Saturday, September 29, 2007
live free or die hard...
story wise is ok. i actually felt bad for the villian. he was just tryin to prove his point, but was never taken seriously by the higher officials. sigh. action wise, it was typical hollywood stuff. lotsa explosions, car collisions, helicopter crashes... the most classic one being the hero never dies. lol. bruce willis can fall from 5th floor and only suffered scratches, while the bad guys, fall exactly the same way, died instantly. hahaha. why?? because he is john mcclane. lol. just like ethan hunt in mission impossible, heroes always save the day, with minor injuries. haha.
metamorphosis...
anyway, i tink its a pretty good drama. for channel 8 standard lah. lol. plot wise, its so-so. but i tink the crimes were sth new.. as in, we never had that in past channel 8 dramas before. i actually tink the supporting cast was good, most of the small characters were able to bring out the story well.
what i didnt like abt this drama was, there were ALOT of close-up shots of the actors' face. and i mean really CLOSE, the face takes up the entire tv screen! i was tinkin, why the director zoomed in on the faces all the time?? to expose the actors' big pores n black heads? some scenes were really weird n uncomfortable to watch. for example there's a dialogue between 2 ppl. the shot/scene switches back n forth, person A to person B, all i can see is the actors' face. no background, no neck, jus the face. really awkward.
2nd thing i didnt like was, ix shen. i'm sorry, its nothing personal, i'm sure he's a nice guy, but i jus dont like his acting. i mean, how can u act with 死鱼眼? i dun have a problem with small eyes guys. because i tink Rain looks pretty good. and hk actor 王喜 is pretty charming, so small eyes is actually fine for me. but ix shen's... i duno wat to say man.
ok, so far the show has got 2 main stories. the 1st being the gang triad thing, the 2nd being the current one, with dismembered bodies. and i realised sth, both cases were not really solved by the cops. yeah, they eventually figured out who's the culprit. but in actual fact, didnt really get to catch n detain them. culprits either managed to run away (despite under heavy scrutiny n surveillance, yes such drama) or jus died. hahaha.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
whole nine yards
*swoons* wat can i say? i would love to have a bf/hubby like him. hee hee!!
yes. like hell i'm gonna meet such a wonderfully funny guy in singapore. maybe i should be like monica gellar first... hmmm...
LOL
Thursday, September 20, 2007
stuck in toilet...
i didnt sleep well last night. i "woke" up a few times, and realised i'm halfway between bein conscious n asleep. hahaha. obviously, i couldnt move. because my brain's tellin my muscles that i'm still asleep, so the muscles wont move (this happens because it prevents the body from acting out the dreams). anyway, i remember seeing flashes of light. and i'm somewhere between dream world and my bed. wah lau, the feelin is so tiring, i could feel my shoulders very 酸.
i planned to go jb in the day. i got woken up not by my alarm clock, but by the sharp pain in my stomach area. wah lau, it was so painful, its like a spasm. it felt like the diarrhoea kind of pain, but not quite. i went to toilet anyway, hoping that by doin the business, my stomach will feel more comfortable. but i was wrong. i stayed in the toilet for like a very long time. can really feel blood from my brain rushin downwards, the very faint feelin. alamak, not AGAIN!? i used all the strength i could gather to get out of the toilet, and i saw my face was like so pale, my lips were white. i 想都不想 faster go crash on my bed to rest. had to give up on the jb trip loh. hours later, i felt better. wah lau. so angry, cos i 好不容易 can find the time to go jb, but den 就这样泡汤... sigh!!!
oh yah! my mom asked me to accompany her to meet the servicing agent of my mom's policy. the agent is a middle aged woman, the auntie-ish kind. anyway, in the mornin, i spoke to her over the phone, and told her my mom wants to withdraw some cashbacks, so i asked her to bring the necessary forms for the withdrawal. ok den met her in the evening. i brought the latest quotation with me, so she can to take a look. Oh, when my mom gave me the stack of statements and asked me to 研究, i understood everythin lah, i even calculated everythin out myself, drew her a table etc... but my mom didnt believe me, she said maybe different company got different styles of quotation illustrations, so let the agent explain better. LOL. but the agent like dun really know how to see the numbers n the correct projected value leh. she explain explain, den asked my mom "你明白吗?" obviously mom didnt really understand, so my mom said "我女儿明白就好了" hahahaha... later, she asked my mom to sign the form. BUT, i suspect she brought the wrong form. LOL. my mom wants to withdraw. so by right it should be a "withdrawal form", with boxes or blacks to fill in how much $ is to be withdrawn. the form she brought, was a "change of option" form... erm...
