Tuesday 28th July 2005

SF's UFO

Hehe... i liked this picture so much, I just wanna put it up here. It's the picture of the ceiling lamp above our dinner table in the restaurant we visited early this week. SF, driven by a sudden obsession to take dozens of pictures, took a fancy on the inanimate object as well...

Could SF be the next Steven Spielberg?

*grin* Our dinner for 4 turned into dinner for 6 instead, when we bumped into 2 other friends on our way to Outback. Thnx K & KS, for gracing us with ur presence. Sorry u had to bump out ur movie and shopping plans.

Monday 25th July 2005

new semester

boo-hoo-hoo... and a new semester dawns. *groan* *double groan* *triple groan*

sighz... my motivations are all still in bed.

Once again, i've got a backlog a couple of miles long (email to advisor, group website, papers to read, sims to run, reports, reports, experiments, checking on updates, lessons to study,...). *shrug* ah well, i guess it beats having nothing to do all the time.

hehe... some of the cds i grabbed yesterday

Friday 22nd July 2005

escaping a new day

Sometimes, eventhough we may be so tired, we could hardly move our toes, we still feel a great unwillingness to hit the bed. Over the week, each of us in the flat had felt it on one day or another, because, we realize dat once we shut our eyes, tomorrow will have become today, and the last few hours of today has become yesterday.

We then stubbornly fasten our butts to the sofa, glueing our eyes to the tv or some other distraction, hoping each second would tick by more slowly, and willing another minute into each hour before the new day dawns. We fastidiously refuse to look at the looming wall clock, as an hour or two whoosh by.

But try as we may to prevent it, we will have to reluctantly release our weak grasp of consciousness and succumb to a hopefully blissful slumber. The effort to drag ourselves out of bed hours later is almost torture enough for us to remind ourselves not to repeat such foolish indulgences. Yup, almost.

The effects of indulging in such nites is the dreamlike feeling one need to survive through the next day. Concentration is harder to capture, and a really huge magnet is needed to suck our floating minds back somewhere near the earth surface.

Strange though, usually u will not be the only one feeling that laconic pull to slow down for the day. There is bound to be another person nearby who is just as dreamy or downright snoozing. :)

Ah... Fridays....

The beginning of weekends....

currently reading: haha... past issues of the tv guide. coz, i hv run out of reading material. *I should really be reading some journals instead.*

Just finished reading: the Real Deal by Luch Monroe - romance novel

Friday 15th July 2005

happy as a clam

Yay! My mom is in town, & we'll be going to the baby bash for my nephew in a while. Can't wait to make the baby wail. Muah-haha.

And tomorrow, the plan is to hit a few shopping malls in the city. Wheee...

currently reading: The Manor by Scott Nicholson - A supposedly horror story about a haunted manor. Have yet to feel spooked.

Just finished reading: Burnt Offering by Lauriel K. Hamilton (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series) - Previously read a couple of her later books, so, now, this feels like a prequel. hehe... she writes so much like a sulky & sultry teenager. As the series progress, she looses her human identity more and shares more empathy with all the monsters that she associate with.

Wednesday 13th July 2005

save the last dance for me

Monday 11th June 2005

hug hug beany cushion

Today is one of those days dat i'm so glad i bought & brought my bright orange beany cushion to my cubicle. Nothing beats a good hug of the cushion when u r about to take a short shut-eye.

The ache and yawning today is all thnx to this new korean drama i got yesterday. It was so addictive, we watched it until 4 in the morning, and there are still almost a dozen episodes to complete tonight. It's about a guy (Ji Sung) who got amnesia, thnx to a robbery gone bad, and spent a year with this girl, in a small country inn (called 'Inn in a Dream'). They fell in love and married. He was called 'No Memory' (or Memory in short) since he didn't hv any. When he regained his memory, he lost instead the memory of that one year of his life with the girl, and went missing fm the inn. She found him again 1 year later (ya, alot of 1 years in the movie passes by in a blink of an eye. Literally.), and realized why he went missing for a year, and tried to find again the lost Memory, hoping he would remember, and at the same time, realizing they might not return to wat they had previously, because of all those usual issues. U noe, family, responsibilities, old flame,etc.

Have come to the conclusion dat most of the lengthy long winded korean movies dat are worth watching must AT LEAST had amnesia factored in. Either dat, or a really really long period where both parties lost touch of one another. It's cliche, done to death, and all dat, but, it's interesting. Nothing else can make it worth the effort. see, for e.g., the autumn, winter and summer series. In autumn, they got lost for a decade or so, in winter, amnesia of course, in summer, death even. The summer one was a bit too long winded however. then, there's the stairway to heaven - amnesia, all-in - absence, abit of identity change, and now, this new drama, which, i have yet to remember the name. :P

Wednesday 9th July 2005

PhD Comic

Tuesday 5th July 2005

revamp!

Anyone who bothered to look up my webpage today would find that it changes every 5 minutes or so, due to all the revamping i'm under-taking today. Haha, needless to say, this means i haven't been doing any work related stuff throughout the morning. And to think i was actually punctual for once. muah-haha.

Anyways, i'm still thinking of what theme i want this website to be about this month. I was thinking about something related to 'Be With You', the jap movie, but it was so 'last year', i decided to just put the song in. If u hv ur speaker on, it's called 'Hana' by the Orange Range. Then i was thinking some white background instead, but when i think of all the code and colour change tht would entail, i decided to put that on hold. hehe, anyways, it is time for a bigger change. Afterall, this site has officially reached its 12th month. It's one year old, almost. No point staying static anymore eeh?

currently reading: Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip (quite interesting so far. Bout a librarian in a fantasy world)

Just finished reading: 1) The Kill Clause by Gregg Hurwitz - a pretty fast paced story about a deputy marshall's attempt to revenge for the injustice of the law that caused the murderer and rapist of his 7 year old daughter to get released from the law due to some legal technicalities (I plan to read the next Tim Rackley's novel called 'The Program' 2) NightWatch by Terry Pratchett - another faery tale. But this one was more like a thriller cum adventure. About a duke that went back in time because of a lightning storm, and have to make sure his younger self is taught the stuff he needed to ensure that the future is not changed, Coz, the baddy that went along for the ride killed the very sargeant that taught him all the useful stuff. I don't think I'm making the story clear, but, there it is. (it's abit boring initially, but the writing becomes clearer as u slowly dissolve into the Discworld.)

Friday 1st July 2005

microsoft

Met Bill Gates in a Bill Gates Live! show today. Comparing it to the panel discussion i went to previously, I found that microsoft is getting duller year by year.

The videos before the talk started went on and on about the x-box, programmers' competition and all that stuff about how the updates are checked and loaded before serving it to the public

The thing is, although the introduced LongHorn and Media Centre is cool and all, in the end it gives a sense of monotony. It's like u can pretty much imagine all start up screens to look the same in the future, and i'm not just talking about the computer. imagine seeing it on ur pda, ur handphone, ur tv, *cold shudder*, ur car even. and we've all heard about the microsoft car joke. It's like imagining a world with no individualism at the end of the day.

*shrug*, maybe i'm just being paranoid, but, it's scary to think of a fully 'microsofted' world. All shall be blocks of similar stamps, sure, with a little bit of colour changes here and there, but, in the end, we'll be like the quick brown fox that jumped over some fence or something.*rambling incoherently* Just glad that there a still a few people out there that has not succumbed to the matrix. At the rate tht i'm using microsoft stuff, i'm most probably more than half-way into 'programmed' race by now. Save urself. Get out while u still can.