Thursday, December 13, 2007

Migration to Wordpress

Officially Moved to Wordpress as of today.

Shall not update this blog anymore.

Found a lot of flaws in Wordpress = cannot put your own plugin scripts etc for their security reasons.

So will try and wait it out and see if they are going to do something about it.

Will also search for other source of web host to host the wordpress software. (roll eyes..troublesome...)

In the meantime, I will continue to blog at this address.

xiansosaur.wordpress.com (so easy to remember rite? *wink*)

Hereby thank all for the kind attention and tolerance for my ranting mutterings in this blog for the past 3 years.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Section 377A and homosexuality

I know this seems to be a lag response to a long-ago issue.

But since it's an important to study for one of my papers (to think it's 40 marks essay!), I kinda buried myself into it again recently.

I am a pro-get-rid-of-tt-ridiculous-piece-of-law person. Besides I dun see how sex between gays are everyone's problem and sex between lesbian is none of government's problem.

Isn't it like a double standard?

Plus what's with the "we-dun-actively-enforce-it" but to get rid of it means we approve of it.

Quote from the drama Majo no Jouzen where the female teacher was arrested for supposedly seducing and misleading / kidnapping a minor.

"Laws don't exist to protect us. They exist to punish those who don't conform to society's standards."

To say they don't actively enforce is ridiculous.
Number 1: Then what do you have that law there for? It's to show you oppose right? Then if you don't enforce it? Isn't that saying something like I-banned-it-but-I-shall-pretend-I-dun-see-it.

Number 2: Like what some NUS law don said...what if the police, on a tip-off, raid a flat for suspected drug offenders and discover no drugs but gay sex instead, would they prosecute?"

Number 3: Just saying that don't enforce has no power in the legal world as long as it is not properly legalized in some acts or documents.

Just like how they banned Mass Effect because of an intimate lesbian scene. (I nearly fainted~ Mass Effect is like SO GOOD LA~ U should check out the graphics and AI engines etc. Super cool game play.) Who cares about the cinematic~

I don't know la. I think this is seriously a grey area in terms of legalizing.

"Can same sex parents allow to adopt?"
"Can the same sex get marry?"
"Can the same sex be together?"

As far as I know, most people (guys especially) cringed at the idea of gay but is okay with lesbians.

I think this stems from the societal pressures that guys and guys shouldnt be so physically touchy while females are allowed.

IF you see two guys holding hands compared to two girls holding hands, I'm sure many will immediately say that the former are a pair of gays and the latter probably sisters or good friends. (Unless one has butch-like hair or something.)

Sigh.

Seriously, bottom line is that. It is none of our business. They are okay people la.

And I must honestly say that even if my kids are homosexual, I'll be their support in whatever they want to do. PROVIDED they are truly aware of what they want.

(Cuz i am a firm believer that somehow being in same sex schools for too long may result in same sex preference. Though I heard also that it'll die out soon after graduation too...)

Ah well....what a long post.

Monday, December 10, 2007

Ah~ J-Drama

Majo no Jouken...also known as Forbidden Love or (魔女の条件)...go google/wiki it...

Ah....1999 11 episode drama....

But by two of my favourite actors....Matsushima Nanako and Takizawa Hideaki...

I love the storyline....

"Michi, a 26 year old high school math teacher, tentatively accepts her boyfriend's proposal of marriage, uncertain of her love for him but feeling pressure from her father and society to do what is expected of her.
Hikaru, a 17 year old boy frustrated by his home life with his single mother and having been expelled from many high schools for bad behavior, enters Michi's class as a new transfer student.
As their relationship grows they realize that they both feel that they have lost themselves to the pressures of those around them, and it is this common bond that draws them dangerously close.

What follows is a heart-wrenching story of forbidden love where Michi must face society's judgement for corrupting a minor, abandoning her fiance, and disappointing her parents and co-workers."


Who say teacher and student cannot be together? It's none of the society's business...

When the conservative social values and expectations comes clashing head on with the true bond between the two.....ah~~~ So sad ah~ Wat a sad yet beautiful story...

Opening song by Utada Hikaru (First Love) = so u can imagine how old is the show...

Anyway, I still hold on stand. Teacher and student, wide age differences, inter-racial, homosexuality....As long as they are truly happy, who are we to judge.

AH......i love the show....japanese people can do drama-mama really well....(i mean, even the anime can make u go crying for one week..)

Saturday, December 08, 2007

How much do I hate ISM?

I HATE ISM!!!!!


What the f**k.

Someone do this project for me. Can screw up the grades to HELL and I will not blink an eye.

Exams over. Hell not over.

It's bloody ISM time.

I hate ISM.

I HATE doing ISM.

Even the slightest THINKING about the word "ISM" makes my blood boil.

*Pissed to the core*

Why do they F**king want to force us to do the Bl**dy ISM for what kind of shit reason.

Enjoy my Holidays?

Ha, What are you talking about.

There is NO holidays to begin with.

Friday, December 07, 2007

Will be over soon....

Soooooon....

It'll be the end of a rather miserably tiring semester.....

What a way to end my second last semester EVER.

Soon...

It'll all be over...

All the misery....


Sigh...

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Last Day

Miserable............

It sux to have to study something you absolutely dun like....

It sux more to think of that ISM which I absolutely dun like...

Why why.....

The ONLY few things good bout goin into honours is probably only the counselling class....

How sianz....

Social work at honours level still dun feel like social work......It feels like political science plus economics plus sociology plus history plus policy study etc.

Head very pain.

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

No title describable of the content (wth does this mean?)

Yeah...FINALLY~ Sine July....the volume 7 of 梦幻游戏: 玄武开传 is FINALLY HERE~ Soon....This month...(though there is a high chance it may delay....if so, i'll go to the forum and complain again...)

Happiness.

Studying for exams is torturous. (beyond the description of words)

Thanks to Kyle who has been accompanying me thru and thru...

And never underestimate the power of anime.

Stress Increase = Anime Consumption Rate Increase = Stress Reduce

As much as I dun like it, the new Britney's album is okay la...not as bad as thought....

Sunday, December 02, 2007

To farah reg my video cam

Hahaha....it's quite clear sia...and easy to use....just install the driver then plug and play...

The only thing is that it's a bit hard to clip on the screen of the laptop = it's possible la....but dun shake ur laptop after that....

It's supposed to be a universal monitor clip so it need some skill using...haha...

If u wan u can get those "for-notebooks" kind lor...

Eh....the resolution wise and performance is good la~ I like...i think worth the kaching.

Think u can consider Logitech or Creative ya?

Hmm...ya....if i'm not wrong usually the specs for the webcam is like either 800X600 at 15 frames per second, or 640x480 at 30 frames per second....

Mine is the latter = cuz i think i move alot? Hahaha...so get this better....

Then for mine, the still image capture (i.e. to take photos) is 1.3 million pixels...(so it's better than some webcam which is quite low)...

Haha...ya...hopefully this is useful....But i not tech-y enough so i may be wrong sia...there's a lot of online guides u can consider. Plus the related websites have comparison features for u to choose/compare the specs of different model so u can have a look.

P.S. If u wan to get the one i have - QuickCam IM v2.0....so be careful cuz there is an older version (blue colour) that is not as good but is of the same name under Logitech....the new version is silverish grey in colour.

Social Workers on Strike

Okay...this is lagging news....but thought to post about it...

From ChannelNewsAsia.

More than 1,000 Hong Kong social workers staged a sit-in protest at the headquarters of the Social Welfare department in Wanchai on Wednesday.

They are calling on the government to review its welfare funding policy and to offer them equal pay with their civil service counterparts.

The strike was organised by an alliance of eight welfare organisations.

Extra police were called in after a group of protesters tried to storm the offices of the Welfare Bureau to deliver their demands.

No one was arrested or injured.

This is the second such protest after some 5,000 social workers marched across Central Hong Kong in September.

The government said it is currently reviewing the situation and is in discussion with the social welfare sector.
Hahaha....alamak...i learnt about this under Vasoo...there's a term for this kind of protest....ah...hmmm....*scratch head*

Anyway, so cool rite? But i seriously doubt we can do this in this singapore sia...not that I wan to...i think it'll make things very ugly/unpleasanht....

But i do agree that we have to advocate for better pay for ourselves leh!

Currently the way to increase pay for social workers is like --> give agencies more funding, then hopefully they will increase the pay.

Hopefully. It's not really mandatory.

Sigh...cannot be help la....many ocial workers in sg work for agencies who have trouble getting proper fundings to run operations/programmes.....hahaha...

Still, I'm super glad they did that survey to study why people dun wan to do social work even after studying for it: (1) low pay, (2) high workload.

Ah ha~

Anyway, we probably need to advocate for better/cheaper/faster access to dental care for the poor elderly. <-- serious gap there.

Saturday, December 01, 2007

IT-idiots moments

Yeah...Kyle and I bought my first webcam!

