I just came home from dinner celebration with my family. We didn't exactly like slowly take time and chat cause both me and my brother's having exams tomorrow. So yeah. Econs progress is... still not great unfortunately, so I've finished reading market structure and half of income inequality, and I'm just going to do a quick revision on the rest of the pre-mid year chapters cause I guess I should have finished reading them for mid years at least. Though I distinctly remember the lack of time as well, and reading market failure on the bus, that day when there's econs and something else before econs. But anyway I saw that I've notes on the last blank page of the market failure set of notes (must have scribbled it down when me, Alvina, Perle and Daniel were in Macdonalds before the exam). But yeah that gives me some reason to assume part of it is at least deep down in my brain. My right brain. Which is super inactive from pumping all chem, math and physics into the left brain.
Anyway right, I've a $50 Sakae Sushi voucher and while we were talking just now, my mum reminded me to go for lunch someday with my brother before it expires on Wednesday. Damned, I wanted to save it for Phoenix Cheer. But never mind, the thought of it still sounds exciting. I just spent like half an hour with my brother on Sakae's website to decide on how the 2 of us are going to spend the $50. We wanted to call someone else, but the cousin we always hang out with's Secondary 4 and has remedial everyday till 7pm (oh sad life) and we really couldn't find any single other person we could call along without making the atmosphere weird.
So... we came to a conclusion. He's not having exams on Wednesday, and chem ends 11am. I'm going to rush home, get nicely dressed, bring along his DSLR and we'll head off to the Sakae outlet at Wheelock Place. The Sakae Sushi webpage says Wheelock Sakae has tatami rooms! BEST! Haha it's like perfect for camwhoring, a room shut off for the 2 of us, we'll camwhore all day! PLUS it's like we have $25 each, we plan to get the... Nama Sake on their menu, and we still have like $38 for food! It's like we can buy a whole super platter of party set sushis and still have money left! WOAH haha the good life! Yay omg so excited I don't need to study for econs already hahaha.
OMG OMG!!! PLUS I've a super good recommendation for you, Alvina recommended this through her blog. Good things must share! There's this awesome Economics professor on Youtube called Paj Holden and he does videos on the A' levels Economics chapters. Awesome seriously. THANK YOU SO SUPER MUCH, ALVINA!!! TOTALLY SAVED MY ASS. Because of him, I've completed elasticity of demand and supply in like, half an hour, and I'm planning to spend the next half an hour watching videos on applications of demand and supply. A little mugging of market failure after that, source out some things to memorise on the bus ride tomorrow morning, and I'm ready for the exams! HAHA woah seriously by the end of today I would have concluded the whole syllabus of econs in 2 days of the extremely efficient inefficient weekends. Sorry for the oxymoron, yesterday sucked but today after dinner I started watching the dude and I kinda got a revelation. YAY damn proud of myself. Off to study! Bye! :)
Adorable kids and marshmallows!
Saturday, September 26, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:37 PM
I dunno what's the point of this marshmallow test but it's so cute!
Oh- that's deep.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
in retrospect, at 7:29 PM
Okay, I'm going to survive on $1.50 a day from this day onwards. And then hopefully in 2 month's time my deficit of a 100plus will be equal to zero, and then maybe $80 by end December. And then I can buy my Fred Perry shirt. There's always this year-end online sale where things go off to half price? Yeah I think I should be able to get a shirt which costs about $80. I think that's the cheapest it could go, unless someone's going to get them from suppliers which would probably be about $60. But that's rare. And it's like every single time on the MRT when I see another person wearing that Fred Perry polo I stab myself in the heart another time. Wish we could be friends and then when he gets bored of the shirt he'll throw it to me. Oh damned I sound desperate.
Past few days sucked. Studying sense. I'm going to have dinner now and then I'll go mug. Everyday by the time I'm reached home from school I've entirely lost my energy/motivation to study. You get what I'm implying right?
Yeah plus I noticed a senior who disabled display of her birthday on Facebook. It's quite thought provoking, I mean like seeing how superficial social networking sites like Facebook are, people only wishing you a happy birthday cause that day they happened to be online and happened to scroll down to see a Facebook notification that it's your birthday today. I mean, inevitably everyone does that - like part and parcel of life.
Okay gotta rush. Mug. Good luck to you too!
QTpie's another year old!
