Healing is a miraculous thing. Seeing karate kid getting better after the operation, seeing her father becoming relieved, its... let's just say the feeling is inexplicable. At the ward yesterday, my brother and i kept saying that we were gonna drink karate kid's milo and eat her cookies, and that we were being kind by letting her have her pillow. She said, "How can u bully a bed-ridden girl with no chance of fighting back" To which i had to remind her that she knew karate and that we couldn't normally bully her without being serve karate chops for dinner :D



Anyway, i've discovered something that's more addictive than any drug in this world, and that's hot shower. That's right, i took a hot shower again yesterday. I think i'm gonna take hot shower for the whole december before going back to cold water :p



I'm a happier person these days, coz someone told me that my smile is kind of cute, not that she sees me smile these days though. Anyway, you've gotta be happy to be smiling right? So i guess i'm happier :) :p



"~I feel it in my fingers,~I feel it in my toes~ ". Excitement rings in the air as sunday draws near. Yes, the run is still on, even though i hadn't been training. And it's still gonna be the full 42km. Its something i've been looking forward to for the last couple years ya noe. Yes, years, not months.



Anyway, here's the bandit signing off, hoping that the world is a better place and that there's a pot of gold under every rainbow :)

2004 is coming to an end :) woot woot. Hopefully the bad year of bad luck would go away quickly, and come 2005, which doesn't sound very alright either :( For the number five is likened to sounding like 'no' in cantonese. If it was no worry, no trouble then it would be.... oh my gosh, wat's that lump of hair doing on the office floor? Well... long and brown, its not mine. Now that i've noticed, the whole floor is seems to be covered with that same hair!! Talk about stressful environment :D



Anyway, if it turn out to be 058 (sure no wealth in canto) instead, then 2005 is gonna be another harsh year. So depending on wat actually gets appended onto 2005, its not a very exciting year.



Christmas is round the bend. I hate corners, so i'm calling it a bend. Maybe i should make another wishlist, yet another of my cheap shots to get presents huh? :p Anyway, since i got a submarine already, and kerry didn't get elected, i'll leave that do you to argue if i got my world peace yet i'll come up with a new list.



Wishlist :

[Deleted]



Muhahahahaha... wait, where was i before that evil laugh? Oh, i wasn't saying anything yet... muhahahahaha... i'm the alter ego of lbandit typing here, and i deleted his pathetic wishlist and place some of the real inner desires >:) Muhahahahaha



Wishlist :

[Deleted]



Sorry about my alter ego making a scene back there. I've deleted his horrible desire list already. Hope no one was harmed by it 0 :)

I had a hot shower yesterday. Its been so long since i last had a hot shower... oh wait, i just came back from gippy, so my last hot shower wasn't too long ago. Let me rephrase that... Its been so long since i last had a hot shower in sg... oh wait again, i went to chalet couple weeks ago, and i think there was atleast one of the showers which i had hot water. Ain't it terrible, i have to take a cold shower in a fully airconditioned chalet. I could have waited for the hot water to come though, but i'm not a person who waits around for things to happen. Oh um... that's regarding matters that does not concern... dare i say... love.



Anway, back in gippy, yinyin could swear that i shower in winter freezing cold water, coz everytime i come out of the shower, i'll be shaking and shivering with cold, so much that i'm like possesed. Funny thing was that i was showering with scalding hot water. Maybe the water was too hot and when i returned into the colder environment, it felt too cold. You know, like how you can feel both hot and cold from the same water. Try this, put one hand in hot water and another in cold water. Then put both hands in lukewarm water, the water would feel both hot and cold at the same time. So maybe feeling cold anot is kind of relative.



Anyway, i had this electric under blanket back in gippy. And according to proper usage, i was supposed to sleep with it turned off. That means, i was supposed to turn it on before i sleep to warm the bed and turn it off when i'm sleeping on the bed. Kind of logical too, since i won't want to burn myself while sleeping. Like how we shouldn't use laptops on our laps to avoid burning our thighs.



