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Pink and Green Macaroons!

2010-12-06T23:08:00.002+08:00

theoldbrolly

2010-10-25T12:32:00.000+08:00

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Impulsive lunch choices, strategise career, microblogging

2010-08-05T00:35:00.003+08:00

Hi, world!

I decided to blog today... and I haven't blogged in such a long time. Perhaps I've lost any reader friends I've ever had for not keeping this updated... HAHA! But so many things have been happening, I haven't allocated time for the expression of random thoughts, as I usually do ever so... randomly.

Current/ Recent hypes!
- Class 3 Licence
- Internship at ZoMedia - more like MADE in Singapore... for a very messed up DNS
- Watching the NDP Preview at THE PADANG!

I know, my career has been slow at taking off, and it seems like I have been dilly-dallying, and spending so much time heading in all the wrong directions.

Time to rethink my strategy and work out something good after this internship!

Maybe I'll blog again when I feel happy.

Plus I should really work out soon. I'm piling on fats from the insatiable weekends, and dastardly impulsive lunch choices. No munching on dinner and only Milo for breakfast!

:(

OH SHit.

Now that the world has evolved around micro blogging and social networking... do I blog or do I micro-blog?

social media

2010-06-04T02:05:00.003+08:00

OMG how restricting can social media get? They say there aren't boundaries with what you can do with it, like real!!!

Twitter and Facebook are the such funny stuff.

I'VE UPDATED DAY 2 BELOW, BUT I'M NOT DONE YET!

Shantou Day 1 & 2

2010-05-30T23:19:00.010+08:00

Well well well, as some of you might know, I've recently came back from a trip to my ancestral hometown, Shantou! I've been there many times, but the last time was in 1997, and some places gave me the feeling of deja vu, like a lost, forgotten memory that I haven't reached to in the recesses of my mind for a long, long time.

DAY 1 - 12th May 2010, Wednesday - Swatow

We flew off on the 12th of May, on Wednesday. It was a particularly good day, amidst the many other rainy days we've had the past few weeks. There was no sign of a storm, no rain in sight, only the rays of sunlight softly caressing our skins...

It was my first time taking a budget airplane. Jetstar Asia had a promotion and we snapped it up quickly, getting a return fare of S$360+! That, I would mention, is a pretty awesome deal. Apart from the annoying little delay issue - our flight was delayed for maybe half an hour? - almost everything else was smooth sailing. We had a great captain on board, and he explained to us the reason for the slight delay, and was super friendly over the speakers.

However, one very irritating thing about our flight that day was the meal! Yes, you all should know by now. It costs $10 for a lousy meal on board, and guess what. We waited approx an HOUR for them to serve us! I don't know what's wrong with them, it seems that only OUR row had that problem. Everyone else were already done with their food long ago and were already about to take a nap... it only came about 15 mins after we pestered the stewardess for the third time. Seriously, what's wrong with them?

Anyway, upon reaching the airport, we realised that everyone there speaks TEOCHEW! What an interesting sight! Haha, I was wearing my fedora hat, and one of the customs officers came over and asked me to take it off, in Teochew! I didn't understand what he said, so I just assumed he wasn't talking to me until after he repeated for the third time, that my uncle told me that he was actually referring to me. Hahah! How embarrassing. "Teng bo kio chu lai" or something...

1) Mom with the Jetstar plane we took!

We came out, and Uncle Zhao with his tour guide guy, Xiao Ma, were expecting us!

2) Waiting for our friends who were still collecting their baggage.

3) Mom and I posing outside the airport/ at the carpark!

They spoke to us along the way to our hotel, and made a short introduction, etc...
So we headed to the Longhu Shantou Hotel, checked in, and went straight to the restaurant at around 6.30pm~ or so...

YUMMY-SCRUMPTIOUS-FOODIE-LICIOUS!

1) My Mom might or might not kill me for this. Wahahhahaha!

2) (Clockwise from bottom left)
9-holed-Abalone, Fresh prawns, Sweet potato and Yam desert, Pumpkin paste soup

hahaha...! Can't resist photoshopping my mom with the food!

After dinner, we took a stroll down one of the shopping arcades/ streets in the area.

Guess what this is! Dunhill? Danhuoli? Hehs!

What about a cuppa sugarcane juice from the roadside store? Pure, natural, sweetness.

Really. It is SUPER sweet.

DAY 2 - 13th May 2010, Thursday - Swatow/ Nan Ao

~~I'll try my best to post this part soon!~~

We went to 南澳！

It is a pretty beautiful place... well it would have been much more beautiful for me if I had ample time to absorb the surroundings. Boo to the lousy tour guide we had for rushing us all the time, like a madwoman, shouting into her annoying little portable mike, like she was rushing the goats along the hills... yeah we know you wanna "eat snake", but you don't have to make it look so obvious, the way you impatiently blabber the information out in incomprehensible Mandarin, I thought the only one who could understand what you spoke is yourself. No wonder when you posted some questions to us we didn't even bother answering them 'cos it didn't make any sense at all, since you haven't done your job properly in explaining in detail what each pretty, rich, historical spot meant in it's full glory or intensity... the way it deserves to have it's history spelt out in great propensity.

Anyway, as it is an island, we had to catch a ferry at 9am to get to Nan Ao.

While we were waiting for the ferry to arrive, we encountered a little dear pooch which was violently wagging her tail, non-stop! What a cutie! The ears were moving up and down, she was rolling over, following us, attracting a whole load of attention! At first we thought she wanted to be fed, as you know, dogs and food... But we did found out, after throwing some pipa on the floor, (she totally ignored it), she probably craved attention, warmth and affection.

Dogs are, as you know, pack animals. However, she seriously looked like she hadn't bathed in a long, long while. Her fur was patchy, and looked real disgusting. Other than that, what a cutie! If her fur weren't that disgusting, I would love to give her a pat down! She deserves the attention for being so hyper! Hahaha.

After maybe 10mins, a hoard of tourists came from another bus, and the little dog took off towards their direction. Seeing that our source of entertainment has abandoned us, we took out our snappers, and started doing the silliest things we can afford to in the ensuing 15 minutes or so of waiting under the blazing, hot sun... well, not as blazing as Singapore, but still, it was pretty sunny. And very hot, I must say.

(to be continued! It's 3am in the morning and I have to sleep!)

Gruffy 40 yr olds!

2010-05-12T02:32:00.007+08:00

I WATCHED IRON MAN 2 AND IP MAN 2!

These two forty-odd man are looking SO fresh. I love their shows. Sorry, but I'm really falling in love... Why why?!

And facial hair, if groomed properly, or in some sort of style, can look soooo good. Gruffy. I mean, I could totally paste a few examples here. I need to do a google search. :D

Random ones:

^ Lookin' younger here ^

^ maybe minus the long dreadful hair? ^

^Staring intensely into the camera with a playful smirk. Wow. Some of the tricks of charisma.^

Oh, not to mention Junichi Okada...

Johnny Depp, Donnie Yen (just realised he actually doesn't really keep facial hair), Robert Downey Jr (you gotta' looove the first picture).
Bunch of forty-somethings, married with children and lookin' so awesome. :P

Such a random rave here!
Ok, it's close to 3am and I'm entitled to get "hua chi" on random gruffy actors okay!

I'm currently watching Sherlock Holmes on my computer, on and off. But I don't think I can finish it by tonight. It's already 2.36am! And I have a 12pm flight to catch tomorrow.

Going to Shantou, Guangdong!
Yes, the food will be snapped and posted here when I get back on the 18th!

Meanwhile, my driving test will be on the 22nd of May and I AM SO PSYCHED and NERVOUS! Really want to pass it and get my licence quick. It's been a year!

I posted my bedroom on ourbedrooms:
YEAY accepted by the mods!

On to the wacky world - the pictures here!

Nice???

___

*Oops*
somehow Donnie, being 2 years older, still looks so much more awesome compared to Downey... time to work out, Bob! Hahahaha.

HEY I'M SURE GALS CAN OGLE AT GUYS AS WELL AS GUYS CAN OGLE AT GALS ALRIGHT?! hehs. I've just totally objectified our dream "40-something yr old men".

Mark Ruffalo Films

2010-04-24T17:08:00.004+08:00

Hey guess what!?

I just watched three films with Mark Ruffalo in it, without even knowing beforehand that he was gonna be in them!

1) Date Night - I read that he was in it, and it showed on IMDB credits. But honestly, I didn't even notice him inside the film! By the way, this show wouldn't work with anybody else apart from Tina Fey x Steve Carrell. ~~Really? That's his name?~~

2) Shutter Island - obviously, because he's Leonardo's character's partner. And yeah, not like he was on any poster or anything... and I don't remember the trailer. I just went in to watch the show and it's frigging intriguing, if I might add.

Partners
(Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130884/mediaindex)

I was so captivated... hated the creepy music (you'd know it if you'd watched it), but it's all part of the package to draw you into the psychotic-ness of the whole film. Fabsome. Martin Scorcese + Leonardo Dicaprio's mix of pure genius?

3) I was bored at home so I watched The Brothers Bloom. Just came back in the morning from my driving lesson, ate some cereal and sat down to watch it halfway... took a nap, had lunch, and finished watching the film. Such beautiful costumes and colours. And yes, it had Mark Ruffalo in it too. One of the brothers. And The Brothers Bloom was so random 'cos the lead's Adrien Brody and I happened to spot it in the DVD collection, popping it into the player, and realizing oh! I'm watching one of the "Mark Ruffalo's in it" show again this week.

"The Perfect Con-Group" for me. ;)
(source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844286/mediaindex)

I think the first one was "13 going on 30", I thought what a weird actor to be in a chick flick but yeah, it was alright. Haha.

AND Rachel Weisz is so funny! I know she's been in those serious films like Agora, but seeing her as an awkward, unsociable creature opening up in one of the brothers' cons - a little anecdote Stephen ~~spinned~~ spun up - she was so entertaining.

Date Night with Momma Date

2010-04-22T01:49:00.010+08:00

**edit: added more pictures below~ 24th April

I decided on watching a movie today, and I did dragged my mother to one.

The movies I wanna watch are:
1) Iron Man 2
2) ~~Shutter Island~~
3) Kick ass
4) ~~Date Night~~

I'm not going to account for the order because I think they're not arranged in any way. So, I was at Marina Square's McDonalds at 6.40pm today, trying to get something to eat, and Mom decided she wanted a McNuggets meal!

Right.

So GV's staff were exceptionally...

no, I'm not going to say good. In fact, they are pretty much shitass lousy with their service. You know, we had some doubts. We tried to clarify the doubts with you, and I saw you roll your bloody eyes when my Mom looked away. You were lucky I wasn't in a mood to kill. Otherwise I'd kill your ego right in front of that 50 or so people in the queue.

Date Night, though was pretty fun. I figured I'd take a lot of practice and brush up my vocabulary before I can ever write like this fella here on insing:
http://www.insing.com/news/movies-movie-reviews/sc-reviews-date-night/id-d19b1200?nav=60250
(check out his credentials! I have none, by the way.)

Sometimes, a movie comes along that you get to laugh (crazy) at in the theatre when you're all aimless and coming from a bored routine that you see this reflection of ordinary people getting thrown into a pool of dastardly mess for a case of mistaken identity.

That's what Date Night is.

What's there not to like about Steve Carrell? Poker Face, same expressions, quirky voice, and a nasal one at that. But this guy cracks me up like heck when he does all the awkward things thrown into his characters.

*spoiler one-liners?*
(AWWWWW he's holding it sideways it's a killshot!)
At a lowlife crook: "F you!" - he literally said "F" as in the alphabet "F", not the vulgarity... Hahaha! That cracked me up... And the other guy said, "F You" back and I thought, what?! He really is a straight up nice-ish, ordinary guy with a crazy date night.

And the stuff going on in NYC, awww I have to watch movies with NYC in them again, and it makes me reminiscence... but it doesn't matter. Ha!

Plus, gals, go watch movies after 5pm on Wednesdays at Marina Square, because we all get a goodie bag each.. a big one at that... for FREE! Thanks to Cozycot.
**edit - 28th April, NEXT WEDNESDAY is the LAST day!

SEE THE AMOUNT OF SAMPLES INSIDE?!

Sidelining, I've won the contest for Youth.sg's tote bag design! I made something really really simple and unsophisticated with a totally straightforward concept, hoping people will embrace it, and they did! Thanks to all those who voted my design, I love you guys! :) Haha.

(source: youth.sg)
Placed first through online voting competition after 3 finalists were selected!

Seize the power of marketing and promotion! I wonder if those 2 contestants marketed their design as much as I did. :P My votes topped at over 40 whilst the runner up came in with 21 and the 2nd runner up, 13? If I'd remember right. Heh.

Won myself quite some stuff that I think I'll collect this Friday. Yup Friday shall be the day I shall collect my loot. :) Make my way to Thomson Road... which is really far away.. Or maybe I'll do it tomorrow... Or maybe next Monday. We'll see. I don't drive a car and nobody's gonna fetch me there except maybe a train or bus driver. Will probably take over an hour to reach there just to collect the prize and back, another hour. I guess it'd be better, cos there're quite a lot of stuff and if they mail it to me it's gonna be how much? Not like they'll ever do it anyways. We'll see... I'm just rambling on.

I thought of my old laptop and it's rescue mission.

2010-04-19T03:02:00.006+08:00

source: THE THINKING TREE

Sometimes you might find yourself asking...
Are we really that distrustful of others? Has anyone ever trusted each other so easily, or has city life taken a hold on us and usurped us into this madness?

If you had the chance to do it all over again, do you think it will be different? Hmms. Interesting thought.

Could be a simple matter.

A thoughtful gesture doesn't deserve a doubtful response. Although hiding that response helps keep your composure, maybe it's not so cool to have doubted anyway.

Why do people doubt the existence of my perspective? And why do I doubt the goodwill of ordinary strangers?

3am in the morning in my room is probably the only time and place I'll ever blog. I get these weird, coming-from-nowhere analogies that doesn't really make sense to people except me. And it's a place to de-stress from reality. Fantasy is so much more fun. Anything goes. All these delves from my actual self, but reflecting on situations help me cope with the present.

Weird mind I've got.

How self-conscious can I get? Man.

My Deadly Deadbeat Routine

2010-04-17T03:59:00.005+08:00

(Source: http://oryarimi.deviantart.com/art/Unsouled-76105281)

I guess the pass few days/ weeks have been kind of aimless for me.
Maybe I should focus on this. Maybe on that.

But what I am really wanting at the moment is to win a competition. Nothing really special ever really happens to me. The only other time I felt so satisfied winning, was when I got some medals and trophies for my school's swimming carnival. So, this time, I must get first for the design competition. I'm really garnering as many people to vote (I know I haven't tried every single person I know, 'cos that would be really weird), and so special thanks to Joelyn, my campaign manager (: She got her friends to vote mine too, and wow. Convincing! So awesome.

