Some recent/random pics...

They have the Singapore Flyer. I have my very own Heart-shaped ferris wheel. Takes tons of imagination and heart-beats of love to ever go take a ride. Ticket cost? Priceless.

This guy rarely appears in my pictures. Now there he is. Meet Daniel. With that smile. Dude. I'm posting this anyway. You are invited to cringe anytime.

It's rare to see me hold a hand-carry umbrella like this. And it's a Braun Buffel one! It's even rare to see me in a picture with an umbrella. I used to just run in the rain. But anyway, EH EH UNDER MY UMBRELLA, ELLA ELLA...

An attempt to take a pic while driving on a rainy day. Don't try this at home. I mean in your car, if any.

Long-lost jc pal Shawn and me at Chinatown's KTV.

Dearie at me at Mind's Cafe - a place to put your mind into good use. I mean, play.

One of the games we played. I looked dumb I know.

Who what went where? This' the pic to say it all. Mind cafe. Read our minds then!

Peng, trio and me at Chinatown's KTV. As usual, singing plus taking pics.

To be continued..

Write. Love. Life. Love. Write.

My friend or rather a close one told me that I ought to update my blog with some meaningful entry. Sorry dude. But if I were to restrict myself to just blog on meaningful stuff, it won't be a blog anymore. What you need is an inspirational book or go look for some quotes for goodness sake. As I mentioned before, I blog to express my thoughts freely. Not to filter my writing into a category called "meaningful".

I believe writing about my own life and thoughts are meaningful and enough reason for me to write. Therefore, here I am. A lag of a few days again. But this doesn't mean I will stop writing. Writing has always been my favourite thing to do. Gosh. But it's been eons since I used a pen to really write something, like an essay. So it's more like I'm typing, which is fast and convenient. So I really missed the feeling of holding onto a pen, scribbling on paper, looking at how the ink of the pen translates into my very own handwriting. Each curve each stroke, so delicately and idiosyncratically mine. Everytime I write, I create words out of a blank piece of paper. My words.

*****

I have come to notice how easily people can take love for granted. Or how easily love has come by for some. Is that really love in the first place? Or are people somehow blinded by the whole illusion of love, as an entity that might soon blossom into something more fabulous? The truth is, people often mistake love for what it really is. Love is not an entity, nor is it an asset, or a liability. We need to take on the subject matter more seriously, yet adhere to the light-heartedness of it all. Pure love is just simple. Don't complicate things. Feel it with your heart and not just saying the 3 words.

*****

Back to my story. And what's my story? I'm still in the process of penning it down. Or rather, I'm still in the process of thinking of the process of my story. How should it go?

Perhaps...

Once upon a time,

Happily ever after?

Just don't ever join these two together. It's just ridiculous. But I do believe in fairytales. Or at least, happy endings.

An Echo in the Emptiness.

A lag of updates I know. Though not very long, but there's still a gap. Daniel commented that "it's rare that I haven't been updating my blog for 5 days straight" since I pretty much give him the impression that my blog is updated daily. The fact is, don't count on impressions. I'm not out to impress anybody.

As a matter of fact, I find myself making less of going online a routine. I guess when you have the luxury of the computer and the internet, you just get lost in all this cyberworld twirl. I did not purposely avoid the need to go online since going online has ever since dwindled to the habit of signing on msn to see if there are any lone souls to chat with. The fact is, I don't really chat with anyone even if I'm online. It's more like just spacing out in cyberspace.

On another note, work is great. Although there are many times for slacking, sometimes you really get tired from having nothing much to do. But I enjoy the company of the acquaintances I made - temp staff as well, people around my age group which I could talk and mingle with. Honestly speaking, this current job isn't giving me credible experience for future use since it's more of admin stuff. But I'm not really complaining. As much as I would like to learn new stuff, I enjoy the company of my new colleagues. Having said that, I still need to venture out more and look for new job opportunities.

