you're such a BOLONGY!
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Hey - I've stopped saving my double eleven for you.
Monday, November 30, 2009
in retrospect, at 10:59 PM
Jason Mraz, If It Kills Me.
Hello, tell me you know Yeah, you figured me out Something gave it away And it would be such a beautiful moment To see the look on your face To know that I know that you know now
And baby that's a case of my wishful thinking You know nothing Cause you and I Why, we go carrying on for hours, on and We get along much better Than you and your boyfriend
Well all I really wanna do is love you A kind much closer than friends use But I still can't say it after all we've been through And all I really want from you is to feel me As the feeling inside keeps building And I will find a way to you if it kills me If it kills me
Well how long, can I go on like this, Wishing to kiss you, Before I rightly explode? This double life I lead isn't healthy for me In fact it makes me nervous If I get caught I could be risking it all Baby there's a lot that I miss In case I'm wrong
Well all I really wanna do is love you A kind much closer than friends use But I still can't say it after all we've been through And all I really want from you is to feel me As the feeling inside keeps building And I will find a way to you if it kills me If it kills me
If I should be so bold I'd ask you to hold my heart in your hand Tell you from the start how I've longed to be your man But I never said I would I guess I'm gonna miss my chance again
All I really wanna do is love you A kind much closer than friends use But I still can't say it after all we've been through And all I really want from you is to feel me As the feeling inside keeps building And I will find a way to you if it kills me If it kills me If it kills me I think it might kill me
And all I really want from you is to feel me It's a feeling inside that keeps building And I will find a way to you if it kills me If it kills me If it kills me It might kill me
Beautiful old song, didn't exactly realise how good it is till a week ago. First song on my music player up there. Yeah and that day I took walk #2 to the park below my house looping this song, love the tune, then I heard the lyrics and I loved it even more. Oh yeah and it was that night I got extra inspiration for my blogskin design.
P.S. Don't read too much into it just cause I'm re-posting this. I know some of you really like to do that. Huh Liqin/Yuting :)
Little big changes.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
in retrospect, at 2:09 AM
Went out to study with Ivan this afternoon, completed half of 2 chapters. Was supposed to finish all the stuff by today (which was a delay from last Wednesday - a delay from weeks ago) but guess I didn't. I came home for dinner and then I was on my Macintosh ever since. Did some awesome stuff though, I changed my messenger from MSN Messenger to Adium, so now I'll probably know it when you talk to me online. No, your chat convo will no longer hide behind my multiple windows, and I won't be giving lag replies no more!
In addition to that, I've done a couple of changes on my blog in the 6 plus hours I've just spent. I added a tree branch - which was kind of quirky cause the owl chose to perch on ".blogspot.com" instead of the branch. But it was vertical anyway, so I don't see why it didn't. I did an overlay of an image on the word "bolongy". After you could stare into it trying to make out what's that and get all dizzy, tell me if you could figure out what it is okay? Pretty random anyway. If you can't then it's okay. I'll still be leaving it there anyway. A little change of fonts, positioning and such. Then there's the music player, cause sometimes I really wanna share good music of the type of genre I adore. Thanks Sylvia! I got the music player site from her! And there's something else cool. Go explore the about link, maybe a few refresh-es? I've got the image-changing code from Sylvia as well, after I viewed her page-source to find out the music player, I found much more than that! :)
Phoenix baking and Skins two!
Saturday, November 28, 2009
in retrospect, at 1:43 AM
Yeah I've finished Skins season 2. I think it's a really good series. In my opinion, better than Gossip Girl or Glee, actually. Maybe part of it was attributed to my love for all things UK, but season 2 was really good, great stuff about family, love, friendship built up into the death of a friend (Chris) and graduation from college, where friends part and such. Supposedly it's the end of the show cause season 3 will be a bunch of new people in school. But yeah, great show. I think it's really nice. Wenxin's told me she felt turned off cause she thinks everyone in the series looks like the average-Joe. HAHA superficial much! But anyway I guess it's just the picture, you know, not exactly glamorous.Glam in black one's below.
So does that make you wanna catch Skins any more? But anyway I thought the picture was a bit un-apt, Skins remind me of warm pastel colours, black is so... Heroes. Speaking of Heroes, I'm waiting for Pingyao to pass it to me, so meanwhile think I'll re-watch Skins. Zod I sound obsessed.