the agent took a LONG TIME to read the form she took. i almost wanted to say "err, my mom wants to withdraw, not change option". lol. i duno if she realised she brought the wrong form or wat. i didnt say anythin, wait she gets offended or embarassed, not very nice lah. after tat, she said "这里没有地方让我写说要 withdraw 多少, 可是 10 workin days 过后你应该会收到那个 cheque." i was like HUH? like tat can meh? cos my mom wants to take out $XXX a specific amt, not the entire cashbacks. if never write how much, how they know how much to write on the cheque? besides, its a "change of option" form she brought, not withdrawal form leh. hmmm... i was tinkin maybe the company operates differently from mine? so dont expose the agent yet. haha. but still, 怪怪的.
i find the whole thing very funny. i mean, for me, if a client wants to do withdrawal or switching or watever, i always make sure i have the correct forms. i even bring extra misc forms, jus in case the client last min wants to do other things. but this agent hoh, only brought her small handbag, and ONE form (perhaps the wrong one somemore). alamak. wat if my mom last min decided to surrender leh? never bring the form den 不是白跑一趟?
today (a day after meetin the agent) my mom asked me if the agent called to say need to sign another form. hahaha. even my mom tinks the form 怪怪的. anyway, hopefully everythin goes smoothly n my mom will receive the cheque 10 workin days later. but still, the form makes me feel 怪怪的. so im now checking out the company's website. eh? they have a form just to cater for withdrawal leh! "withdrawal form for survival benefits/cashbonus" thats the correct form! i clicked on it, and it asked for details n the amt to be filled it. THATS THE ONE MAN! so the agent did bring the wrong form. hahaha.. but how come she never call back leh? hmmm...
LOL.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
finally~~
hmmm... few days ago, my mom asked me to look at a policy she bought in 1993. quite surprised that she asked me for opinion, lol. anyway, my mom said she wanted a policy that matures when my bro reaches 21. cos the its meant to be for his education. but turns out, the policy is for 21 years! meaning it will mature when my bro is 27. shit! i so wanted to find that agent and scream at him. its an educational policy, who will wan it to mature at age 27?? it so does NOT make sense. duh. hello?? 用脑想一想 man! and the thing is, according to my mom, that agent never showed his face ever again. den 14 years liao, changed duno how many agents, not one called or showed up.
anyway, my mom wanted to know if terminate the plan now, whats the surrender value. so i called the company up to ask for the current servicing agent, and i 顺便 asked the operator for the latest updated quotation.. i got a shock when i received it. the maturity value originally was double that of premiums paid, ok not bad. BUT den now, projected value becomes a few thousands more than premiums paid, ie, barely break even. WHAT??!! its not a big policy to be fair, but barely breakeven?? a 21-year policy leh, fucking waste of time.
not goin to name that company, but lets jus say that Life, is NOT great. lol
Sunday, September 16, 2007
爱情新呼吸... taiwanese dramas
i'll probably continue watching, cos i like alex fong (方中信)!! he's very man loh! hahaha.. so many dramas i wana catch, but no enough time man! 樱野3+1 seems nice. great cast, i tink. but havent watch.
i'm looking forward to 美味关系, with JVKV's (formerly known as F4, yes, they changed name. in case u didnt know, lol) 仔仔 and 侯佩岑.
and 斗牛要不要, its got hebe! yay! i like her, she's so funny n cool. and i think its also got 贺军翔, so its a MUST WATCH liao. hahahaha..
Friday, September 14, 2007
deja vu...
