Should reduce my daily jogging to four times a week. I just realise that it's hurting my joints.

Something interesting happens on my way back. While I was walking on the pavement along a road, I happened to catch a guy on a bicycle in front taking a glance at me. Okie i'm not a pretty sight with my rojak hair, reddish face(near the color of baboon's backside) and sweaty clothes. I guess it's just a guy's instinct to check out the girl's pretty anot ... hmm so naturally I looked away and then split seconds later, I heard the screeching sound...

I looked up and saw that his bicycle's forewheel has driven in the corner kerb. He nearly toppled down onto the road and the turning car behind halted to stop but not before giving a loud warning horn. Oh how embarassing it must be for that guy! As I walked past him, I struggled to contain my laughter. Serve him right for "biaoing" me.

Saw the ex-tcs actress at Raffles Ballroom at Raffles City. Eileen? Her name? I'm not sure. I only know that she often appeared in Jack Neo's show (woman40), playing the role as Mark Lee's girlfriend, Elaine. On screen, she look just right but in real, she is slimmer. I like her figure - thin yet curvy and yah, she looks far more prettier in person. Oh gosh, I can't stop looking at her, esp her eyes. I do sound like a lesbian now. :(

It's round 1 for the modules bidding. It's the first time that NUS starts adopting this "coe" bidding system for module allocation. Not really use to it and don't really like it cos it forces me to monitor the bidding statistic all day long. It's tiring and it seem to encourage the KIASUISM among us. There is this module CS3214 whereby most third year students would be taking this semester, seem to be way short of vacancy. It offered 220 vacancies and there are around 350+++ students bidding for this. The min bidding point has raisen till 321 at this point of time. I bid 1pt initially for each of the modules. See how absurd the situation has become. Everyone is afraid that he/she couldn't get the module and start incrementing their bid by large bid points. It's way too high and i'm just afraid i don't have enough points to bid for other modules next sem if this continues to rage till next morning.

Oh it's so cute! Take a look at these "Tea Cup Poodles". So tiny weeny, look just like a beanie puppy. Too bad, it's only available in Tokyo (and it's expensive USD$5000+) or else i would definitely bug my mum for these.

Wow, have seen several bloggers putting up NDP preview photoshoots. Awesome pictures I must say, esp one of the webcam at Search SG. Their timings were so good. I'm too slow to shoot "the best of moments". Whipping out my camera and aiming will take me several more seconds than others and by the time i ready to 'click', the 3 F-16 Fighting Falcons and 5 A4SU Super Skyhawks had gone till nowhere.

Forgot to mention also, I met a friendly guy @ MRT on the way home that day. He too shared the fervent of moments sharing even though he was at Kallang river and managed to videotape the firework. So along the way, we were viewing each other's works though I'm abit ashamed to show my crappy shots.

The cold war with my mum is finally resolved....Going out shopping with Ma...

Just back from NDP preview. Whew, it's amazing...the people there, a sea of reds! I was being bad spoilt - I wore blue instead. It took me 15 min to decide whether to cover up my tummy or to join the crowd and yank my inital red mini-tees down throughout the show. I finally chose to discard the mini tee.

Totally excited about this. Not that I have not been to any such huge functions, in fact, i have been to many due to my dad's work nature - he provides pyrotechnic (= firework), confetti, balloons effects (main line), CO2 display etc, for shows such as concerts, weddings, outdoor activities blah blah...ICQ me if you're looking for such expertise. So after all these years of either sitting behind the black box, trying to imagine what the audience there were feeling or parking by the roadside waiting anxiously for the fireworks, i finally get to feel the real thing. Yah yah, why am i bullshitting about all this enthusiam, it's just a preview but then it's quite close to the real one, isn't it?

I couldn't say i really enjoy sitting through the shows though. I don't even remember the details either. Other than getting hit on the head hard by a balloon-crazy-boy behind with a wooden clapper and getting "scolded" by a rude usherer at the beginning of the program, i was constantly busy looking through my digicam's lens trying to capture some good shots. Sadly after viewing the photo slideshow on my lappy, none of it could have qualified as "appreciable". Is my cam lousy or my skills suck? The latter one i hope, cos if it's the former, it would make me an idiot to spend that kind of money on such lousy thing.

