Sunday, October 31, 2004
The Search
Quite sad to hear from the news that Huang Na's body has been found.
Well, if you have been following the local news, there's this mother who had been looking for her 8 yr old daughter who had been missing for days.
While the daily morning newspapers reported how the frantic mother ventured into the hills, forests and combed streets in desperate attempt to search for her daughter, the tabloids (u know which newspaperi'm refering to) gave juicys accounts for her personal life, and wild speculations on the reasons for her daughter being missing.
The most absurb thing I had head from a colleague was that he heard abt people saying the mother must be the mastermind behind the missing of her daughter. She actually conspired it so that she can get rewards.???????? Sound so stupid, right?
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In another part of the world, some people will be hunting down Osama bin laden, just after a videotape of his broadcast was released......
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Friday, October 29, 2004
what was i thinking?
I think I am sort of out of my mind today.
Morning, while walking to office, passed this NTUC shop at the Mobil kiosk, so went in to buy Polar sugar rolls. Felt that buying one sugar roll seems so pathetic, bought 5 sugar rolls instead, knowing that I cant't finish 5 of them.
Afternoon, went out to Serene Centre with colleagues, so tat I can buy tubs of the Island Creamery ice cream. Bought Teh-tarik flavour and M&Ms flavour. And one Very Bery flavour as a farewell gift for my colleague.
Evening, very "gian" to go to that Joop in Far East to buy clothes. So carry the two tubs of ice-cream (they just put in a bag with no dry ice), and hang ard in Orchard for more than an hour. By the time I reached home, The tub of Vanilla ice-cream with M&Ms turned into a tub of coloured cream.
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Dad returned from his Paris trip today. Got an Effiel Tower keychain.
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another test
Ok did this sometime ago
20 Questions to a Better Relationship
eXpressive: 5/10
Practical: 7/10
Physical: 5/10
Giver: 8/10
You are a RPYG--Reserved Practical Physical Giver. This makes you a 1950s Parent.
You are relentlessly patient, loving, generous and devoted. You are unflappable. If on some rare occasion you do raise your voice or say a swear word in anger, anyone around to hear it will remember it (and think it was funny). At the same time, you're very cute and charming, and even if you don't catch someone's eye at the beginning of the night you'll surely have their attention by the end.
Your calm, conservative nature conceals a passionate (and sexy!) heart.
You can have trouble bringing up problems, but your approach to conflict is calm and even-handed. The problem can be is that you are so busy worrying about your partner's satisfaction that you don't ensure your own. This can build up over time and make you restless. Despite your sexual nature, you are more likely to cheat emotionally than physically.
You tend to work out your frustrations in the bedroom. Depending on your partner, this can be an excellent strategy. You would be a great candidate to balance out an XSYT, but not a good match for an unappreciative RPYT.
You have an odd, ritualized vice that doesn't suit the rest of your persona -- like smoking a certain brand of cigarettes or drinking a certain kind of wine.
Of the 137918 people who have taken this quiz, 4.8 % are this type.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2004
tired
Yah very tired.......
Mentally tired
an physically tired.
So many ppl playing 'tai-chi' at work place.
Nine and a half weeks to go.
Once i get my bonus, i will look for another job......
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Thursday, October 21, 2004
Bubblewrap club
Remember once I wrote abt some ppl in my office fighting to get hold of bubblewrap and popping them as a form of de-stressment? Here's the statistics of the "club members" now.
Bubblewrap club members as at yesterday 20 Oct: 4
Bubblewrap club members as at today 21 Oct: 6 ,(and 1 on "pending list") .
Welcome abroad "P" and "Di". I guessed "P" started playing after seeing her team members "D" & "PY" who are in the club.
As for "Di", haha, after hearing from me abt the "enjoyment" you get from popping each bubble today, she decided to give it a try, and she got addicted!
Thank goodness we have 3 sheets of bubblewraps today, which came together with the new release books that were sent to the editors.
The bad news is : more ppl fight for these bubblewraps now.
;(
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Monday, October 18, 2004
Monday.....
18 Oct 04
2 designers joined our department today. one of them is the designer for one of the team I am closely associated with.
Well, it's an open fact that she is a lesbian (or butch), but I ( and i guess most of us) have no problems with that. Working in this company, we are rather used to having lots of encounters with homosexuals.