Thursday, September 13, 2007
new pillow!!
i was reading sept's issue of LIME magazine (yes, i still read LIME), jessica biel's on the cover. she's hot! another gorgeous babe. anyway, i came across this joke on the last page. it goes like this: 2 couples decide to spend a raunchy weekend away together at a post hotel. when they get there, one guy suggests to swap partners to spice things up. after 2 hours of sweaty sex by the fireside, the guy turns to his new partner and says, "wow! this is the very BEST sex i've had in years. i wonder how the girls are doing..."
laughed my ass off.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
oh no...
kill me now.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
a funny dream.. haha
i wana and HAVE TO lose weight!!!
i was clearing my room and i found some photo albums on my dusty shelf. i was flipping thru it, remembering the memories and i realised, i gained SO MUCH weight over the past 2 years!! gosh!! this is the 1st time i'm posting pictures of myself here, the pic on the right was taken on june 2005 n i was in holland. den the one where i was wearing my graduation gown, its dated july 2005, one month after i went to europe.
i remember i gained abt 5kg during my stay in holland, when i returned, my friends were exclaiming "eileen! u've gotten FAT!!". yah, 5kg man! food in europe is like crazy big portions and lotsa carboh. plus, my relatives took me around n treated me good food n stuff, its difficult to not gain weight when i'm holidaying lah ah. u cant really see the fat here, becos its taken like the 2nd day i'm there, so haven balloon yet. haha! u'll notice the effects of good food from pics of my bangkok trip with shups n jane (i flew to bbk the day after i flew back fr brussels, lol) which i will NOT post, obviously. my face was so round man!! omg.
tat time i was tinkin, oh no, graduation ceremony's only weeks later liao, n i cannot be lookin tat fat and take pictures on one of the most important days of my life!! but luckily, i managed to lose the excess weight. without doing any exercise. yups! just like tat. haha. i tink its cos of the food here in singapore, less 丰富. den somehow, i regained to my normal self.
den NOW, when i look at those pics, i realised, wow, i looked so thin then! (not tat i was really thin last time, im comparing to now lah) my weight's abt the same leh. but my face seems to be so much rounder. why?? u friends mite have heard of my complains abt the head shots i took for my prudential card. wah lau eh, got extra inch of meat on my cheeks man!!
ok, i have to watch my diet from now on. since i've no time and/or too lazy to exercise and my metabolism rate is like slower than b4, i jus have to eat less of everythin. less sweets, less salts (bye bye potato chips, *sobs sobs*). ppl, jio me for sauna sessions!!
while i'm on the topic of my holland trip 2 years ago, jus tot i'd wana post some pics here.
tats me and my cousin. wow, jus remembered my hair was nice, naturally straight and long tat time. now my hair's like @#$%^&*-ingly shit!
Saturday, September 8, 2007
lost in blue 2
wat i didnt like abt the game was that, animals are difficult to hunt. i have to set a trap and wait for some cow to appear. or when i walk, sometimes, a deer will be in front of me. i cannot go too near to it becos obviously it will run away. so i have to see which way the deer is heading and set the trap in advance. here's the thing, the deer is heading east, chewing grass on the way, so i placed the trap den wait for it to walk a few more steps den hurray!! but suddenly, it turned and headed north instead. wah lau, ANGRY! waste my time and trap materials.
2nd thing i didnt like was, the girl, skye, is super dependant on keith. wat frustrates me is when i explore for ways out of the island, there are obstacles such as huge boulder in the way, and i have to take skye with me to move it. dragging skye along is frustrating!! cos when i climb up a step, its very fast n easy. but for skye to go up, i have to carry her and throw her up on the step, before i can climb up. and when i'm up, she's still sittin there, in the same position as when i threw her up. keith has to pull her up, before she can continue walkin. wah lau, vomit blood! alot of time wasted on pulling and carrying skye, macham she's disabled. lol.
anyway, i played it with a cheat code, ie, i have infinite life power for skye, she can never go hungry or thirsty. HENG man! otherwise i have to keep worrying abt skye dying on me den game over. after gettin past jungles, solving 7 puzzles in the ruins area (cracked my brains out with the last puzzle man!). keith discovered there are... *drum rolls* other ppl on the island!! lol. but they are some military ppl, the bad guys lah. so i have to stealth my way to steal the speedboat key from the boss. damn funny. and i got outta the island with skye after surviving 55 days on the island. sweet!
