one of the things that really can't do

This probably doesn't have that much to do with me, but I'd have to say it anyway.

Jurong is NOT an ulu place! Stop saying it as though it exists somewhere on an offshore island that is located 25km away from the mainland. It is not a God-forsaken place in the middle of nowhere. Even Jurong Island isn't that ulu.

If you haven't noticed, there are currently 4 MRT stations situated in Jurong alone. In a few more years, that would increase to 6. In other words, if you still have not taken some part of your precious time to come to realise, that is about one-fifth of the number of stations on the East-West line.

It can't be that ulu when there're dozens of bus services operating here and 6 MRT stations and with free bus shuttling services from various places to IMM and a Regional Library that has just been renovated. And one of the last functional ice-skating rinks.

Hm... that was the reason in the first place, right?

Well, nobody asked anyone to go skating at such an ulu place. It's not anyone's fault that the ice-skating rink is located at such an ulu place, isn't it? It's just located there.

Oh, and I've never thought people would say that JE entertainment centre is a huge place. It's an old, old building that has lost part of its liveliness quite a long time ago. I believe the Library is slightly bigger though.

And keep your facts clear: Jurong big enough for people to find purpose in seperating Jurong East and Jurong West. (Big enough on an island this size, at any rate) Do not ever try saying things like JE Entertainment Centre is near Boon Lay and such. I will be very very seriously amused.

Yup, it's home to alot of factories. Yes, there's an extension leading to an offshore island nearby. Yes, there are wharfs nearby as well. No, the millitary being situated here doesn't count at all right? Well, what about this certain number of people living here? It's been so many years since the first estates have been built.

Argh, I have had enough of these "Jurong is ulu" talk. Yew Tee and Yishun are as ulu to me as Jurong to you.

Holiday theft

No matter how much it seems like I've abandoned this place, I haven't.

All I need is a little time, a little purpose, a little inspiration, and a little management.

Unfortunately, holidays have this querk, which is to say, at least one of these are always absent at any one time. Holidaying, I suppose.

They say we have nothing but time on our hands during the holidays, but surely that must be wrong, somehow. It slips away just like water through my fingers.

Purpose? Mine has been a little misguided as of late.

Inspiration. I have good news for this.

Management, the shadow that never fails to let me down at the most important of moments. You'll know why if you look around a bit.

But I believe things are going to take a turn pretty soon. Well, I shall stick around to find out, I guess.

random reminder

Hell, I nearly forgot about this but...

... isn't today KHII's release date? o.O

Seph with three wings. Whee.

EDIT: If neither my eyes nor fellow poster has cheated me, then I think I might have seen something I did not expect at all.

Tifa is in KH2. o-o

KH2 is going to turn into an FF universe very soon.

they don't happen like that

I seem to be on an MRT bad luck streak today.

To sum it up, stepping out of my house a few minutes later than planned has caused me to:

i) miss a train at Boon Lay
ii) meet a Do Not Board train right after
iii) wait anxiously for the next train after that
iv) miss the train at Jurong East when I switched lines
v) meet a Do Not Board train after that
vi) wait another 4 minutes for the next train

And to think all I wanted to do was to get from Boon Lay to Woodlands. For School Project meeting, no less.

Besides, I enncountered my first "This train has been delayed due to a train fault" message upon travelling back. That doesn't happen everyday.

I think I just wasted today away. I haven't been in the mood to do anything for the entire day, except to buy something for myself. Never thought I'd have a spending money type of mood. But then again, there's this voice that never fails to nag at me that spending money is No Good. And it comes a full circle and I don't buy anything.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

I've got to get down to doing something more constructive. (Doesn't that sound familiar? I think I might have said this during the past holidays as well o-o. )

At least I've learnt to wake up earlier. "Sleeping till 11" is not on my list of scheduled things to do anymore. :)

celebrating the joy of giving... money away

Waking up early proves to be much better on the brain and mood.

At least it makes me happy to note that breakfast doesn't end at the time when lunch is supposed to start.

Happier still is when I am able to turn on the computer and realise that it isn't afternoon yet.

It makes me alightly more motivated to do my homework, actually. Though nothing in that area has been done as of yet. But thank anime for showing early in the morning. It's about the only thing that can get me out of bed these days.

Not that you don't know already.

But I've seen this particular advertisement floating around on Channel 56, and according to it, Naruto's going to be shown next year. Yes. I'm just hoping that it's not going to be in the 6 pm slot. I hardly make it home in time for those. And more than a hundred episodes to watch... I've got a feeling that I'd be giving up halfway. @_@

And talk about next year, I think I'll need to start going on a saving spree soon. My previous personal save money campaign doesn't seem to be enough to hold out for next year. KHII and DoC are coming. Well, actually KHII is scheduled to be released next Thursday in Japan. And we're all promised much more excitement than the previous one. More Leon and Cloud comradeship (or so it seems) and even Cloud and Sephiroth action. The two of them are inseparable, aren't they?

Besides, we all get more of those rainbow sparks we saw in AC. Whee.

DoC promises more revelation of Vinny's past, and (as I'm hoping) Seph's and Lucrecia's. I haven't been following news for ages, but I've seen the recent PV; it left me a little lost. And I'm starting to see the family resemblance between Sephiroth and his mother... ... I mean Lucrecia.

DoC also gives me the impression that Vincent's closest friends are Yuffie and Cid. Strange how that sounds like something from fanon.

As if that's not enough, someone please update me on the FFXII side of the news. I'm feeling the money fall out of my pocket already. >_>

So as we all know very well by now, the moral of the story is, SE sure knows how to get all the fans' money. Be a fan only after much caution and thought.

