ohho! Last I updated was about my crazy day. Or days. They all seem to blend into each other.

So yesterday, went to help our at my mum's office again. Ok it's 1.52 am on new year's eve, but I'm blogging w.r.t 30th Jan ai'ight.

Omg I just downloaded my 2 favourite songs from the CP3 soundtrack. And I'm so proud of myself! I've only listened to 2 of Hu Ge's songs before but I can recognise his voice now! There is this song in the soundtrack, a little cheery and upbeat tune, and I was thinking it sounds just like him and it is! I am sooo good. xD

Now I'm so tempted to make a new blogskin to fit the song. OMG! I CAN MAKE BLOGSKINS NOW! I CAN DEVOTE HOURS TO RESEARCHING PHOTOS AND RESOURCES AND DRAFTING BACKGROUNDS TO MAKE BLOGSKINS NOW!!! YEESSS! As ARE OVER!!!

Ok sorry. Sudden reality check. Reality checks are rarely THIS good. xD!

So yeah. I worked a bit yesterday. Omg and I couldn't help showing a bit of attitude.
My mume woke me up at 7, so I started work at 8. The night before, I had only 1 last piece of cloth to iron for step 1, but my mum said it's ok do it tomorrow. So ok, 8am I went to her office to iron that last piece. Then I started digging for finished step 2s but I couldn't find any. So ACTUALLY, I finished what I could for the black cloth already! So I was totally tired from the lack of sleep and annoyed that I woke up just for 1 piece of cloth.

In the end I sort of just rested around then my mum said since I was there might as well do something. So she asked me to count plastic bags and repackage them. And I was like whatwhatwhat such a tedious job! I'm here to make sure you make your 30th deadline but looks like I woke up at 7am for nothing! T.T I was so annoyed. I was hoping to be more productive than COUNTING plastic bags! Seriously! I could care less about the money you know, I'd rather you send me home and let me sleep and not pay me for that day rather than do something which usually the maid does. Maaaann. I just wanted to help you complete your deadline, that's it.

Sigh. So anyway, lunch at 2pm, then headed to school. Mdm Low asked me to meet her at 3pm.
I went to YTSS, sat outside General Office. She told me she was in a meeting, so asked me to wait there. So wait I did.

I finished my Specials book. Scott Westerfeld. :D
Then I read an old issue of Today which happened to be in my bag.
And I did a Sudoku puzzle which was in the paper.
At 4.30pm, Mdm Low finally appeared!
Omg.

So she told me a little about what I'm gonna do, etc, and showed me my desk. I'm sitting in the same compartment as Ms Goh Siew Lian. Sigh. No more drama-watching. She can see my whole laptop screen. And she told Mdm Low she remembers me. Gg. She doesn't even teach me! The only time I remember her mentioning my name was when she was sitting with some other teachers on the steps on the hall and they were joking about me carrying the potted plants. I carried 2 at once, and then they talked about me being strong. Then I balanced them on my hips as I walked, and they said it was feminine. I don't know la, as teachers shouldn't you have been a little more helpful instead of joking about your poor sai kang students? xD It wasn't even my job in the first place. It was the councillors'. I THINK. I was just being HELPFUL since I was waiting for my lovely ladies. xD Random memory right. I just remember it because the teachers had made me feel like a kampung girl and I was wondering how they knew my name.

Oh. 1 good thing. My desk is not in the middle of the room. HAHA! It's right next to the wall so I won't have as many people walking around me. PUAHA.

So then I went home. It was about 5. Yeah. Can't remember what I did.

Then today! WENT ICE-SKATING!!!
With Ely, Joel, Heung Kin, Chunleong and Zhanpeng.
Omg all of them can ice-skate better than me. xD My skates kept sliding away when I'm trying to push one foot forth. Went we went in it was like 3+pm, hours after the last resurface so the ice was super rough. For some reason the ice at Kallang is really bad, unlike Fuji's. Fuji Ice Palace's ice never seems to get too horrible for skating, no matter how long it has been after the last resurface. Anyway they resurfaced at 4pm so it was better, but still rough.
AND! I think they don't sharpen their skates. I THINK.

Singapore needs more ice rinks! This isn't very overpopulated BUT skaters should have more space. xD To fall and all that. Haha! When I'm rich I'll build a huge ice rink in my own house. HAHA! Underground, of course. 'Cause Singapore is hard up for space! xD

After that we sort of played around at the arcade. Then went to KFC for dinner! Oooohh chicken chicken chicken.

Then after that, all of them came to my house because someone mentioned mahjong. Chunleong went home to catch Gayo Daejun. I decided lousy streams ain't worth it.

So we played bridge, and then mahjong. Then everyone went home at 12+.

