I am still trying to breathe. I made a spur of the moment decision to order 5 Threadless tees and 1 80s-tees just now. I hope those tees won't crash my house on the same day, or my mum would get really mad. Don't even mention the Fred Perry wallet or another tee from Bustedtees.

Oh yeah, good luck to everyone in DHS campaigning, the response was much more than I thought it would be (when I wanted to campaign about half a year ago) and I got a shock initially. But anyway, all the best to you! Competition is good right? And erm, school's starting soon for me but I really need to get a school bag you know.



Lastly erm, my family might slump into a financial situation soon cause my mum would be out of a job in about 2 months. Why? Because my (deceased) grandfather's shit-head of a brother, who is much of a slut, has quite a large amount of shares (when he doesn't even work) and he just this fine day decided that he wants to sell his shares to my mother/uncles. [If you don't get the mojo, my philanthropic grandfather actually used to own the company - a small/medium enterprise] My mother/uncles doesn't see much prospect in buying over his shares in the financial crisis, thus he decided to shut down the company. That fucker. Now my mum's got to be looking all over for a job vacancy in all sorts of fugly environments and I'm feeling so sad for her. Never mind, it'll just give me the drive to work harder and earn loads of money in future.

Chinese New Year celebrations at Dunman High today, reached at 10.40am only to realise that the concert's over already. Was super annoying, I totally wanted to see all the ex-classmates. Missed them but at least got to meet up with Yuting, Tzuhsiang, Sieweng, Jieting, Sandra and (Angell). Liqin had a soreeye (?!) so yeah, she didn't go to school and I couldn't get to see her. It was not too bad, walked around a lot of places before finally deciding to go to Marina Square for buffet. Good to finally meet them again actually, haven't seen a lot of people for more than a week and the feeling is just weird.


Oh yeah, and I designed a political poster for Alisa, Alicia and Sam's SHSC campaign cause Alisa asked me. I think it's quite nice. I had inspiration from this tutorial. Saw the tutorial on psdtuts half a year ago and had been dying to hands-on something like that for a looooong time. Finally got to do it. Oh by the way the site's really good to learn new skills about Adobe Photoshop and just for anyone else interested in designing anyway. Really good. A must-bookmark.

Happy Chinese New Year.

And I already gambled away 4 dollars to my uncle just now. I hope that Mr. Cow doesn't mind me frying tons of beef at work everyday, and would allow me a very happy 牛 year. Oh and talking about work, I'm part-quitting soon cause school is starting, this would be my last week working and then school shall start. I should really start to hit the files soon, my brain is empty of school work. Oh and erm I'm really grateful to those who came to visit me during work (or at least wanted to but failed): Yuting, Sandra, Sieweng, Liqin, Alisa, Alicia. And those who told me that [to a certain extent] they missed me (whether it's really me or my big head and my whines... and my snores). You guys make me feel loved, I give you a MUACKAAKZAZA in return!


Next week of work would be rather chiong-y, took off on Wednesday to go back to see the 4E mates and then Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday all working around 7 hours excluding break times. Which means I'll be working on the day before first day of school?!?! I'll sooo have to take an off for Sunday too. I'll try.

To everyone who is affected: you'll have to wait. Didn't I tell all of you to host up your own images after downloading them from my photobucket accounts? You could either visit my respective photobucket accounts bolong92 OR bolong02 [which are replicas] to view and download the images you need for your blogskin, then host them up onto your new server.

For those who don't understand, I'm going to explain comprehensively now.

1. Click on links to my photobucket accounts.
2. In that photobucket account, find the images you need for your blogskin, "full view" them and right click, "copy image" and paste it onto your desktop.
3. Create a photobucket account at www.photobucket.com, and upload the images you downloaded in step 2.
4. Copy down the new links of your images by hovering on your image thumbnail in photobucket, then highlighting the link under "direct link", right click, "copy" and paste.
5. With the new image links (usually 2, one main image and one background repeat) replace them with the old ones.

I know, I know right. It's not comprehensive. To be honest I gave up typing that halfway cause I'm not too sure myself how to explain them in words. If you're smart you'll CTRL+F "jpg" and find out where all the image links are in the blogger codes, then deem as you fit.

Otherwise you could wait a few days for me to upload new ones (I ran out of emails to register for photobucket accounts) and then you could this time host them yourself. I'm serious, I'm really sick of dealing with these stuff.



I'll push this to the back of my brain cause I really don't wanna think about it now, it's Lunar New Year Eve tomorrow (supposedly today) and it's 2.29am and I'm so tired. And this fucking banker in Food Junction (closing technicalities, we have to submit the money we earned for the day) pissed me off. Such bad attitude. I'm going to pry out his full name sometime and make sure with my future connections, he stays as a fucking low-life Food Junction banker his entire life. And may his ass rot from sitting in the air-conditioned room all day. And he thinks he's so great he is a banker, he totally thinks he is an edge above all of us and become cocky, so fucking elitist, I'll show him what is a real elite next time.

Went to my mum's company buffet at Vienna today, I was practically binge eating from 7.30 to 10 so I'm really full. Honestly I eat a lot but I still don't really appreciate buffets, would rather just pay 20 bucks for an À la carte, which would already be really filling. Oh and I bumped into Ms. Hong Lan (secondary 3 Chinese teacher) while I was picking at jellies for my baby cousin. She approached me and I was lost for words for a moment there cause I didn't exactly remember her name. Talked for a minute there awkwardly when I mentioned that I'm going VJ but it didn't seem like a surprise to her. I think she ended the conversation joking that she actually "背叛"ed 4E. Or maybe she was refering to my transferring to VJ. Of which the latter is less likely. Anyway I'm so full now I don't think I should sleep till about an hour or two later.

