VAL~

2009-04-26T16:22:00.012+08:00

Ok, gonna put up some pics before my usual wall of text :p

My Kenny Rodger's Quarter Chicken w/ Cheese Marcaroni and baked rice that I had at Marina Square weeks ago:

I <3 the rice~ SnowSakurai on right, me and Marvin helping out with teh grill

The ladies are doing all the dirty work .. guys only waiting to chope the food :p

Everyone gather round, here's (back row, left to right) vivoko, PanDiora, Shinigami, Dominica, snowolf, PaneraI, GuaiLanFrog, Luthirien (middle row, left to right) cyctoo, Clandestine, EnforcerBankai, SnowSakurai, Persephonne, Haiides, SpiritMoonZ (front row) Cookie and ICECUBE. Sorry if I mixed up anyone's ign.

Our ambassador for liquor: GuaiLanFrog haha, anyone wants their alcohol fix, you know who to find :p

The sushi I made, wrapped and displayed nicely on the tray with Marvin's help before it was all eaten by the hungry wolves :p

On to my wall of text nao~

I finally landed a job as an admin asstant at NUS, and have been working since Thurday at the SDE faculty. I must say, its a win-win situation - food's cheap there and I like what I do at work, so it's all fine~ The only grouse I have is that I need an hr to commute to and fro every morning, squeezing with the crowds, but oh well, no pain no gain. And for the BBQ outing yesterday, well, on Friday evening Marvin and I went to IMM to shop for ingredients and things we needed, and had Subway Melt for dinner with cookies~ The last time I had Subway was at Raffles Place during my OCBC attachment last year.

So Saturday morning, I travelled to Marvin's place to do the sushi, and we had fun throughout the whole process :p I thawed, boiled the ingrdients and got Marvin to run errands for me (buying Japanese short-grain rice was a bit of a problem, NTUC nor Cold Storage stocked it, in the end Marvin had to go to Bugis to buy a bag) then rolled the sushi while Marvin did the cutting. And gosh, his house is a mess T_T and the stove! I nearly fainted when I saw it. Really tak boleh tahan, so I ended up cleaning the stove before I started doing the sushi. And his room is a .. well, when its messy its like a real pigsty. We made enough for 4 trays, and then went to Bedok to take a bus to East Coast Park. By that time we were already late, and it was dark plus my favourite sandal went buaya on me T_T So Marvin sacrificed his slippers for me to wear while he went barefoot =x

Had to walk a long long way to the BBQ pit, when we got there, everyone was already eating and having fun. Ate, drank, talked, laughed, chatted with new Athena pple and old Baron pple; and then GLF brought Chivas Regal, Martell and Vodka. Woots! Now this is what I called a party, thankfully, Marvin let me have some alcohol. We went to have green tea as a mixer with the chivas, and everyone toasted each other and we all had tremendous fun, what with the guys trying to throw Cookie/vivoko into the sea for a dunking :p Food wise, there was grilled prawns, sausages, crabstick, grilled stingray, chicken/mutton satay, beef kebab, Snow's pasta salad (curly marcorni with cashew nuts and white sesame seeds) and my sushi ^^ They pretty much wiped out everything, so I didn't get to bring any sushi home for my family to try.

Had a bit of hmm, eventful day while trying to get home. But I do honestly feel, when my Dale is with me, things will resolve themselves.

Next update in a week or so ^^, that's all for now.

Phew.

2009-04-06T00:35:00.004+08:00

7 more days, and it would have been a month since I last updated my blog. Many things have happened, like my laptop dying on me and having it sent to the NUS Co-op for repair (heaven forbid I live without my laptop, I really suffer withdrawal symptoms); or going for interviews and calling up companies which I still do, since I'm still unemployed. And with university students graduating soon, competition will reach a new peak.

I should be so lucky to have time to call my own, and lately because I'm unemployed and stuff, I actually get to spend more time with my family, with Marvin, with my GE friends, and this trade-off should be all good, except my bank account's seeing red and it doesn't help that my mum constantly tells me the expenses she will offload to me once I get a job (like my PruLife insurance premium and transport fares and poly fees I have to pay back to her). Reality sucks, its cruel but I have to face it anyway, like it or not.

Food wise, I think a few weeks back I had Kenny Rodgers with Jas and the peeps, I love their corn muffin, and the way they design their menu is pretty cool, you get their KR chicken and choose from hot/cold sides. The cheese macaroni was ok for the first few bites, after that too much cheese put me off. I liked the baked rice, but too bad they served it in small portions. And then recently I had banana and chocolate cream, from Marvelous Cream @ the Citylink mall, thanks to Marvin who got it for me as a treat, and I <3 the chocolate waffle too~

Today, woke early to go for Qing Ming Festival, me and my dad cycled to Yishun Columbrium (I dunno how to spell, its the place like a temple where urns are stored) just opposite Yishun Primary School, which was once Peixin where I studied). Because I didn't have time to have breakfast before I went out, my dad was worried I'd blackout again like the time we went to Marsiling on bicycle, so he got me pao while we waited for my mum and relatives to come. Before that we went to look-see around the place, my first time, and it was hmm, smoky and hot and crowded .. Qing Ming is really a big family affair, with everyone bringing their offerings and stuff to pray for their deceased. Then we had to wait a long while for a table to place our offerings on the table. When we were done, my little bro came from his wushu and joined us for kway chap, after that my dad and I cycled to Northpoint, but it was raining quite heavily and we had to wait at GV.

Around 12, I went to my grandma's place to visit my baby cousin Siew Min, she's really cute~ If she's excited she'll do circles with both her feet lol, like clockwork and she doesn't seem to tire of it. At one point I got to carry her for a while, babies are fun in the sense they have those small little hands that like to grab your finger and not let go, and she kept looking up at me as if trying to place who I was. Well, at least she didn't mind me carrying her, but cried when my mum tried to. After that, I doubled back to GV to find my dad when Siew Min fell asleep, but he called and said he was waiting with our 2 bikes downstairs @@ I wonder how he did that, what with the rain and all, and he can answer the hp on the bike for longer than me (I saw it today, and I just stared at his back with my mouth open like some goldfish while he answered my mum's call, riding the bicycle through bends and narrow paths like it was a wide, smooth road =x) My dad is imba.

GE wise .. I want my account back. Playing AQW and fishing on DF helps alleviate the numbness.

Marvin and I, we've had arguments, good times, bad times. Sometimes my mum or my friends ask me, what do I see in him, oh well, I guess the difference is that I'm the one who has feelings for him and not them. I should be so lucky to call him "mine", when people are trying to match make him with their daughters or girls hitting on him. Yet at times, when I can only think of throwing the towel in frustration, I wonder if couples have quarrels about specific issues only .. and how they work through it.

All I want, is for things to be OK. That's all.

Pics galore

2009-03-08T20:23:00.014+08:00

My bluetooth device decided to work one morning, so I went and got my pics uploaded.

What Marvin got from me when he came back from Indo on 2 March:

VCDs (pirated =x) and this cute monkey keychain:

I waited for him at the airport, but his elder sister turned up, so in the end I had to miss Ivins with Jaslin and the peeps. Later we all met up at AMK Hub, then went to New York New York, where me and Jas shared this Fried Mars Bars:

Strawberry ice cream to top it off, and the nougat is omg, very sweet. Definitely recommended for sweet-tooth peeps and for those who have loose teeth.

7th March 09 Saturday
Michael took me out for lunch, drinks and dancing :D

Sugisawa: A Japanese restaurant tucked away at a little corner near Dhoby Ghaut

The interior:

My sushi bento (I <3 the cold soba)

Its a cosy place where you can enjoy decently priced meals; and Michael suggested we had warm sake as well, since it was raining. Sake is .. hmm, the warm one was nice, at first it really hits you then slowly lets off after a while, I think I like it better than Martel with green tea.

After that we went to the Redevous bar and shared champagne (again, Michael finished most of the glass for me) while playing drinking games. I kept losing to zero, maybe I should buy 4D =x and later, pear vodka with orange while he taught me some basic moves from Bachata, a kind of latin dance. Aparently, I have "no flexibility at all" but he says I'm a good student, since I can take instructions and I have "terrible shoulders" (I'm always hunched over the lappy when I play). Ah well, but it was a fun day, and next time when he gets back to SG again we're going for tapas at the ibis Hotel :)

These days, I have been out going for interviews, calling up companies from the classified ads .. went through a breakup and then days of mizerable-ness and then patching .. elation from +6 and 2nd socket on first try, then 3rd socket on the 2nd try with my lucky chipper Lysa on this WOS:

Then yesterday I went to RP to meet Marvin, and we went to this stall for lunch. I had lemongrass-chilli chicken slices from them before, but had never visited the shop:

ALL of the dishes on the menu are to die for, and Marvin says they randomise their menu daily, so you never know what to expect. And I had their abalone hor fun for lunch, yum-ness:

They serve it with bak kut teh soup, which is fabulous .. the sotong slices and chicken pieces are tender, the sotong still smelled of the sea but still, lovely. And for $4, its really good .. they have just won themselves a loyal customer from now on.

After that, my laptop wouldn't work for the whole day, and I kept getting this "0190 - Critical low battery error", so we went down to Funan It Mall thinking they would have IBM Lenovo batteries sold there, but no. Got myself this Sumajin optical mouse (1200 dpi) at $17:

Since I have been doing without a mouse for 3 whole years since I got the laptop, figured this was a steal so I bought it. My feet died from walking a lot wearing sandals with a hard base =(

Gonna go down to YJC with my family tomorrow, my sis says they're having a carnival so I'm going there to support ^^ That's all for now.

3 more days~

2009-02-25T16:06:00.008+08:00

And so many things have happened since my last update. I'm counting down, 3 days til Marvin gets back :D

Been playing Mech Quest, I stopped for a year and went back to play, thanks to Hiryuu's urging lols

My mecha, the Wolfblade 2.0 from my House (like faction)

It looks ugly, but it sure packs a punch. Being non-sc, my stats below:

My House, Wolfblade. I love the uniform, it's gorgeous:

And the Drakel armor I'm grinding to get at lvl21:

Cool isn't it? :D And I finally got the weps I lusted after for so long: LG Pole and LG GS

Elentari modeling the new Ponytail hairstyle~

That's all for now, will update again on Sat ^^

2009-02-18T22:11:00.003+08:00

my papers finished today, yay~ I'm done with exams, excuse me while I burn my books :D

10 more days til Marvin comes back, does anyone wanna come with me to Changi n welcome him back? ^^ maybe have like a reception or something, haha. then go makan atFish&Co!! I miss the fish there =x or go Popeyes at T3 hmm ..

less than 2 months til I graduate, do I feel happy/sad/bittersweet, I have no idea. Ofc, hope to graduate with everyone, and hope my grades can make it. jobs/uni .. still have no idea, still unprepared, still taking each day as it comes (some people call that sloth/laidback but hey, sorry if I don't feel the need to stress myself)

2 months ++ before I turn the dreaded 20. Eeeek. I hate the feeling of getting older. Don't ask my why, but I just wanna stay forever 18 =x And then after this well, milestone? can I call it that? what next .. career/studies/marriage. Which is the norm, and I don't really like following norms, but what to do, society has shaped our paths pretty much to follow a de rigour route, something Singaporeans are used it. Or, I could go travelling around the world and hmm, find myself? :p But first I'd have to find a money tree or a plot of gold bars to finance it.

emo gal listen emo songs lol, been listening to this playlist:

Jason Wade of Lifehouse - You Belong To Me
Counting Down The Days - Natalie Imbruglia
Colin Raye - I Can Still Feel You
P.Diddy ft Faith Evans - I'll Be Missing You
Daniel Bedingfield - Never Gonna Leave Your Side
Lost - Michael Buble

ah well. 10 days feel so long. anyways, check out the lyrics below ^^

Michael Buble - Lost

I can't believe it's over
I watched the whole thing fall
And I never saw the writing that was on the wall
If I'd only knew
The days were slipping past
That the good things never last
That you were crying

Summer turned to winter
And the snow it turned to rain
And the rain turned into tears upon your face
I hardly recognize the girl you are today
And God I hope it's not too late
It's not too late

Chorus:
'Cause you are not alone
I'm always there with you
And we'll get lost together
Until the light comes pouring through
It's when you feel like you're done
And the darkness has won
Babe, you're not lost
When your world's crashing down
And you can't bear the cross
I said, babe, you're not lost

Life can show no mercy
It can tear your soul apart
It can make you feel like you've gone crazy but you're not
Things have seemed to change
There's one thing that's still the same
In my heart you have remained
And we can fly fly fly away

Repeat Chorus

I said, baby, you're not lost (x4)

2009-02-12T21:34:00.005+08:00

Loads of stuff to update on!

Think I better start with the more recent ones, else I'll get sidetracked.

Ok, first most important, is that Marvin went back Indo on Sunday for a month to hmm, "pei" his mum. Altho was secretly reluctant, but cannot be selfish tell him don't go home and visit can I? So on Sat, before he flew off, brought him to Ivins for lunch :D Met late, since he had to book his plane tickets in the morning (he wins award for super last minute KING), but we both enjoyed it. We got beef rendang (he ate, not me), the he peow soup (fish maw) and honey pork with plain rice (coconut rice no more liao, so sad) Sadly, didn't order banana split, miss it so much. Boo, next time sure order 1 for myself muhaha. After that we went to Pierce Resevoir to sit for a while before meeting Kimi to take our thumbdrives with jGE soundpack files :D TQ Kimi~ and went to the Eastern Restaurant for dinner. I will foreva love the food there man, always subarashi~

*I miss him very badly ahhhh* *only been a few days gosh* *wonder how will I survive the rest of the month*

Next, 2 papers down! Left with SENGP, which will be my final hurdle to clear then I'm free to play til I drop dead. Although, my peers talking about uni admissions, testimonials, asking each other "what are your plans after graduate" or "which uni you wanna go" gets me scared just a bit. I'm the type who's hmm, lazy and don't think or plan ahead so .. guess I really have to sit down and think whether I want to go further studies, which IS the prudent thing to do, in this downturn .. or find a job, which won't be easy, because people are jobless now .. and there's the matter of writing resumes. Yay. I think I'll take things one at a time and see how it goes =x

Whole family is coughing, sans my didi and my sis. Me, I think is my favourite potato chips did me in =( and my mum got it from my dad and my dad got it from er, goodness knows where. So now like, I'm coughing less but its still there. So sian, this cannot eat that cannot eat =(

And then GE! Yay. It's been my hmm, refuge, the-thing-that-keeps-me-sane throughout all the crazy presentations and Java and all. Oh speaking of Java, I do think I'll be safe. Mr Mar is really kind, giving me chances to redeem myself, and thanks very much to Jack who I still dunno very well, but without you teaching me Java I think I can just jitao flunk this module liao.

Ok, back to GE. So yeah, I vet my Nar ytd, or was it 2 days ago hmm. And then I finally crafted my first first 32AR weapon .. King Sword (chess gs). And, first chip first tranq gave me this stat hehe, think I shall keep it ba.