Yeah, and baked with Phoenix Cheer today :) It was pretty fun, first time I baked, first time I played Wii, so yeah, could sum that up as an eventful day. I guess. Life's all about experiencing new things - ain't it? And we took family-like photos again! DSLR always churns out good photographs, I'm so proud of it! Or maybe its just us! Baking was eating choc chips direct from the cookie mix, burnt fat cookie pieces, a recipe which was for a baked cheesecake instead of those chilled ones, cheesecake which really just tasted like egg-cake, and strawberries forming P(hoenix) C(heer)! After Ian, Wenxin and Kelly left, the 4 of us continued with Wii and fooling around with DSLR slow shutter. I'll let the photos do the talking. On a sidenote: it was rather warm today, didn't like it. OH PLUS I've edited some CSS, so now I have gigantic nice pictures with awesome borders!
It's awesome how Phoenix Cheer always have so much fun. Another set of pictures I'd like to share with you guys, taken on my birthday at LT5, really cool. I can't help but smile to myself when I see them, see so happy all genuine smile and fun and happiness! Smiley face!
My 3.7GB worth of PW
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
in retrospect, at 10:55 PM
Today's been rather significant. I've finally got to delete those PW work which has been stuck on my computer for ages. I say "yes" to living life without extremely unfun and uninteresting project work, bad communication within group members and all those overnight shit. PW got exponentially better during OP, but still. For all that it's worth. I got rid of it. 3.7GB of things (god knows how it got so big - but yeah, those photoshop designs, images and hard work) down the trash bin, deleted for ever. I've waited for this day for years (exaggeration).
Secondly, I've recently had a spam of albums into my iTunes, I'll have a (great) time listening to them. From soundtracks [(500) Days of Summer's a good listen!] to Super Junior, John Mayer, Colbie and Girls Generation. But yeah, I'm seriously thankful for music.
Hello(goodbye) to skins old and new.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
in retrospect, at 2:24 AM
Oh, no more disco baby! New blogskin, with major influence from Forkbomb Studios. I know the design concepts are not exactly fresh - it feels to me almost ripped. But yeah, I'll stick with that for now cause I've really limited brain juice. Haven't made a blogskin for a long while, I had an original cool idea but lots of things are remade cause I totally forgot about html limitations. It's not that html limits my ideas (or maybe it does) but it's more like my knowledge of html is limited.
I intended this to be simple but in the end the cartoon side of me got the better of the blogskin. The cartoon owl (I think it's extremely adorable!), the bright colourful navigations. No more simplicity, but yeah there's a major problem right now cause the blogskin becomes really plain once you start scrolling down. Boring. Can't stick to that. Gotta have to find some way to spice things up. Oh yeah and you see the empty space at the top banner? Yeah I'm planning to add something into it. My face didn't exactly work out well, so I'm still at it.
Do comment and tell me if it works out for you (or for your computer) okay? Haven't tested this blogskin on browsers other than Mozilla FF and Safari, and I haven't seen how it looks like on a Windows. Thanks a lot!
I <3 my friends, really.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
in retrospect, at 6:31 PM
I think today's my best birthday ever.
I don't really like name listing cause I've always felt it was a tiny weeny superficial. I'm too objective. But cause I really want to thank everyone who celebrated my birthday with me today, so I'll be superficial on my birthday. A sidenote: I'm going to start on my new blog template soon. Birthday gift for myself. I push tutorial deadline back to... next Wednesday cause I'm happy today. Oh it's the first birthday I've spent in school, really good one at that.
A few groups of people to thank [in chronological order]. I dedicate you a paragraph each cause you guys really made me feel warmth and you know, the emanating friendship and such. I sincerely want to thank each and everyone of you. I SWEAR I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH!
VJC wushu for the double failed attempt at smashing the cake on my face, for purposefully smearing the cake over my face and not giving me tissue after, for the celebration and song, for the fact that the whole team's present there (really, that's enough already!) and for the taupok. It was kind of awkward but it's really okay! Thanks for being there!
09S65 for the celebration, the cake as well as the "laptop". But yeah, cool gift, got great design concept! Some of your messages really make me smile to myself, we're a cool lame class, just hope we could spend more time together and know each other better okay! And Perle's "cats locked" instead of "caps lock"!!! I LIKE.
Ivan and Leong Ying for the personal gifts, the letters from both of you (which really mean a lot), the box of Honeystars with a spongebob in it and cans of Nescafe - my weird antics for not falling asleep in lectures, as well as the loud squeaky duckies which never fail to make me laugh. I could actually use the duckies in lectures too. But yeah, whacking them during As next year would certainly help me reduce a few strands of white hair.