Monday, September 21, 2009
in retrospect, at 8:59 PM
You know, I don't usually blog about what's happened in the day, but today was pretty fun. Like Phoenix Cheerleaders bonding time all over again. The last time I've felt like that was... Pizza Hut. And that was like - half a year ago is it?!?! I think it's the group hugs. Haha okay so we surprised Suwen (HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUWEN - Blogger don't have hot pink!) with her St. Nicks friends haha double surprise in her house we totally pwned! Plus she cried :) Watched Choir Boys after a hell lot of games: I Never, Eduardo singing a lot, level 4 pigs, and all the food zomg. We had like... pizza, chicken wings, chocolate coated marshmallows, ba-kua(s?), mooncake, chocolates, a huge cake, grapes and did I mention ba-kua? I don't remember what else. I didn't even have to eat dinner tonight but I had it anyway so my mum (who cooked) wouldn't be disappointed. Aww I miss the good days... Been studying with Kelly, Suwen, Wenx, Ian and Daniel a lot, and of course Daniel (again, haha), Perle and Alvina cause they are classmates, but it hasn't been exactly Phoenix Cheer yet :( Miss so many people omg.
HAHA LOL Superlative on Facebook's getting a little desperate, didn't realise they have to resort to these sort of methods!!!
On Youtube and the Google monopoly.
in retrospect, at 1:23 AM
So it's (still) Sunday and I've only studied like an hour and a half today :( WHAT I'm supposed to do like 8 hour mugging days okay! Anyway the reason to that was because I was stuck on Youtube. And after I came on just now I ended up watching stupid videos by this dude called Peter Chao. Whatever I don't exactly like him he's totally stupid, plus he's like Asian and totally making a fool out of his(asian)self.
Anyway a recommended user, called KurtHugoSchneider has like really good stuff. The video I've posted below is one of his latest videos, I encourage you to go watch their covers Party In the USA, Thinking of You, and there's also this Michael Jackson Medley which is really good, but is freakily edited, I mean there are like 6 of him. Like o.O huh.
P.S. I'm really pissed about the Google monopoly or the fact that Google's extending its reach to every possible shiz we use on the Internet: Blogger, Youtube, and maybe Facebook?! (I dunno I'm unsure about Facebook) But it's like Blogger and Youtube's connected by the Google account, I created a new Youtube username "superbolong" today cause "bolong92"s really embarrassing, I hate that it's so childish I'm revealing my birthyear. And anyway so I logged on to Youtube with superbolong, and then I logged on to Blogger with my bolong02@hotmail.com (linked to bolong92 on Youtube) and suddenly superbolong was logged out from Youtube. Bitches, technology.
Friday, September 18, 2009
in retrospect, at 8:35 PM
Kayne West stole Taylor Swift's limelight on the VMA 2009, and exclaimed rudely that "Beyoncé has one of the best videos of all time". He didn't have to say that twice, but he did. SLUT!!! But really, he just makes me like Taylor Swift even more!
Michael Buckley sums it up quite well:
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
in retrospect, at 2:13 PM
ZZZ I'VE GOT ZILCH SELF CONTROLZ.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
in retrospect, at 12:47 AM
OMG you know I was watching 明星志功队 on Channel U yesterday, they featured this China organization called GreenEyes which is like basically an environmental group in China established by a few teenagers. Anyway I discourage you from clicking on the link cause the entire site's in Mandarin and I took really long to navigate around the site to try to find images. Anyway, I was about to tell you that OMG I've developed an owl fetish from watching that episode!
I'm like afraid of anything agile, furry and small (maybe cats are not so small). So that includes owls and birds BUT I swear I can change for this owl. I checked it up: I think that little owl I fell for was a Saw-whet Owl, native to North America but I saw it in the program in China. I dunno maybe they are sibling species. But damn cute damn cute especially when it's small and fat look like a bloated chick :) No, but I don't like chicks. I'm scared of chicks actually. One time I went to China to a distant relative's house (my granddad was living there before he swam over to Singapore HAHAHA) they had chickens and chicks pecking on the ground before the house, and I was so scared of them plus the little chicks were running about I was soooo afraid I'll end up stepping on them OMG. Worst "leaving the house" experience I've ever had. Another time there was this cat lying down on the first flight of stairs on my block and I was so freaked out I didn't know how to get out of the building I ran on the staircase railings down to ground level. And no, there's no lift on my building, it's a 4 storeyed HDB maisonette with 8 families. So yeah, just to illustrate the point that I really had no other way out.
Opps side-tracked pretty much. Anyway here's the extremely cute Saw-whet! I know, it looks a little uglier when it grows bigger but still...!
And you know I was still browsing Deviantart and then I saw this really awesomelipsmacking owl necklace. I know it's girl-stuff but whatever if I've a sister I would buy this for her!
PLUS there's even an owl cushion HAHAHA so adorable zomg.