Also, been topping up gpts recently (haven't done so for 7 months at least) and traded off the fraulein costume to the eternal rose rapier, which my Selva is welding below:

Isn't it pretty? I think the rose petals really stand out. Still don't know what to craft for my next and last 32AR weapon, think most people already know I got 3 DHR in one night (the night, or rather the morning I got stuck with the 2 stupid Java review qns and decided to de-stress by playing ABS) so I won't repeat here le. Gonna help Marvin ger his Nar and hopefully the diary too when Clement loans some weps over. Grinding is boring of late, 2 spare barrack slots and dunno who to make. Maybe STW? Hmm.

Oh yeah, gonna add in Kimi and Welling to my list of blog links~

And my sis will be permenantly in YJC, beause her appeal failed. And she went to join squash. Haiz I dunno what is she thinking, its like the sport with the highest chance of injuries.

Going in GE now, ciaos~

2009-01-13T14:03:00.003+08:00

MY SIS GOT 12 POINTS FOR HER O LVLS!!! After minus cca is 10 points, and she's going to JC~ Haha, then we were joking that when its my bro's turn, he needs to get 6 @@ cos I got 18, my sis got 12, so yeah. But he is lazy (like me) and hate studying (also like me) so I dunno if 6 points is possible la.

In IT3505 lab now, going through tutorial after the test (I can't rmb what I keyed in but I know I'll fail this one) and when faced with eh, wall of text (literally) for the essay qns .. do what I do - scribble keywords =x

Yeah I know I'm lazy and all. And I feel like a skunk, lately. My sis says chipmunks are from the same family as skunks (those black critters with white stripes down their backs) is it true? o_0 and then my Marvin got me this like 30cm tall Chip plush toy just 2 days ago. Sadly this morning, when he was squeezing it to death T_T the thread at the back of its head got er, dislodged. So now my poor Chip needs sewing work to restore its head back. And I told him to exchange with the store he bought it from, but I don't think he kept the receipt. =(

So now, he should still be doing his php. I say should, because I don't know if he's playing GE when he's supposed to be coding. But our lives are on the line!! So I hope you'll work under stress Dale. And no sidetracking =x

A lot of projects. Meetings, school, presentations blah blah. I would so lurve to go on holiday now =( Next week I retake my Java practical .. since Mr Mar says if I don't I will jolly well repeat another sem. And just the other day Clara talked to me for a bit on msn. Yes, I want to graduate with you girls, even though because this year my timetable's whacked, we have drifted apart.

Spring cleaning fever is catching on, I think. At home, the study room is a eh, war zone (srsly) and my cousins are clearing their old clothes, I think donate to Salvation Army is better than give garang guni. I want more sexy baju for CNY .. ok not really that sexy but well, new ones, but my wardrobe boom already so bo bian. My bro's bday is coming up on the 17th. I have no idea what to get him, he's only Pri 5 and well, I can't be getting him assessment books for his bday rite, will be quite sian ma. He's a cow, so maybe I'll get him the coin-saving thingy I saw at Causeway Point. Hope he won't mind this cheepo present from his da jie. Hopefully my mum will order Pizza Hut~

Oh, and when I can, I wanna go to Ivins (treat my dale for his hard work) and to Ikea (chicken wings! and the mushroom soup that my sis says is tok gong). My bank account is hmm, hopeless. But I don't care .. I'm happier buying what I like then keep all the lui in the bank earn lousy interest.

Exams coming .. phew. I'll be glad to graduate. Jobs, further studies and such .. let's leave em to later. Ciao for now.

2008-12-28T01:35:00.003+08:00

So December's coming to a close, and school's starting again on Monday. Oh well, the hols feel rushed to me, been busy going out to eat, meet people, do projects etc etc.

On Xmas day, I went out with Jaslin and sanctuary members like Runex, Denver to Yaki n Yuki for their buffet lunch @ 12pm. Twas a long queue when we arrived, and in the midst of our lunch there was a blackout (yesh, lights out) for about 10 mins or so before the staff restored the power. For some unfathomable reason, the cooker? stove? thingy at our table refused to work properly .. soup base wouldn't boil, gah. But the food was cooked so its ok I think. Mostly enjoyed it, and I think for the next outing we're going to a pub to count down to New Year. Yesterday, I went back to Dr Chen @ Glenagles, four months after my op. After doing an ultrasound for me, he said my uterus seemed fine, and to see him again in 6 months, like whoa. Then, my mum and sis came to meet me from their shopping, and we proceeded to CentrePoint's Eastern Restaurant (tucked away at the basement opposite Parkway Thai) for dinner.

We got the xiao long bao (highly recommended, wins Crystal Jade's), the soup just steams and the meat's juicy n tender; and then my favourite dumpling stuffed with glutinous rice, I don't know what it's called but OMG I love it, one basket is definitely not enough. Then we got Shanghai Noodle Soup with Pork Ribs, I still enjoy this the second time round ^^ There was Double Boiled Chicken Soup, which I thought was a tad too salty but it had a nice aroma; Crab meat Soup Dumpling and Eastern Yi Ping Steamed Dumpling. Honestly, I can't taste any difference in the dumplings =x and we got an extra xiao long bao hehe cos the waitress who took the previous 2 baskets away didn't see another waitress giving us the extra :p For dessert, we had Rice Puff with Red Bean Paste, I recommend this too, it's lovely. This time round however, we didn't get the Shanghai tang yuan with rice wine .. bit bitter. Spent about $70 for the 3 of us, will definitely want to go a third time.

GE wise, my male wizard finally hit expert, now my Bern is left with 1% to expert. And for those still in the Xmas mood, check out this video by our famous GE producer Tokoyoshi:

And that's about all for updates. Ta~

P.S: I miss my Dale
P.S.S: I hope you enjoyed your vacation Ben ^^

2008-12-13T21:36:00.005+08:00

Phew. Gotten lazy and forgot to update for a while :p

Ok, I do have valid excuses like projects, homework, dating, outings so .. I guess I'm covered? heh

My tests results came back, did OK for 2, and flunked my Java. Now why am I not surprised .. And there was another Java test which I think I'll do ok, waiting for results to be back.

Anyways, holidays are here! Woot! 2 week term break .. tho I have project meetings and stuff, but I'll try to rush my vets to experts if I can. And tomorrow, my mum's going to KL for a week, because she's the IC in charge of the NUS Shooting Team (they're having their games there) so the onus falls on me to stay home and babysit my siblings. Hell yeah, I love this job. Not gettin' paid for it. I wish I was.

Pics~ Lets see, here's a screenie of my female fighter, Elentari posing with my gorgeous columnimbus shield (yeah like WOOT I own one of the LG series :p)

Tada, my steel sword that I bought from Sakazaki today ^^ Preping up for Selva, booya~

DragonFable wise, I've run out of ideas on how to decorate my hallway .. gah I want more Sandsea themed stuff so I can go all out for the Egyptian theme, but my bedroom already features that theme .. and worse, I don't have space for a bathtub T_T I've the bathroom ready, but the bathtub looks retarded with a rubber ducky zz. Ah never mind, I'll take my time decorating.

Come tomorrow, Marvin and I will have been together for hmm, 5 weeks. Time really flies (no kidding) and I'm happiest when I'm with him .. but like, this week, babysitting duty; plus if his mum comes over from Indo for goodness knows how long .. crap. Means we don't see each other for a while .. gah, I hate how things are going, but there's nothing I can do about it.

That's all for the meantime .. and I'd meant to watch Twilight in the cinemas but .. I has watched it online today :p (And nope not from Limewire) Its good to save money yanno? The movie, I think its decent but the director could have done a better job, some parts look fake. And I find it funny, that this book that I read long ago, and went gaga over long ago; is only being recently picked up by my peers, who give Meyer glowing review on their Facebook, Friendster profiles and stuff. Yeah, its actually hillarious to me, but don't feel offended. And anyway, I would never have know about the book if not for SapphireDarkness (SD), my old friend from my EL days who told me. So yeah, happy hols and merry Xmas all!

2008-11-23T16:33:00.003+08:00

The previous week was crammed with

*tests
*more tests
*homework
*special moments.

Even with a crazy timetable .. late nights .. long chats on the phone .. I can't keep from being awed by whats happened. To me, to you, to us. I still think everyday's a miracle, because I found someone who keeps me going. Never mind the psychic connection, never mind if we're going full-speed ahead. Heaven only knows how I lived before you came along.

So this coming week, there's

*presentations
*one ICA on Friday

but I'll take things as they come.

<3 my bear. joaquin/katovic/grizzly, all mine !

Astons, Evolution Square.

2008-11-17T10:09:00.007+08:00

Yesterday .. I still don't know if it qualifies as a good day, or bad.

Morning, woke at 8.30qm and went cycling with my dad and sis from home all the way to Sembawang to see the bottle tree. It was an .. eh, arduous one :p (I hate slopes) and I didn't want to go, since I'm not a morning person nor do I like to get outdoors when it isn't raining =x

But my mum insisted, so no choice, we had bumpy roads and smooth ones .. met er .. people who had slow reactions (seriously, with 3 bells ringing behind you you'd think to move out of the way, or at least to the side wouldn't you?) But noo, there seemed to be a lot of slow people on the pavements yesterday.

Bottle tree area .. well its just a small bottle tree village just off Jalan Sini Kampung .. just off Sembawang MRT. We saw the bottle tree (me and my sister actually, the rest of my family had been there before) and I hugged the tree! Yay :D It's so big and round, just makes you want to hug it y'know? *pics tomorrow when I get them*

So anyways, after that we cycled to a coffeeshop and had breakfast .. I condemn Yan Yan Braised Duck Rice stall .. the kway chap super CMI! But the food there (nasi lemak, bak kut teh) is all expensive .. $4.50, even for the drinks. But it makes sense to raise the price when you're the only eating area in a ulu area where the only ones likely to go there are joggers or cyclists like we were.

Made it back home in time to bathe and rush out for forum outing with teh trolls! XD Ok so it was just Sinacy, Chukai, 5aaur and me, but I'd also invited my faction mate Marvin along, but more on that later. Anyway, I reached Dhoby Ghaut at around 1pm, then like a silly fool tried to reach Marvin for 15 mins .. after 3 calls he said he just woke up but would be on his way to The Cathy.

Sinacy decided on Astons Specialities for lunch, so the 4 of us walked over there, but not before uh .. very hyper introductions? I think on sin's part at least (he's a cute lil boy when he's not being annoying). Chu liked to mess my hair while 5aaur was uh .. a quiet rock. :p

Waited for an hour or so in the queue outside Astons .. the place is crampy. I got grilled fish with herbs, my side was fries and onion rings ($7.20):

Chu had his with baked and mashed potato:

I would say the fish is so-so. 5aaur and sin got steak, Marvin got teriyaki chicken, if I'm not wrong. Hot chocolate ($2.80) was bad, wasn't sweet at all and it tastes of too much powder. Sin stole my fries and onion rings, Marvin abused the poor chili sauce bottle and its really amusing to watch sin struggle with the steak. I know, I sound mean but really its funny =x

The four of us .. outside Evolution Square, a lan shop we went to after lunch:

We stayed and played games for a while, then the 3 boys had to go off while Marvin stayed behind with me for CW. Then end up because of one joker who really very idiotic and cos some people wanted to do other things when we were supposed to assemble, Rune got mad and stayed mad thru the night, so nobody took part in CW.

Marvin sent me home after, then there were long msn chats .. I think my SENGP test today is gone case .. lack of sleep and tired in all sense of the word so .. yeah.

Whatever the both of you say, I still feel responsible. If I hadn't come up with the idea for outing in the first place, or suggested LAN or whatever nothing would have happened. As it is, i) YES I feel guilty ii) YES I'm aware I was being monopolised .. but tbh no I've no objections with it and iii) YES I know and I should have spent more time with you guys.

*and damn rainy days **damned mozzie bites ***I feel like selling my chars and quitting ****i need to buy kinder bueno later bcos i ran out of stock *****im jumping around SFA's tracklist trying to find a good track to repeat ******java, internet security tests tomorrow but fk it im gonna go nap

Lab fun~

2008-11-11T23:20:00.005+08:00

Everytime Tuesdays loom near, I go into an emo mood, sorta. This week, today isn't helped that blues are on me already, so anything more puts me in an in-balance. Anyways, just wanted to share what happened during IT3505 lab today.

We were all logged on HeuCampus cos Mr Lim insisted that he would only take attendance from there, and then he started to pm us:

As you can see .. Lue Song is quite the artist lols. We were playing around with pgp files, following the lecture on Cryptography, then this lab practical was just to test our understanding of the topic. About the beep thing .. we were supposed to hear a beep if the files were encrypted correctly, but nobody was sure how to.

SENGP presentation today .. ok, so last minute work sucks. Everyone knows that. Especially when someone's desktop crashes and I have to be the one who does the ppt slides with input from Notepad, because said someone's laptop has trial version of micro ppt so view is possible but not edit. Which was what I was doing late into the night yesterday,churning out the slides. Then because of timetables clashes, no time to rehearse (for Chris and me) this morning. So kena grill by teacher and can't answer = my fault? Who were the ones who let one whole week pass by without deciding anything and only giving me answers like "We'll discuss and let you know" Hell yeah, end up last minute scramble.

Shucks, 3 tests next week for me, all quizzes. Global Supply Chain ICA1 tomorrow and I'm not fully ready. Someone kill me.

2008-11-06T01:27:00.003+08:00

Ok, the Cheese The Chicken I had before:

Chicken cutlets with a generous topping of hot mango sauce and nachos at the side, for deco. And I'm going to treat my sister to this IF she gets 10 and below for her O levels.

Food aside, school work crashing on me. I owe tutorials .. (I feel like giving a heck =x) like Gantt chart for SENGP which I've done but not emailed yet, 3505 lab prac which I honestly don't know i) my group ii) how to do it

And IBM Rational trial is like 2 GB.. if I get that I'll lag til the point I'm gonna literally quit GE .. gonna do that in school tmr.

2 ICAs next week. Uggh.

2008-10-30T09:55:00.007+08:00

BRIAN!!!!

bwahaha, your blog NEEDS more work lols. Its literally shouting "I NEED MORE POSTS" Get on it! :p XDXD But I'll still link you (don't murder me)

Anyways. EAIPJ presentation went well .. I think. Dunno why I bother to prepare lil speech notes in the morning. Ms Cher said she likes my presentation style because (direct quote) "Its different from the others. The impression you give me is very steady and calm. You are very sure of what you're trying to say. I can imagine you in a manager position."

>< Yeah, me a manager. ROFL. 1000 years later, maybe. I hate being in an office, uggh.

No NAPFA later, I changed the booking to Monday. Which frees up my time later. Maybe I'll go visit Jas.

Obama for president. Oh man. I still don't like him, even if he was a white guy. Nothing against blacks, just that he can talk, yes, but can he walk the talk? Do what he promises? Oh well, its the Americans who're gonna get the direct impact shortly. I prefer McCain, but ah well, we can all say goodbye to FTAs and such.

2008-10-30T09:55:00.006+08:00

GE Updates

First, I finally got a vet ATP and my Edward turned vet a while ago.

Above: My Elektra posing with my Kanda. This was when I still had a Candlestick =x

Next, my cute pet:

Hatched it after 3 days ^^ But I only use him sparingly, because pet food is expensive. And like some of you already know, I've broken 3 Hellspit already T_T So now I've been broading for like 2 weeks, but still nobody has a nice rapier to sell me =(

School wise .. omfg I'm so screwed for Entrepreneurship .. my group can't come up with a decent business idea, and if this goes on we'll be super behind the others, haiz. EAIPJ .. I'm doing ok I guess, gonna churn out .aspx pages later.