Anyway, i hardly gave any care to these evil advice and slept with the electric blanket turned on. And ya know what, i never did burn myself, haha :D But there were plenty of times where i was awaken in the middle of the night, sweating profusely. My t-shirt would become utterly soaked and there was no way i could return to sleep without changing into a drier, warmer t-shirt. Yes, a soaked t-shirt is cold even with doona on top and a furnace underneath.

Hey karate kid, get well soon ya? Take care.

, guess a mandarin character. It is pretty difficult to guess the word because of the misleading . Whenever is mentioned, people would think of the word . However, in this case, the mu(4) is two different words with the same sound. And the first step most people would do is to form the word and then try to expand on it with more strokes, which unfortunately was the wrong word in the first place.



A friend of mine, tried to lump all the characters into a single character, which of course didn't work. Becoz the last word describes the effect of the word rather than the strokes inside the word.



So here's sort of the answer :

Someone.

Hmm... i having some skin allergy on my legs. Maybe some bugs are biting my feet, coz there are a couple of swells on my foot. And the swells are so itchy that i am becoming pretty merciless in my scratching. Or maybe the swells are pimples... pimples on my foot... My guess is this allergy is kind of seasonal. I do remember there was a time i had the same itchiness making me claw at my foot till it became bloody, literally and without sparing the dripping drops.



I was telling someone... i do realise i am using someone to refer to a particular person alot. but can't my someone revert back to just about anyone? Anyway, i was talking to someone the other day and i was busy mentioning in vivid detail all the funny injuries on my hands. like how my right thumb would click like some rusty joint, my left index finger not able to straighten, and alot more which i rather not go into detail.



I guess all these body parts going into disrepair are parts and parcels of life. Funny how people use the phrase parcels of life. Life giving me these injuries and ailments.... okie, you're probably thinking that this is one boring rant, in which case, u thought correctly. *sigh*

I was hoping to take a long never come back break. But turned out that is was a less than one week's worth of break. Well, didn't want to write anymore since i kind of felt bad that my blog is making someone feel bad. But since she didn't exactly tell me to stop writing, and my lil couzin did ask me to continue writing, so here we are, there and back again (Take that Frodo).



Okie, so this post is dedicated to my lil wonderful wonder-couzin (haha, we had wonder woman, now we have wonder couzin) as promised. Well, not really dedicated as in dedication, but dedicated as in this post will talk about her. You're probably thinking it is quite common to have sworn brothers and sworn sisters, yi(4) fu(4) yi(4) mu(3) (sworn father mother). But how did i come to have a jie(2) bai(4) couzin?



To begin, i have this other lil cousin, i'll call her dancing kid. Haha, i've named my cousins taekwando kid, karate kid and dancing kid. If everyone is gonna be called by what they know how to do, i can imagine people calling me the eat snake kid :D



Anyway, dancing kid was friends with lil couzin. And at that time, i was still in the army, lifting automobile engines here and there. A couple of army friends and i envisioned a bold idea. We would create an irc channel and get it populated with gals so we won't remain as lonely bachelors there after. We called the channel "NTKY", acronym for nice to know you. Pretty good huh.



So to get the channel going, we had to invite people we knew to come and use the channel. I asked dancing kid to use the channel and dancing kid asked her friend (lil couzin) to use the channel. After sometime, we decided to make some sort of a channel outing, which consisted of tea at Black Tea Box, lunch at Mos Burger and pool/snooker (watever its called) at Marina. Not very interesting considering that we did the exact same thing in both of the two outings that we manage to schedule.



Anyway, during the first outing, it turned out that lil couzin didn't really know my name. She knew my irc nick, knew i was dancing kid's cousin but didn't really know my name. Lil couzin then began to start calling me "dancing kid's cousin". Which turn out to be a really lengthy name to call, so we settled for the shorter name "couzin" and thus i have a new couzin in the year 200 1 or 2, dun wanna calculate exactly which year :p



And ya noe wat, she's about the only girl whom i deliver bdae cards to the home mail box personally, by hand :D Cousins are very important people :p

The end of 2004 is approaching quickly. I used to like year end, because its a festive season with long holidays and several public holidays to look forward too. Not that i look forward to anything these days.



