hee... picked this up by the bus stop across the street.
there's a tree near the bus stop and overhead bridge where it grows fruits and drops off saga seed sometimes. it's a pity quite a number of the seeds fell into the drain. gu n i picked up wad's remaining on the ground. hee then was walking home happily with the seeds in hand and remembering the valentines day gift i've had from gu. a bottle of saga seed handpicked by him.

i washed the seeds when i got home. you don't just pick things up from the ground and keep it without washing it. very dirty ya.

everytime i get to pick these saga seeds i'll bring it home and lock it in my safe. have quite a bit of them already. hee. gu say bendemeer there got alot. he picked saga seed for one hour and had enough to fill up a bottle-full of them for me.

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i have had a new hairdo. *grin*



i need to get used to it.
am very depressed for some reason cos i think i look auntie but gu say i don't.
mom say it makes my chin look sharper.
but i guess after some time (dating aug 14th when i keyed in this entry, i've had the haircut for abt 2 weeks or so), i think i'm getting used to it lah. just that it's abit mafan to care for. must put alot of things on the hair. grr.

a work i did for Ching that in the end died of a tragic death.
it got graffitti-ed and had bird poo on it.
from what i've heard.
the walls turned orange.

anyway, the changed away some pics (for the project) and replaced it with my own words and yea, this is fully my work for now.

alas!!

gu finally got a new phone!!

erm i lazy surf net to show u which model/spec it is.

basically sony ericsson walkman phone series.

it's orange in colour behind.



Birthday Treats!

celebrating the four Leo ladies' birthday. My colleagues from SPE, 3 x producers & 1 x graphics designer.

we pigged out in "Changing Appetites" and for what we've spent, 4 of us were priviledged enough to get free membercards. heh now can go eat with discount!! their servings are huge. gu n i ordered the frankenstein mud pie and omg. damn big. feel so ... sinful. (refer to pic below, third vertical box on the left).

random cat photos.


this was taken in the carpark nxt to my block.
i call it "the cow" cos it's black and white spotted like a cow with white eyebrows.
and so it just sits there and stares at me while i try to take a pic of it.
click the pic for a larger view. u can see its face better that way.


geylang bahru fat cat.
as the names speaks for itself, you know why it's called "fat cat" right?

wilson's wise word of the day: "it looks like a stuffed turkey."

indeed.

FYI, our ass, unless u're kinda overweight, covers only about 2/3 of the seat the cat is on.
that does not include the seat for pillion. just the rider himself. So... we present to you, the geylang bahru fat cat.

my desk is the one on the right. as you can see, my bulletin board is quite swamped with pictures. and my table is damn messy.

but wait, the only reason why i posted this pic up is to hao lian how secluded my seating area is. LOL. backfacing a wall. left and right covered. cubicle wall infront very high. swee lah. *hiak hiak*

I must be nuts.
seriously.
but after having chionged and read till book #30++... I'M TOTALLY ADDICTED!?
(actual date when typing this entry is 14th Aug)

after having first watched Glass Mask aka GARASU NO KAMEN in a live action drama N years ago, i've always liked this show alot. It's been so many years and even though I've watched this drama twice, I can hardly remember the story line.

I finally got to watch the anime a few months back and was once again hooked to the show.

Link to Manga
Link to Live Action

Garasu no Kamen has a few different live action version. The version I watched is in the link above.

I'm kinda compulsive I suppose.
After rekindling my addiction with this manga, I kept talking about it to people and expressed my interest in reading the manga (cos I never did before.), a colleague told me that I could try looking for it in Kinokuniya. probably the taka branch since it's the biggest outlet they have here in singapore.

and so i did. while squatting in the manga section for the longest time i found it under the publisher Tong Li but the set wasn't complete.

then i went over the counter to ask if i could place an order for the full set. at that point in time, the full set wasn't available and they had to place an order first to check. if it's available, they'll bring the books in for me.

i vaguely checked the prices (being ignorant)and first couple of manga i took out was priced at around $5.57 or so. I thought that was ok since it's not a local publisher. that's probably the stupid-est thing I've ever did. or.. at least one of the stupid-est thingS i did.

