Sakae Sucks!

Oooh I lurve this new theme.. it’s called “Misty Look”… It’s purrfect!!! Meow!!

On the other hand…

I just went to Sakae Sushi… Bad bad imitation of Japanese hospitality. They can’t even say welcome in Japanese properly, they don’t bow, they don’t face you when they say it, they’re disgrunted Singaporean youngsters earning extra pay after school. And the food ain’t that great, it’s just cheap. The green tea served comes in teabags and an empty cup, which you fill with “hot” water from a tap on the side of the table. And the water isn’t even hot enough, it’s lukewarm! The waiter who brings my order flashes a split second view of his teeth and mutters ”enjoy ur meal”, the forced smile disappears so fast by the time he turns 20 degrees away his face is back to it’s original “can’t wait to go home” expression. Yet, it’s swarming with people. I don’t get it. Somebody educate me, please.  

The Terminator for President

Fly me to LA this instant! I wish Youtube can upload a new clip of Craig Ferguson’s monologue everyday… He’s the funniest standup ever! :p

Oscars!!!

I can’t wait to catch the Oscars next monday (thank you Channel 5!) although because of school I gotta catch the second telecast at 10pm..
I think I know what’s gotten me so much into the Oscars this year… I think it’s because Ellen DeGeneres is hosting (Go Ellen! Next year they should get Craig Ferguson!!). I liked her monologues which I downloaded and watched on YouTube, I love her talk shows, & personally I think she deserves the honour of hosting the Academy Awards after being a reputable host for other programs for more than 15 years. Just go read her profile at Oscars.com!

I hope Babel doesn’t get too many awards. It’s such a depressing movie. Just because it tells us what we already know about the ugliness of this world we live in, doesn’t mean it’s a great movie. I think we need more happy movies like Little Miss Sunshine!!

Notes on a Scandal and The Queen look like movies I should catch. Anybody wanta go watch with me??

A face too common

It’s been a rather relaxing and sinful Chinese New Year for me… Went for lots and lots of good food and no work out at all (save for the long walk up the stairs leading to the Planetarium in KL only to realise it’s closed) and then came back to JB only to binge somemore. How can anyone resist festive goodies?? And to top it off, I ate KFC today!! Horror of horrors… I’ve abstained from fried chicken for almost 3 years because it’s so unhealthy, being bad for blood type B… It was good, but not as fantastic as the euphoria of let’s say, a smoker’s first puff after successfully steering clear of ciggies for 3 months.

Anyways, yesterday as soon as I came back to JB this huge group of relatives (descendants of my Grandaunt) came over and once again, I’m reminded of my common face… They say I look very much like this other distant cousin of mine and apparently the resemblance is striking; so much so that they almost mistook me for her. Hello?? She arrived not long after and she looks NOTHING like me.

Explains how people seem to think they know someone who looks like me or mistake me for somebody else.. It happens almost everywhere I go… I was mistaken for (or identified as the Girl who looks familiar to) 
my sister’s colleague’s friend, “that Nanyang girl friend”, “the customer who came by last Tuesday to Banana Republic (in Vancouver?!?)”, “a friend who talks and behaves EXACTLY like me”, “somebody’s friend Ivy”, “somebody’s close friend from ____”, etc etc. It’s horrid & truly annoying.

To think I was told that I had this “sophisticated look” before. Bah. What nonsense. I need to shave my head bald soon to stop this madness. Muahaha.

Holidays cheers~!

Folks!! I’m taking a holiday from everything; technology, emails, msn, blog, etc for the coming holiday week. Ok maybe I’ll still check my emails when I can (it’s impossible to NOT check my emails for more than 2 days..lol), but I’m going to try my best to spend quality time with my family instead of sitting in front of my lappie searching for random youtube videos & just doing mindless surfing ard the net, which I’m prone to do at home… you guys can still reach me at my cell phone, but if you sms me I might not reply unless it’s absolutely necessary because well, roaming messages cost me SGD 0.63 a-piece. Not cheap. Best thing is to email me, I should be able to return ur emails by middle of next week.