She had shoulder-length hair, and a rather pleasant face, if not for her dressing and behaviour, it's hard to think of her as one.
What surprised us was during lunch time, she ordered a second round of mixed-vegetable rice. Can't imagine she can eat so much for her size. Our photographer ( a guy) was so shocked that he shouted exageratedly "Gui arh Gui Arh (Ghost! Ghost)".
Not a good way to treat the newcomer (especially we are eating in public), but she don't seems to mind.
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Went to see dentist today for the filling of tooth. Guess my dentist was in a "help-you-to-save-money" mood.After assessing my teeth, he decided to do the neccessay filling one tooth, bottom right tooth. The upper left wisdom teeth which he mentioned was slight decay previous, can be left ignored, and without filling up if I try to main it well. The Top right wisdom tooth which was decay, is better to be extracted, then do filling and then most likely to be extracted (as it was hard to maintain). He suddenly said in Chinese "不要浪费钱".
Then while filling my tooth, he found the front teeth started to have stubborn plague even though having cleaned them thoroughly last week. Then, he procceed to clean them, and ask me not to tell his boss that he didn't charge me for the cleaning. Very "farnie".
Too bad when fixing appointment for the wisdom tooth extraction in NOv, was told that another female dentist will ake over my dentist will be on course for the whole month. Didn't feel very assured that a female dentist can do that extraction, cos when I was doing braces in sec school, and had to have my teeth extract, both male dentists eally had to use a lot of stength to pull those teeth out. one even lost control & hit my upper jaw instead.
My wisdom tooth is decayed, but still quite firmly attached, Hai... now started to feel a bit woried abt the extraction.
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Saturday, October 16, 2004
Happiness and Sadness
A few days ago, was interviewed by someone from my club, had to talk abt what was the craziest thing that I did when I was happy, and the craziest/most foolish thing I did when I was sad.
I was stunned by the first question. When was the last time I felt happiness.
In a good mood maybe, but happiness?
In the end, i could only thought of an occasion when I was "high" and did some crazy thing. That's when my friends and I were playing on the Sentosa bus after our company's retreat.
But when was the last time I'm happy? I still don't know?
Well, at least I'm contended with my life.
That's enough........
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004
anger......
Angry. Sense of betrayal. Hurt.
yes that is what i am feeling now.
All due to this sucker. She is a blodd sucker, sucking up money even though she had lots them (she keep on opening new bank accounts).....
I am already earning less, yet she keep on wanting more. She blamed me for not giving my dad $, well i had already given $ to her , and my dad is working., and he never asked for it before. When Dad asked this month, i gave.
And just as i give him, he passed the $ to her.
What the heck. She is working, my dad gives her more than half of his pay, and I give her $, yet she ask Dad to pretend to ask from me and he gave her whatever I gave him.
What the hell is she doing!!!!. I already had to spend more money these few months buying meals cos she didn't cook, spend money buying necessities such as toilet paper as she did not put them in the toilet we use ( she buy only for her own use, can u imagine), had to provide transport fee for my brother. I am already suffering at my work place, bear with the huge amount of work given just to get a fixed salary. Yet she just want to drain more money out from me .
I dunno what stories she told my Dad, for he refused to believe that I never get pay increase in August, unlike my previous job which gave $100 increase after a year you join.
Really feel like smashing the toilet mirror just now.............
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2046
Tue 12 Wed,
Missed the last episode of Eternal Happiness, cos last minute (at 6.15pm) have a free ticket to watch <<2046>> preview at 7pm. Thanks to the Maxim writer who can get 2 pairs of tickets by just going to a LG preview Launch.
Went to watch this much-hyped movie with great anticipation, especially when the New Paper's review gave it a 4.5 stars (out of 5), but at the end of the story, my colleague and I find it quite boring at the end.
Not that we dun understand, in fact it wasn't as "cheemed" as "Matrix", but too much scenes of the movie characters slowly smoking (& seeing puffs smoke slowing rise up in the air) is a bit torturous. Understand that all these are "artistic scenes", but too many repeats of such scenes (Tony Leung peering through window gaps, the tears slowly dripped down the faces of female leads) sort of make you feel impatient.
