Daji vs Annoying Orange

Sicong:
who's more irritating? orange or daji?

[Some mutual friend]:
hmmm
i don't know
so hard to decide


P/S: In case you don't know about the Annoying Orange, click here to view the youtube clips. As for Daji, you all know him already....

November 2010 Updates

*clear cobweb* *pat away dust*

I said I wanted to slim down and save money, but it seems like I ate non-stop and kept going out eat ho liao. Totally going in the opposite direction.

During my last medical review, Jimmy said my ankles okay liao, don't need to come back for review. Open consultation period, come again if got problem. Then my physio also reduce from once every 2 weeks to once every 3 weeks.

What else? The rest is the same... Oh! I bought a new kite! Err... nothing liao.

Let me just look through my Foursquare check-in and list down where I've been to for the month of November.

Location:
Home
Office
Bus Stops
ABC Market
JP - NTUC FairPrice Xtra, Bakerzin
Marina Barrage
Bukit Timah Market
West Coast Park
Kallang Leisure Park - FilmGarde
Singapore Expo
Cuppage Plaza - Pontian Wanton Mee, Kazu Sumiyaki
Liang Court - Medi-ya, Trung Nguyen Coffee
Mandarin Gallery - Wild Honey
Dempsey - Ben & Jerry's
Valley Point - Ice Cream Gallery
Sunshine Plaza - Victor's Kitchen
Sim Lim Square
Alif
West Coast Recreation Centre - West Bowl
Ju Shin Jung Korea BBQ - West Coast Highway
Bedok Central Food Centre
10 Dollar Club
Chinatown Smith Street Food Centre
Holland Village XO Fish Head Bee Hoon (Smith Street)
Jurong West Blk 505 Market
Khoo Teck Puat Hospital
Waanwaan Thai Restaurant - Wisma
ION Orchard
Terminal 3 - Popeye's Chicken
Harbourfront - Ya Kun Kaya Toast
VivoCity
Kbox (CCK)
Rail Mall - Cedele, Cafe Epicurious
Aburiya (Robertson Quay)
Koi Cafe (Clementi)
Fine Taste Eating House

Not bad... not bad... Some places I never check in only. Lol!

October 2010 Updates

I ought to blog at least once a month. And so here it is.

Nothing much has changed recently. No major hiccups in life, except this month got a lot of red bombs. But you see, that is the problem. Life is getting boring.

Without realizing,i think my life has slipped into a comfortable pace and pattern. Comfortable is no good. I mean too comfortable. I'll stop to proceed from there, applicable to both my social and work life.

Going physio go fortnightly. Still working in the lousy company. Mj every now and then. Always hang out at the same places, doing same stuff.

When I look back, everything looks the same to me, like I've wasted the time doing nothing. Bad bad...

Maybe I've been following crowd too much until I'm starting to lose myself.

Though I'm saying all this now, I guess I probably won't do anything else to it. Lol. I'm a nuah person. If it's fine, I'll just leave it as it is. That's just me. Okay okay.. I'll try to change. Change job, find more interesting and meaningful stuff to do.

But seriously, what's interesting there to do? Crap.. Why am I thinking of prawning now.....

Game Theory of Being a Gentleman

A link from Wenyao. Applying some game theory into how to be a gentleman. Pretty interesting, and a good advice.

The game theory of being a gentleman

At a cocktail party, I got up from the table to grab a finger sandwich.

My date said, “Oh, can you grab one for me?”

There were turkey and vegetarian options, so I asked, “Which one do you want?”

To which she smiled and replied, “Hmm, I don’t know.”

And there I was in the classic dilemma of trying to read a woman’s mind. I was expected to make this trivial choice which no doubt would have non-trivial consequences.

A true gentleman would know what to do, but that’s easier said than done. So I mulled over a few options before making a decision.


Option 1: flip a coin to decide

My first approach was logical. Surely if she had a preference, then she would have simply told me. Therefore she must have been indifferent, and that’s why she didn’t know.

If I took her literally, then it would be suitable to flip a coin to decide.

The most logical conclusion, however, is clearly the most foolish choice, for two reasons.

First, it is likely she did have a preference. When she said she didn’t know, she meant she expected me to know and figure it out.

Second, even if she truly were indifferent, flipping a coin seems cold and thoughtless. Even if I reasoned poorly and chose the wrong option, it at least would show that I gave it thought. And thought matters a lot in these kinds of things.