I'm kinda sleepy now. Sigh. hair still super wet. Shall wait around.




It's 1.18 am! Whoo! I'm supposed to sleep but since I wanna update the 4/7 outing attendance list I might as well just blog a quickie since both blogs are in the same dashboard.

This morning, woke up at 7.30am. I woke up earlier than my mum! Omg. It was so weird waking up. I actually flipped in bed and opened my eyes and saw the window, and was like "Omg it's daylight" and then my alarm rang. Well ok, needless to say, I hit the snooze. And snoozed till Ely called me at 7.30am.

Met up with her and then met up with Jamie and Chunfui and Yida at Parkway Parade. Then met up Kuangwen at East Coast.

We had a good approx. 2 hours worth of cycling. Buttache! xD No wait, more like abrasions. We cycled the usual route all the way to the 31st breakwater and back. Didn't stop along the way, and only rested about 10 mins at the breakwater 'cause it was drizzling already.

Waaahhh. Very tiring. We were so worn out we headed to BK's just next to the rental shop and had our lunch there. About 12+pm.

I think I upsized the most out of everyone, yet only I finished everything. o.O Well, excluding Kuangwen, who didn't eat, and left early for a class lunch.
Something's wrong with me these days. I keep eating and eating. Seriously. Like, everytime I eat it seems like I've just been ravenous, even though I ain't. There is no more control over the amount I eat already, I just eat because I want to. It's terrible. I'm not sure of how much I'm eating exactly, but I do know that I no longer have that much discipline over monitoring and controlling how much I eat - ie; heck the stupid size issue. I don't know why! Sudden total lack of discipline? I do wonder if it's cause of all the food at home - spaghetti and turkey and my mum's green salad isn't really the best thing to look at when you're feeling a little on the wanting-to-eat side. It's very, very tempting. I'm also pondering over the fact that I could be needing to supplement my little aunty. Or that I could be having an increase in metabolism rate since I'm not home as much anymore.
But still! I FEEL like I'm eating a lot! I just don't seem to care at all. This is wrong!

So anyway. Yida Jamie Ely and I then walked to Fui's house with him. Slacking around while Yida bathed, watched Fui play Maple. And then left. Then Yida and Jamie had to leave, while Ely and I who obviously don't feel like going home at such an early timing went to Parkway Parade with Fui, who's going to get his new glasses and an NS-friendly watch.

After that, we went walking around. They accompanied me to Guardian and Watson's to look for my eyedrops and a brush I wanted to get. Couldn't find the brush. Then we went to Giant for Fui's toothbrush and for me to find the brush.
Omg. And Ely calculated. We spent a whole freaking 1 and a half hours just touring around Giant. Just walking around and looking for stuff. O.O!!! We just sort of went and tested out body mists and powders and looked for salsa cheese and ate cheese samples and Ely bought spaghetti and chips (xD) and Fui got his toothbrush and we looked at videos and yeah. I don't know, we just spent ages in there doing practically nothing! xD

So then. 5+pm. We headed home. Ely and I took 135 to AMK, zonked out halfway through the ride. Really zonked. Felt goooood.
Reached AMK, and then went our separate ways. Both kinda zombiefied. xD She slept at 6am to wake up at 7.30am. Lol! I slept at... what, 1 2am? Can't remember.

I took MRT back, went to Northpoint to find my brush again. Actually, went to Sasa. Then Jean Accesories. Found the thing I wanted for $1 at JA, which was $3/$6.50 at Sasa, which was $7.90 at The Face Shop. Ok, they're not exact comparisons, but somewhat the size I wanted. :O Quality and brand can do much to the price.

Then I went home! Whoo. My mum talked to me, saying my elder sis helped me do a bit of the marking I was supposed to do, then asked if I could go help out. So I was like, okay. At that time I was about just home? Still in my dirty t-shirt and FBTs and she said she's going out now and I was like O.O I haven't had dinner? And she said "Your aunt and I haven't had dinner too." So I went "Heh but I'm hungry." In the end we settled for me bathing and eating before I walk over to her office myself, and I'll buy her and her sister's dinner while she heads up to Kranji for some business.

Oh wells. Guilty me. I didn't exactly rush. But I tried yo. xD
So I ate and bathed and *sob* said goodbye to Chuan Jie, whose parents were here to pick him up, and headed out, and my dad offered me a ride. So I went to buy dinner and headed to the office.

Reached there at about 8pm, and started working away.

