Sunday

Top : beverley morata of singapore idol fame performing in the band "SYRA"

Bottom : my jubei guild mate david's gf "moochelle" holding an apple martini

Sunday woke up rushed home was out of the house double quick time to meet the class guys at PS for lunch at 12. We started eatin at 2 lol. For some reason i don't have photos, and i can't remember why. I was quite trigger happy these few days. We ended up playing dota and countersrike. I suck i know..only racked up kills when i was using sniper. still not bad lol, i last played the game at 6.20 against A.I

And now to the meat of this post... the countdown party! It was held at Shangri-la Orchard..which i must say is a very uloo place.. tickets were at 80 apiece. Which i must say i bought only becos i was assured that there were ppl going and also cos i was wanted a glimpse of how the elite in singapore were doing :) Otherwise i would have settled for an ordinary beach party or some club..

Well so yea entertainment was provided courtesy of guest DJ glenn ong who to my surprise provided very little commentary none of them particularly witty But all was forgiven when he brought his hawt wife onstage to dance onstage with another hawt girl who i did not recognise. Way to save your own ass buddy. Live band "SYRA" provided a mix of comtemporary favourites and feel good funky tunes, which was fronted by lead singer beverly morata. And boy can the girl move. Long before the dance floor was packed shes was dancing onstage to her own tune never missing a tune. Must have taken a lot of practice cos if she's a natural..she deserves a lot better than where she is now.

Girl in photo is michelle who i hope does not mind me publishing her photo lol. I really have no others...could have sworn i had more. My chances of getting photos from the rest are almost nil though, i'm still waiting on the holland V ones. Anyway yes thats what they provided..some lame feather cap. The guy version was a sparkly wide rim cowboy hat. Which went well with what most of my group wore, a black jacket over a shirt.

The SPGS were out in full force tonight. From what i could see 50 percent of the couples were of the hot asian girl with not very hot caucasian guy type. To each her own i guess. i used to think very badly of them, but now i can see why they choose this path. I dont' believe its for money even...its just that not so hot cacausian guy speaks well, understands them, and hey is generally better than the lot that they can get local.

Survived a half glass of whisky a martini and a cocktail..which really surprised me :) Came home after 2 days..crashed. My schedule didnt't allow me to burn yet though cos theres still...

Saturday

Top - What better way to digest 40 dolars worth of food consumed in a time span of 2 hour then a hard level sudoku puzzle? 4 people done in 7 mins

Middle - kt and thong

Bottom - umm..forgot to take the food before it was eaten..so here it is after

me jun and kt took thong out for lunch at kunshin bo. Nice japanese buffet at the regular price of 19.80. At 33.20(new year's special price!) though...not so hehehehe. We had sushi, cold soba noodles, teppanyaki, teriyaki sticks and a hot plate, and also ate a fuckload of chawanmushi and barbecued stuff. i feel like going there again..any takers?

After that crashed jun's house, watched NODAME till late. best jdrama this year, considering that goong the k drama is reigning supreme right now and there's not much competition from japanese dramas which brings me to ...

Friday

Watched curse of the golden flower. Highly recommended. Zhang Yi mou is an expert at combining the best of hollywood and chinese sword fighting flicks even if that combination doesn't always work so well. For example i loathed Crounching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , finding it to be bland. Here however he uses the source material to great effect, creating opulent sets worthy even of the most radical interpretations. Noteworthy too was the script; itself engaging and lucid, one of my favourite lines being "wo yao bi ni shi" ( i want to force you to die) as said by the empress. No doubt it will win lots of awards but i can't help feeling as if it was made for hollywood. the imagery was grand, colorful and gratuitous but it hardly left a longing impression. The film held you through every twist and development and in that sense i wished there were more to it, more for the viewer to find. Rather than what it is , a grand and epic film that under the hood is really very simple, even if it is enjoyable.

something happened after that left an unplesant aftertaste. even if i did aggravate it. but i guess its just the way i'm wired to behave. the matter got bured so thats it i guess..

