The Not So Amazing Chronicles

2009-05-04T09:59:00.004+08:00

Salmon Goodness!

My hair's been falling like crazy for about almost a month now. When I say crazy I mean my sister described me as shedding like a dog to my mum. Flattering image huh.

So out of fear that I might actually go bald from the hair loss (think clumps coming out everytime I comb/de-tangle/touch my hair), I decided to go pick up some hair fall therapy shampoo.

My other sister, who did not liken me to a dog, suggested Dove and because I absolutely love the intense damage therapy (I'd say fried straw would be an accurate description of my hair) shampoo and conditioner, I thought I 'd give it a shot.

ftv.co.in/fspot/beauty.php

It is AMAZING.

I've only used the shampoo and conditioner once last night and the serum twice yesterday (once on dry hair and once on wet hair). I decided not to get the mask for the time being.

My hair's freaking soft and moisturised and closer to my natural hair texture then ever before.

I know, I know... sounds like one of those corny adverts but it's true!

haven't had clumps of hair come out either and I've combed my hair about a thousand times today (and it's only 10:10am heh), plaited and re-plaited it and now have it all up in a ponytail.

If I had done this yesterday, I'd be staring dismally (and disgustedly) at the handful of hair in my, well, hands right now. Only 3, yes, 3 strands have decided to vacate their follicles.

I hope it keeps up the good work!

The serum is really amazing. Do use only a couple of drops, 4 max and I mean really 5 would turn your head into an oil-slick. Take note of the instructions and only apply it to the middle and the ends of your hair, stay clear of your scalp and fringe (unless you like greasy Snape-like bangs). The serum is supposed to help de-tangle your hair and leaves a protective coat so there's less friction when you comb your hair, hence less breakage and hair fall.

I applied a little too much yesterday on my dry hair immediately after buying it (and reached home, duh. Can you imagine somehow applying hair serum in the middle of NTUC). After showering last night, I split my hair down the middle and applied 2 drops to my hand and rubbed my hands into the wet hair and through it for each side of my head. Then using my combing fork I combed through to spread it out (so see, a little gets to the top of your hair and that's plenty).

Hair Bliss...

Oh, by the way, it's the salmon coloured one. Don't mix it up with the pinker straight hair one.

On another note, here's my updated wishlist:

Wishlist 0809

1. Glitzy Glam brush holder

http://glitzy-glam.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12&products_id=69

2. Speakers for PC/Notebook/MP3

maybe something like that: http://sg.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=4&subcategory=805&product=13602&listby=

3. Headphones

http://sg.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=437&subcategory=438&product=16199&listby=

http://sg.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=437&subcategory=438&product=17088&listby=

http://sg.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=437&subcategory=438&product=17009&listby=

4. Aromatherapy Candles (with essential oils)

I'm looking for those in their own jars like this one:

http://thegifthorsebroughtyferry.co.uk/images/candles/Icy%20Mountain.jpg

or this one:

http://soapblossom.com/images/16%20jar.jpg

Scents:

-Coco Lime Verbena

-mint

-lavender + bergamot

-grapefruit

etc

Thanks for dropping by! :]

Back to work now... scrub a dub dub.

2009-04-30T21:33:00.003+08:00

Everyday Minerals!

Got my samples already!

Blush: Corner Office (Sheen)

Concealer: Abbott's Perk Me Up

Foundations: Buttered Tan (Original Glo)

Medium Beige (Original Glo)

Golden Medium (Intensive)

I LOVE the blush, it's so gorgeous!

Here's a picture of it on my ahem gorgeous blemish-ful face

I couldn't get a good pic with my webcam of what it looked like in the sample jar.

It's under the sheen category but it looks quite shimmery in the jar. Quite intimidating really.

Looks kinda mauvy apricot-ish but when I applied it to my yellow skin tone it warmed up and has this nice reddish orange flush which I love. I don't do pinks so well somehow.

Here's how it looks like on my hand before and after blending.

It's so super pigmented. for B I just abbed my finger in to the cover of the pot (if you shake the jar upside dwn with the cover screwed on and turn it right side up and remove the cover, some powder sticks to the underside of the cover. This is more than sufficient) and dabbed it on my hand.

Dabbing another dot for A I blended it out and it looks less red and more peachy/apricot-ish.

One dab into the cover's way more than enough to cover one cheek.

As for C, that's the concealer.

It looks pretty great on my hand, disguised the blue veins a little but on my undereye it was a little cakey. But I think that's cause I have super dry skin. The favourite concealer so far is the Maybelline Perfect Concealer. Icyabstract from youtube didn't like it though. So maybe it's just really good for dry skin?

Canmake's stick concealer's too drying and emphasizes my wrinkes. This one settles into them... eerk.

Here's a pic of it on my eyebag (nice ad inflated for you to see), left side with concealer and right with nothing but moisturiser on.

Well it does make it less stark and blended into my skin tone but is it just me or is it bluer? It's supposed to correct the blueness actually lol.

I may use it to set my liquid concealer or something.

Now for the foundation. It's really quite difficult buying foundation off the net because it's something you really need to match to your skintone.

Here's how it looks like on my cheek and jawline. (Real flattering shot isn't it hahah)

A: Medium Beige Summer (Original Glo under Warm)

B: Golden Medium (Intensive under Olive)

C: Buttered Tan (Original Glo under Warm)

I really though Golden Medium was going to be my best bet. Buttered tan looked a little too light.

Turned out Buttered Tan matched my skin tone the best! Medium Beige Summer's clearly not it. It turned out orange O.O It's supposed to be one shade up from buttered tan. Maybe someone mislabelled the jars?

I couldn't tell the diff between Golden Medium and Buttered Tan at first because the powder was sooo blendable and smooth. only after reapplying like two more layers could I see that Golden Medium was too green.

I really like the slightly dewy finish of the original glo formula and because i've been recently chastised for applying hooker worthy makeup (erk, a story for another day) I thin i'll stick with that even though I do love foundation with a heavier coverage.

Alrighty then, I'm looking forward to getting some stuff full-sized from everydayminerals.com

The best deal is to share the 12 piece kit because it's only like USD50 for the whole thing.

Even if all 12 pieces are brushes (shipping tends to soar when you get those) at current exchange rate, it's about SGD8.50 per item. That's including shipping. Crazy or what?

2009-04-29T10:23:00.006+08:00

Update: Brush Holder

See my post on Wednesday, 8 April 09.

One of the cups fell out of my cupboard and spilt sand all over my table and laptop. how fun that was really...

So I cleaned out all the sand from that cup and filled it with beads that I bought previously.

6 Testubes of beads barely filled up and inch or may max 3 inches of the cup lol.

Alot of help that is.

So I started scouting for a nice square vase thing and beads.

I still haven't found any place which sells beads/vase fillers and am really considering using uncooked rice. Doesn't have the same effect somehow..

I tried artfriends recently, the nice big square vase was so freaking ass heavy plus it was about S$18? that's pretty ex imo. And they only had like coloured fillers (i'm afraid the colour will wear off or scratch my brushes, which aren't mac so aren't expensive, but I'd like to preserve them you know.)

Needless to say, I didn't get them.

I've been eyeing this one now.

Credit: http://glitzy-glam.com/

It's from this online store started up by youtube makeup gurus

Juicystar07 and AllThatGlitters21

They're sisters by the way.

So they have this site called http://glitzy-glam.com/ and they sell stuff like,

It's pretty ex and because it's US based, it'll be even more ex to get the stuff here but look at the amount of beads! and it's really pretty too.

Seeing as the younger girl blair aka juicystar07 can heft it around so easily, it seems pretty light too!

So anyway, this is going on my wishlist for a birthday/christmas gift thing. Lol, yeah I know I'm starting early. but it's just for fun.

I actually wanted the sigma brushes for my 21st bday gift, but I decided i don't really need such high quality (read: expensive) brushes ;D

here's what's on my list now

Wishlist 0809

1. Glitzy Glam brush holder

http://glitzy-glam.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12&products_id=69

2. Speakers for PC/Notebook/MP3

maybe something like that: http://sg.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=4&subcategory=805&product=13602&listby=

3. Headphones

http://sg.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=437&subcategory=438&product=16199&listby=

http://sg.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=437&subcategory=438&product=17088&listby=

http://sg.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=437&subcategory=438&product=17009&listby=

Tata for now!

Class starting soooooon

2009-04-23T22:52:00.002+08:00

SARAH (CALLING ALL NON CHEE KO PEKS!)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/switch/slink/features/angus_movie.shtml

http://www.angusthongsmovie.com/intl/uk/

2009-04-23T04:34:00.000+08:00

twit twi twitter!

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2009-04-12T00:46:00.002+08:00

Black Beauty (XP)

I dyed my hair black today. I just didn't like the weird brown anymore. I used the Hoyu Asian Black.

Ok, Hannah helped me dye my hair. She's becoming quite good at it. Only pulled my hair once and painted my neck ;D

It a strange black, which doesn't look very natural because of it's intensity. It's actually a blue toned black (as us most inky blacks) but you can kinda see brown undertones from the previous dye job.

I'm swearing off hair dyes and perms for now, till my hair grows out a bit and I can get the hay -like ends chopped off.

Over-all I kinda like it ;] Just takes some getting used to

2009-04-11T04:29:00.005+08:00

Gotta problem with me huh punk? Do ya? Do ya?

Come battle my brute then!

Just one of thos random games. This one's amazingly simple. Just sic your brute on some character and watch it do battle. It's all automated. You basically just up your stats as you fight so choose your opponents carefully.

Come fight me! I'm nice, I won't bite XD

Just click on the picture, it'll take you here:

Enter a name for your brute, use the left toggle with the sumo like figurine to change your image and the rainbow toggle to change colour scheme. Real simple! So get snapping!

P.S.

Oh yeah remember to set password after you fight my brute to save your character! (If you want to that is) If you just want to knock my brute around to release that pent up angst then you don't have to save your character.

P.P.S.

I added the wings and character name for my brute. The site doesn't generate that

2009-04-08T03:20:00.002+08:00

In which Naomi plays with sand and bees...

See, it's actually smiling! It's actually really glittery. I used black liquid eyeliner (Revlon colourstay in Black) and gold litter liquid eyeliner (Splash or something or another)

[Note: No face in my pictures for once! Hah! I am so snot a cam whore ( read, massive pimple outbreak)]

annnnnd.....

I've finally filled my two coke glasses with sand. Yeah I know, I wanted glass beads, but seems like it's pretty difficult to find nice glass beads in big affordable quantities here in sunny Singapore.

Which is why I'm still keeping beads in my wish list on the left. Oh but the givenchy whatever mascara will be coming off. Apparently the brush is amazing but the formula is disgusting, hence not worth the mega price tag.

Thanks Hannah for suggesting sand and my cuzz for following me from spotlight to daiso to random fish/aquarium underneath escalator at ps to look for something to fill my glasses up!

2009-04-04T21:22:00.012+08:00

5 posts ahead:

1) Hello Youtube

2) Star Trek + wallpaper

3) COCKROACH ATTACK!!!

4) Aching butt and waist

5) Twilight the movie

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Hello youtube!

Guess what guess what!

I've been griping about not being able to upload videos on youtube because I wanted to take part in makeup contests and what not.

I mean I know there's a quick upload tool on youtube,

but the video always comes out grainy PLUS I can't edit it and cut out bits I don't want.

