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Vietnam Trip: Day 3

2010-01-08T06:56:00.000-08:00

Day 3 - 28th December 2009

Our day was supposed to start early at 7 plus Vietnam time, and we did! Upon checking out, we asked the receptionist at the concierge to help us dial for HCMC Tiger Airways Call Centre to upsize our luggage and to our horror, we realised that the number given to us by the airport staff is a wrong number! To minimise our time lost, we decided to have breakfast first. Breakfast at Green Nha Trang was the best we had, with a buffet spread of beef soup noodles, fried rice, fried noodles, baguette, toast, omelette, bacons, sausages, and the list goes on and on. PS somehow started 'terrorising' one of the chefs to teach her more Vietnamese, and so Jay and I left for the business center for their computer, hoping to find out the real number to call. Somehow we found another number on Tiger Airways website, and it turned out to be a wrong one too. Like, wth? Tiger doesn't even know their own number?! Finally we gave up and decided to fax them a note for help. Well, the fax number can't be wrong too, right? Went back to the concierge and asked if they could fax it for us but the receptionist directed us to their post office instead. A SGD$2+ was charge to fax just that piece of paper. Urgh. Still worried, Jay decided to call Francis for help. AND HE DID! YAY~!
By the time the entire nightmare of the possible need to pay SGD$18 for each extra 1kg of our luggage was over, nearly half the day was gone. With a not very happy heart, we immediately started our day as planned.
First up, to the Mud Bath and Hot Spring! Initially we were told it's only $VND75k for everything, but it turned out that that price was for the public pool, whereby you will be immersed in the mud, and later the hot spring, with any tom, dick AND harry. So we took the private pool at higher price, which I can't remember now. Dressed in bikinis (swimsuit for ps), and barefooted, we finally came to this large bathtub whereby upon a turn of the tap, greenish grey mud (marine clay, I reckon) came splashing out from the pipe and into the tub. The staff then motioned for us to step in, which we did after much hesitation. It was slightly warm, much appreciated for the weather that day was rather cold for us to be wandering around in bikinis, and the texture just felt like thick liquid with minute specks of fine sand. We were wondering if we should spread the mud on our faces as well (cause we saw many others who did so) and were glad to have not done so as one of their staff came and took a groupshot of us for free. After slightly more than 15 minutes, we headed down to the recliners, covered totally in mud, for a sunbathing session to dry up the mud, after which we washed them off with the HOT SALTY water (hot spring water?) from the shower stalls located just beside the recliners. So after the mud bath, it was hot spring time! We first had the hydro-massage therapy session whereby strong jets of the spring water will be spewing out from this two stone walls and you have to manuver yourself to get the jets to hit you at the correct spot. Haha! And after that manual hydromassage session, got to another bigger tub-like pool where it was filled with the NaCl rich hot spring water in the same matter as the mud bath session. The water was HOT! I'm not really a fan of hot water bath at all, so it really took me some time to get used to the temperature of the water, partially also because it kinda cooled down after some time. PS had a great time acting Yang Gui Fei using the coconut-shell ladle to scoop the water to rinse her back. -LOL- We had wanted to try the waterfall but didn't want to wait for out turn to come. The 38 degree Celsius swimming pool wasn't attractive to us either, and so we quickly wiped dry and change back into our clothes and set off for our next destination - Po Nagar Cham Towers.
Nothing much happened at Po Nagar Cham, and it's almost impossible for me to describe how beautiful the place looked like in words. The Po Nagar Cham Towers were built between the 7th and 12th Centuries and used as Hindu worship. Pictures to be up real soon, I hope.
After bidding the magnificent Po Nagar Cham Towers goodbye, we ventured slightly down the road over to the seaside whereby countless of fishing boats were docked and spent some time under the hot sun taking pictures and just enjoying the view. However, there came a point when all of us decided that we're going to either get burnt or melted and hence we hailed another taxi and headed off for Long Song Pagoda, which is yet another place I'm unable to describe with words, especially the magnificent 24m tall white Buddha statue and the 18m long Sleeping Buddha statue built from funds donated by Thailand. I WILL DEFINITELY POST PICTURES UP ONCE I GOT THEM. Anyway, since it's a Buddhist temple, there's no need for any entrance ticket BUT if you're planning to go there, do remember that you do not have to feel obliged to fork out VND$200k (around SGD$16) to buy that stack of just 10 postcards from those self-proclaimed students of the school next to the temple(with hints of affliations), in place of the entrance fee. If the need arises, be firm and walk away. Eventually, other more 'enthusiastic' students will follow you and bring you on a 'guided' trip and at the end of the trip, you'll feel more obliged to buy the postcards from them.
After leaving Long Song Pagoda, we started making our way to our next destination - Nha Trang Cathedral on foot. After asking for directions along the way, we finally found ourselves walking up a cobblestone path that really reminds me of Medieval England time. Once again, the infrastructure of the cathedral, the tainted glass and etc were all too beautiful for me to put down in words. So, look forward to my photo-blog in near future!
After leaving the cathedral, we head down to Dam Market, which is of walking distance from the cathedral. Well, quite near. QUITE. Dam market is bigger than Ben Thanh market in my opinion, and much more spacious and airy, with an open-air section selling food, drinks, fruits, flowers, shoes, apparels and other small trinkets, and a enclosed section selling stuff like cosmetics, lingerie, bags and etc. Didn't really buy anything. PS and Jay both bought a non-authentic Roxy duffel bag each and PS and I bought a hairband each and basically that's all. I was really tight on budget, you see. Found a roadside drink stall and finally got to sit down and rest our tired feets and quench our thirst before making our way back to Green Nha Trang again on foot, which took us 45 minutes to 1 hr, where the sleeping bus from Sinh Tourist will be picking us up.
Headed back to the small eatery beside Green Nha Trang for our Pho dinner again, and PS's terrorism strike again! The drinks menu at this eatery was organised such that one who doesn't understand Vietnamese won't be able to make any head or tail out of it. So, yup... PS can't really be blamed for this massive wrong order. But it was really kick-ass funny. On the menu, there was this column of small icons of different soft drinks like coke, sprite, mirinda, twister and etc, and right beside those icon are some vietnamese words. It just so happened that right beside the coke icon was cola, and so I guessed PS assumed that those words are how the vietnamese call those soft drinks. She wanted a Sprite (while Jay and I didn't want any), and so she pointed to the words beside the sprite icon, asking the waitress how to pronounce it. It was spelt something like 'Dauh Nahn' and sounds abit like doughnut. After a while, she came bounding back to us happily, telling us that Sprite in Vietnamese is called DAUH NAHN. After a while, the drinks were served. But instead of just 1 sprite, we were served a can of sprite, one cup of coffee and one cup of soya bean milk. We frowned, thinking 'Not again?'. Knowing how futile our attempts to explain the wrong orders to them in English would be, Jay immediately offered to take the coffee. But I do not drink soya bean milk. So PS attempted to explain to the lady that she only wanted Sprite. She repeated herself again, pointing at the sprite bottle saying: Dauh Nahn! But the lady shook her head and did something to PS that got Jay and I doubled over in laughter. The lady pointed to the soya bean milk and said: This is dauh nahn, dauh nahn is soya bean milk! Then she pointed to the bottle of sprite and said: This is sprite! *using her pen and tracing the words on the bottle as she enunciated the words painfully slow as if PS didn't know how to read SPRITE* SPUUU-RIIITEEEE. Haha! Poor PS! She needs a Vietnamese aunty to teach her how to read S-P-R-I-T-E. LOL
After our funny incident at the eatery, we finally got onto the sleeping bus (they were half an hour early and the staff was really pissed off at us for being 'late') and realised that we got the second row seats this time instead of the back row. After making its rounds through different hotels, the bus finally arrived at Sinh Tourists to pick up the final batch of passengers, whereby these group of Englishmen/Americans came on board. Two were seated in right in front of PS and I, while the other two sat further behind. Not going to really get into details here, but yeah you got it. They (the English seated in front of PS) tried to pick us up by offering us some cheap red wine. I somehow felt it coming when he was mumbling to the American in front of me about 'being weird by offering them wine'. And when he suddenly turned over to me after the American mumbled something like 'you can take the chance', I immediately turned my head over and stared out of the window as if those grass fields were the most beautiful thing I've ever set my eyes on, keeping a watchful eye on his reflection in the window, looking at him opening and closing his mouth a couple of times like a goldfish with that bottle of red wine hanging from his hand. Haha! I guess he eventually got the hint that I've no wish to entertain him and he gave up on that idea. *whew!*
Later that night, PS started eavesdroppping on their conversation while she pretended to sleep and guess what? That goldfish's other friend laid down a bet of VND$900K for him to pick us up before by the time we reach HCMC. And that American in front of me said: But how are you going to do that? They're all asleep!
Good one, American! Good one!
But seriously, 900k is just SGD$69! Like, WTF?

Darned Sony repair service

2010-01-07T06:02:00.000-08:00

I just have to blog this before I continue with Vietnam Trip day 3.

Just in case you didn't know, I own a less than 1 year old Sony VAIO laptop. And like one month ago, it started to crank up. I do not use the battery when I'm using the laptop at home, so I noticed the problem at the very first second. Electricity gets cut off from the machine as and when it likes to. The adaptor is working fine, judging from the green light, but my laptop just like to black out by itself and I can't switch it on again.
Tried using it with my battery and noticed the not-trendlike-at-all kind of trend. Electricity is cut off from the machine as and when it likes to be cut off. This second the battery is charging, next second it's not. The next second, adaptor is plugged in but not charging, and the next, it's not plugged in. One word: UNSTABLE.
So I brought it in to Sony, but it freaking started working fine there again.
Alright, blame my luck. So I carried it back home again, thinking that the problem is solved.
I was so wrong.
One week later, 17th Dec 2009, I had to send it in to Sony again and this time the customer service officer didn't bother to check if it's really not working and sent my laptop in, battery, cable, adaptor and all, to the technicians. I was told to wait for 1 week.
Just the next day after I sent it in, the techician called me insisting that my laptop is working fine. I insisted it's not and explained to him and problem. He claimed to have understood the problem, and I believed him.
Two days later, I received a miss call from Sony, to which I chose to ignore.
The very next day, the techician called me again, insisting that my laptop is really working fine. I explained the whole problem to him AGAIN, and he claimed to have understood the situation AGAIN, and I even suggested that perhaps some connections are loose.
Another few days later, on Christmas Day, Sony texted me saying my service job is pending for spare parts.
I thought: Yeah! They've finally found out the problem!
And so I waited for the collection text message. And I waited, and I waited.
Finally, yesterday evening, 6th Jan 2010, Sony texted me, informing that my laptop is ready for collection. Eager to get my non-lagging computer back, I headed down earlier today, only to find out that they've misplaced my battery. However, as I was so glad to have my laptop back after such a long wait, I actually reassured the flustered customer service officer that it was fine, and that I'll drop by tomorrow to collect it.
Haha, and drop by tomorrow I will.
Upon reaching home, I immediately switched on my laptop to get my first shock. They've restored my system back to default factory settings. All my applications and softwares are gone, including the authentic MS words I've borrowed from someone else. I checked the repair certificate and realised they changed the motherboard, when I thought it was just a pin vs pinhole connection problem. Nevermind, they're the computer engineers, right? At least it's working fine now, right?
WRONG!
After barely 1 hour of usage, my entire computer hang! It has never hang beforeI sent it in for this shit repair service! It's not even one year old! Okay, nevermind. I told myself it probably hang because it.... just so happens to hang.
After 3 hours plus of usage, I switched it off to rest my eyes.
And now? I can't switch on the blardie machine! Same problem! No electricity! WTF?!
Just what kinda shit repair service does Sony Singapore provides for their customers? HUH?

Vietnam Trip: Day 2

2010-01-03T05:00:00.000-08:00

Day 2 - 27th Dec 2009
It was nearly 6:15am when the 3 of us woke up on the bumpy sleeping bus ride. I took a glance at out of the window and realised that the road is much less chaotic than those in HCMC. Yup, we're in Nha Trang! After another 15 minutes, our bus veered past Nha Trang's Sinh Tourist and the 3 of us quickly started packing up and getting ready to jump off the bus once it stops. Typical kiasu singaporeans, yes. But, our effort were not rewarded as the 3 of us were to check in to another hotel different from the entire bus (which none of us knew at that point of time). This was when the exasperation of us not understanding Vietnamese and them not speaking English set in. Jay showed the driver our receipt with our hotel name - Green Nha Trang on it and asked if we've reached. He nodded. So we scrambled off the bus and waited. Somehow I felt really uneasy and Jay double confirmed with another staff. He nodded again and I wondered if he really understood us. Jay asked another time, and he nodded, asking us to wait. After the entire bus was cleared out, he motioned for us to get on the bus again. I was like, "HUH? WHY? EVERYONE HAS ALIGHTED!" But Jay managed to persuade me to follow them and said if they really drove us to a wrong hotel, we can still hail a taxi back. And so the 3 of us climbed aboard again and after 5 minutes, we reached our correct destination. Green Nha Trang. We were slightly happy as our hotel, though painted a horribly bright TKGS uniform green, was much cleaner, newer and bigger than the previous hotel. The receptionist, probably due to Sinh Tourist, allowed us to check in at 7am when the norm was 2pm. And wow, we were exceptionally pleased when we saw our room, and also quite disappointed that we'll only be staying for one night. Our room was equipped with the basic: one double and one single bed, mirror, dressing table, cable tv, good working fridge, closet, two small armchairs, bathroom with bathrub, and a balcony with seaview. We then started to wash up and get ready for our island boat trip when Jay announced that she's hungry and when out to search for breakfast. After more than 1/2 an hour, just as I was trying to call her on her cell, she came back with a Pho Ga, 3 Vietnamese coffee, and a Banh Mi(Baguette with meat and egg). Even though I wasn't really hungry, I still ate my fair share of the Banh Mi (I'm a great fan of baguette!) and a mouthful of the Pho Ga. PS and Jay both loved this Pho Ga to bits, but I'll prefer Pho24's. Anyway, we all got ready to leave by 8:15am to wait for our minibus. At around 8:30am, it came... and off we went for our boat trip with No.4 Boat Trip!
The boat is of a decent mini-ferry size, and I am thankful for the calm waters. Our guides introduced themselves, but somehow only two with weird english nicknames were remembered. Monkey Boy and Lady Boy. They were also the two entertaining ones. Our first island was the Mieu Island, which housed the Tri Nguyen Aquarium, along with a fishing village. An entrance fee of VND$35k was required and so we decided not to go onto the island. Sinh Tourist has failed to notify us of the extra expenses and we only brought like 600k in total.
After Mieu Island was Mun Island, whereby we got to go swimming/snorkeling for free, along with other paid water sports/games like jetski, parasailing, banana boat etc. After much counting and haggling, we finally decided that we should have sufficient funds to try out banana boat. I'm glad we did! It was sooooooooo fun! The speed boat dragged us out at full speed all the way out till Mun Island was a mere dot, and we were surrounded by the bluish green seawater and pale blue sky. One bad thing is, you'll get water splashing on your face from time to time (all the time, if you happen to be right in front) and it's so salty! =.=" After the banana boat ride, we were thinking if we should go snorkeling. I was hesitant because I can't tread water at all. And with my lousy water stamina, it's gonna be really tough for me to keep on swimming and swimming and swimming once I jump into the sea. Plus, they don't give you a life jacket but a buoy, so you'll look retarded with that white ring around you. Plus, as we got back onto the boat for snorkeling, i saw a few coming back with bleeding gashes on their feet/legs as they got cut by the rocks. So yeah, you got your answer. I chose to stay on the boat and look after the belongings as jay and PS went swimming.
After Mun Island, we stopped by Mot Island and had lunch with the rest of the passengers at a huge table that spans nearly the entire boat. Lunch was more than enjoyable. We were served (cold, and possible *coughcough* recycled) rice, seafood, noodles, spring rolls, pork, soup and etc. A Korean family sitting beside us refused to touch anything on the table apart from the rice, even though the rice was really the worse 'dish' of all, and whipped out their own packets of kimchi to go with the rice. So we ended up with more servings of the food. *hiak hiak* After lunch, we were entertained by No.4 Boyband, singing a mix of Vietnamese, English, and even Chinese, Japanese, and Korean songs. Haha, and of course, the Korean song has to be Arirang. -LOL- Soon, the 'floating bar' was opened, with Lady Boy jumping into the sea in the middle of a lifebuoy, holding a bottle of red wine with many pastic cups. Hahaha! So if you want the wine, you have to jump into the sea to get it. Nope, we didn't join in the fun.
After the floating bar at Mot Island, we were ferried to Con Se Tre - Bai Tranh Island whereby we were given free time to chillax, with an entrance fee of VND$20k. PS did parasailing here at a price of only VND$300k and after that we just sat down on sunchairs on the beach, drinking really cheap tiger beers, eating quail eggs and soaking in the sun. Before we knew it, it was already time for us to leave the island for the main island of Nha Trang. On the way back, we were served yet another large table-full of tropical fruits.
After getting back to our hotel, we ventured out in search of food and came across this massage/facial/nail all in one beauty spa. PS and Jay were tempted for some massage and I wanted to try the facial. I had SERIOUS breakout that time, but I didn't feel safe to try the acne treatment facial in fear of worsening my condition. But they insisted on that, even though it was much cheaper than the one for sensitive skin which I was opting for. It turned out to be fine, judging from my skin now. Well, it WAS rather swollen because of all the squeezing but it just went away after a day. While having the mask on, the staff started doing some massage on me and that was when I was glad I didnt go for the massage with ps and Jay. At some point of time I was really tempted to kick that lady and ask her to stop tickling me. Oh nvm, guess I'm really not a massage person, huh!
Dinner for that night was a... rojak dinner, comprising of Ban Xeo(Vietnamese food that's like a pancake with seafood and beansprouts, to be eaten with fresh lettuce), Com Tay or Com *something* (Vietnamese bbq pork chop rice), and Texas styled fried chicken with french fries. The owner of the western resturant just came back from US two years ago and so he speaks English! Got alot of help and directions from him for our free-and-easy day tomorrow, to be touched on in Day 3. =)

Vietnam Trip: Day 1

2010-01-02T06:08:00.000-08:00

Yes, I'm back from my 7 days Vietnam trip with ps and jay! It was overall an enjoyable trip, but seriously, the communication problems+bad services really made me exasperated. Our trip of 7 days 6 nights consisted of 16 self-sourced meals, and only 3 were without wrong orders/ignored requests. 2 out of the 3 aren't Vietnamese food. And that final 1 gave all of us diarrhoea.
And there traffic too! Traffic light is a rarity there, and zebra crossings are totally useless! The art of jay-walking has attained the ultimate level - You do not even need to look left and right to wait for gaps. Because it will never come. Just walk straight with a steady pace. The vehicles will shun you. Well, most do.
Alright, let me stop ranting and start on my detailed day-by-day account of my Vietnam Trip - Ho Chi Minh City + Nha Trang + Mekong Delta + Cu Chi Tunnel.

