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Tuesday, August 31, 2004


Sorry, this is a "Larr-bish" post!
// Listening to: Counting Crows - Accidentally In Love

My colleagues commented that I'm very entertaining. So how's that? One even asked me, "Hey, have you considered becoming an actress?" I laughed and went into a series of reasons why I cannot be an actress. Funny though, I always thought I'm a very quiet boring person. In fact, I really am!

I also noticed that my colleagues like to use my pet-phrases a lot. For example, my more famous ones would be:

  1. "Die lar! How how???? Die!"
    Actual meaning : How now? This time die liaoz....Tell me what to do
  2. "Aiyah! You don't cheat my feelings hor..."
    Actual meaning: Please don't bluff me.
  3. "Larr--bbish lar"
    Actual meaning: Rubbish, don't talk nonsense
  4. "Die lar. I feel like sleeping"
    Actual meaning: (I want to sleep of course! What else! Actually, only I feel like sleeping, for this, is my copyright)

And, I use them ALOT. When I say ALOT, I simply mean I use them almost several times everyday. And my department is always circulating my stupid pet phrases. I should come up with a book of pet phrases or something.

This is simply larr--bish lar! Please close this page if you happen to be one of those intellectual ones who have unfortunately stumbled into my abode. You will not be able to find anything intellectual in this nonsensical blog. Case closed.


always me ♥ 11:00 PM | 0 comments



Sunday, August 29, 2004


My Japanese Name

I'm so bored that I went to this Japanese Name generator thingy site. Well, my name's pretty cool, I think.


My English Name: Eileen
My japanese name is 原 Hara (wilderness) 恵美 Emi (blessed with beauty).
Take your real japanese name generator! today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Name Generator Generator.

My Chinese Name: Yilin
My japanese name is 松尾 Matsuo (tail of a pine tree) 弓美 Yumi (beautiful bow, as in bow and arrow).
Take your real japanese name generator! today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Name Generator Generator.

I wonder why do my weekends always end so fast. I'm almost always dragging myself to work every morning, and this is not so good.

always me ♥ 10:49 PM | 0 comments






Comet Fair

There were so many people at the Comet fair that I nearly suffocated because of insufficient air. I had no idea why people always buy printers at IT fair every year. Why printers? I mean, how many printers does one household actually need?? One, right? Not one EVERY IT fair. And it's not as if the printers are dirt cheap during the fair. I actually saw one woman lugging TWO printers of different brands to a taxi stand today. Why would she need two printers with different brands? She can't even inter-exchange the ink catridges, for goodness sake.

Anyway, printers aside. I bought an ADSL modem router and ethernet switch today. After reading through the installation manual, I even felt confident to set up a LAN network at home. But there is one problem.

Apparently, the ethernet switch works on LAN, and I just realised I do not have a freaking network interface card for the LAN port. Argh!!!

Back to square one.

p/s: For some entertainment, click here.

always me ♥ 8:35 PM | 0 comments






On random affairs

I had my very first salsa class yesterday and I felt that I danced like a klutz. Argh!! In fact, I'm very stressed by it all. Why did I ever pay money and put myself to all that stress???? I've even got a pimple on my nose now. Great. It's supposed to be fun, but I guess it's just me stressing myself out because I danced like a klutz.

Let's just hope the next lesson will be better.

I nearly couldn't log on to my computer because.... I have not activated Windows. What the heck is that?? I'm supposed to activate it within 30 days but I procrastinated until this very day whereby I will be denied access to my own computer until I activate the stupid thing. The hassle of it all.

Then again, I thought their customer service call centre was pretty professional. Unlike some stupid bank's where I had to call and wait for eternity to come to the fact that nobody will ever pick up the line.

Another random affair. The day before, I bought strawberries and equal sugar (it's my staple food). The fortunate thing is, I managed to finish it on the day I bought it. Why? Because,

MY MUM THREW THE ENTIRE BOTTLE OF EQUAL SUGAR THE NEXT DAY!!!

I wondered why, because clearly, the bottle was VERY new, VERY full and definitely NOT finishing. I was fuming and confronted my mum, why why why??? Then, her reason was, "Equal sugar is unhealthy lar....So I throw away lor." I asked her why did she not check with me before she threw it away. It was $7+ ok, and I only used it once. Then, she went into a tirade of reasons and even chided me that I was very stupid in my choice of food, I had no wisdom at all, blah blah blah. I mean, what the hell does it got to do with me being stupid and no wisdom? So I got angrier and decided to hide myself in the comfort of my room and my dear cao cao. Then, I also found out that my dear cao cao string was missing. I love to play with my cao cao string. Don't ask me why, because I don't feel like explaining why I love to play with that string. I just felt like dying.