fyi, there's a total of 42 books in this series.

the help desk ladies speak with a very thick chinese accent. not suggesting that they are from china, but i believe their command of language must be damn good.

after quite sometime I've finally gotten a phone call from kinokuniya. cant remember how long it took me but the call finally came in.

and that's when i got the biggest shock of my life. oh ok. one of the biggest shock in my life.

after informing me that the books are in, numbers and dollar signs started flying across my eyes and in my mind.

i asked about the total cost of the set (cos i'm expected to pay when i collect).
she say she don't know. i bet my eyebrow twitched at that moment. then she went on to tell me it's bcos each book is priced differently and she hasnt calculated the total cost for me.

my brain froze at that instant.

OH MY GOD. WAD HAVE I DONE!?

*slams head on door several times*

why did my brain freeze? cos the price she randomly listed while lookin at the mangas was $6.50.. $6.70.. basically, above the $6 mark.

imagine... $6.70 (taking highest point) multiplied by 42.
OH MY GOD $281.40!
I'M SO DOOMED.

*checks pocket n cry*

yea. exchange rate differs each time a book comes in. thus accounting to the difference in price for each book. *dies*

i procrastinated for a week or two before going down to collect the comics.

to carry home 42 set is rather daunting.

*nods*

and so i had help. muahaha

dearest YL decides to accompany me to kino to collect my comics.
while on the train i suddenly remember that kor might be in town working.
when i called him he just about finished his work.
so i jio-ed him out for dinner and also, in times like these when help in labour is required, it's gd to have a guy ard. muahahaha

so end up YL didn't carry anything.
actually when i looked at the plastic bag, it wasn't that bad. i could carry them all home myself. basket. anyway, i've carried heavier/bulkier stuff before.


Comic, "Glass Mask"

check out my uber long receipt!!!! it's never ending!!!
in the end i spent $270+ (i got membercard so gd discount)
wah lau eh!!!!
anyway, think of it now, i didn't regret buying the comic lah. it's daaaaaaaaaamn gd.

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i made a strawberry keychain!!!

ok lah i made quite a few actually.

12th July 2007

Nothing special abt the date itself but this is a date where Karen and I met up to go to East Coast's Shi Nai Cafe.

The first shot we took when we got off the bus.

The sky was in a shade of purplish pink.
very nice.

Karen wanted to take a picture.
I could only manage a potrait shot since on the right there's all the buildings and construction planes spoiling the view.



somemore the streetlights lended some magic to the picture.

i'm glad we took this shot tho.
it's pretty sweet and for the fact that after we walked everywhere else, the sky was back to the usual dull blue hue.

it's less crowded today at the cafe.

we didn't have to queue up for seats hehehe

ordered quite a number of stuff and my drinks were the usuals.


my favourite po luo baaaaaaao!!!!

i ordered the vegetarian (means plain) po luo bao.
po luo technically means pineapple but the bun doesnt taste very pineapple-lish to begin with.

everytime i come to this cafe, the po luo bao is a sure order.

i dun fancy the char siew stuffing ones.

Karen ordered minced beef cheese baked rice.
i had this before.
it's very good.


minced beef cheese baked rice

the sauce is generous enough to not have your rice end up being too cold and dry.
the cheese is hot and chewy. so you basically don't get the cold hardened cheese on your rice.


karen with her baked rice

I actually ordered pork ribs (dim sum) but i forgot to take a shot of it.
surprisingly, karen never tried it before.
but nvm, i havent tried it till recently as well but my first taste of it was in geylang.
i didn't like the taste of the ones i ordered in shi nai but karen tot they tasted great.

my main course was porkchop rice with curry.

the curry sauce wasn't really spicy but i guess it tasted alright.
shld've asked them for more sauce.

the meat was a little to hard and i was surprised when i saw that my porkchop was not cut into pieces beforehand. i struggled a lil with my fork and knife haha..


pork chop rice with curry

later that night karen came over to my hse and had me paint her nails for her.
lol

Hokkaido Food Fair!

