book review

PAINS IN PUBLIC

the 50 people most likely to drive you completely nuts!

a very suggestive and provacative read that talks about bad social habits and ugly human behaviour outside of the warm and cozy home.

coincidence

was so bored with the day i decided to stop sleeping and get out of the house since there's nobody in the house other than me. no niece to look after. only left with silly monotonous stuff to do on the computer. so went to j8 with daniel. haha he was stuck at home with nothing to do too. arh so we went to J8 yet again and saundered. haha that was such a foolish thing to do maybe our aim was to catch a meal there at long john's.
I realise my coherence level is dropping. it is so cold i got a cold so my brain is going to freeze pretty soon.
oh then i met mr wong shou teik on bus 410 on the way back home. saw this strikingly familiar figure standing at the bus interchange and thought 'isn't that my classmate?' haha so we acknowledged each other's presence. and talked and blabbered quite loudly everyone was listening to our 'so you are in police force, slack right.' and 'so you are also some sort of a policeman.' conversation.
haha it was pretty amusing but the most interesting part was still being able to meet this old friend.

ok illustrative work must begin.
shall procrastinate no more.

grey angel

hur hur hur new skin... if only everyone can draw like this guy...
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credits to mlad and norraic @ deviantart

yeeeeha photoshop rocks don't you just have to agree with me....




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退后

周杰伦

天空灰得像哭过
离开你以后

并没有更自由

酸酸的空气
嗅出我们的距离

一幕锥心的结局
像呼吸般无法停息

抽屉泛黄的日记
榨干了回忆

那笑容是夏季

你我的过去
被顺时针地忘记

缺氧过后的爱情
粗心的眼泪是多余

我知道你我都没有错
只是忘了怎么退后

信誓旦旦给了承诺
却被时间扑了空

我知道我们都没有错
只是放手会比较好过

最美的爱情
回忆里待续

christmas is barely 2 months away!!!!!

been having a rather nasty toothache these few days since i ate 3 bars of delicious kit kat 2 days ago but i have recovered from it already! ...ho ho ho...kit kat's nice but i guess i won't touch sweet stuff again for a month or two...

rururu

rururu rururururu rurururururururu ra ra.

hmmmm today had been a rather positive day. had a good talk with chan on issues ranging from past experiences to present states to future aspirations. yay then we played the chinese spelling game sounds childish and maybe even horrifying to some schooling children and teenagers but it was really fun and funny.
O this makes me realise whether funny is the adjective of the noun fun. and is fun also an adjective.

hohoho christmas is coming and i am getting fat. this is rainie and this is hebe. hohoho

hmm i am relieved that the work stress seems to be reducing. i want to do so many things but i am soooooo lazy hahahha. i am such a lazy bum, but i guess it's not a bad thing. i know procrastinating is a bad thing but i guess being lazy is ok. HAHA.

latest question: when will i get my next pay?

stupid question: when will i get married?

have been drinking milk ferociously because i recently realised that i am still a growing adult-boy.

hehehe

heeheehee played squash at lucas's place with ben, loo and moo. been a long time since we played and wow i am feeling very tired now. haha although i kept losing but it was very fun. i like the echoey squash court. :D

i seriously hate work. i hate these forms of responsibility and power that are ironically accompanied by the undying sense of powerlessness and fragility and restriction everytime i put on that dreaded uniform. it felt as if i was being coiled up by a boa constrictor...

it's been very long since i last took a photo. :(

i was thinking which lyrics to post. so this was my decision. listen along to it if this song is conveniently implanted onto your friendly pc/mac. :)

Water Night

Eric Whitacre, original lyrics by Octavio Paz

night with the eyes of a horse that trembles in the night.

night with eyes of water in the field asleep is in your eyes

a horse that trembles is in your eyes of secret water

eyes of shadow water

eyes of well water

eyes of dream water

silence and solitude

two little animals moon-led

drink in your eyes

drink in those waters

if you open your eyes night opens doors of mask

the secret kingdom of the water opens flowing from the centre of the night

and if you close your eyes

a river, a silent and beautiful current fills you from within

flows forward, forward

darkens you

night brings its wetness to beaches in your soul.

