niq

2007-05-31T12:56:00.000-04:00

okay lazy to tell people the new blog link. its here! have fun.

moved!

2007-05-17T07:21:00.000-04:00

i've moved!!! guess where?

changing to lj

2007-05-15T09:45:00.001-04:00

i think i'm gonna slowly make the change over to livejournal.

haha! oh well. anyway, some blog worthy moments today. 2 blog-worthy moments. for the first one, refer to this picture.

my younger brother saw me wearing this shirt today. and...

he said: "wah nice shirt. what does it say? BO-RED?"
me: "you stupid ah?"
he said: "not BO-RED? then? BOCREDI?" (apparently the open and close brackets look like Cs and Is to him)

2nd blog worthy moment; Pink Panther comes up on our tv and dad goes: "eh this movie nice. Beyond Knowledge is acting in it."

myheritage.com

2007-05-13T07:07:00.000-04:00

found this site in the Sunday Times today. where they have some kinda software that matches your face to celebrities. so i thought i'd try it.

apparently, i resemble 51% of Andy Roddick....

sadly, i resemble 68% of that Vassily Ivanchuk character.

home

2007-05-09T05:31:00.000-04:00

i'm home! and it's nice to be here. so..in a nutshell....

the journey back home was hell tiring. the welcoming party at the airport was more than i asked for, because aside from my family, yvonne came (: and the welcoming party back home was definitely more than i expected. carl and beks. thanks guys! pity jiaxiang couldn't be there when i was back, though he was there earlier. the gang hung out in my room the whole day apparently. and that jackass contemplated lighting one up in my room. geez!! my room is pure and undefiled. haha!

oh yeah, and i've got my camera with me! haha! now all i gotta do, is remember to bring it to Bloomington the next time i leave. so here're some pics!! i don't know why, but being home makes me lazy to blog. retardedly blur pics these are, but i don't care. i'm just gonna post em.

them chilling on my bed.
carl doin idon'tknowwhat
my babe! beks! soooo happy seeing her! i'm obliged to say that i will miss my family most when i leave again. but you're right up there beside them beks!

my welcome-back ballon. these were my farewell balloons...

i think they hit some financial bump. HAHA. just kidding. i love all the balloons!

oh yeah and while i was lookin thru the pictures in the camera, i came across this.

i don't think my brother meant the picture in that way....but it's still hilarious. HAHA. oh man. cracks me up just lookin at it! anyways, time for a nap. day 1 & 2 have been fun enough (:

day 3 = some needed rest.

you know you're in singapore when...

2007-05-06T23:38:00.000-04:00

you know you're in singapore when....

people scramble to get on and off the airplane
people don't think twice about shouting over other people's heads to communicate with their friends
people don't give a crap about their appearance (ie: "i will wear pajamas on the airplane if i want to!!!!!")
they carry all their shopping bags on board the plane instead of checkin them in.
instead of waiting for a queue to ease up, they just HAVE to get in the thick of things and squeeze into the line.
when they cuss, they cuss in hokkien

oh! and you know who are american tourists because....

when they get into foreign airports, the first thing they do is to FIND THE MEAT! hence, you see all them bulky americans sitting on the teensy chairs at the BURGER KING OUTLETS in foreign airports.

its a sad day

2007-05-02T22:41:00.000-04:00

i'm disconsolate.

i'm not angry that united lost. i would be angry if they played well and deserved to win but didn't. but the fact of the matter is that we were outplayed, outpaced, outskilled. outclassed. but owell! so i'm sad. just sad.

looking on the bright side, it's been a great season and we're still up for 2 trophies we could pip chelsea to (: anyway this kinda brightened my day.

funny stuff. if you didn't know, mcgrady is some NBA dude.

ANYWAY for people who didn't understand the joke bout Vista and China in my previous post...this is the explanation: 1.4 billion people in China, 244 copies of Windows Vista sold. What's funny? Its the China tech geeks who probably took a copy of Vista, ripped it and sold it to the other 1,399,999,756 people.

oh well. so that's it for today. oh and i only have one more exam left! (: but i'll probably wanna wear black armbands tomorrow to mourn united's loss.

youtubes

2007-05-01T18:21:00.000-04:00

owell since beks has took it upon herself to get me to post some youtubes...i'll be glad to do so. anyway, came across these youtubes some time ago but am only deciding to get them posted now. so yeah, first up are some youtubes of harry potter meets south park kinda situations.

whoever did these up are pure geniuses!

again. genius. i wish i had thought of that!

oh yeah and someone said the funniest thing while we were all watchin the chelsea liverpool game (which liverpool won btw..sorry vern).

"dude, did you know that only 244 copies of Windows Vista have been sold in China?"

without a doubt that's one of the funniest things i've heard in a long time. and he said it with a straight face. and the funniest thing bout it is...IT'S TRUE!

the world is our ______

2007-05-01T01:29:00.000-04:00

the world is our ________

HAHA

2007-04-29T22:09:00.000-04:00

imagine what would it be like if he names his son Hugo or Mongo or Major.

g202's done.

2007-04-29T16:34:00.000-04:00

another exam done, one less exam to get over and done with. its always a good feeling! after your last exam for a class. you don't really care whether you screwed it up or aced it. because at the end of the day, that was the last chance you had at doin well for the class. but then again, after the the initial post-exam euphoria for ONE exam settles...you start thinkin bout what you messed up for the exam.

so yeah, that moment's just a fleeting one! speaking of fleeting moments...was damn shocked when eugene showed this youtube to me. geez!!

now we know who the best drivers in the world are!

k204's down!

2007-04-28T17:27:00.000-04:00

that's one exam down so far! pretty excited bout that. few more exam days, few more studying days, few more cups of coffee from starbucks (i dunno, i think i just got the habit from studying for A's...yannoe? studying isn't studying until you mix it with Starbucks?), a few more hours of staring at computer screens and i'll be done for Spring 2007;

can't wait for summer'07!

gonna be takin a nice break from studying tonight and head for a friends' gig. that should be some good fun! meeting new people and all. good breather! definitely.

"Computer screens start up slower if you stare at the screen."

bad times bad times

2007-04-27T00:17:00.000-04:00

these are bad times!

i've got emotional-crisis patients to my left, remnants of the flu on my back, facebook on my right and studying in front of me.

but at least i've got a place to stay next year. and i have my converse & coffee.

remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

indescribable

2007-04-25T00:00:00.000-04:00

words can't pinpoint how i felt from 4-430 this afternoon. i'll try;

pins & needles on my hands and feet. you know the tingly feeling you get when you're anxious and you start to get clammy hands? and you unconsciously run your fingers through your hair and start grabbing at it when you get spurts of excitement? or how you don't realize it but you were so caught up in the action that you had no idea you mouth was hanging open. your heart beating it's way outta your ribcage. voicebox gets constricted.

thats how i felt watchin the second half of the united-milan game. boyyyy was i on the edge watchin it with fellow united supporters. i swear i've never been that happy over any manchester united goal in my life. i literally had no idea what to do when they scored. should i shout? scream? jump? you won't believe what i did. i friggin jumped off the seat, yellin my balls off with vejay (dude watchin the game next to me) and we just faced each other and yelled together and just shared a bear hug (aww). that's for the first goal.

2nd goal celebration was even more ridiculous. i had a cup of coke in my hand. and since rooney scored in the 91st minute, everyone was outta their mind!!!! shouted in the dorm lounge like no ones business. and yet again, i had no idea what to do with my hands. so i decided to throw my half full cup of coke away! like, launch it at a wall or sth. but the moment i did it, coke somehow fell all over my head. HAHA total klutz moment! but yeah! i didn't care at that point!

but then again, i guess the intensity was felt by EVERY united fan. friggin Old Trafford was suppperrrr quiet. whenever united attacked, no one made too much noise. as if shouting would make shots go astray.

but i do now! my hair's all sticky and stuff. prrft. but it was well worth it. the united team showed guts, perseverance and grit. simply amazing the way they came back from 2-1 down against an italian club, known for their defensive abilities. kudos to united! lets hope things turn out well in the away leg!

anyways, got the pics from mr and ms asia;

mr and ms thailand. hilarious dude and the hot dancer (hot dancer doesn't = hot looking dancer)

mr and ms indonesia, the winners
mr and ms singapore. haha!
and of course...me! having the entire stage to myself.
owells and thats that for today's post!

screwed over

2007-04-23T22:15:00.000-04:00

i guess the saying not to put all your eggs in one basket is a lesson that has to be learned in a harsh way.

what do you do when you kinda get screwed over? taking into consideration you based a lot of things on that matter and it got really really messed up. so what do you do? i guess you just sit and hope that an alternative pops out.

they did it!

2007-04-23T01:09:00.000-04:00

they did it! they slipped up against the barcodes! wooooo weee!

and i just found out today that chelsea have to play arsenal still. next week in fact. so things suddenly look rosy all over again! anyways what happened this weekend...hmm, pretty much chilled the weekend away. took the weekend before exams to chill out and get some fun in before mugging the next 2 weeks away.

i'm starting to sound like a broken record, but in slightly under 2 weeks, i should be on my way home! skipping the thailand part of my homeward-bound journey cos of some family stuff. but at least i'll get to see everyone in one piece when i get back! cheers to that.

watched casino royale again on saturday. on dvd of course. and i still think its the best bond movie i've watched since i was born. definitely! oh and i'm starting to stock up on my movies to put in my vault (otherwise known as an external harddrive) so i can watch em when i'm bored in singapore (sureee get bored. 4 months in singapore. you're just asking to be bored!)

so until then..i'm gonna get some sleep. i get to sleep in! geog's canceled. apparently the professor's sick. owell. SO AM I! sticky mucus.

slip-up

2007-04-22T00:01:00.000-04:00

yikes!

i think chelsea's gonna knick the league title away from man utd! chelsea's 4 points behind with a few games remaining. if chelsea win newcastle tomorrow..it'd be down to 1 point with only a few games remaining.

but the thing is, united still have to play chelsea in the league before the season ends. and i really can't see chelsea giving united an easy game at home. unless all the united defenders get back to fitness in 3 weeks. if that's so..it's gonna be a hell of a game!

well, that's IF chelsea beat newcastle tomorrow. c'mon you barcode-ded magpies! if chelsea slip up.............

(:

you just don't get it

2007-04-20T14:32:00.000-04:00

has it ever happened to you, when all you want is for that special someone to just understand what you want. what you need. and when they don't, you either let the frustration get to you, or you choose to shut down and act like it doesn't bother you.

that happens to everyone and what do you do when you're pushed to a corner when all other alternatives lead only to pain for one or another? people who know me well enough know that i rather things go my way than anything else. but i guess sometimes i just have to learn to give the 'benefit of the doubt' away, and be that better person. i'm sorry i wasn't that better person today.

oh well on the brighter side of things, its the weekend. little 500 weekend, so we'll see how that goes. not lookin forward to the next weekend though. cos i've got exams on Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. the ones that bother me are those on saturday and sunday! geez. give us a break! we're just kids.

where's singapore

2007-04-19T16:18:00.000-04:00

talking to beks this morning brought some decent laughable comments.

first one was bout bloomington being a college town. was trying to explain that basically, come summer, the town's gonna be pretty empty. most of the student population will be heading back home. and that's what this town's all about - the students. so yeah, things will be pretty darn quiet around here! and to prove she understood, she said.."basically when its summer, the cows will outnumber the people?" heh. it makes sense! bumfart indiana's home to cows and farms. a decent university in the middle of nowhere!

oh and i was givin an example of a typical conversation between an american and singaporean about singapore;

american: so where you from?
singaporean: singapore.
american: ooh. which part of singapore?
singaporean: singapore.
american: don't you go all asian-smarty-pants on me, which town? singapore's a state right?
singaporean: uh huh!
american: so....which part of singapore?
singaporean: singapore!
american: BUT YOU SAID SINGAPORE'S A STATE! HOW CAN A STATE BE IN A STATE!
singaporean: yeah...the thing is, singapore's a state country. or along those lines. its not broken up into different states.
american: oooh i see......so....it's not in china?

damn these americans. kinda exagerrated, but you get my point. i think the same applies to all the lesser known asian countries. to the americans, we're all from china.

oh wait, and they think india is not in Asia. india is a whole continent on it's own to be made fun of by americans.

oh and this conversation took place in my geog lab today.

