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-Is an English Language major undergraduate who likes to Take It Easy.

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Yesterday I went on an impromptu outing with my friend to the "Cats of the world" exhibition at The Arts House at Raffles. The 'exhibition' consisted of just two walls of pictures at the entrance. The pictures were all taken by Singaporeans located in Singapore or abroad. There were a few pictures I liked, like those taken at East Coast Park. The pics at the park turned out beautifully, even though East Coast Park's beaches are like dirty, and messy. And I didn't know cats roamed at the beach? There was also one really beautiful cat picture, one taken in a garden, with a black cat (the pic is in my friend's camera). It made me appreciate a black cat's sleek coat and elegance. I must admit, I have a prejudice against the 'ugly duckling'-black cat. Give me a white cat anytime, but, I now realize there's beauty to be seen when your mind is open to it.

And, there was one pic taken by someone my friend knew!! She said picture submissions were actually open to the public, and she said she DID told me about it, but apparently, I don't know what I was doing at that time, because I totally DID NOT KNOW, if not i'd have sent in a dozen cat pictures already!

Anyway, we took some pictures at Raffles, but I had a hard time setting my camera's configurations in the harsh sunlight. (Check out our Cat shirts :D) I better learn how to utilize my camera functions properly before I set off to Korea in less than a week's time. Also, I better do a crash revision in my Korean (and German!) cuz the two times we asked passers-by to take our pics, surprisesurpise, they couldn't speak English (much to my chatty friend's detriment, who tried to chat them up and much to my amusement when they couldn't say much) but only the languages i kinda-sorta knew.

I seriously don't know how to make my pictures clearer in the kind of environment I was faced with yesterday. I was messing around with the 'exposure' and 'ISO' options, but my pictures still aren't the better.




And in other random info, check out the online dance showdown between popstar Miley Cyrus & Co. vs ACDC (whoever they are. They're not the old-school rock band I presume)

It started with ACDC challenging Miley & Mandy with their killer dance moves:


And M & M retalitated:


It's all good fun, and pretty cool stuff. What with ACDC's freestyle dance moves and M & M's slick chereographed Youtube music video (I have always loved the editing work of M & M. They're pretty creative girls).

Apparently, the big danceoff finale is gonna be on June 10th, 7pm PST on Youtube. Stay tuned.



Lindsay Lohan loves Miley! I think their voices are so similar. But nobody can guffaw like Miley can, know what I mean?






^This is what I woke up at 5.40am today for. Aside from needing time to wash up, set up my laptop and checking out the 'venue', i'd say this was one of my most relaxed concert experiences. Can technology be any cooler? :D

In other news, I just bought a Rubik's Cube from the Action Toyz store at Harbourfront...why didn't I buy your usual neon-coloured one?...




...because the shop owner could not guarantee that it would not fall apart. -_-. How it goes is that my dad had orignally bought a Rubik's Pyramid, yes, a pyramid from the store. When he walked out of the store, he unwrapped the packaging to test it out. The pyramid disintegrated in his hands. So he went back to the store to change for another one. The salesperson said the newly changed one was fine. When he went back home, he passed the pyramid to my brother and I. I was the first to have a go at it, when I twisted the top, the whole structure fell apart in my hand, and we spent about 20 mintues trying to fix its internal workings but nothing worked. The next day, we went back to the shop, and I wanted to just get a normal rubik's cube, but the owner advised against it, saying she could not guarantee that the rest of the rubik toys were not defective (then take down all those on display already!). We could not get a refund, only an exchange of another good in the shop with the same price. I STILL wanted a Rubik's cube, so I chose this Winnie the Pooh edition. Hey, it's a different manufacturer.

Just a random thought:

This is my dream concert (breakfast+a cosy intimate gig with the man):



^Of course, to expect Mraz to play in a dance studio in Singapore would be bloody idealistic. Unless if he come play for my brithday party, he'd probably do it if I asked nicely?

BTW, his album is not out June 9th. It was out just on May 15th in Singapore :D Check out some of the songs in my playlist.




Just because Marie Digby mentioned that she watched this guy ten times (the Leave Britney Alone vid), i HAD to check him out too. Here's what I stumbled upon, Chris Crocker doing Britney's Gimme More. It's eerily funny, compellingly watchable.



Seriously, I didn't know whether to laugh or be freaked out...




