I've always hated to title my blog entries. Long titles might as well be a summarised story, where else short titles are not enough when i want to mix up my entries. So from now on i shall name my titles as the dates i wrote them.
Few events had happened that made me sit up and realize things has been taken for granted these years. Recently dad's vocal cords aren't exactly good and he has almost lost his voice for a good 1 month plus time. Doesn't help that he is a heavy smoker which makes the whole family worry about what is wrong about the throat. A visit to the "specialist" diagnosed that one of his vocal cords is not responding. That could be due to a virus attack (high chance) or something pressing on his nerves (low chance). Now i have to wonder, the so called specialist, whom we had to pay $350+, only did some simple stuffs of inserting a camera into the throat for a scan, taking some internal pictures and briefly explaining the situation. I even had to ask him about some stuffs which i believe a specialized doctor could have "automatically" told the patients. I guess my $350 fee is probably too low for him to gift me more of his advice. Anyway, dad went for a CT scan and the results will only come out late this month where we have to go back to the doctor for a more precise diagnosis.
My dad doesn't speaks much to the family. Probably due to the olden thinking times. Both him and mum come from times where the dad/mum doesn't express love like the parents do now. What they know about expressing love was perhaps the idea that dad is supposed to be bringing in money for the money and mum is supposed to be the one in charge of family matters. Lack of communication makes me distant from my dad. But i think my mindset of spending more time with the family last couple of years did some good. I'll probably accompany them out more because i know the fact they are going to leave me at some point of time. Like i said before, dun take things for granted. I won't preach further.
Last week was ade's birthday. Sorry ade, no one said it that day but i think you also will condemned the dinner place we were eating at. The only one complaining loudly is geigei, so get angry at him, ha! Speaking of which, please think twice over food reviews given by so called "celebrities". Try to avoid "Indulge Bistro" at bugis. Was introduced by singapore's queen blogger Xiaxue, however, i personally think the food there is only so-so. Nothing as fantastic as what she had written in her blog. Anyway, personal preference, no harm done. The next time i want to go to that foie gras place you and wing went. I haven't try goose liver till now, a bit sia sway. But first lets satisfy my hotpot craving. If anyone is looking for a good place for hotpot, i personally recommend Chungking Mala Hotpot at Tanglin Shopping Centre (the ulu one selling a lot of carpet one, not the hip one). Price is of middle range, ala carte buffet style and the interiors are done up perfectly like a small china hotpot restaurant. Once in a while the manager of that place will come up to you and say a cold joke. One of the few places with my Stamp of Approval.
I seldom tell people about my expensive buys, but am really happy that i have finally managed to get a vintage Omega to add to my watch collections. Close friends will know what breaks my bank. If you dun know, No.1 is fragrances from distinguished perfumeries in france and england, where unique ingredients transcend you immediately to different parts of the world. No.2 will be vintage watches. Particularly swiss vintage watches used during the WWII periods. The idea of an old watch that might be worn on a soldier in the 1940's and then lost in time ending up on my hands gives me a high when i touch the watch for the first time. It's like flash back into history. I imagine what the watch went through, i hold it up to hear the strong mechanical clicks, sounds that you just can't find in modern watches. Looking forward to the day i can own a vintage Panerai!
I shall end the post with a nice short anime mtv from Chage and Aska. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki from Studio Ghibli, you can be assured of the quality. Look out for his favorite use of hidden messages about life in the anime. :)
Friday, September 14, 2007
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Joke of the day
I guess all of you guys have read about the BIG news about the NS guy who AWOL guard duty, and ran out of camp together with his SAR21 rifle. My mum said something very classic -
..."Everytime you go into camp, all the guards check this check that, check CAMERA handphone, how come this guy can even walk out of camp with his rifle and nobody even notices it...
I was like LOL!! when i heard this. Almost summarizes what ARMY is all about...
..."Everytime you go into camp, all the guards check this check that, check CAMERA handphone, how come this guy can even walk out of camp with his rifle and nobody even notices it...
I was like LOL!! when i heard this. Almost summarizes what ARMY is all about...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Whines & “881 啊，摇啊摇”！！
A recent update of myself. A few weeks ago, i was pleasantly surprised with a pay raise from the boss. All of you guys reading this post now better hold on to yourselfs now before you start calling me for treats... As a employee designer, my pay is nothing compared to all those bankers/lawyers/engineers out there. Let me whine for a while here, i'm sure all my fellow designer buds have the same gripe. Why is it that i can never find the occupation "Designer" when i'm filing some application? Why do we always have to tick "OTHERS"??
