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im in the library !!!

2008-09-29T11:24:00.000-07:00

my stomach hurts : ( ive been having gastric for a couple of days straight now... its damnn siannnn. : (

basically havent really been eating more than 1 proper meal a day.. the rest of the day i just scramble to find food when my stomach starts hurting : (

how is everyone???????

2008-09-29T08:14:00.001-07:00

yo yo yo where's everybody?
hope we're all fineeee ^_^

heart of the matter

2008-06-22T09:03:00.000-07:00

(don henley)

2008-06-04T22:21:00.000-07:00

hahaha thanks :D
old and falling apart indeed
PFFFFFFt

2008-06-04T05:19:00.000-07:00

happeeee (belated) birthday, kat!! :) :)

and happeeee (even more belated) birthday to bernice!! :) :)

omg, 21! O.o

2008-05-19T19:26:00.000-07:00

oh shit after publishing the post last night i lay in bed and suddenly realised... that your birthday is on the 23rd!!! NOT today, the 20th!!!

aM I RIGHT?!?!!??! PAISEHH!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BERNICE!

2008-05-19T09:46:00.000-07:00

For your birthday, I will give you a song and a photo of the guy of my dreams (who, btw, wrote the song , and many of their famous tracks. and who is one year younger than us =( =( *jumps out the window and dies* ) [anyway it's the 20th here already but it says 19th on blogger]

Here's Big Bang's Lies, written by G-Dragon (who raps at the start~!!!)~! <3 <3 [if anybody's interested, Big Bang's Fool, Last Greeting and But I Love You are also nice. I can rap the whole of But I Love You!!!! show you when you're back MWAHAHAHAH]

his hair is dorky here but he has a different hairstyle now!!!

[haha i'm like hijacking you 21st to promote my idolS + faves! a true fan i am!!!HAHAHA nono seriously happy birthday~! \(o^_^o)/]

Something to put a smile on your face

2008-05-11T23:49:00.000-07:00

TAKE A LOOK AT THIS PEOPLE:

http://www.allkpop.com/index.php/news_rumors_full/rain_is_that_really_you/

hAHAHAHA but its only funny if yuo know who rain is

bOY I HATE Americans who don't get their facts right. First Infernal Affairs is wrongly attributed to... Taiwan was it? When it was from Hong Kong. And then they called Rain Japanese... when he's korean. and now, go click on the link above. It's ridiculous. and it's PEOPLE magazine okay not like some lao-ya pokpokkai haha

but its freaking funny

2008-04-16T21:31:00.001-07:00

hrm that article is real interesting. it makes me think that future human society will be reorganised like small agricultural communities, except it'll be more hydroponics farming than having to leave things up to the elements.. and then to generate electricity, they'll use sun wind water etc, but also maybe the energy human beings generate.. im not sure how we'll fly around though; how do biodiesel planes work?
and schools will teach their own main curriculum but exchange programs will take place more regularly.. im actually kinda thankful for the racial harmony nonsense we had. it's an ideal situation that racism doesnt exist but at least we're aware that it's something we have to fight.. some of my white friends talk like the situation doesnt exist, while some of my black friends can sometimes assert the inherent racism (like economic imbalance as if white trash didnt exist) they face, and then it can feel a bit divisive. but at least they talk about it. dangerously though, is the us versus them syndrome.
nyeh ok i dunno how i thought of this from tibet.. something to do with how people naturally tend to leave countrysides to go to cities for better lives which arent really better. and if the natural tendency is to leave agrarian lands and we want to give everyone equal opportunity in living out their chosen destinies, then we have to create societies that are self-sustaining in terms of energy and food/water/air needs!

On Tibet

2008-04-10T20:07:00.000-07:00

From today's ST forum, thought it made alot of sense to me:

Tibet's current violence smells of a Western agenda

DID TIBETANS RUN RIOT SPONTANEOUSLY?: Tibetan monks, nuns and activists protesting in neighbouring Nepal recently. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

THE violent riots in Tibet that occurred after more than 40 years of quiescence curiously coincides with the approach of the Beijing Olympics. It is difficult to believe that they were spontaneous and had no backing.
The Western media has been very effective in mobilising world opinion to condemn China. Even the restrained control by the Chinese authorities of the rioters who committed burning and killing was made to appear unjustified.

The central question is whether Tibet belongs to China. In 1246, Tibet was formally incorporated into the Mongol Empire which later became the Yuan Dynasty of China. Subsequent Chinese dynasties and governments have claimed Tibet to be part of China. In the Qing Dynasty, Chinese troops repeatedly entered Tibet to quell internal wars and dispel British-backed invasions. In 1907, Britain and Russia acknowledged Chinese suzerainty over Tibet.

In this unjust world where might is right, one can righteously say that China has no territorial right over Tibet. But by the same token, perhaps the Americans and the Australians should also leave their countries.

The title 'Dalai Lama' was bestowed by Mongolian ruler Altan Khan in 1578, and subsequent Dalai Lamas were derived from 'reincarnation'.

One of three Tibetans is a monk. The numerous monasteries own large areas of arable land and pastures and used to command thousands of unpaid farming serfs and slaves. With an overwhelming preoccupation in Buddhist religiosity, time had stood still in Tibet for several centuries. One would be hard pressed to find any trace of democracy, civil rights or social progress in that system by Western standards.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the communist government of China was high-handed and often brutal in dealing with Tibet, as it was to all other parts of China. In the past few decades, however, China has done much to modernise the province and benefit the Tibetans. Slavery has been abolished. All children can now have free secular education. Professions and occupations other than the restrictive traditional religious undertakings are now open to educated Tibetans. Living standards and life expectancy have improved greatly. With better health care, infant mortality has fallen. Improved communications with the construction of roads and a railway have spurred economic development.

Westerners seem to think that the traditional 'charming' social system of Tibet should continue undisturbed even though any respectable Western nation would be horrified to have such a system installed in its country. The Western media are obviously unable to appreciate the misery of living an impoverished life in a backward land.

Dr Ong Siew Chey

2008-04-10T18:30:00.000-07:00

ello look is some speedreading webinar. kinda useful esp section 4 reading on the computer screen!

don't know if anybody even watches the videos i post but, haha:

2008-04-06T08:07:00.000-07:00

first 4 minutes sorta made me ^_^ after a LOUSY DAY blahblahbalbha

*edit : just to substantiate, it's not DUMB... and sorta mimicks like early 20s + 30s silent films plus ... okok i jus think there's a certain fun-profundity to it. HAHA. and it starts off with a suicide scene so if you're feelign suicidal this may be good for thee

*update: and please at least watch until 2:40 minute pointer in this one.... AFTER watching the first one. HAHAHA. you need only minimal chinese skills to understand it ^_^

granny in the house

2008-04-05T00:23:00.000-07:00

to B: i can tell how upset you are tt jon didn't get in, cos you mentioned in BOTH entries that you posted. Haha. I thought he was going to UK alr? But I guess he WOULD want to go to the US cos then you'd be nearer each other, but being in the UK already halves the distance between sg + US.

Also, US admissions is really strange I don't see why he should not have gotten in, except that maybe they'd rather have more of their OWN american students. we had a couple of //ha/r/va/rd students in n/u/s at some talk that day and i felt rather -_- that OUR own p/r/ofe/ssors were like being sycophant-ish to them, when some of them just looked spoilt and were checking their fac/e/book accounts while the speaker was speaking.

after which, our prof had this seminar/talk with /n/us/ students (just with us only) in which he was like, ohh you know i was talking to thoes /haarrrrvarrdd students and it's really okay if you guys DON't KNOW what you want to do next time you know, because, they didn't know either~!!! *himbo alert*

but yeaa i guess i sound like those sourgrapish people who like to bomb the elites, no different from raffles-bashers here in singapore. HAHAhA. but actually i think i hate my professor for saying that more than those students (since one of them actually asked a rather brilliant question, n i noted down immediately the sophistication of thought which thus increased my respect for that individual, though possibly not the institution).

but in any case, b is your call for art works just random? i painted something for lijun last year ! which is supposedly quite nice since it impressed some of HER dormpeople (okay one to be specific) so maybe you can ask her for a photo. artartart

parisbreakfasts (dot) blogspot (dot) com also has some.. but simple water colour paintings of food mostly. she gushes alot about macaroon.s i only discovered her today so no am not a long standing fan

to mak and lijun: HAHAHAHAHA stupid mak you just like to keep up appearances about being lj's nemesis right?

and lijun ive been waiting for a xanga subscription of your turkey trip to come in and was rather worried that you're STILL in Turkey despite term having started? i thinkk?? and why did you two fight? I just received a postcard from Kelly, which has the acropolis on one side of it. What does it feel like to be in Singapore while people are everywhere? Love is really strong, since random thought but B expressed much more grief at Jon not getting into US unis whilst none that Granny didn't get anywhere! But this threatens to launch me back into my self-victimization cycle again

in other news, our dear /r/u/th gan has dropped out of uni and gone to work. and i had to meet the /v/ice/ dean cos she thought that /ru/th had some mental problem... which i wouldn't be so quick to dismiss actually. i don't know. ive mentioned this to lijun before so ..but i guess im in no position to judge. the /v/i/ce /de/an's a bit scary though... cos she's so.. "wanna be your friend". which is fine. but i also feel like she's "judging" me, especially since her interest in me positively spiked up when she realised that i was from "rj", and also "rgs". O_O.

