I'm not looking at you.

celebrity doubles!

2009-12-20T23:03:00.007+08:00

Do you believe that there is someone living in this earth that looks really like you, even though you two are not related at all, like complete strangers. Well, I do - there might be someone living in Ghana or Alaska that looks really like me. So, don't be surprised if you see 'me' when you're skiing in Alaska. But then, how do you know who's who when people are all wearing ski masks? (fyi: ski masks are those things that robbers put on their faces, unless yours use stockings.)

Real Skiers, NOT robbers!

Can't find one that wears those masks, maybe they don't wear them anymore.

I think I heard the-someone-who-looks-like-you thing on tv (again!) a verryyy long time ago. You just have to search the whole globe to find yours & turning those fakey globes in stuffy libraries are not considered searching. Anyway, I reckon celebs have it easier in finding their doubles, because more people know them & their lookalikes are always springing out from ulu places.

Okay, so here are 2 pairs that I thought of.

Milk & Wayne

They can't be brothers, one's surname is Liu, the other Ye.

Scarily alike..

Charlyn Lin & 蝴蝶姐姐

They have the same ears, face shape, nose, eyes & smile... 蝴蝶's eyes look bigger because of makeup lah.

I think they look like sisters & of course Charlyn will be the older one, because she is. hahahaha

recent news - yeah, like cnn news.

2009-12-19T21:17:00.007+08:00

fried tofu in teriyaki sauce. it's the best tofu I've eaten by far.

I think it's because the tofu taste is covered by the sauce.

so... i'm drinking the sauce & not eating the tofu.

FROM THE THRIFT STORE AT SEMB! (for New Hope) S$5 only.

it was a waterproof cam but the case was broken so the woman gave it to me at 5 dollars. cheap!

confession: there was a kbuddy logo (how random is that?!) but I scraped it out with a 5cent & 50cents coin. it left scratches though, :( but I covered it with stickers of marine animals. To let her have a feel of her roots, you know, like as an underwater cam.

she will be called undees (not undies!) from now on.

Selling at gmarket at $16.90 (original price $29.90)

exact same one okay!

Christmas isn't Xmas!
our first christmas rally! (:
lovely.

ql's wilted flower. oh, u can see our script!

ql's sunflower w/ the wilted pink 1.

anw, a sunflower stinks & has gooey, sticky stuff in the really big & brown center thing. Then it dries almost immediately, right there on my finger!And the nearest sink was like 5 meters away. sooo troublesome.

the actresses must have suffered alot smelling flowers in movies.

one of the decorations. Didn't know our church had a whole treasure trove of Christmas decors! Some are really really pretty, I just love tinsel although they're irritatingly scratchy & musty-stinky. We even have the blinking lights & i learnt that it's quite hot when you wrap it around you...

new keep-using word: lovely.

word to describe today: loreally = really lovely

not loreal, please.

2009-12-17T21:58:00.002+08:00

ahhhh, that loveely day.

2009-12-16T22:04:00.012+08:00

had nasty cramps in the morning & made ginger tea.

It's the first time I'm doing it & it tasted more like water dipped in ginger.

The other time my dad did, it was like they added pepper in it or something.

Really nice and thrilling, haha.

But the warm water (looks can be deceiving!) did its job.

ps. can you see that the gouchi turned freaking orange?!

wm caught on camera at night! lovely flash.

Westlife - What About Now
Daughtry - What About Now

Westlife did a freaking cover of daughtry's song! (%&@%$£) They made it soppier & the video was full of type B angmohs mouthing words. fyi: type A's those w/ red hair, type B's those w/blonds. There were ice-caps everywhere (in westlife's vid) & if it was added to raise awareness for the melting ice, they should consider removing the gayish-shots of them. Did daughtry ever appeared on in the video? (even if he did I wouldn't recognize him anyway.... okay i just saw him, if that was him.)

oh & it just crossed my mind that westlife can do whatever they want to the song, they can interpret it in anyway they like. because it's a cover. But still.

They are the epitome of weirdness.

Men around 30s probably should not be appearing in videos like these. And definitely not with four men squeezed up trying to fit into our youtube screens. The poor guy w/ messy hair had his face cut, you know?!

ps. I thought backstreet boys & westlife were like very good friends cos both are so alike. you know, something like brother-boybands.

Why I want Garmin-Asus M20

2009-12-14T15:13:00.025+08:00

New kid on the block - Garmin-Asus! This is the new brand of cellphones that sprang out recently. When I heard of it, the 'asus' part of it reminded me of laptops. Being curious bout it, I googled their website & sure enough, I found my answer. It's an alliance which "allows the two companies to combine their complementary resources". So it's like two kids; Garmin & Asus decided to combine their fireman toy & fire-truck to build a fire brigade. Except that it's a satellite navigation & IT company.

But, the point is - their phone. The novelty of a new brand with a somewhat exotic name made the hi-def pictures of the phone exude a foreign smell. (it's metaphorical & I'm so not smelling my grime-layered screen) The phone looks incredibly sleek, not like my current one. (snorts) & I SO LOVE THE BLUE ONE. There's another nokia phone with a candier version of this colour btw. Pardon me, been phone hunting for bro cos plan's expiring. Anyway, this phone looks pretty grown up & since I'm always mistaken for being 18, it beats the scratched and chipped pinkish pink (REALLY pinkish) one I have now. LOOK AT IT!

Let me introduce formally: This is the Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M20! (Not m18)

Quite something, eh?

WHY I WANT IT

1. It has this connected service, another name for useful apps - including white pages, flight data, movie times and even.... fuel prices?! Okay, so some of it isn't useful for people like me, but it's just an added function, I guess. And it will come in handy one of these days.

2. If you did read the part abt Garmin, you'll know that it's a statellite navigation comp. So, the main plus-point of this M20 is the navigation function. Meaning, you can go anywhere with this phone. It will bring you to anywhere you want it to.

No more googling the night before, no more papers scribbled with directions, no more printed maps. Just you, your phone and the directions you used to agonize over. I can find out which named piece of the earth's crust I'm standing on too, of course. In case you might be kidnapped or dumped somewhere by the prank-enthusiast who happens to be your best friend. Not that I have, thank God. Did you watch 'pranked' on MTV?! Those people are plain-jane-cruel. Anw, the navigator is voice operated (yay! can talk back & annoy them) & it comes with a car mount.

3. Other than the generic functions, it has picture geo-tagging too. Which means you can find out where that place is (in the photo) & you can go there, with directions, duh uh. So if you happen to find your husband's picture with his mistress taken in her house then you can go hunt her like a desperate housewife would.

4. The phone can view png & bmp file formats = no more converting; really convenient.

5. Talking about viewing, you can read words, ppt, excel & pdf files too, with a Microsoft Windows® Mobile Professional 6.1 operating system. Can download the ppt into my phone then refer to it as I press ppt on sundays. COOL!

http://wmpoweruser.com/?tag=asus-garmin-m20

6. This is another cute detail - you have to fix the jig-saw to unlock the phone/receive a call. Creative & definitely fresh.

FOUR WORDS:

Diff'rent Strokes - CUTE!

2009-12-10T16:24:00.011+08:00

Watched the Diff'rent Strokes's minisode yesterday on hallmark. It's a super old 80s sitcom but really funny, like The Nanny, hahahhaha

The 1st 3 is Gary Coleman playing Arnold Jackson, super cute right! He's like an adult (in the show) & I mean the whole package; the talk, facial expressions & even his beer belly. The last one is Sam (Danny Cooksey), super cute too! But I don't think he appears on all the episodes.

But you know, the weird thing is; these people are all grown-ups and here I am thinking they're cute like babies, or maybe toddlers.

This is the Romeo & Juliet episode

Check out the bulimia one also, just search 'diff'rent strokes bulimia' on utube.

You know, I might get hooked on this.

fast food

2009-12-09T16:40:00.006+08:00

Read "Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food" and very much alike to the title, I discovered most of the things they (fast food restaurants) don't tell.Read and very much alike to the title, I discovered most of the things they (fast food restaurants) don't tell.

1. Eat more crispy chicken & your aorta will be 'crispy' too - This was I think in one of those Dr. Oz episodes. He used to be in the Oprah Show but I think he got has own program now. It was in one of his episodes where he showed the organs of recently dead people, a gruesome contrast of healthy vs. not healthy. It starts with the brain to the heart and in between, there's the aorta. In case you don't know, it's an important vein carrying something to the heart or something like that. You just need to know that it's important - if it's clogged, you'll be having a heart attack. Okay, the healthy one is a bit springy and the unhealthy one is hardened and sort of crispy. This is the summary (comes w. pics) of the episode, Inside The Human Body.

