All Out Craziness

PICTORIALS!!!

I'm truly sorry about the horrendously late post. I've been procrastinating, been stuffed with work and of course, cramming my driving lessons into 2 weeks before the deadline. Every morning for the past week I've been waking up at 7am (back to the good ole' JC days!) and taking the road to ulu Bukit Gombak (not very ulu when you actually get there) Last week every instructer that took me gave the same appalled look when they glanced at my lesson paper thingi and always ask the xsame thing: Your exam next month!? Can make it anot?? *tries not to sound too discouraging* Then I tell them I've crammed 15 lessons in 10 days (I go for lessons twice a day somedays) and the blood continues to flow to their face. Machiam I going to bang car like that.

So on the days that I have 2 lessons, I have a 2 hour break (which, Siyi very kindly accompanied me through today's killer 2 hour break)


Gombak Macs! My hangout for the past 1.5 weeks and will be for a long time should I not pass my driving test.

Time for the tribute/thanking part! I know I've kinda been MIA to some, especially since 1, my monthly sms quota was reached and grossly overshot last month. 2) I reach home late from work and can't stay up late due to my 7am rising thingi - I don't wanna fall asleep at the wheel, crash the car and get 12 points/die. 3) Even when I'm online I'm handling my Aussie shitty applications, so I often appear offline. I pontanged work a couple of times, which made me feel like shit after that because of the guilt.

Ok enough about me.


More about the people in my life and how I hit 19 this awful 2008. Thank you all thouse who spilt wax/burnt themselves/burnt their hair/inhaled poisonous CO gas/ sweated like crazy to make this wild idea of a name for me. Haha, I apologise if I seemed ungrateful and unimpressed that evening, I was under the stress of an A level student. HAHA... But I loved ever waxy bit of it guys!!! :D Thanks for the sweat.
the first 'cake' of the year! This one truly was a shocker coming from people I didn't expect. Sho shweet hor..

And on that Thursday, these cunning and extremely comical people/bunch from church decided to scare the hell out of me. (no that doesnt make me a saint now though) haha. A very schemingly devised plan was made to bring me out of the house while 15 people crammed into my very very small living premise. They brought pre-prepared food (so painstakingly cooked by Wendy!) cake, and even decorations!!!

BEFORE

My sister sneaked a photo of the hectic preperations they made while I was downstairs 'fetching' another friend from the bustop. I was so touched when I saw this photo!! Look at the stressed faces!!! all the huffing, puffing and climbing by Mr Monkey Gerald to stick the balloons on the window. Thank goodness he didn't fall out man, my windows, like the rest of the house, are breaking down and on the verge of dropping out.

That's Wendy! (the superwoman T-shirt she has on is really apt for all the trouble she went through to cook all that food and lure me out for lunch the previous day)
AFTER

Look at their faces! Satiating their hunger after a 2 hour hell of stress.Heheh... I bugged my mummy to buy ballonons for me Helium one!! :DAnd wah lao I took pictures of all the funny gifts people got me but some glitch in my com happened and now they're all gone. Bah... save for this one from bong and paul. Stupid keychain!! HAha.. but it's damn funny and I'm gonna keep it on my phone. (If you can't read, it says Cuiman, as usual.) Haha... My sister+Lionel got me this delux garlic/mushroom/onion/potato dicer!! It's damn cool, although its an explicit hint for me to cook for them. pooi. Haha... Mings got me food!! which I finished like, within 24 hours lor.. Thanks mings! Sustenance came in really really helpful! THey were my breakfasts for several days, (I bet you're now frowning upon my unhealthy lifestyle because most of what she gave me was chocolates and very sweet things like biscuits and raisins) heh..

And the GONG LI mask-solution thingi from the bunch!! Damn funny the way aiping wrapped gongli's face around the bottle, it actually looked very genuine. HAHA... And picks! :D Thank youuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!