On Monday, I went for an outing~ Marina Square's Interesting Appetites (<3 the Frankenstein Mudpie)

Dark choc powder on the top, peppermint and choc icr cream, then a layer of biscuit below, with drizzles of choc fudge, nuts, marshmellows and raisins. And best of all? It only costs $7.90 :)

More pics of the food when I get em.

Stay alive peeps!

2008-10-20T20:14:00.004+08:00

GE updates:

My little hime, Hanatsuki, hit vet! Celebratory pic (she's 3rd from left):

And I must say, my musk is one hot dude. And then I got a Fire Sabre <3~

Yep, my hawt Elentari posing ^^ Once my white baron hits vet, I'll post moar pics~

School wise .. oh well, same old. Except I have different classes, and thus different groups for 5 projects, so GG me. But its kinda fun, for now. Until all the presentations and what nots start to pile up on me.

*is very happy Dan found a job, even if temp*

**likes Elmo song. pls don't ask why**

***blog song has been on repeat for past few days, but I love it, its from the movie Mr & Mrs Smith and sung by 8mm***

lyrics here, ta for now

2008-10-13T22:24:00.002+08:00

My timetable sucks. Major, big time sucks. Uggh. I have different classes from the rest of my peers, I get an hr break a day, more if there's e-lessons. Sometimes I wanna murder the fella who drew up my timetable T_T

On the upside .. I love my Monday and Fridays :D That's TGIM and TGIF for ya :p

Other than that .. got my books settled, my tutorials done (for now) .. the Java EE sounds intimidating. Horrors of horrors, Java! And just when I thought I won't ever see it again in my lifetime. And there's this EAIPJ .. another project module @@ .. and National Education is brainless.

*rants off to bed*

Damned hotmail bug!!

2008-10-07T01:00:00.003+08:00

3 days running, and it seems I'm not the only one affected by this hotmail bug that i) doesn't let me read my email, I can only view from the "inbox" link ii) delete unwanted mail, and I'm not even talking about spam.

It's a freaking pain in the a** problem! And judging from the Internet's results, I'm not the only one (why am I not surprised). Hell, I'm being inconvenienced, damnit. I wish Microsoft would friggin solve this problem ASAP.

Next week, back to school .. enough of rotting at home for me. To my readers: if you're PH or SG and know of any job vacancy, ANY kind at all, please leave a comment/msn me! Gracias.

And hon, I promise we'll pull through this whatever it takes.

2008-09-24T10:06:00.004+08:00

First, to introduce .. +10 AR3 ATK 40% atkspd 30% Javelin.

Actually, its my brother's LegoKnight lol, I thought it looked like a javelin so he set up the pose for me XD

Anyways, my mum's bday on the 17th went pretty well, me and my siblings had gone to pick a present for her, and she liked it, so we were relieved all round. My father actually requested for the rose detail on the durian cake:

And prior to that we went to Seoul Garden on Sunday, promptly gorging ourself on the food. I can't complain, I had triple rounds of ice cream, but then there was grilled sotong and stuff, really rocked.

And then last Sunday .. my aunt gave birth to meine baby cousin, so on Monday evening me and my mum went down to Gleaneagles Hospital to visit. My poor uncle has been running back and forth from home, so he looks pretty strained, but I'm glad that they're ok, it wasn't an easy birth for my aunt, there were pills and jabs she had to have to keep the baby (thereby delivering the baby gal smoothly). The little one doesn't have a name yet, and I wasn't allowed to take pics, but she's as cute as angels go. My mum was soothing the lil gal while my uncle and aunt had their late dinner, and she caught me looking and asked if I wanted to try carrying the little bundle of joy. I was agreeable, but I think my baby cousin doesn't like me. Barely a min passed while I was trying to hold her correctly, and she was scrunching her face, crying as loud as her lungs would allow T_T (she's quiet as a peep when my mum carries her) She was supposed to be sleeping, but apparently she decided looking around was more fun. We headed home at 8 plus 9pm

And I have decided I love babies when they're not bawling their heads off.

Currently, I'm waiting and praying for a money tree to rain notes onto my lap. Ah well, too late to regret not getting a job now.

And I love my blog song so such, I have it on repeat for about .. 3 days? Yeah :D

Manga! Anime! All teh things I love

2008-09-06T13:00:00.010+08:00

and of course, mooncakes ^^

*status: still at home & unemployed. going deaf from mum's nagging zz*

But anyways, I'm currently reading Black Cat, a gunslinging/thriller/supernatural manga. Shades of the underworld, yeah. It's really good, but I'm only up to chapter 78. This one stretches all the way to 185, I've a long way to go. Waiting for updates for Wolf And Spice, Midnight Secretary (I hate cliffhangers), Hanatsuki Hime. Anime wise .. Bleach 186 was scary. Pomg, if Amagai taicho turns out to be Aizen #2 .. GG us. But it looks likes the filler episodes are ending, hurray! Back to Hueco Mundo already, I'm dying for action and I'm sure I'm not the only one. And on D.Gray-man .. whee, 4th Akuma's might in episode 100 coming soon. Even though the manga chapter was good, can't wait to see how they'll do it in the anime.

Last Friday, I went for an outing, meant for Legends SG members. Runex, FrozenFate, SimWorms, me, Jas, Erik and Clement headed for steamboat dinner at Bugis. The food was okay, arrived at 7 plus and ate all the way til 9 plus. After that we adjourned to TCC at Bugis Square for a bit of chit chat and drinks (I love hot chocolate~ but not the whipped cream) and we had to run for the last train hehe. Imagine if we missed it .. all sit at MRT station emo =x

Saturday was spent at Aljunied buying ingredients for making mooncake from Kwong Chong Thye. This year, mum decided to make them again, so I was roped in to help her carry all the stuff back home. We went overboard with the paste, spending $100+ on all that stuff.

From top left: Green tea, lotus paste, mango, white lotus paste. (it should be horizontal but it keeps coming out as vertical)

As for the other materials, from top-left clockwise: Crisco (in chinese its 板油) very essential for snowskin mooncakes, which is what we made; melon seeds, glutinous rice flours and icing sugar.

Ok, here's the recipe if you guys wanna do this on your own (set aside a day for this .. backbreaking work tho its easy!)

You need: 225 gm glutinous rice flour, 75 gm Crisco, 200 gm icing sugar, 360 gm ice water (don't go by ml), colouring (we pounded pandan leaves and mixed a bit of water to make the mooncake skin green) and extra cooked glutinous rice flour for dusting. [this portion makes approx 20 mini snowskin mooncakes]

1) Choose the paste of your choice and weigh them at 24gm each (subject to preference, but at least 20gm)
2) Sieve the glutinous rice flour first.
3) Mix the rice flour, crisco and icing sugar evenly. I don't mean pour them together in a lump, do the rice flour and crisco slowly bit by bit, then the icing sugar.
4) When done, make a well in the center of the mixture (think volcano) and pour the ice water slowly, kneading into a dough.
5) Weigh the dough at 20gm each (or more if you want a thicker skin) then wrap with beanpaste.

After that, put the mixture into moulds like so:

See the dusting of rice flour in the mould? That's so the mixture doesn't stick. Rub some on your hands too, so its easier. Then with the cheek of your palm, press the ball of mixture down firmly, then coat the bottom with a bit of rice flour. Hit the mould on both sides once, then the top, turn it on the side and knock it out onto your palm.

Pics below i) our dining table turned into a war zone ii) the finished "product" - we bought boxes too

Hope you guys enjoyed Mooncake Festival. I certainly did ^^

2008-08-25T14:43:00.005+08:00

CW yesterday was uber fun! Joined Legends when they invited me. DF and gang tried to take rio, but phailed, lols. Still looking for a job, still no luck, ah well, if it comes to staying at home throughout this one month .. whee~ But with recent big ticket purchases, my bank account's dwindling =x

Anyhow, last Saturday I went to Tangs to exchange an Elle bag I'd bought for $89. Ended up choosing three bags from MEL, and got myself a watch from Denni as well:

My bags, and the little bag with my watch below:

And now, manga. I'm reading 100% Perfect Girl at the moment, waiting for D.Gray-man/Midnight Secretary/Hanatsuki Hime. I wish they'd get the manga/anime uploaded and scanslated faster, so I wouldn't have to wait.

That's about all, prolly won't be updating so soon.

P.S: Saph, Seth, you guys rock! Nice to see you haven't forgotten me, haha. Holler on msn if yall need me ^^

Let's trash this out .. since it had to come to this.

2008-08-16T21:26:00.004+08:00

A few FACTS. As known to those who went for the meeting yesterday. Want to twist my words and say, " oh you're trying to pin us down", to which I refer you to this thread here
My reply is same as that on sGe forums, except I have more to add on my own blog.

1) HR had a meeting yesterday, among SG members.
2) Split tables before the meal already. Each to his/her own camp.
3) Hard enough to talk/hear in a public area, much less make self heard. But moja was trying his best, and what did some of you guys on the other end do? Talk, laugh, have your own convo. Already overriding respect and authority.
4) The challenge was from DF. "If IXL in the fac, then I will leave" I asked you was that an ultimatum, you said no. Then what was it other than a clear statement what you're gonna do?

Now, I'll address my thoughts on DF, and your gang.

1) Won't go into detail about what was mentioned during the meeting, but really, DF, you think you did a much better job when you were RL? I never saw any SS about what were the loot, who got the loot, sqd members. Only when asked, then you posted 3 images on Griffon and said, those 3 pictures is more than a thousand words, or something to that effect. So 3 images can cancel out the OTHER images not posted? An excuse to keep quiet aka divert attention from other issues to pacify those people who've been asking for what's theirs? Wow, talk about multitasking.
2) The reason why I raised the issue about your other pilot (the one who doesn't go to outings) is because even if step down as DL, I think its pretty serious if someone as guailan (from what I heard) as your pilot is piloting your account. Your account that as a player was important to HR, as council member as DL as someone who had authority (and we never thought you would abuse it either til you kept quiet on so many raids). Until you showed your true colours yesterday night.
3) Secret meeting after that. Not surprising, since you also had a secret meeting a few days ago prior to yesterday's meeting and got all the RL to step down. Great job! How influential! For someone who said "I will not pull anyone from HR" you have already stepped on your own foot when some followed you. Are more to follow? Think I can guess who will go with my 2 eyes closed.
4) To ah ma. You guys want to show you guys can make it on your own, go ahead. Since you're aflush with GOL loot, orbs and funds, you can do what you like, and nothing much we can do about it.
5) "secure a position in Legends?" In all the factions I've been in, I have yet to contribute anything before I join. Never for DefendeRz, nor ReBeLaTion nor Crusaders nor HR. And that's not about to change. GOL tactics as a bribe? Puh-lease. You think people don't go because they don't know how it works? ZZ. Ask Einwind why he doesn't drop ELN anymore, then.

Bah. Bandying words was never my strong suit, even if I'm blunt about my words.

Below is a slideshow that I created from the 40+ SS from a convo with DF and STW ytd morning. Being awake til 5am is no joke! After meeting was already tired from all the testosterone flying around. But this will save me from repeating things I'm sick of hearing again.

Click here

2008-08-05T03:48:00.002+08:00

**SCREAMS AND JUMPS UP AND DOWN**

3 plus am in the morning but who cares? I won!!!! Woot I won the DragonFable House contest for Best Combination Bedroom!! 2000 Dragon coins! *goes nuts being too happy*

Check this out: http://www.dragonfable.com/df-designnotes.asp

Whee I actually beat everyone else! Muhaha :D Dino got an honorable mention (her ign in DF is RANDOM-KID) for the Best Combination - Others Category; she gets DC too.

This was DEFINITELY worth staying up for~ All my hard work .. and look at what Cysero posted Special gratz to valinorian_coe. Hope that grand prize helps with take the sting out of all the time and DC you put into your house!"

I think the forum mods saw my post in the house rating section about spending 2-3 hrs planning and 1k plus DC on designing .. and ny post in the forum after winning: http://forums2.battleon.com/f/tm.asp?m=14463770&mpage=2&key=&#14464265

Of books, movies and .. a haircut heh

2008-08-03T17:18:00.004+08:00

Its been 3 weeks since my op, and after endless medication and rest (here and there), I think I'm recovering quite fine. Last week was quite an eventful one for me. On Saturday, after visiting Dr. Chen, I went to Borders and bought a copy of Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child's Book of The Dead at $17.95, after trying to get the ebook to no avail (and being put on the local library's waiting list for months. Yeah, months.) Not even Benny nor Rildiz could find any proper ebook of that, only audio books. I was thrilled to find the only copy on the shelf (Borders should have an alphabetical index for their books!) and promptly completed my first reading late into the night.

Also, I pre-ordered Stephanie Meyer's Breaking Dawn, which I will collect tomorrow after work; supposedly I'll get 25% discount off the retail price if I pre-order. I can't wait! Below is the convo I had with Elodin, my old friend from EL over in the U.S:

His font is a wee bit small, sorry if you have to squint to read, basically he says Kim (his gf) is reading BD already .. and I am so awfully jealous! Dang. But no matter, tomorrow night I will be one happy fan :D

Fast forward to this week - I've been trying to get the mp3 for this particular D.Gray-man theme from Episode 93 entitled "The 14th's Song/Musician by Yumi Moitora". So far, fans are going gaga over this particular piano piece (because ITS AWESOME and it really is) and like them, I've managed to source out the MIDI files, Benny helped me with the music sheets (I haven't gotten around to tinkering on the piano yet but I will soon) and a yummy-licious pic of Kanda <3~

Whee he's alive! I know that from the manga but still .. Kanda to Lavi: "Baka-usagi!" is teh lols

Just yesterday, we had another HR outing! Who went: Jaslin, Clement, Erik, Qing Wei (Vongola), Joseph (uthinkleh), Shaun (Onggy), Spinelli, Jerry, Stephanie (Arielite), Francis (cyctoo) together with some Legends members, whose names I forgot already. Anyway, the plan was to have dinner first then watch The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor at Marina Square. But it was a Saturday, plus NDP preview was going on, so it took a while before we found seats for 18 at The Cafe Cartel. (I think the Legends people had some private agreement to wear black .. all or-lulu at their table ROFL)

I shared St. Louis Pork Ribs with Jaslin (very big portion, very value-for-money and yummy!), and the boys had some Crispy Platter or something. We wanted a waffle ice cream for dessert but were too full to eat anything more. After that, the movie .. I won't give spoilers away for those who haven't watched, but it's decent even with a tad too much CGI effects, still worth watching. But the O'Connells' speaking Chinese cannot make it and the yetis .. twas a bad idea to put it in the movie, methinks. Maybe I shall catch My Sassy Girlfriend (the U.S remake of the Korean original) and Space Chimps next, if time and my wallet permits.

And then today, cycled with my parents to Marsiling, where I had ba chor mee for breakfast before heading to the hair saloon. 5 hours later, I emerged from the saloon with a 'soft' rebond done and my hair neater .. but I think the time was worth it, because Lily, the hairdresser who attended to me was very detailed and she really did a great job with my hair.

