New Toy!!

Got a new cheap toy today. It's a portable speaker. Small but pretty powerful. But don't mind the quality. A bit hollow. But then again. It's cute and cool and small! Told you it's a toy liao. That means not for serious usage. X-mini is its name.



See the picture above. It's a capsule shape. You split it into halves and twist it open to expand the resonance tube , then power on! MM ZUT MM ZUT!! Cool right? It has its own rechargeable battery inside. Recharge via USB. Audio via sound jack.

Got it at one of the shops at Funan. Lazy to go all the way to SLS, so just make do with it at Funan. Went there with zm. Then tried the Soup Spoon @ Raffles City. HOLY SHIT! Okay... It's my first time there, and I quite like the food there. I'm noob. Okay, noted.

End of Short Story...

Drama Reviews

If you are fk, please skip this post. Thank you.

Code Blue (Ko-do Buru-)



I first saw this poster at Japan. My first thought, "Woot! Yui and Erika! I MUST WATCH!" I didn't pay much attention to Yamapi initially. Hahahaha. I look at the girls first. Anyway, this show is good. Really good. Interesting, but there were many times I had to go google for the term they used. Too medical for me. Hard to understand what the heck they mean or they are trying to do. But hey, good for extra knowledge.

This is like a typical doctor show, on the Emergency and Accident section. Alarm rings, rescue, rinse and repeat. Of course, story is spiced up a bit here and there. Pretty touching, I would say.

What actually makes this doctor rescue special from the rest is its HELICOPTER! Well... The theme was actually Doctor Heli, which is doctor sent to actual site using heli and evacuation via heli too, if needed.

Here's an extraction from Wiki D-Addicts, which extracted a short paragraph from Fuji TV -

The "Doctor Helicopter" system was legalized in Japan in June 2007. A medical team is dispatched to the patients on a helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible. One day, four young physicians are assigned to this latest medical system. The doctors experience traumatic medical situations, deal with personal ambitions, witness the fragility of life, and they grow personally and professionally. --Fuji TV


Okay, that was a better and more professional review than what I've said. =\


Yamashita Tomohisa. I guess those who listens to JPop or watch JDrama would have known who is him by now. So I'm not going to introduce him again. Some interesting notable stuff. He got curly hair! On first few looks, you may find him looking weird or something. But after some time, it starts to grow into you. He actually still looks good with that. I must emphasize on this. Not everyone would look good with that kind of hair, not even close to okay looking. Don't believe? Watch this...



Right? Take my words for it.


Aragaki Yui!! She may sucks (just a bit) in her acting and singing, but I just can't stop liking her. =)) I think I never introduce her before, so let me do so here. I first saw her in "Dragon Zakura", then she's also inside "My Boss My Hero". Remember that Japanese movie "Koizora"? She's in there too! I watched her "Galcir" too. =))) Okay, she's one of my favourite female celebrity. I'm biased. I don't care. Go away if you don't like her. Shoo!



Another female celebrity that I like. Toda Erika! Introduced her before. She's better known as "Misa" in Death Note. Don't know why people only recognise her as that. Sad.... She got act in a lot of other shows too what........ Oh oh oh! Recently she got a new drama which seems not bad, "Ryusei no Kizuna".





I happily omitted one of the 4 doctors mentioned in the synopsis, because he's a guy. And maybe because I didn't watch enough of his show yet. Instead of introducing him, I decided to introduce this girl! MUAhaHAhaHAhAhaHaHahAA!! She's look gooooooood~ Or maybe it's the character she acted in the show. Cool! Although she's just a nurse, she has the authority! Woot! "Take that you noob doctor! TATATATATATATAAAA!" My first show on her, so no additional information to throw in.


Theme Song
Mr Children - Hanabi



Last Friends (Rasuto Furenzu)



This is a twisted drama. Almost everything is twisted. You got Domestic Violence (known as DV), Homosexuality, Genophobia/Erotophobia/Coitophobia (don't know which one best describe). It's trying to show some common social issues. Love romance that induces your tear glands flow and makes you go sniffing.

During the middle portion of this drama, I was starting to wonder what kind of drama was i watching there. It seemed more like a thriller horror flick to me. Extreme stalker action. Kinda scary you know.

