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

blipblipblip[spasm]
can you just imagine giving your epileptic fits with this? funfunfun!