29.1.09


I learnt an exciting new sport.
Today, i learned how to play netball. It's something like captain's ball, just less violent. It's something like basketball too, just slightly easier in a way, because, although there's no backboard, no one gets in your way much when you shoot. No dribbling though. And i didn't like the three feet rule; it's bloody impossible to calculate three feet, and it just means that it would be impossible to play a mildly competitive game without a referee. Or without opposing players turning a blind eye whenever their opponents stand 2.95 feet away from them when they have the ball. Definitely not a game for overly fussy people.

Back to crim.
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27.1.09


I want BRITISH f & c.
Gaah i've been so very busy during Chinese New Year...well, it's mostly playing cards and stuff, but still. I haven't spent any time on bloody LAWR homework, and have only managed to read my Contracts textbook sporadically.

Sigh...i wanted to try making kimchi during Chinese New Year, but it seems kinda impossible now. (Why make kimchi? Er hem.) Tomorrow (or rather, later today), i'll have to play host and do some running in the morning, so there's really no time to be buying Chinese cabbages, salting them and adding in all the other stuff and preserving the mixture to make kimchi.

Another day i suppose. Haiz. In the meantime, i'm going to avoid talking to Coco's mum; otherwise, she'll ask me how the kimchi went, and then i'd have to hang my head with shame and tell her that i haven't even started on the project yet, despite her giving me a head-start by passing me a whole container of chilli powder MADE FROM CHILLI THAT IS GROWN IN HER MOTHER'S (meaning Coco's grandmother's) GARDEN, WHICH IS LOCATED IN KOREA...MEANING THAT IT'S FREAKIN GENUINE TRADITIONAL ORGANIC HOME-GROWN KOREAN CHILLI. Urgh.

Ahwell...moving on...to sort of make a bookmark, i also want to try to make BRITISH BEER BATTERED FISH AND CHIPS in the future! Mwahahaha...why, you ask? It's because British fish and chips is one of my most favourite dishes of all time! XD

I mean, well, good local food is available nearby on the cheap (Bedok South Market for Hill Street Fried Kway Teow, Joo Chiat for Fei Fei Wan Ton Mee, East Coast Road for Beach Road Prawn Mee, Qi Ji @ Changi General Hospital or Katong area for Laksa, ECP or Upper East Coast Road for Black Pepper Crab, and for everything else, there's Bedok North Block 85, Marine Parade's hawker centre, that place outside Bedok Camp, and Lagoon @ ECP...home's got good food too).

Steak from Jack's Place @ Parkway or Aston's @ Katong/Bedok seem good enough for me, i like Ramen from Ichiban Ramen @ Parkway and Waraku @ Katong and ECP, Sakae Sushi is a decent place to get my sashimi fix (although only BUFFETS can really satisfy me) and my McDonald's double-cheese burger and my Kentucky (Fried) Chicken can be easily acquired as well.

But British fish and chips? Well, the store in Siglap closed down a long time ago, and every other place that i know of are too far from home (meaning further west than Katong) and too expensive (meaning at least $8 for just a small bite of heaven). For your information, Fish & Co and Swensen's don't sell BRITISH fish and chips (for one thing, i don't see the vinegar), and let's not even mention Long John Silver's...

My mum has tried to make fish and chips in the past, but although she deserves credit for the effort, it's just too...different. The fish is nice and thick, but tastes different and is usually TOO thick. And the batter is made using just corn flour and something else which gives rise to a batter that is a little too thin and is more appropriate for chicken.

Anyway, i've done some research and found a recipe online...time to go try it out! :)

After this semester, of course. Bleah. :|

PS: After British fish and chips, i'm moving on to Spaghetti Vongole! :p
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23.1.09


Or not?
I suddenly don't feel like going anymore. Hmmm. Like err...i dunno. Maybe it's my mum and all her warnings. I think i'm happy enough with my life that i don't wish to change it on a "risky" venture. If they want me to spend anymore cash, i'm out. If they want to tie me down to a contract, i'm out. Heck, if i don't think they want me around, i'm out too.
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22.1.09


Modeling?
Lol, yesterday evening (meaning on the 21st of January), i accompanied Coco to this modeling agency place where the law pageant contestants were to learn how to do the catwalk properly and pose nicely and stuff.

