ICON @Bugis

Interesting place beside the usual shopping hunt of Bugis junction and Bugis village. The shops are small but the variety is quite heterogeneous unlike the neighbouring bugis village.

Price and variety
The price range from really cheap $4 to quite few hundreds over. Shops are seen selling nice Boho skirts, to dangling Necklaces (nothing new) to those rare Lacey Tops, Audrey Hepburn inspired dress and those really cheap t- shirt.
The dress are quite classy and clean cut, yet the material are not the good enuf as they are made of cotton and "satin". No wonder the original satin dress look good as it is made by Chanel. There is a shop selling second hand LV and Gucci bag. The price of the sling bag is around $500 and one of the LV doucument bag cost ard $1300. which is abt half of the original price. The bags are still in mint conditions,really value for money... Another bag shop that I like sell " Chiong" bag that resembled those that the Hollywood celebrities have held. Price is cheap as the qualities were compromised. Still the bags look goood enuf. ( I always love bags...)

In the end
I bought a $4 I Luv vespa pink top and a $15 knitted wear. I can corrdinated the Vespa top with my Puma bowler shoes in the weekend and the kintted wear with A line skirt to wear it to work...Mission achieved

ONe week break

Due to my refusal of seeing a doctor, I am still sick... Yet bo pian has to go for external chemistry course on Monday and Tue, Wednesday has to go for CCA, today need to bring the kids to the old republic poly...
haiz... Nvm I am strong... strong enuf to work while I am sick...


Chemistry Course
Meet some interesting chemistry teachers at the course... Talk quite a lot... My course is all abt perfume and whitening product... Wah the beauty industry got a lot of chemistry uderlining it. Hmm thus if pple say I am getting more vain, I can just say that I am just honing my craft hahahhhha
The 2nd day, we went to the biopolis to visit the genomic insitute of Sinagpore for a field trip... I was like wah... go there for wat... All those things that the prof say, no one understand as most of us are just chemistry teachers. Heng I understand quite a bit as I have taken the Alvin's module ages ago... Man it doesn't sound different from the module lah.. It just remind me that I have lend my microbio textbook to pple... I haven't got it back yet... hahah In the end my fellow classmate has to ask me to explain to them in layman term.

Maybe I can work there after my stint in the school... Yah real, they wun want me, a nobody with no Honours degree...

I am Ah SO SICK!!!!

Man, my nose is runny, so runny that it seems to have a life of its own. I am sneezing, my tongue is invaded by the Uclers, I can't taste anything due to my blocked senses. Yet I refused to see doctor, I will not allow myself to spend that $30 to see a doctor when I can will my immune system to buck up... Tho it will take a Bl***Dy long time to buck up. I feel like shit now, can't mark my papers, can't set papers, no mood to chat on MSN...

I saw SHAN the man yesterday. That was the onli bright spot of my shitty weekend.He was ah SO CUTE!!!! Howard too...

The 1st post in March

Was at Heereen yesterday as Garfield told me that Shan Wee will be at the Heereen for a pre- Cleo Eligible bachelor Contest.
I was like WAT!!!!!! SHAN @_@. A Good looking and definately charming fellow. Onz I will like to see him in Person... THe CLEO bachelors were supposed to be there serving coffee... Wah. wait till I tell pple that I will be served by the Perfect 10 Adonis himself. Wolahlah...

Then we were like waiting and waiting, still no Shan Wee... WaT!!!!!, it turn out that not all bachelors are there to grace the events. Still Garfield's drool worthy 's colleague (DWC) was there. Out of the few bachelors who were there, he was one of the older, steady looking one. The rest were simply too young... SHd be in their 20s...Thus lack the charm that can only be present in an older man;confidence.

DWC was friendly and had a frim handshake... Definately an up and coming banker. Hope that he will win some awards at the finals. Though I dun think he will be THE Bachelor.Who will beat Shan in terms of popularity? All my hormones raging female friends are all ohhing and Ahhing at the guy himself.

As the females friends of the EB are are to answer some personal and sometimes embarrassing questions,( Eg: Howard 's colleague was asked to give him a kiss on his fav spot) Garfield and colleagues quickly jahbo as soon possible as they are scared to be pull up on stage.

