FINALLY, i finished mapping my sep modules. and guess what. i will be taking 12 modules there!! isnt that totally exciting?? i am so darn looking forward to it. imagine, spending 10k in france to be a blardy mugger! life is good man.....

and FINALLY, gonna have my first Funka prac..... anxious, excited. cant wait

death by chocolate..... totally. just came back from the much raved abt chocolate buffet at fullerton. OMG..... death by chocolate. i had to say it again. its waaaaay to much chocolate, even for willy wonka. i think i might have to self induce myself into puking. its terrible.

actually my frens and i didnt have a table.... cos my dear fren carol didnt book (so inefficient). so we ended up waiting and looking like some desperate pple trying to getourselves into some posh restaurant. we could smell the chocolate fountain from where we were waiting. and we wanted to kill those pple taking the food.

in the end we got a table (after carol and skee worked their female charm on the waiter.... seriously.... some womanly charms do work) ok. before we went to the buffet, we made a note to pace oursleves...... but i obviously didnt..... and i pretty much KOed after one hour, eating nothing but some fancy fusion of green tea & chocolate, chocolate fondue.... chocolate cake..... more chocolate cake. in the end we just ended eating the fruits, withour chocolate. cos it was just too much. i can still smell the cocholate fountain..... and it makes me wanna barf.

so we finally gave up and went to maxwell to have some real solid food. wahhhhh it feels good to have something warm and salty in my mouth...... seriously. chocolate buffet is a once in a lifetime thing..... i wun ever go back...... even if u bring me there in a sedan or pay for it. i am swearing off chocolate for at least one month. barf.

feeling very musical-ish after coming back from an absolutely mazing performance of RENT, i have decided to rank all the muscials i have watched in my short 22 years of living:

1. Phantom of the Opera
this huge mama of musicals is definitely the most amazing and grand. the sets are stunning and the songs are pretty much super well knowned. watched it 4 times, once in singapore when i was in pri6, twice in the cinema and once more in london's west end (tickets that cost me a whopping 37.50 pounds.... which roughly equates to over $110). the story is pretty simple. girls unknowingly becomes a huge sensation in opera business. girl meets boy. boy meets girl. both fall in love. girl's ugly mentor (but oozing tonnes of sexual charms) gets jealous and sparks off a series of misfortunes on the opera. mentor holds girl captive. boys held captive too (wat a wuss). mentor lets both go and escaped back into his lair. the end. The story might be simple but the songs are way captivating.

2. Chicago
Again, another musical that has a hollywood adaptation. didnt actually watch the musical until only after the movie version. also watched it in london's west end. stellar performances (although not necessarily from brooke shield's roxie hart) and fabulous dancing fromt he stars and ensemble. witty dialogue and a wierd stage setting. the band is right smack in the centre of the stage. good usage of props and overall choreography. definitely worth your money.

3. Rent
hehe okok so i just came back from the show so i may be a bit biased. i absolutely loved the show! although it had quite a sluggish start but it started to pick up the pace in the middle of the first act. i loved maureen and the cow-jumping-over-the-moon thing. hilarious. tom's heart wrenching rendition of I'll cover you..... mimi and rogers' light my candle (i love love love this song).... the all star la vie boheme and of course, seasons of love! i love love loved it. and more importantly, it touches on issues which are, erm well, close to heart. cant wait for the movie version coming to our shores in 2006!

4. Blood brothers
ok i don't think a lot of people would have heard of this. once again, rich little me watched this in london's phoenix theatre. actually this is a major sad story. twins that are brought up in 2 different families. one rich one poor. both meet at a young age at the playground but doesnt know about each other yet. both fall in love with the same girl. all become good friends. girl marries the poor dude. but sees the rich one occassionally, purely as friends. poor dude gets jealous and kills his own brother. and in turn gets killed by the police.

"So, did y'hear the story of the Johnstone twins?
As like each other as two new pins
Of one womb born, on the self same day
How one was kept and one given away?
An' did you never hear how the Johnstone's died
Never knowing they shared one name
Till the day they died."

i still get shivers down my spine whenever i hear this. not a bad choice if you are tight on budget.

5. Les Miserables
lots of pple love this, but i beg to differ. highly overrated musical..... about the french revolution (like i give a shit)...... so so music. erm. i cant even remember the story. probably because i was late for the show and dun really know much about the history and stuff. so i didnt appreciate it that much.... yeah. so i guess i wouldnt be watching again anytime soon in the theatre unless someone don't mind paying to change my mind. hehe.