Wahlao. The thing my sister OT-ed for me for was the 3rd step, which was so much easier than the 1st step markfoldiron thing I've been doing the past 2 days. And she still proudly told me she did 20+. Ok, that's a lot la, but honestly it's really easier than the 1st step. AND, you can sit down doing it. So I started doing 3rd step but there was only 9 pieces left which had completed 2nd step already. So I very quickly finished the 9 pieces, and *sigh* carried on with 1st step for the remainder of the cloth.
Waaahh 1st step. Backache, legache, dunno what else. 'Cause I have to stand throughout the thing, and when I'm ironing I bend down to do it more easily.
Basically... well. Just did straight from 8pm to about 1am. Kept doing and doing and doing. Felt my back ache like hell. Then felt really such a pity I cannot do hip exercises while working, 'cause my aunt is behind me. I really wanted to at least burn some carbo out. All I managed was stepping here and there 'cause it's like a table slightly longer than an ironing board and I kept stepping 1 end to 1 end to mark and iron the cloth. I said step because that's totally not walking, but oh God please let it be carbo-burning. I swear, standing for hours like that after cycling in the afternoon is... not heaven. I can feel cramps in my calves. Maybe I should've worn heels - at least tone my calves while I'm at it. xD I can feel a slight pull at my thighs too. AHHH my heavens please tell me I did burn some of my dinner out because otherwise I'd be too much in sin.

It's kinda funny how I used to work 8am to 2pm and now it's 8 to 1, only switch the AMs and PMs.
I'm continuing tomorrow. probably would get woken up at 7/8am.

I can't complain though. My mum is having the same schedule! And my poor aunt. After we sent her home, she still has to go to the fish market. Now I know why she always wakes at 1pm.

I'm sneezing a lot today. Who's saying bad stuff about me?

I'm having a terrible feeling in my stomach. It's the familiar pinchy, sour, airy feeling of gastritis. But it's only been a few hours since dinner so it can't be gastric! So I don't know. But it feels bad. Maybe I overloaded on caffeine. Hmm.

I need more music. I'm totally bored of my playlist, after hours and hours of doing nothing but marking and ironing and mouthing lyrics. Getting sick of the songs. Arrhh. Those Kpop idols, everyone releases everything at one shot a few months before the year-end awards and now there's nothing new to listen to. I should just go back to old songs. They'd sound pretty new now.

Ooohh crap. i talk too much. I should go to sleep now. Goodnight all!

Oh and I'm meeting Mdm Low tomorrow for my job details. I'm no longer taking a timetable of 3 classes, just doing coaching. Man. I'm kinda sad that I don't get my own class anymore, but on the other hand I'm very very very relieved for the students. There is no future being taught by me, I swear.

Ok ok. going off. no facebook tonight. byebye.




Ok I finally cut my nails so I can type faster now.

OMG SANDY REALLY FUCKING PISSES ME OFF.
I was asking my father for money, and he asked "You used up all your savings already?"
Truth is. I haven't taken money from my dad for a long time and I exhausted about 2/3 of my own money already. I don't like to tell him I spend more than $10 on a meal (not all the time ok! once in a while) and I don't ask him for money for clothes either, so I don't tell him about my little buys (the reason why I can only spend $10 on a shirt at any one time). People often ask me, why don't you save up? It's so easy! Well if I do save up and my father knows (oh, believe me, he knows) he will just wait until I've used up all my money to give me more. That's why I don't have savings! By "my own money", I mean the money my Godmother gave me.

Ok wait ok this was about Sandy.
so I said "yes" because I really needed money. I keep a single bill left for rainy days (as Singaporeans should know, it's raining everyday now. ok, not THAT kind of rainy day. Yeah sorry, bad pun.) ,and I have about $30 in collectible notes.
And Sandy went
"I thought you still have money in your drawer?"
OMG. WTF.
So here're the thoughts that immediately ran through my head:
1. SHE WENT THROUGH MY FUCKING DRAWER?!
2. She said that right in front of my dad, which makes me look VERY bad in front of my dad! Like I'm lying to him! Which ok, technically I was since I have a little bit of money left, but dammit everybody needs some emergency money right?
3. I didn't know how to react to it, so it REALLY does make me look like a total liar in front of my dad!

OMG! I'm FUCKING pissed off. WTHELL.
I'm officially so angry at Sandy I'm not gonna talk to her. For weeks and weeks and weeks.
WTF?! Just because my lock is gone you went and touched my drawer?! It's supposed to be fucken private HELLO?!
FUCK LA! See! I can't even keep money in this house! Shit!

Ok. very angry. control.

