Thursday, January 17, 2008

My 2008 Post on Cats

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Here is my first post for Y2008 on my dearest kitties:

My dearest sweetie, i always love it when she place her hands this way.




DDX is begging for someone to sayang her... so sweet, right?



And xiami is in high concentration..... hmm... doing her big business.





Tuesday, January 01, 2008

明華園 歌仔戏 - 刘全进瓜 - 31/12/07, 红尘菩堤- 5/1/08, 马车夫与小逋快 - 6/1/08

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Today performance by Ming Hua Yuan is really awesome. The stage is very well-done, i will try to take a photo of the stage on Sat where we had again bought advanced tickets. The lead actress, 鄭雅升, did a great performance.

The starting of the performance is the 三仙大会. As today is Ming Huan yuan first performance, they are required to have a opening ceremony. There are performances by the 'Fu Lu Shou - 福禄寿, eight immorals - 八仙, Faires and monkey god. After those dances and performances, the scholar and the wife must invited the opera god to be sit at the main altar at the Cheng Huang temple. Next, the organiser of the opera gave a rather long speech and the opera performers gave some sweets and posters to the front audiences.



Then the start of the offical opera:刘全进瓜
Here is the story:

Liu Quan took part in the imperial exam but failed to win any posts in the top 3 position. He was very resentful of his cousin-in-law whom took the 探花 - 3rd place in the exam。Liu Quan had a virtue wife called 李翠莲。Unfortunately, Liu Quan blamed her for his bad luck in the exam.

Meanwhile, back in Hell, the ten lords of hell needed to go to 九华山 to meet the head of hell, 地蒇王菩萨. Being ghosts, they cannot stand in the sun so they needed to travel using umbrella. The 10 lords met with their head as they were unsure what to do with the Tang emperor whom save the dragon king. The dragon king later created havoc in the earth by floods. The head had mentioned that the ten lords should leave the emperor alone. Then they had a wine celebration in the mountain. One by one, the rest of the 9 lords returned to hell. The last lord is called 转轮王. The 10th lord was very drunk and so he took a nap in the garden. When he woke up, he realised that it was morning. He tried to reach for his umbrella but it blew away. Just then, Liu Quan appeared and the 10th lord asked him to retrive the umbrella which Liu did. The 10th lord being grateful to Liu wanted to be swore brother with Liu. Liu in order not to offend the lord agreed too.

Liu wife's Cuilian saved a woman in the ghost forest. As a result, the resenful ghost cannot be reborn as that ghost was looking for a 替死鬼. Back at Home, a monk appeared at their doorstep and warned Cuilian that the ghost will took her life in replacement for that woman cuilian saved. The monk gave Cuilian a charm and warned her not to remove it from their doorstep.

Just then, Cuilian cousin arrived. He had just won the 3 spot in the imperial exam. When Liu quan returned home, he was very angry with Cuilian for being too close to her cousin. Cuilina cousin left because of Liu's disapproval. Liu quan scolded cuilian for inviting her cousin home and chased her away. He also tore the charms away.

The ghost arrived and forced Cuilian to hang herself. Liu was very regrettful when he knew of his wife's death.

The monk appeared at Cuilian grave and scolded liu that the ghost was able to enter the house because the charm were removed. Liu said that he wished to meet the ghost of his wife so the monk suggested that Liu can helped the tang emperor to give melons to hell. The Tang emperor was grateful that the head of hell helped him so he promised to give melons for the lords. Unfortunately, he cannot find anyone willing to go to hell to deliver the melons. Liu agreed immediately.

At the palace, Liu drank a poison wine and died. At the third watch of the night, the papar dolls become alive and liu's spirt came out of his body too. Together, They entered hell.

The 10 lords welcomed Liu with warmth. The melons were given. Liu asked for the lords to allow him to see his wife. The lords agreed for him to see his wife for only 10 seconds. Liu was very upset and ran after his wife. Liu went to a closed city called wrongful death city.

