Thursday, April 16, 20096:48 PM
Random Rantings
Alright folks, another update! Haha. I was very plagued by many many thoughts, and no one to convey it to. So here goes:
How does one differentiate a fat lady from a pregnant lady (who happens to look chubby)? I keep having this problem on the train. From my eye level (sitting down) I see a bulge, pudgy limbs and I associate that with being plump. But some people will shoot me dirty looks because they being ALL-KNOWING can immediately tell the difference between pregnant and plain fat. Being anti-social, it's not a habit of mine to look at other people's faces (also have a paranoia that when I look at someone they can tell and will stare back at me, thus creating an "awkward" moment for me) I also didn't exactly realise that one you're pregnant, your limbs may expand (very unfortunate, and I think I might be one of them too), cos the pregnant women I see maintain sleek figures (like my Geog teacher, my lady boss, my aunt...) *sigh* the dilemma. Anyway, if THEY can identify preggie women, why dont THEY give up their seats? Silly right?
Coffee does bad things to my skin. I've got 3 students and colleagues telling me I look like ghost/haggard/sick/pale. Notice it's happening in the work area. No one notices my sickly complexion otherwise. Thus I conclude: Work makes me look like shit.
My spending power is considerably reduced. Not cos no bonus or pay reduce or anything drastic. I'm counting my blessings that I am working, have decent pay in this indecent times. Just that prices of decent education, cost of living became indecently high, everything I wanna do must think twice. Can't even have cake anytime I want now.
My lady boss told me "The younger generation students are becoming more vocal in their appeals (& complains)" I think she forgot to mention they became more spineless and dependent too. *tsk tsk* I pity the future... Maybe we'll be living in a robot era, where the younger generations lie in automated massage beds to remain svelte looking instead or walking their butts off doing decent work. What kind of world do I live in?
I really wanna up my butt off to go study/work in somewhere I like. But yes as some friends delicately put it, working in this environment makes you go soggy. become spineless. Man, who can give up these benefits? Need to rebuild my spine, and part with some of my hard-earn savings already...
I like sweet egg toast. Need to get more cinnamon sugar...
Suikoden Tierkries is a good RPG (with very bad dubbing and subbing) but not a goos Suikoden. Maybe cos it's dumbed down for the DS? Not sure. But yea, methinks the gameplay is better than the FFs. But story not there (very simple, and though thre are "mysterious things happening", their revelation is very "Chey..."), army battles not there, the characters I recruited dont feel substantial enough to be in 108 stars (but in S4 there are worse characters...), up til now I dont think there will be any appearances or old Suiko chars... kinda disappointed) . There are good parts tho, like animated cutscenes for important 108 stars, reusing very familiar sound effects, good graphics, some interesting characters. Still can evoke a sense of nostalgia. *spoiler alert* I just don't like how they squeeze all the explanation of the Suiko world into "an infinite number of worlds". I prefer the story of the 27 true runes and the Sword and Shield story thank you very much. I'm doing all I can to stop thinking of improving it (or playing it during work).
I need a holiday, plsthxbye
Monday, March 30, 20097:13 PM
Massive Update
Ooook.. I think... I have been updating for a little bit... Ok make that a large bit. So I'm just going to do a massive update at this point. Is going to be long n *mayb* full of photos. Depends
1. Valentine's Day, my first, and it's where I left off at anyway
2. Changi Airport. Is a random trip just to eat Popeye's
3.East Coast Park. Day out with Parrot's colleagues. A somewhat happy day.
4. Sentosa!!! Is possibly the first happy night I spent away from home.
5. VM news. A little thing me, Hammy and Peaceful started and is starting to flower.
Ok, update complete. ta-da! *audience screams "NANI KORE!?!?" & throws rotten tomatoes*
Ok ok~ Chill. I was just kidding. I promised photos right? Here you go!
Puppets taking a bus to the Airport.
Puppets also spotted exploding head...
Puppets at T3
T3
Puppets contemplating a lobster dish...
Puppets' Trip~ I skipped V-Day, cos it's an extra special private day, with flowers, stars and yakitori (not ideal food for a romantic evening but it's the company that matters)
Anyway Parrot & I decided to head to Changi Airport for a change of environment. Ok, it's still in Singapore, and is full of foreigners, but somehow I feel far away from home. Maybe it's the extreme tidiness of everything, how everything looks posh yet homely. Can't put a finger on it, but I still like it. Except for the stinky Skytrain.
Moving on, I was hit by a sudden arrow of socializing, and so agreed to tag along Parrot's company outing to East Coast Park. Me not an avid bowler, avid cyclist nor an avid Frisbee fan but I did all 3 anyway. And yes I even talked to strangers. Applause please, for this anti-social Princess decided to step out of her castle for a day. I guess I enjoy getting my joints moving, riding a Parrot-powered 2 seater bike and watching the sky change color. Yea, that's about it. I'm still not used to socialising, especially with people who speaks Chinese majorly.
