she's back. happy.

the dub is quite bad...but i still somehow how found it entertaining. but i found it under 'if Martin Scorsese directed Sesame Street', that made it funnier.

it's been awhile. i've tried to mug but enough never seems enough. it doesn't help when somehow whatever you've studied seems to just slip out again. i am thankful however, for the number of papers i have compared to previous semesters of overloading. but still the process is oh so tiring.

i want to sleep. but i can't. not while knowing that each attempt to scoop some soup into my bowl seems never ending, especially when there are holes in the ladle and the bowl.

a few more months...just a few more...and i WILL get the fuck out of here...

Do not do unto others as you would them do unto you.

sometimes they just don't see it themselves.

patience.

haven't updated in awhile. well, exams are coming (what's new). trying to study my ass off. trying to get my A's, and not just pass.

side note: it is possible to remove the cheesy taste from cheese sausages. all you have to do is boil them longer than you should.

like wtf? victor tang is still in? someone please shoot me.

i now have ibanking. yay. now i can join the hordes to click money away online.

and i can't believe victor tang is in the top 3 vocalists. it is bullshit. so much for live the dream. when you put voting into the hands of the audience, you're asking for nonsensical results as such.

cats in the cradle and beyond definition seemed to try and pull the wool over the judges' eyes. remash and remix? i think it's bullshit. bon jovi did a that version already. you spin me right round? some band already had a rock version of it already.

even fendi's remix was vaguely familiar.

pulling wool? more like pulling sheep.

the dictionary lists many definitions of the word 'sweet'. over 20.

my definition of sweet is a surprise mcdonald's delivery in the middle of the night to fulfill a sudden craving for beef.

thanks for the double cheeseburger meal babe, love you to bits.

and for those wondering, you can pay for mac's delivery with visa/mastercard with no surcharge.

never assume that no one would steal a $2 laundry basket. mofo. i hope you get BO that never washes out.

stress makes me do strange things.

sorry poh. it was too tempting.

*edit* picture from random ramblings @ http://-purpleturtle.blogspot.com/

been having fun with my new camera...wee! pictures in flickr.

it is called a reading room. but some people do anything but reading inside...cb so noisy...quizzes coming...exams coming...argh!

sian half. B+ for IO. must be never OT enough.

is it me or do the queues for every other stall, except the beijing fengwei stall, know how to respect the yellow box? they just refuse to let anybody through!

officially just woke up from crashing yesterday. i didn't sleep for the full 24 hours coz i woke up for meals and meds. but estimated i slept around 17 hours. i still feel like shit.

nabei...with the amount of time the medical centre took to process me, i could've died from foot rot. maybe time slows down when you're sick, so you can bitch about every little thing.

i've taken my meds and i'm going to crash...

omg...internet down again for almost the first half of the day! like what the hell? reason cited was undersea cable being cut. whatever. shag and tired, think i R falling sick, must be allergic to school.

the ruins of st paul, taken with my phone camera when i was in macau.

it seems to me that it is camera season. everyone wants a camera. gary wants one, i want one, sebas wants one, yy wants one. i think as we grow older and we travel more, we want to capture all the beautiful things that we've seen, all the lovely moments that we will never live in again. and thanks to the convenience of digital media, we can constantly be reminded of the vibrance of that snapshot in life, and hopefully remember the colours, the tastes, the sounds and the emotions.

or maybe we are just bo liao haha.

new skin

backside itchy. slowly making changes coz my html sucks.

more bo liao things to post

Your Birthdate: March 7

You are an island. You don't need anyone else to make you happy. And though you see yourself as a loner, people are drawn to you. Deep and sensitive, you tend to impress others with your insights. You also tend to be psychic - so listen to that inner voice! Your strength: Your self sufficiency Your weakness: You despise authority Your power color: Maroon Your power symbol: Hammer Your power month: July

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

haha...a load of bull i say.

lonely...

lonely
i am so lonely
i've got nobody
to cook maggi with me...

back!

yes i'm back from my holiday. i have been for awhile but i've just been too lazy an arse to update anything. so many pictures...haiz. well went to ndp at marina with baby as usual. somehow the feeling not as 'there' as compared to holding it at the grand dame. will try to get holiday pics up as soon as possible.

on another hilarious note, i introduced my mother to the wonderful world of blogs. it all started with showing her how CupcakeDivinity advertises using a blog. so i showed it to her and left her to her own devices.

few minutes later, she beckons me and asks me what was on her screen. to my horror (actually my amusement), i see the words "fingering vaginas" on her screen. all thanks to the wormhole called the 'NEXT' button on the blogspot toolbar.

hur hur...i love the result of internet + tech resilience. well kudos to my mum for willing to learn.

