It's always the same with some guys. They like to message girls with 'over-friendly' stuff like: miss you, hugz, hey babe, baby, dear etc. To any idiot layman, this signals a clear intention of 'bu huai hao yi' no matter how much he protests and denys it. True, he might say, well... that's my character to say such stuff. But think about it, is it really necessary? Would not a simple how'ja doing or hello do? If you're saying no, it doesn't transacend the emotion or feeling you wish to impart onto the girl, then volia, you're probably thinking further than just a simple hi.
With the proliferation of sms, such people get away with these and build up a reputation for being 'like that'. Firstly, is there such a reputation such as being 'like that'? If that's so, then please be 'like that' to me too when you message me to ask my gf out. Try something along the lines of 'hi handsome, oh you gorgeous thing, please be a dear and let me call your gf out for tea ok? No strings attached, don't worry' Yah right. I'm not blind, I'm not stupid. If I believe a word they say I don't need to study already, can go sell toys for a living.
Mr Koh once said on his blog that he hates bfs whom are too possessive over their gfs and don't allow them to go out with other guys (or him in general). It's not so much of letting one's gf going out with other guys. But rather going out with that guy that's smothering your gf with words behind your back obviously nobody will let her go right? And the worst thing is if the girl thinks he's just 'like that', it's harmless and it's also sweet. HA. You've fallen into his trap. Next the girl will be fighting for her rights to see her 'friend' that's been nice to her (out of the blue I might add) and then there'll be the whole debate of Mr Koh's most hated people.
I say these randoms should be shot. Twice. Hanged and flogged. I don't mind past friends saying hi and wanting to catch up. But you start giving crap messages like those illustrated above, sorry, ESAD please.
I. Don't. Like.
Monday, March 19, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Sunday, March 11, 2007
I'm dining at the gates of hell for my birthday!
Wheeee.. this should be fun. Hope the food is good tmr night. If not, I can throw the chef into hell! wahahha.. which is just around the corner...
Restaurant: Made in China
THERE aren't many places in the world where you can walk past the Ten Courts of Hell en route to a fine Chinese restaurant, so if you can do so at one of Singapore's more under-rated attractions, the wondrous (and some say wacky) Haw Par Villa, it's quite appetite-inducing.
I'm talking about walking up the gentle slope of course, and not through the actual Ten Courts with its depictions of gruesome punishments - remember the pool of filthy blood in the second court of hell; or the chopping board where you see heads and arms hacked off in the ninth court?
Those with delicate uh, stomachs, need not worry since you don't pass through the actual mouth of the dragon to get to Hua Song - a new $7.8 million museum dedicated to the Chinese diaspora. Made in China is the restaurant inside the first hall of the museum, which is part of the theme park.
Helmed by master chef Anthony Khuah, formerly of Tung Lok Restaurant and Summer Pavilion of Ritz Carlton Hotel, the cuisine is contemporary Chinese that's Cantonese-based, while also incorporating traditional dishes from the other dialect groups - Hakka, Teochew, Hokkien, and Sichuan. There's Chicken in Millet Wine under the Hakka category, then Teochew cold crab and stewed goose, along with braised Hokkien Fo Tiao Xiang and Sichuan mapo doufu.
The dining hall is actually located at the main hall when you enter Hua Song, but Singapore Explorer, the company which manages the museum, will also allow corporate functions to be held at eight of the exhibition halls. If you drop by for lunch or dinner, however, you don't need to pay the entry fee to the museum, which is $8 per adult and $5 per child.
The menu includes the ubiquitous dim sum of course, while a sampling revealed dishes done with finesse. The Tan Jia style braised shark's fin with fish maw was rich, and further sweetened by pumpkin which also gave the soup a frothier texture. Chef Khuah also gives the wasabi prawn creation a twist by using lobster instead - a good substitute although his wasabi-mayo mixture could be just a little sharper and sweeter for more oomph.