(we were all doing some calculations)
niq: okok, just let me handle the calculations. let the asian kid do the math.
brad (american dude) to everyone else: see. if i said that, it would have been rude.

ARGH

2007-04-18T18:25:00.000-04:00

ARGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

can't believe i forgot to upload an assignment last night for my computer-in-business class. that's 10 marks! just lost like that. maybe not lost yet, depending on whether or not my professor accepts it after i sent it to her this morning. highly doubt so though. ARGH that's extra pressure to ace the darn finals for the class. ANNOYING. unnecessary pressure!

can't my semester just end smoothly. grr.hope everything else here and back home turns out fine. it should! and it better. owells.

was just thinking bout how some people claim they let go of the past very easily. while others find it extremely hard to let go. but the funny thing is, after all is said and done, its usually the people who claim to forget easily that are the ones who seem to keep an interest in the personal life of those they are supposed to have 'let go' off. and those that initially said it'd be hard to let go? those are the ones that let go of things the easiest.

maybe its because of denial. self denial. maybe? or maybe its just curiosity-out-of-boredom. i'm sure someone once told me that if you want to let go of something, you have to have limited contact, zero contact if possible.

but i wonder if that 'contact' refers only to conversations or if it encompasses the checking-up-on the personal life of that person you're supposed to move away from. example? let's say...checking up on their friendster or their blog for instance. i mean, wondering if the person's doing fine is okay. but c'mon, checking up on the daily happenings of someone else...that's something else altogether. maybe i'm wrong, maybe i'm right.

i just like my space (very much, thank you) and it just bothers you when you know someone is checking up on you when you rather they not.

oh yeah speakin of which, recently i've got the most random people from the most random countries checkin out my blog. i've got people from beijing, costa rica, spain (catalunha) & netherlands (some Wanadoo city).

i mean, i'm fine with people reading my blog...i am!! but its only with one or two that i'm not. if you're not that thickheaded (which i don't think you are), get the message!! thanks. maybe it's just me being cranky these days. but this was gonna come out sooner or later.

ps: i'll know if you get the message.

aftermath

2007-04-17T17:19:00.000-04:00

everyone's talkin bout it. bout the V.Tech shooting yesterday. People have their internet browsers in their laptops opened to cnn.com, fox news and all them news sites instead of typing notes for class. everyone knows that some asian kid did it. a korean dude's face splashed across all news websites and front pages of almost every paper.

but then again, i don't think it really matters if he's korean to americans. americans would probably take it that he's asian, whether or not he's korean, chinese, japanese or singaporean. prrft! but the campus newspaper here had a different photo splashed across its front page. this is it..

kinda brings the message home doesn't it? seeing injured kids our age being carried out by policemen covered with helmets, flak jackets and most probably carrying guns. (i would think that the injured would rather not see a gun anywhere near them actually) i think its better than splashing students crying or the killer's face all over the front page. it makes it all the more real.

oh yeah and beks mentioned that she's sick of the word 'shock', 'shocking' & 'shocked' used in the articles. how bout this one...'empathetic', 'empathy', 'saddened' & 'sad'. i swear i've seen those words at least 20 times in the papers! thesaurus anyone...? heh.

owells, its not all too bad a day. man utd extended their lead at the top of the table again (:

check this out. best video i've seen in a long long time. double click to watch it full screen. trust me, you wanna watch this full screen in HD. you do! YOU DO!!! who said geeks weren't cool? (depending on your internet speed, this may take awhile to load) oh yeah and you're gonna need to up the volume on this one. TRUST ME. you do. watch and crank it!

why?

2007-04-17T01:11:00.000-04:00

why?

why pull out a gun and take 32 lives and then your own. ridiculous. Virginia Tech shooting. insane! lil bit scary cos i can imagine it happening in one of the buildings i go to for class; having some crazy whacked idiot just pull up with a few guns and give true meaning to 'going down with all guns blazing'.

ridiculous.

mr and ms asia

2007-04-16T18:18:00.000-04:00

mr and ms asia 2007 was great! high energy, laughed and woot-ed my throat hoarse and most of all, relieved that i did a decent job for my narrator bit part helping out the singaporeans.

mr thailand was like some hyper monkey on prozac. his name is 'nut'. owell, figures. oh yeah and imagine 20 odd japanese dudes, topless, wearin white boxer briefs with a red circle around the crotch (so that it'd look like the japanese flag) goin crazy dancing, shaking their asses, swinging their schlong and jewels. the 2 highlights of the night!

plus the singaporeans' little skit was received rather well! laughs, applause. we got it! and yeah, when i did my narrating part in front of a few hundred odd people, i WAS nervous. trust me! but the nerves died down as the audience kinda warmed up. so i was able to do my thing and everything turned out great! mic, lawrence, charles, yvonne...you guys did a great job!

but yeah, sometimes it feels good to be thai. haha! the thai association performances were high octane, stomach cramping, tear inducing, heart thumping stuff! with a greattt dancer for ms thailand & some crazy jackrabbit as mr thailand..kinda hard not to enjoy it. haha!

oh yeah and my mom mentioned today that we don't have a choice in the people we're thrown together with. we can't choose. there's a reason you are around them and vice versa. i think that kinda makes sense. most of the times. even though sometimes you just wish you never had met a person.

oh yeah and i think my throat's finally feeling the effects of pizza, mexican food, icecream, lasagna & pineapple tarts consumed over the weekend ): plus there's flu along with the bad throat.

phantom limbs & the pizza slut

2007-04-14T15:08:00.000-04:00

i admit it, i think i'm a pizza slut. came across that term yesterday. but yeah, i think i'm a pizza slut. i kinda skipped dinner on thursday night, skipped breakfast friday morning and had an empty stomach for pizza mania friday afternoon. downed 9 or 10 slices of pizza, i kinda lost count. you know how it is when you get so full that you lose track of what you eat? and everything you put into mouth displaces a memory of a previously-eaten thing in your memory bank? in the meantime, managed to dupe beks into thinkin john mayer was at the event.

a few hours pizza, had dinner at a mexican restaurant. woooo. i really felt like throwing up after dinner. you see, after pizza, i hadn't taken a poop. so after dinner...my stomach had 4 layers. pizza at the bottom, nachos on top of that, quesadillas right on top of that and a few cup-fulls of water to top everything off. i HAD to take a poop soon or my stomach would turn into some septic tank. plus it wasn't helping that jokes were constantly thrown around during dinner, making me laugh, making my stomach contract and further induce my vomit tendency.

PLUS beans make me fart. alot. and i'm kinda glad to know i wasn't the only one suffering from bean-fart syndrome last night. oh yeah and you know the 'geez go get a room' feeling when you see touchy-feely couples? it struck hard last night. prrffft! gives me the chills just thinkin bout it. hahahaha.

had a decent chat online with stef last night/this morning. talked bout friendships made, lost, rekindled. at least the fact that we can count on each other was made clear enough. its always nice when shit happens in friendships but it eventually makes the friendship that much tighter. we've got our own stuff to deal with now, but at least we know there's an outlet we can use & depend on. but it'd be kinda sad if our own lives get in the way of the friendship. but at least that's not happening...yet! major catch up sessions with the rest of tennis team is definitely over due!

speaking of lives gettin in the way. friends are lost too. even supposed 'close' ones. then there'll be that sorta-phantom limb feeling. when sometimes you just wanna reach out and talk but you know they're not the same anymore. but i'm sure things will turn out fine soon enough!

anyways, i sorta promised i wouldn't release this picture to the public unless its for blackmail reasons. but i don't really care right now. HAHA! so here they are...haha and check out 'em twists from me and carl.;

hahah kinda hilarious huh? i've never seen a vomit-geyser before until that day. i've seen vomit-waterfall, but not vomit-geyser. haha! oh and those are my boys down below. and centre dude, i'll destroy your sticks when i get back.

sleeping/silent partners

2007-04-12T19:04:00.000-04:00

funniest thing happened in class today.

yannoe, in certain companies, there are people who give cash to the company but choose not to be named, they call em 'silent partners'. so, today in class, this indian dude was trying to ask a question bout these so-called 'silent partners'. the thing is...he couldn't remember the exact term 'silent partners' so he used the term 'sleeping partners' instead.

so he asked our teacher: "so are these people the company's sleeping partners?".
and our teacher answered: "(silent for a few seconds) oh sorry my mind was somewhere else when i heard that."

okayyy it may not sound so funny right now, but it did in class!

after all, we're only human

2007-04-12T16:06:00.000-04:00

first things first; i downloaded the united - roma game on my computer! ;p why? because it's one of those games that a few years down the road people will be talking bout how great a game it was. and i wanna be able to say i watched it! because sadly on tuesday, i was in class and missed the first half. now it's safe to say i've watched the whole game! (: he who has not watched and is a united fan should shoot himself in the nuts.

okay back to the mundane stuff. nothing's more mundane then trying to get into gear for finals. yikes. its hard to get into gear! really is. but gotta get the wheels churning sometime soon. cos looking on the bright side, its singapore once i get past finals. yipeee!

oh there's all-you-can-eat pizza tomorrow for just $5! its some event where you get to vote for the best pizzerias in town and get to sample 'unlimited' pizza for just $5! why the quotes around unlimited? that's cos i seriousllyyyy doubt there'll be enough pizza to feed pizza-mad american students who i'm sure are gonna come in the hordes. can you tell the difference between America and UK? UK's got the cultural thing going on (ask jia, she should know) while americans just want their pizza and coke. going with friends...but i assure you when we get there, it's every man for himself.

after all, we're only human. and humans like pizza. if you don't like pizza, it's probably cos you've only eaten singapore-made pizza :)

Manchester United 7 - 1 AS Roma

2007-04-10T17:18:00.000-04:00

7-1!

7-1...i cannot believe it! pinching myself purple trying to let it all sink in. amazing! never thought this would happen. i was nervous before the game, figured that united would win anyway but that it'd be close, and perhaps too close for comfort. but wooo! 7-1! plus my boy Carrick got 2 swashbuckling goals, beks' boy Smith got one he definitely deserves and bridget's boy Rooney bagged one too! red through and through. i feel so proud!! wow, how much would i give to have been at Old Trafford there and then.

way more convincing than a 2-1 win for Chelsea with a last minute goal. prrrffft! but yeah, a 7-1 united win makes the day a good one no matter how crappy it's supposed to be. not that i've got anything heavy planned ahead today.

anyways, it's not very pleasant to see a friend trying to put up strong fronts, trying to make themselves feel better but all those defences crumble at things that one would normally see as inconsequential. and you know also, that there's very little you can do to help because you can't really understand the going-ons in a person's mind. but then there's always a question you can fall back on, a question that maybe can clear some doubts.

hold on to whatever you think will help get you through. but who do you love? him or the thought of him? don't say it's the same. because it's not. and you'll be doing yourself a favor by not saying 'both'.

SA Tennis '05

2007-04-09T11:44:00.000-04:00

): was lookin through some tennis pictures yesterday and i couldn't help watchin this. again. and again. ending up missing the whole lot of you all over again.

if only we didn't move out of JC. if only 05/06 lasted forever. but time waits for no one and i won't exchange that year for anything. definitely. we had our fun, we moved on but i think the feeling of having that tight a team will stay for a longgg longgg time. but of course, it's silly to live in the past. i'm happy where i'm at now (: eh and i was super skinny and cao tah! prrfft.

