{♥ thousand dollar kisses

Friday, November 30, 2007 { 4:09 AM }

WHY PEOPLE LIE

(oral topic from a while back, compiled research...)

In an ideal world, no one would ever lie to you. But in the real world, they would. Lies. We hear them everywhere. Be it from the mouth of a politician glossing over the facts or a desperate student trying to cover up his disregard for homework, there is probably not a single person who has not once in his life told a misrepresented version of the truth. That is also regardless of whether it was unintentional or so that someone else's feelings would not be hurt-or if he did it for more sinister reasons.

It may only be "white" lies, but everybody tells lies or "omits the truth" sometimes. The first lying is usually not malicious. Eventually however, children would begin to use lying to get out of trouble or to get something they want. White lies, thse concocted to protect someone's feelings, are not a big deal. The person who seems to feel compelled to lie about both the small and large things are the ones with a problem. These people are called pathological liars. They lie to protect themselves, look good, gain financially or socially and avoid punishment.

It is believed that a lot of people lie out of politeness or courtesy. Many of us have told untruths when asked for an opinion, whenwe believe in one thing but know that the other person wishes to hear another. Kids have been taught to say "Thank you for the gift. I like it very much." even when they don't, just for the sake of not offending anybody. We say that we like a good friend's new hairstyle eventhough it obviously doesn't suit her. Besides, how many times have we said that a particular dress looks good on a friend eventhough she looks more like she just had a wadrobe malfunction?

Another one of the more common lies would be when a person lies to get out of a sticky situation. Students who neglected to do their homework might think up a lie to avoid getting punished. This is usually a case of evading responsibility. A person does something he knows to be wrong. His fear of the consequences would result a lie, when transferring the burden of the blame to a scapegoat.

We sometimes find ourselves in a situation where we are forced to lie for the sake of protecting somebdy-say a bestfriend. This may include telling a fib to get someone else out of trouble. For example, if you're friend snuck out the night before to catch a movie, you'd lie to her parents saying that the two of you were revising schoolwork at your place.

At the end of the day, it is really up to you to decide on whether or not you want to lie.

EXPERIMENTING

Made chocolate wheaties yesterday

Ingrediants:

90g butter
1/2 cup (100g) firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg, beaten lightly
1/4 cup (25g) wheatgerm (substituted with nestum)
3/4 cup (120g) wholemeal plain flour
1/2cup(75g)white self-raising flour
150g dark eating chocolate, melted

First, the oven was preheated to moderate.

Then, the butter and sugar was beaten in a bowl, using an electic mixer until smooth.

Eventually the already beaten egg is added in until combined

While waiting, put the coconut, wheatgerm and flours into a container. Although it wasn't stated in the book, i sieved the flour. (i don't get the point tho')

Then, stir the butter+sugar+egg mixture in the container which contains the coconut, wheatgerm and flours. The mixture is then rolled into small balls roughly the size of a teaspoon.

They are placed on lightly greased oven trays and flattened with a fork. (the fork is suppose to give them the pattern on top)

Baked in moderate oven for about 12 minutes until lightly browned.

Left to cool

Once cooled(very fast), half of each biscuit is dipped in chocolate. (the chocolate was melted using a frying pan although supposedly that risks burning it. So the right way should be placing the chocolate bars in a container[tin]. Then put the container in a pot of boiling water)

After that, I placed it in the fridge to prevent it from melting(knowing the weather..)..

The end result:

Made jacket potatos for dinner:
The potatos took about 1hr to boil >__________<>

Labels: baking, cooking, lie

Tuesday, November 27, 2007 { 4:18 AM }

About Ice-cream _________&& Chick flicks/-lit

ice-cream: guilty attraction

Eat eat eat

With all that eating, it's really no wonder that i haven't lost anything on the weighing scale =o In fact, i feel hungry right now. The whole eating-->consequences chanting doesn't work when i'm alone(family excluded) which means it won't work throughout the holidays... it only works while i'm in sch anyway.

Note to self: I need a diet plan... and fast ! Or i'll really not make it in time to take those photos

...Lit

Books that i wanna read include the following: Private being the first in the series. I saw invitation only in borders the last time i went

Bought Project Paris yesterday, the sequel to a girl like moi, while loitering(which is like shopping only minus the $$$ n' getting stuff) with shing yee yesterday. Finished reading it this morning. It's so inspiring!! ^^ i still remember how inspired+motivated i was while reading a girl like moi =]

We also saw the sequel to this book*points below* in MPH, it's called flawless .... couldn't find any image on the internet except the alternate cover which is just...blah =/ *unimpressed*

Plus, omg!! the girl's wearing a.. halter!! (Apparently this obsession of mine has yet to go away..n' maybe won't)

My sister borrowed these from the PSC library.... Finished reading True Believer on Sunday.. i think... Currently reading At First Sight which is the sequel.

