Laggy Post!!

I'm back!! (For the past 2 weeks) Just that I started work so soon after I touched down that I didn't get the chance to upload my photos from the phone only till 3 days back and again didn't ge the chance to blog about the trip till now.

I woke up at 11 today!! How fantastic that feels every once in a while. All right, so lets get down to business. Made a trip down to look at UQ plus hopefull set my mum's mind at ease so that she doesn't pack up and leave with me, however this trip shot me in the foot in some ways. For instance, she's now decided to come down with me for the first few days to help me 'settle down'. I shall not dwell upon that because I know that most people don't share my viewpoint on this matter.

So... the school was gorgeous! I always had this ideal image that Unis overseas would be full of lucious green fields, great architechture and students walking about worry-free with a perpetual smile plastered on because they truly are happy, birds chirping and butterflies singing.... Oops. yes that was Utopia in my mind and I never expected UQ to be actually close to this. It isn't really like that, but it ain't far off either. (THey had this HUGE lake in school! And green green grass!!) Omg I sound like a cow who can't wait to chew the school field barren.


Lucky Siyi, this is the Law building. It was so huge that I tried to get a picture of it from the outside, not a very nice picture because I thought, hey, I'm gonna be there for 4 years, surely I'll be able to get better photographs, but this one's just a carrot hanging on a stick for Siyi. Hehheh... Sandstone buildings!!


While in Brisbane we met Lionel's Aunt and her daughter Shyanne and her cousin Kelvin. There's nothing more adorable than a couple of Asian kids blabbering in an Aussie accent about thigns you're clueless about and yet they get each other perfectly. My sister took videos of their funny antics, I'll post them up once she gets them out of her camera. They're sooo adorable!!
Plus Shyanne's dad cooks the BEST chinese/vietnamese food in the entire world I swear. We ate there 2 consecutive days and didn't get sick of it. We never got enough of it in fact!


Now we went off to Gold Coast on Thursday. This is the carpark of the famous Movie World! You see those 2 things sticking out in the air?? Those are the 2 newest rides Batman something and Superman something. Freakin' high!!!

Here's the superman one from a closerup shot. If you notice, despite perspective faults, the slope going down is almost perpendicular to the ground. Actually, it is! I cannot describe the amount of adrenaline in my blood that day, I think I would've burst! But Superman was fantastic, they accelerate you from 1-100km/h in 2seconds. TWO SECONDS LEH! You feel like your heart is left behind (somehow this cliche line seems only apt in this context) Following this killer slope is a series of other less killer slopes but at killer speeds. Soooo. That's Superman. a must try for all going to Movie World in time to come.


More random pictures, Here's my mum acting as the funka' mama.

Back to Sunny Singapore, aren't these shoes gorgeous?? New Balance's new series! Sadly they're all men's shoes, but they're extremely affordable at their factory outlet at Comtec, this ulu building at Harbour front. Any of you people need $40 sports shoes??

Be gone for aweek. In the mean time, enjoy this cover. It was fantastically sweet sounding.



I so want a musician bf!

Men of the house

Growing up in my family/home requires one thing, independance. Independance from men. We do most things ourselves, save for impossible thigns such as fixing the air conditioner or drilling mega holes. My mum would've been able to do it were she a little younger, but it's always safer to get a contracter just in case you drill a hole in a gas pipe. Plus, we pay the contracter a mere $20-$30 for a whole afternoon of peace, because you see, if my dad were to attempt this task of a thousand men, he'd act as if he were a top surgeon seperating Nepalese siamese twins, having my mum hovering next to him to pass him a screwdriver, screw, drill, tissue whatever. And he'd take 10x as long and blame us if he drilled the hole crookedly.

CAn you see why we do most things ourselves? I build my own furniture which comes from Ikea and so does my mum, we help mainly when moving is required but that is it, because more hands cause more confusion. My sister normally gets a boyfriend to help her. My mum and sister make most of the furniture decisions and my mum does the most where-to-drill-holes planning and where-to-insert-extra-table positioning. I painted this house with the help of Fei, my mum set up the curtains in the living room herself, etc. So perhaps we don't have the perfect home because our window hinges are giving way, some doorknobs are dropping off, but I find it in great condition seeing that no man has lived here.

