The Soul Beckons...

Wii always have trouble

2009-05-19T17:29:00.003+08:00

Its been 24 days since I got my Nintendo Wii(Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!), and I only got it to work only three days ago. And boy did I not mention that I got played out 2 weeks in a row before finally getting my Wii. I did mention in my Jack of all trades entry that I would be getting my Wii on Good Friday. And that's 10th April.

2 trips with a bag load of anticipation, excitement, thrill and sheer joy only to meet with cock-ups leaving me destitute. All the time, effort & transport money wasted. When I finally was able to get hold of the Wii, The only game available was the Wii Sports that came along with the set. Just to let you know, I'm going full original for my Wii(ANTI-PIRACY). So I had to settle for some pirated stand-ins (Touched none of them. By now it's returned), and a second-hand Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Apparently, my friend's business associate is doing a really bad job on tying down with suppliers and the whatnots. Thus playing me out 2 weeks in a row, and the missing games thereafter. He justified that with their supplier not having any stock. Think that's the end? Read on.

So happy as a lark and drooling like a little kid just by having the Wii, I couldn't wait to set it up. To my dismay, when I clicked the power switch on, eyes glittering with uncontainable anticipation and natural smiling to myself, I heard a 'POP' throwing my whole house into a power trip. GREAT.

So I rang up mathews(Again for the umpteenth time) to describe my situation. When returning my call after he spoke to his associate, he quoted, "Sorry Sorry, a special adapter is needed to make it work, forgot to pass it to you." What a great business person/partner. There's more.

So I had to wait another week, for mathews(What a weird name? Single 't' and its plural) to pass me the adapter in camp. So the following weekend I tried to start it up, guess what... well it worked. I was actually surprised for such a norm. By now, all enthusiasm and anticipation has been punctured with series of disappointments. But, the controllers aren't really working, Fixed in the batteries, spammed the 'sync' buttton but nothing just seem to work. Nevermind, let's read our 'trusty ol-manual'... WHAT THE HECK is this language!

It's in Chinese traditional characters. The point here is not that I can still read Chinese or my Chinese is weak. the point here is I ordered a US version of the Nintendo Wii. They justified that US sets cannot be modified, and these are the only kind of sets they carry. They better thank our ever-loving Creator I'm acquainted with mathews and I'm quick to forgive. I managed to fix the controller synchronisation much later(3 days ago) with Google. Only thought of Google 3 days ago, how dumb of me.

Nice and snug in the corner of my room!

Tadaa~ And white is undoubtedly my favourite colour!

Now, I'm just waiting for my games to come in. Still... Well, this Sunday my Wii will make her(his?) maiden voyage to Shawn's 21th birthday chalet! I'm sure fun will ensue from this trip.

Be Blind to See

2009-05-06T23:31:00.003+08:00

Okay, It's actually the 10th of May already. But I edited the date to be the 6th of May, just for sake of remembering the date of such a misfortune. And I really intended to blog about this on that day. Have you known anyone who has the record of breaking 2 pairs of spectacles in a single day!?

It began when I was awakened by the terrifying wind and rain that brought down the curtain in my bunk at 6am. In my grogginess, I got up to fix the curtain. (no one in my bunk is better than me at that) To do that I had to step on the unoccupied mattress, and of all places, I had to step it together with 1 of my spectacles. Excellent. There you go, 1 down.

That was the pair I wear outside of camp, or what we call it the civilian spectacles. I had in mind to fix it when I get home. In camp, I put on the pair with the black plastic frame. Much later in the day, I was just lying on the sofa for a quick rest. And when I turned around with a little bounce to get myself all comfortable, it generated quite an impact for my "ah-bing-ge" spectacles. Snap! Second pair down.

Thank God by then all my lessons were over, and it's almost time to book out. With the spectacles gone, I keep getting questions like "where's your specs?" or "what's your degree?". But other than that, because my degree is quite bad, I find myself able to think more clearly. In this episode, I begin to think and reflect on the things I've been compromising, my future and mostly ministry matters... in my 'blindness'. And I kind of needed that time and space.

Maybe God wants me to not be distracted by just daily living and actually spend some time to think about things that require attention. It was kind of fun too though, helps me be in a world of my own oblivious to my surroundings. I would wish to post some pictures of the broken spectacles, but by the time I snapped it, I've already fixed it.

Though I get to reflect in their absence, I'm practically blind. Badly drawn red carpet.

Posing them up.

Meet their doctor. SELLEYS. Mum says, must only buy SELLEYS. In my opinion, it's better than the previous ones I've tried.

The pictures are kind of bad with the lightning and all, I know I know, so thanks for bearing with it.

Trial and Error

2009-04-22T22:14:00.008+08:00

Read this first before scrolling down. Guess an item from the following clues :

It's near 75% pitch-black, it comes in 1000 pieces, it costs 50 bucks, it's a picture of a really cool scene and it can be framed up!

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If you guessed a jigsaw puzzle, you got it right! It's a scene from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas where nearing the end, Jack and Sally met at the curly hill for some kissing. Cadaverous romantic action!

It's somewhat blur, but you get the picture. Hah picture! get it? =X

Right about now, I'm about 30% completion, as you can see from below. I can also safely say that all pieces with illustrations are being pieced up. What's left would be approximately 700 pieces of pitch-black pieces awaiting trial and error.

This is going to take awhile.

Well, actually with all the experience thus far, I found a way to still find fitting pieces efficiently. In this puzzle they only have 2 kinds of pieces, the purely jut-outs and purely cave-ins.(If you know what I mean) So I name the jut-outs "B9"s and cave-ins "Vehgeena"s.(Don't ask me why) There's still the randomness effect with my system but let's not bore you with the details. Approach me if you're interested in my idea, maybe for some similar annoying puzzle you have.

This is will be so gratifying to complete. I bet some people have a 'fix a 5000 piece puzzle' in their '10-things-to-accomplish-before-I-die' list. Oh come on, What's a 5000 piece when you have 700 over pieces of pure trial and error, it's a test of your wits for efficiency too! Just pray I won't go bald pulling all my hair out.

Loneliness

2009-04-20T00:37:00.009+08:00

Quite likely it's one of those mood swings. Possibly I just want to 'emo' like the commonplace losers. High chance I'm just making a fuss, ignorant of true desolation in my spoilt & comfortable state. Redundant. Shallow. Immature. Downright loser.

I have a good circle of friends. I have multiple close cliques. I have tons of people I love and cherish. Those tons love me back in their own ways that are heart-warming. I have no lack of company. I have buddies for all kinds of activities you name. There are people whom I would fork out any sum of money for. They too will do the same for me. I delight in being personal with people, for that, they reciprocate.

Though they say there is no such thing as "I have no one to talk to" and in fact, I'm actually on this same bandwagon of an idea, I might just be using it as an escape for my reality. I'm positive in life and also in my entries. This entry reveals my weak side and I don't like it. But I don't give a shit about that now, if I don't have a person to confide in, the very least this blog could serve me is, to contain my hopeless whining.

I don't like revealing this side of me, it just attracts too much attention and sympathy. Heck, don't put me in the same category as those who scavenge attention that way. I will rip you apart. Whoever you are reading this, don't tag, don't think this is Sunny and forget this entirely. Stop reading here if you are put off, you will be doing me a favour.

God, I wonder why You didn't place a mentor in my life, someone whom would understand the way I think, someone to guide, someone I can confide in. You've put me as such a position for 1 or 2 brothers, but I need 1 too. Is it because I'm blind to realise there's one around me? Or is it because you want me to keep praying for it?

I guess it's my own doing, those things that I need to talk or confide about cannot reach just about anybody's ears. Hidden and unseen from most people, I need to get it off my chest, but that's just not possible. Putting it across like that somewhat makes me shady. I don't care what you think. Also kind of makes me mysterious. Not true, the last thing I would do is to act mysterious. Take it from me on this, else the other thing you'll get is shit beaten out of you.

I take pride in accepting people, being sincere and loving them. Maybe that's why God has blessed me with my circle of friends. But I can't help feeling lonely. For there is none I can seek solace with. None that I can pour out to on a regular basis. God, please continue to sustain me even without a confidant. God, teach me to turn to You and seek peace in my gloomy periods so that the devil will have no foothold over me to toy around. Sorry to anyone reading for sounding violent, but I do mean it.

The Jack of All Trades

2009-04-06T21:42:00.006+08:00

I've always thought, felt, proclaimed and behaved in a way as if I'm a master of all trades. Well, hoping to program my being and brain into it, thinking it will become a reality. Am I actually making progress? Maybe. Though I'm still a master of all trades-in-training, I'm definitely a jack of all trades.

What's annoying being one is filling up questionnaires. Especially those that has something to do with preferences or self-discovery. Here's one I took from a career aptitude test, I'm supposed to select which I most and least prefer.

Help decorate a float for a large city parade
Help build the float for the city parade
Help design the float for the city parade

That is one of the many examples which I take very long to decide. And then, there are just some, where you cant decide at all. What's the worst is, such questionnaires don't put you over a spectrum. You're either this, or anti-that, even though you are somewhere in the middle. They are designed with no such option, leaving you to choose either end of the spectrum.

I hate lousy questionnaires. I'm very sure I'm not the only one fretting over this tests trying to classify and put us into places that are inaccurate. Shouldn't a test help us discover what we are instead of telling us what we are?

Even for a master of all trades, the problem won't go away! Stupid tests.

This year's good Friday will be real good

. I'll be getting my Nintendo . I'll be getting my Nintendo Wii on that day! 'Yayness' overload. I'm going to bring it everywhere I go! To Tekong! To youth camp! To chalets! EVERYWHERE!!! Life is now complete!

100% Pure Fruitfulness

2009-03-16T23:14:00.002+08:00

Yesterday, Sunday, was really a fulfilling day. To God be the glory. I haven't had one in a while. I call it fruitful because I managed to finish up all my ministry work, call through my calling list and being the most persuasive yet, settled the theme for the youth camp & catch up with 6 people I hold dearly.

I was actually expecting a guest at home, but it didn't happen and thankfully, that gave me the time & space I needed to do all the above mentioned. It's so gratifying because, in the midst of the busyness of ministry work, I still have pockets of time where I can preserve the rapport I have with the 6 of them.

In the recent past, I just want to finish up all work at hand as fast as possible and then start playing games or watch anime thereafter. But it doesn't really happen much as in the process of doing it, I allow procrastination and poor time management to waste precious time and in the end barely getting work done. But now, when I was DotA-ing yesterday, all I had in mind was ministry and I couldn't concentrate. (What an irony, but a good thing though)

All I remember was that I just prayed before I started anything and desired to be an encouragement for people above, beside & under me. God seemed to have multiplied my mere 4 hours plus into 8 hours. (Amen)

I think God is putting me in a state wherby He is preparing me for breakthroughs in my life. Breakthroughs in service and intimacy with Him. In fact last week, God just suddenly threw a Thursday and Friday 'off' to me. That just allowed me to go for Poly Serve for 2 full days. God really helped me made full use of of those 2 days in many different ways and areas and I even had the hula-hoops that they needed quite desperately.

Hah, this entry is becoming like a PSS letter. Well I pray God will continue to keep my momentum and passion in this area and there will be an exponential growth in me. Praise the Lord.

24 numbers

2009-03-15T01:12:00.003+08:00

I lost my phone on Wednesday. Again. Third time. I never lose phones before I entered army. That's an alarming rate considering that my 2 years of service isn't up yet. Thank God for seow chin who brought me to mustafa to get another phone after I met her that day.

To add to my misery, the phone I lost belonged to my uncle, guess I'm going to give them this phone when I'm done with NS. So I went over to Starhub to get SIM card on Thursday and I started to key in all the numbers I could remember.

Be amazed, I remembered a total of 24 numbers. (excluding my own) Hey, you guys should also remember some numbers too, it'll help very much when you lose your phone. =P Actually, there are more numbers I can remember, like my primary school friend's house number. (that makes it 25) Beat my record people.

Here's a riddle for you guys to chew on. If let's say you were to forget your own number, what is a fast and convenient way to find out your number? Restriction is, you can't strike up a conversation with anybody.

Timeless Sadist's Cliche

2009-03-08T20:49:00.004+08:00

For the longest time, all the adults I know have been doing something (in my opinion)sadistic and they just simply enjoy it and even more so when the victim is more perturbed by it. And they never stop doing it over and over again. And they don't think anything is wrong with it.

I believe you've seen or maybe yourself have done this before. Each time when a relatively new baby or toddler comes into presence, they'll fall victim to this. Somehow in some way, someone will carry or hold the child's hands and then say "come follow me", "go home with me", "say bye bye to mummy/daddy" Then either or both parents would step away and start waving and mouthing goodbye.

You know what happens next, in a matter of moments, the child begins to understand from his/her confusion and then panic, or cry or both. The more frantic the child is, the harder the adults laugh. Well not all respond this way though, I've seen really calm ones, either they don't mind or they are totally oblivious to the situation. Like the one that happened in church today.

To some extent, it's mildly sadistic isn't it? Teasing the child in such a manner, putting the child through that mental torment and to be feeling insecure and distressed at the same time. So what if they recover from that really quickly and even forget the whole thing totally. The fact is, it did put the child through that. Might have already done some effect to the child's esteem or whatever.

Something different happened today though, something I never seen or thought of before. Because that little tot was unaffected and probably don't know what's going on, she just followed whoever beckons her to. (Her innocence just made her even more cute than her already uber-cuteness) Then aunty joanna said "Cannot, we must teach(has this sense of authority and power when she says it) her. otherwise next time she anyhow follow people." Okay, makes full sense, but to me only aunty joanna has the licence to do this. I don't believe this teasing is mainly for the sake of educating the child.

I'm sure people will do this to my child next time, but I might not play along and I won't definitely won't do this to any kid. Poor asian kids... I think, I just can't imagine caucasians doing that.

Virgin Biathlon

2009-03-07T23:18:00.008+08:00

I'll tell you a secret.

It was seriously no kick. Not a single kick.

I got quite an average timing(1hr 38mins) but, it wasn't exactly tiring. Well, think I haven't been running much regularly to ascertain my lactic threshold, otherwise I would have kicked ass much harder. I think the amount of freebies I have would amount close to a 100. Thanks SAF or whoever sponsoring the Saucony singlet, shirt and tights to the 9 DIV participants! Yummy MAX!

I got really prepared by some people for the mayhem at the swimming part. Here's what they always say: kicks to the face, jabs to the trunk, elbow knocking off goggles, urine, pulling, water choking. I'm sure that did happen today but surprisingly my goggles stayed throughout! Thank God. Was pretty chaotic but not as bad as I thought, there was a guy who turned to look back at me when he kicked me, that was so polite.

Actually it was pretty amusing, I enjoyed the swim in fact! well, being my first biathlon maybe I can't conclusively say yet. It was so funny at the turning points, I swerved very much to the right when I was turning to the left(aqua tokyo drift!), that was immense suction force of 400 over people swimming, it's just funny when it happens to you, and then you look around you, it's also happening to everyone. I thought I heard someone laughed then.

Weird thoughts came to my mind when I was about halfway through the swim. I was like, hey there's so many of us here, aren't we attracting like lots of predators? I mean most big predators to move from place to place where the prey schools. What if... what if... some big black fish bigger then me chomps on my leg and drags me down to the watery depths and I meet my end!(Hey it's a coastal swim okay, it's not impossible) Well Jonah got swallowed too, maybe not too bad. And then someone just scraped my side, well just have to go faster ahead of that ding dong to get him out of the way.

Well the 'suckiest' part is not that I have to settle for XS because they don't have S for the finisher shirt, or that I didn't bring slippers to bathe or I lost to teng feng by a few mins. What was so sad to me was, I didn't get my own finisher shot. You know the kind where nearing the finishing line, and people begins to go faster having the end line as the only focus in that moment. That glimpse of glory wasn't captured. I'm so going to find a girlfriend to do it next time round. Core criteria, otherwise, thank you miss, you're free to go. I'm still so sore, not having the shot. Now I know what girlfriends are for.

1.5km Coastal Swim 10km Run

Pet Phobia

2009-03-05T22:46:00.002+08:00

I've just watched 'Marley & Me' a few hours ago and it has created in me a phobia of keeping pets. You're probably guessing that all the trouble, hassle and frustration that came along with Marley, taunting you over to the other side of sanity caused it. Heck no. That wasn't the phobia. Well, at the back of my head, I could very much picture myself having pet or pets in the near future. The only pet I had so far was 'The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys' since my parents aren't really a fan of pets.

Well, I didn't inherit that ideal of theirs, my mum had to pull me away from the stray cats that I loved playing with back in the days. They kind of knew I would love to have one. But I was definite they abhorred the idea of having a pesky furball running around the house, I didn't even bothered asking. So I've always had this fluttering image of me playing with a cat, disciplining it, training it, going soft when it makes the 'puss-in-boots' face at the back of my head.

But hey, pets die. Oh yea duh, hey wait WHAT? no nono no no no NO you're kidding me. I absolutely, cannot, acutely refuse to come to terms with my pet dying. I do not want to put myself through such an ordeal. I can't take it. I evade even the thought of having to live life without that should-be-big-by-then tuff of ball. We enjoy teasing friends who really love their pets and threaten to barbecue them for dinner. We name them 'pet crazy' or 'dog crazy', and they don't seem to mind. I do all that too, and I wouldn't mind it on me either.

I remember liyan once blurted out without thinking and instantly in defence to such a tease saying "nono, take my life... leave my dog alone..." And hearing that, we just laughed even harder. Well she mentioned her schnauzer is getting on in years. I pray she can be brave and face it when its time.

But well saying all these, I might still probably end up getting a pet. Can't they just live forever?

The 'Savings Plan'

2009-03-04T22:24:00.004+08:00

Each time I check the tagboard only to see my own pathetic tags talking to myself just makes me so unmotivated to blog new entries. But well, The blog still has to go on right? The blog still has to chronicle the extremely eventful & exciting days of the great sunny yea? *sigh* Who am I kidding.

Anyway just to let you guys know, I'm kinda loaded I think. And it's all thanks to (of course God first) my weird savings plan that I have but its not exactly adopted intentionally. I'm so going to be able to strike the Nintendo Wii off my Compendium column. (YAAAAYYY) Talking about Wii, I know of someone who owns a game console shop. So, If you guys are thinking of getting games or whatever at a good price, you know who to look for! (too bad for those who aren't reading my blog XP)

Here's something you can look at differently, as a savings plan. Money Lending. But of course all my 'lendees' are people I know well and they genuinely need the cash hard plus they will & are responsible to make sure they return the loan. Thank God I have such friends. And, suddenly with the GST offset package, I'm getting my all loans back.( plus my own GST offset!)

God made an impression on me to give for the Grad Servants this year, I'm so glad I can support them!(Wii will be delayed. for God) This group of young people has chosen to dedicate four months full-time for the sake of the Gospel. If any one wants to support them financially, please let me know! Read this well people, no amount is too little. I stress again, no amount is too little. It's not just a saying or a catchphrase, the Grad Servants are living it and experiencing it. Little makes a world of difference.

I know it's off topic but I just got to rant about something so disappointing. 3 weeks. It took that long for the people around me to realise my braces are gone. I mean 3 weeks? braces? You've got to be kidding me man. What? am I that low to be below the average person's field of vision? Somebody commented that there seem to be no difference for me with or without braces. My mouth doesn't move or position in a fashion where all 'brace-ers' do. So the significance is not that stark. Somehow, I'm still not convinced.

Ang Pow practice

2009-02-15T18:23:00.005+08:00

It's the 15 of Feb and it's 21 days after the first day of Chinese New Year! And it's only now that I open up my red packets. I couldn't remember since when I started to have this practice of only opening up my red packets at the last day of the 15 days of the Chinese New Year. It's exciting to wait for all the red packets I can hoard for the year and at the very last day where I wouldn't get any more then open up all of them at once and swim in my sea of notes on my bed.

And that's not the end! Apart from all the counting and the sorting out of the notes which we all do, I would pick 2 of the coolest looking ang pow to store the notes. Well this year I took 3 out, 1 of which is just the only gold coloured packet to store the $50 notes and the other 2 for the $10 notes.

Once that is done, I would fold the remaining red packets in a way that the mouth of the packet would be permanently open and put it aside. Then, check 1 by 1 for... any remaing money of course =D. But every year, it feels such a waste to be throwing the opened red packets away. Maybe I should start a recycle your red packets campaign! Collect it nationwide, sell/recycle then give the proceeds to some needy people or something.

Check out my coolest red packet this year!

Giant Moo Moo infront

Classy Credit Suisse, ang bow also must have class.

So elaborate, even the flap wishes you.

Right, finally I get to take pictures of the tissue box cover prize. Well, by the time I got down to snap it, I already gave fatch's tissue box to him. So you would only see one of them in the end. Just nice, my bedsheet happens to be blue! That makes my tissue box sail on a seabed! Haha so unfunny.

Ike~ Sunny Go!

The green tissue box spoiled the whole thing. I only realised now I could have removed the box just for the snapping.

The Lord Vindicates

2009-02-12T18:48:00.008+08:00

Reviving this blog could probably be one of my whims with the kind of enthusiasm that lasts for only 3 minutes. That was such a childish attempt. Thus the scarce updates and with the blog seemingly being frozen in time. You know, its sorry to be having a blog up, you guys giving me the support by coming by once in a while which I'm really thankful for. Well people, I guess its time to face it, I don''t have the responsibility to update, I'm lazy and thus! I guess I'll close the blog. T.T

Just kidding.

I've spent hours(I mean weeks!!) on the skin and broadcasting and all the effort & blood spilled for the post on mosquitoes! No way this blog would not go on! Here comes the meister of cup stacking which I've said and claimed and here is the proof!

Tadaa~ the cup stacking mat has a timer. People average at 4 - 5 seconds

Cup Stacking Sunny

A flashy 3.46secs! My best record for the 3-3-3 stack. World record is at 1.8secs *gulps*

That requires some serious coordination, proprioception and mental agility. Thinking back, I kind of feel bad for making the Ian wait 4 me. He sat through the whole thing and helped with the picture-taking too. Check it out if you haven't heard of this sport. Thank you Ian again yea~ My mum's not around so I can't snap the Thousand Sunny tissue box with her phone. So it should come on the next post.

Things aren't going too well back in camp for reasons I just can't explain. Everybody just poses it off as sheer bad luck, including my superior that's unleashing the punishments. I have to admit that I got sucked into FS(Fitness Specialist) Branch's super-slack-and-heck-it culture quite abit. We FSs are expected to do certain things that are still deemed extras to a certain extent. Clean rakes after use, be 30 minutes earlier for a certain lesson, must be in the gym during gym duty e.t.c.

But the FSs don't really do it. Hardly. As for me, though not diligently, I am still found doing such things. Even though nobody cares about doing it and hardly anybody would catch us FS, I still fulfill those expectations from time to time. But of all people(about 6) on the rare occasions where certain people happen to realise that certain things are not being done. I'm always the one in question. The very same person whom still cares to do them.

In addition, people just love making near baseless comments on a whim about me, that has earned me quite a bad reputation. Half the time in these situations, it's beyond my control. Which explains why people claim to be bad luck. But I think God has his plans and reasons for those and I willingly submit to them. Every point of time I would reflect and make sure nothing funny happens to me again. If there's a need to do stuff 100% of the time so I can't be faulted, I would! But things would still happen and hit me.

To worsen the already hopeless reputation, I got a charge, for 10 x pirated DVD(Playstation 2 games). There was once where the MP came to raid our bunks and found those 10 pieces, of which, only 2 were mine. The rest were a friend's. He pleaded for me to take the rap for the other 8 because he had a worser charge during the raid. Out of love, I accepted it.

I was just thinking, if I refused, nothing could have happened to me since the MP wouldn't even care if they found only 2 of them. And probably I would have gotten a lighter punishment, but 10 is a ridiculous number. I'm not saying I'm not at fault but my reputation if I still had any, would be such a joke knowing that as a child of God, I'm the salt and light of the world.

To cut it short, I would just like to thank God and let Him have his due glory as, with prayers and the belief that God is still in control, I determined to want to turn things around. True enough, comments from "Don't be like Sunny" slowly changed to "Please be like Sunny" and during one of my efforts from my passion on the job, I was acknowledged and commended. Weeks ago, I could never imagine things could actually be turned around. Verily verily I testify, the Lord vindicates. Amen.

IDIOT'S GUIDE TO MOZZINNIHILATION

2009-01-27T00:42:00.012+08:00

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! And we're back with this cyber journal to COMPLAIN ABOUT SOME SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH ALL THIS IRRITATING MOSQUITOES THAT HAS NO END IN TAKING MY BLOOD AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN... AND ALL THESE BUGGERS BITE AND FLY AWAY AND BITE AND FLY AWAY AND BITE AND FLY AWAY. TO MAKE IT WORSE THERE'S MORE THAN 1 BUGGER.

*Deep breaths* Ok. Let me now properly wish all you people a happy new year. I wish you and your family to be healthy always and strong like an ox! Now, let me justify my whining. For the past 2-3 days, I have been falling victim to mosquitoes with no end. Be it at a friend's place or at home. (sounds little, but hey, it's enough) When it's close to night fall, all my bites start to act up and itch like crazy. stupid histamines. What's weird is, at home, the only place with mosquito infestation is at my computer. I suppose it's the way the furniture is + nice comfortable temperature + free flow blood from a sexy pair of legs.