2. Love the 'pop' - You've probably heard of the slaughterhouse workers smacking chicken on walls or stepping on them to make them die but you might not know why. It's because the demand for chicken went up, and so did the queue in the slaughterhouses. And the only way to ease the queue is to do it manually meaning you kill the chickens yourself. So there goes the smacking, jumping. But this is even worse: a worker said that he/she likes to hear the 'popping' sound when the you jump on it. That's why he/she did it..... creepy.

3. Not only animals - The cruel treatment of animals got much publicity but not that of slaughterhouse workers. They work in a very dangerous environment and are paid very little - imagine taking risking the probability of being one of those beef/meat everyday at work. And it says in the book (which quoted from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair) that "a man fell into a vat an got turned into lard. The plant kept running, and the lard was sold to the public." That book was written quite long ago (published in 1906) and I'm not sure whether it's still like that now. But the point is when people heard about the facts in this book, they noticed the cruelty of animals, but not the slaughterhouse workers' welfare. Why? Because the chicken is the food that they'll eat, not the people. These workers used to have labour unions, which fought for better wages. But after the fast-food industry took off, the companies moved to places where labour unions are weak and exploit the workers. But, if slaughterhouses increased the wages, they'll go bust. And then our chicken prices will skyrocket. It seems like a change made by man is impossible.

There are many other facts but these 3 are the ones that struck me hard. There're sooo many stuff that is just.. out there. But if you're not lucky, you would live in oblivion. If I didn't go to the library, (I was 'dragged' there cos my bro went to the lib & forgot to bring his lib card) I wouldn't have seen this book and I will not have boycotted fast-food. & yeah, I'm not going to eat fast food from now onwards. I hope I won't give in to the temptation of the oil-soaked white meat.

2009-12-08T21:53:00.002+08:00

new technique! finally learnt how to do this, thanks to online tutorials.

self-motivation

2009-12-05T10:12:00.003+08:00

random updates

2009-12-04T21:37:00.005+08:00

7 people to trim this patch of grass.

Fast but NOISY!

yooohoooo... uniqlo's jeans for 20 bucks

food...hungry!

2009-11-30T23:47:00.004+08:00

My 1st successful omelette (tdy!)

It has potato chunks in it! can you see it?

taken in oct (the file properties says so)

one of the nicer chicken rice i've eaten, LOVEEE the soup.

Marina Barrage

2009-11-22T18:33:00.007+08:00

GJY picnic at Marina Barrage

it's like almond (yuck) and it's spoilt (yucky precipitate, HAH)

IR & flyer with a distorted road

our church-van ride there.

qing mei & sarah

jess, ey, kj & ex

kinda messy to tell you who's who.

love the thing happening outside the window, it made me forget about the awful colours.

love this one too. & obviously the colours are not natural; it's just to cover up the colour noise.

Our train ride back, slept from orchard to yck.

FPSP SG Nationals

2009-11-21T14:17:00.007+08:00

FPSP (Future Problem Solving Program) Singapore Nationals

Went to RGS for the FPSP SG nationals to 'observe' - it's basically going to different booths to learn about their projects and compare theirs to ours.

We reached RGS an hour (plus minus) earlier..

People started trickling in after twenty minutes or so.

One of the teams had these to giveaway, it's hand sewn!

Saw these (above & bottom) on bus 132.

OH YEAH & ever since I told chuyi she has that stare that can wilt people, she started to do it on me. Like constantly. She got people to gang up on me even - ky. But ky's stony or supposedly wilting look isn't that lethal. It just makes me laugh. They did that throughout the later part of the bus journey & I felt like a KID with 2 angry adults staring at me. (When I'm actually older than them.)

Oh and I've been hearing things wrongly, like fruit peels as fruit pills, Exit lights as Acid lights. Is my brain starting to rewire itself or something? (def. not)

Back from Taman!

2009-11-20T15:01:00.010+08:00

lomo-ed.

Everything's "lomo-ed" here cos it's the easiest and fastest (ie laziest) way to make a photo look less boring.

BACK!

Back from Taman to Singapore, without a single photo cos I didn't bring my phone. But I did use gh's camera & I realised that I have shaky hands. Can't help it though, my hands aren't meant to be a tripod anyway. The whole trip was fun and I pulled through without feeling half as bad as during other camps. Everything was alright except for the trekking - it was quite hard on my under-exercised body.

Saw a teeny weeny shooting star, on the last night. There was supposed to be a meteor shower but we didn't catch it. & there's charlie (a leech), su ian's daughter/son. Btw, leeches are hermaphrodites; meaning they have both male & female reproductive organs. So, animals can be both... Then how do they reproduce? (wiki has the answer)

We slept in a cave for 1 night & it would be better if I didn't have to climb the 60-odd steps. Each time I reached the top, my legs will turn to jelly.

We did rapid shooting too, it's just a sampan zooming on the river. There was lots of water, rain & wind - FREAKING UBER COLD. Trembling like mad and screamed to keep myself warm. It worked, you know. My theory is the tae kwon do one, but chu yi thinks it's all in the mind. And nobody ever seem to believe it. Except maybe those who did it.

This was from m'sia, $8.90 ringgit (S$3.60). I bought lemon flavour & ky bought the apple one.

1 more day.

2009-11-15T13:04:00.003+08:00

argh! it's tomorrow.

2009-11-14T13:17:00.007+08:00

uber white shoe after just 1 layer of shoe white.

anw, when I was lacing it, I sneezed FIVE times straight.

2 slow ones & 3 nitro-powered ones.

(Sneezing's fun, esp when you do not sneeze much.)

Going off on monday.

2009-11-07T22:16:00.009+08:00

"Super Coffeemix"

anaj & sh

zeng

"heads missing in action"

apple-tootsie!

(Not because she loves mac, btw.)

Mug-Man!

2009-10-26T18:35:00.008+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

28 Oct : weeimiingg

29 Oct: xueying :D

Jump, jump, jump for joy!

2009-10-25T16:40:00.000+08:00

Spot the mistake!

[clue: the name of the fruit.]

2009-10-22T21:19:00.002+08:00

'Easier said than done'

credits : cliff img, girl img

2009-10-20T17:39:00.007+08:00

Went to esplanade w. zemin, to play with her new toy. It was def. fun & needless to say, cool. (corny!) & I looove this pic above, esp the details.

cheery photo, edited!

sneeze, sneeze

This guy is scary, took him accidentally (sort of) & feel guilty for being so rude.

Esplanade, edited!

2009-10-15T11:06:00.003+08:00

Oh man, that was soooooooo long ago...

(I'm the short kid beside the yellow & blue boy)

2009-10-12T15:38:00.005+08:00

Note: there's a difference between a strike & a check.

2009-10-09T18:28:00.007+08:00

Have you ever ate this before?

I don't know what it's called but it's... DELICIOUS. I can easily eat a A5 sized one or maybe bigger. heh heh heh. Anyway, that was made by my sis. (widens eye)

Two words: perfect snack. It's sooo unfortunate that we ran out of marshmallows (yeah, marsshmalloww) and rice krispies to do it.

OH! found the recipe!

http://www.ricekrispies.com/Display.aspx?kic=true&recipe_id=1605

Go try it man, it's the easiest thing to do.

2009-10-02T18:48:00.004+08:00

exams are here.

again?!?

yeah.

call 6777 3777 for mcdelivery.

[caution: green photos ahead.]

2009-09-28T16:31:00.001+08:00

MARSHMALLOW TEST & CUTE KIDS.

2009-09-09T21:12:00.012+08:00

休息了一段时间的郑秀文（Sammi），将于下月为“MOOV Live 2009”演出，已成为基督徒的她，又会于年尾推出首张福音大碟《信 FAITH》。今次Sammi找来不同的音乐人合作，除有人山人海作为新碟的创作班底，还邀请了陈奂仁、王菀之及24味等人合作。

虽然《信 FAITH》是一只福音碟，但新碟的音乐风格仍是以流行曲为主，该大碟也是Sammi今年“信望爱”计划的头炮，她希望有更多人从歌词中得到启发和反思。

http://m2.21cn.com/news/china/2009/09/08/6850333.shtml

That is a brave step forward, :D

Oh &, 梁詠琪's brith name is 梁碧芝.
I can understand why she changed her name...

2009-09-09T18:50:00.004+08:00

Part 2.

Khoo Teck Phuat hospital.

2009-09-07T21:00:00.014+08:00

*Caution: Lengthy post ahead

Went jogging today... Oookay, it's 1/4 jogging, 3/4 walking and taking photos. I think I spent a full hour or so taking about 80-90++ photos but only 18 turned out to be good ones. sigh.

&, while I was taking, 2 horrible bugs harassed me. One landed on my arm and at first, I ignored it because it looked like a housefly from the corner of my eye plus I was almost ready to press the shutter. Whilst I was steadying my hand, the bug kept moving and moving, (for goodness' sake, I let you stay there already!) then I looked at it and it's about 10 times worse than a housefly.

Another bigger bug buzzed maniacally at me.

This was taken yesterday, when I was going to Sheryl's house.

Also taken yesterday.

From this photo onwards, it's taken today.

This group of boys wearing the same colour fishing at the reservoir.

I think this is the part of the reservoir is where they filter the dirty stuff. That water is almost completely stagnant.

Bigger view of the filter thingy. See the brown brown thing in the water?

There's this really mini 'sampan' which doesn't even have a motor.

But still, it's a rare sight in residential areas for a 'country' bumpkin like me.

Can you spot the fishes? I tell you, there's a WHOLE lot of them just sitting there like that.

Although it gives a clearer picture, it doesnt show the entire school of them.

While I was peering at the fishes and consciously taking photos, only this curious uncle openly looked at the fishes. Other colder people looked at me like a weirdo and stole glances at the cool fishes.

I can only say they've missed out on a lot.

A dried up willow tree.

This part of the reservoir is where I met the bug I thought was an housefly.

This plant seems like those that attracts lots of bugs and flies.

Can you see the dash beside the 'Y'? Whenever the bus pass by it, I'll wonder what that is.

And I finally knew what it is. Odd thing is, it's stuck on the wall in an awkward place and an almost rusted 5-cent coin is stuck on the metal plate itself. I wonder if it's really adopted by Nat Geo SG.

I climbed up a little hill to take this small patch of grass filled with pink flowers and this too, attracted quite many looks. (grr.)

THE END

2009-08-29T21:09:00.002+08:00

sprayed this on my hankerchief... hahahaha

jo's wearing a stylo-mylo black glasses.

2009-08-27T17:10:00.010+08:00

It was raining that day, I had no umbrella with me & Rihanna wasn't there to share her's too. Then I prayed on the bus that it would stop raining. When I alighted, the rain was much worse than a drizzle but better than a downpour.

I reached this roughly 120m stretch of uncovered walkway. It was long enough for me to be drenched but after this stretch the rest of the way would be sheltered.

THEN, a miracle happened. It stopped raining.

My mouth went from 'ahhh' to 'WHOA!'. Before that, I had no faith that it would actually stop raining. The rain did 'subside' a little before I alighted so I thought the rain would probably hang in there for a while. So when it did stop it was like a wake up call, reminding me that God is and will be there.

我不求神证明
他的话对我真实，
我不求在我相信前
须先让我看见。
我只要知道就够了，
知道那是真的，因为这是他说的。
我站在他永不改变的话上，
并且相信我终能明白。

It was on my calendar.

Scott's Vitamin C pastiles - for you to eat.

Take care of yourselves in this odd weather, (:

2009-08-21T21:28:00.002+08:00

blueberry morning.

I've been eating alot recently.

half a bowl of mashed potato & salmon + bread with peanut butter & JELLY + rice with egg & veg - all that for lunch. Ate from like 2+ till 3+, then napped.

That's got to stop. hahaha

2009-08-18T17:34:00.007+08:00

That is Victoria Beckham.

nooo. it's a wrinkled, dried up & malnutritioned spice. Nobody loves an empty spice - doesn't do much good to the soup.

Can't Mr. Beck offer some help or advise the old-looking barbie? (She's supposed to be 35.)

That woman in the white dress must have lied to posh that she's fat.

Kids in Africa looks healthier and happier than her .

2009-08-02T17:48:00.005+08:00

SATURDAY's fellowship

ate chachos with honey mustard! played 终极密码, whoever lost will have to eat that. I designed most of it, okay! except thick lips I think. I think I either ate big eyes or odd lips in the end. haha

gourmet chips, hahaha

Honey Mustard : Loved by us all

pictures above credits to enxin!

*Away till CTs end.

A whole week of test ahead.

&&, we have a new NIE trainee for lit. She's like. woah.

you gotta see it to know it.

B&W

2009-07-31T16:23:00.005+08:00

2009-07-23T14:58:00.007+08:00

Had fever and cough on wednesday, fever went allll the way up to 38.3. Went to see doc, he gave me 7 days mc and wrote there 'influenza-like symptoms'. I can't go out even if I have recovered and I am now. argh. I am so wasting my life away at home, when I am healthy, alive and kicking. I can't imagine how I'm gonna keep up in schoolwork, it's four days absent from school. Plus can't go to church too cos sunday is still within the 7 days. Will return to sanity on tues, the next FPS meeting. (GREAT. pure luck.)

The 'constructive, self-help-book-lover' me tells me to make a timetable for

the days spent at home. The procrastinator in me tells me that today will be wasted, since it's 3.10pm now, the day's gonna end soon and I should start tommorrow. (am I the only weird one that thinks like this?)

ql bought this book at $5(!) at the Times books warehouse sale. (It's extended till 31st July, at amk industrial park.) She bought quite a few, all $5 or $6. Anyway, this Lottery by Patricia Wood is the book I'm currently reading. It has a nice font, easy on the eyes and plain language. The main character is a guy (Perry) with an IQ of 66. A mentally-disabled has an IQ of 65. So, technically, Perry is not 'retarded'. He's just slower and lucky. (Because his middle name starts with L, so his 'gram' says he's lucky.) This book is somehow alike to off centre n curious incident, because this Perry is being discriminated and talks about 'fast' and 'slow'. Perry is 'slow' and thus is laggin behind in the rat race. Why is it that all the books I read is about seems to revolve around the mentally ill or disabled?

ps. got this signature from www.mylivesignature.com!

2009-07-22T11:23:00.005+08:00

Went for Angie & Bryan's wedding on 19th July

The view from the restaurant

nice, huh?

The party favours? The whatever-you-call-it is a pair of silver chopsticks.

2009-07-17T14:34:00.005+08:00

A 10 seconds facial to rejuvenate the tired, book-contaminated pores. Let's just hope that the manufacturer values quality over appearances. Did the 'better-than-SKII' facial yesterday before DISC. xueying took the pic and just realised that she told shi hwee that she'll strip her of her council badge... Funny thing is, that's what I always say to her, except it's to strip her of her tie!

2009-07-14T18:57:00.003+08:00

Read 'Then She Found Me' by Elinor Lipman. (It was later made into a movie, or was it the other way round?) This is the first book I read & took seriously after Jodi Picoult's change of heart. Now reading 'The infinite wisdom of Harriet Rose' by something Janey.

weiming when we were eating at kfc on sun.

Random photo taken during Life Game camp, the fingers are to remind you that I'm inside. It's sad to see my lonnggg hair - it's gone now. (a few inches of it.)

overdue!

2009-07-11T11:39:00.006+08:00

Thumbdrives are definitely out. If you think a 2 GB thumbdrive retailing at $10 is a steal, you need to check your eyes. (pronto) Look at that picture, it's a 1 TB external hard disk at $139. & TB is a good solid 1000 gigabytes. It can store up to approximately 4 768 372 photos if 1 photo is around 2 mb. (I don't trust this number. You should, if you trust my math.)

Who uses so much storage? It's just a mad race to get the largest storage capacity, whether you need it or not. Owning a Seagate Raptor 1TB hard disk is glorious but not when you only used 0.2% of the storage capacity. It just brands you as an airhead, contributing to the global warming since you probably chucked your boxful of thumbdrives down the rubbish chute. All that for a 3.5 inch (8.5cm) plastic rectangular object. Whether it's cheap or not, buy what you friggin' need.

Anyway, the first of this was introduced by Hitachi in January 7, 2007. That was two years ago and I was probably living in a place void of IT news. I didn't even need a thumbdrive two years ago, much less an external hard disk.

Oh and if you think TB's not big enough, check out PB (petabyte). It's 1000 TB per PB. Google processes about 20 petabytes of data per day and Facebook has just over 1.5 petabyte of users' photos stored, translating into roughly 10 billion photos. That's b-i-g.

And, if you think about it, the web browser, the games, even your own desktop littered with files isn't real. At all. It's all virtual. (Is it correct?) The internet seems like another world, very much like the rabbit hole Alice went into. Nothing in it is solid, isn't it? How did we (okay, maybe not me included.) created such an illusion, something so misleading? I'm not sure whether this is a misconception or not and would gladly accept any corrections.

2009-07-07T20:13:00.002+08:00

Hello, books & tests, goodbye late mornings.

School started (so noot finally!) & things sure did get back on track pretty fast. No more homeroom system, finally the normal system. Classes were more mundane but better than lugging a 2 tonne bag around with gravity acting on it in full force. (OH MAN. physics) And physics, as usual was a wild game of catch-no-ball. Gonna have tests soon, like in this week. urgh.

2009-07-04T11:49:00.002+08:00

read carefully!

*photo credits to jana.

2009-07-02T22:24:00.005+08:00

Overdue - again!

It was a glorious day, I know.

check out those leaves!

macroo.

they got lotss of rabbits. & 1 guinea pig!

the dog is cute but it kept barking, okay.

Hah. it's true colours.

looks cute here.

lovely! tis is one cute & nice dog.

cat & joh

we're supposed to look bored.

candid!

lovely dog, again.

lunch was spaghetti.

ngiam's spaghetti man.

ngiam

us!

2009-06-28T19:21:00.006+08:00

I'M VERY HAPPY. (like BAN and jerry)

why? Because,

1. I developed the photos (yay!)

Look how nice it is in its orange frame, sitting on my table piled sky-high with homework.

Look how prominent it it! Our 3 big faces... hah!

Other than that photo, I developed 6 others. I love developing photos, man. It's a cheap thrill and I always feel excited whenever I'm waiting for them to slide out.

Ahh.. & I know it's a bad background.

WAIT.
That's not the end of it.

2. I do not have to go to school for a week.

(Cos a teacher is a confirmed case of H1N1.)
But we have to report back to school at 7/7/09 & do online lessons though.

2009-06-25T15:18:00.002+08:00

Life Game Camp, 17-20 June '09

& this really random class photo - 3E08

2009-06-24T14:09:00.010+08:00

Overdue Photos!

some are obviously edited, but there are rare ones that aren't.

My bookshelf/horrid books.

Remember this place? we went there during Lang Fest in like.... sec 1?

Central.

Central reflecting the sun.

A church beside the Teochew building.

Some plaza? haha

Adverts.

Bicycles.

Yes please, keep the park clean.

Crazy editing, haha.

Love the photos!

2009-06-20T19:40:00.003+08:00

LIFE GAME CAMP!

FUN FUN FUN! met some great people too! (:

our dorm key

Keith & Jane got married!!!

LOOK AT THE PANTS. LOL

Keith become some freedom fighter at night.

2009-06-05T12:49:00.003+08:00

"HEY!"

haha, jana's 'unglam'.

anyway, our school painted the walls orange & yellow!

I think they're trying to blind us.

And what was I doing in school on such a nice morning?

Taking photos for PTC.

2009-06-02T15:46:00.007+08:00

I CAN SWIM!

okay, at least better than I was a week ago.

Went swimming twice within 3 days. The first time was at night, (we practically had the whole pool to ourselves) was a little jittery. After two tries, I came to a conclusion that I actually forgot to swim. It's like forgetting how to ride a bike. You can't ride very well but soon, after some time, it came back. Only that for swimming, it came back a little later. It's fun, I guess, except that it's a disaster for my hair. I say, it's the attack of the 'barbie-hair'. The mob of sticky, phony and tangled hair.

Anyway, went to Republic of Singapore Air Force Museum = finished History's 'Museum Visit Worksheet'! It was a bright and sunny day..... Here's a little teaser of the photos I took.

Not sure whether this is all for the nice ones, will update again.

2009-05-30T15:02:00.003+08:00

Received an email about a guy/girl turning into a babe with makeup. I don't know whether it's a girl or a guy (the email said it's a guy) but to me, it should be a girl.

Technology work wonders, huh? In a way it's good but then, isn't it tiring and untrue? Concealing your flaws and maintaining a facade of beauty endlessly - wouldn't your life be a humongous fib?Imagine spending hours to do up your face only to wash it away at the end of the day. Not that washing up can be done under a few seconds. Now, who's complaining about too little time?

2009-05-23T15:33:00.015+08:00

Ever since after the exams, I've been in a full fledged slack mode. Everyday is .... slack. The engine can't start up, or probably never did. Classes are back to normal - it just spells torture. ugh. They're trying to turn us into productive worker ants that studies all day long - revolting. I think ants are robots. Mechanically devised and set to work and work. Probably created to give workaholics a little assurance that they're not alone. And to lazy kids? A chance to nag. I think people should stop using the ant parable or comparison anymore. It's so overused and uncreative! It should be banned to spike an increase in creativity levels. (Get a life, ants! You're no longer popular. Go back to your tiny nests filled with food you'll never eat!) OH and their lovely appearance did no help to make me like them more. Those brown eggy bodies cut into 3, the stick thin legs and feelers. Who knows, they keep stocking up food and do not actually eat them that's why they have stick thin legs. Dr Oz is not happy... He says ants should eat their food properly to be healthy and not get anorexic.

Perhaps instead of memorizing formulas and properties, why can't we do something creative? Just like how we were supposed to be. It's a fact that is instilled in our minds from young. That education is good for you, it will be correct. But who knows? The educated civilisation might be wrong. Everyone might be wrong. Maybe properties are not important after all. But, I am not ready to dive in and search for loopholes. It's.... Just not something I'll like to do. So, the 'Great Big Lie' or giant loophole will stay in my little fantasy. I will continue to dream that someday, we'll learn totally different things. Like Mathsmetry or Biosicsology. Or maybe even Chimology. What ever it is, the person who ever discovers the loophole will be my favourite person. Until I leave school. Because studying will not be relevant to me.

Now you got me started.

Anyway, here's joke from 人小鬼大. It's FUNNY!

问∶糖果是公的还是母的？

答∶母的。因为糖果生蚂蚁！

2009-05-19T20:47:00.008+08:00

Henderson Bridge

(You know, the curly wurly bridge?)

This is the later part of the walk. Around the faber place, I guess.

The view of the sea or cable cars/jewel box.

The 'binocular' thingy I think, those that you use to see faraway stuff. It's $1 per 'look' but the lens are foggy already. $1 or no $1, you won't be able to see the 'picturesque' view.

You think you can hide from the camera?

Another set : 18 May 09

It a telephone booth. (obviously?) There isn't much of these in Sg and look at the new posters. Anyway, it stinks in there - musty and cooped-up smell even though it's not fully enclosed.

Here's joh with it.

hahaha, she traded a few shots with an eclipse mint.

Here's her fishing one out.

Then, a commercial!

Then it's back to the hide-me-from-the-cam-with-my-palm.People think that their palms are big enough to block the cam. Not so true.

Oh, this is the earlier part of the day. We're forced to take taxi (GRR.) because 'public transport is too slow'. And we're all bushed, slept in the taxi.

But I doze off for like only 30 secs? Cos when I opened my eyes, I saw them sleeping then.........yeah. emilee wrote : ''can't sleep in peace with qiujin around'' hahaha.

Some flat nice flower. Awful colours man.

The buds of the flower below. Odd and kind of exotic.

Random flower. Close up below.

Just love those droplets.

Droplets = RainRain = Fever?
Got sore throat and fever - torturous. Woke up at 2+ this morning when I thought I 熬过了一晚. Anyway, I had this weird dream. It's like some campfire or tribal thing. There's this big fire and there are lots of people in a huge circle. Then everybody in the circle is having fever. I know, it's ridiculous. Then there are people outside the circle or not belonging to the circle. That part, it's a bit fuzzy. And I'm not sure what 'we' were doing. Dancing? Anyway, it's funny.

2009-05-16T13:59:00.003+08:00

Got my results back - quite bad. Yeah, I can virtually hear the nags, not particularly from others. Stinky procrastination (overused and irritating word - understatement) strikes back. Procrastination had evolved from a problem to an excuse to wriggle out from everything. I try to remind myself constantly that the Os are more or less a year away. But apparently some tiny part of me has the mindset that it's not that near.

You know, just like waking up in the weekends or holidays. You want to wake up at say, 7. But some part of you knows that that's not gonna happen. Either you've tried that numerous times before or you think you need to sleep in to compensate for the lost hours in the week. But you force yourself to set the alarm at 7 or even have backup-alarms... Fast forward to the morning at 7 - the alarm rings, you're tired and don't feel like waking up, then you 'stop' the alarm. Not snooze. You end up waking at 11. You will feel as if you've wasted so much time and don't want to do anything else. That was my typical weekend/holiday.

Things need to change.
Things will change.

2009-05-12T16:58:00.017+08:00

Boom De Ya Da, nice promo song from Discovery.....boom de ya da......boom de ya da.....boom de ya da..... And, College Humor's creative genius came up with this video and it's hilarious. It blew me off!

Oh and, exams ARE ovverr!

Special Tributes to my clean table for being with me for one day.

2009-05-08T22:10:00.003+08:00

Exams are almost over, we're only left with Chemistry.

BUT, am not so confident of the results.

History - Goner

Amaths - CONFIRM fail.

So, there you have it.

Jo's domokun. It's forever 'chewing'

2009-04-17T22:40:00.005+08:00

Anderson Primary's Indian New Year Concert - 17.04.09

Initially, we went to APS to learn photography cos benjamin's teaching and we tagged along. Then, it was cancelled. But, there's a concert and we stayed on to gain experience and learn while shooting too. I can safely say that it was a fruitful trip and certainly not a waste of time.