Why? Last time gahment think designers' are not considered a occupation? Always remember, designers are responsible for the simplest things you have in life. From the toilet bowls you shit in, to the computer you are viewing this post now...
Anyways, BAH to that. A lot of things irritate me nowadays. For example -
Public transport : Why issit that buses always runs off in 2s when you are rushing in the morning? You wait for a good blardy 20mins if you're unlucky and then see 3 buses coming together at once. And when you complain, SBS retaliates with a stupid advertisement on their buses, featuring 2 same buses in the jam and insinuating that sometimes 2 buses arriving at the same time cannot be helped. FUCK YOU UNDERSTAND?! How different is that retaliation different from slapping you and telling you - "stupid idiot, just shut up and wait. you can't do anything anyway coz i monopolize singapore! hahahaha!" Then they will cite many reports saying that a lot of countries say our public transport is world class. World class my lan jiao! You dare to take your public transport and compare with BETTER cities like Japan? SBS asks for "quality" cash but do they provide quality service? If you think public transport is cheap, think twice! Yesterday, my family of 4 wanted to head to my aunt's place in street 82 while i lived in street 21. To get there on public transport, i have to spend $0.65 plus another $0.35 as i change bus at the interchange. (0.65+0.35) X 4 = $4. We took a cab and guess what was the fee? It was $3.50! Wow, if i took an SBS bus, i would have to put up with dirty buses who doesn't arrive, take another effort to change bus at the interchange and the whole cycle of waiting comes back again. The more you calculate, the more you start thinking about how bad public transport is. I shall stop here now and stop complaining, because you know what, i'll still have to take it tomorrow morning. How oxymoronic!
On a lighter note, weekends were well spent with great friends and activities. We caught 881 on the big screen. Was a really good movie for a local production, sans the usual suaning of gahment and acting as ugly singaporeans to gain laughter and box office. Take that, Jack Neo. I highly recommend this show, go catch it also if you have a hidden beng/lian in ya. Saturday was spent at wing's house for a good mahjong session. Had a pretty good winning hand at first but when tapi and cindy come and 5 fan 5 fan all the time, we suffered huge losses. Heng, i near the end also 4 fan 4 fan win back some cab fare *sob sob* Heard tapi is going philippines for a job, hope he'll be safe there and looking forward to a great dinner/mahjong session to send him off!
Why? Last time gahment think designers' are not considered a occupation? Always remember, designers are responsible for the simplest things you have in life. From the toilet bowls you shit in, to the computer you are viewing this post now...
Anyways, BAH to that. A lot of things irritate me nowadays. For example -
Public transport : Why issit that buses always runs off in 2s when you are rushing in the morning? You wait for a good blardy 20mins if you're unlucky and then see 3 buses coming together at once. And when you complain, SBS retaliates with a stupid advertisement on their buses, featuring 2 same buses in the jam and insinuating that sometimes 2 buses arriving at the same time cannot be helped. FUCK YOU UNDERSTAND?! How different is that retaliation different from slapping you and telling you - "stupid idiot, just shut up and wait. you can't do anything anyway coz i monopolize singapore! hahahaha!" Then they will cite many reports saying that a lot of countries say our public transport is world class. World class my lan jiao! You dare to take your public transport and compare with BETTER cities like Japan? SBS asks for "quality" cash but do they provide quality service? If you think public transport is cheap, think twice! Yesterday, my family of 4 wanted to head to my aunt's place in street 82 while i lived in street 21. To get there on public transport, i have to spend $0.65 plus another $0.35 as i change bus at the interchange. (0.65+0.35) X 4 = $4. We took a cab and guess what was the fee? It was $3.50! Wow, if i took an SBS bus, i would have to put up with dirty buses who doesn't arrive, take another effort to change bus at the interchange and the whole cycle of waiting comes back again. The more you calculate, the more you start thinking about how bad public transport is. I shall stop here now and stop complaining, because you know what, i'll still have to take it tomorrow morning. How oxymoronic!
