Monday, May 21, 2007
i finally got off my ass and did something
Since being retrenched from the SAF, i've found myself to be quite horribly busy with god knows what, and thus i felt that i wasn't updating this space as religiously as i would have liked.
This entry's gonna make up for that, but it's gonna be minimal commentary and an overloading of pictures.
Just the way i like it.
10 March 2007
The day that i collected my pink IC was the same day that the Sec 1 camp at Greenridge Sec, which i was a facilitator in, started.
It lasted for 3 days and all of us were super shagged after that from constantly talking at the top of our voices to make the kids listen.
I remembered we brought the kids to Fort Canning and the camp organiser cautioned us not to shout at the children because there were outside people around. In the end i got allocated the very last Normal Tech class and i had to scream at them to play games.
"Do you all want to play games? You've been complaining that the camp's boring because there're no games and now i'm asking you all to play, you all refuse to co-operate. Do you want this camp to be just talking and NO GAMES? I give you all 10 seconds to form a circle in front of me now! 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1..."
And formed they did. Haha!
Even thou we were all complaining about how rowdy and misbehaved the kids were, at the end of the day, it was sad to leave. But oh well, they wouldn't have remembered me anyway.
Because of this camp, i missed out on my BMT platoon gathering.
From the photos, it seemed like a load of fun. Without me. Wanted to photoshop myself in the pic but was too lazy. Haha!
17 March 2007
Went for Zhencong's birthday celebration at Pitch Black. I'll just let the pictures do the talking here.
25 March 2007
Had an early celebration for Daren because Amir had to fly off to Europe and thus couldn't attend his actual birthday celebration. The theme of the day was "Stripes"!
Went to TCC before heading down to Menotti's for their delicious mini cakes. The cakes go for half price after 10pm, so it wasn't ex at all.
6 April 2007
Went for a dye job because i received a birthday discount from Singtel.
My hair's a blue-black base with ash streaks. But now if you see me the streaks are damn gold cos the dye's faded. But it's nicer like that.
My stylist's called Jackeline, so if any of you are mightily jealous of my hair, you can go find her at the Supercuts at Far East. She's off on Mondays thou. Just tell her that i referred her to you, cos she knows me.
8 April 2007
Got free Rivermaya concert tickets from youth.sg and dragged Tee Seng along for it. I reckon he's got the "free" face. Remember i got free tickets to The Swimming Instructor? He went with me too.
Since Rivermaya's a Philippines band, there were groups of maid-looking women screaming their undying devotion. It was hilarious cos TS kept imitating the Tagalog accent and saying stuff like, "Madarm call arsk me where i at bart i doon dare answer because she dunch know i carm Ribermaya concert."
I can't do it as well as he can. Hilarity i tell you!
Anyhow, the concert rocked! They sang in English by the way, although there were some Tagalog songs thrown in, making the maids wild and giddy with excitement.
And yes, those were blown up condoms.
15 April 2007
Celebrated my birthday in advance with my friends. Shall blog about it in another entry.
21 April 2007
Celebrated both my brother's and my birthday with relatives and some of my brother's friends. Shall blog about it in another entry as well.
27 April 2007
Celebrated the birthday of the most chachafied person in my world, KOH TEE SENG, where he treated us to Sushi Tei. After that we went to Settler's Cafe where we surprised him in the middle of our gaming with a cake and his retardedly cute presents!
It wasn't easy to plan the surprise because we all were working and had no time to meet up, so Daren and i were scheming over web messenger at work and sending unreciprocated emails to Amir and Roger about the elaborate plan.
We very nearly made him cry when we called him at midnight and sang happy birthday to him over loudspeaker, while we were on the cab home. Dang. Should have emo-ed more.
12 May 2007
Caught Spiderman 3 with chachad.
In the cinema, he succeeded in talking loud enough to make the person on his other side turn to him to ask him to keep quiet.
I was like, "LOL!"
See my hair so "gim" now.
18 May 2007
Went to Chloe's place for her mini birthday dinner. Will blog when i receive photos.
19 May 2007
Was Roger's birthday but went for Amir's birthday celebration. Will blog when i receive the photos too.
