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Friday, October 24, 2003

Bye, thanks for all the potatoes.....
Reading through my case study for service marketing........ I realised that I don't understand a thing.........[Sel........ HELP!!!!!]
This totally cuts it for my marketing career........ I think if i ever decide to take up a job in the real world, I'm aiming for something in the HR sector....... if this is the stuff I have to do for marketing....... I will totally DIE............
Candle, if you get me through this case I swear I will edit all your project reports for you..............

Script Writing Competition
Anyone know anything about a script writing competition advertised on Central? I heard about it from Candle but when I checked out their website I couldn't find anything about it. She was suggesting I write a script based on all the wacky love lives of my friends out there. While the idea is tempting, I think I better ask for opinions before I actually write it. This is just in case in the event the script gets selected for filming, I don't get some crazy mob outside my house demanding to drink my blood.
Then again, it might make stars out of all you guys. What you think? ;)

Another thing i can't imagine is who the heck is gonna act as you guys. I mean, is there any actress who can play yenn's [cool-ness]? hahhaha......

Thursday, October 23, 2003

Erotic Prawns
Don't laugh, I actually got this off the Little Plastic Castle... [to J9, where the heck do you find these things??]
Prawnography
And if anyone actually gets turned on by the photos..... You're sick....
All for $200....
I just came back from the Small Claims Tribunal. Thank god it was only a legal consultation I had to go thru and not a full-length hearing. I think I'll die if you put me in the witness at the Practice courtroom with that damn Bee buzzing in my ears....

Incidentally, I would like to make another public condemnation. [Gee, there's a lot of that going around in my blog is there?] About 4 months ago, Quet, Me and other friends made an order for shirts at this company called Al-Shapael at Bukit Batok Industrial Estate. Half the stock came to us wrong and they told us they'd make a refund. It's been 4 months later and no money in sight, and as a last resort, we all went to the Small Claims to make a claim. If anyone ever wants to order shirts, you better seriously consider not going to this company, especially if you end up talking to a little Bee....

It may be a bit over much to make a complaint like that on this blog, [especially when the amount in question is so small] but I think what these people did is rather unreasonable. What's so hard about giving us our $200 back? We called them up continuously, [or rather Quet did] and they gave us a different reason each time for not giving us our money back. Worse, one time the Bee even scolded Quet over the phone for the trouble she gave the company. [gee, and whose fault is that?]

I don't know why is it they dilly-dallyed with the payment for so long, or whatever financial disaster is facing the company, but sure as hell, I'm sick of waiting for the cash and irritated at the trouble they made us go through. If anyone ever needs shirts, remember that name, and don't go there.

Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Of "Someone" in my life
As a prelude to the below, I feel I have to get some things out of the way...

There is NOTHING between me and Julian.

There has NEVER anything between me and Julian.

If it ain't happened in 5 years,
There will NEVER be anything like that between us.

I had to say this, because even after so long, some people still don't get the message. [You know who you are! Don't make me name names! You there, with the guilty face!]

There, now you can read on. ;)
Life, love and more...
So depressing..... another of my friends got attached [i tink... :p] and my singles club just got reduced by one... When is it gonna be my turn....
[Everyone out there rooting for it to "happen" with a particular guy can just forget about it happening. Once and for all, it ain't gonna happen]

Sometimes I feel as if I'm one of those people who are destined to be chronic singles. [The kind that ain't gonna get attached, no matter what] I'm already 22 and I've never had the chance to meet a guy who was willing to go through all that kind of effort to make me like him.

I know that I tend to be too much of an introvert. Sometimes I'm willing to just walk or shop by myself down Orchard, or through the library, cos that's what I've been used to all my life. Also I don't really take the initiative to meet people. I don't like to walk into a room where I hardly know anyone, I feel weird, I feel out, I feel ignored and I want out of there. It's times like that when it's better for me to be alone rather than force myself to socialize when I don't really want to at all.

But other times I wish I had someone in my life. I look at my attached friends and I feel this *twinge* of envy, cos they managed to find someone who was willing to care for them, to love them and to be there for them. [here you insert the whole rich/poor/sickness/health/till death do us part bit. Or is it too early for most of you attached folks? ;) ] I love my friends, [as friends] and I'm really grateful for everything they've done for me, but.... I donno, ultimately love and friendship are two very different things to me. They may be intertwined, but they're still two separate pieces of string.

