Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Shifting sands.

2011-11-14T01:40:00.001+08:00

http://reserveyourjudgement.tumblr.com/

Reliance on technology

2011-09-26T13:30:00.001+08:00

Sigh. Haven't been blogging as much as want to. Lifes been a tornado of stuff- what with hall and school work. Presentations, midterms, assignments, tutorials, READINGS!

My laptop died on me on Friday. Sucks... Just when I had left only my sc2215 readings which were in softcopy. And needing to watch sc2218 films on IVLE. Murphys law- what will go wrong will go wrong.

Anyway, had a pretty fun Recess week since I didn't have much to catch up on in terms of readings. Consistency FTW! Slacked 2 days at home. Studied on Monday and Tuesday. Sets dinner at Ikea- FINALLY! Old OG picnic at Utown on weds. Rangers movie and BBQ on Thursday. ??? on Friday. Weiliangs birthday on Saturday so we went Club Avatar. Fucking ex place. So so music, so so drinks, sucky crowd- bloody fight in front of our eyes. Left after that. Two of my friends made out with each other - dont know if they were that drunk.

Hmmm. 3 midterms this week. Hope I get my lappy back soon too or I'd just have to keep relying on this iPod touch of mine and the computers in the editing room... >.<

SOON

2011-09-14T02:58:00.002+08:00

It's almost 3am. I just did my part for SC2215 project ie. a measly 3 slides... but I like to keep things simple! :) Shall work on a video the presentation tomorrow night. Hopefully can value-add something. And I hope I have the time. Tomorrow is going to be one heck of a busy night.

Comm interviews have started. Finished one third of the VPU applicants already. For myself, been to the Productions interview already (which is basically a manpower allocation chat with En Qi and Bamboo). Went to the Pre-camp briefing. Nothing much but have to decide and "be decided" by the Head whether we'll be doing the actual camp (programmes) or Open House. Hmmm.

I'm extremely looking forward to recess week... :)

C'mon C'mon! Just 3 more lectures, 1 more tutorial with presentation and 1 seminar!!! One assignment too... 加油!!!

2011-09-08T03:22:00.001+08:00

Hmm. First time using the new Blogger lay-out. Don't really know what to make of it. Functions are pretty much the same I suppose.

Anyway, Tech Crew duties are finally over! After Convo dinner duty just now, ji SHIOK yi xia!!! :))))

Wanna try out new things in hall this semester. Still sticking to some of what I like (and think I am relatively good at). Big steps, baby steps, at least they are steps forward.

School-wise. At least I'm keeping up with 2 or 3 modules which is a considerable improvement. Haha... shall stock up on red bull to tide me through those lonely nights.

Naise song. :)

Blog kinda drab nowadays. Most things are on FB. And I'm now back on Twitter! Couldn't resist peer pressure... Kidding.

Maybe I should sleep now. 10am lessons tomorrow! But have to prepare for tutorial first! #goodstudent

It's Saturday!

2011-09-03T16:28:00.000+08:00

The weekend is here. But I have this feeling that it's slipping away soon.

Got pangseh-ed by Ron. If not I would have been at COMEX now. That idiot. But at least that leaves more time to do my own things, including Neopets!

Got back on to Neopets due to OG's influence. I couldn't find back my old account which was quite zai one... :(

O well. And Neopia has changed sooooooo much! I can hardly recognise it. It's like how Pokemon keeps expanding until it is so different from its original form.

Anyway, last evening was the first time I ever played in a LAN shop before! Damn fun! We played L4D2 and it was super exciting! It's pretty good for de-stressing. Not very expensive either.

My room is in a mess. I don't intend to go home this weekend if not I'd have to lug all my books and my laptop home. Hmmm. 不孝 ttm!

Time to watch 潜行阻击!

It feels good to be...

2011-08-30T00:50:00.000+08:00

Studying!

Haha. Seriously! Though I'm not exactly very good at it yet... I'm getting there. Having the time to finally be able to open my books and work on my tutorials means being having finished settling my hall stuff or shelving the less important stuff.

Shall not let hall commitments consume all of my time. :)

Tomorrow going to Jasvin's house for lunch!

Shall continue studying. Must be the effect of the Red Bull on the rocks I had just now.

And here it goes again...

2011-08-29T02:00:00.003+08:00

I'm blogging! Like after how long.

There have been so many going-ons in my life that I don't know where to start. The last proper post was after Arts Camp, dated 4 July. It's almost three months from then.

In chronological order,

Soci camp! I was an OGL with Huilin, with two councillors whom we didn't know and were very ~~irritated~~ amused at.

Our OG was called CAP 5! Simply because there are ~~a mere~~ 4 OGs in Soci Camp (due to the fantastic sign-up rate) So we were the "C" in s-o-C-i, gerrit? gerrit?

Interesting OG. And super chillax camp. Like super relaxed pace and awesome food/ welfare.

CAP 5 with the Soci Camp O-commers! :)

Then we had Running Man Camp! Joanne, Keok, 反骨仔 and myself signed up together. Another very small scale camp. It was a 2-day day camp and the programme really sucked to the max...

Our group was called Designing. HAHAHA! I thought that was pretty amusing because the different groups are just called different department names. That's because the camp was organised by The Ridge, a NUS magazine under NUSSU.

Quite sad that we don't really hang out as a group because we're all spread out everywhere, across different faculties. Most are from Arts and both Candice and Jin Yee became TH freshies as well! And I always happen to bump into Yuan Hao aka Billy Goat around school on the strangest of occasions. B-Goat ftw! And Kevin is not even going to NUS after all the camps he attended!

Somewhere in the middle of all the camps, I went to Pulau Perhentian with Temasek Hall's 11th Tech Crew.

Went snorkelling and... that's pretty much about it. Although I was very glad to have finally found a Chinese shop on Redang Island that sold hard liquor. Allowed for pretty fun drinking games on the second night.

Pretty lonely trip, seeing that there were only 4 Singaporeans around. So me, Leeyan and Ron pretty much were sticking to each other. The PRCs along with Malaysian seniors were happily 三国杀-ing away... =.=" Go all the way to some ulu island which is 12 hours bus ride + boat ride away to play card games. Amazing.

After the trip, was pretty much busy doing Tech Crew stuff preparing for TH Orientation. There tonnes of event dry-runs and re-runs, coupled with making videos to screen during Orientation. I was the IC for the DnD Comm video which I must say, was quite impressive and received pretty good feedback when it was screened (according the cheers in the comm hall and how Andrew was so thankful for it...)

Had to juggle lots of stuff at one go, including prep for Arts O-week! Didn't feel up to the task of O-week because I was super tired from all the stuff and having to deal with certain (annoying) folk.

Before O-week, there was TH Orientation where Tech Crew was responsible for ALL the lights and sounds plus photo and video coverage.

I was the Tech Crew attach for Falco! OC members were Kah Hui and Davin and counselors were Keok, May, Hui Shan, Rifdi and Jun Ming. Sue Jean and Johnson were the senior attaches. Was kinda sad that I had tonnes of duties during the orientation and couldn't really spend time with the kids.

On video coverage duty! That's a 5.1k HD camera I'm holding...

TH Orientation duty was back to back with Arts O-week so I was super ultimate mega shag and unprepared for O-week. And so I threw everything (well, almost everything) to Kang Sheng and Jing Sheng to do!

Big Sheng and small Sheng! (Our Freshie AOGL)

Best R House OG! Rower Rangers! ♥

They were even better than I expected. Super high and enthusiastic from Day 1 and totally fuss-free! Whenever during OGLs meeting, the other OGLs were reflecting on their problems faced, etc, the three of us had nothing much to say. How awesome is that!

O-week programmes were cui to the max! What used to be a 7-day long event was now shortened to 5 days but had even less activities to do! What is this... =.=" Even had a movie screening of Kickass. What crap.

And because, as part of the overall failed planning, social night was cancelled. So... being the awesome shitz OG we are and awesome programmer-material Kang Sheng and I are made of... we decided to organise our own MG games! MG stands for Mini Group! We split the OG into three groups, each under one OGL and pit them against each other in a series of awesome and crazy games while making them come up with MG cheers during the filler time. Best night! :)

My kids are so cute!

Quite recently, we went Prawning which was an outing that was supposed to have taken place mega long ago... LOL

That night was quite funny/ fun.

And how can I forget another bunch of important in my whole arts camp journey... R10!!!

Made up of the 10 senior OGLs from R house! HAHAHA. Retarded awesome bunch!

Arts love! ♥♥♥

Then school started after O-week ended. For hall, I became the Head of VPU and suddenly had tonnes of stuff to do and many people to organise. Stressful. I didn't even have enough time for a breather.

I gave up on IFG because I simply couldn't create time for it.

So life goes on...

With some sense of familiarity with the likes of roomie Xin Rong and Keok and Wen Shin. Some things have changed but maybe for the better.

I maxed out my 2 times per year clubbing quota. First time I zonked out at Soul after TH Bash. Super thanks to En Qi who took care of me and brought me back! :)))))

Arts Bash just ended on Saturday. Had a heck of a time at Phuture after quite a number of Jagerbombs outside.

Rascal OG mates from last year's Arts Camp! Yijun, Jerome and Jason!!! ♥

A lot of stuff happened in between and I can't possibly post about everything. So I've updated what happened so far with the obvious exception of school stuff... =X

School's a bitch so far. I'm way back in terms of readings. Taking 5 modules this sem (as usual):

SC2215 Sociology of Food

SC2218 Anthropology and the Human Condition

SC3219 Sexuality in Comparative Perspective

IT1004 Introduction to E-Commerce

GEM??? The Study of Names

Mostly quite interesting modules this semester. Really need to pull my cap up! Hoping to bank on these two days at home to catch up on some of the readings. HOPE!

Good luck to me! :)

2011-07-24T22:24:00.001+08:00

I'm tired. My shoulders ache like mad. My room is in a total mess. And Lee Weiliang still wants me to blog.

My Plate

2011-07-04T02:22:00.000+08:00

It's been a while since I've updated.

Since the last time, a lot has happened.

Arts Camp 2011 started and ended successfully. Went to Pulau Perhentian and came back in one. Mysteriously upgraded from signing up as a councillor to become an OGL for Soci Camp which starts in 1 more day! Lucky it's a pretty small camp... Have videos assigned already. Part of the teams covering Pre-rag + Rag and DnD comm + Bash trailer + DnD trailer. I realise I actually have 5 videos. =.="

I wonder if I'm piling too much on my plate. Holidays don't seem like holidays and breaks don't seem like breaks. I don't even have time to meet up with my old/ new OG... :(

But there are still good things in life. Haha.

Shall plough on. Fulfill what I've committed to, as best as I can.

Counting down

2011-06-14T01:56:00.000+08:00

It's Monday night already. How time flies when you're ~~having fun~~ busy...

Second week of Tech Crew has begun. Starting to get a bit busier but I'm learning new stuff along the way so it's all good.

Arts Camp is just a few days away. Still have a chunk of stuff to prepare!!! PMS-ing now. No good. No good. Hope everything will go smoothly.

I've given up on preparing my After Effects lesson for the night. We shall see.

Crazy

2011-06-11T02:15:00.000+08:00

It's the end of an eventful week.

Moved back to hall. End of my stint as an MoM surveyor- good riddance! Start of Tech Crew and end of first teaching session. TBH, it was all kind of impromptu for me and Leeyan's presentation but the response was good nonetheless.

And now my 头 very 痛 from Portal. First person shooters aren't really for me. But this game quite fun la.

Third day of tech crew is over. I now have a wee bit more technical knowledge than before, in particular about PA stuff. The rest is pretty much a recap of VPU stuff which I know and like so it's fine.

Arts camp is next week. Final weekend of house meetings. Still need to gather my councillors to make props with me. Hmm. I saw some freshies from the Rag camp at Ameen today. Wah damn exciting can! Can't wait to see my OG freshies- fresh faces, fresh blood! LOL.

MEH! Not in the best of moods tonight

There and Back Again

2011-06-07T18:51:00.000+08:00

I'm officially back in hall!

Came back early in the morning with 3 boxes, 1 crate and 4 bags of stuff. Amazing how many things I need to live comfortably. I didn't want to miss out anything important or that I would need later on so I rather I overpacked than underpacked. Haha.

As Murphy's Law would have it, I did indeed forget some important stuff.

1) LAN Cable. Thankfully, Block E in TH is able to access NUSOPEN. Block D cannot leh. Never mind, shall get the LAN Cable delivered tomorrow.

2) Insect Repellent. I realised only after I noted it down that it wasn't repellent that I wanted but rather, I needed INSECTICIDE. I have my trusty ~~electronic~~ electric racket for bugs killing. The insecticide is for lizards IF they appear.

3) Airwick air freshener. I had the empty casing, spraying nothing for one whole month.

4) Tissue Boxes. I cannot live without tissue boxes in hall. Must be from box. Cannot be from roll or packet because it's the most accessible. Easier to spam. Sorry environmentalist. Sorry Gaia, I can't save you.

