urban bbq and so on...
okie. well that's 2 days almost in a blur... hah. urban bbq was on thursday evening.. as usual everyone was late... long ya men is actually made of fibreglass... but overall it was kinda a whole nice round of to a sem.=) glad i went, having missed the last 2 on exchange... a bunch of us left early... got jio-ed to kbox...
geoffrey and friend joined us about at abt midnite... imagine my surprise when geoff said he was coming... haha... never heard a single note out of him before man... but in the end... still not a squeak out of him... hahah. oh well... there will be other chances..=)
we sang until like 230am... cos the machine hanged on us and we decided that it was high time we went home anyway..=) thanks zl for sending me home man... otherwise i cannot imagine the horrific taxi fare i would incur... living in punggol is sometimes really bad and paiseh when friends offer to send u home.. haiz. sorry to all friends who had the misfortune to send the ultra roadblind weilin home to the end of singapore...=)
then friday... aiyoh. got aki lunch at chowon gardens... how to wakeup!! haha.. in the end rushed down etc... food was okie... but kinda exp for the quantity... hai. togi is still the best value for money i guess... muz go there soon.=) anyone interested? haha.=) any evening on/after 2nd may! i'm good to go!=) then we went for desserts and met up with zhangyu at ps to watch fracture... it's been quite a while since i watched this kinda flick... but it was really quite good.=) anthony hopkins rocks man. make me wanna watch silence of the lambs all over again. haha. and ryan gosling did quite a good job too... seeing as how he's starring opp hannibal lector after all=P
then it was dinner at cartel... stuffed man i tell u... svc still ain't that good... but then again they removed the svc charge.. so i won't complain all that much... no photo posting these few days... gotta sort out internship. darn it man. surbana is kinda mahfarn... sigh. and jalan bukit merah is like woah. FAR from my house. donno if I should go for the interview on monday when my portfolio is so unprepared. argh. please god... lets MAPS or MULTIPLY accept me with not too much fuss... 1K or more.. please.. i really need it... haiz. biang. i sound like a beggar... argh.
update on reading: a clockwork orange is hard work... but i'm finally at chapter 4... but that's after like 3 days! omg. the substitute words are just a bit hard to get used to... if u read it u'd know what i mean man... viddied, horrorshow, platties. argggggh. sigh.. but it is kinda like literary genius... yep. i'll keep at it.
Phantom and assorted meals~
cooking spree starts again...=) after eating out almost the whole sem... decided to cook up some simple stuff.. and anything to avoid that textbook... hah.
dinner on monday was the following...
asparagus... portobello mushrooms... grilled chicken with bawang=), baked potato with mushrooms and mozerella!!!
Then on tuesday... decided to put the foccacia to use.. i love gardenia foccacia.. it's the most useful bread around... heh. pizzatoast! my dad wanted me to make more.. heh.
and this morning... decided to try haemul pajeon (seafood pancake) cos I thot that our studio had to bring cooked food... I forgot to take pics of it.. and my parents had started eating when i remembered.. aish. so i took a pic off the net... courtesy of aromacookery.com.
It's basically, chives, squid, prawns... it's supposed to have kimchi... but i was lazy.. so substituted it with gochujang.. (red pepper paste) Since my studio's doing decor.. hm. donno if i should still bring it.. since i opened the bag of flour liao. guess have to see what time i wake up tomorrow then=)
Looking forward to urban bbq since we missed the two that happened when we were in korea..=) hope nothing too dramatic happens tho' =P
Well. that's the assorted meals part... now it's on to the fulfillment of a decade long dream of mine: to watch the Phantom of the Opera. I remember it last came to Singapore when we were in P4... rgs kakis will know that i was so bummed when i couldn't go watch it... and now finally it's here again! Although it was circle 3 seats... and i really was worried about the view.. it turned out to be good actually.=) with a little help from the binos... i didn't miss the facial expressions and costumes... Like seriously... i really wanted to cry when 'music of the night' started... and the boat scene at the back... when i remember that the closest i saw of it before was when they had a tv special of phantom behind the scenes...
the colours and extravaganza of masquerade... the falling of the chandelier... point of no return... and it goes on and on... seriously phantom was all i expected of it and more... no wonder Brad Little can sing the Phantom for 7 years... he was soooo good!
and yes i'm gushing in this longer-than-normal post... but really terribly glad that i finally caught this musical live... after 11 years of waiting... heh. so drama right? hahah.=)
and a special shout out to darius and clarence mugging in the UK... good luck for your exams guys!
manipulations01
well. this is i have to say a bad attempt. but it is after all a first attempt and a rush one at that. it does prove a point though. my ps is no where near where i hope it is...
manipulation of first pic to the weirdo in the 2nd pic... sigh. this is depressing. i should put it on my desktop. daily reminder. and another thing to put on my 43things list... I was gg to try to do a robbiewilliams pic not that i hate him or anything but just that it was a nice HQ BW pic that i found online. haha. sorry to this girl's pic then.. unlucky enuff to be ps-ed by me. hahaa. no ill feelings ya. i was trying for the volks doll or the blythe doll feeling... sigh. didn't quite get that right... bleagh. very despondent now. no time to try again.. cos mom and dad says i'm being weird and wasting my time. how in the world am i gg to justify this as "homework"? yikes. no way.
20C hist: i will start u tomorrow.
if not, phantom at night, urban bbq on thurs, aki lunch on friday. die liao again. tsktsk. weilin wake up ur idea...
Slide.com
Well... I had nothing quite to do while waiting for RIBA... see how no life man... and simply couldn't face studying for 20C hist right about now... so decided to fiddle with slide.com to relive the whole SEP experience... yesyes... it might be boring for those few few people reading my blog... but in a nostalgic mood la. seeing all the pple about to go on yr 4 SEP has brought back the times from last year when we were preparing to go=) so here starts a whole series of pic slides... hopefully can put up 1 a day. haha. all the way to the Japan trip. now that you guys haven't seen much of right? haha.
RIBA
oh yes. I forgot to add my prayers...
please let me get through this peacefully... no emails. no call ups. just get through yr 3 smoothly and safely...
get my internship.
get my pay.
go for a wonderful hol.
please.
Reading~
well… for all those who know me reasonably well… will know that i’m a book-holic… those 5mths plus on exchange had been perfect but for the fact that english novels are hard to come by in south korea.=)
However… i’ve been noticing a trend to my reading habits… I haven’t been reading that many serious fiction or literature novels or poetry for that matter… not since my jc days… which will totally disappoint my gp tutor not to mention my lit teacher back in secondary school… I’ve been reading those light novels, contemporary stuff, light suspense/thriller kind…
don’t get me wrong… i’m not a book snob here.. i’ve read everything from sweet valley to plato.. it’s just that I feel i’ve been neglecting my literary education for far too long… i made excuses like sch is so dead stressful that i didn’t need to stress myself out further by trying to understand the nuances of serious lit… but i think my brain is in serious danger of stagnating…
and on a larger picture… i guess this is a bid to overhaul my life somewhat this hols… not really liking myself and my life at the moment… and starting with a relatively easier goal to improve my reading habits… since i can’t quite go without it anyway…
hopefully i’ll have good stuff to blog about after starting this 43Things stuff… it’s quite cool i think… if i succeed then i’ll have alot to owe the founder of this thing=)
hahah... first a disclaimer... I am NOT narcissitic... I was just surfing for photoshop tutorials... cos seriously i'm behind in brushing up my photoshop..sigh. so well... decided that colorizing will be my new goal..=) SO... instead of picking some random stranger's picture on the net... I decided to touch up my own! hahaha... it's a pic taken at the top of 63 tower in korea...
I went to the short cut route... didn't desaturize the original pic... just overlaid the colorizing layer... didn't do much.. lack of time... just a bit on facial features and hair... and the original is kinda too dark and the contrast sucked... my mom is starting her "go to sleeeeeppp" regime again... so perhaps when the mood strikes again.. i'll pick another pic to colorize from scratch.
I seek to emphasize arh.. I am not narcissitic arh. haha. ciao~
Suddenly the sky is clear.
hell week is technically over... there is internal crit and riba to go through... but at least most of the hell is over... paneling and model making.. goodbye till next sem! yr 4! no more paper cuts... penknife nicks and pinpricks from wire mesh... 8( time flies man.... sigh... i don't feel any more ready to graduate and go out to the working world.. but that's another worry for another time...
went to dinner @ ps just now with jh, yf and belle.... brings back the good ole times in korea.... the food was really good.. i recommend manhattan fish market anyday over fish and co...=)
we went to carrefour to hunt for icecream and guess what? there was a korean fair going on!!! we saw our lotte waffle and shin ramyeon!!! muhahahaha. such simple things that tickle our soul... we are such simple people after all... *winks*
there are 2 more hurdles to cross before home free for the hols.... 20C hist... of which i know next to nothing about.. and aki con.. horrors of horrors... haha. 20 APR... the day weilin looks helplessly at a structures paper... oh well... there's hardly anything surprising about that... ;)
resolutions time again at the end of the sem... think will try something different this time round... things that sound simple but are really quite beyond me.... heh. like sleeping before 2 or 3 am. methinks turning my bioclock back to that of a regular person will be good for my lifespan in the longrun.=)
the overseas ct gang is coming home soon... can't wait guys...=) hols will be great...
