email

Out of nowhere, XXXXX email me this just bcoz a blur queen email him instead of me regarding some sch stuff, which i had emailed to the whole class. I was doing them a favour.

Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2008 2:09:43
Subject: RE: FM Text - Urgent!

Jacqueline

Please go handle this thing yourself! Please reply to those who are interested.

Regards,
XXXXX

wahtever he meant, So freaking rude! If he thought I would just accept this silently, he is so wrong. After kpkb-ing to many ppl, i was finally calmed down around evening time to reply.

XXXXX,

Thanks for taking the trouble to forward those emails though I'm rather appalled by your choice of words & punctuation mark.
It doesn't reflect very well on you really and I'm rather surprised that you actually cc everyone this.
People do get confused sometimes, you have to be a bit more forgiving than this.
You also have to understand that it is beyond my control to whether they click "reply all" or "reply GLENN".
Regrettably, this mail will take up some capacity of your inbox.

PS: I cc everyne this cos' I believe they need and will be interested to know the class rep's fastidious email preference.

To everyone else:

Hi all! Please check your 'send to' list carefully next time. Thank you very much. =)
Refrain from emailing irrelevant stuff to Glenn, unless otherwise absolutely necessary. He seems to get pretty upset over it.

Best regards,

Jacq (",)

His reply:

Jac
Whatever that please you, i have no comment. Great choice of words and nice font size you using. I could not have done better.

Regards
XXXXX
sent from mobile device

Seriously, I didn't expect him to reply. Didn't he just commented?! haha!
What was interesting was the replies from other ppl who sense the 'fire' from our exchange, as they were all CC. A few (girls) sms me before i replied which more or less summed up to - "wahlau Jacq, u saw tt email?! Shoot him back"

A few others (guys) replied after my reply, " Relax. Maybe some misunderstanding. we going to be classmates for 2yrs. never mind lah"

Seems like some gender war. As trival as this seems to be now, it was a different story at that moment in time.

1stly, I aldy buay-song with him for quite some time. His overly high profileness which he eagerly seeks and the way he kept disrupting the lesson momentum, I tolerated. I had actually shunned him to avoid direct conflict.
(What must happen, will happen i guess. at least in a milder form)

2ndly, it was only ONE mis-mailed. Must he get so worked up?! He sounded like the whole world owes him or I've been burdening him. hello, even my bosses (past & present) don't snap at me like that.

3rdly, he abused his position as a class rep to flood everyone's email with irrelevant stuff, which he tot was a friendly gesture. Nobody complain.

I believe he has the capability to express his thoughts in a nicer manner, if not he badly need to attend some email writing etiquette class.

he thought that was worse, my 1st draft was even more nasty & i can go on & on. Words like dumbass, harebrained, wimp, loser & !@#$% kept flashing in my mind.

N remarked that 你很厉害leh，他1句，你顶这么多！I find it quite hilarious after that actually.

Lesson learnt: 老虎不发威，你当我是病猫！ I kept quiet in class doesn't mean I'm mute, ok!

Like every other, there's always both sides to a story. I don't denied that I acted upon the situation on impulse & very subjectively, but i felt that something has to be done to set the record straight. Stubborn, some may called this. I regard this as an femininity element from IJ times. U never know, Mag Low & Jo Teo might be proud of this. Haha!

postscript: I didn't really take this to heart after venting out, as usual, write & forget.
He, on the other hand, was so childish that he actually sms my sitting partner when we were in the same classroom, 1 table apart. Goodness lor... he is ard 30yrs.

It is my character flaw that I do not hesitate when it comes to any social sucide. Nothing to lose, nothing to gain, i think. You either hate me or love me =p

白老师

[warning... very long entry, read only when u're bored like when i wrote this =p]

I find this conv btwn couz & me quite interesting . She is chinese teacher...

JacQ says:
ask u something. how to 敷衍了事 in formal letter
白老师@Maris says:
depends on what is it that U want to 敷衍了事
白老师@Maris says:
what is it about?
JacQ says:
anyway someone suggest i was trying to 敷衍了事
JacQ says:
by throwing a 72pg doc to her w/o explanation
JacQ says:
in fact any old bird will understand what to do
JacQ says:
she tot I was throwing the ball ard n trying to blame her for the bottleneck
白老师@Maris says:
U refering to school report or to your boss?
白老师@Maris says:
who is "she"?
JacQ says:
customer side exec
白老师@Maris says:
hmm...
白老师@Maris says:
U need to get it done now?
JacQ says:
nope
JacQ says:
i a bit buay song.. so tot need ur help in the sarcasm part..
JacQ says:
ar
白老师@Maris says:
wahaha
白老师@Maris says:
1st, i need to know what is gg on
白老师@Maris says:
i might be able to leave sch early tdy
白老师@Maris says:
if u want
白老师@Maris says:
i can call u later
白老师@Maris says:
or u email me to gimme more details
JacQ says:
.. no need so kua zhang lah
JacQ says:
just a line to shoot her
JacQ says:
think she be speechless
cannot offend them as they r the customer
JacQ says:
mindef ppl..
白老师@Maris says:
but what exactly happened?
白老师@Maris says:
what constitutes that 72page doc?
白老师@Maris says:
and what went wrong?
白老师@Maris says:
what are U supposed to do now?
JacQ says:
blah blah blah... (not impt details)
JacQ says:
which is quite wrong lah
JacQ says:
but she dun have to insinuate tt we were trying to shift responibilities
JacQ says:
ing we r pointing finger at them when we r in the wrong
JacQ says:
i thnk she got put off by the 72pages..ignore then now panic cos FY ending
JacQ says:
must clear the
JacQ says:
so i need a bombastic one liner to shoot her
白老师@Maris says:
1 liner?
白老师@Maris says:
erm
白老师@Maris says:
i'm the long-winded type leh
白老师@Maris says:
must give her a piece of my mind & flood her with my saliva
白老师@Maris says:
if i were u
白老师@Maris says:
but 1st of all
白老师@Maris says:
are u gg 2 give in to what they want?
白老师@Maris says:
as in replace the "wrong" order or smthg?
JacQ says:
no lah.. they order wrongly. just telling them if they want tt component they got to re-order
白老师@Maris says:
ok
白老师@Maris says:
since that's the case
白老师@Maris says:
did u submit a soft copy or hard copy of the report?
JacQ says:
soft
白老师@Maris says:
what i would do it is
白老师@Maris says:
i will highlight the part in the report
白老师@Maris says:
from the email that was sent out to them
白老师@Maris says:
reply from that particular email
白老师@Maris says:
and shoot:
白老师@Maris says:
Dear XXX,
白老师@Maris says:
As per our phone conversation
白老师@Maris says:
Pls refer to the XX report sent on (date)
白老师@Maris says:
Page XX
白老师@Maris says:
Section XX
白老师@Maris says:
Line XX
白老师@Maris says:
(in highlight)
白老师@Maris says:
The report/document clearly indicates that your order as being 'f' instead of 'e'
白老师@Maris says:
as such, we have sent of the order as per quotation/order request (or whatever terminology that you use)
白老师@Maris says:
in the event that you would like to replace the component for 'f'
白老师@Maris says:
kindly resend a quotation order form
白老师@Maris says:
best regards,
白老师@Maris says:
How is that?
JacQ says:
how to put in the part im not 敷衍了事 in the first palce
白老师@Maris says:
did she imply over the fone that U 敷衍了事?
白老师@Maris says:
given that this is a formal letter there's no need to get personal or emotional
白老师@Maris says:
pointing fingers here and there
白老师@Maris says:
U have produced black & white evidence
白老师@Maris says:
she cannot argue
白老师@Maris says:
yeh?
JacQ says:
guess she uses phone so it will be off record
JacQ says:
darn
JacQ says:
okie thanks a lot!

See how systematic & thorough she is & how she ended up solving my qn without answering it & indirectly did my work.

See... i think the formal KPKB letter writing skills resides in the genes... she is the pro though.. Hahaha!

Hyped...

There has been too much going-ons recently... so much tt i can't focus.
(i reached office at 930am today, bad headache kept me awake till wee hrs last night)

Probably the lack of discipline and/or determination, my mind is utterly in confusion now.

Qi pens her/our excitement clearly and interestingly.

As for me, it was a moment of outsourcing, then P&G's resource & capability, then panicking on FM then sudden realisation ACG is still untouch with random flashes of Harry Potter scenes in my mind (Darn... I'm a late bloomer, yah. I watch Titantic 3yrs after the jack & rose fever) while drifiting away to sequencing the layout for the house.

As mentioned, I'm so screwed this sem!!!