Anyway, today I'm going to the Comet fair. And I've got terrible stomach cramps. Argh!! Let's just hope things get better. I'm going to be late, AGAIN.

Til then.

always me ♥ 12:07 PM | 0 comments



Tuesday, August 24, 2004


Warning!! This is a disgusting post.

As stated above, this is going to be a disgusting post. So please be prepared to go "Eeew" or "Yucks" or whatever because today, I'm going to talk about ULCERS.

This is a sick topic. My entire mouth hurts, because I have 3 freaking ulcers in it. And all three of them are located strategically around the WHOLE mouth. One in the left cheek, one in the right cheek and one on the upper right side of my.....GUMS! How wonderful! Whoever have ulcers on the gums?!? It's my bloody first time and I wonder how did it happen. @$%@$@#%@

Sickeningly, I've always got problems with ulcers and pimples. And if I don't have ulcers, I'd have pimples. And if I don't have pimples, (yes, you guessed it) I'd have bloody ulcers. So, have pimples, no ulcers, have ulcers, no pimples, blah blah blah. Argh!!!

No, rinsing salt water doesn't help. I'm immune to it. Rubbing salt doesn't help too. It only makes me hurt like crazy, then gives me momentary relief as it numbs the area, then the bloody pain returns, as painful as ever. And that watermelon frost thing doesn't help too, as a kid, I always messed up the whole thing and talked as if I had a golfball in my mouth. So much for the solutions.

Anyway, speaking of ulcers, I had lots of them even as a kid. Yes, I was, and still am, plagued by freaking ulcers. The thing is, as a kid, I didn't really know how ulcers work, or how did they come about. I only knew they were "extra" white round things on your lips/mouth which made you feel miserable like hell. (Yes, I still don't know what that extra white thing is, so if you know, please educate me)

Then one fine day, when I was still as usual running to the mirror to see whether has the ulcer subsided, I made an important "discovery". I thought, "Wah lau! Must be this stupid white thing lar. Hmmm, if don't have this white thing, that means don't have ulcer liao lar!" And I was so sickeningly clever, I used my finger and began to scrape off that white thing. I can hear you say eeeeww..... And of course I bled and hurt like crazy. But as a kid, I already knew I had to tolerate in order to achieve great things. In this case, which is to endure the pain so that I will not suffer any longer. Then my mum went hysterical and sat me down with loads of water in the attempt to bring down the "heatiness". But I was still thinking I'm goddamn clever.

A few hours later, I skipped to the mirror trying to see if it worked. And the freaking white thing returned!!! As white as ever!!!! The horror. What I just did simply prolonged the agony! Argh!!!!

Enough about ulcers. I'm sure you want to puke now.

I just received a MMS message with the following picture.



Hi! I'm a dog! Posted by Hello

Who knows I love dogs?? (Except that EVIL dog lar!) The thing is, I don't know who's the sender. Hah!



always me ♥ 7:39 PM | 0 comments



Monday, August 23, 2004


On study affairs

My mum and I had reached a consensus that I should stop working and go study a full-time degree next year. Then, I can go take up some part-time job to supplement my own expenses or allowance.


The thing is, I don't know how is she going to come up with the money to pay my school fees because I've got no assets to liquidate! Probably I have just enough to pay for the first semester, and that's just how pathetic my savings are after 2 hard years of working. Seriously, after "scanning" my room for at least something to call "valuable" to explain for the pathetic savings, I realized I had nothing of that genre and wondered where had all my money gone to. Argh!

On another note, I've also got no idea what course to pursue: management or mass comm? But one thing for sure, I'm never going to take IT again because I don't think I will ever go into some job remotely even IT. The most "IT" thing for me would most probably be to maintain this blog thingy. That's really how far I would go.

It was never easy for me to make decisions, let alone say make such long term decisions concerning a huge amount of money and perhaps my future job.


To digress like I always do, I shall make a small connection to my mum on what she thought of the courses I used to be interested in.

