20 People Meme
Someone has been doing memes off my blog, so I specially went to look for more memes to do so that she can do more memes too~ wahaha...
Instructions:
Name 20 people you can think of at the top of your head - don’t read the questions before you write and tag 5 people to do the survey.
1. Rozie
2. Jasmine
3. Yingling
4. Eunice
5. Jinwei
6. Andrew
7. Eugene
8. Gabriel
9. Anja
10. Karolina
11. Michael
12. Lorenz
13. Cindy Teo
14. Cindy Koh
15. Audrey
16. Peiting
17. Peiyi
18. Matthew
19. Zihui
20. Jinsen
Phew... Just writing down these names I realised I'm so out of touch, been living in my own world for quite some time already. I've no friends~ It's so hard to come up with all these names, or maybe it's just me... bah~
1. How did you meet #14?
German 1 tutorials, but we didn't really talk. We met again in German 3 lectures, then we just clicked.
2. What would you do if you had never met #1?
Then I wouldn't have any Muslim close friends at all. Then I wouldn't know (as in really know, not those people you meet in classes) anyone doing European Studies.
3. What would you do if #20 and #9 dated?
Not possible. Anja's in Germany, and she'll stay here, I guess, Jinsen, from what I understood before I left was that he was attached.
4. Would #6 & #17 make a good couple?
Peiyi attached already leh... hmm... I haven't met Andrew in person yet so very hard for me to determine.
5. Describe #3.
She's like a mother like that. Think of all qualities you can use to describe a stereotypical mother, that's Yingling.
6. Do you think #8 is attractive?
over.my.dead.body.
no.way.never.
unless he goes for extreme makeover, physical attractiveness will be elusive to him.
But transphysical, I guess that would have to depend on the individual, for me, bah~
7. Tell me something about #7.
He can be a character in my Prozac Nation collection of short stories.
8. Do you know anything about #12’s family?
He has a brother. He had dinner with his brother near the Hauptbahnhof last week after our project meeting.
9. What’s #8’s favourite?
"... women"
10. What would you do if #11 confesses that he/she likes you?
erm... I don't think I'd understand ba... His English isn't that good and my German isn't that good.
11. What language does #15 speak?
English and Chinese.
12. Who is #9 going out with?
She has a boyfriend, in another town in Germany.
13. How old is #16 now?
21
14. When was the last time you talked to #13?
Quite some time ago ba... We were gushing over Detective Conan, then she got busy and I went on my travels.
15. Who’s #2’s favourite singer?
Don't really know.
16. Would you date #4?
Nope. She's a girl~
17. Would you date #7?
I don't think I'd want to be yet another character in my Prozac Nation short story collection.
18. Is #15 single?
From what I know, I think the answer would be yes.
19. What is #10’s last name?
Goro-something-sky. She's Polish!
20. Would you ever consider being in a relationship with #19?
Nope. She's a girl~
21. What schools did #3 go to?
Don't know her primary school, Anglican High, Temasek Junior College, NUS
22. Where does #6 live?
Now in Scotland, going to bunk in with relatives in London soon, and when he goes back Singapore, he'll live a 5min walk away from my place.
23. What’s your favourite thing about #5?
wahahaha~
I absolutely luuuuuuuuuuurve every single thing about #5~~~
He's my sun, moon and stars, he the light of my life, he's the force pushing me to continue my existence, he's my idol, my leader, my shining knight~
I'm getting mushy already~ bah~
24. What do you think of #18?
I admire his ability to uproot himself and implant himself in any part of the world and adapt to conditions fast.
25. What do #4 & #19 have in common?
Lots~ We're in the same clique mah~
26. What special qualities does #17 hold in your life?
She's very dependable, from the days of her sitting beside me in secondary school to now, whenever I have problems, I can find myslf aways being able to turn to her~
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Unfaithful
What makes a friend an amazing one?
If anyone has been noticing my MSN status message, one should know that my status message has been alternating with my songs played on my Windows Media Player, one is A Song of Storm and Fire, another is Unfaithful. There're an amazing story behind the songs...
joan: Eh, can help me find one song? It's a song from Tsubasa Chronicles, but not the opening or ending song. It's used in the anime especially during battles.
him: Got vocal anot?
joan: Got, but it doesn't sound Japanese.
him: Is it like chanting like that?
joan: Can say so ba...
(10 min later)
him: (sends an extract of the song, an extract!!! He even cut out an extract of the song~) Is it this?
joan: (listens) Nope...
(another 5 min later)
him: (sends another extract of another song) Is it this?
joan: YES!!!
With just that short description, he managed to find me that song I wanted so badly. And if you thought this was already the best one could do for a friend, he amazed me even more just now.
I was watching stuff on youtube. One of my youtube "friends" made an AMV, this AMV...
The song kept playing in my head, so I tried to seach around for the mp3 of the song, but to no avail. *ding ding ding* When he came online, I asked him to help me~
joan: Can help me find a song? Unfaithful by Rihanna...
him: What anime is that from? Is it recent?
joan: Not anime song, just normal song (erm... Normal? Sounds weird, a normal song... lol~) Quite recent, just came out on 25 April.
him: Okay, I'll try.
(10 min later)
*joan received a mail (seen from her mail notifier) sent by: him, subject: unfaithful*
joan: (to herself) omg~
him: (to joan via MSN) Found it liao.
joan: You are so absolutely amazing sia~
Okay, Joan is easily impressed by people, but for one who has never truly master the art of searching for stuff online and successfully downloading them, she has to rely on friends. And as all know, Joan is the kind of girl who has trouble with descriptions, she can go on and on on irrelevant stuff and cannot exactly pinpoint the relevant stuff. Not to mention that she can't sing for nuts, so you can rule out humming any tune.
I shall start preparing a very big and nice birthday present for my dear friend~
Thank you Jinwei!!!
The biggest and best present I think he can receive is a girl, so now, I shall proceed on to my mission. I aim to help him find a girl and set up a date for him for his 23th birthday! *determined* *very determined* Other matchmaking session (note: Gabriel, very apologetic), has to be put on hold. All expenses for the date shall be on me.
Jinwei:
- quite good looking, as you can see from the picture
- quite smart, can pass tests and exams without studying
- very passionate, in theatre
potential date applicants:
- must must must be a girl
- preferably a simple nice girl
- must have a passion for theatre
- must understand life is more than just grades on a piece of paper
Email me if interested~
jal5eva@yahoo.com.sg
The date will be at somewhere I think Jinwei will like, at least I hope he would. It will definitely have very yummy smoked salmon~ Preferable it would be on his birthday, that would make a very good birthday present. Of course, I will not be present. Why the heck would I go and glow all over the romantic setting? If you (the interested applicant) is shy, I'll think of something for you, trust me. (Damn... The last time I said "trust me", I turned out to be wrong, but you needn't need to know this.)
Somehow I don't think this blog entry would be very effective. My backup plans is to work on all the girls friends around me... I'm doing all these just for you okay, Jinwei. See? I so good friend, I know how to repay kindness~ wahaha~
hmm... Now thinking of a girl for Jinwei, I realised that I've actually a very wide demography of friends. I had wanted to introduce a friend to someone when that someone commented that my friend seemed to be of the same demography as most of his friends, yea... It seemed like most of the people he meets ends up being that mould of people. The kind of girl I thought would be suitable for him is a direct opposite from the kind of girl I'd suppose suitable for dear Jinwei. And yea, I know people from both these spectrums. I know a lot of different kind of people. How come ah?
Oh shit! I realised that I went totally off topic, again!!!
Looking on top at my blog title, it says "Unfaithful", and that's what I was supposed to be talking about today, about the song and about the AMV you can see up there, somewhere between my long chunks of crap, okay, they are not crap, they are totally useful strings of sentences.
Maybe it's watching that AMV that made me see this song in another light. I like Haibara Ai/Sherry/Shiho Miya-something, whatever you use to call her, but I think there's something deeper about her character that hasn't come to light yet. From my reading of Detective Conan, the manga, I suspect, I strongly suspect that there might be sexual relationships of Sherry (when she was Sherry) with Gin, and maybe also that FBI guy Shuichi Something.
I don't know if I've the Rin-being-pregnant-Syndrome again, but I thought that was what was implied in some of the volumes of Dectective Conan. But of course, there's also the possibility that I've yet again misread the manga due to my not that good Chinese, but it will be interesting if Sherry did have had a relationship with Shuichi that made Gin hate her even more and wants her dead at all cost. And of course, it would be more interesting to also know that Sherry does like Conan/Shinichi/Whatever. I mean, there must be a reason for her to go running over to Shinichi's house when she suffered that ordeal, and there must be a reason why she altered the status of Shinichi.
I'm not a ConanXAi fan, I'm more of a ShinichiXRan fan, but I always had this soft spot for Ai. Of course, she have had this terrible life, Conan once shouted at her that it was all her fault that he became small, it was after all her poison. But I don't think Ai really have wanted all that to happen. It wasn't her fault that she was borned to her parents, and not her fault that she her parents died (were killed) and she was brought up by the organisation. Although Ai tried to sacrifice herself a couple of times but failed, I think in the finale she will finally successfully sacrifice herself for Shinichi to be Shinichi again, and for him to clamp down the Black Organisation.
but of course, all these talk about Sherry is all just speculative, and don't be misled by me. Jinwei, I don't think he'd like a Sherry, maybe an Ayumi might be more suitable for him. Maybe Sherry would suit the other friend I'm trying to match make better~ wahaha~
I think I'll spend tonight watching more anime, and spend the whole of tomorrow looking for more girls~ And don't remind me, I know I still have lots of travel logs to post up... hai... I'll try get some stuff done soon. I promise~
If anyone has been noticing my MSN status message, one should know that my status message has been alternating with my songs played on my Windows Media Player, one is A Song of Storm and Fire, another is Unfaithful. There're an amazing story behind the songs...
joan: Eh, can help me find one song? It's a song from Tsubasa Chronicles, but not the opening or ending song. It's used in the anime especially during battles.
him: Got vocal anot?
joan: Got, but it doesn't sound Japanese.
him: Is it like chanting like that?
joan: Can say so ba...
(10 min later)
him: (sends an extract of the song, an extract!!! He even cut out an extract of the song~) Is it this?
joan: (listens) Nope...
(another 5 min later)
him: (sends another extract of another song) Is it this?
joan: YES!!!
With just that short description, he managed to find me that song I wanted so badly. And if you thought this was already the best one could do for a friend, he amazed me even more just now.
I was watching stuff on youtube. One of my youtube "friends" made an AMV, this AMV...
The song kept playing in my head, so I tried to seach around for the mp3 of the song, but to no avail. *ding ding ding* When he came online, I asked him to help me~
joan: Can help me find a song? Unfaithful by Rihanna...
him: What anime is that from? Is it recent?
joan: Not anime song, just normal song (erm... Normal? Sounds weird, a normal song... lol~) Quite recent, just came out on 25 April.
him: Okay, I'll try.
(10 min later)
*joan received a mail (seen from her mail notifier) sent by: him, subject: unfaithful*
joan: (to herself) omg~
him: (to joan via MSN) Found it liao.
joan: You are so absolutely amazing sia~
Okay, Joan is easily impressed by people, but for one who has never truly master the art of searching for stuff online and successfully downloading them, she has to rely on friends. And as all know, Joan is the kind of girl who has trouble with descriptions, she can go on and on on irrelevant stuff and cannot exactly pinpoint the relevant stuff. Not to mention that she can't sing for nuts, so you can rule out humming any tune.
I shall start preparing a very big and nice birthday present for my dear friend~
Thank you Jinwei!!!
The biggest and best present I think he can receive is a girl, so now, I shall proceed on to my mission. I aim to help him find a girl and set up a date for him for his 23th birthday! *determined* *very determined* Other matchmaking session (note: Gabriel, very apologetic), has to be put on hold. All expenses for the date shall be on me.
Jinwei:
- quite good looking, as you can see from the picture
- quite smart, can pass tests and exams without studying
- very passionate, in theatre
potential date applicants:
- must must must be a girl
- preferably a simple nice girl
- must have a passion for theatre
- must understand life is more than just grades on a piece of paper
Email me if interested~
jal5eva@yahoo.com.sg
The date will be at somewhere I think Jinwei will like, at least I hope he would. It will definitely have very yummy smoked salmon~ Preferable it would be on his birthday, that would make a very good birthday present. Of course, I will not be present. Why the heck would I go and glow all over the romantic setting? If you (the interested applicant) is shy, I'll think of something for you, trust me. (Damn... The last time I said "trust me", I turned out to be wrong, but you needn't need to know this.)
Somehow I don't think this blog entry would be very effective. My backup plans is to work on all the girls friends around me... I'm doing all these just for you okay, Jinwei. See? I so good friend, I know how to repay kindness~ wahaha~
hmm... Now thinking of a girl for Jinwei, I realised that I've actually a very wide demography of friends. I had wanted to introduce a friend to someone when that someone commented that my friend seemed to be of the same demography as most of his friends, yea... It seemed like most of the people he meets ends up being that mould of people. The kind of girl I thought would be suitable for him is a direct opposite from the kind of girl I'd suppose suitable for dear Jinwei. And yea, I know people from both these spectrums. I know a lot of different kind of people. How come ah?
Oh shit! I realised that I went totally off topic, again!!!
Looking on top at my blog title, it says "Unfaithful", and that's what I was supposed to be talking about today, about the song and about the AMV you can see up there, somewhere between my long chunks of crap, okay, they are not crap, they are totally useful strings of sentences.
Maybe it's watching that AMV that made me see this song in another light. I like Haibara Ai/Sherry/Shiho Miya-something, whatever you use to call her, but I think there's something deeper about her character that hasn't come to light yet. From my reading of Detective Conan, the manga, I suspect, I strongly suspect that there might be sexual relationships of Sherry (when she was Sherry) with Gin, and maybe also that FBI guy Shuichi Something.
I don't know if I've the Rin-being-pregnant-Syndrome again, but I thought that was what was implied in some of the volumes of Dectective Conan. But of course, there's also the possibility that I've yet again misread the manga due to my not that good Chinese, but it will be interesting if Sherry did have had a relationship with Shuichi that made Gin hate her even more and wants her dead at all cost. And of course, it would be more interesting to also know that Sherry does like Conan/Shinichi/Whatever. I mean, there must be a reason for her to go running over to Shinichi's house when she suffered that ordeal, and there must be a reason why she altered the status of Shinichi.
I'm not a ConanXAi fan, I'm more of a ShinichiXRan fan, but I always had this soft spot for Ai. Of course, she have had this terrible life, Conan once shouted at her that it was all her fault that he became small, it was after all her poison. But I don't think Ai really have wanted all that to happen. It wasn't her fault that she was borned to her parents, and not her fault that she her parents died (were killed) and she was brought up by the organisation. Although Ai tried to sacrifice herself a couple of times but failed, I think in the finale she will finally successfully sacrifice herself for Shinichi to be Shinichi again, and for him to clamp down the Black Organisation.
but of course, all these talk about Sherry is all just speculative, and don't be misled by me. Jinwei, I don't think he'd like a Sherry, maybe an Ayumi might be more suitable for him. Maybe Sherry would suit the other friend I'm trying to match make better~ wahaha~
I think I'll spend tonight watching more anime, and spend the whole of tomorrow looking for more girls~ And don't remind me, I know I still have lots of travel logs to post up... hai... I'll try get some stuff done soon. I promise~
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Back from Benelux with... More Memes...
I'm back from Benelux very much alive and happy. The only downside to this Benelux trip is that I'VE GOT SUNBURNT!!! Bloody hell... The weather forecast said the temperature was 16-20°C, but but but it turned out to be like 22-30°C. It was so freaking hot, that I almost died somewhere in Amsterdam. It wasn't that bad in Luxembourg even though I already had wanted to buy a skirt to wear instead of keeping my long pants on. I had to buy a top in Brussels because I didn't pack enough clothes, two tops for four days in 16-20°C is more than enough, but definitely not enough for 22-30°C. I couldn't find nice skirts in Brussels, ended up buying a skirt in Utrecht before going to Amsterdam. Lucky for me, Amsterdam was so so so freaking hot at 30°C.
Yes, I'm from Singapore, and I'm used to 30°C, but you don't ever see me in long pants in Singapore, never. I like wearing skirts, and immediately after changing into the skirt, and with my sleeveless tops, it's almost like my normal attire. The clothes I wore to Konstanz is definitely not my normal attire. The Konstanz trip and the Benelux trip was like only two days apart and the temperature difference was like 20°C... What the heck...
Music Meme
Instructions: Go to your music player of choice and put it on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud, and press play. Use the song title as the answer to the question. NO CHEATING.
Joan using her N70 mp3 player.
How does the world see me?
Mavis Fan - 我要我们在一起
Why does the want to be with me? hmm...
Will I have a happy life?
Aaron Kwok - 渴望
erm... Like not answering the question like that leh... hmm... Or is it that I can only want a happy life?
What do my friends really think of me?
Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand
Eh, not everybody can hold my hand hor...
Do people secretly lust after me?
Fish Leong - 宁夏
The summer so peaceful I think no one is lusting after me ba... wahaha~ eh, wait... The song is about someone wanting someone some peaceful summer day, so maybe there's just this one person 思念着我的脸... hehehe~
How can I make myself happy?
Faye Wong - 执迷不悔
hai... The only way to make myself happy is to be stuck in shit and just lie in the shit forever. But sort of true ba... After all I'm such a masochist. hai...
What should I do with my life?
Fort Minor - Where'd You Go
Every day in my life, I sit in one corner and wonder where you went, every day, without fail...
Will I ever have children?
Faye Wong - 夜会
That's a song about infidelity leh... It's a song inspired by Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood For Love, so I guess I won't have children, even if I have, it's probably the other guy's. Wait... Did Su Lizhen in the end have a child? I remember there was a boy somewhere in the movie leh... hmm...
What is some good advice for me?
Eminem - Mockingbird
"Now hush little baby don't you cry, Everything's gonna be alright" Not a bad advice... I guess...
How will I be remembered?
Faye Wong - 宽恕
This is currently in my MSN message, 爱比恨更难宽恕.
What is my signature dancing song?
Dicky Cheung - 真真假假
hahahaha~ So old school~ Must try dancing to that tune one day, it also happens to be that Jimmy Lin's 不是每个恋曲都有美好回忆, so must try those 90s Cantopop kind of dancing sia... wahaha~
What do I think my current theme song is?
