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Monday, 02 November 2009
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Me and my obituary reading habits:
a good friend of mine just reminded me about my fetish for reading obituaries. I think it was that one day, when we were going to the bus stop to take 199 to the train station. On the way from my room to the bus stop, we were passing tv lounge and I just had to stop and read the papers. I guessed what shocked her was I flipped to the obituary...and then went "OK! done"
I just like to keep in touch with the world, know who had passed away and ifs a friend's relative.
Feel disengaged from the singapore deaths market for the last 2 yrs....sheesh
Saturday, 26 September 2009
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They are meant to be sluggish, just lazing ard watching a dvd, catching a movie or just simply doing nothing. For a couple of wkends, i did do somethings..like going to a museum (which wasa boring) abd catching a soccer or NRL game. It was slack...still
went for a walk from coogee to bondi...passed lots of beaches on the way and a cemetry..it was a good walk. But i think Ben wanted to kill me when we were an Bondi and I have no idea what buses head to Coogee and told him "dun worry just keep walking along the road i am sure we will see a bus that goes to Coogee" we did find our way back to Coogee...about an hour later :)
after complaining that nobody ever plan to do anything on weekend and that I must be the laziest person on the planet, me and Jason decided to go to La Perouse on Sat for a walk and then an impromptu visit to the museum. The walk took us an about an hour and a half...and then I was shacked for the day and ended up xiao shui-ing for close to 3 hrs after. The MCA (museum of contemporary art) has 4 levels but only 1 level had any exibition on it (thank god!) and we were in and out of the museum in 40 mins?, ticked the MCA cultural box at least.
Realised that there are 1/2 unit numbers along george street in the rocks area. Cool eh.
There's nothing too exciting about Sydney FC. Hmmm maybe slightly better than the SLeague? Watched this game cos the Sydney FC team has got this player who plays for the Australia team and the queensland fury has got Robbie Fowler, the old retired soccer player in the EPL and we reckoned it shld be cool. It was TERRIBLE! balls were passed to areas where there arent anyone there to receive the pass. hmmm...
meant to spend last friday night going for a jog and then slacking at home. Jason was on his way back to sydney from newcastle and asked if i wanted to watch NRL, with the Eels playing. After watching a NRL game between the Eels and Rabbitohs about 2.5 months back with 76 John Street, we(or maybe I) have kinda identified the Paramatta Eels as MY TEAM. The atmospher was awesome! supporters filled the stadium, going "PARRA! PARRA!..." or "FUUUUUUIIIIIIIIII" whenever fuifuimoimoi was in possession if the ball. It was great! the Eels won! i was beaming with joy!there were fireworks. Aaah.. my team.
To think that we went to watch the NRL game back then on the spur of the moment cos we wanted to tick the box, not knowing any team on the table and since the Eels were playing that friday we deicded to watch and since there were still tickets, we went. Think the Eels had not won a single game at that point in time, going back about 2.5 months ago. (to make it seem like we are super fans, it was raining that night..and extremely cold! not a good day to be out at the stadium) LOOKNOW! i was watching the Eels play the bulldogs in the semi finals last night on TV. It was fantastic. I jumped off my chair a couple of times and bounced around victorious when MY TEAM won! WHEEE!
Looking forward to the long weekend next weekend. Now i just need some kind of motivation to sit down and do some work tonight...or tomorrow! HELP!
Friday, 18 September 2009
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Can I order a normal boy please?
Got to know this sg boy here in Sydney cos we were on the same engagement together. Let's call him Channy. For the first 3 weeks that Channy was in Sydney, he looked so tired everyday! After about 3 days and lots of random chat, the team gotta realised that Channy was talking to his gf in Sg till abt 3am Sydney time every morning!
Further chatting led the team to know that Channy is saving up for a budgeted 10k wedding ring, a flat and probably a grand hotel wedding reception along with the wedding. (This was the reason he gave on his plans to not do too much travelling in Aust)
With a long weekend coming up, I decided to ask Channy if he wanted to join a couple of secondees from the office for a weekend trip away.
This was what he said:
Channy: I need to ask my gf for permission first
Me: quick ask! tell her you have long weekend!
Channy: asked le. She said up to me
Me: Cool! so u can come too!
Channy: No, you know girls..when she says up to me, it means you can go but i won't be happy.
Wow! I am impressed! So impressed that i went to tell wanyi about it and couldnt stop rattling abt what a good boy channy is. (Haha so much that wanyi asked me if i was having a crush on him).
Of course, those actions above will make any boy an almost perfect order.
Can I order such a boy pleaese?
In fact, can I get a discount if:
I don't need to be more important than drinking, partying, running, smoking.
I don't need someone to talk for 45mins-2hours with me everynight. a simple sms to a mere 10 minutes conversation will suffice, just to remind me that I am still alive.
I don't need to play mother and want to sign consent forms to "allow" my bf to participate in things. But simple respect and updates on any happenings will do. Well, the "permission seeking" thing once in awhile will be a bonus!
I don't even need a 10k diamond ring that i will probably not wear too much. I don't need flowers, they die. I don't need expensive dinners, I don't need another book that I don't want, I don't need fishes, I don't need a branded hand bag or expensive shoes or luxurious holidays...
I require simple things. I need appreciation. (I hate doing any form of planning so when i start doing any, apart from work, at least try to appreciate the effort). I need a pair of teva slippers to replace my existing ones cos they are getting holey. I need a new pair of pants/a new zip. I need a new external harddisk. I need a new pair of shorts. Oh well...maybe just some attention to notice what I really need. A little bit of affection wouldn hurt as well. :)
Alright, let me get my CAPEX form approved first so I can send a purchase order to the supplier. I hope they deliver my request soon.
Wednesday, 09 September 2009
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Belly the perfect follower:
Gotta know this girl from my japanese class. We started talking, I got to know she was interested in going to Singapore - NTU! on exchange and she got to know that I am Singaporean and that I studied in NTU.
She started asking me loads of questions like what's the difference between NTU and NUS, which is better, what courses to take in NTU, what is hall like in Singapore...those i could answer.
It was until the technical questions that came like, where do we find the course outline on the NTU website? How many AUs do we need to take a sem, what courses are there to offer for each sem? GOSH!! if i was NTU zhi nan, for sure i could give her the answers like a machine gun. But i obviously had inadequate knowledge in the administrative aspect of the courses offered in NTU.
I told her...the modules were pretty fixed..i had to take these courses and I just went to sch during the add drop period and applied for the timeslots of my classes! It was always the fastest fingers first and well I got to admit that possibly out of the 5 times we had to register for our own modules and classes, I was there physically to compete in the "fastest finger first" competition twice or thrice?
I guess i was just following my classmates ard the sch most of the time, to where the next tutorial/lecture was. I knew where to go if classes ended, I knew where to get food, I knew my way ard the sch..I was savvy...but not in the technical administration aspect...and my dear friend echoed my "following pple ard" aspect
Sheesh! Thanks a million though brother bear for letting me arrow you for the "job" and arrowing others who had superb knowledge of the way NTU's admin worked.
I so miss NTU sch life....hall life, the carefree days, where the my dilemas were "chicken rice or duck rice?", "go back to hall to xiaoshui or slack ard in the canteen?", "take bus back to hall or walk?" sheesh the simple things in life which racked my brain...
Thursday, 03 September 2009
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Chemo Cat:
my friend's cat has cancer and she told me its going for chemo...
wonder if i was in her situation will i put maomao down instead of letting her undergo chemo? i can't imagine a cat without fur...scary