Vball guys, (esp. Shiyi and Wen Han) who sent messages and previously thought my birthday was on Tuesday, who momentarily shocked me by buying me a cute small bear which I didn't expect any guys to purchase - with the vball fund (haha). I just checked, cause I thought it looked a little familiar but yet somehow not so much. I bought the exact same bear for myself (yeah I know its quite sad - I did it together with my cousin)x 1 or 2 years ago when I went Genting and had a lot of money to spend. Different packaging and different brand but same bear!!! Seriously, is this 默契 (team chemistry) or what!
And then there's PHOENIX CHEER! For the long blindfolded detour around the school to get to LT5 which was about 15 metres away from where I was. It made me kind of dizzy. And I was really afraid someone would shock me with a cat. (I had nightmares of Ping Yao bringing a hamster to school cause he once joked that he would do that someday. I hope it was really a joke) But then thank you guys again, all... 12 who were there, the box full of Bolong biscuits, the shirt I camwhored in, the muffins and the card. Some of your messages were really really hilarious, and the muffins were made by Wenxin's sister who was my DHS wushu junior but didn't know the muffins were kop-ed for me and probably didn't know it was my birthday! HAHA But yeah, thanks to all of you for the huge surprise, the fun 10 shots camwhore (Ian's desire to block all of us with his monster face) and everything else that Phoenix's always done together!
Lastly, there's Yuting, Sieweng, Jieting, Sandra, Angell, Liqin and Tzuhsiang! For the huge and extremely unexpected surprise for turning up at VJC, the nicely designed photo frame and photo album, the t-shirt and also the huge board of messages. For the company, the past few years and everything else.
Also thanks to everyone who sms-ed, or saw me in school and gave wishes, handshakes or hugs. No need for name-listing cause you guys know how much that means to me. Right?! :) THANK YOU YOU GUYS. I LOVE YOU FOR LIFE. Oh yeah anyway I'm going to kop this cool phrase I saw from some stranger's blog in light of my new blog. It was something like... "I blog because I want to experience life twice. Once in the moment, and another in retrospect"
The 1 year old park right next to me.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
in retrospect, at 10:59 PM
Yet another reflective post, read it if you must.
I just did a quick planning in my head. I'm going to finish my lesson tutorials by this month. [I know I planned to complete that like 3 weeks ago already] And whatever else I deem a holiday is made up of. "School" will start on December, and it'll be hardcore mugging. Before that, I have an urgent need to create a new blog template and buy a new pair of shoes amongst other things. I hope I'll really get to work in December, I'm taking too much time to get myself "ready" to take on a hardcore mugging lifestyle. It's almost impossible. I'm going to live on and ignore the fact that some people are already studying harder than me when they've got 3As, and are planning to study even further. To make my life happier, I'll ignore that and pretend everyone else isn't planning to start. Yeah right.
Just got back from celebrating Yuanhao's belated birthday today. They threw me in and celebrated my birthday with the cake anyway. So Yuhding gave my first present this year. THANKS! Somehow I realise birthdays are becoming increasingly less important to me. I really don't even give a hoot about my birthday anymore. Still good stuff - those birthdays, a great chance to get friends out and catch-up huh.
Interjection: Happy Birthday to Leong Ying and Joseph tomorrow!!!
Anyway here's the reason why I'm blogging today. Yuanhao's birthday celebration ended pretty early, I got back to Serangoon around 10pm so I thought I had some time. My parents wouldn't be expecting me early anyway, so I took a walk. With Zee Avi on my iPod, and my spectacles worn on my head, think it was really enjoyable. I suddenly understand the beauty of clear vision. I've been living life with blur vision, an inability to look into minute details, not even being able to recognise people in school/on the streets. Vanity. Walked from the busstop wandering into weird alleyways and then back, and somehow my legs brought me to "Serangoon Sunshine Park". Whatever, it's just this mini-park opposite my house, and this is the first time I've went there even though its... 1 year and 13 days old. Exactly. It was pretty cool. Precisely the kind of place I'll want to loiter around with a few close friends, hang out and talk about life through the night. It's pretty empty. This was the best my 3.2 megapixel phone was able to capture. Can't see anything too bad.
Anyway I think I'll be going there more often. It's quiet, and especially relaxing. I know, it's kind of weird right? Walking around a park alone when it's almost midnight? But fuck it, I think it's really awesome. I enjoy it. All these really make me appreciate Serangoon. I've been always complaining that Serangoon's filled with old people, parks and it's completely lifeless. But now I'm starting to understand the beauty of it. I've always dreamed of a big house in town, now I think I'm having a change of plans. I'll just buy over my neighbour's house from them. Serangoon's pretty awesome. I hope these don't change with the new mall coming out. Think my house's located quite well, a busy mall on the left and a quiet park on the other side.
