Twilight

I bet a million other people have this as their blog title, and another million people have plastered this image on their blogs/diaries/livejournels etc. However I feel that my experience at this movie was a one in a million because this was the first time in my entire life that my stomach was knotted and queasy throughout 0.665 the movie. Not in a bad bad way though, it was just that I was caught by surprise by the storyline!

Ok, unknown to many (myself in cluded), I was actually practically clueless about the storyline and plot of Twilight. Initially when Shiyun mentioned it, I thought it was some remake of the classic Twilight Zone (you know scary music, ne ne ne ne, ne ne ne ne) Haha.. Then she enlightened me that it was a love story between a vampire and a human, (which to me was kinda funny since its like, a love story between a human and a piece of steak)

And knowing that it was more of a bimbo show for us girls to swoon at Mr Blood-Sucker, I envisioned something along the lines of Wild Child, but with less pink, blond and light.

Boy was I wrong.

It felt as if I had stepped into a roller coaster thinking it was a kiddy ride and coming to realise that there are a gazillion monstrous slopes and loop-the-loops. Plus Cathay took the initiative to make the movie experience a 4D experience by turning the airconditioning to sub-zero so that we could feel in the movie. Wah piang wey. The music so scary and the tension was beyond what I expected for a teenage-y chic-flick!

For those who havent watched it, I've concluded that if you have read the book, you'd probably say it was disappointing blah blah blah. But if you have not read the book, don't read it, watch the movie and then read it. (maximising entertainment value this way mah)

Happy New Year!

Holiday Season!!

Tis the season to be Jolly... and tired, and over-fed, and squished around with the 1 quarter foreign, 4 million Singaporeans.

It's Christmas Day and I haven't posted in AGES!!! It's season where suddenly every tertiary student is free because of his or her holidays, and how every (almost) one studying in Australia is back for their school holidays but somehow seem to disappear into the Christmas festive season of food shopping and partying. ( I miss dhab!!) this year I baked, and baked and busied myself like a Martha Stewart. (Oh my dream... poooi.) EVERYONE gets cookies this year because I refuse to buy overpriced trinkets and hiked up toiletries and over-recieved chocolates to people because people appreciate things only when there's a lack of them, so I shall wait for much much later (after the christmas season) to give out any presents( should I decide to buy any) so that they will be more appreciated and their value will hence go up. =) Understand? I'm blabbering. haha.

I just spent the entire of last week in church even though the annual church camp is only suppose to last 3 days. IT LASTED FOREVER I TELL YOU. Not that I didn't enjoy myself though because the kids from Kuantan came down. Basically, Kuantan people are ANGELS!!! The kids were Hilariously spontaneous and adorable as usual! Chio got herself a new Kuantan boyfriend too! Apart from the fact that the very intelligent games people planned an 'amazing race' in East Coast Park which spanned 4.8 Km and required 7.2Km of running/walking/stumblimg/cycling/blading/rolling, it was pretty fun. 7.2km leh!!! I've never seen that number in my life!!!

And if you guys aren't cheery and all and overflowing with the christmas mood, here's a photo to make you Happy~~@!

Chio and teh Rubiks Tube which she intitally gave to me but ended up giving her boyfriend :D

Homesick

I felt homesick that day.

How am I going to survive overseas!

There are 2 types of Singaporeans, the adaptable ones and the overlocalised ones who can't be bothered to assimilate but instead, bring their culture over and impose this on others. It's an overgeneralisation/sweeping statement of course, but if we don't catogerise and generalise, how would Man observe trends and be able to predict certain behaviour? Verbal diarrhoea, Oops.

Anyways meeting Ping, Fei and Jerome yesterday was hellova fun, it was the most fun since I met Nat's funny friends from her clique called the BSG (Black Sheep Gang) ((Long story, don't ask me.) Ping and Jerome are the most adorable couple you'd ever meet. Period. And they're freaking funny when they 'brag' about each other's gross habits. They're the kind of people you want at your party to bring the life out of everyone. (Perhaps the 2 of you can render your 'hype-services' to boring people parties to make marniee!!")

And for all of you who haven't watched Monty Python, this is my all time favourite favourite video~ a must see for all.

And Nat! Laugh yourself silly ok?? (Watch the other videos for more comic relief)

Technological Overload!!

Over the weekend I've made the 3 hugest purchases of my adolescent life with my own marniee. As you guys know my phone got lost in good ole' Kuantan, and unable to forget the memory of the one which was once so close to my heart (more like my head when I slept so that I could hear the alarm), I got the next sony ericsson phone which was most similar to the K800i. Not many regrets... yet. (But I forsee plenty of potential weak areas.) Cons don't change phone! Our phone really was Sony's best Cybershot phone ever.
All righties, moving on! I'm glad I finally got my laptop because I was afraid I would procrastinate so much that I would miss the Sytex fair! Wellll... I don't exactly regret my buy save for the fact that I feel that I got cheated of my RAM. I vaguely remembered that she offered to upgrade my ram, however it wasn't upgraded when I checked. However the reciept doesn't say anything about the upgrade and I bought my laptop after Nat and I had been walking for HOURS due to my fickleness and kanchiongness.

