Resolution no.1

Keeping my surroundings in order so keeping my life in order will be easier.

DUST BUNNIES!!!

The sight I saw after trying to pick up a hair clip that had fallen behind my beside table.

Spring cleaning is in order!

Crazy drivers

Don't mind me, had to rant.

Drivers who don't give way or honk unreasonably when a learner has the L plate prominently displayed should be taken to the garbage dumps and shot point blank. Period.

Had a lesson today and got honked for stupid reasons not once, not twice but THRICE!!

One: I was at the traffic junction, waiting for my turn to turn right. When I reached the stop line, the green arrow had already flashed for some time, so if I turned, it will be reckless driving on my part, so I stopped and just nice it turned red. I am so smart. Bloody male driver behind me honked. WHAT-IS-YOUR-PROBLEM? You can't turn on a red light! Go ahead and die. You are just noise pollution!!

Two: I stopped just before the yellow box because plenty of cars up ahead. Container truck turned in from side lane into yellow box and we waited for the green light. Nothing wrong about that. Car behind me honked again. Had to fight the sudden urge to reverse straight into the bloody male driver. Not my car anyway.

Three: My lane up ahead will be blocked by stationary cars another hundred metres or so, so I signaled right for the longest time so I could enter the next lane. Bloody male driver was talking on the phone one and a half carlengths behind me. Wanted to let him pass first but he was just cruising at the stupid speed still yapping. So I turned into the lane. And he honked.

Die die die!!

Amen to this

Stupid

I should have known. I had resolved to no longer involve myself. What am I trying to pull?

*Goes back to my books*

Boy strikes again.

The young boy with his darling hamster strikes again.

He started naming his classmates. Jokingly, I asked:

Me: Is one of them your girlfriend?

Boy: No.

Me: Aw, why?

Boy: Because I have boyfriend.



(HO SHIT!)

Don't wait

Had resolved to try my utmost to work things out. To not let anything become an obstacle. Had resolved to give my all this time.

But missed the chance.

Waited for too long.

No more chances left for me.

When will I stop looking at ethanol?

How to lose weight like that?

Decisions

Have finally decided. Now, as of today.

All that is needed is time.

And a hell lot of coffee.

いいんだ

そろそろ時間です。もう厭きれた。そうしよう。
しつようないなら、消えたほうがいい。
最小そう思うがよかった。

自分の道、自分で歩いてればいい。

悪いは自分自身だから。

IT IS HERE!!!

Be still my heart. :D

Deliver it already!!

I <3 one piece

I love the seiyuu in this moment.

ブワアアアーーー　そんなにますぐ俺お見るんじゃねえええ。。。。
Buwaaaaa---- sonnanimasugu ore o mirunjaneeeeeeeee......

LOL!!!!

OOORRRRHHHH!!!!

We came home after dinner and Dad goes straight to the wii for a little 'exercise' before bath. When he tested for his wii age, he got a 54. (He usually gets 20ish every day ever since he learnt how to use the controller.)

Today, his bowling was a mess. Usually he gets 200 odd points but he got 170. The wii decided to only deal out a -1 score.

Surprised, he commented: Eh? Today so nice? Only minus one point?

(I decided to pull his leg) Me: Because today you are 54 years old mah.

Dad looked as if he got a revelation from the bosses up there: OOOORRRRRHHHHHH!!!!!

Me: EH!!! I only joking la!!!

Dad: But makes sense leh!!

Me: .......



Why are parents so gullible sometimes?

Kelly?!

Funny story of the day.

Zel, my 3 yr old niece just got a bolster donated by my brother, Gary. When she asked who gave it to her, her mom told her "Gary jiu jiu" (Translated: Uncle Gary.)

Zel: Orrr... Kelly jiu jiu ah!




*dies laughing*

Heh heh.

Exams over.

Finally.

Sleeping in late, catching up on lost anime episodes and buying games to play.

Just bombed $250 on games.

Now to see if I can get my ass off bed to start WriMo-ing, but I don't think I will do it this year. Don't have a decent enough story in my head. (Thanks to too much Bach.)

Next up,

-Learn Violin
-Complete 100% on Xenosaga series, FF X, FF X-2, FF XII and KH series. (I never played all the subquests and got all the items, and yes, it is my OCD.)
-Think about Diploma in Piano (Not really looking forward to that.)
-Get that driving license.

I LOVE BEING ALIVE!!

Too Lazy

At Fi's house right now, but I am too lazy to swim. All I want is to roll back in bed and sleep for another 5 hours.

Cola can kill.

4 yr old kid. (Yeah, I know. Me and kids.) The boy was talking about a pet hamster at home.

Me: *while drinking cola* What color is your hamster?

Kid: White and everyday I call it "Darling".

Me: *Chokes on coke.*

The cutest thing I have watched in awhile

Another one

Mom managed to dig out another hat (from gawd knows where.)

I wonder if this one is a winter beanie.

And yes, it has a matching scarf.

*Acts cute*

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Mad Hatter?

I bought this on impulse (and because I walk around a lot these days under the hot sun).


Mom went Yunan and bought back this:


And another one:


AND ANOTHER ONE!

I am the proud owner of 4 hats (which I'll probably never wear.) The hats are really cute though...

WHY WASN'T I THERE?!

Awww

Decided to blog this rather random event because I haven't updated in awhile.

Walking to students' house today. At the void deck, I suddenly saw 2 of them. (I teach 3 sisters.) When I asked why they were doing at the void deck when their lesson with me starts in 2 mins, they replied,

"Waiting for you here lo."

Awwww.

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15 more days to G8 theory exam. Am starting to panic. Have postponed all un-neccessary events to study. If I go MIA, you know why.

Another random urge. To buy or not to buy a cheap 2nd hand Casio Digital Piano?

Another crazy dream

Prince of tennis (yeah, that anime) 's Atobe and Sanada were having a tennis match with spades. When it didn't work out, they were so mad that they dug each other's eyeballs out with the spades.
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Since when did I become all CLAMP?




Someone analyze my dreams already.

Blogging during lunch on iPhone

@_@

Dad just did a 5 sec solo Tyrolean-ish gig when he won a game in wii-tennis.

ooookkkkkaaaayyyyyy......

Crazy Dream

Derek growing seaweed in Uncle Tham's toilet.

The double decker bus that turned into a rollercoaster mid-trip.

The grass covered expressways.

The sprinting strawberries.

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Whhhaaattttttt????

Time to get one?

I think it's time to get a proper study table.