I just spent the past 2 days working for my mum.
She asked me Friday night if I was free Saturday to help her out a little. Since I was, I said yes.
Basically I just had to mark out cloth and fold along the marks and iron it, so that it's easier to sew up.
But she bought 4 whole rolls of cloth. Yes the whole big thing. She needs to do THAT many! :O
Saturday I worked straight from about 8am to 2pm and I only finished about 14 pieces.
Working with my mum, you wake up early. Basically I slept at about 2am and woke up about 7am. That makes 5 hours.
Then my mum started having designs on my week. She started asking if I could come back Monday to continue, and asked if next week (by now, this week) I'm free, she needs help and etc.
I swear it was like *pushthepanicbutton* O.O!!!
So I guiltily had to tell her Monday I'm not free.
Then she started talking about what a rush she's in, it's a rush order and she needs the cloth on 30th, etc etc...
ok. She was doing the whole guilt-trip trick. And the thing is. It works.
Omg.

Saturday night, went to my grandmother's house for our annual Christmas dinner.
It gets emptier as the years go by.
But the food is still as awesome.
Check out what I had - it's called screw-the-diet meal.
Plate 1: Heaped with spaghetti, cheese baked brocolli, potato salad and sausage.
Plate 2: Moderate amounts of roasted turkey, baked ham and some pasta thing.
Plate 3: Green salad, more spaghetti, and more turkey.
YES! 3 PLATES! :O :O :O!
Thinking of all that food makes me happy. Yes, just by thinking xD I mean, it's already in my tummy already so I don't feel the loss of it HAHAHA wheee.
Oh and I had log cake too. HAHAHAHA. I'm so happy thinking of that meal. HAHAHAHA~ I love christmas puahahahahhaa
And my Godmother just knows how to make me happy. She went to the fridge and took out this hugeass container. And gave me the raised-eyebrows look.
"How much do you want?"
KIMCHIIIIII!!!!!!!! Omg. I took home a tupperware-full. I eat at home quite rarely so I don't eat it very fast. Just took a bit and will go back for more. HAHA.
My aunts love feeding me.
My 6th aunt asked me if the chocolate cake she brought me the other day was nice. I said YEAH and she gave me another box, a bigger serving, with christmas decor on it.
OMG!!! Anyone wants a slice? :D Free samples from me, remember to buy from Sweet Stuff when you can! xD
Oh yes and we packed home lots of leftover spaghetti and turkey.
I'm like floating around now. Heavenheavenheaven~
I was tired though. Total sleep in 2 days was 10 hours, less than what I need in a day!

So yeah.
Went home about 11+pm.
Told my mum I'd help her out on Sunday so at least can get more done.
Was supposed to go for Angie's dance class but... oh wells. I'm sorry to her. It was her first lesson and I couldn't support :(
My mum slept waaaayy later than me so she woke me up at almost 9 am on Sunday.
We went out for breakfast, then headed to the office.
Whooo I was a madwoman already. I swear, before I went to sleep the night before, I designed a process to make my job faster. And haha I carried it out and it was indeed faster.
I worked non-stop from 10am to about 2pm again, only stopping to drink or pee. This time I finished another stack of 14, plus a few more pieces from another bag.
Yesss.
My mum calculated I did about 32 pieces. And it's about somewhat more than half, still not near the end for her yet. Sigh.
In total, I marked and iron more than 400m worth. That's a whole round around the track! :O!

Sigh I feel so sorry to my mum. I couldn't help her more and she needs the cloth on 30th.

Then we just went to some gathering thing. It was for all the families who went on the Swiss trip. I just tagged along as a family member. xD Didn't eat much, was mainly babysitting little Chuan Jie.

Sigh. Now here I am blogging and lacking sleep. The thing is, I've reached a point where I'm so tired I'm not sleepy already.
Basically I'm in a very precarious position now. I'm in my prime PMS period, and I'm severely lacking sleep (severe for me). So I tend to get upset very, very easily. Very dangerous. I should be locked up at home.
Ok nah. I'm starting work soon. I wanna enjoy outdoors.
I shall attempt to control myself. Tomorrrow gotta wake up super early too. Sigh. Shall control. No outbursts. No temper flaring. (My mum just told me over breakfast today about some stories and haha, I can totally see where I get my quick-violent-temper genes from).
I'm like a walking timebomb now. But I'll be careful! I have a sense of self-preservation.

Still. Having 2 things which makes me very very very upset-prone coming at once is NOT a good idea.




Just finished watching Music Bank!
Wheeeeee. Can't believe I Don't Care is still so high on the list. -.- Abracadabra should've made it!
Lol. It was such a high stage! Now I wish I'd went to Ely's house to watch it. It's so un-high watching it when your grandmother's behind you stressing you about how long your programme will last and your mother and sister and brother doing stuff in the living room. I feel more solemn than high. Then my grandma seems to be nagging away at me not helping out too. Well, I'm sorry, if they asked I'd of course help, but then if they don't tell me what to do what if I botch it up instead?

