The Different Stages of Being Blow-Dried

Hi I'm ah boy as many of you fondly call me. Today I'm presenting to you the different phases of myself being blow-dried.

My 1st ShotAin't I photogenic?

I'm getting tired only after a few minutes of being made to sit and stay. I wanted so badly to go after my ah ger who suddenly looks super appealing to me after having her heat. Dad jokingly tells mum that I almost got electrocuted sitting in front of the socket.

Yucks I hate it when Dad shakes me so hard. Feels like my whole skin is gonna drop off!

Slouching in a corner as Daddy blows me unrelentlessly

Finally it's over

18-Year Old Hui Ling

Recently I 've been getting paranoid about looking older. Especially after I permed my hair.
About 2 years ago, when I was 24, a pastor at our former church WEFC asked me, "Are you taking your 'O' Levels this year?"

A few months back, before I permed my hair, we met an auntie in church and she saw us playing so she smiled and asked in Hokkien,"You all good friends hah?"

We told her we were husband and wife and she went,
"Huh?!?! I thought you were 18 years old!"

It makes sense that I should look 18 this year since I look 16 two years ago.

After I permed my hair, no one told me such nice things anymore =(

About a week ago, Audrey sent me a picture we took during last year's Christmas. Upon looking at the photo, I mentally compared myself to how I look then and now and felt once again that

Yup, I've grown older.

Christmas 2006

Today I went to the gym with lao gong and assisted him in training a small group of senior aunties. About 50+ in age. An extract of the conversation

Auntie no. 1: "Your wife ar?"

Auntie No. 2: "You just married is it?"

Auntie No.3: "She looks like a Secondary School student."

Hehe I'm so happy. Thank God perming hair didn't make me look much older.

Psalm 103:1,5

Praise the LORD, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name...

who satisfies your desires with good things

so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

Potato Update

Remember me and lao gong like potatoes? Last week we were down with throat virus and for me I had throat + stomach virus so we felt very sick. Whole day no appetite but will be hungry at night.

So on Friday me and lao gong decided we were sick of resting at home so we went out and did some preparations for our supper that night.

Our Homecooked Supper

Seafood mushroom soup with Focaccia Bread and Garlic Mashed Potato

We fought over which mushroom soup to buy. I wanted seafood mushroom and he wanted garlic mushroom. Being the “Love your wife as yourself” husband that he is called to be, he let me have my seafood mushroom. During supper, I was enthusiastically trying to convince him that seafood mushroom is much tastier.As I was about to say

“Lao gong. This soup is really good eh. They give so many mushrooms!”

Lao gong said, “Did you get a lot of mushrooms? When I was scooping the soup I purposely gave you more mushrooms.”

That burst my bubble. But gave me another bubble. Lao gong’s so good to me. Give me more mushrooms…. =D

The garlic mashed potato is already very delicious by itself so it doesn’t need any gravy. However, the mashed potato that day was a little dry because lao gong didn't add enough milk so we couldn’t finish it. We got bored of it after a while and started playing with it.

It a snowman!

(Well potato-man actually)

It was one of my most satisfying supper, and we had a lot of fun laughing together and playing with our potato ;P

With God in the picture, married people can have loads of fun!

Nails Update

My latest Manicure, done by Lao gong. This time he did colour experimentation.

Purple nail polish from Face Shop

Followed by a darker shade of purple glitter from SaSa.

Final colour result

Thank you my creative Lao Gong! Hee you're still so good to me =P

Memory- A Modern Dance Performance

An Example of Modern Dance

Last Sunday, me, Lao gong, Vinita and Audrey went to watch a modern dance performance called 'Memory'.


It was produced by Frontier Danceland, the dance group I used to be in, and choreographed by my dance teacher Low Mei Yoke and Albert Tiong from Hongkong.

I always loved lao shi's dances, cos it's always so expressive, exhilarating, exciting and conveys messages across to the audience. However, it was a new experience for Audrey andVinita so they had a bit of trouble interpreting a few parts of the dance.


e.g. a lady sitting on a chair tying a maroon piece of cloth diagonally across the chest
Hui Ling>> An imagery of how women used to carry their babies in the past, across their chest. Aud & Vin had no idea what she was doing.


-dance movements along the wall, with head rolling actions across the wall
Hui Ling>> going back to their memories
Audrey>> I thought they represented ghosts. (But the title of the performance is Memory, not Ghost) But Audrey's interpretation is still valid I feel. Memories are sometimes like ghosts. And the beauty of modern dance is that there are really different ways the audience can interpret the movements.


-dancers sitting in a circle with index fingers on the floor, moving in synchronised movements across the floor
Hui Ling>>playing with Ouija board when they were young to look into the future
Vinita: Oh I was wondering what were they pointing at.





It was one week ago that we watched the perfomance so I may have gotten some of their individual interpretations mixed up. Aud and Vin, pls correct me if I remembered wrongly =P


Well, those were imageries to convey certain message with dance interwined in the whole performance. I felt that overall the production was a good one with different genres of music , some parts being silent, some parts with only the dancers' voices singing, some with strong drum music etc. Some parts were abit slow but probably if it wasn't, the full expression would not be brought out.

After the performance, we had a great time sharing all these different interpretations. With such high spirits, we couldn't bear to go home so we went Hongkong Cafe and took some arty farty shots ourselves.

Look at the bird above the lamp!

Ok that was lame...

We are One!!!


Best Shot of the EveningYou know why this is best shot? Cos it's the most arty farty. This is a-east-meet- west dish, spaghetti with chinese stir fried black pepper beef. So Aud used a western cutlery- the fork to take her chinese beef, while vin used a chinese cutlery-the chopsticks to take her spaghetti. This brings out the east-meet-west theme of the dish!!! Tadah!!!

Nails Update

Lao gong hasn't done my nails for quite some time because the
last time he removed my nail polish, we realised my nails were coming off in thin layers. We both agreed that we better let my nails get some oxygen.

Red & Pink Flowers on Gold Base

There's different designs for the thumb and the fingers =)

Thank you lao gong. Though you stopped doing my nails for so long, you're still as patient and xi4 xin1 as ever.

Pubs

On Thursday, we went Barfly to hear Olivia sing. We haven't been to a pub for a long time and it was interesting to see how pubs are revolutionsing.

Beautiful Chandelier at Barfly

Me and Lao Gong

The most Freaky Pub - Clinic

Wheelchairs for customers

There were hospital beds, drips, an operating table as the recept counter, a mortuary etc. Innovative or plain weird?