first post of the moolah year

i know it's a cow, but its gaze seems filled with meaning.

in this year of the ox, i would like to wish everyone that i think fondly of, a very happy new year and may you be as healthy as an ox. and for those that i don't think fondly of, .......... having a somewhat angelic heart, i certainly don't wish for misfortune to befall you. hopefully these people will come to realize their unlovable traits in the year of the ox. and yes, do something about it, before you become truly unbearable.

my new year visiting will only commence on the 2nd day of CNY and today, it is more of a worming day where i was wrapped snugly under my blanket while looking at the sunlight that made its way into the bedroom, musing over random thoughts that did not have any links to one another. some of them were totally weird, but entertaining all the same.

when my dad flicked on the tv to mediacorp's channel 8, the trailer of some alternative ending related to little nyonya came on, successfully irritated my dad and me. while i didn't watch the show other than snippets of it while channel surfing, its over-exposed pre-and-post publicity stunts certainly made me aware of the drama's existence without having had to undergo the actual act of sitting through any episode. initially, i was glad that a mediacorp drama was so well received. after a while, it became incessant droning to the stage of irritation. like mediacorp has no other show that they can rely on to boast about anymore. tsk.

aural told me the other day of koko's mishap that involved a tissue box. apparently the fat ass got himself stuck after a brand new hole other than the original opening has been successfully created in the tissue box to allow access. however it was only large enough to accommodate the upper half of his body as he waged through the opening. and got himself extremely stuck at the midriff cos his ass was too fat to push forward AND backward. the poor bastard screeched alarmingly with its might and caught the attention of aural who was minding his own business in the house. thinking that the 2 hamsters were fighting, he hurried to take a look to find momo minding his own business and koko in that compromised position. aural had to pick up the tissue box and shook koko out of the trap in order to free it. -.- as hilarious the story sounded, it was actually a very dangerous situation for a hamster to be in, as koko might have just died due to screeching his lungs out or in great fright if aural had not been at home. from that day onwards, we no longer put any empty tissue box for them to play anymore.

do you know that heineken tastes better than tiger beer? but my fav beer is still budweiser after so long. however, heineken is more affordable if we are talking about substantial consumption. so, offers to install a tap of unlimited budweiser will be greatly welcome!

and happy moo(lah) year again. hopefully more moolah making its way, which is rather bleak considering the current worsening economy....

the coveted skill

Crunch! Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy don’t I know that skill? If I have it, I can understand what the hell is going on and not having to keep making references. But I have no time to acquire it and there are so many things that ranks greater importance in terms of acquisition than this skill, like for eg. driving.

So for the moment, i have to live with this current predicament. If not knowing it is really going to kill me that much, then some way or another I will figure it out, be it the piece that requires the skill or the skill itself.

Meanwhile, excuse me while I go self implode somewhere.

obama, soup spoon and camera whoring

Woo hoo, change is here! Obama just got elected as next US president, it is also a sign that beckons me to make a comeback after a hiatus.

Nothing has changed, I still like to watch anime. Other than working hard to earn a living, the rest of my life is represented by a single word: NUA, which translates to soft, meaning being a worm. I am not a neat freak; a bit of untidiness is cozy and I seldom pay attention to my diet. I just eat whatever I feel like eating till my stomach is full.

Recently, I came to like Soup Spoon a lot. My first virgin soup spoon trip was weeks ago with ah jie, fl and mermaid. In that first visit, I had a grande-sized Meatless Minestrone with Gremolata combo meal with half a indochine prawn wrap with lays potato chips. Needless to say, it was stupendously satisfying for a little over $10. And for today, I had a regular-sized velvety mushroom stroganoff sans the meal. It turned out to be a wise choice cos the soup was so delightfully thick. Wheeee~~

I’m not really a camera whore, so I didn’t take any pictures.

Coming to that, I saw many interesting pictures taken by many friends on facebook that can make little things look fun. But when I try to do the same, I will feel so duh. One part of me thinks that it’ll be an interesting photo-log of food but the other part of me feels that well, it’s only food, what’s there to take? And the latter mode tends to be dominant most of the time.

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The real truth is I don’t own a camera and my camera phone is lousy so I have no motivation to take pictures. And I'm always peeved about something so my pictures always turn out lousy. Can? ~.~

hmpf.

