NDS Drawn to Life

Marpig didnt want to get into these too much then again, itz just too cute!!

Apparently, this NDS game called "Drawn to Life" is REALLY GREAT!! Oh boy oh boy!! Reason being, Marpig could name the hero, Marpig could also DRAW the hero!! :D Needless to say, Marpig drew her famous TM!! And, 1/2way through the progress of the game, the "Raposa" (aka the villages) erected a statue in the cityz square!!

Essentially, the gamez plot is tt a spiteful villager stole and burnt the villagez "Book of Life" which contains wat the Creator (Marpig) created. Eg, the moon, the sun, the sky, day, night, etc etc etc.

The village is shrouded in darkness and itz in monchrome. And so, a clever female Roposa (the villagez leaderz daughter) pleaded to the Creator (Marpig) to help them and to restore the village.

The story goes when the Creator (Marpig) called upon a hero (named Marpig in the shape of Marpigz TM pig) to help the villages. So, this hero went through all sorts to finally restore the village to itz glory!!

Without further adodo, pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, this is just one of those funny cards Marpig browsed through when she was buying cards for family & frens on Grocery Day... (itz not 102% true!! At least, Marpigz Shopping Hemisphere should switch with Sense of Direction Gland!!)

Marpig is Ill...

Marpig is sick again... has been a week... paranoid Marpig resurfaced again...

1st, it was tt horrible throbbing headache throughout the entire night; then, itz tt terrible stomachache tt last until now (refer to previous boggie tt Marpig talked bout going to Brimingham on official biz). The stomachache last every day and every sec. One of the night, it was so painful, Marpig almost wanted to call the ambulance. It was so painful even the back hurts!!

It felt like smth hard is in the stomach and wont go down... cant slouch, cant have too big a movement...

Watz worrying is tt Marpig pressed and felt smth near the left rib cage, just under the left boob... no good.

Smhow, Marpig kept thinking she will get cancer... reason being it has become so much a disease of the developed country + the fact tt Marpigz momz got cancer... albeit cancer has not been conclusively proven to be hereditary, there ARE certain claims tt it is...

Sigh... itz no fun to be sick, especially in the UK... smhow, the healthcare sux.
Pple in Singapore always say (in terms of work), they cannot afford to fall sick but can afford to die. Marpig says, u cant even afford to fall sick in the UK.

Why?

Healthcare in the UK works like 9-5. No weekends. So, if pple are to see a doctor in a clinic, pai seh hor, u got to take a dayz off to visit one. AND, u cant just walk in, u got to call the clinic 30mins before they open on the day to book a slot for a doctor, thank u very much.

Hospitals? Marpigz has no xperience and don want to even think bout it.

Sigh... just when Marpig am enjoying her life and work as well as making sm gd frens in the workplace... Marpig don 12 die...

Sigh...

Why must the good always be the most unlucky ones or the 1st to leave the world, suffering?

Is Marpig a Thinker?

Are thinkers pple with nth better to do and who have too much time which they do not noe wat to do with it?

Wat makes a thinker?

Personally, Marpig thinks tt thinkers are pple who move forward in life, backwards.

Life to them are precious and they understand the need to "move on" However, they refer to the past so as to learn the mistakes of the forbearers.

Of cos, the advantage of moving backwards is tt it allows one to wols down rather than rushing through life.

It allows one to see other pple who are rushing through life and their falls they had; it allows one to see their own footprints and paths they had taken/chosen; it allows one to see the ths or the impacts they had left behind, either on other pple or ths.

Sm pple might say going forward, backwards will wols one down or even cause one to trip. Then again, pple charging head on often trip and fall more. In fact, pple who move forward, backwards will tend to be more careful, hence less tripping and resilient to bumpy roads.

Thinkers are pple who have the ability to see themselves in others, and others in themselves. They see ths in a broader perspective since while they move forward, backwards, they see others and the way they rush about, behave, reacts, etc.

... Marpig smtimes thinks she has nth better to do and have too much idle time to think tt she has nth better to do... hmmm...

Autograph Books & Namecards

All Souls' Day is coming... 1st Nov... 2nd Nov, Marpigz dad am going to travelling to Ipoh to attend Marpigz momz mom (Marpigz grandma) 90th birthday...

Come to think of it... the last time Marpig visited her in Ipoh with a fren was 5+ yrs ago... 3mths b4 Marpigz mom passed on...

Still rem tt time Marpig accompany her at night after dinner... despite not understanding 102% of the Hakka nor speak the dialect... Marpig can still figure out wat shez trying to say... Knew tt she was suffering from inflammed ankle cos she pointed to them and they really looked swelled up... prior to tt, she took out Marpigz only family photo (with Marpigz mom already quite thin due to cancer), holding it, she spoke nth but just look at the photo... smiling at first then sobbed...

Didnt really have any recollection of her since she rarely comes to Singapore and we seldom visit her... Only knew her from Marpigz mom and got to know tt she is pretty in her younger days from Marpigz momz family picture with Marpigz mom bout the age of 12...

TTz more to sm other knowledge of her which Marpig shall leave it till when Marpig dedicate a bloggie entry for Marpigz mom...

Strange... why did Marpig wrote bout her...

Like Marpig said, she tends to think of the very old daes when life is simple and innoccent.

Suddenly rem remembered tt autographs were an in-th during pri and sec sch daes when "poems" like,

"Roses are red and grasses are green, a fren like u is ..... (cant recall!!)" or dog ears with hidden messages... Even then, Marpig am already quite bent on being the unique one by always choosing the middle page of the book to write in... did drew lotsa nice drawings as well as Marpigz trademark pig (refer to photo uploaded on the top right hand corner) Come to think of it... must really ask frens to dig out their books to soak in the childish old daes!! Gosh!! Dates back to more than 10 yrs on sm!! hahahahahah

Then there were also namecards in sec sch!! Still rem quite a lot of frens print their name and address and telephone numbers on the namecards with cute decor to give out to fellow frens!! OMG!! It does sounded really interesting (& bog liao now!!) Hmmm!! Shall ask frens if they still kept any!! hahahahahahah Nope, Marpig did not make any of those namecards. Rem? Marpig doesnt like to follow the crowd.