Reason: I came home at 11am, had lunch and started studying on the bed. Next moment, it is 6.40pm and I am on the same page.

Malice

Hanging Bamboo Poles at 12.30 AM

Letting the Microwave beep at 1 AM

It's nothing but malice.


If you want to be a housewife, then be a useful one. Night-owls are not excused.

I don't get it....

The only time I close my windows is when I sleep at night with the A/C on or when I'm going out and it is raining. That has been my habit for 24 years, any idiot would have learnt it by now. Unfortunately, my open windows is directly in line with the master bedroom's toilet, so the loo is wide open for the whole world to see unless one closes the loo doors.

I was in the living room playing the piano.

Dad in my room, windows and doors open. He was playing the wii.

Mom went into the loo to bathe, came out STARK naked and started screeching bloody murder at Dad (and later me) for not closing MY room windows because the neighbors could have seen her.

Because of the 'scare', she start verbally abusing me and Dad and started picking on me for the littlest ridiculous things. Like why I hung my jacket at the chair, so untidy. (I WAS JUST USING IT 5 MINS AGO YOU STUPID WOMAN!)


I don't get it.

WHY IS SHE SCREAMING AT US WHEN SHE WAS THE ONE WHO WALKED OUT NAKED??!!

(A woman's mind is a pain to understand) Heh.

P.S this is NOT the 1st time

Your boyfriend?

Imma take the chance that Blogger is werking to mass upload photos. I had this photo as the wallpaper on my iphone and when I was checking my schedule during a lesson, one of the kids leaned in to peep at the phone. When she saw the picture, she went: Your boyfriend?

I nearly died.


Photo in question:


I LIKED THIS PHOTO! LOL!!

Mom's donations

I forgot to post this up earlier. While at Batu Pahat, we dropped by an auntie's relative's home. While slacking a bit, something caught my eye.

Me: Mi, that thing looks familiar....

Mom: Ya lo, ours last time, I give it to them.

Me:.....

This is the object in question:
No no, not the TV, look beside it....
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WHAT THE HELL IS OUR OLD KARAOKE SYSTEM DOING IN MALAYSIA?!

Road Trip to Batu Pahat

Mom and Dad have been pestering me to go with them to see the "VERY BIG FISHES! CAN TOUCH ONE!" So I agreed to go with them today. About 1-2 hours drive from the JB check point, we arrived at the chinese temple where the fishes are.




While they were praying and all, I was just poking around and I saw the VERY BIG FISHES! And DAMN ARE THEY BIG!




The fishes here are famous for giving people good luck if they manage to touch them, that's why everyone is snapping their backs into two trying to touch one. Not sure if it is true, but Dad managed to stroke one from head to tail in his last trip and he has been quite lucky. Even a few aunties also struck 4D.

Anyway, those fishes look so menacing, I just HAD to touch one myself. Managed to stroke one and contrary to what they look like, they are so gentle~ and their scales feel like silk~ So nice~

After that, we hit a shopping mall, got some barang barang and headed home. 11pm. Sleepy.

Happy holidays everyone.

No Goal?

Here's a scary thought: There isn't an end to piano playing is there?

I have been doing a bit of playing, a little here and there to clock in some time in between stoning, teaching, gaming, reading and what-not. Today while waiting for my next student, I dabbled a little melody out of my aging piano and it hit me.

How does one tell if they have really mastered a song?

I did learn a few pieces, but I'll never call them mastered. Too many mistakes and the fact that I am still reading from sheets tell me as much. And the songs I have learnt are just but 0.00001% of the many pieces out there.

No end in sight.

Some people say I play well, others, (including me) think I play crap.

Welp, a step at a time, I suppose it doesn't matter whether I can master the songs I want as well I hoped, but if I tried, I think it should be good enough.

Time to consider changing a piano. Though I love this Kawai, it's getting on in age. Booo....

It's the genes

The source of my trademark 'muahahaha's and sadism has finally been revealed. Dad suddenly went "Mua ha ha ha ha" when he did well at wii-bowling today. And he apparently enjoys making his wii AIs tumble and somersault after the wii-tennis ball just for the fun of it.

Sadist.

Even I am not that bad.

Wii-bowling

For Mas: Wii Sports has tennis, bowling, baseball, golf and your favorite, boxing. XD

Dad is addicted to wii sports: bowling, we've been having midnight bowling sessions the past few days. (I prefer the tennis myself.)

Midnight bowling in progress.

(Yep, that's a 'long kang ball, by dad. Heh.)

Weekend bowling in pjs.

Mom dislikes the wii, says it makes her sweat. -.-'' (But that's the point, ainnit?)

I think I need to buy another controller one of these days. Dad keeps whacking the main controller against stuff when he bowls. I think he forgets he's holding a sensitive piece of equipment instead of a ball. *heartpain*

I'm turning into a geeky toy lover!!

Piano Apps

My adult student showed me an app on an iphone that makes her practise her note-reading speeds. I thought that was pretty handy so I started mass downloading piano related free apps. Easy way to search is itunes > app store > power search > piano

Here is a quick rundown of which to keep and which to trash.

Amazing Piano Free: Interesting but useless in real-life practice.

Any Sound Piano: Just 14 keys. I have no idea what it is for.

Burp Piano: Don't bother.

Drum Piano: Umm... don't bother again.

Farm Piano: D.B (Don't Bother).

Virtuoso Piano Free: This is more like it for fiddling around with, but with a range of only an octave per page, it is hard to play anything.

Let em play lite: Again, D.B

Meow Piano: D.B (Why did I dld this?)

Mini Piano: Again, just 8 keys. D.B

Musician's Practice Journal Free: Interesting, keeps track of practice time and you can record the songs needed to be practised, complete with BPM. The paid version might have more stuff packed in.

Piano Music Reading Free: This is fun, goal of game is to name all the notes in the set time. Many of them are ledger notes. Good stuff for an app.

Pocket Piano Song Universe Lite: Interesting, though a pain to play the songs.




Conclusion: Pianos aren't meant to be put in an iphone, though some apps are useful in the very least for students. Musician's Practice Journal and Piano Music Reading are particularly note-worthy.

Bigass

Gigantic candyfloss yesterday. I'll never look at sugar the same way again.

Why Gin should be banned from IT fairs

Because new toys are just more fascinating than diamonds.


And diamonds won't make me laugh as bad as when I was trying out the wii boxing with Dad.

