The Dinoshan Roars

You probably don't understand..

2009-12-13T23:04:00.003+08:00

It's not only about spending weekends alone..
It's about being somewhere that's not my home alone..

It's been almost 3 years, you should know the kind of activities I have,
Who I always hang out with.. What I usually do on weekends..
It's not I do not know how to find things to do on weekends,
it's because even if I stay at home during weekends, I will probably stay at home..

Waiting is not a big deal, but having to wait for 11 hours a day, 22 hours a weekend,
it accumulates to 1,144 hours a year, equivalent to almost 48 days, and that's more than 1.5 months.
And I haven't even count in Public Holidays.

I hope you can understand that it is not an easy decision to make.

If I already said okay, don't rub it in by telling others and make it worst when the others don't find it such a big deal..

Guys will never understand this. Try asking your female friends and see what they say.

The One about Health

2009-10-15T21:14:00.005+08:00

Brother, I really miss you..
I hope you're doing good wherever you are..

To those who still reads my blog, a piece of a two cents advice here:

Take your time to at least visit your relative/friend who is sick in the hospital no matter how busy you are.. because lost time can never be found again..

Don't wait till someone has passed then you regret for not paying him/her a visit when they were still alive. Do not think that I'm not cursing anyone who's hospitalized to die, it's just a piece of thought I have right now..

When I heard a friend's friend's father who's been diagnosed with cancer, to be honest, I wasn't at all that sad. It's not because I do not know him personally, nor was it because I'm being this heartless freak, but really, think about it, at least he has been through the bigger parts of life.. marrying the one he love.. family planning with his wife.. watching his kids grow up.. Whereas somewhere in this world, there could be a young person, who's life has just started, battling with cancer..

To end off this random entry, I hope people who have been diagnosed with cancer stay strong and believe in the will to live. Live life to the fullest!

Resolution 2009 achieved!

2009-08-27T23:23:00.006+08:00

Remember the resolution I made this year?

I DID IT! First attempt! I know I did not do very well (18 demerit points) but I did pass okay!

I almost hit a car in the circuit! Not that I'm proud of it, but I think I'm being blessed.. by my brother.. I did very well in circuit, only to realise I did not change to gear 1 upon moving out of BBDC! Well, I was waiting for my turn to move out of BBDC so I should change to gear 1 but I only realised it when I'm out of BBDC and wanted to gear up, oh gosh, stupid mistake, 4 demerit points for that.

I got a combo though, veer off course + fail to keep in lane during a bend = 10 demerit points! The rest is mostly fail to check mirror.....

My tester looked very strict and fierce but at least he wasn't how my instructor had warned me about; will not tell us when they want us to do parking in circuit, we have to know it immediately. But my instructor was right about if the tester didn't tell me to turn left or right, I should go straight. The tester did warn me that though.

Nowadays everything is getting more and more high-tech. During Jiexiang's time when he was taking driving lessons, basic/advanced theory test were all done using OTAS sheet with a 2B pencil! Now they have touch screen monitors and even 3D models as traffic police and 3D animation in our basic/advanced theory test!

Even for practical, it used to be just paper checklist and a pen/pencil to mark down the mistakes of the student, but now they actually have a touch screen monitor with a stylus to mark down mistakes! On the screen, it shows the route map and the tester will use his stylus to point the part of the route where mistakes were made and make a note of it! Every single mistake is taken into account. *sweat*

But nonetheless, I'm a Class 3 driving license holder now! HAPPY!!!

The One about Concert Band!

2009-08-08T01:41:00.003+08:00

What are the odds of meeting a friend whom you haven't met in at least four years?

What are the odds of meeting that friend when you're together with another friend who knows that friend too?

What are the odds of not meeting that friend via random shopping in a random shopping mall but rather via McDelivery and that friend was the delivery man?

Bumped into Alfa while at Wendy's crib today! It was such a coincidence! He had became chubbier and still as funny and cheeky ever.. Still remember the old times in band..

Well Wendy lent me her 3rd Gen IPod Nano as she already had her IPod Touch, and she really has alot of band songs which I'm going through it now.. really miss the good old days!!!!!!!!!!!!

This entry is really random, just wanted to blog!

The One about the Room

2009-07-26T02:26:00.003+08:00

I was doing a little cleaning of my room (actually just throwing rubbish that I don't need) and found alot of things I do not bear throwing like:

- Collar badges from Secondary School or even Young Scientists Badges

- Overseas souveirs from friends

- Old watches that are worn or spoilt

- Old pouches/pencil cases

- Old gadgets which are worn or spoilt

- Beauty care items which I have no use for or not using anymore

- Plush toys, the ones that are not my favorites etc etc..

What do you do to any of the above items? Do you just dispose them or keep them aside?

The only thing I've finally determined not to 'collect' anymore are movie ticket stubs, but other than that I do still keep concert ticket stubs, admission tickets (especially those overseas) and airplane tickets..

The One about Choices

2009-07-25T00:44:00.002+08:00

If you've been catching up with me via Twitter or FaceBook, you'd probably have seen me having this as my status:

Life is filled with choices we can make, not choices we cannot make.

I do not wish to explain why I came up with that sentence cos it's a long story, so you can probably ponder over that sentence.

The One about the Comeback

2009-07-23T23:28:00.003+08:00

I'm back!

I've stopped updating Photo Du Jour for good, mostly because I do not have exciting photos to blog everyday, but I do miss blogging so I'm back!

I love simple and clean websites hence the neat layout. (Don't think it's easy to create this template, I took almost an hour!)

Follow me @ Twitter too!

The One about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2009-07-23T23:25:00.002+08:00

*Warning: Spoilers ahead!*

I’m utterly disappointed with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!

1) They completely cut out the Dursley’s family in the movie.

2) WHERE THE FUNERAL WHEN DUMBLEDORE DIED?!

3) They removed Kreacher, Black’s family house elf, and I’m just gonna wait and see how they’re gonna introduce him back in Deathly Hallows as Kreacher plays an important role.

3) They burnt down The Burrow! WTF? The Burrow should have equal protection as Hogwarts because Harry’s in there!

4) Harry did not remain at the lower level of the clock tower and do NOTHING when Dumbledore is being threatened by Draco! In the book he was under an invisibility cloak and Dumbledore Petrified him, hence he was unable to do anything!

5) It wasn’t Bellatrix who wanted Snape to make the Unbreakable Vow but it was Narcissa herself!

...

If I could go on, the list stretches to no end! Let’s just say this is the worst movie of the entire series.

I hope Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will not disappoint me!

The One about Photo Du Jour

2009-02-23T15:10:00.001+08:00

I'll be updating this blog less frequently because I do not have the drive to blog. But I'll be uploading this other blog everyday without fail.

Photo Du Jour

Photo Du Jour means 'Photo of the Day' in French. Simply said, I'll be uploading a photo everyday on what memorable happened on that day.

Till I have the mood to blog :)

The One about the Dream Came True

2009-02-04T09:56:00.002+08:00

This post came extremely late because the dream that came true happened on 1st January 2009.

I'm currently quite addicted to Mousehunt application in Facebook which I joined during my birthday and a few days later, there was a New Year competition thingy going on. It was about winning real cash prizes or winning Superbrie+ (a kind of cheese in the game that's only available via donation). On 31st December night, I dreamt I saw my name in the list of winners, just like this:

Click for larger view

and it came true! Woohoo!!

Although my friends/colleagues said I can't redeem it for cash (but it's only Canadian $10 lah) but I need it for the game in future! Now boyfriend have to struggle to find Superbrie+ but I've got 500 of it to use :P

Will upload with CNY photos soon :)

The One about Resolution(s) for 2009

2009-01-22T16:00:00.000+08:00

Abit late, but better than never.

2008 passed in a blink of eye and I've did things I've never done before (like driving). Now it's time to welcome a whole new 2009 and it's gonna be a difficult year due to recession. Nonetheless, we should all cherish what we have (especially our jobs) and continue working hard for the year.

I've just one resolution for 2009; that is to obtain my driving license. (manual hor)

The reason to why I only have one thing in my list is simple, because the rest of the resolutions is hard to measure. Save more? How do we measure 'more'? Be more ____ to [insert person]? How do we measure how much more ____ have we been?

That's why I'm keeping my list to something that is more achievable.

I've updated about my 21st birthday BBQ (you can also scroll down) by the way, have not updated the celebration with my family. (internet at work is freak slow >.<)

Happy Lunar New Year in advance, people!

The One about the Dislike

2009-01-11T02:10:00.004+08:00

I don't like people who simply talk and not put their words into action, worst if they push the responsibility to others.

The One about the Revamp

2009-01-06T16:02:00.003+08:00

As you can see, trying to revamp my blog. After the revamp is done, I'll update with truckload full of photos :)

[Edit] Back-dated entries up as promised but please scroll down as I back-dated those entries too :) (for archiving purposes) [/Edit]

The One about my 21st

2008-12-28T15:01:00.003+08:00

Took quite a great deal of time to come out with the comic book effect. Wanted to do it the retro way but the photos didn't turn out as fabulous as the tutorial, so I just added levels to the photos and created the so-called comic strip.

Not much text because I don't really know what to write but I kinda like the effect (and no, I'm not gonna do this for the rest of the 'future' blog entries.

My birthday went smoothly (I hope it's not too boring) and I love all the presents I've received, especially the golden Canon IXUS 870 IS given by EM05 :)

Thanks to those who turned up and to those who gave me birthday wishes (sorry to those I didn't invite to the BBQ because I do not want to make it too awkward with too many different cliques)

Probably the first and last birthday I'm gonna host. It's not easy at all as it's pretty hard to keep all entertained (maybe I should have thought of some games)

Thanks all once again!

The One about Christmas with Emo5

2008-12-25T15:54:00.000+08:00

Right after my birthday celebration with my family, I rushed down to Downtown East to meet up with Emo5 for Christmas. This year was a little different, there aren't any Christmas present hunt :( but instead, we had booked a room at neBO cafe for Christmas gift exchange. I didn't know what to get (because I didn't have a specific someone I have to buy the gift for) so I got a practical Imation 4GB thumdrive.

When I reached the cafe, I was asked to play the marble game which consists of chopsticks and two tupperware, one filled with marbles. The task? To move the marbles from one tupperware to another with the aid of the chopsticks. The highest and lowest scorer would have to perform a dance but the highest scorer would receive a prize (a box full of sweets)

After the game (nope, I wasn't the highest nor the lowest scorer), I sat around chit-chatting and watched the other guys had their fun with Wii.

I remembered 'inspecting' the table of gifts (who isn't happy to see gifts on the table?!) and saw that Theresa had bought Capitaland voucher because the envelop give it away, then I muttered to Wenna "I saw that Theresa bought Capitaland voucher, not bad leh! I want!"

After food, we took group photos together but without the help of the cafe staff! Fai, Jian Qi and I had fun placing our digital cameras on stereos, tables etc. to get a good view of the group! The photos were nicely taken actually, different angles somemore!

Then the highly anticipated gift exchange came. Being the youngest, I was asked to pick a name first. *DANG DANG DANG DANG* I picked Theresa! Woohoo!!! Now I have $20 to spend for Chinese New Year shopping.

Kai Ling got my thumdrive, and *LOL* three people bought thumdrives, all of different brand: Toshiba, Sandisk, Imation.

For the rest of the photos, you can view my FaceBook photo album.

Oh, and if you're wondering where are the photos of opened gifts, there isn't any because we were being chased out of the cafe as it was their closing time! >.<

The One about Christmas with Colleagues

2008-12-24T12:24:00.000+08:00

This year's Christmas is a little different for my company. The gift exchange idea remains the same but this time round we had buffet lunch! :)

Although the place was stuffy (air-con was off by the place to save electricity -_-), we had loads of fun because Baby Isaac was there too.

Baby Isaac!

The girls~

The guys~

I received an accessories box from Kimberly and I bought a Topman "I heart IT" T-shirt for Boon Wee! (Sadly he said that t-shirt will go to his home clothes department as he feels it's really stupid to wear it outside :()

We had birthday celebration for the late-December babies (Me, Carmen and Boon Wee). We got Carmen a dress and a thumdrive, Boon Wee a Stussy shirt and condoms, whereas I got a manicure art set (love it!) and a Brazilian Waxing voucher (that's to embarrass me).

This time round no Log cake as birthday cake! :P

The One about Tang Yuan

2008-12-21T12:20:00.003+08:00

Made some tang yuan at Jiexiang's place for the occasion today (I forgot what's the occasion :X)

Noticed the long and not the usual round tang yuan? :P

Boyfriend actually made one flat tang yuan but it's not too noticeable lah. First time eating tang yuan simply dipped in sugar. Lovely taste :)

The One about the New Drawer

2008-12-17T16:50:00.002+08:00

Went to IKEA with Jiexiang to get a new drawer for my bedroom as I feel I'm running out of space!

He hammered through the night, I hoped the neighbours downstairs will not complain (oh and it happens to be my brother's ex-colleague who lives downstairs)

Jiexiang doesn't like the wide angle effect. But I do not know whether the new camera possess normal angle effect. (which I highly doubt so)

Thanks boyfriend for helping me with my drawer!! :D

The One with the Virgin Photos

2008-12-17T16:25:00.003+08:00

The day after I got my Canon IXUS 870 IS, I could only leave the battery charging overnight and used it the next morning. (Image-intensive post!)

Click on the images for larger view..

Those were some of the virgin shots. After which I went to take photo of the difference between Singapore and Taiwan version of Jay Chou's latest album: Capricorn.

Note: All photos were taken with Singapore version on the left and Taiwan version on the right.

Notice the difference in the colors? There's even a fold on the Taiwan's version for easier retrieval of the pokercards.

One states "Made in Singapore", the other "Made in Taiwan".

The one printed in Singapore feels like normal paper sticker, whereas the other feels more like ez-link card stickers: glossy.

My very first autographed Jay Chou's album!

Lovely 2009 Calendar available only in Taiwan. There was a 2008 calendar given last year too, and if that were printed in Singapore, it's very disappointing as the stand is very weak and it's just cardboard. This one had a stronger glossy board.

