Timing to festivities

This year Valentine's Day and the Lunar New Year falls on the same day, 14th Feb 2010.

I would like to take this apportunity to wish everyone a wonderful Valentine's Day and all chinese friends a Prosperous Tiger Year!

Images by me

All about marriage

This was in my inbox :) Have a great day!

"When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."

~ Lee Majors

"After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin;

they just can't face each other, but still they stay together."

~ Al Gore

"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.

If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

~ Socrates

"Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them."

~ Mike Tyson

"The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is,

"What does a woman want?"

~ George Clooney

"I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me."

~ Bill Clinton

"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage.

We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week.

A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing.

She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."

~ George W. Bush

"I don't worry about terrorism.

I was married for two years."

~ Rudy Giuliani

"There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking.

It's called marriage."

~ Michael Jordan

"I've had bad luck with all my wives.

 The first one left me and the second one didn't..

 The third gave me more children!"

~ Donald Trump

"Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming

1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,

2. Whenever you're right, shut up."

~ Shaquille O'Neal

"The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it

once..."

~ Kobe Bryant

"You know what I did before I married?

Anything I wanted to."

~ David Hasselhoff

"My wife and I were happy for twenty years.

Then we met."

~ Alec Baldwin

"A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong."

~ Barack Obama

"Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy."

~ Tommy Lee

A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted".

Next day he received a hundred letters.

They all said the same thing:

"You can have mine."

~ Brad Pitt

First Guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!"

Second Guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive."

~ Jimmy Kimmel

Life is ... great gifts

Valentine's Day is round the corner and don't know what to get for your loved ones?
Here are some of my favourites from Etsy.


Loving You Pop-Up Card

by tracychong

Handmade Valentine card for a special person

$6.50 USD

Just you and I

by thepaisleymoon

Made of nickel silver and couples names handstamped on it

$22.00 USD

Personalize Postcard Pillow

by OIive

Pillow shaped like a postcard and personal message written on the front

$32.00 USD

Happy Valentines Day Coiling Bracelet

by heatheralexander

An assortment of beads which adjusts to any wrist size

$12.00 USD

Mr. Darcy Proposal Mug

by Brookish

Description: "You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you"

Famous proposal line from Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice

$15.00 USD

Elixir deAmour (Love Elixir) All-Natural Aromatherapy Candle

by crystalwood

Scented with 100% essential oil natural fragrance

$9.50 USD

Puppy Love/Boxers Valentine Gift Pack

by Gear4Guys

This is a great gift for HIM. Packaged with two 7"x6" puppy stuffies, five red felt hearts, one 2 1/2"x2 1/2" tiny heart painted card and envelope and one 9"x6" stenciled "Pete" envelope along with the boxers.

$24.00 USD

Timing for healthy burger

Who said you can't have burgers if you are a vegetarian. Well, I would like to share this wonderful healthy vegetarian burger receipe that you can't resist. Bon Appétit!


 Almond-Rice Burgers

Adapted from One-Dish Vegetarian Meals,

by Robin Robertson (The Harvard Common Press, 2007).

Almonds are being known as the supernut that helps people who have "metabolic syndrome" resulting in insulin sensitivity. Supernut or not, they are also delicious. Whoever thought up Almond-Rice Burgers with comfort-food rice and pintos, had a brainstorm. These are quick and flavorful.

SIMPLE SOLUTION: Short-grain brown rice holds together well and adds a nutty flavor that complements the almonds in these tasty burgers. Serve on their own with a sauce or chutney, or on burger rolls with all the trimmings.

Image from You Nique' Enter-Natural

INGREDIENTS

1 cup cooked short-grain brown rice

1 ½ cups cooked or canned pinto beans, rinsed and drained if canned

1 cup dry bread crumbs

½ cup coarsely ground almonds

¼ cup grated onion

¼ cup grated carrots

½ teaspoon paprika

½ teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

1. In a large bowl, combine the rice, beans, bread crumbs, almonds, onion, carrots, paprika, salt, and cayenne and stir until well blended. Or combine the ingredients in a food processor and process until blended. Shape the mixture into four ½-inch-thick patties.

2. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the patties and cook for about 5 minutes per side, until golden brown. Serve immediately.

Serves 4.

All about packing

I love to travel but packing a suitcase is really a chore for me. I want to bring everything and fit them in that small box. Well, I found a very helpful packing tips in the video below.

Video from Real Simple

Life is helping others

We all know about Haiti's terrible fate. Millions of people are affected and hundred of thousands dead. My heart goes out to the people of Haiti and hope they will recover from this ordeal.

The Singapore Red Cross is raising funds for the survivors of the earthquake. Donations via cheque can be sent to the Singapore Red Cross at 15 Penang Lane, Singapore 238486. Please include name, contact details and "Earthquake Haiti" at the back of the cheque. Walk-in donors may make their cash/cheque donations at the Singapore Red Cross at 15 Penang Lane (near Dhoby Gaut MRT Station) during its office hours, Mondays to Fridays from 9am to 9pm and 9am to 1pm on Saturdays and Sundays.


Haiti Earthquake (A World In Ruins)- Tribute Poem

Video by PoeticalTv on YouTube

Timing to good friends

I'm dedicating this to all my friends who were lost and ... found and also to those I'm still searching.
Thank you very much for being my friend.

Picture taken by me at the Bird Park

A friend is like a flower,

a rose to be exact,

Or maybe like a brand new gate

that never comes unlatched.
A friend is like an owl,

both beautiful and wise.

Or perhaps a friend is like a ghost,

whose spirit never dies.

A friend is like a heart that goes

strong until the end.

Where would we be in this world

if we didn't have a friend.

~ By Emma Guest