Well, I have been really wandering through this really bad, unhealthy routine. Want to know it?

[In the morning, almost everyone leaves the house for work or school]

1pm - wake up. freshen up. morning routine.
1.30pm - lunch, tv, play and feed the hamsters (sometimes Big brother comes down and have his food before proceeding to JE Library)
2.30pm - Mom comes down. Talk about stuff.
3pm - 4.30pm - Mom goes to yoga, I'm home with Ani and she's doing her work. I turn my laptop on and start my aimless/ confusing/ uninteresting/ exasperating/ depressing hunt
5pm - Dad comes back from work.
5.15pm - Dad goes to the track for his daily exercise
6pm - Dad comes back and I'm still on the computer. I check on the hamsters a bit.
6.30pm - Sometimes Hong Yong comes back home and we go jogging a bit later.
7pm - So, let's say we jogged.
8pm - Back home. So, drink some water, watch a bit of TV, played with the hamsters
8.30pm - Shower, maybe Big bro comes home around this time.
9pm - Dinner and Dad goes out to get some stuff.
10pm - Mom and Dad returns home
11pm - TV or Laptop again
11pm - 4am - alternating between hamsters, TV, and laptop. Dad, Big Bro, HY, and Ani goes to bed
4am - wash up and sleep.
5am - Mom washes up and sleep.

And the next day the routine may differ a little. Or not.

Oh no. THIS SOUNDS HORRENDOUS! Jia Zhen, since when have you become such a bum? Get your ass off that chair and DO SOMETHING! Come ON!

That's why, starting next week, I plan to alternate between real job hunting and real living. Find me something to be passionate about that I can do alone and write articles about. Maybe then I will improve on something.

And I have started to read my textbooks, again. Just to freshen up a little, since it has been a year since I stopped studying, officially.

So, working on my driving licence as well. May 22nd. I can do it! Make no mistakes! Do the right thing and drive safely!

And I have a little something something vacation in May. :)

P.S. You don't wish for something and HOPE it comes true. You don't HOPE for something and wait for the stars to drop from the heavens and embrace you. It is time you MAKE a change and DO something about it. If you don't WORK for your wish with all the MEANS you have, there's no way it will just POP right into your lap like that. So, with a little MANIPULATION and a little DILIGENCE, DO your thing and you might just get what you want :D

(500) Days of Summer

2010-03-13T18:09:00.007+08:00

Well, I wanted to watch Coraline.

But it didn't work, so I watched Planet 51. Cute aliens and watchable plot. Funny moments and all.

Then I watched (500) Days of Summer and realised what a beautiful film it is! *applauds marc webb*

I kind of feel like getting a bunch of 120mm film from Chiff Cameras and making a lil' B&W stop motion film. But then again, I don't know.

Let's see.

Love love love the cinematography here. I don't know any more film making terms than those but yeah, I don't know. Really enjoyed the music too.

Especially, "She's Got You High" by Mumm-ra.

A lil' something from Joseph Gordon Levitt:

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels. Actors were poor. Celebrities used to be kings and queens. Then the United States abolished monarchy, and now there's this coming together of show business and celebrity. I don't think it's healthy. I don't want to sound self-important, but all these celebrity shows and magazines - it comes from us, from Hollywood, from our country. We're the ones creating it. And I think it works in close step with a lot of other bad things that are happening in the world. It promotes greed, it promotes being selfish and it promotes this ladder, where you're a better person if you have more money. It's not at all about the work itself. Don't get me wrong. I love movies. But this myth of celebrity has nothing to do with movies.

Diana Aviator

2010-03-13T02:48:00.002+08:00

By the way, I did get the Diana Aviator in the end. I paid... let me check...

S$93.48 for it!

I've yet to get my 120mm film to experiment with though! First official LOMOLOMO!

Vanity @ the body shop!

2010-03-13T02:22:00.005+08:00

Lookin' like MJ?

Oops, just kidding.

People refuse to post unglamorous photos of themselves on their social networking sites, or their blogs. Here I am, with a photo of myself with my facial mask on, hiding my eyes from the camera (ooh mysterious eh?), looking like the most unglamorous weirdo and I am glad I did so! Irony is, ain't the point of this mask... you know what I mean, I need not explain, right?

Cam-whoring aside, people still value vanity quite highly! Speaking of which I hastily fell for a persuasion technique and went forth to indulge myself with these products of vanity or products leading to vanity if not for their pernicious packaging, ever so attractive and... so... "natural". Oh, The Body Shop.

If you haven't been to the warehouse sale...

You haven't got to know the unscrupulous mentality of Singaporeans. I for one, am guilty of this. Splurge on sales. Splurge on sales! Flex those muscles! Elbow those faces! Push the products rack and counters! Scream at the salespeople! It felt like a battle zone. The damage = $132 + $9.90 over two days.

THANKFULLY, mine made up only $67. Still, as a non-working professional. Oh heck, what the _ is that? I'm a freaking jobless kid wandering around in the bush looking for the right opportunity to get what I want and I guess I just blow stuff away.

I am pissed.

Seriously.

However, I should stop dissecting every mediocre bit of my job interviews and attempt to unwittingly decipher hidden meanings and the incoherent things I mentioned. I am such a walking contradiction. Looking at the people speaking the things they spoke, doing the stuff they did, aww man. Seriously? It's crazy... how could I get that kind of confidence?

HOWWWWWEVER,

I'm actually loving these products and it was quite a good deal, SO! The story ends here. :D with a nice grin right there behind the "w" and after the ". ".

*btw. I love those aviators... I never knew why we had those ray bans. AND I AWESOMELY ABSOLUTELY <3 'em!

IT'S BEEN A MONTH! I MISS 'EM!

2010-02-18T16:06:00.002+08:00

IT'S BEEN A MONTH! I MISS 'EM!

F everything.

2010-02-17T03:06:00.003+08:00

It's okay. You don't have to appreciate my opinions.

Good luck to you in disciplining your son. Or not.

Too bad your heart's too weak to discipline him.

Sometimes in life, you gotta be harsh or people will step all over you and you won't even know it. Maybe it's time I learn to work on this aspect. Otherwise, I see myself getting bullied every where I go! This is stupid... and it's unacceptable.

shit.

A SONG TO SUM UP MY MOOD: THE GROUCH - GREEN DAY

Get the lyrics.

Some moments from the Green Day concert

2010-01-30T13:01:00.007+08:00

Some moments from the Green Day concert in Singapore!

2 weeks on... and I'm still reeling from the fact that they're now halfway around the world. WATCH THE GRAMMYS THIS SUNDAY!

And, yes. I took all these images from the videos I took with my Canon Ixus 860is.
And, yes. They were all from the show in Singapore.

HAMSTER PUPS

2010-01-29T01:22:00.004+08:00

BY THE WAY,

OUR FIRST HAMSTER PUPS!

Sabina gave birth to them on the 23rd January 2010, Saturday.
We kind of expected this because she was growing BIGGER and BIGGER and BIGGER, and it's her first litter! We had her for around a month (approximately)? AND SHE'S SUCH AN AWESOME MUM! You have to see how doting she is.

I counted 7 - 8 pups, but it's a confirmed 7! Some of the fur has grown out, and most of them looked sable. We'll see. Sable satins? SHINY.\

More pictures to come :)

And don't ask me what I'm doing awake at 1.27am when I have to work at 9am tomorrow. Yup. FML.

NEW PORTFOLIO!

2010-01-28T22:53:00.005+08:00

NEW PORTFOLIO!

Made this about a month back! Hopefully I'll have time to update. =D
It'll probably come 17 weekdays later. 17 weekdays to UNEMPLOYMENT!

oh.
crap.

Twig Fairy

2010-01-28T00:34:00.002+08:00

Just something I posted on niotillfem along with Eileen's.

'twas a starry night, a twig dropped from the heavens - I approached it with great caution - to find a little fairy sitting atop it's toughened, crisp bark... "I'm here to take your dreams away! If you don't fulfill them before your hair grows long, I, the Twig fairy will prick your finger and all your dreams shall disappear!" I stared, and stared...

OH MY GAWD GET THAT THING OUT OF MY FACE! *runs*

excuse the ugly hair. It's been ugly since forever. I'm gonna get a better haircut!

Hello Mr. Chuck.

2010-01-25T00:18:00.003+08:00

Remember how I mentioned 2 posts back that I wanted to get the classic Converse Chucks?

I got 'em today. :)

Tried strapping the Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends' shoelaces but it really made it look real crappy - so off with it!

ALL ★ STAR!

Hello Mr. Chuck.

Hopefully I'll be wearing them often. Heck, I will wear them often. DUH!

Contract is ending and I've got no plans in mind.

2010-01-23T00:48:00.004+08:00

I feel a sense of trepidation. It's pumping through my arteries. It's infecting every single cell in my brain. I am delighted at the thought of my contract ending at the godforsaken company where life's spent whizzing away at the photocopier, xeroxing crap and staring blankly at computer screens eight hours a day.

Then again, there's that feeling of...

What are you going to do then, after this?

Are you going to make this work for you?

Will you finally be able to do what you set out to - even after looking at how impossibly wimpy you can get, backing out into the space behind the crowd?

In a few weeks.

Will I be tossed again, into the recession, the pit of unemployment? Throw a pebble out there, heck just throw a bloodied toothpick into the crowd and you'll hit a person who's got this certificate that says "awarded the Bachelor of * in *".

Oh. My. Fu^in'. Gawd.

Do YOU seriously want to make this happen?!

I am so getting this pair of Chucks!

2010-01-23T00:43:00.002+08:00

Oh guess what, ladies?!

I am so getting this pair of Chucks!

http://www.converse.com.sg/products/m9165.asp#chucktaylor

http://www.converse.com/#/products/collections/specialcollection7/M9165

Anyone knows where to get this @ cheap prices? I'm guessing the best place is Queensway Shopping Centre!

GREENDAY Live in Singapore 2010

2010-01-18T23:55:00.008+08:00

~~Hey love, I missed you much.~~

FOUR days ago, I realized my long awaited dream. FIVE years on... I finally lived the most amazing day of my life. Joining the queue at 4.45pm at the indoor stadium... I was filled to the brim with excitement.

Tuesday, 12th January 2010
Desperately securing two tickets to the concert while working. Thank goodness it wasn't sold out. Great thanks to local forum-er at soft.com.sg who sold me the tickets at $240 a pair at PEN A.

Wednesday, 13th January 2010
Desperately securing one ticket for my younger brother while working. Super lucky to get one from ebay.com.sg at $78 from a nice Korean man.

Thursday, 14th January 2010
He was standing right in front of us. Blue was there too. Everyone punched their fists in the air and I was the only silly woman who was smiling and waving her hands.

A split second... a wide grin, a look straight into the eye... that was all it took to melt this twenty year old's heart.

A full two hours my arms were lifted high in the air, as if to tell them, I'm here! We're all here! 10,500 strong crowd. Stand up. I am not going to go all emo again but I know my OCGDD is back. If you didn't know what that is, it's classified as "obsessive compulsive Green Day disorder".

I knew I got over it maybe three years back when all the activity died down. I am such an obsessive fan, like all the rest of them teenage girls out there. But I'm not a teenager anymore! Remember Secondary FOUR? Scary.

Alright. So, about the music. PLEASE! ABOUT THE MUSIC!

(to be continued)

Lesson learnt: Do not take things for granted.

2009-12-28T23:46:00.000+08:00

Lesson learnt:

Do not take things for granted.

MY TEDDYBEAR AND HONEYBEAR WHEREFORE ART THOU?!

2009-12-28T16:49:00.001+08:00

I write better when I'm emotionally charged, but now I'm just full of despair.

My mind is writhing over 2 lost pets ... all in the span of 1 and a half months - this isn't something cool to proclaim. SUCH A FAILURE OF AN OWNER! OMG MY TEDDYBEAR AND HONEYBEAR WHEREFORE ART THOU?!
I shall actively search for Coffee today and put up a humane mouse trap in the drain out in front of my house. It sucks to lose hamsters.
I'm so pissed off at all the things that led to "the perfect moment" to escape. Shiats man.

Doing nothing at work is such a bore.

Coffee escape

2009-12-25T23:21:00.001+08:00

Mocha is already dead. Come on.

Why the heck did Coffee escape again? Stupid. Bloody pissed that nobody saw her escaping. Damn it.

GIMME AN EFFIN BREAK COME ON!

2009-11-04T00:05:00.002+08:00

SO DEPRESSED!

I haven't visited my blog in EONS... -sigh-
And how long have I NOT updated?

It's already the 3rd of November. A few more months till my contract expires. I ought to still learn a lot more things. Truth be told, I AM IN NEED OF MORE SLEEP! Virtually sucked of a lot of time.

LOVED the Japan trip =) Finally Tokyo + Mt. Fuji. So much more to explore.
<3 SIA for the cheap air fares.

Hate it when people get all naggy and it's so frustrating you just HAVE to say something. It's idiotic. I just wanna sleep and ignore all these negative VIBES. How bloody effing irritating. And my fat bro is listening to bloody stupid ol school Mandarin songs... wtfreak I WANNA SLAP SOMEONE ALREADY!

GIMME AN EFFIN BREAK COME ON!

WHY IS MY BLOG SO DEAD?!

2009-09-21T14:01:00.002+08:00

WHY IS MY BLOG SO DEAD?!

sighhh... after I started temp-ing with Amway, my waistline has been ever expanding.
Gained an extra 2 kg since I started working... WHY?!!!!! 'Cos I'll just work, lunch, sit and work... hungry? Pantry has biscuits... milo... work.

SHIT MAN!

Come home? Friggin need to sleep... damn tired... damn lazy... all sorts of stupid excuses duuuuude! And then no need to jog.

I missed last week's swimming cos' of an event, then I only jogged once. The week before I swam but totally didn't jog.

SHOOOOOOT.

That seriously sucks.

Now... What else.

OH! There are like so many events on tuesdays. WTH.
And this coming tuesday I have yet ANOTHER event in the evening = no need to swim already lah!

I NEED TO JOGGGGGGGG!!!! Sighs. And they just closed the last part of the jogging track to fix something. Why in the world is there a stinkin' smell in the air right now?

Okay. So anyway.

I'M GOING TO TOKYO IN 2 & 1/2 WEEKS!!!
WHOOT WHOOT.

signing off right 'ere~~~

time for muah to enjoy some prata...

NOOOO!!!
FOOOOOOD!!!! the EVIL-NESS!

Just slap me.

2009-08-26T00:54:00.002+08:00

I'm so tired and I have work tomorrow @ a Theory X management style company.
Just slap me.

Orphan and formatting problems

2009-08-13T23:06:00.001+08:00

Weirdly, formatting problems are appearing on my posts. FREAKOOOO!

I watched a horror flick today... whooa... like real thrilling. Wahaha.

Esther is evil! Orphan -> wicked flick. LOL...

