photo time!

got the lovely photos of the wednesday booze fest from huiling so gonna post them now! my hair has grown abit huh?


Me and Elise - the up-and-coming private banker


Met two Irish guys (actually, Elise coerced me to 'pick' them up..haha)




Before heading to MoS, we went for beer at The Pump


And we got the Beer Tower...

crushed like a cockcroach

got all my grades for this term...man...whatever happened to last term being the 'revive my flagging GPA term'? Got 4 B's which was ok...but then, corporate reporting really pulled a huge gigantic surprise on me! I knew i'll get a bad grade...but a C? Not even a C+ u know...so sad...think I'll be having insomnia again...haha...

I am really destined to be cursed when it comes to analytical financial stuffs here...also made me contemplating my career move, i mean, if i cannot even get an internship with any bank, what more can i do to even make myself more appealing to those HR ppl when I intend to want to work in a bank?! Maybe I should just get over and done with this course and really go on to take a new course in some arts related stuff...but then again, i ain't that artistic...haha...

Hate the fact that gpa is plunging even worse than a diver jumping off from his spring board...

Carrying on a Dannish tradition

Met up with Huiling, Elise and Victor (Elise's boyfriend) last night for some booze at Clark Quay and decided to first, meet for dinner prior our booze-fest. We finally met up to club after the last time we all had such great fun in Copenhagen, so we decided that this fine tradition must be continued!

Tina joined for dinner and beer and so, we went to this new Japanese/Korean-themed mall beside Clark Quay called Central (??) and had Japanese food at this restaurant called...I forgot. Anyway, first impression of the place was great! Superb I may add cos the staffs are always soo friendly and eager to please! Because we had no reservation, we had to wait in line at the waiting area and they actually served us free sodas to quench our thirst! Nice. However, the cheerful atmosphere soon turned to pure and sheer irritation cos staffs are just shouting "Welcome" and "Thank You" in Japanese at the entrance (where the wait was too) . The worst part is, staffs were so into their world that they will just shout out those words even though there's no customer coming in or leaving!

Only the starting of something nasty! We had to change to a bigger table after getting our initial table and the bloody female supervisor told us to:

1) clear the existing table we were seated, AND
2) Wait in line ALL OVER from the SCRATCH!

took us more than 30 minutes to finally get a table! And because we were so famished, we decided to have our orders taken even before we get to out seats but the lady REFUSED cos she said "I do not have a table for you now, so i cannot get your order without a table number assigned"

Table was said to be available in 5 min and we decided to order cos we were sooo blardy famished and do not wanna waste MORE time waiting for the food, and the lady was like "Ok, I will do it for you this time, but not the next time (in my mind i was thinking that there will not be a next visit from me!)" AND she added "I do not know if you guys will wanna change your table again" Asshole

okay, to the food, it was not bad and i find them cheap cos i had a complete meal of pork cutlet rice and a potato salad AND a small bowl of udon noodles for only 16 bucks!


I think the lady with the ponytail back facing us is the bitch!

Now...to the fun part! after dinner, we decided to head to Clark Quay for some booze and since it was not even 10pm by the time we get into the club, MoS (Ministry of Sound) we decided to get the free entrance chop then, head to another watering hole for some beer first. Elise recommended this new microbrewery call Pump and we had a 3.5L tower of beer for the 5 of us. They had a really good live band with this helluva big built tranny singer who can do very good covers of Donna Summer-esque songs...Haha...Clark Quay is filled with sooo many expatriates and tourists that we were bitching that we felt like we're in Europe again! haha...


Ok, anyway, photos of the club and the brewery are not up yet so just gotta make do with the photo above (main dance floor on first floor) and the video (taken at the 54 room on 2nd level) of the club below. Oh, we 'picked up' 2 Irish guys to join the 4 of us for drinks at MoS...but that's another story...and they are good looking Irish i tell ya! haha...wait for next update k...haha...

summer term

firstly, i am kindda sure that the freaky weather pattern has affected our (supposedly) sunny shores too, cos it has been raining, which should not be the case usually at this time of the year. It's normally just hot, not hot and (very) damp!