i shall ignore such stupid labels and just go on with my life. lone ranger life. people here don't make friends you know. we're just lookign at each other everyday in class hoping everybody else does worse than you so that you can get an A, and i guess im not warranted to say that of everybody - and only me, since only I am inside me - but what more can you infer from people who

1) keep asking you if oyu've started on your essays
2) keep asking you if you've COMPLETEd your essays
3) if they can have a look at your essays (Which i did allow, briefly, but of course that stupid guy just wanted to pounce on the opportunity to make me "feel small", by making a big fuss about me NOT hAVING INCLUDED some stupid CRUCIAL argument related to my question.... what's with people + wanting to victimise others??!)
4) asking if they can PAY you to help them photocopy about 300 pages worth of required readings... -_-. By email.

and there's more I could list... and i wanna kaobei about how a/n/di always pangsehs me for lunch! but it's not her fault in the sense that she just can't handle time well....

but it really makes me wonder if I've become a "worser" person, cos last time people used to "gravitate" towards me cos i'm oh-so-funny and i still-am-sorta cos people always laugh at what i say in class, BUT.... it ends there.

i think they may be daunted by my "intellect". it's a bit bhb to say this. but you know what happened about the cat who jumped into my house and peed around? If you want to read about it click here : CLICK ON ME

so anyway we were analysing this short story in calss and there was a line about a black cat walking after a grey cat so one of my classmates mentioned it in order to support one of the points she was making and I just randomly said , "I hate cats."

and she actually looked at me and said, "oh sorry."

O_O.

and she's not the vv quiet and timid sort, she's this pretty indian girl who's very assertive, ac/j/c drama types, very outspoken with good diction...

it's abit much to allege that i've intimidated her.. but after she said sorry i found myself sputtering saying, "no it's not that..." but it's a bit irrelevant to bring up that incident in the middle of some literary analysis.

blahblahbalhba.

i really should get started on my essay

for those who don't already knwo, i actually have a gossip blog that has been having at least 1000 hits a day. Hurray. but it's not alot for a gossip blog. there's hongkong and taiwan news on it too :

(take out the slashes)

my/f//irst/gossip/blog [dot] wordp/ress [dot] com

yepp. leave a comment or something if you would so deign to .

oh yes and I have to reiterate that R//oy/s/t/on Ta/n pwns in terms of technical expertise, colour, prettiness.... BUT NOT STORYLINE. /8/8/1 was a long extended MTV ...very boring. Songs are nice but oookay lah. Ja/c/k Neo's I Not Stupid is still my favourite, better in terms of story i think. Maybe /Singapore D/reaming too but I'd have to watch it first to comment.

But I don't know, i think im sick of the singaporean circle. it's an irrational claim you're thinking butbutbut... maybe i'll substantiate in time to come. I HATE MYSELF

2008-04-04T21:52:00.000-07:00

hey guys look its roy/sto/n i have a crush on him
hahaha no la jk but he's brilliant i think
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AsQmycxxA0
write a script for him anyone?
speaking of which, will you be so generous as to send me some kind of art that you've been making? video, poems, pictures, photography, craft, movement? we might be on different continents but maybe we can formulate some kind of non-linguistic storytelling/discussion/dialogue. i'm thinking of all the things i wanna do in dance and i'd love if we could do something together
maybe this blog can be a feature
and how's life, how's organising events and such stuff
ps the boyfriend didnt get into y/a/le/st/anf/or/d =( sigh

2008-04-03T18:39:00.001-07:00

oh no i forgot about this for awhile! mak, if you dont want to do law forever, at least you'd have funding to go do a master's or phd in something else. as long as you dont make the dumbass decision of studying law in the usa.. hahaha. ;p sigh. does the imbalance of resources make you sad; i wish americans didnt create so much waste and i wish other people had more room to choose either the traditional lifestyle or contemporary lifestyle. like women in more repressive cultures. hrm.
anyway the boyfriend is still in europe travelling and he didnt get into either yale or stanford =( just as i had decided to do a second degree in comparative studies and hence do four years of uni. now i dunno what i want to do. or i do but the financial/timing considerations are quite important. bah.
as for tibet, all they want is greater autonomy. dont know much about their history, so i am not going to have an opinion about it. the dalai lama fascinates me though. apparently he asked a neuroscientist whether mentl activity like meditation can alter your mind, and they found that it's possible ten years after he asked that question. do you think it's the ability of cultural practices to alter the brain that makes people all so different? do you think a globalised world will make people more similar? doubt it but who knows how easily humnkind can forget our histories eh.
charmaine when is your bali trip? are you going to organise another one next year? i kinda want to do volunteer work for the rest of my life but then at the same time i question it - why must we teach them english? why can't we learn their language instead? isn't their lifestyle in a way richer than ours? isn't it imperialistic to go to a place where tradition (which is constantly evolving, although revolutions may not have taken place) has held on for longer than it has in europe/singapore/etc? how do we behave less as if we are doing them good and more as if we are repaying a debt? i dunno. the whole do-gooder thing makes sense to me on one level but on the other how it is carried out is important too. whether it's an exchange or a bashing-through-to-change. aiya but while i sit here and think about inconsequential things nothing gets done. dont you wish it were true that you can just meditate and radiate love to the world, and the world will be a better place?
ps have you guys done yoga before. if you find a good yoga teacher you shd try it out, heh. good yoga teachers demonstrate clearly and combine philosophy with movement and breath. it's kinda amazing i've been having far more bright-minded days cos of yoga. but maybe other things also la. meh.
mingen is your program 3 or 4 years? i forget. what's everyone doing this july-aug-sept?

2008-04-02T02:16:00.000-07:00

i didn't know there was a problem with dst - it was the last sunday of march per normal.

anyway, i thought i would never say this - particularly to pek lijun - but all sympathies at getting stuck in heathrow. that is, hands down, the worst airport in the world (and i've been to some nasty ones) and i wouldn't go near it if i could. sleeping in the airport is never fun haha.

darn i want to go to turkey too...maybe in summer.

ps. mingen i've added you!

OMG

2008-04-01T07:56:00.000-07:00

ITS SO FUNNY THAT YOU SHOULD POST ABOUT DAYLIGHT SAVINGS COS IT SCREWED ME OVER TOO ---> I MISSED MY FLIGHT FROM ISTANBUL TO LONDON!!!!! AND BECAUSE OF THAT MISSED MY FLIGHT FROM LONDON TO BOSTON. AND ENDED UP STAYING AT HEATHROW AIRPORT OVERNIGHT *AGAIN* AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AND I WAS (AM) HAVING STOMACH FLU (FROM TURKISH FOOD MAYBE)

CHOON! PHOTOS UP SOON! IT WAS SO FUN BUT JY AND I WERE BEING ABSOLUTELY HORRID TO EACH OTHER. BUT TURKEY WAS SO WONDERFUL IT CANCELLED OUT THE COMPANY HA HA HA.

Happy April Fools!! ha ha ha!

2008-04-01T04:45:00.001-07:00

Richard Branson's budget airline carrier Virgin Blue advertised 'no chair fares' in which passengers paid half the normal ticket price to stand for the duration of a domestic flight.

The ads, which were run on the front page of newspapers, added that passengers would be entitled to a free calf massage for flights over two hours

my wordpress ID

2008-03-31T07:34:00.000-07:00

my wordpress ID is apricotpeach! :) add me! and choon add me too it seems u hv locked your blog... I love to eat white peaches which are currently disappearing from the supermarket since the season's ending BOOOOOOOOOOO.

mak has british summer time begun there?

there was this huuuuuge confusion on sunday morning where alot of pple thought that dst turned off (but it hadn't... it turns off next week) because it's usually on the last weekend of march. so alot of electronic devices were automatically programmed to turn back... and HA HA HA the whole world was in chaos.. missed flights, late for work, and the likes... anyway, I'm really looking forward to that extra hour of sleep ha ha

2008-03-26T14:03:00.001-07:00

I prefer to take a legalistic stance on Tibet actually. That is, it's China's domestic affair. It's about self-determination v territorial integrity...and darn, potential exam question! Better read up on it.

READ ME READ ME

2008-03-26T09:30:00.000-07:00

OMFG MY POST GOT DELETED IM TOO TIRED to complain further i hate them

anyway i just bitched
1) about the crappiest essay i'd written
2) essays due in weeks to come
3) told mingen to BECAREFUL THERE cos if she dies she doesn't have a famous sibling over whom tonnes of people mourn har har har
4) mak i replied your comment on my blog paiseh i was too sensitive =( =(
5) LJ is in TURKEY now and PLEASE POST PICS
6) uhhhh the "unhappy incidents" were really funny so mak should tell mingen but wait she told us already at kat's house!!!

