bunga!

You know sometimes when you just keep quiet and listen to what people say, you are able to sieve out nuggets of wisdom from what appears to be casual banter.

Posted at 11:11 PM

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Today 5 people in the company i intern with got laid off today. This is what i overheard from snippets here and there because, who would tell the intern right? Apparently it was just wham bham alakazam and they were told to leave the day itself. wow.

and look at the poor intern...still there (toiling over 10 million spreadsheets). they must hate me. oh yar you know the thing with the spreadsheets, they have about 10 for XXX and another 10 for ABC, it's the same content in different tables, jumbled here and there, mixed up into every combination possible. what a mess. i hate spreadsheets with a vengence.

i also had the best muffin in my whole life today. it was a life changing moment because ive never particularly liked muffins. the one i bit into was soft and gooey and full of bananas. The shop it's from is apparently supposed to be famous. And what else could it be called but...Delicious Muffins. -_- but THEY ARE REALLY DELICIOUS OMG. out of this world.

Posted at 11:27 PM

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I think when you work, you are too busy to remember what you did the day before. i feel like typing the days "whizz by" but how can that be when time seems to drag on at the same time. MIND BOGGLING. (word of the week)

tuesday; mind's cafe with my NUS friends (i have nus friends!), wed; watched Transformers 1 because i had never watched it before and nic borrowed the DVD for me :D. thursday; had dinner at sushi teh with the ij girls and i was so tired i wanted to hit someone.

Friday; had bak kut teh with the dancers. YUMMY YUMMY PIGSS.

joke, this was from Pig Pile the game which we played at Mind's cafe. it was actually like this:

very shiok! we ordered skinny meat, ribs and trotters. I LOVE TENDONS. you likey?my second time eating bak kut teh. I used to play it all the time for I NEVER, but i cant use it anymore.

and because we went to the Mind's Cafe at Boat Quay we went to check out Oohtique, which i can truely describe in one word as: fascinating.

saturday it was Charlotte Chen's 21st party at Cine!
See if you can guess what the theme was.

dancers are the best man, always ready to take photos with you :D So anyway the theme was Blair Waldof andI DO NOT WATCH GOSSIP GIRL. I DO NOT WATCH GOSSIP GIRL (had to type that twice for good measure) but it's hard not to see the GG fashion trends around so you'ld sort of know it even if you dont watch the show. Theme parties are sooo fun.

unfortunately had to leave early for Transformers 2, been hearing a lot of people saying that the story line sucked but am still ambivalent. I enjoyed the movie but i wouldnt say i love the movie AND MEGHAN FOX IS SO OVERRATED COME ON MAN.

Everywhere i go people are telling that "Meghan Fox is so hot". What really? She's hot la but people say it as if she's the hottest person on the planet. Put a girl in a show full of metal and robots and somehow she must look hot right. So my conclusion is that she's hot, but not worth mentioning to that extent.

AND MJ omg MJ. i cant believe he's gone. Im not a particular fan but he was such a legend you would have been crazy not to have been influenced by him in some way or another. Almost every other dance show i've watched has MJ moves. There are millions of dancers out there who started dancing because of him, that's how iconic he was. 50 years down the road nobody is going to remember Shitney Spears, but people will remember MJ like we remember Elvis Presley, so long live MJ, RIP.

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Posted at 10:05 PM

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Feel damn bullied now. Some people can be such insensitive jerks. Like they ask you to do them a favour and then they berate you for it after that incessantly because you didnt do it properly and you just feel so indignant because all of it wouldnt have happened if the person didnt ask you for the favour in the first place. This is like good intentions begets shit. who wants to have to deal with such people.

Posted at 5:32 PM

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Want some of what ive got?

Bacon Burger with Fish and Chicken Patty

Crab Tart

Filled with TONS of real crab meat

Mushroom soup drizzled with truffle oil

SO GOOD

and ALL MINE WHAHAHHA

by the way this is something along the lines of what i consume every night for SUPPER. Nasi Lemak - coconut milk, FRIED egg, MEATball soup with lots of fat, sambal...omg wth right, i am getting fat. I wish the fats would go to my boobs, unfortunately for me the first place the fats go to are my cheeks. -_-

homemade birthday cake for the birthday boy

which is in the shape of a very nice heart ok, dont mess

nic and i sitting at Toy R Us watching this kid get his hair cut

im interning 9 to 6pm now so sadly i dont have much time to do rubbishy stuff like stalk people of facebook and do mindless surfing. i earn maybe $2/hr or something like that and I sleep by 12midnight everyday and i stop eating supper already (YES!) i actually have practically no time to do anything because all i want to do when i get home is have dinner and watch tv and then go to bed.