Karen Mok - 冬至
指尖以东在你夹克深处游动
能抱拥便抱拥下次用好友身份过冬
街灯以东白雪吻湿双眼瞳孔
能放松便放松泪比飞霜沉重
空港以西习惯生关死劫流逝
能放低便放低沉重感可叫机身跌毁
机舱以西直觉以光速去传递
坐快车乘早机自此疏於连系
我每次快分手总见雪花涌涌
预感的悲哀随雪花迎送
情人为什么给我吉卜赛的心
逛尽天地失去安稳
认错了方向颠倒快感
情人像游客给我吉卜赛的心
畅游之后总要伤感
陪水晶球热吻
北京以北热吻比风沙更绵密
能啜泣便啜泣下次怕他说今生永不
东京以东白雪比香薰甜蜜
愚蠢得愉快得迟早得到惩罚
Actually, think it's quite true... hai...
What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
Wubai - 大雨
大雨它冲走所有的美梦
想象的幸福全部被淘空
...
是不是你就要我走？
Actually, another of my favourite song of the same title is Wawa's 大雨...
What song will play at my funeral?
Elva Hsiao - 夜
This is the movie version, from 《夜奔》, so the opening is the lines from the movie.
Huang Lei's character: 那个大学的夜晚，当我一个背转身，我和林冲既是生离，也是死别了。
The ending's lines are, still said by Huang Lei's character: ... 握住他的身，对他说出我的爱...
erm... I'm not gay hor... But if play something like that in my funeral, I wonder if any guy would say something like that in my funeral anot. If there is, I'm more than willing to die.
What type of men/women do I like?
Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
I like life, I like people who know how to live life, it'd be good if they can be my guide. Okay, not they, just one of them would do...
What is my day going to be like?
Terry Lin - 散了吧
wah kau... Like that my day so sad ah?
I like this Meme! Must do it again~ wahaha~
Another Meme. This meme like got no name like that leh...
1) How old do you wish you were?
16, when things were simple.
2) Where were you when 9/11 happened?
At home studying for exams. The next day was our History Prelim Paper, my class was saying that if we tio, we needn't sit for that paper liao, we'd have been making history.
3) What do you do when vending machines steal your money?
press press press and call the hotline number. Fuck! I hate it when something like this happens. Kanasai...
4) Do you consider yourself kind?
To certain people, yes definitely, to others, definitely not. bah~
5) If you had to get a tattoo, where would it be?
My back, one nice big dragon~
6) If you could be fluent in any other language, what would it be?
Deutsch. bah~ And I'm still not making an effort to learn the language well.
7) Do you know your neighbours?
My house mates here, I know them pretty well. My neighbour back in Singapore, still okay, as all Singaporean condo neighbours like that, not especially close, but can do little chats.
8) What do you consider a vacation?
Going to somewhere with a credit card and nothing else.
9) Do you follow your horoscope?
I think it says my personality and character but not what will happen to me today.
10) Would you move for the person you loved?
depends on the person, depends on the place, depends on my commitment level. I'd say, yes, maybe.
11) Are you touchy feely?
With close guy friends, quite. Girls, don't touch me!
12) Do you believe that opposites attract?
Depends.
13) Dream job?
Writer, then after I sold my millionth book, I'll direct that into a film, maybe play a small role in the film.
14) Favorite channel(s)?
I watch for the show not the channel.
15) Favorite place to go on weekends?
Online.
Maybe can go up to Hinterzarten to chill over some coffee and cake.
In Singapore, Siglap or Marine Parade, and watch the world go by.
16) Showers or Baths?
Depends. Generally I think showering and bathing is a waste of time, but when I bath I like it to be nice long and hot.
17) Do you paint your nails?
Manicure sometimes, as in go down to my manicurist. Don't get me started on the last time I tried to cut my nails myself. A total fiasco sia~
18) Do you trust people easily?
I trust friends. But between lovers, I can never be able to trust him, and I more importantly am unable to trust myself.
19) What are your phobias?
The fear of fear itself. I'm quite a bold person, actually.
20) Do you want kids?
Yes. James and Jadies.
21) Do you keep a handwritten journal?
I used to, atually I still do, but very seldom write things in there.
22) Where would you rather be right now?
In the arms of someone I love.
23) Who makes you feel warm and fuzzy?
In the arms of someone I love. Or the thought that I would be able to do so.
24) Heavy or light sleeper?
Depends.
25) Are you paranoid?
Yes.
26) Are you impatient?
I've short attention span.
27) Who can you relate to?
I don't know. I don't even know if I know myself well enough or not.
28) How do you feel about interracial couples?
Other people is other people's problem. For myself I know the possibility is very low.
29) Have you been burned by love?
Burned? That would be a total understatement.
30) What’s your favorite pick-up line?
Haven't heard of good ones yet, but I've lots which I hate. The worst, "Can I have your Friendster account?" Even when said in real life it's still disgusting, to think that some people still live in virtual in reality. It already sounds bad when one says it over the internet, but to say that in real life? Fuck, get a life man... And for the record, I hate it especially so because I'm the last person living an active virtual life without a Friendster account~ And I'm proud of it!
31) What’s your main ring tone on your mobile?
Just changed it to A Song of Storm and Fire, from Tsubasa Chronicles, and xxxholic.
32) What were you doing at midnight last night?
Sleeping on board the City Night Line, in a bunk~ First time doing that~
33) What did the last text on your cellphone say?
The last one on my German SIM is from Gabriel, the last one on my Singapore one is an invitation to a birthday party which I can't attend.
34) Whose bed did you sleep in last night?
The City Night Line's bed. It was more comfortable than Gabriel described, maybe it's because I'm more used to lying on my tummy, so instead of sitting or lying, I lay on my tummy and did my stuff.
35) What color shirt are you wearing?
White~
36) Most recent movie you watched?
MI3, in German~ I love Tom Cruise~ This reminds me, I really should be watching MirrorMask, maybe later tonight.
37) Name three things you have on you at all times?
Underwear? Some clothes? Visual aid, either specs or more often contacts. If talking about what's always in my bag, wallet, keys and handphones.
38.) What color are your bed sheets?
White Stusie sheets.
39) How much cash do you have on you right now?
No more than €20, but I have about S$60 which I can't use anyway. Maybe I'll go duty free shopping when I go back home.
40) What is your favorite part of the chicken?
Breasts.
41) What’s your favorite town/city?
Baden-Baden, currently.
42) I can’t wait till:
I go back home, or is it? I don't know. I miss home a lot, but it's sad to end my dream of a tour of Europe. hai...
43) Who got you to join LJ?
I'm on Blogger. The girls got me on Blogger.
44) What did you have for dinner last night?
Some pork, and mashed potatoes, courtesy of dear Gabriel, THANKS!!! I'm a picky eater, and I irritated him thoughout his cooking, and I am still alive, and he hasn't killed me yet~ woohoo~
45) How tall are you barefoot?
1.68m
47) Do you own a gun?
If I do, I'd probably be dead long ago. Thank God.
48) What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
Coke. I prefer to drink coke in the morning, afternoon and night, and always.
49) What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex?
My body. I dare say I don't have that bad a figure, and it's not that bad naked either. bah~ Too bad for you~
56) Where do you think you’ll be in 10 years?
Don't know.
57) Last thing you ate?
Some cheese flips thingie, sort of like Cheezels like that.
58) What songs do you sing in the shower?
Any song that comes in my mind.
59) Last thing that made you laugh?
Can't remember, think I cracked a joke about something yesterday but I can't remember it.
60) Worst injury you’ve ever had?
This one? But that only bloody, the bad ones are those I sprained my ankles and can't walk ba...
61) Does someone have a crush on you?
Don't know.
62) What’s your favorite candy?
Don't have any. But that reminds me, I bought a bag of sweets in Konstanz and hanven't finished them yet.
63) What song do you want played at your funeral?
I don't want to play song, I just want a guy to say what Huang Lei's character said from the above meme. Can't remember the name of Huang Lei's character.
Finally~
Yup~ Watch this place for my travel logs, first Konstanz, Singen, Triberg, then Luxembourg, Brussels, Amsterdam, Kinderdijk, and a little bit on Utrecht. Next where shall I go leh? wahahaha~ Think I go watch some more football matches first ba...
Yes, I'm from Singapore, and I'm used to 30°C, but you don't ever see me in long pants in Singapore, never. I like wearing skirts, and immediately after changing into the skirt, and with my sleeveless tops, it's almost like my normal attire. The clothes I wore to Konstanz is definitely not my normal attire. The Konstanz trip and the Benelux trip was like only two days apart and the temperature difference was like 20°C... What the heck...
Music Meme
Instructions: Go to your music player of choice and put it on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud, and press play. Use the song title as the answer to the question. NO CHEATING.
Joan using her N70 mp3 player.
How does the world see me?
Mavis Fan - 我要我们在一起
Why does the want to be with me? hmm...
Will I have a happy life?
Aaron Kwok - 渴望
erm... Like not answering the question like that leh... hmm... Or is it that I can only want a happy life?
What do my friends really think of me?
Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand
Eh, not everybody can hold my hand hor...
Do people secretly lust after me?
Fish Leong - 宁夏
The summer so peaceful I think no one is lusting after me ba... wahaha~ eh, wait... The song is about someone wanting someone some peaceful summer day, so maybe there's just this one person 思念着我的脸... hehehe~
How can I make myself happy?
Faye Wong - 执迷不悔
hai... The only way to make myself happy is to be stuck in shit and just lie in the shit forever. But sort of true ba... After all I'm such a masochist. hai...
What should I do with my life?
Fort Minor - Where'd You Go
Every day in my life, I sit in one corner and wonder where you went, every day, without fail...
Will I ever have children?
Faye Wong - 夜会
That's a song about infidelity leh... It's a song inspired by Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood For Love, so I guess I won't have children, even if I have, it's probably the other guy's. Wait... Did Su Lizhen in the end have a child? I remember there was a boy somewhere in the movie leh... hmm...
What is some good advice for me?
Eminem - Mockingbird
"Now hush little baby don't you cry, Everything's gonna be alright" Not a bad advice... I guess...
How will I be remembered?
Faye Wong - 宽恕
This is currently in my MSN message, 爱比恨更难宽恕.
What is my signature dancing song?
Dicky Cheung - 真真假假
hahahaha~ So old school~ Must try dancing to that tune one day, it also happens to be that Jimmy Lin's 不是每个恋曲都有美好回忆, so must try those 90s Cantopop kind of dancing sia... wahaha~
What do I think my current theme song is?
Karen Mok - 冬至
指尖以东在你夹克深处游动
能抱拥便抱拥下次用好友身份过冬
街灯以东白雪吻湿双眼瞳孔
能放松便放松泪比飞霜沉重
空港以西习惯生关死劫流逝
能放低便放低沉重感可叫机身跌毁
机舱以西直觉以光速去传递
坐快车乘早机自此疏於连系
我每次快分手总见雪花涌涌
预感的悲哀随雪花迎送
情人为什么给我吉卜赛的心
逛尽天地失去安稳
认错了方向颠倒快感
情人像游客给我吉卜赛的心
畅游之后总要伤感
陪水晶球热吻
北京以北热吻比风沙更绵密
能啜泣便啜泣下次怕他说今生永不
东京以东白雪比香薰甜蜜
愚蠢得愉快得迟早得到惩罚
Actually, think it's quite true... hai...
What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
Wubai - 大雨
大雨它冲走所有的美梦
想象的幸福全部被淘空
...
是不是你就要我走？
Actually, another of my favourite song of the same title is Wawa's 大雨...
What song will play at my funeral?
Elva Hsiao - 夜
This is the movie version, from 《夜奔》, so the opening is the lines from the movie.
Huang Lei's character: 那个大学的夜晚，当我一个背转身，我和林冲既是生离，也是死别了。
The ending's lines are, still said by Huang Lei's character: ... 握住他的身，对他说出我的爱...
erm... I'm not gay hor... But if play something like that in my funeral, I wonder if any guy would say something like that in my funeral anot. If there is, I'm more than willing to die.
What type of men/women do I like?
Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
I like life, I like people who know how to live life, it'd be good if they can be my guide. Okay, not they, just one of them would do...
What is my day going to be like?
Terry Lin - 散了吧
wah kau... Like that my day so sad ah?
I like this Meme! Must do it again~ wahaha~
Another Meme. This meme like got no name like that leh...
1) How old do you wish you were?
16, when things were simple.
2) Where were you when 9/11 happened?
At home studying for exams. The next day was our History Prelim Paper, my class was saying that if we tio, we needn't sit for that paper liao, we'd have been making history.
3) What do you do when vending machines steal your money?
press press press and call the hotline number. Fuck! I hate it when something like this happens. Kanasai...
4) Do you consider yourself kind?
To certain people, yes definitely, to others, definitely not. bah~
5) If you had to get a tattoo, where would it be?
My back, one nice big dragon~
6) If you could be fluent in any other language, what would it be?
Deutsch. bah~ And I'm still not making an effort to learn the language well.
7) Do you know your neighbours?
My house mates here, I know them pretty well. My neighbour back in Singapore, still okay, as all Singaporean condo neighbours like that, not especially close, but can do little chats.
8) What do you consider a vacation?
Going to somewhere with a credit card and nothing else.
9) Do you follow your horoscope?
I think it says my personality and character but not what will happen to me today.
10) Would you move for the person you loved?
depends on the person, depends on the place, depends on my commitment level. I'd say, yes, maybe.
11) Are you touchy feely?
With close guy friends, quite. Girls, don't touch me!
12) Do you believe that opposites attract?
Depends.
13) Dream job?
Writer, then after I sold my millionth book, I'll direct that into a film, maybe play a small role in the film.
14) Favorite channel(s)?
I watch for the show not the channel.
15) Favorite place to go on weekends?
Online.
Maybe can go up to Hinterzarten to chill over some coffee and cake.
In Singapore, Siglap or Marine Parade, and watch the world go by.
16) Showers or Baths?
Depends. Generally I think showering and bathing is a waste of time, but when I bath I like it to be nice long and hot.
17) Do you paint your nails?
Manicure sometimes, as in go down to my manicurist. Don't get me started on the last time I tried to cut my nails myself. A total fiasco sia~
18) Do you trust people easily?
I trust friends. But between lovers, I can never be able to trust him, and I more importantly am unable to trust myself.
19) What are your phobias?
The fear of fear itself. I'm quite a bold person, actually.
20) Do you want kids?
Yes. James and Jadies.
21) Do you keep a handwritten journal?
I used to, atually I still do, but very seldom write things in there.
22) Where would you rather be right now?
In the arms of someone I love.
23) Who makes you feel warm and fuzzy?
In the arms of someone I love. Or the thought that I would be able to do so.
24) Heavy or light sleeper?
Depends.
25) Are you paranoid?
Yes.
26) Are you impatient?
I've short attention span.
27) Who can you relate to?
I don't know. I don't even know if I know myself well enough or not.
28) How do you feel about interracial couples?
Other people is other people's problem. For myself I know the possibility is very low.
29) Have you been burned by love?
Burned? That would be a total understatement.
30) What’s your favorite pick-up line?
Haven't heard of good ones yet, but I've lots which I hate. The worst, "Can I have your Friendster account?" Even when said in real life it's still disgusting, to think that some people still live in virtual in reality. It already sounds bad when one says it over the internet, but to say that in real life? Fuck, get a life man... And for the record, I hate it especially so because I'm the last person living an active virtual life without a Friendster account~ And I'm proud of it!
31) What’s your main ring tone on your mobile?
Just changed it to A Song of Storm and Fire, from Tsubasa Chronicles, and xxxholic.
32) What were you doing at midnight last night?
Sleeping on board the City Night Line, in a bunk~ First time doing that~
33) What did the last text on your cellphone say?
The last one on my German SIM is from Gabriel, the last one on my Singapore one is an invitation to a birthday party which I can't attend.
34) Whose bed did you sleep in last night?
The City Night Line's bed. It was more comfortable than Gabriel described, maybe it's because I'm more used to lying on my tummy, so instead of sitting or lying, I lay on my tummy and did my stuff.
35) What color shirt are you wearing?
White~
36) Most recent movie you watched?
MI3, in German~ I love Tom Cruise~ This reminds me, I really should be watching MirrorMask, maybe later tonight.
37) Name three things you have on you at all times?
Underwear? Some clothes? Visual aid, either specs or more often contacts. If talking about what's always in my bag, wallet, keys and handphones.
38.) What color are your bed sheets?
White Stusie sheets.
39) How much cash do you have on you right now?
No more than €20, but I have about S$60 which I can't use anyway. Maybe I'll go duty free shopping when I go back home.
40) What is your favorite part of the chicken?
Breasts.
41) What’s your favorite town/city?
Baden-Baden, currently.
42) I can’t wait till:
I go back home, or is it? I don't know. I miss home a lot, but it's sad to end my dream of a tour of Europe. hai...
43) Who got you to join LJ?
I'm on Blogger. The girls got me on Blogger.
44) What did you have for dinner last night?
Some pork, and mashed potatoes, courtesy of dear Gabriel, THANKS!!! I'm a picky eater, and I irritated him thoughout his cooking, and I am still alive, and he hasn't killed me yet~ woohoo~
45) How tall are you barefoot?
1.68m
47) Do you own a gun?
If I do, I'd probably be dead long ago. Thank God.
48) What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
Coke. I prefer to drink coke in the morning, afternoon and night, and always.
49) What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex?
My body. I dare say I don't have that bad a figure, and it's not that bad naked either. bah~ Too bad for you~
56) Where do you think you’ll be in 10 years?
Don't know.
57) Last thing you ate?
Some cheese flips thingie, sort of like Cheezels like that.
58) What songs do you sing in the shower?
Any song that comes in my mind.
59) Last thing that made you laugh?
Can't remember, think I cracked a joke about something yesterday but I can't remember it.
60) Worst injury you’ve ever had?
This one? But that only bloody, the bad ones are those I sprained my ankles and can't walk ba...
61) Does someone have a crush on you?
Don't know.
62) What’s your favorite candy?
Don't have any. But that reminds me, I bought a bag of sweets in Konstanz and hanven't finished them yet.
63) What song do you want played at your funeral?
I don't want to play song, I just want a guy to say what Huang Lei's character said from the above meme. Can't remember the name of Huang Lei's character.
Finally~
Yup~ Watch this place for my travel logs, first Konstanz, Singen, Triberg, then Luxembourg, Brussels, Amsterdam, Kinderdijk, and a little bit on Utrecht. Next where shall I go leh? wahahaha~ Think I go watch some more football matches first ba...