7) about Tibet.. does it matter what stance SG even takes?!?!?! we have no choice, we're not making a FREE choice about matters. In truth, I have to say I cannot comprehend vv profoundly what the Tibetans feel, like how the people of Kosovo or East Timor feel... which sucks. But I don't know, if 2000 years later people can make a movie called HERO and put T/ony Leung + Ma/g/gie Che/ung in it and claim that we are indebted to Qin Shih Huang for making China China and not a host of separate states like Europe is today, suffering and all that doesn't really seem to matter does it? I think China's regime is still in that mentality, whilst the West thinks it has progressed to all that human rights etc thing. If you simple look at WHAT Europe and China are it may shed some light on the trenchant cultural differences --> but what have i said here that everybody doesn't know already?!
AHA!
NIGht1

2008-03-26T08:09:00.000-07:00

hmm singapore supports china's stance on tibet don't they? or at least, the apparent attempt to resolve the conflict with 'minimal violence'. i'm minorly pissed over it because they have apparently been trying to block out uk traffic from china, which means i haven't been getting my share of free downloads for the past week.

well i'm actually having my easter break now - although it's more like a study break - and erm the blog address is correct i guess but i passworded it after unhappy events *coughs*. will add you if you give me your wordpress username.

2008-03-26T05:53:00.000-07:00

yeah I know choon!! omg! I knew about the stabbings but didn't read the follow up reports when they found out he was lee do/ng g/un's brother! but I just did... OMG! that's like so sad. I mean, whether or not he was his brother, a young life was taken senselessly, and it's so sad. that place is near my church and I often go to the mart in the basement of world tower every sunday! and I've eaten at that Hungry Jack's too...

it's sosad... these chinese (the murderers are from this triad-style gang which is made up of china nats who are actually STUDENTS here on study visa) wreaking havoc all over the place! and china trying to COVER UP Godknowswhat in t/ib/et. omg. let's boycott the olympics ha ha ..

L/ee Don/g Gu/n's brother killed in Sydney

2008-03-23T03:43:00.000-07:00

Did you hear about it Mingen? Shocking right..

2008-03-19T03:58:00.000-07:00

hey all... wazzup wazzup!
only ch/oo/n hw/ee has been posting... well i guess everyone's deep in the middle of school term or something?:)
i just thought i'd write something. take care ! ! :)

wait, ma/k how do i enter your blog?? i think i've got the right addy but i don't have the password to enter.

for the bored, learn how to Do-Your-Own double eyelids (if u don't alr have one)

2008-03-15T03:51:00.000-07:00

click here click here

click on the above!(PS. I'm NOT talking about the photos, i'm talkign about the video. omg)

House Music: Daishi Dance's P.I.A.N.O.

2008-03-07T18:16:00.002-08:00

see if you like, it's not jpop or kpop, sufficiently uhm.. un-pop for our intelligentsia we have here *looks at you*

in other news, go to myfirstgossipblog.wordpress.com when you have the time! my online tabloid (ad)venture! ^_^ it's brainless but im absolutely fascinated with it

this is an important announcement

2008-03-02T03:50:00.000-08:00

for anybody who cares about m/e/t/e/or g/ard/en!

click on me!

it links to my blog entry about A VERY VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU MUST

CLICK ON ME!!!!

the two videos were so funny!!!!!!

2008-02-28T22:13:00.000-08:00

and how come ive never seen the /o/l/ym/p/us ad before? it looks like it'd have been shot for Sing/a//pore or /m/a/l/a/y/s/ia... or maybe /t/ai/wa/n. haha!

happy leap year day!! ^_^

and kr/is/p/y /kre/m/es/ a/re nice!!!! ^_^
glad that this blog is active again , we should make a video /MT/V of ourselves!!! so that when we're 50 we can look back and laugh! =D =D =D

2008-02-28T13:18:00.000-08:00

Ya, I didn't know either until Tuesday. And I call myself a geographer.

And Krispy Kremes are SO sweet - I hate them too actually.

Anyone seen this before?

2008-02-28T05:47:00.002-08:00

charmaine! why dun u like krispy kremes! i love em!!
and makk! i never knew tt there were earthquakes in the uk!

spicegirlsalloveragain

2008-02-28T05:44:00.000-08:00

what i do to destress before a paper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqJCuBp6Dis&feature=related

haha reminds me of the SPICE GIRLS performance we attempted in p4. dear me. i wudnt want to see us on youtube at all.

<3

he esc/aped while being esc/orted to meet family

2008-02-28T00:38:00.000-08:00

can you believe it?

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/331651/1/.html

anyway, don't believe the private sector thing HAHAHA my dad works at /c//i/s/c/o, which is supposed to be private (under /t/e/m/a/sek though) and ... hmm but actually i don't think they do prisons but they've security guards...n uh... q cmplicated cos labour pool q small (cos apparently sg-poreans are too smart for such 12-hour shift jobs. =( ) which gives him alot of problems .

will update when there's newS!

2008-02-27T23:25:00.000-08:00

More information on JI will be kindly appreciated! No time to read Straits Times - have to rush out an essay due in 2 hours - but plenty of time to blog of course. Quite strangely, when I saw this JI escape thing, I was (am still now) reading about prison reform and how 'outsourcing' prisons to the private sector has reduced prison abuses and escapes.

Alright, that was utterly irrelevant.

And I experienced my first real earthquake yesterday (not just aftershocks), just that I didn't realise it was an earthquake. I thought I was either a) dreaming or b) my neighbour was erm, shaking the floor.

does not address the j/i issue

2008-02-27T18:48:00.000-08:00

i just wanted to comment that i REALLY want to watch ju/no!!! i tried to watch it with my sis but we were thwarted because the tickets were sold out although it had been showing for really long alr... ive heard so many wonderful things about it though!! growl. also, it won like best original picture at the oscars or something.

i will watch the links and then comment.

J/I member esc/apes from cus/tody!

2008-02-27T06:55:00.000-08:00

a JI member escaped from custody at Whit/ley (near Ta//ng//lin) today at 4pm!

scary
http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest+News/Singapore/STIStory_211064.html

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/331477/1/.html

/go/s/s/i/p g/irl/s us HAHA

2008-02-26T17:52:00.000-08:00

ive heard of /j/un/o! but haven't watched it haha! my sister says its good though! ^_^ and glad to see everybody so THRILLEd by my gossips HAHAHAHA

also, wHO says/ /kr/i/spy /kre//mes set the benchmarks for doughnuts! j./co is GOOD okay! and from indonesia! and it's at raff/les city and there's a longgg queue there everyday, but which moves really quickly.

im absolutely hooked! and im swamped with work also but im online reading kore/an gossip blogs/ just watched /ep//ik/ h/i/gh's perf/ormance with /h/o/ney lee (miss /un/iverse finalist 2006 i think) of "F/a/n".

스타 되고싶어!!!i wanna be a /st/ar!!!! *raps and jiggles *

2008-02-26T10:44:00.000-08:00

haha i googled it... came up with this s/ta/rblo/g thing: http://st|arbl|og.sto|mp.com.sg/post.php?blogid=730 i guess that's where her comment came from??

i hate krispy kremes. :(

looking forward to mak's spiel on peopl/e's pa/rk lalala

school is so hard and sucks so much. but good luck to everyone with exams!

have you guys watched j/un/o? i have just found this precious little theatre near my school that does indie movies. it looks wonderful!

2008-02-26T00:32:00.000-08:00

you need to eat more krispy kremes. if the - apparently - best donuts in the world taste like that, that's enough to keep me off donuts for a very long time.

will tell you more about people's park later; need to go for (urg, 9 am!) lectures now.

/d/a//w/./n /y//a//ng/ a/nd /e/d/i//s/o/n /c//h/e/n?!

2008-02-25T16:33:00.001-08:00

you heard it right!!!!

D/A/W?N y/ANG (aka plastic girl) was apparently approached by /e/di/s/o/on /c///h/en when they were both in japan! like he asked her over internet if she wanted to ahem ahem and she said no!!!

and now she’s like, “now tt the photos are out, im so glad i wasn’t foolish like the other girls”

she looks REALLY weird tho in that photo

ok my main point was to report the /d//a/w/n //y/a//n/g thing cos i doubt ANY of the papers you read would have it.. im no even sure if /m/yp/aper has an online version. HAAHAHA

*gossip monger*

(to tell the truth the above was cut and pasted from smth i typed to /m/e/l/m/a/k HAHAHA too tired to re-write the whole thing again. MWAHAHAH)

burnt doughnut and want to get baby

2008-02-24T17:52:00.000-08:00

this ain't a song and you can tune off after the first 2 minutes cos it's just more of the saammee.. i want a bAby!!! but i don't want to have s/e/x/ with a guy =(. but i don' really want to adopt either. and i don't want to need a sperm. *eek*

anyway im really pissed off cos i bought nice doughnuts yday, put them in the fridge, then when i took it out it was q cold so i microwaved it and it freaking turned black. i HATE this. and it's not like .... i mean it put there on the box that you can HEAT it up in a microwave oven! !#$!3%@#%@

anyway... m/a/k... so what went on behind the scenes with people's park???

i thought the n/y/p/s post was ookaaay... haha. yi/li/n! good luck with exams!!!! ^_^

2008-02-23T16:03:00.000-08:00

i don't know why i'm replying to choon's post about singapore building up a new city one month after, but this suddenly occured to me. a friend of mine does architecture here and i was reading his books and came across this article on singapore, which described the urban planning as tabula rasa. and there is a lot involved in how singapore chose to built certain complexes, ugly as they may seem; people's park is a good example.

yeah that was random.

a lot of the nyps stuff was actually quite true...

haha this is really reliving the old times

2008-02-23T08:51:00.001-08:00

http://gssq.entori.net/detritus/nyps.htm
heyy (: check this website out (: its abt nyps, and though its a bit unjustified, its almost everything we went thru la haha
and i disagree abt how ppl dun keep in touch aft pri sch!! =D

of scandals and random memory!