I just finished my first paper and all i can say is (and i quote my friend robson): ignorance is bliss. i thought i did quite alright when i came out of the exam hall...... UNTIL i started comparing answers with my friends. i could have been happy now, THINKING that i did correctly. but noooooooo. i just had to open my big gab and ask for answers. and all of them were silly mistakes. i know everyone says they make silly mistakes, when actually they are just plain stupid .but these REALLY are the worst possible ways to lose marks.

sigh.... when will i ever learn and not disappoint myself? i am so sick of that. i need an A. please gimme an A

it never ceases to amaze me that:

1. how a trip to carrefour, with the right company, can be so entertaining. my best guy friend and i decided catch harry potter last nite. albeit having tons of revision not done. we had some spare time left before the show actually started a 1030pm. so we went to carrefour to check out... stuff. we went crazy inside, trying to pronounce crazy french shampoo products, smelling the new original source, which incidentally reminds me of bandung. we went round smelling all the smeely cheese, tasting stuff. haha. good times man. good times.

2. how soundly i can sleep at homw. just woke up from a nap that was supposed to last1hr. i slept for 2hours. i dunno if its because my bed is of a certain hardness, my pillow of a correct height, but i practically sunk in my bed. i tried to wake up, i really did. but i just could not move my arms amd legs. they were sort of like stuck to the bed. it feels great to sleep on my bed!

3. how free i am to blog when i have 4 consecutive exams next week. and i am doing this. karma baby..... its all about karma. i just how it doesnt bite me in the ass when i get my results.

Oh man what an evenful week.... we had our very own flop open floor. which was on monday (catch panda!) hehe. okok, so it wasnt the best openfloor. but at least most of my floormates were involved in the helping out, which is always nice. good job keelong! for getting everyone to chip in. hope the stuff werent too expensive. certainly a mark up from last year's.


hmm wat else. ..its my 22nd birthday! whats ironic though is how unevenful it was. i spent the entire day mugging at engine, which, surprisingly, was a very good place to mug. a few of my friends and i practically "chop" one room to yourselves. and if anyone were to come in, we would all shoot them with dart like eyes. hehe. and they ordered pizza to celebrate my birthday. how nice! and i only knew most of them for less than a sem. so thanks carrot and ah teng!!

what irks me the most was that one of my supposed closer friend didnt come wish me happy birthday. okok. this sounds very secondary school, but i mean, it really bothered me, if not disappointed. i mean, we had this sort of "argument" which was like 10000years ago. and our relationship took a toll since. i mean i can say it wasnt my fault. i'm not saying this because im some ego bastard. but i really really thought it wasnt. and i cant even remember what exactly happened. but it did, and i am not going to bawl over it. just disappointed.

skee and siwei came over to celebrate my birthday yesterday.... the say i had diahorrea. haha too much pizza. i love the 2 of them to pieces. they actually delivered lunch over so we could all eat together (mostly because i MADE them) but still. thanks a lot guys.

oh and i had lab assignment. which took me a grand total of more than 12 hours in a matter of 3 days. which i thought wasnt really worth it. so i handed in a partially done one and heck it. to hell with gis. seriously. not worth my time.

GOOD NEWS! i got my sep to INSA Lyon in france. omg. i cant believe i got it. considering the fact that i so suck at french. je parle un petit peu le francais. hahah right. now all i got to do is not screw up any of my modules now. and i will be on my way to lyon right about..... one year and 3 months from now. yee haaa!

so all in all...... lots of unevenful events made this an evenful week. a week which i cant say is the best week of my life since i spent my entire day mugging.... and doing lab. but a week which i am going to remember. cheerios everyone

i must have been away from home for too long. my neighbourhood has officially become pest zone groud zero. it's literally infested with pests. just now, when i went out for dinner, i was appalled to see rats at my void deck. it's so gross..... it's like they were having a little party of their own, scampering around, oblivious of my presence. i mean i know they exist in the hellhole that they live in but i didn't expect to see 5 of them, in 30 secs.

not only that, my kitchen is filled with cockroaches. don't get me worng. i am 100% confident of the hygiene conditions of my house. i am safely say (with 99% confidence level) that my house is cleaner than the average household. my parents are clean freaks to say the least. but i have no idea where these cockroaches come from. i saw 2 hiding behind the laundry basket. i killed them both with bygon (great invention by the way). i went to watch some tv after. less than an hour later.... i spotted 2 more. 2 MORE! this is unacceptable. what is the world coming to..... we are being overrun by cockroaches!! and to think that they are my worst fears. i seriously do not like cockroaches. they are the ugliest creatures on earth (even uglier than me and that, i consider, to be relatively unbeatable).

