Orgon: Ha! good morrow, brother. Cléante: I was just going, and am glad to see you returned. The country is not very cheering at present. Orgon: Dorine … (to Cléante). Pray, one moment, brother-in-law. Allow me to inquire the news here to ease my mind. (To Dorine). Has everything gone on well these two days? What are they doing, and how are they all? Dorine: The day before yesterday my mistress had an attack of fever until evening, accompanied by an extraordinary headache. Orgon: And Tartuffe? Dorine: Tartuffe! He is wonderfully well, stout and fat, with a fresh complexion, and a ruddy mouth. Orgon: Poor fellow! Dorine: In the evening she felt very sick, and could not touch a morsel of supper, so violent was still the pain in her head. Orgon: And Tartuffe? Dorine: He supped by himself in her presence; and very devoutly ate two partridges, and half a leg of mutton hashed. Orgon: Poor fellow! Dorine: The whole night she did not close her eyes for a moment. She was so feverish that she could not sleep, and we were obliged to sit up with her until morning. Orgon: And Tartuffe? Dorine: Pleasantly overcome with sleep, he went to his room when he left the table; and jumped into his cozy bed, where he slept undisturbed until morning. Orgon: Poor fellow! Dorine: We at length prevailed upon the mistress to be bled; and she was almost immediately relieved.

5/03/2005 05:03:00 PM|W|P|Mabel|W|P|I came back home over the weekend to find out that my modem died on me. ~_~ So it looks like no Streamyx for the next few days or until the technican comes to fix it. Hopefully Dad will be more anxious about it than I am. Looking forward - frankly - to this period of quiet and solace - since I rarely do much preparation at work these days. ~_~ So here's to a 'forced' hiatus!!!!|W|P|111511117654938084|W|P|No Streamyx.|W|P|meiteoh@gmail.com5/03/2005 09:05:00 PM|W|P| Anonymous|W|P|Hi mei,

Just to sadly note to you that i am 'forced' to close down my website already.

TomatoInc's Obscure Thoughts of TOmato is now officially dead.

Condolence is accepted. Thanks.

tomatoinc5/03/2005 10:21:00 PM|W|P| Mabel|W|P|O_O! WHY?5/01/2005 01:32:00 PM|W|P|Mabel|W|P|It has been nearly four months since I last visited our fair neighbour down south. Nevertheless, I managed to a good trip down on Friday night (and subsequently Saturday morning) - even though Nil got a hangover and overslept, thus forgetting to pick me up from the MRT. My love affair started with two simple issues: buying a gift for some friends and a phone charger - my trusty Samsung kaputed on me on Saturday afternoon. I have never failed to admire the wonderful reliable public transportation in Singapore. It vows me till this very day - timely train schedules and bus rides...and everywhere I looked, there was in fact plenty of busses and taxis. Very unlike Malaysia where I could drive around for hours and not catch a glimpse of one bus. Of course, there was the issue of Singapore looking like SimCity or even the hours you have to incur from travelling from one end of the country to the other. But when you're very much a city person like myself, I suppose that sacrifice is quite okay to make. So I'm not making sense. It's alright - under the circumstances. The weather here has been crazily warm - not a single raindrop in sight but plenty of clouds. And I just spend the afternoon in a heated foodcourt surrounded by church goers in their fine attires. For a moment there I thought it was a working day. In a way, it made me smile - young people decked in their best out to church...until of course I saw the church itself. I remember my first impression of the place. "Is this some council building?" I had asked to which Nil's reply was a short but sweet "No, it's a church." We are talking about water facades (sp?), big huge shiny bits of grey-silver tiles, traffic guys waving around, CCTV cameras overlooking the streets and a plaque that read "Powered by CISCO". It made me wonder. At the back of my head, I had often thought that churches were a place of sanctuary, a welcoming home for the needy, tired and even hungry. But walking past it in the hot weather made me quite skeptical about even walking in to ask for a nice cup of cold water. Was the look to be all and all even when it comes to religion? Would God be happy to see His church represented in such manner? Going back to the two issues: gift buying and of course, my dead Samsung phone. I made my way to The Body Shop to find that they were having a 75% sale off selected items during certain bits of the day. Body butters, scrubs, bath gel, colognes and a whole variety of stuffs were now SGD9.90. O_O! I packed a few in for two gals whom I knew were desperately in need of some relaxation and made a vow to myself to check out The Body Shop for myself the next time I came down to Singapore which will be in a few weeks' time. They had weekend goodie bags going for SGD20-something (shampoo, conditioner, facial wash, cream, comb, cotton swabs, etc), a collection of their new perfume range (the one where you mix and match) for SGD25 and a whole variety of packs that were - honestly - worthwhile buying. But enough about The Body Shop (never mind I used to work there for 9 months) but on with it. Ever heard of a USB mobile phone charger? If you haven't, you can purchase one in Singapore for SGD8 - you can even purchase one that had pull-out plugs for Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung phones at Harvey Normans here. Me not being very tech-savvy loved it totally. You just plug it into your notebook or PC and of course to your mobile phone and it'll start charging. Am trialling the one I just bought. Maybe I will be able to write a bit more...but a shower is greatly needed...it's getting too warm. Geck. ps: Did I mention that we went to watch The Interpreter? It's an excellent show - don't know if others will share my sentiment but I found the whole politics behind the UN quite real actually. But must say this, Golden Village in Singapore has the smallest cinema seats ever. For the first time in my cinema going life, I felt claustophobic (sp?). pps: The heat has affected my spelling abilities. I am beginning to feel my brain swelling. Definitely must take that darn shower now.|W|P|111492645508102767|W|P|Just another one of those days?|W|P|meiteoh@gmail.com5/02/2005 07:38:00 PM|W|P| Anonymous|W|P|some have been wondering, how did you know your boyfriend?5/03/2005 08:12:00 AM|W|P| Mabel|W|P|Bean: Through a mutual friend actually but who are the some who have been asking? :p5/03/2005 12:55:00 PM|W|P| Anonymous|W|P|I bumped into someone over the weekend who was an assistant manager at The Body Shop for years. He said he hated his time there, feeling that it was one of those companies that appeared all politically-correct and environmentally-friendly on the outside but staff were actually very badly treated.

Maybe it differs from country to country, but did you find this to be the case?5/03/2005 05:12:00 PM|W|P| Mabel|W|P|Actually no. I found that the one in Australia was really nice to staff - we went for trainings (fully paid for by company and we were also paid to go for them) - and we weren't bullied so to speak.5/06/2005 10:35:00 AM|W|P| gracieq|W|P|Hey...I need some Body Butter too...didn't see you buying me any...hmph! =( haha..nah...just joking..the next time you're going down, let me know ya. Then maybe can help me lookout for the price there.5/06/2005 05:25:00 PM|W|P| Mabel|W|P|Piggy: Cannn...I'll check out for you k? What you want? Papaya, passionfruit or you want me to choose? Btw, you want my Blueberry Body Butter or at least half of it (I'll scope up some for you!)??? ^_~