-=SimPly mE=-: January 2008

Farewell

A new year calls for a new beginning. Blog has been moved to Wordpress. See u guys there!

In the Heart of the Land

I did something yesterday which I never thought I would. At least not yet. I actually went to watch a soccer match in a coffee shop!! Yea u guessed it right, I chose to forego the comforts of my home, to join my neighbourhood in supporting Manchester United in their FA Cup match against Tottenham.

At least I wasn't alone though, Jason joined me in my madness.

Venue: Kopitiam near block 139 Tampines Street 11
Time : 10.25pm (already 25mins into the match)

The coffee shop was already packed by the time we arrived. We didn't have any table for ourselves, so we just grabbed 2 chairs and squeezed with the rest. Needless to say, 80% of the crowd consisted of tiger drinking, cigarette smoking, vulgarities spewing, rolex wearing(might be fake), hokkien speaking, pot bellied uncles. If you looked more thoroughly, you'd be able to spot the occasional teen around.

And so the drama begins...... I shall just provide a few excerpts of what was being said throughout the match.

Uncles:
Shoot lah!! KNN BO LANG!!!

Pass!! CB BUAY GE

CB Ronaldo!! Zuo simi lan jiao!

Handball!! SUI LAH!!!! Penalty!!!

Hahahaha!!!! This is what we were looking for!! Not the 2nd hand smoke, nor the tiger selling UNCLE, not even the tempting kway chap stall.

However, the uncles were not the best part of the "drama". Apparently there's this idiot who thought that by betting against Man Utd, he would win big bucks. Words can't explain his reactions, all I can say is that he looked like he bet his whole marriage dowry on it. LOL

Stupid idiot reactions after Man Utd was awarded the penalty:
Fuck!!! Throws hands up into the air

After watching the replay:
Where got handball?!?!

After watching it again:
FUCK OFF!!!

When Tottenham had a chance:
SHOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooootTTTTttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!@!#$@*^$@*!$%@!*$%

Hahahaha!!! I swear that we thought he would flip the table anytime during the course of the match. We were laughing our ass off at him, of coz we had to control our laughter lah. We don't want to further provoke him considering how pissed off he was and that he had a Tiger bottle in hand. Of course we'd be able to subdue him with ease if we wanted to, no point looking for trouble though. But then again, betting against Man Utd? What was he thinking??

Walking to Kopitiam : Free
Buying a can of 100 plus : $1.20
Uncles and Idiot's reactions: PRICELESS

It's Lego's 50th Birthday today!!

courtesy of Yuting

Random Tessssst

Try it if you have nothing to do.. lol

93 words

Touch Typing

My sister's back!!

But she's going back HK tmr -.-

She's coming back again on new year's eve though haha.. Anyway my sister coming back means....

Krispy Kreme!!

When i saw the krispy kreme boxes, i told her "Krispy Kreme Melbourne also have leh". She said "oh izzit?? aiyah but singapore dun have mah!"

Hahahaha! Did I mention Krispy Kreme donuts makes me happy ? Lol

That's not all! I now have 6 bottles of Ice Wine at home! I was never a fan of wine, be it red or white. Doesn't matter the bullshit about red wine goes well with red meat, or white wine goes well with white meat. I hate them all the same. LOL

However, Ice Wine is a different matter altogether. It tastes so much better and is alot sweeter. The price is 1 stumbling block though. 6 small bottles from the duty free shops costs $99 and I'm talking about 50ml small here.

Still not all!! As my "Jie Fu's" parents open a hair saloon, I grabbed the chance to go down today with my sister to cut and colour my hair. hahahah!! Scanned through the colour book for like 20 seconds before his kind mother chose one for me. LOL

Enough about me!! Coreen and Lucas came down to Singapore yesterday as Lucas has an interview with UOB. Went to Angus House for dinner and I have come to the conclusion that Singapore CANNOT COOK GOOD STEAK!! $50 for a 250g tenderloin steak!! In my books it isn't even worth $15.

I'll give them credit for the hot plate and the bacon wrapped skillfully around the steak. But that's not the case isn't it. When I order Medium Rare steak, I'd expect at least abit of blood oozing out of the meat and not just pink meat in the centre. I don't know how they cooked my steak but it came out with pink meat near the surface and almost raw meat in the centre. Not very good is it?

CNY is coming!! Ang Baos anyone??

Trailer for The Dark Knight

I am so gonna watch this show!!! The joker's abit too serious for my liking though. Not to mention he also looked like he had an angry 8yr old kid as his make up artist.

Either that or it was a jilted lover hell bent on him not being able to snag another woman coz he sure as hell looked freaking hideous. Totally not what I'm used to from the Batman cartoons that I've been watching since young.

Ok lah, I might be slightly too critical of him based on just the trailer alone. But that's also because among all of the villains in the Batman series, I loved The Joker the most.

His laughter rOx though! Just the way it should be. I also liked the part where he was sitting down in the police station or somewhere and clapping his hands.

Judging from the trailer, I'd break a limb or two(not mine) if I have to just to catch the movie.

*** Update ***

I forgot to mention. The Riddler is also among one of my fave villians in Batman.

林俊杰 - 期待你的爱

期待期待你发现我的爱

无所不在我自然而然的关怀

你的存在心灵感应的方向

我一眼就看出来是因为爱

我猜你早已发现我的爱

绕几个弯靠越近越明白

不要走开

幸福的开始就是放手去爱

Football

The new Footballing Sensation: Alexandre Pato

CJ7 Trailer

I'm sure now all of you would have been accustomised to the phrase

"Columbia pictures, and stephen chow... blah blah blah yaba daba doo dee....... A new film that proves that in space your father can still hear you scream"

The narrator deserves an Oscar just for being able to say something so lame in such a formal tone coz I sure as hell laughed my ass off when I heard it. Anyway here's a 2nd trailer about the movie for you guys.

Infamous "in space your father can still hear you scream"

2nd trailer

Heritage is so fun!!

I may be half a japanese hunk, half a F1 driver or even half Superman!! But most of all, I'm a malaysian ass-kicking babe!!

http://www.myheritage.com/collage

A trip down memory lane

I swear
Like the shadow that's by your side
I'll be there

For better or worse
Till death do us part
I'll love you with every single beat of my heart
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I used to love this song very much when I was in primary school. I remember there was a singing competition back then and I sang this song hahahaha!! Didn't win anything though coz my singing sux even though i was in choir. Gay CCA i noe, I was young and ignorant and I've since learnt from it.

Listening to this song again brought back memories of my pri sch years and unfortunately, I've lost contact with every one of my school mates. I remembered I was quite a havoc back then, lol getting into fights every week and was a regular customer in the principal's office. Don't ask me how I managed to get into EM1 like that. I just did.

I don't really recall much of my time in primary school, but I do remember we had a trip to Malaysia. It was really fun though considering that we were so small and could get away from our authoritarian parents, albeit for a few days. I recalled taking a picture with a snake coiled round my neck!! It took alot of courage at that time. But I've lost the picture already lah, damn it!

Everyone's gone their separate ways now, and hopefully everyone's doing well. Slightly over a month left before I go back to Melbourne. Mixed feelings inside me right now. A part of me wants to go back coz I'm getting a car and I like my life there. Another part of me doesn't want to go back as my good friends are all here and I'm enjoying my life now.

Well can't have the best of both worlds can I? Just try to enjoy anything that comes my way!

Mr Brown does it again

This is funny shit!! hahahaha

Indecisive day!

My day today is so filled with indecisiveness which is not commonly associated with me by the way. I normally have a plan of what I'm going to do for the day and actually execute it.

It all started when I had to make a trip down to National Library to get a book for my brother. Initially I wanted to take a cab down as I was too lazy to take the MRT. Then once I reached downstairs, I changed my mind and decided to just take the cab to the MRT station and take the train down.

2nd sign of indecisiveness. After I reached National Library and found my brother's book, I picked up a novel and decided to stay in the library to finish it since I had nothing to do for the day. However after reading 10 pages, i thought "fuck it lah it's so uncomfortable here, go home and read."

3) On the way back to the mrt station, i passed by starbucks. Since i saw that the sofa was empty, I decided to get an iced blended frap and sit down to enjoy my book instead.

4) Bought my iced frap, sat down for like 2mins and weili called. Shelved the "read my book and enjoy my coffee" plan and decided to go town to walk around and maybe catch a movie.

5) Dropped at Somerset, realized it was raining. Went back to the MRT and dropped at Orchard.

6) Wanted to watch Michael Clayton, in the end decided on American Gangster.

7) Wanted to have dinner at Tampines, changed my mind in the end and decided on Simei.

8) Supposed to play soccer after dinner, but decided not to in the end as I wasn't feeling well.

Sheesh~ I hope it doesn't become a habit!

Celebrity look-alike!

Now I can safely say I'm half as good looking as Tony Leung or Yutaka.. Hahahaha!!

http://www.myheritage.com/collage

I’ll be your shoulder to cry on

It’s so hard to know
The way you feel inside
When there’s many thoughts
And feelings that you hide
But you might feel better
If you let me walk with you
By your side

The Drive of Life

Yay!! I've finally finished watching the tvb drama The Drive of Life (歲月風雲) today! It's a full 60 episodes drama which revolves around China's automobile industry and the dream of 3 brothers who wants to put China cars on the world map. The cars used in the drama are the Geely cars that some of you might have already heard of or seen in Singapore. I love any shows which has Xuan Xuan inside anyway hahaha..