5) Laundry detergent. Naise.

After meeting with Wei Zhang (MoM Supervisor) at MoM, had lunch with Joanne and Xin Rong at GWC. Our new haunt already sia. Bought the aforementioned stuff (excluding the LAN Cable) from (expensive) Cold Storage and lugged them all the way back up the slope outside biz school. Hahaha. O well.

So now my room is very well-equipped and livable. Somemore info about my room. It's on the fourth floor and has an opposite orientation from that of my previous room. The door is on my right now. Cannot get used to it. Not yet anyway.

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I was interrupted by a phonecall from Wenyi saying she got a place in Arts Camp! Hahaha. She said she indicated a preference for R house and stupid stupid go say my name so maybe she'll be in my OG? HAHA. That would be quite funny.

We added Weiliang into the phone call to discuss next Monday's plans. Yum Cha Restaurant Dim Sum Buffet! :) Must remember to make reservations.
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Okay, back to the topic of my room. My room has windows that allow the evening setting sun to pour mercilessly into my room. Argh. Too orange for my liking. In the morning, the sun pours in through the door. But I don't think the morning sun will pour in as much as the evening sun simply because I probably won't wake up early enough to leave my door open in the morning. Haha.

I'm hungry. And tired. And feeling a bit sick.

In a turmoil over some things now. Don't really know what my priorities should be but I'm trying my best to get out unscathed.

2011-06-04T22:47:00.001+08:00

7 down today. Not bad? Considering I did from 1pm to 5 plus? 12 in total going to today's quota. F la. Should stop obsessing over quotas.

Tomorrow is OG chalet! :)

I should start packing my things for hall tonight. If I want to go back on Monday night. Hmmm. But I couldn't find my electric racket for bugs when I needed it just now. It's the number 1 hall essential!

I AM IN MISERY

2011-06-03T22:56:00.001+08:00

Self-inflicted of course. Stupid mom job. Can't even look forward to a fat pay check. Shall not blog so openly, later they find people to sue me or something since got so many so many acts.

5 down today. Called around 50 numbers. Hur.

It's just the $600 holding me back. F.

I hate myself for loving you

2011-06-02T21:07:00.001+08:00

Feeling a bit uptight and apprehensive now.

Work hasn't quite officially begun but I'm already calculating to the very minute how many calls I need to make in one day to fulfill my quota before Arts Camp (including the Arts Camp dates). I shouldn't have been so honest. Now I have a bullseye fixated on my back by the big big supervisor. Good job me.

Had an online discussion with Leeyan just now about our teaching session. It struck me how much time Tech Crew is going to take up as well, particularly for the assignments.

Thankfully for Arts Camp prep still got KS to fall back on but he's flying off on the 10th! All hell will break loose.

Listening to "relaxing" music on Youtube. Was a playlist I put together during my MOE TIP times in the staffroom when I was feeling like crap.

My favourite classical piece is Pachelbel's Canon in D. :)

如果有人可以依靠谁会学习独立？

Why? Why? Why?

2011-05-31T01:18:00.000+08:00

I don't exactly know why I'm not sleeping now. I should be. But I'm waiting for my hair to dry...

Today was the first day of MoM job training for the Comprehensive Labour Force Survey interviewer job. Was feeling extremely tired listening to the presentations/ lectures on our duties and how to go about doing them. The dreariness of it all on top of being already damn tired and burnt from pre-camp over the weekend.

With regards to pre-camp, it was fun but definitely could be better, especially with my OG councilors in certain respects. Most of the games were recycled but there were some new ones added to the mix which were quite fun. Shan't have any spoilers here. Leave that to Arts Camp!

The coming days are going to be like hell. I stupidly stupidly declared my commitment to arts camp during the work period then I had to go see the big supervisor. She initially wanted to terminate me on the spot but I sort of promised her I would finish the required quota before going for camp. Then she 偏偏 must add one line say "We'll be monitoring your progress closely"... and my system training date is brought forward to Wednesday from Friday because she wanted to let me start earlier. Hmm.

Guess I gotta chiong then.

Which.
is.
damn.
siao.

because Tech Crew starts next week. And AC prep is like on stand-still mode now. So I'm abit stressed now.

Oh yea, results for year 1 sem 2 came out today. Hahaha. Results were the last thing on my mind when I saw the SMS. Improvement from sem 1 from 3.7 to 3.8 this sem. Cumulative of 3.75~ Not much nearer to my second upper goal but I'm getting there. Ironically, I scored best for the two modules I was the most disinterested in and had the least confidence for. SC2101 (Methods of Social Research) and SC2217 (Soci of Tourism) both A- hahaha. BI got B+ then stupid FMA got B-. Sadly, Soci of Deviance also B-. Must be our term paper pull us down. Bahhh! Oh well. I think I will definitely do better next sem as long as I don't self-declare each week as a 3-day week and actually turn up for my lessons and read the stuff made available. Hrmm.

JIAYOU MYSELF! for everything and anything. :)

2011-05-28T02:15:00.000+08:00

I'm feeling very tired now even though I woke up at 3.45pm (and was subsequently late for a meet-up at 4.30) and that I just bathed. I also finished packing my stuff for pre-camp. even if it's just two days. it's two long and possibly dirty days.

don't miss me, world. :D

time for cheers, bonding and R house lurveee! hahaha.

(cui post without proper capitalisation.)

Fairs

2011-05-27T01:48:00.000+08:00

Why can't I find a nail-clipper in my house?! Okay, maybe I'm just not making enough effort. But nails are annoying when typing on the keyboard.

Almost went clubbing just now with two 损友 but came home from Expo in the end because another 乖 kia decided not to rebel and go home. So I also 乖乖 go home. Next week! I not spontaneous enough luh. Move back hall then say luh. More freedom.

I'm also very poor at the moment. Okay, I'm always kinda broke so that's no surprise... Gotta pay for more stuff! Urgh...

RPod meeting tomorrow. Hmm.

Bahhh

2011-05-25T00:48:00.001+08:00

I've decided to try and sleep tonight. I was initially grappling with the idea of ton-ing till 7 then leave house to go to the MoM there at 9am. Since now I have post-MoM plans with ~~Keok~~ myself and then SP, I shall go bathe and try to sleep and wake up at 6 plus like a freaking 上班族 which is what I swore to myself never to be. But I now actually see myself as more and more likely to be pulled into that vortex of crowded trains and buses and lunch-time crowds and of being grumpy in general.

Happy tonight.

Thanks for your time.

:)

Maybe

2011-05-24T05:07:00.001+08:00

It's 5 in the morning. Don't know what I'm doing being awake at this hour. My parents certainly do not.

Feeling kinda shitty these couple of days. Maybe it's the hormones from DMS. Maybe it's just life.

I'm actually kind of looking forward to having things to do. It would really help to get my mind off some things. You know, once you made a decision, you should stick to it right? I learnt from the movie Incite Mill that the way to get rid of an addiction was not to make a long-term plan but instead, start each day with the decision not to drink that day. 久而久之 the addiction will be hey-presto! gone. I don't know how far this is true since it's from a movie and all but well... But it's difficult to not even think about it.

My nightly bedtime ritual to clear my mind now fails me. It used to be chanting in my head "Clear your mind" or "Forget everything" for some nights. It usually works but now the thoughts just keep on popping continuously in and out in my head. My mind is perpetually on Overdrive mode.

But what's worse is that knowing thinking about it doesn't change anything at all. I can think about the Ifs and Perhaps' and all the What ifs in the whole damn wide world and it will still don't make a difference if I don't act on it.

Driving me nuts.

Muscle ache today from the garang guni-ing yesterday and the elderly gym corner at the flats. The smell of Tiger Balm joint rub is familiarly soothing and the cold chilly feeling is just good.

Super

2011-05-22T23:07:00.000+08:00

Super tired today. It's been awhile since I've been this tired.

Slept for approximately just 4 hours before waking up at 8.30am to travel all the way to a freaking ulu spot in Sengkang for fundraising for Arts Camp... Our OG only had Kang Sheng and myself in the beginning, then slowly but surely the rest appeared. Yay! Definitely damn tiring especially when eat a lot of 闭门羹... But we are masters of Sl*cking and evasion (only after we cleared many blocks already!)

Tomorrow marks my last five days of freedom before I lunge into a non-stop flurry of activity.

Weekend- precamp. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (?)- work training. Work at home for one week (need to chiong during this period...) Rangbang chalet on Sunday. Check-in once again for vacation stay on Monday. Two days of TC prep time for myself. TC starts. Work continues. Arts camp begins. Arts camp ends. Work continues. TC continues. July: TC training ends. Work continues. Running Man camp. TC assignments begin.

Good luck me! :)

last night, i had a dream about.

2011-05-21T03:20:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, I dreamt that I was a harvest moon farmer, in the game. I dreamt that I was tilling the land in 9 X 9 patches. I was putting the patches side by side because that's the most efficient way for mass watering of the seeds. I was tilling in long rows from the bottom up ( I had an aerial view). When I reached the top row, I realised my house was on the bit of land I wanted to till so I couldn't complete my 9 X 9... being obstinate, I kept on.trying but eventually my energy bar was depleted and I ended up in the hospital. I left the hospital with a bottle of medicine in my inventory which I could draw upon via the red arrow on the right side of the screen.

Goodnight crazy world.

2011-05-19T19:05:00.000+08:00

I sleep regularly. Just that I do so fro 6AM to 3PM. A little bit different from most of the world... :)

I haven't been getting out of my house enough. But then again, I really don't feel like it either. I'm in the "I just want to nua at home and be a useless bum so please don't make me get out of my house" phase.

Although I admit I do want to get out of my house for 2 reasons:

1) Macs has $4 breakfast sets. How can don't eat???

2) I really need to get myself a SD Card reader. If not I download all the NDS Roms also no use!

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It's just like weaning a baby or curbing a drug addiction. You don't just cut off the supply. You take steps, reducing the frequency, reducing the dosage. One day, two days, three days, a week... Taking it a step at a time. Self-control everytime you feel the urge, everytime you face the temptation. And before you know it, you're free.Well, that's the ideal scenario anyway.

Meh?

2011-05-18T17:30:00.001+08:00

I happened to catch a re-run of "He's Beautiful" aka 原来是美男啊 on E-city last night. It was episode 8 where there was this part when the Aunty was gossiping about the A.N.JELL boys with the fan girls about their "legends".

So Jeremy, played by Hong Ki, was of Scottish aristocratic descent and his fiance was Princess Amy. But he left that and came to sing in Korea.

See the girl in the picture, that's Princess Amy.

Princess Amy doing the 回蒙一笑 calling out "Jeremy~"

The thing is, I thought she looked kind of familiar...

Jenna Rose lookalike! Infamous singer of "My Jeans"

Don't look alike meh?

Yea, I guess not... :)

Princess Amy a bit prettier.

But Hong Ki even more so.

You've got Mail!

2011-05-18T15:59:00.001+08:00

Dear upstairs neighbour,

Do you absolutely have to start your DIY construction work at the exact momemt when I finish my late lunch and position myself on the sofa, all ready to watch TV?

Regards,
Annoyed downstairs neighbour.

c-ri-us

2011-05-17T02:57:00.003+08:00

I finally went to Timbre today. To be honest, the duck pizza isn't all that it's made out to be- but maybe I'm just skeptical. We went there for a mini-farewell dinner (?) for Hui Shan and Joanne because tomorrow they are going for a 2-week long OCIP in Chiang Rai with TH. Ek was supposed to come but she pangseh-ed.

Played badminton in the late morning as well at the extremely inaccessible Changi Simei CC... :)

I'm very tired now. I just finished the latest Running Man episode (where it was a challenge to be the most Zai running man) and the final episode of Family Outing 1 (before the awards episode)... Even though the show ended long ago (early 2010 I think?), it's still sad to know that there isn't FO1 (or even FO2 for that matter) anymore. Love the cast members! Even though Jae sook and Joong Kook are still in Running Man, Family Outing is just crazier type of fun and less competitive so it's funnier. O well.

-

What we say and do does have repercussions on how other view us. It's not a matter of saying what you want simply because you can say it ie. you have the 'right' to do so. It has bearings on how other perceive you, whether they can and will respect you as a person. It's important to have the respect of others- then only you wouldn't be treated like a lunatic going off tangent whenever you speak or do something. However, this respect must be earned. (Your) Seniority might earn some but in some cases (perhaps like in the case of the PAP), being older alone does not guarantee that whatever you say makes sense and is credible, relevant and responsible. Some might be blinded, others might have eyes to see through the clouds of smoke puff you throw at them and treat your words as the bible.

So, fuck off dude. No respect here.

I believe Mermaids exist

2011-05-16T00:11:00.001+08:00

Sorry, I very easily swayed one. I watched one 2-hour documentary on Animal Planet on how some scientists found evidence of mermaids but were suppressed by the governments of USA and Africa. Hmm.

I came home from an expensive but 吃不饱 korean lunch at Chang restaurant at Iluma with Shunjie (now with braces) and Weiliang and cheap dessert from Macs. Hahaha.

