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for some strange reason i’ve been feeling dizzy since this afternoon.

maybe it’s my tutor who traumatised me too much. it’s the same irritating one who kept quoting the prime minister. the same one who i bumped into immediately after his tutorial class which i missed.

i missed his tutorial again today. because i simply couldn’t get out of bed after falling asleep around 3 a.m. and i thought i’ll be safe this time, taking the trouble to avoid the routes he’ll be likely to take. and during lunch i was sitting all the way at the far end of canteen b, the side near canteen 3. i was so damn sure that i was out of sight.

then in the middle of eating my jiao zi fengyi told me not to turn back. of course i did lah. haha. he walked towards our table. too late. he’d seen us before i turned back. so he walked towards us with this smile on his face and said (supposedly to tease me) that he’s on the patrol for people who missed his class. so i replied ya, i missed your class this morning.

fengyi told him i was concussed. i had the feeling he was waiting for me to explain myself further. no point. so he tried to make small talk saying he saw fengyi and then noticed my hair. damn it. then he said he seldom visited canteen b and wanted to see how it felt. *he visits the canteen once in a blue moon and i was that unlucky to get spotted*

never mind, what matters is that the projects and assignments turn out well. anyway he’s not that bad. he said he’ll help fengyi with the recommendation letter she needs. i don’t dislike him that much, just that he pissed me off last semester and the first lesson this semester. and he behaves like mr how. and he always nabs me immediately after i zao class. just like mr how did.

by the way, doesn’t everyone like my new template? quite nice hor? ha, don’t even bother telling me i’m narcissistic to put my name super big on the top banner. too bad. i like the overall look and i shall love myself more from now on.

yes, despite the number of projects i have on hand and the amount of readings i have to finish, i need to entertain myself!!

it’s fun designing new stuff, even though this looks almost the same as the old one. just a change of colours and the picture. cos i don’t have that much time to come up with a new one.

shall work on something more complicated when i’m free.

sorry to all those who hate white backgrounds, like the wenwen who complained of the blinding white one i used to have. too bad, i do like white backgrounds.

oh yes, i do want to mention the sandwich vending machines ntu have nowadays. seriously, it serves slightly better food than canteen b stuff. but then i tried the one at south spine b3 level, where the lift to the mlt is located. beware, they turned my sandwich black. so chao ta that the paper wrapping it turned cripsy black. even in the night i could “see” the black toast. and the toast is so damn bloody hot when it’s just done, i’ll advise you to leave it alone for 1 whole minute before touching it. no kidding.

i wanna talk about something else that hit me hard. but i need to take photos of it first.

update again tomorrow, if i don’t fall asleep before doing so.

i nearly choked while having lunch with my father just now. while i had a mouthful of home-cooked hokkien mee in my mouth, he suddenly remarked, “you want to go australia and study advertising is it?” wah lau eh. i got the shock of my life man. how the heck did he know? a couple of years ago when i applied for a place in unsw for some advertising course he didn’t know what i was applying for either. then how the heck did he know?! i don’t think anyone knows about these plans of mine leh.

anyway i was planning to get a job after i graduate, save up enough for the advertising course and go ahead for it. but then i realised the advertising industry is chockful of young, vibrant and creative people. i think by the time i get the advertising degree i’ll be an old hag by industry standards.

well, i’m supposed to check out the course details and stuff if i’m interested/ but then i don’t wanna ask my dad to sponsor me for another round of studies leh. overseas some more. not cheap leh. although i would certainly appreciate being able to study something i’m really interested in and helpful to my dream career.

dunno lah. dunno whether he’s serious about it or just kidding me.

very confused now.

i hate it during the national day season. all the local channels are hounded by pro-government stuff. in fact, media platforms beyond tv too. even the mrt screens break from those safety-guaranteed-plugs, movie trailers, blood-donation ads and such, to air the latest nation-loving mtvs with some spastic moves supposed to be adopted by all singaporeans during the national day celebrations. i’m glad i haven’t got to do those damned dances or what they call it since i’ve graduated from secondary school. for a month we’re bombarded by those irritating mtvs that just goes on and on and on, literally continuously.

then being a shopping-nation, retailers spend bombs to advertise on the national newspaper, telling the whole of singapore of their national-day promotions - just like any other retailer. as if they are so damn patriotic lor. admit it lah, they just wanna increase short-term revenues. but then again, i think they’re offering an option to people on national day who detest watching the national day parade on tv and would enjoy shopping in the predictably emptier orchard road when everyone’s out watching fireworks and the parade.