The food fair lasted only for two weeks.
Today's the last day but I've already visited the stalls earlier this week.

Once was with my colleagues and the next day with Wilson (when we watched Transformers in GV Tampines that night).

It's quite a sight and all the stall vendors (those who are cooking) are japanese and it's quite interesting hearing them shout in the typically japanese vendor way except i doubt all the aunties flooding the area understood a single word.

i avoided the seafood sections as much as possible and nearly died when there was a human jam at the ramen area. the overpowering stench smell coming from the pot of soup base with all the squids inside invaded my nostrils and my god. i thought i was gonna faint on the spot.

i'm not a fan for seafood.

the process of seeing them cook the fishes were quite a sight but the smell.. i tak boleh tahan (cannot take it).

Yee Lin and myself squeezed through the crowd to take a peek at everything.

the tako balls are huge! like ping pongs! and they made it look so tasty.
selling at six for $5.50, i think the price is alright.

our local takopachi is sold at 3 for $2.20 now.

a dollar more for better tasting stuff, why not?

but i cant eat squid. got allergy. bah!

spend $1.90 buying a coroke.
is that how you spell it?

i tried our local coro-chan once.
eurgh.
i vaguely remember commenting that i don't fancy how it tasted.

mustered up some courage to buy this and prayin that it tastes as good as it looks.


coroke (don't know how to spell)
basically it's just fried potato

damn well it did!

it's crispy but not too oily on the outside and super soft and creamy on the inside.
imagine potato made to taste creamy. heavenly!

click on the picture if you want a better view on the food items yea.
i took it in macro mode.


japanese rice cake covered with herbs

Yee Lin say the taste in undescribable.. or issit indescribable?
aiya wadever.
anyway, this thing cost $2. I kinda forgot that it's herbs. Thought it was seaweed.
Yee Lin was saying how un-herb like it tasted.

There were 3 flavours mainly.

1. seaweed
2. herb
3. black seseame

i bought dango!!!!!!!
*smack lips*

taste damn nice lar!

$2 also.

takashimaya there sell @ $1.80 BUT... they pale in comparison in terms of size lah.


japanese rice cake - green tea dango with red beans
*fifty cent coin for size reference*

saw my coin in the pic right?
paiseh i stupidly showed the wrong side of the coin.
shld having the 50 cents part facing up.
anyway, this dango is huge.
the ones in taka is like at the most, a fifty-cent-coin size.

there were others that i was interested in but i guess my cash quite limited and the stuff on sale ain't exactly cheap.

- butter manju cake
- sweet potato cake
- ice cream
- ramen

*drools*

UWAAAAAAAAAAAA

natsukashi!!!!!

the last time i saw these MVs were like years and years ago man..





been surfing around some blogs and got to know that yesterday (Jul 4th) so happens to be GACKT's bdae haha.

Clarke Quay Riverside

the picture was taken after we attended my editor's wedding dinner at peony-jade restaurant.
stupid taxi driver dropped us off at the wrong location.

the food at the restaurant wasn't too bad.
it was my second visit there. first time was for burger's brother's wedding and we had really bad seats. it's all the way at the back and practically could not see a single thing and was seated with a bunch of old men. boring like mad. then we decided that should we ever end up as seat fillers again, we won't attend the wedding.

this time round it wasn't that bad and i was seated amidst all my colleagues and thus the familiar faces.


At the Riverside

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we went to novena's velocity shopping centre where gu picked up his running kit for the marathon he signed up for.

somehow there's tons of korean based shops around and i spotted this!!!

KOREAN RICE CAKES! with chilli paste!!

my favourite lah!


Hankook Rice Cake House

This bowl cost around $3 but it's damn nice lah!!!!!!!!!!!
pretty spicy and serving quite generous.


Rice Cake in Chilli Paste!!! Yummy!
pls give it a try when u go there the nxt time

there's this korean mini-mart nxt to it.
all the instant noodles! bwahahhaa

i randomly bought some clay (korean light-weight clay) to make clay bunnies

damn cute lah the results.
the end result was super light.