I also just finished sending out a 1000+ word email to my dear RPod. Sigh. Administrative matters suck. But just suck thumb and do. I want to skip straight to the Camp part.

I was also doing some research on Pre-paid cards. Luckily had some advice! :)

2NE1 on ~~KBS World~~ E City now. So cute and funny!

Ciao. Badminton and Timbre tomorrow! What a combo~

WTFish

2011-05-14T01:22:00.000+08:00

Why the hell is my previous post missing??? It was there before the stupid Blogger Servicing which caused all posts and comments made after 11 May 7.37am to be removed. Hopefully, it'll be restored soon!

Anyway, I was awoken by a phone call from Danny, the BGC dude, telling me I got the MoM surveyor job! (I was expecting to get it anyway so...) So I cabbed down to the office with the Taxi uncle complaining about poor company ethics and how difficult it is to pinpoint a location, especially in the city area when you only know "16, Collyer Quay" and not "Hitachi Towers". Hmm. Taxi drivers always have interesting things to say. Signed the contract- saw a $600 penalty if I resign or they fire me. Yikes! But apparently I heard that anything you sign when you're under 21 is not legally-binding?

Holidays will be damn busy, from the end of May onwards!!!

There's Arts Camp and Pre-camp! And meet-ups for preparations. (And after that there's O-week too...)

There's Tech Crew. Starting on 8 June until 4 July for training. Finishing video assignments thereafter.

Then now there's the job. 9 calls per day. And home visits to make up for those that can't be contacted through phone.

BUSY!!! Stressed liao.

Got gao wei person beside me.

2011-05-12T23:55:00.000+08:00

Yawn.

It's been a tiring day in the CBD area. Went for an interview at BGC with a follow-up interview at MoM. I never knew that MoM had three (?) separate buildings. This lack of knowledge led to additional cab fare from one MoM to another. Hopefully we'll get the job. It seems tough but it's good money. Plus, it would really put what I learnt in 2101 to good use.

Wasted time at another Popular Book Fair recruitment interview. It's a measly $5 or $5.50 per hour and the people at TBC are so damn arrogant. Couldn't commit for the time period anyway. Arts Camp more important. Or rather, Pre-camp...

I'm in money-minded mode right now.

Tuesday night was Food mode.

Wednesday night was Boardgame mode. (Was looking at different boardgames online. Emailed budgetboardgames for an order of Saboteur and Loot but no response so far. Thinking about potential fun for Rangbang Chalet and Arts Camp!!!)

Today is "I need money and willing to work for it" mode. kekekeke.

Saya mau tidur sekarang karena hari pagi ini, saya kena bangun pagi-pagi sekali. Itu karena saya sakit. Juga, saya kemarin malam pada jam lima pagi.

Ah. Really losing touch with BI. Maybe shall reconsider BI2 for next sem.

Patience

2011-05-11T02:30:00.002+08:00

On this 夜深人静的夜晚... （with the exception of my [idiotic] sister banging around the house and sniffling like an addict), I am listing down food places which I want to go and try.

Of course, there's the Crystal Jade 小笼包 & Steamboat buffet at Holland V. It's apparently quite a hit with people in NUS- I think because of the proximity to school. Free flow of 小笼包? Worth a shot, don't you think!

Then there's Timbre (which I was supposed to go just now but the Teh Peng from before was stomach-boggling...). Apparently, there's a very good Roast Duck Pizza there that I need to ~~see~~ taste for myself. The booze and ambience are second place, to me at least.

Next on the list is Udders. Damned ice cream which I keep hearing about but have no time/ opportunity to sample. And the nearest outlet is in Siglap... plus the fact that I'm not much of a traveler. Ice cream would go sooooo well with the stifling weather these past few days...

I also cannot forget the Korean BBQ we had at Soju Bang Korean Restaurant. Might not want to go back to the same place but Korean food has definitely been on my mind since then. That, on top of all the Korean stuff I've been watching and the food that they have... Chanced upon one Kim's Family Restaurant that has pretty good reviews. Shall wait for Wenshin to come back and we can check this place out together!

Smith's Fish & Chips at Tanjong Katong. Seems good. And near enough. And one more, Peperoni Pizzeria which has XXL pizzas! Ideal for class gathering of some sort? :)

Oh well. Shall enjoy my hawker fare and home-cooked meals for now.

Food kakis! 我等着你回来/出来！

=/

2011-05-09T04:32:00.000+08:00

It's 4.24am. I'm still awake.

Starting episode 7 of 點解阿Sir係阿Sir based on Leeyan's recommendation. Nice! A pity the funshion version is not HD version while PPS, PPTV, tudou, youku all this have blocked TVB dramas. What a waste...

Anyway, I think my plan of readjusting my body clock can go to hell and I will awaken by the noise of human activity and insanely bright afternoon shine later. Damn.

Shall get back to the show.

lo li lo sor

2011-05-08T20:28:00.003+08:00

Long day yesterday which culminated at supper at Changi Village. Sentosa in the morning, afternoon at Vivo (I am so bored of that place!), mahjong at my house in the evening and we took a bus down to Changi Village to eat Stingray. Om nom nom!

The day before was another tiring one with my siblings having their twin 21st at Aloha Changi. Roped in a couple of helpers to do saikang, but didn't do much afterall.

Now I'm at home. And not really liking it at the moment.

But before that, some overdue photos from my shift back home.

My wall in hall! Love of the bits and pieces I pinned onto it that I accumulated over the course of one academic year... Now it's all in one box.

Another angle...

All cleared! I only remembered to take down the 2AM poster at the last minute... It blends in so well.

My shift back home was in 2 parts. This one is of the process of part 1. MESS!

Some clothes. School stuff. And loads of gadgets and miscellaneous items...

One huge bag of footwear. 2 pair of Slippers, 1 pair of shoes, 1 pair of heels, 1 pair of boots, 2 pairs of sports shoes and 1 pair of sneakers...

Day 2 of packing saw all my clothes going from here to...

Here!

Deep...

Didn't have a picture of everything but this is pretty much it though there was still a chunk of stuff on the bed...

My window netting taken down! See all the dust that's trapped in it? Gross ttm.

My ex-door.

My vandalised wall. Can see the pencil markings? It was a mind-map.

My white light... which attracted all the insects in the area. Will miss it...

Our favourite bench! No more when we all move to level 3 next sem... :(

I'm missing hall now. I miss my freedom. Miss having a table to put my laptop on and not having to balance it on a pillow on my lap and having to feel the heat accumulating (on top of the fact that it is too hot today). I miss being able to do my own laundry as and when I want it, dry it for how long I want and collect it back whenever I want (unless someone else needs to use the rack). I can choose where to put, how I put it and whether or not I want to keep them back in the cupboard at all! I miss having space of my own. There's just not enough space at home! Too many things for too many people. I miss being able to wake up at whatever time I want (on my "off" days) and not being awaken by the noise of other people and the sound of drilling from some (disgusting) neighbour. (Of course, there's the 9.30am fumigation fumes that are also disgusting on Tuesdays but that's only on Tuesday)

BAH.

On a less related note, the VPU personal evaluation comments just came in yesterday. They are all anonymous (except for one). Some adjectives that kept coming up were "responsible", "creative", "passionate". Chinese ones - "很认真，很努力，人很好，有亲和力" and "很可爱的一个会员. 开朗,热情,诚恳 ^^" Haha. But the most apt one has to be this "Somehow, I think you can’t tolerate inefficiency." Totally speaks of me. Interesting...

It's a very warm night.

Xiao yan zi just mms-ed me her new hairstyle. 死Ah Lian (Beng?) ROFL. (Edited in the smiley face just in case)

I think

2011-05-04T04:18:00.002+08:00

Politics is scary.

Religion is also scary.

Too many ideas, too much contention.

I want to be apathetic.

MM Lai

2011-05-01T00:52:00.001+08:00

I love television. Although weekend television is the worst.

Simply being physically back in Pasir Ris already makes me realise that living on campus results in a very insulated experience. Mass media like the newspaper and television is less accessible. Yes, we have access to newspaper (shared ones in the lobby) and television (a couple of channels in the lounge) but you'd need to go the extra 'mile' for that. Getting news over the internet is more active process as well as opposed to being able to more passively look at the newspaper strewn across my dining table and occasionally glancing at the television screen. News isn't easy to come by for lazy people in hall.

Yesterday, I managed to catch a glimpse of a WP (not sure) rally at Serangoon while my dad was trying to find our way home after sending my sister's friend back home. What a crowd! And the traffic was like...

This.

Today, I watched 3 movies in a row- in a cinema. Movie Madness. We watched Thor, The Lost Bladesman and Rio. Thanks to Quanyi who had free tickets!

Shall go read a book now.

And I'm hungry leh.

Home!

2011-04-30T02:37:00.001+08:00

I'm finally home again after something like 12 days... I know that's not long but still, being cooped up in that small room probably isn't very healthy anyway.

Plan was to come home to relax but BOOM! - the twin's 21st birthday party is scheduled for next Friday and since I'm the freest kid around the house (kor in army, sis still having exams till Thursday...), I've been recruited to help out. I can be David Tutera now...

On a more exciting note, I've successfully torrented and installed Tales of Monkey Island. Always loved Guybrush Threepwood- Mighty Pirate! But I still cannot come to grips with 3D gameplay. Never liked 3D anyway... Makes for more difficult controlling especially in a point-and-click game but I've got to the admit, the graphics are good because of the 3D...

But, simplicity is always good.

And the game looks something like that!

I do enjoy non-violent, pirate adventure games. Ahoy matey!

Home, home, home. My bed has become foreign to me. I've grown acclimatised to that (cheap) uncomfortable mattress in hall so much so that it has become the ideal for comfort.

I woke up at 16:04 today, much to my own amazement. I have a penchant for sleeping and waking up at absurd hours. But I suppose that was part of my unconscious plan to start clearing my sleep debt. 12 hours is a good start. I shall sleep soon although how I'm going to go about doing that. Maybe I should drug myself with paracetamol and see where that leads me to. It's not illegal right? Probably just bad for my liver or something.

On an unrelated note, I have decided to put off unpacking my stuff from hall which constitutes 5 bags, 1 box and 1 printer. And that's only for today. Shall upload pictures in the next post. Actually, I don't even have any place to put my stuff. There's something like a reversal in my 生活中心... My house has no place for my stuff! But it's okay, most of it is going back to hall when I check-in for vacation stay on 6th June anyway.

Bummer.

11:29 PM

2011-04-29T00:14:00.002+08:00

It's not Friday yet but it's soon enough...

星期五，星期五，我真的很想跳舞！

Okay, not really. I'm more interested in just nua-ing. But nua-ing can get boring after a while.

I'm not being able to even concentrate on watching a complete movie or show straight. (Maybe that's because of the post-dinner Breezer...)

I'm lazy to start packing my things to go home. I will definitely miss my room even though I only found out in the last few weeks how to reduce the number of flying insects in my room... (Simple: Use one ceiling light instead of two!)

Finals were generally alright. I wasn't too stressed over it partially because I had just 3 modules but also because I'm generally quite chillax about school in general. Which, shouldn't be the case and I will make sure that this won't be the case NEXT semester. (I always say the same thing...)

But technically, the first year of my University education is over. And it's really damn fast. Which, is quite scary. If I don't do honours, then one third of my University life is gone already! And I don't want to go out into the "working world" so quickly...

Okay, shall make plans what to do in the merry month of May:

1. Clear my sleep debt and hopefully be able to regulate my body clock to what people define as normal. But I wonder if the 调-ing part is really necessary because when I go back to hall in June, I'll probably revert back to abnormalcy.

2. Read. I haven't really touched many books since school started. I remember how in EPPS there was this reading program where you wrote iffy bits of reflections after you read a book and made a list of the books you read to submit to the teacher. In return, you'd get a certificate. I got one declaring that I was an "Avid Reader". To be honest, I was quite proud of that cert. Those were the days... Shall attempt to read non-fiction as well because I previously found this genre un-entertaining, dreary and dry but maybe FASS has made me change my mind. We'll see about that.

3. 运动- When I go back to the flat terrain of Pasir Ris, I shall make an effort to go ~~running~~ jogging or cycling regularly. I miss my bike! Any Easties who read this, feel free to jio me out to play badminton (in CC, Sports Hall or even my 家楼下）or go gym. But leave the jogging and cycling for my solitary enjoyment. ~~Healthy~~ Healthier Lifestyle baby!

4. Find myself a personal project. I am a person who needs to have many short-term goals if not I'll feel unmotivated. I was playing with the idea of make a short video/ film with Sims 3. It's quite popular in the Sims community to use Sims animations to ____ a storyline. (Sorry, I just cannot find an appropriate word. Help me out!) Or maybe do a Legacy challenge. But I don't I have the patience for that. I'm 三分钟热度, for some cases at least ... I know myself so well. Again, we'll see.

Procrastination at its finest.

Let's see. What else?

