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  • 280: just like a graham greene novel 

    r 4:01 pm on May 10, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    All this hate and love; it’s soft, it’s hooey.
    There’s only things, Blackie.

     

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  • 267: CLOSE THE DOOR 

    r 11:03 pm on April 11, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Continuing my new and exciting series of Things You Never Needed To Know About Law, here is the following judgment from the former Justice of Appeal Karthigesu.

     

     

    Everybody, all together now: WTF?

     

    ETA: Okay, everybody needs to compare that with this from Lord Justice Chadwick:

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    • nurul 3:24 am on April 12, 2008 Permalink

      i havent left my house since wednesday and therefore have finished the entire season of nobuta wo produce while doing islamic history notes. currently on gokusen 2. anyway, have realised the guy whose in both dramas whose name i cannot spell but starts with k (kame somethingsomething) is from kat-tun but isnt the one youre obsessive over. whyyy. he’s so pretttyyy. and really, wtf at the law notes. the consequences of failing to crack it… form a committee of enquiry and get them to do it for you….
      take care dear, be happy!

    • supermango 4:54 am on April 12, 2008 Permalink

      HAHA no i love kame. i love them both! to be honest, (and i’m going to sound like a fangirl here) jin – who is hayato in gokusen – is better looking, but kame is much prettier. and acts better. he doesn’t look like that now anymore though, he’s gained weight and filled up and … looks very hot.

      here are pictures for evidence:

      kame 1
      kame 2

      i didn’t like nobuta that much though everyone went crazy over it. to be honest i think akira was really good in it though.

    • nurul 6:48 am on April 12, 2008 Permalink

      OH MY GOODNESS HE’S HAYATO!!!! okay now i understaaand. they look really good next to each other! like, it makes the term pinupboys make sense. though no way is jin better looking. kame is like… hotness. though i think the filling upness loses a bit of the slightly wayward waifishness he had. anyway, pictures just dont do it for me. i need to see him from all angles!! haha! have you seen this: http://wiki.d-addicts.com/1_Pound_no_Fukuin ? i would think that he gained weight from that. havent watched it… seems a bit odd. like kimi wa petto which i watched the beginning and ending of and got VERY weirded out by matsumotojun kissing koyuki. i think the acting for nobuta was really good, and the fact that it didnt have a perfect ending. though to be very honest i did continue watching it for the two guys. and also because i will watch almost anything to not study. miss you, and being insane. be well, dear!

    • supermango 11:41 am on April 12, 2008 Permalink

      yes he is :) hahahaa yes i have the whole subbed version of one pound gospel (and i can tell you where to download it if you want). subbers are really fast and i watched every episode the week after it aired in japan – so that means people only took less than a week to subtitle it. they’re amazing… and very free. not that i’m complaining, really, but woah.

      yeah he did gain weight from it – he spent alot of interviews saying how because of the prep for the role that he gained a lot of muscle, though he’s the naturally skinny type so a month after that he’s back to normal if he doesn’t work out (it stopped showing in march and his arms are not as bulgy as before already). it was quite good even though the story was a bit weird, cos the character is so funny. OKAY. people are probably creeped out by how much i know right now. i follow these two boys obsessively.

      and you should probably see kame dance if you want to see him from all angles. hur hur.

      to be honest i stopped watching kimi wa petto after about 7 episodes because it was just too weird. i didn’t want to know the ending even though i sort of knew the ending already, if you get what i mean. it’s probably just that i didn’t want to see it. it was so strange. i miss you too! you’re the only one who understands my obsession!

    • nurul 5:40 am on April 13, 2008 Permalink

      its on mysoju! JOY! JOY! okay i might watch it tonight since no ones in my flat which makes me sad. though, i think kame in nobuta > kame in gokusen since he actually smiles in nobuta a lot. gokusen has this requirement for emo tough guys or smth.

      ahhh do you understand enough japanese to follow the interviews?! i want to understand all the crazy stuff on youtube! theres one where apparently akanishi jin talks about how he saw someone in shibuya who looks kame but with his eyebrows at 15degrees more angled or something. it was funny anyway! no i totally get the obsession. we are sad, sad people. but its okay. we understand each other!

      ya seriously i read your comment and i went on youtube. 7 episodes is quite a lot! i freaked by the 2nd, but i wanted to know how it ended so i watched the last 2. it was really strange because at that time in politics we were doing the philosophy of why slavery is immoral, i.e. because no one would willingly give up all of his/her rights to someone else. but like, so therefore is being a pet immoral?

