BITES.




A delicate pop-up card @ Kinokuniya with Hello Kitty characters on a traditional Hina Dolls Altar. Nice. But this costs close to 8 bucks.



Got the head.

...

Erm...

Wonder if anyone collect stickers in sticker books before?

You know..

Those themed stickers booklets produced to lure unsuspecting consumers to dutifully complete them for a sense of fictitious accomplishment? It was real hot in the past isnt it?

I recall having one on Street Fighters and another on Barbie. I managed to complete the Barbie one. It became an obligation to complete it once you started. The problem was... repetitive stickers became common as the booklet began to be filled up.

Well.. as a kid... it was a provoking challenge. But once the task is completed, the feeling is just... NOTHING.

Of course, it seems childish now. Being able to "see through the marketing stunts of the conniving businessmen"?

But maybe we are just the same. That compulsive behavior of getting things done just stays.

It's just like waiting for a bus while you are running late...
You've waited for some time and you start thinking ...

"Oh Gosh... I am so late. Should I just take a cab?"

Then you think again...

"Maybe I should just wait a little longer. It's going to be here any moment."

Then, as you ponder over it... ten or twenty minutes went by.. Still.. no bus in sight..

Would you go

"Heck. Cabbie here I come!" or
"I've waited for so long. My effort will just gone to waste if I take a cab now."

Either this or that...
If the bus comes...
The former decision will make you swear for not waiting.
The latter will make you feel relief - A sense of "my patience has pay off"

BUT the truth is... you have just wasted too much time doing the waiting. You think you have achieve something but in the end you are outsmart by yourself - The fear of failing yourself after the amount of effort put in.

To some extent, it's like the stickers.
The issue has never been the booklet.


It's just you.

AT JP Pizza Place with REBEL. Having pasta. Yummy.




Really Sleepy... Had a perfume lecture in the morning.

Do you know that musk comes from male musk dears... somewhere around their sex glands..

And is supposed to be smelly at first...

Dur.

They should try extracting fragrance from skunks... maybe they have some aroma under their smell too...

Imagine... "Eau de Toilette - Skunk Fragrance"

Gotta eat. Have a good day!

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Winter Olympic Blahs. from Times Magazine



Aye, aye. Huh.. what Olympics? Come again?!

Couldn't sleep.

Yawnz.

Check my archive. Just realized I have been blogging on and off for close to two years.

...

Erm..

Listening to this now...

Rod Stewart - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

Like his songs quite a bit.

Gotta sleep now. School's in the morn.

I was never much of a couch potato.

For one, I dislike lethargic Korean romance-comedy. More often than not, the storyline is largely predictable and rather... insipid. Why do people watch them? The ending is ALWAYS the same isn't it? The "happily ever after" (yeah right..) or "he dies or she dies" (sappy) ending.

The main point is... I would have give it a go if it is SHORTER. Like... 1 and a half hour of witless hilarity is alright for me.

But... 30 over episodes of Korean drama???
NO thanks. Over my dead body. Basically, watching the first and last episodes will sum up the whole story.

OK. That is digressing from what I want to bring up. After all, people are free to watch what they like isnt it?

Realized that the hour long docu-dramas on National Geographic are rather entertaining. Docu-drama - hybridization of documentary in a melodramatic format.

Seconds to Disaster is one of those.
They have this painfully slow buildup to the final cause of the disaster. The narrator always outline the whole timeline briefly without in depth details on the cause of the event. Then, it is gradually play out again but with more information this time.

Those guys are pretty good at keeping the climax to the last. Sometimes... you are so on the edge... just feel like throwing things at the tv screen when it goes for breaks.

Is like the previous episode...

There is a shipwreck in the English Channel when a ferry made a crossing from Belgium to England in 1987. On its way back to England, the ferry had a huge jerk after 20 min sailing away from the pier. (The passengers take little notice of it and one of the guys in the cafe even went "cheers!" after it happened.)

This is followed by an acute 30 degree tilt that throw the ferry off balance. The capsize happened before any SOS signals could be sent. Fortunately, it landed on a shallow sand bay which kept the ferry afloat on its side. Among 500 aboard, close to 200 died - Making this the worse shipwreck since the Titanic.

SHIPWRECK: HERALD OF FREE ENTERPRISE




So.. the rewinding began... and if it were a conversation... it would have gone like this...

A: Is this the cause of the shipwreck?
B: Probably. We gotta test it out.

After the test:
A: Wow.. the results are staggering.
B: Yes. But it still doesn't explain why it happens.

A: Oh... So what causes it?

And then... BREAK. When it returns... it goes into the same cycle of "i-found-a-cause-but-is-not-THE CAUSE" again.

Leave you rather agitable after a few rounds. BUT still... managed to dangle the carrot in front of you and bound you to your seat.

Do catch the show sometime. Lalaaaaa~

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Oh... by the way.. got a shock of my life when REBEL inform me about the possibility that they gonna cut off our water and electric supply today. Because it's Total Defence Day. Dur.

I completely went bonkers when I knew about this yesterday. Can't help it and went...

"WTF!"

GOSH... talking about "total defence"... who's going to defend my rights for electric usage? The weather is too bloody hot to do without it. DUR~

Oh.. yeah.. before it slips from my mind... Happy Birthday!

Dur.

Heard this song over FM95...

Fastball - Out of My Head

YaWnz.

Fugacious times...




Met up with a childhood friend. Reminds me of the "good old days" when we chase boys around and playing truant. Well, believe it or not, we used to be quite HUGE in comparison with the other girls (even boys) in class.




Waiting for a friend at Kinokunya Bookstore. Nice poster. Most of my friends suffered from the sin of gluttony. DEADLY.




A friend went back to HK for CNY. Got me these Hello Kitty products when he returned. WOOO~~~


bébé de joyeux anniversaire.

REBEL's Birthday. 21 years old. Still young and hip and gonna kick hur?


The mild looking penalty - with H2O, tomato sauce, salt, orange juice, barley, justea, tequila and other contents which I couldnt recall. Mixed it myself. Anyway, I can't believe anyone will find this delicious. That is defying the purpose of a PUNISHMENT. Should have added soy sauce and chilli.


Fire sprinklers we gave away to kids @ BBQ pit.


AND... got this from REBEL... Matching faces with celebs...

Sean Connery?! That is so not true. Well, at least it's better than the previous one I tried on my Dad. He got someone who resembles the Malaysian prime minister. Dur.

Having the OCS right now. OCS - Obsessive Compulsive Syndrome for blogging.

OCS, like most sickness, is episodic. I got it from time to time. Deluge of posts followed by droughts. Floods again. Then... Absence.

It's normal I guess. I mean... human have such a short attention span for most things.

ANYWAY...

Just got back from REBEL's Birthday BBQ + Party @ Melville...

Not much to talk about now. Ha... Posting to inhibit my OCS syndrome.

Oh... Chelsea lost 3-0 to Middlesbrough. Erm... this is something worth mentioning.

Obviously.

And...

Had been listening to Chris Botti's To Love Again, the Duets

Let There Be Love (with Michael Buble) is quite a nice song.

NOPE. I didn't buy the album.

Good Night.
Bonne Nuit.