Lone fishing
Pretty sky
Sitting by the sea
Doing motion blur on the bike
Water ski park. Took this while speeding down the road. Awesome cam my Parrot got me
Watching the sun set. Wished I could stay there with Parrot(only) to watch the sky completely darken and streets light up
Playing with Sparklers! Scary fiesty little stick. But it makes pretty lights. Teddy has fire-phobia by the way. Newly discovered
As I had some unused funds for a short holiday, I decided to check in for 1 night, at Amara Sanctuary, Sentosa. Not Tanjong Pagar. It's a hidden place (and I say it with spite), but other than it lacking signs pointing to its whereabouts, I can find no complain. Maybe I'm not a picky person, or my stay wasn't long enough, or I was distracted by Parrot to notice anything lacking in the resort. but anyway, we had a well-relaxed evening, and a refreshing walk around some parts of Sentosa. Haven't tried the Luge (how do you pronounce this???) yet, but we went to the Songs of the Sea. Amazing effects, and that's all that is good about it.
Songs of the sea
Complimentary breakfast at the resort.
My Parrot took these shots of the hotel
Weddings bells~ Hahaha
Amara Sanctuary Rooftop swimming pool.
View from the swimming pool. Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing.
Old Army camp, now Tourism Academy
Us having fun with shadows
Ok, VM stuff. We (me, Hao and Gab) have set up a Machinima production group (I don't wanna use company, it's too formal), doing Machinima as our revenue generating hobby. Please visit us here : Virtuamotion, for more details. Spread the word around, if you think you have the skills we need, we welcome you aboard. Terms & conditions apply, naturally =) Oh if you happen to walk past Tangs, do look at the TV displays to see our work. Should be playing at all their stores for around 1 month. Thanks for the support of several people (especially my ever tolerant Parrot) for making VM work. We will be 1 years old by 1st April. This ain't a joke
Ciao and take care. Who knows when I'll update again XD
Wednesday, February 11, 20096:46 AM
The Inconsiderate people rant
It's been a while since I updated. Or even ranted. Busy busy busy. Busy doing shit work, busy pretending doing shit work, etc etc.
So anyway, the couple of things that have been happening that pissed me off and hopefully not piss me off any longer are:
a. inconsiderate students who think they own the place.
now imagine being holed up in a fish tank with approx 20 monkeys and some remotely human monkeys (let's face it, even the better ones still monkey around when you're not looking), and your boss (not really boss but still) insist you keep discipline in this fish tank. And said boss sits next door. And can see monkeys being monkeys. Also, I have a low tolerance rate because:
1. I already feel useless in this job, making me sit with monkeys is just emblazoning I'm more useless etc etc, and said monkeys like to point out the fact that I do nothing but "close doors and tear wraps off chairs" (I feel obliged to say said sentiments do not apply to the other unfortunate (or maybe not so) place-mate, I can't even call it a room, it's another box. Just less blacker)
2. Other staffs have own room. Even though said room is fish tank with makeshift cover and some said staff are same rank as me (tho more senior obviously). Don't blame said staff. Their boss obviously not a discipline control freak of some sort. Just another weirder more abstract sort...
3. I feel exposed. Even if they build a 2m high wall blocking out monkeys, I don't feel safe leaving my things lying around. Which is why I double check triple check my belongings and lock before I leave. Usually I leave my stuff hanging about. Talk about paranoia.
4. These monkeys have no sense of voice control or discipline. Previously, the other students (noisy but possess sense of right and wrong) would tone down when warned. And there was respect. But said monkeys... What can I say, there's a few reason why humans can invent gadgets to wipe out monkeys. They possess none of those reasons. Said monkeys will probably end up being some insurance agent of some sort. Anyway they have 1 more week before I kick their asses GG.
b. Even now, there are people older (or abit younger) than me who sees nothing wrong with standing at the staircase landing hogging up the place. Someone should just shove them down. Remove hazardous obstacles.
c. This is the reason why epidermic spread so easily. Uncles like to hold the handrails of the train with both hands (maybe for balancing or airing their pits, I don't wish to know), and so their hands are definitely occupied, which gives them the excuse to cough (loudly, with specks of phlegm and saliva) at innocent passengers around them. One of them being me. Even though I glared at said inconsiderate, selfish, unhygienic, barbaric, rude, mediocre uncle several times, said uncle happily coughed away. Then some stupid teenager with the same double-hand-holding-bar habit started coughing. Without covering. And with extra ingredients. Kami-sama bless us not to have another Sars attack for they intend no harm but to merely use both hands to prevent other passengers that are unable to balance already (me) from holding the bars.
d. Yes clients are kings, etc etc. But the kind of clients that definitely deserve good quality works are the ones who:
1. understand the product/service they are getting
2. understand their own products/services (you'll be surprised)
3. communicates properly
4. supplies accurate and relevant information, open to questions service-provider might have
5. do not insist (repeatedly, once or twice is understandable) on something impossible within a tight schedule, even though there were valid reasons to reject said impossible task
6. do not readjust tight schedule to make it tighter (no reasons given)
7. do not spam edits like it's water. We're humans too, Your money isn't big enough to buy our sanity and health and above-mentioned monkeys' well-sacrificed lives
7. announces last min (fully edited, rendered) that they want a video for a 4:3 TV, not widescreen. Hurrah
If there are such clients, Kami-sama you are doing your job after all. Just let them be my clients.