Logitech QuickCam IM 2.0!

Hmmm...

It has 640x480 pixels video capture, 1.3 million pixel still image capture, up to 30 frames per seconds...comes with headset and a whole lot of other stuff too...

At a price of $55...Yup...so okay la....we shared the price cuz i dun wan him to pay for him so much....not fair to him mah...

Hahaha...

Anyway, we bought this so that we can video-skype each other from now on. Since he's got himself a MacBook Pro which comes with iSight (a webcam embedded in the laptop).

Hahaha...so quite cool sia?

Only sucky thing is that I dropped my laptop, so the cd drive doesnt work anymore...(or rather, i think the wire came loose...)

So end up have to use another pc to rip the installation cd into my thumbdrive and reinstall...

Kyle is updating his OS from Tiger to Leopard now...

OH OH....And I just stupidly reformat my laptop accidentally (how can that happen rite?)

Then I panicked to see all my files gone! So went to get my 320GB external and plug it in....then install my data recovery softwares into the external harddrive....then retrieved the files from my laptop into the external as well...

THEN after finished back-uping/retrieving everything, THEN i realised that the files are not gone actually...They are stored under a different username under Documents Setttings..

-_-

Should have known sia, since I was doing SYSTEM RECOVERY not really reformatting or something...

I think it's a system of my Compaq HP laptop sia....

Anyway, so all is cool now....yeah!

Thursday, November 29, 2007

One down

Four to go.

Sianz.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

First Paper

Yeah...

Going for my first paper later. Paper is at 1pm

Motivations for the day:

1) My Heavenly Daddy will bless me to have a fruitful and wonderful day ahead. Amen!
2) I get to see Kyle later. *Beam*
3) I can go print my readings for 4214......yes...i haven do so....
4) It'll be ONE DOWN, FOUR TO GO.

And last but not least,

FINALLY~~ The third volume of "Kaichou wa Maid-sama" is out!!! (even though i've read it many times already.)

\(^_^)/ ~ yatta~

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Wordpress? So cool

Yeah...cuz apparently it registered my new post just now, and will add it into the new blog too!

Oh ya, planning to get a web-camera so i can say hi to kyle thru skype. HAHAHA. We are very bored people.

Kyle said that I can try do podcasts....

But why won't I want to do that?

Cuz you guys wun want to hear my voice anyway!!!

HAHAHAHAHa...

Imagine hearing incoherently linked speech. Hahaha..

I'll probably start talkin bout anime and play anime OST in the background...

Hahaha.

Random blogging is therapeutic during exam periods.

Shifting to Wordpress

Yeah...I'm slowly shifting to wordpress le...

Going to create about 2 wordpress blogs.

1) my main blog
2) my anime blog

Yeah.

Has always been unwilling to shift blog because, not counting this current post, I have a total of 1942 posts. Been with me for so long....very unwilling to shift.

But now that I realised that Wordpress has a wonderful function of importing - so now i'm shifting ALL MY BLOG POSTS into a new blog. Yeah.

The new blog will not be launched anytime soon.

Probably after I graduate. Hahaha. Cuz decided to properly re-organized my posts and chng (aka deco) my blog first.

Widgets are wonderful things.

As for the anime blog, *drool* Yeah.....That's my greatest wish sia. THOUGH, i dun think anyone will seriously read it.

Plus the way I blog, people probably wun like it.

Plus i'm not very active in the online anime bloggers community. So ya.

Hahaha.

Will update you guys soon.

P.S. Currently only imported 443 posts out of 1942.....hahaha....long time to go...

Saiunkoku Monogatari (彩雲国物語) part 2

I'm SO TOTALLY IN LOVE with this anime ==== Saiunkoku Monogatari or 彩雲国物語

Just finished Season 1 - 39 episodes the day before. (yeah~ i took a total of 2 days)

Just finished watching Season 2's first 8 episodes yesterday and today.

Ya. Cuz so far tt's all I can find.

Once again, I must emphasized just how nice the anime is.

It went into my all-time favourite list.

Not in order of preference.

1) Rurouni Kenshin
2) Fushigi Yuugi
3) Saiunkoku Monogatari
4) Inuyasha
etc. etc.

My favourite but not so much.

1) Hunter X Hunter
2) Gensomaden Saiyuki
3) D. Gray-man
etc. etc.

Currently watching.
1) Saiunkoku Monogatari
2) Bamboo Blade
3) D. Gray-man
4) Rental Magica
5) Shion no Oh
6) Goshuusho-sama wa Ninomiya-kun
7) Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro
8) Naruto Shippuden
9) Night Wizard - the Animation
10) Shugo Chara!
11) Hayate no Gotoku!

Yeah. Wah....tt's a lot of anime series that i'm watching currently....hahaha....

I dun wan to study!!!

But tomorrow is my first paper...First of five...

ARgh~

Totally no mood to study...

*faint and die*

Sigh....just anyhow get it over and done with....

Then i can watch anime and do my webpages all day....

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Saiunkoku Monogatari

The opening theme of my favourite anime.....

The drawing and the plot and character development are EXCELLENT~

Compared to funny anime with poor plot and character development....this one is just like an animated version of a super good drama series....

For those who love a good anime.

For those who love Dae Chang Geum (yes Cheelay, you are one of them...u'll love this cuz it's very "woman can do better than man"...think Da Chang Jing la hor...)

For those who love a good ancient China royal politics plot.

For those who love bishounen (or beautiful young man)==> \\(>.<)//

For those who love romance story.

For those who love the anime Fushigii Yuugi (the same person who did it sia...tt's why i love it...ah~)

Presenting the super nice opening song of this excellent anime.

"Hajimaru no Kaze" of anime "Saiunkoku Monogatari"
("The beginning wind" of anime "A story of the Coloured-clouds-Country"...yes tts the name of the country..)

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble

One of my favourite songs...Recently found my Heart of Worship cd...hahaha..

Did you Feel the Mountains Tremble...
Did you Feel the Oceans Roar...
When all the people rose to sing of...
Jesus Christ the Risen One.

Super motivating song...haha...my bro and I are singing along with the CD now...

I love this song...especially the chorus...

For this video, the song is sang by Delirious? at some concert i think...

Friday, November 23, 2007

Sianz of studying

Very very very very sianz..............

At least counselling and research modules are fun to study....tho hard...but at least it's study-able...

After all I have taken related modules at level 3000..

But those two social policies modules are an absolute killers la....wat the~

When the only social policy-related module is SW1101E (hence killing a large number of potential swkers), and that's all!

We had feedback the difficulty in coping with this big gap to the lecturers le...

But still, tt's just benefitting the next generations and not really us sia.

Not that I mind la..But can he cut us some slacks for this sem's papers then?

I mean...questions like...

1. Explain the main aspects of the modernization theory concerning the social development of Singapore as it modernizes its economic, political and social systems.
Examine the applicability of the modernization theory in explaining social changes occurring in Singapore. To what extent does it help policy planners in formulating social development policies?
In the light of your analysis, is there a necessity for the country to be concerned about the social impact of modernization?

2. An international social policy forum will be held in Singapore soon. You have been tasked to write a paper on policy initiatives planned or adopted by the Singapore Government on any of the following social policies, using a suitable policy analysis framework or perspective:
- Public housing for low-income Singaporeans, including the latest revision to the rental housing scheme.
- Employability of lower-skilled workers.
- The Workfare scheme.

In your policy analysis, explain the nature, scope and allocation issues involved in dealing with the chosen topic. What reservations, if any, would you have about the feasibility of some of the
policy provisions or measures?


Die le la....

P.S. Oh...how can i forget to say....it sux more when he never TEACH ANYTHING USEFUL/RELATED!..........................................................................right...the power of learning the module on your own...

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Damn sianz

Not sure if this is a generic this year SW year 4's mood now..

But it's definitely Trina's and mine.

Sianz.

Exams are so sianz....

Especially when u dunno wat shit to study for exams...cuz the teachers kinda sux at teaching.........


*roar.


First Paper: 28th Nov 2007
Second Paper: 3rd Dec 2007
Third Paper: 5th Dec 2007
Fourth Paper: 7th Dec 2007
Fifth Paper: 7th Dec 2007

Sunday, November 18, 2007

One Life Experience (OLE)

Got an email from my fellow sw classmate regarding volunteer recruitment for an uncoming event "One Life Experience" or also known as OLE~

"World Vision Singapore and HPB are organizing this large-scale event called One Life Experience (OLE) (pronounced as Oh-Lay!), which will run for 2 months at various parts of Singapore.
The objective of the exhibition is to change the public's negative perception of people living with HIV/AIDS.

One Life Experience is an 150 sq metre walk-through exhibition focusing on the devastating effect of AIDS on young people and families in Singapore, Cambodia and Africa. They used narration and imagery to bring across the message and invite visitors to intimately “walk in” the story of a child whose life has been affected by AIDS."

