as usual when there's no procrastination to be done, my blog entries decrease significantly. what's been happening in the past couple of weeks ..

da had her many 21st birthday celebrations which went swimmingly. look, look how happy she is as we take her to her secret luncheon location!! 

and tomorrow, the loos go for their annual road trip sans the little one for she is off in the land of frogs et snails. 

in the meantime, look! it is a pretty video. 

i'm about a year late in picking up on this but how hypnotic is this song?!

guess who's south-bound and got the hives? 

squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! many much loves to milly rockparty. 

MGFM (my good friend moongchi) is having a massive garage sale this coming sunday, so if you're in perth do drop by to snag a bargain!

as a long-time shopping partner i can assure you that MGFM only ever buys things she thinks are "special, ropey. really good finishing." or "a really good basic and you know it'll last" so there won't be junky rubbish.  

does anybody know anybody know anybody who's selling camping tickets to southbound??!! the hives are playing. i need to be there.

i've been back in perth for almost a week now, and it's been fun!

lynne's preparing to go to france on exchange, and da's turning 21 soon so many a birthday meal has been consumed in the past few days. 

also today, auntie p. and i had a luvverly pickernick under the old fremantle bridge! i made tuna melts and potato salad and we had lunch under the piers. purdy!

i am in perth! 

also, apparently sheep has a first class brain. congratulations, sheep!

here's a series of photos i have taken with my iphone over the past few months. the quality isn't too bad in the daytime, but there is no night-mode so that kind of really sucks. 

photo 1: view of arseholes in the clearing

dear diary,

on wednesday, E and i turned the apartment into a bakery. she made cookies and chocolate lava cake v.2 while i made green tea bubble cupcakes. making cupcakes is a really involved process. also, they are very unhealthy little things and perhaps it is best not to mention what went into the cupcakes. so maybe i will not be making them so often. but they were tasty! and we are all rotund.

tasty death

love,

ropey

i really kind of want a whole bunch of these. they're so entertaining!

i bought 2 books! it will be the first time since the last break that i'm reading a book that wasn't for uni. 

reading for pleasure is vastly underrated.

no, i don't know where your fat greek mate with the ponytail lives. nor do i know who david with the two small daughters who go to school is. yes, i would go looking for them if i hadn't seen them in a long time and i missed them but i would perhaps try giving them a call before awkwardly and creepily rocking up on someone else's doorstep unannounced. 

dear diary,

today i saw a possum, so i took a picture of it.

 

love and smooches,

ropey rockparty

this is quite overdue, but this is what i received from "auntie" for my birthday. mikroman! his name is stan. and he appeals to the archi-geek in me. also, he leads my dream lifestyle of sitting in a chair playing vidjagames for all time.

hello my poor neglected blog baby. i have been so busy i didn't even have time to procrastinate. and i was only "so busy" because i was procrastinating so furiously earlier in the semester. 

so anyway, i have an exam on monday but i just had to get this out of my system...

some acquaintance on my msn list has a nick that reads:
"i know why the japs razed nanking. i am chinese and i want to burn guangdong. filthy hellhole."

which is quite possibly the most dumbshit numbnut thing i've read recently. and i've read lots of dumbshit numbnut things recently because of the US elections. 

stupid people abound on the internet. 

for a friend whose birthday, like mine, occurs right in the midst of final design submission preparations:

dear zoot and gallion,

thank you for all the wonderful treats today! i had a lovely birthday. 

＼(￣ー＼)(／ー￣)／

love,

dingo

from my lovely zoot:

freudian friends

"i tell you something, but promise not to quote it ok?"

"er okay"

"scenario : at a carpark, i was trying to reach for the entertainment book, located under the front passenger seat. ladyfriend was sitting in said passenger seat. unthinkingly, i said, "could you spread your legs a little bit more? i can't seem to reach it from here."

hilarity ensues. "

"AHAHAHAHA please can i blog this"

"... ok fine. but anonymoose"

this is too good not to share

click!

(p >_< q)

i have 2 zits the size of mount vesuvius on my face. the first 2 zits of submission season. hurrah!

ach mensch! another shirt!

the more astute amongst you, my loyal readership (of perhaps 3) will notice that i've added a little widget above my flickr badge. spurred on by my first 2 sales, i've gotten a little more into this redbubble thing! but seeing as submission is due in 2 weeks exactly, i can't really get 110% into churning out shirts yet. but once i start putting more stuff up for sale, it'd be great if you could tell your friends about them! 

i learnt this phrase from zoot, who learnt it from her colleague at work. and because we're not sloppy with our references, i ran it by doktor blitzbeine who confirmed its authenticity. god forbid i turn up on one of these websites!! castle anthrax, a place of edumacation.

what i was aiming for here was a shirt that encapsulated the ennui of disenchanted hipsters all around the world. 

as of 5 minutes ago, i sold my first 2 shirts on redbubble.com !! ok so 1 was purchased by my cousin and 1 was for the person who inspired the shirt ... but still! hurraaaay ☆(ﾟωﾟ☆)(☆ﾟωﾟ)☆ｶﾞﾝﾊﾞ♪ 

relish today, ketchup tomorrow!

the second t-shirt is up!

inspired by auntie,
made for procrastinators

may be used for self-defense

i've put my first t-shirt up for sale at redbubble! it comes in a variety of colours.
please feel obliged to purchase it.