I didn't even have that on my to buy list: (Laptop bag, iphone all in one car charger, portable harddrive, mac and new iphone pouch) Ended up itching for:

Eneloop batteries and charger (SAVE THE EARTH!)
Cheap in-earphones
wii/ps3 games (even though I had neither console)
1 TB external harddrive (It was only going for $149!)

Did get a silicon cover for my mac keyboard ($15)
and a cute Belkin skin for my iphone ($8)All in all, a very fun day. Though the crowd was a little insane.

P.S Mom's being all emo. Think she feels that Dad lets me have my way too often. But hey, at least I pay for my toys. Half of wiika (I'm calling it that) anyway. (I'm sharing this with Dad) Heh heh heh heh heh....

The things kids say

Lesson with a 7 year old. While having theory, he asked:

"Do you have a car?"

Me: Nope, I don't have a car.

Kid: Your family have a car?

Me: Yeah, my Dad.

Kid: What brand is it?

Me: A Toyota.

Kid: Is it a Corolla?

Me: Yeah, Corolla Altis.

Kid: Altis very popular.

Me: Yeah. (A little spooked now.) What car does your Daddy drive?

Kid: Daddy's car is a Volvo S60, my uncle drive BMW 320I

Me: @.@ ooookkkkaaayyyy.... (Has no idea what the model numbers are.)

The kid then added solemnly. "My dream car is a Porsche, 2 seater, no kids."




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LOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOL!

Pea Brain / 256 MB memory

It is official. I got my pea sized memory from my dad. Lemme explain.

I am phobic about waking up late these days, I have a regular alarm clock, my phone is set with alarm, curtains above my head are open to make the sunlight wake me up, I even set my mac to auto-start at 6am so the glare from the screen will hit my eyes. But there are days when I am so stoned that I concuss for 8 hours straight.

Which is why I have another back up plan, Dad. Usually Dad's single knock on the door will have me scrambling out of bed. Trained from the times when in Sec school, he will wake me 15 mins before the bell rings. (I swear, it is true.)

Had to wake early for morning lessons in school so I specifically told Dad 3 times the night before to 'wake me up ah. Really, must wake me up ah."

And he clean forgot.

When I pounced on him asking why he didn't wake me up, his face had the 'Oh crap!' look.

LOL.

"Next time, you want me to wake you up, stick a piece of paper outside your door."

Nice.

P.S I am not lazy, my brain just doesn't function when asleep. I have:

-Taken the batteries out of the alarm clock while I am asleep
-Tried to turn off the alarm with my handphone/tv remote/dvd remote
-Mistaken my handphone alarm for a call and answered it
-Mistook my lamp for the alarm clock, unplugged it and stuffed it under my bed

And the list goes on.....

(I even once found my alarm in my wardrobe. Yesh.)

Madelaine

Baby cousin on my Dad's side.



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So cute~!

Funny 1st Driving Lesson

Had my first driving lesson today. Think maybe I'm the first student to make my instructor, Mr Lau, laugh this much. But he is EVIL!! Purposely make me freak!! After a quick rundown of the controls, we started driving slowly, while he told he how to change gears and all that. 15 mins later, he went, "Okay ah, you drive ah, I read newspaper" (he said jokingly). I went "HAAAAHHHHH?!?!?!??!?!?" Then he started laughing.

And I thought I was the only one with a twisted sense of humor.

While trundling around-

Mr Lau: You never play those driving games meh? Gran Turismo all these.

Me: Have la, like TEN YEARS AGO! (I was panicking. I have learnt that I cannot talk and drive at the same time, yet.)

Mr Lau: *laugh*

5 mins later:

Mr Lau: You really never drive before meh?

Me: Never la! Go-Kart have ah.

Mr Lau: *laugh again*


The funniest thing I remember was when we were at the traffic lights and I was concentrating so hard on looking at the lights that I didn't notice I was inching the car forward. (There was another car in front of me.) He went, "Okay, brake. Brake. OKAY BRAKE." Freaking out, I stepped on the accelerator instead, took me a coupla secs to figure out my foot was on the wrong pedal. (Luckily I was only in the 1st gear) Then I apologized, saying "Sorry, I dunnoe where my leg is."

And he started laughing. Again.

And he had to keep telling me to relax while laughing, that I was holding the steering wheel too tight, making him hard to help me control.

And I stalled the car five times. Each time I stalled, he laughed. "Because you forget to put back neutral la."

No wonder so people these days get an Auto license instead.

After the lesson, we were talking about exam dates, the closest one is on the 24th Dec (Yep, X'mas eve.)

Mr Lau: Or you want wait until January?

Me: Still got 3 months right? Should be enough right?

Both of us looked at each other for awhile, then went "heh heh heh heh heh."



Heh.

Seduction of the orange juice

I've had a young beginner come my house to learn because he doesn't have a piano at home. Today, we had a lesson together and when I asked if he has any questions, he asked for water. Remembering I bought 2 bottles of orange juice previously in JB which were quite good, I poured out a full kid-sized cup for him.

Which he swigged down half of it immediately and REFUSED TO LET IT GO!

*LOLS*

I had to tell him to finish the rest later after lesson so we could start on theory since I needed him to write. He reluctantly let go of it.

The moment we were done and his dad came to pick him up, he immediately reached for the cup again and proceeded to polish it off. His dad went "So nice ah?" And he just grinned in reply.

So cute! LOL!

Maybe I should buy more of the stuff. Heh.

Time of Eve

Watching anime when I should be studying has become a chronic addiction. Anyway, do watch Time of Eve, they are short, 15 mins each and only 5 episodes thus far, but so damned funny and plenty of food for thought, just the way I like it. Doesn't hurt that cafes and pianos both feature in it, so ~LOVE~.

Catch it on crunchyroll.

Plenty of Asimov to go around in it.

Anime Otaku's Essentials on a Mac

Okay, so I have been fiddling with this Mac, (the 13" aluminium Macbook Pro) for a coupla months now and after some trial/error and testing, paired with the iphone, I found some really good programmes that I can't do without as an anime addict.

1st off: VLC media player
Quicktime does have its uses but for people like me who have 50 episodes of anime queued up in the playlist, QT doesn't work. (I tried finding a way and all I keep getting is 50 godamned video screens.) Also VLC plays everything, (I haven't found a format that it doesn't play) avi, mpv, mpeg4, and best of all, no damned codecs to install. :D Sometimes, vlc doesn't read vids off discs properly (as happened to me a coupla times) a simple solution is to dump all the vids onto your com and let it run from there. Heh.

2nd: Transmission
Torrent client for mac. Auto adds torrent files from designated folder, auto-trash torrent file if ordered to and download speeds can be seen in dock. Need I say more?

