565. after exam, letting out

Rant of the day: There's something wrong with my PC.

I seriously HATE my job. I absolutely find no passion in it and I'm still hanging on because I needed the money to sustain my studies. Was already expected alot of work to be thrown at once I'm back at work but didn't realise that it's SO F**KING many arrows!

Anyway, it's not my plan to stay here forever.

Exam is finally over. The project is also considered completed and awaits submission on coming Saturday. The exam hall was freezing cold. Even with my jacket on, I'm still feeling the chill. I've not stepped into an exam hall for ages and it definitely brings back memories. Might not be good one though. Haha.

It happens to be Natalie's pre-birthday celebration. So some of us actually gathered to Marina Square for lunch. I seriously don't like most of the ice-cream taste at Yuki Yaki but since it's hard work of making it by Natalie and Sharon, we shall all finish them up. Food was ok though but somehow, it felt like Seoul Garden.

After eating, it's camera-whoring time and of course group photos.

The girls... well, not exactly. There's "something" at the back.

And the charming guys (because I'm in the photo). Without a doubt, the class has more girls than guys.

Besides the exam, I've also donated my blood after 5 long years. Not exactly painful but it's quite tiring after losing 450ml of fresh blood. Not alot actually. And of course, it takes alot of courage to let the nurse pokes the yakult-straw-sized needle into your vein. I've got to say it's very scary for first timers but once you've been through it, it's really quite nothing.

Believe it, there's quite a number of girls donating blood and there's actually guys who'd chickened out at the very last minute. Whimp...

But I really like their new rubber bandage. It comes in many colours and it's quite lasting. Unlike those plasters, it doesn't comes off easily! And it has cute prints. Mine was the dinosaurs. Cute right?

564. mumbai da... india...

Rant of the day: Tomorrow is the showdown!

This is one of my favourite commercials. It is so freaking funny!

Here comes the Stardust trailer mentioned in my previous post. Watch it! I'll give 4 out of 5. I'm serious. It's remarkable...

563. study and stardust

Rant of the day: Study... study... study...

Exams is just around the corner and everyone (well... everyone I assume...) is studying hard. I'm sure everyone is aiming for a distinction for the first module. Good start I suppose. Met up for a couple of days with some of the closer classmates but sometimes, I felt studying in groups might not necessary be a good idea. Advantage is that we can all share our knowledge on our stronger topics (provided that all are willing to share). Disadvantage is that we will sure to deviate from studying and usually end up chit-chatting instead (so typical).

I've skimmed through the chapters and roughly remembers the more important points but hasn't really start the memorising portion. But will memorising work? It's no longer those secondary school days where we just need to memorise word for word and you'll sure get a distinction. It's not like poly days where memory work can get you quite far ahead. Situation isn't the same now. We need explanations with examples but these ain't really covered much in the notes. Stress...

But I'm sure we will all get through it.

Anyway, watch "Stardust". From the previews, you'll prolly thinks that it's another mythical and magical movie. You'll prolly be expecting exaggerated graphics and animations. No doubt, it is ANOTHER fantasy, mythical and magical movie with lotsa exaggerated graphics and animations. BUT, it has an element which is seldom found in such typical movies -- romance.

Compare it with movies like Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Pan's Labyrinth. Where's the romance element? Don't tell me the "puppy love" thingy in Harry Potter's movies is romance. I'll slap you...

Besides the romance element, Stardust also have the comedy element in it. In many scenes, it actually brought many movie-goers to laughter. The plot creatively used seven spirits as clowns to enhance the comedy element.

And did I missed out the actors and actresses? They are fantastic! Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro are so good! Michelle Pfeiffer is really so sexy for her age! Not forgetting the super sweet Claire Danes as Yvaine, the fallen star. And for the gals, do watch out for Charlie Cox as Tristan. I'm sure you'll drool...

Well, it's late now. Time to rest. Nitez peps!

562. out-of-office

Quote of the day: To run the country well, you'll need to have three things. Firstly, a strong army. Secondly, enough food for everyone. Thirdly, citizens' trust for the country.