Anyway, I just started my first lesson of FIIM (Financial Instruments, Institutions and Markets) today and with lessons on Tue-Thur from noon till 3.15, yes, I'll be a very grouchy man unless I have some food. Well, since I was early today, I took a seat next to the door and like I mentioned prior, since I was early, I decided to eat the Subway Ham sandwich I bought instead of waiting till break time 1.5 hrs later, which I'd have starved to death.

So, I was taking my first munch into the 6 inch sub when ppl started to come into the room, and since I am the first 'thing' they'll see once the door is opened, I felt so un-glam to be caught sinking my big mouth into the bread. Kindda realised that it ain't necessary a pretty sight for the folks so i stopped munching halfway through the sandwich and kept the rest till break time.

The professor, correction , lecturer (since she does not hold a Ph.D, i reckoned) is not as bad as I imagined. Cos' she's new to SMU, I though she would have a very bad time teaching. But then again, Sush-zilla is apparently, a founding faculty member of SMU (which she oh-so-proudly declare everytime) and she still cannot teach, so that fat ass (Sush-zilla) just completely ruined that logic.

Back to my lecturer, her name's Dawn (i think) and she has lots of experience in banking sector (which I think is the reason why she was hired in the first place) Her past job description sounds rather interesting, albeit boring, and I wish I can describe to you what she does, but i kindda forget her job position. All I vaguely remembered her saying were words like "banks", "loans" and "--", u noe what, i forgot. It was also brought to the class's attention that she it is not her first time teaching for she had been in NTU (the other competing un-glam university at Tuas, a far-flung corner of Singapore) Maybe Dawn's sick of needing to take a boat to get to NTU so she decided to (how aptly) jump ship to SMU in the city centre.

Ok, so, her lesson is not as boring as I anticipated but still, she's not exactly very engaging either. I so miss the dramatic Andrew Lee for my Corporate Reporting last term - although the grade he (will be) giving me is gonna be really bad. Hey, at least I'm getting good showmanship from him, literally!

The students in FIIM are also a bunch of Finance majors who, true to the very essence of Finance, ranges from competitive to foreign students from China and India who speaks with an atrociously unbearable accent (especially China!) to the well, plain boring. This is how it usually breaks down:

Singaporeans and local students : competitive, singlish accent with some Cheena (local who prefer speaking mandarin) folks spouting Mandarin phrases

Foreign students from India : more competitive with Indian accent that when you pay attention, is able to understand perfectly

Foreign students from China : more competitive, lifeless folks who like to stick in school cos their folks probably sell off the entire estate to send them here so that they can get a good degree. Loud mouth, noisy, likes free food, and speaks with such strong and weird accent that even if you pay them your devoted attention, still cannot make out 20% of what they are saying, and please don't even get me started on their written work

Of course, above are exaggerating and to prevent any public uproar of me being labelled a racist or anything, those images are of course, merely what my mind seemed to be painting in my head.

Looks like I'll be having a fun time in school this term!

Mariah, Mariah, wherefore art thou Mariah?

Cos the public cannot possibly miss any sighting of you since you are so, well, how do i put it so delicately to your diva face...prominent.

To the general public, that means FAT.

Apparently, DJ Jean said you are working a a self-tanning lotion with your stylist, but why oh why are you doing that? You look so adorable when you are, prominent and fair, and looks just like the Chinese Horoscope icon for this year! Isn't that oh-so-trendily-vogue?

To the general public, that means the animal she looks like is the PIG

Why, my dear, do you wanna be a tanned (black-ish) boar instead of a lovable pinkish pig?

And why are you not working on your new album? I know you'd probably is still reeling in shock at how successful that comeback album was and you'd probably earned gazillions from it to be able to pamper yourself, but God gave you a voice, and hell, it's a bloody good voice! So put that beautiful voice to work, instead of wearing a white coat sitting in a laboratory churning out tannin lotion. Though the sentence may in reality be like this:

So put that beautiful voice to work, instead of wearing a (Shiny Glittering Fur) coat sitting in a (LV and Chanel displayed) laboratory churning out tanning lotion (and hiring cheap labor from third world nation to work on the lotion, then passing off as your own invention)

Advice: Glitter failed and bombed so i think you are just cursed with that thing. So nothing to do with glitter please, absolutely nothing to do with any form of that! Not even the actual stuff. One form of powder will be good for publicity - Crack. Just look what it did to changed Whitney's career.