Enjoy the photos! (:

jolene laughing like crazy, apparently at a mega-funny-embarrassing-thing that I totally missed. &, collage done by my sis - she's so into collages nowadays.

benjamin laughing like don't-know-what too

Then, this cute boy with his front tooth missing came and asked jo & ben what to do. Obviously they didn't know what to do too. Wait, did they even get what the boy's trying to say? I remembered the boy showing his tooth in a ziploc bag, the sterile gauze and a bunch of papers to them, helplessly trying to get his message across. But, the two just went on to rave about how cute he was without his tooth and a red gauze wedged in between his teeth, totally ignoring the poor child's cry for help. Jo totally ignored him and started taking a photo of him and she's caught in the act! (see photo)

I took a photo too, lol. He's wayy cuter in real life. See that red gauze? He has this irritated face cos we were all busy taking photos of him instead of listening!

Okay, this one and the next is taken by ben - the rest is taken by me, with ben's cool-cool-mega-ultra-duper-cool dslr. These girls are cute! One looks like xiao wan zhi and the other a young ang moh, haha.

Last photo of the day! Me and Jo with our tags, looks professional, eh?

This last two photos are taken by my phone, there's lots of things going on!

Jo looks cool with the 'toy'!

2009-04-08T18:01:00.010+08:00

first aid course is over!

It went on quite smoothly, not as bad as I thought it might be. But the theory paper is really difficult and worse still, I had no motivation or whatsoever to absorb. Looking on the bright side, (this will sound really corny but) I enjoyed teaching my part. Shocking, right? Wait, before you start imagining me in a sad school 24/7 stuck with a bunch of boring kids, you need to know that I do not aspire to be a teacher although I did once. The job is way too stressful, especially in secondary schools. If that's the last job on earth, I'll probably be queueing up in the primary/ preschool line. (the secondary school line would probably be infested by flies) Why do teachers want to be teachers? And no, I'm not contradicting myself, I enjoyed teaching but I will not enjoy doing it fulltime, all year round, for the whole of my life.

photo from mel's facebook. Super funny okay, although I'm not in it. VERY cute, everybody's so young! Especially joh! I wonder how I looked like when I was in sec 1.

2009-04-02T22:53:00.006+08:00

Finally finished the first aid course powerpoint. (Sigh.) I realised that I can't really handle stress but thank God, it's always like after a while if I cry (big confession okay.) or something, then the stress will not be so bad. It isn't good, is it? Anyway, stressful tasks keep coming my way, first is common tests, then FPS then now, FA course. Looking on the bright side, I think God is moulding me into a person who can handle stress better. (: I am definitely dealing with it better than I am last year.

And during video club yesterday, we were playing with benjamin's dslr. FREAKING-out-of-the-world-FUN! Love the shutter sound, snap, snap. Can play with it for a whole month, man. Me and Jo took like over 300 photos, lol.

LOVE IT!

2009-04-01T19:39:00.006+08:00

This was taken at 589A, (:

Joshua!

Gilda and Gareth!

Gilda and me! (:

Gilda and Joshua! (woooo!)

JORDAN!

cute, man.

In training room.

Orange flower, same kind as the one I plucked in Kemayan. HAHAHA This orange coloured one is the only one in BB campsite lah.

This field at BB campsite is infested with this thing; it looked like something out of a movie.

The flagpole.

MARINA BARRAGE

Photos are taken by Vincent's cool-cool-mega-ultra-duper-cool dslr!

Keith, the guy in blue is showing off his qigong! & enling's cool pose!

My hair gone crazy, (the one in the center in white) & sis (another one in white) is tiptoeing.

Yeah man!

♥ this pic to the core.

cool, our hands are almost parallel! (:

2009-03-28T11:08:00.003+08:00

We went to RGS that day and ate lunch at far east KFC. Then, emilee started making tiny droplets on her cup.

This is an untouched mash potato but it looked like it went through WWI.

This photo was edited! The original looked horrible compared to this! hahaha (:

Realised that the past four posts were like only photos. Probably because it's less time consuming? Anyway, I totally LOVE this lomography technique I learnt from Photoshop Tutorials. It's like quite easy and you'll sure get the results. Unlike the 'Old Printouts' tutorial, I tried it for like 4 or 5 times but can't get the effect. Ugh.

Yesterday was the first parade in months or something? It's super casual and relaxed - TOTALLY LOVE IT THAT WAY! hahaha.

2009-03-23T22:11:00.005+08:00

Sentosa Outing - 18/3/09

NICE NICE NICE angle!

Scandalous.

Pretty obvious that we're bored, huh?

Sentosa Outing 18/03/09

Sunset, it looks way way nicer in real life.

Sunset + Rainbow in an evening = rare!

heard an EARTH-SHATTERING-TASER-SHOCKER-DROP-YOUR-JAW news today. I wasn't exaggerating. (I feel like yawning when I see the photo.)

2009-03-17T14:26:00.013+08:00

Gigantic snail out for its morning walk.

We played catching (of course I wasn't playing)

Don't know where to run!

Just run for your lives!

Learning to dance in the free time.

waiting to bathe

smile!

Johanna & Rachel,

Rachel & Johanna!

Nathan!

His chubby bear, haha

We were sleeping in the music room and weidi can't resist the piano.

2009-03-16T13:24:00.004+08:00

Keith & Alice's Wedding!

Newlyweds!

beautiful petals

gorgeous

unglam eating!

Shanghai Nights, huh?

enxin, zemin, me, chuihui

our table

everyone!

2009-03-16T11:44:00.008+08:00

Jogathon '09

zeng+sheryl

Chips and Jogathon? oxymoronic

Ice Cream for sale!

Happy Customer!

Oh, the queue is forming!

Thanks to Zion Zone for advertising!

'got the sun in my eyes'

crazy tai tai

evil tai tai

flowers at wd's hse

sunbathing

2009-02-28T13:17:00.002+08:00

Common Tests are over and I've changed my blogskin. It's rather obvious, by the way. If my common tests aren't over yet I wouldn't dare to make a blogskin - it's too time consuming. And sometimes, the results aren't what you expected. Constant editing, sore eyes and a unsatisfied mouse clicker.

Anyway, I saw this chinese phrase "人善被人欺，马善被人骑". Quite true and funny, the person who made this up can either be a jockey or joker. HAH.

2009-02-14T13:34:00.001+08:00

I made this montage just now when I'm supposed to be studying for common tests.

My first try at "montage", quite fun!

2009-02-13T21:14:00.007+08:00

It had

been a long time,

haven't updating because of the

super busy days.

But it isn't dead, yet.

Happy Valentine's Day!

It's really nothing much, just an excuse to take pictures. I took like 18 photos with this cupcake thingy but only one is good.

This picture was taken when I went jogging.

2009-02-04T20:59:00.004+08:00

Super Rare Day Today.

Not because I saw 5 red cars in a row or something.

Got a funny urge after bible study to take photo together!

And... tadah!

1st photo in 2009!

Taken on 4th February 2009 with my beloved phone.

♥♥♥♥♥

As usual, press on pic for a better quality picture.

2009-01-25T15:41:00.003+08:00

恭喜发财、财从神来！

2009-01-24T17:42:00.007+08:00

Sorry, forgot to change the water that's why the blog's stagnant... The past week was really busy, having late nights with no coffee. Not that I want to drink mud anyway. And during the week long hiatus, the tags have accumulated and it's not practical to reply in the tagboard. Then I had a 'clever' idea. Why not use the space for posting to reply? Okay, either my memory was zapped away by an alien or I'm being brainwashed by a washing machine because that's what everybody's doing!

Okay, so here's the tag replies, you can skip it though, because that's what I always do unless I tagged the blogger. I specially made it greyish so it'll not be so visible to who didn't tagged, lols.

bayzenglin! ★:LOLs. okay, den i buy u bigger piggybank! LOLS!
jn(:: lols. okay...
sheryl!: I went alr, thanks for the message! (((:
en xin: thanks! it's okay!
yihui: it's okay! haha, the qiu is not me, is my sis!
qiu: okay... mayb not nw alr.
soocheen/: thanks! ;D
bayzenglin! ★: thanks! :D
shi hwee: thanks!
jo: lols, y anaj bad, den u say hi. lols.
Jana!: YEAH MAN.sec 1 is soooo F-U-N.
andrea!(:: LOLS. so funny sia andrea, talk to herself. lolsss...
Kei: Yeah, i know it's 2009 alr, not 1009.

I gotta go take my photos already! EXCITED!

2009-01-19T21:07:00.002+08:00

Red piggy bank from share & zeng!

watch from the 3!

