the height of stupidity
i couldn’t believe what i read off msnbc news today:
Flashing Teen found guilty after being hit by car - Girl ended up in hospital after she was flashing her breasts to drivers.
OMG what is WRONG with young people today?!?! anyway you can read the news article here or just amuse yourself with my rantings about the sad state of drunken youths of today.
actually, i think there is some tragic humour in this story, since the only reason why she even got hit by a car in the first place was because a distracter driver ran into her. i mean hellooo flashing one’s young perky boobies is the perfect recipe to literally/metaphorically get hit on by men. though i bet that after this, this girl is going to be completely traumatized by that concept.
oh well, that’s the crazy news of today. i love twitter.
still hooked onto twitter
i love ♥ the random interesting things i come across on twitter (:
Taking a white dog for a walk in the snow at twilight is a bit hypothetical. I trudge & something invisible goes “pad pad pant” sometimes.
- neil gaiman
the wonders of new gadget-y things
so i’ve finally succumbed to my curiousity & boredom … & am now hooked onto twitter. it’s fun seeing updates from random people’s lives, and sometimes uncomfortable when it gets a tad too.. TMI haha. hence my adding & unadding of random people. but for now, the primary use of my twitter is to keep up with news – so i’m ‘following’ CNN, BBC, People! and a few other news engines.
of course it would be more fun if more of my friends were hooked up to twitter, but for now i’ll just amuse myself getting information across the globe and stalking celebrity tweets muahahaha.
i also ‘discovered’ yoono, which is a cool add-on to my mozilla firefox. it integrates all the updates from my facebook & twitter, PLUS it also includes my msn contacts – i haven’t tried chatting on msn using yoono yet but will soon! hopefully it’s goooood and non-laggy etc.
so yoono is basically a sidebar at the left hand side of my browser window that i can open up when i click the orange man on my toolbar (: it’s pretty cool, and above you can see how the interface is like. the icons at the side of the pic denote whether it’s an update from facebook/twitter etc.
most useful i think, is the search function:
yoono doesn’t just work conventionally like a normal search engine. it integrates search engines. so upon typing a search term, you get hits from wikipedia, videos from everywhere, related products (shopping!), photos, and from google search as well. which makes for a super convenient, well rounded search engine to me. (:
yoono is also available for Mac users (:
holiday must-reads
because my friends are gone/going soon & i am fast retreating into my peaceful world of bookworm-dom, i present to you, the holiday must-reads:
i’ve always loved joanne harris. somehow the minute i open any one of her books, my eyes are glued to the page and if i absolutely have to stop, my mind keeps returning to that novel, turning and savouring each bit of it. reading her books is a unique experience – my words fail to describe the magic and sheer pleasure of it. my very first, and still favourite novel of hers that i read was Blackberry Wine, but since i recently discovered Lollipop Shoes, the sequel to the most well-known of her novels – Chocolat, i decided that it would be my first read for these holidays (:
i highly recommend joanne harris to those who want a bit of mystique, magic (not the super occult kind), and of course… chocolate (:
the second book i’d like to recommend is Mister God, This is Anna by Sydney Hopkins (or ‘Fynn’). when i first picked it up i almost dismissed it as one of those preachy overly romanticised christiany books, but it surprised me. narrated by Fynn, who tells of his experiences with Anna, it really does look at life in a very different way, and wasn’t preachy or anything at all. it was more of a heartwarming, nostalgic read and i loved it because it destroyed some of the pessimism i’d accumulated during the semester. haha.
i’ll post up the books i’ve read & disliked sometime soon. lalalaa. i love how much time i have to just read & relax at some random coffee place myself. makes my holiday seem more balanced, given how i’ve been going out so much to engage in adrenaline pumping, excitable activities lol. today simeon & i went swimming at yishun safra! actually we nua-ed in the pool. but it made me tiireed. oh well. next week i’ll exercise!! (or so i say…)
looong update!