Liu met the 10th lord whom gave him a magical weapon that can beat ghosts.The 10th lord also taught Liu how to escape from hell. Liu used the weapon to force into the city. The wife came out together with other female ghosts but liu chased them away.

The other 9th lord appeared and tried to stop liu but were forced to retreat because of the magical weapon. Liu took his wife away. The head of hell appeared and liu had a fight with him.

Liu and his wife then escaped to the reincarnation wheel 转轮台.The 10th lord found liu and explained that there are 6 cycles for this wheel - the animals cycle, the fish cycle, the human cycle, the bird cycle (not too sure of the other two cycles). The 10th lord said that this cycle now is the bird cycle and the human cycle was only ready in 3 days time. Liu and his wife decided to jump into the wheel too as the other 9 lords were going to catch them.

Just then, the other 9 lords came. Liu fought again. The head of the hell also arrived. the 10th lord saved liu. Liu took his wife to jump into the wheel where both were reincarnated as birds.

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红尘菩堤 - 5/1/08

Today story is about 济公 and the Song empire.

The story begin where the old song emperor and the zhou king were fighting. Both were about to lose when their pregnant wives saved them. Both wives fought and went into labour at the war field. Their husbands went to look for them and both gave birth to a boy each. Song emperor son was named "宋伯敬 and 赵.( I had forgotten what is his name now, i think i am getting bit of old)

After the birth, the Song emperor and the zhou king continued to fight. Song emperor was badly injured by the zhou king while the song soldiers managed to snatch baby zhou away from his mother. The badly injured emperor instructed his queen, Lu to take good care of his enemy's son so that in future, song and zhou can be friends. The old song emperor then died.

20 years later, both song and zhou had grew up. Bojing become the emperor of Song while zhou was only a prince although zhou was the older brother. In truth, Bojing was the only true blood of the Song empire but zhou was not aware of his birth nor his own parents.

Both of the royal brothers loved the girl, 莲 (Lian). Bojing expressed his love for Lian but lian only love zhou.

The border passed news to the queen mother, Lu that the zhou king was creating problems in the border again. Zhou offered to go to war but Lu wanted bojing to accompany him as well.

In the war, Bojing was defended and captured by zhou king. Zhou managed to avoid being attacked by the zhou's soldiers wolves because the wolves recongised the blood in zhou was the same as its master, the zhou king. Zhou went back to find his mother, Lu. On the influence of the court officers and Zhou's, Lu had no choice but to annonuce zhou to be the new emperor but lu wanted zhou to return the title back to bojing if he came home.

Bojing was bought to the zhou king and told them that his older brother zhou would saved him. When zhou king heard the name of zhou, he realised that this person was his son. He and his wife then hurried to Song area wishing to find their son.

While zhou king and his wife were out, a dancer named 庆 helped bojing to escape. They went to a temple and wanted to seek help from the monks. One of the monks was Jigong. Ji gong advised bojing not to ask for the impossible, that is not to went back to his old house, the palace. Bojing was still unaware that his older brother, zhou is the new emperor.

Just then, there was a loud annoucement outside the temple that the emperor was coming to pray in the temple Jigong asked bojing and qing to hide. The emperor, zhou then entered the temple. Zhou asked for bojing safely. On hearing this, bojing came out of his hiding place and wanted to hug zhou. Zhou was too shocked to react and left the temple in a hurry. Bojing and Qing chased him. Zhou soldiers advised zhou to murder bojing so that zhou can remained the emperor. Zhou on seeing bojing then ordered the excursion of bojing but jigong helped bojing to escape. Jigong asked bojing and Liu to become beggers to earn a living as both their lives were at risk. bojing agreed.

Zhou gave chase to the temple. When the abbot of the temple was unable to reveal where jigong was, zhou ordered the burning of the temple but promised the abbot 80 thousand dollars as reward. Being greedy, the abbot agreed to burn his own temple.