What's even weirder is, let's say there are 10 people and there are 10 mosquitoes. All 10 mosquitoes would all go to 1 person, yes that's me. (reality is really close to this exaggeration) Of course there are reasons for that, I'm guessing my natural scent is more appealing(they have preferences), I give out way more carbon dioxide(that's how they hone in to their prey), I'm tanned(they prefer dark), I have lots of cholesterol byproduct remaining on my skin(some people process cholesterol well), I radiate just the right heat(they thrive in the warmth) and I'm suspecting I have a lot of octenol in my breath which totally drives mosquitoes crazy.

I've had enough. That's the end of the line. With my extensive research, I bring to you a guide that's aids you in avoiding the bites or if you happen to get bitten, the remedy. Without a doubt, with my usual theme : Homemade, cost efficient, convenient. It may work for you it may not, but if it works for me... high chances are, it'll work for anyone. There are many household solutions already that you may know, some are good, some not so good and some are subjective. So give it a shot or decide for yourself to see what works.

1. SHOO YOU MOSQUITO

Prevention is better than cure, so aim not to get bitten first! I'm sure the first thing that comes to your mind is probably insect repellents, clothes that cover or mosquito coils. I wouldn't recommend any of those 3, here's why.

Insect repellents.
There are so many insect repellents out there, which is good? the one that says DEET? the one that has catnip oils? Insect repellents deters mosquitoes and makes it harder for them, you might still get bites. Some of them are already resistant to the repellents. Not all smell good. Makes your skin sticky or oily. I'm not saying they're bad, but be open to alternatives.

Clothes to cover.
We're in singapore hello? If you intend to drench your clothes in perspiration there are better ways to do it. And besides, some mosquitoes are commandos, they pierce through your clothing all the same. But well, of course, they may be effective depending on the circumstance.

Mosquito coils.
This is an extremely bad idea. Findings have shown that smoke from the coils are 100 times more hazardous to human health compared to tobacco smoke. Plus, many mosquito coils contains BCME(bis[cloromethyl]ether) BCME has been described as “the most potent lung cancer chemical ever discovered.” So, avoid this at all costs. Read on to see what works better.

Not all of the solutions here can be used for any situation, so adopt it accordingly. Everything that Health Promotion Board says to eradicate possibility of mosquito breeding, do it. There are many more ideas out there in the web, you can check those out too.

Fan.
Mosquitoes do not like moving air. makes it hard for them to land or move around. so place a fan around you and let it swivel.

Citronella Candles.
Also known as anti mosquito candles. I would call this the substitute for the mosquito coils. But the drawback is, you need to stay close to it. Be cautious of the flame too.

Apple Cider Vinegar.
They really hate this. But so do some people. Dab some of this on exposed skin. Natural repellents. Bring some of this outdoors if need be.

Clothes.
Mosquitoes prefer the dark and dark colours, so wearing light coloured clothes may make mosquitoes think twice. You can add Permethrin while doing the laundry or spray it over your clothes for extra repelling power.

Citronella shower gels.
Look harder and you can find such products around. Another natural repellent to have on your body.

2. SHOO YOU ITCH

Firstly, do not scratch it. Continual scratching increases discomfort and may spread the scratch. And since 'Mopiko' is so popular, no point mentioning it. Most of the household itch relieving solutions, revolves around aiming not to scratch it, either by distraction or pain or both. Pretty much works half the time, and I won't even bother naming all those ridiculous lot. I suggest you listen to the pro. Read on.

Soap.
The first thing you do. Compulsory, wash the bite area with soap. Cleans the area, Ian says it helps by killing histamine, the itch-causing protein.(that makes toothpaste a choice to consider too) Effectiveness differs between people.

Hot and Cold.
You can start by applying an ice-pack to reduce the swelling and itch. while you apply the cold, heat up some water. The protein histamine that causes the itch is destroyed around 40.5°C degrees. The hot tea you drink is about 70°C. Pour the warm(not boiled!) water onto a basin with a cloth to periodically apply it over the swell area or pour into a container to roll over different areas.

Calamine lotion.
This is the only household solution that is not ridiculous. Almost instantaneous.

Apply me.
Pick your choice. Vicks Vapour Rub. Baking soda + water. Salt + water. Alcohol swabs. Aloe vera.(gel or slice) There are many more, but I filtered to get you the best 5.

Some mosquito trivia. You can use this information to your better understanding to avoid mosquitoes too!

1. Mosquitoes get active during evenings and nights
2. Female mosquitoes can live up till a month but the males only to about 10 days.
3. Mosquitoes are attracted to fragrant scents like perfume and cologne.
4. Dragonflies are their natural enemy, even the nymph hunts down the larva and pupa.
5. Bats eat about a thousand mosquitoes an hour when there's supply.
6. Mosquitoes feed on nectar but need the protein and iron from the blood they suck for laying eggs.
7. Mosquitoes help to move herds up and down mountains with the itch.

Here's what you missed pt 2

2009-01-19T00:35:00.007+08:00

Great, but! if you thought part 2 would be exciting or some sort, sorry to disappoint, it's pretty much boring stuff. Well, that's because after Grad Serve, it's army and what happens in army is well... 'army-ish'. You know, I'm actually one of those weird people who looked forward to enlisting in the army, for a couple of reasons.

Firstly, at that point in time I totally had no idea what I was going to do or even want to do in the near future. So army could buy me some time to think and consider what God would be planning in my life. Secondly, I kind of think spending two years training and be part of National Service has meaning at many levels no matter how much you hate it. Thirdly, putting my body to the limit and giving my best in all these tough experiences seemed challenging and fun. (Yuki can so understand this. I hope he's reading this) Fourthly, it's a good opportunity to shine for God. (Yuki can understand this too.) Fifthly(fifthly sounds weird), I so wanted to be an officer.

To cut the long story short, I failed to enter into OCS, Officer Cadet School, for whatever reasons and became a Fitness Specialist(FS), or formerly known as Physical Training Instructor(PTI). When I knew I didn't make it to OCS, I was totally devastated, it took me weeks to get over it. I kept formulating reasons for myself why I couldn't make it there but it was only until I entered the FS course then I knew why.

Here's the flow in my army trainee days. Basic Military Training(BMT) > Basic Section Leader's Course (BSLC) > Basic Fitness Specialist Course (BFSC). That's about 9 months in total. I can only thank God for not putting me in OCS. When I was in my FS course, I realised that was where my passion lies. I enjoyed learning about physical training and instructing others into the fun of it. Also helping people adopting it as a healthy lifestyle. God has helped me understood this and I believe He has in store for me other wonders in this area. That was exactly where God wanted me, so no pointing insisting or being sore that I wasn't in OCS. (not that I was unhappy about it)

I've only had pictures of my BMT and BFSC's Passing Out Parade(POP), apparently BSLC isn't very important. (I understand the abbreviations may be confusing for unfamiliar people, but just refer to the top if you need to)

BMT's POP

Viper Company

Argg, someone push up my specs!!!

No mom! my specs my specs! push it up!

Piled them together so it wouldn't be graphic intensive.

Hooray! POP loh! Oei that's my cap.

BFSC's POP

We passed out together with ASLC and other sergeant courses.

Superstar finalist in the house! I actually can't find myself here because...

Preventing intensive graphic once again.

Tadaa~ I'm up there holding ENDURE. the other side says EXCEL. I disappeared earlier on to prepare for this!

Ladies and Gentleman I present to you the Finishers of CPFT. We had 2 brunei-ans in our course btw.

So as for now, I'm Pulau Tekong's P.E. teacher... or that's how I tell non-army people about what I do in the army. Although PTI's are quite popular(or infamous), P.E. teacher somewhat feels humble. So, all you people having friends/relatives or you yourself entering Pulau Tekong as a recruit, I might just be your PT... ahem* P.E. teacher. =3. *evil grins*

Since this entry has so many pictures already, I'll post my UFO prize and my cup stacking endeavours in the next post. Till then.

Die diarhhoea! diarrheoa... diarrhheao?

2009-01-13T19:58:00.004+08:00

Argg. =(

I haven't been able to post 'Here's what you missed pt 2' due to me falling ill and bed-ridden. (maybe not the bed-ridden part. But I slept my weekend away.) Had fever (38.9°C) on saturday after visiting RP's open house. Btw, I kicked ass on cup stacking there. Will post it real soon. Don't know what's going on?(stop smiling ian. you know I rock. =D) you will real soon. Anyway, back to me being sick. I mean, ill.

On Sunday, had a bad case of diarrhoea but thank God fever's like almost gone. Just to be safe, took MC for monday even though I'm almost fine by then. (cannot be while conducting lessons, then everytime go potty right?) and here I am in camp on a Tuesday. What sucks was that today's case of diarrhoea was worse then yesterday! Had to visit Mr. Ma Tong every now and then, Thank God there wasn't any Ma Tong beckoning during my lessons. (Really, God, thank YOU!)

Here's the irritating part. You will fear 2 things.
1. More Mr. Ma Tongs = more crap coming out = more crap rubbing ur anus = more toilet paper scrubbing = abrasion@anus.com
2. Because you keeping crapping, you and your clothes get exposed to the aroma therapy, and you fear going near people for you actually can't tell if you really do smell like poo. Best bet is to bathe more, but there aren't many sets of clothes to change.

I was so ready to say this in defence if any insensitive person were to "eeee why you smell like sai?". Here's my this : "Eh, people already got diarhhoea bad enough le can? hah I BET you can't even spell diarrhoea! spell la... spell la!" But well, nobody said I smell like faeces. I made sure my trips to the toilet were that of an expressway, so I don't soak up the smelly smell. Anyway, I remember during secondary 2, I spelled "diarhheoa" for my spelling. Eh don't laugh, why don't you spell it without looking at the screen! =3.

My newfound sport is the UFO catcher! (soft toy catcher) I just(yesterday) got a Thousand Sunny tissue box for Fatch with just a dollar! It's amazing to learn the science behind it. Don't go like "whhhyyyyy? it's so expensive... surely spend more than the cost price, might as well go buy the toy." Ladies and Gentleman, It's not about getting it cheaper, it's about getting it... get it? I'll snap a picture of it when I get home! Proof? don't have, trust my integrity can?

Here's what you missed pt 1

2009-01-10T00:05:00.011+08:00

Probably due to all the late nights and sleep deprivation, my cognitive abilities and memory retention has dulled. So lets crash post what exactly happened after graduating from TP (graduation by now seems such a long time ago) So with whatever I can poorly remember, let me give an account, straight to the juicy parts.

I have been a youth volunteer in Singapore Youth For Christ ever since I was year 3 in TP. So after graduation, SYFC had this program called Grad Serve, short for Graduate Servant. It is to be a full-time volunteer with SYFC over a 4 month duration. We have to raise our own allowance of $550.00 sending letters of prayers, updates and financial support from our church mates and friends. I was challenged to be in this program, to dedicate 4 months to God. It was a tough decision, having to battle against my own willingness and my family's objection. In the end, I chose to honour God along with 8 others.

My time as a full-time volunteer was an experience that was truly life changing. To catch a glimpse of what a full-time Christian worker is like. I only can thank God for enabling me and using me to labour for the Kingdom of God. It has its fair share of stress and joy, and we had to be very conscious of how we spent our finances as afterall these are offerings from fellow church mates/friends to God. These offerings are now placed into our hands, we are accountable to God and our donors about how we spend.

I couldn't find much pictures during Grad Serve though there were quite a few taken at the end. All I can offer is this publicity tool that 3 of us did for 1 event that we jointly organized for a crowd of about 30 - 50. It was all hand-painted. We did 9 bananas. I searched high and low for these bananas(it's kind of both plastic & foam), just thinking of it makes me feel I've achieved something. Praise the Lord. Ladies & gentlemen, I present to you, The Banana Blend.

The front, back, top and bottom views. It's suppose to look American but somehow it seems Netherlands-ish or French-ish.

I'll stop here for now, it's 3am and there are tons of mosquitoes getting on my nerves and I need to rest already. Body's aching all over from some workout. Remember not to miss pt2!

Unrivalled Achievements

2009-01-08T21:43:00.005+08:00

You can try, you can attempt. You can do anything or everything in your feeble effort, but you will not beat the following achievements. Well just kidding of course. Now that I'm home from camp, I can post quite some pictures, doing my second post after this revival.

Alright, here goes. not in chronological order though.

Cursor*10, some chinese game, very innovative, a must try!

Deep Freeze. 375300 if you can't see.

Don't shoot the puppy. THIS GAME IS HILARIOUS.

Facial House. 19150 if you can't see.

Insaniquarium. The only non-flash game here. 4444, sounds like diediediedie in chinese.

Keyway.

Moai. Japanese game, very elaborate.

Monkey Kickoff.

N3wton.

Winter Bells.

Haha, this is only the few flash games that I've played over the years. Achievement eh? Hey if you happen to beat any of them, print screen and send it to me. Talking about print screen, I realise quite a number of people don't know it exists. It's a button on your keyboard, and the label on the button is "PrtScn".

Guess my next post I shall probably just update what went on the past 3 years. Yay~ so shiok, blogging brings back nostalgic memories. Haven't been writing very much since then, I feel very insecure with my level of language now. Except for the Bible and Men's Health and Discover and the random what nots, nothing else is keeping my language. And lastly, BEAT MY SCORE.

WhitE LeoZ returns

2009-01-07T02:02:00.004+08:00

Heave.

Ho.

Heave.

Ho.

If there were like dust in cyberspace, it would take about a week for me to shove away all of them accumulated over the years. Reason for me to revive the blog... I can't really spell out. It's those kind of instances where you just feel compelled to do something. But hey, I do enjoy this. I actually decided on a new skin many many months ago after looking over 6k (I think) skins over at blogskins.com. Talk about extreme procrastination.

It took me over 10 hours (and still going) of pure editing, updating of the links at the Clique and made me realised how many people quit blogging. (hey I know I haven't been posting but at least I'm STILL around yea?) I've still got some major arranging of my pictures at photobucket which is a total bore, and to make things worse, it's lagging so badly... so so badly.

Here's another joke, at the end of the previous post, I said something about something so emotional that I would blog about at the next post. And yarp~ you got it right! I forgot. Gimme a break, it was 2006. Anyway, I used to abide the principle of 1 post/day. But now that I'm in the army, it's not going to be possible, and would also equate to posts with less or no pictures.

Now it's back to the days when I gotta spam/shove/stuff my url into all your msn chatboxes. Great, thanks to photobucket, it's now 2am++ and I gotta rise at 545am. Best I go now.

Ambivalence

2006-11-23T23:21:00.001+08:00

The perfect word for describing the state I am now. Let me get you guys the meaning. From Dictionary.com.

Ambivalence (am-beev-er-lurnce)
a. Uncertainty or fluctuation, esp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.
b. Psychology. the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action, simultaneously drawing him or her in opposite directions.

Also, I would like to add in occurences on top of person, object or action. Well, I know the posts aren't coming in, and my readership is maybe... myself? There's been quite abit of stuff going on and I haven't been blogging about it. I don't have time!! Well actually I do, but very very little. Theres alot of pictures that I've yet to post and it doesnt matter anymore whether or not its being posted. It dates back to Christina's birthday celebration.

Well I guess since the readership is so minimal, I might as well write another long essay. Talking about pictures, at the rate I'm updating my posts, it doesn't encourage me to take out my camera and snap. I missed quite a couple of interesting lens-material, but oh well, I guess I should start snapping.

I invited Hsien Wei and gang went to Settlers Cafe last Friday at the Katong Outlet the event organised by YFC. The kind of cafe where there's a whole arsenal of boardgames and you make alot of noise. Same as Mind Cafe. Though for our group, we're so natural with boardgame cafes, 2 of the games we played then were new. Charoodles and Some vampire memory game. But the most memorable things was having the chance to share the gospel to them. Though its awkward, I felt at least I explained certain basic stuff.

Also there was this game where we flip out cards with certain number of icons of different types, and the first to spot exactly 5 of any icon and rings the bell, gets to collect all the cards flipped out on da table. Aim of the game is to collect all the cards. I won this all the 3 times we played! and its the first 3 times I'm playing it. If we played more, I would have won even more.

Hsien Wei looks so ghastly, The bones are from Jurassic Rumble, A game not to be missed!

And then there was Doulos at HarbourFront, went there last Sunday, again, with Hsien Wei and gang (Kui Siang, Binglun, Hsien Wei. Don't ask me why I wrote it this here and not above.) along with Olivia and Eunice. Doulos is recognised in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest active ocean-going passenger ship. It travels around the world and holds book fairs mainly comprising of christian books. Regrettably, I did not take a picture of Doulos, and Sunday was the last day. Its a pity I didn't get any books from Doulos. I felt like I kind of had to entertain the guys so I didn't really flip the shelves.

Other than books, they sell abit of music too, CDs and cassettes. Yes cassettes, like you, my first impression was that they were selling oldies and classics. Randomly looking, I saw a year 2000 production. Year 2000 music in a cassette? Seeing that I said to myself, "Why would anybody want to buy cassettes? we don't even have casette players." Finishing my sentence, a father carrying his little daughter walked by me and said to her "You'll be surprised, people in Brazil still listen to cassettes." What a coincidence, a little creepy too. I saw Chin Ho and a couple of his friends there too. I got myself a chocolate-vanilla split ice-cream and it tasted splendid. We left soon after.

Actually, this is the fourth time I'm writing this post, from Doulos onwards. My computer has been acting weird lately, Once the clock hits 3am, my computer will go black out and restarts automatically. The 2nd and 3rd time I was writing this was left unsaved before the restarting. And re-writing is a real bother. Well, three days ago, I was really feeling confused and vexed. But now I'm ok already, so I'll just sum it up.

My emotional state seems to be fluctuating to both extremes. Certain incidences that came by recently just tipped me off the balance. Simply put, I was in a state whereby I keep thinking to myself what in the world is going on, I'm taken aback by this occurences and it gave me no peace. And I seem to lose control of the things subjected to me. At the same time, I feel really blessed and stuff. So I don't even know if I'm happy or sad, I don't know what's going on. But I know I loathe this. But as of now, I'm getting a grip of everything, and I don't feel so confused anymore.

Now that I finally finished this post, I encountered or should I say experienced something I never thought I would. And its way past bizarre, I'll be blogging on that the next post.(Well, this post isn't as long as I thought it would be, considering I'm sick of writing certain things over and over again.)

I look like a China man. I can't help but think my tan is so gross. Makes me so yellow. Eew.

Wordplay

2006-11-16T00:48:00.004+08:00

Hey guys, this is my first post on a lyrics for a song! Its Jason Mraz's Wordplay. Its not a song where typically bloggers say it tingles or beckons to their innermost being beneath all the layers of personalities developed over the years or other ~~crap~~ flamboyant description of how it affects them emotionally. But I just found this song to be quite innovative and personal to the singer. He also mentions his previous hit singles, Remedy in this song. There's also a part where ther is a short pause and then it follows 'got your attention' which it does. Such a cute, light-hearted and uplifting song!

(Verse 1)
I've been all around the world
I've been a new sensation
But it doesn't really matter in this g-generation
The sophomore slump is an uphill battle
And someone said that aint my scene
Cause they need the new song
Like a new religion
Music for the television
I can't do the long division
Someone do the math
For the record label puts me on the shelf up in the freezer
Gotta find another way to live the life of leisure
So I drop my top
Mix and I mingle
Is everybody ready for the single,
and it goes

(Chorus)
Ah la la la la
They listen closely to the verse I lay
Ah la la la la
It's all about the wordplay
Ah la la la love
The wonderful thing it does because
Because I am the wizard of ooh's and ah's and fa la la's
Yeah the Mr. A-Z
They say I'm all about the Wordplay

(Verse 2)
It's time to get ill
I got your remedy
For those that don't remember me
Well let me introduce you to my style
I try to keep a jumble
And the lyrics never mumble
When the music's making people tongue-tied
You want a new song
Like a new religion
Music for the television
I can't do the long division
Someone do the math
For the people write me off Like I'm a one hit wonder
Gotta find another way to keep from going under
Pull out the stops (pause)
Got your attention
I guess it's time again
For me to mention the Wordplay

(Chorus)
Ah la la la la
They listen closely to the verse I lay
Ah la la la la
It's all about the wordplay
Ah la la la love
The wonderful thing it does because
Because I am the wizard of ooh's and ah's and fa la la's
Yeah the Mr. A-Z
They say I'm all about the Wordplay

(Bridge)
Oh the bridge across the stream of consciousness
It always seems to be flowing
But I don't know which way my brain is going
Oh the rhyming and the timing
keeps the melody inside me
And they're climbing till I'm running out of air
Are you prepared to take a dive
into the deep end of my head?
Are you listening to a single word I've said?

(Chorus)
Ah la la la la
They listen closely to the verse I say
Ah la la la la
I'm sticking to the wordplay
Ah la la la love
The wonderful thing it does because
Because I am the wizard of ooh's and ah's and fa la la's
Yeah the Mr. A-Z
They say I'm all about the Wordplay

Ah la la la la
I'm all about the wordplay
Ah la la la la
Sticking with the wordplay
Ah la la la love
I love the wonderful thing it does because
Because of the ooh's and ah's and fa la la's
I'm back in love With the Mr. A-Z
They say he's all about the wordplay

Hym-formicinae

2006-11-12T16:02:00.000+08:00

Thats the scientific name for a species of an ant. We all know what an ant is, it's that insignificant creature crawling around your house or, creeping grace out. Hym-formicinae is not an uncommon species, its the flying ant that revolves around your ceiling lamp at certain periods of the year. If you do not know, yes, some ants can fly. These ants you look from under your lamp are of royal blood. But close your mouth lest any falls inside it.

The ants you see are actually queen ants that are sent out to start a new colony with a few male ants accompanying for mating. The cool thing is, the mating will not occur only to the ants sent among the same batch, but from batches of ants sent from other nests too. It's not telepathy that they were sent at the same instance but rather they were sent out if the conditions were favourable, for example, weather, wind, temperature, humidity, time of the day. Which also helps to reduce predation.

I've read about this when I was younger, but what I couldn't understand was that, whenever the ants touch ground, whenever they felt they finshed their flight, the ants will bite off their wings and sometimes eating them for extra protein. I saw one of these ants when I was using the toilet yesterday, and at that time it had already tore off its wings. I always thought that it was stupid and impractical to tear off its wings. I mean, the ability to fly is so cool! and they don't usually start their colony at the exact spot they land, they may still have to crawl some distance. Why walk when you can fly!?

Then I thought to myself, but this is the creation of God and this God is not dumb, He's creations are all perfect and purposeful. So I asked the Lord why made the ant this way? why would the ant have any reason to strip off its ability to fly. I can understand if sometimes the flight takes too long, the ant will need to replenish its energy by eatin its wings, but sometimes the whole flight could be only a few metres away, still, the ant will bite its wings off, but it won't eat it. It's kind of meaningless.

Then the Lord spoke and told me why, and to learn from it. Lesson 1: Do not abuse the gifts I have bestowed unto you. The purpose of the wings on the ant solely is for transporting the ant to another place, no matter how far it will be. The threat of predators only occurs during the flight stage. where birds flying nearby will swallow them. When they touch ground, chances of mortalilty is close to zero. There will not be any further use of the wings.

Applying it on us, what good is it, when a man, blessed with giftings and talents go astray and misuse his skills. For example, what good if a man who is an exceptionally good writer, does not contribute to the good of mankind but twists and turn facts in paper to achieve his own selfish ends? Unlike the ant we don't need to strip ourselves from our abilities, but the lesson to learn here is to use our gifts in accordance to the Lord's council. So if God suddenly allows flight upon you, and He says just use this wings to fly there and deliver this for me. Thats it. End of story, don't start a show and be another David Copperfield.

Lesson 2: Do not horde to yourselves what has been given to you. Back to the ant. As foresaid, the ant removes its wings when it's done flying whether or not it needs the extra protein. In fact, this is a wise decision. To other flies, the ability to fly also serves as an escaping mechanism, but not to the ant. When the ant touches ground, the ant no longer faces much threat of death. If the ant were to retain its wings on its body, it'll serve as extra weight and become a burden.

There are many times in life we'll be blessed with certain things. And certain things we have we should not store up, for it'll be a burden in time to come. And usually, it's common sense, but what keeps us from being sane, is greed. Let's take a very simple example, If a man wins a competition and the prize is a whole lot of canned abalones. I would say its wise to give some away. Canned abalones, if i'm not wrong, do not have very long expiry dates. And to keep all the abalone to yourself by eating it at every meal, no matter what the food is, one would grow sick of it in the next few days. Why torture oneself?

I think it's quite a long post already, there are still things to learn from that ant but they're not significant, and I want to specifically only sat the things the Lord has impressed upon me. Many of the inventions in this world are inspired by nature, inspired by the wisdom and creativity of God. So if we would take a break from our busy life, quieten yourself and take a good look around, God might speak to you or you could learn something. Christians or Non-christians alike. This post is entirely inspired by God. Amen.

Birthday

2006-11-05T22:56:00.000+08:00

First off, I would like to apologize for the missing posts. Its not because I lack time, its not because i'm lazy. For 2 - 3 times, I've attempted to do an update, but I just suddenly lost the blogging bug. I can't seem to piece my thoughts and feeling tangible enough to form words for expressing myself. Whatever's in my head either fleets around by the speed of light or are things that are inconvenient to be written.

