s important to remember that people in love do get attracted to others, but they don’t strongly desire any other individuals as they are very content with their partners.

According to Dr Pallavi Joshi, here are a couple of questions you should ask yourself:

You can’t keep your eyes or hands off of them, am I right?
It isn’t love, it’s lust.

Do you belong to them because their sight makes your heart skip a beat?
It isn’t love, it’s infatuation.

Physiological changes that occur
Physiological changes that occur in the mind and body when a person is in love include:

Changes in the prefrontal cortex – To put it simply, the area of the brain is responsible for judgement or reasoning is hijacked by amygdala. Amygdala is a nuclei in the brain which hyper activates in response to being in love. When a person is in love, his or her judgement and reasoning is often impaired due to an overflow from the amygdala, thus shadowing and suppressing the prefrontal cortex.
So, the term “love is blind”, actually means that the reasoning ability of the individual is impaired.
In the body, “oxytocin” or the love neurohormone levels are increased manifold when a person is in love. This actually also enhances bonding.
Palpitations and restlessness are also seen.
Another interesting observation for psychiatrists is that a person in love may display all the criteria for “addictions”. What a person feels for his or her partner can be similar to what an alcoholic feels towards alcohol. Examples include an increased need to talk to their partner frequently, increasing duration of contact, dissatisfaction with minimal interactions and suffering with withdrawal reactions like uneasiness, restlessness and sleeplessness. There can even be irritability if the partner is out of sight and a person may do even something “outrageous” just to get the partner.
Dr Pallavi Joshi has an MD in Psychiatry and currently practices at Vydehi Medical College, Bangalore"



My first drink in almost a month. With compliments from District 10 bar at Star Vista

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

What Does Your Hair Color Say About You? ;p



I have recently colored my hair bright red again...then i happened to see this interesting article here (http://sg.news.yahoo.com/what-does-your-hair-color-say-about-you-.html)

Frenz have commented that my new hair color looks more pink than red...but it looks red in pics ;p an auntie at my yoga centre even commented "your hair really looks like your pink top" lol...anyway, it's still the same bright red that i've sported earlier this year =)

I have only bleached my hair blonde when i was 18...to fulfill my blonde ambition...blonde is not an easy color to carry off...all the dark roots require constant retouch...n blonde can make fair complexion look pale n ghostly which would mean generous dozes of makeup is usually applicable...n blonde is too attention grabbing for perhaps all the wrong reasons...my mum used to say she could spot leechie from miles away cos of my blonde hair...anyway, i looked horrible with blonde hair...how i wish i still had a photo of blondie leechie to show ya...imagine this...i was 18, skinny, pale n blonde! ppl might have mistaken me for sporting the "heroin chic" look back then? o.O sorry, i dont do drugs n i have nvr smoke a single cigarette in my entire life...smoking is a lifestyle choice n i choose not to smoke!

Then i moved onto various shades of brown...light brown...dark brown...whatever brown...or what lady Gaga would term as "Louis Vuitton brown" lol...anyway, my natural hair color has a very strong yellowish tone n whatever color will turn yellowish v.fast...yes, mine aint the typical asian hair type...my hair is naturally, fine, curly n yellowish brown in color!

Anyway, ever since i modelled for Wella hair coloring workshop and they gave me such a vibrant wine red hair color...i knew this is MY color! so i have always tend to stick to wine or red color...but sometimes the wine red turns out brown on my yellowish brown hair =.= this red magenta color that i'm currently sporting is v.attention grabbing n requires a loud personality to carry it off...i'm may not be the loudest person around...but i like the rosy hue it gives to my cheeks ;p n i have received much more compliments for being a redhead than being a blondie or brunette ;p lady Gaga has her "Louis Vuitton brown"...well, i have my own "Tono Leechie red" B-)

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"What Does Your Hair Color Say About You?
Marie Claire – Wed, Sep 12, 2012

A blonde fashionista goes blonder.A star colorist analyzes why we go lighter, darker - and a little crazy - in the salon chair. By Kyle White as told to Ning Chao

There's a reason why one of the first things fugitives do when they're on the run is dye their hair: Hair color is an identity-when you change it, you can become a different person. Fugitives tend to go dark because they want to hide and disappear, while most celebrities tend to go lighter and lighter because they crave the constant spotlight.

In fact, a lot of clients come to see me when they're going through life changes. Sometimes it actually helps bring out what she's feeling inside-or how she wants to feel. What else can you do in two hours that completely transforms you (but that can be undone, unlike plastic surgery)? I see so many women drastically changing their color at the end of a relationship that I've coined it the "breakover"-instead of a makeover. I think it's an intricate part of the healing process. The right hair color can give confidence, enhance your mood, and make you feel sexy again. I don't have scientific proof, but I know people feel better when they get up from my chair.