Oh, and yeah. I'm getting my daily dosage of Dunman News from the fellow classmates/schoolmates blogs everyday, and now that I'm reading blogs I'm beginning to feel the stress bites of school. It sounds scary and everyone seems to be studying already. I'm unconsciously (okay, maybe consciously) kiasu so this gets on my nerves. Esp when I can't even procure a single mathematics formula out of my head right now. [No, honestly! Sat there for a minute just now thinking - I started with topics: differentiation, partial fractions, logarithms, algebra, before I thought of (a+b)^2=a^2+2ab+b^2 to soothe my mind a little]. But anyway good luck to everyone of my dear classmates, hope you've really enjoyed your orientation! Oh and to the few who are running for council, good luck too! :)

Fred Perry online is currently having a winter sale which reduces some prices down to 50%! I spotted this wallet (I'm been meaning to buy a wallet for months now) and it was kind of cheap. I think I might want to get it. I'm beginning to consciously feel like a brand whore cause the wallet isn't exactly stunning but I was like "who cares? it's Fred Perry". I've been carrying this "FRAGO"-branded wallet I took from my not-too-fashionable dad for a few months now and the brand doesn't even exist seriously. The wallet (looks down) isn't exactly pretty I know, but stare at it for 5 more minutes and I'm sure it will look a little better. It's the kind of 耐看 wallet. Nah, actually I'm not even sure I'll get it cause the spree-er who opened the spree has like zero orders so far, and I have a bad feeling the spree will be cancelled cause Fred Perry sprees are seriously unpopular in community sprees. Opps, seems like the spree is closed and my order is confirmed. :D



Oh yeah, and I got a scolding from my folks for buying (previously mentioned) a black short sleeved and a black polo that day. I didn't even say I wanted to wear them for CNY but I still got scolded, my superstitious dad added that I'll not notice how unlucky black really is until I grow up - what logic. So I'll have to get out shopping again for clothes, and a red/yellow one to 拜天公. I really have this bad feeling I'm spending more than I'm earning.

On a lighter note, I'll be back to Dunman High coming Wednesday to catch some classmates since they are having their CNY celebrations then :) I might bring cookies. HAHAHA

Barack Obama's inauguration in around 8 hours, I can't wait. It's so distant, and I'll be sleeping then but this is totally historical. Saw snippets of the pre-inauguration concert and it was stunning. I had goosebumps on cause I was emotionally high watching the performances (though it's only a few minutes) and I thought I would shed a tear. Would be really proud to be American right now, this is absolutely historic. I'll search for ways to catch the inauguration (if possible) later at night if my mum allows me to, otherwise I still want to watch the Lincoln Memorial concert today.

I'm really satisfied. Did some decent shopping today and got a short-sleeved, a pair of shorts and a polo. I find it's really easy to spend money when you're working, you count everything in hours: is this pair of shorts worth 12 hours? How does 8 hours sound in exchange for a shirt? And the answer to everything is a go-ahead. I kind of 破费-ed today but anyway since I'm working I guess it's not too bad. Gotta treat myself once in a while. Was doing some calculations on the bus ride home today and I actually realised I would need 84 hours of work exactly to off-set what I spent on CNY and prom'08. Which sums up to be quite a lot.

Psst: I think I bought one too many polo t-shirts actually. Got 3 at Topman online that day and just bought another today, I must be slowly losing my mind from intoxication of highly toxic salmon fumes at work.

I think it's high time I start to change my online persona. I'm revealing my name, my school and so much other more information, but most of that is from my blog so I guess that's okay. I'm (almost) universally known as bolong92 on the net, Gunbound, blogskins.com, Livejournal etc. though I seem to remember once or twice that I didn't manage to get that name cause it's taken. And during those times my alternative would be bolong02. Which again is not very good.

At first I thought that bolong92 spells decency, maturity and probably a speck of manly-ness cause it's not fancy-play of words like "absconsence" [no, that popped out of my brain, it doesn't exist. you can't expect me to give a real example] or even Absc0nS3nce which is so beyond the valley of twittyness. Turns out I was wrong, a recent blogskins.com forum thread made me realise how bad the prospect of things were. Everyone was discussing how they got their username (inspirations, likes and blah) when I realised mine was bolong92. My name, plus my birthyear. Exactly an impression of a primary school boy who just got introduced to the net and couldn't think of anything better. Perhaps even bolongy is better but the word just screams bastard (look: previous 2 posts).

I was like blog hopping to find blogs of my classmates 5c31 in a hopeful attempt of finding out how orientation was for my classbuds. Okay yeah, 5c31 (took me long enough to remember, a week ago I was still having an illusion that my class was 5c33 or 5c34) and erm, turns out I couldn't find any. Maybe they are not into the blogging-mojo, or maybe I didn't search clearly enough cause I can't even remember 10 names.

I was just editing my template just now (look: "gallery", it's up!) when I remembered that I actually got this blog title (You're such a BOLONGY!) from random Google searches of "bolongy". I tried doing it again cause I felt like the time is ripe to change a new title, and here are my options:

"bolongy is good for your bones"
"you probably think this is a bunch of bolongy but its true"{synonym: rubbish}
"so you can drop the "true professional" bolongy right now"{synonym: act}
"what you're saying is completely bolongy"{synonym: stupid}
"buy into all these bolongy conspiracy theories"{synonym: stupid}
"I put bolongy in my left pocket"
"dirty-stupid-dan you're cheesier than canned bolongy sitting in the sun"
"She is a real person not a phoney bolongy"{synonym: hypocrite}
"The bolongy's in the icebox. There's cheese and pickles, too."