COFFEE COMING BACK!

2009-08-13T12:52:00.002+08:00

HAHAHA MUST BE SO LAME LISTENING TO MY LAME MISSING HAMSTER WOES!

But they are my first mammal pets!!! Like, furry kind of pets... and they're like so cute! Come on! Stop laughing already... stupid stupid hahaha...

Anyway, this post is about...

COFFEE COMING BACK!
Smart lil hamster. Came back to her own cage cos' I left the door open.

Bye Coffee, You've been a real dear pet.

2009-08-13T01:50:00.005+08:00

~~It is with a heavy heart that I am writing this entry today...~~

Remember Coffee? One of the three musketeer hamsters I featured below?
Well... she's missing... and I really really really doubt her reappearance. I've googled methods of retrieving missing hamsters... but I don't think there's much chance of her being alive right now. It's been a day and a night, second night coming up and she's still missing. Well, I ultimately regret letting her out to play in the dining room even though the doors were ALL closed and everything was confirmed closed to make sure she doesn't get out. However, my mother was going through the rooms to the kitchen and back to the dining room and my guess is she didn't notice her slipping through right behind her foot to the back of the house... and you know how fast hamsters can go...

It was a slip of my mind, and you know, I still blame myself. I've been SO listless the whole day, and we've tried looking all over the house (downstairs since she couldn't climb the stairs), and still no sign of Coffee. Even pulling out the tv, checking every corner and gap, pulling out the sofas... judging by her behaviour these two months that we've had her, she's probably out roaming (maybe not even on the property anymore), perhaps... she fell into the drain by the side of the house, and then followed that to the big drain in front of my neighbour's house, and then... guess what, there is this white cat with caramel splotches and a crooked tail which stalks the house everyday, and she rests right above THAT drain which flows from my house, and she comes to the garden and that corridor right beside the house... and stuff like that, everyday.

I can't even write properly anymore!

No blood streaks... no signs of struggle...
So, she's probably hunted down whilst outside the house (in the drain), or she might have just daintily walked out of the front gates whilst nobody could see her in the darkness, and roamed the streets... or the drains... died of starvation? Dehydration? And we think of her teeth breaking or getting a chill whilst we wet that part of the fur stained with some urine.

No food, no water - except poisonous detergent filled drain water, cats all around the place...
I'm thinking if she does escape this property, she'd probably be a dead, hardened, cold... miserable carcass which will be swept out into sea... and just thinking of the last glance I had of her... poised and looking straight in my direction, furry, soft, cute... clean, happy... ~~Just breaks hearts.~~

I don't want to keep any more pets if losing them is going to be so ~~heart breaking~~ irritating.
But if that's a fact of life, come on... I should just clench my fist, bite my lip, and face this reality. Sigh. Pets just clinch onto that tiny part of your <3...

[SHIT I LOST SOME TEXT COS' OF FORMATTING PROBLEMS -> STUPID BLOGGER]

Possibility of finding her somewhere =" 0.0001%," ... ... (stupid blogger, again)

I've just watched Marley and Me as well... Couldn't even bear watching the last part with the vet and then the kids throwing the letters in to the grave. I know... I know... some people find it stupid, but I can't watch it!!!

I'm emotional. HAHAHAHAHAHHA!

SO STUPID.

STOP WUSSYING.

It's not normal. WAHAHAHAHA!

NEED 2 Sell.

2009-08-10T02:01:00.005+08:00

2 of the tops I SO GOTTA SELL OFF!
100% new and never worn out before~

1) KOREAN CROPPED OFFICE BLAZER! (*NEW*) $35

sighs, ordered a size too small... I so <3 the cut, but my shoulders are too BROAD!
approx~ US size 10?

2) MIGHTY FINE HOODIE (*NEW*)
I have like TWO of this design. Hahaha...

http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/Fosters-Home-for-Imaginary-Friends-Hoodie-Mighty-Fine_W0QQitemZ320410174868QQcmdZViewItemQQptZSG_Women_s_Clothing?hash=item4a99ef4594&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

jobless for... FOUR MONTHS!

2009-08-08T02:11:00.003+08:00

It's quite pathetic...

JZ has been jobless for...

FOUR MONTHS!

BUT... my goal is to get employed by the end of AUGUST.

*pleads pleads pleads* heavenly forces!!! HAHAHAH just kidding. No, it's not funny. Okay shut up. I watch too much tv.

LOL.

Right, so I haven't been up to anything.

I want ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE! It's friggin $99 cheapo!!!

BUT. Sighs, I'm spending my savings and have zero income so I'm bummed.

That's why I stay at home all day and spend my loser life doing loser things like blog about rubbish, check facebook, jog and do yoga with my mother. Hahaha...

NO!

I have been job-hunting okay! Albeit, it's not what I would say my best attempt at being pro-active. However, I've been actively sending resumes everyday on job search sites. I think this is not enough. It's been 3 weeks since I have started job hunting and proclaimed my self-indicted holiday an end. Okay, whatever, but really... zero zero zero interviews. NOOO!

SPH has selected the (lucky or a waste of time?) 29 people for the traineeship in journalism thingayyy. Ooh, sigh. I'm not on par. I would SOOOOO LOVE to intern at Discovery Channel Networks. Even if it's not well paid, I guess. But no lah, NO CHANCE! Hello?

I wanna write for DC magazine! So cooooool. I wanna wanna wanna wanna.

Okay, new stuff I've actually BEEN up to: theoldbrolly *NEW LAYOUT!* I wanna play with tumblr layouts. Seems fun to start designing stuff again. Why why, I need some inspiration!

And maybe attempting to sell my parents old accessories from their costume jewellery biz somewhere. Still procrastinating.

It's so much easier to post other stuff like vids and photos on tumblr...

than BLOGGORRRRERRarrrgh!

Blah. Outta here.

Graduation 2009, Art Galleries

2009-07-21T17:08:00.006+08:00

HAS ANYONE NOT BLOGGED ABOUT THE COMMENCEMENT/ CONVOCATION/ GRADUATION (whatever you call it) yet?

Yeah I'm probably one of the last few who's doing it only after, say... how long was it? A week already?! More than that?! And I've already had studio photos taken. Whoot. Kinda feeling the crunch now. It wasn't all that great. The gown was so heavy! The excitement of getting to see all your friends and lecturers in their funny little gowns is probably all there is to it. Yeah, and we didn't even get the certificate, thanks!

Come'on!

Well, still I'm pretty psyched that I've finally graduated, well not finally cos' hey! I took the fast route. I'm 19 now. AND I HAVE A DEGREE. How accomplishing is that?! It feels freaking darn good! What else? Oh! Photos! Argh. Already posted so many in Facebook... still hoping that Blogger incorporates that system so uploading photos won't be such a chore. Again, I complain. Sigh-ness! What to do?

-coming soon after I'm done with scrapblog-

What have I done so far?

Hang around at home - check

Watch movies - check

Keep going out with Mom and Da Yi - check

Yoga - check

Jogging @ track - check

Hamsters are taken care of - check

Shopping - check

REAL STUFF? IMPORTANT STUFF? NOT checked.

Like, I've been slackerooni all this while. It's really stupid. However, I don't know if it's just me, I don't wanna get a stupid job doing stupid things and getting the pay and that's it. If I don't like the freaking job, I don't even want to stay on. So Recruit Express, the admin positions are just plain stupid. Time to do my own work if I wanna get my dream job. No one gets what they want for their first job unless they are geniuses or have people pulling strings and stuff. Or maybe just wit, chances, and pure luck.

Still, I'm hanging on to a quote.

Oh well.

Glad Eileen asked me along to visit some art galleries at Chinatown yesterday. I plucked lots of fantastic art on the lil' postcards and brochures they had lying on the floor.

-Utterly Art <3

- Forth was sadly not exhibiting any artworks yesterday, so! We got a brochure of what's coming up this Friday... that is... LKY "Singapore Guidance Angel". It's really queer to me why they chose the word "guidance" instead of "guardian", I mean yeah I kinda get it but it's a little not so smooth with the tongue. LOL. Okay, whatever.

- $6 for Students to see the Singapore Coins and Notes Museum! Quick! And you get a free coin souvenir too, which is awesome. Haha... Go go go! Personal tour guide and we got the whole museum to ourselves when we went there. Though, the thing is it's pretty hard to find in my opinion cos' it's like tucked in this little corner, behind the coffeeshop. Pretty cool decor, though. And it just opened on 1st of July. Hardly anyone knows about it. What else what else? Oh! Downside is it's really really small for a museum - more like a collector's lounge hahaha. I <3>

SNAKE SNAKE SNAKE! <3

Latte just woked up!!

Hamsters Update Yo!

2009-06-29T02:30:00.008+08:00

The delayed but finally up photo of
Coffee the Tiny Monster!

Can only catch her in her sleep so far...

She's the fiercest lil' hamster to the rest of the hamster troupe... but she's nice to us people's fingers... That is, unless she bit you by accident!

I got my first official hamster bite from Coffee yesterday... Naughty lil' gal! Went accidentally too near to Mocha and *clash*. Bites hard... and so JZ's hand got bitten while saving Mocha from Coffee's jaws... to think Mocha is by far the fastest growing/ biggest-sized/ sprinting-mogul-on-the-wheel hamster out of them 3.

All 3 are hamsters, but they have such varying behaviour patterns! Makes it SOOOO amusing to watch. It's like Animal Planet. Hahaha. Just need to get some more toys for them to play else they get bored so easily... and boy do they chew on the cage doors... *need to escape! can't resist... urge... chew chew chew! escape is imminent*

BTW, we've 2 cages and 1 tank now... Latte is still alright with Mocha, no fighting problems unlike Coffee towards the both of them... so until any signs of trouble pops up, 2 cages are used right now... Ahhh cleaning cleaning.

Conjoined Twins???
Whoa! HAHAHA~

Latte's FAVOURITE sleeping spot/ position!

See the lying on the back again?

These Days.

2009-06-18T01:25:00.001+08:00

Like a streak of light moving so quickly, I can't catch up.
Like a blur, it goes from bright through twilight, leaving me stumped.
The rites pass by, never falter, hardly altered.
Come dawn it's gonna be yet another night gone.

People are encouraging me to do Masters but I'm really thinking if I should. Time to do some research.

I want lomo cameras. + more photos!

2009-06-11T14:37:00.009+08:00

Introducing...

MOCHA

LATTE

and...

haven't got a proper photo of Coffee lah...

The THREE of them Together!

Coffee in the BG (actually I wanna call him Milk Tea), Mocha looking straight at the camera, and Latte lying down on her back (head on the left side of picture).

I want this! (link)

and this! (link)

Okay, too much..hahaha~

[FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN]

M.S. JZ IS HAVING FUN

And I shouldn't even think of getting any when I bloody hell haven't found a job for myself yet, dude!

Our first pets!

2009-06-10T01:27:00.005+08:00

We got our syrian hamsters last night! It was total total drama, I tell you. ANYWAY, they've got their names! Coffee, Mocha, and Latte. LOL!!! I was thinking caramel would sound nice too, but then let's just keep the syllables down to two 'aight? That was after a long time deciding between Peach, Snow White, Chocolate, etc.

So far, so good... they know how to groom themselves with the bath sand... problem is, they also use that as a peeing spot. They're kinda getting into little fights in the afternoon,too, when they're sleepy so I don't know, maybe it's time to separate them soon. 2 months old so far... We've only got one cage and I just found out yesterday that we're keeping two. However, there're three in the cage right now... they're so cute!!! One is going to my bro's gf, but I'm thinking keeping so many is gonna make us really busy. Yeah, the two ladies... they're the ones going in to the little scuffles. Play fighting much?

Photos photos~~

Coffee and Mocha Sleeping together~

Coffee having a bite in there.

Latte the pretty big lady will be uploaded sooooon~ lol

We took tons of pictures with the Sony camera but it's really irritating to upload, 'cos HY lost the memory card reader in freaking Washington D.C.!!! -strangles, strangles, strangles-

Only problem I have with them now is that I need to buy 1 more hamster wheel, so that they don't have to like go crazy over one hamster ball at the top of the cage. And, I need toys to not keep them bored, 'cos they keep gnawing on the cage bars, which I read is really really bad for them. Plus maybe 2 hamheads so they would have places to hide in.

I need a trip to Daiso sooooon!

- toys

- 1 silent wheel

- chew stuffs

- hamhead houses

RWARGHHH!

Dwarves seem to be able to cope well without getting too bored but I don't like seeing these syrians gnaw at the cage bars... totally bad. More wheels more wheels!

Finally a pet (hopefully)?

2009-06-01T22:38:00.003+08:00

HELLO! I'm here to blog again. Wah ouch. Stomachache. How irritating!!!

I seriously have nothing to blog about right now, but we might be getting a hamster very soon!!!!!!

Excited. :)

Anyway, I finally finished editing my resume, save for getting my G.P.A. information which I couldn't access in the afternoon! Grah...

10th July 2009 ~~ I will be throwing the mortar board!!! Very very excited about that.

1st July 2009 ~~ DRIVING BASIC THEORY TEST! I must pass and then get my Provisional Driving Licence, and then pass the Final Theory Test and then get my drivers licence!

And then I must also get a job... plus!

HOLIDAY DESTINATION:

I wanna go to Pulau Redang sometime in June! :) :)

http://images.google.com.sg/images?rlz=1C1CHMA_en-GBSG322SG322&sourceid=chrome&q=pulau%20redang&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

IF HOWEVER, this is too far a destination~ then Tioman would be nice too! :)

I wouldn't want the June Holiday kids flooding these islands though!

LOL!

JZ decided to be nice and to post photos!

2009-05-04T01:26:00.008+08:00

JZ decided that the only way she's gonna be able to upload a lot of photos and not get frustrated with Blogger is to edit them in Photoshop and make mosaics like these:

Here we have yours truly hanging out with her family and friends all over the place!

And this happened the Saturday that just passed! We went down to the Red Dot Design Museum at Tanjong Pagar to check out MAAD. Sounds cool, but not very cool. Still, it's art! Check out www.maad.sg to see what the hype's about. Eileen and I got our portraits drawn. There are still a few more portraits but I was lazy to capture them so Eileen's got them in her cam, right? Hahaa~~

I bought 2 portraits! I should have just bought one! I know, it's $16! For two! I know! I know! Kind of feel guilty now... I shouldn't have bought it on impulse. An additional $8! You know what I could have done with $8? But to comfort myself... art is priceless. You can't put a tag on it... well... not really. And it's me! We sat there talking about all sorts of things looking at each other for so long (hahahaa). JZ can't sit still. LOL! Kidding~ I almost typed kissing, since S and D is just beside each other on the keyboard!

Then we headed down to have Kebab! Check out my recent food ventures... my horrid stomach-filling, sinful sessions with the calories!

P.S. JZ still hates Blogger's photo upload tool. It sucks.
JZ is angry because Photobucket sucks too.