...And of course, with much money. XD

the days that seem so far away

ACF is getting a little on the lonely side, because the older members have sort of left (or at least made themselves relatively unknown) or are visiting less and less frequently.

It's not that I don't like the new members. They're not bad, but seeing too many newbies can drive anyone nuts. The recent influx of members in the past few months don't really seem to take note of the rules, or etiquette for that matter. The older days were better because we had hardcore discussions going on everywhere. Now that most people know what's going on in AC, the new members have "taken over", in a sense.

I'm not mentioning exact names, but some places have been overridden with them, and it gets more and more out of point. It's so hard to keep up now.

I like the way things were one year ago.

Well, when it was getting rather empty over at ZR, something sparked yesterday and it grew about two pages in one day. Lots of celebrations are being held there, since we've officially crossed the 1000th post mark. Zack deserves recognition, doesn't he? ;)

It's also great to see that the SC club has revived, somewhat. There's no better description of its current state than



BL dramas are OMGWTFBBQ. They bring Mori/Saku to a whole new level.

Which is in favour of SC.

On another note, SGCafe is thronged(?) with people. We always break records when it comes to the nights of importantant events; everyone's busy posting photos or waiting for them to be uploaded. I haven't gone there today, but last night (or rather, this morning) we broke the record, yet again. As expected.

falling out of place

Meh. Am moody now.

When everything starts to go wrong, I get moody.

First sleep, then piano schedule, then the practices that go horribly wrong, then complications for BEL meeting, then my one and only radio is going cranky, probably due to my own CD burner (not such a long story, but I don't want to think about it), and then even my comp has to go against me. Luckily the Internet connection fixed itself rather quickly. At least my comp is smart to some extent.

Mrrrw.

I love my comp, but it can still get irritating at times. Oh well, at least it has character. It's just about as stubborn as I am at times... and thank goodness it can also recover after getting sick. My comp and its immunity system. Wait till I write about computers having their white blood cells, the lymphocytes, monocytes, and the macrophages.

Too bad CD burners and radios don't seem to have them. There's still a lot to research on.

Arrgh... shall just face up to tomorrow. Will be extremely glad after I live through it. Brooding is getting to me.

the stretch between now and Saturday

I've gotten my early Christmas present, and it didn't even need to go through the whole process of getting wrapped and sitting under a tree, the tree, whatever.

Now I'm all set for Saturday.

I think.

I'm just not very used to the much larger screen as compared the the old one. Strange, but I've gotten quite attached to the old Powershot A20 even whilst complaining about its bulk and its apparent forever-battery-hungry state. The new cam is much lighter, and certainly won't kill me due to the weight of eight batteries.

One thing to note, though, is that it doesn't operate that well under low light conditions. An observation of mine, within the first day of acquaintance. At least it didn't work as well when I tried it last night, as compared to this afternoon.

I haven't tried transferring the photos over to the comp yet, but I'm hoping that the quality promised is the quality served. The old A20 wasn't that bad, considering that it's only a 2.1 Megapixel. Long ago in history, but its photos are of a rather acceptable quality. Just look a one of the old photos. Pretty nice on my desktop screen, too.

Less than a week to go till Satuarday, but I'm sincerely hoping that times crawls its way there. Have to finish start on my homework this week.

I should.

In fact, I must.

I do have a conscience that likes to make itself known. Yup, well-known to half the world. Someday.

It's still nagging at me to do something about that baffling Chemistry task which requires us to do Bio assignment-like research. But I've heard from laoba that it isn't that bad. She knows, because she's started on it.

Oh woe is me.

Asides from that SIA task, there's still the currently untouched Chemistry worksheet and Maths self-study, which will no doubt take up a lot my time. I'm also planning to write the Commonwealth essay, even if the LA department didn't instruct us oh-so-nicely to complete it, like they have in the past two years.

But somehow, nothing has come to me thus far, and I'm getting rather frustrated because I still have not much idea of what to write. Usually (i.e. in the past two EOY holidays), I will have a rough plan of the story by now, and will be currently in a state of writing the essay out. I will either start from the ending (like in Sec 1-2) or the beginning (like in Sec 2-3). A couple more drafts later, and it's done.

This year things seem different. Not much idea, just a very vague sense.

Well I'm thinking maybe the reason why it seems harder to begin is because I'm starting from the middle this time. No idea, really. Just someting new I ought to try out, since I've tried both from the beginning and the end.

Oh woe is me.

Euphimism

I've been finding lack of things to blog. Oh wow.

At least even with the lack of things happening around here, there's still fanfiction to read.

I've gone back to reading Bound, because there simply wasn't anymore interesting fics crossing my path in the recent days. That doesn't mean that it's bad, it's just very long. Very long. If she's ever going to finish this long story, it's certainly going to break Twig's record. Well, we'll talk more about that once she finishes the story. If she finishes. Trilogies were never meant to be short, and I can hardly believe that all I've been seeing is only the tip of the iceberg, except that the sea level is lower over here. Just slightly.

Bound's going to keep me rather busy for a while, but the vengeful homework souls are still refusing to give up, nagging at the back of my mind till I hand them some sort of excuse, or a friendly pat of acknowledgement.

Not that I'm feeling amiable towards homework.

No, it's just to keep it quiet over there in my brain for a while. I seem to have a very loud conscience. Or maybe it's just vocal.

Lol, euphimism.

The tagboard's down at the moment, and I can hardly find anyone online. Tis getting a little lonely around here. Shall start finding things to amuse myself.