LOTR fanatic


Weird sense of humour


Francophone and Francophile


Sinophone and Sinophile


Of Elvish descent




习医之人

Wants to master the healing powers of the Elves in order to help all the other beings in Middle Earth




好摄之徒

Doesn't like to smile owing to (i) difficulty in overcoming the force of gravity to curve lips upwards to form what looks like a smile, and (ii) the belief that less facial movement = less wrinkles in the future


Exercises regularly due to fear of (i) Heart diseases leading to myocardial infarction, (ii) diabetes and kidney failure, (iii) cancer and other terminal illnesses, and (iv) not being able to fit into clothes that I want to buy


有些孤僻

也有些怪癖。不过这是正常的—哪有天才不孤僻没怪癖的？

A Chai tea, jasmine tea, green tea, 龙井,普洱, milk tea, apple, watermelon, orange juice, abalone, shark's fin, lembas, century egg porridge, fish person


Favourite places = Ikea, hospitals, Changi airport, parks, nice cosy cafes and my room at Rivendell


Loathes slimming ads and stick-thin people who say "Am I fat?"


Lives in oblivion most of the time, to escape from the harsh realities of life



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我想我好像生错了年代—好像是晚生了五百年吧。实际上我是个生活在元代，叱咤风云的江湖英雄。无奈被奸人所害，骗入时光机里，来到这个疯狂的世界。
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Wishes for a Steinway & Sons Grand piano, a traditional Chinese-style mansion in the middle of the city, a machine that prints money in US$1000 denominations, a private jet equipped with state-of-the-art entertainment features, a vineyard in Bordeaux, a Long Jing tea plantation in Hangzhou, a lavender field in Provence, free lasik surgery.......













































带我逃亡吧：Tibet, Nepal, Vietnam, France, Dubai, Turkey, Egypt, India, Switzerland, ........

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Okay, I've finally boarded the Facebook wagon, after constant badgering from friends. Once again, this is for you guys out there who will miss me during the next 2 years. See how good I am??

Ok, I've started using the new blog. But I'm not sure whether to discontinue this blog. After all, It has been 3 years since I've started fishheadbeehoon.blogspot. Will have to discontinue the blog once I fly to China, though. Sigh. Anyway, I'll probably be using the sina blog more often from now, to familiarise myself with the new format.

Ok guys, it's August the 3rd today, which means that I only have 31-3 = 28 more days to go before the trip to Beijing! Anyway, I'm in the process of setting up a new blog at blog.sina.com.cn/fishheadbeehoon -- because apparently, China blocks Blogger. Still arranging stuff on the new blog, because everything's in Chinese and the format's very different. By the way -- It's for you guys who will probably miss me in my 2 years over there that I'm setting up this new blog. See how nice I am??? In the meantime, I'm not switching over to the new blog yet. Will announce when it's ready.

是不是前天的人参鸡汤害得我今天的皮肤瘙痒？皮肤出现了一些类似疹子的东西，不过幸好不多也不大。天啊，我该不会是得了天花吧？！我确实是最近比较虚，所以才叫我妈炖人参鸡汤。难道我错了？难道这是肺热发疹？难道这是银翘散去豆豉加细生地、丹皮、大青叶倍玄参方？可我最近生理期，不敢乱吃生地丹皮玄参。怎么办？除了有些痒之外，也没什么其他症状。再等多几天看看吧。或许是生理期的因素造成的。况且父母都说我大惊小怪呢。

I bought the lomo actionsampler flash yesterday(http://shop.lomography.com/actionsamplerflash/). Retail therapy. And yes, I still do want to get the lomo fisheye no. 2 white edition, but I'm waiting for SOMEBODY to buy it for me. hahaha.


Anyway, the actionsampler flash is pretty cool -- it has 4 lenses and 4 flashes, so you'll get a composite of 4 pictures on one photo! The lenses capture in different orders in a split second, so all 4 pictures will be slightly different. Put them together and you get a mini-movie of sorts. The moment you press the shutter release, you hear a UFO-landing sort of sound, and before you know it, the photo's taken. (Tried it out on my mom, and she had totally no warning about the 4-flash onslaught coming her way. Haha) I was quite unused to this at first, and then after a while, the lomo motto started to make sense: "Don't think, just shoot". With fixed aperture and shutter speed, and no image review like on digital cameras, you really don't have to think much. For the first time in a very looooong time, I have to wait for my film to be developed before I can find out how the pictures will look like.