So yeah. Not so fun watching. =/ And my brother was being an asshole. Ok, I understand that he has to vacuum the floor, but he vacuumed it right at 2PM and SuJu's performance. WHY! Then I made him stop vacuuming at SuJu's performance and then he was all moody. After that I was like
"You were the one who said Sandy couldn't watch her oktolive because today's Music Bank had such a great lineup. Looks like you aren't so interested in it afterall."
And he said "I watch it only for SNSD, not Super Junior. Stupid bodoh."
Yaaaa the way he said the last 2 words really make me feel like smacking him you know! After watching SuJu I was already all energised and everything and he just made me totally fire up, like I really wanted to scream at him or jump off the building or something. Just all this pent-up fire. So I took a good few breaths and controlled myself from saying anything else.

BUT AHHH THIS IS MY BLOG YAY FUCK YOU SO YOU DISTURB MY SUJU PERFORMANCE INSTEAD OF YOUR OWN SNSD DAMN YOU DAMN YOU DAMN YOOOOOO!!!! ANGRY!

Rawr. And he vacuumed during the encore stage too so I coudn't hear who were the ones high-ing and singing around. Sigh.
Oh wells. Never mind. From now on I shall try to go someone else's place to watch Music Bank instead. xD Even if that's me wasting the ONLY thing I watch on our cable.

Ya hey. I only get high about Music Bank on cable. You guys can have the rest of it. WHY DISTURB ME!!! Without Music Bank I don't even give a shit about the cable anymore.

But watching Music Bank at home is so... not fun. Sigh.




Merry Xmas everyone ^^

Yesterday, woke up at 10am and went to meet Becky, Ethel and Marissa at Yishun MRT at 12pm. Marissa walked over to my house first! So she and I were early. When we were reaching, Ethel sent us a message saying she's just gotten up! Omg. So we headed to Starbucks, met Becky there, and nua-ed around.

Ethel came by around 1pm, then we headed down to Vivo!
Went to Marche to eat. Yum yum. The prices looked really scary but in the end our bill didn't even hit 50. Phew! And the food is gooooood. I like that place. xD
And then went shopping around. The usual places - F21, Pull&Bear, Topshop etc. xD I went walking around. Though F21 has some pretty affordable pants... just not affordable for me, who at any one time has to spend not too much so that my father will not realise I'm using my food money for clothes. xD
Headed to Candy Empire before we left. Crazy queue snaked around the store. At least 3/4 of its parameters. Whoa!

Missed the girls ^^ Meet up again soon!

Then went back to Yishun, met up with Jamie, Ely, Julia, Kuangwen, Chunleong, Yida, Zhenhao at Northpoint. Walked back home - Sandy was still having tuition! They were very entertained by my lil' 1 year old cousin though. It was like watching a zoo show. xD My 1 year old cuz, by the way, is very clever too. If he spills something, he actually goes to take a piece of tissue to wipe it. Then once, he dropped a fry. He went to take a tissue, and while ordinary people will pick it up, he tried to wipe the fry away. In the end the fry just got swept off and he ran after it, "wiping" again and the fry flies off.

And then Zhiyuan, Sherlynn, and Heung Kin came!
When Zhiyuan saw Chuan Jie, he was like "Hey that's cute." Zoo show right? xD

And we started eating puaha. The food was quite rushed -
Oh that reminds me.
Ok I just went to pass $50 to my mum. I forgot who I collected from alr, but it should be around there. Lol she was like, aiyo come and eat why need to collect. Never mind what just eat and be happy. Then in the end she took it and said "ok next time I'll use this money to buy the food." Lol and she asked me about the chalet. I told her I haven't plan in detail yet, but I'll collect the money during it.
Don't even know when's the next time we can get together like this. It'll be hard, what with everyone working and in NS and stuff.

Clarence came after work, around 7pm+. Lilan and Joel came by around 8+ pm too. :D It's such a party x) whee! And a few of my sister's friends came to eat too.
So yep. Yay meat meat meat and mushrooms and beansprouts. Yum.

After that, everyone went into the room. Had 2 gambling tables set up - 1 for mahjong, 1 for bridge. xD Jonard and my elder sis went to clean up the floor 'cause it's all greasy from the hotplate thingy. For the 1st time since we started this whole hotplate business, we managed to clean up the oil right. My sister just sprayed cleaning stuff on the floor and we rubbed out the grease. So yay! My floor's clean immediately instead of the usual 3 day lag. The house still smells of oil and raw meat though. Lol!

So we mahjong-ed and bridged and so on. Julia left around 1+ 2 am, her parents came to pick her up. Couple of people made calls at 12am to ask about staying over xD. So we played, and drunk, and cooked midnight instant noodles, and played. It was like there wasn't an end to the night. Haha!
Around 4+am Louis Siah came! We played Taboo. xD After Taboo we played a drinking game, the one Julia's cousin taught us. Spilled a lot of alcohol in Jonard's room T.T I owe him now.