So I've been reading stuff on the net about some Logitech program that captures videos from webcam conversation, which is exactly what I need.

I didn't think much about searching for it because I thought I'd have to pay for it online and all that so I thought I'd actually save up to buy a video capture program from Challenger.

But today I came across this link:

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/support_downloads/downloads/

At first I thought it was just a link for purchasing the program online but lo and behold! It's free!

I mean I think it's free. It didn't ask for credit card info or anything like that. Just downloaded the .exe file.

Cool shit right?! Logitech being an established company and all, you don't have to fear downloading a virus along with the freeware.

Here's what the program looks like:

WARNING:

the pictures posted here are unphotoshopped and sans makeup.

Refrain from viewing after meals

It looks exactly like the webcam program that came with the computer except

It even has a zoom, pan and tilt function!

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STAR TREK + Wallpaper

Anyways, that's enough of that.

My new wallpaper is this one:

from http://www.startrekmovie.com/

the official site for the Star Trek movie coming out 8 May 2009.

I can't wait! Finally some limelight for Star Trek. I'm still miffed at Patrick Stewart for hogging the box offices until the Star Trek: Voyager crew didn't get a movie of their own. (My favourite and no, that <5mins class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">NOT count) I mean COME ON Data was getting chubby! He's supposed to be an android or something (robot man in non-geek speak).

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COCKROACH ATTACK!!!

Oh oh! if you noticed, in the screen captures of the webcam programs, you'll notice a change in background behind me.

Now I'm comfortably lounging in Sarah's carrel cockroach free.

Just now when I took the first screenshot, I was in my room thinking I was cockroach free.

There is a difference. Trust me.

I was happily starting out on this blog post when I heard this buzzing coming from the wall behind me.

Thinking it was one of those beetles again, I reached behind to swat it annnnd...

This fucking huge cockroach flew out at me!

*shudder*

So what did I do? Calmly defend myself with Baygon?

Er no.

I run screaming out of my room.

Thanks god for my darling sister Sarah and my maid. They bravely took apart my room and crawled under my table to search for this fiendish roach.

But alas! to no avail.

I'm hoping my maid managed to suck it up with the vacuum cleaner and that it's not sitting in a corner roosting or something.

I hysterically asked Sarah whether it was on my bed, and do you know what she said?

"Aiyah! Like the cockroach want to sleep next to you like that!"

God, what sensitivity.

Nah I'm kidding. I ❤ You.

So I've decided to stay in my sister's carrel for the time being.

And the thing about my room is that it has many crooks and cranny because it's small with a very high ceiling. Which is why I have this double decker bed thing except in place of a bottom bunk, I have a carrel (a desk plus shelves and cupboards my dad designed *grins*).

My carrel was the first to be constructed too. The stupid contractor guy tried to cheat us with flimsy plywood so my dad got him to reinforce it by sticking another layer of plywood here and there to give extra support. Which results in numerous cracks and crevices. Which means plenty of hidey holes for my dear friend the cockroach.

*sigh*

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Aching butt and waist

So last night, I decided that I had enough of my lardiness and dragged Hannah out to jog with me.

Seeing as Hannah has been actively being er... active, I thought her presence would deter me from slowing down.

On the contrary, I discovered that I (who hasn't exercised in MONTHS) has more stamina than her.

Ok granted I ave like 7 years on her but stiillllll...

why is it that she's the one with the hot bod and I'm still chubsome and tubsome and she can't even make it 2 figure of eights round my neighbourhood.

Tsk Tsk Hannah, better get your bum off the couch and away from Disney Channel.

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Twilight the movie

I liked it.

I really did. In fact, in my opinion it's better than the book.

(Before I launch into a disorganized ramble on the the movie, let me just say that it's because I watched this that I decided to go get my lardy ass on the road. Kristen Stewart is amazingly gorgeous.)

1) Bella's character was more likable in the movie

She was more socially awkward than anything else and that people can identify with.

In the book she's supposed to be this plain girl who prefers solitude to friends, and yet attracts a hot werewolf and a gorgeous (albeit creepy and has stalker tendencies) vampire (who Sparkles for crying out loud).

She's also plain rude to her human friends once she's won the attention of the supernatural beings.

In the movie, Bella actually seemed to have some sort of relationship with her human friends dispite the awkwardness.

2) You can't blame the script and the effects on the director, blame it on the low budget and stupid book

Let me just say that I think this is Catherine Hardwicke's best directing effort yet. Take a look at Thirteen, a cult favourite.

I personally didn't like that one. But it was shot on a really low budget and within a very short period of time, think US$2 million for the whole film. Nikki Reed (Rosalie)'s in that one too.

For some perspective,

http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/records/budgets.php

The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring--> $109,000,000

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix--> $150,000,000

Thirteen--> $2,000,000

Twilight--> $37,000,000

The script for twilight was also written in 6 weeks. So to expect a shakespearean script would be like waiting for an elephant to look like an ikan bilis. Besides, several of the cheesy lines came striaght from the book.

Just in case you were wondering, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson got $2,000,000 each for the show.

The cast of "Friends" earned $1,000,000 each per episode for the later seasons.

'Sparkling (pixelated)' Edward's also not Catherine Hardwicke's's fault. How on earth is it possible to portray a 'Sparkly, diamond encrusted' vampire without sacrificing some of his dignity. If he glowed or something, it's be easier for the effects people right? Bad enough this vampire doesn't burn. I wonder what the director's gonna do for the second one.

3) The acting was great was (relatively) unknown actors

With a terrible script and a badly written book (it had so much promise but Stephanie Meyer will never compare to say Diana Wynne Jones or even J.K. Rowling. She butchered the characters and she butchered a potentially good plot) you couldn't possibly expect oscar winning material.

In fact, I think the acting was pretty good at some points.

Don't forget that these actors were feeling immense pressure from the rabid (psycho) twi-hards. Both Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson have been called hideous just cause they don't live up to the fantastic (absurd) expectations of above mentioned twi-hards.

Rosalie and Esme were pretty well portrayed IMO. I loved every scene with them.

(If you've been following Grey's Anatomy and think Esme looked famelier, she's the one who was pregnant and had her face reconstructed because her face got squashed by a giant concrete pillar in the ferry tragedy episode. Her temporary name was Ava I think.)

I especially love the scene where Edward first introduces Bella to the Cullens.

The interaction between Billy Black and Charlie was pretty good too.

I think the actor who played Charlie was really good actually. One of the better performances of the show.

4) Stuff I didn't really like

Carlisle, though, was a little to creepily handsome for the role. I imagined him as being the most human looking one of all (Alice in the movie was the most human looking). He's a doctor and hence mingles the most with humans (and is resistant to blood). He's also supposed to be well loved (ok maybe respect's the better word) by the townsfolk of forks. Which means he's not supposed to look so otherworldly.

Rosalie (and Carlisle) looked too pale and had hair that looked (and it in fact is but that's no excuse) overly processed.

Robert Pattinson spent the better part of the movie with pitt stains and NOONE noticed them??

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I can't believe I just spent like 2 hours ranting about twilight. Lol, but I just had to get it out.

Also, sorry for the super dooper long post but they're kinda related in a way.

Please tag if you read this so i know it didn't all go to waste ;]

Live Long and Prosper,

Naomi

P.S.

Check out this vid, it's hilarious:

Low Budget Twilight Movie

2009-03-27T00:36:00.002+08:00

Ladeedum

I dreamed of you again. This is the third time and it's certainly not the charm. So I politely ask that you PLEASE STAY OUT OF MY HEAD.

Argh, like dreams ever come true anyway.

*emo look*

2009-03-25T03:25:00.003+08:00

Photoshoppaholic

My name is Naomi and I am a Photoshoppaholic.

Aly mx and I went to Zouk for Mambo night last Wednesday. It was super dooper fun in a stay-out-late-till-wee-hours-of-the-morning-exciting kind of way, but also not really what I'm into. I think I'm more a drinking game/pub crawling kinda person.

Anyway, this post isn't about that. It's about my latest obsession (besides makeup, lack of funds is curbing that). I wanted to update the photograph on my youtube page so I took this as an opportunity to embellish the picture as much as possible (No one I know will see it).

Xiaxue mentioned that she used photoshop brushes to add eyelashes to her pictures. If brushes sound familiar to you, it's also what people use to design blog skins so it's often under the credits.

So I search for it and I find this site: Obsidian Dawn

It's an amazing site. It has so many brush sets and really easy instructions on how to install them into your photoshop program (yeah you need to have photoshop :\)

Up till this point, photoshopping pictures meant removing a few blemishes (resulting in weird light spots everywhere) and giving myself liposuction and boob jobs (resulting in disproportionate body parts).

After playing around with the brushes a little, here's what I got:

O.O

See this is why people should never photoshop pictures of themselves. (Or maybe it's just me)

I never know when to stop and I think I shrank my nose too much.

When Hannah saw the picture she thought my mouth looked weird. THAT is not a result of excessive photoshopping. It's just my weird too tight smile. I guess maybe it's a combination of factors that cause it to not resemble me.

(Click to enlarge)

These were pre-brushes. All taken using Aly's camera on Mambo night (hence the intro).

The excessively photoshopped picture of me right on top was from the one with me and mx. In the above 2 pictures I only trimmed some arm chub away and maybe a little of the jaw. But it still resembles me. Add the eyelashes and... KABOOM! plastic doll.

That was all done last night.

Tonight I decided to try someone else...

Nice right??

I think I did a pretty good job for an amateur, if I may say so myself.

That's also a bane of my life. I'm a jack of all trades. I like to pride myself in the fact that I can be an expert among beginners because I pick up things fast, however I never have the perseverance, vision, ambition to push further and mould it into a career. That's why throughout my entire life people have been telling me "I have potential". You'd think that's praise right?

Not for me it isn't. It's a constant reminder that I always fail to maximise my 'potential'. Then, there are also times I doubt whether there's really potential, or just seems so and is actually the best I can do. Those are my wrist-slashing days...

... JUST KIDDING! That was me meager attempt at injecting some humour into this thing. Phooey, how did this get so heavy. Ah well. Must be the fact that I'm sleep and socially deprived. I really need to join a CCA next year. Or maybe join a class in a CC. Anything to expand my circle a little. Even my dad's voicing concerns about a lack of boyfriend activity (any takers? nah I'm kidding. REALLY).

Hooby dooby doo, right, I think I shall be off to bed now. If you've actually made it all the way here, let me extend a hearty congratulation.

Good Night folks.

and this is Naomi signing out. ❤

2009-03-10T22:17:00.002+08:00

Check out my new desktop Wallpaper!

cute right ^^

Used to be this one:

then I had to reinstall windows cause my laptop got cranky

Before that it was this one:

Cute right! :D I LOVE skiing, my god. I was BORN to ski.

Too bad it's so freaking expensive and there's just one more thing... SINGAPORE HAS NO SNOW!

We totally should do some skiing thing. Like some rich dude should buy up that sad excuse of a snow city that we have and convert it into a mega ski slope like in Dubai!

I mean since we compete with Emirates and everything. Why not try to top them in this! It's really super cool cause it's built with the mall and it faces shop windows and everything.

I think it's the longest in the world? One of the largest indoor ski thingys anyways.

links:

http://www.skidxb.com/English/default.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_Dubai

http://greenprophet.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/ski-dubai.jpg

Then they should employ the people who run the Harbin Ice Palace.

http://english.cri.cn/mmsource/images/2008/12/24/4354harbin.jpg

No smelly winter coats for those people.. No sirree. I've been to their ice palace thing in Singapore when they came here twice and the way they maintain those jackets!