      WE ARE SAD PEOPLE! but i love you anyway! haha omg youre going to japan right, are you going for their concert? MUST TAKE PICTURES!

    • supermango 11:31 am on April 13, 2008 Permalink

      i love that show… seriously. kame smiles an insane amount in one pound gospel it’s crazy!

      gokusen 3 is going to air in japan this month, or next. obviously no one cares enough about it because there is zero hype about it. gokusen was first headlined by matsumoto jun and oguri shun, then akame after that, so they got crazy ratings (like 30%!) but now i don’t even know who the actors are and probably will not care. that is sad because the ratings will probably just go down the drain and everyone will be very sad. the plot does tend to get very repetitive after like the 5th episode… i’m surprised it lasted two seasons but to be honest i ended up just watching it for the guys only. haha. i am so shallow.

      randomly, they showed gokusen 2 on tv twice! on channel 8! and during nobuta, kame was only 40kg! oh and there is going to be a hana kimi special! they are filming it now! too many exclamation marks!

      well he did give up his rights in exchange for food and lodging so … if immorality of slavery is premised on lack of consent you can’t really say it’s immoral if he did it voluntarily right? then again, a right is a right is a right and cannot be exchanged. the debate goes on. hur. i am obviously really doing too much constitutional law now (: do you want anything from japan?

      you should watch cartoon kat-tun! it made me love them all. they are CRAZY and stupid and hilarious. and one of them cracks stupid jokes and puns and they all roll their eyes and kick him. but he is adorable.

      see! junno 1
      junno 2
      junno 3
      you always see the blonde dude at the back coming to get ready to kick him. it’s super funny.

      everybody reading this exchange is probably thinking we are crazy.

    • nurul 3:34 pm on April 15, 2008 Permalink

      i know! soooooo cute! though the nun chick honestly did annoy me SO MUCH at points.
      i think gokusen 2 was better than 1, much more realistic. or well, as realistic as you get. but yeah. gokusen 3 will probably just be overkill. i just fastforwarded all the parts where she wasgiving “inspirational” speeches. haha. i kept thinking how hard it must have been for the guys to try and maintain an interested/ awed expression, with the exception of kame, who was allowed to look bored all the time.
      40kg?! WHAT! WHAT?! that is UNREASONABLE! yaaaa omg i am soooo looking forward to the hana kimi special! the hana yori dango one is supposed to be out this year as well! exciting!!
      it depends, how you define slavery in some ways because if you define it as being wrong because it is irrational for someone to give up his rights, therefore no one would do so, therefore can you say that anyone who agrees to slavery is therefore irrational and the contract itself is invalid? ok nvm. lets just NOT do work here. hahaha.
      ooh! hmmm. how much are cds? if theyre not tt ex help me get either arashi or kat tun? if not then a postcard would be nice! yayyyy you’re amazing! -beeeghug-
      i watched bits on youtube, like the one where kame says he holds hands with everyone including guys and everyone else goes crazy!
      its okay, they should be inspired and go and watch EVERYTHING that has akame or oguri shun. haha. man, how do i deal with the realisation tt i am a grade a otaku? (is there a feminine form of otaku? otakette?)

    • nurul 3:43 pm on April 15, 2008 Permalink

      okay maybe i should stick with fangirl. i can deal with fangirl. =)

    • supermango 4:49 pm on April 15, 2008 Permalink

      i think gokusen 2 was already quite bad. luckily they’re good looking and she’s pretty and there are some funny parts – but the fighting was so weird. did you notice she only fought them one-on-one, EVER? so unrealistic!!

      yes we are not going to talk about work. well – i’ve been called that alot lately so i guess it’s true. the funniest part is that i have now set my computer screensaver to start every 15 minutes, but my folder just consists of 486459656 pictures of japanese boys in HIGH QUALITY so sometimes when they flash across the screen all you see are their crotches or faces or some weird body part in great detail. which would probably scare me if i were not me and sitting behind me instead. now whenever i go away for too long i have to remember to put the laptop cover down or half the world will be potentially exposed to my perversion. oops. they’re all wearing clothes though. but still. i suppose it would be a bit traumatising.

      i have no idea how much they are but cdjapan sells kat-tun cds online for about $50. the singles are about $15? so without shipping i’d imagine they’d be cheaper.

      you like arashi too! randomly did you know that one of them is the dude in letters from iwo jima? the BAKER?