It's going to be a random rant for this post, but of course with birthday as the focus. I'm kind of taken aback by the fact that I lost the blogging bug, or to be more exact, writing. At certain point of time I felt so handicapped, to the extent that I felt worthless. Not only just because I can't blog, but I havent started on writing on a weekly journal for my attachment that I should have a week ago. Reason, I don't know how to start.

The weird thing is, I had lots of ideas in the beggining on how to really give a whooping good journal. Binglun, Peng Song and Saw can vouch for that, I was actually even looking forward to writing the journal, but I have this writer's block the moment I want to start. Oh yes, it's called writer's block. Something you enjoy take pride in doing, but you lose it for no apparent reason.

A complex feeling.

Some couple of days ago, I was chatting with a friend regarding about birthdays and she said, "u wud b so disappointed if dey 4got to wish u." Which was very true, I mean, who wouldn't? And with all honesty, I would want to be wished with this people, plus also to be surprised by people whom I would never think would know of my birthday. I got wished by one through MSN, and I jokingly said "eeyer not sincere, msg me to wish me!" And she commented "want to haolian alot of ppl wish u rite?".

That's disgusting, through and out. Maybe I did thought like that before, but not now. My point is, this whole birthday idea is so concentrated with this me-centered mentality. When my birthday comes, I automatically put on this hat that makes me think I deserve all the special presents, special attention, special care, special privileges. That is so wrong.

If we seek to be right before God, we need to be aware of how this vile world has been or already affected us. How it has warped what's an abomination to God to seem to be a norm. But thankfully, we're not alone o deal with such carnal issues. The Holy Spirit isn't fake. Amen. Brothers & sisters, if you're facing the same deal, or something else you feel God has made impression on you, let's join in prayer. God is only a prayer away.

And for those who are concerned enough to read till this point, I would like to use my birthday as an opportunity to do something for you. I know it's already over, but if there's such a thing as a belated birthday present, why not? Please, request of me to serve you and do something for you. For e.g. helping you borrow a book or even packet lunch for you. YES you, all of you. Also to thank you for reading faithfully. (I'm freaking dead serious, else I can't live with myself)

Well, this year's celebration was heavenly, in a sense where I get to forget my pressure from home and fun and bonding was the theme rather than my birthday. For those whom don't know, my celebration is like a marathon. After knocking off from work on friday, I rushed home from work packed my stuff and went over to cell group. Actually its not a celebration but there was a surprise cake and song, so I'll count that in. I know that wouldn't be possible without Olivia, thanks, you have my deepest gratitude.

Thereafter, I made my way to Cineleisure's Kbox and meeting Darren and group on the way. Jonathan Lou kissed me, felt icky and sensual. (That's FG I know.) Shit, I hope I don't get in between Jenny's way. She'll never know my blog anyway. In Kbox I was so raped, cake facials. The best part was Madeleine buying a big tub of Chocolate Fudge Brownie. Ben & Jerry's Frenzy. Kbox till 6am. (STACY HAS A POWER VOICE! don't see her small small). We travelled to Harbour Front and had sleeping parade in Macdonalds.

Consequently, we went to the hawker centre and had our breakfast. I did not break my tradition to eat only chicken rice at that place. Ben broke it and regretted. HAH! serves you right. We beached at Siloso, great. I had 2 Ben & Jerry's Smoothie. All ended around 5 or 6pm. Then I proceeded down to Boat Quay's Mind Cafe. With Hsien Wei and Group. For the first time in life, Hsien Wei and I lost in taboo. Gosh. I shamelessly ate my brownie all by myself. And I'm glad I did it. Hey everybody, If anybody wants to go to Mind Cafe, go to the Boat Quay outlet, there's a cool guy working there, he is spontaneous and serves customers to the max. 10 points.

Okay, I'll post up some pictures when I get home. I know this posts sucks, I hope I get my blogging bug back some time soon.

Fastforward

2006-10-29T01:20:00.001+08:00

#Wild on Wheels made the day.

Guess whoose hands belongs to whom. how obvious.

#Team name : SBC -> See Beh Colouful

Its the ties and the shiny spray on our wrists. That's our team outfit.

#Cappucinno coke turned out gay. Hong Kong toast was heavenly

#Had my hair cut.

Who said you have to post pictures of your new hairdo?

#Attachment to MOEHQ. Buona Vista.

#Guess a 3 letter word. clue1: Buona Vista. clue2: what comes after me, and before sew.

#Amazing people/colleagues in MOEHQ

#Macromedia Flash. Working on game similar to pacman

#6pm is knockoff time

#Close your eyes for 5 minutes at 6pm. Open it and office is a ghost town. Literally.

#Alicia has the same birthdate as me. Way past cool.

#No idea how to celebrate birthday. Cell Group V.S. Alicia's chalet. Cell Group is leading.

#Ben & Jerry's cake hotline. 67326996.

#Working also as surveyor during weekends. Dealing with environment and cleanliness.

#50 - 60 bucks, within 6 hours

#First day of work included fighting monkeys at Bukit Timah Nature Reserve

#I never knew monkeys were that cute. You just need to experience certain things first hand

#For example, God's love.

#FG = Freaking Gay

#Bought a jacket. Finally

#Need shoes

Anyone see what I see(saw)?

Sentosa, then camp.

2006-10-19T01:01:00.001+08:00

I'm back~!! Really tired now. As in like really really. I was playing basketball after camp. People are like zombies after the camp... so~ yarp we had a zombie basketball game just now, I'll let pictures talk about Sentosa. And I'll blog abit about the camp.

Went Siloso Beach with Lemuel and Kian Wei. It's a nice saturday late morning and there's like so little people?

Haha... I think hes gonna kill me.

If he sees, this, i'm like so dead.

I'm also camera shy you know... *holding a gun now* anybody said anything?

EEW! Lemuel is peeing in public! shame shame. The thought of him strangling me suddenly came into my mind. Anyway, it was a trench that Lemuel was digging. That isn't his pee of course, the waves came in.

I painstakingly made a barrier to protect our trench from the intimidating waves, but I took a chill in the trench itself and the waves owned my barrier bit by bit. Kian Wei is nagging Lemuel and me to play frisbee in the background as we ignored him.

Its a miracle pool! just by standing for 5 minutes... I've growned 10 inches!! Or so I wished... =<

So we finally gave in to Kian Wei's pleas and played frisbee, as 3 of us had our hands busy throwing and catching, there weren't any photos taken... awww.

I spotted this halfway playing and slowly crept near it for a shot. The arrow points to its tag btw. Hey look! its a blue bird! Anyway this bird isn't the only bird we saw. We also saw either an eagle or a falcon up in the sky. Cool yea!?

We've seen snow angels... Here's something new to try at the beach. Lemuel acting cool with his shades.

HOW CAN I LEAVE SILOSO WITHOUT B&J'S!!!?

I couldn't restrain myself from grabbing a few scoops before snapping it. 2 scoops, Chocolate fudge brownie and Dublin Mudslide are the flavours. I added peanut toppings 50cents, total its $8.

Empty. Yummy. Happy.

Although I bought 2 scoops, but I really suggest you guys to get the milkshake though, because its more worth it, You can choose as many flavours as you want. Request for lesser milk if you wish though, and drink it fast before its liquid-ish. If you want to eat the ice-cream, buy the big tub instead.

And I saw this poster in the shop that says they make ice-cream cakes and you can customize it your own!. It's so stupid of me not to snap a shot of the poster. Click HERE to check it out, but that's not for Singapore though. There's a virtual cake builder at that page too! Hmmm, My big day is coming... I'm sure you guys get the hint. But seriously, I really want the cake on my birthday, I am ever so willing to chip in for a great feast. We can discuss the flavours and the toppings anytime.

Ok, now the camp. It's the INTSC Team Bonding Camp FYI. 3 Days 2 Nights. There were a total of 5 empires (groups) in the camp. Filmore, Ramone, Mater,Luigi and Guido. I belong to Team Guido(pronounced gweedo). I shall cut it short, save the details and talk abt the juicy parts. There were happy events, but many bitter ones too. It'll be long but there's a surprise at the end of this post.

DAY 1
I was like so freaking late! I reported at 1pm when the reporting time was 9.30am. Imagine how embarassing I was. By that time, the activity was field cooking(lunch), and they were at Temusu Grove. WHERE AND WHAT THE HECK IS THAT PLACE? It's a place in Temasek Polytechnic somewhere behind the School of Design, which I found out later. But on the way there I saw the people I know, and hi-ed my way to finding my empire, seeing so many familiar faces everywhere,(well, it's the same old people) I didn't feel so tensed anymore. Ricky and Moy were the Facillitators for empire Guido, in other words the leaders.

Heard they were having rock-climbing before I came. Anyway, the girls in my group were like mostly doing the cooking then. The ingredients we had were packet noodles, vegetables, sausages and eggs. Cooking materials were meshtins sets. But the girls in my empire literally cooked up a feast. It was supposed to be a competition, but due to time constraints, judges just looked at our dish. ours was 蛋包面(noodles wrapped with egg). Just looking at it, you'll drool. I'm really amazed they can produce that with meagre ingredients and a mere meshtin set. The funny thing was Darren had to run here and there to start fire because the fuel burned out fast.

We had station games after that, the group games kind. 1 word. Fun. Ricky later told us that feedback from the station masters was that Guido had very little togetherness. That's when I suggested going 1 round of introduction since the only person I know in the group is Ricky, Moy, Madeleine and Dave, out of about 16 people. (I was late remember?) Thereafter, we were to think of cheers, design our flag and what to do for our performance. When it reached around the night we had something like treasure hunt.

Oh yes, In 1 of the station games, I kissed a fellow 7 times (Guo Wei). Then Madeleine was spamming "sunny" jokes all day long, even the other 2 days so that'll add on to the counter significantly. Everyone was making fun of my name anyway. In total, 17.

DAY 2
The second day was some sort of wet day. After morning excercises and Earthquake-Fire-Hunter game, we did some dragon-boating and station games again, and of course, wet was the theme. It was a great deal of fun. But the best part was, I found a guy with excellent chemistry (默契). There was this 1 game, its called Chicken Captain's Ball. Where you play Captain's Ball as usual, but the ball is a raw chicken wrapped in a few layers of newspaper. It took mere minutes for the newspapers to come off and we were throwing the raw chicken around.

Our fastest time to score a point for our team was roughly 10 seconds only. Me and Zhen Xiang naturally used "1-2" strategy and flawlessly scored that point. We also backpassed to get through aggressive stealers. It was glorious. And I found out later he plays basketball too. We must have a game together someday. MUST. Besides the guy whom I kissed 7 times, Zhen Xiang is the next person that I have this special bond with.

Followed after was OTOT for dinner, bath and preparations for performance night. What sucked totally was the lack of materials and time. No time to practice, no time to prepare. Guido was the only group with the least materials, for whatever reason(s), were unexplained. Instead of complaining we made full use of what we could. But we had people whom disappeared and lots of time were wasted on waiting and bathing at that time.

Our performance emphasizes on tone and content, rather then acting, to cut the long story short, our performance sucked(it wasn't the actors) due to lack of practice and proper introduction. I was totally demoralised. There was an outrage of injustice within me. I went to the toilet and sat on the toilet bowl to calm myself for around 5 minutes. And I did my best not to show it on my face when I joined the group later. I thought I pulled it off.

When our group were having our debrief soon after, Madeleine suddenly said, "Shall we thank our FA(facillitator) and Sunny for the effort they put in for our performance?" I felt so touched I nearly cried. Not because of the acknowledgement, but the siao ja bor(mad woman) whom I've been bickering with somehow knew my misery and wanted to cheer me up. Madeleine, if you're reading this. I freaking love you. And I say thank you once again. We truly are a team. Our bond has transcended loud cheers and taking the initiative. We have learnt to feel for each other.

Day 3
There was this heavy-weight, large area mass game that involved all the empires at the last day. The Final Clash, the usual water-bomb kind. Although we had some fun, but it was disappointing. Firstly, We are betrayed, twice. Secondly, 3 out of the other 4 empires wanted to annihilate us because they were unhappy with one person in our group. Thirdly, only we Guido were the most cooperative out of all but yet received only spite in return. Fourthly, there were backstabbing within our own empire. Fun wasn't the focus of the game anymore.

I'll elaborate the 3rd point. All of the teams including ours had a defence strategy, which led the whole game to a standstill. So the game officials had to coerce us into initiating confrontation by threatening to deal damage on our base. For myself, I was the first to draw blood, I solo-ed into an enemy base and killed 1 of them before running back. It came to a point where I had to 1v1 a fellow. I initiated going near him when we were from a distance, he missed me, and I missed him too, but the other team was so despicable that they actually send another member to made a throw at me. 1v1 my foot.

What really creeped me was that someone was backstabbing me in my own empire, my own team. This guy E, is an annoying person whom goes beyond people's limits at times, and the leecher kind whom does almost nothing in a group project. To top it all, he often disappears from the group to smoke, and partly caused us not to have enough time for performance practice. Our group were very tolerant of him, and I keep telling myself forgiving is part of the whole thing.

Now that we have a rough idea on what kind of liability E is, I'll tell you the most amazing thing he did. While we were discussing our strategies before the game, he disappeared for awhile and was spotted speaking in private with another empire's member. The content(I found out halfway through the game) was something like this "Eh we all ally la, together fight, but I need your team to kill one person first, aim the guy with the 98.7 shirt" The 98.7 guy is me, his teammate. The only thing I could ever think that I have done any wrong to him was that during the strategy time, I said some comment to stop his on-going nonsense. Full stop.

Though E's backtabbing plan did not succeed, I died in the end because some team played dirty. But I did not show any indifference towards him throughout the rest of the day, not that I want to show off that I'm magnanimous, but vengeance belongs to the Lord, and the Bible teaches us to love our enemies. E has been around wrecking groups before also, in another camp before this, thus us being aimed by 3 empires in the final clash. Whom he's previous teammates were scattered among the 3 gangbanging empire. I'll end it with something Dave said, "ah well, every camp has its story. its not the first, wont be the last" Anyways, although Guido is suay in many ways in this camp, I still love my empire the best, as in, if I were in another empire, I wouldn't love my empire as much as I would if I weren't in Guido.

Guido! Akido! Taekwondo! Judo! Lido! Chendol! Dildo!
We are the BestO and You are the BODOH!
Sua! Mai Sua!
Beep Beep!
beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep
GUIDO!

That's one of our cheers and here's the surprise I have for you.

Hoo~ I'm getting married. Toilet paper Gothic cross-dressing wedding. I'm holding the flower bouquet made by rolling my shirt and wrapping it with some toilet paper. Stop laughing, click on the picture for full size.

Deserved Retreat

2006-10-14T02:15:00.001+08:00

And thus, it explains the 2 missing posts. Had a great time at the chalet for the past 3 days. I didn't really take much pictures, were really busy doing other things. And during this short stay, I've learned that we must specially care for Hui Hui and Hanning as they, compared to normal humans have slower brain processing cycles hey wait, there aren't humans. I don't want to get too much into that though I have had previously thought of what to blog about them. Galore~

There's a Ben & Jerry's at Downtown East. Perfect, didn't get to eat it though, cutting down on expenses. nevermind I'm going siloso beach later when I wake up, can eat it there too HOO~

Hello Kitty Scooters. I think it's some coupon redemption thingy. So cute la.

And there's a pinky one. What you guys cant guess is, I took both the scooter pictures at night. the only source of light is my camera's flash and lamposts far away.

I used Hsien Wei's hair clamp! He betted I would take a picture after using his clamp. What he didn't know was, he gave me the idea. Straight hair! HOO~

Poor Kui Siang, he didn't get to learn guitar from me, we were either playing games, watching television/movies or sleeping. I really think I deserve to have a retreat like this at this point of time. In my previous MP semester, I literally don't have a life. The number of times I go for shopping/movie/walk e.t.c within the semester's timeframe could be counted in 1 hand.

Not that I havent been enjoying myself since the start of the holidays, but it's been a long long time since I had chalet time during holidays with great friends. The kind where majority of the group stays over, not the birthday chalet kind where friends are invited all over the place and cleanup spoils the retreat feel.

Now I wonder, if anybody understands what I'm talking about. The retreat chalet VS. The birthday chalet. The retreat chalet is like shifting house temporarily. Where all of us live in that room and we can go out for movies or other stuff and then back home together for more crazy room games and a good laugh.

Well it also means I'm losing sleep, and I'm going Sentosa in the morning later. Gotta catch the dream train. Tags yeah? only 2 tags to support kopitiam politics part 2... you guys can do better to encourage me yes?

Kopitiam Politics Part 1

2006-10-11T01:26:00.000+08:00

I was just sitting and waiting for my food at the market last Sunday and then came an auntie (about 60+) whom was working there to clean tables. And then she had a conversation with my dad, (I can't remember who started the chat) after awhile she began to complain about specific stalls. Her complaint was that certain stalls were over-bearing and over-demanding, certain table-cleaners don't do their job properly and resulting in stalls to have unclean or even lose their cutlery.

Nobody usually even bothers about such people, and it sounds like she had nobody to confide or gossip to thus, pouring out her grievances to my dad, a complete stranger. But then again, it never occured to me that even such a place like a kopitiam, politics were in play! Hmm, let's take a look what could go behind a typical kopitiam.

Chicken Rice Ming was a scrooge and all of the other hawkers were very frustrated and jealous over Ming's popularity with customers. They just could not understand why people will buy an average tasting plate of chicken rice with little serving at normal rates over and over again.

They grew tired of holding on to the hope that customers would buy from them after walking a round to look around. Ultimately, such customers will end up buying from Ming. Very rarely, do they get businesses from such customers. One fine day, Popiah Kenny, whom was the poorest in the whole coffee shop, was fed up with Ming's easy popularity and could no longer restrain himself. "Tis tis tis tis is is just just just not not fair", he yelled, hardly able to contain his exasperation. That stole the attention of the whole kopitiam.

Being overly-aggitated, he threw into a fit. Moments later, he became motionless. Kopi Sor Lucy (coffee aunty Lucy) a.k.a. Kaypoh Sor (Busybody Aunty) immediately ran beside Kenny and gave him a slight push. With no effect, she cautiously placed her index finger under his nose. All everyone heard next was Lucy's long screech.

Exactly half an hour after a police report was made, a group of Policemen came to the scene. 2 of them shoved their way through busybodies to view the body. One examined the body, the other began to ask for an account of the death. Ming, being next to Kenny's Stall, was the first to be interrogated.

Ming, wanting to get into the good books of the policemen, invited to tell him over treating him chicken rice. Of course the policemen rejected the offer while he began his first question. Struggling to keep the murmurings down among busybodies, he finally managed to finish his interrogation routine. Sighing, the policemen said, " we're going to be so busy today, chicken rice uncle ar, 11 packets of chicken rice, tapao! "

Everyone heard this in full attention, and simultaneously blurted out "WA LAO!". Ming was the cause of Kenny's death yet, because of his death he gets to sell 11 packets at one go!. They knew they could not stay low any longer, they had to do something. So word spreaded for a gathering after the closing of stalls.

Seeing Ming smiling and leaving the kopitiam, they rushed to a large round table and had a meeting. Ba Chor Mee Barry started "Evening, good ladies and gentlemen, ah~ it is one's utmost pleasure to contribute and to strive to the ridding of vermin that plagues our income and well-being. We must rationalize, evaluate and examine in every aspect with great intellectuality to compose the flawless contigency plan."

Feeling so proud with his opening speech and expecting a round of applause, all he had were mouths gaping open and blank stares. "OEI! can you speak proper engrish anots? dunch tell people you works here in this kopitiam hor, our reputation later give people laugh hahaha." bellowed Ban Mian Jerry. In a defense retort, Barry said "No, dearest and fine colleauge, I surmise you have weakly misunderstood me and ", and before Barry could have finish his sentence the rest of the hawkers threw him out of the table and gave him a sweet to keep quiet.

Lucy, then came along seeing a commotion and wanted to join in, but seeing that Barry was at one corner sucking on the sweet she asked "Barry why down there eating sweet? waaa you all having meeting ar?". Laksa Jim then told her "Barry he need to go IMH there, but we now busy, later then send him go. how come you down here? go home go home we discussing how to get rid of Ming, go away, goway goway". But to Lucy, that sounded like an invitation rather than a shoo.

So she said "Aiya so easy, they gahmen olways check check your stall ma, put 1 or 2 cockroaches in his shop he will close down liao ma". For once, Lucy had spoken wisely. "Siao ja bor, you tink the cockroach no legs ar? later he run run run go up your skirt I luff until stomach pain ar" jeered Yong Tau Hu Nancy. "But I think it is a great idea leh, we all count count the timing aim zhun zhun when officer come then the cockroach will run up his pants ma." remarked Mee Siam Ah Hock in support. "OEi! why my name Ah Hock so obiang their name so stylo, wa lao, I wan my name ChreeshtoFIR".

"Cannot! Ah Hock means Ah Hock. Suay lor, who call you be the 2nd cow" the rest said in unison. Jerry then concluded "aiya we just use the cockroach idea first la, got so many chances, sumore we so many people, Ming confirm GG wan la. I need to go already, I have to watch Liao Zhai.". Some murmured about feeding their children, some said the wife will cane them if they don't return home now.

So each made their way home thinking what else they could do, as their main goal was for their own stall to get customers, rather that to boycott Ming. So secretly, they planned with their own agenda. So from this scenario, you can see how a typical kopitiam has politics in play. I'm not sure if I wan to complete the story, Why don't you guys tag and tell me if you guys want a part 2!

Further Improvisation

2006-10-10T13:59:00.000+08:00

Wee I did a few more improvisations. heh heh I did the scrolling script at the bottom of the IE browser and added the snow flakes which I shamelessly stole from Xian Hui. Must ask for her forgiveness later. also I forgot to mention earlier that I revealed Blogger's NavBar, you can see it right from the top.

I fell asleep while waiting for the page to load yesterday and thus had not posts. I'm in a hurry now to leave the house so this shall be my most meaningless post ever. Oh yes, Yesterday when I met the guys for publicity of WoW, Reggie exclaimed "SUNNY! its so sunny today!" on seeing me. Sigh, you people just cant help it right? That'll add on the my counter.

Gosh I better start to do my posts earlier next time, lest I fall asleep again. I've got interesting topics to blog about, stay tuned yea.

Improvisations

2006-10-09T04:49:00.001+08:00

Wee~ its the wee hours of the morning and here am I blogging. Well Its due to some psychological problems and of course I spend quite a bit of time improvising this blog! Had my church's 5th year anniversary over at Rolands Restaurant just now. They claimed they founded chilli crab since 1956. It was stated over at the packed wet hankerchief. Ben and I had the same reaction. "ZHUN BO??". Ok digression done.

As you can see I added the cross with stars flittering from it at the date label above! ^ and the zooming lines at the end of each column title over there ---> I didn't just rip off someone else's code and pasted onto mine, It was solely done by Sunny Tan. (Such things need talent ok?)

I also added a quick edit button which only I can see. This brings me to edit the post in blogger with just 1 click! For such a perfectionist like me, such add-ons is a definite must. Also I added "Proprietary of Zer0-Jurisdiction.blogspot.com" which appears at the end of each post along with the date/time. I changed the colour from white to blue too. And lastly, I added a cool function which allows a user to return to the most current page of the blog if anyone is viewing only a specific post or from the archives!

Also I created a new column which is Cliche that does a counter to record the number of jokes made to my name. The kind where you will say "Haha I changed my name to rainie" or "Sunny, today not sunny leh". Yes I'm talking about you. I started with a humble digit of 50, its slowly increasing daily. Anyway here are the screen shots of the new 'installments'. ( Go test the back to current button yo~)

This is the button that you guys won't see!

If you visit a post from my Creme de la Creme section or archives, this function becomes available!

All these are accomplished using only html. I was helping out Ying2 on her comment moderation issues and began to read up on other functions blogger provides, and then I learn by trial and error. It seems complicated but if you take the patience its not that hard afterall. The original blogskin is so very fundamental and basic. But with love, patience and due effort, I managed to really beautify and make this skin much more sophisticated.

For those of you whom have blogs of your own, and you need help in certain areas, I don't mind helping out. Because I know the satisfaction that comes from it. But of course it's even more gratifying if you actually did it yourself, the sense of achievement runs through your entire being and keeps you in glee. Zer0-Jurisdiction has officially been PIMPED! (thanks to ks for his comments too.)

Haze R Nuts

2006-10-06T23:50:00.000+08:00

I never though Singapore would be having such heavy haze problems again. I went to watch Rob B Hood just now over at Lido. Before we watched the movie the air was still considered fresh, disregarding the vehicle pollutions. The moment we exited the building all of us were like complaining profusely simultaneously on the horrible haze. The haze was so visible, Joe even commented he could see the haze right infront of him.

We went over to McCafe to sit and chill for awhile and and I blurted "Freak! which idiot is smoking la?" when I began to smell some smoke. Joe then pointed to the no smoking sign, true enough, I couldn't find any smoker near enough for me to stare. And it dawned upon us that it was the haze. The haze could be smelt so significantly! Strangely while I was so perturbed by the haze, the girls were like still so happily chatting away.

I went to read up abit and it stated that today, 6 October 2006, Friday has the highest pollution index at 80 this year. And the return of the haze was of course from Indonesia but it was the weak enforcement of the ban that led to people ignoring it and thus burning the poor trees massively.(It's not from Malaysia, Tuck Wei) And the haze has also travelled ove to Thailand and Malaysia, not to mention, Indonesia too.