♥ lightspeed champion! ♥

this video is really stupid:


and some of these comments are even worse.

o human nature, you are an ugly ugly thing.

i recently bought a book on how to make soft toys. only having dabbled at sewing my own mobile phone pouches &c in those bygone days of yore, i thought it'd be interesting to learn some proper skillz.

i've only thumbed through the book, but i thought i'd apply some of my new-found knowledge for the mothership's present since her birthday's coming up in a couple of weeks.

i think it's rather appropriate that my fledgling attempt at this sewing thing begins with the letter A. the stitching's still rough, my technique requires a lot of refinement and the photo is really rubbish but it was pretty fun doing this. so hurrah! hopefully my interest in making stuffed things will be sustained and the book will be a worthwhile investment.

i want. i NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED

but moooom .. why can't i join the circus?

mr. k bought d a unicycle! i am deeply envious.

i wish i could come up with snappy comebacks like this

I Heart NY. Now More Than Ever.
(girl flips off hecklers in a car)
Guy in car: Oh yeah, sweetie? Why don't you stick that up your ass?!
Girl: Maybe if I made it into a fist you'd want to stick it up yours.

--30th Ave, Astoria
via Overheard in New York, Oct 3, 2008

for good friend moongchi, from (sometimes) bad friend ropey

if you keep track of news in singapore, then you'll probably know that j.b. jeyaratnam passed away a couple of days ago. and you'll also know about the failure of an condolence letter that our great prime minister wrote to jbj's sons.

anyway, there's an increasingly negative response to the way the state is handling the passing of the man considered to be the biggest thorn in the PAP's side.

it kind of makes you wonder if the letters were all dictated by the same person and then officially signed off and published. it wouldn't really surprise me. the only good thing that comes of this - that i can see at the moment anyhow - is that people are becoming more and more vocal about their unhappiness with singapore's political situation. apathy's a shiteous thing and singaporeans have been apathetic for far too long.

now i'm actually quite interested to see what'll happen when the other old man dies. he must be contemplating his own mortality now that one of his many nemeses, the one who fought the hardest, has been taken by a force greater than himself.

the show's just beginning! majulah singapura.

the tale of ropey(lein)

so there was a little bit of an outcry re: the moongchi post from moongchi, and uncle raleigh asked if the tale of ropey would be told. therefore to appease them both and to prove that the name-calling shenanigans go both ways, i will now tell you how moongchi decided to give me a shitty nickname of my own and started calling me ROPEY. that's right, ROPEY.

let me explain moongchi's thought process, and the tenuous mental connections she made in order to come up with this gem.

step 1: take an existing nickname - in this case "nette" - which is what my family calls me.
step 2: play a word association game. when she thinks "net", she thinks "rope", because nets are made of rope.
step 3: add a 'y' to that. et voila!

right now you're probably looking a bit like this ("" =____=''') . but in moongs' own words, "it doesn't matter how it came about, the point is it stuck*. and if dj (the boyf) can call me moongchi, then i can call you whatever lame thing i want. in this case, ropey. okay?"

okay.

* how stuck is stuck? mutual friends and even my own cousin call me ropey. there moongs. happy?!

merry magical mystical moongchi is coming to town

"what a horrible name", you'll be thinking. "who is moongchi and how the hell did that come about?!"

well, allow me to show you exhibit a:

during one of the many clean-up operations of marie's room, a piece of treasure was unearthed.

"hey marie," dingo called out, her eyes shining with wonder.
"yes?" replied marie in a most distracted manner.
"are you my good friend?"
"yes i am. wherefore do you ask such questions?" marie answered, in slight bewilderment.
"well then, are you my good friend .." and here dingo paused for dramatic effect, "MOONGCHI?"

and at this, marie was speechless. and before she could say more, it had been decided. from that moment forth, my good friend was moongchi! so named, for her moronic korean pencilcase.

so anyway the point of this is that my good friend moongchi is coming to sydney, so let the trees of the hills clap their hands.

inspired by daytime children's shows, zoot and i have decided to make our own children's television programme:

with auntie zoot and auntie dingo

i composed the first two lines of our first song this morning, in a semi-crimping style. it's called "ooh, a shoe!" sung by a street urchin and it goes like this

"ooh, a shoe!

but i need two!"

which stoo expanded to

"ooh, a shoe!
but i need two!