Day 1
Jay and PS came over to my house for the night as we're taking a 0745hr flight on Tiger Airways to HCMC and we need to check in at 0545hr. Then we realised that our chared luggage is 13kg, just merely 2kg away from the limit of 15kg. Jay then suggested of upsizing to a 25kg and we got a HCMC number(the call centre) from the airport staff. Since it's a HCMC number, it makes more sense for us to call upon reaching in HCMC and this marked our number 1 nightmare, to be revealed in Day 3 account.
Upon touching down at the airport at HCMC, Vietnam time 0800hr plus 0900hr (Vietnam is one hour before us), we immediately tried to get a taxi. Friends have suggested taking only Vinasun and Mai Linh as the rest may tweak their meters. But what we didn't know was that we had to go approach that particular taxi company's staff with a walkie-talkie to call for their taxi. But we did, after some observation, and we successfully got onto a Mai Linh taxi and was driven to Pham Ngu Lao District 1, where our hotel, Red Sun Guest House, was located. After confirming our booking with Red Sun and knowing that we can only check in at 2pm, we left our luggage with the hotel and left, in search of Sinh Cafe, now known as Sinh Tourist, to book our domestic tours. Sinh Tourist turned out to be of walking distance and we successfully booked a 2 days 1 night trip to Nha Trang for their Island boat tour on their sleeping bus leaving at 830pm at night and reaching Nha Trang ten hours later at 630am the next morning, another 1 day tour to Mekong Delta - My Tho and Ben Tre, and a 1/2 day trip to Cu Chi Tunnel.
After leaving Sinh Tourist, we started walking around HCMC, armed with only the city map, hoping to find this particular Vietnamese restaurant recommended by Jay's friend, supposedly situated at District 3. Our first challenge was posed - to cross the road. We stopped by the zebra crossing and attempted to wait for the motorbikes, cars and buses to show signs of slowing down or any form of gaps in between them such that we can attempt to CHARGE across the road. We waited, and we waited, and waited somemore. Neither happened. Finally decided that it's pointless to wait, we finally picked up our courage and took the first step out, right into the stream of busy vehicles. Our first attempt was rather comical with mousey-scurrying plus hysterical shrieking that totally screamed: WE'RE TOURISTS! WE'RE NOT LOCAL! But oh well, we're still in one piece! Soon after we started to realise that we're getting lost and hence Jay started grabbing random passers-by to ask for direction. This was when the second uneasy fact dawned on us. Most of them do not speak nor understand basic English. And so, we started relying on the point-point wave-wave gesture-gesture body language. Got a couple of directions in returned, along with 'near' and '20 minutes'. Yeah right, 20 minutes my foot. After our first 20 minutes, we asked another passer-by and got another 20 minutes; after the 2nd 20 minutes, we asked another passer-by and got yet another 20 minutes. After like an hour (perhaps?) of aimless walking, my constipation induced intestinal pain started acting up and we decided to just stop at some random eatery for lunch. And lunch was also an exasperating experience.
First up, drinks. PS ordered coconut, I wanted Twister and Jay wanted Mirinda. PS got her coconut, Jay got a Sarsi (she was too thirsty to change it), and I got Heineken Beer. Told them their mistake and repeated that I wanted Twister. Then I got Jay's Mirinda in return.
Second, food. We ordered some chicken and the vietnamese spring roll thingy (didn't remember what it's called). We pointed to the one with shrimps and pork on the menu and the waiter nodded his head. Soon, the rolls were served and Jay and PS ate theirs first. I wanted to wait for the intestinal pains to subside a little before eating, and thank goodness I did. The rolls weren't stuffed with shrimps and pork. It was beef, and I CANNOT EAT BEEF. Jay pointed out their mistake and asked for them to change the remaining one beef roll into shrimp and pork for me only. They took that remaining 1 beef roll and served us another 3 shrimp and pork rolls. We ate those 3, thinking that the wrong orders will not be charged because, HEY! it's their mistake! But we were wrong, they did charge us for all 5 rolls. wtf. The rolls aren't even nice. The skin is too tough and all I could taste was the raw spring onions. Eew....
After lunch, we walked back to Red Sun to check in and rest for a while. Their staff are all nice and friendly, and their room clean and well equipped with comfy beds, cable tv, fridge (albeit not very cold), wardrobe, and a bathroom. Bathroom has no bathtub though, but their heater works fine. After resting, we decided to head down to Ben Thanh Market. With my navigator skills plus Jay's 'socialite' skills, we finally made it to Ben Thanh Market and both PS and Jay found a tailor there. Jay wanted to made a suit and a dress, while PS very spontaneously wanted to tailor make a vest and also Jay's dress. After much haggling, they finally settled on a relatively cheap price and off we went to Pho24 for dinner. I ordered a Pho Ga and Jay and PS decided to share a Pho Bo. On top of that, we also ordered their spring roll upon recommendation by the waiter and Lipton Honey Lemon Green Tea. The spring roll turned out to be really nice, so is the Lipton tea! Too bad it's not available here in SG. But then again, came the wrong orders. Instead of just 1 Pho Ga and 1 Pho Bo, they served us 2 Pho Ga and 1 Pho Bo. *sigh* Nevermind, their pho is good too! Blame it on the communication barrier.
After dinner, we went back to Red Sun to pack our bags and prepared to leave for Sinh Tourist to catch the sleeping bus tp Nha Trang. One the way, we bought some mineral water and bread for the night/next morning from this nice looking bakery also at Pham Ngu Lao called ABC Bakery. Arrived at Sinh Tourist and waited for our bus to arrive. The bad thing is that none of the staff bothered to make any proper announcements on the arrival of our bus and if it weren't that we asked, we might have missed the bus. Finally made it onto the correct bus and off we went to Nha Trang!

2012: We Were Warned

2009-12-14T20:40:00.000-08:00

Yes, it has been quite a movie marathon for me last week. After watching NA on Friday after my last paper, I caught 2012 on the following Monday with zhenzhen, and New Moon with MeiQin on Tuesday. Review for New Moon will be done a few days later.
People has been telling me: What, you've not watched 2012 yet? You're a NOOB! =.="
It's not that I don't wanna watch it you know? E-X-A-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N-S!
Okay, nvm. Back to this movie. Oh, and before I move on to the spoiler, 2012 has a couple of official posters but I chose this. Somehow the backview of a Larma staring at the impending tsunami intrigues me much much more than crumbling pieces of the Earth.

*Warning: Spoilers ahead*
Friends of the friend who went to watch with me told him that 2012 is actually quite a sad movie. Critics on my local newspaper has told me that apart from CGs, this movie has no other biggie worth to be discussed.
For me, it's somehow quite the case. Basically what you see on the trailer is more than enough for you to know what's going to happen. Yes, this movie is totally PREDICTABLE. You know what's going to happen next. No wait, you know what's going to take place, and probably can also guess the ending spot on, without watching it at all.
It all starts with the findings of an Indian scientist, which all pointed to the fact that our planet Earth is doomed. The centre core of Earth is heating up way too fast and every little details seemed to match with the end of the world marked on the Mayan calender. 21.12.2012.
Byebye, Mother Earth. Byebye, human race. Byebye, living things. Byebye everything.
But no, the goverments of the world refused to sit by and wait for doomsday to descend. Together, the governments tried means and ways in a desperate attempt to save the human race.
And that's how the story unfolds, along with the patching up of a once broken marriage between the lead male and his divorced wife. Oh, what's the best way to rekindle lost love other than the fear of losing one forever and ever?
Oh, nvm! So the destruction finally starts when the male lead finally managed to pack his two children, ex-wife and her new hubby into his car and I started to wonder just how lucky he is to have the road forever crumbling after his speeding car; to have the bridge falling down slow enough for his car to scrap through unscath; to have the millions of huge blazing stones falling from the sky missing his vehicle again and again as his adorable daughter wonder why those blazing stones are following them on purpose (when it's not. They're just falling everywhere and your genius daddy just know how to shun them); to be able to climb out of the vehicle which has fallen into the huge crack on the surface of the earth without even suffering a scratch. And Lady Luck continued to shine on him, and his ex-wife and children as the destruction goes on. And I guess Lady Luck was too busy shining on them, so much so that she couldn't help Gordon, his ex-wife's new hubby, who eventually died when he fell into the crevice of the 'saviour ship' movable bridge and got crushed. Of course, how could their broken love be rekinlded when ex-wifey's new hubby is well and alive?
Apart from losing Gordon, there is really some sad scenes, especially when the US president refused to board the ship and abandon his state, and how he just had to wake up, after having been knocked out from the initial impact of the crumbling tower, just in time to see the oncoming of the monstrous sized tsunami coming to end his life. The part where the selfish Russian rich-ass, after abandoning his lover and his supposed-to-be companions on the run, actually sacrificed his own life to save his two sons also served to give the audience the idea that no matter how selfish people might be, they will never choose their own life over their children's. Oh, how noble the love for their children! Yet, it's still for THEIR OWN CHILDREN only. Oh well, better than nothing, huh!
*End of Spoiler*

Despite the unbelievable luck shining on the male lead and his family, this movie did set me thinking on the possibility of having the end of the world happening in my lifetime. What will happen should fellow human continues to release carbon oxides, nitrogen oxides, methane and etc into the environment? What will happen should the greenhouse effect be allowed to worsen? Will the melted polar ice caps flood our entire earth, forcing our future generation to evolve into mermaids/mermen? Or will the entire earth explode just like what happened in 2012? Are we going to have any future generations, even? Governements of various countries have started promising to cut down on emissions, but are we in time to really save our mother Earth?
What do you think?

Ninja Assassin

2009-12-06T23:06:00.000-08:00

YES, it's RAIN! Jung Ji Hoon. Ninja Assassin.
I've finally watched it just after my last paper. For a Rain fan, it's fabulous. But for a non-Rain fan, males especially, it's probably going to be a crap show because 99.99% of the time, you're staring at Rain's *coughcough* hot bod/chocolate bar abs/well defined obliques+triceps+biceps+whatever other muscles you can see on a topless body, and that's why I LIKE IT! =)

*WARNING, SPOLIERS AHEAD*

Frankly speaking, this movie has a very weak plot. Rain plays Raizo, an orphan picked up by the Ninja clan and trained totally inhumanely to become a fearless assassin. The girl ninja in his clan, whom he likes, decided to escape from the clan one night and was killed as a form of punishment. When made to carry out the same punishment on another girl ninja for running away, Raizo decided to turn against his clan and became a traitor.
Naomi (is that her name?) plays Mika, a forensic researcher, who believes that a Ninja clan exists somewhere out there and people are getting killed by them. Her theory was not only proven right, but also got her into trouble with the clan, who wants her dead.
Raizo, who wants to wipe out his entire clan and kill his 'father' turn up at the nick of time to save her and that's how the story unfolds with more fighting, gore and.... a happy(?) ending.
Those scenes I totally adore are the part where Raizo practised in his rented apartment, especially his handstand. That was OTT man! And the scene whereby he stood in the slightly blazing room, waiting for Takeshi with two swords in his hands was cool too!
And then the fighting scenes.... Generally they're quite exciting, albeit a bit too dark. But then again, they're ninja and ninja are creatures of the night, moving around in shadows. So it'll be kinda wrong to have them fighting in strong spotlights as well. And the gore... well, kinda fake. Especially the blood. They totally resembled ketchup to me. But it's still cool, (for a mini-sadist like me) especially when Raizo cut up the girl-ninja who wanted him dead and stuffed her body parts into the washing machine; and when Raizo cut up Takeshi's hands, and finally used his chain(see the weapon on the poster)to bind his arms up and slicing the blade into his carotid artery such that his ketchupy blood will spew out like a fountain.
There was ABIT, I repeat, ABIT of 'fun' scenes. Well, two actually. One was when Raizo was fighting the girl ninja in the laundry shop, and the shopowner was watching some korean historical drama on the tv in a room, whereby the girl in the drama was getting tortured and screaming. And just outside that room, the girl ninja was getting her arse kicked (and also cut up) by Raizo and was screaming too. The other one was when Raizo told Mika: The only time you lied to me was about your size.

Okay, so on the whole, I'll rate this movie a 4.5/5. =) GO GO GO, GO CATCH IT!

Yeah, it's over!

2009-12-04T23:53:00.000-08:00

Yes, it's finally over. a crazy semester of 8 modules with 7 papers to sit for plus fyp is finally done.
Let me do a review of this semester. FYP is still chui. Slabs to be cast during early oct is still undone. Don't even dare to think about it.
As for my papers, let's see.
First up was Solid Waste Management. This paper could have been quite bad, at least for me, because I totally had no motivations to study for it. Lecture notes are literally useless and I had no expectations of what's probably gonna come out for the paper. Thank goodness we met some nice people along the way, and he helped us... Quite a lot. =) Really gotta thank him man. For the kids' vitamin, 3/4 hashbrown and candy too. LOL.
Next was EnSoc paper. Haha, another ~~ *hand motion* paper. Didn't study for it at all! It's basically all about SG's history, and err stuff like Total Defence and etc. So basically I crapped my way through the entire paper. Hopefully I know enough about my own country to not fail this paper.
Then the day right after my EnSoc was the craziest day of my exam period. RC paper at 9 till 1130, followed by Civil Engineering Management paper at 1. RC paper was.... well, supposed to be do-able for me, but not really manageable in the sense that I couldn't finish all 4 qns in 2.5 hrs. Ended up totally leaving the last qn blank. Susanto Teng's qn! ONE-WAY SLAB! stupid me. I should have started with the last qn! But it's all too late for regrets now. =( And immediately after RC paper, I was desperately trying to cram all the CEM stuff into my head. Totally entered panic mode and was close to yanking all my hair out. Jonathan's attempt to calm me down by saying 'all the infomation is in your mind...' totally didn't help. But still, I think I can manage to pass the paper la, huh? At least a D?
After that crazy day was my steel paper. Still manageable. Nothing much to rant about. Thank goodness we went to harass, no i mean... consult professor chiew about how to calculate our own radius of gyration and etc the day right before our paper, because it did come out again for this year. So yup, basically that consultation saved me.
After Steel was wastewater engineering paper. It's my worse paper for this semester. I really wonder if i can pass it. Even though everybody (both civil and envi) said it's tough. But somehow I have a feeling that they wont be as chui as me. So.... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo~~~ I dont wanna fail! *prays*
And finally, came my last paper for this semester. Structs 2. Sighz, I was really hoping to ace this paper. But it's really impossible now. I hope I can get a B. 4 questions in total, 2.5 hrs paper. Just doing 2 qns already took me 2 hours! I was like, staring at the clock and screaming 'NOOOOOOOOOO~" in my head. And of course, I couldn't finish the blardie paper. Urgh....
Nevermind, it's all over.
Went to watch Ninja Assassin with zd, ys, gr and andy just now. RAIN~~~~~~~~ His body sooooo zai la! zero percent excess body fat HOT BOD! Haha, will talk about that tmr maybe.

random update

2009-11-15T03:24:00.000-08:00

924th post.
I've not been blogging much lately. Am always feeling lethargic and well, aim-less? I wonder when would I ever hit 1000th post. Should I stop blogging after hitting 1000? No idea.
Exams coming real soon. It's around the corner, literally. First paper on 19th, followed by 23rd, 2 on 24th, 1st, 3rd and last paper on 4th.
This semester is a crazy semester, really.
Apart from crazily packed timetables with crazy modules, I've made a bunch of insane friends and did insane stuff (both together with friends, and erm, alone?)
Haha, started talking to my friends' eye candies, like totally out of the blue. Two different eye candies of my two friends. E and O huh.... Okay, i have more link to E than O. But still.... crap la, just talk la!
Both are nice guys actually. Don't understand why both will get tongue-tied talking to them.
alot of random thoughts popped into my mind. First was SOS. Nope, not thinking of going to the window and start waving a piece of white cloth in my hand while screaming help, but SOS here stands for Save Our Seahorses. They're having a project whereby volunteers will go diving and observe pygmy seahorses. If only I can dive.... then i can go too. and as I emerge from my dive I will raise my fist into the air and scream GREEN PEACE!
-lol-
Then it was something I reckon can either be categorised as PMS or QLC, as in quarter life crisis. Just one more semester before I grad, and I realise that I have absolutely no idea of what I want to do, nor do I really know what I wanna achieve in my life. Blank, nothing....
bwah, I guess I needa emo-dump on somebody.
Or rather, I need to go back to my RC notes right now.

Stare!

2009-10-16T21:34:00.000-07:00

Yeah, in case anyone of you didn't realise it, I've officially turned one year older last Wednesday.
Not doing my birthday post yet, because there's another celebration coming up tomorrow. hurhur.
But i got to rant.
School stuff is screwed.
Structs 2 quiz is screwed too. Blardie lights in the LT kept going off, landing us all in pitch darkness. HOW DO TO QUIZ?
FYP is !@#$%^&*((*&^%$@#^&^*. No words to describe it.
ID is.... I don't know.
Exams starts in 1 mth time.
I'm so going to die.
... ...
and now, after the selina incident, this new 'Scandalous staring incident' is bothering me to no end.
what a great semester!

