Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Revelations

i am a sucker for girls in black

i am a sucker for nice hair

if ever i have the chance to be a host for some beauty pagent, i dun think ill come out of it alive......

heart will beat too fast and ill die of a heart attack....

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

broken dream have i......

i cant buy my new monitor this comex anymore~!!!!!!!! *wails*

reason being if i do buy the monitor, ill have to eat grass till i turn green....sighz.......and run myself into the red in the process....might not even have grass to eat.....

and i got tons of other stuff to tend to also.....
1. car might need a new timing belt. to be confirmed.
2. credit card bill is due mid next mth, this is pretty large, and the following one are gonna be pretty huge too
3. hp bill is going thru the roof
4. will need to buy new t-shirts, all my t-shirt collars are turning loose
5. my weekly dose of Hoegaarden/Munich Dark
6. Petrol is ridiculously ex.....we are at $2/L now for those who dunno.
7. Car servicing is due in the coming mths.

these are the main stuff.......amongst other things......sighz.....

bye bye my Philips 190S6FB......unless they decide to sell u at $200 at comex, we will probably have to prolong our agony of not being together for another 3 mths when sitex comes to town....... :"(

B-

the wonders of our world......

normally in an ideal world, u would think that putting in extra effort in your work would earn extra points for effort.....

but that is sometimes not the case.......

i got a B- for one of my assignments, the thing was abt designing a real-time database and we had to come up with a kind of data model for how the system would operate........the comment on the side was, "Over Modelled"

thnks ar.....i would actually appreciate more constructive comments......that despite my over-modelling did i miss anything, blah blah blah.......but noooooo.....that was all i got.....and i got a B-.....

k lah, ill admit, im sore due to the fact i got B- and yet recieved a comment such as "Over-modelled"..........it's like doing one of those extra things for pple and get put down for your extra effort......this wouldnt be an issue if i jus got the B- minus the comment.......

and nope, there's no way i could have over-done the question...it's not one of those "kay zua-able" (over-eager-able) things........the scope of the question was very wide......

tamade....bloody lazy lecturer......no wonder sg service standard dropping.....we r brought up in an environment where it doesnt pay to go that extra mile....... >:(

Monday, August 29, 2005

Carl's Jr pwns BK

yep....i have finally made a trip down to Carl's Jr.....

verdict : BK wha?

IMO Mac can nv stand a chance against BK, now BK can go fly kite......Carl's has THE burgers.....at least until they decide to cut back on the standards....jus like BK did....

in terms of quality, the burgers at Carl's are jus......fwah shiok.....had the "Double Western Bacon Cheeseburger"......the meat patties are jus.....fwah.....bite into the burger and all u get in your mouth is jus MEAT.......large juicy mouthfuls of BEEF........ *lau nua*

forget abt mad cow, ill take my chances......:D

one thing that kinda disappointed me......the burger's kinda small.....abt the size of a BK double whopper i think......

was hoping for something larger......:(

the drinks are free flow......tho i think they are gonna pull it soon, either that or they'll water down the drinks......it's a well known fact that free-flows dun survive well in SG...

now BK has a Gourmet Lamb burger which ive heard is good......yet to try.....this'll be their last chance to win me back before i completely defect over to Carl's.....:D

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Trauma

made a disturbing discovery yesterday while shopping for the bday prez at topman, wisma......

they sell tampon cases there......

im assuming they are meant as novelty products.....but regardless of their purpose...they have left me scarred for life.....

the cases look like cigarette cases.....

now everytime i see someone whip out a cigarette case, i think of the tampon cases......

even worse, u dun wanna know wat i think of now everytime i see someone taking a drag....

sighz.....this brain.....it's a curse....

this might work to my advantage tho.....ill be less inclined to smoke....