Have I really no time for myself? I would say probably. But sometimes, it's not about thinking for myself anymore. I have been thinking for myself for the past 21 years or so. It's just not fair to keep going on like this. As much as I would like to do every possible thing that follows my passion, I know it's not possible. There are just so many duties to fulfil, responsibilities to uphold. Even not for now, it's for the future. I already suffered several setbacks before, going through tormentous experiences that probably created a hole in my idea of happiness. But to come and think of it, how would you know what happiness truly is without going through all those bad times?

All of a sudden, it dawned upon me how I should use my time wisely.

I just want a real big smile on my face some day. And if you see me doing that, I'm on my way. =)

A Beautiful Mess - (Song by Jason Mraz)

Went to my JC friend's bbq gathering just now as part of her birthday celebration. Didn't really enjoy myself at all, probably cos something happened prior to that. And I wasn't very happy with myself either. Was rather disappointed to know that only a few of my classmates came. Actually only 3 other than me. And all girls. So yeah, I was in a daze. And other than munching on the bbq food, I wasn't doing anything much else except openly "eavesdropping" on my female counterparts who are talking about relationship issues beside me on my left. And on my right, another with her boyfriend in their own world of lovey-dovey. I'm stuck in the middle.

Wished you were there.

Anyway, was thinking recently of how my friends they all were talking about uni campus life being so exciting, especially "hall" life. Looking at myself, I don't think I have a chance to experience that kind of fun since I won't be studying at NUS or NTU. Instead, I would be doing part-time studies and working at the same time. A part of me is envious of that kind of life, though I know I need to face it - I'm walking the mature path. I'm already stepping into adulthood in full gear. A part of me is screaming to break free. To have fun. But I have to think of my future and start saving up. I do hope fun comes in other ways. Perhaps in knowing new people along the way in various workplaces? But then, there's still a line of defence somewhere to be drawn. I can't trust anyone completely. Cos everyone's looking out for everyone else.

There's so much competition in the air it makes it so much denser and harder to breathe.

What remains now are the friends I have made in school. Not many too. I could probably wished to know more new acquaintances and develop into true friendships but what are the odds of that really happening? At this age, everyone is either busy with school or with their jobs. Only the weekends are open for socialising. And even so, everyone has his/her own schedule/appointments/dates. That is probably why I wished I could go back to school as in full-time study. And show people I'm not that much of a nerd I used to be.

If only I could travel back time. I would laugh out at my old self.

*****

Just bought Jason Mraz's latest album. THAT DUDE IS A GENIUS!!! Love his music, his songs, his melodies, his lyrics, his voice, his guitar-playing, his unplugged/aucostic performances. His new songs are absolutely pleasing to the ears. And very cool album cover as well.

Was at JP in the afternoon browsing through the computer games. Haven't been playing computer games for like years?! Ever since the advent of technology. Friendster and msn and whatever. Coming online is more like "virtual socialising". I forgot all about my long lost game-playing hobby. I didn't say I was a game addict. I liked strategy games. And building games. So I saw Command & Conquer The Last Decade bundled with Command & Conquer 3: Tiberian Wars and was really tempted to buy. I remember I saw the launch of Command & Conquer 3 at Shaw House somewhere last year. C&C3 first sold at around $70. Now, I saw it selling for around $50 only. I really wanted to get it man. And there's even a better deal. The Last Decade(12 previous C&C games) plus C&C3 only for around $74!! Maybe I should really get it.

Wait. Arghh. This month's budget is getting tight.

I WANT MY PAY SOON!!!

On M&M: Mind & Music. (Doesn't melt in your hand nor in your mouth)

I think I'm still deprived of opportunities to achieve my dreams, even after NS. I used to think NS has really deprieved me of doing what I like. Now that I'm working, it seems to be the same case. Now I'm thinking. Is it what I'm doing now? Or is it just procrastination that is depriving me?

I remember my sis they all saying about how we liked different genres of music. For my elder sis, she likes techno/upbeat music so that pretty much shows that she likes to do things fast, though not very orderly.

My younger sis is just a regular pop music listener. Anything pleasing to the ear she would just listen. Basically, she's just listening it as a means to entertain while she's doing other stuff like when she's using the laptop or reading some magazines. This makes her rather easy-going in a way, bubbly?