Saw this extremely spolit & RUDE girl. About 7-8yrs, dress in ah-lian pink & accompanied by her mum i suppose (ah-soh in her 40s) & another sister in the MRT last night . She was whining the moment she entered in Novena station, grumbling to her mother.

girl: 我要坐！我要坐！我很累！
the mother: 跟那些人说， 叫他们给你坐！
[i was aldy rolling my eyes at this point. 给你坐?! 你老几?]
girl (pointing to an old hunching uncle): 他, 可以吗？
the mother: 不可以！他是老uncle
girl (turned to the lady beside & with fingers stretched outright at her): 你！给我做！

the lady just glared at her and promptly ignored her request, i would have do the same.
There were abt 8ppl who alighted at the next stop but no one wanted to stand up till the train reached, very obvious what was in their mind.

I havent got a chance to tell min this. If she behaves like tt, i probably turn her upside down n whacked. There's this yet another spoilt brat girl in one of the CH8 drama serials. I warned min of she dared to be so rude, in fact she is getting very bo tua bo shuy recently, she will get it from me. She reacts very adversly to cane/scratcher & pep-talk requires certain skills to make it not like nagging.
I can't believe this ok... rebellious stage at 9yrs?! i was still tuk tuk stupid stupid, reading Famous Five, struggling with spectacles when i was 9yrs ok!

At least, can still threaten her with swimming lessons as a last resort.
(Shit! sounds like Bree van de Kamp in Desperate Housewives)

Ok.. gotta stop. Not going to turn this entry into some parental column.

Sidetrack: I finally found the answer to my weird personality. I've prolonged/extended PMS!!!
That explains why i'm always so touchy, only showing tolerance to people whom I think deserved it.
Mood swings is one of the symptons also, easily sulky easily turned light hearted.

I was quite happy when i managed to find a shop selling good quality sandwich, with lots of veges & tasty ingredients for $2/-
There r many bakeries selling those pathetic sandwich with miserable amount of tuna & planta butter for $1.50 which I kinda mad about.

I going back again for sure =)

Mugging...

I spend close to 8hrs in front of the PC ytd, with the ocassion drifiting out.

Managed to complete 3 econs essay.. which i tot was quite a feat.
Could have done more but i spend my entire saturday reading harry potter... heee

as compared to last sem or even last year itself.. i'm actually quite late in starting revison

O well... not excuses but i simple have no mood to activate my gear after those sloppy lectures, xmas, nye, bday, cny & mc...

This sem:
Focus on MMS & EI cos there's no re-module.
Moderate focus on ACG
Try to do something about understanding FM... this is sucky.
I just have no chemistry with Finance stuff. Kill me...

Can't wait for 1st Apr to come (last paper)

Boo

Ok... pox life is officially over along with CNY. Nothing happening.

Work was breeze... wat was accumulated for 2 weeks was easily cleared in 2hrs, talk about efficiency... hah!

Sch was tough... getting panic. Felt so stress at econs class (1st day back)last night... i tot i will just drop dead there. Had to struggle home with those thick study guides... ( man.. regreted buying the TB. My impulse buying always turn out to be mistake.)

Train was filled with roses, bears, chocolates, PDA-ing couples who hogged the seats. duh...

I could do with extra time & probably another brain.

6 more weeks to this disastrous mth.

20 more mths to this disgusting cycle.

Look forward to next fri where suaku lim is taking her virgin trip to vivocity after talking for 16mths.

Water

No matter how busy one is, always remember to drink lotsa water!!!
My failure to do that last weekend trigger the 'heatiness' to the extreme.

After 3 days of fever & pain, finally i can talk like a normal person.

Last few days was insane. Bulk of the pox was on my scalp & face (horrendous!!!) It was swelling so badly that i couldn't even blink my eyes w/o feeling pain. haizzz...
Still feverish.. (which is common).. right eyes redish (i dunno why) but most of the milder pox have subsided, mainly n hands and arms.

But hor, those serious one are those on strategic areas like wrist lah, around the bra strap area (keep pressing on it), lips lah (cant even eat properly) & the nose!!! (i cant even clear the insides, sux)

Since it is 'heatiness', mum has been making me drinks to 'cool down' like white chrysenthemum & corn water (yes, water not soup. is corn & outer leaves boil in water)

But hor, because my body is very 'yin' itself, all this cooling drink is giving me a sore throat right now. haiz... stupid body.

I've accidentedly poke 3 pox on my face.. dunno will leave scars or not. I've plastered my face with Hazeline Snow Cream... hope it can help.

Ok.. back to mugging. I tot i better clear the finished modules 1st then settle the new ones. This sem is really 靠自己！ I need to make a trip to bras basah when i've recover, hope it's not too late.
All the textbooks are in LCK library ref side, sickening!!!

This is not a good start to new year... hopefully is just the end.

Sidenote: Jun dear, thanks for picking my text! =)

Varicella Virus

Great... at age 23yrs 14 days, i got myself into this. Feel embarrassed even by mere mention.

The varicella virus is an enveloped, double-stranded DNA virus. It attaches to the wall of the cell it invades, and then enters the cell. The virus uncoats and is transported to the nucleus where the viral DNA replicates creating new virions that are eventually released from the cell to infect other cells. it is a highly contagious viral infection.

Got a 2 weeks MC, get mixed reaction.

Boss is very seh cos no 1 station in office. Mum is happy cos she got helper at home.

I is happy no need to work but not happy cos i cant go to school.

They dun have video lecture for part timers... this is very frustrating. Gonna email the coordinator... bleh.

No need to check search engine lah... it is chicken pox lah. =_='''

Reply to sq47

Wanted to tag back but got a bit fed up with the words limit. ( i got issues with too many short forms in a sentence)

I read my entry after seeing what u've tagged. I usually don't read what I've posted cos it'll be like checking homework after completion like that.

to Minmin: In case you are reading this, you HAVE to check all your school work when you have finished
(o yes, my 9 yr old sister reads our blogs and translates it to our mum, reason for the asterisks)

I didn't realise it was quite a long entry, haha!

I take that as a complement since BM is my blogosphere idol. hee =)

Ting: your one sentence triggers such ''intellectual'' thoughts out from me leh, haha!

Slacker than life...

It's Martin Luther King's Day. Dunno what is that, just that is a USA PH and I'm once again, slacking at work.


Ting was saying how she realised much time was lost due to poor planning after CV writing.


It leads me to some pondering while i was shiting (hah!)


How much time i've wasted and am wasting now...


Headhunter lecturer once said that for local uni grads, companies will see their results & how they carry themselves during interviews, professional experiences are not expected since, after all they study full time.

Whereas for part-timers like us, a degree is only to place us on equal playing field. If we r expecting to get a better job after the course, we r being too idealistic. In the end, it's the RELATED (i.e)working experiences that score high for us.

Half the class, including me, murmured a "O shit!".


Looking back at myself, ( i know we can't turn back time but still..)


I spent 8 months landing myself into one deep shit, 18mths wallowing in self denial, 20mths hiding in aquarium while getting paid and having intellectual deterioration at the same time.
as such, it doesn't really value add much.

Interest in sch has faded to a large extent this sem in the midst of the ongoing festivals and so is the confidence to score.

Am i being positively negative or negatively positive? Shrugzzz

Had plenty of plans in my mind which are basically as good as daydreams as long as there r not executions. Surf the career portals once in a while when im having withdrawal symptons. Jobs available are either too difficult for me or I'm too difficult for them, which leads me to contemplate escape elsewhere on earth that is even harder given my pathetic qualifications.

Things get so depressing sometimes that I wished i've went for nursing course instead. Hah!

Sometimes i hate what i have become - a frog-in-the-well kind of coward hiding in too much of a comfort zone, living life as it is, 得过且过，敷衍塞责，close to 吊儿郎当 even, shunning responsibilities, getting naggy (this cld be the onset of spinster-hood, haha!) and with personal goals of eat, shit, sleep and s** (I'm joking about this one, hah!)

Maybe that's the reason for escapade though everyone knows escaping is not the best route to solutions, but how many people really do what they say. Shrugzzz..

Don't worry, im not 胡思乱想-ing. This is a realistic self-reflection with no solution yet.
How come there isn't an "operating manual" accompanied with my birth, telling me what to do. It'll make things so much easier. I'm so screwed.

What to do, what to do?
Maybe i can start by being punctual to work again?! hurhur...

thinking of going Macau in april...no $$$

14th Jan

This day would have been entirely meaningless if not for these people

Not forgetting my cute sisters, mum & dad.

Thanks people!

Not forgetting couz S for the sms & OCBC ATM who wished me too when i drew $, Haha!

Met Jun at the bus stop just now.. who asked what did i do on my birthday.

- I pon work again (even ting knows i didn't go to work coz i wasn't online =p)

-Slept till 12noon

-Went to 'search' for min

-Do tutorials

-Experimenting my bday present... er.. No flair so need some time to get the hang of it. Hmm.. need to get styling gel/oil for this also.

-Went for lessons

= Peaceful but Utterly wasted day.

To think that last year i tot to myself i could do with a getaway on this day.. all ruined by the lessons. Haiz... as what couz S said, still got many more years to come.