But the end of the year also comes to the lips easily. So when the boss says to a customer, "We'll get it done by the end of this year." Which in turn means i have to get it done by the end of this year, festive mood doesn't really come to mind.



So just as everyone is plunging into festive season, i'm psyching up for weeks of long OT. Was gonna start this week, but since the week started with a holiday, the whole week really does feel like a holiday. Went to watch "the forgotten" with a couple friends, tired today, and meeting another friend tomorrow, so no OT this week.



Yeah, i can hear you say. It's only a little OT, everyone does it and its nothing special. Well. then its about time that you realised that the world revolves around me, not you :p Haha, trust me to coin such a phrase, my cousin actually wanted to repeat this to a vegetarian friend of hers when her friend complained that eating crab roe was killing thousands of crabs.



A little on "Forgotten". It's a lame show, don't watch it. Unless you buy into illogical happy endings and stuff. And if any of you've watched it already and still says its good, let me remind you that the Sam's father was never even mentioned in the ending.

*Sigh*, of late, i've been hearing from alot of people that the stuff i write is at times a little cheem (difficult to understand). Dam, it's really difficult to communicate with earthlings these days. Maybe its becaoz the ozone layer is thining. Exposure to more UV rays makes them more... more i don't know more what... more tanned?



I'm in a speechless, quiet, depressed, hate it all mood and lacking ideas for topic for todays post (That is, i'm thinking of what to write in front of the monitor, i usually do that before i actually sit on the chair). So this combined with folks saying my posts are cheem, i'll do a couple post dissection/autopsy, flip old files and make the room all dusty once again.



9 Nov 2004 : "I kind of liked this part of the story, the daughter asking tony to change the ending to a happy one..." Whether the daughter meant it anot, her telling tony to change the ending to a happy one was effectively asking tony to change his own life to one that has a happy ending. For the story tony had written, was really a reflection of tony himself in fantasy.



Um... that's the only part that comes to mind with a dead brain. I'll do more post dissection later on, or on request. Yup if ya need me to explain some stuff, about wat i wrote, go ahead, shoot me. So much for now. Ciao.

Haha, thought i'll try it out.





You represent... hope.You're quite a daydreamer and can be a hopeless

romantic. You enjoy being creative and don't

mind being alone at times. You have goals, and

know what you want in life... even if they are

a little far fetched.



What feeling do you represent?

brought to you by

Quizilla

Watched another show on vcd yesterday. That took me three hours past my bedtime :( Imagine, me sleeping at one am, and having to come to work today! Oh um... actually not that difficult to imagine if you've been around me when i was in gippy :p



The show was called "The Classic". A korean love story, yes you guessed it, another tragic love story. The director was the director of "A Sassy Girl". The vcd had a mandarin title on it, but i can't remember it.



The movie began with Jin Hee, a congressman's daughter and Jun Ha, a country bumpkin or something like dat. When they met initally, Jin Hee asked Jun Ha to take her to a haunted house across a river.



When they were gonna return home, a heavy rain swept their boat to the middle of the river. And it was kind of brainless to jump into the river to swim to get the boat, since the water current was very strong with the rain and all. The couple became stranded on the other side of the bank.



They were running for cover from the rain and Jin Hee sprained her ankle. Jun Ha then carried Jin Hee all around. Jun Ha caught a firefly and gave to Jin Hee. When the rained stopped and they recovered their boat and were returning to the residential bank of the river, Jin Hee gave Jun Ha her necklace saying, "Today, u carried me around and gave me a firefly. I've nothing to give you except for this necklace."



When they returned, Jin Hee's grandpa slapped Jun Ha before going home. That's right, he deserved it. Fancy him running away with someone's qian(1) jin(1) (literal translation: thousand gold) and getting themselves stranded in some ulu place. Anyway, the couple fell in love from that day onwards.



The firefly, as a token of love, does become rather metaphorical. I wonder if the firefly is still alive.