Sunday, September 06, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:58 PM
I had the weirdest dream today. It was a very very long one, and somehow for the first time all details were so clear. Think my mind's boggled with PW.
So there was like part 1 and part 2 of the story. Part 1 was me as a small child, I lived in the slums. One night I was hungry, I walked down to the dark row of shops 2 streets away and I bought Old Chang Kee. What was equivalent of a $10 worth of Old Chang Kee. But the boss instead gave me a big bag of food. Something amounting to about $50. I sneakily knew he gave me extras without the intention to. I paid the $10, and hurriedly walked off, and then somehow his mind suddenly came clear and he started to chase me back for the rest of the food. Oh, there was this big canal along the street of shops! And then I lost him.
I woke up at part 2 and I was all grown up. I think I became a highly wanted criminal after escaping with that bag of $50 Old Chang Kee. It was an afternoon, I was traveling out of town with my ang-moh parents in their white caravan, somehow we were just stuck in this long road with a huge traffic jam. We were sitting on the deck of our caravan, enjoying the scenery in the midst of the slow moving traffic. Suddenly, there was this flash of bright light. I was conscientious doing my PW. I knew immediately that signified a nuclear bomb explosion. I rushed to tell my parents, and they shouted "YES, WE HAVE IN-PLACE-PROTECTION ON OUR CARAVAN" and shuffed me into this rectangular hole on the deck of our caravan. I slid through the hole and dropped into an open balcony on the caravan. [I don't know why there was a balcony on our caravan - you know, dreams don't make sense] I landed in a awkward position I didn't get to duck and cover so in the end the heat wave scalded my skin badly. The rest of the dream was about food rationing and a decontamination facility which was set up along the road. There were long queues and people were dying, my parents managed to get privileges and everyone hated us after that and blah. Can't recall the rest very well, after-all I've been awake for 10 hours since then already, and I know I'm totally boring you out.
On a side note I shouldn't be spending so much time online, thankfully somehow Facebook's down now, and OMG my dad heated up (a couple of days) overnight duck meat tonight for a part of dinner and I think I've just got food poisoning zz.
Saturday, September 05, 2009
in retrospect, at 11:39 PM
So I came to a conclusion that if I log on to the computer from 9pm onwards, the next thing I'll be doing after that is sleep. So instead of banning myself from the computer (which is absolutely futile) I came up with another idea! I'mma watch TED.com videos till it's 12 and I'm ready to sleep. At least they are interesting plus intellectual. Will help in GP. Oh my sad JC life, I've to do every single thing with a motive: results, and the A' levels. I hope the sep-mugging-tember "holidays" will be efficient!
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
in retrospect, at 8:51 PM
I saw this video featured on Youtube, and I just couldn't help thinking: are our parents really so stupid? I mean, technologies like Facebook impresses them so much. Gloria Bianco says "I write to my son Jeffery about 5 or 6 times per day" while the host replies "Oh, he must love being able to stay in touch with him mum like that!", agreed upon by another. I almost thought it was a sarcastic comment till I saw the look on his face. They sound like total hermits talking about things they think are cool to talk about.
PLUS she creates a Twitter to stalk her son secretly, by the name of CoreyS1990. "You just pick a name that's very common, and afterwards you add the year your son/daughter was born, and they will think it's somebody they graduated with" "Just make sure that you spell everything wrong and swear a lot". Plus she stereotypes this girl her son hangs out with on the basis of 2 slutty looking photos, and then bitches her on Twitter. "You can send her a message warning her to keep her slut hands off your son unless she wants to find herself in some (yadda yadda) danger". She's like an old slut zomg, you don't use such lowly methods to know more about your children's life. Bet her son's heckin embarrassed.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
in retrospect, at 7:57 PM
I think I'm sick. I've caught a cold this morning at Ian's and I started to feel worse ever since I stepped out of his house into the chilly night just an hour ago. I hardly did any studying this entire break - volleyball at Sentosa on saturday, PW and movie on sunday, yesterday teacher's day celebrations and potluck [with yuting tzuhsiang liqin jieting sandra angell and sieweng], then decided to stay over at Ian's like at 10plus (and getting scolded by my dad on phone) till today. His mum made (g00d) breakfast and lunch for us which was pretty awesome, considering I passed 2 days of the week spending only... $2. I shall keep expenditure within... $30 this week. Cause the VJC yearbook's going to take up $18 already. Oh well, my extended weekends were really fun though, so at least it didn't feel that wasted. My last break, I swear I'm going to start chionging after this. OMG I totally neglected PW during the past two days, I'm going to end up sleeping late today again.
Econk's tomorrow.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:19 PM
BEAMS.