Anyways, Rob B Hood was really nice, despite how stupid it's advertisement looks. Go ahead and watch it man. The coolest thing that happened today was meeting Zul at Far East (before the show) where he working as the soundman for some roadshow. And in the roadshow itself there were a duet performing and the female singer mesmerized me with Pink's Just like a pill. I hope I dream of her voice tonight. Hey wait, better ask Zul if he knows that duet.

Busy With?

2006-10-06T01:49:00.000+08:00

People have been asking me what have I been up to, or what I've been doing so far. And my response will be "I'm like so busy la, I don't even have time to cut hair". And then I'll carry on to talk about how long my hair is and its the longest as it has ever gotten so far yadaa. And then we'll forget about what asking what have I been busy with.

Well I've been activiely involved with SYFC's (Singapore Youth For Christ) poly ministry, its a ministry where christians from all the polytechnic gathering together to learn and do God's work. Recently there was a 3 days 2 nights camp, then followed by a 6-day Poly Serve course. And thereafter doing multiple street evangelism and WOW publicity activities over many places.

Yes, you didn't hear wrongly, I was out on the streets either evangelising or publicising the event: WOW. Well some may feel its a waste or time or I could have gotten myself a job for some money. But truly, whatever that I've gained thus far I can never exchange. The experience and the life's lessons learnt and the bond I have with new brothers and sisters... priceless.

I was looking through grace's (also serving in poly ministry) blog and she commented something that struck me, "I believe it shall be the sweetest thing i ever done in my youth". I couldn't agree more. To add on, our youth is really the best part of our lives. We should treasure it and live it meaningfully while we can. There are just some things that can only be done in our youth. Similar to grace, I feel I haven't really done much and I want to take and cherish this chance.

We've heard probably countless times that we should live our lives to the fullest yadaa yadaa. But have we really make a decision and to step out of our comfort zone? It seems tough and troublesome, but here's a simple step to make a change. Keep track and check with the things you have been busy with. So when people ask you hey dude, what's going on yo? You can confidently say it and feel a sense of achievement.

Tired from gym... I can feel the aching of the muscles seeping in. Hope God restores me for the publicity at parkway later. God be with you.

Day Dreaming

2006-10-05T01:43:00.000+08:00

Ever wondered how day dreaming can affect your life? In fact, I would say, day dreaming makes you, in turn, your life. Ever felt day dreaming are only for people without goals? or just a waste of time? In fact, I would say, we day dream every single day. Day dreaming aren't just an eyesore to teachers.

Here's something to chew on. Studies have shown that each individual talks to themselves approximately 14,000 times (if i'm not wrong) a day. Within that 16 hours, startin from the first breath you take when you awake from your slumber, to your instance before dozing off. It's called self dialogue FYI.

If you still can't comprehend that you talk to yourself like a madman, then think again. The weird thing here about self-dialogue is, we are using language to communicate with oneself, where language is actually a secondary process where we coagulate our thoughts and ideas into words to convey out to external entities. But internally, there is no need for the use of language.

Ok enough side track. According to Sunny Tan: Day Dreaming is the state where self-dialogue has attained a level whereby thoughts and memory can be visualised freely in psych. Such realization can be reached within minutes. For some people, they routinely have day dreams everyday. For example, some people start to day dream when they lie in bed, and day dream themselves to dreamland.(pun intended) Personally, I day dream alot and I can't help not to day dream when I bathe, thus I take ridiculously long to bathe. (Understand? KS, BL, and HW? I'm not doing whatever you guy s are thinking.)

As I've mentioned earlier on that we use language to communicate with ourselves, I shall now explain why day dreaming makes us, our character. Here's a simple exercise how talking to ourselves can affect and/or influence us adversely. Pause from reading and repeat the word milk for 15 times. Now answer this question, what do cows eat? Most might say milk, but a cow's diet consists of grass if you don't know. From this experiment, we can see how talking to ourselves can cause us a simple blunder. (Face it, the first thing that comes to your mind is milk even though you had answered grass.)

Knowing that, imagine what your life can be if you feel negative about yourself and in return constantly say negative things about yourself. That's makes a difference between losers and non-losers. I'm cutting down on the content and getting to the next point, bear with me. I'm sure you heard of many people stressing you that you must have your mindset/mentality right before you do this yadaa yadaa. It's the same thing, if you decide on a certain mindset, the things you tell yourself is vastly different.

How we talk to ourselves are also determined by our culture, our upbringing, the education we receive at home. But we should not allow such factors to influence negatively. To cut it short, from today onwards, I strongly urge all of you to be aware of the things you say to yourself, and keep it positive. Be the master of your life!

Blog Cleaning

2006-10-03T02:23:00.001+08:00

Hmmz, I guess there's alot of things to do and fill up for the postless syndrome. First off, I would like to present to you my... *drum rolls* MAJOR PROJECT! For those who do not know what my Major Project is, it's a flash application whereby you create abstract ideas using the objects given. The save/load part isn't working though. Put this application, plus another different flash application, plus the presentation and reports, gives you a D+. Not a desirable grade for MP though, anyways click HERE to try it. (Do stay on the main screen for some time to look at my mascot, IBulb's animations.)

Also, I took a couple of pictures along the way. A little random, but they're interesting.

Ben & Jerry's is part of my life

Ben & Jerry's here I come.

I told Grace that if there weren't any God, I would worship this. IF.

This is the 3rd or 4th time I've seen this cat face. I've seen it on tv a couple of times.

Douglas's laser pointer, thanks to me, many groups in my CMSK tutorial get to have a laser pointer.

2 yolks in an egg, I've eaten twins! I can die peacefully now.

Ahem* the legendary BJ massage parlour. I didn't know it actually exists.

I call this the Sunnyview. I've spotted certain places with nice views. I'll get them on film as post it here.

A rainy night from my window. The picture's alittle small. The cool thing here is, the little whitey dots in this picture are actually reflected flashlight that fell onto the raindrops.

I'm on OTO's FLABELOS FL-2000. It is an innovative workout which enhances proprioception that is the instant muscle reaction to external forces by our body. With different positions, you flex different areas of you body, great machine there. I do good advertisement man.

HOO~ I'm on a handbill. And the wind had to blow my shirt... Thats the handbill for the Camp 2359. Had an awesome time there.

I know this post is abit pointless, but I specially took these pictures for my blog. And don't even think about asking me where I found da massage parlour. I'm not revealing the address of that sinful place.

Also, during this time I thought of putting a counter to count the number of "Sunny, Rainy, Windy, Cloudy" jokes. Instead of telling them this is the #'s time I've heard this joke, I might as well do a reality count on it. I shall start with a humble meagre 50.

No. of Sunny-Rainy-Windy-Cloudy-Wateva Jokes : 50
( hmmm instead of putting it at every end of a post should I do a column for this instead? tag me to give your comments dudes and dudettes!)

Mood Spoiler

2006-10-01T17:05:00.000+08:00

I understand the disappearance of posts and the seemingly death of this blog. I'm sure you guys understand the reason initially for the break I took from blogging. But thereafter I just lost the momentum. But today, something just got me back on track, interestingly, instead of something that encouraged and blazed the blogging fire in me, it was something depressing that led me into a state where I couldn't not blog.

Now tell me, when was the last time you stand up smiling and light-hearted after finish reading a newspaper on the couch? I could not remember mine. Personally I don't read newspapers on a regular basis, much less buy them. My Dad or brother would be the one buying them. I would just read them when the front page grabs my attention. Then I would end up reading the whole paper.

September 30's The New Paper's Front Page 1st: HER PAINFUL SECRET;Raped by her own father But Singapore Teen Keeps Silent For 2 Months Then she tells mum but... 2nd: Teacher who ordered deaf kids to slap each other What's the big deal? (There's 3 headlines altogether FYI) Some may argue that newspapers have to come out with such news, else there won't be anybody reading them, they have to produce what people like to read! I would say that having a job in the press would be so easy, because such startling news are very much going to be a norm.

What I'm saying is, the world we live in is seriously screwed up, Bigtime(I just had to emphasize that). Be it Singapore or anywhere else. And the devastating this is, people are getting numb to the high frequency of such bleak events. Let me give you an example. Just as I returned to the computer after reading the papers, I made the remark "when was the last time you stand up smiling and light-hearted after finish reading a newspaper on the couch?" to hsien wei and binglun. Hsien wei said, "why? cause recently no rape news is it?". Of course he had other implications when he said that.

Apart from his hidden implication, it clearly shows that rapes are such a norm. Take it back decades ago, in a setting where it is a decade ago, one probably wouldn't make such a statement. And now, humans are taking it into a higher level, rape within the family. Oh yes, such cases are nothing new also, we have already passed that stage of feeling mournful for the victims, we are what I've mentioned earlier : NUMB.

At this stage, I suppose people of this world should already be doing something. What is mentioned in this post is microscopic compared to the actual desolate world. The Bible clearly mentions in Matthew 24 : 12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, I cannot just stand by and do nothing already. God has spoken and revealed to me what I must do, If anyone of you feels convicted somehow, you can call me up to discuss how you feel. There are many things in my mind, and penning it down in this post would make this ridiculously long. I would like to end this post with Edmund Burke famous line.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Amen.

Bust your own pests!

2006-07-18T00:44:00.001+08:00

HI everybody, I'm so happy! I have time to blog today, I've cleared my deliverables for later.(CMSK4 and JAP) Yeap. Through all my years of torment and induced-fear from creepy crawlies, I, SUNNY TAN, have founded a homemade-scale method of pest busting! DIE creepy crawlies.

Well I don't actually kill the creepy crawlies, I just get rid of them, they may get injured in the process though, but they definitely don't die, unless you want them to. So all you girls and pussy wussies prepare your gear and win this war!

Alright Step 1. Get a chunk of toilet roll probably about 9 - 10 segments and get it crushed in your hand not totally crushed though, like in the picture below.

depending on the size of the bug you increase or decrease the number of segments.

Step 2. Dip your chunk of toilet roll into the water half-submerged.

Just half-submerged, you don't want too much, neither you want it too little, how much you need comes with experience.

Step 3. Squeeze your cannonball slightly to get the water spreaded throughout the whole chunk. then aim and fire. Take your time to aim and feel the shot slamming onto the bug. The idea is to get this wet chunk to cover the bug, not kill it.

For new beginners, I suggest you bring more ammunition with you.

Step 4. Now that you successfully get the wet chunk to cover the bug, try to grab the chunk in a way that the bug will be inside the cannonball and not simply plucking it out from the wall. The stickyness from the wetness will cause the toilet roll to stick on the wall at the same time provides enough friction so that you can encapsulate the bug in the toilet roll.

If you still feel irky to touch the wet chunk since it has contact with the bug, wear a glove.

Step 5. Hooray now you have successfully placed the creepy crawlie under your control. Don't forget to dispose of it, throw it down the rubbish chute.

The bug should be trapped inside and maybe alittle bit injured but not dead, unless you really slammed the toilet roll really hard.

5 easy steps for you to bust those irritable pests at home. Moths, grasshoppers, crickets, beetles, cockroaches and spiders no longer will be your threat! Now, support Sunny Tan with new Ideas by signing up at emailcashpro here!

Stress after Stress

2006-07-14T01:42:00.000+08:00

Hello everybody! an update from a week of dust collecting. Thanks to the people who are reading this entry. It means you still take a point to check back even with the almost current inactivity. Muacks and smooches. Well for waiting this long, I'm going to reward you people with a sub-beta version of Idea Tank! click here to proceed to view it, then open another IE window to come back here, sorry I don't the codes to enable you to open that link in another window.

Ok, in case you don't how to work that thing out, here's a step by step instruction. First you wait for the filling-tank-with-water animation to finish then you either click "New Idea", "Load Idea" or "Instructions" depending on your choice, but in this sub-beta version, "Load Idea" is not ready. To commence the program click on "New Idea" then "Go!!!" fill in the form if you wish. =)

Now, onto the next scene, the arsenal of items are at the right, the operations you can perform on the items are northeast. Upsize, Downsize, rotate right, rotate left, and delete. you can also change the colours of your items by clicking your item then click on the colour palete. To start, choose and item from the arsenal and drag it onto the canvas. have fun with it. If you guys are in this scene and you want to see IBulb's animation, click on the back button at southwest.

That's one week of work. God has really walked right beside me throughout this whole week. Each time a problem or a foreseen problem arises I almost immediately have a solution just when I am commencing my sulking. The prayers for my major project all this time are really answered. God is good.

I can say my major project is roughly 70% complete, thus I have some time to blog now, but still my updating might be inconsistent at this point of time. Deadline for the other projects are drawing in. I feel the worst of all is CMSK4. Although its only a 2CU subject, I feel its the most troublesome subject so far in my polytechnic education. To screw this subject further, they made a formal presentation, which is the main and final assessment, to be a week earlier.

GREAT.

I don't want to go about how sucky it is, but to top it all its plain stress after stress. But it's definitely expected from a semester with full 28CUs. Loathesome, but I know in just less den 6 months I am going to miss this stress. Well, got to catch up on my sleep now to recharge myself for the other oncoming projects. ECAD, IN3D, ENMM, JAP, CMSK4. Gosh, I'm actually horrified myself after typing them out. Tag your feelings about my Idea Tank yea? (Many credits to binglun who obediently do all the troublesome jobs to substantiate Idea Tank)

Major Project Madness

2006-07-06T00:45:00.000+08:00

Gosh, I knew I was behind time, but I didn't know I was that behind time. George Yam told us today that we were only left with 2.5 weeks including this week to finish up everything. I was dumbfounded, I thought we still had like 3.5 weeks.

Well so because of the insanely tight deadlines and inclusive of other insane projects, I guess this blog may go on a hibernation period to cater to my coursework. Anyway, my Major Project is about a series of games proposed for the school's open house, I don't want to get into the details, that's all you need to know. My project members are Binglun, Vanessa and Baoyu, FYI.

The first game is Idea Tank. Players are given an empty spacewith an arsenal of items to drag and position to create a design or expression based on their creativity. Another game is Sudoku-Flash. Players well, player the Sudoku Puzzle, Swf style.

Sigh, being the group leader and the one more proficient in Flash, I took the harder assignment out of the 2, which is Idea Tank. And I've always been slack on the girls whom are working on Sudoku, and expected their work they produced was rather amateurish. I'm not denying their effort but I guess its time for me to do some revamping for them.

Ignoring the boring stuff, let me present to you what I've done so far.

Scenes
Click on the link above to view! I can't seem to set up the swf file here. The buttons are clickable, you can go to traverse around the scenes too.

IBulb
Click on the link above to view! I did a mascot for Idea Tank!It's name is IBulb. It has an A.I. script but since its not complete I haven't implemented it. Don't be alarmed if the animations has no link to each other, because they are each it's own set of raw animation for the mascot's A.I. There are 16 sets of animations all together, I've only complete 9. Gambudteh!

Well that's about it, tag your comments yea!

Wo/men with honour

2006-07-04T23:36:00.000+08:00

I don't actually know how bunks/butches/masculine lesbians view themselves, so I'll just use wo/men. I mean using the word women would not induce any of you to think that I'm referring to bunks/butches/masculine lesbians. I'll use BBML to refer to this group of people from now on.

I feel BBMLs are usually gung-ho, heroic and have a strong sense of responsibility for law and order for the people. Picture a BBML in your mind, don't they always seem fierce looking in a way, portraying 'don't mess with me' with their body language, at the same time nice people? Now... picture a law enforcer in you head, uncanny similarities huh?

One incident happened recently made me go "my HERO~", and I now have due respect for BBMLs. It happened this Monday. I was in bus 21 going home from Eunos MRT/Bus Interchange, The bus was significantly packed, a BBML boarded from the same bus stop and was beside me. I was somewhere in the middle of the bus and the BBML was by my right.

Just as the bus left Kaili and Xian Hui's bus stop, the bus stop just before mine FYI, some retarded tried to switch lane, into the bus lane with many other cars around. Because there were other cars, the retard could not do a switch lane, which left its vehicle in the middle of two lanes. It got stucked with another vehicle and they became a road block being an obstruction to all the vehicles behind, like my bus.

The people in the bus including me only realised this after we felt we waited very long for the bus to move. The BBML beside me started to squeeze all the way to the front and left by the front door. I thought, "GAH, impatient bunk, can't even wait for a minute". But heck no, that BBML went to the 2 vehicles infront negotiate with the drivers to hurry up and get lost. Even to the extent of knocking on the car's door, then opening it and reprimanding the driver.

It took quite a while. But I have two words to describe it, Suave, HERO!!! yeah but with a pinch of 'bengness'. Our bus driver then proceeded to open the door to invite our hero back, but she walked away refusing the offer. Reminds me of Ryu in street fighter, If you play as Ryu and complete a game, he always walks away after winning without receiving any prize or fame.

That BBML was truly self-sacrificing, it only took her awhile to take the initiative to shoo the road blocks. And she wasn't intending to get down at that stop. If it wasn't for her, I may have reached home later and may have gotten in some trouble. Worse still, it may have caused a traffic jam. I suddenly feel so honoured to be taking the same bus as her, and even standing beside her!

Sometimes I wonder if there is any BBML school, like you need a diploma to be a BBML. All the BBMLs that I see have a good deal of standard in their hair along with their character. They seem to have the same values and principles and a certain level of hair aesthetics. Which also extends to the older generation BBMLs. The older generation BBML's are the founders of the armani hairstyle I think. But well Lesbianism is sin, and although God is a God that loves and rewards, He is also a JUDGE. So no matter how much meritable deeds you attained, small mistake big mistake is also sin and nothing you can do in your own power can cleanse that away.

Know of other heroic BBMLs? Tag it!

LOST!

2006-07-03T22:22:00.001+08:00

I fell sick on a Friday afternoon, Lost is on a Saturday morning. But with the responsibility as an organizer, I couldn't just stay home. And I want my gang to have fun and hear the Gospel. How I can survive... is up to God. I'll let the pictures do the talking. Well, maybe half the talking this time.

We met up with Carmen and Priscilla in HarbourFront and stayed there awhile for people to gather.

Look! we are are so happy and excited before Lost starts.

Kaili going around spreading her enthusiasm, Hanning, behaving typically.

We look so cute! and Priscilla had to turn away. 3=

Look what we saw when we went into the island.

Now I know how to enjoy my beach outings FULLY.

Some interesting activity in the green line.

Hehe Caught Priscilla ogling in the act. Haha joke joke.

Look at the face. Look at where his hands are. HSIEN WEI!! you should have more SELF-CONTROL!!! haha this 1 made me laugh a long while.

We went many places before that but I was still blur and sick and running around, I forgot to take pictures. Gomae. We trekked for 10 minutes straight to read the station. I'm sick remember? I pity the game marshalls posted there.

The water puking dragon.

I never seriously thought we would complete this puzzle. Thumbs up for our group, 2nd group to get it perfect. I regret not taking pictures of all the other puzzles we completed.

We left the place and I spotted this.

I think it swallowed a pea.

Pond behind 1 of the bus stops.

I haven't seen a pond saturated with lotus before.

Our Hui Hui flirting.

Went back to report after completing all the puzzles. Amazingly, Our team, Team 10, had 5 winners for the blessed draw out of 14 winners and 14 teams. Though we didn't win the event, but 5 out of 14 is so much cooler. I didn't get anything though, I'm glad KS did, his first ~~lucky~~ blessed draw win!

This would not be so well taken if it's not directed by Sunny Tan. Imagine Hanning with her leg sticking out in the air, now stop imagining, it was real. I had to get her to put it down. Sadly, all of them thought I was playing the fool and disregarded my professionalism.

I didn't know she got rabbit tooth.

The lampost is very cute, its puny compared to the ones you know. I climbed it twice.

Very intelligent and usual of Hanning, to take a picture of me coming down and not going up. Remember I was sick. I still had to hang there for awhile to wait for them to take a picture. Came down and got dizzy spells immediately.

Our silent duo in action. Thinking.

I wonder where the rest of us were.

Puzzling, wonder who took this.

Again I don't know who took this. But its hilarious how they try to steal the limelight.

Everyone else taking pictures and fellowshipping.

After all the sweat and running, we took a smelly picture!

Here's the journal that led us to our stations

And all the map pieces we gathered.

Tags yea!

Unwell

2006-07-01T19:36:00.000+08:00

Sorry for the having no post yesterday, but I was really too sick to lift a finger. Hmmm anyway lots of people are getting sick by the minute. I'll be blogging on the next post about the Lost event that I went just now. Still not feeling very well.

I got ill on a friday, here's how. I had IN3D (Introduction to 3D) lessons in the morning. But the temperature in the lab was really really cold. It was so cold till the extend I had to hide my arms in my shirt, looking very dumb. Li Qiu on my left, said it was normal, weird. Jeremy on my right was freezing along with me.

For me, when I stay in a place too cold 4 me for a long time when my body is weak, I get sick. All the late nights has weakened me terribly. The lab was 3 whole hours long. It started with a fever, then it led to a headache along with the fever. Well I need to get my rest now, so please check back tomorrow!

EmailCashPro

2006-06-30T01:22:00.000+08:00

EmailCashPro is a Community Portal that pays people in Singapore to read emails. You choose areas of interests from 30 different categories and let ECP find the best deals for you! ECP will match your interests and your profile with email advertisements called SoloAds. Each SoloAd comes with a clear subject headline. If you are interested in the subject, open and read those emails and get paid at the same time!

Other than making money, ECP updates you on the latest market information and special offers straight to you inbox! It's about being a well-informed consumer and moving along with the market trend. With the leverage system, you can invite your friends to join this wonderful program for free and see your earnings multiply!

Now, I know many people are skeptical about ECP and very much believe it is a scam. There are also people who want to monitor ECP to see if is not a bogus. If you came here from an email I sent you, plese kindly read on. I, Sunny Tan will tell you it is not a scam. Here's why.

ECP is a company that directs other companies to advertise their product or services directly to their TARGET CUSTOMERS. ECP has become a bridge to connect consumers to businesses and will help multiply turnovers for companies in my viewpoint. I think the person whom set up ECP is a real genius. Firstly, he has come up with a method to help other businesses advertise their product or service to interested consumers. At the same time, not only consumers get to see advertisements they are interested in, they get paid to view them! This is an excellent scenario of a win-win situation.

As you sign up to join ECP, your particulars will be taken along with your areas of interests. This will then affect the kind of advertisements you will receive. Brilliant idea isn't it? A method to help businesses find their targeted customers. (Including age and gender group)

ECP is goes by Network Marketing. ECP has astutely filtered the cons of Network Marketing. Network Marketing is a type of business that relies on human networks, popular companies are like Amway and Belair. If you do not know what Network Marketing is, to put it simply, it is the most ethical way of doing a business and the shortcut to success, but it requires efforts and perseverance to match this shortcut and in Singapore, folks have a tarnished impression on Network Marketing.

ECP has implemented the Leverage system in the business. If you refer ECP to friends and with them to sign up successfully, they are your downlines. You will have downlines up to 4 levels unless you are a Gold member, which unleashes the 5th level. Let me explain this downline structure. If the person you introduced is A, A is your first level downline. And if A introduces B, B is your second level downline. If you, introduce another person C, C is your first level downline, so on and so forth. This leveraging system lets you earn a 5% overriding commission of their earnings. Overriding means you do not take 5% of their earning to be your commission but from their earnings, ECP will calculate 5% of their earnings and award them to you seperately.

For those whom worked in a Network Company before, you can see perfectly from here how ECP has eliminated all the cons and maintain the pros of Network Marketing. SoloAds will only come in after 1st July. But signing up for ECP started way before this date. Let me explain why. Because ECP is a third party company, and only it needs to promote itself to you, they also have to convince other companies of their power so that they will use ECP as a media to plant their advertisements, investing in them. So during this waiting period, companies will realise ECP is a domineering and pioneering advertising medium in its league. (ECP has 14, 197 members [2.44am 30/06/2006])

If ECP were to be a scam, I would be MORE than happy. Because I now know of a superb business plan, and since someone didn't make full use of such a plan, I will. But of course, that wouldn't be possible. From my point of view, ECP's potential is as huge as the globe. Singapore alone can help ECP earn millions, If it reaches the globe, MultiBillionaires I would say, Google might be probably bought over by them. Guys think about it, I hope you join ECP soon, stop wasting time.

You could say this post is a means of getting more referrals. Of course it is, but it only does you good. It is a win-win situation. I have serviced you with its potential and educated you with its methods, and don't I deserve something? If you still look at me with rolling eyes, it just goes to show that you are a person who doesn't know how to grab opportunities, a childish one at that. I'm not saying you are childish because you don't sign up, but because you refuse to sign up because I am making use of this blog to promote for more referrals. But if you are enlightened and willing to take ECP as a side income, start signing up HERE. Also, Go HERE where they explain more about how they work and how you should earn your money.

Microscopic

2006-06-29T01:21:00.000+08:00

Warning!! Long Entry. Find a time where you can spare 10 minutes to read.

I actually started this post @ 11.50pm wanting to start and end early for an early night's sleep. Having in mind to blog about EmailCashPro. But moments after I have just typed the entry's title on supposed former topic, I casually wandered to Star Blog and started to do some reading. Starting the entry, its 1am now.

FYI, Star Blog is a site set up by The Straits Times, where they invite 7 star bloggers to pen their thoughts every Monday on a topic of choice. 4 females and 3 guys. One of which, is Xiaxue. Visit it if you wish from here.

