i'm whining! ok? weh...

i GOT the interview timeslot with the bank ok? then they sent a personal information form for me to fill up, i told them i had a maternal cousin working in one of their overseas offices, and they rejected my application on the spot via telephone due to 'policy'.

there goes the last of my phase one companies. *waves bye bye*

at least i didn't bother to go buy make-up (brr....) and hair accessories in preparation for the interview. hymph.

why did i tell them~?!!? according to the director, its good that they found out early, coz it would have come up in the background check anyway~ according to yy, its good that i didn't get employed, coz i might get suspended and it'll look bad on the record~

for those not in the know, i have around... 47 cousins? some remarried, some went overseas, some are already grandparents. i somehow have the nagging feeling that they wouldn't have found out in a simple background check.

sheesh. what a waste of time. *kicks a bucket* 

the holiday is going awry in a bad way. down the road of lagging schedules, problematic projects and clashes over computer-ownership. i'm pissed. hymph. 

happy lunar new year. 

i just realized- i'd been having headaches a lot when i'm in hall.

it starts from between the brows, and spreads to the temples, and then upwards, numbing the whole forebrain.

and i grow wrinkles from frowning.

and i would lie down, drink water, and rub my forehead to elevate the pain.

and today, as i was rubbing, i realized...

that yy's back of the head hurts when she has a headache!

and so i went to ask les... and...

his back of the head hurts when he has a headache! 

...none of their front brain hurts!!!!

O.o

Poll~ which part of ur head hurts when u have a headache? 

If You Ruled the Land . . . by wackyweasel
Your first name:	freebird
How you gained your rule:	no idea . . .
Your title is:	You Sexy Thang
Your symbol is:	the fox, because you're foxy!
You rule from:	a mountaintop mansion
At your side is:	your unicorn steed, Sparkles
Your enforcers, troops, and guards are all:	fanservicey cat-people
Your most popular law is:	Free alcohol to pretty people if they sit with ugly people
Your least popular law is:	Banning of people over six foot two
Your worst enemy is:	Ringo Starr, but you can't remember why . . .
Your popularity rating is:	40%
Your chance of being overthrown is:	23%

this won't be here if i din love the laws i'll have put. heh.

*waits for the clock* and....

it's been 36 hours since i last slept!!! wahahaha!!!!

once again, yours truly has a 14 chapter quiz this morning at 0830. at 9.30pm last night, she'd only been reading the notes up to the 8th chapter. so nothing to it but stay up the whole night.

and it wasn't like i had been screwing around all these time. i started mugging for it on Monday! den... ... it was... ... FMA manga... download... read... read... FMA manga, freecell, read...

and i had project meetings too! and, and an interview! so i wasn't really screwing around all the time! 

bleargh, i'm damn beat now. just realized my law project's due coming friday.

i just love my law modules and the interesting stories that my prof shares with us. interesting, ironic cases. i found my hero in the guy who spammed HDB.

so the year was 1999 and this poor guy just graduated from, what do you know, NTU. he's got a good life, a job, a steady gf, and they would get married and move in together when they get a HDB.

so he applied and paid a $30k deposit. and waited. and waited. and sent letters of enquiry, and waited for a reply. and half a year passed and he sent another letter of enquiry and waited for a reply, and a year passed and...

some time after that he got so pissed off he spent 2.5hours manually spamming the 3 employees in the board a total of 2500 emails each to get their attention. 

and HDB got so pissed off they sued him. for $30k. effectively, he lost his deposit. and his resale flat. and i think his gf as well.

of coz i got pissed off at the verdict. if the board had just replied after the first 20 emails came in, he wouldn't need to send the subsequent 2480 to get their attention. the board is at fault. rawrgh, rawrgh, rawrgh, rawrgh!

but there was this other little detail... he sent the emails on 31 dec 1999. so the technical staff thought it was... THE MILLENIUM BUG!!! so they totally freaked out, shut down the whole system for an hour plus, and of coz everyone got very pissed and wanted to get some blood.

