Thursday, December 31, 2009

Welcoming 2010 With Open Arms...

Heh... I shall attempt once again to keep this short and simple...

Headed out to [Yew Tee] yesterday to collect my beloved [SE W960i] which my dad helped to send for servicing... Sadly, the dude there said tt my phone is beyond hope, totally CMI, the touch-screen can't be salvaged...

O-M-G... He claimed tt it's the water tt did it... But since I've been uber careful and didn't for once drop it in any pubble of water except maybe a couple of rain drops, the dude suggested tt maybe it could be my sweaty palms... GAWD, I can't believe tt my totally acidic and sweaty palms has just destroyed my phone!!!

Yes, so now, I'm officially grieving and mourning the the passing of my semi touch screen phone...

I shall see whta [Dad] plans and when it's time to get a new phone, I'm thinking of maybe a [SE Satio] this time... Fully touch screen and totally boomz with a 12.1 MP camera and an external micro SD card tt can have a storage of 32 GB worth of data... 32 GB!!! Tt's 4x what I currently have!!! Woots!!! Ha~... I'm feeling kinda excited @ the mere mention of tt huge memory capactiy...

Of course, I shall check out the other phones tt're available or going to be available soon... Never know when I'll stumble upon another gem as good as this... Heh, actually, truth be told, I didn't really stumble upon this myself... It's thanks to a friend's recommendation la... Hyuu~...

Anyway, knowing tt my phone is beyond salvage liaozzz, I couldn't do anything abt it @ the moment, so I headed back to [Lot 1] to do some window shopping with [Sis]... Just checking out [Cotton On] and finding out how much those scarfs cost... Maybe I shall do some shopping today, find a black on @ a cheaper cost or if tt's not possible in [Orchard], I shall just get back to [Cotton On] and purchase 1 for $20...

The plan's still not concrete though... I'm still contemplating tt... Maybe [Dragonica], [MS], [Audi] and mahjong have a more powerful infulence on me such tt I might choose to stay home after all... LOL...

Anyway, it's the last day of 2009, maybe it's some unknown habit to look back and recap all those boomz and shingz moments in my life, post them here for all to see... But I'm not tt type of blogger... Or rather, the feel isn't there, not tt I can ever find the feel tt often already... For now though, to welcome the new year, I shall perhaps do a mini-restart, erase the desires tt can't be fullfilled and attempt to be a better person... After all, some things only will happen when you least expect it...

Monday, December 28, 2009

Orchard Conquered...

For the 1st time ever, a phone malfunctioned while it's still in my poession... I found my beloved [SE W960i] not responding to my finger taps on its touch screen in the morning of [Christmas' Eve]... Horrified, I tried to more tapping to see if it works and it responded only once in a while... Other than tt, the all precious touch function is dead...

As a result of tt, I can't copy my contacts to my SIM card and I don't even know why my SIM card has only like 9 slots of free memory left... I can't delete my SMSes from my [Inbox] as I can't click on the 'More' button... Thankfully, I can still SMS ppl as well as receive calls, though it's a little troublesome navigating using the scoll thingy @ the side of the phone...

[Dad] came home in the afternoon and he passed me the replacement phone which I didn't use it till [Fri], only to find tt it's a worse off phone despite it being touch screen capable and all... The messenging system is crap and it doesn't auto-capitalise the next word after every period... And changing the text input mode is equally horrible when there're 13 different inputs and you've to go thru everyone of it to get to whatever you want...

And the phonebook is utterly craptastic... It can't recognise any numbers w/o the '+65' in front of it, which means tt practically every number in my SIM card can't be identified if the person called... LOL... It's @ times like this tt I thanked [Heaven] tt I'm not tt freaking popular as I didn't commit most of the numbers to memory...

[Sat] was the day I decided to head all the way to [Wisma] to attempt to get my phone serviced... I arrived @ the service centre just before it opened (I didn't arrive like 30 mins before tt la) and when it's my turn to be attended to, I found out, to my absolute distaste, tt the servicing of my phone cost a freaking $120... Tt's the cost to replace the whole front portion of my phone... I didn't follow up with it anyway as my dad later told me tt servicing the phone @ [Yew Tee] cost a mere $80, and they even have a mth's warrenty lor...

Yes, so [Yew Tee] it is...

In the meantime, I've gotta head over to [Cineleisure] to meet up with [Ah Ming] and his clique...

Both of us were early, so we decided to take a little walk to the 4th floor via the lift as my friend was a little apprehensive of the height and I showed him the selection of food tt's available in [Suki Sushi]... Then we took the lift to the next lv to check out the movie timeslots as he actually planned to watch a movie, being in [Cineleisure] and all, might as well what...