Perhaps, it is partly due to the environment that I can't be captured by this movie. I dunno why there are 8 "kids", ard 14 years old sitting beside us (how do they manage to such preview tickets), and every time there were these "subtle sex scenes" between Tony Leung & Zhang Ziyi, and countless kissing scenes (Tony Leung & Zhang Ziyu, Gongli; Faye & Takuya), they will get fidgety, groaned in disgust. Unlike the reviewers' comments abt the film being merismising/appealing and dares you to forgive Tony Leung’s character, we can't empathise with "him". Tony Leung as a Cassanova isn’t as cool as he was in Infernal affairs.
Like what my colleague mentioned: " what the moral of this story? Don't get involve with too many woman???"
Not even scenes are repeated, the lines were also repeated quite a number of times. Go and count how many times, how many characters mentioning abt " dig a hole, whisper the secret & buried it"
One thing we all notice, Tony Leung, Carina Lau, Faye Wong, Gongli and Maggie Cheung looked very old in this movie. In some scenes, the costume that Faye Wong wore really make her looked so frail, anorexic (her whole collarbone jutting out). As for Zhang Ziyi, lucky for her age, didn't look too old, but you can see her pimples on her face (What happened to the make-u artist huh?). Perhaps they hired the "wrong type" of make-up artistes, for they did a good job on the make-up for Carina and Faye as androids in the 32046 scenes). Pay attention to their white plasticky looks if you are catching this movie.
Ok there are surprises as well. Knew that Takuya Kimura starring in this Film as Faye Wong's bf, but didn't know he will speak in Japanese. And they mentioned abt Singapore a couple of times-- Tony Leung met GongLi in Singapore, Zhang Ziyi supposedly to go to Singapore and going in the end, and Tony Leung telling Zhang Yi abt Malays in Singapore wearing skirts (sarong) daily. Hmmm, come to think of it now, could the director Wong Kar Wai actually meant the longer Indian sarong (skirts) worn by Indians instead?
One thing to note, i dunno if you have the same experience. my colleague s and I were sort of misled by the reviews and reports before watching the movie. we all thought that it will be Tony Leung writing abt the future '2046", and expect the movie to portray futuristic living scenes after seeing scenes of Takuya and Faye (as android) in a futuristic setting from the trailers. But No, all abt future 2046 were just Takuya taking a train ride to and back from 2046. Just the train settings......
Summary, worth watching due to the stellar cast, but watch on a weekday (not worth to spend $8.50 on a weekend ticket).
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Monday, October 11, 2004
"Eternal Happiness" theme song lyrics
Yeah, I may be crazy, I'm hooked on Eternal Happiness, this HK TV serial showing on Channel U, weekdays 9pm. And tomorrow is the last episode! Pity i'll be missing the 1st segment as I'll be tuitioning.
Liked the theme song very much, "suspected" it was sung by Kelly Chen when I first heard it. True it was!
Search online for lyrics just now. Quite easy to find. Whao! Lyrics by 林夕 somemore! But i need help on pronunciation though, cos I dunno Cantonese.
Next Step: Find the CD or MP3. Any clues?
『再生花–陈慧琳（再生缘主题曲）歌词』
专辑：《爱上主题曲3》
歌手：『爱上主题曲』
曲：gary chan | 词：林夕 | 编：
怀念你 回忆却恨你 赐我这天地
陪着你 为等告别你 明年桃花飞
* 葬过花红过心忽远又近 我与你看遍烈日密云
背影是我伤痕 我为你能爱得比风沙更狠 *
# 将今生 弥补他生 谁知有没有下文
一颗心 多少脚印 谁可证实结伴同行
指天发誓 你我若有天可再生
期求天意别要弄人
谁又会答应 再生不爱别人 #
甜蜜过而苦 也炼过那里有帮助
投入错剧本 却没错谁能谈因果
Repeat * # #
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Saturday, October 09, 2004
recent events
Friday, went to H&D fair at Plaza Singapre after work to "show face " & give support. Turn out not that great, have to see if there 's better response over the weekend.
" Egg tart" was supposed to meet her "blind date", a guy friend of A's. A. mentioned this friend of his like retro stuff, dresses quite well, and can cook, so quite suitable for "Egg tart". Haiya, but this guy did not turn up in the evening, saying he's stuck at work. Hmm, earlier on, "egg tart" already told me that she suspects from A.'s description, this person seems like a gay . So does this "no-show" implies that he is one. hmm.......
