Friday, June 29, 2007

Twisted.

Waiting for 502 after gym last nite... and was seriously pained to see how pple drive.
Accidents waiting to happen.
And cringed to see this cab-driver shouting at another driver although he was in the wrong.

Saw this heavily pregnant woman carrying a laptop. Back from work?
Poor life...

Still reading book. Good, evil, good & evil.

Decided to wake up earlier, go school earlier. Come home earlier. Sleep earlier.
Room shall be a purely slacking place. Work- living room desktop and school.

Aiming, to climb at least a mountain, before my bones crackle. Do community service overseas, before i'm am reduced to an old freak.

Still need to lose weight. Definitely before my Levi's vouchers expire. 5 months.

Too lazy to think and compose complete sentences.

Good nite.

Monday, June 25, 2007

How?

I have no idea how you do it.
But you just know.

Focus more on what's done,
Not what's said...

Smile
=D

Short note of Observation

I realise that I don't blog.
I digress.

Maybe its because i went Cameron and Taiwan... Maybe its coz its D's bday and mine, hence a busy period.

But i notice that i write a lot less here when i'm supposed to have more time on my hands.

Now that i'm gonna start work, i'm back here!

So all i do is: Digress.

Biggest Ambition in Life

I never thought that I'd say this.
But my biggest ambition in life is to be a tai-tai.
Not housewife or ah-soh. Its tai-tai.
Was telling meiren on the bus juz now that it is really the most desirable option in my life right now.
To be a tai-tai.
And together we explored the wonderful benefits of being one:
We don't have to work at all. We can bake or cook stuff at home. (in our well-equipped kitchen of coz...)
We can dilly-dally at home, iron a few shirts or sweep the floor abit if we're bored. (I don't really need maid coz I don't have children)
If we have nothing to do, we can read books (tai-tai buy books, not go library.)
We can go shopping, and when we're tired, go for a manicure or pedicure.
Also, we can ask friends to hang out and go for high tea.
We can free-lance, IF we feel like it. Furthermore, we can do volunteer work when we want to.

Cool. haha!
Meiren said that its probably every single girl's dream to be a tai-tai... yep. Who in their right frame of mind would reject the possibility of being a tai-tai?! Of coz, some ladies wanna be career woman and fight it out at the rat race out there. But one has the choice as to whether to work or stay at home. That is to say, if the woman suddenly decides that her boss or employees are hateful, she can afford to toss her resignation stylishly on the table and just leave. And go back home to lead her tai-tai lifestyle. And this is not to say that tai-tais have to be bimbotic ladies who stay at home all day and are ignorant or talk only about how sparkling their diamonds are or how expensive the new water feature is . Essentially being a tai-tai implies: My husband has the cash. I can choose the lifestyle i want.

Actually...
I should seriously sit down and reflect properly what I want to do in the next few years... Not like i'm getting any younger. And wanting to be a tai-tai is absolutely desirable but i have yet to know any 'golden turtle'. PLEASE recommend me one... A semi-blind one would be most welcome.

Well... that's the long-term ambition at least.

For the short-term "ambition"... i aim to lose 2kg in 3months... haha... not sure whether its attainable. Maybe i'm not even ambitious enough.
But i can't keep growing fatter. Given the looming GST hike in July, it doesn't make economic sense to gain weight. I can't afford to buy new clothes =/

ANywayz. That's is about all for ambition. For now.
Hopefully I come up with something with more spunk soon.

Reflect. Don't just dream. Ha ha ha

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Demis Roussos - Rain And Tears (Live In Bratislava)

Hey... YouTube is Fabulous.

So I've been doing work?

Well... back to blogative mode (derived from talkative)

Came back a while ago from D's place... which is only like 90 minutes away... which means that I can finish watching the lovely Legend of the Sea once through, and still have 17 minutes of spare time to cringe. Its actually the first time I've travelled from his place back home via bus/train. Other times... i've been fuelling the cab economy. But its not like i've been there many times.
Anywayz, guess i could empathise the times he had to travel back home from My place. Though not alot of times also.