Whole world knows Photoshop by now so don't mis-lead listeners with your album cover again (Paparazzi shots are better) and lastly, it took you a-g-e-s to come back with a hit album, so maybe you really do need more time, just not time spent wasting on developing your Mimi brand self tanning lotion. Summer's here, there's something call the Sun.

Flour N Meat

I had a buffet hi-tea session with Tina, K.S, Kenneth and Shuting yesterday at Lao Beijing at Plaza Singapura. The buffet was atrociously cheap! At only 20 per person with taxes, the amount of food available was value for money, although, as pictures will proved inaccurate (and Shuting looks deceptively happy doing her popiah above!) , the Famous Popiah that will be served to tables with more than 4 diners is suspiciously not nice (hence, why the famous is the name?)

Funny thing was that Mum bought Popiah back yesterday for dinner too, and hers is much nicer than those otherwise, Famous Popiah we had at Lao Beijing.

Ok, anyway, the spread was good and the various chinese dumplings we had was an assortment of different varieties of dumplings that are (as the waitress puts it) made of flour with meat fillings. Noodles were not bad but Asian Kitchen is better I reckon. The Xiao Long Baos were quite delightful actually.



Since all things flour and meat is getting boring, I took photos of us doing and wrapping our own popiah. Yes, those famous ones the reataurent claimed. Anyway, Popiah frare is standard, i guess, with the stewed turnips and carrots forming the bulk of what is being wrapped into the thin rice-flour skin. The sweet sauce tastes like caramel (no good cos moi hates caramel) and the grounded dried shrimp (or what appeared to have smelt like dried shrimp) gets mistaken for grounded peanuts by Kenneth. Tina thought the sliced egg ommelette was supposed to be sliced dried tofu skin (which is sooo not paert of any popiah recipe) and was buffled for a moment of two. All these just goes to show that the process of putting your own ingredients into the popiah is only the starting of a puzzled mystery cos the challanging part is not over as the wrappng process is very mind boggling too.






Mu Popiah (Mine's was the smallest out of all, but luckily cos erm...the tastes is not exactly nice so i was glad mine's the tiniest!)


Looks like sushi huh?

Hay algo muy raro

Si, mis amigos! Miro mi blog antes de la noche y miro un comment en mi blog a un persona no reconoco (?).

Anyway, Espanol is too hard for me. Ha, Ok, there's this comment on my 340 threadcount sheets and I though it was by someone I know, But clickin on her link brings me to this weird pink-kish site call Piggie Paradise and apparently, she sells ang bows! Really! I am so not kidding. Ok, ang bows are red packets Chinese folks used to put Money in during Chinese New Year, and considering that CNY had passed like 2 months, this lady or guy whgoo calls her'him self Piddie Paradise has apparently no updated the blog for some time! And I am sure she or he is Singaporean cos the bank account she listed down is a Singapore Bank.

Hmmm..somehow i wonder is she's my friend Josephine? Are you, piggie paradise?

the importance of 340 thread-count quilt cover

mum changed my sheets today into those brand new 340 thread count quilt cover i bought on Sunday. how good does 34o thread count feels? well, i just sunk into the bed 5 min ago to catch American idol and now i am here all elated that i actually spend that amount of mooh-lah on those quilt cover.

next stop: 400 thread count!

something fishy

met Lauren for lunch today after recovering slightly from my tummy flu to celebrate her upcoming birthday on Friday and we decided to eat Fish & Co. at Wheelock Place. I'd arrived early and hence, decided to pop by Marks and Spencer to grab a Triple Choco Crunch for her. Still too early and decided to browse for some books at Borders but nothing fancy catches my eyes (read: too lazy to indulge in any reading, yes, even fashion fails to keep my attention for 5 min surprisingly)

So, Lauren finally arrived at 2.15 and surprise! She got me the exact same identical Triple Choco Crunch from M&S too! haha..we were laughing so hard and both reeled in shocked at how well we know each other's tastes! Had 2 set lunches and I opted for fried fish nuggets, sweet and sour fish for main and passion fruit soda. Lauren's was Cesar Salad, NY Fish & Chips and also, passion fruit soda. I also ordered additional appetiser of grilled calamari (which turned out to be a bad decision cos we had so much food that we couldn't finish it!) The NY Fish N Chips were surprisingly NO different from the normal Fish and Chips they have. Apparently either Lauren and I both have such bad taste buds that fail to detect any of the proclaimed "Stuffed with a generous amount of cheese stuffing) or, the talented copywriters Fish and Co hired were really professional to their filed of creativity and stick tru to their job by listing down a non-detectable item (read: cheese stuffing) in the actual dish;s description itself.