20 May 2007
I've been lagging behind on my American Idol fixes so much for the past few weeks that i stayed home yesterday all day to clear the backlog.
It's so sad that Melinda's out cos it just shows that the best might not necessarily win it.
Made me think of the youth.sg blogging competition where i got the best judges score but then again it's really up to the public voting.So vote for B7 if you want justice to be served! (as if you've never heard it before)
The competition entry, as usual, is here.
-VOTING'S CLOSED-
Labels: birthday, photoshop, random, youth.sg
Saturday, March 24, 2007
i Am @ Youth.SG : what juni wants
This year ain't the year of the pig...
It's the year of the birthday parties!!!
Especially for the 1986 batch, because EVERYONE'S TURNING 21!
Like duh.
At first, i didn't want to have a celebration for myself. I intended to just let my birthday slip by like the previous years, with only some friends asking me out.
But after being invited to so many parties, i gian already la!
With great parties come great responsibility.
I'm frazzled enough as it is, but i still have to manage the guestlist, cater food, order cake, buy extra sides.
All of which i've not done.
I've done one thing thou.
I've created an improbable wishlist for fear of people buying me stuffed toys. Although some of the items there are like impossibles, a boy can dream.
Ok, without further ado, it's 不要脸 (thick skinned) time.
I doubt the Abercrombie polos can be found in Singapore (i don't want cheong ones!), you can try buying them online thou! Oh, i'll accept Ralph Lauren polos too! NO GIORDANO OR NO FOOD FOR YOU!
If you wanna get Topman tees or shirts, i wear M hor. I know i'm fat, dun need to make me look fatter by buying me baggy clothes. And try to abstain from white/light colours cos it's fattening!
What's most important is to surprise me! But after this entry, i think it's hard for me to get surprised.
Aiyah, if i think of anything else i'll edit this entry and repost it! Kinda braindead from all that photoshopping.
If you're not sure how to get any items from the list, ask me ask me!
Now everyone chant with me,
NO STUFFED TOYS, NO ORNAMENTS, NO CRAPPY CLOTHES!
NO STUFFED TOYS, NO ORNAMENTS, NO CRAPPY CLOTHES!
NO STUFFED TOYS, NO ORNAMENTS, NO CRAPPY CLOTHES!
NO STUFFED TOYS, NO ORNAMENTS, NO CRAPPY CLOTHES!
NO STUFFED TOYS, NO ORNAMENTS, NO CRAPPY CLOTHES!
NO STUFFED TOYS, NO ORNAMENTS, NO CRAPPY CLOTHES!
NO STUFFED TOYS, NO ORNAMENTS, NO CRAPPY CLOTHES!
NO STUFFED TOYS, NO ORNAMENTS, NO CRAPPY CLOTHES!
NO STUFFED TOYS, NO ORNAMENTS, NO CRAPPY CLOTHES!
If anyone gets me crappy stuff i'll throw a tantrum and sit on the floor!
Not like i haven't done it before.
But nothing beats my brother.
Remember people, there's a fine line to being poor and being cheap. Careful which side you tread on.
HAHA!
Oh man i'm coming off as such an ass. I'm really very nice in real life one...
p/s, i've tagged this entry with 'friendship' because you guys are such great friends! i wuv chew!
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Labels: birthday, competition, friendship, photoshop, random, rants, wishlist
Monday, March 19, 2007
windows live messenger
Met with ZC, gabs and yushan. It felt like a weird combi because i was crashing in on their "family" outing.
We walked around alot looking for a present for yushan, ate alot of carbo and spent alot of money.
The crux of the outing was whether to go watch a movie or to go sing Kbox. Finally, it was decided by the decisive zc that we should watch a horror movie.
And since it's his actual birthday today, we had no choice but to accept our fate.
What can i say about the show?
Oh how about, yushan fell asleep, and so did zc himself?
The show, directed by the Pang brothers, was a typical Asian horror flick with Hollywoodism injected into it.
It's actually quite hard for me to remember the details now. That's how unmemorable the show was. Apparently it's about how children can see things that adults cannot.