=)

PS: Dunno why i cannot load the video. *shrugz*

Party!

Details as follows

Date: 13th Jan 08

Venue: Lim's Residence

Time: Dinner time.

Activity: Mahjong with Capital M(oney) !hah! (I'll do something to my pathetic mahjong table to make it presentable)

Dress Code: As casual as possible as I'm not dressing up. Polo Tee is allowed =)

Bring: Sufficient CASH ($$$) as Birthday Girl will be on LUCKY STREAK =)

Partner is not required as we got the numbers for mahjong. Hee =)

PS: We can open that sparkling Juice from 1st Jan & the volka i got from DFS =)

thank you belly muchie

That's how my cousin signed off in his email when he forward me his ROM photos.


It just strucked me I havent started on consolidating my taiwan trip photos, not to mention to even WRITE something on it?!!! Ops!


It's difficult to get stuck on a writing mood when there seems endless stuff to do.


Work 5 days a week with the 180mins bus ride

3 evenings for lessons a week

CNY in a mth's time. CNY is quite a huge affair in my house, though it has tone down a little over the years. Like the seventh mth, my folks will keep themselves busy with those hungry stomachs.

Anyway, before that we have Yours Truly 23rd 小寿.
It was decided moments earlier with Ting on Msn. I
just called Mum & she has the menu more or less figured out immediately. SuperB!

My Lady Boss also mentioned something about Japanese Restaurant but with DDK also who has the same birthday, unfortunately to me.

All this in the midst of 4 lessons on 10th, 11th, 14th & 15th.

After this, I'll try to get on with my photo blog. I promised.

Hello Moto!

Yesh! A new phone for new year. Motorola RAZR2 V9 in Mahogany =)

I'm havent been able to shift my ass to start on the Taiwan Trip entries. I see that Ting has started.

Too much things on my mind since the return, including the distractions from above.

Lessons, tutorials, work stuff, family events, etc... Simply no time. Plus I've yet to recover from the clubbing on Xmas in Taipei. Still feeling lethargic from that 1 night lack of sleep. Seriously cannot make it.

I'll try to get to this, at least with the photos i hope.

To end this year with a right note:

Hope 2007 has been GREAT for u all. Even if not, it's ok coz is gonna to be over in 5hrs time.

May 2008 be FANTASTICALLY TERRIFIC for all!!!

HAppY NeW YeaR!!!

Home =)

6 days, 5 cities, 4 hotels, 3 in a room, 2 luggages, 1 Taiwan

I'm back!

mobile no batt, camera no batt, person also no batt.

Will post travel entries soon once this crazy week is over.

Finally...

The long sought after holiday is finally realised!!!

Leaving for taiwan in 12hrs.

Will be back on Xmas.

Cheers =)

空

突然间，感觉有点莫名的空虚。

应该是最近看太多，听太多，知太多，想太多。。。

为什么我越不想让世人的定义主导我的生活，这种种却不停在我身边打转着，困扰我，混淆我

都不知道自己到底要的是什么。 本来不以为然，现在却有点紧张。

好累哟。。。

is a need or desperation? shrugz...

Nostalgic

It's the end of the year! A period of mixed happiness & faint nostalgia...

I think i've more or less achieved 60% of my new resolution, other than the work hard at work i think?! Hah!

Met up with the girls last thurs for Jun's b-day. What an 'accidental' evening! Gosh... wasted wine.
Anyway, it's been a while since we all gather & talk to our heart's content! Since mid-autumn i think.

It's amazing how the topic changes as years went by.

From gossips in schs, teachers & high profile kids to cute guys to hellish college life to clubbings, alcohol, kisses, sex to marriages, it's so freaking long ain't it?! Hah!
All there at every phase of life...
It's so incredulous to have a bunch of close friends & grow up together, seeing how one another
change over the years, a ear to listen and a voice to keep one on track although advices aren't heeded everytime. ( i'm guilty of that i know)

More laughter, more tears,
More reasons, more cheers,
More everything, in all the ways, you are

All of us are in such different stages of life right now and it's gonna be even diverted in future.
Yet i always said, We r stuck for life - for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us apart.
(sounds familar?! haha!)

Advanced Merry X'mas!

Countdown to Taiwan: 4 days!

Raining

It's been raining for the past week, monsoon i guess.

I've a love & hate affair with cold weather.

The cooling weather is nice to sleep, no sticky feeling from perspirations.

BUT I feel hungry all the time in times like this and headache from the struggle to stay awake. Damn!

Here i am in a air-conditioned office in a cool rainy afternoon alone, with a tinge of emptiness in my stomach!

Gosh... plus the pathetic lunch i had. Haizzzzz...

I've been having the same thing for lunch since last week - sticky brown rice porridge with some veges.

it taste not bad but if you eat it too frequently, it gets very bland and gross. Almost similar to the pathetic gruel hat Oilver Twist had, i think; only difference is this brown rice cos a freaking costs $4/kg. (FYI - normal white rice is around $1.20 - $2.oo per kg)

Thankfully, ever since Siti know that the brown rice expensive . She tot she is doing her boss a great favour by scrimping on my portion, from 5/6 of a tingkat to today's barely 1/3.

I should be grateful since i have less of grostesque food but I don't feel good having to starve like this. Sounds conflicitng i know.... haiz..

It's a totally different story at home.

Same thing, raining whole day but I get yummilicious food whole day long. O man... i'm getting homesick. Hah!

I got a new bolster recently, so nice to sleep.

One minus point is I can't wake up in time during weekdays!!!

Haha!

Countdown to Taiwan: 10 days =)

Be glad that I'm still here

Almost got knocked down by a car ytd, not once but twice.

The first occurence happen after work when i wanted to take 65 to Bras Basah to meet ''India Mama, A".
It was my fault lah. I cut at the front of a bus just as it was taking off.
Guess i was too sleepy n gong gong hence affect my 'jay-walk' judgement.
Got reprimand by the bus driver, no choice, it was indeed my fault. Almost got him into trouble.

At the moment, i didn't sense anything. It was when i sit down, think back before fear gripped me. Kinda freaked out. Wanted to tell somebody but dunno who to call, didn't want to explain also. Scary.

2nd time was on my way home. Was crossing the road near the petrol station when this Ah Sia Kid suddenly swerve in. I was only 5cm away. Any nearer, you wont see this entry today. He didn't honk me, so i assume he has a larger portion of fault. hah!

Anyway, met Alpa ytd at Bras Basah. Despite knowing tt i was within proximity to hard core town, i wore rugged jeans n polo tee, praying hard tt we wont walk to any atas area.

Unsurprisingly, she mentioned something like, "The next time we meet, NO polo tee please"

I replied, "U're not the 1st person who told me this, hah! I'm serious!"

During the 2hrs we met up, the topic keep evolving ard me even though i tried very hard to change subject. Basically, the gist is
- Don't be so reserved
- Go out more n make new friends
- Find a boyfriend
- Dress up n Be confident

She wasn't being bossy, purely being concern coz I've been single for as long as she knows me.

I told her i was waiting for men to drop from the sky but kanna shoot back.

" U must at least go out under the sky right? " Alamak

=_='''

I've encountering such topic recently. From relatives at family gathering, to friends & even the neighbourhood aunties of mum's network & even my lady boss. Haizzzz, oh my gosh!

Like how to tell them I'm not the picky one. I don't even have the options to choose in the first place! Hah!
For a moment, i almost tot being single is a freak. haha!

Seriously speaking, from what i've seen all these years.
I rather be alone than get myself into a full load of unnecessary/obligatory problems & troubles, espcially those resulted from desperate implusion..

Aiya, let nature take its course lah. What is meant to be, will be.

At least, I'm still alive n kicking right?! =)

Back!

I'm back after taking a hiatus, from blogging that is.

PC down... Exams... off from work. Simply no opportunity to get online, well turns out to be an advantage at least i can focus on studying.

Set up the old 56k Dial up for temporaily measure; was so disgusting slow + pkus the irritaing modem noise. I flew to get a new graphic card this morning so that we can get the 'fast' PC working.

Doubt I'll do as good as previous semester this time round, 4 papers spread over 2 weeks - TOO Freaking Draggy. I prefer to finish up everything in a continuous flow. 长痛不如短痛.

Studying at the library is quite an costly affair. I shall commence such routine when nearer the exam period next semester.

So many things to buy; so many things to do = increased expenditure

Cut hair, see a sinseh for my sprained feet, do pedi; get Jun's bday pressie; all toiletries (y do they all run out at the same time?); travel preparations (exchange $, etc); divorce my problematic mobile.

Getting pay on monday. I wonder if i have 13th month this year, but most probably wont be much. Since i already exceeded my off days by 5 days. =(

Collected air tix this afternoon wth Ting. So excited! 20th Dec.

Watched Lust; Cautious after that with her friend & dinner @ Sakae.

