strange & beautiful

I've been watching your world from afar,
I've been trying to be where you are,
And I've been secretly falling apart,
I'll see.
To me, you're strange and you're beautiful,
You'd be so perfect with me but you just can't see,
You turn every head but you don't see me.

I'll put a spell on you,
You'll fall asleep and I'll put a spell on you.
And when I wake you,
I'll be the first thing you see,
And you'll realise that you love me.

Sometimes, the last thing you want comes in first,
Sometimes, the firstt thing you want never comes,
And I know, the waiting is all you can do,
Sometimes...

I'll put a spell on you,
You'll fall asleep,
I'll put a spell on you,
And when I wake you,
I'll be the first thing you see,
And you'll realise that you love me.

I'll put a spell on you,
You'll fall asleep 'cos I'll put a spell on you,
And when I wake you,
I'll be the first thing you see,
And you'll realise that you love me, yeah...

...Aqualung - Strange & Beautiful
(also found in A Lot Like Love OST)

absurd

im starting to find myself getting more and more absurd.

nugu ga?
nega bichorso?

pouring

it never rains but it pours.

was caught in the heavy downpour yesterday and even with my umbrella, my jeans still got wet from the rain. rain is good only when you aren't caught in it but snuggled somewhere like home. but work is still work so i still got about tuition... with my dad fetching me to & fro. that was sweet, although it was by request.

today's class was rowdy because of the camaraderie established over 3 bottles of wine last night. i wasn't there due to the above. apparently i missed out and got the "next time you have to join us" today. you know what pushes people to bond faster? a common enemy. (our PS prof is a MEGA bitch. my blood boils at the thought of her.)

went through an excruciating 2 hours after that, both for my face and my pocket. facial should be classified under torture. i'm spending away all these money faster than i can earn them. can't help but feel very disturbed about it.

husband1.0

Dear IT Support,

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a slow down in the overall performance, particularly in the flower, gifts and jewellery applications that had operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 un-installed many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, but installed undesirable programs such as Formula One 5.0, NBA 3.0 and World Cup 2.0.

And now Conversation 8.0 no longer runs and House Cleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. I've tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.

What can I do?

Signed,

Desperate Housewife

Reply:

Dear Desperate Housewife,

First keep in mind:

Boyfriend 5.0 is an entertainment package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system.

Try entering the command C:\ I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME and download

Tears 6.2 to install Guilt 3.0.

If all works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewellery 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.

But remember, overuse can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Late Night Teh Tarik 6.1.

Late Night 6.1 is a very bad program that will create SnoringLoudly.wav files.

Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-Law 1.0 or reinstall another

Boyfriend program. These are not supported applications and will crash

Husband 1.0.

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have a limited

memory and cannot learn new applications quickly.

You might consider additional software to improve memory and performance. I personally recommend Hot Tasty Food 3.0 and Tongkat Ali 6.9.

Good Luck,

IT Support

bonito? bonita?

没名字却停不下来

full moon

and the team is complete. welcome home jia & get well soon!

it's been a year and its back to east coast park to celebrate mid autumn festival with moon cakes & paper lanterns. just that this time around was with CDS, along with my date fi. who invited me to her house for a scrumptious dinner. be VERY jealous.

happy mid autumn festival!

you know, right where I am now, I am as happy as a lark.

smoo update

i thought i'd do a little update for manchi.

its quite hard to believe that it is already Week 6 when school felt like it just started yesterday. old year 4s lament about how we dont recognize faces anymore as we walk along the concourse. i'm lucky that in all of my classes, i have people that I know in the same class. Especially in my HR mods, you see about the same old people in the HR classes since there are so few of us majoring in HR and there arent much choices of modules to take. They are even organizing a drinking session this week, which i'd have to pass due to tuition commitments. but pretty cool eh?

its very different now. compared to last time when i took 3 out of 4 modules with apple and weizhong, and spend much of my waking moments with them. taking classes and claiming our stakes in the library. (the library is now packed, yes packed. i only managed to get a single seat at the study cubicle) now, even meeting up for dinner is an arduous affair with working class's busy schedules.

while jan and i try to meet up once a week by default unless something comes up, my timetable clashes completely with gan ann's (even my social timetable, says gan ann) ktv reminds me of hailing. and manchi's stupidity is still much talked about.