They labelled me as someone who likes jazz and the blues. And they call that "lazy music". So they were saying I like to live in my own "dreamy" land and lead a laid back lifestyle. I have to admit I really love the genres jazz and blues, cos I find them very soothing. Yes, if you attribute that to my way of doing things, you are probably right, but just, half-right. For all you know, I LOVE oldies as well as alternative rock and broadway musical songs. There's a variety to my listening choice though most are usually soothing ballads. Just nothing close to techno or metal rock please.

I find it very interesting to classify one's personality traits just by observing his/her way of music choice. Speaking of that, heard of music therapy from one of my colleagues. She went for a workshop and found it to be interesting but very challenging and stifled. I'm not sure about that. Though I believe that music has real healing capacities, I'm not an extremist in wanting to go in depth to study it to learn to use it in real life.

My principle is simple. I prefer to take things with a pinch of salt. That means I tend to take things light-heartedly. I don't mean to do things with zero seriousness. What I meant is not being too emotionally attached. Knowing well that I'm an emotional person, over the years, I have learnt to slowly take things light-heartedly. And in many ways, I find myself opening up to new perspectives. The good thing about this is it is a great boost to confidence. Whenever you decide to take a step back when facing a serious situation, you lessen the density of it all. And no matter how serious that situation is, as long as you are not too emotionally burdened by it due to your cheeriness and light-hearted nature, you find that more often than not you are very clear-headed and hence you are able to take a neutral point of view and step in to take the necessary steps needed to solve the issue.

There's one thing I noticed. I always thought I was quite a pessimist. Suddenly I realised I'm actually quite optimistic. Oh wow. Chao. That's a wonderful change. =) I guess it's because of my changing and "crazy" personality that made me feel this way. It is as if you are acting out a play on a stage. A happy or sad one? Really up to you to determine. You be the director, you be the actor, you be the scriptwriter, you be the background crew. Dim the lights as and whenever you like it, shine the spotlight on yourself whenever you need to. Make it a musical, sing! Make it a comedy, laugh! The bottom line is: You control your own stage.

You know, sometimes I think there's a downside to all these. Having too many ideas sometimes just make you all the more proned to being "lost" in those ideas. This means, it's hard to keep track of ideas, no matter how wonderful they may be. Whenever you ruminate about something, it's always good to jot it down for future reference and you never know it might very well be a missing puzzle to what you've be searching for. The mind is like a vast ocean waiting to be explored. The thing is to never just read the mind. Explore it.

Oops. I got so carried away with all these philosophical thoughts! Haha. Could pretty much "whip" up another article based on this topic. But then, not many people get to "intrude" my thoughts. So count yourself lucky for reading this. Hahaha.

Blah. It's like over 1am now. It's funny to know how the mind just refuses to succumb to the lateness of the night sometimes. And you know you are the controller of it all. It needs to rest soon.

A good night's rest means a good new man the next day. Oh yeah.

HAIR HAIR HAIR!(HEH HEH HEH!) (^.^)

After hesitating for so long, I've decided to go for a haircut! Yeah, I hated my hair previously cos it was trimmed too thin the previous time and hence looked untidy when grown longer. Decided to check out my sis' recommendation. Went to "Chapter Two" salon at Marina Square after work today. And guess what, dearie went for a hair cut with me too! ^^

After about an hour or so, here's showcasing you the latest hair models! TADA~!!

Howdie. =) Kinda liked the new look. They thought it looked refreshing. My sis added a comment: "Chao, you look like Chipmunk!" -_-

I absolutely adore dearie's new hair. Temporary curls to add to that gorgeous little face. =D

Us happy and posing with our new look.

My sis and dearie. Looking good.

I LOVE THIS PIC. Because of our smiles, because of our new hair, and simply because we looked happy. =)

Actually planned to keep a long hair since just broke free from army. All the deprivation and urges out! Haha. Didn't really grow much of a long hair before. But didn't really liked the idea of a hard-to-tidy long hair. So I shall just be contented with a short hairstyle for now. I can be "dong li huo che" some other day I guess. HAHA.

Second Sunday of May 08.

