301
thats the number of posts i have. i actually wanted to highlight the 300th post, but i miscalculated, but 301 is a nice number too. its the score that u have to hit when you play inter-block recreation games for darts.
well, key word for this post :tired
still am...
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12:59 am
unusual talent
they are always showing unusual talents of ppl, like squirting milk from ur eyeballs on shows like ripley's believe it or not...i juz realised that the people living in boon lay area have a really fantastic unusual talent, here it is:
you know how like when u take the mrt then when it reaches the last station it will either go left or go right?? so usually u won't know until the track breaks clearly right?? apparently the boon lay people can correctly predict which way the door is going to open, and they will rush to the door even before the track breaks clearly to define where the train is going to stop. isit just me or is there a secret that i havent been taught?? cos if not i really think its fantastic of them to just rush to the door lor, esp when its the opposite door from the one that always opens (which i always like to stand at, so u can imagine my horror when they rush at me).
in other unusual talents, napkin man has returned to he's unusual routine of jogging! yeap, he has jogged 3 times this week and played soccer once, so that means 4 days of exercising out of 5. u can call and congratulate him now...
easy listening: the silence killing you?? nothing good on local radio?? (since when has there been anything good on local radio??) cd's getting boring?? check this out: bbc radio one
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2:59 am
those who don't fear death don't die
this is a quote from some iraqi civillian who's related to some kid who got killed by some us army bomb. yeah, watched fahrenheit 9/11 today with the guys, actually i sort of borrowed the dvd (cannot name source) but then its so cheong that some of the parts are cut out, so go cinema watch better. remember: piracy is stealing, and stealing is against the law (some stoopid advert before the show started, how apt..)
yeah,in some ways, the quote above really applies to those who really believe in their cause, whether good or bad. bring us back to the times of paul, and we'll see that he really did all that he did without fear or thought of death. with he's famous "to live is christ and to die is gain" remains fimrly in our hearts. whether we are able to attain a life that's so full, is indeed questionable, answerable only by oneself.
not wanting to sound too evangilical or saintly, but the issue i wanna highlight is that : are we doing the things we really want that we forsake others in the process?? are we going about our daily lives without thought for our brothers and sisters beside us and to give thanx for the very lil actions that help us get thru a super shagged day?? well im definitely guilty of that.. so tag me for suggestions
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1:23 am
critical situation
i think in this age, we enjoy and take pleasure in seeing ppl being criticised, and going "oh thank god that wasn't me". look at the number of shows that involve a panel of judges ala the idol series springing up. its crazy, every 'talent' show has that kind of pattern. refer: xxxxx(insert country name here) idol, are you hot?? even singapore's star search has reverted to that kind of a pattern for the prelims.
and yesterday's hall dnd was like that too!! goodness, thankfully there wasn't the one obnoxious judge who gave all the snide comments like simon on american idol, else i guess the freshie's would have been devasted. yeah, but i mean all the pseudo idol shows all have this one guy who will play the simon role, its just so super irritating, i don't even think it's funny, i mean it's fresh with the first american idol, but i think it gets lame when everybody is doing it, for the sake of doing it.
and what are the judges for?? they only select the ppl to be qualified for the actual compeition, granted, but after that they are just there to give their stoopid 2 cents worth. they should be the one's judging what!! why leave it to the ppl???!! well in the case of idol, i think they could get away with it since its juz a popularity contest too, but for the rest, i mean seriously.. call yourself a talent show and get the common ppl to vote?? (brian's point, good point) hmmms oh well its all bout the money lately anyway.
references: thanks to judith for this site with great kicks, click here to see
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1:44 am
nice feeling gone
its not fair, i set my alarm at 9am, should not give myself so much buffer time to sleep in next time. shite manz, i wanted to wake up at that time, and then slowly get ready to go to sch, maybe drop by the canteen for some breakfast and coffee, and attend lecture at 1030, that's ideal, and i think it's a perfect way to start the day. but no, when i next woke up it's already 1115, and i had already missed the most important lecture anyway (the 2nd one is some i dunno, french, italian?? dude, don't know what he talking also one, and last lecture is engineers and society, ultimate zhuo bo). so i've decided not to go to sch at all. to think i was quite looking forward to sch today, even packed my bags nicely ready. hmmms
ok think i should juz go back and see the doctor, get him to cure my love for sleeping..
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11:41 am
those evil natured robots
they're programmed to destroy us, or rather themeselves. my fridge just committed suicide today, came back and everything was defrosted, the plug's in, but the fridge has breathe it's last. probably sometime when im having lessons. sad, i wasn't even back to say goodbye. now i've got to drag its heavy ass down 6 floors to kak-sak it, darn.
and just 3 days ago, my fan killed itself also, but surprisingly, it resurrected today. i switch on and its working again! miracle! maybe it knew i was about to throw it away, then it quickly tried to self heal.
side note: im feeling optimistic at winning the fridge at DnD, no fridge toaster also can!