When I was young, I had this ambition to become a lawyer. Simply because I watched too many movies/television programmes, and lawyers always looked so smart and prestigious then. Then one day, I had to blabber to my mum, "I think I want to go study law." At first, she said, "Wah! Lawyer good ler! Go study." Blah blah blah. But a few days later, she came back and tried to discourage me simply because her church mates thought that lawyers are cunning bad people who only care about money blah blah blah. And thus, she thought so too. I didn't really take into that story, but I didn't manage to take law because that was just a "spur of moment" ambition. I also had no idea why I chose to study a diploma in IT (most probably because most of my friends chose that), and I regretted til this very day.

Then, after I graduated with a diploma in IT, I had to think of what degree course to take up next. I procrastinated and pro-longed my decision until now. But there was a time when I was seriously interested in taking up Psychology because I'm curious about what went on behind people's minds. Then, I had to blabber to my mum, AGAIN, "I think I want to take up Psychology."

Mum: What? Don't want lar, later you turn psycho how?

Me: ?????????

Then, a few days later, she came back to me on the topic again.

Mum: Don't take psychology ah, my church mates say psychologists are EVIL people who use unorthodox methods to make you say/think what you are not suppose to say/think. Simply said, they don't go hand-in-hand with God. It's the devil's doing. (Blah blah blah)

Me: (more ??????????????)

I was like ???????????. Why does my mum always take what her church mates say VERY seriously??? I wanted to shout, "NO! PSYCHOLOGISTS ARE NOT EVIL PEOPLE!!"

Then, another few days later, she came back, saying, "Aye, I think psychology is good lar. Coz hor, my another church mate say psychologists are actually good people because . It's just sometimes there may be black sheeps. That time the Auntie XXX had a wrong perception, blah blah blah"

I was like ????????? again. Why doesn't my mum have her own views??? Maybe that's where I inherited my disability to have my own views and make decisions.

Anyway, I discarded the idea to take up Psychology although I AM still very interested in that. No, not because of what my mum or her whatever church mates said, but because I had to spend A LOT of money before what I study can be truly recognized in Singapore.

That said, I'm still stuck with the choices: Management or Mass Comm? Til later.

always me ♥ 3:26 AM | 0 comments



Sunday, August 22, 2004


Let's meet Kopi-O!
// Listening to: Vonda Shepard - Read Your Mind


I met up with my chums for some dinner and a tete-a-tete session.


My favorite seafood platter! Posted by Hello

Did I ever mention that Mr Eeyore has gotten his rabbit? In fact, he got it about two weeks ago but I was too lazy to blog about it. Well, I did give it a little preview though.

I missed two Sundays which were meant for rabbit visiting due to my laziness which kept me in bed. Ok, simply said, I wanted to sleep more because I was too lazy to go visit the rabbit at Mr Eeyore's house. It would have been perfect if I could wake up in bed and find the rabbit lying beside me. Argh, rubbish!

Anyway, I decided to visit the rabbit today (because I don't have to work tomorrow and that made me wake up!) but Mr Eeyore had to fly me aeroplane!!! But still, I managed to go and took some pictures. Instead of me keep saying "the rabbit, the rabbit...", I shall call the rabbit "Kopi-O"! Simply because it's black. Wah lau! Stupid Mr Eeyore cheated my feelings because the rabbit was supposed to be black and white, but not ALL black!! So there goes the name of "Nami nami" because that was what I intended to call it. Actually, the name "Kopi-O" was given by stupid uncle Mr Eeyore because he thought "Nami nami" was a bimbotic name. Pui! Ok, Kopi-O is still cute nonetheless. And a hyperactive one at that!

Oh ya, the pictures! (Pictures were actually VERY difficult to take, because Kopi-O can't keep still AT ALL!)


Kopi-O trying to hide
Posted by Hello


Kopi-O getting out
Posted by Hello


See! I've got blue eyes! I'm an ang moh rabbit!
Posted by Hello


I'm shy
Posted by Hello


What's that flash?
Posted by Hello


Nice beans!
Posted by Hello


I'm only good when I'm eating
Posted by Hello


Still eating...
Posted by Hello


Am I cute?
Posted by Hello


I'm getting grouchy
Posted by Hello


Grrr! If you shoot me one more time...
Posted by Hello


After eating must wash face... (my fave!)
Posted by Hello


More food!
Posted by Hello


Let me out! I want to play!!!
Posted by Hello


Please......
Posted by Hello

On a sidenote, I think Mr Eeyore is torturing the poor rabbit! Because,

  1. He kept the rabbit in a fish tank (this is weird because he says the cage hasn't arrive and that's probably the only place to keep Kopi-O, anyway, i'm glad the cage has arrived)


