:: bachelor's notepad. ::

:: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 ::

just hit me. in about 23 hours' time. i'll be year 4 in jc terms. and approaching 20. woohoo.

:: kiathy. 1:07 am [+] ::
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oh yea just caught the movie, school of rock. it was really crappy but enjoyable at irregular times. but anyway it was a free movie so yupyup was kinda worth it. more updates later today. but for now, happy new year's eve anyone.

:: kiathy. 12:48 am [+] ::
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I am a Leo.
(Also known as "Lion")
My Horroscope starts like this:
" From the early age, Leos are inclined towards drunkennes and extortion. When it comes to anything else, they show a remarkable degree of laziness. As a child, a Leo will typically demand a lot of money from parents, then from friends and even casual aquaintances. " (Read more | Find yours)

let's analyse the above okay.

"From the early age, Leos are inclined towards drunkennes and extortion. When it comes to anything else, they show a remarkable degree of laziness."

i disagree. i'm not into drunkeness and extortion. but yes i'm lazy.

"As a child, a Leo will typically demand a lot of money from parents, then from friends and even casual aquaintances."

i disagree. i don't demand for alot of money, just demand money from the people who owe me money. serious.

this is from the 'read more' portion..

"His overly developed pride and narcissism can ruin the life of anyone who he has come into even passing contact with, while his gluttony is capable of bankrupting even the deepest set of pockets. Amazingly, even though Leos eat a lot and without stop, they never gain any weight."

how false. okay the first part might be true. but "they never gain any weight." is how untrue. my god.

"They like to have the world revolve around them, which is why they strive to be the best at anything they do. If they are not successful at this, they will languish and lose weight."

generally true, except for the weight part. again.

"A Leo's dominant character traits are usually an unshakable delusion of grandure and an elevated feeling of self-importance."

probably true. but sounds damn negative.

so there. overall i sound like a very bad person.

:: kiathy. 12:46 am [+] ::
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looking back the past year, these are some of the stuff i've realised. like nirvana dude.

1. black eye peas' where is the love is really gonna be the number 1 song of 2003. it's so relevant and so hip hop and all. i love it. totally.

2. i'm loving it. macdonald's meals are getting really expensive, and they even have like nice upmarket macdonald's outlets now with designer seats and straws and paintings etc etc. check it out at harbourfront mall/shopping centre. they even have mac cafe now, and singapore's claim to fame on the mac's world is the mac's at east coast park, which boasts the first skate-through mac's counter in the world. stupid lah mac's is overpriced. but i'm loving it. according to justin timberlake, who supposedly has a small dick according to his very-virgin ex-squeeze britney spears. irrelevant BUT might be true.

3. i've learnt driving. like finally. blew about 2k of my parents' money on it and ended up with a cool driving license that'll last me a life time. but alas, my visions of picking up girls along the streets of orchard road during the christmas seasons turned out as they were, only visions, never transformed into reality. like wake up me!!

4. i've wasted nearly a year of my life serving the nation in what started out as enthusiasm which slowly wasted into deep disappointment at my pathetic state of life. but hey hey what can i say i'm still here!

5. i still like the person i used to!! but of course as with all things in my life, regret won't solve anything now.

6. i decided to post new year resolutions and not this whole chunk of observations. so i'll do it now.

my new year resolution for the year 2004.

#1. stop cursing and swearing, even when alone.

#2. grow taller.

#3. treat my friends as humane beings with feelings.

i'll add in as i go along these next few days of 2003. but of course, as terrence asked 'let's see how many of them you actually fulfill.' my answer is none. resolutions were made to be broken. just like promises. that's how one becomes a most promising something. because of too many broken promises, so he keeps promising and thus becomes the most promising person.

yup here's a lame joke. i didn't rip it off from anybody's blog. i heard it on the radio first. on the morning express from rod monterio on class 95 fm. and then tried to tell the whole world about it. and here goes.

Q. what do you call a gingerbread man without a leg?
A. Limp Bizkit.

:: kiathy. 1:04 am [+] ::
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got this from the straits times. rather relevant to us don't you think? personally i don't know about any best thing i did this year. just the worst things always surface. haha. how bout you guys.