And of course the dress from oily and siyi. They think too highly of me and gave a dress that was like 10 sizes too small. Sorry I fat la... HAha, but siyi got it changed already and it makes me look like a kawiii CHIJ girl now, (siyi I'm gonna wear a white Tee inside next time!) HAha...

And the wonderful noticeboard from Nat and Cons!!! I shall post a photo up soon once I get the time once again!

Ok randomness, I was watching Batman the movie one day and Robin Goh that same evening, so it came out pretty funny looking in my organiser. Ok the '&' was added after I saw the positioning of the shows. HAha.. Ok I bet you guys dont get it. nvm, my brain not working already. As you can see this ain't one the intellectual posts. HAHA

LOVE YOU ALL!

poooi

No time to blog! But thank you alll!! REaly really really, somemore my sms run out la, i'll send out 1 week late thank-yous soon. update soon. I'm crammed with driving lessons and work this week.

I think I'm a hazard on the road

By Jove!

I almost forgot what next week was and stupidly turned in my schedule to work on Thursday night. In case any of you dare to forget, it's my birthday next thursday!! Plus, it's going to be my last birthday spent in sunny singapore for the next 4 years :(.

I can't believe that I'm going to spend my 21st birthday away. Oh well I guess I'm not going to be the only one seeing that term runs from end Feb to June followed by mid July to end October, only that small fraction of Jan, Feb, June, October November and December babies will have the honour of spending their birthday with family & friends down under.

It's time for the annual list!!

And remeber how I told everone I was gonna grow fat because of thyroid? I have. I've gained 4kg over the past 2-3 weeks. Absolutely fantastic isn't it? You wouldn't think any one would have the capability to gain such weight in such a short time. Try it yourself, it's not that easy. Even if you were to binge eat everyday, your body would automatically gain weight at a more sane rate unlike mine.

Ok back to happy issues aka The List.

Actually I can't think of many things this year, however I did get most of the things which I wanted last year, (take a look if you forgot) The Piaf CD<>

Having entered the working world, I'm now less strapped for cash when I want something, now I only know how difficult it is to work your ass of to earn that something whether it be a new guitar or an expensive item. (waitressing for that measely $6/hr only feels good for the first month or so)

1. A new Gibson guitar! Jazz guitar preferably, please come guitar shopping with me! Yes I know you all are saying 'isn't that blue Ovulation thingi guitar good enough??' Sorry greed has got the best of me.


2. Flawless skin like gong li


3. An Octaver pedal (i think that's what it's called) I've yet to locate one yet. It's a guitar effects pedal which shifts the E and A string one octave lower so that it sounds as if you're playing a bass guitar and guitar at once!


4. To lose all that weight I've piled up, someone sponsor me to be Mary Chia's spokesperson please!! or sponsor like Fann Wong's Xando or sth.


5. I need a new bag already.


6. A Prada bag, Gucci wallet and Guess heels. (so that I can sell all of them off to fund me buying a new guitar!!)


7. Someone to pull strings and get me a scholarship/bursary to fund my education for the next 4 years so that my mum can stop slogging.


8. A bicycle. (I'm dead serious, cheap one from Carrefour can already) I just can't buy a bike on my own accord cos my mum would slaughter me.


9. A laptop, even my 13 year old tuition kids have laptops. You know I've never had my own camera in my entire life either? The only camera I've ever owned was a disposible one whose filmed I saved for 3 years and the current camera phone I have. It's something I'll need when I go overseas anyways


10. a hao nan ren, as said in previous posts before, I needa man!!


11. The new Sony Ericsson 5mp phone!
12. See la all the things I want too expensive.

Continue another time

13. Loose clothing, you know the kind you wear with a belt? Yes that kind of ah-lian blouse, because it's comfortable and you can not worry about your belly sticking out.

14. I really can't think of anything viable because if I really wanted these things, I'd just buy it cos I'm earning,. well kinda.