Thursday

Top: me and shi-fu. glomps shi-fu! Unfortunately she speaks english as well as i do chinese.

Bottom: my colleagues at work on their best dressed day.

So thursday was my work place's dinner and dance which basically translates to a buffett dinner lots of oldie music and absolutely no dancing watsoever. yes there were performances and a lucky draw...but i didn't win anything so it sucked.

Since i didnt have anything to wear my colleagues and i headed out to vivo to look for something retro to wear.. grabbed the golf cap at hob-nob and the shirt at esprit. Which i love. A lot. For stocking the first slim fit S-size male polo t-shirt i have ever seen. So i grabbed it ..and what do you know when i asked for one not from the shelf i was told it was the only one they had. Huh.

damm you esprit. for being so expensive.

This is the scandalous picture

been a really busy week for me...am also now broke..ah the price to pay for fun.

the madness started on christmas eve, spent it with hc revat and laura ....their appearances have all changed so much cept laura, wats funny is that on the flip side revat and hc's personalites seem the same, while laura's seems to have deviated? can't find the right word
anyway went tcc nice milkshake.. went lau pa sat for food, went to a morrocan pub with indian music and had a drink , walked a fair bit, ended up the night on the beach talking.

christmas day spent lazing around emo-ing, then hopped off to see death note 2. Like the ending better than the manga, would have been worth the money if the projectionist didn't screw up and reeled in the wrong part of the film, we ended up watching the climax b4 the build up, luckily the ending was left intact.

took half day off on 26th, went to celb thongs with becky and ame birthday.. had a nice japanese lunch..

wednesday was the only free day i had....and the internet had to be down! i have this habit of opening digg and selecting links to open tabs with... and after the 15th or so tab i realised something was very wrong, wat a waste of a good day..

oops gotta run brb tmr.

http://www.globalorgasm.org/

A project to fill the world with the largest possible surge of human energy , a synchronised global orgasm, on 22 dec 2006, at the time of your choosing , using whatever gets you off, to effect possible change in the energy field of the earth.

Wheres the automatic one click categorise all posts with photos wih the tag "photo"?

Why does it jump back to the first page with 50 posts after you are done applying a tag to the 148th post??

Why can't you change the names of labels???

Does it always have to refresh after every label is applied??

Guess thats why its stil in beta

labels are coming out...as you can already see from the numbers next to the labels..

1) I'm lazy.
2) I like to look through the looking glass darkly.
3) Daily Life = Crap
4) Army = Lots Of Daily Life Posts
5) Army = Crap
6) Labels are so hard to apply someone please fuck me gently with a chainsaw.

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders

How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot: Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayer accepted, and each wish resign'd

-Alexander pope

I'm sorry ...i'm in a nostalgic mood right now....

blogger just updated their software...you can now update your posts with tags which used to be a feature of wordpress only and tabulas i'm gonna go through all the posts and retag them...and then i realise omfg i have a lot of posts...but i still treasure all of them

I have rebooted my journals like what 3/4 times? I was blogging even before blogging became popular..anyone remember livejournal? Hell that was way back in 2000, blogger was barely a baby in 2001, how things have changed.

this blog remains about my only tangible link to the past....many times i have thought of deleting it...twice i have stopped for lack of interest in blogging/life, but hopefully i never reach the stage of deleting it. I wish now i had my livejournals preserved..if only to see how stupid and ignorant i was..

A few things you should have realised about me - I'm not a nice person. I have the appearance of being nice, i have nice "reactions" and generally speaking i don't fuck around....but i'm not a nice person. Nice people donate to charity willingly nice people give their seats up to elderly, nice people don't hurt their friends nice people don't make use of them. I'm not a nice person. I'm sensitive yea...and being sensitive you would think i would be just that little bit more sensitive to other people...but most of the time i'm only being sensitive to myself. and i hate that. i really do.. i hate hate hate hate hate this part of me thats really not very nice. i'm so very very sorry ...

Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind (2004) - Get it from me. Go watch it. This is as good as it gets.

i'm about to introduce to you ..the most secretive game in the world ever.

the people who have solved this game, are sworn to never reveal the answer to anyone , other than the hints that were given to them.

the game is petal around the roses. http://vincentwoo.com/files/petals/

Bil Gates took 40 mins to solve this. I took slightly under half an hour. My les sister got it in 5 mins.

Hint 1 : the name is signifcant
Hint 2: the answer is always even or 0

forgive the avalance of posts i don't want to touch wow-crack now. and the spelling. and the vocabulary. army's fault.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Pompeo - plays meredith grey on Grey's Anatomy- Do you know shes 37? Yet she's a perfect example of timelessness in beauty. her skin is not perfect, her hair kinda sucks. yet the way she smiles with that twinkle in her eye at once sexy and flirtatious

I'll try to grab a screen cap when shes doing it. But its hard to capture pure magic.

I'm a wannbe lesbian.

makes perfect sense.

2nd entry made at the same time but now with more fruitiness!

So i have been doing my fair bit of surfing...not at work cos i haven't figured out how to hack net access yet, and have added a few links.

laura: i have no idea what shes rambling about...but umm..more power anyways?

people who are overseas: you have to realise that we poor lot in singapore..have no tools at our discretion to imagine the experiences your describing. which is why photos are nice yes. nudity is always a bonus. and theres a thing called youtube now, no?

sigh seriously though why do i even bother

digg: this is a website when people submit stories....and viewers vote whether they like it or not.

Typically the stories that get the most "diggs" are listed here in order of popularity : Celebrity Sex Videos/Nude Shots, Any News About PS3/XBOX360/WII (it attracts the fanboys), US POLITICS, Some Technological Marvel"

Best thing about this website- its good for a 10 min dose of entertainment... its updated by the min but usually viewers will already have filter out the junk each day..leaving you with 10 mins of pure ROFLific laughter. Its at least a bookmark, if not a daily visit.

Jon-Stewart: Funniest guy on american tv now. His gig "The Daily Show" pokes fun at the absurdities of the american politcal system and for now at least the war in iraq. he has archives of the past week show and sometimes i search the archives in youtube for more. His humour is usualy of the deadpan sarcasm variety- the sort i love, but sometimes when the pickings are slim, he resorts to frat boy sexist jokes. Still funny if you take it at face level for what is.

One of his gems:

Leader of the evangelical network of america resigns as he admits to sex with gay and trying drugs: "You know you have sunk to a new low...when you lose the moral high ground... to the gay drug-dealing hooker" Priceless

having mixed feelings about my work...started off really slack and boring but thankfully they have scaled it up for me. and i'm sticking to all lower caps for now....more on that later

for the first one week i was just inputing company name and registration numbers into one excel file, for 8 hours a day. managed to rack up at least 400 entries a day.....they weren't kidding when they said data entry. came across some funny names too... one of them starts with " **** hong kong wife cake" i was like "dude wtf". Another company was called "kaki nang pte ltd". and then there are so many derivatives of " " that after a while they just all merged and i was operating on autopilot (a damm good one at that). So if you wanna start a company, ditch the family pride and stick to monosyllables. Or dialect variants. For the good of all data entry clerks worldwide. and another thing i hate caps. yea sure having to upper case the first alphabet of a sentence is fine and dandy, but not when you have to uppercase the first alphabet of every word. can't count the number of times i had to delete an entire word and input it again just cos i forgot to caps. lowercase all the way for the win

found a few entries on forms which i feedbacked to get brownie points, and to you know let them know i'm working...boss was surprised at how slow i was ....which if you just punch the numbers its like one entry every 60 seconds, but after a few days i was still hitting 400 entries a day, yet having more and more stuff piled on me ..so its ok i guess. gotta double check the forms too while i'm at it. and every hour i have to grab a free cup of drink at the company vending machine and nature calls...can't sit still for more than 45 mins.

