I wanna play play play

I know this is bad that I am not placing adequate time on my books.

But give me a break for today okay. I'm done with my tutorial homework. For this week only though. I need to get started on next week's soon. Do we have school on even of CNY? I hope not =( Hope Dr. Poh cancels the lecture, and some good soul will cancel the EL tutorial.

Anyway, I like the Nintendo Wii!!!!!!! Though I don't have a set myself. The games are nearly corny but I like them all the same. Very interactive, it's more than just clicking and typing on the computer and pushing of buttons on the joystick/controller.

This afternoon at CFA Yeda started watching Nodame Cantabile. Then I got the feeling all back again. Chiaki-senpaiiiiiiiiiiiii~ ♥

At night on MSN DanK told me about this new special NC episode (which I still can't find) that they filmed in Europe.

While scouting for the clip I landed upon a trailer, for the Nodame Cantabile Nintendo Wii game!!!!!!!! OH MY GOODNESS!!!!



And I found several samples as well.





They're so cool laaaa! I want to plaaayyyy.

There's Nodame Cantabile on Nintendo DS as well. But I think that one is less fun.

But there's this Japanese drum (Taikoo) game that is rather engaging though I'm just an onlooker.



Much said, I think all these are available only in Japanese =(

Anyway, I found this super lame clip. It's on Nodame too.



-_-

My Power Ranger days.

*new* Monopoly Here and Now: World Edition

Monopoly is coming up with a new board that consists of places not only in one place, but all over the world!

Vote for your favourite cities at http://www.monopolyworldvote.com/, vote for Singapore (HAHA) it's in the 37th place (which is not bad, considering the size of Singapore) and we should just let it go allllllllllll the way to the top 20! Go go go! I think we can vote there everyday. About 38 days left, we can make a difference! Do remember to log in though, haha.

Eating to a new stage

Ethan learned something new today.


He learned how to lie on his tummy! 趴地了！

Have you Ethan-ed?

The ironies lie within

I'm sure many of you knew about the MRT disruption earlier today which resulted in a breakdown of train service between Pasir Ris and Tanah Merah. (I'm sure many were asking if someone jumped into the tracks, no no, no one did I assure you)

The disruption was due to a maintenance works train which broke down while carrying out works between Tampines and Simei.

I was affected too. I heard about it from my mum in the morning but she didn't talk to me too much about it and I assumed train services would resume shortly after (Come on, they don't take that long to resume when someone jumps into the tracks. Apologise for my bluntness). Hence instead of going to the bus-stop where I can take 28 to Bedok MRT (and I'll safely avoid all the mess) I took my usual route of taking the train from Tampines MRT. And to Tampines I went.

Fortunately I was right on time for a train which arrived every 28 minutes to Tanah Merah then I'll change to a train at the middle platform and life was back to normal. Except that I was still late for my noon lecture though I left home earlier so that I'd have time to go to CFA to sign some document. And another round of good luck today, my dad drove me to school from Redhill so I was five minutes early for lesson.

On the way from Tampines to Tanah Merah the train was moving awfully slowly. S--l---o---w--l--y. So I managed to scrutinize the yellow train and saw that the front of the train was a bit..uh..weird. Like out of place or something. Didn't take photos 'cos my phone battery was running low.

I found it amusing when I learnt that it was a maintenance works train which broke down when it should be repairing another train that was faulty.

Many commuters complained of the lack of good service from the SMRT, however, how many have realised that the train have been bringing them to work/school on time on other days of their lives?

Similarly, we can get sick but this doesn't mean that doctors can't.

We are just taking things for granted. Why don't we Singaporeans become more gracious and accept inevitable incidents like this?

Be like my brother. He sat down at LJS at Eastpoint Simei with a cup of coffee and read the papers while waiting for the crowd to disperse before he took the train. He knew it was a very valid excuse to be late anyway, and he has a clean record for punctuality. In the end he was two hours late for work. And another irony is, he got a pay rise today. Don't you just wanna be him?