Should i dye my hair for a more refreshed look?

Sigh... I need a good rest before i can organised my thoughts properly.

To Jun: Have a Good Trip! Seeya soon =)

Die!!!

Just to drop a note to indicate my presence.

No time to update.

Will be bogged down by exams, exams, exams and exams till 30th Nov.

Daydreaming n dozing off all day long when i'm supposed to STUDY, STUDY, STUDY!!!

4 days left only to 1st paper... very jiat lat this sem... i'm so screwed. Haiz...

Good Luck to myself & to all in such dire situation as me.

BooBoo

Alright... i made a boo in the XX/XY in the previous post.

Yeah.. laugh as much as you want, Qi.

So freaking embarrrassing.

I acutally seek Jamie's clarification.

Me: Female is XX or XY
Jamie (frowning, giving that ''is that a trick question?'' look): erm.. XX?!
Me: Great =_='''

So freaking embarrrassing. Haiz......

To jun: it's very hard to explain leh.

Freaking out

Mum teased us with a 'bluff' on sunday.

Qi's reaction was 真的啊！

My reaction was eyes widen & gasps "Luggage!!!"

Nope, she didn't say we are going for vacation.

She said, " I'm pregnant." in a mischievous tone.

Nope, it is not confirm yet. She suspecting because she missed her period which are usually accurate & she got similar symptons like when she was having Jamie.

Dad is hoping that it might be just MENOPAUSE. He don't want to be laughed at again. Hah!
Judging from his stamina now, it is highly possible that any foetus will be XY XX and not XX XY.
I'm not sexist/prejudiced or what. Come on lah, i'm a XYXX too. Simply 够了吧？！All daughters leh.. he not sianz i sianz. Plus there will be evil relatives to make us a laughing stock, 茶余饭后的话家常。

Somemore Qi still went to say "wah, got to take care '妹妹' again ar!" Diaozzz.. like so excited like tt. I was more optimistic. I say we can name this 思维（尾）meaning last one. hahaha! Mum was saying can name 四拜 or 失败. Hahaha... funny Mother.

Anyway, nothing is confirmed yet. Need another month or so before we can check.

Jamie's reaction was the calmest & rationale. "Huh?! 你跟爸爸还有meh?! 这么老了还有ar? "

还有什么？我不知道。。。i think the Encyclopedia is doing her TOO good. I didn't even want to think FAR! Diaoz...

Sidenote: My exclamation of "Luggage!' means i want to 离家出走。In case you 're wondering what's the link.

Meet-Up

Last night's meet-up was very bizzare... not sure if this is an appropriate word but somehow it's just so weird & not the usual.

We met, eat, chit-chat a bit & left. period.

I reached home ard 9. Strangely early.

I came to realise as i was on my bed while waiting Uncle Zhou to start the chess game.

I inititated the gathering cos i realised we wont have much time soon. Exams & holidays, our schedules are back to back with each other. The next available period will be the 2nd week of Dec, for darling Jun's bday.

To Jun: Start thinking what you want after you've more or less cleared ur stuff.

Probably cos there's a new 'member' at the table, nobody really know what to say to him. There was an exchange of lame jokes instead, mine was extremely cold joke.

Quoted from YY after dinner, " I think think think very long, still dunno what to say to him"

I find this sentence quite funny. Hah!

Anyway, i really think i lack social skill. Bump into Brian from AJCSB. Other than saying 'what r you doing here?!" in an extremly alarmed tone. The rest of the conversation was lost in mumbles and rumbles. Hurhur... so lousy. *haiz*

Countdown to exams: 11days.
I don't feel prepared at all. I think this sem is gonna to so screwed.

Updates...

Decided to update a bit before ppl come knocking again. Hah!

Nothing much happen after the last entry. Even if it did, I can't remember.

Basically, an interesting & bizzare day out with Ting on sat. We went 四马路观音庙拜拜 before heading to central library.
The bizzare part - I saw "JacQ is online" via her msn! Weird right? I called Jamie who denied of using the pc at that moment. Even though she manage to decipher my password n log in to windows, my msn is of a different password leh.
I haven't figure out what exactly happen cos the stupid PC refused to boot up when i attempted.

The interesting part - 2 local, born, bred & educated singaporeans, were stranded in BUGIS! Unbelieveable! It took us some time & much more effort walking around trying to locate bus 851 stop. Finally we 'found' it behind the library. After waiting close to 30mins with no 851 in sight, we end up taking 133 to AMK & cab home.
Don't ask why we didn't take the train. At that point in time, the MRT seem so FAR FAR away.
Anyway, end of episode.
1 definite conclusion came out of this. We 2 can't join Amazing Race. Hah!

We tried to think of places when we can go for the gathering this Thursday but to no avail.
The theme is more or less 煮炒 but where?

Another strange thing is my period. It came for only a day & it was more like excessive discharge. Mum mentioned it sounds like implantation bleeding, haha! I gave a the 'diao' look.
I told it can only happen if I'm a hermaphrodite & I impregnate myself. haha!

Probably too stress from the studying recently. My body staging a rebel. Not to mentioned i took MC on thursday. Partly cos my back was aching badly, partly cos i was feeling lazy to go work also. =p Sigh...

Let Nov flies as fast as Oct, exams be gone soon & Taiwan faster reach!!!

Nerdy Marathon Statistics

I
-just reached home 3 hrs ago
-after spending 8hrs in Woodlands library
- 16hrs at Irene's place (overnight)

Spend
- $8.00 on Botak Jones Burger set with chao sern coleslaw
- $4.70 on Mac's sausage mcmuffin with egg
-$3.50 on yong tau foo soup

Completed
-5 management essay
-2 operations essay
-1 econs essay
-2 readings
-photocopy notes

Queasy stomach whole day... must be the coleslaw we tabao back.

Felt so POWER! then Exhaustion creeps in, feel like a candle burning on 2 ends; So Nerdy...

Exams 20 odd days away... Last lap this year, Jia You!

Oh shit, need to pay sch fees again.

Capricorn Today:
Take care not to take on too much today, dear Capricorn. Your intentions are certainly good and your motivation pure, but even you are limited by the fact that there are a mere 24 hours in a day. Pick and choose your commitments carefully today to ensure that you can actually do what you say you will do. You will be more effective, and will get more satisfaction out of devoting your energy to a few just causes.

What movie genre are you?

Ever since Qi went back to at Hall 9, we get her updates via her blog. The way she MAGNIFYs little things of her daily life and put it across in such amusing, comical, entertaining, hilarious, humdinger, humorous, hysterical, laughable, ludicrous, merry, mirthful, playful, ridiculous, silly, slapstick, sportive, waggish, whimsical, witty manner.

Come on, it's obviously a Grade B picture!

We were discussing this topic last night over a box of Hor Fun, French Fries & 天涯侠医... a very cosy night without Dad, Mum & MinMin. We officially conclude mine is Independent (aka indie or amateur), avant-garde, experimental-underground films (usually low-budget), art-house, not many will understand kind of films. Hah!

It's amazing how 2 sisters of the same heritage, blood group, birthday month, up-bringing environment can be so different in terms of personality.

She is a typical sunshine, bubbly, big-eyed, ''i'm fat but i'm happy, none of your business'' & "everybody can be my friend" type of ''adorable' person.
Me, contrastingly, is those Attitude, Bo-Chup, darked face, "Don't mess with me, get lost" & "almost everyone is an eyesore", paranoid, suspicion, secretive, unfriendly, insecure, act cool, 欠扁 person. (guess no one can put myself down like that, hah!)

Qi mentioned that I'm actually quite funny at home, just that i don't bother to blog them or even think about them. I just mentioned & forget. True enough, probably i feel quite more at ease in familiar environment. Somehow, i just cant be myself outside. I find it quite stifled or suffocated, even with friends. Aiya, i think i'm just hermit, simply cant get use to those innate societal competitive, juxtaposition nature. Something along the line of an arty-fartsy person but no talent of any type! hahah...

Our blogging style speaks loudly of this. While she optimistically narrate occurences, small talk or 'freak accidents", i jot down the happenings & the after thoughts that triggered.

Simply put, She muse & ideate; I intellectualize & languished .

How different are we?
Both of us are going to blog about same thing. While mine digress into some personality analysis with some black humour of self-mockery, we see for hers*. =)

* entry not up yet.

七彩豆花

Lady Boss (LB) got me a chocolate flavoured tao huay (pudding?) today.

It taste like the pudding drink i alway had at QUICKLY many many years ago.