Unofficially Graduated and Jobless

2009-05-04T01:04:00.004+08:00

My final exams are over, I am unofficially graduated from my university, and I haven't found a job. Sounds pathetic, but I have been out and about shopping my darned arse off and skipping my jogging sessions, loading on the calories from popcorn, and watching movies all over the place. Food, movies, shopping = $$$ flying away. I haven't found a job yet! I haven't completed my CV and Resume, and I am a horrible nut! Why am I whiling my time away?

A grad trip might be hard to come by now with the swine flu eating away at society... H1N1. Scary stuff. Talk about 1918. Then again, we would all fear going out, business would be affected... the world is in chaos!

I have gained so much while I laze my time away. Missing a few days of jogging from last week... actually not jogging at all last week, and eating out, has made me gain additional pounds. I know it sounds vain, but they say overweight = disease. I want to be healthy. I am not yet as healthy as I think I could be, so I must exercise control and discipline! It's kinda lame that I skipped blogging for such a long time. I have so many things to update, but all I've been doing hanging around town, or staying at home and facing the computer or the television set the whole day. I find that there are more and more things to watch on tv -- whilst increasing my excitability and happiness factor, it is taking its toll on my eyes and my sleeping routine. Talk about laughing out loud. I have been sleeping at 3am these few nights ... actually, 3.30am... and although I wake up in the late morning or early afternoon, I've been getting broken capillaries below my eyes... a.k.a. dark circles. That is bad. Horrible! Hasn't been this bad since coming back from the U.S.

And I've been a little crazy and starting to introduce myself into the vain world of... you know... ugh... I don't like to spell it out because it sounds so vain. I know. But I'm just a little bit into it. So it's a little troublesome.

I need to exercise! That is random. I know... I really feel very guilty. Now I know the feeling one of my aunt expresses when she misses exercise to go have coffee with my mother. Seriously.

I have a few photos to put up, but I haven't got the mental drive to get down to it. I hate when it takes forever to upload photos onto my blog, and I'm sure those out there who blog knows what I am seriously talking about. Kudos to all you patient people out there. I am patient in some aspects. Just not when I have to upload photos on to my blog. Nadda. Nay.

I don't think my resume is impressive. But I hope someone out there will give me a chance. I like to focus on things rather than juggle work and study and whatnot. So I haven't been that enthusiastic ... resulting in a rather hopeless resume. I know I have back ups. Come on, kid's got skills yo. Geddit?

'Cos not. We're kinda approaching a serious subject and I feel like this is not a platform for me to be serious. Come on. Serious? What is with that word anyway? Okay. I honestly feel like I'm talking to myself already. So who exactly is my audience? I say it is my imaginary diary friend. Believe it or not, I used to start off my personal diary (hidden somewhere) with a "Dear Diary". Yes yours truly didn't even think of naming her diary anything.

[for today, that is all.]

SO MANY DRAMAS, so little time

2009-04-08T15:10:00.008+08:00

THERE ARE SO MANY DRAMAS & MOVIES I WANNA WATCH!

Like...
( ) 100 Scene no Koi
( ) Antique Bakery
( ) 100 Days With Mr Arrogant
(x) Detroit Metal City

( ) Boys Before Flowers

( ) Heartbreak Library

( ) Kamui Gaiden

( ) Gokusen

( ) La Dolce Vita

...

COUNTLESS... And I'm still hooked onto Iljimae! Lee Joon Ki! Shi Hoo!! AHHH~~~

thank goodness for mysoju. (sweats)

And I want the Cowon D2+! This site is fantastic... Gmarket is like shopping heaven. Hahahaha!

My lecturer is such a bitch!!! LOL!

2009-04-07T15:39:00.002+08:00

My lecturer is such a bitch!!! LOL!

For my part, I want you to know that today's discussions were quite good and the question and answer exchange was extremely so. As information, I am working hard to figure out how to turn Tuesday's and today's question and answer session into a number of exam questions. I will also look to do so with the final three presentations next Tuesday.

OOPS! He's a guy. HAHAHA...

‘Idol’ translator

2009-04-04T17:45:00.000+08:00

‘Idol’ translator: ‘Likability’ means ‘big teeth’
Judges have their own secret code, and you don't want to be ‘pitchy’

-- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29781589/

SO FUNNY!

To those who watched Twilight and have made love over Robert Pattinson

2009-04-03T02:07:00.002+08:00

To those who watched Twilight and have MAD love over Robert Pattinson!!!

DIG THIS! WAHAHAHAHA!

Stupid University Police

2009-04-02T13:04:00.004+08:00

Hahaha I've got just too much stuff to update and post, I think I have to find one of the weekends to sit down and type down a whole lot of stuff! Anyway, I think this is damn funny.

And that's for picking on and making fun of me on the bloody orientation University Police briefing too! Suck it up losers!!!

我真的看你不顺眼。

2009-03-25T23:41:00.003+08:00

我真的看你不顺眼。

~signed the irritated alter ego Mr. Munday

HAHAA. that is awesomely hilarious. Hey, who says blogs are open diaries? Professor, this time you're wrong!

SENSIBLE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD:
vote for Earth.
28th March 2009
Switch off all your lights. 8.30pm - 9.30pm

Wait.

Rather, switch off all electricity in your house (apart from the refrigerator, 'cos your food's gonna go bad and contribute to more wastage).

I've finally watched Slumdog Millionaire. Hmmmh. -THINKthinkTHINKS- I should've taken the TIME magazine with an article on this movie and the real slums of Mumbai back from the Conrad stay. Damn.

做好人, 做坏人！

2009-03-17T00:47:00.006+08:00

无聊的时刻，我就会想起无聊的话题！

咳！

好人只会被坏人起伏！你是否不认同？
做人啊！怎么回呢么矛盾呢？
做坏人听说会得抱应。
但做好人就会被坏人起伏。
所以啊，我看我们做人就只能看着办吧！哈哈！
我想我真的是看了太多电视剧了。哈哈！

Asian Movie craze

2009-03-10T00:53:00.003+08:00

I'm like going through an Asian Movie craze phase now. Load on the drama!!! I've just watched Red Cliff II (赤壁下) last night! I know people have loads of criticism for the show... and lots of things to say about it... But whatever! It wasn't excruciating to watch!

And I want to watch more movies!

Forever Enthralled (梅兰芳）
K-20: Legend of the Mask
and re-watch Cape No. 7 （海角七號) with English subtitles

What else??
I want to watch more!!!

Perhaps Love (如果·愛）
The Warlords (投名狀)
Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death (死神の精度)

Things I've done in the past month and the first week of March...

2009-03-07T17:49:00.010+08:00

Things I've done in the past month and the first week of March...

1) Went to the Botanic Gardens.

2) Went to the National Museum of Singapore

3) Went swimming and got sun-burnt at Conrad

And I have pictures!
~~Which I will post soon...~~

JZ decided to be nice and post (some of) the animated .gifs that she just completed! No easy task 'cos I don't see Blogger supporting animated .gifs, photobucket IS extremely laggy, and imageshack is not working for me. Neither is geocities working for me too.

I've watched Disturbia... I know, Shia! Shia! Shia! -sigh-

Just caught Departures in Plaza Singapura's GV -- awesomely meaningful movie. Super touching and very beautifully laid out. No wonder it won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.

The only dumb thing is **(maybe) spoiler alert**:
~~I don't get why he can puke in the sink after seeing the dead chicken, and then go all horny on his wife. Puzzling.~~ [highlight the line to read]

Last night I also watched Shutter (2004) on TV with mom. OMG. I know I'm slow and all that with horror movies... I don't dig horror flicks. But I'm like freaking spooked by the show (la). Damn it! Ananda Everingham's hot in the show though! I liked him channeling the Jim Sturgess look as a college student and then the Orlando Bloom look for the rest of the movie. Cuteness amplified.

(LOL)

MY MUSIC FETISH!

2009-03-04T16:13:00.012+08:00

By the way, 2 of my favourite bands' albums are out. I will definitely buy their albums. I just have to wait for the special editions to come out// appear in Singapore stores. I love love love expanding my favourite music CD collection. I want to buy Coldplay's 2 disc special too!Saw it that time @ HMV... but I'm just gonna buy Franz Ferdinand's "Tonight" and The Fray's "The Fray" first!

Also, did I tell you? I'm so very addicted to "Ulysses" by FF.

And The Fray's, "You Found Me".

Band-surfing unsigned bands on MySpace is fun!

This is cute:

This is so funky:

Listen to (Hold me like a microphone)!

And today is another one of those days which started out with an embarassment. All the result of the utter messed up state of mind I was in. Wake up JZ.

The craziest thing I have done thus far XD ...

I want my hair color like the vocals of Hey Monday!~

What you want??

2009-02-25T15:49:00.002+08:00

I realize that a lot of times when people call me I will give them the "an zhua" kind of expression!!! HAHAHAHA. Like, "what you want?" kinda thing!

You know the kind in which you violently tilt your head up and do the eyebrows and eyes thing??? YEAH YEAH THAT!!!

SO FIERCE!!!

Outburst of Satisfaction

2009-02-20T00:11:00.003+08:00

I NEVER FAIL TO FEEL THE SATISFACTION OF COMPLETING WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS! YAY!

It is an opinion.

2009-02-19T02:19:00.010+08:00

Random spouts of blogging...

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa was such a laugh -- XD King Julien brings the house down once again! And The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was such a creepy little heart-wrenching film.

I am looking forward to Coraline and also I so need to quickly get my brains on Red Cliff 2! However, exams first... movies later. Exams next week are such a killer. Everything is unhelpful and not aiding. I'll be spending very little time going through my revision. Wikipedia is my friend. OB, I shall bowl you down!

Essays do not sway me! I do not fear your supposed ferocity... it is but a passing wave of blue ink (sometimes black).

SUCKS TO HAVE ERRORS IN CODING! =/

It is an opinion. It is judgmental. It may not be a fact. It may just be a fit of _________. This sucks. Sometimes, though we're each supposed to bear the same responsibilities, we're forced to silently accept carrying that extra load on our backs for people that we don't exceptionally like or get along well with.This stinks and some people just have to grit their teeth and stamp their foot. Cut the crap and do your freaking blahs.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

2009-02-12T01:42:00.004+08:00

Amazingly, I cleaned up my links!!! Removed all the dead links and switched blogs... what a chore.

I finally finished watching "Igor" and "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People". The latter was fantastically funny, I thought. Very very fun to watch Simon Pegg go all goofy in pursuit of his "Shangri-La".

Honestly, he totally looks like some L.A. Gangster tryna' size you up in his fan site's home page: http://www.peggster.net/

I am almost recovered from a nasty bout of flu! That is great news. But the crappy thing is I still feel a lot of pressure in my head. Feels really weird. It's probably from the flu and blowing my nose too much.

It's disgusting and expensive to catch this bug right now 'cos the bloody consultation at this clinic I go to just jumped $10. It's now $35 for a 5 minute consultation, 2 bottles of cough syrup, and 3 little sachets of pills.

That is honestly sick. Not cheap when everyone in the household starts to fall sick... not cheap at all.

Still thinking about positivity when I seem to detect negativity. Beat fate! It's not what it's all about isn't it? Following is tough, so get out of the freaking shadows of assholes!

Green Day's 2009 Album

2009-02-11T23:16:00.004+08:00

Time for a little promotion.

The place is all wrong though. But it counts as one 'cos I'm willing and it's free!

I'm so excited though. Can't wait to get my ears all hyped up for it.

Alright, whatever.

Getting bad vibes from people time to time doesn't deter me anymore. Take it with a pinch of salt and keep that grin engine going!

then I wouldn't have to deal with this psycho shit.

Yoga and NYC

2009-02-06T00:27:00.004+08:00

I find myself kinda into doing yoga as an exercise nowadays. It's a really good workout, and not too difficult for lazy people like me who will need a lot of pushing to get into a pair of running shoes for a jog.

Mom brought me to True Yoga for quite a few times under a guest pass, and I kind of got pretty familiar with some usual steps that the yoga masters teach. Then I went on to try out the "Let's Yoga" game on the Nintendo DSL!!!

It's so cool~~ And I was perspiring like... ... totally wet man!!!

Ok ok... So anyway! Eileen just passed me a link which is SO funny. It's about this guy forming some stuff you see in NYC with Lego bricks. Interesting!

Image: X

CHECK OUT THE POST!

-Sigh-

New York (expensive) City... How happening a place it was!

Valentines Day

2009-02-04T19:40:00.003+08:00

Comments about Valentines Day~~

JIA.ZHEN. says:
the "that's why we're SINGLE FOR VALENTINES DAY!! hahahaha"
JIA.ZHEN. says:
yeah i was like... that day holds like ZERO significance for me okay~~
loisa... says:
hahahah
loisa... says:
SAME
loisa... says:
i forgot all about it even
loisa... says:
seriously who celebrates valentines day
loisa... says:
i think it's just an excuse for couples to zzz with each other haha

JIA.ZHEN. says:
What is "zzzzzz"???
JIA.ZHEN. says:
eh if ppl dunno they'll think wrong things
loisa... says:
like to... i don't know.. reassure each other of their love

%#%# CROWS FLY PAST #%#%

loisa... says:
eh honestly..
loisa... says:
how many times can you do something "special" for your boyfriend/girlfriend
loisa... says:
got valentines day la.. got birthday... got anniversary.. EVERY YEAR LEH
loisa... says:
you cannot keep thinking of so many handicraft stuff to do... or you cannot spend so much money. it's impossible
loisa... says:
haha shoot. this is so obvious that my spark with my future boyfriend/husband is gonna run out within one year hahaaha

This is too funny, I just had to blog it!

FREAKING USELESS BUFFALO JUNK MAIL, CNY Photos

2009-02-01T17:38:00.011+08:00

I HATE FREAKING USELESS BUFFALO JUNK MAIL!!!

{ hahahahaha }

However, CNY has been great. I oughta' post up some photos. Psyched! Fatness! Randomness!!! AHHHHH~~~

DAY 1
Get together with the cousins on my Mother's side... going visiting... cam-whoring!

DAY 2

DAY 3

With help from www.scrapblog.com!

HAPPY 人日 to one and all out there!!!
It's your birthday so go party! Haha~~

Happy Chinese New Year!

2009-01-26T00:35:00.007+08:00

新年快乐 2009！

Happy Chinese New （牛） Year everyone! It's gonna be a fun year. Wow!!! Just watched the Channel 8 countdown and stuff like that. Pretty same stuff. A year was here and gone. Time for a brand new start! I love the CNY so much more than any other festival.

The food, the people, the food... the food... OH MY I'm such a glutton. But anyway, this year we had steam boat for reunion dinner. I was just done with it! Pretty good stuff. Thanks much to Ani who did so much work to get it set up, even though it was kinda.. uhh... not too reunion-ish. Sparing the details, I should hope for a SUPER DUPER fun day tomorrow!!! Shall wake up and the new year spirit will overwhelm me!!! I haven't had a super great burst of CNY energy/ feeling yet. Haha...

