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Monday, July 28, 2008
Things will only get better from here on now...? 2/4 Gathering  6 years ago where were we... (the height thing amuses me)  Finally got to check out Giraffe opposite the Istana with my lower secondary classmates. Again, small talk has changed from...I cant even remember - but we spent a good amount of time taking about CAP scores and modules as well as double checking which part of the globe some of our other classmates were. Damn my friends are too smart for me to hang out with already...dean's list (NUS LAW WHATTT!), 4.5 CAP score, scholarship etcetc.  I had the Garlicky Chicken, Jo said it's the best thing on the (the very limited) menu and i think she's right! The pasta was really cloying and soggy. What happen to the 7 min rule!     Christine shaved her head for the Cancer charity scheme OMG. PROPs. MAJOR PROPS. On a side note she's coming to NUS!!! YAYYYY. One more friend for poor little me :( University is damn lonely. No more classrooms and form teachers. The friends you make in secondary school are honestly the friends for life. Isnt the best time of your life during secondary school? Mine was anyway. :)   Everyone is still the same, yet everyone has changed. i miss Evon's infectious enthusiasm, I miss Jeanette being part of the shorties club, miss the 'yiling and lee yoke teng' escapades... so many wonderful memories from IJ.   6 years later here we are! Vienna & Batman  After 17 days of Tekong Nic finally books out and gets to eat something other than chicken and fish for his 3 meals. (This is what he keeps stressing to me) Had a buffet dinner at Vienna at Novena which was pretty yummy. Good place to bring the parents because they have all the herbal soup, ginseng jelly and stuff like that. They soups are really to die for, super yummy!!!   Watched Batman after that and i guess the hype was worth it because Heath Ledger really did a fantastic job. I felt so emotionally drained after watching it because the whole show was so evil, dark and cynical but at the same time so intriguing. I feel like watching it a few more times to do some analysis because there were so many layers of meanings and morals, psychological complexities involving humanity and human nature.  Some of the more memorable parts of the storyline were probably the clowns in the beginning who were instructed to kill each other for a bigger share of the pie and the convict who threw the bomb detonator out of the window. The Joker gave the boats a choice to die or to kill each other and that's a reflection of what society is like. The boats were cleverly divided into convicts and civilians of which it appeared that the convicts had a lesser right to live than the civilians. Theoretically, everyone should have died because nobody took action. The fact that neither pulled the trigger does not represent hope or humanity, it instead represents fear, cowardice and resignation, it highlights the cracks in humanity and society. Society needs a villain so that there can be a hero. Without the dark, there is no dawn, and without despair there cannot be hope. The balance of the universe is such that it is ugly, there are cracks and it cannot be perfect. zomg ok i know you did not just read that. i need to get my brains moving again because the semester is starting. SYTYCD S4 Top 8 This item made me laugh, But this item stole the show, probably because i can relate to it. Rapture Anyway, im performing for the SAJC dance concert at Esplanade on Wednesday. I didnt ask any of my friends or family to come :( ah well, the person i want most to be there cant come so it doesnt matter who comes or who doesnt anymore. We'll put up a good show nevertheless. They always say dance like no one is watching - i never really related to that because dont you get more fired up when more people are watching? I think they meant, to dance from your heart and not just perform, but a great dancer dances - and to dance, is to dance from your heart already, with or without people watching. My eye has been very itchy since Sunday and amelia says it's because somebody is missing me! (amelia must secretly be missing me) Labels: chij, Party, SYTYCD, Thoughts
Friday, July 25, 2008
I must be the only one who finds this song really sad.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
"new girl. always nice to msg coz got more interesting things they dont know about wad"i see... If only someone would listen. My blog is an outlet but too bad it cannot rectify the problem. Labels: Thoughts
Vpost is Inefficient VPOST: https://www.vpost.com.sg (vpost is like a shopping concierge) Recently just had a BIG screw up with a lot my parcels. I was using 2 accounts - Nic's and mine - only because the senders from USA are also very idiotic and always send it to the WRONG account. Problem Number 1: Parcels delivered to wrong Singapore address Both accounts had MY home address but for some really ridiculous reason, even after the change in address was verified, the parcels still got delivered to his house. Hey the whole point of this concierge service is to get things delivered to YOUR doorstep right? Problem Number 2: A parcel from my Vpost account, ended up in Nic's Vpost account. Now this is what i consider a MAJOR SCREW UP. If Nic and I didnt know each other it just means that i LOST A PACKAGE. Nic would also mysteriously end up paying extra postage for something he NEVER ORDERED. Problem Number 3: Bill  An unexplained $0.01 increase in the bill - even after asking twice, still no reason as to why there was a 1 cent increase. Yes, 1 cent cant get someone to scratch your ass but don't consumers have a right to know how the bill is tabulated? I was fuming mad at them, especially since they charge an additional $10.19/per week if you keep your packages with them for over 2 weeks. It's expensive mind you.  Which also brings me to this - what is the base charge for????? Paying money for excellent service is ok, paying money to have your items delivered to the WRONG Singapore address and getting deposited into the WRONG vpost account is UNACCEPTABLE for professional standards. So infuriated by it all, not emailing them to complain was out of the question. Their first reply, to Nic:  Very miffed at why they want to know what is the relationship between Nic and myself. Is it, if Nic is my father then the problem can be solved easier? Or if Nic is my gardener then the problem cannot be solved???  HAHHA. Since when do you go around asking clients WHAT IS THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO EACH OTHER? So unprofessional - pointed that out in the second email as well. Their 2nd email, after our very infuriated reply:  And guess what happened after this? I dropped it and partly because they offered 15%. SIGH. WHAT A DAMN SINGAPOREAN I AM. At the same time, i can complain till the cows come home but are they really going to do anything about it? I'm honestly still not satisfied with Vpost. I'm disappointed with Vpost. I think that their system is not as efficient as it could be and honestly, i think it's rather a complete mess. Instructions are so foggy and not easily accessible and their site is definitely not user friendly. Too many emails back and forth make everything so complicated. We have individual accounts but Vpost doesnt use our account as a personal database for reminders or messages. Everything is done through our personal email and it gets SO MESSY after a while. We have to refer to our email, then refer to our vpost account, email that address for ABC and email this address for XYZ. It is clearly inefficient! Am i the only one that has a grouse with the system? Anyway i dug this up after so long, because today i received a package from US, nothing to do with Vpost this time, thank goodness. But the sender did not pack all my items into the parcel. In fact, he only sent 1/4 of the products i ordered. ISNT THAT INSANE. I have 3/4 of my whole package missing from the DAMN PARCEL and it's worth like $200+++. SO PISSED OFF, because the sender has to resend me the missing items and i have to incur MORE vpost charges. Just emailed the sender and he still hasnt got back to me. If he makes me pay extra shipping within the US im really going to blow up. Labels: vPost sucks
Monday, July 21, 2008
I saved this for a long time so i can do it on restless nights like these. From yvonne, my ahlianz and bloggerpalz.20 Questions xxx my answers and thoughts are in black, and i put a substantial amount of thought into this! A] People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs & replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves. B] Tag 8 people to do this. 1-8: cerise, jeanette, Amelia #1. If your lover betrayed you, what will your reaction be? DOUBLE STANDARD BASTARD!!! FUCKING HYPOCRITE. GO TO HELL. WTF. YOU MEAN THAT BITCH IS BETTER THAN ME???!! SHIT YOU MEAN I'M SO FRIGGIN UGLY??? whhhatt realllyyy... :( in my head i imagine i'ld give him a tight slap, but i wonder if i'ld really. Guys think with their dicks - wise words from my mother. #2. If you can have a dream come true, what would it be? MMm... I have a dream.... my dream is too become successful. What is 'successful'? Be filthy rich? Grow taller and grow bigger boobs? No. I want to be someone everyone wants to emulate for the right reasons. I want to inspire people and be as unique as an individual can be... I want to be the type of women you read about and want to be because she is strong. She never backs down and she has dreams to accomplish great things. She falters, she is still human....(of course some jaded years later i may just want to find a rich husband and get a dog.) #3. If you could be at one place right now, where would it be? This might be a weird answer but i want to be in Thailand right now!! I've been going there at least once every year, except this year when i went to Japan instead and I REALLY MISS THAILAND!!!  I miss the food, the pork noodles WOAH, the people, the chio university girls in the tight white tops and black mini-skirts, the congested streets, the less than clean air, the street stalls, roadside hawkers EVERYTHING!!! Of course shopping too, but my answer is not that shallow ok...  #4. Are you confused as to what lies ahead of you? This is something i hate to admit but yes, i am confused. I would like to have my life planned out, to have a clear road that leads to a shiny pot of gold at the end but all i have now are questions and doubts. #5. What's your ideal lover like? My ideal lover is someone who i can share my passions with...who surprises me occasionally with romantic ideas and makes me feel loved and important. who remembers anniversaries and special occasions. Who puts in effort into the relationship to make it exciting. who always understands. Who keeps to his promises and doesnt disappoint. A man who is responsible and mature and who doesnt say "i love you"s at the drop of a pin till it becomes so meaningless. #6. Which is more blessed, loving someone or being loved by someone? Yvonne cheated on this answer lor, she said both are blessing. MEHHH. Obviously, it is more blessed to be loved by someone. Loving someone will hurt you some time in some cosmic universe and hurting...well is not blessed in a very sensible way. It hurts!! Hurt = pain = not good = cry = not blessed. Yes you can preach about how loving someone is so great and blar blar blar. I know you can spin some poetic lines and make us fall on our knees at how romantic and noble it was but it's better being loved. you feel good when someone pampers you. The person who loves you will do things to make you happy. The person who loves you is also happy that he loves you. win-win!! #7. How long do you intend to wait for someone you really love? Time waits for no men, especially in Singapore. While watching Leap Years (Wong LiLin), there was a quote that stuck with me. The phrase "settling down" - getting married and having children - finally "settling down"- she mentioned something like, "maybe that's what marriage really is, you settle for something less." I dont want to be like that you know...i dont want to settle...but sometimes life pushes you in the wrong way. Time is too short and society is too harsh. And can you REALLY LOVE somebody? What if you wait your whole life and that person never comes. What if that person never exists? Half the time we all settle. Im sure we all settle... #8. If the person you secretly like is already attached, what would you do? This is always tragic, but you know, i'll just continue liking the person from afar...Dream about what ifs and hope that he'll notice me until.... I know seeing him with his other half would make my stomach knot and my heart sigh a little more...but what can one do. Those in love, are fools... #9. Is there anything that has made you unhappy these days? yes. #10. What do you want most in life? From the botton of my heart, what i want most in life, is to find an answer to this question. #11. Is being tagged fun? yeahhhh!!! love seeing my name on other people's blogs!!!! >.< #12. How do you see yourself in ten years time? Still looking like a 20 year old...obsessing over sunblock...and then everything is foggy. which is why i need an answer to Question number 10. #13. Who is the current most important person to you? I am the most important person to myself. I dont want to depend on others and get too comfortable because one day, they might not be there anymore. #14. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is? Yvonne is very pious - She mentioned God at least like 50 times in this entire question thingy, she also has a pretty cute boyfriend!!!!!!!!!! Yvonne gave me a close run for my money in our WHO IS THE BIGGER AH LIAN contest. she won in the end actually but actually she's totally not ah lian (LIKE ME LIKE ME) and she's very ang mo pai even after having gone to a cheena secondary school heh heh. She sat on the other side of the class room from me - the West side as i call it, cause the West side and the East side never mixed till quite some time later. Maybe it was the blogging episode that drew us closer... Yvonne is kool, but be careful because she has Ebola. #15. Would you rather be single & rich or married but poor? Tough... i could have a boyfriend and be rich right...like Samantha in Sex and the City. That doesnt seem that bad...I like sushi too.     Or i can be like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt - Single and Rich, and might i add, very happy and fulfilled.  #16. If you could have any animal for a pet, what would it be? Capybara. #17. Name one of those things which you would prefer not to do for the rest of your life. Shave and pluck! No hair in unwanted places and gorgeous hair where it's supposed to be!! #18. What kind of person do you think you are? Who am i to judge myself! I dont know... WANNABE i guess, because i wannabe alot of things but i dont know if i'll ever get to them. #19. What do you define as a bad day? When Murphy's Law strikes, it is surely a bad day. #20. Would you change yourself for the person you love? Why do i want to change? Does the person i love want me to change? If the person i love wants me to change then he doesnt love me. I can improve on my flaws but i cant change who i am.  #2 Girl school for life! Labels: Thoughts
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Right now i feel empty so this space will resonate with silence as the words get blanked out. They are still here, but can you see them...? Maybe we all fail to see some things in life. Labels: Thoughts
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
I'm really dying at work. I am soooo bored i don't mind opening every incense canister to count the number of incense sticks there are...and maybe even mix them up so i can rearrange them again... :/A Boring Day  This was the road show at Great World City. Today i'm situated at Kallang Leisure Park which is really quiet. Can't decide which is the lesser of the two evils - working at a road show where you can't really sit down and relax or working at Kallang where there's nothing to do but sit down and relax. Please insert my glum face in the picture above.  Lunch a few days ago, was Spinach Lasagna from Da Paulo's which was rather gritty. Soil? Did not really like the combination of spinach, cheese and tomato sauce. Maybe i should have just stuck with the regular lasagna. My staple diet over there consisted of take away sushi from Ichiban Boshi. I can never have enough of salmon sashimi! Anyhow the roadshow at Great World City has ended. Bought a tub of Island Creamery's Teh Tarik icecream home and tried Old Chang Kee's new Chilli Crab flavoured curry puff which was surprisingly pretty good! There were dubious chucks of "crab" meat inside. I suspect it must be...some kind of fish paste or something. OCK also has a new black pepper crab or chicken flavoured curry puff. Shall try that soon!  Ok where is this! The 2 botak heads surely must give the whole thing away... On the chartered bus on the way to the jetty... It has been 7 days since Nic enlisted. SEVEN DAYS!!! It feels damn long and for real, NS sucks to the core. Everytime i think of NS i think "2 years" and 2 years IS, a bloody long, long time.... :/ You think you have your whole life ahead of you but do you really? We should all live everyday as if it were our last. Pick up a skill, learn a new instrument, make your first million dollars... Time stops for no men and i cant put it into better words than Perry Moore:
It's so true isn't it? You have to create your own miracles... Random convo between my mom and my dad after telling them how great the BMT school now looks: M: If Singapore goes to war... BINGO! Last Saturday: Decided to walk home from SAJC after dance vetting on Saturday. It was already evening at around 6pm so the weather was great and the scenery was swell. i often lament that i dont get to see enough sky in Singapore because of all the high-rise buildings and sky-scrapers. The sky in Singapore doesn't look boundless and free, it looks smothering and restrained.  Clouds are amazing.  Random tree along the neighbourhood...  Same random tree! Love my neighbourhood. On the way back i saw at least 15 different breeds of dogs. Most of the houses had 2 big dogs of the same breed which is so cute because at least the dogs have a companion to spend the rest of their lives with. and then, random pictures of a dragonfly in my garden.     my dad caught it by it's tail and had fun with it for a while. Childhood memories are a great thing to carry with you into your later stages in life. Anyway what camera am i using? Definitely it's a CANON. Canon is the BEST! Swear by canon. The macro mode is so ACE and this is just a normal digi cam...can't imagine what the shot would look like with a DSLR... I have about 1 hour left till i knock of. Hallelujah!!! Labels: ArtyFarty, quotes, random, work
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors, "Troll Bridge"
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Time is flying by. I still do not know what I should major in and i think the dateline is almost up. :( Sent nic off to BMT school over at Pulau Tekong, which, i must emphasis is like a resort, complete with waterfront view. We were given a tour of the facility where everything looked unlike what i thought BMT school would look like. Even the the bunks which the boys are sleeping in are so big and clean. One room is the size of a primary school classroom which could fit up to 40+ students and only 12 guys sleep in there. AND they actually hire external help to wash the bedsheets for the guys once a week. WHAT? (no, i think the boys should wash their own bedsheets geez)They have air-conditioned games room, air-conditioned lecture halls and really lovely looking swimming pools. NS men today more fit but not as tough? Do i agree? Now i TOTALLY AGREE, but who's to blame? I did feel as though BMT has become what it is today due to parents. Our personal tour guide, (i have an inkling he was an SAJC counselor but i cant be sure) ensured all the fathers and mothers there that their sons were in good hands, put it in a bad way, he almost seemed to be kissing ass because that's what it takes to appease Singapore parents nowadays. Apparently one crazy parent did not believe that the dorms were as clean as what was presented for viewing so she went to every single floor in the building to go and check... At this rate, BMT is going to have gourmet meals and in house maids to clean up after the recruits in a few decades time... As usual, we had our "last meal" with them before taking the ferry back to Singapore. The journey back seemed somewhat longer than before. Nic was smiling the entire time but i know that he only did so because he didnt want us to worry... Thinking about it now, it's going to be 2 long years, not just 2 months...We didnt get to do all the things i envisioned we would be doing before he left which is kind of sad... Ah, lost time, where do we go back to to retrieve it? Dance Practice:       hey hey hey! I look so retarded! wheee! And that is weiliang lying on a blue yoga mat. Amelia promised him she would not upload her vid where weiliang was sitting on the mat pretending to be Aladdin! HAHAHAH. CLASSIC!  anyway i went to watch BBoyz and Ballerina while it was showing at the Esplanade and I did not enjoy it as much as i would. I really have to criticize the ballerinas who were doing Fourth Grade work. The choreography for them was uninspiring and resembled a flat and boring recital piece drawn up by a hip-hop/bboy who has no clue about ballet.I give them the benefit of the doubt though, that the screening in Korea was probably 1o times better than the screening in Singapore. The trailers on youtube were different and while the ballerina in the photo above was doing pointe work, the ballerinas (different ones i think) during the Singapore screening were in normal ballet shoes. The lead, beautiful no doubt, became a flower vase in the end, mustering up half-assed ballet and half-assed hip hop - travesty. Halfway through i felt as though i was watching a painfully long extended version of a Danceworks! item - yes at that standard. Parts of the story were possessed with demonic like music, lighting and steps which failed to convey the theme succinctly and skillfully. Horrible pas de deux sequence - if you would even call it one...ok maybe not. Boring and unimpressive lifts nevertheless. According to Nic, the Bboys were not very good as well... Very nice Korean touches here and there. It was overall good entertainment, but less so because of the dancing. The show's only redeeming factor was the Gorilla Crew doing hiphop for the show. Their energy bubbled and exploded across the stage and they were the obvious crowd pleasers with their popping. I knew i was in for a cliche storyline, but honestly, this could have been so much better with better choreography. The dancers could have done a lot more given the material, i believe. Labels: dance, Dance Practice, Nic
Friday, July 04, 2008
Katee and Joshua do it again!!OMG I CANNOT GET OVER THE PAIR OF THEM. I LOVE THEM, maybe even as much as alison and ivan. Props to them, i love their stage presence, expression, emotion. if we can project as much emotion in our rapture item it would be mind blowing. anyway after 4 seasons and countless dancers i still think Natalie from Season 2 packed the most punch during her ballroom dances. Heidi comes in a close second, but Natalie was really a little spitfire. Season's 4 dancers dont quite cut it for me this time around even though auditions were supposed to be the toughest. Lack of versatility and probably even program editing... Anyway i'm really ill so i'm off work. ugh. Happy that i dont have to work but stuck with the worst hacking cough in my life. I can lie and bed and hear my phlegm making rippling and gurgling sounds as my lungs contract and send my windpipe into spasms. My throat feels raw and i also have a block nose. My mucus refuses to get blown out and when i try, my ears become blocked and i feel as though im this close to rupturing a blood vessel in my temple. Thick, viscous and yellow bodily secretions. it is that disgusting and i am that sick. nobody is here to pamper me and take care of me - personal attack on my bf who loves me to death one moment and conveniently wipes me out of his life the next. That is the difference between a couple and a friend, is obligation. the obligation to keep a promise, the obligation to call or message, the obligation to share and the obligation to see each other through. how many times has it been, leaving me waiting and wondering, canceling at the last minute, casting me off... so many things left unsaid, i think i dont even have the full story. maybe he is too tired. maybe he forgets. perhaps i am stubborn. perhaps i ask for too much. i feel like we have so little time left...i feel like we squandered our time. ah, is it because you are enlisting on Wednesday? are you trying to catch up with lost time? it is a pity that the time is not with me... Adele Axwell... such a beautiful voice; bittersweet song... Labels: dance, SYTYCD, Thoughts
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