For more information of the exhibition, please visit http://www.onelife.org.sg/ It's a super nice website..with a load-very-fast-AND-super-touching/empowering-video on the front page. Do watch it.

Quote from the video, which quoted from the Bible.


Let us not love
with words or tongue,
but with actions and truth.
1 John 3:18


For more information of the volunteering...

Saturday, November 17, 2007

More papers due..

Bloody hell la~

Just when everyone else are enjoying their focus-on-exams-only week.

Majority of the hon class of sw are chionging through the insane 20 pages individual paper comparing the social policies of two SEA countries.

I'm only at page 4 la!

And i still got the gaming paper - thank God for Kyle, amen! He's going to come over to my hse tml and help me with those market analysis, budgetting and dunno what "break -even" business model thingy. How the hell am i supposed to know how to calculate the retail price of a game?

And the student feedback was therapeutic for a lot of us in the sw class. Wahaha.

And i'm so going to be familiar with Malaysia and Vietnam's history and current social security policies and schemes and all those poverty alleviation programmes.

Like Vietnam's Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction Programme, and Malaysia's EPF and SOCSO etc.

Sigh.

I HAVEN study anything for exams lor. No time at all, this semester.

Fortunately my papers not bad - got A- for my counselling case study paper and a B- for my research articles analysis paper. (Yes, i got pulled down by that INSTRUMENTS' VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY comparison part.....damn...)

Sigh.

Listening to: Kimberly Locke's 8th World Wonder~ (NICE~)

Friday, November 16, 2007

kHEARTS and Social Enterprise.

Was reading Farah's blog post bout how she read the papers and felt so much for a lot of events going round in the world and yet there's nothing we can do about it...(or something along the line. Read her blog for more info.)

And suddenly i got reminded of this project kHEARTS done by one of my social work honours classmates together with 3 of her friends.

The 4 of them went ahead to apply for the Citibank-YMCA Youth For Causes programme funding to start up a social enterprise projects for mental health patients at Simei Care Centre.

For info about the Citibank-YMCA Youth for Causes programme, link.
For info about the kHEARTS project, link.

Apparently, the project aims to achieve the following:

Short-term goals
• To instill more motivation, confidence and increase self-esteem of the members
• To help them to be more self-sufficient, where this project hope to provide economic sustainability in the members involved
• To increase public awareness of mental health stigma

Long-term goals
• To help them reintegrate into the society through acquiring of social skills by interaction opportunities provided by this project
• To dispel myths and misconceptions associated with people who suffers from mental illness.

Cool right? They let the members of the Simei Care Centre forms groups/teams to cooperate and make DIY card packages to sell.

So what happens is that each team will make the DIY pieces for making a card, sell the package to people who wants to make their own cards.

Those cards are really really really cute~

Apparently my friend, she also (together with her group) did an evaluation research project on this project for our SW4103 too. (that's how i knew bout it.)

So ya. We were all impressed plus kinda ashamed (at least for me) to know that, here we are, complaining about our study workloads...

And there are NUS undergraduates in their honours years working on other stuff out there to benefit the society.

So i guess it's a matter of how committed are we in wanting to make a difference sia.

For me, I hope to be able to start on volunteering/advocating for animal welfare in Singapore asap. But i know i sux at time management so i shall not risk my grades first.

And one of my other aims will probably to do a social enterprise-kinda project helping youths and kids stay out of trouble PLUS a combo of anime/manga/Digital animation workshop/cafe kinda style.

So kids hang out at my cafe - got food, drinks, anime, learn to make graphics/games etc, and study or something.

Quite a weird (and piss-parents-off) mix la. But hey, they are in good companies with someone (social work-trained) to watch over them.

I'm still working on that.

(and i'll hire my sister to do the food and drinks. Since she used to and really love working in a cafe selling home-made sandwiches and blended fruit juices, plus she's super good with graphics making. Hahaha...PLUS she used to work at those lan shops. So she's good at those too....wahaha...)

Then i'll just find a way to mix the social welfare part in.

Cool ya?

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Projects

I'm SO SO tired and busy with papers and projects sia...

I've got a 20 page paper due next mon and i wun have time to start until end of tml.

I dun like group politics.

And is saddened greatly as well as super pissed with it.

Why must people makes life difficult for everyone else?

Conflict avoidance is not good. We all should be comfortable with speaking your mind, and accepting people's honest point of view about you without feeling offended.

But no.

We are like second-guessing each other, playing games under our facade of bonded closeness.

And the sucky part is, it's hard to bring up the topic when others are not comfortable sharing their true feelings and thoughts with you.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

New Song added - 青花瓷

Yeah...i love the song so much - so soothing~~

So i added into my playlist to share with you guys. Enjoy~

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Jay's New Album

Yeah....got his new album.....

Nice songs~~~~

But all more the soothing kind.....but i think i like 青花瓷 (which is more china china) and 扯 (which is more hiphop...)....无双 (has a more rock feeling....think linkin park without the screaming but has rap......and got some arabic drums part.....AND i have NO IDEA WHY, also included two very high pitch ah~~~~~ by him....nicely done...)

I love hiphop....

And i really like jay zhou's songs sia....He always mixed rap with violin, piano, cello (selected chinese traditional musical instruments) and drums etc. In a nice melodic way...

Suddenly after watching the horrible Starship Troopers 2 (yes...the second movie), i feel like going to exercise more sia. Go do some crunches and push-ups and running.

=Tired=

Mentally.

So many papers and presentations due.

I'm so busy until I suddenly went into denial and watched anime for one entire day. (currently watching 8 different anime series. And also finished 1 series.)

Too many things to do. So little time.

Kyle has been a strong support for me throughout sia. He is like my respite place plus source of strength and support sia.

Hahaha. Doing some form of acknowledgment thingy now.

In-group Out-group Elitism?

Lotsa things going in the sw honours class....hahaha...

Heard lotsa stuff piao-ing around....

Shalnt mentioned too much here (sigh, my blog aint safe to talk much anymore sia. Shall have to get a new one?)

But seriously, HT is no big deal. But somehow got a HT vs ISM feeling in class le sia. Or am i too sensitive?

I admit my grades sucks lah~ and i'm not smart either. And the idea of ISM makes my stomach flips. (and yes, i STILL HAVEN THINK OF A TOPIC FOR MY ISM.....and yes, i know the datelines for submission to IRB is like....left dec the first.)

But yes. I SERIOUSLY DUN WAN TO DO ISM.....why are they forcing me.

And maybe i'm taking it a bit too personally. (i mean, seriously it has nothing to do with me directly la...)

But I dun get it, why would some people be nice only to people who is of the same CAP level/category?

Cuz the others (like me who is a 3rd class honours etc.- and yes i'm takin it personal now) will have no academic advantage to you ah?

Okay la, disclaimer, no one did anything mean to me la. But ya, just heard some seriously unpleasant stories going around. Not nice to hear.

Hahaha. Random mutterings.

Sucks when people turned into like that.

To some certain people, can do HT means u elite issit? *spit*~ Hahahaha.

Ignore me.

Friday, November 09, 2007

Animals and Worklife

Animals showing you their "Monday Blues" and "Friday Glee" (fine...it doesnt rhyme)

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Must watch - Obstacle Course

If army guys think their obstacle course is tough. Look at this.

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Shit happens during the datelines

One word: Shit.

Argh.

Shit is everywhere.

This sem is so shit.

Shit stands for stress and vise versa.

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Belated Birthday Post

Yeah...this is one belated birthday post.

Cuz i haven really got the time to sit down to properly type them out and i dun wan to a haphazard job.

Yup.

Basically, on my birthday eve, Kyle brought me to Vivocity where we ate at The Mussels Guys. I had 12 half-baked cheese mussels...they are good...(but not as good as those in Olio, those that I ate at Lay's bday party~) Hahaha...but still, they are good...I think i had so much of them until I'm sick of it for a few days...Haha...kyle had sirloin steak....nice~

Then we went to walk around before going home...it's really nice to hang out with him sia....^_^...too bad i end class too late - so we cannot stay for too long sia...but we did went to look at lotsa mp3players etc...hahaha..

Then on saturday - the birthday itself. We went to school and spent the whole day at the Central Library~ Cuz i need to zap a lot of books for the 4214 presentation due this friday. (Luckily my teacher approved of it = just got her email reply this morning)...Kyle was so sweet to accompany me for the whole day. He said that I'm the princess of the day! (yeah~ Now he says I'm the hime~ Which is the japanese word for princess. And being a japanese-lang crazy person. The word hime has more effect than princess...hahaha...beam...)

Kk...give u all tissue...dun puke all over my blog..