Pint sized luvin


another night out at wala's.........the place is great, would be even better if there were less pple up in the live band area........

have i ever mentioned Hoegaarden is perhaps one of the best beers around?

and many good things come in pint sizes e.g. Kylie Minogue, Ben & Jerry's, etc, etc.....

anywayz, went out wif a fren during the day to get a bday prez........cant remember the last time i went to orchard during the day........and i had forgotten how tiring it is to walk.......

there are times i believe men were made to move ard on 4 wheels, not 2 legs........it's quite unfathomable to walk nowadays.........

credit card bill came in...........and........im overspending.........think im gonna have to say good bye to my new monitor.........sighz.........either that, or cut down on the drinking sessions.........would like to put this to a vote, but i think i know wat the outcome would be.........whichever way it it is, it'll suck........

i shudder to face the harsh truth........i want it all~! :(

there's one thing abt using blogger.........the smilies are........less.........graphic........and in a way, it's good......back to old school generic smilies.........instead of cutesy cartoony smilies.........it's more.........personal.........duncha think so? :D

moving along, kena saman again last nite........for not putting parking coupon...........really......this sucks........think abt it, housing area, 11+pm, who would think that there would be parking charges at that time??!?

unfortunately, yep........there are..........

Night Charges: 10pm - 1.30am 50cts per half hr
Overnight parking: 1am - 7am $2

really.......we drivers are getting fleeced and cant do diddly-squat........ >:(

admittedly, in this case, it's my own fault for not checking........and it seems like each time i get samaned, it always comes in pairs.........the prev one was for parking on double yellow lines......that ill swallow cos i took a chance.........

had a conversation with a certain handsome hunky friend on the way to wala's:
Me : Hey, we are going over to Wala's. Wanna come down?
V : Who are you with?
Me : With J and some frens. Come down lah.
V : Nah. Dun wan lah. Dunno anybody there. Later you guyz talk to each other, i sit there talk to the Hoegaarden
Me : Ok wat. You know me and J. Come down lah.
V : Nah. It's very difficult to have intelligent and meaningful conversations with a Hoegaarden.
Me : Not really mah. I'm sure if you have enough Hoegaardens to talk to, in time the conversation will turn seemingly intelligent and meaningful.
V : Ya. Like the kinda intelligent and meaningful conversations I have with you rite? That's not gonna impress many.
Me : Ya lah. But why you worry, you'll be impressing the Hoegaardens and nobody else wat.
V : ya ya. ill let u know if im going down ba. hahhaaaa......have fun.

i cant seem to stress enough the importance of having meaningful and intelligent conversations in life.........:D

and another short one, this one needs a legend - EU is a guy, C is also male, J bleeds
J : EU doesnt want to come down.
Me : Which EU? the one I like or the one that looks like C?
J : The one you like?
Me : yea, the one who thinks im a business student. i like that guy.
C : So you are bisexual?
Me : If I am, then you would have known by now.

i need sleep........haven been able to sleep as much as i want to lately.......and it's not cos of work load........it's jus a stupid body bio clock thing........which sucks really..........

at this rate, i might even jus wake up in the middle of my own funeral.........that'll probably scare the buddhist monks shitless......:D

Saturday, August 27, 2005

A Few Drinks and One Wake, The Morning After

before everything, check this out....... :D

Went down to Paulaner's for a few rounds of drinks last nite......and for a moment it seemed like i would have become the 'Lone Drinker' for the nite.........

frens screwed up their timing.........i have no idea how 9.45 pm can be read as 10.45pm........the difference btwn 9 and 10 is pretty large........

managed to get a table almost straight away.........think maybe cos the waitress recognised me.........there was quite a number of pple waiting ard for tables but she gave me the first one available...........

die lah..........im a certified Paulaner's beer lover liao........jus short of a beer belly as proof of authenticity........

sat down to wait for the bunch of unable-to-differentiate-9-from-10 frens with a litre of Dark and the waitress came over to ask if i wanted to shift to the inside of the pub where the live band was......