Wah lao I'm so frustrated!! Firstly, I got robbed it broad daylight by the malay food stall downstairs, $4 for 2 measely peaces of mutton rendang! wah piang!! and then ah, I call the Music Lab (the place where I've been learning jazz guit the past month) to reschedule this week's lesson and their lousy no PR skill gm picks up the phone and tells me that I can only postpone lessons once every 4 lessons. bull crap, I argued back very nicely ok, so she said she'd check. stupid PR skill-less woman. she's been pissing me off since day one. just that I couldn't find another teacher. argh.

I'll just stop lessons and tell her it's because of her that they're losing a student. The teacher is really good, just that she sucks. Even the blur blur admin staff she hires are leagues better than her.

p00oo0o0ooiiiii!!!

Sights and Sounds

Let's begin with

Batman: The Dark Knight -which I caught on Sunday. I didn't even know the title of this movie except for the 'Batman' due to the large number of Batmans that have come and gone over the years. I did a little bit of googling and came up with the list of batmans. However, the stories all clash in some way or another, save for the one with George Clooney. Some say Two Face/Harvey Dent arose from a acid-spilt-on-face-accident, but some say it was because of a fire. Soooo... sadly all the Batmans can't be linked unless the actor/director works on them. E.g. Then's Michael Keaton and Now's Christian Bale who have both acted in 2 episodes each.

And did you know Batman first came out as a fat and pudgy hero?? REally unglam and fat. Arts central shows some of those B-grade episodes once in a while.

Ok enough of the facts and more on opinions. Good movie or not? It's really a matter of preference. I suppose compared to other Batman movies (George Clooney, Val Kilmer) this one's much better. Heath Ledger!!! =(

However I personally don't really like Batman to begin with, I prefer more light hearted, nerdy, less chauvanistic hero alter-egos such as Peter Parker compared to the masculine, over-achieving and flirtatious Bruce Wayne. Batman shows are always oozing with ceps, biceps, triceps, quadraceps, quintaceps, cheesy one-liners and cliche 'lessons-learnt', it's a movie style from a different time altogether, unlike modern movies such as Juno, american Gangster, etc. Script was really deliberate and unrealistic, perhaps because it's based on a comic book. It's not bad, it's just not what I prefer, get it? aiya, just watch la.

But Spiderman cuter. :D

speaking of shows I caught the recent one man + his band recital by Robin Goh. It was wittingly titled 'Happy Robin', which, if you notice, is a euphamism for him because our censorship board wouldn't allow something so explicit. It was rated R18. Sing song only leh, R18. Anyways, Robin Goh, in case you don't know, is a well-known name on stage, he was one of the Chang & Eng brothers, he was the Man in Man of Letters (ok I forgot the characters name la). He performed as Aladdin, in the Asian Boys Volumes, and much more. Basically he's a musical kind of guy, with an excellent voice. All right his showmanship isn't fantastic, but enough la. anyways he spent the evening belting songs about loving him and missing him and waiting for the right man (you get the idea) Which I found absolutely adorable. He talked about his first love, which was really cute, he's also quite a tiny guy, which also adds to his cuteness because everytime he got on his high stool he struggled like a child. Haha.. And as you can seee by the picture, he's extremely proud of his sexuallity and declares it loud and clear with his diamond ear stud! I've yet to see him without it. I bet it was gross for him to do kissing scenes with Emma Yong or whatever female co-star he had. HAha..

And not to forget!! RJ Rosales was there to support (along with a lot of big theatre-shots) like Emma Yong, Ivan Heng, (AC people, I saw Lee Th ean Ho there!!)

RJ is one stunner. My sister thinks he's probably gay, but I'd like to think he's not. He's so dreamy~!! Plus he's going to have his one-man+band recital in September too!! :D:D

Gleeeee.

Depapepe

Any budding guitarist keen to learn and jam this?? :D

Hostelsss

Hostel applications are such a PITA! (pain in the ass) Lousy websites with no direction sense whatsoever and e-mails who don't know the value of hyperlinks. st0opid st0opid st0opid..

