happy cny

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Happy Chinese New Year to all my blog readers! The time to eat and get fat on all the goodies. I’m getting quite sick of eating after 3 days of full lunches/dinners. I bet we have tossed enough 鱼生 to ensure this year’s prosperity. Yea, I NEED MORE MONEY!!! But we all do.

Meeting all my relatives can be quite a happy yet tiring thing to do. I envy friends who are so close to their cousins. Sad to say, Sis and I are not close to our cousins. Mostly coz we don’t want to. There are the ones who simply lack manners. You don’t go to someone’s house and enter their rooms or touch their things without permission. Worse, use your dirty/oily fingers to touch things without permission.

Anyway, this CNY has proved to be a “painful” (literally) one. For the first time, I had mense cramps which refused to go away until today. What luck to get the “ribena falls” during this time. Pimples start popping out. To make things worse, I didn’t really have the time to shop for new clothes so I had to make-do with whatever’s in my wardrobe already. One or 2 pieces of clothing was new but the colour was unsuitable to be worn during CNY. So the whole time, I’m just feeling so unglamourous. Bleargh.

Now for some photos…


My uncle’s dog, Buddy. Year of the dog…his year!

Remember I posted a photo of my cute second cousin, Lee Ann quite some time ago. The little lady is now three-and-a-half and still extremely cute. Couldn’t manage to get a nice shot of her coz when Sis asked her to smile for a photo, she just said “No more photos, I’m tired.” CUTE!!!


Lee Ann, Heather and Uncle Ron. Lee Ann’s idea of a smile is to give the widest grin. So cute!


The nicest shot we got of Lee Ann.

KAT-TUN is going to debut soon! FINALLY! God knows what Johnny-san has been thinking all this while. おめでとう!!!

やばい! I forgot all about the Samsung funclub points. Today is the last day to use up the points!

I just checked. My ripway account has been deleted. So all images in old entries are now broken. Cannot be bothered to re-upload anything. Besides, some images have not been backed up.

a true geisha

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[edited at 1.15pm]
More comments on the movie. Michelle Yeoh was great. Gong Li was stunning, although her hair was often in a mess and she looked like she was drunk or high on drugs. Even the okasan talks like as if she’s drunk. The child actress who plays little Chiyo is pretty. I bet someone is going to take interest in her once she watches the movie as well.
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[edited at 3.44am]
Fed up of waiting for someone to upload the subbed episode of Gachibaka on clubbox, I decided to use my slower-download-rate alternative.

Can someone think of some way to finish using up my Samsung funclub points? They are going to stop the whole point exchanging thing so I have until 31 Jan to use up all 300+ points. I already did up some wallpapers and downloaded one game. Sis suggested I do more wallpapers of Massu. But I already have 2 wallpapers of Massu! I was thinking of aho Maru or Tacchon. Per, do you have nice pics of Tacchon or super aho pics of Maru?
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Watched “Memoirs of a Geisha” with Sis. Nice movie (although I dislike Zhang Ziyi for her diva behaviour). It’s so interesting to get to know about the customs of a geisha. Oh no…they are NOT prostitutes. The movie was more than 2 hours long. Some people got a little bored halfway, some fell asleep I think coz I heard snorts. Then there were the ignorant few who laughed at inappropriate times.

I met Xiuwei and Paul at Ajisen. She got a haircut and now sports a dolly fringe. So cute!

Something from Pwen’s blog…

Here are the regulations as passed on… The first player of this game starts with the topic “five weird habits of yourself,” and those who got tagged need to write an entry of their five weird habits as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next five person to be tagged and link to their journals. Don’t forget to leave a comment in their blog or journal that says “You are tagged” (assuming they take comments) and tell them to read yours.

1. I cannot sleep in the dark which is why I have a nightlight. (I don’t think this is a weird habit right?)
2. I have to arrange my pens to face one way in the pencilcase.
3. I make a sweeping motion on my shoulder when someone taps it. I just think it’s like bad luck or something.
4. I can’t think of something.
5. I can’t think of something.