We are Manchester United, not Ronaldo United

Man United, Fans United. Let’s scoff at the stupid lack of unity that the president and coach of Real Madrid display for the wwws (world wide web and whole wide world) to see. Pattern Boy’s title Ego of the Field has reigned for quite some time, and now his ego has swelled to the extent that it is threatening to swallow his career in full. SAF is probably rolling his eyes at the reports and enjoying the stupidity of Real Madrid, occasionally playing along, dropping random casual reminders that Man Utd holds his contract until 2012. A break of his contract will equal to a handsome amount of $$ and in exchange for a couple of players.

Manchester United has nothing to lose. Pattern boy should stop all these nonsense soon and stop leading the media hound dogs on, letting them speculate endlessly will only cause his reputation to nosedive with his career to the extent that no club will want him ultimately.

Pattern boy should so be having the cow sense to fervently pray that lady luck will continue smiling on him, maintaining his golden form in time to come to render all this fuss worth the buzz. Otherwise, say his bubble were to break the next season when he transfers to Real Madrid, Real Madrid will drop him like a hot potato and look for some other golden player, and he is as good as game over. If his bubble breaks while he is still in Man United sans the treachery, fans will just casually remark and defend that “oh, his form this season is just lackluster, that’s all.”

At the time when the world was driven frenzied over the world cup fiasco between Rooney and him rendering his integrity very much in doubt, he took quite a long time from ending the booing to winning the hearts of us fans. This time round, even if he stays put, he will no doubt have to put up with the booing one more time and this time round when player loyalty is at stake, the booing will last for a long long time.

150 million, let him go. Don’t let him sour the team morale. Do the necessary housekeeping and then move on. We can train a brand new talent from scratch. Loyal Man Utd fans will know that the treble is worth the wait. What’s the worth of a treble if it is so easily attained? After all, we have the think tank to produce good players and we got the double already, can? moreover, players can come and go, but the club legend is here to stay.

Most importantly, we are Manchester United, not Ronaldo United.

Drivers who are just plain rogues.

While getting stuck in the car queue outside the car park at plaza sing, a bastardious vehicle succeeded by cruising by us on the left lane and jumped the queue, attempting to cut into our car queue on his right. One moron who was a few cars ahead of us really gave way to the bastard. What the hell, if it were me, I would have pressed on my horn, come to a stop, get my passenger to roll down the window and screamed at him to get lost and queue up. Really! Singaporeans are too meek when it comes to this kind of thing. I hope his car gets vandalized soon. He so deserves it.

After managing to get a purple lot, we saw another cockanathan who parked his vehicle there without the purple decal. Oi, that could have denied another fellow purple decal holder the lot ok? So we went to the information counter to provide feedback, only to be informed that the vehicle owner could have the right to park there and not having received the decal yet, stating some sms confirmation. Oh well, fine, but aren’t you guys going to confirm whether the stupid Mercedes have the right to park there? Then again, I guess they are either too lazy to do that, or rather not stir trouble by incurring the wrath of the shopping mall customer. Or maybe after we left feeling disgruntled, they have actually radioed the relevant staff to do the confirmation already. By the time we were done and returned to the car, the Mercedes was already gone.

Maybe we were too shit-stirring, but I am sure fellow purple car decal holders would have felt the pinch some time or another when they see an unauthorized vehicle taking up the lot that they have the absolute right to instead of the bugger. Right?

gmail has a new look on the iPhone browser

so near yet so far. stupid ipod touch has no email function in sg, yet, not that i know of right now. unless it's a paid service just like in the US.

then again, my ipod touch hasn't even managed to login properly at hotspots with my wireless@singtel account. perhaps i got it for free during a singnet promotion, and the lot of these gadgies probably came from the ipod touch's "factory outlet", available to suckers like me which explains the sucky wireless connection

anyway, i opened another wireless account, wondering whether it will make any difference.