IO over...holiday!

in awhile...i'll be flying off to the land of cardboard pau. wish me luck.

i have watched trannyformers!

entertaining. light. not too heavy on the brain. animation effects pretty solid. bumble bee shouldn't have been a chevy.

whore

i am a handphone whore. i am cheating with a samsung while my heart remains with sony ericsson and yet, i covet the wlan of nokia for now....haiz..

cardboard pau

it is so amazing. for the people who have no idea what i'm talking about, they have been pirating char siew paus by using softened cardboard. talk about needing more fibre.

order of the phoenix

can i have one order of 'the phoenix?' it's pretty good. considering i was damn tired but i didn't fall asleep.

just a little longer...

next week my supervisor will be visiting me. it will mark the second last week of my attachment. time flies by when you don't keep track of it.

anyways, congrats bro, i'm happy for you and i can't wait for a face to face. hello jac, welcome back to the real world, you can't always ride first class and you gotta earn your own keep now

i really should update my logbook...but le tired...

a funny thing happened at work btw. during lunch, i mentioned that i wanted to buy 4D coz by some chance, i was on the same bus with two colleagues, not very rare and quite probable but it was the first time it happened. so i decided to buy the bus plate number.

then, still over lunch, one of my colleagues started talking about toto. they're having a mid year special draw of 5 million. before i knew it, the whole bunch of us were at singapore pools. talk about company bonding.

hope everyone huat huat.

ooo

look who temps a little to make some cash on the side.

on a side note, congrats to jac for finding employment. when you qiaing makan? buahahaha.

souvenirs

"look at deflower! i mean the flower..."

i never knew rubber trees had flowers. anyway thanks gary and tianyun. this was shot using samsung u600, my new toy. in my opinion, capable of reproducing colours better than the k800 series.

you know you're important when...

you lose your watch saying hello to a crowd and it makes it to the news, channel news asia specifically. who gives a rat's ass about some president's missing watch mystery? sibei bo liao. i think all it means is that he can easily be exposed to assassination via poison pellet.

mmm...goodness....

*slurp*

4 weeks gone

next week will be the start of the 5th week. last night my bro called and said that we could access the system to check our results. i was half awake when he called me.

as i waited for the results page to load, i was trembling with a mix of paranoia, fear, excitement and other feelings. after all, i was more confident for some subjects and less confident for others.

the wait ended, to reveal that i had passed everything this semester. i am truly overjoyed. it has been awhile since i actually did that since i entered uni.

Most thanks goes to my bro dickson, for dragging me out to study and serving as an inspiration. congrats on your remarkable results bro. i think without him , i would not have been able to clear nine subjects with my best grades of uni life. then next comes jiayu and janice, who have helped me alot during my study life...if only i had known you guys much earlier, perhaps i could've left this may, just like the both of you.

thanks to my baby, for visiting me during exam period also...it helped in keeping my sanity.

thank God for such people around me...

blink of an eye

so fast...2 weeks over and into the third week...attachment is really tiring. also, i felt i was getting too big for my own level of comfort and have started exercising again today! yay! hope i have the willpower to keep it up.

incompetency + kay zhua

woot...no room. thank you sao. mofos.

one week

mmm...i lurve friday

one more day...

46 days...

did something interesting today. it was my first step to programming microcontrollers. i shall not elaborate but i think i might actually enjoy my attachment.

47 days...

edit at 2120 hours: the way singaporeans play deal or no deal, it should just be called no deal.

bedtime tv

before i went to sleep, i was watching beauty and the geek and was wondering if it was possible to hold reality tv in singapore. and the conclusion i came up with is no. why? coz singapore has too many geeks.

edit at 1915: 48 days left...

yes...

call me an optimist. call me a slacker. call me whatever. forty nine days more to end of attachment! not counting weekends of course...

meanwhile, had a family dinner to celebrate my parents' wedding anniversary at sun with moon jap restaurant at central mall opposite clarke quay.

attachment

tomorrow is the start of attachment...how exciting...

usb...the future is now

yes that's a usb powered massaging back rest

happened to see this at IMM

was walking around, saw this. probably could've been nicer.

zhng my bus

boarded a 156 today. to my surprise, it was decked out like a lounge, advertising nokia's music phone.

mmm...beer and women

a joke about two things i like, beer and women. enjoy

Yesterday, scientists for the FDA suggested that men should take a look at their beer consumption, considering the results of a recent analysis that revealed the presence of female hormones in beer. The theory is that drinking beer makes men turn into women.