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Pfingspause
It's the Pfingsten week and I have no classes at all for this entire week. Of course, I had wanted to use this opportunity to go to a couple of places. But I faced two setbacks. 1. No travel mate. 2. I've a project group meeting on Wednesday, right smack in the middle of the week.
In the end, on Saturday, I made a hasty decision. My friend, the Taiwanese girl, wanted to go to Bodensee, so we bought tickets to Konstanz, actually we bought the Baden-Würtemburg ticekts, so we could go to anywhere in that region byt the normal trains. Then in a haste, I decided that I can make it in Europe travelling alone, so I bought a one way ticket to Luxembourg, with four transits, and another one way ticket back to Freiburg from Utrecht. I haven't bought tickets from Luxembourg to Utrecht yet though. And I don't think I'd even be going to Utrecht straight from Luxembourg. My plan is to tour the whole of Benelux. So I guess I'd make a trip from Luxembourg to Brussels, then from Brussels to Utrecht. Then from Utrecht I can make day trips to Amsterdam and that windmill place.
A short note on my Konstanz trip. In two days, we also went to Singen, a sleepy little town with nothing much to see, and Triberg, a town with the Stadtmitte far far away from the Bahnhof, and the world's largest Cuckoo clock, far away from both the Stadtmitte and the Bahnhof. yea... I did quite a bit of walking in these two days, and I think I'll be doing even more walking in the next four days of my trips. Bless me~
Anyway, I realised something very stupid of me. I'm leaving Germany right smack in the middle of the opening of the World Cup. Now I'll have to wriggle my way into some bar in the middle of the night in a foreign country alone. Bless me a bit more~
Luckily for me, I think Benelux is a relatively safe place to be. Oh well... I've survived one day and a bit of the night in Berlin by myself so what else can't I not do by myself? Speaking of Berlin, my tickets to Luxembourg and from Utrecht is cheaper than my return ticket to Berlin, and this time I'll get a bed~ Thanks to my miscommunication the last time, I got a sitting place, this time I'll be lying down~ cool~ Should be worth trying out everything, at least once.
I'm feeling a bit guilty spending so much. hai... I must make sure that everything will be well worth the price I'm paying!!!
Oh, and I must complain a bit. Konstanz and the other little towns are quite a bit boring. Even with the biggest Cuckoo clock in the world, I took about 220 photos in the two days. Compare this with the 470 photos I took in Berlin. kaoz~ I must take at least 700 photos in Benelux lor, if not all those I spent would be wasted. My aim would of course to be able to take a full 750 photos with my 1gig card and my 512mb card.
I was reading a couple of blogs just now, a couple of my friend bought that 250gig external hard disk drive from the PC fair. wahaha~~~ I also want!!! 250gig means can store 125 000. Then I want get the CSII when I get back, then each .psd file would be damn big, then I'd really need that amount of space!!! wahaha~ I'm really spending a lot on these techie sort of stuff and I'm not really the most techie person on earth. bah~ Even close friends find it amazing that I actually have 1 gig cards and a multi card reader and lots of weird techie gadgets.
Just now someone asked me why do I have three Flickr accounts. Well, if someone sponsor me a Flickr pro account, then I wouldn't need three Flickr accounts lor... bah~ Anyway, I've been resizing all my photos one by one, painstakenly, and back breakingly, to upload on a travel journal portal. I'd put up the link once I think I've got a decent journal, so if you want any photos (read: Cindy) wait. Then just download what you want from there. Photos there are resized to prevent blatant plagarism of my work, sorry, but some things are mine and I'd want to use them to do graphic designings. If one day I'm to use my pictures for an A2 or larger poster, I wouldn't want anyone to be able to emulate my work from downloading my pictures.
Actually I've a lot of things I need to blog about but have been procrastinating until I now feel very tired to do much writing, especially writing with the use of my dying brain cells.
Oh yar, I'm trying to do up a match making session for a deprived friend of mine. I sent in a picture of one of my close girl friends (girls, erm... I think I shall not name the identity of her here because I know you are reading this, but rest assured that I won't introduce shit to anyone.) Anyone else knows anyone else who you think is suitable? Or anyone just wants to be match made? I think I've a few more contacts on hand. Okay, not I think, I definitely have a few more contacts one hand. hmm... How come all the guys around me like all so deprived one ah? bah~
I think I shall work on my travel journal now, so that I can get it up and going as soon as possible. I sent out invites to 8 people, but how come like I haven't been getting any feedbacks from anyone yet ah? Wei... People, where are you guys? Do you even check your emails anot? Do you even bother to do your little friend here a favour anot?
till later
xxoos
In the end, on Saturday, I made a hasty decision. My friend, the Taiwanese girl, wanted to go to Bodensee, so we bought tickets to Konstanz, actually we bought the Baden-Würtemburg ticekts, so we could go to anywhere in that region byt the normal trains. Then in a haste, I decided that I can make it in Europe travelling alone, so I bought a one way ticket to Luxembourg, with four transits, and another one way ticket back to Freiburg from Utrecht. I haven't bought tickets from Luxembourg to Utrecht yet though. And I don't think I'd even be going to Utrecht straight from Luxembourg. My plan is to tour the whole of Benelux. So I guess I'd make a trip from Luxembourg to Brussels, then from Brussels to Utrecht. Then from Utrecht I can make day trips to Amsterdam and that windmill place.
A short note on my Konstanz trip. In two days, we also went to Singen, a sleepy little town with nothing much to see, and Triberg, a town with the Stadtmitte far far away from the Bahnhof, and the world's largest Cuckoo clock, far away from both the Stadtmitte and the Bahnhof. yea... I did quite a bit of walking in these two days, and I think I'll be doing even more walking in the next four days of my trips. Bless me~
Anyway, I realised something very stupid of me. I'm leaving Germany right smack in the middle of the opening of the World Cup. Now I'll have to wriggle my way into some bar in the middle of the night in a foreign country alone. Bless me a bit more~
Luckily for me, I think Benelux is a relatively safe place to be. Oh well... I've survived one day and a bit of the night in Berlin by myself so what else can't I not do by myself? Speaking of Berlin, my tickets to Luxembourg and from Utrecht is cheaper than my return ticket to Berlin, and this time I'll get a bed~ Thanks to my miscommunication the last time, I got a sitting place, this time I'll be lying down~ cool~ Should be worth trying out everything, at least once.
I'm feeling a bit guilty spending so much. hai... I must make sure that everything will be well worth the price I'm paying!!!
Oh, and I must complain a bit. Konstanz and the other little towns are quite a bit boring. Even with the biggest Cuckoo clock in the world, I took about 220 photos in the two days. Compare this with the 470 photos I took in Berlin. kaoz~ I must take at least 700 photos in Benelux lor, if not all those I spent would be wasted. My aim would of course to be able to take a full 750 photos with my 1gig card and my 512mb card.
I was reading a couple of blogs just now, a couple of my friend bought that 250gig external hard disk drive from the PC fair. wahaha~~~ I also want!!! 250gig means can store 125 000. Then I want get the CSII when I get back, then each .psd file would be damn big, then I'd really need that amount of space!!! wahaha~ I'm really spending a lot on these techie sort of stuff and I'm not really the most techie person on earth. bah~ Even close friends find it amazing that I actually have 1 gig cards and a multi card reader and lots of weird techie gadgets.
Just now someone asked me why do I have three Flickr accounts. Well, if someone sponsor me a Flickr pro account, then I wouldn't need three Flickr accounts lor... bah~ Anyway, I've been resizing all my photos one by one, painstakenly, and back breakingly, to upload on a travel journal portal. I'd put up the link once I think I've got a decent journal, so if you want any photos (read: Cindy) wait. Then just download what you want from there. Photos there are resized to prevent blatant plagarism of my work, sorry, but some things are mine and I'd want to use them to do graphic designings. If one day I'm to use my pictures for an A2 or larger poster, I wouldn't want anyone to be able to emulate my work from downloading my pictures.
Actually I've a lot of things I need to blog about but have been procrastinating until I now feel very tired to do much writing, especially writing with the use of my dying brain cells.
Oh yar, I'm trying to do up a match making session for a deprived friend of mine. I sent in a picture of one of my close girl friends (girls, erm... I think I shall not name the identity of her here because I know you are reading this, but rest assured that I won't introduce shit to anyone.) Anyone else knows anyone else who you think is suitable? Or anyone just wants to be match made? I think I've a few more contacts on hand. Okay, not I think, I definitely have a few more contacts one hand. hmm... How come all the guys around me like all so deprived one ah? bah~
I think I shall work on my travel journal now, so that I can get it up and going as soon as possible. I sent out invites to 8 people, but how come like I haven't been getting any feedbacks from anyone yet ah? Wei... People, where are you guys? Do you even check your emails anot? Do you even bother to do your little friend here a favour anot?
till later
xxoos
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Berlin
Actually I wanted to do the Berlin entry after my friend did his, but he just haven't done it yet and I might be going on another trip, so before I let my travelogs pile up, I think I should just blog about something first. After all, it's less than seven days down to the first match.
Actually, I've made another online travel journal, but it's mainly for photos and a bit of description, but I'm still making it look somewhat decent so I've only opened that journal up to eight selected friends. Wait a little while longer and I'd put up the link over here and hopefully that will be a blast~ Must go there and visit hor, after I put up the link! And see all the photos I've taken. I've painfully resized them all, so it's a lot of hardwork.
Speaking of photos, yesterday as I was tinkering with my documents and saving my resized photos, I had this little warning balloon pop up. It said that I'm running out of hard disk space on my C drive. This C drive is one month old plus, how can I run out of space so quickly??? I didn't even bother transferring data from my external hard disk to my C drive because there's just too much to do. I only transferred my pictures file over because my friend asked me what would I do if my external hard disk dieded on me and I lose all my photos. I needed to back up all those photos in my laptop. And so I ran a check in My Documents folder, it's 12gig, with 10gig coming from My Pictures. Want to know how I managed to chalk up this many photos?
I took more than 470 photos in Berlin over a period of two days with two hours spare to go watch a movie. My 1gig memory card was can let me take up to 501 photos. So, rounding up each trip costs me 1gig of photos, it's no wonder I managed to max out my C drive so quickly. bah~ Anyway, I've transferred my old pictures, those I copied over from my external hard disk over to my D drive, so I can free up some space in my C drive for my next couple of trips. The friend who went to Berlin with me went with a 128mb card and took about a third of the number of pictures I took.
The amazing thing about NUS would be this situation. Two NUS FASS year two students meeting for the very first time about 6000miles away from Singapore in the city of Berlin. I have never met in along the corridors of NUS Arts Fac, and I was to meet him in Berlin. Oh well... The effects of globalisation.
These pictures are when we first reached Berlin. Okay, when we first reached Berlin, we actually had to find a hostel and check in and drop our stuff. More on the hostel later, I've got pics, but now I'll show what we did in the morning of our arrival.
1. My first view of Berlin city. The sight that greeted me as I hopped of the train and haven't met the thing that dampen my spirits.
2. Some people don't understand why some people take pictures of bahnhof signs, well, doesn't this prove that I'm in Berlin and not some other city. At least to me, this makes sure that I alighted at the right station, doesn't it?
3. The famed Checkpoint Charlie. I thought this placed seemed more like a tourist area, like you know a theme park or something, especially with that huge poster of that army guy.
4. The famed American sign. I'm sure all of us have seen parodies of this at some point in our life.
5. Our breakfast cum lunch, a quick and cheap meal in Checkpoint Charlie's vicinity. The food looks good, the taste is normal. Chicken Schnitzel with pomme frites. We both had that.
6. Calamaris. It sucked. Okay, it's better than the ones at Nordsee. I guess this is what it means to NOT eat seafood in a landlocked city.
7. Have you ever wondered why his blog entries are always so long? Okay, mine's long too, but mine's rambles, his is long and filled with content. This is because he takes notes as he walks!!! kaoz... His papers were filled with pages of notes written in very small and almost illegible font. Joan will never be able to do that, she's too lazy, and she know that will make her blog entries even more longer than they already are. wahahah~
8. Gedachtnis Church. Built by Kaiser Wilhelm, the guy who started the First World War. Bombed in the Second World War. Left in it's unrepaired state to remind Germany not to start anymore World Wars.
9. A pissior. For guys to piss. It looks so weird standing in the middle of nowhere. Want to know what's like inside? Ask the guy in photo number 7.
10. The interiors of a Church. Can't remember what church it was, perhaps it was the Gedachtnis Church. I like the blues~ nice...
In the afternoon, we went on this Insiders Tour. It's called the famous walk tour which brings us on a foot tour of everywhere important we needed to see in Berlin. It costs only 10€ for students and 9€ for those with ISIC cards. And the best thing? It's in English!!! wahaha~ I love those globalising Americans, they own the world and they speak English~ ANyway, this tour basically brought me everywhere I wanted to see in Berlin and allowed me ample time to take pictures, and if there's not enough time, at least I knew where the place was and can come back another time to take more pictures.
I'm only show a selection of pictures, wait till I post my travel journal up then you can see all the pictures I took. I'll try to be as brief as I can, I realised that there are 20 photos in this series.
1. Our guide for the day. Joe from London.
2. Me waiting for the tour to start. My friend wanted to help me take the picture, but I prefer my own phototaking skills.
3. The very new Berlin Hauptbahnhof. It reminds me of Frankfurt am Main Airport, with the glass curved shaped ceilings. Why did the only glass curved shaped ceilings of an architecture piece in Singapore turned out to be so ugly when these Germans can make it look so beautiful?
4. The new Reichtag, I think. I saw so many buildings that I can't remember which are which. Go look at the other person's blog if you want exact details, he wrote everything down. bah~
5. Dom, I think.
6. A river with a bridge.
7. River with bridge with S Bahn.
8. It's an island with a few museums on it. That is the modern art museum.
9. The used to be the Kaiser Church, then the State Church, then now dunno what Church. i think the bodies of the Hollenzollens are kept there.
10. The ancient history museum. I think he went in there, my attention span is too short to view a museum. Actually I wanted to visit the German Historical Museum, but it was down for renovations. damn... The only museum I want to go and I can't go. Okay, I went to the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, but but but, it's still not the German Historical Museum!!!
11. Fernsehturm. The Eastern Germans structured that to show off to the Western Europeans, but God's revenge on it. hehehe~ The Swedes made it, and made it in such a way that when sun shines on it, the ball would reflect light and that structure would look like a cross. So much for anarchical Communism.
12. Stadt Oprea House.
13. Some memorial building. There's like a whole lot of memorial buildings in german remembering a whole lot of things from war to dunno-whats.
14. Humbold University, and a memorial for German thinkings and ideology. That stack of book there are named after various German writers from Marx, Goethe, Kant to Schiller to name some.
15. This is to remember people like Bach and Beethoven, the German musicians. The Germans are really promoting their country until it's becoming a bit OTT. All this for the World Cup.
16. Some important building that I can't remember what's it.
17. Me taking a lunch break. I finally let him take a picture of me, don't think I look terribly nice in it, but at least it shows me in proper clothes. Four layers of jackets that make me fat is not proper clothes. Yes, I was in four layers. That tee, my black pullover, my pink jacket, and my red windbreaker cum raincoat. It was so bloody cold and wet in Berlin. It's actually not much better here in Freiburg. 8°C in summer. When Gabriel came over Freiburg and went to Titisee-Neustadt he actually saw snow, in end May. Goodness~
18. What is seeing berlin if you don't see the Berlin Wall?
19. Another memorial, this time for the dead Jews from the Holocaust.
20. The thing I wanted to see when I'm in Berlin, the Brandenburg Gate. It was pretty disappointing. It didn't wow me as much as I wanted to wow. I think it's beause of all the people and all the obstructive stuff that minimised the grandeur of the gate. kanasai...
Dinner time. Being Joan, there'd naturally be lots of photos of food. Especially if she goes to a decent enough eatery with very nice aesthetics.
Joe's Löwenbräu, or something along those lines.
1. Welcome~
2. The exterior, I like those lights~
3. The interior, I like those lights~
4. The menu~
5. Being in a nice place what else can Joan do? Camwhore!!!
6. This is a digitally brightened up picture. I like that feel though~
7. I like mirrors~ I tried to do another double Joan image because someone said I looked fat in my double Joan image in my header. This was also digitally brightened up, but I like that feel!!!
8. Double Joan, not taken by me, not digitally done up, totally original. I like how I look without the ugly fat clothes man...
9. erm... By now I guess half the blogosphere have seen this pic on his blog. I TOOK IT!!! bah~ But this is digitally brightened up. I like the colours, I like the lights. His face looks so guniang under the lights and with his prized (only by him) hair.
10. Stuffed cabbage, his food. The mash potato was nice though~
11. The stuffings inside that stuffed cabbage. At first thought of hearing something called stuffed cabbage, I thought it was like some poultry with cabbage stuffed up their ass, like you know, turkey, but this was the other way round. I'm not a cabbage person as you can tell.
12. My Schnitzel with potato salad. The salad was cold, but the Schintzel was good. The prices were less than 10€, so I think it was a pretty good eat. Berlin is cheap.
13. Goodbye~
The next day I spilt with him and went on another Insiders Tour, the Third Reich Tour. yea... How can I pass up that chance? He went to view museums, bah~
1. The demography of this tour and that yesterday was quite a bit different, the median age was higher. Tour guide Kenny from Ireland, if I remember correctly.
2. A bridge, some military came over across that bridge during World War II.
3. Some important building that the Nazis used. I've the video recordings of the details, but too lazy to do that now, I've already spent like 3 hours on this blog post and I've still a lot more to do.
4. Another important nazi building that was rebuilt.
5. Soviet soldiers took 13 days, or some number similar I can't really remember, to pass through that patch of grass. 27 000 or even more of them died there, and I haven't included the number of German soldiers who lost their lives.
6. The Reichstag. Stalin could have just bombed it and save the lives of those 27 000 soldiers, but he wanted that intact so that he can take a picture of him standing there triumphantly and make a statement.
7. Another memorial, this time to the Soviet soldiers who lost their lives taking Berlin.
8. Where is the Brandenburg Gate? bah~ I hate!!! I hate all those disgusting things covering up the grandeur of the gate. Note that huge gigantic football behind the gate? Everything's like bigger than the gate now. yucks~
9. A lot more soldiers died there.
10. A nicer picture of the Jewish memorial thingie.
11. This is the deathbed of Adolf Hitler. No memorial, no nothing. A memorial cannot be built there, or even a signpost because of fears of it becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.