picturing the scenario at the board, i couldn't help but laugh. i'm still grinning now. hahaha. 

hero.

and there was this other case of a SOB who broke up with his gf, and sent lewd emails from her email account to everyone in her address book. he was sentenced to 5 months in jail. o___O

5 months in jail for sending emails! so he appealed, and... the judge increased the sentence to a full year. o___O

the stupid thing was, a few months after that, this horrible guy drugged and raped a woman and he was also sentenced to one year in jail.

moral of the story: don't commit computer crimes here, coz its hard to get caught, and if you do get caught, you become the chicken that gets executed as an example for the monkeys.

uki-ki-ki-ki! 

i had a written report due Friday. i've about gotten the resources i need... now i planned to stay up late thursday night to put together the perfect piece of report. all night, even.

and at 1am the school LAN network fell flat on its face.

yy and yl screamed coz they had a presentation slide to do. i felt like skinning someone alive as my resources were all online, i had a lesson at 0830, and only an hour break between then and the deadline.

so i stayed up clicking away at 'home', and waiting for the connection to return. 

well, i was lucky i had 5 pages of research open when the network went down. yay~ multi-tasking me! but they were basically summaries, all the relevant acts and arguments couldn't be accessed. -___-

in the end i slept for 1 or 2 hours while yy kept vigil over the internet connection. at 7am, it was partially up. i tried rushing it out. couldn't find the phrase i wanted in the privacy act. (its a long article ok?) which means i remembered the source wrongly. there's no way i could look through all my 20 odd sources for that particulare legislature in the time i had!

cursing the stupid school LAN, i went off to my 0830 class 30 minutes late.

originally i was supposed to go with a friend to donate blood in the one hour break between lessons, but - i had to push it off because - I SERIOUSLY needed to get my written report out.

in the end the report was a big failure in my perfectionist eyes. there was one serious typo. privacy act was not fleshed out. there were a million things that were superficially covered. give me 5 more hours on it, and i can potentially increase the grade at least two more levels. which means its a B-grade, no C, in my opinion.

sigh. suxor.

and in my haste, i forgot to save my work. thankfully, in a stroke of pure genius and eccentricity, i printed two copies of my work, one for the tutor and one for my own safekeeping, so i could retype the whole thing. :) 

well~ at least i got it out in time. my parents harangued me for not thinking and making preparations ahead for accidents, but hey~ how do you even prepare for this? like, i should have a nearby friend's house on standby so i can drop by to use their internet at 2am in the morning? and we can go to school together. yay~ (-___-)

in the end, guilty for not going to donate blood, i decided to go myself.

my legs quivered. i was a lost lamb, walking from station to station. and at last after filling in forms, registering, getting asked a tonne of questions, i reached the doctor's and... i realized my house weighing machine  overweighs by 2kg, so i'm underweight to qualify.

she said she's sorry i couldn't donate. she said i should eat more and come again after plumping up. i said actually i'm quite glad i'm lighter than i thought, but i'm sorry i couldn't donate nonetheless.

and i went by the library to check if i could make a copy of the solutions booklet for my equities textbook. the counter staff bullied me... *cries*

it was three irritating guys at the photocopying section in the HSS library. asked them if they had the book, and they sent me on a quest with the clue "its somewhere in this library, i don't know where" and i overheard one telling the other "you're evil." *cries*

in the end i asked the guy at the counter and realized that its on loan for photocopying. grrrrr...!!!! nah, its not with the aforementioned guys. they weren't that evil.

and since i'd wasted so much time already, i went off to OCBC to apply for a debit card. first five years, minimum deposit $0. heh. at least that was one good thing i accomplished today. 

so i went off home, and it was until i'm almost home and caught myself in the mirror when i realized...

i had "its my first time. please be gentle with me" still stuck on the front of my shirt. the blood donation sticker. 