On Mother's Day, we had lunch at the seafood restaurant at Taman Jurong area, where the fishing village is. Quite an enjoyable meal as the food were really delicious! And of course, we snapped some snazzy pics along the way

Here's where we had our lunch at. And a few dishes from the sumptuous meal we had!

Oh, hi! I hope I didn't surprise you. Check out my unglam/unkempt hair. But I'm still smiling. =)

That's my elder sis. We look so alike. Don't you think?

That's my younger sis, showing off her smooth "red" hair. And rather proud of it.

And that's my youngest sis. Same kind of smile each time.

Here's the main character of the day - my mum!!! Smiling as young as ever. =D

Dad and mum. The meal provider and the meal enjoyer. Lol.


HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to my mummy! ^^

Undergoing Transformation.

I got home today after a day of work plus OT to receive a pleasant surprise. SIM has accepted me!!! Yesh! I'm going to do Bachelor of Communications in UniSIM. Cool. Can't wait. Finally, my prayers have been heard, though I didn't really make any. But still, I was struggling whether to sign up for a full-time course at University of Buffalo with a fee of $57k when now I have a MUCH MUCH cheaper alternative knocking on my door. Great. PLUS. There's going to be a 40% subsidy. So my 3 years of degree course would probably cost me less than $15K. Cool.

Well, at least, now I can just be contented with this given opportunity and try to make full use out of it. Studying part-time means I gotta find a good full-time job and teach more tuition to earn my own keep and pay my fees. Oh yeah, and my new car which is arriving soon. Another burden on my cash load but I guess that could only motivate me to strive harder. Anyway, I can't wait for my new car! =D

The weekends are here again. Finally. It's strange how time can pass so fast when you are working. 3 weeks have passed since I started work at UniSIM. And it's quite a comfortable working pace, with ample of "me" time in between office hours. So I guess it's not that bad after all. Office work has its pros I guess. I just hate the travelling to and fro via public means. Thank goodness for the car. I can wake up in the morning at a later time, and arrive at work in a much much shorter time frame. Nothing beats convenience.

Now that I have secured a place in school, my mind feels more at ease and I can concentrate on my work now. After this temp assignment at SIM, I probably need to start job-hunting again. This time, I need to make it more aggressive. Like what I learned in NS. Sense of urgency. I do hope to save up for my future, as much as I can.

Art(Utt)erly Coool .

Today was quite a breeze at work. Helped sort out some files in the morning for around an hour or less, after that pretty much slacked all the way till off-work. I can't believe I got mentally tired from all those net surfing! Haha. But I'm not complaining, am I? But then, I heard that next week onwards would be rather hectic, since the school's exams will take place, and the fact that I'm helping out in the exams department means the burden is on us!

There was a mini episode during lunch in which I feigned that I am 12 years old when the colleagues from another department asked me about my age. My friend(my "accomplice") said I was from Indonesia. Then I said "Yeah, Indonesian Chinese". Haha you should have looked at the expression on the other girls. They really took my words for real, not because that I really looked like 12, but that I looked 'too innocent' to be faking. HAHAHA. That was fun.

Oh, and look what I drew today at work. These CD envelopes. Drawn by me using transparency marker and highlighters. See? Make use of what you have around you and you can still whip up some cool stuff.

Just some random design with the colours pink, purple, blue and yellow as the primary colours. Kinda estranged in a way.

I love to draw trees. And I love nature. So I came up with this drawing. Quite a calmy feel I guess.

My colleague actually randomly googled for a grand piano picture. So she saw one and requested I draw it. So I gave it a try, and this was the result. Haha not bad I guess. Quite satisfied with the outcome. Monochrome rocks.

After work, went for tuition. My 2 tutees said they did not have any homework and refused to do anything, except for reading stories(they like how I read to them) and drawing. Yes, I drew some cartoons out from some random story book, and proceeded on to teach my tutee how to make a mini storybook from a piece of drawing block paper. She was so excited can! Like her face just lit up. Before that I taught her how to make a simple pop up card.

So anyway, here's the mini storybook she made. I helped draw the cover and even decided to tie a ribbon for the binder. Lol.