You know, there's so much of things you gotta discover. I thought I knew Serangoon well, but a walk around my house made me saw so many new things. A dark-lit house seemingly left abandoned halfway during construction, a park with such captivating beauty, the mysterious alleyways. I love Serangoon.
Another day, another whine.
Friday, November 13, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:04 PM
PW is nearly over. There's only I&R left. The presentation didn't go too well - think it was just okay, but there were definitely better times. Kind of screwed up my Q&A, got asked some weird question. The rest of my group members were luckier, I guess. It's time to relax.
On a sidenote, now that I've brainspace to think about my life:
I need to get a new pair of shoes and a new storage disk. Mine crashed a few weeks ago, so I lost everything that I don't have a copy of in my computer. Large videos, all my secondary school work etc. The rest I'm not too sure. Still hoping for a miracle though. And my old pair of sneakers is really annoying me. The recent monsoon season's resulted me in arriving home everyday with a pair of feet completely soaked. I've a hole at the sole of my Converse.
Okay tonight must sleep early. I've still got 2 more days to start working on I&R.
singindork888 on youtube
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:45 AM
singindork888 on Youtube. Can't stop listening to his songs, I was supposed to start on I&arghh this morning at 7.30am, but I've been looping his songs, and constantly spacing out. I've done half a paragraph so far, and I gotta get my ass out of my house cause I'm (going to be) late for meeting.
One more thing - it's really time I change my blogskin, but who the hell'll've time to do it? I need a bigger blog entry space.
On life, neopets and skins
Monday, November 09, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:18 PM
I just finished ep. 6 of Skins. It's pretty cool. It's a 2007 show. Cool guys weren't wearing skinny jeans or slim fits then, they wore straights, or boot-cuts at most. Skinny jeans were for gays. Think Cassie/Maxxie's most good looking. (That's the 2 blondes on the right) But uhm, I feel for Chris the most. His episode's been the most... emotional. My brother tells me season 1's not worth the time but it gets a hell lot better in season 2. So yeah for that I'll continue. But in any case it's not too bad. I recommend it. Get a break from brain-busters like Fringe man!
Ivan's right. Watching movies and drama serials are a thousand times more... valuable than playing games. So I gave up my 2-week affair with Neopets, gave up the goal to accumulate a million Neopoints in my safety-deposit-box. For good - I hope. Woah, wait I haven't told you? So I started Neopets 2 weeks ago when I logged on to Icytower on Facebook, and it told me it's server was full so I couldn't get it. Like what the hell huh. I've quit Icytower since. Anyway because my personal score ranking's dropped from 2nd in my friends list till a spot which I can't even see on the vertical list, without scrolling down. I don't know where I'm at now... maybe 10th? And back to Neopets, I created an account for a day, then I managed to crack out a birthdate I've fakely set when I was in primary school. So I managed to log back on to my old account (with 800plus thousand) and 4 freaking awesome Neopets. And the games were still pretty fun anyway. Then I've been hooked ever since. I'm pretty good. I make like about 30k a day.Okay I've just make a quick decision: I'll show you my awesome Neopets. Mynci's the one with good stats (albeit ugly) but the other 3 looks awesome right!
Oh yeah and one last thing. My brother's goddamnedscary. I don't know it's like he is totally un-worried about the A' levels. It's worrying me instead. Like firstly he spends thousands on tuition but yet he doesn't even work. It's like math tomorrow and I just saw him Googling "signs of failing the A levels", then after an hour "lady gaga new singles". He did go out and study this afternoon, but I mean - who the hell in the right mind would choose to listen to new singles instead of getting sufficient sleep for the A' levels?
Swear I'm going to be consistent next year. So I wouldn't screw up like him. On a sidenote, some classmates or maybe just one classmate is really scary. I don't know if I'm supposed to be... inspired and motivate myself to do the same or... just dislike that person.
A Phoenix Halloween - can Halloween get any better?
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
in retrospect, at 10:31 PM
A Phoenix Halloween! I'll let the few pictures do the talking. But still yay! First time I've actually dressed up for Halloween!
Hey - I've stopped saving my double eleven for you.
Monday, November 30, 2009
in retrospect, at 10:59 PM
Jason Mraz, If It Kills Me.
