What if the "Love-of your-life" is very much attached to another?

Saturday Dinah a close friend insisted that I go meet the "love of her life". She wanted my opinion on him. OK .... alarm bells should start ringing at this request. Anyway I was curious so I obliged, plus she has always been there for me. Last month when I forgot my wallet & documents, she's the one who took a cab all the way across town to rescue me: when it rains, we share her umbrella, so..... I owe it to her.

We met at this place we frequent for drinks. The Love-of-her-life came, 'I should have guess', it turns out I do know him... like for a long long time! No wonder she insisted I see him. But why can't she just tell me , who she has been dating for the last week? YES they have only been dating ONE week.

As it turn out there's one tiny hiccup: Love-of-her-life aka Tyler has a girlfriend. It's one of those relationships with a duration that qualifies for common-law marriage. I'm quite sure they owned a joint account together, probably pets too. I've seen them eating the same ice-cream cone back when we were in the university. And I saw her in his car just last week zooming pass my place. Ya, not only were we school mates, he's almost considered my neighbor. He lived like a stone throw away from me. I know most of his siblings as well!

The odd thing was, he started grinning at me as if nothing was wrong. As I was about to ask him, point blank how's his other girl friend, his cell rang & he excused himself to answer the call ,(whose most probably from his other girl )I got hold of Dinah & told her about the 'truth'. She looked at me in the eye & said she knew.
WHAT ??? !!!
Tyler had told her he's trying to break it off with 'that girl' . Since he met Dinah (ONE WEEK ago, he knew she's the ONE ) Oh..ya...sure....
What can I say, I can't smash her head with a bottle or a bat, to wake her up, can I???
I sure wanted to ....

Vera from America vs Me & Mum

My mother's half sister " Vera" had migrated to America long ago. She comes back once a while to visit. Usually during such visits she'll remind mum, what a horrible place we are still living in, & how she had the good fortune to escape this hell-hole. Strange isn't it, considering mum don't have to lift her finger at any house work as we have domestic help (Aunt Vera has to do everything herself ), our schools are super safe (no one goes around shooting students), our streets are safe, there's hardly any drugs or street gangs on the streets ... well I've not seen any in my 20 odd years here! Anyway.....

Aunty Vera has 4 main stories she likes to tell :
1. the highlights of her modelling career in Singapore long ago (who said what, who touched her where),
2. her disastrous marriage to her first husband ,( a self-proclaimed millionaire from America),
3. her disastrous marriage to her second husband (another self-proclaimed millionaire from America)
3. her frequent trips round the world ( she claims :Italy is overrun with gypsies, Paris is a rip-off, Switzerland is a bore )
4. & the times she bump into celebrities in the first class during her trips to exotic places.

Tonight she'll be coming to our place for dinner. My mum insisted I come home to meet her. Maybe she can't stand being alone with Aunty Vera, who can?. My dad had mysteriously come up with a sudden excuse- an important 'meeting' with some friends ....lol..  All my siblings were suddenly very busy as well tonight ..lol.. Well I've to sacrifice myself yet again!

Paris is always a JOY & never a rip-off, to me at least ..lol..

Cooking certain foods will make you lose weight, It's true !

We love French fries don't we? We eat it with our hamburgers, our meals, or as a snack. And you should know better, that if you do that often enough, you'll get fat, your veins & arteries would be block & you could die! Same goes with all other junk food.

Probably the biggest issue: is that these foods are readily available everywhere & is relatively cheap! But what if it's not??? By the way do you know how difficult it is to make these French Fries?

First you need to buy the potatoes, wash them, peel them, cut them into the right size, dry them, fry them, drain away the oil, clean up the oily utensils, clean up the kitchen. Imagine going through all that for a snack. I bet if you have to make them yourself you’d pass. Or maybe you might have them about once a month or most probably only once a year. The fact that labor has been removed from food like French fries has made us treat it as an everyday food.

Solution? "Eat all the junk food you want, just try cooking it yourself.”
If that's even possible...  before you lose interest or your mind, which ever comes first:)
I hereby, challenge you to make your own French Fries !