Lebensraum

A social commentary.


TRASH

I am writing an entry in the dead of the night on the last day of the year. To all my owl insomniac chums out there this might seem pretty mundane compared to your James Bond interneto night lives but yea, since its THIRTY FIRST DECEMBER my faux pa of being adrenalized at the thought of lingering in the ashes of the morning should earn your mused forgiveness and introspective understanding. Alligator!

I am reading Left Behind Number nine right now! I told EC today and she was like so fast arh? This lead to a very pleased BFS. So now I have only Remnant, Armageddon and Glorious Reopening left. Muahaha, I'm sure you blogders don't want to know any of my cheesy Left Behind life but here I am boring you anyway.

Man am I mean or what? Must be the funky adrenaline. So rubbishy.

SO yup, here's the end of my trashy, third-rate entry. And the last entry of 2006. All in all your BFS wishes you a really Happy New Year =)


Oh and here's a pretty avant garde big fat smile and bimbo pic =)

Waking up before the sun.

BFS woke up at stinking Seven o'clock in the morning to attend today's briefing for tomorrow's Orientation. I really shouldn't be complaining since Seven is pretty late already compared the torment some (I know you noon sleepers out there!) have to go through but I *gasps* will be going through that torment for almost everyday of my life in 5 days time! *whimpers and dies*

FYI Torment = 5 Stinking ante meridiem WTH.

Yeah, so dragged myself out of bed, stood the entire journey chionging with all the rat race people on the MRT to City Hall and waited for the friggin' 36 to come while chomping down my leftover Breaktalk bread for breakfast. Thank goodness it didn't rain in the morning cuz that would be the ultimate bummer of the day.

Apparently the rain isn't causing the internet downfall like I thought in yesterday's entry (that was in the afternoon where nobody caught the news yet) but the earthquake in Taiwan. This phenomenon of our internet crashing is splashed all over the media- from CNN to free Chinese tabloid My Paper and from MrBrown to Today. What is interesting is that the focus of the earthquake is not the earthquake itself (which is a big story since it's one of the biggest earthquakes in Taiwan) but the downfall of most of Asia's internet! I mean two people died because of the earthquake and here we are whining our internet is laggy.

So wth after the stinking briefing I trouped to the Staff Workroom for free air-con together with Nicolas (Nee-co-las) Yee to write the emcee script for SLI 2007 =) And here's a discreet shot of him typing for the day!

(Just realised I haven't really been making full use of my pathetic technically disadvantaged 1.3 megapixel camera phone)

Insignificant Stuff I Post Anyway

The internet is blardy weird today- had to switch on and off the router several times in disbelief. Hope its not the monsoon that's killing this beautiful invention that tonnes of people around the world so dearly love and rely on. I'm definitely not the only one because Danial, Linus and MrBrown all reported strange activity of their Internet connections.

Right now, nobody is online on my MSN which is blardy ass hole scary partially because my MSN list contains like more than a hundred people and the further your brain imagines, I think thoughts can reach the far shores of the fact that a tsunami wiped out all my friends and I'm the only one left awoken from a nap typing here right now not knowing anything at all.

I finished For One More Day by celebrated Mitch Albom today! Which is quite a record cuz I finished it in ballpark 4 hours. Anyway, it's a great book- like The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie- it definitely qualifying for a second or third read.

However unless you have a lot of cash to spare or is a diehard hardcover addict or have a 40% discount voucher, I wouldn't suggest paying 40 bucks for it now but waiting for paperback to come out =)

Interestingly, on the For One More Day Amazon.com Page, 2% of customers ultimately purchase Marley and Me by Josh Grogan after viewing that item. Which is the other hardcover novel I purchased with For One More Day. How coincidental.

The school staff still have not posted any results of next year's classes and I am incredulously pissed off. This is BFS ranting.

So yea, happy reading to everyone stuck at home from the rain! I'm on to finishing my Left Behinds!

UPdates

Warning this is just a rubbishy post to update certain stuffies.

I have updated my Affiliation links! So you guys can go on click spree there and get interested over cool stuff.

Growing Affectionately Green is gonna break for the moment to make way for the welcome of 2007 theme! I hope to make this a tradition- like a new year theme and then in the middle of the year switcheroo to a GAG (Growing Affectionately Green) theme. I absolutely have no idea how to pronounce all the different languages up there so please don't ask me. They are courtesy of Systran Language Translation Technologies on Mac OS X's widgets.

On one last attempt to promote GAG before it hibernates for another 6 months, GAG is a proud supporter of the Green my Apple campaign (which I think I have mentioned before in a previous entry) but to all Apple users out there- be it iPod/Mac OS or any other crazed Apple addict, please support the Green My Apple Campaign which aims to promote environmentally friendly packaging and computer parts in Macs and PCs.


Check it out.

Christmas

My room is currently a mess, I am couch mattress blogging in my room. Did I mention I no longer have a bed? Cuz I gave it to my grandma for some domestic purposes and was suppose to find time to go to Ikea to get a new bed. Oh wells, I shall procrastinate although I'm sure Timorese will jump (really really fast, unlike me) at this awesomely super opportunity.



Class results are supposed to be published today but are not! Oh well, we don't expect our poor school admin staff to work on Christmas do we?

Christmas 2006 has been an absolutely fantastic time for me, that regarding the entire time of festivities including Eve of Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve and Christmas.

Eve of Eve brought me to Orchard together with regayouths after Edge. Lights and sounds plus festivities were amazingly cool, perhaps because it had been an exceptionally long time since I made a trip to town for Christmas. Environmentally speaking was not as fantastic because of blardy ass hole smokers who had to purge their disgusting toxins into our beautiful breathing areas.



It was fun though. Esther was like wishing the funky and ugly CNY recycled birds will fall onto someone's car and scratch it so the whoever-decorated-orchard people will get sued. Haha.

And on the Eve... Ahhh the Eve. I think it's been the best Christmas Eve of my life. And you'll never guess what your darling BFS did. Carolling!

Okay that seems quite normal. After all tonnes of opportunistic individuals were gathering at Orchard that night doing that.

But did they do it mobile? And on a lorry? I bet not! Yes! All us regayouths were super high that night, singing (and shouting) carols all over Woodlands gaining interesting responses from the public =)

Oh and did I mention we shouted Merry Christmas at every passerby as well? Haha.

So yea. Christmastime concluded with a brilliant service and party again with regayouths. Esther if you're reading this by some teeny weeny chance, you did a fantastic job today (or yesterday rather, haha).

We had mass candlelight dinner (spaghetti and chicken), brownies, sparkling juice and logcake for dinner. Most of it Esther's labour of love and I had a great testimony during thanksgiving ;)

So yeps. Many thanks to Danial for spending Christmas Day with me and regayouths for the 3 days worth of running events! Plus everyone else for cards and notes of love!


Random bimbo pic=) From left: Francel, Eunice and Me.

Eve of Christmas Eve

I watched (and finished) Singapore Gaga yesterday thanks to the highly energetic miao =) It's a great flick and I particularly enjoyed the scenes which Miss Tissue Seller were in. It just brought onto a greater attention to me about the lack of acknowledgment and care we have to certain individualistic people in our society.

Oprah's Christmas Kindness episode also opened this view on a global scale, convicting me about certain in-your-face experiences with poverty I had mainly in East Timor. Where I remember some people were not really wanting to exert too much human contact with the citizens, and people around us reminding us to wash our hands before we eat after we shake hands with them.

It brought me to a conclusion that since I have paid over half a thousand bucks to fly all the way there, why can't I just hug those people and just show love in a form of human contact? Is it really that difficult? After all we are humans and have the same blood, hands and feet?

On a lighter note, I realized how much cheaper I have been paying for books in my preteen days not because Borders was mean and increased prices for everything but because children's books just cost lesser!

Yeah! I paid only S$8.95 for Roald Dahl's novels, and S$9.50 for Beaverly Cleary novels! I bought Charlotte's Web for ballpark S$9 and Toto Chan for $12! Compared to now where S$14 is considered quite a steal for a chic lit novel.

So I have made a resolution to complete my Ramona Quimbly Collection (of which I am missing Beezus and Ramona, Ramona and her Mother and Ramona's World) and my Roald Dahl Collection (of which I am missing Danny the Champion of the World, George and the Marvelous Medicine, James and the Giant Peach and Mathilda) by the end of next year =)

Catch me at the Border's Children's section! Haha.

Oh and for you HP fans out there, the last book's title is out. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Christmas!

Yes my writing hormones have come to visit me again. I am impeccably sorry for the frequent hiatuses that sent my tagboard on nervous breakdowns (Yes! The word breakdowns is in plural) Just that I'm just not a very seeded by events writer which means I don't gain Pulitzer moments just because I went through some camp or some funky organized event. It takes an extraordinary something to just kick the hormones back to running all over my body!

Which explains why I am quite hyped now.

I went Christmas shopping today! And I can't believe how much I spent. I won't tell you 'cuz that's not very ethical (okay that's rubbish) but I just can't tell you.

I bought my first hardcover book (books actually 'cuz I got 2 at the same time) and they are *drumroll* Marley and Me by John Grogan and For One More Day by Mitch Albom. I would have never bought hardcovers on a tralala normal trip to Borders/Kino/any-other-book-store but I got the creme da la creme voucher which entitled me to 40% off! *3 cheers for Esther Chee* The Marley and Me one was quite a steal- I would have bought it even on a normal occasion, only 25 bucks for friggin' hardcover leh! What is the world coming to???