Erm, so bolongy doesn't sound like a word too positive. But I could probably use "what you're saying is completely BOLONGY" for my next blog title. Okay, actually seriously I'm just bored. I see everyone's orientation photos up on facebook and it seemed so much fun. I miss school and the 4E classmates soooooo much :(

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle
Life is a maze and love is a riddle
I don't know where to go, can't do it alone
I've tried, and I don't know why

Was working today when I saw Zhen Zhou/Weijie's OG doing 十字路口 on explore. I think I saw Jianxiong as well, pondering somewhere out there. Oh and Sandra's dad :) Seriously I know I've said it too many times but still, it feels surreal. I feel like I'm missing out on so much school, I've been asked so many questions by customers who don't really get my situation. Like I'm not taking O's and yet I'm working when everyone's having school. A week ago there was this auntie with a son who's in Taonan primary 6 this year, aiming for Dunman High (yeah she was the only one so far to fully understand my plight) and I told her I was a graduate and we chatted at the counter for like 10 minutes till her chicken was burnt. Heh, I think I socialise with aunties well.

And 1 more thing. 2 women commented today that my Mandarin sounds funny and asked if I was local. They are not the first people to do it. Does it really? SH*T!

Yipee! My first album in 2 years. Excluding maybe 2 chinese idols like S.H.E and Gary 曹格. Went down to The Cathay just now (since everyone's in school and I'm stuck at home really bored and fever's subsided) to Gramophone to spend up that 20 dollars voucher which I got from Prom 08 for "Mr Sexiest Voice" which was sooo not me but heck :)

So I got to spend the $20 voucher, decided to buy Angus cause it's totally rare to find (on the internet and even real-life: I bought the last one off the shelf) and the music is totally my type. Light-hearted, chill-out. The album was unfortunately $18.95 so I threw $1.05 down the drain. The cashier even told me Gramophone was having this CNY Warehouse Sale with "DVDs, CDs and VCDs from $1" from January 9th to 18th only at The Cathay's outlet. But I looked for 5 minutes and couldn't find anything below $3 so I gave up. Oh yeah, to the CD lovers, you could take a look there, I didn't look clearly (was just sprinting off price tags) but maybe you could spot a steal.

My body temperature already did 3 periods of the sine curve. Or is that cosine? But anyway I'm really drowsy now, went to the doctor today and didn't manage to go for work cause I woke up with a burning 39.6 deg, my parents almost thought that I had dengue. The medicine's taking effect, really drowsy and I think I'm going to sleep after this (though I've done so for the entire day) and skip bathing as well. Heck, super tired, not feeling too well. And supposedly I have work on Tuesday. Would try to call them and ask if they could get a replacement, but I feel bad skipping so much already.

My mum's going to force me to abstain from all goodies during the CNY, how sucky.

Sales at Pepper Lunch today had been extremely good for no reason. I don't see any trend, but we sold like 2000 bucks worth of food today, blasting the records for school holiday weekends and even the holidays like New Year or Christmas. The best I've seen previously was perhaps 1900 max. Oh and like three-quarters of the sales today were from 6.30pm onwards, could imagine how crazy I must have been, chionging entirely.

Anyway work is getting more like a routine and less of a challenge, which is a good thing. I made friends with my "colleagues" and the aunties next door so seriously I get to eat quite a lot of food. Everytime an order is made wrongly, I get to finish it up, while the western stall auntie next door gives me chicken cutlets and spaghetti for free when she's feeling happy. I don't even care if my big boss Googles "Pepper Lunch" and finds my blog and realise that I'm illegally eating wrong orders (yeah, we're supposed to throw them away) and sacks me, cause I really don't mind quitting anytime now :) Oh yeah, and cause I'm eating so much, and so much I'm eating is meat + meat and hardly any rice, it also means proteins and proteins = more muscles and bigger calves. Can't stop thinking about my calves seriously, 8 hours standing up a day, not good.

Oh and about orientation. Plan cancelled, absolutely. I highly suspect I'm already off the "Dunmanian" list or something, everyone's recieved notifications about orientations (like emails, smses etc. from OGLs) but I've yet to get any. It's probably an indirect telling "hey you're not welcomed" so yeah, I'm not going to crash.

Hardly had time to breathe the past week. And that's a figure of speech. Have been either working or out with friends, I spend so little time at home/with my family now. Anyway had 2A class chalet on Wed/Thurs and it was not bad. Grace did quite a good job of organising, we managed to have a turnout of around 25 people, more than two-thirds of our class. The chalet date was mad, there were so many other people having chalet (all sec4s/JC ones 08). I met a primary school friend from Hwachong having chalet, and like 3 DHS Year2 o6 classes plus a class of the DHS Year5 o8. Anyway I missed the supposedly most bonding activity we did, captains ball against 2G 06 but oh well, the grounds were littered with like a family of 4 blo0dy black cats so I quit after 5 minutes and went back to the chalet with Benjamin and Keatyin to watch DVDs.