The Jack Spade poster with autograph too :D

Later in the evening, I went to meet Jiexiang at Sim Lim Square cos we're going to his relative's place. His cousin has got a very cute Maltese!!

Super cute right!!!

Sadly, Enya went home first so I could only capture shots of her the next morning.

HEHEHE.

"What is she trying to do?!"

"Can you stop with the photo-taking?!!"

This is Alanah..

And then she refused to pose properly for me to take a pretty shot of her..

Jiexiang's old Shih Tzu. She is blind in one eye.

HAHAHHAA, Jiexiang look so cute here.

Out to Chinatown with his parents. I like this candid shot!

Well I tried out the wide angle lens with this beautiful temple.

Super big tortoise at Jiexiang's!

More Enya photos! She's just finished with her baby food (oh the food smells awful to me)

So shiok in her walker!

Busy playing his PSP -_-;

That's all with the virgin photos. More photo entries to come!!

The One About the SD Card

2008-12-15T11:40:00.003+08:00

'Santa Claus' delivered my Canon IXUS 870 IS to my office last Friday! My colleagues went like '很美~' throughout the whole time after I carefully take the camera body out of the box. However, I only managed to play it on Saturday.

I went for driving lessons and then look some photos of the carpark behind Bukit Gombak Station and my block when I reached home. Went to look for Jiexiang at Sim Lim Square to slap on a screen protector on the oh-so-big 3" Pure Color LCD. Got a SD card reader from his place but it doesn't work with Class 4 SD Card..

Oh what am I doing typing so many words when I could just upload photos and let the photos do the talk? Simply cos I had left my SD card in the Canon Selphy ES1. (Geez, I can be pretty suay with my mouth)

I played around with the photo printer and printed some brilliant shots of Jiexiang's nieces Enya and Alanah, and of cos photos of the both of us. When I first explored the printer, I found a 64MB CF Card still sitting loyally in the card slot, I went like "how come the previous person who used was so careless?" and then I rotated between using cable and SD Card slot.

And there it goes, I only realised I left my SD Card in the printer this morning when I happily brought my camera to work (to take photos with colleagues), happily haolian-ed to Catharine I brought it along, happily on the camera, and the holy words 'No Memory Card' slapped me in my face..

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hadn't even started uploading my photos to the PC and blog about it.

I hope I can meet Jiexiang today so he can bring me my SD Card..

P.S. I'm not advertising for Canon. It just happened that Jiexiang's dad previously bought a Selphy (oh and his brother-in-law has a Canon DSLR)

The Compact Camera Search

2008-12-02T22:15:00.003+08:00

When I knew I wanted to get a new camera, I had to, first, decide on a brand and then seek out the models. I wanted a Sony for its lovely design but features still come first.

I had wanted a Sony T700 but it wasn't recommended by ***** (named removed to protect privacy)

Also, if I were to choose a color for the Sony compact camera series, I'd have chosen red! But horror horror, the above photo is the 'red' version for that series.

So I had to make way for Canon (being well-known (I supposed) for their cameras). I had to decide on two models which had the latest technology of DIGIC 4. Frankly, if you ask me what's the difference between DIGIC III and DIGIC 4, I absolutely have no idea.

I had to make a decision if I wanted to 14.7MP with 3.7x optical zoom or a 10.0MP with a 4.0x optical zoom..

Canon IXUS 980 IS equipped with 14.7MP and 3.7x optical zoom. It comes in red too but apparently it's limited edition and not easily found in Singapore. The curves looks classy but could be a little awkward..

Canon IXUS 870 IS equipped with 10.0MP and 4.0x optical zoom, oh and it comes with wide angle lens, which made it special!

When I went to stores to see the real thing, I was totally bought over by Canon IXUS 870 IS in Gold! It looks so fucking chio can!!!!!!

Furthermore, when Teck Wei knew I wanted a digital camera as a birthday present from em05, he recommended me Canon SD880 IS.

I was like "What Canon SD880 IS?! I've never heard of it! There's no such thing leh, only EOS, PowerShot or IXUS.."

Then he gave me a URL.

OMFG!!!! I'm so gonna get Canon IXUS 870 IS.. Have not got it from Sitex cos I figured (with consultation from Teck Wei) that the deal's not worth.. so I'm getting it from other sources within two weeks time (I HOPE!!)

Canon IXUS 870 IS... HERE I COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sitex

2008-11-26T15:57:00.000+08:00

Can't wait for Sitex to get my hands on a new digital camera!

I believe by then I will blog more (with pictures) unless I do not have a card reader and find it a hassle to plug in cable.. LOL.

Okay, I'm pretty lazy.

Twilight Saga & SATC Blu-Ray~

2008-11-24T20:18:00.002+08:00

Got my loots from Amazon.com spree.

- Twilight (for myself)
- Sex and the City (uncut) Blu-ray + Digital Copy (for myself)
- Twilight (for Wendy)
- New Moon (for Wendy)

Wendy introduced Twilight series to me but I haven't got down to reading it because my FTT's approaching so that's more important for now.

Can't wait to start reading it next week!!

Get to know more about the Twilight Saga here.
Get to know more about the Twilight movie here.

P.S. Twilight movie is coming out this 18th December. Hence I'll try my very best to finish reading the book by then. Now I'm getting all excited to be ready to fall in love with the vampire!!

Annoying

2008-11-20T17:17:00.000+08:00

Careless mistake in very annoying.. pls understand.

HELLO.. Who's annoying here?! Some of the 'mistakes' you pointed out were just changes you wanted!!

*PISSED OFF*

P.S. Sadly, I'm 80% gonna get Canon compact digital camera cos Wenna pointed out that Sony cameras isn't that good. *sighs*

Little Big Planet

2008-11-18T11:26:00.003+08:00

Had been very very lazy to blog these days.. perhaps I had lost passion of blogging? Or perhaps the hectic work life (especially as a web designer and I face internet more than my hours of sleeping) that I gradually don't blog that much.

Celebrated Ming's birthday at Kuishin Bo on 8th November. Please read Wenna's blog for the day's event.. (haha, Wenna, you used to link to my blog.. now my turn!!)

Credits to Amazon.com

Bought Little Big Planet with Jiexiang last Saturday and played the game on that night! The game is so cute and interactive.. oh and the graphics is great too! I can't wait to play again (but maybe have to wait till his exams are over T_T)

If you own PS3, please go and buy that game and play! It's so cute and fun!

Alanah is getting cleverer with words and she's only just turned three!

ME: Alanah, do you want to drink water? *offers water from my water bottle*
Alanah: Yes!
Me: Do you want more water? *after teaching her how to drink from my water bottle cos it's shaped differently from a cup*
Alanah: No!!
ME: Why??
Alanah: This water bottle no good! So smelly!
ME: *pengz and laughs*
Jiexiang: Told you already the water bottle very smelly!

LOLOL. Cos Jiexiang told me before the water bottle stinks but I don't think so (I guess same concept if you have a baby pillow which people think stinks but you just can't sleep without it)

I'll probably blog once I get a new compact digital camera, cos by then I'll bring my camera around and take photo! (not Canon camera. I know it's probably the best brand for camera but well...... those who know me very well should know why!)

:D

Blank

2008-11-10T11:01:00.001+08:00

When I said "that's also what I suggested", it does not mean "it's my plan".

Is it because you don't understand me or you don't understand my English?

Just blank.. I need someone to rant to, but apparently there's so many bigger problems, I can't rant to boyfriend.

Heroes Season 3

2008-11-04T21:09:00.003+08:00

Have you watched Heroes? If no, please start watching it!

Heroes finally made a comeback with Season 3! Season 2 was ended quite abruptly due to the strike but nonetheless, Heroes Season 3 is filled with many more mysteries!

Jiexiang and I got the opportunity to catch episode 1 and 2 in GV Vivocity all thanks to Ripplevox, Starhub and StarWorld! Although Season 3 had started screening since September in the U.S., we don't have such chances to watch the same broadcast as the citizens of U.S.! But nevermind, because we have Star Movies from Starhub Cable Vision :)

The plot for Heroes Season 3 got more and more confusing as Peter Petrelli tries to change the future by 'editing' the past but there'll always be butterfly effect! I shan't reveal too much spoilers for those who have not watched! I can't wait to watch the rest of the episodes that've shown so far!

The premiere for Heroes Season 3 was nice as there were food, refreshments and even a goodie bag! Goodie bag comes with a Large size Heroes T-shirt and a beautiful notebook! What I wanted the most was the comic book which was given out during some mini contests though :( anyone wanna give it to me?

I hope there's more of such events from Ripplevox or Starhub/StarWorld!

Selfish-ness

2008-10-30T14:35:00.002+08:00

Is there even such a word?

Humans always want the best for themselves, sometimes we tend to be selfish in order to achieve something (of cos I don't mean being selfish at the point of committing a crime).

In the morning, I heard on 933 that the survival rates for heart attack patients in Singapore is 2.7%. Why? Because those on the road are too selfish to make way if an ambulance is on the way, because those who are waiting for lift will not let the medics make their way to emergencies. It's really a shame.. 2.7% is a far cry from Seattle's 50%..

I also heard there's this husband from a particular religion (which allows man to marry more than one wife (I think it's Muslim)), asks his wife to tell this lady that he wants to marry her as her second wife.

His wife went to ask that lady, but was rejected because the lady is already married, and guess what?? The husband hit his wife.. 60 year old wife somemore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay it's really insane and I don't know what's the point of this entry.

Daily Snippets of Life (so far..)

2008-10-28T14:35:00.004+08:00

Done pretty nothing much for the past few weeks, really.

- Moses Lim Gourmet Club dinner with Jiexiang's family
- Booked my FTT (finally!)
- Played Wii
- Watched Moulin Rouge, The Italian Job, Master and Commander
- Celebrated two birthdays
- Addicted to Pet Society!

I wanna watch Butterfly Lovers! But no kaki, and boyfriend is busy, so I guess I can only wait for DVD release.

I'm having very bad temper when I'm having menses, especially on the first day. (Sorry :(()

I wanna travel!!!

P.S. The advertisement is very big, I know, but no choice.

给我一首个的时间

2008-10-17T17:55:00.002+08:00

給我一首歌的時間
曲: 周杰伦词: 周杰伦

雨淋濕了天空毀得很講究
你說你不懂為何在這時牽手
我曬干了沉默悔得很沖動
就算這是做錯也只是怕錯過

在一起叫夢分開了叫痛
是不是說沒有做完的夢最痛
迷路的后果我能承受
這最后的出口在愛過了才有

能不能給我一首歌的時間
緊緊的把那擁抱變成永遠
在我的懷里你不用害怕失眠
哦如果你想忘記我也能失意

能不能給我一首歌的時間
把故事聽到最后才說再見
你送我的眼淚讓他留在雨天
哦越過你畫的線我定了勇氣的終點

雨淋濕了天空毀得很講究
你說你不懂為何在這時牽手
我曬干了沉默悔得很沖動
就算這次做錯也只是怕錯過

在一起叫夢分開了叫痛
是不是說沒有做完的夢最痛
迷路的后果我能承受
這最后的出口在愛過了才有

能不能給我一首歌的時間
緊緊的把那擁抱變成永遠
在我的懷里你不用害怕失眠
哦如果你想忘記我也能失意

能不能給我一首歌的時間
把故事聽到最后才說再見
你送我的眼淚讓他留在雨天
哦越過你畫的線我定了勇氣的終點

哦你說我不該不該
不該在這個時候說了我愛你
要怎么證明我沒有說謊的力氣
哦請告訴我暫停算不算放棄
我只有一天的回憶

能不能給我一首歌的時間
緊緊的把那擁抱變成永遠
在我的懷里你不用害怕失眠
哦如果你想忘記我也能失意

能不能給我一首歌的時間
把故事聽到最后才說再見
你送我的眼淚讓他留在雨天
哦如果你畫的線我定了勇氣的終點

你說我不該不該
不該在這時說了愛你
要怎么證明我沒力氣
告訴我暫停算不算放棄
你說我不該不該
不該在這時才說愛你
要怎么證明我沒有力氣
我只有一天的回憶

Lazy to translate as some songs are seriously best written in Mandarin. Enjoy the song!!

Viknesh's Farewell

2008-10-08T14:43:00.003+08:00

I'm back with photos for Viknesh's farewell! I know it's been close to two weeks, but cos I have not gotten the photos from Sandra via MSN, but got it via her facebook (which is very very tedius).

So I was saying, Viknesh had lost freaking 27kg!!

Here's an old photo which I managed to dig out (and scanned):

THEN (15 years old):

"Which one is Viknesh?!"

This photo is not the best to judge his size in the past, but it's the best I could find lah!

NOW (21 years old):

Noticed the new Viknesh?

WHATTTT?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes! Can you imagined how shocked was I when I saw him?!

I remember we were all waiting for him (star of the day, but he was 45mins late -_-), and I was told he changed alot in terms of appearance. I saw him about 2 yrs ago, and he looked the same, so I was not expecting too huge change.. until he was walking towards us and my friends were like "he's here already.. walking.."

I was abit like ??? cos I don't think I saw anyone which looks like him until he walked near us!!!!

Big difference leh!!!

He has gotten so handsome now!!

So we ate at this Indian buffet restaurant and took group photos!

Not all turned up but it was still a sweet sweet gathering cos it has been years since we last met :)

(If I'm not wrong the last gathering was at Mrs Sunil's place, which was probably in 2004)

As usual, Sanjay wanted a candid photo.

HAHHAHAHA. (Sanjay is the one in grey by the way, he suggested this too)

Again, Viknesh has started school in Australia since this Monday, I wish him all the best!

Please watch your diet okay! :) We'll meet next February during your vacation :D

Long time no see!

2008-09-26T15:15:00.003+08:00

Went for my secondary school class 4E5 reunion yesterday.. oh how much everyone has changed!

The person who changed the most is definitely Viknesh! He has lost 27kg OMG!! I'm so gonna blog about his before and after once I get the photos!

Time has past really quickly! It's about 6-7 years of friendship!

I'm also gonna dig out my secondary school photos and then blog about the before/after of everyone! (if there is any significant changes)

We're so gonna meetup next Friday again (I hope it doesn't get cancelled)

I wish Viknesh all the best in his studies in Australia! Good luck in his future endeavours and say 'hello' to independence!!