When Tinsley Mortimer was going through her divorce, we decided to take her platinum. Tinsley likes to be noticed and wanted a pick-me-up. She's told me that getting her hair colored "is like sunlight-the brighter it is, the happier I feel!" Her natural color is actually a medium brown, but she said she's always felt like a blonde. A lot of people feel they're trapped in the wrong hair color.

When another colorist botched up my client's hue, she had to go to her therapist and double up on her meds. When I fixed it, my client told me she felt like I had removed a cancer from her body! Another high point of my career was when Charlize Theron came into the salon right after she'd finished filming Monster. Her hair was an ugly, mousy brown, but as soon as I did her first highlight, I saw her transform. When she left, she gave me a hug and said, "You made me feel like a woman again."

In my chair, blonde is by far the most requested shade-and that's mainly from my clients' husbands. Very rarely will a boyfriend or husband say, "Will you make her a brunette?" Most of them ask, "Can you make her really, really blonde?" An exception is Mariah Carey. Nick Cannon likes her to be on the darker side. And whenever she has downtime, she prefers it, too. But that wasn't always the case. When I first met Mariah, she was a deep brunette, but once she trusted me, she wanted to go lighter-just in time for the launch of her first Def Jam album in 2002. Four years later, right before her Emancipation of Mimi tour, I added some bright blonde pieces around her face so she would have more pop onstage. Without a doubt, the changes in her hair color have followed her career.

That's why I'm so hesitant to make someone darker if they've been blonde for a while. I have to give them a psychological evaluation to make sure they're in it for the right reasons. If they're doing it because they don't want to deal with cost or maintenance, it's criminal-like going to rehab for drugs instead of jail. Sooner or later, they'll be back on the bleach.

Don't get me wrong-dark can be beautiful, sexy, and mysterious. But when you've been fair-haired for a long time, it's hard to see yourself without the brightness around your face. You just feel washed out. If a client is serious about the change, I'll usually do it in stages so it's not so overwhelming.

I learned that lesson early on in my career, when a client came in right after she had a baby. She was convinced she wanted to go back to brunette. So I dyed her hair, and as I was drying it, she took one look in the mirror, grabbed the brush out of my hand, tossed it at the mirror, and said: "How can I leave looking like this? You have to change it back to the way it was!" She was traumatized. I spent all day taking her back to blonde. She apologized in the end, but it goes to prove that hair color is not something you should just jump into on a whim. My advice: Try on a wig with the new color first. If you like the look and are ready to commit, call me! "

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i played with my fren's iphone5 n now i'm tempted to buy...but i juz got my iphone4s this Jan...n i didnt need to q to get it due to my special circumstance then...fren actually queued for 2hours at m1 to get this iphone5...but i dont fancy queuing...lol...

Had a lonely 10pm dinner at Chatterbox cos i bot the groupon n my mum doesnt wanna go...but the chicken rice was too oily for me n i ended up puking when i reached home =.=

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Lee Kuan Yew On Getting the Best out of Life


Juz wanna share some wise words from Mr. Lee (copy n paste from Adrian's fb wall)
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Lee Kuan Yew On Getting the Best out of Life :

“The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge".

If you’re not interested in the world and the world is not interested in you, the biggest punishment a man can receive is total isolation in a dungeon, black and complete withdrawal of all stimuli, that’s real torture.”

MY CONCERN today is, what is it I can tell you which can add to your knowledge about aging and what aging societies can do.

You know more about this subject than I do. A lot of it is out in the media, Internet and books. So I thought the best way would be to take a personal standpoint and tell you how I approach this question of aging.

If I cast my mind back, I can see turning points in my physical and mental health.
You know, when you’re young, I didn’t bother, assumed good health was God-given and would always be there.

When I was about 57 that was – I was about 34, we were competing in elections, and I was really fond of drinking beer and smoking.

And after the election campaign, in Victoria Memorial Hall – we had won the election, the City Council election – I couldn’t thank the voters because I had lost my voice. I’d been smoking furiously.

I’d take a packet of 10 to deceive myself, but I’d run through the packet just sitting on the stage, watching the crowd, getting the feeling, the mood before I speak.

In other words, there were three speeches a night. Three speeches a night, 30 cigarettes, a lot of beer after that, and the voice was gone. I remember I had a case in Kuching, Sarawak . So I took the flight and I felt awful. I had to make up my mind whether I was going to be an effective campaigner and a lawyer, in which case I cannot destroy my voice, and I can’t go on.

So I stopped smoking. It was a tremendous deprivation because I was addicted to it. And I used to wake up dreaming…the nightmare was I resumed smoking.

But I made a choice and said, if I continue this, I will not be able to do my job. I didn’t know anything about cancer of the throat, or oesophagus or the lungs, etc.
But it turned out it had many other deleterious effects.