On a lighter note, weekends were well spent with great friends and activities. We caught 881 on the big screen. Was a really good movie for a local production, sans the usual suaning of gahment and acting as ugly singaporeans to gain laughter and box office. Take that, Jack Neo. I highly recommend this show, go catch it also if you have a hidden beng/lian in ya. Saturday was spent at wing's house for a good mahjong session. Had a pretty good winning hand at first but when tapi and cindy come and 5 fan 5 fan all the time, we suffered huge losses. Heng, i near the end also 4 fan 4 fan win back some cab fare *sob sob* Heard tapi is going philippines for a job, hope he'll be safe there and looking forward to a great dinner/mahjong session to send him off!
Friday, August 3, 2007
memories, thoughts, et cetera...
These few days i have been catching a DAMN sad jdrama. All along, no drama i've watched can ever make me tear, but i think i totally bawled over this drama. It's called, 1 Litre of Tears.
I wouldn't reveal too much of the plot, if you guys are interested, sign up at crunchyroll and view it online. I can only say it gives me a new perspective of life, and enforced my idea of living my life as much without any regrets.
Couple of weeks before, my mates and i went back to our old campus Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts to pay a last visit.
Reason being, they have already built a newer campus around Sim Lim Square area and they are vacating the old premises for the next occupant SOTA (School of the Arts). I will definitely say lasalle days are one of my best spent days in my life. I got to know true friends, who have been friends till now. We went thru shits together, met fucked up lecturers before, rushed through deadlines together...
Pictures below -
Fine Art Block. Where all the 1st year students go thru foundation studies of sculpture, printmaking (my personal fav!), Pottery, Painting, Glass etc. That row is supposed to be our lockers, if i dun remember wrongly, have to pay about $50 for usage every semester. Was a large amount during my days, so most of us share the lockers. It was said that the toilets was haunted in this area...
Design Block. This building was donated by SIA, thus the name SIA is incorporated in Lasalle. The architecture is one of it's own as i dun see another building built in a half arch, quite a nice work actually. The point where the picture was taken is the photography lab (yes, it's haunted too, my friend Ah Nia actually heard noises in the darkroom when she was developing films alone, eeeeeeeee, reminds me of shutter lor!). The opposite point is the fashion branch.
We found an old marker, and being artsy fartsy designers, how can we not leave our territorial marks? MWTBDLTR (Only the chosen ones knows what that means - it's gonna be our hidden code next time when we're old and famous!). And yes.....i dunno why i spelt my OWN name wrongly. Apparently this area, especially our design head's office, is supposed to be rumored to be haunted as well. I think i remembered that time the "flashdance" secretary heard typing noises coming from the office but found no one in there.....eeee....EVERYWHERE YOU GO IN LASALLE IS HAUNTED!
The school where we nutured our design ambitions. I can dare say we are all doing quite well in our fields of expertise. In the background looking over us is the sculpture done by the late founder, Joseph McNally. I really hope they bring the sculpture over to the new campus, how can they just throw aside something so symbolic and of importance to the school and happily move their butts to a "newer" campus. From my own opinion, i think the statue's open arms symbolises acceptance and nurturing, a very basic in education. If i don't see the statue in the new campus, i'll definitely write into the forum!
We love acting silly. Who says you need to act your age?
Time to say goodbye. Goodbye Goodman!
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Strange things that happens when you're deciding on something...
I've decided to blog again, because some things happened over the weekend. The overall process was a little bizarre, and the result could actually change some things of my life so i decided i have to pen it down. To hell with problematic tblog, hello to blogspot.
Back on topic, I was watching 花样少年少女 (i know it's a lame show but hey, at least it's entertaining for the boring weekends, especially when it's the month end when you are just surviving on peanuts till pay day comes), and nearing the end of the show, i finally hear something being said inside the show that strike a chord inside my brain. One of the guy said -
"人要乘年轻的时后，做些疯狂勇敢的事。"
Before that, channel 5 was showing a teen musical movie named High School Musical. I am not ashamed to say i totally enjoyed the movie. People in there were young, and they could sing to everything they felt was good for singing, not to mention they can dance very well too. In summary, it's about this basketball jock, who was his team's captain as well, but after singing at a karaoke contest with a chio bu, he was hesistating about joining the school's play with her. As his father is the alpha male, who is on the other hand his coach in school for basketball, he was giving him a lot of pressure on the upcoming basketball competition...yada yada yada. The main point was, there was a part where they break into a big jamboree of people singing to discourage the couple from joining the school's play. The lyrics went like -
"If you wanna be cool, go with the flow, don't break the status quo...wooohooo....stay with what you do best".