12. A building used by the Nazis, then the Soviets, now the Finance Ministry. Traces of Nazism and Sovietism can be found on that building.
13. Berlin Wall
14. Topography of Terror, a memorial, another memorial. I went in there and bought four books, and took a whole lot of photographs.
This tour is very depressing.
This tour actually reminded me of a year ago, when I was doing Singapore Military History, Farrell brought us on a field trip. The way the tour guide told us details about the Third Reich, the analysis he gave of the reasons for the rise and fall of the Third Reich, and the battles and the Soviets, were all so Farrell-like. I remember that time we went to several WWII sites and Farrell also told us details, gave us analysis and brought us about the sites. Imagine Farrell to conduct a tour like that in Singapore. hahaha~ It was already so weird that a Caucasian tall big man was guiding a group of young Singaporean boys and girls and telling them what happened in Singapore. We had a few weird stares from the other tourists because most tourists would be guided by a Singaporean, and them being Caucasians.
Anyway, I thought of a lot after this tour. Looking at Germany now, it's hard to believe that it has been through so much, especially Berlin, it went through really a lot a lot over the past century. From the glory of the Kaiser, just look at the Gedachtnis Church, the symbol of power and glory to the king, and the military might, the Gedachtnis Church has military structures all over. And them going through the defeat of WWI, hyperinflation, the Great Depression, and super-hyperinflation, the Nazis, the WWII defeat, the Cold War, when it stood on the very front line, and reunification, and the rise of Germany as a strong power again, with high standards of livings. Even Japan didn't go through this much to achieve its present position.
It's less than two decades from the fall of the Berlin War, from the divided Germany, but you can't really tell all this just from looking at Berlin. You can feel it though, the sadness when you get just looking at the city. Too bad I didn't have the time to take the Insiders Tour Behind the Iron Curtain.
After that tour, I was supposed to meet my friend again, but I got lost, so we decided to each do our own stuff. He went to more museums, I went to take more photos and to roam the city, all by myself. Warning, really a lot of photos...
1. I got lost. This is a school I saw along the way.
2. And a memorial like thingie. I asked for directions when I got lost. The guy told me to "immer gerade aus", I aksed him how long would it take, he said "ein stunde". In the end, I took a bus that I saw to go to a U Bahn station, and used the U Bahn to get to the place I wanted, and included changing of Bahn, about 15min.
3. The Modern Art Musuem
4. An SLK
5. Grass, Arendt, Heine, Luther, Kant, Seghers, Hegel, Gebrüder Grimm, Marx, Böll, Schiller, Lessing, Hesse, Fontane, Mann, Brecht, Goethe, Germany the Land of Ideas Campaign. Remember the musical notes, Germany the Land of Ideas.
6. Some building
7. More building
8. Only the first column on the left hand side is real, the rest is a canvas painting. cool~
9. Another building
10. An empty platz with pink buildings
11. Buildings by the river. There's something different about these with the others we seen in other European cities.
12. I thought trishaws are only found in Asian countries, but wahaha, in Germany!!! I saw this trishaw went by, I wanted to take a picture of it, but it went by. I walked further up, I saw it. I took out my camera and wanted to take picture when I noticed something wrong, there was nobody in it. I looked left looked right, I saw that trishaw man pissing by a tree. erm... I didn't dare take picture and quickly walked past trying to see nothing. Then he finished and got on the trishaw and drove by me again, then I dare take picture. wahahaha~
13. Some sculpture
14. Some church
15. I finally went back to meet Gabriel. He sat by the steps resting. I wanted him to help me take picture, but I is a considerate girl, so I call him to continue sitting there and use the zoom on the camera to zoom in to me. This is a big bowl outside the Ancient History Museum. Schinkel, the architect who designed the museum during the Kaiser's time planned to put the bowl in the main hall, but he built the pillars before he brought the bowl in and the bowl ended up not being about to pass through the pillars. He left the big bowl outside, in front of the museum for more than two hundred years.
16. E=mcSquare. Being the nice considerate girl, I told him that he can continue sitting there even though that was the back view of the equation, I told him "don't worry, I'll just use photoshop to flip the picture over so that the equation is in the right direction. The only problem is that the background~ hehehe...
17. Me and fountain
18. Some statue in the middle of nowhere
19. My dinner, currywurst mit pommes and of course coke.
20. After dinner I parted with him again. He want go watch concert, me went to watch MI3~~~ wahahaha~~~ Then I went back to my hostel at midnight, and went back to the train station, all alone. I is a big girl in a big city and not scared of being alone, and not scared of dark. This is a train set in the train station. ICEs, freight trains, bahnhof, regional trains, even bridges. You can put in money to see the trains move. kawaii ne~
Being alone for almost the whole day in Berlin, I surprised myself by my independence and my mental strength, even when I was lost and that guy told me I needed to walk for an hour. Even when I went to the cinema and bought a ticket for one and watch Tom Cruise speaking in German and me not knowing much. I'm also surprised that I managed to complete seeing Berlin in two days with two hours to spare. I have short attention span and I think this trip fits me just very well.
Now, a little treat for all those people await the World Cup before I go to sleep...
1. Berlin World Cup 2006 banner. Doesn't that reminds you of those festival banners in Singapore, hung on street lamps? bah~
2. An adidas gate
3. adidas banner. Although adidas doesn't sponsor kits to as many countries as Nike and Puma, adidas will still win the advertising war because of the sheer number of adidas stuff being marketed around and displayed prominently. After all, it's the World Cup Sponsor.
4. Huge gigantic inflatable football.
5. Remember the SLK from above, this the adidas boots version.
6. Stadium banner
7. Party area. This is the area for fans to watch football and drink beer and party the whole night~
8. The stadium, of course with lots of adidas banners around. The +10 series~ I like~~~
I have spent 4 hours on this post. It reads 12.32am on the post, that's when I started writing it. It's now 4.38am. Good luck to me~
Actually, I've made another online travel journal, but it's mainly for photos and a bit of description, but I'm still making it look somewhat decent so I've only opened that journal up to eight selected friends. Wait a little while longer and I'd put up the link over here and hopefully that will be a blast~ Must go there and visit hor, after I put up the link! And see all the photos I've taken. I've painfully resized them all, so it's a lot of hardwork.
Speaking of photos, yesterday as I was tinkering with my documents and saving my resized photos, I had this little warning balloon pop up. It said that I'm running out of hard disk space on my C drive. This C drive is one month old plus, how can I run out of space so quickly??? I didn't even bother transferring data from my external hard disk to my C drive because there's just too much to do. I only transferred my pictures file over because my friend asked me what would I do if my external hard disk dieded on me and I lose all my photos. I needed to back up all those photos in my laptop. And so I ran a check in My Documents folder, it's 12gig, with 10gig coming from My Pictures. Want to know how I managed to chalk up this many photos?
I took more than 470 photos in Berlin over a period of two days with two hours spare to go watch a movie. My 1gig memory card was can let me take up to 501 photos. So, rounding up each trip costs me 1gig of photos, it's no wonder I managed to max out my C drive so quickly. bah~ Anyway, I've transferred my old pictures, those I copied over from my external hard disk over to my D drive, so I can free up some space in my C drive for my next couple of trips. The friend who went to Berlin with me went with a 128mb card and took about a third of the number of pictures I took.
The amazing thing about NUS would be this situation. Two NUS FASS year two students meeting for the very first time about 6000miles away from Singapore in the city of Berlin. I have never met in along the corridors of NUS Arts Fac, and I was to meet him in Berlin. Oh well... The effects of globalisation.
These pictures are when we first reached Berlin. Okay, when we first reached Berlin, we actually had to find a hostel and check in and drop our stuff. More on the hostel later, I've got pics, but now I'll show what we did in the morning of our arrival.
1. My first view of Berlin city. The sight that greeted me as I hopped of the train and haven't met the thing that dampen my spirits.
2. Some people don't understand why some people take pictures of bahnhof signs, well, doesn't this prove that I'm in Berlin and not some other city. At least to me, this makes sure that I alighted at the right station, doesn't it?
3. The famed Checkpoint Charlie. I thought this placed seemed more like a tourist area, like you know a theme park or something, especially with that huge poster of that army guy.
4. The famed American sign. I'm sure all of us have seen parodies of this at some point in our life.
5. Our breakfast cum lunch, a quick and cheap meal in Checkpoint Charlie's vicinity. The food looks good, the taste is normal. Chicken Schnitzel with pomme frites. We both had that.
6. Calamaris. It sucked. Okay, it's better than the ones at Nordsee. I guess this is what it means to NOT eat seafood in a landlocked city.
7. Have you ever wondered why his blog entries are always so long? Okay, mine's long too, but mine's rambles, his is long and filled with content. This is because he takes notes as he walks!!! kaoz... His papers were filled with pages of notes written in very small and almost illegible font. Joan will never be able to do that, she's too lazy, and she know that will make her blog entries even more longer than they already are. wahahah~
8. Gedachtnis Church. Built by Kaiser Wilhelm, the guy who started the First World War. Bombed in the Second World War. Left in it's unrepaired state to remind Germany not to start anymore World Wars.
9. A pissior. For guys to piss. It looks so weird standing in the middle of nowhere. Want to know what's like inside? Ask the guy in photo number 7.
10. The interiors of a Church. Can't remember what church it was, perhaps it was the Gedachtnis Church. I like the blues~ nice...
In the afternoon, we went on this Insiders Tour. It's called the famous walk tour which brings us on a foot tour of everywhere important we needed to see in Berlin. It costs only 10€ for students and 9€ for those with ISIC cards. And the best thing? It's in English!!! wahaha~ I love those globalising Americans, they own the world and they speak English~ ANyway, this tour basically brought me everywhere I wanted to see in Berlin and allowed me ample time to take pictures, and if there's not enough time, at least I knew where the place was and can come back another time to take more pictures.
I'm only show a selection of pictures, wait till I post my travel journal up then you can see all the pictures I took. I'll try to be as brief as I can, I realised that there are 20 photos in this series.
1. Our guide for the day. Joe from London.
2. Me waiting for the tour to start. My friend wanted to help me take the picture, but I prefer my own phototaking skills.
3. The very new Berlin Hauptbahnhof. It reminds me of Frankfurt am Main Airport, with the glass curved shaped ceilings. Why did the only glass curved shaped ceilings of an architecture piece in Singapore turned out to be so ugly when these Germans can make it look so beautiful?
4. The new Reichtag, I think. I saw so many buildings that I can't remember which are which. Go look at the other person's blog if you want exact details, he wrote everything down. bah~
5. Dom, I think.
6. A river with a bridge.
7. River with bridge with S Bahn.
8. It's an island with a few museums on it. That is the modern art museum.
9. The used to be the Kaiser Church, then the State Church, then now dunno what Church. i think the bodies of the Hollenzollens are kept there.
10. The ancient history museum. I think he went in there, my attention span is too short to view a museum. Actually I wanted to visit the German Historical Museum, but it was down for renovations. damn... The only museum I want to go and I can't go. Okay, I went to the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, but but but, it's still not the German Historical Museum!!!
11. Fernsehturm. The Eastern Germans structured that to show off to the Western Europeans, but God's revenge on it. hehehe~ The Swedes made it, and made it in such a way that when sun shines on it, the ball would reflect light and that structure would look like a cross. So much for anarchical Communism.
12. Stadt Oprea House.
13. Some memorial building. There's like a whole lot of memorial buildings in german remembering a whole lot of things from war to dunno-whats.
14. Humbold University, and a memorial for German thinkings and ideology. That stack of book there are named after various German writers from Marx, Goethe, Kant to Schiller to name some.
15. This is to remember people like Bach and Beethoven, the German musicians. The Germans are really promoting their country until it's becoming a bit OTT. All this for the World Cup.
16. Some important building that I can't remember what's it.
17. Me taking a lunch break. I finally let him take a picture of me, don't think I look terribly nice in it, but at least it shows me in proper clothes. Four layers of jackets that make me fat is not proper clothes. Yes, I was in four layers. That tee, my black pullover, my pink jacket, and my red windbreaker cum raincoat. It was so bloody cold and wet in Berlin. It's actually not much better here in Freiburg. 8°C in summer. When Gabriel came over Freiburg and went to Titisee-Neustadt he actually saw snow, in end May. Goodness~
18. What is seeing berlin if you don't see the Berlin Wall?
19. Another memorial, this time for the dead Jews from the Holocaust.
20. The thing I wanted to see when I'm in Berlin, the Brandenburg Gate. It was pretty disappointing. It didn't wow me as much as I wanted to wow. I think it's beause of all the people and all the obstructive stuff that minimised the grandeur of the gate. kanasai...
Dinner time. Being Joan, there'd naturally be lots of photos of food. Especially if she goes to a decent enough eatery with very nice aesthetics.
Joe's Löwenbräu, or something along those lines.
1. Welcome~
2. The exterior, I like those lights~
3. The interior, I like those lights~
4. The menu~
5. Being in a nice place what else can Joan do? Camwhore!!!
6. This is a digitally brightened up picture. I like that feel though~
7. I like mirrors~ I tried to do another double Joan image because someone said I looked fat in my double Joan image in my header. This was also digitally brightened up, but I like that feel!!!
8. Double Joan, not taken by me, not digitally done up, totally original. I like how I look without the ugly fat clothes man...
9. erm... By now I guess half the blogosphere have seen this pic on his blog. I TOOK IT!!! bah~ But this is digitally brightened up. I like the colours, I like the lights. His face looks so guniang under the lights and with his prized (only by him) hair.
10. Stuffed cabbage, his food. The mash potato was nice though~
11. The stuffings inside that stuffed cabbage. At first thought of hearing something called stuffed cabbage, I thought it was like some poultry with cabbage stuffed up their ass, like you know, turkey, but this was the other way round. I'm not a cabbage person as you can tell.
12. My Schnitzel with potato salad. The salad was cold, but the Schintzel was good. The prices were less than 10€, so I think it was a pretty good eat. Berlin is cheap.
13. Goodbye~
The next day I spilt with him and went on another Insiders Tour, the Third Reich Tour. yea... How can I pass up that chance? He went to view museums, bah~
1. The demography of this tour and that yesterday was quite a bit different, the median age was higher. Tour guide Kenny from Ireland, if I remember correctly.
2. A bridge, some military came over across that bridge during World War II.
3. Some important building that the Nazis used. I've the video recordings of the details, but too lazy to do that now, I've already spent like 3 hours on this blog post and I've still a lot more to do.
4. Another important nazi building that was rebuilt.
5. Soviet soldiers took 13 days, or some number similar I can't really remember, to pass through that patch of grass. 27 000 or even more of them died there, and I haven't included the number of German soldiers who lost their lives.
6. The Reichstag. Stalin could have just bombed it and save the lives of those 27 000 soldiers, but he wanted that intact so that he can take a picture of him standing there triumphantly and make a statement.
7. Another memorial, this time to the Soviet soldiers who lost their lives taking Berlin.
8. Where is the Brandenburg Gate? bah~ I hate!!! I hate all those disgusting things covering up the grandeur of the gate. Note that huge gigantic football behind the gate? Everything's like bigger than the gate now. yucks~
9. A lot more soldiers died there.
10. A nicer picture of the Jewish memorial thingie.
11. This is the deathbed of Adolf Hitler. No memorial, no nothing. A memorial cannot be built there, or even a signpost because of fears of it becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.
12. A building used by the Nazis, then the Soviets, now the Finance Ministry. Traces of Nazism and Sovietism can be found on that building.
13. Berlin Wall
14. Topography of Terror, a memorial, another memorial. I went in there and bought four books, and took a whole lot of photographs.
This tour is very depressing.
This tour actually reminded me of a year ago, when I was doing Singapore Military History, Farrell brought us on a field trip. The way the tour guide told us details about the Third Reich, the analysis he gave of the reasons for the rise and fall of the Third Reich, and the battles and the Soviets, were all so Farrell-like. I remember that time we went to several WWII sites and Farrell also told us details, gave us analysis and brought us about the sites. Imagine Farrell to conduct a tour like that in Singapore. hahaha~ It was already so weird that a Caucasian tall big man was guiding a group of young Singaporean boys and girls and telling them what happened in Singapore. We had a few weird stares from the other tourists because most tourists would be guided by a Singaporean, and them being Caucasians.
Anyway, I thought of a lot after this tour. Looking at Germany now, it's hard to believe that it has been through so much, especially Berlin, it went through really a lot a lot over the past century. From the glory of the Kaiser, just look at the Gedachtnis Church, the symbol of power and glory to the king, and the military might, the Gedachtnis Church has military structures all over. And them going through the defeat of WWI, hyperinflation, the Great Depression, and super-hyperinflation, the Nazis, the WWII defeat, the Cold War, when it stood on the very front line, and reunification, and the rise of Germany as a strong power again, with high standards of livings. Even Japan didn't go through this much to achieve its present position.
It's less than two decades from the fall of the Berlin War, from the divided Germany, but you can't really tell all this just from looking at Berlin. You can feel it though, the sadness when you get just looking at the city. Too bad I didn't have the time to take the Insiders Tour Behind the Iron Curtain.
After that tour, I was supposed to meet my friend again, but I got lost, so we decided to each do our own stuff. He went to more museums, I went to take more photos and to roam the city, all by myself. Warning, really a lot of photos...
1. I got lost. This is a school I saw along the way.
2. And a memorial like thingie. I asked for directions when I got lost. The guy told me to "immer gerade aus", I aksed him how long would it take, he said "ein stunde". In the end, I took a bus that I saw to go to a U Bahn station, and used the U Bahn to get to the place I wanted, and included changing of Bahn, about 15min.
3. The Modern Art Musuem
4. An SLK
5. Grass, Arendt, Heine, Luther, Kant, Seghers, Hegel, Gebrüder Grimm, Marx, Böll, Schiller, Lessing, Hesse, Fontane, Mann, Brecht, Goethe, Germany the Land of Ideas Campaign. Remember the musical notes, Germany the Land of Ideas.