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2:16 am
chinese
was watching the olympic table tennis today. something strange, i could almost swear it was china vs china. but apparently it was aussie vs the kiwis. weird aint it?? and i thought singapore is the only country who gets all these other foreign ppl to play our sports for us. so now all the ang moh countries also follow suit huh?? (usa also got a ching). well it obviously seems to me that a big bunch of prc's just emigrated to these ang moh places so they can play in the olympics. hmmm comment??
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2:05 am
the son your mom wished she didn't have
well, came home and nobody's around, ah ma is at my uncle's, so i assumed my whole family went to visit her and then my bro would have taken the car out while dad and mom probably went somewhere to pak tor. so hungry me decided to call dad to get me some makan. apparently dad is at a neighbour's place watching soccer, and mom is never a big fan of soccer, so i decided to ask "where's mom?" and it suddenly hit me that my mom is in china!
well firstly, i only knew that she was going to china like last weekend(she claimed she told me before.. ya rite!) and one week later i forgot again.. haiz.. oh well, just thought how bad i muz be for not even knowing where my mom is.. hmmz
in other news, got my hair dyed, its quite a farnie shade.. but i think still not so bad lar.. my friend had to dye it 3 times because he found it too red and wanted it like brownish tone. it was only the 3rd time he realised that he chose the colour under the red tone and not brown, so the effects are irrevisible till much later.. =P now to get my pink hair extensions.. (ok im deciding between pink or ash grey)
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11:28 pm
connected
if only life was like an internet connection where u can just disconnect yourself from the world and be a hermit for like say as long as you deem fit huh? no problems for that duration. and when you feel up and ready for what shit the world has in store for you, just dial up and connect.
but even that's impossible with broadband invading our homes, we're almost as good as connected 24 hrs. and ppl are leaving the computers 24/7 (download download download). or maybe we could just download what kind of shit we want to bear, that'll be good too. maybe log on to www.downloadsomeshit.com for our daily dosage of problems.
not to say that life is too sucky, but its just directionless for me now.. just like being online, there's so much info you just don't know where to start. hmmm so maybe life is like an internet connection after all.
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1:49 am
expired
ok another one of those 0330hrs nights where im still awake, doing nothing, actually i could be sleeping like 30mins ago, but decide to hang around online, and reading about ppl's lives. darn, now im so going to pay for it tmr i guess.
max tempted me to get costumes for dnd, but wah rauz 25 bucks damn chor. hmmmz, lets hope i won't find something nice, haha, then can save the money, but also very gian to find something nice and funky, we'll just see how it goes i guess, there's always mom and dad to pick up the tab. =P...
thinking of: yusof ishak
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3:37 am
killing myself slowly
firstly, like to give thanx to the Almighty for answering our prayers, ah ma didn't need to operate after all, doc said she'll just need to be under medication, hoo ray!.
well to the entry proper, its really not very smart when you have to complete your lab preparation, and yet invite your frens to your room to chill. but it was fun, they left around 0200hrs, and that was when i started to take out my log book to do, i think i only slept at 0400hrs, and now im suffering from major sleep deprivation. of cos you are wondering why im not taking a quick recharge nap, well, cos i have another lesson soon, and i think if i go take nap, i'll totally miss it as well as cell, so better be guai and stay up and read ppl's blog instead.
also, at the rate of my cash leak, i think i'll be eating instant noodles say in 5 days time. i seriously have no idea where all my moo-lah went to, i need to start having a financial controller manz, else i'll just be self-chao every month.
feeling: broke and aimless...
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3:48 pm
not up to it at all
i woke up feeling quite screwed today, my throat feels like there's a brick in there. i blame it on the goodies that gen had @ her place. haiz, ate too much of that kachang puteh fried red thingy. and i got a screwed up news, ah ma was hospitalised, due to some heart trouble, she's still under observation, hope she doesnt have to go for op, just medication will do. do pray for her, although she's not christian, but i believe in God's miracles.
yep these 2 things left me not well enuff to do any sort of school work whatsoever, did some readings, but hmms, if we take a step back, i guess school work isn't that important now isnt it??
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1:21 am
shove it up your ass
ok im freakin pissed off, this time by 2 mommon morons who tried to shove their satanic believes upon me. i guess they don't understand the meaning of "im sorry im not interested in your beliefs". they are persistent in trying to interest you (esp christians) in their bo liao mommon book written by their american prophets whom they claim that exist the same time the bible was written. america wasn't even a freakin country then! what, so they base their believes on some red indian's theology, prolly by some guy aptly named hus bin fartin??
yeah pissed off.. anyway ppl, both keeper of the true faith and non believer's alike, please please, if ppl wearing ties and white shirt with black pants with a name tag with the words "church of jesus christ of the latter day saints" approach you, do not be fooled..