2008-02-22T06:38:00.000-08:00

suddenly thot of /b/ernic/e's post abt the a/u/t/is/tic kid earning money but not knowing how much he did... i can imagine it vividly. actually i think about it from time to time.. esp when im on the bus.

and im reading a book that my father's best friend (a girl, same age as my dad, who moved to Canada with her family and is back only to renew her passport cos she didn't want to give up citizenship.) recommended me... it's about a mother from T/a/iwa/n -- she's some political figure also -- and her son who is half-german. (they divorced) so the mother leaves ge/rma/ny when he is 14 and when they meet again 4 years later, he has shot up (height) and they don't really understand each other.

so the mother's like, okay let's write emails to each other, and you can get some money cos i can get like this newspaper to print out our correspondence in a column. so it's about bridging east+west, generations. that kinda thing.

so anyway 3 things i wanted to say:

1) i just read until a part in the book where it's like...the mother's telling her son (the style of the book is like: preachy preachy mommy, heck care european liberal sex booze drugs sonny -- not tt explicit la haha ) about how life's not all about friends, and they fall away when u start work, inevitably.

which made me sad, but looking at my parents, esp my dad, who didn't really talk to his best friend whole of tt night. and bcause he wasn't talking i suddenly felt a wave of pity (cos his best friend is like, vv noisy andchatty) so i ended up chatting to her

which leads to my second point

2) i found striking parallels b/w her + my dad... and me+ym!!!! which was like -_-. like i can SO imagine ym being like my dad, passive, wordless, and me chatting away, trying to make his future daughter listen to some new jap/anese or k/orean song i have. and u know my dad's best friend writes snail mail to our house EVERY year.. like every few months.. cos ill always open the letter box.. since young and i asked who writes them in that funny handwriting.

and u know my dad aLWAYS gets my MOTHER to REPLY her... by hand. and my mom and her aren't EVEn like... close friends. its my DAD's friend for heaven's sake. it's worse ym asking /sh/an to reply his emails for him next time. (because i mean i knOW s/h/an, i knew her before i knew ym anyway but anyway) i'll so kill him.

3) so i actually TOLD ym everything i wrote in point 2... .but he was distracted by the food that had just come. and even when he decided to respond he ... somehow ican't rmb what he said -- most prob it was some sort of smokey answer.

and anyway after tt... i asked him about his sister(who just got married) so ym said oh, they have a car, house... instalments.

then ym suddenly says like, "i feel like i have an aim in life now."

me: what aim?
him: as in i know what i want to work towards
me: like?
him: like i can see how it's possible to get a house, a car, etc

and then i felt vv sad!!!!!!

but i didn't say anything this time. n it's prob gonna be the same for a lot of us i suppose... i don't know.

n i guess this is q trite.. like vv 'common' in words but each of us has our own first-hand experience w this i guess

actualyl i'd meant to come on here and talk about /e/di/os/n /ch/en s/e/x scandal!!!!!!!! those who don't know, google those words immediately! hk is damn happening currently. and to advance my theory for about the fifth time tonight (once in email, once in my b/l/og, once in melm/ak's blog, once to my mother, ) i bet /e/di/ons c/he/n chose to come back to hk when he did because the news (entertainment bit) woudl be divided between him and //ly/d/i/a su/m's death!!!!

my wOrld is a song! this one's called "plan/etarium"

2008-02-15T04:52:00.000-08:00

lj just copy and paste the code that's in the "embed" box at the right hand corner ^_^ hahaha anw i preferred the french song to the trAnce sOng.. but i think trance is good when im drunk

anw this is a ONe MINUTE clip of pl/anet/arium by o/t/suka a/i! its from the jap version of liu x/ing h/ua yu/an!!! it's a bit reminiscent of the fina/l /fantasy s/ong -- for Yun/a and Ti/dus. S/uteki /da/ n/e

hOpe you enjOy it! ^_^

song stuck in my head...

2008-02-14T21:29:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PftqGKJz3Ds

its about 911, the woman's voice is so beautiful, the vid is really sad.
i dunno how to put the thing like how charmaine/choon did.
sulks.

"une violence eternelle"

most played on my itunes

2008-02-09T12:29:00.001-08:00

cos this song makes me happy.

for empty days + wistful moods

2008-02-09T04:18:00.000-08:00

hi its me

2008-02-06T04:17:00.001-08:00

you guys are amazing.

just reading through the posts, catching up, and i thank God for the amazing minds he's given us. i know nuts about politics and economics but i think that for such a young nation, singapore's done great! just that i think we need really good leaders with vision for the next few years to develop our people into less selfish, more outward-looking citizens. what bugs me most whenever i return for holidays is how people jump queues, squeeze their way first into trains & buses, and still can't shake off that 'i must buy cos it's on offer' mentality.. hardly any attitude of service in singapore at all but *sigh* it will take a while!

i just had a 4.5 hour shift of work in the kitchen at college and i'm so tired now... i want a foot massage.. haha ew choon you like breast massages?? so e3 xin1

i want prata too..

bernice what is your average uni week like? i'm really excited for u as a dancer!! =) =)

2008-02-05T22:03:00.000-08:00

ahh the stuff about mi/nds and c/ar/e//co/rne/r made me have to tell yo uthis story! i didnt actually witness this but they have a video (: i work with this 'company' of re/ta/rd/e/d danc/ers here and one of them is j/er/em/y who has spinal something or other and sits in a wheelchair.. he's tiny and oh so funny.. they do art projects also, and then they sell them for money at fairs and i think sometimes even a museum.. so jere/my was told one day that his art was bought, and he gets super excited and yells, "i can't believe it! someone bought my painting! i'm a professional artist!" and he throws the money he earned into the air. then the lady who works with them on their art and other things said, "how much did you earn, je/rem/y?" and he stares and says, "i don't know!"
ahhhhhhhhhhhh so great.

funny u should mention the population thing

2008-02-04T06:51:00.000-08:00

because /l//k/y/ just said on the newspapers that he thought 6.5 million was WAYY too much and he thought 5.5 was optimum!!!! hahaha. anyway part of me is actually quite excited for the new shopping centres in orchard to open. new spAces.

and funny thing is that i'm doing this module on /m/o/d/ernism now and we're learning about like the birth of the City... and so we're studying pAris but reading what /l/e /c/or//bu/si/er had to say about it (he was featured in Lif/e! on sat btw) you'd think he was talking about To/k/yo, or C/a/mo/zo/tz from a wr/inkle in /ti/me HAHAHA rmb that book?

anyway recently my dad has been telling me more and more about his childhood, and it's just one of those things like how you know he really can rmb pre-modern singapore... where he used to live in a house his father built himself. and when he went to jc his dad just built a new extension (i immediately thot of par/agon's extension haha don't know why not like ive been shopping there) so that he could have his own room.

and yes yilin and i are suppd to meet up w u /min/ge/n at least one more time before you go back. be more active and jio us out! ill msg yil/in to try to coordinate smth maybe this cny cos yi/lin says she'll be vv free..

2008-02-04T03:40:00.001-08:00

hm hmm lots has been being discussed here! so I'll cut to the chase...: you like our govt??! I'm thinking that there are really a few serious flaws with the new govt and that l/k/y ought to sit his son down at the dinner table and ask him what the heck he's really thinking. 6 million people in sin/gapore is going to be terribly ridiculous. at the rate we're going, I've already been seriously considering packing up and -returning- to Japan, seeing as to how most of us are probably going to have to work overseas at some point in our lives, in the very near future. anyway, haven't been reading much of the news lately so I'd better shut up since my level of knowledge of the current affairs is probably inadequate to be able to add any worth!

last week's news was quite depressing because for 5 or so consecutive days there were tons of reports on this and that death death death... it really got me thinking alot about the whole issue of life and death (if you get what I mean because of my beliefs) and it's something I tend to ponder over night and day once I start thinking about it. augh.

anyways, y/ilin used to supervise the min/ds kids cleaning the SIA headsets I think 2 years ago!! I remember her telling me about it! that's when I started taking notice of the headset packaging whenever I got on the planes! I think it's kinda... cute! hahas.

speaking of kids, today I tried (unsuccessfully) to get my kids to set up blogs to help them write more and hopefully in the process build up and improve on their writing skills. perhaps also to boost their interest and help them to see the real 'use' of writing... instead of always writing dull compositions that they feel nobody but the teacher is ever gonna read. hm. it was a flop anyway. only about 1/5 of the class actually managed to do it. or wanted to. I guess my plan was a little too idealistic and overenthusiastic.

by the way I don't think I mentioned it before becus yil/in didn't seem to know that day when I told her, but for my hols, I've been hanging out back in secondary school... as a full-time part-time relief teacher. and I must say, it's really been quite the experience... a rough little neighbourhood school, getting to see the 'other' side of the world. oh gosh.. and ya know to sorta be socio-linguistically smart, I've been speaking (or trying to, at least) their lingo.. and that has caused my speech to start going awry! it's really so weird. my cognition is really screwing up. either that, or I must've somehow damaged my left brain (or was it the right??) okay whatever.

hehe. hey, can we meet upto eat prata sometime soon? it's still my home-sweet-home-obsession HAHAs.

2008-02-03T04:33:00.001-08:00

hmm. i actually like the government now. i think there are actually quite a lot of ppl like me who are too bothered with their own - insignificant problems - to want to make any change.

sorry, i can't think of anything intelligent to say because constructive trusts in land make me extremely confused and hence stupid.

the orphaned handphone

2008-02-02T03:19:00.000-08:00

oh no how did you lose it?!?!
and your two concerns are rather vAlid.. always feel a bit ---- when old people clean up after me. =(

=(
=(

nvm think of it as chance to buy another hp. or WEAN yourself off hps HA HA HA

just hAd a fight with my sisters and ran/cabbed hOme. ya lj will scOld me agAin (am i not suppd to be over this whole childish escapist phase???? i have a feeling it will stay with me for life.) but anw im nOT as wrOng as one might thing i think the only thing i did wrOng was to leave n come hOme... anw my sister jus msged admitting her insensitivity but like what to do. im already hOme and online.

i don't know if im indulging myself but i think im trying to seek a justification for running away from bad situations. essentially there are certAin things i can't tolerAte - eg. disagreements w pple i lOve. sort of. like w /r/a/ch/el /h/ui. my sisters. OR disagreements w pple i don't give a shit abOut. let me think of a precedent.... hmm. ok that would just be ponning school/lessons. ha ha ha!

ok ok enOugh moaning.

hope you find ur hp soon! glad to find this blOg active ^_^ with alternating members of the shepherd's pie sorority ha ha ha ^_^. how come im always so free haha

bah humbug

2008-02-01T20:12:00.000-08:00

i think ive lost my phone! i dont understand! i was talking in the hallway, then i went to the toilet, then when i came out, it was GONE! :( it mysteriously disappeared and i dont understand. :( sad.

2008-02-01T19:57:00.000-08:00

teehee.. i guess i mean on a laaarger scale out of singapore. like is it possible in third world countries (haha). cos after all, that's where the poverty is. which is what affects me most.

i think s/ing//apore does quite a good job with those who need! although i have two main concerns: 1. what happens to disabled people after their parents die? are they taken care of by the state / family / what? 2. i dont like the way old people hafta clean up after me in hawker centres / food courts. i think old people shouldn't have to work unless they want to work. they dont have to live super comfortably, but they shouldnt be sweating and earning hourly wages. but im pro-welfare that way though i cant find balance. :X

hahahaha i think yilin might die if she has to massage you during breast cancer check up hahahahahaha

hehe im reading "t/he n/ine" by j/effr//ey to//obin now! it's really interesting! and its so nice to stay in and read on a friday afternoon. :) sleepy now

2008-02-01T17:12:00.000-08:00

hey actually i think they dO have that, just that maybe on a smaller scale! and as for the SIA thing, they always have some sort of label on the packet before you tear it open and put the headphones on right? i remember that from the last time I took SIA, n thought cool! anyway MINdS people also help bind books i tihnk, i was in the library and there are little blue books with stickers on them tt said bound by XXX. ^_^

our government isn't so bad char, seriously. i was at henderson the other day, one of the blocks, with all the one-room apartments housing little old folks, and if you walk down the corridors you'll see stickers on almost all of them like "This unit is being taken care of by Lion Community Services" or something like that. people do check on the LBC (le/ft b/eh/in/d c/lass-- if they don't mindme calling them that o_O). also, i ve repeated this story to many people alot of times (ha ha) but like i do volunteer at /c//ar//e c/o/r/n/e/r right which gives free tuition to kids and also like free play time on sat morning -- all these only for kids from the poorest families in that area though -- and like some of them are rather pu/d/gy (meaning that for alot of the LBC - if i may extrapolate-- its not a question of a poverty level below that of basic sustenance -food etc... haha. im sure there are sOME people starving (maybe) but very small percentage? and there's always that one exception to foil all other efforts anyway.)

so yahh... don't need to get too emOtionAl about effecting social chAnge in singAp/ore, there are areas to improve but we're not that unfeeling/ un-social/ un-welfare-ish. haha.

i meanj ust ask /yi/lin the med fac does this annual thing in t/o/a p/a/y/oh where they set up booths and give free medical advice! ^_^ so cute right. when yil/ins year three im going to line up and ask her to check me out for br/ea/st cancer. HAHAHAHAHAHAH get free massage HAHAHAHAHAHA

2008-02-01T09:26:00.000-08:00

teehee ch/oon, so true.. without rich people like m/ak (future), it's likely so/cial ent/repreneu/rship won't amount to much. it's all giving back to society, just in different capacities! PATRON!!!!

do you guys think it's possible for a paradigm shift in the function of govt with regard to public spending? where companies are encouraged to donate x amount of money to a micro-finance / social institution to avoid tax brackets. that way govt spending on unemployment reduces, job creation increases (hopefully). well, it's just a redistribution of resources. but perhaps through being more direct, it will be more effective. anyway, do you guys know that the MINDs schools in s/ingapore have a super cool relationship with SIA where they clean the headsets for SIA and get paid! they actually submitted a tender and won the bid. i thought that was quite cool though i think they're right now underpaid.

busybusybusy hehe. im going snowboarding again this weekend! daytrip up to do/dger/idge. it should be fun. it's like the only thing i look forward to! classes are mundane.... i dont understand my professors. sian. :( just submitted a proposal for a 2 week community service trip to ind/one/sia. bali! we're working with i/dep hopefully (http://www.idepfoundation.org/idep_waste.html) more than ever, school makes me think that im just not cut out for all this academic shit haha... all i wanna do are other things! it's been raining here... and yesterday there was a rainbow. it was huge and from where i stood, perfectly arc-ed and it hung over the campus. and i just thought it incredibly beautiful. :)

to m/ak

2008-01-27T06:55:00.000-08:00

don't worry ma/k, some of us are meant to do good to the world, whilst the others are supposed to be earning money + become rich to become philanthropists to help those that are meant to do good in the wOrld!!!

in other wOrds,

BE OUR PATRON!!!!

^_^

fund our empty pockets but full heaRts! and in dishing out $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ your heart will become full tOO!!!!! ^_^

hAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*HUG* dont' wORRY actually m/ak/ you should have come with us to cambodia that time. let's go on a CIP trip together all of us!!! (who can make it) . ^_^
im sure there'll be a window of coincident schedules and complementary timing!!!!!

*HUG*

2008-01-26T08:51:00.001-08:00

reading charmaine's post makes me a bit. sad (at myself i guess).

when i should be spending my uni life doing MEANINGFUL things, all i know how to do is do what everyone else is doing. ie. chasing after the job that pays too much money for the level of intelligence which is required (not too much). which at the end of the day, is really pretty useless. it's not what i want to do for the rest of my life.

thank you kat =)

2008-01-24T04:23:00.001-08:00

=)
i miss home!!!

charmaine!!!!!

2008-01-19T03:26:00.000-08:00

the pictures were so nice, can tell so much has happened to you (inwardly outwardly) recently!!

i've been looking for a song for you but how come all songs are love songs?!!?!?!? can't find one that's apt but anyway:

1. This is Sotsug/you from Inuy/asha. It means Graduation and i sent it to f/ai/th/ and since you two like s/pan/is/h songs but since f/a/ith liked it i figure there's a higher chance of you liking it too... than my other korean/jap songs. haha hope you like it! and find it a nice tune to reflect to...(it's sung by Johnny's jnr! particular pertinence also for LJ: you will find NAK/AT/SU here... hahAHAHA see if u can spot him he doesn't look so cute here but he was younger. )

for the rest: just a bunch of cute guys/manufactured idols singing a vvvvv nice sOng!! ^_^

2.Yamaguchi Momoe's Ii hi tabidachi (title alone means good day for travel i think. or good day travel.)
it's very old, try not to look at the video it may disturb your appreciation of the song.

both songs are SAD and DEPRESSING and GREAT FOR REFLECTION/ listening on trains on long journeys. i think.

hOpe when u come back this summer we can all shAre our stOries!!!!!!!! ^_^ ^_^... i really want to go to latin america now also!!!!

