i need a name for my architecture firm, but i can't think of one! open to suggestions. leave a comment, or tag it!

because mun is my friend, he sent me a link to this place[link]

once again i'm reminded why i shouldn't let my mandarin get any worse than it already is. yesterday one of dad's friends called. the conversation went a little like this:

me: hullo?
guy: hullo 请问 吕先生 在 吗？
me: oh erm. 对不起他不在。但是你可以打给他手机。

so far so good. maybe i'm on a roll.

guy: oh! ********* 不是他手机号码？
me: 不, 这是我们家的号码。

ya .. ok sounds like a primary 2 textbook conversation example, but still getting message across. so we're doing well, team.

guy: oh. 那么你可以给我他的手机号码吗？

[insert creaking noise as i try thinking of number in english and try to translate into chinese simultaneously]

me: .. um .. 国际号码 ... 六一 ... [here the system begins to fail] 四 二 ... 二 二 .. [insert gibberish and random combinations of numbers]

so i kindof ended up giving him the complete wrong number that probably went something like 422232867826. i know it's just numbers, which is like the most basic thing ever and a 2 year old could probably do better than that, but it didn't help that he was repeating after me which got me a bit confused. so then i had to call dad to tell him "some guy who spoke chinese called and asked for your number, but i think i gave him the wrong one". and he had a good laugh, then proceeded to call every single only-chinese-speaking person he knew. i'm pretty sure they had a laugh at my expense too =_= .. again.

so if anyone wants to engage me in a bilingual conversation, i wouldn't mind the practice as long as you don't laugh at my pronunciation.

i think bboj's coming to visit again in july !! i know it's 3 months and a bit, which is quite a long time, but the prospect is exciting and also, it will be much better for him to visit when i'm on holiday, instead of visiting 3 (or 4?) weeks into semester. even though it's only a month in, it makes me feel like i'm on holiday which is bad. because i'm not.

that's why i'm blogging instead of being a cad monkey, or getting ready to morph into waffle-monkey-with-cad-on-her-mind.

and now that i have photoshop cs (props to muh home boy stoo), the possibilities for procrastination are endless !!

i stole this link from ampulets from awhile ago.

Which literature classic are you?

Charles Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil. You are one of the most loved and hated poetic works. Death and decadence are important themes for you, but none should overlook your impressive aesthetics, either. Deep down youre not evil at all, you just like to play the tough guy on the block.
Take this quiz!

not bad i guess. the title is kindof cute =) and it's true i'm not reeeeeeeeally evil. more like evil lite. not sure if i agree with the "death and decadence" bit though. sounds kind of emo .. and also not to mention i don't particularly like (i.e. am too lazy and don't really get the point of) poetry.

more about Les Fleur du Mal at this wikipedia link.

ZOMG. i was trying out this myheritage[link] thing, and check out my results!



i look like tyra banks yo! which is amazing and funny because:

1. i am not of african-american descent
2. this means that tyra banks also looks like a cat with a melon on its head

so i ran it again, this time with a different pic. and because of a change in my pose, i now look like



maggie cheung!! at least she's chinese as well, but do i really look like maggie cheung in real life? not really at all. else i would have been spotted by nicolas ghesquiere balenciaga to be his BFF.

oh myheritage.com[link], how you do stroke my ego.

you guys do your analysis too? and send me results if you don't mind me posting it up on my blog. don't be shy laaaaaah we are all friends here =)

p.s...


bboj = sean lennon o.O ???

girlie is good! she sent me this mail, which i post here because she has no blog. this is kindof just filler because i'm procrastinating.

1. A song by a Beatle/the Beatles:

‘Magical Mystery Tour’ by The Beatles

2. A song featuring piano as the main instrument:
’Politik’ by Coldplay

3. A song with a woman’s name in the title:
’Sexy Sadie’ by The Beatles

‘Eleanor Rigby’ by The Beatles

‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ by The Beatles

‘Lady Madonna’ by The Beatles

‘Lovely Rita’ by The Beatles

(Is it just me, or do The Beatles sing more songs about specific laydees than is usual?)

‘Sexy Sadie’ is my final answer. I do like that song.
hye-es !! they do seem to love their little lay-dees don't they?