Ah.

5. Meet up with friends who I haven't seen since... dunno when. But must be considerate for my (~~drying up~~ dried up) bank account also...

6. maybe, Maybe, MAYBE, I'll restart my self-taught guitar lessons from Youtube and come back to hall next year to join Xin Yao or THreshold... Joke.

Okay, shall stop here for now because I know most of it won't come true anyway. But I shouldn't be so self-defeating right, to set goals knowing that I won't accomplish them and then rationalize with myself if or when I do fail- that I expected it in the first place.

7. I FORGOT ONE MORE. Watch the movies I have downloaded and play the games I downloaded. (The count actually only stands at 1 now because the stupid Sims Medieval hanged just after I was so excited mounting the file properly and cracking it... And I'm lazy to patch.)

So...

HAPPY HOLIDAYS PEOPLE!
Even if your exams are not over, they will be soon.
Even if your exams have not started, they will soon and they will also end soon.
Even if you don't have exams, you are still my friend and my holiday mood will rub off you.

And it's 星期五 already...

Phoenix

2011-04-27T01:41:00.002+08:00

I think I'm pretty screwed for SC2217 Sociology of Tourism tomorrow. I have been taking this module very lightly and I think I still am. There's an apparent lack of urgency. I have done none of the readings except when we were working on the research paper and presentation. I watched all the related films/ documentaries though. "The Good Woman of Bangkok" is very interesting. Extremely vivid. Haha. Hopefully, something will come up.

At the very worst, I'll be a Phoenix tomorrow. I'll die but resurrect soon after to celebrate the end of my Semester.

Fun fact: This is BENNU, the Egyptian counterpart of the Phoenix...

So,
Cross fingers.

Whoever you are, cross yours for me also okay?

AND I ALSO CANNOT CONTAIN MY EXAM. APPROXIMATELY 9 MORE HOURS TILL (TEMPORARY) LIBERATION! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

1111 (2)

2011-04-26T11:13:00.000+08:00

Hope this represents good luck... :)

Mad.

2011-04-26T00:29:00.002+08:00

Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Lombroso
Emile Durkheim
Robert Merton
Edwin Sutherland
Albert Cohen
Cloward & Ohlin
David Matza
Jerome Skolnick
Erickson (?)
Jock Young
Marx
Walter Miller

Cannot remember who else. But I hope they will do for now.

MOANday

2011-04-25T13:08:00.000+08:00

Stomach feels a tad weird these few days.

I'm already counting down to the end of exams. Feel better about Soci of Tourism after last night. Mustered up the courage to look at the past year papers. Not as difficult as I thought or maybe it's because I haven't started actually writing yet but I now think Sociology is really about giving a voice to the underprivileged and marginalised. There's a lot to do with power relationships in Society, even in the case of something that is seemingly bright-and-happy like Tourism. Definitely thought-provoking. Hopefully there will opinion questions in Wednesday's paper... :)

I'm hungry. I woke up at 9am to eat breakfast with Ngo. Went back to sleep after that. It was initially supposed to be a nap but yea... we all know where those "naps" lead to. Kept snoozing until 12 plus. Forced myself up at 12.10 but still felt like shit so I took another 20 minute power-nap. Maybe it's a placebo or what, but I felt more awake up just another 20 minutes. Heehee.

Random photo from Saturday. Ma'am going to Thailand next week for training liao! Nicole is going to challenge Cui Yi, the e-mart girl at Maju Camp. Weiliang is in camp with Cui Yi now? Hahaha.

I want lunch now.

Boring stressed exam update

2011-04-24T20:20:00.002+08:00

My first exam of this semester was over yesterday. Already feels like eons ago. Was unable to fall asleep the previous night- probably because of too little daylight hours. At 3am, decided to take a panadol to sleep. Woke up at 8am feeling like shit but still had to go for my exam anyway. It was at Sheares so it was just a walk away.

SC2101 wasn't difficult. I mean, there's 7 questions to choose 3 from so I suppose there's something for everybody. I shied away from all the quantitative questions. If I ever decided to pursue research, quantitative would probably still remain a big no-no. Hope I did okay because it felt like I did.

Next paper is on Tuesday. Sociology of Deviance. Haven't revised yet because I was chionging the webcasts for Sociology of Tourism. I haven't gone for a single lecture after the intro lecture for that module. Hmmm. That paper is on Wednesday morning so don't have much time for that one. Sigh.

I don't even dare to look at the past year paper questions... Don't know how to revise also because I haven't done any of the readings except those required for our presentation and paper. Soci of Deviance also. Die.

How? How? How?

Don't have anyone to blame. In fact, I don't really blame myself also. Self-blame is no good for self-esteem. Haha. But everyone is NUS is so mug. Like siao...

Anyway, there's this reading called "Fucking Tourist" (which I didn't read either). I think the title is quite cool because it can be interpreted in 3 (or more?) ways.

1. Fucking Tourist! -to express anger when talking about the tourist.
2. Fucking (the) Tourist- referring to the act of fucking a tourist
3 (the) Fucking Tourist- referring to the tourist who fucks around

Okay. Enough. Haha.

That Should be ... Wha?!

2011-04-22T23:06:00.001+08:00

Taking Bieber's phrase "That Should Be Me" out of context...

I think there shouldn't be a Should or Should Not (O-the-irony...).

没有应不应该，只有活不活该

On another note, I think it's interesting and also pretty amazing to see people 反目成仇 so quickly and easily. Of course, it's only nice to be a spectator and not a 当事人... Durh right. On the sidelines, it's quite entertaining. I think there's a secret (and sometimes, not so secret) Gossip in all of us.

Haha. Random. 98.7FM: That was WonderGirls with Nobody just now.
(So lonely...) Forgive meee.

Fur-rai-day

2011-04-22T15:32:00.000+08:00

Things to do today:

1. SHOWER. Incredibly humid and hot (before the rain came)
2. Finish two 2217 Webcasts
3. Re-revise 2101 for tomorrow

& throw in Good Friday dinner somewhere in between. (Get the pun?)

And because it's Good Friday (tbh, I'm not very familiar what Good Friday is about but I shall just hop the bandwagon and spread the cheer... though not very cheerful due to finals...)

My favourite version of Friday!

awww

2011-04-21T23:13:00.000+08:00

Click to enlarge.

Focus is on the time in the bottom right-hand corner.

Lazy Thursday afternoon

2011-04-21T16:58:00.001+08:00

Hello world.

It's Thursday already. First paper's on Saturday morning. I'm starting on past year papers for 2101. Don't know what I'm going to do for 2212 and 2217. Not a lot of time for those two... O well. Shall work harder for the module I got C+ for mid-terms for. Haha!

Nothing much going on except starding and more starding.

And more and more nong shim instant noodles.

This one is surprisingly nice. Noodles are extra chewy and the soup has an extra "something" in it compared to the usual kimchi soup broth.

This one damn yummy also! Especially if you're looking for something dry and not spicy.

Expert liao.

To end off...

Glam photo: YAWN! (大小眼)

Stardi Stardi Stardi

2011-04-20T23:01:00.001+08:00

There was this joke on 98.7FM which went something like this,

"What's the formula of a Sphere?"

"Something frightening!"

Get it? Get it? Sphere = Fear :P

Quite funny right!

I actually have people on MSN who don't know me well enough.
I can go google right!!!
HAHA

2011-04-19T20:18:00.000+08:00

It's kind of a warm night.

Just got back from Clementi. Had dinner with Shunjie, primarily because I needed to pass him back his camera which he left in my bag on Sunday... =.=" Now I have Breadtalk and Yami Yoghurt in the freezer as additional mugging supplies for the week. :)

Just started revision today because yesterday was Cramp day. Sucks. Shall finish revising 2101 hopefully by Thursday afternoon (whatever afternoon comes to constitute by then...)

Linked to the previous post:
I have TOP's and GD's! Was contemplating getting Daesung's one.

Quick

2011-04-19T00:18:00.000+08:00

Quick post before I actually begin revision.

T'was a busy (and expensive) weekend. Left hall on Saturday morning to Kallang Leisure Park. It's been awhile since I've been in the East. Didn't go to skate with them because wanted to save money and woke up pretty late anyway... It was Nicole's birthday so I shopped around for a present before meeting them. Absolutely had no time to get something for her before the actual day. Went to Nihon Mura for lunch! It was a great pity that the buffet only started at 2.30pm because some of us were ravenous... Ended up paying approximately buffet price for ala carte also. Hmph.

Everybody else (Andrew, Grace, Yi Geng, Kenneth Kow and Nicole herself) left, leaving only Valentia, Weiliang and myself behind... Hmmm. Went to the arcade (my favourite!) for a while. Played the new bishi-bashi machine. Interesting new game concept! Had fun there. Made me realised that I've been cooped up for quite some time already. After dessert at Yoguru and talk about cameras and DSLRs, we spontaneously made our way to Marina Square to look at cameras. (In the end, we were too humji and just looked from a distance.) Also went to buy Quanyi's present for his belated celebration on Sunday. Got him a set of Nerf guns so that he can play with his 弟弟 when he's home for the weekends.

And I digress. So after a trip to Carrefour to hunt for waterguns for a supposed 8th-May-Sentosa-Outing-with-Nicole's-random-friends. Couldn't find any and headed for dinner at Pepper Lunch where gullible Weiliang (as usual) was the victim of me and Valentia's superb acting skills which allowed me to kope a piece of his beef.

Home-d and PPStream-ed till late. Apparently, I was very determined to enjoy my weekend to the fullest... Overslept for Sunday's lunch date. Was supposed to be at Somerset at 12 but I woke up at 12. I knew something was wrong the moment I 自然醒... O well. Still made it in time for lunch at Hot Tomato where there was an over (?) friendly waiter and very oily pasta. No photos though. Had dessert at Cold Stone Creamery. Om nom nom! I like. Recently, I've taken to eating Apple Pie ice cream. Might as well eat the cheap one from Macs right?

Did a spot of shopping after that. We were all hunting for checkered shirts. Trendwhores ftw! In the end, bought most of our stuff at Uniqlo and none of it was checkered. I got 2 Bigbang t-shirts for myself. :)

Home-d for dinner and tompang-ed Daddy's car back to hall after he sent Jason back to his super ultimate mega ulu Gedung camp. It's really damn ulu!

Slept pretty late last night (Sunday night) PPStreaming FO. Hence, woke up damn late in the afternoon. Slept again after dinner because of cramps. Had a disgusting headache even after panadol. Had.to.sleep.

Woke up at 10 and bummed around until now. Actually I did something. I organised my papers and books for this sem. Basically threw away all my draft paper.

2101, 2212 and 2217, HERE I COME!

Shall look forward to the holidays!! :)

Wham

2011-04-16T02:14:00.000+08:00

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

"Hell Week" is over! Now with 2 modules down, I have one whole week before my next exam on the 23rd.

(I started this post at 8.30pm just now and continuing it now at 2am because I was distracted by a trip to Clementi NTUC and Sims 3 and Family Outing...)

Weekend is kind of burnt too... Haha. Coincidentally, the topic for the BI essay was "Ahkir Minggu Saya" which means, My Weekend. I wish my weekends were as interesting as I made them out to be... =X

YAWN. Shall sleep. Need.to.wake.up.in.the.morning.siao.ah.

Random cute sleeping puppy to end the post!

来了啦

2011-04-15T00:24:00.000+08:00

I'm feeling kind of parched despite finishing one whole cup of teh lemon es.

Saya masih mau minum sesuatu tetapi saya baru sudah selesai satu gelas teh lemon es.

I want to sleep but I have a test tomorrow. So, I cannot sleep because I need to study tonight.

Saya mau tidur tetapi saya ada ujian besok. Jadi, saya tidak bisa tidur karena perlu belajar di malam ini.

Wasted too much time today. Dance Uncensored 2011 was okay. KR was impressive while RH and SH were entertaining...

Starch

2011-04-14T11:54:00.000+08:00

Now please!

Favourite Prawn Aglio from PastaMania is on it's way! :))))))))))))))))

Korean sticky rice

2011-04-14T01:37:00.001+08:00

YAY! I am finally done with FMA1201S. There's one more three hour session tomorrow but I don't care. Go there show face can already.

Next up to end this hell week is BI Test 2 on Friday 6pm. Got listening... Urgh. My 左边 neighbour got study BI, my 右边 neighbour also got study BI. Only I neber. But it's okay, still got One afternoon, one night, one morning and one more afternoon to study.

Pumped up, yo!

One Sunday lunch with Wen Shin at Bukit Timah plaza at some tiny shop called Ming Jia Korean food. We were both craving korean ever since Joanne's birthday BBQ dinner... Sadly, the rice here wasn't the sticky short grain rice I was desperately craving for. Still am now. Waiting for our Friday neighbour's lunch date at Kantin Biz. Really want Korean fooooooooood. The jajangmyeon there was fascinating. It felt lighter on the palette more than I expected which was a pleasant surprise! I like.