the fact that all the tv channels and radio stations broadcast the national day parade and the prime minister’s speech simultaneously really gets onto my nerves. what for have channel 5, channel 8, channe u, channelnewsasia, suria and kids central when all you are going to broadcast is the exact same thing at the exact same time?

and that’s not all. immediately after our oh-so-wise-and-humourous prime minister’s speech, the whole of singapore goes ga-ga. the newspapers go on and on about each segment of the speech, coming up with more articles and interviews about how singaporeans are going to benefit from it, and putting the whole damn speech in the newspapers. then everyone, i mean everyone, starts quoting from the bloody speech. the lecturers and tutors in school start yakking and yakking about the speech, with one particularly irritating lecturer (cum tutor) showing off his foresight about the service industry and how the prime minister shares his opinions (all with the i-told-you-so tone and look). everyone just goes “prime minister lee said…..prime minister lee said…..prime minister lee said……and lee zong li shuo…..” the last straw was when this tutorial presentation group ended with yet another quote from the prime minister’s speech.

damn it, i swear when i am financially stable i’m gonna get out of the country every national day. and when i’m rich enough i’ll make sure i go for a trip that lasts the whole of august.

i’m diagnosed with mild stress.

1) stayed up till after 2am on a weekday trying to do some readings for a tutorial on the following day. actually managed to wake up for the 8.30am tutorial. amazing.

2) spent 20 mins wondering why comprehensive survey results would be “invaluable” to a company. suddenly remember that invaluable is not the opposite of valuable, but that it is extremely valuable. is this the problem with the english language, or stress?

3) started to skip meals despite hunger because there’s more reading to be done than food to be eaten. drove my digestive system crazy.

4) marked out project discussions and tasks to be carried out everyday. organiser is running out of space.

5) found relief in cheap retail therapy at the convenient nanyang mini-mart and the ntu popular bookstore.

desperation.

on days when i feel shortchanged in life and start to wallow in self-pity, i’m glad i have a growing pile of tutorials and readings to tell myself to stop bumming around. gotta start getting those work done before the crazy season of projects, reports and presentations come knocking on the door. i can already hear their footsteps.

p.s: movies, shopping and dinner slots are still available subject to the following day’s tutorial schedules. =)

sometimes i’m amazed at the way i make decisions on the spot.

i planned to meet wenwen to invade ikea today (yes, i know the sales are over but my room needs a little organisation) around 2.30pm. as usual, my estimation was off and i was done with my fyp meeting after 11am. and i was already on the way to queenstown, when i stopped by jurong east. for some unknown reason i had a strong urge to drop off at jurong east. so i went to the nice big library hoping to find some nice big books with a lot of advertising graphics and stuff, but i realised some of the books are probably relocated to the nice big national library.

then i had a strong urge to buy tickets for charlie and the chocolate factory when i passed by the cinema. lucky i didn’t. movie tickets nowadays very expensive. then i went into popular trying to find some nice big boxes and magazine files to keep my stuff in order. but popular has very limited and ugly boxes and magazine files.

so in the end, i didn’t visit ikea. i had kfc instead of ikea lunch. i ended up not buying anything to keep my stuff in order even though i am desperate for some order in my life. i ended up not spending any money (phew.) and i am regretting not having gone down to ikea. all thanks to the 5 second decision i made.

qiuling said i haven’t been blogging and that she misses my blog.

i told her i haven’t had a life since school started (except for charlie and the chocolate factory). so i can’t blog if i have a ultimately boring life. i mean, staying at home on weekends is already bad enough. i can’t believe life can get worse than that. but then again, i’ve been meeting people for dinner, attending domina’s birthday party, going here and there. i can’t figure out why i feel so lethargic also. in fact i’ve been spending more time sleeping than doing anything else.

with a life like that,

how ah?

let’s do this systematically cos there’s too many weird things happening:

incident 1:

for some unknown reasons the school entered yesteryear fever and banished me to join the freshies.

in the very same week there was this course aa102 which appeared on the edventure list of people of my batch, when we had completed the course. the first thing that came to our minds was that we had to retake the course. then everyone started panicking for 10 seconds before they realised it’s a screw-up again. strange thing that we still panick cos of things like that despite the daily screw-ups we face.

