Of carnivals and Simmons

Carnivals are meant to be a place of enjoyable atmosphere where there's good food, maybe some live music (eg at WOMAD), interesting stalls selling accessories, knick-knacks, etc. A place where one can busk in the food, music and maybe get a cool souvenir (I used to buy cool WOMAD T-Shirts last time). Yesterday's carnival was run by students of Millenium Institute (my sister's current place of study) and it was not that bad except for some hiccups. Throngs of students from both MI campus congregate yesterday at the Toh Tuck campus for an afternoon of food, fun, games and some music (live band and from a DJ console playing cheesy dedications.. urgh). Thought I could get some good food and drinks but with the packed-like-sardines-crowd in the canteen, I could hardly get some decent stuff. When I bought drinks, the vendor told me that they ran out of ice and had to bear with one cup of bandung with ice and the other without ice (each costing 2 bux!). Then came the queue for the Ramlee burgers. I was hungry during and needed food asap! But with amateur vendors haggling with impatient customers who request 4-10 burgers at one time, I managed to get mine after 15 min of waiting. Quite a scene to see students cooking up burgers on the spot; In that stall alone, there's 2 cooks, 1 chap to put mayo on the bun, another to put chilli sauce on it... must have been an experience for them...

Went shopping at Robinsons today as it was the last day for their mattresses sale. We test drived the US 's no 1 and 3 mattresses (Sealy and Simmons) and was quite impressed more with Sealy's range. Simmons' mattresses had to rely on their heavy marketing (the one where the lab technician plonked a bowling ball and it does not disturb the other bowling pins.. ) and we weren't impressed when we lied on them... Knowing that it was the last day of sale for the mattresses at Robinsons, we decided not to purchase them today as there's not one that we wanted to plonked more than 1.5K for a mattress on that day and decide to wait for another round of test drive at IMM for the Serta mattress that we aimed for. Hope it's worth the wait so that we can pass our current mattress to Iffah ...

What's next?

My wife, Lina had just found out that I started my own blog. I told her not to make fun of me or snigger at me. She had been blogging on her site since our daughter Iffah was six months old last year. The site is her personal space where she writes on her experiences as a mother to our Iffah. And it's been a good read on how our daughter grows up now.

As the title of my personal space here is on the flipside of me, I'd start with some personal intro about myself first.

Name's Tasha, 29 this year, working with a french firm for more than 3 years now, father of a lovely daugther Iffah Aqila.

Things that make me go hmm.. :

• Lina and Iffah are the 2 darlings of my life right now.
  
• La musique (I count the music beats in bpms). Currently have more than 2ooo tunes in my ipod and having a hard time sorting 'em out! Love collecting 'em.
  
• La photographie (I belong to the old school of thought favouring the 35mm or 120mm film media over digital). Did not take photos often nowadays. Just got a contact print done using Ilford B/W film recently.
  
• La langue française (the french language).Currently I'm an advanced student with the Alliance Française de Singapour and love learning the language. It's something which I wanted to do during campus days but do not have the chance. Proudest moment during my learning experience? It's when I got 4th place in the Tan Sri Dr Runme Shaw Cup organized by the Alliance Française for the best student award 2006. First prize was a sponsored trip to Paris and learning french at L'institut National de Rabouillet for a week ... *sigh*

First toss...

Folks.. this is my first attempt of yanking my ideas/thoughts/ramblings out of my head to be published in cyberspace (in other words, my first attempt of blogging.. haha) I know that I'm quite slow in embracing this hybrid cyberspace tech.. but hey.. I'm joining the bandwagon too haha..