Hello, tell me you know Yeah, you figured me out Something gave it away And it would be such a beautiful moment To see the look on your face To know that I know that you know now
And baby that's a case of my wishful thinking You know nothing Cause you and I Why, we go carrying on for hours, on and We get along much better Than you and your boyfriend
Well all I really wanna do is love you A kind much closer than friends use But I still can't say it after all we've been through And all I really want from you is to feel me As the feeling inside keeps building And I will find a way to you if it kills me If it kills me
Well how long, can I go on like this, Wishing to kiss you, Before I rightly explode? This double life I lead isn't healthy for me In fact it makes me nervous If I get caught I could be risking it all Baby there's a lot that I miss In case I'm wrong
Well all I really wanna do is love you A kind much closer than friends use But I still can't say it after all we've been through And all I really want from you is to feel me As the feeling inside keeps building And I will find a way to you if it kills me If it kills me
If I should be so bold I'd ask you to hold my heart in your hand Tell you from the start how I've longed to be your man But I never said I would I guess I'm gonna miss my chance again
All I really wanna do is love you A kind much closer than friends use But I still can't say it after all we've been through And all I really want from you is to feel me As the feeling inside keeps building And I will find a way to you if it kills me If it kills me If it kills me I think it might kill me
And all I really want from you is to feel me It's a feeling inside that keeps building And I will find a way to you if it kills me If it kills me If it kills me It might kill me
Beautiful old song, didn't exactly realise how good it is till a week ago. First song on my music player up there. Yeah and that day I took walk #2 to the park below my house looping this song, love the tune, then I heard the lyrics and I loved it even more. Oh yeah and it was that night I got extra inspiration for my blogskin design.
P.S. Don't read too much into it just cause I'm re-posting this. I know some of you really like to do that. Huh Liqin/Yuting :)
Little big changes.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
in retrospect, at 2:09 AM
Went out to study with Ivan this afternoon, completed half of 2 chapters. Was supposed to finish all the stuff by today (which was a delay from last Wednesday - a delay from weeks ago) but guess I didn't. I came home for dinner and then I was on my Macintosh ever since. Did some awesome stuff though, I changed my messenger from MSN Messenger to Adium, so now I'll probably know it when you talk to me online. No, your chat convo will no longer hide behind my multiple windows, and I won't be giving lag replies no more!
In addition to that, I've done a couple of changes on my blog in the 6 plus hours I've just spent. I added a tree branch - which was kind of quirky cause the owl chose to perch on ".blogspot.com" instead of the branch. But it was vertical anyway, so I don't see why it didn't. I did an overlay of an image on the word "bolongy". After you could stare into it trying to make out what's that and get all dizzy, tell me if you could figure out what it is okay? Pretty random anyway. If you can't then it's okay. I'll still be leaving it there anyway. A little change of fonts, positioning and such. Then there's the music player, cause sometimes I really wanna share good music of the type of genre I adore. Thanks Sylvia! I got the music player site from her! And there's something else cool. Go explore the about link, maybe a few refresh-es? I've got the image-changing code from Sylvia as well, after I viewed her page-source to find out the music player, I found much more than that! :)
Phoenix baking and Skins two!
Saturday, November 28, 2009
in retrospect, at 1:43 AM
Yeah I've finished Skins season 2. I think it's a really good series. In my opinion, better than Gossip Girl or Glee, actually. Maybe part of it was attributed to my love for all things UK, but season 2 was really good, great stuff about family, love, friendship built up into the death of a friend (Chris) and graduation from college, where friends part and such. Supposedly it's the end of the show cause season 3 will be a bunch of new people in school. But yeah, great show. I think it's really nice. Wenxin's told me she felt turned off cause she thinks everyone in the series looks like the average-Joe. HAHA superficial much! But anyway I guess it's just the picture, you know, not exactly glamorous.Glam in black one's below.
So does that make you wanna catch Skins any more? But anyway I thought the picture was a bit un-apt, Skins remind me of warm pastel colours, black is so... Heroes. Speaking of Heroes, I'm waiting for Pingyao to pass it to me, so meanwhile think I'll re-watch Skins. Zod I sound obsessed.
Yeah, and baked with Phoenix Cheer today :) It was pretty fun, first time I baked, first time I played Wii, so yeah, could sum that up as an eventful day. I guess. Life's all about experiencing new things - ain't it? And we took family-like photos again! DSLR always churns out good photographs, I'm so proud of it! Or maybe its just us! Baking was eating choc chips direct from the cookie mix, burnt fat cookie pieces, a recipe which was for a baked cheesecake instead of those chilled ones, cheesecake which really just tasted like egg-cake, and strawberries forming P(hoenix) C(heer)! After Ian, Wenxin and Kelly left, the 4 of us continued with Wii and fooling around with DSLR slow shutter. I'll let the photos do the talking. On a sidenote: it was rather warm today, didn't like it. OH PLUS I've edited some CSS, so now I have gigantic nice pictures with awesome borders!
