Saturday, March 31, 2007
Hui:
we have a chance to meet xinzhi finally. this gal always has excuses not to meet us due to last minute commitments -_- anyway, she is much forgiven when she decided to give us all a treat as promised. wahaha. we had our dinner at some restaurant in Marina Square. nothing fantastic abt e food there.. so-so onli.. and this is my huge buger:
i started eating it and realised that i forgot to take pics. haha
the ever-camera-shy xinzhi
xinzhi, jess, qian, jol
dunno y they started to pose like this....
and this.. looks like qian wants jol dead..
and forcing me to pose this! LOL
do they worship me???
qian and me acting cute
jess and jol~
xinzhi looking depressed while we were happily doing stupid poses. and i think this is the msg that e pic conveys.. and hence the poor editing of this pic.
lastly.. this is how we treat xinzhi b4 going home..
we made a memory at 4:16 PM
Friday, March 30, 2007
ting:
i have the worst group karma ever. the knack of being able to pick out the people who WON'T do what they are supposed to do, who won't pull their weight, who just leeches off others like a parasite.
4 of us. one who wrote 500+ words on one section (when the word limit was 175), one paragraph for another, two lines for the last. another who gave me three summarised paragraphs with his points contradicting each other and atrocious english. the final one just copied and pasted his research.
i already let that go. i slept only an hour last night to fix all that mess and come up with something i'm relatively proud of. but what astounds me even more is that, given the fact i did every single bit of work for you, you couldn't even be bothered to reply to my emails asking you to read what i wrote, do any necessary corrections and to give me feedback.
some people just don't bother, do they?
and all of them are guys. i'm not generalising, but i can't help wondering why i've always had problems with guy groupmates instead of female ones.
forget it. it's the weekend, and i've a flu/sore throat/slight fever(?) to cure. seems like i get sick roundabout the same time every year.
and thank You God, for keeping me alive/awake long enough to finish this.
we made a memory at 6:17 PM
Thursday, March 29, 2007
ting:
sigh.
guys are such idiots.
tell me, how do you be friendly, yet not misleading?
i predict people like adel and neela may get immensely excited over those few lines as they "live life vicariously through" me, or so they claim. though my life doesn't seem all that interesting to me.
and yes adel and neela. we are on to story E. gah.
**edited**
when it comes to assignments, am i just being an over-perfectionist? or is there something seriously wrong with a majority of this population's english and style of writing?
is it just me, or is there a major problem starting a paragraph with "Not only this, although China...."?
am i glad i volunteered (once again) to do the overall compilation. because knowing me, i'll be rewriting the entire thing.
we made a memory at 11:54 AM
Monday, March 26, 2007
ting:
i'm upset.
i guess certain things in life leave behind a scar. a phobia of sorts. the worry that everything similar to that would follow the same route. that just because it falls under the same category of things, the outcome will be the same.
i'm so rattled i can't even settle myself down properly to ensure the ending wouldn't be what i fear.
it's a little too late to be kicking myself for digging my grave now. i can't change out of this subject. and i guess i'm just amazed at my intense stupidity.
uni is so draining. it's starting to feel like i never had the 3 months of carefree, summer sunshine holiday. and the workload this year is absolutely insane... or maybe it's just because i'm trying to do every single bit of work for a change.
sigh. how did i cope during a-levels? and i thought that was the ultimate measure of just how bad things can be.
my tuesday blues always start prematurely on mondays.
a huge thank you and i love you to adel, for helping me face my demons.
and to ber who made me laugh when he thought he was the reason for my depression. (tsk tsk ber)
my laptop is being such a brat. 2 or so hours, and then i lose my connection to the internet. the only way of redemption is to restart it. it gets mightily irritating. anyone has any idea whatsoever how to fix this?
ps: kelen, your method ain't working. i still got disconnected. but at least you were better than alex, who kept laughing and telling me to do virus scans. -_-
overwhelmed.
guess this is where i tell God i give Him everything, before crawling under the covers and sleeping the rest of my week away.
we made a memory at 11:16 PM
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Hui:
was browsing thru the pictures augus and i took at the bottle tree park. sux man. nothing is nice. but decided to post some pics up anyway.. to let u guys have a look at the park. it's a new park which is quite popular.. (i dunno y.. maybe cos it's new and a lot of ppl go there during e weekends?) there's a chinese restaruant within e park. like those "zhu cao" thingie. we din noe and so we da bao mac. there's a small pond within the premises of the resaturant for ppl to fish for prawns and to cook it alive. (the prawns are huge) wah kaoz, so er xin. and i can see how some ppl torture e prawns. they poke satay stick into them and put them on e grill. and u can see them struggling.. until they die. yucks. i felt like videoing the whole process and post it online man. i din take any pics there.. anyway, here are some of the pics!
the restaruant and e huge pond infront of it.
second shot of e same thing
same same ([paiseh.. nothing much to take la.. plus i needed e table to put my camera.. else e img will be damn blur)
pathway to cross over to the otherside
the mrt track. wanted to wait for an mrt to pass when taking this pic. but nv.. (obviously) LOL. i went home liao
the bottle trees. tt's y its called the bottle tree park! =)
augus and e short-hair me!
we made a memory at 12:28 PM
Saturday, March 24, 2007
ting:
i'm bored. and i'm so so sick of case studies (i have to do like what? at least three every week?). the only thing i'm looking forward to now is easter holidays (and adelaide), though there's a part of me wishing i could fly back to singapore for 2 birthday celebrations. oh well.
so adel introduced me to lomography, which essentially is another level of photography altogether. while normal photography is concerned with the techniques, lighting and all, lomography deals with the "don'ts" of photography, throwing everything to result in a creative and astonishing shot.
here are three of the 10 iron-clad rules which amused me a whole lot.
8. You don't have to know beforehand what you've captured on film.
9. You don't have to know afterwards, either.
10. Don't worry about the rules.
but it's really cool... here are a couple of shots which amazed me as i was breezing through the lomography website. (hope i'm not infringing any copyright regulations here..)
all photos are courtesy of www.lomography.com
went for vin's birthday celebration the other night. i was extremely disgusted with the photos i took, partly because most of my candid shots were blur (too many people, hence there's no one photo in which everyone's crystal clear) and partly because i got zero artistic or creative shots which depicted how i felt. and then, my camera went on low battery.
sigh.
some chicken thing we had for dinner which was awesome
priceless: jeysern's and vinli's expression/reaction at the crowd demanding a birthday kiss from him to her
me with the birthday girl
this photo is specially for adel (seeing i know exactly what she thinks about jovan *evil sniggers*. adel, i give you full permission to photoshop your face on top of mine. hehe!). :)
alright. back to case studies. bleh.
oh and haha.. check out my dad's blog. :) awesome pictures.
we made a memory at 5:27 PM
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Hui:
its mid-week. omg.. time pass so damn fast. its scary. weekend jus passed. didn't it?
and here i am, blogging abt work. again.
long day ahead on thurs.. reporting week. OT till siao.
y is it so different to be unique? y is it so different to get out of someone's shadow? i have talent. i am capable. (ok, some of u may think that im a self-proclaimed elite. and let me tell u this: like.i.care.wad.u.think.) piss off man.. im in a bad mood.
and tt idiot lego asked one of my colleagues one stupid question. "how do i sort my data in excel by alphabetical order? i can onli sort it by numbers right?" OMG. this question came out from e mouth of a master degree holder who went around boasting that he graduated from MIT. e one who says he has programming background and noes programming. and then guessed wad? he said something which made me burst out into laughter even though i was jus sitting beside him. dun care man. he made another statement "i went to 'Help' and search but i can't seem to fing anything on that there." PLEASE!!! SPARE ME FROM THIS KIND OF JOKES.
freaking lego. FUK OFF!!
okie.. end of my rants abt work.
was listening to my songs and winamp decided to play this song for me.
Eason Chan - 夕阳无限好天
多经典的歌后一刹眼已走
缠绵着青葱的山丘转眼变蚁丘
这个刹那宇宙拒绝永久
世事无常还是未看够
还未看透
多好玩的东西早晚会放低
从前并肩的好兄弟 可会撑到底
爱侣爱到一个地步便另觅安慰
枉当初苦苦送礼
最艳的花卉最后化烂泥
夕阳无限好天色已黄昏
本想去凭爱去换最灿烂一生
想不到长吻带来更永恒伤感
夕阳无限好却是近黄昏
高峰的快感刹那失憾
风花雪月不肯等人
要献便献吻
多风光的海岛一秒变废土
长存在心底的倾慕可会够细数
每秒每晚彷似大盗
偷走的青春一天天变老
只可追忆到
想追追不到
夕阳无限好天色已黄昏
本想去凭爱去换最灿烂一生
想不到长吻带来更永恒伤感
夕阳无限好却是近黄昏
高峰的快感刹那失陷
风花雪月不肯等人
要献便献吻
好风景多的是
夕阳平常事
然而每天眼见的
永远不相似
"And the more I see, the less I grow
The fewer the seeds the more I sow"
everything's moving too fast for me. or am i too slow? time is passing by too fast for me to achieve anything. wad is there to be left behind when i die?
...................................
we made a memory at 12:12 AM
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
ting:
i don't seem to have a lot of incentive in posting up photos of my apartment. oh well, i promise i'll do so in my next entry. but meanwhile, you'll have to contend with this. here are some random shots taken in a bid to improve my composition skills.
the view from across the entrance of my apartment
i took this on the first day i got back to melbourne, while sitting outside my apartment waiting for tim to open the door for me. it's also my best panning shot to date.
this shot is specially for ber. took it while i was on the phone with him and he plain REFUSED to believe the moon came out clear.
professional photographers constantly stress on the importance of lighting. i couldn't quite understand why, till i looked up and saw this.
these were taken on the night of the moomba festival (remember my shot of the fireworks?). after we got abandoned by the other three, jo and tim sat down to watch some film they were screening, while i took some time off to be alone with my love.
we made a memory at 2:11 PM
Friday, March 16, 2007
ting:
i realise i haven't posted photos of my last night in singapore. so here they are!
the night started off with a "lou hei" session, as we realised in all our years of friendship, we never once did it. it was pretty meaningful i should add, to celebrate 7 years of friendship (it's 7 years right?) on the 7th day of the chinese new year.
and as usual, candid rules.
and then comes the vanity session.
we then had an early birthday surprise for the oldest person in our group. :)
our gorgeous birthday girl!
alas, what ber and i bought on new year's eve didn't work too well. one did its job, the other didn't. and it wasn't quite what we expected. but nevermind, it was good fun. :)
and this bunch of ungrateful people didn't even take a bite of the cake i bought. it was such a pretty cake too! :( we ended up with a cream/cake war instead.
me holding kelen's bolster hostage as he attempted to threaten me with cream
see? this is what you get for attacking me - cream on your bed!
i think i finally relented here and let kelen get his way. sigh.
and here is the war... in full force!
a very dangerous situation to be in, having a face off with kelen who's armed and dangerous.
see what i mean?
in the aftermath of the disaster, with peace restowed and the place (plus us) cleaned up, we camwhored to our heart's content.
probably not a very obvious photo, but it's amazing how each of alex's leg can support the weight of one person.
and i love this shot. kudos to whoever (hui or augus, i'm not too sure) who took it. :)
we made a memory at 10:47 AM