The third buy was the only buy where I felt a tinge of regret.

I blame the powerfully persuasive salesman and my sucker-ness. All you business students should meet him and learn from the sales guru. HAHA.

I watched Sesame Street with my sister this morning! It wasn't as nostalgic as the Disney cartoons Aladdin and all, but still fun to see the same actors who have been acting for decades. Plus that furry red monster who keeps refering to himself in third person. (I swear Elmo is Siyi's secret idol=P) There was a segment where Mary's little lamb was doing animal impressions and all the other furry monster classmates were suppose to figure out what those obvious animal sounds were. My sister failed miserably and guessed 0 of the 3 animal sounds. (She kept guessing sheep when it was a lamb making impressions of a cow, pig and chicken)

haha.

Gotta tell me how to get, how to gate to se-sa-me-street!!!!!!!!!1

Kuantanamera

First and foremost, I've lost my phone for good[For the first time I reckon].

However good news is I still have my SIM card (oh yipee.) hence, all you important-people-in-my life need to do now is sms or email or msn me your name/number. If you choose to put it on this tagboard also can la, though it may prove to be unwanted advertising.

Kuantan trip this round was the best I'd ever had!! :D Those taking care of us were sooooo hospitable that I feel that I've accumilated 4 more sets of parents. Plus, the shittiest food you can find in Kuantan is probably still nicer than the exhorbitantly priced ones you get at our food courts.

Apart from the fact that the stupid people from the bus company were so bloody cheapskate and dishonest as to steal my phone, I love Kuantan. ARgh. Stupid person who stole my phone. Ok I admit it was my fault for leaving it in my hand and it was my fault that I didn't pee earlier and hence rushed off the bus without first checking if I had left anything behind. But I've met taxi drivers and security guards who so nicely return the phone to me when I leave it behind in Singapore. Gah. Hope that fella's hand drops off and he pokes his eye with his toe.

Disappear from the face of this Earth.

Wouldn't that be something?

But this is a DEFINITE Must watch!!!

Bahhh!

The lyrics in the song below are the selfish words I'm belting out. I'd be lying if I say I totally don't give a damn to the comments of others, especially towards my appearance. It's bloody frustrating and demoralising when every single person you meet whom you haven't met in a long time starts the meeting with 'Ah you've grown fatter!' or 'You seem bigger' or 'you've put on weight' or 'maybe it's because you're big sized'. Talking about someone's weight gain is a downright no-no to me, it's like commiting a mortal sin towards the person. How'd you like it if I came up to you and said your nose grew exceptionally large and out of proportion and is now sticking out of your face like the empire state building? How'd you like it if I came up to you adn said you have a belly so dense that a mobile phone would get lost in the abyss if it went in? How bout how short you are that everyone has to look over your head and that even a 6 year old would beat you to holding the overhead handrail on a bus. Or that your so shapeless and flat like a 'credit card' (quote Barbarella Chantelle Bill) you are? Say I'm fat once I may forgive you considering that it maybe 'instinctive' to do so. But repeat it and I'll never talk to you again.

Picking on a person's appearance is as shallow as puddle of water. Fine that maybe the first thing people observe considering that visual input is the first to be analysed, but can't you control your tongue before blabbering off like a insensitive cow? Don't worry, my 'you's do not refer to anyone in particular, it's just my repressed self coming at every single person (although I cannot remember all the people) who said I've become fat/fatter/bigger/larger/whatever. Since I weigh in like an elephant I might as well have it's memory and remember the people who have very politely overlooked the extra kilos I've piled on and the strangers/family members who so randomly and encouragingly say I'm cute. Compliments can do wonders for people did you know that? I'm not much of a complimenter and hence can't tell people what they should say, but I'm aware of what it can do and am trying to compliment people more.

they say people who think their fat stay unhealthy and fat. Then tell everyone telling me I'm fat to stop making me think/know so and I'll stop wallowing in self-hate. I tell myself now, it's now getting past the initial stage of drastic weight gain, re-meeting old friends, family members(whom I will see in 2 weeks time and can be very sure that my appearance will be mentioned by all 5+ people in the household)

Argh!!

Yes if you can't tell, apart from being fat I'm currently now extremely pms-y, cranky and on the verge of stepping on people, hard.

IT's good to get that anger out once in a while.

NOVEMBER

Gasp! It's November!!!

Sorry Dhab haven't replied your tag because I haven't asked them what they want, haha, I can't think of anyhting I want considering I 'm soon joining you down under in the land of expensive products. Haha.

I'm planned to enter semi-retirement this November, but looks like jobs just keep popping up, and hence studying gets procrastinated once again. I'm not ashamed to say that I am SO going to be a nerd and work my ass off in Australia hitting the books and earning my keep part-timing because if I don't come back with a first class honours or anything else higher than that [i.e. grant or bursary etc], I would just be like a JP Morgan investment made by my mum.