New Layout

2008-09-25T14:42:00.000+08:00

Teeheeeheee.

Can't wait!!

稻香

2008-09-24T11:56:00.002+08:00

「稻香」詞：周杰倫曲：周杰倫

對這個世界如果你有太多的抱怨
We have too many complaints in this world
跌倒了就不敢繼續往前走
When we fall, we don't dare to move forward
為什麼人要這麼的脆弱墮落
Why is human so vulnerable to degradation?
請你打開電視看看
Please turn on the TV to see
多少人為生命在努力勇敢的走下去
Many people struggling to live
我們是不是該知足
Should we learn how to be contented?
珍惜一切就算沒有擁有
Learn to treasure everything even if we can't have it

還記得你說家是唯一的城堡隨著稻香河流繼續奔跑
You will recall that the family is the only castle as the river continues to run
微微笑小時候的夢我知道
Smile, I know my childhood dream
不要哭讓螢火蟲帶著你逃跑鄉間的歌謠永遠的依靠
Don't cry, let the firefly escape with you, the village's folk song is your support
回家吧回到最初的美好
Go home, go back to your best memories

不要這麼容易就想放棄就像我說的
Do not give up so easily like I said
追不到的夢想換個夢不就得了
If you fail to pursue your dream, why not change another dream?
為自己的人生鮮艷上色先把愛塗上喜歡的顏色
Let the colors brighten your life, let love paint your favourite color
笑一個吧功成名就不是目的
Smile, getting famous is not your purpose in life

讓自己快樂快樂這才叫做意義
Be happy, this is the meaning of life
童年的紙飛機現在終於飛回我手裡
The paper aeroplane from my childhood, has returned on my palm
所謂的那快樂赤腳在田裡追蜻蜓追到累了
Such happiness, chasing dragonflies barefooted around the field
偷摘水果被蜜蜂給叮到怕了誰在偷笑呢
Getting stung by bees while picking fruits
我靠著稻草人吹著風唱著歌睡著了
I leaned against the scarecrow, sang until I'm tired, and fell asleep
哦哦午後吉它在蟲鳴中更清脆
The guitar sounds clearer in the afternoon, amidst the chirping of bugs
哦哦陽光灑在路上就不怕心碎
Don't be afraid of being sad, the rays of the sun will always shine your way
珍惜一切就算沒有擁有
Learn to treasure everything even if we can't have it

還記得你說家是唯一的城堡隨著稻香河流繼續奔跑
You will recall that the family is the only castle as the river continues to run
微微笑小時候的夢我知道
Smile, I know my childhood dream
不要哭讓螢火蟲帶著你逃跑鄉間的歌謠永遠的依靠
Don't cry, let the firefly escape with you, the village's folk song is your support
回家吧回到最初的美好
Go home, go back to your best memories

Okay, this is loosely translated by me, pardon the bad translation Click here to listen to the full version music is not available in imeem for now. Can't wait for his other songs!!!!

JAY CHOU I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUU!

P.S. Should I get the autographed version of Jay's limited edition album? But I gotta wait a week after his autograph session in Taiwan before I can get it :( Dilemma~~~~~

魔杰座

2008-09-20T14:14:00.005+08:00

Jay Chou's new album is finally expected to be released on 9th October!!
Pre-order starts 24th September :)

Usually I pre-order from Popular's CD Rama but last year I heard from Rosalind that Music Junction (if I didn't remember wrongly) has pre-orders for the Taiwan's version filled with more goodies! But of cos, it comes with a hefty price..

His 9th album is titled <魔杰座> and his hit song <稻香> would be having it's premiere broadcast in Asia on 22th September at 10am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And his album photos are damn cool can!?

LOVE JAY CHOU!!

*photos and information from JVRMusic!*

P.S. Oh and prior to the Good Luck post, It's because I took BTT on that day and I passed!!!! WOOOOHOOOO~~

Perhaps..

2008-09-12T16:42:00.000+08:00

living together under one roof isn't as easy as it seems to be..

Wish me good luck!!!!!!!!!

2008-09-12T10:55:00.002+08:00

I know Beijing Olympics is already over! But have been lazy to draw a new banner for mooncake festival.. Hehe...

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Attended my cousin's wedding last Saturday. Personally, I liked the wedding video. Instead of the usual slideshow-of-photos-from-start-of-relationship-till-wedding-day, my cousin had gotten someone to do a flash animation for her! It showed how she and her husband met, how she had initially rejected being her husband's girlfriend, to gradually missing him and accepting him, and then the proposal part.

The proposal part was unromantic though =X Imagine you and your boyfriend were on the way home in a car, and then he just pop the question?????????????????????????

I'll scold my boyfriend upside down!!!!!! No roses, no dinner, no romantic ideas etc... hmph!!

But the flash animation was cute, maybe I'll get Pixar to do a 3D animation for mine in future LOL!!!! ($$$$$$$)

Also, I realised most of the weddings I attended, played the song "From this Moment" by Shania Twain when the couple marched in. So common leh!! Must be different..

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Attending Jiexiang's cousin's wedding tomorrow. Shall see if there is any interesting thing!

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Wish me good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lotus

2008-09-01T13:57:00.002+08:00

Watched 12 Lotus last last weekend (overdue post again). I must say, the film is very very well made. I loved the unexpected twist (actually not much but it really amazed me how everything connects) and the costumes that were used.

It's a story about a girl, named Lotus, who wanted to sing the Hokkien song "12 Lotus". The movie protrayed how Lotus eventually "lived through" the song. It's a very dark movie, yet it impacts me so much I kept thinking why Lotus had such a fate, kept thinking up till the next day.

I read Yahoo! Movies reviews, the reviewers either liked it or hated it. (I belong to the former)

There is an artistic touch in this show - maybe that's why some ppl cannot understand and hated it. But the depth of meaning that the director wants to imply is far stretching and purposeful.
- zingtan, Yahoo! Movies review

Totally agree! Jiexiang's aunts, mum and dad didn't like it, but the both of us find it nice. His mum said the first part of the movie is good, but the second part is very bad. I found it rather alright, except the "buy stones" part -_-;

So if you like dark tales, like artistic films, like plausible endings, or even like Royston Tan, you can watch this movie!

PHELPS!!

2008-08-22T23:06:00.002+08:00

I know I may be very very late for this post but nonetheless, better late than never!!

Last Saturday, I watched Michael Phelps' 7th Olympics game Live on television. I must say, watching Live is definitely far far far better than watching YouTube repeat videos!

I woke up real early that day (his game was scheduled 1010h) and watched the game with my dad. It was really really breath-taking! My dad was like 'He's not gonna win....' that kinda because Phelps was lagging behind for the first 3/4 of the lap!! Then he finally catch up with the first swimmer in line but was barely overtaking him.. when the first swimmer (Australia? I forgot), was like 10cm away from the finishing line, Phelps was in the midst of completing the next stroke when *FWAH* his stroke ended before the first swimmer!!

How exciting is that??!! Furthermore, there was a debate on who reached the finishing line first as the difference was a mere 0.01 second. The recorded video was played back and slowed down by 1/100 (is that how you phrase it?) to witness who actually reached the finishing line first!!

Although he didn't break the World Record for that game, he got yet another gold medal!

I watched his last game on Sunday and wahhhh... it's so nice.. he won again! It was a 4 x 100m medley relay, and the second swimmer (breast stroke) was lagging behind as the Japanese breast stroke world record holder managed to pull a huge gap away from other countries.. Then when the third swimmers dived in (butterfly stoke.. Phelps!), Phelps was clearly pulling his distance away from other swimmers!!

Okay, to cut my story short, after Phelps won his 8th Olympic gold medal, the whole stadium's attention was on him lor.. Such a young swimmer (23 years old), with such great achievements. He not only broke the previous world record holder of having most gold medals in one Olympics, he is also the best Olympian so far.. with 14 Olympic gold medals..

Just read his wikipiedia page lahh!! Trust me.. I bet alot of girls like him as much as I do.. Till the next Olympics, Phelps! <3

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Janice gave birth to little Issac today!!! Congrats!! I can't wait to carry little Issac!!

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I didn't know somebody would be using my tagboard nick just to find out details of my friend. It totally ruins my reputation! (FYI, I'm not really close with that friend, hence there could be some friction on the questions the fake me asks)

It simply disgusts me to realise that I did not tag such message on my friend's blog, and those questions the fake me asked were quite private questions. Anyway, it shows that the fake me visit my friend's blog everyday as there were posts made on 17th, 18th and 19th August. I was at BF's house when the fake me tagged on 17th and 18th!

I went to tag the board on 19th to clarify I wasn't the fake me on 17th and 18th, and the fake me appeared like 10 hours later to clarify that the fake me is not me again???? Like wth? Why would I go back another 10 hours later just to clarify it again. That person must be dumb.

Period.

My friend knows the truth though, but this made me more careful when tagging friend's blog. I'll probably stick to Blogger comments if there is, at least the fake me don't have my username and password access :D

I'm just ranting :P

MNE2

2008-08-14T11:51:00.002+08:00

Watched Money No Enough 2 on Tuesday with Jie Xiang. The show in my opinin, has too much CG and was quite unrealistic, except for the mother role.

Thumbs up for the lady who played the role of the mother!

Credits to Jack Neo.

SPOILERS AHEAD

Why did I say the mother role was realistic? Well, because I believe it is common in Singapore. Siblings quarrel over money and who to take care of parents. The sight of the mother having to downgrade to sleeping just outside the toilet made me cry. The sight of the confused mother being brought to an elderly home made me cry. The sight when she realised she was going to an elderly home, upon seeing her son running away after dropping her off, made me cry.

The mother role was very well acted that I believe I heard some sniffing in the quiet theatre when emotional parts of the movie was screened, but the crowd burst out laughing during the comedy part which comes after the emotional though, but I didn't. The sad emotions in me overpowered the comedy.

Anyway, I think the quality of the video is lousy. Perhaps cos I watched too many HD movies in cinema, and that the quality of MNE2 disappointed me.

Thumbs up for the mother role though!

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I still prefer The Dark Knight. Sadly, Heath Ledger has passed away, he wouldn't be able to see his brilliant performance on screen but he will be remembered. I heard from Catharine that he actually had drug overdose because he tried to forget the Joker role? That's sad, because he played that role so fantastic that The Dark Knight had many reviews like "best superhero blockbuster ever"

RIP Heath Ledger.

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Oh, new Olympics layout :)

Michael Phelps is hero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been hearing his name on the radio and I decided to google it (seriously when I heard the word "Phelps", I roughly reckon the spelling would be "Phelps" and bingo!!). OMFG you gotta click on this!

Two years older than me yet so many achievements! (Okay I know different people, different destiny) He is good looking too, and that body!!!! *drools*

Let me fangirl for a while (mine is always very short-lived except for Jay Chou)

Today I heard on the radio that he had, yet again, broke the world record for 200m Butterfly Stroke. Maybe something typical for him but guess what??!! When he dive into the pool for that tournament, his left goggle was filled with water! He was 'half-blinded' and how the heck was he still able to break the world record????

He actually 'counted' his strokes so he'd be able to roughly tell when he is reaching the finish line!

Seriously a born swimmer!!!!!

Pray he clinch three more gold medals this Olympics to break another world record. He has already broken many world record, just read his Wikipedia page!!

Okay, let's just wish him all the best!!!!!!!! :)

Evolution

2008-08-09T00:02:00.003+08:00

DISCLAIMER: I've lost the source of where I got those images from, so it's not because I simply don't want to credit you, but it's cos I forgot where it came from.

As promised, I'm back to blog on the evolution of my web design! I shall touch on school project works then to blog layouts..

Click on images for larger view okay..

Let me start the ball rolling with my first website done for module Internet and Multimedia Fundamentals (IMMF).

OMG, that was not bad right??

Second project for IMMF; SARS website, targeted at retired adults (group work).

Erm.... okay I know it looked more catered to teenagers.....

Wenna, do you remember the flash you did for the homepage? LOLOLOL!! I can't upload it for you to reminisce.

Singapore Fine Arts University website (group work) for User Interface Design module if I remember correctly..

Now you see improvement... right??

The top SiFAU thingy is actually a flash banner, but was done by Wenna.

One random Graphic Design Fundamental magazine layout.

Images all drawn by me.. my drawing not good.. I know..

The Petals for Visual Interface Design module.

It's a flash website by the way, but unfortunately, I lost the files as my laptop crashed I think.. I can't even remember how I did the beautiful petals =/

That's all I have for project works!! The rest of the files are either non-design related, or I had lost the files to it. I remember I did a logo design which was displayed during openhouse, but I only have hardcopy of it...... too bad lah..

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My blog design fluctuates, I guessed it depend on my drive for designing the layout when I wanted to.

Simple.. but I guess it's the image which made it wow.. as this was one of my earlier works like when I was 17?

I even designed one for Initial D cos of Jay Chou!

Another simple design.

I like this layout alot!! But the content area is kinda limited..

Lovely. Scanned this out of the Heinken badges thingy.

Think I did this because I had a huge crush on someone...

Tears are the words the heart can't say..

Cute layout but it seems the side bar is abit too squeezy? Like no air to breathe lidat..

Beautiful illustration

When Jay Chou's November Chopin was out! Was in love with that song..

Last but not least..... my favorite!!!!!

SUPER NICE RIGHT????

Perhaps I will try to convert my current one into that design... erm... when I'm least lazy xD

Where's the passion?

2008-08-06T23:27:00.002+08:00

Feeling nostagic as I ran through my old blog designs. Seriously, I felt I had lost the passion of blogging already. Is it due to hectic work life? I believe so. Although most of the days I report home after work, I don't feel like blogging. Perhaps cos my job revolves around the WWW, hence sometimes I just want to break free from it. (although I stream dramas online alot *shrugs*)

I promise to blog about it when I'm least lazy.. promise!!

Do you know?

2008-07-31T16:56:00.002+08:00

Do you know I'm overloaded with endless work?
No, you don't.

Do you know I'm sick and tired of everything?
No, you don't.

Do you know what kind of feeling I bring along with me everyday?
No, you don't.

