April
15th 2008
*sniffle*
I have a cold and I’m leaving for bangkok in 33 hrs… 
My nose has 30 hrs to run out of stamina and STOP RUNNING
*sniffle*
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April
13th 2008
I’ve been a bit under the weather lately. Soreish throat, sniffles, fever… basically the onset of a flu. All those horrible fluish symptoms to make me feel all URGH but nothing very bad…
Nothing till friday when I woke up feeling dead, took MC and literally slept the day away. Between yesterday and today I must have slept 20 hours. And I didn’t even wake up with that groggy ‘I want too die because I slept too much’ feeling that I usually get if I take naps. This illness is evil…
Finding food which is good for my throat but palatable at the same time is seriously damn difficult. I’ve eaten fishball soup macaroni, sliced fish soup with rice, porridge aaaaand a CALIFORNIA HANDROLL.
I maintain that the handroll is permissible under the ‘Persons with flu who cannot for the life of them taste anything’ guidelines. And that handroll (consumed for dinner on terrible thursday) made my miserable day all better with its fresh, lightly vinegared short grained rice, cold and freshish crab stick, buttery velvet avocado, crunchy cucumber and mildly sweet tamago egg.
Delish!
The fact that it came from my favouritest jap chain of all time made it all the better!
I am having this thing for iciban boshi (and ichiban sushi, it’s heartland (less glam) sibling). I maintain that the food there is fresher, nicer and more value for money as compared to sakae sushi (not as fresh, boring spread) and sushi teh (there is nothing i like there and it’s fricking ex for the amt of food). Almost everytime I’m there I have to eat their ichiban don, the salmon sashimi rice bowl, drizzled with sesame oil + other yummy drippings, cut red chilli and spring onions.
My mouth is watering just thinking abt it. It’s the rice that makes it so yum! I love the blend of vinegar and deliciousness which is the rice and who can say no to salmon sashimi? (Unless you detest the feel of raw fish which unfortunately my stupid other half does).
Another must have is the crispy lobster salad roll. OMG…. it is sooo good. Whenever us 3 girls get together at ichiban boshi for stuffing our faces + yakking session, we usually end up eating at least 5 plates of this yumminess. They fry a log of seaweed wrapped rice and cut them up into slices. Then they add this amazing ‘lobster’ salad which is made of prawn, mayo, bits of roe and a dab of wasabi. Seriously omgwtfbbq.
I have no idea how an entry about nothing morphed into this food explosion. Maybe I’m just hungry after a week of healthy and bland. It’s my subconsious telling me that it wants jap food again though I had eaten there just last monday. Bad subsconsious!
April
2nd 2008
Posted under Random & Growing up & Work
I was link hopping and ended up on this website, Identime (can’t remember the name of the site) which allows you to see what kind of info people can dreg up with just your email address.
Apparently I had uploaded pics on flickr (i seriously don’t remember) and my friendster acct is there for all to see. Luckily it’s a nice pic up, taken under flattering light in my not-so-fat period of the fish soup diet. Anyhoo, surprisingly enough, this blog does not appear. No wonder nobody visits la, cannot find it also.
(No, it has never occurred to me that the lack of visitors might also be because of my lack of blogging.)
I have thought of starting to blog again but now that I’ve started work it gets a bit iffy. While NUS was unlikely to go kick me out because of a blog entry unless I venture into defamation or what shit, I think my employers would have reason to monitor these things and sack me (at best) or sue me (at worst). No money.. don’t sue.
That brings us to a stalemate as (like most employed minons can tell you) there is no life beyond work. Dispel the idea that the money you get every month will pay for an exciting life. Sry to break it to you girlfriend but your life will revolve around nothing but work.