The hosts for this year's show are Jack Neo, Jean Danker, Sharon Au, Wong Lilin and Najip Ali. I think Sharon did a better job in gaining rapport with the audience. Love her cheerio! Sun Yan Zi supposedly the highlight of the show, didn't turn up. Guess there are some of her fans among the crowd. You could hear ascending cheers whenever her songs were up. Disappointed, weren't they?

I shall end off here with some of the snapshots, hover your mouse over for the descriptions:

Eee...the freshly made (still wet and drippy) bird droppings on my window make me puke. Left me wondering how the bird managed to shit sideward.

Saw this site being recommended by a blogger. Check out the clips. So gross and maniac but I like.

Been up early for logo opening at Ang Mo Kio Hospital. BTW, happy racial harmony day. Have a fanciful eye feast on the costumes wore by the staffs. My eyes nearly popped out when i saw someone who look older and uglier, (yah i'm that frank and serve me some humbleness please) than my mum, wore a kebaya of a see-through-to-the-black-bra. Absolutely a distaste to the costume culture of the perankan ethnic.

The only time that i participated in this occasion is like 5 years back when i was still in sec 4. Why is it the only time? Cos, i borrowed a black malay costume(oop i forgot the proper name! It's those long sleeves and long shirts down to the knee with long pants) from one of my classmates and wore it at school. Hot and stifling but not the real reason! Rather, my mum prohibit me from wearing any ethics costumes anymore. Her complaint: Too heavy and delicate to wash. Yah, the clothes were huge and our clothes are washed twice, manually - speciality of my mum and automatically by a forever choking washing machine - overworked from dawn to midnight.

I helped my mum once (don't be shocked that it's only once cos by now you should guess that i'm one of those qian jin xiao jie) and the amount of energy used is unbelievable. Soak those heavy weight clothes in the water and pull up, soak in and pull up high. Repeat that for 5 times and for the rest of the clothing. No wonder my mum complained about the malay costume - Heavy duty. A pretty good exercise i must say, cos my mum dun have high chlorestral (oop wrong spelling) even without any health diet.

My fav costume of all ethnic groups would be qi pao. I'm refering to those body hugging ones with high slit! Only those with very nice figure (with no bulging tummy) could carry it off. It is donned by the waitresses @ Mandarin hotel if i do remember correctly. Really sleek and sexy. But before i could fit in one, god knows how much workout i have do and how much good food i have to forsake.

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It's so funny to see all my friends in privacy mode on ICQ. What's there to hide from? Gee...

I totally pissed off eversince friday night....Urg...in fact too pissed to write about it!

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I don't think Norah Jones is a great blue singer as compared to those classic examples. But still i like one of her song which you are listening to now.

Feeling drowsy now. Slept around 1am and woke up at 5+am for work. This time's is the reopening of a hawker (just beside the harbour front mrt) Did 3 arcs and 6 pillar of balloons that make a total of 3*28*4 + 6*8*4 + 6 = 534 balloons. We did surely more than that cos some either flew away or burst or shrink. Now my index finger is bruised. Ouch!

Hark gonna redo my laptop very soon again. Don't know why i'm so "sway" with these IT stuffs. I think XP is good only for multimedia enhancement and visual effects. Now it's like whenever i open up a new window/IE, the laptop will freeze for 2.5min (yap, i use my clock to time the delay, not just rough estimate) and it's only occur while I'm online. Any help for this?

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Quite true. I already concious of this streak ever since teen. So far i haven't changed much.

Finally got my lappy upgraded to xp version. The feeling is just like changing the entire wardrobe. Hope it don't crank up any more problems for me.

I'm so glad that i finally found my USB cable. It has been hiding in between some stacks of rough papers.

I'm trying to kick off my caffeine habit these days.