Haha that's a doll picture I copied from one of her dolls. To my horror, she said she wanted to write a ghost story. And that this didn't look like it's going to be a ghost story. After that, she added, "Never mind. Since I hate barbie dolls I can make it a scary one!" I was shocked of course. After that, she proceeded on to make another mini storybook. But this time round, she drew the cover herself and tried to make it scary. I thought it looked funny though. Lol.

Anyway, my other tutee-her brother claimed that he has a "gf" and that he's going to draw a picture for her. Then he even asked me to fold an envelope so he could put the picture in. This was what he drew.

That was just, cute.

I think I can go teach Art any day, lol.

By the way, xiaoqian helped copy a character analysis(from some source) of February babies' character traits for me. Here's the list.

Abstract thoughts.
Loves reality and abstract.
Intelligent and clever.
Changing personality.
Attractive.
S#*iest out of everyone.
Temperamental.
Quiet, shy and humble.
Honest and loyal.
Determined to reach goals.
Loves freedom.
Rebellious when restricted.
Loves aggressiveness.
Too sensitive and easily hurt.
Gets angry really easily but does not show it.
Dislikes unnecessary things.
Loves making friendsbut rarely shows it.
Ho ?ny.
Daring and stubborn.
Ambitious.
Realizing dreams and hopes.
Sharp.
Loves entertainment and leisure.
Romantic on the inside not outside.
Superstitious and ludicrous.
Spendthrift.
Tries to learn to show emotions.

I can't agree more. Most of the points are freakingly true.

Oh yes. It's officially Friday. =)

Work-aholic stay away.

Just changed a new pic for my blog. Look at the above. Well, just trying my photoshop skills with my newly acquired Photoshop CS2. I only edit photos for the effect, and not for "plastic surgery". That's just un-natural. Yeah you heard what I said.

I hate to talk about work but the most parts of my weekdays are now spent in office. So you would probably hear me blabbering about that, not that I intend to. You can click on the upper right hand corner "x" sign to leave if you detest that.

Anyway, yes. Work today was alright. Managed to "siam" from the hectic workload and create some "me" time. How convenient. Received my first week of pay today. Wasn't very excited about it when I noticed that I was short-changed of around $20. So I called the recruitment agency. Fortunately they agreed to send me the remaining sum by Monday. If not, I would quit right away. Not because I'm calculative, but because I hate people who go against their words, especially agreements like such.

One more day to the weekends. Can't wait.

Help me find a hole to scream in so I could hear the echoes.

Today was the busiest day since my 2 weeks in SIM's exams department. Damn! I shouldn't have said anything about being slack in office. Now I don't even have time to do jumping jacks, push ups or flex my biceps. Lol. All thanks to that woman who came back from 2 weeks' "MIA" and now she orders me to do this and that, type this and that, file this and that. Quite a "tekan" session for me even though it's just administrative stuff, but still it adds up to quite a bit. And my eye juices tend to dry staring at the computer for long hours, squinting and scanning through those lists of courses and lecturers' names.

I wonder if they would "yin shui si yuan"(go figure in chinese), and realise that I'm the one doing all these "saikang" so they could comfortably go invigilate, mark the scripts and whatever. And the students who handed in their End of Course projects, you better be thankful I'm the one sorting through your stuff!!! The students are supposed to return to school to hand in their End of Course projects via cd-rom. Then they are supposed to sign to indicate they have handed in. Today, I saw a fellow staff wrote this comment besides a student's name...

"Student refused to sign, kept on with scolding.."

WTF?! Lol. After that, got to know from my supervisor that that student is a bit mentally unstable. Ok, maybe not just a bit. HAHA. But really interesting.

In office, I don't understand why but I notice there are mirrors on almost every desk above each desktop computer. Acts like some rearview mirror. Haha. These office workers, so wary of who's checking them out from behind. Probably just making sure that their superior is not watching them from behind. But whatever!! The mirrors are so obvious. Haha. WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BROTHER???

Here's an example. BIG BIG monitor below. SMALL SMALL mirror above. XD

Well, might as well make use of my creativity, no matter how restricted the environment is. Haha. There's always a "camera" time.