Zhou then left. Jigong appeared in front of his abbot and told him that the zhou emperor would not keep his word. Jigong suggested that if both of them sold dog meat, they can raise money for a new temple.

So Jigong and his abbot went to xi hu (West Lake) to sell dog meat. In the meantime, both zhou's queen and Lu (song queen) had a strange dream that a monk can help them find their sons if they went to West lake to look for a monk selling dog meat. They both appeared at the West Lake and met jigong. Jigong asked them if they wanted smaller bowl or bigger bowl of dog meat. Bigger bowl would meant 80 thousand dollars. Lu on hearing this wanted to pay for a bigger portion of the supposed dog meat. Jigong then asked Lu to go to the beggers' area to find bojing. When ZHou king saw that jigong was not a normal monk, he also wanted Jigong to give him a bigger bowl but jigong refused. Jigong said that even if they looked for their son, their son would not acknowledge them. Jigong used a magical wind to send zhou king and his wife to find zhou. As what jigong mentioned, zhou refused to acknowledge his own parants and tried to kill them too. Jigong appeared and stopped the fight.

Jigong then told zhou king that it was all his fault as he had occupied Song's land. To gain back his son, he had to give up song's land to song. Zhou king then agreed.

Back in Song palace, Zhou refused to return the throne to bojing. When Queen Lu revealed that zhou was not her son, zhou refused to believe her too. Bojing then escaped. However, zhou gave chase. On his escape, bojing met zhou king and his wife whom gave up song's land to him. Zhou then asked his soldiers to capture bojing. However, jigong appeared.

Zhou refused to accept his parents so jigong asked zhou king to leave. Before leaving, zhou king soldiers kneeled before zhou and bow to him, telling him that the zhou soldiers are always loyal to their own people. Zhou king's wife asked zhou to take care. On seeing them about to leave, zhou cannot bear the seperation and yelled out his parents. The whole family were then happily reunited.

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马车夫与小逋快 7/1/08

Today story begin with a 7 low ranking magistrate, called Guo and his wife, Xu was robbed. Both were rescused by a constable named Hua Zhan. Having saved the magistrate, Both Hua Zhan vowed to serve the new magistrate well.

Hua Zhan had two very beautiful daughter, the eldest daughter was called Hua Yue Chan and the youngest daughter was called Hua Yue Fang. Hua Yue Chan loved a slave named Liu Feng Yang. However, Hua Zhan objected to this relationship as Hua Zhan thought that Liu Feng Yang was too poor. Liu Feng Yang become a slave of the Hua Family as his father died while still teaching the young Hua daughters. Out of goodwill, the Hua father kept Liu Feng Yang as his house slave.

One day, Hua Yue Chan told her father that she only wanted Liu Feng Yang to be her husband. However, his father strongly dissaproved and told his daughter that he will never accept Liu as his son-in-law. This was overheard by Liu and he decided to run away. On his way out, Liu met Yue chan's younger sister, Yue Fang. Yue Fang then rushed to inform her sister that Liu was running away.

Yue Chan chased after Liu and vowed to be wife with him and followed him despite his provety. Hua Zhan appeared suddenly and tried to stop them. However, Yue Chan only wanted to eloped with Liu so Hua Zhan cannot do anything about it.

Yue Fang secretly passed her own saving to Liu for him to start a new life with her sister.

2 Years later, Liu was the richest businessman in the city of Chao Xing. Yue Chan was also pregnant with their first child. Liu was out on a business trip when he met a heavy thunderstorm. He planned to take shelter in a 亭 but saw a woman inside it. Being a honest guy, he decided not to go into the shelter for fear that the woman reputation would be ruined. The woman was deeply touched when she saw this. When the rain stopped, Liu left.

The woman was in fact Justice Bao Wife. She told her husband about this incident.

Liu approached a 马车夫 named bao hei to ask him to take him back to Chao Xing as his wife was near child birth. On their way, they learnt that Justice Bao was on tour outside the city. No one was to pass the countryside where Justice Bao would be passing. Being anxious that the whole tour might took 8 hours, Liu asked Bao Hei to rush toward the way and hopefully, they can avoid passing into Justice Bao. They were not so lucky as their horse knocked into Justice Bao.