2009-01-09T23:29:00.006+08:00

This article is from Today, Thursday January 09, 2009, it's a letter written in by Ho Kong Loon. The length of the it sets it apart from neighbouring articles which are lengthy and rather irrelevant to my environment. As they say, do not judge a book by it's cover; the article is flooded with alien words like - honchos, plethora and laxity. Like what's honchos? A cousin of poncho? Plethora sounds like a name, of a girl or a plant, I don't know. And laxity seems like a synonym for fats! Actually, honcho is a leader, plethora is abundance and and laxity is the state of being lax, not fat.
Is school in the 50s 'lots of fun, play, peer interaction' (as stated in the article)? I thought I heard all about psycho teachers whacking and smacking? Okay, maybe that's a little extreme... But even so, times have changed. Even if class in the 50s is indeed all fun and play, it isn't the 50s now right? It's the 20th Century, people think differently of the laminated 80 gsm paper now. And that wretched paper is most likely going to direct your working life. It's rather amazing that the humble part of a tree can have such an impact on our lives and more often than not people succumb to the power of that paper and it is definitely possible to take charge of our own lives instead of letting the dead thing lord us. But of course, it'll be a lot of hard work - that goes without saying.

And in today's edition of Today, a former Television Corporation of Singapore journalist Subana Hall replied to the previous article. It's at page 26, Voices section.

Let's end this midnight post with a cute picture I thought wouldn't be possible in Singapore.

This is an interesting photo from The Straits Times, Friday, January 09 2009, Home Section page C30. It's a woman trying to roll a giant foam orange back to the pavement.

2009-01-02T21:44:00.005+08:00

I was complaining to mel today about how the New Year Resolutions are sooo depressing, especially at the end of the year. She asked me what are my 2009's Resolutions and because of the failure to achieve 2008's, I've lost the motivation to set new ones or even reuse the old ones. While I was surfing the net in the afternoon, I stumbled upon an article from www.billygraham.org and found it meaningful and inspiring. This article is titled "Three New Year's Resolutions … to Keep" - something I need quite badly.

The first is to Live Generously - to be generous with your time, your forgiveness, your gift and talents God gave. Live generously, and God's love will be evident in your life. The second one is to Reflect All Year Long. Because we do not constantly reflect, we forget about our resolutions and we neglect them. And that's how the end-year-depression came about. We should reserve a timeslot each day to pray and ask God to show us the kind of person he wants us to be. (refer to James 1:22-25, can be found in the article) The third and last one is to Grow Closer To God. When we learn and memorize verses from the Bible, it opens up the opportunity for God's wisdom to take hold in your life; so it's not just raw memorization. (refer to Proverbs 7:2-3, can be found in the article) Another way is to spend time daily with Him, “Come near to God and He will come near to you” (James 4:8). The article also mentioned about Intercessory prayer, which is to pray for others. Praying for others sets free God's power in their lives—what a beautiful gift!

3 resolutions, 10 words. God Bless for the year ahead!

The article can be found here.

Okay, now for JNCO. Due to the limited vocabulary capacity, I can only say that it was crazy. But even though it was tough, God still preserved (保守） me and that can be seen with the miracles that may seem small to you but are huge to me. First, I woke up late. I was supposed to wake up at like 5 plus but woke up at 6 plus in the end. (I can't confirm that the details are accurate because it's quite blurry now already.) Thank God I reached there like 10 minutes before the fall in time! I can't believe I'm on time (lah)! I'm so convinced that I'm late and heading straight for punishment and you can imagine the relief that engulfed me when I saw the rest sitting at the canteen. (Prepare yourself for the second one) The second one - I forgot to bring my toothbrush. Yeah, toothbrush! I was rushing out from home and forgot my toothbrush. Well, guess what happened then? It's really a miracle, Melissa's booking out on that night and she gave me her new toothbrush. Wow! Thank God! Or else I wouldn't know what will happen to me. I've learnt alot from the camp and I'm not that afraid of 'red alerts' now, except for the changing part. Red Alerts are like fire drills, only it's mock injuries. But I guess it won't end, because there's foot drill MOI, first aid MOI and SNCO.

But have I not witnessed and went through God's preservation?

2008-12-22T19:16:00.006+08:00

JNCO's a few days away only. 5 days away. School's opening soon. 10 days later. Homework's 1/4 done, great.

Stop moping and start w-o-r-k-i-n-g!

An abnormal dash of self-motivation, rare for a hardcore moper like me. Don't get me wrong, I don't like mop the floor everyday and neither do I like mopping. Oh and I realised that cracking horribly 'cold' jokes is an excellent stress-reliever. You should try it too, that is if you can bring yourself to do it!

Now that I'm in a better mood, I'll tell you what I'm looking forward to. And it's the GJY end-of-year countdown chalet! (: A nice way to end the year, huh? That is if you don't bring up the new year resolution thing...

2008-12-18T00:14:00.005+08:00

Publish date : 17/12/2008, Today Newspaper.
This should serve as a warning to all who are concerned about their PC's health. It's really easy to make the transition from IE to mozilla or chrome and I assume you wouldn't mind waiting one or two minutes to prolong you PC's lifespan. (Yeah, I know it's an excellent assumption.)
Another thing is, why did they wait till now to warn us common folks of this major flaw? Was it a well kept secret to boost PC sales? Did a humane scientist/computer engineer reveal this fact only after years of struggle with the rest his community? Or is this article an attempt to attract more people to use other browsers? Am I going to just take in what the papers write? But even if I do doubt the source, how can I ever doublecheck it? What other sources do I have? Please do not tell me 'you always have the internet'. Come on, the net has millions of information yeah, but to find a truly useful information is like trawling through the rubbish dump for a diamond ring.

[Refer to the brownian motion post.]

2008-12-17T18:16:00.002+08:00

Ever since I came back, I've been having diarrhoea... ):

Getting

2008-12-16T14:21:00.006+08:00

I'm back from the Mission Trip and I've uploaded photos, enjoy!

The place where we ate the yummy fried rice.

The same place, only this is the back door leading out to the alley.

The mailbox, I didn't notice it until my sis showed me the photo.

Our shoes and this is not an accurate potrayal of the shoe 'corner'. There were much more shoes and it's messier.

The staircase leading to the rooftop.

The rooftop.

Okay, now for the photos of the kids!

Jordan and my sis.

Cute!

Awww.... Isn't he adorable?

Joshua, brother of Jordan! He's quite mature and sensible actually.

Jia Yao, 2nd in the brothers of 4. 1st is Jia Lun, then him, then Jia Yi (he reminds me of a shao lin boy) and then the last one is a baby. I forgot his name, but I still remember his nickname, 叉烧包!

The twins!

Our last meal, it was the same restaurant as the one we ate our last meal when we went to 三合港.

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During this mission trip, I learnt a lot. (as in really alot) I've overcomed things that I feared and this trip is a different experience as compared to the previous one to 三合港. But now that I think back of the things we did, I feel that I could have been better prepared and that's something to take note of. Another thing is, I only realised how tired I was when I reached home. Thank God he gave us strength till the last day! To me, the bus ride home was shorter than the one to Kemayan and it's because I kept sleeping throughout the whole journey!

2008-12-06T19:25:00.003+08:00

2008-12-04T19:20:00.007+08:00

Lomo Course today, taught by an external trainer. I didn't know it was lomo course at first, people told me that it's a photo-developing course. Anyway, lomography is cool. It's an interesting but costly hobby. Maybe it's so interesting that people choose to be blinded by the cost factor. It's nice to handle film, it's like getting back to basics. You don't get to see the results immediately like digital photography and get a weird sense of thrrrill when you send it for developing. However, the effects often turn out worse than expected but you will want to try again, to keep trying and feel the excitement. Now that I think of it, digital photography seems lack lustre as compared to lomo. But of course digi photography is more stable.

Another thing, I was supposed to collect my new passport today and because it clashes with the lomo course, I have to leave early. But my mom can't leave, she have to finish a report and in the end I went for the whole course. It was only when my mom reach home that we realised that there was a letter that says to collect the passport from 05/12/2008 onwards. Thank God that my mom has to finish the report or else I will miss the course and make an empty trip to lavender. But which also means that I have to miss tomorrow's course. :(

2008-11-23T23:05:00.001+08:00

2008-11-21T15:40:00.009+08:00

I went for a much needed haircut, trimming away 2 inches. It's somewhat disaster-free but needs to settle down. Every single strand of hair is probably mourning for the loss of their older generations. But I now have a very thin ponytail if you compare with the before-haircut.

Frankly speaking, I love successful haircuts. I like it that it'll be a whole new look and also, the irritating strands sticking out might be trimmed off. Maybe the reason that gives hair salons business is the change they offer. A new hairstyle is probably one of the few changes that we can control in our lives. Maybe it's because we can be in control that it appeals to us.