-- Confucius

Exam is just around the corner and I'd barely started much. Will go on full time studying starting from tomorrow till Sunday. Hope that I'll do just as fine and pass with flying colours. Hope that I can get my first distinction.

I wouldn't be returning to office till next Thursday! So happy. Finally got a chance to put "Out-of-Office" message in my office email! Tomorrow is my off-in-lieu for Hari Raya Puasa. Thursday is Deepavali. I'm on leave on Friday and Monday. Will be on course on Tuesday and Wednesday. Nice...

Just came home not too long ago from Xuan's grandmother's wake. Hope he's doing fine and I'm sure he will. He's a strong lad. He's also going over to the States next year for an exchange programme. So good right? I don't even get such chances. At he's age, he had travelled places where I've never thought I'll have such opportunities. Pretty tied down badly by work, money and studies. The furthest I've went was Taiwan and that was before my enlistment because I have TIME! And of course, the other time was with Army.

Just something to share -- Don't commit any crime, at least not those that will get you rotan. See this and you'll know what I meant. Ouch!

561. power house

Question of the day: Where did the famous chili crab originated from?

St. James is not call the power house for nothing. It's HUGE! It's my first time there actually and seldom hear any stuff from others. If it's not for Fiona's birthday celebration, I'll prooly never step in there. Though it's not my cup of tea but I'm really really impressed with the creators. Incorporating the old days of clubbing (where we all sit and enjoy the show of singing and dancing) with the current way (where we all rush to the dance floor and dance like there's no tomorrow).

There's like 45min of performance and then 45min of rest time where the DJ will start doing his thing and the party-goers will start to "yo-ah-yo" at their tables. And the cycle will repeat. Interesting right? The entire St. James is divided into many many rooms, similar to MoS. Besides the KTV pub area above Dragonfly (one of the room), the rest of the rooms all comes with stage performances. Dragonfly is more of the Cantopop thing. Performaces are mainly in Cantonese and Chinese with occasional English songs. If you want English performaces, I'll recommend the RnB and retro rooms.

Pre-party cam-whoring. Don't waste the time and chance. Since we're all dressed up, might as well snap some pictures!

How can we not take a picture with the birthday girl! The girls are all in their make-ups like blooming flowers. And coincidentally, dear and Fiona put up their green eye shadow. Guess what, I'd actually helped dear with her eye shadow! Heehee... Not bad right? Mixture of green and blue!

Performace by Yutaki. Happens to be one of the instructors at Studio Wu but I'd never seen him before previously because I'd never attended his classes. Apparently, he's also Fiona's idol friend! She cannot stop talking about him and her eyes were always glued to all his performances.

I seriously don't know who is she but her performances (mainly Chinese oldies) are damn good! The techniques she used for the oldies are really remarkable.

The rest of performances are good also but didn't snap the pictures due to poor lighting. The photos all turned out either dark or blurred. So if you wanna know and feel the power of the power house, do make a trip down yourself! But perhaps just note also the average age of the customers are slightly older. Even I felt young there! Haha...

560. family day

Rant of the day: I'm such a scatter-brain!!!

We were quite fortunate that adverse weather did not occur during Family Day. It will be bad if rain starts falling down and everyone is trap in Zoo.

I'm such a scatter-brain. I'd actually left the tickets at home when I'd reached Zoo. Worse thing is Isaac's ticket was with me and I left it at home too! Shit! So, took a cab home just to grab the tickets and back to Zoo, which cost me $20. Ouch!

Door gift was really good -- a set of portable utensils that consist of fork, spoon and knife. Neat! But it's really sad that only staff was entitled to the door gift. Non-staff wasn't given. What the? Food was pretty bad I suppose. We pre-ordered KFC Zinger meal but was damn disappointed when it wasn't a complete set. There's no coleslaw and the burger does not have vegetables.

Didn't win anything home from the lucky draw. The draw was conducted intermittently throughout the programme and after waiting for sometime, dear and I decided to go for our exploration instead. It's quite a waste of time to just sit there on the uncomfortable chair and watch the shows prepared and designed for the kids.