Anyway, in comes Tae Soo, good friend of Jun Ha. Tae Soo's father wanted him to chase Jin Hee. Tae Soo then asked Jun Ha to help him write letters to Jin Hee. But Tae Soo eventually knew that Jin Hee and Jun Ha loved each other alot and decided to take a step back. But his father became very angry and used a belt to whip Tae Soo. Not able to handle the trauma, Tae Soo tried to hang himself.



Fortunately Tae Soo didn't die. Jun Ha became so devastated that he decided to leave Jin Hee, and sign on the army. Join the army! During a battle, Jun Ha got shelled by artillery. It's funny how hardy people are on this show. Anyway, Jun Ha survived the shell but got blinded.



Now speaking of being blinded, i do recall a korean mtv that had a girl and a guy in it. The guy was a photographer, with his own dark room for developing photographs. One day the photographer became careless and left a bottle of acid unsealed somewhere. I have absolutely no knowledge about photograph development, so i won't know whether that acid thingy is relevant anot.



Anyway, the girl went into the dark room later and the acid fell onto her face. The acid was dilute enough not to scar the face, but concentrated enough to blind her eyes. The photographer then um... donated his eyes to the girl. The mtv ended with the girl seeing the blind photographer and cried.



So i was wondering if that was actually an entire movie or just a mtv. If it is a movie, can anyone tell me what the movie name is so i could look for it?



Back to The Classic. Jun Ha then met up with Jin Hee. Jun Ha then went like, "Why aren't you married? I'm already married." Don't think Jin Hee replied to that question though. Since Jun Ha was married liao, Jin Hee then got married with Tae Soo, eventually. But sometime later, a group of three MIB (men in black) approach Jin Hee to inform her that Jun Ha had passed away. They went like, "Actually, he got married only after you got married." *sigh*

Haha, crafty siew ling can read my mind. But then, its pretty easy for people to guess what's or rather who's on my mind these days, if they've been following up on my blog since late october. Anyway, siew ling passed me "love actually", a romance comedy in english. Don't worry, i'll come back to 2046. My initial reaction to the movie was distaste. The show was made up of multiple small stories being run concurrently and independently, and the screen kept switching between the stories. The show on the whole was confusing and disorientating.



But as the show went on, i quickly fell in love with the tiny stories embedded in the show. The tiny stories, by themselves, were very good. And the show began with a nice song. "~ I feel it in my fingers ~ I feel it in my toes ~" One of the stories had hugh grant in it. Despite me loving hugh grant, and his story, i'm not gonna talk much about it, coz it's just another boring love story with a happy ending.



Another story of notable mention was that of a man and a wife with two kids. The man was the boss of a hot and sexy secretary. And this secretary always flirted with him in the office. Then came christmas eve or sometime before it, i donno when people buy gifts. Anyway, the boss told his secretary he was going out to buy christmas present. And the secretary went in a coy voice, "Are u getting me anything?"



Outside the office, the boss gave his secretary a phone call asking her, "What do you need?". The secretary replied, "There's nothing i need, only something i want... something pretty". The boss then bought a necklace which he left in the pocket of his coat. When he took off his coat at home, his wife discovered the necklace and thought it was for her. When it turned out that she didn't get the necklace, but a cd instead (talk about metaphorical...) she secretly cried.



Later on, she asked her husband, "What would you do in my place? If you knew your husband bought a necklace which he didn't give to you?". I would say that was some nice pr (people relations). Very well handled.The husband became ashamed and the rest is yada yada.



There's one small story in the show that i particularly like. The story was about a group of friends, two guys and one girl. Let's call the guys, guy m and guy s. Guy m gets married with girl and guy s stays single. Since guy s was a friend of guy m and girl, he was asked to take video shots of them for the wedding. But after the wedding, guy s refused to give the video to them time after time.



Girl then decides to show up at guy s's house unexpectedly with a..... drum roll..... a bonofi pie!!! *nudge one of my cousins* Told ya there's such a thing as bonofi pie and that its an english dessert. For those who missed it, the recipe for banana bonofi pie is on my 9th Sep 2004 post. 0909, not bad number huh? 4d anyone?