incident 2:

i went to the office of academic services today, way up on top of the hill to apply for a replacement matric card. the school is charging a bloody S$21 for a replacement card. but then i have no choice but to succumb to their bullying ways. the first funny thing was, you couldn’t pay for the replacement card and submit the application form at the same counter. so i had to go up to the third floor where the office of finance was, gave them the money, collected the receipt and went down to the first floor where the office of academic services was.

due to the weird manner they phrase their instructions, i couldn’t “self-service” and had to press a buzzer for help. so this lady came along and asked me how she could help. told her i needed a replacement matric card, and she asked “where did you lose your card?”. i thought i heard wrongly and went, “HUH?” she repeated her question and i was dumbfounded. wah lau eh, if i know where i lost my matric card, it wouldn’t be lost what!!

so i stifled my laughter and told her i didn’t know. then she asked a slightly more intelligent question, “when did you lose it?” by then i seriously couldn’t figure out if she was asking for the sake of making conversation or was she really so erm, dumb. anyway i walked out of the office alive after being told i can pick up the replacement card after 7 working days.

incident 3:

was having dinner with wenwen at the recently-renovated delifrance. nowadays they very high class, they don’t call themselves delifrance anymore. they’re bistro delifrance. i didn’t even notice it until wenwen pointed it out to me. in fact i walked past the back last week after a movie (dunno why jurong point always make movie-watchers go out of jurong point, to the back and walk back into the place after movies) and commented that it was a nice place without realising it was delifrance.

after ordering from the brand new menu we helped ourselves to the free flow bread (which turned out stone-hard) and sat down at our table. then wenwen was looking around for the cutlery when she realised there was this waitress painstakingly counting the cutlery and checking what we needed against our orders. she ended up giving us a spoon, three forks and two knives. i had no idea where the extra fork comes into place. so we decided the manpower they had must have come over from their next-door neighbout, pizza hut. go figure.

incident 4:

ok, this isn’t as weird. it’s just plain commercialism. you know this extra thingy that comes with the straits times from tuesdays to thursdays? yesterday i was flipping through it, the mind and body issue. then there was this page:

wah lau, kfc is a better choice leh!! they blatantly stated it was “better-for-you series : brought to you by kfc” and according to the article, chicken is rich in niacin, which “gives a buffer to Alzheimer’s disease”.

don’t wanna get Alzheimer’s then must eat kfc ah!! Alzheimer’s better than heart disease and obesity mah!! recommended in the mind and body issue leh! mational newspaper leh!!

*lesson learnt: don’t trust any of these recommendations from straits times. they receive ad money too.

mayday should be performing at marina south now. was considering attending the event despite the fact that there will probably be a lot of siao-on- singapore people around the place. but then i haven’t caught their live performance for two years already. kept thinking about this possibility, and was even willing to sacrifice some naptime and worktime, willing to travel all the way to and fro half the island on the *bleah* public transport.

kept thinking about it for the whole of yesterday morning.

until fengyi called during lunch.

told her i was thinking of going. then she said, “you very free ah? no readings to do izzit?!”

ok lor, don’t go then don’t go lor.

can’t study anyway. promised myself i’ll start studying at 8pm cos i had 4.5 hours of tuition classes today. then i kana headache at 8.05pm.

sigh.

managed to catch charlie and the chocolate factory today at the unearthly hour of 1030am. i have to say the movie is damn bloody good it’s worth every cent of the $8.00, which means a lot to someone who’s very broke. i’m already suffering from withdrawal symptoms!

and during the movie, i found my new crush.

presenting to you……..

no, not mr willy wonka, but JOHNNY DEPP!!

god, this guy is a genius, a natural talent in acting!!! he managed to portray the spirit of willy wonka so well. i can’t remember the details in the roald dahl book, but in this movie willy wonka is supposed to be an eccentric outcast with weird thoughts and an awkard nature. johnny depp perfectly portrayed these, in those facial expressions, body language and gestures that suggests mr wonka’s awkardness when interacting with typical people. this very much misunderstood mr wonka’s humanity when with the oompa-loompas (not all humans deserve humanity eh?) and the emotions he had during his flashbacks, his fascination with candy and the mild soft spot he had for charlie was like, awwwwww……

man, i’m seriously falling in love with johnny depp. i’m just so fascinated by him.

to digress a little, my new crush johnny depp has this amazing *ahem track record:

• Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the “100 Sexiest Stars in Film History” (#1). [1995]
• Ranked #67 in Empire (UK) magazine’s The Top-100 Movie Stars of All Time list. [October 1997]
• Chosen by People (USA) Magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1996]
• Voted Empires’s (UK) Sexiest Male Movie Star of All Time. [1995]
• Named one of E!’s Top 20 Entertainers of 2001.
• Chosen #2 on E!’s 25 sexiest entertainers list
• Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2001
• Chosen #2 on E!’s 25 sexiest entertainers list
• Was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2001.
• Was People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 2003.
• Chosen as E!’s 2003 Entertainer of the Year.
• Was ranked #5 on VH1’s 100 Hottest Hotties.
• Loves watching animated films with his daughter such as Shrek and Finding Nemo. (me too! me too!!)
• He was voted the 47th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine.

ok, back to the movie.

gotta say this tim burton guy stands out from the typical movie director too. the manner he executed the story was like, wow! i was quite amused by the part when the five ticket holders stepped into the factory and were treated to the puppet show, where the puppets ended up burnt and melted, complete with eyeballs popping out of their sockets. kinda gross and morbid considering this is supposed to be a kiddy show, but then it’s supposedly typical of him to include some dark humour. it also reminded us that not everything is sugar and spice in this world, i guess.

lots of creativity and fantasy in the movie, with the dragon boat on the chocolate river, the chocolatey waterfall, the pink sheep meant for cotton candy, the television-chocolate idea (the tidbit warning kids not to watch too much tv was a bonus concept) and the dance performances (ranging from the erm hip-hop?, rock concert, bollywood, etc) by the oompa-loompas were real cool.

ultra-nice movie, no kidding. i’m considering watching the movie a second time, it’s just so good! any takers?

MY JOHNNY DEPP

the funny little oompa-loompas who fed on disgusting green caterpillars and red beetles before they met mr wonka. recruited into mr wonka’s factory so they could get all the cocoa beans they wanted. lots of bollywood style dancing by them, haha.

*damn it, it’s already 6.10pm. i really intended to do some work today. but then a movie, lunch, shopping and coffee really has disastrous effects on my plans.

finally met up with the gals, though i was grossly late. thanks to the afternoon nap (kx said itz not classified as an afternoon nap cos it was 3 hrs long) i woke up late and realised i had to finish some stuff before going out. so i ended up after 8pm despite rushing down in a cab.

have to say that the service at sushi tei is quite atrocious. there were about 10 people at our table, which isn’t that many. yet we had to pass the food around ourselves from one end to the other several times. and the waitresses and waiters were hanging out too much in the shop, kind of neglecting us poor folks beyond the glass walls.

but it was nice meeting up with them since i haven’t met them for dinosaur years. tracy’s voice is still as *ahem* squeaky and she’s still as erm, tracy. yunqi has long hair!!! but less gestures liao leh. i haven’t seen rebecca so stressed up before. i empathise with all my accounting friends. domina still the cool kind. haha. diana like quite quiet diana. lynette still funny and nice lynette. herlina very funky now, she goes clubbing. lol. wenwen and i sat there laughing at their stunts and absorbing all the freshest news. nice.

hee, i’m now looking forward to seeing them again next monday at domina’s place!

*psst tracy! i really really really like the beaded thing you got for me! most probably i’ll use it as a belt cos i don’t think i’ll carry it off well enough if i use it as a choker-necklace thingy. but it’s something i’ve been eyeing but not having enough guts to wear! thanks a lot!!*

itz kinda late at night considering i have a tuition class at 9am tomorrow and that i require a hell lot of sleep everyday. but i just don’t feel like sleeping leh. a bit grumpy, a bit neglected, a bit bored, a bit stressed, a bit pissed.

a bit grumpy and pissed cos today wasn’t the best school day i’ve ever had.

a bit neglected cos nobody i wanna talk to is online to talk to me.

a bit bored cos there’s really nothing else to do unless i wanna do schoolwork. don’t wanna waste my free time doing work lah.

a bit stressed cos i have deadlines marked all over my diary. all over. i’m dead meat this semester. will be stuck between hamburger buns and lettuce and tomatoes and pickles and cheese very soon.

21 years old and i’m already feeling so down frequently. die lah, if i ever reach my twilight years i’ll be spending every moment whining.

must get a life. like meeting up with tracy and gang tomorrow, a wednesday night? haven’t seen them since erm, graduation? that’s like 2.5 years. haven’t been to holland v for dinosaur years too. must add that i feel a bit apprehensive too.

gosh.

human emotions are sure complicated. those people taking pyschology siao one.