Wahhh.. the papya I'm eating now is so sweet, if feels like it's been saturated and soaked in sugar.

Talked to Anli for like a while today and found out that she's on the verge of starving cos food is running out and it's so expensive. Snli!! Not war leh!! 21st century already!! Makes me wonder how my life down under will be like next year, thankfully the hostels provide food, but I havent't finished appliying yet because of the bitch that it is.

The fibre from the papaya's working.

And chio's entry was so touching, it's so coontagious, this whole tearing thing. See la chio!!

Lasik!

I had intended to blog before actually going for Lasik, but it looks like I've procrasticnated once again. Excuse the hoorendous typo errors, my vision still hasn't cleared up from yesterday. For all of you ou tthere who are thinking or are going for Lasik, herer's a lowdown on what's to be done, done, and hmm... what not to do! (i've gotten to like writing informative posts.)

Lasik

Most have heard of the procedure, and probably have a couple of friends who have gone for it, (if you don't now you do!) I have to friends who did theirs at 2 different times, 1 paid about 5K cos it had just started then, and another paid 4k for hers last year. Mine came up to 2.7k with all the miscellaneos idiot things, but the actual procedure itself cost $2388. (trust even the ang-mohish clinics to use this stupid 88 gimic.)

Read more here for the technical stuff, I can't give a very detailed write up now because I can't really read much in order to write, get what I mean? Going for Lasik gives mye the same feeling I got when I bought my babe guitar, it;'s something I've been waiting ages for!! Especially when your degree's 1000 each side, lasik gives you freedom!

I feel great now even though my vision i sn't as perfect as it should be, because I feel like I'm in heaven, everything has this glow, like, I can sorta read, but they all have this aura around it, its like I died and am now in heaven, haha... And I have things to drop into my eye hourly, I'm pratying there won't be any infection! The bulk of failed Lasiks are the result of infections, the procedure itself is pretty full proof, regulr LAsik has a 0.3% risk of failure, and the newer $200 more bladeless procedure which my mum told me to go for has almost zilch% risk. And I thought 0.3 was considered almost 0. Anways, pictures! I didn't get shots of the gear though, my batttery was flat.

As all surgeries they donned me in the typical blu tissue-ish gown, but this one was more comfy than the one I wore at NEC when I went for my cyst op. This Jap or korean girl called Nana attened to me and old me all the details, I must admuit it was quite annoying haveing to concentrate extra hard to get what she was saying, but she was really reallyl sweet and nice, she made milo for me!!

See the milo? And just the right temperature and gao-ness (thickness) too!! It was my 3rd cup of milo yesterday, hahaha... THe pre and post op waiting area was a little cubicle like place, basically the are is as large as a coffee table together with an armchair and standing room for a couple of people. The wait didn't feel long beacuse I had people like fei fei and my tuition kid smsing me. Plus I had my Michael Crichton book!(andnot to forget milo haha, So I was one very happy pre-op patient. I know it looks gross, many people experience bloodshot eyes after the op due to the suction cups placed in. Yes, suction cups. Groos right? It was painful, but it was kinda freaky, cod they kept telling meto lok straight when I cant see a thing, so I imagined lookings straight. The procedure itself was a mere 15 minutes, and the lasering was funny, you'd think lasers sound like this, piupiupiu!!

Noooooo! He let me hear hw it souded like before the actualy lasering so that I wouldn't get a fright. It was more of a really loud and rude kakakakakakakakaka.

And I could smell my cornea being burnt. Cao-tah cao-tah smell one.

And they made me buy 10 boxes of eyedrp[s! $16+ per box leh!! siao one... And it's not a life stime supply, barely a few months nia.

So everything looks like this to me now, No not that I see funny green bears la, its just that everything has a glow about it. Soo.... you all would look much more good-looking to me now because of my chair-mareness.