The Hakka yam abacus dish was an interesting one, with yam shaped into abacus 'beads' and mixed with a stir-fry of minced meat and diced green beans for flavouring and crunch. Dessert was a delicate double-boiled hashima served in a young coconut shell, so that it carried the aroma of coconut. Prices for the dishes are in the $10 to $20 range.
Dining in Made in China - especially if you're in the Chinese Clan Hall or the Grand Food Hall - provides a talking point, as much research and effort has gone into collecting information and reproducing artefacts. The food repros in the Grand Food Hall, I've to say, are very delectably done.
Even as you check out the food, don't give the museum a miss either - it's worth at least one walk around to see interpretations about how the Chinese survived as gold miners in Africa, laundrymen in Australia and railway workers in Canada, besides being traders and coolies in Singapore and Malaysia.
The museum is rather interactive, and children will like the Trailblazer room which is like a play area under the watchful eyes of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, peering fiercely from their posters.
You can now drive your car all the way up to park next to Hua Song, but frankly, taking a walk up the statue-lined path - if you haven't been back to Haw Par Villa since you were six - is a novel trip down memory lane.
MADE IN CHINA
Hua Song, Haw Par Villa
262 Pasir Panjang Road (S) 118628,
Tel: 6777 7819
Operating hours: 11.30 am - 3pm; 6pm - 11 pm daily.
Mar 18, 2006
The Business Times
Restaurant: Made in China
THERE aren't many places in the world where you can walk past the Ten Courts of Hell en route to a fine Chinese restaurant, so if you can do so at one of Singapore's more under-rated attractions, the wondrous (and some say wacky) Haw Par Villa, it's quite appetite-inducing.
I'm talking about walking up the gentle slope of course, and not through the actual Ten Courts with its depictions of gruesome punishments - remember the pool of filthy blood in the second court of hell; or the chopping board where you see heads and arms hacked off in the ninth court?
Those with delicate uh, stomachs, need not worry since you don't pass through the actual mouth of the dragon to get to Hua Song - a new $7.8 million museum dedicated to the Chinese diaspora. Made in China is the restaurant inside the first hall of the museum, which is part of the theme park.
Helmed by master chef Anthony Khuah, formerly of Tung Lok Restaurant and Summer Pavilion of Ritz Carlton Hotel, the cuisine is contemporary Chinese that's Cantonese-based, while also incorporating traditional dishes from the other dialect groups - Hakka, Teochew, Hokkien, and Sichuan. There's Chicken in Millet Wine under the Hakka category, then Teochew cold crab and stewed goose, along with braised Hokkien Fo Tiao Xiang and Sichuan mapo doufu.
The dining hall is actually located at the main hall when you enter Hua Song, but Singapore Explorer, the company which manages the museum, will also allow corporate functions to be held at eight of the exhibition halls. If you drop by for lunch or dinner, however, you don't need to pay the entry fee to the museum, which is $8 per adult and $5 per child.
The menu includes the ubiquitous dim sum of course, while a sampling revealed dishes done with finesse. The Tan Jia style braised shark's fin with fish maw was rich, and further sweetened by pumpkin which also gave the soup a frothier texture. Chef Khuah also gives the wasabi prawn creation a twist by using lobster instead - a good substitute although his wasabi-mayo mixture could be just a little sharper and sweeter for more oomph.
The Hakka yam abacus dish was an interesting one, with yam shaped into abacus 'beads' and mixed with a stir-fry of minced meat and diced green beans for flavouring and crunch. Dessert was a delicate double-boiled hashima served in a young coconut shell, so that it carried the aroma of coconut. Prices for the dishes are in the $10 to $20 range.
Dining in Made in China - especially if you're in the Chinese Clan Hall or the Grand Food Hall - provides a talking point, as much research and effort has gone into collecting information and reproducing artefacts. The food repros in the Grand Food Hall, I've to say, are very delectably done.
