Another update

Am feeling bored. Woke up early again this morning. I don't like having the luxury of lazing in bed. You'll never find me doing that. There's just too many things to do other than sleeping! Sleeping's a waste of time.

Having a one-week break. Dunno what I'm going to have to do with myself. Everybody's busy with school, whereas I'm the most carefree one. My school hours are Apple Tree hours. Going have to finish up with my assignments. Going to read a lot. Going to spend more time with this little boy that we have learned to love. (:

Update!

Nothing much to update, really. Life has been so-so.

Completed Final Fantasy last night. I mean, almost completed, cos I didn't defeat the final boss. I dunno, I just didn't feel like slaying him. The bf pointed out that once I have a new game, I'd chuck everything aside and just spend all my time on the game. I didn't notice it but yaarh, I just realised. I mean, I completed an RPG game in 4 days. I played it the whole of yesterday. The PSP was attached to my hands all day except when I had to eat, to help with the baby, and to pee-wee and take a shit (for which I attach a book to my hands). Now that I've completed the game, I feel hollow. Somehow.

The baby is learning fast. He's smart. He already knows how to bash at the buttons on his musical toys. He'll be 4 months old this Thursday. (:

Yesterday's ongoings!

Yesterday my baby came over to fix his old DVD drive to my computer. And brought along a new Final Fantasy 1 PSP version! New game to indulge in! Thanks baby! (: It was kind of funny the way he carried the baby. He carried the baby facing his face, and the baby sneezed in his face. And the baby still couldn't balance his head properly and kept leaning forward so it looked like the baby was trying to kiss my baby. Humph. But I'm glad my ma was happy to see him again. (:

My aunt (baby's grandma) came after he left, to see her grandson. And at night my cousin came to have dinner here.

And I skipped school. =)))

I'm HOT!!!!

I can't stand the heat! I fucking hate Singapore's weather!!!!
ROOOOOOAAAAAAR!!!!!!!!!!

Simon? Siglap?

I grew up in a Chinese-speaking family who tries hard to speak English. But now only the old ones aren't that great with the language. Well, me and my sis can jabber away all we want but they don't understand a single thing. I think my Ma can catch a thing or two but my Pa won't understand nuthin'. One evening, I was looking at 小杰's (小杰 sounds much nicer than Ethan or 凯杰) little tufts of baby hair, and I remarked on what funny hair he has. Then my Ma suddenly said, “你看，他也有 Simon。”I was like“Simon? 什么 Simon?”Then she went, "Neh, Simon lor," and pointed to his SIDEBURN. Orh....

Another evening, my Pa came home from work. He sort of smiled like he remembered something, and muttered something that sounded like 'Siglap'. I heard it and asked, “什么 Siglap？ Siglap Road arh?” He carried on muttering, "Siglap, siglap," and walked away. I pondered for some moments then finally understood and shouted, "Orh... SHUT UP!!!"

Haha. What funny parents I have. I learnt my Chinese from them, but learnt English in school and the countless episodes of Power Rangers and Seseme Street. Seriously, if you want your kids to start talking like Americans with slang, make them watch Seseme Street.

Lose it!

I've decided.

I'm going to lose that spare tyre I've lovingly had for so long. Going to start by doing sit-ups everyday. Yay me!!!! (:

Update!

Nothing much. I took the right choice to start on my assignment early and not hug the Buddha's leg at the last minute. One day he might not let me hug his leg. Well, the lecturer went and said that if we didn't start now, we might not have enough time to complete it. After that, I went home and started on it, and within 2 hours, I was almost finished! I'm doing an assignment on Singapore Press Holdings so all I've got to do left is to go down there and take a couple of photos of the building and add in what I still haven't wriiten. Anyway, most of what I've already done was copied and pasted from the website. I is smart. =)))

As usual, yesterday met the bf and went to the library. He's going to be busy from now on cos his business is starting up. When his website is completely done up, I'll put in his website's link and all of you please go check it out! And please everyone, please recommend to your friends and relatives so he'll make money and I can have a good life. (:

Anyway, I really have this bad habit of borrowing more novels when I haven't finished reading the ones I borrowed earlier. Now I have around 5 or 6 novels waiting to be read. I is happy. =))) Novels sound more grown-up, storybooks are for babies. Haha.

Shibye?

Today in class the tallest Korean guy in our class started saying 'shibye' to a China guy. He was like, "Shibye!" The China guy went, "Shibye?" I thought they were saying 'cheebye'. Then the Korean guy said "Shibye is FOOK YOU!" In Korean. Orh...