Well, my sweet and sour was OK (nothing drastically awful can ever go wrong for sweet and sour, if an idiot like me can make it too, right?) but Lauren and i were wondering what veggie was lying on my platter when we bite into something crunchy and tastes like melon but i am sure it's not melon. Hmmm....

where's the cheese in the fish fillet?

Anyway, like I said, we were both so filled with all the gorging that we had to proceed to Mango and Zara and tons of other shops to burn off some calories. Oh...we were talking bout dresses at Massimo Dutti, but definitely, that piece of conversation did not include any thing on me and dresses, you know what i mean? haha...

Ended the day with coffee and a warm choco cake at Starbucks before i hit home and Lauren to her church for choir practice.

Hanging in there

I am back bitches! After AWOL-ing for like 2 weeks in the midst of exams and revisions, I am done with school this term - that is until I start Summer term next week.

Why am i doing summer term? well, how about the useless incumbent in me failing to get/clinch/beg for an internship sounds? In fact I sooo think that all these negative vibe is really getting to me cos I am down with a really bad case of Stomach Flu since yesterday (in fact, my tummy hurts sooo bad that I had problem sleeping last night despite being in a cocoon position...i guess it's kindda like I am having menstrual cramps, i suppose if that's how it feels) The pain and constant trips to the restrooms are so bad that I do not even dare to venture out of my home tonight for a dinner with dah-ling tai-tai (rich married woman who can just play poker for life cos she does not need to work with a great adoring hubby supporting her, a la desperate housewife) in training, Adeline...

ok, anyway, i had a great few days after the exams were done on Saturday, i met up with Elise, Tina and Marco (a HK guy on exchange in Prague and were friends with Tina and Elise) for lunch cos Marco is now working in a bank in Singapore. Also got to meet another SMU gal Elaine from HK who had been here for 10 (?) years. Had Sushi Tei and i also got some new quilt cover and sheets for my bed. All white cos since I am too broke to travel to posh hotel this year, more specifically, summer, I am gonna bring that hotel room to me by making my bed reminiscent of a hotel room. Cheap thrill.

gosh, My tummy hurts so i better go catch some 40 winks...seeya all later bitches!

TGIF

hello everyone! I am finally done with all my classes this semester and is currently embarking on my week long study break before taking my exams the week after. Woah! the term does flies by fast huh? It’s like yesterday that I just touched down from Vienna and started my first lesson of the term, and now that’s all over!

I also got back my individual comms assignment from Sush-zilla and man, I really hate that woman! I mean, ok, fair enough, I had heard lots of bad stuffs about her, which I came to realize that it’s all true, but I never knew she can be that bitchy too…that lay-diiii actually commented that I should attend a writing course held by the Center for Excellent Communications (I guess that’s what CEC stands for…) or hire a writing coach to get my ideas together! What a (FAT) ass! That said, I did give her a really bad term evaluation few weeks back too; I commented that the professor should attempt to get her acts together and hold her classes in an organized manner in order to enrich the student’s attendance. But then again, I realized after a check with Lauren that Sush-zilla ‘advised’ tons of folks to take up lessons at CEC too. Incidentally, Sush-zilla happened to head that CEC thing.

Ok, now that I've gotten that bitch out of my head (and my life), I am going to tell you guys how I went about to de-stress myself from that traumatic comment that (obese) creature made. One word: (and I guess you all should now what I am going to say it is:) Shopping.