I see this view uncountable times whenever I walk to the toilet, kitchen, comm hall, wherever. Quite picturesque yea?

Lone tree in the middle of the patch of grass. Okay, it's not really alone but it's the one that is the most visible!

Same tree from my room. Tree withstanding the MEGASTORM. Speaking of storms, the one this afternoon was damn boomz, literally and figuratively. The rain could actually pitter-patter its way through my half-closed window panes, bypass my net and fly in diagonally onto my toes. Amazing. That woke me up from my nap.

Another round of promotion wars? Free sundae from BK versus...

1 for 1 Fillet-O-Fish from Macs. Consumers win! But this consumer hasn't won yet. Haven't walked out of hall since Monday morning.... Claustrophobia ttm.

Just now. Suddenly got called down to collect this at the TH Appreciation Night. Surprise surprise. :)

In a good mood today. Hope this will last.

Maybe one step back is really two steps forward.

2011-04-13T16:59:00.000+08:00

At 977 words. Don't know what I'm doing already. Heck lah.

The internet is a f*cking distraction.

2011-04-12T18:04:00.000+08:00

I'm starting on my FMA paper now. Wasted my whole afternoon away. Dunno doing what. Hwaiting!

Haha

2011-04-11T23:46:00.000+08:00

Part 1 of Hell Week is over! :)

Submitted my 2101 assignment this morning and had BI oral exam just now. Can't say it went smoothly but I guess it wasn't too bad either? I felt our dialogue was quite creative but I don't think they give many marks for creativity. More on grammar and vocab usage...?

Next deadline in sight- FMA Paper on Thursday! Then BI written test on Friday! Then I will be officially done with 2 modules already~ Reading week can focus on 2101, 2212 and 2217... Soci ftw!

In a feel good mood tonight.

:)

Ironically, I haven't even watched Lilo & Stitch before. And I have quite a number of Stitch plushies at home somewhere...

2011-04-09T18:28:00.000+08:00

It's stormy outside. What happened to the sunny afternoon?

The thunder is rumbling. Somehow I'm reminded of this part of the theme song for Dexter's Laboratory...

In Dexter's Laboratory
Lives the smartest boy you've ever seen
But Dee Dee blows his experiments to smithereens
There is doom and gloom while things go boom
In Dexter's Lab!

:)

I'm also in an a bit above average mood today. Don't know why... or maybe I do? Hahaha.

Last night I was thinking a bit about communication modes after a certain online conversation. There are many but the ones we, as tech-savvy individuals in this modern day and age, deal with the most include: face-to-face speech, talking over the phone, SMS, MSN (or online chat), Webcam (Skype and all that), Facebook interaction (and other social networking platforms like twitter)

If I were to rank them in descending order of preference...
1. Face-to-face speech
2. SMS
3. MSN
4. Facebook (not referring to FB chat hor)
5. Phone
6. Webcam

I think talking over the phone is quite a scary thing. Like face-to-face speech, it's in 'real time' so the interaction had to be continuous and needs to flow. And that's difficult, isn't it? Especially when the only information you can garner comes from what the other person is saying and how it's being said. Visually, there's no body language to read and provide visual cues. Quite scary, come to think of it since a large part of meaning is derived from non-verbal behaviour...

I just don't like Webcaming la.

I prefer SMS to MSN. I think a lot of people do too. I think this is because of the level of personal-ness (There's a proper word for this right?) Maybe because the Handphone is beside us almost 24/7 (for some of us at least) and you're only on the Computer at certain times of the day and for specific durations. Also, you'd likely be using the computer NOT for the sole purpose of chatting online right?

Facebook, twitter and ??? is just impersonal. I think it's sometimes akin to casting a large net into the ocean and seeing which fish or fishes would take the bait. Of course, some types of fish are more likely to bite more than others. Also, it's a open fishing ground- meaning everyone can see what everyone's doing. Impersonal.

Hmm. Should be getting back to my 2101 assignment.

带我走，到遥远的以后～

2011-04-08T01:31:00.000+08:00

Hello everybody!

I is a little bit woozy now. Just a little bit because my 酒量 isn't that bad. Just enough to feel less clear-minded. 做人不用这么清醒的 right? :)

Anyway, thanks to everybody who's concerned about my supposed "emo-ness" recently. There's nothing to worry about. It's just that I sometimes feel that I've been too happy (?) for a while- if that's even possible. Need to balance out la... It's like how we encourage people to have a positive and happier outlook if they've been feeling down for sometime. It's just vice versa lo.

Have 8am tomorrow. Also getting back BI Test 1. Haven't done and received many graded assignments/ tests this semester so I'm not sure where I'm currently standing.

Went to Ikea for dinner just now with AC11OGRPOD. (Looks cool right? All lumped together. It actually means Arts Camp 11' Orientation Group Rpod...)

Good food and excellent entertainment. Almost cannot contain my excitement for Arts Camp 11' liao!

Today is Thursday.

2011-04-07T10:07:00.000+08:00

YAWN. Exceptionally retarded morning.

Supposed to wake up around 8.30 but somehow, woke up at 7.22 and even thought that I was late. Had to do with a stupid dream... And this time, my left calf was cramping. Okay la, it's more like goingto-goingto kind of cramp but faster stretch then okay already. Felt damn gao wei but still went down for breakfast... -.-"

Been playing this again lately. Extremely fun especially now when it's on Facebook. Play it everybody!

Slept quite late last night considering this morning's (supposed) FMA lesson. Insightful chit-chat with Keok and Xin Rong. Hmmmz. Anyway, out of curiosity, I went to check how many in 11TC had to apply for Master's List. Realised that everyone except the two co-heads, Ying Chong, Lee Yan and myself had to wait for the Master's List results... Quite -.-" if you ask me. Don't even know if they enough slots for them. TH = Sports Hall afterall? (Especially with the identified peaks of excellence...)

Smartypantz. Want to 喝酒 again. Yesterday not enough.

Next academic year...

2011-04-05T21:55:00.000+08:00

I will be staying with Xin Rong in D312.
Lee Yan with Wen Shin in D313.
Keok in D309.
Sim in D311.
Winnie and Sheryl/ Joanne in D315.

Hmm. D314 will be quite poor thing.

Sigh. Have to leave my favourite floor with the kitchen and direct route out to the side-gate. And no more cosy wooden table. There'll be the lounge though. And a little little bit nearer to the toilet? Oh well, still staying close to neighbours! :)

Random

2011-04-05T16:58:00.000+08:00

Do what you said you would do, or forever hold your peace.

It's the season to be jolly! Not.

2011-04-05T03:08:00.000+08:00

It's the beginning of two hellish weeks in April. I'm currently facing a mega brain blockage with regards to my FMA (FML) paper. Cannot.think.of.anything.interesting.topic.to.write.on... BAH!

I only came back to hall in the afternoon- which has never happened this semester before. Because I was home alone over the weekend (so sad hor) and decided to pon my 10am lecture because no car back. :(

Oral prep during BI class. Exciting! Hope to do well for the exam... Really need an A somewhere in the middle of everything. 2101 would surely drag me down like shitzxzx.

Just now there was VPU comm treat. Didn't eat anything because I was still damn full from dinner and stomach was kind of churning. Damn sian because I'm hungry now and can only eat 干粮 when there was KFC, J.Co donuts, sushi, ice cream, etc... Our short film "Plan B" got the best film award for the VPU short film festival. Our actor, Perry, won the best supporting male actor. So that was quite nice! GV movie tickets. I expected "Momento" to get it though- definitely more depth and better technique. But since the result was from audience voting... "Momento" too sophisticated already. Volleyball F team video also got Best Team video award. Got a new set of speakers for that. :)

Tomorrow is Room Allocation night. We we we so excited. We so excited. Hopefully everything will work out fine. Might not get what we originally planned but maybe a change of environment would be good too? See hor lorz. But I really like D2... Best location for lazy people like myself.

2011-04-02T23:45:00.000+08:00

I woke up with a cramp in my right calf. The pain was intense but it subsided as quickly as it came after I pointed my toes upwards. I was reading wiki on this and apparently night cramps are pretty common and tend to cause a lot of panic when they occur. I can totally agree with this because you'd still be in a Z.Z 半梦半醒 state when you feel the shock.

Left hall around 2pm. Reached Pasir Ris MRT station at 3.30pm. This is one of the reasons I need hall. Moreover, I was standing all the way on the MRT from Clementi to Pasir Ris... Sigh.

Upon reaching home, which was and still is empty except for me, I just camped on the sofa until now. Can feel the strain on my neck looking down at my lappy... Watching shows the whole afternoon. Haven't done anything productive even though I brought back my BI book and FMA paper outlines to work on. That's the problem with coming back home over the weekends. I don't have a working table at home unlike in hall. So I just nua on the sofa~ No good. No good.

Tomorrow's going to be another wasted day. In terms of progress for my paper and revision... But going to eat buffet with Weiliang and hopefully Quanyi too! Then DanSing! at night at Bugis with Shunjie. Haha. Couldn't really find anybody from hall to go and watch with me so Shunji! :)

Running Man and Family Outing! Great entertainment and a definite source of laughs (especially if you're feeling mooooooooooooody!) Yu Jae Seok is the best!

HOT and not cold.

2011-04-01T15:37:00.000+08:00

It's a blazing 33 degrees with 63% humidity. How awesome. Even wearing just a singlet and FBTs while drinking cold water sill makes me feel hot.

Shall go home this week to enjoy air-con... Parents are going to KL this weekend, coming back only on Tuesday. Have to take public transport all the way back home and back to school this week...

My room is quite messy and quite dirty already... :( I remember reading somewhere that "quite" actually means very.

There was a 'town hall' meeting yesterday. Quite interesting, to say the least...

Anyway, everything seems very small now. Maybe "small" is not the right word. Trivial perhaps. And also a bit of hopeless thrown in the middle of everything. Maybe a tinge of one-sidedness as well...

Update

2011-03-31T16:00:00.001+08:00

It's so damn freaking hot outside now! Like siaoz dingx dongzxzxzx.

The disgusting weather makes me want to sleep/ lepak/ nua the rest of the afternoon away. But I shan't.

Monday was a blur. I really cannot remember. Though I remember going to the Editing room at kira-kira 1am and only coming out at 7 plus in the morning to go bathe and get breakfast. The breakfast aunty was kinda anal. On Monday morning/ Sunday night (because I 通宵-ed again), I went to da bao breakfast which costs 20cts (because of the paper boxes they use). I also wanted to da bao another packet so I could have it for lunch. In my own dazed world, I brought down 4 5cents coins. Amazing right?

The next morning (ie. Tuesday morning/ Monday night), I went to da bao breakfast again and the annoying aunty (love the alliteration) anally reminded me that I owed her 20cents... >.< ROAR! Spoiled my mood.

Headed back in the ER almost immediately after to finish our Short Film. The whole night was spent rendering (in parts) and exporting (in parts) so it was quite a drag. Even printed my lecture slides to listen to webcast but as we all know, webcasts are probably the most effective cures for insomnia... Gave up on the webcast and just mucked around until all the parts were exported. Combined them and added in the English subtitles which thankfully, were already typed out. Finished everything around 2pm plus with Candy! We were pretty excited with our final product. I guess partly due to the fact that we were quite last minute despite starting the project quite early.

Oh well, it's all over after the screening on Tuesday night! Yayz. Dear readers, you can watch our short film entitled "计划B" or Plan B. It's in Chinese with English subtitles. Nothing spectacular but I think it's still quite cool lah. Go to my Facebook page to see ya? Since it's not on Youtube. :)

Ploughed through two 5-hour-straight days. Just 2 more hours of lessons tomorrow morning and then it'll be the weekend! Still kind of sucks though because I foresee a crazy April.

In the 11th - 15th April week, I have:
Monday- BI Oral exam, SC2101 Term paper submission
Thursday- FMA Paper submission
Friday- BI Test 2

And in the week before, I'd have to give a short presentation on my FMA paper so that kind of sucks too.

Oh well, at least after that week, I'll be done with 2 of my modules because they have no final exams! Gotta buck up for my three Soci mods! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

2011-03-28T07:33:00.000+08:00

Good Morning World!

It's 7.09am. Ooops! Missed the 7am mark if not I can be Rebecca Black already. :(

Anyway, the sun is rising and the sky is starting to brighten up. I've just finished my part for the SC2212 Sociology of Deviance research paper. Just sent it to Tixy. Another 30% (I think...) down! Next deadline is Tuesday 8.59pm. But we're pretty much ahead of schedule and I think our shortfilm is looking quite good at the moment. Thanks to Bullet Looks or whatever. Short-cuts ftw! But rendering is going to be like hell!Oh well.

Sorry, a bit high in the morning. Without sleep. Speaking. in. fragments. But I. like leh.

Starting of Week 11 already. Exams coming in a month. 2 more papers to submit.

j加油阿！The end is near!!

2011-03-27T19:06:00.000+08:00

I bought new slippers yesterday. Not NUM nor Havaianas. Still cost me $30 though.

But I like leh.

I know this is early...