anyway...yesterday was confronting.

in retrospect, it was not fair to me at all - to jump at my back for something that you did for more than half the time we were together, at a magnitude that was far bigger. if we had the chance to start all over again, things would be perfect. unfortunately people get conditioned to behave a certain way after some time. i put in 120% in the past, learnt the hard way by having it all unappreciated and taken for granted - so in the long run i adapted and learnt that 80% is enough. i cant just put back the 20% in a snap so give me time, like i gave it to you, and dont make me feel like im being shit in the mean time.

sorry to the guy who's party i crashed and then like made it awkward. actually maybe i was too much of a wallflower for anyone to bother about. whichever it was, sorry for the bad manners.

Posted at 5:41 PM

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can somebody translate!? does this say out of stock...will be in by 24th June?!?!?! haha

Posted at 1:34 PM

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Honestly, after having more than 20 hamsters - no joke, this hamster is the BESSSTTTTZZZ. He/she is called Happy :D

Posted at 8:58 PM

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How come when you're young, you cant wait to grow up, but when you finally grow up, you feel you're growing up to fast?

"I thought you liked the Flintstones!" said my mother, and i was thinking, yes like 15 years ago. Life is tragic that in a blink of an eye, the people around you change so fast you can barely keep up. I feel a tinge of sadness in my inability to pretend that i still like the Flintstones. Midnight suppers, i see old man at the coffee shop eating noodles by themselves, their solitude illuminated by eerie serenity of a city sleeping for the night. They have children somewhere surely, i wonder where they are. I dont want to grow old and realise one day that ive lost my child to society.

I wonder what point is it in life that you feel the need to have a child. In the past it was a way of life, then it became an obligation, but not anymore. They are a liability. Your parents spent their whole life toiling away to support you and see you through school, only to miss out on your childhood and the time you were growing up. So what was the point again? Woe to the modern girls who say they want to have children to make their boyfriends happy and love them a little more. I can only think of all the lost time and lost youth that they will regret throwing away when the time really comes.

Im at the brink of reality. I'm trying to stay in school for as long as I can, why are people so eager to grow up? Life is tragic because at my age, people start to hustle and scramble for this future of theirs that they want to build. These are the type of people that get a pat on their backs because apparently they are grounded, they know what they want in life and they've got everything set on track. Sometimes i feel desperate in this whirlpool of people clawing at each other to get a step ahead. Who knew that the word "internship" would become the golden word of every undergrad's resume. Is having that one line in your CV so precious that parents worry for you till no end when you cant get one? Why should you be considered any lesser if you didnt have one? Would you be willing to work for free?

I can appreciate the value of a dollar, but stupid are the people who only learn to work hard. That is why the rich get richer and the poor stay poor. There is no need to understand the value of the dollar anymore. Reality is that underage girls can parade around in a mini skirt and get 5 times the amount a graduate office worker stuck in a cubicle earns. There is no such thing as hard work like there is connections. Know the right people and you will climb up, you will get places. This is why life is tragic.

What happens when you cannot see an end. When you feel that everything you are working up for some particular point in life comes to a naught. When you realise that you die one day and everything disintegrates and goes with the wind. Then what is the point of working your guts out now?

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Posted at 8:02 PM

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Hellloooo, have been neglecting this space!

these few days i have been stuffing myself silly, till stomach fold 1 can feel stomach fold 2, and then i go and sleep after that. (!!!!!!!) sure way to grow fat people, i should stop! Have an interview laterz and went shopping today! Where is the GSS hiding because i sure dont see it! I bought a dress at 50% though, although it was $119 to begin with, is that still counted? HMM.

Have a lot of photos in my cam, i even went to the ZOO the other day! but i am so lazy to upload! and the funny thing is i have nothing to do!! soon, maybe soon. i will blog because there is this blogging competition where the first prize is a Mac Book and $200 cash!!! wooahhh, yeah gotta try that...the prizes are super attractive. you know post some pictures of bikini, put on some fake eyelashes..cough, sure win one.

and just so there's a picture, Forever 21 has YSL inspired heels!

shoe whores unite!

Posted at 1:43 AM

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This is another one of my useless rants, it has no significance to anyone, but im annoyed.

Im annoyed when people try and make dance movies. They get this lead actress who's tall, sinewy, long limbs, sharp cheek bones and looks a dancer every each...except when she actually starts to dance.

So they call in the real dancer, the body double, and engage in all this fancy-schmancy cinematography, cut and paste of dancer and lead actress to form this oh so drama mama dance scene.

What's the point of making a dance movie when they have to do something like this. why cant they just get a REAL dancer to be the lead? (WHY!!) Why are dancers always relegated to the background as backup dancers!!

and the other thing that irritated me was seeing Stephanie ChunMoo (who acted as the Swan Lake instructor's assistant) stand there and deliver 2-3 useless lines when she herself is such a brilliant dancer and would have smoked this Subaru's ass without as so much batting an eyelid.

angry!

anyway check out the links to Stephanie's dance. she's effortlessly sexy and still so graceful.

Labels: dance subaru, stephanie chunmoo

Posted at 1:09 AM

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First bet for SYTYCD Top 20!

and this must be the most feel good pair - popper + contemp dancer Phillipe and Arielle :D They're so cute together. i also like Sammy Ramirez the popper and that cute japanese dude who did locking.

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Posted at 2:25 AM

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Watch this! This girl is rad hilarious. Her other videos are even funnier, but i decided to share this today because Singapore has its first confirmed case of a H1N1 virus who came back from New York on Tuesday on SQ25. ( The link leads to Philippines Star. Good on them!!)

So anyway, stay far, far away from people who just came back. THEY HAVE SWINE FLU. OMG THEY HAVE SWINE FLU. (!!!!!!!!!!!)

Labels: h1n1, natalie tran, swine flu

Posted at 2:23 PM

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premiered last Thursday. Yay something to look forward to now! :D

And if any of you happened to see the Fame trailer in the movies you must have caught a glimpse of Kerrington from Season 4. Not my top choice but oh well.

Labels: so you think you can dance

Posted at 2:14 PM

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This URL has been with me since i was SEC 1!! that means i was 13 and it also means that it has been a good, freaking 8 years since i started this blog and started this dancingupastorm moniker. I have to say, that at this point of time i should scrap it and change it to like dancingupdust because i have not danced regularly for a good 3 years and i have LOST my mojo, or whatever you want to call it. My kicks arent as flexible as they used to be anymore and ive totally lost touch with hiphop (sadly).

It's kinda tragic...you stop for a few years and you can just never go back to where you left off.

You know how weird it is that ive done ballet for 11 years, hip hop for 4, contemp for maybe 5 years. See how that all adds up and it's an awful lot of time i devoted to dancing, so much so it made me sick for a while and i had to stop. And now when ive really stopped, my standard has dropped to the pits. I see all my dance friends excelling and rocking that dance floor on fire and my heart starts to twitch with a tinge of envy mixed with jealousy. As much as i hate to admit it, on the pretext of being stuck in past glory...it will be humbling for me to go back to dancing? i almost have to lower my head in shame as i write this, but at least i admitted it.

there are a lot of things in life that i have not experienced. Death for example, is something that has elluded me my whole life. Ive never had to deal with the death of someone close and that's something i cant relate to. While i was reading a story book that my sis lent me, i realised that the paragraphs on relationships spoke to me, now. But when i read about death, i glossed through it...it didnt have any meaning for me. And that's how i realised that i am so young, so inexperience, living my semi-sheltered life from which i have only seen shiny, gift wrapped life.

I almost think you can consider me one of those kids who had things handed to her on a silver platter, but i resisted that idea because there were always friends who had life way easier than me. But of course i had never met people who were on the other end of the spectrum. It was like how my father mentioned the other day, "she is so lucky, she can go on 2 holidays every year." And i was like, wow... It had never occured to me that this was a privillege, it seemed rather a way of life. You know, you work, you go on holidays.

any sort of experience is valuable. that's my take on life. The other day Nic and I went to watch Helios at Marina Barrage and it turned out to be quite an irksome night. Nic turned to me and said that this experienced "sucked!", "it was a BAD idea". And i thought that yes..it wasnt maybe such a good idea but it was a good experience.

and the whole point of this entry is that for the past 20 years life has been easy for me. i'ld like to think im resilient and independent but under my circumstances was that possible?

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Posted at 12:55 AM

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