    • nurul 5:45 am on April 16, 2008 Permalink

      okay this shows how much TIME I WASTE but gokusen 2 ep 9 is like kame at his HOTTEST, EVER. kame + striped white shirt and skinny pants = yummy. seriously. i am SO rewatching that episode. ya! the fighting is SO UNREALISTIC! its like. yes, hit the teen boys while in a large group but line up carefully so the chick can knock you out. haha shes really damn funny when she does her whole, ohhh i know you boys love me thing, and then the guys are like – WTH?!

      you never know, leave it up and you might make a friend!! hee hee. i’m glad they’re all wearing clothes, risse. very glad. hahahaha. though apparently, oguri shun has modelled for a yaoi magazine with his best friend, and im not sure how disturbed i should feel. haha. one of my guy friends watched hana kimi and liked it, though felt very uncomfortable watching it, which i find quite funny.

      a cd is 50?! are you kidding me?! okay i will think about it when i go home and tell you. haha. yes! i like arashi! there’s a music vid they do with like little wooden dolls which is sooo cute. i havent watched letters from iwo jima! it seems too depressing, im not in the mood. anyway, do you like ikuta toma too? his smile is how cute la okay. i would totally watch honey and clover except that the girl annoyed me SO MUCH during the first episode.

      anyway, much love.

    • supermango 11:35 am on April 16, 2008 Permalink

      hahaa i watched gokusen 2 so long ago that i can’t really remember, but it should be the one where he kneels down and cries right? kame from that period is too angular for me – like you can tell both of them (well all of them really) haven’t really grown out of their teenage faces and it’s all a bit awkward. watch the lips pv! kame is wearing eyeliner and it is all very hot (:

      the interactions between the head teacher and her are really funny though. the sound effects make it even funnier (:

      oguri shun does a lot of weird things people don’t expect him to, like play the lead in shakespeare plays on stage. anyway apparently he is just like that – he and ikuta toma are very good friends and all they pretend to do is just be stupid and act gay and call each other wife and husband and do dumb things like take pleasure in watching everybody else feel horrified. hana kimi was a very good way to explore homosexuality in a way that alot of homophobes wouldn’t find that offensive (i think). yes i liked him in the role and i’m very sad that he still hasn’t debuted even though he’s been in the business since he was 14 and that was all together too much information. haven’t watched honey and clover, but maybe i’ll start on it after exams. i put watching another one on hold too – ganbatte ikkimasshoi – which stars nishikido ryo from NEWS (yet another johnny’s entertainment group) ha this johnny’s is seriously taking over my entire life. i watched until ep 3 the held it off cos the girl was so offensive. she acts in initial d with jay chou! ergh. hooray for annoying girls.

      yeah a cd online is 50 but i’m sure it’s cheaper there. although japanese groups don’t really release cds very often (but they come up with a single like every 3 months) so their albums have like 40 songs and are usually released nearing their concert tour dates as like some promotional gimmick. the dude in charge of them really knows how to make money okay.

    • nurul 2:55 am on April 18, 2008 Permalink

      yeahh its that one. haha well, i watched it a couple of weeks ago so its all a bit new to me. i dont know, though. they look a bit more raw when they were younger. haha yes i watched it! very very hot. though the clothes make him look like he’s doing a musical called “pimp, the japanese edition”. i watched a couple of episodes of cartoon kat-tun and OMG i am SO in love! they are hilarious! watched the ones with leah dizon (where akanishi jin is like, SILENT AND STARING for most part of it), erika toda and horikita maki. hilarious! junno makes the STUPIDEST comments!

      i can imagine oguri shun would make a good hamlet, or smth. haha i swear, he sounds like he was prob in an all boys school for a while. i dont know, when i watched hana kimi i was like, OH MY GOODNESS, this reminds me in some weird way of being in rg and being completely insane. though, i think a lot of homophobes wouldnt actually watch a show like hana kimi…

      have you watched kurosagi? its really quite good. yamapi and horikita maki. yamapi is good but really, okay, so incapable of smiling that its quite strange. i think if there werent any annoying girls we would be watching EVEN MORE SHOWS. so maybe its a good thing.