1. On a superfacial (and obvious) level, you can’t pon work like you could pon class. It’s just not done.
2. Even if you have the time to meet friends after work (if you don’t need to OT) you might not always have the energy. Plodding around in heels while shopping with the girls after a mind numbing day of emails is damn tiring. Old liao la…
3. Even if you have the time and the energy, the number of friends you would have accumulated over the years (At least 5 groups - pri, sec sch, jc, uni, poly, misc) would allow you to meet each group at most once a week (and that is nonwithstanding the other factors outlined above). You would spend most of the time giving updates which usually revolve around work (that bitch which totally made your day a living hell), and reminiscing about the past - when life was much better but so under appreciated by your past younger foolish selves. All this talk is necessary to upkeep the relationship just so that you guys don’t drift apart.
BUT, for those among you who have the energy, time, equally energetic and free friends who all share the same ZEST for an EXCITING and ADVENTUROUS life. Then good for you. You do not belong in MY group of lazy cynicism. My blog entries would probably depress you and serve as a potion to turn you into a cynical minion of the larger global workforce. Shoo! SHOO!! Run now while you still can and frolic around where there are green meadows and rainbows shooting out of the asses of unicorns.
*Disclaimer: The utter rubbish above is why I don’t blog often. I have nothing to say.
June
12th 2007
Posted under Random
My days since school ended have been an absolute whirlwind of exciting events, hot parties and giggling gaggles of friends.
This is pretty much how an average day of unemployment goes:
Every morning I get up at some unholy hour in the late morning, boot up my pretty computer, do the morning pleasantries of brushing my teeth and what have you. Hang out the laundry to dry.
I log on msn and gmail, check my emails. Look for job vacancies on those job search sites. Apply for said vacancies. Surf. Fiddle with facebook. Surf. Load my daily dose of comics, techie sites, gossip sites and girly stuff sites. Surf.
Grab lunch if I remember.
Surf. Remember some tv series I have not watched in a while. Look for it on alluc.org. Fire up a couple of windows to let the videos stream. Surf while waiting. Curse and swear because its taking forever to stream. Look on yahoo auctions to see if anyone is selling divx dvds of the entire season/series for cheap.
Dad/ mom calls about dinner. Decide what I wanna eat. Remember I have chores to do. Rush to do them before parentals come home and screaming ensues. Feed the dog. Take a bath and emerge nice and sparkly in time to greet parents and wolf down dinner.
Go back in front of the com. Curse and swear somemore because what looks like it has streamed completely is FAULTY and had only streamed 10 mins before stopping. Chat with my friends about the dismal job situation. Look through resume for the millionth time. Check emails again. Surf for job vacancies again. Apply for more jobs. Arrange to stop bumming around with similarly bummy friends. Skype with besties which are IN sydney when I’m here trying to get employed. Get called out at some late hour by kooky cousin for teh si supper.
Sleep. Rinse. Repeat.
So exciting hor…
Went to HK with eww, nev, boo and mil 2 weeks ago. Will relive my trip in its technicoloured glory when I feel like it and when mr nah decides to pass us his photos!
May
28th 2007
Posted under Random
Just a short one. Blog hopping and found this vid. She’s damn cute la but it’s bordering on weird now. Kind of like the evil barbie girls in Little Miss Sunshine. (cannot find screenshots, just imagine made up 7 yr olds that look like 35yr olds with spray on tan)
May
28th 2007
Posted under Random
Realized that I was tagged for a meme by the empress nahness on the 3rd of may la. Paiseh lor. I haven’t been blog hopping. Not around my friends’ blogs anyway. So here is the meme since not doing these things is like ignoring chain letters, very very common but strangely satisfying if you ever really go pass the buck on to someone else. Here goes…
6 Strange Things about me
1. Borrowing from the dowager, I have mild ocd, I think. I do weird things like counting cracks and stepping only on or not on patterns on tiled floors and trying to make things symmetrical. I also sometimes try to get an even number of things (like diff types of mixed nuts) by eating up the rest, looking at my pretty equally proportioned mixture then eating up said mixture like I did with it’s other friends which are now resting in my belly.