--

i thought The OC washed out when season 4 came out, but i guess i was wrong. it's still right up there amongst my favorite series! trashy you may call it, but enjoyable nonetheless. still got one of the best soundtracks around! and pretty good humor to boot.

i hope everything falls into place for everyone! its nice to see things falling into place. always is!

credits to kenneth huang for that tear-jerker of a video :P

ups & downs

2007-04-08T21:37:00.000-04:00

wow, alot has happened since i last blogged. really been a draining weekend but i rather not get into the details. i shouldn't anyway. so here's a recap (abitt like how beks recapped hers, only more exciting :P)

Friday: the Singapore Students Assocation (SSA) elections. at the start of the day, i decided to go listen to the speeches of the people running for posts in the committee. since i paid my dues, might as well check out what my money's gonna be going into next year (: so yeah, the posts of president, vice president, treasurer & secretary were dished out pretty quick without much hassle. aside from some over-exuberant speeches which i will not go into detail also, except that it kinda got on my nerves. anyways, the public relations (PR) & webmaster positions were still up for grabs. so now-happy me was looking forward to the whole thing ending soon because i kinda knew who would be running for the posts and that they would probably get them. oh and i caught TMNT at night! pretty good movie. cool animation, but i thought they were abit too skinny.

at the same time, there was a mouse running around the room. so i got coaxed into tryin to catch it! owells. but yeah, when i was happily trying to catch the mouse...some people just blabbered my name out for nomination for the PR post. so yeahhhh...i had to give a speech. didn't plan to run but since i got nominated i told myself 'ahh what the hell just go for it..'. but thought i'd spice things up abit and crack everyone up with my antics (: which i managed to do by the way. apparently everyone was laughing pretty hard. oh oh oh and on a sidenote, i did get the position. so now, i'm the PR of SSA. wow. not bad for a thai huh? ok...no link right there.

on a further sidenote, my comedy antics seemed to earn me the call-up of being narrator for a skit in Mr & Mrs Asia 2007. geee. we'll see how that goes!

Saturday: a day that i wished never happened. a day when i wish i wasn't there but at the same time, i'm really glad i was there. but i'm not gonna talk bout that. i'll blog bout somethin else....I FINALLY PLAYED TENNIS FOR AN HOUR! indoor court by the way...because it was in the negative degrees on saturday. didn't play that well, but managed to pick up some form toward the end. arms still feeling tight! usually it loosens after awhile, but i guess that's what you get from not playing for almost a year!!!!!! and yannoe what else you get after playing tennis for the first time in a long time? aching butt, aching hamstring, aching thighs, aching shoulders, aching forearms. yup! aching body. but yeah, i think i've found a decent tennis buddy in IU! thanks lawrence!

Sunday: relaxing day up. aside from a few issues, everything was enjoyable indeed! company was great, food was good, ice cream was good, tv/dvds were good. slept a pretty-darn lot today! maybe it's cos of physical&mental fatigue from saturday and friday. but yeah, nice way to recharge!

so that's that. and the weekend is gonna end in a few hours. eventful i must say. plus i was flipping through pictures on the computer and saw my superman curl! so here's my funny picture of the day;

oh yeah and this is stuck in the ear; Jackson Waters - Jamie's Song

computer & weather

2007-04-06T01:17:00.000-04:00

thank goodness thursday's over. i don't like my thursdays at all. hmm, well...the greek test today went alright, not as well as what i hoped for. looks like a good score is out of sight, but i hope it'd be decent!

bought and played command&conquer 3 on my computer. really good stuff, though it was abit laggy at first. so today, brought it over to david's place. installed it on his really expensive computer which was built for performance (prrft, rich kid) and it played realllyyyy smooth even at the maximum graphic detail. i wish i had a computer like his! i would if i could, but it's out of my means!

still happy with mine though. as long as it runs smooth, plays music and is internet accessible, i'm a happy camper. thinking of upgrading the graphic card though (not that mine is that bad, just that some games are taxing on graphic cards). so probably pop by BestBuy tomorrow and look at their stuff. gotta get computer geeks david and lawrence to come along...so i won't be looking around like a headless chicken with the brain of a bull.

oh and guess what -.- after a week of 20deg weather, the worst thing that could happen would be for the temperature to drop to winter-like ones. and it has!!! a few days ago, everyone on campus were wearing shorts and t shirts. but now? now the winter clothes have been whipped out of the closets...AGAIN.

plus there were some snow flurries today. prrrfft. ridiculous indiana weather. but on the somewhat bright side, i'll probably be playing tennis tomorrow! even though the temperature will be in the single-digits. it should be an experience!

definitely will.

waking up & missing you

2007-04-04T20:49:00.000-04:00

today hasn't been a very good day! kinda annoying in fact. i don't like thursdays cos of my heavy schedule. and wednesday isn't any better, because i have to prepare a lot of crap for thursday classes.

plus i have a test which i haven't really studied for. and it's those kinda tests that NEED a lot of studying/reading. oh well. plus preparing for tomorrow took away 2 hours of conversation time with you. oh well.

so here i am..taking a 5min breather from greek notes! (: i think my 5min is running out.

when you're dreaming with a sunken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. you roll outta bed or sit up right and for that moment you can hardly breathe; wondering if she was there, standing in your room. then you realize, 'no, she's not.' she's as far as far can be right now. but even then, she still makes your day brighter for you.
some how. some way. any way.

thanks for the lipbalm (: it's gonna keep em sexy! oh wow, as of tomorrow i'll be a mere month away from home. i'm gonna do this again....

rain & john mayer

2007-04-03T22:59:00.000-04:00

okay...humble salutations again fellow internet users.

been a really cold, dark, gloomy, dim, dull, overcast, tenebrous, aphotic, atramentous, crepuscular day. if you wanna know, i ripped the last few words off thesaurus.com. but yes, it's been drizzling since 4pm and it's 11pm now. hmmm, there was a tornado warning a few days back. but i don't think there was one today. owell. oh and i must mention that john mayer is a good rainy day artist.

but the fact that i've had 2 dreams about tornadoes and that is quiteee discomforting.

apparently dresses are the 'in' thing in singapore right now. yannoe? those lil polka dotted dresses with the hugo-mongo belts. i mean, okay...they were cute and all when it first popped on the scene..but it's just gettin ridiculous now! everyone from hot babes to ahlians are wearing them. and apparently, there are people wearin dresses over t-shirts. maybe i'm a guy and i'm fashion-dumb...but i think dresses over t shirts are just WRONG.

but then again, that's just my opinion. if you don't like it...you can go fart on yourself. prrft. or rather, pooot.

oh yeah something interesting bout greek class. this is the interpretation of love by some greeks;

they say that the first humans were made of 2 bodies and 4 limbs. the 2 bodies could be of any pairing between the sexes (eg: female-male, male-male, female-female). but apparently somethin bad happened (i can't remember what exactly, must have spaced out at that point) and the greek gods separated these 2 bodies.

so what do you get now? you get 2 separate bodies. and these separate bodies wanna get back together as one. that's where you get the saying 'i wanna find my other half '. cool? and that's where you get heterosexuals and homosexuals as well! interesting huh?

but that's bullshit and you know it. just interesting to think like the greeks! or as Leonidas in 300 would call them 'the boy-loving' greeks. heh!

kinda promised myself to post a funny/hilarious pic once in abit..so here is today's!

continuum

2007-04-02T19:07:00.000-04:00

salutations my internet loving friends.

don't deny that you're not in love with your computer! ask yourself, what would you do without your computer. if you get a decent enough answer, let me know. (this test is not meant for the older people who don't use the computer as often: aka my mom. hi mom!)

anyways, been addicted to John Mayer's album, Continuum. good stuff. sit back and relax kinda music.

but haven't really been chilling because apparently, i have some kinda hold on my record for class registration and it says i'm a delinquent. WTH!??!?!?! looks like tomorrow i'm gonna be clearing some stuff up. grr.

prrft. delinquent.

sunday afternoons & coffee

2007-04-01T17:25:00.000-04:00

greetings. guess what? i got my hair cut! even though i kinda swore off getting my hair cut in america. i kid you not. it's not an april fool's joke! hmm..don't think my haircut went that bad. looks fine, so far.

my blog's got this cool gizmo that can see who views my blog and where they view it. kinda neat, considering it narrows things down to countries or states all across the world ;p maybe this sounds psycho but i know who's reading! i'm watchin you watch me.

k enough of that. today my mom asked me why i don't blog like i used to. what she means is '"why are you bloggin bout rubbish now? you used to blog bout deep, insightful stuff! make yourself seem intellectual. now? now you sound retarded". i think that's what she implies anyways. (heh i know what you're thinkin mama! i'm your son!). hmm..but yeah, i do blog differently. why? i think it's because nothing conflicting is swirling about in my asian brain.

i think last semester there were issues and choices that i made which i thought were right; only to realize they bothered me still, and i couldn't really put them in a bag and drop it off at some deserted bus station. but i guess i've kinda resolved and straightened things out since then. though not agreeable with some, i guess the fact that i'm more at ease gives me reason to blog the way i am in person - qwirky and retarded (again, qwirky with the 'w' cos i am wayniq!).

so there's the reason for me bloggin bout random nonsensical stuff. maybe people do wanna read bout mopey/deep stuff sometimes huh? hmm lemme try...

was chattin with elizabeth luei 'bird bird' the other day (eh bird, kill me if i misspelled your surname!), and she was tellin me bout how it is being an asian in australia. it's definitely tougher than being an asian here (or maybe it's just because i'm fortunate enough to be in an area where asians have been around for a long enough time). she's been keeping up with her netball game in aussie, unlike me cos i've been bumming around without tennis. and from what i gather, she's the only asian in the team and her teammates don't really hide the fact that she's asian and they're not. that's bound to suck for anyone who's different from the majority!! but the thing is, she's not giving up but continues to go at it. cool huh?

i guess resistance to something brings about suffering. and suffering's different from pain. some events may create physical pain, but they do not create suffering; resistance creates suffering and that makes things hard. so i guess resistance; resistance to give in to taunting, resistance to do what you feel is right against what you are told is right, causes pain and hardship. who ever said choices and life was gonna be easy?

so there you go, deep thought of the week. i don't think my brain's capable of repeating that on a daily basis!!! okay...need something to loosen up the brain cramps and let retardness creep in. i think this picture....................

is gross. she's supposed supposed to be female. or he's supposed to be female.
i don't know what to believe on the internet anymore!!!

ps: i had coffee today!

laughter&pictures

2007-03-31T21:26:00.000-04:00

funny happenings of the day; woke up and managed to pull a fast one on beks (though it was april fool's on singapore's side and not yet on mine). vj telling me bout him and Max vandalizing the smashed/drunk/wasted/konkedout body of a guy we don't like a alot who was passed out in the toilet, bummed that i missed out on that!

always good to get in a few good laughs as the day goes by. while the rest of day was spent resizing a buncha pictures, eating and listening to my ohsogood music. this is what a laid back day is called. with a few movies to boot.

some random buildings from spring break;

unique i must say. esp the one with the cigar stickin out. kinda retarded. haha! but i guess it makes people look at it twice. and...YIKES! beks put an unglam (sorta) collage of me! owells...here's one for her too. heh, lovin the ones on the right and in the center.

totally got her suckered into making those faces. i think. but you're still my habit.
my fix.

all that matters

2007-03-30T16:46:00.000-04:00

earworm of the day: tally hall - smile like you mean it
word of the day: tosser

since beks took the question 'what is love?' and knocked it out of the park, i was being bored and just started thinking of 'what is ___?' topics. so i kinda thought about what it means to be happy. what is happiness?

some people's idea of happiness is something that gives them a purpose in life, something they know is true, something to look forward to. that's kinda easy to do, cos look around you and you'll see people that do have something to look forward to. but while writing this post, what i'm thinking about happiness is the more elusive happiness. 'something' that makes you happy in that moment and every other moment you think bout that 'something'. that doesn't make things any clearer though! so i figured being happy is the exact opposite of being unhappy and thought of the things that make me unhappy.

i'm not happy when people you think are your good friends don't choose to open up and tell you things. i'm not happy when things you say are just taken at face value and thrown back in your face. i'm not happy when people dismiss whatever i have to say as 'unimportant & nonsense' just because my actions sometime make me out to be pure nonsense. it's kinda hard to think of what makes me unhappy i guess! but those are a few of them.

now, since happiness is the opposite of unhappiness, i have a rough idea of what makes me happy (: and it's you, beks. though at times i pushed you aside and not been fair to you, i hope you don't think i ever took you for granted. sometimes it takes hurt and pain to jolt those innate feelings of love and happiness awake, but i'm glad mine got jolted. and i'm not afraid to say it anymore.

you make me happy. happiness is you.

