Why are you acting like a child?
And with those immature thoughts?
You want me to commit and yet you don't?
This is not fair, have you ever thought of the things you did and you didn't?
I need some breathing space, please leave me alone for a while, thank you.

kok keng been complaining that I've not been putting any attention on him so I shall put in something here for him.


Last look from the old place from here~

Just moved into my late grandma's house last Sat, handed over to the crazy landlord the other day, and got back my deposit. Just wondered if she had tried using my electricity and water to clean up the place as the cut-off date is supposed to be the next day~ Anyway, thanks to kok keng and his brothers' help in lending us the pick-up, and helping to move. Sis, bro-in-law and bro's gf helped out too.

The new place is a little small, as compared to the previous one.


new place kind of messy because just moved in


the previous flat




Breezy view from here with shade from the angsana tree in front of my bedroom. Tiong Bahru is a pretty mature estate, you get to see big trees such as angsana, rain trees that provides ample shade. One disadvantage is such trees tend to drop alot of leaves and choked the drains, causing mosquitoes breeding. Talking about drains, there is a big canal in front of my flat too.



I kind of missed the shouting from the regular satay man shouted "Weiii~~~" under the flats. Instead, there is an otah man selling quietly along the pedestrian pavement.

Got 2 free tickets for "Sex and the City" and Evonne and I watched it. Overall was pretty good, but I felt it was like a big-scaled fashion runway with glamorous clothes, killer high-heels, hairdo, makeup. Trust me, you will never see Sarah Jessica Parker wearing the same clothes the next minute, except for the wedding gown (by Vivienne Westwood). Acting wise, I sensed the acting was only from Miranda and her husband, Steve when he confessed he was cheating on her. And he really looked pathetic like a drug addict. The others... neh.... quite superficial and perhaps some comic relief from Samantha and Charlotte had made me chuckled a bit (making a sushi dinner and drinking water from Mexico had caused her sick stomach).

Some pretty nice quotes learnt.

Big: "Should I get you a diamond?"
Carrie: "No, just get me a really BIGGgg closet... "

and he did!!

Miranda: "She is 3 years old and she doesn't know about sex, I am 40 and I don't know about sex either."

Miranda: "The only 2 choices for women, witch and sexy kitten"

Samantha: "You know me, I don't believe in marriage.. except botox, it works everytime."

I've moved house again~

This time round to my late grandma's place. My uncle and auntie will be occupying the Master bedroom while me and bro will be using the common rooms.

The place is fully furnished with wardrobes so we won't be getting anymore furniture. Moving house is always a headache especially if you could not get a right vehicle. Was lucky to get KK involved where he called his brothers for help. Sis and bro-in-law helped out too, Bro's gf also.

Study Trip in Shanghai


Click on pic to see more pics!!!!

Or refer to these : Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5 and 6.

Should have worked harder...

GSS

Saw "RED" everywhere!!! The GSS is back and with outrageous discounts. The more credit cards you have, the more undesirable credit card bills you get once you get the "slashing" going on.

I was amazed by the sales going on, really!!! And coincidentally, the announcement of the Pedra Branca ownership, launch of the Draft Master Plan 2008 and GSS hit on the same day, 23 May is indeed a popular day to start things going. Guoqing wants us to meet at Orchard Road that day after work and after dinner, the 3 hours of window-shopping is really not enough for you to browse around.

There has been one item which I want to purchase, that is the the Brazilian brand IPANEMA sandals by supermodel turned designer , Gisele Bundchen.

http://www.ipanemagiselebundchen.com.br/

Such sandals however were not on discounted prices, considering $33.90 for a pair of sandals was too pricey, I was waiting for the price to drop down in the GSS. However, it din happen!

Shall look out for these sandals in the wholesale market in Shanghai, yah? I pretty much liked the blue one with white base. =)

yep, a 29th belated birthday at my place.
* click picture to see more photos!

Finished my exams, dun really feel good about the papers, but heck it.. as long as they are over, I'm moving on to the the 4th Year! (hopefully). Guoqing will be back from his Taiwan training on 8 May (he has been away for almost 1 month) just in time to celebrate my birthday on 9th!

The revision weeks provided me ample rest and time for me to relax. I've never have the privileges to truly enjoy myself during the semester where it's just rushing for assignments, projects and presentations the whole time. I could even recall sleeping for just 4-5 hours a day! Truly glad that I took the revision week to catch more sleep, shopping, surfing the net and even to a spa.

I managed to finish 8 dvds of Korean drama, "The Legend" by heartthrob Bae Yong Jun aka "Yong Sama". What captivated me the most in the series were the music composed by Joe Hisaishi,久石 譲, a well-renowned Japanese composer for "Princess Mononke" and "Spirited Away". The music sends chills down your spine as you watch the series.... especially the war scenes.


With flute version


Here's another...with a choir.


So far for the Korean drama fever, I've got myself a made-in-Korea phone too! (LG KS20) Not rich la, I've thought over it myself that I should get a new HP to avoid those calls from my crazy landlord who has been bugging me again to sign what stupid formal letter to show the plaintiff. Been trying to avoid her since.



Here's some of the photos taken so far from this hp. Embedded is a 2 mega-pixel camera.


NUS - School of Design and Environment

OMG............. I'm turning 29 soon....

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Evangelion fans definitely can't miss this movie..sit back and relax while enjoying this clip...



Heard there is a part 2, 3 and final coming out... and the ground breaking rumors of "Eva06", which we'd not even seen Eva04 and 05.

Watch the Evangelion 2.0 Preview here.

break time~

Yah, 1 week no class. But still got to rush for projects.

Got a disturbing message from someone over msn... it just gave me a webby.
Anyway, you can't trust the internet nowadays, too many malicious softwares going around.
I keyed in the address and it directed me to this page.


click on it to enlarge

I believe it is another stupid trojan that makes you curious over who blocked you in msn.... I mean what's the big deal to find out whether who blocked you.

I din key in my msn account of course, I'm not stupid to fall into this trap.

Anyway, it'd been a busy week. Finished printing pamphlets for the improvement works and issued to the CCs to distribute to the residents. So if you are a Siglap resident, you'd be getting a copy of pamphlet soon. Ain't that easy to get these things done as you got to talk to a lot of different parties. Hope everything runs smoothly after the launch of the project.

I'll be glad to put up the pamphlet next time, it was designed by our in-house architect. Well, standard so-so la.
Here's the link anyway, it'd be up here temporary for 1 mth before it will be taken down.
http://www.ura.gov.sg/publications/eip_pamphlet.pdf

Picture of the Day





Hope you are not expecting the unexpected... =)

We all knew Edison Chen is a bad boy and he is proud of being notorious. However, we are surprised that he had the habit of taking down his love-making scenes with his one-night affairs and ex-girlfriends. After looking at the first series of photos, I was not doubting that they are fakes however they (Gillian and Edison) had denied they were photo-shopped.

I thought it could be quite normal to take a few pictures or two, however this lucky bastard took a whole series, from fully clothed to none... and a few seductive poses and full frontal exposure. I had been wondering what had been his real intention of taking them down and storing inside his laptop.

1) Was it just pure fun and collection?
2) Or it was a malicious act to keep them so he could use them to sell to the media in future when he was no longer famous?

I have this feeling that Edison was a pimp... hmm .. not sure if you agree with me after seeing so many photos of those works from him, don't ask me where I've found them, just google for yourself. He was currently dating Albert Yeung's (head of EEG and manager of The Twins and Joey Yung among others) niece, Vincy Yueng.

Smelt a rat somewhere?

By the way, Happy Chinese New Year!!!

Enough!

The old washing machine broke down and got replaced by even an older one.

Such thing can only be done by my landlady. To save cost in replacing a new one, she managed to get a better price by buying a 2nd-hand semi-auto one from the repairman recently. She even had the cheek to ask me and my bro to help carry for her up to 4th storey as she can't find any helpers. We rejected her of course to help carry and lastly she managed to find a relative's maid to help out.

She got us an older version of what we used in the old days. Semi-auto washing type where you fill up water in one side and you carry over the washed clothes the other side to tumble-dry. I thought such washing machines can only be found in Africa.

I feel she is going to carry all her money to her grave when she dies.

Well, that's not all. She passed us a detailed instruction manual in teaching us how to use the washing machine.

I think she really eat full full, no shit to pass out to type such manual.