      the guy in charge of them has like, the BEST JOB EVER wth. seriously.

      love,
      nj

    • supermango 3:55 am on April 20, 2008 Permalink

      haha yes. there are like 54 episodes now so you can take your time watching them (: they are really super funny. yah jin is fascinated by eurasians (hence leah dizon) and he only starts smiling when he tries to ‘propose’ to her with lyrics from a justin timberlake song and everyone is just like O_O!!!! and his english is actually not bad… haha. junno’s jokes are really retarded and he always gets kicked but he deserves to be loved anyway. haha

      yes oguri shun sounds repressed really but i think he just has a very weird sense of humour. it’s a secondary school thing!! all the strange things happened in sec sch seriously. like faith shaking her butt to get into your locked classroom while somebody filmed her at the back. that scene is forever burned into my mind…

      yeah i watched kurosagi – the movie just came out! haha. yamapi doesn’t laugh at all unless he’s with friends i think. he’s super stiff on camera even on talk shows where everyone is rolling in laughter but he just has this pained smile on his face like he can’t decide whether to smile or laugh or neither or both. it’s so painful to watch. hahahah

      i like romances though! so i’d watch them even with girls, so long as they aren’t annoying. haiii.

    • nurul 4:20 am on April 21, 2008 Permalink

      oh man, seriously. its like, im thinking its a really good thing that i dont live in japan because i would spend ALL my money and time being obsessive. have you seen this clip of matsumoto jun and jin sniping at each other? TOTALLY HILARIOUS. esp the first part where jun’s all up in jin’s face about how jin “looks like a playboy”. i know! the whole justin timberlake thing was sooo 0_0?! but points for effort, man. he must REALLY like leah dizon. i think nakamaru is sooo lovable. apparently his method of dealing with akame fighting is to lock them in a room.

      i think its just a single gender school thing. ya! hahahaha that was hilarious. faith was screaming SO LOUD. and we were all always in school ALL THE TIME. also all the random competitions, and the insanity, and the drama, and the way we’re all exceedingly affectionate. haha.

      AHHH. darn darn darn. MORE THINGS TO WATCH! i know! its really really strange, right. hes so odd! like, odder than usual. that chick in one pound gospel is in crows zero is it? im like, damn, its going to stop showing by the time i get back to sg! im going to have to either buy it or download.

      yes. we’re all suckers for romance. which is why i think nobuta isnt so attractive, theres no romance. was trying to explain to my friend why i was so obsessed with japanese dramas, at which point she told me i sound like i really need to get married. =( so sad right. haha i made a list of jap boys on my blog just so i remember to watch all this stuff after exams.

      anyway, much love!

    • supermango 4:56 am on April 21, 2008 Permalink

      yes i think so too and it would probably be worse if i actually understood japanese totally i think i would just die glued to the tv for every single nonsense that comes out. and yes i saw that clip too, i downloaded it from somewhere and they’re just so retarded sniping at each other saying stupid things. which is what makes them hilarious and lovable i suppose. anyway jin can speak english because he disappeared to LA for half a year so i guess leah dizon was really surprised… though when ueda tried to propose to her it just totally fell flat because he was supposed to do it in english but he asked for her number in jap anyway. and there was a strategically placed rock for him to trip over and land at her feet. what the helllll haha seriously. they make fun of nakamaru’s nose all the time it’s just so… omg hahahah you know it’s wrong but yet it’s so true so you can’t stop laughing anyway, and then he gives this -_- face like “oh well…”

      the akame dynamic is amazing to watch.

      sadly we’re probably in school all the time now too. crazy things happen when we’re in school and we’re totally stressed out studying and everything seems funny – sara’s face when she realised she was caught on video changing! CHANGING! so random and so funny (:

      im not sure if kurosagi is coming out in singapore but i think it should be (frankly i haven’t been to town in ages recently so i wouldn’t know… hahaha) but i’ll go check it out after exams FREEDOM IS NEAR! hur hur

      there were tentative beginnings of a romance which was nice i guess – was half scared it was going to turn into a kame-yamapi-maki love triangle and that would be so weird because nobuta is TOTALLY unattractive (sorry) even though she looks super cute in hana kimi. maybe its the personality too…

      it’s okay. my boyfriend thinks i’m mad. ahhh jap boys. so pretty and sparkly :D

  • 263: 怎么看也看不明白 

    r 9:28 pm on March 29, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Sian 一半。 

    In school on a Saturday when the weather outside is bright and chirpy. Need a haircut. (And a life.) 