6. Some building
7. More building
8. Only the first column on the left hand side is real, the rest is a canvas painting. cool~
9. Another building
10. An empty platz with pink buildings
11. Buildings by the river. There's something different about these with the others we seen in other European cities.
12. I thought trishaws are only found in Asian countries, but wahaha, in Germany!!! I saw this trishaw went by, I wanted to take a picture of it, but it went by. I walked further up, I saw it. I took out my camera and wanted to take picture when I noticed something wrong, there was nobody in it. I looked left looked right, I saw that trishaw man pissing by a tree. erm... I didn't dare take picture and quickly walked past trying to see nothing. Then he finished and got on the trishaw and drove by me again, then I dare take picture. wahahaha~
13. Some sculpture
14. Some church
15. I finally went back to meet Gabriel. He sat by the steps resting. I wanted him to help me take picture, but I is a considerate girl, so I call him to continue sitting there and use the zoom on the camera to zoom in to me. This is a big bowl outside the Ancient History Museum. Schinkel, the architect who designed the museum during the Kaiser's time planned to put the bowl in the main hall, but he built the pillars before he brought the bowl in and the bowl ended up not being about to pass through the pillars. He left the big bowl outside, in front of the museum for more than two hundred years.
16. E=mcSquare. Being the nice considerate girl, I told him that he can continue sitting there even though that was the back view of the equation, I told him "don't worry, I'll just use photoshop to flip the picture over so that the equation is in the right direction. The only problem is that the background~ hehehe...
17. Me and fountain
18. Some statue in the middle of nowhere
19. My dinner, currywurst mit pommes and of course coke.
20. After dinner I parted with him again. He want go watch concert, me went to watch MI3~~~ wahahaha~~~ Then I went back to my hostel at midnight, and went back to the train station, all alone. I is a big girl in a big city and not scared of being alone, and not scared of dark. This is a train set in the train station. ICEs, freight trains, bahnhof, regional trains, even bridges. You can put in money to see the trains move. kawaii ne~
Being alone for almost the whole day in Berlin, I surprised myself by my independence and my mental strength, even when I was lost and that guy told me I needed to walk for an hour. Even when I went to the cinema and bought a ticket for one and watch Tom Cruise speaking in German and me not knowing much. I'm also surprised that I managed to complete seeing Berlin in two days with two hours to spare. I have short attention span and I think this trip fits me just very well.
Now, a little treat for all those people await the World Cup before I go to sleep...
1. Berlin World Cup 2006 banner. Doesn't that reminds you of those festival banners in Singapore, hung on street lamps? bah~
2. An adidas gate
3. adidas banner. Although adidas doesn't sponsor kits to as many countries as Nike and Puma, adidas will still win the advertising war because of the sheer number of adidas stuff being marketed around and displayed prominently. After all, it's the World Cup Sponsor.
4. Huge gigantic inflatable football.
5. Remember the SLK from above, this the adidas boots version.
6. Stadium banner
7. Party area. This is the area for fans to watch football and drink beer and party the whole night~
8. The stadium, of course with lots of adidas banners around. The +10 series~ I like~~~
I have spent 4 hours on this post. It reads 12.32am on the post, that's when I started writing it. It's now 4.38am. Good luck to me~
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Sheva
Andriy Shevchenko
Ukrainian striker and team captain, European player of the year, one of Milan's top goalscorer, the top scorer for the English Premiere League 2006/7 and the top scorer for Champions League 2006/7
Remember this entry I wrote some time back?
My Fantasy Football Team
Now read these...
ESPN soccernet
Chelsea FC
Well, my fantasy is coming true thanks to my dear Chelsea. First Ballack, now Shevchenko, next? Maybe we'll buy Kaka next season. Then it'll be fantasy football all the way for me~ wahahaha~~~
Shevchenko Factfile
Name: Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko
Born: September 29, 1976, Dvirkivschyna, near Kiev
Height: 1.83 m (6ft)
Weight: 72kg (11.3st)
Career History
Chelsea Football Club 2006 -
Sets Chelsea transfer record
AC Milan 1999 - 2006
Second highest scorer in Milan's history with 173 goals in 296 games European Footballer of the Year 2004 Serie A Championship: 2004 Serie A Top Scorer: 2000, 2004 Italian Cup: 2003 Champions League: 2003 European Super Cup: 2003
Dynamo Kiev 1994 - 1999
Made professional debut in 1994 and netted 94 goals in 166 games for Dynamo Ukrainian Championship: 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995 Ukrainian Cup: 1998, 1996
International
Captain of the Ukrainian national team and has scored 28 goals in 63 internationals
European Record
Set the competition record with 52 Champions League goals in 90 games
Oh man~ He fulfills another of my little fettishes~ It seems like lots of footballers I like all fulfil my this little fettish, or is it that I like them because they fulfill my little fettish? hmm... wahaha~ Anyway, in the football field, my little fettish doesn't make them very tall, there're lots more taller players (yea... like Crouch, what an irony of his name!), but I just like that height, 6 feet, 1.82/3m, no more no less, just the right height for me to paw over.
Ukrainian striker and team captain, European player of the year, one of Milan's top goalscorer, the top scorer for the English Premiere League 2006/7 and the top scorer for Champions League 2006/7
Remember this entry I wrote some time back?
My Fantasy Football Team
Now read these...
ESPN soccernet
Chelsea FC
Well, my fantasy is coming true thanks to my dear Chelsea. First Ballack, now Shevchenko, next? Maybe we'll buy Kaka next season. Then it'll be fantasy football all the way for me~ wahahaha~~~
Shevchenko Factfile
Name: Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko
Born: September 29, 1976, Dvirkivschyna, near Kiev
Height: 1.83 m (6ft)
Weight: 72kg (11.3st)
Career History
Chelsea Football Club 2006 -
Sets Chelsea transfer record
AC Milan 1999 - 2006
Second highest scorer in Milan's history with 173 goals in 296 games European Footballer of the Year 2004 Serie A Championship: 2004 Serie A Top Scorer: 2000, 2004 Italian Cup: 2003 Champions League: 2003 European Super Cup: 2003
Dynamo Kiev 1994 - 1999
Made professional debut in 1994 and netted 94 goals in 166 games for Dynamo Ukrainian Championship: 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995 Ukrainian Cup: 1998, 1996
International
Captain of the Ukrainian national team and has scored 28 goals in 63 internationals
European Record
Set the competition record with 52 Champions League goals in 90 games
Oh man~ He fulfills another of my little fettishes~ It seems like lots of footballers I like all fulfil my this little fettish, or is it that I like them because they fulfill my little fettish? hmm... wahaha~ Anyway, in the football field, my little fettish doesn't make them very tall, there're lots more taller players (yea... like Crouch, what an irony of his name!), but I just like that height, 6 feet, 1.82/3m, no more no less, just the right height for me to paw over.
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24 Weird Facts About Me
1. When I'm bored I don't want to do anything and end up doing stupid things like this meme.
2. I stopped cutting my nails since primary 3 and after that I'd only cut my nails when I'm depressed, I stopped cutting my nails totally after my A levels, hence I became clinically depressed because I've lost an outlet. Now I go for very infrequent manicures.
3. I only do express manicures because my fingers would bleed from a full manicure because I don't have much cuticles.
4. The last time I tried to cut my nails myself I ended up with a bleeding finger from cutting myself.
5. I hate tying my hair up.
6. I enjoy eating the skin of my lips after peeling them out.
7. I like sucking my nail in my mouth like a sweet after my nail breaks.
8. I like to scrape nail polish off my nails with my fingernails, especially when I'm watching TV.
9. I sign out to watch youtube so that under my statistics I would appear to have watched less videos that I actually have watched, much much much less.
10. I once stopped talking to my dad for a couple of months for some stupid reason that I can't even remember.
11. I once was crazy over this one single hit teen idol by the name of Yuki Masayama. I can't even recall what was that hit song now.
12. I once lost 8kg in a month and continued losing up to a total of 20kg in about five months that my teachers all asked me what happened. But that wasn't a concern for worry for my parents who knew that I had gained that 25kg over a period of three years. I never looked fat because I knew how to dress myself up to hide the flaws. Anyway, I've gained back the 8kg over my two stints in Germany.
13. The position of my room back at home was towards a wall of sloping grass patch facing towards northeast. It's windy and good for sleeping in the day, I hardly get any sun at all, and because a a ledge above, rain doesn't get in and I don't need to close the windows when it rains.
14. I hardly sleep with air conditioning. When I do so, I usually got to my sister's room and share the air con with her to cut costs.
15. I was from Nan Hua Primary before I transferred to Tao Nan School.
16. I don't take spicy food. I think I'm like one of the last Singaporeans not to be able to take spicy food.
17. I've been using Prickly Heat powder for my armpits ever since JC2, before that I used Nivea dedorant. It's like moving back in time and settling for something outdated, but I think Prickly Heat is good, it makes me feel natural without bad odour, very subtle.
18. I need to drink cold drinks with a straw because I have sensitive teeth.
19. My face is not symmetrical. One eye is higher than the other and one ear is more forward than the other. But you can't tell this from looking at me, it's only apparent when I get spectacles fitted, and when I do so, it usually takes more than half a day and the pair of glasses would end up looking totally out of shape so that it can fit my face.
20. I have been making the same wish for my birthday for the past 11 years and never has it come true.
21. If I had did badly for my A levels and not able to get into NUS, I would have gone to Australia Monash to do theatre and drama.
22. When I did not get into VJ after my first three months there, and hence not being able to get to do TSD, I wanted to go LaSalle, but the above promise made me decide to settle for my second choice JC.
23. I'm trying to do a AMV now, but it looks no different from my normal animated gifs, just that it has sound. damn...
24. If I start to speak perfect English or perfect Chinese it means that I'm worked up over something. I don't know why but when I debate or argue or get into a discussion, sentence structures and grammar rules would inately come to me, but when I'm in a leisure state of mine, it disappears, and I can speak the worst sort of English and/or Chinese one hears.
I'll go have dinner now, and maybe later get something contructive done. I've wasted so much of my time fretting over useless stuff already.
1. When I'm bored I don't want to do anything and end up doing stupid things like this meme.
2. I stopped cutting my nails since primary 3 and after that I'd only cut my nails when I'm depressed, I stopped cutting my nails totally after my A levels, hence I became clinically depressed because I've lost an outlet. Now I go for very infrequent manicures.
3. I only do express manicures because my fingers would bleed from a full manicure because I don't have much cuticles.
4. The last time I tried to cut my nails myself I ended up with a bleeding finger from cutting myself.
5. I hate tying my hair up.
6. I enjoy eating the skin of my lips after peeling them out.
7. I like sucking my nail in my mouth like a sweet after my nail breaks.
8. I like to scrape nail polish off my nails with my fingernails, especially when I'm watching TV.
9. I sign out to watch youtube so that under my statistics I would appear to have watched less videos that I actually have watched, much much much less.
10. I once stopped talking to my dad for a couple of months for some stupid reason that I can't even remember.
11. I once was crazy over this one single hit teen idol by the name of Yuki Masayama. I can't even recall what was that hit song now.
12. I once lost 8kg in a month and continued losing up to a total of 20kg in about five months that my teachers all asked me what happened. But that wasn't a concern for worry for my parents who knew that I had gained that 25kg over a period of three years. I never looked fat because I knew how to dress myself up to hide the flaws. Anyway, I've gained back the 8kg over my two stints in Germany.
13. The position of my room back at home was towards a wall of sloping grass patch facing towards northeast. It's windy and good for sleeping in the day, I hardly get any sun at all, and because a a ledge above, rain doesn't get in and I don't need to close the windows when it rains.
14. I hardly sleep with air conditioning. When I do so, I usually got to my sister's room and share the air con with her to cut costs.
15. I was from Nan Hua Primary before I transferred to Tao Nan School.
16. I don't take spicy food. I think I'm like one of the last Singaporeans not to be able to take spicy food.
17. I've been using Prickly Heat powder for my armpits ever since JC2, before that I used Nivea dedorant. It's like moving back in time and settling for something outdated, but I think Prickly Heat is good, it makes me feel natural without bad odour, very subtle.
18. I need to drink cold drinks with a straw because I have sensitive teeth.
19. My face is not symmetrical. One eye is higher than the other and one ear is more forward than the other. But you can't tell this from looking at me, it's only apparent when I get spectacles fitted, and when I do so, it usually takes more than half a day and the pair of glasses would end up looking totally out of shape so that it can fit my face.
20. I have been making the same wish for my birthday for the past 11 years and never has it come true.
21. If I had did badly for my A levels and not able to get into NUS, I would have gone to Australia Monash to do theatre and drama.
22. When I did not get into VJ after my first three months there, and hence not being able to get to do TSD, I wanted to go LaSalle, but the above promise made me decide to settle for my second choice JC.
23. I'm trying to do a AMV now, but it looks no different from my normal animated gifs, just that it has sound. damn...
24. If I start to speak perfect English or perfect Chinese it means that I'm worked up over something. I don't know why but when I debate or argue or get into a discussion, sentence structures and grammar rules would inately come to me, but when I'm in a leisure state of mine, it disappears, and I can speak the worst sort of English and/or Chinese one hears.
I'll go have dinner now, and maybe later get something contructive done. I've wasted so much of my time fretting over useless stuff already.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Handphone Meme
I seldom pick up memes to do, but I'm bored today. Actually it's not because I'm bored, I've got lots of blog entries waiting for me to pick up my fingers to type but somehow along the way I've lost my drive to do them especially since they need me to use my brain to construct coherent sentences, and I can't ramble. I thought this meme sounded pretty interesting.
1. What is the phone brand?
Nokia N70
2. What are the last three digits of your mobile phone number?
260
3. What does the second message in your inbox say?
Due to some sort of memory problem, my message inbox is completely wiped out. In a normal situation, I'd have dieded when this happened, but lately, after switching handphones, and getting over my rough patch, I've taken things easier and twice cleared my inbox totally empty, this is the third time my inbox is totally empty, save for one recent message. Anyway, all my messages from my rough patches are still in my old phone, and I'm still holding it now, so I guess, I'm still not taking things as easy as I think I am.
4. Who is the first person who comes in under M?
The first entry under M is actually Malaysia-ICC. bah~ The first name under M is Man... She's now in Hong Kong, and that line's probably dead already, so I think I should delete it. hai...
5. Who was the last person you rang?
(no dialled numbers) I guess that problem wiped out my call logs too. The last person I rang was probably more than a month ago. I haven't called anyone since I left Singapore. My phone still Singapore line and roaming charges are astronomical.
6. Who was your last missed call from?
+65 68832365
I got my dad to call that number to see who missed called me. Okay, it was me ignoring the call since I don't want to be charged for roaming. Anyway, my dad said it was some tuition agency or something, and they can't remember calling me, so I guess it's not important.
7. Who is the second person who comes in under D?
Daniel psycho. erm... He's not psycho, it was just that he was in my orientation group eons back and our group was called Psycho. I don't want people to think that I anyhow give names to others.
8. What does the last message in your inbox say?
There's only one message in my inbox at present.
"Heh, i dunno wad to write in ur mail leh. Ur last reply dun nid any reply one. But nvm lah, got something to read is gd enuff. Haven recover yet. Sigh."
My poor boy...
9. Who comes in under J?
erm... Am I to list everyone in J?
Ja Liy, Jacelyn, Jane german, Janey, Japan-ICC, Jasmine, Jennifer, Jesslyn, Jiadai, Jiaxin, Jieying cds, Jin, Jingling, Jinsen, Jinwei, Jo, Joann gaedus, Joey, Jovin, Joycelyn, Juliet, Junming 1.
I can't recognise half the names, and this are not all the Js I have. I still have the names from my old phone memory which I have not transferred over to my new phone yet. 3 months and I'm still procrastinating. bah~
10. What does the 10th item in your Sent Items say?
(no messages)
11. Who is the 4th person to come in under S?
Shawn
12. Who is your network provider?
It's alternating between Singtel and Vodafone.de because I'm getting the Vodafone signal from here, and when I don't get signals, it shows the Singtel one, but I can't use it.
13. How many messages are there currently in your inbox?
1
The person who sent me that sms, are you proud of your that little achievement? lol~
14. What do you have as your background?
15. Who is the 2nd person to come in under R?
Raymond
16. Who do you have on speed dial 3?
I don't use speed dial.
17. If you use Pay as You Go, how much credit do you have left?
In applicable.
18. Who is the first person to come in under C?
Carissa jlpp
19. How many bars of signal do you currently have?
seven, full
20. What do you have as your main ringtone?
Brothers, from the soundtrack of Full Metal Alchemist.
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I will repeat the whole process for my the other phone. I did say that I was bored, didn't I?
1. What is the phone brand?
Nokia 6230
2. What are the last three digits of your mobile phone number?
454, my German Handynummer~
3. What does the second message in your inbox say?
"Vodafone Mailbox: Der Anrufer hat keine Nachricht hinterlassen: "+31614055511" 29/05/06 23:41 1 Versuch"
I shall leave the identity of the person who owns that phone number anonymous. If you want to know who he is, feel free to drop him an sms to ask him. wahaha~
4. Who is the first person who comes in under M?
Mailbox, the other entry in M is MusicFinder, also not a person.
I've disabled phone memory, now only using SIM card memory and the total number of phone numbers I have in my memory can be counted on like my hands. I have no friends. bah~
(Man hse)*
5. Who was the last person you rang?
Gabriel
6. Who was your last missed call from?
Gabriel
7. Who is the second person who comes in under D?
(no matches)
(Daniel psycho, I've transferred this name over from my old handy to new one I guess)*
8. What does the last message in your inbox say?
"Hey councillors. I thank everyone of u for ur commitment n energy. Do get ur rest, drink lots of water, n i'll c u all on monday. Take care."
Sent: 05:37:03pm 31-07-2004
O Week... How fast time flies, I didn't even remember that sms.
9. Who comes in under J?
(no matches)
(Jacelyn hse, Jamie jlexpo, Jasmine hse, Jasmine hy2242, Jasmine senior, Jason ding, Jaze, Jaze 1, Jaze 2, Jean, Jeannet eu2218, Jennifer hse, Jerlin, Jessica cds, Jiadai hse, Jiajun ccc, Jiajun hse, Jianfu, Jianfu hse, Jiaxin hse, Jiayuan, Jiayuan hse, Jieqi, Jieying ccc, Jieying hse, Jimmy, Jimmy hse, Jingfang, Jingli, Jingling hse, Jingyi, Jingying, Jingying hse, Jingyi 1, Jinwei hse, Jinwei 1, JK, Jo hse, Joanna ding, Joanna vj, Joanne hy2216, Jovin hse, Joyce, Joycelyn hse, Juliet hse, Junming, Junwei ccc, Junwei hse, Justin cds
I don't know 75%of the people in the list, the others are old numbers not in use anymore, and those with module codes are old project group mates that I think I'll never see them again unless we happen to do a module together again.)*
10. What does the 10th item in your Sent Items say?
I only have 8 items in my sent items.