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DEC 29, 2003
Straight Talk
Best thing I did this year

Like my friends, it was not about money, politics or jobs but something close to the heart. I took my mother on holiday

By Pradeep Paul

STRAIGHT TALK

IT'S that time of the year again. Y'know, just days before you toss the old calendar into the bin.

The time when you sit down, slide in your favourite CD, crack a cold beer and look back through the tunnel of time.

Don't know about you, but I do it every year.

The location may change. Instead of the balcony of my apartment, it may be the beach, the reservoir, a breezy hill-top. But two things remain constant.

The look back. And the beer.

Also constant are the thoughts that spring to mind. Family. Friends. Work. Health. Money. Status of beer stock... naaah, just kidding.

I run through the year that is about to become history. The highs. The lows. The so-sos. And then I always ask myself: What was the best thing I did this year?

Then, a few days later, as I struggle to get rid of a New Year's hangover the size of Pamela Anderson's hair - whaddya think I was going for, huh? - I turn the time telescope around and look ahead.

I set some targets. Make some resolutions. Break them the next day. You know how those things go.

But all this has been a strictly personal pursuit so far. It's me and my memories... and my beer.

This year, however, I'm opening up the boundaries. I've asked some friends to look down the time telescope too. I asked them the same question I ask myself: What's the best thing you did this year?

Here's what some of them had to say:

# Got out of corporate life. Now I am my own boss. Don't have to answer to anybody except my conscience. (Male, in his 50s).

# Going on holiday to Sikkim, a rustic mountainous state in India. Off the beaten track, no room heaters, no TV, just freezing cold. Met the most wonderfully simple people who are oblivious to gadgets and gizmos, who eat off the land and enjoy a million-dollar view. (Female, 40)

# Taking my wife and three kids back to the house where my brother and I grew up. Important part of my life for the first 11 years until we moved... and vital for the kids to see the place I have spoken about so many times. (Male, in his 40s)

# The way I see it, dude... the best thing that I did this year was to be nice to me. I have played the husband, the father and the professional. I just did not have the time over these last seven years, while living in an ultra-competitive environment, to play the most important role... which was being me. (Male, in his 30s)

# I stood up for myself lots more this year. (Female, in her 20s)

# Got closer to my family. (Female, in her 30s)

# Taking time out to spend what turned out to be some amazing times with friends who rallied around a friend who's dying of brain cancer. (Male, in his 30s)

# Visiting my boyfriend's hometown. It gave me an insight into him that would have been impossible to get here. And it showed me how much he was willing to share. (Female, in her 30s)

# Participating in two Olympic distance triathlons and finishing them. A year ago, I couldn't even run 5km without stopping. (Male, in his 30s)

# Snagging a husband (Female, in her 20s)

# Finally managed to get myself exercising. (Female, in her 20s)

# Bringing my long estranged (and very rebellious) younger brother back to the family fold after more than a decade and a half of trying, trying and trying... (Male, in his 40s)

# Being at my godson's wedding in Canada. (Female, in her 40s)

NOW, what's the most striking thing about all those confessions (which, friends, I am most grateful for)?

Go on, go back and read them again if you want.

But I'll tell you what struck me like a 10-tonne truck: None of them spoke about money, politics, jobs, material things.

Sure, they must have all achieved certain landmarks in those areas too. Some got new, better-paying jobs. Some got promoted. Some bought property. Some treated themselves to fancy holidays.

Yet, when it came to picking the best thing they did all year, it was something close to the heart that floated to the surface.

Sorry, what was that you said? You think it's unfair that I ask my friends to share their innermost thoughts and not do likewise?

Okay, I'll share too.

It's been a good year for me. No major health worries. Still have a job. Didn't default on my mortgage and credit-card payments. Spent a lot of time with family and close friends. Learnt to scuba dive. Completed my third marathon. Travelled a bit. Didn't have any major foot-in-mouth moments. Oh yes, and drank a lot of beer and Glenfiddich.

But the best thing I did was take my mother on holiday.

She's a widow. She's in her 60s. She lives by herself in India. She visits her sons here in Singapore once or twice a year. But she hates to take long flights alone. Her knees are creaky with arthritis. She doesn't like lugging baggage around huge airport terminals on her own.

So, when the opportunity presented itself, I took her to visit her sister in Belfast.

What's so special, you ask?

Well, for one thing, I really wasn't tugging at the reins to go there.