But it was totally not on my list at all. You see, my dear readers, I had a dinner plan on Friday with my pals to bitch and since dinner was supposed to start at 7.30, and my lesson having ended at 3.30, I was, theoretically, supposed to revise and attempt to write my Comm.s project in school. But that attempt failed disastrously, and I ended up bitching with Sheryl over a beer at a pub opposite school. And since we bitch so much and by the time we were done, it was 6.30, I reckoned that I might just forget about any more revision and head down to vivocity to walk around the mall since dinner is to be held there anyway.

Also, I admit, I had wanted to check out the River Island shop there (River Island is a british brand and had just landed on our shiny shores in March. Since I kindda saw their stuffs while I was in UK 3 months ago, I figure I should survey the local franchise). And since I was at Vivo, I might as well check out Ted Baker, Gap and Topshop too… But dear readers, rest assure that the clothings here, after the conversion to Sing dollars, certainly does not look so cheap as compared to when in pounds or euros or usd, so I was a good boy and did not buy any (more) new tees. Compulsive shoppaholic: checked.

So what did I buy? Well, of all things, I got another pair of shoes to add on to my already gigantic collection. I went into Adidas and just cannot help to realize that adidas shoes are really dirt cheap here as compared to Europe! I mean…I got my black Goodyear adidas from Vienna at 90+ euros if I remembered correctly…and here, they are only 120 sing bucks! that’s only 60 euros! of course, I did not get another similar black Goodyear shoes! I decided to treat myself to a pair of suede brown Goodyear adidas because:

a) i need another pair of sneakers
b) I need a pair of suede sneakers
c) I need a pair of brown suede sneakers
d) I need to pamper myself after the term
e) I am just coming up with random excuses to buy another pair of shoes






So, there you go, another pair of lovely to add on to my collection. Aren't they lovely? Then, before I can proceed to check out other shops, Ling called to tell me she’d arrived and thereafter, we went around looking for a restaurant to have dinner. After another hour of walking through the mall and passing tons of places which were all filled, we decided to eat at Bakerzin.

Great way to end my term: booze, bitch, shop, and eat. Absolutely lovely.



Seafood Spaghetti



Mushroom Linguini in Cream Sauce



Ham, Bacon and Mushroom pizza




Meatball Spaghetti

Muse@National Museum

Finally, something New York-ish near school! Bars in museums is just something I absolutely lurve...and now, I don't have to go all the way to ACM at Empress Place anymore just to get the whole bar-n-museum thingy!

I met up with Amy who had since graduated and is now working (interesting fact: she went to WU one term before me and we were in the same project group a year ago and had such great time working and gossiping together!). Anyway, I decided that we should check out the new it bar du jour (well, at least that's what the magazine called it) call Muse at the National Museum located just next to our campus. The bar itself was pretty small, but there's a nice alfresco area, and since it rained just before we got there, the temperature was cooling and made the alfresco area more lovely. House and lounge music made this place a nice chill out bar and it's been time since I had been a place like this - nice. The drinks were disappointing though and at 12-16 bucks (roughly 6-8 Euros) for one, it is not exactly as affordable as the other newly opened bar, Ice Cold Beer, on campus. But then again, Ice Cold Beer is nowhere as classy as Muse.

I had a Muse Martina and a Muse Mule and Kenneth had this other drink. The martini was good, and tasted slightly like green curry, u get the idea...and the long drinks that kenneth and I had tastes of, well, cough syrup. The finger food I ordered (Mini Beef Burger) was superb though...haha...

Oh! I guess the bar's really the 'in' thing now cos we saw like 6 Porsches parked one to another at the entrance...now that's something cool...

Gosh, its beeen so long since i can relax like this and luckily me hell week is over! Done with all my presentations and at least i can relax this weekend before another week or mad rush to prep for exam and the final comms project submission...Darn...


Muse Martini


The great Beef Burgers, 1516 serves better beef patties though..haha


Kenneth's Long Drink (forgot the name)


Muse Mule - just like the animal, its nicht gut

Into to Physical Sci Presentation on Singapore Airlines

Firstly, don't even ask me why science theories are related to the airline. Too much to explain. Anyways, the presentation went alright despite 10 minutes of set up glitches thus reducing our presentation time. This was also the most Rah-Rah, over the top, presentation I had done since my freshman year ages ago...man...

But I did get to enjoy every minute of it as Lauren, Lenise and Sophie were such great sports and despit Sophie not being able to fit into the stewardess uniform she still look ravishing. Kudos to Luren for actually being able to get REAL SIA uniform from her friends thereby not resorting to cheap knock offs from Chinatown, pity me, i failed to get my peak cap and had to cut out cut board to stick onto my shirt...haha...soo funny...

needless to say, lauren and lenise attracted so many stares today and they went all out to epitomise the SIA girl mage, even with ghostly blue eye shadows! haha




Demostration of Lifevest...haha, props were all made by me!


This was supposed to be the oxygen mask dropped from overhead compartment in case of a drop in cabin pressure


Inhale and breathe normally


Lauren presenting her parts

Sophie presenting her parts

Showing off the shoes from SIA, new vs old


Lauren is so well poised isn't she?

Our group: Sophie, Lenise, Lauren and Me(dia Whore)

As usual, we were killing time after our group had presented and decided to do what we do as usual during class: random photo taking! Oh, and Prof was just sitting besides us while ae're doing this! haha


The 2 sisters...

Don't you love the ghostly blue eye shadow?

gluttony is my favorite sin

i spent my entire weekend in school cheering my corp reporting group...haha...i mean...other than providing comis relief, i wonder what is my purpose haha...oh, but not all's lost cos i manage to steal 2 hours on sat night to spend some time to celebrate josephine's b-day where we all went for steam boat buffet at liang seah street. man, somehow, the enbire beach roand bugis area seemed to be filled with mah-lah(literally meaning numbing-spicy) steam boat shops now; its amazing how locals take on to this chinese dish from Sichuan province of China...

anyway, i was feeling soooo famish on saturday night despite spending 2 hours eating tons of meats at the buffet that i decided to buy a small strawberry shortcake to treat myself..haha

turnip soup for the heart and soul

I got home at midnight today after staying in the library crunching aesthetic parts for corp. reporting due on Monday. tomorrow, we still gotta do up the slides as we’re presenting on Monday too…stress stress stress…not to mention that I have not met for comms presentation due on Tuesday! anyway, I am glad to get the pretty part with the corp reporting proposal done with, all I gotta do tomorrow is to sum up the parts and do the slides…besides, Jing Wen gave me a really pretty slide design so most probably we’ll be using that.

came back and decided to switch to typing in my kitchen tonight and luckily, cos if not, I’ll have completely forgotten about Mum’s leng tong (literally meaning beautiful soup) tonight; always trust the Cantonese in mum to make great nutritious soups to warm and nourish my heart and soul…isn’t that sweet? She made my favourite turnip with pork rips and as I was sipping it, I just cannot tahan (resist the temptation)! I must take a pretty picture of those lovely pork rips boiled with those turnips that have been on the stove for hours!

k, I better go get my sleep now, I still gotta get back to school tomorrow and in the evening, meeting my decade long pals from high school for some friend’s birthday celebration. but besides I go, here’s some photos of the project meeting for physical science 2 days ago.

hooked on babylon

oh my, i have a econs test in less than 12 hours and i only glanced through the text, yes, glanced is the key word here.

why am i not studying? well, because I just downloaded this show from BBC call Hotel Babylon and let me tell you...I've read and heard soooo many great and wonderful things about this show and apparently, babylon hit footballers wives off air in u.k. last year, and considering footballers' wives, being a great bitchy show can be cancelled after like 8 seasons, babylon must be a new kid not to be reckoned with!

true enough, this shows rocks! cureently into its second season, hotel babylon is bitchy and absolutely wonderful. with a great looking cast and plots so interesting, i am addicted to it after only 1 ep! quite a feat considering i usually hate brit dramas, in fact, i've only watch like 10 episodes of brit drama in my entire life...ok, that excludes the few eps of footballers's wives...but hotel babylon is really very very very good, imagine ugly betty without any ugliy people in a hotel and everyone speaks in nice crisp british accent. the best part are those bitchy delivery in british accents! love every minute of it!

exasperated

i am indeed, exasperated that is. somehow, other then the feeling of sheer tiredness from the past 2 weeks of crunch time with non-effective usage of time at home and one module with incumbents that sent my blood pressure raising to, i believe, my all time high, i still gotta settle what the hell i wanna do this summer.