Even as you check out the food, don't give the museum a miss either - it's worth at least one walk around to see interpretations about how the Chinese survived as gold miners in Africa, laundrymen in Australia and railway workers in Canada, besides being traders and coolies in Singapore and Malaysia.
The museum is rather interactive, and children will like the Trailblazer room which is like a play area under the watchful eyes of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, peering fiercely from their posters.
You can now drive your car all the way up to park next to Hua Song, but frankly, taking a walk up the statue-lined path - if you haven't been back to Haw Par Villa since you were six - is a novel trip down memory lane.
MADE IN CHINA
Hua Song, Haw Par Villa
262 Pasir Panjang Road (S) 118628,
Tel: 6777 7819
Operating hours: 11.30 am - 3pm; 6pm - 11 pm daily.
Mar 18, 2006
The Business Times
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Mushrooms in the Sky
I got cut off. I was supposed to answer a question and I got cut off. 25% of my CA marks gone like that because of some overzealous sista. I mean please la, we all take turns to speak you cutting me off was just plain rude. i'd have liked to throw my water bottle at you if not for the fact that I still had water inside and didn't want to waste it.
i suppose that's how it works. in court we have the adversarial system. in class we have the class participation system. each class is only 3hrs and within that time (if you're the presenting group), you have to get yourself heard. granted everyone wants to get ahead, but it's just a bad rep one'll be getting if this happens persistantly. what's sad is when we get to the big four firms, we'll be doing it all over again. but it'll be perfectly justifiable. in that scenario, there'll only be 1 SC or 2, and 40 pupils. everyone wants the attention of the SC, so you can bet the fur flying will start pretty soon. in a way i'm looking forward to 'working' as opposed to studying right now. i believe i can function better practically. i don't really like all the academic stuff. but when it comes to competing with fellow pupils, well.. we all will have to do a bit of back stabbing and such right?
although i'll sincerely avoid doing that because i believe in karma.
and also because i'm quite lazy to do that and if it backfires it'll be a career suicide.
i have a newfound respect for china because it's making me a bit of money somewhat. and i am pretty proficient in typing chinese nowadays. which is why i can spot a forged chinese letter a mile away. someone tried to pass himself off as a prc recently. my god it was hilarious. the terms used were a little off but the funniest part was it was all tied to the disgusting person xy was mentioning about in her blog. absolutely hilarious this guy's efforts to save his non-existant dignity. makes for great crapper read.
anyway, i have to get used to typing again. and i should start having more observations and long rambling posts soon because if not, this blog would be meaningless.
just spotted a blog 'reviewing' movies and i must say i slammed the author pretty hard because i could not get over the fact that she reviewed a movie badly due to her inability to understand and follow the movie which wasn't even hard to follow in the first place. there was simply no way to misunderstand things and yet... yet ... she did it. and she was one of the top finalists for a certain movie blog contest as well which begs the question: if this is our best of the best movie blogging critics, does this reflect the level our singapore movie-goers are?
i'm so tempted to go full mode into my anti-jack ramble ala 2 years ago but i shall refrain. other than my point that he's a money making scumbag that sacrifices quality for quantity, and he has no concept of art not that he ever had. he has not a shred of originality on him if you consider that liang po2 was copied from a taiwan variety show and his only decent hit was home run, which was copied from an independent film (children of heaven). [incidentally, his version was children of heaven meets i love coffeeshop politics, which i have a low tolerance for] other than making remakes, what did he really do right if he ever did right at all? look at his biggest hit, money no enough. if THAT is considered art, well, then i say singapore can esad. it doesn't help that mediawhore is doing anything BUT promoting art. sure, they throw money into raintree pictures and they sponsor movies. but think about it. what part of those 'international' raintree films are actually singaporean? or have anything even remotely connected to singapore? perhaps the film they shot it on was bought in singapore since they sponsored the film and just slap their logo at the opening credits rite?