11. Who is the 4th person to come in under S?
There are three entries under S, only one is a person, Sarah.
(Shalwa)*
12. Who is your network provider?
Vodafone.de
13. How many messages are there currently in your inbox?
147
14. What do you have as your background?
15. Who is the 2nd person to come in under R?
The only entry in R is RoutenService. What the heck is that?
(Rapid Culture, not a person, but a shop. Person would be Rayini eu & asean.)*
16. Who do you have on speed dial 3?
I don't use speed dial.
17. If you use Pay as You Go, how much credit do you have left?
I just topped up 25€. I can't check the amount inside until the amount inside falls low.
18. Who is the first person to come in under C?
The first entry is CallYa-Team, the first person is Carol.
(Carissa jlpp)*
19. How many bars of signal do you currently have?
seven, full
20. What do you have as your main ringtone?
Miriam Yeung's 《小城大事/大城大事》polyphonic ringtone, I think, or is it one of the either's mp3, can't remember...
*To further prove that I'm dam boliao, I've switched my memory to phone memory for the phone book and will answer the above questions regarding phone book entries. Those in the brackets() with the asterix * are the added ones.
1. What is the phone brand?
Nokia N70
2. What are the last three digits of your mobile phone number?
260
3. What does the second message in your inbox say?
Due to some sort of memory problem, my message inbox is completely wiped out. In a normal situation, I'd have dieded when this happened, but lately, after switching handphones, and getting over my rough patch, I've taken things easier and twice cleared my inbox totally empty, this is the third time my inbox is totally empty, save for one recent message. Anyway, all my messages from my rough patches are still in my old phone, and I'm still holding it now, so I guess, I'm still not taking things as easy as I think I am.
4. Who is the first person who comes in under M?
The first entry under M is actually Malaysia-ICC. bah~ The first name under M is Man... She's now in Hong Kong, and that line's probably dead already, so I think I should delete it. hai...
5. Who was the last person you rang?
(no dialled numbers) I guess that problem wiped out my call logs too. The last person I rang was probably more than a month ago. I haven't called anyone since I left Singapore. My phone still Singapore line and roaming charges are astronomical.
6. Who was your last missed call from?
+65 68832365
I got my dad to call that number to see who missed called me. Okay, it was me ignoring the call since I don't want to be charged for roaming. Anyway, my dad said it was some tuition agency or something, and they can't remember calling me, so I guess it's not important.
7. Who is the second person who comes in under D?
Daniel psycho. erm... He's not psycho, it was just that he was in my orientation group eons back and our group was called Psycho. I don't want people to think that I anyhow give names to others.
8. What does the last message in your inbox say?
There's only one message in my inbox at present.
"Heh, i dunno wad to write in ur mail leh. Ur last reply dun nid any reply one. But nvm lah, got something to read is gd enuff. Haven recover yet. Sigh."
My poor boy...
9. Who comes in under J?
erm... Am I to list everyone in J?
Ja Liy, Jacelyn, Jane german, Janey, Japan-ICC, Jasmine, Jennifer, Jesslyn, Jiadai, Jiaxin, Jieying cds, Jin, Jingling, Jinsen, Jinwei, Jo, Joann gaedus, Joey, Jovin, Joycelyn, Juliet, Junming 1.
I can't recognise half the names, and this are not all the Js I have. I still have the names from my old phone memory which I have not transferred over to my new phone yet. 3 months and I'm still procrastinating. bah~
10. What does the 10th item in your Sent Items say?
(no messages)
11. Who is the 4th person to come in under S?
Shawn
12. Who is your network provider?
It's alternating between Singtel and Vodafone.de because I'm getting the Vodafone signal from here, and when I don't get signals, it shows the Singtel one, but I can't use it.
13. How many messages are there currently in your inbox?
1
The person who sent me that sms, are you proud of your that little achievement? lol~
14. What do you have as your background?
15. Who is the 2nd person to come in under R?
Raymond
16. Who do you have on speed dial 3?
I don't use speed dial.
17. If you use Pay as You Go, how much credit do you have left?
In applicable.
18. Who is the first person to come in under C?
Carissa jlpp
19. How many bars of signal do you currently have?
seven, full
20. What do you have as your main ringtone?
Brothers, from the soundtrack of Full Metal Alchemist.
---
I will repeat the whole process for my the other phone. I did say that I was bored, didn't I?
1. What is the phone brand?
Nokia 6230
2. What are the last three digits of your mobile phone number?
454, my German Handynummer~
3. What does the second message in your inbox say?
"Vodafone Mailbox: Der Anrufer hat keine Nachricht hinterlassen: "+31614055511" 29/05/06 23:41 1 Versuch"
I shall leave the identity of the person who owns that phone number anonymous. If you want to know who he is, feel free to drop him an sms to ask him. wahaha~
4. Who is the first person who comes in under M?
Mailbox, the other entry in M is MusicFinder, also not a person.
I've disabled phone memory, now only using SIM card memory and the total number of phone numbers I have in my memory can be counted on like my hands. I have no friends. bah~
(Man hse)*
5. Who was the last person you rang?
Gabriel
6. Who was your last missed call from?
Gabriel
7. Who is the second person who comes in under D?
(no matches)
(Daniel psycho, I've transferred this name over from my old handy to new one I guess)*
8. What does the last message in your inbox say?
"Hey councillors. I thank everyone of u for ur commitment n energy. Do get ur rest, drink lots of water, n i'll c u all on monday. Take care."
Sent: 05:37:03pm 31-07-2004
O Week... How fast time flies, I didn't even remember that sms.
9. Who comes in under J?
(no matches)
(Jacelyn hse, Jamie jlexpo, Jasmine hse, Jasmine hy2242, Jasmine senior, Jason ding, Jaze, Jaze 1, Jaze 2, Jean, Jeannet eu2218, Jennifer hse, Jerlin, Jessica cds, Jiadai hse, Jiajun ccc, Jiajun hse, Jianfu, Jianfu hse, Jiaxin hse, Jiayuan, Jiayuan hse, Jieqi, Jieying ccc, Jieying hse, Jimmy, Jimmy hse, Jingfang, Jingli, Jingling hse, Jingyi, Jingying, Jingying hse, Jingyi 1, Jinwei hse, Jinwei 1, JK, Jo hse, Joanna ding, Joanna vj, Joanne hy2216, Jovin hse, Joyce, Joycelyn hse, Juliet hse, Junming, Junwei ccc, Junwei hse, Justin cds
I don't know 75%of the people in the list, the others are old numbers not in use anymore, and those with module codes are old project group mates that I think I'll never see them again unless we happen to do a module together again.)*
10. What does the 10th item in your Sent Items say?
I only have 8 items in my sent items.
11. Who is the 4th person to come in under S?
There are three entries under S, only one is a person, Sarah.
(Shalwa)*
12. Who is your network provider?
Vodafone.de
13. How many messages are there currently in your inbox?
147
14. What do you have as your background?
15. Who is the 2nd person to come in under R?
The only entry in R is RoutenService. What the heck is that?
(Rapid Culture, not a person, but a shop. Person would be Rayini eu & asean.)*
16. Who do you have on speed dial 3?
I don't use speed dial.
17. If you use Pay as You Go, how much credit do you have left?
I just topped up 25€. I can't check the amount inside until the amount inside falls low.
18. Who is the first person to come in under C?
The first entry is CallYa-Team, the first person is Carol.
(Carissa jlpp)*
19. How many bars of signal do you currently have?
seven, full
20. What do you have as your main ringtone?
Miriam Yeung's 《小城大事/大城大事》polyphonic ringtone, I think, or is it one of the either's mp3, can't remember...
*To further prove that I'm dam boliao, I've switched my memory to phone memory for the phone book and will answer the above questions regarding phone book entries. Those in the brackets() with the asterix * are the added ones.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Better Now
After a bath, after some sleep, after realising that I am very happy, I am feeling a lot better. After all why would I feel jealous about something when I have something similiar in a superior form. It's like me being able to go to Germany for 107 days yet I feel jealous of my sister who's going to Hong Kong for 10 days.
I really need to tell myself that indeed I have more than I need, and more than I want. And I don't want anything that would only bring me more pain and unhappiness.
I really need to tell myself that indeed I have more than I need, and more than I want. And I don't want anything that would only bring me more pain and unhappiness.
Back from Berlin
I'm so bloody tired.
I didn't manage to get much sleep on the train because of this big fear of missing the train station and screwing myself up. I'm going to head for a short nap now before I get up to get some work done. sian~
Berlin brought back depression into me. First, it's so amazing how a country ravaged by losing two world wars can now manage to achieve so high standards of living that even America and UK pale in comparison. Of course, I say this because I've never been to Japan, and Japan's only ravaged by one world war, and much of the destruction were limited to a couple of aerial bombs and not literally the army marching into the city and ravage it and it's people. depressing...
Not only that, it's also the being all alone in the big city that make me realise, I've been really trying to hard to build this wall around my heart and make me appear strong when I'm in fact, but a weakling.
A friend wrote this in her blog...
摆脱我心中的恶魔
每次看偶像剧，剧中的男女主角总是幸福美满，快快乐乐地生活在一起。现实生活中的男男女女，是否都会有如此美满的姻缘？我开始对之前所存有的所谓“天长地久”这个概念，不再抱以任何的希望。毕竟，现在的我还正在尝试走出情伤，就先把所有完美无瑕的念头抛开一边好了。
从香港返回新加坡，相信是我人生中的一大转捩点。决定提前回来，为的是要除去我心中的一块大石。在香港的那段日子，发生了许多令我实在是措手不及的事。面对眼前所有的问题，不禁开始怀疑，我们是否真的是彼此在寻找的那个“终生伴侣”？只觉得对他的那份感情还是依旧存在，但如果只单靠纯纯的爱，真的能够克服眼前所有的障碍吗？我没勇气这么想，真的没有勇气。
有好几次，其实我已经下定决心，斩草除根，把心中的魔鬼去除掉。但是下定决心了后，总是力不从心。觉得好好笑哦。之前的我还那么坚定，到了隔天，一觉醒来，那所谓的意志力，也随着我的睡意，消失得无影无踪。我又再次陷进去，陷进那无底洞里，无法爬出来。奇怪的是，我还很清醒，很清楚自己已经再次跌了进去，但我似乎还很开心。你能骂我活该，骂我愚蠢，骂我笨，骂我没用头脑想。我还是傻傻地陷了进去。
每次都欺骗自己，告诉自己一切都还是很完美的。 告诉自己一切都还是顺顺利利的，我们彼此还是深爱对方，只要是那样就已经足够了。
但是，童话故事并不是美好的。我应该说是欺骗自己的童话故事，根本就不会是美好的。这一切结束了。四年的光阴，我们所拥有的快乐时光，都像枯萎的花瓣掉落在草地上，随着风飘走了。虽然已经结束了，但我还被困在无底洞里，爬不出来。
只要还能感觉到他对我的一丝眷念或是关怀，我都会感到无比的快乐。但我完全不知道自己已经越陷越深，在这样下去，根本是不行的。
那晚，他对我说不想再隐瞒我了，说他找到了一段新恋情。
我知道这一天一定会到的，但没想到竟然会那么快。之前的我最害怕听到的就是这个，最不想面对的，也是这个。为什么要让我知道呢？让我继续欺骗自己吧。
到现在，心里还会不断地隐隐作痛，那种感觉，真的好难形容。每回想到曾经和自己走得那么近的人，现在却和别人走在一起，那种阵痛便会油然而生。好辛苦。为什么不能和喜欢的人长长久久？到底是谁发明了“分手”这两个字？
我知道现在是时候踏出这个无底洞，摆脱心中的恶魔，勇敢地自己走下去。我一定要成功,请祝我好运。
P/S: 本故事纯属虚构,如有雷同,纯属巧合.
I replied this...
我不看偶像剧，因为都是骗人的。我从很久以前就觉得童话，偶像剧，日剧，韩剧，都是超现实，所以我看港剧。港剧没有天长地久，没有忠诚，没有信任，有的只是复杂的恋情。
可能我的世界已经蒙上一层灰，可能我已不再懂得什么是忠诚，可能我已经把世界定为一个充满着奸诈，我学会了怎么不再爱任何人。包括爱了很久的那一个人...
But of course, I'm not being true to myself. I said to myself that I shall never love again, so why am I feeling this pang of pain and go through the whole process of mindfucking and get mindfucked all over again? Perhaps my friend's has got it right, "那晚，他对我说不想再隐瞒我了，说他找到了一段新恋情。/ 我知道这一天一定会到的，但没想到竟然会那么快。之前的我最害怕听到的就是这个，最不想面对的，也是这个。为什么要让我知道呢？让我继续欺骗自己吧。"
我再骗我自己什么？
我以前认为只要耐心的等，总有一天会等到。但你却让我明白有些东西不管我等多久，我还是得不到，或者应该说，我还是不可能得到。但又有人给我希望，跟我说如果我耐心的等，我会等到我要的东西。现在，我已不清楚我要什么东西，但充满着爱恨情仇的我只知道我就是不要你比我幸福。Conan as Shinichi once said to Ran that she needn't worry about what others think, as long as she's being true to her own feelings, then after that he scoffed at the irony, that it's actually him not being true to his own feelings. I think I'm feeling vengeful...
I went off topic again. And I wanted to say something else, about someone else, about something I received, from someone whom I care about and cares for me. Life just is this bad, that you can't see the good things and only can see the bad. I think lack of sleep and the deary weather is wearing me down. Even pms isn't that bad... I hate the rain and the cold. And I hate you.
I'm so totally emotionally fucked up now. bah~
I didn't manage to get much sleep on the train because of this big fear of missing the train station and screwing myself up. I'm going to head for a short nap now before I get up to get some work done. sian~
Berlin brought back depression into me. First, it's so amazing how a country ravaged by losing two world wars can now manage to achieve so high standards of living that even America and UK pale in comparison. Of course, I say this because I've never been to Japan, and Japan's only ravaged by one world war, and much of the destruction were limited to a couple of aerial bombs and not literally the army marching into the city and ravage it and it's people. depressing...
Not only that, it's also the being all alone in the big city that make me realise, I've been really trying to hard to build this wall around my heart and make me appear strong when I'm in fact, but a weakling.
A friend wrote this in her blog...
摆脱我心中的恶魔
每次看偶像剧，剧中的男女主角总是幸福美满，快快乐乐地生活在一起。现实生活中的男男女女，是否都会有如此美满的姻缘？我开始对之前所存有的所谓“天长地久”这个概念，不再抱以任何的希望。毕竟，现在的我还正在尝试走出情伤，就先把所有完美无瑕的念头抛开一边好了。
从香港返回新加坡，相信是我人生中的一大转捩点。决定提前回来，为的是要除去我心中的一块大石。在香港的那段日子，发生了许多令我实在是措手不及的事。面对眼前所有的问题，不禁开始怀疑，我们是否真的是彼此在寻找的那个“终生伴侣”？只觉得对他的那份感情还是依旧存在，但如果只单靠纯纯的爱，真的能够克服眼前所有的障碍吗？我没勇气这么想，真的没有勇气。
有好几次，其实我已经下定决心，斩草除根，把心中的魔鬼去除掉。但是下定决心了后，总是力不从心。觉得好好笑哦。之前的我还那么坚定，到了隔天，一觉醒来，那所谓的意志力，也随着我的睡意，消失得无影无踪。我又再次陷进去，陷进那无底洞里，无法爬出来。奇怪的是，我还很清醒，很清楚自己已经再次跌了进去，但我似乎还很开心。你能骂我活该，骂我愚蠢，骂我笨，骂我没用头脑想。我还是傻傻地陷了进去。
每次都欺骗自己，告诉自己一切都还是很完美的。 告诉自己一切都还是顺顺利利的，我们彼此还是深爱对方，只要是那样就已经足够了。
但是，童话故事并不是美好的。我应该说是欺骗自己的童话故事，根本就不会是美好的。这一切结束了。四年的光阴，我们所拥有的快乐时光，都像枯萎的花瓣掉落在草地上，随着风飘走了。虽然已经结束了，但我还被困在无底洞里，爬不出来。
只要还能感觉到他对我的一丝眷念或是关怀，我都会感到无比的快乐。但我完全不知道自己已经越陷越深，在这样下去，根本是不行的。
那晚，他对我说不想再隐瞒我了，说他找到了一段新恋情。
我知道这一天一定会到的，但没想到竟然会那么快。之前的我最害怕听到的就是这个，最不想面对的，也是这个。为什么要让我知道呢？让我继续欺骗自己吧。
到现在，心里还会不断地隐隐作痛，那种感觉，真的好难形容。每回想到曾经和自己走得那么近的人，现在却和别人走在一起，那种阵痛便会油然而生。好辛苦。为什么不能和喜欢的人长长久久？到底是谁发明了“分手”这两个字？
我知道现在是时候踏出这个无底洞，摆脱心中的恶魔，勇敢地自己走下去。我一定要成功,请祝我好运。
P/S: 本故事纯属虚构,如有雷同,纯属巧合.
I replied this...
我不看偶像剧，因为都是骗人的。我从很久以前就觉得童话，偶像剧，日剧，韩剧，都是超现实，所以我看港剧。港剧没有天长地久，没有忠诚，没有信任，有的只是复杂的恋情。
可能我的世界已经蒙上一层灰，可能我已不再懂得什么是忠诚，可能我已经把世界定为一个充满着奸诈，我学会了怎么不再爱任何人。包括爱了很久的那一个人...
But of course, I'm not being true to myself. I said to myself that I shall never love again, so why am I feeling this pang of pain and go through the whole process of mindfucking and get mindfucked all over again? Perhaps my friend's has got it right, "那晚，他对我说不想再隐瞒我了，说他找到了一段新恋情。/ 我知道这一天一定会到的，但没想到竟然会那么快。之前的我最害怕听到的就是这个，最不想面对的，也是这个。为什么要让我知道呢？让我继续欺骗自己吧。"
我再骗我自己什么？
我以前认为只要耐心的等，总有一天会等到。但你却让我明白有些东西不管我等多久，我还是得不到，或者应该说，我还是不可能得到。但又有人给我希望，跟我说如果我耐心的等，我会等到我要的东西。现在，我已不清楚我要什么东西，但充满着爱恨情仇的我只知道我就是不要你比我幸福。Conan as Shinichi once said to Ran that she needn't worry about what others think, as long as she's being true to her own feelings, then after that he scoffed at the irony, that it's actually him not being true to his own feelings. I think I'm feeling vengeful...