Then one of the entries she had to blog on was on Entrapment, our dear blog queen had aboslutely no idea what it was. Still, she managed to pull off an interesting post... Xiaxue style. I'm not exactly her fan, but her avid reader... or blogder so to say. But because of the way she posted it, it attracted many detractors and criticism.

By far, only her posts has the most comments posted, not surprising since we're talking about a blog queen here. Here's my 2 cents worth of summary. As usual, her abusive language retained, and induced alot of comments from hostile to mild in regards for her to tone down the flaming language, keep in mind it is still under Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and has a 'G' rating viewership. And she returned a comment ending with the direct 'F' word. Before you look at her with tinted glasses, think about it, Xiaxue is quite infamous for her vulgarities, and if ST restricts flaming language, don't you think they'll capitalise "peaceful language" to her? I don't mean ST is encourage vulgarites.

Also, under the comments, she spoke about being ranked 23th best blog in the WORLD at her best. It was really something to really hold in deep admiration and awe. She is definitely a force to be reckoned with. A Singaporean blogger made it to a 2-digit rank in the whole globe, Hooray! After reading so much of her comments, it made me realised something, as usual she had a fair share of criticism. But doesn't this mean these detractors including the shallow ones are contributing to her success? to her readership? The non-shallow detractors are also the ones that read every word of her entry, as a fan would.

Even in my own blog, I've had 2 criticisms so far, 1 criticised on my poor critics on the advertisement, another labelled me a Xiaxue copycat. I strongly believe their defamations to be dumb. I did not really care to defend myself much, I don't see a need to. But a reply out of politeness and recognition. And my deepest thanks to Herbert, Kui Siang, Kelly and Kamei for speaking on my behalf to this silly people.

I think it is a good thing, well they say (I forgot the exact phrase, forgive my blabbering) criticism is the highest form of praise. Maybe I'm getting readership too. And I'm glad for that. I, myself see no point in a blog previously. If I wanted to record my life, I would do it in a diary, a personal diary. If not, in a blog but access restricted to very close people. But most people nowadays broadcast their blog URL's and have very 'diary' content. Almost all of the time, it is often ignored unless you're talking about close friends.

In a way it is a good thing, you keep people updated about your life, so you can maintain the bond with people that are dear but you don't see them very often. Then again, you realise not all of this dear people read your blogs, I mean, they have their own stressful lives. But until 6 months ago, where I was introduced to Xiaxue by Mark, I began to see how interesting a blog is. I often read her entries and think, "hey, I do think like that too" and "I have a funny idea too!".

And yes, I want readership, I am not shy to say it openly, not to the extent to be able to earn money out of it, but if possible no sane person would reject the offer. I felt really miniscule after looking at Xiaxue. I think there are many pointers that I can learn from her. She is really gifted to write a blog. She can cook up things you can't ever imagine, the way she expresses herself,(including the vulgar, look how many people criticise her on it yet never stops to return back to read and again never fail to criticise her multiple times) the way she can make a person addicted to her entries. She reached top 23, what am I? We are so in a different league.

I have my thoughts and perspective, and I want to share it with everyone. I want people to read my blog, thus I'm spamming my URL through IMs and nagging for you to read everyday. (you realise I don't put it in my nick and personal message) I understand that my posts are rather wordy, but I still wish you people to read through and not glance through if possible. I'm doing my best to shorten them and paragraph it pleasingly.

Unlike Xiaxue, I'm a Christian and so is this blog. I intend to educate non-believers of Christianity by injecting slowly some content that speaks about God, why I accepted Christ and why should you do the same. If you think you can't even take abit of Christian content, well I suggest you to continue staying in your well and restrict yourself from this blog.

I dedicate this blog to God and thus I make sure nothing here upsets Him. Thus I'm very concerned especially with the language I use. Thank you all for those whom endured and stayed to read up till this point. I will continue to come up with interesting content to keep you engaged to my world. Big Bad Wolf? Part 2 will be up sooner than you can imagine! (I need feedback if the Wolf story is interesting, if it isn't I'll drop the idea. Tag it!)

SunnyTales : Big Bad Wolf? Part 1

2006-06-28T00:27:00.000+08:00

I'm sure all of you have heard of this fairytale by the name of 3 Little Pigs. But in fact, that story wasn't just a fairytale, it was a fabricated fairytale! That makes it an unreal fiction. Rather than 3 Little Pigs, they are a trio of mean creatures. What a pig they are.

As we know, wolves are carnivores, and their diet consists of meat. And just because wolves eat cute animals means they are big and bad? That's the way wolves are and nothing can change it. If chickens were cute, then doesn't it make all you people big and bad too? Why is a being labelled as big and bad in regards of whether their diet is cute?

Here's the real story from the "Big Bad" Wolf himself.

It happened one stormy night. Margy, our wolf cub awoke me and my wife, Catherine with her wails, demanding milk. I decided to let my wife catch on more sleep and dragged myself to the kitchen to make some milk. To my horror, our milk powder was empty. But Margy was still bawling away without her milk. I informed Catherine to coo Margy and went to source for milk powder.

At such a time, only the 7-Eleven outlets are servicing. During our era, 7-Eleven were still a developing organization and their outlets were made of straw, sticks and bricks. I rushed down to the nearest 7-Eleven which was 15 minutes away. On reaching my destination, I was dumbfounded. It almost seemed that the 7-Eleven store was hit by a hurricane. What was left in the aftermath were some straws, sticks, broken bricks and crumpled newspaper.

To add to my perplexity, I caught a cold from the unrelenting storm. Not wasting any time, I scurried off having in mind to ask for milk powder from the residents nearby. The first house that I went to, was made up of straws, awfully familiar straws that I know I've seen somewhere. Disregarding that, I knocked on the door to seek an audience. My cold seems to be worsening.

I knocked and screamed for attention, as I decided to move along I heard a squealling voice saying "[hokkien vulgar] la, DI JI COR [hokkien vulgar]TOR WA KAO? because YOU kNOck KNOck knoCK I didn't see Maradona score!"([hokkien vulgar] la, which [hokkien vulgar] is outside?) Opening the door was a scrawny and uncouth looking little pig. Little not by age but size. He looked at me shifting his head up and down scanning me in every detail and proceeded with a snort and slammed the straw door in my face. I had every reason to be angry, but Margy's milk was more important.

The dust that shot out from the slam tickled my nose and I huffed, puffed and had an enormous sneeze, which brought the whole house of straw down. The startled pig darted his head around his house and finally looked at me, took a deep breath as though he wanted to say something. Before he could start, the rain pouring down entered his TV which he used to watch World Cup exploded. It destroyed his whole house and killed him.

I was remorseful, but there was nothing I could do and it wasn't my fault. It demolished almost everything in his house and even if he had milk powder, it probably perished from the explosion. When everything settled, a shard of a portrait landed right infront of me. There were 3 little pigs in it, one of them was the former.

This is part 1 of the "Big Bad" Wolf's account on the true story, please check back at Zer0-Jurisdiction.Blogspot.Com for the rest of the story. Sorry guys for the presence of unseen vulgarities, But it was from BBW's true story and I'm just stating it straight. Anyway, tag your comments!

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Slumber Spells

2006-06-27T00:13:00.002+08:00

I'm quite infamous for sleeping in school. They've heard my snores and seen my sleeping positions. I sleep quite alot in school, strange they didn't nickname me the Sleeping Arhat. But if those of you realised, I only sleep whenever I attend lectures. Doesn't mean I sleep in every lecture, take note.

Until this semester, that was the case. Now I sleep in class too, but only ENMM (Enterprise Multimedia). Reason why I sleep in lectures is the lecture theatres (LT). How can one resist hibernating in that supersized refridgerator? The temperature for a nap is almost perfect, and the atmosphere the LT is equivalent to a lullaby. On top of that, during lectures, the soothing and calming voice of lecturers can't help but coo you to sleep.

In this semester, our ENMM lectures are held in a lab. And within moments from my entry, my body just gives in to lethargy and I get sleepy. Let me describe how the lab is like. Apart from Douglas's chanting, the room is quite dim as he switches off the light to conduct his lectures. Then sitting near the window, you can see gentle rays of light seeping through the blinds. That enacting an identical scenario where you wake up in a morning from a good sleep and you gaze at your window and see the light from your blinds entering the room like schoolkids assembling for school.

Doesn't that want to make you lie on the bed and enjoy the peace and serenity? So I spend most of the time in class trying to stay awake to pay attention. I don't know if I should thank Lemuel for disturbing me from behind. Sometimes I think he's doing other funny/irritable stuff too. Anyways I think I should buy some sweets to keep me awake and be alert.

If I carry on like this, I don't think I will get a desirable grade in that subject, Things are hardly getting into my head in that sleepy state. The whole place is like anesthetic, Whenever I step into the place, I can't help but feel sleepy. Any of you guys have places like these that induces you to doze? Tag it!

Post Script : Waaa! I was flipping my retainer box around, and it fell and had a crack. I need a new one asap. 1 more item on the compendium. "/ ANYBODY KNOWS WHERE I CAN GET ANOTHER?

Although I didn't really like the box, but it's still saddening.

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Lesson Begins

2006-06-26T01:39:00.000+08:00

2 whole weeks of slacking. Dang, I wonder if I can get back the school mode. I havent been doing much work. I hope I don't screw up my major project. I'm supposed to almost complete the animation for my project's mascot. There're a total of 16 sets of animations and I'm barely starting only on the fifth.

I don't remember any deadlines, but just thinking that lessons are begginning again makes me feel guilty. I really need to straighten out my mindset to get back on track. I somehow think I'm a workaholic, but the unproductive kind. I just don't get how people can slack and feel good about it.

Whenever I slack, I feel weird and uncomfortable. I hate this awful feeling, but well I guess the enjoyment from slacking covers it when slacking is in action. I almost forget I have another branch in my major project. But who am I to enquire about their progress when me myself aren't very productive myself.

Alrights, got to have to catch some sleep. Can't wait to start using my new bag in school. Gosh, I'm going to have to see George Yam's smirk when he know I've been slacking. Early lesson on a Monday, how sucky. Tataz and Tags!

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Bag at last!

2006-06-25T05:06:00.002+08:00

Pardon the weak pun for a title. It was half-intentionally done. The explanation for the delayed posts is in the previous post. I am so jubilant! I finally have a bag. I can finally strikeout an item in the wishlist. Because of this bag, everything is progressing! I really have to thank God for being able to find this bag over at Yahoo Auctions!

I'm so in love with it now. You know that satisfaction from aiming something for so long and you finally actually get to have it... heavenly. When I say long, I mean long, I think it was about more than half a year ago. It started when I saw someone carrying this model in school, and it made an impression on me, I was interested. At the same time, Shellen was also interested in a Puma bag she saw someone holding somewhere on the streets.

And then, our search began. We went out (if i'm not wrong) twice to look for it, but the outlets we went to didn't have those models anymore. We were actually determined to look all over Singapore. But we didn't, busy I guess.

Bag still in plastic, I stopped my Mom and Brother from opening just to take this picture.

What I like about the bag at first was the size, it's aesthetically pleasing to me, it's not common, the colour, it also has handles instead of just a sling and it has hooves. The file that I use for school fits inside nicely. I don't like buying items that the majority of the population gets. When I buy clothes, first I see if I like it, then I see if it is common or going to be common. Unless I really really fancy that piece of cloth, I usually don't get what I feel is common.

The colour combination is simple but groovy. And it's nice for a change, since I have a whole bunch of white stuff. Plus its also wardrobe friendly, with it's outlook and colour. The handles on the bag also gives a tinge of elegance to it. When we think of handles in terms of bag, the first thing that comes to our mind is women handbags. Inplementing handles, it extracts the poise, the gracefulness from women handbags.

If the bag is heavy, putting the sling on your shoulders could add some strain, being able to hold it by the handles would be much feasible. This bag has hooves! It is very useful for people like me. Because I tend to be clumsy and rough, the hooves can prevent damage on the bag when I leave it around of the floor or any rough surfaces. Here's a few pictures.

I know, no link, but I just like everything about it, I'm not going to throw this away.

Not imitation, look it has the Puma Official Merchandise Tag. PVC free! It's leather.

Smoovey Groovey Hooveys!! Official Pimpbag.

All hail the *AHEM* nono... Jesus is King. (Mark's hand, he helped me to hold it in place.)

Kelly and Kaili says the chain is not suitable for me. But well I'm going to pimp it further, 'zhng' until 'swee swee'. Gosh, I haven't even got my water bottle yet. For such a exquisite Pimpbag, only an official Pimpbottle can match it! 1 item off the Compendium, a new item comes in... dang. Tag your views yea?

Moy's Day

2006-06-25T01:33:00.001+08:00

Gomaena Mina san~ (sorry everybody) I know, the posts aren't coming in, well its because yesterday my brother wanted to Da Vinci Code. And there is not proper storage device to transfer the movie from this computer to his. And I think it would be good if I educate him along the way as he watches it.

Well because of that, I would do a double post. Bought my bag yesterday and you've just read about that in the post above. The day actually only started yesterday with a phonecall, at 6.45pm. The guys were like meeting for celebrating Moy's Birthday. How evil, no one told me about the meeting. Well all of them thought I knew though. Miscommunication back there.

Alrights, I'll let the pictures do the talking.

What? what do you mean I revealed her age? NO I didn't, stop harping on it! I think she'll kill me for using this picture.

Hey, they called me only after everyone reached. When I got there, I had nothing to do but watch them eat.

The green patch you see is coriander. Underneath the coriander is dory. I like vegetables, so should you, they are helpful to your health. Order Coriander Catch now!

I just got onto the queue without knowing what's going on, as a result... FREE GELATO. Cookies and Cream, tasted like... Oreo.

I want to see if I looked good with it, I'm not photo-whoring. Stop looking at me like that Hsien Wei!

I'm really not photo-whoring, It was a true candid shot, Hanning can vouch for that. My 2nd candid photo shot.

Forced to do a candid shot. Really.

Shamming Jay Zhou. Ok maybe I'm photo-whoring. MAYBE.

Our podcast man has side businesses, maybe I should upload to him.

A tribute to Hui Hui!

We had a great time catching up with each other. But 1 thing I noticed was that, Moy wasn't exactly very happy after some point of time. Nevertheless, wherever we went, laughter was tagging along. I believed she enjoyed herself. Tags yea.

IDIOT'S GUIDE TO GUITAR

2006-06-23T02:00:00.001+08:00

I am dedicating this post to Jeremy, (not anymore, I think he should be seasoned by now.) Kamei and Shellen! or anyone of you that have a passion for the guitar. This will be like a beginner's introduction to a guitar.

I'll start with the physical properties of the guitar.

There are still many things there are not described, but this is just a simple acoustic guitar, so it doesn't have things like knobs, pickups, and toggle switches.

Now to the fretboard.

As shown there, we describe a specific note using Fret and String numbers. String 1, 2, 3 are treble strings. String 4, 5, 6 are bass strings.

The 4 main chords in pop songs. G C D Em

G Major chord.

C Major chord. Not the full chord, but you can practise with this.

D Major Chord.

E minor Chord. Simple, 2 fingers only.

Here's my way of teaching starters. What is most important is to get a rhythm with the guitar, being able to switch chords with ease. For starters you guys should practise this 4 chords, G, Cadd9, Dsus4, Em7 in proxy of G, C, D, Em. Strum these 4 chords in any order in your preference, try to make a melody out of it. Be sure to strum every single string.

This is how you should position your fingers when you want to strum a guitar. Cherry pinching
stance.

G Major chord. Another variation of the G chord.

C add 9 chord.

D sustain 4 chord.

E minor 7 chord.

Notice these 4 chords all have a similarity? Your pinky and your fourth finger is always anchored on the 3rd Fret's string 1 and 2? Yes, so that's why it's perfect for newbies! As for the strumming pattern, I don't want to get into theory, it'll be boring. Down up down up down up down would be fine, then you just switch a chord and repeat.

Sorry, If I'm not professional in this mini-tutorial, because my guitar skills are all self-learned. Actually, looking back, I'm quite impressed with myself. It's kinda amazing I can pick up guitar all by myself with only occasional help from occasional people. I believe this is possible due to the blessings and the wisdom granted from God. If any of you realised that the guitar you see is not the black guitar I usually carry around, that's because I suppose if i use the black one, it'll probably be hard to see from the pictures. This is my brother guitar by the way.

Which also means, all my strumming patterns are cooked up. Of course I do know of standard strumming patterns... which I learned from my brother's notes. (He attends guitar lessons by the way.) In your course of learning, you will be expecting some annoying discomfort on your fingers. The fingers you use to press the strings, which is your left hand. But the skin will harden and you won't feel the pain after some time. So God bless you on your journey to mastering guitar!

Peeling skin, not an uncommon sight. (4th finger, get your thinking straight.) This is nothing, I once bled because I was learning a playing style, on my right hand's middle finger.

GSCE 'O' Levels Hokkien Language

2006-06-21T22:49:00.000+08:00

I was just reading Christina's Hospital Names email. Hilarious, and then it reminded me of an email a long time ago, which was gut-bustingly funny. I read and edited here and there. I will grade you people on your answer. Well, you can grade yourself on the way too.

GSCE 'O' Levels
Hokkien Exam Paper

Instructions:

1. Read the passage carefully
2. Answer with proper spelling and grammar after reading.
3. Not that difficult, chin chai do lah!

Section A: Orrler Exeminetion and Compleehension (60 marks)

Question : Singalella an zua become rich ?

Koo zhar wu ji ay char bor kia, Singalella. She got two sisters, but the stepmarder and the sisters all damn guai-lan, so she quite jia-lat oso.

Last time Singalella got own maid, but now she become the maria.
Everyday must cook lah, clean lah, simi sai mah bao-kah-liao. If her sister say liak kar zhuak, she liak. Tak jit zho kah tau-hin. CPF poon boh.

But then, kay piak eh ah-pek got one son call Ah Ming got party. So he say, "oeh, long chong lai ah." Singalella very happy because she never go party before but then her step-marder say, "Ler Mana eh-sai kir, this one bahru ler eh sisters wu standard." Then Singalella must zho sui-sui for her sisters and step-marder.

Tap pai buay concentrate, buay zhia, buay koon and buay pang-sai. That night she only can wave bye bye and then she go back to the kitchen and cook Maggi mee. Her neighbour came over and ask, "Eh, an-zhua ler boh kir party?" So Singalella kong, "I-wan, lau-bu kong buay-sai, so boh pian."

She never expect but the neighbour say, "Aiyah, kir lah, I give you money." So Singalella brush teef and zhang-zhui, cheng-kor, after that look very different. She quickly run to opposite of the beh-chia-lor, already 11 o'clock. At the party, Ah Ming also quite sian because the char bor all boh sui one. Dance floor even got one ah pek dancing. Just as Ah Ming told himself, "Aiyah see-pay jia-lat", Singalella came in.

Ah Ming straight away lau nuar. "Wah-lau eh, see-pay heng ah, chee kor buay pai." Ah Ming say to Singalella, "eh, sui eh, wah ai kah ler zho flen!" Singalella say ok but Ah Ming like octopus, touch here touch there.

And just it was 12 o'clock, one ah pek die on the dance floor. He become ghost and tell Singalella all the good 4D number. So after that Singalella quickly go and buy 4D, and then tiok tau-pio, zhik-pah ban. So she pay back the kay-piak eh lau-kay-poh and then kah kee zho seng-lee. Simi kuan eh seng-lee wah mana eh zhai.

Answer Format : Please enter your Name with your Matric number in brackets in the tag board and type your answer.

Section B: Grades - How I Will Gauge Your command of Hokkien

A1. Can understand the story fully and pronounce Hokkien correctly. Hokkien eh sai, bo beh zao, zai lor. Answer in Section A answer must be correct.

A2. Can understand story and/or cannot pronounce Hokkien properly. Section A answer must be correct.

B3. Can understand story and/or cannot pronounce Hokkien properly. Section A answer wrong. You suay suay can understand story but don't know Section A answer. Suay.

B4. Understand more than half of the story/have minor problems pronoucing Hokkien. Section A correct. Who call you never study, if not at least can get A2.

C5. Understand half of the story/have minor problems pronoucing Hokkien. Section A answer must be correct. Nevermind, if you're hardworking, you can improve.

C6. Understand half of the story/have minor problems pronoucing Hokkien. Section A answer wrong. Why you never READ PROPERLY? disappointed in you.

D7. Never understand half of the story/have problems pronouncing Hokkien. Section A answer wrong. SIPEH SUAY. You understand abit more you pass liao. Knock your head on the wall lor.

E8. Don't understand story and/or catch no ball. leow leow, mai ka lang kong you're a Hokkien Singabolean.

F9. Don't understand rating. Go tiao lao, don't understand? it means go jump off a building.

If you never tag, I'm sorry you get an F9.

Tolerance

2006-06-21T00:39:00.000+08:00

WARNING. Long entry.

This may be a long entry, but I'm fed up and I don't want to repeat such saddening subjects. So I'm broadcasting here and saving me the trouble of repeating. Sorry if I'm offensive in this post, but I always have in mind that my target audience is the whole world. I thank you in advance for reading. As some of you know, I haven't been attending church services. Reason? Family objection. They prioritise very highly on the family tradition and restricts me from being in the body of Christ.

But it's getting tiresome, in a very annoying manner. I feel myself living in a completely dogmatic (meaning below, its important) environment, with none on my side. (Exclude the Lord himself of course.) I recently felt that things were turning for the better, but hell no.

I despise blogs that lament and lament and lament, about how sad and pitiful their lives are and how they are so tempted to suicide. PLEASE. Do us a favour and do the jump. Want to die carry on, don't act pathetic and gain attention and sympathy, else, start getting a life like now. Rest assured I won't be like them. Sorry for the digression, back to topic.

I was having dinner over at my grandmother's place as usual. And what sadden and shook me was, realising how my family view me. While my grandmother vied with me to wash the dishes, I cleaned the table and then she asked me to return a bowl to its shelf. So I did. And then she started shouting and telling me that I placed it in the wrong shelf. So I put it nicely after she told me where it was. But what broke my heart was, she remarked smirkly saying "You've been eating over here for so long yet you don't know, even your brother knows!".

Giving some background information, my brother has been not eating in my granny's place since 3 years ago due to NS and him staying over at the hostel. (Except for the occasional CNY and other big events.) Ok back, firstly, this is the first time she asked me to put a bowl back. Secondly, That bowl is not the usual rice bowl, it was a bigger bowl that we rarely use. Thirdly, I have a gut feeling my brother doesn't know where it should be place, rather not even sure what we're talking about.

You see what it means, in my granny's eyes, I am naughty, rebellious, don't-care-family. I used to be naughty and rebellious, but I do care for my family. My maternal relatives have a very bad impression on me. And you know how rigid the higher generation are. Once they determine the type of person you are. You'll NEVER change, unless something gargantuan happens and reaveal your true self, be it good or bad. It started not because I was naughty previously.

They think of me very badly because my Mom complains about me accepting Christ. I told my parents about my faith about a year plus after I've accepted Christ. Just the fact that I'm a Christian, and that I refuse to listen to their persuasion to renounce my faith, I am a bad kid. There are other stuffs like sleeping late and I used to be in network marketing despite their objection. Other than these 4, I really can't think of anything. Why do I deserve to be looked upon with disgust?

This is only one occasion, and the one that awoken me. Another significant one was my uncle. (4th Aunt's husband) We were talking about me being a Christian. (Due to my Mother's complains.) And it came to a point where I said, because Jesus changed my life, and I am a new creation with a life changed for the better, a better person. And he had the cheek to say, "ermm, actually no leh, I don't see any change in you." You see me only a few times in a year, how do you know whether I have changed, how do you even know what I was like before you heard my Mom's complains. I've never done anything atrocious and I have respect for the elders.

Recently, there were more frequent family gatherings. Mother's day and stuff, birthdays, Dinner invitation. And I feel very oppressed. They will constantly say sarcastic and piercing things hinting about my faith. And then the next moment, they're all smiley and joking. AND HERE I AM SUPPOSE TO SWALLOW YOUR ATTACK AND THEN LAUGH ALONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? That was what I did. I am called to love the world and tolerate. (Tolerate doesn't mean everything tolerate, but in the council of the Lord. Please don't think so stupidly if you are.) Family? you boycott a person and you say family? I'm already trying very hard to prove my changed life to them for a very very long time already. And they simply jump to conclusions and hurt me.

Nobody's on my side. Because my parents still dominate over me, there are certain things i'm not supposed to do, but I'm forced to. During the festival where we Chinese will have to clear our ancestors grave, one of them is to carry joss sticks and offer our respects. There are Christian brothers and sisters who know about me and hope that I do not carry the joss sticks. In the end I carried it. Of course some of them knew and were disappointed.

Then once, I was chatting with another Christian friend, A and she had similar problems like mine. A gave me a testimony saying that she refused to carry the joss sticks during a funeral. It was commendable, with your family pressuring you, I can understand that. Then the Christian friend, B whom knew about me giving in about the joss sticks exclaimed "See she also the same but she never hold it." For a slight moment I was pissed.

I carried the joss sticks because I want to see the dawn of redemption for my family. And my refusal to hold the joss sticks could result in destructive consequences that would hinder the salvation of my family and their impression on me would be no different from a delinquent. And my situation is not exactly like A. I am the type of person who will be willing to 'chiong' and believe in deliverance but things are not just black and white. There are many things to consider and I put my family salvation above many things.