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Guys are weird creatures.
There is this writer of a Men's magazine, who had been taking pictures of a dead cat (found outside our office compound) EVERYDAY(!!), since Monday, to record the different stages of decomposition. And he said he will be writing a story of the dead cat!!!!!!!!!! yeah i had seen those pictures. On Day 4, you could see maggots. EEEEEEEk.
I wonder if his story get published, will he receive complains from cat or animal lovers?
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My colleague had found a way to destress. That is : to pop the bubbles of bubble wrap. We did have a few bubble wraps occasionally when receiveing parcels of books or some fragile items. But I had to keep some for sending CD-R to readers. After she had popped all the bubbles of her sheets of bubble wrap, another colleague dfound a virtual bubble wrap popping website for her. It works by clicking the computer mouse to pop all the bubbles on the screen. After 3 tries, she got tired of it and mentioned she still prefer the real bubble wrap, and even thought of buying real bubble wrap to pop them.
Haha , perhaps i shall also buy a piece of bubble wrap from the post office and give it to her as Christmas presents.
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004
that survey......
Yesterday, was asked to do a survey in the office for some writer colleague of another magazine.
Topic was " Is There a Man from your past that you still think of"
Q1. What was he to you in the past ?
Options: boyfriend/classmate/colleague/friend/unrequited love...
Q2. How long ago was this?
Q3. What's your most vivid memory of him?
Q4. Does your man know abt him?
Q5. Are you both secretly in touch ?
Options : by email/phone/ letters/ bday cards
Q 6. If no, have you try to get in touch from him?
Q7. Do you ask abt him from mutual friends
Q8. Would you go out with him if he ask u?
Q 9. If yes what kind of meeting would it be?
Options: casual lunch/romantic dinner/ daytime thing -quick coffee/ internet camera phone chat/ night time thing-- bar for drinks/ definately a date./ at a hotel/home for sex
Q10. If no, why not?
Options: It would never be the same now/ I am afraid he's probably fat, balding ugly now/ I am older, fatter, uglier now/ Ii dun wanna cheat on my hubby or invite trouble/ all of the above
Q11. How would you prepare for it?
Options: lose weight/ botox/ collagen/ Skin resurfacing/ teeth whitening/ dental treatment/ facial + eyebrow grooming/ makeover studio, buy a new dress
Q12. Do you still wonder if you would be happier with him than your present partner?
Options: Yes/No
Q13. Do you think that he would have made a better partner than who u are with now?
Options: Yes/ No/ Don't know
I tried to fill up as to help my colleague, but choose not to do in the end cos the questions are either inappropriate ( i am not married) or too personal. Even though we need not fill in our names, but my colleagues still can get a chance to see the answers while helping to compile. Glancing through the questions already brought me pain, as it forced me to think about him again.
Well, what they say is true, you won't miss a person much until they are gone. If J still remains as friend, I dun think i will miss him that much and feeling hurt whenever i thought of him.
I dunno if the love for him is still there, but what i know is because we did not remain in contact , I often can't help wondering how's he's doing now? Dunno if he's happy with his job or life now....
I chose to see him for the last time in May. So it's will have to depend on fate & him to see if our paths will cross again.....
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Wed 6 Oct
Went to watch New Police Story II at PlazaSingapure 's GV with WL. Not a bad movie, but a bit unused to see Jackie Chan cried so many times. Charlie Yueng still looks good and pretty despite being older now.
Went home, then sis was like discussing her 21st bday plans with parents. Not that i was jealous, but I was hurt. On my 21 bday, they never hold celebration nor give me any presnts, yet for sister, they are going to hold one for her.
What's the point of giving them $ when they never give u love & concern. My sis till now never have them any allowance depsite haing earnings from holiday work and tuition. I had been giving them allowance ever since i start my holiay job when i was 15. If they dote on her just because she is now stuying in University, can't they remember that I sacrificed the chance to go to Uni because I dun want to see my sis out in the society with just a A'level cert ( my dad's CPF could only allow for one's tertiary education) .
I dun wanna comment anymore.......
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Sunday, October 03, 2004
sun & sat
Sunday 3 Oct
Can't believe it I actually went for two Karaoke sessions in a day!