Not going to tax my brain on deciding who to tag next. So whoever’s interested, just go ahead and fill this.

a hundred questions

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Something from Ling’s blog. I’ve got nothing better to do lahz…

1. Birthdate? – 10 April 1985

2. Place of birth? – Mount Alvernia Hospital, Singapore

3. Blood type? – O+

4. Height? – 151cm

5. Weight? – 43kg

6. Shoe size? – 4 or 5

7. Work? Study? – Now? Work. Which I prefer? Neither.

8. Childhood nickname? – I’ve been called “Dwarf” as a joke by a family friend. “Little Bullet” by my primary school teacher.

9. Average hours you sleep in a day? – Depends. But should be around 8-10 hours.

10. Time you go to bed? – 2-3am. Sometimes even 5-6am.

11. Any siblings? – Older sis

12. Eyesight – short-sighted, long-sighted or perfect? – Short-sighted

13. What languages do you speak? – English, Mandarin

14. What languages would you like to speak? – Japanese

15. Nickname on Messenger? – – elisia | realme – エリシア – (insert random thoughts/words/quotes/etc)

16. What do you collect? – I don’t know. There’s so much junk around. Hmmm…how about my tamis?

17. Model of handphone you are using? – Samsung X430

18. What is on your shopping list? – Clothes…I don’t really have anything new to wear for Chinese New Year.

19. Favourite t-shirt brand? – No particular favourite T-shirt brand. If the design’s something I like then ok.

20. Favourite cut of jeans? – Bootcut, any cut that doesn’t make my wide hips look too obvious.

21. Favourite fashion designer? – None

22. Favourite clothing label? – Giordano, OP

23. Favourite shoe label? – No particular favourite. As long as the design’s nice and I’m pretty picky when it comes to shoes.

24. Favourite bag label? – None, as long as I like the design it’s ok.

25. Most dominant colour in your wardrobe? – It’s a mixture…really.

26. Most worn-pair of shoes? – Adidas shoes which has peach tea and ice tea stains.

27. Favourite shampoo? – I love Clairol’s Daily Defense…nice strong smell, but it disappeared from the shelves a long time ago.

28. Favourite conditioner? – I guess the current one I’m using?

29. Favourite bath product? – None

30. Favourite facial product? – None

31. Favourite cosmetics? – Brand? Maybelline

32. Favourite art movement? – As in period? Cubism.

33. Favourite artist? – M.C Escher

34. Favourite gallery? – None

35. Favourite cold drink? – I LOVE OOLONG CHA!!!

36. Favourite hot drink? – Hot chocolate

37. Favourite flavour of ice-cream? – Strawberry, Mint

38. Favourite cuisine? – Japanese

39. Favourite sandwich? – Tuna

40. Favourite cake? – Black Forest. I have requested/forced my family to buy that for my 21st birthday. HAHA…

41. Favourite chocolate? – The kind with filling.

42. Favourite fast food? – McDonalds…I’m a traitor.

43. Favourite sushi? – Baked salmon maki from Sushi Tei.

44. Favourite breakfast? – Big Breakfast from McDonalds.

45. Spaghetti – tomato, cream or pesto sauce? – Tomato…pesto’s fine as well.

46. Beef – rare, medium rare, medium, well-done? – Medium

47. Restaurant you frequent most? – Uma Uma Men, Waraku, Crystal Jade

48. Best dining experience? – Can’t think of one.

49. Worst dining experience? – Can’t think of one.

50. Favourite book? – Elizabeth Wurtzel’s “Prozac Nation”

51. Favourite movie? – As long as it’s a chick flick…that’s ok.

52. Favourite artist writer? – ???

53. Favourite actor? – Can’t think now.

54. Favourite actress? – Can’t think now.

55. Favourite record? – So many favourites…all of S.H.E’s.

56. Favourite singer? – Ayumi Hamasaki, Kuraki Mai, Eriko Imai/Elly…

57. Favourite band? – Groups…S.H.E, NewS, Kanjani8, Arashi, MAX, Morning Musume, Berryz Koubou…

58. Favourite lyrics? – NewS’s “Zutto”, Lene Marlin’s “Disguise”…

59. Favourite TV show? – CSI

60. Favourite newspapers? – Nahz…don’t really read them.

61. Favourite magazine? – TONS!!! From English mags to Chinese mags to Japanese mags…

62. Favourite flower? – Peach coloured roses. Lilies (nice flowers but awfully strong scent).

63. Favourite animal? Dogs

64. Favourite country? Japan

65. Favourite street (in your country)? No favourite. I would like to say the place I stay, but recently the mall is often crowded with people and I can’t stand it.