The only part that vaguely made an impression on me was when the mother realised that the little boy was staring at some empty corner, and she asked him what was there.
The little boy merely pointed at the empty corner.
Then the mother realised that the little boy could see things that she couldn't and tried to ask him where they were.
The little boy continued to point at the same spot.
The mother then asked, "What do they look like?"
The little boy brought his hands up to his eyes...
And made a face.
That was damn freaky. Other than that, the show was rather predictable and lame.
I was joking that i didn't understand why the movie was titled "The Messengers".
Liddat nearly every horror movie can be called that. Nearly all ghosts come back to haunt the place because they have some sort of message they need to tell some unsuspecting girl who will then either find the remains of the ghost/find out how they really died/find the person who killed them.
So cliche.
I mean, if the show was about maybe msn or something then the title would be self explanatory.
Girl staring at the computer screen: "OMG, why's HE appearing online? He's supposed to be DEAD!"
Whoa, that's scary.
Labels: birthday, movie, photoshop, random
Saturday, March 03, 2007
colour is overrated
I'm suffering from blogger's block, that's why it's been quiet for awhile.
Oh don't be mistaken that i've bounced back from it. I think i might just retreat for awhile.
People asking me to blog's nice, but a little stressful.
For the past few days, i've been going out with different girls one-on-one. 
Caught Just Follow Law with Huishan on Tuesday. And she brought be on my virgin experience at Ben & Jerry's.
If you like the colour, or lack thereof, of the picture, here's a cool site for you to explore.
www.picnik.com
It doesn't do the frames and all, that i did it on photoshop, but you can upload any picture on the website and edit the colour, contrast, size, rotation, and there's even a creative tool with special effects where you can transform your pictures from common to, i quote huishan, "shi mei de lor".
Go explore la, don't need to download or install anything. Perfect for the photoshop idiot in you.
Other than her, i've gone out with mabs and sc for dinner and some shopping at bugis and vivo respectively. Tsk, i know i'm kinda scandalous but it's strictly platonic! Don't speculate!
Being single is fun, but it can get tiring from all the friend-hopping i'm doing, but i wouldn't trade my friends for the world!
Ok maybe i would. It's the world leh...
Labels: photoshop, random, recommendations
Thursday, February 08, 2007
hossan and homosexuals
What a provocative title eh, and no, the two are not connected.
Anyway, it's late and i'm bushed.
Blog again!
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Went to watch another play with the gang on Wednesday.
This time, it was Multiple Personalities Disorder!, a one man show by Hossan Leong.
The ratio of the number of plays versus the number of movies i watched this year is now 2:0.
Back to the play, it wasn't as fabulous as Chestnuts, but it was quite enjoyable nonetheless. I know it's been said to death, but it's true that the funniest bits were the ones when he was himself, bitching about this and that.
The parts where he played someone else at best induced a chuckle out of me. Others were plain unfunny. But then again, he's a multi-talented actor/singer/comedian, and people will flock to see his show.
We sure did.
I aspire to have my own show someday, where i just talk rubbish like i always do and people will laugh, even though it might be a little bit rude. But then again i'm not multi-talented, so people might not flock.
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I read on the newspapers, also on Wednesday that there's been a new breakthrough in the study of why homosexuals exist.
The article debunks the belief that being gay is by choice and claims that homosexuality is biological. Scientists study rams and found that significant portions of the group were either asexual, bisexual or homosexual.
This could mean that while Jack and Ennis were going at it brokebackedly in their tents, outside, the rams were having a romp too.
In case you don't know, rams are male sheep.
The article's quite interesting, highlighting not only the scientific breakthroughs, but also those in the social point of view. They question whether society would easier accept gays if they come to accept that it's not a perverse sexual preference, but just an additional sexual orientation.
Eh. So chim.
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I've been hard at work sending my resumes to whatever japalang schools i could find that's remotely situated around my area.
I hope i didn't sound too desperate. But my sentbox looks damn desperate.
If i don't get replies soon, i'm gonna send another batch of those emails out to schools further away from me.
