Tuesday 31st January 2007

Another idol drama

So cuuute...

Hanazakarino kimitachihe (a.ka. Hana Kimi) is a tale about a girl (Ella as Rui Ci) pretending to be a boy to enter an all boys' school & to get closer to her high-jump idol (Wu Zun as Quan).

There were plenty of colourful characters in this idol drama and most of them are so delicious looking, they left all of us in the flat drooling throughout the whole drama.

Burp ...

Tuesday 30th January 2007

Latest CD purchases

6 CDs at one go. Muah-ha-ha...

Sunday 29th January 2007

wheelchairs hunting

You just can't get the best of both worlds. Sheesh...

I have been looking for a lightweight, motorized, foldable wheelchair with bigger rear wheels and haven't been getting anything that suit my taste, anywhere. 1st round of hunting had resulted in an assortment of scooters and big chunky wheelchairs that cannot be folded. After many search and phone calls, I finaaly have to be contented with an 80lbs foldable wheelchair with smaller rear wheels. Hanyah...

Tuesday 28th January 2007

forgotten post

Lousy hospital wireless connection caused my postings to go haywire. *grumble grumble*

I actually added a virtual turtle pet into this month's page. The sad thing is, the turtle is unlike the tamagochi game of yester-years fame, not that I'd ever owned one of those electronic gadgets. Has anyone owned such pets before? Wait, i'm diverging again. Anyways, this turtle is hardly worth getting excited about. It can only do 2 things. It can follow a cursor, rotating its head 360 degrees & dive and swim in the water. *yawn* boring...

Currently reading: The Greenstone Grail by Amanda Hemingway - Written in a combination of fantasy, mystery, romance and kid's story, the 376 paged book is packed full of different ideas. It's about magic and spells, immortals and werebeings and religions and a possibly holy grail. It's also about a boy, Nathan, who was born in an extraordinary way and can dream himself into another world.

Just finished reading: Revelation & Restoration (Books 2 & 3 of The Rai-Kirah series by Carol Berg - It's a distressing adventure that bothe Alexander and Seyonne embark upon. I'm glad everything worked out well in the end but the body count was way too high. So many deaths, Farrol, the guards,... ai...

Saturday 27th January 2007

snippets

Was getting off the last station of the underground yesterday when I overheard the following conversation...

Lady A: We humans are so selfish, don't you think so?
Lady B: What makes you say that?
A: Well, here we are, at the last station, and there was a person asleep in the train, but nobody bothered to wake that person up.
B: Ya, I totally agree. Some people are so selfish, they don't think about other people. They only think about themselves. A: Uhm, yes.

Like, I do suspect Lady A was actually including herself in the guilty party but Lady B has nonchalantly ignored the same fact. hehe...

Honestly, do u wake the person in the train up, if the train has reached it's final stop? After I heard that conversation, I kept an extra lookout whenever the train reached the terminal, just to c whether I'd b nosy enough to wake a stranger up. No luck so far.

Thursday 25th January 2007

resident psychologist

Our group's resident psychologist, L, struck again. His cognitive mind and sharp tongue stabbing my problem right at the core. *Arghh*

I was feeling immensely proud of myself, having reorganized my journals in their respective topics instead of stacking them up in the order of download and printing. I have even went the extra mile by printing out all the categories and sticking them on my files. The whole venture had taken about a week of my free time.

Then, L came and became my bubble buster...

Me: Check out my reordered files. Cool huh? My 'anal'ness has struck again.
L: You do know right, this behaviour didn't just came about because of ur habitual 'anal'ness.
Me: Huh?
L: U r actually subconsciously trying to do these time wasting endeavours and work unrelated "projects" simply because you have been unable to produce any good papers and this is your way of compensating and comforting urself. It's a mechanism brought on by ur inner mind to cheer urself up abit.
Me: Darn it. U mean all these efforts were for nothing?! Oh dung!
L: No no. It's not for nothing. U did feel cheered by ur "small" accomplishment right?
Me: Initially, yes. But not anymore. *fume*
L: Don't worry too much bout it. My girlfriend does the same things too.
Me: ...

Monday 22nd January 2007

witless

Being a rather 'dull' conversationist, I often have to wreck my brain and squeeze my nerve juices to hold a passable chat with friends. So, after so many years of effort, I thought I have finally managed to hold a reasonable end of conversation on a rather normal basis.

I have had to reconsider the above statement after listening to my sis chat with her friends & our relatives these past few days. I would be happily listening to them chat about some fantastical adventure to one another and only after one starts to snicker rather obviously do I realise most of their conversation are purely fiction. It sort of reminded me of my school buddy CS with her amazing abilities to switch to a lie as smoothly as an eel glides in water. Although I suspect it's more my lack of sensitivity in detecting and initiating a line of fiction. Hmmm... must find an avenue to start practicing this cool skill.

Wednesday 10th January 2007

hairdressers

At the high risk of offending all hairdressers out there, I'd like to claim that you can never please one.

I was chatting with this nurse the other day, while my mom was going through this therapy called hyperbaric oxygen treatment, and our conversation snaked on to all those money sucking saloons.

Whenever you step into a hairdressing shop for a haircut, they'd convince you to colour your hair. If you've initially set out to colour your hair, they'd add treatment and entice you to go for a perm or a rebonding. Failing these or otherwise, they'd ask you to go for a package and last but not least, to get one of the shampoo, conditioners, mouse, mud, cream, wax and what nots that they represent.

One of the hairdressers who failed to convince me of a colour job exclaimed in mock frustration, "I am not sure you can carry this hairstyle I have done for you with the mix of colours you have now. I advice you strongly to go for a hair colour." Another claimed, "I have never seen such frizzy hair. How can you stand it? You must go for a treatment. I am cutting off as many frizz I can rid you of."

And then, there was once when I went to a shop asking for a cut & colour, and when they adviced for a rebonding, I complied. When they cut my hair shorter than I initially intended, I said ok. When they introduced a package, I agreed. When they insist on a treatment, I nodded. And when they recommended a shampoo, I purchased it as well. Towards the end, the hairdressers said, "You don't have to 'o.k.' everything you know? You must have your own opinion."

"Huh?"