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i feel so much like a genius now that i’ve figured out, all by myself, how to create animated gif images. hehehe.

now, please excuse me while i go set up a shrine to worship myself.

when i was in secondary school i was at a classmate’s condo for a class gathering. i didn’t like the place, but i didn’t know why. there was something about it that made me feel weird in the condo. no, this isn’t a spooky story, despite the heavy rain, lightning and thunder while i’m typing this.

i went to a new tuition kid’s condo yesterday and i finall figured out why.

it’s because living in these new condos felt so artificial and cut-off from the real world. with the surrounding walls, 24-hr security guards, swimming pools and changing rooms, carefully-manicured landscaping, etc etc etc. it all felt so unreal.

theoretically all those condo residents can live a life of their own in there without interacting with the whole of population. they have groceries stores there, neighbours to chat with (provided they interact, in the first place), entertainment, etc.

what makes them so exclusive?

being able to fork out a lot more than 80% of the population who live in the “heartlands”. (man, i seriously detest the use of the word “heartlands”. hdb estate then just say hdb estate lah! it’s a lot more closer to the heart lor.) to me those condo ads are forever selling to young families of four or married couples with no kids, portraying the “ideal” lifestyle. nice cars, happy families, great environment, good location, etc. etc. of course this is what any real estate ad would do, even hdb does that to their ads. but somehow even the models in the condo ads seem unreachable. they seem to have an aura around them, declaring “i am superior!” to the rest of the world.

somehow i feel that if i were a kid growing up in a condo, i’d hate the place to bits, cos it’s so freaking unreal, neat and tidy. like a game of the sims.

p.s: i’m beginning to miss my brownish hair. maybe it’s time to add some colours again.

i went for my haircut today, to lighten my head and so that i can style my hair a little.

so my hair stylist was asking me about my bro and sister, who are his customers too. so he asked, “what’s your brother’s name again?”

i told him, and he exclaimed, “oh! he messaged me just now! he coming for haircut also!”

indeed, i met my brother after my haircut.

it was such a strange feeling.

followed my parents to visit a taoist medium, since i’m rather curious and intrigued by these religious stuff. to me they’re a colourful and rich part of the chinese culture. it was interesting and yah, i believe in stuff like taoist mediums too. this taoist medium very popular one, must arrange for appointments and there’s a number system. and what was more amusing was that along the same street, there was a mixture of catholic associations, buddhist temples and taoist temples. the beauty of a cosmopolitan city.

supper at geylang is always good, by the way.

i remember not too long ago i was complaining that the weather was too cold and that it made me shiver after my shower. then soon after that i complained that the changing weather irritated me cos it had me roasted. now the cool breezy monsoon season is back.

man, time sure passes fast enough.

there’s people out there looking out for cny clothes already. less than two months! gosh, i’m still unemployed and cash-less and the cny shopping season is gonna hit me before i know it!!

ugh.

is the earth spinning faster on its axis than it did in the past? i remembered whining that time was passing too slowly in primary school and secondary school. suddenly everything just whizzed past after that stage.

there’s too many things to do in too little time. someone make time go slower.

p.s: david tao concert is taking place now. i AM grouchy.

my dad made me move all the spare tiles from the back yard to the balcony outside his room on the 2.5th floor.

approx. 60++ tiles, moved in batches of 4 to 5 tiles. up and down the stairs.

my mum expects me to mop the floor later. yeah right.

it is a hell lot of work, for someone who hasn’t exercised for eons. lucky i didn’t say yes to pupu’s gym invite. with such parents, who needs to go to the gym for a workout?

i finally got my ass moving and cleared the mess in my room.now it’s sparkling clean! i even koped the carpet foam cleaner from my dad’s car-cleaning-section in the cupboards and brushed the filthy carpet, that is, after a round of vacuuming. now my room smells of artificial lemon, the kind you smell after you clean your car’s interiors.