Anyway, girl quickly fishes out the video tape from the shelf. But wasn't that guy using a digital cam earlier on?? Anyway, girl puts in the video tape and presses the play button then gushes all the "omg, i look so pretty." phrases. It wasn't before long that she realised something was wrong. While she was pretty in the video, the video only had her in it. The video captured her every expression in vivid detail, with nothing else, not the groom, not the wedding. It was then that the girl knew guy s actually liked her.



Girl turned around, looked at guy s then went like "......". Then she went like, "But you never talked to me...".Guy s muttered and mumbled something, and left quickly. Doh... he fled his own house... I guess girl was rather smitten to hear that someone other than her hubby likes her, but then since she was married already, it was kind of a little too late liao.



So on christmas day, guy s brought a christmas carol radio and a bunch of placards to visit girl. Using the placards, guy s told to girl, "Without hope or agenda, just because it is christmas - (And at christmas you tell the truth), to me you're perfect, and my wasted heart will love you, until you look like this" The next placard was one of a old ugly thing, which prompted a little giggle from girl. Next placard went, "Merry christmas."

Today most certainly feels like friday, tomorrow being a public holiday and all. I'm a little out of topic today, so i'll talk a little more about 2046. It's kind of sad that the only face i can put a name to is tony leung. I do believe i've seen the actresses in some other show some time before, but as always, i can't put their faces together with their names.



As mentioned, tony leung was staying at a hotel in room 2046. The hotel boss had two daughters. The younger daughter was wild and wilful. She ran away from home/hotel at some point of time.



The elder daughter, fell in love with a young japanese. The father didn't agree to the match and things fell apart quickly and the elder daughter had to part with her sweetheart. Despite parting, the elder daughter kept in touch with her sweetheart through mail (snail mail mind you, email didn't exist in those days). The first letter from the japanese sent the father into a catatonic explosion as he ripped the letter to pieces infront of her beloved daughter.



Tony leung then tells her that she could ask her sweetheart to send the letter to his address instead. Yeah, the address was the girl's father's hotel, room 2046. But the boss wasn't gonna read the letters of his customers, so it was kind of safe. Whenever tony leung recieves a letter, he would mention out loud, "Wa, my japanese girlfriend is so hot." or something to that effect. Upon hearing that, the elder daughter would knock on tony leung's door later. Tony leung, without opening the door, would push the letter through the door slits to pass the letter to her.



Tony and the elder daughter eventually began to communicate more. Tony help her get a job at the cloak room of a nightclub to earn some money so she could go to japan.The show then came to the second christmas eve of the show. The first christmas eve was spent with another girl, one who loved him very deeply. By then, tony knew he had fallen in love with the elder daughter.



The show then went on in the tony narrating mode saying, "[Blank]" I'm really hard pressed for a translation here. I can't seem to think of the english version of the phrase. The message meant to say, tony gradually begin to like the elder daughter and this gradually thingy was not pursued by tony. It just happened and it happened over time.



During the christmas eve dinner, the elder daughter asked tony what he thought her sweetheart would be doing in japan on a christmas eve. Tony said, "Why don't you ask him yourself?" That said, tony brought the daughter to his office so she could make the call to japan. Later on tony said something like being content to see her so happy when on the phone to her sweetheart. And that he himself, "wu(2) shuo(3) wei(4)".



Sometime later, the elder daughter really went to japan. By then tony had finished his 2046 story and gave a copy to the elder daughter. Since the story was a metaphorical writing about tony's own life, it was kind of sad. The daughter informed tony that the ending was very sad, and asked whether he could change the ending into a happier one. Tony said he could try, and then we see tony holding his pen for 100 hours without being able to write a single word. I kind of liked this part of the story, the daughter asking tony to change the ending to a happy one, tony's narrative speech which i didn't include here, tony being unable to write for 100 hours and all.



The show went on to talk a little more on tony and that girl who loved him very much. My memory is a little fuzzy, can't really remember that much. But sometime near the end of the show, tony said something like, "Sometimes yuan(2) fen(4) is like dat. If it comes too early or too late, it doesn't stay."