wah.....so nice.....she even knows my habits........

let's see..........nice looking, nice smile, has access to tons of sausages, pork knuckle and copious amounts of GOOD BEER, meticulous and pays attention to detail........

wah lanz........my dream girl~! wat am i waiting for?!?!?! :D

moving on.........frens finally came down and settled down drinking.........it was then that i got the first few comments on this new blog..........and as expected, dull.........

k lah, the first few posts came at a bad time........gimme some time to move things along......it'll get better........

after drinking, went down to my fren's funeral wake........yea, not a good idea really.........it's quite impolite to turn up in the dead of the nite (no pun intended) imposing on an already tired and grieving family.........and nvm, turn up looking like u've drunk a River Danube of beer......

but........sometimes pple dun exercise rationality........can i say in my own mitigation that i was full of grief?

okok......bad me bad me........me shld not be taking advantage of the situation for self benefit.....

seriously tho, there is still an element of shock lingering.........

yes, popular belief is that it is "braver to face the world another day than to take your own life", still a few of us think that it took our fren a ton of guts to do wat he did......he has our respect for that......the guy has balls few have.........

tempted to put that into context b4 i get any flak for it.........but.......hell i dun care........life's too short for me to bother abt another person's inability to do the same.........

Friday, August 26, 2005

Unexpected

day started out pretty much normally........until a weird guy appeared and sat opposite me during lunch......

weird as in, he kept smiling to himself........dunno for wat........the canteen was packed, so no choice was stuck wif the nutcase for a while.........

and from then, the bomb dropped......

found out a fren had committed suicide.........

crap.........

i wun say i was devastated by the news........simply cos i didnt know the guy very well........we had worked on a project once, hung out in btwn lectures a few times.........dat's abt it.....

but........it's unsettling when death comes knocking so close to your door..........

kinda like someone's playing battleship with your world and the last shot was alittle too close for comfort.........

and im really quite stumped as to y he did it......

a guy can only get upset over a few things..........
1. not getting enuf
2. not getting enuf
3. not getting enuf

k lah, bad time for jokes........seriously
1. Money
2. Women

and maybe

3. Work

of course

4. not getting enuf

there are other stuff too, to each his own........but the way most of us see it, it's one of the above.......

the guy's roomie isnt taking it gd........expectedly........

have been wondering wat were his last thoughts and feelings before he took the plunge......giving myself goose pimples.........

almost a wk till the end of the 7th.........great......

still, hope he's found wat he's looking for..........RIP

Thursday, August 25, 2005

The Morning Edition

okok........too many glum posts to start.........time to enforce some damage control.......else, basket, i shld go start a new one..........nobody likes a gloomy start.........

so let's see.......start where?

okok........i know i know...........is it me or does our PM have a dopey smile?

talk abt damage control..... :p

seriously........i dunno abt LKY when he was young, but he had quite a nice smile........same for our SM during his tour as PM........his smile was very small but still......un dopey........

our new PM however.......smiles great.........think it's jus me.........but he looks alittle dopey.........

dunno if they are still gonna show the rally again.........but if they do, and for those SGs in SG, see if u can catch the ending where he ends the speech, puts up both his hands, and smiles........nice huge smile it is..........but dopey.........

looks almost choreographed.........

eh.....lemme clarify first..........dopey doesnt mean he looks like he's on drugs........stoned would be the word if that were the case........:p

ok, so out of the boiling cauldron into the fire.........im sucha sucker for trouble........buahahhaa....

in other news,
saw a guy parking his mitsubishi EVO yesterday in sch.......was getting out of my car when he was trying to goyang goyang his way into a lot opposite mine.........and then.........he stalled......

k lah, we shldnt laff at pple cos this kinda thing happens to every1 now and then........and it might happen to us in future.........

fuck it, BUAHAHAHAHAHAAAA........