Anyway, I mentioned in my previous entry that my new colleagues(temp staff too) were coming up with plans for an outing. They decided to draw them out on a piece of paper with pieces of tapes sticking over it. I got bored and decided to add in some suggestions too. Plus some doodlings. Haha.

Here's how it looked at first.

I came up with some suggestions like going to Night Safari, Escape, fly kite, ice-skating, BBQ... And of course these suggestions were illustrated with diagrams drawn by moi. Lol.

After that, I got a bit bored. And decided to bring the whole piece into a higher level. Here's the outcome.

Hehheh. Pretty cool eh? =D

And so, that's office boredom for you. Come up with your own ways of coping with those boring hours in office!

After work, I drove home(ahh the convenience of having a car. Reached home in 15 mins' time). After that went for tuition. My tutess were absolutely atrocious! They took so much advantage of me. Taking their own time. Munching on snacks, walking in and out of the room, not wanting to study at all. I was rather fed up with them. So sometimes I just acted "heck care". Wanted to teach them well but they seem to be so caught up in their own worlds. So distracted and restless. These primary school kids! And guess what, the girl cried again, cos she claimed she was afraid of tomorrow's chinese paper. She said she doesn't know how to write. DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO WRITE. On the eve of her paper, she's telling me all these crap. And when I offered to teach her some good words to use for her essay, she cried even louder, saying "only a bit of words not enough". Whatever whatever. I'm already quite exhausted having spent my time on heavy workload in office today and now still have to be "nanny", or "manny" rather to these 2 kids who refuse to pay attention.

Whatever kids. Don't make Mr. Nice Teacher lose my temper. You won't like it kiddo.

And whatever. I still get paid at the end of the day. So I'm not complaining. Well, maybe a little. But HEY! I have reason to. Now I know why so many tutors avoid teaching primary school kids.

Ok, I'm telling myself it's good training. Good training for my patience. Cool down. Haha.

Whenever I'm about to lose my temper, this face popped out and that eased the crease for a while.

Kids and their charm. Damn!

Ok. Relax. I'm still 12 anyway. Remember that. =D

Monday simply means that Tuesday is next.

It's Monday!! Were you guys feeling the blues? If so, not to worry, Tuesday is coming your way! You guys feeling the green? Haha ok no link. Anyway. Today for me was quite a slackey day in office. Basically I just called up lecturers to inform them of their script marking duties. Pretty slack but still feel quite stupid having to sound all so polite over the phone. Haha. My colleagues opposite my desk said they could recognise my voice right away. And saying that I have a unique voice. Well, do I? I did have a friend saying I have a nice sounding voice. I hope she means deep and sexy. But anyway, that's not the point.

The point is, my love gets to hear it everyday. =D

I spent a whole day interacting with my new friends who are also temp staff. Just chit-chatting since we did not have much work to do. Until around 4.30pm, 1 hour before my knock-off time, Steven, an employee, actually asked my supervisor if he could "borrow" me for an hour. And I spent the hour doing photocopying. So many stacks of scripts to photocopy. And that guy's weird. He kept checking me out. Entering the photocopying room every now and then to see my progress. There was once when I was talking to my colleagues and standing beside a big printer, he put his hands on my waist and prompted me to move aside. That was gross.

Ok. So anyway, if you are curious to find out what do I do in office when I tell you it's quite slack. Here's a top 5 list.

1. Surf net.
Dude. I can't do without the net. My msn, friendster, facebook, whatever routes of communication.

2. Compose new articles and poems whatsoever.
One of my favourite past-times. The endless inspirations. Go to http://www.triond.com/users/nightcharmer to view my works if you haven't. You ought to.

3. Think of my dearie.
Hehe. Actually this list is not in any form of order but I would think this is the highest rank among all. Baby you rule my world, you know? ;)

4. See how time passes.
Oh yes. Did I mention when work comes, time passes really fast? So what I do is to stare at the clock and see the second hand move. Ok I'm kidding again. You know I don't do such a thing. Maybe you do.

5. Do jumping jacks and push-ups and flex my biceps.
Ok I'm kidding. I don't know what to put here so let's skip.
So there you go. The top 5 list. Though it's not really a top 5 list. But whatever. You get the idea.

