anyway, i cant watch brokeback mountain. coz its R21. and there’s no way i caN convince ppl im 21. haha. so i can only mourn and wait 4 the vcd to come fast.

chinese new year celebrations. and we could come in homeclothes. thats yinwei in a dunno convent sch uniform i think. i dunno, im clueless about uniforms.

the 4 nerds in my class. haha, or nerd-lookalikes. hehe. ok, they are a bit cute though repulsive in this pic.

hingziu and wanying.

first look at my kool specS!! and moi red hair. wooarh. i love this photo. we look so cute together. haha. jiamin i say u cute leh. so where’s my robot earrings?!?!

jiamin, my zipai kaki

we had ridiculous fun with the timer mode of my cam. presenting to u the hip and cool, 13/05!!

the gals.

zhizhan was damn gd in auctioning things. um lok pat pat. haha. all the dialect singlish chinese all came in. cny this yr was fun fun fun.

all kinds of zi lian self-shots.

plus…

lin zhan ting shua shuai. pukes.

although i would agree that was a good pose.

that was yest. cg 13 on buss 88, on the way to imh with chan cheow wee the motormouth. he’s behind. hur hur. we so damn rock.

all kinds of zipai shots with my zipai kaki!!!

and im so cute. haha. bu yao lian.

cg 13 gets crazy at imh(no pun intended)

this is a partial photo of a crime scene—25 dead cockroaches. murderer: ssm scene of crime: ahma’s kitchen. but not guilty. its manslaughter. the cockroaches are damn irritating. here’s a close-up before the autopsy:

jiamin says if its ur blog, u have to end with ur own pic: so there goes…

cute. hur hur.

i juz digged out all my prev movie tix for last yr.

24 in all.

that will mean an avrg of 2 movies per mth.

which averages out to a whopping 228 bucks spent on movies in yr 2005

1. House of Fury

2. Kung Fu Hustle

3.Seed of Chucky

4.I do I do

5. Howl’s Moving Castle

6. Lemony Snicket

7.The Eye 10

8.Coach Carter

9.the tix fade out i couldnt recall

10.Unleashed

11.Initial D

12. War of the Worlds

13. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

14.Seven Swords

15.Valiant

16. The Maid

17. Corpse Bride

18.The Myth

19.All About Love

20. Tom Yum Goong

21. Harry Potter

22. Chicken Little

23.King Kong

oops. sorry that was 23.

its a gd mix of asian and hollywood productions i guess, although i tend to put my attention on asian movies.it pays to support asians. coz these few yrs the asians are really puttin up a gd fight to their fellow hollywood contenders.

and i try to support sg movies if i can.

the movies i love…

kingkong, coz it really made me cry. and cry hard.

corpse bride, tim burton really did a great job and it was a gd follow-up after nightmare before christmas. and it won plus points with a voice-over by my lao gong, johnny depp.

charlie and the choc factory, without doubt, coz theres also my lao gong in it.

hee.

harry potter of coz. although i will always prefer the first one. i dunno why.

Initial D, jay chou absolutely rox. its his debut and he already did such a gd job. and the car action was fantabulous.

and among all the movies, i watched 4 alone. haha. thats like so little. although i really enjoyed the time i had with the big screen, alone.

and there’s only 3 animation pictures last yr, how come?!?!

went imh yest. and i very lazy to say anything. except that i met mahjong king. haha. go read jiamin’s blog will understand what happened.

and ive got new specs. worn. the pictures will come in the next entry.

im so happy new yr is coming. so many days of holidays. havoc!!!

anyway, i havent got my haircut. coz memoirs of a geisha ended so late yesterdae. i hope simin didnt get a naggin fr her mum. coz i did. juz because i din get my haircut. wads da big deal?!?!

ok, but i still love my mum, minus the naggin. hee.

i lazy to upload photos. but i will.

basically i have 2 tests on mondae. and i absolutely havent touch cha guan yet.

congratx.

its not like me to care much about tests. but i guess i really want to do well this time round.

and im beginning to get disillusioned.

but optimistic me gonna hang on. and study. yep yep

tmr is another full day of old clothes collection.

i wont mind if the lorry uncle gonna be handsome (goin to be navigator tmr) but chances are slim.

and all these mean i have one day less to study. which is gd or bad leh?

cny pls come fast. i want my holidays.

my hse is really red now.

u cant find a spot that hasnt has jolly decorations. hee hee.

my mum’s work of art.

meanwhile, that friend of my sis. the one that made the shoes.

she has grafitti art works at bugis strt. could go check it out. the new place is cool. i like the idea of art. although im not sum marvellous artist. :))

ok, short entry. more to do.

  these few daes have been topsy turvy…

like this–>

been reachin home realli late.

first was on wed coz of photog activity.

then we stayed until the attendant wanted us out of the sch while doin up the board for exhibition.

so these were what it was like goin home these few daes..

outside tjc. u could imagine it was late oredi lah.

