I haven't posted lately because there have been a couple of upsets in my life, mostly beyond my control but still upsetting nevertheless. It's related to more than one issue, so I took some time to try and sort it out. I'm still sorting them out right now, and won't speculate how long it's gonna take.


There are however, some bright spots. Today I went out with a bunch of people from my work batch to buy a farewell gift for a friend who is leaving our company to get married. The gift had to be from Precious Moments apparently, so that's where we went to after lunch. I was quite surprised to see that Precious Moments had done a Disney range. There were about 8 with Cinderella, maybe 5 with Snow White, and some figurines of Belle and Jasmine scattered about. They were wistfully cute, in the way that Precious Moment tends to be, and I had fun spotting which scenes that were depicted by the figurines. The guys were attracted to these figurines too, and soon we had shortlisted two of the figurines: the one where the Prince puts on a glass slipper for Cinderella, and one where Prince Charming is offering a rose to Snow White, who is leaning on a chair.


I chose Snow White because I liked the vividness of the rose that was being offered to Snow White: a deep red as compared to the pastels that Precious Moments favours. But one of my other guy friend said that he preferred Cinderella on a standalone basis and not even as part of a couple because he thought of her as signifying change. He had his eye on Cinderella after her transformation as bluebirds fluttered beside her. Out of curiousity I picked up the figurine, and found that the inscription on it read "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes", which was quite in line with the wishes that we had for her. I then admitted to my guy friend, "Yeah, you're right. And we don't know which fairytale she relates more to."


Which lead me to think about which Disney-adapted fairytale I thought would apply to me. For the longest time I thought of myself as Jasmine, but when Belle came along with her booksmarts and her bravery I thought my story related better to hers. And yet I did not like Belle or Jasmine's figurines. I had thought it was because they were alone, but when I saw a figurine with Wendy holding a lantern with Tinkerbell in it, my heart fixated on that one instead.


So I guess that's a long way of saying that even though I liked certain Disney fairytales better than others, that may not apply to the figurines. And they were surprisingly pricey too: when we finally settled on a figurine that was not Disney in favour of showing friendship instead of love, we found that they were half the price. Still, given how pretty they were and the place that Disney holds in my childhood, that perhaps might be a worthy price to pay.

Fishballs and fishcakes aren't actually a part of Indian rojak, but they go very well with the sweet curry. That's why we add it to the mix of food we eat.