Alright that's me in the office. I know a wooden door and some cupboards and some files showing in the background are not sufficient to prove that I'm in an office. But whatever, you got to live with the fact that I'm INDEED in an office.

Here's who I hang out with during lunch on most days. Her name is Yuwei. Another temp staff just like me. We were recruited on the same day. So I guess we could talk quite well. She just likes to laugh at my silliness, or whatever there is to laugh about me.

Not only her. My other female colleagues too. All "xiao mei mei"s la. Barely turning 19 I think. Argh I feel so old. But anyway, got to know this bunch of youngsters who are also working as temp staff, except at the HQ department itself. Nice peeps. But still, I feel a tad bit of generation gap. No matter how they console me that I could SO join them, and how excited they seemed to be organizing for upcoming outings, I just couldn't feel that I'm 18 again.

Because I am 12. I look like 12. People say I look like 12. I can study right in a Primary school with no eye brow raised. Without a doubt.

Ok. Please don't laugh your way out of this entry.

After work, my sis' bf, Joe picked me up from my workplace and I drove back to my house, changed and headed to NTU's gym. Seriously I haven't been pumping iron for a long time! I'm glad I'm now starting to find that lost momentum though. Need to pump up a bigger physique. Pump away my worries. Especially when petrol costs are rising. Lol. Whatever.

By the way, I really need to cut my hair soon. My mum keeps complaining my hair "sux". My gf keeps saying my hair looks flat. So you see. My hair is under pressure. I actually planned to grow it long since I'm finally out of army. But well, we shall see. Probably going to a decent salon to have a new "mane" makeover. HAHAHA.

Gtg. Tuesday's coming. A brand new day people. But I still need my beauty sleep to officially welcome the morning.

1 of the 5 C's. Wait, is it still relevant?

The weather's so freaking hot! It's like after a shower, you still feel the stickiness.. Arggh.. Think I have to go from being shirtless to naked, cos my butt perspires too. HAHAHA. Before u fantasize any further, STOP! I'm jk. =P

Anyway, I went car shopping with my parents and sis and her bf yesterday. It was my first time really visiting a car showroom. We went to Toyota's at Leng Kee road, which is near Alexandra Rd, where IKEA is. Anyway, wasn't surprised my dad would visit Toyota's since we're much of a Toyota fan anyway. He's got his Camry, and I got to share a Corolla Altis with my sis. I guess after much talking about wanting to change to a better car with a better engine(by the way, my current 2nd hand Altis' engine sucks. Going up a slope feels like crawling haha), he decided to bring us there, having heard that there's some kind of promotion going on.

I was so excited when I reached there. So many cool cars around. Though I've seen most of them on the roads anyway. But still, it's real great to see brand new cars around, shining under the sunlight. Woohoo! When we first got there, I already saw a couple of new Corolla Altis 1.6 and some really nice Camry's.






I espeically liked this electric blue Camry. It just kinda appealed to me. Though my mum said the color's not nice. But I like the fact it looks so strikingly blue. Well, maybe it's the yellow light in the showroom. But it looked great nevertheless.

After that, my dad went for a test-drive with the new Corolla Altis.

I liked the comfort and silent-ness of the new Corolla Altis. Even the audio player is touchscreen! Pretty cool. Soon after, I got to test drive the car, after my sis!

My sis test-driving..

Yeah and now's my turn. Argh, my sis' photo-taking skills is bad!

My dad actually intended to buy the new Corolla Altis. But we discussed on the price and everything. The new Corolla Altis costs nearly $70K. That means every month's installment will be near to $700. I'm not sure if I'm able to handle that amount. So anyway, we decided to give Toyota Vios a try. They came up with a new model too. And though I don't like the knobs control design on the aircondition inside the car, it's a pretty decent car. I was surprised at the "lightness" of the car when I drove it. And the pedal's pretty sensitive as well. I LOOOVE the kick-off speed. It picks up real fast. I liked the steering wheel too. Very light and easy to manouvre.