Been saddled to my bed for the whole of yesterday. It's either stomach flu or food poisoning. Vomitting, diarrhea, stomach pain became my routine throughout. only ate 2 slices of bread for the day. Till now i haven't recovered completely. Merely sitting up will cause me to pant the same way after running 5 rounds. I hate being sick!

The unfortunate death of the Iranian twin. Silly girls, why do they have to risk their life when they knew the stake is high and they had alway been healthy?

Finally got my paycheck today...The company actually paid 8.7$/hr while the agency suck in 2.9$/hr and left me with a pathetic 5.8$/hr. Although one part of me wan to rest at home till school reopen, i do want to work again. Resisted my urge to ask my agent to keep a lookout for me.

After my trip to esplanade lib, i recall that i haven't call the CC to for the post of piano teacher. Darn...i hate myself for being a good procastinator. Borrow 2 classical scores books. It's really hard to borrow those by richard clay. and yanni. The little girl is faster than me in snatching one of the richard's.

My sis is 18 now. Contemplating on harry potter bk5 as her bd gift but find it too ex for worth. My sis just celebrated with her friends at Marche@suntec. So envy. Where are my friends on my BIG DAY? Good sis, she bought me a light greyish reebok cap on her way. Now I'm not afraid of my face being toasted under the sun while working at events. I admit i don't look good with a cap - it makes my face rounder but its better than getting tanned cheeks. Will post up my pics with me in cap when i am able to get to a shop which sells USB cable for my fujifilm 401 finepix. I wonder whether fire cable can do the same job.

The packages at DifferentHost're not bad. Thinking of getting one leh but the commitment to the website is a turnoff.

The japanese food at C's birthday bash yesterday tasted quite good. Saw a couple of girls previously from the same JC. Hmm, me and my friends felt kinda out of place cos while others look so hippy, we look so "studious", in another word, "nerdy". Damn the spec. The place (Pasir Ris's Chalet) was very packed and luckily, the bbq pit was located at one corner so we were not breathing in the smoke. Finally got to see C's often-mentioned boyfriend. Hey, he's much much more larger (looks like body builder) than my dad. It's imcomparable.

Having my first bout of flu since the SARS outbreak. Going out later to buy my USB cable for digicam.

5th July 2002 Fri10.35pm ¨C Both hands have turned a shade darker.

Hi, I¡¯m back from Suntec. Now humming along with Utada Hikaru¡¯s first love playing on my laptop. One of my favourites.

Well, I have been feeling quite high today. So far it has been my third driving lesson. My instructor for the day is another slightly plump Malay guy, bearing similarity to the previous one. He asked whether I remember who he is and I almost blurted ¡°Rahmad¡±. Phew, he replied faster than me. The trainee instructor sitting at the backseat on my first lesson, remember? Iman! I think he is a good friend of Rahmad. Not much thing to learn. Just more practice with cornering, shifting gears, braking and stopping at precise spots. I come to love driving. Love the speed. Love to be in control of a complex machine. More fun than horse riding. But I don¡¯t think this will last long as the lessons proceed. What I have learned:

1. When while depressing clutch pedal fully, slightly depress accelerator pedal. Then release clutch pedal to a point when the car starts moving. Off clutch pedal once the car move smoothly. (When Iman was guiding me to go out to the lanes, he wanted me to depress clutch pedal to a biting point while he handled handbrake. Once the handbrake was off, the car started to move)

2. When tackling bends at first gear, release accelerator pedal. Don¡¯t worry if the car is moving real slow. Just make sure the middle bonnet follows the centre white line.

3. When tackling bends at second gear, release accelerator pedal and apply brake slightly and smoothly. At second gear, the car will have more power and you can feel the centripetal force. It will be safer to go slow while turning. If possible, change to first gear before turning but never DURING turning.

4. When you hear a nosier engine, it¡¯s time to change it to second gear. Try not to look down at the gears.

5. Never grip the steering wheel too hard.

6. When meeting steep turn, always remember to turn back the steering wheel fast or else will end up on curb.

7. When about to stop while at first gear (very slow speed), clutch pedal then brake. On the other hand, when at second gear going at a higher speed, brake first then clutch pedal. This is to prevent freewheeling, which will cause the car to go faster instead.

