The History of "F*** You" - Very Interesting Indeed!

(Got this from an email a friend send me, so I'm quite positive some of you may have already read it :) Thought it was worth passing this history on :P)

Well, now......here's something I never knew before, and now that I know it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the hope that they, too, will feel edified.

Isn't history more fun when you know something about it?

Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting in the future.

This famous English longbow was made of the native English 'Yew' tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluck yew").

Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, See, we can still pluck yew!

Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodentals fricative F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute! It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird."

It is still an appropriate salute to the french Today. And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing.

So Heart Wrenching :(

Warning....Christian related material....but feel free to watch/listen if you feel like it.

I almost cried after listening to the boys story...but he does have a point, and that is, "God Understands". This is the kind of story that makes me realise how much God Loves Us!

Introducing to you...."Logan's Story"

God Bless!

Marriage, Love? Hate??...Hmmm...Why Do We Get Married Again???

Why do people get married again???

One moment you love your other half and the next moment you hate your other half...and than out of nowhere he does something nice and you fall in love all over again....

On the 13th of November I went hunting for a nice card for my hubby, and the only place to get that in Miri would be at 'Moments' which is part of 'Toysworld'. There were so many cards but none of them suited what I wanted. There were cards that said:

1) I love you more and more each year

2) You're my best friend

3) You understand me so well

4) We have a love that will last forever

But seriously, at that point of time I couldn't even get myself to get a card with those words on it. I do love him but I don't think its more and more each year. Its more like the opposite...less and less.

He's my hubby and therefore pretty much impossible to be my best friend cause every time we talk about something serious, he has his own opinion and I have mine and we start arguing. Best friends always back each other up...don't you think? I know my best friend would :)

I know he doesn't understand me so well....if he did we wouldn't be getting on each others nerves right?

As for having a love that will last forever...hell "no!!!"...we don't have a love that will last forever...we work extremely hard at staying together with lots and lots of 'sorrys' and we try very hard to keep the love alive. Don't you think?

I guess they are some couples who are superly happy being together and I do envy them...but I think most of us out there feels the same way like I do, one time or another....

So you can guess how hard it was for me to get a card for the hubby....I looked and looked and looked and I even went to the sales lady and ask her "Is that all the cards you have???" and she gave me a puzzled look and said "yes". So obviously I went back to the V-Day card section to find something that was less lovey-dovey as the above.

By some luck I found a card that says something like this (its not the exact words but you get the idea), on the front cover is says, "I got this card cause it reminds me of you", than you have to open the card from the left and not from the normal right, than you actually have to turn the card upside down to read it, and it says inside "see! it even has a mind of its own, just like you", then it also says "Happy Valentines Day". It was a cute card with a dog in the front. When i found that card, I was so happy...at least I could give him a card that would be honest. I did also write "Despite all that we have gone through, I still love you" inside the card to complete the card.

Well, after buying that card, it just made me realise even more how I feel towards my husband. I love him but it seems to be slowly fading away. We seem to be living two lives separately, he in his world and me in mine, and once in awhile we do sit together to talk, like for 5 minutes and that's it. Its only been 5 years and the marriage seems to be fading into thin air. Its really sad when I think about it. We seem to be taking each other for granted...big time!!!

Anyway, last night we had a short talk with each other and we both admit that our marriage doesn't seem to be turning out the way we expected it to, when we first got married. I guess most people wouldn't...haha..if we knew, we probably wouldn't be married and most people probably won't be too. Of course 3% would probably be married cause they are superly happily married!!! I know a few!!! Lucky them!!! :P

After last night, we both decided to put more effort into our marriage and into loving each other again. We do still love each other after all and we both believe that its worth fighting for and that going our separates ways is never an option. Don't get me wrong, I do at times think of leaving him but the better side of me gets the better of me and I come to my senses. I did after all say in my wedding vows "to love him, for better or for worst". Its so damn hard, but I've got to try and he has to too. So now we are both back to basics and giving each other kisses and hugs before I go to work and when I come back. Wish us all the best!!! I know we can do it and we've got to stick to what God says "What God has united, Man must not divide!"