It's a weird weird semester

2009-09-17T22:20:00.000-07:00

I'm stressed. So i'm gonna rant. I don't care. Ignore this post for all you want.
Had Structs 2 quiz few days ago. And I made a horribly stupid mistake for my shear IL. I got my values from equilibrium method CORRECT. But I just have to stupidly draw the wrong IL. *pulls hair* I want my A for Structs 2. I really want my A. I believe I can survive on equilibrium method for IL. But i screwed up the quiz! *wails*
RC quiz on coming Tues, followed by Steel Quiz on Fri. I'm so dead. Got lost at around lecture 5 for RC and I never did bother to catch up on lecture recording, thinking that I'll do so during recess week. But, they prepone(my version of the opp of postpone) the quiz to week 7! *wails* But luckily, the tutorials still make some sense to me and hopefully i can clear the quiz via 'pattern recognition'. As for steel, the only thing i can catch during tutorial is Prof Lee CK's "Don't worry, don't worry!" =.="
yeah, as if i can not worry about it. I really want my Ds for Steel and RC~! Haha, how motivating. I'm actually aiming for Ds. *sighz*
and on the week after recess week, Wednesday, 7th Oct. I'll be having both my CV4201 QUIZ, and my CV 4000 PRESENTATION 2. Urgh, how lucky! I can forsee how happy my actual birthday will be. *grim look*
oh and talking about my birthday. I've not thought of my wishlist yet. Bascially there's no list for now. Just one item I can think of.
A nice pink laptop bag for my new pink laptop. Haha. Vaio is bigger than Fujitsu, so my laptop now can hardly fit into my old laptop bag. But then again, it's not as if I'll bring my laptop out daily....
So, I guess I'll brainstorm for more wishlist ideas, yeah?

ps. I still can't find that particular angle whereby i'll look like Selina. =(

Ten Dollar Club KTV!

2009-09-13T15:26:00.000-07:00

Went for Kara with Sa and her clique again! This time is the super duper cheap ten bucks kara at tpy/balestier area. Seriously, that place is rather pretty. But their mic and sound system sucks. And after almost every song it wld hang for a few seconds showing 'no signal'. haha, but what to expect? It's only ten bucks NETT. Not the full clique joined us though. TT and YH got something on the in the afternoon. Jonah was sick so he couldn't join us at the last minute. I was hoping to see his 'sister talk' with Sa again. Haha, that kinda amused me, plus I won't have any misunderstanding anymore. =)
One good thing for me is that compared to other karas, they have more j/k pop songs!
They also have BoA's Ten Promises To My Dog song. =) Tohoshinki's Bolero (of course I on audio during YooChun's crazy screaming part. I'm no adventurist). KAT-TUN's White X'Mas, One Drop. Speed's White Love(though this is a fake MV). Hiro's Clover, and even La La La Love Song! I LOVE THAT SONG SINCE YOUNG CAN, LITERALLY!
*sings* Maware Maware Merry-Go-Round. Motto shite tomaranai youni~~~
And, even Wonder Girls' Nobody and SNSD's Gee. No Genie for SNSD though, guess that's still too new. But the Gee(x4) Baby(x3) part is entertaining enough.
jx was saying my range is very wide. of course la, i'm THE multi-linguist. LOL..... okay, i admit i dont understand korean apart from phrases like ahnyeong, saranghae, chingoo, jeongmal, neomu yeppeo, mollah, maldo andwe, pabo, shiloh, eottokae etc. But i really understand at least 60% of the jap songs okay!
once again, the 'fun' part of our kara is suan-ing jx for being old.
Sa: Who's singing Ming Zhong Zu Ding? *looks over at Wi*
Wi: Nono, that's not THAT MZZD. This is an oldie!
And the 5 of us immediately turned and stare at jx while he gave us a beaten look.
Wi: Okay okay, it's not an oldie. It's a JIN QU! (Golden Melody)
muahahahahahaha....
After Kara, we went to that particular coffee shop for banmian, and yh joined us for dinner too. So yeah, the dinner's fun part is suan-ing yh.
yh: *blabbers blabbers blabbers*
jx: So what's your zhong dian?
yh: Need a zhong dian meh?
Sa: Of course la! If there's no zhong dian than what's the point of saying it? You only bai jiang and waste our time!
... ...
yh: *blabbers on and on about igave*
Sa: If you're going to continue talking about igave then i'm going home.
... ...
I really wonder why yh likes to meet up. always kena suan and nothing else. poor guy. :p
oh, and sa... for my birthday wishlist right. I'll do it asap k. haha!

Jay's 23rd!

2009-09-11T23:46:00.000-07:00

Yes, it's Jay's 23rd birthday celebration entry!
But I have to say, the number of photos taken this time is reallllllyyyyyyyyyyy little. I guess we were all too caught up with chatting that the camera was conveniently forgotten. Anyway, ps was not able to join us again! It's so hard to catch our multi-tasker ps. *sighz*
... ...
We finally decided to head to Dome for dinner. Ordered a pizza, a pasta, a chicken main course and two sides to share among the 5 of us. and nope, no pics of food were taken. =(
so the night went on with updates. funny, saucy, gossipy updates that includes zh's first porno dvd shop trip story. LOL.... Her certain comment was really OTT. And somehow it developed into Jay's flasher incidentSSSSS... and yeah, things just got raunchier and raunchier. LOL!

Finally, i decided that it's time to cut the cake. Thanks to xj and zl, i've decided to get Rive Gauche for Jay! She commented it's a little bit more bitter than Coco Exotic. Maybe we shall try that next time? *hopeful look*

And finally, it's a group shot to end the super duper short entry. =)
blame our R21 talk. I can't update much details. LOL.... I dont talk about penises on my blog, please.
LOL.....

Marina Barrage & Chomp Chomp!

2009-09-04T23:42:00.000-07:00

Yeah, finally the Marina Barrage+Chomp Chomp car trip picspam entry is done!
but before we get to the pictures, I have to say...
HAPPY 23RD BIRTHDAY, JAMIEEEEEE~~~
can't wait for Sunday to come! =)
... ...

Guess what we did while waiting for the bus to arrive?

while waiting for the bus, I attempted to do a lousy advert for the yoghurt drink....

Then Sa and Wi camwhored with their bears. Prince and Princess. Ok, Prince is MIA. Only Princess is there....

Then we got to the car rental place...

And got our blue car....

After topping up petrol....

Then we're officially good to go!

As we were finding our way to Marina Barrage, the sky started getting overcast...

THEN IT STARTED POURING! =(

and after driving around and around in circles, we finally found our destination!

Heehee, saw a couple taking wedding photos. And we took a picture of them. hurhur!

Well, erm... A shot to show off my long hair?!

The Flyer here is too small....

So we took another shot! =)

After picking up JX at NTU, we headed off to Chomp Chomp for dinner!

Then Sa and I decided to camwhore a little while waiting for food to arrive. =)

JX looking happy with our oversized drinks......

For our food, first came the carrot cake!

Then... Is this Fried Hokkien Mee? Or prawn mee? Aiya, whatever it is, it's nice too! =)

Yummy bbq chicken wings!

out of all the bbq seafood we've ordered. Squids were the best, but of course they still can't be compared to the ones we had at desaru. not the price, not the taste.

These are actually mussels, my topmost favourite shellfish. but these mussels tasted plain weird. they both tasted and looked like oysters!

one of my favourite shellfish, lala!

Of course, what's eating bbq seafood without stingray? (it was a little too charred though)

Wi and JX were very happy with the food.

So are we! (though i really dislike the mussels. they tasted more like un-fresh oysters)

Somehow we managed to 'make friends' with the uncles sitting at the table beside us. They graduated from NTU when we were born. LOL, and we got them to take a picture for us! Plus, they also treated Wi to one stick of satay. haha!

And after all those food, Wi and I still went to Mac for shaker fries. =.='' I guess I've finally found out where my 10kg weight gain came from.

I'm lagging. I'm seriously lagging.

2009-09-03T22:11:00.000-07:00

It's already the 4th week.
I'm still slogging through tutorial 2 of structs 2. 1 more to go for this week.
Only tutorial 1 of wastewater is done. 2 more to go for this week.
RC and Steel tutorials, not even tutorial 1 was revised.
CV4000 presentation next week, things are not settled yet.
I still havent done my archi design properly.
FYP plan to be submitted next week, nothing was discuss or settled.
Solid waste tuts and project, i can't even be bothered.
I'm so dead.

Getting Architectural Inspirations

2009-08-23T21:08:00.000-07:00

Yes, I've promised to do the Marina Barrage+Chomp Chomp photo-blog but uploading pics and pics makes me sianified. But don't worry, i've already uploaded 1/3 of the pics and saved it as a draft, so it would be up some day.
hurhur.
Met Kor today for some help on the archi design for my ID project, and spent half the day walking around randomly and looking at buildings.
*points to a building*
"What does this hotel building reminds you of? What do you think is the element?"
me: ... ...
"It's a coconut tree!"
*points to UOB building*
"What's the building element?"
me: ... ...
*sighs* "It's a star!"
*picks up a dried leaf from the ground and sets it on my palm*
"Nah, see! This can be a good design for the theatre. This would be the roof, stage would be here. The backstage and etc can be here......"
me: ... ...???
"USE YOUR IMAGINATIONS!"
seriously, i can't see a thing. to me, everything are just concrete concrete and concrete, topped up with glass. And hidden within would be re-bars, beams and etc.
I'm so dead. Grade A for ID, within reach? Maybe....
I'll just have to work very very hard.

Random Rantings

2009-08-20T23:35:00.000-07:00

大変! 大変! 大変! 大変! アタシね... 苛立たせることがある!
誰か教えて? アタシ出来る事...
真の友達は誰? 誰は敵? アタシ全然分からない!
馬鹿みたいな、アタシ...

何度答え探しても考えるほど分からない~
いくら探し続けても答えなんて分からない~

はいはい、山ピの歌です
でもね、ピはカラフナな世界へいける
アタシ... いけない. =(

アタシの日本語はとても悪いですね。 J4を勉強したい!

Feeling damn stressed. This is a crazy semester for me, packed with crazy projects. The craziest of all seems to be the garbage project. Why no quiz? WHY? どうして?
I really hope that I can still get a semester GPA of above 4 for this semester. But it seems kinda hopeless.

To carry on the randomness of this entry, I shall say this.
御好み焼きはメッチャ美味しいよ!

plus, whenever i catch sight of Andi nowadays, I'll remember his: I know your father! Your father's popiah is very delicious! A random me, makes random friends too! LOL...

Harry Potter+Ramen Outing Picspam

2009-08-19T21:53:00.000-07:00

Okay, I promised to blog about this much much earlier. I tried. But my browser, both firefox and IE, decided not to let me load the upload pics page so I couldn't do it. And now, here it is! After 4 years, we finally met up with Geraldine AKA Nemo again!
ps. after this would be Marina Barrage+Chomp Chomp, i supposed?
... ...

Sa wanted to win some Elmos. I gave up after 2 tries because I refused to waste so much money on elmos.

And after throwing in 11 or 12 bucks, she finally got it!

Saw a walking Rilakkuma along the way. I want one too! Rilakkuma means relax bear actually. Rilak=Relax. Kuma=Bear.

Then it's finally movie time! We watched Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince. I believed I've blogged about the movie much much earlier. Haha, so I shan't elaborate on that again....

Clara brought us snacks from Tokyo again! But this time it's wasabi flavoured cashew nuts? No, err... let's just give it a general term nuts! I dislike wasabi with a vengence, so Geral and Sa took my share. =( Wasabi stinks! Oh, and the elmo thingy was not from Tokyo, Sa just wanted to give her prizes more shots.

While waiting for our future successful(??) stockbroker to arrive, we decided to do some group camwhoring, again. And later on finally decided that we're too hungry to wait for Geral to come before we start eating....

So we decided to be evil and not wait for Geral to arrive and just started eating. This is one of our ramen.... Well, we all ate different ramen, but they all kinda looked similar. =)

Our yummy korokke, takoyaki(that tasted rather medicinal), ika and my supposed-to-be tori karaage, which is more like normal fried chicken. Karaage are supposed to be smaller, bite size with the special karaage coating flour.

Finally, Geral came. Sat down, looked at the waitress and said "I want this, this and this" while she pointed at Sa's ramen and Clara's korokke and root beer. Judging from this picture, it seems like she was really famished. LOL

Geraldine miraculously managed to add nanami togarashi (commonly known as the chilli powder we put inside ramen) into her glass of root beer, and she refused to let me snap a proper picture of the sea of red specks floating in her root beer. It was the sharp-eyed Sa who first spotted it and I nearly gave Clara a half-chewed ramen facial when I heard her ask Geral: Why did you spray chilli powder into your root beer?

life is a stage, and we're all actors....

Am I going blind?

2009-08-03T17:01:00.000-07:00

My conjunctiva is sliding all over my eyeball. Okay, i'm exaggerating. It can just crease up when i roll my eyeball (as if that's not bad enough).
what's worse?
My appointment with the eye specialist at CGH is during DECEMBER!
By that time my conjunctiva would have probably healed itself, or i've blardie gone blind.

Desaru Day 2

2009-07-26T00:15:00.000-07:00

Now now, for our second day at desaru... what shall we do?

Definitely has to be Desaru fruit farm! Which idiot will make a trip to desaru and leave without visiting the fruit farm?

Cactus? No.... it's dragonfruits! Well, dragonfruits are in the cacti family actually....

Wah.... rambutans???

No! It's a combination of lychee, longan and rambutan! hahaha... Sa came up with his description.

our guide decided to pluck one for the youngest of the group, which turn out to be me! Yippee~

Then it was the passionfruit trail. We had unriped green passionfruits hanging over our heads!

Char was given the fruit to try....

And she dropped it almost immediately.

Of course, we had to take another group shot under all the UNRIPED passionfruits!

Breadfruit! Haha, i rmb seeing it on tv. We can't eat it raw. Gotta cook it! But we didnt get to try it at all. sadded.

Err... Buah Long Long? Some icky tasting fruits.... My mum insists that it tastes great in pickled form. I guess so...

One of my most hated fruit, durians.

one of my favourite fruit packed full of vitamin c. Guava!

One of my hated fruits, papayas. These are some roundish papayas.... they're hawaiian. hahaha! The Hawaiian payayas.

Mata Kuching! Jx happily thought that the 'mata' here refers to police. Nope, it doesnt. It's translated into cat's eye. Not, police cat please!

what a lonely pineapple. =(

Yes, that's a pomelo you see hanging on the tree....

We can't get to see much dark purplish mangosteens because they're not in season yet. But a semi purplish+greenish mangosteen is much prettier!

Jambu, or water apple. I dont really like it. It's always tasteless!

this is a not considered very big jackfruit, as according to our guide. that's why jackfruit is the largest fruit in the world.

this is the most orangey sweet corn i've ever seen!

this is the *something something* fruit, which supposedly can help us stay youthful.... But the trick is to not have any facial expression while you eat it. I didn't try it, but seeing the others eating it kinda proved that it's impossible.

And these two guys immediately tried it. Well, hopefully in ten years time we'll see them looking exactly like how they looked like in this photo....

Some coffee(nut) for you?

That's thousand finger bananas. Only for aesthetic purposes, not for eating. Hahaha....

Then we got to the herbs garden.... there were alot of herbs and plants but of course we didnt bother to take each and every one of them. haha!

the thing you put inside one of my favourite food. Laksa leaf!

some pretty cat whiskers or something. It's supposedly good for people with some illness. is it diabetes?

Sa posed with the ribena fruit....

And there're kois at the herbs garden! an awful lot of them vying for food! such a violent group of BEAUTIFUL fishes, yeah tat tong?

This is a very cute 3 weeks old lamb! It resembled the Hush Puppy dog, right?

Yup, that's a croc for you.

eagle? hawk? falcon? oh whatever, definitely not a vulture.

A cage full of chickens, chicks, ducks, ducklings, quails and erm, baby quails? I was sooooooooooooo tempted to bend over and catch one of the ducklings.

Tortoises.... Not turtles. Definitely not turtles.

Turkey! I wanna eat!

Say hi to Mr. Ostrich too! Okay, maybe it's a Ms. I dont know.

And we saw a love-hate relationship between a baby monkey and a bunny!

Monkey: NOooooooooo~ Come back, rabbit! Come back!

Big hug~~ Aww!

This is the box of fruits given to us. =)

Apparently, sa thought it was not enough so she bought one full tub of 3 durians, which cost her only SG 12 bucks! Okay, i'm joking. She's buying it back for her parents. I refused to buy back for my parents because I dont wanna stink.

We planned on slacking at the lounge, but it's not open! *horrified gasp* no choice, we got to buy some food and kill time at the cafe/restaurant instead. After having lunch, we played another few rounds of Bridge. Yup, other than pool, i've spent 200+++ to come desaru to learn bridge. I've learnt it last night at like 3 plus in the morning actually. So I ended up snapping random pics while they taught yh. as compared to yh, i'm a super quick learner, right?

Yup, and we're finally on the ferry back to SG. Home sweet home~

Desaru Day 1

2009-07-23T00:50:00.000-07:00

Yes, i've downloaded all the desaru pics and videos! Now it's going to be a picspam entry! beware, 40 photos ahead. and this is only day 1, which we did nothing much.
=.=''
minna-san, please anticipate my day 2 entry. lots of fruits and animals to be seen!
now, here we go...

now, why am i busily filling up a white card?

Yes, it's because we're going to Desaru!

Passport? Checked! White card? Checked! Luggage? Checked! Let's go~

This is the not-very-big ferry we're going to board. The entire ferry ride was just around 25 minutes...

this is our personal transportation to our resort. i'm serious... you'll see why...

another round of camwhoring before we set off for the resort! (of course i'm only uploading one of the lot we've taken.)

We filled up the entire mini bus, so it kinda felt like it's our personal transportation. when in actual fact, it's because everybody else was heading to the better resort we couldnt get a place in. =(

along the 45 mins ride, we saw... plantation...

Plantation....

AND MORE PLANTATIONS!

Sa busy checking us into the resort. I guess she is the most oversea travel smart person among us. Or at least, more travel smart then me.

This is the resort we checked into. And JX wondered if our beach is really golden.
=.=''

and of course, it's not golden!

and we took a long walk along it.... to find lunch. Hurhurhur!

we got a chinese lady (whom the guys felt is a fellow singaporean) to take a photo for us.

Sa wanna do a whisper advertisement shot. LOL!

And i joined in the 'fun' too!

We went to a cafe beside the beach for lunch. this is my nasi ayam goreng. I shared quite a bit of my chicken with a hungry ginger cat!

Guess what we're going to do next?

Tat Tong slotting in the tokens....

We're going to have a game of pool!

this is my very first pool experience.... and I cant believe it. I spend 200+++ to come Desaru to learn playing pool. =.=

And we got onto our 'private' mini bus again.... where to?

we are going to have our seafood dinner!