It's awesome how Phoenix Cheer always have so much fun. Another set of pictures I'd like to share with you guys, taken on my birthday at LT5, really cool. I can't help but smile to myself when I see them, see so happy all genuine smile and fun and happiness! Smiley face!
My 3.7GB worth of PW
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
in retrospect, at 10:55 PM
Today's been rather significant. I've finally got to delete those PW work which has been stuck on my computer for ages. I say "yes" to living life without extremely unfun and uninteresting project work, bad communication within group members and all those overnight shit. PW got exponentially better during OP, but still. For all that it's worth. I got rid of it. 3.7GB of things (god knows how it got so big - but yeah, those photoshop designs, images and hard work) down the trash bin, deleted for ever. I've waited for this day for years (exaggeration).
Secondly, I've recently had a spam of albums into my iTunes, I'll have a (great) time listening to them. From soundtracks [(500) Days of Summer's a good listen!] to Super Junior, John Mayer, Colbie and Girls Generation. But yeah, I'm seriously thankful for music.
Hello(goodbye) to skins old and new.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
in retrospect, at 2:24 AM
Oh, no more disco baby! New blogskin, with major influence from Forkbomb Studios. I know the design concepts are not exactly fresh - it feels to me almost ripped. But yeah, I'll stick with that for now cause I've really limited brain juice. Haven't made a blogskin for a long while, I had an original cool idea but lots of things are remade cause I totally forgot about html limitations. It's not that html limits my ideas (or maybe it does) but it's more like my knowledge of html is limited.
I intended this to be simple but in the end the cartoon side of me got the better of the blogskin. The cartoon owl (I think it's extremely adorable!), the bright colourful navigations. No more simplicity, but yeah there's a major problem right now cause the blogskin becomes really plain once you start scrolling down. Boring. Can't stick to that. Gotta have to find some way to spice things up. Oh yeah and you see the empty space at the top banner? Yeah I'm planning to add something into it. My face didn't exactly work out well, so I'm still at it.
Do comment and tell me if it works out for you (or for your computer) okay? Haven't tested this blogskin on browsers other than Mozilla FF and Safari, and I haven't seen how it looks like on a Windows. Thanks a lot!
I <3 my friends, really.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
in retrospect, at 6:31 PM
I think today's my best birthday ever.
I don't really like name listing cause I've always felt it was a tiny weeny superficial. I'm too objective. But cause I really want to thank everyone who celebrated my birthday with me today, so I'll be superficial on my birthday. A sidenote: I'm going to start on my new blog template soon. Birthday gift for myself. I push tutorial deadline back to... next Wednesday cause I'm happy today. Oh it's the first birthday I've spent in school, really good one at that.
A few groups of people to thank [in chronological order]. I dedicate you a paragraph each cause you guys really made me feel warmth and you know, the emanating friendship and such. I sincerely want to thank each and everyone of you. I SWEAR I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH!
VJC wushu for the double failed attempt at smashing the cake on my face, for purposefully smearing the cake over my face and not giving me tissue after, for the celebration and song, for the fact that the whole team's present there (really, that's enough already!) and for the taupok. It was kind of awkward but it's really okay! Thanks for being there!
09S65 for the celebration, the cake as well as the "laptop". But yeah, cool gift, got great design concept! Some of your messages really make me smile to myself, we're a cool lame class, just hope we could spend more time together and know each other better okay! And Perle's "cats locked" instead of "caps lock"!!! I LIKE.
Ivan and Leong Ying for the personal gifts, the letters from both of you (which really mean a lot), the box of Honeystars with a spongebob in it and cans of Nescafe - my weird antics for not falling asleep in lectures, as well as the loud squeaky duckies which never fail to make me laugh. I could actually use the duckies in lectures too. But yeah, whacking them during As next year would certainly help me reduce a few strands of white hair.
Vball guys, (esp. Shiyi and Wen Han) who sent messages and previously thought my birthday was on Tuesday, who momentarily shocked me by buying me a cute small bear which I didn't expect any guys to purchase - with the vball fund (haha). I just checked, cause I thought it looked a little familiar but yet somehow not so much. I bought the exact same bear for myself (yeah I know its quite sad - I did it together with my cousin)x 1 or 2 years ago when I went Genting and had a lot of money to spend. Different packaging and different brand but same bear!!! Seriously, is this 默契 (team chemistry) or what!