I was standing outside the studio waiting for her reply to my sms, when i noticed the old makeup artist man, the female receptionist and this male model looking at me from inside the studio, smiling and talking amongst themselves. But anyway, i ignored them and sent Coco an sms telling her that i was leaving.

But as i was on the way to the lift, the male model caught up to me and asked me to go into the studio and have a seat. Turns out that he was one of the casters, and i had just been talent-scouted. :|

Like what the hell. Lol. I'm there to look at the contestants - and Coco in particular - doing their practice and this is the kind of thing that happens.

Well anyway...what should i do? I've been approached on the streets before and have ignored previous offers (being the lazy suahku goody boy that i am), but this time i'm actually seriously considering the offer. I can tell that it's a genuine modeling agency with decent connections, and not some kind of scam. It'll cost me $200 to get a hair/makeup job and 9 studio photos to make a calling card thingee. And then they'll sponsor me for about 20+ hours worth of modeling/hosting/image lessons.

But well. Who cares about the costs. I'm not really in it for the money anyway(unless, of course, i somehow turn out to be REALLY successful); rather, i'm just interested in it for the experience of modeling, to get fashion advice and to be able to get nice studio photos and that nice card done up. You don't stay young forever.

I have about one and a half days from now to make a decision and get back to the caster fellow.
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21.1.09


Frog.
I feel like a frog in a well. Like the whole world is passing me by because neither the world nor myself have enough time for each other.

Anyway, i watched "The Duchess" with Coco yesterday. A pretty nice movie with a decent ending...although it had this old and depressing view of marriage that somehow stuck to me like a parasite on my way out of the cinema.

Well, contract test results are out; i'll go collect them tomorrow. For now, i'm going to start working on LAWR and crim so that i have enough time to do a little bit of exercise, and enough time to go out for dinner and drinks and maybe consider helping to bake some cookies. :)

Chinese New Year's coming soon...i wonder why it doesn't feel like much of a holiday at all. But in any case, Gong Xi Fa Cai to everyone!
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19.1.09


Blah.
Sigh. Sometimes i wish i didn't have so much pride. Then i could probably start to think more for myself. I'm in a selfish and high-maintenance mood, but my skin's too thin to enable me to do anything more about it, other than grumble silently in the corner to myself.

Anyway, monday's here, once again. The weekend is over, and my oh my was it a crap weekend. Friday was pretty interesting (learning the cha cha in the afternoon and watching InDanCity in the evening) but saturday and sunday was awful. I couldn't use my main computer, and there was just SO MUCH law work to be done. I barely scratched the surface of the tasks that i had to do, but the PRESENCE of the work was enough to make me feel really shitty and wipe out any opportunity for me to relax and have fun over the weekend.

LAWR work is the worst by far...i'm just so confused with what we're supposed to be doing and i don't know exactly how much time i should be spending on LAWR as well. It's like there's no cap on the possible amount of work that can be done, and so even if i'm done with ALL my homework and ALL my readings, LAWR would still be whispering in the back of my head, that there's still more research that i can do...if i wanted to. Sigh, i wish the work we had to do simply involved a fixed set of readings and THAT'S THE END OF IT.

Argh. I need some good news. A one-day break where everyone is BANNED from studying and struggling ahead in the rat-race would be HEAVEN.

Anyway i'm going off now. I'm going to try to convince myself that the little work i've done for LAWR is enough. Otherwise, i won't be able to sleep tonight.

Sigh...my laptop keys are so sticky...maybe i should send it for repair. I suppose i'll go give it another wash before i go to bed.
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16.1.09


Technology bad-luck.
Oh my f*cking goodness. The technology bad-luck bug has struck again!!!