I just came home from dinner celebration with my family. We didn't exactly like slowly take time and chat cause both me and my brother's having exams tomorrow. So yeah. Econs progress is... still not great unfortunately, so I've finished reading market structure and half of income inequality, and I'm just going to do a quick revision on the rest of the pre-mid year chapters cause I guess I should have finished reading them for mid years at least. Though I distinctly remember the lack of time as well, and reading market failure on the bus, that day when there's econs and something else before econs. But anyway I saw that I've notes on the last blank page of the market failure set of notes (must have scribbled it down when me, Alvina, Perle and Daniel were in Macdonalds before the exam). But yeah that gives me some reason to assume part of it is at least deep down in my brain. My right brain. Which is super inactive from pumping all chem, math and physics into the left brain.
Anyway right, I've a $50 Sakae Sushi voucher and while we were talking just now, my mum reminded me to go for lunch someday with my brother before it expires on Wednesday. Damned, I wanted to save it for Phoenix Cheer. But never mind, the thought of it still sounds exciting. I just spent like half an hour with my brother on Sakae's website to decide on how the 2 of us are going to spend the $50. We wanted to call someone else, but the cousin we always hang out with's Secondary 4 and has remedial everyday till 7pm (oh sad life) and we really couldn't find any single other person we could call along without making the atmosphere weird.
So... we came to a conclusion. He's not having exams on Wednesday, and chem ends 11am. I'm going to rush home, get nicely dressed, bring along his DSLR and we'll head off to the Sakae outlet at Wheelock Place. The Sakae Sushi webpage says Wheelock Sakae has tatami rooms! BEST! Haha it's like perfect for camwhoring, a room shut off for the 2 of us, we'll camwhore all day! PLUS it's like we have $25 each, we plan to get the... Nama Sake on their menu, and we still have like $38 for food! It's like we can buy a whole super platter of party set sushis and still have money left! WOAH haha the good life! Yay omg so excited I don't need to study for econs already hahaha.
OMG OMG!!! PLUS I've a super good recommendation for you, Alvina recommended this through her blog. Good things must share! There's this awesome Economics professor on Youtube called Paj Holden and he does videos on the A' levels Economics chapters. Awesome seriously. THANK YOU SO SUPER MUCH, ALVINA!!! TOTALLY SAVED MY ASS. Because of him, I've completed elasticity of demand and supply in like, half an hour, and I'm planning to spend the next half an hour watching videos on applications of demand and supply. A little mugging of market failure after that, source out some things to memorise on the bus ride tomorrow morning, and I'm ready for the exams! HAHA woah seriously by the end of today I would have concluded the whole syllabus of econs in 2 days of the extremely efficient inefficient weekends. Sorry for the oxymoron, yesterday sucked but today after dinner I started watching the dude and I kinda got a revelation. YAY damn proud of myself. Off to study! Bye! :)
Adorable kids and marshmallows!
Saturday, September 26, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:37 PM
I dunno what's the point of this marshmallow test but it's so cute!
Oh- that's deep.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
in retrospect, at 7:29 PM
Okay, I'm going to survive on $1.50 a day from this day onwards. And then hopefully in 2 month's time my deficit of a 100plus will be equal to zero, and then maybe $80 by end December. And then I can buy my Fred Perry shirt. There's always this year-end online sale where things go off to half price? Yeah I think I should be able to get a shirt which costs about $80. I think that's the cheapest it could go, unless someone's going to get them from suppliers which would probably be about $60. But that's rare. And it's like every single time on the MRT when I see another person wearing that Fred Perry polo I stab myself in the heart another time. Wish we could be friends and then when he gets bored of the shirt he'll throw it to me. Oh damned I sound desperate.
Past few days sucked. Studying sense. I'm going to have dinner now and then I'll go mug. Everyday by the time I'm reached home from school I've entirely lost my energy/motivation to study. You get what I'm implying right?
Yeah plus I noticed a senior who disabled display of her birthday on Facebook. It's quite thought provoking, I mean like seeing how superficial social networking sites like Facebook are, people only wishing you a happy birthday cause that day they happened to be online and happened to scroll down to see a Facebook notification that it's your birthday today. I mean, inevitably everyone does that - like part and parcel of life.
Okay gotta rush. Mug. Good luck to you too!
QTpie's another year old!