And I have become the official bug/roach/lizard get-ridder-of in the family. This morning there was a dinosaur of a lizard in our kitchen sink sitting right there and staring at me I thought I'd spew my milo on him. They (my mum and sis) very clever la, just leave me in the house with a dinosaur without first informing me. When I talked to my mum later she said she'd seen the lizard and left it there, because even though she has a long raging war with lizards since the 1990s, she won't touch/catch one even if her life were based on it. She'd call me and tell me to 'just throw out the window la~' Just!? I've 'Just' thrown plenty of lizards, roaches(small ones), beetles, random ugly huge ants, a grasshopper, etc. I've kept spiders as pets, a baby lizard for a couple of hours cos it was so cool looking through his transluscent body at the lungs and heart pumping, I've kept lizard eggs, which hatched(so cool!), and yeah, thats about it.

Here's T-Rex. He's freakin' huge la. I think it was dying though, it didn't struggle much as I covered it. And I think is by far one of the nicest photos I've taken! Taken at Rochester during my break. I saw this white spot running around the table. First, I thought it was an ant carrying food, but it was moving too fast to be an ant. Low and behold! My favourtie spider! But this one had one hellova ass. Fei calls this the Jennifer Lopez of spiders. Look at the size of the ant next to it to gauge the actual size. Here's a close up/And ya, the photo was taken in sepia mode.

Science Geek

I miss being a science geek that I gravitated towards during my mid-teens. I'd go to the Community Library, and get this, borrow books on Physics, Astronomy, early inventions, the brain blah blah blah. Through those books I picked up that calculus was simultaneously evolved by Newton and this other guy called Leibniz. But most people give credit to the famous guy, although both wouldn't have really been able to do this if not for a few more elusive scientists back in the earlier days who died before they could finish their calculations. Ok besides that geeky fact some books actually told the sappy side of Newton's life and you empathise with these 2 guys who were fighting to publish their findings first, because at that time, it's no use if you publish it later than another dude even if he had completely plagerised your work because publishing was the final say. Newton was pretty upset when he found out that Leibniz has used some of his findings to actually conclude calculus. Aiya, you people go read it up yourself.

Anyways, for the Dan Brown readers or the other people who are just in tune with the current news, th Large Hadron Collider in France just went through 'firing' yesterday. Basically, it's a particle accelerator which spams 27km. Get that right. that's across the border of Switzerland and France. Basically it's used to accelerate particles (in the nano sense) such that when they collide, they just fall to pieces and scientists are able to study these fragments. The original construction in 1988 was used as a electron-positron collider. Dan Brown's novel Angels and Demons explained this fantastically and (it's still my favourite book out of all of them)

Anyways, the reason why I'm talking about this obiang sciency thing in the first place is because firstly, I really think it's amazing, and secondly, there's a funny side to it. (as usual) I bet a lot of you guys would know the game half life, I myself am quite clueless of what the game is about save that it's probably about killing and annihilating creatures/people/mushrooms. But Jon showed me this picture which really made me laugh, on how all the gamers were silently hoping that something would go wrong as the Accelerator was 'fired' yesterday.

He told me that they had even sent him a crowbar and a manual of the game just for kicks. HAHA

Create your own Friend Test here

Wah lao I redid this test like 3 times cos it kept disappearing. Stole this from Cons!

Hol crap, this is HILARIOUS!!!!

