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This is like what i've been staring at for half an hour.

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Great. I've managed to walk to the disgusting part of holland village.

the six-thousand-dollar man

this is very very very dumb.

iced café americano--venti size, no less--and two hours = need to pee. which you cannot do because the toilet is ten meters away, and your EVERYTHING is on the table in front of you. your two-hundred-dollar blazer, five-hundred-dollar iPod, three-hundred-dollar (six if you don't count the two-year-plan) Motorola PEBL, five-dollar Starbucks Iced Café Americano, three-hundred-dollar DKNY chronograph, thousand-dollar camera, hundred-dollar Apple Wireless Mouse, two-hundred-dollar Crumpler Hee-Goer and three-thousand dollar Apple PowerBook.

that is nearly six thousand dollars. yes, i computed it.

this is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad situation.

ebisu-minami, shibuya-ku, tokyo, japan/andra långgatan, göteborg, sweden/lorong 3 geylang, singapore, singapore

i've spent a stupid amount of time today in Google Earth. but at least now i know where jiawei's and kenneth's internship offices are.

i also found my own place (took me like fifteen seconds), dawn's place(about a minute or so), sham's place (surprisingly easy to find as well) and my aunt jacqueline's place. kenneth and jiawei's places are covered by dense cloud and hence cannot be pinpointed.

my, how the bored suffer.

a little late

it may be a little late, and a little slow, but aren't the pictures taken with my PEBL a little grainy?

contempt and disarray

all i feel like doing today is spreading contempt, rumours, lies, untruths, disdain, scorn, disregard, abhorrence and disarray.

Fiona Apple helps keep all this within reasonable check.

this century sucks

i need to get over this feeling of pissed-off and venomous.

SWEDEN. FUCKING SWEDEN.

FRICKIN' A.

my mind is absent

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I left the DVDs behind.

fuckin' a

so i thought: heck, just go to the Kings Of Convenience peformance by yourself.

tickets are no longer available.

faster and faster

they're getting faster and faster. i barely noticed their presence from the Dell PC and at lunch.

noise--a lot of noise

ONE - Franz Ferdinand has sold out. big time. there is little left for them to sell. perhaps their ashes, when they die?

TWO - the new Walkman campaign is seriously weak. and Jean Danker (or her aural doppelgänger) doesn't help matters.

THREE - how can you base an entire campaign on the stunner of a weak line, "Everything Else Is Just Noise"? how?

life fucking sucks

here i am, three AM, fresh back from a BBQ where, while the food was rather good, i royally wasted my time.

and today is the last fucking day of the fucking Asian Aerospace 2006, which won't happen for another two years, during which i could either be in the army or be so sad there would be no one to go with me, and i would have fucking paid twenty-one fucking dollars if it fucking meant that i could see the fucking Airbus A380 in person.

when 2008 rolls around, the Airbus A380 won't fucking be there, will it?

but today is a Sunday, and if i want to go to the airport to send jiawei off in the evening, i have to stay home all day.

this fucking sucks. i want out. you hear me? i fucking want out.

good luck

japanese drama cannot watch at the same tims as you're doing stuff on your PowerBook. because you can't just listen to what is going on. you have to pay attention to the screen and read the subtitiles.

free schwag

See jinghui? I have free Wang-Wang Rice Crackers too.

i think it's cute that they still include free shiny stickers in the packaging. pointless, since i have yet to meet anyone that wants them, but cute.

talk is cheap

why is almost everyone either MIA or utterly daft?

no milkshake

Funan has a great affinity with me today. here i am again, for the second time today. this time it is my source of sustanance--McDonald's to be exact.

false advertising, by the way. they don't have milkshakes here yet.

i think i'll go back to the esplanade now.

sympatico

here i am, at the Esplanade Roof Terrace, where i will be until eight o'clock passes or my PowerBook's battery runs out.

no, i didn't go get the DVD burner, even though i was standing right outside Funan a hour ago. i also did not exchange my broken portable hard disk enclosure or get one for my full-size hard disk.

all of the erosion/whatever that's happened to the silver aluminum case of my PowerBook shows right up in direct sunlight. it's slightly disgusting and very saddening--especially the fact that nothing can be done for it.

"i don't want work,
i don't want lunch,
i just want to forget,
and then i smoke."

should do

-upgrade PowerBook to 1280 MB of RAM
-dream about buying a MacBook Pro just for the backlit keyboard
-get Armani Exchange knit blazer at 30% off
-get agnès b. messenger bag (sac subway or sac street)
-buy DVD burner for Dell PC
-buy stash of blank DVD-Rs (DL and SL)
-turn command of French language into something impressive and undeniable (must be fluent)
-get hair cut (is a must)

-distract oneself from one's life (see above)

don't delay/moto pebl

this is the Kenneth Cole Reaction "Don't Delay" watch. i wanted this watch way back when, when it was an older design. this is the "facelifted" one--still good-looking, though. i can't find the original design.

now, i no longer need that, because i have this:


though, come to think of it, they would go quite well together...