The Pika(s) are too damn cute

Soft Paws!!

Saves your furniture and floorings from being scratched by your pet dogs and cats.
thought this was pretty cool.

They have various colours. To check out the website, Click Here


Photo first seen in CuteOverload

chocolates bars from NY (new york)!!

my boss is back from a workin trip to new york and brought back with her a plastic bag full of chocolate bars that sent some of our colleagues into quite a frenzy and even those from the "far-away" desks dropped by to steal some choco bars from us.

i'm not a fan for sweet stuff esp milk chocs so i had only one piece (not the whole bar).


choco bars!

while i was randomly laying out the chocobars on the table for the fun of it, i realized something...



Everything is "King Sized"!

uwa.......

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went to chill out with kor previously in Ice Cold Beer.
it's quite a noisy bar in terms of music but still, a nice place to hang around at.

when kor n i reached the place there was hardly any seats and the waiter/waitresses weren't too enthusiastic in helping you find a seat or rather, shld i say, too distracted and often say yes to you but soon after forgets what you asked and moved on to serve customers.

maybe cos i'm not ang moh.

quite frustrating.

anyway, we did find a seat outside eventually.

over the weekends i ended up bringing wilson over to Ice Cold Beer (when he booked out from his reservist on sat) at night.


Ice Cold Beer

Starting the day with a photo! wahahaha



we were meeting up with Zhiwei and his gf to chill out cos the chicken wings in this bar is gooooood. i read from kor's blog. the chicky wings were marinated with shrimp pasted and then deep fried. so i guess i can't let chingling eat those chicky wings cos she's allergic to seafood.



guess wot? there's two airheads (woman) sitting on the table nxt to us. why airhead? cos of their behaviour. they r kinda in their mid thirties or something and they both ordered only one cup of drink and shared it, (ok so that's not the main issue), then they wanted to play pool so they wrote their name on the chalkboard to queue for their turn. normally at such places, it's winner stay. but they don't know how to play but they either wan to play together (since both cant play so takes forever) or they keep asking the other men who is around to play/teach them. O_o" sorry if i'm prejudiced. i just don't like how it looked. then soon after... they just left.

wad the heck!?

see my gugu so dark in the picture (albeit the lighting) cos poor boy kena toasted under hot sun during his 2 out of 3 weeks in reservist.


candid snapshot by zhiwei's mischevious gf

i actually bumped into kor again that night! hahahah quite happy to see him. he brought two friends along with him that night and right after the airheads left, kor took up the seats and so we're all happily seated together YAY it's the only sofa seats around and we stole them all!!! muahahaha

CGOverdrive 2007

I'm kinda excited today. I'm really glad that after much deliberation (for stupid personal reason), I've finally decided to step out of my comfort zone and just accompany JH (or rather, tag along) to EXPO for her shoot.

In the name of "work", we're headin there to interview some high profile CG designers.
There's four of them.


As a coordinator, my work are mainly behind-the-scenes, which in another words means, administrative end.

So what I did was basically to arrange the interviews by liasing with the CGOverdrive PR exec and followed by hiring freelancing crewmen to help us out with the production. It's a pretty rushed job considering the fact that I was informed about the need for all these 2 days prior to the actual shoot. (or need to shoot.) bah!

woke up damn early in the morning to travel to expo first. surprisingly, the train station is pretty packed and as i walked along from the train station to expo, there are huge boards all over shouting out the multiple events held and here's s shot of the board for CGOverdrive.


CGOverdrive 2007 (Click photo to enlarge)
Along the pathway from MRT Station to EXPO

Being there that early means the place is still pretty quiet with little people around.
Most of them are either the staff or the speakers and you get to see lotsa foreign speakers with all their suitcases and blazers walking around.