Monday, September 21, 2009
in retrospect, at 8:59 PM
You know, I don't usually blog about what's happened in the day, but today was pretty fun. Like Phoenix Cheerleaders bonding time all over again. The last time I've felt like that was... Pizza Hut. And that was like - half a year ago is it?!?! I think it's the group hugs. Haha okay so we surprised Suwen (HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUWEN - Blogger don't have hot pink!) with her St. Nicks friends haha double surprise in her house we totally pwned! Plus she cried :) Watched Choir Boys after a hell lot of games: I Never, Eduardo singing a lot, level 4 pigs, and all the food zomg. We had like... pizza, chicken wings, chocolate coated marshmallows, ba-kua(s?), mooncake, chocolates, a huge cake, grapes and did I mention ba-kua? I don't remember what else. I didn't even have to eat dinner tonight but I had it anyway so my mum (who cooked) wouldn't be disappointed. Aww I miss the good days... Been studying with Kelly, Suwen, Wenx, Ian and Daniel a lot, and of course Daniel (again, haha), Perle and Alvina cause they are classmates, but it hasn't been exactly Phoenix Cheer yet :( Miss so many people omg.
HAHA LOL Superlative on Facebook's getting a little desperate, didn't realise they have to resort to these sort of methods!!!
On Youtube and the Google monopoly.
in retrospect, at 1:23 AM
So it's (still) Sunday and I've only studied like an hour and a half today :( WHAT I'm supposed to do like 8 hour mugging days okay! Anyway the reason to that was because I was stuck on Youtube. And after I came on just now I ended up watching stupid videos by this dude called Peter Chao. Whatever I don't exactly like him he's totally stupid, plus he's like Asian and totally making a fool out of his(asian)self.
Anyway a recommended user, called KurtHugoSchneider has like really good stuff. The video I've posted below is one of his latest videos, I encourage you to go watch their covers Party In the USA, Thinking of You, and there's also this Michael Jackson Medley which is really good, but is freakily edited, I mean there are like 6 of him. Like o.O huh.
P.S. I'm really pissed about the Google monopoly or the fact that Google's extending its reach to every possible shiz we use on the Internet: Blogger, Youtube, and maybe Facebook?! (I dunno I'm unsure about Facebook) But it's like Blogger and Youtube's connected by the Google account, I created a new Youtube username "superbolong" today cause "bolong92"s really embarrassing, I hate that it's so childish I'm revealing my birthyear. And anyway so I logged on to Youtube with superbolong, and then I logged on to Blogger with my bolong02@hotmail.com (linked to bolong92 on Youtube) and suddenly superbolong was logged out from Youtube. Bitches, technology.
Friday, September 18, 2009
in retrospect, at 8:35 PM
Kayne West stole Taylor Swift's limelight on the VMA 2009, and exclaimed rudely that "Beyoncé has one of the best videos of all time". He didn't have to say that twice, but he did. SLUT!!! But really, he just makes me like Taylor Swift even more!
Michael Buckley sums it up quite well:
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
in retrospect, at 2:13 PM
ZZZ I'VE GOT ZILCH SELF CONTROLZ.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
in retrospect, at 12:47 AM
OMG you know I was watching 明星志功队 on Channel U yesterday, they featured this China organization called GreenEyes which is like basically an environmental group in China established by a few teenagers. Anyway I discourage you from clicking on the link cause the entire site's in Mandarin and I took really long to navigate around the site to try to find images. Anyway, I was about to tell you that OMG I've developed an owl fetish from watching that episode!
I'm like afraid of anything agile, furry and small (maybe cats are not so small). So that includes owls and birds BUT I swear I can change for this owl. I checked it up: I think that little owl I fell for was a Saw-whet Owl, native to North America but I saw it in the program in China. I dunno maybe they are sibling species. But damn cute damn cute especially when it's small and fat look like a bloated chick :) No, but I don't like chicks. I'm scared of chicks actually. One time I went to China to a distant relative's house (my granddad was living there before he swam over to Singapore HAHAHA) they had chickens and chicks pecking on the ground before the house, and I was so scared of them plus the little chicks were running about I was soooo afraid I'll end up stepping on them OMG. Worst "leaving the house" experience I've ever had. Another time there was this cat lying down on the first flight of stairs on my block and I was so freaked out I didn't know how to get out of the building I ran on the staircase railings down to ground level. And no, there's no lift on my building, it's a 4 storeyed HDB maisonette with 8 families. So yeah, just to illustrate the point that I really had no other way out.
Opps side-tracked pretty much. Anyway here's the extremely cute Saw-whet! I know, it looks a little uglier when it grows bigger but still...!
And you know I was still browsing Deviantart and then I saw this really awesomelipsmacking owl necklace. I know it's girl-stuff but whatever if I've a sister I would buy this for her!
PLUS there's even an owl cushion HAHAHA so adorable zomg.