Camwhoring on the way.... again!

Tat Tong chatting up with our driver uncle. Haha.... And he did a good job! Plus we found out something from this uncle. In Malaysia, they fill petrol without turning off the car engine!

This is the restaurant we went! And got harassed by a hungry cat AGAIN. Hurhur... Sa insisted that I attracts them.

WAH~~ 'Chu Yi Chao Qun' wor! Hahaha.... I didnt notice of this tag at all, until i saw this photo. LOL

Before we eat, we shall take another picture. Haha, nobody would care about taking photos once we start eating. At least, i wont. =)

The menu. Hmm... what shall we eat?

Sambal kangkong for youuuuuuuuu?

yummy tofu!

Squid! It's nice! Tender and a little chewy. *slurps*

Yes, we ate lobsters! It just taste like a huge jumbo prawn actually. So, i dont really understand why so many people craze over lobsters and why it's so expensive.

What's 'eating seafood' without chilli crab? Looks nice, doesnt it? But it's a tad too sweet and not spicy enough for my liking. But I guess it's good for Char, since she cant take spicy food.

of course, we have mantou to go with them! Yummy~~

Their coconut juice. I didnt try it because i dont like coconut. LOL....

The firefly team. Haha... I refuse to spend RM40 bucks to see bugs! Noooooooooo~!

The baby(?) firefly they caught. I told sa i saw much bigger fireflies on documentaries and her reply was: Those are caucasian fireflies so they're much bigger. Asians are smaller in size. GOOD ONE!

Mass update on my recent life...

2009-07-22T13:12:00.000-07:00

I realised that I've not been doing much blogging over here. I guess I was too involved in my fangirl journal over at LJ. hurhur... Now what have I missed out? I guess it has to be my 3-mth internship at CPG Lab, which just ended last week. Well, it was... i don't know how to describe it. Or maybe because I'm the one and only IO intern there, it made things alot harder. I mean, we are friendly with each other, but kinda... not bonded? But i guess that's how it's going to work. Colleagues are different from friends, i reckon.
But nvm, it has already ended. And i'm as broke as ever.
Then it was a Desaru trip with Sa and her Uni clique over the weekend two weeks ago. It was.... @#$%^&* disappointing! No banana boat, no ATV, no this no that..... nvm, i shall do a more detailed post when i've downloaded our pics from sa.
The main reason for my sudden entry today is HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE! Whee~~~ I've just watched it ytd with Sa. Finally, after like... 2 years? Yeah, I guess so... part 6 is finally out in the theatres. But then again, I dont know if it's because starting from Part 5, I'd have read the book before I watch the movie, that's why it seems like the movie has lost the touch, plus book 6 is my favourite book out of the 7, that's why i was rather disappointed? Plus, book 6 was really backed with alot of details here and there so much so that it's really impossible to have everything packed into a less than 3 hours movie. Hmm.... But nevertheless, this is definitely better than part 5. but i was rather disappointed with some of the scenes in the book that got cut off. (warning, spoilers ahead)
I'm rather disappointed with the Ginny and Harry's kiss scene. Instead of making it in the gryffindor common room after having won the quidditch champ, they changed it to the room of requirement when they went to hide the half blood prince potion textbook. And i guess why they had to do this is because they cut off the scene between snape and harry whereby snape knew harry found his old textbook and wanted to question him because of the "SEC$%^&(^PRA" (sorry, forgot how to spell it) spell he did on Draco during their fight in the girls bathroom. and yeah, moaning martyle wasn't given the scene of trying to comfort draco as he wept. the tension and suspicions of harry against draco was also conveniently taken out, so was the part where harry desperately tried to convince his friends and drumbledore that draco was up to no good and yet, it seemed like nobody believed him. (I used seemed like, because it turned out dumbledore knew). And i guess the most important thing that was left out is the fighting scene whereby professors fought against the death eaters as they tried to infiltrate Hogwarts, plus the part where they can only apparate out of Hogwarts compound at Three Broomsticks (or somewhere near there) and Harry and Dumbledore had to fly over to Hogwarts on broomsticks as they saw the death mark up above Hogwarts, which was meant to be a faux to trick Dumbledore to fall into Draco's plan such that he can kill him. The scene whereby Draco/Snape killed Dumbledore was also slightly changed, such that the intensity of the actual scene wasnt there anymore. Harry was supposed to be hidden under his invisibility cloak, lying at a corner on the platform as dumbledore faced draco and snape wandless, having being disarmed by draco because dumbledore chose to do a incantation-less charm on harry to save him instead. Snape was supposed to just burst in through the door, and Dumbledore was supposed to be begging him 'pitifully' (such that it seemed like he was begging for mercy, at least to harry.) as snape performed the killing curse on him. But they changed it in the movie. Harry was asked by dumbledore to go hide underneath the platform. The death eaters infiltrated the castle without showing their fights. Snape showed up beside Harry beneath the platform first, and even asked him to not make a noise, which harry gladly obliged, before he showed up beside draco and killed dumbledore. The fact that Snape got Harry to keep himself hidden already gave out too much hint on whether he's actually a spy for dumbledore or voldemort, didnt it? Obviously harry didnt have a chance against all the death eaters, with Dumbledore weakened and wandless. So why did snape ask Harry to hide if he really worked for and is faithful to Voldemort?
right? right? right?
oh, nevermind. the movie has its own good points too. Some entertaining remarks were delivered with wit. The Lav-Lav plus Won-Won thingy was entertaining. So was Romilda Vane's love potion incident. hurhur....
enough for the spoilers.
Also met up with clara and geraldine for dinner last night. Yeah, after like 4 years, Geraldine suddenl contacted Clara and asked to meet up. It was quite shocking actually. But it turned out well. The awkwardness clara, sa and i thought will have wasnt around at all. well, expected of geraldine, i guess. hahaha! she totally got me by spraying nanami togarashi meant for ramen into her root beer. hahaha! i was laughing my head off when sa pointed it out that her root beer has loads of reddish specks floating on it. LOL....
okay, i guess i shall do another pic spam post of our gathering next time round, after the desaru one, yeah? heehee!

Fox Shopping with Sa

2009-06-24T01:21:00.000-07:00

Did I tell you I won a 100 dollars voucher from Fox? Haha.... and because I didnt have time to go collect, Sa offered to collect for me so I'll reward her with a free shirt from Fox.
and so, we went fox shopping! I bought a 50 dollar shorts (I'll probably be out of my mind if i were to buy it without a voucher, seriously) and another cute top, which didnt really look cute on me because i'm fat now. but since there's nothing else for me to buy and since it's going to be FREE, so yeah... just grabbed it lor. Well, it'll serve as a motivation for me to diet?.... perhaps not.
And Sa got back from Korea for her grad trip and guess what she bought me?

seaweeds, as i've requested. Korean seaweeds are so yummy~ hahaha...

The skincare shops at korea giveaway BOF+HyunJoong postcards as freebies so she took for me too! Well, it's probably because Hyunjoong endorse Tony Moly so they shun bian add in BOF pic as well?

and this strawberry icecream mobile charm! weet~ i have an icecream hanging on my icecream phone. lalalalala~

Anti again?

2009-06-01T23:26:00.000-07:00

Perhaps I should stop trying to fit into places I do not. No matter what, it's just another 6 more weeks.
anybody wanna come down to Paya Lebar Singpost to have lunch with me at 12.35pm?

Belated Entry: My Results!

2009-05-29T22:31:00.000-07:00

Results WAS out last week. Hurhur... I just got too lazy to blog. And it's funny how I've chose to blog about it now when I'm having an aching arm due to the plasticity testing of Atterburg's limit test I've done crazily after lunch today at work. Nvm, it's fun though. I'm officially an 'expert' for plasticity test. hahaha!
I've done better for this semester as compared to the previous one. GPA 4.14. Nope, I'm STILL not revealing my CGPA. It's nothing worth to be happy about. But then again I suddenly realised CGPA means nothing to me now since I can't grad within 4 years I will have no honours. Whichever class doesnt bothers me now. Now I will only strive to keep a semester GPA of above 4 for my remaining 2 semesters just for the sake of making myself feel better. hahaha...
FYP project listing was out erm, 2 days ago and I just found out now. Urgh. Thank got they're not doing the first come first serve thingy anymore. If not I'll scream. There's only ONE pathetic ENE-based project available. So perhaps I shall really consider doing Geotech based projects instead. Anyway I have until next month to decide about it.
my arm is getting more and more sore. I shall end my random update here.

Horrible Spree

2009-05-15T23:57:00.000-07:00

I was freaking pissed off yesterday, and I'm still rather fed up right now. All because of this bookspree organised by a frequent warehouse bookspree organiser by the username that starts with yong and ends with bibi. It has been so long that I've even forgotten which spree i was in, but probably i was in the first spree, dated around november of 2008. And yes, I still have not received my book 3 and 4 of the Twilight series.
Unbelievably atrocious?
Yes, definitely.
Initially she gave us a rough estimation of a few weeks wait because all Twilight series needs restocking then (LAST YEAR). I have no idea why after 6 months, when Borders, MPH, Times and even Popular are stacked full of all 4 books, some even tattered and torn due to long time browsing by customers (which kinda suggested how long the book has been sitting on the shelf). But nevermind, I gave her the benefit of doubt and decided to wait without kicking up any form of fuss even though many other spree-ers has already been bombarding her with emails complaining about the long wait and even demanding for refunds by clicking the 'reply all' button.
So stupidly i waited for 6 mths for her email updates, until i decided that the serious lack of updates is rather unacceptable and so I started emailing her asking on whether the supplier has given her any deadline on when the books will be arriving. After sending two or three emails, with my last one stating openly that i'm not asking for any refunds, but just wanna know how long more i need to wait, she finally replied with 3 words: 2 wks max.
Fine then, 2 weeks? Wait I shall. But then, 2 weeks later that email, no more email updates came. So around 3 weeks after, i decided i've waited long enough and sent her yet another email to bug her. And yes, my books arrived. At least i think i can assume so because she just replied: Please revert with collection mode. I had opted for a meet up while making this order last year, so naturally i would still want to do so too. But she refused and said it's either by postage or I have to head down to her house to collect the stuff myself. Gosh, I have no idea how to get to that Buangkok area and so I changed my mind and opted for postage instead, asking her to advice on postage.
Guess what's her reply?
Eclipe has been given out, and i have to wait for the next restock, i do have bd, let me know if your willing to wait.
or if you just want bd+refund.
let me know if you want registered/normal
She has given out MY COPY of book 3 and is totally not apologetic AT ALL. WTF?
And so complain I shall.
anyway, i've totally forgotten which spree i'm in. it's either #1 or #2. initially i thought it was #2, but as i checked back on my past mails, i realised i've received #1 update mails too. high chances are I'm actually in spree 1. but no matter what, i've been waiting for roughly 6 months for the books you've initially promised to be a 2 weeks wait. Never once i've complained about the much longer than expected wait till now. A couple of weeks ago I've emailed you asking if the books has arrived, you replied saying it'll be 2 weeks MAX. Yet, two weeks after that email there was no updates from you until i took the initiative (again) to email you, to which you told me to revert with collection mode, which i think i can assume that BOTH my copies of eclipse and breaking dawn has arrived. I can faintly remember i've opted for meetup then. but it seems like after the 6 mths meet up is no longer available as a choice, much to my displeasure, because i couldnt do anything about it since the books just refused to arrive. I'm sorry I didn't know how to get to your house, but i seriously didn't expect that to be an excuse for you to give up my copy to another spree-er and i'm greatly fed up about this.
And her reply to me?
My mother gave the copy i kept for you to another spree-er who came in the morning, she didn't know . I was asleep.
I hope you understand i only had 10 copies. I will be refunding you for tt book. I don't profit from this spree either, by refunding it's from my own pocket, since the credit is still on my supplier's side.
I'm rly rly rly sorry alrite.
What? Is she expecting me to appreciate her effort for refunding me and thank her for it? I would feel a million times more understanding should she apologise first in the previous email. Apologising only after I've vomitted out all of my unhappiness wouldn't help, no matter how many 'really's were added in. Shorthand won't help either, it'll only show your insincerity.
Yes, I may be unreasonable and expecting too much, judging from the fact that it's supposed to be an unprofitable spree, but seriously this is really atrocious. This is definitely one of the (two) worse spree plus spree organiser i've ever met.
The other b*tch spree organiser's atrocious doing was that she missed out on my address comment on her lj page and gave up the limited candies to another spree-er who ordered and paid after me. When I pointed out her mistake, she went to delete my address comment on her lj page and insisted that I didn't give her my address. HAH!

Top 1 KTV

2009-05-06T20:40:00.000-07:00

Okay, this is the super duper belated entry. Heehee.... eh, i totally forgot when did I went to Top1 KTV with Sa and her Mat Sci clique already. It was sometime after their fyp report final submission. hee....
here are the photos~

I shall start off with a group photo! Honghong, Huahua, JX, ME, Rongrong and Sa! Eh? where is the other two? Jona and YH.... I forgot. I think they left before we got the chance to take a group photo.

And of course, Sa and I MUST camwhore. =)

And I even did manicure for Sa, right inside the KTV room! heehee....

Then I started on a camwhoring with the mic thingy....

And I totally blank out when the others were singing.
ps. that's YH at the backgrnd of the picture. LOL. Jona is still MIA.

And when I got sick of camwhoring i started playing with my (not many functions available) pink icecream LG phone. hahaha!

But all in all, it was still an enjoyable ktv session. =)

ps. I just made a few lunch kakis at work.

Shinjuku Incident

2009-04-25T12:33:00.000-07:00

For the first time in the past 4 years, I went out with my CEE friends.
it's supposedly to 'celebrate' the commencing of my IO this coming Monday which is like, 2 days away. I'm dreading it. Gotta report to HR@Novena at 830. I hope I'll not be working at novena throughout the 3 months. Labs are definitely situated at Eunos/Ubi.
anyway, watched Shinjuku Incident last night with my CEE mini-clique. It's not a very typical Jackie Chan action-packed film. I mean, yes it is still an action movie in the sense that you see people pulling triggers at each others' head, cutting away their arms, slashing at others' necks, plunging knifes into each others' stomachs and see how their intestines slip out etc. But it's seriously lacking in the special Jackie Chan's entertainment style of fighting. But then again, it's kind of expected. We can't expect him to go on fighting that like forever and ever, right? In his later movies like New Police Story we've already seen hints of him attempting to switch styles into a more stubtle form of fighting and 'passing' the stunts over to Nicholas Tse. Around The World In 80 Days didn't see much of his 'WHOA!' fighting as well. What else? I miss Rush Hour series. I hope he'll consider making a Rush Hour 4.
Anyway, back to Shinjuku Incident. It's depicting how illegal immigrants(mainly from China) fought hard to earn a living in Japan's Shinjuku area. Literally fought hard. It has been nearly a month since this movie started airing, so i reckon those who wished to watch it has already done so? So am I allowed to give spoilers here? Eh, maybe not. I'm lazy.
Gee. (A SNSD inspired form of 'Hee'... I'm being lame here, ignore me)
I find it quite depressing that Steelhead has to die in the end. It didn't really affect me as much that Eguchi has to die since he's evil. Eguchi.... haha, Iriguchi, Deguchi, Eguchi desu! (now this is a taguchi junnosuke inspired pun, i'm being lame again... ignore me.) Iriguchui is entrance and Deguchi is exit, btw. It didn't really affect me to have the rest of the chinese illegal immigrants who were with Steelhead dying because they turned evil over the lure of money as well. But why Steelhead? Yes, he did kill. He did steal. He did go astray at one point of time. But all in all he was still the good one among them. Why did he has to die, and of all places, to be washed away by the sewage waters in the underground plumping systems? Okay, maybe it's because i'm Jackie-biased. *shrugs*
oh, and there are photos of the ktv session with sa and her clique. I've not even downloaded the sendspace file. I shall do a super duper late blog entry about it erm.... sometime later.

Exams are over!

2009-04-23T11:00:00.000-07:00

Yay, exams are over. Haha, it's rather weird how i'm not that overexcited over my new found freedom. Oh well, actually it's because i'm tentatively starting work on 27th, which is, yes... 3 days away. I'm dreading it. Am supposed to get some confirmation from them but they never called. Okay, i shall go email them again later. haha...
now for my papers. Jap 3 was blogged, yes?
If it weren't for my screwed up oral i think an A would be possible. but no, i totally threw my 15% into the garbage bin just in that less than 5 minutes.
HRM was fine. The paper itself should... i don't know earn me a B? But yet again, my quiz was screwed. So i guess a C should be it.
Science or Fiction was sucky! Omg, it's an MCQ paper with more than 1 correct answers for the questions. My entire OAS was literally blackened. Yes, there were so many questions I shaded 4 out of 5 choices only because the 5th choice was: None of the above. Everything seemed to be correct and also wrong at the same time and I just shaded everything. What, another C?
Then lastly my Water Resources. Haiz, i've spent days studying it and I really hope to get a good grade for it, judging from the fact that my quizzes aren't screwed up. But i just have to screw up the paper. 2 and a half hours ain't enough. I left 30 marks BLANK! BLANK! BLANK! And I can't be sure that those i've attempted are correct at all. =(
stupid exams are so screwed.
i've dieded.

Jap Paper Cleared!

2009-04-14T21:54:00.000-07:00

I was intending to type this entry in Japanese but somehow I'm lazy to run my Japanese software plus I've no time to wait for it to start running. Jap 3 paper today. I finished it within one and a half hour as usual. This is the first time i know how to do the katakana question FULLY. But then, this is also the first time i screwed up my oral. so.... i guess it should even out... not? oral is worth 15%, damnit! =(
Hopefully I can still get an A-.
*prays very very hard*
Okay, break is over. Now it's HRM plus Science or Fiction mugging time!

Jap 3 Class Pic!

2009-04-13T18:51:00.000-07:00

明日は日本語3の試験ですから、このポストが書いています。緊張な... いや。こわいです。 =(
Oral Testは失敗しましたから、今度試験はとめと大切です。Aが欲しいな...
ああ! しゃしん! しゃしん!

藤田せんせいと私達です...
じゃ... もうよく勉強する。HRMも勉強しなければなりませんですから...