    This is the new cage! Posted by Hello

  2. He doesn't like to feed carrots to the rabbit. Only pellets, hay, and more pellets! (i keep making him feel guilty about not feeding carrots, so now he feeds some.)
  3. He makes sure that the rabbit runs/hops two rounds around the house everyday. (he thinks he's a p.e teacher)

Wah lau! He is a control freak! I must complain to SPCA! I must save poor Kopi-O! Now I can totally understand why his previous hamster "Bam Bam" AWOL. Bam Bam had enough of him! And Bam Bam was smart enough to open his own cage and run away! Kudos!

The thing is, we still don't know if Bam Bam is alive or dead.



always me ♥ 11:22 PM | 0 comments






Movies

I want to catch these movies.


Posted by Hello


Posted by Hello


Posted by Hello

The reason I want to catch Quill is most probably because the dog on the poster is so cute that I want to kiss it!

Yes, I'm bored again because Mr Eeyore fly me aeroplane. I'm supposed to go play with Kopi-O today. And who's Kopi-O? I shan't tell you, YET.

p/s: I'm so in love with posting pictures recently.



always me ♥ 4:00 PM | 0 comments



Saturday, August 21, 2004


Zhu Peng Gou You

I saw this cute little thing at Carrefour today. Since it's only $9.90, I decided to buy it back to accompany my Mr Doggy at home. I shall call it Miss Piggy, since it's pink and gals generally like pink.

See! Ain't Miss Piggy cute and pink?


Hi! I'm Miss Piggy!! Posted by Hello

From today onwards, Mr Doggy will have another companion. And they shall live harmoniously ever after.

See how happy they are together! (Ok, they can't smile lar!)


We are the famous "Zhu Peng Gou You"! Posted by Hello

They are the perfect duo, namely "zhu peng gou you"!!

Sadly, that's how bored I am.

Argh! Jia Wei lost...and we were sooooooo close.


always me ♥ 11:30 PM | 0 comments






New Layout

I don't know why the previous star picture just died on me and gave me a cross. So, I decided to improvise and come up with a pink one! Tada!

Mr Eeyore is on duty today and S has this assignment to rush. -_- I reckon today will be a boring day.

That said, I shall try to see if I'm able to type some Chinese in here. No, I'm not able to! Can somebody tell me why?!?!?

等待﹐ 是生活的一部份。。。。

在對的時候﹐遇到對的人﹐ 是種幸福。
在錯的時候﹐遇到錯的人﹐ 是遺憾。

寂寞是一個人的狂歡
狂歡是一群人的寂寞

酒和愛情的共同點﹕都會讓人沉醉, 都不能用毅力去控制

世上最遙遠的距離
不是生與死的距離
不是天各一方
而是我就站在你面前
你卻不知道我愛你

Let's have some English quotes too!

The world is a bewildering place
But nothing is more perplexing
Than the contradictions within ourselves

And you know what's the worse thing?
When a person starts feeling not disconnected from the world,
but disconnected from himself...

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.

Never criticize a man before you've walked 500 miles in his shoes,
that way you're 500 miles ahead of him and you have his shoes.

Life is a game, money is just our way of keeping score

I'm not in denial I'm just selective about the reality I choose to accept

Hope is a waking dream.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continuously fearing you will make one.

I don't have an attitude problem, you have a perception problem.

I can only please one person per day.
Today is not your day,
tomorrow ain't looking good either.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you down with experience.

The Impossible Dream - By Luther Vandross
To dream the impossible dream,
to fight the unbeatable foe,
to bear with unbearable sorrow
and to run where the brave dare not go.
To right the unrightable wrong,
to love pure and chased from afar,
to try when your arms are too weary
to reach the unreachable star.

No man is your friend
No man is your foe
And every man is your teacher.

Sorry, no more quotes.

See! How bored I am! -_-'''



always me ♥ 11:14 AM | 0 comments



Friday, August 20, 2004


Get me these!
// Listening to: Jewel - Stand

I want these!!!


I saw one of my customers using this and I'm hooked!


Anyway, I don't know what the heck is "Moving forward..." which my trainer uses so very often that it irritates the hell out of me! I think she used it in every 3 sentences.

Maybe I should use it this way:

"Moving forward, I shall end this post and hope some kind soul donates the above items to me."