i'm a street urchin
clearly he's poor
so hungry
poor people are genetically inferior
i'm eating the shoe
sucks wet laces for liquid
it's made of leather
a poor persons' steak
oh i am ill
oh he is ill
i need some comfort
here's some pocket lint
a friendly face please
i have one but it's only the skin
TAKE ME TO CASTLE ANTHRAX!"

basically it'll teach children that wearing shoes can prevent ringworm. gallion magdalion will be the resident super hero, and he will be the one who eventually finds another shoe for the urchin and drops it from the sky in a heroic manner.

our other regular visitor will be uncle raleigh [stoo]. his segment will be about the harsh realities of growing into a non-child. he proposes to show children "how adults lord their age, height and wisdom over you but still do stupid things like leave floaters in the toilet. it will convince them that they will never understand until later, when it will be with heart-rending nostalgia, that these are the best and happiest times of their lives; free from complication, commitment, responsibility and the obligation to always be fully clothed"

i think it will be a smash hit!

oh. and to aggravate your monday blues, it's a honky tonk badonkadonk

[castle anthrax, 4pm]
dingo: you know that nasal delivery technology billboard? they've censored it.
zoot: oh.
dingo: they've literally censored it. like this:

zoot: that is the stupidest thing i've ever seen.

so let's play fill-in-the-blank! what could that word under the big CENSORED sticker be?

so in the realm of facebook ridiculousness, craggy b found a "which filipino superhero are you" quiz and it turns out that we're from the same superhero team!

ZAIDO! PULIS PANGKALAWAKAN!


oooooh

because of the colours we happened to be wearing at the time of this momentous discovery, craggy b is gallion magdalion - head of zaido; i am alexis lorenzo - a boy from a poor family (spare me my life from this monstrosity); and zoot is (rather unwillingly) cervano torres - alexis' cousin who was adopted by the wealthy torres family.

so anyway, it's just another exciting sunday in castle anthrax (zaido hq), fighting crime and the like in shiny RGB outfits.

update: rather disappointingly, it turns out that zoot is actually lastikman, so we've got an opening for a new red zaido. anybody? nobody? dust?

so i got some more photos of the workshop in taiwan off a friend. mostly of the last day of presentation. and really the only ones worth uploading were of the sydney crew and our team (4). points for originality!

avast matey, beyond the clearing!
i think there are pirates afoot

in other bimbotic news, shu uemura has finally washed up on our shores. yes it will be deathly expensive but if the face you wake up with isn't the face you necessarily want to present to the world, and you're really in kind of a pinch then you'll have to be prepared to pay. no? also, they're only opening in sydney and melbourne (so far). hurray for a bunny living in the big city!

the iphone's units converter has just informed me that i've grown an inch taller. i've always thought that 1.55m equates to 5' nothing but apparently, 1.55m = 61" = 5'1. thank you, prudence! because of you, i am a giant.

get your pirate on this weekend, folks! for it international talk like a pirate day is upon us again. because it's looking tatty and i miss it (not having brought it to sydney), i've made another pirate booty call shirt. yes, it's not a very original concept but look at the workmanship! that's quality stuff, mate.

no longer the beta version, this is PBC.08.

ever since the dispiriting dough incident, i've lost interest in mooncakes. not so much because i can't bring myself to face more disappointment, but more because the flour makes the worst frakking mess ever that i can't bring myself to clean up again. so anyway, i have to find some other way of using the lotus paste that's langouring in the the fridge.

creative suggestions welcome!

so mid-autumn festival is coming up and i had this ambitious idea of making my own snowskin mooncakes.

the paste was okay i guess

but there has to be some kind of trick to it i'm not getting because i followed the dough recipe to the letter and still, the dough was a no-show.

but never fear, girlies always persevere and tomorrow i shall try try again!

this is really old but i was just reminded of it last night when i was watching the big fat quiz of the year.

so in the absence of actual things to blog about, i'm going to type up my birthday wishlist in typical girlie fashion. please note people, you have exactly 53 days to scout this stuff out.

1. the mighty boosh on dvd (feed my noel fielding addiction)
2. the I.T crowd on dvd
3. top gear on dvd
4. an akira kurosawa dvd (or a boxset if you're feeling generous)
5. jimmy books/movies (in english or chinese, i'm not fussed)
6. a pretty dress

that's all for now.

courtesy of sheep:

logo FAIL.

o mindef, why must you do this.

i'm. addicted.

and this is one of my favourites!

i think i have to watch this movie

so i got this facebook invite:

erotic party? with edb?! i'm almost tempted to go just to see what transpires. but then again, maybe not.

so i've signed up to be part of the studio audience for top gear australia. i hope we get chosen, and i hope that it'll have its own style and not be too much of a low-quality pirated version of the original series.

but check out the hosts. they look disturbingly like the original three hosts on the british series don't you think?

kinda freaky

oh well, open minds! we go with open minds and hopefully not be too badly disappointed.

fingerstoesandeyescrossed.

as you can see there's some pretty heavy procrastination going on. this is courtesy of sheep. could singapore get any more lame?