Anyway, then we went to Vivocity (yes! Again!) to eat donuts!! So cool~~ we had a lot of donuts~ Which satisfy his sugar tooth...and my favourite though, is the wasabe and fish flakes one......Which satisfy my salty tooth....hahaha...

Then we were kinda full!! So we went walking around...looking at the night scene etc...hahaha....it's a pure date sia...dating!! We need dating!!

Then we went to buy my bday cake! The chocolate banana at Secret Recipes (sadly, i've forgotten that my brother dun like to eat banana....but welll.....he couldnt make it for my bday anyway, he was out with his frens...)

The cake was decorated in such a Drool-dropping delicious looking sweet way!! Hahaha...Will post photos tml....My sister's bf came too....hahaha...

Kyle also ate dinner with me (since they all ate, so it's just us)...which is nice cuz i rarely eat home-cooked food with him. And he got his favourite steam-fish and he was helped to take a lot of the fish and was very diligently teaching me how to pick the best meat etc...as well as clearing that small bowl of garlic chilli (yes...i love garlic chilli only...)

Then the usual singing and cutting of cake etc..My dad made lotsa jellies...especially my favourite almond jellies in fish shapes....oh ya...we also realised that the 6 of us can only eat like slightly more than one quarter of the cake!! Shimatta! (which means "shit/damn" in japanese)

So end up my mum was trying to stuff the remaining slices into little tupperware...she refused to destroy the slices until upon realizing that "it's no use leh!!", she started stuffing/squashing the cake slices into those boxes while muttering to herself "dun look at it can already....dun look at it can already..."

YUP! Later kyle left for home...that poor guy reached home at near midnight...ah....we live too far apart~~ noo~~~

Hahaha~~ Happy~~~

Will post photos soon...*beam*

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

"The Slowest Taxi on Southeast Asia"??

Bought the New Paper for this one. Though I usually avoid buying new paper.

I'm not sure if you guys watch this else where already. But basically the gist is that a 67 year old elderly who is a rickshaw driver picked up 3 ang mohs who squeezed into the rickshaw.

Then that 3 idiots took a video of the uncle who was trying his very best to pedal (i mean....3 guys leh!) Then the 3 bastards were laughing away mockingly about how they can walk faster than the rickshaw....( i mean, there's THREE of you and he's just an old man?!)

Then the uncle oblivious to them (since he cannot understand english) was like "Yeah~ Happy ya?" and gave a thumb-up sign....which amused those assholes even more.

Then they alighted halfway to take a cab instead - and the old man asked for $10 which is the rate i think...$10 for 10 mins i think....then they refused and wanted to pay him $5...then the uncle refused and went (or in my opinion, wobble slowly to them) to ask them to pay. But they pretended that they have no money and left in a cab.

Afterwards, one of the 3 f*cking assholes posted the video on youtube titled "The Slowest Taxi on Southeast Asia".....and the whole event triggered a whole lots of SG youtubers...

Based on the article from New Paper, the bl**dy f*cking asshole already took the video down. He apologised and admitted that they were insensitive, but insisted that they were not bullying.

He also pointed out that it's a matter of "nationality" and that if it's 3 Asians who were doing it - we won't have that kind of response. And that everyone is just blowing it out of proportion.

.....

Go kiss ur (_|_) la!! $&#*%&@&*(^(......

And haha....somehow this kind of things unites singaporean isnt it? Sad sia...

Shima Uta

Ooh...found Gackt and famous Okinawan artist Sakao China...

Song titled "Shima Uta" which means Island Song = refering to Okinawa (where Gackt is from)....

"Shima-uta is a generic term for Okinawan folk songs. Miyazawa took it as the title of his song, which poetically addresses the tragedies suffered on the southern islands during World War II. In 1993, the song recorded more than 1 million singles sales with its memorable chorus"


It's actually a rather familiar song sia...I heard it before leh~!~~ Listen and wait for the chorus people! I BET YOU WILL SAY "HEY I HEARD IT BEFORE~"

And that's a very traditional way of singing sia...hahaha...with traditional Okinawan instruments and the Okinawa dialect! (so i kinda dun really get wat they saying a little bit...like the way they say "watashi" which is "I/me" is different...)

"The original version by the Boom is actually a rock song, with drums and synth but has a sanshin twanging away in the background. The cover by Gackt on the other hand features mostly traditional instruments and folk vocalists."


Monday, October 29, 2007

S.K.I.N.

The 1 minute promotional video/audio clip...The mad drumming is so Yoshiki sia~~

Can go youtube to find the concerts. Find user anthony7852 for a clearer audio (so less of the screaming)...

Amazing...only they can do a jrock concert in US when the band has no album watsoever....so everyone who went to the concert hears the song for the first time...

Hahaha...of cuz la...all the big shots in one band sia...their names can lure the crowd already...

Copycats

So pissed to see a video on youtube showing the mv of Typhoon (taiwanese band with Toro in it).

I know i'm lagging la, cuz this is some news sometime back i think. I'm not familiar with Chinese songs anyway.

Anyway, this is a super copycat of Gackt's Vanilla!!! (see previous post for the original)!! And the company INSISTED that it's original work composed by Toro.

And they INSISTED that this song and Gackt's Vanilla is not the same at all.

I mean, come on. It's like....minimum of 80% identical. (not similar sia...identical)

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Gackt and Kinki Kids

I think the guys are all singing something inpromptu (i.e. come up with something on the spot) to the lady. Damn funny cuz Gackt is super good!!! As such the rest of the guys seemed super funny. Tsuyoshi started imitating Cantonese too...hahaha..

Gackt is good!

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Wii

Fascinated by Nintendo Wii a lot....

And now, Tomb Raider is coming to Wii~ Hahahaha. Damn cool...

Birthday~

Happy Birthday to me~

I'm 22!

And on this special day, I'm going to spend it in the school library doing the bl**dy 4214 project.

The things we do as an undergrad.

P.S. Of cuz got celebrate with dinner (I ate 12 mussels! Half-baked with cheese!) with kyle last night. Yeah!

Anime Blogging~

Ah~~

Will love to have my own anime blog one day. (Haven got time to do it. Nor the idea of no one reading it kinda puts me off.)

Will love to "chng" (meaning deco) my blog with anime stuff.. But haven got time to get down to doing it.

Got lotsa ideas in mind everytime I read my blog. Argh It's so plain jane.

Some idea of AnimeBlog? See THAT Animeblog.

I mean, seriously, I've watched enough anime to start blogging le sia.

Poo.

Friday, October 26, 2007

New Movie - The Seeker

I hope I wun be disappointed.

A huge fan on the book series, having repeatedly borrowing the entire series of 5 books from the library ever since secondary school.

From the award-winning series "The Dark is Rising", written by Susan Cooper. The series were published between 1965 to 1977, so you can imagine how old it is.

But still, it is an excellent series, but not sure how the movie will be.

The movie is based on book 2 i think. So that's quite a big jump. So not sure how you guys will accept it sia.

Too bad, the trailer doesnt even look good.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

I love to blog random stuff

The very idea of having my own personal space in the big big internet.

And that anyone from anywhere can see my writings at anytime.

That very idea is just so cool!

Hahaha.

Dajie said I've mellowed down le....and that it began on year 2, realised on year 3, became permanent on year 4.

Haha. Mellow meaning i'm not as hyperactive nor as burst-into-laughter-anytime le.

Hmmm.

Initially was kinda uncomfortable with it, cuz I see it as some kinda loss-of-childhood thingy.

But now I'm quite okay le. It just feel normal. Like, things can be super funny, I just feel that I'm smiling from the bottom of my heart. The most I'll just give a few "haha!", but not really the hahahahaha- nonstop kind.

Kyle can do that though. He always sounds so happy when he laughs. Guess cuz he always wear his emotions on his face, while i mostly hide them inside....So i like to hear him laugh away...so jovial and so genuine.

^_^

Watching so many videos on youtube made me conclude that I may possibly be a slight bisexual sia. (like 90% hetero- and 10% homo-) Haha!

And yes, I can accept yuri very very much, and yaoi to a certain extent.

And no, I dun watch hentai, thank you v much.

Gosh.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Baby? Library?

Was surfing net, searching for data, listening to music, when I heard this distinct baby's happy sounds. (I have no idea how to describe that. Gurgling? Uugling? Yabababa-ing?)

Then was like thinking....hmm...baby...good...

Then, eh?! I'm in freaking Central Library computer areas sia.

Hahaha. Apparently there's a baby somewhere among the computer cluster - lotsa people are looking around for him/her.

Hahaha. So cute to hear a baby's whee-ing around (watever sound that is) and the super cute calling out for "mama" (which sounds like a word just learnt cuz not very pronounced correctly.) in the midst of a bunch of stressed out people furiously typing away on the keyboard.

Hahaha.

Gackt - Vanilla

The song is so absolutely stuck in my head.

Hahaha.

Tired. Brain not working.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Gay? Offence?

Working on the Mental Capacity Bill makes me feel a bit more aware of sg policy making stuff.

And reminded by Farahrah's blog.

Hmm.

I guess like wat she said, I dun buy the nation still conservative thingy. Or rather, as much as that is part of the reason, I think it's kinda sweepy.

And on the other hand, hahha. I'm kinda advocative for the change sia.

Like, what has their sexual life have anything to do with the govt and criminal offences sia?

IF U REALLY WANT TO CRIMINALIZE SOMEBODY, PLEASE GRAB ALL THOSE ANIMAL ABUSERS INSTEAD OF JUST SLAPPING THEM WITH SOME CHEAP FINE AND A WARNING.

*erhem erhem. Recompose.*

Anyway, out of fun, wanted to post a video. But i think it may be slightly uncomfortable for some, so i shall just give the details. Those interested go see urself sia.

Gackt - Vanilla (his infamous live performance).1999

Hahaha. It's a SUPERBLY scandalously blatent Sex song. Wahahaha.
Lyrics: http://supercat.popullus.net/vanilla.html

And the performance is damn hot la! I nearly go "!!!!!" when he stopped suddenly and kinda gave that airy gasp. ARGH~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

*erhem. Recompose*

But ya, the video is not appropriate for showing so obviously cuz he kinda dances blatantly scandalously with another male guitarist. WAHAHA~

But i dun think he is gay la. It's a rock star thingy in japan. U dunno who is a real gay. They are all like super metrosexual la! So u cannot figure out whether they are really gay or not. (reminds me of someone. Wahaha.) Not that it bothers me at all. I'm perfectly fine with homosexuality.

Yup.

Hmm.

Heck.

Alright, I am not responsible for any moral dilemma etc. You have your right to watch this video or not. I am no gahmen sia. Hahaha. (actually the video is no big deal la. But if u have been a gd girl/boy, then dun watch bah.) The song is quite a fun one though. Fun song.

The MTV (which is perfectly normal.) And he got super nice hair. Japanese are really good at dye-ing and styling their hairs. Serious.


The scandalous live-performance. 1999...oh ya...just to warn. This guy can't dance for nuts. But his voice is real good and is famous for his composition, lyrics, classical piano and electrical guitar.


Sigh. What a naughty song.

Oh oh.

Gackt and Yoshiki and a whole lot of others just formed a Superband named SKIN.
(when you have the coolest and most popular rock stars of Japan coming together to form a band, bringing with them their respective talents. Gosh!)

Monday, October 22, 2007

I went dating

After like.....so long???

Hahaha...Kyle and I finally kinda have a bit of time to go shopping/dating yesterday. But it was a rather short one la...

Went down to orchard. We both wear nice nice...hahaha...

Randomly walking around. But never really buy much stuff la~ Except I bought a shampoo and conditioner (cuz got discount...the shampoo at half price sia)

Haha. But it was fun la~ So long nv go out with him le. Pluz the last time he sent me home was like.................................................................................................a few months ago??

Then we were also like...the last time we watched a movie together was....................................................................unknown.

Haha. So ya people, we were that busy. Hahaha.

To the Doctor

Yes~

I'm going to see the dr at YIH later.

To get some flu medicine (i cannot sleep at nite with a blocked and running nose plus itchy cough sia...) plus get my knee looked at.

Fine.

Cuz the cough turning into a SUPER phlegmy one.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Hellgate London

Hahaha. Apologies for the super long post.

On a lighter note, currently downloading the demo for Hellgate: London.

It's a freaking 1.56gb!! I'm still at 610MB.

But still, highly anticipated sia. From the producers of Diablo leh! dun pray pray ah..

For those interested, here are the specs:

Minimum System Requirements:
# OS: Windows XP with SP2 or Windows Vista
# CPU: 1.8 GHz or faster (2.4 GHz for Vista)
# RAM: 1 GB (2GB for Vista) or more
# Disc Drive: DVD drive
# Hard Drive: 7.0 GB or more free space
# Video Device: Directx 9.0c/10 compatible
# Sound: DirectX 9.0c/10 compatible
# Input: Compatible Keyboard and mouse

Video card with 128 MB or more memory, Pixel Shader 2.0, and one of these chipsets is required:
# ATI Radeon 9000 or greater
# NVIDIA GeForce 6200 or greater
# NVIDIA GeForce 8800 recommended for DirectX 10

Hellgate: London, officially released on Oct 31 2007!

Suicide and the Ridge

Was reading the latest The Ridge booklet - October one.

Then there was this article/letter by the head of the counselling centre in respond to the article on Blue Vein of Death found in the August booklet. See online link for the letter.

Was really amused by the original article, because the author left her email (gmail sia...lotsa space) for people who want a listening ear.

And was even more amused because it seems like the author is not trained in counselling, nor have attended any form of counselling courses, nor taken any form of mental health courses.

Of course, do allow me to make a disclaimer that I don't know her, nor do I know of any details of her expertise so to speak. And this conclusion is just based on my impression after reading her article.

Erm. Cuz the whole article sounded like she is blaming the person who has suicidal intent.

In addition to those pointed out by the response letter:

"Notice that it is he who could not see a solution; it does not mean that there are no solutions left to seek."
“overused drama serial plot,”
“even in a highly educated and civilised society like Singapore,”
“But the ultimate cause of suicide is in fact the people themselves”
“Our parents definitely did not give us a life to be ended with a cold blade against the wrist due to a problem that is ostensibly unsolvable”

The response letter also pointed out that the author
"also compare pains of labour and pregnancy with the emotional pain that individuals who are suicidal and depressed experience. I am not sure if this is appropriate and am concerned that such comparisons may serve to further isolate students who have suicidal ideation."

I thought that the following sentences sounds kinda mean:

"Amusingly, people tend to shift the blame to everything else possible but themselves."
"...something as far-fetched as the nature of today's music can be suicide inducers to some people"

"Fewer tragedies would have happened and less tears would have been shed if only mankind could abandon this natural instinct of giving up."

I dun get this one.
"Indeed, people are not as warm as before. Think about it: when was the last time you thanked your parents, your friends, how grateful you are for their presence? It is unrealistic to have a world of perfectly happy and warm people, but it would not hurt to be aware that with a little more compassion, everyone would be happier."

The article ended off with:
"Be it for filial piety or just for the sake of humanity, one should definitely think twice before breaking that blue vein of death."

YUP.

So I sounded like I'm going to start on a AP-spree here, but no la. Just wondering if she just wanted to end of the article in such a "cool" way sia. (Note that the title of the article is Blue Vein of Death".

I mean, HELLO, what's humanity got to do with everything?

Haha. And I agreed too that the article is highly misleading. There are many reasons why people commit suicide. It is not so easily simplified.

As much as I agreed that many a times suicide occurred because there doesn't seems to be any solutions left, people who commit suicide are people who are trying to tell a message. Be it for revenge, or a cry for help, suicidal people basically sit on the painful fence between life or death.

And one tip from either side can very easily push the person over to the other side.

(and i seriously hope this article won't be one that pushes the person over to the side of death. The way it is written. And the way the author offered herself as a listening ear - despite the fact that it is an untrained ear, unsuitable for listening to potential at-risk/crisis situations.)

I cannot say that i have much experience, but the internship at CGH exposes me to lotsa suicidal patients (thanks to my supervisor who was seriously trying to flood me with death/dying patients ON PURPOSE. So ALL suicide cases were referred to me. EVEN THE NEW CASES.)

And many of them ate many many hundreds of pills, only to inform or approach a loved one immediately to tell them they've committed suicide.

And many realised the danger they've put themselves into after surviving the attempt, and unfortunately through such a mean, also gained access to professional help, as well as alerted family members to the sufferings they are going through.

I mean, here I am listening to a super weakened young lady (okay...there was a lot of JC students sia.)..and there was the mother/father/who-knows-who-else, crying outside.

And when talking to the family members, realised that they too are suffering and trying to help.

So we have two sides who are struggling and trying to seek help while helping themselves etc.

So seriously la, I think the author of this article should not be so mean/critical towards those who commit suicide or try to. I assumed that she may be doing so from a family member/friend's point of view.

But I would also like to point out that: It is painful. For both the family and the person involved.

It is something beyond the understanding of us who can never experience what the person is going through. And thus something we cannot lightly brush aside as easily solvable.

And hopefully this post can help to enlighten any readers who happened to share the view of this author.

And for those who have ever have the thoughts of suicide or self-harming, I mean, I was one of them la. (And is potentially one of them. Blame the media. Wahaha.) Do try to seek help sia....Or maybe follow the advice that my supervisor likes to tell the victims. (yes suicidal ppl are victims.)

To vent your frustrations etc, you can do ANYTHING. (yes anything!) EXCEPT:

1) Harm against self.
2) Harm against others.
3) Harm against property/things.