Her lawyer just sent me a letter to document that I've submitted to her client my evidence of not in house and a statement that I did not pass the housekeys to anyway. She even told me that the plaintiff aren't giving up in the case, thus it may drag on. She even warned me not to talk to anyone who came to ask us questions.

Wished to get out of here and from this crazy woman as soon as possible. I hope some guys would go after her to make her busy enough to stop doing those bo liao stuff.

Ohaiyo!!!!

Haven thought of any new year resolutions. Felt they are always so far away. Been a busy month... my Grandma passed away and we held the wake and the ceremony, Xmas eve dinner, new year celebrations... and catching crabs at Changi Boardwalk!! Lots of events happened in the Dec of 07.


Here's some photos to tell more stories...

Remembered that MC King passed away few days earlier where they found some strange structure on his cremated bones? Well they looked something like this:



They were on my Grandma's cremated bones too, right on the skull. In Sanskrit, it is called shariras. It was meant to be sacred and rare, usually found on the bones of the monks. Believe it or not, up to you. =)

Ok, less of the gossip...

Went to Changi Boardwalk again! This time round to catch crabs!!


Never knew such big ones existed there!!!

The unfortunate crab was being caught by my cousin and cooked in XO Bee hoon soup... we ate it all. It was simply delicious.



Me and KK joined a group of friends for Xmas eve dinner at Masala Art@Peninsula Plaza.
For a change, we tried Northern Indian food, the spread was not much, but it was a good try. Atmosphere and service were good also.

I'll be starting school next Monday, time to get busy again!

Very Siong Semester.....

Picture of the Day






My Grandma, 79 is now in SGH ICU. She has been unconscious since last night. I remembered I've last talked to her yesterday whether she had eaten and she asked what date it was on that day.

But NOW what I can see you is you are lying on the cold bed with machines around you and you are breathing in only the life-support.

Sorry Grandma, I've been naughty. Hasen been a good grand- daughter.
If I could turn back time,

1) I will come every weekend to visit you often
2) I will buy you lots of your favourite fruits which your failed teeth could bite on
3) I will talk to you, help you to pat on your back while you are trying hard to breathe better
4) I will help to massage your weak legs

This is a HORROR movie.

It doesn't contain gore or bloody scenes, but the thought of it made you felt sick and feeling betrayed. A young Polish girl by the name of Mariola was cheated by her boyfriend and was sold to the Marfia in Berlin as prostitute. It was a very very depressed movie and it made you cringed at the beginning of the movie till the end hoping she would find a way out in a stranger country.

The horror part was when she was being raped by those bastards (well only gestures of it made you sick in the stomach), she was locked in the flat for almost 2 days. She tried escaping from the windows and screaming at the top of her lungs but there was no one to help her because it was a vacant building. She even tried jumping down from the high floors, thinking she could escape in that way, but the level was too high for her. Either she were to break her legs or die and never to see her grandma in Poland ever. There was no food in the fridge, only water from the miserable tap.... or there was a piece of moulded bread and yes, she ate it because she was so hungry and wanted to gain the energy to run away. There were chances where she could run away, but she felt kind of indebted to one of the mafia guys who took care of her when she was bullied/beaten/sick.

I find German films (well Poland was next to Germany, does it count?) pretty depressing.... Well, thanks to Hitler and his tortures on the Jews. Prostitutions and human trafficking not only happened in 3rd World Countries but even in rich European continents. This film was just one of the stories. Somehow, it was compared to an earlier Russian movie "Lilya 4-Ever" which portrayed child prostitution in the Soviet Union. These are films which made you watch what you do not want to really see and feeling unbearably painful indeed.

Piece of Me

You want a piece of me? I'll give you two.

Haven been a smooth month. Firstly, the landlady had been secretly trying to sell her flat to some buyer and got caught in a law case. It's a long story anyway, she has been bothering me lately to help settle her issue. She wanted me to be witness in court that I did not receive any cheque and option to purchase from the buyer where the buyer sent over the very 2nd day we moved in. The recipient was my uncle who had been in th house helping out with the cleaning and both my brother and I were in office during the daytime. Blindly, he signed the receipt not understanding what the contents were and got us in pretty deep trouble. And when the parcel was passed back to the landlady, she found only a photocopy of the cheque inside, not a real cheque.