first this*

now this

* it's not mr. brown that's lame. it's the person who wrote the article.

a great bread recipe from the worst clown in the world:

so, months after purchasing it i finally got down to playing on the rain slick precipice of darkness and completed it!

go go ropeylein!

elite! beat! agents! are! go!

brave bunny

why o why doesn't muji have a store in sydney?!
how ever will i be able to purchase these

so i'm craving the perfect blue shoe. something leather or suede in royal blue. i haven't seen it yet but when i do ..

majulah singapore and all that jazz!

i've uploaded the taipei photos!

these are the ones i took when i wasn't at the workshop. ridiculous photos of people during the workshop and presentations are on someone else's camera and i'll upload those when i have the chance.

guess who's back from taipei!!

whatever photos will be uploaded. i've also bought a necklace and promptly lost it. so i will have to email the guy i bought it from to ask for another one.

so stoo is here! and mun arrives tomorrow and castle anthrax will be buzzing.

the lead up to world youth day began today and sydney is crawling with pilgrims (or "pilgrams", as the sign at the accreditation office said today). apparently the "cool" kids are calling it "wid-sid". (WYD SYD). gurrrrrrrRRRrrrr =________="'

anyway the days have been packed and i am happy he's here. yesterday we went for lebanese food and shisha yesterday with zoot and craggy b, and there was a dish called fouhl. and craggy b kept saying "pidy de fouhl" and chuckling. anyway yours truly has helped that evolve to "pide de fouhl".

and then on tuesday it's off to taipei! o the busy life of a lotus-eating jet-setter.

kimura takuya's latest series "change" is ultra ultra addictive and at this point in the series, so very saaaaaad! when kimura cries, i cry *sigh*. and not only is a really goofy-looking kimura in it, a very drool-worthy abe hiroshi is as well (*≧∀≦*)

click for larger image

and also, in one of the episodes this band called ulfuls is mentioned and gosh! what kind of name is that? so a quick google search pulled up this video:

ULFULS - Guts Daze
Uploaded by legend67

enjoy!

how can you not like a band that makes such fun videos and have a lead singer called tortoise matsumoto?

in other news, loo hq's correspondent in china frequently texts with snappy snippets of her experiences. the latest one:

"song playing in a disney shop with lyrics: 'suck my dick, be my friend'"

hoohoo! anyway excuse the vapid posts. actually nothing really deep'n'meaningful is happening lately but the holidays have been a lot of fun !! i have been kind of productive i suppose. but i'll post the results of that later on when i have time to sit down and blog properly.

a couple of weeks ago, zoot and i bought the last 2 tickets to the grates gig. i know because i tried to buy 4 and the website would only let me buy 2 because that's all that was available. anyway the gig was just then and it was really really good!

i was a bit wary because they said it would be at a 'secret location' which was only revealed yesterday and there was a fair bit of hype built up about it. but it turned out to be really good! before the gig began they actually served proper food (fish 'n' chips, rice 'n' curry), the drinks were cheap, and there was no support act.

they sang all the good songs from their first album, a few songs from their new one and i think they were even better than the first time i saw them in 2006!!

and as we were leaving we even got a loot bag each, with a lollipop (consumed) and a badge (proudly displayed). gig photos are on zoot's camera so i'll post them when she uploads them.

hearts added in photoshop

SO! CUTE!
i want them all

afufufuf

these photos were taken last friday. my exam is now over and zoot's end tomorrow, and over the holidays, cafe anthrax will go through a revamp! balcony furniture!

hee~ i'm going to look for more of his songs

this morning, zoot and i successfully completed the herald crossword. YAY!

overheardinnewyork is great for procrastination:

Nature: 2 Nurture: 0

Little boy #1: You're afraid to talk to girls!
Little boy #2 (very solemnly): Because they're monsters.

--56th & 8th

Overheard by: Cori

via Overheard in New York, Jun 21, 2008

welcome to zoot et dingo: study date part deux at cafe anthrax

today zoot and dingo went on a study date and we got lots done! zoot finished her essay and dingo got through a whole lot of notes !

o(^___^)o go us! o(^___^)o

and tomorrow we're doing it all again

on my recent trip to brisbane i bought up an entire korean convenience store's worth of snax for a movie nite with sheep and spied these little hooks upon which our garage keys could be hung. the funnest part about the hooks is not that they are shaped like 3 girls sitting down and holding hands but the engrish on the packaging.