Really... shall start calling up frens for their autograph books!! heheheheheheheh

More Travelling Please!!

Went Birmingham on a biz trip today. Gosh. Terrible day. Dont understand wat happened but Marpigz had a terrible throbbing headache throughout last night and am having a crippling stomachach now!! Abit paranoid again; fearing Marpig will have cancer or sm sort of illness... sharks. Need to register with doctor... been long due on tt.

Anyway, went with an architect and a architect assistance. Marpig gets along with both of them and throughout the long drive to and fro, Marpig and them talked bout nth but food and mountains and travelling!! (Ding, are all architectural-trained pple + cancerians crazy?! :D)

Cant believe the architect had worked in Brunei and even climbed Kinabalu!! He even noes wat is nasi lemak and BALACHAN!! This is simply incredible!!
Right, Ding, Marpig really needs to do tt SEA backpacking trip. Hello!! Watz happened to our craziness?! We must create a storm while travelling!! *whoosh!!* Hurrican Bing!! (One of Marpigz initials + Dingz -ing :P)

In fact, Marpig must really be more insane and just grab a backpack and go smwhere during weekends more!! Must visit more places in the UK!!

Rem in the bloggie bout Oxford tt therez a Bridge of Sighs? Well, the authentic one is in Venice. Then therez also Taj Maha in Agra. Therez also the Wall of Love aka Le Mur des je t'aime in Paris!!

So, Marpig really needs to get-a-going!!

Too bad there isnt any crazy travelling khaki here... :S

Think the next most probable place to go will be either Cambridge or Nottingham...

Why Cambridge? Cos Marpig has a fren there and Marpig also 12 make a comparison btw Oxford and their arch enemy.

Why Nottingham? ... erm... tt time when we had dinner, he mentioned he actually misses his campus and tt he didnt quite noe Nottingham despite being there for 3 yrs... May be Marpig could ask him to go with Marpig smtime b4 he goes to Penang for gd @ the end of Jan... sigh... why?! why does Marpig always like sm1 who don like Marpig and why does the pple tt Marpig don like, like Marpig?!

This is a crazy world afterall. Tsk.

姐姐

Itz been a long time since Marpig hear from PS. Really wonder how she is doing now. Emails from her normally ends adruptedly and u will wonder where she has gone to. Well, may be no news is gd news?

Remembered did talk bout the way we both call our elder sister. PS said she still calls her elder sister "姐" (in Hokkein), even in front of her sisz frens.

Same for Marpig, even until now, Marpig still calls her "姐姐" in front of every1. Even during her wedding day!!

Come to think of it... ever since Marpig noes how to speak, have been calling her tt for 26 yrs.

When Marpig and her sis were both young, a 4 yrs age gap isnt tt obvious. But now tt Marpigz sis is married and they are both getting older and older... it does sound abit pai seh at times... hahahahahahaha

Wow... imagine if next time Marpigz sis give birth to some children and Marpig still calls her "姐姐" OR even when they are 70 - 80 yrs old... wow... *shudders and blushing*

Wat Marpigz sis calls Marpig? She calls Marpig "大姐" cos she wants to confuse pple tt Marpig is the elder of the 2... (which, sad to say, pple DO thought tt Marpig is the elder of both :( since Marpig normally am quiet and more solemn)

Rem Marpig did talked bout dedicating a few bloggie entries to each of her family members... really need to find a time to do tt.

Strange... Marpig keeps thinking of nostalgic and melancholy ths these few weeks... Must be partly due to the colleague who got cancer...

Seems like a re-visit of feelings 5 yrs ago... listening to really old chinese oldies tt Marpigz mom loved and sang...

Airbus & the Left Behinds

Smhow, Marpig still maintain the pessimistic her smwhere within, ever ready to pounce... abit drenching smtimes...

Every1 must know tt Singapore flew the inaugural A380 flight to Sydney on 28th Oct. Colleagues in the office came and told Marpig ths like, "Singapore flew the A380!! Wat do u think?"

"Erm... *silent* no big deal!!"

TTz Marpig answer... well, Marpig am really proud since Singapore has another "1st" added to the list... plus, despite being tt teeny weeny dot on the map, pple all over the world noes us. News on the BBC!! Imagine, all Europeans (& non Ang Mohs) read BBC.

Marpig also read tt article on BBC. But, therez a reader from Africa who made a very good comment. Read it @ the end of this article @
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7061164.stm

Marpig shall always be proud to be a Singaporean. Marpig am proud to tell others of the chewing gum ban and the caning and corporate punishment in Singapore.

However, like wat the comment said, while the developed countries talk about technologies, stock markets, environmental issues and where pple keep complaining they do not have enough, the poor and suffering pple in developing/3rd world countries are struggling just to have at least a meal a day consisting of naught but roots (they couldnt even afford bread!! Since flour is so expensive to them...sigh... & pple are fattening themselves up with tons of pizzas...)

True, we cant do much for them (since no1 will 12 let go of the comfortable life and sheltered zone) and our donations goes to incumbent, corrupted governments, but if we could just wols down, reflect on our lives... may be we would demand less and feel content and happier...

Really, there are too many pple who think too highly of themselves and far too short sighted; pursuing ths in life tt meant nth in the end.

Hmmm... abit of a rant from Marpig again...