wheeheeeheee! i feel healthier, like i’m breathing less dust than before.

oh, i’ve got speakers for my computer now! finally! ha, now i don’t feel like turning off the computer, i just wanna listen to all the songs.

such a happy family.

second new look in a day.

it’s better than the previous one, but not great. but i do like jimmy liao. and i certainly hope i’m not infringing copyrights over here.

did i mention i hate flying cockroaches to the core?

uh oh, i think my aussie bro is coming back this week. woah, i gotta get used to having the whole family at home again, not that he’s at home often.

by the way, i found my warranty card! and it’s only day 2 of the hunt! i’m so proud of myself.

my dad’s car just sputtered. for three consecutive days. lol.

everyone meet my bestest buddee weiwei! wenwen is always disappearing so she’s not in the picture.

these are the buddees whom i got to knew in jc and regretted for the rest of my life cos they taught me how to zao school, they influenced me to become so weird and crazy and i appeared like a freak among normal nbs people. but they’re the ones who entered ntu along with me (phew, at least i have some friends) and speak to me in english in the chinese-speaking ntu. they’re the ones that always laugh at me, my height, my screeches, my fetish for mayday, everything lah. they’re the ones who always meet up for dinner and movies, at where else, jurong point. and usually the furthest? kenny rogers at suntec. they’re the ones who laugh at me when they see me in formal business attire, skirts or anything else other than stupid t-shirts and jeans. then they whine that i wear nice clothes when i go out with other people and that i wear maid clothes when with them. and they complain that i don’t post pictures when we seldom take pictures cos we meet up once in a blue moon!

and we’re always wanting to ask shasha along, but she’s always mia! why why why??

so to prove my sincerity and to shut the weiwei up, i’ve got to put this up! the only picture we’ve taken together this year! and there’s no wenwen in it!

and there’s a calefare next to my head!

went down to marina yesterday and was walking by the wet makeshift corridors which look out to the city skyline. and i saw mist! in singapore! how cool is that! lots and lots of it!

i’ve checked out the samsung store, and the man there said i could get my kepad replaced at no cost, if i can dig out the warranty, which covers my phone for one year. i suppose the warranty will expire early january. and a new keypad would probably save my phone and be a more wallet-friendly option given the fact that i’m unemployed for the next one and a half months.

but, where to find it?!?!?!?!?

my room only has this much storage space and i think i’ve combed through all the possible places. one month left for me to track it down. the samsung man said the receipt proving the date of purchase would be helpful too, but that’s not any better.

i hope i dream of the warranty card’s hiding place tonight.

sweet dreams.

wahaha to all the nus and smu people TRALALA!! my exams are over!!!

hehe!! i’ve been sleeping and sleeping. eating and sleeping. eating. sleeping. sleeping. i got my mayday 2006 calendar and book!! i think i’m regretting buying the book a little cos itz quite thick. flooded with trad chinese words. basket, i wonder how much time i gotta spend to finish it.

pictures taken on friday, end-of-exams-celebrations-cum-shiya’s-birthday-dinner at marina.

dinner at vien tai, table no. 4.

they blu-tacked their table number to stop the likes of me from moving it around.

the birthday girl.

shiya and yaoquan.

fengyi and her bowl of food.

the soft shelled crabs which were lao-hong.

shiya’s green laksa.

my pineapple laksa, which tasted very much like curry.

tofu, with the rice-thingy coating over it.

kexin and her viet char kway teow.

kx and fengyi.

kx and me.

again.

fengyi and shiya.

full set here: http://beta.propichosting.com/Album.aspx?folder=450006484

we watched harry potter too. i hate the marina cinema cos it’s too damn big and it was CROWDED. almost filled i think. and the carpeted steps to the exit were so small and my sandals’ soles were a little worn, so i slid down a few steps like what jackie chan would do. lucky i didn’t fall, so not too unglam yet.