3rd: Handbrake
I love this programme. Makes converting videos easier then making a cup of instant coffee. All you need to do is select the vid to convert, then select the presets, e.g for psp or iphone and let it covert for a coupla mins and voila! You are done.

Last but not least (courtesy of Fi): RealPlayer Downloader
Crunchyroll is SO dead when I got my hands on this. It senses and asks if you want to download a vid when you watch it streamed online. I got 30 or so vids from YouTube (Most Arrau and Kempf piano performances that I can't get elsewhere, haven't hit Crunchyroll yet). The format is .flv, but if you have handbrake, who cares that I haven't seen this format before! CONVERT!!

Muaha.

*stare*

Dad, Mom and me were at Jusco's supermarket, browsing through the groceries when I spotted the teas. (Yes, I'm a tea addict, I love trying new flavours, just got my hands on Earl Grey and Tangerine, gonna try that tomorrow.)

Anyway, I saw Lime and Ginger tea and remembering Dad likes Ginger, I grinned and held the box up in front of him.

Dad: *Takes the box and stares at it*

Me and Mom: ?

Dad: *Stare at box*

Me and Mom: ?????

Dad: *Stare at box*

Me: (Maybe he can't read the words)

Dad: *Still staring at box*

Me: It's lime and gin-

Dad: *flings the box into the trolley without a word*

Mom: Buay gam wuan ah?

Dad: Got meh?

Me: LOL!

Happy dad

In the car on our way to JB. Dad is so happy, he's giggling like a little girl. Heh

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World's best klutz

Stumbled out of bed in a hurry to wash up for my mornings lessons. Forgot I had done a Chun Li kick on my teddy yesterday night and stepped on the poor thing. And I got a pretty sprain for that moment of klutzy-ness.




Yeah, yeah, stop laughing already.

How often you hear this?

On the way to tampines, dad rang me up asking if I am joining him and mom for dinner.

Dad: Where are you?

Me: Outside. Why?

Dad: No la see where you are mah, where you wan go dinner?

Me: I meeting bao ling they all for dinner already le. I told Mi yesterday already.

Dad: Oh okay lo, never mind, you enjoy yourself.

Me: :3

お父さんがだいすき！！

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An Umbrella!

Got my 1st teacher's day present as a piano teacher yesterday. A humongous folding umbrella, prefect to stash in the glove compartment. I WAS about to hand it to Dad, but the umbrella was pink with polka dots and pink lace. I don't think he's be caught dead walking to work under it. LOL.

Messed up

The most messed up birthday present one can give.

Midnight, Dad's officially another year older, Mom's outside MIA, Dad's gone out to look for her after 5 cigs and half a mug of hard liquor. And he hasn't slept much since he was on the midnight flight home yesterday.

Recipe for disaster.

Apathy kicking in.

Mom is mad because Dad didn't look 'willing' enough when she asked him to ferry a mini a/c unit over to Grandma's house.

Apparently "it's too heavy" is taboo.

Whee! Merry Christmas.

-.-

A nice uncle

Usually when I take a cab the drivers are pain in the asses. Not today. I stoned so bad that I was late and had to take a cab to school. The uncle took a wrong turn and gave a a dollar off the fare. If he didn't say I wouldn't have know he went into the wrong street. Bless u uncle, u will strike 4d tomorrow, I know it. Lol! iPhone post

Song count

Total Song count on itunes:

1183 songs, 5.68 GB.

And I haven't even started on my CD collection yet. -.-

Bloodyphone (I have officially named it that) is so gonna choke.

A weird dream

Had a dream that made me go 'wtf???' when I woke up.

I was having dinner with my dad and his side of the family. At first I refused, saying I had to teach at 5pm (Which I don't have students during that time irl) and they promised to fetch me there via car after dinner. I said okay. After a super long dinner, (ice cream was served onto the tablecloth), I was running late and told them I need to go. They didn't hear me. After a few more attempts, I broke down and sobbed like a 3-yr old.

WTF????

My brain is so messed up.

Purchase no.2

Whee!! Finally~~~~~ New phone~ Lovin' it so far and seriously, iphone haters, the camera's not too bad all all! Both piccys taken with iphone.

Not too bad at all!!

Mom's strange concoction of vege and dumpling soup. The soup was green. Like. GREEN!


I'm not quite done with my splurges. Not quite yet.

Scary thoughts

Dad found a weird lump beside his ribs today and showed it to me. It was quite big, though it said it didn't hurt. Still, I got a little freaked (though I didn't show it) and told him to go for a check-up.

Now, a lot of what-ifs keep floating into my head.

I need a distraction.

Mom is acting all emo again.

I'll down an beer and just go to sleep early.

If i can sleep.

3 seconds to make you laugh

LOL!!! That must hurt.

How to get mom off your case

Due to a mis-communication on HER part, mom came home with a face blacker then the year-end monsoon clouds.

And people who have been over our place often enough knows mom takes her anger out by knocking on my door every five minutes or so for random reasons. Towel washing to what time I have to wake up tomorrow.

Anger management issues.

Solution, rig up the old laptop with Zuma and get it set up in her room, on her bed.

It's 2.10am and I haven't heard a single knock on the door yet tonight.

That makes a first ever since I started the habit of locking the door since Bro snuck into my room in the morning to turn on the modem, almost a decade ago.

Bliss.

Thank you Zuma.

Growing up

24 is a nice age, was my thought on my way to work this morning. Old enough not to be shocked at Life's random surprises, yet still young enough to enjoy every moment and experience.

Sis was gripe-ing about her mom coupla days ago and at the end of it, she said, "Your mom is better." (I have to admit, I love my aunt as an aunt, but really can't imagine life with her as my mom.)

It also occurred to me that, actually, I don't hate mom. Not really. Sure, once in a blue moon she treats me like crap, but then again, everyone treats someone like crap at some point of time or another, so yeah, I don't think I hate mom. Mom does have her good qualities, you can talk to her about almost anything (except borrowing money). I can even cuss in front of her, though she will start trying to cover my mouth saying girls shouldn't be vulgar (even though she cracks the dirtiest jokes I know). She listens to me when I say no, (like refusing to let a particular auntie join us on an overseas trip), and best of all, she always tries to show off my doodles (to aunties who also get impressed when they see an elephant paint) and encourages me to do more (even though I suckass).

Nope, I don't hate her for the way she treats me. The only thing I can't stand is the way she treats my dad. So in a twisted, childish and roundabout way, I treat mom like crap for treating dad like crap.