Oh yeah, and Benjamin + Keatyin made me this leaving-DHS collage of photos on a big black board (which was inconvenient to carry home), comprises of the secondary 1 and 2 photos I've taken. Which was actually kind of fearful (I hate the lower secondary me now) but yet they claimed I look so much more innocent then. Anyway it was quite touching, totally came as a surprise (yeah, I'm going to VJ, who cares?) nevertheless it brought back some nice memories. Thanks also to all the well-wishes I received from the rest of the 2A mates, they were really nice to hear :)

Oh and erm actually I might be going for orientation. Okay, it's totally crashing right? Would be nice to make new friends anyway, however many people I don't know in my new class. Just that I'm afraid it's not exactly nice to do and that teachers would say something about it. I'm really still 50-50 about it, but even if teachers stop me, I could still push up the most selfish excuse that "I paid 30 dollars for orientation already".

Homecoming celebration today in Tanjong Rhu campus, performances were awesome and really interesting, the Wushu performance totally awed me, no traditional costumes, no weapons but yet it was a bang. Bands and CCA performances were really entertaining, but the entire concert would have been better if the gallery above wasn't freezing cold, or if I actually bothered to bring a jacket to school today. Oh I didn't get to explore the new school again since Yuting and Tzuhsiang were so bored of it already T.T, guess I won't have the chance to take a look at the classrooms and auditorium anymore :(. Honestly things were actually quite disappointing, the real blocks look so different from those shown to us initially 2 years ago. Thought we were supposed to have this glass layout of a very big 2 storey library facing the roads outside, but maybe I had been dreaming.

Wanted to go for a movie after that, but walked out of school and started to consider Teoheng/pool/arcade and then after 15 minutes of discussion outside school, made a decision to play mahjong at Jieting's house. Big house, big room, really good environment. Plus her very nice mother prepared tangyuans, beehoon and noodles for us. If I hadn't lost my voice I would probably have eaten up the pot of tangyuans, but someone told me that peanuts were ultra bad for throat so... I took 3 and stopped. We played 2 tables, with Sieweng Tzuhsiang Liqin and me on the "conservative no-money noobs" table while the rest took the second table which was all day round quiet and tense.

Oh and erm Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. The title sounds absolutely silly, I saw it a month ago on GV's coming soon and dismissed it without a second look. Then realised it's from Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki which directed lots of good movies like Howl's Moving Castle and most notably Spirited Away. Which is the only reason why I wanna watch it now. Oh erm heard reviews gave it a really good rating as well, so I guess it's much more deep than just a little mermaid living on the cliff by the sea.
Oh, and the soundtrack. The song you've heard on TV all this time? HAHA I was thinking it was ultimatez cliche, immature high-pitched baby voice with a highly obnoxious tune which clings to your brain. Anyway, it's annoying, irritating and childish which happens to be sooo me, so I'mma recommend it to you. Learn to sing it, cause everyone else's singing it already!

Gake no ue no Ponyo Theme Song – Romaji Lyrics
Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo sakana no ko
Aoi umi kara yatte kita
Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo fukurannda
Manmaru onaka no onna no ko

And since I'm already talking about movies, I recently watched Wild Child and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snoggings. Both movies are really good, British accent so wonderful and smooth to the ear, a developed storyline though chick flicks. Especially effective for accompanying you through a boring weekday afternoon. Light-hearted, a little bit of bitching around but the ending just makes you smile. :)

Such a long post previously (wow that felt like yesterday!) and yet I forgot to actually say...
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Homecoming celebration in school tomorrow, jolly well the very last time I'm going to experience school life in DHS. Sucks, really. Nevertheless I'm quite excited, would be nice seeing everyone squeeze into 158 buses again. I'm done with graduation gifts, really proud of them and am finally going to pass to the rest tomorrow. Oh and I'm seriously getting annoyed by CNY songs, it's not only a month away, some of the tunes are also rather thumpy and irritating, them being Chinese songs doesn't help. Everyone's beginning to play them, be it ShopN'Save or small enterprises in the mall.

Oh, and about new year, thanks to everyone who sent their well wishes through SMS, christmas ones as well. Recieving them makes me feel really good and loved, so thanks :)

Our supposed steamboat EO2008 dinner became a take-away food and mahjong session at Sandra's house. Because all of us were too lazy to cook and wash the dishes. Anyway, we 跨年 the last minute of 2008 in a car with Sandra's dad, Sandra Yuting Tzuhsiang and me outside east coast park Macdonalds. LOL it was totally random, didn't know who thought of the idea to go to ECP but anyway I imagined us to be the only souls there to shout "HAPPY NEW YEAR" to each other in a desolate ECP, even with an echo coming back to us. It was a shocker, ECP was filled with people, groups there were mainly families, youths and foreign workers but hell I so didn't expect it! I thought nobody would be as silly as us to think of ECP for countdown, but yet it was filled. Liqin and Sieweng ate dinner but wasn't able to come to ECP :(


Didn't manage to take a single photo of the crowd there cause it was so dark my lousy phone camera couldn't spot out a single shit. Played with sparklers and took that photo. Was weird, must have been some flash cock-up or something, resulting in the weird blue strips at the sides. Rest of photos are with Sandra. Spent a lot of cash on food today, like 3 hours of my pay. Not nice. Okay, The Coffee Bean took up $7 and I didn't even finish it. We paid for the air-conditioned seat, to find out that 15 minutes after we bought our coffee, they were closing and we were forced to move outside with metal seats and tables and a very humid environment.

I think this was the first time I actually counted down with friends. LOL quite an experience, but I'm really tired now cause I hardly caught any sleep. Waking up for work in 7 hours.