I went off topic again. And I wanted to say something else, about someone else, about something I received, from someone whom I care about and cares for me. Life just is this bad, that you can't see the good things and only can see the bad. I think lack of sleep and the deary weather is wearing me down. Even pms isn't that bad... I hate the rain and the cold. And I hate you.
I'm so totally emotionally fucked up now. bah~
Friday, May 26, 2006
What Am I Made Of?
drawahouse.com
Based on your drawing and the 10 answers you gave this is a summary of your personality:
Your house tells the world that you ought to be a leader. You are a freedom lover and a strong person. You are shy and reserved. If you've drawn a cross on each of windows, you always want to live alone. Once you have a problem, you need a friend with you. Your life is always full of changes.
When it comes to love, you shut yourself off. It's difficult to win your heart because you have decided to keep your feelings deep inside. You have a strong personality and you like to command, influence and control people.
You are not a romantic person by nature. It also safe to say that others don't see you as a flirt. You don't think much about yourself.
These show why online Personality Tests aren't accurate at all.
- I didn't draw crosses over my windows.
- I AM a romantic person by nature.
- I flirt quite a bit.
- I think the whole world revolves around me.
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These show why online Personality Tests aren't accurate at all.
- I'm A LITTLE scarred??? That's the understatement of the century.
- I'm overly agitated when things go wrong, I'm not a calm person by nature.
- Nothing will come to me as a shock. I'm highly intuitive, I can tell when things are going to happen.
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I used my nick xxoos to tabulate this result.
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I used my real name, joan ang, to tabulate this result.
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I used my name joan to tabulate this result.
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I used my chinese name in pinyin to tabulate this result.
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I guess my name says a lot about me because all of the about results which tabulates my name seems to be quite accurate.
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Another note, wonder how many people here uses firefox, and has blocked flashing gifs? I just realised that someone actually does that. men~ If you are one of them, then I think you are missing a lot of this, since my whole blog is filled with flashing gifs ever since I mastered the making of it. I've did something to my header too, wonder anyone noticed it? hehehe~ Feeling very smart from my clevery~
I also realised one thing, much of the blog that I created is make for my convenience. When Cindy changed her blog template, I noticed something's weird about her measurements and asked her about it. Her response was that it looked okay on her computer screen. Most of the time when we do blogs up, we always check on our own computer screens to see if the alignment is to our convenience. When I did up my blog, it's the same thing.
My blogskin, especially the measurements for my header is done specifically to my convenience, for a 1024px screen. Not just for a 1024px screen, because if you are using a 1024 screen, I think most people do, you'd notice that there are black parts by the side. Fact is that my skin is made with a 850px width. Doushite? I use a side bar~ So if my width is 1024px, like my previous skin, I'd need to scroll left and right. For my convenience, I decided to make my blogskin only 850px wide, so that everything fits nicely on my screen~
After all, I am my blog's most loyal reader.
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A Forum of China Chinese Angered by a Singaporean Exchange Student's Blog
I think nineaugust sums it up pretty well... "This shows how pampered our kids are, and how arrogant the other kids are."
Effectively, I don't like the way nineaugust overgeneralised, because I wouldn't want to say all Singaporeans are pampered, and neither are all the PRCs arrogant because after trawling through the whole of the forum, I conclude that it's only that girl being pathetic, and it's not fair for people to condemn all Singaporeans just because one girl is being pathetic. yea... Even I hold that girl in contempt.
But another problem arises out of this. What is a blog? I always thought that blogs are diaries, for one to be totally honest in it. But then, as time goes, more people read the blog, one cannot put one's true feelings online for fear that someone else is reading it. Then in time, one writes for others to read and is no longer true to his own feelings. Is that still a blog? Many times I want to write what I really feel, but self censorship stands in my way.
Right now, I'm still seaching what is my blog's path. I want to say I'm writing for my readers, but I do also want to write for myself. Or ideally in my utopian world, I want to write for myself and for my readers to accept what I'm writing, and better if they like it.
bah~ I've homework to do and I'm procrastinating again. And I've to wake up early tomorrow to go the the library to print stuff. If I finish my homework later and have time to spare, I'll do the post I've always wanted to do since forever. I don't think I'd have time to spare tomorrow as I'm going up to Berlin and would be without internet access for one weekend, so no Detective Conan for me for oh my god 4 days! (diaoz...) And I'd be meeting a friend for the first time, in Berlin, the most unsafe place in the whole of Germany. (It's relative, Germany is a very safe place, especially in the south, but not so for the east, and with the high concentration of the punks, and because of my skin colour... hmm...) Will I kena condemned by Germans for saying that Berlin is unsafe? bah~ Must redeem myself by saying that I can safely say that I can walk out onto the streets now and the most dangerous thing that might happen to me is that I freeze to death.
Damn... I went off track again... Oh, I was saying, I'd be meeting a friend for the first time in Berlin. wahahaha~ Sekali he turns out to be an ax-murderer or something, then I bu shi si le?
Based on your drawing and the 10 answers you gave this is a summary of your personality:
Your house tells the world that you ought to be a leader. You are a freedom lover and a strong person. You are shy and reserved. If you've drawn a cross on each of windows, you always want to live alone. Once you have a problem, you need a friend with you. Your life is always full of changes.
When it comes to love, you shut yourself off. It's difficult to win your heart because you have decided to keep your feelings deep inside. You have a strong personality and you like to command, influence and control people.
You are not a romantic person by nature. It also safe to say that others don't see you as a flirt. You don't think much about yourself.
These show why online Personality Tests aren't accurate at all.
- I didn't draw crosses over my windows.
- I AM a romantic person by nature.
- I flirt quite a bit.
- I think the whole world revolves around me.
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| Your Love Life Secrets Are |
 Looking back on your life, you will have a few true loves. You're a little scarred from your past relationships, but who isn't? You want to be with someone who's a success. A person with the right job, right family, right clothes... In fights, you are able to walk away and calm down. You are able to weather the storm. A break-up usually comes as a shock to you. You always think things are going well. |
These show why online Personality Tests aren't accurate at all.
- I'm A LITTLE scarred??? That's the understatement of the century.
- I'm overly agitated when things go wrong, I'm not a calm person by nature.
- Nothing will come to me as a shock. I'm highly intuitive, I can tell when things are going to happen.
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| You Are The Hanging Man |
 You represent the seeking of enlightenment and spiritual clarity. You tend to confuse others, but your oddities seem deeply satisfying. Self sacrifice is easy for you, especially if it makes you a better person in the end. You are the type of person who is very in touch with your soul and inner spirit. Your fortune: Right now is a good time for reflection and meditation. You should stop resisting the problems in your life, and let yourself be vulnerable to them. You may need to sacrifice something important to you to move ahead in your life. Accept your destiny with courage, and learn to let go of what you think you need. |
I used my nick xxoos to tabulate this result.
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| You Are The High Priestess |
 You represent mystery - secrets that are yet to be revealed. You find yourself sitting between two worlds: one dark, one light. You tend to hold these two worlds in balance, reconciling the two. Open and welcoming, you invite others to learn your secrets. Your fortune: Something hidden, or latent, in your life is about to come forward. You need to pay more attention to your dreams, thoughts, intuition, and imagination. And if that involves tapping into your dark side, it will all balance out in the end. You have a lot of potential dying to be unleashed, so let those gates open! |
I used my real name, joan ang, to tabulate this result.
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| You Are The Empress |
 You represent the ideal female figure: beauty and nurturing. You bring security and harmony to many. At times, you are also a very sensual person. You are characterized by love, pleasure, and desire. Your fortune: You need to take some time to think about the role of commitment in your life. It's possible you need to commit more to others, or deal with how others have treated you. It is very important for you to support your friends and family right now, difficult as it may be. You may need to look at your relationship with your mother, or your relationships as a mother. |
I used my name joan to tabulate this result.
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| You Are The Star |
 You represent the ultimate in truth and purity. Insightful and illuminating, you provide guidance for others. You also demonstrate unselfish, unconditional love. You posses many spiritual gifts, including the ability to heal. Your fortune: Your future is looking brighter by the day. The near future will be a time of both hope and healing. Luck is about to come your way, perhaps the best luck you have ever seen. Life is about to get a lot easier and much better! |
I used my chinese name in pinyin to tabulate this result.
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I guess my name says a lot about me because all of the about results which tabulates my name seems to be quite accurate.
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Another note, wonder how many people here uses firefox, and has blocked flashing gifs? I just realised that someone actually does that. men~ If you are one of them, then I think you are missing a lot of this, since my whole blog is filled with flashing gifs ever since I mastered the making of it. I've did something to my header too, wonder anyone noticed it? hehehe~ Feeling very smart from my clevery~
I also realised one thing, much of the blog that I created is make for my convenience. When Cindy changed her blog template, I noticed something's weird about her measurements and asked her about it. Her response was that it looked okay on her computer screen. Most of the time when we do blogs up, we always check on our own computer screens to see if the alignment is to our convenience. When I did up my blog, it's the same thing.
My blogskin, especially the measurements for my header is done specifically to my convenience, for a 1024px screen. Not just for a 1024px screen, because if you are using a 1024 screen, I think most people do, you'd notice that there are black parts by the side. Fact is that my skin is made with a 850px width. Doushite? I use a side bar~ So if my width is 1024px, like my previous skin, I'd need to scroll left and right. For my convenience, I decided to make my blogskin only 850px wide, so that everything fits nicely on my screen~
After all, I am my blog's most loyal reader.
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A Forum of China Chinese Angered by a Singaporean Exchange Student's Blog
I think nineaugust sums it up pretty well... "This shows how pampered our kids are, and how arrogant the other kids are."
Effectively, I don't like the way nineaugust overgeneralised, because I wouldn't want to say all Singaporeans are pampered, and neither are all the PRCs arrogant because after trawling through the whole of the forum, I conclude that it's only that girl being pathetic, and it's not fair for people to condemn all Singaporeans just because one girl is being pathetic. yea... Even I hold that girl in contempt.
But another problem arises out of this. What is a blog? I always thought that blogs are diaries, for one to be totally honest in it. But then, as time goes, more people read the blog, one cannot put one's true feelings online for fear that someone else is reading it. Then in time, one writes for others to read and is no longer true to his own feelings. Is that still a blog? Many times I want to write what I really feel, but self censorship stands in my way.
Right now, I'm still seaching what is my blog's path. I want to say I'm writing for my readers, but I do also want to write for myself. Or ideally in my utopian world, I want to write for myself and for my readers to accept what I'm writing, and better if they like it.
bah~ I've homework to do and I'm procrastinating again. And I've to wake up early tomorrow to go the the library to print stuff. If I finish my homework later and have time to spare, I'll do the post I've always wanted to do since forever. I don't think I'd have time to spare tomorrow as I'm going up to Berlin and would be without internet access for one weekend, so no Detective Conan for me for oh my god 4 days! (diaoz...) And I'd be meeting a friend for the first time, in Berlin, the most unsafe place in the whole of Germany. (It's relative, Germany is a very safe place, especially in the south, but not so for the east, and with the high concentration of the punks, and because of my skin colour... hmm...) Will I kena condemned by Germans for saying that Berlin is unsafe? bah~ Must redeem myself by saying that I can safely say that I can walk out onto the streets now and the most dangerous thing that might happen to me is that I freeze to death.
Damn... I went off track again... Oh, I was saying, I'd be meeting a friend for the first time in Berlin. wahahaha~ Sekali he turns out to be an ax-murderer or something, then I bu shi si le?
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Blog Revamped
I've been meaning to do this for a very long time already but only managed to do it up now because...
1. I had trouble picking with header to use, then I remembered my specialty, animated gifs.
2. Then I wanted more backgrounds for the header, but haven't been travelling and haven't any nice pictures.
3. My previous copy of the template in notepad form was lost after my computer crashed. This had to be redone from scratch.
4. I fell in love with youtube and that occupied all my time.
5. I procrastinated.
6. I procrastinated more.
7. I procrastinated much more.
8. I thought that my previous blogskin was adequate.
9. I was supposed to be doing my homework tonight.
10. I decided to procrastinate doing my homework~ wahaha~
An explanation of the new header. The animated gif idea was toyed with for a month before I finally decided on these 16 pictures. I don't think they are the best but it will have to do until I find more time to make a header I'm really proud of. Actually, I don't quite like the image quality of the gif file on flickr, but it will have to do until I make a nicer header.
The picture of me in the header I thought was my pride. I really loved that picture a lot. But then my world collasped the other day when a friend said I looked like I've gained weight in that picture. dang~ Until I find a nicer picture of myself that I also really like, well, I'll keep this header. I spent like nights cutting my double face out, cutting and resizing everything, if I don't use it, the nights I've spent would be very much wasted.
I need a better photog. Then I can do less photoshopping. No, I need a studio, then I won't even need to photoshop away all the extas. The original unedited photo was from this blog entry.
The Manhattan Fish Market
There's another story behind it. When my comp crashed, the photos taken on that day were lost because I hadn't backed them up, but luckily I blogged about it, and I posted them on Flickr and I managed to get those nicer pictures back by downloading them from Flickr again. Luckily I didn't resize the pictures. If not, I'd really die. The picture is really one I liked a lot a lot, that is until that friend of mine said I looked fat in it. damn... I think it's the smile... When I smile my cheeks puff up and I look fat.
Anyway, since I started watching youtube, I've stopped playing with my photoshop. Just now it was actually touching photoshop all over again that prompted me to finally play with html codings. The pice of work I played with just now...
They are all screen captures from youtube.
I like photoshop~ I can crop and resize, and I've learnt something new today! I've learnt how to stretch~ The orginal video was on wide screen but it wasn't uploaded on wide screen format, so the characters all looked narrowed, so my screen captures of the character looked narrow, so I stretched them back using photoshop~
See when I've the time, and my screen capture is working again, I'll do a more lavish attempt at creating something nice for my dear Shinichi~ Now to think of that, I still owe someone an animated gif something like my header. I did himan amatuer one, but I found a nicer picture of him which I want to use, but more difficult to crop away all the extras at the back. bah~ Must find time to play with my photoshop again. But I've got so many other things to do too... wahaha~
Okay, please give me comments for my blogskin. Thanks~
1. I had trouble picking with header to use, then I remembered my specialty, animated gifs.
2. Then I wanted more backgrounds for the header, but haven't been travelling and haven't any nice pictures.
3. My previous copy of the template in notepad form was lost after my computer crashed. This had to be redone from scratch.
4. I fell in love with youtube and that occupied all my time.
5. I procrastinated.
6. I procrastinated more.
7. I procrastinated much more.
8. I thought that my previous blogskin was adequate.
9. I was supposed to be doing my homework tonight.
10. I decided to procrastinate doing my homework~ wahaha~
An explanation of the new header. The animated gif idea was toyed with for a month before I finally decided on these 16 pictures. I don't think they are the best but it will have to do until I find more time to make a header I'm really proud of. Actually, I don't quite like the image quality of the gif file on flickr, but it will have to do until I make a nicer header.
The picture of me in the header I thought was my pride. I really loved that picture a lot. But then my world collasped the other day when a friend said I looked like I've gained weight in that picture. dang~ Until I find a nicer picture of myself that I also really like, well, I'll keep this header. I spent like nights cutting my double face out, cutting and resizing everything, if I don't use it, the nights I've spent would be very much wasted.
I need a better photog. Then I can do less photoshopping. No, I need a studio, then I won't even need to photoshop away all the extas. The original unedited photo was from this blog entry.
The Manhattan Fish Market
There's another story behind it. When my comp crashed, the photos taken on that day were lost because I hadn't backed them up, but luckily I blogged about it, and I posted them on Flickr and I managed to get those nicer pictures back by downloading them from Flickr again. Luckily I didn't resize the pictures. If not, I'd really die. The picture is really one I liked a lot a lot, that is until that friend of mine said I looked fat in it. damn... I think it's the smile... When I smile my cheeks puff up and I look fat.
Anyway, since I started watching youtube, I've stopped playing with my photoshop. Just now it was actually touching photoshop all over again that prompted me to finally play with html codings. The pice of work I played with just now...
They are all screen captures from youtube.
I like photoshop~ I can crop and resize, and I've learnt something new today! I've learnt how to stretch~ The orginal video was on wide screen but it wasn't uploaded on wide screen format, so the characters all looked narrowed, so my screen captures of the character looked narrow, so I stretched them back using photoshop~
See when I've the time, and my screen capture is working again, I'll do a more lavish attempt at creating something nice for my dear Shinichi~ Now to think of that, I still owe someone an animated gif something like my header. I did himan amatuer one, but I found a nicer picture of him which I want to use, but more difficult to crop away all the extras at the back. bah~ Must find time to play with my photoshop again. But I've got so many other things to do too... wahaha~
Okay, please give me comments for my blogskin. Thanks~
Letters from the Daddie
I'll be going up to Berlin this weekend. I told my dad that. Then I realised that for all the trips I went, I never once asked my dad if I could go, I just went ahead and told him my plans. yea... I know I'm past the age of needing to ask for permission from my parents, but well, all my expenses here are being paid by them, whatever trip I make, it's out of their pockets. Feeling a bit guilt spending so much.
So that day, after conversing with a friend, pondering if should go to London, or Utrecht, I thought that maybe I should ask the Daddie. My family is not rich, yes, I might live a comfortable life, but we are nowhere near extravagant. Financially, I know my this whole exchange programme is a burden to the Daddie, even though my grandfather did pay for my airplane tickets and attempted to help out a bit. Considering this and that my sister is going to Hong Kong for an immersion trip this June, I really shouldn't be spending too much.
SO I decided to ask the Daddie about the impending trip to either London or Utrecht. I don't want to be a spoilt kid and always get my way, so I asked him if it's viable. I told of the costs either by train or by plane, then I told him about the costs of my tickets to Berlin. Then I asked him what he thought. I was thinking, if he thought that going to London would be too expensive, then I should maybe go somewhere else.
But this was his reply:
Joan,
Go for a break.
I think you have enough money in your account.
I have experienced living in the dormitory alone during the holidays, it was very very boring.
You just have to keep track of your expenses and let me know when to top up your account.
Bye.
--
What is it about the men that they like to end their emails with "bye." or "cheers.", it's so lame.