Makes sense?

By the end of my train ride, I had a new resolution. Treat mom better, treat dad even better.

Who said only girls deserve it?

Haha~

Sis recommended an effervescent tablet thingy for clearing phlegm. Finally bought it today at the pharmacy and dunked one tab into a mug of water. While waiting for it to finish sizzling, I went to do some other stuff.

Dad came home, went into the kitchen, a downed a mouthful out of my mug. He came out with a pained face and went, "Why your water taste so funny one?"

Mom and I looked at each other, "You drank from the beige mug?"

"Ya lo! Taste so funny!"

"THAT ONE WAS MY/HER MEDICINE!" Mom and I yelled together.

*dies laughing*



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The Mom Song

Xiu showed me this:


LOL!

Bake the WHA?!

After lesson, bought Kambing Soup for Dad while I waited for him to pick me up. (Kambing Soup is mutton soup, indian style.) As we were entering the house Dad turned to me and mumbled (he was very tired), "Later bake the rat."

Me: WHAT?!

Dad: Bake the raaaaattt....

Me: Whaaaattt???!?!?!?!??!

Dad: The rat the rat, bake the rat.

Me:.... you mean bread.

Dad: Ya la, I said bread what.

Me: No, it sounded like rat.

Dad: No ah, I said bread.

Me: No, bread is brrrrrrrrrrr-ead.





BRRRRR!

.........

Why did I even bother?

Fuck it.

(Yes, please pardon this slip of vulgarity. Pissed is understatement right now.)

Nana

Had to do this because blogger's all bugged on me. Anyway, my 3-yr old cousin on my dad's side.

So cute!



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Enough?

Been playing with the idea for some time, but decided to be a better person, let live and forget. But I think my threshold of tolerance has been crossed far too many times.

Enough.

I'm sick of people using me as an excuse.

Mas's prezzie

THOUSAND SUNNY!!!!! A DO-IT-MYSELF THOUSAND SUNNY!!!!!

THOUSAND SUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love you mas. LOL!

P.S I have progressed to literally coughing up phlegm. Ew.

Whhhhaaaa????

Sis must have a in-built sensor or something. Half of the time she calls, either I am asleep or half-asleep. This morning, I was sleeping in because I spent half the night trying to get the mucus out of my lungs, (without much success I should add), when she called. This is the conversation, or what I remember of it. (Sis, this is seriously what I remember. Please double check. LOL)

Me: Hello....

Sis: Eh, you sleeping ah?

Me: No. Why?

Sis: Eh, I ask you ah, you Sunday free or not?

Me: Uh... yeah. Why?

Sis: You never teach meh?

Me: Uh... one, afternoon, why?

Sis: Orh, one student only har?

Me: Yeah, why?

Sis: No la, thought you free can help me look after Zelene mah, cos Jessica sick but my Dad say he can look after her but, you know la, my mom house la...."

Me: Huuuuuuhhh????? What you saying? I don't understand.




I can't remember the rest of the convo. I found it funny (when I remembered it later) because I remembered asking why after every sentence. Yeah, I get taken over by Gin Z when I am sleeping. I am not myself~

Gotta let it run its course

Still mucus-y and cough-y when I woke up. Decided teaching in a music studio with only the gap under the door for ventilation not the best idea if I don't want my students to catch my bug so went to see the doc.

She said it's a normal virus so I'll just have to wait til it has run its course. Gave me an MC for the next two days.

Bahhh.....

Darned bug has cost me $130 dollars so far.

The price I pay for not taking care of my immune system.

I suppose it is a good time to start project LR with all these time on my hands.

Bahhhh....

Toys and oxymoron

1.50am and I am still fiddling around this new commie. Can't stop using it, prolly the intermittent geek in me is warpedly fascinated. The phlegm rattling about in my lungs is not helping me fall asleep either. Well, better mucus than fever.

I wonder if opening hotmail using safari qualifies as an oxymoron?

And laptop should really be renamed as bedtop.

Too many! Too many!!

Been trying to set up Mail in my Macbook Pro, turns out they don't accept hotmail, and yahoo will charge me if I use Mail to access it. (Yahoo mail plus or summat.)

So I had to make a new account.

Gmail.

That makes a grand total of 3 email accounts. Whee.....

I have the memory space of a pea....

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Mom said something fairly amusing today.

I was watching my Bro trying valiantly and pathetically failing to enter his DotA domain when Mom waltzes after checking I wasn't in my room.

"Eh, your laptop can download and play that game or not?"

"Huh? The ball game?"

"Ya ya. That shoot shoot ball one."

"Why leh?"

"No la, thought maybe your one easier to use."

My bro and me looked at each other in disbelief. Yeah. Mom and Dad are addicted to Zuma but my bro's com's the only one that has the full version. Mebbe I should download it on my crappy lenovo lappie and let them play.

Dad, addicted, ever since he came back from China.

This game, if you didn't know what I was talking about.

Poor Dad

Dad had been playing with the idea of getting a car ever since he confirmed he will be working here. He spent the last 2 days roaming car marts with mom tagging along. (I wanted to go yesterday but was sick so I decided to stay in.)

Today, Dad, Mom, me and bro went car scouting. And while we were walking about, me and bro were crapping around as usual but we were listening in to Dad and Mom conversing with the sales peeps.

Dad's conversation were mainly prices, accident free, original paintwork etc. (Because we were looking at the second-hand cars.)

Mom's were:
-This is not leather!
-The seat so small!
-The color so ugly!
-The bump there so hard to sit!
-This car too small la!
-This car too big la!

Bro later whispered to me. "Daddy so kor lian, wan buy car also must make mummy happy first. Next time we buy a car ourselves must remember never to bring mom."

Agreed.

Part 1 and 1.5

If friends have been wondering about my miserly behaviour about going out, here's your answer :P

Part I:

The legs are Fi's. :D

Yeah. It arrived faster that I expected.

Part 1.5:

A little early prezzie for bro. (An ipod touch.)

I still don't quite understand why he wants an ipod touch when he already ordered the iphone 3Gs. Guess guys just can't resist getting their toys.

Still waiting for Part 2 and gotta prepare for Part 3 soon. I did say I am going spending mad didn't I? :P

Foot-long? Yep!

Stupid yet funny thing happened.

As with all Wednesdays, I usually comatose on the MRT back from school (due to waking early with no breakfast and 5 consecutive students) to Bishan, where I will grab a quick bite with a coffee followed by lessons with my afternoon private kids.