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2:45 am
seriously, round two??
okie, so here's the deal, when you're in a lecture theatre, what do you do? you turn your handphone to silent and you listen to the lecturer right?(ermm ok, try to keep awake). so its definitely forgivable that you forgot to turn it to silent, and it goes off once.by this time you should be mildly embarrassed, and you should be looking abit sheepish and apologetic right? and the nxt thing you do is you remember to turn off your handphone.
apparently to this fatty bom bom, IT DOESNT WORK THIS WAY. i have had it up to here (ok, juz think of something that's high) with this PIECE OF SHIT FATTY BOM BOM in my lecture.firstly, he doesnt turn he's phone off to silent... IN EVERY DAMN LECTURE. when there's this irritating ring tone (its the normal one that goes trrriii trriii), ITS GOTTA BE THE FATTY BOM BOM. so ok, i'll forgive him if he forgot and subsequently turn it to silent.BUT NO!! HE JUST CANT GET IT INTO HE'S BIG FAT ROUND BOM BOM HEAD!!. its not the first time, it started off last year in the tutorial class. and it happens EVERY DAMN TIME,i mean he doesn't even apologise to the tutor, he just kept that face that says :I AM FAT,SO MY HANDPHONE CAN RING IN ANY DAMN CLASS I WANT. i don't have a thing against fat ppl, just THIS FREAKING FATTY BOM BOM . seriously, why cant he put the damn handphone to silent and then put on the table or in he's pocket, so at least if he's expecting some important phonecall (maybe from that geylang chick he's booked) he will be able to get it?? NO SIR-EE, HE JUST TURNS IT UP TO THE LOUDEST LEVEL (the one which says "damn irritating" on your settings) AND PUTS IT IN HE'S BAG, USE SOME FREAKING BRAINS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, HEAD SO BIG EMPTY ONE ISIT!!!.
pardon me for my outburst, i am ok now.. in other news, thank God for the swedes, and their best provision to us.. ikea
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11:40 pm
gimme space
okie here's a quick poll, how many of you find it irritating that in a lecture theatre, with many seats available, somebody you don't know has to come sit beside you? i mean, and its like u are at the 2nd corner seat, which gay ass would really wanna seat beside you on the corner seat right? please tell me im weird or something, because i was really quite pissed off with this gay doode, who just sat beside me today lar. its like i left 2 seats empty between me and the guy on the left, and then there's only one empty seat on my right, and this gay doode has to sit there, there are like so many freaking seats available in the lecture theatre, not as if he was in a cinema and then you gotta follow strictly to the seat number (although thats not always the case too). errrgh, so pissed of, and he slept thru most of the lecture, so i mean, what's the point?? seriously..
haiz, anyway its late, and i should be sleeping, just now we were just bitching and talking cock outside my room (cos my roomie sleeping ready). its quite fun really, now suddenly my room becomes more happening, i was such a hermit last year lar. at last ppl are coming to my room! yep, had heniken and vodka cranberry (yeap my own mix) with some of my closer hall pals just now. its really quite nice actually.. die lar, my grades are gonna plumet..
alrite thats all for today folks..
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3:40 am
upload and download
finally, i've managed to upload all my melbourne pics, took awhile, but its definitely worth the wait! heres the links:
napkin adventures
napkin adventures 2
napkin adventures 3
napkin adventures 4
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2:26 pm
could it be true??
right, so i was walking pass the canteen and you know those booths they set up to promote safe sex and stuffs?? so anyway apple (yes the i-mac/book/pod ppl and not the fruit company) was setting up a booth there too. seriously i don't know what's the purpose, because there's no real explaination from the booth man-ners whatsoever. i juz read "drop your contacts and stand a chance to win a powerbook". hence im thinking to myself : damn i should have worn my contact lenses, but muz drop it leh, abit dirty
yeap, so i enquired how can i actually take part in the contest, and the unfriendly booth man-ner say drop name card ,wait a minute, i still have my mech camp name cards, i wonder if i could use them, or muz i be plo-fresh-shen-er to be eligible (i am eligible by the way, though just not cleo top 50 material)
yupps, so the booth man-ner shoved a brochure into my hands, and i was reading it on the way back. so here's what it roughly says:
save $900
here's how:
1. Save up to $400 on a Mac portable :
*all the ibooks and power books specs and prices blah blah blah
2. Save $350 when you get an iPod
-new iPod 20gb with click wheel. usual $548 NOW $198
-new iPod 40gb with click wheel.usual $748 NOW $398
3.
so you see, what really caught my eye was how low the price of the iPod is. and im wondering isit applicable only if i bought the laptops? well, if it isn't then im really pondering whether i should get it, and if so, which one???!! hence do drop a message to tell me if i should get it at all, as the offer only lasts till 15 August!! (but i really have a hunch i need to buy the i book.. anybody wants to get an i book so that i can get the iPod??)
well if it isn't enough, all this while there's this girl (she abit gong gong dai dai one) that's at the booth thats handing out like free can drinks lar. so she was forcing the cans to me while i was checking out the promotion. and when i asked her about the lucky draw thingy, her reply was "i dunno, but u want free drink??", i almost went crazy, and she decided to be nice or rather, forceful and gave me 3 instead of 1 can. so all ntu students out there, quick, if u want free can drinks, go to the apple booth NOW!!!
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10:52 am
record breaking..
in the history of the last 3 semesters, this one has to take the cake, becoz i have skipped lectures as early as the 2nd week! yupps, today i overslept and totally missed 3 lectures.. now im paying the price of having to read my notes till late in the night and still not understand anything.
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2:26 am