and its damn irritating when the bus 28 NEVER comes. and everybody else’s starts boardin their buses. its so depressin.

then when u’re on the bus, u’re so bored, and u wanna take some photos of the movin scenes outside. u discovered even the best phone with 2.0 megapix cant satisfy u. the resolution totally sux.

but hiaz, ppl have to learn to be content.

but holy cow, when im startin to calm down

i have to recall that im supposed to get up at a goddamn hour of 5.30am. life.

okok. but such a life is temporarily over. i hope.

kidsread and cope now are both arranged on a friday.

and i see something gd about it.

it makes my life more balanced.

aiyah, after visitin ah ma,me and simin are always pouring grouses as we walk to the bus stop.

coz all these sometimes make us so angry.

ok, ah ma recently got cheated by this "agent" of the money sent to her by the southeast cdc i think. coz i cant really get her dialect sometimes, its a bit difficult for me to understand the whole situation. but she’s got no money for her bills and food and all. and it makes me so helpless to know that i cant help. and that she refuses help. she’s a stubborn old lady. she even doesn’t want her children to know about it lah. i mean, as her children, they are supposed to be responsible for their parents. tsk. shucks. another depressin thing.

but somehow, kidsread at night always brighten up my day, and makes me think life from another angle.

old age and the vigour of children. two extreme points of life.

its a normal cycle.

life is so amusin. and sometimes it makes sport of us.(is that correct, the phrasin?) my english sux.

anyway, i went shoppin today. again. orchard.

and i bought a tee.

congrats.

anyway, jiamin, i still think ur purple shoes cannot make it. sorry.

but mus try harder ah.

i show u something nicer. diy also.

done by my mei’s friend. a very artistic one, i think.

yup. show u for research. jiayou. i hope to see more nice works ok. then i consider buying haha.

moon go watch kang xi lai le le. haha.le le. im easily amused.

this article just caught my eye

Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely to Succeed

a few interestin quotes i got which i find really true..

" Every buffalo you kill for your family is one less for somebody else’s; every piece of land you occupy elbows out somebody else. Given that, the need ti get ahead ought to be hand-wired into all of us equally."

notice the "ought-to-be", the truth is it’s not. i dunno wad you guys think, but there are some ppl in this world who does get around without much ambition in them. Although i dont think it is inborn.

nor do i think its the genes

coz i dont think my mum and dad are ambitious. but the 3 of us were born to be a bit competitive than others. haha.

" For every person consumed with the need to achieve, there’s someone content to accept whatever life brings"

Contentment is good, but too much of it, makes you too laidback to care about anything else.

"Ambition is an evolutionary product"

I love this sentence.

" Ambition is energy and determination"

" Is the overworked lawyer on the partner track any more ambitious than the overworked parent on the mommy track?….We may listen to Mozart, but should we applaud Salieri?"

Ambition cant be valued accurately.

"Its fundamentally human to be prestige conscious"

not really……….

" Men and women just differ in their appetite for competition. There seems to be a dislike for it among women and a preference among men"

I dont agree. Men can be such a wimp at times. Women, ferocious. I dont know. but circumstances differ. I think men and women react different to different situations.

"Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin. The trick, as any good speculator will tell you, is recognising the riches when they come your way"

well written.

anyway, as the title suggests, relationships…haha.

im writin this to answer ck’s questions.

he has been askin these kinda questions yesterdae.

shit, i dunno how to ans them in english.

basically, ive known mates who are serious advocates for "the no relationships stuff" but these people always go back on their word once they meet the right one. I dont mean the right one as the "ultimate right one" coz there could be many " right ones" in this world. So im bent on the idea that people get into a relationship on impulse. but gd impulse. If you feel like you’re ready, why not?

But i still think relationship stuffie are a bother. coz i always see them botherin my frens. And marriage, ok, i agree with ck after thinkin much. Marriage would be one of the final destination you’ll get at after a long-term relationship. But you cant get into one for marriage. I seriously think nothing would come out of it if in a relationship, your role is to take something out of it and not give. Anyway, marriage is just a status-pursuing ritual. And, i think most people settle with marriage partners that are not their " ultimate ones". Sad.

I dunno. Im still as immature as others to comment of this kinda things. maybe ill laugh at myself years down the road when i reread this.

to ck’s question on whether ive ever been in a relationship: my ans is still " not really" haha. ambiguous ans always rocks.

ah shit

i feel like shit again

i think i should get out of this bloggin cycle

im feelin bad…then gd…then bad…then gd…then bad again

im soakin in despair

haha, thats an overstatement

im ok actually, nothing happened, im juz plain bored.

i donno.

maybe i should go sleep

yah i should go sleep

gd nite then.

ah…wait…i cant bear to say gd bye.

its such a weird nite.

i guess ppl muz be thinkin ive gone bonkers.

i was tryin out actin dif. roles in the toilet todae…a peepin tom, someone who left her bag in the toilet cubicle, i found a magic pathway in the toilet, oh no, someone’s walkin past the haunted toilet. i tried all kinds of expressions.

without anyone noein

of course, coz i was in the toilet.

haha.

urgh, send me to imh, mr chan.

the wires have gone haywire.

i need to rest.

ok

sweet dreams moon.

huh…the oval office is this kind of no standard architecture thing ah

i still cant find the s word anywhere

urgh

sorry a bit annoyin

bear with me

i need to get to the bottom of this

Oval Office

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The Oval Office is the official office of the President of the United States. Located in the West Wing of the White House, it was originally constructed in 1909, during the Taft administration.