So yeps, I also got 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die by Stephen Farthing which cost 40 bucks also another book I will never buy on a tralala normal trip to Borders/Kino/any-other-book-store.

Due to privacy constraints I will only state family related Christmas presents here all for the sake of surprise on Christmas Day =)

I bought Speeches that Changed the World for my Dad =) Also another will not buy on a tralala normal trip to Borders/Kino/any-other-book-store cuz it was hardcover and 30 bucks. I didn't use the voucher which that though cuz the voucher only had a maximum (and minimum) of 4 books. But heck, it's Christmas right?

And I got Estee Lauder's Pleasure Eau De Toilette Special Edition for Mom =)

All these gifts proudly sponsored by Straits Times. No la, but have to thank them for it yea ;)

Oh and if you haven't found out, Victoria School is the winner of the Straits Times Newspaper Competition 2006 *grins and jumps for joy*

So overall, Christmas shopping in Orchard Road is fun! Just remember to download fun games on your cellphone so you don't get to bored in queues. On second thought, the service standard has been great, I queued less than 3 minutes for all my purchases today!

Christmas in 16 Days

Yet another week is closing right before me. Yet another week of wrongly made choices and regrets. Not all is that melancholic though, it has too been a week of solid hangout time and fellowship. I never enjoyed Wednesday more with You-nee-see and the Mr Botak NS Man.

Caught Deck the Halls on Wednesday with the above mentioned individuals. It had been a long time since I watched a movie- the last one being The Devil Wears Prada with the delightful Wendy. Yes! I know that was like a quarter of a year ago, but you see the point is that

1) I don't have that much cash to spare
2) I don't really have that much time and effort to rally people to watch movies with me and when they do, I don't really wanna watch that movie.

So yeps, in a fateful attempt to plunk ourselves in the Christmas spirit, we watched Deck the Halls.

Which was a really good movie! Like the usual Christmas family movies, it exerts feel good hormones into your body so you feel good after watching it. I found the last part a little lame yet hilarious though- when the light from space shot right out of the screens of MTV people. Or was it the space station people? Whatever.

The funniest thing was when the movie ended, the flood lights at the side of the cinema magically turned it-selves on and everyone was like "Wahhh", complaining of the brightness. Hee hee.


*scoots away for dinner*


Oh man I just had one of the worst chicken rice ever for dinner. The chili was tasteless and the chicken was kinda dry.

Oh wells, here's the end of my unscripted and unplanned entry. Merry CHRISTMAS!

(Hope the red ain't too bright for ya'll)

Random Stuff I Just Gotta Say

I have gone on yet another chiong for Left Behind- the ever awesome series that leaves me lapping up for more like some funky dog dunking his head in a saucepan. I am now on Assassins, as mentioned on my Now Consuming sidebar- yes I have updated that section after a super long drought as has my blog vie.

I went on a Borders indulgence on Friday! This is sinful because I haven't finished the previous books I shopped from Kino including Shogun which is like a super thick book and I haven't even started on page one. *boxes self* I bought Everyone Worth Knowing by Prada's very own Lauren Weisberger (of which if Wendy is reading this you have not returned me my Prada yet!) and War Thrash by Ha Jin. As usual, I devour chic lit and cult lit so yea, I shall shoot the I-don't-care-what-you-think-about-my-literary-interests look to everyone here, yea?

Grey's Anatomy Season 2 DVD is out on Borders and I still have some credit left on the card the miao gave me in March. I am still contemplating whether to buy it but something just keeps screaming in my ear. Oh wells.

Musical World was quite okay. It marks my photographic revival. Victorienne Arts never cease to mark a milestone in my vie photography. Like EMD 05 was my first assignment and now Musical World 21 is my resurrection. Good job to all who performed (AKA our school band including the Oswin)- you guys did well although I must admit one of the pieces were quite screwed. The one with the funny percussion inputs one. Yeps. But great job anyway =)

It's the Straits Times Com tomorrow and I feel so inadequate and unprepared! How to win like that? Tsk tsk. I will need cups of espresso to fuel this 24 hour sprint so God bless me.

Oh, and to all Mitch Albom fans out there, his new book is released! "For One More Day" is the new take-over-your-life book. However only hardcover is released at borders so unless your greens (or otherwise blues in Singapore since that's what the fifty note color is) drown you I suggest you stop that urge splurge (it's like a friggin 33 mind you!) and wait for the world's most beautiful word *ahem* paperback.

Oh wells. Looking forward to finishing Left Behind (I'm almost halfway through now!) and knowing my super07 class =)

Izzie!

I have decided to name my guitar Isobel after Isobel "Izzie" Stevens! Of course she'll come with the nickname!




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