4. A song with a man’s name in the title:
’Mr. Jones’ by Counting Crows

5. A song about money:
‘Rent’ from the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Rent

6. A song with weather in the title:
'Fox in the Snow’ by Belle and Sebastian

7. A song with parentheses in the title (these are parentheses):

‘(There’s Not Enough Songs About) Squash’ by Darren Hanlon

8. A song made by a punk band:
’Anarchy in the UK’ by The Sex Pistols

9. A song with the word “song” in the title:

‘The Jeep Song’ by The Dresden Dolls

10. A song you love so much you stop and listen whenever you hear it:
’Amie’ by Damien Rice

weightlifting is just fraught with innuendo. just because the two categories are "snatch" and "clean and jerk".

and as dad says, any guy can clean and jerk.

yes, but not every guy can do it with a 200 kilo rod.

it is very cold.

goshness i've been tagged by dee. so as not to disappoint..

1. A song by a Beatle/the Beatles:
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

2. A song featuring piano as the main instrument:
Bastard, by Ben Folds

3. A song with a woman’s name in the title:
Judy is a Tank Girl, by Judy & Mary

4. A song with a man’s name in the title:
Buddy Holly, by Weezer

5. A song about money:
Supply and Demand, by the Hives

6. A song with weather in the title:
Here Comes the Sun, by the Beatles again

7. A song with parentheses in the title (these are parentheses):
Moi Je Suis Faite (pour L'Amour), by the Lovers

8. A song made by a punk band:
Welcome to Paradise, by Green Day

9. A song with the word “song” in the title:
The Car Song, by the Cat Empire
*i amend this to Sing a Song of Sixpence - a lovely song that defies logic in so many ways.

10. A song you love so much you stop and listen whenever you hear it:
B is for Brutus, by the Hives

as for tagging someone else,

da, fortycalibernap, sonn and sheep man!! i choose you!!

however, if you don't have a blog but want to join in the fun, email me! and i'll post your fancy pants answers up too.

everytime i am stressed, frustrated and/or grumpy, and i take it out on someone else (usually bboj), something goes wrong. like our network screws up, or my computer decides she doesn't want to work, or i roll over my toe with a swivel chair. on the other hand when i'm nice and calm and treating people with love and respect, the network kind of works, and my computer miraculously fixes herself, and the bleeding stops. not only that, but i kind of make progress with uni work and all's right with the world.

this had led me to conclude that karma is not a joke.

i was watching my name is earl[link] over the past week, (in addition to copious amounts of anime, and everybody hates chris, which hasn't helped my uni workload one bit) and as banal as the show seems, it kind of gave me a wake-up kick in the pants. so anyhoo, since it's lent and we're catholic, and it just seems like a nice thing to do, i have made some resolutions .. however, these won't just be 'til easter, or the end of the year. i'm going to do my best to stick with these from now until the day i become an old biddy and have the right to be as narky as i damn well please.

and now for the record, my starting-with-lent-but-lasting-for-awhile-longer-happy-karma-combination-resolutions are:

1. be more open to other people's ideas. even if you're wrong and i don't agree with you, your opinion matters!

2. be cool. if things pile up and look overwhelming, i will not vent my frustration on innocent bystanders. if i take things one step at a time, i shall prevail!!

3. perhaps stop swearing so much. please note, i did not say stop swearing COMPLETELY. just .. not so much.

that's just for starters. and if i can accomplish this, then i am t3h l33t!! stupid loser girlie for t3h w1n!!

we are experiencing technical difficulty. any networking whiz out there reading my blog? pleeeeease pretty please let me know if you can fix our networking problem at home?? after i got my new comp set up, all the comps on wireless connection are able to connect to the access point, but not to the internet. pureety purleeeease help? this is toooo annoying.

bboj gets here in twooooooo freakin' hoursssssssss !!

also, new link! it's a pretty established comic so you'll have lots of stuff in the archives to catch up on. they're also turning it into a cartoon! and when they do, you can say "pah. cartoon schmartoon, i was reading this way before it came out on tv"

david lachapelle [link] does some pretty funky photography. the portraits he does are mad and sometimes pop/rap/other-types-of-music stars get him to shoot their album covers[link] for them. thing i don't get is, if you got a superfamous surrealist photographer to make an album cover for you, why'd you do something as boring as this[link] ? or this[link] ? geez mya, grow an imagination.