The show was good. But personally, I think the ending kinda stinks. It has a nice starting, nice build up, but ending doesn't kinda match up with them. =\ But but but... The 5 main characters are in my fav lists!



Nagasawa Masami. Introduced before, not going to do so here. She's the victim of DV. I don't really like her in this show. Maybe she appeared too wimpy in it. Hmmm... If that's the case, then her acting is good. Or maybe she's going down in my fav list. =|






BwaHAHAhAhAhAhAhAHahAHAHAhaHAhaHA!! UENO JURI! BANZAI!! She's damn good. DARN GOOD! I do really think she can act in any roles! She looks cool with short hair too okay.







Eita. I don't his full name. Seriously, in the show initially you'll think he's... Okay, cannot say it out. Or else it'll be a spoiler. His hair is always very attention seeking. Amazing.







This is the scary guy. Nishikido Ryo (also known as Seng, among ourselves, for some reasons). If you hate him after watching this show, that's a thumb-up for him. He really brings out that personality of the character he's acting. Really! He really freaks me out at times during the show. Superb acting!! Simply fabulous!





Asami-chan~ Her role isnt that major in the show, but well, I don't mind her in the banner. =)) She also has some issues in the show, but it appears to be mild when compared to the others. Kinda sad huh? But I still like her nevertheless! =D






Theme Song
Utada Hikaru - Prisoner of Love



Yasuko to Kenji



Looking through the cast, only 1 person caught my attention. Hirosue Ryoko. But that's all it takes to make me wanna watch this show. Hahahahahaha... Sometimes it feels just so good to watch actor/actress of our time. Signs of getting old. =|

Anyway, just make a note here, Zm did mention about this show to me. Ya... And good thing I watched it. Because it's a nice show! A good comedy in general. I was actually laughing out loud at times. And it's heartwarming at the ending. It's just so nice. Like eating oreo dunked into milk. Oreo dunked into milk is really nice. It's best go with fresh milk. Err.. back to the show.

Almost forgot to talk about the basic plot. The basic plot is... it's complicated for me to explain it. So I'll copy and paste from Wiki D-Addicts -

The show focuses on a man named Kenji and his younger sister Yasuko, whose parents died in an accident 10 years earlier. Kenji was once the leader of a gang, but in order to support him and his sister, he began making a living as a shojo mangaka. His character normally wears glasses and appears to be a gentle guy, but he throws off his glasses and reverts to his violent side whenever he tries to protect Yasuko from danger. Part of the story follows Yasuko's romance with an intelligent and good-looking man named Jun Tsubaki. Jun's older sister Erika now runs a flower shop, but Erika was once a leader of a female gang, and she used to be in love with Kenji during those days. --Tokyograph


Matsuo Mashiro. A member of Tokio. Same group as Nagase Tomoya, the guy in Tiger and Dragon, and My Boss My Hero. I think Tokio people makes good yakuza. It's just so in their blood. Acting yakuza is so natural to them. He got a few signature moves in the show, cool moves.






Hirosue Ryoko, do I need to say anymore? If you don't know her, please just go jump out of the nearest window. I enjoy watching the moments she switched her personality. That was kinda comical. MUST WATCH THIS SHOW TO SEE HER ACTING!!!






As for these two, Okura Tadayoshi (left) and Tabe Mikako (right), I think they are quite irritating in the show. They are so 偶像剧 kind of actors. Boring. I don't really like this kind of actors. What I know about them, almost nothing. Only know the guy is from Kanjani8, that's all. Nothing further on them.


Theme Song
Tokio - Amegasa



These are just 3 of the dramas I've watched recently. I'm actually watching Mythbuster recently instead. Maybe I should write down a list of interesting myths and facts that they have proven in the show eh? That's for next time. It's peak timing now. My supporting work usually start at 3pm. Work work.

Reference
1. Wiki D-Addicts, http://wiki.d-addicts.com/

Shopping list update..

Without noticing, my shopping list was actually reduced by half at least. =\ That just shows how much am I spending. Damn... I've just added another item on the list. Ho ho ho! The most expensive by far.