2008-01-18T01:32:00.000-08:00

hi guys,

it's about 1.30 am now. i just had a cup of port with a friend then cycled back and i was just about to go to sleep. but i haven't written here for sometime (though i've been keeping up with the reading :), so i thought i'd just write a little...

got back from peru three weeks ago. it was fun, a little tiring, stressful. did the touristy things, but above all, i like walking through the streets of south america, watching people working, talking to the old ladies that sell broad beans by the streets whose hands and feet are really black and grimy, talking to restaurant owners, hostel people, learning more about their everyday life. i really love this place; i hope to stay here someday.

this is jonny:

jonny is 15, he's from ollayatambo and spent 45 minutes talking to me about the history of the incas and the meaning behind all their symbols. his parents work in another town. and he singlehandedly mans the hotel that his uncle and aunty owns. he wants to be a tour guide when he grows up because he loves peru, loves its history. he has photos of different ruins plastered in his little "office" where spiders hang from the ceiling. he loves music and played his guitar for me. he was off key but he wants to study music in the music institute in another town. and he wants to combine both and be a musical tour guide. :) carry his guitar and play songs for the tourists that he will bring around. he speaks a little english, french, german - all from the tourists that stay at his hotel. :)

classic machu picchu picture (note the mountains in shape of incan face in the bkground)

and lago titic/aca

the whole island is made of reeds - the houses, the island itself, the handicrafts. the ur/us moved off the mainland into lago titic/aca (meaning puma) when the spanish came and started to live off the reeds. the islands are basically held in place by ropes tied to patches of reeds - so when there was a storm 2 years ago, the ropes broke and the islands started crashing into each other haha. we stayed with a couple called victor and cristina. they were awesome. told us stories, sang traditional songs for us. they don't read or write but they sing wonderfully - "mi lago titicaca, me haces alegria".

now i'm back to school and er more stressed out. my econ classes this quarter are more difficult than my last two quarters. both my professors are quite bad. i was taking an english class about the tw/o eliz/abe/ths but i think i may have to drop it because i can't handle the econ and english at the same time since the latter has a syllabus of 20 books. doing bahasa indonesian because i'll be leading a project in indonesia this summer - hopefully to do with sanitation and water cleanup. and an alte/rnative sp/ring br/eak course on public leadership. we'll be going to boston and new york this spring. :) i had my first class last money for ASB and it was great. st/eve w/es/tly, who opposed arnold for governor last year came and spoke about how he had been a student leader in st/an/fo/rd during the apartheid - when sta/nf/ord was still investing large amounts of money in south africa. and the students basically protested - riot police were called in and everything, other colleges took the cue, and two years later all investment from s/ta/nfo/rd had been withdrawn.

i guess it was inspiring because of two things. the first was because he kept reinforcing the permanence of trial and error in life - reassuring. the second because he kept emphasizing that we learn precious little in s/ta/nfo/rd and we need to start thinking about how we can use this education to do things; the education doesn't speak for itself. i guess i often feel that way.

i don't see how i can apply activism to si/nga/pore at all (and sometimes i feel am/eri/cans are so naive because they are so reactionary). sometimes i feel completely paralysed by suffering (like when i am in latin america and people ask for so little you don't understand how they can live. or when i read yu/nus' "ba/nker f/or th/e po/or" where anecdotes brought me close to tears). sometimes i am convinced that i can't do anything (school is so paralysing, as is sin/ga/pore's sl/ash p/s/c's judgment) and therefore do not care. but maybe i can. and i like this quote from the ta/lmud:

"D/o not be da/unted b/y the enor/mity of t/he wor/ld's gri/ef. Wa/lk humbl/y now. Do j/ustly now. Lo/ve m/ercy now. You are not e/xpect/ed to comp/lete the wo/rk, but nei/ther are y/ou fre/e to a/band/on i/t."

also been stressed out because i'm organizing snow trip for the sin/gap/oreans at s/ta/nfo/rd. the logistics aren't too bad but i am playing with so many factions and have so many emails in my inbox. and i went snowboarding last weekend. it was awesome. i fell so much, but i wanna get better so badly. :) difficult since i no longer have properly working knees, but I WILL GET THERE!

oh yea, bernice was in s/t/a/nford like the day before new year's. :) it was good to see her again! heehee... so i guess that while you guys met up in sing/apore, we did meet up too. :)

be snowboarding next weekend too, for the snow trip. and after that, it'll be back to the grind. it's a three day weekend this weekend and i'm really looking forward to it. :) i'm so exhausted from not understanding my classes, dealing with so many logistics, worrying about so many things that i'm glad for the three days to get on top of things. :)

for bernice:

2008-01-16T06:12:00.000-08:00

hey i think this song reminds me of you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buiH3zSkvgk

and i think this song, would be great for dance! it's quite old and i heard it quite a while back but it didn't occur to me that actually you MAY be able to use it nOW!
haha but yah lah feel free to ignore/reject it... i have weird conceptions of what music makes for nice dance music. but seriously... i think in a way...:

(the MTV is damn boring though... i did my own mtv using IPhO footage and it was more exciting! unfortunately its stuck in my hard drive and i didn't burn it anywhere.. will revive it someday.)

nice song by f/aye w/ong (old)

2008-01-16T05:48:00.000-08:00

yes mingen! it was fun!
just had a mini-crisis today... spent really long deciding what modules to take. like, 50 minutes before the LAST round of bidding closed.
felt vaguely apprehensive, like. my decision had a definitive impact on the path im going to take in life, and the reason why i made it.... was because.... i felt tired. =(. i wish it had been more profound, like epiphani-c like, but no. i was just feeling tired and wanted something easy. not like EASY easy, but easy in the sense tt i/ndi/an phil/osophy is eas/ier than c/om sci, but not necessarily funner. in a way. duno. feel like im going to be a useless, skill-less person! but then again, not like i waNT to gO stare at coms for the rest of my life. but i don't know. im part of the age that worships science n tech. =(

actually i wanted to take c/la/ssi/cal chinese but! i was BARRED from taking it cos of some technical detail. =(

but whatever, i shall be indifferent about myself like the song.

"i don't care about me."
"Well, I care about you."
"Oh yes, but I don't care about me. And I'll do it and then everything will be fine."
- "Hi/lls like Wh/ite Eleph/ants" (Er/nest Hemi/ngway)

Do read it, We dissected it in class and I was just being talkative as usual, kept shooting back at the teacher's prompts when suddenly i got it and shouted out the "A" word (which was the key, read it n you'll prob get what the A word is) and then suddenly it all felt so sad I almost cried but it was only because i was being too emotional and so yes

then we met andi and I told her how i would prob have liked lit better if not for p/u/rv/is , in a way.

be like the song! =(

2008-01-13T06:15:00.000-08:00

Hi GIRLS!!! yesterday was sooo nice and fun, getting to meet up with ya'll again! bernice and charmaine, we missed you!!! anyway... thanks again kat, for arranging this and choon (HMM) for doing the cooking! I was so full when I went to work that I kept yawning non-stop.. (cus I get sleepy when I feel full) heehee

okok post the pics! of the yummmy pieeeeeeee and US! :)
then I'll blog ab out it in my Jap blog which I haven't touched in awhile (partly because my life has either been too boring, or it's too complicated to elaborate on in Jap.)\\

anyway, I found this a rather amusing piece of info to be included in the news: "Mr Bush spoke with Admiral Cosgriff after he had a breakfast of pancakes and bacon with troops of the US 5th Fleet based in Bahrain." heehee!

have a gooood week ahead!

mak, bon voyage!

OMG!must-watch 2008!

2008-01-09T17:19:00.000-08:00

must-watch!
*edit

omg after i posted i realised b/ernice and lj had posted!
in reply to B:
it was in NUS! Yuso/f iSh/ak h/oUse one of the random rooms!!!
how's your holiday!?!?

to lj:
where's tt quote from? for awhile i thought u were talking to b/erni/ce about hER j/ohn ha ha ha
and how come you were up so late you were watching tv is it!??!!? hahahaha
im sOooo tired buti have to go aLL the way to school to return the cameraaaaa
after dragging my suitcase down o/rchard ro/ad yesterday haha i didn't realise it would be so tiring until i woke up this morning aching! im getting old =(
but yay.. two more peaceful holi-days ... ^_^

shepherds gathering!!!

2008-01-09T12:21:00.000-08:00

hii i am soooo excited about our lunch on sat!!! :) (so excited tht im blogging about it at 4.22 am heh heh) thank you so much kat you rock! do u want us (me) to bring anything? something for dessert maybe?? i don't know, but if you do just let me know!!

also, i just saw the pictures! yay to slacking/mugging. both are good. in their own ways. different, but equally good. hur hur. i'd make such a wonderful and supportive parent.

"john, yes i know your sister can play the piano, violin, ice skate, paint and recite poems. and you can't do any of those and you don't do anything except watch tv. but you are just as amazing in a different way, and i love you equally much."

hur hur hur.

2008-01-08T19:56:00.001-08:00

wheres that???

today

2008-01-03T18:41:00.000-08:00

YIH: 3 slackers + 1 mugger + lots of chocs + a wriggley caterpillar

sorry i was so late yi lin & choon, i said i would come at 10+ but i ended up being there at like 12.45pm =p i will sleep earlier from today! so that i can start my days on time!

tori amos - a sorta fairytale

2008-01-03T03:01:00.000-08:00

i love this video!!