--"20061009
whenthetiesthatbindarecut

when the world stood and laughed, poked, proded and taunted. i knew it was up to us to prove them wrong. but silly me, thinking it'd all work out. so isn't it funny how words can ruin everything. when things you shove away finally break free. the people you know you'll hurt, the necessary evil they call it, and you walk away because things might not go the way you want. what if the one person you walked away from never comes back, what then? would you risk it all by letting go? but if you could see me now, you'll see that there's no hate, just love and the hope that you'd see it. so know that i'm always standing in your doorway, because i'm not going anywhere.

i want to let you in on a secret, i'm not who you think i am, in fact, my disguise is so thin, i'm surprised you haven't seen right through me. i'm the girl of your dreams masquerading as your best friend. and when i finally ripped off this facade, you got scared and ran away again. someone once told me there are two types of girls: the ones you grow out of, and the ones you grow into. i really hope i'm the latter. i may not be the one you love today, but i'll let you go for now, hoping that one day you'll fly back to me because i think you're worth the wait."

- http://hotwatermusic-blogspot.com

thank you.

can't think of a title

2007-03-29T16:18:00.000-04:00

i think i'm totally lacking sleep. okay i don't know why i just typed 'totally', but i did. that's +100 uncool points for me. but yeah, lack of good sleep is tellin on my face. i've got pimples on my cheeks. i didn't really have pimples when i was back in singapore so i guess america weather/climate's got something to do with the pimples. first it was clogged pores, now it's pimples. we'll see if 4 months in singapore will do my cheeks any good!

anyways i know beks posted this picture of me (which i think is awfully sweet by the way. go check out her link! of course, if you're using Firefox you won't be able to...that's cos firefox is a pain in the butt and everything looks different with it...woo that was a very long bracket, time to close it), but i thought i'd put this pic up with different intentions.

i've got this niggling-whacked idea to make this picture pop up when people enter/leave my blog. so this picture will pop up....

and this would pop up along with it...

okay really random stuff but i dunno...just felt like saying that. sure to scare people off. owell! anyways need some naptime now.

i know someone, some people say i'm not your type or you're not mine. who knows? maybe they're right. but i feel it in my bones, i feel it in the blood that runs through me and it's obvious to me. that we're made of the same stuff. it's not hard to see, once you look at how close we are. instead of how far.

SanFran

2007-03-28T16:53:00.000-04:00

Apart from that dumb accounting exam experience, all's been good. Public policy test went rather smoothly (though of course, dumb mistakes are bound to be made), geog test scores were really good (gotta thank the geogo-maniac beks for it that, 10 more points in my book for you!) and i managed to get beks' blog back online!

Also, i've finally got my hands on the SanFran pictures so i'll put some of 'em up!

the girls tryin to err, remain forever21 though one's above 21, one is 21, one's below 21.
us guys chillin in the sun
another random picture taken for us by a random stranger
): i had to carry bags and shopping..
trying to look cool. pretty sure yvonne failed, i passed. but hispanic dude got full marks
-.- face says it all
singapore hoodlums in SanFran, trying anyways
HAHA i thought this was gonna be cool when i took it. but it's only semi-cool la. undies peeking!! it's CK! hah.
charles looking the wrong way and looking retarded while he was at it
us and a nice spot high in SanFran
alright, enough of people pictures. now i've gotta sift through the scenery pics to put up to please the aesthetic side of everyone. tsk. oh yeah, and yvonne liu (had to include the surname to prevent confusion with yeap!), now i know why you have 2.3GB of pics. That's cos at least 500megs are crap/fuzzy/repeat pictures. hahahaha.

singapore on some pillar outside a UnitedNations building. nice pic hor? beks!! I TOOK IT. NICE PIC. I can take nice pics!
hmm, suggestive looking trees at a winery. go figure
another pic at the winery. NICE PIC AGAIN. BEKS!....
nice sunset on a beach, i think the girls took at least 30 pictures of the damn sunset..gee.
more of where those pics came from. but blogger's a PIA to upload too many pictures at a go! we'll see how i feel the next few times i post. maybe i'll throw in a pic or two. yannoe, dish out some of the good stuff. til then, i'm gonna nap.

OH yeah and another happy thought. March is ending, April's around the corner and May's justtt behind the bend (:

but wait, just for laughs...

totally destroyed her SELF PIC!!! *!!!!SELF PIC ALERT!!!!!*

babyme

2007-03-28T01:03:00.000-04:00

i think this picture of a young-me is very rafael nadal-esque, no?
of course not the sausage arms!!!

the white 3 quarter pants and more importantly, the hand which appears to be pullin on a wedgie.

now all i need is a bandana and a sleeveless top before i vaguelyyy resemble this..

LGFUAD

2007-03-26T18:45:00.000-04:00

LGFUAD - let's get f-ed up and die. i'm speaking figuratively of course. why did he have to grade the exam so quick!!!! sighh.

"it's you"

2007-03-26T17:18:00.000-04:00

it's been a real lousy, slow day. prrffft. partly cos yesterday's exam-retarded moments creeped up from the memory banks once in awhile and dulled the mood a lil bit. it's been a long time since i've made a grand mess of exams. and it always seems to have something to do with math and calculation errors. either that or misreading/completely not reading words in a sentence.

on top of that, i've been trying to study for tomorrow's public policy test. which by the way, i screwed up the first time around. and then before i knew it, i've spent 4 hours studying. 2.5 hours really studying, 1.5 hours staring and daydreaming. oh well! should have got my butt out my room to yvonne's place to get the pictures...but my butt's like lead right now. boo.

and i need to get something out of my system too!! (: even though you may think otherwise, the little things you say and do for me, however dorky, however klutzy, it all adds up to mean the world to me. tu as tres spécial (that's how you say special! i think) as well. tu ferais mieux de le croire ;p

some assjerks put ducttape on my door!!! i think it was revenge for the easy cheese. dang it!!

prrffttt

2007-03-26T01:15:00.000-04:00

pretty much screwed up my accounting exam. no kidding around this time. one small calculating error can affect so many answers..it's amazinggg. owell, still feeling kinda bummed bout that. just gotta try get as much of the 200 marks up for grabs in the final exam.

what better way to get over bad vibes by watchin 300? slicing & dicing. decapitation of persian monkeys. oracles dancing, muscle men. only second time around did i realize why the 300 spartans had no body armour. the producers wanted to showcase the bodies the actors worked hard for. heh! (thanks to denise for that insightful err, insight).

and i realized that if it weren't for those 300 spartans, the world would literally not be the same. if not for them, the monarchic persians would have conquered the then-known world. the democratic greece would have fallen. democracy went on and won the war and democracy has given us the comforts today! make sense?

that's provided them 300 spartans actually existed. owell! one can dream anyways.

getting into you

2007-03-24T16:20:00.000-04:00

you gave me a new start, a new heart. i've given up on myself, giving into someone else. now i'm in way too deep, so deep that i can't sleep. just waiting for the sun to break the dawn on my side and yours.

--
nice chattin for abit with the boys and the girl. jiaxiang carl kel & beks. whenever jiaxiang talks crap, you just get this mental image of what he's doin at that moment and more often than not it's ~100% accurate. amazing! heh.

but it still sucks to have an exam on a sunday! damnation to sunday exams!!!!

singapore on the youtube map

2007-03-23T23:06:00.000-04:00

if these are not the funniest youtube video...i don't know what is.

holycrap!!! this is a true LMAO moment.

:\

2007-03-23T16:25:00.000-04:00

i'm sorry i was asleep while you said those words. i could have saved you a day of misery! yikes.

speaking of days of misery..i gotta start studyin for sunday's test! yikes! in the meantime, for cheap thrills, me and my friend vj just sprayed easy cheese in the form of a smily face on a friend's door.

easy cheese is cheese in a can. very much like pesticide kinda cans, except you squeeze out cheese. the wonders of american culture. it's no wonder why most of them are fat!

i wish i could talk to you for 24 hours, 7 days a week. i would if i could.

prrftt

2007-03-22T19:19:00.000-04:00

after much fuss, i've decided that i'm gonna stick to blogspot. not gonna change to friggin lj. tried figuring it out and was on the verge of smashing my head against my speakers (they're big!). just couldn't get links to appear and my stinking user picture to appear as well.

it's fine! i'm satisfied with blogspot. not like i demand alot of privacy for my posts in the first place.

looks like i'll be expecting mail again! (: hey cuz, if you're reading this..yeah, one more's on the way. can't wait!

oh and if you need proof that Magneto really moved the Golden Gate Bridge across all the way to Alcatraz Island where he battled the X-Men in X-Men III...here it is!

see the construction area towards the left of the bridge? that's where Magneto ripped it off! and now they're fixing it. so...mutants exist!

if you have not already realized...whatever i just said was a load of crap. i just got bored and wanted to entertain myself! hmmm..and all of a sudden, i wanna go back really bad. maybe it's cos of the pineapple tarts. heh.

sometimes i don't understand how people can judge others purely based on their looks/first impressions without even bothering to get to know them. maybe i've been doing that too, but i don't think i will anymore.

mistakes made, advice imparted, lessons learnt.

2007-03-21T16:03:00.000-04:00

i finally got my hands on the pineapple tarts from my mom (courtesy of Denise and her parents. many thanks!) i must say...pineapple tarts are still my favorite junk food/snacks.

anyways, for those who i've known since wayyy back in secondary school..you should check out yvonne's blog, here! really good stuff. can't believe i looked like that a mere 3 years back man..freaky. can't believe i thought my hairstyle was cool. but i take solace in the fact that beks' hair was just as bad. THE FRINGE!

thinking bout it..the gang have got one person to thank for bringing us together and holding us together - Mr Roy Chua (now known simply as Roy)!!! remember him? the guy i poked fun at in one of my previous posts. here's to refresh your memory!!

heh! there he is. if it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have grown close during our secondary school years (refer to post title). in a sense, we really grew up together. because i think secondary school shapes your teenage life the most. makes or breaks you. so yeah..we have that bond! ;p

plus he helped me find the person who would go on and mean ever so much to me (:

of course, some people don't have as strong a bond as the rest and end up drifting off. but it's not like we hate them for it. it's just not very pleasant!

i think i, we, owe roy many thanks. at least now i can say i've kinda redeemed myself for 'picking' on roy before. HAHA. get it? picking?*

*i'm picking him up in the picture above!

the chills

2007-03-20T16:57:00.000-04:00

Even when studying (argh geog test), listening to Jackson Waters can give me the chills. yannoe? the tingling feeling down your spine when you hear something that just hits you? yeah! that feeling. the music, the lyrics, everything!

It's a crazy world she's living in tonight
Show her grace, tender, mercy, hold her tight
I know the shadows will fade when the light drifts away
And the dark will give way to a brand new day.

and i just wanna say, we're getting closer everday.