Over time, I've complained about my single status to a whole bunch of people [it seems], and I've had some good advice from some people I know. Though I know they come with good intentions, I can't help but wonder:

I know everyone has someone, [as Jie likes to remind me] but I just wish I knew where mine was and what the heck he's taking his time with.

I know that I should not change myself to attract more guys, [as SZ n Turtle have told me] but I wish I knew what was keeping them away. [Like, is my breath that bad??] And,

I know that good things come to those who wait, [I tink this was Jie too] but I ain't getting younger so how long do I have to wait?


I like my [singlehood] freedom, but I'd like someone to share it with too.
Congratulations to my friend Quetzal, who is now flying in the Sky..... heehee.... [though I'm still wondering how it all happened...]

Tuesday, October 21, 2003

I'm tired.....
I'm so sian these few days... the deadlines are all either this week, the next or the next and that means that the urge to slack off when I can becomes even stronger. I woke up at 430 this morn and I still don't know why, not like I was having bad dreams or anything.... [maybe an indirect stress reaction] went around the whole day with this tired feeling and the need to sleep...

Something about me: I can't survive in the long term with less than 8 hrs of sleep a day. I mean, just sleeping 6 hrs in one night would make a zombie me the next morning. How some pple can do this over the long term is beyond me ken.

Now it's almost 11pm n I have to wake up at 6 for class with Ho-beng again... knowing me, i'm gonna be stoned and ho-beng is just gonna talk on and on and on like ariston.... *hai*
Your Browser Matters!
Note to all: I just realised to my great, disturbing horror that apparently what browser and settings you use will Greatly influence how you see this page. So basically, if you don't see it in 3 columns, you're not seeing the whole picture....I only realised this when I used my family PC instead of my laptop to view it..... [cartman voice]Godammit!
Any Feedback?
A friend of mine, Q, [I don't like to mention names online. You never know who's reading this] said that though it's amusing to read my crap, it'll be a bit more fun if I gave other people the chance to throw same o' that crap back in my face. While I wonder about the wisdom of that, anyone who ever wants to comment on anything on my blog is free to mail me and I'll put ur crap up here together with mine. [boy when I read it now that sounds a tad egoistic.....]
The madness is slacking down...
Gods, finally the website for my project is lookin' a lil' more decent... after all the !!@#$% I went thru for it... anyway guys, if u're curious, u can check it out at Comics Realm I won't mind the comments, but note that it's still Heavily Under Construction

Monday, October 20, 2003

HTML Madness Again??

Yea, I ain't sick of it yet.......

Allow me this opportunity to announce 2 things:

Firstly, stylesheets are one of the most IRRITATIN' things ever to be invented by people

Secondly, I'm officially condemning the "SAMS Teach Yourself HTML 4" book. Both the "24 hours" and the "10 minutes" editions. Why? Because of insufficient information, insufficient help, and because the title is just plain misleading. If the CEO of "SAMS Teach Yourself.." is by some stroke of justice reading this blog, I want to officially say that YOU NEED NEW WRITERS!!! PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO WRITE CLEARLY, IN A MANNER THAT ALL HUMAN BEINGS, [and not just the ones that are already HTML Gods] CAN READ AND UNDERSTAND! DO U KNOW THE MEANING OF THE WORD 'UNDERSTAND'?? Do u fully ken what it means?? Because if you did, YOU WON'T BE PUBLISHING SUCH DAMNED BOOKS! As the great Scott Adams once quoted in a Dilbert cartoon, MAY THE HORNED DEMONS OF IXPAH SMITE THEE WHERE YOU STAND!

Gee, strangely enough I feel slightly better..........
MOre HTML Madness

The saga continues......... it's been hours since I've had any food........... My eyesight is blurring......... but the hypnotic trance of the pixels since remains on me............... i see everything in code..................... ....................... even now i'm unable to move from my chair.................... sunlight hurts my eyes.................... the open blue skies outside stands as a mockery to the freedom I am deprived of................... Vile, insensitive sky! I defy thee! Ye hear me?? I don't need you!! Not when I have my prrreeecccious code................. yeesssss............ my prreeettty html code............... heh heh heh........................
HTML Madness

the HTML is driving me crazy............. I wish I could just wipe all that damn code off and start off on a clean slate.......... argh..............

the only thing stopping me from doing so is the thought that I might make everything worse and end up throwing it all in the dustbin in disgust. [metaphorically, that is. The thought of my laptop in the dustbin... *shudders*]
In case none of you can see the blogs done by my other friends on the right, i'm sorry, I'm tweaking the code but nothing seems to work.... hai....
Friendster

Jus how big is this friendster thing getting?? Seems like everybody I know is getting on it one way or another and I've had ex-classmates whom I've never heard from since graduation adding me to their friends list. Good god! How far is this getting? Almost it seems like some people are just adding friends for the sake of upping the no of friends on their list. [to all my friends on friendster, this is totally not meant as a personal attack on any of you all, but after I've surfed around, some of the profiles listed over 300-500 friends! How the heck can anyone know that many people??]