I am still trying to breathe. I made a spur of the moment decision to order 5 Threadless tees and 1 80s-tees just now. I hope those tees won't crash my house on the same day, or my mum would get really mad. Don't even mention the Fred Perry wallet or another tee from Bustedtees.

Oh yeah, good luck to everyone in DHS campaigning, the response was much more than I thought it would be (when I wanted to campaign about half a year ago) and I got a shock initially. But anyway, all the best to you! Competition is good right? And erm, school's starting soon for me but I really need to get a school bag you know.



Lastly erm, my family might slump into a financial situation soon cause my mum would be out of a job in about 2 months. Why? Because my (deceased) grandfather's shit-head of a brother, who is much of a slut, has quite a large amount of shares (when he doesn't even work) and he just this fine day decided that he wants to sell his shares to my mother/uncles. [If you don't get the mojo, my philanthropic grandfather actually used to own the company - a small/medium enterprise] My mother/uncles doesn't see much prospect in buying over his shares in the financial crisis, thus he decided to shut down the company. That fucker. Now my mum's got to be looking all over for a job vacancy in all sorts of fugly environments and I'm feeling so sad for her. Never mind, it'll just give me the drive to work harder and earn loads of money in future.

Chinese New Year celebrations at Dunman High today, reached at 10.40am only to realise that the concert's over already. Was super annoying, I totally wanted to see all the ex-classmates. Missed them but at least got to meet up with Yuting, Tzuhsiang, Sieweng, Jieting, Sandra and (Angell). Liqin had a soreeye (?!) so yeah, she didn't go to school and I couldn't get to see her. It was not too bad, walked around a lot of places before finally deciding to go to Marina Square for buffet. Good to finally meet them again actually, haven't seen a lot of people for more than a week and the feeling is just weird.


Oh yeah, and I designed a political poster for Alisa, Alicia and Sam's SHSC campaign cause Alisa asked me. I think it's quite nice. I had inspiration from this tutorial. Saw the tutorial on psdtuts half a year ago and had been dying to hands-on something like that for a looooong time. Finally got to do it. Oh by the way the site's really good to learn new skills about Adobe Photoshop and just for anyone else interested in designing anyway. Really good. A must-bookmark.

Happy Chinese New Year.

And I already gambled away 4 dollars to my uncle just now. I hope that Mr. Cow doesn't mind me frying tons of beef at work everyday, and would allow me a very happy 牛 year. Oh and talking about work, I'm part-quitting soon cause school is starting, this would be my last week working and then school shall start. I should really start to hit the files soon, my brain is empty of school work. Oh and erm I'm really grateful to those who came to visit me during work (or at least wanted to but failed): Yuting, Sandra, Sieweng, Liqin, Alisa, Alicia. And those who told me that [to a certain extent] they missed me (whether it's really me or my big head and my whines... and my snores). You guys make me feel loved, I give you a MUACKAAKZAZA in return!


Next week of work would be rather chiong-y, took off on Wednesday to go back to see the 4E mates and then Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday all working around 7 hours excluding break times. Which means I'll be working on the day before first day of school?!?! I'll sooo have to take an off for Sunday too. I'll try.

To everyone who is affected: you'll have to wait. Didn't I tell all of you to host up your own images after downloading them from my photobucket accounts? You could either visit my respective photobucket accounts bolong92 OR bolong02 [which are replicas] to view and download the images you need for your blogskin, then host them up onto your new server.

For those who don't understand, I'm going to explain comprehensively now.

1. Click on links to my photobucket accounts.
2. In that photobucket account, find the images you need for your blogskin, "full view" them and right click, "copy image" and paste it onto your desktop.
3. Create a photobucket account at www.photobucket.com, and upload the images you downloaded in step 2.
4. Copy down the new links of your images by hovering on your image thumbnail in photobucket, then highlighting the link under "direct link", right click, "copy" and paste.
5. With the new image links (usually 2, one main image and one background repeat) replace them with the old ones.

I know, I know right. It's not comprehensive. To be honest I gave up typing that halfway cause I'm not too sure myself how to explain them in words. If you're smart you'll CTRL+F "jpg" and find out where all the image links are in the blogger codes, then deem as you fit.

Otherwise you could wait a few days for me to upload new ones (I ran out of emails to register for photobucket accounts) and then you could this time host them yourself. I'm serious, I'm really sick of dealing with these stuff.



I'll push this to the back of my brain cause I really don't wanna think about it now, it's Lunar New Year Eve tomorrow (supposedly today) and it's 2.29am and I'm so tired. And this fucking banker in Food Junction (closing technicalities, we have to submit the money we earned for the day) pissed me off. Such bad attitude. I'm going to pry out his full name sometime and make sure with my future connections, he stays as a fucking low-life Food Junction banker his entire life. And may his ass rot from sitting in the air-conditioned room all day. And he thinks he's so great he is a banker, he totally thinks he is an edge above all of us and become cocky, so fucking elitist, I'll show him what is a real elite next time.

Went to my mum's company buffet at Vienna today, I was practically binge eating from 7.30 to 10 so I'm really full. Honestly I eat a lot but I still don't really appreciate buffets, would rather just pay 20 bucks for an À la carte, which would already be really filling. Oh and I bumped into Ms. Hong Lan (secondary 3 Chinese teacher) while I was picking at jellies for my baby cousin. She approached me and I was lost for words for a moment there cause I didn't exactly remember her name. Talked for a minute there awkwardly when I mentioned that I'm going VJ but it didn't seem like a surprise to her. I think she ended the conversation joking that she actually "背叛"ed 4E. Or maybe she was refering to my transferring to VJ. Of which the latter is less likely. Anyway I'm so full now I don't think I should sleep till about an hour or two later.