Snow City(when I last went which was errrr eons ago):

Smelly jackets handed to you when you go in. Have to tahan mouldy sweat smell till your nose gets used to it.

Ignore mouldy sweat stains

Chuck smelly jackets (to which you've now added your own smelly sweat) into bin provided at the exit.

Harbin:

Approach counter where guy will pick jacket from those spinning racks they have in laundromats

and hand it to you fresh smelling.

Then you can buy those yarny gloves and socks if you need to.

Have fun slipping and sliding in the palace.

Return jackets at a counter at the exit and a guy hangs it back up and sprays something on it.

Enjoy popcorn and hotdogs with drinks.

See the difference?

Wow. If only that were to happen. I'd ski every week.

LOL, alright I was kidding when I said I was born to ski. But OMG it was super FUN. And my dad said the slopes were NOTHING compared to the japan ones. Cause the ones they brought us to in korea was packed to the brim, ill maintained and icy.

Like OMG-I'm-going-too-fast-and-have-to-choose-either-too-slam-my-head-on-an-ice-patch-or-careen-into-the-trees-icey.

So I chose to tumble to the side and slam my head on the ice patch. Thrilling huh. Better than careening into a ski lift!

2009-03-10T21:54:00.002+08:00

I need to go jogging NOW. but the thing is, my body clock is totally off whack and I get the urge to jog at random times like 3 am in the morning, 1 am, and now going on 10pm.

I like to think that I'm hideous looking enough that no rapist or weirdo would have any urge to molest/rape/kill me if I go jogging now (I mean come on! Who gets turned on by a tub of lard bouncing by)

But, that's precisely the reason why I need to go jog cause I don't want to look like that.

Anyways, I seem to attract plenty or weirdos.. and the weird thing is it usually happens when I'm not feeling my best.

1) ERA guy in toa payoh library

It was smack during an exam period I think or at least going to be. Stress made me break out in pimples and rash and I couldn't find anything to wear so I was wearing some uber tight sweater with uber tight tube which showed off my paunch in all it's glory.

2) Scary negro dude outside cine

I was trying out a new look which wasn't too successful, had orange macaroni hair and wobbling on too tight heels. (Eeeyer, this description sound like prostitute liddat. maybe that's why)

3) Ah pek who reversed his van when he saw me roadside

Early in the morning at about 4 am, how glamorous can you look?! Maybe cause I had too much make-up on. I just started putting on make-up so I kinda layered on the eyeliner too much I think.

See what I mean?

So that's why I'm hearing valiantly trying to resuscitate my dying blog instead of venturing out.

Anyways, I think I'm gonna go try to sleep now and wake up early tomorrow to jog.

Last paper this thursday! WOOHOO.

Anyone wanna catch watchmen with me?

2009-03-04T23:39:00.007+08:00

2009-02-27T23:16:00.005+08:00

2009-02-06T15:30:00.000+08:00

What If- Kate Winslet

Here I stand alone with this weight upon my heart

And it will not go away

In my head I keep on looking back

Right back to the start

Wondering what it was that made you change

Well I tried but I had to draw the line

And still this question keeps on spinning in my mind

What if I had never let you go

Would you be the man I used to know

If I'd stayed

If you'd tried

If we could only turn back time

But I guess we'll never know

Many roads to take

Some to joy

Some to heartache

Anyone can lose their way

And if I said that we could turn it back

Right back to the start

Would you take the chance and make the change

Do you think how it would have been sometimes

Do you pray that I'd never left your side

What if I had never let you go

Would you be the man I used to know

If I'd stayed

If you'd tried

If we could only turn back time

But I guess we'll never know

If only we could turn the hands of time

If I could take it back would you still be mine

'Cause I tried but I had to draw the line

And still this question keeps on spinning in my mind

What if I had never let you go

Would you be the man I used know

What if I had never walked away

'Cause I still love you more than I can say

If I'd stayed

If you'd tried

If we could only turn back time

But I guess we'll never know

We'll never know

2009-01-28T14:40:00.003+08:00

http://bambyee-love.livejournal.com/

My cousin's online shop for clothes and accessories. She's only just starting out so it's a small collection but the stuff's really pretty!

I'm getting the starry tunic and grey belt. I can't wait! :D

2009-01-28T14:21:00.003+08:00

http://www.twilightguy.com/2009/01/20/twilightguys-report-edward-meets-bellain-real-life/

For the twi-hards.

What happens when Edward meets Bella in real life.

Totally makes you go "awwwwwww"

2009-01-22T20:13:00.002+08:00

Random Facts Of Life Today (RFOLT):

1) 5 days and counting...

2) I love the rose gang.

3) I ate a handroll and a medium cup of Yami Yogurt, peach with muesli.

"What on earth has happened to my appetite???"

4) I miss playing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

5) I miss JC in an odd odd way.

6) I have really bad memory.

7) I love ginko nuts.

2009-01-21T19:37:00.000+08:00

Oh God.

I'm turning 20 in 6 days time.

Oh God.

2008-11-11T18:55:00.002+08:00

Here's a rough timeline of the state of my hair (starting with the most recent):

today

actually it doesn't look half bad in the pics but in reality it looks flat on the top and fuzzy on the bottom.

about mid-year. when i got streaks and layered my hair.

it doesn't look very curly here because i just got back from the salon. my hairdresser blew dried it straight, it was starting to curl up again.

beginning of the year, bistro time

no idea why i look so different here, big eyes and all. so totally unreal.

it kinda looks like i have a hair band on but i wasn't wearing one at that 'mo.

end last year. first perm + prom

refer to last post for comments :]

I think i'm going ahead with the perm. Sorry Trish ;P I've decided to go with a tighter version of Rachelle Lefevre.

I'll probably change my mind again tomorrow.

Fickle Pickle

Tata for now!

Live Long and Prosper

\V/,

2008-11-11T03:16:00.005+08:00

Hair Raising

So I've been itching to get my hair permed again. Although I had my share of 'hair-raising' moments back when I had my poodle-do (pardon the pun), I still feel this irresistable urge to perm my hair again.

It's been, what, almost a year since I did my hair for last year's prom and my hair's still kinda curly at the ends, though generally flatter and more layered.

Thing is, I'm kinda in a dilemna. Here's why:

1) With the poodle-do, I had to keep my hair up in an up-do almost constantly.

When I let it down it kinda resembled a yield sign.

However I was thinking that cause my hair is slightly longer this time round, and layered, and if I get looser curls, It'll turn out softer and hence will allow me to let down my hair (to frame my fat face and hide my garguntuan shoulders).

2) The reason why my hair's still slightly curled is because I had TIGHT curls to begin with.

That means that if I do get looser curls, it may not last as long. AND I abso-fucking-lutely refuse to wash my hair only once a week. Has anyone smelt stale sweaty hair that's long overdure for a shampoo? I have and it's no fun at all. Trust me.

3) Most Singaporean (mainly chinese, jap, korean etc) girls sport the jap perm

Making the poodle-d0 and the one I want an express ticket to auntie-dom. My hair NOW kinda looks like those jap perms with the soft fringe and wavy hair. Except it's not long (like between shoulder and bra) and i don't have a kawaii fat-less/photoshopped face.

I know I could actually use a curling iron to spruce up my existing curls and be done with it. BUT I'M JUST TOO LAZY TO! I just can't seem to curl my hair as fast as those people do on youtube and I sure as hell ain't gonna spend an additional hour on my hair on top of my moisturising (darned eczema) and make-up (darned flawed face) routines.

That's another reason why I love curly hair. It's so easy to style. It's basically wash, air-dry and fluff with the optional styling product when necessary.

When my hair's straight and I intend to wear it down (and look presentable enough to leave home) I usually have to blow-dry my hair upside down at the roots, brush and blow-dry to prevent fly-a-ways and flipping out.

Anyways, here are some pics I found on the net plus a couple of my own in an attempt to illustrate the kind of perm i want:

Rachelle Lefevre

As seen in Twilight, that movie/book series by Stephanie Meyers that's taken our primary school girls by storm, and misleadingly brainwashing them about the trials and pains of love, vampires and boys. (More about this later)

She plays Victoria, one of the wild nomadic (normal) vampires and later revealed mate of James, leader of said nomadic group.

Though many have grouses about her hair in the movie, it being not red enough to be mistaken as fire in the water, as mentioned in New Moon (2nd book), nor wild/wacky/unruly enough, I absolutely LOVE IT!

This is my number one choice and christmas would come early for me if my hair could turn out anything like this. However, if it's that loose from the very beginning, it'd probably no last a year.

Le Poodle

Just a review of the poodle-do that so many aspire to have (not).

It's actually quite nice when pulled up/back ala 2nd pic.

In the first one, I'd just come straight back from the salon so I still have the sticky gel on which turns my poodle-do into crispy maggie mee when dry.

I kinda also washed my hair regulary so it softened considerably in the two days before prom.

Since I'm only considering dying my hair with that smoky black reverse hair colour by Gatsby

...(the same one I used before but for various reasons lasted only a day. Now it's a reddish ash brown with faint highlights; you really don't wanna know how i got this. It's a really REALLY long story.)...

here's a pic of shortish black curled hair.

It's actually somewhat similar to last year's poodle-do except the model's edgy beauty totally wipes any thought we have of aunties in wet markets.

Here's one uber tight perm that looks cool. 'Cept my face ain't so long and slender XD

The look I fell in love with after watching

Mamma Mia!

This is one of the best beachy wavy look I've seen but it's surprisingly kinda hard to pull off and usually looks way better on girls with hair at least down to mid-back level.

Well, here you go. I'll probably get the perm done next week when I go to the salon with my mum. Pictures then!

Tata for now.

Live Long and Prosper

\V/,

2008-10-22T18:52:00.002+08:00

The Winner Takes It All

I don't want to talk

about the things we've gone through

though it's hurting me

now it's history

I've played all my cards

and that's what you've done too

nothing more to say

no more ace to play

The winner takes it all

the loser standing small

beside the victory

that's her destiny

I was in your arms

thinking i belonged there

i figured it made sense

building me a fence

Building me a home

thinking i'd be strong there

but i was a fool

playing by the rules

The gods may throw the dice

their minds as cold as ice

and someone way down here

loses someone dear

The winner takes it all

the loser standing small

it's simple and it's plain

why should i complain

Tell me does she kiss

you the way i kiss you

does it feel the same

when she calls your name

Somewhere deep inside

you must know i miss you

but what can i say

rules must be obeyed

The judges will decide

the likes of me abide

spectators of the show

always staying low

The game is on again

a lover or a friend

a big thing or a small

the winner takes it all

I don't want to talk

because it makes me feel sad

and i understand

you've come to shake my hand

I apoligise

if it makes you feel bad

seeing me so tense

no self-confidence

But you see

the winner takes it all

The winner takes it all

The game is on again

a lover or a friend

a big thing or a small

the winner takes it all

The winner takes it all...

2008-10-22T14:37:00.002+08:00

HELLO WORLD!

It's been (hmmmm...) about a freaking half a year (!) since I last touched this. Tad obvious huh. I've grown terribly tired of seeing that freakish picture of me with red lipstick on my brows and so have decided to revive this ol' thing. Like the new background? Courtesy of SALIM (pronounced sssAHlim)

Can't think of what to blog now though.