Do you know I sighed everytime a new thing pops up?
No, you don't.

Do you know how much I hate it when I receive emails from you?
No, you don't.

Do you know how much I'm suffering everyday?
No, you don't.

Do you know I'm not a superwoman?
No, you don't.

Let me tell you...
I'm overloaded with work..
I'm sick and tired of everything..
I bring a dreadful mood to work everyday..
Your emails make me sick, make me depressed..
I'm suffering everyday..
I'm not a superwoman..

and I want to leave......

Alamak!

2008-07-30T16:07:00.002+08:00

When you try to make things flawlessly (like planning a surprise), there bound to be a mishap, worst when the birthday girl is the only one with color printer driver. (in case you're wondering, I'm talking about planning a surprise for a colleague, hence the color printer)

Joelle:
u all use my pc and do something huh
Joelle:
nv close LOL
Huei Shan:
huh wad (act blur)
Huei Shan:
you nv close izzit
Joelle:
the image still there lor
Huei Shan:
huh? wad image? (continue to act blur)

Alamak lah!

Alexa Organiser Spree #1

2008-07-04T11:21:00.001+08:00

Need a solution to a messy bag?

Get Alexa Bag Organiser!

10 colours to choose from!!

Benefits:
- organises your items in your bag in compartments for easy searching
- easy transfer of items from bag to bag (just take out Alexa and put in another bag!)
- hard and sturdy and keeps its shape!
- comes in 3 different sizes!

On Left : In Small/Medium
On Right : In Large

*note: number of pockets in organiser may differ slightly from photos*

( Get Alexa here!!! )

Jay Chou World Tour Concert 2007/2008

2008-06-20T21:56:00.002+08:00

I had promised to have this entry up since February!

*gasps*

I must admit time passed really fast!

Jay's concert's way back in January and I still remember I had menstruation on his birthday cum first day of concert! Okay, what memory, ahha. The first day of concert was good, and we got to celebrate his birthday with him! (without a birthday cake though)

All of us who were there sang a birthday song harmoniously for him which I find very touching till I was close to tears.

On the second day of concert, there wasn't any belated birthday songs but Jay invited his grandma up on stage! *so cute!*

Here's the fabulous photos which is splashed with humongous blog trademark:

Photos do speak a thousand words. Enjoy~

Opening song.

I love seeing him in pink! =X

My favorite part! OMG! I can remember vividly he was like a prince charming with a transparent piano! Best of all, he said "现在在这个场合最适合唱这首歌了..带给你们<最长的电影>!"

OMGOMGOMGOMG *melts*

That's my favorite song for his On the Run album loh! This is my laptop wallpaper too!

This is the part where Yu Hao and Jay plays piano battle from Secret!

:D

There's actually another photo of Jay playing gu zheng but I don't have the photo currently so I'll blog that another day. Oh, reminds me there's also the part where Jay played <彩虹> on the guitar while singing!

*gasps*

Alvin hasn't passed me all the photos!

New Revamp

2008-06-20T11:31:00.003+08:00

As of the title above, I did a layout with the cutie square-head me!

Best viewed in Mozilla Firefox. Only difference between FF and iE is the orange separator which separates my side bar and my blog posts. In iE, the orange separator is non-existent. (at least in iE 6.0 which I'm using now.)

Oh and in case you haven't notice, I've removed my tagboard (saddening to see little or hardly no tags) so I've changed to Haloscan aka comments.

So yah, leave a comment if you love me <3

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Know this girl?
Jay Chou's new rumoured target.

Argh.

Last December, Jay had 5 concerts in Hong Kong. That Hongky model was introduced to him through some friends, after which he invited her to be his dance guest for the entire Hong Kong concert!

She had very close body contacts and even sat on his lap!

Latest news was that, recently he went to Shanghai for some work and she was there for some modelling shoot too. Jay stayed throughout the shoot after which he sent her back to her hotel and met up with the Secret bitch for steamboat! (The co-female lead, all wikipedia don't have her photo, even the Chinese version)

Flirt?

Aiya, he is so famous, so accomplished, I don't mind throwing myself to him lor! (also cos I idolise him like hell lah)

The Secret bitch also lucky lah. Jay Chou is her 贵人. After she filmed Secret, her popularity burst like crazy lor. Can see her in alot of MV, even in alot of Taiwanese drama.

This new girl also same. I heard cos she appeared during his concert, her popularity rose.

Oh and guess what? She's only 19!
Oh and she's German mixed blood too.

Okay I'm jealous, furious, angry all at the same time. Thank god I listened to 933 at the right time okay! This whole article was smeared across Lianhe Wanbao last page!

P.S. BF don't be angry/sad/frustrated/[insert emotions] upon seeing this entry okay. I'm just ranting.

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Oh and I always listen to 933 just nice lor.

I took the same bus as Shu Chen yesterday, and after she alighted, I on my mp3 even though it's only five to ten minutes journey left.

DJ Jiafa started asking Aiwei what she think is the sweetest moments with her boyfriend. She said something simple like watching tv together on a couch.

Then they mentioned a couple actually both sent a letter to them! (It was xiangejiyi lah. Songs dedication time which you can send them snail mail or post to their blog)

It was the guy's birthday and he send in his dedication to his girlfriend thanking her for being with him.

And the girl sent one to wish him happy birthday and thanking him for being in her life!

Of cos they didn't plan to send a mail together. It was a coincidence!

SO SWEET LOR!!!!

P.S. They're only 17 though.

MSN

2008-06-17T11:33:00.002+08:00

And in the end the only people I really need to talk to during work is my colleagues.

Of cos, among the list, you only see Wenna who is not my colleague.

I don't talk to my colleagues mainly about casual chats.

Click for larger view.

I think we really need it back.

But I don't think they can see it.

As always, two sides of the coins, we only see the bad.
If we are left with only one dollar coin in our pocket, we only see the bad part which is we're only left with one dollar.
Why not choose to see it this way: Thank God I have a dollar left!

Perhaps only in really bad times, then we will see the bad as the good.

Overdue

2008-06-14T17:49:00.004+08:00

Updating photos which are overdue!

The girls in my company had a bet on the gender of Janice's baby and it's a boy!

Bought $30 worth of snacks. Supposedly $20 cos there were 4 losers ($5 each) but we took too much titbits lah.. so winners top up the rest.

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My colleagues and I walked to Hans one fine day to have our lunch.

Appetizers, drinks and desserts.

BANANA AS DESSERT?!

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The first meetup after Rosalind left the company..

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See my Victoria's Secret Secret Garden collection!

Seriously I still prefer Lovespell lah. Should have bought all Lovespell (the purple one). LOL.

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My loots from Bangkok trip!

I had counted what I bought and here's the list:
- 6 skirts
- 1 cardigan
- 3 dresses
- 4 BF shirts (2 of which cost 100B which is less den SGD6.00!)
- 4 bags
- 5 tops
- 3 scarfs
- 2 pirated games (oops but it's Crash Bandicoot lah!)
- 6 Naraya pouches (too cheap already, for aunt, cousin, mum and sister)
- 2 shorts
- 1 beach short
- 10 keychains (to give people one)
- 3 handphone straps (for myself, Wendy and Wenna)
- 5 coin pouches (for sec sch friends)
- 2 slippers (for myself and Karen)
- 4 belts (1 comes with a skirt I bought)
- 1 necklace
- 1 bracelet

SOUNDS ALOT HOR?

But I only spent around SGD350.

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Lastly, this pencil case which I bought for Mr. BF!

NICE NOT???

Me: Guess how much I bought it for?
BF: Must be very ex cos so nice!
Me: Not really.. I made one!
BF: REALLY? I THOUGHT IS BUY ONE. I DUNNO YOU KNOW HOW TO SEW.

zzzzz

Seriously, I made it one lah. Learnt overnight one.

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I almost fainted at Woodlands MRT, really.

I was going to meet up the VS spree organiser for my loots (7 VS Secret Garden items! Of cos I didn't buy all 7 lah. Shared with Wenna, Liling and Karen) when I felt very dehydrated.

The weather was so hot and humid lah! I felt really uncomfortable and thirsty. I didn't bring out any cash with me because I'm only out to take my loots.

I hurriedly walk to the empty space at the platform and as I took each step, I felt my vision was blacking out at every blink and step I took. There was even a SMRT worker walking towards which I almost wanted to ask him for help, telling him I'm gonna faint.

So I walk to the empty seat lor, vision almost gone and I knocked onto this man's feets and muttered "sorry" as I made my way beside him.

Train was there and I didn't board cos I wanna rest. When I board the next train, oh my god, I felt I had menstrual cramps and feared for the worst.. NO PADS LEHHHH.

Want to take cab also no money. I just pray that my bus faster come lor..

Bad experience.

Super Suay

2008-06-11T10:20:00.003+08:00

Today I commute to work as usual, then I got this seat a few stops after I boarded which I thought I was so lucky!

Then the girl beside me alighted so I move to the inner seat.

An auntie sat beside me. Then water started to drip from the vehicle top as it was raining quite heavily!!

"Endure.... endure....", but it keeps dripping and dripping and the auntie beside me didn't notice it.

I cannot take it anymore so I changed to the empty seat behind the auntie. That's why water starts to drip again and auntie understood why.

Amidst the journey, water starts dripping again! This time directly under me and my new seat! TMD.... somemore is outer seat you know.. usually it's the inner which has water that keeps dripping..

"Endure... endure...", that's how I endured throughout the journey because this water dripping isn't as bad as the first.

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I think I don't have "travel luck" this year.

I went back to Malaysia for CNY and my handphone got snatched.
I travelled to Bangkok for the first time and boyfriend and I got scammed!

Somemore I was thinking of going for a short overseas trip with friends for my 21st birthday!
But nevermind, December is rainy season for most budget getaways like Genting and Batam.
Though we have snow in other countries but $$$$.

Will blog about the scam much later, after it's all solved and we got back our refund.

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I think my elder sister threw away my BRAND new pair of contact lenses in my contact lenses case because she threw her case away.

GOD DAMMIT.

It cost almost $10 a pair can!

Can you imagine my reaction when I went to the toilet in the morning, anticipating to wear contact lenses (cos I wore spects for the past two days), just to find out my case's caps weren't tightly screwed and no lens inside?? Only lens solution..

The only person who uses her lens and then don't rinse her case is my elder sister!

I OPENED IT LAST SATURDAY ONLY LOR. WORN ONCE.

SIGHS.

Why do I have such a sister?

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Standard of living going up:
- GST hike last July
- Taxi fare hike (I forgot when, though I don't usually take cab but there are times I really need it. Now it means don't miss the last train or bus or simply, don't hang out too late)
- Cost of rice increased
- Cost of noodles increased
- Cost of fuel increased (yet again and though it doesn't bother me, I believe it future it will!)

Only thing that hasn't increase is my salary!!

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Oh, I hope in 15 years' time (when Jurong Lake development has finished), my flat value will increase by double!!

Okay, too wishful to want it to increase by double. At least 100k can?

Hopefully my parents won't sell it away though we have to pay alot monthly.

Flash #1

2008-06-06T15:32:00.013+08:00

I wanna improve on my flash skills so I found this growing wings tutorial and completed this. Click on this and download it because I can't get it to show on blogger :(

YX said it looks pro, but the source and if you see how I did it... =X

Nonetheless, it's still an accomplishment and I learnt something new!

Leaving on a Jet Plane

2008-05-23T11:43:00.003+08:00

I'm leaving for Bangkok tomorrow!! :D

Meanwhile I've updated my Travel Blog already.

You can recap my Taiwan trip 2007 Day I here.
You can read about my Taiwan trip 2007 Day II here.
You can read about my Taiwan trip 2007 Day III here.

You can drool over beautiful photos taken in Taiwan while I come back from Bangkok for some updates!

ADIOS!

P.S. If you'd like to leave a comment on my trips but does not have a Livejournal ID, you can check the OpenID button and then type in your email add so I can know who you are.

P.P.S. The reason to why I revert my template to a grey one is because I couldn't revert back to the orange one I was using before Xeno asked me for help with his organisation blog. Could only use my greytone blog's layout. Well, probably just in time for 哀悼, which Karen noticed that some Chinese website (like this) has used codes to convert their template to black and white, for the mourning of those unfortunates during the Sichuan earthquake.

有心无力

2008-05-15T17:03:00.003+08:00

Finally got Taiwan photos from Mr Boyfriend! WHEEE.

Shall upload here when I have time.. because my days are packed..

I kinda like Livejournal because the layouts are nice but it's hell trying to edit those because they only allow CSS alteration on provided layouts.

I found two layouts I like (one which I like the top nav, the other has CSS which suits the layout I like in Livejournal), so VAVAVOOOM! shansational@livejournal is born.

That shall be my Travel blog :D

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Eight more days to Bangkok trip! Can't wait!

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Have been listening to this ever since I found this video in YouTube.

I'll totally say yes if my boyfriend plays that for me and then propose to me.

Okay, I can wake up from my dream already.

P.S. That boy is so talented! He's only 12!

Love

2008-05-13T15:46:00.004+08:00

Edited on 15th May

Being alive is a wonderful thing;
Sitting comfortably in front of my computer;
Sleeping peacefully on my bed;
Waking up to breakfast everyday;
Going home for dinner after work;
Keep thinking of ways to save more money;
Thinking about travelling at least once a year etc etc..

I'm blessed to be able to do all these things..

And while many of you have similar daily activities like me, people from Myanmar and China are suffering from the aftermath of cyclone and earthquake respectively.

Countless lives have been taken.
Countless homes have been destroyed.
Countless people have to mourn for the loss of their loved ones.

If you want to do a part in helping these people, you can donate through iBanking to Singapore Red Cross. Instructions here. (link changed to China earthquake donation)

"The main purpose of donations is not about the money; it is about the love that it symbolizes." - Master Cheng Yen

Any amount, no matter how small, is still a symbolization of love.

Edit: The reason why I changed the link of the donation is because news said that the Myanmar government is not getting aids from other countries. Also, food that were donated were not entirely given to victims! Nevermind that, maybe they are saving some for future usage but they actually sent out the low-nutrition ones to the victim and keep the better ones for themselves! Also, the government keeps all the money to themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ANGRY NOT?????????