Meanwhile, I will put my game face on, and wait for V-Day. To whom it may concern, I expect alot from you, since you made me anticipate it so much. *evil grin*
Tuesday, February 10, 20095:56 PM
I hate new shoes
today is rant day. Hahahaha.
Yesterday I went to C&K's outlet store at Anchorpoint (Big hint to get cheap shoes ok) and saw alot of shoes that I wanted to get but thankfully didn't. One of them was a Guess/Ninewest rip-off (so obvious la) that me and Parrot spied a couple of months before. The other one was this pink flats that me & Elmo saw but I didn't buy cos... well, Princess Teddy doesn't approve of its price tag. Needless to say, P.Teddy got both. Cos the rainy weather soaked her 2 comfy ballet flats until they became stinky. *sob* Comfy shoes never last long, good shoes never come cheap. New shoes will definitely kill your feet... Cos... my heels.. bleeding now T_T stupid pink flats... *steps them silly*
Anyway I will pass a few flyer people (those that distribute flyers) on my way to work. And they are now classified as "Escalator Hazards" cos their outstretch arms just block the path to escalators, so imagine a mad rush towards the escalators, said flyer people extending arms.. and "KABLAM" people tripping head over heels on to the moving escalator, getting their body parts (somehow) compressed under the steps and flyer people's arm prolly dislocated or disemboweled and flying off somewhere... See? So horrible... Simply replace flyer people with tissue sellers in wheelchairs for other alternative Escalator Hazards at Jurong East MRT.
Then another inconsiderate bunch. Those that insist on standing in between the 2 yellow arrows on the train platform. Blatantly too. Cos this morning this AUNTIE was standing right in front of the train doors and looking straight at me So I glared at her. Did she budge? Noooooo~ Continue staring at me. Dno why she never board. Maybe I too fierce, she controlling pee in her pants that's why cannot move. *sigh* aunties... so inconsiderate.
So peaceful, cos no students today~ Save for a few retainers... Wonder why it's so difficult to pass something. Why is it so difficult to understand that "you suffer abit to save alot of your time later" It's not that bad right? Sit there doing your work for 3 months, 10am (yea after that is late, in my time 9am is late) to 5.30pm (I close one eye la) doing a decent passable job in a simple platform (Is soooooooo simple you just click and drag). Ok it's boring but. 3 months only!!! Kids nowadays... need to reposition their world view. They expect so much, but they only have this little capability to perform. Simply put, no talent but over ambitious. *sigh* I will put my kids into perspective next time. Be realistic...
What's with toys anyway? I'm going to start an "anti-toys club for WAGs of toys collector" Yes I know it's brilliantly made, which is why I sometimes tend to agree to let my toy collector collect his toys but... omg the cost. I can go buy 2 of that nice Esprit bag I saw last month but didn't buy cos I was saving for a better life. Obviously he thinks its alright to delay future plans for a toy. But seriously I'm sick of toys, sick of my current life and I need something to look forward to. Maybe he can go buy his toys and I'll go live in Paris with Chanel and Prada.
Speaking of being sick of my current life... I think I'll get some partition and block up my desk and stick posters of Japan or pretty places on it. I'm so sick of grey walls and green lights. Someone save me please.
Monday, December 29, 20088:43 PM
It's mah birfday!
Whee~ the best part about birthdays are:
1. you get to be Queen for the day
2. you just have to say "But it's my Birthday" and people will stop questioning your illogical reasons. (Try it, it's fun)
3. Presents (even better if you birthday coincides with X'mas and year-end bonus. Kidding)
4. the surprise of receiving something from people whom you never thought you would receive from
5. The warm fuzzy feeling when you realise there are people who remembered and cared about you
6. Cake
7. Feeling strangely wise for 1 hour before doing something stupid later without feeling stupid
8. Simply get dead drunk on happiness and the warm fuzzy feeling. (no booze needed)
9. Stuff myself silly because no one gets fat on their birthdays (as if)
10. All the mean feeling I had a day ago evaporated. Even my tummy behaved.
See? Birthdays are good. What did I do anyway... Er yea I watched Bedtime Stories, kinda funny, abit touching. Then I had waffles in-lieu of cake, cos I am cutting down on dairy until my tummy is better (so actually, I had only 3 miserable slices of cake instead of an entire cake... *sniff*)
My waffle. At least I had chocolate ice-cream to go with it~
Then I got dragged up Fort Canning. Again. Sheesh. But anyway I got a camera to play with, so I took some random shots. Hehehe fun. Thanks to my dear Parrot for the cam~ Whee~
Me playing hide & seek at a very old and creepy looking gateway
Very odd looking tree
Back view of odd looking tree
Special bench. Ehehehe
My version of special bench. Normal right?