(:

2007-03-20T02:59:00.000-04:00

heh. looking good!!

titanic: the sequel

2007-03-19T17:58:00.000-04:00

you've gotta watch this youtube! seriously!

heh. you be the judge.

music

2007-03-18T19:09:00.000-04:00

sifting through all 10 gigs worth of music on my computer, i realize alot of them are nice (duh) but only a handful that i can really spend the whole day listening to. until you do these sifting assignments, you'll never find out what kind of music you really like. i'm glad i know mine (:

and i wouldn't know what i would be now if not for my super fast internet!

now..this is my kinda music! always back to the basics....vocals! drum-smashing satiates you only for awhile.

my poor nose is running like a tap!

san francisco

2007-03-18T15:40:00.000-04:00

i'm back in bloomington! was back on friday but had to crash at my friends place for a few nights cos the dorms didn't open until sunday. good to be back! but..it sucked to be welcomed back by cold weather. though it'd only last a few days...why did it have to be cold on the day we came back?!?!?!?!!?

anyways, san francisco was a blast. the trip was just nice lengthwise. any longer, it'd be boring, any shorter, wouldn't have done certain stuff. like they say, too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. nice place to go once in awhile, but not for too long.

oh yeah, i've got to put this in writing. we travelled to and from the indianapolis airport in a limo. a white one at that. that's called rolling in style.

let's see..first few days were spent travelling the touristy spots (duh) around san francisco itself..before we ventured out of the city. checked out the wineries in napa valley, visited the sandy beaches of monterey, got some bites of seafood, did a fair amount of driving. as an added bonus, weather was good! haven't got all the pics but i've got pictures from ONE of the THREE cameras. and each camera used 2 memory cards. hmm, that's many megabytes of pictures!

so here're some pictures from one of the days!

us and the golden gate bridge on a foggy morning. we've got pics on a clear day too. but i'll need to get them from the other cams. oh, and i got myself somee shadesss...

just putting up another group pic for the sake of it. hah! that's on monterey beach. along the coastline. good stuff! watched the sunset while we were at it.
retards in our 'what-the-hell?!' moments. dudes..what were we thinking?!
trying to make the act cute 'twist' look cool. the twist was made famous by siNgApoReaN gErx.
i just made it look good.
HAHA

oh and hands-down the pic of the trip..
err. yeah. there's the sunset! and that's me and charles. dude, you make me look small! but argh, i am small. owell! good things come in small packages.

so now that i'm back, it's time to catch up with everything else. new music, coming&goings of the past week..and sad to say, work&studies. 3 exams coming up this week! BUMMER!

all in all, i had a nice trip. but at the same time, wished a few others were there. like denise & david, my whole family (since my brothers have rarely been beyond thailand, it would be nice if they came!), my tennis friends (what happened to our tennis holiday?!) and of course, beks and the gang. hope that time comes soon!

ps: jiaxiang's 20. he's older than me! *gasp*

that's me for you

2007-03-10T00:43:00.000-05:00

W	Wired
A	Ambitious
Y	Yummy
N	Neat
I	Irresistible
Q	Quality

if that's not me, i don't know what is! every single word defines me. perfect down to the 't'. HAHA. got it off from site thing.
http://www.go-quiz.com/acronym/acronym.php there you go. for bored ones out there.

san francisco..i'm coming for you! so i'll be gone for a week hoping to come back with goodies (:

you gave your heart on a string, and i just don't wanna miss a thing.

Manchester Untied vs AS Roma

2007-03-09T12:43:00.000-05:00

are you ready for manchester united, roma? you better be! the red tide's coming to teach you italians a lesson in culture and poise. oh and, teach you guys a footballing lesson too ;p

i mean, just check these out. sigh...italians. one's in italian and one's in english.

hrmpf

2007-03-08T16:35:00.000-05:00

denise scribbled a hierarchy-of-importance list during greek class today.

and sad to say, i'm ranked below her television. she ranks her friends (we're humans!!!!) below a box with flashing lights. A BOX. i'm more insignificant than A BOX!

can you imagine? if i'm dying on the road outside her house and call her for help, she'll say 'okok got it, gimme a minute..lemme finish this show first'. denise boo...you good!

short one

2007-03-08T10:55:00.000-05:00

oh yeah and just a short one bout the tremors in singapore on wednesday. i was quite worried man. when i got a call from a friend who said there was an earthquake in indonesia, and that there were unconfirmed reports that singapore was affected, the first person i called was my mom. but for some reason, the line went 'the phone system of the country you're calling is unavailable'. it was just then that alarm bells went off in my head man, i swear. tried calling my dad but his phone was off. tried home, but no one was picking up.

managed to get through to my mom eventually. and she was in flower arranging class while the tremors happened. aiyo, my mom. she's gettin old. HAHA! JUST KIDDING MOM!

but yeah, it was then that i realize that family comes first. i thought of no one else but my family. kinda neat huh? then you start thinkin bout the people you know who may have been affected. those working in tall buildings and all. guess that's what happens when there's threat of disaster.

you think of family, then potentially affected ones and then friends.

by the way, the last pic was taken at one of my dad's projects. doesn't show alot in the picture, but the house is way beyound cool. check out the stairway man. and the lights and color of the walls. haha! if i had the chance, i would get my dad to design my house. hoho!

eh then on a lighter note. i seriously think SAJC principal's super kancheong. I mean, 2 years there and i already know how kan cheong she is. fuss over every lil thing. C'mon man Mrs Lim!!!! hahaha check this out..from channel news asia website.

A spokesman for Saint Andrews Junior College said the first tremor disrupted lessons and students were dismissed after the second one "to pre-empt further interruptions, and in the students' interests and safety."

aiyo! oh well, but better safe than sorry! the students must have celebrated and loved her for that period of time. sure straight away head to orchard road and compete with the ACJC and CJC presence in town. that's what i would have done if i were still in SA anyways ;p

oh yeah and thanks for hearing me out last night. you know who you are! and just wanted to say that i know you'll make the right choice.

jackson waters

2007-03-08T01:25:00.000-05:00

artists earworm alert - Jackson Waters

doubt they have this in singapore though ;p

sigh

2007-03-07T18:34:00.000-05:00

it's turning out to be a bad day. bad warm up to spring break! started my day off with a conversation/discussion i would rather not have. but it happened anyways. and when i thought things couldn't get any worse, my iPod screen cracks on me. was listening to it before class, put it in my bag, went over to david's to pick something up, took my ipod out to listen...and *boom* saw some weird pattern on my screen. here it is. it's not very clear...but you get the idea. the worst thing is, you can't see any words. but at least it still plays.

sigh. it's not really my fault, not something i did. but i still feel responsible as hell. like i threw the money down the drain. and they say bad things come in threes. wonder what the next will be.

the only good thing that came out of today was that i got my hands on Jackson Waters album, and it's really really good. not good enough to make my day alot better though.

sigh.

it's gonna be one more day. the clouds will roll away.
it's gonna be one more day, we will all be okay.
it's gonna be one more day, hold on. hold on.
the world cracks and breaks, but hold on.

the need for disclaimers

2007-03-06T13:56:00.000-05:00

disclaimers are a good thing - i just realized. you warn people bout stuff they wouldn't wanna see and they also make sure the stuff they see is the best it can be!

here are 2 examples of disclaimers.

Disclaimer #1: check out beks' blog at your own risk! very-unglam-picture warning. i kid you not! there's just one pic of me, but it's still unglam as unglam can be. i mean, what the hell's that thing on my head?!?!???!!

Disclaimer #2: my blog is best viewed with Internet Explorer. not Mozilla Firefox. basically, it looks like crap on mozilla. fonts get flat and fat. scrollbar goes haywire. font doesnt turn out nice. annoying! messed with my browsers yesterday and found that out.

see? the disclaimers do the 2 things they're supposed to do. warn you bout stuff you may not wanna see and they make sure the stuff you see is the best it can be! since everyone's in the mood of unglam-ness, here's another disclaimer: the next pictures may cause uncontrollable laughter and/or giggling.

if you do not already know, this is mr roy chua - favorite sec sch teacher whom i like to annoy (i think jiaxiang likes to annoy him too). and this is what happens when i annoy him. these were taken in taiwan.

uhoh. is that an 'F' forming on his lips?! is that an 'F' word coming out?!?!?!?!??!

there's him again getting annoyed, gritting his teeth, scrunching his eyebrows while i annoy him further.

and like everyone i annoy, he just learns to ignore me...

but just like everyone else, they can't resist my charm/qwerkiness (i like to spell it with a 'W' cos i'm Wayniq!) and eventually stop ignoring me.

and then....i start annoying them again. i mean, look at this la...how to not annoy?! he's wearing sunglasses over his glasses when he's driving. seriously, he needs to proceed and run into the nearest wall.

you can't beat me! hahaha (: ps: i hope roy sees this. HAHA!

oh yeah and if you think i'm picking on roy, you're right. (get it? picking on?)

oh yeah mr chua! don't get angry ah! it's all in good spirit. HAHA ;p see you in May!

spring's here!

2007-03-05T17:30:00.000-05:00

spring's definitely here. or at least it's more or less coming. forecast for the rest of the week is warm, warm & warmer! warm's always a good thing after a long time of cold.

so let's get some pics up of the snow for memory's sake (and to make sure my blog's not boring and wordy)! was headin for lunch with some buddies. and where we were eating, it was a nice long walk through campus. so yeah, here's some pics of them/campus/both.

the buddies Don (from NewYork) and Armando (from Angola). and the trees from Bloomington.

Don: "Si mi??!"

this gates thing is supposed to be the landmark of the university. hmm. oh well!

so..that's it for my first winter! i've come outta it still with 10 fingers and 10 toes but a dry face to boot! oh and by the way, definitely in holiday mood right now! just wanna go to SanFran, soak up the sun, buy some stuff and take many chill pills!

oh yeah and i miss you too.

ps: yeah you!

time

2007-03-04T13:07:00.000-05:00

why issit for certain things, time seems to drag and at other times, it flies.

like how time slows down when you're staring at a stopwatch, keeping time for an experiment.
like how time speeds up when you're waiting for an exam.
like how time slows down when you're nearing something you really want.
and like how time speeds up when you spend it with the people who matter the most. annoying!

but yeah, A's got released before the weekend. and it seems like a really long time ago when i collected my results. and the hours after result-release were filled with frantic phonecalls; first to family, then to friends, then to tutors. chirpy voices and downcast tones on the other side of the phoneline.

then you have time to reflect on your results and you kinda force yourself to be happy for your friends who did well but deep down, you just wanna reach across and beat the crap out of them for doin better than you. oh well! results aren't everything. and i haven't heard of anyone who lost friends over results. so for those who didn't do that well, it will get better.

but people lose friends over time & you either wish that they get sad and beat yourself over it or you just suck it up and say 'good riddance' (:

them vs you vs me

2007-03-03T17:45:00.000-05:00

more often than not, it's not gonna be you versus me.

more often than not, it's gonna something out there versus you versus me. so yeah, my day took a slightt dip but i went all the way back up again.

oh and i forgot to mention the wind yesterday was S-T-R-O-N-G. i know i've put on weight so now i'm slightly less of a pushover. but the wind was strong i tell you. david and denise were actually worried that i'd be carried by the wind -.-

and by the way, if anyone wants to know what a dope i am...i'm gonna lower my self-dignity by 10 points. this happened to me twice within a week. so i napped before class, and set my alarm for 20min before class. so when the alarm goes off i'll just grab my stuff and head out of the dorm. i'm gonna tell you what happened on thursday! the alarm went off, grabbed my shirt, jeans, bag, shoes. got ready and left. and i think i was walking towards class for a good five minutes before i realized that i had my t-shirt on back to front.

someone say embarrassing?

oh and i'm about to call a friend from the next dorm and rub some salt into his manchesterunited-inflicted-wound. he's a liverpool fan! and i heard he flung his chair across the hallway when united scored. heh this is gonnna be so much fun...

do you smell that? that's the smell of victory babyy!

3 things to brighten up my day

2007-03-03T11:49:00.000-05:00

woke up nice & early today..at 7.30am. and 3 things i found out so far today are probably gonna make my day a decent one.

#1 say it with me now...'smash & grab'...oooooh yeah, Man Utd smashing a goal past Liverpool in the 91st minute.

#2 i found out my buddy Byrant has a blog. oh wait, he has a livejournal i mean. byrant's got an lj. never thought possible. i mean, who ever figured the guy would blog?! if you're interested, this is it - byranosaurus.livejournal.com

#3 i learnt something new today courtesy of Byrant's blog. The wise byrant said...'anger is just an alphabet away from danger'. dude, totally cool. but i kinda doubt he came up with it. hahaaah!

but #1 knocks the ball out of the park. in your face liverpudlians!

timelapse

2007-03-02T10:48:00.000-05:00

this 13 hour time difference between USA and Singapore can get to me sometimes man. When i found out that A level results were being released on friday, i figured it to be friday USA time. But yeah, it was more like friday Singapore time!

oh well. k i'm just gonna say this anyways. tina zhixuan stef janice evan calvin...hope you guys get the rewards you guys deserve! heh can't believe stef is in japan while they're dishing out the results. i bet she ran away out of fear. hahaha just kidding stef. oh yeah and not forgettin my good buddy jiaxiang....hmm i know your grades but i would have said you need all the luck in the world, but i guess you did fine! congrats buddy!!

k since this is a very positive post, here's to hoping everyone gets back to the way things were. so lil vonne and lil beks, everything's gonna be fine! i know it. i'll come back and make sure things are ;p

that's us outside taka btw. the fountain. pretty cool huh. minus my retarded hair (eh cannot blame lor, was out the whole day). guess who took the pictures? jiaxiang! he took this super ridiculous picture but i don't seem to have it on my comp. nvm i'll get it and post it. RIDICULOUS WITH THE MONGOBIG R! was asking him to move further abit so can get the fountain in the shot...and what did he do? yeah....he walked back like 100m. what an ass. HAHA!

i miss the buddies.

faking my own suicide;

2007-02-28T19:20:00.000-05:00

if i fake my own suicide, will they hold a double funeral because a part of you will die along with me?

isn't that a bit of a dark & twisty way of trying to find out if someone loves you that much? hoho! speaking of suicides and funerals, really want the next 2 days to go past quick. and then, there'll be a exam-free week followed by spring break so sunny San Francisco. can hardly wait!

it's taken me a semester and a half to realize that good stuff that's sold in the c-store (campus/convenience store) where i can actually get food with my mealpoints. even though the stuff are pretty overpriced, it doesn't really matter because my scholarship's paying for my dorm fees + meal points. i'm talking pizza, hershey's chocolate syrup, ritz cheese bitz, doritos and all that good stuff.

but what's making me go back time and time again is the hershey's cookies&cream chocolate bar! i'm gonna OD on the bars soon man, if i don't control myself. i'm already munching on my 3rd one today.

alright, enough sidetracking. time to hit the greek books and get all these funny sounding names into my head. there are soooooo many names that it's come to the point where i start dishing out nicknames to them..like 'dirty old man', 'greedy bastard', 'gullible fool' etc.

sheeesh!

end of the wait;

2007-02-27T13:02:00.000-05:00

"some people see things that are and ask, why?

some people dream of things that never were and ask, why not?"

don't let it put you down. i won't let it put you down.

you know how people usually wait for something for so long..and when they finally get it, it's not what they expected and they are left wanting more? that's a really baddd situation to be in. but how about when you wait for something so long..and when you finally get it, it blows you away and still leaves you wanting more? that's the best thing someone can have going on.

but darn it! time after time, all i can do is say thank you.

guess what?

2007-02-26T18:22:00.000-05:00

Yellowcard's coming to Bloomington!

yikes

2007-02-24T17:33:00.000-05:00

yikes! i can't nap in peace! ice is falling from the sky. plenty of them. and they're pelting against my window. annoying!!! here's how it looks like..there's the ice..there's a close up. it's building up and it's gonna cover my whole window soon! save meeee!

anyways, here are some really cool covers. haha.

the story;

2007-02-24T15:01:00.000-05:00

since all the snow's gone, it's a good time to look back on THE snow fight this winter. nothing minor bout this snow fight...heads rolled. This is what i recall happened..

THE STORY

what was once a green grassy field is now an undisturbed calm of snow (if you don't take into consideration david and his forlorn look, with 2 punks and a head in the background)....not for long anyways.

a perfect opportunity to make my first snow angel. forgive the grass patches. the snow was not as deep as we hoped. but it sufficed for the bloodbath that was to ensue....

david, with a few flicks and rolls of his hands, launches a fastball of snow across the field with poor wayniq as his target. what was a field....is now a BATTLEfield.

but wayniq, blessed and gifted with the reflexes of a tennis player, sees the fastball of snow coming in slow motion. with more time to think than he thought, wayniq knew he only had one option and one option only...'DODGE'.

know you see him, now you don't; wayniq dodged the incoming snowball with the speed of cigarette-deprived jiaxiang upon seeing a stick of nicotine/tar/tobacco. his movements so swift that the camera could not catch him in a picture despite 2 quick successive hammerings of the 'SNAP' button.

"haha", laughed wayniq as david realized he missed his target. Wasting no time, wayniq conjures up a snowball out of nowhere and launches a snowball and a prayer a good 30 meters across towards david - with his head as wayniq's target.

What was a surprise to everyone else, was not a surprise to wayniq - the snowball found it's target! Wayniq raised his arms aloft as he celebrated his accuracy and cunningness. However, in doing so...he let his guard down....

unawares to wayniq, david plowed into wayniq with the brunt of a professional football player as he took wayniq down with no apparent mercy.

"i got you you punkass no good piece of ****. IN YOUR FACE!!!" david cried as he shoved wayniq's face into the snow.

While this battle seemed to be over and done with, Shuzhen comes along and mocks both david and wayniq, laughing at their snow-covered jeans and childish behavior. However, because of all the head-jarring and snowfilled mouths, wayniq and david mistook Pamela for shuzhen and a new battle ensues. Once enemies, david and wayniq collude and hatch a devious plan to take pam down.

first, david scares pam with a snow ball. unbeknownst to pam, this snowball was just a diversion to get pam's attention away from the real danger....wayniq. out of the corner of her eye, pam catches some movement but is too slow to react to the impending bulldozer which was wayniq!

do not let the picture fool you. #1, wayniq's hand is not really on pam's butt. #2, pam does fall down..eventually. Elated that their elaborate plan bore it's fruits, wayniq and david shook hands and put the battles and plots behind them. As usual in all conflicts, Charles looks on and gives a chuckle as he managed to escape all the pain & snow. We'll get you next time Charles, mark our words!!

Kudos to cameralady denise boo! as you can see, she's totally sad from missing out on the snow fight. but do not fret, she got clobbered by a fair amount of snowballs after this picture was taken. pardon the toot face from me; it kinda got frozen in retard-mode.

i think everyone suffered afterward from the after effects of the snowfight. Snow in underwear, snow in shoes, snow in nose, snow in mouth, snow in ear, snow in the butt, snow in places the sun don't shine...you get my drift!

Oh well, i thought i'd post something more interesting since i have more time on a gloomy rainy saturday. so..here's a steal from beks!

a bientot tout le monde!

awake;

2007-02-20T19:08:00.000-05:00

I'm trying real hard not to shake, i'm biting my tongue. But i'm feeling alive and with every breathe that i take, i feel like i've won.

You're my key to survival. So just say that you'll stay awake for me. i don't wanna miss anything.

so what?

2007-02-20T01:02:00.000-05:00

i think i needed to change things up. haha! who cares if it's uglier! i don't like pictures anymore.

hurhur.

livejournal?

2007-02-19T15:49:00.000-05:00

for some reason, people are switchin over to livejournal. 4 ppl i know of so far! and it's probably of the privacy options. hmm. i'm not big on the privacy thing...but i wouldn't mind some privacy sometimes. then again, troublesome!! i'll sleep on it i guess.

on a very wet side note, everything's melting! gonna be messy for a few days but at least it's getting warmer! here comes the spring equinox!

beks! geog pro..is there a spring equinox? heh. i just thought it'd make sense.

ps: make that 5 blogger-livejournal jumpers! just found out bout another shipjumper!

anberlin;

2007-02-19T00:17:00.000-05:00

they'll be playing at some music club in San Fran when we're over for spring break. hope i can get to go! won't mind goin alone even! we'll see who wants to accompany poor me! i really wouldn't think twice bout goin if the energy was like this...

i know you wanna come! wish you could.

2007-02-14T16:10:00.000-05:00

pretty trees all around, but too bad man...didn't have a camera with me plus cameralady denise boo didn't have her camera charged. booooooooo for ms. Boo! ;p

classes before noon today were cancelled. effective for allll class in the university. takes something pretty big to make that happen man. IU doesn't normally close even in storms. apparently the last official closure went way back til the 1970s. that's last millenium! but of course, teachers being humans, are lazy as well and do cancel classes. but this is the first OFFICIAL closure in a long while. but yeah, here are some of the pics i took with my trusty phone. like DIAMONDS MAN! whooot whooot.

was talkin to a friend yesterday and was asking him what he thinks it would take to make the school close and he said; "607 inches of fricking snow!" that's kinda funny. o yea and in New York, they've got so much snow that there are walls of snow along the roads. cos yannoe, when it snows, they state whips out the snow plowers and they kinda shove the snow to the sides of the road. yeah, and it's been snowing quite a decent amount i'm guessing! found a pic, but dunno how recent this is!

anyway, crapload of work to get done by tomorrow. but i need some sleep! woke up early for nothing! had no idea classes were cancelled til i was about to head out of the dorms. argh.

Mongo earworms: Anberlin & Secondhand Serenade

winter storm;

2007-02-13T20:14:00.000-05:00

it's official, indiana's been hit by a winter storm! and bloomington's not spared. hurhur, it's quite fun actually.

first it was rain. then it was sleet; rain which turns to ice cos it's too darn cold. so yeah, it pelts down on your face! but apparently we have it easy over in bloomington. it's supposed to be the size of pebbles in other areas. hah! imagine that. and after the sleet, it was rain again. but yeah, once the 'rain' passes, we're supposed to get proper snow. a few good inches of it!

just went out for dinner and it's already starting to snow. some say it'd hit 10 inches because that's what's happening to the other areas hit by the storm. cool! my first winter and i'm gonna be in the middle of a winter storm! dunno whether it's enough to be called a blizzard though.
oh yeah, when it was raining, everything just started freezing real fast. like some scene outta 'Day After Tomorrow'.

check this out, a frozen over tree. almost all trees were like this!

plus the exisiting snow on the ground turned to slush when it started to rain. imagine slurpee poured all over the floor then you'll kinda get a rough idea of what it was like. and when they froze over, it was ICE. so yeah, potential back-breaking ice sheets!

yeah but went out with some guys in the dorm for dinner. brave journey k. don't mess with us. even though it was just next door...it was still a decent battle against the elements! all i need now is some cuddling! oh and pineapple tarts of course.

last/first

2007-02-12T16:24:00.000-05:00

really lazy day today! so this is gonna be short. real short. got bored and decided to get a post out before i sleep. for no apparent reason!

anyways, got my geog test results out. guess the whole class did badly. and i got an 80%. but the cool thing is, everyone gets a chance to up their score by 15%, we just have to do our corrections and hand it in the next lecture. just like that! if i get my corrections right, i'll get 95%! double-quadruple whoop-a-dee-whoop man. hahaa.

'i wanna be your first, last everthing' - Anberlin

2007-02-11T20:03:00.000-05:00

2 tests on a sunday is no fun! it's ridiculous and should be illegal!

weekend was spent doin up some stuff to send to some people back home! and i think i did a good job ;p other than that, had a chillax-ing weekend. most of it was planned to be set aside for studying for today's 2 tests, but yeah...you know, things don't always go as planned!!

kelvin left for aust on saturday. someone's gonna try being a doctor! anyways, if you're reading this, hope you find your place & people soon and the next few months will fly by. til then, you don't really have much of a choice but to study hard and give nerdiness some essence of coool. and i'll welcome with you the rest of the gang come July! (while the gang welcomes me in May..heh).

and i just realized my weekend lasted for a day actually. oh well! oh yeah and momma! if you're reading this...remember my pineapple tarts! precious commodity k. don't wanna miss out on the chinese new year goodies do i? but this time around, i'm not gonna share my tarts with anyone!!!

you learn something new;

2007-02-09T10:19:00.000-05:00

you learn something new everytime you go for greek lessons (duh). but this new thing i learnt is really interesting/funny/ridiculous/hilarious/downright stupid. it's bout the marriage making sessions in Babylon of long ago. yes you read right, marriage sessions.

k so this is how it goes;

every once in awhile, all the women in Babylon who are of age (i'm guessing 18/21? the professor didn't get into specifics) gather in the town square or something. that includes the rich and the poor girls, because the cities back then were divided into the rich and poor. so yeah, other than the girls, allll the single men in the country will gather as well, and there'll be this auctioneer there. any wild guesses what happens?

yup! the people bid for the girls! and obviously, the pretty/hot ones get snapped up first. and usually it's the rich who get them, cos you gotta bid high to get what you want right? who doesn't want a hot/sexy wife if you have the means to get one? so that leaves us with the ugly girls...what happens?!??! well..instead of paying for the ugly girls, the auctioneer will OFFER the girls + money to the remaining single men! The aim of the game: whoever accepts the lowest price for the ugly girl can have the the girl as his wife!

*&#$%*&^&*$~!__#)*%

apparently the cash is in recompense for having a butt ugly wife. balances things up. talk about weird huh? speaking of weird, anna nicole smith's dead. hmm. owells. weekend's here!

"thanks for the memories even though they weren't so great" - Fall Out Boy

snowday

2007-02-06T19:15:00.000-05:00

it snowed today. snowed as in, wake up look outside and the ground's still normal. use the comp for awhile, look out and everywhere's white. kinda cool i must say. gimme a whoot whoot! whahaha.

just came back from snow fight session and my pants are frozen (in the process of thawing). i swear i was being aimed at, yeayea, go ahead bully the small kid. pui! anyways, will get the pics of the snowfight up when i get them. meanwhile, here's some i took with my handphone on the way to class.

outside my dorm, crossing the road to get to the other side. duh.

tried to snap a picture where you can see the snowfall but obviously i failed.

dirty snow cos of the car tyres smashing the snow into lumps of disgusting cruddish mud slush.

hhaah issit just me, or do those people like frozen! i was nice and warm in my winter coat! good stuff. worth the cash!

my destination! where i have my greek classes.

david and denise. so cute hor? hurhur.

anyways, greek was interesting as always. learnt bout the Spartans! and it's cool how new movies come out about all these stories during the classical period of the greeks/romans and all that. because it helps learning! it's a good study aid. hahahaha.

if you don't know, i'm referring to the movie '300'. bout the 300 Spartans who held off a million Persians. apparently, it actually happened (if you believe the records and poems bout them). dunno when the movie is coming out, but i hope its before the next exam. and we're gonna learn bout these events next class! about the 300 Spartans. anyways, if you wanna watch the trailer, here it is.

'300' trailer or here

interesting stuff aye? think it's gonna be an awesome movie. owells, don't blame me but i rather these kinda movies than the modern ones. Troy, Lord of the Rings, Kingdom of Heaven, Alexander or Eragon anyone?

ahh! got a geog test tomorrow and i don't feel very prepared. hoho! shall read abit before dinner. bye one and all for noww.

no way back;

2007-02-05T17:28:00.000-05:00

temp of the day -14deg celsius.

Indiana's gonna be painted blue for awhile. that's cos the Indianapolis Colts won the Superbowl last night! the first Superbowl i've watched that i actually understand and knew what was happening. i mean, i've watched Superbowls on tv before when i was in Singapore, but i was just watchin it cos i was bored and had no clue what was going on. watched it at david's place with david, denise, weihua and andrew. good 'nuff place to watch, good company, good snacks and a good tv!

yesterday, singapore drew 1-1 with thailand in the ASEAN championships - whatever they call it now la, i still refer it as the Tiger Cup. can't believe Singapore beat Thailand in SOCCER! i mean, i would probably side Singapore in everything other than sports. but my loyalties lie with Thailand when it comes to sports cos i know they've got some standard. Owells. aiyah, good things come around a few times...so let the singapore soccer team enjoy they fleeting moments of victory! bleh.

anyways, if you want some insightful, thinking-mode stuff from me today, you're lookin in the wrong place. tried thinking of things to throw in here but my brain's not budging. go check out beks' blog. latest post is nice. if you're the person who's meant to read it...it should really get to you.

oh wait, maybe i did think of something. here goes;
make a choice, make a decision - there's no way back, no talking out of, no turning back.

proteins&choices;

2007-02-02T18:13:00.000-05:00

i've been corrected. apparently i made a mistake with regard to the temperature levels of a guy's privates. they're supposed to be colder than the rest of your body because the lil swimmers would run the risk of denaturing (since they're proteins) if their swimming pool overhheated.

so the swimming pool is always kept at a slightly cooler temperature. but i think the swimming pool temperature dropped abit because i was out in very very cold atmosphere.

ok got that settled. if you have no idea what i'm talkin bout, refer to the previous post.

been a tough morning. first, woke up to cold cold snow. i'm not complaining though, walkin through snowfall (though not so much) was kinda fun. soft, powder-ish new white snow. but after the walk, had to go through 1h15min of ear torturing lecture. i thought listening to too many new songs would give me earbleeds (or that's what some people tell me), but i think listening to too many lectures like those would make my ears bleed for sure.

then i had a good long chat on my computer and got some issues laid out. better out than in i say. many things to do, but right now, i just wanna sleep. i woke up at 850! SO EARLY.

choices. there are two primary choices; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

ramblebamble;

2007-01-31T16:04:00.000-05:00

i do not know what to blog bout but i think i owe it to the avid readers of my wondertastic 'happening' (according to vonne) blog to at least post something up. lemme think of what i can blog bout..

i know! weather! it's been really cold these few days. i'm not talkin like 'oooooh so cold it's 15 degrees..brrr'. i'm talkin -15 deg celsius! i think that includes the chill factor of the wind. my upper body hasn't been really cold (cos of my superwarm duck feather winter jacket from NorthFace...northface babehh!) but my lower body's been freezing!!

eh, i'm talkin private-part-cold kinda freezing. since when do you privates get cold? seriously. they're like the warmest place of your anatomy (in direct competition to the underarms, which really depends on the amount of fur present, aka armpit hair!). the wind totally blows through your jeans and cools down your private parts! lil' niq!

"how you know??" you might ask. well, after walkin in the cold for bout 20min, i decided to go into a building to take a leak. so when you pee, you gotta touch your pipe. and it felt cooool. so yeah, that's how i know.

alright, story over. time to get your mind off lil' niq......no, really. GET YOUR MIND OFF LIL NIQ!

not lookin forward to tomorrow. 2 homework assignments due, 2 tests. grr. good thing is, Man Utd's leadin Watford 1-0 and totally owning butt. time to continue watchin!

OOHHHHHHHHH GOAALLLLL GOAL GOALL!!! it's 4-0! Watford players gonna have sore butts tomorrowwww...they got their asses kickeddddd. and there's still...15min to go!

is it worth fighting for;

2007-01-28T13:28:00.000-05:00

it's really cold today! strong wind with very fine snow. by fine i mean small small snow being blown about by the wind. it got kinda heavy at one period to the point where you just see a blanket of white in the air. AWESOME!

you wouldn't wanna be out there though. went out for lunch with some of the guys in the dorm, had a hard time i'm telling you. didn't bring the windbreaker out, so it felt like i was buck naked!

Haven't been really really happy in a long while. But for some reason the past few days got pretty close to it. and i'm really glad i had the chance to head back home during the winter break. just want the happines to stay! who doesn't wanna be happy hmm? who doesn't wanna do what they just feel is best for some reason. who wants to sit around and get hammered by depressing stuff, conflicting issues, bad news & all those evil stuff.

and then you ask yourself, for the things that make your mind/emotions work on overdrive - is it worth fighting for?

ps: i'm still loving the picture below. my dear friend byrant for a moment thought that we were actually wearin those helmets at the airport. he asked, "omg did everyone stare at you guys?!". dude, seriously.

name?

2007-01-27T01:55:00.000-05:00

eh if anyone one of you in the pic is readin this....don't you just love what i did?! mwahahhaa. we need a group name and our codenames. (sorry vonne, had to color you pink)

pictures;

2007-01-26T19:21:00.000-05:00

Since i'm bored, i'm gonna rip this little game off beks' blog.

Put your music player on shuffle.
Press forward for each question.
Use the song title as the answer to the question even if they don't make sense.
You'll be surprised though.. NO CHEATING!

Only difference with mine is that i'm blogging from my friend's computer, so i'm using my ipod..and i just pressed 'Shuffle Songs'...

How are you feeling today Downed (eh great start -.-)
Will you get far in life? How Good Can It Be? (seriously?)
How do your friends see you? What Is Right
Will you get married? Past The Pines (good thing? bad thing?)
What is your best friend's theme song? Better Days
What is the story of your life? The Day It Started (hmm..)
What was high school like? Testing The Strong Ones
How can you get ahead in life? A Praise Chorus
What is the best thing about your friends? Heard That Sound
What is today going to be like? Apologies
What is in store for this weekend? Decoration
What song describes you? For a Dreamer, Night's The Only Time of Day
To describe your grandparents? Nothing Left to Lose
How is your life going? Too Much Information (ITS A SIGN! I SHOULD STOP STUDYING!)
What song will they play at your funeral? Last Quarter (you gotta be kidding me..)
How does the world see you? Dare To...
Will you have a happy life? Float On
What do your friends really think of you? Staplegunned
Do people secretly lust after you? Futures (looks like that's a no for the question)
How can I make myself happy? Mountain/Molehill (youuu dirty minded human being, oughta be ashamed of yourself!!)
What should you do with your life? What is Your Secret
Will you ever have children? Miles and States

hahaha that was kinda, fun/retarded/evil omen-icious/joy reaping? anyways, here are some pics from snow day!

oops last pic was kinda messed up. as you can see, first pic was the battlefield. then us proceeding to battlefield. us prep-ing our ammo. me getting hit and pissed, lookin all evil-spawn-like tryin to get a snowball to david...and the post fight pic - me messed up with snow all over me.

i got bad aim!!

i can't lie;

2007-01-24T17:50:00.000-05:00

total mood killing song: josh kelley's just say the word.

if anyone listens to that song and really listen, you're gonna be a mess. owell!

When everythings wrong and nothings going right,
Just know that I'm not hard to find.
So just say the word, and I'll race through the night.
And I'll be right there by your side.

if only i could and it were that easy.

unpacking;

2007-01-23T17:43:00.000-05:00

finally got around to unpacking my baggage! took me 2 and a half weeks to unpack but there're very good reasons for it!

1) the first week, everytime i tried unpacking, it just reminded me of home so i stopped trying.
2) the second week, i was just too darn lazy to even bend down and unpack my bag.

so because i ran outta excuses to unpack, decided to do it today. plus i had alot of time, considering the fact the on tuesdays, i ony have one hour of classes. jollywowwow! plus the class on tuesdays is my classical greek studies class.

class today was on The Illiad. bout Achilles, Hector, Troy, Patroclus and all that stuff. interesting thing is that the movie is only bout 10% accurate if you base it against the Illiad (the 10% includes the accurate names of characters -.-). it's only then that you appreciate what Hollywood does. because if they did follow the book, it'll probably be a long-ass movie with redundant dialogue and not so much drama. but i did learn today that Achilles went berserko-nutso after Patroclus died.

hmm, oh and everytime i hear Achilles, i mentally picture a topless toned Brad Pitt. eew? kinda gay right? eh but seriously..k say this to yourself : ACHILLES. what mental image did you have? hmm hmm hmm?!??!?!?! see..i'm not weird.

oh yes and while unpacking, i realized that it's always the small things/objects that remind you of very happy times. like you were wearin this shirt when so&so happened, or a certain pair of socks remind you of somethin, the book you unpacked that you didn't get to read because your little brother stole and read it, the missing shirt because you gave it away to your other brother. or even the things that you don't unpack; like something your parents offered to give you but you forgot to bring it with you.

or even little things that you already have in your possession, eg:gifts, that you thought didn't mean anything anymore...but actually they kinda do? or if suddenly, totally geeky/uncool stuff you wished you never had became cool. or things that belong to others but you're still holding on to for no apparent reason.

so even though i'm all back to being settled and gettin used to life back here, unpacking puts you in that moment when you wish you were home (and warm while you're there). now you see why i didn't wanna unpack? ANNOYING!

on a side note, i'm happy because i got myself orangina and some almond thins (rui! remember the almond thins you used to bring back to your place and let us eat? the one with the white rectangular box, from belgium. REMEMBER NOT?! damn nice leh). so i'm gonna eat my fill and get some sleep!

ps: i haven't got the snowfight pictures from denise. oops.

the weekend;

2007-01-22T16:23:00.000-05:00

oops, haven't blogged in awhile. haven't been around in the dorm lately, so no computer time! (at this point, if yvonne yeap is reading this, she'd probably go: "don't bluff la! studying right?!" hahahaha, hi vone!)

first things first - ISOHUNT is back online! my source for downloads was removed for a few days, and...i admit, i felt quite handicapped. but now, i'm no longer handicapped!

let's see...how did the past week go?

classes this sem are kinda interesting. plus i'm taking a few classes with david and/or denise, so at least i've got really good company! so academic-wise, i'm pretty much set for the semester. gonna be a pain in the butt. since when's studying fun? (at this point, yvonne will probably go: "don't bluff la! you like studying lor!" hhahaha, hi vone!)

snowed over the weekend!!! first real snow fall i've seen here in Bloomington. the other snowfall days were quite pathetic. like, 1.5cm of snow on the ground. the weekend brought at least 10cm of snow. pretty cool! had a snowball fight with david on sunday while denise video-ed/took our pictures. eh, cannot blame lor. 2 idiots who never played with snow before. got the pictures, but some of them really screwed up, distorted and all. will get the fixed ones from Denise and post em up real quick! shall post a pic of the Arena of Snow (where we had our snowball fight) and a pic of me slipping on the snow while denise snapped a kinda-cool photo!

as you can see, the pictues are pretty screwed up. will get the good versions up when i get them!

saturday went pretty well. headed up to indy with david & denise. the main highlights for the trip were supposed to be shopping and dinner. but didn't do much shopping (no mood, expensive things that weren't nice, no time) so that left us with dinner to look forward to! met up with 2 other singaporeans, Wei Hua & Andrew (weihua's from my school and Andrew's from Purdue), for dinner. really nice dinner at uhm, some fancy schmancy italian restaurant (sorry! forgot the name). quite reasonably priced i guess. good food too! so that's how saturday went.