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......... I just donated $22.00 to them yesterday, $10.00 from boyfriend, $2.00 from LYX (sorry LYX)

Bottled Roses

2008-05-07T21:51:00.002+08:00

So beautiful.

So nice.

So sweet.

Not expensive.

I like.

Best of all, can keep as decoration, won't wilt!!!!

http://roseseduction.blogspot.com/

It was a stupid PH

2008-05-02T15:00:00.004+08:00

It was a stupid public holiday yesterday. It's like you put on a holiday mood on Wednesday, and then you have to drag yourself to work on Friday.

No PH all the way until October.. x100000 SIAN.

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Alanah: "Ahyijiejie, I want to sleep with you tonight."
ME: "But there's no more space on the bed already, you have to sleep on the carpet you know."
Alanah: "I don't like the carpet. but I try first." *lies on the carpet, with legs and head on the floor, butt held high*
ME: "Choose your pillow." *throws two small pillows on the carpet*
Alanah: "Where's my pillow?" (refering to her baby pillow)
ME: "Where's your pillow? I don't know.."
Alanah: *chooses a pillow and sleeps on it*
Alanah: "Eee, I don't like (refering to the furry carpet)." *moves to sleep on the floor*

HAHHAHA..

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I think we should all learn to remember the good better than remembering the bad.

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只要努力, 就会有收获
剩下的, 就是要相信自己的力量.

VS

2008-04-30T16:45:00.002+08:00

I'm in love with Victoria's Secret.

In love with their Secret Garden collection. (so sweet-smelling, so moisturizing, so feminine)

In love with their 5 for USD25 panties. (so funky, so soft, so cute!)

I WANT TO GO U.S. AND COMB THEIR STOREEEEE....

Alexa Bag Organisers Spree (response test)

2008-04-26T23:59:00.002+08:00

Always have difficulties finding items in your bag?

Introducing Alexa bag organisers!

Best of all, it comes in 10 colours!

For more info, please visit http://dinoshan.livejournal.com/6999.html#cutid1

Lost Times (Part One)

2008-04-20T13:09:00.002+08:00

I decided to have an impromptu mini spring clean of my room as I wanted to throw out things I wouldn't bear to throw in the past. (I'm a person who loves to keep any memento that is worth keeping)

I threw out half a bag of stuff; stuff including clothes tags which I used to keep but I figured it's not of any rememberance as it just showed the brand of clothings I used to wear and amount of money I spent on a clothes. I threw out old and dirty decorative keychains/handphone straps. (but I'm still left with a bunch of it) I threw out meaningless documents, warranty cards that have expired or that I do not own that handset anymore etc etc.

I recovered a bunch of cards I received during my Secondary School years, and a few that were received in Poly.Cards I forgot I ever received, and I supposed the senders forgot they ever sent/given out.

The amount I received during these two period of my life carries a huge difference. This just showed that during my Secondary School years, handwritten or handmade cards were still very popular, until all these traditional way of expressing love has been overtaken by virtual cards; ecards that you could only see it online, and not a physical thing which you could keep and still look back in time.

I wished everything hadn't been taking over by the virtual world. As much as how internet has made things easy, it took away alot of things too. Do you prefer receiving physical cards or ecards? Do you prefer to stay in contact with friends through means of msn or by meeting up?

I'm bad at keeping close friends. Friends whom I'm close with during my Secondary School years are now casual friend whom I don't really talk to anymore. It's how funny friends can become almost like strangers.

I will take some time to scan and upload the cards I've ever received soon :)

Smoked!

2008-04-17T10:50:00.002+08:00

On Monday morning, I walked through the main entrance to my office. Oh gosh, it reeks of smoke! Initially I thought it was due to the massive smoke produced by smokers as most of time smokes near the main entrance, but oh dear god, I was wrong.

What produced the smoke? Some company actually burn incense (or whatsoever) in their office! Can you believe it?! The corridor from the main entrance leading to various companies is cooled by air-conditioner everyday!

I supposed it's the Indian company because I saw some flower string thingy hung up on their door. (I'm sorry I'm ignorant about any Indian festivals) but it's just so inconsiderate!

Till today, the corridor still reeks of smoke. We could have died from Day one due to the massive air pollution!

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I quarrelled with my mum yesterday, over a minor matter, you'd say. It all started when she told me my elder sister, who is currently in Shanghai for a business trip, got robbed during her stay there.

Her digital camera, wallet, handphone and other misc. stuff in her handbag (I assume) were gone.

My mum asked which digital camera my sister brought over (perhaps cos I didn't have much reaction about the robbery) and asked if it's her new and expensive one. I say should be lor, what else.

She said "She should have brought your cheap and old digital camera so she wouldn't lose such an expensive one!"

.........................

I flared up and said "WHAT CHEAP? IT COST ME $400 OKAY!?!!!!!!!"

I was more angry with the fact that she'd rather my sister got robbed of my digital camera then got robbed of her newer and more expensive digital camera. I mean, if you're holding your sibling/friend's stuff, the least you want things to happen is a robbery right??

Furthermore I had bought it with my hard-saved money. If I'm not wrong, I was 16 at that time when I bought, haven't even started working. It contains memories (as I borrowed it for my Japan trip) and most importantly, it's my hard-saved money lah.

So mum started scolding on top of her voice, trying to change topic saying she is just concerned about my sister who is away in other country and hasn't called back yet yada yada yada yada.

I was irritated by her and said "FINE, DON'T TELL ME ABOUT HER STUFF, I'M NOT INTERESTED"

Then she started holler back saying I'm heartless, and say I can disown my sister (OH GOD, can you imagine how she always try to make things worst?) blablabla.

"Have you thought about my feelings when you said she should bring my cheap and old digital camera and that camera should be robbed instead?"

There was a cold hard silence after that.

And like always, she started to change topic and say how heartless, how I should disown my sister, how she is just concerned about my sister etc. and I plucked in my in-ear earphones and watch Prison Break.

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People say we'd be the shadow of our parents when we grow up.

No, I don't want to be like that. If I think I will be a shadow of my mum when I grow up, I'd rather not give birth no matter how much I love kids.

千山万水

2008-04-15T11:57:00.002+08:00

Jay Chou composed a song for Beijing Olympics 2008! I hope his song got selected :)

千山万水
千山万水　无数黑夜
等一轮明月
梦的边陲　风吹不灭
从不感疲惫
东方无愧　第一是谁
让我们追求完美
我态度坚决　面朝北
平地一声雷
做好准备　这一回
起跑后绝不撤退
痛快一起努力的感觉
我们拥有同样的机会
梦想挟带眼泪咸咸的汗水
你我同个世界爱从中穿越
梦与希望在飞我向前去追
有目标就不累等着我超越
千山万水无数黑夜等一轮明月
京剧唱腔/超越
梦的边陲风吹不灭从不感疲惫
东方无愧第一是谁让我们追求完美
我态度坚决面朝北平地一声雷
东方无愧　第一是谁
让我们追求完美
我态度坚决　面朝北
平地一声雷
做好准备　这一回
起跑后绝不撤退
痛快一起努力的感觉
我们拥有同样的机会
梦想挟带眼泪咸咸的汗水
你我同个世界爱从中穿越
梦与希望在飞我向前去追
有目标就不累等着我超越
梦想挟带眼泪咸咸的汗水
你我同个世界爱从中穿越
梦与希望在飞我向前去追
有目标就不累等着我超越
远远平地一声雷过千山万水

Baby Enya a.k.a Alanah's baby sister was born yesterday! I'm gonna visit her later :D

Photos soon!

It's been a good week

2008-04-11T11:16:00.002+08:00

1) Boyfriend found a part time job! Horray!

2) Met up with Wendy on Wednesday and dine in at her Sir's restaurant (Bistro One Zero Three). Her treat!

3) Food is still amazing nice and I had my first beef meal there! I ordered Beef Stragonoff (correct spelling?) and it tastes delicious! Had been wanting to eat that ever since I tried it during Wenna's birthday.

4) I think I should bring boyfriend there soon because the restaurant might be closing down! No no, not because business' not good, but rather, business' too good for one chef to handle.

5) I finally get to do a mockup for a website! Okay, I've been doing website maintanence and I felt I'm getting rusty.

6) Meeting boyfriend tonight! Though I know he'd be wow-ing for a few hours straight.

7) Janice is gonna know her baby's gender next week! :)

8) Boyfriend's sister is gonna give birth any day this month!

9) I received CPF letter of repayment for the amount I borrowed from my brother for studies. Who can lend me $1.5k and I'll repay you $250 every month?

10) My 19-year-old cousin is getting married. Shotgun that is. I wonder why my cousins are all getting married at a young age. Another 19-year-old cousin married last year. Nope, not shotgun.

11) When's my turn to get married? I hope by age 25!

12) I've got nothing to say already. TATA.

Overdued

2008-04-06T02:10:00.002+08:00

Wenna complaint about the lack of photos in my blog and I supposed that's the reason why no one tags anymore. I also start to think my blog has become boring because of work which ties me down 9-6 from monday to friday and weekends are usually reserved for boyfriend and friends, so I hardly have time to blog because I watch dramas during my free time, hurhur.

Alot of overdued photos, please bear with me.

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The really huge Kung Fu Dunk mounted poster which
Catharine got it for me :)

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Went to One Degree 15 at Sentosa Cove last weekend for buffet lunch with boyfriend and family.

Nice ambience over there and I certainly would love to try dining out in the swimming pool in future!

Food is good and very very fresh but what I found special is their coffee and tea!

As you can see, they provided us sugar all crystallized on a stick which also functions as a stirrer and they actually don't use common sugar for both tea and coffee; they used white sugar for tea and brown sugar for coffee. Only managed to take photo of boyfriend's tea because I had already stirred the entire brown sugar in my coffee by then, heh.

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Birthday cake for Catharine. LOL.

Birthday girl :)

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I've learnt how to solve a rubix cube!

And love making different combinations out of it!

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Valentine's Day present from boyfriend. He knows I wanted a white strap watch, vintage looking kind with "bling bling" diamonds/crystals! Love it <3

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My colleague, Rosalind did a collage of photos she took with us individually which was supposed to be a farewell present before she leave the company, but she's decided to stay, HORRAY!

Cute mini "masak masak" set she bought for us :)

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Lady boss aka Janice bought us this during her trip to Hong Kong! It's by far the most authentic looking CJ7 I've ever come across.

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My female colleagues and I.

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During Jay Chou concert!

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Samples from Origins given by Shun Wei. I love samples, because you get to try it without buying it and then realising it doesn't really suit your face!

Dirt cheap body scrub like what, $2.50 per tub!!!!!!

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New Dell laptop which is comparable to Macbook Air in terms of dimensions!

WOW SO SLIM!

This is what you get when you open the lid..

The back of the laptop.

OMG, that's (literally) a notebook (pun intended) ???

SO COOL! I want one too!

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I drew that using Macromedia Flash :)

Click for larger view

:DD

That's all folks!

P.S. Reason why I'm still here at this time is because I drank hot Mocha earlier on and now I can't get to sleep.

紧

2008-03-21T01:43:00.000+08:00

我还是不厌其烦地紧抓着希望
紧抓着梦想的边角
紧抓着成功所需要的物品
紧抓着你..

~送你一朵爱的花

Untitled

2008-03-12T15:34:00.002+08:00

I got the large Kung Fu Dunk poster mounted on a board! All thanks to my colleague, Catharine, who begged for it :)

Of cos it comes with a price to pay; my colleagues told me my boss had paid $200 for it and I have to return that sum of money to him. You should have seen my reaction, so sad about it, I mean, $200 leh..

My boss kept laughing about how I got cheated throughout the night.

Oh by the way, the mounted poster cost a freaking $350 which hard-core fans would pay for it.. -.-

Photos of it up next entry!

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I got the cute CJ7 plush toy from Hong Kong! Lady boss had bought it for us during her Hong Kong trip last week :D

Photos for it up next entry!

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I've booked a 4D3N Bangkok trip in May with boyfriend! Thanks boyfriend for agreeing to go even though it'd be over his budget.

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Kung Fu Dunk VCD/DVD is out! But I'm waiting to see if there's limited edition before rushing into buying the normal version.

旧

2008-03-11T22:54:00.003+08:00

有很多事
在你还不懂得珍惜的时候
就已经变成了旧事

有很多人
在你还来不及用心的时候
就变成了旧人

生命不等人的

有时候
死亡会悄悄降临
在你所爱的人身边

与其对抗命运
到不如好好珍惜
你能够给的日子

~薰衣草

Well done!!

2008-03-07T17:38:00.001+08:00

hueishan™ » says:
wads more sad than
hueishan™ » says:
working from
hueishan™ » says:
9am till 12am?
says:
9am til 12am only 3 hrs!!
hueishan™ » says:
...........................
hueishan™ » says:
TTS 12PM
hueishan™ » says:
ISNT IT

Well done, Yong Xiang, WELL DONE.

What's wrong with you?

2008-03-07T09:45:00.003+08:00

Yesterday I went to Bugis Village with my collagues after dinner at the Hong Kong Cafe in Bugis.

We were shopping and walking around the village and we were on our way out of the village to take the mrt at around 10+pm.

We passed by this two shops facing each other which was still open, then I heard a hysterical scream coming from one of the shop tenders.

I looked at the direction from where the scream came from, horror horror, the female shop tender was screaming hysterically and looking at my feet area.

Naturally, I looked down my feet and ran away, screaming too and saying "I SCREAMED BECAUSE SHE SCREAMED UNTIL LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!"

................................................

What did she scream for?

................................................

For a freaking cockroach on the floor.

Nevermind there was a cockroach, she was like one metre away from it, furthermore on a platform in which the cockroach had to like crawl frantically for one metre and crawl up the platform if it wants to attack her.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH HER??????????????????????????????????

If I had a weak heart, I'd have died by now. I swear my heart skipped two beats at that time.

It's just a freaking cockroach.

Not a rat, for goodness' sake.

All my colleagues thought it was a rat too.................................. but it was just a cockroach.

I pity the cockroach actually because it was only crawling leisurely around. Then when I heard that hysterical scream, I panicked, jumped around, and ran away.