Depressing Day

2009-04-06T23:48:00.000-07:00

It's a crazy day for me. absolutely insane.
930 - Physics 2 Quiz
130 - Jap 3 Listening
230 - Jap 3 Oral
330 - Water Resources Quiz
Like, what the hell?! And no, i didn't stupidly squeeze all my tutorials into one day so that i can get self-acclaimed free days by ponning lectures. I've outgrown that. Just so happened that some modules like to have quizzes during lectures while some prefer tutorials.
so... tadaa! I got killed.
Physics quiz was.... expectedly chui. I could only do 2 out of 7 questions. and the rest, i just anyhow chose one answer out of 5 choices. 20% of getting it right. From my usual ultimate suayness, i guess 2/7 for this blardie quiz is highly probably. let's say, a 99.99%.
Jap 3 Listening was still alright. Just that I cant catch if the elevator can only go till basement 1 or level 1. i chose basement 1 while majority of the class chose level 1. suayness again? sighz...
then i can't differentiate their chan-san from zaffin-san. i thought the first time i heard zaffin-san wa chan-san yori.... then second time i heard chan-san wa zaffin-san yori. so in the end i just look at the overall percentage of maru and batsu i had for that particular part. I had more maru than batsu so i added one more batsu to that. Well, the whole class was complaining that the listening was a killer, so i guess it's pretty alright for me to confirm get 2 wrongs for now? hahaha...
but the oral~! I so wanna stab myself now. Sensei asked me: NANDE ongaku wo kikimasuka? (which means what do you use to listen to music) I totally heard nande, but my brains couldn't register it properly and i replied what kind of music do i enjoy listening to.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
doushite? doushite? doushite? why am i so stupid?
i think this is the first time i've totally answer B for an A question. Sensei totally gave me a 'HUH?' look when i answered that question and i immediately knew i said something wrong but my brains just refused to function properly! it was only after i exited the room did i reviewed the entire conversation and i realised i've answered a nande question with a donna answer. And, my oral test is super duper short. I was still waiting for sensei to ask me more questions and she just went: hai, owarimashita! and i was like: eh? hayai! the rest of my tut-mates who were waiting for their turns were also surprised by my quick exit when i stepped out of the room. double chui!
Urgh! i'm so going to die for Jap 3. My A is gone. Shinitai~
The only okay thing for today is water resource. i can confirm at least a 70%, if not 80 or 90 if i'n lucky. okay, i know i'll never be lucky with tests. so yeah, i'm still contented with a 70-80%
okay, so this marks the end of my brooding day. yes, i totally brooded the whole day, watching random cartoon kat-tun + akanishi videos on veoh and youtube and did zero studying. i'm going to return to my mugger world first thing tomorrow morning.
goodbye, my A for Jap 3.

Last lesson of Jap 3

2009-04-03T01:26:00.000-07:00

このポストは第900のポストです! すごいね!
今日は最後の日本語の授業です。ちょっと寂しいな。。。藤田先生は超可愛い先
生です。大好き。 =)
来週の月曜日は私のlistening testとoral testです.
まあ。。。自信満満じゃない。でも、あまりこわくない。へへへ。。。藤田先生
はとても優しいだから。 =)
これから、英語をかきますか? かきますね。。。不満が沢山ありますね。。。大変!
OK OK, I shall use English for the rest of this post. Please dont ask me to translate *points above* It's just something random.
As I was saying, I'm having my Jap 3 Listening and Oral test coming Monday, along with my Physics and Water Resource quizzes.
死ぬ! I am so going to die for Physics.
We were asking Fujita sensei about the oral test and suddenly this guy asked: Sensei, will we fail?
and of course, this sparked off the dramatic reaction of Fujita sensei and she acted out the entire failing plus non-failing scenarios for us.
...
If I ask you: 今朝何を食べましたか? (What did you eat this morning?) and you don't know what I'm asking about, don't just keep quiet. Keep quiet fail! Or if you say 花瓶 (vase), also fail! If you don't know what is 食べます *proceeded to act out a panic attack* you can ask me, but ask in Japanese ah! 先生、食べますで英語は何ですか? ah, then i will answer you, eat です! then if you don't know what is 今朝 *proceeded to act out yet another panic attack* you can also ask again. then I will tell you 今朝 means this morning. But then if after asking what is 今朝 and 食べます you still answer 花瓶 *acted out a super duper blank look* FAIL!
...
I really have to say, out of the three tutors I had, Fujita sensei is really the most interesting tutor. I still remembered the time when she was telling us that she saw one of our tut-mates at Wisma and how she was on the elevator doing downwards while she was trying to call out to her, and she also acted out the scenario by waving at nobody in particular while sliding down her own chair.
muahahahahahaha!
and she's a 山P and 亀梨 fan too! Uber cool right?
oh well, hopefully I will get her for my Jap 4 tutor next semester. *prays*
damn, so late now. I'm going off to do some studying for airport now.
バイバイ!

Another random post

2009-03-31T20:10:00.000-07:00

今日本語を勉強しています。 4月14日は私の日本語の試験ですよ。
ヤバイ!
第13課から第18課まで復習をします。
今も、有閑倶楽部をみています。へへへ...
まあ... 日本語の勉強の為に... ね!
嘘じゃないよ!
赤西仁が大好き!

2009-03-28T11:49:00.000-07:00

who else agrees with me that the mamee monster is actually a relative of cookie monster?
heehee....
first paper starts 14th April.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... *freaking out*

one month left!

2009-03-11T09:30:00.000-07:00

it suddenly hit me yesterday. I have roughly one month left to my first paper. and my papers are packed, with two papers each on two days. like, damn! I'm so going to die. Jap 3 and Science or Fiction are all right, definitely. Water Resources, well, i think i'm still handling fine. HRM, i just need to eat more gingko nuts to heighten my memorising ability. but physics 2! gosh, i'm so going to die all over again this semester. Oh wait, can two As offset an F? Oh wait, what the hell am i talking about? I cant get any Fs anymore! How about a D grade? *hopeful look* wait, I can't get an A for Jap 3. I never get As for Jap. It's always A-.
Shit.
weird, i remembered i have alot in my mind to blog but now it's a blank. weird, very weird.
... ...
oh nvm! i cant remember.
anyway, the quiz that fergus is bugging me to take....

Your view on yourself:
You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.

The seriousness of your love:
Your have very sensible tactics when approaching the opposite sex. In many ways people find your straightforwardness attractive, so you will find yourself with plenty of dates.

Your views on education:
Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.

The right job for you:
You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.

How do you view success:
You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.

What are you most afraid of:
You are afraid of having no one to rely on in times of trouble. You don't ever want to be unable to take care of yourself. Independence is important to you.

Who is your true self:
You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.

Freaky Incident

2009-03-02T21:58:00.000-08:00

Got a shock this morning when Sa suddenly called me and told me that a student stabbed one of the professor in school and later committed suicide. Never expect such a thing to occur right in campus. like, never.
Frantic smsing followed, but apparently my circle of friends knew nothing. It was only until Japanese class did I find out that it was a EEE student that attacked an associate professor of EEE school.
But why did he stab the professor?
"Stressed.... It's EEE, what do you expect? So many PRCs in that school, the bell curve is crazy!"
"He's most probably mentally unstable."
Questions questions and more questions.
From Shin Ming daily, it was reported that this final year student got into a heated argument with this professor over his FYP matters. Yes, he is his supervisor. And it was also stated in the paper that in the midst of their argument, this student suddenly whipped out a knife and plunged it into the professor. and it's supposedly a kitchen knife.
now, why would anybody bring a kitchen knife to school?
was there unhappiness much earlier between the two, so much so that this student actually planned to bring a knife to their meeting session, just in case?
I have no idea. And I wonder how would the police carry on investigations with regards to this specific matter, now that this particular student has passed away afer falling down 5 stories from the School of EEE, S1 building.
Just a 2 more months and he'll graduate. I really don't understand what's the problem with his fyp that has made him attack his supervisor and later on commit suicide....
anyway, back to my own personal matters.
Recess week was horrible. Horrible because i was SLACKING, and put on another 1 kg on top of my 8kg. damn it! I seriously need to pull up my socks. I still have 3 more chapters to cover for my HRM quiz on Thursday, and another half of my Airport Engin syllabus for the quiz on Friday.
urgh.
Airport Engin assignment was a total failure too. I totally didn't get the concept. I guess i can only take comfort in the fact that at least i bothered to hand in the assignment when some others didn't even bother to. At least Prof Fan will give me some effort marks for it. I hope.
Well, to cheer this entire entry up... I have to say...
I'VE FINALLY GOT MY HANDS ON THE PINK LG ICECREAM PHONE! WHEE!
I'm obssessed with the emoticon function. Well, apart from that, there's really no biggie about this phone. The supposedly 3 megapix camera sucks too. It takes blurry pictures. It's the lens problem.
nevermind.
now to 'share' some cute gif.

Leader and Magnae. They're not gays, they're not gays, they're not gays.

I wonder who was on the phone with leader. I bet it's Nobody.
*sings* I want nobody nobody but you!

This is actually a dog hyunjoong found on the street. Wonder why he's so obedient to offer his paw to leader when he wanna shake hands? Hyunjoong offered him meat from his own bento set prior to this take. bribery!

Meme

2009-02-24T15:56:00.000-08:00

got another meme from ireney! another fun meme! i'm beginning to get addicted to meme. heehee...
am supposed to elaborate on 5 things she has associated me with.
Hyunjoong - Got to know this hilarious leader of Korean Boyband SS501 through the variety show We Got Married. Funny thing was, even though he is good-looking, i didn't really like having him on the show initially and even skipped through his parts. it was only after solbi left did i find comfort in the joongbo couple, and grew to love them, along with hyunjoong and SS501. How hyunjoong plays Yoon Ji Hoo(Hanazawa Rui character in Hana Yori Dango) in Boys Over Flower and gosh, i totally love him to bits!
Shinhwa - The very first Korean boyband I've ever like. I liked BoA before I like ShinHwa, but then I only listened to BoA's Japanese songs. SO technically, ShinHwa still stands as the first KOREAN singers I like. Favourite member(s): MinWanSung, which stands for MinWoo, DongWan, and HyeSung. Dongwan is now in military, and so would Minwoo in a couple more months. 5 years of hiatus is long. I'll be waiting to see that sea of orange balloons once more.
kbox - Actually i dont really frequent kbox that much. I'm more of a kster person because it's much cheaper! hahaha... so i guess i'll take kbox as ktv-ing in general? hee... so... JUST WHEN CAN WE GO K AGAIN, CLARA AND SA?!
Winglin - My hobby during JC years. Yes, writing stories. Nope, i've never dreamt of being the next JK Rowling nor Stephenie Meyer. It was just a pastime I've indulged in during those two years when i wanna find something else to do apart from studying. Bad student then... If it werent for winglin, perhaps I would also be doing my fyp in the school of biological sciences like peggee now. *sighz*
Jap - Currently taking Jap level 3 in uni, which sorta levels out to a JPLT3. I wonder when would i ever get to JPLT1. and after JPLT1 would be Korean~! hahaha... i'm too ambitious for my own good. yes i know.
...
i'm wondering when would my pink LG Icecream phone ever arrives

Yeah! I got my IO Company!

2009-02-17T22:36:00.000-08:00

After so many days of frantic emailing out my CVs, i've finally gotten my IO company! yeah!
and i had two quizzes yesterday.
SIGHz....
physics was chui. YES I'M STILL TAKING MY YEAR 1 PHYSICS.
but it's just my second attempt... haha, as if failing once isnt bad enough.
water resource is better. i definitely cant score a full mark, but passing shouldnt be a problem. YES I'M NOW ALSO TALKING MY YEAR 2 WATER RESOURCE.
and it's also my second attempt.
don't worry, friends. i wouldnt be lagging for anymore non-final year modules after this semester. I WILL CLEAR THEM ALL THIS SEMESTER!
fighting!

Flower Fest Pics

2009-02-08T15:34:00.000-08:00

yes, the long awaited(perhaps not) photos are here! Sentosa Flower Festival 2009!

Hee... our very first group shot! Clara was supposed to be joining us, but she last minute flew us aeroplane again. =.=

Cows! Moo.....

I finally got the chance to wear my shades, NOT! It's only for this shot that i get to wear it because there's no sun! =(

while waiting to take picture with the HEART. Wanna know what heart?

This is the heart! hahaha... there's cows too. can't help it, since it's the year of the ox. weird pose too!

Hee... I have no idea if those blue flowers are real or not. And I don't know what the figurines are doing either...

Me and Wi with Sa's favourite purple lilies.

Us with a huge patch of colourful flowers. heehee, i have no idea what are they.

Heehee... I think this is our third shot. Sa is one fussy 'customer' when it comes to phototaking.

With the orchids. =)

yup yup, that is a traditional japanese lady. Konnichiwa~

Pink flowers! heehee.... as usual, i dunno what are they.

Pretty right? This is called Wan Zi Qian Hong. But there seems to be more red than purple...

I'm not sulking. I swear i'm not sulking. =)

Heehee... see the height difference? LOL.

Heehee... cute right? It's all made of flowers!

heehee... this is a very funny spot. there's onions, chilli and pumpkins!

hmm... i've always dream of having something like this in my house. but of course, i needa get a house that has a yard first. =.=

Rainbow wor~! pretty right?

and swans!

and i ate icecream there! guess which flavour? Japanese Milk Tea! yummy!

yup, this is the end! hurhur...
I'm now at Sa's house, supposedly for our study group. hahaha... apparently i'm not studying. I ought to be smacked! *bish*
okay, i shall go study right now!

Angsty me

2009-02-03T22:24:00.000-08:00

Mianne is feeling damn angsty. I don't know why. Perhaps too many shitty (little) things are happening at the same time. Perhaps it's PMS. No, scratch that. DMS. During menstrual stress.
Emailed CEEundergrad office to request to do my IO this coming holidays yesterday. I was hoping to get a reply from them today. Well, nothing came. Oh well, what to expect? Isn't it an obvious fact that the office staffs aren't really very efficient? But then, judging from the fact that if I were to do my IO this coming holidays, I have to get my IO company and the other necessary forms all done and submitted it by beginning of March, which means, I dont have much time left. yeah, so i was kinda hoping that they would sense this urgency and like, speed up just a little? Oh well, apparently not. Can't really blame them either. It's really none of their business whether or not I can do my IO this coming holidays, right? It's none of their business whether or not I can convocate on time, right? *big sighz*
i'm just hoping that i can get my reply (a positive one too) before end of Feb.
enough of bitching about my school.
now to some strangers i always see on the erm, public transport. I dont understand why some people likes to push their way into the train even before the other passengers alight. If we dont go out, how are you supposed to go in? And i find it exceptionally irksome when certain not very small sized people, upon seeing the fact that other skinnier people has managed to squeeze their way into the cabin, will also attempt to push past the other alighting passengers, namely me and the others, to snatch the hot seats. There was once when i saw a woman standing right at the door even before it opens (the others still has the sense to squeeze in from the sides) and just simply pushed her way past the other alighting passengers the second the door slid open. And when one of the alighting passenger accidentally stepped on her shoe, she spun her head around, glared and hissed at him rudely when it wasn't the poor man's fault at all. Even if she had her entire slipper kicked away and down the slight gap between the train and the platform, she only has herself to blame for it was her who was walking into the man to begin with.
yes, you got that golden seat, so what?

Ink Stamp part 2

2009-02-01T21:14:00.000-08:00

this is the ink stamp i'm talking about. it reads: taihen yoku dekimashita.

went to the Sentosa Flower Fest with Sa and Wi this morning... Now i'm nursing my aching legs. =.=....
will blog more about it when sa sends me the photos.

New Skin

2009-01-31T11:05:00.000-08:00

Yup, i've finally changed my SS501 skin. or rather, i was forced to change it. why? *sighz* let's not talk about it.
Since I'm changing skin, so i might as well change the song. Yup, no more Speed playing. It's now an old song of Wonder Girls. Ee Pabo. It's catchy. =)
oh, and my jap tutor gave me yet another ink stamp which says 'taihen yokudekimashta!' i shall take yet another blurry photo of it and post it up... when i have the time to do so.
I'm now still in cny mood (can't blame me since it IS still CNY).... that means i am in no mood to mug hard. i'm now lagging in my tutorials. one tutorial for each module. err, no. one tutorial for each core module. maybe not so bad lah, huh! hahaha, self-denial.
i'm going to get my new printer later.
people, don't ever buy eps*n inkjet. the printer head always spoils....

Goodbye, Xiao Bu Dian

2009-01-28T23:11:00.000-08:00

one of my three hamsters died, yesterday.
i knew he's kinda not feeling good because he has been diarrhoea-ing all over the tank. but i didn't know he's going to die.
i thought he was sleeping in his box then. it was only until earlier today did i realise that he's not waking up even though i keep tapping the box.
he's the xiao bu dian, basically because he has never grown much. he's nearly a year old, and half the size of his dad, and (hopefully) 3/4 of his younger siblings.
good thing is, he didn't die hungry.

Inkheart

2009-01-24T11:11:00.000-08:00

Met renwei ytd and watched Inkheart. Actually, I wasn't that keen on watching the movie at all, just that among all the movies currently showing, Inkheart sounds like the best. I'd wanted to watch Wedding Game but critics said it's crappy. Well, Inkheart is.... fine, i guess. Although, yes, i do think that the novel would be better. but i'd better think twice about buying it. There's 3 books in the series, and i've yet to buy the third book of the eragon series yet. It cost a blardie 40 bucks for hardcover, no paperback available. =.= but nevermind, i've yet to finish reading eldest yet. that's book 2, if you have no idea what's it.
meanwhile, i'm still waiting for my 3rd and 4th book of the Twilight Saga. haha, i'm turning myself into a bookworm. Not to say nerd too, for after CNY, i'll be meeting Sa at her place for mugging session every sunday, just how how we did during the exam period. oh nvm. back to the meet up.
actually, i had wanted to go MS to watch the movie because i wanna try yohei(or issit yosei) sushi. i think it's yohei. nobody would wanna name their sushi place yosei. LOL. only fairies will eat it....
but mr law ginway insisted on going ice-skating before the movie so he couldn't make it for the MS slot at 430. =.=
nvm.... so instead of yohei sushi, we ended up eating ajisen ramen. his treat of course, coz i bought the tickets. it sort of evens out.
and i really have to say, this boy really can talk! LOL... he was rambling on and on and filling me up on his havoc lifestyle in aussie. not that i'm complaining. it's all exciting stories.
'everything revolves around sex and alcohol'
haha, perhaps going abroad to study isnt a very good choice. beware, future parents. better keep your children in singapore.
and he also asked about whether i'm worried for being single still, after being single for.... one year. well, seriously speaking i'm totally enjoying singlehood now la. i can't handle studies with boyfriend, i guess it's pretty evident by how my studies totally went downhill when i get attached. Mian has grown smart. Being single is cool, and i'm determined to enjoy it for as long as possible. LOL.
alright, and back to my own studies.
i'm still catching nothing for Airport Engin, even though i've always given Prof Fan my 101% attention and even taking down some notes(which i also don't understand apart from the english). I've even spent like nearly 2 hours trying to decipher the theories in the notes and trying to link them to the problems in tutorial 1.
the results?
still as lost.
damn, i guess i have to make an appointment to meet up with Prof Fan sometime soon right after CNY. yes, mian is now a truly certified mugger.
i'm proud of myself.

