==tulip speaks==

he blogworld now is under intrusion. Serious - no joke. Those living in
my part of the country would probably know what I am talking
about(*hint - check out mahen’s post).
I am not going to take sides and start to sort of attack those who
caused such surge in blogging activities in Malaysia. I see it as a
positive sign - even politicians from the ruling party (who used to say
bloggers are mainly unemployed women) have taken up blogging. Besides,
the recent developments in the country also has urged many M’sians
(especially those of Indian origin) to take up blogging as well
*applause! We are all blogmates now!

But the question of
originality arise whenever I come across these blogs. I have begin to
wonder if the blogs of prominent politicians of the ruling party are
actually created and maintained by them. Okie, some may be unleashing
the blogger in them, but how about the others? These are people who
don’t even write their own speeches! Are they actually sitting in front
of their costly-higher end-but-under utilised laptops? Or have they
employed other individuals to blog on their behalf? If they did the
later, do they actually visit their own blogs? Hmm.. I’m still
wondering.

If
that is one dilemma the M’sian blogwo rld is facing, another form of
‘blogs’ is killing the spirit of blogging as well. Those are what I
call ‘copy-paste-blogs’, and all you can find there will be political
news articles copied and pasted as their posts! *sigh… We all have
the access to news portals, and I don’t think we need to read the same
news again and again. Okie okie.. it’s an important news, we got the
point the every first time we read it! Maybe you could show some of
your writing skills besides the copy-paste article?

Then
another group of people called celebrity bloggers. Blogging is serious
business nowadays, and (certain) bloggers have clinched the celebrity
blogger title, but when I read through their blogs, I can’t find a
single useful post which I think that would justify the tag ‘celebrity
blogger’. Seriously, I think that term needs to be banned! Everyone
blogs as per their interests, and some celebrity bloggers ONLY blogs
for others’ interest. Its all about getting more hits and more hits and
even more hits. The passion for blogging has died and since replaced by
quest for popularity.

Maybe this may not go well with many people out there, but hey.. what’s

I had a really odd and difficult day. As much as I want to wake up
every morning to a bright, sunny, peaceful.. [and blah blah] day, I am
facing that much of challenges to keep my day ‘alive’. And the day was
‘dead’ today.

Okie, lets not dwell so much on it. I don’t want tulipspeaks to go into sombre mood (like the author)

To
keep my mind away from whatever-it-was, I decided to design a name card
for me. Not an official kinda business card which states my profession,
home address and stuff like that. I need a card which identifies me as
a blogger. I think most would have figure out by now that I attend a
number of get-together among bloggers etc. So I need a card to
represent the blogger in me (ah, that sounds nice.. ) hehehe..

Guess
I was feeling a little ‘too down’ and ended up with 3 designs instead
of one. I was thinking hard which one to choose when I got the idea of
asking my blog readers instead! Here are the designs and please leave a
comment stating which design I should go for. Thanks!

The
first design I worked on. Very simple one with most of the information
on the front of the card (top) and I only inserted my email add at the
back (below).

My personal favourite. I have no special reason to like it, but well.. I just like it!

The third design which I pay tribute to tulipspeaks (with reference to the tulip motif).

So which one do you like?

A proud website by the Nutrition Society of Malaysia, an organization I am currently a member.

While many tend to shy away from nutriWEB
and only visit it during the registration for the annual scientific
conference, I still feel this is a good initiate by the society to
disseminate some nutritional information to the public. You get to
browse the soft copies of research papers published in Malaysian
Journal of Nutrition, download health recipes taken from their Resepi
Sihat Pilihan Bijak cooking books, calculate your BMI in their
nutrition tool and get some health facts as well. The latest news
updated in the website is the newspaper articles published in the main
stream media.

I do have my grouses about the site as well. I
hope they will update it as frequent as possible. The last update prior
to the Nutrition Month news was way back in 2006! For example, they can
always have new articles on nutrition and health written exclusively
for the website. The council is made up with all the experts anyway!