Sunday, September 06, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:58 PM
I had the weirdest dream today. It was a very very long one, and somehow for the first time all details were so clear. Think my mind's boggled with PW.
So there was like part 1 and part 2 of the story. Part 1 was me as a small child, I lived in the slums. One night I was hungry, I walked down to the dark row of shops 2 streets away and I bought Old Chang Kee. What was equivalent of a $10 worth of Old Chang Kee. But the boss instead gave me a big bag of food. Something amounting to about $50. I sneakily knew he gave me extras without the intention to. I paid the $10, and hurriedly walked off, and then somehow his mind suddenly came clear and he started to chase me back for the rest of the food. Oh, there was this big canal along the street of shops! And then I lost him.
I woke up at part 2 and I was all grown up. I think I became a highly wanted criminal after escaping with that bag of $50 Old Chang Kee. It was an afternoon, I was traveling out of town with my ang-moh parents in their white caravan, somehow we were just stuck in this long road with a huge traffic jam. We were sitting on the deck of our caravan, enjoying the scenery in the midst of the slow moving traffic. Suddenly, there was this flash of bright light. I was conscientious doing my PW. I knew immediately that signified a nuclear bomb explosion. I rushed to tell my parents, and they shouted "YES, WE HAVE IN-PLACE-PROTECTION ON OUR CARAVAN" and shuffed me into this rectangular hole on the deck of our caravan. I slid through the hole and dropped into an open balcony on the caravan. [I don't know why there was a balcony on our caravan - you know, dreams don't make sense] I landed in a awkward position I didn't get to duck and cover so in the end the heat wave scalded my skin badly. The rest of the dream was about food rationing and a decontamination facility which was set up along the road. There were long queues and people were dying, my parents managed to get privileges and everyone hated us after that and blah. Can't recall the rest very well, after-all I've been awake for 10 hours since then already, and I know I'm totally boring you out.
On a side note I shouldn't be spending so much time online, thankfully somehow Facebook's down now, and OMG my dad heated up (a couple of days) overnight duck meat tonight for a part of dinner and I think I've just got food poisoning zz.
Saturday, September 05, 2009
in retrospect, at 11:39 PM
So I came to a conclusion that if I log on to the computer from 9pm onwards, the next thing I'll be doing after that is sleep. So instead of banning myself from the computer (which is absolutely futile) I came up with another idea! I'mma watch TED.com videos till it's 12 and I'm ready to sleep. At least they are interesting plus intellectual. Will help in GP. Oh my sad JC life, I've to do every single thing with a motive: results, and the A' levels. I hope the sep-mugging-tember "holidays" will be efficient!
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
in retrospect, at 8:51 PM
I saw this video featured on Youtube, and I just couldn't help thinking: are our parents really so stupid? I mean, technologies like Facebook impresses them so much. Gloria Bianco says "I write to my son Jeffery about 5 or 6 times per day" while the host replies "Oh, he must love being able to stay in touch with him mum like that!", agreed upon by another. I almost thought it was a sarcastic comment till I saw the look on his face. They sound like total hermits talking about things they think are cool to talk about.
PLUS she creates a Twitter to stalk her son secretly, by the name of CoreyS1990. "You just pick a name that's very common, and afterwards you add the year your son/daughter was born, and they will think it's somebody they graduated with" "Just make sure that you spell everything wrong and swear a lot". Plus she stereotypes this girl her son hangs out with on the basis of 2 slutty looking photos, and then bitches her on Twitter. "You can send her a message warning her to keep her slut hands off your son unless she wants to find herself in some (yadda yadda) danger". She's like an old slut zomg, you don't use such lowly methods to know more about your children's life. Bet her son's heckin embarrassed.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
in retrospect, at 7:57 PM
I think I'm sick. I've caught a cold this morning at Ian's and I started to feel worse ever since I stepped out of his house into the chilly night just an hour ago. I hardly did any studying this entire break - volleyball at Sentosa on saturday, PW and movie on sunday, yesterday teacher's day celebrations and potluck [with yuting tzuhsiang liqin jieting sandra angell and sieweng], then decided to stay over at Ian's like at 10plus (and getting scolded by my dad on phone) till today. His mum made (g00d) breakfast and lunch for us which was pretty awesome, considering I passed 2 days of the week spending only... $2. I shall keep expenditure within... $30 this week. Cause the VJC yearbook's going to take up $18 already. Oh well, my extended weekends were really fun though, so at least it didn't feel that wasted. My last break, I swear I'm going to start chionging after this. OMG I totally neglected PW during the past two days, I'm going to end up sleeping late today again.
Before you read this,
This blog is not going to be about cheery encounters, sizzling gossips or interesting current affairs.