2011-03-26T23:08:00.001+08:00

BUT

to my 好朋友 in UK

互结硬 WUU JASVIN！

Although...

I'm broke. No money and time...

to mail you a big fat present...

or fly there to surprise you in person...

I'm not Broke on

I want you to...

Take really good care of yourself!

(And I know someone will make sure of that too!)

Continue to have a

of FUN!

And 不要忘记...

And everybody else in Singapore who misses you many many many many loads!

And remember to blog more! Don't just update FB with photos!

Be a Google (Good-girl) and

SEE YOU IN ONE PIECE IN JULY!

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Could it be that it has been this way before.

2011-03-26T00:38:00.000+08:00

Time is ticking by, pretty slowly.

I thought it would have been 1am by now.

Tourism Project and BI Project are both over! :)
Deviance due Monday and Short Film due Tuesday. How awesome right. I want to eat ice cream now.

No, actually I want to just bathe now and go to bed.

That little bit of frustration with the most trivial of things is enough to get me thinking. Mengapa?

Garpu

2011-03-25T01:25:00.000+08:00

It's a nice night. Peaceful. Most of the neighbours are asleep or not there. *cough cough*

I was quite emotional yesterday. Not my usual self, or rather, what I perceive to be my "usual self". Still got a bit of the "emo"-hangover today. Was listening and singing along to emo mandopop songs this afternoon in Joanne's room... Self-indulgent.

Not back to my poppy self yet. Can't really place a finger on what's weighing me down. But after tomorrow, Tourism essay will be over and Bahasa Indonesia project presentation. We're doing a folklore drama- something like an Indonesian Cinderella story. I'm the evil step-Ibu. How sweet.

Saturday got Beach Fiesta! Pretty excited about getting off this island (Even though it's just Sentosa...)...

Anyway, gonna get started on Deviance paper soon. I like this one much more than the Tourism one. Cooler theories...

Listen, sing along and be emo with me! :)

張宇 - 用心良苦

2011-03-24T01:30:00.000+08:00

Adorable Racing Mouse

2011-03-23T21:34:00.000+08:00

There is a bug in my room. I'm going to kill it.

Tiring day. Longest day of the week. Breakfasted at 8.30 then came back to sleep till 11 plus. :)

Tourism tutorial was boring.

So I decided to draw the scenery outside my rightside window...

And the girl presenting...

And my tutor, Joshua...

And some comments for the presentation...

I how cool.

Anyway, had our first RPod Councilors gathering just now. How awesomezxzx. Egg-cited for Arts Camp 2011!

Time to do work.

Glee Lean On Me cover Nick Pitera

2011-03-23T03:49:00.000+08:00

There but not there.

2011-03-23T01:14:00.000+08:00

Extremely tiring day. More on the physical side because Teman Saya finally came so I've been cramping the whole whenever the effects of panadol wear off.

I'm having a freaking headache now. But I can't sleep just yet because I've got an essay to do. I don't understand whatever I'm reading- which is Tixi's outline/ essay pointers for our Tourism paper- due Friday. It's a whole damn lot of information. Information overload yo!

You know the phrase "It's never too late to ______" ? I actually think that sometimes, there are "too late"s. Shan't elaborate on this now because there are more important things beckoning me.

BZB

2011-03-22T01:54:00.000+08:00

This is like how cute can.

Anyway, pardon the previous rubbish post. I couldn't bother to delete it anyway. I swear you'd know there's something wrong with your computer if even Windows Media Player churns out a "Not Responding" notification...

So what's causing all this trouble is the fact that I'm helping/ helped my friend Shenn with her MNO project and now I need to burn the completed videos into a CD which is like extremely strenuous on my already very cui Toshiba laptop.

On another note,

It's going to be a crazy week. Consultation after lecture. Tchoukball tournament at night (which I still think is kind of a joke). First Tech Crew meeting at 2200. Wednesday- long day in school and First RPod gathering at night. Thursday- Final tourism rehearsal and R House OGL dinner. Also, if it rains tomorrow, then the tournament is pushed back to Thursday. Hmmm. Shall see how that goes. Friday is the big day. Tourism paper submission. And Bahasa Indonesia Presentation in the evening... Drama!

Sigh.

2011-03-22T01:38:00.002+08:00

My lappy is so screwed up yo!

Lazy to complete this post because screwy laptop gets on my nerves...

Thoughts

2011-03-21T03:37:00.000+08:00

Haha. I sometimes what the point of the Shuffle function in our media players.

Do we really want our songs to be randomized and played out at 'random'? Not me. Even though I put it on Shuffle Mode, I eventually go to the selection panel and click on the song I want to listen to now or simply click the Forward button till I get to that particular song.

Maybe people put their music on Shuffle so that they can leave their song options up to Fate. Reduce the need for me to make a choice, to decide on an order, to have to think about possibilities. Possible, no?

Maybe it also allows people to attribute a particular line of song lyrics to so coincidentally line up with whatever they are thinking at the moment. Let there be chances of a "WOW. Fate-just-blew-my-mind" moment. Maybe it's because I've never really experienced that (maybe because I don't really listen to songs...) that I cannot get where some people are coming from.

Okay, it's 3.35am in the morning. I think somebody fell asleep.

Good night world without the Supermoon tonight.

chingchonglinglong Sing Song.

2011-03-21T01:19:00.001+08:00

You don't have to feel like a waste of space
You're original, cannot be replaced

Change the voices, in your head
Make them like you, instead

My mama told me when I was young
We're all born superstars

You know we’re superstars
We are who we are!

Ching Chong. Ling Long.

Not Tumblr but...

2011-03-20T02:51:00.000+08:00

I know Blogger is not Tumblr, so I cannot repost (?) or retumble (?) but I can re-blog about. Haha!

So I was reading mrbrown.com and there was this post on a UCLA Student Alexandra Wallace who ranted on Asians in her school's library.

Take a look!

Kinda annoying right? Especially if you're Asian and don't do this sort of thing.

But look past being annoyed folks.

Be amused.

This is absolutely OHMYTIAN FUNNY! And he's kinda cute too.

Enjoyz.

I cut my hair today for $10. And ordered a new pair of specs.

I is bored

2011-03-18T23:56:00.002+08:00

I am very bored right now.

Didn't bring home Toshi because I was in a rush to head off for my 哥哥's Specialist POP which btw, made us wait damn long.

Desktop cannot connect to the internet and the other Desktop is currently being used by the Sergeant. So I'm stuck on this ancient Acer lapop which was the first laptop in the family I think? It's super old! It's been reformatted a couple of times already but I can still trace back chat logs to 2008.

And since I'm bored...

Here's presenting 4[A] Bright cold silver moon aka hyperbeary@hotmail.com aka Daphne Keokster aka My Neighbour

Then there's xiao_liang_ge@hotmail.com as well. As retarded as ever.

Oh wellz.

Edit:
I'm happy today because I used my new shampoo, new toothpaste and new facial foam.

Edit-edit:
I realised this laptop's sound card is spoilt and I have no idea where's the external sound card so... whatever. Silent night, yo.

It's World Sleep Day 2011?

2011-03-18T03:26:00.000+08:00

What a joke right? It's 3am of 18th of March and I am still not on my bed, between the sheets and enjoying the ~~freezing~~ cooling night breeze.

It's been a cool few days in Singapore.

I'm waiting for my video to export. Estimated time remaining: 4:17 minutes.

dum-di-di-dum.

I bet I'm going to be damn tired for tomorrow's 8am Bahasa Indonesia lesson. Oh wellzxzx.

Anyway, today Keok, Joanne, Wen Shin and I went to NTUC at Clementi to grocery shop with the fire warden vouchers. It reminded of the times in Perth with NPCC where our cash was actually held by the teachers. Nearing the end of the trip, we were returned whatever of our cash the teachers had left. So we went to this huge supermarket in some random mall and started to go grocery shopping. What I remember most were the chocolates they had there. Even in just a mere commercial supermarket alone, they had a whole variety of chocolates- a buffet of brown liquid gold. (Okay, that description sounds like shit. Pun intended.) So being the kid I was, I happily splurged on groceries, along with my 哥哥. So together, we brought back our goods all the way across the ocean (?) to Singapore and my mum said we were stupid to buy those type of stuff there.

As I was typing this, I was reminded of the idea of Peak Consumerism when people are traveling. Hmm. SC2217 Sociology of Tourism speaking.

My video is done exporting. Hmm. I think my grammar sucks. To be honest, I never really knew/ remembered I learn what were verbs and nouns and pronouns and whatever. But somehow I knew how sentences should be formed. Must be the reading. Sad to say, I haven't been reading much lately. Looking forward to the holidays- get back to being the bookworm I once was...

Stuck in a limbo-ish kind of mode.

I need to be on a ferry. I can see where I'm headed and I know the ferry will always come back.

Let's just wait and see...

2011-03-16T20:29:00.001+08:00

Somehow, I'm listening to Tokyo Drift and feeling kinda funky right now. (Lions, tigers, pears?)

Anyway, today was the first time I ponned a tutorial just because I felt like it. Liberating somewhat but the Singaporean in me made me ask people about the tutorial and homework just right after... Fail.

I really really want to have a hair cut. My hair grows pretty fast and the last time I cut was just before CNY! Which is kind of long ago already... I'm contemplating dying my hair back black again. Hmmm. Or maybe a funkier colour.

On a more serious note, the second half of my "Summer holidays" has already been blocked off and decided for today. I " " the term Summer holidays because tbh, it's a permanent summer here in Singapore. Thinking otherwise would be lying to yourself. Received the SMS from Isaac today that I'm one of the 14 (?) freshies recruited to join Temasek Hall's 11th Tech Crew which is essentially a holiday committee. What we do is to learn stuff from all four tech comms (Photo Comm, PA, Web and VPU which I was previously a part of) and prepare for Orientation in August by providing Tech support and etc.

I don't know if it's the right decision as of now. It's going to be a pretty jam-packed holiday with not much time for myself and work to put some moolah in my empty bank account.

I don't think anyone from hall reads this space (please tag to prove otherwise, thanks) so I shall assume it'd be safer and less insensitive to say things here. Either way, shall say what I have to say in a more cryptic fashion. What scares me is I'm about to become a minority. I don't recall being a minority in any major situation before except when being on holiday of course. But that's a different story altogether. This time, I'd have to live and work in situations where I'm not part of the larger numbers. It would be challenging to say the least, what with cultural gaps and lifestyle differences. What's interesting and a tad ironic however, is that I would be a minority in a group within a community where I'm part of the majority. Woops! Looks like the tables have been turned around!

Oh well. I shall hesitate to make any prior judgements before the experience itself. Socially, it might not be the ideal situation but I suppose we have to work with what we're given or thrown into. As any army boy would put it, suck thumb lor.

lol

2011-03-16T03:40:00.003+08:00

Watching webcast.

(Ang Moh) Lecturer's "Bugis" becomes Boogies.

Poooooooooooooooi

2011-03-14T13:02:00.000+08:00

Hello dear readers,

The sky is starting to get pretty overcast so I had better go bring in my already dried laundry before it gets soaked by the rain... It's becoming a bad habit to "over-dry" my laundry just because I can. Haha.

Anyway, Week 9 of the term has just begun. On a pretty cui note I must say. My 10am lecture was boringtothemax. What's worse is that the lecturer, who was not our regular pretty and eloquent lecturer, only uploaded the slides to IVLE just 10 minutes before the lecture. Dang! So I left the lecture during the break because it was just so boring. He was pretty much reading off the slides anyway...

Have 2 group papers due on Friday next week. Quite excited for our Deviance Research Paper. I'm doing it with Tixi who is definitely a source of stability and drive. Same goes for our Tourism paper which should be based on our Presentation last week (the one with Caprice ya?) But we (Tixi, Xin Rong and myself) are not going to collaborate with Caprice for the paper. NO WAY! :)

Bahasa Indonesia Project presentation also falls on next Friday. Sigh.