I feel a need to complain at how inefficient and incompetent civil engine is. Apparently, they THOUGHT that no one was taking french in the department, so they did not have any spaces for france for sep. what kind of bullshit is that? if there is anyone who should know better, it has got to be them right? that's what the whole screwed up system of cors is all about isn't it? just scroll through accounts and check. how difficult can THAT be? it's defintely not rocket science. and there's only 130 to check. not the entire london's.

i mean, we don't throw 5700bucks at them every year so they can THINK this or THINK that. they are supposed to do some tangible WORK...... not hallucinate it in their pea sized brain. now, i got to request for an opening to france. absolute bs. i am so sick and tired of this. one sep need to do so many things.

i finally know how to upload my pictures! i know.... i am so not computer savvy i might as well be a neanderthal. the computer is my nemesis. i hated it since young. i can never fathom how it works.... i can never differentiate my ram from my hard disk space, reboot from reformat..... much less zipping or unzipping. it's freakin alien language. it's a miracle how people can devote their entire lives trying to work WITH computers. they are maniacs. it's unhealthy.... to have a working relationship with a lifeless object.

i remember when i was young.... like in sec 2. when internet was the new in thing and there wasn't a thing called usb port yet. i had the worst hours of my life, trying to install an external modem to my then perfectly ok,now defunct pentium 1 computer. i had no idea what the shit the manual was talking about..... i ended up crying. yes. i freakin cried over a modem. it's so fucking embarrassing i feel like laughing out now. but i would not. becoause my neighbours will think i am mad. which i am.... but that's another story for another day.

speaking of technology. gis lab completely sucks. it's a complete waste of my precious time. i just spent more than 2 hours in the lab acheiving nothing. i am still stuck at the same place i started. it's crazy! there is no point having such sophisticated software to plot a map when the user (ie me) does not even know how to use it....

sigh. time to go. time to watch project runway. on my laptop. ahhhh the wonders of technology. and by the way, that's me you are seeing.

whoever said retail therapy doesn't work obviously haven't tried it or is too ashamed to admit it. i have been having a real shitty week (no thanks to the lecturers) and decided to buy myself an album. i can't actually remember when i last bought one..... probably last sem....so in the end after much procrastination, i bought Catching Tales by Jamie Cullum! and i like!! and i'm not just saying it because i spent 21 bucks on it..... i am absolutely in love with his voice!

it irks me how NOISY sheares hall can be..... sheares block b to be more precise. a bunch of monkeys i say! it's like they are having a party over there every single night.... and they scream and shout at 2am every single night. it's like a bloody ritual. a ritual they have to make all kr blockers insane. which is totally barbaric. the other evening, an alarm clock rang for almost half an hour before someone with actual working eardrums bothered to off it. shearites are barbarians..... the only redeeming factor is that they have good fried rice. but then again, fried rice= supper= unwanted calories and fats= me fat. which isn't really that good a redeeming factor if you ask me. dammit. arghhhh

my first post!

i strongly believe everyone is this world has exhibitionist tendencies. its just a matter or varying degrees..... which is why i have created myself a second blog for no apparent reason.... on a bored saturday nite.....waaaaitaminute. sunday morning. don't ask me what happened to my previous blog. i just woke up one day and decided not to continue with that ugly blog of mine anymore. that was nearly half a year ago. and half a year later today, my attention-seeking side has got the better of me. i am ashamed but then again.... i don't give a flying f.

isn't it wierd that people choose to indulge in the most unnecessary things, when in fact they have more important things to do. like me for example. i have 2 tests on monday, but i chose to create a stupid blog. that is absolutely ridiculous.

this week has been one hell of a week for me. i had 4 tests. within 3 days. i truly TRULY believe nus lecturers are bloodsuckers. and forecast for the following weeks: bad

on a totally unrelated note, i am totally hungry now. i think i have tapeworms. and they are growing at an alarming rate. i used to be able to eat and be skinny. now, i have a bulge. i actually have a hideous looking tummy. you know how magazines glamourise pregnant women, exposing their stomach in full glory(think demi moore circa 1990)? that look should not be attempted by any man. all males should have washboard abs. i repeat. All. which is why i have ran a grand total of 3 times and utilised my weights once this semester. Boo ya!! i am tarzan hear me roar.

all righty ditey. got to go now. ciao babes!