And then there's PHOENIX CHEER! For the long blindfolded detour around the school to get to LT5 which was about 15 metres away from where I was. It made me kind of dizzy. And I was really afraid someone would shock me with a cat. (I had nightmares of Ping Yao bringing a hamster to school cause he once joked that he would do that someday. I hope it was really a joke) But then thank you guys again, all... 12 who were there, the box full of Bolong biscuits, the shirt I camwhored in, the muffins and the card. Some of your messages were really really hilarious, and the muffins were made by Wenxin's sister who was my DHS wushu junior but didn't know the muffins were kop-ed for me and probably didn't know it was my birthday! HAHA But yeah, thanks to all of you for the huge surprise, the fun 10 shots camwhore (Ian's desire to block all of us with his monster face) and everything else that Phoenix's always done together!
Lastly, there's Yuting, Sieweng, Jieting, Sandra, Angell, Liqin and Tzuhsiang! For the huge and extremely unexpected surprise for turning up at VJC, the nicely designed photo frame and photo album, the t-shirt and also the huge board of messages. For the company, the past few years and everything else.
Also thanks to everyone who sms-ed, or saw me in school and gave wishes, handshakes or hugs. No need for name-listing cause you guys know how much that means to me. Right?! :) THANK YOU YOU GUYS. I LOVE YOU FOR LIFE. Oh yeah anyway I'm going to kop this cool phrase I saw from some stranger's blog in light of my new blog. It was something like... "I blog because I want to experience life twice. Once in the moment, and another in retrospect"
The 1 year old park right next to me.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
in retrospect, at 10:59 PM
Yet another reflective post, read it if you must.
I just did a quick planning in my head. I'm going to finish my lesson tutorials by this month. [I know I planned to complete that like 3 weeks ago already] And whatever else I deem a holiday is made up of. "School" will start on December, and it'll be hardcore mugging. Before that, I have an urgent need to create a new blog template and buy a new pair of shoes amongst other things. I hope I'll really get to work in December, I'm taking too much time to get myself "ready" to take on a hardcore mugging lifestyle. It's almost impossible. I'm going to live on and ignore the fact that some people are already studying harder than me when they've got 3As, and are planning to study even further. To make my life happier, I'll ignore that and pretend everyone else isn't planning to start. Yeah right.
Just got back from celebrating Yuanhao's belated birthday today. They threw me in and celebrated my birthday with the cake anyway. So Yuhding gave my first present this year. THANKS! Somehow I realise birthdays are becoming increasingly less important to me. I really don't even give a hoot about my birthday anymore. Still good stuff - those birthdays, a great chance to get friends out and catch-up huh.
Interjection: Happy Birthday to Leong Ying and Joseph tomorrow!!!
Anyway here's the reason why I'm blogging today. Yuanhao's birthday celebration ended pretty early, I got back to Serangoon around 10pm so I thought I had some time. My parents wouldn't be expecting me early anyway, so I took a walk. With Zee Avi on my iPod, and my spectacles worn on my head, think it was really enjoyable. I suddenly understand the beauty of clear vision. I've been living life with blur vision, an inability to look into minute details, not even being able to recognise people in school/on the streets. Vanity. Walked from the busstop wandering into weird alleyways and then back, and somehow my legs brought me to "Serangoon Sunshine Park". Whatever, it's just this mini-park opposite my house, and this is the first time I've went there even though its... 1 year and 13 days old. Exactly. It was pretty cool. Precisely the kind of place I'll want to loiter around with a few close friends, hang out and talk about life through the night. It's pretty empty. This was the best my 3.2 megapixel phone was able to capture. Can't see anything too bad.
Anyway I think I'll be going there more often. It's quiet, and especially relaxing. I know, it's kind of weird right? Walking around a park alone when it's almost midnight? But fuck it, I think it's really awesome. I enjoy it. All these really make me appreciate Serangoon. I've been always complaining that Serangoon's filled with old people, parks and it's completely lifeless. But now I'm starting to understand the beauty of it. I've always dreamed of a big house in town, now I think I'm having a change of plans. I'll just buy over my neighbour's house from them. Serangoon's pretty awesome. I hope these don't change with the new mall coming out. Think my house's located quite well, a busy mall on the left and a quiet park on the other side.