Parrot's version of special bench. Hmph, fine, professional loh~
Went to Central for dinner. Toko more pics on the way. Did I ever mentioned Clarke Quay is my favourite place in Singapore? As if no one noticed. Even my dad realised and was rather annoyed... Hahaha at least I'm not going there for alcoholic purposes...
Gosh I'm in love with my new cam...
Parrot's usual
My usual
Our miserable Gyoza. Even Koufu's owned it
What's X'mas without a X'mas tree? My version...
Parrot's version. Ok fine u win. U even have a star *sulks*
Yay Presents time~ Love all my presents, except the random one from Santa's bag. It's a cute present, but it's utterly "useless". Hahaha, no I'm not being mean. I got a "Useless" book
Me and my Useless book
Princess Teddy 2: Jeremiah Rosebud. Gift from my NYP colleagues. Ha~ Thanks people. I had fun pretending to be Princess with her tiara. Hehehehe
HRH Jeremiah Rosebud with her Teddy minions.
Parrot and Vegetarian gave me this as a surprise pre-lude present. They got it via those catch-machines. Lucky guys
Will post more present pics soon. I'm missing out the presents I got from the guys, my sweet bros, and of cos my dear Parrot. And I still haven't gotten the ones from Lyn and UBD... so yea maybe I'll continue all at one go... Hehehe
Yesterday went out for some me time. Yes I took leave, no I'm not slacking. As UBD so profoundly puts it, I went out for some female maintenance. Namely, feed my Rose Juliet craving
I had tcc Ti-RUM-misu. I remember I had something like that last year. It shrank by half dammit. *digs up old post for pics* Bah. Lost it. But last time, it came in a decent plate, with the odd berries, nt a plastic cup. But it still packs rum. Hmm-hmmm
My Rose Juliet~ Thankfully not much has been changed, size wise and taste wise. Bliss!
Monday, December 22, 20089:33 PM
more animals
There I said it. Tho technically, my bday is 2 days away and I had a cake last Sat... Er.. details details... Hehe
Monday, December 15, 20087:28 PM
I feel mean
I'm doing all I can to stop myself from swinging from 1 emotion to the next. I'm feeling sad, angry, jealous, lazy, generally pissed at anything that moves. And I don't know why. Actually maybe I do, but if I list it out I will prolly hurt a few people here and there. Bah. I'm so bored it feels lonely. See, everyone is in the busy club. All have something to do. Yea, I have something to do, but after an hour or so I stop...and then get bored and wonder why no one can play with me... Why do I feel like I'm the only one that doesn't like what I'm doing. I don't like being me...
Anyway I'm generally pissed at the slobs I'm getting for this project. I gave them like, what, 2 weeks to research, and they can't even.. ##$%$!$@#@ Nevermind, I'll get a vein or two burst if this keeps up. And why haven't they gotten the freaking island? how long is it going to take? It's stalling progress can't you see? Slowpokes. Tortoises. Aliens!!!
Why do I know people that think they are the only ones in the world that is sad or suffering, and other people are expected to treat them like Kings or Queens once they get into the 'emotional, tortured artist' stage? Sometimes I find such 'artists' who fight for their own 'space' and 'freedom' selfish sods who don't know the meaning of consideration. They don't care if what they do or want affects others around them because their world is all about 'Me, me and me' There's no one sadder than them nor can there be people happier than them. Somehow they'll find ways to overshadow you, and what you feel is insignificant, and you're just a pawn in their big plans.
Then why are there sad sobs desperate for girls but never see what they look at in the mirror clearly? Obviously, if you think you're a good catch and yet no one is caring there's something wrong with you. Like what Russel Peters said, don't hit above your range. If you're an average looking guy, stick to average looking girls. This is a battlecry for all the girls whom the guys think "Don't look hot enough for me" but still has that heart of gold guys never tried to look at. It's not fair guys can be superficial so girls waste time and money to doll up. Tables are turned you sods, go get your Armani spray, clean up nicely and workout every bone in your body. If you don't put in effort to get the girl, don't expect any girls to look nice for you. You don't deserve their effort. And watch out, even the prettiest rose has thorns, but the plain looking jasmine smells the nicest. HRH has warned you.