The office features three large south-facing windows behind the President’s desk and a fireplace at the north end of the room. The Oval Office has four doors: the eastern door opens to the Rose Garden; the western door leads to the President’s private study; the northwest door opens directly onto the main body of the West Wing; and the northeast door opens to a personal secretary’s office.

The grand concept of an oval room had not figured in the original White House. An oval interior space is a Baroque concept that was adapted by Neoclassicism.

White House Oval Office

Long Axis: 35′ 10" (10.9m)

Short Axis: 29′ (8.8m)

Height: 18′ 6" (5.6m)

Line of Rise: 16′ 7" (5.0m) the point at which the ceiling starts to arch.

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History

Neoclassical oval rooms did not often feature in American classical architecture. The "elliptic salon" was the outstanding feature of James Hoban’s original plan of the White House. At the president’s temporary home in Philadelphia, Washington had two rooms each modified with an apsidal bowed end, which were used for hosting the formal receptions called levees. As his guests formed a circle around him, Washington could stand in the center with everyone an equal distance from the president. The apsidal end of a room was a traditional site of honor, for a host, a potentate, or the magistrate in a basilica.

President Taft intended the Oval Office to be the center of his administration, and by creating the Oval Office in the center of the West Wing, he was more involved with the day-to-day operation of his presidency than were his recent predecessors. In 1933, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt became president, he had a new Oval Office constructed; he disliked the original central location because it lacked windows, as a result being entirely reliant on skylights. The new office’s location at the southeast corner of the West Wing also allowed presidents greater privacy, being able to slip back and forth between the main White House and the West Wing without being in full view of the West Wing staff, a problem with the two earlier offices.

Oval Office in 1999

Through the years, the Oval Office has become a symbol of the Presidency. Over the years, Americans developed an attachment to the Oval Office through memorable images, such as a young John F. Kennedy, Jr. peering through the front panel of his father’s desk or President Nixon talking on the phone with astronauts after a successful voyage. Television broadcasts, such as President Reagan’s speech following the Challenger explosion, would leave lasting impressions in the minds of Americans of both the office and its occupant.

The desk used by the President in the Oval Office is called the Resolute Desk, so named because it was built from the timbers of the British ship HMS Resolute. The desk was a gift of Queen Victoria who gave it to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880. Every President since Hayes has used the desk except Presidents Johnson, Nixon and Ford. President John F. Kennedy first placed it in the Oval Office in 1961.

Typically, each new administration redecorates the office to the President’s liking by changing the rug, the drapes, the paintings on the walls, and some furniture.

i dunno the meanin of this word

i need to ask

damn political thingie..sumthing to do with richard nixon and his oval office, which i hell dunno what it means, oval office?!

erm, wad’s the meanin of…? shit, i forgot that damn cheem word.

some help, it starts with an s

im in some sort of my usual weird moods now

im damn sleepy, but im fightin against my body’s wishes

go away u sleepy bugs

those few daes when i was REALLY busy

i set msn to busy mode

and nowadaes im addicted to it

i love it when no one initiates a chat, no disturbances

ppl who know me might see me as a very people-person

but deep inside i love my own time

and i love bein jus myself and no one else

i enjoy precious time with dear me. this kind of time is really limited

in our life, much of our time has been used up to please ppl

and i dont exactly find joy in that unless im pleased as well

haha, selfish ger moon

anyway i watched narnia todae

without my sis

damn her, she changed her mind at the last moment

watched with simin instead which was good too.

haha, when i watch movie with sm i cant stop talkin de although i hate it when ppl talk in cinemas, i dont practise what i preach.

damn it im really tired

but i want to watch vcd.

and those ji mi’s bk i got fr taiwan are rottin coz i havent touch them at all.

all thanks to hong lou meng.

btw, chinese class has been changed.

the ppl i mean.

and im like in the same class as lin zhan ting now lah, so cham hor? hur hur. he’s gonna kill me if he reads this.

and same class as edwin. haha. i dunno wad to sae.

im goin out tmr to fulfill that wish list of mine

and i juz got my pay todae in  brunei currency.

haha, last mth’s was in rm..

my pay always come in dif. currency, my dad’s idea?!?!

i checked out the icon after yy told me it existed, across the strt.

i think im gonna go there tmr. will tell u guys whether its a gd shoppin place after i pay a visit.

shoppin here i cum.

omg, my nice mood’s back.

bloggin heals.