Strangely enough after that, I became very allergic, hyper-allergic to smoking, so much so that I would plead with my Cabinet ministers not to smoke
in the Cabinet room.

You want to smoke, please go out, because I am allergic.

Then one day I was at the home of my colleague, Mr Rajaratnam, meeting foreign correspondents including some from the London Times and they took a picture of me and I had a big belly like that (puts his hands in front of his belly), a beer belly.
I felt no, no, this will not do.

So I started playing more golf, hit hundreds of balls on the practice tee.

But this didn’t go down. There was only one way it could go down: consume less, burn up more.

Another turning point came in 1976, after the general election –
I was feeling tired. I was breathing deeply at the Istana, on the lawns.

My daughter, who at that time just graduating as a doctor, said: ‘What are you trying to do?’

I said: ‘I feel an effort to breathe in more oxygen.’ She said: ‘Don’t play golf. Run. Aerobics..’

So she gave me a book, quite a famous book and, then, very current in America on how you score aerobic points swimming, running, whatever it is, cycling.
I looked at it sceptically. I wasn’t very keen on running. I was keen on golf.
So I said, ‘Let’s try’. So in-between golf shots while playing on my own, sometimes nine holes at the Istana, I would try and walk fast between shots.

Then I began to run between shots. And I felt better. After a while, I said: ‘Okay, after my golf, I run.’

And after a few years, I said: ‘Golf takes so long. The running takes 15 minutes. Let’s cut out the golf and let’s run.’

I think the most important thing in aging is you got to understand yourself.

And the knowledge now is all there. When I was growing up, the knowledge wasn’t there.
I had to get the knowledge from friends, from doctors.

But perhaps the most important bit of knowledge that the doctor gave me was one day, when I said:
‘Look, I’m feeling slower and sluggish.’

So he gave me a medical encyclopaedia and he turned the pages to aging. I read it up and it was illuminating.

A lot of it was difficult jargon but I just skimmed through to get the gist of it.

As you grow, you reach 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and then, thereafter, you are on a gradual slope down physically.

Mentally, you carry on and on and on until I don’t know what age, but mathematicians will tell you that they know their best output is when they’re in their 20s and 30s when your mental energy is powerful and you haven’t lost many neurons. That’s what they tell me.

So, as you acquire more knowledge, you then craft a programme for yourself to maximise what you have. It’s just common sense.

I never planned to live till 85 or 84.! I just didn’t think about it.

I said: ‘Well, my mother died when she was 74, she had a stroke.. My father died when he was 94.’

But I saw him, and he lived a long life, well, maybe it was his DNA.
But more than that, he swam every day and he kept himself busy!

He was working for the Shell company. He was in charge, he was a superintendent of an oil depot.

When he retired, he started becoming a salesman. So people used to tell me: ‘Your father is selling watches at BP de Silva.’ My father was then living with me. But it kept him busy. He had that routine: He meets people, he sells watches, he buys and sells all kinds of semi-precious stones, he circulates coins. And he keeps going. But at 87, 88, he fell, going down the steps from his room to the dining room, broke his arm, three months incapacitated.

Thereafter, he couldn’t go back to swimming. Then he became wheelchair-bound.
Then it became a problem because my house was constructed that way.

So my brother – who’s a doctor and had a flat (one-level) house – took him in.
And he lived on till 94. But towards the end, he had gradual loss of mental powers.

So my calculations, I’m somewhere between 74 and 94. And I’ve reached the halfway point now.

But have I?

Well, 1996 when I was 73, I was cycling and I felt tightening on the neck.
Oh, I must retire today. So I stopped. Next day, I returned to the bicycle.
After five minutes it became worse.
So I said, no, no, this is something serious, it’s got to do with the blood vessels.
Rung up my doctor, who said, ‘Come tomorrow’. Went tomorrow, he checked me, and said: ‘Come back tomorrow for an angiogram.’

I said: ‘What’s that ?’

He said: ‘We’ll pump something in and we’ll see whether the coronary arteries are cleared or blocked.’

I was going to go home.

But an MP who was a cardiologist happened to be around, so he came in and said: ‘What are you doing here?’

I said: ‘I’ve got this.’ He said: ‘Don’t go home.

You stay here tonight. I’ve sent patients home and they never came back.
Just stay here. They’ll put you on the monitor. They’ll watch your heart.
And if anything, an emergency arises, they will take you straight to the theatre.
You go home. You’ve got no such monitor. You may never come back.’
So I stayed there. Pumped in the dye, yes it was blocked, the left circumflex, not the critical, lead one.
So that’s lucky for me. Two weeks later, I was walking around, I felt it’s coming back.
Yes it has come back, it had occluded. So this time they said: ‘We’ll put in a stent.’
I’m one of the first few in Singapore to have the stent, so it was a brand new operation.
Fortunately, the man who invented the stent was out here selling his stent.
He was from San Jose, La Jolla something or the other. So my doctor got hold of him and he supervised the operation.
He said put the stent in. My doctor did the operation, he just watched it all and then that’s that.