personally

i think i have weird dreams.
this morning i dreamt that i was in the 'a' level period and was supposed to be studying for it, but i will also be going to the us and japan, so i was packing my bags and i realised i don't have enough winter clothing since it is going to be winter soon. then an even bigger realisation came when i got to know that i was not going to go to these two countries for whatever reasons and i have to go back to studying, and this was when i woke up in the dream, not from the dream. so i was very disappointed and then went back to sleep. hmmm then i had another dream immediately whereby i was in a humungous hotel that was very beautiful. i was walking in its narrow passageways which always seem to come to dead ends. then i wanted to go to the toilet and i knew where the toilet was. i was walking then i saw one of the cleaner coming out from the passageway leading to it, and i saw a lot of people queuing outside the toilet but i decided to go there nonetheless. then i discovered that the passageway had turned into a slit mysteriously and there was no way i can go through. and i kept sneaking into one of the hotel rooms to do something and was discovered by the occupants when i was always about to leave the rooms who happened to be two of my friends whom i cannot remember now. during the last adventure into this room, i happened to see two of my friends joshua and sheena sitting on the brick tile roof top outside the room through the big rectangular glass windows. then i think we flew down to the lake side outside the hotel and then sheena boarded a very big flying flower and she uttered something like fairy before the flower started to become very roller-coasterish and we went WHOOPS. then i woke up. then i was relieved that i have already taken my examinations last year.
talking bout exam stress i think it drags on for a few years some people still can't get over it.

hot and hazy

the weather these few days has not been optimal.makes ppl sick easily. we are supposed to be approaching winter but its still so warm in Singapore......
ok why am i talking about the weather of all things.
ok i have nothing to brag about so this's all ahahaha.

bahhh i remember this place.

went out with daniel and yy and mel and samuel and shawn and joel yesterday to celebrate yy's birthay at j8. there was absolutely nothing to do at this neighbourhood shopping centre because we have been here last week and the weeks before and it's almost became part of our weekly routine its scary and boring. they should add more entertainment facilities there instead of just apparels and electronics stores. the cinema doesn't suffice. now that they have built the library they shouldn't stop there they should make bishan road the next orchard road. :)

bah rush hour traffic sucks big big time.
i like grape-flavoured yakult it is healthy and delicious.
i want to be mr rice cooker.

白色风车

周杰伦
白色的风车 安静的纯真

真实的感觉 梦境般遥远

甜甜的海水 复杂的眼泪

看你傻笑着 握住我的手

梦希望没有尽头 我们走到这就好

因为我不想太快走完这幸福 很可惜没有祝福

但爱你并不孤独 不会再让你哭
我陪你走到最后

能不能不要回头

你紧紧地抱住我

说你不需要承诺你说

我若一个人会比较自由

我不懂你说什么

反正不会松手
我陪你走到最后

能不能别想太多

会不会手牵着手

晚一点再到尽头

你说不该再相见只为了瞬间

谢谢你让我听见

因为我在等待永远

ok i decided not to place my hair salon and cafe in the busiest areas in singapore.

thought-provoking

i was reading bill rancic's you're hired in the afternoon and i found out how value-adding is so important. he did yacht-waxing with his friend and was able made 400bucks a day during his summer hols that's pretty cool money! ok how can i value-add...zzzzzzzzzz

i wanna sing for the ladies at my high-end hair salon haha am i crazy or what :P let's see: the salon would be at one of the busy nightspots and opens from 6 in the night to 4 in the morning and caters to the party-goers. ok the salon can be another busy night attraction kekekekekeke
or i wanna sing at my open-concept swiss bakery-icecream-cafe in the middle of orchard road (don't you that the square infrontof ngee an city could do with more vibrancy) with cute waitresses :) and hunky funky waiters WAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ok then let's pray that we will have winter and things will get snowy in singapore so i can install a fireplace in the cafe so ppl can come in for warmth and get cozy. ok i should stop dreaming let me go purchase my real-snow machine first because i don't want my customers to choke on foam, they can drown in icewater :D

ok or i will open my own design studio to help mr cups and miss spoons and forks and plates and bowls and chairs and pencil cases and plastic bags to makeover. hehehehe

i wanna meet

lipyong and raymond for dinner where are you guys. haha i know you guys don't never ever come here but i just wanna post a missing persons report. haha i know we made a promise nv to stuff ourselves with food but we have already broken that agreement long ago haha i need to laugh and binge on sizzler's with you guys. i want to see raymond down 6 bowls of mushroom soup into his stomach.
ok where are the vjchoir ppl can we meet too.
and s61 too i know everyone's away or busy and can't find a fixed time. ok at least army boys are still here and some of the girls are still schooling in singapore.
yes 4-4 guys i know i will be meeting you guys soon.
i wanna go to vc practices but i can't.
and o ya is vocale still alive are we reviving it.
cheeseburgers and fellow npcos we need to come out and have lunch/dinner too.
team delta when's our kbox and buffet session.
OK book me book me book me book me.

this was the song that i would soak myself in 2 years ago. now, not yet.