Here's a little about the two shows i've watched, Brotherhood and 2046. I find that Brotherhood is a really good show sporting a tragic story. Tragic stories are usually good shows, coz it injects a doze of realism, reminding us that not all things live happily ever after, not all dreams come true, and fairytales are just fairytales.



Take a look at titanic. It is a very good story (read story and not show) and most certainly tragic. Yeah, so maybe little rose went on and live to old age and all, but it is merely a facade that movie makers feel obliged to include. They couldn't end shows on sad notes, coz any suicides would then be blamed on the show. Which in turn made the ending utterly lame, considering that any sane person would pawn the priceless necklace for a retirement fund rather than dunking it into the bottomless ocean. But the show does capture the hearts of many fans, and i would believe, simply by being a tragic love story.



Titanic was such a success, and a drag, that the fan club became divided into three distinctive groups. The first group were those that really loved a good show and a tragic story. The second group of fans begin to love Titanic becuase it became fashionable. And the last group of fans, hated Titanic. Yes, critics are also fan clubs. This last group consist of a lot of people who choose to hate the show, simply because it became fashionable. Doesn't make sense? Actually it does make sense.



Time and again, one would see young people stand up and say, i'm not part of this mindless crowd. Whether anot that person is part of the crowd is not a point to contend. What is note worthy is the desire of that person to not be merged as the larger mob. The person wants to be controversial, different, individual and unique. And they begin to reject Titanic simply because it became fashionable.



Back to Brotherhood. Brotherhood is a story about two brothers whose lives got messed up when war came upon them. The elder brother had a gf and the brothers and gf lived together with their mother. When war was upon them, the brothers were drafted into the army to fight. The elder brother then began volunteering for dangerous missions to buy his brother's freedom.

Throughout the show, we see small little tokens of love. The elder brother's gf made a handkerchief from her skirt to give to him, for him to wipe his sweat coz he was always using his sleeves to do it. And when the gf suffered a bullet wound, the elder brother used that same handkerchief to press onto the wound to stop the blood flow. And the gf went like, "You kept the handkerchief with you all the time..."



The handkerchief was but a material token. But its sentimental representation was much greater. The fact that such tokens of love did not begin with the significance due it, makes it all the more wonder inspiring. It was not like the gf asked the guy to keep the handkerchief becuase it was her token of love to him. It was given to him to use to wipe sweat to keep the sleeves clean. And such an act, resulted in the handkerchief becoming a token of love.



So it does makes me wonder if people of today still keep these little tokens with them, be it handkerchiefs or metal pens, or even tiny wishing stars made from drinking straws.



On to 2046. 2046 is a slow boring story and full of music which i didn't like. But its story is rather tragic and the overall show does appeal to me. 2046, sports a number of metaphors. The story revolves around tony leung, a journalist staying in a hotel room, numbered 2046. He began writing a fantasy story about people going to the future year 2046 in a train, to look for loved ones, and never coming back.



All who went to 2046 never returned, well, all except one. I particularly loved the bit of the show where the person who was returning from 2046 on the train was asked two metaphorical questions. The reply to the questions seemed to be always in some kind of third person speech, mainly because the written story was intricately entwined with bit Tony's own life and the questions were like him asking himself as he was writing the story.



"Why do you want to leave 2046?"

The narrator said, "I gave a vague answer to that question."

The next question was, "How long does it take for the train to leave 2046."

To which the narrator replied, "It all depends, some people take a short time to leave 2046 while others take a long time."

There is nothing more regretful than missed opportunites. *pause for a dramatic effect* Ok, since my couzin commented that my entries sounded kind of sad of late, i'll talk about something else. But also related :p (Oh, i've removed the unkymoods, since it wasn't like gonna change :p)



I flipped today's newspapers and realised that the vertical marathon was over. The punchline read, kym ng prance like a deer and hung lu jiang slogged like a pig, in lu jiang's own words. The photograph showed them yay-ing to publicity at the finish line. And they forgot to do the article on the bandit that never even made it to the start line :(



And so it is with regret that i look at the photograph, of not daring to pick up the challenge for fear of breaking my knees. But then, i don't see a difference when comparing it to not training for my 42km. Surely climbing afew steps ain't that hard right? Okie, maybe it is hard, but i really should have gone for it.