Well morning , met up with 3 friends for KTV, planned days ago. Decided to go for the "early Bird package" cos cheaper. Never thought it would be even cheaper --- Free of charge. All because the manager of Party World knew my friend. Actually according to my friend, she just know him, sort of as an acquaintance, as he is just an ex-manager of her friend. So she was also din expectthat our KTV session was on-the-house. Quite awkward for her too, as apart from "thank you", she dunno what else to say.
Oh yah, spotted Ronald Susilo and Li JiaWei in the morning before we entered the Party world. Really tempted to ask them for their autographs, but dun wanna ka-jiao them.
Ater the session, have a short chat with them before meeting YF, FL & YW. Really quite worried for my friend--- regarding her love life. She was telling us abt her problems. After 6 years with her bf, she suddenly feel that her feelings for him were not as much as before and she was thinking in order to save it, is to go to the next step-- marriage. Her bf still treats her well & didn't suspect anything. But now she is starting to have problems with his sis. Even though she can get along with his sis well all these years, but when it come to space, she feels that his sis had been quite posessive, such as not sharing wardrobe space (she often stay over at her bf's house over the weekend), and often dun gave them privacy . If they are going to get married and she offically move in with them, they will bound to have some quarrels. Quote her : was thinking of getting married to save the relationship, but with all these problems to face if gotten married, afraid that it might make things worse.
There are some points which i don't agree. If her feelings for the guy had simmered, I don't think she should agree to marry him, just because he had been a nice bf to her all these while. And if her heart is really not there, no point getting married or use the marriage to try to save the relationship. It really looks like she married him to repay his kindness/love all these years. But she's my close friend, I wish that she will find a best way to settle all these problems.
I'd seen & heard ppl make this type of mistakes. There are some who accept to go into a steady relationship just because he/she feel loved by the other, even though he/she has no feelings of love for the other party. We often heard this type of reasons "because he treat me well" , "because he is very nice to me"....
"被爱" 与" 爱" 是两回不同的事.
Ok ok digressed liao.
back to events. At th 3pm, celebrate YF's bday at BigO Cafe. Went to take neoprints (I dunno where to keep them now), and then FL suggested to go KTV. I wasn't very keen as i had one session earlier but dun wanna to spoil the mood. Anyway, i didn't sing much in the morning, so not afraid of 'spoiling' my throat.
Went to Kbox. Luckily they are having promotion, or else it would be very expensive. I duno this the sound system there is as good as Party world. And the service there is bad, even after calling to remind them they failed to serve us tibits ( which we had to pay for them ), and only found out when the waiter came to settle our bills yet they are not flexible enough to scrapped it off the bill. I simply told the waiter no point having them served at the last few minutes of out session, and i did call to remind. (Think I was quite fierce then). In the end, they still wanna serve tibits, but gave in by extending our session for half an hour more, until 10pm.
Yf and I left at 9.30pm, cos it was late, leaving FL & YW there. Well, let them spend time together without "lightbulbs".
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Watched the korean Movie "Cool Guy" ( a comedy) with WL & his friends at Orchard Cineleisure yesterday. My 1st time watching Korean Movie, and quite like it. One scene was so funny that i laughed until tears streamed down from my face. (the scene where the female character wearing her zebra suit, venting her anger by singing karaoke and even left her rabbits running ard the table).
This movie was showing exclusively at Cathay cineplex. Not easy to find the synopsis and this is what i can find on the net
"Cool Guy"
Director: LEE Hwan-gyung
Cast: SONG Seung-heon, JUNG Da-bin
Having transferred to a new high school, not having many friends, she spent most of her leisure time online, writing novels. She didn’t care who read her novels about her family, her imaginary friends, and the prince on a white horse of her own creation. To her surprise, her novels appealed to so many “netizens“ of her age, striking the right chord. Thanks to the ever-becoming-fast Internet, over 10 million “netizens“ clicked their mouse to read her novels. It’s not an exaggeration that she’s become an over-night star.
Oh yah. we went into the theatre late by 15 mins, and didn't see all these parts.. but never mind, I think we didn't miss out much.
WL still seemed so troubled after the comedy. Though he said it's becos of the argument he had with someone, but I think there's more to it. ( WL: if u r reading this, I wish u're feeling better now)
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