    就像年轻人难以理解的心态
    这个社会怎么越来越奇怪 

     
  • 245: saturday wait, and sunday always comes too late 

    r 1:51 am on January 27, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Just in case you all thought my life was very exciting, let me bring us all back to the plane of reality.  Which is that: 

    • I have not stepped out of my house today, did not have lunch, and had Macs da-bao-ed for dinner – except at 9.30pm to drive back to school and get my bloody Constitutional Law textbook out of my pigeonhole. 
    • And drive back. 
    • And after all this time, I am still at question 3. 
    • And my grammar is shot to hell because I keep starting sentences with “And”. 
    • And despite not having any prior injuries on the area, my knee really hurts like fuck. Also, my right wrist cracks ominously whenever I move my hand from the keyboard to the trackpad and back. 
    • And that the sole highlight of my day has been to finish the last pack of Wasabi Steamed Potato Crackers that I have in my larder, and realize that instead of the usual 5 in the pack, I have 6! SIX!

     

    I have cheated the evil manufacturers of an extra 1mm thin biscuit! I rule.   

    Naturally I spent most of the day lusting after bags I cannot afford. 

     

     
    • cher 4:00 pm on January 27, 2008 Permalink

      haha i once bought a 75g bag of pretzels that was supp to be 50g. (yes, i actually weighed it.)

    • ruizi 10:28 pm on January 27, 2008 Permalink

      yes bags we cannot afford.

      i will eat air and drink water at restaurants (from the tap, not still nor sparkling thanks) because i will blow my first paycheck on ONE BAG. one that will remind me of the days when i spent 2342402 lectures staring at purse blogs, lusting after them (:

      want to go shopping together when that day comes?

    • supermango 12:15 am on January 28, 2008 Permalink

      yah. confirm will go shopping!

      but it is my resolution to at least save enough to buy one damn bloody nice bag by the end of this year! i will not live my uni life in total uselessness. ahahahaa.

  • 243: this is longer than sorrow 

    r 11:38 pm on January 18, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Honestly? Okay, really honestly? This is the best ever movie poster. Ever. I would give a lot to see that hanging on my wall, just because it’s my favourite book and the poster is beautiful. Though they should have used a camellia.

    (But the 2046 poster SJ got me for my 18th birthday is still in its “you better freaking have an orgasm when  you get this” case. Though that’s because I haven’t a frame big enough for it yet.)

    And. Javier Bardem. Ahhh.


     
    • bookbabie 12:04 am on January 19, 2008 Permalink

      Wow, that really is a beautiful movie poster:)

  • 242: back to the grind 

    r 2:27 am on January 17, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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  • 239: ごめんよ僕が馬鹿だった 

    r 9:01 pm on January 7, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    • tilde 10:00 pm on January 7, 2008 Permalink

      i realise we took no photos today haha

    • neek 11:56 am on January 8, 2008 Permalink

      red rock deli lime and black pepper chips? (red rock deli sweet chilli and sour cream = zomg good)

  • 232: gone away is the bluebird 

    r 2:56 am on December 23, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    j in the lift

    Went to the toy museum at Seah Street today. 

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    • neek 5:59 pm on December 23, 2007 Permalink

      Omg the shitty christmas remixes are everywhere. :( Next up is the chinese new year songs to enjoy (they opened this asian beer garden thingy in melb and one day i walked past and they were playing CNY songs O_O)I like the last photo! So cute :)

    • glenda 11:32 am on December 25, 2007 Permalink

      food for thought had dessert the last time i went! chocolate banana crumble, which i quite liked. and three other desserts, which were a waste of stomach space haha.

  • 226: i need some intelligentactile 101 

    r 7:47 pm on December 8, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    When I first thought about the holidays coming I thought of all sorts of things to do. But it never fails to surprise me how much I’ve missed and failed to take in while I was holed up in school.