People from the brighter world of rainbows and dreams come true would think that optimistic people would say something like, "Oh nevermind, there's always next year." All i can tell them is to read my msn messenger nick. For the benefit of those who does not have msn, or have msn and chooses not to add me, my nick goes like this, "A little helloooooo from the darkside."



That's right, saying "Oh nevermind, there's always next year." is not being optimistic. Saying that is being foolish. The optimistic person would say something like, "I'll not miss the next opportunity that comes around." The difference lies in that there's always another year, another day, but not always another opportunity.



That being said, it's lucky that i'm not foolish. Coz i'm pessimistic :D :p

Watched the korean show "brotherhood" on vcd today and "2046" on the big screen today. Hey, i managed to get the title of the show correct after all :) Both shows were sad stories, and i think brotherhood was a little more sad than 2046. But that may be becoz i watched brotherhood in the morning, when i'm fresh and alert. I had to watch 2046 at night, coz it shows only at night, when i'm dead beat and tired.Kind of difficult to catch the show, it being screened only once for the entire weekend in bishan.



Well, one thing i know for sure now is that when you're down and out thinking of certain things watching two sad stories doesn't help.

I've just realised that my auntie bought me that coffee bean card. Woot woot. Aiya, if i known earlier that i had that coffee bean card, then i won't have to spend money to treat coffee bean, could have used the credits inside :D

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I got a birthday card!





I would say it's not bad for this birthday liao. Got one tea break set, one card and one submarine.



I must be getting old. How do i know? Well... you know you're old when a spider climbs onto your head and try to spin a home all over you. What am i? Some kind of a lamp post? Or maybe i look like a bloghead (read blockhead, catch the pun?).



Now imagine a skeleton hanging in a dark dungeon. Speaking of dungeon, i think someone (now i know i've been using the word someone to refer to someone alot, but this is someone... i couldn't remember who) told me something about dungeons, real dungeons. Anyway, imagine this poor skeleton, hanging in the dungeon chained to the wall. As if the person's death was not pitiable enough, some spider had to go spin a web to connect the skull to the wall.



Now imagine that same skeleton sitting and sleeping at the back of bus 105 on its way to work. Same spider trying to weave a web to connect the skull to the window. Tell me that ain't old and dusty :p

Added a new link to pinkcocoa's tabetai blog. Yes, another case of i don't know her and she doesn't know me, link. She probably doesn't know i've linked to her. Anway, who doesn't love food.

Some random thoughts for ya pickings, ya? In no particular order.



Thought One



Chatted with a friend on icq yesterday. Me being the busybody i am, asked her if she was getting married with anyone anytime soon. Somehow, this kind of questions always seem to prompt a similar question from the other person. So i told her someone is already married. "Found a new one?" she asked. Still trying to get over someone i replied. One smiley and one word, "Understood", later, i kind of feel alittle better.



Now, not that i don't appreciate the others telling me this and that, how they went through similar stuff, finding another one, don't think so much (yeah i know i'm the one who asked people to tell me that), time heals everything (this is possibly the worst crap anyone can say, it's like saying 'i look like a girl coz i'm a girl', pretty obvious ya?)etc etc. The thing is, i am not about to turn around and simply forget a person who had been important in my life. Her smiley and single word seems so much preferable.



Oh, and i forgot to tell her thanks. Thanks Charlene.



Thought Two



I'm thinking a little about technology lately. Like wine, couple years ago they said drinking wine was bad for health. Then some time later, they said a glass of wine a week is actually good for health. Here, we see that technological people are always biting their own words.



So i was thinking, they say rf magnetic field is safe for humans. Who is to say that a couple years down the road they won't say rf magnetic field causes me to lose buddy count and thus cannot claim baby bonuses anymore. I mean, suerly they haven't tested it on humans to make the correct assumptions right? I feel so guinea pig now, exposing myself to rf for eight to nine (i don't really know how long i'm supposed to work everyday) hours every weekday.