I didn't blame B for making such a remark, because B does not understand the difference in situation and my reason for holding the joss sticks. It just made me seem alone. But I've been surviving up till now all thanks to the grace from God. And he has showed me a sure sign saying that he will deliver me. But that's another post for another day. Things like that happen for a reason I suppose. I think the Lord wants me to bear all this suffering so I can learn from it, grow and be stronger for the things in the future.

PLEASE READ AND GET IT IN YOUR HEAD
All you atheist bigots, don't you dare spout your nonsense about my faith in my blog. I will not entertain you and may the wrath of the Lord be upon you if you do. And I'm quite sensitive about this matter so please do not tease me regarding this. And don't any of you tell me what to do with my life, unless you have something of substantial and depth, and or you are Khalis or Carmen. This is my relationship with God, and it is kind of none of your business. I will need your prayers desperately my friends. I really do. But don't be afraid to ask me regarding anything out of concern, because I know I may be unclear at some parts with my poor description.

Taken from Dictionary.com, pronunciation by me.
Dogmatic (dorg-meh-tick)
1.Relating to, characteristic of, or resulting from dogma.
2.Characterized by an authoritative, arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles.

Late Nights

2006-06-19T23:38:00.001+08:00

I realised how unhealthy my lifestyle is, and how its taking a toll on me. I'm practically doing all the "don'ts". But one thing I'm proud of is, I don't eat unhealthily. I abstain from cup noodles.

Firstly, I sleep late. (like real late) It's common knowledge that late nights are very unhealthy and it's almost like slow poison. Because our body is affected by the Sun, from solar energy. If the Sun doesn't come out for 7 days straight, our bodies will weaken. Our organs in our body in our body will be in a lazy mood when solar energy is weakest. From what I know, from 11pm - 1am, our kidneys wants to rest. From 1am - 3am, our livers chooses to rest. So it is best that we go to bed around 11pm. Late nights arent very helpful to our complexion also. Because we get heaty.

Which also explains why suppers are really unhealthy. When we eat at night, it'll mean OT for our stomach, and overworking our organs. We have to consider the welfare of our organs, it won't be desirable if they unite and go on a strike. Thus, avoid supper if possible.

Back to my unhealthy lifestyle. I don't take my meals regularly, and unless I have morning lessons, I skip breakfast almost 30 days a month. Breakfast is our most important meal. We absorb nutrition most from what we eat in the morning. Not taking meals regularly makes our digestive system unhappy too. Making them work irregularly and destroying their uniformed lives. I should really start eating meals proper.

I bathe late too, usually after 11pm. As late as 2am sometime. When we bathe, our pores open and with the cold night winds blowing through, it will encourage rheumatism indirectly/directly.

Lastly, I don't hydrate myself adequately. They always say 8 glasses of water a day, I only fulfil like 2 or 3. Thus the yellowish liquid byproducts.

I've actually been living like this for about a year plus already. And I suffer from ridiculously poor memory and I sometimes feel abit senile. It's frightening. At times I try to do something about it, like once I drank water whenever I had nothing to do. But I only address one problem which is not enough.

Also I always feel lethargic and heavy laden. Which makes me unwilling to do anything productive. Well I'm going to change from now onwards. Going gym later and start my healthy lifestyle. Here's a picture to show you my change, I'll prepare my protein drink and then sleep. You guys should also avoid all these unhealthy habits! Tag and broadcast to the world that you will change!

I used to have much better complexion, and my nose now has alot of pimple scars. And I look much much older. The difference is only a year. I know the difference is hard to tell, I should have used another picture.

Post Note : Well one thing to be happy about is that the bag I want is available and the owner will be back in Singapore on 22nd June. And the transaction will be made. Hoo~

Blessed to be a blessing

2006-06-19T00:04:00.000+08:00

Someone gave me this website to go to and I want to share with you people. Its an experiment to test if they could bless a million people in 100 days. They succeeded and even surpassed the goal. the 100th day ended on May 15 already, but what harm is it to receive a blessing? I blogged till 5am yesterday and I want sleep. The way they describe a blessing is very apt and true. I'll summarise it for you.

Have you ever given much thought to what a blessing really is and how it works? Although there are numerous definitions, most of them fringed with religious connotation. A blessing is basically an expression of goodness/goodwill. It is a way of conferring happiness and prosperity upon another, a sign of unconditional approval, and a conduit between souls.

A blessing acknowledges Good that is inherent in our world. Burdens, pain, suffering and lack flees from a blessing the way darkness flees from light. It is impossible to bless someone else without being blessed in return, because when our minds are focused on offering good to another, there is no room for thoughts of our own troubles and woes. And in that moment when our thoughts are removed from that which bothers us, it loses its power over us.

A blessing is the most divine expression of unconditional love we are capable of expressing. The soul connection between ourselves and those we bless demonstrates our relationship with a Higher Power and allows us to recognize evidence of the Divine in others. By embracing the true essence of a blessing, we keep love circulating. We become One with those we bless.

Though not always visible, there is within everyone and everything a divine and holy spark of goodness. Whenever we bless any person, situation, or thing in our lives, we are, in essence, recognizing that goodness, acknowledging its inherent value, and in so doing, fanning the spark into a flame. Each and every time we bless another, we don't just make a difference, we heal the world.

That is what a blessing is.

On a non-religion level, any human in the right mind will understand the importance of blessing others. A bless could be a simple encouragement, a consolation or any minor acts of goodwill. Whoever said it required adornment of water or oil?

Seriously, don't you think this is what the world is lacking? The world is enfeebled with sinful and self-satisfying imbeciles. This world can no longer endure eternal, it will come to an end. But that does not mean we abandon the idea of living a life with compassion and ethics. Please take some time and watch the movie. Tag about it too.

Here's the link. http://www.mayyoubeblessedmovie.com/

ZOO for FREE!

2006-06-18T03:48:00.001+08:00

Who says the Zoo is only for kids/families/KIDS?? This Zoo Trip we went today was a great deal of fun. I had free tickets because Berty had complimentary passes he received from his Dad. It was supposed to be a Church Youth outing, but the youth were dilly-dallying and failed to give Berty a solid confirmation thus in the end, not all the youths turned up.

The amazing thing is, I REACHED Ang Mo Kio MRT station at 10.35AM, our meeting time was 10.30. Can you believe it? Being only 5 mins late for a morning meeting. I'm not getting tardy anymore. Well I'll let my pictures do the talking now. But its not everything I've seen though, my camera has limited memory space.

We were welcomed at the entrance by the fake elephants you see in the background and all these kids riding on the uber-cute kiddy rides. Each animal plays a random kiddy song each time its in operation. And there's a button you press that plays those 'bang bang' toy gun sounds. Each ride is $2, it lasts from 1 - 2 minutes.

Ben & Jerry's. I totally love B & J's, what is Häagen-Dazs? inferior peanuts compared to the antagonist. The shop looks so colourful! Theres no other ice-cream in the world that can replace B & J's in my heart. I'll do anything... ANYTHING!

See I told you, I'll do anything. B & J's is my love, nobody snatches her away from me. NO ONE.

They didn't allow photo-taking in the gift shop, but I just had to take this picture back for you guys. FOR YOU GUYS!. If you're thinking about gary, no, nobody makes gary balloons.

A desperate female peacock strutting around aimlessly, looking for its Prince Charming. I would suggest the Jurong Bird Park. What are you still standing here for? GO.

A really scary and menacing spider. But the spider is at the other side of the web that's why I dare to go so near to take the image, it wasnt zoomed. The colours and the shape freaks me out, even just by looking at the picture. One more thing, the actual spider is a little bit bigger than it is on your screen. (1024 X 768. If you screen is much bigger, go away. Maybe you can pass me that monitor, then you're still welcome here. =3)

Lazy Polar Bear. Look at its hind legs, so cute.

This little thing here is called a Marmoset. It is so little, you can carry it with only your palm. Their face is so tiny, it's about the size of a 50 cent coin. you can imagine the size. It's amazing this creatures aren't a wee bit shy, I'm actually standing right infront of it, yet it doesn't run away. Rather it was busy minding its own business, maybe spotting 'Chio Bus'. I think my camera skills are not bad, don't you think?

Jaguar. Unlike leopards, they have a dot inside their circular spots.

Here's an interesting Rhinoceros. It was doing nothing but looking at that pile of dung. Is Hanning very interesting? I can't fathom what's so interesting about Hanning.

The 3rd totem pole from the left is exceptionally suave. Yes. we ALL agree. YES WE DO!

Soft Shell Hui Hui, ermm turtle. They look damn cute. But I didn't time to wait for them to turn around. Sadly, we don't get to see how HH's relatives look like. I know. I should have put Hanning's picture in the Rhino's picture too, but well, I lazy to find her photo.

Tian Zhong! I found your long lost brother.

2 uber cute baby Kangaroos playing in that puddle. So obedient, they didn't leave that pool of water at all.

Penguins really do march. Its not just in the cinemas. They subtly remind me of Kian Hui.

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Mickey Mouse. I actually took another picture which was much much much more cuter. But I deleted it by accident. So sad. The other picture had mickey popped out its whole head at a different and much neater hole.

I would like to refer it as the retarded duck. It rushes to knock into the glass panel, then retreat back to dry ground, then starts charging at us/glass panel again and again. Entertaining though. But I would rather have it in my stomach.

A Mule. A cross breed from a male Horse and a female Donkey. Sadly, they cant reproduce. Horny Horses. By the way, you'll get a Hinny if you put a male Donkey and a female Horse together.

Billy Goats! Billy Kids! I wonder why are they jaunting around only on that small platform. Just by looking at them puts a smile on your face.

And now... A Bigass picture of me!

Your Prince Charming.

Yeap that is all, I had B & J's ice-cream later on when we left which was 'orgasmic' but I didn't have enough space to take a picture of it. Some of the pictures quite professionally taken right?Tag yea?

when things go awry

2006-06-17T02:19:00.001+08:00

Today didn't turn out that well for me. You can call it a bad day. Cause you had a bad day. You taking one down. You sing a sad song just to turn it around. Bleah. Incidentally everybody's kind of asking me for Daniel Powter's Bad Day... (the song above.) I have no idea why. Isn't it an old song already? Sorry guys, this post may drag a bit, but I don't feel so good. So let me 'niam' my 'geng' (chant sutra) for awhile

First off, I went to school today and all fired up, full of zeal to do some Major Project work. So happy that I'm so hardworking. Out of SO many computers in my MP lab, mine had to be faulty. The damned computer just refused to start up and get cracking, it took me like 30 - 45 minutes trying to jack it up. Taking away my precious time and also my enthusiasm, I got fed up and used the computer beside and started surfing the net. I couldn't do any work as my files were over at my PC.

After tagging in my blog and surfing around for about 20 minutes, that irritable computer began to start up on its own. HOO~ Hallelujah! But still, I didn't felt as energetic as before and only did abit of work. I should have taken a picture of the damned PC, but well, I'm still a noob blogger. But amidst the net surfing I found something to delight about and I'll get to that very soon.

Secondly, before I begin. I want to apologize to Hui Jin and Ying. I'm sorry. The water-bottle you gave me on my 18th birthday is... spoiled. There is a hole at the side of the bottle and water leaks out, so I can't use it anymore. But I'll never throw it away. I'm really still deeply touched with that present I never though I would receive, I couldn't believe you guys will find time and get me a present. If you're thinking about the plastic bag, it's still with me.

I never throw any gifts away, even if its spoiled. I thought I could start to use that bottle outdoors when I buy my bag. But now, that desire is destroyed. And I'm unwilling to get a new bottle, I think I'm going to find a way to repair it and use it. YES! decided.

I think the plastic happen to be the weakest at that spot, thus the puncture. Sorry HJ and Y 3=.

Thirdly. Remember a few post before I said I wanted to collect my RED hair and then take a picture to post it up? It cannot be done now. That strand of hair that I collected has it's colour depreciated. It's no longer RED... It's more of dark red now. (I think I hear Kaili smirking. "/ ) Another plan ruined.

I mentioned earlier on about something gratifying I found over the internet, I find it rather a betwixt in this case. Its something welcoming but could be a disappointment. Firstly I want to thank Kaili, for suggesting to me to look for my bag over the Internet. Stupid me, why didn't I think of that earlier on. I actually found the bag I was aiming for, I wasn't having any hopes on actually finding the bag.

1. There's alot of products that vy for your attention but are nothing in related to your search. For e.g. I was looking for Puma, but Nike, Addidas, Stussy all came out. 2. The bag I wanted was in the market for quite some time already.
3. Puma is not as popular as their adversaries in-line...(Nike, Addidas) in Singapore at least.

But in the description it was expressed as black/green, and not black/red. I'm abit worried as one of the earlier products I found from the same user was black/green. So there maybe a possibility that he doesn't have the black/red bag. So its like showing a child a nice lollipop then throw it in a dustbin. Sucks bigtime. Anyway here's the picture.

Sorry Shellen, I only found the black/red. There was no sight of your white/green bag.
http://auctions.yahoo.com/sg/i:Puma%20Bag%20for%20male%20n%20ladies.(%20ant%20adidas,nike,reebok,fil:100323431

Besides all this, there's still something else that really dampened my spirits, it isn't convenient to be posted here. KS, I think you should know. Ok I really should stop complaining about such stuffs already. People overseas are worrying about surviving and yet I'm whining about petty circumstances. I'm going to the zoo for free later, hope it'll turn things around. Tag yea?

Reminiscing

2006-06-16T00:52:00.002+08:00

My brother came back from his hostel today and will be staying at home for awhile. (Holidays) He was packing the table from the other room to clear space for the computer and suddenly shouting "Wa Heng, I nearly threw this away" and then proceeded on to come into the room and toss it over to me. It was my autograph book that collected dust over the years. If he ever did throw it away, I would skin him alive.

It really brings back the days.

Doesn't the thought of autograph books bring you back to the good old primary school life? It made me remember our interests then, the things we talk about, the way we innocently view the world. Well I'm not sure about the kids now, due to the garbage from mass media. But during our time, it was still much better.

Then as I was flipping through, I was laughing about the usual 'creativity' that was injected each time anybody writes on other people's book. The kind where people would fold the page like dog ears, writing something that restricts you from opening that flip and inside, a lame message. And no one ever desists opening the flap. Here's one.

I know, Pointless.

Well I'm cutting down on words and more pictures, I'm sure its something nice for a change, must balance wordy and pictorial content yea? So here's some nice write-ups.

NurHafizah. She puts effort into her write-up and has a good colour scheme, it's just nice to me. She has a very friendly personality.

Ashikin. Neat handwriting, has the generosity to put a sticker and even has other creativity content like using words to describe me with my initials.

Sam. (it's his surname, how cool.) One of my best friends, also has similar small built like me, has jokes as content, it's kind of funny even until now. Creative!

Doreen. Amazing effort obviously, sticker madness! She was really a sweetheart, a girl with real compassion at such a young age, mature too.

Joel. A good and honest friend. (Gosh i miss him.) His colours used are quite light but the cartoon he draws never fails to put a smile or a laugh on my face each time I read his write-up.

Reeney. Siok Yee says we used to hate each other. (Play sense) Funny thing is, I don't remember it myself. Very sweet layout.

Siok Yee. I like the colour scheme. The ink from the pen used to write the Message, Suan Jie, and Best Wishes part is cool. I look at it now, and I have this feeling that the person whom wrote this isn't exactly a kid. (At the time it was written)

Bear in mind that what I was before was nothing like now. When I was younger I had quite a number of acquaintances but lesser then average good friends. I was rather eccentric and weird in a sense, and considered abit of a class joke. An undesirable. Anyone of you have autograph books? Tag it! Tell me!

I need a bag

2006-06-15T01:48:00.001+08:00

I didn't expect myself to be blogging now though, As KS has said, I've had a headache. But now that I'm sober, I realised what I had wasn't headache, but lethargy. I caught sleep for like only 2 hours the previous day, the night seemed to pass very quickly, pastor had a mini story-telling session, shared with us crucial content that pastors are usually unwilling to do it on a sermon level.

It wasn't very long, but pastor complained about sleeping and thus we the youth(only 5 stayed over.) had to catch some sleep too. From the whole thing, what I got was a very 'icky' mouth and zombie mood. As all of you know(I hope.) I'm wearing retainers now and if I don't get to brush my teeth and the retainers for even a single day, it's going to be quite unpleasant.

Firstly, retainers not only retain the shape of your teeth, but also, excess saliva. Here's the deal, If the collected saliva rests on the retainers for too long, the liquid hardens and changes into a glue-like substance. (Like those twist-out-glue you see below.) Which also means, you can't wash it off with just water, brushing or rubbing of the retainers is required. And just before I did this entry I was brushing my teeth(which was why I woke up too), and don't you hate it when you burp while brushing your teeth with the toothpaste lather all over your mouth? I could smell/taste the 'Cai Dao Png'(fried rice with long beans and other stuff) admidst the fresh darlie toothpaste. Eww.

In a way it also makes your teeth area have the gooey hard saliva substance that is totally 'icky'.

It says : GELSTIK; Disappearing c o l o r; Glue Stick; Color disappears when glue dries FOR OFFICE & SCHOOL; NON-TOXIC. Wow, kids nowadays have really fun stationery.

Which comes to the point of my topic, I need a bag bigtime. Most of you don't really have recollection of me carrying any bag... realised? The only bag you see me carrying around is my guitar bag, or the occasional paper MTV bag. (the landyard is really cool.)

front view of sissy bag.

back view of sissy bag.

Here's why I need a bag. I need to carry all of these at once; Tissue paper, toothbrush, toothpaste, retainer box, water bottle, pen, camera, Bible and maybe my file if i'm going to school. (I might throw in my deordorant.) Of course, exclude other necessities like my wallet and my cellphone. And I can't use this bag, I need a bag with compartments, to organize my stuffs, unless I only need to bring a few items, this bag would prove useful. Otherwise it's nothing more than those plastic bags you'll find in supermarkets, but prettier.

Some of you should know, I have sinus problem and have an almost permanent blocked nose, and tissues are a necessity for me. (I've been surviving without tissue all this while thanks to toilets with toilet papers.) Of course toothbrush and toothpaste, it's best I brush after every meal, otherwise it just seems to me like a total waste of money if I don't take special care of it.

Retainer box, standard yes? Water bottle, it has more uses than just hydrating yourself, trust me on that. A pen? its universal remember this phrase 'the pen is mightier than the sword'? it's only wise to carry such a powerful weapon around with you. And yes the Bible, I'm Christian. A Christian whom delights in sinking himself in God's Word.

I once was eyeing for that PVC cum 'leatherish' Puma bag, main colour is black and with some red here and there. But I kind of feel its virtually impossible to find that model already. The outlet over at Takashimaya doesn't have the model anymore. If any of you have any 'lobang', PLEASE tag it.

RED HAIR!

2006-06-14T11:59:00.001+08:00

Min na-SAN Gomaena sa e!! (Sorry everybody!) I stayed over at my church's chalet over at Changi. (SAF chalet) Which was totally unplanned for, otherwise I would have informed you guys in the last entry. What kept me to stay over was the movie 'Hotel Rwanda', again, I will not encourage any of you all to watch, its kind of abstract, but Kelly, watch it! Ok, back to the entry.

I have red hair! I don't mean reddish hair, I mean RED hair! I do see myself on the mirror and notice that I have red hair, but well except for me, no one else knows you see, so I'm blogging about it. And recently one of the RED hair that fell off, landed on my shoulder and caught my attention. This gave me an EXCELLENT idea.

From today onwards, I will collect all my RED hair and then take a picture to show all of you! Kaili, I really have RED hair, not reddish or brown. I took a picture of that strand of RED hair, but isn't very obvious.

Very hard to see from here too. But as I collect more of them, it'll look more obvious.

Well actually, my mother used to say how cute I was, how obedient I was when I was young, and then now, so rebellious and uncute. Then she'll go on to describe how soft and curly my hair was, and how everybody looked in awe with my red shade of hair.

So it makes me wonder now, doesn't that make me an 'angmoh'? (red hair/caucasian) Hmmm, but I don't remember them saying anything about foreign blood in our ancestral line. So anything about you guys when you were young? Tag it.

RED Hair Collected : 1

It's finally done

2006-06-13T00:07:00.001+08:00

Juz B, abit blur though.

I knew its going to happen sometime very soon. But I didn't have empty entries to blog about it. Which is the elimination of Juz B in 'Fei Chang SuperBand'. For those of you whom haven't watched, well sorry, it's a spoiler here. But such things are unavoidable as later explained. In fact, Juz B has travelled to Taiwan and Taipei, and has won other awards locally too. (I missed the first performance by 'Man Tou' due to So You Think You Can Dance. Gonna catch it on Saturday 11am. =3)

Firstly, they are an all-Malay band. I understand that they did specify in the beginning that this competition is not restricted by racial differences. That I think, is because they are very aware of the fact that many of the bands in Singapore usually have more then just 1 race. Therefore, cater to these Chinese bands with Malay/Indian/Caucasian... friends.

I know you can argue about qi:nobe, except for 1 Chinese, the rest of the 5 are Malays. But the main thing in all bands, the focus and the representative is usually the lead vocal. In this case, the lead vocal is a Chinese, so it's still okay, well Singapore is a multi-racial country after all.

I'm no racist, but if you think about it, if an all-Malay band wins as a champion of a Mandarin oriented band competition, by only using their vocals to present Chinese songs, what does it show. It would serve a very big impact on society. VERY. I don't even want to think about the consequences.

So in such sticky situations, here comes Entertainment Politics Clause 1. (Haha, no such thing, made up by Sunny Tan) Here's the situation, all-Malay group heading towards end of competition. All-Malay group is very strong and somewhat professional. AH HAH! Lets make all the other groups strong and surpass all-Malay group. Decided.

Seriously, don't be surprised by this. I don't mean tempering with the votes towards Juz B's disadvantage. That would be breach of the audience's trust, and chargeable in court. That's how entertainment politics come in. Like my friend, who is a victim due to unknown reasons. The producer made him sing a song that he did not auditioned with. Which made him suffer very low points. (Refer to archives.)

And I think I hit on the nail about the current situation. Here's why, each week as you watch 'Fei Chang SuperBand', we are of course expecting growth and improvement for all the bands. But thinking about it, there are a few bands that suddenly have a professional breakthrough. 1 example is 'Mi Lu Bing', their breakthrough started with 'Guo Huo', leading with an outburst of fan-base. I felt that they handled the whole song very well. I believe in one way or another the SuperBand crew has constantly been overseeing their performances and providing aid in a way too. It is their responsibility that the bands should not perform in any way unappealing to the audience, thus reducing viewership.

And of course if they were to take away Juz B only much much later, it would only seem that the politics undertaken is obviously prominent. Don't you feel Juz B's performances seem to be abit off standard for about a few weeks already, although the judges were commending them, but the negative pointers seem to gradually increase? Also take note judges are also under the whole system's anarchy.

Don't take the results show lightly too, The way they position them, the way they reveal the safe groups 1 by 1 which is not determined by the percentage of votes. Why? Because the way they slowly save the groups will inevitably strike an impression of the groups to us audience subconsciously. Thus affecting the votes for the different bands. Many little things provide clues for this entertainment politics in action. Sorry for another girl-unfriendly post, but well... tag it yeah?

Writing Style

2006-06-12T02:54:00.001+08:00

Sorry for late post once again. Reason, DotA and supper, and abit of CSI. I just want to discuss and talk about my style of blogging and your preferences. I've heard things from you people like, so political, can write about different topics, too long, too serious, hard to read. Thank you all for the feedbacks.

Personally, I think, I don't like to blog about my day, as in treating the blog literally like a diary. In my Cause column, I've stated that I'm using this blog to contain my thoughts and memory, at the same time maintain our bond. It pains my heart to see that few years down the road we would be no different from strangers.

When I do blog about my day, I just blog the important and significant events, things that I would like to remember in the future. Also, if I do just blog about just my day, it would seem that you my dear readers have no life and need to read other people's blog to have a life. (Seem only, of course we know such thinking is not true.) Those of you, whom have your own blogs and write such entries, please do not be offended.

And those who feel that my posts are all very long, I would say, it's because of the skin and font size. I don't think the posts are very long, the narrow space makes it look long and the small font makes it eye-unfriendly. But frankly speaking, even if my posts are long, that's because I write entries with depth, not shallow and forgettable content.

Lets take the previous entry about my retainers for example, its just retainers, but it's a whole entry about it. I could just easily post it off as "OH, I just got my retainers hoo~ and it sucks." the end. No, my aim is to educate you people about my retainers, about the ugly box and the different retention plans. See, I've just add something into your general knowledge, it benefits you people too yes?

I started off this blog thinking about making you people laugh, using Singlish + Hokkien, which is a comical combo. But if I do that I would be guilty of desecrating most of you people's command of English. It is desirable for me to have more readers, as I want to let people know of my thoughts and perception, and get feedback. So I love you all and in fact I wish to improve your English along the way. (Also, don't feel shy if you need to ask a meaning of a word even after using Dictionary.com.) Reading helps, A LOT. Reading is one of the best habits in the world.

I've gotten myself a camera, a Kodak EasyShare CX7330, 3.1 Mega Pixels and 3X Optical Zoom. Which explains the pictures of my retainers. I'm doing my best to make the posts less boring and already cutting down the length of the posts. By doing that, I'm actually removing some important content. I choose the best of course. Anyways here's the camera. Images from Yahoo Images. Tags thanks.