It saw giant feet stomping on the ground, hence started to crawl frantically, avoiding getting stepped to death.

I know you may think I'm over-reacting but seriously, I was damn pissed off. If it's a flying cockroach, I'd have understand that hysterical scream, cos I'm afraid of flying cockroaches too.

DAMN YOU.

长大

2008-03-04T20:20:00.007+08:00

人长大了
就会有越来越多的没有

长大后
有越来越多
没有可能办到的事

长大后
有越来越多
没有办法回应的话

长大后
有越来越多
没有人照顾的时候

长大后
有越来越多
没有理由的爱情挫折

人长大后
真的有好多的没有

但是让人长大的
也是这些没有

~斗牛！要不要

Weird

2008-02-28T12:23:00.002+08:00

My mum actually encourages me to stay over at boyfriend's house during weekends.

Yesterday she kept asking me why I didn't watch a movie with him because I said I would. I don't remember telling her that. Told her I didn't say that, and she walked into my room, asking the same question again.

"Must tell me if anything happened.."
"I told you nothing happen liao.."
"Then why you never stay over for the past two weekends?"
"Never stay over never stay over lah.."
"His mum don't like it?"
"Don't anyhow assume lah........"
"You two quarrelled?"
"No, we never. Nothing happened.."

ZZZZZZZ

She used to disapprove me of staying over during the weekends, now she's asking so much Whys if I'm not staying over.

It's just that things took a turn. Change took over. But the change did not affect our relationship.

Boyfriend ahhhhhhhhh.............................. Where's the Taiwan trip photos from your Uncle????

Happy CNY Over!

2008-02-22T23:05:00.005+08:00

I guess Lunar New Year 2008 isn't a very good year for me.

Let me just summarised the misfortunes i had been encountering:

CNY Day 2 : Handphone snatched in JB

CNY Day 7 : Offended "small people"

CNY Day 9 : Boyfriend had problems

CNY Day 13 : Offended "small people" yet again

CNY over (today) : Family problems

I thought I had made a wise decision by coming back to Singapore on Day 2 because last year I came back on Day 3 but I realised I missed alot of things. Then I carelessly left my bag half-zipped and handphone gotten snatched from behind. Damn you f*cking Malay guy, I will always remember you, may you burn in hell. (not being racist) I will not forget how you keep on eyeing my handset (and I still didn't get susipicious, yet leaving my bag half unzipped like I always do), I will not forget how you rushed out when I was alighting, slightly pushed me, and at that point of time, my face turned green, tad me like *oh f*ck, something is wrong* and frantically searched my bag in vain, only to be rushed by my mum.

And thanks lor, I had decided to save up my entire angbao money for further studies next year or year 2010, but I spent it on a new phone. Thank goodness for the recontracting of my dad's mobile line.

But every cloud has its silver lining. There would be subsidies for part-time degree courses for the 3 major universities and uniSIM, and it's a swopping 40% subsidize! That means I can save like... 8k out of the 20k I had to pay initially? HORRAYYYYY~

Let me just end my entry with my favorite part of the entire Jay Chou concert :) Will update when Alvin sends in more photos :D

Notice that transparent piano? SO DIAO! The best thing is not only cos he looks like a prince charming, it's cos he went like "You know what song is most suitable for this setup? 最长的电影!" My favorite from his latest album xD

BTW, this will be the one and only photo without any watermark as Alvin requested.

P.S. I'm in love with watching Wife Swap! In case you do not know what it is, you can view the official website here. Well, it puzzles me why there's such extreme families in America? But I think the show's brilliant because they swaps wifes from two totally different families! What's the outcome? Go watch it in YouTube!

2008-02-18T16:31:00.000+08:00

Tell me it's just a nightmare.
Tell me I will wake up tomorrow, and everything will be fine.

Life hasn't been good.

Night spent soaking in tears isn't what I ask for.
I may worry too much, but I worry because of you.

Speechless

2008-02-14T14:46:00.000+08:00

I'm trying so hard, to make things right..
Yet none could absorb the facts I said..

What have I done wrong?
Who can I turn to?

Perhaps it's just the fact that the idea favours all except one.
I am the 'one'.

Perhaps it's just the fact that another idea favours one except all.
Again, I am the 'one'

If one multiplys into two, or even three,
Would things still be the same?

No.

But it's always all against one.
And I'm always the 'one'.

It hurts, it really does.

Dunk-ed!

2008-02-06T09:39:00.000+08:00

Went for the movie screening earlier this Monday, gotten just a set of pokercards and two pairs of tickets.

Sadly, I gotten Charlene Choi for the back of the card, nonetheless, she's the second lead in the movie (am I right?) so it's okay :)

The movie is funny and cute! I think Jay's acting improve, really :D

GO WATCH OKAY?

*****

Brought a very moodless me to work today. The crowd at the busstop is much much lesser as compared to other days. The bus is not packed at all like other days.

Most companies are closed for today, leaving the minority still having to go to work.

As usual, I do not need to press the bell when my busstop is nearing, yet today, if I hadn't tap my card nearing the busstop, I bet the driver would have drove off to the interchange. I'm lucky he saw me and then stopped to let me alight, despite the fact that I didn't press the bell, cos I assume someone would, but today I was the only one alighting.

Totally no awkwardness in the lift with other passengers, because yet again, I was alone.

No mood to work, but have to work.

The inability to use MSN is even more demoralising.

Work had been frustrating. Why? Because communication between me and my project manager has become very very tedius. If there's many changes for the website, and say, I had doubts in a few of the changes, I had to email her back to enquire about it.

It used to be communication in MSN. Now it has become more tedius because I had to reply, and then wait several minutes (sometimes much longer) for a reply.

And it gets more frustrating when I just want to get the work over and done with.

My boss don't even trust us to finish our work, without letting too much chatting in MSN interfere. I admit I do chat quite alot, but I do my work, isn't it?

Enough said, let's not make my Chinese New Year a bad one.

P.S. I quarrelled with my mum in the morning. Sighs.

Yet another Jay post

2008-02-01T12:12:00.000+08:00

I didn't pin too much hopes on winning any of the lucky draw/bids which I mentioned in my previous post (or did I sound like I'm pinning 100% hopes?)

Well, I didn't want to end up in disappointment.

Starhub bidding results is out. No, I did not win.
No news from Starhub nor Ripplevox regarding the MMS winners.

I was feeling like any other days today when I received this sms:

(Fr quakplt) U've won 2 tix 2 "Kungfu Dunk" on 4/2 in my paper contest. An email w b sent 2 u on 2/2 on tix collectn detail.

OMFG?

I totally forgotten about that contest which I had send 4 sms ($0.20) to try to win! I totally forgot the contest was on for 4 days and I had wanted to send 2 sms every day till the closing date, so I sent 4 only.

OH GOD OH GOD.

I think someone heard my prayers.

Although I can't meet him and take photo with him, at least I can get gala premiere premiums!

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

I was totally trembling with joy as I read that sms.

Anyway, the bad news came after that..

Boss decided to remove MSN :(

Jay Chou Craze!!

2008-01-29T12:07:00.000+08:00

OH MY GOD......

Jay Chou World Tour Concert 2007/2008 DVD + 2 CD

Photo album of Kung Fu Dunk

Unstoppable Jay Chou

But it's so super duper expensive to order from Yesasia.com. Called up HMV and CD-Rama, both said actually goods (the concert DVD) already expected to arrive but it's been delayed and no news of when it'll be here.

Oh gosh..... I can't wait to get my hands on it.

After the concert, the craze continues due to Kung Fu Dunk. Whether or not I get the tickets to meet him in person, I can only say I tried my best, in ways that don't consist of spending hundreds of dollars to get the tickets..

But I really hope to meet him just this once..
Who has friends who works in Crocodile?
Please, Starhub, choose my photos..
Please, Starhub, I hope I'm one of the highest bidders..
Please, Ripplevox, choose my photos..

Although it's just one idol I'm crazy about, it's that one idol who earned great fame and has many ongoing movies/concert/albums that makes me go crazy.

Alright, please grant my wish..

On a lighter note, time passes real fast.. Happy nine months, Jiexiang!

Photos, photos, photos!

2008-01-24T16:25:00.000+08:00

Is a Polaroid camera expensive?

Feel like getting one, so next time I can take instant photos! Just wondering if the card size polaroid camera or the normal size polaroid camera is better? Well, the card one allows me to keep in my wallet, the larger one, to hang it anywhere I like, or to frame it!

:/

I'm still waiting for Taiwan trip photos from my boyfriend's uncle (boyfriend, boyfriend, can you hear me?)

I'm still waiting for Alvin to process the photos from Jay Chou concert!

Oh, handphone, handphone, can you upload the photos in your body to my laptop so I could blog?

I'm feeling so so lazy..

Chinese New Year is around the corner! I better clear my debts by then!
I already have programs lined up for CNY and I'm looking forward to it!

Till then, people! Or till I get photos! :)

Happy 29th Birthday, JAY!

2008-01-18T14:49:00.000+08:00

老实说，
我以前本来不喜欢他

当妹妹买他的第一专辑时
我的反应是：
“不懂为什么这么多人喜欢他,
他根本不帅。”

中四的时候
读了Lime杂志后
觉得他满有才华
而且在感情方面
是一个很害羞的男人
很可爱
是我喜欢的类型

不知不觉就开始听他的歌
开始很注意他的新闻
开始仰慕他

迟到好过没到吧

他是我唯一最最最仰慕的歌星 - 周杰伦

想必也知道周杰伦的变化很大
看一看他全部专辑的封面也知道啦

周杰伦很重视他的梦想
他会实现自己的梦想
也会达到最高点

对歌唱有兴趣
他就从写歌开始
慢慢变成每个人知道的周杰伦

对导演有兴趣
他就从MV开始
直到自己自编自导自演《不能说的秘密》

在这里我只想说一声

“生日快乐，周杰伦！”

很期待今晚的演唱会！！！

(This is my 666th entry by the way, I didn't know I'd blog wishing Jay Chou "Happy Birthday".)

THREE more days!

2008-01-15T14:47:00.000+08:00

I know I promised to blog Day 2 of Taiwan trip by the end of last week, but then I realized I do not have full collection of Day 2 photos from the Boyfriend's uncle side.

So yah.... good things always have to wait..

THREE MORE DAYS TO JAY CHOU CONCERT! OMG SO ANTICIPATED!!!!

I just hate it when I do not know whether to believe you or not. Or maybe you're just bragging, and I hope so cos I feel like asking you straight "WHERE THE HELL is the backstage passes and tickets you said you'd kill your friend if he can't get it for you???"

Just cos you don't have the money to go to the concert, and just cos you probably don't have the free tickets and backstage passes, you came up with something like "oh my friend told me he is coming for another concert later this year! and that the upcoming concert will suck cos they don't have a better music system."

Oh really? He is not whom you can just ask and come to open another concert. He is one established popular singer recognized by many. If it took him three years to open a world tour concert, what makes you think he'll come again just because they know the music system ain't that good?

Good or not, it's up to us to decide once we step into the concert hall.

I don't care if you'd read this or not but just so to let you know (or maybe you already knew), all of us don't like you. And, we're all heading down to the concert together this Friday.. WITHOUT YOU!!!

Untitled

2008-01-10T11:32:00.000+08:00

Jay Chou's concert is next week! xD

*

Kung Fu Dunk is screening on the first day of Chinese New Year! xDD

*

I know I've only started with Day 1 of Taiwan. Promise to blog Day 2 by the end of this week! (FYI most of the photos from boyfriend's uncle have not been sent to me either)

*

The song "Bubbly" featured in my blog is very nice! Chorus is very catchy, I like..

"It starts in my toes
And I crinkle my nose
Where ever it goes
I always know
That you make me smile
Please stay for a while now
Just take your time
Where ever you go"

What I heard about this singer, Colbie Caillat, is that she actually posted her self-composed song in her MySpace and gotten alot of hits, then someone signed her and she launched her debut album last year!

Yesterday, I was telling Wenna about this singer and then she was like "OMG, ONLY 22?!"

10 years ago, we'd probably not have any reaction when a new singer of age 22 emerges.
10 years later, our reaction is "OMG, ONLY 22?"

*

This year will be a very expensive year, with all my close peers turning 21.

Two peers will start hitting 21 this weekend; namely Chen Chen on 13th, Jing Jie on 14th.

FREEEEEEDOMMMMMMM!

*

Just a very random entry.

Happy 2008!

2008-01-03T17:23:00.000+08:00

This post came quite late but anyway guess how I spend counting down to 2008?

I watched Alien Vs Predators 2 with my boyfriend......

It's a great show; great effects, super gory, and it's so felt so real (just like the impact of Jurassic Park to me) When the show finished, I was like "Why the hell would someone write such a story?!!!"

Jurassic Park gave me the excitement and felt almost real to the extend I'd imagine what if dinosaurs really exist in this era. I felt the same way for Alien Vs Predators 2.

The show ended at around 12am, so yeah, that's how I spent my countdown.

Mass mahjong session with boyfriend's family/relatives on the first day of 2008 and I reaped $150 of winnings. How come so much???!!! Cos I play $1, $2 with them for the first time in my whole mahjong life. I was very lucky, I won mostly cos of "cat eat mice" or "chicken eat millipede" cos I don't know why but once I "an ka", I get $6 from each player. Scary right?!

On the night of the second day of 2008, I was greeted by the feeling of getting bitten on my inner thigh; more specifically, the part near my private part. I used my hands to felt it in the dark, and I felt bumps - 5 to 6 bumps!

I on the lights and then saw light pink bumps on my inner thigh; those that resembles mosquito bites but I know it's not!

I then saw an insect when I tried to examine my inner thigh closely. .............. before I could see what insect it was, it walked to the back of my thigh, totally away from what I can see, so I just swept crazily at my thigh.

I sat down there, stunned, devastated, hoping it's not bedbugs.

Then somehow I stared at my pillow..

OMGWTFBBQ, there comes a bedbug, out of nowhere, crawling toward the centre of my pillow, near the seams...

I was so shocked, stunned for a little moment, and took the pillow out to show my dad.