Anyway, as teen movies are, alls well ends well. They sang and everybody liked it so they ended the movie with another massive dance orgy.
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I know you must be thinking wtf is kal writing all of these things for. Well, over the past few weeks, i have been discussing with my colleague about the prospects of working in Taiwan (She can recommend me some options). Why Taiwan you might think? Seriously, i also dunno. But on second thoughts, my English is pretty alright, my Chinese is pretty good, i guess i might make a good expat designer there. However, money wasn't on my main concern of finding a job overseas. What i wanted was the experience. The experience of living in whole new different environment and culture. I want the experience of being TOTALLY independent on yourself, paying for your own rent, food, travelling fees etc. On the other hand, i was scared. What if i come back to Singapore and find no jobs. What if i go Taiwan and no one wants to employ me? What if something happens to my parents and no one is here for them? A lot of What Ifs.
Strange isn't it? I'm still currently in the midst of deciding whether i should make the trip or not, and the above scenarios just popped out of no where. Coincidence probably, but when it happens twice, i began to wonder if the one up there is trying to send me a message.
The morale of the story, i wanted to share with you all is that, when opportunities knock on your door, or when you are deciding on something that will throw you off the commonality of the "normal" singaporean of living life, please think twice. Like what i heard in the scenario - "人要乘年轻的时后，做些疯狂勇敢的事。"
I'll keep you guys posted on my decision =)
Back on topic, I was watching 花样少年少女 (i know it's a lame show but hey, at least it's entertaining for the boring weekends, especially when it's the month end when you are just surviving on peanuts till pay day comes), and nearing the end of the show, i finally hear something being said inside the show that strike a chord inside my brain. One of the guy said -
"人要乘年轻的时后，做些疯狂勇敢的事。"
Before that, channel 5 was showing a teen musical movie named High School Musical. I am not ashamed to say i totally enjoyed the movie. People in there were young, and they could sing to everything they felt was good for singing, not to mention they can dance very well too. In summary, it's about this basketball jock, who was his team's captain as well, but after singing at a karaoke contest with a chio bu, he was hesistating about joining the school's play with her. As his father is the alpha male, who is on the other hand his coach in school for basketball, he was giving him a lot of pressure on the upcoming basketball competition...yada yada yada. The main point was, there was a part where they break into a big jamboree of people singing to discourage the couple from joining the school's play. The lyrics went like -
"If you wanna be cool, go with the flow, don't break the status quo...wooohooo....stay with what you do best".
Anyway, as teen movies are, alls well ends well. They sang and everybody liked it so they ended the movie with another massive dance orgy.
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I know you must be thinking wtf is kal writing all of these things for. Well, over the past few weeks, i have been discussing with my colleague about the prospects of working in Taiwan (She can recommend me some options). Why Taiwan you might think? Seriously, i also dunno. But on second thoughts, my English is pretty alright, my Chinese is pretty good, i guess i might make a good expat designer there. However, money wasn't on my main concern of finding a job overseas. What i wanted was the experience. The experience of living in whole new different environment and culture. I want the experience of being TOTALLY independent on yourself, paying for your own rent, food, travelling fees etc. On the other hand, i was scared. What if i come back to Singapore and find no jobs. What if i go Taiwan and no one wants to employ me? What if something happens to my parents and no one is here for them? A lot of What Ifs.
Strange isn't it? I'm still currently in the midst of deciding whether i should make the trip or not, and the above scenarios just popped out of no where. Coincidence probably, but when it happens twice, i began to wonder if the one up there is trying to send me a message.
The morale of the story, i wanted to share with you all is that, when opportunities knock on your door, or when you are deciding on something that will throw you off the commonality of the "normal" singaporean of living life, please think twice. Like what i heard in the scenario - "人要乘年轻的时后，做些疯狂勇敢的事。"
I'll keep you guys posted on my decision =)
A Brand New Blog
First of all, a big WELCOME to my new blog. I know i haven't been blogging for a long time but anyways, i'm back yeah?
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