I don't know why but I don't really feel it... yet.

Mom and I did our last minute shopping yesterday... We walked around City Hall and all, I tried SO many clothes, and then I got like 4 dresses at $110. LOL XD They're from Series! So, anyway, we got $200 worth of stuff yo! Anyone needs anything from Series, my mom has membership! It entitles us to .... discounts off their clothes! Sometimes 15, 25, 30 or 50% max... on regularly-priced items. Where the heck did that term come from anyway?

Weird.

So! Time to get FAT FAT FAT!!! I gained like 1-2kg after coming back! It's so so so depressing! -haix- Whatever!!! Tomorrow will be fun ness!!! I'm looking forward to the xin nian yu and the fa cai vegetables dish. It rocks I tell you.

Outta here! ~~~

Love for Gadgets

2009-01-23T02:22:00.005+08:00

Don't know about you but I'm crazy over stuff I'm making another wish list!
The thing is I've been going out with people almost everyday and spending a whole lot of money!!! Which by the way, is really really hard to come by given economical crises like the one happening now.

Still... we're allowed to day dream right?? The Chinese Lunar New Year is right around the corner... next Monday! I'm psyched. Still, I do sincerely NOT want to regain the 6 or 7 kg I lost from my semester in Buffalo.

Drools galore:
1)
More: HERE, HERE

2) This is uber coolness amplified.

More: HERE, HERE

Yup. Understood?
I know... I already have this phone...
WHICH IS HONESTLY TO DIE FOR! style-factor amplified!

What a beautiful mess this is

2009-01-01T20:07:00.002+08:00

What a beautiful mess this is
Like picking up trash in dresses

Little update

2008-12-03T14:58:00.002+08:00

I know I've been getting really lazy and not updating my blog at all for the past few month. I have been doing so much these past week. Thanksgiving was spent in New York City, this week I'll be working hard on my exams and final assignments, and next week I'll be meeting my younger brother and mother here in Buffalo to embark on a grand tour of a few spots on Eastern USA and Toronto.

Homecoming UB Game - Bulls vs. Army

2008-10-21T10:44:00.009+08:00

As promised, FIREWORKS! Can you see the other Ellicott building in the foreground? I have no idea which building that is -- gotta check it out again.
I will probably upload the 2 min+ video with more fireworks once Youtube finishes it's maintenance.

The next day, we went to watch our very first live American Football match at the UB stadium! Well, our school played against the ARMY. It was damn cool! Well, at first I thought it was BORING because I didn't really know what's the whole point and how they played it. It's not as exciting as what we call football, they call soccer. There are frequent stops to the game, not ongoing like soccer... and well, a not as thrilling as rugby!

HOWEVER, watching the game while supporting a team is like COOL. And guess what, it was our lucky day. How?

Starting off with...

We went LATE! The game already started, and UB was losing to the Army 3 to 10 -- like, what the!

We were IN AWE! LOOK AT THIS STADIUM!

Then we couldn't find seats ANYWHERE at the podiums where we were SUPPOSED to be.

So we went to the other side -- the COLD side where there were plenty of empty seats.

At half-time, we watched the school band, "Thunder of the East" perform:

Then the Army scored a touchdown, bringing the score to 3 - 17 or something. Afterwards, it got super exciting and all, see this part: the BULLS (UB) charged ALL THE WAY HERE!

And scored a touchdown! Whooot~

GO BULLS GO BULLS!

Somewhere around the third quarter, they came out with the KISS CAM! Guess what that is! The camera focuses on couples and they KISS! Haha, so funny. There were so many, and when they realized the camera was on them, they kissed! AWwww~

Here's the ELLICOTT CASTLE from the stadium!!! Cool eh?

A lot of cheering was going on during the last few minutes... UB scored more touchdowns, and at full time, the score was tied at 24-24! OMG. Go Bulls! At home base, an uproar will boost team morale, and the Bulls' went WAYYYYY up!

A lot of waiting and contemplation (and FREEZING -- yes, the weather was so freaking cold, we were all freezing like mad), and finally... WE WIN!!! 27-24!!!

The game finally ended after us sitting there in the cold for over three hours! OH crap! That was long. We hung out till the game ended and we were glad we did, because a lot of people gave up hope on the Bulls and went off. That is not the spirit! Come on'! Anyway, we watched the sun set and the sky change colours the whole duration of the game. Pretty sight. They finally turn on the lights at the end and lit up the whole field. Everyone rushed down ... MAYHEM!

Exciting Friday Night -- Homecoming/ Family/ True Blue Weekend

2008-10-18T14:06:00.007+08:00

I loved the night!

Well, we started off this afternoon with a late lunch at the Heights -- CHINA KING!

Very nice orange chicken meal! It made me extremely bloated. Afterward, we walked towards ALDI for a nice grocery shopping trip.

The walk there was pretty nice, because we haven't got all our shopping done yet, and I've got free hands to take photos of the autumn scene around Main Street. The trees were very nice! REALLY pretty! I love Autumn! It's my favorite favorite season, and I AM SO GLAD I got to experience it here at UB. =D

At Aldi...
Got all sorts of stuff there... like my turkey ham and spinach... snacks and all... Very very sinful. XD

Walking back to TOPS was a torture. It was really, really cold, and my hands were freezing and turning purple (very much due to the wind though). Reaching Tops rocked!!! Because we got the warmth! (AHH!) Apologies for my lousy writing skills today. I'm condensing a lot of stuff in tonight's post. (haha)

What next what next? OH OH! We met someone unexpectedly at TOPS. That part was so funny, Eileen and I stared at each other with mouths agape. PERRY'S ICE CREAM was only like, $1+? That was SUCH a deal. And it was such a big individual tub! I mean, it's for one person to eat I guess. But the share was huge (for one person). And yes, we each got one, thank you very much.

After junking all our stuff down in the dorms, we heard this loud *bomph bomph boom boooom*... and we thought, WHAT THE HECK, THUNDER?
Eileen: sounds like fireworks...
ME: sounds like FIREWORKS!!! (IN A VERY EXCITED VOICE)
Jocelyn: Ya! (I think, if I'm not wrong hahahaha)

After much contemplation, and a lot of heartache because I keep hearing the sounds but can't see the fireworks, I decided to RUSH UP to my floor!!! Then, after throwing down my stuff, I raced to the corridor window and peeped out... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! BEAUTIFUL FIREWORKS! Although I woke Raven up (sorry!), haha... I came back and grabbed my camera before CHARGING TOWARDS THE KITCHEN!!! Jocelyn came up to join me and we watched the BEAUTIFUL fireworks from the full length level 5 kitchen glass window. AHHH! SO NICE! I will upload the video soon!

Anyway, afterwards we headed out to the student union (the carnival was over, sadly) and realized there was a BINGO game going on! OMG! Favourite!

Spotting a few cupcakes was too unbearable for us!!! So, we did a little exploration, and found a dark room with a table laid out with goodies and a live jazz band! OMG! The ambience was SO nice. Check out these neat little cookies and cupcakes... and cakes... and oh gaawd, how sinful they are. Luckily I had Earl Grey, which was fantabulous!

By the way, here's what the student union lobby looks like:

They've just painted the glass... which... well, kind of... doesn't look THAT great. HAHAHA! Very primary/ secondary school! Cannot take it. LOL.

The Kite Runner Talk, pictures from my room, Fall ahead!

2008-10-17T15:10:00.003+08:00

By the way, autumn/ fall has come and I've been looking at the effects of fall all around me on the trees. The leaves have turned yellow... orange... red... they've fallen from the trees... and that is something I don't really notice happening as much in Singapore. Leaves do turn yellow and fall. But the seasons are not as precise and exact like it is here in Buffalo. The moment Fall Equinox passed, I start to notice the changes around me.

A glimpse:
These trees were once filled with green leaves...!!! Well, that is, when I came over.

Wow!

Very pretty red leaves...

I even got the chance to take a photo! Right, whatever...

Here's something Eileen saw at CVS, and I had to take a photo. Look! It's my brand! My surname you know? Hahahahaha~

Anyway, before you enter my room, here's what you'll see pasted on our doors! How cute is that?! Thanks to Jennifer, our RA -- resident advisor.

A look at the back of the door reveals something like what you would see in a hotel room!

Okay, so anyway, you can see the route I always take whenever there happens to be a fire alarm in our building. Also, you can see that it's unfair because the double room that is beside our room is obviously bigger! The HUGE lounge on the left side is also useless, since it's locked! What the hell. How I wish sometimes that it is open. It would make it SO convenient for me to get hot water! If I want hot water, I need to either walk down the hallway to building five or go down to the third floor... when there is a lounge next to my room?! WHAT?

So here's what you would see in the evenings when the sun sets... from my bedroom window:

Pretty cool eh?

I just finished my PR exam today. It was alright, I am hoping to get full marks because we got an extra credit question. We'll see how it goes!

The coolest thing about today was going to the Alumni Arena after the exam to attend Khaled Hosseini's talk. By the way, he's the author of The Kite Runner. It was so interesting! There were so many people, and the whole duration everything said and asked in the session was so meaningful! After coming back from it, I wanted to just grab the book to read and read and read. Well, we got it from our International Student orientation, which by the way, cost us USD85. What a RIP-OFF. What a school, UB. What a bloodsucking school. Haha.

By the way, I really liked a lot of his views mentioned in the talk, and fully agree with them. One quote I thought was meaningful was him saying that there is not really a very clear distinction between good and bad, good and evil. There are really evil people out there, it is true, but a lot of men don't really know that they are doing something bad if their education tells them that it is supposedly good. Although really, the world opposes to that notion. This was when they were talking about the Taleban and stuff like that, yeah. So it goes like, "Good and evil exist within one person". Or something like that.

But here's a photo I snapped at the start, when he just came out and started to read the first chapter off The Kite Runner. Take a look at the massive place!

LOL!!! I so wanna watch a basketball game there.

Updates of Buffalo.

2008-10-14T02:15:00.006+08:00

I think I should keep blogging. Otherwise, I feel like life is becoming so routine that I can't remember what I do everyday. How meaningless! No, not really. Jenn just pasted two pumpkin heads - SUPER SUPER CUTE - with our names on it for Halloween. AWW! You should see it. I'm going to snap a photo and post it here soon.

Last Saturday we went to ALLENTOWN! Cool place, I think it's a really really nice neighborhood to live in, seeing how one proud man told us the story of Buffalo and seeing how proud he was. The tour guide was once again Todd Mitchell, who led us in the Downtown Buffalo tour too! LOL. What a joker man. Though sarcastic. ZZZZ. And he laughs like Willy Wonka. WTH!

Laptop crashes

2008-10-07T02:11:00.002+08:00

MY LAPTOP CRASHED ON ME! That is kinda like old news now that it happened one week ago. So, blogging is gonna hold up till my laptop is fixed... OR till I get a new laptop! Here's what I want: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8989035&st=dell+xps&lp=2&type=product&cp=1&id=1218006772152

oh pretty pretty please!

Darien Lake Coasters Rock

2008-09-22T03:45:00.009+08:00

Last Sunday, we took a NFTA bus from Downtown Buffalo to Darien Lake! Guess what, it was such a torturous morning because we had to wake up at 7am when we slept at 4am the night before. And the day before we woke up at 7+am too! Haha... But I would say... it was a day well spent! We had all the fun in the world with scaring ourselves mad riding roller coasters all day long. It was brain wobbling, heart thumping FUN! Darien Lake used to belong to Six Flags, so the rides are pretty much Six Flags standard stuff. We got on ALL the roller coasters (except the kiddie one), and boy did it rock. Took a few photos, went crazy and survived the two to three hours ride to and fro our school to Darien Lake on the public transportation system - lots of waiting time, but thank goodness we hardly had to queue when we were there. No QUEUES AT A THEME PARK!? WHOOT!

We reached at like 10.30am, and guess what.. we realized the park opens at 12pm. So before that, the place was extremely deserted...

and then.. TA DAH - the people magically appeared in their cars! WE were the poor souls without cars. Haha.

The FERRIS WHEEL phenomena.

That is an extremely blurry photo of Steph, Me, and Eileen (clockwise from top left) posing on the Superman. See me twisting. LOL. We went on that THRICE.

This is crazy and this is scary: I love the ducks though - so CUTE!

What better way to see the sun set with a carousel, pretty lights and music?

SCENE 1, TAKE 1

SCENE 1, TAKE 2

At the end of the day... we're waiting for the bus to take us home. Guess what, when the bus came, it was only the five of us who were on it, and it seemed so much like it was a CHARTERED BUS! lol! That is like the funniest thing ever. $10 for both ways to D-Lake. =_=" Slept all the way!

Apple-picking animated images

2008-09-19T14:42:00.006+08:00

Last Saturday, we went to a FRUIT PICKING TOUR The farm was nice, pretty interesting, we plucked fruits from the trees to eat - raspberries, pears, peaches. It was really yummy! Well, most of them. =) Afterwards I got myself a blueberry blush wine jelly spread, and then we took A LOT OF CANDID PHOTOS. Check 'em out...

Some .gif animations I made:

How's that for a load of fun?!
In picture: Jocelyn, Steph, Anita, I.

My Room Decor, Some purchases, and 2 beautiful scenery photos

2008-09-18T13:33:00.006+08:00

My Room Decor, Some purchases, and 2 beautiful scenery photos

A word of thought to someone so hopeful

2008-09-18T12:40:00.004+08:00

Sometimes there's really just no need stay quiet and let all that negative things people say go pass without a proclamation. A right to stand up for what you feel and convey what your thoughts are may have a positive outcome when people misunderstand you and disregard you time and time again. So my dear ol' friend, stand up for who you are. Make yourself comfortable around these somewhat straightforward circumstances that overshadow who you are. Step out of your discomfort at expressing yourself and tell that to the world.

A mini recap

2008-09-09T03:54:00.002+08:00

Last saturday we went to Boulevard Mall!!!
It was big, but all spread out over one floor. No basements, no upper floor, nothing complicated. Just a huge sprawling mass of land. There was Aeropostale, Gap, Hottopic, Charlotte Russe, American Eagle Outfitters and many more! I was so thrilled, because a LOT of things were on sale. I got myself a pair of shorts, a jacket, and 2 fedora hats. ALL ON SALE! Whoot. Then the Chinese food at the food court was pretty yummy. YES, it had a food court! $5.10 for a hearty meal. Converts to about $7+ sing. Yeah, kinda expensive food here.

Last night we got together for a "mini reunion dinner". LOL. Ordered Chinese takeout and we squeezed around the small table at the level 3 kitchen to eat. Wow... The lemon chicken is an absolute loser compared to all the lemon chicken I've eaten in Singapore. However, I still like their General Tso's chicken.

