mentality of a child

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Coming from an English-speaking family, speaking in Mandarin is quite a hassle for me. But…QUICK! Congratulate me now. I managed to answer a phone call with a Mandarin speaking customer. It’s not the usual call-in to activate a policy. She asked about the terms and conditions so the phone call was slightly longer. I managed to answer her questions mostly in Mandarin with just a few English words.

Sure I can read Mandarin, I’ve just finished reading a Mandarin book by the way. But reading and speaking the language is totally different. I can always feel myself grasping for the right words when speaking in Mandarin. And when I can’t find the right words, I have to go one big round to explain something simple and most of the time the other party ends up getting more puzzled.

Continuing from yesterday’s post… Another thing that makes my grandparents’ stay quite unpleasant for Sis and I is the fact that grandpa does not know the meaning of privacy. I caught him opening and rummaging through the tray of pens in my drawer in the study room. Fine. I have nothing super secretive in that drawer so I just tolerate it. Next, I saw him touching Sis’s things at her computer. Now, Sis is VERY particular about people touching her things and putting them back in the EXACT position. I couldn’t tolerate it anymore and told Dad. Dad told me I have the right to tell him off but do it in a nice way.

I went to grandpa and told him not to touch Sis’s things coz if she found out, she’ll scream at him. Guess what he said? He just mumbled that he didn’t touch her things. DIDN’T TOUCH HER THINGS! WTH. I just saw him touching her things and he just denied it…or rather lied about it.

That’s why we dislike grandpa touching our things. Not being selfish or disrespectful. When we catch him doing something wrong, he usually denies/lies about it. Not only that, we dislike him touching our things coz USUALLY he spoils/breaks it. To support my statement…

Later on, Sis checked the stuff on her table and found that her pen had leaked and there was a small pool of blue ink on the table. Now, the pen always had the cap on and it wasn’t faced down coz using one’s common sense, you wouldn’t leave it uncapped and faced down coz the ink will leak. WHO ELSE? Sis started screaming at grandpa and what did he do? Just gave a little laugh. WTH. It’s CERTAINLY NOT FUNNY ok. If she didn’t discover it, the ink might have permanantly stained the table. :angry:

To think that an 80 year old man would have the mentality of a child and the lack of manners. Hmph.

Recently, somebody pissed me off bigtime. I never really liked her in the first place. I mean, there are times when she is nice but it irks me that she thinks she is so damn matured when she’s not. Worse, she went to brag about going clubbing to someone younger than her. For what? You want that younger person to praise you till the sun don’t shine? Is going clubbing such a BIG DEAL? Is being able to consume alcohol such a BIG DEAL? Tell me it’s such a big deal after you have to face the toilet bowl and end up almost puking your guts out.

Please love yourself a little more. Dress decently. I have never come across anyone who thinks her great assets are meant to be shown off like that. Even Ling complained to me about having to wear shirts coz there’s a gaping hole when she lifts her arms. Everyone is so afraid to expose themselves while you are wanting to expose yourself. Sure, guys may be attracted to such things but you’re also inviting the wrong kind of attention.

Bottomline: You were given a brain. Use it wisely.

one quick post

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Making a quick post as it is already late, my grandparents need the room to sleep. I’m not being disrespectful or anything but with them around, I can’t seem to finish what I want to do on the computer. I don’t have much time in the week. After work, I only have a few hours minus doing all the daily necessities like bathing and eating. Weekend, I go out on Saturday and much of the daytime on Sunday is spent studying.

I have yet to change some stuff on my blog, upload and send photos etc. Still haven’t made a post on Wawa’s birthday, Chloe’s birthday and the KDF charity concert yesterday.

Let me just make a few brief statements on S.H.E coming to Singapore. I was to tired to go to their autograph session on last Friday coz it was at IMM. That’s to freakin’ far. Sunday, they were at TM but needed a pass to enter. I checked out TM’s site for information on the pass and I almost cried. Spend $30 in TM to redeem for a pass! 😥 Too late…by then, all the passes sure snapped up. Anyway, to console myself, I told myself that at least I got the concert ticket for their concert next year. 🙂

Embarking on a new week. Motor insurance training on Tuesday and Wednesday. *sigh*

And now, my computer is being a bitch. Getting kinda retarded…

your name in my notebook

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Sudden thoughts.

I didn’t blog about watching Death Note on Saturday!!! How could I have forgotten something so important?! :glare: Heh, so Sis, Jie Min and I caught the movie on Saturday. It was good.

Sis and I agree that Light (藤原竜也) reminds us of Ohno from Arashi. That’s coz his face is round, just like Ohno. Sis was kinda disappointed when she saw who was acting as L. That woman lahz…didn’t believe me when I told her the guy is the one acting as Aya’s senior in 1リットルの涙. Haha, she said he looked so cool on the poster.

L is a pretty weird but cool person. Somehow he eats nothing but sweet food. Doughnuts speared on a BBQ skewer. Sugar cubes stacked up tall and later dropped into his cup of tea. Tea stirred with a lollipop. Who would have thought of all these?

Anyway, after watching the movie, it makes one want to threaten anyone who irritates you with “You had better not annoy me or I’ll write your name in the notebook.” Death of an unknown cause. No previous medical history but a sudden heart attack. Sweet.

The God of Death loves eating apples. Do you?

Random thought #1: I shall add this under my wishlist… Dining in 小老板’s shop in Osaka with Per. I hope Per can save up enough money by next year so my wish can be fulfilled before I go off to study for 4 years (another ‘hopefully’ case). *cross fingers and toes*

Random thought #2: Seishun de FEVARrrrr! Mucha kucha na FUCHAaaaa ga ii ne~~~ Mike is cuter than Golf!!! :rofl: Since yesterday, DBSK’s “Rising Sun” and GYM’s “フィーバーとフューチャー” has been on my mind.

Help! It’s the attack of the little ants! A lot of ants appearing in my study room. Wonder where they come from. PK, can you tell your friends to stay away?

moving along fine

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I think I’m coming along fine. I just completed a week of my no-life shift. Each team is taking turns to work late each week from now till Dec.

Next week I’ll be going for motor insurance training. Good luck to me. Moving forward from the comfort of working on the easiest type of insurance – travel insurance.

Quite interesting. I get to learn/experience some very interesting things. Like yesterday, I got a call from a lady saying that Finnair cabin crew are on strike, she has to cancel her trip and wants to know whether she can claim for the her prepaid hotel expenses.

Our department also got warned of a very interesting lady. I tell you, this woman is DA BEST. She has always been getting extra 5% discount from her agent. So she expects the whole department to know about it. Best part, she will call up to TEST people. And she will scold you if you don’t know about it. Poor Elly got scolded by her. This is being totally unreasonable. How can the whole department know? There will always be new staff coming in, can’t expect them to know everything right? WTF. So suay to kena scolded by this kinda people. Imagine being suay for 3 years for NOTHING lahz. :angry: :angry: :angry:

Pffffft.

Happy Deepavali to all my indian friends.

And Happy 21st birthday to 7ners’ dear Pwen. We miss you.

ne, Nana

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Once again, I’m on a NANA high. That’s coz I just found out there’s a second part to the movie! WOOHOO! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it’ll be too abrupt to end with Hachi (Komatsu Nana) crying coz Takumi is standing right in front of her.

The actors/actress for the characters Komatsu Nana, Ren and Shin have changed for the second part. Hongo Kanata is the new Shin. WHATTTTTTTTT?! That small boy in Hinokio? But I think he’s a good replacement. At least he looks younger to fit the role. Only thing is I can’t imagine how the innocent looking boy is going to look not-so-innocent, having more of a bad boy look. As for the role of Hachi, I can’t understand why they chose to replace Miyazaki Aoi. Her replacement, Ichikawa Yui looks cute but somehow Aoi has this irresistable sweetness to her.