[earlier this morning ...]

dingo: LOOK!
zoot: he looks like james lye
dingo: NO HE DOESN'T
zoot: yes he does. create a poll.
dingo: fine, i will.
zoot: you have a crush on vr man. HAHA

so anyway. look, compare, then cast your vote.

does tamaki hiroshi look like james lye?
hellz yeah hellz NO
	you see? i do not have a crush on on vee ar man

sundays should be spent basking on the lawn at a cheese festival listening to a salsa band, consuming cheese platters, antipasto platters, beer-battered calamari, freshly-shucked oysters, yoghurt, lillypilly juice, wine, dippin' dots ice cream (for nostalgic purposes) and slushies (because you can't go to a festival without consuming a slushie).

mmm ...

dear sondha, sheep and cally,
this was the bestest weekend i've had in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages.

much love and many hugs,
s. bunnny

today was movieworld day! also known as the day that 3 friends, one from each stage of my life, met each other. how strange they're all in brisbane! anyway, movieworld! a blow-by-blow account. leave now, ye who find such things insufferable.

batman adventure
some simulator thing with a really involved pre-ride story. sucked.

batwing spaceshot
a fantastic warm-up ride. dragged sheep and cally along even though they didn't seem so keen. a pretty standard free-fall kind of theme park ride where you get strapped into a seat with your feet dangling free and then you get launched 8 storeys into the air and then dropped again.

superman escape
the premise being you're on a metropolitan transit railway ride and there's an earthquake or something god knows. but anyway the only way for you to be saved is superman comes along and "pushes" you to safety. i wasn't really listening to the pre-ride spiel but something about hitting g-force 4 times? or something. and negative g-force once. exciting! goes from 0 - 100 in 2 seconds or so matt claims. dragged sheep and cally on this one too and they were super apprehensive at first but i think they were glad they went in the end. right? right?

wild west falls adventure ride
we got wet. there was some tummy-churning. not bad.

shrek 4d adventure
surprisingly entertaining! sheep actually screamed a fair bit. shameful sheep. there was much arm-clutching especially at the bit with spiders. s. bunny was pillar of strength.

lethal weapon
i have no idea what the premise even was. some very haphazardly thrown together storyline i imagine. but anyway, sheep and cally sat this one out. the rest of us were strapped into our seats that were suspended from a track that ran above our heads. so it was sitting in a harness and being flung about. loop the looped 5 times and corkscrewed once! apparently i scream like a girl. and apparently it's pretty distinctive so you can hear where i am. couldn't walk in a straight line after.

LUNCHBREAK!
was wisely taken after all scary rides had been conquered. sondha and i prepared this massive picnic lunch only to realise that we probably wouldn't be able to bring it into the park (otherwise who'd buy the overprice garbage they served?) so in a very singaporean fashion, she smuggled the entire contents of our picnic basket into her satchel.

on the menu:
baguettes
cheese
prosciutto, ham & roast beef slices
box o' tomatoes & spinach leaves (rinsed and pat-dried by me. bunnies like their veggies crisp)
assorted tartlets (one each)
chocolate truffles (seven in total)
mandarin oranges

a feast!!

road runner roller coaster
an 'all-family fun' ride where cally screamed louder than all the children on the ride combined and the rest of us laughed uproariously

sondha + matt go on lethal weapon twice more. the rest of us have an ice cream break.

scooby doo spooky coaster
a fantastic traditional roller coaster. possibly one of the best rides just because it was very much like being in an actual scooby doo cartoon. went on this one twice in a row. hoohoo!

went on the superman ride again
regretted halfway through the ride. screamed "why did i go on this agaaaaaaaain" during the near-vertical drop much to the amusement of sondha and matt.

and then we staggered home

we're going to dreamworld today!!! sondha feeds people well ... i will be the size of a house when i return. i'm sure pictures will be forthcoming ^________^

i am happy to report that the nodame cantabile live action series is just as funny as the anime, and the guy acting as chiaki is hot.

and no zoot, he does NOT look like james lye.

my research paper's done ... and it's sexy!! i think.
mrow.

2500 words in a day is a pretty good effort i think. maybe next time i won't leave it so late. though i always say that and i always live to procrastinate another day.

things to do once this is all over:
- purchase and read the little prince,
- purchase and play on the rain-slick precipice of darkness
- pack for brisbane
- eat sondha out of house and home
- watch a whole bunch of movies with sheep
- be a child at a theme park
- watch nodame cantabile (live drama)
- watch stephen chow movies 'til i pass out

and um ... study for my one exam. and update my portfolio.
i have such lofty ambitions!

spoiler-filled indiana jones post:

i don't know why people say the new indiana jones movie is bad. all you need is a complete suspension of reality and everything about it is really entertaining!