Still can't think of anything (What's new)

I shall just go back to my maths and stats (twin sisters of doom)

2008-03-04T22:05:00.005+08:00

THE FACE THAT CAPSIZED A MILLION SAMPANS

Right.. A picture is better than a thousand words. (hmmm i think i fucked that proverb thing up)
Take 2: A picture is worth a thousand words.

Ahh.. much better. Doesn't grate too much on those englishy sorts. (<-- The grammer is so wrong i can't be bothered to correct it)

This is what you get when you mix alcohol, a cool camera phone (courtesy of Aly Lum) and make-up. Oh did i forget to mention you have to throw some Naomi in too.

That's my favourite red lippie on my brow. blue glitter on the lids, green glitter on the cheeks and actually you can't see it but green eye shadow as foundation.

Ah, the bliss of Aliendom. Shu Uemura must be turning in his grave.

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We now take a commercial break for a flashback to the Bistro Days. Man do those days seem like weeks ago. (make that a MONTH ago):

My Perfect Cappochino

(does the spelling look weird to you? i never did learn how to spell that thing. Now you know why i scrawled all over the order chit. It WASN'T because of illegible handwriting. nuh uh)

Aeiral View

Why so many shots of the stupid cup? Because i can. Besides you don't wanna know how many shots of the coffee i deleted in the first place.

the coffee machine, ling, and the manager who i think is hot and got fired haha.

Whoever said captions had to make sense.

The frontish part of the bistro.

Annnnnd now for the star of our new Terminal 3 Transit Area:

The Ladies Powder Room cum Toilet

The Makeup Stations

The Powder Room Area

I swear.. it's the best toilet i have ever had the honour of crapping and eye-lining in. Besides the one in KLCC where i paid RM2.00 to enter and had a whole range of Johnson & Johnson and The BodyShop Products.

Be sure to visit this toilet at lease once in your life.

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Random tea flower thing i just had to throw in. Coolness

1) Pop grass bundle thing into clear bottle filled with hot water. (I used CHOYA)

2) Stone

3) Voila!! Flower.

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annnnd now because this is my blog and mine alone, my cam whoring pics which do not look even a little like me minus the convenient phone camera fuzz, makeup and poor lighting, but look good all the same.

More strategically placed glitter.

Close up of the freaking colourful eyebags i am so blessed with

It's the half i like haha. I was trying to match the Huge ass red earrings clara,mich,kevin,hongchin (last name obviously thrown in) bought for me for my birthday.

What can i say, i love my eyeliner, and my bro loves cam whoring. I foresee such funtimes together. Me, my squish and my cam.

Why red lipstick should NEVER be used as a substitute eyeliner (together with that sadako pic my dear kelsey so unflatteringly took of me, it's no wonder i am so *ahem* attractive)

Attempting that much overhyped kawaii (spelling?) look. Hmm, i never knew i had such an ape-like gap in front of my nose. How nice.

The End

Thank You Celine for making this possible :]

2008-03-02T10:16:00.010+08:00

Oh my... look at all the dust in here...

See this is what working does to you. Life is so boring.. No. Scrap that. It's not boring. Not at all. Just not exciting in the way i want it to be haha.

Ok, here goes. My attempt at summarizing February up in a non-dreary, fantastically compelling, eventful blog post. *cracks knuckles* here goes nothing...

crap, where to being

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Oh wait.. first things first.

Who's hui and randy????

2008-01-09T06:35:00.000+08:00

Yesterday was not a good day. It just wasn't one of those days when you should buy Toto or 4D tickets. You know there are days you know you're going to strike gold? Yesterday wasn't one of them.

My day started off pretty normal. Fast forward through the boring bits, and you've got me setting off to meet my classmates. I just should have known that it wasn't my day when i got sent tracking around orchard road in my new heels and outlandish attire. Ok so i made the decision to wear the heels that morning and i dressed myself and maybe i out on too much makeup... have no idea what I'm going on about? You'll find out pretty soon.

Anyway, as i was saying before i went off on a slight tangent, i rushed by cab to cine leisure because i got held up somewhere else, only to find out that they changed the meeting point to Wisma outside Charles & Keith. After hustling over, i call to find out that the meeting point has yet again been changed to the connector between taka and wisma, and so i trek backwards. so i know i need exercise, that is painfully clear, but this really too much, i mean i had my mobile phone with me, all it would have taken is one freaking phone call.

Sigh, all right, I'm venting. No offence meant to all involved.

Moving on, my classmates and i then went to watch the worst show I've ever watched (no wait, i think that particular honour goes to House of Wax), Alien Vs. Predator 2. People, don't waste your money. Besides the arm dropping off thing or the head being burnt by acid thing, the show just became so hopeless after the first 15 mins that had i been in it, i would have set the whole freaking town on fire, just to put them all out of their misery. Oh wait, the national guards DID do that in the end. Oh, I'm sorry, did i just spoil the story for you? Good, means there's a lower chance of you wasting your precious cash on it.

All in all it gets

★★★★★ For the cool army woman who could kick ass and the great CGI and sound effects.

So after that horrifying experience, we made our way down to Crepes and Cream, really good. I love my Cheesy Chicken Floss Crepe. Then i made the mistake of sharing one of my scandalous experience with my classmates. Don't see the mistake? Well hang on, I'm getting to it.

I was due to meet mx, aly, pam and ghis at Chinatown MRT for dinner so i leave my dear classmates at 5 plus. Then i had a repeat of the tp library incident, but about a million times more harrowing. See the thing is, i didn't know i looked outlandish, i just picked out what i though suitable for the whole day. I mean i tied my hair back so my orange xiemushu do wouldn't stand out and i focused my makeup on covering the scars and blotchy skin.

And then what happens? I get accosted by a negro man. A freaking huge negro man. It was so freaking traumatising i don't even feel like blogging about it. Anyway, cutting it short, being stupid as i was, i panicked. I didn't want to offend that guy cause come on, he could beat me up! So in my desperation, i couldn't think of anything but to call my friends up from cine so that guy would be scared away.

So i did the stupidest thing i could have done. I messaged weilong blindly and asked him to pretend to be my boyfriend cause he was the only guy there. So he calls me and asks where i am. I thought my classmates were coming so i relaxed a little. Then Rachel calls back and thinks I'm pulling a prank on them. I couldn't even explain to her because the guy was standing so close to me! i kept walking away but, sigh.. Anyway i promised the guy that i would think about calling him (yeah right i will. oh wait i did. i thought about for a whole second I've decided... NO!) and i managed to get away.

And you know what the worst thing was? I couldn't let myself cry because i knew from experience that my eyeliner would run and I'll look more horrifying then i already did. So i just made my way back to cine and my classmates and chilled for a bit. I was wondering why Rachel didn't want to come help me then i realised.. it's because i told them about my scandalous thing before leaving, so they must have thought i was just being attention seeking or something. Nice.. For the record, if i wanted to invent a story, my imagination isn't that sad, i would have conjured up a hottie all right?

Anyway, Rachel was nice enough to hike up her purse and offer to walk me out and confront the guy or something, and in the end they (Clara, Mich, Rachel, wl, nr) walked me out and i was so freaked out that i hoped into a cab, forgetting that by that time it was like 6:20pm and so the peak hour surcharge and ERP was almost half the fare itself.

Then my evening turned for the better. Nothing like a nice crapping session with (most of) the rg to make everything all good :] So after talking it out, i realised that

1) I shouldn't have been so polite, it's just asking for trouble
2) I should have spoken mandarin to Rachel on the phone (maybe she would have grasped the urgency then)
3) I should have given a fake number from the beginning and be done with it)
4) I need for normal jeans and shirts. (But knowing me, even those would look outlandish on me)

but what's done is done right? so i should just move on and learn from the experience. Especially when the day ended quite well. Oh yeah, i almost forgot. you know how it is when you usually end a bad day with something just as horrible? Well, i would have thought i used up my quota of bad luck but apparently i didn't. When aly crossed over to get to bus stop across the street and i stayed on the other side (because we usually take buses going in different directions) i realised i had to cross the street. After crossing the road with aly (who waited for me, thanks :]) she dashed off because her bus came. So i sat down. Then for some reason i decided to check the board. Guess what? my bus doesn't stop there. So i hoped on a bus to change at bugis. and when i got on i found out that *drum roll* i had 31 cents in my ez link card. Nice huh.

Well, i guess it could have been worse. I could have had no money in my card and no bus that i could take at all and that guy could have stalked me. Puts a new spin to the phrase count your blessings huh.

So now i ended my day, looking outlandish, stalked, traumatised, with my classmates thinking i'm a bigger joke than i already am and of course full of crap (courtesy of my dear rg ;]).

The End

Oh, and did i mention that my parents think that the reason i keep getting accosted is because i look sexually experienced, mature and experience? Nice huh.. seems that despite being overweight, with decrepit skin and eye pillows i still give off a vibe. I have the aura of desperation. Always good to know that when strange guys talk to me, it's because they think they can get some.

I hope you sensed the sarcasm there.

2007-12-03T00:42:00.000+08:00

Enchanted - So Close (feat. Jon McLaughlin) Lyrics

You're in my arms
And all the world is gone
The music playing on
For only two
So close together
And when I'm with you
So close to feeling alive

A life goes by
Romantic dreams must die
So I bid mine goodbye
And never knew
So close was waiting
Waiting here with you
And now, forever, I know
All that I want is to hold you
So close

So close to reaching
That famous happy ending
Almost believing
This one's not pretend
Now you're beside me
And look how far we've come

So far
We are
So close...

Oh, how could I face the faceless days
If I should lose you now?
We're so close to reaching
That famous happy ending
Almost believing
This one's not pretend
Let's go on dreaming
Though we know we are

So close
So close, and still
So far...

"...So far... We are... So close..."

The sweetest part of the movie was when he whispered this to her. (:

To find true love in 2 days...

2007-11-29T03:30:00.000+08:00

PICTURES! Blog post coming soon..

2007-11-21T16:54:00.000+08:00

YES!!! The end is near!
And not of the 'dooms day' variety either. (That one has the particular honour of coming next year)

Anyway, break out the champagne! It's time to celebrate! Why? Because Tomorrow is our very last paper!!!

Ok, I've calmed down a little, see I have an explanation for this temporary bout of insanity (don't i always)
You see, the thing is I have been really ill of late (hmm, like for the whole of yesterday and the good part of this morning?). But don't put on those black mourners clothes yet, don't buy any wreaths, because I am in the pink of health again! (If you forget about my constant trumpeting, my phlegmy hacking and the new geographical feature called Mt. Tissue)

Anyway, I have come to blog with a purpose. Yes, you heard me right the first time around, there is a purpose for my inane blogging for once, and my purpose for today, my sole purpose of diverting my attention away from my precious BIO MCQ, is to share with all of you (who i can count in one hand) who frequent this tiny dust-filled cesspool of a blog, what I've been spending my time doing. (Instead of yeah, 'studying' duh)

Let me begin with my long time companion... My Books:
They have stuck with me through thick and thin, progressing from The Tales of Peter Rabbit to The Chronicles of Narnia and, yes, to Harry Potter. Of course this avid fascination of mine for all things fictional (with preferably a foot in fantasy as well) has led to an 8 year long ban from reading anything besides encyclopedias and textbooks. So where does my book worm nose turn to, Why! The library of course! Where else should little old me turn to for solace and comfort..