with the wonderful holidays here, i have been lousy at updating this blog. but i shall update henceforth! now that my holiday activities are beginning to slow down & my friends are all leaving me on this sunny island for cold countries *sob sob sob*
sooo last last friday we had a costume party at liz’s house! this was to make up for our missed out halloween (during which yonghui, ryan, caroline and i spent watching a music concert & scribbling notes for our music essay) & the others were frantically writing their essays…O the horrid school days that have passed…
happily for our party, everyone was very enthu about it YAY
and it was super duper fun. i made my mashed potatoes with melted cheese & garlic bread, kelvin made his curry, ede made garlic prawns, daniel made spaghetti & cake, ritchell made the must have finger food e.g. seaweed chicken & oh i don’t know what else we had but it was SUCH a huge spread & we barely finished hahaha.
then we had simeon’s SURPRISE birthday thingy! which was a huge success coz i’m so awesome at such stuff HAHA no i’m not really i was just lucky that when we just finished eating simeon went off to buy a drink so we quickly prepped up the table and stuff and thanks to daniel we had an awesome coffee chiffon cake with maltesers. unfortunately we gobbled up the cake so fast i didn’t take any pictures :/ BUT THE CAKE WAS FRIGGIN AWESOME! those who want cake orders kindly do order from daniel, but he’s abandoning this sunny island for japan on thurs so he won’t be free to do cake orders these few days or so.
that day coincided with caroline, ryan, daniel & simeon’s virgin experience with L4D2 which is so exciting!! hahaha. but i dislike the versus mode very muchs coz when i kill my friends i feel a terrible feeling inside. yes i don’t know why i’m that way but i do. haha.
i know there’s a more popular poster – the hand of the undead reaching up with a green eerie background, but i like this one so much better coz it’s prettier hahaha. in any case, it was q funny how we convinced caroline to play with us over awesome dessert at ah chew (some place at bugis that serves really yummy chinese dessert) – we totally girlified it. i.e.
- “when the zombies come near you, you just slap them with your gun so you don’t dirty your hands.”
- “there’s a special zombie called the jockey, he’s this bald dude and all he wants is some of your pretty hair so he hops onto your back and like tries to find cookies in your hair”
- “another special zombie is the spitter and she’s this ugly hag with saggy boobies and pink heels. so you have to kill her coz she’s a disgrace to womankind”
- “when you get to the safe room it’s totally awesome coz like no zombies can go there and you can chitchat with your friends and prettify yourself and have time to paint nails”
HAHA. so caroline played with us and she found it not scary at all and enjoyed herself v much and killed a triple-digit number of zombies whoo!
then on saturday (the one just past) we celebrated huimin’s birthday! again it was another surprise (we have a tendency for such things) & we did it at partyworld ktv @chinatown with a homemade birthday card (by me) and a sara lee strawberry cheesecake which was surprisingly yummylicious!
it was my 2nd time at ktv and i must say i thoroughly enjoyed myself – even though i didn’t know many chinese songs (apart from the jay chou/stefanie sun ones), it was fun emo-ing together with them and spontaneously bursting into song in unison (particularly at the choruses) & basically having alot of fun hahaha.
after dinner we all headed for annalakshmi, which would fulfil V for vegeterian indian food on our A-Z food quest! Annalakshmi is a charity based indian food restaurant, @ chinatown point. the decor was v nice & it was filled mainly with tourists/singaporeans bringing their tourist friends & a few indian families & chinese families.
the food there was really interesting & quite yummy! it was a v enlightening experience & i wouldn’t mind going there again (: so kudos to kelvin for introducing us to a new place for goood foood. my must try recommendations would be : their vegetable curry with tofu & green beans, the fried ball thingy & the orange lassi. apparently their mango lassi is really good too but it wasn’t avaliable when we went there.