the sequel, lost in blue 2, is a relatively new game, n i cannot find the cheatcode for it. so i have to play it like normal loh. game play is almost the same, the character's name is Jack and the girl is Amy. new mini games are included. i have to cook stuff like in the game "cooking mama". quite time consuming lah. cos previously, i jus press "eat" and the characters will eat watever's available. story's the same, jack has to explore the island, leaving amy in the cave or taking her along to complete certain tasks together.. the game developers got smart, this time they made the girl efficient and not incompetent. taking her along is not a chore and she can help me make baskets (to trap small animals) outta the bamboo i collected and stuff like tat. she's more like a helper this time round. which i like. skye was totally wrecked man. lol.
yesterday, i finally get to the savannah area. and im supposed to build a treehouse. it requires in total 28 logs, 30 ropes n 10 leaves in 7 stages of building. damn it. there are only 4 logs in the jungle, and they appear again after like 3 days. ropes was more difficult. i have to collect vines (which there're only abt 5 in the jungle) and den ask amy to help me make into ropes. time consuming loh! but it gives me a sense of satisfaction when i see how beautiful the cave becomes, after efforts to collect materials n upgrading the furniture etc. the characters used to be like lying on leaves. den now they sleep on queen size beds with furs! lol.
meanwhile, i have to catch fish, get twigs and fend off wolves alligators n tigers attacking me. lol. wolf is fun to fight with, because i can jus punch them with my bare fist, dun even need to use spear weapon, and when i've won, whats left behind are 3 things: meat, fur and lard. so hilarious!! one moment i see this wolf running at me. next thing i see are 3 squarish objects. damn funny.
the only downside is, sometimes amy cannot take care of herself while im away. imagine when i'm so far away in the swamps tryin to get across, amy's life n hunger status on the top screen is in danger mode. if drop to 0%, a cutscene will show amy collapsing and GAME OVER. so i have to RUN all the way back to the cave and make her drink n eat. wat the hell? there's 20L of water in the barrel (i found it on the beach after a stormy rainy day) in the cave and 5 packed food on the shelf man!! the water was collected from the river via a 1L water bottle on me. and the packed food (worth abt 30% of easing hunger) was of cos prepared by me. why doesnt amy drink or eat any of that? OMG.
i've now spent 78 days on the island. still only at the swamp area. no sight of civilisation. sigh. if amy continues to 陷害我, i wont be surprised if i spend years on the island man! hahahaha.
Thursday, September 6, 2007
我超不爽!!
i have to summarise, cos its a really long story, tat dates back to year 2005. tats the year i graduated rite? hmm.. i tink so lah, haha.
that year was a torturous one. not because of final semester at NUS. i wasn't worried abt school at all, cos i tink i handled studies quite well (haha so bhb). i knew i was going for just bachelor degree, so i just did my part as a student and everythin should be fine.
i had a friend (note: its past tense) who was in FASS, same year as me. oh, its the same person who borrowed my FRIENDS vcd. damn it. i'm jus gonna name this person as Beach**. (bitch? lol) Beach is not exactly from rich family, but she sure looks like one. the clothes, the bags, the make up etc etc, all quite branded. tat year, Beach was arranging with friends to go on a graduation trip to taiwan. i knew she had $ difficulties. and being a kay-poh n stupid idiot, i wanted to help, i even approached another friend Tyler**, to help out. at 1st, Beach was paisay, but den gradually took things for granted. i've never been to taiwan. and i love getting souvenirs. so i asked Beach to get me a small souvenir, she said "of cos lah, you tink i so bad dont get you anythin meh?"
somehow, our friendship started to go spiraling downwards. i was beginnin to wonder if it was even a friendship, cos it felt really one-way on my part. Beach said cos i pissed her off real bad. and i never heard from her since. wat the hell? at tat time, i wasn't mad at myself for helpin her in the 1st place. i was really pissed that she can jus say its my fault and den 拍拍屁股走人.
-1 year later-
Beach smsed my other friend, Carmen**, outta the blue. my friend was shocked to the max! in the sms, Beach said sth like "...just wonderin how u guys are doin. i know, weird thought rite?"
and the next day, Beach smsed me. guess wat? she wans to do financial planning for me. yes, Beach wans me to get policy from her. LOL. she said a seminar speaker was saying sth like must approach all ppl, otherwise, those whom didnt approach in the end kenna illness or watever, den will feel really guilty, like "if only i had gotten him to buy insurance".. tats why she looked me up. HAHAHA. my ass! i tink if i kenna heart disease (touchwood!) she also cant be bothered loh! let alone feel guilty.