I really wanna travel to NYC but i am sick of going there alone again. I want to go to Europe again to meet up with Montse, Marta, Christina and Whitney who'll be there this summer, and also to see Claus and Cathi, but yet, I want to visit beautiful pristine beaches in Thailand and go to Taiwan to see for myself the world famous street markets that sells the best fried crispy chicken chops, but somehow, i do not really wanna waste my travelling within Asia, do you not see the conundrum here?

I really wanted to pursue an internship with a bank but my useless GPA just puts me off any perspective HR manager's radar. Dittoa for Moma in NYC where I just got the finalized rejection email.

Maybe I really just wanna be carefree but somehow i just cannot bear to commit myself to the carefreeness which i am afraid will bore me to death. I am intending to apply for a 7 weel internship with the arts council on helping out this summer for 7 weeks at Venice's Bienale. but again, i just do not seem confident of getting it. I mean, i do have a 100% track record of failing to secure any interveiws u know...

negative aura

so, if you noticed that I am typing in school, it must mean that I am sooo free in class or that the proff is absolutely boring…but sensing that it’s week 11 and I got like tons of stuffs due, the other reason I am blogging is simply because I am in a project meeting and wasting my time away working with bunch of incumbents. yes yes, they are seating around me and I am still badmouthing them…haha…I mean, if they are so last minute and don’t seem to give a hoot, then why should I even bother?

haiz, so after looking at all my friend’s travel blogs I am really hoping that moi is still in Europe instead of farking Singapore…anyway, I also realized that I am actually a very very very lucky bastard soilt brat who at my age of not even 24, I’ve been provided with opportunities to travel so widely and frequently (yes, yearly trips to Malaysia do not count, but yearly trips to Malaysia by AIR does count, I mean, how many Singaporeans actually goes to Malaysia on regular basis by air? I m soooo mean now…blame it on the negative aura by my comms’ mates!) now whenever ppl say thia place is nice, that place is great, my mind will just rattle of and reminisces about the time I spent in those places and more. Seriously, many have not even been to Europe once, I, on the other hand, am sooo luck and spoilt that I am given the mooh-lah by my adoring folks to visit there 3 times. Australia, twice and states, twice too…but no matter where I go, I will always have more places that I wanna go to! I wanna see Stockholm and aurora in Helsinki, do a road trip through autumn in new England, and visit Chicago to catch oprah! ok, the oprah part is made-up. I also wanna visit rio to see the carnival and back to argentina to eat more beef, and shop for my fav clothing brand, felix! and exotic Egypt, turkey and morocco! ohhhh

At least when I pull off that fake accent I can say that its due too watching too many American dramas AND excessive traveling to places thus resulting in my weird accent rather than people who simply master their accent by mingling with exchange students on campus (not even going for exchange!) and watching TV. yes, I am referring fluffy here (wink to tina and k.s….haha, its our joke!)

IT Show

I finally went down to the IT show held from Thursday till Sunday at Suntec City and got myself what I need since like ages ago - External Hard Disk Drive. Since IT show is only the first electronics show held this year, I figure that I shall wait till May's PC Show to see what lappie I shall get. and even if i miss PC show in May, there's still Comex and Sitex...seriously, do we need an electronics show every 3-4 months? There's no 4 seasons here u noe...besides, i am sure electronics do not have spring/summer, fall/winter or cruise collection...

anyway, i utilise the 1 hour of spare time I had in between my Ethics and Corp Reporting Meeting on a Sunday and went to Suntec with K.S and got myself a Seagate 320 GB External HDD (but when i install, it only says 298 GB, what happen to my 23 other GB?? is it a fault with the darn thing??) and now as I am typing this, I am trasnferring my MP3 and photos to it. After the coffee spillage inccident, this HDD is a godsend. Oh, and it only cost my 170 buckeroos, that's 85 euros or 110USD...

anyway, on the last day of the show, and to make things worse as it's sunday (=entire Singapore's family population probably so free and have no place to bring their whiny brats) KS and I went through literally dangerous terrains to get to the place, simply cos we decided to jaywalk across the road from Citylink Mall to Suntec instead of squeezing onto the overhead bridge cos it is sooooo freaking crowded, and so, we had to dashed across the heavy heavy heavy traffic laden road. talk about making a killer shopping trip.