Other than that, you can do anything. (Scream into your pillow or go on a shopping/movie/KTV spree or anything...)

More Anime and Manga

Recently just finished watching, D-Grayman epi 53, Naruto shippuden epi 31, Claymore (all 26 episodes)...

Nice. Claymore is highly recommended - though not for those who cannot tolerate blood and gore. Yes. It's a gory but excellent anime. Ah well, it is after a rather dark anime sia. (okay, what kind of image am I giving people now?)

D-grayman is draggy~~~~~~

Naruto shippuden is......GOOOD!! But ya, what a tear-jerking episode....(And yes, I've went back to watching Naruto again. After a gap of nearly half a year, because I was too bored by the 2 seasons of filler episodes then. Finally they went back on track of the original manga - and renamed the new season as Naruto Shippuden.)

And yup, for manga. Recently started to read Ghost Hunt (not as gory, but definitely scary. Live up to Japanese being famous for having scary movies)...

Claymore's manga is super interesting. It deviates from the usual Japanese manga way, and instead follows the traditional American comic books way:

- straight, neat boxes.
- and all drawings only within the boxes

As compared the Japanese manga way, where you have irregular shapes boxes and the drawing and thought bubbles etc exceeding the boxes.

I haven really got the opportunity to read Claymore yet. But hopefully I got a chance to.

Saw the whole set of Fushigii Yuugi manga (all 19 volumes) at the school bazaar yesterday, tempted to buy. But didnt, cuz when i buy manga - I want it at tip-top condition.

Of course I'm not as extreme as Oliver who uses those plastic film wraps to wrap all his manga. I use plastic bags okay?

Haha. Maybe one day I'll take a photo of my collections.

And I hereby end my post on anime/manga. (Please thank me for not turning this into a manga/anime blog. Very tempting though it's not very appealing to know no one wants to read it.)

Fallen Sick

Guess all the late nights and chionging of paper has finally taken a toil on me - fallen sick with flu, running nose, itchy dry cough.

Darn.

I dun like to be sick.

I dun like to feel sick.

Hopefully i'll recover asap.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

A Day with YY and CL

Hahaha.....went to meet up with cheelay and yingyan...

Okay. Correction: Went to meet up with cheelay WITH yingyan.

Haha. Nvm.

Anyway, it was a crazy time cuz the two of us were waiting patiently for cheelay at Tiong Bahru Plaza - examining the active ingredients of neck/shoulder Tiger Balm oilment, analysing facial scrubs (St. Ives), trying on hairbands, answering an old lady's questions about the 14K gold rings that costs $5.90 each (okay...rather, Yingyan answered sia....her hokkien so much better than mine...my mind was tangled with broken hokkien, english, chinese and japanese at the same time...).....

WHILE, cheelay was waiting patiently in her school for us to call her.

All because of a super cute miscommunication via sms: "call when reached".

So we all assumed that that means the other party is to call when reached.

Haha. So we all waited for 25 minutes. HAHAHA~

Then we finally met up (sigh~) and went to eat mini steamboats that serves:

- one tiny button mushroom...
- 1/4 sausage
- 1/2 crabsticks
- 1 thin slice of tofu
- 1 piece of fishball
- 1 piece of sotongball
- 1 fishcake-look-alike
- a pile of cabbage
- a pile of green veggies
- 1 raw egg
- a pile of raw choice meat: chicken or pork

Hahaha...but it's enuf to make u quite full sia~ Tom yum soup is nice~~ (so end up i kept drinking from cheelay's steamboat pot....cuz mine is chicken soup...)

And it's only $6.80 so it's not bad la~

Then later went for some walk-around the shopping mall while chitchatting...hahaha....

Crazily funny people sia~ We had fun.

Ying yan became super high, that crazy girl! Hahaha...(all the way from Tiong Bahru Shopping Mall, to on the MRT...all the way until my void-deck area where we went on our separate ways home....hahaha....WHY u so high! Over steamboat or u never sleep enough sia~~ Hahahaha~)

Then later we left for home~ Hahaha. Cheelay cut her hair~ So she looked Korean now. Hahaha.

More Pink Day Photos

Wahaha....hsyterical class...





Monday, October 15, 2007

New Songs updates

Yeah...added some new songs to my playlist...

Haha....scully you all usually just off the music sia...

Or is the player putting people off!? *horrified*

Anyway, the song Innocent Sorrow is for cheelay~~

There~ The Opening song of your favourite Anime "D-Grayman"....so far i've only watched til episode 52~ Hahaha....

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Classic Animes

And i mean classic.

Introducing, the first few animes i've ever watched. (Beside Sailormoon, Dragonball and Ranma 1/2)..

I FINALLY found the Mermaid princess anime after a random search for princess-related animes on crunchyroll....cuz i'm bored.

AND i found it!~ Wahaha..after so many years...

Presenting my favourite song from the anime "Andersen Dowa Ningyo Hime" (Andersen's Children Story: Mermaid Princess) (1975) This one has a very strong Western flavour.

And that's not all~~~

After being so lucky, I decided to try my luck for this very very old anime tt i watched when i was very young..the only thing i remembered is that there is a white dragon..(I have been searching the internet for it for a long time)

And so I went to animenewsnetwork and list the animes according to the years...

and there was a whole list of titles in japanese and i've no idea which one issit...(pluz i dun understand...)and so, i just picked one randomly cuz the title says "Taro the Dragon Boy"..

And I FOUND IT!~

I'm so damned God-blessed!!! (sry for any blasphemy there)

So presenting the real first anime i've ever watched. This has a VERY super strong traditional Japanese flavour.



A 1 minute clip of Taro the Dragon Boy. (1979)


To have a look at the anime (cuz the previous one dun really show much and cuz this is THE TRAILER...so it shows a lot of sections of the anime)....Except this one is in German! So ya...too bad...just ignore the talking...Oh ya....do listen to the very long Opening Song in Japanese~ SUPER Kawaii!! And also the Mama-dragon at 7:22.....

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Stress and Entertainment

Was reading farahrah and dajie's blogs about their stress-relieving get-aways.

Then was feeling the "Oh~ I have no life~"...

Then on hindsight, I guess my idea of life is kinda different.

And looking back at how I've spent my days half-chionging work and half-chionging mangas/animes....

Okay la~ I do have a life.

Think of somebody running 2.4km, while stopping under the tree to read mangas, then run again.

Darn, I'm the rabbit!

But who cares, I'm a faster rabbit~ Hahaha.

(All these was/were posted while preparing to read manga.) ==> shit. My subject-verb agreement sux.

Highly Recommended Manga - S.A特优生

AH~

I'm a sucker for shoujo comics liao sia.

Think Meteor Garden, Ouran High School Host Club, Kaichou wa Maid-sama, Poor Rich Prince, and etc etc.

And ya. Taiwanese idol drama based on these mangas seriously dun do them justice.

Headache and fatigue-ness

Finished doing the interviewing with elderly at the nursing home on monday with yingyan, trina, corrine, and wanqi.

We all went back to listen and transcript the interview process.

AND we all (at least to my knowledge, trina, yy and me) were SO TRAUMATISED with listening to our own tapes.

Reminded me of Dr Tim Sim who declared that he absolutely hates listening to his own tapes.

Cuz seriously, when I listened again, I was like

"wat the *beeping beep* am I talking about?"

"why didnt I said that instead?"

"that was the perfect point to build the rapport!"

"that was the perfect point to dig out more information!"

ARGH~~

So was so disgusted with myself. And like that how to be social worker rite. Need more practice sia.

Yesterday was also on an unintentionally-began-but-intentionally-continued coffee ban from morning to 5pm.

Broke it at 3.30pm due to absolutely severe splitting/inploding/exploding headache. I felt like my head was tightly squashed between a G or F clamp sia. (People, think D&T). And ya, my mum encouraged me to break it. She even brew those heavenly coffee for me.

Now, i have no coffee again! Wahaha.

Sigh. Very tired. Lotsa things to do ah~~~

Got another paper due next tuesday - Family Therapy paper.

-Select a specific family based practice theory.

-Use a case to illustrate how a social worker may use the theory to assess and intervene in the family.

-Your paper should demonstrate advanced understanding and use of the theory and it’s techniques.

-You should try to focus in-depth in one or two specific areas rather than present a broad general discussion.

-You should make references to recent evidence based findings in scholarly journals.

......

I HATE the word "Evidence-based".

And people who want to be counsellor, word of advice. IT'S SERIOUSLY A VERY SHITTILY-HARD THING TO DO.

Hahahaha. Excitingly fun. BUT very very very very very very hard to do sia. Sigh.

Sunday, October 07, 2007

In the Hall of the Mountain King

I've been looking for years sia...finally found the title of the music piece...

P.S. Not sure if u guys heard it in primary or secondary school music class not....

"In the Hall of the Mountain King"

Thursday, October 04, 2007

Anime Updates

Currently finished watchin Hunter x Hunter. Really.....sequels just kills plot...

