days of my life

It's quite exciting to have a phone with a camera function, because now whenever I see something interesting, I take a picture of it. The only problem is that my phone's camera has a clarity of only 2.0megapixels. Oh well, better a pixelated interesting picture than nothing at all, right?

Yesterday, I walked my usual way home from the lift, and then from one end of the corridor, I saw this:



At first, I thought it was a piano, cos it really looked like one. Then I went closer and realised it was a desk. And what was funnier was that there was a sign on it that said:



Hilarious! Status update: When I walked by again this afternoon, it was still there.

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Couple of days ago, when I was at Giant with my brother, I saw these humongous salmon.



I am wondering, who actually buys this??

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Last Sunday, I went to Lot 1 to have dinner. Actually, wanted to go to this place called Farmart, where there's a collection of various types of farms. But parking was a headache, and it looked like a place from a random part of ulu neighbouring country, so it was Lot 1 ("Somewhere with air-con," says my mother).

In the end, we went to New York, New York!. I couldn't resist taking pictures at all.


My lemonade, which was quite good.


Our starter, prawn fritters or something like that. My mother loved it, I don't really know why.


Meat platter for 2. More like, for 3 instead. The knife is there for comparison. The plate was damn big! Bigger than two of my faces put together. Okay, bad imagery. There was lamb, chicken, chicken (again) and nice sauces.

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Have you been to Raffles City Shopping Centre lately? I used to go there quite often, esp when I was still mingling with the masses on the MRT. It has changed quite a fair bit, and one of the changes was the toilet. That's right, folks. When Wensy told us the toilet was all modern and stuff, the 01S16 momoks decided to take a walk on the wild side.


The female toilet. Nice design!


The toilet. Okay I know there are many of these in Japan, but considering I've never really travelled much, humour me, okay?


A closer look at the controls.


And just in case you're totally confused by the cheem words, here are instructions!


And as always, when a bunch of 01S16 momoks flock into a toilet (esp if it's a nice one), we'll inevitably take a picture.

BTW! I didn't mention that only Momok Cheah actually used the controls. The rest of us only toe the line on the wild side, but Momok Cheah goes ALL THE WAY. HAhaha.

Memories:

PS toilet, circa. 2002. Was taken after a class outing to watch Lilo and Stitch.


Taken after a huge dinner at Hard Rock Cafe last June.

Okay, back to work.

what i did on a public holiday

It was an action-packed day yesterday. My band performed at the Istana! Not my band, as in 'I play in it' type of band, but my school band.


Pic 492: The conductor, taking a moment.


Pic 493: The conductor, in action.


Pic 494: I took a picture of this baby cos he was too cute for words. His father was holding him, and they were enjoying the performance. =D


Pic 495: Look! We had a CNA videoman videoing my kids. =D

I'd post more pictures of my band, cos I'm proud of them, but someone once told me that I shouldn't post pictures of students on my own personal blog, so I shan't.

We went for a little walk walk in the Istana office building. I really have no idea what it's called, actually. Then afterwards, the conductor arranged the kids into rows, and we took a picture with the President and his wife! A couple of the kids were quite cute, they were all, "Wahhh you shake hands with the President...!" Haha. Someone else asked me, "How wrinkly were they?" Pretty wrinkly, but in great shape for 80-year-olds, I'd say.

Then then then! Then I was too lazy to go all the way home, so I went straight to Marina Square for a gathering of my JC classmates. I had about an hour to spare, so I went walking around Marina Square on my own. I should not go walking around alone, cos all I had in mind was to buy a hair clip, to replace the very pretty one that I lost. In the end I wandered into a video shop and bought two VCDs. One was the most bimbotic, feel-good movie EVER: Bring It On. Hey, I like it k. I watched it so many times for the cheer routines that I can remember almost every part of the movie. The only part I forgot was how cute the male lead was. Haha. I guess this was the movie that introduced competitive cheer-leading in Singapore. But we can't compare, man, cannot at all.

Then I wandered into The Wallet Shop, and ended up buying a new pencilbox for myself. -_-" I really shouldn't be let loose into shopping malls on my own. Damage to my wallet was $26 (inclusive of VCDs). Sheesh. I'm just as bad as MotoBabe. Luckily I'm not a clothes person; I just have huge weakness for useable things like wallets and VCDs and makeup.

I saw my eye doctor when I was on the phone with Linda! Dang it! I would have said hi, but the window of opportunity slammed shut on me before I could even react. )= I'll only be seeing him in like, 2 months time. )= I better write it down somewhere before I forget.

So! I haven't gotten the pics from the other people, but here's what I got:


Pic 496: The girls! My Darling flew our kites last minute cos she had some family stuff to deal with.