Someone Else's Star
Bryan White
Alone again tonight without someone to love.
The stars are shining bright so one more wish goes up.
Oh, I wish I may and I wish with all my might.
For the love I'm dreaming of and missing in my life.
You'd think that I could find a true love of my own.
It happens all the time to people that I know.
Their wishes all come true so I've got to believe.
There's still someone out there who is meant for only me.
I guess I must be wishing on someone else's star.
It seems like someone else keeps gettin what I'm wishing for.
Why can't I be as lucky as those other people are?
I guess I must be wishing, on someone else's star.
I sit here in the dark and stare up at the sky,
But I can't give my heart one good reason why.
Everywhere I look it's lovers that I see.
It seems like everyone's in love with everyone but me.

i wanna write

about something.
haha so lame.:(
yay i guessed correctly. hady won he deserved it.

do you know work sucks big cigars. work is getting more tiring and more nonsensical and more illogical and makes people more irrational and more irritable. the big big bosses are getting more unreasonable and unappealing to the eyes and ears and nose. they should give us a BREAK. arhhh that's right. i am full of laments and complaints these few days sorry.

music seems like it became solely responsible for bringing solace to the troubled souls. or has it relinquished this responsibility?

tiny trivia: is it true that guys are less wise while girls are alot less happy?

tell the greater being

that we are no super humans.

livelihood, the yearning, frolic, verdure, dynasty, companions, inspirations, cash

why do people fall sick one after another.
why do failures occur one after another.
know money can never be enough
but there are dreams to live
when are we ever allowed to live them
it gets increasingly exhausting when we know these questions can never be answered
the questions pile on each other and we search in futile of the answers
why do we get enlightened with the troubles of everyday
where is the happy family portrait
and why is there a term called guilty pleasure
all being said i don't aspire to be a delinquent of life
because there are still little bundles of bliss and comfort

o anyway cocacolalime does not have the zesty taste of lime that i can tingle my taste buds with. :(

hope hady wins singapore idol he deserves it more than jonathan. hmm then wouldn't it establish more of a tradition???...hmm but he is really the better candidate, lar. HAHAHA

Now I Understand

why sheena loves corrinne may.
in the past sheena would let me listen to some of corrinne may's songs but i just couldn't really get to feel the music within. not until yesterday, or rather this morning at about 3 am when i was quite free listening to 933 with mr dennis in the car and a piano ballad just started playing. and i heard corrinne may's wondrous singing in this emotional piece.

Fly Away
Written by Corrinne May Ying Foo
When will you be home?" she asks as we watch the planes take off
We both know we have no clear answer to where my dreams may lead
She's watched me as I crawled and stumbled as a child, she was my world and now to let me go, I know she bleeds and yet she says to me
You can fly so high
Keep your gaze upon the sky
I'll be praying every step along the way
Even though it breaks my heart to know we'll be so far apart
I love you too much to make you stay
Baby fly away
Autumn leaves fell into spring time and silver-painted hair daddy called one evening saying "We need you. Please come back"
When I saw her laying in her bed fragile as a child pale just like an angel taking flight I held her as I cried
You can fly so high
Keep your gaze upon the sky
I'll be praying every step along the way
Even though it breaks my heart to know we'll be so far apart
I love you too much to make you stay
Baby fly away

recently heard that something's not really going smoothly for one of my closer friend whom i have not heard from for a looooong time. don't worry pal everything will be ok they will know that that was a genuine mistake. if there's anything you need just call us k we are all here for you.

capricious

ha i am being overestimated as being random its just that i can't arrange my thoughts in an organised manner that's all hahaha.
i didn't get to use the comp yesterday. work is so much more bearable now if we know how to incorporate music into our mundane working environment, and if we know just how to have fun with our car buddies and it is hilarious just how funnily foolish some conversations will sound through the air.
bah i can't keep up with the latest music trends.