How Reminiscing... Haizzzz

CAPRICRON

~ You may be wondering whose shoulder you should cry on, dear Capricorn, when usually yours' is the shoulder that everyone else likes to use. The collar of your shirt is probably soaking wet by now, thanks to all the tears that have spilled on you. Your compassion for others is definitely one of your biggest strengths but be aware of the fact that it can also be one of your biggest weaknesses. ~

How freaking accurate. Recently, i've been so whelmed up by people's romantic-fanatic-drama-mama-marmalade. Either i have 'Aunt Agony' written on my forehead or I'm just the perfect audience for secrets-keeping, or the very fact that i'm always FREE (accord to Bro)

Somehow, unknowingly, i always kenna spiralled into ppl's affairs. 我也不想的。
So weird... Coz being human beings, I get rather affected & occupied for no reasons. I guess subconciously, curiousity & speculation is my 2nd nature. Most of the time, I can sense that something is so not right & b4 u no it, ppl started to tell me their issues. Intuition?! Maybe i give ppl a sense of security?! hah!

Haizzz... anyway, i've learn to listen, facilitate, guide and not to give suggestions. But it's just so habitual of me to come up with speculations to analyse the situations.
Sometimes 我看人还真准！

Anyway, ting was bugging me to update. Took some pic at Parkway Parade on wed while waiting for Leng to go cut hair. But i'm too lazy to download the nokia software + driver got problem. Everytime I plug something to the USB, it will blackout. I think PCs dun like me. Sighhhhhhh... sianz.

Extremely tired today, think im going to bed. Yes, 9pm on a friday.

(Leng: This is then call No Life, ok! hahah!)

Exams in 4weeks... stresssssssss! This sem is super slack.... DEAD.

Period = Moody

I think i'll end up be Seung-Hui Cho #2 if I stay in the States.

We are always in constant conflict with ourselves.

Few days ago, i was getting worried coz I miss my period.

Today, I was wishing it did not come at all.

I don't like period, mine actually.

This cyclical process is so queer.

Physically, I get tired easily as the iron level decreases.

Mentally, i get very paranoid. Somehow I always assume all the whispers & sniggers are all about lauging at, making fun or teasing me, be it in class or on trains.... I'll imagine I'll have the ability to tekan them back. Be it is supernaural powers or gangster authority or even gun. BANG!

Emotionally, I get very negative, so much so that i can feel the dark aura around me. shivers...

I get very mean, cold, attitude to others, more than usual that is.

Walking alone the streets back home, i wallow in self pity, of loneliness, of deaths.

I spend a lot of time thinking about what has gone wrong, what will go wrong or what is wrong about myself as a person.

Why ar?! I think my hormones are very disoriented, probably chemical imbalance in the brain, reduction in the amount of certain neurotransmitters.

Life... I hate myself. I'm getting crazy soon if these goes on.... sighh...

Again!!! =)

Okie... since Facebook is currently not available, i decided to blog. Haha...


So fed-up with my hair, need a cut badly but like no time leh... sianzzz

Had to go to Boss's house to work coz the internet is still down.

Almost got deafen by the 'young master'. He got a mild condition of Thalassemia, so don't think he need to cheong hill next time in NS, ah bo he make a good lousdpeaker.

Seeing the whole family, his Mum, Dad & Maid fussing over him to get ready for school in a span of 20mins, i can't help but shaking my head.

I got on web messenger to indicate my presence. Leng was so disturbed by my absence that she actually called me. hah! This woman ar... really ultimate. Gave me a quite shocking news today.

If you are reading this, remember this: 切记要三思而后行！那一场满城风雨刚刚平静下来，你才领悟。真是的！人家的一句话比我们的千言万语还有效？Tsk tsk tsk... 有一点欠扁，不过还好啦，能理解。Hahah!

Ok.. on something else.

I had to contact my service provider to fix the internet downtime. Apparantly, i really lost touch on my human skills. i can 'complain' very well with words but when it comes to verbalising it... sigh.. sad. Response not as quick as before, really very disconnected. Jiat lat...


Really must make use of my MDIS membership & go and sign up for all sorts of courses to upgrade.

The issue of getting a laptop happen to pop up several times recently. Maybe if there's a good bargain maybe can consider since i'm like always on the move.


oki... min min is fiddling with my ancient recorder. Really no flair leh, like mouse squeaking like that. Ho Ho Ho... 让我来好好的调教。。。 哈哈！

Jacq is offline

(Entry dated 01OCt07 but only managed to upload it now. Saw the 'knock knock' lah =p)

Nope! I’m not sick nor did I skip work. In fact, I’m right now sitting in front of office PC, typing this conscientiously.

Internet is down, so can’t do much work. Hence, decide to do an entry with MS Word 1st.
Qi was like asking why I never update recently, no that there isn’t happening.
Just that Gosh… simply no time to update, no energy too!

Now that I got time, I going to get very lor soh as I try to recall

The last few week zoom passed like whirlwind yet hazy as I‘ve vague collection of what happened.

TAIWAN is definite this year end. YESH!

Let’s just wish Ah Bian be good & the typhoon give me face.

Explore like ½ the travel agencies in Chinatown 2 saturdays ago with Ting, booked with one that sorta under-quote us. Hee hee.. so heng. =)

After that, we still got the energy to pia down to AMK for pedicure with Leng, ended with a normal dinner session with mentally-exhausting conversation, not forgetting that agitated phone call that took up much of my sleeping time.
O well, at least things have ended on a good note now.

The whole of Sunday was spent unconsciously.

Monday was boring.

Tuesday was steamboat with the girls for Mid-Autumn. Leng was treating & I’ve been looking to this day for 8 years leh. Haha!
Did a 'so-clever' thing by leaving phone at home more, so smart!
Lucky managed to catch Leng at msn. If not will be so stranded on 15th of 8th mth.

It was nice to see full attendance but hor we ended up talking about the same issue which almost drown me in opinions & confusion.
O yes, not forgetting that agitated phone call that took up much of my sleeping time.
(Same person so same sentence)

It’s not that I’m being unconcern but seriously, I just never learn & I end up putting myself in pool of shit. Every time, I tell myself listen will do, don’t get involve. In the end, I just can’t control myself to give my viewpoints and ended up being regarded as an antagonist. At this point in time, I can’t help but feeling apprehensive about the upcoming trip. Will the strong headedness nature clash?! Nah… shld be fine since forgetfulness is my 2nd name.

I always believe there are 2 or more sides to an event, which is so SUBJECTIVE. So there’s the ‘benefits of doubt’ I guess we can be so extremist to get people to think in you own way as everybody see what they choose to see. Usually, we are blinded by many factors in many circumstances.

I am no saint & my poor memory, poor eyesight & lousy listening skills got me into troubles more than once. I ended being a double standard, 2 headed snake. Guess I have a long way to go to attain 与世隔绝. It’s so difficult to keep neutral yet not seem like nonchalant, bo-chup, cold blooded. So cheem… haha! 天啊！做人真难！
The only time when I’m与世隔绝 is when phone batt is flat or internet is down. Haha!

Wednesday, I decided to pontempt work & geng MC after close to non-existent struggles.
But hor, never get to rest cos I ended up going to Bkt Timah with mum for PT, sigh.
I also bought a stylo-mylo cordless house-phone at COURTS. Customer Service is fictional on a weekday afternoon, didn’t even see the salesman. Win liao lor, no wonder they absorb GST.

Thursday evening was SHIOK. Had a mini revenge (Ok I know I sound childish but I just can’t help it, hah!) Morale of the story, U SABO me, I SABO u!

Friday was KO time & RIP for the faithful Surfer’s Paradise footwear & the expensive Noda’s heels. Was forced by mum to throw them away.

Saturday was a repeat of stamina challenge of the previous one, just that different venue. Bcoz of the unfortunate incident of my footwear, I have to wear my heels out.

Full-fledged Jamu body massage + steam bath @ Rustic Nirvana was shiok beyond words. I think the lady uses all her force on my neck & shoulders, too stiff lah.

Ah Chew’s desert & 1 top + a pair of image-turn’s pumps*.
Not forgetting the exciting part of the day, other than my phone went flat battery w/o warning, is I get to sneak preview of Leng’s potential # 2 Marcus!!! Haha…

Evening was a feet-tiring shopping session with Irene, from Hereen to PS & dinner at Manhattan Fish Market ard 8pm! almost wanted to shout ‘Tolong”! Anyway, must thank her introducing Daiso to me. It’s the re-make of 199 Shop. Everything at $2! I splurge on a few miscellaneous items there. Hee =)

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! I woke up at 8am & went Woodlands Library with Irene to study. Quite amazed by my energy level though I was trying very hard to keep awake after lunch
There was a technical glitch when we were there & it took quite some time to recover.

I think there’s something with me & gadgets anomaly. My phone also went cuckoo this morning, not to mention the internet. Even the usual login ID got problem. Shrugzzz…

The effects of quite a eventful lifestyle is quite apparent as I struggle to stay awake now, fine lines & dark eye rings getting obvious. Also the statistical reality cannot be denied.
Therefore, you won’t see many photos being uploaded much.
Seventh month is over le, so not appropriate. 不要吓人吓己。

Senile, old, humongous-ly fat all rolled into one, you get ME. Hahaha!

For the nth time in the past 22years – Time to do something! =o

Wah, like quite a long entry hor?! 2 pages...hee hee

*Sidenote: Wahl au, Freaking painful Blisters!

Update @ 2300hrs: The blister has evolved into an ULTRA painful sore! So jiat lat that im limping. Darn that pair!

HeeHee...

Wah... i feel so touched.

Apparently, 老姐was quite VERY agitated. See her response. It seems she was so tabuleh tahan that she called me IMMEDIATELY after she read the previously entry.

"哇，我受不了。I have to call you now. 那里有酱的人。wah lau, kanna sai... !@#$%^&* blah blah blah.... "

Actually, when she called me, i was more or less 灭火了。But appreciate her tot lah.

Got supporters at the tagboard also. Hahha =)

Anyway, dun care liao.

The exams slip came in today!!! Muhahaha... quite contend with the results =)

In the midst of fever + Mum's accident, I'm in fact quite surprised with the grades!

Strangely, the 1 i tot wont do well got better than the one I tot can score, like 20m difference lor.

Aiya, pass can liao.

Going to pia my tutorial now. =)

Don't push my button!

Remember this annoying zhaboh, JS? She's at it again!!!

Super peeved yesterday during tutorial. How come she still exists today? From the way she talk to people, she would have been asphyxiate, assassinate, behead, butcher, decapitate, electrocute, eliminate, eradicate, execute, exterminate, extinguish, finish, guillotine, hang, , lynch, mangle, mar, massacre, misuse, shoot, slaughter, slay, smother, strangle !!!

Nehneh de, I've been very magnanimous to get out of her way for the past 3mths. 她就是硬硬要来找碴！Is there something wrong with me or her? WTH! 你们来评评理！

The story goes like this...

Had a break between betwn classes on sat, so i popped in This Fashion to try that jacket i spotted. Who knows, while i was deciding on the design, she n AE appearred.

The bossy her started to kaypoh...

JS: U buy this to go with what?

Me: with clothes? (trying to walk away)

JS: U should wear those long sleeve one, like those I wore. 别人只是单单穿这个而已。

(Note A)

Me: huh?! For what? I'm not looking for formal office blazer?! (me & AE looked at her in bewilderment) 我要遮手臂。

AE: (in an effort to make her understand) She wearing it for 走街的.

JS: Huh?! (giving that snobby look) Oh, upstairs also got jacket. Actually 你不肥咯，只是大只一点

Being polite, i ignore her last sentence & follow them to the 3rd floor & guess what i see there? Office blazer. =_='''

I can feel Anger rising in me lor, but 我忍! I think she's being a bitch, erm no, She IS a bitch.

Since i was there, i might as well try the cropped jacket i wanted to buy. It fits lor.

One of those rare times when i can button up.

I told AE i'm going down to pay & left them there. There was a long Q & both of them came down soon after.

JS: How much is that?

Me: (Turning to AE) $30

AE: if you wear it often, then quite worth it what.

Me: That's what i thought too.

JS: I don't think worth it lor..

Me: Huh?! so? (trying to hint her opinion doesnt really matter)

JS: SO? So don't buy lor. ( & she took the jacket away from me & anyhow hang it at a nearby rack & walked away !!! )

WAH LAU!!! I was so so so so so so so so PEEVED lor. AE looked apologetically towards me.

Blood pressure rising lor! Can feel the heat to the feverish extent.

Can you all believe this!!

我忍! 我忍! 我忍! 我忍! 我忍! 我忍!!!

This is not the end lor somemore... while i was venting my anger via sms to qi, she walked past me & whisper " 晚上不要吃那么多久回 就会瘦了”I rolled my eyes so much that it almost got stuck there. GGGGrrrrrrrrrr...

Bloody Hell!!!! If not for the fact that there are human beings in the room, I would have lashed out at her. I'll do it one day before year 1 end. Thankfully, i wont see her in yr 2.

What's wrong with her? How can somemore be so bossy to such extent!!! So irritaing right?! If it was me years ago, i would have made her cry. Now, i wrecking my brain to think of a solo classic sentence to throw in her face.

What's her problem! She don't even know me well enough, Who is she to make such comment lor. She probably get a kick by going aroung to antagonise people.

If it was people who know me well, like u girls, will be asking me Grab lor. Since i rarely see things i like.

老虎不发威，你把我当病猫。我不是善男信女hor.

Note A: Ladies, please please may i ask, please pardon my ignorance, but who on earth will wear this piece solely. Oki lah, I don't denied that there are people can carry this if wore singly. But who says I cannot wear it the way i like. While I show Minmin this photo, she was like, "Oh, you can wear this with your this this this, that that that... very nice what "

See?! I think a 8year-old has better fashion sense that the 32year-old PA to some high-flying director in the healthcare group. Wearing an office suit doesn't mean you have the right to boss people around. I'm going back tml to get that piece. If it's not there, she's gonna be so dead.

Sidenote: 好姐妹就是好姐妹. My venting sms to Qi - BITCH BITCH BITCH!!! She is so annoying! so peeved!!! Asshole! Angry lor. Kannasai! @#+&%*

She didn't even probe much. Thanks Qiqi (in teddy Baby's cute voice) hahah =)

Seriously, am i making a big fuss over this?

Tom Yum, Gelato & Guys...

O well, Operations 8585 was released prematurely. It wasn't intend to be serious right from the beginning anyway. Hor, leng? Haha =p

I never knew talking can be that energy zapping.

We talked nineteen to the dozen from Thai Express Citilink to Kinokuniya Orchard to Taka Square for gelato. Or was it the photo taking that was exhausting?! Hah..

Mum startled me at 6.50am this morning, saying it's almost 7am (time to leave hse)

Blurrily, i was like, " 7am, So?!" Totally forgot about this thing call "WORK" can! Haha..

Managed to get to work, how?! I'm not sure, the last thing i remember was plonked down a seat & slept my way to Kaki Bukit.

Till now, my eyelids are so HEAaaaavvvvyyyyY that it's UNBELIEVABLE! O man... hahaa

It was great meeting up with the girls. It was amazing how much we can talk everytime we get together.

Only when i'm with them I don't feel I have societal interaction inability. Hahaa!

Till we met again, please take care! 25th Sep AMK, dun forget!

O yes... though i dun look very chio on pic & on peson, I still want the photos ya! Haha =)

p/s: Ting, the exhibition is from 29 Sep - 3 Oct 2007 @ Yishun Mrt.

Nutshell

看到了。。。

想留言却又不知道该写些什么

知道她很烦却不懂怎么开解

后悔是人之常情，是避不掉的。

Just want to share something here...

In a nutshell:
Many people don't know what they want & they are upset becuase they are not getting it. If you don't know what you want, figure out what is closest to it - and go from there.
taken from Follow Your Heart by Andrew Matthews

It's 'Ratatouille' tonight! =)

Black is Green

I am so glad that this week ended off with a good note, at least I think that is. (Thanks Jun!)

Friday was a super shioking smooth day where:

My bus overtook 2 buses in front of it, on the journey to work & back!

Managed to get a good seat & slept all the way!

(this is something not everyone can understand, but i appreciate such little things in life cos it 'll make or break my day)

Work was effortless. Even managed to get a pair of jeans ($10/-) at the 4th level warehouse & 2 POLO Tees. (Ops.. I did it again! haha)

Saturday was the 1st time i can finally oversleep. No more ABT. Managed to chat a little with the ever busy Ting via sms. Lost in time over her dissertation.

Everyone seemed to be caught up with tons of stuff to do. Even Jun mentioned she also dunno what she's busy with.

We are such sad people as compared to the quite happening Leng, i thnk!

The last I heard from Leng was dunno when on msn. She'll be going for her Tioman diving trip on 14-16 Sep if i rmb correctly.

Did a little household chores & off to bras basah to grab/dig for? my econs text before meeting Sis for Comex Fair. Got a 160G HDD for office @ $169/-

Today is a super focus constructive day, managed to study 5hrs straight in the afternoon till evening.

Intending to get this for the PC table. Qi, what do you think?










Sidenote: Why BLACK? Read more here or http://www.blackle.com/about/
No harm trying right?!

Lousy week..

This is officially the lousiest week this year...

Yes i know it's only wednesday. PRECISELY! I wonder how bad it can get.

I have this urge to take a week of unpaid leave. Drop everything behind & get out of SG.

I need to some fresh air for my 1mth blocked nose.

New envt to re-stimulate my senses!

Frustrating week.

Even the sight of the pay check doesn't seem to excite me.

I need to do something abt this. I burnt mentally.

The Batam trip was something I needed but it didn't work out sadly.

Getaway.. getaway..getaway..getaway..getaway..

Where can I go?

Psst: Teachers' Day ard the corner.

Excuse me.. I just need to

AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH

!!!!!!!!!!