I digress. I am here to talk about a book I randomly picked up from my new favourite haunt, the soon to be closed down Library @ Orchard.

As you can gather from the title, this book is about the undead aka vampires. This is actually the second book of the series, but do not let that stop you from reading it. The protagonist is one Elizabeth Taylor, nope, not the actress. She goes by the name Betsy and coupled with her blond hair and close to obsessive-compulsive designer shoe fetish, she is your typical Bimbo... Not. She is the Queen of the undead, or has been for the past couple of months. (I think? I've only read it once, so i can't provide much in depth analysis of the story till i read it a couple more times)

This book is about her dealing with her new found erm 'life' as ruling monarch over all creatures of the night, a fact she's forced to accept when her vampire subjects are being staked. She is helped along by her best friend, the super rich Jessica, her roommate, night shift doctor Marc who's gay, a really senior vamp named Tina (who has a questionable sexual orientation) and of course, the uber hot vampire king, Sinclair (who tricked her into having sex with him in the previous book so that he would be her consort and hence the King of the undead).

To add to the fray, she discovers
1. A little girl who mysteriously hangs around her room during the most unexpected times
2. A group of vigilante teen orphans who have set it upon themselves to rid the world of blood sucker, led by none other than a parish priest and funded by an unknown benefactor. Oh, and have I mentioned that the boy-leader of the group also has a crush on Betsy?

It really is an interesting book to read, the dialogue is witty and the sex kept to a minimum.

★★★★

2007-10-30T23:19:00.000+08:00

Wow.. these 4 weeks weeks have really just flown by haven't they. With the GP paper tomorrow, i have NO idea what i'm goin blogging at like 11:21pm. So far i have nothing zilch zero in my brain, my mind is blank and i just spent the last 5 mins feeling sorry for myself.

Now the exams are upon us, and i know some of you have really worked really hard and deserve to score ;) but for the hopeless slackers like me, do not give up!

Sometimes we feel like there is so much to do that there is no point trying.

What's the point right? It's completely Hopeless..

Then we remember, that all is not lost.

As long as we have faith in ourselves and faith in God, there is always hope.

Just think.. In one month's time, we'd be lounging around. With no other worry except how to fund our many plans ;)

I know this one is practically a cliche but who cares, i find comfort in it, so i hope you will too.

One night a man had a dream.

He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the LORD.

Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand: one belonging to him, and the other to the LORD.

When the last scene of his life flashed before him,he looked back at the footprints in the sand.

He noticed that many times along the path of his life there was only one set of footprints.

He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in his life.

This really bothered him and he questioned the LORD about it:
"LORD, you said that once I decided to follow you, you'd walk with me all the way.

But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is only one set of footprints. I don't understand why when I needed you most you would leave me."

The LORD replied:
"My son, my precious child, I love you and I would never leave you.

During your times of trial and suffering,when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."

Good Luck!

2007-10-22T22:53:00.000+08:00

Trivia Bits: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

Dick Van Dyke's character was named for Caractacus, the last independent ruler of England before the Roman conquest of southern England.
Lionel Jeffries played Dick Van Dyke's father, despite the fact that Dick Van Dyke is actually seven months older than Jeffries.
Phil Collins claims he was one of the children storming the castle at the end of the film but was edited out because of a rather large and unsightly bandage on his head that was covering a cyst.
The first non-Disney film to feature songs by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.
In addition to several partial mock-ups of the car used for the purposes of filming, one real, custom-built Chitty Chitty Bang Bang automobile was constructed for the film. It survives today, privately owned, and often appears at special events. The car is street-legal and is registered as a motor vehicle in the U.K. with the same license plate seen in the film (GEN 11).
Dick Van Dyke had appeared in several Disney movies prior to this. In a press release he quipped, "This will out-Disney Disney." He was banned from Disney productions for several years after this.
The license number for Truly's car, CUB 1, is a reference to Albert R. Broccoli's nickname, Cubby.
Baron Bomburst's castle is Neuschwanstein, built between 1869 and 1886 for the Bavarian King Ludwig II, "The Mad King of Bavaria". This castle is also famously known as the model for Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959) and Cinderella (1950) castles, for the movies and also as an emblem of Disneyland and the The Magical World of Disney (1988) (TV).
The colors of the floating Chitty - purple, green and white - are the colors of the women's suffrage movement of that time.
Has the distinction of being the only non-James Bond film produced by Albert R. Broccoli after the Bond series began. This is because the novel on which the movie is based was written by Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond.
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was written by the creator of "James Bond", Ian Fleming. In
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" two "James Bond" actors appear: Gert Fröbe and Desmond Llewelyn.
Voted number 14 in Channel 4's (UK) "Greatest Family Films"
There is a special reason the letters/numbers on the front plate read "GEN11"...if one replaces the "11" with "II" it becomes "GENII", which aptly describes the cars nature.

You have GOT to watch it. Ok.. now back to 'A's.... *grumble mumble*

2007-10-18T18:11:00.000+08:00

OMG..

Just check out this brand of makeup...

This is just too cool.

Now, if only i could look half as great as that model...

2007-10-07T23:42:00.000+08:00

When under stress the mind tends to wander off in all directions. Anything to escape the present. I am no exception.

Those were the days man.. ;]

I was Sweet, Innocent... not that i'm no longer sweet and innocent but life has changed. (ok, you can stop puking now)

Anyway, to further procrastinate, I go searching for videos recommended by my dear sister Sarah Lim who's supposed to be mugging too.

Here's 2 versions of Your Guardian Angel by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.

A Walk to Remember

The Chronicles of Narnia

Personally I like the Narnia one better.. But then again both are really not all that bad so just watch both.

Here's some random facts i also dug up about A Walk to Remember

Shane West loved the car that he had in the movie so much, that he bought the car for only $5,000.
This movie was filmed in only 39 days, despite the fact that they only had Mandy Moore for 10 hours a day because she was a minor.
‘Jessica Simpson' was considered for the role of Jamie Sullivan.

OK.. Yucks! Can you imagine Jessica 'Genius who acts like a blonde bimbo because it pays' Simpson playing a good christian girl. *Shudder*

If only stuff like that were tested for 'A's.. I'd be languishing in confidence.

Some other random fact. You know how Singapore's the first city to implement the Electronic Road Pricing system right (September 1998). Well to stress-test the system they had Lamborghinis, Porsches and Ferraris speed through. So super cool! Just imagine what it must have looked like.

And then my favourite pasttime.. Which i haven't done for sometime now- searching for Voyager videos. I think i shall post the episode 'shattered' just to enlighten all you non-trekkies out there.

OH CRAP! MIDNIGHT!! FATHER'S COMING UP!!

Damn.. another time then.

Live Long & Prosper \\ // ,

2007-09-04T20:57:00.000+08:00

Wow.. You know it's never really sunk in how attractive i am... TO WEIRDOS THAT IS!!!

haha gotcha there didn't i. Thought i was some egomaniac. (Don't you dare agree. Yes you, especially you Kelsey!)

Anyway, while i take a little break from all that hard work I've been doing (you can insert a laugh of derision here) let me recount what happened today.

There was once this young woman, innocently browsing in the fiction section of Toa Payoh library.. ok scrap that.

Getting to the point. I was in Toa Payoh library today and being the fine example of a student that i am, i was browsing for a good book to read when this guy in like office attire comes up to me.

Guy: Hi, I was looking for a book to read could you recommend anything?
Me: eh... (stunned for a moment. i mean, who the hell does this in the first place?! But i decided to be polite) Oh erm, sorry i don't really frequent the library so i can't exactly help you.
Guy: Oh. (and i thought he was going to walk away but noooooo...) But what can you recommend anyway. 'Cause I'm looking for a book to read this weekend because I'm going overseas next week.
(Riiiight, like i really want to know you know. Anyway, thinking it's an honest enquiry but at the same time hoping to extricate myself from the situation)
Me: Oh sorry, i really can't help you. I usually just pick up the first interesting book i see and browse through it.
Guy: Oooh, so that's your strategy huh. Personally I like to scrutinize every book before i borrow it.
(This conversation was getting way too weird so i just smile and move on to the next aisle but after a few seconds of peace there he comes again!)
He picks up some random book, thumbs through it and goes
Guy: This seems like an interesting book
Me: Ok (I sneaked a glance and it's some book on 911)
Guy: I think i'll do what you said and borrow this (Erm, when did i say this? i said browse not borrow the first interesting book i see)
Guy: So, you sound more mature than you look.
(!!!!!! What the F***. So what i look immature or i sound like an ah ma?!)
Me: Er.. riiight. Thanks?
Guy: So what, are you still studying.
(Finally! i hoped to chase him away so..)
Me: Yeap! (a little over enthusiastically) I am!
Guy: Oh where?
Me: CJC
Guy: Oh the school in Bukit Timah? What are you combination are you studying? A maths or something?
Me: Huh?! No! That's like secondary school!
Guy: Oh then what do you study? Sorry, you have to forgive me I've been out of the education system for a long time. (He sees my OMG expression and misinterprets it) Not that long i mean about 2.. er.. yeah 2 1/2 years. Like NS you know...
(Yeah Right! Who's he kidding. Fresh out of NS and he can't remember that A maths is taught in Secondary School! And he looks like about 30 to me ack!)
Guy: So i didn't catch your name..
Me: Erm, that's because i didn't give it? It's Naomi. ( I knooooow! What was i thinking!)
Guy: Oh! Hi, my name is Ben. (grabs my hand and shakes it)
Guy: So you must be like really sporty since like you're so tanned. (SAY WHAT!! I almost burst out laughing i swear!)
Me: HUH? What? No.
Guy: So you know i was thinking maybe you should give me a way to contact you. You know touch base occasionally and all that.. (Hello. Somebody please tell this guy that touching base is something you do when you're like far from home or whatever and it's done with people you're CLOSE to)
Me: What? No, sorry.
Guy: Just give me your MSN or something. I mean we can discuss books and er stuff. i have a huge collection of comic books, i collected them since i was 6.
Me: Err... Right. Sorry, my parents banned me from the Internet, haven't been studying and all that.
Guy: What, so old your parents still ban you?
Me: Er yeah, anyway i don't read comic books
Guy: Or you think my comic books are too old for you is it? Why don't we do this the traditional way then (whips out mobile phone)
Me: Eh sorry. No! No offence man, but i don't know you.
Guy: Oh i like girls, you know, who are proactive-
Me: WHAT?! proactive?
Guy: Yeah like you know girls who dare to offer their contact information
Me: huh
Guy: You know it took me a lot of courage to come and talk to you. you could at least give me your phone number.
Me: (Ok, i feel a little bad, and flattered just a little but omg.. mostly i was weirded out) But i really don't know you!
Guy: Ok, Just let me give you my contact info then
Me: (Stunned) Uhh..
Guy: (Searches for a scrap of paper and takes out this piece with like the ERA logo, a real estate company by the way, which has stuff like "next week HDB BLK something something") Sorry ah, hope you don't mind it's a rough paper.
Me: (all the more stunned) Er.. huh what?
Guy: Ok what info do you want?
Me: WHAT? eh.. huh?
Guy: Ok email.. (scribbles something on the piece he tore off) hope you don't mind me doing this (scribbles something) As long as you don't mind right? (Scribbles something else. Omg, i see his name, phone number, and email add) so if your ban is not lifted anytime soon, just call me ok? (Points at his phone number)
He gives the scrap to me
Guy: Keep that ok? You better keep it. Contact me alright?
Me: Er, I'll think about it.
Guy: Wow, that's a good answer. ok, I guess i shouldn't take up anymore of your time.