But i realise that even if i get a relief teaching stint, i'll be jobless during the June holidays!
Anyone have any good lobangs?
Labels: culture, newspaper, photoshop, teaching
Saturday, February 03, 2007
another one turns 21
For more details, contact the man himself.
I'm just the designer.
Nice? Maybe i should start charging.
Monday, January 22, 2007
please bear with me
thru my misery...
Somehow, i keep feeling the 14th of next month looming closer and i'm feeling oh so alone. I haven't felt this single since JC.
Nope, i'm not pining for those that have come and gone, i'm just have that general emptiness about myself again.
It's good cos in a way, it means i've really moved on from my disasterous 2nd relationship and now am looking for the next adventure. It's good because, even thou i still look back longingly at the happier times i've had, even thou i still tear at sad chinese love songs, i'm starting to do it less.
However, that doesn't dispell the dark creature called loneliness that has surfaced from inside of me.
If anything, the creature has grown stronger, and is growing stronger still. It doesn't help when my allies in camp have gone, and home is but a boring solitude.
Being in camp makes me realise how pathetic i am. Am i such a needy person to always have a need to scroll through my phonebook to search in vain for that elusive person to message, for that suitable person to call. The ending's always the same. There's no one.
Being at home makes me realise how inactive my life has become. How stagnant. All i do is hole up in my room and stare at the computer screen till i develop a throbbing headache. No one bothers me on msn, i have no one to bother who will bother about me.
Sometimes i think i have no friends. None that would actually come running out of their own accord to help me up when i fall. It's either i have to plead them for help, or they walk away with their gaze averted. I know that's not true, but sometimes it might just be.
Going out and having fun are all superficial to me. Fun's relative. Why do i have to pander to everyone's wants and complaints? I find just going out to grab coffee at Starbucks or Coffee Bean as enjoyable as say shopping, or watching a movie, or some planned activity or other.
Why can't things be spontaneous? Must i really have to book my friends a few days before hand and wait for them to check their schedule before giving me an answer? Well, unlike me, other people are just too busy with their enriched lives.
I don't know what's gotten over me. Maybe it's seeing different people's 21st birthday going by, and when i think of my own coming in a few months time, i feel oddly inadequate. Have i succeeded in ditching my wings and turning from the social butterfly back into an antisocial mealworm? I have failed to make lasting friendships in the institutions after secondary school. Maybe i'm just a mealworm after all.
You know, reading back, everything just doesn't make sense... Maybe i should keep my bleakness inside, and let this blog be what it appears to be, by someone who appears to have a life and many friends.
I'm just too drained for a proper entry about my fantastic, albiet short time at Timbre for the second time.
Maybe another day then.
And i leave you with this adorable picture of the girls.
Friday, January 19, 2007
much ado about nothing
My friend asked me to watch this youtube video cos it was funny.
At first i didn't understand why it was funny, only that it was about a maid, so i asked him and he kept saying "Maria Clara".
At first, i thought that was the maid's name.
Apparently, it's the name of the national costume of Philippine. Watch the video and you'll understand.
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My life has been pretty uneventful these days, thus the lack of updates.
Camp's been bleak as the campmates who were from my batch but ORDing in Feb are clearing leave. That leaves me in the mercy of the junior batches (who are all a few years older than me cos they came from ITE), who treats me like crap.
Seriously, they're giving me more and more shitty duties, even though i'm next in line to exit. I treated them so nicely in the past and i can't believe those dunno how to ying shui si yuan fuckers are turning around and fucking me in the face.
Urgh, i so didn't wanna go to camp that i "came down" with diarrhoea(i had to look at the medicine packet for the spelling) and flu and had to go down to the polyclinic to see the doctor.
While there, i think i caught something worse because the moment i came home, i really got got really sick.
My nose is going to fall off because of the constant blowing and sneezing.
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Anyway, mabs came to me with the usual photoshop request, to make her into a spokesperson like how i always do to myself.
This time, the woman wanted to be spokesperson for Peugeot.
*Your wish is my command*
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I received an email which i found to be quite interesting, and actually quite true for my part. 
Is it accurate for you?