Front view. Smile~ Ka Ching!

Back view. Friendly interface =3.

Top view. Help I can't get up from my back!

Delayed Freedom

2006-06-11T02:18:00.001+08:00

Sorry for late post once again, was playing DotA with KS and later on my brother's friend wanted to chat with his girlfriend for a while so this post was heavily delayed. Apologies. As the title suggests, part of my freedom is delayed, if you guessed my teeth, correct you are. Except for a few, nobody knows about it yet. I went to collect my retainers on Friday and hell I thought it was going to be friendly.

Most of you think retainers are just worn at night, some of you think retainers must be worn 24/7, well all of you are correct. There are different retention plans for different cases, my just happen to be quite dreadful. I'll educate you people about the different plans first. There are full time plans, which mean you have to put it on 24/7,(unless eating or brushing) for either 6 months or a week or so. After the full time retention, usually worn only at night for a few years. Also, there are fixed retainers, which are usually kept in place for 5 years.

The plan my dentist gave me is the 6 months full time retention, I know it's unlike the fixed retainers that lasts 5 years but I'll get to that. The retainers I'm wearing now is sickeningly uncomfortable, it collects saliva and it makes me talk like a baby, in a retarded sense. Compared to the braces, these retainers are much more of a hindrance.

The top retainers.

The bottom retainers.(abit blur)

RARRR I AM GOING TO STRAIGHTEN YOUR TEETH.

The cool part of the whole thing is the pink part is casted from a mould, and the mould replicated from my mouth. So the pink part fits EXACTLY into my teeth and gums, perfect fit. I remember the first time they tried to replicate a mould from my mouth 3 years ago, I vomited. It's like digging your throat, causing me to throw up. This time I didn't because the interval where they made the top mould and bottom mould is much longer than before.

Of course again, I repeat that I will not show my teeth with retainers to anybody. Not even if you kill me, I make sure I will blow my mouth to smithereens before my last breath. So don't waste your breath and saliva on making that request. But I didn't say anything about that million-dollar savings account you have. =3. You know what I mean.

If you were wondering where I would put my retainers if I were to be out having my meals, I would tell you the ultimate solution. Just put in a box. There's this yellow box given(not exactly, my mum paid for it) by my dentist, and it looks just totally gay. Do I look like spongebob to you? I AM SUNNY TAN. I demand a WHITE box.

the totally gay yellow box.

RARRR... I'm going to ermm... contain your retainers BWAHAHA. wha-what? thanking me? you should be begging me not to do that.(self-entertainment)

Well, I intend to get another box, probably smaller too because its really bulky. So anyone of you whom know where I can get a fancier box, do tag it, especially you braces veterans.

White and Zero

2006-06-09T23:24:00.002+08:00

White LeoZ. zeropower_87. Zer0-Jurisdiction. You people have seen these names that I use over the internet. My internet name, email address and blog URL respectively. Why white? Why zero? It will be explained in this post. This post will describe and inform you guys abit of myself. From here, you can easily tell my favourite number is Zero and my favourite colour, white.

White. The almost unseen entity, the basis of every manifestation of the mind. Casted from a union of primary hues but stands as the fundamental. The state of void, yet a plethora of endless bounds. The embodiment of light and the Omega of a contrast value.

My fondness for white only bloomed during my secondary school. Previously, I did not like any specific colours, because I always thought a single hue is always not enough. I liked all the colours as a whole and didn't have any preference. Once, I was in need of a shirt and Desmond Lin lended me one of his, it was a white long sleeve shirt, was abit big though, but it still fits. I found myself cute in that white top in a way, at the same time, started to notice the colour itself. Thus the birth of my predilection towards white. Incidentally, white is the fusion of all the colours.

White LeoZ. I'm a scorpio. This name led many people to think i'm a leo, but simply put, I used LeoZ because it sounds and suits best after the word white. I wanted the name used to be of a star sign, to add aloofness in the name. White ScorpioZ sounds weird yea? hmm White ScorpZ... Nah, sounds cheesy.

Zero. The digit that emblematize annihilation. Transcending the infinite, defines itself the Alpha, Set as the denominator, it equates to omnipotence. In power during an index notation, it reduces multitudes to singular forms.

Personally, I don't see zero as nothing, I see it as a strong number. Zero is the only the number that is constant, in a sense that in mathematics, as long as zero is a multipler, it always returns itself, if any number has zero as the index power, the equation always ends up as 1. Also it has the potential to be infinite, If you take any digit and divide it by zero, you get an infinite value. I have been intrigued by this number since young, even up till now.

zeropower_87. Obvious now isn't it? The strength of zero, power of zero, amazing. And of course, i'm an 87 baby. Zer0-Jurisdiction. It means no authority, the world has no authority over me, and I constantly remind myself that I want to leave all judgements of all my decisions to God, none of myself.(check the meaning of jurisdiction below.)

Find any similarites between these two? They both symbolise nothing, at the same time, ALL. Which makes me a both 'All-or-nothing' and 'All-and-nothing' person. A pastor once said, all of us are all zeroes, we are nothing. But Jesus is 1. If we put Jesus infront, we are a 10, a 100, a 1000, a 1000000 and so on. Ever wondered about such things? Tag it.

definition from Dictionary.com (pronunciation is from me)
Jurisdiction (joo-reese-deek-shen)
1. Law. The right and power to interpret and apply the law: courts having jurisdiction in this district
2 a. Authority or control: islands under U.S. jurisdiction; a bureau with jurisdiction over Native American affairs.
2 b. The extent of authority or control: a family matter beyond the school's jurisdiction.
3. The territorial range of authority or control.

Nostalgic Peace

2006-06-08T21:05:00.000+08:00

It was about yesterday,I didn't blog about this yesterday because I wanted this to be a post by itself. Alright, backto topic. It was when I was going to meet Hsien Wei, Kaili they all for movie which of course you know we ended up in KTV. Before the movie event I was somewhere in Pasir Ris, and it was still kind of early so I decided to take a bus 65 down to Somerset rather than the train. At the same time I can collect tokens from my bus-concession. But on reaching my house area, time was already running late. I didn't have a choice but to take a train down from Eunos MRT.

Bus 12, 9, 8, 21, then 93. It took me 5 whole buses to reach Eunos MRT! HOO~ i'm so happy, collected a great deal of tokens. Also, it ate up alot of time and thus I arrived last on reaching Orchard. Rights, back to topic. The last bus that I took, which was 93, was a double-decker bus. Its the non air-conditioned type. Classic.

The kind where you have to use brawn to open the windows for the wind to blow in, and if the friction is stronger then you, you'll suffer in stuffiness. The architecture of the bus was so archaic, the stairs, the layout of the seats, the whole outlook, makes me reminisce about the good old days. Where you see schoolkids running to the back of the bus throwing their bags over the seats. Unlike now, there used to be a big space behind the back seats, big enough for four people to sit on top.

At that time I was already very 'sian' and was sleeping in the previous 4 buses. But the moment I stepped into 93, I felt a homely feeling, somewhat old-school, somewhat worry-free. Then the driver proceeded on to tell me its going to the interchange, because it was only 2 stops away and people don't usually get up the bus on that stop. (heh token.)

As I walked further into the bus I was instantly refreshed and no longer sleepy. I sat all the way at the back in the middle seat. The time was around midday and it was cooling, the wind flowed in gently and abated the heat in the room. Its been a long time since I felt so stimulated, so calmed, so fascinated by the things around me.

The bus simply exudes a homely essence it made me felt like a home, the smell, the aura. Inevitably it reminded me of the days when I lived with my grandmother. Many flashbacks ran through my head and fixated a smile on my face as my gaze was upon the almost dainty and picturesque architecture of the bus.

Do not be mistaken, my home still feels like a home, I have loving parents. Hahz, hope I get to board those non-airconditioned bus soon enough. The ride lasted only 2 stops, I was so reluctant to get down, even though I was late meeting them. Sat something like that before? tag it.

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A series of changing events

2006-06-08T00:39:00.000+08:00

Sorry for the late post, got back quite late today. Quite tired right now so this is going to be a 'wake up, brush teeth, wear socks, open door' post. Preplanned things were all kind of altered today in a sense. First was lunch, I was supposed to eat with a friend today, but my Dad bought back lunch for me, which cancels the lunch appointment.

Second was the planned show a friend and I were going to watch at my house today, we were planning for a long time to watch Fantasia 2000. Sadly, due to some annoying factors, we weren't able to watch the show. Third was the dental appointment for my retainers over at NDC (National Dental Centre). By right it was 3.15pm the next day, but I received news that my retainers would probably be unfinished tomorrow. So the appointment is pushed back to Friday, 1.30pm.

Fourth was the movie we planned to watch during the evening. On reaching there, the guys claim that we have no proper seats to the movies available to watch, also blaming me because I was the last person to arrive. But bullshit of course, they could have easily bought my ticket in advance. Unable to watch our movie, we paved our way to Party World KTV by feet.

Blogging abit about ktv, party world is cool. Because they have nice chairs and the songs, Superman and Wonderwall by 5 for fighting and Oasis respectively. Hoo~ As usual, I had a blooper, it was On going back, I was walking first ahead. I muddle-headedly went into the wrong room, that was still normal the funny thing is, since I was abit high at that time I tried to be funny and barged into the room banging the door with my shoulders like those policeman you see on TV.

How humiliating, I hurriedly gestured a sorry and ran back into the right room. (LUCKILY I didn't go into another wrong room amidst my panic.) Then suffered teasing from them. Other than that, ktv was cool. OK, you can really stop laughing now. I'm so going to expect an explosion of laughing tags at the right. Sigh.

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Scary Cat

2006-06-06T23:45:00.002+08:00

This part was the last part of the previous post, and I have a feeling not many read till the end, so i'll repeat. Since all of you readers have emails, I suggest you start earning money from it, http://www.emailcashpro.com/?r=whiteesh sign up for free inside and you'll find out more along the way. For those of you who knows Emiliyana(BNSS, Dip in INM), Isn't THAT HER ON THE FRONT PAGE?

From this point on, if u feel easily affected and intimidated by horror shows or ghost stories, i suggest you skip this post. This post is not any ghost story but a personal experience, i've done my warning, and will not blame you for not reading my blog for once. Its not exactly scary, but if you think and picture it from my description, might be scary.

I was on my way for prayer meeting just now, walking from the interchange, passing into the cluster of HDB flats, just as I walked into one of the flats, I saw a big black cat, quite fat beside one of the rectangular pillars infront of me. The pillar was around my 10 o'clock direction, the thinner side of the pillar facing me, at the other end, was the big black cat. As I closed in, I noticed its fur on its side to be messy, as if after a fight, but no wounds. View picture below

By the norm, if u step onto the same ground of a cat, within about 6-7 steps, the cat would have noticed you, look at you and run away if you come any closer. In this case it was different, bizarre, in fact. As I walked to the cat, it did not notice me, it was in its crouching position, or maybe it was just lying there, but seems like its crouching because its fat. it was looking straight ahead intentively,(my 11 o'clock direction) but there was nothing infront upon looking. The moment I reached it within a distance of 2 steps, it abruptly turned to me, for a cat to take so long to notice was weird, it was in the night and its quiet, cats are nocturnal creatures, they are more active and alert in the night.

Peculiar enough, here's the scary part, it turned to me very suddenly as though shocked, but it's body did not jerk, only the head. At this point of time you would expect the cat to look very fierce and its heading looking up to me. But no, it's head was tilted, rotated clockwise at a signifcant angle, not 90 but around 45. Almost like a zombie, how spooky. Also, it's expression was not fierce at all, which made it even more creepy. Its expression was a blank expressionless look, not the blur-blur kind, but the kind where like somebody at you intently, eyes like popping out with no expression.

Its eyes were somewhat funny too in a sense. You know some blind people, their eyes seem like theres something in it, beside the pupils. Not like Chen Weilian, but those with some defects in their eyes.(I think you call them cataracts.) Yes, that cat seems to have something like that too. Its whole turn-around action was like a spoiled robot, jerky and unusual. Its was the tilted head and the expression that I cannot forget, I told my pastor later on and he told me to pray about it. Not a very friendly sight. It almost seems like if I looked on 1 more second, it would pounce on me hysterically. People out there, pray for me for divine protection from God yea?

CAFE NOVA JOKATISMENT

2006-06-05T22:37:00.000+08:00

I am really bewildered that such an advertisement could actually be accepted by the bosses. Its hilarious, the way I see it. I couldn't find the exact advertisement over the internet but i'm sure those of you who did watched SuperBand would have seen the advertisement. Keep in mind that Cafe Nova advertisements are cartooned form except for the main character.

The advertisement starts with Vincent Ng(Weng Qing Hai) jumping off the plane, face looking very excited then poofs! he pulls his parachute open. it was ridiculous, Ng holding his cartoon parachute, now looking even more happy. upon landing, he sees a car infront of him. Yes for free. Then the advertisement proceeded on with Ng seeing a man drive past him. With his male ego taking over he gets into the car and raced with previous car, now acting very serious, of course still looking happy.(its a mix of a serious face with somewhat a smile) Being the main character, he overtakes with ease and find the ending point of the race to be Cafe Nova. Ng and the other driver then comes out from the car and smiled at each other. As usual, they then drink coffee and CAFE NOVA... blah blah blah.

Now, what was the whole message of the advertisement? How has this advertisement promoted its company's product? Why show exciting sports like sky-diving and pointless racing that linked comically to promote a packet coffee? Is Cafe Nova very exciting to reach? now now, are you promoting your packet coffee or your imaginary Cafe? Why must Ng race when that unknown man? are you trying to promote dissension and strife among your target audience? Before that, why is Ng always smiling? The only purpose I cant think of is maybe you want him to make him a cartoon character to blend into his 'budget-ed' surroundings.

Please forgive me if i'm too critical, thats how polytechnic education in IT has taught me. Even deciding a background colour for your website you must support with reasons, what more a whole advertisement. Imagine Jonathan Pillai watching the advertisement, I want to hear his critics.(by the way, he said well done in my MP assessment, I actually think I presented poorly, reason, if i'm too good, it might show very obviously that my other half of the group is weak, therfore must moderate abit.) Oh and yes, why use Vincent Ng to promote your packet coffee? drinking Cafe Nova gives me a nice clean cut body?

Michelle Chia was good, first, she's a woman, woman tend to help sell things better, 8 out of 10 best salespeople are women. Plus Chia has a certain poise and if you want to inject elegance into ur packet coffee, job well done. BUT WHY NG??? maybe the marketing department in Cafe Nova finds the world is getting gay and now choose a man to showcase their product. And since you cant get Vincent Ng to sing like Chia, cause its too downright gay or he just simply couldn't sing, so parachutes and car racing suits him more. Maybe Cafe Nova should film him practising wushu, the extra caffeine from your product can help people stay awake more can have more wushu practice.

Serious joke, these people, tsk, you guys should really look out for the advertisement, and have a good laugh. Oh yes, Since all of you readers have emails, I suggest you start earning money from it, http://www.emailcashpro.com/?r=whiteesh sign up for free inside and you'll find out more along the way. For those of you who knows Emiliyana(BNSS, Dip in INM), Isn't THAT HER ON THE FRONT PAGE? tags man.

Peversity

2006-06-04T23:31:00.000+08:00

I was watching "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" yesterday with my brother,(after I published the previous post.) thus not playin dota with you ks, sorry I didn't inform you. I'm too lazy to get off my bed and my brother was sitting at the computer, providing inaccessibility. I found the show to be well done, it stirred many things in me. I was shakened, I saw many similarities between me and that man devoid of sanity. I'm glad I did watch the show.

I've read somewhere saying that Adolf was a decorated war hero, a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never cheats on his wife. I think not many people know what this means. You are a rich political group leader, yet you don't enjoy yourself with delicacies. At that era, everybody smokes, as long as you're male and you can afford.(I don't mean females don't smoke. do not be mistaken) It's amazing he don't really drink. if you need me to explain this, tell me. And not cheating on his wife, lets not say cheat, its more of him not fooling around with ladies, he has never flirted with anyone before.

If you think this is nothing, lets talk about another superpower leader, Winston Churchill, he took opium in college, drinks whiskey every evening, quarter of a bottle, got kicked out of office twice before. Its easy to say such things, but to be really be disciplined, different world. Its amazing how a man can be so focused on his goals. I would go about with other superpower leaders, but I don't want to drag his post too long. (due to the lousy blogskin) Adolf Hitler is one man we can really learn from. I don't mean his actions. I am not a Hitler fan, neither is this post.

It really shows me how a perversity of a man can take over. Lets just say a good and talented man has been consumed by his malevolence. But I won't encourage anyone of you to watch the show though, why? none of you will appreciate the show. I didn't blog about the show, else it'll make it look long, so sad.

The perversity of the mind surfaces when fear and trepidation no longer torments, or simply takes over the soul.

If I didn't had Jesus, there is a possibility I might become another Hitler. How scary.

Transcript on No Birds

2006-06-03T23:02:00.000+08:00

Yo people, i'm doing a transcript on mr brown's podcast once again, well, requested by Kui Siang. I know its lame, but I want to get this post done fast, my brother came back from his hostel and is snatching the computer with me. He is now bathing and I want to use this chance to blog, I don't like people see me blog, unfortunately, he'll think i'm crazy if I call him go out the room for awhile cause i'm blogging.

Today's podcast transcript is on the VISA advertisement whereby the caucasian flaunts his wealth and VISA card by buying all the birds in the market. Why you ask? because he witnessed a girl too poor to afford 5 birds and could only afford 1. Oh you mean why he buy all the birds? his maths hopeless i suppose, don't even know 5 - 1 = 4. Then since he rich he skips the step of doing that simple calculation and proceeded to buy every single bird he can lay his hands on. here's the transcript written by KS and editted by me.

Scenario 1a

Boy : Excuse me. My sister is going on a journey today. I would like to wish her good luck. 5 birds please.

shop owner : I am sorry, no more birds dar, that bloody Richard Gere buy every single bird in my shop. I am retiring now.

Scenario 1b

Boy : (crying)

Passer-by : Goodness, gracious me. Why are you crying, my child.

Boy : Damn you Richard Gere, damn your eyes, damn your grey hair, now my whole family is going to die!

Passer-by : Goodness me, my child. Why?

Boy : Because that Richard Gere buy all the birds, so I cannot wish them any luck.

Scenario 2

Wife : Darling~~ Why you car is full of bird shit dar...

Husband : Damn that Richard Gere-a. He let go 10 thousand birds dar.

Wife : Why he do that?

Husband : Some girl want to buy 5 birds, not enuff money, only got enuff money for 1 bird.

Wife : Then he could have bought 4 birds, so that she would have 5 birds.

Husband : Damn you Richard Gere, damn your stupid grey hair, damn you lousy at mathematicis american actor. (this was the grammar used, no typo)

Scenario 3 (hokkien)

A : Hah lo ah uncle. Wa ai buay jiao. (hi uncle, I would like to buy birds)

B : Ah, ler ai buay simi jiao? (oh, what bird would you like to buy?)

A : Ler wu simi jiao? (what bird do you have?)

B : Wa simi jiao ma wu. (I have all kinds of birds)

A : Wu lam sek eh bo? (Do you have blue birds?)

B : Ler ai buay lam seh eh jiao ah? (Oh, so you want to buy blue birds?)

A : Ah. Wa ai buay lam jiao. (Yes I would like to buy blue-bird)

B : OEI! Mai lai wa chi dao luan zu kong jiao wei hor. Wa bo buay chi kuan meng gia eh. Ai buay ka meh buay hor. Dang eh si ang moh ai ka wa buay ka liao liao. (OEI!. don't spout nonsense in my shop. I don't sell such nonsense, Hasten up if you want to buy birds, else that damn caucasian buy all of my birds.)

Epilogue 1

shop owner : I am sorry, no more bird dar.

Man : Ah duay. (its a sneeze to them)

Shop owner : Nor sneezing. Please no sneezing in the set please.

Shop owner :We are recording in the show.

Scenario 4

Racist : Ok, abit noisy ar. All these stupid chinese people, talk talk talk talk talk. You think this is marketplace? Wait, it is market ar. Heh heh. SorriE.(people laughing)

du du du du du du du du du du (du-ing the VISA advertisement song)

Epilogue B

mrbrown : Tell them sing for me the ah ah ah song.

Ah er er er~~~ Ah ah er er er~ Ah er er er er ah ah er er er er. (ah-ing the VISA advertisement song.)

The mrbrown show is produced by mrbrown.com and miyagi.sg and 10 thousand stupid birds.

Okok my brother rushing me right now, he came in along the way but wasn't looking over here. Alright, I better go before he comes back, tag about this yea?

Freedom at LAST!

2006-06-03T00:51:00.000+08:00

As of today, I am officially free of the torment that has encumbered me for almost 3 YEARS!. Now, I am going to fly and soar above with the eagles, I can now sing(dammit an ant bit me as i'm typing this. alright its dead.) in sync with the heart of nature. Hah, well as some of you already know, i removed my braces today. HOO~ look! all the birds and deers and rabbits crowding around me to hear my mesmerising voice. My voice now puts sirens to shame(Oei don't fool around ar, Slithice, the Naga Siren is my best DotA hero.)

Exaggerations aside, I actually kind of developed feelings towards those braces, and I miss those fragments of steel somehow. Surely, they have brought me intense discomfort and unwanted restrictions, but they arrange and aligned my teeth in the process. Haiz, Moy Moy will understand this feeling. (Oh crap! I have not informed Melissa Moy of this blog. Going to spam her after i'm done with this post.)

My only regret is, I didn't get to see the removal of the braces. Within a minute, the braces are gone from my teeth. Its like your ermm pet just died and you didn't get the chance to see it through its last few breaths, something like that.

Surprisingly, only two people realised on their own about the missing of my braces, first was Wilson, was from my secondary school, I was simply talking to him casually as we're not that close and he realised, from a distance too, so to add. The other is Herby. Aiyo, the rest of you ar, abit 'pa jiao' leh. 'Kuku' Herbert tell everybody about my removal of braces then I can't test them, even though I instructed him not to.

Strangely, my teeth turn out differently from what I expected, in a bad sense actually. The arrangement of my top row of teeth seems to be protruding(Ba Geh). 3 years of suffering with disappointing results. I'm not sad though, just too bad for me I suppose, when has life ever been fair? But i have my dear Lord Jesus. hoo~

Its been a long time since i've ever felt how teeth feels like, with the braces gone, my teeth now feels so friendly and I can move my mouth so freely, can fly. Feels so comfortable all of a sudden, then ther are gaps between my teeth, near the gum area as my teeth somehow is abit 'V' shaped, with the narrow side in the gums, then there's a little space in between some of the teeth.

It took me a long time to realise that I have been fiddling with my mouth all along, either i'm using the skin inside to caress my teeth or my tongue, feeling the smoothness of my teeth. At one point I used my fingers to massage my teeth, unknowingly. Even after realising it, I just still can't stop. I forgot to add that i've been blowing and sucking air through the gaps of my teeth, its so addicting. I believe all of you have such experiences too.(STOP DENYING)

If you're anxious and keen to look at my teeth now, the long awaited product of my 3 year operation, I have to apologize but I won't bare you my teeth, WHAT CAN YOU DO? I REFUSE to show it to you. I refuse to show you my protuding teeth(Ba Geh). So I'm using this blog also to announce to you all that I know that I have protruding teeth and also helping you to save your breath as I will not show you my teeth. Not even if you kill me. I will blow my mouth into smithereens before my last breath, forfeiting you to see how my teeth looks like. don't blame me, life's never fair.

I believe most of you have been told putting braces on is a painful process, there is pain, nonetheless but its mostly discomfort. No pain no gain they say. All in all, go get braces, its very fun. removing the braces was abit painful, bled quite abit too. But my teeth feels really damned clean.

Da Vinci Crap

2006-06-01T22:54:00.000+08:00

Yeap, as you guys have predicted, I watched Da Vinci Code today. Sure, the movie was well made and entertaining, anything supported by the the dark side will definitely be au fait in a worldly sense, meaning, the devil would be more than happy to see attacks on christianity, thus his "helpful" aid.

I guess by now, all you people know that the Da Vinci Code is totally fiction. It's truly entertaining and has a plot that induces the mind to think. Such achievements are considered over-ambitious by many writers and many writers aspire to produce such amazing storylines, but few succeed. So luckily for our happy Dan Brown, earning big bucks and swimming in his pool of gold with lots of bikini women making some merry.

As a christian, Da Vinci Code is crap and a direct attack on my faith. But still, i look at both sides of everything, Da Vinci Code is riduculous by itself. It proclaims itself as a fictitious, but in the preface, it claims that all descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate. Fiction my foot. Ridiculous audacity he has. It is true that there are many facts and accurate points in the book, like for example 1 + 1 is still equals to 2, an if you drop an apple, it'll fall to the floor.

Here's 20 amazing crap in the Da Vinci Code. taken from http://www.charismamag.com/display.php?id=12860

1.The Bible was invented by Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century.
The Da Vinci Code reports that "Constantine commissioned and financed a new Bible," one that left out the Gnostic texts and included the four traditional Gospels. In fact, Constantine had nothing to do with the making of the Christian canon. He is not even mentioned in the standard Cambridge History of the Bible. The traditional Gospels were recognized by virtually all Christians 150 years before Constantine. (Our dear emperor wasn't even born yet.)

2. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gnostic Gospels are the "earliest Christian records."
Not so. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947 and date from 250 B.C. to A.D. 100. However, these documents have virtually nothing to do with Christianity but with various Jewish groups, rituals and ideas before and during the time of Christ. The Gnostic Gospels offer a twisted and heretical version of the Christian faith, but they didn't come into existence until about a century or more after the death of Christ.
The earliest Christian records are the writings of the New Testament.

3. The Gnostic Gospels present a positive view of the feminine.
The Gnostic texts are said to picture a human, sexualized Jesus who embraced the sacred feminine. Actually, the Jesus presented in the Gnostic material is often simply weird, and the underlying ideology tends to be radically anti-feminine. Consider this bizarre passage from the Gospel of Thomas: "Simon Peter said to them, 'Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve life.' Jesus said, 'Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven.'"(What a joke!!! nobody respects anyone whom makes sure ludicrous statement. But everybody listens to Jesus and stand in awe of Him. obvious joke from Gnostic Gospels)

4. Early Christians did not believe Jesus was God's Son.
This is a bizarre claim, rooted in either willful ignorance or blindness to the obvious. After 2,000 years, people continue to debate whether Jesus is the Son of God. But what has never been subject to doubt is that early Christians confessed that Jesus is God's Son, as the following Scriptures indicate: "Simon Peter answered and said, 'You are the Christ, the Son of the living God'" (Matt. 16:16); "But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son" (Gal. 4:4).

5. The Council of Nicea (A.D. 325) invented the divinity of Jesus.
Contrary to Brown's claim, the famous church council met to clarify the divinity of Jesus, not create it. There are thousands of references to the divinity of Jesus in Christian literature and archaeology before the Council at Nicea. This includes the hundreds of claims in the New Testament and the witness of early church leaders through the second and third centuries.

6. Jesus was really a pagan or a witch.
No standard reference works on witchcraft ever include Jesus as a witch or pagan. The novel attempts to argue that Jesus was a copycat figure of ancient pagan deities. This view depends on totally ignoring the Jewish context of the life and teaching of Jesus. If Jesus had been a pagan or a witch, this would have been noticed by the Jewish leaders who opposed Him. (make sense yeah? the Jewish would notice and will tekan him upside down.)

7. Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene.
The novel claims that there are "countless references" to their union in ancient history and that the topic "has been explored ad nauseam by modern historians." First, there is nothing in the New Testament or other first century material about such a marriage. Second, there is no explicit mention of the alleged marriage in the Gnostic material of the second and third centuries. All we have in the Gnostic material is one reference to Mary as the "companion" of Jesus. That word, however, does not usually mean "spouse" or "wife."(Even the twisted documents which are the Gnostic Gospels only have ONE reference.)

8. Jesus and Mary had a child named Sarah.
The novel claims Mary was pregnant at the time of the death of Jesus. Joseph of Arimathea, her uncle, helped her move to France. There she gave birth to a girl she named Sarah. Mary and Sarah found refuge in the Jewish community in France. We are told that "countless scholars of that era chronicled Mary Magdalene's days in France." This is nothing but historical junk first made popular by the 1982 potboiler Holy Blood, Holy Grail. There are no ancient documents supporting any of these claims, and no scholars of that era chronicled these alleged events. (also, in the Bible it says that Mary was the first to eye-witness Jesus' Resurrection, not getting gan jiong and packing her barang to run.)

9. There was a smear campaign against Mary Magdalene in Catholic tradition.
To the contrary, Mary Magdalene receives positive attention in the Bible and in Catholic tradition. In fact, she is regarded as a saint, and her Feast Day is July 22. As a close disciple of Jesus, she was one of the first witnesses of His resurrection. The mistaken view that she was a prostitute did not arise until A.D. 591 when Pope Gregory I confused her with a prostitute mentioned in Luke 7:36-50. (very intelligent Pope I might say, what can I say? he hails mother mary.)

10. A secret society named the Priory of Sion started in 1099 and has protected the bones of Mary Magdalene and documents about the bloodline of Jesus Christ.
This is one of the most significant blunders of The Da Vinci Code. The Priory of Sion was actually started in France on May 7, 1956, by a con artist named Pierre Plantard (1920-2000). The Priory was first a civic organization. In the 1960s Plantard created the mythology of a secret society led by figures such as Isaac Newton and Leonardo da Vinci.(significant blunder, but it holds the most weight in the book. you cant disagree with me that Da Vinci Code is getting more absurb as we progress.)

11. Ancient documents about the Priory were discovered in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris in 1975.
The Da Vinci Code refers to these alleged parchments as Les Dossiers Secrets. These documents are not ancient but are actually forgeries done by Philippe de Chérisey (1925-1985), a co-conspirator with Plantard. They were not discovered by the French library in 1975 but were placed there by Plantard in 1967. Both de Chérisey and Plantard admitted the hoax before their deaths. In fact, Plantard was forced to admit his fraud before Judge Thierry Jean-Pierre in a French court case in September 1993.

12. There are historical lists of the Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion.
Actually, when Plantard invented the Priory of Sion he copied most of his list of Grand Masters from lists of alleged leaders of other groups, such as the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, a secret society founded in America in 1915. Plantard also changed his list of Grand Masters as he adopted different conspiracy theories about his Priory of Sion.

13. The Holy Grail is not the cup used at the Last Supper but the bones of Mary Magdalene.
The novel states that "the quest for the Holy Grail is literally the quest to kneel before the bones of Mary Magdalene. A journey to pray at the feet of the outcast one, the lost sacred feminine."
The Holy Grail legends started about A.D. 1180 and continued through the 19th century. They never involved claims about the bones of Mary Magdalene. Isn't it amazing that no Priory of Sion member has ever given in to the temptation to reveal the location of the bones of Mary Magdalene?

14. The Knights Templar guarded the bones of Mary Magdalene and four huge chests of ancient documents about the bloodline of Jesus Christ and the French kings who descended from Him.
The Knights Templar is a religious military order founded in the early 12th century. Hugues de Payens, a French Knight, led eight comrades in the campaign to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land. It has never been argued in the historical material about the Templars that they protected either Mary Magdalene or documents about French kings. These claims are the inventions of Pierre Plantard, who declared at one point that he was the descendant of Jesus and the proper heir to the French throne. (if you find yourself laughing at this point, its normal)

15. Leonardo da Vinci was once the Grand Master of the Priory of Sion.
The Priory started 437 years after the death of the great artist. Not one Leonardo da Vinci specialist in the entire world has supported the view that he once headed a pagan sex cult. James Beck of Columbia University calls this "total nonsense." Leonard da Vinci scholars have convened special conferences in order to debunk the novel's false claims about the famous artist.

16. Leonardo da Vinci placed Mary Magdalene next to Jesus in his famous painting The Last Supper.
In da Vinci's time everyone believed that this person was John, the beloved disciple. Renaissance art specialists have always noted that John was painted in a rather effeminate manner. The painting was not meant to reveal the identity of a woman but the tension created among the apostles after Jesus says to them, "'One of you will betray Me'" (Matt. 26:21). Of course, even if da Vinci put a woman next to Jesus in his painting, this would not tell us anything about the real Last Supper more than 14 centuries earlier. (the purpose of the Last Supper was to depict them arguing about who was the betrayer, theologians found John to be quite feminine anyway.)

17. The Catholic Church killed 5 million women during the Witchcraft Inquisition.
The women targeted as witches were freethinkers, scholars, priestesses, gypsies, nature lovers, mystics and midwives. The novel radically misinterprets the nature and scope of the Inquisition. First, both men and women were targeted as witches. Second, the female victims were generally older and were not from any specific class or profession. Third, the deaths totaled no more than 100,000, counting both males and females. Most important, the Inquisition was rooted in the real belief that certain men and women actually worshiped Satan and performed diabolical acts of evil.

18. French PresidentFrancois Mitterand ordered 666 panes of glass in the pyramid at the front entrance to the Louvre.
The novel adopts a false rumor that circulated in French society two decades ago. Mitterand did not order 666 panes of glass to be in the pyramid. In fact, the public relations office at the Louvre informed me that the pyramid actually has 673 panes of glass. (obvious things like these he still can thick-skin go alter. intelligent of him yes? very credible person indeed.)

19. Early Jewish as well as Christian tradition involved sex ritualism in worship.
There is not a single hint in the entire Old Testament or in Jewish history that sex rites were part of temple worship. Jewish males did not engage in sex with priestesses in the temple. The word "priestess" is not even used in the Old Testament.
In the novel Jesus and Mary Magdalene are pictured as the ideal participants in an early Christian sex ritual. This wild claim has no basis in history, either in terms of early Christian tradition or even in reference to Gnostic documents. (another attempt to create an accurate document.)

20 True worship involves sex ritualism.
The Da Vinci Code states that "historically, intercourse was the act through which male and female experienced God" and that "by communing with woman … man could achieve a climactic instant when his mind went totally blank and he could see God." The Da Vinci Code will bring great harm to every innocent religious seeker who follows its endorsement of sex ritual as the path to God. Brown is surely bluffing in his rhetoric about sex in worship. It is impossible to imagine that he really believes his own novel's ideology. (ultimate joke.)

No doubt, the Da Vinci Code is successful and entertaining, but reading about its ludicrous accuracy gives me more entertainment. I wouldn't try to talk anyone not to watch the show but, get your facts right about the accuracy of the show.

Idea Tank

2006-05-31T23:39:00.000+08:00

I'll be trying out a larger font size in this entry, trying out if this would prove more eye-friendly reading to you lovable people out there. Sorry this entry would be abit pointless cause 1. I want to rush this post before 12am, because by 12am it would be a new month! and I want it to be still a post under May 2006 Archive. 2. I have a proposal yet to be completed and the deadline is tomorrow.

Wednesdays and Thursdays are the two best days, on Wed, I have only two lectures for lessons, 9am Japanese lecture, 12pm ECAD(E-Commerce Application Development) lecture. Two lectures only, but me being a model student, refuses to skip any. Thursday(shiok-est), one ECAD tutorial at 12pm. Amazing. (Lectures and tutorials last an hour each)

I think i'm beginning to enjoy this major project semester. I left the campus today at almost 8pm. Doing major project the whole day, like since 10am. Deducting lessons and lunch, I spent around 8 hours in the major project lab. I simply love my hardworking self, so very much satisfying. If I could, I would show you guys what i've done today, but the file is a swf file and I have totally no idea how i am going to put in this blog, you guys can get it personally from me through msn though. The best part of major project is, if you really discipline yourself to spent time to do some work in your major project lab, doing major project can actually be entertaining... well at least for me. Everybody in the lab is in a relaxed mood, no pressure, no stress (exclude last minute work). You work while you play and chat and see yourself getting the job done, gratifying.

Well I love Macromedia Flash and my major project is based on Flash. The project is about a platform where users are given sets of many items like shapes, line, letters and numbers. There is a stage where they can drag their items onto, maximum 10 items, minimum 5 to create a design or pattern. Users can save their project thereafter when they are done and is loadable from the opening scene. The game name is Idea Tank. Sounds boring? I feel so too, but its a game proposed for the school's open house to promote creative thinking. Even so, I have fun doing the project and I am determine to score a high grade. I'll just put in all my effort and let God do the rest.

I hereby apologize again for this being a 'wake up, brush teeth, wear socks, open door' entry. Give me some grace and time. I'm a noob blogger and I have a proposal to complete. I think the larger font size should rock. Tag yeah?

reality show madness

2006-05-30T23:47:00.000+08:00

Hmmm, starting from this post, I will type in perfect english with proper spelling, and of course, Sunnyish. I cherish all you readers and will take the extra effort to be conscious of the language so as not to affect you in any way in your english. Please forgive me if there is any errors along the way, since we all suffer from "can't-type-proper-english" disorder thanks to MSN Messenger. And please feedback if you prefer the imperfect English writing style, since i personally feel that way is more endearing. Alright, here we go.

In every single channel of ur TV, there has to be at least ONE reality show.(Exclude those from cable TV) Lets name a few: Amazing Race, Survivor, Fear Factor, American Idol, Singapore Idol, 'Jue Dui Superstar', Campus Superstar, Superhost, 'Fei Chang SuperBand', Vasantham Star, Anugerah(Suria), 30 Seconds to Fame, One Minute of Fame(Kidcentral, like what the...) And will I BE surprised if i missed out any.

But just look at it, look at the hefty amount of reality TV we are subjected to everyday? isn't it abit of an overkill? Undoubtedly, these programmes fetch viewership lavishly for our dear TV stations, and yes, along with the tons of millions of dollars if you're talking about idol competitions.

Lets just zero in on idol competitions, wouldn't want to drag the post too long. We'll start with Singapore Idol, I believe some of you know I went to queue overnight for the auditions, (hah, affected by idol fever craze, Father forgive me.) let me take this chance to explain what happened to me. Herbert, Mark and me were in it together for auditions. (Thanks Angela for your tent, but sadly I went too late and there wasn't sufficient space to set it up 3=) We saw and heard many beautiful voices and figured out our position. We did practise together and assessed each other, that was the coolest part of the whole thing.

Totally different from what you people saw on TV, the group of people whom auditioned us were I suppose, of producer's level. No judges. Maybe the judges were a level after the producers. All 3 of us didn't pull it through, but I dare say we have good voices. Herbert was with me in the same room for auditions, Mark, another. All 3 of us feels Mark has the best chance of getting in and were dead sure he would get in. Mark had his auditions before us, and he informed us of his failure immediately, while we were like still waiting for our turn. That was so demoralising. Our feet and palms turned cold, the already intense jittery in us worsened.

Herbert and I couldn't picture ourselves to be in anyway nervous, before the auditions that is. I think it could be partly the work of God too, well having idols in our hearts is a sin and here we are paving our way to be idols.(aiya... sinful) Yeap, and to worsen things, while i was singing, my phone rang. Amazing situation then I tell you. That kuku Mark call me. Imagine, everybody silent and looking at you, and the cracked 'Bu De Bu Ai' MP3 ringtone is playing in the background. Two seconds stun for evrybody then the crew and the Judges and other crew bursting into laughters and me, apologizing profusely and shutting the phone up.If anybody can still give 100% of their voice in such situations, (exclude untalented thick-skinned fools) I call that person Dad or Mom. (I can hear my polymates laughing their asses out, especially Lemuel Tay)

Rights, back to the topic. During our queue, we received a flyer that states, ermm something like 'Be a STAR' or something like that. anyway the purpose of the flyer was to recruit people in acting for trailers and advertisements for Singapore Idol, Anybody interested were to call a given number. And that made me realised how some people with such cock faces or hopeless voices could make it to audition infront of judges past the producers level. Most of the auditions you see on TV are probably fake. Should be through that flyer all of us received. Our dear William Hung has struck it rich through a probably fake audition, how miraculous.

Imagine, your own album and all the glamour, ALL through a damned probably fake commercial. (don't ask me why I put probably so many times i have my reasons) But well, what can i say? entertainment politics. Entertainment politics (or whatever you call it) is not funny and not to be trifled with. Recently I had a friend, Tuck Wei, whom joined in a song mimicking contest, through 'huan le dian feng' a Channel 8 show every monday 8pm. Hanning you should know, we were on the phone watching together remember? Haha and also, many people saw me on the show too, I'm part of the audience. Hoo~

And the thing is, Tuck Wei auditioned to mimic Alex To's 'Jia Gei Wo', he rocks doing that. He got through the auditions and were qualified to perform on TV. But the producers MADE him sing 'Lee Sheng Jie's' 'Shou Fang Kai'. Tuck Wei isn't too proficient in doing that and it is not his purpose for coming to the show at all. They sure suck alot. In 'Huan Le Dian Feng', after you perform you are asked to show if you have any other talents to show, Tuck Wei is one hella multi-talented freak, right Hanning? He can dance he can sing can imitate other celebrities' speech style and singing style, especially 'Kang Kang'. One of his side-performances was mimicking Alex To's 'Jia Gei Wo'. Jack Neo commented he mimic Alex To better than "Lee Sheng Jie'. Entertainment politics... Tuck Wei deserves to win the competition hands down, but he didn't, thank you screwed up producers.

I actually wanted to blog about Superband too, but well its getting kind of long and you guys probably falling asleep, thanks for tahan-ing up till now. Say, do long entries interest you people? as in not those 'wake up, brush teeth, wear socks, open door' that kind, but something of what you've just read. Tag yeah?

Transcript on Ba Chor Mee

2006-05-29T21:38:00.000+08:00

I noe its like vry outdated alredy but its still holds deep meaning to me and a few ppl. Den oso i need 2 chiong major project now. muz save time on blogging... yeap. In fact, do you guys noe da meaning behind the whole ting? its not only to make fun of J*mes G*mez. Well the thing is, during the GE(grand election), there was a case wher J*mes G*mez had an issue about submitting forms regarding the election tingy, with his claims that he did submit the form, the cctv camera proved his statement false.

Taking advantage of this the P*P have been very aggressively hot on his tails for an explanation, but he, J*mes G*mez has refused to stand out to explain. The reason why, i've heard tings but they're juz a hearsay so i wun b bloggin it here. yeap n as i was saying, regarding this matter the P*P has continually non-stop tekan poor J*mes G*mez for many many days, professing reservations of his credibility.

And u often hear remarks like small tings like submitting form he also got blunder how can he handle a country... bla bla bla. But me n many other ppl feel it is really a small matter. its true is weird 2 make such a mistake but the way they hafta blow up the matter is ludicrous. But the P*P has succeeded in their 'tekan campaign' as people i hav spoken to whom nvr really catch up wif the GE has been poisoned by P*P n hav vry negative impression on J*mes G*mez. So this podcast has portrayed da absurb persistency of P*P to its truest essence.

I duwan to go on about J*mes G*mez background n qualifications, it'll be so persistently political. government dun like. anyway disclaimer here ar. wateva that is written here shall not influence u in any way on ur political preference. k ar i say liao ar. duwan later tio dai ji i oso kena. yarp, heres the transcript of the dialogue between the Ba Chor Mee Man and Jeff Lopez, written by olivia n editted by me. ENJOY~.

BCMM: Halo uncle ar... ai jiak simi?

JL: Uhh..you have noodles?

BCMM: Of course got noodle la! I am the bah chor mee stall!

JL: Ok very well. err..one bah chor mee please. Mee pok ta, mai hiam.

BCMM: Mee pok ta, dry ar? Duwan chilli ar?

JL: Yes.

BCMM: Anything else?

JL: Err..no thank you.

BCMM: Kae………..

[Pak!]

BCMM: Na! Mee pok ta mai hiam.

JL: Um..thank you. Uh..wait wait hang on. This has tur kwa in it.

BCMM: Ya la..is got tur kwa liver wan wat.

JL: But I said I didn’t want tur kwa.

BCMM: No you didn’t.

JL: Yes I did.

BCMM: No you didn’t.

JL: Yes I did.

BCMM: No you didn’t.

JL: Yes I did.

BCMM: No you didn’t and I can prove it to you ar.

JL: Very well prove it!

BCMM: Ah ok! You karm over here. I show you the CCTV camberer of my stall.

JL: W-what?!

BCMM: Na! You see. You point to the mee pok, den..you say dry. den..you point to the chilli, den you shake your head. You NEH-er say you duwan to have the tur kwa!

JL: Oh… Ok... how much is this then?

BCMM: Can see anot uh? Can see that you never say duwan tur kwa? huh? Huh? HUH?

JL: I-It’s ok..I really don’t want to pursue the matter. How much is my bah chor mee?

BCMM: You agree anot? That you never say duwan tur kwa. Yan you tell me why you say you tell me you duwan tur kwa when you didn’t? Huh?

JL: Look. Can we move along now and let me eat?

BCMM: Nonono. You exprlain to me first.

JL: Explain what?

BCMM: Exprlain why you say you tell me you duwan tur kwa when you din say you duwan tur kwa.

JL: What the..Okok..I’m sorry ok.

BCMM: Sorry not enough. You must exprlain why.

JL: Explain why what?

BCMM: Exprlain why, you say you tell me you duwan tur kwa when you din say you duwan tur kwa!

JL: Ok fine. I’m sorry ok. Please accept my sincere apologies if my actions caused distress or confusion to you, the bah chor mee man. Look. It’s only a few pieces of liver. Let’s move on!

BCMM: Move on?? Move on your see lang tao la move on..! My shop always here. Ok? But sorry also must exprlain.

JL: Very well I am so sorry I am so sorry that I confused you alright?

BCMM: Sorry also must exprlain...

IDIOT'S GUIDE TO SUNNYISH

2006-05-28T21:22:00.001+08:00

This is the guide to master Sunnyish, the higher and more advanced form of English and Singlish. This will be a resource to help you readers to fully understand this profound blog.

ermm (er-mm)
a. To serve as a conversational start
b. To interrupt or stop a conversation
c. To provide a 0.35 second thinking time before commencing of speech

fulyo (fuu-yo)
a. An exclamation in immediate reaction to a/an shocking - situation, action, dialogue or event

hoo~ (HOOOOO)
a. An exclamation to put oneself and the atmosphere into a relaxed and fun manner after an event, usually negative has taken place.
[founder: Hard Gay]

gan jiong (karn jee-ong) adjective
a. Overly and exaggeratingly anxious
b. Unrequired excessive distress

hua (hu-ar)
a. An exclamation in immediate reaction to either a/an extremely shocking - situation, action, dialogue or event
b. To respond out of politeness after the end opposite party's speech, used in a informal way

jialat (cheear-lart) adjective
a. To describe a situation of considerable level of serious trouble
b. Screwed up bigtime

kanasai (kar-nar-s-eye) adjective
a. To describe a/an person,object,place, to a state equivalent to shit

L-series
a. To properly end an informal sentence
synonyms
la (lar)
le (ler)
leh (lay)
lor (lore)
liao (lee-ao)

lan (larn) adjective
a. To describe the whole being of a particular person to be hopeless
[founder: KWAN KAI LI] (special request 2 bold)

nao bu (now buu)
a. The cuter and more pleasant form of the abusive word - 'nar hia'
[founder: Sunny]

sian (see-yen) adjective
a. A feeling that induces unwillingness to do anything
b. An intense, lethargic and heavy feeling

siao liao (see-ao lee-ao)
a. A remark to depict a situation or a situation of a person as/in a serious predicament

sui (suu-ee) adjective
a. An exclamation in response to a job well done
b. Chio

tahan (tar-harn) verb
a. To endure or to withstand discomfort

wa piang (waa pee-arnk)
a. An exclamation in response to a silly and unproductive action of a hopeless person
b. An exclamation in response of a sticky and evitable situation caused by a hopeless person

zai (za-eye) adjective
a. To describe a person as commendable due to his/her abilities few can match
b. To commend an output or result

hehz... well that shud be about it... well if any of you come across any vocabulary too profound and beyond comprehension please tag under cacophony and i will explain personally. also, hmmm shud i make this as a column? so it will provide ease of understanding to newbies? tag yea.

shiok saturday

2006-05-28T04:08:00.000+08:00

To start off, its was ks's birfie bbq today n so i was expecting happening tings goin on. due to yesterday's late night i woke up like 1 lidat... shucks, shuden sleep so late health deteoriating. u all ar... dun sleep late oso, if not die early... (gosh look @ da time...)

lunch+justice league+superman+ print notes+change clothes+do hair den go ks hse. suppose 2 reach his hse like 3.30pm... but seeeeeee, got so many tings 2 do juz now, reach ther @ 4.30 reasonable rite? =3 hahz i tot i late like shit le. but nOOO~ da legend of the 'late assemble' proves it title. kuku hsien wei can come @ 5.30pm.

kk 2 da fun part... da bbq. well not exactly kinda fun. but da cool ting was da toilet was juz beside da pit... HOW COOL IS THAT? firz time so shiok. den da food surprisingly nice i was juz arguing wif ks ovr da absence of honey n i stuffed a chick wing in my mouth n it was tasty. exciting tings tat happened then was ks having cake on his face. n ermm... ppl say my guitar sounds cool! HOO~ simply overjoyed.

b4 i did da blog i had like ideas 2 write n stuff now sian leh... nth fun in my writing. well, tink still can la... heng now not so much ppl read. do my best 2 come wif 'zai' stuff in da next entry. (hey i juz got a cool idea. well tatz a next entry to come.) jialat so late liao bettter kun liao. later wake up still muz do my FYP. sorry so boring arr u people reading... tahan awhile.

Hooo~ its done.

2006-05-27T04:03:00.001+08:00

dum dee dum... i din actually visualised for a blog of mine to be materialised. but well i actually started tis blog... as in REALLY went to do a blog cuz of hui ting. shes like asking me my URL of my blog cuz of my msn nick/personal msg(wich evry body's asking me that too. thx peepos) and gave me a link to blogskins.com so i chanced upon tis skin n walAA~.

hahz dam blogger leh. make me republish n republish. den so unpredictable wan. actually had a point in time wher i actually wanted to heck it n delete my blog cuz it juz refused to complete publishing. but miraculously it did publish afta awhile (IT DIN TELL ME IT WAS COMPLETED).

yarp and as i was saying, i din expect myself to really start a blog. even now. but i've had numerous ppl asking 4 my link n stuff. well thank u all guys for having an interest in my writing. up till now i noe its kinda boring and u struggling to open ur eyes as u read but well wat do u expect from a virgin post? aiyo... look @ da time.