1. harrison ford isn't hot like he was in his han solo days, but he's aged pretty well.
2. sh-sh-sh-shia labeouf
3. cate blanchett's varying accents
4. ANTS
5. implausible treatment of mummified remains

the list goes on.

the only thing i didn't like were the aliens. i wish they'd retained more of the mystery about these places! and yes, i was that person in the cinema who said "oh come on" every time the aliens popped up on screen.

everytime sheep and i procrastinate, the goings-on in the motherland suddenly become very interesting. not that this isn't interesting in itself, but it just happens to be taking place when we have huge deadlines to meet.

anyway, it sparked off some discussion in castle anthrax on whether things were so bad when we were growing up. we never felt it living there, but now that we're in sydney we do realise how oppressive singapore can seem from an outsider's point of view.

zoot reckons that because our grandparents lived through singapore's toughest times politically, what with the japanese and communists and the merger with malaysia, then being kicked out (depending on which history book you read) of malaysia, they really appreciate what "the great leader" has done. and similarly, our parents lived through a time where singapore was developing well and things were pretty rosy so there were no complaints obviously. so much so that the generation between us and our parents are pretty apathetic about a lot of things.

but now, you have precocious young whippersnappers going overseas to study and experiencing all these new and fantastical things and coming back (well some of them do) and asking questions like "how can singapore claim to be a first world country when its government tends to have a flagrant disregard for the human rights of dissenters and rabblerousers?"

so then we wondered if knowing what we know, we'd still want to raise our hypothetical, mythical, in-the-future children in the same place that we grew up. of course singapore has a lot of things going for it: a pretty safe environment, order, good transportation etc, and there's really a lot of lovely little places to discover if you have the inclination to do so.

zoot is pretty undecided, because she has lots of family and friends in singapore. i'm pretty much a flat-out no, because most of the family that matters to me "quit" and most of my friends are scattered all over the place anyway. of course, who knows what things will be like when we actually do have children etc, but barring all those other factors because statistics are never accurate, what would you do?

i don't know how many (ex-)singaporeans read this blog, but here's a poll so vote! because you know you'll rarely have a chance to. and if you vote, maybe leave a comment* explaining your reasons. curiosity bunny wants to know!

would you raise your offspring in singapore?
aye nay see how lah
	Results

* comments are anonymous, but please leave your name and ic number so we can contact you for further enquiry

sheep is so sweet

Dear Lynneh,

Here is a [pretty flower]* to brighten ur day!

Love sheep

* original text replaced, just 'coz

so i'm done with studio this sem!
here's a small preview of the final presentation panel. actually i'm quite proud of it ^____^

i was doing a sustainability studio, so the brief was to design a (semi)autonomous habitable bridge with over the hawkesbury river in brooklyn, nsw.

i don't know if you can actually read the text, but the images on the bottom right were 3d renders not done by me. and they're very ugly so i won't assault your eyes with it. i just left it there to preserve the composition of the panel.

it's kind of squashed-looking here but it's much better on the flickr link

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if anybody knows how to interpret dreams, please tell me what my weird ones mean!
last night i dreamt i was teaching a cross-dresser to thread his facial hair because she was dissatisfied with the way that his concealer n foundation was covering up his stubble. but then i couldn't find any proper thread to teach him with because everything i picked would start out as thin ordinary cotton thread and wind up as some huge thing nylon rope.

in the meantime, my friends were taking part in a rowing competition but one of them fell out of her rowboat and everybody was annoyed. she couldn't climb back in without tipping everyone else over so she swam to the shore and hitched a ride on a road train.

also, the night before i dreamt my eye was bleeding. which is pretty gross. but it didn't hurt! just like a nosebleed. but um. from my eye.

there are like 275 smiles? but that's for ... for you know ... advanced

we especially love how she tries to make everything sound so bloody difficult

so i'm nearing the end of my first semester in sydney! and actually i think i'm doing way better here than i was at uwa. and actually, even if grades-wise i'm not, life-wise i am. i think buttons will know what i mean when i say yew-dub is one of those confidence-shattering places.

i think the lecturers here are more confident in their intellectual abilities than they are in small-town perth so there's no need to constantly put people down in order to assert their intelligence. like the only nice lecturers at uwa are either old/went somewhere fancy for their degree/are highly qualified.

anyway, a.p. reckons it's a perth-thing. who knows.

also, girls of sydney: a shirt is not a dress and leggings are not trousers. and you are not lindsay lohan.

purely for procrastination purposes, and also shits and giggles. provided by your friendly local sheep!

it started out with me trying to see if my mobile alarm would go off even if the phone was in silent mode.

sheep says:
isitringing?
i mean sounding

:: stupid loser girlie :: says:
dunno
i set it for 2 mins into the future
1min to go

sheep says:
the...future...
hey did u ever realize right that we are all time travellers

:: stupid loser girlie :: says:
oh it does [ring]
what?
forwards time travellers?

sheep says:
tt's right!
we travel through time...allll the time

(obviously pleased with herself. i could almost see the look of corny glee on her face.)

:: stupid loser girlie :: says:
i thnk "time traveller" by default means um...

sheep says:
NO DONT SAY IT
SHH

:: stupid loser girlie :: says:
back
or far forward
oh

sheep says:
don't ruin it!

:: stupid loser girlie :: says:
ok

sheep says:
=(

:: stupid loser girlie :: says:
sorry

sheep says:
u ruined the romance of it!

later on...