Saw this book in Popular yesterday. The summary seemed pretty intriguing ^________^

Secrets Of My Hollywood Life

... THE MOVIES

Watched beowulf yesterday... eeyer! it's probably my all time least favourite movie. Like what Wei Yun said, it's crap... pure crap... #3 in the box office blah blah blah... I was scared half the time... n' it was boring... scared+yawning=?! I already had low expectations before the movie but, this really is below it. Don't even wanna post a pic cause it's not even cute/good looking.

Watched CRUEL INTENTIONS this morning.. Not awesome awesome but definately worth watching, unlike a certain movie i happened to have watched not so long ago. The songs played throughout the movie were good & suited it.

Since i was deprived from using the internet while my sister had tuition in the study. I decided to use the time to watch THE NANNY DIARIES. That,while starting on this years x-mas cards.

Not bad, cute+pretty funny in some parts. Mostly about her trying to find herself and hesitating about quiting her job as the nanny for a rich family in the upper east side.

(Upper east side, it has a nice ring to it in my opinion.. Better than Orange County...the sound of it that is..)

Of course the movie that i've really been anticipating is

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ENCHANTED

Amy Adams will be acting as the princess, Giselle

Patrick Dempsey(who also acts in Grey's anatomy as "mcdreamy", Dr.Derek Shepherd) acts as Robert, who lives in the real world

James Marsden(he seems to never get the girl, examples: the notebook,x-men,superman returns in which he sorta got the girl but of course she's in love with well, superman) [can also be seen in hairspray] will be acting as Prince Edward.

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Matt Corby

Did not win Australian Idol... okay so umm, this is old news n' i don't really care but he is pretty good. Anyway, he couldn't have won.. not with all that talk about wanting to quit at one stage n' not wanting to end up like an australian version of jesse mccartney =P Especially not when natalie's all.. VOTE FOR ME~I want it!! (okay so not quite..but still... that's the general picture)

Monday, November 19, 2007 { 6:20 PM }

Away from this small town (island)

me-yeong lyn

gonna highlight when i get back from KL...

i'd rather streaks of blue (more streaks similar to the one in the twins picture) but i guess that would cost more =/

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22nov-24nov

22NOV

There was a lot of traffic along the way.. So as a result, we only arrived at about..4pm despite all that speeding by dad did x___________________X After sorta washing up, we wen over to the gardens for super early dinner. It was, only 5pm anyway. Some place called blah blah Fung. Honestly i can't remember the name but it's located at the basement. Supposedly rated as one of the top 10 restaurants by the New York Times at one point. Founded by some guy who ran off to Taiwan because of some sort of war going on decades ago. Then he got a job at a cooking oil store.. Once he earned enough, he started his own business n' opened a restaurant, selling noodles+xiao long pao....yada yada yada.... (Hah! I KNOW stuff)

The noodles definately tasted better than it looks

Then we(excluding dad) met up with kylie n' her mom n' left for the stadium. We of course, started early. Thank God Penang traffic is nothing like that. (Kylie n' Shu Lin definately agree ;) ) I can't stand sitting in the car for very long(i used to seriously hate going to KL by car) but at least my uncle's car was comfy n' pretty spacious(as spacious as cars could get) n' the driver knew the way so needn't worry about wasting tme getting lost...(not that we get lost often or anything..LOL)

The exhibition match

Pete Sampras's serves were awesome! Although Federer didn't look like he was giving it his all, probably cause it is after all, an exhibition match... =/ too bad my camera couldn't get any good shots cause of the distance n' not so great features.

After the game+haagen dazz ice-cream, we ate more at the hotel... until about 12midnight. (At this rate, i won't be able to take those photos on the 30nov)

23NOV

Lost my phone.. *bummed* ah well...

i really liked that phone ='(

Purchases from midvalley:

Got this from a stall... it's identical to the one sold in maggie T

Got the halter from Envee

Had lunch at Sushi King

Then dinner at madam kuan/quan or smtg like that, not sure the name

Note to self: remember food && restaurant names

24NOV

Went over to The Gardens again in the morning, accompanied mom into banana republic, club monaco...

Got the hoodie from gap

On the way back to penang, stopped by INDULGENCE again

isn't this cute? something i need to get for my super sweet 17...uh i mean, sweet 16 n' 12 months

Had jacket potato again. With different toppings. I so need to learn howta make them.

DELICious

Labels: KL, shopping, tennis

Saturday, November 17, 2007 { 4:47 PM }

Omg! Step out 2!! Stumbled upon this while watching random so you think you can dance episodes ^^ It's a sequel but the main characters have changed... Channing Tatum still makes a guest appearance as Tyler... the new lead(girl) will be Briana Evigan as Andie, Tyler's childhood friend. Then there'll be Robert Hoffman as Chase. Camille probably won't even make an appearance.