Phew, lengthy blog post. Off for a nap before dinner and CW at 8pm. Ciao~

2008-07-26T02:03:00.007+08:00

July's nearing an end .. finally managed to vet my rio today, with Oznola's help, 76 Diamond Coupons and endless hours in Skullic.

And then, here's what my house on DragonFable looks like:

Contest submission: Living Room and Bedroom (got my sis to help me with the later)

Hopefully I'll be among the winners .. or if I'm lucky, win the top prize of 2k dragon coins .. :D

What transpired on Thurs 10 July

2008-07-14T09:48:00.004+08:00

5.30am. Woke, and then left the house at 6.40 with my parents. The hospital had called me the night before to remind me that I had to fast from 12pm onwards, so I couldn't have breakfast.

Upon reaching, we went to Gleneagles's Admission counter, whereupon the lady asked us to go to the counter @ 7th floor, where the day-wards were since we had already done pre-admission the week before. After going through the admin stuff, I was taken to Ward 208 to wait for my turn. Shortly after I'd settled down, a nurse came in and taped my wrist with a band, helped me into e dressing gown and I had a nap til about 10.50am, when they came for me in a stretcher to bring me down to the operating theatre.

My parents were stopped at the doors, they allowed only my mum to go in with me, because she was the one who had signed the consent form for my op (since I'm under 21) ; and with a pat on my hand she went out. I was made to wait in a little room just outside the OT, because Dr Chen wasn't finished with the earlier patient yet. 11am stretched to 11.30am, and while I was waiting in darkness the nurse chatted with me briefly, then the Anesthesia Master injected me with a medicine that supposedly "helps to calm your nerves" o_0 according to him.

But calm my nerves it certainly did not. I was getting fidgety under the blankets, if a tad nervous about the decision I made to go through with it. Around 11.35am, they wheeled the previous patient out, and me in. While the nurse hooked me up to various contraptions, the AM injected a whole syringe of thick, milky liquid into the tube on my left hand. Immediately, a growing numbness and pain overwhelmed me and I went KO.

When next I woke, it was 1.05pm, and I had been in the recovery ward for an hour after the operation. The pain didn't register at first; I was preoccupied with calling my mum to let her know it was over. Once they wheeled me all the way back to the ward, I started feeling nauseous and dizzy. For the rest of the day, til 8pm when I was discharged from my ward, I was reduced to lying in bed, taking painkillers and napping through the haze that accompanied the nausea. The one bread that I ate in the evening (since the entire day) made me vomit whatever I had consumed.

At about 10.15pm, we were finally able to see Mr Chen at his clinic after waiting for 2 hours. The rest of the day through Sunday was spent resting, spacing out all my med, taking my meals etc .. in short nothing interesting. 3 days hospitalisation leave .. I'll be back to work on Thursday and hopefully better after everything. To those who asked after me, thanks a lot, and thanks Jaslin for visiting me while I was hospitalised (though I wasn't in any fit state to talk much).

Just 2 poems

2008-07-04T21:02:00.002+08:00

Dialogue of a kiss

Him: Time stopped for
that moment
I damned reason
and kissed
you.

Her: Heart pounding
I threw away
my pride
just to answer
your kiss

The Op.

Laid out, strapped
cold table
with sharp steel
on naked flesh

Will it hurt
I wonder
if I will
scream when
I wake up.

Just 2 poems I composed lately. The first, don't ask me where I got my inspiration from, the sencond is rather obvious. And til now I'm still not that scared as I'll undoubtedly be on that day.

My poor Dan's been swamped by paper work by his cousin. I swear that one's a slave driver. But at least I know he still cares about me. Having a whole ton of problems getting GE to install properly on my laptop .. GG.

kilos .. eek!

2008-06-25T07:14:00.002+08:00

Last Sat, my older cousin's wedding reception at the Fishing Village at Khatib, where we had a 10 course dinner.

Then on Sun, buffet at Yaki and Yuki @ Marina Square - for our HR outing. Because I'm lazy, I won't post pics. Instead, here's a video by our silent (and deadly) cameraman, Luthirien. Michelle and Jerry weren't captured because they had to go off early. We had several rounds of eating throughout 1-5pm.

Piling on the kilos .. uggh. And my op has been shifted to 10th July.

Due for an op.

2008-06-21T17:05:00.005+08:00

Been having a slew of health related problems lately. First, the nose bleed which gave me a shock at work, had to take a day's MC.

But before I get to the main issue .. had lunch with Jaslin yesterday at the Korean stall at Chevron House. Then on my way home after work, met up (very impromptu) with Jerry, Adrian and his siter Fiona, Tim, Jaslin and ah ma for dinner. Initial plan was to go to TCC @ Orchard, ended up at Moku Moku, a Japanese style eatery at Far East Plaza. Will post the pics when I get them.

Today afternoon 1.30pm, went to Gleneagles Hospital with my mum to see Dr Christopher Chen for an appointment. After the nurse asked me a few qns about my medical history, we waited for a few mins before being admitted in. To cut things short .. after the scan (which hurt) he told me that I had slight thickening of my uterus, I had blood clots in my womb (which was just like what Ying Chuan told me) and my left ovary was in an "abnormal position". The medical term for my condition is called Endometrosis (for more info click here). The symptoms are much like what my mum had, except her was more serious so her womb had to be removed. But, Dr Chen says this kind of condition is not hereditary, which is a small consolation.

So basically, to "clean up" these clots, I would have to go for day surgery, where 2 keyholes would be made. The cost is like .. including the doctor and hospital side, about 10k plus o_0 Booked a half day ward for 3rd July, so I have the rest of the weekend to rest. I'm SO not anticipating myself being on the operating table .. but what can I do? Better to get this resolved faster than wait, delay .. and lead to more complications.

So peeps, not just ladies, do take care of your health ya?

2008-06-08T22:54:00.004+08:00

First off, pics.

Mine and Dino's dessert, ice cream topped with various stuff (me) ice kachang with stuff below (hers) at Seoul Garden the week before. She loved her yam, I loved my choc chip ice cream with mint .. ain't had it for years.

2pcs Crispy chicken set at Changi Airport's Terminal 3's Popeyes last Saturday when my mum, brother and I sent my old maid off home. I liked the chicken, but found it a bit too oily .. and the bread .. a wee bit on the salty side, tho my mum said the butter made it taste good. Ps: Things are expensive there .. 6+ to 7+ per set .. not counting the side (biscuits)

I know I've been lazy. Yeah, last update was on 3rd June -_- But I've still been busy. Work is good, well I still make small mistakes here and there but I'm getting better. Then just yesterday I started on a different job .. checking files. Ayup, which means I have my own cubicle for now .. til they decide to change my job scope again. So now I only do counter work when I'm covering for my colleagues during lunch time.

Bought 2 muffins today, from Raffles Xchange. They're nice, airy affairs, the banana almond was good but the double chocolate chip really sucked. Come Friday, HR's gonna have a fac outing again .. and I'm looking forward to it. I think I really need a break.

And I would rant about the new maid .. cept some have already heard my woes. Oh well lols.

2008-06-03T07:02:00.002+08:00

Had dinner at Seoul Garden last Saturday, brought my sis along. Spin's treat, cos he found a new job.

I'm into my 2nd week, and the feedback is I've to be faster. Mr Chua came to visit, as did Scott Jones last week.

The rest, I'll blog another time.

Day #1 at OCBC

2008-05-26T21:12:00.002+08:00

Uggh.

My first, and final word on the first day. After waiting for the guys to arrive, we reached there promptly and went up to the HR Division on the 40th floor after exchanging our ICs for temp passes. Me, Faizah, Dao Li and Liang An were posted to CSC on the 12th floor. Shu Min and Saihah went over to the East Block while Huiqi went to the 13th floor on her own; Si Hui went to 7th floor.

My department is .. mostly female, with about 3/4 guys around. After being shown a cubicle for us to stew in, so to speak, I waited for a bit before Chao Yoon, my Team Manager for the Admin Team showed me around the office; introducing me to some of the staff, showing me where the pantry and ladies was.

After that, I was promptly "dumped" at the counter to assist the 2 staff there, Phoebe and Edweena with their work. Basically I'll be stuck doing sai kang but its better than nothing. For the rest of the afternoon, I was taught the basic day-to-day operations of CSC. Had to learn what turnover time was .. was reminded to have completeness (follow-thru), punctuality, blah blah. Also made friends with the people who delivered letters and packages to us .. one thing I haven't got the hang of is knowing who sits where. Its not so much a problem about identity since the staff have name tags at their cubicle but .. it is a bit hard to remember the seating arrangement on the first day.

Kena arrow by one of them when I couldn't remember my 3rd person to bring a file to sat. The word "corporate" itself stresses me, uggh. Went for lunch at BK today, have made up my mind to go and explore more places for lunch .. BK's prices is daylight robbery.

Tired, but at least I know I have something to do everyday. 3 months .. I wonder how long I can take it. Oh, and I have NO internet access AT ALL. The intranet is only available after I sign forms requesting for access. Pfft. OMG no laptop .. I'm dying, I tell ya.

2008-05-23T15:01:00.003+08:00

I'm tired! Even if I DO get some hours of sleep . . argh .. I'm turning into a zombie or something that needs A LOT of sleep.

Anyway, updates lets see .. ok I'm posted to OCBC's Commercial Services Centre at Raffles for my IPP lasting 3 months, and I'm to report there on Monday 8.45pm .. Goin down on Saturday to get my bearings so I won't be late or anything on Monday.

And nothing much, except I've this song for repeat for a day now, don't ask me why I like it

Pain - Jimmy Eat World

Pain - Jimmy Eat World

I don't feel the way I've ever felt.
I know.
Gonna smile and not get worried.
I try but it shows.

Anyone can make what I have built.
And better now
Anyone can find the same white pills.
It takes my pain away.

It's a lie. A kiss with opened eyes.
And she's not breathing back.
Anything but bother me.
(It takes my pain away)
Never mind these are hurried times.
Oh oh oh
I can't let it bother me.

I never thought I'd walk away from you.
I did.
But it's a false sense of accomplishment.
Every time I quit

Anyone can see my every flaw.
It isn't hard.
Anyone can say they're above this all.
It takes my pain away.

It's a lie. A kiss with opened eyes.
And she's not breathing back.
Anything but bother me.
(It takes my pain away)
Never mind these are hurried times.
Oh oh oh
I can't let it bother me.

I can't let it bother me.

It takes my pain away.

It's a lie. A kiss with opened eyes.
And she's not breathing back.
Anything but bother me.
(It takes my pain away)
Never mind these are hurried times.
Oh oh oh
I can't let it bother me

Takes my pain,
takes my pain,
takes my pain away!

HK Cafe PART 2

2008-05-19T22:17:00.010+08:00

Tons of food, so I wanted to put em seperately. Ok, to start off, this is what we ordered while waiting for Gerald and Jaslin to arrive, Har Gao (shrimp dumpling) and Siew Mai

My milo dinosaur (whee at last I got to try it, and the cup is so cute)

Then I ordered a main dish, because if you only order dim sum you'll get hungry real quick. I decided to get their HK Wanton Mee (dry) that Clement recommended, while Spin got the soup version. I really really love the fried wanton, its crispy and manages not to leave a cloying aftertaste in the mouth, and not too oily as well.

Clement (madjerk) got French Toast (the size is like, whoa)

Gerald got pork chop spaghetti (to me its so-so, I could have this at home)

On my second round, I got shrimp wrapped in beancurd skin. This wasn't really nice, it was much too oily and the skin was rather hard to chew through

Jaslin and me shared Japanese rice mochi with red bean paste and vanilla ice cream for dessert. I LOVE the mochi to bits, its OISHI!! And it looks too cute to be eaten lols

But the real highlight of the meal was the Mango Snow that we ordered. I don't have the pic but its colossal, and we couldn't finish it =x On the way home I got this from Jaslin (its supposed to be a Thai snack and I don't know the name either, at first I thought it was some delicate toy because it looked so real! Then Jas said it could be eaten) Cute isn't it?

Spent about $15 plus total on the food .. went home feeling bloated but otherwise happy

That's about it as far as posts go, probably won't update again soon.

Birthday Updates .. and HK Cafe PART 1

2008-05-19T21:53:00.006+08:00

My chocolate sponge birthday cake from Polar - before

And after. I commented that it was like weps that were +10 and my sis agreed lol. Geez, finding parellels among GE and real life @@

And then, there was an impromptu arrangement to go out to HK Cafe @ Kovan on Sunday 1pm for a belated bday celebration. Jas, Spin, Gerald and Clement turned up, which was quite ok. From the outside:

The inside view. Its cozy! I love the setting <3

And after we were done with our meal I opened my prezzie that Jaslin passed to me, a cute little voodoo doll keychain and a handy fan:

Thanks jie, I love it ^^

Gonna put all the food we had in PART 2

This bugger spoiled my mood

2008-05-17T16:59:00.004+08:00

I'd been having the IOF bug for days, where I don't get the loading screen when I run to it, my chars get stuck, then when I dc from it it takes like 10 mins before I can login again. Being sick of Skull, I decided to go and try IOF today, to see if I still had the bug.

This faggot called Deepsie who was w/o a faction was killing my sqd mates. When I went to ress them, he/she targeted me, and me only. Repeatedly killed me even when I ran, used soul crystal to ress myself, then this biatch would be back again to kill me.

Because of him/her my mood is spoiled. He/she has earned my eternal hate

On my bday~

2008-05-17T01:16:00.004+08:00

I chipped these stats myself, woots. Bday gal is lucky! haha

I bought 10 88 chips .. and the first chip I used struck jackpot

Then I went to chip my own rapier

So happy ^^ As for my prezzies .. on GE, Spin got me 70k g pts =0 THANKS SPIN!! Jas is mailing me my prezzie, Jerry gave me pure otite lols, SQ gave me a +5 Silver Cont ATK (the one that I chipped), Blue gave me Edward's White Grim Reaper Summon Ring, Tunes is gonna pass me my ERM which he said he would chip to DR3 FOC, Rildiz gave me a Desert Storm and the rest wished me happy bday~

As for real life .. my mum went to Polar Cakes when she went for her follow-up checkup on Thurs and bought a cake .. damn tempted to see what the cake looks like, ahh! But usually I will ask them not to buy a cake .. its only symbolic so we usually get those teensy cakes and order Pizza Hut or eat out. But this year .. both my sis n brother are coughing so we'll be staying home. But, she IS treating us to Mac Breakfast hehe .. and I'm supposed to be sleeping so I can wake at 8am .. or rather later but I'm still awake.

More updates later~

Food

2008-05-14T13:50:00.012+08:00

First, fresh fish sliced soup that I had on Monday 2 weeks ago, $3.50 from Koufu

**updates from last tuesday to friday**

Then on Tues, me, Mei Hong, Sihui, Andy and Raymond went to Yishun for lunch. We went to the laksa stall behind the bus interchange and had lunch there .. the dessert stall uncle was not very nice.