The theme song will be sung by Nakashima Mika (Oozaki Nana). This time, the song is written by Takuro of Glay with the lyrics by Ai Yazawa. Haha…Sis was saying how come it’s not Hyde again but once she heard it’s going to be Takuro, she was appeased. Of course the other song featured will be sung by Yuna Ito (Reira).

OMG! It’s not even showing in Japan yet but I can’t wait for the dvd to be out!!! *bounces around* My wallpaper has been changed. My start page has been changed. All to do with NANA. Woot! :woot:

And I have to thank Ling for influencing me. *bows*

trying to adjust

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Come home, supposed to adjust back my sleeping time. Couldn’t. Was running around shopping for last minute presents. Running off to birthday chalets. Only left me more exhausted than ever. Finally found the time today to actually sleep in and get my internal clock back on track.

Grandparents from Malaysia have come down to stay with us coz grandma’s health problems need to be addressed. Her doctor in Malaysia sounds like bad news to me and my relatives in Malaysia haven’t got the time out of their busy schedules to tend to her. Mum took her to the same eye doctor my family members go to.

Anyway, with my grandparents here, it also means less computer time. So, photos won’t be up till later when I get round to it.

I have a million things to do.
1. Photos to be uploaded.
2. Desktop to be cleared.
3. Hard drive to be cleared coz it is running out of space and the stupid warning keeps popping up.
4. Emails to be answered. Especially tcg trade requests all thrown under pending.
5. Pile of stuff to be sorted in my room.
6. Register for SAT and prepare for it.
7. Look through the papers I collected and seriously consider about school.
8. My dress needs to be altered.

Randomness…
1. I’m in love with long and knee-high socks.
2. I’m looking for another pair of denim shorts.
3. Make-up gives some colour to my face so I look better in photos.

my bags have come home

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My bags got delivered today. Almost missed the guy coz I went out to town to buy some stuff. While on the mrt, he called to say he was outside my house. Luckily he was nice enough to wait for me.

Happy to see my bags and goodies. And my precious lipbalm, especially at a time when my lips are all dry and crackly. 🙂

Tired. My sleeping time has gone haywire. Trying to adjust back but have a million things to do so everything gets disrupted. Kinda frustrated actually… :sleep:

お誕生日おめでとう Red Ranger.

left behind bags

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I called up the airport to get news about my bags. They were left behind in Chicago. As what I guessed, didn’t get tagged on although they were supposed to be. Anyway, they are on flight UA895 and on the way home. I’m not sure which one but I hope it’s the one that’s landed already at 11+pm so I can get them in the morning.

I WANT MY BAGS WITH MY GOODIES AND TOILETRIES~~~ 😥

We bought a (useless) step-down transformer for the takoyaki machine. Almost burnt out the transformer, luckily we got our next-door neighbour’s help and managed to save it. WTF sia…wasted 68 bucks on a stupid thing and no takoyaki in the end. Probably have to throw away the batter which means half a packet of flour wasted and eat up the prawns either as cup noodle ingredients or fried with mixed veggies. Whatever lahz… :glare:

good to be home

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I’m home now. But the worst thing happened. I don’t know where my checked-in luggage ended up. It was supposed to be tagged on to each flight so I wouldn’t have to recheck-in and would just pick them up in Singapore. The airport staff was nice though. She helped me make a report and well, we’ll just have to wait. Tough part is that all the goodies are in the checked-in luggage. 🙁

My lips are awfully red and dry. Haha…I have natural lipstick! Have to keep licking my lips now. My lipbalms are in the checked-in luggage. *sigh* I hate the air in the plane. I always (for some reason) try to keep my requests for water at a minimum coz I don’t want to keep disturbing people by excusing myself in and out to the loo. Thus, I have to suffer later. 🙁

It’s good to be at home. I was almost dying of boredom in the plane. Then lugging my really heavy hand-carry around in Narita airport before catching my connecting flight. I managed to find the magazines I wanted. Can’t say the same for the single/dvd I wanted. I can’t imagine myself sitting through the long plane ride again…

I’m not sure if this is the definition of jet-lag but I don’t feel tired now. So I’m doing all the little things I can. Like upgrading my version of WordPress. And I did like the stupidest thing. I deleted the config file. Worse part is that the database password is randomly generated coz I used Fantastico to install WordPress. So I was panicking all the way until something connected up there and I had the most brilliant idea. Anyhow, the problem is solved else I wouldn’t be blogging already.