Woke up at 11.30 or so today... totally late. There's a journalism class at 7pm later on. I wonder how's it going to be like. Mr. Vogel will finally teach, and we so got to be early to chope seats! 2 more hours. I've been spending the whole day in front of the computer, in my room... Doing pretty much nothing. Listened to Cherlynn's radio show on wrub.buffalo.edu and that's pretty much it. Surfing the web, talking to mom and hong yong...

So well, guess it's time to get ready to collect my textbooks in the mail!

Ohh precious milk!

2008-09-04T13:29:00.002+08:00

SIGH!

It's 1.29am, and I'm hungry.

My access to cold milk has been barricaded. I guess the two of them are asleep. SHOOT! Dear cornflakes, I guess I'll only be able to eat you tomorrow. Cold milk oh precious milk. Why oh why is this happening?!

Okay. I'm being overly emotional. However, I really wanna eat my cereal with cold milk!

Lava Lamp

2008-09-04T13:18:00.004+08:00

Will someone share and split this with me? I really want a lava lamp night light, and this is like, THE CHEAPEST! -sigh-!

click HERE!

Yes yes, quite enthralling.

28th August 2008, Wednesday

2008-08-29T14:33:00.004+08:00

Updates:
Last week was a whole week of orientation. Class starts this week. On Monday, the 25th of July. WE're still looking out for free food and whatnot, so whoot! Bring on the FREE!

I got 2 UB caps from BINGO! And a mug that everyone has, and also I finally finished unpacking everything from my luggage into my room. Getting all settled down, and getting into the "going for classes" mood. The thing is that, it's quite different here, the whole college atmosphere. And although it is kind of well, needs time to get used to, I think it's a really cool experience and all. And the whole vibe around here, college life is totally different. Everywhere I see people, all young people living their lives, going to classes, hanging out, doing their thing, playing their music. WHOOT! So fun.

Well, a few thoughts.

Anyway, I went to NIAGARA FALLS! I've got so much to post about New York City, the very few days we spent there, and everything else! But I guess I haven't really been in a blogging kind of mood.

Let's start things off with yesterday.
We went to the South Campus on a shuttle bus, on which I totally dozed off very quickly and kept leaning over to Eileen. LOL. Jocelyn's head was totally on the guy's shoulder. Anyway! (haha) We got the little course "reading materials" photocopied book for like US$19+. SO expensive. Like, come' on! And along Main St, we saw this little supermarket called ALDI. The stuff were pretty cheap, so we grabbed some stuff. Anyway, I realized I've been overspending a little. So I haven't got much money left. How horrible. But things here are way more expensive! I've been saying the word "ex" the most! We went pass these lovely neighborhoods and it's pretty *ulu*.

However, there was this funny bookstore called "Queen City Bookstore", which sells comics. And the moment we stepped in, there was this sign saying, "this is not Queen City Imaging" -- the place where we're supposed to get that photocopied book for our immigration and film class. OH! Speaking about the class! It is SO COOL! It's like this theatre, with really nice seats and so soft and all, completely like a movie theater. Actually, it is!!! We watched Charlie Chaplin's "The Immigrant" today. So funny.

It's like 2.43am now, and people outside are still shouting. So noisy. Oh BOTHER!

So our communication graphics teacher knew that there were some Singaporeans in her class, and decided to announce it to the class. Honestly, they thought we couldn't speak English! OMG! I almost fainted. All of us rolled our eyes. What do you think we speak eh? It's like our first language.... zzz Our mother tongue is Chinese but we're freaking BILINGUAL okay?! LOL. She was like, "I hope I'm not speaking so fast, if you guys don't understand anything you can ask questions after class". And we're like all (especially Steph) rolling our eyes. Then she was like, during this little assignment where we have to interview people in the class, "it's a good chance to practice your English", and I'm like OMG.... you so gotta be kidding me. Anyway, we're so gonna spoil market and use BOMBASTIC english okay. Don't play play! And then the girl sitting behind Steph immediately turned around and said, "you guys speak English right", and she was like, "yeah." and the girl was like, roll eyes*. LOL!!!

28 AUGUST 08
The BULLS BACKYARD BASH.
Well, disappointed that we couldn't watch the football show because it costs $25. However, we don't know the results yet. Anyway the bash at the arena was *alright*. Not very fun but we saw the "Thunder of the East", UB's marching band. And we saw the cheerleaders, and then we watched a concert by "ALL TIME LOW". THEY WERE FREAKING COOL! I TOOK A VIDEO OF THEIR PERFORMANCE AND THEY ROCK LIKE BIG TIME, but it's really really sad and lao kui for UB, because people were just standing there and watching, not dancing, not moving, I was just bopping my head a little. Hardly. Because the atmosphere wasn't that good, the crowd's not that big, and well, people weren't in the mood to party! Well, I wouldn't mosh if the crowd's hardly moshing and everyone around me was static. LOL. I was carrying my backpack anyway and if I weren't maybe I'd go a little bit crazier. A bit embarassing too. So I would definitely say, ALL TIME LOW IS SO GONNA BITCH ABOUT THE SUCKY UB AUDIENCE. They would definitely be like, completely upset only like 10 people really moshed and partied in the span of their concert. LOL. Sorry ah, too bad. When the frontman was singing this acoustic song, he suddenly stopped and asked the girl in front if she was on the phone (in a concert! omg, how rude is that), and she was like she hung up, and then he asked her to pass him the phone, and she did, and he dialled back and made a big fuss saying we're having a concert and asked everyone to scream "what's up" into the phone, and then he just threw the phone back into the crowd. LOL! He must be really pu huey, tau huay. Everything negative. HORRIBLE!
Quotes: "I need to see more energy", "I'm gonna cut off every single one of your heads if you don't start dancing", "I love you Stanley, and I love your hoodie".

It's gonna be UNFORGETTABLE!

OH! And another thing!
You know, before that, they were giving out free tees from the stage. I'm so angry! Anyway, the guy threw it to me, and I was just having that mentality that oh it will never come to me. Then it flew right SMACK into my face and hit me on the left side of my (oh!) face. I was so angry! And completely shocked an disoriented. The guy from the back came over to snatch the tee. I was so angry!!!

Garh. What an unlucky day.

Whatever...

I got a nice video of All Time Low performing Umbrella today. So that's good enough. And also, I got a hoodie from the UB store in the Student Union for $16.90+. DAMN COOL! I <3 LOVE it.

Ahhhh~ time to sleep!

Oh dear friends, I'm feeling so lazy to add the immense amount of photos I've taken into my blog. So it's great to log on to Facebook to check them out, coz' I posted quite a few there. And sorry Jo, Joelyn, and Loisa for being so slow at replying tags. HAHAH! I will reply you guys now. LOL.

Oh Facebook uploads photos really fast. Which is so good! LOL. Time to sleep! It's 3am.

An update in Buffalo

2008-08-22T07:17:00.005+08:00

Oh finally an update!
I've been extremely busy with orientation week the past well, week. In Buffalo now, and it's extremely HOT today. Burning sun. And it feels completely like Singapore. However, the past few days and nights have been really really cold. Anyway, I reached BUF on Saturday, with Eileen, and met Jocelyn at the airport. The dorms were extremely quiet and lonely because hardly anyone moved in. However, it's beginning to pack up with quite a lot of people now. My roomie's not here yet though. Raven Moon. Where is she, and what is she like I wonder. The rest have their roomies already. Today, Eileen's one has just arrived. Oh bother. Sachi sounds cute and they've seen her. I haven't seen her though.

Maybe later.

Extremely hectic... pile on the stress baby.

Well, it's much better now, because I finally got time to slack. They're mopping and cleaning the floors around, so I'm just hanging out upstairs. They're all on 3rd and 4th floors. Abby and Eileen are neighbors. However, Jocelyn might be able to move out of her 4th floor room and switch with Sachi. So anyway, I really need to clean my room. It's extremely dirty. It's so isolated but I really need a broom. Later on I'm so gonna look for one in the kitchen (which I hope is not locked). Then I'll start to mop the floor... and clean my bedroom slippers (ew, dirty). Oh did I not mention? I'm the only Singaporean on the 5th floor. LOL >_< And my floor has a lot of ang mohs. Thank goodness it's an upper level though, because nicer view, air and (hopefully) less bugs. We'll see.

I'm also going to blog about NYC later on. For now, I guess I'll just put on some photos! Excited???

Money no enough 2, Cultural Walk

2008-08-06T18:02:00.003+08:00

5 days to New York for a short holiday...THEN!!!A flight to Buffalo, and then to the campus.

So exciting, yet kinda unprepared. I know I should've started but I haven't really started packing. There's like, an exam tomorrow, hello, which I so don't feel like mugging for. Come'on! Gee. This is so irritating. It's for our advertising class, and what we gotta do for this 30% exam is MEMORIZE EVERY SINGLE THING from this three pages of notes I printed out. WORD-FOR-WORD. It sucks, and it makes no sense. -shrugs-

Why do we memorize things like that? It's bad! Okay, okay a just a little while more. I'll be done with this exam and then I'll start packing then HOLIDAY! Then I'll be off to the U.S. Oh gosh. Don't know what to say.

I'm gonna have a roommate named Raven Moon, from Birmingham, UK. I keep imagining what she's gonna be like. I shouldn't be so pessimistic. Haha. I shall hope for the very best. Because I COME WHAT MAY! I will survive! (LOL)

Gotta be prepared for the cold weather that's probably coming in mid-september too. OOOH preparations. I'm such a last minute kid.

Guess what. Freaking medical consultation fee was $25! And it was just taking blood pressure, height, and weight, and asking the doctor to fill out a form. FREAKING SUCKS. WTH. Cheat people's money. So unfair. I think next time I gotta go to a cheaper clinic, like I don't know. National Clinic or something.

Oh oh! And I found out that blackish green lump beside my eyebrow is a cyst. Disgust! The doc said that it's only removable surgically. Whatever! I shall wait for it to eventually subside. Sigh.

I went on an adventure yesterday. Haha. A cultural and historical journey. Yeah right. Okay, so anyway, Big Aunt and mum and I watched Money No Enough 2, and we went up that super long flight of stairs to Mount Sophia (sorry, not Mt. Sinai -_-"), and went to look around Old School (nice place). Afterwards, we walked down the road to see their old school, Nan Hwa Girls Secondary School or something, which is a Youth Hostel now. Took a few pictures and heard a few stories. So nice. :) Apart from the one about their school's jaga. And took a few pictures of the old shophouses too. Then we walked a lot, went to Hotel Rendezvous and had our dinner at this place with a lot of curry dishes. -spicy-licious-

next lomographic camera shall be a COLORSPLASH CAMERA LOVE EDITION

2008-07-29T01:15:00.004+08:00

My next lomographic camera shall be a COLORSPLASH CAMERA LOVE EDITION!
I'm so loving it:
Cute RIGHT?

Look at that! On the left. The one on the right is the Ice Bear edition. It's so cool!

So random...

My morning ride to school~

2008-07-25T09:29:00.003+08:00

It's 9.26am on a Friday and I'm supposed to be in class now!
Why am I blogging here? Haha; good question. That's because I was late! For 13 minutes no less. Thank goodness I didn't run up the stairs. Would've puked out my breakfast.

Guess what. The usual 5 minutes ride from my house to Clementi Mrt station took 20+ minutes today. MIRACULOUS. No, not really, it's actually quite normal at that timing. Honestly, sucks. I got on the bus at 9.35am, the bus reached mrt at around 10am, then I reached SIM at 10.10am. Took 3 mins to take the escalator up. WHAT THE HECK.

The bus driver was "so nice" he was desperately trying to squeeze everyone up the bus, even offering to tap their cards and ask them to go to the back to squeeze! I managed to squeeze up this already sardine-packed bus, and DARN, I should've just waited for the next bus, which is probably much more comfortable and then I wouldn't have to get smacked by the opening and closing front doors so many times!

OH OH! Guess what, there's this road, I don't even notice what's the road name called after staying there for my whole life, that's outside Nan Hua Primary School. The junction there is absolutely horrendous. Gotta wait super long for the traffic light to turn GREEN!!! So, as there was a lot of traffic on the road today, we probably waited like, THREE TO FOUR rotations MAN!!! GAWD~!

So many hours spent to watch movies!

2008-07-21T12:21:00.005+08:00

So many hours spent to watch movies!

Wanted - James McAvoy!
You Don't Mess with the Zohan - "the most boring show I've ever watched in cinema apart from Daddy Day Care"
La Vie En Rose - "a Nimegue - Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien"
Sharkwater - Let's stop eating shark's fin. Drink chicken broth with mushroom for texture instead. :(
Daisy - sob sob sob
Hotel Rwanda - "oh this is so horrible" and then they go back eating their dinner?? - J. Phoenix
SOPHIE SCHOLL - Despise that janitor. A million other things they could've done to avoid arrest and still let their idea live? Well, hmmm.
Batman: The Dark Knight - Oh this is so terrifying.

23 DAYS to NEW YORK.

2008-07-20T02:02:00.006+08:00

AWW heart-pain!

I spent quite a sum of money yesterday. Emptied my wallet till I had just 10 cents coins left. Let me count...

$3.80 - chicken rice
$2.50 - mango sago dessert
$12 - develop fisheye film
$15 - passport photos
$15 - isic (international student identity card)
$1.60 - pl
$1.10 - bus fare (coins only!)
$12.50/3 (dvd rental)
= $55.15

*FAINTS*
In ONE DAY! That's like, more than my one week allowance gone!

And I'm not telemarketing anymore! The reason was really lame. Guess what, one fine noon, Joyce the secretary called me while I was still sleeping to tell us we need not go to work anymore. BECAUSE allegedly "AIA" found out about our "telemarketing undercover movement", and warned the "team" that they got to stop it, as they are only allowed to do so through a call centre.

That's how it is. Then again, it might just be because we really heck care about the job, and are not giving as good results as they expect. Dudes, well we know there's a reason you guys really hate it and are hiring people like us to do this job for your. Yeah well! It's not AS easy as you think to fix appointments through the phone with a screwed up list of contacts and a sucky script.

My two cents worth.

So again, I got my fisheye pictures back in an hour after sending it for developing, which is so cool! I am so proud of it, and have already put them all in a photo album which I lovingly designed a cover for. Wow. You should see it. It rocks. Haha. Okay, sounds like I'm bragging, but I'm completely loving it. Some of the photos were too dark, but the majority of it are oh-so-awesome.

The last one of my house and the street sign was my absolute pride and glory. Haha. (NAH, I'm completely exaggerating) ... Now I know which film's good for my fisheye lomo cam. -perfecto-!!!

Let me countdown...
23 DAYS to NEW YORK.

And I haven't packed at all. My luggage's not bought, due to me going at the wrong time. You see, last friday I was at People's Park with Eileen and the store at which I ordered my LOGEL luggage from wasn't even open! That was absolutely disappointing. However, she got herself a POLO luggage!!! (LOL) It looked pretty good. I don't know how to "evaluate" quality but it looked like it would last. 3 locks too! Would kill time to unlock it. Haha.

