At 2:28pm today, China observed a 3-minute silence. My colleagues stood still for 3 minutes. One by one, they stood up and bowed their head in silence. It was a sight that I can never erased from my mind. Their silence was loud and powerful. I felt so guilty (cos' I was in the midst of my presentation call with a client). The strength of their silence empowered my teleconversation. It was almost impossible to even whisper into the phone. I have to cut my client short and hanged up the phone. I felt so bad about my disruptive conversation that I sank low on my chair and observed the silence.

Just now, I had dinner with my cousin, Yei. He told me about a fund-raising TV show on Sunday. When he was talking, I could see the sad emotions in his eyes. He was on the verge of tears. It was very emotional for me to see my "cold-hearted" cousin displayed so much emotions in his speech.

Back at home, I watched today's footages on my TV screen. For that 3 minutes, every car, train and people on the street freezed their steps to observe the silence. A very touching sight indeed. (All karaokes, cinemas, concerts, entertainment joints are closed for 3 days) This is what makes us human. It is a side of China that I never knew. The Chinese people (no matter how materialistic they can be or how uncivilised and ill-mannered they can be), is one united nation. They love their country like no other. Everyone I know is pouring his/her heart and effort to raise funds and donations for the 4 million homeless victims. (Feli and Tracy prepared 2 big bags of blankets and clothes for donations). At this point, there are about 71,000 dead or missing people out there.

Sigh...it is really heart-breaking to watch any news today. Even the big websites are turning black.

Compared with Myanmar, the Chinese government reacted fast to her people. Perhaps, it is time when the world should take another good look at China. This is a Giant who is often misunderstood - yet attacked for many bad reasons. If you look back at the last 100 years, China has really never attacked another country. (The USA-Iraq War lasted longer than 2nd-world war!) Sure, China's past house-keeping methods were questionable but it helped to unite a nation of a billion people.

I was sourcing around for models for my "body-paint-art event" in HK. One of my buddy suppliers came back with these "models" (her name is Yuki). Haaaa... mmm, maybe the boys in Singapore would like to share this for Gareth's belated birthday gift. Yes, they are the new wonder in Japan. Man, Jap girls are nice enough, wonder why the Japanese men still go for such toys?

I know some of my female readers are going to be unhappy with this post. Hey girls, dun just disregard these "porny-dolls" as some dirty sick toys- look at them as great works of art.

These dolls come with "internal bones structure" that allows you to bend their bodies into many poses. Most important, you can "pick-&-mix" their body parts- meaning, if you like the body and not the face, you can swap them anytime. Sounds like a real bargain! And according to the website, "pubic hairs" are optional. All these for only SGD10K -12K.

Before any one start buying one, please consider this problem - where do you want to dump these when you had enough of them? Do you chop them apart and start dumping their body parts at Kallang River or Orchard Road? Mmm...better not start another island-wide craze.

Sorry, not for me...cos' I watched too many "Child Play" movies - and I am too lazy to shower and wax them.

For more information: please goto: http://aidoll.4woods.jp/en/

Yes, yes, yes...you guys saw the "water hamster-capsule" that freaked Elkan out last week. So, this May Day, we brought Elkan to "Zhongshan Gardens" to try the "land hamster-capsule". Hate to say this, it IS the same OUTCOME.

Before we put Elkan inside this air-vessel, he was very excited and persuaded me to buy the tickets. When I bought the ticket, Elkan said "Daddy, you go inside, I roll you outside." I wished I could too. My fat ass was too big for the hole and I struggled a little while just to get my fat body inside. Once inside, the operator walked over to us and hinted in a nice way that this capsule is for kids (of course, I know that cos I can't feel that "bouncing on air" feeling - I was sitting flat on the ground!). Anyway, there is no way we can get Elkan inside. And I have to tease him with toys and candies - eventually, Elkan went in, tried 5-seconds and started wailing. What a shame.

 

Later that evening, we met "Team EFG" (Echo, Francis and Grey) for dinner. After dinner, we decided to let our 2 kids run wild in the indoor playground. Francis and I went in to accompany our boys. Grey is certainly a big bully and he got into a small fight with a local girl. He punched her face and she was yelling at him. When she turned her head away to complain to her mother, Grey punched her at the back of her head. Ouch! Her mother came and dragged her away. Elkan sensed the commotion and was standing far away, trying to get himself away from "trouble". (Anyway, Grey had punched Elkan on the face many many times - and Elkan never fight back once. Talk about being...ahemm.. Gentleman.)


 
 

The boys had almost 40 minutes of fun. Francis and I were sweating in our pants, trying to chase after them. For father and sons, it was a great 40-min bonding time for us. What about the ladies? Well, they certainly dun look as excited as us.  (See Below)