2008-11-19T21:40:00.010+08:00

Do you still remember Bibi Belle?!? If not, you should know dixie dot. Did you know that they were the names of a celeb's baby? I bet you don't know. Because you wouldn't even know the mom, Anna Caroline Ryder Richardson. (Google her yourself.) Anyway, the momma's born on 29 January... Do I sense some connection? I don't know, I always sense a certain connection with people who're born in January. Like the J babies are all one big family, same for the Febuary people, so on and so forth. I have always believed 17th January is a VVID - Very Very Important Date or VVSD Very Very Significant Day.

17th January 1929, the day Popeye first appeared and if you fast forward a little to 1969, the day Led Zeppelin's debut album is freaking released! Plus, I share the same birthday as Benjamin Franklin, Jim Carey and Mick Taylor (former guitarist of the Rolling Stones). The deaths I would not mention but if you want to see the whole list, here you go.

Okay the last thing - Elijah Bob Patricus Guggi Q. He/She (I didn't google/yahoo-ed him/her.) is Bono's kid. In case you don't know who Bono is, he's like the lead singer of U2. Okay, the point is the crazy name. Was he like intoxicated when his wife called him.............?

THE GREAT STORY OF ELIJAH BOB PATRICUS GUGGI Q

Wife : "dear, I don't know what to name our kid?!? I can't believe it, totally not. Ohhhhhhh! Whitney? Paris? Or, or, or, BARBIE! OH! That's like the best I've came up with. But no way, they'll think she's a bimbo like me... WAIT, is the kid like a guy or.................."

Elijah Wood walked past him in the nightclub.

Bono : "Elijah!"

Wife : " OH DEAR! That's faaannnntaabewwlus!" Actually Bono is calling Elijah. They started talking about Bob Marley's concert.

Bono : ".......blah yadda.......BOB?!?...........zzz........"

Wife : " Oh Bob? Great! Let me find my juicy couture paper..." Bono carries on talking about bob marley... "YAY! I found it! But dear, what if it's a girl?"

Bono finally heard her wife and coincidentally Spongebob and Patrick Star walked past.

Bono : "Patricus then."

Wife : [OH you know, she'll rave on about what a genius he is.]

Bono saw Patrick star hold a Gucci Bag and suddenly, Patrick's head dropped to the floor. And out came Maggi Q.

Bono : "Guggi Q"

Wife : " PERFECT, darling, I've got it all down, Elijah Bob Patri....click........"

Bono just puked all over Elijah Wood.

Okay, it's crappy but I enjoyed writing it!

2008-11-18T12:31:00.013+08:00

I'll be lost in my books very soon, once I'm done with this. What can I say? "The book fever is back again!" I'm currently reading The Bloodwater Mysteries and yeah it's juvenile but it is captivating. I'm addicted to books, okay and I don't want to go to book rehab. (...They tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go....) Other than book rehab, some jokers are trying to pull me to 'closer' rehab. In other words, I'm addicted to Closer - Neyo.

Well, boredom makes you do lots of stuff, which for me is making collages. What you're going to witness is quite shocking, the effect digital cosmetics have on things. Er no, L'Oreal has not come up with digital eyeliner or blusher. What I'm talking about is the 'Photoshop Magic'. But mine have not come yet, so I'm stuck with Photoscape and Picasa. Wait, I just realised that it all starts with P! Photos, Photoshop, Photoscape, Picasa!

Do you notice the fake 'bling' there?

2nd Collage, blogger downgraded the quality! Press for a better view!

2008-11-15T14:51:00.010+08:00

I remember when I was young, I had this dream that Singapore had winter included in her weather collection. In the dream it wasn't full fledged winter yet but it was cold enough for me to wear my jacket 24/7. It's not like typical movie-winter, everywhere is just tinged with ice packs. But that was enough for everybody to rush to Wintertime as if it's GSS. Weird thing in the dream is, there wasn't any weather reports or any official announcement, it is as if everybody knew what to do and they were like doing something terribly normal. Maybe they expected such day to come after fantasizing over the prospect for decades?

My sudden recollection of the illogical dream came to me when I was getting fed up from the sudden gusts of chilling wind or what they call it the 北风. Now, if the 北风 is irritating me already, there should be a room prepared for me in Woodbridge when winter really comes to Singapore. FYI: I'm wearing a jacket already but my thighs are still irritated from Mr. 北风's arrival.

If winter really comes, we can wear boots without standing out like a sore thumb. But on the contrary, flip-flop companies will go bust; like who will wear them then? By then, there might be more cases of creative suicides, due to the harsher weather which in turn increases the financial burden on people. I guess jumping of HDB flats isn't popular now, huh? I'm surprised that when someone is so troubled that they want to commit suicide, they still can think of odd and fresh ideas to end it all. I've never thought of giving my short years on earth to three Bengal White Tigers even though they're rather cute looking. Neither did (and ever will) I have the guts to jump off 12 storeys no matter how thrilling flying fox is.

2008-11-14T14:57:00.012+08:00

Got the photoscape zeng said and it is actually quite fun to play with. I used it to make collages of the pictures me & my sis took while walking.

This is pretty much what my neighbourhood looks like, much greener then yours, huh? FYI: I don't live in block 349.

This is all about trees, a bit too greenish for me, even though green is supposed to be good for your eyes. Actually, not all green is good for your eyes lah. Like as if bright lime green is good for your eyes.

Me and my sis went to the new library at Northpoint today. It was freaking noisy and packed with people. Weird thing, why wasn't there that much people when it was at the previous location? Whatever it is, I guess I should celebrate because the new library has new books, better interior design and better location! (:

Borrowed this 2 books about photography - Digital Compact Camera, Great Photos Everytime and Thoughtless acts. The former is like a guidebook on how to take great photos and the latter is just photos about thoughtless acts, which are acts that we do without really thinking.

Every page has a photo and photo only, no words.

Are you jealous?

2008-11-12T11:10:00.013+08:00

I made a Poupee girl myself, after knowing about it from Jo's blog. The name poupee is quite odd (actually stupid) and it's supposed to be doll in french. I don't know why, French is beautiful but the way they used 'poupee' isn't. Haven't really got the hang of the game yet but now I have half decided to abandon it. It looked like fun only. Maybe when the bird stopped chirping 'new', when cobwebs form in the picture then will I log in again. The graphics are really good though, a pity it has such a boring game. Perhaps the webmasters have to 拜师学艺 from the creators of Sims but 'Poupee' (ew, cringe inwardly) have to keep their graphics or if they will, change the name.

Anyway, I saw a 卓文萱 Poupee doll.

Roiworld sooo much more entertaining than [ew name] game.

And a whole new roiworld is coming! Yay? Because I've recently got tired of it's dress up games and now that they're gonna reinvent it, I'm excited!

Roiworld is so much better because it's purely dress up games? It's by far the best of all the other mediocre dress up games I've tried and at least it's not some social networking site with dress-up.

Like, even mel plays roiworld? Or maybe she played before. I remember in English class mandy, huinie, mel & me played one of the game together and man, it's freaking funny.

What? You didn't know I play dress up games?!?!

2008-11-11T14:46:00.011+08:00

Remember the girl-next-door Sun Ho? Well, she's not down to earth anymore, people. A change of image helped her increase her popularity overseas and also decrease her popularity in SG. But before you look down on this new image, I need to tell you that it earned her a ticket to US Fashion Week and collaboration with Wyclef Jean for China Wine and Tyson Beckford for Mr Bill. Personally, I think her songs are whiney and brainless, especially China Wine. And if I hear Mr. Bill or China Wine ever again, it'll give me serious migraine. It's like super irritating if you listen to it for too many times.

Do I see a Britney wannabe?

To give an impression of what she is now.

By the way, In the bottom left corner picture, she looks like Vanessa William's role in Ugly Betty and yeah, if want to know who I'm refering to, go google it yourself.

2008-11-10T14:11:00.005+08:00

Miss Chong is going to teach at North View Sec Sch next year.

She's going to teach at NVSS a.k.a my sister's school.

What a small world.

2008-11-10T11:16:00.007+08:00

Who's that?

Ethan!

(cute baby)

Who's that?

Lorenz & Marven!

(cute kids)

FYI : I just downloaded Picasa 3 and

started dabbling with their collage maker.

2008-11-09T22:24:00.007+08:00

I am shouting this out, to the bottomless sea;

Days are passing quick, but time is moving slow.
I crave to kill time so much,
I'm afraid I'll be a ferocious murderer.
But each time the calendar sees me;
I get so fearful that it ices my innards.
I have endless unchecked boxes on the checklist,
but I want to tick none of it.
I yearn to get hold of the second-hand,
but all I grab is air.

2008-11-07T12:11:00.014+08:00

I wouldn't have known how entertaining Ugly Betty was if I had not watched it for the first time yesterday. And yes, it was the first time. Just blame it on the weird timeslot, I usually do not tune in to channel 5 at 10pm on thursdays even though I knew that Betty has such a cute boss.