After our very filling meal at annalakshmi, we were still on our ktv high & decided to spontaneously go play L4D2. since we didn’t know any lan shops in chinatown, we decided to head for dohby since the lan shops there are not too crappy & cheap (hee) unfortunately, we missed the train at chinatown mrt and had to wait for the next train, so we stood around talking…
& i saw some white dots
& the white dots began to enlarge & multiply
& then my hearing was gone & everything went white..
so i grabbed the nearest person next to me (kaiquan) and said, “hey guys can i tell you something?” & kaiquan leaned in for some juicy gossip. “i can’t hear or see all of you”
immediately, my very awesome and caring friends leapt into action – i was led to a chair and ede took my bag & ritchell used my hp to call simeon, who at the time was with his family, but he immediately said he was coming. After a few moments my vision cleared and hearing returned & with a few sips of water, i kinda recovered though i still felt shaky.
soo we walked back to chinatown point & simeon came like my knight in shining armour & picked me up yay (even though he overshot the pickup place by a little bit but it was ok we walked there in 2 mins) & he sent me home.
so with the nagging of my bf and my rather concerned parents i went to see the doctor this morning & she diagnosed it as a Vasovagal Attack
A paroxysmal condition marked by slow pulse, a fall in blood pressure, and sometimes by convulsions, thought to be the result of sudden stimulation of the vagus nerve mediated through receptors located in the carotid sinus, the aortic arch, or the heart.
& yes you can google it. (like i did. HAHA). technically its a fancy schmancy term for fainting, the only trouble is the doctor couldn’t find a cause for it since it’s usually caused by stress, anxiety or hunger and i was experiencing none of that when i had the attack. & the more troublesome fact is that this will affect me for the rest of my life… though not so frequently i hope!
having said that, if i ever experience a vasovagal attack near you, kindly give me some water + rush me to the nearest clinic/hospital to have an ecg & test for blood sugar so that maybe, they’ll be able to figure out the cause (since it’s most obvious just after the attack has occurred)
but meanwhile i will exercise more & drink more water (as daniel and simeon have both STRONGLY suggested) so that i will be a healthier person. yay!
anyway, since this is such a long blog entry i will continue to lengthen it to make up for my absence. haha. simeon and i tried the new KFC chicken today! i really enjoyed it! it’s really quite spicy but it’s precisely coz it’s so spicy that’s why it’s shioook! on a spicy scale of 1-5, 1 being chilli sauce and 5 being um super spicy sambal chilli that makes me cry, this ranks on a high 4.8.
pic courtesy of the kfc website, hence the unnecessary ipodnano ad.
ok yes that should conclude this overly lengthy entry. til next time! and i promise that won’t be too long away. i’m getting new specs soon whoo! plus my aunt from canada is arriving so yay life will be exciting (:
Sharon’s Wedding!
this post is looong overdue but ahh i really didn’t know exactly what to write. Simeon’s sister, Sharon married Andy on the 28th of November, 2009. It was a beautiful affair – the skies were wondrously blue, even though it was raining cats & dogs all over the rest of the island, the sea breeze blew was sufficiently cooling without being too strong, and the guests actually didn’t turn up as late as they tend to do for the traditional Chinese dinners.
I met simeon earlier in the day at his condo to help set up the MPH (multi purpose hall) for the tea ceremony. it was rather fun decorating it, and i got a chance to peek at the wedding album (!) but forgot to take a few snaps of it. but witness our great artistic abilities lol :
slightly sparse i know, but since Sharon & Andy weren’t exactly gunning for the typical traditional type of wedding, our decorations were more than enough (: plus we only had half an hour or so to decorate haha.
after which, we headed to Summer Breeze Restaurant at Pasir Ris Beach for the wedding ceremony & buffet dinner. haha it felt pretty weird to be walking around Pasir Ris Park in my slightly heavy dress but oh which girl doesn’t like to be in a pretty dress? (: i was rather caught up in improving my photography skills while they were setting up the decorations, and thanks to the great weather (and lack of guests then), i took some pretty awesome pics :
i did however, (and thankfully so) get at least one prettty pic of me in my dress for the day. yay! too bad it’s gone back to the bridal shop…
plus i had nice company to talk to for the whole dinner, so it was really quite a nice and fun experience!
and of course i have one million pics of the bride and groom, but not too flattering ones coz i was stuck behind them, throughout the ceremony, as they said their vows.