I'm in deep, deep shit; i just bought a new internal DVD-RW drive to replace the old one that wasn't working too well. When i plugged it in, the computer somehow couldn't detect BOTH my DVD drives.

Then, i thought that perhaps it was my IDE cable that was spoiled all along, not my DVD drive. And yeah, it certainly seemed like it, since my IDE cable had been folded to the point that certain parts of the BLACK cable had turned WHITE.

So i replaced the IDE cable with the one from my old computer (which was working fine).

And now, my newer computer can't be used at all.

Whoops. :|

The only thing i did wrong was that i had forgotten to turn off the main switch when i was changing the cable. My computer was still turned off though. But well...i'm afraid that i might have short-circuited something.

Put simply, my computer can be turned on, and everything in the computer is running - from the processor to the disk drives and graphic card. But my monitor repeatedly reports no signal. I did a bit of troubleshooting and went to change monitor and cable, to no avail. At first, i thought my graphic card had a problem and i went to check the connection and stuff.

But then i realised that my MOUSE was turned off. Or rather, it had not STARTED UP yet. So now...i think i might have short-circuited some parts of my freakin MOTHERBOARD.

Die die die. I don't have the time to do further testing and i don't have the money to just throw it away and buy new stuff or whatever. The worst thing is, even if i had the time to tear down my entire computer and send the motherboard for repair, i might not be able to use the warranty to get it done for free.

And that's because when i bought my computer, the shopkeeper had given me a more advanced motherboard model (probably by mistake...i only discovered it when i got home), but charged me for the price of the older and cheaper model and wrote that model on the receipt. Back then, i thought i had just escaped with a damn good deal. But now, i wonder if i'm going to suffer because the warranty might not be valid.

But i really do need my computer to be up and running! And so does my entire family...goodness gracious. I need help. For now though, i'm just going to sleep...hopefully, when i wake up tomorrow, the problem would have been miraculously solved on its own.
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13.1.09


Little things
Bleah. I'd been sulking about all sorts of little things this morning, things that aren't even worth talking about.

I'm better now, though. Sometimes, you just have to learn how to fade into the background, and learn to be happy and satisfied.
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10.1.09


A post full of complaining.
I'm starting to develop a phobia towards eating spicy instant noodles late at night.

The previous time i did that, i had a painful gastroenteritis for two weeks. This time, i've been having diarrhoea for two days now. And apart from that, well...horrible things have been happening.

Yesterday was really, really bad. I slept for five hours the night before and embarked on a long day feeling rather sleepy and tired. I received very bad news in the afternoon and did two things late at night that i really, really regretted. And even when i wanted to go to sleep to try to forget it all, i couldn't, because i had to read some of my LAWR2 articles and check my emails to discover the homework that was starting to pour in, now that school is starting next week. Bad things just seem to come in packs all the time.

And schoolwork is like a thunderstorm, with seemingly no end in sight. There would be brief periods where the storm recedes, but it's impossible to enjoy the rainbow for long, especially when you can see a new storm already approaching. It takes time to crawl in and out of the storm shelter, and people tend to buckle down very early, if the storm can be seen from a distance.

Sigh. Well, no crying, and no suicidal tendencies or whatever, after yesterday's debacle. Still, i'm lapsing into this anti-social mode...it took me an hour to get out of bed today even as i felt this very real need to go to the toilet...i just didn't want to see anyone. I still haven't seen anyone. I also don't think i'm going for the movie marathon at Xiang's place that already started an hour ago...there's even a chance that i'm not even ALLOWED out of the house today.

It's all rather...depressing.

Oh, but on to positive things...Coco and i ended up in the same classes! :) What are the chances, sia...although i'm sorta worried. In the back of my head, i'm wondering if this would be good or bad for our studies eventually...i'm thinking that it can be either, depending on the sort of mindset that i develop. With my current mindset, though, being in the same classes probably will have no effect whatsoever on our grades.