I've missed THIS laksa SO much. Oishii~ $2.20, from the side store (the front one is FAKE)

And then we got the durian ice cream too .. creamy, thick durian full of goodness. I swear by the authentic aroma of fresh durian~ $2.20

Then on Friday when I went to visit my mum at the hospital, I bought my dinner at the Tangs Marketplace .. hehe luckily I did get there alright

The shark fin soup .. $2.50 which turned out to be vegetarian full of mushrooms

TWILIGHT

2008-05-12T10:34:00.005+08:00

Forgive my fan gushing but its really .. awesome.

Kristen, Stephanie (the author) and Rob on the set of Twilight. It's already to die for, ahhh the hawtness .. but there's more

Ok, the official teaser trailer for Twilight is out here:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=33429669

And the first teaser poster is out too:

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/05/06/twilight-poster-designer-ready-to-tackle-sequels/

Kristen and Rob really, and I mean REALLY ooze chemistry! God, this is like any fangirl's dream come true - the director is staying true to the novel and the actors are staying true to their characters .. OMG its awesome. I can't even count the number of times my heart stopped watching the trailer (my nth time already) or looking at the poster .. and this is just the teaser! Everything's so intense, you can really SEE Bella and Edward in your head.

More links, which are really cool too:

Interview with Kristen and Rob:

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1585986/20080421/story.jhtml

Interview with Joey, the guy who shot teh awesome poster:

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1586900/story.jhtml

Intro to NYP's Food

2008-05-05T21:36:00.007+08:00

This post is mostly for Spin's benefit.

Showcasing:

Brownie covered in hot fudge with chocolate ice cream, $2.50. Milo freeze - $2, both from Splash and Decker. I used to order this frequently but now my cravings have changed. I still like it that it looks deceptively small - the taste is to die for. Choc ftw.

Then we have soup and bread rolls from The Grinning Gecko, $1.80. Some of you would have seen my pics of Surf and Turf already (and yes I had it for lunch today cos I missed it, and also the soup). Lovely, thick creamy home cooked broth. They use fresh ingredients, like fresh mushrooms or tender chunks of chicken, no Campbell Soup for them. And the bread is actually chewy~ toasted not fried.

Next, Laksa from South Canteen, $2. I don't really like the soup because its too thick for me, but portion wise its served in a nice, chummy bowl. The ingredients are ample enough for cheap fare.

And last but not least, Tempura Udon from the Japanese stall in Koufu, $3.50. The udon is a thick, chewy affair.

Will showcase more when I get the chance. Going down on Friday with my sis to visit my mum, so I'll pop over to Takashimaya on the way to satisfy my craving for pretzels woot~

WOF Outing .. and updates

2008-05-05T11:35:00.007+08:00

Forget mid may. My mum is having the op at Gleneagles on Thursday morning .. and she'll be discharged by Saturday if everything goes well. So on Friday and Saturday we're taking turns to go down to visit her. $10k .. which I don't think we'll be able to claim from insurance.

Next, WOF outing on Saturday. Met with Jas at 6pm, and we walked over to Funan IT Centre where the guys were already settled. BB En was there! Ahhh she kept smiling at me :D so cute. And yes the atmosphere during WOF was tense lols, but I'm glad we won. After that we went for dinner at Subway (originally would have gone to Mac but they were out of space for 15 people .. then we went to Delifrance .. and we'd already sat down when they spotted Subway. I feel sorry for the Delifrance staff .. business kena poach lol)

Anyway, I got Subway Melt~ and here's the pic of us. vivo refused to have his pic taken.

left to right: Firearmers's GF, Firearmers (Mike), viv's Sis (Fiona), viv (Adrian), ZmojaZz (Raymond), Baby En, Opheliia (Michelle), Valkrin (Eliza), Granaldo, DreamField, cyctoo (Francis)

in front: Gualian (Jerry) and madjerk

Ta for now.

2008-05-02T14:02:00.002+08:00

I've been lazy. Incredibly lazy the past weeks. I actually neglected to blog T_T

Anyways. My mum is due to undergo an op to remove her womb sometime mid-end May. It'll be for the best. My dad has a torn ligament in his knee. My bro refuses to buck up for his exams. And my sis .. O lvls is coming and she's seemingly casual about it.

Myself .. currently deliberating whether to go down Funan on Saturday to cheer my fac mates. IAH is organizing War of the Factions that day. Craving - laksa, pretzels (why can't I find any Aunt Anne's pretzels in SG =x), ice kachang, grilled stingray, dried mangoes.

Looking forward to Paul's return from Aus where he's doing his post-graduate studies. Dude you owe me a DVD session!

Last but not least, my new siggy on sGE forums:

Hot guys galore

2008-04-22T11:24:00.005+08:00

For teh hawtness:

Young Byakuya

Kanda

For teh laughs:

Gramps

For the WIN: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, movie trailer

Edward is hot! Bella looks just right .. thanks for stayin true to the book .. December ..can't wait for it woo~

Pics!

2008-04-18T12:16:00.007+08:00

.. but first, Bahamas. The Base Camp is beautiful - that goes for the OST Watersky too. But the map .. Marshlands, I've to pot like nuts and spam skills. Swamp of Darkness .. uggh, I can't even survive there, gotta be in a squad .. and I was lucky to survive til morning when afk.

Most likely I'll afk again in the morning, but I need sleep badly. I slept at 3 and woke at 6.40am and was happy to see I wasn't dead. And my wiz hit lvl 101 last night ^^

Ok, now pics of us last Friday:

Us at PastaMania. From left to right - Mr Wong, Agnes, Candy, Cheryl, Hui Shan, Yasser, Guang Zhe (against the wall), Dao Li, Yan Zhen, Rangini, Irene, me, Mei Hong, Mark.

Tucking in.

Irene with her tiramisu - reward for being making the most no. of calls in BSU.

Peeps playing in the arcade. Yasser is a natural at racing. But I myself won twice :D

On the way back to NYP after everything

That's all for now. I regret doing the logos and banners .. nobody appreciated my effort except Jas.

2008-04-13T10:48:00.008+08:00

Thursday and Friday~

We had our BSU sharing session in the afternoon - tons of fun, even though I don't particularly appreciate seeing myself in a video. Overall all the teams made a good effort in their presentation, especially the skits - all were charged with creative energy and humour.

Then, on the last day of BSU, Yan Zhen gave us all packets of nougats:

Personalized for each of us. And we all went to Pastamania at Junction 8 with Mr. Wong for lunch, and stayed to play at the arcade (more pics when I get them). I ordered Country Baked Pasta:

And I took a video of this girl at the arcade who was like a pro basketball player .. I swear, she moves like a robot or something. Here you go:

Sunday~

My mum has been complaining of shortness of breath and feeling her muscles tense, making her whole body ache. So she went to see this Chinese doctor at Jurong East who gave a diagnosis so accurate without my mum having to say anything. Basically, my mum's womb lining is as thick as a lady 2-3 mths pregnant would be, and this is the cause of her back aches, shortness of breath etc. Also my mum's blood pressure is low, bordering on a dangerous level, which is why she feels dizzy at time; and the sinseh actually said it would be better if menopause came earlier for my mum, which would have prevented this kind of thing from happening. She prescribed medicine, but referred my mum to a specialist at Gleneagles for consultation .. something which will rack up large hospital bills and include a major op.

I do so wish this wasn't happening but as it is .. we'll be lucky to get through this with no complications.

Hopefully going to KL

2008-04-08T15:17:00.004+08:00

Ack, so finding hotel rates and comparing them hurts my head. Anyways, a bunch of friends are planning on going to KL City Centre on 17 May (my bday!) to 19 May (Vesak Day). 3D2N~ And from the research I've done so far - coach (2 way) will cost me $97 (we're choosing Aeroline since its cheaper), hotel will cost me about $100 (we're looking at Novotel Hydro Majestic, 4 star hotel) and I'll be sharing a room with Jas (IF, and a big IF I'm confirmed going). But so far Jas, Spin, Gerald and Jerry going .. I hope more go so its cheaper (don't ask me how but I think it'll be)

Grassland VIP Coach is more expensive, and they go straight to Corcus Hotel which is also expensive so yeah .. that option is out. And my mum just had to ask about the objective for the trip. and she said "what about the Mas S thing" I was like eh, ROFL. What does Mas Selamat have to do with going to KL zz .. except that the baggage check will take longer to clear, that's all.

Head still hurts .. but I hope my mum will give teh green light. Keepin my fingers crossed.

For the LOLS (win)

2008-04-08T09:26:00.005+08:00

Picture 1.

Misinterpretation much?

So when I bought the boxes from him .. he say "how can like that offset" .. and yet he reply "ok" in the fac chat zzz .. so in the end I still owe him 55m.

Now, for picture #2.

So true lols, I'm like that haha. Then another pic:

And I left Rebels last night .. to return to HR. FF shoot me on forum I shoot her back .. want say me gan gan say zzz ..

Sunday was ..

2008-04-07T09:31:00.004+08:00

.. disastrous, for lack of a better word. We were running all over the map, only to get warped to the towns as other factions took last hit .. owned by EVN, Genesis (Miyafuckji is hum ji) .. and the coordination last night was very bad. Some of the members happily went MIA during the war while others gave up halfway. Only good thing that happened was that I bought a E.84 Mantis Rod, and +5 it successfully from +0; the first chip I used gave me AR+2, hee ^^

Never ever got a AR stat on any of my weps before .. so yeah I'm quite pleased. Thinking of joining my sis's faction to support her, go to HR or go solo .. whichever works for me.

P.S: I like my blog song a lot ^^

ADD-ON: D.Gray-man

OP1 - Innocent Sorrow

OP2 - Brightdown

Doubt & Trust - Access OP3

NEW Gekidou - OP4

2008-04-03T16:56:00.002+08:00

Found the lyrics for Lala's Lullaby, and its actually in Latin.

Lacrimosa dies illa
Qua resurget ex favilla
Judicandus homo reus.
Huic ergo parce, Deus,
Pie Jesu Domine,
dona eis requiem. Amen.

English Lyrics Translation:

Requiem day that
on which will arise from the burning coals
man accused to be judged.
therefore, O God, do Thou spare him,
faithful Lord Jesus,
grant them rest. Amen.

Am feeling drained after rushing the Tiong Bahru Plaza report and completing it, uggh. Then I have to complete my TEP report by tonight and print .. and I'm only on GE these days less than 20 mins .. haiz I need ice cream

D.Gray-man

2008-04-01T19:34:00.002+08:00

Finished the manga chapters up to 154 .. waiting for more updates: Bleach, Naruto, Rosario + Vampire, Ai to Himegoto~

I must say, I like them a lot, even though Bleach's filler arc currently is more exciting .. chapter 135 has young Ukitake omg .. he's so hot even when young ..

So now I've started on the anime series of D.Grayman .. its ok, but they changed some things in the anime version. Up to episode 16 as I blog this. And I absolutely adore Kanda~ his voice, his looks, his everything kyaaa~ Kakashi takes a backseat! Kanda's the new cool!

Here's a nifty link for D.Gray-man anime info: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6764

As for the soundtracks, I went to register on a forum just so I could get the OST for Season 1 and 2. Blog's song is Lala's Lullaby performed by Wada Kaoru - this song is played in episode 4 and 5, a real soulful piece.

Crunchyroll is getting worse .. if they license Saiunkoku Monogatari season 2 I will scream. And boycott indefinitely. Meanwhile, veoh is still my chioce for high quality anime vids.

I got featured!

2008-03-31T22:56:00.003+08:00

Muhaha. Click here and read ^^

and twice .. me was in teh photo 3rd from right .. but I was covered .. bleh

Anyways, Human Link asked me to represent 4A and prepare for an interview they wanted to do for BSU sharing, Thomas was chosen for team 4B .. and they gave me some qns, but because I finished reading D.Gray-man manga, I went on to watch the anime .. which I think both roxxors .. so I didn't prepare yet.

And a report to be handed in on Friday .. GG to me =x

And we won!!

2008-03-30T23:17:00.004+08:00

It was a crazy CW this week. Laggy, but fun ^^ We won Desolate Cliff, lost it then got it back again. I died and lagged so many times I lost count, potted like mad and relogged .. And after that we got vis XD from Dan, who distributed it out.

Who attended: Me, Analytic, FinaLDestinyz, Icrine, JohnneWalker, LEONHARTIA, Dan (he returned to take over his pilot after we won back Deso), Reventz, SiegeMasters, Sigs, Starsunder, TheSaviour, Valkrys, angelovista, drawz, jaydee and babydoll.

I was telling them the whole day to save warp .. and its tiring, I think I need a secretary huhu. Any nominations? ^^ And, everyone flocks to money but when getting all to go for CW ...

Gonna share 2 pics b4 I sleep:

This is what true friendship means. Moja was talking about the "pain" as in the damage he got from IsageComm, FL of SexyBunnies. But even so, he bravely led an attack on them with the rest of HellRaiders to help us, their ally.

Next, the moment we captured Desolate Cliff back again.

Good going guys, great job and good work! Next CW the colonies will be reset so we must work harder and be united ^^ Don't just go CW for the money ok? haha

That's about it, ta for now.

P.S: After Colony War ended Reloaded still did not truce us. They refused. And while going back to Auch from El Lago I was CHASED by 5 families from Reloaded. WTF. Now I hate them and Genesis too. RAWR. Death to Reload!!!

Blog Song

2008-03-28T16:36:00.001+08:00

Figured You Out - Nickleback

I like your pants around your feet
I like the dirt that's on your knees
And I like the way you still say please
While you're looking up at me
You're like my favourite damn disease

And I love the places that we go
And I love the people that you know
And I love the way you can't say no
Too many long lines in a row
I love the powder on your nose

Ooooh
And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard
Just to figure you out
And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard
Just to figure you out

I like the freckles on your chest
And I like the way you like me best
And I like the way you're not impressed,
While you put me to the test
I like the wine stains on your dress

And I love the way you pass the check
And I love the good times that you wreck
And I love your lack of self respect
While you're passed out on the deck
I love my hands around your neck

And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard
Just to figure you out
And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard
Just to figure you out

I love your pants around your feet
And I love the dirt that's on your knees
And I like the way you still say please
While you're looking up at me
You're like my favourite damn disease

And I hate the places that we go
And I hate the people that you know
And I hate the way you can't say no
Too many long lines in a row
I hate the powder on your nose

And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard
Just to figure you out
And now I know who you are
It wasn't that hard
Just to figure you out

***I love this song***

2008-03-27T14:08:00.002+08:00

Went for the Career Talk ytd. Wasn't really a talk, since there were only 2 speakers. And, the gist of it is like all the stuff my mum tells me about, when she comes back from courses like this. And my sis liked the career driver survey so much she went to type it out. Anyway, I think the male lecturer is cute. :p

And we had BSU Games Day ytd. From 2 plus to 5, we ran around the whole campus Amazing Race style, solving clues, figuring out the next location and playing games. I swear, my feets ache =x and I think I must have been the slowest in my group haha. What no exercise does to you T_T

And we all stank when it was over. Although, the teeny weeny souvenir of a cup (from Ikea) was well .. not adequate to make up for the "technical error" (inside joke) .. So our group which should have been first was not the winner, instead it was the 3rd grp with Kasheef as leader who won. I swear the second team leader Yaseh was so shocked haha.

Today just slacking off .. phew my baby is lvl 29 now, but her Possession Fire isn't maxed yet, haiz.