66. Favourite street (overseas)? – No favourite.

67. Favourite sport? – Don’t really like sports. Sports to watch, ok. Me play sports, not ok.

68. Scariest movie? – All horror films are scary. And I don’t watch horror films.

69. Funniest movie? – No movie in particular. “Whole Ten Yards” was funny coz the fella couldn’t pronounce “fuck” properly and it came out as “fook”.

70. Favourite leisure activity? – Use the computer. For downloading stuff, playing games, whatever.

71. Favourite public transport? – Taxi…but no money, so forced to take the bus or mrt instead.

72. Favourite weather? – Sunny

73. Dream honeymoon destination? – No idea.

74. Computer you use? – HP

75. Wallpaper on your computer? – Hebe from S.H.E

76. Screen saver on your computer? – The Perfect Man

77. How many hours on the internet a day? – As long as I like/can use.

78. Favourite blog? – Peiwen’s

79. Favourite news site? – Don’t surf news sites. But sometimes check out Yahoo Japan News for reports on Johnny’s boys.

80. Favourite site? – My blog…haha…

81. First pet? – Some fish.

82. Favourite cartoon from childhood? – Snoopy

83. Favourite toy from childhood? – A toy monkey which is still sitting on my bed.

84. What makes you smile? – A lot of things.

85. What makes you cry? – A lot of things. Depending what…

86. Which celebrity would you like to be? no one? – No one.

87. What colour would you be if you are a crayon? – Yellow or pink.

88. If you can go back in time, which period would you want to be in? – Present

89. If you can have your own business, what would you venture into? – Slacking…no such thing right?

90. What TV program would you like to go on? – None

91. How satisfied are you with your current situation? – Neither satisfied or dissatisfied.

92. What would you rather be doing if you have a choice? – Just slack and do the things I like all day.

93. The most important thing that has happened in your life? – I don’t know.

94. What do you think you’ll be doing 5 years down the road? – Working

95. Most desired now? – Money

96. Biggest worry now? – Why am I not studying for SAT?

97. Most unforgettable incident? – Something that happened in poly.

98. New year resolution? – I don’t make resolutions coz I’m bound to break them.

99. Your motto in life? – Keep smiling.

100. Who do you want to answer “100 Things About Me”? – Anybody who wants to…

And something for Ling coz I never manage to catch her on MSN…

sexy island

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Hahaha…if you are wondering where the hell those 2 words come about, they come from Morning Musume’s “Iroppoi Jirettai” as featured in my present layout.

Guess (from the banner) which MM girl is my favourite? I have 2…but one is not in the banner. Correct guess wins a prize of…NOTHING. HAHAHA…

the randoms

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I ought to find some time to shop for new clothes and change the posters on the door (my S.H.E one has already fallen off). Oh yea…and study. Getting all lazy again. Like why haven’t we heard this same ol’ story? People are probably burning midnight oil to study and here I am still stuck at one paper with so many mistakes staring back at me. I’m not satisfied with the results but what can I do but blame myself for being so lazy?

Work was ok. My dear Aunty Hui Chuen was on MC. =( But Ming Shun (老大）let me have his crew meal so I got to eat the kakiage rice burger.

Getting hooked onto Maple all over again. Nahz, still stuck at a lousy level 14.

Gachibaka begins TODAY!!! Massu~~~

i love news

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Collected my stuff from Mise on Saturday. Made me damn happy~~~


This tour pamphlet costs a bomb but it’s worth it.



MASSU!!! *grinz*

But I still think the uchiwa from the Summary concert is the nicest. Coz his name is printed in kanji and not the usual romanji.