ARGH! 

i've had 6 handphones in my lifetime. my first was a super cheap motorola phone, bought in 2002 when it became impossible to function without a handphone.

i loved that one. it was simple; no camera-function, no dictionary-function, but it was sturdy and simple to use, and it wouldn't break no matter how often it dropped onto the floor. after a while, it was just =too= old, and my parents insisted on getting me a new one.

The next one was a nokia. its user-interface was markedly different from motorola, but after a while, i got used to it. however it spoilt soon after.

the next one was nokia again. after barely 3 months, problems started to surface. it would switch off or restart suddenly, and it got extremely irritating. i sent it to be repaired. after a few weeks it returned to me... and it spoilt again.

pissed, i got a samsung. the games sucked, and the interface was horrible. to switch to silent mode, i would have to set the mode for calls and messages separately. and it was impossible to turn off the irritating chime made when a message is sent. after the horrible nokia, it was like heaven to me though. i was able to live happily and content with it. then my father had a free phone, a samsung as well, and they insisted i switch over to a new, better phone. my old phone was passed to my mother.

this had a serious bug in the programming, in addition to the flaws mentioned above. once i entered the 'send' window, i could not return to the message editing window, or save my draft. so if i had left out an important detail, or pressed 'ok' by mistake, my only choice was to retype the whole draft, or send the draft to my own handphone and edit from there.

half a year later, my mother's (my old) samsung suddenly broke down, and could no longer take photoes. my current samsung's keypad grew VERY insensitive and is unable to register '3', '4', '6', '7' and '8' keystrokes. which is almost everything.

at long last my contract expired, and i got a new phone!!!

the current phone is fantastic! sony ericsson K610im!

its black and classy. it had a perfectly convenient interface. i could personalize my shortcut buttons, there's a data cable, the camera is 2 megapixel, the games are fantastic - fruit fall and worms golf, the graphical design is great, and there's a free data cable (samsung didn't come with one).

i'm in love~~!!!

oh, and, primevil is good. catch it. 

23rd march is jr's bday. i'm writing it here before any of us forgets again.

early in the morning, we went to the temple for the last and final rite for my grandma. it was a lot of praying and kneeling, and my mom fainted from kneeling. no, don't worry about it, it runs in the family. she just felt very sheepish about it.

after lunch, i escaped to bugis. to pick up a birthday card, pens, sign up for the manga competition, and meet thong to go sim lim. it took me forever to pick out a card; the most outrageous cards were at the most outrageous prices. many cards were really sissy. many cards really deserved a smack in the face for their cheesiness. many cards were hideously overpriced.

and then i spent a lot of time picking out 2 nice pens to write in the card with, and also to write my summaries with. i left one with nandemoya when i signed up for my manga competition. -___- 85 cents~~~~!!!!!

basically i had 4 hours to waste, so i browsed a lot. and den i wandered all around looking for a way to get to sunshine plaza nandemoya. after which i spent a lot of time wandering around until i hit the national library (whoa, i din noe they were that close) i wandered a lot.

it was a hot hot day. i saw a lot of foreigners around basking in the sun, and wondered just wats up with summer? i'd rather it be autumn everyday.

sim lim was packed with people. met thong there to buy the G15 keyboard. it was out of stock in many stores we checked, and we found it at last on the 3rd storey. yay~ thong kheng~

1.5 more hours to waste. we went to mac.

0.5 more hours to waste.

i tot i saw a glimpse of raffles place when i was wandering around and came up with the genius suggestion to walk there. ...so i was wrong. in the end we walked around and around, at last reaching city hall mrt 15 minutes late. i'm sorry!!!

dinner was at a posh teppanyaki restaurant in chjmes. the service was very bad initially; we were sitted away from the chefs, the food were hideously overpriced, the waitress didn't really understand english, it took forever for our orders to be taken and the food to come.

jr came to the rescue, and we were relocated to be sitted in front of the chef.

he was great. he chatted with us. i think he gave us extra portions of chicken. he treated us to sake on the house. he joked around. (he threw eggs at jr, haha) interestingly, there were 3 people celebrating there birthdays there.

in the end, dinner ended at 9pm, and the total bill came up to $155. we left around $10 as tips, partly to pay for the sake and chicken.

and we rushed off to catch mr. bean's holiday! it was funny, haha. it was quite unsettling to watch though, as a lot of his quirky actions reminded me of someone i know from my hall. the dorky waving of hands in the air, the unnaturally jerky hand movements, the style of speech, the way he walked... les, u should know who i'm talking about. 

it ended at 11.30. and it was a mad rush for the last mrt, the last bus, and now i'm safely in my room! gawd its steaming hot in here... if its gonna be this temperature all the time i'm gonna go back home for the exams. -__-

lastly,

jr: happy birthday! enjoy wowing with the new keyboard!

thong: sorry i got us lost! thanks for carrying the bulky keyboard all the way and YUA!

shawn: stop sm**ing!!! how dare u keep it from me! rawrgh!! it was great seeing u again, but... rawrgh! don't u dare let urself get addicted!!!! 

 

i was looking forward to today. at long last, my braces are coming off! i happily went off to outram with my hall mate orders for muffins from chocolate and spice.

i reached at 10.30am. my appointment was at 10.30am. Normally one is encouraged to arrive 15 minutes in advance to avoid waiting. its ok~

my turn came at 11.30am.

i was amiably waiting all the way. the one hour wait was... abnormal, but i had my textbook with me, and lofty dreams of hitting the 4D jackpot with my queue number.

at loong long last it was my turn. and... nope, my braces aint coming off. there was supposed to be an appointment last week, which i missed.. anyway, (i couldnt catch half of it) and she added two more rubber bands to my teeth. to be kept on for 6 weeks. >__<

sigh~~~ 

i took out the rubber bands on my braces to change. they were stained  an orangey-red. i guess its coz i ate watermelon for lunch. like hell that's why.

RAWRGH!

today i dropped by the Seiyu bazaar held in the school auditorium. it didn't look like a lot of people. in the end i realized that's coz all the people are queueing for the fitting room (T_T)

its quite a good bargain actually. the shoes! the shoes! they're beautiful! and relatively cheap! court shoes for $19.90. design shoes for $29.90 - $49.90. i saw a lot of converse-style shoes i really liked going for 39. but nah, i just bought a pair of shoes recently, so i just gave them a good hug and moved on with my life.

what took a LOT of guts and determination was the pillows section. my 7-HOLE-MICROFIBRE PILLOW!!! *hearts hearts hearts* is back again!!! this time for $12! i almost wanted to buy it, coz my current one is losing its fluffiness. but i resisted! coz i know i'll never get it back to tampines, and it'll spend more time rolling on the floor den in my loving embrace! waaaah!!! *i'm starting to regret it again*

and i bought 2 queen-size bedsheets for $30. i wonder if its a good buy, considering its 233 threads only. ...233 is supposed to be a better quality then normal, but i'm kinda used to 240, and the sample pillow case they displayed felt quite rough. sigh. my childhood dream is to sleep on a 300 thread bedsheet. those... cost... a BOMB.

anyway i bought a shirt. and another shirt. and all that took 1.5 hours!!! its retail theraphy!!! mwahaha!

and i came back to hall in high spirits, remembered its the security guard uncle's last 2 days working at NTU, and hopped out to buy a gift for him. initially i wanted to get the NTU teddybear, but the NIE bookshop only sold the NIE one. ...oh, i just remembered where i saw the NTU teddy; it was at hall 2. -___- 

anyway, bought him a mug with the NTU logo in the end :P

so~ tomolo i've a law presentation to do! i'll need to sleep early tonight!

update: gallery.