    Today I went out alone again. I wasn’t intending to, since I was supposed to meet someone, but my phone (un?)fortuituously went dead and I decided to spend my Saturday alone after lunch. Sometimes I feel sad that he’s not here, but most of the time I quite enjoy it. It reminds me of what I used to do when I was single, and had all the time in the world to myself, without thinking about rushing off to meet the bf whenever. It’s not a bad thing — being attached — alot of the time I wanted to run away and go meet him, but there’s something. About solitude.

    I’ve always liked big cities. My cousin-in-law asked me which city in Europe was my favourite, and not having been to many, I said London. I wasn’t lying, since I was prepared to spend 3 years there anyway. And I said, yes, the bigger and more crowded, the better. (Only after I said it did I realise the contradiction, because I’d just professed my hatred of Zoukout merely 10 minutes earlier because it was too crowded and squeezy — and drunk) My cousin said bodies pressing against each other are not her thing, and I thought back to the MTR in Hong Kong during peak hour.

    I remembered I hated it, but I was glad to finally have a chance to push someone without getting my head bitten off, since no one would know who it was anyway. There was that freedom, that anonymity, to do things you ordinarily would never get away with, to lose yourself in a big city. Of course I’m talking about more than just pushing random commuters around in a train. But you understand.

    So — I read No Reservations in Kino today, after buying a pair of shoes and reading half a Christmas story (like Good Omens, only worse, so I stopped) in Borders. And yet another trashy romance novel. In what seems to be the greatest irony ever, I read the first romance (few days ago) in the corner of the Parenting section, which looked like a fairly promising place to read, but turned out to be full of random people. Who are younger than I am and not supposed to be old enough to need advice on parenting. (No comment.) Then I read the second one in the Children’s section in Kino — after No Reservations — on a bench, where I happened to find a seat, although I had to share it with an overly excited expecting couple who were cooing over baby names from a book.

    Parenting and Children. Are my maternal instincts subconsciously taking over?

    The woman was cooing, anyway, while her husband continually objected to every single name she picked out till she got fed up. Maybe it was the bad pronunciation. Imagine if the Registrar of Births got your name wrong because your mother couldn’t pronounce your name. Worse still, she’d be able to spell it correctly. And the Registrar will try valiantly not to laugh.

    “Bree?

    “Eee like cheese like that.

    “Britchet!

    “Dowan! Sounds like Bridge.

    “I know I know! Clo!

    “You mean like Chloe?

    “Yeah! Clo!

    “No dear, it’s Chloe.”

    At this point I felt a family disaster crawl slowly but surely towards the backs of the unsuspecting couple. Luckily they left, so I could stop eavesdropping on other people and concentrate on my own book. But really. Clo?

    Well. There were other things I noticed, like the inordinate amount of people snapping pictures with the Takashimaya Christmas tree. And a girl I saw walking down Wisma wearing a sports top and shorts with a Deuter backpack and really high wedges. Dressy wedges. Really high dressy wedges with jingly-jangly things hanging off the straps. Wish I’d taken a picture.

    City life. Great innit?

     
  • 224: distance has no way of making love understandable 

    r 8:15 pm on December 5, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Today I sat alone in Borders reading a trashy romance novel for 3 hours. Then I went to Starbucks, walking through the puddles with an umbrella being blown against the wind. It was a very strong wind.

    Looking outside, it actually feels as if winter is approaching. Or is already here. The bells are ringing, from a place I cannot see.

    It is the headlights; the lights of the oncoming cars hurling themselves the glass door, as fragile as the snowflakes painted on them, if they were real. The outside gets dark quickly, even though it is not yet 7pm. All these things and more, remind you that in times of good cheer and tidings, there is usually the most loneliness to be found.

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    • missjabok 5:05 pm on December 8, 2007 Permalink

      heyhey haha i was at poptart but left early to go to zouk. but zouk was too crowded. so i left for the balcony instead. how unhaps :) hope you’d a good wednesday night!

    • tilde 2:53 pm on December 10, 2007 Permalink

      :D :D:D:D:D:D:DD wump?

  • 173: deathly hallows 

    r 5:38 am on July 22, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    there are spoilers everywhere now, so i will try to keep it spoiler-free by simply saying that after a whirlwind 5 hours of reading, everyone i wanted to survive did survive in the end, even though there were many who did not make it. i have gone through these 7 books for ten years of my life. these ten years have been wrought with changes and filled with many other note-worthy happenings, but i will always remember the fascination of waiting for these books to be released, to be reading them. some argue it isn’t life-changing in the slightest, but for me it has been the best young adult series to be produced in a long while, with themes that still reverberate into adulthood. it is strange, still, finally, to be saying goodbye to harry potter.