it feels weird (and freaky) to be called senior. weird but yet heartwarming to have people fussing and exclaiming how they havent seen me for so long. weird but heartwarming to hear them say they miss the times when climbing sessions used to be more rowdy with the loud hailers like wz, apple, hailing, manchi, xiaoyu and i.

now that i look back, i sure am fortunate. to be part of the batch which is remembered by others for their friendship - in both climbing and also AHSCDS.

gan ann and weird weird things.

gan ann likes to say that i'm the friend with whom she does weird weird stuff with. by weird weird stuff we mean: going for flea markets, playing scrabble at Mr. Tea before the school term starts, movie screenings, film fest, musuem... just some of it off my mind. she was also the one who talked me into climbing, night bike and we took our kayaking 1 star together. she's doing windsurfing now - luckily she had the sense not to ask me.

today we spent a relak late noon having a random talk to a random friend whom we randomly ran into while gan ann was having her lunch, went to the flea market organized by the Substation (which was good! considering we didnt dig much and actually found things we like that werent shortshort skirts like the ones peishan wears. hah.) and then going to Chinatown for food.

my reaction to her suggestion of chinatown was "hmm..abit far... but then well, i'm your friend who does all these weird weird things with you so lets go" we didnt have much luck with food though 'cos most stalls were closed when we reach honglim and we ended up with just drinks and then hk desserts.

how far will i go with such weird weird things? well, i agreed this "I am not a tourist" tour with her and promised more good food. but! i will not play dividends or going to sentosa. too geek and too far. in some ways, we are alike but in others, very different.

需要用大声公的萧敬腾

最近被maggie影响到了，一直都在看萧敬腾的videos
但！不是因为我觉得他唱得比曹格好 （不可能！）
是觉得这话少之又少的人很不可思议
因为话不多， 不像那一般爱出风头耍宝的艺人，所以很有趣，可爱，好笑。
有性格！

如果是我要跟他交谈，我一定会抓狂 (hokkien read: "lia gong!"）
掐他， 逼他讲话。 哈哈哈！

嗯。
不知道。
。。。。。。。。
旁白总会出现： “害羞”， “腼腆”, “放空”

我是有注意到最近 monodelphia 好像多了点汉子。
自己很像也不习惯

嗯。
不知道。

he's only 20. he's younger than me. HOW CAN IT BE?
the black frame specs look. heh.

bag it

bag it

ordering in bags from taiwan, holler if you want a part in this!
caution: highly addictive.

偷瞄

他真得很像阿信！
印象中。。。。

你是巨大的海洋　我是雨下在你身上
我失去了自己的形狀　我看到遠方　愛情的模樣

曾經孤單的徬徨　曾經相信曾經失望
你穿過了重重的迷惘　那愛的慌張　終於要解放

你是誰　叫我狂戀　教我勇敢的挑戰全世界
在一樣的身體裡面　一樣有愛與被愛的感覺
我愛誰　已無所謂　沒有誰能將愛情劃界限
在一樣的身體裡面　謎樣的魔力卻是更強烈

星星在夜空中閃亮　星空下我不停流浪
此生我無知的奔忙　因為你眼光　都化成了光亮

這世界全部的漂亮　不過你的可愛模樣
你讓我舉雙手投降　跨出了城牆　長出了翅膀

.....愛情的模樣 - 阿信/五月天

有一种酒叫

心痛的感觉

busted my bank, as a result of the change in dermatologist & treatment. i am labeled - 'severe'.

color

EHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh???? SUGOI!!

cosy company

是超开心的!

we had our cook-in session today & invited some of the guys in a spur of the moment. we were really impressed with our abilities to (1) whip up a food storm that is capable of feeding an army & (2) cook for 3 hours but finish eating within 15 minutes. it was also fun ordering the guys to do wash the plates, mop the floor. and also the talking, bridging & couch-potatoing. i love it when i spend time with them this way.

presenting yong tau food soup, inari sushi, deviled eggs, tamagoyaki, japanese curry, mushroom & asparagus stirfry & other carbohydrates.