Ok I don't wanna type anymore. He's being a pain in the ass sneaking peeks at my laptop and not facing his computer right. Urgh.

So anyway we left the house around 7+ am, had breakfast at Macdonald's, and then everyone headed home. xD Oh and we spent ages trying to help Zhiyuan think of a good anniversary activity plan. xD

I came home, zonked for 5 hours, woke up at 3pm, which is the time I would've woken up at everyday anyway. Feels damn sleepy now. xD I shall go watch Chinese Paladin.

Caught abit of the Butterfly Lovers thing on cable yesterday. It was BORING as hell! Totally no development. 1 moment they were blahblah next they were apparently deeply in love. Bull.
Being next to Wu Zun shines out Hu Ge's awesomeness even greater. He acts so much better, and next to Wu Zun his handsomeness somehow amplifies. HAHA! Yay.

Ok. Stopping here.




I've developed a sudden interest in historical places.

I mean, in the past, it used to be just stuff that are linked to old civilisations or urban legends. Stuff like Pompeii. Maya. Old old old old ancient China. Or if you're a believer, Atlantis.

But somehow my interest in old China is expanding. Now, seeing rocks that have been there for centuries seems amazing. No matter where it is.

RJ, I actually really loved the trip you took us to. =) But so little of it was left. Sigh. We must go Lijiang one day!




Woke up today at 3pm.
Wow. That was bad.
But I slept at 3.30am before that. Lol.

Was having insomnia actually. As usual. So after the tossing around time it should be 4+am?
Was worrying about 24th. Worrying sick.
Woke up and immediately called Ely. After which, sent out messages.

Sometimes when I think about screwed up plans in bed I end up hating myself.
Kind of hate the way how I start stupid stuff and end up feeling stupid. Or I mess things up and hate myself for messing simple things up. Some things, you can't blame no one, because it will always be your own fault for starting it. I mean, etc etc la. I just recognise that feeling last night, the one of dread and hate I always get from me screwing things up.

So I woke up. I tried to set things back right. And I felt glad, because everyone was helpful. Smoother than I'd imagined. Thanks people.

But I felt tired. Despite the almost 12 hour sleep, I felt tired.

Ate a good porridge, overlooked my brother baking cookies (when I was supposed to be helping him, tsk), dumped stuff into my bag and went out. Didn't check the time - just went out.

I ended up being at Starbucks at 4.17pm, when I was supposed to meet Joel, Siti and Lyon at 4.30pm.
Oh wells. It was a 10 minute walk, and I forgot to check the clock.
Bought a sg hot choc, found a good corner, and settled down to read. I've always wanted to do that. xD Was kind of self-conscious about it though. Next time gotta ask Jamietan to come sit and read with me.

Then the rest arrived... at like 5pm?
We discussed about class outing. Digressed here and there about Avatar, driving licenses, and people. xD And finally settled on outing. And then spammed the message out.
Yay! Good number of people going. Wheee.

Joel walked with me home.
Was totally fuzzy and zonked. Had this pressure thing in my head going on - kinda like a headache.
Couldn't reply messages like normal. Tired and lazy and all. So there was some major moodswings going on.
And then reached home. Pulled out a book, bounced on my bed and read.

After finishing the book, I felt infinitely better.
I thought of all the stuff I managed to get confirmed today, and felt satisfied.
Yes! A good productive day.
Looking forward to tomorrow.
I've got awesome company for lunch and dinner.
Shall blog more tomorrow.

Gonna do my nails now. Tomorrow, gonna cut it. So typing and sms-ing will be much easier for me. And! I can finally touch my guitar. Yay.

What shall I wear tomorrow? Hmm...




Evidence of how amazing lawyers can put off answering questions. Any question at all.

Allkpop :

We've previously reported that Hankyung of Super Junior requested that his contract be voided. Daily Joongang of Korea tried to reach Hankyung but was unable to reach him as he is currently in China. Instead, they were able to speak with his legal representatives.

- We heard that two separate actions were taken.
"To put it simply, the first action seeks to relieve him from the unfair contract and the second action asks to suspend the contract until the decision is made for the first one so that Hankyung may act on his individual will for the time being."

- When did Hankyung start planning on this action?
"We cannot answer that. We can only answer within the boundaries of what is described on the file."

- His arguments are the same as that of the three members of TVXQ / DBSK?
"Very similar. Hankyung also has 13 year contract with unfair terms."

- Did Hankyung have any contacts with the three members?
"We're not sure. He will soon release an official statement so wait for that."