That's it from me...TA for now!!!

My legs have a Life of ITS OWN!!! + Randoms!!!

Sigh..why do I bother jogging??? Now my leg has a life of its own!!! Everywhere hurts cause I did push ups and sit ups as well....hiya...not very smart of me....of course now I'm complaining lah...haha...cause it hurts bah...and its human nature to complain about it.

I guess that's what we have to do to stay healthy....suffer in the beginning and eventually your legs get use to it and your back to normal again!!! Once I'm back to normal again, I'll start bugging everybody else around me to go jogging as well :P

My daughter has improve on her cycling and have managed to paddle and control the handle at the same time...but doesn't really paddle very far. When she stops, I have to push again so she can start paddling again :P. But that's ok cause she's only 3 :)

As for the 4 months old puppies that I have...I have taken some pictures of them but have yet to download it into my computer. Their fat and over fed I may say...but cute lah...my mom says they can't stop eating. My mom feeds that boiled chicken with rice, everyday...so pampered I tell you! Tried training them yesterday as well but they just can't stop moving!!! They can so excited when they see me...that they can't stay still!!! I think the puppies are food crazy....I think one of them can at least understand what sit is but the other one is a bit dense (Lulu) and keeps biting the leg of the one who knows how to sit (Panda). Which gets Panda excited and therefore the continuous movement. I think I need to train them separately.....

Besides the above...nothing much about me lah...oh yah! I did get the new hair cut!!! People around me are being nice and saying that it looks nice...haha...probably looks like crap...thanks peeps!!!

As for Valentines Day, nothing much happen....hubby didn't get me flowers despite me requesting for one...:( was very very upset and he did apologise for not being able to get them cause he was busy Being busy is just a very very bad excuse of not getting flowers...right ladies??? There are so many ways he could have been able to get it for me...sigh... but I was still upset...haha...so bad hoh me...I really was hoping for a rose. We did go out for dinner and he did pay for it...so I guess that made it a bit better, a bit only lah...not much at all, but because I love him I eventually forgave him. Now I'm hoping he remembers my birthday and get me something....fingers cross...maybe I have to give him hints much earlier :P. Sayang he doesn't read my blog :D. But despite all that I still do love him... :)

So yah...that's all the things that are in my head for now...besides work...oh yah...and besides American Idol which is on tonight....WOOHOO!!! Excited, excited!!!

Oklah...ta for now...

Jogging, Dog Training & Bike Riding - All in an Evening's Work!!! Question is, Will it Happen???

Things I got to do today!!!

I got to start jogging again!!! It's been months now since I last went to Taman Bulatan. Reason for that is because I had a major operation and I had to rest. Besides that, it has been raining none stop like forever. Thank goodness it has finally ended!!! I was lucky to be able to eat and eat and eat when I was recovering from the operation without gaining any weight at all, which was good and not so good at the same time cause I was like 42 kg and apparently I look seriously thin. The good part was that I could eat till my hearts content during Christmas and Chinese New Year. Unfortunately my time has ran out with the not gaining weight cause as of yesterday..I've somehow manage to gain 2kg...woohooo...and that's good I suppose but I need to maintain it and therefore the reason for me to start jogging again....plus I need to change the fat to muscles like how it was before...now only have fat...it even looks scary!!!

I got to train my two puppies to sit and shake hand. Bought them dog biscuits yesterday so will give it a go later. I will most probably be itching like crazy again later since I'm allergic to dogs. So sad but who cares!!! hahaha..I have the Red Tin powder which helps with the itch. I have yet to take any pictures of my puppies but one is called Panda cause he has black patches on his eyes and the other one is called Lulu AKA Piggy cause his tail looks like a pigs tail, and he is white with a tint of brown. I'm clueless to what breed they are but they are so cute and fat!!! I think my mom over feeds them....haha...will try and take some picture later and put it in here!