SCREAM MY LUNGS OFF!!!

STRESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS....

SIANZZZZZZZZZZZZ...

SHITTTTT...

Haizzzz

Better? I hope. Off to bed... Nitez!

Shitty Monday...

Today is a day where the right things can go wrong and the wrong things can worse!

Shit... I think Qi is correct. Sometimes i'm so blind & deaf that it's ridiculous.

Subconsciously I just see things the way I want it to be, the easier way out of course.

Atmosphere is very wrong at office today. . . sianzzz.

First i raised my voice slightly at my Boss! cos he couldn't tell me properly what he wanted & i got a little frustrated.

Next, i got Lady Boss to rip of the original packaging of an item that was WRONG!

The whistles came in Black colour but I just see it as OLIVE DRAB. I don't really know the correct shade but i know it was greenish. I just make myself believe the Black was Green.

How smart!

Were having discussion regarding the presentation for monday after tutorial last sat, seems like JS doesn't seem to get our plan. I told her to verbalise her answers during presentation becos I might not have the time to input her answer in to the ppt. I have no idea what time she figured out how to do & we only have 1 day. Judging from past experienceS, she never get any work done & Plus, I have the close-to-perfect answers.
i'm not bragging but it's really simple. But she keep insisting that she will sent the answers to me on sun.
Ok anything... when N asked me what's wrong with her on our way out?
I just blurted " i think she just wants her answer in the slides?!" without realising she is just behind me.
O well, what's new right? Aiya, don't care. Anyway I won't see her after this term.
I always commit Social Suicide like that... reason why I can count the no. of friends with one hand.
Ha ha Ha... Sigh....

I'm such a hopeless Klutz...

Speaking of friends...

Hello girls.... Hope u are all doing ok. Busy month for everyone i can see. Do update your blogs!

Jun: Sorry to hear that you have to give Rusty boy away... No choice lah, Life has a way.

Ting: Say "hi" to Cuppie, Prince & YY to me. Haha.. Ops.. YY sounds like a pet here. Hee =)

Leng: Focus on your work & don't think of guys too often ar! Haha! Fixed a date for pedi!

Irene: Sorry Ms Nai, gotta bangsei you. Next time ya!

HY: I know you don't read this but I'm still want to say this: A55Hole, return my book hor! Almost a year liao lor, Auto a bit can?! !@#$%^&*

Take Care people, Take care Sistas, Take Care Me =)

Operation 8585

After an impromptu/spontaneous/impulsive decision made on msn,

i'm now embarking on a secretive & interesting observation/experiment/study...

OPERATION 8585

DEADLine: 21st Sep 2007

Sidenote: Chances are not very hopeful for me... shit.

Side Sidenote: Nope... it's not a re-production of 881. =)

UI-Lambana

每年农历七月十五日为“盂兰盆节”，道教称“中元节”，俗称“鬼节”，是佛徒举行“盂兰盆会”的日子。盂兰盆，即梵文 UI-Lambana 的音译，意思是“救倒悬”。盂兰盆会来源于目莲解救母厄的故事：
“有目莲僧者，法力宏大。其母堕落饿鬼道中，食物入口，即化为烈焰，饥苦太甚。目莲无法解救母厄，于是求教于佛，为说盂兰盆经，教于七月十五日作盂兰盆以救其母。”
中国佛徒从梁武帝时（502-549）始设“盂兰盆斋”，以后照此仿行，相沿成中元节。不过，除设斋供僧外，后来还增加了拜忏、放焰口、祭祖先、荐亡灵等活动。这一天，事先在街口村前搭起法师座和施孤台。法师座跟前供着超度鬼魂的地藏王菩萨，下面供着一盘盘面制桃子、大米。施孤台上立着三块灵牌和招魂幡。过了中午,各家各户纷纷把全猪、全羊、鸡、鸭、鹅及各式发糕、果品、瓜果等摆到施孤台上。主事者分别在每件祭品上插上一把蓝、红、绿等颜色的三角纸旗，上书“盂兰盛会”、“甘露门开”等字样。仪式是在一阵庄严肃穆的庙堂音乐中开始的。紧接着，法师敲响引钟，带领座下众僧诵念各种咒语和真言。然后施食，将一盘盘面桃子和大米撒向四方，反复三次。这种仪式叫“放焰口”。
到了晚上，家家户户还要在自己家门口焚香，把香插在地上，越多越好，象征着五谷丰登，这叫作“布田”。有些地方还有放水灯的活动。 http://www.fxlynet.com/yulanpenhui.htm

在记忆里，每年这个月的一天，家里一定会沸沸腾腾， 犹如新年。请亲戚到家里来做客，是老爸一向的惯例 。小时，就会乘机跟堂/表兄弟姐妹们游戏，玩得不亦乐乎。祖母在世时，姑妈们也会来顺便庆祝她的生日。
近几年，来的人也越来越少。不是，是没有以前的多。以前的小孩也长大了，都渐渐不参与类似的家庭聚会。（如果有稀客，也表示不久后就会收到结婚请柬）
我也从房间玩到楼下，从楼下玩到购物商场，现在是回流到厨房做二手。

在厨房里久了，看到和听到的东西也就多了。有时，我真想不通为什么老爸老妈要这样‘虐待’自己。花了这么多钱，时间，精力，就为了‘传统’？！ 看着客人的吃法，不仅让我觉得所谓的‘Hungry Ghost’ 指的是不是这些人。哈哈！爸妈的厨艺高超，这一点是肯定的。不过，有时，他们也太捧场了吧？虽然客人是请来的，但是我还是很难对他们有善。 不是我自称高贵，他们蛮粗俗的言行举止常常让我倒胃口，翻白眼，目瞪口呆，难以置信。

今年，老妈的手受伤不方便。所以一切从简。他们好像不习惯，一直放心不，我必须得一再强调，‘吃完就算了！！！’结果，最让我受不了的是他们好意！ 虽然能了解他们出至一番好心，但是也太乱了吧。搞不清状况不要再那里七嘴八舌的， 搞到我和老姐差一点精神分裂。没办法，谁叫总舵主变成‘Captain Hook’ ？！
虽然有些不满，但是也渐渐开始去理解，体谅，习惯。唯恐，有一天这一切都会随着时间而消失？！

不管这么样，这一天总算过去了。。。

经典-
1999
Q: 你在几年级？
2000
Q: 你在几年级？
2001
Q: 读哪里？
2002
Q: 读哪里？
2003
Q: 读哪里？
2004：
Q: 读哪间？
2005：
Q: 做工？读书？
2006：
Q: 做设么工？
2007：
Q: 做设么工？

what the... =_='''

Paradox of Life

Now i understand why people change...

The societal forces are simply too compelling to resist.

I've seen too many people tearing themselves apart just to blend in with the rest.

To integrate in the hippie-yuppie lifestyle, end up Chucking up tons of credit cards bills, get entangled in various relationships problems, etc...

FEAR is the key word.

We are just too afraid to be different yet we want to stand out from the rest.

Paradoxical isn't it.

We end up "Being different in the same way".

Human Beings are Complicated.

As a result, it became so difficult & 'odd-ball' to live your own life. It requires great courage to Be Yourself.

To those who achieved & managed their Life - I salute you.

How many of us really know what we want?

Right & Left

By right,

I should be feeling rejuvenated & refreshed from a splendid getaway, with shiok massage & great chillout & probably donuts too?!

By left,

I spent my saturday morning torturing my body @ ABT, accompany mum to Sun Plaza. Rot the rest of the evenings with Korean movies & HK drama.
Sunday went for the NIKE Warehouse Sale @ Wingtai with Sis, leng & Rod. Got a couple of stuff, not at a fantastic great bargain but not too bad at least.
It'll be better with less squabbles between those 2.
Sis chose to plug in her MP3 - 耳不听为净。
I just turn my head away - 眼不见为净。

Diaozzz... he is out of your jurisdiction liao lor. Why keep picking a fight?!
I don't understand women. Nothing to say.

Wanted to get a watch but with sooooo many opinions around, I is stressssssss.

No holiday...

Wore the cracked watch today...

School starts today... maybe that is better.

I is sianzzzzzz =(

Reply

Erm.. this was meant to be replied at the tagboard... but i was getting long winded so might as well jot it down here =)

Havent been blogging coz tthe pc at home is 慢到。。。 没话说!

Well... i'm still kinda sick. i was fine on weekend. But sitting in office now, sinus starts to set in.
What do u call this? Work Virus?! Haha...

Exams were very jiat lat... sigh... What luck! Having to fall sick during the critical period.

Since Leng is working @ EXPO now, she is considered within 'CLOSE PROXIMITY'. Eagerly, we met @ Tampines Mall.
What do u get when u have 2 North Dwellers @ the overcrowded East Side?!

Bored + Lost + Stuck = No FUN!