Ooh. So if I manage to get the fisheye no. 2, I'll have 3 cameras to experiment in Beijing! What fun!


My thesis is more or less completed, just some more changes here and there. Have to get it done by Tuesday, so that I can print it and hand it in on Thursday. Met *beeeeep!* the day before to show him my thesis, and he was surprisingly in a good mood and was much less irritating than he was at the last meeting. That's a relief. And he did look through my work. Fir once he seemed a little more humane. Let's hope the good mood lasts until after my FYP grade is fixed. There's a poster presentation as well, and I have a rough idea of how I want my poster to look like. Tinkered with powerpoint last night, and got some pretty good results for the poster. Gosh, somehow it's more fun to design the poster than to write the thesis. Maybe I should have gone ino design.


Poster presentation's on 8th Aug, and after that I'm essentially free. Free to start packing my luggage for Beijing. Winter clothes are packed, but I have lots more to pack -- books, tripod, soft toys, excercise mat, books, clothes, and more books. Suddenly I'm feeling homesick already.

I didn't sleep well last night.


Emotions have been rather unstable lately; a large part due to that £$%£$@ project that I have to finish asap. Thankfully it's near completion. But the perfectionist in me is upset that it's not 100% completed yet. And the worrier in me keeps worrying that the @&*beep!**^&£*beep!*beeeeeep!* will reject my thesis without reading it -- again. *beep!* I don't care the *beep!* about that *beeeeeep!*!!! I have done the best that I possibly could, and if that *beeeeeeeeep!* doesn't like it, he can go and *beep!*


Gosh. The Liver fire in me makes me kinda bad-tempered when I don't have enough sleep huh. Perhaps I should have just quit school and become a "photocopy auntie", photocopying lecture notes and theses for those university kids, since I like photocopying and printing stuff and stapling stuff so much. And I can laugh at their misfortune too.


But then again, I'll probably die of radiation from the photocopy machines and printers.


Need a break soon. Have resorted to virtual flying games to satisfy my wanderlust (see www.myvirtualflights.com). Currently I'm at the Dubai International Airport, waiting to board my plane to Sydney.


Dreamt I bought my 12-24mm lens and - was it 82-99mm? some weird figure - lens last night. And got cheated by some dubious store or something. Should I buy the Canon Selphy compact photo printer CP770 (http://www.canon.com.sg/index.cfm?fuseaction=cp)? Or the Lomo fisheye no. 2 (http://shop.lomography.com/fisheye/) (not ex, only about S$100)? I need to go out and take pictures, but I'm not in the mood because of that *beeeeeeep!*!


Ok, better go drink some chrysanthemum tea to calm that liver fire.

Alas! Who can deny the passing of time?


Unavoidable, it is, this aging of 365 days.




"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away...."

Yes, yesterday it was when I passed the 22nd mark.




At least the wrinkles haven't appeared.

Thanks to all those who remembered -- as for those who didn't, here's a big HUMPH!!! for you! (Better watch out, 没心没肺的东西!!!)



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I hope my face stays wrinke-free for the next 22 years.

联合早报。第12页。讣告。“外孙女 陈薇竹”。


外婆走了。昨天凌晨，悄然地离开。直到早上才被人发现。真阳已尽，只留下冰冷的形体。


几个礼拜前我才见过她。人生无常啊。


母亲在国外赶飞机回来，明天才能抵达。


每次我都在想：为什么丧礼总好像家庭聚会一样，大家“其乐融融”地折金银纸，啃瓜子，打牌打麻将？


以前就觉得《家》的悲剧就在我“家”上演一样。现在那种感觉更强烈。大家庭的悲剧。多到数不完的亲戚——难道这就是一个开心，完整的家吗？


或许就像觉慧一样，在一切还未惨不忍睹之前，我将会离开这里。很快的，就多一个多月。


现在只希望外婆能够安息。有那么多的子子孙孙，我想她应该很欣慰吧。但愿她和外公在九泉之下能够重逢。


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“生命是偶然的；但死亡却是必然的”。