The bug in the comments has been resolved. Whoopee!

the non-academic bit

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And here comes the not-so-academic part…

With all the school visiting more or less done, I can spend more time on other things like sightseeing and shopping. Not to mention nursing that nasty cough of mine. Yea, caught the flu bug from my cousin, Ethan.

I got a good deal from the clothes I bought. Basically coz the shops are getting rid of their summer stock and bringing in the fall clothing. Their summer clothing is most suitable for Singapore’s weather. Plus, I shopped on their Labor Day and there’s a thing called Labor Day sale.

I was able to find tees among the clearance stuff of Hollister and Aeropostale. It is heaven here for Singaporeans who love American brands like Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister, American Eagle, Aeropostale – brands that you can’t really find back in Singapore. And no, I’m not taking orders this time. Simply coz the last trip when I took orders, my luggage weighed 18kg and I had trouble moving it around. Good thing was that my family members were around to help out. This time, I’m alone. I wouldn’t want a super heavy bag to squash me flat. Haha, you can put in requests only if you’re a family member. So be very jealous now if you don’t fall under that category. *evil laughter*

I was a little annoyed about finding jeans though. Being small and short, the junior jeans are too long. I can fit into kid sized jeans but no thank you to my hips, I am now classified as an in-between. Kid size 14 is fine on the thighs and legs but not ok at the hips and waist. Kid size 16 is fine on the hips and waist but kinda baggy at the legs. There was this pair of kids Levis jeans that I loved but coz of the problem above I couldn’t get it. ARGH!

It’s a wonder I get through everyday without make-up. I brought almost the whole collection of my make-up but I haven’t used anything. Here, people seem to be more relaxed about how they look. So I can walk in the streets without make-up and don’t feel like I just came from Mars. Anyway, I bought a ton of Maybelline stuff for Sis and a tube of pink lipgloss for myself. One more to the 2 tubes I already have. But I swear by it coz it gives both colour and shine. The lazy person’s way of lipcolour.

I was also looking at the whole range of Smackers lipbalms and lipglosses in Target. So tempted to get some but I’m not too sure whether they’ll agree with my skin. And why would I need more sticks of lipbalm? I don’t eat lipbalm ok. Lipgloss? Well, already have 3 tubes now… But they have like some really amazing flavours. Like the one I bought for Sis, A&W Root Beer flavoured. Then there are Skittles flavoured, M&M’s flavoured, Starburst flavoured, Jell-O flavoured…cool huh.

Yesterday, aunty took me to see the Amish homes. It’s fascinating to see how people can live without letting modern technology be part of their lives. I will talk more about these people when I get back home and start posting up the photos.

Today, went to Spurlock Musuem but couldn’t really finish looking at all the exhibits. Wasn’t feeling too comfortable…psst…ribena falls. :glare: So I guess we’ll go back there another day.

Oh and finally I get round to the birthday greetings. Uchi’s on the 10th and Yasu’s on the 11th. お誕生日おめでとう貴くんとヤス!!! Pink ranger, we await your return to K8. Hope you are doing well and that darn geezer Kitagawa will let you come back. It’s been too damn long. Blue ranger, hope you haven’t been bullied too much lately. :laugh: Ah, I would have shared some pink and blue ranger birthday cake with Per and Sis if I was back at home. Anyway, I hope the rest of K8 had a nice celebration for both of you.

お誕生日おめでとう愛ちゃん! (The girl that’s featured in v13’s banner.) May you get prettier each day. 🙂