Duo-disaster

Due to the recent rapid climate changes, there have been two disasters occuring at the same place.

Drought and an oil spill.

On my face.

Snaplion

It is never easy to take a photo of (and with) a going-three-month-old baby...
































...unless he's asleep.

忙到我累垮了

Busybaby.

People In Order

Look at this one!

Envious

She is soooo young but she already has got a career. Damn.

=(

And her career is exciting.

=((

And she is wealthy!

=(((

Hahahahhah. Sour grapes.

But really, take a look.

American Idol 7 and other things

Ah! AI is back with its seventh installation. Yeay.

And then there are two-hour-specials tonight and tomorrow night. Four auditions to watch in two nights! Yeay!

And then?

And then and then?

And then and then and then??????

I have band tonight and tomorrow night! GREAT!!

Hmmphs.

I'm going to miss my favourite show. =( And I think it'll be shown every Wednesday and Thursday night. Why so 准 one.

Never mind, I'm sure I have other means. =P

~~~~~

Lecture at 4 p.m. later.

Woke up early today, made breakfast.


Cooked pancakes, shared with mum.


There's parmesan cheese in the fridge which will expire in a few months. So to use it, I think I'll make pasta for lunch then go to school. But I'm still quite full.

~~~~~

Almost babies suck their thumb, from the time in their mother's (or surrogate mother's) womb till they're older.

It's just about my nephew who's not so...'thumbophilic'.

He sucks his entire fist(s) so you'll see him opening his mouth wide and sucking his fist and his entire hand will be wet, not just his thumb.

My mum has to change his gloves more often than she changes his diapers. So we gave up about the glove part. As long as he doesn't scratch himself.

I'll take a photo of him fisting (read: feasting) when I can.

CNY in in 3 weeks' time

Chinese New Year is coming.

Still, there are school, band practices, property, tutorials, tuition, CNY-shopping, birthday parties, ... ..., to fulfill.

I'm done with CNY shopping, thank you very much.

I'm not done with the rest. (never!)

I'm turning 21 this year. This is giving me the creeps.

Argh!

I hope that I'll be able to manage things better this semester compared to last sem. Go go G-O go!

=(

I really am reluctant to do all the calls.

So far three out of three negatives, seven to go.

=(

Dream bus

More often than not, people have their 'dream car'.

Same for me.

This is what I'd like to own.


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

I want!

Volkswagen Type 2 (Transporter) T1 Camper. This is what I found out the name to be. The colours are cute right? Some are custom painted, the most common I saw was blue and white. I like the colour combination of this!

Don't you think Volkswagen sounds like 'folks' wagon'? I didn't realise that till I learnt that Volkswagen is actually 'people's car' in German. So cool right. A simple name that has gone so far.

I've seen this van in Singapore before, albeit only once.

I want I want I want. Or any other versions of the van that has a close design to this.

This has been used in several movies like Little Miss Sunshine. And it was used in this Taiwanese Drama called 深情密码.

Meet Fillmore.


He's a character in the Disney-Pixar movie, Cars. And he's exactly that type of bus! Or van! So cute!



School is starting on Monday. I'm dreading it. As much as you look forward to it, bleh.

Tons of things to do tomorrow, tons of things due tomorrow, tons of things to prepare tomorrow.

Sigh.

Holiday plans

No no, I'm not going on holiday at all this holiday which isn't abnormal. I just have quite some things to do, I think I can't find any jobs.