Warning: I expose myself in this post. Read but don't flame.

2008-03-25T16:35:00.007+08:00

***Warning: this is a long post. I ranted in it. I exposed myself in it. Comment if you will but I don't need pity. I'll be numb after this, will most prob be back to normal by tomorrow I guess***

Poor Arlene. Look at this

Hell, I shouldn't be posting in such a direct manner that exposes me on forums or here, but what the heck, I'll still do it anyway.

I think it's sad that parents always like to compare. I hate it when my mum starts on me. It's like they can't help it or something, like they always have to pick on some nitty gritty flaw of yours. Like so-and-so's son/daughter went to university, had good grades etc, or gave tuition .. while you're here rotting your life away with games. Or, your cousin is having a part-time job, while you're slacking away. Or, your sister gets better grades than you, why can't you buck up and do better too? Instead of these Cs and Ds. You're a failure. You're useless. You're a good for nothing. I don't know why can't you be more like whoever's better than you. Yada yada, on and on it goes. Retreating to my room, the only place in the house where I can have peace for a while, before my mum barges in and demands I leave the door open, or comes in to continue her tirade.

Sometimes I try to block out her words and let them wash over me; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. And when it doesn't I try to chase her out of the room. Then she pointedly tells me I'm being rude, that this is her house, that I should just wake up my idea. At times like this, I feel the overwhelming urge to run away. Like that time I was at the LAN shop instead of at a friend's house like I gave as an excuse, and was resigned to walking the streets til morning, not having enough money to get a cab, unsure of what bus would get me home. Titan found me. I was fortunate. And he was the first stranger I'd met who helped me. Who was kind to me. Who, despite my tight-lipped silence as I sat on the floor in his rented flat, passed me spare clothes and told me to bathe. Who told me not to be shy about sleeping in his bed and have a good sleep while he took the spare mattress. Who called Ximen after that to let him and Shushu know I was safe(they hadnt broken up yet). Who coaxed me to tell him what was bothering me. And reluctantly I told him. Never once had I let my guard down before a stranger. I told him some things, skirted some issues but at the end of it he told me home was the best. I won't go on, see my comment in (), its painful remembering anyways. (this happened back in Sept 3, 07 - you can look in my archives if you want)

But up to now, I realize I miss him. Not like, in a romantic way, but I miss him a friend. I wonder how he's doing right now. I have his hp but I'm afraid to call. In case he answers, and wonders what is a girl who used to be in the same faction (Satis, then Critical Infinitum) as him, and who used to play with the group down at Parklane up to. He did call me, once or twice after the incident to ask if I was ok. Then we would make awkward conversation, and say goodbye. I would go to sleep, happy in a buoyant way. I think I was starved for kindness, but I was glad that I ran away from home that time. And I told myself I would not do something so stupid again, but I'm not sure.

10+ years. That's how long I've been listening to my mum degrade me. I can't believe how pathetic I am, nearly 20 and still unable to fend for myself financially, unable to be emotionally stable. I'm bad at studies. I take things to heart, always acting on impulse. My heart rules me and not my head. I play GE to de-stress. I read fanfictions and such .. just so I can put off those negative thoughts for long enough not to commit suicide or run away again.

If I could live life over, maybe I would choose to be born into a different family. One that does not pressures me. My mum cares for me in her own way, I know. But she has high standards, high expectations that her children should do well. And I fail horribly at meeting these expectations. I can't suddenly grow brain cells and become a genius overnight. I try, but it never satisfies my mum. Since young, me and my sister, when we fail some subjects (yes, my sis is clever but lazy .. and she does fail her subjects too), we dread showing our results to her. Because that would mean a long long tirade that never ends. That continues even after dinner and we escape to our room. Then she tells my dad, and she starts comparing us to xxx. The same routine all over again. Its a vicious cycle, but it never stops.

Sometimes I catch myself thinking "what ifs" and "how I wish". But no amount of wishing makes reality easier to bear. So until this all ends, my only recourse to sanity is games. I could choose the blade but I'm squeamish about cutting myself.

One day I'll fly away .. leave all these to yesterday ...

I lurve my friends ..

2008-03-25T09:55:00.002+08:00

.. so being so helpful :D

That book dear SD told me about, Twilight by Stephanie Meyer .. I went to check NLB catalogue but it was all on loan/reserved *faints* So SD and me were discussing the possibilities of Borders stocking this book, cos I said I didn't mind buying.

And then, Rildiz, my Swedish friend from GE came on, and I asked him to find the e-book for me .. and he did! haha I'm so happy~

Going off to read it now ^^ Thanks a bunch lols

God, I miss Dan like crazy T_T

Listening to: You'll Never Be Alone - Anastacia

2008-03-25T00:36:00.005+08:00

This incident happened on Sun night, before I went to sleep. (refer to pic taken while in Skull Dung)

While running to Ferrucio Junction to save warp for this coming CW, I stopped just before the entrance at Stone Pit to reply to pms. This Penthouses guy ran past, and then stopped beside me and killed the mobs around. When I was done, he said "You have to give me ..." I was like, WTF lols. Just because my wiz was wearing Original Wiz costume (starting costume) and my fighter was wearing Sunset Stripe costume, this guy thinks I'm some noob who needed saving. Hello, I'm like veteran already zzz. I didn't know whether to laugh or get mad at him. Then I promptly removed my costume to show him what I was wearing - Clara Mago and Gladiator Armor and told him I was a vet.

After we ended the conversation and I had reached a spot to save warp, I decided to pm my friend Wingdols who was in Espanola faction, same as this perp. He told me Penthouses was a noob, a new member who just joined a faction an hour ago. We both had a good laugh as I recounted the incident to him.

And I repeated to my sister. And because it's too funny to pass up I HAD to share it here as well lols.

Ok, next - 2 pics from Sunday's CW .. the attendees who went and won a colony for us. Credits to Starsunder who sent me the images:

Ana's Treasure Golem:

Close-up shot:

Victors:

Wonderful news ^^

2008-03-23T22:14:00.006+08:00

*this post will only be about GE*

First, my fighter finally reached vet today! After crazy grinding for the past few days, she finally made it. At 9.10pm, Elentari achieved vet status ^^

Happily went to Bahia to take celebratory pics:

The trio of vets:

While I was posing away, 9.50pm -

I was so shocked and happy. Thanks to the brave efforts of Analytic, Starsunder, Zervantes, Reventz, LEONHARTIA, jaydee and PaLLeRa (Dan was sick so his pilot took over for this CW) and a soon-to-be-faction-mate SuperSaiyans, we managed to get a colony ^^ First time too. And luckily there wasn't enough time for my friend NoVoCaine to get their colony back since 10pm was the end of CW. I did tell them not to war GoD faction, but well, something good came out of it.

So now the World Map has our faction name on it:

Well done peeps~ Congrats again ^^ We'll have to work hard to defend our colony next week ^^

2008-03-20T16:33:00.002+08:00

Was a tad moody ytd .. but Dan and an old friend from EL cheered me up ^^

Chatted with said friend about her family .. her baby boy Gabriel is turning 4 months soon, and his older sister Aurora is 18 months old and adores her lil bro. Hope ya find a good man who cherishes you and your kids, gal. Send me postcards when you move to Washington!

And I got jackpot~ [URL=http://img204.imageshack.us/my.php?image=capture00023tr9.jpg][IMG]http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/4426/capture00023tr9.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

First time that I got so many gold bars ^^ Now I just need to train more to go to Kato. And my sis is lvl40 already, I'm so proud of her. She's ready to move to Port Bello to train~ Gonna bring her around for the Adelina quest.

Just wanted to introduce Kelvin's comic strip to you guys, I'll leave things here.

Results out ..

2008-03-19T08:40:00.002+08:00

.. and I phailed for SENGP.

A whole string of C and Ds, no surprises there. But even my best effort for SENGP paper couldn't save me. Haiz. I'm so not looking forward to breaking the news to my mum. Nor repeating for that subject.

*stoned*

2008-03-18T00:04:00.002+08:00

And it continues.

The thread I made (see earlier post) is now 3 pages, and counting. Meanwhile player02 seems to have launched a personal attack against me here

I've had worse. Let's see how soon he gets banned.

*playlist changed from Rozen Maiden OST to something more soothing, on Spin's request*

So cyber bullying .. prevails?

2008-03-17T14:01:00.003+08:00

Spending a few days away from sGE forums cost me dearly.

When I went to the "Other" section of General Chat this afternoon, this is what I saw: a friend of mine, Kusa, being bullied by the other residents of GC.

Take a look here if you like. Look down the whole page, and read if you will, on how they bully her.

In the end I posted this, being fed-up:

It just saddens me that there are idiotic people like those who enjoy tormenting my dear friend like this. Is it a crime to be yourself? Is it wrong to have your endings in meow, etc etc

Sheesh.

2008-03-13T19:29:00.007+08:00

I must say, TEP is the weirdest period of time spent in sch. As I'm in BSU with group 4A, when we're not calling people, we're doing data entry, data analysis, talking, eating, snacking, stoning, discussion that kills brain cells (cos its hard for us to agree on anything), slacking, sneaking off (esp certain people ..). And, getting ready for a presentation around 27 Mar, for our DBS client.

1 week plus, and I've come to realise .. I dunno, sort of hate this routine that I fall into invariably everyday. Lunch at 12pm, and the rest of the day rotting if we have nothing to do. haiz

And I hate the godforsaken rain! It rains everyday and we freeze everyday too.

Slacked off updating my blog cos I'm mostly tired when I reach home these days. Other than catching up on anime and manga, and watching movies online, otherwise I pretty much get bored.

Anyways, went with my parents to Changi Airport on Tues to fetch my sis home. We arrived early so we explored Terminal 3:

"Hanging Gardens of Babylon" in the background. And I love the ceiling (see below)

They had a kopitiam, and Candy Empire OMG. But the shops were sparse, and some weren't open yet. And, I saw Secret Recipe there too. Woots~ Terminal 3 is really spacious, but whether it can be better .. we'll see. And planning for T4 is already beginning, so I wonder if T3 will be able to develop into a nice terminal, or get overshadowed by the future T4.

This is what the outside of Crystal Jade Shanghai looks like. You can't miss its curves - the restaurant is just on top of the Departure sign board.

And by the time we reached home and was ready to settle down, it was 2 plus am already. Couldn't stay awake the next day and was late =x My sis got me a nice handmade scarf, coloured silver and black. My mum got a handbag while my dad got a shirt. As for my little bro, he got a nice wooden box, with a carved, lacquered dog on the cover. In the end they were so rushed, they only had 1.5 hrs to shop so my sis didn't buy much. I'm just glad she's home safe.

Makan

2008-03-08T17:39:00.009+08:00

My day started at 8am, when I woke early to go with my parents to Sembawang Hill Food Centre @ Upper Thomson Road for breakfast. From Yishun MRT we took bus 169, passing by the Khatib and Nee Soon army camps along the way. Our target - kway chap at this stall which I had missed from my childhood days. Hadn't been there for 10 years.

Stomachs sated, we decided to walk around and explore the shops, and upon seeing this restaurant and perusing the menu, we agreed on coming back later for lunch.

According to mum IVINS is a pretty well known eatery that has been around for 10+ years, specializing in authentic Peranakan food. Since we were quite full from breakfast, we went on to Pierce Reservoir nearby to walk a bit.

Took these pictures while we were there:

We decided to go on the trail, which was quite a short one, and found this strange tree with little "apples" on it.

By the time we were done it was 11.30am already, and starting to feel hungry we walked back to IVINE. The food on the menu was quite affordable, about $4/5 per dish. We ordered ayam buah keluak (spicy chicken curry, the in-house favourite), honey pork, sotong sambal, hee peow soup (fish maw), otak otak pangang (spicy fishcake wrapped in banana leaf), nonya chap chye.

The honey pork, which was recommended by the waitress, lives up to expectations. Don't be fooled by its appearance, when fried with onions and peas this dish really hits the spot. Warm, juicy, succulent pork with that tinge of sweetness .. its oishi, sedap, SUBARASHI~~~~~ *floats*

Otak in its banana leaf wrapping. Its soft, melts-in-your mouth and is also very spicy

Chendol for dessert. They added gulah melaka so it was really sweet =x But the sweet aroma of coconut lends a strong flavour to this dessert.

The rest of the dishes were not bad, but the chap chye was too salty for me, and the sotong sambal could have been stir fried instead of gravy. Nevertheless, it was a great lunch we had.

Can't wait to go back there again. 20 out of 10 stars ^^

A flight~

2008-03-06T19:27:00.002+08:00

Yesterday, my mum brought this home for me from the office: an Aboriginal necklace that her colleague had bought while in New Zealand.

While its simple, I like its design very much, and have started wearing it ^^

Oh, but more importantly .. today morning at 4am, my sister embarked on her 5D4N field trip to Cambodia with her class. For the past few days over the weekend, she had been packing, buying things that she needed. My mum and dad woke early at 2am to wake her up and send her to the airport. The noise they made woke me too, and I laughed when she came into the room twice before leaving the house to hug her bolster. Haha, I think she'd wished she could bring it lols. And I told her to come back safely. I hope she does.

Had I been apply to apply for leave I would have gone too .. as it is, they took a tour around the new Terminal 3, before having some coffee and coming home to sleep. Maybe when its time for my sis to come back I'll tag along and see for myself what T3 is like.

Work at BSU is fine, and we're all getting used to waking early, signing in and slacking until 9am. We're also used to calling people/data entry. But, what we haven't got used to is the freaking COLD of our project room and call centre. When my group went down for lunch break today, we were all shaking from the cold, brr.

I'm thinking of quitting GE .. lost the interest for it, haiz.

TEP.

2008-03-03T18:35:00.004+08:00

aka Teaching Enterprise Project. Module code BM 0514. 100% ICA hoho

weightage of marks:

Performance Appraisal (80%) - 40% x 2 rounds
Summary Report (10%) - 5% x 2 rounds
Peer Appraisal (10%) - 5% x 2 rounds

Working hours: 8.30am to 5.30pm, Mon to Fri

Lunch break: 12 - 1 pm.

Pay = ZERO

Punctuality is a MUST. So no more late nights.

For me, I'm in Business Service Centre (BSC) from 3 Mar to 11 April. Then after that I get a shirt rest before doing my IPP in ELDC from 14 Apr to 23 May. I'm assigned to group 4A with Dao Li and another girl, we're doing telephone surveys. Currently, there's one for SBM, which we will start on tomorrow, and another one commissioned by DBS (which the current grp 4A have already started) which we will do when finished with SBM.

I foresee Strepsils, plenty of water bottles incoming my way =x

Icy cold fun~

2008-02-28T18:56:00.003+08:00

Met the group at Jurong East, in the end the guys decided to fly kite so it was only me, my group (Saihah - aka organiser, Huiqi, Clara, Sihan), Wei Shan, Shermin, Jess, Grace, Bing Xi, Dao Li and Robin who turned up. Since there was a promotion for Thursday, we each paid $12 for 2 hrs of ice skating.

I fell once, sustained blisters, and pretty much sticked to the side of the rink and slowly made my way around. It was only til the last 30 mins that I could skate without having to hold on to the side so short intervals. There were some pro skaters who made me jealous of the way they zoomed around so gracefully .. of course, there were little kids who were taking lessons from the instructors as well; it was fun to watch them.