The principle between friendster, as I see it, is sorta the same as the online dating services. You get to surf people's profiles, get to know more people, and the added advantage is that these people know your friends, so the hazard of meeting some 50yr old paedophile online is greatly reduced. You also get to catch up on people you haven't seen for ages, if you find them on the server and add them as friends.

But the hazards also abound. Imagine a guy emailing me, cos he finds me on friendster and he's the friend of a friend of a friend of a.... you get the idea.... past a certain point, the connection gets way too weak... and you won't know if he's some rapist-serialkiller-paedophilic-pervert.

Also I don't think this thing solves the basic problem in socialising. It gives you a chance to know people, but ultimately, it's whether you actually wanna make that move of sending the message to this guy from washington who knows a friend of a friend of a friend of yours. [yes, in my personal network, there actually is such a guy]. And no, I won't do it, cos there is no freakin' way I can know, and really know what a person is like online, and there is no substitute for the real deal in this case. Probably even if I do work up the nerve to send an email, I won't even meet the guy till much, much, much after-many-credibility-checks later. And when I'm certain he's no pervert. :p
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Sunday, October 19, 2003

Thank god my webpage project is starting to look a little more decent.... now all I have to do is tweak the colours here and there....

I realised that my sense of colour really sucks.... currently the page is a weak, plum colour, with bright yellow headlines. Gods.

Should I try for Cleo?

If you've bought the latest issue of Cleo with Jewel on the cover, you'd see a contest inside to Win A Job At Cleo! [Most pple take out an ad in the classifieds. These people turn it into a kinda American-Idol thing on paper] The contest states that you have to tell, in less than 25 words, why you want to work at Cleo, and the staff there also hope you look good in pink.

Hm, not exactly the usual kinda career ad.

My friend is urging me to try out for this, but I've had this feeling of inertia regarding it. Truth to tell I am actually quite interested in the post. After all, part of the job scope, [having a good command of English and able to spot a typo a mile away] I've actually had experience in, courtesy of my friends who keep asking me to edit their reports for them. [You know who you are! :p] And working in Cleo definitely has a higher cool factor than, say, 'Lim Hup Hoe Pte Ltd'. [FYI, I don't know any Lim Hup Hoes, alive or deceased, and meant no insult or injury to anyone out there.]

But I still hesitate. Why?

Maybe I'm too used to my lifestyle. I'm too used to studying, and grades and the entire school system. Partly, the idea of the outside working world freaks me out, especially with some of the horror stories I've been hearing from the wage monkeys already out there. [Ooo-ooo! Aahh-aahh!] I'd rather stay in places that I'm familiar with, and by that I mean home, bed and orchard. Not NUSSUX.

I don't even know exactly what it is I wanna do for the rest of my life, and I don't wanna make the mistake now, [when I'm young, single and free] and regret it for the rest of my life. If I don't know what the heck is in front of me, I'm not gonna just go charging forth. [you can see that when I go blading, i sure as HELL am not gonna just race down the slope if I know there's something ahead which may lead to physical injury. Unlike a friend of mine... hahaha!]

Of course, this means i'm probably gonna be jobless for a damn long time. I wasn't even intending to properly get a job after graduation anyway. I wanna travel to Europe in June. I wanna take up classes. I wanna reach the epitome of slack-dom and become the Ultimate Slacker Goddess and I wanna do it now while I'm still young, [relatively] innocent and have all the time in the world to waste.

Because I know that once I get started working, Singaporean living standards mean that I'd have to keep on working for a damn long while. And I don't want to devote my life to some huge, uncaring corporate entity that looks at me as a monkey and throws peanuts to me in my gilded cage. I study business. I know it sucks.

So in order to save my soul from corporate damnation, I think I'll hesitate about my future just that while longer.