Mega Updates

Sorry my dear faithful readers. Was busy with many stuff recently. Work, games and dramas. =| Recently there are a lot of new game releases you see. Plus with a new harddisk, I starting to resume my Japanese drama watching again. Will try to come up with some reviews of some of them if possible.

Since usually my morning period is very unproductive, and I don't really feel like starting on the task I have in hand now, so I thought it might be a good time I update here a bit.

Let's see... my last post was November, and now already pass mid-Dec. What have I did in during this period. Nothing really special. But I definitely overspent for this month. Let me list down what I've bought this month and their agar agar damages.

Oven - $83
Mixer - $37
Mp3 player - $130
1TB Harddisk - $186
2x 1GB RAM - $34
GTA4 - $45

Ouch! =\

And yes.. I finally bought my oven. Then I started to play around with cupcakes. The mixer I got it during my 2nd trial.

Mixer at work

Baking in the oven

First trial

Second trial

Filling the inside

If you notice why all no icing or cream on top. Well.... I couldn't get it right yet, so ya.. They were all bald. Will try again whipping cream perhaps tonight. Hahaha.. And that was the reason I bought the mixer. But seriously, mixing is really easier if you have a mixer. =D)


Now, let's talk about my new MP3 player. I bought this MP3 player from a Mass Order in a forum. This guy ordered from China and brought them in. It was like a plunge and see how this unknown brand and product will fare. Not bad, it's pretty decent enough.

The main selling point of this player is that it can play RMVB videos! But then... I always lazy to convert my videos. Then all those videos that I had resolution was kinda high, so it's really taxing on the processing power of the player. I really ought to reduce them before loading to the player.

It has a camera but seriously, it sucks like hell (as you can see from above). It's more like webcam quality, or worse. =\

But this thing has pretty good battery life. Playing MP3s, full to flat, maybe can last around 8hrs? Or more? No idea. Never really tested that. And this thing is really light. Very light, in fact.

Next month maybe should be getting a nice earphone for it. I hate those plug into ears one. My ear holes very small, plug those stuff in hurt my ear a lot. Need to get either those noise cancelling buds kind or those clip-on kind. Will look into it next month.


Next thing to talk about, MY GEEKY STUFF! I LOVE BEING OTAKU! Harddisk and RAM. Basically I upgraded my GFX card last month liao. All these were just for 1 game, GTA4. But bloody hell, this game really kan xiong on the requirement. Now the chokepoint is my processor. I have no plan of upgrading just yet. So forget it, I'll endure the jerkings in the game. =\

And now with 1TB HDD, I'm back to Japanese dramas again. Since then, I've watched 3 sets of drama liao. Woot~ I still got another 4-5 sets more to finish watch. OTAKU MAX~

Even though I spent quite a considerable amount of time at home doing all my otaku and girly stuff, I still got spend time with friends one okay! I still got go out with friends every now and then for dinner and stuff. It's just recently lah. Ever since I started playing GTA4, I tend to stay at home more. =D)


From now till the end of my finance month, I still got a few more stuff that I need to spend money on. Got 3x gift exchange coming up. Dinner here and there. =| Might be entering deficit this month liao. Never mind lah ah. Next year I'll start to save up more!! Next year.. next year... ... ... ... ...

Maybe I should really get a decent camera too. =X

Grow up please...

Heard these words from the angel side of me just now. Here's the story. Self-pwned story to say how spoilt brat am I.

I woke up around 140pm just now. Usual routine for weekend will be go wash up, toileting, then search for breakfast. My weekend's breakfast is prepared/bought by my mum one, most of the time...

Open up and see, wah! Lor mee! Nice! Even pour into bowl for me liao. Took a fork and took the bowl up and about to eat. WAIT! My eyes still a bit blurry because I juse woke up, but I saw stuff moving around at the edge of the bowl. Ah... Great.... ANTS INVASION!

Went out to the living room and showed my mum. Maybe I was a bit in the short fuse recently, then I started to blame her. Say why she act smart go pour into bowl first, if still in plastic bag then I can have it already. Don't act smart thinking I will always wake up by 11am or so. She then went to kitchen to see what's wrong with the "anti-ant mechanism" and fixed it a bit, and chased the ants outta of the bowl and told me can eat liao.

=\ My first thought here was.. What? It's sharing food with ants. Not I had leftover for ants wor, it's the ants who had it first before I do! Never mind, I took the bowl again, and look look. Some dead ants dead by the side of the lor mee. You know... Lor mee is sticky sticky one. They got stuck to the lor and dead. *salute* Then I complained again (yesh, like a brat). So she offered to cook instant mee for me instead.

Yesh, at this point of time, suddenly.. really suddenly... The angel side of me had awaken! Think he overslept. The devil woke up earlier. I managed to think through properly lah. She already put in effort, then I shouldn't complain anymore right? Even if I don't want to eat that ant-infested bowl of lor mee, I should go settle my breakfast myself right? So basically now it's my own problem, and I should settle it myself. Stop bothering her.

Alright, so I told her never mind. Forget it. It's okay. 算了.

I ate that bowl of lor mee....... hahahahaha.. Sorry, I was too lazy to cook instant noodle myself. So I just use a spoon to scoop the side of the lor and dump onto the sink. I think I still see some ants (around 2-3) dead in the pool of sticky fluid. Ah! F**k it lah. Ants only, scare wat?

Ate. Pwned. And grew up....

p/s: ah yesh.. i'm 25 already, and i'm still a spoilt brat. FLAME ME!!!

Break time...

After all the OTs for the week, this afternoon at around 5pm I've finally completed the project unofficially. Now left the tidying of the codes, synchronization with another part from my colleague, full functional test and I'm officially done! YATTA!

Great... Finally can take my mind off the work. Seriously, for the past few mornings, everytime I woke up, the first thing that came my mind was some component of the project. It was really haunting me man. Think tonight I can have a good rest. YESH! Don't need to go back tomorrow! WOooooOoOHoooOOO!!

Anyway, today after my work, I went down to SLS to meet up with zw, zm and siao. Zw's upgrading his comp. Siao was called along bcos I think zm realised it was siao's bday today, so we decided to celebrate with him. And so... After the SLS trip, we went down to Marina Sq for dinner. Chose Azabu Sabo - jap food~

Well.. the food there was pretty decent. The fried ramen thingy was nice, you can try order it and share around. Attempting to eat it alone you might get quite sick of it though. However, Azabu Sabo actually excels in their desserts. Wahahahahahahaa! I'm a dessert sucker. Its dessert is really good. I had the ice cream with fried balls and sweet potato. Nice nice nice!

Here comes the interesting part. We asked for the bill, and we split it among the 3 of us to treat siao. Siao was puzzled by it and so we explained we wanna treat him for his bday and stuff. And guess what? He's got even puzzled after that. After some verification, we then realised it wasn't his bday today. It's next month, and no a matter juz 1-2 weeks.... -_-" Zm is some kind of cousin eh? Wanted to celebrate his bday, but couldn't get his birthday right. Bo pian, so it was a way advance bday treat then. So malu lor! Hai.... Sorry Siao! It's ur cousin fault.

So, end of "celebration", back to random walking and window shopping. Went over to Suntec (DAMN! I missed my Anime Fest because I was still working in the office. Maybe I should go over and see tomorrow.), wanted to go to Carrefour to buy some rechargeable battery recommended by zm.

Nothing else special after that, so the end~

Bought a new Gillette Fusion Power razor! And restock on my Gatsby deodorant. The razor having promo now. Usual price is 19.30, now going for 14.30.
Total Damage: $22.80


And here's the rechargeable battery! They recommended me to get a decent charger.
Total damage: $29.90

OTs with no OLs...

Don't mind the title, I just thought OT and OL rhymes.. =\

Anyway, have been working on OTs recently. 745pm on Tuesday, 945 on Wednesday and 1040pm yesterday. Sucks... First assignment 1x jialat jialat.

This is what happen when you are at the bottom of the chain. Client wanna roll out the project fast because they wanna include it in their FY. People up there will say "Can! No problem" - at our expense.

First time, the specifications were already passed to us late. So no special time allowance for me, even though it's my first virgin project. Normally, a 2-weeks schedule is for the people who have experience. Well, it was the same for me. Now with the client rushing us, the 2 weeks schedule is cut short to 1 week (with weekends included). Surprise! Yeah, how I love this surprise. =\ =/

Okay.. enough complaints. Big boss came in early today, and he saw me in the office too. Yeah! Up points!

Promising bus timing.

Great! This earlier bus timing that I changed to since yesterday is really less crowded. And today I TRIED my very best to stay awake more. *grin* Promising views... XD I'll stick to this!!!

Green Light for Oven

Alright man! I've got the approval from the mistress of the place I'm staying. Approval to get an oven to replace that microwave oven. Microwave oven troublesome lah.. I can't put metal stuff inside. My pan and stuff all metal one, plus that microwave oven is maybe getting old and faulty. The interior lights are gone. Dark dark inside, cannot see things cook liao or not.

Yesterday went courts and scout for an oven and showed my mum the size I wanted. She said okay if it's my own money. Of course, I'm going to pay it for myself lah! Then it will be MY oven. Previously on last Saturday, I also got go CK Tang downstair to check on the oven. Comparing which one to get. CK Tang one seems better. But..... CK Tang very far, hard to bring home. =\ Maybe I should check out IMM too.

Anyway, this time I'm planning to do cupcakes! IT'S CUPCAKES THIS YEAR!!!

I changed bus timing today!

Rejoice! I'm not going to see that irritating bus unc driver captain anymore!

Today I went out 5min earlier than usual to catch the earlier double decker bus. Woot~ End up I reached office 15min earlier than the usual timing. A 10min gain! 10min might not be a lot, but when u compare it to a timing of around 35min, it's
28.57%!

But of course, by doing that I have to let go of other "benefits". No more usual mm/ol that I see on the later bus. But this bus is definitely less packed than the later one. Actually, I didn't really see if this bus timing got good mm/ol or not. Because I was knocked out from the 2nd stops onwards. *Hyperdrive mode initated*

Anyway, I think because yesterday that bus uncl captin really hit my limit. He really like to stop at every stop even though the bus is really packed like siao. He will stop completely at the stop. Wait for a while (don't know for what), then move off. Maybe like what Zm said, he's a sadist. Enjoying seeing the disappointed faces below then move off.

Yesterday... at one stop, the bus was already packed. He stopped and opened the door allowing the people down there to board. Down there, I guess there were around 6-7 pax, only 2-3 managed to get up. Then at next stop, I thought he would do the usual stop and go. NOOO! He stopped, waited a while, opened the door again. I was like going "WTF?!". No one alighting, and previous stop already got people already cannot board, you still open the door for WHAT? I think his sadism has taken another step up. He enjoys seeing people struggling meaninglessly.

Oh well.. fine. 1 fortunate guy managed to get on. Took a damn long time for him to close the door properly and move on. He made 1 person happier today, and x people frustrated down there. I'm not too sure about others, but personally, I would rather see the bus going past me. I think it's worse to see the bus stopping in front of me, opening the door, and I cant get on. =\

Okay, maybe I'm just too subjective. And paranoid. And irritating. And frustrated. Never mind! It's all over! I'M SO GOING TO TAKE THAT EARLIER BUS!!!

Er... That means I have even more free time in the office (before official working hours)...

Making GIF using GIMP

Alright. Here's a short tutorial on how to create GIF using GIMP.

Basically, the reason why I using GIMP instead of Photoshop is because GIMP is open-source! Meaning it's free! Go down to http://www.gimp.org/ to grab it if you wanna give it a try. Personally, I still think Photoshop is better, but GIMP is free and I'm using it in my office. Pirate-free... Anyway, I believe Photoshop is able to do the same too. The general steps should be the same.

Begin by running GIMP.


Upon opening GIMP, you will have 2 windows appear. One is the toolbar window, another is the layout window. Take a look at the toolbar window first.


This toolbar is more or less similar to Photoshop. You got the normal cutting tools, brushes, colour palette, etc etc available on this window. Alright? Click File -> New to create a new file to work on.


Choose a size that you are work with comfortably. My favourite is either 450x450 or 500x500. I like working with a square frame.


Another option to take note is the "Fill with:". I usually choose Transparency, so that my GIF will work with any background colour.

Now, take a look at the layer window.


Click on the new layer button(circled in red) to create a new layer.


For the options for the new layer, just leave it as it is will do. Again, take note of the Fill Type.

Basically for each animation frame of your GIF, you will need to create a layer for it. 1 layer = 1 frame. The ordering of the frames is bottom to top, meaning bottom-most is frame 1, the next up is frame 2, all the way to the top is frame n. Get it? For my tutorial, I created a 3 frames animation. So here, I will need to create 2 new layers, on top of my Background layer.

After creating the new layers, it's time to put in what you want for the frame. My GIF here is a simple animation showing a counting from 1 to 3. So let me begin with my frame 1. Do that by selecting the corresponding layer first in the layer window.


Then click on the picture window and draw a "1" on it.


Now, select frame 2.


Note that you can click on the "eye" icon(circled in red) to hide the layer. It's useless if the other layers are obstructing your current selected frame. Okay, draw a "2" now.


Lastly, select frame 3.


And draw a "3"!!!


Look at my layer window shown below. As I've explained earlier on, the frame sequence is from bottom to top. Naming of the layers are not important, that's why I never bothered with it.


Okay, go back to the picture window.


Click File -> Save As to create your GIF.


Expand the "Select File Type" and select "GIF image". Location and filename are up to you. Once done, click Save and another window will pop out.


The option you must choose here is "Save as Animation". This is the key point hor! I mean, you are trying to do an animation GIF right? Right... Okay, next click Export, and yet another window appears.


This is the last window I promise you. Under the "Animated GIF Options", check all the options available there. Then for the "Frame disposal where unspecified", choose "One frame per layer (replace)". As for the delay per frame, up to you. For my tutorial, I put 1000 milliseconds, which is equivalent to 1 second. DONE! Click Save!!!

And..................



TADA~ There you have it! A animated GIF!


Okay, I'm quite a noob in animated GIF creation actually. This is just one of the simpler (maybe noober) way I found out. Maybe GIMP itself got an even cleverer and easier function or tool just that I don't know. But I'm pretty cool with this method, and I've done all my emoticons using this. XD)

Enjoy making your own GIF!

p/s: on how to resize and the other stuff, figure it out yourself lah ah. it's almost like photoshop...

My Hoot of the Day [Yesterday]

Yeah! Finally bought the controller, after searching around since starting of this week. All thanks to zw and zm, poisoned me to buy the controller...

Damage: 70 bucks

Last night tried using the controller to play Bully. Woot! My movement smooth like my ass now. No more 8 directional movement only, with easy to tap rapidly on the buttons, analog buttons, yeah man! Nothing to complete.

Shopping list 1 down!

Teaching you how to draw

For me, I prefer to draw from left to right. And my initial model for drawing this was my left hand. So ya, it's a left hand middle finger.

Of course, there's many way to point a middle finger. This is my preferred way - last 2 fingers down, middle finger up, index finger half flag, thumb slightly hidden behind.

So to start off, draw the fingers out as I've stated above.

one small lump -> another lump slightly higher -> middle finger tall tall -> index finger half of middle finger -> thumb with top hidden behind

Next, switch to a smaller brush and add in some details. Grains like the knuckles, and the joints area of the fingers.

And oh! Don't forget about adding in the fingernail for your middle finger. There you have it! Simple isn't it? That drawing above was done in just 1 minute, including creation of the GIF. *show off*

Enjoy!


p/s: maybe i should do a post every morning if i'm free in office...

"drawing middle finger" revisited...

I realised the post on "drawing middle finger" on March 2008 draw in 74 visits of my blog's overall visits. The highest among all the posts. Maybe someone is linking it to my blog. Maybe I did really draw very well for it. XD)

So... to further enhance that post. I decided to post some GIFs I did recently.

Version 1


Version 2


I had to do version 2 because the thickness of the brush used in Version 1 is too thin that it's hardly visible on msn as emoticon. So I had to improve on that. And thus, Version 2!