When he finally leaves, i grab the first book i could and stuffed the paper in. AHHHHHH!

2007-09-02T14:54:00.000+08:00

Hello WORLD!!!

*attempts to blow off the dust that collected on my blog. blowing's not helping. starts scrubbing*

2007-07-18T19:53:00.000+08:00

tried to type 'Sarees' in my phone today, i got 'Raped' instead.

2007-06-14T09:23:00.000+08:00

Roar! Oh My Tian!!! MID-YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn.

2007-05-27T18:11:00.000+08:00

~pictures below~

OH MY GAWD.. haha, gonna fail reeeaaall bad. As in for econs and GP. Personally, i think i studies way harder for this mid-years than i did fro common tests. (like duh.. how could i have studied then right after Chinese new year, bak kwa, and ang paos, and no daddy, it wasn't because of India) Anyway, excuses aside, i definitely could have done with more revision. Oh well.. don't cry over the proverbial spilt milk. High time for me to get my ass back to studying and put my nose to the grindstone (hey has it occurred to anyone that this expression in kinda gross and also gory, but what the hell, could be just me). Thanks Rachel for going through my notes with me, if not, my systems of linear equations & transformation of graphs notes would still be hiding in the dark crevices of my cupboard/bedroom or generally the whole house. Also, i would probably have mugged periodicity (haha riggght.. lets just assume that happens k) and bonked my head on the day of the exam, when i find out it's not tested.

Oh yeah, you know what other mind-numbingly gong thing i did? you know that environment essay i slogged over for 3 weeks.. Yeah, that one. Weeelll, when i finally sat myself down to finish after school, guess what? In all my haste, i stapled one of my draft sheets to my second sheet and handed that up. And how did i find out? Cause when i got it back, there was this whole chunk of like 3 lines blank on the 2nd page, like hanging off mid sentence (i.e. so it is unfair to.....). then on the next sheet of foolscap ( i always thought it was fullscap, but my darling voluntary beta reader of a sister has informed me that it's erm yeah foolscap. Sounds so.. foolish. hey, my sister just added that a second meaning is: a cap usually with bells, formally worn by a court fool or jester. Ha! See. Foolish!), it begins in the middle of a sentence (i.e. would be adversely affected as their economy relies heavily on industries blah blah blah) So Derrick Hoi ( i mean Mr Hoi, GP tutor) was like ...Huh? ...??Huh?? What's this Naomi? At first it took a while for me to get it.. i kind of stared at my paper, wondering why in the world i would leave a blank paragraph than start in the middle of the sentence. Then snap! A very dim light bulb in my head turned on (get your head out of the gutter, i meant ding! switch on) and i realized what happened. No wonder he got confused. Damn, and i put all that effort into my final piece too. Mr. Hoi even so politely suggested that i needed some organisation. Hahaha. Gosh. What a dingbat.

Right, now i shall enrich myself with powderful vocab which will make me seem pro-ness.

Diaspora ( This word with compliment from Sarah, who found this in The Sisterhood of Travelling Pants)
1. a) The Dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian exile.
b) The Jews thus dispersed
c) The places where they settled
2. Any scattering of people with a common origin, background, belief, etc.

Next few words from research i did for GP. Madness the words these people use. Can't they just use normal English?!

Axiomatic
1. Of or like an axiom (say what?!)
2. Self-evident or aphoristic (Ok, self evident.. gotcha. axiomatic means obvious. but what the hell is aphoristic? Why so chim!)

Axiom
1. A statement universally accepted as true(finally! something i understand)
2. An established principle or law of a science, art, etc.
3. A statement or proposition that needs to proof because its truth is so obvious (Wah, so long for what? Can't they just put axiomatic: self-evident or obvious)

Aphoristic
see aphorism (hehe... funny... is this why dictionaries are so thick)

Aphorism
1. Short, concise statement of a principal
2. a short, pointed sentence expressing a wise or clever observation or general truth

Polyglot
1. Speaking or writing several languages
2. containing, composed of, or written in several languages
(noun)
3. a person who speacks or writes several languages
4. a book written in several languages
5. a mixture or confusion of languages

Riiight, all that and they couldn't just say multi-linguistic. I guess if dictionaries weren't so thick, they wouldn't be so impressive and intimidating. Can you imagine a thin Dictionary? that's like an oxymoron.. skinny dictionary. Thank you Sarah for delving so deep in that dusty tome, when lazy ol' me would have given up.

Wow! i swear i didn't mean to blog so much. i guess i have deep pent up emotions about erm dictionaries.. Ooook. You can all claim to not know me.

Anyway, if you have managed to read till this point, CONGRATS!!

Now, here are the pictures i've promised for 2 weeks.. sorry!

I had like 90+ photos from the sports carnival, so i'm only gonna post photos which i've edited k. After all, all you 2T28 folks all have a copy on disc, except yen kiat who says he lost it.

Oops, Janis was still talking and i didn't know where to look

Haha, i just like this photo.

The 3 of them look so strained, cause i took so long to take the pic

people i met in the toilet

Some really strange names

was trying to get a shot of clara, but hmph, she shows me her butt instead

Oi! Who's that?!

The National Girls Team

Sorry Yenkiat! Hahaha

Who you gonna call.. Cindy!

Kiss Kiss.. Nian-Rong loves me!

Nian-Rong's paparazzi worthy shot of shaun even when he was avoiding the camera

the guys just stoning.. haha shaun looks like he's in labour

Yeah! Our class played well

Tricia: This just shows the height difference

erm...

in times of boredom.. what is kim staring at

see how easily distracted we are. Everything along the way to macs was photo worthy

hehe... surprise!! betcha didn't see that coming

spot the shrek. Kidding Nian Rong! haha..

Shrek band makes nianrong horny.. :D

who took this?!

look at the guys whack the cake.. gluttons!

the rhythemic sleep inducing bus ride, who needs sleeping pills

and finally....

2007-05-23T18:47:00.000+08:00

ARGH! somebody please tell me.. WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING ONLINE!!!! %&#% !*#& * *^&$ !!!

Oh my GAWD, i swear i deserve to flunk my mids through and through. Don't believe me? Think I'm kidding? I wish. Here's what i did today. If this doesn't convince you... then you're probably in deeper shit then i am.

Last night: Had a hot date, was too busy ..... to study or sleep.

Haha.. did you believe that? Madness. Nice to see that i still have a sense of humour. Right, here's what i really did.

Last night: Slept at about 6:30pm. earphones plugged in, tuned in to 987.

This morning: Woke up at 6:30am. Whoa! 12 hours of sleep. Not tough to believe, considering my utter lack of sleep for the past few years. I had a REALLY nice dream. Made me start out the day all optimistic and all.. sweet. :)

So i showered- had to traipsed all the way downstairs cause some hellishly heavy elephant stomped a crack in my shower stall (oops, could it have been me?), had to make sure my towel was secure so i wouldn't flash my parents, who were eating breakfast. Now that's just sick. (hey, a thought just struck me.. why is it sick when our parents see us naked now.. didn't they shower us when we were wee babes. oook.. i think i don't want to got there.)

Anyway, tried studying for a bit, carried my books up and down for about and hour or so, when i finally succumbed to temptation! (hey, congratulate me, i lasted 2 hours!) Then i wish i could say that i couldn't remember how, but sadly, i do. i remember every excruciating detail of how i turned on my modem, leaning over the printer on my tippy toes, with the power switch almost a hairbreadth too far away. Finally i rested my weight on the balls of my feet and settled my body on the chair. Then i clicked on the puzzle pirates icon. (isn't that just anti climatic). Oh well, there's only SO much drama 1 blog post can take you know. Well, so i played treasure drop for like about 3 hours!! When finally i relinquished my character Rowena to... nope, not study. Read Fushigi Yugi. Now here I am... succumbing to my unfocused ill-disciplined mind. I swear i must have been a mugger in my past life, that's why I'm making up for my lack of social life now, but still end up in CCAs like chess club and maths society. See.. an excuse for my anti-social behaviour.

Roar.

Ok, I've calmed down somewhat.. frustration turning to panic. (Panic) stations everyone! Red Alert! All hands on deck! Mr. Paris, evasive maneuvers. Tuvok, ready the torpedoes. B'Elanna, how's our engines holding up. I need everything you can give me.

haha, i know i know. you must be like WHAT THE HELL?! those who know me better are probably like, there she goes again. So for those who don't already know, that was a nod to my Trekkie roots. Yes Trekkie, not Trekker. Oh what the hell... what am i even doing?! arguing with myself over this.

If by now you're reading this and don't think i'm off my rocker, then congratulations are in store. Oh yeah, in a saner more normal (as normal as i can get) post, i'll put up selected pictures from the sports carnival. Yes, it's been one week, No, deep in my heart i know somebody actually reads this, Yes, i've already burned a copy for my classmates. But those were unedited, ad there were a whopping 156 of them! I picked out my favourites and will give my not-so-expert-nor-appreciated-commentary on them.

Tata for now!

econs loves me and i love it back.

2007-05-02T23:20:00.000+08:00

hold this flame in the palm of your hand,

may it's light shine even in our darkest hour.

keep all hope locked deep inside,

search for it,

and you will find it.

never fear,

I am here,

to always hold you,

to guide you,

to cherish you.

dry your tears,

my love is yours.

From me to you,

Love Naomi

~Dedicated to the families and friends of those who've lost loved ones~

2007-04-19T22:45:00.000+08:00

Hail the return of the drama mama.

Escapism Prevails yet again!

With the imminent arrival of the much dreaded Economics, 25 mark, essay on macroeconomic policies, Naomi turns to her addiction to all things metal and gadget-y once again.

[Pause] Note to self: Add clock and hit counter [Play]

Right, getting straight to the point so that fiscal policy can torture me some more.

The 2nd level of my terrace house is parquet floor. Let me please emphasize that it is chipped in places and warped in others, seeing as the wonderful contractor made off with the better part of our money after doing such a half-baked job on my house. However, it must be noted that it was quite exciting really, living, eating, studying (as if), sleeping watching TV in only the upper floor and attic. Like how, in order to cook, my maid has to weave her way through throngs and masses of Bangladeshi workers brought in in a desperate attempt to fix the mess that was the first floor (the kitchen was still functioning though). I will never forget the time when eating was allowed and even encouraged in my bedroom (I had a fridge, yes, a fridge, not a mini one in my room).

I digress.
Anyway, i stubbed my toe on this chipped part of my floor, so much so that a wee sliver of wood embedded itself under my skin. For a moment i thought i merely scratched my toe. Little did i know that i had in actual fact i had acquired a splinter as a new addition to my already flawed anatomy.

I must say i pretty much made for a poor first aider at that point in time, seeing as i just stood gawking there in shock at the rapidly swelling middle toe on my right foot. Lynn, being ever so kind, ran to fetch Mr Scissors and Ms Tweezers to aide me in my removal of this unwanted splinter. Let me tell you, it was horrifying. Not so much from the pain itself, but by the fact that there wasn't much of the splinter sticking out of the wound, so there was virtually nothing to grasp at to pull it out. Well, to cut the long story short, it took about 5 attempts for all the lil bits to vacate my toe and leave me in peace.