Oh, and yeah. I'm getting my daily dosage of Dunman News from the fellow classmates/schoolmates blogs everyday, and now that I'm reading blogs I'm beginning to feel the stress bites of school. It sounds scary and everyone seems to be studying already. I'm unconsciously (okay, maybe consciously) kiasu so this gets on my nerves. Esp when I can't even procure a single mathematics formula out of my head right now. [No, honestly! Sat there for a minute just now thinking - I started with topics: differentiation, partial fractions, logarithms, algebra, before I thought of (a+b)^2=a^2+2ab+b^2 to soothe my mind a little]. But anyway good luck to everyone of my dear classmates, hope you've really enjoyed your orientation! Oh and to the few who are running for council, good luck too! :)

Fred Perry online is currently having a winter sale which reduces some prices down to 50%! I spotted this wallet (I'm been meaning to buy a wallet for months now) and it was kind of cheap. I think I might want to get it. I'm beginning to consciously feel like a brand whore cause the wallet isn't exactly stunning but I was like "who cares? it's Fred Perry". I've been carrying this "FRAGO"-branded wallet I took from my not-too-fashionable dad for a few months now and the brand doesn't even exist seriously. The wallet (looks down) isn't exactly pretty I know, but stare at it for 5 more minutes and I'm sure it will look a little better. It's the kind of 耐看 wallet. Nah, actually I'm not even sure I'll get it cause the spree-er who opened the spree has like zero orders so far, and I have a bad feeling the spree will be cancelled cause Fred Perry sprees are seriously unpopular in community sprees. Opps, seems like the spree is closed and my order is confirmed. :D



Oh yeah, and I got a scolding from my folks for buying (previously mentioned) a black short sleeved and a black polo that day. I didn't even say I wanted to wear them for CNY but I still got scolded, my superstitious dad added that I'll not notice how unlucky black really is until I grow up - what logic. So I'll have to get out shopping again for clothes, and a red/yellow one to 拜天公. I really have this bad feeling I'm spending more than I'm earning.

On a lighter note, I'll be back to Dunman High coming Wednesday to catch some classmates since they are having their CNY celebrations then :) I might bring cookies. HAHAHA

Barack Obama's inauguration in around 8 hours, I can't wait. It's so distant, and I'll be sleeping then but this is totally historical. Saw snippets of the pre-inauguration concert and it was stunning. I had goosebumps on cause I was emotionally high watching the performances (though it's only a few minutes) and I thought I would shed a tear. Would be really proud to be American right now, this is absolutely historic. I'll search for ways to catch the inauguration (if possible) later at night if my mum allows me to, otherwise I still want to watch the Lincoln Memorial concert today.

I'm really satisfied. Did some decent shopping today and got a short-sleeved, a pair of shorts and a polo. I find it's really easy to spend money when you're working, you count everything in hours: is this pair of shorts worth 12 hours? How does 8 hours sound in exchange for a shirt? And the answer to everything is a go-ahead. I kind of 破费-ed today but anyway since I'm working I guess it's not too bad. Gotta treat myself once in a while. Was doing some calculations on the bus ride home today and I actually realised I would need 84 hours of work exactly to off-set what I spent on CNY and prom'08. Which sums up to be quite a lot.

Psst: I think I bought one too many polo t-shirts actually. Got 3 at Topman online that day and just bought another today, I must be slowly losing my mind from intoxication of highly toxic salmon fumes at work.

I think it's high time I start to change my online persona. I'm revealing my name, my school and so much other more information, but most of that is from my blog so I guess that's okay. I'm (almost) universally known as bolong92 on the net, Gunbound, blogskins.com, Livejournal etc. though I seem to remember once or twice that I didn't manage to get that name cause it's taken. And during those times my alternative would be bolong02. Which again is not very good.

At first I thought that bolong92 spells decency, maturity and probably a speck of manly-ness cause it's not fancy-play of words like "absconsence" [no, that popped out of my brain, it doesn't exist. you can't expect me to give a real example] or even Absc0nS3nce which is so beyond the valley of twittyness. Turns out I was wrong, a recent blogskins.com forum thread made me realise how bad the prospect of things were. Everyone was discussing how they got their username (inspirations, likes and blah) when I realised mine was bolong92. My name, plus my birthyear. Exactly an impression of a primary school boy who just got introduced to the net and couldn't think of anything better. Perhaps even bolongy is better but the word just screams bastard (look: previous 2 posts).

I was like blog hopping to find blogs of my classmates 5c31 in a hopeful attempt of finding out how orientation was for my classbuds. Okay yeah, 5c31 (took me long enough to remember, a week ago I was still having an illusion that my class was 5c33 or 5c34) and erm, turns out I couldn't find any. Maybe they are not into the blogging-mojo, or maybe I didn't search clearly enough cause I can't even remember 10 names.

I was just editing my template just now (look: "gallery", it's up!) when I remembered that I actually got this blog title (You're such a BOLONGY!) from random Google searches of "bolongy". I tried doing it again cause I felt like the time is ripe to change a new title, and here are my options:

"bolongy is good for your bones"
"you probably think this is a bunch of bolongy but its true"{synonym: rubbish}
"so you can drop the "true professional" bolongy right now"{synonym: act}
"what you're saying is completely bolongy"{synonym: stupid}
"buy into all these bolongy conspiracy theories"{synonym: stupid}
"I put bolongy in my left pocket"
"dirty-stupid-dan you're cheesier than canned bolongy sitting in the sun"
"She is a real person not a phoney bolongy"{synonym: hypocrite}
"The bolongy's in the icebox. There's cheese and pickles, too."

