megane = glasses

e Japanese-illiterate cat thought that meganeko is a term for some sort of cat, since:

neko = cat
kuroneko = black cat
so by (non-mathematical?) induction, meganeko = BIG FAT cat
(think megabyte, megawatt, etc)

& then it was directed to this....*sheesh*!
all along it thought Megane = Renault model....

& then it found this blog entry.

& then it came across this in a copy of TODAY on e kitchen table:

So men will make few passes
At a girl who wears glasses?
Well, they make even fewer
At a girl who surpasses!
- Catherine Lim

*LOL* e cat almost laughed its whiskers off =P

brings to mind e time when it was told:

....that one of e smartest girls from its school ('jeep' + international olympiad + IQ that hit e roof + most prestigious government scholarship + another government scholarship + 'Made In Thailand' doctorate + faculty position in a university that counts Dulbecco of DMEM, Linus Pauling, Morgan of 'centimorgan' & Feynman among its cartload of Nobel Laureates) married a Taiwanese-American....

....& that some deem this e best option for local 'girls who surpass' - 'marrying out', instead of 'marrying up/down' (strange terms that humans use....to e cat, 'marrying up/down' = marrying someone taller/shorter =P). reason being that e little red dot seems rather bereft of decent guys who have enough healthy confidence in themselves to not be intimidated by such girls. & e sad fact that many of e few guys who appear unintimidated by such girls turn out to be more than a little too delusional about their sense of self-worth. & not to mention potential parents-in-law who recoil in horror at e prospect of a precious son 'marrying up'. no wonder most of e cat's 'unavailable' schoolmates from that school, as well as e worm-class university that it attended, are attached to 'outsiders'....a 'new' way to quit Singapore (matrimonially) that was not(?) mentioned in that infamous stayer-quitter debate? =P

....& that some believe people like her are what forced e cheng hu to backtrack on its MCP-ish no-automatic-citizenship-for-kids-of-Singaporean-women-with-foreign-husbands policy, given their belief in smart parents = smart kids (& that women-with-less-than-3-GCE-O-level-passes should be 'strongly encouraged' to have less kids) ;) we are happy for that change, & for her =))

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kusudama origami

[140406] kusudama origami:



[1] individual components folded during 1 long MRT ride + 1 long wait in e queue at Clementi bus interchange + 2 long long SBS14 bus rides [2] blue & yellow 'precursors' fitted together [3] 24 units [4] threaded together in 3 rings of 8 [5] final assembly using DMC 6-strand embroidery floss #334 [6] bola



made from 2 & 3 different designs (fans, butterflies, balls, ribbons, fallen cherry blossoms in a stream, rickshaws, flowers, etc) of yellow & blue paper respectively, because there weren't enough sheets of e same design....lucky e shades are quite close =)



e cat sucks big time at art - any sort that involves drawing, sketching, painting, still-life etc. what are cameras for? =P it drew rectangles for still-life when its sec 1 art teacher (e 'witch' aka Christine or Christina, can't recall) placed a brick on e table during art class. e best pieces it produced were drawings of transverse/longitudinal sections of bananas, tomatoes, cucumbers, fish, peanuts, sheep eyeballs, prawns, grasshopper legs, & cockroaches (& their mandibles) for upper sec bio practicals.

but e cat loves 'crafty' stuff, anything intricate that requires dexterity & fine control of furry paws e.g. untangling strings & ribbons for clumsy friends, friendship bands (no better name?), Chinese knots using forceps & pins, dissecting/excising neural tubes & what will eventually become retinas from what will eventually become eyeballs out of 1.2mm-long Xenopus embryos using a pair of Hamilton syringe point style 2 needles (any gauge) under a stereo-microscope, sewing/stitching, unpicking & rescuing stuff for sewing-handicapped classmates during Home Econs, papercutting using cuticle scissors & needles, etc. & kusudama origami =) one day it shall stop procrastinating & finally get started on all e origami architecture stuff it photostated 10+ years ago =P

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