Oh, K.S got himself the 160 GB Seagate at a steal for 100 bucks, 50 euros! After that, we went baqck to school to complete our forecasting of ANF Inc for Corp Reporting and had such great fun utilising Excel's Trend and Growth function. Ha.

Disclaimer

apparently, people think that Lauren is my girlfriend cos i put so many photos of her on the blog. NO! Lauren is NOT my girlfriend! in fact, i am trying to pull her an Jeremy together! haha...the only reason she's on my post is cos we have 3 classes (out of 5) together this term! so, she's probably the other gal i see most often other then mi madre!

k, hope i clear any misunderstandings hahaha

oh, lauren darling...if you ever read my post, just wanna tell you that apparently, 100% of pooled audiences told me you are gorgeous hahaha

crying over spilled coffee

i had a truly traumatic experience on Monday. After going without any sleep on Sunday, i was a walking zombie, albeit a chirpy one, on Monday despite having back 2 back lessons from 8.30 till 15.30, followed by project meeting doing my favourite all time activity: Excel (can you sense my excitement ~) anyway, as i was sooo tired from 1pm, i decided to get 2 cups of long-black to keep me awake throughout the meeting. and this is where the fun begin!

as i was pouring coffee from the hot cup into my iced container, i pressed the fragile container too heavily and caused coffee to spill onto my laptop beside it! mental not: never attempt pouring of any fluid next to a laptop.

so, i came back that night a very sad boy (and probably with the bizarre look as above) and search all over the place for my warranty card and sent it for servicing the next day. Despite being rest assured that it'll take at most 2 days to get it fixed, i called the next day and they told me that they'll have to order a new keyboard as the store is out of stocks (yeah, i figure that not many people will get their laptop keyboard short circuited huh?) and i have to wait for another 2(!) days. So, after a prolonged period of going through my school days without a laptop and getting d/c with civilisation, i resorted to pestering Tina to lend me her IBM for a one night affair to churn out some articles and reports.

finally got a call on Thursday from the workshop and the engineer informed me that my keyboard was not eligible to fall under warranty as it was caused by spillage, at this point which i vehemently denied. but alas, he out-bitched me by saying that "well, it's spillage cos we found black stick substance in ur laptop" ok. fine, caught red handed. in fact, i bet he can still smell the coffee from the stain. so i had to pay 50 bucks for the repair which is actually cheap.

finally got my lappie back and i am now a happy man. oh, and since Thursday's physical sci lesson was one w/o my lappoie, Lauren and i were so bored that while the class were watching a clip shown by the prof's pet Mr. Ernest about black hole, Lauren and i took photos to entertain ourselves. the little things we do as students. busier weeks ahead as its officially rush time for all projects. 2 presentations due next week, another 2 or 3 the week after, and another 2 the week after the week after! phew!

an update that i am not dead

Oh my, it’s been sooo long since I’ve placed some insightful thoughts on my very stagnant and boring life here…well well well, what can I do right? I mean, all those amazing plans that I had come up with like erm…going to zouk, or sentose for a nice day by the beach during the mid term break last week somehow just got ruined by school related stuff and bad timing, and my fav excuse, sheer laziness, oh and my all time favorite ‘too broke to afford anything fun’

Anyway, now that school has re-started for a week, nothing much has changes except that I am getting busier and stress level up, up and up…K.S and I were commenting how stressful that we are having dreams frequently and K.S can actually recall those dreams that he had (=to he is very stressed) haha…and I am just eating and eating late at night cos I keep thinking I’ll be studying till late so I often come up with excuses to eat, but alas, after the food, all I did were maybe study for 30 min then internet surf for 2 hours. Talk about productivity.

Well, it’s the last day of CNY today and that means after midnight, there’ll be no more money packets to be given out. Did my cash count and I am RICH! Man, with all the mooh-lah I’ve gotten, I can probably afford myself some nice …erm…well, there’ll always be stuffs and excuses for items to be added on later while walking through the mall.

Better start my revision for corporate reporting test tomorrow and since I failed my first test (and also my international econs MCQ test too!) I better buck up for the MCQ test tomorrow, by the way, I never have luck with MCQ…