So all in all flipping a coin is a poor choice, and I came to the next conclusion.

Option 2: bring one vegetarian, one turkey

Like most guys, I felt I’d be safer if I took myself out the equation.

I thought: hey, I’ll just bring both for her and let her choose. I’ll take the one she doesn’t want.

Sound great, right? Of course, as every guy will tell you, this sounds better in theory than in practice.

We all know what actually happens. You bring both options and then she asks oh so innocently, “Thanks, which one do you want?”

It’s one of the many trick questions in life. On the one hand, it’s a grave mistake to admit you want one or the other. She might think your choice indicates one is better and she’ll press why you didn’t bring two of the “good” one. On the other hand, it’s even worse to say you don’t have a preference. She either won’t believe you, thinking you would have preferred one or the other, or she’ll spend several minutes deliberating.

If, eventually, she does pick first, and she truly loves what she picked, you’re still in trouble. Why? Because she might feel guilty that she took the one you wanted.

So again, a well-intentioned option, but it’s ultimately short-sighted.

Option 3: bring two vegetarian, two turkey

This is what I eventually went with, so let me explain why.

I figured this option had all the benefits of option 2 because she could pick either one she wanted.

But it had one advantage: the surplus of food meant she could pick either option without depriving me. Regardless of what she picked, there would be more of that same option for me.

Or, if she was truly undecided, she could try both and eat the one she wanted. And I’d still be able to eat what I wanted.

So I proceeded with this choice. I brought the plate to the table and she predictably said, “Thanks for bringing it. Which one do you want?”

I told her I brought two of each so she could pick either one without guilt. She was quite happy and took the vegetarian sandwich, and I felt relieved the decision worked out.

Of course, there was one clear downside to all of this. I was left with three sandwiches when all I really wanted was one. Since I’ve been raised not to waste food, I ended up scarfing down two extra finger sandwiches.

I was amused that after all that work, ultimately, I didn’t get what I wanted. But hey, like I said before, it’s not easy being a gentleman.

Work Rant

Today the force is strong. With every passing day, I'm starting to feel more and more buay song @ work.

My boss is selective at work. He picks the work he want to do, and pass the rest down. Then once he got sick of his task, he'll pass it down as well. So, me at the bottom of the tree, basically I'm just a shit collector.

He's a selective listener too. When he gets impatient, he'll just listen to stuff he wants to listen. He's smart, no doubt, but he always has his own thinking and wants people to think along the same as him. So when you are explaining stuff to him, if it's not according to what he has assumed it is, he won't get your point. That makes me wonder why he wants us to explain in the first place when he's not receptive at all.

That's my boss. Then we have the company management. Reorg here reorg there, and I still don't see any improvement. No bonus no increment, still expect us to work like a slave. Loyalty doesn't really work here. Well... we are loyal to money though.

This project has been taken away a lot of my personal life already. So what if this project is big money making? Do I get a share of it? No.. Last year that big monkey making project I also didn't get anything from it. Sucks. Enough of the sweet talking. Pissed.

RAWWWWWRRRRRRRR!! FML

NMNHNLM

NM:

Still no news on bonus and increment. In fact, rumour is that there will be none. Morale in office getting lower with every passing month. Mind you, the bonus and increment I'm talking here is for LAST YEAR performance evaluation.

Has been dragging since starting of the year. Don't know what's wrong with the CEO and the directors... If don't have, just tell us don't have. Don't just keep us hanging there like that. You think it's fun? Bloody hell...

And just today, I finally heard my team lead complaining about this too. Lol.. All along I thought he won't really complain on this. Usually he just say say nia. Today he was ranting on it.

Just paid a year of insurance. Poorer by 2k suddenly. Time to save up again...

NH:

No fish no nothing. Nothing happen for this area.

NLM:

My mother has been going casino way way way WAYYYY too often! A few weeks ago, I actually didn't really have the chance to talk to my mother for like consecutive 6 days. Okay lah, not really her fault. I was away at KL for like 3 days. The other 3 days, she either went casino or MJ.

What's the hotline for gambling counselling?

KTPH and Me

Recently I've been visiting Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. Nothing really that serious. If any of you can recall, sometimes you'll see me limp for a few days just out of a sudden. It's my left ankle (most of the time it's left, sometimes it might be right). Some have advised me to go see doctor and stuff, but all along I didn't want (read: lazy).