Been feeling a little immune weak so decided to pass on the fast food and hit Subway for the vegs. I WAS half asleep when I approached the counter. People who have eaten at Subway would know their breads come in 2 sizes. 6 inch and foot-long. This is what happened:

Me (half asleep): Hi.... can I have the cold cut please?

Server: Okay! Foot-long?

Me: Yep. (Without thinking, still asleep)

Server: Which bread?

Me: The honey-oat please.

Server: *Turns and brings out this humongous long piece of bread and starts slapping meat and cheese on it*

Me: ....... (????????????)

Server: Would you like your bread and cheese toasted?

Me: ..... uh.... yeah..... (Crap.)


Yeah. That was what happened.

THE GODAMNED SANDWICH WAS AS LONG AS MY ENTIRE CALF!!!!

I had planned to eat my lunch inside the shop, but looking at the ridiculously large sandwich and the way the cashier was looking at me, I asked for a takeaway. Still didn't stop the other customers from staring at me as I left, had to stuff it into my bag.

Thank gawd for big bags.

Looking at the bright side, at least I didn't have to worry about dinner.

P.S: Dad laughed his ass off when I told him. -.-

Little pleasures

I swear I thought I had less than $100 left for the rest of the month. Battled sleep to check bank balance and to my surprise:

Account Balance ( as at 10 Jul 2009, 11:22 PM )
Available Balance S$432.49

The constant scrimping for the past months must have forced my monetary department to work in bankrupt mode permanently.

Yes, silly maybe, to be happy over such a tiny little mistake on my part.

But still, I. HAVE. MOOLAH!

I am going to be a little spending mad in the next coupla weeks. Heh heh heh heh. It is time.....

Meh

Too many excuses.

VGL

@Danny: My life is pretty mundane, mundane days equals mundane posts and mundane posts are worser than no posts.

BUT! I'm going for the Video Games Live concert this Fri with Fi.

A break from mundane-ness.

I'll update if it is any good or any bad. XD

'Til then, stay fun and alive~

Oh yes, and I am now officially 24 years old. What did I do? Spent the day sleeping, eating, gaming and crapping with Fi.

Heh.

Get a Mac ads

While surfing about the apple store, I stumbled on the English Get a Mac ads. Friggin hilarious. When I told Fi about it, she said there were Japanese ones. Immediately went to watch it and it is HI-LA-RIOUS.

Granted the convo is mostly the same, but they left out the Windows bashing and the Jap PC is so funnily cute.

Check it out (In order):
Nicknames


iLife


Viruses


New Year cards


Pie Chart


Restart


Security


Steps


Microsoft Office


Home Movie


Artist


Bloated

No no.

This won't do, I'm not working hard enough.

RAWR!

Just once

Can I, just for once in my life, be selfish?

Just once?

Don't say things like that

~BECAUSE THEY ARE RICH

Couple weeks ago, before Dad returned to China, my parents went out to some auntie's gathering of some sort, I can't remember.

What I do remember was Mom coming home and going on (in front of my father) how good life will be if we were rich. (Because the auntie was fairly affluent, I suppose)

Mom: See, even though the kids grow up le, never give money to parents, they don't mind, cos they are rich.

Me: Maybe because uncle still working, that's why they never give? Besides, the kids are working overseas what.

Mom: That's why rich lo. Rich le, no problems one.

Me: Rich also still human what. Will feel boredom, will feel lonely.

Mom: Who say, rich can whole day play, where got bored? Rich good la.

Immediately, I got so pissed, I went into my room to steam in silence. Simply because, she hasn't worked in over two decades, Dad is working his ass off in China and she speaks as if we are out on the streets begging. To top it all off, she said all that right IN FRONT OF MY DAD!

This is why I hate her so bad sometimes. Pampered little woman.

Remember, think twice about the things you say.

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~BECAUSE YOU HAVE EVERYTHING

Quite a long time ago, someone once said to me on my birthday:

I don't know what to get you. You have everything, so I didn't get you anything.

I can't remember who said it to me in particular, I'm pretty sure it was a close friend and those words stuck with me. Another reason I hate birthdays.

Nobody in this world has everything. Keep that in mind. The wealthy may want a gift with attachment value, the emotionally rich might appreciate a material gift.

Perfection doesn't exist.

So don't say things like that when you simply can't be bothered to give something. It just makes you look like you have an emotional range of a teaspoon.

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~YOU SO GOOD LIFE

Now, I don't mean this post to anyone in particular, but it's another sentence I detest having uttered at me so many times by different people that I really need to get it off my chest.

Yes, I do know that I am living a good life, with money in my bank, food to eat, a shelter over my head.

But then again. Don't you have the same things?

Is your life really that terrible compared to mine?

Long working hours? Been there several times.

Insane family members? Check.

Stupid siblings? Check occasionally.

Financial problems? Been there, done that.

Screwy romantic relationships? Don't really wanna talk about it.

There. We are not so different, are we? Just because I try my best to be generous to people I love, to smile even when I'm not feeling particularly good, does not mean I am rich, or that I'm living a life without a single worry at all.

But then again. Maybe this just means everyone got me figured so wrong, I shouldn't even bother trying to explain.

Ah well. Just.... don't say things without going through your head.

Distant Worlds

This is awful late but still....

The Distant Worlds Concert was fantastic. The best $40 I spent in my life.

Why?

NOBUO UEMATSU WAS THERE.

THE MAN HIMSELF!!

I will forever record this moment in my memory. Seeing Nobuo Uematsu to me is like a die-hard Beethoven fan seeing Beethoven himself.

Oh-my-god!! If I knew he was coming, I'd have brought all his CDs and made him sign the lot of them and never listen to them again for fear of spoiling the discs.

Anyway, although many of the tracks I have already listened to in orchestral version, but a CD definitely loses to real life hands down. And to top it all of, Nobuo joined the chorus and started singing One-Winged Angel. The most hilarious thing ever.

Ah, I so wish they'll come again. Still, the fun-nest night I had in a long time.

7 more days

Just 7 more days to the Distant Worlds concert! I'm so excited, I'm buzzing about in my computer chair right now.