:: stupid loser girlie :: says:
u shld bring it up to ____

sheep says:
...
!!!!!!!
ARE YOU COMPARING ME WITH HER

:: stupid loser girlie :: says:
no i'm saying u shld say it to her n see her reaction
"WAH SHEEP U R SO SMART"

sheep says:
more likely it will inspire ____ to write some post abt how when u are a time traveller isnt it nice to always be close to home (i.e. time travel with ur [insert degrading pet name])
so she wishes they both cld travel together in the tardis
as long as he's by her side
as they travel together in time
she's always home

so you see, dr. who can be poetic too. also, sheep is a big geek. also, the phone does ring even if it's in silent mode.

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sheep sent me this test on facebook. and a week after getting my result, okcupid sends me this awful email that assumes i'm some kind of desperado!

apparently "Since [i'm] single and female", they thing i'll like their "matching system. There's no pressure and it's like one massive game of Q & A with millions of strangers at once. Try it!"

oh and "by the way", the fact that i "scored The Window Shopper on the OkCupid Test has caused a certain amount of automated commotion in [their] software. Nicely done."

why thank you okcupid. what ever the hell would i do without you to attempt to matchmake me with a billion freaks from across the cosmos.

for the love of god, why?!

oh how i wish i had some kare-pan right now. how tasty does it look!

i want this!
papercraft! mmm nomnomnom

on the rain slick precipice of darkness is an episodic rpg by the penny arcade guys and by jingo i really want it. i neeeed it. after research paper. i will get it after i turn my research paper in. that's in 3 weeks! aiyeeeeeeeeee

so anyway that fragranceprince boy has been arrested by the superefficient singapore police force (the pride of the land .. c'mon sing with me!). i don't think he'll do prison-time. probably get slapped with the maximum fine and do some CWO and get a police record.

still, i feel a little bad for him for being so stupid. i mean from reading his other posts he kind of deserves to be arrested just for being a first class dick. and if he bothered to pick up a newspaper anytime in the last 3 years he would've read about those other guys who got arrested for anti-islamic rants. but if you go onto the streets of singapore and pick anybody at random, chances are they will have more than a few disparaging things to say about the other races they are meant to be co-existing harmoniously with. so actually arresting him doesn't really address the issue of racism, it just serves as a warning to everyone else to keep their thoughts to themselves please, or else.

of course everybody discriminates on some level, present company included. show me a person who claims to be completely accepting and i'll show you a person who's completely delusional. or maybe you've literally found jesus. but at the very least there should be some kind of sensitivity in keeping your mouth shut for the sake of keeping the peace and the greater good.

cracked's latest list on 9 most devastating insults from around the world is hilarity! the very topical serbian ones are my favourite. also, i didn't think that the mandarin insults were particularly devastating .. they all seemed a bit too poetic.

anyway since i'm going to taipei in july i thought i'd google for a more comprehensive list of insults and rude words (just in case) and discovered there wasn't much more than what i already knew! well howsabout that!

just another day in castle anthrax...

zoot: there was a lot of fat around the bum area and i kept trying to push it in, but it kept falling out the cavity so i just cut it off.

and just for fun i'm not even going to tell you what she was talking about. guess !

hurray! sondha is talented.

got this off cowboy caleb's blog and it's totally in the 'what the heow' department. apart from being a complete bigot, his english is so goddamn terrible i really don't know who he thinks he is. i hope he realises that he can get arrested for this shit. he deleted the original entry but someone found a cached version.

and it's sad to say but he's really just saying what more than a few people don't dare. so basically he's just self-absorbed and completely witless. anyway it's no secret that singapore is a pretty racist society only it's kept on the down low and smothered in multicultural society national education crap.

where's the love people?!

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

also, mexican food is tasty tasty kryptonite .

newtown is exciting! after dinner we went over to k's house to play on the wii and while we were waiting for people in the courtyard, this buff bald man in a purple shirt and trackies sprinted past us. 10 seconds later someone yells "STOP!!" and 2 policemen are not-so-hot on his heels! then when i peeked around the corner a police car was creeping up the street.

i wish the policemen were quicker and k had tackled the guy. then the evening would truly have been complete.

in the realm of horrible facebook groups: hanky panky in singapore

where you can meet people like t****** n*** whose idea of a good pickup line is "Hey I am a cantonese, you want some lup cheong in you"

after sitting through an insufferable evening with someone's neighbours i was asked if it's ok for their niece to to e-mail me regarding uni course choices. so i said ok, and received this.


there are so many things wrong with it i don't even know where to begin. oh i know, the spelling! and then from there, how it's so frakking offensive. i know it's a common mentality but i still hate the soulless-ness of it all.

for some reason i'm very irritated by this. sheep says that these particular people in question should join the sri lankans obsessed with college degrees, social status and money society. or the slocdssms.

zoot and i walked to franklin's just then to buy some chocolate, but the hobo who usually sits outside wasn't there. so zoot thinks he probably went home. which means he's not really a hobo, but is in fact, a faux-bo.