He confirmed it's bedbugs :( and started beating and flipping and hitting my pillows/mattress/softtoys on the floor so that those bedbugs would fall out.

One bedbug dropped out of this old mattress.

I didn't believe the pillow in which I had found bedbug didn't have any bedbugs, so I started peeling off the layers of pillow cases it had on. As expected, a few more came out :(

So I'm left with no pillow (because I threw out another old one too)

On Saturday, I will start a thorough spring cleaning of my room; to make sure I wipe out all the bedbugs (I'm hoping those that were killed yesterday were all of it in room)

I might just change new mattresses and I definitely need new pillows. Oh god, Jay concert is approaching and I do want to buy concert merchandise too :(

Maybe the $150 winnings on New Year day was a sign for me to buy new mattress???? But $130 is kept aside for the Bangkok trip, if me and my boyfriend manage to organise one end of this year.

Oh god, what a "fresh start" for year 2008.

New Year Resolutions!

2007-12-31T10:11:00.000+08:00

Year 2008 is gonna be here in less than 24 hours, so before it comes, I shall do a short recap of the major happenings in 2007 :)

In January 2007,

I completed my Final Year Report, after which I had my VIVA presentation which pretty much marks the end of my poly life..

I've gotten full set of animals for mahjong, completed with half colour.

I went for Rain's concert and the amount spent was totally worth it! (okay, even though I didn't fork out a single cent)

There was renovation works at Video Ezy KAP.

In February 2007,

I bumped into my Primary School teacher, gotten her number with hopes of having a 6E gathering with her, and then lost her contact number when I changed my phone to K800i (I accidentally deleted her new contact instead of old :()

I've gotten pongponghu for mahjong, nothing special you might say, but it's pongponghu without pong-ing tiles that people threw.. meaning, I gotten the same ones by myself!

Wei Ming 一炮三响. In English terms, it means he threw a tile which all other three players want.

I met the new addition to the cute brothers' family.

In March 2007,

I won my very first lottery.. (it's also my very first toto ticket)

I tasted my first donuts from Donut Factory.

Went for two job interviews, didn't get selected for one, but rejected the other.

In April 2007,

I realised I have the tendency to fall down in movie theatres.

I got attached :)

I also met my boyfriend's clever niece, Alanah.

In May 2007,

I took a photo of the chocolate penis my colleague bought for all of us from Philippines and it violated the rules of service from Photobucket.

I got attacked by mosquitoes.

In June 2007,

I went for my first overseas trip with my boyfriend.

My boyfriend turns 24 but he went for a company dinner, so I didn't prepare anything.

In July 2007,

I went for Jay Chou's Secret Tea Party at Dragonfly.

In August 2007,

Basically nothing much happened in this month.

In September 2007,

Nothing much happened in this month too.

In October 2007,

Nothing significiant happened in this month too.

In November 2007,

I've got a very serious case of chalazion.

Cooked pasta with my boyfriend.

Had a chalazion surgery and looked like an alien for a day.

In December 2007,

I went for the second overseas trip with my boyfriend and family to Taiwan!

I went to Jay Chou's restaurant as well.

My boyfriend made my birthday really special :)

End of Year 2007 recap.

I've come out with New Year Resolutions!

Obtain my Driving License
Eat more vegetables
Save more money
Keep my resolutions

Basically not much but it's still a list! :)

What about yours?

Two Christmas, Three Birthdays

2007-12-29T18:01:00.000+08:00

Had a Emo5 Christmas gathering on 22nd as mentioned a few entries before.

It was like last year; drawing lots and then present hunting, so we set a time to meet up at The Manhattan Fish Market at Clarke Quay.

The service there is just lousy. They don't allow half of us to go in unless everyone is here! Reason being they can't allow us to hog on the tables. Alright, so Christmas and weekend's at fault but then again we made a reservation beforehand!

Well, if they do allow reservations, they should allow us to sit in there till everyone arrives right.

Food was just alright only the singing birthday song part is acceptable because they sang very very loudly.

Oh yah, it was a birthday celebration for me as well.. and I love the "magic cards" done by Xeno, JJ and Wenna! Thanks guys :)

On Christmas eve, my company had a present exchange session as well! Basically it's the company's tradition for us to draw lots about a week before Christmas Eve so we can hunt for presents for the party we drew.

Had a mini birthday celebration for me and my boss as both our birthday falls on 28th. Now I finally understand why he was complaining every year he had logcake from the company as birthday cakes =/

Yesterday was my birthday!

A big THANKS those who wished me Happy Birthday and a big THANKS to Jiexiang for giving me a wonderful day!

I had to work and I received a bouquet of blue roses delivered to my office! So embarrassing as my colleagues went like "so sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeetttt..........." and wanted to take photos with the roses and me and the present they gave me..

The roses were sweet, and it's even sweeter when Jiexiang knows I likes blue roses even when Wenna don't believe and fake ask me a few days ago.. He always take notice of little things I don't even know..

But Jiexiang was also very honest by telling me that's the only surprise he had for me -_-; So I asked him to set a place for dinner without telling me where so that's a surprise too..

He brought me to Aji-Tei! I don't like Aji-sen (Aji-Tei is by Aji-Sen) but I love the tomato rice at Aji-Tei! VERY VERY NICE!!! The dessert was okay only though..

After which we proceed to the carpark where he present me a Bengawan Solo marble cake as birthday cake! That's what I wanted but sweet boyfriend asked for two big candles and one "Happy Birthday" acrylic for the cake.. but.. he forgot about matches/lighter.. LOL.

He gave me an Escada: Into the Blue perfume! It's such a "blue" day as Jiexiang also wore a blue polo tee.

Birthday "blues" : Bouquet of Blue roses, Blue perfume, and a Blue polo tee boyfriend.

It's love ♥

P.S. The bear in the photo with my bouquet of blue roses belongs to my colleague. Oh and if you noticed, the perfume's cover is very special as it's deliberately made it that way so it's only covered halfway! :)

Taiwan 2007 // Day 1 : 041207

2007-12-27T10:37:00.001+08:00

Long awaited entry for my Taiwan trip photos! Basically I'll blog day by day so here goes Day 1! (Click on photos for a larger view!)

Upon arrival Taiwan and awaiting our luggage to be loaded up a van we booked to bring us to our hotel.

Our hotel! 4 star I think? Anyway, the hotel's name is 神旺大饭店, and it's 旺旺 theme! I reckon the boss of this hotel is the boss of 旺旺.

You should get what I mean now..

Really everything also 旺旺.

Apparently they misspelled my boyfriend's name..

Our first stop in Taipei was Danshui (淡水) !

This is for Wenna!

The birds' egg over at 淡水 is very nice! The sweet sauce with the pepper.. ahhhh~ Heaven!

Went to Shilin Night Street (士林夜市) after that!

Ate the original XXL chicken here! But I don't like the ribs....

And the 鲁肉饭 here is very nice and cheap! Just NT20 for a bowl (not very big bowl though) but is very very nice!

Nothing much to shop as this is winter time so just went around to look at the shops instead. Very much like Bugis street but much bigger here :)

P.S. Anyway I do have a Travel blog (linked under "Parts of my Life") to document all my travel logs :)

Emo5 X'mas Gathering

2007-12-23T00:05:00.000+08:00

Had a X'mas cum quite a surprise birthday celebration today at Central's The Manhattan Fish Market. Quite pissed off with the service and food was just okay.

Nicest part was present giving and birthday cutting though, my first birthday wish for the year.

Thanks Wenna, JJ and Xeno for that special one-of-a-kind magic cards! (is that what you call it?)
Thanks Wei Ming for the X'mas gift.
Thanks Theresa for the X'mas card.

More details to be up once photos are in :)

$$

2007-12-21T13:13:00.000+08:00

Left with $60 in account to survive.
$40 cash for food expenses.

Still have two Christmas exchange presents not yet bought (budget $10 and $20 respectively)
Ez-link card left with less then $10.
Christmas dinner with M05.

(Thanks boyfriend for the movie/dinner treats these days ♥)

Eight more days to payday.
Probably one or two days to process cheque.
That means at least ten days to get my pay.

Oh god, 2008 please come sooner.

I'm back!

2007-12-14T00:59:00.000+08:00

Just here to blog for a little while, photos maybe this weekend else next week, probably in three months' time cos my boyfriend is always so slow in uploading photos -_-;

Anyway, I enjoyed my trip alot! Abit disappointed cos it's the "wrong" season and nothing much to shop cos well, the clothes are not very suitable for Singapore; thick jackets/coats, leather boots etc..

The thing is, it didn't rain at all!

Well this is where I was located during the trip:
4th December : Singapore / Taipei
5th December : Jin Men
6th December : Jin Men
7th December : Jin Men
8th December : Jin Men
9th December : Taipei
10th December : Taipei
11th December : Taipei
12th December : Taipei
13th December : Taipei / Singapore

What I heard was, when we were on board to get to Jin Men, it rained for days in Taipei, and when we're back, no rain! It only rained on 13th when we reached the airport.

All I can say is, HENG DAO LAO SAI AH :)

Leaving on a jet plane

2007-12-03T12:21:00.000+08:00

I'm leaving in less then 24 hours!

SO ANTICIPATED!

My flight is at 8.35am, Terminal 2, flight no SQ872. (should be lah. Mr Boyfriend don't know but this is what I gotten from Changi Airport website)

Who want send me off?

LOL. It's okay lah. Mr Boyfriend will be there to send me off, and I'll be there to send him off too (only to find out we're sitting next to each other in the plane)

Going to 淡水 tomorrow! That's the place where Jay Chou filmed his 彩虹 MV, the one wherehe lip-sync with his vintage car.

2007-12-02T18:33:00.000+08:00

Went for rebonding of fringe ONLY + haircut yesterday. Total damage : $68.50 (ARGH)

Went for whole face threading + mask just now. Total damage : $25.00 (very worth it! and my face is so smooooooooooth now..)

Total damage to look good = $93.50

I swear I'm not going back to where I went for fringe rebonding anymore. Such little hair for $55! They're lucky cos the hair stylist who used to cut my hair went overseas grrr.

2007-11-30T09:56:00.002+08:00

I've deleted blog links of people who kept their diary secret (a.k.a allow certain people to view their blog only)

Why?

Because if you do not want me to read about your life, then I'm not interested anymore. (although I used to read your blog until you lock it)

Three more days to Taiwan trip (inclusive of one working day)

Can't wait!

Trishaw

2007-11-28T09:43:00.000+08:00

I forgot how I came across this video but I'm so sad and angry about it!

It's about three British guys who sat on a trishaw Uncle Lee was pedaling for and they refused to pay!

Not only that, they even make fun of the uncle and Uncle Lee did not have any idea because he only understand simple language..

One of the three guys thought it was funny and posted it up in YouTube titling "Slowest Taxi in SE Asia"

SO ANGRY!!!!!!!!

Doesn't it makes you sad?

These interview clips made me more sad and almost made me cry. Watch part 1 and part 2.

So inhumane. Uncle Lee was trying to make a living and you can see that he was actually struggling to pedal with THREE MEN on it. THREE MEN. If they're approximately 60kg each, that's 180kg exclusive of the trishaw's weight! It's so obvious he was panting while trying to withstand the weight of these guys.

:(

The ride was supposed to cost $15, one person for $5 and they refuse to pay him the initial amount.

It's a trishaw powered by human, not some engine in normal vehicles. Perhaps we're all pampered by the luxury of vehicles whereby we can move around by just stepping on the pedal itself, so a trishaw was like a joke to them.

It's not easy earning money with a trishaw. It's from the olden days and now we all have vehicles that move alot faster than it that no one even sets their eye on wanting to ride a trishaw anymore, maybe a tourist.

Why do they have to do that?

The guy who posted the video wrote an apology letter (which I can't find the link to) but it's still quite unforgivable.

This incident has caused an uproar with netizens who wrote comments on demanding an apology..

If I ever see Uncle Lee, I'll ask him for a ride.

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Thirty-two

2007-11-26T15:12:00.000+08:00

I'm turning 20 soon, maybe it means nothing big but then it's my first birthday with two big candles instead of one big candle and many small candles.

Well, looking back I think I've changed alot, in terms of appearance and in terms of character. I've build a stronger character now (at least I think so lah..). From the shy and quiet girl I used to be, to the outgoing and sociable lady.

I remember I used to be very poor in Math when I was in Primary three. I did not fail my exams with marks that struggles to get to borderline, but rather, I failed with 30 odd marks upon 100. Did not do any better even after my mum employ a tutor for me. I don't remember if I ever get better at it, but I got posted to the last class of EM2.

Last class of EM2, the class that people sneers at because we're just one class away from EM3. Nonetheless, with a great teacher, I passed my PSLE with flying colours, entitling me to get to Express classes in Secondary School.

Oh, and that's when I got my very first menstruation too. I know this is probably ?! when I mention that but then it's always a milestone for every girls, for us to learn more about our own body, for us to become a woman (okay maybe not at that age HAHA).

I was still the quiet girl then. Until I saw the school band during orientation and very determined to get into it. That's where I strengthen my character. Although I may look back and think "why the hell did I get punished by those people when they aren't even my parents nor my teachers?!" but well, without all those, I wouldn't learn that in life, whatever gets me to anywhere comes from my own hardwork.

Maybe I have mentioned this umpteen times but then I'm still very glad that I was rebellious back in Secondary two, if not my hardwork wouldn't have gotten me into a very good class. That's when I improve in my second language: English. I used to get a just pass for it but I gotten a grade that's as good as my other stronger subjects during 'O levels'! Not that I'm boosting but well, we all know how much English language is important to us.. it's the international language..

Everything past in just a blink of an eye and then it's time for me to move on to the next phase of life; college life, or rather poly life.

Perhaps I didn't give a good first impression to my peers in Poly but then I'm glad I'm not disliked all the way till my graduation year. At least I have a bunch of Poly mates I can call 'friends'.

In another blink of an eye, I'm now a working adult. Met a guy who's my first real boyfriend (well, those earlier on are just puppy love lah..) and then getting emo about turning 20 soon.

Gosh. How time flies.