I got to get my daughter on her bike and give her a 20 minute lesson. I hope I have enough time after I do the two things above.

Let see, if I get out of work at 4.15pm, rush to Taman Bulatan, start jogging at 4.30pm, do 3 rounds to start off with, unlike my 8 rounds that I use to do :( but than again its better than nothing :D. Should finish jogging by 4.45pm...do some stretching and after that will probably leave Taman Bulatan at 4.55pm.

Rush to pick my daughter up at the babysitters at Pink fook (don't ask me why my daughter's babysitter stays so far away, its really a long but very logical story). Should reach her by 5.10pm. Rush home or rather drive more slowly cause daughter is in the car....and should reach home by 5.30pm.

Get my daughter's bicycle out and without changing, get her on the bike and try and teach her how to ride it by saying "Clever Girl" as many times as possible to keep her happy and motivate her at the same time. This will include lots of hugs and kisses. Should finish by 5.50pm by telling her that "its late already and the bugs will start coming out already". That will seriously freak her out and she will then proceed to enter the house...woohooo!!! That's two things down already.

Move towards my mom's house which is connected with mine, since the puppies are there most of the time (there is a door in between our house on the inside, again this is a long story of how my house came to be - lets just say that it makes it so much easier to take care of my mom and have yet have a separate house which was in the beggining a single house...hmmm...ur probably confuse...ok, forget the house) and go teach the puppies to sit and shake hand (while my daughter will be standing on a chair inside the house looking out at me cause she's also scared of dogs, I also don't know why)...the only two things that I know how to do with dogs...haha...I got to try the 'roll-over' trick but let me just start with sit and shake hand first..:D.

And that will end my day!!! Very productive I may say!!! :D. Now lets just see whether all this will really happen or not...haha....

That's it from me!!! Hmmm....I feel like going to shabu-shabu for dinner tonight....yum yum...ahhh....something to think about...mmmm.... ;)

Ta for now!!!

Hmmmm....Valentines Day is tomorrow...hmmm

Woohoo!!! tomorrow is Valentines Day!!! That means today is Friday the 13th!!! Was actually thinking of going to get a hair cut during lunch later but since it's Friday the 13th, I'm worried that my new hair cut will look horrendous!!! But I still want to get a hair cut!!! Well, I don't believe in the Friday the 13th thingy...but who knows right? Maybe I should wait till tomorrow to get a hair cut....hmmm....something to ponder during my working hours....

As for Valentines Day tomorrow...I also don't know where to makan. Was thinking of going to Ming Chai restaurant to makan....to have their ever so delicious drunkard prawns...but then now I feel like eating Japanese food...so I'm thinking of either Nikko or Shiki...hmmm...I hope I don't change my mind again tomorrow. But than again, you know me, I'm so fickle minded. One moment I want this, and the next moment I want something else...I can now understand why my hubby has decided to stay out of making any decision whatsoever with where we eat :P..haha...smart guy!!!

Well, after being married for 4 years, coming 5 this year, and dating for 4 years before that Valentines Day is just a dinner thingy. Actually if I didn't mention going for dinner tomorrow, he probably wouldn't even remember!!! I wonder what happen to all the sparks??? Probably 'REALITY' hit and padam the sparks out...haha...so sad but so true...right??? I'm probably not the only one is this situation. I guess if I think on the positive side, I could even be better off than some, who's husbands don't even believe in celebrating Valentines Day...kan??? But than again there are some husbands who are so super romantic...buy flowers lah, buy present lah...hmmm....I wonder whether my hubby will even get me flowers...I seriously doubt it but who knows kan??? Maybe I should leave hints here and there...like pictures of flowers on his work table..and stick one on the tv and one on the fridge and one on the door to our bedroom...you think??? Haha...I think he will probably think I'm redecorating the house rather than leaving hints...haha...

