exams over liao...and reasons why i love (dun tell you leh)

finished my papers yesterday! Yay...so happy...ok, 'nuff said...I don't wanna get 'stoned' by pens and expletives...

Reasons Why I Love (don't tell you leh)

1. You are an excellent listener. That means listening to me whine until the cows come home (and everyone know cows NEVER come home...hahaha)

2. You are so freaking bitchy, we always have a blast together. Bless his soul, the poor bastard who would cross into the path of our bitching, as he would surely last no longer than 30s as our words cut him down and reveal his basest, most useless form.

3. There is much trust between as we share all our whatever 大便s, and 烦恼s. ^_^

4. You let me hold your hands!!! I will surely let you hold mine if you ever need them. (cue 'Awww's and 'So sweet....'s now! Hahaha)

5. You are non-judgemental, and honest.

6. I'm glad I found a friend like you...heng sia...ALMOST (yes, i say ALMOST) like strike TOTO...haha.

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thank you Yiting, Xinwei and Kelvin for the NUM tee...do I dare to wear to school? Hahhaa...anyway, I'm gonna try and change it today. If cannot, then too bad for me I guess...but i really do like it... 谢谢你们!!!

YIH... *yawnz*

A bit tired sia...last night slept at 4am...cause I was playing GuildWars! Haha...there was this super interesting quest to collect a limited edition face mask. I managed to get 2, one for my Factions character and one for my Prophecies character.

I'm now sitting in YIH trying to study, but my brain is slightly fried already...argh!

Anyway, tmr is my LAST PAPER already, so I'm pretty happy! Hahaha...so just jia you abit more, then everything should be ok again!!! ;)

:)

Who says gaming is bad for you?

Read this!

lose a new friend, gain a new friend

it's amazing how i can lose a friend and gain a friend in exactly 10 minutes...

exciting!!! ^_^

PS Cafe pictures... ^_^

I am resting now...just finished one paper, so don't feel like doing work. So post pictures lor...hahaha.

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So anyway, here are they are!


Reach there machiam (almost like) never take picture before...keep taking and taking and taking...siao man...photo whores...the lot of us ('cept maybe for Matt)


Got many antique shops selling various statues and curios. All very interesting to find this place in such an 'out-of-the-way' area.


Really like this picture a lot. Sitting in a small little pavilion thingy. Heehee. ^_^


Note to self: Always check with your friends what colour they're wearing for the day so as to avoid instances as seen above. But I really do like this picture...thanks to Vincent for not being able to resist snapping it...lol


Dinnertime! Funky placemat with the cafe's very own monogram...NICE!


This is a slightly blurry picture of the front of the kitchen where the food comes out from and where all the waiters slack and try their best (often failing) to see if your cup needs refilling.


Our ice water, WHILE they were still full...the waiters really not as attentive as they should be...tsk tsk tsk.


What Yi Ding ordered...it's not just a NORMAL sandwich ok? It's super SUPERSIZED but still very very yummy. Got beetroot inside leh! So interesting right? The fries there are also very nice...different shape from the usual boring fare u get at Macs.


This is Vincent's attempt at taking a scary picture. He was hoping for 'something' to turn up in the photos I think...dream on lah. You where have so 'heng'? (I also don't want to be so 'heng' lor...hahahah)


Ended the evening with wine at The Wine Company...so romantic hor? Hahaha...

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Photo show end liao...thanks once again for the wonderful evening guys!

First Paper down... ^_^

Just finished my first paper just now...

Was the FIRST to walk out leh! Tara gave me the 'are-you-sure-wanna-leave-so-early' look?

And I gave her the 'yah-i'm-pretty-sure-of-myself' look

Quite thrilling to walk out of the exam hall first. Heehee. :)

4 more papers to go!!!

Dinner at PS Cafe.

Last night had dinner at PS Cafe. It is this very nice, high-class feeling kinda place. It's in town, but unless someone who knows where it is tells you where it actually is, your chances of finding it are next to nothing!

Very VERY ULU...but so SO near NUS! Bless the powers-that-be for that. It's a little expensive though, but it was a birthday treat from Vincent to me..haha...so free dinner! Yay! Matthew and Yi Ding went as well. Really enjoyed ourselves mah..great place, great food, great company! Love all of you so much!^_^

It's clientele is mostly expatriates, and the yuppies and guppies I guess. It is best that one drives as it's pretty inaccessible. However, we discovered that public transport works fine! Just take bus service 106 from Bouna VIsta/Holland VIllage, and alight along Holland Road, before it reaches Gleneagles and US Embassy. Then it's just a short 5 minute walk to the cafe.