Estate Blogs

2007-12-21T04:54:00.000-08:00

Please visit:

http://bukitpanjangblog.blogspot.com !

and start your own estate blog!!!

spread the word, spread the heartland-lovin'! ^_^

yooohoo

2007-12-17T01:22:00.000-08:00

everyboday.... I'm in HK now!!! waiting at the airport cus I've been here for 3 hours alr and my flight is still in another 3 horus' time... waiting sucks but I'll be pretty glad to get home. 4 days here = 4 years off my life expectancy! oh well I need ANOTHER holiday!

yeap hi charmaine!!!! n yeap u got TESOL right! hahas... all the best u all!!!! for tests, exams, essays.. .whatever!!! :) hehes I can understand some bits of the french that lj wrote... I keep taking up french n dropping it hahas so I'm forever stuck at 101 in different schools but it's pretty solid I guess hahas..

hmm the layout is freaking pink.... ............................... but the pics are CUTE!! hehes!! omg.. 10 years!!!!!!!

hahas yeap murakami is very bery omoshiroi... the first one I read wa s kafka on the shore n what an introduction to the world of mr forestpaper! hehes!!! everybody go read!

anyways, I'm going tosit down now my legs are breaking n gonna stone n finish my other half of my book (naw it ain't haruki's)... but before that, happeeee belated b'day natalieeewhateverelse koh chooooon hweeeee! :)

n hope yi lin is enjoying china n japan

n bernice n char n lj n the states

n mak at the camera bridge

n kat n choon n me in a few hours in singsing!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

2007-12-15T14:14:00.000-08:00

miss clytie natalie (faline) yuka (etc etc etc) koh choon hwee !!!

hooray for december babies =)

lively!!

2007-12-14T06:05:00.000-08:00

yay so happy!

anyway char i haven't read ANY of /h/a/ru/ki /mu/ra/k/ami's books so i can't tell!! and yours sounds more useful than what i did, for web stuffs at least. anyway since u did javascript and html you can fiddle around with our blogskin too! javascript is like java for websites .. java is like what you use for stand-alone software (but u know this already), my comsci module was on java but as of now i know too little to be programming anything at all... and in any case id rather know website stuffs than programming stuffs

and kat! omg! yilin will be in japan too! i want to go to japan!!! aHhhHhHhh.... aiyah. anyway come join our speech course! people who are going to be in singapore. lj kat and i intend to learn how to speak properly ha ha ha ha

u now that the chinese news at channel 8 has chinese SUBtitLEs? watching it now.. was rather surprise to notice it. hMMMMM ^_^

hallooooo wie geht's

2007-12-14T01:53:00.000-08:00

HELLO soorry i've been MIA. i got back to sg last saturday. had a full-on month in melb before that so basically took the past week off to recuperate at home...

i'm holidaying in japan from 18-24dec! so i'll see you guys after!

i've been honing my driving skills.. my family doesnt seem to trust my probational victorian driving license (Aust) and admittedly half the time i have no idea what all the lines on these singaporean roads mean so i'd better take a local basic theory test

and the rain was nice for a while but now it's just annoying when i want to go out... hehe, funny thinking of yi lin chasing after a slipper.. hope u got it back!

i'm only back til 18 jan so it's a short timeframe to do stuff. after christmas i have 3+ weeks so.. let's do smth fast!

i want strawberries...

2007-12-13T22:55:00.001-08:00

one more paper! my paper's the last exam slot for exam week. :( so outside, people are singing and partying... and sounding very happy................ rrrr.

heehee... choon what did you learn in your cs class? i took a cs class too this quarter. but it was the easiest one. :p introduction to computers. learnt html, a bit of javascript.... which was so new to me! i'm thinking of taking the next one which focuses completely on javascript but it's supposed to be really difficult and time consuming so i might take it during another term when im doing fewer units!

i thought it was feline! not faline... hmm i dont remember. my spelling must be off. :X

8 of us. :) i agree. there's alot of nolstagia associated with that. it's like a happy time in ny when life was much simpler, fewer variables, distinct memories, just alot more innocence. and there you guys were! just there.

haru/ki m/uraka/mi! i remember... clarisse always talked about sputnik sweetheart... norweigian (sp?) wood... i remember reading sputnik sweetheart once at borders but i don't remember liking it much. it was too wistful, too dreamy. i suppose japanese authors have that quality about them? (correct me if i am wrong....) which probably has to do with the semantics of the language? maybe i should go and read it again. :) it's funny because my friend just commented on murakami on her blog... she said...

oh yes, last night i read mu/ra/kami's after dark which was an entertaining read, except that i would have enjoyed it much more had the women not been, as usual, emotionally stunted and suffering.

do you guys agree??

more after tmr!

ba gua of love

2007-12-13T18:08:00.000-08:00

how about the chinese octagonal ba gua with the mirror inside instead ha ha ha ha
cos of the pun with ba gua hee hee.
slept so late this morning! fight on...

the octagon of love

2007-12-13T14:27:00.000-08:00

this makes me so happy that all 8 of us are here now! it reminds me so much of 5L days, when it was always the 8 of us and we used to do and write millions of things that were about 8 ness i think... like the phrase "the 8 of us" just sounds so strangely, yet fondly familiar. you know what i mean? a song from years ago suddenly playing in a store... and you find yourself singing along and knowing all of the lyrics without being previously aware that you held that information within.

okay, someone sounds nostalgic. it's because i'm writing my essay about nostalgia, hur hur.
there's this definition of nostalgia by John Treats that it's the paradoxical longing for what has never existed, the desire for desire. what do you think of that?

righto.. back to work.
loooove !

thanks and hello char!

2007-12-12T18:01:00.000-08:00

this is really strange because I was positive I added you already, and anyway i think i did because when i invited you again this time your email address was cached so it appeared again.

anyway, i can't believe u know what TESOL is! with mingen ignoring us -_-....

can't wait till mak sees her solo model shot HAHAHA

and congrats on the french oral lj! im very fascinated with ha/ruki muraka/mi too... in fact did i tell you about what i wiki-ed about him already? i thought i did, but i can't rmb when/where. also, i think we're kinda 3 or 4 years late. ap/arn/a was reading his books like in sec 3 or 4?!?!?! i mean the litty circle (which charmaine belongs to) was like very aWARE....

in any case regarding the jap translation, let's just say that it took me 7 years of french to start reading proper french books.... and i've only done.. uhh... almost 2 years of jap!?!??! but yAH actually i was so motivated to read his books that i was crazy mugging jap past two days, reading online blogs and gossip columns. progress is interminable.

also, i realised that ha/ru/ki /mu/r/a/k/ami is from /w/as/e/d/a university! which only rang a bell because they were advertising this new d/ouble/d/e/gre/e prog at NUS like in October this year. which i didn't even give two hoots about, because i was so sianned about the turkish experience that i thought i'd just carry on coasting passively in nu/s forever. but then suddenly i started looking at the prog, and even though it's quite messy, like, i emailed them and the people in charge were rather clueless also about the structure (which reminded me of what me/lm/ak said about her sister's friend from /n/u/s who had a horror exchange trip where suddenly the school said they didn't want to recognise her MCs) so yah. that's just that for now.

the plus point about it is that if successful, i spend 2 years in /wa/s/e/da (which is in to/k/yo/!) and 3 years in /n/us/. the minus point is that that's 5 years of school. which may be a plus point depending on my mood of the day. another minus point is that i'll have to sacrifice com sci... which im not so sure about yet. let's wait for the release of results this dec then! if it turns out ive flunked comsci (not so improbable) then maybe it would be prudent to just explore for fun at home ha ha ha

so my long long winding story.

regarding the new layout... i actually think its quite messy! the pink part should be a bit bigger... cos the words start too close to the border. im going to work on it tmr. also, i've looked at tonnes of other blogs, kids are amazing.

did i tell you that when i was p3 or p5 i forgot.. when i was in my "Faline" phase. did any of you know me by the name "Faline"? if not, then it must have been before p4. the name was from bambi, and i actually was inspired by the whole "keypal" movement and i created a website.. and i added a freaking interactive CHAT box (applets i think, it was dull and black, but it worked) on my page. and i managed to chat with somebody from the US i think, who was at my page at the same time. and looking at other bloggies ... actually /cl/au/i/ac/ha'/ng from my class in jc was actually rather good at the whole website design business too. she even had her own company and was earning money i think. people are amazing really

okok enough crap. im going out for brunch now.. and then mugg!! ^_^

I LOVE THE CHANGES :) :)

2007-12-12T15:40:00.001-08:00

you rock! i want to change my xanga layout but it's been months since i said that... pooo.

anyhow, i just wanted to say, that yes!! dont u think haruki murakami's mode of life is so interesting??? apparently he just decided he didn't have enough experience to write though he wanted to... and also, apparently he replies his reader's emails himself!!! aah. when all the exam madness is over, im so going to be emailing him. i also ordered like 3 of his other books online :P

and if you are so skeptical of translations, why dont you get the japanese version?? i wanted to get it for you on amazon but i couldn't find it (namely cos i dont know japanese, i feel)

oh! and aujourd'hui j'ai eu mon examen français, l'entretien! ça marche, je pense. mais je veux apprendre plus français, plus plus plUS!

and. i have to start and finish an essay real soon.. and just took a 4 hour nap! good gracious.

my appetite for sleep is epic..

salut mes amies. a bientot.

byebye time

2007-12-12T10:28:00.001-08:00

heehee... the pictures are so cute. :)

and omgggggg i woke up at 930am intending to do work and it's now 1030am!!!!!!!!

ooh barracuda

2007-12-12T10:23:00.000-08:00

hiiiii guys,

yay i've been added to the blog! :) TESOL is teaching english to speakers of other languages, or teach english as a second language.... or some variation of that.

in the middle of exams now..... had 2 on monday, have 1 tmr (econ) and then 1 on friday (econ stats) :) but i just wanted to say hiiiiiiiiiiii teehee

i'll be going to peru on friday night and be back in the states on 29th december - so bernice, if you want to give me a ring, do! and im sorry that i won't be in singapore. :( i really want to be! but i'll only be going back in summer working for the gahmen...

choon what documentary is this??? what is it for??

char

Help with Film

2007-12-11T18:37:00.000-08:00

actually , i think i CAN incorporate all of you in the documentary im working on now. it's for the starting. i think i might even need mak's dog.

