baby's birthday high tea

had high tea at equinox. lovely view. food was quite ok. loved the ambience, there's something about stuffing your face 70 floors above the ground with your own personal pot of earl grey and an international buffet spread.

i made it a personal mission to try and sample one piece of everything. it was not easy. i failed.

the pizza photo below is important. it showed me what spot metering can do compared to normal metering. doesn't the colour and exposure make the pizza look more scrumptious?

didn't take the sushi coz baby said it was nothing special. Moved on to dessert!

as stated above...mission failed. really too many things to cover already. and we sat there from start to end, 3pm to 5pm. i had no time nor space to cover the ice cream, assorted brownies and scones. this kinda thing need special training. i forsee i will try again someday in the future.

We then proceeded to walk around the area where we saw some cute TVs at the newly opened electronics area at suntec.

at the end of the day, was too full to eat any dinner even though we were suppose to meet dickson for dinner coz his birthday is one day earlier than babe's, so paiseh. so sorry bro! in fact we were so full that there was a maximum speed limit to our walking, any faster i think we'd puke.

after that, watched some local thingie by sebastian tan in the recital studio of esplanade. rather entertaining.

anyways,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE AND BRO!

love=hate

do we always end up hating the things we love? not in a relationship context but just the things we do. if we could live life by our dreams and gifts, i think i'd be doing something musically related. yet i know, that if were to be in MEP last time, i would've hated it to the core.

i used to love science, math and physics. but now all this crap leaves nothing but a bad taste in my mouth. can passions be taken too far that they become a drudgery? i sit here pondering wtf i'm studying. it doesn't even really make sense to me

none of it does. i'm not happy doing this. the only things that keep me going are my other joys in life, mainly family, friends and loved ones. have you ever wondered what's the purpose of your life?

i'm still trying to find that answer, cause almost everything other than my personal life seems meaningless right now. going to be 25 and yet no meaning...wtf.

yes, the world holds many beautiful things, but in the end, if we stop and smell the roses, that often means that we're falling behind one way or another. and yet, if one has no money but sees beauty in everything, can he be truly happy?

how are you going to affect the world today?...makes me pensive...and a tad distraught.

botak jones burger with three patties

looks small here

looks big here

looks even smaller here

the burger served as breakfast, lunch and dinner. one patty for each meal. overall verdict: not particularly tasty, quite filling but honestly i thought it'd be bigger. had it been tastier, i am certain that i would finish it without problems. after all, there's only so much bland meat one can take.

God bless america...

they sure as hell seem like they need it. at least from this video. thanks once again Alvin for this interesting link.

Just a note, some people think that this video could be the product of good editing. but i'll leave you to decide.

goodbye old friend...

even though i have known you for only half a year, you have been great, always being open when i need you.you gave me space when i needed it, and helped to keep my room tidy. whenever i told you to give me more space, you always could. what more could i ask?how much thanks can i give?

even though it was only half a year, but i felt you had known me for ages, so much so that when i look around i can still find traces of you in my life that sparks off memories of your marvelous capacity to give.

the walls speak your name...

i'm sure i'll move along and find new things. but i'm pretty sure life won't be half as great as when you were there for me.

thrown into a new space, things always seem to start ok in the beginning, everything always seems to fit...

but things almost never stay the same...the field isn't always level, the ground isn't always even and to top it all, things just slowly drift from how they were in the beginning.

what i'm trying to say is that nothing can replace you and what you had to offer. now all i see is emptiness. and all i can do is retreat back into my tiny new world...

Alas, goodbye, my old cupboard...

backslash is a strange thing

some links can take an extra one, some just give you a bad request. even though it was working before. oh well, fixed the links, thanks to my roomie and ardent fan, alvin.

hell has begun

hrm has entered my life. welcome to hell. been to one lecture and it feels like shit already. in other news, bee choo wants me to write a letter as to why i took my curtains down to use my blinds. i'm not as patient as yehyang to type down an excerpt of the conversation but it sorta goes like this:

"why you take down your curtains? you want to take down must write a letter you know?"

"why must i write a letter? anything at all i just hang them back up? i took down the curtains coz they collect dust more easily and my nose is sensitive to dust."

"like that har...but why you want to take down your curtains? must write letter you know?"

take that whole conversation and repeat it at least five times. bloody hell. i will email them the next time i feed my fish. or shave my balls.