Then during my ICT during July, the day after my short outfield exercise, my left ankle started giving me problem. The day after got route march, thinking about chao keng a bit, so I went to see the MO. At the same time, I just decided to ask MO to refer me to see specialist. You know.. It's better to play safe than to be sorry.

So... that's the prelude, and began my frequent visit to KTPH.

On my first visit, the specialist diagnosed me with achilles tendonitis. Then the x-ray shows that there's some minor calcification of my achilles tendon. Nothing major. Chill...

This specialist referred me to the podiatry clinic to get some insoles for my feet. Then told me to come back for physiotherapy. I think I'm getting milked dry in this hospital. First consultation + x-ray is about 40+bucks.

The second visit, I went for the first session of physio. It was bad. Real bad. Immediately that day, my left calf started to ache. The following 2 days, I was limping badly. Cost me 30+bucks after subsidy.

And for next visit , I went to the podiatry clinic. Another doctor examined my foot, going through the same procedure of asking questions and demonstration of walking, squatting, tiptoeing, etc. Then this doctor gave me 2 choices of insoles - 1 off-the-shelf insoles costing around 60+bucks, or a custom-made pair costing around 200+bucks. The former can last for 6-9months, while the latter can last for 2-3 yrs. And yeah... I went for the latter one. Ka-ching!! another 200+ close to 300bucks gone.

And guess what?!?? Next week I have another session of physio. September I'll have my review with the specialist. *shake head*Oh yeah, that reminded me. I should start work more on the exercises and stretching that the physiotherapist asked me to do. Damn.... Currently I'm like doing them once every few days.

This new hospital overall not bad lah. Anyway, KTPH by right is to replace Alexandra Hospital one.

And my final comment on KTPH - it's bloody far.....

Gmarket Orders [100725]

Gmarket spree for the month of July! This time I split the whole batch into 2 orders, with an interval of 2 days.

The first order came in today, just an hour ago. Just to share share a bit.

Note: Don't mind the over-exposed pictures. I didn't take care of it, and was too lazy to retake after uploading to my desktop.

The Loots

This time the box came damaged like that. Luckily they always use bubble wrap and separate package inside for those fragile/sensitive items.

The content of the box.

Kat's 9 tees - SGD65.85 (with shipping fee)

Kat originally ordered 10 tees from this seller. But 1 of them was OOS, order cancelled. So it's down to 9. I must say this price is cheap!

Then Kat ordered another 6 tees. These tees are like 1.5-2x the price of the cheap tees you normally find in Gmarket. But look at the nice packaging! 2 combat ration kind of packet. Both packets are packed in another box.

For Garry one I supposed.

For herself one I supposed.

Kat's 6 tees - SGD102.38 (with shipping fee)

That's like 17bucks a tee. 1.5-2x of the normal tees, but the material is definitely better than those. And the design is special lah. So if you are in for better quality and design, you might consider this seller too. This is the tee's link, and this is the search results of the seller's other pages. Seller's name is "theshirt".

Rene's Top - SGD8.52 (with shippng fee)

Rene's Romper - SGD13.33 (with shippng fee)

This is Rene's first purchase from Gmarket. Ho ho ho. I finally managed to poison her. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!

The last item is Weijian's stuff. His stuff more sensitive, so not going to talk about it or post it. (Nah... not kinky stuff. Don't think too much....)

This order is dominated by Kat. Lol! Garry said because she missed all the previous sprees (Guys read: MO. As a guy, I should be using MO. In fact, I'm more used to the term MO. But my audience is female, hence, I gotta use the right terminology.), so she one shot order so many to make up for the losses. Lol...

Let's wait for the arrival of the 2nd order of this spree...

My Lame Lao Bu

I don't know how many of you have heard this story, but I'm going to broadcast it here.

Case 1
When govt sent out the letter for the GST Offset Package, my mum asked me how much I got. $200. Then she hinted (she actually said it out exactly) that $200 just nice enough for my dad and her go casino. -_-"

So some time during the week before, I passed them each $100 on top of their monthly allowance.

They went casino the next day.

On the following day, so I asked my mum win or lose. She started to blame me for giving them money go casino to lose money. =| Yes, I suddenly become the sinner...

