you da suck lahz

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I HATE it when customer service staff give that kind of attitude like you owe them a living. I just got off the phone with the guy at the post office. I called to ask if I could reshedule delivery for some packages since Deary would be mostly at home tomorrow. The guy who answered my call was rather curt and I would say…rude. He asked me what kind of packages they were. I thought it would be easier for him to find the packages by the article number so I asked if he wanted them. He replied rather rudely that I just tell him what kind of packages they were. He asked for my name, address, and number (in case he couldn’t find them). After that, he said bye and hung up.

WTH. I’m trying to make your life easier by giving you the article numbers since that’s the way everyone tracks their packages. You don’t want them and you still have the DAMN CHEEK to be rude. KNN. FUCK SIA…what happened to “service with a smile”? Anyway, he called back a few minutes later and said I had to come collect them at the post office since the postman tried to deliver one package twice and no one was at home to receive it. He said “we can’t be trying to catch you all the time, young lady.” NAHBEH! Can’t you be nice about it even if you can’t redeliver it?

Waste my time talking to such people. This kind of people deserve to be scolded with Shine’s personal message. That is “lu banyak cheebye punya lahz.”

year of the moo moo

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Happy Chinese New Year!

Well, it’s almost here. Year of the moo moo, my year! Which sadly means I’m 24 this year. The years just fly by.

Opened one of our prized cans of abalone yesterday. Savoured every bit of it. We even saved the brine to use in my cooking.

colourful candy

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Thung Han came home from California and brought some candy for all. I was attracted to the colours and had a tough time picking out the ones I wanted. After I was down to 10 (6 brightly coloured ones, 4 dull), I couldn’t decide which 2 I wanted. Thung Han said I could have all, as in all 10. Yay! I gave Deary the dull colloured ones…heehee…I couldn’t help it. :laugh:

school is almost starting again

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My bad for the no-update. I’m currently enjoying the last few days of winter break. Come Tuesday it’ll be back to being a chao mugger. I already received some not too good news regarding one of the subjects I’m taking – ADV410. Prof Olsen emailed to “warn” us of the schedule which includes lots of presentations and projects. “Presentation” – I cringe when I see that word. My first reaction was to check whether MS317 is still available. No such luck. Ok, I’m stuck with this. Well, although ADV410 is just one of the courses I can take to fulfill the 5 required, I should think the material presented will be useful in the long-run.

I’m kinda lazy picking out nice photos for my blog, so just check out my Facebook page ok. I uploaded most of the photos from the winter trip. The ones in Las Vegas are not up yet.  It was an ok trip. I got to fulfill one of my wishes which is to see an aurora. Yay! Don’t think I’ll ever go back to Alaska. It is unimaginably COLD. 40 to 60 degrees below.

Speaking of cold, the heater in my apartment isn’t working too good again. I hate Ramshaw. I’m so glad that I’m moving out of this place in the following semester. :angry:

PS: I have good mind to yank open my window and cut off that stupid branch that keeps scratching on my window. :angry:

2009

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I know this is kinda late, but 明けましておめでとう! I ushered in the new year in the hotel in Anchorage, eating Nong Shim (super spicy cup noodle), and watching the countdown at Times Square, New York on tv.

I am now at Fairbanks. I pray that the new year starts off good. Please let me see an aurora. I don’t make new year resolutions coz I probably won’t keep them. I do have a few hopes though. One being reaching GPA 4.0, even if it’s just once.

I can’t believe I’m still blogging. I’ve been blogging since 2003? Although my archives show 2004 as the oldest date, I remember using one of those other free blogs before Diaryland. I didn’t backup those entries. It’s quite amazing to read my super old entries and feel like I’ve grown up and changed a lot over the years. I was 18 then, I’m now 23 (soon to be 24). I didn’t really give a damn about studies then, I’m now a kiasu Singaporean when it comes to grades now. I was single and hoping then, I’m now attached for almost a year and finally understand that love isn’t just a feeling, it’s so much more. As much as I dream of fairytale relationships and perfection in everything, it isn’t real. I’ve learnt that a relationship isn’t always a bed of roses; it can be pretty trying. There’s a bit of loving, a bit of giving, a bit of taking, a bit of patience, a bit of understanding, a bit of tolerating, a bit of reasoning, a bit of learning, and the list goes on and on.

have a moose in your backyard

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Welcome to Alaska! The land of below freezing temperatures, knee-deep snow, and moose in your backyard.