Post-Emo

I haven't been in the best of moods lately, grumpy, whiney/complainy, moody, all the other negative-y feelings. I couldn't really put my finger on it initially, my workplace finally is one which pays well and I shouldn't be feeling exploited, plus I have Cons working with me and several colleagues who are witty and funny, (for the first time) so I shouldn't be complaining about not being able to use my brain during work. My mum let me park the car in a parking lot these couple of days and I actually managed to park perfectly for once. People have been contacting/messaging me even though they're busy with school and I have seemed to have forgotten/neglected them. People call me out for dinner or just to slack so I don't feel like I'm being 'abandunt' (inside joke) and I can't whine about not getting attention cos I have been getting attention. Soooooo.. I figured it's

1) I'm not happy that I should be content cos I have all the thigns I wanted and yet it's no big deal

2) It's an uber prolonged pppms (post-post-pre-menstrual syndrome)

3) or like cons suggested, it's cos i dont have anything at the moment I'm looking forward to or workng for.

4) I needa hao nan ren yet I don't want one. Fickle right? HAHA

But, as my entry is titled, I'm no longer as emo because my online galfriend/lengzai has made it all better!

Update!

As I sit here this morning with a throbbing heading, drinking coke and listening to Free Falling, I wonder, what shall I be writing about today? Bitchy stuff like how I'm beginning to feel stuck in church or analysing my voyeuristic observations I've been making?

I went to watch the Philharmonic Winds last night!! I know hearing that probably brings snores to many people, but last night's performance was hilarious and breathtaking because Phil winds decided to go pop! (as in popular songs) they played a couple of obiang chinese songs from the 60s, Contemporary ones like Better Man, Over the Rainbow and get this, UMBRELLA! No kidding! These musicians aren't paid by the orchestra, hence plenty teach/instruct in schools, and yesterday's Esplanade concert hall met a huge swarm/herd of noisy, catcalling kids. Ok they didn't really mind the cheering at the start and end of each song, It warmed up the concert hall much more. Umbrella was really hilarious because all the kids were belting out the l yrics during the chorus, plus the conductor was shaking his ass off man!

Everyone! Go watch this! No it's not the Jade Seah video (although honestly, the voice doesn't even sound like hers la) It's John Mayer singing Free Falling in the hottest way ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wJ-VPqFzy0

(they didn't allow me to embed it)

I love it when I see cute couples, not cute lovey dovey typical couples, but couples which you'd never expect ot see, people you though would never be able to find a match because of their super high intellectual ability, and matches which just seem sooo weird when you see them. For instance, an uber emo ah beng with streaky blond hair and a qian-bian face holding hands with the nerdiest girl you've ever seen instead of the normal skinny, fair-skinned, long-rebinded-hair mei mei they sling across their arms. Or how bout 2 top debaters? Every line they speak lined with sarcasm, dripping with 'coolness' and saturated with cynicism. And there's nothing like watching an emo-angsty-nonchalent 20 year old poly student smiling at the photos of his girlfriend's baby girl, even though the kid's not his. Or a couple of cute coly poly people going for a romantic dinner.

When I saw each of this different couples, I couldn't help but either stare in wonderment, or get that warm and fuzzy feeling. they taught me 2 things, 1, no matter what people might say, you can be sure that you'll be able to find your complete exact match (perhaps) Or at least someone who really thinks the way you do, loves the things you do and has a similar mental capacity as you. And secondly, it taught me that love makes peopl accept things they might not have accepted before. Dating a single mum? Or an ah beng dropout (maybe la, drama a bit) what would your mother say? or what would your friends do?

All you need is Love..... Oei, love can eat one meh.

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.

NTUC boyfriends

Over the recent months I've had MANY people telling me I should get a boyfriend. Hello, you think boyfriend can buy ah, say you want means can get ah. Got delivery lag one lor.

My sister was going through her old stuff, and of course this meant old notebooks, pictures, neoprints (her time one) and loveletters. Wah lao I never get any one lor!! My fault that I'm not vulnerable enough or pretty or xiu jia enough for guys to feel attracted to so that their egos can be boosted. I argly and phat lar.

Ok I know this seems rather incoherent.

Anyways, my manager told me yesterday that 2 girls at my workplace were pregnant. To my surprise/horror, it were the 2 kinda ah-lian girls la. Well I think it's 1.5 of them pregnant because the other one got her period recently or something. But the other one seems to be 100% knocked up. they're my age, and they are kids themselves playing with PSPs and gossiping about whatnots. I'm not sure whether she'll be following through, but a life changing thing such as this can make a lot of people grow up, and to me, any pregnancy is a good thing, whether its a teenage one, or a foreign maid's one, or a couple longing for a child.

Ok I'm going to the libraryin search of a hao nan ren.

Orientations to come

As I look at the blog posts and photographs on Facebook people have put up about their different orientation camps, a part of me wishes that I wasn't in the shithole of a working life. It's not everyday that you get to participate in camps full of bimbos and smart people with raging hormones who create as many excuses to get physically close to one another. You think they always play twister because it's fun meh? I've had a few horror/funny stories on guys have stand-ups at the wrong time, if you know what I mean. But think about it, as many bimbos as you get, there's no harm joining in the fun onc ein a while. (Fei you should have gone) And as almost-there adults, you can bail any time you want. Ok spend 50 bucks la, but at least you get to see how sucky a hostel can be. HaHA.

The Hermitage in St Petersburg, Russia

A documentary on the Kremlin in Moscow I watched last night inspired me to blog about one of Russia's greatest establishment - The Hermitage. It was my favourite of all places in Russia because of how breath-taking it was. So, enjoy!

Here's a quick summary of what exactly The Hermitage Museum in Russia is because I know it's not exactly the type of information one would keep in his or her head. So...


The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg is, as you can see, a musem. In fact, it is one of the largest museums in the world. The royal Winter Palace of the Romanovs is also now part of the modern day Hermitage. It was started by Catherine the Great, one of the Tsarinas (female Tsar) who was one of the greatest Tsars in Russian history. She had brought the country much success and did a great deal in pulling them together (hence the name Catherine the Great) She wanted Russia to have something to show off, something the people could be proud of, thus she proceeded to construct and create the largest Museum in the world. When I say large, I mean humongous, gargantuan, colossal, Stratospheric!


A documentry once showed a videographer simply walking through the entire place wthout stop from room to room just to show every single room in this palace. It had taken almost 4 hours without stop for them to cover everything. During the revolution when Lenin's men had stormed the place looking for the royal family, they charged in shouting and carrying all sorts of weapons with the purpose of enprisoning the royal family. However they ended up charging from room to room for an hour looking before actually finding the royal family. How anti-climatic is that. Plus, it's filled with such an array of exhibits, purchased from different corners of the world which numbers up to 3 million. It would take 8 years to see if you spent 1 minute on each exhibit everyday. We didn't find it really interesting because most of it was art pieces, I even got to see Da Vinvi's! However it was the history of the various art pieces that really got me listening. I mean, I will never get what impressionists or surrealists are doing.

A proffesionally taken photo of the exterior of the Hermitage.

My own gloomy picture of the hermitage. It snowed later that day even though it's the start of summer.

Here's my sister's way of keeping warm in cold Russia - Bao-ing a spare shawl round her belly.As you can see the interior of the museum/palace is absolutely splendid. The opulant interior architechture was overwhelming (Tourguide's favourite word... Opulant) Parts of the museum were actually copies of Italian or French or whatever country's museums and churches because the Tsars during that time were damn competitive. Kinda like mordern day Ch-eye-na. (oops)This one is supposed to be a copy of a church or something in Versailes I think.This is an entire gallery of war heros. One is taken by me and the other one is stolen from google. You can guess pretty easily because of my mum's head in the picture. HAha.. We were the only Asians around man...And I simply love the fact that when I see this picture online, I know that I've been there. So cool!!Talking about Russia links to Communism right? That's what everyone says when I mention Russia. In case you don't know, USSR is long gone and they have a new monarch on their hands. haha. Lenin & Co. weren't happy that the Tsars were enjoying such lavish lives while they were starving in ghettos, just look at their chandeliars. Most of them are gold plated cast iron, some are silver coated, some are diamond studded, but there was one pretty funny one, it was plaster of paris or styrofoam or something like that painted in gold. Ever wondered how they lit the chandeliars in the past? These babies were mostly more than 15 feet off the ground! Plus have you ever seen the ladders that we use today in history books? No right. Trick is, the chandeliars were retractable! They were released down ever morning and lit, then pulled up by a rope after that! Smart right.

Anyways, to end off, the most hilarious painting I saw during my entire trip. Don't you think he looks like some cartoon? Btw these photos were illegally taken. We had to pay 100 rubles to take photographs and 200 to take videos. (We never paid anything... shhh!!)

Saturated Niceness

I've been getting spoilt at work. I'm still not getting any food and my pay isn't getting any higher, but I'm getting spoilt psychologically because the customers are sooo nice. A few months back I would have considered a day without screwing up to be a good day, and it would be considered bad if I spilt something, or broke something, etc. But now, I consider it a good day only if I've had a fruitful conversation with a customerl, or if someone has tipped me personally, which, I'd been getting for the past week. I've told a couple of people of the very nice (and very cute) customers I'd spoken to a couple weeks back for about a half hour. Monday, when I felt like I would kill anyone who came in my way, I thought to myself, God please make this a less suckier day. Voila! I look in front and see them sitting down in a nother area. I was so happy I literally cleared my dirty plates and cups with such a huge smile me cheeks ached. I think they may be down today again but I've got that sickness hich I get once in a while.

Speaking of which, I haven't gotten this 'attack' in 2 years, the last I got this was while I was a SAJC, and ended up puking my strawberry banana drink all over the clinic toilet. Let me try to create my first Hyperlink: Sick

Oooo it's right at the bottom where you see the bananananana.

Kuantan and Peace!

I've just had left over Beehoon and Durians for lunch, which, compared to the hawker food I've been having for the past 4 days tastes like dry oatmeal. Kuantan was fantastic because

1) the food was unbelievably good, hence I engorged myself almost 24 hours a day

2) The service apartments we stayed at rocked cos there was aircon and the close proximity we had just made things much easier compared to hotel rooms, but much better than sleeping bags. A right amount of personal space in my opinion.

3) The people 'taking care' of us were simply lovely, driving us to and fro, bringing us to all the sights and sounds (mainly the beach and the megamall) and not complaining one bit. Plus they fed us sooo well!!

Anyways, this is a proper post compared to my previous few, I didn't even blog about Russia as much as I am about to on Kuantan, perhaps it's because it was a time I was truly happy in a long time. With the people and energy around me, and the kids which make you laugh your socks off. My baby guitar got a few knocks here and there, but it was hell worth it.

Oh yes, I bet several of you are probably wondering what Kuantan? Ok, Last Friday, a bunch of us from church (a huge bunch of 30+) sat on a lau pok, shaky bus for 8 hours driving along the malaysian east coast to Kuantan for a mission trip. But honestly, this didn't feel like one because of all the food, lodging, and shopping we did. :D Basically we put up a skit for the kids over at Kuantan about the importance of.... Ok no worries, I'm not going to blabber a sermon right now.

Pictorial!!

We needed to cast 3 girls as bimbos. and Cons kena-ed! Muhahahaha...

Guys stop drooling, 2 are taken. Haha, the bimbos trying to look as brainless as they could. After the show, they actually had a whole beeline of boys lining up for a 'meet and greet'! It wasn't part of the plan though, but it sure was funny! One went up to them and pai sehly said they were pretty. Haha!! But... Even bimbos get exhausted, candid shot of the head bimbo Cons, aka CRISTABELLE.

Oh yes, they had planned on calling themselves Cristablelle, Tinkerbelle, and Dingdongbelle.

Camwhoring lor....

And get ready for this....



The 2 resident nerds I guess. Those are cons's specs, so lets see who's the nerd in real life! :D
his mum did my eyebrows, and she was dying to draw his too, haha.. really funny

I had sooo much fun! :)

As I sit here at 2am, listening to Pink's 'Dear Mr President' for the gezillionth time, even if my computer can't play it so many times, I've been hearing it inside my head replaying itself without my permission. It's there when I work, when I walk, and even when I sleep. Yes, I had an entire dream with that song replaying and replaying and repaying and replaying so much that I was exhausted in the morning. Still, I can't get enough of it.