personal favourites are the barfly IV and whitney houston covers. she looks so slim and fresh and happy and diva-y, as you would do if you had enough platinum records to cover every surface of your bedroom. and it sure as hell beats looking like this:

which is not what a woman who's sold more than 100 million albums, won 21 american music awards, and six grammys should look like (wikipedia i love you). oh whitneeeeey how i long for the days when maids everywhere were using your songs on "voice-tapes" to send back to their loved ones.

the tom jones one is pretty nice too. who's a sex bawmb?!

so bboj arrives on saturday now, instead of friday as originally planned. at least he managed to get a plane ticket though, no thanks to that good-for-nothing-mabel-of-a-travel-agent-beeyotch.

in other news, we have done three loads of laundry today.

um...that is all.

disclaimer: gloomy emo post ahead, uncharacteristic of this blog, but hey nobody's happy all the gosh-darn time.

amidst all the excitement coz of bboj's arrival with a new computer in tow, and mum finally coming home (or maybe not) things in singapore are a little bleak ... maybe it's the time of year, or karma in singapore or something. after rushing back to singapore in january for a "family reunion", another one on dad's side of the family seems imminent. this time not all of us are going i think. which is kind of sad ... partly because we (the wyrd sisters + cousins here and there) won't be part of the whole shebang, but mostly because i think not everyone really wants to.

everyone's made their tan tock seng pilgrimage already, spending the requisite time holding hands and making small talk ... but dropping everything and going back for a final send-off isn't something that we're prepared to do. and i wonder, had it been the other way around and it was the grandpa we were close to that decided 3 weeks into semester was the right time to go, would we have given all relevant personnel 2 hours notice and booked the first flight back? i think the probability is high.

i think it's kind of horrible of us to stay here, but at the same time the thought of having to deal with the aftermath of leaving is kind of overwhelming. sometimes doing the right thing is really hard =(

it has recently come to my attention that a certain visitor here doesn't like marshmallows. now now, let's not judge him *koff*

but anyway, it made me realize that i was in possession of some marshmallow-related knowledge and i hadn't shared it!!

for those of you who don't like marshmallows in their original mallowy state, you can turn it into fudge! here's how:

1. get a microwave-safe bowl, and empty a packet of marshmallows into it
2. throw chocolate buttons/blocks in with the marshmallows
3. add some butter
4. microwave for one minute
5. take bowl out of microwave and stir the melty goo around
6. put back in microwave for one more minute

and it's done! 2-minute fudge!! eat with nuts or on its own. it's reeeeally tasty!

oh my goshness! two posts in one day ?! wow. i'm on a roll. actually i'm just feeling kind of [insert adjective here]. self-critique on countdown banner says it's not so hawt but hey! it's been awhile!! don't judge me =( else i may become emo.

on a different note, let me share some sisterly love with you..

:: stupid loser girlie :: super angry funtime gogo juice says:
u r a bat

| lyndaaaaa | yo ho ho and a bottle of rum says:
you are a clock

:: stupid loser girlie :: super angry funtime gogo juice says:
stop titting around <<>

| lyndaaaaa | yo ho ho and a bottle of rum says:
yeah, lynne and her tits. she's such a tit

:: stupid loser girlie :: super angry funtime gogo juice says:
tititititititit

:: stupid loser girlie :: super angry funtime gogo juice says:
yeah

| lyndaaaaa | yo ho ho and a bottle of rum says:
TITITITITITITIT

uni has started, and really nothing much goes on in the world of design & documentation. this semester will be oh-kaaay. but here is a reminder to all you students, uni-type or otherwise, that the internet is NOT a good reference source.

mm also, bboj is coming to town! i will do a little countdown banner. or maybe not .. because i am lazy. we'll see! perhaps this wee banner will be the tinder that will aid the ignition of my creative fire!! hehe. behold, my analorgies !!

i dunno what's with all the penny arcade links today. it's not like i just discovered them. maybe it's time to change the links on the side too. machall isn't really that funny.