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Note to iPod: I do not fucking want to listen to the bloody Beatles when i'm in the pissed off mood.

As seen on TV Mobile

What's the promotional website address for the local broadcast of Lost, Season 2?

www.lost5.sg

Of course.

the rightness of waking

being awake at this hour is simply... not right.

fantastic, fabulous

I want a fantastic, fabulous, crazy, romantic, beautiful life.

But, right now, I don't even have a life.

safari hate

friendster hates Safari.

that is all.

voicemail

okay. i just threw the old Nokia 6610i at the fan because i was calling my main StarHub line on it, and it kept diverting to voicemail even though i'd set it not to already.

temper, temper.

motonokia

AARON KHOO: (hold's SAMARIA KHOO's Nokia up to her) "Your message memory is full."

SAMARIA KHOO: "Maybe that's why i haven't been receiving messages."

in other news, isn't a motorbike helmet supposed to give you helmet hair?

that is all.

WTF

What the fuck am i doing here?

frozen

did you know that, way back when in 1998, a Singapore website was the first to release a low-quality wav file of Madonna's "Frozen", one whole month before its legal release on CD, cassette and vinyl?

i sure didn't. this (not the fact that i didn't--the fact that it happened here) pleases me.

crap on toast

i just woke from a four-hour knockout that occurred right after my first uncle left.

i still feel like crap. i don't understand why it was done like that, but the combined announcements of two OSIPs and two resignations: a bit much, for one little awkward lunch that was supposed to be lighthearted and fun. the OSIPs weren't new, but still depressing. who in their right mind combines two pieces of mind-blowing news with two pieces of mind-blowingly depressing news?

i have to eat dinner, and watch my grandfather as the caretaker and the maid go out to buy groceries because my first aunt hasn't been in the country long enough to do that in weeks. but right after they're back, i will go back to sleep.

wait.

jaguar/hyundai

My first uncle is here again. He smells like the Jaguar X-Type/Hyundai Sonata again (they smell the same, even though they’re rather different cars.

I am nauseated.

je suis désolé

Je suis désolé
Lo siento
Ik ben droevig
Sono spiacente
Perdóname

ごめんなさい
Mujhe maaf karo
Iseik prasau
סליחה
Forgive me

i don't think i can live through this.

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The High Chancellor of Typography, squatting at Popular, choosing a file folder for his typography collection.

underdog (save me)

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I don't want to get up.

MinOnline

i hate, hate, hate it when my connection gives for no reason, and i have to disconnect from my own wifi network and reconnect again just to get back online.

and i don't even realize it until i see that all my emailboxes went offline.

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Love Monkey, p313

"How do you explain to women what it's like to be a guy? For them, picking out a mate is like picking out a bra. Is it sexy? Is it a good fit? Will it support me? If they don't find the right one, they keep looking. They don't care if they get a bra today. They can try Bloomingdale's next week."

fire in the sky

fire in the sky
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We're parked for this.

Preparing to empty the Trash

Preparing to empty the Trash
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okay, i understand that these things take time and preparation, but when are you actually going to do it?

and then, the Finder freezes.

the Khoo Association

look, lunch is over. i have no interest in how shiny the new building is, how everyone at the fourth-day-of-lunar-new-year dinner got a pack of pork floss and pork jerky just because the owner of a pork-products company is a member, how pepole are coming, how big, how new, how whatever.

i have no need to practise my coversational skills as well. namely, the detect flow and tone and rhythm of conversations and nod/laugh/smile/chuckle appropiately bits. i have writing to get done! i have things to do!

the Khoo Association (yes, it's a real organization, not just another way of referring to my family. though it is run by my family) does not concern me very much at all, so either excuse me from the table or find another person to be at the table amongst you.

hellolomo

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Look what i got.

uPropaganda, Part II

and this is why i don't pay attention to local news, whether it's locally written/produced or just local in nature.

there were shots of what was apparently ngee ann secondary, and there were a huge number of students shuffling mahjong tiles. then i wonder: what kind of sick secondary school is this, where they make students play mahjong? then i notice that there are eight to one table. then i notice that the tiles are printed with assorted chinese characters and other components of chinese calligraphy.

this is some sick "let's make learning chinese fun thing". then it gets worse--interviews with typical PRC students. and she's slamming us for not having a good grasp on the chinese language! sorry, missy, but we're not from china.

uPropaganda

Channel U, i'll have you know that when i was doing my JAE application, it took me several days of trying to just get a response from the sever, and in the end i missed the deadline and had to apply IN PERSON AT THE MOE.

and i didn't get interviewed and put on the news for that, did i?

roaming SIM

great, i lost the SIM i keep aside for roaming, again.

where is it? why do i keep losing it?

karen walker speaks

"Oh, there they are. The Jewish woman and the black man who are about to get married. I get such a kick that that's legal."