I'd spent my last Sunday evening watching a couple perform an acoustic set at the Ben & Jerry's at Cathay which encourages live performances. I did this with an entire Waffle Sundae to me, myself and I. (yes I went alone) I was feeling pretty sucky, the suckiest I'd ever felt, and having the financial ability to gourge didn't help much except for making me an inch wider. I love acoustic sets, especially when the vocalist is good, so I couldnt help but sit my ass there for a whole good hour listening to the emoest of songs, such as 'All or Nothing' or 'The First Cut is the Deepest', 'Collide', the songs that can really make the heartbroken break their hearts even more. But those are the songs with the 'kick' which many lack these days. It actually made me feel slightly better listening to emo oldies, I just wished I could have sat there even longer and just had the pair sing songs I wanted.

qwerty

I'll get over this, everyone does eventually.

I wish I would.

A song that really means something, I'm surprised she's not arrested though.

A song that really means something, I'm surprised she's not arrested though.

Lights

Im having lousy cheap biscuits. I've never had such lousy biscuits that aren't soggy. (just imagine how they'd taste if they were)

Anyways, I have so much I want to tell you guys but I just don't know where to start, and I'm not really keen on doing that random update that I always do, I think you're quite sick of it. Haha...

Don't you think the Lights are taking over the world?not the fluoroscent or incandescent, but the lights we get with Coca Cola, Pepsi, cigarettes, milk and I reckon it's going to be hitting pork pretty soon. It's just so expected of humans, to come up with something, and than later come up with an alternative which is supposedly healthier than the previous. Skimmed milk, Low fat sugar( if there's ever such a thing) Marlboro Lights, (it's called that not because the cigarette lights up as so I thought but becase one stick contains less nicotine/tocacco than a regular stick) , Less sweet Ribena (why don't you just use less?) It's a gimick I think we've all fallen prey to. Now instead of one sachet of sweet white sugar, we add 2 packets of less sweet brown sugar. Instad of smoking one cigarette? We smoke 2 light cigaretts. You know what I mean.

Coca Cola Zero (Then what was Coke Light all about?)

One Step At a Time

Saw this in the London Heathrow Airport toilet and couldn't resist taking a picture of it. Pretty smart, selling pads, mints and condoms all in the same machine. Talk about forward thinking

My title today applies to several things, for one, I'm going to do my Russia update one step at a time because my attention span and motivation to blog isn't quite high yet. Secondly, I'm going to to get my freedom one step at a time. Maybe I'm not thinking straight, maybe I'm having this uber delayed defiance problem that's hitting me just as I'm about to end my adolence years. Maybe my conscience is on the verge of disappearing and slipping away, each time I think I'm getting closer back some shit just happens again and I end up starting out at negative on the spiritual scale.

Oh damn.

There's this nagging feelign that I'm just going to screw every thing up before I actually get to start my university education.

I'm glad the school holidays are here, means Nat's going to be free-er and I get to have fun with the tuition kids getting ahead of the school.

Argh! I am so very very laxy to blog abou tmy Russian trip!

Insomnia again, but it's getting better. The day before I went to bed at 1 only to fall asleep at 3 and to wake up at 5 and once again at 8. Irritating. Now it's 7.30am, I woke up 6.30 this morning for no reason save for spontaneous-waking-up-syndrome (if that exists) and ordered McDelivery breakfast (Which is oh so shiok when you wake up on a Saturday morning and feel lazy) It's overpriced, but I'm not thinking about it, just the food. hehheh.

I had a great time in Russia (momemtum's up) but I must say that Germany was better *gasp!* Russians are highly disorganised and painfully slow at service. Quote from our tourguide,

'They do things at such amazingly slow and inefficient paces that you wouldn't know how you could have done it any slower than they have'

It's really true, kinda like the F1 pitstop, where there are 2 people just to top up the petrol tank of the car, (one pumps the petrol, another carries the pipe) But just that they do that 100x slower and with even more people.