Anyway, that part was settled and I've explained to the landlady. And I gave her a piece of my mind that she was indeed unethical to be selling her flat considering we had just moved in. Her dishonestly had got herself into trouble, not us!!! However, the writ of summons (by the buyer) was against use, using us a the scapegoat of the deal to claim damages mentioned "Tenant" so she had consulted her lawyer that that proving us (tenant) was not around at the moment would help to close the issue.

It was pretty hard to believe in her again, I've seen the summons, and yes, it did mention abt us. The problem was she kept pestering us and reiterating the issue all over again over the phone when I was working... blar blar... and I just wished I had not rented the flat in the first place. In the begining, I did not think it was a good deal, the flat was old and some services were not in proper condition. And she kept mentioning that she trusted us we were good people, not any people who could bring "ah gao", "ah niao" into the house to party.... Come on, people need a life!!! We are good people, but we are not stupid people. I did not know what she meant in this sentence, probably she was just trying to play safe by warning us again not to sublet the flat to other people or have any visitors to come into the place which was in the agreement.

Just wish to get over this and start off again in another perspective.

Another thing is about a project group member who did nothing except to tell others of what to do. Getting so pissed off by his attitude and he was the type who kept things by himself, not wanting to discuss to bring out his ideas. Shall think twice when grouping with him next time.

Well, that's it.

My dear boy is in Australia now, missed him greatly. :-(

this is very childish...and stupid, I can't believe I am still mad over it.

We were having supper along Tiong Bahru Road as I haven really had a proper dinner before class. GK parked his car along the road and thinking to avoid any cars from turning into the road and he switched on his blinking lights. I asked him if it is alright... cos I've heard if you left your lights too long, the battery will soon die off, he mentioned should be no problem.

After 20 mins we walked back to the car and started his car engine, he found that the starter doesn't work..... and his car could not start. The good thing is it was parked along the road so other cars can still pass through, the bad thing is he parked his car on the double yellow lines. So he started moving up and down, walking around, calling his brothers, friends... whatever numbers he can find over his phone, which I thought the easiest way to get help is to find the cars around us. So, I managed to stop a driver who was about to drive off and asked for his help.

GK stubbornly refused the offer and I apologized to the guy for taking up his time. I even called up my uncle and my uncle was pretty ascertained it could have been a problem with the starter as the car horn and lights were still working.

He told me to go back cos there was nothing I could help and he emphasized I was just making more problems for him.

I went back, disappointed, angry and feeling perplexed.

I came back to the same spot after putting my things and stuffs and his brothers managed to help jump-start his car. True enough the starter had failed but strangely they managed to jump start to get it going. Still feeling unapologetic and ungrateful, GK told me to go home.

So I went back, feeling disappointed, angry and feeling perplexed again and I'm typing all these down as that dumb ass is at least still looking and able to do some self-reflection.

Was it during a time like this, guys would think ladies are just useless bitches standing around? I was trying to help and yet treated like shit. Sometimes, I felt we were not even communicating, something must be very wrong.

Perhaps, I was being too cynical. It'd be better if I could just keep my mouth shut and walk off as told. But judging from my character, I was not so. I cared for him, that's why I've stayed, came back and offered advices. Some people are just not grateful with people around them I would say take things for granted.

So, would it be better I just go back home, not my business and hoped for a miracle to happen? Let me do something like this in future. Let me mind my own businesses, say "Oh, I'm just a girl and I can't offer much help, because I am just a dumb bitch..."

Did I hear any apology from you dear? Think about it.

The worst performance ever....??




Suddenly I felt sad for Britney. In fact, the whole world has felt bad for her. Her dance moves are rusty and she looked stoned. She chose to come back to the show biz after having 2 kids and currently fighting over the divorce suit to get her kids. The single "Gimme More" is pretty good, catchy and very "Britney", of course.

She dun look sexy, I would rather call it a skimpy outfit worn for the wrong reason like an amateur striptease. Some says Britney can't be the next Madonna, who has been scorned looking like a fat cow after 2 child births too.

But Madonna worked hard to get back on how she looked like before. Has Britney been working hard in the gyms and having a proper diet to get her figure back? As a professional dancer before, she looked clumsy and people listed her as fat. She was not fat, but just not as agile and slim as before. Audiences would always remember her as the athletic, great performer and the image has cultivated into their heads.

It takes some time for her to be on the right track again, just give her another chance. By the way, she's getting all the attention now.