I don¡¯t know how to spend this weekend before my fourth lesson resumes on Monday. Hope I¡¯m be performing as well as or even better than today¡¯s one. Oops! Forget to tell you that I did quite well at the training. Even my instructor said so and I appreciate him for encouraging me to do things that I¡¯m not confident at like changing gear within a very short distance before multiple bends when especially I have the habit to go to other lane while shifting gears. With not much engine stall, able to turn properly and braking smoothly, improved footwork coordination and calm reactions to surrounding cars. I really enjoy throughout the process and of course chatting with my instructor. It makes my day! I hate thinking that school days are coming soon. Yuck! I hope to plan my schedule in the way for my driving lessons to fit in. Next Monday, I think I will be learning how to check blindspot (Iman said is easy) and steering (Narrow course?).

Things to do: planning modules. Revising my theories, driving and music. Optimistically, I can pick up where I left off my piano lessons this August. I miss my teacher and my piano. One friend advises me against it for it will be a heck of time but these are what I like to do. I don¡¯t want to end up like last semester, completely lost interest in studying and grade drops tremendously. I don¡¯t even like coming to school because everyone will be talking academics. So stressful. Yah, I¡¯m those who prefer to skip lectures and read on my own when I want to. I have my own reason. I don¡¯t believe that it will maximise the number of stuffs I will learn if I attend all lectures unlike what my SOC friends thought so. Why must they disapprove of what I do?

Okay, on a lighter side, hope to go cycling this weekends if possible. ·ÊËÀÀ²!

So it was my last day @ work yesterday. After taking 2 days leave, my sudden appearance with a new hairstyle certainly shocked the people in the company. Usually, the one who talked to me during work would only be my boss. But yesterday was an exception. I got people (old/young/female/uncle) asking about my hair. Most of them complimented about my previously perm hair. One even said I look sexy with it (surprised). Even my friends said I look nicer with curls than straight hair. Should they have said earlier, i would have keep it that way for a longer time. Hmm...i think i would go ahead with rebonding and stop brooding about the "past".

Went to the Loreal Clearane Sale at Winsland house. It's maddening. The shoving, pushing and toes stepping are enough to put me off for such thing in future. Got phobia of big tall and meaty females. Wah, they are even more ruthless than average Korean guys. The one minute i was looking through the testers (it's VERY hard to get to the frontline. People were squeezing in to get the products), the other minute I was being shoved out by a big bulldozer (Imagine the force involved esp i'm not a petite myself) and found myself outside the line. So i have to make my way in again. If you find my description of fat gals offensive, I'm not sorry about it cos apparently, these girls are bullies though not all. They are using their assets to gain their foothold. They just keep pushing you away until you're out of place. Aunties also get very pushy. In the end, i only managed to get 3 diamond shine lipsticks (3 for 5$) for my mum and 2 DIY Hair dye (3 for 20$) for myself. So damn cheap. Would have bought more if there isn't so much people.

Going to C's Birthday bash later this evening....will update later...

4th July 2002 Thurs11pm – Terribly hot!

Last night, I chatted with my friend MY till about 1am++. Maybe the excitement of our long awaited conversation somehow stimulated my brain’s neutrons and became the real cause of my insomnia. I think I slept at about 3am++ but then kept awaking many times that I feel that I’m not sleeping at all. This continued till morning. Finally dragged myself out of the bed after being ‘scorched’ by the shinning sun. Feeling a bit grouchy. Then I was asked to clean here and there. Up till here, I felt like biting everyone’s head off.

Went off shopping with mum at Bugis Street during mid noon. Today’s weather terrible. Worst still no umbrella to go under. Let me count… I bought about 4-diff soft drinks but still can’t quench my thirst. Met Evon and her friends at one of the bags stall. Take me by surprise that she can recognise me. That moment I was thinking hard who she is and nearly blurted out “ You are the receptionist”. Gee, awful! We once worked as receptionist at ING Insurance, now known as QBE Insurance and we are supposed to meet out with other girls for lunch this June holiday. But somehow, the contact was lost. What’s a pity! She’s now studying in NTU and like me, can’t find a vacation job.