Back of Summary uchiwa

Then I got Aiba’s uchiwa for the 2005-2006 Countdown concert…


Had to order Massu’s uchiwa for the Countdown concert coz they didn’t have it on hand at the shop. Buying the tour pamphlet is worth it coz I don’t have to spend more money buying the poster. The picture of it is in the pamphlet. And anyway, buying the poster in Japan costs only 800 yen ($12) but ordering from Mise costs almost $40.

it stopped

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Yay! It has finally stopped raining and I can actually see the clear blue sky. After like 3-4 days of non-stop rain, even if it stopped for awhile, the sky was always grey. So dreary. You’ll be looking up and wondering “Oh gawd, when is it going to stop?”

And each time I was walking downstairs, I had to look out for earthworms so as not to squash any. Each time it rains like that, their homes get flooded so they’ll have to come out. It’s disgusting. One day, although I told myself to look out for them on the ground I’m treading on, I decided to get a little more curious and looked for them in the grass. I saw one and got so disgusted. See no evil manz…

Everyone keeps asking me whether I permed my hair. NO, I DIDN’T!!! It’s naturally (and horribly) curly/wavy. It’s just that I didn’t go rebond it this time.

Per wanted us to go to Japan so we could take part in the adult ceremony or at least watch one since it’s our year. Anyway, P and Kame totally stole all the limelight at the ceremony. Expected. There’s quite a few 1985 JE guys…P, Koki, Junnosuke, Tacchon and Jun Hasegawa. Kame, although he’s born in 1986 but his birthday is before March so he takes part in this year’s ceremony. The whole clip only focussed on the NewS boy and the KAT-TUN boys, leaving poor Tacchon out! It’s like history repeating itself. When Takki had his ceremony, he and Tsubasa stole the limelight, leaving poor Sho out.

english vs. mandarin

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Just met up with Per and Pwen. Had dinner and a long chat. It actually feels good chatting with them…well, after work today. Simply coz I’m more comfortable conversing in English. At my workplace, Mandarin is the choice language spoken. Even the people who are bilingual, it seems they prefer conversing in Mandarin. Or it’s obvious that their Mandarin is better than their English.

I think my brain can’t switch from language to language fast enough or something coz I’ll be conversing in Mandarin and when I switch to English, it seems to come out all weird. Ends up like I’m blabbering some nonsense and a puzzled look will be painted on their faces. Then again, I don’t think I’m that good at conversations. Sometimes I can’t find the right words to express what I want to say.

Everytime I try to talk something in-depth in Mandarin with Aunty Hui Chuen, I feel I’m just going one whole round before coming to the point. In my mind, I know what I want to say in English but I have to tell my brain “Now, translate each sentence in Mandarin”. Although at the end of the day, however “horrible” the conversation ends up, she gets what I’m trying to say. But there are moments where I can see that she’s starting to get a little lost.

Speaking of work, I was doing a little more kitchen work today. I don’t know when they have become so confident that I can handle the setter’s job (making normal burgers). Omg…you can tell which burgers were made by me coz the wrapping is terrible. Rice burgers are much easier to wrap as they are generally less “bulky”. I can handle when there’s not many people. Hey, I’m s.l.o.w ok… I’m always amazed at how the aunties can do it so fast, so effortless. But I guess that’s from experience.

有时候，我觉得我越帮越忙。I think I’ve said this many times, please don’t hold so much confidence in me coz I don’t think I have that same level of confidence in myself. Without your confidence, when I fail it won’t feel so bad coz I’m only answerable to myself. If not, I’ll feel terrible, like I’ve let you down…

tacchon smokes

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OMG…I’m going to pengz here…OHKURA SMOKES??!! *image of Ohkura crumbles*

I know I shouldn’t be too surprised that a JE boy smokes since it’s common for the Japanese to drink and smoke. And you’ll be raising an eyebrow, asking how come they don’t die of lung/liver cancer and still live to a ripe old age. But c’mon…TACCHON??!! Nice, handsome TACCHON??!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…

If Massu smokes too…that’s it. My heart is so gonna bbbbbuuuuuuurrreeeeeekkkkk…