I think I'm gonna upload a few pictures from my fisheye to my blog! Scanned them into the computer. My laptop's been pretty slow, so I've cleared up some space from the drives. Sadly, not enough from my C:// because it's quite senseless that it's only 15gb, when it's like, the "main" drive. UNGH- Brainless Acer. Or it might be some kind of virus? OH NO! Then that's bad. Sometimes all the applications will suddenly go blank, like completely stall, and then it would take up to like, 30 seconds for it to SLOWLY load and restore itself back to normal. It is completely annoying and frustrating.

Here's an excerpt:

How's that?

Ahhh~ Chilling out to "THE TRICK TO LIFE" - by The Hoosiers

A post of recent doings.

2008-07-14T00:45:00.004+08:00

I stumble when I'm writing this. It's 12.45am and I haven't started studying for my mass comm theory quiz tomorrow. I just ate salmon sushi and tuna sushi. This is building up onto something isn't it?

Not really.

I'm still thinking where on Earth I put the video camera after I brought it home (or did I?) from filming my school project last year. I can't find it, and I'm beginning to panic. What if I didn't bring it home? Gee~

And I can't concentrate on what I want to blog now, because mother's shouting really loudly with an aunt over the phone. Haha. Very funny. It's such a joke. They're getting very agitated. And I'm getting superbly pissed at the environmental noise pollution. Aiyo!

I think I got to wake up early to study.

Yesterday I woke at 9.30am to jog at the track, saw 5 squirrels on a tree, and one of them was on a really low branch, chewing at a huge -I don't know what-, some kind of nut. Also, I finished taking photos on my fisheye! 36 clacks and a film of roll is done! OH OH! I watched The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Devil Wears Prada too. What a predictable ending for TDWP. Oh yeah, both THEs. How epic is that. -snickers-

This is getting very stale~~~

Watching the SIA website for so long for the 11th August price to drop back to $3007 was mind-numbing, but I booked the tickets! YAY. 12th August though. Well, we'll just see... if can change then alright, otherwise, just let it be. :)

give me something to write about.

2008-07-09T23:30:00.001+08:00

give me something to write about.

I'm so gonna faint.

2008-06-24T01:02:00.004+08:00

I'm so gonna faint. Singapore Airlines is so EXPENSIVE!!! I mean the tickets to New York. Wah I'm really gonna faint. The prices just keep hiking and hiking. As of before 12am, I saw the only $2931 prices .... dropped to very limited days. And now the cheapest fare is $3015. WTH!!! And the dates that were supposedly unavailable or something became available. I think. Or not. Maybe not. BUT IT SUCKS! IT'S SO EXPENSIVE!

I can't believe it man...

Should've booked super early. I remember January, I was checking, and the tix was like $2400 round trip, after tax! So it's really SUCKY NOW MAN!!! That it has increased SO FREAKING DICKIN' MUCH.

sigh...

I was watching a bit of Wimbledon on tv just now. Djokovich = joker.
Haha. Big bro told me to search for his impressions of Sharapova and Nadal. WTH. Okay, he's funny. Hahahaa...

Played tennis last week at Jiahui jie's place with my bros and her. Was so funny. Hahaha. The balls just kept flying out of the court. So fun! Wanna play again after the exams are over. Then we went up to her place to see Bobby the parrot! WHOOT... cute. But noisy. Oh he's a cockatoo. I think. Is it? The white with yellow crown. Yeah. Anyway. He was let out to play with us. And he's so darn SMART! Then, we head down to West Coast's Macs in the heavy rain. It was just chilling out, and then I had to go to work! Which is rubbish anyway. SO!!!

I did quite badly for MGM 404's presentation. Sucks. Desai is really THE SAI. Sai man. Rubbish. Crappy lecturer hands down. LOL.

OHHH random fleeting impulsive thoughts:

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Suspenders ... me likey these designs!

1) http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/store/product.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302028825&PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524442169807&bmUID=1214240067337
2) http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/store/product.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302028825&PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524442175773&bmUID=1214240067304

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ And this turquoise and black sunglasses:

http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/store/product.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302028566&PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524442176875&bmUID=1214241166026

_MAKE ME HAPPY_
I'm listening to Yellowcard's newest album {Paper Walls}
Oh it so rocks, oh Ryan Key and the gang. HAHAHA.
_LOVE LOVE LOVE_♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
randomlyrics:
-do you remember when, how long has it been?-

Things I want:

2008-06-18T01:24:00.007+08:00

Things I really want!!!

http://fredflare.com/customer/product.php?productid=3692&cat=348&bf=cto#
YUM!!!

SOOOO! Isn't this cool or what. (http://www.forever21.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=FOREVER21&category%5Fname=sunglasses&product%5Fid=1051074206&Page=all#)

And it's only US$6.80. :D :D

Until then... I will gawk at this wayfarer...

http://www.forever21.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=FOREVER21&category%5Fname=sunglasses&product%5Fid=1047436019&Page=all

Actually, sunglasses that I want. HAHAHA.

Don't mind the blue and green ones too. WAYYY nice.
Can I have all please? OH ALL!!! I want them all! Haha.
Alright alright. Stop dreaming. If I don't get two appointments tomorrow I will not order. If I can get 2, I'll order at least one! Alright? YES! THAT is my goal.

OHHHH! MY GOSH! AFTER TYPING ALL THAT I REALIZED GOJANE.COM has even CHEAPER sunnies!!! And the designs... are ... about the same as the above. WHOOT!

wants the white one with a red stripe: http://gojane.com/26950.html (yumyum)

I WANT TO MAKE BLOGSKINS! I WANT TO MAKE GRAPHICS!

2008-06-12T23:45:00.002+08:00

I WANT TO MAKE BLOGSKINS! I WANT TO MAKE GRAPHICS!
I don't want to go to work tomorrow.
I want to slack!!!
Let's just pretend I didn't know.

Currently creating a blogskin called: COUNTRY.DISCO!
Whoot. I don't know what is it all about. What a sudden inspiration.
Tomorrow will be an early day! Gotta wake up and go to the U.S. Embassy for my Visa interview :/ Sulk- It's FREAKING EXPENSIVE. USD$100 + SGD183.40 :( :( :(

I gotta bring my old passport and new passport and then they are gonna keep my passport till monday! And then! I gotta spend another $10 at the photo machine coz' we need a 5x5cm photo. And I still gotta print some forms.

AWWWW. And I got assignments to complete too! And we haven't watched Sex and the City!!! Why?? Lol. Haven't watched a movie for SO LONG. HMMS. Ok maybe not so long, but oh well.

Here's the part I sign off, listening to Yellowcard's Paper Walls.

frea$%*king frustrating

2008-06-07T02:57:00.004+08:00

Work today was frea*$*%*king frustrating. I skipped my meds, and then! and then!

I can't stand that blurdy yaya papaya guy.

Yeah.

Say it aint so,
I will not go,
turn the lights off,
carry me home
Na, na.......
Late night, come home
Work sucks, I know!!!!
-blink 182 - ALL THE SMALL THINGS-

It's always better on holiday
So much better on holiday
That's why we only work when
We need the money
-Franz Ferdinand

Watched "A MOMENT TO REMEMBER" on Channel U, ahh all the melodramatic Korean movies... so horrible to watch. :(

Then again, not bad to pass time...
It's Mom's 50th BDAY! That's cool. 10 years ago I was 9 and she was 40, I remember when she was 30+! LOL, it's like WHOA. That's so long ago. Anyways, I just wanna lay back and rest~ What a hectic week. People've been so weird these days.

MEANNESS!!!

WHY IS EVERYONE SO EMOTIONAL???

Today is the day I lost my voice.

2008-06-04T01:08:00.003+08:00

Today is the day I lost my voice - at some moments. Luckily I could answer properly to the lecturers during class. Aiyahhh but if my voice super zhao xia like now, I would've gotten away for not speaking in class :(

I feel totally weird and I really should stop talking so much, and more like preserve my voice. I finally relented and went to see a doctor today, so I can finally get proper meds, like antibiotics and stuff. The doctor was so unfriendly, gee. And he didn't take my temperature. I was like, his last patient so whatever. And it was my first time visiting that National Clinic. Dr. Chia wasn't in, so it was another doctor, whom I don't even know. Yeah, so the staff were REALLY REALLY slow as well. Like, they were sort of taking their own sweet time, and I think HL Clinic at Telok Blangah is like way better. LOL.

Why am I like evaluating clinics now? Right, so both were okay and on par with the prices, so yeah, I'm alright with that. My nose feels a little better now. MMM. Yup. But I haven't gotten my voice back yet, so I really wonder how I will go about tomorrow's telemarketing.

Our consumer behaviour lecturer was so weird today, and freaking sarcastic. I'm like, yeah whatever... I am so sick, and I don't wish to answer questions, so stop freaking picking on us 'coz we're quiet. Whatever.

ARGHHH! Save me. I wanna sleep soon, then I'll wake a little early tomorrow just so I can see whether my cough has gotten okay. :D Today was quite horrible. Now, my voice is completely haywire. I was just talking to my mother, and we're like laughing at my no voice. Hahahaha. Can't talk properly. :(

Work and Blog and Flu just SUCKS

2008-06-03T01:35:00.004+08:00

Whoa, I really need to get to bed soon. I'm having a horrible cough and flu, well. I've had more horrible ones, but right now, it's on off, and now my nose is totally blocked I can hardly breathe. This sucks. I really hope I can get much better tomorrow. Had some pills to try to get rid of it...

OH Yeah! I watched...
27 Dresses
Across the Universe
Windstruck

YAY!

Cool. Just completed 27 Dresses. What a sweet chick-flick. Ah yea, not bad at all. :) Happy feel good show. Hahaha. Windstruck made me wanna cry but I'm stubborn and I always try to hold back my tears. AWWWW.

I love the songs in Across the Universe. But I don't know how I'd feel about them after listening to the real Beatles version. Haa~ Jim Sturgess!

Alright! So last wednesday I started work right, well I guess it's alright. Caught up and stuck sometimes but it's "alriight". Haha. Today (well monday), we went over again, and Loisa joined Eileen and I to be telemarketers too! LOL! Laugh out loud. This is so funny. We hear each other talk on the phone in the "SHANGHAI" Room. Okay whatever. So...

My nose is like totally blocked now, oh pardon me. Yeah right! Ok, I'm going crazy.

Today's marketing research class I was honestly dozing off. It was so grrrrh! Can't stay awake. Awhile I was alright, then sleepy, then alright.. HAHAHA. SO gotta be kidding me. At the front some more. Goodness.

Went home quite late... well 10+, not exactly super late, but quite. So dad was like, "wah study until so late come back ah, you very good ah" - erm in mandarin. SUPER SARCASTIC. Whatever. So anyway, it was alright..

We got a whole room to ourselves! With a special knocking code. (laugh out loud wth)

Time to sleep! The ride home was so "farney", wah crazy man... 110km/h in another Subaru Impreza. What's with guys and Subarus?

OH OH! yesterday I just had this crazy dumb inspiration and I wrote some dumb and weird rhyming phrases and added a crazy tune to it. HAH. Absolutely idiotic. :D :D ;D

Cute young pigeons!!! Caught one on my FISHEYE!

I really oughta brace myself and don't be too self conscious to take pictures like, of anything and think people will think I'm weird if I took a picture of a hydrant or like a tiny little seedling.

Weirdly speaking

2008-05-31T00:18:00.003+08:00

370th post.

Somehow, felt all out of sorts when I woke up this morning.

OH SO THIS IS HOW A FOCUS GROUP WORKS. not bad. not bad.
So dazed... watching windstruck now. And I'm feeling like a woodblock for the whole day already. Till now...

haaaiz. funny show. but i'm afraid of watching the end.. because I know something sad will happen. GEE. Stupid!!!!

My week!

2008-05-26T01:30:00.005+08:00

WHOA, I haven't blogged about the past week! Alright, here it goes... with photos! I shan't be lazy and I shall fill my blog with photographs! *HOPE*

Well, school has started for a week, and I think it's not so bad. The lecturers are NOT so bad. I won't sleep during their classes, and am able to pay attention to them teaching. Since it's a really small class, for both consumer behaviour and marketing research, it's more interactive and informal! I think our consumer behaviour teacher the pattern, A BIT, ok la, maybe not... a bit like a funny character I know. Our Spanish/ French/ Southern American lecturer with a strong accent is quite an interesting character. Well, she has a pretty interesting look and omygoodness, the accent... lucky I can understand her, and she is pretty alright, otherwise, can faint.

What else, oh! Last monday, before classes started, I went to play tennis and swim with L and E! We were at Lu's condo and to tell you the truth, we pretty much SUCKED big time at playing tennis. It was my first time playing, and I'm like, come on' man. This is crazy. We just kept running here and there picking up balls, and once the ball flew over the court fence, and onto the road, and the security guard laughed at US! And we were the only silly people who were playing tennis in the red hot sunny Singapore afternoon. WE were totally psycho. (LOL) The sun was burning so badly that I got totally "out-of-gas". So after around an hour of running around like mad women, we headed off to Haato! The place where we ate funny flavoured ice creams. I tried milk tea! There was this sweet potato with don't know what and green tea with red bean. WHOA (:p) Lu gave us a treat, thank you so much! What a nice treat.

Next up, we went to the pool, which is so nice, to relax! There was a jacuzzi, and a nice pool where we hung out, and even a tanning pool! So COOL! I wondered whether there was a sauna and steam room, and they found out that YEAH! There actually is! That rocks. Free!!!

(LOL)

I haven't got any photos from that yet, because I didn't bring my camera that day. (hehe)

Anyway, I GOT MY LOMOGRAPHY FISHEYE CAMERA! The YELLOW one! It is sooooo COOL! So sweet, and it's a lil' greenish, more yellow. It is so cool, I am so excited. :D We took a few photos already, but it's still 2 - 3 weeks I guess before I'll finish the roll. I'll use it sparingly, and I want ALL of the photos to look good!!!

Also, I went for a job interview to get a telemarketing part time job! So fun. I hope I'll do well, and clinch as much appointments for my cousin as possible. Went with Eileen last friday, after we ate lunch at Ikea. I had Poached Salmon!!! Yum. And this lady gave Eileen a coupon, so we got 2 free drinks! (COooOOLness)

After that, we went to look for Loisa at Vivocity! Hung out at Forever 21 for like an hour, lol and I bought 2 tops! Total = $44!!! And they were long sleeved, and very nice! HEHEHE. Well, no photos :( I haven't thought of taking any yet. GEEE! Then we met up with Eileen's friends Gwen and Jiaxin. They are supremely fast walkers. WHOA-NESS. And my pants were so restricting, and my bag felt so heavy, I just couldn't keep up! I know, but really, I could've walked faster if I weren't wearing tight jeans. LOL. And the weather was supremely hot even though it was at night! That's honestly amazingly scary. Alright, so we went to QQMian, and then the Peranakan Museum! Nice place. The air con rocked! And the exhibits were interesting.