After that, we stopped at 4pm and went to Pizza Hut for our lunch-cum-dinner. I got the Pizza Set Meal with a drink and soup (I chose Hawaiian):

Stella arrived just when we were finishing our meal. And the bill came up to $9.50 for me, which was ok I guess. Falls, laughter, enjoyment of each others company .. that's how I would sum up today's outing. But, we all had fun, which was most important, and yeah I throughly enjoyed ice skating. Its fun enough for me to want to go for another session again, if there's a chance ^^

Will upload more pics when I get them.

That's all for now ^^

Exams .. over!

2008-02-27T20:22:00.003+08:00

3 papers are all done ^^

Compared to last time 5 papers .. this time I slacked off on the last paper but ah well, guess I'm becoming accustomed to exams =x I think I put in my best effort for Econs and SENGP, hopefully my grades will be ok.

And tomorrow, our class is going ice skating @ Jurong East .. kind of like a get-together since we will all be splitting for TEP, IPP, some going Beijing, others studying first ... so it will be a long time before we will see each other again.

Myself, on 3rd March I have a TEP briefing at 8am

No holidays anyway. And I'm still waiting for updates on these anime: Saiunkoku Monogatari II, Bleach, Naruto, Rosario + Vampire.

Hoping there will be season 3 for Rozen Maiden: Traumend. Meanwhile, I'm watching Ah! My Goddess and Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan.

Ta for now.

I feel like I'm drifting further and further away from him ..

I love mods

2008-02-22T12:21:00.004+08:00

There was a guy on sGE forums today, anti_bot hacker who apparently posted details (at 10.54am) from HR's private forum about their stance against botting, and some more proudly said that he spent 5 hrs to hack into it. I went to alert Sam about the thread:

http://forum.iahgames.com/ge/showthread.php?t=31195

and when I got back to Gen Disc section, voila, thread gone, and apparently TS also banned or something, cos couldn't find him in member list. Too bad I didn't screenshot.

LOL, and that infamous Irysfied use the post and make a long bolded list zz .. effort wasted haha

I think Hrin must have done it ^^ Goooo mods!

Edit: Ok, thread is still there but Hrin made TS edit his first post. But my post got quote him saying that:

I'm only waiting for certain pple in forum to get banned ...

WOOOOOT~

2008-02-20T10:05:00.003+08:00

I wonder if you, my dear readers remember me telling you all about the "Love Me" contest in sGE forums. Well, results came out today, and the first 10 winners have been announced, just take a look:

2nd on the list!!!! I'm so proud of my boy ^^ hee~ And grats to the other winners with good entries as well, I didn't get in T_T but nvm, next time I shall ..

Viva la anime~

2008-02-19T19:47:00.004+08:00

While mugging for exams, I fell in love with anime. Yes, and many series too!

First, Saiunkoku Monogatari, now in its 2nd series.

Next, Rosario To Vampire. I only like the ending song:

And lastly but not forgetting Harunkanaru Toki no Nakade Hachiyosho, but couldn't find the video, ah well.

Of course, I'm still watching Rozen Maiden, Bleach, Naruto Shippuden as well, so that makes .. 6 animes at a go whoo~

Ganbatte!!

p.s: I want Shunki's ring =)

2 songs, 1 video

2008-02-13T11:20:00.002+08:00

1) 4 in the morning, by Gwen Stefani.

lyrics somehow struck a chord with me view lyrics here

2) Almost Here, by Delta Goodrem feat. Brian Mcfadden

A beautiful track I found. view lyrics here

lastly, a video. I think it's time we be honest with each other. Enough with words, if you still don't get my message we're through. I'm really tired.

Where will we go from here? It's your call.

New Year's over, exams incoming

2008-02-12T09:35:00.000+08:00

So, as the weekend passes by, so does CNY ends. 4 days of non-top eating, visiting relatives .. I'm kind of tired of traditions. And routines, like visiting. All we do is chat, eat, watch tv and play card games. Makes me wonder if any of my cousins get bored of doing the same thing, no doubt once per year.

Found a nice little corner of Woodlands on Sun when we decided to go out. They cycled, I walked/jogged all the way to where RP is, and went in to the park. Curiously enough, its called Khatib Park tho the location is nowhere near Khatib.

Its a large, airy space just right outside RP's compound, a haven for skaters and cyclists. Was quite windy that day, and I composed this poem while watching the children play at the playground. Very short and untitled, but inspiration has been poor for me lately.

Unfettered by chains,
running in joy unbridled.

Unbothered by critiques,
playing with carefree feeling.

Such is innocence,
such are little children.

2008-02-06T22:14:00.000+08:00

I finally got to see the video that Dan has been pouring sweat and blood over today, on New Year Eve. In the process of making it I never got a hint of what he was capturing, but now I know. ^^ Here it is, and luckily he submitted it for the contest in time, cos they closed the thread.

All our favourite tracks ..

<3 the video but <3 my boy more

Happy New Year everyone!

2008-02-04T11:34:00.000+08:00

Having IB presentation at 1pm later. This will be the final (whee) presentation for that module.

Econs rev tut and lec on Tues. Wednesday, Biz Com presentation of a 5 mins speech, done solo. The horrors and I haven't started on it yet =x Next Monday, I have a compulsory SENGP tut T_T

Everything is so .. jia lat. But I only have myself to blame.

And .. I promised Dan not to be impulsive. And to try to change. Sorry if I hurt you hon =x

And .. X Japan's Yoshiki's Good bye is lovely. Haven't heard it in a long long time.

P.S: lvl 30 Chunin, taking Sp Jounin exam today yayness~

P.S.S: training my new team, lvl 12 elems and a scout on my own. My sis is lvl 21 already ^^

Ordeal over?

2008-01-31T12:13:00.001+08:00

Finally, the blasted - depressing - stressful - idiotic - damnable ITIPJ is over.

A lot of sweat, blood and tears went into our presentation, which we did our best for. Scott and Lim were relatively ok .. up to our turn to present we were still debugging errors as much as possible. Its over now so I don't want to talk about it .. but, I just want to say that things may happen when you least expect them. And when they happen .. well nobody wanted to it but ah well, to my team: good one, all. And .. I don't know Kelvin as well as the rest of you do but maybe we should give him a treat or something? =x

First thing I did when I got home yesterday was to head for my bed. Of course my mum nagged me to have dinner first, but I was drained, not to mention hurting from my blisters (which still hurt despite the plaster). Was in a relatively bad mood last night, don't know why. Then when I woke at 9 plus pm over dinner my mum told me about an incident that happened to her yesterday while she was on her way home from the doctor's.

Apparently she had gone to Cold Storage to buy some muah chee (the ones in the packets) like this:

and had bought a little bag for us. Then she happened to pass by this store at the pasar malam near Woodlands MRT which was also selling muah chee from Taiwan, but the biscuit type and not the soft ones. When she went near, the ah pek (in his forties) and a young man (in his 20s with dyed hair) went to attend to her. The old man kept opening packets of muah chee for my mum to try out the flavours, saying "Yi nian yi chi, gan gan chi la, mei shi de. Lai, wo kai gei ni" (in Chinese, meaning that my mum was free to try his goods since this was a once a year thing (CNY) and that it was alright.) So, after trying out a few my mum decided to buy a little bag from them too. But who would have known the ah pek was trying to "kotok" my mum. Once she said she wanted to buy some, he immediately got a huge plastic bag and filled it by the armful with bags and bags of muah chee. My mum gaped at him, saying she didn't want so much. But the ah pek only repeated the same old line "yi nian yi chi" and when he was done weighing he told my mum, "Auntie, 2kg for $36 hor". Then my mum "huh" very loud, and all the other storekeepers nearby all looked at her cos this was early in the morning and she was the only customer around.

When my mum told him she didn't have enough, the ah pek asked to see how much she had in her wallet. When he saw that she had only $7 plus left, the ah pek said in Chinese "Auntie cannot be lar, your wallet so big how can so little money nia" then my mum said she only had this left since she had already bought a bag of muah chee from Cold Storage earlier. Then the ah pek said, "Aiya, Auntie, $20 I give you la, discount can la"The helper demanded to see what she bought, and brazenly OPENED MY MUM'S BAG OF MUAH CHEE AND ATE 2 PACKETS, giving the excuse that he wanted to sample what other stores were selling. While this was going on, the ah pek took the large bag he had filled up, and began pouring out (and I think deliberately) a lot of it til the only flavours left were the common ones like chest nut and red bean; and not the flavours my mum wanted to buy.

In the end he sold 400g of muah chee to my mum. When I finished hearing her story my mood turned worse. Wah lao .. this kind of uncle, want to scam people and some more so unreasonable de. Dirty business tactics sia wtf. Even though my mum says she think the uncle only trying to clear his stock fast. Must report to CASE *grumble*

I feel like going down to the pasar malam @ Causeway Pt and take his picture then post to Stomp sia. Hum chin peng.

After that, went on GE to bring my sis around. She direction sense still cannot make it, but at least I teach her how to read coordinate she can tell me her coor so I can find her lols. Level 13 liao not bad haha. And she happily report to me that she did a lot of quests liao and she knows how to use city guide to travel. T_T Then she tell me she want bellem boxes, I told her I supply the gold pieces but she camp at golden well for me, then split the boxes 30%/70%. Since she don't mind, then I said equips with good stats I will pass her, the rest I keep.

That was last night. This morning, I woke up in a better mood. Maybe cos my mum made pancakes whee~ At the moment in sch for my IB project meeting. Wanna go home early to play GE .. or sleep. See how ba~

2008-01-29T22:16:00.000+08:00

My sore throat still bugs me persistently. Drinking more water helps nuts. And the late night cycle still continues.

Today was spent coding and doing report. CRM final lecture was so short. Not even half the cohort turned up and no-one said goodbye to Ms Cheng. Skipped my Econs revision lecture but I don't feel guilty. My grp mates, especially Jess and Grace and Shermin have sacrificed their sleep these past few days to do the compilation, coding, coordinating etc etc.

I wanna thank Jess for doing the payment part for me. Really didn't know how to validate the fields required, so sorry. And also Grace and Shermin, for their help.

10.21pm now, as I blog. The others I saw in school today are either on their way home or already home. After this week is over I think we all need to de-stress. And because of my whacked schedule lately I haven't talked to my hon, if at all. I miss him like crazy =x

But I'm also very proud of him for getting 8th place in the top 10 winners for this event.
Way to go hon~ I look forward to watching the video you made. ^^

P.S: Winston if you ka jiao my sis I will not forgive joo.

supa .. KO~

2008-01-28T15:56:00.000+08:00

KO-ed by a few things.

Was rushing for my IB and ITIPJ during the weekends. But, my Payment page still doesn't work. So came back to school today and froze *insert body part* while doing my pages first in the lab and then moved to Disc Room 505 to continue.

And my hotmail seems to be bugged. Recipients don't get my email nor attachments =x So, have to resort to msn.

And I've sore throat since last Saturday when I ate too much muah chee (the Japanese ones in the little packets). Think I'm coming down with something. And I had Surf n Turf for lunch. Trust me to choose something fried to aggravate my throat =x

And I saw the girls in sch. Like, o_0 wat r dey doing o_0

Winston added to my headache while I was debugging. We were talking about my sis (who just started GE) and then moved on to sec sch subjects. And he had to go on and on about chemistry T_T My biggest nightmare next to VStudio. Bleh. What's so nice about chem anyway? Physics ftw!!

Chemistry is still my Achilles heel. The logic eludes me til today.

Look like its another "pia" session today. Noooo~

2008-01-25T02:20:00.000+08:00

Having 3 presentations later on. SENGP at 12pm, Econs at 10am and CRM at 3pm.

My CRM group stayed back at school til about 9pm to finish the slides and report, sans the leader who couldn't have chosen a better time to fall sick. And who did not pick up calls. >.<

Rehearsing took us a while too .. and I managed to spare a bit of time for my ITIPJ. The images are still not appearing but everything else works fine.

Missed quite a few Econs project meetings .. if I could Kage Bunshin I would attend but ah well, as I've said it IS a drag.

Next week, other than ITIPJ presentation, we have Biz Com presentation too .. this time individual speech on charity. Ho hum.

Off to crash .. late nights are rather prevalent now huh. Or should I say mornings. Ciao.

2008-01-23T22:47:00.000+08:00

All I will say for XML is ..

I know I will flunk the module. Nuff said.

For today ..

MR down to exam paper.
Waking up at 6am makes you a walking zombie trying to stay awake.
The school seriously needs more plugs.
We need portable chairs when stranded with no lab.
Scored 75/100 for my Biz Com ICA2.
Econs is getting to be a drag. I want the project over. Faster. And the exam too.
I forgot how to delete things from database for ITIPJ.
Someone bomb my school pls.
Projects make people (mad/moody/upset/tired/irritated/stressed).
And lastly, I need an organizer. Like, seriously.

Crazy Week

2008-01-21T12:54:00.000+08:00

If I thought last week was worse .. this week is worser. Yeah, there's a word called worser.

Anyway, a breakdown of events:

XML practical test tomorrow on Web Services

Wednesday

SENGP revision lec
MR presentation
no MR/SENGP lectures tho

Thursday

CRM project meeting. No CRM tut tho

Friday

Econs presentation
SENGP test

Next Monday

ITIPJ presentation =x Noooooo~

I'm royally screwed 10 ways from Sunday T_T. Luckily I'm done with my part for the research, except IB's research on Dubai. And the homepage for ITIPJ. Ho hum. In the meantime, gonna need to chiong for tests.

2008-01-19T16:35:00.000+08:00

Dropped by at my grandma's place to meet up with my mum at Chong Pang. The neighbour's little girl came over to say hi to my grandma:

I got a haircut!!!

For only $8.80 at a saloon in Chong Pang. Then after me she got a haircut too ^^

That's about all for today. Oh, enjoy this video that Dan got me to watch:

Shopping! And my bro's b-day

2008-01-17T21:52:00.000+08:00

Finished school at 2.30pm today, and we went down to Far East Plaza at Orchard and had our lunch at Cavaya Restaurant .. its just a normal eating place and not a real restaurant per se. Started on our mystery shopping at 4.40pm proper (we ended up shopping and browsing more) .. and it only took us around an hour to complete. The rest of the time was spent shopping. Regina and Huiqi got themselves a bag each at tomatoCan, while Faizah bought a grey dress for $10 at those roadside stores. Then we went into Zara, where I saw this lovely white top:

I wanted to get it but its so expensive! $60 omg .. then I tried another shirt on:

This is what the words say. Hon, you reading this? ^^

Got home at 7pm, just in time to go out with my family to Vista Point to have dinner to celebrate my little bro's b-day. We ordered Sambal Chicken, Buttered Sotong, Prawns with oatmeal, Sambal French Beans and Hotplate Toufu, and Lotus Soup. I swear me and my sister felt like mum who were 3 months pregnant. And when we came home we got a small cake for him:

Happy 10th b-day Ah di! Haha, sorry I didn't get you a prezzie :p

Ta for now.

updates

2008-01-17T10:39:00.000+08:00

Wrapped things up at 8.30 om for that day.