Sunday...pretty much bummed the day away at david's. essentially, was a sporting sunday. had 3 big games to watch. Of course, there was the Man Utd vs Arsenal game to watch plus 2 other big football games (conference finals to see who gets to play in the Superbowl). Man Utd vs Arsenal game...DUWAN TO SAY LA! YOU ALL KNOW THE RESULTS. hais. shellshocked, stunned, gutted, heartrippedoutofit'scavityandstompedsmashedspitpoundedupon..you know the feeling?

The other 2 football games went the way of the Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts (GO COLTS!). so they'll be facing off in the Superbowl. that's like the worst thing that could happen to my uni. cos most of the students here either support the Bears or the Colts...so things should get interesting around here come Feb 4th. foresee alot of drunken bouts. hahaha.

that's how my weekend went. not forgetting pickin up some dorm mates on saturday night from downstairs cos they got too drunk/smashed/wasted to even key the damn elevator to get their asses up to their dorms.

(at this point yvonne will probably go: "don't bluff la! you made all of that up lor! i bet you were studying the whole weekend!! hahahaha, hi vone!)

ps: while typing that post, i finished downloading an episode of grey's anatomy and one tree hill! cheers to warp speed campus internet!

2007-01-18T22:32:00.000-05:00

i'm taking baby steps, but you're so far, so far ahead.

superheroes;

2007-01-17T16:29:00.000-05:00

me and the retard gang at changi airport 2nd time around. coolboy, emogirl, stix, theniq (argh but think they'll want me to go by codename:fats), stupidboy, dr kee - the Super Six, Stupid Six, Siao Six.

we should follow this color scheme more often next time. SO VIBRANT. Carl can be green ranger. Vonne pink ranger. Beks blue/turqoise ranger. Me black ranger (cos i'm cool). Jiaxiang purple ranger. Kel red ranger. Hmm, then rui and kenneth lim can fight among themselves for yellow and white ranger. THAT'D BE REALLY COOL! EVERYONE WILL STARE IN AWE.

Oh wait..then there'll be 8! Hmm..i know!

The Eeeediotic Eight

walkin in the snow;

2007-01-16T17:51:00.000-05:00

drama doesn't follow me, it kinda rides on my back.

--

so far, today was the most snowfall i've seen (though it wasn't that much). enough snow flying around trying to get into your mouth though.

had to resist losing all my self-dignity and pride when i was walking through the snow. why? hahaha for some strange reason i wanted to catch some snow and look at them up close. and i also had the urge to lunge out with my mouth and try to eat some snowflakes.

seriously, if i did that, i'd probably kill myself the next minute - would have looked like a complete nutjob.

coldest day since i got back. had to whip out the leather gloves. so with the gloves on, and my windbreaker on (plus another 2 layers underneath), i was feelin all warm and fuzzy. though my cheeks were freezing for 5 minutes before it got numb. walked quite abit in the cold today, for classes and to go get some food from the supermarket. nice short day today, tuesdays, the day when i only have 1 hour's worth of lessons. Oh wait, friday's are only 1 hour long as well. WOO!

anyways, gonna head next door to play some xbox 360. gotta escape the roommate today. don't really like him today. for 2 reasons. for waking me up while he was going to class at 830 and for asking me ridiculous questions while i'm busy watchin prison break. what a pain!

thought i'd share;

2007-01-14T15:12:00.000-05:00

thought i'd share this thing that happened during my first geog class last week. if this were signs of things to come for the rest of the semester, i'm sure i'll enjoy being cracked up by the professor.

my geography course is something on physical systems of planets. so during the lab session last week, we were supposed to test and see if a set of infatable planet models are to scale (plastic planets which can be blown up, with air, and is supposed to be built to scale compared to the real planets - according to the makers).

so, the teacher decided to try and explain how we're supposed to go about doing this. so she used the planet model uranus as her example. can you see where this is goin? :) if you do, continue reading anyways.

so she said: "alright, what you wanna do is to take the measuring tape over there, and go around the planet like this (pulls measuring tape around uranus to measure the circumference). now, you'll know what the circumference of uranus is. since circumference=2piR, you divide the circumference of uranus by 2pi and then, you'll have the radius of uranus."

ISN'T THAT FREAKIN' HILARIOUS?!

if you don't get the joke............uhm....

seriously?
seriously?!

seriously. you have got to get a life if you don't understand that. uranus = ur anus (your anus). GET IT?

ps: the inflatable planets were not made according to scale :)

retards;

2007-01-13T14:06:00.000-05:00

Was transferring some songs to my phone and decided to upload the very few pictures i took in singapore. With my powerful Motorola v3i camera! Which reminds me, i forgot to bring the camera my parents handed down to me - then again, i'm not really sure if they really did give it to me. Mom! clarification please? :)

Heh very random shots. Me doing the famous beks-pout trying to cheer vonne up. Vonne showing that she's obviously not amused by my antics. Beks laughing on. My lil brother caught unawares while he was eating his Double Cheeseburger (without cheese...HAHA, that's what jiaxiang said). Jiaxiang messing with someone's iPod, Carl just doing his thing. Poor jiaxiang, see that shroud of mess on his head? It's gonna be gone within 24 hours.

I like long weekends. Thanks Martin Luther King Jr.! You see, monday's Martin Luther King Day..so we got the day off! Plus, Tuesdays i only have one hour of class. Cheers to the weekend!

i never wanted to..

i got birds in my ears;

2007-01-12T15:19:00.000-05:00

So i'm back in Bloomington, B-Town, lil town in the middle of nowhere where you're surrounded by cows & cornfields..you get the drift.

Thought it'd take long to settle back into life here but it took off pretty quick! Think that's partly down to the fact that i kicked jet lag's butt..HARD! Was afraid that it would take some time to get the jet lag out of the system, but a little bit of self discipline and it was over in one night. Forced myself to stay awake after reaching my dorms at around 4pm (which was 5am back in Singapore). Managed to do that, and fell into coma sleep at around 830pm. As expected, i woke up in the middle of the night at around 4am, but forced myself back to sleep and woke up at 930 the next morning. And just like that....jet lag's gone!

Leavin' this time was very much easier than the first, though still hard. No one likes to leave the comfort of home. But i tried lookin' on the bright side - that what i had in the states was pretty good as well! Kinda figured out that with less people sending me off, it'd probably be much easier to leave. So didn't really let other people in on my flight details. But somehow, it still got out and a handful of people came to send me off. And i reallly appreciate it! Thanks you guys, you know who you are.

Think i had a very nice time back home, albeit only for 3 weeks (or less). Having the family around was always nice. So were meeting friends, eating, chilling and all that good stuff. Not forgetting the jibes that i got fat - though quite annoying at times, it was still kinda fun la. Just for the record.... I'm not that FAT! I think i definitely got fatter over in Singapore. Wah the amount of McNuggets i consumed is insane. Never had that many nuggets before. Though what i had was nothing compared to what idiots like Jiaxiang had - he's gonna get nugget poisoning or something one day. Seriously.

The next time i get back, thing's are probably gonna be abit different. Aside from the longer trip (4 months babeh!), there'll be familiar faces that will be gone. Either sucked up by the army, stolen by Australia or just plainly prevented from the meeting some others. But i'll have more time to annoy people! And i'll probably be able to drive abit more (legally now, of course). But then there's more familiar faces to be welcomed back - Kenneth & SiuRui! we missed you guys here!

But for now, there's school to go through for some, BMT to go through for others, emotional heartbreak to get over for yet others and some knocking-sense-into to be given to some (vern! STUDY LA).

back home;

2006-12-30T01:04:00.000-05:00

Alright, probably a long overdue post. What's been happening so far hmm..

Meeting friends, eating, chilling out, bumming around, going on mad car rides. Oh and i'm still hanging on to something i have to pass to David. Argh. Can't find the time bro, sorry!

Good enough update? Lazy to go into details! But it's been fun. So far. Plus tonight promises more fun. Can't wait to meet up with the tennis dudes&dudettes! Think almost everyone should be there and that's great, but for some reason i really wished jason were here. Just a few individuals short of feeling like the best team all over again :)

1.5 weeks gone, 1.5 weeks to go.

"It's mindnumbing to think of yesterday, I'd run to you now if I could but things have changed."
- Second Place Victory, This Day & Age

HAHAHAHAHHAHA

2006-12-14T13:31:00.000-05:00

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA.

I'm going back tomorrow! Tomorrow's the dayyyy. I'm delirious (as someone would call me that)....

DEEEE-LEEEEEEEEEEEEE-RRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE-USSSSSSS

Gotta wake up, get up, get psychology done and dusted, make my way to the airport, make my way to New York, make my way to Bangkok, make my way through Bangkok for 4 days and make my way back home!

definitions of;

2006-12-11T16:51:00.000-05:00

A compelling or constraining influence, such as a moral force on the mind or world - pressure.
To be undecided or skeptical, to tend to disbelieve and distrust, to regard as unlikely, that's doubt.
The condition of being insufficient or falling short, decline in strength or effectiveness - failure.

The instinct to run, to back away, or give up, to need, want, reach, steal, the feeling to always want more, and to take more, the loss of breath at the sight of a car accident, to drive by, never being able to feel satisfied, and to reject anyone who tries,

That is my life.

one down;

2006-12-11T16:20:00.000-05:00

Got done with math today, so that's one down! 4 more exams to go.

And that's one day down, 5 days til i meet up with the family in Bangkok. 9 days til i'm back in sunny Singapore.

I should really stop doing this counting down thing! Can get quite annoying huh?Anyways, i think this is what the exam period does to you - you check out weird youtubes.

Here's one;

YOU HAVE TO WATCH THE NEXT VIDEO. FREEKIN COOL STUFF!

seasons;

2006-12-09T14:23:00.000-05:00

Henry David Thoreau once wrote: 'Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit and resign yourself to the influences of each.'

-

No one likes exam periods! Maybe some do, but not the larger of the world's population! I'm pretty suree of that. For me, it's always the same recurring motions that i go through during exams. The same motion that alot of people probably go through as well.

The motion of knowing that the exams are around the corner, knowing that as every hour passes, it's another hour closer to the exams. But here comes the trouble - it's hard to get the ball rolling! Hard to sit down, study...and while you're at that, it's two times as hard to continue studying. But it's funny because no matter how much you don't like studying, once you get past the first hour and a half, you tend not to stop studying. Quite freaky!

But i guess that's how every season is. Whether it's tournament season, exam season, holiday season. You unconsciously resign to the influences of the season.

The good thing is - studying season is usually followed by holiday season.

postscript: c'mon niq! 5 days, 5 papers. One more exam day over and done with is one less day of exams. And i should probably try to start studying for today.

moving forward;

2006-12-08T12:18:00.000-05:00

Alot has happened this year. Alot of change.

New friendships, new songs, new experiences, new scenery, sort of a new life, new weather. That's what happens when people move forward. Everything is new. Moving forward is something that happens whether we like it or not. But the thing that makes moving forward so unnerving, uncertain, unbearable..is probably this;

Every step forward you take, something is left behind.
But sometimes the only way to move forward, you have to go back.

"Let it come down, everyone has gone, leave it behind."