2. I am an obsessive organizer as my friends (for now) who are going with me to hk now know. Especially for holidays or special occasions, I like trawling the Internets for information, tips, reviews, etc so that I can be 100% prepared. I think it’s this search for information that gets me uber excited for something. I likes being preparedsss.
3. I talk to inanimate objects like my softtoys or to myself sometimes. Not like intellectual conversations la, I’m not that loco but just speaking my thoughts out loud. Helps me think I think.
4. I dream of tragedies or at least very dramatic storylines. Not all the time but often enough. It plays out like some drama series though I don’t watch these damn serials anymore. Think I just have a dramatic soul.
5. I yoyo between personalities sometimes. Not like i’m bipolar, schizo or what have you (correct me psych friends) but I sometimes react to situations based on who is around me. Like if I’m with my friends which are girlier, I tend to be more guyish and protective. If I’m with my guy friends I’m like a brother to them and act accordingly. Only when I’m with my close friends then I get vulnerable and more girly. I can totally cut off my fears if I’m in ‘guy mode’.
6. I like playing pokemon. Enough said.
Now that you are convinced that I’m a nut job, go forth and convince others of your own nuttiness. Soon no one will have friends borne out of the feeling that they are mentally more sane than others. Spread the love. I have no idea who reads my damn blog so I shall tag YOU!
May
24th 2007
Posted under Random & NUS related
As more people are jumping on this blogging hugeass luxury oceanliner which can carry 6 billion people, I’m jumping off into the depths of the cold south china sea. Nothing to say, or rather there’s too much to say but as I get older I learn that it’s better not to just shoot yo damn mouth off. My short entries aren’t exactly verbal diarrhoea, they are more like instances of verbal spitting. And spitting is a no-no in Singapore yah…
Been under the weather, unwell, fluish, *hackhack*. Going to HK in 6 days. See how well this hols is going? Ok, actually it’s going pretty alright aside from this attack of influenza. Been slacking, applying for employment, slacking, slacking…. My plans to go get myself a license have not come to fruition but they will!! Soon!!! I hope!! My aim to read a lot has been kind of realized though. Went to the lib and maxed out my quota of 8 books (paid for the subscription thingy, 20+ a year quite hua la) and have gone through 5 of them since last fri. Yeah… books is niceness. They are mostly trashy novels though so ahem.. Only one novel that won some prize or other and that’s one of the 3 that I haven’t touched. Hohum.
Dreamt about the results last night. Total panic attack when I got up this morning at 7 fricking AM and came online to go search for any results leak which might give me some respite from my self induced heart attack. I dreamt that I couldn’t remember my password then upon waking up, realized that they ususally ask for your PIN no and not password. Too many passwords and PIN nos and user names and matric numbers and what have you floating ard. Ahh… In times of panic. I’ve saved down the format of the sms results enquiry so I just have to hit send on my HP tmr morning at 9AM and will be greeted with my results in a couple of seconds time. I can’t wait…. AHHHH….
April
21st 2007
Posted under Random & NUS related & Growing up
“The time has come,
For closing books and long last looks must end, “
Yesterday was the last day of reading week, the last official week of school. I hate change but there’s nothing I can do about it so might as well suck it up and look forward instead. I was particularly morose and emo, out-emo-ing the undead and getting him all concerned too. I’m just being my usual nostalgic self, thinking that I’m not going to go through this again, not going to wake up late for lectures and ambling into class to plomp myself on the seat my friends have saved for me. No more rubbishing in the canteen (or what was the canteen before they tore it down), eating my chili with carrot cake and drinking my apple milk tea.
