Tiffy’s World

Quoted from somewhere (source unknown):

Once upon a time, there was a king. The king liked one his followers very much because he was very wise and always gave very useful advice. Therefore the king took him along wherever he went.

One day, the king was bitten by a dog, the finger was injured and the wound was getting worse. He asked the follower if that was a bad sign. The follower said, ‘Good or bad, hard to say’. In the end, the finger of the king was too bad that had to be cut.

The king asked the follower again if that was a bad sign. Again, the follower gave the same answer, ‘Good or bad, hard to say’. The king became very angry and sent the follower to prison.

One day, the king went hunting in the jungle. He got excited when
he was on the chase of a deer. Deeper and deeper he went inside the jungle.In the end he found himself lost in the jungle. To make thing worse, he got captured by the native people lived inside the jungle. They wanted to sacrifice him to their god. But when they noticed that the king had one finger short, they released him immediately as he was not a perfect man anymore and not suitable for sacrifice.

The king managed to get back to his palace after all. And he finally understood the follower’s wise quote, ‘Good or bad, hard to say’. If he hadn’t lost one finger, he could have been killed by the native people.

He ordered to release the follower, and apologized to him. But to
the king amaze, the follower was not mad at him at all. Instead, the
follower said, ‘It wasn’t a bad thing that you locked me up.’

Why? Because if the king hadn’t locked the follower up, he would have brought the follower along to the jungle. If the native found that the  king was not suitable, they would have used the follower. Again, the quote ‘Good or bad, hard to say’ stands.

The moral of the story: Everything that happens in this world, there is no absolute good or bad. Sometimes good things turned out to be bad things eventually, while bad things become a gain.

Whatever good things that happen to you, enjoy it, but don’t have
to hold too tight to it, treat it as a surprise in your life. Whatever bad things that happen to you, don’t have to feel too sad or despair, in the end, it might not be a total bad thing after all. If one can understand this, he or she will find life much easier.

Oh yes!!! Dolphin and I experimented the following dishes over the weekend:

Breakfast:

A simple scrambled egg and cheese sausages. Have tried this several times already and the quality is improving every time. Yum Yum!!! We bought this cheese chicken sausages from Giant Tampines. It’s taste was heavenly!!! Much better than the Cold Storage one.

Dinner 1:

Spaghetti!!! It was not as difficult as it seems. Boil water. Then add salt and oil to the boiled water and cook the spaghetti for 15 minutes. Drain the water after that.

Stir fried mince meat with margarine. Then add sliced button mushroom and cheese chicken sausages. Finally add the Prego’s Bolognese Sauce. Oooooo!!!! It was tasty!!! We cooked too much though and Dolphin could not finish hers.

Dinner 2

Home-made chicken nuggets! Dolphin got the recipe from her colleagues. Making the nuggets was so easy even though it involved using the oven. Dolphin suspected that she was missing some steps. Advice: Scroll all the way down for "Tips for the day" before starting on anything. Hahahahaha!!! It turned out that the chicken was tasteless as the "Tip of the day" was "Remember to marinate the chicken with……." Hahahahahahahaha!!!! Nevertheless, it was a still a delicious meal (with lots of Maggi’s chilli sauce).

Finally I managed to get some photos. It was a house warming cum Father’s Day celebration. Not much photos as me and dophin were so busy that we did not have time to take many. Anyway, enjoy the photos!

Don’t worry!!! The title is not about me. Anyway, had been trying to get the photos taken during my house warming and post it on my blog. Somehow, I just can’t manage to get it. I will blog on this later then.

Back to the title… Yup. This cropped up recently. It happened to my friend recently and me and dolphin had a talk on this.

Which is worse?

Yes. HE betrayed. However, they got back together as SHE thought SHE could forgive and forget. Of course, HE gave all the promise and assurance that it would never happen again.

In the end, it was SHE who could not forget the betrayal and kept bearing a grudge on HIM. It was so bad that in the end they broke up.

My take on this:- One could never really forget such betrayal. If you really think that I can’t forget, then better not get back together. It will only be prolonging the hurt ad suffering. Well, that’s my view…

OK. After one and half years, they are back!!! Yes! It was in December 2005 that I brought my then girlfriend (now wife) to her first ever Mayday concert at Max Pavilion. I remembered I was the one who got very high that night and was trying so hard to get Dolphin into the mood. Guess what?? She did not really got into the partying mood…. but…. for the following one and half years, she stocked up all the Mayday’s albums and from then on, I was only allowed to listen to Mayday’s album while driving her car. It was all my fault!!!! I brought the Mayday craze onto her and the agony upon myself… Damn!!!

This time round, we were back at Max Pavilion. We bought the most expensive tickets just to satisfy her cravings for Ah Shin!!!! But, my attention was on the two guitarists and bassist. Their selection of songs that night were the less well known ones, but still, it was solid performance all round.

From left to right - Stone, Monster and Ah Shin

Finale!!!

This is the whole point of getting the most expensive seats. To get a super close up!!!

Here comes the irony. The two of us sort of switched moods that night. Dolphin got so high that she kept jumping and waving her cylume stick while I was just standing there and listening to them singing. What happened? Mayday’s performance was excellent. But I was just not able to get bring out my emotion.

I came to a conclusion after much thought. Here’s how I see it:- I watched Wu Bai and China Black, Beyond, Kit Chan and Mayday concerts. Mayday is the only group that I went back for a second concert. I guess the anticipation was just not there anymore. The morale of the story… No need to watch the concert of an artist or group more than once. I will lose the ‘feeling’ and excitement. Save $$$!!! Hahaha!!!

Sorry dear, I guess I would not be going to my 3rd Mayday’s concert, if they ever come back. Tsk!!!