Since I'm showing off my GIF creations. I might as well show some that I've done for WMW blog, on the recent post one.

Carrot head


Carrot head tio dok!

Okay, that's all I have available on my photobucket. Stay tuned! Next time I'll show step by step on "How to draw middle finger - for dummy!" (no promise)

Sardines...

Seriously... I think I'm easily annoyed by crowds, especially packed like a sardine in bus/train. Unavoidable, but still, don't have to stick so close to me and let me feel your breath on my arm right? Basically, I'm very protective of my personal space bubble. Even if it's cute girls(regardless friends or not friends) who are invading it, I will try to shun away from it. Shy, maybe. But, unless I'm chionging and eating tofu. XD

So, ya... Even how much I hate it, there's almost no way to avoid it when taking our Singapore's World Class Public Transport during peak hours. Every morning I just have to go through it lah ah. Bo pian, be green, save money, hate to drive, so take Mercedes lor.

Despite being so protective of my personal space bubble, I don't really mind if it's a cute girl's bum that's poking me, or a double head missiles having near-collision contact with my face (collide will be better). But if it comes to some auntie whose bag is rubbing my shoulder constantly, flying elbows coming past just a few centimetres away from my eyes. Wowowo! Save me please!

Never mind, I still can tahan all these. I mean, need to be considerate right? They bo pian also, even I myself did them sometimes unintentionally. But try to be wary of the surrounding, ya? I'm trying to do that myself too. So everyone, let's walk together towards a more considerate and caring society!

Wait! That's not my point either. I'm taking damn long trying to convey my message. =\ Hello, uncle bus driver captain? Can you see it's like a pack sardines behind already? Keep asking people to move in is like squeezing sardine juice, instead of packing them already! You waste time asking people to move in, just to take in more people (I know you trying to help those who are trying to board the bus), but that's just time wasting! You take more time to let people board, and you take more time to let people alight. People need to squeeze like hell just to alight the bus, all thanks to your "Hello! Please move to the rear!". And I've seen people unable to alight in time and the bus moves off. End up, the next bus is empty and catches up with the current bus. World Class Public Transport System, good things always come in pairs.

What about the safety regulation? Are you sure the number of standing passengers is within the limit or not? Okay, maybe I'm just nitpicking for this point. =D Maybe I should try to go for the earlier double decker bus. I just need to leave house 5min earlier. Hmmmmm...

Nevertheless, I do have good experience for taking the packed sardines bus before too lah ah *grinning like a tiko peh*. But you must know, good and bad are always bundled together. You just can't have the best of 2 worlds.

updatez again..

Recently kinda lazy to update my blog..

But!!! I just did a long post over in wmw blog. Do visit there to take a look. A post on the monthly gathering and a carrot head incident.

Also, I've updated the shopping list. Cham... Not earning a lot but I still wanna buy so many stuff.

Oh ya, added a stalker list on the right side too. Join the list ah, so at least I'll still know I have some followers of my blog. =~) Thank you for your support.

Funny, why am I blogging @ work, and not @ home instead... Maybe I should install the Stumbleupon toolbar here...

Maybe if I'm free, I'll do a review on 20th Century Boys (both movie and manga).

I'm dying...

Dear friends,

This might be the last post in my entire life. =~(

The news from AVA (Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore) told me of my death.

As of 24 September 2008, the AVA has detected melamine in an additional 5 products imported from China. Two are flavoured milk and three are confectioneries containing milk powder as an ingredient. They are :
i) Dutch Lady Banana Flavoured Milk;
ii) Dutch Lady Honeydew Flavoured Milk;
iii) Silang - House of Steamed Potato - Potato Cracker;
iv) 徐 福 记 Puffed Rice Rolls - Butter Corn Flavour; and
v) 徐 福 记 Puffed Rice Rolls - Cheese Flavour



This brings the total number of affected products to 8. The other products that were earlier found to be contaminated with melamine are:
i) Yi Li Choice Dairy Fruit Bar Yogurt Flavoured Ice Confection;
ii) Dutch Lady Strawberry Flavoured Milk; and
iii) White Rabbit Creamy Candy

-Extracted from AVA


Cham! See the bold text from the extract. I was juz eating that 2 nights ago! And I do consume that shit regularly! In all different flavours some more! My fav was the tomato... wait.. it doesn't matter anyway. I'm dying!!!

Silang - House of Steamed Potato - Potato Crackers



So, dear friends. Dump those stuff mentioned above right away. Treasure your life. Don't die like me. =~~~~~~(

My peh kim dun need give too much hor. I got insurance covered. So my parents are okay le. Just give 意思意思 can liao. Oh! Can ask me for 4D too. I'll help you with that. Take care my friends.

Think I go drink more water and pee more often. *Pee* *Tink tink* (stones dropping out)

An update! + My birthday

Heya! Update of my working life!

I'm 2 weeks into my working phase of my life. So far still okay. Doing read ups almost everyday. Fighting zzz monster. MSNing. Facebooking. Well, the last 2 activities only came in during the 2nd week. 1st week, I kept them to the minimum.

The company has around 20 people in the workforce. If asking about number of females, there's only 2. 2 aunties, both are admin staff. The people here around multinational, from Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia mostly. Lunching with them every afternoon, but apparently they don't hang out together at night one. So ya, lunch is the only interaction time.

Although the reading is pretty dry and often made fight with zzz monster, once in while some of the stuff I've read did really interest me. Plus, a bit of hands on here and there is cool! After all, this is a field that I love so much. =) Passion Max! If you see me msning a lot, it just means the reading is getting dull. If the msning rate is less frequent, it means either I'm inside training, or I'm intrigued by the hands on. =)) Max Passion Max!!

1st week of working was pretty shagged out though. Not used to the timing yet. It's a 9-6 job, but I always reach early and leave late. Wayanging is part of the job scope for now. And I was totally addicted to the game, Spore. Playing till 2-3am every night, and gotta wake up @ 7am the next morning. Basically I had less than 6 hours of sleep everyday. Can only blame myself lah ah. =\

Here's something I'm pretty proud of! 1st week I only spent around 40bucks on transport and food! 40 bucks nia!!!! =)) Because I only exist 2 places during the first week, workplace and home. Even for weekend I stayed at home too. Hahaha... Too shagged to go out anyway. And there's this Spore too. =D But for 2nd week, I'm spending like no tomorrow like that. Cham... Never mind! 4 more days to wallet revival!!!!

Yup. Guess there's all to my working life for long. I'm still surviving, still maintaining my game addicts.


And ya, regarding my birthday topic now. Wanna take chance and thank people here.

Thanks to those who sent me birthday wishes! Thanks!
Thanks to the Swiss gang who celebrated with me on Tuesday. Thanks!
Thanks to the present from the Swiss gang. Thanks!
Thanks to the card Laiyi sent. Thanks!
Thanks to my parents who bought a cake and celebrated with me during last few hours of my birthday. Thanks!
Thanks to the WMW who celebrated with me on Saturday, Thanks!
Thanks to the sisters who treated me to boardgaming today. Thanks!

This year birthday was good. Thanks to the people around me. Made me feel I'm so alive. At least, in for a short term period now, people will still remember me. =~) (reference back to one of my old post) Thanks you peeps! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!

I don't wanna start working!

Pai seh... Let me fast forward my life a bit, though i wanted to post the happenings in chronological orders. By right the next post should be on my butt's ROM. =D Sorry ah.

Here's the latest update. I should be starting to work next Monday, tentatively, most probably, unwillingly. =(

This is how it happened.
25 Aug - Applied for the job posting on Jobsdb.
26 Aug - Called me up to go for interview.
27 Aug - Interview.
29 Aug - Offering me the job.
1 Sept - Acceptance of job verbally.

A bit fast eh? Some more that was only my 5th resume that was sent out, my 1st interview. Eh... Maybe I should wait on and go on finding other jobs. I might not know what other job opportunity I'm missing out. But, this job scope is really what I was interested in - smart cards. So, ya, going for my passion! GO GO PASSION! (Not the People's Association membership PAssion)

Alright, so for now, I shall enjoy my last week of baijia-ing. Time to put my post trip syndrome away. ENTER THE WORKING FORCE! May the force be with me.