CNY Chu Xi

Chu Xi seems especially quiet for me this year without any celebrations. Thanks to Zhenghua Sec for letting the neighbourhood listen to their celebration, and their 'wonderful' singing. =S No teacher to visit this year, or rather I dun think there is a need to visit them anymore...

Reunion dinner is the same every year. No plans to get packed like sardines in Chinatown for last minute shopping. Countdown programme doesn't seem to be very interesting. No tong xiao mahjong to immerse myself in. *Yawn* Com is still the best, but there's no one to chat with on msn, haiz. Feel like sleeping liao.

Maybe I shld study some jap before going to bed. Akai, Aoi, Kiiroi, Shiroi, Kuroi,......

Will try my best to keep my stomach empty for tmr, which means no eating from now on.

K I've decided to sacrifice all my angpow money this year for a dvd recorder.

CNY Chu (fu) Yi

So sad, my driving doesn't seem to be improving much. The instructor still has to tell me to do this and that. And my engine never fails to stall at least once every lesson. I also need to get used to analysing what I see from mirrors. Can see cars and roads but dunno how to react...haha.

I wanna buy a DVD recorder! But it's so ex!!! My old tapes are getting mouldy and unusable alr, I'll lose all their contents if I dun save them soon. >_<

OMG, the Ann Kok stripping scene yesterday has alr spread across the net, in animation gif format. Seems like many ppl are enjoying that scene, but I think Ann is very kelian lor. I heard she had many sleepless night becos of that scene. Anyway if anyone missed yesterday's episode and is curious to see, can ask me to send...>_< I hope no boliao sgeans will write in to the press and complain abt this scene...

Last time Zhang Yaodong stripped nobody seems to save that scene leh...haha.

CNY Chu (fu) San

My first time on the roads today! Good thing is I can travel faster and attempt the 4th gear, bad thing is I can't afford to have any mistakes. The most major mistake I made was stalling at the zebra crossing, when I was abt to move off...cos the gear was not engaged...zzz. Luckily it was not a main road, otherwise I'll get horns from cars behind. The neighbourhood roads I drove on today weren't scary at all, it's the busy roads near the cities that are scary >_<, I wonder if I've the courage to drive on those roads in the future. Speeding up to 4th gear is easy, but changing down when stopping is pretty difficult (for me). And it's the damn clutch (again) that I've problems with.

Watched Memiors of a Geisha...alone. Not bad lah, I din sleep anyway. (or rather I'm not sleepy) I had my eyes fixed on the screen for the whole duration. The story might be draggy at some parts but I find it quite touching. Some parts made me so sad, feel like crying. I appreciate the culture in the movie too =) The only thing that doesn't quite fit is their language...Japanese speaking English, sounds weird =S

Little Chiyo is so cute!!! ^_^

The theatre I went was situated at the 9th floor of Cineleisure, the newly built theatres I suppose. At the entrance was the E-max gaming centre...VERY NICE!!! The place is designed to be very open, no walls between public and the coms/gamers which means anyone can just get to the 9th floor and watch ppl play. There are also 'caged' areas with 10 coms connected, for competitions I guess. The overhead screens (those type that display movie times above the ticketing counter) on that level show on-screen games being played instead of movies. And its payment counter looks like a ticketing counter >_<, so big and so many counters. Initially when I reached that level I was thinking why is there another ticketing counter when there are alr so many ard cine, then I realised it belongs to E-max...

Saw so many familiar faces in Orchard today, girls only, since most guys not on this island alr. >_> Haiz...cmpb sucks.

Also saw a huge crowd gathering in front of Hyatt hotel, they seem to be waiting for some big star to arrive at the hotel... Hmmm, I wonder who's that...aiyah I shld stay and watch hor?

Can't believe I got lost in the underpass. I was heading towards Shaw House but the tunnel never seems to connect to that side of the road...I spent quite some time trying to figure my way but gave up and used a nearby overpass instead (longer way)...zzz, made me almost late for lesson.

First elementary jap lesson was really too 'elementary'. 90% of the stuff taught was what I've already known >_>. Romanji was used throughout the lesson...hiragana plzzzz...otherwise I'll never improve that way.