我要活得快乐，
我要活得匆足，
我要活得精彩！

Something to think about

If at first you fall on your face the only acceptable response is to pick yourself up, refluff your hair, and go on bigger and better than ever. Wallowing in self-pity, or, worse yet, apologizing, is unacceptable. Even acknowledging that you bungled something is beau-coup unacceptable. It shows weakness, and being weak is far far worse than making a mistake. Moreover, if you hold your head high and you navigate a blunder carefully, most people will forget that you ever made one.

Material World

Today we had an enjoyable Econs lesson. We laughed quite lot when our lecturer told us about her conversation with her cousin. Our lecturer said they were out having lunch when the cousin looked at my lecturer's $100+ watch and said, "Peggy! Why do you still have that watch? You should buy one of mine.", and she pointed to her own Rolex. My lecturer thought that was kind of rude and asked, "Hey, what's the time now?" The cousin looked at her Rolex and said, "11:30." And my lecturer went, "Hey! Mine says 11:30 too!" She meant that she bought her watch to tell the time, while at the same time implying that her cousin uses her Rolex for something else altogether, which is, to put it bluntly, to show off.

I think the material world is so shallow. Living in a well-to-do country like Singapore, you see these people everywhere. LV bags, Emporio Armani suits, Gucci sunglasses... Some buy just because they can afford it. Others buy because they want to seem as if they belong to the upper class, even if they can't afford that branded bag but went ahead and spent that month's salary on it, and after that tightening their belts. These products are used to symbolize their positions in society. I think only the very rich people should spend their money on these luxuries. For example, this rich guy not only wears a Rolex, an Armani suit, but also drives a BMW and live in a high-end condo. People will think he's indeed very rich. As compared to this girl who lives in a lousy HDB, takes public transport, spends very little on food, but carries a Gucci bag. People will think she's shallow. That she's trying too hard to fit in the upper class society.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is a societal problem.

Global Warming

I've been watching Channel News Asia's documentaries on global warming. It's only now that I'm starting to get a little worried. I stress on the word 'little' cos I think most people think the same way, that global warming is a slow process, until the Earth becomes deep fried with the Sun's deathly rays, most of us will be long dead. But the process is speeding up. It's kind of scary, you know, the fact that most people don't give a fuck about the Earth they live on. In maybe 20 - 30 years, the sea level will rise by 7 metres. And that's quite a lot, you know, living in a country like Singapore. Go check out the Singapore River, that's the sea level.

Global warming is caused by the thinning of the ozone layer, which is the layer of atmosphere which blocks out most the heat emitted by the Sun. Now there's already a huge hole in the ozone layer, and this is causing the Earth to heat up. The icy cold places like the North Pole and Antarctica are heating up, too, causing the ice to melt rapidly. And the shocking thing is, this might gradually lead to the extinction of polar bears. The animal lover that I am, well, I love polar bears. Anyway, with the ice melting, which means that there are less ice, which means that polar bears can no longer wait at ice holes in the ice for seals to come up and breathe. See, seals use these holes to breathe, and that's when polar bears grab their chance and seize their meals. With less ice around, polar bears have to go into the icy water to catch seals now, resulting in more excercising and less food for the bears, resulting in polar bears getting thinner, resulting in extinction, cos skinny female polar bears can't give birth. And they are really getting slimmer! I mean, polar bears used to look to fat and cuddly and furry right. Now they just look long. Long and skinny. That's sad.

If you think you're not contributing to the warming of the Earth, you're wrong. Almost everything we do contributes to global warming. Turning on the lamp, washing our clothes in the washing machine, driving home... Everything. The Earth is heating up gradually, every minute, every second. And it's so... inevitable.

Here's how it all started...

I dunno why I felt like writing this. Maybe it's to remember how we felt at the beginning. We've been going on strong for 1 year and 2 months now. Here's the story of how me and my baby started: Two lonely people log on to IRC. We chat and kept in contact. After a while of knowing each other I realise his then relationship wasn't going too well. It was when he went with her to Taiwan for a week, that I realised I love him. In fact, I loved and missed him so much then, I wanted him go get back RIGHT THEN. I remember the night he was due back, I went out to my workplace to seek some company. I was waiting for his phone call while I peeled 60 century eggs with 小宏 and 小康. Then my phone vibrated on the kitchen table and 小康 went, "电话！电话" I quickly grabbed the phone despite my hands smelling of century egg and I've been so happy ever since. Anyway, a few days later somehow his relationship ended. Then I took the courage and met him. Things went slow. I found it hard to get use to. Him being much older. I was 16, him 28. But our relationship eventually improved. We had our first kiss in the Asian Civilization Museum. We sat on a bench to rest our legs. That's when his face came close. After that we both looked up at the same time and saw a security camera pointed straight at us. Then we walked away quickly. Although there has been ups and downs, I'm glad to say there has been mostly ups.