It's my first time watching lions in their pack. The lion's roar is quite amazing. But unfortunately, the roar wasn't captured clearly in the video. And they didn't fight. No actions either...

559. halloween party at zouk

Rant of the day: I can't stand *ahem* anymore! She really pushed my patience to the limit.

I should have this uploaded earlier on but was too tired and lazy to reduce the picture size and blog. Anyway, the Halloween Party at Zouk was a blast! It's literally 人间地狱 (living hell) where demons and spirits were everywhere. Definitely not for the weak-hearted.

So, it's gonna be a scary ride now. Please click on the [X] on your explorer now if you are afraid (coward). Ready? Here goes...

The charming vampire with his troop of 2 bootilicoius demon girls. Watch out for their red sequinn trident. They'll shaft it up your arse if you touch them!

Souls that were trapped in Zouk. Save them? Or you prefer to join them?

Just when you thought nurses are sexy. You will never want to bring this one home I'm sure!

Chinese zombies were so typical that day. Don't they find that charm on their forehead irritating?

This is damn funny! Rowan Atkinson with the Manhattan Maid in Zouk! But since when Mr. Bean changed his bear?

I seriously don't know what monster is this. The sequel to Adam's Family? But he need some facelift. It's sagging...

The Chinese ghost couple appearing in the midst of the crowd. But their make-up seriously need some touching up.

This is "scary". I'm soooooooooooo "afraid"... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Barney's gonna teach you sing and dance!

Now, this is really SCARY! I'll prolly shit my pants if I'm the taxi driver picking them up. *shivers*

But dear does not need any costume. Here comes the Sadako! She'll crawl out from your TV set in 7 days. riiiiiinnnnnnnnggggggggg...

Ok, picked the most interesting out of the huge lot of photographs. There's actually alot more like Catwoman, Harry Potter, Puss in Boots, Traffic Light, Hongkong Policewomen and lotsa undead criminals in chains. I'm so looking forward to next year's Halloween Party! Eh, a lil too early now... Hahaha...

558. i'm screwed

Rant of the day: I've got stiff neck... Ouch!

I'm so drained with all the travelling today. Revenue House to Bukit Merah. Bukit Merah back to Revenue House. Revenue House to SIM. So physically draining...

But today was one of the most appreciated seminars I've conducted so far even though there were too much awkward silence in between. The participants were very welcoming us as guest speakers. Even after we've ended the session and I'm walking out to grab some drinks with TY at Queensway, there's this participant whom actually shouted out from his car window to thank me. I'm so touched. THANK YOU!

Well, since we were already at Queensway and were "dying" from thirst, we decided to grab a refreshing drink from the market. And yes, it's the durian milkshake for me! Haven't had it for ages! The last time was with Xuan when we were lazing at Ikea.

It also happened that it's my last lecture for PR Practice and Writing. Ears were wide opened to catch any exam tips. Hope all those mentioned in class helps. What's left is the group assignment but we are quite on track. I'm sure written exam ain't easy to score distinction and it's gonna depend heavily on the assignment to at least help us push slightly higher towards the distinction level. Well, unless we screw up both. Haha...

I'm on leave tomorrow but ain't slacking at home. Will need to concentrate hard for my income tax exam on Monday. Haven't start on any chapter yet. I'm screwed!

557. 天国阶梯

Quote of the day: 活着是一种幸福。

生命是如此的短暂……脆弱……不堪一击……

Evelyn就这样匆匆的离我们而去。消息实在是来得太突然了。大家仍然无法接受她突然的爬上天国的阶梯。生命就这样吗？就这样的结束了吗？That's it？

事发的来龙去脉我真的不是很清楚，只知道是在星期日的早上发生的。听说是在她家附近，再过交通灯的时候被一两罗里撞飞。罗里司机并没有当下下车帮忙，反而是拔腿就跑！这种hit-and-run的不负责任行为真叫人愤怒。如果司机马上下车急救，Evelyn还会有一线生机。