SYTYCD:
My personal fave
Lauren & Pasha (hip hop routine by shane sparks)
The music--> fuego-pitbull

Faina & Cedric (hip hop, also by shane sparks)

Lauren & Neil (hip hop routine by dave scott)

Lacey & Kameron (hip hop by dan karaty)

Pasha & Lacey (hip hop by dave scott)

Friday, November 16, 2007 { 7:22 AM }

SCHOOL'S OUT!! wooot~

We spent like... the last 3 periods playing "qing ni gen wo zhe yang zhuo", it's a following game... example: person`1 claps her hands then taps her feet then sways...etc.. person`2 would clap her hands when person`1 taps her feet... then person`3 would clap her hands when person`2 taps her feet n' person`1 sways...etc... It gets pretty confusing after a while n' some people get mixed up =P Nevertheless it's fun.. we also played this "pass the msg" sorta game.. where about 10 of us sit in a circle then pass a certain msg... example: person`1 whispers something to person`2...then person`2 repeats it to person`3...etc... x________x It always get all weird in the end...o(^-^)o

Took class photos as well during the first period... the bio teacher(how typical =P) brought his camera n' got us all to take a picture in front of the blackboard on which he wrote "S4G".

It's pretty sad actually... never being in the afternoon session again... that the year is coming to an end...blah blah... Oh n' that some of us won't even be in the same class anymore... =( We found out the 2008 sorting today... plus we got our report file/book/card(whatever they call them these days) back... (how exciting) Gonna be in the same class as steph again...which is good.. haha 5 years in a row... not bad =P A part of me actually wishes that i remain in G... moving on to S5G next year instead of S5F... mainly cause of the people... G seems more fun... Of course i'll still be in the same class as xin yee,hui yee,sara...etc...yeong lyn's going to G next year... so much for getting into the same class.. hah! liar

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I want a tea party!! haha everyone can prepare cupcakes...cookies and whatnot ^^

(more on that later.... too tired at the mo..)

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Really hope i can get my hair done by tomorrow... =/ BLUE... haha can't wait ;)

Monday, November 12, 2007 { 7:55 PM }

G.l.a.m.o.r.o.u.s wishes

*a girl can dream right? =P

Hallmark love : http://www.hallmarkuk.com/

As displayed on the left... i've added a new section.. a.k.a my wishlist

Forever Friends

Can be spotted in: I think i've seen them in one stop... and of course in the KL midvalley hallmark shop ^___^ Price is probably something like RM75... i could be wrong though

Giant Teddy

*of course it doesn't have to look like this/be white... i just want a big teddy! haha
Can be spotted in: Teddy tales(klcc) sells a bigger-than-usual one for RM99 ... and an even bigger one for Rm100++ // Memory Lane might have some as well (QB/GP)

TY

Can be spotted in: Memory Lane (GP/QB/klcc...etc) and other random places like midvalley =/ ... pretty common sighting...

Price: RM19.90 for the usual but they've got cheaper ones for like, RM9.90 and more expensive ones...depending on the size

Grey Hallmark Teddy

Adorable!! ^_________^ *huggles*

Can be spotted in: Midvalley's hallmark

Price: Around RM75..?

White rimmed oversized sunnies

*doesn't havta be juicy/dior... i don't care...really...

Can be spotted in: Wherever..? sunglasses shops i guess... maybe MNG cause that's where i got my non-white-rimmed ones

Price: Unsure

Halter

*Preferably NOT black =/ baby/sky/light blue would be awesome~ any shade of blue is likeable in my opinion

Can be spotted in: I don't know... which is actually why i haven't gotten it yet

Price: Unsure.. but i wouldn't spend more than RM70..i think

Maggie T/Juicy Couture Charms

*Okay... juicy's pricey! i know... LOL but seeing that i couldn't find any pictures of maggie T products...i just had to put these up instead (i loved the tiny pink & white shoe earrings i saw once but it's probably sold out since there was only one... there was the word "channel" on each side"

Can be spotted in: Maggie T(GP) // Juicy Couture (pavillion)

Price: Around RM30(?) // too much

Books

*+legally blonde... basically books like these... chick lit

Can be spotted in: Bookstores (MPH/borders/kinokuniya...)

Price: RM29.90 for project paris... something like RM35.90 for gossip girl

Slogan Tee

Can be spotted in: Those small stalls in gurney like the one outside MPH or the one near GSC ... otherwise places such as forever 21...

Price: Depending on the store RM48...RM79..RM89...

Band Tee

*Any one of my fave bands

Can be spotted in: Don't know

Price: ???

Mr men/ little miss tee

Can be spotted in: Zara and forever 21...

Price: RM79? it's cheaper in zara actually

Working ipod

Digital camera

Video camera

Anything Disney

* Personally, I think you can never go wrong with disney.. (notebooks,school supplies,soft toys,music box,tees...etc) unless it includes HSM (eeeyuck!)

Fave characters include: Ariel(the little mermaid), tinkerbell(peter pan), donald duck, mickey mouse, minnie mouse... etc etc

Money