Erm, so bolongy doesn't sound like a word too positive. But I could probably use "what you're saying is completely BOLONGY" for my next blog title. Okay, actually seriously I'm just bored. I see everyone's orientation photos up on facebook and it seemed so much fun. I miss school and the 4E classmates soooooo much :(

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle
Life is a maze and love is a riddle
I don't know where to go, can't do it alone
I've tried, and I don't know why

Was working today when I saw Zhen Zhou/Weijie's OG doing 十字路口 on explore. I think I saw Jianxiong as well, pondering somewhere out there. Oh and Sandra's dad :) Seriously I know I've said it too many times but still, it feels surreal. I feel like I'm missing out on so much school, I've been asked so many questions by customers who don't really get my situation. Like I'm not taking O's and yet I'm working when everyone's having school. A week ago there was this auntie with a son who's in Taonan primary 6 this year, aiming for Dunman High (yeah she was the only one so far to fully understand my plight) and I told her I was a graduate and we chatted at the counter for like 10 minutes till her chicken was burnt. Heh, I think I socialise with aunties well.

And 1 more thing. 2 women commented today that my Mandarin sounds funny and asked if I was local. They are not the first people to do it. Does it really? SH*T!

Yipee! My first album in 2 years. Excluding maybe 2 chinese idols like S.H.E and Gary 曹格. Went down to The Cathay just now (since everyone's in school and I'm stuck at home really bored and fever's subsided) to Gramophone to spend up that 20 dollars voucher which I got from Prom 08 for "Mr Sexiest Voice" which was sooo not me but heck :)

So I got to spend the $20 voucher, decided to buy Angus cause it's totally rare to find (on the internet and even real-life: I bought the last one off the shelf) and the music is totally my type. Light-hearted, chill-out. The album was unfortunately $18.95 so I threw $1.05 down the drain. The cashier even told me Gramophone was having this CNY Warehouse Sale with "DVDs, CDs and VCDs from $1" from January 9th to 18th only at The Cathay's outlet. But I looked for 5 minutes and couldn't find anything below $3 so I gave up. Oh yeah, to the CD lovers, you could take a look there, I didn't look clearly (was just sprinting off price tags) but maybe you could spot a steal.

My body temperature already did 3 periods of the sine curve. Or is that cosine? But anyway I'm really drowsy now, went to the doctor today and didn't manage to go for work cause I woke up with a burning 39.6 deg, my parents almost thought that I had dengue. The medicine's taking effect, really drowsy and I think I'm going to sleep after this (though I've done so for the entire day) and skip bathing as well. Heck, super tired, not feeling too well. And supposedly I have work on Tuesday. Would try to call them and ask if they could get a replacement, but I feel bad skipping so much already.

My mum's going to force me to abstain from all goodies during the CNY, how sucky.

Sales at Pepper Lunch today had been extremely good for no reason. I don't see any trend, but we sold like 2000 bucks worth of food today, blasting the records for school holiday weekends and even the holidays like New Year or Christmas. The best I've seen previously was perhaps 1900 max. Oh and like three-quarters of the sales today were from 6.30pm onwards, could imagine how crazy I must have been, chionging entirely.

Anyway work is getting more like a routine and less of a challenge, which is a good thing. I made friends with my "colleagues" and the aunties next door so seriously I get to eat quite a lot of food. Everytime an order is made wrongly, I get to finish it up, while the western stall auntie next door gives me chicken cutlets and spaghetti for free when she's feeling happy. I don't even care if my big boss Googles "Pepper Lunch" and finds my blog and realise that I'm illegally eating wrong orders (yeah, we're supposed to throw them away) and sacks me, cause I really don't mind quitting anytime now :) Oh yeah, and cause I'm eating so much, and so much I'm eating is meat + meat and hardly any rice, it also means proteins and proteins = more muscles and bigger calves. Can't stop thinking about my calves seriously, 8 hours standing up a day, not good.

Oh and about orientation. Plan cancelled, absolutely. I highly suspect I'm already off the "Dunmanian" list or something, everyone's recieved notifications about orientations (like emails, smses etc. from OGLs) but I've yet to get any. It's probably an indirect telling "hey you're not welcomed" so yeah, I'm not going to crash.

Hardly had time to breathe the past week. And that's a figure of speech. Have been either working or out with friends, I spend so little time at home/with my family now. Anyway had 2A class chalet on Wed/Thurs and it was not bad. Grace did quite a good job of organising, we managed to have a turnout of around 25 people, more than two-thirds of our class. The chalet date was mad, there were so many other people having chalet (all sec4s/JC ones 08). I met a primary school friend from Hwachong having chalet, and like 3 DHS Year2 o6 classes plus a class of the DHS Year5 o8. Anyway I missed the supposedly most bonding activity we did, captains ball against 2G 06 but oh well, the grounds were littered with like a family of 4 blo0dy black cats so I quit after 5 minutes and went back to the chalet with Benjamin and Keatyin to watch DVDs.