cant wait for my turn........my next car is gonna be manual......either dat or i trash my current gearbox and switch over to manual..........who wants to stand and laff then? book your tickets in advance........

on the topic of cars and driving..........this is serious k.....

once told a fren never to drive under emotion.........he had buanged his car after a rather errrr.....emotional episode.........

y leh? 1 + 1 = 2 lah........u got one problem to think abt liao, den very smart go find another to add on.......quite dumb ar........

then again, humans were not made idiot-proof.........

ill admit, i did the exact opposite of wat i preached..........heng nothing happened........else this post wouldnt be here today.........or rather, this post would be on a totally different topic......the loss of a loved one..........

almost made my mark of 15mins sch to home last nite..........almost.........decided to back off halfway and chill alittle..........no reason to cause my ride distress cos of me.........

tho actually the first thought was more of, "jialat, matar......better slow down." :p

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

My Life for just a drag.........

my life for just a drag rite now........

this is so not gonna be a gd start for my blog..........

extremely tempted to walk over to the nearby petrol kiosk and get myself a pack of menthol lights.......

doesnt matter ill get flak from alot of pple.......my life for jus a drag.........

but........something's holding me back.........perhaps pride........haven puffed for almost a yr liao.....dun wan to let it go to waste.......

den again, y not jus puff thru my whole life? doesnt really matter since at the end of it all, i die mah......with smoke or no smoke rising out of my nostrils, it's jus extra show for the pple at my funeral......

pride.........my favourite sin........

vanity comes a close second........

not the point here actually........

so something's bugging me......basically, choices choices choices.......choices regarding work/study, i can make without as much of a flinch or tinge of indecision......

choices abt other things.........ill admit im not that gd at.........

would really love to jus throw all caution to the wind and smoke, drink and party it all away..........that's a choice........and a very tempting one at that........but then.......

my life for jus a drag........

No other way......

"Sometimes, somethings jus have to be said or done no matter how ugly it may seem. there's no way to get your point across otherwise."

my sis gave me this piece of advice a while back......and tho i had hoped that chances of such situations arising would be more seldom than often, unfortunately ive seen alot of it lately......

there's always a bitter aftertaste that lingers rather long........

but, again......each time it's for the better of the situation........or at least i hope........

crap.....wat a way to start my new blog.........i am my own fucking killjoy~! bargh~!

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

The Inaugural Post

alright......finally, after a month of procrastination, i finally got down to adding something in here......

the links are up........tho not complete........contemplating on whether i shld put in links to all the blogs on my blogroll.........cos if i do, it'll make me look pimp-ish......yes........pimp-ish......

it's not my fault that majority of bloggers are females........the guyz jus dun blog as much or as interestingly........males jus dun interest me........

k lah, it's cos i have a penis........happy? -_-

so im back at blogger........after defecting to xanga for a couple of yrs.........xanga has lost its appeal.........blogger has improved since.........so yay blogger........in case any1's interested in finding out what defined the person i am, the links are at the side bar there ------>

y the vegetarian title........pretty simple actually.....

pple see things differently.......there are those who say Po-TAY-toes, while some say Po-TAH-toes........some, like me, jus enjoy eating them regardless of the pronounciation...... :D

pple interpret things differently, go thru life differently........and this blog is my take on how i percieve this world we all live in........i believe there'll be times when pple wun see eye to eye with me........

u like your fries french, i like em curly........end of the day, if we can enjoy and share our fries, all's cool.........if not, ill appreciate if u dun be too generous in your sharing.........catch my drift?

unlike the previous 2 blogs, hopefully this blog will have more direction........the previous 2 were jus places for me to go flying off-tangent at every point of the curve.........hopefully this time round, ill be more focused and more coherent with my thoughts and musings.........will try to write more seriously too........

note, the operative word here is "hopefully" :D

"Ah?" will prob stay open......and ill post occasionally there too.........jus to satiate my cravings for off-tangentness......... =)

so........here's to a new blog.........