Justice Bao asked for 20 canes when he heard that Bao Hei had rushed the horse into his way despite the early warning that no one must pass by this road. Liu however asked to share Bao Hei canning as he felt he was responsible for asking boa hei to rush. Bao Hei was canned 10 stokes. When Liu was about to be canned, the pole used to cane him broke into two. Justice boa then asked if Liu had done any good deed recent days. Liu recalled that he had allowed a woman to take shelter without sharing the shelter with him. Justice bao then knew this guy was the man his wife mentioned. Justice boa was very grateful to Liu and decided to be brothers with Liu. They then parted ways.

Boa Hei and Liu went to take a rest in a inn. While Bao Hei was parking his horse, Liu suddenly saw Hua Zhan in the same inn. Hua Zhan was shocked to see Liu so well dressed up. When Hua Zhan saw Liu with $4000 in his bag, he become even more shocked. He asked Liu for how he become so rich. Liu told him that he had used Hua Zhan second daughter saving to start his own business and was now the most wealthest man in Chao Xing. Hua Zhan then purposely asked Liu to go back to his town.

In the forest, Hua Zhan murdered Liu. The murder was seen by Bao Hei whom had went to find Liu after finding him missing in the inn.

Yue Chan knew of Her husband death. Bao Hei then appeared and told her that the cconstable that appeared earlier was the murderer. Yue Chan was shocked as that constable was her own father. Her own father had murdered her husband.

She seek justice with magistrate Guo but The case was rejected due to lack of evidence. In fact, although Yue Chan had a piece of her father cloth as evidence, as the magistrate and Hua Zhan were of close relationship, the case was rejected just like this.

Yue Chan fainted on the street and was saved by Justice Bao. Justice Bao heard of Yue Chan case and told her to raise the case again on the 3 of May. Justice Bao said that he will dressed as normal ppl in the street to view how the corrupted magistrate had deal with Yue Chan case. Yue Chan then left.

Unkown to Justice Boa, his advisor went to find Gou and Hua Zhan and told them of Justice Bao plan. As Both Guo and Zhan did not seen Justice Bao before, the advisor gave a description of Justice Bao look. Guo and Zhan then search the city for Justice Bao. When they saw Bao Hei, they thought they had found the right person and bought him back. Guo and Zhan sweet talked and tried to use money for the fake justice bao.

Bao Hei was suddenly justice bao. He went on court on 3 of May. When Yue Chan tried to sue her father, Guo and Zhan thought they had the upper hand. Both turned black into white and tried to overturn every evidence against them. However, Boa Hei suddenly spoke - he managed to claim justice for Yue Chan as bao Hei was also a honest guy . He executed Guo for corruption and executed Hua Zhan for murder with the help of the real Justice bao whom taught him how. When Yue Chan saw Bao Hei, she realised that Bao Hei was the guy in the forest but she did not call him in the court. Justice bao then revealed to Bao Hei that a guy was dressed as him too. Bao Hei knew that justice bao was addressing to him but Justice bao allowed bao hei to play his role to the end of the day.

Sunday, December 30, 2007

How many other names does Your cat has?

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Here is what my cats are also known as:

1) Sweetie : Fei Lao (just a name created recently by sister)

2) DD : DDX, 熊DD or DD 熊 ( new names created by sister long time ago)

3) KK: KK gong gong ( a name called by my brother)

4) Ah Du: Ah Kueh (Mum way of calling) , Thiru (I loved to emphazis on the 'Ru' sound, this name is called by sister now), We had no longer used the name, Ah Du ages ago.