Discovered a bohemian shop at Bugis Street. The clothes that they sell are very different from others. Even the decoration looks so un-commercialised. Overheard the young boss went over to Thailand and Hong Kong to handpick the merchandise. If only that I don’t need to rush back to help my dad, I would have bought some stuffs there. Going back there one day!

This time, simple 100 helium balloons at Kream, Clark quay. While there, the big door was locked. The key bearer can’t even unbolt it up. Seem like it hasn’t been used recently. Finally when the almost all the balloons being blown outside the lounge, the door was forced open. Immediately, the whole place was filled up with putrid cigarette smell. I think I was a bit allergy to these and got headache. Went inside, quite dark. It was so run down. The lounge has not been opened for a period of time. A pretty female employee was cleaning the glasses while 2 funky guys tried to clean up the place. Sheet of black plastic covered the bar tables and when they flip those away, tens of small cockroaches and flies just appeared. Disgusting site! I got into wild imagination that a decomposed body was lying underneath it. Using mop to clean the table seems the only solution. One of the boy start grumbling that work like this for only $6/hr isn’t worth it.

I hate such a place. Could imagine the kind of people out there. There is even a poster “ Femalicious” outside showing Caucasian female in G-string. Can’t understand why people choose the place to celebrate birthday.

It’s past 12am. Very tired now. I return later tonight.

I finally get to use my combs yesterday night. After six months of curly hair, i got my straight and sleek hair back. Too bad USB cable still not yet found, can't post my pic up. Kinda miss my curls. My sis made me fume by saying that the former one is nicer. Urg. I still rem she said I look nice with straight hair after my first perm. I just hope that my frens won't say the same thing again this sat at C's birthday bash. If I knew that double fringe is just a bit of short hair covering forehead, i rather have my fringe long. So I said "I wan moree fringe infront", immediately my mum and hairstylist objected . Hark, reason? Don't suit my face.

Planning to rebond my hair and dye it brown.

2nd July 2002 Tue10pm ¨C Sunny during noon but drizzling with lighting in evening

Nothing much today. Went to McDonald to have breakfast with mum. Did some grocery shopping in NTUC. Went with dad to Hongkah West CC to set up confetti and make balloon arcs and shapes for a big wedding dinner. Earned my fat July pocket money after getting work done. Just watched <<¿¼ÊÔ¼Ò×å>>. Huanong falls in love with Zhongxian even though she knows that he¡¯s married. The temptation is too much. Will I ever follow in her shoes in future? Scary to think about it.. Let¡¯s hope no such situation occur to me. It¡¯s too immoral to break up a happy family.

Spent my whole night yesterday trying to how to use my mum's learning english kits. The device looks damn complicated. I tried to find an English manual until my mum reminded me that it's designed to help chinese (from china) to learn english and how else would there be an English version. In the end, i gave up the chinese manual and use my limited common sense to play with the machine. It's quite high tech though it still uses cassette. It can record your voice and compared it with the recorded phase and gave calculated accuracy of your pronounciation. Finally i got it to start but not before i got a big headache until i felt nauseous.

"Nice" day i have for today. Supposed to be at work? No. My boss takes leave today so he asked me to take leave too. Hmm...helped my mum to mop the entire house floor in the morning. All sweats and with several bruises on my fingers yah! It's my first time touching dead carcass (wrong spelling) by washing the chicken parts and plucking their hair/feather. Yuck...It's a silly phobia of mine. Mum scolded that it's not as if first time touching dead animals. I whined that's different cos i only touched those cooked ones. Bah...

sEARCHING HIGH AND LOW for my USB cable for my digicam for days. Darn!!! I going to straighten my permed hair later and i intend to post the last few moment of that - so call souveniors (wrong spelling again). Arg...going off to find it again...