Who are these Characters ?

Jo sent me this greeting today

I was like... who are these characters. I made the mistake of forwarding to the rest of the office asking exactly that. Then for the next 10 mins or so, I was bombarded with an onslaught of the most vicious cultural education of sorts. Some laughed at me, how could I not know these characters? I was thinking, why not? I really dont know who they are.

For those of you who are like me, these are comic characters who were really popular in the 60s or early 70s in Singapore- that's Way before I was born. Anyway they were still laughing at me during lunch & through the day. Is that so funny?

I'm getting fat for Christmas ?

Christmas is  round the corner. Used to be more happening when I was younger. Christmas was really big during my school days. Now... ?

Sigh.... my best friend just sent me the above! Makes me feel kinda guilty now. Does it mean we are going on a diet during Christmas? Must we? I do love the seasonal fruit cakes & the Christmas buffets, who can resist those ?????

Simple pasta dish I cooked !

I attempted to make a simple pasta yesterday after I saw this in a magazine

Looks so good right? It's simple too.

Just saute bacon, tomatoes & garlic, then add the penne & basil leaves.
Finally season with salt & pepper & add some cheese.

Well I didn't have any basil leaves, still it tasted very good!
You could try it too:)

Too good to be eaten :))

One of my colleague came back from a Korean trip & bought this snack for us. Has the Korean becoming like the Japanese? The food packaging is so nice, we all kinda stared at it for a long time, not wanting to eat & destroyed it ..lol.. By the way the snack looks better than it's taste! It's a rice cracker:)

Win- win situations :))

We were having lunch yesterday with colleagues of other departments & swapping gossips. It seems some of the department heads have been lay-off & sent home. What to do, down-sizing. Company took the opportunity to rid itself of expensive expatriate packages, during this down turn. Wonder if it'll affect small potatoes like us?

Tom ,one of our favorite  personal assistants was telling us how he has to "serve" 2 bosses instead of one now. He said it as if it was an achievement, like scaling Mt Everest ! We were all laughing as, before, we never really know what his job was. He's always around gossiping, telling us juicy tidbits of what's happening in the company. He's still doing that, so I suppose he could serve 3 bosses if it comes to that ! It's a win-win situation, company save more cost, Tom gets more news & we get more entertaining gossips.

If you were a Sailboat: Katie Melua

Friday is a funny day to resume posting, oh well this is the day I've picked. The lapses in post should be remedied since the crazy events for the last few months have passed.

Lately My friend introduced me to a Singer I'm not familiar with.
Singer : Katie Melua
Song: If you were a Sailboat
Good?: Very beautiful !!!

Drama Queen : The week after the dramatic incident ......

The week after the dramatic incident was unusually quiet. The main 'characters' avoided each other. They could as we helped to make sure they have nothing to do with each other. No one want another 'incident' to happen again.

On hindsight some of us felt that the 'victim' was way.... too sensitive, it's a silly joke, why cant she
just take it? Why turn something so 'small' into such a big thing. Why be so dramatic? And the husband coming down ,was totally unexpected & 'hard' to handle. My boss is a very diplomatic person, but I could tell even he has reach his limit- having to entertain 'an angry spouse' over a April Fool's joke??? Anyway he took a week off after that! Probably didn't want to see their faces.

We were thinking there goes any promotion for the 'TWO'. These sort of things matter. Now at every opportunity the 'victim' would corner us, & kind of explain to us why she got so mad etc etc... Cant she tell, no one is interested???? We just want to move on, & hope to forget it, it makes us feel uncomfortable. No one wants to lunch with her, as no one wants to hear that over & over again! I feel kinda bad for her initially, but after she started to corner me with an explanation in the lift, I gave up. Like the rest, I avoided her like the plague too! Now we wonder would she complain to her husband & this time get him to come over & talk to each of us!!!!