Banner of kawaii-ko hanging up above

We started the shoot at 10 and the crew was super punctual. they were asked to meet us at 10am and at exactly 10 am they called to say they reached. 10:00am exactly!

whoa... hahahahaha

anyway,
a few hiccups here and there but that sorta added to the experience of being where I was and knowing what are the kind of variable circumstances and hiccups a shoot can face.

we couldn't find a good enough area to conduct the interviews since there wasn't one prepare by the organizers so we just had to find a spot which we thought was the quietest and least disruptive.

the speaker's lounge wasn't enclosed so sounds could probably echo in. bad choice so we skipped that. the most headache part was that there was this software clinic nearby which a huge speaker? hahahah every 5 mins or so the host would start talking and his voice will boom thro the external speakers and we'll be all wide-eyed and have to cease filming immediately to wait for him to stop talking. eventually we unplugged the external speakers wahahahha but then there is this conference hall nearby and once the various workshop ends, hoards and hoards of ppl would come out and gosh all the chittering and chatterings!?!? but actually, they weren't TOO noisy so we continued with the shoot. occasionally when the girls or people nearby start talking or giggling too loudly, i'll be the one running about asking them to tone down their volume.

we finished some of our interviews earlier than what was planned.

oh yes one screw with the tapes. i guess i won't divulge too much but it was too damn funny.

the directors and co-directors and staff creating Final Fantasy was there! hehehehe

we intereviewed one of them.

also the CG designer of Transformers and SL from Imaginery Friends.


Car motiff by Imaginery Friends

All in all everything else went smoothly. we even had our lunch covered (free!!!) cos they had buffet style catering for the speakers and media staff hehehehe

we finished shooting at around 3pm in the afternoon and i had to head back to office and when i got back there... tons of work was piling up and waiting for me. *cry*

i wanted to post the pictures i took of our interviewees but after much consideration, i kinda thought perhaps it might not be too good an idea to do so.

there was displays of some submitted digital art works and there was a couple that i liked quite a lot and too picture of but i can't post their pics here since it's not my work and i haven't gotten their permission.. so. yeah hahaha

all in all i learnt much from that trip and was quite happy to be at least out of the office once in awhile.

Heard from my boss that i might even get to go with my producer during his shoot for WCG (World Cyber Games) Asian Championship 2007 that's to be held in Suntec City in August!!

Here's a lil PR:

Animax is the principal partner for WCG Asian Championship 2007!!!

Date MMS received from Lloyd: 26th June 2007, 12:22AM



MUSHROOM BABIES!!!!
this just in...!!!!
Mushroom with 3 baby kittens!!! and they're just 3 days old!

OMG LAH! (bad lloyd! kept this secret from me and surprise me with an mms!)

they look so... squishy!
i'm so gonna equip myself with my digicam and go invade his house lah!
they havent even opened up their eyes yet!

Date MMS received from Lloyd: 26th June 2007, 12:36AM


bundle (literally) of joy!

omg they are like.. all tangled up!!

Date MMS received from Lloyd: 26th June 2007, 12:43AM


*sprawl* ehn.. where's mom?

Lloyd's gonna giveaway two kittens when they are old enough.
He's fave is the black one (it has white belly and paws!)
I like that one best too!
Will be it's self-proclaimed human god-ma and haress it lots!

can't wait! will surprise khim with the news tml and start planning when to invade Lloyd's hse.

Was surfing the web randomly and found this video on Yahoo! that's really interesting.

Learn something new today!

How to make a star-shapped ribbon

The vid teaches you how to make a star shapped ribbon, especially useful for gift wrapping, and it's surpisingly simple but the end result is very nice.



Have fun trying.

Packed like a can of sardines... Literally!

Went to Bugis Village after work with YL.

I wanted to shop for some earrings and random stuff and since we took a train to Bugis junction first, having to walked through the shopping mall we passed by a fish exhibition.

There were displays of several types of fishes for sale as well as their accompany products such as food, tanks etc etc. Took up quite a big area.

as we happily looked around at the fishes i saw a seriously funny yet weird sight.