My Jap 3 Tutor

2009-01-22T21:33:00.000-08:00

I realised that i've not done any introduction about my Japanese tutor for this semester. I think I did for すはませんせい. well, perhaps just a little. But my tutor this semester deserves much more. She's so dramatic and adorable! As in, character wise adorable... appearance wise. eh, heh!
It's my first time with ふじたせんせい. Previously i've heard from fellow Japanese coursemates about the hyper tutor who is a 山ピfan. Yup, I got her this time. hahaha!
well, she's not exactly a 山ピfan actually, even though she always goes "山ピ! 山ピ!" She claimed to be a (bigger) 木村拓哉fan, and also another male celebrity whom none of the class knows. hahaha, generation gap, most probably.
then during the very first class, as there's not supposed to be any scheduled lessons, we ended up chatting randomly and we asked about her family. and we asked if her singaporean husband is handsome.
her reply?
ええ。。ハンサムでした! (He WAS handsome)
LOL....
then during the second lesson, one of the students showed up for the first time, claiming that he has overslept last week that's why he missed it. and she was like...
"Next time oversleep nevermind, can come for the later class! Like, wake up, oohh! two o'clock, nevermind! come for 330 class. Or wake up, oohh! four o'clock, nevermind! 530 class, ne!"
that particular student was like =.="
and look at this!

the 'chop' or perhaps, ink stamp she put on our 宿題.
可愛いね!

One Piece One Piece!

2009-01-21T22:24:00.000-08:00

actually, i dont have much to say, other than...
this semester is insane.
i totally see no hope for good grades, apart from my STS Science of Fiction elective and Jap 3.
the rest.... oh well!
something cute to cheer me up.

one piece! one piece! it's called chopper, right?

a fun (and tired) day.

2009-01-18T17:31:00.000-08:00

all right, yesterday was a erm, fun and tiring day. Met two groups of friends for two belated birthday celebration.
firstly, HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY TO ZHENHUI! YOU'RE OFFICIALLY 23!
haha, we went East Coast for breakfast. *yawns* it was early. hahahaha... after that the girls went cycling while i left for town. all right, let the pictures do the talking, shall we?

Quite a nice place... with nice staffs. =)

dunno why i made this face. was supposed to be looking chillaxed. well, must be my contacts. so dry. tsk!

muahahaha... nerdy glasses. I wanted to get one quite some time ago, when Wonder Girls wore it.... but...

better not, huh!

yay! me got to stand beside Mary Chia girl. hahahaha!

one group shot before we leave! (or rather, i leave...)
after east coast, i headed for town to meet Sa and Clara. But both of them are late! nevermind, i entertained myself with books at Borders and then Kino. hurhur... so many books i would wanna buy, so little money to spend. =(
Oh, and also, HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY TO SA. YOU'RE ALSO 23!
all right, let the pictures do the talking again, shall we?

camwhoring while waiting for juncheng to settle his phone repair issue@wisma.

haha, finally. one decent group shot of the 3 of us after 123456789 tries@Din Tai Fung Paragon. yes, thank you, juncheng. LOL

muahahaha... Sa was saying both of them are 'mi mi yan'. So i told them to totally open their eyes WIDE when i click the shutter. Then clara suggested to do... well, that!

Act cute act number 2.

Heehee... one group photo to wrap this up! omg, i look absolutely BIG and FAT here.

and i've decided, not to drop Airport. I believe with consistent hardwork i'll be able to clear both my physics 2 and airport, even though they're on the same day, not to mention, i have another two papers on the same day just two days before them. =.=
i'll do my best to bug Prof Fan to clear my doubts. but first things first. what are my doubts? ... ...
don't glare at me! I swear i've never skipped any lectures and i do pay attention. but i just catch no ball. die.
trying desperately to do physics tutorial now. once again, i can't do a single question.
*faints*

Twilight

2009-01-06T23:42:00.000-08:00

Went to watch Twilight with Jamie like, just now. hurhur...
we've both grown FAT.
but one difference.
she'll do all she can to shed those extra pounds in matters of weeks.
me?
i'll carry on eating crap.
Hur Hur Hur.
anyway, back to the movies.
it's.... oh well... I don't see why the craze.
vampires fear sunlight not because they'll get scorched by the sun, but because they'll sparkle like a diamond.
=.=
and the awkwardness between isabella and edward in the beginning of the show really.... i dont know. makes me feel damn awkward as well.
=.=
i have to say, the preview looked so much more interesting. perhaps that's why i felt disappointed after watching it.
a friend of mine said something not very nice about twilight on her blog and she got bashed by a craze fan.
*hold hands up to suggest that i've came in peace*
don't bash me. i'm not saying it SUCK. i'm just saying it's not really up to my expectation.
or perhaps, it's just like Harry Potter, whereby the book will be so much better? But then again, I enjoy HP movies as much as the book.
hur hur hur.
after movies we went for dinner at Miss Clarity Cafe. my roasted chix leg is yum yum! shitake mushrooms and potatoes!
and guess what else? jamie brought me to an old folks home beside a playground situated on the fifth floor of a hdb estate. met interesting old folks there. =)
just to share something i've learnt from an interesting old lady there.
Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Till your good becomes better, and your better best.
is it now on your whiteboard, jamie?

Stupid Timetable

2009-01-06T12:40:00.000-08:00

my timetable for this semester SUCKS!
*rawrs*
the modules i'm taking sucks too!
*double rawrs*
but still, I wanna do well!
*sniffles*
Blardie Airport Engineering is the only major elective with vacancies left. yes, actually vacancies are crap. they'll always leave like another 50 to 100 vacancies for appeal cases. but i can't appeal if it clashes with my other modules right? there goes my air pollution engineering.
I REALLY WANNA DO SPECIALISATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL! *RAWRS*
nevermind, then someone told me Engin Econs & Finance is easy to score.
it blardie clash with my Jap 3 too, just like Air Pollution.
*rawrs*
so? I'm only left with stupid Airport Engin, which exam date is on the same day with my FE1002. haha, yes, you didn't see wrong. I'm now in my final year, and i'm taking a blardie year one physics module. blame deferment plus failing once plus forgot(didn't bother) to retake. i'm surrounded by a huge bunch of freshies. i feel so old now. =.="
Airport Engin is just like transport Engin, just that it's all limited in an airport. crap la, my transport sucks la. I only got a D for it. But then again, I didn't study hard then. Perhaps I can get a C for airport if I follow up diligently? *hopeful look*
oh whatever, i'm supposed to have a lecture for it now. yes, as in RIGHT NOW. but i'm sitting in my room, blogging away. but then, i'm still unsure if i were to really take it or perhaps drop it. i havent even buy the notes. haha, i know. these are all excuses. i need to buck up. but it's only the second day of the semester! yeah, i know. more excuses.
my STS elective also clashes with my... something else. i think it's jap 3. oh no, it's my CV4202. HRM. Someone told me it's a tough paper. sure die la. so i was thinking of finding another STS elective that doesnt clash, but of course. i couldn't.
die la, this semester!
I REALLY WANNA DO WELL!
*bawls*

New Semester

2009-01-04T23:39:00.000-08:00

New semester starts...
tomorrow.
*panic+dread*
and you wouldn't imagine how i was praying to be able to start my new semester before the 29th of December.
well, i'm still glad the new semester is starting...
but cant i get just one more week of slacking?
*sigh*
well, at least i have one thing to celebrate for.
i got my Jap Level 3 elective.
whee!

Welcoming 2009

2009-01-02T00:16:00.000-08:00

yeah, this is a lagging post. it's already considered the 2nd of Jan 2009 already... haha, but i'm just feeling super duper lazy nowadays and i dont feel like doing anything other than to crazily cut my Speed Videos and uploading them on youtube. and all thanks to my laopok laptop. I can spent a whole day doing it. =.=
and now for my new year resolutions.... well, scratch that. i'm not going to do that anymore because i know i'll not follow it. sheesh!
but well, i do wish for certain things...
1. To be motivated enough to study as hard as how i've mugged in sem 1 for this coming semester 2 and get the same kind of results as well, meaning GPA 4 (or above).
2. To throw my bloody laopok laptop away and buy myself a new one.
3. To shed the bloody 8 kgs i've gained in the 3 mths holidays like, last year?
4. To catch up with my beloved friends! I've been bugged down by my studies recently and didn't have much time and mood to really socalise. 0.o Junie! I'm glad you still remember me! And Minn! Roanne(i've totally lost contact with you...)! Jeannie! I promise to drop by your blogs more often! And... what on earth happened to our ktv trip???
okay, and now to something even more random.
I wanna watch Ong Bak 2.

Unexpectedly good results...

2008-12-29T00:40:00.000-08:00

Yes, results are out.
I did unexpectedly well, had my fair share of As and C.
C... haha, dont frown.
I expected myself to fail that.
*jumps jumps*

Crazy dreams

2008-12-27T01:58:00.000-08:00

Had an array of dreams last night.
first i dreamt of my mother knocking out all of my teeth with a plier.
then after that i dream of random weird situations i cant even put a word to it.
i guess i'm stressed.
damn!

100 truth

2008-12-24T10:56:00.000-08:00

A fun meme from ireney!

001. Real name → Si Mian
002. Nickname(s)→ Ah Mian
003. Status → Single and enjoying it.
004. Zodiac sign → Tiger
005. Male or female → Female
006. Elementary → CZPS
007. Middle School → TKGS
008. High School → TJC
010. Hair colour → Black
011. Long or short → LONG
012. Loud or Quiet → Mostly quiet
013. Sweats or Jeans → Jeans
014. Phone or Camera → Phone
015. Health freak → NAH~!
016. Drink or Smoke? → Drinks a little
017. Do you have a crush on someone? Now? No. Hyunjoong counted?
018. Eat or Drink → Both
019. Piercings → one on each ear. used to have 5, though.
020. Tattoos → No way, PAINFUL~!

FIRSTS:
023. First piercing → Ears
024. First best friend → Jamie. Primary 1 until NOW!
025. First award → Primary 1 i think. I got second in class.
026. First crush → Can't remember.
027. First pet → Donut the hamster
028. First big vacation → ten days school trip to china during sec school, i think.
030. First big birthday → Never.

CURRENTLY:
049. Eating → Nothing
050. Drinking → Plain water from my nalgene bottle
052. I'm about to → Search random videos to watch on youtube or perhaps watch Kurosagi Movie
053. Listening to → Speed, Speed and more Speed songs!
054. Plans for today → Slack, eat, brood, (pray that 29th will never arrive)
055. Waiting for → time to stop

YOUR FUTURE:
058. Want kids? → not sure
059. Want to get married? → maybe
060. Careers in mind → taitai

WHICH IS BETTER WITH GIRL/BOY?
068. Lips or eyes → Eyes
070. Shorter or taller? → Taller
072. Romantic or spontaneous → erm... can't decide.
073. Nice stomach or nice arms → Meaning abs or biceps? Both! if not, biceps. Guys looks hot in white wife-beater.
074. Sensitive or loud → Sensitive
075. Hook-up or relationship → Relationship
077. Trouble maker or hesitant → trouble-maker is erm, exciting and dangerous. Hesitant is kinda shy and oh-so-cute... Hesitant? sounds more like a safe guy.

HAVE YOU EVER:
080. Lost glasses/contacts → don't think so.
081. Ran away from home → of course not! I'm not crazy.
082. Held a gun/knife for self defence → Toy gun during a game of catching counted? hahaha... i guess it's nope then!
083. Killed somebody → of course not!
084. Broken someone's heart → eehhh, not sure though. hope not. hee!
085. Been arrested → no
087. Cried when someone died → not yet.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
089. Yourself → Not really
090. Miracles → hope for it, but it kinda never happen
091. Love at first sight → nope
092. Heaven → yes
093. Santa Claus → as in the REAL one? Nope
094. Sex on the first date → NO!
095. Kiss on the first date → Maybe.

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:
097. Is there one person you want to be with right now → no. as i've said i'm enjoying singlehood.
098. Are you seriously happy with where you are in life → Now? No, definitely not.
099. Do you believe in God → not now. I may choose to, when i decide on my life goals.
100. Post as 100 truths and tag 10 people ~ not doing this.

Kstering and Bolt

2008-12-22T11:34:00.000-08:00

Yes, we went kstering again! Me, Wi, Sa, Peg and her bf. Clara was supposed to be joining us, but she fell sick. =(
As usual, it was a crazy ktv session with us attempting to do jay chou raps, and imitate FIR's faye hand gestures. As according to Sa, for jay chou's songs/rap, just mumble through the entire verse and focus on the last two words.
-laugh out loud-
Oh, and Kster has more speed songs now! But they still dont have White Love. *sulk*
now for some pictures...

me with mister dolphin. Kster has got new cushions for us to play with.

the reason for this criminal lookalike pose? Pressing down on the shutter, thinking that the timer is set but in fact, it wasn't.
kinda similar to the 2-seconds timer incident that happened to clara, sa and me.

finally, a group shot! Mr. Paw is cute too!

and i've also watched Bolt, erm some days ago, with fergus. Rhino the hamster+Mittens the cat+Bolt the superdog = one cute comedy!

Goodbye, JoongBo

2008-12-17T23:11:00.000-08:00

HyunJoong and HwangBo couple had their farewell episode on WGM during episode 38.
*wails*
Now I have one show less to watch.
sighz...
byebye, JoongBo couple.
... ...
Hello, Korean version of Hana Yori Dango!

Code Blue~Doctor Heli Kinkyuu Kyumei

2008-12-15T01:05:00.000-08:00

I've just finished watching this!

Code Blue ~ Doctor Heli Kinkyuu Kyumei
starring Yamashita Tomohisa, Aragaki Yui, Toda Erika, and others. (LOL)
I've started watching this some time ago when I was till high on the 'yamapi-virus', but somehow it kinda wore off then and I stopped watching after episode 1. hurhur... and now, since i got nothing much to do, i decided to watch it.
I have to say, even though Yamapi isn't a very good singer(to me), i have to admit that his acting skills ain't that bad. From the virgin boy(i forgot the name) in Stand Up, to the hopeless student(i still can't remember the name... something-suke) in Dragon Zakura, to the KONKON Akira in Nobuta Wo Produce, to the indecisive (i forgot his name) in ProDai, to the kurosagi Kurosaki in Kurosagi (this is a mouthful, i know), to Aizawa sensei in Code Blue. *nods head* Although to a certain extent, some of his expressions(especially his eyes) are exactly the same for all characters. LOL.
Toda Erika has finally made me not as annoyed with her this time round. Well, can't really blame me for being prejudiced. First I caught her on Death Note as the ultra annoying Amane Misa, then I caught her on HYD2 as also the annoying girl who wanted to snatch doumyouji away from makino. This time round, in Code Blue, she is... well, not very annoying. =)
and it's amazing how a medical-based drama could have made me teared at one point. no, make it two.
1. when Aizawa(Yamapi)'s grandma was diagnosed with dementia and she totally couldn't recognise aizawa at all but still remembers her 'grandson' working very hard to become a doctor.
2. when their mentor, kuroda sensei, got himself injured while trying to save shirashi(gakky). in the end they had to amputate his arm, only to reattached it back but of course, he couldn't be a surgeon anymore. ps. he was supposedly the BEST doctor in their ER dept.
okay, why am i talking about this here?
... ... so far...
Stand Up! (Checked, and I dont like it. It's plain dumb to make a bunch of virgin boys chasing after girls just to find out how does sex feels like.)
Dragon Zakura (Checked, and gave me motivation to study hard)
Nobuta Wo Produce (Checked, KON!)
ProDai (Checked, Halleluyah CHANCE!)
Kurosagi (Checked, BANG!)
Code Blue (Checked)
what's next?
maybe... Kurosagi Movie, and then HYD Movie.
I'm officially back onto J-Dorama!
Yamapi~! Ogushun~! *flail arms*

Wild Child

2008-12-10T20:17:00.000-08:00

Watched Wild Child with Peggee ytd at vivo. Hmm, it's... kinda bimbotically amusing? or maybe not THAT bimbotic, but still... kinda amusing.
it's roughly about an American (wild, untamed, unruly) was sent to an English boarding school, in hope that she will learn how to become demure and fine ladies.
The Headgirl is amusingly engrossed in her own world of having the headmistress's cute son in love with her.
oh, nvm. do go catch it if you have the time and money to spare.
and now i wanna watch Bolt. The hamster in cute! =)
Oh, and we saw a Samoyed at Vivo's Pet Safari. A 4 mths old Samoyed puppy, to be exact. It's so cute and hyper la! hahahaha... And it got too hyper, and ended up hiccuping. Hahaha... seeing a dog hiccuping is so hilarious.
Me also wanna a pet dog.
Toy Poodle
Siberian Husky
German Sherpherd
Samoyed
.....

Random thoughts?

2008-12-02T11:48:00.000-08:00

I used to blog everyday about all my random thoughts and now i wonder since when did i last do so. somehow i just lost the urge to blog everyday, not that there wasn't much randomness running through me.
or perhaps, that's how it was.
my 873rd entry today. i wonder when would i hit 1k.
soon?
or perhaps not?
less than a month to the release of examination results,
and it gets me nauseated even to think of it.
damn,
why can i be taking Structs, Structs, and Structs so that I can confirm straight As for this sem, huh?
Mian is so going to die!