knowing that there’s some “undesirable” people reading my blog (i have a tracker, remember?) meaning those whom are not my friends and yet know me, i am being driven to writing down some stuff on my organiser. it’s therapetic, having a channel to vent my frustrations and air my thoughts. at the same time, i worry about my family or friends flipping through my organiser out of curiosity. but i’m writing in my organiser with increasing frequency. maybe that’s why my blog entries are getting more and more monotonous and full of daily stuff. bah.

anyway i like the way my organiser looks when it is filled. and i do like to write down my deepest thoughts, instead of just typing.

found some random pictures on the camera too.

here’s the one on chinatown a few weeks ago. was taking some random pictures cos the dim sum mates haven’t arrived. i liked the way there’s the lim chee guan and ronald macdonald in the picture. ironically, both have red and yellow in their corporate logos. chinatown’s an amazing mixture of old and new. an interesting mix of all characters, men and women, young and old, with different life purposes. and the way things remain the same, the way things change.

and this is taken for….erm i can’t remember why. but the colouring was done by yours truly!! eeyore’s colours appear uneven and faded cos of the lighting and reflection, not my skills. i used to print colouring pages to fill them in when i’m bored or stressed. but i haven’t been doing that for a long time, cos i don’t even have the mind power to concentrate and focus on colouring even if i’m stressed. but i still have a colouring book wenwen (or weiwei?) bought me and there’s still many pages to fill up! i can foresee myself doing colouring throughout the coming holidays.

speaking of which, i really want to return to the previous workplace to earn some pocket money for the next semester. but then i guess it’s kinda impoosible, since my fyp mates aren’t getting holiday jobs, which means we’ll be spending an obscene amount of time on the project. plus we really are short of time.

sigh.

i had a nice day again, sort of until it was spoilt by some ugly singaporean parents in the evening.

ha, i moved my butt down to chinatown and got the music video album. lucky i got there this afternoon, cos the supplies really was running low. i picked up the dvd version and wanted to get it (the friendly uncle said, “take lor, it’s the last copy le”), then decided to take the vcd version since it was cheaper by a few bucks. the second i started watching, i regretted not getting the dvd. there IS a difference between dvd and vcd quality.

then on an impulse i decided to go watch oliver twist. and went to the jurong east library while waiting for the movie. once i entered i saw a few exhibits on animation by local art students. i haven’t browsed for more than 2 minutes before this young lady came up and asked me for an interview. i was like “erm, i know nuts about animation”. but she said it was ok, so ok lor. and she asked me questions i could better answer if i had seen all the exhibits. so i gave her answers which were nice but any nut would know i know nuts about animation. put a lime in the coke, you nut

had a great time there, picked up two books. went for the movie. disaster struck. just before the real movie (end of advertisements and the scrawny boy chick grooving) started, a family of four or five came in. parents and girls. damn. i was hoping a weekday would be good for a no-kids movie, and it was at jurong east entertainment centre some more. this kind of place also got people want to go meh? twenty minutes into the movie the girls went to the toilet excitedly, though relatively quietly. their mum starting explaining bits of the movie at a volume which could be heard two rows away.

then. the kids started kicking the chairs. and visited the toilet for at least four times more. and ran up and down the steps, not even because they wanted to go to the toilet. the mum started talking on the phone loudly for a very long time. i got so irritated i shhh-ed her, it’s my first time getting so freaking irritated i shh people. she hung up soon after and began talking to her husband. about domestic affairs. at a volume probably the whole cinema could hear, since the place was so bloody small. uggggggggggggggggghhhhhhh. not to mention throughout the movie they kept talking about it, like “yi nang beh chua yi ki te lo?” (where are they brining oliver to? in hokkien) and stuff like that.

tamade! i hate it when people disturb me when i’m doing something i like. like enjoying a movie. knn. they totally spoilt the movie. and i was enjoying my personal space today like nobody’s business. i got so pissed i really wanted to leave the theatre, but then i looked at my watch and decided not to since there was only half an hour of the movie left. cannot stand this kind of parents. their kids weren’t even interested in the movie then why the heck did they bring those monkeys there? to explore the toilets?!