"Moving forward, I shall celebrate as I don't have to work for tomorrow and Monday!"

Oh yeah!


always me ♥ 10:38 PM | 0 comments



Thursday, August 19, 2004


Toto & 4-D

I've said something about blogging on my 4-D and toto adventures in my previous entry. So here goes!

I'm not exactly an avid fan of gambling. In fact, I don't even know how to buy 4-D or toto in the beginning. I've always had this phobia about buying 4-D or toto by myself because I fear embarrassing myself when I didn't even know how to buy. And when I do buy (usually when I feel rich or when I feel like I'm gonna win that 2.8M draw), I usually buy through a medium of some sort because I don't know how to buy it myself. No goondu, I didn't mean Singapore pools or the bookies! I mean medium through medium, through Mr Eeyore, who will buy at Singapore pools of course, and usually it goes like this, "Hey, you going to buy toto ah?? Can you shun bian buy for me because I think I'm going to win tonight!?" And no, despite my surname being "heng", I never won before. Because if I did, I would not be here blogging as I would be some rich entrepreneur who's too busy managing her own company or doing manicures or spa or...... Why why why??? Why am I so suay??

Ok, that was a bit of digression. That suay part.

One day, my friend wanted to buy 4-D. Let's call her K. So K and I went to queue up at the counters waiting to buy 4-D.

And then I said, "Hey, since we are queueing already, I might as well buy toto hor!

K: Ya lor!

Me: What's the computer auto-pick for you called?

K: Huh?? Got computer pick for you wan meh??

Me (thinking I'm very clever already): Of course got lar! But don't know call what.

Then, I contemplated calling my colleagues to ask, because they always buy toto. Then again, I decided not to, because it was working hours and I was on leave and thus, I didn't want to disturb them.

Me: How ah?? That one call wat?? Arboh, later when you buy 4-D, you shun-bian ask the auntie lar!

K: Ya hor.

Then both of us took a look at the aunties on duty and realised they were not exactly very friendly.

Me: Aiyah, die lar! The aunties like so fierce like that! Sekali they say, "Xiaomei, don't pray pray hor. don't know how to buy then don't buy lar!" then how?? so malu! or is that called system 7??? i remembered something about system 7 for toto ler!

And then we happened to be queueing near to the booth already, so we grabbed something that faintly states "toto" and saw that there really IS a system 7 on the form. See! I'm so clever!! Now the problem is, "How to shade??"

We didn't have time to think because it's our turn.

K: Auntie, 4-D blah blah blah.

While auntie was keying in her 4-D,
K: Auntie, do you have those computer auto-pick for toto??

Auntie: Ya have. Computer pick 7 numbers for you lor. How much you want to buy?

K: Then how we buy ah? Do we have to shade anything??

Auntie: No don't need. Just tell me how much you want to buy. At least one dollar.

K: Ok, then we buy two dollars lor.

Auntie: Ok. Show me your IC. How old are you?

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think the auntie must be referring to me lar! Please allow me to delude myself here. Thank you very much.

Ok, that was adventure one. We both got our toto and 4-Ds but didn't win. Awww! And I also learnt from the ticket that the computer auto-pick thingy is called "Quickpick".

Now, my colleagues are some of those hardcore gambling people. Some of them buy 4-D and toto every week, maybe in the hope that they will strike that 2.8M and they can jolly well throw in their resignation letter straight away and leave the stupid company which pays us peanuts to do shit work. Now I can almost think like them. I wish I can strike that 2.8M (actually I'm not greedy, 1M will do) and I will throw in my resignation letter straight away! Then I can go study overseas and when I come back, I will setup my own business and sell....(haven't thought about it yet).

Ok, enough daydreaming. Basically, there's this colleague (let's call him B) who kept pestering me to help him buy 4-D because his job genre doesn't allow him to step out of the premises during his working hours. That sounded chim.

Me: What! I don't know how to buy lar. Ask other people buy lar!

B: What?! 4-D also don't know how to buy??? Don't bluff lar, so easy.

Me: Really lar, bluff you for what?!

B: You just tell the auntie you want to buy 4-D can liaoz mah!

Me: But need to shade something right? I don't know lar!

Then he proceeded to teach me how to shade the forms.

B: Aiyah so easy. See ah, if you want to buy 1234, then you just shade 1234 lar. Then you want to buy $1, shade $1 lor. Then shade big for big.