I'm anticipating sms and phone bill reductions, however. Lol!

Anyway, the zoo trip yesterday was also surprisingly very fun! I was actually pretty amazed by quite a few of the animals in our very own Singapore zoo...what the hell. And here i thought that, as a local, nothing could possibly surprise me. I suppose it helped that i hadn't gone to the zoo in like...over ten years or something like that.

Well, i'm done here, so i'm off to breakfast and then it's back to studies. Oh but before that, i'm going to have to make another trip to the toilet...0.o
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8.1.09


More car talk
Sigh. I'm dead bored. This does not mean that i have nothing to do...it just means that nothing i do seems to excite me that much. I suppose i'll just finish Mass Effect today and go back to my anime/crim-law schedule. Or maybe just anime lol. Aside from Ghost Hound, i haven't watched any new Naruto or Bleach episodes for some time...i'm a walking anime dinosaur omfg!

Anyway, yeah, thanks to a notice by friendly tagger, i went to double-check the price of the Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 2007 and the latest price was stated on this website at SGD 1,180,000. :| My dreams are gone-f*ck. Okay, no, actually they were quite impossible to begin with. Oh, and the Lamborghini Gallardo 2007 costs between SGD 786,000 and SGD 918,000, dependant on the model type.

Urgh. Someone please design a car which looks like a Lamborghini but has the specs of well...a Honda Civic Hybrid or something. Err...except with a decently large backseat space and boot space of course (neither the Lambo or the Honda has those i think).

Man, currently a Civic Hybrid can probably drive about 300km more (if i rate it at 18km/l instead of the stated 21km/l) than my current car (a 2nd generation Toyota Altis which drives at about 11km/l instead of the stated 13km/l) on a full tank even though my current drive has a slightly bigger fuel tank. I'd save about $30 on petrol for about the same distance driven by the Altis when i do a full tank pump, and i'd hit $1000 in fuel savings every year.

Edit: I'm not too sure about road tax though. And oh yeah...chances are that $1000 in savings a year won't be enough to cover the extra costs i'd incur in buying such a low-powered car in the first place...i guess the greatest benefit would be the slightly mistaken belief that i'm helping to save the planet by driving a hybrid car...:\

Ahwell, time to go eat my lunch. The prawn mee has been hanging around downstairs for the past hour!
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3.1.09


Post-Birthday Post
Lol i caught myself staring at the Lamborghini Reventón toy model that Darinne and Mark gave to me on my birthday for about five minutes today.

Dang. What a sweet car. I don't give a hoot about specifications like the amazing engine power and G-Force-Meter; the shape of the car is simply the best. Perfect (well, apart from the fact that it's only a two-seater...i think). Car manufacturers worldwide, please get the hint!

Sigh...that's because getting a Reventón is impossible, even if i won that one million euros required in the lottery or something. And THAT's because there're only a limited number available (TWENTY...WORLDWIDE!!!), and no one who owns a Reventón would be willing to sell the car to me for a million euros, or even two million; this kind of money probably wouldn't matter to these people!

And even so, being a little bit more realistic for a moment, i don't think i'd EVER make enough money to buy a Reventón, or any other Lamborghini models - which DO look like the Reventón - for that matter. Like, say, the Murcielago. No matter how much money i make in the future, spending over $100,000 to buy a car would be uneconomical, spending over $150,000 would be extremely unwise, and spending over $200,000 would be plain CRAZY! And the Murcielago would freaking cost me about $500,000!!! 0.o I'm not going to blow my savings and the chance for early retirement on a chunk of metal (or carbon-fibre...sigh)!!!