Case 2
During one day of my ICT, my dad bought durian and offer some to me. Forgot what I did during that day, I was actually dehydrated and feeling heaty, so I rejected the offer. Got quite a lot leftover, so my mum finished all of them up because she lazy to make space in the fridge to store them.

The next day, my mum started to accuse me - because I never eat, she had to finish everything and kena sore eyes due to heaty! -_-" my fault again.. =|



I have a lame lao bu.....

Lost Time

My ICT ended last Friday. Honestly speaking, I actually missed ICT more than I missed office. In office, I need to use so much of my brain, thinking of solving problems, siaming and shooting arrowing, etc etc. During ICT, life is simple (though physically straining), I hardly even used my brain! I almost forgot I got 1...

But something bad about ICT, esp high key ones, 2 weeks spent in camp. Even though mine is a stay out unit, I get to go home almost everyday, I actually just spend most of the time lazing around and sleep. And yes, world cup too. My world wasn't really connected to others during this 2 weeks. It was as if my time has paused, my life isn't moving. BUT the outside world was still moving on!

After the ICT, I realized I'm missing out on a lot of updates of friends, lots of movies/shows not watched, tons of work awaiting for me back in office, and many more. The world seems so much different just after 2 weeks + 2 days.

My lost time.. I'm still trying to recover the lost time by hasten my pace.

First 2 days of work, I worked extra hard.

Chit chat with many friends, checking for updates.

Watched 3 movies within 2 days - "Despicable Me", "Toy Story 3" and "Inception"

Conducting Gmarket spree for July.

Still no time for my games yet... =\

Gmarket Orders [100526] [100529]

Can you imagine that? Just within the month of May, I've already done 5 sprees from Gmarket. Scary! I tell you, girls' money is really easy to earn.

Photos of Order [100526]
Photos of Order [100529]

THE LOOTS!!



Won't be showing everything, check out the photobucket albums above if wanna see everything. Will just be showing my own stuff and other interesting items.

Pam is unhappy with her untidy fringe, so... she got this!


Bangs wig - SGD12.68

Bangs wig! Apparently she said it's awesome. I shall see if she's willing to share any photo of her wearing that bangs or not.

And finally someone tried getting the bb cream.


BRTC bb cream - SGD37.79

It's Bx who got it. She claimed after much research from forums, that brand is one of the better one and it's considered cheap. And it comes with a free pore tightening care thingy. Cool.

Time for my stuff!!

First attempt to buy shirt from Gmarket.


Checkered shirt - SGD19.12

The material quality actually is quite good, but... the cutting is weird. Maybe it's those tight-fit type but I bought too big size. Oh well...


2 T-shirts - SGD19.49

The size is perfect. The material of the blue one is quite thin, hopefully won't spoil easily. The brown one is good.


3 T-shirts - SGD22.46

These 3 are nice! I like the designs. The material is pretty good too. BUT I BOUGHT THE WRONG SIZE! I swear I got the measurement right already. I'm supposed to buy XXL, but I selected XL instead! ARGHH!! Wasted. All 3 wrong size, and it's my own fault. Sucks.... I like that round fat face... T_T


Cap - SGD13.31

Nice? I'm reserved. -_-"

This time I also attempted to buy shorts.


2 pairs of shorts - SGD21.98

The design is interesting. Close up and see...


It's pigs!


and Astroboy!

The shorts are quite comfy. Haven't really worn them yet, only tried them on.

Last item...


Berms - SGD19.24

Finally I got a new pair of berms...........

Yeap! Finish summarising my latest orders.

I'm in the progress of conducting another order now btw. Interested parties contact me!

Bonus is Bonus (N.A to work)

Being emo isn't necessarily a bad thing. The thing is, when I'm emo, I'll think a lot. Hell lot. Yeah.. Then usually I'll gain some light outta it. This is what I've been enlightened recently.

Sometimes I'll start to wonder, "Why am I not the lucky one?". From stuff like going after girls to simple bo liao stuff like 4D and Toto. Then I realised something. Lucky one is just a few selected people. Instead, I should just be glad that I'm not the unlucky group of people.

When you spend some time looking around you, you'll find that there are people who might be encountering worse stuff than you. You ought to be happy that you are not in their situation or whatever. Being not unlucky is considered lucky enough. And anything good extra on top of your current life, it's bonus.