Me (feeling stupid because it really seemed so easy): Orrh! But why do I have to shade the box "big"? What is that for? What's the difference between "big" and "small"? And if I shade "big", how much I win?

Blah blah blah. I can always irritate Mr Eeyore with my questions. I believe I can do so to everybody else.

B: Aiyah, shade "big" correct already lar. Ask so many questions. Next time then tell you. Got difference one.

And so, he shaded a form for me and I was supposed to pass this form to the counter and that's it. But surprisingly, some other people came to know I'm going to buy 4-D, and they began to ask me to "shun bian" buy for them too. I ended up buying 4-D for 7 people. And nobody won. Argh!!! I'm suay!!

Anyway, when I was buying 4-D for them, I passed the forms to the auntie and as if I've bought 4-D and toto for the millionth time ever, I said, "Auntie, quickpick $2. Thank you." ^o^


always me ♥ 6:38 PM | 0 comments



Tuesday, August 17, 2004


On Singapore Idol (again?) and Holland V
// Listening to: Alicia Keys - If I Ain't Got You

They say a picture speaks a thousand words. And so today, I'm going to show you tons of pictures, with a thousand words.


Posted by Hello

I was at Caldecott Hill (Mediacorp say Mediacorp lar! What Caldecott Hill?! Actually I was just trying to make it sound like "I was at Hollywood, but don't think it worked). Anyway, I was at Mediacorp last Friday for the live recording of Singapore Idol Top 30. And what I can say was that it was slightly disappointing.


Posted by Hello

First, we rushed all the way from work to wait in the reception area for like two hours? The ticket shows this.


Posted by Hello

In case you can't see clearly, it says "to be seated by 6.45pm", and we actually reached there at around 5+, to be actually seated at 7+. Argh!! The thing I hated most, WAITING! But nevermind, our enthusiasm wasn't killed yet, at least so at the prospect of sitting in the Mediacorp studio waiting to watch the Singapore Idols Top 30 when the rest of you probably have to wait til the telecast date! =P

Ok, anyway how, we were arranged to be seated at the right side of the studio, and it so happened that on the right side of the stage, there were these 3 freaking wooden boards blocking part of our view! It should be ok, given that we can actually still see the centre stage and all, just not the right side. But these three freaking boards also happened to be the place where the judges were seated! Yes, and being so, I can't see Dick Lee, I can't see Florence Lian, and I can't see ......., ok, the other two judges didn't actually appeal to me, so they didn't really matter. Argh!!!

From the screen, Ken was still donning that "ah-pek" glasses and peering over them so very often. And I thought he was wearing something that looked like pyjamas in the show. Hah!

To digress a little, I took a taxi to work on Saturday and saw that the taxi-driver actually has a small picture of Douglas O at his side of the taxi. And I was tempted to ask him, "Are you a fan of Douglas O, because if you are, I saw him yesterday!" Which wasn't exactly true, because I didn't actually see him as I was seated at the far right side of the studio with the stupid wooden boards!!!

Ok, back to the topic. To be fair, the show started relatively fast once we are seated. Most probably because we are the last group of supporters to be seated. -_- And then we realised that we also happened to have the most pathetic-looking poster next to the group in front of us who had such an irritating LONG banner. And when I say long, it's really long, to the extent they have several people holding it (perhaps the whole row), and whenever contestant no.9 appeared, they will stand and hold the banner high and up. And when they did this, clearly, the rest of us sitting behind them couldn't see anything AT ALL!

Then, the show started. And yabadaba blah blah blah. I couldn't say much because I didn't want to be a spoiler to anybody who unfortunately happen to stumble into my blog. FYI, the show wasn't set to telecast til September 9. But I thought the judges gave VERY good comments on the first few contestants. Very good comments indeed because I thought, "Bloody hell all so good meh?! Where have all the solemn critics gone to??" Then the bad ones started to come in, and of course, they gave bad comments, else I will start to throw eggs liao. But still, I was disappointed because my friend chose the wrong song, and the judges thought so too and gave some "not-so-good" comments. I really do hope she will get through. So if there is anybody reading this, please vote for Maia!!!!!

For some saving grace, Gurmit was funny. I never did understand why some people thought he wasn't fit to be the Singapore Idol's host.

Enough said about Singapore Idol. We shall now move on to Saturday when I finally went to Holland V for the first time in my entire 22 years of existence.