This incident brings back so many memories. Particularly the one when i almost impaled my foot on a skewer/sparkler thang. 'Almost' meaning it penetrated my foot but just didn't exit at the other end. What spurred me to remove both foreign entities myself was the ever looming threat of having whatever it was yanked out unmercifully by first Mei Xia and now Lynn. Thank God both these incidents occurred in the presence of calm, capable people. Is it not ironic to some extent that i had my biggest boo boo when i was out with the Rose Gang, which is filled with Red Cross peeps, by the way.

I had a Damn HOT 'lifeguard' to sweep me of my feet (literally) the other time though. [Swoon]. Too bad he was a smoker. He impressed me with his calm and the fact that he could carry me. [Stupid grin inserted here].

Well, no such luck this time. Do i even dare hope that some other guy like that exists somewhere out there.

Fiscal save me!

2007-04-12T21:53:00.000+08:00

02-08-07 - Gerard Butler Gets in Shape for 300 (Men's Health Video Shoot)

AHHHHHH!!! Hot haaawwwt!!
Ok, a horny alien just possessed me.
nothing I say or post shall be held against me.

2007-04-07T21:57:00.000+08:00

I just watched the Phantom of the Opera. Awesome. I know the original opera on Broadway was and is probably tons better, but since my pocket has been rather empty of late, i am stuck with the 2004 movie starring Emmy Rossum (The Day after Tomorrow) as Christine Daae, Gerard Butler (Yes, the one who acted in 300, and opposite Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life) as the phantom himself as well as Miranda Richardson (Rita Skeeter in Harry Potter: The Triwizard Tournament) as Madame Giry and Patrick Wilson (the pedophile sexual predator in Hard Candy) as Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny.

I don't know about everyone else, but i find the whole story absolutely fascinatingly creepy and yet romantic. I mean, it's full of convoluted twists and love stories of many kinds. Between Madame Giry and the Phantom, Madame Giry must love the Phantom so much, to protect him for so long, but the Phantom fell in love with Christine, crossing the border between tutor and father to obsessed lover. And of course the Childhood sweethearts Raoul and Christine, who meet again years later, rekindling their love for each other. However, Christine grows to pity the Phantom, putting her in a difficult position, having to choose between Raoul and the Phantom. Ok, getting mushified now. You get the picture.

Anyway, here. My favourite moments in the movie:

Angel of Music

The Mirror (Angel of Music)

Music of the Night

All I ask of You

All I Ask of You (Reprise)

Masquerade

The Point of No Return

2007-04-07T17:33:00.000+08:00

So a little bird told me that no one knows the reason for my past moodyness. I changed my seat for a reason, but please don't speculate. You know how it is, the story will always get exaggerated with every re-telling. So yeah, don't get the rumor mill going. The reason why i'm trying to stamp out any speculations is that someone has actually come pretty close to guessing my reasons. You know what's really funny? That everyone has sort of guessed a part, but noone has the full picture. Which is really bad if you think about it, cause you know it takes all parts to make the whole and all that. Anyway, just to clarify some stuff. It's me not you and not anyone else. I'm trying to handle it the way i think is best for me. I'm a warped person, so sue me. Noone's perfect, it just so happens that i'm more flawed than others. Damn, this is getting depressing. Ok, not trying to copy tricia or anything but, I'm launching the project smile- no more sad thoughts. So, to kick things off, i shall begin by really REALLY hoping i have some positive attributes. (Note to self: don't become an egomaniac either, it's just not nice)

I Being ME!!

well. On a lighter note. I found some really cool stuff.
Courtesy of Youtube: Drawing Mona Lisa on MS Paint

2007-04-04T23:57:00.000+08:00

Wow. Finally. I am finally riding out the last wave of emo-ness. I think physical separation and all helps. I feel kinda liberated, as in really. 'nuff said. Maybe now i can settle down for the year and focus? Hmm, like what I'm doing now for instance :] Anyway. Yeah. Sorry Nian-Rong.. I don't think I'm gonna move back. Hell.. Ok. Back to the mindless dribble that so attracted all you non-existent readers out there.

Well. Ma Butt hurts like.. like.. i give up. It's indescribable. i think I'm gonna live life as a hunched back. Like erm, the hunchback of joo chiat road? Hmmm, let's see. I'm losing whatever ability i had to crap out mundane dribble. or is that drabble. Ahhh...

Oh Crappola. Me thinks me needs to sleep. So me shall. Good Night, so long and farewell!

2007-04-02T00:45:00.000+08:00

I'm confused. so maybe a made a few mistakes. There's nothing i can do about it. It's not like i can take back anything. I'm not even sure i want to take back anything. how? Ok. Move ON!! I have to take my own advice. right break's over, terrorism essay here i come!!

2007-03-31T10:29:00.000+08:00

Well so much has happened since the common tests. First of all the Common Tests Results. Let's just say they're not too far off from what i expected them to be. I got hmm.. F F F F S, which is not so significantly different from what i expected which was F F F F F. So basically, i have to put my nose on the grinding stone and wake up. I have to reorganise my time you know.

Which brings me to my second point. I'm sorry everyone whom i offended these past few days. I'm just trying to come to terms with some things in my life. There are some major changes to be made. I have come to the conclusion that some relationships have got to be defined. It's so frustrating to not know where the hell i stand. I will therefore also solemnly swear that i will focus on the friends that i can trust. As much as i will 'miss' being confused/led on/strung along/ led to believe something completely and totally untrue. Being that I'm completely new at handling my life. Please give me a chance.

So now that I've implemented some stuff, said what i have to say, i feel completely liberated and free!! For once I'm not bogged down by what ifs and if onlys. I take pity on all who will eternally hope for something that is an impossibility, just as i have. Please. It's time to move on. Get a hold on yourself.

Truth be told, i have been itching for a fight. But i now realise that that's not how civilized human beings operate. While there are things i regret not saying. I now thank GOD that i didn't say them.

If anyone actually reads this, please note: I am an extremely volatile person. I am not someone who hangs in between. I am not a moderate. I am an extremist. If i hate you, i REALLY hate you. i don't just dislike you. If i love you i REALLY love you. without a doubt. If you are my friend, my loyalty is yours.

Words have never been my forte. I've always believed actions speak louder than words. Body language and expression are all i can show freely.

2007-02-27T17:26:00.000+08:00

As many of you have experienced for yourselves, the past two days have been absolute bliss. Why, you may ask. Well, we've been sitting for this marvelous thing called The Common Test. Yes, the very much dreaded TCT! Be forewarned all you wee underlings who have yet to face this, they come in many guises.

Let's have a brief battle analysis of all the common tests i have had the honor of encountering:

General Paper: screwed
Economics: screwed
Mathematics: screwed

How about a more detailed status check:

General Paper: REALLY screwed
Economics: REALLY screwed
Mathematics: REALLY screwed

That about sums it up doesn't it :]]

These Boots Are Made For Walkin'- Nancy Sinatra

You keep saying you've got something for me.
something you call love, but confess.
You've been a messin' where you shouldn't have been a messin'
and now someone else is gettin' all your best.
These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.
You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'
and you keep losin' when you oughta not bet.
You keep samin' when you oughta be a changin'.
Now what's right is right, but you ain't been right yet.
These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.
You keep playin' where you shouldn't be a playin
and you keep thinkin' that you´ll never get burnt.
Ha!
I just found me a brand new box of matches yeah
and what he knows you ain't HAD time to learn.
These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.
Are you ready boots? Start walkin'!

2007-02-25T16:29:00.000+08:00

Just Testing Something. Cool

2007-02-20T20:39:00.000+08:00

Regarding the last post: I stand corrected. The last video is apparently not sadistic at all, but melancholic (according to my sister). The video clip 'Lily and Jim' is about life.

Is it just me or the Chinese New Year festivities this year was a little more subdued. I'm not saying that I didn't enjoy it or anything. Just a little less on the festival aspect and more of a holiday kind of thing. Not that that prevented me from leaping into the new year with much enthusiasm. Taking into consideration the diameter of my face, the size of my eye bags, no eye pillows, my sore throat and rash, perhaps I enjoyed it too much. (From this description of myself, do not presume to think that I'm an old hag, because I am in actual fact the epitome of beauty and the object of men's desire.. heh. -.-"' I think I'm laying it on a little too thick.)

Well, anyways, with the thick black cloud of common tests looming ever so ominously over my head, I probably have every reason to look like a hag. For all those who have like me failed to look at, much less peruse the common test timetable, here it is.

On a lighter note, here is the afore promised Star Trek: Voyager video clips. I'm sure they've been much awaited for. Courtesy of youtube.com.

Fan Videos
Janeway's Boots

Shut up- Black Eyed Peas

From the Actual Show
Doctor to Tuvok: Opera

Doctor and Seven- You are my sunshine

Call me a nerd if you must. But i will never forsake my Star Trek: Voyager.
Resistance is Futile
you and your collective will be assimilated

tata!

2007-02-17T00:20:00.000+08:00

Presenting a Don Hertzfeldt Video Fest. Courtesy of MySpace Videos. Warning: Sadistic and Very Random scenes ahead. No logic required, just yours eyes, your ears and a clothe bag to cover the eyes and ears of innocent children who do not wish to be corrupted. Alright, here goes. Enjoy.

Ah, L'Amour The story of a young man in love.. right

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Rejected There's probably a really good reason when the family learning channel rejects the cartoon

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Right from here on, i don't recall much of what happens in the clips, but they're all in typical Don Hertzfeldt fashion with no exception.

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Sadistic.
How could you put yourself through all that.
Up next: Featuring Star Trek: Voyager

2007-02-11T22:04:00.000+08:00

Whoosh! Right, as usual, I'm not supposed to be doing this right now.

Let's do a brief analysis of just what exactly I should have done or should be doing now:

1. Going through practice maths questions for my maths CA tomorrow (another test which I'm absolutely confident about. Just another A in my report card see)

2. Tackling all my backlog homework, not to mention the ever increasing pile of work that's been accumulating this week. (and of course due by tomorrow)

3. Doing 2 essays for my econs tuition, which i had to cancel for this week because of the ritual-pre-new-year-spring-cleaning and meeting my aunty for a bowling-cum-wedding-prep thingy thing. (ohmigawd, Nian-Rong please don't read this)

4. Tying my fingers in knots while attempting to produce presentable friendship bands (of which I've done a grand total of 2 and also managed to lose one work in progress)

5. Attempt to take artistic shots of my class's already produced pieces, in order to showcase our artwork at the booth.

Well, as you can probably tell by now, I really shouldn't be typing this horrendous example of a blog entry which no one will probably read anyway. I really shouldn't be listening to Cascada's Every time we touch, and I really shouldn't be thinking about what sadistic video to put up, and i guess i REALLY really shouldn't even consider watching another episode of Star Trek: Voyager (the TV show I've been reunited with with the help of you tube :] hee. To get an idea of just how fanatical i was, please consult any of my lower secondary school mates)

Crapola. My time is up. This would be a really convenient time for a space ship to materialise and beam me up. Oh well.

Live Long and Prosper

2007-02-08T20:04:00.000+08:00

Wow, what ever happened to blogging faithfully everyday. Hmm, oh well. What the heck. Let's see, tempted as I am to emo my way through this blog entry, I shall resist doing so.

On to what happened today that so prompted me to blog even though i have a biology CA tomorrow (see how prepared I am, I'm quite confident of getting an A see).