5) Wang Wang (旺旺): - Wang zai(旺仔) - mum way of calling but actually wangzai is WangWang brother

6) Xiami: Xiami baby boy ( Sister's way of calling but xiami is actually a ginger tabby according to sister as xiami got stripes on its body), Ha Bi (my way of calling)

7) XianXian: 仙仙姑娘 (called by me), 小黑鼻子 (called by Brother)

8) HeHe(pronounced as 和和) : HeHe ( as in He He --as when pronounced in English, called by me and sister)

9) Money: - None (He used to be called Mali by its ex-foster mummy, using 'ex' as foster mummy is not able to take care of him now)

Sunday, December 23, 2007

歌仔戏- 游白楼 - 22 Sat Dec 2007 & 金收楼折- 24 Dec - 新樱风歌仔戏

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Sat, the three of us, dad, mum and i went to Cheng huang temple to watch ge zai xi again. We had bought 2 advanced tickets tml.

I loved the story plot yesterday.

游白楼 - 22 Sat
The story:

Lou and his sister lost a battle where their dad also died in that battle. Out of no choice, Lou had to beg his cousin, He hui yi(i shall called him 'H') to allow him to stay in his house. H was a middle age single man with a humpback and a slanted mouth but he was a very kind-hearted man. H allowed lou to stay in his house where Lou only needed to serve He drinks only.

One day, H was touring the white tower near his place when he saw a young maiden, called bai xiuying. He was captured by Bai's beauty. Immediately when H asked for a matchmaker, mei to go to ask for marriage with the bai house. Mei went to bai house and discussed with bai'brother, Y. Bai xiuying only agreed to the marriage posposal if H can wear a white rode and ride a white horse, touring the white tower at a arranged date.

When H knew of Xiuying's condition, H was worried. H knew that he stand little chance as he was humpback. So mei suggested to H to let Lou go on his behalf. Lou refused initally but when H said that Lou was ungrateful to H' kindness, lou had little choice but to attend the meeting.

At the white tower meeting, Xiuying saw Lou - a decent, good looking guy and fall in love with him at first sight. The marriage was agreed but xiuying wanted only lou to come to her house to take her on the big day. H again wanted Lou to go but lou refused a second time. Mei then suggested H to fake a death. Lou on seeing that H wished to die, agreed a second time to go to bai' house to take xiuying home.

On the big day, there was a heavy rain, washing away the bridge. Y suggested his sister and her newly husband to stay in their house to spend the night together instead. Lou also loved xiuying at first sight but mei said that his new bride belonged to his cousin, H. Lou was forced to sleep on the chair with mei. Mei tied a cloth to her waist and attacted it on Lou's waist, thinking that nothing will happened since they were tied together. In the middle of the night when mei was sleeping, xiuying woke up lou and asked him to go to bed together. Xiuying then tied the cloth to a chair and both of them spend the night together. In the morning, mei found out about this and told xiuying that actually Lou was not called 'he hui yi'. Lou told his wife the turth and together, revealed the turth to xiuying's brother.

H was annoyed when mei told him the truth that his cousin had stolen his supposed wife. H marched to bai'house. Xiuying brother, Y told him that what's done cannot be undone but H refused to give out. Then out of irriration because of H'constant arguement, Y asked H to go and died. H was upset and went to jump over the high mountain to commit suicide.

One day, lou and xiuying was touring the forest when they met robbers whom tried to murder them. Lou was rescused by his sister while xiuying fall into the sea and were rescused by a duke's daughter, named lee.

Meanwhile, H did not died as a fairy seeing that H lifespan in earth had not expired, saved him, giving him a new look and cured his humpback. H returned to earth and become the scholar. He seeked revenge with lou. Lou was arrested by H and was shocked when H told him his real identify. Y then seeked the Duke for help to rescue Lou. The duke being a more senior position than H, told H that this misunderstanding was all H's fault for letting Lou to go to the marriage on H's behalf. The duke daughter was actually Lee whom rescused xiuying earlier. The duke suggested his own daughter's marraige to H. He on seeing that Lee was a beauty and was a rich missy with a powerful dad, agreed to the marriage. The duke also arranged for Y to marry Lou' sister.