-another year later-
which is present time. Tyler ran into some financial problems. i felt so bad, bcos it was me who ask him to help Beach out. i really regretted it. and i wanted to help him. but i don't have much liquid cash around. all i have are assets. so i asked Beach if she can do something. its abt time to repay me and my friend's kindness anyway. but Beach said she didnt TAKE anythin. its me who GAVE her the help. wat the fuck? isn't it the same? give and take is a 2-way thing. i can never "give" anythin unless the other party stretches out and "takes" it. u know wat i mean?
anyway, she jus said that she appreciated my help, but she doesnt expect herself to repay anythin she didnt take. WHAT??
ok so she said she appreciated. but action speaks louder, i heard her say that, but i'm sorry i just didnt SEE it. i had to ASK her to get me souvenir. and in the end? i didnt get anythin. i helped her so much, and yet i didnt get a thing! "of cos lah, you tink i so bad don't get you anythin meh?" really haunted me like hell.
i am so not good at face to face confrontation. im never good at argueing or quarreling. im jus not good with words. if i felt Beach was worth helping, den i dont mind at all. friends are meant to help each other. the thing is, she's definitely not worth my efforts, to think i was so nice to her in the past. damn it. so now i'm stuck. im obliged to help Tyler, i don't have Beach's ruthless guts to say "bye bye its not my problem". 所以, 我就是咽不下这口气, that i have to be the 倒霉鬼/戴罪羔羊 to clear her mess. everythin's spent and forever gone. i can never get anythin back from her. 我超不爽!
BUT to be fair to Beach, given that this was jus my side of the story, she said before that she would love to reciprocate, just that resources are limited. so she said if she has the chance one day, she'll do all she can to repay me.
ok babe, a shoutout to you: here's your chance to repay me, now that u have all the resources and financial ability. so come on do your thing!
long story cut short. im sorry if u blog readers didnt understand the whole thing, bcos its difficult to spell out every single detail. already tried my best to summarise. alot of other things i didnt mention, but year 2005 was a horrible one for me. and that incident's been bugging me ever since. for 2 years odd, every time when i'm alone on train rides, or when i momentarily 放空 durin nitetime in my room, Beach's act of 拍屁股走人 just creeps into my mind. and every time tat happens, a knot is tied somewhere in my muscles, i jus feel tense, upset n 闷. sigh, i hope 不会闷出病来. this thing's been clinging onto me like a burden draggin me down.
i really hope i can get some closure and MOVE ON and den never have anythin to do with Beach anymore.
** for privacy and protection, all names have been changed. lol.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
S.H.E: they make me laugh!! hahaha...
Sunday, September 2, 2007
duno what this heading should be...
jus found out liverpool won derby county 6-0... wahahaha.. tats crazy man! tat time eating mee pok at my house kopitiam with my cousin, we had a perfect view of the plasma tv (nowaways kopitiam very class n rich huh, haha) showing the match between tottenham and derby, we were appalled at derby's defence, cos they allowed hotspurs players to charge at their goalie! the defenders were mostly ball-watching. haha. so now i'm not actually surprise that pool won by so much. and i'm very very happy torres got 2 of those goals. hee hee!!
hmm.. i got problems posting pictures on the right side, cannot even upload man! WHY??? now i cannot update what i'm watching... how???
anyway, finally watched the movie Next (starring nicholas cage and jessica biel, wow she is hot!) i missed it while it was showing in the cinemas. since the story's abt seeing the future, therefore involving "manipulation" of time, there're loopholes here n there. typical rite? almost all the movies abt time traveling, got plot loop holes one. frequency, kate n leopold, butterfly effect, jay chou's secret, just to name a few. i always end up with alot of HUHs? and questions. to quote from nicholas cage's character, "here's the thing about the future. every time you look at, it changes, because you looked at. and that changes everything else." haha. so this Next was like HUH? but fun to watch. hee.