think about this again. singaporeans may not deserve good writing and good films/tv shows. why do i say that? remember a long time back they had this pilot thingy going on. 6 finalists shot 1 pilot each and they allowed singaporeans to vote on which one should be made into a series/mini series. out of all 6, the best concept one imo was the one where a group of NSman were training in the jungle and were transported back in time to the japanese occupation. sounds interesting? i caught it and felt there was potential here. then guess which one won the chance to be made into a series? some reality tv fuck about city kids being forced to stay for 1 week in the kampung. WTF. singapore has chosen. and it's saying that WE WANT STUPID SHOWS BECAUSE WE ARE STUPID. and mediawhore (and jack) are listening and churning out CRAP to feed us becasue WE DEMAND CRAP.
therefore sgtv will FOREVER be stuck in the crap stage where you turn on ch8 and chU and all the soap dramas are alike with screaming females winning the best actresses awards. we will never progress and we will forever have the false impression that THIS IS ART.
why change something when it works and is making money? here's a tidbit to discourage people from watching the new jack flick. it was reported that the CGI artist said he didn't have time to finish the work. but it was demanded that it be handed up by the deadline. which is why the CGI looked half fuck. apparently some scenes were so bad that an actor's hand can disappear. so we can see he's not even making the effort to produce quality films for singaporeans, all jack cares about is churning out his crap to suck the cny ang pow money. and the throngs of singaporeans are blindly supporting him.
xy told me something interested regarding an indonesian god and politics. which lead to the question of: if jack runs to be an MP, will he win? she says yes. i say yes but i hope for singapore's sake no. not that arnold was such a bad governer though i don't know. not that ronald reagan was such a bad president. he's supposed to be good incidentally. but because this is jack. there has been nothing original about him and i fail to see how he can contribute to parliament. (and i don't like the way he's saying how he feels for singaporeans but he's actually screwing them in his own special way) he may get in because the majority of singaporeans are stupid and will jump to vote for a friendly face. this is especially so if his opponents are WP members.. hahaha.. i will vote against him, wayne will vote against him. azmin will vote for any melayu that's there... oopss...
why is this titled mushrooms in the sky?
that's because...
i suppose that's how it works. in court we have the adversarial system. in class we have the class participation system. each class is only 3hrs and within that time (if you're the presenting group), you have to get yourself heard. granted everyone wants to get ahead, but it's just a bad rep one'll be getting if this happens persistantly. what's sad is when we get to the big four firms, we'll be doing it all over again. but it'll be perfectly justifiable. in that scenario, there'll only be 1 SC or 2, and 40 pupils. everyone wants the attention of the SC, so you can bet the fur flying will start pretty soon. in a way i'm looking forward to 'working' as opposed to studying right now. i believe i can function better practically. i don't really like all the academic stuff. but when it comes to competing with fellow pupils, well.. we all will have to do a bit of back stabbing and such right?
although i'll sincerely avoid doing that because i believe in karma.
and also because i'm quite lazy to do that and if it backfires it'll be a career suicide.
i have a newfound respect for china because it's making me a bit of money somewhat. and i am pretty proficient in typing chinese nowadays. which is why i can spot a forged chinese letter a mile away. someone tried to pass himself off as a prc recently. my god it was hilarious. the terms used were a little off but the funniest part was it was all tied to the disgusting person xy was mentioning about in her blog. absolutely hilarious this guy's efforts to save his non-existant dignity. makes for great crapper read.
anyway, i have to get used to typing again. and i should start having more observations and long rambling posts soon because if not, this blog would be meaningless.
just spotted a blog 'reviewing' movies and i must say i slammed the author pretty hard because i could not get over the fact that she reviewed a movie badly due to her inability to understand and follow the movie which wasn't even hard to follow in the first place. there was simply no way to misunderstand things and yet... yet ... she did it. and she was one of the top finalists for a certain movie blog contest as well which begs the question: if this is our best of the best movie blogging critics, does this reflect the level our singapore movie-goers are?