also, zoot is luvverly.

ok so architecture in helsinki was good but not that great. zoot's theory is that they are all too twee to have people skills and engage with the audience. and there was this bit where they had some trouble with the drums and the lead singer tried to engage the crowd with witty banter and it was very meh. but then we did get a free single that you apparently only get if you go to the gig and a bag full of loot.

so all in all i'd rate the evening an 8/10.

we're going to watch architecture in helsinki!

buying an air ticket is always exciting. i can't wait for june and then july! oh holidays, you really couldn't come sooner.

dear sheep
baaabaaaa baaaaaa baaaaaa.

bleat,
nette

yesterday, sheep gave me the heads-up on a facebook quiz that tells you - after answering a series of multiple-choice questions - the first initial of the person you'll spend the rest of your life with. so vague right?

anyway the person i'll be spending the rest of my life with has a name that starts with J. so there i am pleased at the fact that i might have a chance of my future husband being johnny depp as opposed to sheep who was paranoid that she'd have to spend her life with a specific someone whose name begins with N.

anyway zoot says fat chance of johnny depp. i'll probably get some guy with a chinky name that's been "anglicized" like jenson or jendon.

"what about jincent?" i asked
"oh yes! jincent! jincent kwok! you will be the future mrs. jincent kwok"

so anyhoo, if anybody meets a guy called jincent let me know! we might really hit it off ! =P

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recently got sent this link and it's really sweet! so i thought i'd share it with all of you. i especially love the imaginative use of metaphor.

another mystery solved! thanks to youtube.

actually this is really quite bizarre. for one thing i have no idea what she's talking about. and for another, why on earth is she repeating the things she says on the train? in any case, now you will always imagine this woman's face when you take the mrt.

as it is with every bloody thing they try to do, MOE has managed to make everything about school not fun. even eating.

i don't know if you remember but a few weeks ago i got this email saying that one of the pictures i took in tasmania had been shortlisted for inclusion in this online travel guide. well anyway, it's been selected [link]! along with a couple of others, but who cares (￣▽￣)ノ＿彡☆

so anyway you can click on that link to have a look. although i think i'm the only person who probably gets a kick out of seeing my own picture there. this is because - and you can check my flickr photostream for this - i am actually a pretty terrible photographer.

in any case ... (￣ー￣)bragbragbrag

ohmygoshness and also we have a heater now. purchased off ju for a more than reasonable price too. toasty toes. ahhh...

i finally worked up the guts to go to the revue rehearsal today! and it was actually quite fun ! i'm glad i went. so thanks to everyone who said "oh just bloody do it, you can't possibly regret it" and i didn't. even though i was probably the oldest person there by far. so anyway.

moving along, i'm probably going to taiwan for a week in july for an international urban design workshop! so that'll be fun too and danielle seems to be really keen on coming along so i'll have good company. and we'll probably be going a few days before the workshop begins so we can do touristy things. YAY!

aaaaaaaaand that's really about it for now.

oh and by the way

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can you just imagine giving your epileptic fits with this? funfunfun!

part of procrastinating is talking about procrastinating and saying things like "you know, you can never procrastinate like there's no tomorrow, but you can procrastinate like there are many tomorrows". and then auntie pratma will go have a nap, and then i will buff my toenails and now look how shiny and beautiful they are!

god bless aussie journalists. they really have to find the pun in everything.

today started out ordinarily enough, except for the fact that even though it was extremely bright and sunny out, it was ridiculously freezeyourbollocksoff (if you had any) cold.

anyway after lecturebreaklecturebreak we were meant to go to a site visit at nida at 2pm, so like good punctual students we left uni at about 1.20pm and a friend said she'd drive us so we all hopped into the car. THEN someplace in surry hills or something, we stop at a traffic light and the car just dies. in the right lane. of a busy 2-lane road.

to the credit of all 4 girls in the car (myself included), there was no screaming or panicking, just mild confusion as to what just happened. turns out she'd run out of petrol literally one street away from a petrol station.

so 3 of us had to hop out of the car and push it into a side road which was comedy in itself because the road was on a slight slope and we were struggling a fair bit, then run off to buy a can of petrol from BP which took bloody forever because we didn't even know what the can was meant to look like, then spent even more time looking for a funnel because we didn't realize that the funnel was built into the can, then ran back to the car and wished there was a better funnel because it seemed like more petrol was ending up on the side of the car rather than inside the car, then drove to the petrol station to fill up the tank properly, then drove to nida where the ticket machine rejected all our coins, made a billion beeping noises, reset itself and spat money out at us. jackpot! by the time the frazzled four made it into nida, it was about 15 minutes into the tour and we weren't allowed to go into the workshops unsupervised until some kindly classmate came to retrieve us. and then by 3pm it was all over!

i doubt our car-driving friend reads this blog but if she does, she really doesn't have to feel bad about anything!

it was quite an adventure.