That was before all this problem about lining the stent to make sure that it doesn’t occlude and create a disturbance.
So at each stage, I learnt something more about myself and I stored that. I said: ‘Oh, this is now a danger point.’

So all right, cut out fats, change diet, went to see a specialist in Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital.
He said: ‘Take statins.’ I said: ‘What’s that?’ He said: ‘(They) help to reduce your cholesterol.’
My doctors were concerned. They said: ‘You don’t need it. Your cholesterol levels are okay.’
Two years later, more medical evidence came out. So the doctors said: ‘Take statins.’
Had there been no angioplasty, had I not known that something was up and I cycled on, I might have gone at 74 like my mother.

So I missed that decline. So next deadline: my father’s fall at 87. I’m very careful now because sometimes when I turn around too fast, I feel as if I’m going to get off balance.
So my daughter, a neurologist, she took me to the NNI, there’s this nerve conduction test, put electrodes here and there.
The transmission of the messages between the feet and the brain has slowed down.
So all the exercise, everything, effort put in, I’m fit, I swim, I cycle.
But I can’t prevent this losing of conductivity of the nerves and this transmission. So just go slow.
So when I climb up the steps, I have no problem.
When I go down the steps, I need to be sure that I’ve got something I can hang on to, just in case.
So it’s a constant process of adjustment.

But I think the most important single lesson I learnt in life was that if you isolate yourself, you’re done for.
The human being is a social animal – he needs stimuli, he needs to meet people, to catch up with the world.

I don’t much like travel but I travel very frequently despite the jetlag, because I get to meet people of great interest to me,
who will help me in my work as Chairman of our GIC.
So I know, I’m on several boards of banks, international advisory boards of banks, of oil companies and so on.
And I meet them and I get to understand what’s happening in the world, what has changed since I was here one month ago, one year ago.
I go to India, I go to China.

And that stimuli brings me to the world of today. I’m not living in the world, when I was active, more active 20, 30 years ago. So I tell my wife.
She woke up late today. I said: ‘Never mind, you come along by 12 o’clock. I go first.’
If you sit back – because part of the ending part of the encyclopaedia which I read was very depressing –
as you get old, you withdraw from everything and then all you will have is your bedroom and the photographs and the furniture that you know,
and that’s your world.
So if you’ve got to go to hospital, the doctor advises you to bring some photographs so that you’ll know you’re not lost in a different world, that this is like your bedroom.
I’m determined that I will not, as long as I can, to be reduced, to have my horizons closed on me like that.
It is the stimuli, it is the constant interaction with people across the world that keeps me aware and alive to what’s going on and what we can do to adjust to this different world.
In other words, you must have an interest in life.
If you believe that at 55, you’re retiring, you’re going to read books, play golf and drink wine, then I think you’re done for.
So statistically they will show you that all the people who retire and lead sedentary lives, the pensioners die off very quickly.
So we now have a social problem with medical sciences, new procedures, new drugs, many more people are going to live long lives.. ….
If the mindset is that when I reach retirement age 62, I’m old, I can’t work anymore, I don’t have to work, I just sit back, now is the time I’ll enjoy life,
I think you’re making the biggest mistake of your life.
After one month, or after two months, even if you go traveling with nothing to do, with no purpose in life, you will just degrade, you’ll go to seed.

The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere:
Keep yourself interested, have a challenge.
If you’re not interested in the world and the world is not interested in you, the biggest punishment a man can receive
is total isolation in a dungeon, black and complete withdrawal of all stimuli, that’s real torture.

So when I read that people believe, Singaporeans say: ‘Oh, 62 I’m retiring.’ I say to them: ‘You really want to die quickly?’
If you want to see sunrise tomorrow or sunset, you must have a reason, you must have the stimuli to keep going..’

Have a purpose driven life and finish well, my friends.

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Learnt a new phrase today: "man scanner". But what exactly is a man scanner? Can mr. Jon kindly enlighten a leech pls? =.@
Leechie: "Adrian. U go sell the man scanner instead of the handy scanner la. Think ur biz will b much better lor. Lol"
NMK: "hahaha finally Adrian Ng reveal why he is into scanner biz to help lady to scan man lol"
Leechie: "Leechie likes classy stuff n that include men ;p"
Jon: "Yalor, that's why get the man scanner. Uncle scanner is not suitable for you."
Leechie: "adrian needs to write a program to scan for classy men...meanwhile my eye power alrdy not too bad...lai lai...anyone wanna hire my leechie eye scanner? ;p"


lol

:'(

Branson rocks!

Scarry!!!

It's F1 season again =)