CNY Chu (fu) Si

Ok, the entry title is lame, so fast counting down to CNY liao. The anticipation this year is not as strong as the previous years but nevertheless I still look forward to hongbaos, cookies/candies and gambling, maybe mahjong too.

Second practical driving lesson today. A car is not as easy to control as I thought, becos of that damn clutch, posing so much problems during learning. All along I've been looking at my parents drive an automatic car >_<. After the TP test, I swear never to drive an manual car again >:(

Within 2 lessons, my engine stalled several times already, so paiseh, can't help but to apologise >_<. Laugh at me lor, laugh all you want...

Haiz, liddat how to go out to the public roads next lesson... (which is tmr...)

Yeah, I passed my FTT alr. A bit worried during the test cos the person beside me failed. (a big red 'FAILED' word shown on his screen) Then I checked my answers again and used my most logical/safety-minded deduction to decide my choices. My effort and practices paid off. ^_^ $12 in total...

Ruqing is teh EVIL...nuff said.

I heard Memiors of a Geisha is boring >_> <_<, kinda unexpected after so much hype abt the movie. Those who read the book may enjoy it but probably not for others. Many commented that they slept for half the movie...lol. Anyway I got time tmr before my jap lesson, maybe I shld go watch alone, and have a good sleep hehe.

On the contrary the reviews for I Not Stupid Too is better than I expected, made me more eager to watch it. Outing anyone???

Comedy Nite (gao xiao xing dong) is coming back again >_<. What are they up to this time??? @_@ Let's see whether it's better off watching campus superstar than this...

Who got buy Weilian's album? Reviews anyone??? I heard the music's good, but the mtv a bit the erm...stone, lol.

Shit I scratched my face, now got 3 scars liao. Din noe my fingernails so sharp lol.

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sry it was a moment of angst...

Queenstown

Went to Queensway SC to buy my CNY clothes. Not sth that I'll normally do since I'm not particular abt clothings and fashion. But recently I've begun to be more aware abt it, and started to select carefully on what to wear. Maybe that instinct naturally comes as we grow up, we want to look good in front of others.

Met with an incident there (sth malu so I dun want to mention here) which made me wonder if non-chinese ppl in sg want to learn chinese. Esp when chinese media and entertainment in sg are more vibrant than that of english. Won't non-chinese ppl have the urge to learn chinese so that they can understand mandarin conversations witnessed in their daily lives, notices, music, variety shows, dramas, etc? Since they have lived among the chinese majority society of sg for their lives and exposed to chinese media and mandarin for many years, won't they be even more inclined to learn chinese?

Indeed there are some non-chinese in sg who can listen and speak fluent mandarin, so be careful of what one says in their presence, esp racist freaks. I also noticed that more Indians can speak mandarin than Malays. Issit due to their advantage in tongue when speaking the language...

I Not Stupid Too is coming soon! Jan 26! Yay!!! Plans for a movie outing? Hehe. Anyway you can view the trailer at I Not Stupid Too (2) official site. Shawn gonna get caned...poor thing. This movie more violent than the prev one. >_>

Yay x2! Just got Guo Mei Mei's new Taiwan album! No more 1-song-many-version album liao. Not bad lah, in fact I think some songs are quite nice esp the first 2 tracks. She got good voice mah, just that she sang wrong songs. -__- With this 3rd album, her prev 2 are practically redundant. IMO this shld be her very first album in sg instead, then can have better chances of gaining good recognition instead of being notorious now...sad lah. Hopefully ppl will start to regain confidence on her after this album, or has she been deemed a goner since the release of her prev 2? >_<

Depot Road

Ok, they (you know who) gave me a reply and I was supposed to call another friggin number. I tot it would finally be confirmed but you know what? They said my medical report was handed to the eye department last Dec and I have to call back again next week! WHAT THE F***********!

YOU MEAN MY REPORT WAS ACTUALLY DORMANT AND GATHERING DUST FOR 1/2 YEAR UNTIL DEC? WHAT'S F***ING WRONG WITH THEM???

Sry, need to vent out my frustration on that matter. Could have used more vulgarities but this is a blog after all, controlled by sg law. You see that I referred to them as 'them'.

I dun want to go back there again. That place is so dreaded and horrid. And why do I get the feeling that the person who answered my call is the particular one I dislike...

Haven't go in alr so much resentment, dunno how I am going to survive with the politics in there...