The most horrible times I've been through with him, I must say, was the week he spent at Taiwan, his two weeks of army at Australia, and that moment when I felt really lost. Other than those times, everything's been great. He's nice and thoughtful and kind and friendly and knows a lot. But he has a weird temper. But his weird temper shows up rarely, thank God. Yes, so that's the story. I love you, baby.

Complain!

I am complaining cos I thought he was going to meet me today,
but he went and agreed to meet his friend later on today.
Then I tell him I want to go Botanic Garden.
Then he tell me it's actually called Botak Garden.
If we go there, there will be monkeys chasing us and pulling our hair,
therefore we will all be botaks.
And there is a Loch Ness Monster in Botanic Garden.
-.-"

Spent quite some time on the computer today.
Read the post of the girl who dissed Debra Koh.
I was like, "Full of singlish and immaturity,
so NO CLASS."

I went back and read some of my previous posts.
I realised with a jolt,
why were my previous posts so long?
I think I had nothing better to do, then.
But it's not like I have plenty to do now.
Of course, it all sums up to one word: LAZINESS.
But luckily it's not always lah.

Today was kind of chaotic.
Now am having a headache the size of Europe.

The baby just went back.
I waved and waved in his face today.
I don't think he recognizes me anymore.
What?! It's only been two days!

I realise it's quite tiring to keep searching for new blogskins.
I'm going to keep this skin,
and improve with the header picture.
Gerard Way is only temporary.

I want to write the story of how my and my baby started.
But I've got to ask for his permission first.
Hehe.

Update!

Okay.
Last week was okay,
nothing dramatic happened, nothing exciting.
In short, last week was boring.
Nowadays I'm just reading my novels,
and wait for the afternoon to arrive so I can go to class.
I think I enjoy class a lot more now,
cos lessons are in the afternoon.
I mean, it's not a big deal anymore,
I'm like, go to school then go to school lor..
I don't have this stupid dreadful feeling of the burden to have to wake up at 7.30am every morning.
Now I just wake as I please,
except the stupid baby woke me up this morning with his loud cooing and baby noises.

Baby Ethan's grown a lot since the first time I met him, three weeks ago.
He's grown bigger and fatter,
and not forgetting, LOUDER.
I was laughing at him when my Ma told me Ethan's dad told her that the baby is overweight.
I'm like, okay, you stupid fat baby!
And he'll smile at me.
The triangular piece of delicate skull is not so obvious now.
In the past I used to get really irked when I see his brain throbbing underneath his scalp.
The adults have warned us not to press on that area cos it might give him brain damange.
He's adorable, you know.
He's not a beautiful baby but he just makes people fall for his cuteness when he smiles.
He smiles a lot.
When we all laugh at him,
he thinks we're laughing at something,
and he silently laughs with us,
which makes us laugh even harder.

Last night MY baby asked me when I want to get married.
I've been thinking.
Hmmm.

LOL. Watch this!

School

Yesterday's Econs lesson was great.
The lecturer was the same lecturer I had for my Diploma for Econs.
She's the only female lecturer I've ever had in MDIS.
I guess everybody thinks of her as a mother figure,
that's why we enjoy her lessons so much.
And she's has this funny laugh,
which goes, "Hur hur hur."
And she does it in a deep voice.

Today's lesson is Principles of Operations Management.
Don't know if I want to go for the trip to the beer brewery.
$5 entrance fee.
And free sampling of all sorts of beer! (:

My Tuesday

A day's events, summarised in a few lines:
1. Baby Ethan is naughty.
2. New lecturer is painfully boring.
3. I bought 8 char siew buns.
4. NTUC's $2.85 chicken is sold out.
5. There is one chicken left in the fridge,
and Ma is cooking it for dinner.
6. Chicken rice!

That's all.

Thanks Tong Huiling!

THANK YOU TONG HUILING!(:
For the Hello Kitty ramen set.

I love the bowl,
but the noodles wasn't so nice.
I cooked it and it turned out like this:

It was SALTY.
Nevertheless, my Ma ate it all.