Thought Three



Another friend i met up with had been reading bits of my blog lately. She... Why is it i have a feeling that if howster is reading my blog he'll comment that most of my friends are female. Maybe us sisters bond together better. Oh wait, i've got short hair now, no one calls me "leng lui" anymore.



Which brings to mind, when i was in gippy with yinyin and yeat yee, they used to call me "chun mui mui". And then they go on about me changing into male in the day and changing into female at night. Or was it the other way round?



Anyway, this friend of mine, reads alittle and skips the rest. She chose to pursue a question which i posted, "Was my masters worth it?", and chose to not let it go. Hellooooooo, I did mention in writing that i have no answer to that question.



Thought Four



Since i mention my adorable housemates, there was once when one of them had a birthday coming round. I asked one of them what she wanted for her birthday. And then they went like, "Diamonds!". So guys out there, never ask a girl what she wants on her birthday, especially if there is more than one around.



Not that any of them got any diamonds. I'm a poor man afterall.



Thought Five



People playing magic tourneys are always complaining that they don't have girlfriends and stuff and stuff. Isn't there Colin who is married with kids and playing magic too? I sure there was atleast once when he said that he can't come for a tourney becoz he had to play golf with his wife. Hmm... now that i've written it down and read it, it does sounds kind of cheeky. Anyway, it goes to show that playing magic doesn't affect social lives.



Oh wait, i think he quit some time ago. And now that he is already married with kids he can come back to play magic. Haha.



Thought Six



My colleague is having a mc becoz of red eye. Rest well.



Thought Seven



I wonder what's the weather like in korea right now.



Thought Eight



I manage to catch yinyin on icq yesterday. Or rather, since she's always invisible and i'm not on her visible list, it's more like she managed to catch me on icq yesterday.



Poor yinyin. She's really having a rough year of bad luck. She also mentioned something about the monash staff striking, and the exam results are being delayed indefinitely. Too bad it was only staff striking, and not the students. So the student union didn't provide any free food over there.



I did mention that i joined in one of their strikes right? Well i also did mention that i didn't make much difference coz i was effectively always kind of like striking every other day.



Thought Nine



Too tired to think.



Thought Ten



Happy Birthday.

LOL. A little on the acronym LOL. It stands for laugh out loud. It has always been common to view words in caps as being loud. Therefore, writing the acronym for laugh out loud as "lol" is wrong, simply because it is really not loud which implies that you don't mean it. The only way to acronym laugh out loud is "LOL".



lol, i mean LOL, i just recieved my first bdae present for this year :D Ok, so posting requests for bdae presents kind of does work :p My couzin and lil cousin bought me a tea break set of one mug, one plate and one bowl. The set had cows all over it and them being cows (born in year of cows) the present seemed kind of cute.



My lil cousin had initially suggested to buy a frying pan for me. Her reasoning being that i had to cook in gippy, would mean i could cook and would in turn mean i do cook. ??!! Me cook? Aside from hoping to make a sago pudding, once i get the recipe from yinyin that is, i hadn't thought that i would be cooking anything but wild stories.



And of all the cooking utensils, she had to think of a frying pan. Maybe it's just me, but i always thought that the frying pan was used to whack someone's head. Too much jackie chan movies huh? And these days, with my thoughts never wandering far away, the person most likely to be whacked on the head with a frying pan, if i do get the frying pan that is, is myself.



Luckily, my lil couzin, being the more sensible in gifting skills, saved me from the terrible headache of having my head whacked with a frying pan :D



And they gave me a submarine!!! Look at it in operation:







And the view of a fresh water gold fish looking at you through the periscope in the um.. saltwater ocean:







And it costs 1.7 million pounds!!







Ok, maybe i should have mentioned that i was wishing for a luxury submarine. Then they didn't have to buy the one that comes equipped with one missile that's pointing in the wrong direction. Oh heck, might as well blow some stuff up along the way.



Thank you for the tea break set (i donno wat to call it, i assume i can eat my teabreak with it) and submarine.



Till then, ahoy!