Oh yeah, and Benjamin + Keatyin made me this leaving-DHS collage of photos on a big black board (which was inconvenient to carry home), comprises of the secondary 1 and 2 photos I've taken. Which was actually kind of fearful (I hate the lower secondary me now) but yet they claimed I look so much more innocent then. Anyway it was quite touching, totally came as a surprise (yeah, I'm going to VJ, who cares?) nevertheless it brought back some nice memories. Thanks also to all the well-wishes I received from the rest of the 2A mates, they were really nice to hear :)

Oh and erm actually I might be going for orientation. Okay, it's totally crashing right? Would be nice to make new friends anyway, however many people I don't know in my new class. Just that I'm afraid it's not exactly nice to do and that teachers would say something about it. I'm really still 50-50 about it, but even if teachers stop me, I could still push up the most selfish excuse that "I paid 30 dollars for orientation already".

Homecoming celebration today in Tanjong Rhu campus, performances were awesome and really interesting, the Wushu performance totally awed me, no traditional costumes, no weapons but yet it was a bang. Bands and CCA performances were really entertaining, but the entire concert would have been better if the gallery above wasn't freezing cold, or if I actually bothered to bring a jacket to school today. Oh I didn't get to explore the new school again since Yuting and Tzuhsiang were so bored of it already T.T, guess I won't have the chance to take a look at the classrooms and auditorium anymore :(. Honestly things were actually quite disappointing, the real blocks look so different from those shown to us initially 2 years ago. Thought we were supposed to have this glass layout of a very big 2 storey library facing the roads outside, but maybe I had been dreaming.

Wanted to go for a movie after that, but walked out of school and started to consider Teoheng/pool/arcade and then after 15 minutes of discussion outside school, made a decision to play mahjong at Jieting's house. Big house, big room, really good environment. Plus her very nice mother prepared tangyuans, beehoon and noodles for us. If I hadn't lost my voice I would probably have eaten up the pot of tangyuans, but someone told me that peanuts were ultra bad for throat so... I took 3 and stopped. We played 2 tables, with Sieweng Tzuhsiang Liqin and me on the "conservative no-money noobs" table while the rest took the second table which was all day round quiet and tense.

Oh and erm Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. The title sounds absolutely silly, I saw it a month ago on GV's coming soon and dismissed it without a second look. Then realised it's from Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki which directed lots of good movies like Howl's Moving Castle and most notably Spirited Away. Which is the only reason why I wanna watch it now. Oh erm heard reviews gave it a really good rating as well, so I guess it's much more deep than just a little mermaid living on the cliff by the sea.
Oh, and the soundtrack. The song you've heard on TV all this time? HAHA I was thinking it was ultimatez cliche, immature high-pitched baby voice with a highly obnoxious tune which clings to your brain. Anyway, it's annoying, irritating and childish which happens to be sooo me, so I'mma recommend it to you. Learn to sing it, cause everyone else's singing it already!

Gake no ue no Ponyo Theme Song – Romaji Lyrics
Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo sakana no ko
Aoi umi kara yatte kita
Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo fukurannda
Manmaru onaka no onna no ko

And since I'm already talking about movies, I recently watched Wild Child and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snoggings. Both movies are really good, British accent so wonderful and smooth to the ear, a developed storyline though chick flicks. Especially effective for accompanying you through a boring weekday afternoon. Light-hearted, a little bit of bitching around but the ending just makes you smile. :)

Such a long post previously (wow that felt like yesterday!) and yet I forgot to actually say...
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Homecoming celebration in school tomorrow, jolly well the very last time I'm going to experience school life in DHS. Sucks, really. Nevertheless I'm quite excited, would be nice seeing everyone squeeze into 158 buses again. I'm done with graduation gifts, really proud of them and am finally going to pass to the rest tomorrow. Oh and I'm seriously getting annoyed by CNY songs, it's not only a month away, some of the tunes are also rather thumpy and irritating, them being Chinese songs doesn't help. Everyone's beginning to play them, be it ShopN'Save or small enterprises in the mall.

Oh, and about new year, thanks to everyone who sent their well wishes through SMS, christmas ones as well. Recieving them makes me feel really good and loved, so thanks :)

Our supposed steamboat EO2008 dinner became a take-away food and mahjong session at Sandra's house. Because all of us were too lazy to cook and wash the dishes. Anyway, we 跨年 the last minute of 2008 in a car with Sandra's dad, Sandra Yuting Tzuhsiang and me outside east coast park Macdonalds. LOL it was totally random, didn't know who thought of the idea to go to ECP but anyway I imagined us to be the only souls there to shout "HAPPY NEW YEAR" to each other in a desolate ECP, even with an echo coming back to us. It was a shocker, ECP was filled with people, groups there were mainly families, youths and foreign workers but hell I so didn't expect it! I thought nobody would be as silly as us to think of ECP for countdown, but yet it was filled. Liqin and Sieweng ate dinner but wasn't able to come to ECP :(


Didn't manage to take a single photo of the crowd there cause it was so dark my lousy phone camera couldn't spot out a single shit. Played with sparklers and took that photo. Was weird, must have been some flash cock-up or something, resulting in the weird blue strips at the sides. Rest of photos are with Sandra. Spent a lot of cash on food today, like 3 hours of my pay. Not nice. Okay, The Coffee Bean took up $7 and I didn't even finish it. We paid for the air-conditioned seat, to find out that 15 minutes after we bought our coffee, they were closing and we were forced to move outside with metal seats and tables and a very humid environment.

I think this was the first time I actually counted down with friends. LOL quite an experience, but I'm really tired now cause I hardly caught any sleep. Waking up for work in 7 hours.

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