PLEASE AGREE TO APPEAR IN FRONt Of CAMERA !! i've made the loan from 22ndDec - 29th Dec......... i hope some of you will be in Singapore by then.

what is TESOL mi/ngen?!

2007-12-11T07:02:00.000-08:00

as you can see, i check this blog about 10 times a day.

anyway what is TESOL?

anyway this holiday is actually ur summer holiday so you have quite a bit of time in singapore right? do you want to do a film? hahhaha a short one. however, it means that we'll have to write a script soon. and to do that, we need to know how many actors we can get our hands on.

but im always rushing things. if anything, we should plan for your NEXT summer holiday, if you're coming to singapore at ALL! ha ha ha

i feel like MAKING something, but for filming i always feel so short-handed. and they are raising taxi-prices so it's hard to move all the equipment from one place to another. i've attempted to go from little india (where i rented) to clementi and all i can say is im not half the wo-man i used to be. plus, warnings of osteoporosis in my 40s and 50s is making me wary. plus, they're raising taxi prices starting next monday. like wth?

oh bernice if you're ever coming back can i film you dancing? hahaha
ill need to think of why i would want a scene of you dancing though. let me think.

anw mingen since we BOTH don't know what to do, and im sure you're as reluctant to get bound to a desk job as i am, let's both brainstorm. im not so sure however of your other inclinations. like do you have that YEARN to CREATE?! i think im missing a partner, or like a group. im not enough myself. i need a band.

i don't really know what im doing at uni either. i sort of like what im studying, but im pissed at the emphasis on grades and exams. so im actually thinking now, am i buying time at uni, or am i just wasting it. but actually i think i'd like to learn a bit more before launching into filming or smth... but even filming's a bit scary because u're so dependent on (good) actors. there's so much dEPENDENCE. whereas if you were simply good at writing or painting, you don't need anybody else

yes i think about these sort of problems whole day long

what's TESOL?

Yello everyone!!

2007-12-11T05:47:00.000-08:00

yeap I've been working at sentosa is this rain rain rain quite fun though keep getting wet and having puddles form in my shoes.. augh... next thing I know I will get hong kong feet. and I'm going to hong kong in 2 days! yay! quite sad lar cus I wanna go back to japan (where my bro n girlfriend n co have gone to) but I'm broke lar haha so pathetic. so I'm going to hk and meeting bro n co halfway through. hehes...

hmm so much to say but I'm a bit lazy n tired. yeah yilin came to visit me hahas it was kindafun I was stoning for the first hour or so until 2nd half my stoning friend and me decided to take action. btw I'm referring to the Starbucks salvation army open house free drinks day thingey.. hahas... went back to help out.

hm choon u aren't the only one who doesn't know what she wants to do in future.. hehes. I suck. but yeah like bernice said I am pretty keen on TESOL esp in japan but in the first place I don't even need to study anymore to do that hahas so Imight as well quit now!! I really really wanna go back to japan sooooo much... ahh.

so is everyone done with tests/exams?? I got my results last week.. hahas ahhh dropped quite a bit from last sem hehes whoops but I got results with grades in the reverse order of how hard I'd studied for each subject hehes.

30th! I think my sec4 class is arranging to meet up on 29th so I can't make it on that day! I'll be free every other day (provided I'm not happily overworking). anyway in order of to-do importance:
1) PRATA
2)PRATA
3)PRATA
4) ECP cycling
5) whadeva

hee hee hee... can't wait to meet up!

2007-12-11T00:47:00.000-08:00

どらえもん！
heh actually didn't mean to type it but my japanese keyboard was on!
and yah actually doraemon is a great way to revise jap!!! ^_^
anyway another thing about that video is that it awakened this fascination in me about dance! not in the im-going-to-start-dancing-for-real kind of thing but the whole idea of it as expression

actually bernice have you heard of deaf poetry? i think it borders on 'dance' in the sense of expression-through-movement... i watched this short clip showing some deaf poets, and their poems are conceived of in sign language but it's not so straightforward ... anw

it's been raining almost everyday here now

it's hard to teach english actually... all those noun phrases or clauses or whatever... and it's hard to be a banker. not to mention rather intimidating and spiritually unrewarding. and it's hard to be a web administrator.

if i could cry easily i would be an actress! but the acting world is scary. actually i tihnk if i can't make up my mind ill be an air stewardess! but i think it might be too tiring. oh shut up.

anyway bernice are ur exams over? what are your exams like man?

kat is supposedly in singapore! but she hasn't updated her blog (or this one) so im not so sure about her whereabouts

yilin's in cheena, mingen's working in sentosa (although i wonder how, in this dratted weather)

lj's studying haruki murakami's hardboiled egg something.. the title of which sounds so interesting i want to read it but am only holding back because i have lingering suspicions about translated works

charmaine's nowhere to be found, she didn't reply my email so i guess she's busy. and she hasn't blogged right!

mak's in taiwan.

according to the wi/ki, haruki murakami opened his own jazz bar after uni and wrote his first book at 29 after watching a baseball match. sounds so boho.
=)

actually i'd like the little cafes featured in:

拝啓、父上様

which also features the cute little boy who acted in Stand Up! (which we tried to watch unsuccessfully at mak's house -- i have the VCDs now!)

actually it'd be quite fun making LOL-ROFL-type dramas like Stand Up!, which manages the Channel 8 proselytizing/moralizing role a bit more coolly and stylishly haha
i wonder, is it really because singapore's too small?!?! i mean just look at the cast for Stand Up!, which is one of the japanese equivalent of average 7 or 9-oclock shows in singapore. the main actor goes on to star in some hollywood show, a supporting member does shakespeare on stage, another is handpicked to star in some TV ad with the b/eck/hams, and the other one, i m not so sure, but i spotted his poster in my sister's bedroom. so like, all these teen actors have been in the biz since they were 10 or smth. and if you've watched it about 3/4 times over, (like i have) u realise that actually they pretty darn good actors, even if it's a silly (but funny!) show. and the script, and everything.

strange thing to muse over. oh well.

i know what i'll work as! i'll go be one of those people who buy pack lunches on movie/tv drama sets. ha ha ha. maybe after i do some shitty manual labour like that, and see enough of what goes on behind that fantastical tinseltowny reality ill stop being dreamy and fangirly and crAzy blahblahbalh

study!!!!! to chase away those guilt-sprites

2007-12-10T21:33:00.000-08:00

omg you guys must watch this.. and the whole series!!
i also wanna learn japanese!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHmhE4JP94I&NR=1
it's like the back button on the internet.. hmm maybe in future we really will conduct everything online.. i doubt that though! there's still value in sitting in a lecture hall and listening.. there's evidence but i dunno where to cite the research.oops.
anyway yea the ken robinson talk is really not groundbreaking at all.. the talk really is good for mainly two things, i think: making noise to gain political backing, and congregating to make more noise and hopefully influence thought. an event, after all, has a greater impact than a whole slew of books sitting on a shelf. ok make that three things- it's great entertainment.. i really wonder what activists really do, though, to
anyways, if im not wrong the gep was actually suggested by a psychologist, and even if not, psychologists helped develop the program and its tests. and they were obviously not testing for academic talent, they were testing for intellectual talent, so they were looking for young kids who had brains that would gladly poke and prod at ideas. maybe a better name for gep would have been igep; the intellectually gifted education programme ahaha.. to highlighted how imbalanced such minds were, heh. although, i do think that we had a lot of fun in school.. all the enrichment stuff were very activities-based too. i think they should have some of the gep activities for all students, really. except maybe the impossibly difficult math tests.. im not sure failing consistently at the age of 10 does much for one's psyche. hahaha. hum.
somebody hire me at moe curriculum planning dept already!
anyways choon maybe you're multitalented, and that is why you cant figure out what to do.. and maybe it doesnt matter.. if all else fails, teach english as a second language, or be a banker ;p or web administrator

nice song

2007-12-09T08:12:00.000-08:00

there are english rock songs that i like too, like ozzy osbourne's crazy train for the first minute especially. haha but j-rock is, while not totally seperate, a distinct enough genre! but as ye/ek/i/at once said, genres are the most artificial categories. hahaha.

this one was recommended to me by gracelim. =) we got another fan in the house

2007-12-09T07:50:00.000-08:00

hey bernice watched the video.
the ideas were not new but the evidence/examples were interesting, and it was very gratifying to know that people out there were actually doing something about the damned thing
that's the thing actually there are very few NEW ideas, i mean a few of us were discussing about GE/P the last time as in what on earth did the GE/P test stream out? if you don't have a clear conception about intelligence how can you test for it it's not just academic talent tt it streamed out but whatever lah
talk had a slight slant towards dance though haha
but no bad

anyway YES what on earth am i going to work as next time this question plagues me incessantly

it's very uplifting to know people believe in alternatives but seriously, if u never "discover" that "talent" =( .

i just watched lust caution on sat btw, myself! it's great, educational too . ^_^