Congratulations Pizza Hut, you have officially turned me off from your service for good. After taking a good look at their brochure for about 15 minutes, and deciding to order something special this mother's day, other than the usual '2 Canadian pizzas' order, I phoned in to their hotline and was very shocked to get a busy signal. I thought I had dialed a wrong number and checked the brochure again. It was having promotions from March to April 2008, so I was sure I hadn't dialed the wrong number. Why was I shocked? Namely because I had always ordered from their closest rival, Canadian Pizza and had NEVER come across a busy line before. And considering that Pizza Hut (PH) is much more established than CP (by many years), I was truly shocked that their operator system is still so primitive. I had started calling in at 5.10pm and was unsuccessful for half an hour (and who knows how long more if I hadn't switched to good old CP).

Anyway, after 10 minutes of the busy line, I went to their website to see if I could order from online (as their brochure listed the website close to their hotline number). No such luck. Ok, I admit that their website was pretty cool and sophisticated with glamourous pictures and animated features, but they didn't have a system like McDonald's where one could place their orders online. SO, i moved on to CP's website, although the website was a little messy visually and were lacking in pictures of their food, and certain information (like, what exactly is a Sheperd's pie?? what's the difference between that and lasagne?), I still managed to think about my orders and got ready to call them. I didn't like all the combo meals they offered, they didn't have friendly 'family meals' for 4-5 members, so once again, I chose to order their trusty 2 4 1 deal with triple side orders: cheesy chicken balls (it sounded so funny when the operator pronounced it quickly), potato wedges and Lasagne (for mum of course). :D

And of course, I could get through the line in a second. And was also pleasantly surprised that free drinks (I'm guessing two bottles of soft drinks) was going to be included in my order.

Canandian Pizza, you rock for your impeccable service and I promise to continue only ordering from you. *Muacks*

Labels: canadian pizza, mother's day

I shall start blogging again, since it's my hols and yeah, I love writing though I may be lazy. As some famed writer once said, "I love writing, it's only all the paperwork which I have to get through." Or something like that. I had a postcard with that quote, stuck to my room's wadrobe door for the longest time and it's now somewhere buried in my new room, which I have just switched with my brother's. Speaking of my 'new' room, we'll come to that later, in time to come. Right now, I wanna talk about my Friday! :D Oh yeah! It was TGIF for me in many ways. First, I felt totally totally....different from the past 3 weeks. Whether I was feeling an inner calm, a sense of peace, freedom, elation, I was still trying to get used to the fact that my exams were FINALLY OVER. No more being so restricted, paranoid, fustrated from doing nothing but hitting the books and eating and taking short breaks. It was a necessary evil to discipline yourself from doing anything other than studying for your papers and catching up on your academic content which you hadn't been doing throughout the semester....you get my drift.

For my exams this time round, there were 2 days where I had to do 2 papers in one day, and on my last day (Thursday), I had only a 2-hour break in between. Anyway, enough about those evils. Let's move on with the relatively good stuff.

Omg, in the morning my mom had woken me up early at 6.30am to make us take the train with my dad, on the way to the Immigration building at Lavender to update my passport photo. I thought I could sleep in and give some excuse, but no such luck. She had her reasons as we shall see. The train was so packed, there was even this really horribly smelly Indian man who walked past me. He literally smelled like garbage, thank god he chose to stand somewhere quite far away. I happened to take up a free seat at one of the stops and there was this guy who was dual-tasking, listening to music and busy working on his PSP. Playing games? No, everytime I kept peeking over at his screen, I saw that he was reading lines and lines of words, so I think he was probably reading an electronic book. Pretty cool. He was really absorbed and if one didn't know better, you would probably have thought he was a gaming nerd from afar. But he wasn't. haha
I was listening in to my Marie songs, her soothing songs really woke me up gently. And I read Mypaper newspaper and was pleasantly surprised by the mini boxes they had for every articles which translated difficult words to the other language (Eng-Chi or Chi-Eng). If only they could deliver the free paper to my doorstep, I'm sure I could improve my Chinese quite fast :D Hmmm, which reminds me, maybe they DO have online versions up on a website?? If I recall, they DO (I visted it once before for a school project), check them out: http://mypaper.sg/ awesome, awesome. The electronic versions save the earth too....in a way.

Finally arrived at Lavender station and crossed the road to the ICA building and as I walked closer and closer, I saw barricades and a long line of people queueing up....................not only that, that were MANY MORE people behind as you walked past, one had to walk on for about 3 minutes to get to join the end of the line. "Who are all these people who would do something like that?", I wondered. And now I was one of them.