SIngapore Flyer

Not much time to blog.... i went to the Singapore Flyer with NUS cos it was cheaper. Otherwise it would have costed 1buck for one min for the public. Too bad it rained that day but somehow, the rain made the night scenery more romantic. It was ok la.... The flyer didnt exactly blow my mind away, nor was i particularly excited to be there..... I wun say i wudnt go back again..... maybe until the IR is fully built.

And there is POPEYE CHICKEN there! ahhaha. alrighty i will let the pictures do the talking

Nite Cycling plus Misc shit

Ok i know CNY was like donkey years ago but i just had to include these photos to get it out of my system. This was taken at Shuhong's place with all the DHS Scout-y pple.... Seriously, not to be a narcissist (that i am), but dun you think i aged the best among the guys?? Really really take a closer look.... a little effort on styling and hair product goes a long way. ok now that that's out of my system, back to the main topic.

NITE CYCLING!!!! my last nite cycling so fun!!! Had to tandem with steph for 1/3 of the journey cos she cant cycle but insisted on trying hahaha ok la good effort.... at least now she can say she attended nite cycling as a CYCLIST!! Havent had so much fun in blk for a very long time... somehow i feel the longer you stay in hall, the lonelier you get....no? ok stop emo-ing.

The blk at Cosy Bay bridge....

At glutton's square (?).... the mee soto was quite good thou, personally speaking

we even cycled into the Fort Canning Tunnel!!! haha i always tot it's forbidden to cycle inside tunnel... or expressway for that matter. Oh and did i mention we cycled the nite Mas Selamat escaped?? And there were like cisco guards (not becos of Mas Selamat but becos the hall insisted) excorting us thru-out the entire journey... damn funny!!! They had to stop at junctions and on their sirens.... seriously lor. Over the top..... like cars dunno how to stop when they see like 300 pple cycling ('___' ")

In the end we made so much noise pple had to write to STOMP to complain about us.... LOSER!!

who the hell snaps pictures at 4am and them go and complain to STOMP??!! No wonder singaporeans are world class complainers.... elittle little things also complain. FAINTZZZ

The final years....

...... and the 2nd floor fuckers

My nether region ached for days but it was all worth it!! Bananas rock!

Update!! (part vingt sept)

1. So this week has been super hectic for me... i finally started my first real temp job. As a housekeeper at Swissotel. The staff rooms and basement were like a humongous labyrinth... there's North and south tower, there's the different lifts to get to different levels... if you take the wrong one it will send u straight to level 39 and above.... then there's the crazy rules that u have to remember, the freakishly heavy duvet and duvet covers that you have to fit together... and the impossibily many postitions of the toilet and cabinet items you have to memorise... but its all fun. I even got a US $2 tip on my first day of work...

The aunties are all pretty nice and the food's not bad too. Many people ask me why am i even doing this.... aiyah for the fun of it and for the experience la... i havent done any temp job in my LIFE. and i think now is a good time to start. I should really get a new pair of black shoes thou cos the ones i have now are seriously not conducive for standing long periods of time... i blame the heels... (well, heels, by men's standards)

2. All those people i'm supposed to interview for my FYP are like seriously flying me kite. All postpone at the very last minute... like the night before "sorry i got urgent things to settle, can we meet next week instead". Wah lao if this goes on i will have NOTHING to show for my report. zilch... a whole lotta nada.

3. All KR items got through panel judging!! Which means i will be performing in 3 items for Dance nite!! SO exciting right!??!i cant wait for practices to come soon!!! i cant wait to dance more!! and abuse my tired legs!

4. i think there was a crane collapse at the construction site at business.... and 3 pple died... EXACTLY WHY I DUN WANNA WORK IN CONSTRUCTION.... i dun wanna die a premature death, getting crushed by mysterious objects and die without even knowing what hit me. that's just sad.

5. My china bought mp3 player which has served me well for the past 3 years suddenly died on me and i promptly bought a new creative zen mp3 player, courtesy of my sister! So cool! haha.... so black and shiny! i like shiny things! haha.

basically thats all.... somehow. i think. i like my life better when i am busy. otherwise.... i'm pretty much doing nothing in my room.

Le jour d'amour

Aye another year of dateless Valentine's.... and i end up with Siwei and Moses for dinner at botak jones... pretty worth the money... gigantic proportions... but the food was only so so.... but seriously the Whoopass Cheesy Fries really whooped our asses man.... we almost puked out what we ate...

We waited very long for our food so they gave us a bowl of complimentary soup thats basically a concoction of chicken bones, rice, celery... and stuff that i cant identify. It was rather tasteless but props for the good service!

Some salad thing that Siwei ate

and the burger that moses had

look how happy the boy is....

the abovementioned WHoopass fries

and me looking my most unglam eating the cajun chicken

ahhh alas the elusive Siwei was nowhere to be seen cos he was busy taking pics and eating... wahaha oh wellz. Kinda sucks to be single on V Day isnt it?

Chinese New Year Musings

After one year of absence from Chinese New Year, i decided to come out with a bang this year!! WOOHOO! Dun i look absolutely minimalistic-chic in this attire??!! Love it! ahahha okok. enuff of my narcissistic, self stroking ego nonsense.... Let the pictures do the talking!

4 days break is just what i needed to take a break from school, from dancing to let my sore ankles heal... CNY was pretty much same old same old... i thought i would enjoy it more, but i dont.... oh but i did play my first mahjong of the year at Shuhong's place... and i WON!! Ping hu men qing zi mo ka long!!!! LOL

I think my cousin is growing up so fast, that cute little boy... adore him to bits. Sometimes i wished i had a little brother....

alrighty now... time to get back to work. And damn do i make a fine looking chap. WAHAHA... i shall stop now

UPDATE!! (part vingt six)

1. ahhh my french has officially become sucky.... the numbered Updates were part of my plan to stay in touch with the language (no matter how insignificant it may be) and of cos to watch as many french movies online .... then i realised i couldnt even spell six in french.... when its actually the same spelling.

2. My interim presentation was over last week. And Dr Beer gave me 9s and 10s out of a possible score of 10. Which prompted Siwei to ask if i slept with the Prof..... No i did not. I'm just good at acting stupid and endearing and giving my oh-god-thats-a-good-question-but-i-have-no-idea-how-to-answer-you face when i am asked tough questions.

Didnt think i did so well with Prof Chan thou cos i stole a glanceand saw a 7 on my paper when i met with him yesterday. No matter.... i am so OVER my FYP at this point in time. Its draining the shit out of me... when in fact i havent done much

3. Argh.... 4 years in dance. No chance to be lead. Which makes me question my proficiency as a dancer... Nuff said.

4. Is it just me or there is zero Chinese New Year mood to speak of? To think that i missed CNY last year... i shud be looking forward to it more than usual. But i am not... not really. I just wanna eat pineapple tarts, bak kwa and all the junk i can lay my fingers on.

5. Celebrated Robson's 25th on Monday. Alcohol (thanks to my concoction of cointreau, vodka orange juice and cranberry juice), food and card games in the middle of the night...ahhh good times. 16 chicken wings among 6 people.... i got so sick of it i declared no chicken wings for one week.

I promptly bought another chicken wing 2 nights later.

6. i feel the need to do something explosive... something i have never done before.... but i cant put a finger to it...

photo update....

ok i know my blog has suffered in terms of lack of photos so here they are, all from funka.

now that it's finally over, i can concentrate on my FYP and shit like that.... argh. no i dun want it to end.... i love my team...:(

Ladies and Gentlemen

I present to you.... 8-Gz

it's been a long time since i was

this excited about a movie....

Update!!! (part vingt cinq)

1. Interim report is due on Monday and Prof seems pretty happy with my draft yesterday... which i basically rushed out in less than a week. Still frantically trying to get hold of people to interview... was supposed to hit a targeted 8 people (on my part).... but he thinks 4 is enuff.... Somehow i think Prof Chan just wants me to do the bare MINIMAL... which me thinks is Woots!

2. Siwei is coming back soon and i cant wait. FINALLY. 13Jan. I even highlighted it in my calendar.

3. I remembered how i used to complain i have no free days for the past 3 years (no thanks to french which takes up 6 hours of my time). Well, last sem i had a 2 day week... and this sem i will be having..... 1 DAY WEEK!! beat that bitches.

4. Funka prelims is all set on 20th Jan Sunday at Central Forum at 1pm!! we are the 5th team so do come support!! Progress have been relatively slow.... i just wished some people would put in some effort in remembering steps... tsk. Otherwise, this dance is all set and ready to wipe out digusting memories of Funka past.

5. And DU practices is going to start tonite! Cant wait. I am a dancewhore and i LOVE it.

6. A hallmate tried to con me into joining MLM.... seriously. I HATE IT!!! Bitch.

7. New year, New beginnings... Same shit. Nuff Said.

Argh good riddance 2007

remember i said 2007 was a really bad year with super suay luck? its new years eve and i have been having diarrhea (over 10 times) since 4am in the morning. I vomited once and vomited water twice. I went to see doctor but the medicine doesnt seem to be working..... and i am upset to say that i will be staying at home on freaking New Years Eve, severely dehydrated and tired, but i cant seem to go to sleep.....

In review

2007. One year. 12 months. 52 weeks. 365 days. 525600 mins.

I sort of hate 2007. Despite it being one of the more eventful year of my life. i got to go to france... and met a bunch of wonderful people. I got to live by myself (if you take the snoring roomate out of the equation), and realised i am more independant than i really am. I manage to get myself out of the shit i encountered overseas.... and then shit that happened when i came back home.

But it's been a tiring year, with bad luck bombarding me one after another. and i feel listless and restless and lethargic most of the time. Nothing i have done is REALLY rewarding and i'm not exactly proud of anything and it feels like i have wasted a year... or maybe i'm not giving myself enuff credit. Argh i dunno.

I've never felt lonelier and in retrospect, i've only got myself to blame. Somehow i have this inate talent of shutting myself from the rest of the world and still feel ok. With my super winsome personality and top it off with a face thats perpetually black. Argh. Its not my fault that i have nothing to smile about. Whats there to happy about??? Zilch. Rien. Nada.

And what's there to look forward to in 2008? Work. NICE. absolutely looking forward to THAT.

I need a booster. i need to FIND my booster. I need to stop sitting on my ass. I need to start writing my interim report for my FYP which is NOT GOING ANYWHERE. I need to send out more resumes because no one seems to be interested in a "expected 2nd lower honours" loser. I need to dance. I need to work out. I need to smile more. I need to... stop whining.

Merry Christmas. And have a happy fucking new year to all.

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i am SWARMED with so many things i cant breathe.... oh did i mention its the holidays?

My interview went horribly, as expected. Couldnt think fast enuff even thou they asked easy questions.... it's like my mouth just blurted out random words, hoping they wud make a sentence by itself..... and i'm almost certain i sounded like a retard. I just wanted to dig a hole and hide my face in it there and then. SO SO BAD. Hopefully its just the first interview thats so awful.....

Did a written test for some department for Mindef. Quite fun. Thou i'm quite sure i am not supposed to post anything about it online.... so i wun talk about it. Just that it's probably not the job for me if i'm required to write Political Science papers every single day... i wud probably DIE.

Dance camp was fun but mega tiring.....my whole body is aching like shit. Somehow i think i cant absorb dance steps as fast as i did last time.... like the MAX i can take in is 8 8s per day if not its overload....

The whole routine of half yearly meetups are repeating yet again and i cant wait. WOOTS!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

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Dont get nightmares over it thou.... HAHA!!

UPDATE!! (part vingt quartre)

1. Exams are over.... and so is one semester of lackluster performance. And that means one more sem and i'll be SO done with school.

2. Funka meetings so far has been pretty productive.... the song is finally (almost) out... and now comes the tough part. Cant believe i made myself choreo.... even thou i specifically said i didnt want to.... massively looking thru youtube videos so i can come out with something decent to erase past memories of a horrific performance

3. and i got my FIRST JOB INTERVIEW with URA!!!! SCORE!!! hahaha. Its only contract basis thou.... hopefully i wun screw up too badly during the interview and appear like a COMPLETE fool. Frantically looking thru URA's website in hopes of looking more intelligent on Wednesday. Cross your fingers for me at 3.10pm haha.

4. Just received email regarding FYP submission and first presentation.... Have to hand in 5 page summary of what i have done so far on Jan 14. KAN NI NA>..... now is a good time to start panicking...... WHY WHY WHy during the semester i am so free.... den during holidays i am so much busier!!!

5. Still looking for my ideal job, still flipping Straits Times Recruits section like mad.... why arent the hotels having management trainee programs??!! ARGH... thats my dream job

6. Dance camp next week.... cant wait.

2 days in Paris

i havent been to the movies in a bloody long time.... in fact the last movie i saw was License to Wed....which i am too embarrassed even to say it here.... Which was why i was super excited to have come chanced upon 2 Days in Paris, thanks to my trusty 8 days. Directed, written and edited by Julie Delpy of Before Sunrise/Sunset fame, this shizz is Literally laughed out loud funny!!! And i watched it online.... so it's free... HAHAH but do watch it in the cinema (only The Cathay is playing it) cause there arent any subtitles for the French speaking parts of the film (which is about half the time in the movie).....

Aye watching this movie made me think of France again..... I LOVE FRANCE, despite the shitloads of crap i've experienced there, no thanks to the administration and people. It the mere fact that i was immersed in a culture totally different from Singapore that made it so special, and memorable. Anyway, i leave you with the trailer to 2 Days in Paris

Nostalgia

My Saturday nite was spent youtube-ing music videos of boybands of yesteryears. From the usual suspects like BSB and Nsync to the lesser known ones like 5ive, 911 and Code Red. Nostlagia came flooding back to me... with all the funky dance moves and floppy hair (but unfortunately cheesy outfits that consist of tight sleeveless tees and sweat pants). I remembered having to squeeze out a dance choreo for NSYNC's "It's tearing up my Heart" for my VJ's orientation performance in one nite.... which turned out to be GOD AWFUL and the days when carol and skee splattered their files with posters of 911 and Code Red. Oh good god, i'm old.

Good times man.

Death by OD-ing from cake

On my bday itself, we went to my sister's place at Seng Kang for the first time... to pray and stuff. Waited for the fengshui master to come... wait until leg pain cos nowhere to sit. Notice the agony on my face

After which we went to a Western restaurant at Punggol park... right beside the lake. DAMN COOL! i never knew such a place existed VEry good food.... and at damn good prices too! NO GST!!! kio dio KIM!!! haha.

I basically OD'd on cake this past week.... 5 diff cakes.... cheesecake, blackforest cake, peach-jelly cheesecake, brownie cake and banana mousse chocolate cake..... i've never eaten so many cakes in my LIFE.... its like they are oozing out from all the orifices of my body.... now i wanna puke when i smell of cake..... hahaha good time. Now... back to reality and time to hit the books

24.... but none the wiser...

It's been a long time since i've look forward to growing older and partied this hard... probably because i'm so free i got nothing to think about. Dinner, clubbing, surprise after surpise celebrations, and more clubbing.... haha i dun think i even did so much for my 21st..... THANKS to all my friends for the wonderful surprises, appreciate it very much. in the meantime, here are some pictures from last nite!

24, but none the wiser.... and i think i can officially say i am having my one-third life crisis...

Zouk'd

Zouk on the eve of Deepavali..... BAD IDEA. Half the Singapore population thought it was a good idea to go clubbing on the same night, and its as if Zouk was the only place open in the entire country. The line to Velvet snaked all the way to the basement carpark of Copthorne and the line to Zouk and Phuture went all the way to the bloody canal. How crazy is that. I arrived at 945pm and only got in at 11pm. And it freaking cover charge at Velvet was 30 for guys and 20 for girls.... EARN LIKE CRAZY MAN!!! and that doesnt include the copious amounts of alcohol people buy!!

And thats not the worst part... they started playing Ye Lai Xiang, Cha Cham Bo and Veneru Valiba..... the Indians present must have hyperventilated. And the best way to get over the horrendous music ..... alcohol. Tequila, Vodka, Rhum, Whisky, Gin and Beer all mixed into one tummy.... i was officially smashed by 230am. And talking incessantly on MSN after i ger drunk seems to be the latest way i like embarrassing myself. Aye. Who's turning 24 again?!

It's the Spice Girls bitch

They are baaaaack!!! one million YAYs!! haha. Thou the song hasnt grown on me yet, and its a cheesy pop ballad (shouldnt an up tempo song be more appropriate for a comeback?!)... i'm just excited they are back together for now!

Update (part vingt trois)

1. I figured since my ippt window was almost up, i'd better take it before getting charged even thou i didnt actually train for it cept for the the last minute running sessions 3 weeks before. And i still managed to get 100bucks!! haha. i was hoping i cud use all my gu lat to do more pullups, but i guessed i've passed my prime and getting silver was wishful thinking on my part. i only managed 6 1/2 pullups haha. So embarrassing.

Quite amazed with the whole automated setup now.... DAMN COOL!!! u just put the tag on the floor, and do situps whenever you are ready, and the screen in fronts flashes the number of seconds left and a voice calls out the no of situps you have done!! macam like automated telephone operator service. HAHA!!

2. Exams are round the corner but i still have projects, assignments, presentation and FYP to worry about. EEeeks. so much for having only 2 modules this sem.

3. Freakish weather. Super cloudy in the morning, then sun out for 2 hours and just when i was about to go for a swim, the temperature dropped a couple of degrees again. Aye.

4. Been getting a couple of comments that i have a black, sometimes a too-cool-to-care face. Really meh>?? i'm just born that way. i am FRENLY!!! right?! and there's nothing to smile about 24/7 anyway.

5. Met up with Seeyong, Song yao and Edina for dinner the other nite. Good times. Old frens are still better...

6. and supper with Aili, Jp and Yunn. Woots! Who said my social life was non-existant?! hehs

7. Looking forward to dinner next tuesday to celebrate my birthday! yay! Turning 24, but non the wiser. Whatever.

Peace out