It's nice to have a father who understands after being through the same thing once. My Daddie studied in England some time back, okay make that some very long time back, so he knows what's it like to be far away from home and must make use of all opportunities. But of course, the very long time back and now is very different. Because of one very important invention, living alone in a dormitory is no longer boring.
Internet.
With the internet, I can be whereever I want to be and do whatever I want to do. I can occupy my time by surfing websites, I can read books, I can watch movies, I can catch up on news, though mainly, only football news. Life in a dorm isn't really that boring.
But of course, it would be better to be going out, definitely~ hehehe~
I've been trying to cut down on expenses by not buying anything irrelevant. The shoes I wanted to buy when I came over has been shelved away, I hates shoes anyway, I'm a slipon kind of girl... hehehe... I don't think I'd be buying clothes over here, unless they are really cheap, or that I can wear them again when I'm back in Singapore, ie I won't be buying jackets and coats and stuff like those. I'm also not eating a lot. All these just so that I can travel and not burden the family back in Singapore. I think I am a good girl~
After spending 154euros on my train ticket to Berlin, and the Bahncard, and whatnots, I've officially set my budget in Berlin to be at 100euros, and if I don't buy anything tomorrow and on Friday, I've got another 20euros more to spend. I've now only like 120euros in my wallet, not counting the bit of coins I have. So that shall be my budget. Actually for only two days and one night, 100euros sounds quite more than enough, right? hai... Not so sure, anyway, I think if I really see anything I really want to buy I think I'll still buy it and probably pay by my Mastercard. I'm such a spendthrift.
Maybe instead of asking my dad to top up my account, I should call him to transfer money from my savings account in to my this account. At least when I know I'm spending my own savings, I might feel a bit more pained and not spend that much? hahahaha... damn... I'm now even scoffing at myself.
yea... This is coming from the girl who had just this afternoon spent €17,99 on a (brace yourself for this) German soundtrack for (...) Detective Conan. That's like so duh... But the opening track keeps playing in my head "Ich kann nicht dagegen tun..." that after seeing the advert for the OST, I was tempted into buying it. Oh, and my Gravitation the novel finally came in the post~ wahaha... More on that another time.
I just want to say this again. I'm really thankful for everything I have. The 52 Detective Conan mangas sitting in my cabinet back at home. And I'm really not jealous of everything I don't have. The entire set of Detective Conan the anime. I don't really need the things I don't have, so there's no reason for me to feel upset over things I don't have. After all there is youtube, I don't need to buy all the anime when I already have the whole collection of manga. wait... I suddenly thought of my whole collection of anime AND manga of Cardcaptor Sakura. I should be extremely thankful that I have all those I have.
Looking forward to Berlin this weekend~
In preparation for this Berlin trip, I've bought an extra set of 4 rechargable batteries, and I shall charge them all up, I now have 12 batteries. And I'll clear my 1gig card, and just in case, I shall go and clear my 512mb card and 128mb card. And in extra protection, I shall also clear my 1gig card for my handphone, and the other 512mb card in my the other handphone.
Have I not said I'm extremely thankful for everything I have?
So that day, after conversing with a friend, pondering if should go to London, or Utrecht, I thought that maybe I should ask the Daddie. My family is not rich, yes, I might live a comfortable life, but we are nowhere near extravagant. Financially, I know my this whole exchange programme is a burden to the Daddie, even though my grandfather did pay for my airplane tickets and attempted to help out a bit. Considering this and that my sister is going to Hong Kong for an immersion trip this June, I really shouldn't be spending too much.
SO I decided to ask the Daddie about the impending trip to either London or Utrecht. I don't want to be a spoilt kid and always get my way, so I asked him if it's viable. I told of the costs either by train or by plane, then I told him about the costs of my tickets to Berlin. Then I asked him what he thought. I was thinking, if he thought that going to London would be too expensive, then I should maybe go somewhere else.
But this was his reply:
Joan,
Go for a break.
I think you have enough money in your account.
I have experienced living in the dormitory alone during the holidays, it was very very boring.
You just have to keep track of your expenses and let me know when to top up your account.
Bye.
--
What is it about the men that they like to end their emails with "bye." or "cheers.", it's so lame.
It's nice to have a father who understands after being through the same thing once. My Daddie studied in England some time back, okay make that some very long time back, so he knows what's it like to be far away from home and must make use of all opportunities. But of course, the very long time back and now is very different. Because of one very important invention, living alone in a dormitory is no longer boring.
Internet.
With the internet, I can be whereever I want to be and do whatever I want to do. I can occupy my time by surfing websites, I can read books, I can watch movies, I can catch up on news, though mainly, only football news. Life in a dorm isn't really that boring.
But of course, it would be better to be going out, definitely~ hehehe~
I've been trying to cut down on expenses by not buying anything irrelevant. The shoes I wanted to buy when I came over has been shelved away, I hates shoes anyway, I'm a slipon kind of girl... hehehe... I don't think I'd be buying clothes over here, unless they are really cheap, or that I can wear them again when I'm back in Singapore, ie I won't be buying jackets and coats and stuff like those. I'm also not eating a lot. All these just so that I can travel and not burden the family back in Singapore. I think I am a good girl~
After spending 154euros on my train ticket to Berlin, and the Bahncard, and whatnots, I've officially set my budget in Berlin to be at 100euros, and if I don't buy anything tomorrow and on Friday, I've got another 20euros more to spend. I've now only like 120euros in my wallet, not counting the bit of coins I have. So that shall be my budget. Actually for only two days and one night, 100euros sounds quite more than enough, right? hai... Not so sure, anyway, I think if I really see anything I really want to buy I think I'll still buy it and probably pay by my Mastercard. I'm such a spendthrift.
Maybe instead of asking my dad to top up my account, I should call him to transfer money from my savings account in to my this account. At least when I know I'm spending my own savings, I might feel a bit more pained and not spend that much? hahahaha... damn... I'm now even scoffing at myself.
yea... This is coming from the girl who had just this afternoon spent €17,99 on a (brace yourself for this) German soundtrack for (...) Detective Conan. That's like so duh... But the opening track keeps playing in my head "Ich kann nicht dagegen tun..." that after seeing the advert for the OST, I was tempted into buying it. Oh, and my Gravitation the novel finally came in the post~ wahaha... More on that another time.
I just want to say this again. I'm really thankful for everything I have. The 52 Detective Conan mangas sitting in my cabinet back at home. And I'm really not jealous of everything I don't have. The entire set of Detective Conan the anime. I don't really need the things I don't have, so there's no reason for me to feel upset over things I don't have. After all there is youtube, I don't need to buy all the anime when I already have the whole collection of manga. wait... I suddenly thought of my whole collection of anime AND manga of Cardcaptor Sakura. I should be extremely thankful that I have all those I have.
Looking forward to Berlin this weekend~
In preparation for this Berlin trip, I've bought an extra set of 4 rechargable batteries, and I shall charge them all up, I now have 12 batteries. And I'll clear my 1gig card, and just in case, I shall go and clear my 512mb card and 128mb card. And in extra protection, I shall also clear my 1gig card for my handphone, and the other 512mb card in my the other handphone.
Have I not said I'm extremely thankful for everything I have?
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
An Email: Yummy Salmon
I just wrote this email to a friend, and I thought that it sounds pretty interesting for a blog entry, so instead of only having one person know about it, I've decided to put it on the blog and share this little nugget with everybody online~ wahaha~ And, sorry, bear with me for the utter neglection of the use of capital letters. I'm not very font of using capital letters, even when it's appropriate in MSN or in emails. Just a little weird fact about me.
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hello shuaige~
still in camp? still want me to send you emails to occupy your cold lonely nights with a dozen of other men? wahaha~
subject of today is your favourite topic, salmon~ a new inventive joan way of eating salmon, or should i say, your favourite smoked salmon... wahahah~ and i've just ate it for supper... jealous? don't be, cos i'll teach you how to now!
usually when you eat salmon what do you flavour it with? when i ate smoked salmon, western style, i always flavour it with lemon juice, squeezed from a lemon slice. actually when i eat seafood western styled, i always eat it with squeezed lemon. all kinds of fish, prawns, whatsoevers, fried, steamed (but western hardly steam fish), grilled or smoked, always with lemon to enhance the taste of the seafood.
but when i eat seafood chinese or japanese styled, i always flavour it with light soya sauce, jiu qing, jiang qing, whatever you call it in your dialect. especially japanese style, always always everything must dip in light soya sauce.
yesterday, in the supermarket, i saw a packet of salmon selling not too expensive, so i bought it. at first i thought the salmon was raw, but of course, if it comes packaged, tough luck for it to be raw. but anyway, i ate it. yesterday i ate it japanese styled, with light soya sauce and ate it plain. too salty, and with it being smoked, i think the preservatives that i ate altogether is enough to put someone allergic to msg to death already. but of course, don't need to worry about me, i fed myself enough pepsi to make sure i'm still alive.
just now, for supper, i wanted something a bit more. was feeling really hungry mah... so i thought of toast. remember i told you about high tea at hyatt's? or was it you whom i was discussing smoked salmon with? should be you la, only you as crazy about food as me... hehehe... at hyatt's, i ate the smoked salmon with lemon over toast. but tonight, me didn't buy lemon, besides, this smoked salmon not nice as the on at hyatt's, this one still a bit fishy, so i decided to do some infusion~
i soaked the salmon in my light soya sauce just like i did last night, then place that slice of salmon on top of my toast, and ate it. japanese-western infusion~ sort of like sushi only that i used toast instead of rice. sort of like sandwich only that i did it with light soya sauce.
another little jap-infusion i added just now is my drinking of ocha after the meal to wash off the effects of the over eating of preservatives.
sounds nice right? sounds yummy right? hehehe~ want to try it out some time? but then if i were in singapore, i wouldn't go for smoked salmon, i prefer my salmon to be raw~ wahahaha...
oh... and speaking of salmon, i learnt an interesting recipe from my neighbour. baked salmon~ hahaha... you want next time i can try out that recipe see you dare to try my food anot. lol~
my neighbour's salmon got another story of its own... that day i was at this little fast food restaurant selling seafood. i saw a little sushi bento. thinking of home, thinking of all the sushi i haven't been eating, i bought one box, not very cheap, but just to try it out.
feeling happy that that night's dinner was going to be a yummy one, i went back home. and ate my sushi~ of course that includes raw salmon sushi, my very very favourite, well, almost my most favourite... then my neighbour came into the kitchen and put his salmon into the oven to bake.
it smelt so nice~
then he took it out and ate it. one piece of salmon baked, together with potatoes and bread. nice and warm and fragrant. there i was eating my raw salmon with rice and kikoman light soya sauce, the salmon was cold, the rice was cold, the soya sauce was salty, if you understand what i mean... bah~ my this neighbour is always making me feel bad with all the nice food he has.
anyway, i got the recipe from him already~ wahahaha~ but in the meantime, me too lazy to cook can only eat salmon toast, which i still think tastes yummy~ of course, it's only yummy when i'm not having dinner with my that above mentioned neighbour. bah~
okie~ good night~ have fun at camp~ how i wish i had this many guys surrounding me at this moment sia... lucky you~ wahahaha...
xxoos
joan
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hello shuaige~
still in camp? still want me to send you emails to occupy your cold lonely nights with a dozen of other men? wahaha~
subject of today is your favourite topic, salmon~ a new inventive joan way of eating salmon, or should i say, your favourite smoked salmon... wahahah~ and i've just ate it for supper... jealous? don't be, cos i'll teach you how to now!
usually when you eat salmon what do you flavour it with? when i ate smoked salmon, western style, i always flavour it with lemon juice, squeezed from a lemon slice. actually when i eat seafood western styled, i always eat it with squeezed lemon. all kinds of fish, prawns, whatsoevers, fried, steamed (but western hardly steam fish), grilled or smoked, always with lemon to enhance the taste of the seafood.
but when i eat seafood chinese or japanese styled, i always flavour it with light soya sauce, jiu qing, jiang qing, whatever you call it in your dialect. especially japanese style, always always everything must dip in light soya sauce.
yesterday, in the supermarket, i saw a packet of salmon selling not too expensive, so i bought it. at first i thought the salmon was raw, but of course, if it comes packaged, tough luck for it to be raw. but anyway, i ate it. yesterday i ate it japanese styled, with light soya sauce and ate it plain. too salty, and with it being smoked, i think the preservatives that i ate altogether is enough to put someone allergic to msg to death already. but of course, don't need to worry about me, i fed myself enough pepsi to make sure i'm still alive.
just now, for supper, i wanted something a bit more. was feeling really hungry mah... so i thought of toast. remember i told you about high tea at hyatt's? or was it you whom i was discussing smoked salmon with? should be you la, only you as crazy about food as me... hehehe... at hyatt's, i ate the smoked salmon with lemon over toast. but tonight, me didn't buy lemon, besides, this smoked salmon not nice as the on at hyatt's, this one still a bit fishy, so i decided to do some infusion~
i soaked the salmon in my light soya sauce just like i did last night, then place that slice of salmon on top of my toast, and ate it. japanese-western infusion~ sort of like sushi only that i used toast instead of rice. sort of like sandwich only that i did it with light soya sauce.
another little jap-infusion i added just now is my drinking of ocha after the meal to wash off the effects of the over eating of preservatives.
sounds nice right? sounds yummy right? hehehe~ want to try it out some time? but then if i were in singapore, i wouldn't go for smoked salmon, i prefer my salmon to be raw~ wahahaha...
oh... and speaking of salmon, i learnt an interesting recipe from my neighbour. baked salmon~ hahaha... you want next time i can try out that recipe see you dare to try my food anot. lol~
my neighbour's salmon got another story of its own... that day i was at this little fast food restaurant selling seafood. i saw a little sushi bento. thinking of home, thinking of all the sushi i haven't been eating, i bought one box, not very cheap, but just to try it out.
feeling happy that that night's dinner was going to be a yummy one, i went back home. and ate my sushi~ of course that includes raw salmon sushi, my very very favourite, well, almost my most favourite... then my neighbour came into the kitchen and put his salmon into the oven to bake.
it smelt so nice~
then he took it out and ate it. one piece of salmon baked, together with potatoes and bread. nice and warm and fragrant. there i was eating my raw salmon with rice and kikoman light soya sauce, the salmon was cold, the rice was cold, the soya sauce was salty, if you understand what i mean... bah~ my this neighbour is always making me feel bad with all the nice food he has.
anyway, i got the recipe from him already~ wahahaha~ but in the meantime, me too lazy to cook can only eat salmon toast, which i still think tastes yummy~ of course, it's only yummy when i'm not having dinner with my that above mentioned neighbour. bah~
okie~ good night~ have fun at camp~ how i wish i had this many guys surrounding me at this moment sia... lucky you~ wahahaha...
xxoos
joan
Monday, May 22, 2006
More Links
I was out today with Yingshi, Clarence and Najib who came in to Freiburg from Heidelberg. So I didn't manage to watch anything on youtube, and I hadn't watched Conan Movie 8 last night either, maybe I'll watch later, maybe not. See how first.
Actually the title More Links is a bit misleading, I'm not posting up more links, I'm just doing a bit more linkings. hai...
This Blinkymummy post on KL reminded me of the last time I went to KL. Or did I even go to KL? I went to KL, yes, but I hadn't left Berjaya Times Square at all. The whole time I was in KL, I was confined to the buildings of Berjaya Times Square, so can I considered as having gone to KL? bah~
Remember just yesterday night I was angsting over Shan and Ming and Tian over my possible finetuning of Adele's character and her relationship with Ming? I think I've found a possible answer here.
Last night/this morning, I had a dream. I dream of Ming and Adele and of this little village near my place, Hinterzarten. I love that place after being there once, I see the possibility of Ming and Adele being there had things not happened. damn... I'm now starting to like Adele more than Shan, and if this happens, my story will become a big mess. bah~ I need to do more thinking instead of feeling.
I finally got this video uploaded.
It's pure entertainment. I hadn't wanted to put it up at first since it's so lame, but I wanted to show it to a friend so I uploaded it and since I've uploaded it I thought I must well put it up here.
And finally I got my screen capture working. I'm not sure why but sometimes it works sometimes it don't. So here's the picture I wanted to show to prove my Minesweeper best times. Pity I didn't get the screen of my best score board captured.
I thought I was good in Minesweeper, of course I know I'm definitely nowhere near the best, but after seeing this post, I'm feeling a bit demoralised of myself. But honestly, looking at the board, the placing of the mines is what I consider a lucky board. bah~ I need to push myself to the extremes. I need more practice.
And I'm hungry now. And I need to bathe. And I still got stuff to do. sucks... And I'm still procrastinating about this other post I've been wanting to post up since two weeks ago. And now I'm urgent, need go toilet. bah~ My mind's not working anymore.
Actually the title More Links is a bit misleading, I'm not posting up more links, I'm just doing a bit more linkings. hai...
This Blinkymummy post on KL reminded me of the last time I went to KL. Or did I even go to KL? I went to KL, yes, but I hadn't left Berjaya Times Square at all. The whole time I was in KL, I was confined to the buildings of Berjaya Times Square, so can I considered as having gone to KL? bah~
Remember just yesterday night I was angsting over Shan and Ming and Tian over my possible finetuning of Adele's character and her relationship with Ming? I think I've found a possible answer here.
Last night/this morning, I had a dream. I dream of Ming and Adele and of this little village near my place, Hinterzarten. I love that place after being there once, I see the possibility of Ming and Adele being there had things not happened. damn... I'm now starting to like Adele more than Shan, and if this happens, my story will become a big mess. bah~ I need to do more thinking instead of feeling.
I finally got this video uploaded.
It's pure entertainment. I hadn't wanted to put it up at first since it's so lame, but I wanted to show it to a friend so I uploaded it and since I've uploaded it I thought I must well put it up here.
And finally I got my screen capture working. I'm not sure why but sometimes it works sometimes it don't. So here's the picture I wanted to show to prove my Minesweeper best times. Pity I didn't get the screen of my best score board captured.
I thought I was good in Minesweeper, of course I know I'm definitely nowhere near the best, but after seeing this post, I'm feeling a bit demoralised of myself. But honestly, looking at the board, the placing of the mines is what I consider a lucky board. bah~ I need to push myself to the extremes. I need more practice.
And I'm hungry now. And I need to bathe. And I still got stuff to do. sucks... And I'm still procrastinating about this other post I've been wanting to post up since two weeks ago. And now I'm urgent, need go toilet. bah~ My mind's not working anymore.
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