LOL... The prob though was tt he intended to catch a movie alone, which to me seems totally fine... But apparently, his sis and later, [SL] thinks otherwise... Oh well, I've to admit in this case tt I'm slightly... Different...

Haha... So, yeah... [SL] met up with us and he was rather shocked tt it's only the 3 of us... For some reason, his clique all suddenly decide tt eating @ [Suki] and catching a movie on a [Sat] is simply too expensive and in addition, it's during [Christmas], so with all the present buying and spending time with tt special someone, there's not enough time and money...

Okay, it's a little mean to say this, but as long as [SL] turns up, I'm more than satisfied le la...

[SL] was also on a tight budget, so when he heard tt it's $23.55 per pax, he flipped... But I still managed to convinced him to eat it, thanks to my superb marketing skills...

We spent only 2 hrs there and really, if [YH] or [MJ] or both of them were even present, they'll really be snorting with disgust @ the amt of food the 3 of us are eating... Combined, I think it's hardly like 50% of what either [MJ] or [YH] is capable of eating...

Nonetheless, it's still time well spent... Friends what...

[Ah Ming] and [SL] headed to [Kino] while I made haste back to [Orchard Stn] to meet up with [XP]... We then tried our very best to head over to [Far East Plaza] as fast as possible as the sky was totally overcast and fat droplets of rain is already beginning to fall from the sky and splattering all over my clothes...

We made it in time... Heng arh!!!

Initially, I planned to take a walk @ both [Far East Plaza] and [313@Somerset] as the latter has just opened and I've yet to even set foot in there... In the end, though, we spent like 3 hrs in [Far East], looking @ most of the stores from the 1st to the 4th floor...

[XP] spent like $70+ in tt day, with a purchase of a pair of jeans and some belt with funky looking designs on it... I on the other hand, only spent on the [Suki Sushi] buffet earlier and the some desserts tt cost $1.50, when [XP] wanted to eat some fried wantons...

Did chat abt some lots of stuff and during the train ride home, I attempted to kill [XP] by boring her to death with my talk on everything [MapleStory]... LOL...

Then today, I headed back to [Orchard Road], though this time, I actually honoured my words and stepped foot into [313@Somerset]... Tagged along with [Mum] and tt's a good thing cause in the event tt I ever buy anything, I don't have to pay a single cent... Lalalala~...

[Marche] was what we had for lunch... It was a spur of the moment decision and I think it was fuel by the talks I've had with [XP] the other day abt rosti... Needless to say, tt's what I had, with a gigantic chicken cheese sausage to go along with it... It's amazing how it's being priced... Just the fried shredded potato with a sausage and sour cream cost like $12.90... GAH... Haha... Well, once in a long while, it's still okay la... Had a crepe after tt very filling rosti and tt made me even more full to the extent tt I'm feeling slightly bloated...

[Mum] left even before I'm done with the crepe, so she handed me $$$ to pay for whatever I've ate and went to walk around 1st... Once I've ingested tt crepe, I was contemplating ordering yet another cheese cake... But on 2nd thoughts, there's no pt stuffing myself silly just because I like the food... Besides, I do believe tt if I eat anymore, I'm so gonna puke la... -_-"'

I started my exploration of the entire mall from the 4th floor and [Harris] is interesting... I almost couldn't resist flipping through a romance series which I've been loosely following... Thankfully, I stopped myself in time and continued checking the other stores out...

The store with the huge tadpole as it's sign was interesting... I caught sight of a tee with the words 'Leopard Preens' on it... Wahahaha!!! Truly funny!!! And the staff of tt store are not only kinda cute, they also have this jester-like headgear tt upped their cute factor even more la!!! *Swoons*

Damn... I'm being man-crazy again... Sheesh!!!

Did saw some interesting tops which I might consider buying... Guess on my next trip out of my house, if I ever saw something similar to what I've seen today, I'll might buy it le... After all, [CNY] is coming and tt's usually an excuse to buy more clothes to expand my pathetic waredrobe...

[Mum] completed walking the mall 1st, so I've no choice but to meet up with her... We initially decided to head to [Food Republic] to have desserts and/or grab a drink... But the final outcome was tt I was doing dessert and [Mum] was doing an early dinner of prawn noodles... -_-"'

Was completely bloated after I've consumed my [Guka Malaka] tt I couldn't have a proper meal... So I decided to settle for yogurt once again and @ 2300 hrs, 4 hrs after I've ate tt delicious yogurt, I'm still freaking bloated!!! GAWD!!! -_-"'

Friday, December 25, 2009

Epic...

It has been 17 days since I've last done any blogging @ all... I would love to boast tt I've been totally busy, enjoying my hols to the max out of home, but as everyone knows, tt's not the case... To date, the number of outings which I've had hasn't even exceed the number of fingers of both of my hands...

After tml and next wk, I could add @ least another 2 more to the total count, but I guess tt's abt it... 10 outings in 5 wks is a little too much for me to handle... >_< size="5">ME... =P

The movie was just average, though I do not appreciate the girls @ the back of my row giggling and squealing like, well, teenage girls whenever hunky looking [Jacob Black] strips of his top @ every other scene... If I wanna see tt tonned fit body, I wouldn't even bother spending $6 to get into the movie theater... There is the Internet...

Apart from [Jacob Black], the [Volturi] have some rather good looking vamps too, like [Alec] and [Felix]... Ha~... And apart from all the seemingly good looking actors, another thing which I liked abt the vamps in the movie is their totally awesome dress sense... And how they're capable of looking so impeccable despite them sprinting away from chasing werewolves... *Envy*

Hmmm... With [New Moon] done, I shall now patiently wait for [Eclipse]...

2 [Sat]s ago, [The Gang] decided to use my home's kitchen as a cooking HQ...

Cooking (2) Cooking (4) Yuling (22) Yuling (23) [XP] and moi decided to do sui gaos and wantons, with [Yuling] chipping in to wrap them after she has completed her oreo cheesecake...

Oh, the mayhem... The destruction... The excitement... The fun!!!

Cooking (3) Cooking (5) Cooking (6) Cooking (7) Yunquan (25) Shi Hao (47) Friends (178) Me and Friends (65) Min Jie (41) Cass (42) Cass (43) Cass (44)

Yunquan (26) Tantrums where also thrown... Haha!!! =D

And after all the cooking and stuffing ourselves silly with our home-cooked meal and feeling proud of our own achievements, we settled down to watch a romantic comedy - [The Proposal]...

YQ &amp; Cass (11) Friends (180) Friends (176)

And yeah, I couldn't resist drooling in my mind whenever [Rayn Reynolds] pops up in the screen... *Swoons*

And before the day is over, the most memorable moments are... *Drumrolls* [SH] camwhoring to the MAX!!! Behold...

XP &amp; SH (10) YH &amp; SH (7) YQ &amp; SH (18) YQ &amp; SH (20) Yuling &amp; SH (7) Shi Hao (40) Shi Hao (41) Shi Hao (42) Shi Hao (43) Shi Hao (44) Shi Hao (46) Shi Hao (48) Shi Hao (49) Shi Hao (50) Shi Hao (53) Shi Hao (54) Shi Hao (55) Friends (175) JY &amp; SH (7) MJ &amp; SH (10) MJ &amp; SH (8) Me and SH (6) Me and SH (7) Cass &amp; SH (15)

And these AREN'T ALL the pics tt he took of himself... There're still a couple more, but I guess these pics are enough to drive home the point tt I'm trying to make... Tt his face DOMINATED the camera!!!

Me and Friends (66) @ the end of the day, a group pic is a must!!!

Tt was close to 2 wks ago... 4 days ago, I met up with almost everyone again for dinner... But before tt, I decided to head over to sch 1st to complete my quest - 'Obtained Windows 7 Upgrade For Fujitsu Laptop'... A very simply quest tt requires travelling to sch and submit the relavent documents and viola!!! Quest complete...

So I met up with [MJ] in the afternoon... [YH] and [XP] tagged along as well, with the former joining us only for lunch while the latter decided to join us as she has to return to sch to return some stuff which she accidentally koped during her kendo camp...

YH &amp; MJ (9)

Initially, I wanted to have prata @ [The Cheese Prata Shop]... But upon arriving @ the place, all 4 of us found out tt the staff are having a company gathering for 2 days, from 21 Dec to 22 Dec, and therefore, they won't be open for business!!! -_-"'

So, after I've gotten over my disappointment, we've to find an alternative way to satisfy our rumbling stomach... By heading to the nearest canteen available... [FASS]!!!

YH &amp; MJ (10) Ying Hui (21) Me and MJ (12) Me and YH (4)

Once lunch was over, [YH] have to head back home to do some cooking, so we went to complete our quests before deciding how on Earth are we gonna head over to town as cheaply as possible, while trying to waste as much time as possible till 1730 hrs...

The solution??? Bus no. 33 from [Kent Ridge Terminal]... We took the bus all the way to [Bugis]... Only to discover tt another quest awaits!!! We now have to get [MJ] a replacement footware as hers chose to spoil @ tt moment... So we entered [BHG] and searched for decent footware to replace her LOUSY [Rubi] flats... *Hints*

Got a pair of [Levi's] flip flops for $19.90 and off we go to [Orchard]!!! Took a little walk in B4 of [Ion Orchard]... Our intention was to look @ the food till we're hungry... But for my case, my eyes stumbled over the sight of hunky [Adam Chen], [MediaCorp] actor... LOL!!! 'Nuff said...

*Sigh* Thogh now tt I think abt it, I should've secretly snapped a pic of him la!!! Wasted and sadded...

Met up with almost all of them @ [Paragon] and I allowed my camera to do a little work 1st as warm-up...

Yuling (25) XP (19) YH &amp; MJ (11) Ying Hui (22) Friends (181) Me (88) Me and Friends (68) Cass (45) Me and Bec (2) Bec &amp; Cass

[Darrell] was @ the entrance of [Sakura] when we arrived... So after making the payments and settling how much each individual should pay, with the exception of [MJ] as we're treating her, we attacked the food as if we're hungry ghosts tt've been just realised from the gates of hell... Well, mostly [MJ], [YH], [YQ] and [Cass] la... The rest of us are not tt much of a big eater... LOL...

@ Sakura Just look @ the amt of food tt we took during the 1st round!!! GOSH!!!

While slowly enjoying out food...

Yuling &amp; Darrell (2) Yuling &amp; Darrell Yuling (26) Yunquan (27) Me and YH (6) Me and Yuling (3) Min Jie (43) XP (21) XP (23) YH &amp; MJ (12) YH &amp; MJ (13) Ying Hui (23) Friends (182) Friends (183) Friends (184) Me (89) Me (90) Me and Darrell (2) Me and MJ (15) Me and MJ (16) Bec &amp; YQ (4) Bec &amp; YQ (5) Bec (10) Bec (13) Cass &amp; XP (5) Cass &amp; XP (7)

LOL... And since this outing is sorta to celebrate the 1 b-day gals - [YH] and [MJ], [YQ] attempted to sing the b-day song in the choir way with disastrous results... I doubt I'm able to upload the vid on [PhotoBucket] and import it here as the file's quite big... So I've to settle with uploading it on [FaceBook] instead...

And look!!! We also got them some cheesecake...

YH &amp; MJ (13) @ Sakura (3) LOL... Ya la... It's from the buffet de la... =P

@ Sakura (4) Once the hilarious attempt to sing the song has concluded, it's time to atk the cake!!!

W/o [SH] being around, there's no lack of amusement, as [YQ] and [Cass] have proven...

Yunquan (28) Yunquan (29) Yunquan (30) Yunquan (31) Yunquan (32) Yunquan (33) Yunquan (34) Yunquan (35) YQ &amp; Cass (15) YQ &amp; Cass (16) YQ &amp; Cass (17) YQ &amp; Cass (18) YQ &amp; Cass (19) YQ &amp; Cass (20) YQ &amp; Cass (21) YQ &amp; Cass (22) YQ &amp; Cass (24) YQ &amp; Cass (25) YQ &amp; Cass (26) YQ &amp; Cass (27) YQ &amp; Cass (28) YQ &amp; Cass (30) YQ &amp; Cass (31) Cass (51)

Ha~... And once we bid each other farewell, [YQ], [Cass], [Yuling], [MJ] and I attempted to take 190 back home... After missing 3 buses because they're fully packed, we were abt to change out mind and take 700A instead when the next 190 came and we were able to squeeze in... the squeezing continued even till the stop opposite [Lucky Plaza]... Apparently, those commuters @ tt stop thought they have every right to board the bus after missing @ least 3 buses, by refusing to not board the bus even though it's filled to the brim with ppl, demanding tt we attempt to move to and make space... HA!!! We're solids, for crying out loud... We can't be compressed... Sheesh!!!

In the end, I spent 90 mins getting home FROM ORCHARD ROAD!!! I'd really just take the train... -_-"'

The following day is the release of the results for my finals... I was rather nervous, thanks to [MKT1003] and the nature of the tests (all of them) were slightly different in the sense tt there are only on average 5 questions per paper and each question pack TONS of marks... So if you screw 1 question up... You will be screwed...

No wonder I'm finding tt I'm a little lacking in confidence... And so does [SL], from his not-too-distant status update on [FaceBook]...

Anyway, when I tried to gain access to the website tt'll reveal my grades, I seemed to have stumbled some... Problems... It's not until [MJ] told me tt I don't have to access the craptastic [VPNClient] 1st tt I'm able to retrieve my results... LOL... Really, the new system seems kinda troublesome...

Okay, okay... *Drumrolls again*

Sem 1 Results

I got a C+ for [MKT1003], which is good enough as I really don't have much hope of acing tt subject... A pass is all tt I ask for... As for the rest of my modules as well as my CAP so far, well, I'm simply very pleased with what I've achieved...

*Pats on back* I shall keep up the good work!!!