- Has the date for the first trial been decided yet?
"The file did not even fully go through yet. DBSK's case took about two and a half months until a partial ruling was given and we expect about the same amount of time to be taken for this case. DBSK's case had numerous negotiations for settlements and couple trials so it took longer than usual. We hope that Hankyung's case would not be so long."

- Does Hankyung want to continue as Super Junior or does he want out?
"We don't know. Nothing has been decided in terms of Super Junior."

- We heard that he is preparing for solo activities in China.
"We haven't heard anything about that."

""The file did not even fully go through yet. DBSK's case took about two and a half months until a partial ruling was given and we expect about the same amount of time to be taken for this case. DBSK's case had numerous negotiations for settlements and couple trials so it took longer than usual. We hope that Hankyung's case would not be so long.""

Meanwhile SuJu and SuJu-M will have to go without Hankyung.
Wth.





I'm tired so I'm not gonna do long post now, but I just wanna do a quick review of Avatar, which Louis, Jamie, Ely, Kuangwen, Zhiyuan, Sherlynn and I just watched.

It's not the best movie I ever watched. Or maybe after hearing that it IS, it ends up not surpassing my expectations. As with every other over-promoted movie.
But yes. It is pretty damn awesome.

First up, you really gotta give kudos to the graphics and effects. It was seriously good, even without 3D you can really see the magic of it coming to life. The animation was really extraordinary - didn't break any barriers or raise the benchmark, but is pretty darn close to pushing it. There were just parts whereby I was disturbed by the rough blending of real against CG, like you could see the aliens were really just cartoon, but it's still really good.

The best part, however, is the whole development. This is a REAL story. The storyboard smooth, the explanations clear-cut. It was like watching old Disney movies (Pocohantas anyone?) meshing with G.I. Joe. It was easily understood, and wasn't too draggy. (Though they did take too long to kiss.) The way they introduced the race and pitted culture against machinery was just...amazing. I haven't watched a movie like that for ages. It was a true story-telling time. Not all that hi-kiss-bye crap. Sure, it took them 157 minutes to introduce a whole new world to us, and my butt hurt, but it was absolutely worth it.

I just have a problem with how the alien race was developed though. It was as if they were not alien at all. I was like watching modern-humans pitting up against prehistoric-humans. They did not alienate the Na'vis (is that right?) enough - so it really didn't seem like aliens at all. Just a little Native American race or something. That part, kinda disappointing. You think humans are the only ones who can invent technology? I'm not expecting a War of the Worlds kind- just that the alien race was a little too unoriginal. 10,000 BC anyone?

ok I'm too distracted to type anything else. But that's the gist of my feelings. ttfn.




Ohhhkaaayy.

Alright since I don't really wish to spend much time idling away I'm just gonna blog everything here, instead of separating Kpop rants and personal stuff.

Remember when I said my 4 year old cousin isn't as innocent as she looks? I swear man. She's some intellectual brat-in-the-making.

A few nights ago, she started crying at 11.30pm saying that she wants to go home. Her mum said she's just kicking up a fuss because she doesn't want to sleep. I thought maybe she was just homesick. I mean, little 4 year old, almost a week without her parents and her bed, homesickness, reasonable right?
After she called her mum bawling away for a long while, I took one look at her pitiful, tear-stained face and decided to turn the TV on for her. I found this baby lullaby programme and put it on.
In the end she stayed in the couch for barely a minute before she started running around again.
The next day, her mum came to find her, took her out a while, and sent her back. She was no longer asking to go home.

