(Tuesday, January 27, 2009-)
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# Subside.-
For those of you who saw my previous post.. I wanna apologize for that. It was an uncharacteristic outburst from me. I'm sorry you had to see that. I'm okay now. so no worries.
Anyway, I just wanted to wish you my chinese friends out there a wonderful and prosperous Year of the Ox. Which also happens to be the year I was born in. So supposedly, its gonna be MY year. We'll see about that.
Been hooked on a new American drama series recently, Kyle XY. Check it out;
Its the story about the guy on the right, Kyle is his adopted name. As you can see, he has no bellybutton. He was found in the woods wandering aimlessly into town, and brought into a foster family of the psychologist whom is helping him. He then discovers that he is, unlike a normal human being. Caught your attention? It sure caught mine. Catch it on youtube. You could also go to Wiki to check out the storyline and episode list if you wanna catch it chronologically.
By the way, for the guys drooling over the girl next to him, she only appears in Season 2.
Had a very interesting Saturday. Celebrated Shiying's birthday at Sakura, and then went to the New Year's Carnival at Marina. Totally cool event! Plenty of photo-taking ops! Unfortunately, I'm still trying to get to grips with the aperture and exposure settings to get the best effect without flash, so bare with it okay? To make a long story short, we took lots of photos, and ate lots of food, in which gave me severe food poisoning...
Some photos below!
These were taken at Sakura. Darren really threw a sweet one for Shiying!
See what I mean by aperture and exposure? Hai..
Darren and his Zodiac.
Classic Darren.
Darren and.. his future job?
Me with my Zodiac.
I have no idea what this is.
After that, I went to this movie shop with Darren, Shiying & Steph where they sold really cool movie memorabilia. I bought 2 Twilight bookmarks! AND, I suddenly had this brainstorm to take a photo that looks similar to the movie's teaser poster below;
So Darren and Shiying became my "models". Well, it turned out quite okay.. but again.. bear with the brutality of photography skills please!
I know you noticed a bit of blurness.. that's due to my shaky hands. Not helped by the fact I had to hold the cam steady while setting the exposure to long.. which means I have to hold it really steady for the picture to be exposed over a period of about 2 seconds! I have shaky hands.
So I tried to do what I was good at. I had Darren jump while setting the exposure to long. Ghostly like effect.
Hard to find a model with a natural smile.
I'm not losing you.. I'm losing myself.
Anyway, I just wanted to wish you my chinese friends out there a wonderful and prosperous Year of the Ox. Which also happens to be the year I was born in. So supposedly, its gonna be MY year. We'll see about that.
Been hooked on a new American drama series recently, Kyle XY. Check it out;
Its the story about the guy on the right, Kyle is his adopted name. As you can see, he has no bellybutton. He was found in the woods wandering aimlessly into town, and brought into a foster family of the psychologist whom is helping him. He then discovers that he is, unlike a normal human being. Caught your attention? It sure caught mine. Catch it on youtube. You could also go to Wiki to check out the storyline and episode list if you wanna catch it chronologically.
By the way, for the guys drooling over the girl next to him, she only appears in Season 2.
Had a very interesting Saturday. Celebrated Shiying's birthday at Sakura, and then went to the New Year's Carnival at Marina. Totally cool event! Plenty of photo-taking ops! Unfortunately, I'm still trying to get to grips with the aperture and exposure settings to get the best effect without flash, so bare with it okay? To make a long story short, we took lots of photos, and ate lots of food, in which gave me severe food poisoning...
Some photos below!
These were taken at Sakura. Darren really threw a sweet one for Shiying!
See what I mean by aperture and exposure? Hai..
Darren and his Zodiac.
Classic Darren.
Darren and.. his future job?
Me with my Zodiac.
I have no idea what this is.
After that, I went to this movie shop with Darren, Shiying & Steph where they sold really cool movie memorabilia. I bought 2 Twilight bookmarks! AND, I suddenly had this brainstorm to take a photo that looks similar to the movie's teaser poster below;
So Darren and Shiying became my "models". Well, it turned out quite okay.. but again.. bear with the brutality of photography skills please!
I know you noticed a bit of blurness.. that's due to my shaky hands. Not helped by the fact I had to hold the cam steady while setting the exposure to long.. which means I have to hold it really steady for the picture to be exposed over a period of about 2 seconds! I have shaky hands.
So I tried to do what I was good at. I had Darren jump while setting the exposure to long. Ghostly like effect.
Hard to find a model with a natural smile.
I'm not losing you.. I'm losing myself.
the story ends like this;
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(Sunday, January 11, 2009-)
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# 2009+11-
Its been 11 days since 2009 hit. OK I know I promised to blog on the 31st, but I seriously have no idea what to put down. So, I'll start from the 31st!