No kidding. We just saw one outside the hotel next to ours. It was happily munching on the vegetation just outside the back door of that hotel. Imagine someone goes out through the back door and…WHOA. :woot: I spotted the huge animal while we were making our way through the snow to the restaurant to have our dinner. Deary said it was fake, a mechanical one. Then, the animal moved one foot forward. Haha, it was REAL. Luckily no one went near to check out if it was real. The receptionist at our hotel says that although moose looks cute (for a big animal), they can give people nasty kicks. Unlike horses which can only kick forward or backward, moose can kick sideway.

Too bad no one took a photo.

fall 2008 results

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I tried for 4.0, got close, but still failed. *sigh* On a brighter note, I’ll be on Dean’s List again. 🙂

ATMS100 – A
EALC305 – A-
ECON103 – A+
JAPN201 – A+
MATH161 (same as STAT100) – A+

Total GPA = 3.94
Cumulative GPA = 3.69

PS: I ate a rather expensive dinner of crab and fish today, but I don’t care. It’s my Christmas present for myself and the best thing that has happened so far for the Winter break. If you didn’t know, I was feeling upset all along since our flight got cancelled on the first day of our trip.

stuck at kansas city

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Right now, am at Kansas City airport. Hooray for free internet! Not all US airports offer free Wi-Fi. Listening to Ayu’s “Days”. I could put that song on repeat mode. I love the lyrics, especially certain lines.

Anyway, trying to get out of a VERY horrible start to my Winter break holiday. We were supposed to be in Seattle on 21st. The night before, we found out our flight at 8am was cancelled due to the weather. We decided to drive up to Chicago anyway and get the next flight out. Alaska airlines told us the next flight out would be on 23rd. Alright, no way were we going to take that. Managed to get another ticket with Southwest airlines to fly out from Midway airport instead of O’Hare. O’Hare is FAMOUS for cancelling flights anyway. The flight was at 5+pm, so mind you, we had already wasted almost one day in the airport.

No thanks to the weather, our flight at Midway airport kept getting delayed. Finally, they announced the Seattle airport was closed due to bad weather. They hadn’t expected that much snow to be dumped on them and they didn’t have the equipment to clear it on time. Our flight was via Kansas City, but it was obvious we would be stuck in Kansas City since Seattle airport was closed. Decided to go ahead anyway.

Reached Kansas City at night. Checked into a nearby hotel. Called Southwest airlines to check when we could fly out to Seattle. Next flight out, 23rd night. Yes, that’s why I’m here. Our flight is at 7pm. Hopefully nothing goes wrong and we finally get to Seattle. Apparently, it’s going to snow again tonight. 🙁

So, how did we spend our time yesterday? With no car, we had to walk in the cold to nearby attractions which included the Harley Davidson factory and a doll museum. It was FUCKING cold. Don’t tell me 10-13 degrees Celsius is cold ok? These few days it has been in the MINUS range of FAHRENHEIT. That’s WINTER in USA (Northern part) for you. Haha, and we’re still going to Alaska. Yes, as if winter in Urbana-Champaign isn’t cold enough. I wish the weather wasn’t THAT depressing. STUPID LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS. :angry:

I got some cute earmuffs. Hello Kitty ones, though I wish they were My Melody. It’s kid size, but WTH it fits my head. I found something that looked ok on the Target website, but when I saw it at the store, it really didn’t look as great as the website picture. Found the Hello Kitty ones so got that instead. It was bought last minute, so I’ll probably get something better later. Anyway, thank goodness I bought them. At least my ears don’t feel frozen anymore.

new queen of angst

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Move over Avril Lavigne, coz Kerli Koiv is the new queen of angst. Oh well, I forgot that Avril Lavigne is no longer an angry lil’ teen. She’s now all pink and happy. Anyway, I was checking out Youtube for Kanon Wakeshima’s PVs when I happened to stumble upon Kerli’s MTV for “Walking On Air”. Some googling around and I found out that Kerli is Estonian and her album contains songs which were written when she was sad and depressed and songs which were written after that angry stage. So, back to Youtube and I found another one of her songs – an angsty one, titled “Love Is Dead”.

Anyway, the point is I think her MTVs have a certain kind of morbid creepiness. Just check out “Walking On Air”. It starts of rather cool with Kerli in what resembles ero-lolita outfits. Wooooo…I love her little black crown…and the doll. Then, the MTV ends off in a rather creepy way. I’m not telling how, you gotta watch the video for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwNszXsbMEA