Google-ling You and Me

I would say majority of the people who uses internet or search engines would have tried to Google either themselves or someone else. I have always taken comfort in the fact that "Ming", may be an uncommon name among the people I know, it is part of many words (eg. swimming) or there are gazillion other people who's name has the word "Ming" in there. That means it's almost impossible for anyone to successfully "google" me! So no incriminating evidence of me floating somewhere! haha...

However!!! Having recently discovered the joys of Image Search, I tried it out, and bang! There's my face! It was the pic that I had displayed on this blog... thinking since I've only given the url to a selected few close friends, I am safe. So there came the need to change away the picture ASAP! and now what do you see? A mangosteen... Of course, there is a meaning behind it... a mangosteen wasn't just picked out of nowhere.

Death by "Death"

"Death"... not to be taken lightly.
"Death"... brought me near to tears.
"Death"... definitely hard to swallow.
"Death"... the level of spiciness of the wings I had tonight.

Friend in town, and out for wings we went. Duff's famous wings.
Boy oh boy, I have never had anything this spicy! Not even "The world's spiciest chilli sauce" I had in Taiwan years ago. The problem with tonight's wings, the spice was just pure pain. It doesn't taste good. Anyone who loves spicy food knows the difference between "spicy and yummy" from "painfully spicy". Crazy part of it all, at 500,000 heat units, "Death" wasn't even the highest level offered at the restaurant! "Armageddon" was the highest, coming in at 850,000 heat units!!!

People who knows me knows that I love spicy food. But sadly, I have to admit that I could not even finish one wing. Looking around on the walls in the restaurant, there is a wall of fame. This one guy is at the top of the chart for 2 different categories:
1. 86 wings in 1hr
2. 60 Aarmageddon wings

This guy either has no palate in his mouth, or has an amazing tolerance of pain! If it's the latter, kudos to you my hero!

Gosling Spicing Up the morning

KB: KA is now a proud mother of a baby duck

KA just called to say she's delayed on her way to work as she could not bare to leave a baby duck in the middle of the road, with no mother in sight.

Minutes later...

KA walked into the office with baby bird in her palm. Sooooooo cute and fluffy!

KB looks up on the web and found out that what we have here is actually a Canadian Gosling (baby goose)! We can see that KA was not going to get any work done as baby gosling has already started to form imprints, thinking KA is the mother. Getting very attached to KA, baby gosling was not about to be parted, and started to chirp whenever KA tries to put it down in the temporary nest we made for it. We started teasing KA that this is just like the movie "Fly Away Home" coming to life.

KA does the right thing and brought it to the animal shelter, in the capable hands of professionals who have tonns of experience with abadoned birds. That ended the excitement of the day, but not before I got a shot of prove. What a way to start the morning...

A Friend in Need, A Friend Indeed???

I try to be there for my friend, and I think I have yet to fail in that aspect. So when I'm in need, why is it that people I think I can count on fails me?

I realise, majority of the people are not equiped to handle stress and problems. Especially when it's other people's problem. It's not even because they're not capable. They just do not give a damn.

However, there is one friend I know I can definitely count on. We do not share alot of close-to-heart problems with each other, coz we're both very alike. We do not believe in piling our problems on others, and we both know how to handle ourselves. But today, I really felt the need to have someone listen to me for a change, and "Y" was absolutely there for me. It was a great conversation, everything felt right. Unexpectly, the world seems sunnier! Thank you so much my dear friend!!!

Life's Evil Joke

Once again, appearances prove to be a huge deception. Could there have been an earlier dectection if we had taken things more seriously? When one is dropped with a bombshell, one does their best to react(in whatever they think is the right way) and to cope.

Life is about chain reaction. Am I jumping ahead of myself by thinking the worse or am I just a person who likes to be prepared? By thinking about the worse, I feel like a horrible person, but I believe that may be my defense mechanism. So if things do turn out bad, I am not taken by surprised, and that is perhaps why I am never too stressed. Surprisingly, the other reason why I am never really stressed is because of my ability to not brood over unhappy things.

Ok... am I the only one that's thinking that I sound confused and conflicted?

Scary Piece of... ...

Amazing how your imagination can play tricks on you!

About to log off to go to bed... saw something out of the corner of my eye... my comp desk is right beside the living room window.. then i looked out....
and...
something is floating outside my living room window~~~
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!
and the wind is blowing... and blowing.. and blowing!! so the rope is floating.. and floating.. and floating..
piao ah piao ah... just like???
a scary piece of floating rope... giving my upstairs neighbour access into my balcony...

Going off to bed to hide under my comforter!

Blog Police...

After slacking off for so long, I didn't even realise that my blog was being monitored by the blog police! Yup! You know who you are!! :P

So here I am, finally trying to get back into this practice.

What do you call someone who keeps falling asleep at around 7-8pm everynight?? A pig, someone who is exhausted or falling ill??? I know most people will call me a pig... but I believe I'm guilty of the first 2 charges.. and praying it's not the 3rd.

It's 5:40am on Sunday morning... I've been up for 6hrs, as a result of going to bed at 7pm the night before. heh heh.... I think I should go back to bed now. I can see the sun casting it's first rays for the day.


Sleeping Beauty has left the building...

Weird Connection

Isn't chemistry weird? Especially between 2 persons? The connection you feel with every person you meet is different. What causes it?

Upon meeting Pam, I found it easy to get to know her. Second time meeting her, I knew we could be good friends. Third encounter, it's friends for life. But of course, life is constantly throwing us curve balls.

She had been in Toronto for a few months for a job, and now she has moved back to the west coast. One night when we were out having dinner with a group of friends, I found out that Pam is leaving in the next afternoon and was gonna take a cab to the airport. Being a person who has travelled to and from the airport many times, I know how expensive it can be. And it can be sad to have no one to say bye to at the airport.

It was nice having the opportunity to get to know her away from the crowd. And now, I know I will always have a place to stay when I visit Vancouver!