I'd been there before. And, much as I love my aunt and her husband and get thoroughly spoilt by them, Belfast isn't a destination that I have on my must-go-there-again list. There are too many other spots on the globe that I want to visit.

I hadn't struck top prize in 4-D or Toto. In fact, for the price of our economy-class tickets, she could have enjoyed the luxury of business class if she had gone alone.

When I told her that as we struggled to find space for our elbows at meal time, she reached over, held my arm, smiled and said: 'Yes, but then you wouldn't be here with me.'

Enough said.

So, what was the best thing you did this year?

If you're willing to share, I'll bring the beer.

:: kiathy. 11:47 pm [+] ::
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hello world i am back! today was an okay monday considering i didn't feel very sleepy even after watching the manu game. like bring it on chelsea and arsenal, cos manu's gonna steamroll over all of you.

today's the eve of nye's eve. because of a collective experience with a few other mates last week, i think the day eve's eve is firmly etched in our mind. so tomorrow's eve's eve. and we're supposed to be partying somewhere to beat the new year crowd on nye. but it doesn't make much sense does it? like nobody would go to a club and like 'hey i'm gonna be partying for the new year tonight!!'. weird lah. so maybe we'll pop by some other place to drink and drive. oops.

we're going to have a proper lunch come new year's eve, and after that we're all coming to my house. yes my house is open to public so all you friends out there i.e. people i know pls tell me if u'd like to visit. BUT. it's not a house. it's a small puny pathetic flat stuck on the north east of singapore. i'm serious. but it's open anyway and it'll fit anybody who wants to come. serious! my friends don't like to spend the day squeezing with total strangers/idiots at some bash or anything, like what i read in the papers the other day, 'we can do that on a weekend'. so my house/flat it shall be!!

:: kiathy. 10:12 pm [+] ::
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anyway i've been out of ocs for like. 9 months already. yup. i have just 17 months to go and i'm simply loving it u know.

:: kiathy. 1:10 am [+] ::
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i can't believe i'm going thru my whole blog right now and realise how much i've blogged these past nearly 2 years?

well there have been some leaks. like stuff left out.

so i got posted to ocs. and guess what i got out of course after a month, downgraded and such. yes i did. after trying so hard to get in, i gave up. partially cause of my ankle injury, and partially cause i wanted to. regimentation is not for me. physically everything can be trainined, but mentally nah i gave up. and anyway why risk a permanent injury just for these 28 months of crap? brand me a failure in life or whatever it is, but i treasure my freedom too much to give it up. yes i'm the pussy here and u're the hero, but i'm facing up to my decisions now. and anyway my batch of officer cadets will be officers in a month's time. i'm sad. yes seriously. i regret my decision sometimes. sometimes it feels good to just know that hey i'm sleeping on my own bed. just that feeling comforts me every night. once again, yes i'm the wimp you're reading about. bite me.

:: kiathy. 1:08 am [+] ::
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hey. just an old post i've dug out. click it again. kinda cool to read my pornalized blog.

haha. check this out. offensive material ahead though.
it's how my page would look if i were a porn freak/addict/author.

clickme.

:: kiathy. 12:18 am [+] ::
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i just want to blog and blog and blog today. don't know why. chloe said i now look very old. like totally. i think she meant ancient actually.

i actually wonder now how it feels like to be totally ostracised, yet not notice it. i have this mate in camp. he's not actually a mate lah just that he thinks himself to be. the rest of us are totally irritated by him and stuff, and do not include him in our conversations. but he attempts to butt in and most of the time he succeeds. then we move on. as in he's trying to be our friend but we just do not accept him. well he's an irritant who doesn't accept the fact that we don't like him and even though we desperately try to show it without telling him in the face, he doesn't get it.

but another guy in our group was like 'actually i used to be like him sometimes, getting pushed out of the group when i was trying to join in.' so sometimes he empathises with him.

wonder if i'll end up being the one pushed out someday. happened once before. sorta.

:: kiathy. 11:23 pm [+] ::
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so cool. check this out.
clickme.

i'd slap a nc-16 tag on it. and anyway. notice to all. if u're offended by it, don't blame me.

got it from uncle jimmy's cool blog. his stuff never fail to amaze me!

:: kiathy. 11:03 pm [+] ::
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quite shocked at my language in the previous post. my english has gone down the drain mann. and i wonder why people read homey as horney.