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Check out the fishes! the entire tank is so damn empty and i was wondering where all the fishes went to and realised they were all hiding under the log. it's a seriously weird sight cos besides just hiding, a couple was swimming around frantically and the rest was busy stuffing themselves into the log like the above picture... it's like so..aligned.

damn funny sight.

p.s i still think goldfish looks freaky.

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Shopping in Bugis Village has gd returns.

muahaha..

$2 per earring, I bought 2.
Cheap aye?


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I liked the combination of a black strawberry with gold spots.
The metal "fairy" can swimg on it's own hehehe tot it was cute.

Two cute dollies shopping.

Sneak Preview

hehehe

I'm up to something again!



shall not disclose what it is first.
Will post up the final result soon! I promise it'll be something that's really cute.

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As you can see, in my office there's a fair share of rather interesting people around.

Especially from my dept.

For some reason, a really super afro wig was dugged out from our cabinets amidst all the items meant for props... (we have a stash somewhere with tons of random stuff.. parang included *gulps*) and yea so someone eventually decides to put it on. Ms Goh challenged him to wear the wig over to Telepark while offering herself as his 'bodyguard' by accompanying him over and he amicably accepts the idea. in fact, i thought he kinda looked more excited than Ms. Goh to put on the wig.


Yo yo check it out!

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My "twin" at work.
hurhur

YL changed her spectacle frame (it's Red now!).
Here's a snap shot.

remind me never to sign up for anything using the same email add for separate accounts.

fuck man.

fuck youtube.

i'm too shocked and kinda devastated knowing what on earth just happened as i sat n stoned for a few seconds trying to numb myself from my emotions.

2 of my youtube accounts got disabled.
for 1 of them, i accept the reason.
but i forgot. they share the same email thus my second account (totally innocent) was permanently disabled. there goes all my links and favourites!!!!!!!

i have shiteload of favourites saved under that account with tons of vids i love to watch.

fucked up.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHHAHAA...

What maketh of the picture you see below? with all the tiny dusty lil paw prints of our neighbourhood kittehs trampling over wilson's new leather seat.

assuming that the newly cushioned-padded seat with new leather is too irrestible and comfortable for the bed seeking kittehs.

wilson's face is exactly like how the lil animation on the bottom left of the picture depicts.



and the trail continues...



even the box got trampled over.

we shall tie that garfield (saw it hanging ard the area last night) and fry it!

thank god they didn't scratch the seat or something if not i swear wilson will flip.
we spend saturday going around places running errands and i ordered yet another figurine. will show it when it comes... in SEPT. hohoho

we bought new helmets and added extra sponge and new leather cover on the seat.
ahhhhhhhhhhh our butts are happy now.

i think i overspent. haiz.

sunday was roxy square for lunch and we hung around parkway for a while; doing some random shopping and i was in the fish supermart and saw this.

it's those boxes you buy with the miniature food figurines but what you get is based on pure randomness and i got seafood nabe. not cheap but it looks really nice. the soup looks rather realistic. at this point in time, wilson sneaked to the toilet to put on his new tshirt bought from topman. hur. vain pot *hee...* XD



i've been looking around for black coloured earrings of late cos i realised i don't have any to match my clothes with (i have no black earrings) and found this cute neko earring at bugis village for two bucks! cheap!



i think it's damn cute.

wilson wanted to get stickers for his bike but the shop he was looking for wasn't there anymore and he got abit grouchy while i was being attacked by the manicure shop auntie from china.

we arranged to meet burger in chinatown/maxwell to go to tea chapter for tea and food and before burger arrived, wilson n i parked our bike in the carpark just right beside maxwell food centre and realised the construction of a huge temple just across the road has been completed.

i didn't bring my digicam out with me so here's some shots taken with my hp.
edited a lil with photoshop to bring out the colour.


front view (Click to Enlarge)


45 degree side view (Click to Enlarge)

coincidentally while i was standing around admiring the view and taking a shot a woman (not young) walked past and made a stupid comment (to herself but aloud for all to hear).

"why so many people stand around!"
"ceh stand around then the door will open meh!?"

wah kao. pls lor AUNTIE.

ppl stand ard their business right?