Programme

FINAL FANTASY VIII :
Liberi Fatali

FINAL FANTASY X :
To Zanarkand

FINAL FANTASY VIII :
Don’t Be Afraid

FINAL FANTASY VII :
Aerith’s Theme

FINAL FANTASY I-III :
Medley 2002

FINAL FANTASY V :
Dear Friends

FINAL FANTASY IX :
Vamo’ alla Flamenco

FINAL FANTASY XI :
Ronfaure

FINAL FANTASY series :
Main Theme

Intermission

FINAL FANTASY VII :
Opening – Bombing Mission

FINAL FANTASY VIII :
Fisherman’s Horizon

FINAL FANTASY XI :
Memoro de la Stono – Distant Worlds

FINAL FANTASY IV :
Theme of Love

FINAL FANTASY series :
Swing de Chocobo

FINAL FANTASY VIII :
Love Grows

FINAL FANTASY VI :
Opera “Maria and Draco”

Oh-my-god I simply can't waitt!!! In the meantime, I shall go refresh my memory on all these tracks :3

Sharks and lemons

For those who have picked up any old music score before, chances are, you would have seen a hex (#) like sign hanging about somewhere.

I was teaching the meaning of the sign to my beginner today, so I told her to repeat after me:

"This is called a sharp, come, try and say it."

Kid: "Sharp."

Me: "Very good, now, trace it."

Kid: *Silently traces.* "Finished!"

Me: "Okay, what was it called again?"

Kid (Very excitedly trying to prove herself right): "SHARK!!"

Me: "EH?!"

We started laughing our asses off. Jaws has invaded the music world.

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The well spoken brat taught me a new phrase today.

Me: "Here, try this part again, let me hear the growing louder part one more time. No problem for you right?"

W.S.B: "Yup, easy peasy, lemon squeezy."

Me: "Huh? Easy what?"

W.S.B: "Easy peasy, lemon squeezy."

Me: "Oh. Right."

Yep, he's six. And yes, he stuck his hand in my bag again, digging around for my stash of Riccolas. I need a padlock for my bag soon.

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Dad's home! Dad's home! Dad's home! Only for a coupla days, but DAD'S HOME!

Nothing

And here comes Monday. That's all I need, cash and cheque to be banked, students to be taught, work to be studied, coffee to be drunk, exams to be passed.

A normal life, a simple life.

Why did I bother about what others said?

P.S The well spoken brat ransacked my bag claiming I 'looked' tired, for sweets. Heh. Kids are easy to read.

Pfft

Plagued by insecurity and questions that can't be answered.

Should I? Of course not.

Do I want to? No, I don't need another blackhole in my memory.

Then why I am insecure?

Leave it up to fate and time. In the meantime, all I need is my piano and my students. Yes, those are the only things that matter. Nothing more.

What others think and do is their business, not mine.

(If you were wondering, yes, I'm trying to psycho myself.)

What-on-earth?!

I unearthed my Slamdunk DVDs, wanted to get on a marathon session with this classic, fifth disc in, the discs would not play. Perplexed, I took it out of the player and checked the back.


What on earth?! 3/4 of the discs in the set turned out like this.

It is the strangest thing. And I've always been careful with my darling discs.

Damn.

Looks like I have to find something else to do now.

CATS!!!

Turns out I didn't even need that cup of coffee.

I didn't want to blink even once throughout the entire show. The dancing, the set up, breath-taking.

Though bro had no idea what was going on most of the time, he nearly bought a tee as a souvenir and I thought I heard him sniff rather audibly during Grizabella's Memory.

All in all, a very pleasant evening spent, the pricey tickets were worth it.

Can hardly keep eyes open.

Ciao

Cats!

Well, not yet. Later tonight with my bro. Problem is, I only clocked in about... 15 mins of sleep last night so I'm seeing a little double-ish now, have to head to Bishan to teach 2 kids then head down to the Esplanade for the musical.

If my brain shuts down on me anytime during the musical, I'm gonna kick my own ass all the way home.

In the meantime, a cold bath, a extra strong mug of coffee and it's time to scoot.

Complete lull

My energy reserves are non-existent. Not too sure what happened.

Just hope she isn't too mad.

Ugh, I hate being a female sometimes.

Need to work myself harder.

*jawdrops*

Here's why you should never, never, ever judge a book by it's cover.

Susan Boyle, on Britain's Got Talent

Watch it, because:

• It'll blow your mind
• Simon Cowell looks lovestruck
• Because it's just damn good
• Because I was one of the many who raised an eyebrow at her looks
  

It works!

Know of the ancient rumor that having large doses of Vit C can block off an oncoming cold/flu?

IT WORKS!!

Here's a day by day:

On fri, completely healthy.

On sat, I was going through boxes of tissues, took 3 tabs of 1000mg Vit C, a dash of clarinase.

On sun, mucus was completely gone but was slightly feverish so downed another 2 tabs of 1000mg Vit C, a sprinkle of paracetamol.

On mon, 'lo and behold! Back at work!

I only had to postpone 1 lesson compared to if the flu really came in force.

It seriously works.

Flu bug.... again

That makes it 4 times in 3 months and 11 days.

I think I've used more tissues than 5 years of my teenage years put together.

It's time to get 8 hours sleep and healthy food everyday. If my immune system is this bad at 24, I can't imagine what's gonna happen at 35, 45, or even 60.

What a scary thought.

Looks like I can't procrastinate anymore. I've got to take care of myself because nobody is going to do it for me. Eep.

In the meantime, some Clarinase and 3000 mg of Vit C in 24 hours. Wonder if it will work.

Who am I kidding?

Came to a realization today.

A new student's husband escorted me out to the bus stop (yep, I got another mummy student) half an hour ago and while we walked, he asked me if I taught full time. I replied yes and he commented that I was lucky, it's a good job. Trying to be modest, I said all jobs had its pros and cons. He said, "at least you love what you do." Yep, full stop, not question mark.

Whoops.

Maybe I should stop hyperventilating and behaving like a bunny on meth the next time I teach.

P.S I never knew Canon in D could seduce kids into learning the piano. Yes, SEDUCE! I played a very simple version of Canon in D (transcribed to C) and mummy student's son wanted to learn. Nice. Got myself another student.

Thank you, Pachelbel.

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Yes, it's just me, but life's been getting a bit mundane, repetitive. Time to start learning something new. Been playing with the idea of learning a martial art, and passing through the darkness of private housing with weird people loitering around confirmed that.

I think I shall pick up Aikido.

Rich face?

This is the second time my student thought I lived in a bungalow or a condo. We were talking about a cousin who wanted to learn the piano but didn't have one at home, so:

Me: She can come my house learn piano if she wants.

Student: Where you live? Condo ah?

Me: Er no?

Student: (Very excitedly) Bungalow ah?

Me: HDB la, at Hougang.

