Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Many faces of Ivfy




This is Ivfy Foong Ka Yee, my second daugther who has a twin brother, Ka Kit.

Enjoy her many faces...





My new hairdo ..nice ?
stress over homework.

chewing gum..chewing away ....... that's my girl... if she chew her homework away ..

waz my life coming to 50?

Dear friends,

How is life? Mine is exciting.. some called it stress ...... ...
Some trying to cope up with mid life crisis at my age.
Getting old too... tend to be forgetful...
Luckily still got the drive to do the thing ......
......... I mean play sport lah ... then what? I am still going strong !!!!

Well..... after this short one week school vacation, our twins will be sitting for their PSLE exam in one month time.
Are they ready? Search me... I dun think so...
Others are pouring over their books and reviewing their assessments, ours are busy playing the new DVD video camera and their sister laptop. Always want to go out of the house, go to the pool, ...

Imagine ... re-playing the same few videos that they have taken many times over. If they channel the same effort to their school work, I am more than happy...

Twin Ivfy Foong Ka Yee Twin Ivfeno Foong Ka Kit


Guess life is such.... after all the dad, myself is not that studious...
Hey.. my eldest daughter, Ivfen is doing her revision and preparing herself for her secondary exam.
To think of it .... all 3 came from the same stomach; same source .???...

That's my elder daugther, Ivfen Foong Mun Yee now in MGS, Secondary 2.
She is coping well with her school work despite all the distraction of ECA.

She loves tennis and most ball games...

Guess she has the most of my genes.. sporting genes...

Well time to rest as i am planning to watch tonight games ..European Cup qualifier.

Cheers and be healthy..

benson Foong ( Bird )



Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Comex 2006

Yeah...we came back from theComex thingy and bought a cemera and a laptop....blah blah blah..done bye!!zzzzzzzz

Thursday, July 06, 2006

A very good evening to all:

Just came back from a good game of pickle ball at Clementi C C .
Man.. it so tired! And I played only 4 games: started 6 pm to 8.45 pm.
Tired but very happy. I have one good game and I think I did my best.
We won 15-13.. that close!!

I will try to go every Thursday at Clementi and every Tuesday at Bukit Batok.
Friends...nothing beats a good workout and losing 1 kg. Wow!!
But again I wallop 1 plates of noodles, 1 bowl of chicken soup, 1 piece of fried fish and 1 cup of tea with milk by 10 pm. Guess all efforts came to naught in term of weight loss!! ( sign sign)

So good night and I will definitley have a good sleep and sweet dream...

Z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z zz

Benson Bird Foong

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

World Cup verus red eyes

Hi.. I am back after 3 weeks of weary and tiring campaign... watching the world cup.
It is now 66 minutes between Portugal and France with the Les Bleu leading through a penalty by Zidane. But Portugal is getting more of the possession and Ronaldo is showing his magic again and again. Hope that the French aged legs can stand up to it.

Hey wait... everytime

fast forward... it's full time!! The aged French has triumped over the young guns from Portugal.
It is Italy verus Fracne on Suuday. Guess I will sleep very early on Sunday night so that I can wake up on Monady 3 am... and still have enough energy to fight the Monday blues... guess it is the Le Blues will win !!

See all at the Stadium !!!

PS: 2 cups of hot ginseng tea ( to stay awake), 2 pieces of toothpicks ( to pry my eyes open) and my blooster/pillow so that I can hit the sack once the game is over...

Viva !!

Bonjour
Benson Bird Foong

Friday, May 05, 2006

Champion League Final

Hi folks:

My cough is gone! Yipeeeeee !!

Thanks to the good rest and numerous medical helps. Now I must eat less chilli stuff, drink less cold water, sleep early, excercise more, play games ... what? This mean road to boredoom and probably death??

I will instead take things easy, laugh more and work less... and prepare to watch the European Cup final between Barcelona and Arsenal on 18th May at 0245 am. Should I take leave on 18th too? I may be young at heart but the body does not lie...

Decision decision decision ...

Now I am talking.... at 0.5 ball to Arsenal, I will take the gunners. Why?
First, it is play in Paris... Manager Arsene Wenger is French, Thiery Henry is French, so are some of the other players: Mathieu Flamini, Robert Pires, Clichy, Senderos... And teh other "french connection" :Kolo Toure and Eboue; both from French Ivory Coast who qualified for the World Cup in Germany for first time. I am sure that they are in upbeat mood.

Then they have the Spanish connections to un-lock the Barca and send the Spanish Fly... flying ......Cesc Fabregas, ... and Joses Reyes!

Man... this Spanish is in top form. Last night against Man City, he scored 2 goals within 5 minutes of coming in as a subsitute. And take note ....both goals assisted by a French man: Henry and the old faithful Robert Pires.

And there is also this young flying Dutch man Van Perce and the non-flying Dutch man Dennis Berkamp.

How about young German Hleb and the old but speedy Ljungberg ?

More: the return of Ashley Cole at left back is timely. Arsenal backline is so stingy for such a long time. Eto'o may not have his chance so easy.

If you are talking about the expected dazzling performance from Barcelona's Ronaldinho, the 2 times world player of the year from Brazil...then think Brazilian again.

Gilberto Silva! Wow.. he has stepped into Patrick Viera shoes neatly and I am sure he can neutralise the bunny-teeth Ronaldinho. It takes a thief to catch a thief; or in this case, a Brazilian to catch a Brazilian.

So book your seat in front of the box; stock up your beer and snacks... Paris here I come..

Have a good rest to 18th May.

Bird Benson Foong

Monday, April 24, 2006

Persistent coughing

Hi ( cough..cough ) ..
It's been 3 weeks since I got this xxxx virus that got me coughing. I have been to a Thai doctor, a GP and finally today I went to Polyclinic.
To be fair, the doctors are doing their best. May be the hetic of going overseas. The fourth doctor a.k.a. my wife insisted that I have not enough rest. But I usually sleep before 11 pm local time. May be its the pressurised cabin of the aeroplane and the hours of travelling in a car almost everyday.
No complain though. The old saying over-rides: No work, no money. No money, expenses outstanding. That's the way of life...
Not that my wife is disturbing me ( you know what I mean); just that I am stuck to the T.V. watching EPL and the regular out-stationed.
Hey.. to think of it,my soccer watching does not go into the wee hours. I have already skipped the 3 a.m. champion league games since the last 2 years. Not that I am determine or stick to the doctors instruction of good rest. It is just that I can't wake up at that hours to watch the game. Not anymore. Sign of old age?
I am given loads of medicine by the Polyclinic's doctor today and I will get all posted if it works. ( hemm..hemm.. ). He has refused to give me an x-ray as I am not deem serious enough to use this tax-payer's subsidised expenses. Should I worry about my lungs?
For record purpose, I have tried fired rice with fresh ginger without oil. Grandma's remedy that supposed to bring the wind out of your body. Did it work huh? Not really! May be mine is not a "cold" cough. Mine is a " hot" cough or "heatiness".
I have also drunk many cups of the traiditonal "cool and bitter" medicine. And the trusted " Pi Pa Gao". They both work for a while...
Meanwhile I am going to have a good rest as instructed by the fourth doctor and take my anti-biotic to the end... meaning must finished the whole course.
Nite nite and to all parents... good luck to school SA 1.
Tell me that.
Bird Benson Foong

Friday, April 14, 2006

Easter Friday


Good evening all bunnies...oops.. I mean all of my friends;
Sorry that I started with the bunnies. I should have started with chocolate or Easter eggs.. What a mess!
2 days ago, I received a mail from Ricky after he read my blog which featured him at the piano while I pretended to sing. Sound like he enjoy it too! Well.. may be he like his professional look; playing the piano on the web... may be??



Ok.. this is a picture of the horse riding that we did at SuZhou. Introducing Raymond, my colleague who went with me to our branch in Jiangxi. Isn't he look like a pro? Or is he trying to sweet-talk the horse into submission? Your guess is as good as mine.
















Now you know. Raymond is a pro! He got the horse under his command. Hey, he even has the cheek to wave good bye to me... arrghh...my horse is still stubbornly standing still and looking at the far horizon. Wonder what is it thinking? Its missing horse girl friend?
Finally the owner came to my rescue. " Give it a slight kick on its side". "Pull right to go right, pull left to go left", "pull the rein back and it will stop"..
Ohh ! ha ha ! I got it! and off we went.. gallop, gallop, gallop...
bye bye see you guys next Easter...

Have a good Easter weekend..

Benson Bird Foong