have nagging strains at the base of my neck and the curve of my shoulders. been trying to adjust what i suspect to be the problem - the height of the chair relative to my keyboard but nothing has worked in the long term. what has worked though..are breaks. just great my body has to work together with my ADD. it peaks near noon and keeps climbing all the way thru afternooon -during which i just power my way thru to work end.

am gaining weight fast..work environment is horrendously bad for your health. every hour someone will offer you food which you will gladly accept just to turn your neck away from the position you have fixed it in for the past hour (love the snap it makes) , during lunch everybody chips in to buy food in addition to the main course your having. can't see my own damm ribs anymore awwwww.

so anyway this thing...this snippet of inquisite insightfulness dawned on me. do we really grow up? saw this sec school fella while applying for my job ...didn't register in his memory, but he looked exactly how i remembered him to be. Girl i have been eyeing 2 cubicles over, can't decide if she just got out of school or is already married. Auntie next cubicle...big rain and korean soap fan, giggles like a school girl, looks like shes nearing retirement age. My colleague, 29, married with a kid, could pass for my schoolmate. And of course ME age 20 - "working during my school holidays fancy that" And then i realise that i'm in the period when only the extremes matter. From now til 35 - you could drift through life with your graduation just yesterday, your to do list still unfulfilled, working in a menial job till one day you wake up and realise your dick no longer stands, your boobs sag, you have grey hair, you never really loved the person your sleeping with and your getting OLD gasp. then you start having mid-life crisis. Because from here on out..its going to be one long ski ramp.

The motherload of all mothers centers around my workplace. Mothers of all ages everywhere i turn they are discussing recipes....talking about their kids planning their year end holidays sharing food they make...then they start calling me "xiaodi" and "ah boy" and i go hmmm....what the hell their grandchildren are probably older then me..so i bear with it for a while...

I fail@life

My sister has a girlfriend and i don't

/wrist

p.s No. I'm not really emo.

But for now a toast
To short term employment And
Money for presents

For I know yet not
The horrors the day may bring
But the pay is good.

i prepare myself
for a day of working in
stuffy office gear

ORD!

Huh. Hasn't been that long and i'm bored already. Decided to take a break after ORD to clear backlog of movies and stuff, reorganise my things. Worked for 2 weeks beforehand to boost my cash bank a little, purely illegal. In the meantime while packing, i received a brand new computer table which is now sitting snugly in a corner. Finally my keyboard isn't on my lap.

Impressions of some movies i watched :

Chronicles of Narnia: Ugliest kids ever. 2/10
Signs: Lame-O ending. 7/10
Sixth Sense: V.Good 9/10
Team America: KIM-CHI! -2 for disgusting sex scene 6/10
My Sassy Girl: Needs nudity from Jun Ji-hyun 9/10
Last Samurai: American Guy teaches Japanese Samurai how to fight. Right. 6/10
SharkskinMan and Peach Hip Girl: Quirky Arty Low Budget Film. Nice Dialogue though. 8/10

Signed up with this agency recruit express. Looks like they are the go to people for admin/clerical jobs. Sitting tight while they send me for interviews and stuff. So far 3 days and no success. Played Ninja Gaiden Black to completion..don't think i have the heart or the strength to try hard or very hard mode. Also levelling an ally mage on server barthilas till level 60 and beyond.

I need another goal :( . A longer term goal so that my days don't seem like i'm bumming thru them. With army, every day seemed to have a meaning because every passed day meant a day closer to release from bondage and melodrama and shit, but now i'm stranded in no man's land. Every passed day is just a wasted day where i don't earn income, because whether i do anything or not the end result will be the same, i'll go into university next year. Thats not a goal its just a period in time where i'm scheduled to be doing something.

Basically i need a job fast or i'll go crazy.