听妈妈的话 - 依然范特西

小朋友你是否有很多顽抗

为什么别人在那看漫画我却在学画画对这钢琴说话

别人在玩游戏我却在躲在家背abc

我说我要一架大大的飞机我却得到一只旧旧螺旋机

为什么要听妈妈的话长大后你就会开始懂得这段话

长大后我开始明白为什么我跑得比别人快飞得比别人高

将来大家看的都是我画的漫画大家唱的都是我写的歌

妈妈的心她不让你看见

温暖的事都在她心里面 有空就得多摸摸她的手把手牵着一起梦游

听妈妈的话别让她受伤

想快快长大才能保护她

美丽的白发幸福中发芽

天使的魔法温暖中慈祥

在你的未来音乐是你的王牌

那王牌谈的恋爱而我不想把你教坏还是听妈妈的话吧

晚年再恋爱吧我知道你未来的路干嘛比我更清楚

你因为太多学习的同学在这块写东写西

但我建议最好听妈妈我会用功读书用功读书怎么会从我嘴巴说出

不想你输所以要叫你用功读书

妈妈挑给你的毛病你要好好的收着

因为不知道是我要告诉她我还留着

对了我会遇到我(周润发?)所以你对跟同学炫耀赌神未来是你爸爸

我找不到你写的情书你喜欢的要承认因为我会了解你会在操场上牵她

你会开始喜欢唱流行歌因为张学友开始准备唱吻别

haha my apologies i listen to mandarin songs. haha but this is really meaningful and the tune is great, lar.

o i heard some people say that we must thank our citizens for the success of imf. its because of the fact that most of us are pacifist and do not want to create trouble with the authorities that result in this being one of the most peaceful imf meeting in the world, although some may argue that this maybe due to stubborn government restrictions and management. try juxtaposing our citizens with other less conciliatory citizens in other neighbouring economies we should be glad we live here.
o this is too much i am talking about current affairs.

haha irvin you sound like a voyeur haha its ok this blog is exhibitionistic so its ok. HA

the treasury of knowledge

well there's now a treasury i can visit beside junction8 which is about 500m away from home. it is a place filled with wonderful newly purchased books and audiovisual items that can be borrowed if you are a trustworthy singaporean free from any crime or legal allegations.
ha it is called the BISHAN COMMUNITY LIBRARY.
even though i have only been there for the 2nd time, my hour spent here was surprisingly splendid.
but no, all singaporeans please take note do not flock from your friendly neighbourhood libraries just because they are abit older and dilapidated compared to this. yes the books are newly-bought you can just see this from the wonderful wrinkle-free bookspines and the book with papers that are marvelously beige all neatly arranged. O if you are a stephen king or dean koontz fan you get 2 entire bookselves worth of books for your viewing pleasure. but still just try not to jam up the place k.
the lack of a very resourceful mind led me to find out that one can be a premium member so that one can borrow 8 more books and cd/vcd/dvd for a little more than 20 bucks per annum. haha wow better late than never.
ok let me stress one more time just to tantalise everyone that the books are really new HAHAHAHAHA
it is also commendable that the library engages really polite customer service officers who really smile. well done who says singaporean hospitality and service are lousy. and national library board has new plastic bags for the distressed customer who forgot to bring any bag to carry his/her barang barang or loot whichever you want to call it.
the architectural outlook of the building was futuristic with coloured rectangular boxes jutting out of the building here and there so that boisterous students of 5-6 can squeeze all they want in this little space without really posing as an eyesore. o these spaces serve as pretty romantic corners for couples to laze around too. i shall go and sit in one of the cozy little corners one rainy day and look at the raindrop trickle down the tinted glass and read a book and waste my afternoon away.
o the only unpleasing factor is that the journey from the ground floor to the 2nd floor can take ages to walk. the effort to beautify the surroundings and make use of the gigantic space with a gentle-gradient floor that is filled with informative human-size exhibits instead of a practical set of staircase is really greatly appreciated but.... ok i shall just take the lift next time.
haha shall stop scrutinizing. the new library is great, it makes bishan a nicer place to live in.
o this makes the bishan library my second favourite hangout after the united square starbucks glasshouse.

bah one of the two stems of my dear cactus fell off mysteriously yesterday. it is now buried beside the main stem.

Z

bahhahaha two things from work: an unsettled mind and a sleep debt that is not repayable.

it appears that our romeo car can double as an entertainment box. hhaha that is only applicable if we are free enough.

i am glad that we are so much happier now. even though some things still tend to be a little worrying.

the youthful perfectionist, the desirable comedian, the indispensible cleaner, the coruscating sense of humour. the faithful nuclear reactor, the verified hippopotamus, the endearing whiner. the innocent dracula. the colour idiot. my brain cells have overworked. not to mention that they are already short of manpower. so what does that make of me. :O

do you

have an eye for beauty?
my niece just woke up going to play with her HAHAHA she likes to laugh and giggle and gah gah so many sounds and words that i just want to play with her all the time. haha this is called baby addiction she's so beautiful and adorable. my mom and sis say i shouldn't carry her around the house all the time but... hahahahaha

<.....i should try this trying-to-be-funny-look next time ar. :)

through work i understood that no matter how difficult a problem is, one can solve it if one is determined to.
it's good to learn everyday yeah. tuition & night shift later, even more things to learn.