To test the finding, 100 men were fed 6 pints of beer each. It was then observed that 100% of the men gained weight, talked excessively without making sense, became overly emotional, couldn't drive, failed to think rationally, argued over nothing, and refused to apologize when wrong.

No further testing is planned.

it is over

battle is done. time to get some rest. nua at home. enjoy my room. enjoy the comforts of home.

back to back

finally...two papers down with two more left. seven papers gone by in a blaze. then again maybe not. it has been a tiring process. i miss home. my bed. my room. darling was sweet enough to come and visit me during this stressful period. she never fails to make me forget my worries.

morning paper was quite ok, should be able to pass. afternoon was hrm. which was basically one big smoke bomb. i really hope i don't fail it.

just a little longer...

sian...

the many empty seats was a gauge of its reputation. its great name has sent many into hiding. damn you ie. first paper of the sem to give me a shitty feeling. haiz...hope for the best, expect the worse. 4 more papers to ord.

lost in translation

and men are from mars...

as promised.

Mars:

• has 2 tiny moons.
• dead planet with no atmosphere.
• has the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons. Bet the other planets are jealous. Then again maybe Mars just dua pao.
  
• this volcano is located on top of this region called the Tharsis Bulge.
  

sian...so did the thingie on jac's blog.

You scored as Winter. You are WINTER. You're more introspective, thinking deeply, feeling deeply. You love nothing better than to enjoy one on one time with those who are important to you. You are cautious, and sometimes second guess yourself. Dreams, though you have them, are a luxury, because life is not a plaything. Winter 85% Fall 70% Summer 55% Spring 50% What Season Are You? created with QuizFarm.com

winter...mm...nua...i like.

men are from mars, women from venus

studying for my astronomy ge. if the planetary characteristics were to represent our gender characteristics, here's what my lecture notes says about venus.

• thick cloudy atmosphere, cannot visually observe the planet's surface
• active with tectonics and volcanism
• searing heat
• high pressure
• frequent volcanic eruptions
• clouds of sulphuric acid

and personal favourite, might be for most guys...

• venus is the planet most like hell

i swear it's in my lecture notes. i'm sure the lecturer knows what hell is like. he's married. *cue laugh track*

zzzz....

7 hours of sleep and had water parade...but still tired...

have you ever had that feeling...

that you're just throwing shit at the wall and hoping it sticks? that's how i felt about some parts of my paper today.

then again

in retrospect and with much afterthought, it's not about the room issue anymore. it's just and overwhelming feeling of disgust, disappointment and disbelief at the level of incompetence. i'm sure some will feel that they've done all they can, that everything is justified. i beg to differ. things shouldn't have reached a point where it was beyond control. it just shows how much about the job scopes these fine individuals know. once again, it all seems like just a joke. and yes, there's no doubt that i'm bitter.

sorry?

sorry is what you say when you're late in meeting someone. or when you accidentally bump into someone. it is NOT something to say to me when somehow my points for IH contribution do not show up when i'm applying for room, hence by the new fucking HAS system, condemning me to adopt a wait and see approach as to whether i will get a room or not. so much for hall contribution. i'm beginning to feel that people think JCRC is for fun. if any of you has no fucking idea of what you're supposed to do, just stay out of it. uni admin is doing fine in fucking up our lives enough already, don't fuck up other people's lives by giving them no room to stay.

pieces of shit.

it has begun.

the first ray of light hitting the rooftops mark the starting of the onslaught. against any foe, any enemy, we will march on. for some, it's the fight that matters, and others, the outcome. live to fight another day? that's not even an option for those marching on towards their final goal. it's do or die for these valiant, fearsome few. as for me, i hope to battle with such fervour even though it's not my time. But still, our time or not, we are all driven by the one same dream and wish....