31st December, 2008:
Held the Annual BBQ at Calvin's place. This year, decided to cut down on food, because for the past 4 BBQs, there's always been major food wastage. It was a sound idea! I'll explain more later. Anyway, the usual people were in attendance, Tiffany, Darren, Shiying, Ryan, Calvin, Stephanie, Daniel, Wei Zhong, & Leon. Dickson, Stella, Zach and Joanna dropped by later. We also had 3 guests, courtesy of Calvin! Shiyu, Mei Chi and Jingru joined us for the BBQ. Nice peeps. Had a whale of a time chatting. Shiyu was instrumental in the Twister game, and also her photos. As shown below;
Classic consternation.
Compromising position. Poor Calvin.
The reason why Calvin can't be a model.
Er.. no dirty thoughts please.
After the game, Daniel and Leon left, as they had another gathering to attend. Dickson, Stella, Zach and Joanne left as well. They had to go get something from town. Okay. Two can play the same game as well! =)
And then, came the defining moment for 2009 for me. About 30 minutes into 2009, after our heart to heart talk among the people still left, we decided to pack up and head back to Calvin's house. I was one of the last few to leave and reach the BBQ table, and was standing behind Shiying. Suddenly, she turned, and uttered these words to me, within earshot of everyone present;
"Oh my god, you're hot."
Before you entertain any images of Shiying having any fantasies of me, she was referring to my body temperature. If you read the Twilight series, then you'd understand if I said I was having a Jacob moment. Totally warm body. And it was a cold new year's day!
So for the first time ever, with my almost lightning-quick wit and comments, I was lost for words. While the rest were like laughing away. I looked at Darren, he looked at me, and we both burst into laughter, while Shiying was vehemently denying any implications that might come with the comment. And I was joking on how now my best friend's girlfriend could be hitting on me now. Hahaha...
Anyway, once we reached Calvin's place, freshened up, played a bit of card games, and as usual, I crashed first.
1st January 2009:
Woke up, and helped tiffany to prepare breakfast, using the remainder of the BBQ food. We finished up as much as we can, but there was still slight wastage, so I took note of that for the next BBQ. Hung out, watched TV, chatted, and left Calvin's place in the afternoon. And you know what...
I can't remember anything else that happened till today.
Turn off right? OK sorry la. I have a memory of a goldfish. Please please please forgive me.
Anyway, I'll be ORDing this year.. and will be looking to do a degree at NIE. As a PE teacher. That's the only solid route I can think of so far. I'll see how THAT goes.
There's two disconcerting notes from 2008 though. And because of that, I'm making it a 2009 resolution of mine.
I've had enough of people who refuse to reply smses from me regarding outings and so on and so forth. Yes I know you are busy, but I do try to give early notice, and I think the minimum decent thing you can do is to just reply Yes/No to that. Especially for those SMSes I outlined to reply to me whether or not you can make it. You wanna know why? Because I have to take care of the number of people, seats, food and other stuff. Is it so hard to reply one SMS? How would you like it if you keep SMSing the same people for stuff, and only 15% of them reply? Yeah. Its that pathetic. If you think this is because of the BBQ, then you're wrong. It been going on for 2 years. If you don't wanna attend, I'm okay with that, because I know we each have our own lives to live. But to reply yes or no to a friend is that hard? Saddam won't come back from the dead to haunt you if you reply. And replying late... I don't even wanna touch on that. Let's see how you handle things when people reply late.
The last one. This has gone on even longer than the non-reply thing. Sometimes, miraculously, these people reply, and when they appear for the event, they make it as though they expect to be entertained. Well, I'm sorry if I happen to be a bad host, but sometimes, I just want us to gather together to have fun and chat. You want games? SURE! you help me plan then. I have enough of my hands with other things. Notice that I said we have our lives to live. Well, so do I. You know, when I think about all those times where people did things for you guys, example, Evan, James and Calvin doing the BBQing during Ryan's birthday. Wei Zhong and Darren doing the BBQ during the chalet. Tiffany cleaning up the kitchen all by herself when we were done with the steamboat and while we were all enjoying the dog and bone video. Does anyone ever notice that? I approached them and asked them whether they wanted to help. They said they were okay. I feel happy, because they were willing to do things for the group. But it all turns around when I hear people complaining that no one helps them to do cleaning up and other stuff. Give and take people. Have you heard of the before? You friends do something for you, then you do something in return. We are not maids, or servants. so don't come and complain to other people saying we are not doing the share of the work. An empty vessel makes the most noise. I've seen this for a very very long time. And its high time I bring it out in 2009.
I want to make the group a close knit group of friends who are happy and spend great moments together. I think of you guys like family. But the moment shit starts to happen, that's when you know who are the peole willing to stay, and bolt at a moment's notice.
Apologies for the scathing entry on the first month of 2009, but like I said, its time for me to bring it out. I'm not going to hide feelings and opinions any longer. Yeah sure we each have our own characteristics, but I strongly believe in making ourselves useful, instead of a liability. If you insist to be a liability.. then do me a favour.
Don't come back.