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I know I must have sounded like a "suaku" here. You must be saying, "Suaku lar! Holland V also never go before. Anyway, what's so special about Holland V?? Just another place in Singapore mah." Exactly. Despite so, I have some friends and colleagues who were telling me about Holland V, and then that Holland V show on the tv, and when I replied that I've never been there before, and not even having the faintest idea where it is in Singapore, they gave me the incredulous look as if I've said, "I've never been to Orchard."

And so, I went. And I have to agree that it's slightly different from what I see in Orchard, Tampines or Simei blah blah. It's almost like the bigger version of boat quay, with all the shophouses and expatriates. And they seem to have loads of eating places. The difference is that in Tampines, we have Ya Kun, Cafe Cartel, Kenny Rogers, Pastamania, blah blah, whereas in Holland V, we have just faintly a few I know, like NYDC, Thai Express, and the rest of them are pubs or restaurants I've never heard before, with cuisine ranging from Italian to Mexican to Middle Eastern to blah blah blah. Wow! But nevertheless, I still stuck with Thai Express for my dinner.

At Thai Express, I saw this really cute Maltese puppy. It's really VERY cute, because

  1. It's VERY WHITE
  2. It's VERY small
  3. It has a stupid looking face (I always thought dogs of this genre are very cute!)
  4. It's almost like a baby snooping around. (it's a puppy, remember??)
  5. I don't think it will bite me, unlike my friend's EVIL dog

And for a moment, I actually contemplated kidnapping the dog, until I realised that there's another dog across the street who's looking at us. Now, this dog is actually quite a big stray dog which my friend insisted is a stray puppy because she has exactly the same kind of dog at home but is bigger. I tried to argue but stopped because I realised that golden retrievers also have big-sized puppies. No, that dog was not a golden retriever, basically, it was just a stray dog. But this dog can read ok! It just laid mildly outside the gate which states "No Pets Allowed." See, the dog can read! It knows that it can't go beyond that gate, so it just laid outside.

Anyway, as I was saying, we were going "ooh..ooh...so cute" when I realised this stray dog across the street. And this dog seemed like it was aiming at the little dog, and conversing in dog telepathy, saying, "You this little white thing! Why do you get all the attention and food while I get NOTHING! I'm also a puppy!! Boohoo!" Ok, I have a vivid imagination, but I think that must be what the stray dog was thinking. I think the owner of the white puppy got afraid and left quite soon after. Wahhaha~! And when we left Thai Express, we saw the stray dog lying on the same spot, licking its paws, and it's so cute then! And thus, I decided to give it some attention, by taking some pictures. See! I wasn't biased ok!


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And then, we started to walk around Holland V and I must say, Holland V must really be a place for dogs, because on our way, we saw another 6 dogs! So in all, we saw 8 dogs!! Who ever sees 8 dogs in such a short span of time??? Except in pet shops and SPCA of course! Why? In Tampines, I don't even see 8 dogs strolling in the park! Woo~ I love dogs! Except that EVIL one I must say.

Now, out of these 8 dogs, besides the first 2 I've already mentioned, there's another dog I must really tell you. Reason being, it's VERY cute (well, what's new?) and funny! Well, this dog was really small, fat, has a stupid looking face (abit like a bulldog, but it's not a bulldog) and has VERY short legs. To give you some visual aid, I think the dog's face looks like this.


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Seriously, I think the legs must be about 3cm only. Even so, it was walking alongside its owner with an amazing speed. For every step that his owner walks, I think the poor dog needs to walk 50 steps at an average speed of 100km/hr because of its freaking short legs. And the dog was not even on leash, probably because

  1. It is a good dog, the owner don't fear it running away.
  2. It is too fat to be able to find a suitable leash for it. (can't even find the neck to leash!)
  3. It probably couldn't run very far even if it wanted to, reason being, the owner would most probably walk two steps and catch it back.

Ok, you get the drift. Anyway, I've not reached the funny part yet. Funny part was, as we were as usual going "Oh...so cute...", the dog actually responded by turning to look at us!!!! Now, this is classic because at that precise moment, it fell on its side! Then it got up almost immediately and continued walking at 100km/hr. You don't get it? Ok, recap.

Dog fat and cute.
Dog received praises on being cute.
Dog responded and lost its concentration on walking 100km/hr with very short legs.
Dog fell down.

Muahahah! Now I think I'm the evil one. ^o^

In conclusion, I think Holland V has really smart dogs who know the human language. ;)



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