If you're a married man and you're reading my blog...please do get flowers for your wife. She may say no need...but what she actually means is that she would love to have flowers!!! True! I don't bluff you wan! Unless she's been hinting that she wants something else lah...than get her that!!! But if its waaayyy to expensive, no need lah, cause its the recession period bah and she should understand that you cannot afford to spend so much. She should be happy with flowers already!!! I know I would...hehehe...but than again I'm very easy to please....:D

Anyway, tomorrow I'll probably keep my daughter up the whole day so she sleeps before 8pm That means I would have to prepare a schedule of what to do with her tomorrow that will make her very very tired by the end of the day...hmmm....maybe bring her window shopping with me tomorrow to all the malls...I'm positive by the end of the day, she'll be extremely tired...yes, yes, very good idea...that way I get to go and buy something for my hubby too..and at the same time maybe get a pair or two of shoes.. ;). That way the restaurants will still be open when we go for dinner...if not....there goes our Valentines dinner :P. But like I said, after this long of being together, it probably wouldn't even matter :D. Of course I say only lah!!! I'm very the romantic kind and will probably feel very very sad!!! See, that's what happens when you're a 'Pieces'! :P

Oklah...I'm pretty much talking crap...if you're reading this particular blog....I also cannot understand why your reading it...but thanks though...hehe :D

And to end it, a pic of me and my hubby...don't we look so good together??? :P How I wish he could be more romantic!!! Why ah some guys not romantic wan ah??? Why ah??? WHYYYYY???

And Happy early Valentines Day!!! Ta for now!!! Hmmm...I think I need to get a bigger Christmas tree next year...this tree is too small...you can't even see it when you take picture in front of it....

The New Bicycle and me Craving for UFO aka Mexican Hat....

Sigh...its still raining....I guess not many people remembered to sing the song that I said we should sing....then again, why in the world would people want to listen to me...hahaha....

Anyway, yesterday I went to the bicycle shop to buy a nice little bicycle for my darling daughter...I saw one that I like with the criteria that she mentioned (the criteria was: PINK and have basket infront) I thought it was a really nice bicycle :D. I send it home to my hubby forst so he could clean it up a bit and make it look presentable then I went to pick her up. When we got back home, she didn't notice it but when she saw it, her whole face lit up!!! :D I of course happy lah! Cause I was the one who chose it mah!!! And I was thankful that she liked what I chose :P. She came down from the car and straight away went onto the bike....hehe...what child wouldn't do that....right?

Anyway, as usual being a 3 year old girl she couldn't really keep her feet on the pedal and instead of pedaling it to the front, she pedals it backwards, probably cause it was easier to move that way. And since I'm still PMS-ing....hahaha...I almost got upset cause she kept on pedaling it the wrong way and she kept on saying that the bicycle won't move. I even got down to my knees to help her pedal by putting my hand on her feet...it was a bit successful but not really...hahaha...so I think I took a few deep breathes and said to myself "for goodness sake JACQ!, it's her first time on the bike! Give her some time!!!". After a few rounds I got fed-up and went to look for the camera so I could take pictures of her...haha...everytime I see her smile, it melts my heart and I'm not angry anymore...:D. See that smile below...how can you stay angry at that cheecky little face :P

My extremely happy little sunshine :D

She's obviously trying her best to cycle but she has yet to coordinate herself. She'll concentrate so much on her pedalling that she forgets to turn the handles and goes right into the wall.. :)

Posing with her new wheels!

Talking about her smiling, just now when I picked her up from school, I was like 2 minutes late and she was crying (like really hard)....sigh...that just broke my heart...so I had to carry her and give her many many kisses. I ask her why she cried and whether it was because I was late, and she said Yes!. So kesian!!! Usually I'm one of those mom's who are eager to break down the fence to be the first to get to her class and since she first started class, I was always the first or the secong :P, so I guess she thought I wasn't coming since I wasn't the first neither the second. I had to reassure her pver and over again just now, that I will always pick her up even when I'm late....but I did also promise her that from now on I'll be early. And I'm sure I'll be early cause I don't want her to cry like that again...I really felt so bad that I made her cry just now....yes..I'm pretty emotional when I'm PMS-ing too!!!