If you wanna eat there, you definitely need at least $30 bucks. Period.

After that we had wine at The Wine Company. We all never drink wine before (I mean at least at a proper 'wine establishment') so we didn't know how to order and all that lah. So the 4 of us who were super 'swaku' jsut asked for a recommendation lor...haha.

We had some white wine from dunno where, and dunno when...but it was nice. We played silly word games, and chatted, and got a little tipsy, and all that. Great night lah...

After that go back to school and tried to study, but very difficult with rich food and wine in our systems...ah well...

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Xing Jian is HAPPY! Thanks Vi for the treat, and thanks Matt and Ding for coming along to accompany us!
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(Pictures from this excellent evening will be up soon!)

too GOOD not to post...WAHAHAHA

(don't ask me why I am posting youTube vidz now ok? too stressed maybe...sighz)

Ass Slapping

Please watch the video below...



If you notice at the end of the video hor, the guy slaps the other guy on his butt? you all want to know who is that a not? that is my brudder leh...siao right?

i ask him why he go and piak ppl's backside lah, and he say he oso dunno...just like wanted to say like 'good fight' or 'not bad'

i say to him...u're supposed to pat him on the back lah...not piak his kar chng lor...haiyo...

chio ka pengz sia..

(the slightly Beng-ish tone is an ode to Brandon's recent post on 'plant abuse'

Would you...?

Definitely. You scored 36% Cold and 48% Level-Headed!

You can kill. But the question "Why would you?" arises. Out of safety or cruelty?

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 28% on Cold You scored higher than 22% on Level-Headed

Link: The Can You Kill a Man? Test written by notmarkflynn on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Villa Bali after Party World

Had a drink with Amos, James, Vincent and Matthew yesterday at this super-cool-full-of-mosquitoes place. It's called Villa Bali, and it's near my home! At Gillman estate, just opposite SAJC's old campus!

Imagine tropical resort style kinda feel...just need a sea view for everything to be excellent..haha

Love it...nice and warm and relaxing, great drinks, great friends...really enjoyed myself.

Before that had a KTV session...James can really hold a tune lor...must ask him out more often for KTV...haha
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Exams are coming soon...sheesh...studying fever is all around...here we go man...Year 1, Sem 2...exciting.



This is NOT ice-cream...this is cream cheese! Frozen, soft, cream cheese...think it's called Marscopone? or Morscopone? Something like that lah...had this when Kit Loong brought me out for dinner last Sunday.

bored...and a little sad...

Let me say my thanks first...

1. Thank you Kit Loong for the lovely dinner at that obscure, but-oh-so-good restaurant on Sunday.

2. Thanks Desmond Z and Jiehao for the cap! I think my cap collection is growing..slowly but surely.

3. Thanks for all the well-wishes from my friends, especially those who MSN-ed/SMS-ed at exactly 0000hrs on 3rd April. Haha...

I'm now 22...pretty uneventful birthday I guess. I mean I also can't be bothered to plan anything, so I guess I can't expect much. Somemore it's exam period, so everyone is busy and all that. Maybe because I did not do anything that's why I feeling a little gloomy?

Don't know lah...feeling a bit emotional now...and not the good kinda emotional. I guess I spent most of my birthday thinking alot about things, and I realised that I'm not in the best of places. Really don't know what to do about where I am right now...can't say I hate it, but can't say I love it either.

It's one of those love-to-hate, hate-to-love kinda situations...and to top it all off, I know for a fact that it was MY CHOICE somemore. I guess I've to live with it for now...and see how things go. I know for a fact that I can never let it go, since I've chosen to keep it by me...it'll be part of me forever...or at least until I die.

I just feel like letting out this gigantic SIGH...really, that's what I wanna do...just a big SIGH.

Losing my consciousness...losing the battle to hold onto it...all that I've worked for...slowly slipping away...why am I feeling like this? Save me?

Gd night...

unhappy

I am

(PS: umm, try not to ask me what's wrong? I may or may not tell you depending on who you are...so if I don't, please don't feel offended ok? it's one of those, "I-just-can't-say" kinda things..nothing against you.)

Social Control and Moral Panic

great movie!

2 hours of sleep = cranky Xing Jian

Really man...sleep is important...

Iwoke up at 6am, and was checking my downloads for my presentation and all that. Before that, I had turned on the heater first, so that the water could take some time to warm up. Less than a minute later, my grandpa knocks on my door and gestures angrily at the bathroom, indicating his displeasure at my having left the heater on...

Wah I tell you, my face became black lor...and I said, "I know lah, I know lah! Haiz!!!"