*mopemope*
Went for yummies with the undead, the uncouth, the boo and the mil at blooies. Amazingly enough, though we have been in NUS for 4 years, we have never gone there to eat together. The food was goooood but the pictorial evidence of our dinner is sitting pretty in the boo’s cam so will have to wait for her to send the pics before I get them up. *wills ah boo to send the pics*
Had a nice long skype chat with cel and dre too last night as I was trying to finish my prototype for my user experience mod. Haven’t caught up with them in a long while so the information flowed freely last night. Haven’t felt so happy in a while, talking to them makes me feel so ‘me’ (for lack of a better word). I’m gibberishing now cuz I have had no sleeeep. That luxurious thing that keeps us all ALIVE. I do not have any off because of said prototype which can be found at http://cors.darguel.net for your perusal. Tell me if you find any bugs, not everything works so good luck to u spelunkers. Think of it as a maze with lots of deadends. Now, isn’t it more fun this way? GO! Explore! You might find a prize!
April
10th 2007
Posted under Random & Growing up
I have a million things to wax lyrical about but for some reason my brain is blank. I remember thinking “omg, this is a blogworthy moment” about 10 times yesterday but now I am greeted with nada, zip, jee-roh. I swear my mind is GOING.
Yesterday, I went with the boo to get some book from the medical library since we were in science after the perfumes and cosmetics lecture (a mod which i might FAIL, drop out of school because of and be a road sweeper, but another story for another time). She, another old woman, forgot her matric card so I borrowed the books and then remembered about this book of plays my brother has at home which I was reading partway. Trekked down to central library to get the book before hitting a snag at the library borrowing machine. You have to enter your pin no. before you can borrow books so I was happily hitting enter after slotting in my card when my finger paused on the number pad.
“WTF is my pin no???”
I had just entered it like 15 mins ago at the med library but for the life of me I could not remember it now. I know it starts with 6 but what else?? Can’t be 6666666 right???? Tried numerous combinations, getting more hysterical with each failed attempt. I applaud boo for not slapping me in the face and telling me to shut the fuck up. Ended up going to the librarian counter to borrow my books.
Met up with 3za, khai, fen and the rest of the nm girls in some random classroom where they were doing their work and I was bemoaning the loss of my brain juice. Age is a curse. Our brains are getting smaller… the juice is drying up making us lose data!! And we can’t upgrade, we is not computer. Sadness. Alanna pointed out that we are moving from the 18-24 age box (in surveys) to the 25-10000 age box. CURSES!!! Invisible brain eating zombies are chowing down on our greymatter and soooon I will be no more. No more. NO MORE…
It’s the zombies or crazy hamsters…
March
3rd 2007
I’ve been kidnapped. Adultnapped (since i’m no longer a kid and all). By this cutie. Some guy in this taiwanese show, èŠ±æ ·å°‘å¹´å°‘å¥³ (aka Hana Kimi, go youtube it, there are english subs for us potato-eaters). More info about the show can be found here (wikipedia is my prend) to spare you guys the agony of listening to me go on like a freight train without brakes.
Anyhoozie-mama. OMG he is so cute… he can’t act to save his pretty boy face but he is so cute… ahhhh… Especially in this particular scene in episode 12 of the show (shut your face, I know I’m obsessed) where he’s in this hot spring pool. Like omg, delish…
I’m swooning like a love sick puppy abandoned in the rain by her owner who boarded a train but never came back cuz he died. I haven’t swooned like this since I donno when. Ironic thing is that I started watching the show because of Ella (who I still like and like even more cuz of the show, butch cuteness that one) and initially thought he was ugly. I think his character (and his looks) grew on me.
Ahh.. I am reveling in the one thing that I though was disgusting and swore never to do. Words are such a bitch. Coming behind you to bite you in the ass when you least expect them to. Bah… words. Who needs them? Especially when you have this cute hunk to stare ah.
The show is based on this Japanese manga series, Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (aka Hana Kimi). Aaaaand… I just finished dl-ing it from a torrent to find that the entire 23 books of the manga are in ENGLISH!! Sweet Queen Elizabeth! Whoever subbed it, I LUB you long time…
And, *ahem* that was the reason that compelled me to blog. So if you don’t mind, I’m off to read a bit of english translate manga goodness to distract me from the fact that my thesis (0/12000) is due in 3 weeks.
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