I remembered those days I was looked after by a maid or a nanny, and I didn't say goodbye to my pacifier and milk bottle till I'm in primary 3 =X

I remembered those days I used to go to school and then spend the rest of my time in band after that.. The usual chicken rice/mee goreng/nasi goreng plus lemon tea/green tea on Saturdays..

I remembered my very first overseas trip by plane to Japan. That's my very first Christmas overseas and my very first experience in a country during Winter time although there wasn't snow.

I remembered my 8th birthday (I think). My family and I went to the Night Safari and I gotten a Mickey Mouse bag and wallet.

I remembered my 14th birthday because it was a very special day with my secondary school band mates (although I think no one remembers that anymore).

I remembered my 18th birthday and my very first clubbing experience with my poly mates, not forgetting the really memorable cake we had that night.

I don't remember the rest of my birthdays before I went poly simply because my birthday falls during the school holiday period, and the period nearing a new school year. To put it in simple terms, I never celebrate my birthday except those 3 really vivid ones I still can remember. It's never a tradition in my family to celebrate birthdays except for the first few birthdays. (I remember coming across a photo of me celebrating my 2nd birthday)

Well, I just hope that people who are dear to me will not forget my birthday no matter how busy they are. You don't have to celebrate it with me, just a simple birthday wish would just make my day because it means you remember..

32 days to my birthday.. feeling quite emo about it.

Vandalism

2007-11-26T09:48:00.001+08:00

Today I was waiting for the lift when I saw it stopped at Level 9 for quite some time.

Must be alot of people.. zzz

When it finally arrived at Level 5, it was empty!!!!

SO LUCKY!!!!

But when I stepped in, I understood why..

DAMN THE PERSON WHO VANDALISED THE LIFT..
WHY YOU TAKE OUT THE FIRST LEVEL BUTTON..
HOW TO GO DOWN LIKE THAT??

I hope that person will regret his/her actions once if he/she ever needs to rush down in a hurry.

2007-11-25T15:29:00.000+08:00

It's not about branding, it's about quality.. cheaper brandless alternative may work the same, but might as well get something which is more reputable. It's like getting the brandless MP3 which looks exactly like an Apple IPod, but of cos don't function that well.

Most importantly, the feeling of wanting something of the particular brand/model you initially wanted, and getting that something you wanted but of a different model/brand, is totally different..

It's just like I know Z wants item A, I know it yet I got her item B, the expression I'll get from her face if I give her item B will definitely vary very much if I give her item A.

Maybe you'll think I'm just a brand freak.. but I'm not.

Byebye Yamaha PSR-E403..

Byebye cheaper alternative Yamaha PSR-E303.

Byebye cheapest alternative Yamaha PSR-E203.

Maybe you'll think I'm demanding too much but I did not ask for it..
I had this feeling maybe you'd get me that but I'm disappointed with the conversation yesterday night..
More disappointed when I saw your expression upon seeing me pouting my mouth..

I may sound materialistic but I'm just being realistic with what I want.

I'll just save up for what I want if you can't provide me with what I want.

I'm sorry I just need to voice this out.

I'm tearing as I write this post for fear of your reaction if you read this post.. because I do not want another quarrel with monetary issues..

Chalazion Excision

2007-11-21T19:27:00.000+08:00

I knew it.

After reading so many information online, I knew my condition is chalazion.

I went to the polyclinic today again, got the same doctor as last Wednesday and was referred to NUH immediately.

I totally had a shock of my life when I heard a girl who just came out of the Referral room saying "They say my eyes have to wait next year!"

I was hoping and praying 'please.. let it at least be within this week'..

Thank goodness my appointment is 2pm at NUH and I had approximately two hours to get ready.

My eye had already gotten less swollen and 50% less red as the photo in my previous entry but it's still obvious so I had to be referred since it has been around 12 days already.

While waiting for the nurse to call my name, I heard a lady asking the receptionist something and the receptionist replied something like "Sorry ma'am can I get back to you later cos I'm in the midst of something.."

Then the lady said "You're so rude! How can you treat me like that! I want to see the person in charge!'

Super fucked up lady, really. If you ever see me type vulgarities in full, I really mean it.

She kept saying "This is how you treat disabled people HUH?!"

She's on a wheelchair by the way.

And as if that wasn't worst, she even said "GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM. WHAT FOR COME HERE TO WORK AND TREAT DISABLED PEOPLE LIKE THAT. GO BACK TO CHINA LAH!!!!"

The receptionist kept apologising saying she didn't intend to give her that feeling.

Yet the lady went like "NO POINT SAYING SORRY. NOW YOU TREAT ME SO NICE, YET JUST NOW YOU WERE SO RUDE TO ME. GO BACK TO CHINA.."

The receptionist even came out of the counter, stood beside her and offer another apology yet she was greeted by a thunderous "STAY AWAY FROM ME!!!!!"

Then the Clinic Manager arrive, the receptionist explaining the situation to him away from the lady's view and then he went over, squat by the lady and hear her side of the story.

I remember clearly I heard a "It's either you get her out of here or I will do that personally! You can go and listen to her side of her story!"

Oh and she loves putting words in people's mouth. She was talking on the handphone to her kin I think, and she went like "SHE SAID 'DISABLED PEOPLE ARE RETARDED PEOPLE' YOU KNOW. SHE SHOUTED THAT TO ME"

WHAT THE FUCK? SHOUTED? Unless the receptionist's shout is like a mouse's scream else all of us would have heard her shouting that!!!

Okay enough about that. I'm not pin-pointing on all disabled people by the way (I think I should call them people with special needs), I'm just pin-pointing on that fucked up lady. I've had a secondary school classmate with special needs and he's one of the nicest people I've ever meet, but I just don't understand why that fucked up lady just have to be like that.

If you don't know what chalazion is, it's just a lump in the eye that would only go away after a few months. The doctor gave me two options, one is for surgery but then it can only remove 50% of it and two is for a cream to apply everyday religiously and then it'll heal in one or two months.. THAT'S SO LONG!

Just to console myself, at least my condition isn't as bad as this:

I had to wait for my mum to come and sign the consent form because I'm not of age 21 and above.. gosh, the sad case about not being 21.

So I went to the bookshop for window shop since I had to wait.

Does that remind you of your childhood? I remembered how I like to erase and then use the roller to clean the eraser dust xD

And I remember using that to erase ball point pen ink and sometimes result in softening of the paper and then hole in the paper. HAH.

Okay back to my eye. The surgery took about 5-10 minutes and it's painful when the doctor inject some anesthesia to my eyelid and the underside of my eyelid! But then totally no feeling when he slit.

At the end of it I look like an alien.

An exhibitionist who keep getting stares, and kids will just keep staring at you cos you look very different. Zzz.

Tomorrow can remove patch already but I don't know why doctor so niao! Only give me MC for today. I thought I must at least rest tomorrow to prevent infection =///

Oh and thank goodness for the referral from polyclinic, got 67 odd dollars waived off! xD

Something random. Notice the 3rd line, the company's name.

SIXTEEN days!

2007-11-18T21:27:00.000+08:00

Will be flying to Taiwan in 16 days! So excited about it cos it's been five years since my first trip overseas by plane!

Now I'm thinking if I should bring a BIG luggage or a small luggage but Wendy just told me her brother and girlfriend went to Taiwan last year around December time too and the girlfriend bought lots of BAGS and SHOES rather than apparel cos it was winter time!

BAGS and SHOES!!!! I need lots of it!

Maybe I should bring the BIG luggage but I'm abit scared Jiexiang's family might think I'm kuazhang. But if I'm gonna buy tons of bags and shoes, I need more luggage space right!

Anyway, what do ya want me to get from Taiwan? Please leave a tag and state your name! Anonymous will be ignored =X

Also, give suggestions to what Taiwan local food that's good and I can bring back for relatives and friends! Thank goodness I have a new colleague who has joined for about a month or less who used to study in Taiwan! I can seek her for lots of advice :)

415

2007-11-16T11:35:00.000+08:00

That's the price for the Yahama piano keyboard PSR-403 in promotion now till 31st December.

It comes with a free adaptor worth $41 too. (U.P. $485 without adaptor)

Kill me.

I will have savings more than enough to get it but I can't possibly just spend on it.

Brrrrrr.

Birthday, Pasta and a Piano Keyboard

2007-11-14T20:56:00.000+08:00

Went to Kinokuniya with Xeno and Wenna two Saturdays ago to shop for Wei Ming's present.

I was looking for the book entitled "Everything Men Know about Women" cos Xeno is damn interested in the content; the content is nothing but blank pages by the way.

Ended up seeing the Post Secrets book and we sat down to read secrets! I saw this one that is really.. weird.. =/

Bumped into Yong Jia and Wenna agreed that he has beautiful eyelashes! Told ya it's not because I had a thing for him that's why I liked looking at his eyes :P

Stayed over at the boyfriend's house that night and we cooked pasta for lunch the next day!

That's me frying sliced onions. I'm really bad at cooking =/

The boyfriend boiling pasta!

End product! (He did most of the job actually. I'm such a lousy girlfriend)

Accompanied with cool Ribena! (Of cos I made the Ribena, oh yay~)

Went to Brewerks for Wei Ming's advanced birthday celebration last Saturday. We girls really ordered alot!

Skin-on potatoes

Calamari and Chilli Fries

Special Curry and Sausages and Mash!

Had Fruitbrewz!

Apparently not so nice..

Poor birthday boy had to light his own candles. Oh, and if you noticed, we requested for 21 candles instead of two big ones and one small ones. The service crew had given us 21 candles as requested, except that there's 20 small candles and one large candle, that's 30 years old.

Happy VERY VERY advanced 30 year old birthday, Wei Ming!

Wei Ming: Book ar? WAH LAO EH! No wonder just now play mahjong I lose lah! You wrapped it! 包书(输)!

Poor Wenna.

The very random heart-shaped spring onion in the soup while dining in at Sakura @ Far East with the boyfriend.

Gosh, I've had MC for Monday and Tuesday, and work at home today!!

WHY?

I LOOK HIDEOUS.

OH GOD IT'S SO RED AND SWOLLEN IT'LL ATTRACT ATTENTION. AND IT STILL LOOK LIKE THAT TODAY.

I'm gonna go for work tomorrow anyway, rested long enough even though the damn eye stye didn't recover any bit and although I had MC for tomorrow.

Please pray that the head of the pus appear soon so I can squeeze it!!!! =(

I so wanna get a keyboard after discovering these sites. Will Santa give me my piano keyboard?

Eye Stye

2007-11-13T20:37:00.001+08:00

Stupid eye stye go away.

I think this is the worst case of eye stye I've ever gotten, been getting worst since Saturday and I do hope the head of the pus will eventually show up so I can squeeze it.

To remove the pus surgically seems scary.. and seems expensive.

Doc explains he will inject some anesthesia I think to numb the eye area and then cut a slit to remove the pus! OH GOD.

Save me please.

彩虹

2007-10-29T00:23:00.000+08:00

如果能让我重新再来一次，我希望我不曾出现在你生命里..

当我知道自己的生命只剩下一个月的时间
我唯一害怕的是面对你的难过
所以我选择离开
对不起我骗了你
谢谢你陪我去我们曾经去过的地方
我会把它带到天堂

The song is just so sad can. Even if you don't like Jay Chou or don't listen to his songs, please listen to that! Makes me feel so emo everytime I listen to it. Somemore I've been repeating the song ever since LOL.

Had an impromptu meetup with Wenna and Xeno today at Vivocity. Was there cos Xeno had to get a gift for a girl he likes.. aww~

After Xeno left, me and Wenna went to shop! Saw really cute boots at Topshop!

Only $43!

But the bad side is it's not waterproof :(

I need boots for my Taiwan trip in December! Or rather, it's good to have a pair for end-of-year overseas trip since I don't get to wear it in Singapore :/

Saw a really really vintage care in the middle of nowhere!

Super duper retro. Of cos I love it cos Jay Chou loves vintage cars! And it's really so cool~

Look at that gear and the rear-view mirror!

I really love that shade of red :) Not overly red that kinda red. Very feminine!

Italian soda don't taste that good to my liking..

Lovely mushroom pasta! If only it's chicken and mushroom pasta! Too much mushroom for me but I love the cream base!

I had the same thing again..

And chocolate souffle too!

Somehow these doesn't taste as heavenly as the first time.. hmmm...

I think I'm quite obsessed with getting membership for this and that, man. I'm left with around $40 to get the privilege card for Bakerzin?

HAHA.

Well, let me show you my loots for today..

I know, I know.. WTF? A PAPER BAG?

HAHA, I bought lingerie ONLY lah. And those are dirt cheap!

Usually bras will cost $60 minimum per piece. But this time, La Senza had sales! Buy 1 get 1 freeeeee!

WE ALL LOVE FREE GIFTS, DON'T WE?

Me and Wenna bought 3 each, which supposedly should cost us around $180, but just by paying $30 for the membership, we get everything + membership only at $150!

Don't ask me why cos the manager speaks really fast. When I say really fast, I mean REALLY fast.

It's so fast it made Wenna kan cheong and thought she was asked to key in the pin number when the manager hasn't even swipe the card. LOL.

Well, she said she's born with it. She said time passes really slow though. I said maybe it's because she talks too fast so the time spent for a transaction takes half the time it usually takes.

Anyway, I love the membership card cos it's 10% discount off! Even if there's sales, we still get 10% off! You know, some places simply allow us to use the membership card ONLY on regular priced items but not La Senza, and it comes with a booklet full of vouchers too xD

Only bad thing is it's a yearly thing and cost $25 to renew. Oh, and the cutting is like Caucasian cutting, so that means the cups are reaaaaaalllllly big. But the ones we bought were Asian cutting though xD

By the way, don't have to rush down to La Senza for the sales, cos it has ended. Today was the last day.. LUCKY US.

Can you imagine, spending $75 just for 3 bras???????????????

If I bought other brands, I can get 1 bra + bra straps (maybe) at $75.

HAHA. Cheap cheap deal.

I shall end this entry with:

What the hell is that? I also don't know. But I was like "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...." and laughing away when I saw that cos I thought it looked super stupid and lame..

I went "EEEEEEEEEE..." cos I thought it was made up with dried up wet tissue, which is pretty disgusting. I was told it's blu-tack. And it looks so stupidly funny xD