Anyway we had a different sub for GP today. Two days ago was some lady (had a bout of cramps so have no idea what she's like) but even from my brief encounter with her, let's just say i wholeheartedly agree with Celine. Next was some funky teach (haha, Nian-Rong, be very jealous). Actually, he didn't really do much except show-case his love for sharpening his tongue on Malaysians. What happened to being politically correct 'cause of our vulnerability.

Today was.. quiet. I felt so much like a primary school kid again that I was oh so tempted to put my finger to my lips and sit there the rest of the period that way.

He bursts into the classroom, slams the door (I swear he almost scared himself), and shouts about how we think we're in some kampong (pronounced as campon, as in tampon with a c). "What's all this tomfoolery!" He hollers, along with a string of other bombastic words. Maybe I should learn from him and inject (or is it infuse?) my conversation and speech with wit and powderful vocab. Something along the lines of: "Sarah! Quit being a tom fool!" or "Hannah! Why are you such a tom!" or maybe "Sam! Is your name tom?!" OK i shall cease being lame. (Look! Big word!) Back to the point anyways, that guy was one scary teach. He even wondered why he instills so much fear in people. I really wonder why.

2007-01-22T21:17:00.000+08:00

Who needs SD lessons when you've got these (ripped them off my sister's friend's blog who ripped it off someone else's blog):

Lesson 1
A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbour. Before shesays a word, Bob says, "I'll give you Â£800 to drop that towel." After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob. After a few seconds, Bob hands her Â£800 and leaves.The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets tothe bathroom, her husband asks, "Who was that?" "It was Bob the next door neighbour," she replies."Great!" the husband says, "Did he say anything about the Â£800 he owes me?"
Moral of the story: If you share critical information pertaining to credit and riskwith your shareholders in time , you may be in a position to prevent avoidableexposure

Lesson 2
A priest offered a nun a lift. She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown toreveal a leg. The priest nearly had an accident. After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg.The nun said, "Father,remember Psalm 129?"The priest removed his hand.But, changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again. The nun once again said,"Father, remember Psalm 129?"The priest apologised "Sorry sister but the flesh is weak."Arriving at the convent,the nun went on her way. On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129. It said, "Go forthand seek, further up, you will find glory."
Moral of the story: If you are not well informed in your job, you might miss a great opportunity

Lesson 3
A sales rep, an administration clerk, and the manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a Genie comes out. The Genie says, "I'll give each of you just one wish." "Me first! Me first!" says the admin clerk. "I want to be in the Bahamas, driving aspeedboat, without a care in the world." Puff! She's gone."Me next! Me next!" says the sales rep. "I want to be in Hawaii , relaxing on the beachwith my personal masseuse, an endless supply of Pina Coladas and the love of my life." Puff! He's gone. "OK, you're up," the Genie says to the manager. The manager says, "I want those two back in the office after lunch."
Moral of the story: Always let your boss have the first say

Lesson 4
An eagle was sitting on a tree resting, doing nothing. A small rabbit saw the eagleand asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing?" The eagle answered: "Sure,why not." So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the eagle and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.
Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very,very high up

Lesson 5
A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the energy." "Well, why don't you nibble on so me of my droppings?" replied the bull. "They're packed with nutrients."The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung,he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, the turkey was proudly perched at the top of the tree. He was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot him out of the tree.
Moral of the story: BullShit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there

Lesson 6
A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell tothe ground into a large field. While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him.As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realize how warm he was. The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound,the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.
Moral of the story:(1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy(2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend(3) And when you're in deep shit, it's best to keep your mouth shut!

This ends the 3-minute management course.

Ain't that something.

2007-01-21T23:12:00.000+08:00

Omigawdomigawdomigawd...!

I just had the biggest fright in my life. I swear, I'm never going to read fan fiction/play online games/generally do anything unrelated to research, when I'm supposed to be doing my homework. (hmm, what is it I'm doing right now..)

Anyway, back to the point. I was trying to be the hard-working mugger that i always am (riiiight), and do some research on Intelligent Design, but due to my utter lack of self-discipline (everyone has their vices), I managed to open windows for messenger, fanfiction.net, hotmail, my blog etc.

While i was furiously trying to finish reading a REALLY short fic, this McAfee VirusScan thing POPPED out of no where with an alert that a Trojan something or another had been detected on my computer. Fweak! Though i would very much like to say that I'm really tech savvy and all, in reality, i couldn't be more of a klutz.

So i do what every other un-tech savvy person would do, freak out and frantically click on whatever McAfee Virus thing i could find. Low and behold, i managed to activate the scanner. By that time i was positively animal-like, what with my perspiring all over the place and tearing my hair out.

Finally, after what seems like a gazillion years had passed, the program detected the Trojan thing. I then proceed to do what I'm sure most people would do, delete that stupid-irritating-no-idea-how-it-got-there file, but what do you know, the file can't be found.

HUH??

WHAT THE HELL?!

After making me age about 10 years prematurely, the file can't be found. I suppose i should be feeling relieved. Call me paranoid, but i have this niggling feeling that it's hiding somewhere bidding it's time before launching a full-scale attack.

Wow. I'm glad i got that off my chest. I feel all purged now. Maybe this blogging thing does have it's benefits after all. Well, back to work i say, my test-pad paper is calling to me.

2007-01-12T21:15:00.000+08:00

Harry Potter: OotP Sneak Peek!
Check out this video. Makes the 12th of July seem like such an eternity away! Hehe, somebody make a date with me to watch it! From what I've seen so far, the entire cast doesn't look too bad, with the exceptional odd hairstyles here and there. Well, except for Helena Bonham Carter, who looks absolutely fantastic as Bellatrix Lestrange.

Eck.. I'm going to drown myself in Harry Potter Fan-fiction in the time being, to pass the time away. Alright who am i kidding. I have absolutely no time to spare 'cause i have about a foot high worth of work still untouched and collecting dust. I am, as usual, procrastinating. Oh hell. it's already 2125 hrs. It's highly unlikely that I'll ever tackle that hideously gargantuan pile of worksheets and notes tonight. so, why not enjoy the rest of the night in the cool coziness of my study room (a paradox, heh!) reading lovely soppy and sweet fan-fiction. :]

2007-01-12T20:43:00.000+08:00

2007-01-12T20:34:00.001+08:00

2007-01-12T18:50:00.000+08:00

Charliieee! Charliiiee!

Eeeeee.. the hair on my arms stood up and i'm covered in goosebumps.

2007-01-08T22:06:00.000+08:00

I found this wacky web tales thing, and omg. Just read it-

Up Close and Personal
Welcome to The Naomi Show! Tonight Naomi will be interviewing Johnny Depp.

Naomi: And here's my first guest now. Glad you could join us tonight, Johnny Depp. Having you on the show makes me feel kind!
Johnny Depp: It makes me feel kind, too, Naomi! It's cute of you to invite me.
Naomi: There's been a lot of hot talk about your trip to Madagascar with Kate Mulgrew. In fact, in today's The Tribune, Nian-Rong wrote a column about your trip.
Johnny Depp: I read it, but that reporter made up the whole story. Kate Mulgrew and I have never even been to Madagascar. In fact, we haven't been out of London for 107271789 years.
Naomi: Sounds like you were framed.
Johnny Depp: That's right. What else would you like to know?
Naomi: Is it true that you own more than 4664244647 barnacles?
Johnny Depp: I do own barnacles, but only two.
Naomi: Well folks, we're out of time. Thanks, Johnny Depp. I really enjoyed sleeping with you!
Johnny Depp: I enjoyed sleeping with you, too!

Eck. Get your own here i almost fell off my chair laughing at the last one but my butt's too sore. Have fun!

2007-01-08T21:44:00.000+08:00

OWWWW!!!!!
Seriously, that is the only word i have for today. My ass feels like a baboon's and my legs are slowly and excruciatingly falling off. I am in so much pain, i can't even drag myself to the kitchen to drink water even though I'm parched. Sick though this may sound, i also had to haul my butt up the stairs, if you get what i mean and a nice long shower has never felt so good. Except maybe after India. I have never really hated PE before (yeah right, who am i kidding). OK so maybe physical stuff isn't exactly my forte. Eck. I need to toughen up before i turn into a complete pile of blubber. Someone run with me!! ;] Please? OK, time to crawl off to bed and tuck myself into my luxuriously cool blanket. Good night and sweet dreams whoever-actually-reads-this-stupid-unknown-log-i-mean-blog.

2006-12-23T22:50:00.000+08:00

DANG!
I typed out this darn long post about India OCIP and I have absolutely no idea what I pressed buuuuut.. IT GOT DELETED! Ok, I can't be bothered to type it all out again. Please refer to other people's blogs. Furthermore, my photos are taking eons to load. How extremely, annoyingly frustrating. I swear I will finish uploading ALL my photos by tonight!

Anyway.. I was dared by my sisters to drink this weird concoction they made for $10. Who wouldn't do it? Let me start from the very beginning. My cousin Beat-rice invited us for a christmas pageant thingy thing at her church. Wowee, if only catholic churches put as much effort into christmas celebrations, we wouldn't have a problem with a deterioting catholic population.

Oh well. Anyway, time to move away from sensitive topics, we went to Swenson's after that where we shared an earthquake. The problem is, it's so huge that by the time we've managed to struggle through 3 scoops, the other 2 have melted. Weelll, we had no choice but to make it as edible as possible by adding 1) Salt & Pepper 2) Ketchup 3) Froth from a Blueberry Soda 4) Some orange sherbet and mix 'em all together. Yummy right? So being lovely siblings as they are, my darling sisters poured out a sample into a small container and promptly dared me to drink it all up for a whopping $10! Knowing full well that i'm still suffering from a chronic case of diarhea. I so love them very much. Oh well, so i drank it all, with my face screwed up attractively like a wrinkled prune, but i have my doubts that i'll ever see the money being coughed up. They say they should have added chilli sauce.

2006-11-30T04:14:00.000+08:00

I am an Aquarius. (Also known as "Water Bearer") My Horroscope starts like this:
" A hopeless and helpless dreamer, forever out of touch with reality, an Aquarius is ever lost in her own fantasy world. " (Read more Find yours)

Egads, it's 4:15 am! i have no idea why I'm still awake. No wonder I'm like half dead most of the time. My freaking braces are killing me! Right. I think I'm beginning to blabber nonsense in my half delirious state.

Oh well, hopefully I'll sustain this blogging. Now all i have to do is link people.

Oh man oh man.. haha. I'm so excited. It hasn't really sunk in yet that I'm leaving for India this Saturday. i haven't even packed my stuff. Though i made a huge step forward today, moving in the right direction, I went to buy groceries! As in soap, shampoo, food supply etc. Note to self: My father and i may have been a little over enthusiastic about stocking up. omg, i think my father has the impression that we're going trekking in a jungle, where there is a looming possibility of starvation. Oh well, what is that they say again? Ah! Better safe than sorry. then again there's such a thing as having too much of a good thing.

Right then. Off to bed i go. Try to snatch an hour or so of Zzzs. I'm beginning to prattle on. All that mindless babble

2006-11-04T13:51:00.000+08:00

Wow. Ok First of all, this is not the first time i've attempted to set up a blog. Terrible. I don't know why. Probably 'cause i end up rambling on and on like this. Ok, so Tricia tells me to just blog cool stuff. Haha. Well, like her blog. Ok. I will try