& while i don’t profess to be their closest friend, i have to say that i was truly moved – by the happiness in their eyes, the way they glanced at each other and smiled every now and then, the way they seemed to be truly in sync… it all seemed really quite, perfect. & i wish you two, Andy & Sharon, a long, happy marriage. One that takes you through joys and pains, in laughter and sorrow. (:
*happy*
i have a retarded cousin.
i have a retarded cousin, and her name is melissa. she annoys and amuses me all at the same time.
witness the following:
we initially began with a very friendly, normal cousin to cousin webcam, during which she showed me her new house
unfortunately, she turned into a monkey.
her words also ceased to make sense.
*birdiie* i ♥ my friends says:
oh
can i have your leftover cardboard boxes
to make a rabbit house
rumbling stomach says:
er sure
how many
i only can give you tthe small small ones
*birdiie* i ♥ my friends says:
how small?
rumbling stomach says:
you can come and collect when its cny
small lor
*birdiie* i ♥ my friends says:
bigger than my rabbits can already
rumbling stomach says:
how to describe small
small is just small la!
*birdiie* i ♥ my friends says:
shoebox is small
rumbling stomach says:
duh
duh
duh
duh
duh
duh
duh
d’oh
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAMA
*birdiie* i ♥ my friends says:
sigh.
rumbling stomach says:
LAMA
LAMA
LAMA
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAMA
LAMA
LAMA
*birdiie* i ♥ my friends says:
i am putting this on my blog too
rumbling stomach says:
LAMA
LAMA
LAMA
LAMA
LAMA
LAMA
LAME
LAME
LAME
TINGENS COUSIN IS SO YAY
TING EN IS LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAE
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
LAME
hurry post i wanna see
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
HURRY POSTTTTTTTT!
*birdiie* i ♥ my friends says:
shush you
rumbling stomach says:
NO!
POST!
HAHAHAHHAA
hence i have posted this entry. enjoy.
disclaimer: for all her retardedness, this cousin of mine is actually very very smart and she studies in NYGH. furthermore she is not always a crazy monkey and can perform very very graceful moves from her compulsory chinese dance classes that highly resemble Naruto’s actions as he accumulates his chakra. melissa is a very powerful, wonderful cousin. i love her from the very depths of my heart.
when exams are over, we are going to have a maggi mee fest with my cheese maggi mee, kelvin’s magic soup maggi mee, & ritchell’s zow zow. YAY!!
2012
Today (well actually, saturday… now is sunday coz it’s 3am haha) simeon & i went to watch 2012
and having been immersed completely in my lit-bubble of late, i had completely no idea wth this movie was about, but since it was paktoring with my darling, of course i said yes. hahah. *senses ritchell’s glare at this show of mushiness* LOL.
While it certainly didn’t beat the epic Armageddon, I did like 2012 quite alot. For once, there was no excessive attention paid to the handsomeness or hotness of the actor/actress, though admittedly there were no ugly people.. but then this is a Hollywood movie, so i guess it has aesthetic standards to live up to. I also enjoyed how they didn’t just concentrate on just two characters who were each other’s love interest, but took effort to flesh out the other characters as well. The special effects were rather breath-taking and quite realistic, but the premise/scientific-ness of the movie would piss off any devout geographer i think. haha. Then again, if you’re looking for a show of epic proportions with lots of family love thrown in, this is the movie for you, and i’ll freely admit that i teared at the (sometimes cheesy) moments.
My favourite movie of this genre is still Armageddon though (:
