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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
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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.