Was reading this book by Paulo Coelho called The Devil and Miss Prym on the train back. Pretty intriguing so far. He was also the one who wrote Veronika Decides to Die, which i have been wanting to read since a friend mentioned it during JC years. Coincidentally, Sis just mentioned that she should re-read that book. And i borrowed "The Devil", not knowing that "Veronika" is also by Coelho.

Its kinda uncanny really, how things or issues recently mentioned by someone pops up in other ways. For instance, D was just telling me on Thursday night about this Taiwan Porridge he liked. On Friday afternoon (the very next day, mind you...) , I saw in the news that this the place, together with other restaurants at indoor stadium must shift.

Just a few hours ago, i was contemplating throwing out some old stuff i had to clear my pig-sty... and over msn, HX was telling me about the old letters and stuff which she just dug up and have threw out...

One of the most uncanny incident was getting lost with QX while going to East Coast Park. That happened donkey years ago. (Sec 4) He's a hopeless directionless donkey, and I was a donkey to have gone with him, not knowing that he's crap at directions. Anyway... we ended walking around Kallang/Katong area, and finally found our way there after hoping onto 197. Well, i was the smarter donkey. At least i know that 197 can get us nearer to ECP. Anyway...guess the point was, freakily enough, i got into VJC for first TWO months. SO i got to pass by the routes i previously got lost at just a month ago...

Sometimes, am not sure whether the mind is being more sensitive to certain topics, things or places after having heard about them. Hence 'coincidences' occur more readily. Or perhaps its really the Uncanny (*shudder* reminds me of the Gothic paper in JC. Could never understand how to write about Gothicism properly...)

Erm. I have no idea how laments over the long trip home led to all this but...
Hey, i finished another novel. Not bad also. Its called Dixieland Sushi by Cara Lockwood (btw, IF you are doing a Gothic paper, you'd be oohooh and ahh-ahhing over the name : LOCKWOOD. I think some character from Wuthering Heights has this name la. So according to our lecturer, it has deeper meaning- something hard, stoic. And possibly repressed. Coz its all locked up and stuff...See. I don't get Gothic! Whatever...)

Anyway. The book talks about a half-Japanese, half-white 30-year old heroine with this wildly funny family and this cute guy in her life of coz. (why do cute guys only occur in fiction? hmm..) Interestingly enough, it is also structured such that there are flashbacks and the present are continually juxtaposed. (Just like Separation Anxiety) Well, do check it out if you want something light...
Also been wanting to check out The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People after zhuz mentioned it... But I've never been a big fan of Self-help or Motivational Books. I don't usually make it beyond the first chapter...I'm more of a trashy-book person. No wonder I've never been effective or efficient. Sigh.

Okie.
Think that's all for NOW.
Be back when i'm doing work
wahah!

陳奕迅-愛情轉移mv

MORE Eason =p

陳奕迅 - 淘汰

Kinda like Eason recently. Like his voice and also the lyrics.
Enjoy!

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Of Coincidences and Conscience.

Bumped into a few people from different phases in my life
Saw A at gym. (Sis's friend, who is also now a friend of mine after Taiwan trip)
Then walked into YN, also at gym (Choir senior whom i was close to for a while coz of U.S trip)
Stared into A at Watsons (Coursemate from NIE)
Saw YD at NTUC (someone i knew from NVAC)
Also saw LZ ysty at Queensway (Blockhead from Kent Ridge who used to knock on my door to force me to go for block meetings. haha)
Actually I always have this paranoia if I'd ever bump into people i didn't want to see. I think its pretty tragic to walk around knowing that there is this one or two persons you'd want to hide your face from. Its important to have a clear conscience ya?

Seeing people from your past is a bit like stumbling upon a familiar smell. Have you ever smelled something (be it a shampoo, perfume, shower foam, air freshener... or whatever) and you recalled something that happened during that period. For instance, i'd smell a certain shampoo and remember i was having this exam paper; or i used to use this brand of shower foam/perfume when i was spending time with a particular friend. (I used to have a Pri school classmate who liked to smell my hair- the brand i was using was Ginvera ahha... wonder if she'd still think of me if she smelled it again)
Anyway, seeing these people brought back different memories of my past... And interestingly enough they don't overlap and are unrelated to one another. So over the course of 2 days, quite abit of my personal history was stirred up... haah!