Student: Ohhh... I thought you live at bungalow, got big big piano.


Do I seriously look that rich? Speaking of look, how do one 'look' poor? Teach me, I could do with some tips.

(Maybe I should start going to teach in pasat shirts or something, then they won't haggle for cheaper fees. Heh.)

Monkey see Monkey do

Feeling rather bleh, I dragged a friend out to Zouk yesterday night. After hanging at the bar and having a little too much to drink, I spied an empty table and so we sat down to rest our aching feet.

Yes, it's been a long time since I wore such high heels.

While we were cam-whoring, having a bit more to drink and giving ratings on looks for every guy who passed our table, suddenly, two ang-moh guys popped up and we invited them to joins us. (For awhile, anyway.) After some introductions and chatting, my friend and I slipped out to smoke, and while we headed towards the smoking area, suddenly, guys near us started trying to pick us up.

Huh?

While we were sitting at the table, the crowd was not particularly friendly to two single gals and after two ang moh joined us, we were different?

Defintely a case of monkey see, monkey do.

P.S We dropped those ang-moh guys anyway because they were being a little too 'friendly'. Typical.

Bah

Concussed at 12am yesterday, the next thing I knew, Joyce was calling me at 10.30 am. My piano lesson was at 10am. Furious with myself, I checked my alarm clock.

It got stuck at 4.30 am.

OH MY EFFING GOD!!!!!!

Yes, I feel terrible, for Joyce.

Shopping list: New batteries.

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I'm sick and tired of people. Everyone is all the same, either they refuse to change their way of thinking, to accept that sometimes, just sometimes, what they see is not what they get, or, they think they are so right, they are blind to everything else, and last but not least, they have so much pride, every three sentences that they utter contains a sentence cloaked with contempt for you.

People, stop laughing at others and laugh at yourself.
Stop complaining about every little bit of your miserable life and tell others the funny bits of your life.

Fine, I'm getting too old to be nice.

Ah, no wonder

I had fallen in love with Lacrimosa from the first beat. I've never heard of the singers, a group called Kalafina. So, I went to Wiki them up.

"Kalafina is a Japanese band formed by composer Yuki Kajiura in 2007 to mainly perform theme songs for the anime Kara no Kyoukai."

Ah. That explains a lot. Kajiura. I love the way she mixes strong beats with Gregorian chants, piano and violin solos coupled with orchestra. Beautiful.

I had Canta Per Me, A song of storm and fire and Materialize on my songlist for close to years now. Heh.

Time to check out the rest of the Kalafina's songs.

Lacrimosa

暗闇の中で睦み合う
絶望と未来を
哀しみを暴く月灯り
冷たく照らしてた

君のくれた秘密を標に
蒼い夜の静けさを行く

Lacrimosa
遠く砕けて消えた
眩しい世界をもう一度愛したい
瞳の中に夢を隠して
汚れた心に
涙が堕ちて来るまで

幻の馬車は闇を分け
光のある方へ
夢という罠が僕たちを
焔へ誘う

空の上の無慈悲な神々には
どんな叫びも届きはしない
Lacrimosa…

僕等は燃えさかる薪となり
いつかその空を焼き尽くそう

Lacrimosa
ここに生まれて落ちた
血濡れた世界を恐れずに愛したい
許されるより許し信じて
汚れた地上で
涙の日々を数えて

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2nd ending of 黒執事. The last episode aired last week. Not sure if I enjoyed the anime series, many times I preferred the book, the characters being less dodgy in it. Loved the ending of the anime though. Heh. Now I like Ciel in the anime. Muahaha.

What a lucky day!

No, I'm being sarcastic.

I pride myself in being a fairly considerate person. I rarely or don't litter. Today, however, was the bomb.

3rd day of my best friend. Female friends will know what I mean. It's one of those days that all you want to do is lie in bed, with a hot water bottle and go to sleep. But, it's a Wednesday, one of the busiest days of my week.

Feeling particularly cramped and pissy, I bought a pack of Sampoerna. (Decided to forgo the chocolate this week.)

So there I was, puffing away outside the bus interchange in one secluded corner. Finished, I looked around for a bin. Interchanges no longer have bins thanks to the terrorist shit, and the nearest one I could see was 3-4 mins walk away.

I threw the butt into the drain.

Boom! $200 fine.

I'm never, never, ever smoking again.

Darn it. There goes my book money.

Simple rules of money and itches

Oooh! That is IT! Enough is enough, I've had it with people who keep saying I am rich and yet they earn more than I do. If they say that and leave it, it is okay, but every single one of them will slip into this self pitying, envying mode that makes me want to fling them out onto the road.

Spending, is a very simple piece of logic that people don't quite seem to get.

If you spend on what you DON'T need, you won't be able to spend on what you WANT.

For example. I can drop $20 a pop for a book when I want to because I never take cabs. (Unless for emergencies.)

Not clear enough?

A few more examples.

My handphone bills are never over $50 (again, unless I am overseas.)

I don't have a car. (Seriously, do you NEED one in Singapore?)

I buy a bottle of wine to enjoy at home when I feel the urge to drink.

Restaurant going happens only when I have additional money to spend.

I think thrice before buying something. Need, Price and Need. (With the exception of books of course.)

And guess what? I'm happily living on an income of less then $30,000 per annum!

So don't say I am rich. Evaluate on how you spend instead.

In fact, unless you don't have
-A handphone
-A car
-A PC with internet access
-A PSP/PS2/PS3/Xbox
-A credit card
-an monthly income of more then $1000,

you are not POOR! Calling yourself poor is an insult to poor people out there.

SO WAKE UP! And stop complaining/bitching.

P.S I've never called myself poor. Just occasionally broke, because, like all humans out there, we sometimes overspend :P

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Speaking of overspend, there are so many sales on this weekend! There's the Kinokuniya Cardmembers 20% off 12-15 march, Charles and Keith Warehouse sale at 21 Tai Seng Road 12-15 march, and the IT fair at Suntec over this weekend. Thank goodness I have been thrifty for the past two weeks.

SEE! Save when you need to and you can spend when the time comes! I call it smart shopping.

A new itch: The new super duper mini iPod Shuffle with 4GB memory.

I want one! This little toy is $128. Nice price for the mini-ness and the memory. My Sony Ericsson W910i has been taking quite a beating from me. I think it's dying. Or, I should just wait 'til my contract ends before signing for a new plan with an iPhone. (See?! Decide carefully by thinking ahead!)

Now I'm starting to show the world my thought processes. -.-'''