WHY IS THE SONG CALLED BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY?…

WHY IS IT EXACTLY 5 MINUTES 55 SECONDS?…WHAT IS THIS SONG REALLY ABOUT?…WHY WAS THE QUEEN MOVIE RELEASED ON OCTOBER 31?

“Unicorns are REAL!”

The rain had stopped, but the ground was still wet.

Z pointed to the ground and exclaimed, “A rainbow!”

There on the ground was a shimmering “rainbow” – it was a bit of petrol diffusing in the water, leaving that shimmer of rainbow colours.

“I think a Unicorn just pooped there!” I said. Everyone knows unicorns pooped rainbows.

“Ya!” agreed my daughter.

“That means…. UNICORNS ARE REAL! We just found where one pooped!”

New Year Rant

This is a packet of Seedless Mint Plum. I got it from NTUC Fairprice Supermarket.

It was $1.31 a packet. Last year. 2023.

This year (2024), the GST increased from 8% to 9%.

Blasphemous thoughts at Mass (21/1/24)

In the First Reading, God sent Jonah to Nineveh to warn the city to change their ways. I looked at the name “Nineveh” and wondered why it was not pronounced “Nine-Veh”, as in “this city is 9 veh wide. It will take you over 4 days to walk from one end of the city to the other.”

No.

It’s pronounced “Ni-Ni-Veh”.

So why wasn’t it spelt “Niniveh”?

Maybe “Ni-ni-veh” is the wrong way to pronounce it.

Maybe, if you translate to Singlish, it sounds more… threatening? Like this:

“Ni-Nar-Beh! In 40 days, you Chee-Bys will know the Wrath of God! Go measure yourself for your coffins! If you think you will have bodies to be buried!”

Z tells nurse she’s a horse.

From 18 Jan 2022 (a Facebook Status):

At the vaccination centre, Z was asked her year of birth.

She replied, “horse” (As in, she was born in the Year of the Horse, i.e. 2014).

PL was there to clarify (cos only one parent can accompany the child for the vaccination.)

Looking Back

Surprisingly, I am at peace with myself.

I want to see Z grow up.

But I have accepted that I may not. So every day I have with her is a blessing, and a gift.

“Majulah Package” for “Young Seniors”

 

So I’m a “Young Senior”. And the govt is introducing a “Majulah Package” that will give us, “Young Seniors” some benefits. Which will also benefit the Merdeka Generation, and the Pioneer Generation.

Going Medieval.

As you get older, your body devolves into a kinda dysfunctional democracy.

Where previously, you ruled the kingdom that is your body with the iron-fist of an absolute monarch (or, if you’re Singaporean, with the iron-fist of a Lee Kuan Yew equivalent), now your body seems to have a mind of its own.

Where you used to decide when you need to rest; or if you can keep going even if you are hungry; or choose to skip breakfast and lunch and make it all up at dinner; or even decide when you need to go.

[In my youth, I could force myself to stay awake without sleep, go hours without food, and put off relieving myself. Now, I fall asleep when I sit down, I get hypoglycaemic if I skip a meal, and when I need to go, I NEED TO GO NOW!]

Midwings or “flats”.

I was this old when I learned a new (and better) way to prepare midwings (also known as “flats”). This is the middle part of a chicken wing – the part with 2 bones.

If you were eating a whole chicken wing (i.e. with 3 “sections”), there would be the “drumlet”, which looks like a miniature drumstick, the mid-wing with two bones (which makes it tricky to get to the meat in between the bones), and the “tip” which is mostly small bones, with a “spur”. Done well, the “tip” can be crispy and tasty. But a lot of chefs just cut if off and use it to cook chicken broth.

The Impatient Parent and the Catechist

Z attends catechism at our Church.

And with the state of technology, the parents of the children (Catechumens) are on a group chat so announcements and information and last minute changes to schedule can be efficiently communicated. This is after all, the Age of Information. (Some might say, “disinoformation”, but that’s another topic.)