Happy Chinese New Year to all who visit my blog!!

Potter magic

I caught Ms Potter today out of total impulse. And I don’t regret it at all. Not only was the movie great, I shared popcorn with this really nice lady from Sarawak who’s married to a Dutch guy and comes to Singapore once in a while for the entertainment.
It’s funny cuz we were having a casual conversation while in the line for popcorn (actually there was no line, it’s 1pm on a wednesday, albeit a Valentine’s Day) and I didnt know she bought seats for the same movie as me, (and her seat was right beside mine) until she plonked down with a large popcorn and Sprite. haha.

Anyway Renee Zellweger, like Reese Witherspoon, are 2 of the most outstanding actresses who I admire. The thing I love about them is that they can change their accents so easily from an edgy American to a crisp, classy British accent depending on the characters they play without sounding like they’re trying too hard to sound either way. Ewan McGregor worked really well with Renee this time, maybe the casting was inspired from Down with Love, another movie I absolutely loved.

Dinner with my sis was curried eggplant crepes at Out of the Pan in the basement of Raffles City shopping centre. It was pretty gd, but I think I still prefer my Peking duck crepe, which has this really nice plum sauce. hehe.

I shall be heading back to my ‘motherland’ on friday. Can’t wait to go KL!! It’s been years since my family took a holiday. I think my parents deserve a break… They’ve been working their ass off for… I’ve totally lost count of how long… The only thing is, I’ve got an exam right on the saturday during the CNY week! Cheese and Whiskers..!! (if anyone remembers Rat in a Hat from Bananas in Pajamas…lol)  

Szez’s Man-Babes

Mmmmmm. These men make me melt…  :p

Day out on Sunday

Sunday is not a good day to work the heartland malls. You barely get breathing space, the people are all shabbily dressed (clothes I’d wear to bed are staple attire for the heartland shopper) which somehow affects the way they behave. I think it’s official. This island is saturated. Despite what they say about the low fertility rates and dwindling resident-population replacement and the need to import foreign migrants over to make up numbers… This island-state is going to crumble under the weight of its people, especially when they’re digging too many tunnels for the new MRT lines…

You can’t even find a seat in the food court without having to constantly avoid the Lady Pushing the Pram in your direction without stopping because she wasn’t looking where she was going (somehow she just assumes the pram which isn’t visible up to my eye level clears the way for her Royal Majesty), or the aunties who are screaming at the top of their lungs at each other over a table (“…I won’t give you my seat!! Who do you think you are?!?” etc), or people of all ages who like to cut across you from nowhere, almost stamping on ur feet, or just the capricious diners who stand take a S-L-O-W stroll along the crowded corridor while deciding where to go for dinner and refuse to budge when you want to get past them. For goodness sake. *slaps forehead*

Anyways, today was great nonetheless. Met up with the Su’s (Suri and Suguna) for brunch at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf at Takashimaya and had a great time catching up (except for the intruder of the Baby Cockroach who scared the shit out of me). :p
Suri has changed dramatically. She was the shy, soft-spoken girl in secondary school. After years of working and experiencing relationships and dark periods in her life, she’s now this sassy social butterfly who’s got more life lessons to teach than scholars. Life, afterall, isn’t just confined to academia and professions. You can’t take advice from happy people who’s never had a setback on how to deal with the Dark Side.
Suguna on the other hand, has her share of fascinating family tales and her need to establish independence & autonomy over her life to tell. I’m lucky my parents respect my privacy and independence. I guess everyone has their own problems. My life seems so much breezier compared to many I’ve spoken to, but what I am most thankful for is the way I’ve gained independence over the years by not being by my parents’ side. It’s toughened me considerably. Always give thanks to the troubles you get in life because without them, you’re just floating through the formalities of modern expectations without discovering the real you’s inside – the lover, the rebel, the conquerer, the leader, the angel, the bitch, the child, the risk-taker, the meeky self, the friend, the star, the survivor, the brat, the weakling, the evil, and everybody else inside you who’s still dormant until the awakening that comes with life experiences.