1 more thing to keep me annoyed, despite after a heineken. atsui desu -.-

the accident with ginger, nowadays

within a short span of < 1 week, ore-sama mistook ginger pieces for morsels of salted vegetables, not once, but twice.

it's the colour of the soup base that the ginger had associated itself with, to deceive my innocent eyes, to create this nasty misunderstanding that left the unpleasant sensation when i expected nothing other than saltiness.

i am fine with ginger really, especially those japanese pink ginger shreds that go well with sashimi and plain white japanese rice. even for stir-fried liver cooked with yellow ginger shreds, i will eat both the liver and the ginger.

but it is not fine when one puts a solid morsel of the god-damned yellow ginger, crunching on it with every impression that it is a piece of salted vegetables. no, it isn't fine at all. when you find the world of gastronomical bliss that you have constructed to a crescendo comes crashing down in a go.

exaggerating? hey, food-related grudges aren't easy to forget, you know.

fantastic beyond words and the not so fantastic

d.gray-man 74.

in forums worldwide and many other places, where anime lovers forming a greater alliance of countries and cities than any other unities, viewers are all screaming the same thing. in fact, i could almost hear the universal cheer when that white hand stuck out. this kind of ending is not just cool, the word fantastic doesn't even do the scene justice. it is just the top. amongst so many THE scenes that rank top in many anime lovers' minds, this one just took its place as a new TOP in our minds. including ah ming ge, who, as a fellow d-gray.man fan, told me to watch 74 when the raw came out. he told me something along the line of "it's good enough to watch it without the subs", something like that. and when i watched it subbed (=X) i was ooommpphhheeedd and replaying that scene over and over again. everything just came so together and the impact made jaws drop further in awe than they did when allen walker's crown clown was in full glory the first time round in episode 71 or 72.

in fact i was so reeled by the impact i forgot to watch bleach 164 =X

youtube loading is slow so i dun want to post the youtube clip of it. and some farker will get them removed with the remark "due to copyright infringements". so yeah when it comes to annoyances like that, up theirs. i dont want to see excuses like that in the argument of copyrights infringements kind of thing. i can see where they are coming from, and as a "wordly view" for a better future of media ownership, media production, media creativity, media viewership and media responsibility, i ought to pledge my loyalty in the fight against media copyrights infringement.

just because the law enforcers aint as clever to progress as fast as technology, they slap laws on things that are out of their control to reign superiority. *spits*

ugh, what am i doing, getting myself so provoked in the middle of the night? go sleep, suterahime!

what will never fail to peeve the hell out of me....

those who dunno where to keep their legs

people who stick their legs out on the MRT. if i can kick your legs while moving in, u think i will say sorry to u?

women drivers and smokers

this remind me of the time at the petrol kiosk beside Tea Garden Mcdonald's. there was this stupid lady driver who wanted to move off from the exit of the kiosk and not checking the oncoming traffic from her behind. aural was travelling at 60km/hr thankfully and managed to swerve away and E-braked in time from crashing straight into the side of the stupid lady driver. among so many stupid lady drivers i have seen, this one ranks the top of the list.

then women smokers. while male smokers have the sense to lower their unfinished butts from accidentally singe-ing someone while walking, most women smokers who are also damn fucking hiao like to use their index and middle fingers to hold the ciggy and swinging to and fro with the ciggy pointing outwards. always made it a point to siam far far away from them whenever i see them holding the ciggy like that, bearing in mind the scar on my sister's hand courtesy from a lady smoker's exact antics as described above.

umbrellas

this one is courtesy to the male population. sibeh dangerous lor, to hold the umbrella with those pointed tips like holding sword and again, swaying the damn thing to and fro. tmd, u want to assassinate who ah? if u really want to conquer the pugilistic world, while the space machine has not been invented in time for u to travel back to ancient china, there is always kendo lessons for u to take up.

parents who let their children misbehave badly in public

i remember i used to get slapped or pinched whenever i created a din in the public as a kid. confirmed shut me up and only dared to sniffle miserably. unfortunately parents nowadays don't do tt already eh? just let their kids scream their heads off and feebly telling them to keep quiet. auntie, i feel like walking up and slap ur bratty kid whom u call darling to shut him/her up leh. if u think slapping ur kids in public is ugly, letting him/her irritate the hell out of people is even uglier and reflects how useless u are as a parent.

same thing about animal mishandling. have gone up to kids who are bullying stray cats and usually by the time they see me approaching, they would have scurried off like rats back to their mummies' sides. auntie, u want me to teach ur kid about animal abuse for u bo? while u are yakking away with a friend and looking on at ur kid like bo simi daiji like tt.

usually i very chin chai about many things, but these things i honestly dunno how to chin chai leh....