:: kiathy. 10:52 pm [+] ::
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the last saturday of the year 2003. no it hasn't struck me yet that the whole year in ending in a week but whether that's good news or not remains to be seen. in year 2004, a few things will happen.

firstly, i will turn 20 in august. that's surely a good sign yea? like i'm becoming an adult soon and i'll be able to watch r(a) movies and get married and kill someone. but hey i've been able to kill someone since i was 18, that's the country's stand on it. 18 years old they gave me a gun and said i could shoot any horny bastards who try to invade our country. but at 18 years young, the government says we cannot watch movies which depict too much sex and violence. the ruling on the latter especially is quite shocking, considering we're trained to kill when we serve the country in national service. but no i'm a supply (pseudo) warrior now. so i won't do any of the killing, just supply the bullets for the guys to kill some horny bastards. so that ends the arguement on cinema ratings.

anyway was out today to catch scary movie 3. it's been slapped with a nc-16 rating for i don't know what, considering the most obscene shot they had was one of bouncing boobs in a bra. but anyway considering that i haven't caught parts 1 and 2 of it, it was a good watch but just a little short. it had spoofs of (i'm being a spoiler here) the ring, dark waters and signs the crop circles show that're most obvious to me, try spotting them. also featured miss super busty fake boobs pam anderson in a scene at the start, so doubt u'd wanna miss the first 5 mins of the show. but for those who haven't caught/heard of the ring, darks waters and especially signs, which i don't think was that popular, the show tends to wear out at the end due to huge references to the original movies. but all in all, it was worth maybe $7.50 instead of a dollar more.

can't decide what to do on new year eve's night. maybe just spend some quiet time with friends and such. maybe family. but we're going for a proper lunch at least. like woah we're growing up and going out for proper meals at a hotel now! 19 is really a huge leap away from 18. although end of the day i always think that because of the fact that i'm stuck in this shithole of ns, my mindset and mentality are still those of a jc kid. and it's only when i reach university then i'll grow and mature as i'm supposed to. ns doesn't make you an adult, it makes you stuck at the jc level while the girls you schooled with go on and develop into women. WOMEN. today we went out and saw many babes. a friend was kinda like unleashed into freedom this period of time his girlfriend isn't around in town. so he brought us around town showing us all the pretty salesgirls he's been noticing when out shopping. i have to say he has weird taste. actually i have to say all the new friends i've made so far have weird tastes in girls. but anyway we caught this superbabe and she was marked 10. benchmark of the day which hasn't been broken yet.

:: kiathy. 10:47 pm [+] ::
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anyway i'm still sad lah. hohoho.

:: kiathy. 10:47 pm [+] ::
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merry christmas to all. hope you all had a fine day today, and yea i did enjoy mine too.

thanks to a whole list of people man. like thanks vjchoir. victoria chorale. thanks yiren for the poseur shoes that must have cost you a bomb. was really a shock. thanks eugene for the poseur tee shirt. must have been a natural choice when deciding who to get it for. thanks zhan yuin for the stuff. ahtong for the seashell thing. gerald for nothing. ros for nothing. thanks to daniel, chloe, xuewei, august, jiahui for their cards. thanks to my group of friends without whom my stupidity would have been absent from my life.

the next time i go out, i'll be in my poseur tee shirt, my poseur shoes and my g-star jeans.

and some apologies to a whole list of people too. to all those who didn't get gifts i.e. everybody, a million apologies. no excuses given, i just didn't go out to shop. to those who didn't receive a christmas card, a million apologies too. excuse is i didn't have enough cards/enough sleep/enough time to finish writing. but fact is i only started at 4 am christmas day itself. forgive me. to all those who got my cards, they're all written rather haphazardly, so another million apologies too and for an excuse, please refer to the one given above.

christmas day marks the end of my year 2003. and so 2004, i await your arrival with some christmas wishes that have not been fulfilled.