So yes, in the distant future, i hope to get a car which at least just LOOKS like the Reventón. Get your act up, everybody! That includes you too, Audi! I'm so disappointed that the parent company of Lamborghini sells cars that hardly look as cool. >.<

Anyway, my sister and her fiance Weiyu bought me really neat birthday presents when they were in Shanghai! I just got them today...holy moley i've gotta show them to some of you guys soon! XD

Oh, but before i forget, i'd like to thank all those who helped me prepare for my party, who came down to my party or who bought me presents...whether you're a relative, a JC friend or a Law Fac friend! I really appreciate it! :):):)

Something that concerned me though. Dory once again gave me food for thought when she, Phoon and ChuaH bought this book for me: "How to Procrastinate". Check out this excerpt:

Workaholism
Repeated and prolonged productivity can bring on a serious condition called anhedonia - the inability to experience pleasure. When rare moments of leisure arise, workaholics feel they need to get even more done, rendering them incapable of enjoying free time. Not only do all their hobbies, diversions, and relationships atrophy from underuse, these anti-procrastinators are often addicted to the sense of accomplishment that comes from performance


And now this one:

The Overachiever
The overachiever finds her value in the regard of others, having learned at an early age that attention and acclaim visit those who perform to exaggerated standards. Rather than drawing from internal strength, the overachiever requires outside feedback for a sense of self-worth. To the overachiever, nothing is ever enough. One promotion is quickly forgotten in favour of the next advancement. An A could have been an A+. The overachiever is never satisfied, and setting the bar increasingly higher is not only dangerous to the overachiever herself, but also to those around her, since she raises the authority figure's expectations for all team members. In her personal life, the overachiever either focuses on work at the exclusion of other arenas or strives to "have it all" with the perfect spouse, children, cars, house, and social life, but these trappings are merely expressions of her insecurity rather than satisfying pursuits unto themselves


Sounds like me, doesn't it? For one thing, i haven't been able to enjoy my holidays much, because i keep thinking of any enjoyment as time wasted when i should be studying...even though i'm not in any mood to study at all. X|

Well, apart from one difference: i STILL procrastinate anyway, despite all this. If i were given an assignment due in three days time, the book my mother gave me preaches that i should start on it on the first day and finish it on the second. The book Dory gave me preaches that i should relax and enjoy life for the first two days before cramming on the last day. What I'M doing is worrying about the assignment for the first two days and trying to do the proper "preparation", only to start on the assignment on the last day anyway.

That's kinda like taking the worst of both worlds. Urgh. I've really gotta learn to be more efficient with my time; getting work done better and faster and REALLY enjoying myself whenever i get free time.

Sometimes, i really envy those happy-go-lucky people who can, say, play mahjong or poker until the wee hours of the morning, getting just a few hours of sleep before going for another activity in the early afternoon or late morning - say, basketball - thoroughly enjoying themselves and de-stressing all the way.

Meanwhile, for me, i'd be counting the hours of sleep i'd need for the next day's activity, trying to "perform" every day at an "optimal level". Which means that i either won't be able to play overnight mahjong/poker with incoming late morning activities, or i won't be able to enjoy the activities one single bit as i'm always checking my watch, worrying about tomorrow, and worrying that i'm not getting any studies done in my free time.

...which are really stupid things to worry about. It's even worse when i get insomnia worrying that i won't get enough sleep for the next day's activities, or when i simply dally around before sleeping because i'm procrastinating on showering and brushing my teeth...rendering all my workaholic paranoia useless. Then, i wouldn't have slept enough, wouldn't have done any extra studying, wouldn't have gone for the full mahjong/poker/basketball experience and wouldn't have enjoyed myself while i was there. The worst of both worlds again.

Urgh.

Anyway, on a completely unrelated note, i just want to say that i don't think i'd ever be able to date a singer, even if i were single and available. Meaning i'm not sure if i'd be able to stand it. What's "it", you ask? Well, i'm not going to say. :p

A model would be...well, the barest minimum that i'd be able to handle. A dancer...well, a dancer is pretty good i guess. XD

But i definitely won't date an actress! Among other things, THEY DON'T SAY THANK YOU WHEN YOU OPEN THE DOOR FOR THEM!!!

Lol.
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