So yeap.. I'm trying to think positively now. After all, my life doesn't seem that bad after all. *pat on my shoulder*.

P/S: Bonus in life is 可遇不可求. But bonus in work IS EXPECTED! *play <说好的幸福>*

Gmarket rocks!

Quoted from an authentic email from Gmarket Global.

Dear Customer

Hello, This is Christina Koo from Gmarket Global.

You’ve won of June Top Blogger Event! Congratulations! J

We will create you 50,000won Gift Certificate as a reward-!

Please check this out through your Gaccount and enjoy shopping with Gmarket Global J

No joke. Seri0usly. Don't believe you go check here.

I've just cashed in the 50,000won into my Gmarket account. MUAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!

THANK YOU GMARKET!

And oh!

Look! I've been upgraded to VIP Customer too. That just shows how much you people has been buying.

Tsk tsk...

Backtracking the Highway...

Remember I said something about travelling down a highway, a super duper long highway where I don't even know where it will end? (this post)

Well.. I didn't reach the end. It seems the distance is far greater than I expected. And no one even knows if this way isn't leading to a dead end or what.

So.. yeah.. turning back now. Backtracking to where I started off and pick another path.

Moving on... Beginning a new journey.

PMS

That day, I was feeling kinda low. So decided to go for a spin. Drive drive drive drive, and found myself landed in the northern-east portion of Singapore.

Then I wondered if anyone fly kite at night at that area. Nah.. no one. If there's anyone flying, I would have joined in too. My kites are always ready in the car boot - the big sotong and 3x normal diamond kites.

On the way back, it's a killer. Imagine 3am driving at KPE and woke up at 8am earlier that morning, I tell you, it's no joke. I was in fact struggling to keep myself awake. But I'm still a safe driver, not like *cough*kzw*cough*.

That's just the start of my PMS. Sucks.

Today still no news of the 说好的幸福.

Work schedule is tight. (But I'm still slacking.)

More shit tasks dropped on me.

And my ever mind boggling issue is not getting any better, or maybe worse now.

When's a good time to stop? I don't know. Should I?

I know I got a lot of good friends. Lotsa advice and encouragement from you all. Thanks. But I reckon only I can decide for myself. ARGH!

I need a break.

Gmarket Orders [100504] [100509] [100510]

Too many Gmarket orders came in and no time to blog. So here's a quick one.

Photos of Order [100504]

Photos of Order [100509]

Photos of Order [100510]

Currently I'm still processing 2 orders. *stress*

This time I used EMS instead of DPD. The shipping is slightly more expensive, but delivery between Gmarket Shipping Centre to my house is significantly faster.

Order [100504] took 2 weeks to arrive. Some items were delivered to Gmarket Shipping Centre pretty slow. That caused some delay. Order [100509] took around 8-9 days. Pretty average.

Order [100510] took only 6-7 days. That's very fast.

Lemme just talk on my own items this time round. A quick one.

my 2 tees (XL size) - 10100won (sgd13.20)

Finally got the tee shirt size right. So I can wear either XL or XXL. Cheap and good. Going to get more.

my banc watch - 31900won (sgd41.40)

I love this watch! Coooooooooooooool watch! Banc apparently is some quite popular trendy brand. Pretty hot in Korea. The design is cute lah. Lego character.

my 2 rings (with free earphone) - 18100won(sgd 23.49)

I'm a sucker for rings. =) This time the blue is nice. Each time the gift never fail to impress me.

Anyone wanna join in for more Gmarket stuff? Drop a comment or a msg in the tagbox!

-edited-

Oh yeah. Found something useful for size measurement from Gmarket. Never saw it before. Click here!

Tips - Instantly Up Your Leave Days!

Actual conversation quoted between my colleague (SY) and me (SC).

SY says:

*from Jan till now, I've taken XX days leave + YY days MC...

SC says:

*fwah..

SY says:

*I still have ZZ days to clear before end 2010

SC says:

*i still got AA days to clear before end 2010

*i think

*and u play cheat! u got childcare and maternity leave!

SY says:

*remember to include labour day off-in-lieu

SC says:

*damn.. i go find a girl now..

SY says:

*wrong.. you should get a child now...

SC says:

*wa lao.. single parent.. the kid will have an imbalance childhood leh..

SY says:

*Then look for single mom...