Basically it's like any other tvb drama which has businessmen scrambling for power. However the "2 pple talking privately but another person happens to be nearby and overhears the conversation" trick has been used once too many times in the show. However the plot is good and touches alot on kinship and love. It's worth a watch for people who have too much time to spare (i.e. ME!) and too little things to do.

My timetable for next sem is as follows:

Mon: 2 lects and 2 tuts

Tue: Off

Wed: Off

Thurs: 2 lects and 2 tuts

Fri: Off

LOL Shiok!!

What should you girls do to marry a rich guy??

I read this from Blackhighheel's blog and found it interesting!

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A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:

I’m going to be honest of what I’m going to say here. I’m 25 this year. I’m very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I’m greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York. My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married? I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you? Among those I’ve dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit. If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden (?), $250k annual income is not enough.
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I’m here humbly to ask a few questions:
1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)
2) Which age group should I target?
3) Why most wives of the riches is only average-looking? I’ve met a few girls who doesn’t have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys
4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)

Ms. Pretty

Here’s a reply from a Wall Street Financial guy:

Dear Ms. Pretty,

I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyze your situation as a professional investor. My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I’m not wasting time here.

From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you. The answer is very simple, so let m e explain. Put the details aside, what you’re trying to do is an exchange of “beauty” and “money”: Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square. However, there’s a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can’t be prettier year after year. Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It’s not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worried 10 years later.

By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a “trading position”. If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term – same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or “leased”. Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income. This has better chance than finding a rich fool.

Hope this reply helps. If you are interested in “leasing” services, do contact me signed, J.P. Morgan

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Here's another reply

I also came across your posting with great interest. I am a 28 year old Wall Street trader who qualifies as an eligible suitor under your $500k/yr rule. In fact, I make over a million and can usher a woman into a comfortable, true middle class lifestyle (not like those 500k lower-middle class chumps who have to make do with the junior two-bedroom).

I am sympathetic to your goal in finding a rich man to marry. The milk needs to be sold by the expiration date. But since this is premium milk, why would you settle for less than premium prices? I would like to address some of the questions that were previously missed by the other gentleman and provide constructive advice on where to find your match.

I also do believe in the efficient market theory, and am surprised that $500k hasn't found you yet. There are plenty of rich lawyers, investment bankers and hedgies to go around in this city. What gives? I think the problem might be that you have not been sufficiently focused in your search efforts.

The culprit, I believe, may be that you are also looking for qualities aside from money - such as looks, personality, and a sense of humor. However, men who have those qualities learn at an early age that they do not need money to attract quality women. As the saying goes, if you can get the milk for free, why pay up for the cow?

What you need to look for is someone who is long money, and short the other aspects. They are not easy to spot, since you are biologically wired to overlook and ignore them. However, the next time that you are at a expensive black tie event, and you are introduced to the short, bald, overweight man who fidgets nervously whilst making conversation with you, pay special attention to him.

Here's an inspirational story for you. An acquaintance of mine who was also an classy and articulate woman as yourself was able to land that guy - who also happens to be one of the top ten guys at Google. This is the type of stuff that gold-digging moms read to their gold-digging daughters at bedtime. Perhaps you need to make a location change to Silicon Valley - miracles like these happen almost everyday in a land where you can randomly throw a rock and hit a rich nerd squarely in his Kim-jong Il glasses.

And as far as his deficiencies go, they turned out to be not so bad. With hundreds of millions in the bank, she's been able to clean him up and give him a little sophistication. Think of it as a fixer-upper project with a massive budget (and yourself as a visionary real estate developer!). Although, I must warn you, it is a fine line you are flirting with - you must not overdo it lest he begins to attract younger women who are hotter than yourself. The trick is, you need build him up enough to be presentable, while simultaneously manipulate him into believing you are the best that he will ever do! That, botox and having kids will be your insurance against your depreciation (or as I prefer to use the term, milk going sour).

I wish the best of luck on your sales project. As for me, I am also available for a short-term lease. However, for marriage I wouldn't consider a woman unless she can bring beauty, brains and self-motivation to the table. I do not want to dilute my gene pool and end up raising a bunch of Paris Hiltons.

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PRSS 10 year anniversary

I had a PRSS 10 year anniversary dinner recently!! It's held at Werner's Oven at Upper East Coast Road. I must say it was quite fun catching up with my sec sch friends after so long. I'll let the pictures do the talking!

PRSS Leng Luis!

clockwise from top: Yifei, Chai Ping, Lina, Shilin, Xin xin, Qian Wen, Ereen and Joey