So if you're looking for any of the above three, do 'x' this page. That was a warning - before you waste your time here.
The author of this blog is pretty much a narcissist, and most of the posts here would be constantly lamenting about tiny things in his head which wouldn't concern you, nor the world.
Instead, the further he serves his two-years compulsory bond of being born a Singaporean son - National Service - the more tiresome and self-absorbed his posts will get.
The only intended audience for the blog is the author himself, and perhaps those who care enough.
Take this as a warning, so if you're looking for entertainment, this really isn't the right place. I've warned you...
P.S. I know this blog template's absolutely narcissistic.
More About Me
Chew Bolong, Singaporean. Would have to emphasize on that point at times cause you're not exactly the first one thinking that my name's PRC.
Oh, yes, my name's a Mandarin translation. Get on with life already.
I graduated from Dunman High School, then Victoria Junior College and I'm currently spending the next year and a half of my life (brainless), in National Service.
I have interests in designing and art [note: interest doesn't mean ability], (indie rock / folk) music, nature, long walks at night and making friends - sounds like a weird combination to say but those are things I associate myself to.
I'm an ENTP but at times an introvert. I love deep conversations with people.
I'm always in a dilemma deciding whether or not to change this description about myself, so I've decided that additional details shall be listed under.
27 Random Facts you HAVE to know about me
1. I used to suffer from insomnia cause annoying tunes would be stuck in my head or I tend to think through every event that's happened in the day, so I wouldn't be able to fall asleep. But in NS that doesn't apply anymore, cause I'm always tired. Don't think that's a good thing. 2. I like long walks alone at night, because it gives me a good opportunity to reflect, let my mind wander into deep stuff and just immerse in nature and the surroundings. That's provided the place I'm at is quiet and green. Yeah that's parks, garden, and most of Serangoon. Unfortunately, since NS, my mind's been pretty empty most of the time. 3. I told myself that by 37 years old I must have a (big) house complete with a billard table, a home-theatre system, a cosy round table and 4 armchairs in a corner of my (huge) living room, a secret hideout with natural lighting to chill and read books, a tiny bartender corner, a walk-in wardrobe and a useable kitchen amongst all other things. But my definition of future success only encompasses one thing - happiness. Yeah, it's a cliche but there must be a reason why it's a cliche right? 4. I enjoy people-watching. Behavioral science. You can actually tell a lot from that. 5. A part of my body I hate the most? My calves for sure. If you're a consistent reader of my blog I'm sure you would have heard of it already. But yeah, I'm standing at merely 165+ but I'd rather have thinner calves than be taller. 6. I (secretly) detest the Secondary 1, 2 me cause I was way too childish and immature. Not that secretive anymore, but I could have better spent that 2 years doing something else rather than doing lame things and attracting attention. I don't exactly like to mention this cause it's unglamorous, so lucky you. 7. I'm extremely afraid of cats. Like as if you don't know that already. 8. I can't take plain white bread. Nor powder formulated (warm) milk. They really make me wanna puke, cause they've that gooey feeling and they get stuck between or under your teeth. Which is disgusting. That's probably one of the reasons why I'm so short. I didn't know fresh milk existed when I was young, so I didn't drink milk for around a decade. 9. I find people who have good fashion sense and natural leadership emanating from them incredibly sexy. 10. I like girls with slightly reddish long hair and colourful sun dresses. 11. I have an inevitably heavy breathing, and it always gets worse when I start to notice it. Instead, I just reminded myself of it and am having a hard time trying to regulate my breathing right now. Plus I only breathe through my mouth. Although I've a big nose, my nostrils are probably small cause I have a blocked nose 24/7. BUT somehow when I fall asleep my body will force myself to breathe through my nose. Which is the reason why I snore in lectures. It's not even a snore actually - just heavy breathing sounds. I know I sound defensive right now. But no. True story. 12. I think the first gush of air from the air-conditioning system of a car is extremely addictive and pleasant. I'm pretty surprised some of my friends thought so too. 13. Crocs look ugly, but they smell really awesome to me. That fresh smell of sweet rubber. Everytime I walk past a Crocs outlet my heart melts a bit. No one seems to agree with me on this though. 14. The standard pen I use is a Pilot G2 0.5 ballpoint, and I write with such force on paper that Mr Ken Leong once commented on my essay: "braille?". The problem's so severe I need to use a cardboard piece (or a stack of paper of at least 5 pieces) as padding whenever I'm writing on paper. I switched to Uniball 0.38s in JC2. I am now using the Uniball to sketch as well. 15. I'm fully equipped in the skills of martial arts: junior black belt in Taekwondo as well as 6 years of Wushu. But I haven't even so much as laid a punch or slap on anyone. Okay I think I've slapped my brother a couple of times but that doesn't count cause I don't use my full force on him. One day I'd really like to try and punch someone. See if he even feel it hurts. 