I return to blog

So the swine flu is still persistently here and it's only after a few weeks after news of its outbreak, we were given:

Which was kind of weird (and in a way inefficient) when we had to log in our temperatures every day online since a few days after the outbreak. For the most of us who do not personally own a thermometer, we employed the age old method of just feeling our heads and self-declaring, "Doesn't feel like 38 degrees celsius to me!". Somehow I think slapping on a doctored photo of a baby inserting the thermometer into his own mouth is rather disturbing, because he could choke on it (not that it will happen). Anyway, it does bring back memories of owning a digital thermometer during the SARS period, where we all had to measure and record our temperatures at every morning assembly.

Oh! And there was this joke I heard over the radio that goes like this:

"People said that if a Black man were to ever be elected into office, pigs will fly. Just 100 days after Obama was elected President, swine flu (flew)."

On my recent trip back home in JB, my father was in the midst of gathering old books to sell off and I came across a book of nursery rhymes that was given to my brother when he was born. Some of them didn't make any sense or were familiar but some, because of being older and wiser now, can be read in a different context like this one.

Among the many treasures that I came across was this photo of my mother taken 20 years back.

Now you know where I get my slightly non-Chinese facial features from. "Look at this goondu," my mother exclaimed with a face you make when you get nostalgic, as I showed her the photo.

Oh...and this is my favourite advert at the moment because the lady in pink is absolutely hilarious with the "Gah! I'm must grab that bag before she beats me to dead!"-look. Another thing is that the lady wielding the umbrella has an uncanny resemblance of my boss. Hmm...