31st December, 2008:
Held the Annual BBQ at Calvin's place. This year, decided to cut down on food, because for the past 4 BBQs, there's always been major food wastage. It was a sound idea! I'll explain more later. Anyway, the usual people were in attendance, Tiffany, Darren, Shiying, Ryan, Calvin, Stephanie, Daniel, Wei Zhong, & Leon. Dickson, Stella, Zach and Joanna dropped by later. We also had 3 guests, courtesy of Calvin! Shiyu, Mei Chi and Jingru joined us for the BBQ. Nice peeps. Had a whale of a time chatting. Shiyu was instrumental in the Twister game, and also her photos. As shown below;
Classic consternation.
Compromising position. Poor Calvin.
The reason why Calvin can't be a model.
Er.. no dirty thoughts please.
After the game, Daniel and Leon left, as they had another gathering to attend. Dickson, Stella, Zach and Joanne left as well. They had to go get something from town. Okay. Two can play the same game as well! =)
And then, came the defining moment for 2009 for me. About 30 minutes into 2009, after our heart to heart talk among the people still left, we decided to pack up and head back to Calvin's house. I was one of the last few to leave and reach the BBQ table, and was standing behind Shiying. Suddenly, she turned, and uttered these words to me, within earshot of everyone present;
"Oh my god, you're hot."
Before you entertain any images of Shiying having any fantasies of me, she was referring to my body temperature. If you read the Twilight series, then you'd understand if I said I was having a Jacob moment. Totally warm body. And it was a cold new year's day!
So for the first time ever, with my almost lightning-quick wit and comments, I was lost for words. While the rest were like laughing away. I looked at Darren, he looked at me, and we both burst into laughter, while Shiying was vehemently denying any implications that might come with the comment. And I was joking on how now my best friend's girlfriend could be hitting on me now. Hahaha...
Anyway, once we reached Calvin's place, freshened up, played a bit of card games, and as usual, I crashed first.
1st January 2009:
Woke up, and helped tiffany to prepare breakfast, using the remainder of the BBQ food. We finished up as much as we can, but there was still slight wastage, so I took note of that for the next BBQ. Hung out, watched TV, chatted, and left Calvin's place in the afternoon. And you know what...
I can't remember anything else that happened till today.
Turn off right? OK sorry la. I have a memory of a goldfish. Please please please forgive me.
Anyway, I'll be ORDing this year.. and will be looking to do a degree at NIE. As a PE teacher. That's the only solid route I can think of so far. I'll see how THAT goes.
There's two disconcerting notes from 2008 though. And because of that, I'm making it a 2009 resolution of mine.
I've had enough of people who refuse to reply smses from me regarding outings and so on and so forth. Yes I know you are busy, but I do try to give early notice, and I think the minimum decent thing you can do is to just reply Yes/No to that. Especially for those SMSes I outlined to reply to me whether or not you can make it. You wanna know why? Because I have to take care of the number of people, seats, food and other stuff. Is it so hard to reply one SMS? How would you like it if you keep SMSing the same people for stuff, and only 15% of them reply? Yeah. Its that pathetic. If you think this is because of the BBQ, then you're wrong. It been going on for 2 years. If you don't wanna attend, I'm okay with that, because I know we each have our own lives to live. But to reply yes or no to a friend is that hard? Saddam won't come back from the dead to haunt you if you reply. And replying late... I don't even wanna touch on that. Let's see how you handle things when people reply late.
The last one. This has gone on even longer than the non-reply thing. Sometimes, miraculously, these people reply, and when they appear for the event, they make it as though they expect to be entertained. Well, I'm sorry if I happen to be a bad host, but sometimes, I just want us to gather together to have fun and chat. You want games? SURE! you help me plan then. I have enough of my hands with other things. Notice that I said we have our lives to live. Well, so do I. You know, when I think about all those times where people did things for you guys, example, Evan, James and Calvin doing the BBQing during Ryan's birthday. Wei Zhong and Darren doing the BBQ during the chalet. Tiffany cleaning up the kitchen all by herself when we were done with the steamboat and while we were all enjoying the dog and bone video. Does anyone ever notice that? I approached them and asked them whether they wanted to help. They said they were okay. I feel happy, because they were willing to do things for the group. But it all turns around when I hear people complaining that no one helps them to do cleaning up and other stuff. Give and take people. Have you heard of the before? You friends do something for you, then you do something in return. We are not maids, or servants. so don't come and complain to other people saying we are not doing the share of the work. An empty vessel makes the most noise. I've seen this for a very very long time. And its high time I bring it out in 2009.
I want to make the group a close knit group of friends who are happy and spend great moments together. I think of you guys like family. But the moment shit starts to happen, that's when you know who are the peole willing to stay, and bolt at a moment's notice.
Apologies for the scathing entry on the first month of 2009, but like I said, its time for me to bring it out. I'm not going to hide feelings and opinions any longer. Yeah sure we each have our own characteristics, but I strongly believe in making ourselves useful, instead of a liability. If you insist to be a liability.. then do me a favour.
Don't come back.
the story ends like this;
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