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hope don't da bao ah!

phantom of the opera

went to see it with babe today. watched it before when it was staged at kallang theater. was a wee little boy then. the set and costumes looked pretty good. singing was so-so. a few of the audience were whispering speculations about how some of the cast weren't the originals but their understudys. i think the previous cast sang better. raoul sounded too nasal for me, takes away his macho facade. reminded me more of fran drescher in the nanny. with balls. sarah brightman was more powerful and convincing.

McSmoke

this morning, bro and i ordered macs breakfast after studying. a phone order operator with the pseudonym 'agnes' made my day by being refreshingly pleasant at six in the morning.

we ordered. delivery was prompt. but i swear that unless the customer is a girl, delivery boys will never deliver to your door. i swear i've only seen them at the even levels.

our delivery boy called and said he's at the carpark. i told him to meet me at the bottom of block 38, which was letting him off rather lightly since the pleasant agnes said that it shouln't be a problem with delivering to the room, given the time of the day. mr delivery boy told me that at it was night and won't be able to step into the hostel.

i held in every swear word going through my mind, and literally told him don't try and smoke me, i've been ordering macs for the past 2 weeks (yes darling, that's why i fat fat now) and they have at least delivered to the courtyard. he then agreed to meet at the bottom of the block.

maybe i should just update my customer profile to some female name so the delivery boy would at least attempt to be mccheehong and 'beo' the girl ordering macs. The next time these relak-one-corner boys throw me a McSmoke, i will throw it back and when they take the bait and deliver it to my room, perhaps i will give their mcnuggets a good kick.


mcpissed.

eat me...i won't hurt you...

pineapple tarts bro koped from home. buttery pastry. mmm

"i make you fat? whoever told you that lie?"

Got this joke off the blog of a guy who left a comment. funny stuff. note how the president's name is not mentioned.

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing.
He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."
"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"

exams are coming...so?

yes, it's that time of the year again. and assignments are still streaming in. they start on the 14th. my mentor told me that teaching stops on the 13th. nice.

strange thing is i know none of this will matter x years down the road, when i'm at my deathbed.

for men only

just caught the above program on cable. it has a shake your booty contest that involves babes in bikinis. i rikes. free to air TV is boring man...

world's end?

no, not the movie. this evening it looked like the apocalypse. almost thought ufos were about to appear.

hanabi jap restaurant

i've heard some of the acap folks talk about this place and i finally got a taste of it during my cousin's birthday lunch. turned out there a branch near my place, next to coronation. apparently it's the first branch.

overall, quite tasty. the portions are small so you can try more dishes. all these proved to fill me up quite satisfactorily.

aching wrist

just finished a handwritten report. was supposed to be 25 pages. but i only managed 13. but whatever. yay. one more thing down.

fat cat fat cat

this is tiger. he has grown up to be a fat cat. i tried to play with him by dangling a toy in front of him. he went for my hand instead. and to think this bugger used to be able to sleep in my paper tray.

bleargh

convolution is giving me convulsions. i wanna puke and die. matlab is making me mad.

Imperial Treasure

had imperial treasure dim sum on saturday. it was a new gastronomic experience, but something i didn't really like maybe coz i wasn't used to it. this was at the suntec branch.

overall, food too oily, not very tantalising. explains why there was no queue compared to neighbour crystal jade.

leet

you're leet when you drive an old yellow volkswagen beetle

yeah...accepted

woohoo...accepted by a company for IO! what a blessing...back to school work. In other news, too much covering of your own ass might make you shittier person. In not too many words, crystal didn't mind letting me fax my insurance form to one IO company, the thousand year old evil said cannot, coz the fax will have hall office letterhead and mine is not an official document. hello? an insurance letter from SAO with a signature from an assistant director? how much paper your need to cover your ass?

last day of cny celebrations

suckling pig...mmm. observe the superiority of a 3.2MP k800i over a 1MP nokia dunno what model...buahaha...

oo a surprise

thanks for the skittles neighbour. although it is a few days early. thanks for remembering it is around this time of the year.

twinkle ish sho cute.

something about dogs sleeping like that makes me smile.

ooo...picture...

yay...no more need for resizing...adjusted my template to accommodate 640x480. now i can just cut and paste the html code. no more funny resolutions of 600x450.

zzz...

can b maketh me sleepy...

origami master

you don't have to think or try to understand japanese. just watch.

animals...

how much is that doggy in the window?

look, it's puss in boots...well a boots box...soccer boots box