:: kiathy. 9:42 pm [+] ::
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carolling's finally started and today's like 5 days to christmas. do you feel x'massy yet? just figured out why christmassy didn't look right because usually pple use x'masy. but anyway caught lord of the rings: return of the king. totally awesome 201 min long movie which seriously didn't feel that long cause it was great stuff. but the ending was a little lightweight yea. not the ending actually but the main battle's ending. yup. catch it and find out i won't be a spoiler here.

went carolling with vjchoir at raffles hotel and it was alright i guess. not many pple have warmed up to the christmas feel yet? that's how it feels. and like some pple are complaining like hey we're singing everyday, sian etc etc. back in the good old days it was more hectic and stuff. with more appointments everywhere from northern, eastern and central singapore and all 3 groups made some effort to rush down to different places just to sing. just for fun and all. so you'd see young ladies in gowns frantically rushing through a shopping crowd. passion might be the reason why we did all those things we did, but yea now we don't see much of that anymore. maybe it's the circumstances that change every year yea, like we're getting lesser and lesser appts. hope it turns out alright this year.

but really felt old back there. like taking the choir as a stranger was really. strange. like 'hey it's me again, the strange senior you all don't know but who loves to come back and show face.' yeaps that's how it felt. haha. too olddddd. i'm only nineteen.

:: kiathy. 12:19 am [+] ::
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the new song i totally dig is you and i both by jason mraz. it's not that new i've heard it a few times but it's the first time i've heard it properly like full song with lyrics and all. like it alot really.

anyway, about the pda thing. why should i move to other seats just cause of some buggers making out in public?

You And I Both
by Jason Mraz

Was it you who spoke the words that things would happen but not to me?
Oh, things are gonna happen naturally
Oh, taking your advice and I'm looking on the bright side
And balancing the whole thing

Oh, but at often times those words get tangled up in lines
And the bright light turns to night
Oh, until the dawn it brings
Another day to sing about the magic that was you and me

'Cause you and I both loved
What you and I spoke of
And others just read of
Others only read of the love or the love that I love

See, I'm all about them words
Over numbers, unencumbered numbered words
Hundreds of pages, pages, pages forwards
More words then I had ever heard and I feel so alive

'Cause you and I both loved
What you and I spoke of
And others just read of
And if you could see me now,

Oh, love, love, you and I, you and I
Not so little you and I anymore, mm mm
And with this silence brings a moral story
more importantly evolving is the glory of a boy

'Cause you and I both loved what you and I spoke of
and others just read of and if you could see now
well then I'm almost finally out of
Finally ou-ou-out of
Finally din-di-di-dit-dit-dee
Well, I'm almost finally finally, well I am free, oh, I'm free

And it's okay if you had to go away
Oh, just remember the telephones, well they work in both ways
But if I never, ever hear them ring
If nothing else I'll think the bells inside
have finally found you someone else and that's okay
'cause I'll remember everything you sang

'Cause you and I both loved what you and I spoke of
and others just read of and if you could see now
well then I'm already finally out of
Finally ou-ou-out of
Finally did-di-di-dit-dit-dee
Well, I'm almost finally finally, well, out of words.

:: kiathy. 12:40 am [+] ::
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saturday, 13th december 2003. i'll be off to sentosa to carol later. hope today won't be as bad as last week. but this time we have like no singers. got a grand total of 2 tenors. and i suck quite badly ya with a sore throat and such. i mean i already ain't no good without a sore throat, and now with it i'm so dead. but it's okay we have our power vibrato(r) going along with us. and he'll definitely blow the audience away. pardon all the sexual innuendos(?) ya.

it's a rainy december morning. but the sun is up and shining.
this is a pathetic attempt at prose.

seeya guys later!

:: kiathy. 2:23 pm [+] ::
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pda.

and so i'm home again. was yup that's right the topic of the day is pda. and although christmas is right around the corner, nope i'm not talking about personal handheld assistant. i'm talking about the other pda. yes that public display of affection.

was on the train home just moments ago, and this couple really irked me and probably those in my vicinity as well. do you really love each other so much you can't keep yr foreplay at home and not do like a centrespread on the mrt? yes that might sound a little exaggerated but i guess it really got on the nerves of some commuters. particularly those right next to their antics of hugging and kissing and whatnots. like the poor chap was trying hard to look away and not feel awkward but it was obvious relief when it was his turn to get off the train.

why the hell can't those kids keep their hands/mouths/anythingelse to themselves when they're on the train, or anywhere in public? like hugging seems alright. but not when hugging involves more than hugging. no nothing of gross indency in public happened, but it just gets a tad uncomfortable for all the commuters exposed to yr shows of love in public ya. no matter how lovey dovey you are, pls get this clear, most of us aren't interested in knowing about yr love/sex life.

might sound like i'm making a big hooha out of it but yea kids, pls do not try this on the mrt. it's really irritating and like yes some dicks could suggest that 'hey wow u've got a free show.' if u're aroused by such acts on the mrt i guess u're addicted to porn. and that's what made u a dick in the first place.