Anyway, think i am feeling slightly poignant again because i have just finished reading a book (freshly picked from the library just a few hours ago =p)
Its called Separation Anxiety by Karen Brichoux (also the author of COffee and KUng-Fu... which i'm writing down so that i'd remember to borrow it haha)

The plot is structured such that both the past and present of the heroine's memories are featured simultaneously. The heroine wanted to "break-up" with a friend since she has known since she was six. Bundled with memories of her family and with her friend, we learn more about her and walking with her through secrets, realisation and self-discovery.
ANyway... i am crap at writing book reviews... so guess i'll end off with saying i enjoyed the book and it is definitely more meaningful than those thrashy ones i normally occupy my eyes with. (else i wouldn't have devoured 233 pages in... 3 hours?)

And you know how hopeless romantics always wish to have this lovely childhood friend/boy-next-door/best-friend type who knows you inside-out, whom you know you can depend your life on, whom you'd immediately turn to when you need a shoulder to cry on... *Major Awwww*
But of coz, that's only a fantasy. No such thing in real life. Not in my own life at least. Not that I mind really... I'm old and pragmatic enough not to feel any regret for this sort of thing... ahah
Well, I'm contented to reserve my romantic streak for fiction from the library. haha
Ultimately, there are some men you gawk at, and some men you MARRY. I observe a pattern from my colleagues' partners...

Digressions.
Told Muah that if i ever have children (which i seriously doubt i would...) I'd teach him/her CONFIDENCE. Realised that with confidence, so much can be achieved... and he/she can live through life a much happier person.
Next thing i wanna teach is EQ. She said you learn about EQ from the experiences in life... which is true ya? Well, one can be damn brilliant or wildly efficient, but with no EQ... its bound to get people's backs up...

So my kids will be armed with: Confidence coupled with EQ.
Studies can come later.
That is because I would a tai-tai and my children can lead a comfortable, leisurely life. They can be average students but still be successful in life because they have Confidence and EQ and also money from their dad's reserve to have them start some businesses. haha
Then again, i think my children should be pretty smart to begin with because my partner must have dazzled me with his intelligence in the first place. Smart parents usually produce smart children right? haha

Too much digressions.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Lazy

Been too lazy to write anything in this space haha... which implies that I'm am not doing any school work...
Like all other holidays, i have no idea why time must fly ...in the blink of an eye. Poof. Gone.
Now with only ONE week of holiday left and ZERO work done, feeling kinda down liaoz haha
Apparently, life after NIE really ONLY left me with more time to procrastinate... GOSH. I'm disgusting haha!

SIgh.
Think I better write some proper sentences before I become some airhead. (Even Paris Hilton has decided that she wanna stop pretending to be stupid.)

-THURSDAY-
Watched one extremely awful movie - Legend of the Sea. Its this cheena lousy animation. Lousy script, lousy storyline, lousy EVERYTHING and amateur animation. If you think the facial expressions of the characters in The Polar Express look fake... Legend is 100 times worse. There's nothing to see! I think those who did the animation and script are absolutely lazy. Did they look through the crap before deciding that its ready for screening? Coz it definitely SHOULD NOT be shown. No coherence whatsoever. 73 minutes of my life were wasted on this crap. Geez. I think its more worth it if i spend this time procrastinating my life away. haha! Its SO damn bloody awful, especially when this monster octopus started singing with her sidekicks- ridiculously off- pitch! There were instances I couldn't stop sniggering. Not because its funny. Its incredulously HORRID, thats why.
And if you're wondering why the hell we watched it... D has got $5 tix to watch either this movie or Ocean's Thirteen on Thursday. No prize for guessing who chose to watch the animation... haha!
Actually, over the years, there is only ONE Chinese movie i watched at a theatre, and didn't feel that its a waste of my money: Kung-Fu Hustle. (hey, but to give local movies credit... Just Follow Law is not too bad also)
Anyway... whoever wrote or made Legend of the Sea please please PLEASE stay away from this industry forever. It is evident that they have no flair or whatsoever in this field. Or perhaps they're just really plain lazy and have no pride in what they are doing. It must be so humiliating to be associated with this film in my opinion... and its embarrassing to have watched it. URgH! Well. At least i didn't pay for it. But still... *shudder*