You know, there's so much of things you gotta discover. I thought I knew Serangoon well, but a walk around my house made me saw so many new things. A dark-lit house seemingly left abandoned halfway during construction, a park with such captivating beauty, the mysterious alleyways. I love Serangoon.
Another day, another whine.
Friday, November 13, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:04 PM
PW is nearly over. There's only I&R left. The presentation didn't go too well - think it was just okay, but there were definitely better times. Kind of screwed up my Q&A, got asked some weird question. The rest of my group members were luckier, I guess. It's time to relax.
On a sidenote, now that I've brainspace to think about my life:
I need to get a new pair of shoes and a new storage disk. Mine crashed a few weeks ago, so I lost everything that I don't have a copy of in my computer. Large videos, all my secondary school work etc. The rest I'm not too sure. Still hoping for a miracle though. And my old pair of sneakers is really annoying me. The recent monsoon season's resulted me in arriving home everyday with a pair of feet completely soaked. I've a hole at the sole of my Converse.
Okay tonight must sleep early. I've still got 2 more days to start working on I&R.
singindork888 on youtube
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:45 AM
singindork888 on Youtube. Can't stop listening to his songs, I was supposed to start on I&arghh this morning at 7.30am, but I've been looping his songs, and constantly spacing out. I've done half a paragraph so far, and I gotta get my ass out of my house cause I'm (going to be) late for meeting.
One more thing - it's really time I change my blogskin, but who the hell'll've time to do it? I need a bigger blog entry space.
On life, neopets and skins
Monday, November 09, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:18 PM
I just finished ep. 6 of Skins. It's pretty cool. It's a 2007 show. Cool guys weren't wearing skinny jeans or slim fits then, they wore straights, or boot-cuts at most. Skinny jeans were for gays. Think Cassie/Maxxie's most good looking. (That's the 2 blondes on the right) But uhm, I feel for Chris the most. His episode's been the most... emotional. My brother tells me season 1's not worth the time but it gets a hell lot better in season 2. So yeah for that I'll continue. But in any case it's not too bad. I recommend it. Get a break from brain-busters like Fringe man!
Ivan's right. Watching movies and drama serials are a thousand times more... valuable than playing games. So I gave up my 2-week affair with Neopets, gave up the goal to accumulate a million Neopoints in my safety-deposit-box. For good - I hope. Woah, wait I haven't told you? So I started Neopets 2 weeks ago when I logged on to Icytower on Facebook, and it told me it's server was full so I couldn't get it. Like what the hell huh. I've quit Icytower since. Anyway because my personal score ranking's dropped from 2nd in my friends list till a spot which I can't even see on the vertical list, without scrolling down. I don't know where I'm at now... maybe 10th? And back to Neopets, I created an account for a day, then I managed to crack out a birthdate I've fakely set when I was in primary school. So I managed to log back on to my old account (with 800plus thousand) and 4 freaking awesome Neopets. And the games were still pretty fun anyway. Then I've been hooked ever since. I'm pretty good. I make like about 30k a day.Okay I've just make a quick decision: I'll show you my awesome Neopets. Mynci's the one with good stats (albeit ugly) but the other 3 looks awesome right!
Oh yeah and one last thing. My brother's goddamnedscary. I don't know it's like he is totally un-worried about the A' levels. It's worrying me instead. Like firstly he spends thousands on tuition but yet he doesn't even work. It's like math tomorrow and I just saw him Googling "signs of failing the A levels", then after an hour "lady gaga new singles". He did go out and study this afternoon, but I mean - who the hell in the right mind would choose to listen to new singles instead of getting sufficient sleep for the A' levels?
Swear I'm going to be consistent next year. So I wouldn't screw up like him. On a sidenote, some classmates or maybe just one classmate is really scary. I don't know if I'm supposed to be... inspired and motivate myself to do the same or... just dislike that person.
A Phoenix Halloween - can Halloween get any better?
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
in retrospect, at 10:31 PM
A Phoenix Halloween! I'll let the few pictures do the talking. But still yay! First time I've actually dressed up for Halloween!
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.
I just finished ep. 6 of Skins. It's pretty cool. It's a 2007 show. Cool guys weren't wearing skinny jeans or slim fits then, they wore straights, or boot-cuts at most. Skinny jeans were for gays. Think Cassie/Maxxie's most good looking. (That's the 2 blondes on the right) But uhm, I feel for Chris the most. His episode's been the most... emotional. My brother tells me season 1's not worth the time but it gets a hell lot better in season 2. So yeah for that I'll continue. But in any case it's not too bad. I recommend it. Get a break from brain-busters like Fringe man!