Talking about PMS-ing again, I feel like eating the UFO looking kuih....or some people may call it the Mexican Hat....but I call it the UFO kuih cause that's what my dad use to call it :D. That kuih always reminds me of him cause when i was young, every time after he comes back from work, he will bring it back for us to eat before dinner...but I remembered at that time I use to like to eat the crispy part only and I usually left the middle part to anyone else who wanted to eat it...hmmm....I wonder who ate them up anyway...I could never sit still to find out. Oh well..gone are those days when there were no responsibilities and when I had my dad around. Sigh....I miss him so much...I wonder what he's up to in heaven. Alrighty, better not talk about him anymore before I get all emotional...:P

Oklah...enough about me...I can be so self-centered sometimes :P

TA for now!!! And after work I'll teach my daughter how to use her bike again :D TA!

The Bad, The Good and the PMS-ing...:P

Hmmm...obviously "trying to update my blog" that particular night wasn't successful :P. Oh well, I guess there is nothing much that can be done now but to update it today :). Well, it's still lunch time now so I have like 10 minutes to type as fast as i can before I'm back to doing work.

Nothing fantastic has happen recently, accept for the fact that the rain has destroyed our beautiful Canada Hill...of course it's not totally destroyed lah but destroyed enough. It use to be nice and green hill...but now its muddy at the bottom in most parts. Miri oh Miri, what have become of you....sigh....well at least today is a bright sunny day but there is black clouds still hovering in the sky...wonder whether it will rain later???

Maybe we should all sing this song together in unison than the rain will go away. Ok? Alright, everybody, together now!

Rain rain, go away,
Come again another day,
Rain rain, go away,
Little Me, wants to play :D

Good Job you all!!! Even if you were just reading it, I'm sure the song was actually playing in your head :D

Besides all the catastrophe that has happen to Miri, good things have happen too to me...a few days back I saw a perfect semi-circle rainbow and I could even see where it ended....of course the ends always move if you try to move any nearer to the rainbow...but from far I could see it end. That happen when I was on my way to the hospital when I followed my mom for her medical check-up. I guess that just means that from now on my mom is going to be all strong and healthy :P. Don't you think so??? Hahaha....I have to be positive about that :D. At least something good is happening in my life :D.

And again yesterday when I was cooking maggie mee for my daughter for breakfast after church (reason why we had maggie mee is because the shop behind my house is still close for Chinese new year), I discovered 3 packets of 'perencah' in one packet of maggie mee! 3 you know! Not 2, Not 1 but 3!!!! What in the world did they expect me to do with it??? Hahaha...of course i didn't use all of it lah I thought that was a good sign :D. What kind of sign you may ask...well who knows...I have to just wait and see :D

Today my daughter went back to school and I'm amaze that she didn't cry. She gave me this sad look at the door of her class but only waved and went back into the class.....sigh...she's all grown up already...:(. Hmmm...I am way to emotional today...I swear its the PMS-ing...

Talking about PMS-ing...its really ridiculous when its PMS-ing time. One thing for sure is that when I PMS, I have like the shortest patience of all...and I can just snap at my husband at anytime...haha...kesian him. Besides that, I crave to eat everything sour, salty and sweet! And all of it at the same time!!! Like just now I wanted to eat chips so I went to GK to buy chips, than I saw some chocolates and I bought that too and than I wanted to have something a bit sweet and sour to drink and I bought Ice Lemon Tea!!! And since I have to blog now, I'm only having my Ice Lemon Tea and am going out of my mind thinking of the huge LAYS Chips that I smuggled into the office!!!

Ok, I better stop blogging now and have the super delicious chips that I bought....yum yum!!!

Ta for now people!!! And have a wonderful day!!! And when it starts raining, start singing the song ok!!! :D TA!