Pic 497: Baobei and Dr. Ng, with the hugest Momok ever at the side. Dr. Ng isn't really Dr. Ng yet, but almost. Almost!


Pic 498: Me and my Baobei! She put on a little bit of weight. Keep it up, Baobei!


Pic 499: And this is Lewis, who had the misfortune of sitting next to JillJill and got teased by her (and us) all night long. It was so funny to see him get exasperated. We are mean ahhaahha. We were mean then, and we are still mean now. Hehe.

I had a slightly heated discussion with one of the guys regarding some educational issues. I'd like to state for the record that although sometimes I do not like my employer's policies, I am committed to what I believe in, and I'll do what I can within the narrow confines I've been put into. It just annoys me that some people have such great views about how the system can be changed, but I am not able to see these people effecting these changes.

Can I just state for the record that I don't agree that 'discriminatory' equals to 'segregation' which, in my classmate's opinion, also equates to 'streaming/banding system'? One of the reasons I got annoyed was is because of his tone of voice that was so cock-sure. Another reason was how he insisted that the current S/E/N/T system is 'discriminatory'. I just simply don't like the way he was approaching it. I guess if it were anyone else, I'd have listened and voiced my opinions in a calm, cool, collected manner.

Oh who am I kidding? When it comes to something I am passionate about, there is no calmness, nor coolness, nor collectiveness about me. In the end, since he is so fixed in his view, and because I also have not much to substantiate (that's why I'll never be a good debator), I ended up off with, "Okay." Then I turned to my poor melted marshmellow mudpie, which wasn't really all that fantastic in the first place anyway.

Who wants to go NYDC with me and grab a nicer mudpie?

convocations and mutiliated pooh bears

Hehe, I keep thinking of my colleague's description of her kids and I keep smirking to myself. Anyway, today she brought back a little 'souvenir' from her class. She said, "EH, show you all ah!" Me and Sari were like, "What's that????" The siao zha bor said, "It's a mutiliated pooh bear." SICK SHIT CAN. But I laughed cos the way she said it deadpan was very funny.


Pic 437: Basically her kids ripped off the head of the pooh bear, then stuffed a broken pen through the center of the stuffed toy's body. The kids are damn sick.


Pic 438: Sari and MotoBabe with the mutiliated pooh bear. They stuck it up on their divider, but it kept dropping down, so they threw it away. )=


Pic 439: MotoBabe's desk. Messy, hor.


Pic 440: Sari pretending to be busy at her desk. She so cute larh, I was taking the picture and the silly babe kept moving her head from left to right to left to right, acting busy.


Pic 441: My fellow co-teacher for one of my Math classes, also pretending to be busy.


Pic 442: This one didn't even know I was taking a picture of him.

I forgot to take a picture of my desk!!! But it has so many books on it, it's scary. Chris walked over, saw my table, asked me which stack I've finished marking, and I said, "I haven't marked any of them. The one stack I've marked is already outside." I can't find things on my desk most of the time. I can't find my DESK most of the time. Haha.

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Attended two convocations! I was there cos I could make the timing (in the afternoon), and also because I know it's damn shitty to be all alone while everyone else around you is taking pictures like crazy.


Pic 443: First, there was my Meimei! SMSed her to tell her I was on my way down, and she replied that she was still inside the auditorium, and "scared cos of all the balloons". Haha it amused me greatly until I got to NUS and got un-amused cos I parked very far away, and had to walk a great distance to UCC. >:(


Pic 444: Then I found a momok! The momok forgot to charge her camera batt properly the night before, so I ended up being her 'official photographer' for the rest of the afternoon.


Pic 445: Found an old classmate! She sat next to me all through sec 3 and sec 4, I think.


Pic 446: Then we were graced by the presence of a monkey and an Ah Loy, back from the cold harsh climate of Russia.


Pic 447: And I took my favouritest picture of the day. I Was Here!

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Then yesterday, I went for the Chen Zhao's convocation. Almost couldn't make it down, cos I had so much work piled on me, I wanted to die. (I say that a million times a day, and I'm still not dead yet.)


Pic 448: Only when I was searching for the Zhao did I remember that 6/6 Vision's commencement was on the same day too! Luckily he was standing near where Zhao was, together with his zha bor.


Pic 449: I always think it's damn weird when Kendo and the other parts of my life collide. I can never get used to the fact that kendo and non-kendo people know each other.


Pic 450: TimToh trying to make Zhao feel better.


Pic 451: Boon and Wen not trying to make Zhao feel better. I'm sorry, but Wen really looks like a strung out junkie.


Pic 452: A nice one with the guys being nice to Zhao.

