Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Transformers

Today I watched Transformers! Like, finally! Elaine, Vinder, Su, Sheryl, Yin, Ting, I could hug you guys for watching that show. It was awesome, totally loved it. It could have been sweeter but, well, I won't complain. I already got part I of my wish, so yeah. Later then. Dial up ain't stable.

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Friends


Has anyone thought of how you classify friends before? I remember Carol once asking me over MSN how would I classify friends. Good friends, close friends, best friends, acquaintances, buddies, boyfriend, girlfriend, anything else?

Well, I'm not exactly sure of my own classifications. What I know is that I don't just have one best friend. I have a few. I don't have hundreds and hundreds of friends, but I have several close ones. Among my friends there are the good ones, the bad ones. From there there are the friends I consider my best friends, the friends I consider close friends, those whom I consider good friends, others whom I consider acquaintances... Are you able to tell which category you fall into? Heh.

My apologies for the not too great above picture of some of my friends. But yeah, that's a picture of some of my friends. I treasure most of them a lot. But well, what would you do without friends right?

Best friends: I hope you guys know who you are. Cause I like knowing each of you and thanks for the great times we've had.

Close friends: I don't think you guys would know who are exactly, but in any case, thanks for being the great people you are. You guys are fun for sure.

Good friends: Probably a lot of you would fall into this category.

Acquaintances: Its nice knowing you.

I wonder what you guys would say. =) Reply? Heh.

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Its all over

Today
The supposed class outing was supposed to occur today. But we were on "budget" and thus had to come up with other ideas than ice-skating and karaoke sessions to entertain ourselves at the beginning of the holiday. So, we decided to descend upon Eunosville, which is none other than Arisya's home on a floor of a block in Eunosville. Thanks for opening up yer home Arisya!


What was supposed to be a class outing turned into a class hangout as only 4 people turned up - Ifah, Zhili, Me and Arisya. Here we are busy playing Spongebob Monopoly while watching White Chicks on TV. The movie was hillarious. Its the type which has a plot, but a very mild one at that and is made up mostly of 99% nonsense. But y'know, sometimes you NEED to watch nonsense. Rephrasing something Carol said, you need to watch nonsense so that next time you will know what is nonsense. LOL.


This is what the board looked like near the end of the game when we were gonna go to City Hall for some Half-Priced Gelare Waffle Tuesday. The whole Spongebob theme is pretty whacky eh?


For instance, instead of houses you build pineapples. The sites are also of things like Sandy's Treedome and as you can very well see, Krusty Krab. Another one would be Prank Palace. Heh.


Also, hotels have become Krusty Krab outlets. The figurines are of famous SpongeBob characters. Sponge Bob, Patrick, Gary, Plankton, Squidward... I can't remember anything else actually. But yeah, a pretty entertaining game for an entertaining day.

Sunday
Sunday was spent with the ICM group cooped up in Xin Le's room from 2pm onwards preparing for yesterday's presentation.


Pretty obvious that the room looked like a war zone eh? We had 4 laptops all running and 6 people in the room. You can imagine how that looked like when you had all of us in there from 2pm to as late as 10pm. Cabin fever starts to set in. People get stressed and need to destress by taking pictures and having mannicures. Lol. Did I spell that correctly?


Here's an example of the stuff we had to come up with for the online website. Ya Low's Yellow Line Dilemma is a game produced for the website and the picture above is the opening page. Remember, this is only a prototype, not the whole damn actual thing.


A plan screen shot of the game in which you must rid Cheong Ya Low of the virus by keeping him behind the yellow line. Obstacles will push him closer to the line and he can score points by doing good deeds. For instance, picking up litter.


Yet another view of the station platform for Ya Low's Yellow Line Dilemma. How's that for a title eh?


And we had pizza for dinner. And Pepsi to go along. Dinner was short with us only stopping for about 15 minutes max, before returning to the task at hand. Dinner was also rather late, at 9+ in the night.

On the Way Down ~ Ryan Cabrera
Sick and Tired of this world
There's no more air
Trippin' over myself
Goin' nowhere
Waiting
Suffocating
No direction
And I took a dive

And on the way down
I saw you
And you saved me
From myself
And I won't forget
The way you loved me
On the way down
I almost fell right through
But I held onto you

I've been wondering why
It's only me
Have you always been inside
Waiting to breathe
It's alright
Sunlight
On my face
I wake up and yeah, I'm alive

'cause on the way down
I saw you
And you saved me
From myself
And I won't forget
The way you loved me
On the way down
I almost fell right through
But I held onto you

I was so afraid
Of going under
But now
The weight of the world
Feels like nothing, no, nothing

Down, down, down
You're all I wanted
Down, down, down
You're all I needed
Down, down, down
You're all I wanted
You're all I needed

And I won't forget the way you loved me

All that I wanted
All that I needed

On the way down
I saw you
And you saved me
From myself
And I won't forget
The way you loved me
On the way down
I almost fell right through
But I held onto you

Down, down, down
But I held onto you
Down, down, down
But I held onto you


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Sunday, August 12, 2007

New House


Okay, so after nearly a year of living in a nice spacious home, but at the price of accessibility, we finally moved yesterday to a new place which isn't as spacious but far more accessible. And accessibility ranks high in my book. No more 30 minute walks to get to the metro! Not that I don't like walking, but imagine coming back really late (after 11pm) and having to walk 30 minutes when yer damned tired through a black jungle by the canal with minimal lighting just to get home. And bus service doesn't come that close either. Now, its just a 10 minute walk to the metro and a 5 minute walk to the bus stop. Cheers!

The picture above is our new living room. Of course, it was still incomplete as of yesterday since they had just put up the mirrors and the supporting wood would be there a further 3 days. The table colour mom wanted was out of stock so the company gave us a temporary one.


And here is the dining room without the dining table. This picture was taken before the arrival of the 6-seater dining set. I like the set and it looks like it goes well with the finishings of the house.

My room. Yeah, I know it looks dark but it isn't really. Doesn't help that the blind that is down can't be raised as someone ripped one of the strings out trying to pull the thing down... I think its kind of utilitarian though, the feel of the room.


Another view of the wardrobe and the table where that ugly desktop is going to be. At least I have the printer in my room so I can use it when needed. Then again, when school reopens its going to be attachment so I doubt anyone would be sending me stuff overnight to print for submission. But... You never know eh?


The door way and the 'rents' room beyond which is done in cream and brown. See, the room's not as dark as it seems in the first picture. What I don't like is the cupboards at the side. The doors stick out somewhat and are not flushed with the rest of the cupboard. There are gaps near the hinge area and wide gaps, not small ones. Well, you can't really complain can you? The overall look of the place is quite nice. I'll put up some of the bar next time then. Its still not yet done as the solid top needs to go on. But generally, the house is quite nice and its nice to be able to call a place yours. The own room thing especially. So here's to thanking the 'rents' for purchasing this place and pimping it up somewhat.

Shout outs:
Dak: Eh, hope yer doing okay and not stressing out. IMUB.
Fano: Hope the wordsearch game is going good.
ICM group: Lets go kick ass peeps!
Anyone else: I'm sorry, the net company won't be transferring the connection over till Tuesday (as opposed to the cable TV which did it within 24 hours.... Kill ST!!) so I might or might not be online. As of now, I'm in the old place using the net since mom needed me to come here for something. Cheers peeps.

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Saturday, August 04, 2007

Travel issues


Let's all give a round of applause to our very own DMC05 designer for coming up with this year's new DMC05 poster. Cool eh? Absolutely love the new concept, over the previous years' boxes with us in it. I also like the glassy effect and the photos chosen were fabulous! Hats off to Ms. Zhili.


Anyway, I just did some quick calculations. I have some money in the bank, and some which I need to claim back from spec dip budget. Then there's also some to be put in the bank as a lump sum with the spec dip claims. Factoring in internship allowance (hopefully which I save all away), I should get roughly between $1200 and $1500. That's if luck's on my side and being really optimistic with the figures. You never know what the company will be like. They may be nice, or totally the opposite. So, with the amount that I have in my bank at the moment, the conclusion is that I can go to the US with the supposed amount that I'll save. Not factoring in other possible cost-cutting measures that can be put in place to further boost up the funds in the bank. The conclusion? Please, if you're thinking of me, give me cash this year. Haha.

On the other hand, I'm much better today than I was yesterday or the past week. Thank you to all those who have been worrying. But I'm okay. Thanks though, especially you guys who are my rocks out there. You know who you are.

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Thursday, August 02, 2007

Depressed



Okay. I'll admit it. The past few days I've not been myself exactly. Maybe I look fine on the outside, but on the side its uggh. So, to anyone, if I've flared up unnecessarily over the past week, I apologise. Aight? Please don't take it to heart. I'm burnt out. I don't remember the last time I just laid back and did nothing. I've not had a "break" break in 23 weeks. It was Trigon and then immediately straight to school with just a weekend to come back home and fit into things again. Someone, please ask me to go out and just let it loose. I might feel better then.

It also kinda sucks that I've missed catching Transformers. Its a really big peeve of mine. I'm gonna try catch it tomorrow. Or Saturday. NO ONE PLEASE DISTURB ME ON SATURDAY. I'm going to watch it or else... Or else I'll be miserable. As is, I'm already tired, drained and really out of my mind.

Shout Outs:
Dak: I'm really sorry I haven't been myself the past week. I'll make it up somehow. None closer than you aight?
Ifah: Thanks for helping cool me down the other day. I think that day has really affected me this whole week.
Carol: Thanks for being the listener.
Gabe: Thanks bro for the prayers.
L: Thanks for listening too. And sympathising, haha. When I'm up you'll help entertain me a bit?

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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Crunch time


Its been awhile since I've ever posted anything... But today was a really hectic day. And doing an assignment, listening to some music a certain song just made me think of you guys. Its been so long. In a few days it'll be a year since Nan was gone and its already more than a year since bro was gone. Maybe I'm just a little emo today. I dunno...

Dear Nan,
I can't believe that its almost a year now. Such a long time ago... Yeah, we all miss you. I miss playing scrabble with you.

Love,
Jono.

Dear bro,
Can I ever express how different it is these days? I doubt I can. But yeah, we wish you were around. For sure. Miss ya man.

Love,
Jono.



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