Madagascar 2

2008-11-29T11:52:00.000-08:00

Went to watch movies with Sa erm, two days ago? yeah... Actually i wanted to watch Wild Child but probably because it's still rather new, not many cinemas have it yet. so we settled on Madagascar 2 instead. Didn't really wanna watch it because I dont like lions, hippo, zebra, nor giraffe... and neither some mafia penguins. hahaha! but i'm rather glad i've watched it still. it's funny!
'they're black with white stripes but you're white with black stripes!'
wait, or is it the other way round?
oh, nvm....
yeah, we went PS to watch it. and naturally, after the movies and pastamania(almost everytime i went out for dinner with sa, she wanna eat pastamania), we went daiso shopping, then watson/guardian shopping. bought all kinda random things and spent like another 50 bucks on top of movies and dinner. *faints*
i have to curb my impulsive buying habit.
results out on 29th december. one more month before i meet my doom.

Exams are over!

2008-11-26T18:33:00.000-08:00

Exams! It's finally over! I dont know if I shld be happy or sad.
Foundation still sucks. I can do only half of the paper and as according to last sem, doing half = F.
gosh.
Structs is good. Hopefully I can get my first A for a core module! This is the first time in my uni life, that i can more or less do all the questions in a core paper, U-KNOW! *laugh at my own joke*
Jap 2, as i've said, is not good. A is not very hopeful. But B should not be a problem(i hope).
BUT... even with an A and a B, an F for foundation will still pull me down!
damn
damn
damn!
Shit la..... I need to pass, at least.
and my civilisation elective, is not in the picture anymore.
*evil laughter*
So now i can go back to my Speed's comeback cum SS501 sub-group: Kyujong+Youngsaeng+Hyungjoon cum Hyunjoong as Hanazawa Rui in Korean version of HYD cum more joongbo action in WGM cum so many episodes of Bleach to catch up cum Onegai My Melody(dont ask me why i watch it, i just did) and... other random stuff.
any movies to watch? I just wanna watch some movies....

speed is back!

2008-11-20T16:21:00.000-08:00

SPEED IS BACK!
Finally after a 8 years hiatus, the four girls decided to get back together for good.
YAY!
They've made it on oricon weekly chart as #3, also within top 10 for the downloading chart, and Avex Trax access ranking as #5. Number 4 is Ayumi Hamasaki, 3 is Tohoshinki, 2 is Exile, and 1 was some movie thingy, i think.
They're still nowhere near where they were during those 4 years (1996-2000) though....
but no matter what, I'm Happy! They're my favourite girlband since my sec sch days till now!
(turns to Wonder Girls)
okay, since now my Speed is back you girls can leave.
muahahahahahaha....
... ...
back to studies. =.=

There goes my A for Jap 2

2008-11-15T11:37:00.000-08:00

I think i screwed up my Jap 2. both oral and paper.
naniro no pen. I wrote naniro no pan. like =.=
chiken rice. there's not small 'tsu' after chi but i wrote it in when initially, i didnt' write it! stupid itchy hand. i changed my correct answer to a wrong answer.
and i wrote crap for my short essay.
and for oral, i forgot to return 'yoroshiku onegaishimasu' when my examiner said 'hajimarimasho'. and when she asked 'dochira ga taihen desuka' i answered with 'muzukashii'.
*pulls hair*
damn.
there goes my A for Jap 2.
and i'm totally clueless on how to study/prepare for my 17th elective paper. It's going to be a 4 essay qn paper. professor has talked about writing 3 to 6 pages for each qn. like OMG.
i'm so going to die.
anyway, got kinda freaked out by the mandai zoo white tigers incident.
i can't imagine why would anybody choose to commit suicide by trying to take on three tigers. overwhelmed by stress? emotionally unstable?
zenzen wakaranai.
and for something less gloomy, i'm kinda hooked on My Melody.
hahaha! don't ask me why... but yeah.. she's kinda cute.
and my zen player is dying. Screen has officially died. Battery is half dead. I wanna buy the samsung touch screen mp4 player!

Urgh... noise pollution

2008-11-03T22:08:00.000-08:00

i'm pissed.
a group of malay girls are playing catching or something at the car park directly behind my block.
it's past ten.
and there they are, screaming laughing shrieking screeching like there's no tomorrow.
wth.
i'm trying to study, can?
i'm so pissed i really felt like calling up the police.

Shitty Foundations Quiz

2008-10-29T06:22:00.001-07:00

Shucks. I am depressed.
got a freaking 55 out of 100 for ny foundations quiz.
i'm guessing that my quiz grade will be a D?
now, how WELL must i do for my final paper to pull the grades back to a B-?
A-? GREAT!
*pulls hair*
weird, i thought i could get at least a 70 marks... *gasp* what if they really take away some marks for a wrong answer? erps... =.=
With a possible overall C(i'm being very hopeful here) for my Foundation quiz, I guess i would need an A somewhere.
Japanese 2? I'm not studying as hard for it as compared to Japanese 1. Somemore Japanese 1 I only got an A-, which is 4.5 and not 5.0.
shit.
Structs? Got an A for my quiz. But... I shall not be too hopeful for an A. I guess B+ would be good enough. (unless the paper is of the EXACT standard of difficulty as our tutorials, which is impossible) ps. i failed MOM THRICE.
And civilisations. Gosh, I dont even wanna think about it. My readings has officially piled up so high it's hitting my ceiling. somemore i got a 3/10 for my first pop quiz. Second quiz is tmr and i have yet to do any of my readings YET.
darn.
i'm so so so so so going to die.
anyway, realised something cute during civils lecture today.
The three big Italian artists during the High Renaissance period are
Leonardo Da Vinci (100% of you should know him)
Michelangelo Bounarotti, who's teacher is the student of the late 14th to mid 15th century artist, Donatello.
Raphael Sanzio
Something caught your eyes? Are you grinning at your computer screen like an idiot now? (or maybe not)
or, are you somehow reminded of some turtles?
Leonardo
Michelangelo
Rapheal
Donatello
THEY ARE THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!

2008-10-24T20:58:00.000-07:00

here are some photos taken during our october babies' combined birthday celebration... well, if you're interested. =)

Yup yup, we went Sushi Tei~!

The two october babies! hurhur... shit la, my face looked like a pao. *bawls*

one group shot at Sushi Tei. Eh, not really... My Jamie Tan is not inside. =.=

It's a little blurred as compared to the other photos. I guess the waitress shook her hands as she took it.

Something spectacular at the Esplanade. It's made of... hula hoops?! hurhur...

Bdae Celebration for US!

2008-10-19T16:32:00.000-07:00

met up with my tk girls last night for a combined celebration dinner too, for me and kk. haha, it was supposedly a combined celebration dinner for me and monster claraw on Friday too! =) anyway, the girls treated us to Sushi Tei this time! Yummy... Got my usual favourite Kimchi Spicy Miso Ramen. (slurps) and got a taste of tsubugai, because sushi tei doesnt have hokkigai. although they're both supposed to be whelk, hokkigai tasted much better. tsubugai is like a crunchy version of nama hotate. =.=
Dinner was enjoyable and fun(ny) as usual. finally got to see ps again! she went mia for quite some time. still waiting for pictures from jamie.... for now, let just take a look at our birthday cake.

so pretty right? and it's yummy as well! it's a strawberry shortcake, i think. and guess its name? SNOW QUEEN
in other words, it's MY cake.
and i wanna go for dance lessons! kk is having hiphop lessons under a freelance instructor at jitterbugs. hopefully jamie, zh and i can join her too... soon? heehee...
oh, and here is the light up novel figurine thingy i've bought for claraw and sa...

cute right? there's stitch for claraw, hello kitty for sa, and mickey mouse for me!
and now for something random...
do you know Rob Morrow's daughter's first name is Tu?
So she is, Tu Morrow.
I'm serious.

Laughing spree...

2008-10-18T12:05:00.000-07:00

met up with MONSTER claraw and ENTERTAINER Sa last night at Orchard.
heehee... went Xin Wang for dinner and they've changed menu~! okay, i'm slow. but i've not been to xinwang for a year already. LOL....
dinner was eaten amidst loads of laughter so much so that i totally got a stomachache right after finishing my food.
it was just a bunch of random laughter at 2603. hurhur....
wo yao~ *random insider joke*
Anyway, got them this small novel lighting up thingy... (i'm not being very helpful with my description, am i?) Got a Hello Kitty for Sa and Stitch for Claraw because there wasnt any cookie monster. It's like a transparent figurine, which upon switching on, will light up. and the lights will gradually change its colours into the 7 colours of rainbow. they were like so intrigue by it, such that when i was pulling my hair out over what to order, they were both staring at it like this
-> 0_0
Finally gave claraw her U-Know XIAH birthday present. haha... it's one of dbsk's album la. am glad she likes it. hurhur...
and to my readers, if any of you are dbsk's fans, can you tell us why is Micky Yoochun, Micky Yoochun? As in, why Micky? Because he likes mickey mouse?!
alright, for MY birthday present... =) initially i wanna get another pinky ring coz i lost mine. in the end, we settled on organiser since i need a new one for 2009 anyway. Mickey Mouse for me again! hurhur... okay, not really 'again', since i'm using stitch for this year. heehee...

reggae

2008-10-16T23:37:00.000-07:00

i suddenly got this weird urge to dance again.
and i wanna learn reggae!
hahaha...
it's definitely going to be super duper tough though... but i still wish to pick it up. *packing up to fly to jamaica*
hahaha!

Another meme!

2008-10-15T20:32:00.000-07:00

Ireney also passed me the letter meme. she gave me H!
1. Hyunjoongie!
2. Heo Youngsaeng
3. Hyungjoon
4. Hotshot (Xiaozhu's drama)
5. Hiro (As in Speed's Hiroko Hiro)
6. (Shin)Hwa
7. Hye Sung
8. Hana
9. How Do I Say
10. Hey, come on!

yeah! done! hahaha... H is so much easier because H stands for Hyunjoongie~! LOL...
getting a little hyper. I know i cheated a little, but I could have really made everything start with H. I just wanna add ShinHwa in. hurhur...

Meme!

2008-10-13T22:18:00.000-07:00

Claraw once again passed me a meme...
so here goes...
i'm supposed to list 10 things i love beginning with the letter R.
1. (M) Rizing
2. (Koko)Ro
3. Red + White = Pink
4. Really cute kittens
5. Really cute puppies
6. Rethgif spelt backwards = Fighter (SS501's song)
7. Rethgif spelt backwards = Fighter (M's song)
8. Rain as in Bi
9. Radio Star
10. Ru (淚 by Hye Sung)

muahaha, i know i cheated. but this meme is passed to me by claraw, who also cheated. so technically, this is a cheating meme!

SS501 album delayed!

2008-10-13T01:14:00.000-07:00

my 860th post.
shucks, i'm gonna die for my quiz le la.... why is everything so complicated de?
*pulls hair*
went for making of civilisation excursion.
tire the hell out of me so much so that i couldnt focus on any words on my lecture notes/tutorial for the whole day.
and i was just spacing off while staring at i also dunno what i was looking on my computer screen... =.=
oh, we went fort canning, fyi.
and for my fangirl part,
SS501's album are delayed!
they're supposed to release it during mid oct which is like in a few days time.
now they're postponing it till april/may next year.
!!!!!!!
But that's because joongie is starting his HYD shooting during november, and jungminnie is also starting his rehearsal practices for his musical. so if they do release their album now, their promotional period will be damn short. =.=
so yeah, might as well postpone.
and so youngsaengie, kyujongie and hyungjoonie are forming a sub unit called TripleS.... but i'm not very interest la. cause no hyunjoongie.
heehee... korean version of HYD... Hyunjoongie as hanazawa rui.
i'm going to watch it!
okay, back to reality...
deflections... *pulls hair*

Japanese counters...

2008-10-09T21:55:00.000-07:00

Japanese counters are driving me crazy.
i have a feeling that すはませんせい is going to give me a little test on it tmr....
やばいな。。。
for items long and thin for ex. ネクタイ、ベルト、鉛筆、花、指: ~本
BUT...
1 - いっぽん
2 - にほん
3 - さんぼん
and this にほん is pronounced differently from THAT にほん, meaning 日本. =.=
and a very tongue twisting 言葉 for me...
とおりがかりの人... it means passer-by. =.=
and the usage of そば and 隣 is also confusing la.
both sitting down - 隣
one seated one standing - そば
both living things or both non-living things - 隣
one living thing one non-living - そば
urgh....
i really want my A for Jap 2 la!

Eric Fighting!

2008-10-09T15:54:00.000-07:00

9th October 2008, ShinHwa's (4-Dimensional) Leader is off for his military service.....
It was said that other 5 ShinHwa members met up with him for a farewell dinner on the 8th, but they didn't send Eric off on the actual enlistment day itself.
but still, many fans were there to send Eric off. =)
Eric fighting!
See you in two years time...

Choco-Mini-Birthday-Party@Max Brenner

2008-10-08T21:42:00.000-07:00

heehee... picas up!
just 'kop' from jay's blog. LOL...
choco-fondue... *slurps*
jay, i still want the individual photos okie?
U-KNOW XIAH!
muahahahahahaha!
now. back to my tutorial... *makes a face*
and monster claraw, thanks for your lj post!
my joongie threw me a heart~! LOL

My Birthday

2008-10-07T22:07:00.000-07:00

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY!
not very happy about it though.... because after attending structs tutorial and listening to my tutor explanations, I STILL CANNOT DO MY TUTORIAL QNS!
crap, i'm gonna die at deflections...
anyway, thanks for all who has messaged me...
especially JAMIE! for being the first at 12:01AM.
hurhur...
Looking forward to...
17th.... Erhm, you better make it. your 'U-KNNOW XIAH!' (you know sia) is with me!
18th... SENTOSA!
yet to be confirmed... shopping trip with sa... so when are you free huh? combine with 17th? hahaha...
and another yet to be confirmed... when are we going to make your glasses huh, peg?
alright, back to deciphering my structs tut.
haiz... kor mia la...
birthday still must get tortured by STRUCTS!

Birthday wishlist

2008-10-05T10:22:00.000-07:00

alright... i've 'promised' that i will do my wishlist today.
*small sigh*
i'm going to be very random! hahaha...
1. A HyunJoong clone. *points upwards*
2. A Stitch or Mickey Mouse organiser / Kinokuniya vouchers
3. New handphone... Samsung Omnia?
4. M Lee Min Woo's 4th album titled M Rizing
5. SS501 albums (but you can't get any in Singapore *sings*)
6. Body Shop vouchers (Need more essential oils, specifically the 'good sleep' series)
7. Anything random with Mickey Mouse/Stitch/Chipmunk
8. Ace all my modules for this semester (at least)
9. A digicam
10. Mascara? Haha.... No maybelline stuff though. Smudge like CRAZY.
(11.) birthday cards! heehee....
is ten enough? should be la... realised i said TEN and not eleven. *winks*

4D Joongie...

2008-10-05T09:31:00.000-07:00

fangirl post alert!
but you can still read if you wanna laugh at random LAMENESS.

Someday before debut, Young Saeng look down from a tall building.
Hyun Joong: Ah, you will fall down...You cannot die before debut!!!

He saw Young Saeng sleeping.
Hyun Joong：He died...!!!!!!!

When everyone was playing around in water during holiday in August, Kyujung walk towards Hyun Joong's direction.
Hyun Joong: Don't fall in love with me!!!

After drinking the milk
Hyun Joong: I was thinking why is this milk tasted so bitter? Oh it is coffee milk!

Asked why they are so close to each other.
Hyun Joong: People started to recognize us so we seldom go out and play...Everyday only 5 of us will stay at the room and play, that's why we're close to each other.

In a radio program, he is asked:"Go to a beach with your girlfriend, what will you do if your girlfriend keeps staring at other guys?
Hyun Joong: I will wash her face with the sand!

Young Saeng is mumbling to himself in a lift.
Hyun Joong: Otter~ Please speak human language! (Young Saeng's nickname is otter)

Saw a woman collecting the pearl in the sea.
Hyun Joong: What are you going to do when the shark comes?

A MC in Star Golden Bell asked:"Who do you want to go mountain-climbing with?"
Hyun Joong: Park Jung Min!
Everyone: Why?
Hyun Joong: So I can ride him to the top of the mountain! (Jung Min's nickname is horse because he loves carrot?!)

Pre-birthday mini celebration?

2008-10-04T23:58:00.000-07:00

Met up with my BESTIE Ms Jamie Tan today for a pre-birthday mini celebration. yup, just the two of us. she TREATED me to yummy hot chocolate and even more yummy chocolate fondue at Max Brenner and also to movies! =) hurhur...
we watched Painted Skin. you know, THAT 715 movie? haha, funny how i've been referring Painted Skin as THE 715 movie when his scenes aren't alot in the entire movie. he's an iguana(?) or rather, lizard spirit inside, who is totally smitten with the fox spirit played by Zhou Xun. Just less than half an hour into the movie, Jay and I agreed on one thing. Zhou Xun is pretty, but we can't stand her voice. *tries to imitate her 'manly' voice* I would say the movie is NICE! 715 does look kinda cool inside despite his 'a little' calefare kind of supporting role.
Don't worry, he's wayyyyy better off as compared to Edison Chen in The Dark Knight. *sniggers* "This way..." *imitating Edison*
Mum told me the movie wasn't really like the original novel Painted Skin. The original version was also about a fox spirit, but the male character was a scholar or something. not that it's important. they kinda made the story more beautiful/tragic. Donnie Chen's character would be what you can label as a 'leng mian xiao jiang'. Nearly all the laughter in the cinema was due to him. =) and the ending... no, i mean the ending scene. it was... a tough choice between sweet or lame. i can't decide. YOU watch it and tell me whether you think it's sweet or lame. hahahaha! not telling you what is it! LALALALALA....
photos would be up ASAP....
did some mini birthday present shopping for CLARAW... haha, no surprise for you, you already know what you'll be getting. just that you don't know WHICH one you're getting. hahahaha! anyway my initial idea was to buy you a cookie monster organiser, but i'm not sure if you uses one.
and btw, your present kinda became a joke for my friend. she doesn't know the band name, but she knows all the members' (stage) name.
"WHY IS HE CALLED U-KNOW? AND XIAH?!"
U-Know... Xiah(sia)?
U-know micky max hero XIAH?
okay, shant laugh anymore. don't bash us.... *puppy eyes*
oh, and Jay asked me to list 5 things i want for birthday...
and i told her i wanna become slim again. HAHAHA!
alright, i shall try to brainstorm for my wish list NOW...
*nothing*
I have no idea leh~!
I'll do it tmr instead. HAHAHA!

long pillow

2008-10-04T10:26:00.000-07:00

pillow in japanese is called 枕
so what is a bolster?
長い枕....
a bolster is just a long pillow.
!!!!
haha, that's because japanese doesnt use bolster, so naturally they don't have a specific name for it.
claraw, go ask your せんせい and see if he/she comes up with the same term.
sighz... it's 4th oct already..
THREE MORE DAYS! AND IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!
早い! いやだ! =(
i still wanna be 21 years old...