我的妈 07

我的妈， 生日快乐！

"Mother support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did"
.... for one more day - Mitch Albom

I love you everyday

monodelphia turns 1 on Sep 02

cuantos anos tiene?
tiene uno anos, my monodelphia :)

inari sushi

saturday's our cook-in session so i thought i should try out something new so..... here's my.....

inari sushi !!
*sushi in an aburaage (beanbag)

inari sushi can be commonly at all sushi places including take-away counters. i really like the combination of rice and the sweetness of the sauce from the marinated aburaage.

pre-prepared bean bags apparently can be found but well, this isn't Japan exactly so they aren't so easily found. so i made my bean bags from sweet bean bag myself from normal fried tofu squares (i.e.: which is we Singaporeans know as tau pok) by marinating it with soy sauce & sugar. How to DIY.

sounds easy but not when you have to worry about whether it will be salty enough, sweet enough, soft enough. fortunately for me, my mum was there to help taste.

After squeezing dry the bags, i stuff it with sushi rice and scrambled eggs. of course, i would be biased so from a more objective point of view, my mum said it was nice too :D

p/s: but now i am not sure if i want to make them on Saturday again cos its alot of work!

天使城

这个城市
怎么会是一个沙漠？

the humanisation of urbanisation.

沙漠里的仙人掌
都没有人给它浇水
常识告诉人们
它的生命力强
有自己存活的一套方法
从一个科学的角度
这叫做应变能力 - adaptation

天使城
是个城市
怎会是一个沙漠？

天使城
是一个沙漠
怎会是个城市？

one time big

personally, i feel that i have mellowed down a lot in my temperament or maybe its because of comparison. sometimes, i surprise myself at home i can keep it in, such as times when my tuition kid show me really really bad attitude. but somehow, i feel that this is being used against me and i hate it when people try my patience. its not that one cannot retaliate, it is a choice not to. There is no such thing as "always right" or "always turning a blind eye/ear". to put it in a grammatically salah way, it's just a matter of when you going to give that person a one time big.

the first exchange

...mumbles
"sorry?"
"is this IPR class?"
"yeah..."

work-life balance

had non-stop action today from 8.30am till 6pm. class after class, having group mates really ARGUING with each other over debate points. (the night before we had a meeting from 7pm till 9pm) was so drained that I just took a bath and plopped myself on the bed for a nap for about an hour before waking up for dinner + to do my prep for tomorrow's debate.

sleep is super important to me so i can never understand how people stay overnight in school, because if it were me, i would have quit school or my mother would have made me do so anyway. i wouldn't have been able to function either cos my nose will surely act up. i believe that there should be work-life balance and that there's a time to work and a time to rest. On the 7th day God rests too!

have a great work life balance. if you can help it.

woes of work apart, i really really enjoy my spanish lessons. even though it is an 8.30am class, i do feel excited to go to class. its of those lessons which i feel that i am actually learning rather than just going through the motion of it and msn-ing most of the time. best part of it is, i don't feel lost... which was what i felt most of the time during my korean classes last time. i especially love the way spanish sounds, with the word and accent rolling of your tongue. you can learn basic communication via these podcasts !

"i never really knew that you could dance like this
she makes a man wanna speak spanish
como se llama?
bonita, mi casa, su casa"
.... shakira - hips dont lie.

laughter is a social skill

laughter is a skill to be acquired. to laugh off awkward silences, to divert attention, to make small of a matter. a reply in its own, a punctuation, a cover-up. to laugh at yourself, to make fun of others, to kill time.

practice makes perfect. we perfect the skill of laughter but we stop laughing.

ikenai taiyou

listening to:
イケテナイ太陽 - Orange Range

xiaoyu's 2007

tan xiaoyu has always been known as giraffe. if you know her, you would probably have guessed that the nickname derived from her height. if you were part of krabi kaki, you would have been there to witness a leaf falling off from a tree and landing where else but right smack on giraffe's plate. that story still sets us laughing up till now. thanks for laughing with us and also being the one to be laughed at. Happy birthday tan xiaoyu!

to do-s

rather overwhelmed by a relatively heavy workload given that its just week 2. seems that all my modules for this term (especially the HR mods) are really time consuming - with assignment, debate prep, readings, research and all examinable.

Week 3
Sunday - Monday: Out of town
Tuesday: Readings for IP class, prep for interview (PS), prep for debate (PMC)
Weds: 12 - 3pm (Meeting - PS), 7pm (Meeting PMC)

13th Sept: Mom's
15th Sept: Cook-in

will be away at Muar to celebrate my popo's birthday. adios, hasta pronto =)