Anyway, over the weekend, Joanne, Keok and myself went to volunteer for the Arts Club's Bike Quest. It was freaking screwed! We were supposed to be station masters at Chomp Chomp. So we met at the agreed timing of 4pm at Central Forum to take the van down to ECP. Who knows, we waited until 6.30 before leaving school... There, we had dinner (at our own expense...), changed into the ~~ugly green~~ Volunteer t-shirt and waited somemore. Eventually, we were on a car (yay!) to Chomp Chomp where we happily got our food and settled down at one of the benches outside the actual hawker centre. It wasn't long before we got a call from one of the organizers who asked whether we knew what number our station was (because we needed to write down the scores in the participant's booklets) So, we didn't know of course, since nobody told us. The guy calling said he would go check it out for us. A while later, another call came to say that our station was not printed in the participant's booklet so basically, our station was canceled. We were initially happy that we need not do anything more that night but after more waiting, we got damn sian. A van came to pick us up and it dropped us off at Katong Park which at one end of ECP. The guy asked us "You all know where to go right?" So, thinking that we were supposed to head back to the main station at ECP, we began to walk back in that direction. Not long after, we were told that we were actually supposed to join another group of station masters at Katong Park and not make our way back to the main station. We were damn annoyed already and waited for the van to come pick us up from the smelly busstop beside the dumpster to bring us back. Later, we found out that there was a suspicious man at the Katong Park station there. And they wanted to add 3 more girls to the station?! Smartz. Back at the main station, we chilled awhile with Rongrong at BK then transferred to Macs cuz BK was closing. Then there was this stupid Angmoh who followed us and joined us without even asking us. He also unabashedly helped himself to the fries I bought and complained that Singaporeans are "weird" because we eat "gross" curry sauce and chili sauce. Sorry, I don't like Ketchup. He asked us to teach him how to play Monopoly Deal but he ended up staring at Man U. versus Arsenal on the TV. Politez. Apparently, he also thinks that Captains Ball is a stupid sport that only Singaporeans play. Anyway, luckily for us, there was a van heading back to NUS to get ice for the drinks so we had a lift back (so did the Texan). What a total waste of time... we even went for the event dry-run... BAH! Hope Beach Fiesta next next Saturday won't be like this.

Pffft.

BAH-bah-black-sheep

2011-03-11T12:56:00.000+08:00

Saya sudah cukup tidur. (I've had enough sleep.) For once leh... Slept at 2am and woke up at 9am. After breakfast, slept another 2 hours. :)

Unfortunately, I can't sleep somemore in the afternoon because I need to study for this evening's Bahasa Indonesia test which constitutes dua puluh percent... Sigh.

The next two weeks are going to be like hell. Good luck to myself.

Details.

2011-03-10T02:32:00.000+08:00

Hello World at 2.25am.

It's been a heck of a week so far. Feeling tired but somewhat satisfied now. Finally had the dreaded Tourism presentation in tutorial today. We've spent a lot of time on this even though it's a mere 10%... Caprice ah Caprice... Last night was spent chionging the slides until 4am. Then I decided to take a 1 1/2 hour nap before waking up to do up a script. As Murphy would have it, I woke up at 8.30am instead. And we were supposed to meet at 8.30am... Nice lah.

Didn't manage to get the brochures from my dad. And my laptop crashed again in Deviance lecture, which by the way, was very interesting today. Had to squeeze between the wall and Keok today during BI tutorial. O wellz.

But I'm still in one piece. After dinner, some of the D block girls (actually it's D2 plus one Grace) played some bball at the TH court. Fun fun. Shall do this more often yea... Then block supper! Had KFC... om nom nom. Basketball useless already. Hahaha. But it's the last block supper of the semester and the academic year... :(

I like Block D veli muchie...

Time to sleep now. Breakfast at 8.30 and FMA at 9am. Burger King has 1-dollar burgers on sale tomorrow. I foresee an extremely long queue at The Deck. OG lunch how???

Little legs

2011-03-08T11:43:00.002+08:00

Swish-swish sounds in the corridor.

Hmmmz.

I was in the toilet cubicle just now, sitting on the toilet bowl and minding my own business. Then, I spotted this black beetle underneath the toilet door. Normally, I would be damn annoyed. But this beetle, it was overturned and laying on his back, struggling to upright itself by wiggling those tiny legs.

I just kept watching it struggle, thinking to myself, maybe in the very next moment its labour would finally pay off and it would crawl away a tired but alive beetle. I don't know if the beetle is still struggling on the toilet floor or has it already died from exhaustion.

I don't have any moral/ enlightened statement to make on this but you'd have to admit it's pretty amazing how the creatures of nature never stop trying. And here we are, wondering if we should try at all...

How Mundane

2011-03-07T13:27:00.000+08:00

Hello World. I woke up at 11.47am today when my lecture was supposed to end. Good timing because I didn't feel like going for that lecture anyway.

Have a presentation meeting at 2 later but the thing is, I don't know what we are going to do there! Caprice, angmoh exchange student who's in her final semester, apparently sent me her part already. Unfortunately, it's in a file format that I cannot open. -.-" Nice. And I haven't done my part yet because I don't exactly know what to do. Hmmm.

What a boring life, yea?

On a more interesting note, I finally met up with Quanyi after a gazillion years. I don't even recall when was the last time I saw him. Me, Weiliang and Quanyi watched "The Adjustment Bureau" at Vivo. Not that amazing as I would expect it to be. Maybe it's because I've been watching quite a number of mind-blowing things lately so it'd be harder to make an impression... ?

Sigh.

Apparently there's somebody crying in the toilet. Aiwen told me she heard it. So sad right? But why cry in the toilet? I think it's very sad when people cry and when most people cry, it makes me feel like crying too. Of course, it depends on the reason why somebody cries. If it's because of some petty thing or illogical whims, then I couldn't be bothered to bother. But we can often relate someone else's genuine troubles to some of our own less happy experiences which trigger something cry-ish/ cry-able in us. (The "cry-ish" sort of reminded me of Crayfish...)

O well.

Priorities

2011-03-05T21:26:00.000+08:00

I have a number of things to do but I just can't seem to work on anything when I'm at home. In fact, I don't even know why I came all the way home for. Everybody's out tonight so there's no home-cooked dinner and I'm going to Vivo tomorrow. =.=" Makes no sense!

Anyway, it's been an ~~emotional~~ contemplative few days. Not really sure why though since there's nothing really significant going on in my life now- with the exception of projects and submissions.

Thinking about my holidays too. Referring here to the long three month break after the current semester. I've already committed to AC and O-week. Should I join hall's Tech Crew too? What happened to my original plan to work and earn money to supplement my unruly spending during term time...? At most, I can only work for one month full-time until Tech Crew starts after the first week of June.

Hmmm. I'm speaking as if I 包进 already. =/

What's my purpose of joining all these activities anyway...? What's in it for me in the bigger picture? Hmm.

On an unrelated note, applications for hall stay are open. I have enough points anyway. Now just need to decide whether to apply for single room or double room and where. Definitely back in D block. Awesome chillax block. Oh well, there's still time to make decisions.

F 你 la, FB!

2011-03-05T19:35:00.000+08:00

It's over! Not.

2011-03-04T03:40:00.000+08:00

Just like how the title of this post states it... My horrible Thursday is over! It was like boom-boom-boom-boom-boom----------- everything's done! But not quite.

The work doesn't stop I tell you. I cannot imagine what it would be like in the future semesters. One presentation down today, there's another one to prepare for next Wednesday. And it's kind of stressful working with Seniors, especially if they are Ang Mohs on exchange. Graduating sem somemore...

Tourism presentation and paper. Deviance paper. 2101 assignment. Bahasa Indonesia Drama project? This one seems kind of fun. We had our first session today. First time meeting the other folk who signed up for this. Decided on our roles. And the whole thing does seem kind of promising! :)

On a lower note, Deviance paper has been hitting some brick walls. We can't seem to decide on ONE research topic and work with it since they all seem to be trivial and without past research done on it. But we are trying to avoid "mainstream" deviant topics too. Like body modification, obesity, sex, homosexuality. Get the irony? Gerrit? What a dilemma.

Oh. We had our first almost-full-strength-house-meeting today. I'm OGL for RPod with my partner Kang Sheng! Everything seems pretty exciting and pumped at the moment. Raising my hopes for AC 11' !! :)

Need to sleep now. My hair is dry already. (I used a hairdryer btw)

& I have 8am tomorrow/ later.

I is Excited

2011-03-03T02:30:00.001+08:00

I'm pretty excited.

It's going to be Thursday soon. Approximately six and a half more hours till my presentation. I've finished my script and I'm starting on my slides now.

Looks like everything is starting to shape up so I'm pretty excited. Haha. I can't help but repeat myself.

Today was a very tiring day though. Slept at 5am the previous night brainstorming for the presentation and thinking about some stuff. Forced Joanne to wake me up at 9am for breakfast if not my morning would go to waste. Went to lecture feeling like a piece of shit though and totally lazed about for the tutorial following that.

Napped for 2 hours after dinner until Block D Comm photoshoot. Skipped the Productions one since I didn't have my shirt in hall. So many people anyway. 不差我一个!

Thursday, please be over soon!!! Long day. Presentation, tutorial, drama project meeting, OGL dinner, consultation. Machine gun!!!

P.S. Dear friends, please tag leh. You know how much of a virtual attention whore I am. :)

Perspective

2011-03-02T10:10:00.000+08:00

Everybody has different realities. What that seems like a X to me, might be a Y to you. How I see the world will be quite the same as how you do. Your subjective meanings and interpretations of the world can never be tfully understood by me. Should I know more of your facts, the less about you I know. Being somebody else, I would never be able to rationalise your life and choices in your capacity, from your perspective. Even if I could understand the logic behind it, I would yet truly believe in it as if it were my own. Unfortunately, this is impossible.

I can't live your life for you.

2011-03-02T00:59:00.000+08:00

:(

I very stressed. Okay lah. That would be an exaggeration.

The FMA (FML) presentation on Thursday is kind of stressing me out. Firstly because of the limited time I have to prepare for it. There's only the rest of tonight. Tomorrow morning until 12. Tomorrow after dinner till the next morning. GG-fied.

Hmmm. Objectively speaking, that's quite a lot of time. But there's just so much inertia and so many distractions!

Had Tchoukball just now. It's part of some Arts Campus Crusade activity that is open to other NUS students. I'm still a freethinker though! Anyway, there's 3 training sessions and a mini-tournament at the end. I'm going with the other Sets people (Yuhui, Sheryl and Bangla) so quite fun/ funny!

After coming back to hall, had VPU photoshoot. Kinda fun/ funny too... :) Another two photoshoots tomorrow. For Productions and Block Comm. How hapzxzx worh.

Shall go and attempt to work on my presentation now. I have some sort of idea of how to go about it but aiyahh... INERTIA!

It's about time

2011-02-28T15:20:00.001+08:00

Hello world! I think it's about time I revived my blog right? And when better to do it than on the last day of February- one day before the CRAZY month of March! March is crazy. I want to just skip to April pretty please...

Anyway, I just finished my 100 word essay. Haha. You must be thinking "HUH? 100 word essay at Uni level???" But yeah. Here it is!

Ada lima orang di keluarga saya. Itu ada orang tua, kakak laki-laki, kakak perempuan dan saya. Kami tinggal di lima kamar apartemen di Pasir Ris. Kakak laki-laki saya dan kakak perempuan ada kembar. Mereka satu tahun lebih tua dari saya. Karena mereka dua puluh satu tahun hanya, mereka belum menikah. Orang tua saya bukan Singapura citizen tetapi mereka berasal dari Malaysia. Mereka senang pergi ke RC bertemu dengan teman-teman ke bercakap-cakap dan nyanyi. Ibu saya senang memasak. Itu ikan manis dan asam memasak dia enak sekali. Ibu saya memasak itu setiap bulan. Makanan favorit kami ada hitam ayam sup dan telur labu pahit goreng.

The title is Keluarga saya dan makanan favorit kami. Which translates into My Family and our Favourite foods. :)

Stuff like that are pretty much what I've been writing for the past half a sem since the "real writing" is only going to begin in March.

The last time I blogged was in December. A heck lot of things have happened since then. The whole IHG season is over! Recess week just ended and all there's left is half a semester more before the long three months break!

But I don't think it'd really be a break per se. See, I've been selected to be one of the OGLs/ AOGLs for R house for Arts Camp 2011 in June! Also for O-week lah. R♥ !!! Quite excited for it!

Hall has been pretty kind to me too. New neighbours this semester too! More exciting for some more than others. *cheeky face* Hahaha!

I can't really remember what happened in the past 2 months leh. It just happens lo.

Let's talk about Recess week since it's the most recent afterall. I watched Black Swan with Wenyi on Monday. Mind-fucked. Pardon the vocab. It's just that some words need to be used to describe certain things. Went to USS on Tuesday with Jerome and Jason. Worth my $66! The roller coasters were awesome. Me and Jerome even went for a second round on the Human and Cylon- front seats! :) The next few days were filled with me trying to study. Keyword: TRY. On Saturday, went to The Substation to ~~watch~~ tio mind-fucked again by "What the dog knows". This one was really O.O ... We're all just part of one big game, one huge set-up. Certainly enlightening in that frightful one hour.

I had my only Mid-term just now. SC2101. The module where you study how to study. Methods of Social Research... I remembered my facts wrongly! Stanford Prison Experiment- I thought it was Milgram's Prison Experiment. Oh well, hope there's A for Effort!

Have a 40% FMA presentation this Thursday. Haven't started on it yet... Photoshoots are this week too. Busy bee~

Oh. My lappy has been mysteriously crashing on me! It just hangs then dies. So much so that I left my Acronis dunno-what booting CD in the drive already... BAH!

I want/ need to sleep!

Shall update this space more often I guess. I forgot how cathartic it can be.

First result

2010-12-21T10:05:00.000+08:00

First CAP of my first semester in Uni... 3.7

Argh. It's a super mediocre result.