Eric Mabius, Betty's boss. He looks better onscreen and reminds me of Keanu Reeves. (!) But Eric Mabius is 帅er.

(Sorry, I can't find a more fitting word.)

Michael Urie, who reminds me of Goofy. Remember Goofy?

(Mickey's best friend.)

Whilst watching, a question popped into my mind. 'Is the concept of atoms and molecules true?' Are we going to just take in what we were taught? What if everybody made a big big mistake? What if the concept of atoms and molecules aren't true?

Then my sis told me something about Brownian motion. I googled it and there are tons of hard-to-understand-thus-rendered-useless websites about Brownian motion and you know what? Those websites are almost identical.

Finally, I found something useful.

Yahoo Answers cited that Einstein used Brownian motion to prove the existence of atoms and molecules and their physical size.

Ah, that tells me that I'm definitely on the right track but I still do not know what is Brownian motion all about. The one thing I know is... I am not going to learn about it online.

2008-11-06T18:29:00.028+08:00

I did the mental age test once again and thought, "I must have done it wrongly the last time, I should be younger this time round." But NO, I did not turn back mental time instead it went faster. You must be itching to know the results but I must warn you, curiousity killed the cat, thus you having heart failure after seeing the results is none of my business. Oh and to further prepare you, my previous age was 32 years old and you better stop laughing.

精神年龄35岁

幼稚度60％成熟度50％老化度50％

Anyway, my sister's 26 and jo's 17.

So, you wanna do the test too?

2008-11-05T17:36:00.003+08:00

What would you do if you were lugging an unforgiving guitar on your way home and then your loyal shoelaces decided to untie themselves?

I would ignore it.

BUT PEOPLE, you should never ever freaking in your whole life ever do such a stupid thing especially if you are going to walk through an escalator.

Because if you ignore, your loyal buddy will get stuck into the escalator.! And that's what happened to me. It got stuck and I'll be standing there if the uncle never yanked it out for me. That was really scary, for a moment the scenes of getting stuck there for eons and my toe being engulfed into the moving black and yellow stripes flashed through my mind.

Note to self: Tie shoelaces twice before leaving house is a must.

2008-11-03T14:17:00.017+08:00

I found this website, Fun With Words and it's like seriously GEEKY, man. There are lists of Proprietary Eponyms, Contronyms, Heteronyms and Palindromes. And no, Palindromes are not related in any way to Sarah Palin.

But there's an interesting article, it's Conflicting Proverbs. It is a whole list of proverbs that contradict each other. These are the ones I think is funny and for the whole list click - Conflicting Proverbs.

Actions speak louder than words.		The pen is mightier than the sword.
Knowledge is power.		Ignorance is bliss.
A silent man is a wise one.		A man without words is a man without thoughts.
Money talks.		Talk is cheap.
Many hands make light work.		Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Great minds think alike.		Fools seldom differ.
Birds of a feather flock together.		Opposites attract.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.		Out of sight, out of mind.
The more, the merrier.		Two's company; three's a crowd.

2008-11-01T17:18:00.012+08:00

After half a day of smiling, sticking stickers and standing at the not-so-brightly lit tunnel of AMK, I'm tired. I always have the same feeling after flag days - exhausted. Not only from holding the can and standing for a long time, it's also the cheek muscles that are tired - from too much smiling.

The weariness could also be attributed to the drama that unfolded in the morning. When we reached the canteen, there was less than a handful of students that assembled there. Pathetic. Then Kenneth came and it turned out that there was only 3 of us from Humility that actually came. The pathetic attendance was bad enough, but Mr Lau had to MIA. Then we waited at the foyer and thought NCDCC people were going too and the green bus was booked for the transportation. In the end it wasn't, the bus was for the NCDCC people. We went back to canteen and Soo Cheen told us that Cynthia said something like supposed to assemble at amk tunnel. The whole drama-mama day is so not over yet. The tunnel we thought or perhaps the one you thought too wasn't the tunnel they referred to and common sense will tell you that we found it eventually.

The tunnel drama segment ended.

Miscellaneous Drama-mama moments

1. I asked this guy for donations but he refused, then when he walked past Jo, who was behind me then he said "我要你". Can you imagine how disgusted me & jo was? I mean like he sooo not Brad Pitt, neither is he Keanu Reeves and how can he go around terrorizing innocent school girls who just want more CIP hours? That apparently wasn't enough for him, he looked back and it seems like he's going to come back. I was terrified and walked to the the guy in our group, perhaps that will discourage him and Jo followed me and apparently it worked. Like first time a guy's useful, hah. (I meant it as a joke, okay)

2. This guy (another male) donated for Kenneth and ranted for a long time. He looked super duper uber scared. Then the guy talked really loudly too and now that I thought of it, he looked kind of familiar.

3. Then there's this woman who asked "How are you going to make money if you don't ask?" Whoa, whoa, whoa. We're not making money and can't we rest for like a minute? We may be young but we are not robots.

I think that's all for today and I didn't realise that wrote that much.!

2008-10-31T14:31:00.010+08:00

slideshow photostream

This is the video I made for the class gathering, enjoy!

2008-10-30T18:24:00.009+08:00

Press images to enlarge.

at the train.

fun in the sun & chillax! haha Chill + Relax. Invented by the guys.

dead pufferfish?

the queen (chairwoman) (:

with jana!

Accidentally making a heart with the Ho siblings

group photo at the end of the day and I looked like I'm crazy in that photo.

Lorenz and Marven

Us with lorenz & marven

Sunset photo with Jo

The class gathering was obviously fun! First game was monkey and I was the monkey for eons until I go crazy each time the ball went out of control. I tried to snatch the ball from Zeng twice but she won't let me! Then they played beach volleyball and then the beach soccer. The beach soccer was FREAKISHLY fun. At first I was the referee, because I brought my sis phone and the phone's red. Too bad there wasn't a yellow phone. At the final game, I was the goalkeeper, it's fun and slack being the goalkeeper. But was uber scared of fast balls, am very afraid of kissing the ball. My specs will get smashed, my face will hurt super badly, I'll...uh, I don't know what will happen next actually.

More photos to come soon, please wait.

Saw 2 German kids, lorenz (german for lawrence) and Marven. (I think it's spelt like that) They are hard-to-describably CUTE! Even my sis says they're cute, can! Marven smiles sooo sweetly and Lorenz just dropped his front tooth.

"All I want for christmas is my two front teeth..."

cute, cute kids

2008-10-28T21:07:00.001+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEIMING!

Edited with photobucket! (:

His cake, taken with sis's fabulous phone! (:

Four pieces are in my brother's stomach now, don't know how he can eat so much when I feel sick eating a slice already!

2008-10-26T21:36:00.013+08:00

Public Duty - Kusu Island

Us in the ambulance when we were waiting to set off at the HQ.

7 bottles of Good Earth bottles, meant for us to drink if we need to. A foreigner tried to buy a bottle from us, waving her $2 note triumphantly. (She was digging for it for ages.)

This is what I was staring at for 6 hours.

Nice view from the 3rd floor

I didn't go to the Kusu Island at all, because of cramps and we (Yi Jun, BC, Jason, me) stayed at the jetty all the while. There were 2 groups of us, 4 in each. One group was stationed in Singapore whereas the other was stationed at Kusu Island.

Ironically, although the 6 hours were torturously boring, a few interesting things did happen.

Not in any chronological order or any other order you can think of.

1. Saw an incredibly cute ang-moh girl, her blonde hair was plaited and her messy bangs complimented her blue eyes.

2. Two guys nearly fought, they were hurling hokkien vulgarities at each other super loudly. It finally stopped when the police came and resolved the issue. It was happening right before my eyes, I can't help but stare.

3. Lots of people mistook the first aid post to be the Information Counter.

4. A female lifeguard hurt her knees when Johnson just reached the first aid post. Funny thing is, lifeguards should know basic first aid and one of her friends was actually carrying a first aid pouch same as ours only that it's of a darker shade.

5. Saw a security guard with Elvis sideburns.

6. A guy was 'mopping' the floor using an unconventional method. It wasn't really unconventional actually, it's just how they mop large areas like lobbies or shopping malls. He had this big machine and wherever the machine went, it mopped the floor, provided that you switch on the machine, duh. Watching the machine mop was therapeutic.

7. Ang-moh wanted to buy bottled water from us - refer to the 2nd photo above.

26-10-08

Morning

Enxin asked me to be the page-turner in the morning and I was shocked and kind of afraid because music scores are like Gaelic to me. 但是我硬着头皮答应了她。At first it was difficult but after the choir finished singing, the scores were less of a stranger. After service was sunday school then training.

2008-10-24T14:40:00.003+08:00

Yvonne sent me this and guess who it reminded me of?

Shi Hwee! haha. Except the bald part!

I am very bored even though I have tons of stuff to do.