iTunes Party Shuffle

Sufjan Stevens, then Kylie Minogue?

you are a sick, sick machine.

"and i cried myself to sleep last night, for the earth, and materials, they may sound just right to me"

"is the world still spinning around? i don't feel like coming down"

wong numbers

god, how many wrong numbers can you get in one night?

Targa 4

i know my desktop wallpaper attests to the contrary, but i do not actually want a metallic orange, four-wheel-drive, targa-topped German sports coupe.

i do, however, want a four-wheel-drive, targa-topped German sports coupe. in metallic gunmetal grey. i should probably go find out if it even comes in such a color. well, it definitely comes in black.

three nights sleeping in an actual, queen-sized, bed and i've a backache from two nights back on a mattress thinner than some breads.

i am too tired to type with the proper accents.

Veronica Mars 0116 "Betty And Veronica" 00:09:00

VERONICA MARS:

"Pan High: The Un-Neptune. Just fifteen miles away, but when those miles are heading inland, there are no yacht clubs and no five-million-dollar homes with coastal views. The parking lot is full of American cars made in the nineties, and the vending machines don't carry Orangina. People here hate Neptune as much as I do."

thank you for smoking

what can i say? i felt inspired.

The Office 0221 "Conflict Resolution", 00:00:38

PAMELA BEESLY:
"There are a few people I decided not to invite. And that might make things kind of awkward, but... it's my wedding. And I don't want anyone there who has called me a hussy."

--- --- ---

MICHAEL SCOTT:
"Cage matches? Yeah, they work. How could they not work? If they didn't work, everybody would still be in the cage."

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it's damn early, can?

the bloody newspaper just arrived.

it's damn early, can?

pre-dawn

this is an obscene hour in which to be awake.

Absolut Ruby Red

ladies and gentlemen:

do not blog whilst drunk. i still am, so i'm not. wait. i am blogging. so i am contradicting my own rule. i'd better stop now, hadn't i?

that's all. i think. what?

psychosis

i'm not supposed to be awake for another two hours.

oh, well, what can you do? Moses had Egyptian Slavery and the Red Sea. Noah had the Great Flood. David had Goliath. Jesus had Judas and Mary Magdalene. Aaron has Samantha.

great challenges in life, i'm sure, are meant to be not just overcome, but crushingly defeated. but, for now, the medication's wearing off.

"And then they're all living in a cave,"

"And our show is not that "plotty." It's not Lost. It's not like you get a lot of, "And then they're all living in a cave," or whatever happens on Lost."

- Lauren Graham (who plays Lorelai Gilmore on Gilmore Girls), on Lost

it's the end of the world (as we know it)

why do i feel worse? aren't i supposed to be feeling better? like, much, much better?

what, do they induce melancholy to cure anxiety? i have enough of that, i don't need any more.

i need to go out. i can't stay in for much longer.

this fucking sucks.

Noise Pollution

dear MINDEF,

i am so fucking sick of your fucking flybys.

i do not fucking care if it's fucking national day, i do not care. you fly the same fucking planes on the same fucking route every fucking year so i do not see why you have to start your fucking rehersals so fucking early. fucking stop it. sonic fucking booms do not make for a soundtrack conducive to eating dinner.

or, for that fact, conducive to any-fucking-thing.

that's all,

-aaron

Gilmore Girls 0613 "Friday Night's Alright For Fighting", 00:21:21

SOOKIE ST. JAMES:
"What are you doing?"

LORELAI GILMORE:
"Uh, he freaks out if he sees his leash. You have to make sure you hide it from him, make sure he doesn't see you putting it on him."

SOOKIE:
"How is he once he's on the leash?"

LORELAI:
"Oh, he's totally fine having his personal freedom slowly stripped away, as long as he's completely unaware that it's happening, Just like a true American."

--- --- ---

EMILY GILMORE:
"You know what else i find amusing?"

LORELAI GILMORE:
" 'Reno 911!' ? "

twenty-six

there are no Zagat-rated establishments in Singapore.

how sad is that?

moisturised and tranquilised

oh, what a beautiful carve-up.

le pluie

so, joshua was right. it rained! i got to wear a jacket out again.

Come See it all Happening!

is this is what i get for living in Geylang? a flyer inviting me to "Come See it all Happening at" (interesting use of capitalization there, by the way) the local WorldSkills finals--suspiciously held at ITE College West (Balestier Campus).

my suspicions are confirmed on the flyer itself, below the glaringly garish headline. for those of you not bothered enough to click on the picture above to view an enlarged version, i have abused my PowerBook's keyboard to faithfully reproduce the copy below.

Why must YOU be there?

• Witness the competition and find out what it takes to be a global skills talent!
• Enjoy electrifying performances by ITE students!
• Find out more about ITE education from interactive projects!
• See which secondary school wins at the mobile robot competition!
• Admission is FREE!

(note the ever-so-subtle desperation that has possessed the word "FREE!" and you just gotta love the generous use of exclamation marks.)

this is suspiciously more ITE than WorldSkills.

This Is Broken

i'll have to presume that concussions are fairly common at this particular pillar on the Redhill MRT station platform, then.

lucky number s7evin

i downloaded a couple of versions of the 대장금 theme song today, before i left the house. i don't know why. it suddenly rang out and spoke to me, i guess.

they don't think it's as bad as it's thought to be. i think it is, but i am surely not the best judge. we'll find out soon enough.

psychiatry

today is not a good day to see a psychiatrist.

but i have a letter that says it is, and that i am liable for conviction to a fine or imprisonment if i don't show up.

off i go, then.

you may know this girl

she's my sister. and this is her ignoring my request to "do something obscene with the ice-cream cone."

COMPETITION TIME

look closely at this. what do you think it is?

don't worry if you don't get it right away. i stared uncomprehendingly at it for a full minute before i even realized that it was, allegedly, a garment. that someone would wear. as an outer layer of clothing. outside of their own home.

if your answer is "a pair of shorts in a fashion commonly seen on, how shall i say it, working girls," congratulations! you're absolutely correct!

girls, let me save you fifty dollars--just wear a pair of panties out!

Happy Endings, 01:49:23

"When you're a gay man,
it's hard to feel bad about
yourself when a urologist
says, "Yeah. I pick you."

Brief Encouters, p154

"Lunch lived up to expectations. The cheese and tomato sandwiches would have been great had they used cheese and tomato. Lettuce with a faint cheesy aroma and dripping tomato juice was hardly the same thing. In fairness, the crisps were only slightly stale, although the bowl of fruit was so ancient that Hannah was sure she'd seen a painting of it somewhere."

qué sera sera

why are one-day-use contact lenses so expensive? it was the end of the month, so early this morning i took the lenses out of my eyes and dumped them into the sink. it felt good. better than squirting solution to rinise them, filling the case and sticking them inside the case carefully, anyway. which i'm going to have to do after i next wear contacts. it's tiresome. but, apparently, not tiresome enough for me to stop wearing contacts altogether.

adrian quek, you ruined my PEBL.

i, on several levels, feel like sucks.