Wine Appre

2008-09-28T10:10:00.000-07:00

went for the wine appreciation course with peg and sa ytd. to be frank, i really have no interest in wine appre, and neither am i 'gian' to drink the wine. but... aiya, nvm la. (waste money lor)
LOL...
not going to do some summary of my workshop because i paid to get the info... muahahaha! yup, me is selfish~! lalala...
but i can tell you one thing.
I HATE RED WINE... IT'S DISGUSTING!
Would love to try dessert wine though....

2008-09-22T20:46:00.000-07:00

Fangirl post ALERT!

stumbled upon this photo sometime ago.... yes, it's the same group of people above *points at header image* SS501's HyunJoong, YoungSaeng and KyuJong.
Tom and Jerry HyungMin were also in the same act but i didn't bother to try to find snapshots of them.
they were imitating Finkl during some concert....
Gosh~!
i somehow stumbled upon the vid of their performance last night over at youtube. *clucks tongue* they sure had lots of fun...
YoungSaeng totally sounded as if he's going to burst out laughing at himself whenever it was his turn to sing.
aish.... aiyoeha....

funny stuff

2008-09-19T23:21:00.000-07:00

this is a super random post.
woke up early this morning to bring sa for her hair appointment...
and that made me so sleepy during jap class.
=.=
nvm....
as usual... sa's entertainment.
"how come you made so many stupid mistakes for your quiz?"
sa: coz i'm stupid lor.
!!!!!!!
*laugh out loud*
then the care bear incident is damn funny too!
care bears have weird names....
instead of sunshine and cupcake
they are funshine and birthday.
like hello? why would birthday even be considered a name?!
and the pink and blue care bear is also damn funny la!
sa: *points at the pink care bear with hearts on her tummy* she should be love.
me: *flipping the tag* she's pink.
sa: *points to the blue care bear beside pink* then this one is called blue.
i flipped the tag and saw 'BLUE'.
!!!!!!!
*laugh out loud*

Quiz DAY

2008-09-16T23:00:00.000-07:00

yup, today is my Quiz DAY. Not the so called quiz week, but quiz day. meaning, all my quizzes are squeezed up into one day. =.=
GREAT!
I did study for all my quizzes. but was feeling damn under-prepared for foundations no matter how many times i read through my lecture notes and tutorials. my uneasiness was founded. the quiz was... @#$%^&*
last semester, the quiz was printed on one side of an A4 sized paper, consisting of 2 questions. this time, it's printed on both side of an A3 sized paper, consisting of 11 questions. *faints*
well, out of the 9 small questions i could do 8. (God bless those who couldnt answer the first two questions)
and for the remaining two longer questions, i could do one....
i guess i could pass. but just a pass is not what i'm aiming for.
dang!
structs is good, and so is jap 2. =)
now for my fangirl part
hyungjoongie was admitted to hospital earlier today because he overdosed on sleeping pills. one article read that he himself visited the local hospital because he felt nauseous, while another read that he was sent to hospital because he was found semi-conscious. =.= either one of them would be true. =)
seemed like he ate another SIX more of his sleeping pills when he still couldnt get to sleep after eating one(as stated).
gosh.... i have no other comments.
and i keep hearing some bugs fluttering/flying around right behind my back. but the moment i turn around, the noise stop. guess i'm getting paranoid with my flying insect-phobia...

Jay's 22nd photos

2008-09-15T16:46:00.000-07:00

whee~! we (the TK clique) met up once again!

dont ask me why i made the stupid face. i just did... -.-''

whee~! we're the camwhores!

aish, no photo of the entire room taken. but from this photo, i think it's still quite obvious that the place is freaking cool!

haha... dont ask me what was i thinking then... i have no recollections. but surprisingly, i wasnt drunk. =.=

that's ZH, Jay and me doing silly poses with my fork and watermelon, and their pita breads...

BLOW THE CANDLES.... TWO big ones with TWO small ones... (twenty-two)

another spastic group photos... i'm a bunny~! =.=

It's 15th September! Happy Birthday to Peggee! =)

Happy Birthday to Jamie!

2008-09-07T23:48:00.000-07:00

well, it's the time of the year again!
hurhur..
met up with the girls last night to celebrate jay's 22nd birthday. Her actual birthday was on the 4th actually. But it doesnt really matter la, huh!
When to this (arabian? turk?) restaurant called Amiran's grill at Pahang street... and jay booked a private room on the second floor whereby we can watch dvd as we ate. COOL! but we didnt watch any dvds la. just randomly popped a CD into it for some background music as we chatted(with loads of laughter too).
the first group laughter came when jay randomly popped Amei's cd into the dvd player and one of her older songs titled 'Qian Shou' started playing. we(namely kk, jay and me) went crazy la! We did what i would name it as 'comic dance' because we simply looked hilariously, ridiculously comical. zh nearly died laughing while cl filmed it down. what? you wanna watch it? NO WAY man! BLEH!
the next amusing incident was the background music. we popped a jazz cd into the player and jay told us that her brother wrote her birthday cards yearly. and i went "REALLY?" and at this point the background music was very nice to emphasize on my surprise by going "Ching ching ching ching ching!" well, you know those standard 'louder and more exciting' part of jazzy music? well, i assume you know... hilarious la!
and as usual, the night was full of CAMWHORING. will post up those (stupid/spastic/silly) photos when jay send me. =)
i think i should talk a little about food right? we took the buffet set... hmm... not much choices of food though. there's only roasted chicken, fish, beef, mixed vege, two choices of soups, mushroom and vege, and two kind of rice. arabian fragrance rice and steamed butter rice. food is a little too herby, salty and tough for my taste. two choices of dessert, caramel creams and another egyptian dessert which i cannot spell the name, is also too sweet for my liking. but the pita bread is nice when you dip it in the 'a little too salty' mushroom soup.
well, i may not really like the food. but the place is really cool! as in, the private room. i like that. =)
alright, i need to go back to my structs tutorial now. spent half a day to complete 5 out of 8 questions. and now i'm going to CONQUER the remaining three. yeah, it's like a battle for me. =.= but i'm sure i can do it! (i just need alot of time)
so, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MS JAMIE TAN!
hope you've enjoyed yourself and also hopefully you really like the present i gave you! =)
*hugs*
waiting for sushi tei next month. *winks*
oh, and it's actually 7th Sept now. It's my brother's birthday... but who cares?

bulimic?

2008-09-05T22:43:00.000-07:00

this weird girl living in my block is really pissing me off.
i guess she's bulimic.
every night at this certain time, i can always hear her coughing and retching super duper loudly from my bedroom....
it's those kind of dry coughing and dry retching, like she's forcing herself to throw up.
gosh.... annoys the hell out of me.
i'm still stuck with my book review.
just how do i write one?
and for japanese class today...
さはませんせい told us something about ドリアン(durian) that kinda shocked the entire class.
guess what? one ドリアン in Japan will cost about 一万円...
10000 Yen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
golden durian or what?
and another interesting story from her.
it was once on Japanese papers as according to her.
one of the residents in some apartment block (or wherever) was eating durian.
and the neighbours thought it was gas leak and called the police.
i totally laughed out loud when せんせい went: 瓦斯瓦斯!

The Phantom Of The Temple

2008-09-04T21:39:00.000-07:00

Believe it or not, I've finished reading The Phantom Of The Temple in less than 24 hours since the minute I laid my hands on it.
Nope, it's not because I'm kiasu and wanna finish it ASAP for the sake of my 1250-words book review due in two weeks time, but it's really an engaging novel so much so that I just kept on reading and reading until I flipped the final page.
The Phantom Of The Temple A Judge Dee Mystery by Robert Van Gulik
Try to get your hands on it and give it a try if you have the time to spare. Well, provided you can get a copy of it.
*smirks*
Now, can someone tell me how exactly do I write a book review?

Stupid out of stock book.

2008-09-02T23:09:00.000-07:00

went to the popular bookstore located in my campus today (for the nth time) to look for the book i needed for my book review due in TWO WEEKS TIME.
yes, this book titled The Phantom Of The Temple by Van Gulik is OUT OF STOCK ever since i realised that i need to buy it(which is the third week), not just in the bookstores located in campus, but ISLANDWIDE. yes, you didn't see it wrongly, ISLANDWIDE. or should i say, it doesn't exist in local bookstores anymore? Borders 'do not hold the book'. (i'm quoting the staff who tended to me) Times bookshop... well, the book isn't listed as well. same results with kinokuniya and i bet it would be the same at MPH so i didn't bother anymore.
Was still rather happy when i see the other book also needed for my second book review due much later. but then the worry sets in when i realised that the other book is nowhere to be found. so, i grabbed one of the staff and asked....
"Oh, there's no stock..."
and when would the new stocks be coming in?
"Oh, no more. There is no more..."
!!!!!!!!!
I was like WTH? Peggy suggested that I can try the library. And I did.
HSS library: No copies available.
National Library Board: TRACE PLACED.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh well, luckily my professor is kind enough to borrow me hers... =)
I'm appeased.
I guess i'm now a certified WGM(JoongBo)fanatic. Somehow they can just make me LOL many times.
HwangBuin: Do you like ginseng chicken?
Joongie: No.... I had chicken this morning... and i got tons of diarrhoea. (!!!!)
Photographer: The groom is distracted by random thoughts.
Joongie: Yeah...
HwangBuin: What are you thinking about?
Joongie: Me? The chicken... (!!!)

funny pictures

2008-09-01T10:44:00.000-07:00

this is going to be erm... quite a fangirl post.
but i'm not really a big fan of hyung joon magnae... oh, nvm!
Title: Babies are curious.

It's just the M sign, Hyung Joon.... why are you staring at it like it's diamond studded?

alright, then now it's the christmas tree...

now what, you're still staring at something? Water dispenser?

No matter how hard you stare a bug just wont fly out of the flowers to scare your HyunJoong hyung, Hyung Joon.

now what's so interesting with that?

now, what's printed on the hand so much so that you're staring at it so intently?

Hyung Joon ah, it's just a bottle of mineral water.

Sighz... still observing...

still staring!

now you're even curious about your Hyun Joong hyung's hair?

there's nothing special with HyunJoong's mic, Hyung Joon. It doesn't mean that he gets a better mic when he's the leader, you know. Leave my Hyun Joong alone!

Stuck...

2008-08-31T11:56:00.000-07:00

currently stuck with my structs tut. realised that my bigger problem is not the actual theory of structs (yet), but it's a problem with my primary school/secondary school geometry.
i just cannot 'see' those triangles la!
*pulls hair*
youtube is deleting alot of MBC programmes like loveletter, WGM, Xman, YSMM and also suspending users who are uploading them.
*shucks*
i'm going to get withdrawal symptoms sooner or later.
*sighz*
anyway, episode 22 of WGM was hilarious because of JoongBo, yet again...
Joongie: *HwangBuin picked a tuxedo for Joongie* I like this... it's PENGUIN-style.
Joongie: *suddenly says he wanna buy the wedding gown for HwangBuin* If i buy them, i'll have to pay them in 136 months instalments...
Joongie: *immediately points to one of the wedding gown* This is out! It's too revealing... *speaking to no one in particular* I'm sorry, you've put effort into making it....
Joongie: *spinning HwangBuin CRAZILY on the merry-go-round* you have to go on for another 501 rounds.... *eventually still stopped the merry-go-round for HwangBuin* this is your 100th day present. You're so happy that you're going crazy, right?
and i totally laughed out loud when Joongie attempted to peep inside HwangBuin's changing room and he got caught! LOL... his immediate reaction(jumping backwards) when Hwangbo called out to him from inside her changing room was simply hilarious....
Chinese Subbers, please please please... don't give up on subbing WGM, okay?

Bobohaeyo...

2008-08-30T20:31:00.000-07:00

i just found out the story behind this gif. LOL... Hyung Joon was on a mission to get a kiss from Hyun Joong. THAT'S WHY.... SS501 boys do not usually enjoy 'skinship' as much as ShinHwa boys(men) do....
LOL.
anyway, the reaction of Hyung Joon after Hyun Joong FINALLY kissed him was amusing.
and...
concept map for foundations is a big challenge... =(
edited:
changed the song(again).... currently playing Destiny by SS501.
claraw, i think i told you the wrong thing. Destiny is not in the same single as FIND. Destiny is in the same single as Deja Vu(their 3rd single).
I kinda like this song because of Jung Min's voice when he sang 'cause i'm back...' can't really say why, but just find that voice very... attracting?
and i'm gradually finding the joy of doing Structs Tutorial.

Noun Vs Adjective

2008-08-29T23:37:00.000-07:00

日本語の勉強はとても難しいです.
白い、黒い、赤い、青い、黄色い、茶色い: Adjectives
緑色、紫色、ピンク: Nouns.
but aren't they all colours? why some colours are used as adjectives yet some are used as nouns?
*faints*
both そして and と means 'and'.
but if you're dealing with adjectives you have to use そして. if you're dealing with nouns you have to use と.
both 'ではありません' and 'くないです' are negative forms.
but ではありません is used for な adjectives and くないです is used for い adjectives. い adjectives means those adjectives ending with い.
HOWEVER...
きれい and 有名(ゆうめい), even though both ends with い are considered な adjectives.... *faints again*
so confusing....
にほんごの勉強は面白いです。でもとても難しいな。。。
korean subs utd are thinking of dropping the subbing of we got married. *sobs*
but thank God i understand chinese so i can watch the chinese subbed version instead. hopefully chinese subbers wont drop WGM too... *prays*

SS501 Skin

2008-08-28T21:15:00.000-07:00

Yup, as you all can see, I've changed skin again.
hurhur... although i really wanted to keep the shinhwa skin for the whole of 2008 for their 10th anniversary, but i really cannot stand the fact that the entry post columns are so screwed and the designer ignored my emails...
*sighz*
and also since i'm putting SS501's song on my imeem player, so might as well change to a SS501 skin.
A big round of applause to ning, for designing my new skin featuring SS501. hurhur... freaking love that group photo la. *points up at the header image*
可愛いでしょ?
大好き!

meme

2008-08-27T20:41:00.000-07:00

okay, so what is a meme?
quoting claraw: it's a virus.
=.=
okay, nvm... hurhur... now claraw has passed this 'virus' on to me. so i have to do a meme too...
10 favourite songs of Energy.
(in no particular order)
1. 某年某月某一天
2. 只有我
3. 多爱我一天
4. 给你的歌
5. More than words
6. 永远不说再见
7. 爱情半径
8. 穿越一光年
9. You better not come home
10. RA-MEN SONG(Featuring Terry Lee)(mini拉面道广告曲)
i'm limiting myself to only the first 3 albums because Toro left the group after releasing the 3rd album. =(
and realised that it's almost ALL slow ballads. i guess fast-paced songs get to you real quick. but at the end of the day, it's still the ballads that really get to your heart. *winks*

Ungraceful people...

2008-08-26T21:06:00.000-07:00

this morning at boon lay mrt station platform, some freaking rude MAN in his forties attempted to get into the train BEFORE the other passengers alighted by SLAMMING his briefcase into my hip so that i will SUBCONSCIOUSLY allow him a little space by STUMBLING backwards and then pushing against me so that the space is sufficient for him to enter the cabin before anyone else who were also waiting to board and train and also BEFORE THE REST OF THE PASSENGERS ALIGHTED.
a few days ago, also on the mrt back to tampines from boon lay, another freaking rude WOMAN also in her forties purposely wedged into the teeny weeny space between my butt and the empty seat, and even poked me to let me know that SHE WANTED TO SIT DOWN when i couldn't hear her saying whatsoever shit to me because i was listening to my zen.
Singaporeans.... be ashamed.
... ...
今日第八課を習いました。面白いね!
しゅくだいをします!

Cute Dorks alert!

2008-08-22T00:54:00.000-07:00

Ahhhhh~! やおい alert!
haha.... didn't expect the usual 'tom and jerry' pair HyungMin to be so... erhm erhm... oh well, horsie did 'slap' magnae in the end though. so i guess they still got back to square one.

and there is hyunjoongie dancing with a.... mop?!

日本語を勉強します

2008-08-21T16:40:00.000-07:00

あした日本語の授業は 3時はんから5時はんまでです。
さはませんせいに第八課を習います。
今晩 9時から日本語を勉強します。
ええと。。。第一課から第七課まで勉強します。
muahahaha.... i can finally type japanese characters!
わあ。。。楽しですね!
超嬉しい!

Me, Idealist?

2008-08-21T13:21:00.000-07:00

Your result for The Perception Personality Image Test...

NBPS - The Idealist

Nature, Background, Big Picture, and Shape

You perceive the world with particular attention to nature. You focus on the hidden treasures of life (the background) and how that fits into the larger picture. You are also particularly drawn towards the shapes around you. Because of the value you place on nature, you tend to find comfort in more subdued settings and find energy in solitude. You like to ponder ideas and imagine the many possibilities of your life without worrying about the details or specifics. You are in tune with all that is around you and understand your life as part of a larger whole. You prefer a structured environment within which to live and you like things to be predictable.

The Perception Personality Types:

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Japanese Level 2

2008-08-19T23:09:00.000-07:00

Watashi wa kyou Sahama sensei ni dai nana ka wo naraimasu.
Hmm, I wish I can type japanese characters too....
Smoked through Jap 2 lessons today because I was totally lost. It was my first lesson when the rest of the class are in their third lesson already.
Ahh, nihongo wo benkyoushimasu!
I have to ace this man! *stress*
and we'll be learning SIXTY kanji for Japanese level 2.
SIXTY!! *faints*
and Making of Civilisation. I'm so going to SU it. Two book reviews of 1250 words counted at 30%. *faints again*
Well, it is interesting, yes.
But HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO REMEMBER ALL THE FACTS, AND EVEN WORSE, THEIR NAMES?