But still, date me whenever you want, I'll try to make it. =D

04122007 Tue/ Evening: CL2280 Basic Translation at 1700 hrs - last paper
05122007 Wed/ Day: zoo outing with Joan; Night: Samuel flying off at 2250 hrs
06122007 Thu/ Morning: gathering with the seven of us
07122007 Fri/ Day: Back to CFA to check some documents due to my blunder =(; Evening: PhilWinds concert
08122007 Sat/ Night: Annie flying off at ~2000 hrs

09122007 Sun/
10122007 Mon/ Sweat Camp
11122007 Tue/ Sweat Camp
12122007 Wed/ Afternoon: BTT; Evening: Some interview
13122007 Thu/ Late morning: Enchanted; Evening: NUSWS practice
14122007 Fri/ Day: Wild Wild Wet with Joan, Shi Hui and Jing Yi
15122007 Sat/ Evening: HSC Alumni Dinner

16122007 Sun/ Surprisingly Hady Mirza was voted as Asian Idol!
17122007 Mon/ Afternoon: The Golden Compass; Evening: Collect instruments
18122007 Tue/ Late morning: Inventory check; Evening: Meet up with Ai Lin, Juli and Amy
19122007 Wed/ Afternoon: Alvin and the Chipmunks with adik-beradik
20122007 Thu Haji/ Shopping spree
21122007 Fri/ Evening: Dinner with 2e3 people
22122007 Sat/ Mum's birthday; morning: MJCSB; afternoon: MJCSB X'mas lunch; night: Paulaner with Nick

23122007 Sun/ Evening: Mum's birthday eat-out
24122007 Mon/ Afternoon: Hanging out with Joan, Shi Hui, Shun Wei
25122007 Tue X'mas/ Evening: BBQ at Felix's place
26122007 Wed/ NUSWS Camp
27122007 Thu/ NUSWS Camp
28122007 Fri/ NUSWS Camp
29122007 Sat/ NUSWS Camp

30122007 Sun/ afternoon: Across the Universe
31122007 Mon/ afternoon: TCC with bandmates; evening: family gathering at Da-Jie's place
01012008 Tue OMG it's 2008/
02012008 Wed/ morning: Back to CFA
03012008 Thu/ weeeee morning: Send Tiffany off
04012008 Fri/ Tuition at 8 pm
05012008 Sat/ Morning: HSCAB practice; Afternoon/Evening: outing with some 309 girls

06012008 Sun/ Meet-up with Pin Ting and Yulan
07012008 Mon/ Late morning: shop for CNY clothes; Afternoon: KPO at HSCCB
08012008 Tue/ Morning: Outing at Sentosa
09012008 Wed/ Evening: Sectionals
10012008 Thu/ Evening: Pract
11012008 Fri/ Night: Tuition
12012008 Sat/

13012008 Sun/
14012008 Mon/ Torture begins

... ...

Will edit again.

Happiest people in Asia

I got a shock when I saw this from the Yahoo! main page.

Despite rigid rules — even chewing gum is banned — people in Singapore say they are "very happy." » Why?

Are you kidding???????

I'm rather skeptical of how they came to that conclusion. Like how reliable is their survey/poll.

Show-off

Ah, this post is to show-off some things that I want to...tell you about (i.e. show-off).

HAHA.

I think I haven't talked about my SODAGREEN albums!!

I only got reminded of it when I saw the photo in my camera haha.

I now have their three albums, thank you very much.


Thanks to Rui Xiang who helped me get them while he was in Taiwan!