anyway a whiff of some familiar air made me happier. started reading a chapter on the book about absolut vodka on the way back, and it blasted my mind.

now that my brains are fried and i’ve more or less enjoyed the day with lots of my own space, i think i’m ready to hit the books again. yah, when wenwen has ended her exams, and weiwei will…erm not supposed to mention.

wah liao.

i just found out that rock records has intelligently allowed exclusive distribution of a mayday music video album (limited edition some more, i think) to a chinatown cd shop - visma. not that i have anything against them, in fact, i’ll probably buy all my albums from them if not for the frequency i visit chinatown. they’ve got terrific service from all the friendly uncles and aunties in the store, staff who know about everything you want to ask (although i’ve only asked them a few tricky questions on mayday albums), an amazing collection of albums dating back to dinosaur age and one of the best prices on the island.

problem is, all my marketing tutors said that the right product has to be sold to the right people at the right place at the right time at the right price. well, all of the factors are there - except location. chinatown leh! where got people frequent chinatown like they frequent orchard or bugis or jurong point or tampines mall etc etc etc. yah lah, this chinatown store is visited by tonnes of mayday fans, but then can’t they be more friendly to the masses?

wah liao, i just visited chinatown for dim sum a few weeks ago, now i got to make a trip down again. just for the damn album. exams period leh!

ugh, this kind of things irritate me to the core. got to spare some time from my one week study slot to go down and get it. the time factor isn’t the worst, it’s that consumers like me are extremely lazy and hate to take public transport when going out, whether it’s to jurong east or changi.

lucky shit for the record company it’s mayday we’re talking about here, otherwise i won’t even consider buying it.

last thing: there better be stock when i get down there. or i’m gonna be an incredibly irritated and whiny consumer.

i had a traumatic day.

had to take the bm 321 paper today - a marketing elective paper, so it wasn’t that bad studying for it.

in fact i had lots of time to prepare myself for the paper and took my time. after lunch at 1.10pm, i saw fengyi’s message telling me she was in school already and as usual i thought i was right. so i wondered why she was one hour early today. for some unknown reason i took out my organiser and realised that the paper was at 1.30pm, not the 2.30pm i thought i saw.

i don’t think i was ever faster in changing and getting out of the house. i didn’t even comb my hair or close the windows in my room. still had to pretend to be calm and that nothing strange was going on when fengyi called me when she realised my mistake. i was still at home and if my parents knew i got the exam timings wrong i’ll never hear the end of it.

and i even ran to the main road to hail a cab. after dunno how many million days of not running. the taxi uncle was above 60 i think, driving at a leisurely pace and i didn’t have the heart to tell him to speed up. he even asked me where was nanyang crescent and nanyang drive.

thank god i live freaking near the school. managed to sit down and dry my pespiration before the paper started.

that was not all.

i was happily doing the paper and wasn’t too disturbed by my latecoming, and i stupidly miscalculated the time again. for the third time in two and a half years worth of exams. paper started at 1.30pm, was supposed to last for two hours, and i gleefully told myself it ended at 4pm. so i realised i had 15 mins left when they announced it at 3.15pm.

i’m still traumatised.

the bloody wisdom tooth is emerging, like the lousy dentist i visited many months ago had told me.

my gums are swollen.

bloody hell.

i hope my mouth is big enough so there’s enough space for it to grow healthily. i wouldn’t want it messing up my teeth. my neat set of teeth worth $4, 000 - according to some people out there who had braces done with a near-lifetime set of retainers. haha.

it’s starting! it’s starting!!

the season of exams has started!! and to mark the occasion i have two giant pimples!!

basket.

shall keep my fingers crossed, for this hasn’t been a conducive week for studying, thanks to my parents’ weird system of priority: food and socialization before exams.

now i am screwed.