The story ended with 3 pairs of newly matched couples

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金收楼折- 24 Dec

Today story is also quite interestin story is also quite interesting with is also quite interesting with a happy ending.

The story:

Jin and Jin's sister, ying tao, Zhou Ming and his sister, Zhou Jun and Ying and his sister and Cao Ming had all just graduated from the school.

Jin and his sister were children of a very rich and powerful warlord, thus this made them to be a very big bullies.

Both Ying and Jin loved Zhou Jun but for Zhou Jun, she only loved Cao Ming. She expressed her love for Cao Ming and they agreed to marry once Cao Ming become a scholar. Zhou Jun secretly stole 50 silver from her house to give to Cao Ming for his journey to the capital to take part in the imperial exams.

After meeting Cao Ming's mother, Jun and Ming parted ways after a nigh stay together as husband and wife. Meanwhile, Both Ying and Jin decided to express their love for Zhou Jun.

However, Zhou Ming rejected Jin's expression for Zhou Jun love once he leanrt that his sister had already had someone in her heart. Jin was very angry and vowed to take revenge. So Jin asked his powerful warlord father to accuss Zhou Ming of stealing something.

Zhou Ming asked a advisor that was also his good friend to be a witness that he was a good person with no intention of stealing. However, Jin's father refused to believe him and Yin and Ming fought. Unintentionally, Zhou Ming accidentally killed the advisor.

Jin and his father then took the chance to arrest Zhou Ming whom escaped to Ying's house. Ying agreed pay Yin 100 silver in exchange for Zhou Ming 's freedom.

Yin manged to get Zhou Ming house title and Yin's sister jewels to raise the 100 silvers due in 3 days. On the 3 day, Yin bought the money to Jin's father. However, JIn's father said that he wanted cash only. Yin said that the money that Yin gave was only 80 silver and wanted the extra 20 silver within 10 days.

Secretly, Jin sent someone to burn Zhou Ming's house. Zhou Jun escaped but her brother, Zhou Jun was captured by Jin. Jin told Zhou Ming that Ying had not help him to pay the money. Zhou Ming and Jin fought and Zhou ming managed to escape.

Zhou Ming in a fury went to find Ying and blind Ying's eyes. Ying's sister explained that they had helped Zhou Ming in fact and it was then that Zhou Ming realized that he had wronged the wrong person. Zhou Ming wanted to kill himself but Ying 's sister said that he should seek revenge.

Cao Ming managed to secure a scholar home. When he went to find Zhou Jun, he found that their house was gone. Jin's sister, Ying tao loved cao ming when she learnt that Ming was now a scholar. She lied to Cao ming's mother that Zhou Jun had commited a crime and Cao ming would be dragged into provety if Cao ming wanted to be with her. So Ming's mother agreed to let Ying tao be Cao Ming's wife. Cao Ming refused but his mum theatened him with her death. Out of no choice, Cao Ming agreed to the marriage.

Zhou Ming found Jin one day and wanted to kill him. However, Zhou Ming was outnumbered and was badly wounded. He was saved by a woman robber
Zhou Jun returned to Cao Ming house and found that he was already married. On her way out, she met Jin whom tried to murder her.

Zhou Jun fall off the cliff and was found by Ying. Jun gave birth to a son and upon hearing that Ying became blind because of her brother, She cried and become blind too.

Zhou Jun become a massenger to earn money for her and her son. One day, Zhou Jun met Cao ming. As jun was blind, she did not know that that person was Cao Ming> She told Ming her sad past and Ming realized that the blind woman was actually Zhou Jun whom was not dead.

Ming followed Jun home and they reunited. Ying tao sent her brother to find Cao Ming. When Zhou Jun ran for her life, she met her brother, zhou ming. Ying tao, and her brother fought with Zhou Ming. By accident, Jin killed Ying tao. Jin was captured too.