不知道司机是否已遭逮捕，但我相信有现世报。老天有眼。无论她/他跑到哪儿里，都会有报应的。因为天网恢恢、疏而不漏，一定难逃“法”眼！

可怜的是她留下来的高龄母亲，孤零零的留在空房子里。我的心很痛、很难过。不知道能说什么……不知道能做什么……

嗨！

现在觉得能活过每一天是一种幸福，因为我们永远都不知道是否还能看到明天的太阳。No matter what you are facing now is good or bad, it's a blessing to stay alive each day. 所以，一定要珍惜眼前人。

嗨！

556. make-over

Shock of the day: Did she really pass away?

I can't believe my eyes when the sms came in. For a moment, I thought it was a prank sms. She's was still talking to me in office on Friday and now... gone... But I'll confirm tomorrow in office. If it's real, what about her team? If it's not real, who started the sick joke?

I'm still praying that it's just a lame prank...

Anyway, it's quite an interesting Sunday but a lil short though. Anna Sui's promoter actually tried to get dear to do some make-over with their product for free but as a demonstration model. Thought it was quite cool to do so. A simple make-over might cost you quite a price but dear got it free and it's one of her favourite cosmetics brand.

We were slightly early for the make-over and so they decided to start the preparation. The make-up artiste started powdering heavily on dear's face.

The crowd was really slow and perhaps due to the time of the day, no much shoppers around but occasionally, there were still some curious on-lookers trying to get some make-up tips and of course try the testers themselves.

The colours gradually developed and it looks like an art but done on the face. Concealer. Loose powder. Eye shadow. Blusher. Eyebrow pencil. Lip gloss. Glitter powder. It's like a "Cosmetics Recognition" lesson for me. Haha...

After about 45min, it's finally done. Here comes my gorgeous babe. So beautiful! So since I'm writing about this, do some free advert for Anna Sui. Those cosmetics used for dear's make-over were the Secret Wish series and quite a number of them are award winning cosmetics. Don't ask me what award they won as I seriously don't know. Haha...

So how can I not take a shot with my gorgeous babe? Jealous or not guys?

555. lil brother's 21st birthday

Rant of the day: Rice is pronouced brain dead...

Happy 21st birthday lil brother! Not sure if see this message though as he's in Brunei. Good thing is he's coming back soon and mum will still be in Singapore as her holiday trip to China is in the mid December (I think). But I'll be doing my ICT though. Considered a "holiday" for me too as it's a break from work.

Every Saturday is school project day and today as usual, meet up Royston and Ben to try finishing whatever we have left. We are dead tired... So bad that all of us couldn't wake up on time and we were all late. Haha. But I'm still the earliest though. Well, because I'm staying closest to our meet up point.

Just remembered what I've wanted to put in my blog for the past week. Dear bought me 2 wonderful pressies and I can happily strike them off from my wishlist.

A slick water-bottle. Nice, slim, durable and DOESN'T leak. Perfect when I'm bringing it to work, school and gym. It's the everywhere water-bottle. Definitely the bottle to bring to the family day in Zoo!

A super nice Nike shoe bag with shiny black and gold surface. So nice that I can't really bare to take it out from the plastic bag. Want to keep it in the best condition.

I love them so much dear. A BIG thank you! Love ya!

Ok, need to do project now. Night peps!

554. happy brithday mum

Rant of the day: Breathe... My resignation letter is in my office PC. Anytime...

I've finally got some time to sit down and blog. It's been a busy and tiring week. Haven't have enough sleep for the past 3 weeks. How sad...

Can't remember exactly what I'd wanted to blog down for the past week. Anyway, dear passed her Traffic Police Test with flying colours! 8 points on the FIRST attempt! That is so kewl. I took 2 attempts and still got a 16 points when I passed. Congrats dear!

I'd also finally digged some quality time to celebrate mum's belated birthday. I love you mum! Happy birthday!

Had a simple yet wonderful dinner at NYDC earlier on. It's mum first time visit there. So is dear's.