"Honey, you're finally wearing a quality fabric--your body's not sweating, it's crying with relief."

seen in the VSC studio

jinghui's boards.
please don't steal :|
:) have a nice day!

full fees

full fees?

it's over.

ETA: CBS just cancelled Love Monkey.

sometimes i wonder why i wake up in the morning.

maternity

"Shrink! If you would consider going to a shrink, I would pay for it myself. The hospital would hold a bake sale, for God's sake."

-Dr. Lisa Cuddy

don't lie

goodness, is the new Lexus ES damned ugly, or what?

Lexus World Debut: ES 350

and don't even try to lie to me, Lexus. i can see the entire midsection carried over from the old ES. and that new interior might be new, but it's also even uglier. your taste level's just not there.

... i should go to sleep now if i'm going to meet dawn on time later.

Professional Communicator For Design

No longer just a Visual Communicator, she is now a Professional Communicator For Design as well.

code black

DAWN HELP I CAN'T FALL ASLEEP!

Live Through This, and you won't look back

i tire of all this, and i'm no longer in love with design, and think i have lived my life.

brokeback molehill

i've decided that i will no longer actively watch Brokeback Mountain. that is, it's been downgraded to a film i don't really care if i see or not, and as such i won't plot and plan just to watch it. i might watch it if the stars align and it falls into my lap, or if like an entire bunch of my friends want to watch it as well (highly unlikely, which is partially a part of why it's off my list).

it's become too cliché.

Love Monkey, p70 & p224

"My hair is long and wild, which gives me the quality of a rock and roller, or possibly a lone gunman. But I'm working it with the outfit: checked brown houndstooth jacket with taupe--"taupe," another term I picked out from girls, along with "sage" and "celadon"--shirt and solid tie of royal blue. Yes, I wear a jacket most of the time. Gives me the illusion of shoulders. Surgical shoulder implants: could be huge. I've got the cool black pants, the polished Kenneth Coles. At some point in my late twenties I discovered: whatever else we may have going for us, all guys are subjected to immediate disqualification by reason of footwear."

"Fourteen minutes later I tear the game out of my hands with pangs of regret--I'm convinced that tonight I have a shot at beating Bran's best score--and dress in three minutes (Out come the Banana Republic shirt in a darkish shade of blue, the Banana Republic pants in black, the Banana Republic shoes in black. When the pollsters call to ask about my party affiliation, I will answer: Banana Republican.) Then I'm dashing down the street just like I did when I was a kid: always late. Except now I don't have to allow time to lock up my bike."

first impressions of earth

yeah, why do The Strokes sound like Franz Ferdinand?

voice

i am so sick of people who do not know how to operate voicemail.

such is the sad country i live in. Emily Gilmore is your voicemail message, and people think they've mis-dialed when she barks at them.

anyway, on a related note, the perfect opportunity to replace my RAZR has presented itself. a great trilogy of Motorola phones i like are now available as used phones at Mobile Square: the V620, V80 and PEBL U6.

the PEBL, i think, is priced out of my range. now all i have to do is choose between the V620 and the V80.

there was something i was supposed to do, that i'm not doing and haven't done yet. i wonder what it is. or was.

Bishan

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Bishan. It's weird.

quizas, quizas, quizas

happy birthday to everyone! because, according to some made-up chinese belief, today is everybody's birthday!

and, now, the news.

there is none worth mentioning, because my patience has been completely worn out by my brother, WheelchairAunt™, mother, the World At Large™, etc, etc, etc. hence i shall bottle everything up inside until it's time to explode.

Oh, Great.

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Somewhere along the line, i transitioned from "huge-ish mess" to "complete and utter mess", and i didn't even realize it.

previously, on Gilmore Girls

now that's a great family portrait. friday night's alright for fighting. really.

Love Monkey, p61

"I'm holding the baby. I'm supporting its head and thinking that it's about the size of a loaf of bread. No wonder they say, "She's got a bun in the oven." Karin goes to the bathroom (is she just passsing gas?), and when she's gone I surreptitiously feel around the kid's head looking for the soft spot. It feels pretty hard to me, though. I thought their heads were supposed to be like week-old bananas. Yet another letdown."