*instantly add 6 days childcare leave...

SC says:

*lol

SY says:

*no need to wait for 10 mths.

SC says:

*im going to blog this down..

My First Gmarket Order!! [100419]

I was poisoned with this site (Gmarket) by my friend. Sucks. It's very poisonous. Highly contagious too. No known immunity discovered yet.

Lemme show you the loot first before I talk more about the site, its ordering system and stuff.


The box

A box to contain all the orders. I've an order of total 22 items.


The content

After unboxing it, the items inside were packed nicely in their own packaging too. I first opened my packages.


My rings from here. Price: SGD21.67 (KRW16530)

I ordered 3 rings. It came with 3 free girly rings. Need to find people to give them away to. Satisfied with the rings, and they fit nicely! I bought around size 22-23 as indicated on the page. Probably the only the blue one, which I was so looking forward to, was kinda disappointing. It was in a darker shade of blue, not the electric blue shown. =\


My tees from here. Price: SGD14.16 (KRW10800)

I tried ordered 2 tees to test for its quality and its size. I order size-L, and dang! Can't fit me. Ah bui too fat. I need to go 1-2 size bigger. Anyway, take note that each tee within the same shop might have different sizing. So double check, don't assume all tees share the same size. Exact measurement stated for size-L from that shop - Shoulder 43, Chest 97, Sleeves 18, Length 65. The shoulder was like a bit too small for me, and chest way too small. Anyway I got another model to wear it for me.


Front


Back

It's just nice for him, but a size bigger will be nicer. Thanks Steven for the free modeling. *applause*

End of my items. The rest I can't review much. Not my items and I can't possibly try them on.

Let's move on to Pam's stuff.


Pam's shoes from here. Price: SGD33.83 (KRW25800)

A pair of nude pink flats and a pair of black pointed heels. Glossy surface. Quality looks okay to me. Won't know until the owner tries them on. KIV.


Pam's dress from here. Price: SGD10.36 (KRW7900)

This dress is sweeeeet! And quality feels good to. *fondling with the material* No, just joking. I'm typing this in office, totally nowhere near the dress to play with it. -_-" But ya, good buy I'll say.

Now on to Anatoly's stuff. A short one.


Anatoly's dunno some kind of tights from here. Price: SGD64.38 (KRW49100) including domestic shipping.

Some dry-fit kinda tights, top and bottom. From deuters. Look good stuff. Didn't open it, scare I mess it up. He claims it's selling cheaper on Gmarket. Anyway, this shop doesn't have free domestic shipping, so you'll have to pay for it (an additional KRW2500).

Here comes the main buyer for this order, Daphne Kwan!


Dap's order #1 from here. Price: SGD12.85 (KRW9800)

She actually ordered 5 tees from here. But 3 items were cancelled. No reason was stated, though I think even if they state I also won't understand. They'll probably write in Korean. I'll just assume it's outta stock and they did refund me the money, so it's fine.


Dap's order #2 from here. Price: SGD16.65 (KRW12700)

I like the 2 grey ones, Charlie Chaplin and little red riding hood. The design is nice.


Dap's order #3 from here. Price: SGD37.24 (KRW28400)

The white one with the veil is nice too. The tutu skirt is cuteeeee. LOL! Wonder how is she going to match up for that skirt. Interesting. *pssssst* the other top was ordered wrongly by me. she said it's okay. but i still feel bad.... =(



Dap's order #4 from here . Price: SGD45.37 (KRW34600)

4x black skirts. When I took them out, I was like -_-". All of the same colour. Okay, not that bad. The 2 crumpled skirts look good. Material quality wise is pretty good too.

That's all for the loots. Shipping cost around SGD27.50 (KRW20900). Being all friend friend, and no one object, we split the shipping fee by per item. So end up each item cost around SGD1.25 for shipping. I'm surprised it's pretty cheap.

Since this is my first order, lemme share my experience, in case any of you interested in making the order yourself. Of course, you can go through me too. I should be doing an order, let's say... once a month? =\

Basic
Anyway... Basically it's like eBay. In fact, it's actually a subsidiary of eBay.
The concept is the same - sellers (shops) post up their items, you are the buyer.