Sunday, December 16, 2007

90th anniversary Temple Celebration @ 韭菜芭城隍廟- 90th anniversary

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Today, mum and i went to Cheng Huang temple( 韭菜芭城隍廟) , the one near Geylang Police station to see the temple celebrations. Mum said that the gods at the temple would went out on tour(游巡)to five different temples today, the last temple is at the one at Jurong temple before all of the temple representatives will return to Cheng Huang temple again. There are a number of temple representatives from Countries from Fuijian, Taiwan,Hong kong and our own, singapore.

We arrived at the temple @ 9.40 am. We managed to see this Gaint Lion. It took 2 strong guys to hold the gaint head. I am not too sure where this gaint lion is from. I think this does not looked like a made- in -singapore product as i did not often seen this gaint 舞狮 before but this is definitely a eye-opening for me.




This is the banner of the Cheng Huang Temple.




Next, we saw the 大头娃娃. I had not seen big head wa wa for so long.





The next representatives is from the Singapore Opera, called '筱麒麟‘ Mum had said that the Singapore opera group had beautiful clothing but i do not like to watch Singapore Opera, ge zai xi. The main reason is because i find it funny that a 50 plus woman can act as maiden in the opera. Since young singaporeans today do not enjoy opera and not to say enter this line, the opera in singpore is a dying culture. So auntie need to be maidens all the time. In the photos below, they are acting as 八仙.








The next temple representatives are from taiwan. I find their representatives to be the most special. Mum had said that those guys are acting as a messenger of god as they had painted their faces and holding some scroll.









The last is the gods inside Cheng Huang Temple. The gods will be taking a tour outside the temple and returning again at night time.






We left the temple after eating some bee hoon and soya bead drink that are given free. We returned home at 1 plus.



We returned to the temple at night to watch taiwan opera. In celebration for their 90th anniversary, The temple had invited two Taiwan troops. 新櫻鳳歌仔戲團 will be preforming from 10 December to 29 December, ticket is $5 and $10. 明華園戲劇團 will be performing for eight days from 31 December to 7 Jan 2008, ticket is $10 and $20. I remember 明華園 performed last year at the esplanade and received good reviews from the media but i never went to watch any opera performance at the esplanade as the tickets are too expensive.



Below is some of the photos that i captured. I did not get a good view as i am sitting at the 'T' seat and my ticket is only $5. Tonight performance is "画皮".



The story if u love laozai story should be familiar: scholar met ghost, ghost try to murder him, priest caught the ghost. For the taiwan opera today, the ghost become a thousand old vixen whom attacked the scholar because the scholar brother had killed one of the male fox.







The opera ended at 11 pm. When we went out of the opera area, we saw that the very last of temple representatives had came back from their tour. We only saw the taiwan temples representatives and the Cheng Huang temple gods.



The taiwan representatives at night

This guy from taiwan is blowing a long horn. The sound produced sound like those that u heard in TVB war drama - war horn。
Cheng Huang god returning to the temple. Here, those guys are praying to the main gods inside the temple.



The colourful 花车

Saturday, December 01, 2007

More on Money the Cat

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Money: Yes, Yes, I am listening. Please continue Your NAGS to advice me not to eat too much food



Money: I Think i am better, not more breathing by my mouth but need to do a review with Uncle Vet


Money: The Key to a happy cat life is to eat and eat like me....


Sunday, November 25, 2007

Rating for my blog

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I should be honoured.....but hmm... sometimes really feel like swearing at some jerk in my workplace but need to hold my tongue... That's life and i never swear in public.....

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Friday, November 23, 2007

Look whom's back?

Our Dear Money is with us again

He is better, no longer breathing from his mouth


He can eat a lot



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Money is back with us since Monday because his foster mummy need to travel. I am the temp mummy. Sister had asked me if Money will be 'PR' or ' immigrant'? i am not too sure ler. Maybe PR lor but it all depends on his foster mummy decision. There is a high chance that money will be our PR in our house.

