Classic detective novels with a twist

Classic detective novels, with a twist

As you can tell, I haven't been working recently and I happily went PC games shopping with the hubby. I'm not much for PC games because I thought they were a waste of money. However, I didn't mind playing free online games when I got bored...

Anyways, I picked up 2 games featuring Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Arthur C Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. These characters remind me of the hours I spent as a child, pouring over those detective novels. The games actually involve solving a mystery, looking for clues and putting together items to create smoke bombs etc. They certainly are more cerebral, more suited for me rather than the shoot-and-kill sort my hubby favours.

The latest one I'm working on is Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened. It's great really but it is made in the form of first person shooter (think Quake/Halo). Unfortunately, I get motion-sickness very easily and my mouse-navigation skills suck. Instead of being able to play the game hours on end, I have to stop and rest every hour.... sigh. I just forced myself to stop playing because I really feel like puking... *green in face*

Oh well... I start work soon. I shouldn't be complaining about the luxury of playing games while everyone else is working

An idle mind

An idle mind...

It's been 5 weeks since I got here and I don't think I've got much done. I did set some goals for myself but somehow I always seem to get distracted by the tv... I am turning into a couch potato.

I'm get to lay off work for a couple of months so I shouldn't be complaining. Of late, odd thoughts seem run through my mind. The thoughts come to stay for a couple of hours, sometimes for days. An idle mind makes for a devil's playground. Not good, not good at all.

Top of the list - babies.

Touchy subject that one. I got news that a friend of mine got preggers just a month after getting married. Makes me want to have a kid so much! Is this what they refer to as the "biological clock"? I sure as hell haven't felt this way before, not until recently. There are things to consider for us, like our job stability, my job prospects and of course, money. Since we're not PRs and do not have adequate insurance coverage, we need to have enough cash to pay any kind of baby stuff. It's not like it can't be done but there is so much uncertainty hanging in the air... It's killing me.

Someone slap some sense into me... please.

Either that or help make this feeling go away.

Harry Potter yet again

Potter-ing around...

I mentioned a while ago that a dear friend so kindly sent me the last instalment of the Harry Potter series in the form of an e-book. I has some trouble trying to follow the plot because I had forgotten almost all of what happened in book 6.

Anyways, I re-read the 6th instalment and am now going into the 7th one (again).

Yes I AM bored.

HELP!

Updates

Updates

I have just updated my photo links. Yahoo Photos is shutting down so I got a free pro account with Flickr till December... Anyone wanna renew my flickr membership for X'mas? It's a cheap gift for USD25. :)

Closing up the house

Closing up the house...

It's tough work trying to clear up the house and at the same time run tons of errands which just is no fun! We're both on leave but this feels worse than being at work. The house is a mess (worse than usual) and time is running out.

I'm freaking out! Makes me wonder if we'll ever be able to finish... sigh.

Been Potter-ised

Been Potter-ised

It's a good thing that it's the weekend and I am not working. I mentioned that I haven't had a chance to get my hands on the lastest Potter book coz I'm too cheap to buy myself a copy. My hubby's got a copy waiting for me in Melbourne but I really wanted to read it!

I received a surprise email yesterday night with the Potter E-book attached to it. Needless to say I started reading it and finished it over 2 4hr blocks. No thanks to the book, I have amazingly dark eye circles and a crick in the neck. I wonder if they have a spell to help me get rid of 'em. I enjoyed the book for at least, there's an end to the whole series. Thanks Augustine!

I'll probably read it again once I get my hands on the hard copy. Yay!

Caught in the middle... of an auntie brigade

Caught in the middle...

of an auntie brigade! ARGH!

I was getting my hair done today and in walked 3 aunties and a daughter. They all wanted to sit together but there I was was, right smack in the middle of a row of seats, with 2 empty ones on my right and 3 on my left. Those nice ladies settled down... lo and behold, they started talking to one another, above the din of hair dryers and across me!!! The one on my left started telling the hair stylist about home-made cold remedies and the one on my right started debating with her about the effectiveness of different remedies. Urgh... All I wanted was some peace and quiet.

Thankfully, I only had to endure 45mins of their chatting before I had to leave... Can't say I learnt a lot from them. heh

Being bored AND lazy

Of boredom and procrastination

I am bored. I am also one heck of a procrastinator. hah

Now that I'm not so busy with work anymore, I thought it'll be a good time to kick back and relax for a while, do stuff I need to get done before I leave the country for the next few years. Saturday comes along and I'm in bed till 11am. Next thing I know, I'm having dinner in Geylang at 530pm with my parents. After stuffing my face, the tv was companion for the rest of the evening.

Sunday comes by and I awake close to noon. Lunch then a bit of grocery shopping and then dinner. Where did my weekend go?!

Things that need to be packed / cleared / shipped / thrown out are clearly staring me in the face. I'm just turning a blind eye to it. Argh... I'm so gonna regret it when I run out of time and scramble like crazy to get things in order... Till then, I'm going to bed. :)

Packing & UnPacking

Packing & UnPacking

Packing and unpacking. That's what my life has come down to. Thankfully there were people doing the dirty work for my in Singapore but in Melbourne, it's a whole different matter altogether. We had a total of 87 boxes/packages which I had doubts abt it all fitting into the apartment.

The biggest headache was the massage chair. They had to make a special crate to ship it over and they had to unpack it before it could fit into the lift. If the chair was any "fatter" it would have not fit thru the door. I'd probably have to leave it in the hallway and charge $2 for 15 mins to the residents. Not a bad source of income... :)

It's been opening and throwing boxes out all the way from Friday morning and it's Sunday now, still not done. It's like Christmas morning and yet not so... I'm heading home tonite and I wonder if we'll ever get done. Looks better now, at least we don't have to dodge (so many) boxes anymore.

Slumber Party

Slumber Party (according to meimeiwong)

My sister's back from Melbourne after her graduation ceremony. My parents and sister landed at an uneartly hour of 5.10am and I had to get up to go get them. Meimeiwong stayed over, slept for a few more hours then we went shopping in Cheenatown! I haven't been shopping for a long long time. heh

Andrew had fun bowling in the mini tournament while we had a whale of a time shoppingggggggggggg!!! We both got dresses for the nights out we've planned for x'mas eve and x'mas day. I can't wait!

My sister's first time taking a shower in the bathroom and she BROKE the shower head! I swear she's a walking disaster. She's putting up in the spare room at present which does not have much furniture in it. It's got a soft couch and a soft matteress on the floor. There's a mini hi-fi and a few golf bags in the corner. Let's see what she destroys next. Bleah...