Conquer of the week: I went and bought a TOP shop Jeans. The jeans are supposed to be more durable than those cheap Gio one. Lets see whether it will last.

MoonChild === The Picture

The two leads are just too kakoii to ignore... Tho I knew Hyde first due to L'arc encial, Gackt is motto kakoii desho?

Can't resist to put pretty picture of the two boys together...They look beautiful.

MOonChild

My friend bought the MOOn child Vcd for me from HOng Kong as I can't seems to be able to get hold of it in Singapore...

My friend warned me that it is a stoopid vampire show...
Me: huh? I still want to watch
Friend: Okie loh, v cheap anyway $4... No need to pay me.
Me: wah seh, so good of u...

Then it turn out that my friend is not wrong... quite a stoopid show.
Bro: Wah!!! kill kill kill onli, fun meh? No government one meh?
Me: How am I suppose to noe... u watch lah

It turned out that Gackt and Hyde can kill anyone and the whole show just go bang bang bang. They are nv trial for murder. Then dun noe why, hyde gana caught, trial for murder as he suck blood from his victims... He is a vampire u see... I am like WAT??? No need for government Intervention for robbery and gang fight induced death yet must put someone to death because he is out to find food... Tho must admit that his choice is not v the nice lah but still... T_T!!!

Stoopid show, but Gackt and Hyde are v kakoii...

Bro: why was Hyde a vampire, he dun look like leh, Gackt look more like one wat.
Me: Yah loh, dun noe why... Siao one

But still, Gackt was kakoii... Therefore I watch...
Bro:SIAO CHA BO



If such credit card is available in Singapore, I will definitely apply...是対に。

Brokeback Mountain

This is a movie that piqued my interest tremendously. I wondered how are they going to depicts two gay cowboy? How can this kind of movie made it to oscar? The setting of the quiet farm sound boring to me.

It turns out to be a pleasant surprise. The two leads are good looking. But the winner here is how repressive they are. Unable to acknowledge their love for each other due to fear of poisoning the life of their close ones,they had unknowingly wreaked their life. I love Heath character more as he was the less demonstrative of the two. It is like he dun even noe that he is gay before he noe the Jake's character. He was even engaged to a nice girl and never ever suspect his preference of the otherwise.

After the movie, I dun even find him gay as he nv like another guy other than Jake. It is more like he love this person, and this person happen to be a guy. (To me, gay = they like guys, any good looking guys, thats it)It was like the cupid just make a v cruel joke on him. When I heard that scene where Heath screamed," YOU are the one who do this to me, I am not like this before I met u.", I felt that I can understand his anguish. He noe that he had fall for a guy and he can't get him out of his system. The emotional side of him was in turmoil, yet the realistic part of him allowed him to go through his wedding.

Is his situation any different from a heterosexual relationship when we fall for the wrong person?(situations like, fall for someone whom we will not have a future with, as they are either attached, married or gay)Still, the realistic part of us went on with life and find suitable partners, yet some parts will still be stuck in an emotional tangle. For some fortunate souls, the repressive side will slowly disappeared to nought, thus becoming truly happy.

The leads can't let go despite their effort... I just felt so sad for them.

Typical bemoaning

It was not as if that I want to behave in a bias manner, but then sometimes I FEEL that I need to retort back at such pple for behaving in a bias manner. Altho we can't avoid this in our life, I hate it when I am unfairly judged by others. Some pple can get away with stuff by just being them. Zero effort needed. Others have to try so much harder for reaching the same results... FREAKINGLY UNJUST.

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To improve my English, I borrowed the grammer builder from my colleauge.
To improve my Jap, I read one new grammer every day.
To improve my Chinese, I read "pop corn" ( note: today 早报 got a 吴庆康写的专栏.非常地有启发性.)
To improve my mood, I eat chocolate.

Lastly … HECK those F... unjust pple...

Another Blog

Hi pple, this is another one of my Blog... I used this to practise my Jap typing and to hopefully write some Jap essay, given by my Sensei...I am seriously backlogged for now. For those who dun noe Jap, can oso take a look as well, tho, there is nothing much inside this blog... I will continue with this blogspot one. Will onli link it if there is an update...

楽しみに読んでください。。。

What have I done this weekend leh???