It's a Korean site, so do expect lotsa Korean words. You can change to English from the top menu bar. BUT!! But... Most of the products are shown in picture files, and shop description also never translate. Your best friend while shopping there will be Google translator. Whenever I'm adding stuff to my cart, I'm practically doing figure recognition, matching the characters on the picture to the words in the list. And ya, I can recognise some of colours already, like white and black.

Price
Some shops put an extremely low price and that might be just a gimmick to bring you in. Because that price doesn't apply to all the items. That's just a base price. To calculate the right price of the item you want, you need to plus the additional cost indicated.
Look at the selected item from the list. It has a +5000 behind, so the actual price for that item is 4800 (base) + 5000 (additional). The shops usually have discounts. For the base price, take the discounted price stated. And wait! Sometimes the shops will have other special freebies or discounts stated in the picture between, which you and me couldn't understand. For me, I'll just let it be special bonus if there is. =D

Shopping cart and Checking out
Take note of this too. You can use browsers like Chrome and Firefox while looking through the shops. But when you want to add to shopping cart and check out, please use IE. Sadly, that site has problem with other browsers. Keep your purchase below 400bucks!! Heard that GST will be charged if they found out your purchase is above 400bucks.

International Shipping
When shopping, make sure that the shop does international shipping too.
Just check for the either of the 2 highlighted areas. This is the indication if they do international shipping or not. You can actually first filter for shops with international shipping when you looking for shops.

After you check out, you'll be prompted to fill in forms for the shipping. For shipping to Singapore, there are 2 services to choose from - EMS and DPD service. For this order, I tried DPD. It's slightly cheaper. The parcel left Gmarket central warehouse on 24th April, touched down in Singapore on 25th April, reach my house on 28th April. Maybe I should try EMS the next time, see if there's any improvement on the delivery time.

Payment
Payment can be made through Paypal or credit cards. But to use credit cards, I think there are some admin process to go through first. This is what I've gathered, not too sure how accurate is it. You have to scan your credit card and send it to Gmarket for verification first. Once they have verified and approved, you may start to use that card for payment. It's an one-time process, you'll only need to do it once. But since I already have a Paypal account, so I'll just use it.

But I realised I was charged as USD instead of KRW. Wondering if I could choose KRW instead or not. I felt like I lost some money through 2x conversion - KRW -> USD -> SGD. I'll figure that out again during my next purchase. Never mind for now.

That's about all. I might be conducting another order next week I think. Someone is pestering me to do it ASAP already. =|

Mayday Concert Aftermath Part 1

Last Saturday I just went for Mayday Concert. It's my first paid-concert that I've attended. Interesting and fun I would have to say. Though I was seated far far away from the stage, man, the concert was still pretty high.

Anyway, let's hit some Mayday songs, dude!

五月天 笑忘歌 MV


五月天 我心中尚未崩坏的地方 MV


五月天 突然好想你 MV


五月天 春天的吶喊 MV

All along I thought I heard a certain part of the lyrics wrongly. Until just now when I went to check the lyrics then I realized they were really trying to put vulgarity in. LOL! "看羚羊草枝摆"


Enjoy!

Reading...

Recently I'm back to reading books. I've been wanting to read the Percy Jackson series ever since I've watched Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief



The show might be a bit lousy. But why I like it so much? IT'S GREEK MYTHOLOGY! I'm a total sucker for that. Actually I prefer Percy Jackson to Clash of the Titans. Clash of the Titans is based on the classic and rewrite. Percy Jackson is a new story with ideas based on the classic. See the difference?

Anyway, ya, the story book is better than the show. The show was kinda shallow in the plot, but better in the story book.



It's a 5-books series - Lightning Thief, Sea of Monsters, Titan's Curse, Battle of Labyrinth and Last Olympian. It's books for teenager anyway. You'll probably finish 1 book in a couple of hours or so. I think Hairy Potty books are thicker.

Having finished that series, I thought I might try another story book series. So I tried Twilight last night. Regrets man, I tell you. It's like a girly kind of story. I think my tolerance lasted only until the part Edward took Bella out for hiking, then confession here confession there. It's as if the entire chapter is about them talking about love and nothing else. Yucks! Definitely not my type of story.

Now I need to look for another story book to read. Anyone has any recommendation?

Love: Sci-Fi (non-futuristic type, think Michael Crichton), Fantasy, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller.
Hate: Too much romance, Sci-Fi (futuristic, think Star Trek), Classics.