Money had been taking medicine for 20 days since 7 November. We do hope that the fluid in his lungs will be clear by the end of his medication. There are four more days of medication left for Money before we need to send him to the vet again for review. But i think that we will wait for foster mummy to come back from singapore before we decide.

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BTW, if u read sister blog, xiami eyelashes are giving her trouble again. Today, the vet had plucked two eyelashes from her eye. Sister had said that xiami did not cry nor protested strongly. Brave and good girl. She will need to wear her E-collar till her eye is better.







Xiami looking very sad....Xiami was asking me why she had to be 大头again.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Standing, Wondering And Thinking: When When When???

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Sister had left for Beijing for one week, leaving me with the notty notty kitties. Meanwhile....




Xiami was wondering why is sister gone for 1 day?



Ah go go was thinking will fat sister remember her when she saw go go next wed?


DDX is suddenly now with cat flu. I had feed her vibravet twice per day. Her condition should be better in 5 days time. So far, i had fed her two days. I had also slept with her in blood room to keep her company at night.

Sweetie had discovered that DD had suddenly disapeared for 2 days. Just now, she entered blood room and saw DDX on the bed. Sweetie made a cheerful meow and jumped on the bed to join DD before i dragged sweetie off the bed and put her outside in the living room. Sweetie gave me a 'gu lian dan' face.

Xian Xian, Hehe are still as playful as usual. In the afternoon, mum fed them chicken rice - i think mum spolited them by feeding them each time they jumped up and down.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Me & My endless numbers of earings

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Today, I had lunch with an ex-classmate. I had not seen her like for 4 years. It is a joy to see her again. We had lunch at 'New York New York' @ AMK hub. Food is so so as i find my fish and chips to be nothing special as the one that i always eat that cost only a mere $4.50 while NY cost $9.90. We were grumbling about our poor pathetic working life. Actually me got not much to complain - except hor, the 'C' whom is our king.



What more to complain when

1) working place is only 7 min walk from home,



2) lunch (healthy one ok, NO MSG) at home for lunch hour - can also use this precious 40 min to sayang kitties.



3) 14 min walking from office to home, from home to office, it is a good form of walking ok, brisk walking. I think i am cheating myself by not exercising at all.I can walk very fast if i want to. My family, colleagues had all commented that i walk super fast. Maybe that is why i got super oily face - YUCKs.



My friend, X was complaining abt how all her work seem to be endless. Poor her had to come home close to ten plus almost daily, unlike me -上班一条虫,下班一条龙。 Ya, me very '龙' one, alway leave work place on the dot. But occasionally, i finished work half an hour later. But compared to X, i felt fortunate.



After our lunch and 1 hour of talking, we left NY and walked around AMK hub. I bought myself these earrings(below). The SA did not bothered to give me a proper plastic bag for me to do free promotion on my blog so i did not know what is their shop name. Also i am very cheapo - expensive one that cost $21 for 1 pair, i did not buy... I bought those that cost 3 for $5. I do know recycle recycle but at least had some of ur shop logo on the tiny plastic bag that was used to put the 3 earings. I was telling X that i siao one - see got anything with cat face or cat image, must buy but i of course mind the price tag behind the items - 能省就省.
I was almost tempted to buy a maria cat touch light key chain that cost $6.95 but i reminded myself of the 能省就省 theroy. Actually sister also like that, do not know why she bought that xiami clone jigsaw. We did not nailed it on the wall anyway so it is just left anywhere to collect dust.


1 cat earring - full length cat

1 kitty face one and 1 dolphin


This is my earrings box. Mum was saying why u bought earrings when u know how to make one urself. Me said:"No lar, not the same ma, those one is stubs one."


This is bought by sister. It is quite heavy so no one got any chance to wear it as we do not want to risk making our earlobes hole to widen. And we do not have any intention to put a big round button on our open earlobes hole(if we happen to have one). If u read the gossip zao bao, you would read the freaking weird guy that purposly widen his earlobes hole so that he can put 20 cents diameter -wide round earring on his ear.
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