I LOve SAT... Time to play and hang out with buddies and Friends...

This week, lets see what have I been doing sia


This is a candid Shot woh!!!

Well, you shd be able to guess what activity right... * drum roll* yes!!! I went dragon boat again. This time with Eve and Ian...



After Ian went home, Eve and I try to act stoopid in front of my Camera. Told her to act in this manner for my blog sake, big sacrifice for Eve... yak yak I look retarded most of the time, thus no real sacrifice on my part...



After 3 hours of tedious exercising and abs ogling, we went Bugis junction to woffle down Scones and MOS burger for lunch. No Sat can be completed without do my favourite activity; SHOPPING. AS usual Shopping Kakis aka Garfield had to join me.

As garfield and I were to meet HUi and Long for dinner later, we went to HOllywood nails to Kill our time... Garfield chose pedi and me having nothing better to do opted for a Mani... OMG, for those who noe me, will not associate me with Manicure in like million years... My nails are now in an unnatural shade of pink. (my Bro shriek when he saw my nails.)Garfield shirek as well," so CUTE!" Err yah, still, I feel that the money spent did not justify thus I told them I will Mani at home, more economical.

As we were late due to our HOLLYWOOD treatment, we rush to Chinatown for Bday dinner... We order Jap ebi bento and Katsu bento...



Vegetarian One leh, NIce???

Yup, can guess whose Bday did it belong to?





According to Eve, I can only choing till 10pm, then I ta boleh... Yah after having dessert at another nearby traditional HOngkong dessert store, I was pronounced as concussed and definately in need of my beloved bed. Thus mark the end of one Sat.

I am still celebratung CNY... WAT???

I have been wanting to blog abt my CNY for a long time, but due to busy working life, Blosphere life has to take a tiny hiatus.

Well, I proud to say that I have got rid of 4 bags of Junk during the spring cleaning and my Room has re-emerged after months of resembling a ...

Ta da, here is my room

Nice and clean... Lets see how long it last???
Bought a bag. No, it is not from LV... But got similar monogram.
haha

Look at my Pineapple tarts going to waste

On the third day of CNY, Teddy is invited together with ah sa to come to my house for sponging off mum 's ang bao. Yet he say... NO nO, my mum say if I come to ur hse, I will quarrel with u one, cannot. Err... good to noe that he is not willing to place money over friendship... So touching.. As if I will nv quarrel with him in the future. I told ah sa abt the Teddy's theory.She like, Theory onli lah, not law, still can come lah! thus she still come.

So arming with ah sa law, I went to my veggie's mate home for my own sponging act. Stream boat Dinner was delicious. I took the opportunity to take some candid shots of the gals...

Candid meh? still look pretty leh

After various streamboat events... Today and tmr still got, my scales are gonna broke under my immense weight.

Arghhh... My pineapple tarts betray me!!!!

My pineapple tarts should have taste v crunchy and nice... Durhhh for 3 days, it remain so, then after the third day, it morphed into somthing sticky and soggy, which taste like the previous tarts that my mum made last year... Why does my previous batch has no such prob leh... culprit is my mum filling.. Durhhh, they are tasty, they are sour, they are WET!!! It affects the crusts... Arghhhh Shd have used the store bought one instead... Yet, the store bought aren't as nice sia... ARGHHHHHHH. shd have finished all the tarts within 3 days.. It is heart wrenching to see it go to waste... Trauma.

Tune test

For all those pple who are feeling bored, you can try this tune test, to see whether you are tone prefect or tone deaf... There are 26 tunes and I manages to get 22 correct in my office where the phones are ringing and pple is talking... For those friends out there, let see how u fare okie... remember to comment after u have try this site...

http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/tunetest/dtt.asp

Battle of schools... Contestant E vs NE

The old old story of whether elite school is better than others has resurfaced in the papers recently. Thus I will like to do a small comparision over the students in Elite (E) school and Non-elite school (NE). There will be two parts in the comparision. Part 1: students profile 10 years ago (1995). The reason that the profile is of 10 years ago is simple. I was a student back then... (stoopid reason, ya) Part 2: My own thoughts. Sources of datas are collected from various friends, relative and my own observations of how the profile has changed. Pls note that the percentage include here is based on my feeling,( for easy comparision) it is not a representation based on real Statistic done by any authorities . (The gov do take notes of such survery and there are real statistic been done on some of the aspects.)

Here we go...

Part 1
The Elite Profile 1995 (top 20 schools in Singapore according to the old school ranking systems)

1) 80% of the students used English in daily conversations.
2) 70% of the parents are Tertiary educated (A levels , Poly and aboved)
3) 70% of the students know how to play various instruments such as piano and violin.
4) 60% of the students lived in private housing.
5) 70% of the students had been drove to school by Parents.
6) 80% of the students have traveled with their parents to countries such as Australia when reached 15.


The Non -elite profile 1995 (My own experience and opinions of my school... hahahhh)
1) 80% of the students used MT in daily conversation
(I used hokkien at home and Mandarin in school, English was so bad that kena suan by my class chair who is the remainder of the 20% of the angmo speaking one)

2) 80% of the parents are Secondary educated and below. (My Form teacher struggled to explain my results cum behaviour to my mum in Mandarin... Her Mandarin was really funny, wahhaha)

3) 20% of the students know how to various instruments such as piano and violin.
(I want to learn too but than hoh, no $$$$ )

4) 70% of the students lived in HDB (My house at that time was a small 3 rm flat)

5) 80% either walked or take public transport to school. (My best record was a 5 min dash from my house to school as I was late)

6) 80% of the students have traveled to Malaysia (I only stepped into Malaysia once when I was in P3)


Part 2
As you can see the students'profiles are so different with each other. How can you determine which school is better? If a NE school has similar students's profiles will it do better? As more than 2 aspects are different, this comparision is not valid. (In Science, only one apect can vary, the rests are to remain constant before non-biased conclusion can be made.)

Why are the E students better recieved in the working arena here? Someone claimed that his friend got a job despite having to compete with those first class honours holders due to the fact that he was from the E school. Is that true? Or was it due to having better PR skills, can express hinmself better to charm the interviewer? I dun think that the interviewer will just employ someone by looking at the name of the school. If someone else from NE school can present himself well and articulate his opinions in a logical and creative manner, he will get the job too. No? Will the interviewer employ someone from E school if he did not take care of his appearance and seems too complacent?

The name of the school just seems to matters as most of the E students can speak and write better English due to frequent usage. They may also seem to be more confident as they have yet to undergo major setback in their life. NE students may have struggled and stubbled along the way and thus dun seems to exude such confidence. (Eg of such set back: WHy your grade is worse than Ah Sheng? He can get into E noe, U leh , useless) Still, confidence can be acquired from emulation of others who has it. Afraid to express own opinions due to language deficiency can be overcome as one join the toastmaster. Bad in Angmoh; like me, either you heck it or get yourself into an English Language school like British council and put in $$$ + effort to overcome it. (I will enroll after I got my JLPT 1 ...wahhh) Accentuate your good points, downplay your bad points. Attitude matters, not the name of the school.

The one that you fear

After toking to ah Ying, Hoon and hua, I realised that I tend to avoid a certain someone when necessary. Actually, this person did nothing to me and I definately dun hate him (yah, it is a him) But I will avoid him, whenever he is nearby. Why leh???Cos I feel shamefaced. As most of you know, I am a siao cha bo, and siao cha bo will act siao, right. In the middle of my siaoness, he will walk by so quietly... When I sense his presence, it is already like a big OH OH !!!

He will give the kind of disapproving looks that resemble a " Wah, you so old liao, still act like that, pls act accordingly to your age, can." without even opening his mouth. This may even seems like charisma to some. To me I simply hate that look, I have enuf of disapprovals by parents which I have to recieve without complain.To me, even when you behave correctly at all time... there is no need to look down on others right. Ah Ying say I am paranoid lah. Perhaps I am, but I can't help it, dun think I will ever be too friendly towards him... I just can't relax in front of such person. (Yah, me siao liao)

Product review === Garnier Light- dark spot corrector

Have been trying to find a spot corrector as no one look good with pigmentation unless the leopard skin trend is in. No, it is out now, beside the spots on my face clash terribly with the prints on my clothes. Yucks.

Acoording to ST and Her world and female, Garnier light is a good choice. Yah value for money as it only cost $10 bucks... Dun want to spend a small fortune on lancome and biotherm since garnier is the cheaper cousin of L'oreal enterprise. Since Garnier, Lancome and Biotherm all come from the same Lab, I think garnier stuff should be okie... Well, the blemish corrector from garnier really works on my big stubborn pimples during PMS.

Okie, I have to take a risk on my sensitive face... Will do a after usage review after 28 days. Stay rightly tunned.

I see angels clad in pink...

Meeting my colleagues for lunch and feeling a bit ,nah I confessed, real extra, yet I dun mind being an extra in a fish and co like restaurant that sound remotely like Manhattan. Got myself a calories laded mango milkshake that is delicious and not too sweet in taste. Feel guilty after drinking, as I can imagine my fat cells multiplying inside my head. My guilty conscience of excercising only once this week come creeping back.

Due to my new year resolution of trying to be stylish, I decide to embark on the scary proposition of shopping for new clothes ALONE. Scary not because I am lonely, scary because I will spent more if I shop alone.Yes, my track records shows. On my way to citylink, I saw something, pink, white and flurry, OMG, it is the angel. Have to say that it does a lot of injustice to the poor host. I can't help but smirk as I walked past. Just hope that my smirk wun be caught in candid video, right, garfield?

As I thot that the angels are seeking for the eligible female, my hands was dialling the familiar number of Garfield to ask her to come to citylink immediately, then stopped as one angel was approaching a guy. Chay, they are seeking for eligible male. Dream bubbles popped as my mission turn impossible. SIAN!!!

Is the guy been approached good looking... Err verdict is looks nice and bookish. But then I din stay long enuf to hear whether the guy is single or not? Guys like that are highly unlikely to be single lah? I continued walking.

I spent the rest of the afternoon buying stuff... Totally uneventful, except that I meet ah ying later to taste my tarts and yes she say it is nice, still she may be biased as she is my bf. (note: we are not gay, bf doesn't = to boyfriend)

In the end, I bought one OZOC Parrot printed black Tshirt? (huh? say garfield)
One white tshirt blouse and one pink skirt, tats it, din do much damage to my fragile wallet. All thanks to ah Ying who come to my rescue after 2 hours of shopping alone. Note: I din spent any when she was with me. Jialat, I really need someone to be around to curb my shopping frenzy. That totally explain my hours of fruitless shopping with garfield.

AAR of Pineapple tart marking

Numbers of attempts in pineapple tart making
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2

Analysis of the pineapple skins
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crispy like biscuit. (not too good)But then Mum like it crispy cum flaky, Dad like it slighty soggy with dough. Mum ask me to make the skins on next Sat, thus must be ok, since mum has high standard towards food...

Analysis of the pineapple stuffing
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Sweet and dry, not sour. Prefer the sour taste of the pineapple and less dry. But then the store bought one all taste the same. Self-cooked will require 4 hours to be fully cooked. Will then spent more than 8 hours to make the tarts if use the self-cooked one. Thus have to compromise the quality if you want it to be done in a lesser time.

Reflections
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Not quite up to standard yet, will make another batch next sat. Will see whether I have improved or not.

Movement of my blog

Hi pple, I have another blog as I can't program my blog to have Jap inputs when I change my blogskin, and I will like to change my blogskin as it is too common. I like those nice nice one but then my programming skills are too poor, thus when I change the blogskin, I cannot type in Jap. Thus I checkout one of my friend blog and change the server, which has nice skin for me to choose from. I wld like to put my input in the new blog, and close down this one... but then I am sad that I will not have my previous entries with me, then I cannot reread what I have written in this past few month, 悲しい, Don't know what I should do leh... pls give advice.

What I do with my life that will be different from last year???

OMG, I had sounded so witty till the moment that I accidently press delete and then u noe, there is no back tab for blogger unlike our MS words... Feel really dumb and stupid.

Thus I shrink my 2006 resoultion to a minimum few so that my clumsy hand wun do so much damage.

1. Be clever .

2. Be stylish .

3. Be Rich .

4. Save more .

5. Learn other sports .

6. Travel .

7. Dun complain, buy voodoo dolls and needles instead .

8. Just survive .

There, I am done.