Seriously, there's nothing much at TM, CS & what have u...

Then Qi told me got midnight shopping in town lor... DARN.. Shld have gone there instead.

NEVER MIND.

Went AMK Hub with leng (again) ytd. Bought a pair of heels decisively (hah!) & i wore it today!
But very kanna-sai -ly, I stepped on a 'chewed' gum lor!!! KAOZZZ!
We went pedi also.. hee hee n got psycho to sign a package together. oops!

PLUS

It's 2D1N SPA INDULGE @ BATAM Harris Resort this Sat!!! Subject to confirmation though.

Must get my hands on the Donuts (Krispy Kreme?!) there.

I always wonder what's the craze about?!

But before that, must make sure everything is fine at home. Possibly, get a swimsuit also.

4th AUGUST =) 快点来!

P/s: Don't think we can meet up this week. Days ting is free, either me & leng not free.

Jun: when is ur work ending & when u coming back from BKK?

National Day meet up anybody?!

Me

i got:

• fever
• headache
• extreme tiredness
• dry cough sore throat
• runny or stuffy nose
• muscle aches S
• Stomach symptoms, such as nausea

I have (i think):

• bacterial pneumonia
• ear infections
• sinus infections
• dehydration

i need:

a GETAWAY!!!

Breatheeeeeeeeee...

So DEAD!

nose is so blocked somemore, cannot breathe properly lor. I might just die in my sleep one of these days....

Law papers on SAT...

OIS on Mon...

Acc on Tues...

I don't feel prepare at all. Shuck... with all the huzzy-buzzy going all...

it's a miracle that i still have energy to study...

I'm not aiming for As this time round. hopefully average Bs?!

Dunno lah, I just don't want to tabao.

Lady Boss just hinted that Boss MIGHT be giving me pay raise this month..

Although I got the payment voucher done for the new CPF rates (takehomepay increase by $6/- already), I don't mind doing it again.

HeeHee...

Breatheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee in

Earth Day

Mum is officially known as " 独臂霞" ... wrist crushed due to a freak accident for nth time.

该发生的总是会发生的。。。逃不掉，避不开。2yrs back fractured her foot, only return normality this yr, then came the operation. Somemore, tripped at a pavement few weeks back, end up with a orh ba kack on her face. 这么衰，应该没有了吧？

好才老爸样子可爱，不然别人会误会他虐妻。

before I joined ABT, I was ultra free on saturdays... joined aldy like tai ji leow liao. *_*'''

Anyway, saw the Live Earth Concert announcement on TV.

Qi asked, " 7 July 2007 is going to be the Green Earth Day, and they are holding concert? Got use meh?
I replied, "Got, while they sing and play, they will use a lot of electricity, then the earth will perspire and get fever.. "

Although humour was intended, the issue is actually quite serious. What's the point? Is it effective? U fly those rock stars on jetplanes and stages that literally consume energy. Not to mention we watch them on tv also...

It seems i'm not the only one who thought of that...

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070705/tts-entertainment-music-climate-warming-c1b2fc3.html

Arctic Monkeys shiver at Live Earth 'hypocrisy'
AFP - Thursday, July 5
PARIS (AFP) - - British rock group Arctic Monkeys have become the latest music industry stars to question whether the performers taking part in Live Earth on Saturday are suitable climate change activists.

"It's a bit patronising for us 21 year olds to try to start to change the world," said Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders, explaining why the group is not on the bill at any of Al Gore's charity concerts.
"Especially when we're using enough power for 10 houses just for (stage) lighting. It'd be a bit hypocritical," he told AFP in an interview before a concert in Paris.
Bass player Nick O'Malley chimes in: "And we're always jetting off on aeroplanes!"
Large parts of the band's hometown of Sheffield, an industrial city in northern England, were flooded at the end of last month after a deluge of mid-summer rain that some blamed on global warming. Two people were killed.
But the band wonder why anyone would be interested in the opinion of rock stars on a complex scientific issue like climate change.
"Someone asked us to give a quote about what was happening in Sheffield and it's like 'who cares what we think about what's happening'?" added Helders.
"There's more important people who can have an opinion. Why does it make us have an opinion because we're in a band?"
The group, whose first record was the fastest-selling debut album in British history, will clock up thousands of air miles -- in normal airliners not private jets, they say -- during their tour to Asia and Australia in the next few months.
They are not the only stars to take a cynical view of Live Earth, which aims to raise awareness about global warming but which will require many longhaul flights and thousands of car journeys to and from the music venues.
Many of the biggest acts have questionable environmental credentials -- the car-loving rapper Snoop Dogg appeared in a Chrysler commercial last year -- and there are doubts about the ability of pop stars to galvanise the world into action.
Bob Geldof, the architect of Live Aid and Live 8, the two biggest awareness-raising concerts in history, had a public spat with Al Gore about the need for the event.
"Why is he (Gore) actually organising them?" Geldof said in an interview with a Dutch newspaper in May, adding that everyone was already aware of global warming and the event needed firm commitments from politicians and polluters.
Roger Daltrey, singer from 1970s British rock band The Who, told British newspaper The Sun in May that "the last thing the planet needs is a rock concert."
And the singer from 80s pop sensations The Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant, attacked the arrogance of pop stars who put themselves forward as role-models.
"I've always been against the idea of rock stars lecturing people as if they know something the rest of us don't," he was reported as saying by British music magazine NME.
Live Earth takes place Saturday in seven cities -- Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hamburg, London, Johannesburg and New York -- and organisers hope for a television audience of two billion.
An eighth show in Rio de Janeiro was cancelled by police due to security concerns.
"Live Earth is going to bring together a massive audience around the world to take action against the climate crisis," says Live Earth organiser Yusef Robb.
"Some may say that rock stars tend to be conspicuous consumers, but if we can get those people to turn the corner then we're happy to do so."
Planners have put an enormous effort into minimising the environmental impact of the event in an effort to pre-empt sniping from critics about hypocrisy and the pollution caused by the concerts.
Fans are being encouraged to share cars or use public transport to attend, all lightbulbs will be energy-efficient and the food will be sourced locally where possible.
All the signs from the New York show and the stage in Tokyo will be recycled or composted.
"Where we can't use biodegradable materials, there'll be comprehensive recycling programmes," said Robb, who says the Live Earth gigs will set new green standards for the events industry.
After the shows, the organisers, with the help of accountancy group PricewaterhouseCoopers and an army of consultants, will calculate the volume of carbon emissions created and will then "offset" the difference.
Carbon offsetting means investing in carbon-reducing initiatives such as planting trees or making donations to renewable energy projects.
Robb highlights the good work being done by many artists.
British ska-rock group The Police and US funk-punk band Red Hot Chili Peppers are examples of "people who practice what they preach."
Meanwhile, nu-metal headliners Linkin Park have their own climate change charity and Hawaiian artist Jack Johnson tours in a biodiesel-fuelled bus.

Headache

Something is wrong with me...

My head is aching like hell... like kanna whacked by a baseball bat like tt... @.@

I couldn't sleep last night despite the fact that I slept at 12mn the previous night & woke up at 630am in the morning. Only a hr nap in the afternoon can affect much meh?!!
Reason for sleeplessness: The scene that Qi passed the super ultra pinky cute new Hello Kitty bag to the malay girl for $1/- keeps recurring in my my mind. I wansted to give the the slightly old barbie doll tote bag which was the girl's first choice. Not that i niao but maybe bcos i know Min like that a lot. The look of her silent disappointment etched in me... shit
I feel so guilty i dunno why... Sigh...

U never know what a kid can do to a person man...just like the Puss in boots in Shrek.

Maybe i get her a new wallet since her current one is so old liao...

headache ar.. headache ar..

AMK Flea Mkt

It all begin with a very innocent msn msg from Irene 2 days ago...

"Eh, your house got anything to sell mah?"

Before I knew it, there i was at AMK Ave 4 Blk 626 along with mum & sisters lugging along a big bag full of kid's clothings. Courtesy from my extremely well-off cousin who stay in Shaughnessy (actually was given to mum to karang guni away. i tot i just seize this opportunity since it was basically sleeping around at home)

With zero cost... I managed to get a Gross Profit of 60bucks but minus the operating expenses.. erm... not much left actually. Hahaha... cos we went BOTAK JONES!!!

Branded kid's clothes & bags going at $1-2 per price... it was quite popular with the foreign maids & the malay aunties. 华人的钱很难赚.. but understandable lah. I mean i won't buy from such places either...


Some pics...















Irene with her barang barang... see the mickey mouse nylon bag from HK behind her?! very cute hor =)

















Jamie looking bored... or was she hoping no one will buy her Hello Kitty Bag?!













Spastic me - Obviously i wasn't ready when sis hit the shutter.. . Hahaha













Maybe it runs in the family?! Hahahaha =)



P/s: Sorry I couldn't make it for Cuppie's competition. Hope u all had fun too =)