16. I'm guilty of judging people by a first impression (or just a quick scan). Don't everyone do? 17. Though I do say that, I find that my first 'evaluation' of someone is always pretty accurate. If I don't like someone, after time others will find it the same too. 18. I really like to whine and complain. I've been trying to tone it down recently because I realised that I feel better after I let it all out, but yet it only spreads the gloominess to my friends. I'd hate it if my friends were always whiney too, so I'll tone it down. I'll try. 19. I don't know why but I'm much more expressive online. I spill out secrets more often. I blog about things I don't even tell my close friends. So yeah, do read more when you still have the chance to. :D I suppose I'll stop blogging once I'm off the "student" label. Once I enter the workforce, when things are really so much more political and shit. 20. I've a weird habit of munching off the circumference of my burgers before I savour the centre of it. Don't laugh. 21. I have slight lisps. I wouldn't exactly call it that really, cause I refuse to admit it as a flaw, but pronouncing things with "esses" usually results in my tongue sticking out between my teeth and what comes out really sounds more like a "th". Yes, you can mock me about it for all your eternity of a boring, insipid life because I've came to terms with it. Booyah. 22. I believe that if someone isn't vain, he/she probably doesn't look good either. So yeah, come join me in being vain. 23. I'm quite a perfectionist about my companion, love and relationships, so I don't date easily. 24. I'm a huge nature lover. I want to walk Singapore's city at night with my friends. I want to camp under the stars with my friends. I want to live in the mountains without civilization. With a close friend or alone. My future half would probably have to love nature as well. Not like hiking-nature or climbing-nature, but really just the nature all around you. Even in the city. 25. My friend once said that I like to "fix broken dolls" as a boyfriend. In some ways it sounds apt, cause I think that girls with... a bit of emotional damage are deep and... more exciting to be with. I sound like I've dated before, but no, I've always been single. Evergreen, if you play that 'traffic light' game in University. Don't be weirded-out by me please. 25(ii). So yeah, if you're someone (or you know someone) who likes nature, likes long walks at night, likes folk / indie music, slightly emo / reflective at times but friendly otherwise, call me. 26. I listen to folk, alternative rock and indie music. I hate it when the artists I like gets famous and extremely mainstream. And that's not just a childish thought. It's because I think there's this special bond shared between you and the artist (and his / her music), and when it gets mainstream, the bond you had gets shared with all the other millions of people in the world, and it's no longer special. Kinda like what you'd say with relationships. 27. Finally, I fancy a good laugh everyday. My friends have given me that, and that's why I love them so much.
Not your usual Bucket-list
Yes, in order of 'want'. 1. 1 month backpacking trip to Europe / cold climate areas with a close pal (or two). The less civilization the better. 2. Is wanting something illegal illegal in itself? Yes, drugs - at least once. LSD, to be exact. 3. Making (good) friends with someone insane. I mean, mental. But I don't want to make it sound derogatory. There's something strikingly beautiful about insanity, like experiencing another dimension of some sorts. 4. The Killers' concert. 5. A folk / acoustic concert - say Iron & Wine, Bombay Bicycle Club, Inch Chua or Zee Avi. 6. Camping under the stars in the city (Padang?) and listening to acoustic sounds. 7. Experience the Glastonbury / Lollapalooza / Woodstock / Coachella festivals. 8. Bungee-jumping. 9. Scuba-diving. 10. Going for a real Broadway production.
I know - I'm weird, right?
emails: chew.bolong.2009@vjc.sg (main) / bolong02@hotmail.com (dominated by junk mail)
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bolong
mobile phone: yeah you wish.
The Portfolio –collection of past designs / art attempts.
I posted most of the things I'm more proud of, but I apologise for anything which looks like shit to you.
I'm still learning, growing and trying out new things, so you'll see this collection grow in future.
Hope it serves as a remembrance of how much I've improved and learnt since I started delving around in amateur art and design.
blogskins
My blogskins.com account is now a completely abandoned ship. Below all the dust and rust collected, there lies a lot of preview issues
due to bandwidth limits, some out-dated coding, now-broken links and messed up resolution / alignment problems with new browsers.
These thumbnails are mainly listed here for preview purposes, but if in any chance you might wish to use any one of these skins, drop
me a message with your e-mail address stated and I will kindly re-host the images for you and do minor adjustments (dependent on my
mood at that specific time) to enhance the blogskin.