Drive-thru instructions

The Bank wishes to inform all it's clients that we are installing new "Drive-thru" ATM machines, where you will be able to withdraw money without leaving your vehicle. Please follow the instructions that apply to you:

For our MALE customers:

1. Drive up to the ATM machine
2. Open your car window
3. Insert card into machine and enter PIN
4. Enter amount of cash required
5. Retrieve card, cash and receipt
6. Close window
7. Drive off

For our FEMALE customers:

1. Drive up to ATM machine
2. Reverse back the required amount to align car window with machine
3. Restart stalled engine
4. Open the car window
5. Find handbag, remove all contents on to passenger seat to locate card
6. Turn the radio down
7. Attempt to insert card into machine
8. Open car door to allow easier access to ATM machine, due to its excessive distance from car
9. Insert card
10. After "Invalid card" is displayed, remove the Edgars credit card, and insert correct ATM card
11. Remove ATM card
12. Re-insert card right way up
13. Re-enter handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page
14. Enter PIN
15. Press "cancel" and re-enter correct PIN
16. Enter amount of cash required
17. Check make-up in rearview mirror
18. Retrieve card
19. Empty handbag again to locate card holder and place card inside
20. Place receipt in back of cheque book
21. Re-check make-up
22. Drive forward 2metres
23. Reverse back to ATM machine
24. Retrieve cash
25. Re-empty handba! g, locate purse and place cash inside
26. Restart stalled engine and pull off
27. Drive for 2 to 3 kilometres
28. Release handbrake

Oh ya, the last step (forgot to release handbrake) was the reason why I failed one of my many driving test :P

I just call to say I love you
By Steve Wonder

No new years's day
To celebrate
No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
No first of spring
No song to sing
In fact here’s just another ordinary day
No april rain
No flowers bloom
No wedding saturday within the month of june
But what it is
Is something true
Made up of these three words that I must say to you

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

No summer’s high
No warm july
No harvest moon to light one tender august night
No autumn breeze
No falling leaves
No even time for birds to fly to southern skies
No libra sun
No halloween
No giving thanks to all the christmas joy you bring
But what it is
Though old so new
To fill your heart like no three words could ever do.

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart.

I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

Of my heart
Of my heart

Tonic soup for dinner

Following instructions on the packaging, we have to cook the chicken soup for 3 hours. The result was good and we drank the soup until the last drop. Yummy!!:P



BTW : I just re-designed the blog and can't seems to work how to resize the tag board and style, thus please wait patiently for this. Meanwhile, please have you say in the comment link.

Sam's watches

Sam had been complaining why I didn't post an entry on his fossil watches as he too had the same dilemma. So which one do you think??



My advice : To keep the leather strap one cos the watches he have now are all metal strap ones.

Roti John

Saw this blog a few weeks ago and thought 'Hmmm... the Roti John looks nice, got to try it', so here's my version of Roti John and recipe.



Recipe for 2 persons :-
* 200g mince beef
* half an onion (chopped)
* half a green chili (chopped)
* a bit of light soya sauce
* a bit of white pepper
* 6 eggs (small)
- one whole baguette
- sweet chilli sauce

Mix the items * together and ensure that it's not too watery for spreading onto the slice baguette. Place the baguette with the spread side down onto the pan (low heat needed in order that the meat is cooked). No oil required for non-stick pan.

I always got myself into this

Went to TK Maxx yesterday and I bought 2 Fossil watch at the price of 30 pounds each. Still can't decide which one to keep or to refund both.....

Help!!! (all comments will be appreciated)

Dial can be set to alternate from heart pattern to black or stay on one color. Similar to the 'growing flower' design that I fancy but that wasn't on sale.



Features contrast stitching and thick ecru stitched flowers on band.

The 'evil' side of Ebay

It's been a long time since I got hook on Ebay. Thanks to Sam who had purchased 7 items from Ebay, I had started surfing onto Ebay website today and found this Fossil red bracelet.



Think the bid will go up to more than £40. Die lar!!!

Visa Update

Got the Visa extension and we were given up to end Feb 07!!! More than enough time for us to go travelling before heading home..

Now booking to go Dublin when Junwen is here for the 2 weeks. Only 0.01 + airport tax each way per person.

Visa extension

Had already took off to go to Home Office in Croydon tomorrow for extension of Visa. Although Sam was informed by the Home Office personnel that I need not be there, I though I should go with him (just in case wrong info. plus Sam needs a navigator to get there).

The fee will be 500 POUNDS but Sam's supervisor agreed to pay so guess that's a relief for both of us.

Difficult question

Sam posed me a difficult question today. What does Singapore flag symbolise?? Uh Oh!!!

I know we learnt this during school days but who really remember it.... But since we are here in UK, we could be asked this question by anyone here and would be very malu if we don't know it, thus I had checked it out.

The flag consists of two equal horizontal sections, red above white. In the upper left section are a white crescent moon, and five white stars forming a circle. Each feature of the flag has its own distinctive meaning and significance. Red symbolises universal brotherhood and equality of man. White signifies pervading and everlasting purity and virtue. The crescent moon represents a young nation on the ascendant. The five stars stand for the nation's ideals of democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality.

Check out the Singapore Infomap website for more info on Singapore Pledge, National Anthem, etc.

Portable photo storage

**Blogger just deleted my entry here cos I was creating this post too long, got to re-collect what I had typed before!!!**@@##

I always thought that since memory sticks are out in the market, there should be a compact sized card reader + storage for photo. Never occurred to me that such item does exist until a friend told me about it.

Since Junwen is coming to UK, we can take the opportunity and ask him to buy in Singapore (which is usually cheaper than buying in UK)

With the help of Junwen at Comex 2005, we narrower our search to 3 items :-
- X'S-Drive II Plus VP2160 Price S$119
- Compact Drive PD70X Price S$199
- Digimate II-PLUS Price S$99

Note : Price quoted are from Comex 2005 and without HDD.

Through long distance telephony communication across half the world, in the span of 2 hours, we managed to spend S$1,000 without touching, smelling (we mean the plasticky smell lar!) the items (how's that for shopping!!)

Items bought by Junwen :-
- Panasonic FX9 (black)
- Spare battery
- 1 GB SD card
- X'S-Drive II Plus VP2160

To comfort ourselves, these would cost us £480 if we buy them online in UK (excluding Ebay), thus we had saved about £150 by shopping in Singapore.

Too bad we got to wait for a month before Junwen is here with our new 'toys'....

Stock.xchng

Some of the pictures that I submitted to stock.xchng yesterday were approved!!! So glad that the Whitby Abbey pictures were approved, cos they are my favorites (took alot of pictures of the Whitby Abbey and had only submitted the best 2).

Check out my gallary.

Yorkshire trip

We are back from the lovely Yorkshire trip from 26/08 to 29/08. We need to thank Sheena who kindly let us stay at her place in Knaresborough.

The weather was fabulous throughout the whole trip, not a drop of rain!! Isn't that incredible considering how "crap" British weather is!!


Clifford's Tower in York


Whitby Abbey (the place I love most for this trip)


Chocolate fountain at Whitby (It's really chocolate...p)


A string of strawberries covered in chocolate. Yummy!!!


Lovely view at Aysgarth Fall (no clue what I was trying to do here)


A visit to Birmham Rocks, with the help of Sheena (if not we will be lost)


Stepping stones in Bolton Abbey


A 2 hours walk at Ingleton Waterfall (trying to avoid the sun shining onto my face here)