And I do hope they will change the layout/look of the site. It has been like that every since I started visiting! *sigh..

had tough time explaining to others how a man could slip into coma after consuming ordinary star fruit.

Tang
Gon Seang, who has been suffering a kidney ailment was in Shenzhen
visiting his son when he passed out on March 29 after eating star
fruits and was rushed to the Shenzhen General Hospital where he fell
into a coma.

Read the rest HERE.

Movie: Minnale
Song: Venmathi

I just received photos taken during a wedding dinner from the bride herself. Thanks Kavitha!
The
photo was okie but not up to a standard of a professional photographer.
Maybe it was prior to editing (hopefully). Whatever the reason is, I
look so horrible in it! Then come photoshop to rescue!!

What a difference!
I
may not be a professional photographer or a designer, and what I know
is very little compared to many of you. Looking carefully, the yellow
colour in the bride’s saree turned out to be too bright. But then,
something is always better than nothing right?

Now you know why I love Photoshop?

Between, if you have any tips on photo editing, do share them here. I wanna learn too!

Sunday, May 11, 2008

I attended a wonderful wedding dinner last Friday. Romantic
atmosphere, melodies songs and good food too. Check out some photos I
took there:

Yes, an Indian wedding dinner in Chinese temple hall.

A Malayalee wedding dinner, that is.

The stage, dinner table and my food

Oh yea, some guessed my question correctly, some got close…

Another new year wish of mine materialized. Can guess which one?
1. Robbers to be caught
2. A new car
3. New hairstyle
4. Gadgets
5. Lose weight
6. Overseas vacation
7. A new boyfriend
8. PhD
9. A new blog on shopping
10. A brand new self

Answer:
I got new hairstyle!

Permanent
curls. The hair was still a bit wet when I took this pic. Guess never
mind, you guys will be seeing it a lot after this!

Tagged by two lovely ladies - Cindy and Syura longggggggggg time back. Sorry gals, I just got the time to do them now.

First tag - by Syura

Aha..
this a fun one. I have to post my top 5 hunk! Let me see.. 5 is
rather too little isn’t it? Maybe I will do it a bit different -
confining the list to hot guys from Bollywood and Kollywood! *sigh..
still 5 is too little!

1. John Abraham

My-oh-my!

2. Hrithik Roshan

After Doom 1 & 2, and Jodha Akhbar, I have fallen in love with this hunk!

3. Shah Rukh

I don’t care if he is 43, he is still my hunk!

4. Vishal

Aww.. a post for him HERE!

5. Surya

Hehehehe.. he is married to a lovely lady. But that doesn’t mean I can’t droll over him

Second tag - by Cindy

~~Begin Copy~~

This is the easy way and the fastest way to :
1. Make your Authority Technorati explode
2. Increase your Google Page Rank.
3. Get more traffic to your blog.
4. Make more new friends.

Rules :

1. Start copy from “Begin Copy” until “End Copy” to your blog.
2. Put your own blog name and link.
3. Tag your friends as much as you can.

1. Picturing of Life
2. Juliana’s Site
3. Shower Your Children With Love - The Right Way
4. Life’s a journey, not a destination
5. Simple Life
6. Life is beautiful; Life is love
7. Lovely Mummy
8. Lemonjude
9. Faith,Hope,Love
10. Newife Blog
11. Good things in life…
12. …the Guru-Guru life…
13. ezooone@seweng
14. Emelda
15. Shemah@My Sweet Escape
16. Rozella@Asian Mutt International
17. Once Upon A Time
18. tulipspeaks

~~ End Copy ~~

Anyone interested can take up the tags. Have fun!

Sad truth. I know.

Its not easy to educate others when we
ourselves are not perfect. Well, no one is perfect but that is another
story for another day. I will never listen and trust a doctor who
smokes. I may be prejudiced but hey, a doctor who preach about good
health should do what he preaches. Same goes to me.

Read the rest HERE.