Seriously, sleep is important..heh
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So I went to the gym right? Noticed something very funny. At least three people were working in the same area, and were wearing very VERY similar clothing. Grey, ratty-looking sleeveless tops and red/maroon/dirty-red shorts. Very peculiar don't you think? I sure do.

Ah well....
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Let me share a few jokes that my classmate from GEK1049 tutorial shared with me...lame until cannot take it man...

Q. Why was the mushroom invited to the party? (assume that the mushroom has gender and is male)


A. Because he was a fungi (Fun Guy)! ^_^

Q. What is a baby plate?


A. A childish! (Child + Dish) OMG!

OMFG...it's 4am already!

This is not good...it's already 4am and I'm still awake.

I was up the entire night looking for video converters and video editors! And I am proud to say, I now can do some very, VERY basic editing. Why am I doing all this you ask? All for my GEK1049 presentation lor...

Today's (I mean, YESTERDAY'S) presentations were super good lah! Nice video clips, funky animation of the slides...everything lor. My tutor asked my group, "So how did you find the presentation? Did they spoil your market?"

All I could do was grin sheepishly and shrug. All the while I was thinking, I AM SO SCREWED! Fortunately, I have good group members who are super hardworking (can't say the same for myself) and pretty enthusiastic about the presentation! We've decided to change our route of advance, and will be tackling ONE game instead of several games.

We realised after watching the presentations that it is better to analyse a few examples in-depth, than to go all over the place trying to pick out distinctive elements from here and there. So our game of choice: Final Fantasy VII!

It is like only the GREATEST RPG of all time! I'm still trying to find the opening video...anyone has it? Or everyone only has FFX and FFX-2 stuff? If any of you happen to have the FFVII clips, let me know ok?

Sighz, supposed to go gym tomorrow, now I don't know whether I can wake up in time for lecture or not...maybe I should not sleep at all? Will that help? Hmm...datelines, datelines and more datelines...making me super cranky sia...

*Sorry for snapping at you today, you totally didn't deserve it...I'm an ass...paiseh hor brudder... ^_^

Okay, going to try to catch 40 winks now...

(Tmr watching V for Vendetta with Desmond! Excitement sia... ^_^)

Anybody wants to UNLOCK me? Wahahahaha

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free. In love, you feel the most alive when everything is uncertain, one moment heaven... the next moment hell. You'd like to your lover to think you are stylish and alluring. You would be forced to break up with someone who was ruthless, cold-blooded, and sarcastic. Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with. Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment. You think of marriage as something precious. You'll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred. In this moment, you think of love as commitment. Love only works when both people are totally devoted.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

Birthday Wishlist

Didn't even really notice that my birthday is coming liao...sheesh...one more week only leh...

Here's what I want (but am sure I won't get)

(in no particular order of merit/preference)

1. Messenger Bag (no Crumpler...ugh, aiming for Timbuk2)
2. New pair of spectacles
3. New pair of earphones (preferably white, the right side of my current pair making funny sounds liao)

Hmm, I realised that there's not really much that I want lah...hahaha...think and think also these few things only. Simple hor? Maybe spend some time with friends...but I'm too lazy to organise anything anyhow...

Ah well...back to the essay that I was supposed to start but still have not...wahahaha

Tiger TIger TIGER!

Whew, just finished my presentation! So happy...it didn't go too badly...in fact, we were praised for the picture below:



By combining this picture (got it from deviantart.com), and adding logos from Adidas and Tiger Balm, we came up with a concept poster that is suppose to help Tiger Balm break free from its old, dreary image, and maybe capture the younger section of the copnsumer market.

Our tutor loved it! She kept gushing about it...hopefully it was enough to get us a good grade. The written report was mostly written by moi, so if it gets a bad grade, it will sorta be MY fault...how ah? Ah well, don't care liao...

Now only left with ONE more ESSAY, ONE more PRESENTATION and ONE more CLASS TEST! Progress!

Now, will do lunch and one more tutorial, and I'm home free!

(for today at least)

Nice right?

This is my new armor! Nice right? I like it a lot too...hahaha.

She's HOT man. ^_^

GEK1049 is FUNKY!

I had my Introduction to Narrative test today.

Here's what the lecturer said...

"I will start showing the video clips at 0815 sharp. This is a COMPLETELY OPEN test. Please feel free to discuss with your classmates or myself if you have any queries. Do remember that you can hand in at 0945 at the end of the lecture, or at 12am. Of course those who take it home to do will be graded more strictly then those who hand it in during the lecture."

This module is rocking so far man...super fun topics, interesting lectures, and work load is not that heavy! Haha...loving it.

Must take for all those who want a relaxed, yet enjoyable GEM. ^_^