Now. Only just.
She was crying her eyes out again.
"I want to watch okto!"
She went on like that for a long while till even my father was pissed off. So I left my happy lil' corner and went to her.
"You want to watch okto?"
She bawled and nodded.
"Do you know what time is it now? It's 10.30pm."
She doesn't seem to know what it means.
I asked her, what time is it that she usually sleeps at home.
She says 10. So I told her that it's already 10.30pm, we've given her some allowance, and so she should sleep.
She continued crying about wanting to watch okto.
I told her, since we've given her so many allowances on her 10pm bedtime, she ought to be thankful, and if she isn't she should go home and stick to her 10pm bedtime.
Anyway after some long arguing, I told her "Why don't you call your mum, and ask if you can watch okto. If she says yes, I'll turn on the TV for you. If she says no, then you'd better go to sleep."
So she went and called and bawled away and her mum couldn't understand her so I took the phone and explained my deal with the kid. Kid bawls louder, demands for the phone, I handed it to her.
A good 5 minutes later, after her mum gave her some good talk which I couldn't hear, she paused. For a few seconds... "I want to go home!"
It was like, *roll eyes* same trick.
So she kept bawling into the phone. A good long while later, she hung up the phone.
So I went "your mum told you to go to sleep right? Go to sleep now."
She continued standing there. Sniffing. I kept repeating my instructions till she spoke up.
"I want to watch... the thing... the music thing... the one that makes you sleep..."
And I was like, "no no more you go to sleep."
And she kept insisting that there is. Until I told her "I won't put it on for you. The last time I did, you didn't watch it, nor listen to it, you just went to play. It doesn't work. So I'm not putting it on for you."
You think a 4 year old can't understand that? She stared at me, wide-eyed, with that whole *how-does-she-know* face.
A few more "go to sleep"s later...
"I ask you..."
I went "no more questions! Go to sleep!"
and she went "NO, I ASK YOU"
and she was so loud I had to let her ask, and she said some gibberish and I was like "tomorrow, I'll answer your questions, go to sleep now!"
And she still stood there. Then I said "You're making me very angry. What does your mother do when she's angry?"
And she literally went "When my mother is angry... *gibberish gibberish* tell me to go to sleep *gibberish gibberish* and answer questions *gibberish* we wake up *gibberish* and go to sleep and *gibberish* and wake up..."
I interrupted her. "You're deliberately dragging the time, I know."
And she stopped, and nodded.
"So go to sleep."
I swear I don't know how much time I wasted just trying to tell her to go to sleep. In the end I used a trick I often use on Sandy when she was younger.
"I count to 3..."
She ran to the room. "I'M GOING TO SLEEP!"
I swear, works on all kids younger than 7. Just start counting down and they'll run.

Well, most of them.

Saw the news about the Hankyung thing. I'm lazy, so I'm putting this here instead of my Kpop ranting blog.
Kyuhyun's right. No matter what, people join SM despite all the bad publicity about their artiste treatment.
SM catapults you to fame. It's the truth.
So maybe Hankyung wasn't exactly a star wannabe. So maybe he went to the auditions to accompany his friend only. (It could even be a save-face lie.) It doesn't change the fact that SM gave him all the training and help to get to where he is now.
Being in Super Junior. The Super Junior.
And he went straight with a contract termination request.
Fact is, there are a lot of legal disputes these days. The lawsuit, this request.
H.O.T stayed on till they fell. Shinwha and FTTS changed companies. I'd understand if the DBSK trio filed a lawsuit to try and make the lives of other SM artistes better, but there was a lot of sacrifices. The fans. The remaining 2 members. SM artistes.
You filed a lawsuit without backing from the entire group. Just more than half of it. Jeezus. How "together" do you plan on staying?

That of course, leaves Hankyung in a much-less-desirable situation.
1 member requesting a termination. 1 member out of a 13 member group. 1 member out of another sub-group, which also drags 2 people's fates into it.
The news of adding a member roused chaos and riots. The news of a chinese SuJu roused demonstrations outside the SM office. You, along with 11 members, worked so hard to make SuJu into what it is today. Kyuhyun had to go through harsh times and anti-fans to join in. Zhou Mi and Henry had to brave SuJu fans to realise their dreams and join SuJu-M.
Now thanks to you, all these could be gone. What would SuJu be like without 1 member?
SuJu is no longer a project group. It's a permanent idol group. With the magnitude of fans SuJu has, it is not easy to let members just leave and join like some rotating group. Joining is already so hard. Imagine the loss of 1 original member.
And you. How hard you had to train to get to where you are. It's no easy life, no fun in the sun, BUT.
Man, do you have any idea how many people would kill to be in your place?
I wish I could tell you to take it back, but the damage has already been done. You, as an elder in the group, made this kind of move, affected your little dongsaengs and even your maknae felt so much he had to write that sort of message in his homepage.
I'm just really really disappointed.
I mean, 3/5 of DBSK is already sigh. 1/15!
Seriously, man.

Sometimes I wonder.
Are people of the past more used to suffering and toiling?
Are they more resistant to slave-driving?
It's not a question of whether you are smart enough to fight for it.
It's like the alchemy principle. You have to give up enough to gain in proportion. And you've got pretty good gains where you are, if not speaking monetarily.
Is it so easy to file a lawsuit these days, that you can just *snap* do it without consulting your fellow groupmates? Are you guys not even thinking of the consequences?
Alright, to me, I thought Shinwha's popularity and activity dropped considerably much after they left SM. So maybe that's why you guys didn't opt for the changing companies thing.
But seriously. Even though you guys are so much older than me, I can't help but think that it is an immature move to just drop a legal letter out of the blue.
It's like you guys didn't even think about what will happen after it.
Or maybe you did, but didn't care.
Well shucks. Time you learned the lawyers won't solve everything for you.



alright alright. end rant. I'm sorry.