i cooked dinner! mwahaha. with the exception of the pork. which i dint dare to cook for fear of overcharring the thing and spraying the hot oil all over the place. haha. thus, i cooked the vegetables and the sambal sotong:) hahaha. if i do say so myself, i enjoyed the sotong immensely:) i needa find out a way to flavour the vegetables better tho...

someone give me and all those who played soccer today an olympic marathon medal now man. wahhh... 11am-4pm, with in between breaks for water. hahah. and the sun was MOTHER hot. haha. i'm a lovely shade of pink now. gah. burnt to a crisp. hahaha. ppl who played today, i salute you... blah. i'm gonna be paying for today's indiscretions tmr...

oh yea, i made a really good clearance off the line. tzehow! u owe me man:p haha. sacrificed a few billion skin cells and my whole left leg nerves for that clearance tho. haha. talk abt a flying kick... ouchz.

anyone got a good anti-sunburn cream to recommend? haha.

Listening To: Usher- Simple Things

hehehehe. it's looking up again... i finally found a paper i could say i could do. haha. not that it was stellar, but it was a solidly done paper la. so it kinda boosted my morale. ehehe.

went out with the class after the paper for lunch at PS pastamania. haha. it was quite fun... haha listening to rehan go on and on abt how he's trying to find the girl he slept with in KINDERGARTEN. haha. ashley just kept laughing and laughing. haha. the laughter's infectious. thinking abt it now makes me laugh.... hahahah. newae, the meal was good:) haha. for S$14.90, i got a shrooms and prawns pasta, a drink, soup, and chocolate mousse for dessert:) haha. not too bad, i must say.. haha.

on the way back i saw the most horrible example of singaporeans being "ugly". blah. imagine a packed bus. old ppl, middle aged ppl, students, all packed aboard that single decker bus. then one 40-something female took one seat, and put her bag on the adjacent one. to compound matters, another, younger 20-something female took another, and put a bag on it and just sat there. more and more ppl came on board the bus and they STILL just put their bags there. an old man offered the seat nxt to him to this guy that boarded. these ladies were just screwed up. where's their sense of civic conciousness? i mean, isn't it obvious that ppl need seats? so many ppl were squeezing together while standing up. byetch. the younger byetch actually had the temerity to just ignore everyone else arnd her and put her earphones on and act oblivious to the world. horrendous. they can't even be called LADIES. just women. probably bitches.

Listening To: Boyz II Men- I'll Make Love To You

sigh. wish i could just pass ONE BLOODY F*CKING math paper. just one. that's all i ask.

so tired....

i was reading a blog on pick up lines... written by a girl btw... quite interesting and thought provoking...

what is a pick up line? better yet, what is a GOOD pick up line? haha. i personally believe that "can i buy you a drink?" is the best... i mean, what do u have to lose by offering a drink to a lady? furthermore, if the offer is rejected, just smile and buy a drink for urself! haha. seriously, sometimes the pick up lines used can be utterly childish and sadly embarrassing for the male gender across the globe. what is it about a woman that causes men to just lose all sense of speech and communication? especially in singapore. here are some choice picks that i've heard used on others and seen in the papers. haha.

note: these lines are most commonly used in clubs, bars, wine cellars, nightspots and wat not.

1. "Can i be your friend?"- this is one of the most ridiculous, childish, and strangely Singaporean way of approaching a woman. sounds like ur from primary school. ludicrous. it ends up making the guy sound more like a 3 yr old boy whining for his mummy than a 19-23 year old looking for companionship.

2. " Can i have your number?"- one pick up line that will most definitely not work. you've gotta look like brad pitt/orlando bloom/takeshi kaneshiro/won bin/cristiano ronaldo/david beckham/(insert whoever u find hot here) to actually have a girl give you their number right off the bat, have the money of said superstars, AND have a great personality that ppl will realise right away to get a girl giving u her number in a nightspot. so dun flatter urself guys. sad as it sounds we're all inadequate in that sense. haha.

3. "What's a girl like you doing in a place like this?"- this pick up line is another ridiculous one. firstly, it makes u sound like some american playboy out for a night of fun. secondly, if the girl was in a place like that, what were YOU doing in a place like that. pretty much kills ur chances straight away.

4. "Can I get to know you?"- this pick up line makes you sound like a guy conducting a survey. absurd. it's very obvious that you wanna get to know her, dun state the obvious. at best, the answer you'd get is a shy smile and a shake of the head. at worst, you'll get the straight no. very embarrassing. haha.

5. "You give me an ego boost."- I believe this one was used on piggo's friend boonseer. what on earth was the guy thinking. seriously. the girl will probably be caught between laughing out loud at the sheer inadequacy and insecurity of the guy or just walk away. pathetic.

6. "How ya doing?"- This line is rather ambiguous. seems to work for joey tribbiani but i doubt anybody would like to or should try this in Singapore. aha. sound like some ah beng trying to act westernized and all:p the phrase how are you doing is supposed to be used in greeting between friends. you barely know the girl so dun expect her to suddenly confide in you her heart's desires and worries. however, this line could work so caveat emptor.

7. "Hey baby..."- This howler is definitely gonna drive any self-respecting girl away. a line that is used mostly by drunks, ah bengs, drunk ang mohs, drunk ah bengs, and despos with absolutely no sense of decorum. haha. realise that it could be a combination of all, namely a drunk desperate ah beng. haha.

8. "I've got a room, interested?"- the mother of all bad pick up lines. as in 2, you gotta look like those superstars, have the personality and the money to even have a girl look at you with this line. i may be overestimating the girls in Singapore, but i doubt that any girl would go to a hotel room with a near total stranger and "talk".

9. "Hi, my name is..."- Not too bad a pick up line i guess... just that it sounds like ur on a gameshow. hahaha.

10. "Wanna ride?"- most likely used in trying to pick up a girl on the street in a flashy sports car. ahha. unless that's not the type of ride ur referring to. in which case... besides, i doubt ppl would want a girl that would hop into anybody's sports car for a "ride".

haha. i'm by no means an expert, but these are just my personal thoughts on pick up lines. haha. really, buying someone a drink is still the best. start it from there:)

Listening To: McFly- Five Colours in Her Hair

well well... after econs, it's been all downhill... r u ever reminded of how it's like a rollercoaster ride? u go up and up and up, and once u reach that peak, BAM, ur back down to rock bottom... yea it's the same with prelims... math was absolute @()&#!)(*#&@ shit. i've only felt more crappy after term 2's math paper... this wasn't much better. 28/100. leaving me very close to needing full marks to pass. 72/100 or 100/100, no difference, it's still as unattainable...

physics prac was even worse. the first practical was quite okay... got a really nice graph for some reason... hopefully it wasn't some fluke... hehe. the second practical was crap. crapcrapcrap. firstly, i took like 20 minutes to start, just to realise that my ammeter was dysfunctional... fused or something i guess, then changed it and went back to work. then again, it couldn't really be called work.. more like fumbling. my readings were all the way from 1.125 to 0.025... talk abt a large range. my readings were screwed up all the way from the beginning. not even sure whether it was mA or A for units. blah. hopefully the written papers won't be that hard:(

spent the time after the prac at ikea with rehan, shao, siwei, weize and wesley... the meatballs are seriously yumyum... gastronomic therapy. haha. ate the meatballs, steak, fries, chicken wings, the gravad lax salmon thingy and drank two cartons of chocolate milk. haha. oh and a kind soul gave us this free drink coupon.. haha. redeemed it for pepsi and we shared the cup of soft drink like the cup of wine at the last supper... haha. passed it arnd. dang that sounded blasphemous. newae, yea it was passed arnd quite a bit... discussed what to do after prelims, and they brought up the idea of going to jb to rehan's house. hmm. should i go?

Listening To: Hoobastank- The Reason

hooray! i've never slept so well before:) and wow. what a sleep it was. haha. the dreams within... :) i'm on top of the world!!!! haha.

murhurhurhurhur. prelims are turning out fine! haha.

had econs and gp today. the essays were murder on my poor hand... imagine writing 4 essays in like a total time of 3h45 minutes... the first essay, gp, was actually fairly easy... hopefully i dint go out of point bcoz that would've meant that my effort was for naught. but newae... the compre was a killer... i dint understand jack sh*t. the passage might as well haf been written in russian for all it meant to me. argh. still, hopefully i can pass... sigh...

after a lunch break we returned for the econs paper, which was 6C3 essays... (math coming up, what is the number of combinations there? haha.) wrote 2,4,6 for essays... haha. thankfully, for the amount of the writing, i think i'll get a fair pass grade, which would be good, bcoz combined with a hopefully physics pass and math O or E, i get a full cert! if i pass gp. blah. it's all abt the gp...

Hey What Do You Know, the colours i used in the above are red blue and gold!

national day parade was kinda strange for me... thinking that i'd be down there nxt year is not an enticing thought... haha. oh well...

the tribute to PM Goh was really moving though... I've gotta say i respect him more than SM Lee... in some strange way i think he's done the same amount in a much more personal and giving way than the senior minister. heh. well... i'm quite at a loss for words, but really, goodbye PM Goh, it's been great;p

have i ever mentioned i like the cat Bucky in the Get Fuzzy strip in the newspapers? haha. something abt his attitude just makes me laugh:D

i needa get off this blog man... prelims in a week. argh. rambling.

thank you for ur input bob/meesheow. oh, and thanx for the encouragement ah petrina... tsk. ahha.

bob/meeseow: what if it's an ambush? and He said that he put the govt in place and we shouldn't rebel against them or something rite... where does following orders cross the line into doing something morally wrong?

have i ever mentioned that the army is a truly horrendous waste of time? not the actual going there i suppose, but the waiting they make you do... i think that they could actually cut the time spent training and all down to one and a half years if they cut down the inefficiency and waiting time in between... sheesh. waited like 45minutes to an hour in between the physical, the vocational test and the interview... the medical was actually a white elephant. the guy just came up and asked, "any injuries? any asthma?" and after getting a reply, walked off. strangely, he asked me whether i was interested in commandos, and he dint ask anyone else that... hmmm... maybe he was just doing it for kicks... haha.

the interview was kinda interesting... asking all sorts of questions, which u could tell were kinda gearing u up for whether you'd be comfortable in fighting ppl, possibly of ur own religion and who u think would invade us and what not. dun think i'm supposed to reveal the exact questions, but basically it was quite thought provoking, to see one's own answers...

so i've got a question. if ur in a war, and u are a christian, and there is another christian on the other side invading ur country, is it a sin to kill him?

haiss... our class page due on thurs... had to ask for an extension since ppl dint seem very onz abt doing it... so end up me and weize gonna go thru them all and sort it out... haha. gonna dl the trial version of adobe photoshop and do it with that... hopefully it doesn't end up too bad... haha. i'm not exactly an artistic person:) haha.

haha. chinese sms is fun. never felt such a thrill in using chinese before:):)

Listening To: Secret Garden- You Raise Me Up