Wed-Thurs:
Had my Biz Com mock interview. Updated my pic >>> Waited outside for my turn with the rest of my classmates, and mine was impromptu because right up to 10 mins before me I was still looking through my IB notes. Hmm .. I felt it was quite ok, Miss Anne didn't really ask too many hard qns, so the interview went smoothly for me. IB test later was .. eh, needless to say, I phailed. Moi gonna cry ..

Going out with my CRM group to Suntec City later for our project, Mystery Shopping. Woots ^^

Last night, I had to endure hours of lousy internet connection. Again. *haiz* One of these days I shall really sue Singtel. RAWR. Anyway, Dan got a bit tipsy from beer + rum while we were chatting on YIM. Then about 1 plus am, I went online and we talked a bit before going on webcam. Then I saw him on webcam .. omg .. I was like, kawaii~

Is it possible to fall more in love? lols

My boy roxxors meh life. Wee~

Stressed

2008-01-15T16:01:00.000+08:00

Freezing my bum off in the library atm. Making notes for IB ICA tomorrow .. 7 chapters OMG

I'm already tired from 3 chapters of note making =x

Gonna meet Clara n the group later to finish up Marketing Research project.

And, Biz Com job interview tmr also. God bless me man.

I wanna go home~

On Thursday .. after school we're gonna go "mystery shopping" for CRM ICA 3. On Friday .. I don't know .. but I'll happily TGIF if I can go home straight after school.

Next week .. every day we have ICAs/tests/presentations. From Mon til Fri.

MY GOD.

Someone kill me pls =x

To meh readers

2008-01-14T10:00:00.000+08:00

Gud morlengs butties!

If chiu are nt from my sch/class ..

I warn chiu nao!

No spam my tagbox! Or i kick chiu ghost lao pa sar

Moi ish dun rikes peepur spamming meh box!

*dont know what I'm saying? check out EDMWers*

P.S: Esp those from HR.

Black Angus RAID @ One Fullerton

2008-01-13T17:32:00.001+08:00

Full details below. ^^

Pictures courtesy of Winston, our pro photographer. Siao declined to have his pic taken.

5.40pm saw me and Winston making our way to One Fullerton as the others were coming together in a group. By 6.30pm, the rest had arrived (John and Francis would arrive later):

Us at Black Angus. From right to left in a loop:

Valkrin (Eliza), Ophelilia (Michelle), JuzAngel (Jaslin), Viv (Adrian), Viv's GF (Vivian), Viv's sister (Fiona), Xen and his wife, ZmojaZz (Raymond)

The couples:

ZmojaZz and his wife, Ophelilia (Raymond and Michelle) Surprisingly she's glowingly beautiful, you wouldn't guess she'd just had her baby gal not too long ago

from right to left:

Viv, his sister and his gf (Adrian, Vivian and Fiona)

Xen and his wife, LaMonarque

We ordered the Wagon Wheel Combo Platter to start with, then different variants of fish and beef, with drinks and soup to top it off. (not gonna post pics of the steaks, they look the same to me) Eating, chatting, enjoying the atmosphere took up most of our time til 8.30pm, where we called for the bill (a whooping $491.50) and headed to Funan IT Mall's IAH Games cafe to play GE in their respective cars. Jaslin had to bring Purplestorm coz he wasn't familiar with the place.

About 8 more joined us at McDonald's eventually (playing GE was scrapped) for chit-chatting. Drinks was on moja! :D But I was full from my meal so I didn't drink anything:

From right to left, in a loop:

Valkrin (Eliza), Xen's wife, Xen, Granaldo (partially hidden), SoulFate, Ophelilia (Michelle), Viv's sister (Fiona), Viv's GF (Vivian), Viv (Adrian), madjerk, ZmojaZz (Raymond), JuzAngel (Jaslin), PurpleStorm (Wei Long)

The boys against the wall: (from right to left)
Guitoo (John), cyctoo (Francis), HouseOfLou (Gerald)

We wrapped things up around 10 pm plus, and went home. Fun and good! Wouldn't mind having another outing like this. ^^

Teaser!!

2008-01-13T14:58:00.000+08:00

Ytd happily went out for dinner. Then, mood kena spoiled by Yan Zheng. WTFBBQ.

I FKING HATE MARKET RESEARCH. BUT I HATE SURVEY FORMS MORE.

Will post complete details once I get all the pics from Winston.

Meanwhile, some teaser pics:

Me at home.

The menu's front page. See that huge juicy piece of steak? Too bad i can't eat beef =x

Black Angus @ One Fullerton.

My meal: Fish Fritters (fish fillet with coleslaw) I loved the fries but couldn't finish it coz I had too much iced lemon tea.

2008-01-11T19:35:00.001+08:00

Today was really .. draining.

Met up with Winston and Jaslin for lunch at 1.30pm, where they tried out Gecko's fares. We sat there talking about everything under the sun, then at 3 plus pm we decided to go visit Guitoo (Jon) at NCS, but got drenched on the way there coz it was pouring.

He came out to meet us and we sat at the cafeteria with our drinks (I got choc, Jas lemonade?) on him :D. Made a move at about 4 plus, and caught a cab to AMK Hub. Reached at 5pm, then we two gals went browsing for clothes, but didn't end up buying anything.

Then, a detour to The Spectacle Hut. The lady at the counter greeted us, and measured my eyes' degree. Only 500 plus in my right eye (tot it was higher? =x) and 300 plus for my left. She showed us a few brands of contact lenses and asked me which one I wanted. They were having a promotion, so a box of I-Shine (which I choose) cost $17 instead of $38. But, if I bought 2 boxes, she would teach me how to put them on and remove them for free.

Not having much choice, I took nearly 2 solid hours trying to wear a pair, then taking them out, and repeating the process. Once. I feel like I'm .. I dunno, hopeless? Or maybe useless .. Jaslin took/put her on with ease while I was blinking like mad whenever the lenses went near my eyes. Not to mention tearing. Bleh. Anyway, I met my mum with my bro on their way to the park when I was arriving home. To cut it short, I'm glad she didn't scream at me or anything. She just said that next time I wanted to do smth like that, I should let her know first.

Ending off with a pic:

2008-01-10T20:08:00.000+08:00

Will be going with Winston to AMK Hub to get my contact lenses. But first, he wants lunch @ NYP lols. Let's see who gets mi lu first haha

Today's Customer Relationship Management Call Centre ICA was .. nerve wracking. To me at least, and I was the last person called. Ms Cheung's qns came hard and fast, the rest before me couldn't cope with it too. No wonder they said that all they could say was "sorry" repeatedly. Some of them did very well I think, she gave comments like, "I like your attitude" to Gerald XD and to Thomas she said that he would make a very good call centre staff in future.

As for me, she said I was calm (o_0), which was good. But, I had to speak up louder =x Kaka, gonna have to work on that.

Off to do my ITIPJ part of the report .. but before I leave, here's a few screenshots me and Dan took in-game today:

Currently using the second one for my wallpaper ^^

Ta for now.

2008-01-09T20:13:00.000+08:00

Gonna get my contact lenses on Friday. Meanwhile, various projects are still ongoing. And rainy nights and days are cold ..

but I have my honey pot with me. So I have nothing to fear.

Mahal kita, Dan.

I think ..

2008-01-08T20:55:00.000+08:00

Its going to be a crazy 2 weeks. Crammed with projects, ICAs and tests. Actually it's already crazy.

But I think I can cope with it.

And I think ..

maybe I WILL get contact lenses. And try to get used to them. And wear them for Saturday.

And I think ..

I'm in love. I think. :D

~he's the sweetest guy on earth~

2008-01-06T12:04:00.000+08:00

Went cycling with my dad to have breakfast today, from our house all the way to Blk 123 Yishun Avenue 5. Been a long time since I last went out just with my dad.

Took us about 15 mins to reach, and we ordered kway chap. Snapped this quick pic when my dad was making his order:

We waited for like 20 mins before our food came. Considering I haven't eaten kway chap for years .. I was disappointed, to be honest. The pig innards didn't taste salty enough, and the soup wasn't that thick to be good tho the colour was dark. *sigh*

Some of my ongoing projects are about done halfway, which I think is good. Speaking of projects, I admit I'm pretty fed up with one of my group mates for my Econs project. We met up on last Sat, and it was agreed that they'd send their parts to me for compiling by Friday. When the day came, I got their parts except for one gal's. Heard from them she was not feeling well so I said we wouldn't meet up later for discussion on the skit, but it would be pushed to next Wed. And I even sent some materials to her to help her along with her part.

She had one WHOLE week to do hers. Even if she couldn't find some figures, she could at least sent the completed parts to me first. Even if she was not feeling well she could at least give some notice that she'd checked her email/hp. Nary a peep from her til today when I got sick of waiting and called her hp. No reply. Sent a sms, she said she was left with the graphs.

I'm really sick and tired of this. There's only so much I can spoon-feed you with figures and stuff, the rest is up to you to do ON YOUR OWN.

Just like the guides/links I post. Information that is already there, some bloody idiots cant be bothered to go and READ, worse still those who did read have to repeatedly answer their qns. Which is annoying beyond hell. So I don't see the point of doing anything anymore. My efforts is just wasted on a bunch of blockheads.

FED UP.

2008-01-04T22:12:00.000+08:00

Compiled my econs ppt slides together with the rest. Still waiting for one more member to send me her part.

This is what I had for lunch:

The Grinning Gecko's Surf and Turf (fish n chips with roasted chicken) for $4 with the drink ^^

And I took 6 hours to finish compiling the hard copy results of our survey for MR research. Wooo I got supa work satisfaction man. Or rather, satisfaction of a job done. :D

Now I can go play to my heart's content~

2008-01-03T13:06:00.000+08:00

Our next fac outing's gonna be at Black Angus @ One Fullerton for dinner on 12 Jan ^^

Since got someone sponsoring me, my name's in the attendance list already hehe

I don't really care for beef, but I went to see their menu (no pics) and I've got my eye on:

i) Grilled jumbo prawns
ii) Seafood combo (Shiok ar!!)
iii) Breaded mushroom
iv) Big Mountain Chocolate Fudge Cake (sinfullll~)

they all sound yummy :D

and im suppossed to be the 'official' reporter for the event. So, I'll be taking pics of our VIPs, members, food etc etc and posting them on my blog and maybe on our faction forum too.

Sch-wise .. as usual, its hustle bustle once again as I adapt myself to the lessons of DOOOMMM, waking up early etc. These days I haven't the energy to do much =x But at least I've finished my part for my Mkt Research, and also Econs .. just chasing my other grp mates to send their ppt slides to me.

Ge-wise .. elem is soo fun :D Esp Elemental Strife. So cool, the effects. Now I'll just see if I can buy a vet musk or wiz to experiment with.

Ta for now.

Exclusive update :D

2008-01-01T01:49:00.000+08:00

New photo on profile :D >>>

Was the first to arrive at Clarke Quay MRT, waited a bit for Jaslin(JuzAngel) and Ximen (TheCool) to reach, after that, we met up with i-forgot-his-name =x (Guailan) and headed to the Burger King nearby for dinner. Shortly after Winston (Spinelli) reached. I got BK chicken while they got BK Fish. Halfway through the meal, Jerry (Siao) came with his cousin and had dinner with us. We talked and ate til about 8pm, midway i-also-forgot-his-name =x AhPow and his gf Vee Vien made an appearance and then we started walking down to Lunar.

Since Hong (Shineforce) only reserved 2 tables for us, the 7 of us had to share, the ladies sitting and the guys standing. (but they asked me for my IC =x do I look below 18 T_T) So, for the 7 of us to get in without paying for the entrance fee, we had to order 2 premium bottles. Martell, with Coke and green tea as the mixers. Then the live band started performing at 9 plus, by that time people were already streaming into the pub. Susu (Emer), DeusAngelus and his gf, and Ximen's friends popped by. Raymond (ZmojaZz) our Faction Leader said he would come, but in the end didn't coz his baby girl was crying. o_0

Time flew by chatting, drinking, listening to the music, watching vidoes .. playing games .. then at 12am I left for home, and reached home about 1.30am.

Off to bed now, but here's some pics before I go (didn't manage to get pics of us, too dark inside)
top - my shoes ^^ bottom - a pic of me ^^

Big day ahead

2007-12-31T14:09:00.000+08:00

Woke up this morning just to go for one hour of school. Beats me why I actually went at all, but I guess I can't risk anything happening to my attendance no?

Then when I came back I crashed til 1 plus pm and had my lunch.

But anyway, back to subject of going down to the pub. Me and my sis, well actually, my sis gave me suggestions on what to wear, colour coordination etc .. and we took an hour with me trying out my clothes, her clothes until she was satisfied. And she wanted me to tie my hair. All this at 12.30am. I'm pleased with the end result .. will take pics if I can tonight ^^

P.S: I think I can hire her as my fashion consultant. Hoho.

P.S.S: I need to do more sit ups. She says I've more baby fats on my tummy than her =x Wahhh

2007-12-30T18:02:00.000+08:00

Econs meeting was .. efficient ^^

Actually, I think I did pretty well on that Thurs morning. Except silly me turned up on time, then had to wait for 20 mins for one of my members to arrive. Went to school lab, I got my ITTPJ part done then went to library to find them .. we discussed, allocated .. and by 1 plus pm we were done ^^

Have yet to do my part but it shouldn't take long

Oh yeah, and I'm going to Lunar @ Clarke Quay tomorrow for my faction outing. So excited :D
Gonna be drinking and have a count down ^^ Hope they don't order too expensive stuff =x

P.S: Anyone can advice me on what to wear? Tks.

2007-12-26T01:29:00.001+08:00

phew, its been a while since I last updated my blog lols

pigging it out at home .. got my main to vet, my babies to lvl 30 plus .. met up for projects .. uh, 1 more meeting for Econs this Thurs, meanwhile on Wed my Mum's going KL with my grandma and uncle .. Saturday there's a sec sch BBQ at East Cost Park but not sure if I wanna go

Xmas is commercialized as usual .. our inflation rates hit 4.5% o_0 .. uh, GE-wise I got some stalkers =x .. and to sum up, enjoy these vids

Updates

2007-12-19T20:44:00.000+08:00

I ended up going down to KKH myself, since my mum thought I was enough to help her with stuff. Sitting around and waiting for the head doctor to come by and declare my sis discharged was what we did for most part of the afternoon. I swear I was super drowsy when finally at 5pm the doc came by, then my mum settled some admin stuff and we went home in a cab. And the air-conditioner in KKH is soooo cold.

Nothing much to talk about, 'cept my sis vomited again when she reached home. I do think there's some sort of virus that caused my sis to have the runs (she went in and out of the toilet 7 times while in KKH), not the medicine that they gave her to help loosen her bowels. In any case, she's fallen asleep and declined dinner, but we're still gonna be observing her .. and yeah, a diet change is in store for her.

Meanwhile VStudio corrupted my desktop. My bro says he can't get to the desktop at all, so I had to uninstall it in safe mode. *grumbles* Which means I'm gonna have to do all my VStudio related stuff in sch. Bah humbug ..

Tomorrow we're going down to the temple in Toa Payoh to pray for my sis's safe return from hospital .. I figure its half a day gone. Just as well, once I come back GE *should* be up. I hope.