I found another friend, and old secondary school classmate whom I used to affectionately call Piglette cos she could snort like Drew Barrymore in the credits of the first Charlie's Angels movie. But because I look like shit in the photos (only had 4 hours of sleep the night before, and 5 hours the night before that), I'm not going to destroy the aesthetics of my blog by putting up nightmarish crap.

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More pics soon, cos I'm graduating again tmr. Lonely convocation x 2!!!

loads of pictures, be happy!

Tmr's the first day of term, so I gotta blog before I lose all time to do so.

Decided on a last minute Sakae Sushi buffet during Thursday's supper. I turned to my Little Unwashed Body, "LUB! Do you want to eat Sakae buffet tmr???" Her face lit up and I knew I got my first victim. Then I asked around the table, and managed to confirm one more. We decided on Wheelock cos I thought it'd be easy for ZACH. The Dumpling kept asking, "Who's he??? I don't know who he is! I want to see him!"

I found a new place to park in Orchard! It's this little public carpark right next to Wheelock, very old-school, need to tear coupon. I managed to get a lot within 5 minutes of entering the carpark. Steady or not! I just have good parking lot karma. d=

The Dumpling was there super early, and got a huge table for us. For some reason, she seems really keen on collecting those plastic covers for the food.


Pic 419: The Dumpling with her little stack. It was kinda creepy when LUB took a plate off the conveyor belt, and even before setting it down on the table, the Dumpling snatched it away. The Dumpling is just... weird.


Pic 420: The Dumpling forgetting that the fried scallops are Very Hot. I made her pose for it, and she was trying very hard to keep it in her mouth. "Very hot!!! Ow!" You must suffer for art, my dear.


Pic 421: Look who dropped by!


Pic 422: My Little Unwashed Body, before her haircut.


Pic 423: No larh, he didn't eat all of the plates by himself. Though at 5pm, he went for a 'second round'. There are exactly 30 plates there!

In the end, ZACH didn't turn up, the bloody bastard pang seh us! He got too caught up catching up with other people, in the process breaking poor Dumpling's heart. Guess she'll never see him, huh.

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Had a JC class outing last night to Hard Rock Cafe. I've only been there once, and only once. I remember having a hard time finishing my food, and back then, I could Eat. Now I just eat.

Anyway, it was basically a papparazzi session, where QueenMich will try her best to capture all sorts of scandalous pictures and sabo-ing everyone along the way. No one is spared from the viciousness!Most of my pictures turned out orange cos of the lighting, and I don't particularly like using flash. It makes people look washed-out. So anyway, here are the best of the lot:


Pic 424: My favourite picture of the night, and it wasn't even taken by me!


Pic 425: My seafood linguine. So-so.


Pic 426: My Darling and Lufi's dish. No, they didn't share, they just ordered the same thing. Mac and cheese with grilled chicken.


Pic 427: Cher attacking her food with great fervour.


Pic 428: The Doctor fiddling with his phone, and JLo digging into his food.


Pic 429: The three birthdays we were celebrating. The Doctor, the Cow, and my Darling.


Pic 430: The same three with their complimentary dessert. It was a little bit of ice cream and plenty of whipped cream. Plenty of it.


Pic 431: Taking a photo with Cow and Darling, with the intention of moving out of the frame. Obviously I didn't succeed in doing it for this one. d=


Pic 432: The Cow realised what I was doing. Haha. I have a few pictures of the exact same poses, and I kept trying to move away but unsuccessful every time. I move too slow!!!

Then, me and Cher started feeding each other the dessert. We took two pictures, but I'm too embarrassed to put them up here. Haha. Eh, students find my blog then how?


Pic 433: The polariod that the Hard Rock Cafe people took for the birthday people. Looks nice, doesn't it?


Pic 434: Four of us. The Monkey took this picture for us. For some reason, we just couldn't get a nice group photo. This is one of the better ones, taken at the Starbucks near the cafe.


Pic 435: Hehe I like how QueenMich is just looking saucily at the camera. Gotcha!


Pic 436: Final picture of the night, taken in some hotel's toilet. Mirror reflection! Which is why we all look kinda funny. It's strange how a reflected picture just doesn't quite seem like you, even though we look at ourselves in the mirror all the time. I guess for people with symmetrical faces and centre parts, it doesn't make much of a difference.

The Doctor talked to me and the Cow at one point during dinner, and the first thing I said to him was, "Hey! You speak with an accent!" The Cow disagreed, saying that Doctor has always been talking that way. Then I realised something. Throughout the entire time in VJ, I hardly spoke to the Doctor, or hear him speak. So... it was startling to hear him suddenly speak so much. But he's a doctor, or at least, going to graduate next year and be a trained doctor, so gotta practice his bedside manners, no?

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First day of school tmr! Can't wait.