Next watching. Gintama.

Thought I still think school rumble is so much more funny in the make-sense way, Gintama is just outright ridiculous and exagerating.

I think it's even more fun to watch cuz they just did SO MANY parodies of anime/movie/drama and wat not.

Finally finish the bloody paper!

Prepared for a C - for that stupid paper.

One down.

Still got:

- SW4103 group project: Haven collect the raw interview data (from home visits and nursing home)....still muz transcript the conversation to chinese....then translate to english....then back to chinese.....then start doin data coding....then blah blah data analysis and THEN the paper.

- SW 4102: Mental Capacity Bill paper.............please dun let me get started......luckily now got one draft out le.....but it's too long le sia.....why the group members like not there sia.....

- SW4214: Compare social security policies between malaysis and vietnam. (I haven even go and find much lit review yet lor..................this paper will be a super tough one...)

- EE3702: Game design is a sucky thing u know~ When ur lecturers are SUPER not helpful.

- SW4101: Counselling paper - Shld i use Satir or Structural Family Therapy leh......................Darn!! Never mind.....Case study is all but ur imagination creativity sia....

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Me and My Honours

Somehow felt that compared to the rest of my fellow peers - i'm like the most stress-free of them all.

Not that i dun have lesser workload (oooh...triple negative...i'm confused...)

Okay...it's not that i have lesser workload than them - but rather I'm more heckcare bah.

Or it's the JC-training sets in = avoid!

Hahaha. Such is my coping behaviour/methods.

Poo~

Morbid thoughts from chionging paper that is due tml.

*lookin at the list of To-Dos....* Felt like very snobbishly says to those juniors frens - come on la~ U cannot beat me in workload.

Hahaha. Random thoughts liao sia.

Gintama is a lamely hilarious anime. Think Shrek which is a parody of fairytales. Gintama is a parody of movies and animes.

Hahaha. Wat's Bleach, Naruto, Gundam, Rurounin Kenshin and StarWars etc mixed together?

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Slacker in Action

Wat an oxymoronic term~

My brother is most probably going to be Signaller at some HQ - now undergoing training. According to him, it's like taking poly in army sia. (He's learning back watever he learnt in his poly course of Mobile Wireless).

Been slacking and working hard.

Doing that horrendous research project (due next wed). Still a long way to go. More upcoming projects to be done. Sigh.

Also did a wonderful accomplishment of finishing all 62 episodes of Hunter x Hunter, plus its 8 episodes of OVA 1, 8 episodes of OVA 2.

Wahaha. Left OVA 3.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Buble and Groban

For farah (who flooded me with Buble song throughout our
IRAS days..), dajie and xiao mei (to my last knowledge, you girls are crazy fans..), in case you girls haven watched it yet.

To those who dunno these two guys, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN SERIOUSLY?

Josh Groban at Michael Buble's concert. They didnt really perform - but had fun imitating each other.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Knee Pain

I wonder why - my right knee (the one always helping me tell the weather) is super painful and weak everytime i goes into squattin or half-squat position.

It's not that when i bend it then they become painful. More like if i put a lot of weight on it while it is bent.

And it always crack whenever i bend it.

Poo. Time to see a dr sia.

Brother in army

Oooh...after POP, he's now at his new camp - as a signaller.

According to the people there, he was chosen to go there cuz he took Mobile Wireless at poly.

He called back and told us that "Darn~ We're doin the same thing as school time again~!"

I hate/love research articles Part II

Argh~~~~

Seriously wonder how are we going to do our reports - when we dun even know how to see the validity/reliability of the instruments used PLUS the analysis part also dun understand.

.....................

E.g.
The Children's Knowledge of Abuse Questionnaire-Revised, (CKAQ).
A 1-month test-retest reliability coefficient of .76 has been reported for this questionnaire.
Additionally, an internal consistency coefficient of .90 has been published for the CKAQ
(Tutty, 1992 ), Evidence of the convergent validity of the instrument was provided by Tutty
( 1995 ), who reported a correlation of .92 between the CKAQ and the Personal Safety Questionnaire.
Tutty also reported evidence that the use of the CKAQ as a pretest does not sensitize
children so that posttest gains are merely a matter of practice. Thus, the CK AQ is appropriate
lot repeated measures to test retention of concepts. In the present study, scale reliability was
assessed using Cronbach's alpha which was calculated to be .84.

Hahaha..................so..................hmmmmmmmmm..........

Right~ And i've got 8 research articles to go through and write a 14 pages analysis paper.

Darn. It's time to wiki it.

.........................

Oh oh...or maybe.....shall just ignore it...shall critique only when the authors critique them.??

But Dr Ng wan it in the report leh.........................argh.............

Wat a super hot day...

Child Abuse

Was doing my 4103 research on child abuse - then out of curiousity, went to wiki it.

Then found out our dear Ducky - the cute lil dino from Land Before Time, the one that always go "Yep yep yep YEP YEP~" - the 10 yrs old voice actress, Judith Barsi and her mum was actually murdered by her father before the launch of "All Dogs Go to Heaven" (she was also the voice actress).

A victim of long years of abuse by her paranoid father.

*Sob~*

Monday, September 24, 2007

I am a lazy blogger

Nowadays very lazy to blog sia.

Nice music~~ Wah....i think the "Xiao Yu Xie Li Ke Bai II" is so heart-wrenching sia~! Especially if you have watched the movie. Even if you haven, you can still sense that "argh~~". It must be the violins.. they always do that.

Going to start studying now that i've slacked for the past two days *ashamed*...

Yesterday, got myself a virtual piano software and was merrily playing away - trying to play the melodies of the music (in the radioblog --->) by ear sia. Hehe. Trial and Erroring away.

Too bad I still sux at reading scores - if not can read all those scores of the music that i've downloaded. (Was going through the "Okay. Let's see - what comes after C"....and etc...)

Boo~ And to think i was in choir for so long. Haha.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

IRB

Poo~~

So many forms to fill up.

Even if i'm just applying for exemption - since i'm doin secondary data analysis.

Still must include CV too?!

Kanasai~

It's super biased/slanted towards the medical side one lor~

Probably that snobbish guy who did the forms~ Hahaha. He looks like the type ya? (okay..maybe only those who were there - like yy and far will know sia...)

Pui~

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Jay Zhou and Yu Hao

An excellent piano duet composed by Jay Zhou titled "逆鱗狂想曲". Performed by Jay and Yu Hao (from Nan Quan Ma Ma).

Excellent...I had fun listening..highly recommended.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Updated RadioBlog

Finally~~

Put in 5 music pieces from Jay Zhou's movie OST.

NICE~

I love all of them...talented guy sia...

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Bloodsucking Insects

I've been a really good meal for NUS mosquitoes lately. *scratch scratch*

Must be those long hours project-meeting by the trees along AS1 walkway.

Songs I hear when studying....

Beside Japanese Anime's openings and endings, and soapy RnB.......

Dangerous by Ying Yang Twins ft Wyclef

Oooh.. Love the song... A perfect song to accompany me during studying....I love hiphop...

"I love the Scandal~~~"


Oh ya...the noisy rock part at the end is kinda like an adaptation of the classic rock and roll song "Black Betty" (i think..)......Originally by Ram Jam. Then Spiderbait did another version. Both are nice....Super cool song to hear when u are speeding your car in the game Need for Speed: Underground 2 (Spiderbait's version).
Damn shiok.
But I like the Spiderbait version more....haha...maybe cuz i'm used to it...

Black Betty by Spiderbait

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Mixed Feelings

...about a lot of things....

Dun like it at all.

In fact, I hate it.

Starless Night by Olivia

I reached into the sky
思いは届かなくて
小さく空に消えた
色とりどりの風船

I'm alone
行き先のない 私の手を
そっとつないでくれた

Starless night
過去の影 振り返らない
感じたいあなたのぬくもり
Tears are falling down
迷っても離しはしない
つないだあなたの手を

Sometimes we fall apart
臆病になってしまうけど
きっと人はそこから
何かを見つけ出せるはず

Take my hand
脆く不完全な二人だから
ずっと手をつないでいる

* Starless night
唇が弱音吐いても
信じたいあなたのぬくもり
Endless love
矛盾さえ愛せてるのは
You are my shining star

Starless night
過去の影 振り返らない
感じたいあなたのぬくもり
Tears falling down
迷っても離しはしない
つないだあなたを

* repeat
You are my shining star

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Accident prone

Sprained my shoulder joint........now cannot really raise or turn my left arm.

Then i slammed the drawer shut on my left thumb.....

So lihai rite?

I haven do all these for a very long time le....haha....

My Honours Class Photos 1

So far only got one copy - shall wait for others to pass theirs... In the meantime, the results of our Wear-Same-Colour Day~~~


Black: Prof Ngiam in Black Tee....actually have one more shot with Dr Desai one...but haven got the pic yet...