(I hope I haven't uploaded this picture before, it'd be embarrassing to show off things twice =P)

~~~~~

Heh. Quite a few times I've been turned away by the my paper auntie who just refuse to give me the newspaper though I can understand Chinese probably better than she does =P

But now, I will no longer face rejection.

Ta-daaaaa.


my paper now comes in two languages, English and Chinese!!! Yeayyyyyyyyyy. But actually I prefer the previous version. This time it was thick and half of them were advertisements, really. Like you flip the newspaper open and one side will be news and the other will be an advertisement.

Yeay. Now I need not glare at people in the morning when I collect the paper, thank you very much!

Lift

I found this very nice illustration. Do blow it up to take a look.

It's done by my friend AG, I think I've mentioned her before.

Very nice!

Met up with primary school good friends

Had dinner at Ramen Ten at Century Square with Pin Ting and Yulan.

It was a simple dinner affair. Chatted about our ex-classmates and the like. Walked around the malls, and went back. Haha.

I told you it was simple =)

309's day out

Actually there was only five of us. Pei Wen, Wei Wen, Hui Ying, Shi Hui and I.



Before that.

I woke up bright and early today to go for Hai Sing alumni on time. So was quite happy with myself that I managed to wake up on time until I saw Daniel's SMS that practice was cancelled.

Went back to sleep and rose at 1130.



OK, back to the topic.

Met the four girls mentioned above at Parkway Parade for dinner and shopping.

So many things on sale but not necessarily nice things. Things that aren't on sale are nice things. There this wallet that's so pretty! =( But it costs $179 haha. *jumps off the chair*

We ate at The Caffe Bar which looked interesting (to me, because they sell macaroons) and I paid $22.20 for my set meal. I didn't eat macaroons in the end because I was too full and they cost $1.50 each, which was pretty pricey. After dinner we walked around and took the free shuttle bus to Bedok.


And we had dessert at the hawker centre at Bedok Interchange. Maybe if you're with a handful of friends, you all may want to share this:


This watermelon thing that is being sold at one of the stalls. It's at the other side, meaning not facing the bus interchange. It's half a normal-sized watermelon, priced at $5. Quite interesting to share with your friends.

It may look like a mountain of goodies but in fact the inside was all ice. The uncle added syrup, watermelon flesh, peach, canned fruits etc. The ice will melt so it was like you had some kind of juice to drink and that explains the straws. Spoons are provided as well, of course.

It suddenly occurred to me if the uncle reuse the watermelon skin O_O or the cleaners throw them away. I hope it's the latter.



Oh Pei Wen and some of her friends are selling stuff on thehappynest. Do take a look, they opened on New Year's Day.


School is starting soon. I want to make a pair of new spectacles...I think my vision became poorer lately. $$$ I'll procrastinate that.

Tuition

Tried my first ever tuition.

Conclusion: I'd be better off teaching math/science.

Whahahhaa.

I'm teaching a P5 girl Chinese.

=S

I think I'm super lousy. I can read all the words except maybe one which I got confused, but the problem is I don't really know all the meanings accurately. Either that or I don't know how to explain.

Oh dear oh dear I'm a bit stressed already.

Never mind. P5 Chinese. No kick =P

Off to Arizona

Tiffany's off to Arizona, USA, for SEP.

Test of time for Samu*COUGHS* oh nothing.

She'll be there alone, there's no other NUS student going there for SEP this semester. I'm a bit worried but I think she'll do fine.

Ivan took a cab to my place in the morning at nearly 5 am, and met Samuel who drove there and Magan whose friend drove her there.

It is really cold in the morning.


Talked to Tiffany for a while, took pictures with her, and she was off. So quick.

After that we hopped into Samuel's (father's) car (BMW! I don't remember ever being in one actually) and he drove us to McDonald's at East Coast Park for breakfast.

I seriously don't think $6 is worth the small-sized McDonald's breakfast. The Big Breakfast is getting smaller and smaller. But I love it all the same =S

~~~~~

After that I went home to sleep, it was about 8 am that I finally got to lie on my bed. I still overslept in the end. Didn't hear my alarm. Was supposed to reach CFA at 1 but I woke up at nearly 2. =S So SMSed Daniel to tell him that I overslept (but I should've SMSed someone else). Showered, did my bidding and it took quite some time 'cos of certain complications with MA3252. By the time I was ready to go it was 1530 already! At about 3 I learnt that there were only a few comm members at CFA and I felt especially guilty. People were here there and everywhere and I got even more pissed. With myself too of course.

~~~~~

I like the water bottle that Jie Ying got for me simply because of the anti-slip bottom. I can just put it on almost every flat surface without worrying that it'll topple over easily. So convenient. And the bottle has far less scratches to bear due to it as well.

~~~~~

I love the Across the Universe soundtrack. I shall scout for it. 31 songs in an OST, isn't it great? And I like most of Beatles' hits, why not?

miss you so.

2008

I stopped believing in new year resolutions.

I never make them work.