-FRIDAY-
Went shopping with HX at Far East Plaza. Maybe i haven't been in the loop for ages...but there were so many things to buy!!! That girl bought 4 pairs of shoes, and a few tops. She would have bought another pair of shoes if i didn't stop here... ahaha! I'm fared pretty well myself- 2 pairs of shoes and 3 tops? The scary thing is we met up at 2plus and finished at 8 plus.(minus 1 hr of dinner...) We only managed to cover the basement! Had wanted to shop at Level 2, and even Tangs. But well... no time. haha!
Also went to have a haircut. Not used to it but can live with it la.
ANywayz, did have a good time shopping and sharing a few laughs with that woman.

-SATURDAY-
Well. Supposed to go kayaking with colleagues and have dinner with D. But both didn't materialise. That man need to ZZZ. Its kinda disgusting how busy one can get. Whenever i hear of his plans for the week, i feel tired on his behalf liao. haha
Anywayz, FINALLY made my way back to gym classes. Went for yoga and combat today. i've become so unfit from the lack of exercise. Fortunately my favourite instructor wasn't being too sadistic today, else i'd have died in there. Totally SHIOK. Must really make a point to go gym more often. Disgustingly FAT. Been feeling VERY grouchy because my clothes are so tight.
Actually... i did make a point to exercise la... (hey, i still jog, though very slow, think too fat liao, legs cannot tahan. haha! And i climbed stairs instead of taking lift 90% of the time...) but then again, my mouth has been working the fastest and hardest recently... and my willpower is definitely taking a break. Oh. I forgot. "Willpower" has never been in my dictionary. haha
Perpetual guest stars in my dictionary:

  1. FAT
  2. Procrastinate
  3. Lazy
  4. sleepy
  5. spend
  6. cab
  7. late
  8. FAT
  9. stone
  10. procrastinate
  11. FAT
  12. FATTER

Well. You get the idea.

Ah qing- yi shi de mei hao

Musically-inclined people are juz so sexy...

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Busy with play

Its already the second week of school holidays! How scary is that?! And I have not done any work or planning or cleaning etc... Time flies when one is having fun. How very true.
Ended the term with Cameron Trip.
Then spent days planning for D's bday.
Final Product
Its supposed to be a coffee cheesecake. Not very appetitising right? Haha!

Then spent time packing and gettting ready for Taipei trip.
Then spent days in Taipei. Haha
Just came back from Taipei last night. IT was an enjoyable trip with good company. Took over 400 photos ... Just some snapshots, to document the trip...


~Day 1~
Arrived at Royal Castle Hotel at about 7plus. Saw fav and J the moment we got down from the bus. My first thought was- HEY! What a coincidence! Is Taipei so small that we bump one another on the streets?!
Well, actually they were waiting for us/me and brought a cake to celebrate my birthday. Was pleasantly surprised... so sweet of them =)
So its the first time i get to spend bday overseas.
Nice Box with Question Mark Candle. (Yes, I'm only 21)


My bday cake. Yummy!
(Much better than D's cake. Hahah!)





Shih Lin Night Market

Snippets






~Day 2~

Wu Lai - Wu Fen Pu- Rao He


Nice View


Waterfall



Xiao Huo Che



Lao Jie


Giant Meatballs





Heading for Wu Fen Pu




At Wu Fen Pu
(Sis, A & Me are not sure why so many pple are so enthusiastic about this place... most of the time, we were trying to muster enthusiasm for the cheap stuff there... Didn't buy much... virtually bought othing there. =p )




Rao He Night Market

Who is the woman behind the 'mask'? Haha


After 2 days of night markets, we decided that we had enough. Haha... Took a train back to Taipei Main Station.

That's about it for Day 1 and 2... and I'm too lazy to upload anymore pics... so well, till next time!



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