Pink: Dr Ng...actually have one more shot with Dr Nair too...but haven got the pic yet...Oliver was there wor~ He helped us take one...

White: Dr Lee our kawaii teacher~...I love this photo....maybe cuz white lighting better?

I hate/love research articles

Love them cuz they give so much information.

Hate them becuz i dun understand the methodology and results part.

Wat the hell is " The overall mean effect size for all studies (17 contrast groups) was 0.54, with a 95% confidence interval of 0.33–0.75 (see Table 2). This effect is significant from zero (Z¼4.98, p50.001) and represents a medium effect. The Q-test for the 0-hypothesis of homogeneity across effect sizes had to be rejected, indicating the presence of as yet unexplained variance that might be attributable to the systematic effects of covariates. In total, 65% of the variance is caused by random sample error, which leaves room for a remaining 35% which may systematically co-vary with (unknown) covariates. The number of studies with a zero-effect that should be found in order to reduce the effect size to 0.20 is 29 (‘Orwin’s fail safe N’)." blah blah blah.....

Hahaha...shall skip to discussion....heck ah~~~

Lord helps me when i have to do a critique of that 8 evaluation research articles on child abuse.

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Life and Death and Us

I think before we go on and complain about the evilness and sadness and stress-ness about our lives etc., let's just stop and think that at the very least, we still have our lives - and that our heart are still beating.

That as much as our lives may, to a certain extent, sux to the core, we are still trying - still dragging our legs forward - through the messy, oozing mud that seeks to deter/slow us down in our progress.

So let us stay optimistic and never stop trying.

A song for everyone who is trying - no matter in work, school, relationship or against illnesses and grief.

(Photo taken from here.)


I hope you never lose your sense of wonder,
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger,
May you never take one single breath for granted,
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed,
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that youll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

I hope you dance.

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance,
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Living might mean takin chances but they're worth takin,

Loving might be a mistake but its worth makin,
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter,
When you come close to sellin out reconsider,
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

I hope you dance....i hope you dance.
I hope you dance....i hope you dance.
I hope you dance....i hope you dance..
(time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along)
Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder where those years have gone

Friday, September 14, 2007

Trip to Taiwan?

Boo~ Toktok, peiying they all are super keen to go on a "graduate" trip to Taiwan sia.

But I doubt I can go with them. Cuz no money sia. Currently my bank left with $1,600+. And I only have on bank account.

No cash flowing in. All flowing out. Have an estimated cash debt of $20,000 sia.

(still plannin on saving money to take courses outside)

Ah~!~~~

Life is unfair when you (and your parents) got no money.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Music and Me

Poo...if i cannot learn to play the piano nor strum a guitar.

I shall just devote my attention to polishing up my singing skills bah.

Time to move those diaphragm and vocal chords.

La - la - la~

Jay Zhou, Piano, Secrets

Wah~ Jay Zhou's piano skills is like going into God-mode.

From his latest movie "Secret". (i wanna watch~~~ Dage intro-ed)

A piano-fight between Jay and another guy in the movie.



Translation:

Ice-cream Senior:(smugly) Today, our new student is going to challenge Yu Hao. It is seriously a very courageous decision. Let's all give him a round of an applause, shall we?

*clap*

Girl A: What are they doing?
Girl B: Piano-duet!...You don't know?

Ice-cream Senior: (smugly) My fellow female juniors, do you know who I am?

Everyone (including non-female juniors..haha.): (chants) Ice-cream Senior~

Ice-cream Senior: Hmm. Very good. (gestured to his right) The one sitting here, is Senior Yu Hao. Does everyone knows what is his nickname?

Everyone: (chants) Prince of Piano.

Ice-cream Senior: That's right. This is because, there is no piano piece that he cannot play. There will also be none that can compete against/match up to him.

Ah Beng: What "Prince of Piano"? Eh eh~ Move aside.

Ice-cream Senior: Alrite, let's cut the crap. The piano-duel shall officially begins now.

So you guys roughly get the idea la hor.

P.S. Oh the part when Jay stood up and sat down again, is because that ice-cream senior asked everyone to clap "together" - including Jay. But Jay misheard it as "Stand up" (becuz in chinese the similar la....)

Monday, September 10, 2007

Crazy day out

Went to buy suit with kyle on sunday morn to afternoon. Also went to see our fellow colleagues at taka. >.<

Kyle looked SUPER nice in suit and pants sia...(i dunno wat u call tt la...blazer?) Very shuai leh~~ He got very nice shoulders mah~~ So very very nice......I was very much woah-ed when he came out of the fitting room.....He looks like he commands lotsa power sia...rich man~~

Hahaha...the power of the suit/blazer of cuz....

Bought a tie, shirt and document bag...(the latter i bought for him..) Initial plan was to buy him a nice tie, and/or cuff links (since they are so cute-ly nice) But ya...too ex sia...plus he dun have cuff-link shirts....

Then later he accompanied me down to tampines where i met wendy and toktok who had been there mass-shopping. Then he went home by mrt.

Toktok especially was mass shopping until he got two big bags of stuff....then we bought the cake from fourleaves and head down to Changi Village via taxi, where we meet maomao there.

Maomao actually ran from the other end of changi beach to meet us sia. Then he took us to where the birthday ppl were hanging around. (Total got me, toktok,wendy,maomao,huangwei,justina,peiying and juana)

So funny, he said "i go recee" (re-kee??) then we took out the cake and attempted to light it up.But the wind too strong so we gave up.

Then with maomao's guidance, we sneaked behind trucks and lorries, half-squatting/scuttering, then hid behind the bushes directly behind the bench where the bday ppl are sitting.

Then sneaked up behind them and tada~ proceed to sing happy bday song.

Unfortunately, just as we were singing happy bday song - the bloody plane flew by (and cuz we are right beside the runway), and so our voices were drowned out. Hahaha. Spoiler la~!

Anyway, later we had fun mass-taking photos and guessin which planes flew by etc. Played at the swing, then went to the changi village to eat dinner.

We ordered too many food until we wan to puke liao.

Then we went to the dunno-what hotel and mass took photos there (at the lobby, in the toilets, outside toilets, at the back of restaurant-corner, in the lifts , nearly at the rooftop, at the basement lift lobby and on the staircase...)

After the whole high-ness, we went home (some via cab and some via bus). Yup.

Will upload photos, then you guys can see how crazy we've been.

POP goes my brother~

That's right, he's goin to POP soon. Tml in fact.

Poor guy, kanna a rather bad injury to his manly hood when he fell during his obstacle course i think.

Freakin idiot~ Who design that bloody obstacle course ah~!? Must be some sadistic %*#%&*#./...

*Drag evil self away....and cough nervously...*

....Anyway, he's pretty much alright now. So God Bless him sia. Wat with all the bedbugs, then major folliculitis, then injury + cough....

Evilness of a Year 4

Muahaha...my turn to print 15 PDF files and let others (with only 100KB) wait in vain behind me~


Muahahahha~


Okay la...I've split the printing into 2 pdf files at a time (see I so nice~)


But that poor girl is so suay to queue her file behind mine (despite the fact that the other 2 printers are free.)


Poo~ More printing to do.

Saturday, September 08, 2007

More Pictures of Ye Qing~

Hehe....super shuai/handsome bah??

Must see the shows to get a better feel sia..SUPER good~

(^_^) \/
I like this one...Emperor leh....





歌仔戲

Currently me and my parents are going crazy over 歌仔戲 (also known as Taiwanese folk opera).

Especially those by the famous 葉青who is so good at acting as the main male protagonist and is so absolutely charming sia~~~ (P.S. It's a tradition for female to cast as male protagonist.)

Ah~~~

Also like 孙翠凤 who is so pretty in female cast, and so handsome in male cast. Love her acting - especially in the series <<皇甫少華與孟麗君>>....

>o<

My honours class

Anyway, think the class is slightly too big? 48 people. So to some extent we are united, but actually not very la~

We are in the "we are all honours student" kinda atmosphere. Though there are attempts to unite the class etc - i think it's a bit too big.

I mean, some of us are still tryin to learn each other's names. (myself included) So ya, hopefully things will work out.

And ya, cuz everyone is so overloaded with work - a bit hard to hang out with each other for bonding etc.

The most is we all eat lunch together (in our small groups of 6?) and maybe some people brought snacks to class lor.

And workload is so shiong tt quite a number of us are petitioning to cut down word/page length of our individual assignments. (Gosh~ All the papers are average 15-16 pages. And due around the same time too...Individual somemore..let's not go into the group projects too...)

Sigh. We've all got a pile of books at home , and stacks of pdf journals in the pc haven got time to read.

Today saw somebody enter the class with at least 8 books in hand. She came in with two hands balancing that scary stack sia.

We are mad.