On Saturday, we went for High Tea at Novotel with my Mom, xiao jiu jiu, 4th aunt, 3rd aunt, and my two brothers. It was so fun because my big brother loaded the film into my fisheye and we finally began shooting! We had LOADS of food, and extreme amounts of dessert. Doesn't sound right. But yeah, you know. We had A LOT of dessert. The chocolate fountain was SO chocolatey, but the CAKES AND WHATEVER ROCKS! I mean, I REALLY REALLY like them! Really. Then, because I was wearing my new shoes, and it was like, size 38, although I could fit in them, the wedge means added pressure to my toes. Walking after awhile became UNBEARABLE! And I chose to go shopping at Orchard with Eileen, Loisa and Jiaxin. LOL. At last, it was Eileen meet Jiaxin first, and Loisa and I catch up later. Our feet were begging us to stop walking or get out of those shoes. But when we went to Wisma, the shoes were all either not nice, not flats we like, or too expensive. We were more like limping that walking and or more like, walking SUPER duper slowly. Hahaha. At last, after resting at Food Republic for awhile, we walked to Far East Plaza! Crazy. But alas! I bought my rescue shoes. 2 pairs of Mondo shoes, one flats for rescue and one for fun. It is turquoise and it's nice! LOL. For dinners only. 2 for $15! Crazy cheap. That's because they're clearance, though they still look pretty good. Haha.

Went back to Clementi and had zhi char with Dad and Big Bro... pretty yummy! And it's quite cheap too, and off home to continue watching BATMAN BEGINS! WHOOTS!

P.S. I got myself a Johnny Depp autobiography for $10 and the Audio Technica ONTO anniversary edition - Green color!!! So happy :D

SO! ANYWAY, ALL THE IMAGE UPLOADING TOOLS SEEM TO BE FAILING ON ME! it's like, 2.20am now, and I can't wait anymore. Shall upload tomorrow.

Movie time!

2008-05-16T00:41:00.004+08:00

Guess what people?!

I watched The Forbidden Kingdom yesterday! Jet Li as Monkey King, whoa. Jackie Chan and Jet Li fighting, WHOA! WHOA!

Anyway, it's really dumb, because I honestly remembered it being called, "Forbidden Kingdom", and when we were at the box office, I said, "The Forbidden City". (WTH) Guess what the lady at the counter did. (pauses for a second) The Forbidden (emphasizing) KINGDOM. And all along she had a poker face. Honestly, how embarassing. But it's alright! It was funny, and I laughed all the way to the restroom. Guess what?! We went into the theatre LATE! Missed the starting, I don't know, 3 minutes? Or so? Went to youtube to check it out.

So, today, I went to watch IRONMAN! Kenneth was the one who suggested and in the end, he was SO busy, it ended up being only Loisa and I watching. It's alright! Haha, we bought the presents we needed to buy for the MAY people... so so so so many. Haha ok nah, it's alright. Nice stuff! TONY STARK IS LIKE, COOL. IRONMAN IS LIKE, COOL! He is such a joker. Duh, such a smart guy (haha). Tony here tony there, stark here stark there. His machines in his garage are dang cool. DARN, we missed the last part you KNOW?! Didn't stay for the credits. But managed to see a lousy quality version on youtube. Oh well! Too bad, we had to rush off to the toilet. Both of us had weird stomach problems today. Ached like don't know WHAT! And we ate ice cream! We are INDEED CRAZY. Went to the toilet again and again hahaha.

Afterwards, we went to check out the toy machines, and I put in $2. Before that I was saying, wah this better work, but it MIGHT NOT WORK. And Loisa mentioned, who are we gonna call if it DOESN'T work? Guess what, sure enough. IT DIDN'T WORK! I put the $2 in, and when I turned it, nothing came out when it's actually FULL. (HUH?) We did follow instructions! Gee! Anyway, in the end, after like, what seemed like super long, I finally got back my $2. Haha. And guess what, I said that we'd better not try it again. (laugh out loud) How suay can we get?

We went to HMV, and I saw the Audio Technica headphones I REALLY REALLY WANT TO GET again! Before that, I saw it at Best Denki, then HMV! $35 at Best, but $34.95 and $32 at HMV! Weird, only the yellow one is $32. But there's this special colour, that is something like green and brown, but it's really "special", like what the tag says, and I really really really WANT TO GET IT. Can we like, go back down to HMV again so that I can get it? I think for headphones from A.T., the price is alright? Japanese brand, pretty good I guess. The 1st anniversary something limited edition special! Gee! I MUST get it! Whoot.

When am I going back there again? I so rarely go there! Haha...

OH HOW CAN I FORGET?
You know how bad we are at coordinating to take the same train at dover? Well, here's something funny. We both can take 106 to orchard, but we went on at different bus stops. So, I was like, yeah bus is so hard, we better don't. In the end, we happened to take the same bus there! I was like, I just reached the bus stop, if your bus is not there yet, we might have a chance of taking the same bus together. Our unplanned meeting was so ... hilarious. Gee! The ride there was pretty long, but when I tell stories, hahaha! The rides become SHORT! See? SEE? Not so torturous right? RIGHT! SAY IT SAY IT! Okay, so I was greedy and went straight towards the guy giving out free samples of chocolate cake.
HAHHA! Hey! I was so game for it, and was like, YEAH! IF I CAN HAVE FREE CHOCOLATE, NO ONE CAN STOP ME! In the end, it was all just a whole crap of embarassment for me, and Loisa and more me. Right, coz the stupid Gloria Jeans cake was so SOFT, they stuck a toothpick in, it kept slipping out whenever I try to pick a piece up, which is full of CRAP. CRAP I TELL YOU! I think I just threw my face on the floor and stepped on it.

JUMBO SEAFOOD!

2008-05-12T00:50:00.003+08:00

Well! Friday's dinner was exceptionally ...

expensive.

However, it was pretty GOOD! *yum yum*

We had it at the Singapore Indoor Stadium's Jumbo Seafood Restaurant. I exceptionally loved the dessert. Guess what that is! Well, Owh Ngee (lar). Anyway, the man tou dipped into crab sauce was so awesome! And of course, the crab meat! -Yikes-

Salivating in progress. LOL.

So it doesn't matter that I woke up early Friday morning. Haha. One thing though, 197 is horrid during peak hours. Say, from my place to Clarke Quay mrt. It takes like 1 + hours there. And that day, the bus was awfully packed and it was SO SO slow! Horrible!

However, I just heard from a friend, that another friend's grandfather has passed away. Looked up the obituaries in the newspapers... maybe I should send a little condolence message to her.

Today is such a weird day. Okay, so my younger brother broke the bicycle pump and we can't go cycling because the back tyre for one of the bikes is flat. Oh WELL! -rolls eyes- Crap. What else... what else... right right... So we played badminton! Yikes. Fun-ness.

Right, anyway, some people are like so weird. And I really dislike people's crappy actions and whatever. Honestly, just freaking grow up. Surely at this age... gee.

The day they flew my aeroplane

2008-05-09T13:40:00.003+08:00

Garn! I was super angry this morning, that I had to... I just had to blog about it. Although the tv viewing (sort of) cooled me down, I was exceptionally peeved about this MORNING. Last night, I slept at about 3.30am, well all because I turned on my computer to find out what was going on with today's East Coast Park outing.

So this morning was a disaster. I stumbled out of bed and sent out an sms that I was sleepy but I'm going to sleep on the bus ride. Then! Everyone seemed like they cannot make it. If it's just the two of us, well DUH, we west side people won't go all the way to the East to freaking cycle. WTH.

So *suay* this day was. And I already changed and did my morning routine, ready to go out. Even when I thought this day wouldn't be wasted. Well.

The moral of the story is:

Do not trust an unenthusiastic crowd of people to organize a early morning outing in the middle of the night before that outing and be the only fool to even imagin carrying out with the plans.

I'm not exactly EXTREMELY ANGRY now. Because time heals all wounds? Haha. Minor ones that is. This is not an extremely grave matter but I just feel that my "aeroplane was flown". Like you know *pang seh*.

So I was bloody peeved and now I shall just chill out at home. When my mother comes down later (hahaha). She'll be snickering at me with that sarcastic one breath laugh of hers.

okay so she came down... and she was more bewildered or puzzled.

Save her.

2008-05-08T02:22:00.004+08:00

Some people are extremely irritating to deal with. They promise you something, then they change their mind in a split second. They say one thing, but actually meant something else. I really dislike indecisive, beat around the bush time wasters. Just freaking chill and stop taking everyone with you on a panic-ridden time ride. The tempo is too fast and I guess it's too fast for me. It's an absolute waste of time using my computer today. I should've just stuck to reading Marley and Me. It's a much better way of spending time. It's so late now and it's all my fault because I chose to stay up so late when I already promised myself last night that I will sleep at 12am. Sucks. This SUCKS. Last night's swimming sucked. Everyone sucked. The pool was full, I find no meaning in going for classes anymore. It's always the same old same and it's as if I can go through the class myself. It wouldn't cost $25 a month then. Aww crap. This sucks. An emo ranger has fallen to the grasp of the dark side.

Save her.

Well at least I burned the dvd data disc. Great because I could free up some space on my bloody D drive. My C drive is beyond hope. I don't know what to do. The Hives and The Hoosiers and Jack Johnson has been keeping me company. I shall listen to Stereophonics soon. I missed their concert but it's alright. I don't really care. Haha.

The holidays are almost over. We're supposedly going to go to the same old same bicyling trip at East Coast. Well. Well. We'll see about that then. It's time to sleep now.

I feel my eyesight frailing. I shall not spend so much time in front of the computer anymore. This time I shall listen to The Hoosiers sing:

"The Trick to Life is not to get too attached to it"

I'M BORING!

2008-05-06T00:56:00.004+08:00

I'm boring and I've got nothing to blog right?

Well.

If this sounds interesting...:
Last week.
Wednesday: shopping @ Robinsons with Mother - the stuff are coming only this wednesday! how sucky? Still waiting...
Thurs (Labour Day): Sitting at home staring at the computer screen, dinner out
Fri: What did I do? Out to OG and pluck eyebrows
Saturday: Sit and stare, evening out to Uncle's house (whee~)
Sunday: Sit and stare (dinner out)
Monday: Sit and stare (felt like a bird in a cage staying home the whole day)
Not really actually.

I WATCHED STARDUST today! + the blooper reel, the making of and the deleted scenes! So worth it! Ahhh. I'm gawking over it again. It's all too funny. Haha. Exceptional!

There you have it! My day to day report on what I'm doing with my holidays. Specially compiled for my honestly loyal reader. (haha *wink wink*)

Will we go to Macau? Will we will we? We'll see.

Wee the holidays :D

2008-04-29T22:49:00.005+08:00

a long unwinding weekend + 2 days of the week.

geee.

spent a lot of money.

made good cheesecake.

hung out with my two great friends.

stencilled through the night

slept at 5am

bought silkscreen paint and stencil brushes

pretend to rehearse for a play in the park

sat on a swing on a sunny sunday afternoon

got stuck trying to get out of the little whale kiddy ride

saw a bat hanging from a pavillion on a lazy sunday afternoon

walked SIX kilometres and scared a dog

knocked a head whilst playing with another dog

bought stardust dvd (original mind you) for $12.50

watched the other boelyn girl

and bought a pair of navy stockings... for $8

a woman said my eyebrows look like a guys' and (she is a little crazy) said we bargained for FUN (I find her absolutely flabbergastingly funny, I don't know why. She amuses me. Maybe it's her dressing)

tried ms. clarity cafe and arnolds!

ate dessert at people's park centre.

got my jack johnson "sleep through the static" cd from gramaphone.

had a haircut at kimage when we walked by the funan hair academy

it cost $9 and was a lot of "FIRSTS" for me

we had a lot to talk about a simple, slow, long, $9 haircut

the hairdresser was ang-moh. she had a funny accent

I customized my fringe. I never talked so much about my hairstyle to a hairdresser.

they always do their own thing on my hair.

that was my first time cutting my hair with friends

it was so funny

took a whole lot of photos

run out of cash in my wallet

and I say, the week's still young.

MXylo

Pink and Green Macaroons!

theoldbrolly

Impulsive lunch choices, strategise career, microblogging

social media

Shantou Day 1 & 2

Gruffy 40 yr olds!

Mark Ruffalo Films

Date Night with Momma Date

I thought of my old laptop and it's rescue mission.

My Deadly Deadbeat Routine

(500) Days of Summer

Diana Aviator

Vanity @ the body shop!

IT'S BEEN A MONTH! I MISS 'EM!

F everything.

Some moments from the Green Day concert

HAMSTER PUPS

NEW PORTFOLIO!

Twig Fairy

Hello Mr. Chuck.

Contract is ending and I've got no plans in mind.

I am so getting this pair of Chucks!

GREENDAY Live in Singapore 2010

Lesson learnt: Do not take things for granted.

MY TEDDYBEAR AND HONEYBEAR WHEREFORE ART THOU?!

Coffee escape

GIMME AN EFFIN BREAK COME ON!

WHY IS MY BLOG SO DEAD?!

最近比较烦

Just slap me.

Orphan and formatting problems

COFFEE COMING BACK!

Bye Coffee, You've been a real dear pet.

NEED 2 Sell.

jobless for... FOUR MONTHS!

Graduation 2009, Art Galleries

Hamsters Update Yo!

These Days.

I want lomo cameras. + more photos!

Our first pets!

Finally a pet (hopefully)?

JZ decided to be nice and to post photos!

Unofficially Graduated and Jobless

SO MANY DRAMAS, so little time

My lecturer is such a bitch!!! LOL!

‘Idol’ translator

To those who watched Twilight and have made love over Robert Pattinson

Stupid University Police

我真的看你不顺眼。

做好人, 做坏人！

Asian Movie craze

Things I've done in the past month and the first week of March...

MY MUSIC FETISH!

What you want??

Outburst of Satisfaction

It is an opinion.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

Green Day's 2009 Album

Yoga and NYC

Valentines Day

FREAKING USELESS BUFFALO JUNK MAIL, CNY Photos

Happy Chinese New Year!

Love for Gadgets

What a beautiful mess this is

Little update

Homecoming UB Game - Bulls vs. Army

Exciting Friday Night -- Homecoming/ Family/ True Blue Weekend

The Kite Runner Talk, pictures from my room, Fall ahead!

Updates of Buffalo.

Laptop crashes

Darien Lake Coasters Rock

Apple-picking animated images

My Room Decor, Some purchases, and 2 beautiful scenery photos

A word of thought to someone so hopeful

A mini recap

Ohh precious milk!

Lava Lamp

28th August 2008, Wednesday

An update in Buffalo

frea$%*king frustrating