3 single girls out on a lazy Sunday. What else can we talk about besides aspirations & family issues? GUYS. lol. Some situations I find myself in become typical and cliched stories as I talk to girlfriends about their history with guys. Does that mean guys are so predictable and generic, that once you know a few of them you basically know the whole species?? ROTFLOL. Tell me if I’m wrong, dude-readers. What other kinds of guys are there out there besides the
Hot-and-not-so-smart-but-humble (5*..Personality saves the day),
Hot-and-smart-and-humble (5*…I wanta marry a guy like that!!!),
Hot-and-not-smart-and-arrogant (1*..Man-airheads!! Only for eye-candy)
Plain-and-very-smart (4*…at least they don’t bore you; geekiness can be charming),
Plain-and-not-so-smart (2*…good luck with the smart girls) and
Hot-and-smart-and-egoistic (0* because they’ll never respect women) ???

lol. I can so feel the daggers flying my way. Come bring it on. Let’s have the gender debate again. muahahaha.

PS: I’m finally sticking to one layout. I’ve decided on this one. hehe. NO more changes until my mood says so ok! lol.

Stating the obvious

I can’t wait for the Chinese New Year holidays next weekend, this studying non-stop (hard as I try, it’s always broken up by distractions, procrastination, and gluttony on my part) attempt is killing my soul.. One consolation is that I’ve got notes ready for exam preparation without having to read through my study guide and reference readings in the National Library. But that’s only for 2.5 out of 5 subjects that I have to prepare myself for.

Sometimes the studying mood just hits me, suddenly I sit down and am able to concentrate for 3 hours at one shot (which is quite an occasional achievement), most other times I start doing the laundry, catching Japan Hour on channel news asia, cooking dinner, making coffee, playing Spider solitaire, cleaning up a bit, spend my time browsing through Youtube or watching Prison Break (I’ve just finished season one. I’ll try not to get too psyched about season 2 when I get my hands on it, thanks to Shane the Lord of drama serials lol) etc. There are just too many things I can do besides studying, which happens to be the most important thing I hafta do. These days, I spend an average of 4 hours a day on reading through and preparing my own notes; but that’s barely enough because I also need to start practising how to produce 4 essays in 3 hours on average. God help me. Every night I pray that the next day will be productive.

It is hard being an external student studying independently. I bumped into ex classmates yesterday and suddenly I miss going to school, having the luxury to sit through lectures, although when I had to sit through them in the past I mostly didn’t pay much attention. So I guess it all comes down to the same thing: practice, practice, practice. Just like learning how to play an instrument, the more you do it the better you get at it. I’ve done a rough calculation and I’ll hafta write approximately 20 essays in my exams this year, in a span of 15 hours.

Let’s just cut the bullshit and get down to it, I tell myself all the time. I wonder if anybody understands what I’m going through.

I’ll start thinking about how to spend my time after the exams end.

Back to myself

Enuff about the melodramatic accounts of my love life, which is now but a void. It’s time to start talking about Szez again. Life is multi-dimensional; helps a lot when you don’t get ur attention lopsided to one department. 
Time ticks by; the chronology of my memory should be filled with frames of smiles more than frowns and tears.  

Good news number one: I only need around SGD 2000 to visit nepal for 2 weeks. Anybody interested to come along? Here are the details. I should be going in around mid-sept this year. I can’t wait!

OK I only have one good news so far. Was supposed to show everyone the pictures I found of other trekkers who went to Annapurna but they don’t allow me to grab their pics and paste them here.

Oh actually there’s one more thing, I openly said Singaporeans are a confused bunch in class today. Much to my dismay, none of the Singaporeans in my class stood up to defend themselves. At that point I wish Eugene was there so we can start an open debate on:
-why a certain group of Singaporean chinese can’t speak Mandarin (the jiak kantang kind)
-why they discriminate against their own citizens who speak Singlish by denying the Singlish speakers of good service

Anyway, it’s been said many times over, this subject of Singaporean behaviour. I shall leave it to the apathetic, the gagged and the brainwashed to go over what propaganda led them to believe.

Time to hit the books!