It's mum's first time on baked rice and think she quite like it. Hee... Notice the cardigan she's wearing? She knitted it herself!

And of course, their famous mud-pies! Yummy! It's nice of the staff to get us a candle lighted.

She really like the Chomel brooch and clip-on earrings. Though they don't come in a set but it matches each other. So, might as well buy both.

And dear was there with us for the dinner. Hope she like the arrangement.

Of course, left some short but quality time to ourselves. Dear's low-cut dress sexy right? Guys, grab some tissue for your bleeding nose now...

While I'm blogging now, it's actually my lil brother's 21st birthday but unfortunately he's in Brunei. Hope he'll do a mini celebration there. Happy birthday dude!

Anyway, it's Halloween next weekend. I'm going Zouk with dear for the "scary" party. Anyone wanna join us? Queue early... It's gonna be freaking crowded!

553. 失去平衡

Rant of the day: I'm trying not to procrastinate...

我真的很累。

我的压力很大。

我很想哭可是眼泪却往肚子里流。

直到昨天，才按耐不住心情。泪珠一颗颗的落下。顿时间不知道自己是盲努力还是蠢。已经很尽量安排时间来做工，功课和谈恋爱。但得到的是什么呢？

无论计划再周详，还是会忽略一些些东西。可能我真的太笨了。不管怎么安排与计划，都无法照顾全部。我真的不知道如何熬过这两年半。我是不是很失败？现在的我，好像是走在一条很细很细的钢线上，随时会因为失去平衡而跌落。真得快崩溃了。

我真的需要支持与体谅……体谅……

算了吧……只能走一步算一步了。

今天听到了一个让我傻眼的秘密。缘分得来不易。衷心的祝福他们能长长久久。既然是秘密，就不方便再网上透漏太多了。

时间悄悄的划过身边。2007年就不知不觉地来到了第四季了。很快的就要过圣诞节。很快的就要倒数2008年。时间转得真快……

552. sunday

Rant of the day: Hate tomorrow...

The weekend passes faster than my blinking eye. In a mere 8min, it'll be the start of a new week. How disgusting it is when you haven't really enjoyed the weekend.

Anyway, glad that dear had finally changed her mobile. The previous had gave her so much problem. Damn poor reception. Faulty keypad. Useless bluetooth. Lousy camera. And now, she finally bought a brand new Sony Ericsson W660i. Packed with full features of a walkman phone and comes with a 2-megapixel camera, just in case she didn't bring her camera and need to snap some shots. It's light and thin. Perfect for all peps who fine bulky devices a chore.

We bought similar mobile straps earlier on today. Dear also bought a damn sweet gold handphone pouch that can not only hold handphone, but also some spare cash and ez-link card. Cool right?

Also, weekend is used for project meetings. The first project meeting done in a library and I seriously thinks that we should have a change in location for future meetings. We can't really discuss. Have to always consider the discussion volume. So perhaps in some quiet MacDonald's for the next meeting.

We found an empty table and poured all our materials for the past week that we've individually gathered and discuss the requirements. The table had barely any space left. Royston brought so much information to reference. He's so hardworking. Ben looked tired. Think he had went back camp earlier on. Mark joined us for discussion. He's doing the project alone as he's unable to form a group. But we always welcome him to join us. He always liven the discussions.

Well, Monday tomorrow. Start of my "taxing" work again. Tired...

551. sexy names

Quote of the day: TGIF

Get Your Sexy Name

Right... I'm an Expert Rendering Intense Caresses. Whoever is desperate in needing caresses can look for me. But I've got selection criteria. Haha. But what if I use "Rice" as my name? Here's what I've got:

Get Your Sexy Name

Wooo... Romeo Imparting Caresses and Embraces. See, I'm still a caress expert! Bleah!

Anyway, tried using office resources to do my group project this evening but failed miserably. I can't print the information out! All the pages are blank. @#$%^&* I'll use print-screen on Monday instead.

The weekend is finally here! Oh my body need some serious maintenance on my bed.