     
  • 169: the timing is quite unusual 

    r 2:35 am on July 3, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    gayly, i realised that it was actually ONE week to hong kong from the last post, not two. i’m flying off on wednesday morning at the horribly ungodly unearthly time of 6.40am. i have severely underpacked. i hope i come back with a lot more things. the shopping better be good because i’ve not bought anything this great singapore sale. BAH.

    my mum bought 2l of venezia ice cream last week. i feel a moral obligation to eat it because no one else will if i don’t.

    i think tanning is one of those things you can’t do too often. i’ve gone to the beach 3 times since i got back from bangkok (and i tanned all week there) every 2 weeks and today i got bored by 4pm. i am also fascinated by the 7% GST. now all the parking charges are like, some weird number ($1.07)! i don’t understand why it is some incalculable number when there are no 1-cents in singapore anymore. perhap it is a ploy to get people to round up their figures so the government can steal a bit of money on the side by taking 40 cents instead of 37. 3 cents x 4 million per day is $120,000! imagine how much they steal in a year! bleh. actually i just punched it into a calculator. the figure is very depressingly $43.8 million.

    anyway, today was a series of unfortunate events because the day totally did not start off on the right track. so we were supposed to go to the beach, and before that have lunch at botak jones at AMK (where we went yesterday and decided to come back because it was good!!!). so off we went. and then while parking head in, i heard a sickening grinding sound come from below the bonnet of my car. which only means one thing. seeing as i was not the one driving, i was very very very grumpy with the bf. thankfully however, it’s one of those places nobody can see (but now you know cos i told you). after that fiasco we walked into the coffee shop only to find out that botak jones is closed on mondays. FAIL. anyway in a bid to not waste time we sat down and ordered bak chor mee. when it came, it took the form of fishball noodles. when pressed for an explanation the bak chor mee auntie just said, “oh, we ran out of bak chor, just now forgot to tell you”. GRRRR. and although the fishballs were nice, the noodles were not. when we got to sentosa, cafe del mar was FULL. on a MONDAY.

    anyway yesterday i went to town and had a nice day because i bought 2 books for 20% off, and then went off to the starbucks at liat towers at midnight (fast becoming my favourite peoplewatch hangout in town, too bad it’s closing). did i mention i hate book covers that have movie references to them? like the virgin suicides cover suddenly became kirsten dunst’s face after the movie came out. i hate those, but mainly because i am vain and i refuse to let people think i bought the book because i watched the movie, especially since this has actually never happened to me. book then movie, or no book at all. grrr.

    randomly i have this urge to eat NYDC’s mushroom madness spaghetti and alot of fish&co food. that must wait till i get back though. ah well.

     
    • ruizi 12:07 pm on July 3, 2007 Permalink

      im sad starbucks at liat towers is closing too :/
      pfft. where will people sit on saturday nights then!

    • play music 5:56 am on September 13, 2007 Permalink

      Hello, nice post. Bookmark it.

  • 161: that’s where we wanna go 

    r 11:46 pm on May 28, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    has it not been awhile? the days have been good, even though i just got my results back on saturday. i’m feeling rather neutral about them — so the less said about them, the better. in any case it’s only been a week since i’ve been back from bangkok, but somehow i’ve managed to spend obscene amounts of money — bought a new dress from gap (white shirtdresses? whee!) while walking about vivocity, after a nice relaxing time at the beach at cafe del mar reading (of all things) about food writing. i am seriously addicted to food writing — just can’t get enough!! met up with nadia after i got back, for lunch, and then the mongolia people yesterday at brewerkz, and then scooted off (in pursuit of sj, who cannot drive, haha) to chinatown for a happy karaoke session. ian knows how to sing chinese songs!!! :O in between i’ve been going to school and doing stuff, bumming with the bf (we’ve been doing lots of reading). on a whim, we went to the wine company at 11pm and bumped into ian, who was working at the time; and after we were done, we moved next door to the prata cafe to have prata and pappadums. ooh. i like! so much eating!!!

    it’s nice to be on holiday. i’d take more pictures, but i’m more caught up in life.

     
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