If there’s Leo’s Song, of course, there’ll be one for my Sumo.
The two are really night and day. As I often say (apparently, I like to repeat myself) one is like an Express Stream dog, the other is in Normal Stream with a future in beauty school.
But although Sumo is faster, he gets too excited, too eager, too fast and that makes him rash and behave aggressively.
I did want to record this last week, but over enthusiastically cut nails and equally over enthusiastic strumming gave me a blister on the edge of my finger.
So here I go again, embarrassing myself with an off-key rendition of Sumo’s Song.
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The chords are G, D (with a high D), C, D
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Guess who I found in my ukulele case after I recorded Leo's Song?
This is a song that I thought up after looking into the blank eyes of Leo, who, after 6 months of training, still isn’t paper trained.
It took me 6 weeks to teach Leo how to shake hands. Now that Leo knows how to shake hands, when I command “down”, he offers his paw.
I did this song in GarageBand, starting by laying down the drum track, then played out the bass track on the computer keyboard.
Then I played the ukulele, sang the song and added the barks.
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The chords are F, C5? (CGCG), Am, G
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In the run up to Chinese New Year, we’ve also made kueh bangkit.
The Chinese New Year cookie that should melt in your mouth - Kueh Bangkit
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Well, it’s time for making Chinese New Year goodies again.
On Thursday, I went to JB for another bad haircut and groceries and many of the shops were selling homemade cookies.
Besides a sticker for the Chinese symbol of “Luck”, they bore no other marks. It would be impossible to tell what went into those cookies and who made them.
If the China melamine milk scandal had happened during Chinese New Year, I think it’d be an utter mess trying to trace the source of foods and a lot more people could’ve been adversely affected.
And so today, we began our own “homemade” factory. And I threw my father off the production line, two minutes after he joined in to help us.
Was it terribly evil of me?
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Remember The Greatest American Hero?
Ah yes, ordinary man dons a red suit from aliens and suddenly has unmanageable super powers. Can’t remember much from that show, except I looked forward to it every week.
Life was easier then. No one asked about USPs, for Interactive elements, yadda yadda. Just liked it.
I remember visiting my friends in Ipoh and singing the theme song together.
And now that I’ve done it again, I think the range of the song is surprisingly wide and difficult to sing.
I recorded this on different tracks as I found it hard to balance my ukulele with voice. And when I did that, I found it hard to keep the accompaniment in time…
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My friend gave me an idea for using up the meat from pork ribs I used to make stock for our steamboat dinner – Pulled Pork Sandwich.
Pulled pork sandwiches. They may be blur, but they taste good.
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Since my EZLink card disappeared from my wallet, I weighed the pros and cons of the two CEPAS compliant cards available in Singapore today: The EZLink Card and the NETS FlashPay Card.
NETS FlashPay Card
From the picture, you can guess which card I went with.
But first, let me complain a bit.
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It’s been a while since I’ve recorded myself singing and I’ve to say, it isn’t pleasant.
To sing, keep time, read lyrics and recall chords is doubly, triply, quaduply hard.
And exhausting.
And actually quite terrible sounding when you hear you can’t sustain notes like you thought you could.
This is my 7th attempt and increasingly I made mistakes as I got tired.
You have been warned.
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When I submitted my travel reviews at TripAdvisor, they sent me a coupon for a free 8″x8″ hardcover photo book containing 20 pages, worth US$29.99 at Shutterfly. All I had to do was to pay for shipping,
Looking up the shipping cost, it’d cost me US$7.99 to my friend’s address in the US where I’d be staying, so I decided to take up the offer to try out the quality of the prints.
Cover of Photo Book.
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Who would’ve thought a big city would fall asleep on 1st January?
Turns out this happens in Seoul. Major department stores are closed. Some small shops open.
And it turns out majority of the galleries and shops in the Bukchon & Samcheongdong area, found between the two famous palaces of Gyeongbok Palace and Changdeok Palace, were closed.
Outside Gyeongbokgung Palace.
Outside Gyeongbokgung Palace.
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