SC1101E: A
I'll gladly accept this grade. And considering that I'm going to major in Soci, hopefully this grade remains more or less the same.

PL1101E: B
Surprise surprise surprise. Was expecting B+ or A- for this and I thought the finals was an easy paper. So was quite stunned when I saw this... :(

TS1101E: B+
I guess Practical Exam really really screwed me over. Arghhhh

SN1101E: B-
Actually quite satisfied with this grade, considering my D+ for mid-terms and sucky class participation... Probably means my finals paper got something like B+ to A-

GEK1527: B-
OMG. Super happy for this. I was totally expecting a D or E after the horrible finals paper which I couldn't answer a single question (out of 60) confidently! Looks like I can save on one S/U already! HEEHEE! Although it's my lowest grade, but S/U for an additional 0.175 points not worth it luh. Must think in the long run... when all the semesters average out already, also not much use.

Aim for Sem 2: Better than 3.7! Between 4.0 to 4.5 would be nice.

This sem play and slack too much already. Need to put in consistent work next semester and not pon so many lectures! :)

Selfish, self-centred Brat!

2010-12-15T15:59:00.001+08:00

Just the other night, I was thinking to myself, "Hmm. I am such a contented person. There isn't much stuff I want." This was during the MSN convo with some others discussing what they had on their Christmas Wish-list.

But after a day or two with the idea of a wish-list marinating in my mind, I present to you my

X'mas Wish-list 2010!

1. Sims 3 Expansion Pack

After countless of failed attempts to play the Sims 3 borrowed from Joanne/ Darren without the disc itself, including downloads, cracks and all the geeky stuff, I realised that to play the base game already installed in my laptop, all I needed was an Expansion pack disc. "Late Night" expansion pack looks more fun than "Ambitions" or "World Adventures". :)

2. Olympus Stylus Tough-3000

Ever since my Ricoh Digital Camera died on me after a rather watery Kayaking outing, I've been itching to get myself another digital camera- a waterproof one this time. Waterproof or Lifeproof cameras are the trend these days, especially when more and more people are heading towards the great outdoors. Drop-proof, water-proof, freeze-proof, being-sat-on-by-a-fat-man-proof. Anything that might happen in Life, it's "proofed".

Ever since I saw the Olympus Stylus Tough-3000 at some random IT fair, I was sold. Sleek design, decent function. What more?

3. Laced-up flats (Brown)
Hmmm. Size 40. HAHAHA! Can refer to Sam Teo's blog. She inspires me.

4. Multi-purpose Sports shoes
The pair I'm wearing now lasted me throughout my JC days. It's now splitting at the soles... :(

All pretty functional and practical.

Of course, my most non-practical wish-list item has always been a Lava Lamp.

It's just total Lava awesomeness. But the one in the picture has too much lava for my liking. Less blopping and floating around. Heehee!

I've also always wanted a blender. Those stick-blenders. So awesome.

So portable! And stylish. And useful!

That's all for now. I need to head back to one-room land now! :)

Edit 17/12/2010 12:12AM:

Today I went out to the real world and the materialistic side of me emerged even stronger than ever. Heheh.

So! To add on,

LARGE SOFT TOYS! One can never have enough of them. Although I have a box of them (cruelly) stuffed away in a box by my dearest mother, Clubber Cow is lonely in D218 and needs new company! A puppy friend from The Dog Collection would surely make Clubber Cow very happy!

Gambling set! Small one can already because full blown ones are crazy and expensive. I just mainly want the chips because they just look and feel awesome to the touch... Better than playing Texas Hold'em with Mahjong chips during CNY...

Because we're living in a material world...

G.M.N

2010-12-14T01:45:00.000+08:00

Life's pretty calm at the moment. It's 1.34am and I'm looping MBLAQ's "One Better Day". It's a feel good song. I like feel good and upbeat songs. You'd be hard pressed to find a typical "emo" song in my song folder.

Let me do a cheesy recap of what I did today. Had Sets in the afternoon. It's really quite fun because we get the opportunity to be creative and do stuff with our hands (and tools). How often do you get to do that, even when you're on holiday? :)

After that, had meeting for the Pre-IHG video. Thank goodness for Li Hong being there, really needed the ideas and guidance. Part of my calmness is derived from the fact that we now have a concrete idea and direction the video is going to take. I've sent out the emails to the IHG captains so now I'm on passive mode- need to wait for their reply first! (Though I realise that this can be pretty frustrating as well since waiting is always irritating, isn't it?)

Then again, having cleared most of the stuff off my plate for now makes this a happy night.

Of course, I'm all alone with my Clubber Cow in my room with Astrid being the only other person on this level. I miss my Squatters!

On an unrelated note, I think I'm going to join Canoe Polo. See whether I can manage... but I really wanna try picking up something new ya... Could do with the exercise too since I probably won't be going for Ultimate anymore? :)

Good Mood Night.

DISEMBER

2010-12-12T01:06:00.000+08:00

Hello world.

It's been a hell of a week. Returned home last night- pretty glad to get away from that place ie. hall.

There were some ups and some downs this week. One of which was not making the cut for the training team for IHG handball. But oh well, you just can't teach an old dog new tricks. Not fast enough anyway. Besides, I guess I could use the extra time freed up for short film, pre-ihg video, sets and maybe netball.

On a happier note, I spent very little money this week. Being cooped up in hall does have its advantages afterall! (Just need to claim back that grocery money from lao ba!) And my parents were surprisingly generous today. My mum gave me and kor kor $50 to go to E-hub to watch Harry Potter (yes, we are losers because now only we watch) and have dinner. The world must be changing to become a better place... oh yeah...

Oh yah. On Tuesday and Wednesday night, I have 3, then 2 squatters in my D218. On Monday, the room was in an absolute state of mess. With stacks and stacks of stuff around the room. Imagine my !!! when I opened my door for the first time after returning from my relaxing trip to beeeeeyouteefoool Langkawi. But we managed (somehow) to pack all the stuff in some nook and cranny in the room and create sleeping space for four people. 2 on the bed, 1 on the folding bed, 1 on the sleeping bag on the floor. Genius.

On Wednesday night, we watched The Bachelorette Season 6. So much fun! I'm at episode 7 or 8 now I think. So egg-citing. Although I downloaded the whole thing, it's hard looking for information without chancing upon spoilers... Thankfully, I haven't seen any yet. WOOOOO!

Tomorrow is Sunday. Have some stuff to do. Need to arrange for a meeting on Monday. Then source for items for Sets. Then go for Jason's (not my kor kor) 21st. I still want to watch a lot of stuff one lehhhhh.

Anyway, it's like 12th December already. More than 1/3 of December. I like December and looking at X'mas Sale catalogues. But I got no money to go shopping. :(

L.A.N.G.K.A.W.I

2010-12-03T21:26:00.002+08:00

BOOMZ!

I am back from my first overseas trip after finals ended! We were super kan jiong because we left on Monday, just one weekend away from when some of us had our last paper... HEEHEE.

Flight on Monday was delayed for 1 hour or so. There was some confusion in the morning because the Changi Airport website and teletext didn't reflect the changes. Oh well, better early than late hor? Flight was alright. What to expect from budget airline? :)

We checked in at our resort, Best Star Resort, after our lousy Kenny Rogers lunch. The rooms were not bad for what we were paying! And the best thing was that the beach was just directly behind our rooms.... I like. It started to rain quite soon after we started exploring the streets along Pantai Chenang which was where we were based. The area was basically the main beach tourist area with lots of shops, food joints and accommodation options for visitors to the island. That night, we basically just lepak-ed in our rooms.

Me, Bi Ru, Denyse shared one room while Jerome and Jason shared the other. The best thing was that the rooms were adjoining! Shiokzxzxzx. We watched a lot of Discovery Channel during the trip because the only three channels that were not in Malay were Discovery, AXN and ESPN. So we learned a lot, especially on surviving in the wild. Hahaha!

Tuesday was BEACH DAY! Played around on the beach for a while before going for our 15 RM Banana Boating. More intense than the one at Tioman. The dude made us cap a number of times and there was a lot of kicking and flailing when the "banana" overturned. After banana boat, we tried.....

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PARASAILING!

Wooooo. First time parasailing. It was 60RM. Not cheap but if you're going to try parasailing, it's going to be around this price or more expensive anyway. So since the wind was not strong enough to launch off from the Chenang beach, we had to take a speedboat to a nearby island to launch off. I was the third to go. I brought my videocam up with me to capture the view from the sky! :) The flying was pretty woah! but the whole thing was pretty short. To be very honest, it's not THAT fun because it's actually a very passive thing. BUT it's an experience all the same. Now I can say that I have done parasailing before~~~

The same afternoon, we went for a island hopping tour for just 25RM which brought us to three islands. Pregnant Lady Island (or something like that) which has this pretty large freshwater lake in the middle where people could swim or boat. We just chilled in one shady corner beside the male changing room. :)

There was eagle feeding at another island but we stayed in our boats while the eagles swooped in from above to grab the meat from the surface of the water. Pretty cool! Last island was just another beach which had many photo opportunities. We saw our first (dead) jellyfish. It actually touched my ankles and I thought it was a bloated plastic bag when I looked down. Urgh... Loads of caterpillars on the sand also. Hmmm...

At night, we walked all the way to the Chenang Supermarket. At least half an hour there and back. Nothing much to buy anyway since it's just a supermarket meant for locals.

Wednesday was fun! Because we rented a car! Cost us 150RM for 24 hours and 50RM to top up the tank. Speaking of which, hunting down the petrol kiosk was a challenge in itself especially when you only had tourist maps which didn't even correlate to each other! We managed to avoid having to get down and push the car along the winding beach road. Having a car when on a holiday island is fun because we had the freedom to choose where we wanted to go at whatever time! Got road-trip feeling also!

We went to the Oriental Village which was basically a huge tourist area with multiple attractions. We fed rabbits in the rabbit pen and took photos with a large python for 10RM! The main highlight though was the Cable Car up the mountains. It supposedly an award-winning attraction. The view at the top was boomz and it was super cooling~ I like.

We went to the Seven Wells and Telaga Waterfalls after that. Had to hike up close to 300 steps to reach the Seven Wells which was pretty much just a couple of pools and a liddle bit of flowing water. The waterfall nearer the bottom was way more spectacular. But I didn't get into the (cold) water because I was already not feeling very well. I helped another tourist take photos though... =/

We went to Kuah Town after that. Navigation hell~ Going along with gut feelings most of the time! We went to a DF mall and had Langkawi Mcdonalds! Could totally taste the MSG! HAHAHA. But fun leh. Bought Baileys at the liquor store for the night... I like.

Drinking night~ I like also.

Then the next morning, we went driving around the island. Our first destination was the Bat Caves but access was only via package tour for like 200RM. Bleah. Our moolah supply was dwindling mad rapidly. Hahaha. So we gave up on the bats and went to the Wildlife Park which cost 20RM to get in. So we skipped that as well and went on to find the USSR restaurant at Telaga Harbour Park on the other side of the island. Driving on the second day was by Denyse = scarier than Jerome's stable and safe driving! Hahaha.

Unfortunately/ Fortunately, the USSR restaurant wasn't opened so we went to The Loaf instead. Best meal of the trip! BREAD! OM NOM NOM! Drove off to check out the Crocodile Farm but didn't go in (again! Haha) because of the ticket price of 22RM (if I remember correctly).

Drove back to Chenang and returned the car. Skipped Underwater World too because of the 38RM entry ticket. So we beach-ed again! WOOOO! And this time, we managed to catch the sunset after dinner too. I like.

At night, me and Jason went for the 5RM -10 minute Fish Spa. SUPER TICKLISH! It's essentially laughter therapy, especially when the fishes go for the spots in between the toes... OOH! The lady beside me was trying so hard not to laugh while on the phone. The other three had their upper body massages and then we da bao-ed supper back after.

Food in Langkawi is pretty diverse. There's Ramly, a variation called Oblong Burger, Kebab wraps, Western (Red Tomato Garden Cafe, Breakfast Bar/Station- can't remember), Seafood/ Chinese (worst food choice of the trip in this poser atas place, portions were MEAGRE!), Malay food (the one just across the street was good!), Indian food too- we had for this morning's breakfast! Not to mention Denyse's great coconut huntS.

All in all, the trip was a great one! Traveling with a brand new bunch of people whom I've known only for a few months? But I like. Should have brought more money though because the water activities took up quite a bit of our budget. The weather was surprisingly good though. The forecast was rain for all the days but the skies held up for most part.

Woohoo. Now that I'm back on Singapore soil, have to get started on stuff. Like MPE, VPU stuff, etc. Woohoo.

Didn't take photos because my camera is still dead but I took videos with my cheap cheap camcorder. I like. I intend to do a personal project: Langkawi! video :)

2010-11-28T01:28:00.000+08:00

Hi holiday-world!

Email just came in from Ah piao about Sets commitments for this Dec hols. Monday AND Tuesday 1-6pm. Luckily I have my room sia.

RAWR! I like having things to do! :)