i'm so tempted to go full mode into my anti-jack ramble ala 2 years ago but i shall refrain. other than my point that he's a money making scumbag that sacrifices quality for quantity, and he has no concept of art not that he ever had. he has not a shred of originality on him if you consider that liang po2 was copied from a taiwan variety show and his only decent hit was home run, which was copied from an independent film (children of heaven). [incidentally, his version was children of heaven meets i love coffeeshop politics, which i have a low tolerance for] other than making remakes, what did he really do right if he ever did right at all? look at his biggest hit, money no enough. if THAT is considered art, well, then i say singapore can esad. it doesn't help that mediawhore is doing anything BUT promoting art. sure, they throw money into raintree pictures and they sponsor movies. but think about it. what part of those 'international' raintree films are actually singaporean? or have anything even remotely connected to singapore? perhaps the film they shot it on was bought in singapore since they sponsored the film and just slap their logo at the opening credits rite?
think about this again. singaporeans may not deserve good writing and good films/tv shows. why do i say that? remember a long time back they had this pilot thingy going on. 6 finalists shot 1 pilot each and they allowed singaporeans to vote on which one should be made into a series/mini series. out of all 6, the best concept one imo was the one where a group of NSman were training in the jungle and were transported back in time to the japanese occupation. sounds interesting? i caught it and felt there was potential here. then guess which one won the chance to be made into a series? some reality tv fuck about city kids being forced to stay for 1 week in the kampung. WTF. singapore has chosen. and it's saying that WE WANT STUPID SHOWS BECAUSE WE ARE STUPID. and mediawhore (and jack) are listening and churning out CRAP to feed us becasue WE DEMAND CRAP.
therefore sgtv will FOREVER be stuck in the crap stage where you turn on ch8 and chU and all the soap dramas are alike with screaming females winning the best actresses awards. we will never progress and we will forever have the false impression that THIS IS ART.
why change something when it works and is making money? here's a tidbit to discourage people from watching the new jack flick. it was reported that the CGI artist said he didn't have time to finish the work. but it was demanded that it be handed up by the deadline. which is why the CGI looked half fuck. apparently some scenes were so bad that an actor's hand can disappear. so we can see he's not even making the effort to produce quality films for singaporeans, all jack cares about is churning out his crap to suck the cny ang pow money. and the throngs of singaporeans are blindly supporting him.
xy told me something interested regarding an indonesian god and politics. which lead to the question of: if jack runs to be an MP, will he win? she says yes. i say yes but i hope for singapore's sake no. not that arnold was such a bad governer though i don't know. not that ronald reagan was such a bad president. he's supposed to be good incidentally. but because this is jack. there has been nothing original about him and i fail to see how he can contribute to parliament. (and i don't like the way he's saying how he feels for singaporeans but he's actually screwing them in his own special way) he may get in because the majority of singaporeans are stupid and will jump to vote for a friendly face. this is especially so if his opponents are WP members.. hahaha.. i will vote against him, wayne will vote against him. azmin will vote for any melayu that's there... oopss...
why is this titled mushrooms in the sky?
that's because...
Sunday, January 21, 2007
The reason why I can't study at home
I come back and I see this:
And it's not even 1% of my collection.
How to study at home. Whine.
And it's not even 1% of my collection.
How to study at home. Whine.
Monday, January 08, 2007
1st day of skool
To reiterate my point made before. The bus route is extremely silly. I waited as long as I usually had to wait for the bus and what's worse is that now I even have to wait another 15mins to change another bus to get back to PGP. Cutting cost doesn't equal cutting time and instead I took 45min to get back to my cool aircon room.
Sheesh.
on a ligher note, what is this Manu doing at the inter-jc pageant 2007 thingy?
Sheesh.
on a ligher note, what is this Manu doing at the inter-jc pageant 2007 thingy?
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