Me test-driving the Toyota Vios

So after a long discussion, we decided to get the Toyota Vios instead. We thought it's a cheaper alternative. It's 13K cheaper than the Altis, though not as comfortable, but still pretty decent. We considered the fact that it boasts the same horsepower of 109 as the Altis. And it has a relatively smaller capacity of 1.5CC. So yup. We made our mind.

To my surprise, my dad decided to buy not 1, but 2 Toyota Vios!!!

Ok. Great. Wow. I'm speechless. That means my sis and I each will get one car. That means I need to pay around $500 plus for the installment each month, not including the road tax, insurance, season parking, petrol, etc. I'm not sure if I can handle that. But that means I have to work extra hard now!! I think I need to teach more tuition, find a better-paying job.

All in the name of convenience.

Is it worth it? Well, at least I get to be independent for once. Time to kick in some motivation.

My new car will be arriving somewhere in late June. =)

Sound of Us

Yo peeps! What's up? It's so late now. Like 3 in the morning. Today, or rather yesterday(Friday) was a pretty good day. Cos it's like last day of work for the week, and that on Thursday was Labour Day. So all was good. Spirit was high. Tralalaa..

In the morning, my supervisor asked me to do a task, I was supposed to help photocopy one stack of 13 pages double-sided worksheet. I happily went to get it done. Then when I came back from lunch, I was horrified. On top of the table beside the machine was around 100 stacks of the same copy! I was like WHAT??! He was like HAHA HAHA. Lol. I swear I didn't set it to 100 copies. But whatever it was, well, I guess I just wasted the printer's ink. By a great deal I suppose. Haha. But that was really funny.

After work, met up with dearie. We went to check out Global Sounds Music Cafe at Chinatown area. We passed by a few times but didn't step in at all. Until my sis went with her friends, she suggested I check out that place too. Well, indeed it is quite a cosy place with music all around. And the furnishing looked really inviting as well. Had a great time there taking photos as usual. But this time's different. I get to use my own camera on my new mobile phone. Hoho!

And of course, combined with dearie's Nokie N82, the results are amazing. =)

Oh yeah, Saturday! Saturday! *Jumps up and down* =D

Touch ma screen baby!



I just got a new mobile phone!!! Yeah, after much much waiting, I finally got a new phone since JC1. That was like nearly 4 years. I watched in envy when I saw my sisters change their phones every now and then. And those 2 years back in army when camera phones were contraband items, I was left with no choice but to use those old-school phones.(Btw, my old Motorola E380) created quite a fuss with almost anyone who got to see it back in camp. They said that phone looked very stylish. Here's what it looks like in case you guys haven't seen it before.







I loved it even though it's really "2d" in terms of functions. After that, I moved on to get a motorola e398. Back then, it was really my dream phone. The sound quality was amazing. Haha was much of a Motorola fan back then. But then.. I have a new love now...

LG KU990R Viewty!!!

What a beauty!!! Yes, it's touch-screen!!! Just like the Iphone. But I don't want an Iphone due to its over-cliched popularity.

Oh, and did I mention, LG Viewty boasts an impressive 5-megapixels camera!!! Wooohooooooooo. Finally! Finally I can get snapshots wherever I go now. I had enough of seeing how my sis used her Sony Ericsson K800i to snap photos whenever she's out with her friends and uploading the pics to her blog. So, here's my 5-megapixels camera phone which is so much more cooler. And OH MY!!! The interior icons design are toooooooo stylish for words.

And I got the phone for only like $70 bucks? HAHAHA.

The normal retail price for this phone costs $700+ currently. However, Singtel has a promotion, offering it for $198 for a 2-year contract. Haha and fortunately, my mum has a $120 worth of reward points to use. So there you go. Ahhhhhhhhhh my new love!

Haha. I think LG is so taking over my gadgets. First I had a LG Jukebox Chocolate J10HD for my birthday, which I loved it totally too. It's a mini home theatre system with 2:1 plus subwoofer. And it's piano smooth black, ANDDDDDDDDDDDD it has a touch screen feature too!!

I can't believe I get so fanatic over gadgets. Haha.

Oh yes. This means, my blog will be filled with photos soon! Haha watch this space man.