I'm going to tell the Australian gah-ment that I promise to mug and mug and study hard hard and not be a waste of their Australian air. And I promise that after that I will not steal their jobs because my mum will drag me back to sunny Singapore to live/work for the rest of my life. Hence working my ass of the next 4 years would be good because I've heard plenty of people going overseas and not coming back because they can no longer deal with working hours which extend beyond 4.59. It's like training for a marathon.

And I just watched Avenue Q!! I shall review it tomorrow or else it'll be a very long post.

I feel that everyone should watch it, but before that watch youtube versions so that you won't miss out on the hilarious script because it'a a generally fast paced, compressed/compact musical. Aiya tell you all more tomoorow.

time Flies

I've finally decided to settle down and have kids.





If that were true then the title of this post would REALLY be apt. haha.



After spending the last 10 months part-timing around, finally the once distant reality of me flying off keeps nearing. I suddenly realised that, By JOve I have 3.5 months left before I begin my tertiary education! Which is really really worrying to me because I think I have practically lost my mental capability of studying and remembering obscure yet important facts. I make a directional mistake almost everytime I drive now, e.g. turning into the wrong highway, going into the wrong lane and swerving out on the chevron marking, etc. I just can't seem to register things like roads, directions, facts, what not. And it's driving me INSANE!


So today I'm embarking on my new mission to restart my gears. Yes I'm going to start studying whatever subject there is to study. Linguistics, Psychology, Biology, anything.


Another thing about time flying is that I've finall come to the end of teaching my tuition kids.

They were such the unexpected loveliest bunch of kids! I still remember the initial few lessons where you guys were all s0o0oo00 quiet. (For a moment I thought I was spending all my energy on something that wasn't alive leh!) I guess after you guys began to warm up, plus yokecheng coming into class suddenly released a whole tsunami of talking! And I enjoyed every minute of the funny comments and ideas you guys said, haha. (I enjoyed even more marking funny answers on your worksheets)

I regret not baking you guys cookies!

And oops I'm still in the process of typing the questions out for you all. I'm adding in a few more I found.

Jiayou for next year and the years to come ok! All of you have that smartness in you one, just that right now it maybe buried and not as obvious to your teachers through your results, but individually, I can see that you guys aren't dumb for sure (cos you all managed to answer the questions I asked you) haha, whether it's being sharp at details, or being inquisitive, or having a good sense of logic, all of that is in you guys! :D

All righti, pictorials~

The cupboard which I built!! Looks easy? The drilling was killer. PLUS, after I pieced the cupboard together, my mum told me she needed 2 more huge holes at the back. Wah piang wey. But we managed it with quite some trauma and no injuries.

Melamine MelamineMelamineMelamine. bad engrish as usual of Sweettalk. The last one was 'Water Cheatnut' instead of 'Water Chestnut'.

And she jsut looked so cute and random in the middle of the floor. She's currently the youngest daughter of a mum who has 5 daughters and 1 more on the way! So essentially, she's no longer the youngest. 6 daughters!! How lovely is that??

I hate PMS!!!

Yesterday I had a record breaking 5 people who consecutively told me I was fat/getting fatter.

*emos to oneself*

BUt my colleague had a really funny statement of comfort, she said, (she's filipina) 'at least you get big eberywhere, and not just your head, or arm, or this part or that part... '

Haha, I couldn't help but laugh at her futile attempt to ease my pain.

I always tend to stop work at all the wrong times. Argh. fixed

Traumatised

What's more traumatic than shooting in a reverse bungee, diving with the great white sharks, dropping your new $400 handphone or looking into your kitchen sink and seeing a dinosaur-of-a-lizard?

I tell you:

Handling a power Power Drill in the comfort of your home without supervision.

Wah lau the sound of the drill so scary la! I ge-gao-ingly (act-clever-ly) decided to help my mum drill through the softboard backing of her new television shelf for her to put her VCR wires through when she sets it up. I took my time tto read through the instructions of the power power drill ( I keep saying power power because I think it was super power la) And I can bet that all these power tool manufacturers have no EQ man. Either they're really smart enough to know the redundance of instruction manuals to guys because the instruction manual I was looking at was so darn sparse compared to the one you find with IKEA's furniture that I might as well just fired myself off into assembling the drill shit and all. They think everyone who operates a drill has enough testosterone and egos big enough to allow them to operate a dangerous tool without first looking at instructions la!

So with bated breath and sweat forming at every single pore on the surface of my body, I drilled stupid holes into the softboard. Compared to my secondary school years I think my drilled holes look nicer and straighter, but wah kao eh, damn stressful la!! I bet I lost more sweat than the F1 drivers after a race.

Now I need to find sandpaper.. Wah kao.

Sorry I just can't stop cursing

Wah piang eh, drill so scary lor.

New kids on the Block!

This is the new craze I'm having, check on the dimples on the lead singer Ngak! (sooo to die for!) The first 5minutes of the video maybe quite boring if you can't understand chinese at all, so just skip to the 5th minute or so and listen to their version of ji ba ban. Cons you'll so love this! (and his dimples!)

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!