Our tourguide was really really good, he'd been doing Russian tours for 11 years. And just when you think Russia's becoming/has become a tourist hotspot, you are soooo wrong. They're still as anal as ever on immigration checks, baggages still get lost, (he said we were the first tour with a complete set of luggage in 11 years) and things there are still inefficient. Ok fine so the touristy areas are pretty well esteblished, just a problem with management la..

Ok I shall continue on russia with mroe pictures next.

Oh yea, they call McDonald's McLennin's for fun, haha.. OK fun not the russians, but the tourists. Apparently the first Macs opend when the Soviet Union fell, so..

Lenin went down, the golden arches came up.

Musicals!

We've been watching lots of productions lately, from the classy 'Jacques Bre alive and well in Paris' to the ever full of cock Sebastian Tan in 'Broadway Beng'. (Quite the contrast) Anyways, I finally feel inspired to share my love with the rest of the world... Ok fine just you lot, but musicals and plays are just such a large part of my life. I do hope no fantastic productions come when I'm in Aus studying, like a how Phantom came when my sister was in the States.

The classics can never be beaten, some of them I;ve watched 2-3 times, (E.g. Phantom, Miss Saigon) Not counting the versions that came out in Cinema. I've only included the stage musicals I've watched and can remember, I think I may have missed out a couple. I wish I could do a detailed 'inventory' for every show I watched, but it would take up way too much space and time. Out of all the musicals you see in the following, Aspects of Love was sinply the worst ever I'd watched. And it's an Andrew Lloyd Weber work was was truly disappointing. Even my sister's Hall Musical production was better. =P


Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was also a little disappointing, it was the story-line at fault. IT got kinda draggy at points if not for that super uber cool flying car. Madame butterfly was the second Opera I'd watched in my life. Oh!!! I forgot to add in Aida! (Some super draggy opera about a queen) I was pretty young then, so I kept figiting and pissed off the lady behind me. She told me off in a nice way, and I slept like a rock after the interval, thus allowing her to enjoy the show much more.


The Wedding Banquet (Bottom left corner) had a really cute storyline, it's about a gay chinese guy who gets married to another Chinese immigrant so that his naggy mum won't die of embarassment due to the taboo of being gay and so that the chinese girl can stay in the country to work. And no, they don't end up falling in love blah blah (he's gay remember) . It was really cute.

And these are some of the local productions I've been to, there's a whole lot more like Dim Sum Dollies, Cinderellah etc, but I'm just too tired looking for the pictures. Man of Letters and Forbiddon City were by far the best local musicals I've watched, along with Chang and Eng (I couldn't find the advertisement picture so Itook the picture of the real twins) Beauty World was fun to watch because it reminded you how lousily stupid the story was and makes you glad you didn't watch Fried Rice Paradise, (Locals should know) Man of Letters was Dick LEe's most fantasic musical I must admit. And my favourite gay actor Robin Goh and Emma Yong had such omph. Haha, Emma Yong simply rocks on stage.

Omg I'm back to civilisation! Not that I went anywhere though.

I'm going to Russia next Sat!!:D:D:D

Now we'll see if the story of Anastacia is really true, hah!

I fell down yesterday again at Rochester, really really stupid and kinda funny now that I think about it. I tripped over a stool forgeting it was there. The previous time I tripped over a fan thinking it wasn't there, I spilt half a tray of tofu. This time, determined not to waste any food, I kept the plate as far from the ground as I could while I fell. A really cute angmoh customer was right in front of me as well, and seeing that he was in shock and couldnt get out of my way as I fell, I had to avoid flinging crabcakes at his face at all cost. SO I fell matrix style, slowmotioned and welll, kinda graceful while 3 customers gawked in shock.
Results? MY face inches from the guys shoe (They were nice Timberland shoes I think) A really sore arm, a couple of orh-chehs (bruises) and... The plate of food completely ok! :D Ok I might have messed up the platter, but my manager got the chef to clean it up a little before serving. voila..

First thing I said when I got up,

"The plate didn't break!"

Now my arm aches like shit all because I didn't wanna let the plate break.