:: kiathy. 11:37 pm [+] ::
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realised that actually nowadays i don't use my email much. even with the gradual demise of snail mail, i still do not use email to actually keep in touch with anybody. might be due to the overwhelming popularity of instant messaging like icq, msn and irc. or maybe it's simply because everything travels at such a fast pace nowadays that people simply require instant gratification, instead of waiting for the email to be replied by the opposite party. i want to email people!

:: kiathy. 7:52 pm [+] ::
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it's about 14 days to christmas. just spent the whole day online today doing nothing. seriously nothing. like wasted the whole day and it's 6 pm already. just like when i have to go to camp and like get home now. it's possible to catch a movie tonight, but then i'd have to come home late then which is quite sucky since i'm always sleepy. but i'm always not sleeping early anyway.

well well. was out yesterday for dinner and such. this year's christmas is seriously not really nice and merry ya. or is it still too early?

december to me is a month of joy because christmas is around the corner. some people might be like 'huh but it's so long to go'. but well i enjoy it as a whole month. not just the period nearer like 21st to 25th. just feels good lah huh. and 2004 is coming. yippee. when 2004 comes, just 16 mths left to go.

:: kiathy. 6:05 pm [+] ::
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i'm so bored.

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maybe it's christmas time afterall!

:: kiathy. 9:14 pm [+] ::
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reply to complaint letter.

Thank you for your letter to the Forum Page, The Straits Times.

We regret to inform you that we are unable to publish your letter.
The Forum Page receives a large number of letters daily and only
a small number actually go into print. We seek your kind
understanding in this matter.

We have forwarded your letter to Ms Jeannie Ong, AVP,
Corp Comm, STarHub. She will look into the matter.


Yours sincerely


Noor Aiza
for Forum Editor
The Straits Times


but the letter actually worked. some starhub guy just called my dad and we'll be getting our cable by 23rd december 2003. yippee. i am such an ass.

:: kiathy. 9:13 pm [+] ::
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complaint letter.

I am a subscriber of Starhub's Cable TV service who has recently moved to a new flat in Punggol. To my great disappointment when i shifted to this new town, cable tv was not ready for my block of flats, and i believe this extends to all the flats in the area.

Upon checking with Starhub at the end of october, I was told that the cables required for the service had already been laid for my block of flats, just that the cable signals have not been activated and the projected date of activation is on the 15th November. They offered no reason for this, just citing it as a technical delay.

However, it is now already mid December, and my cable TV is still not ready. Even the Town Council cannot provide a solution to this, even though they have tried before, as it is a situation between consumer and provider. This has caused me great distress for i am an ardent sports fan who has always been a supportive viewer of the many sports channels provided by Starhub Cable TV. I have even resorted to maintaining my cable TV subscription in my old home, which is currently not occupied, in order to travel back whenever possible to catch the sports programmes that i am greatly interested in. However, the place will soon be taken over by its new occupants, and i see no other way in being able to access my favourite programmes except to have the signals for my new flat activated. However, upon calling the Starhub hotline recently, i was told that the projected date of activation might now be one or two months away.

Starhub's customer service personnel mentioned that they had "no reason to delay the activation of Cable TV", as they would be making a "loss in revenue". However, i see nothing had been done to prevent this delay further, as proven by my latest call to the Starhub Hotline as
mentioned above. Granted that my new block of flats is not fully occupied at this current moment, I believe that Starhub might want to activate the signals only after a certain occupancy rate has been met. However, this will only cause more woes for those who are already shifted in their new flats.
All the promotions by Starhub during this holiday season has further seeked to sour my mood when i discover all the great programmes that i am missing out on. I would like to think that Starhub takes pride in the fact that most households in Singapore are already cable-ready, but could this come together with the activation of the service, rather than just having cables ready but not for use?

As we all know, shifting into a new home is usually one of joy, and with the Christmas season right around the corner, i truly hope that my holidays can be spent merrily enjoying the programmes on Cable TV that i desire.

:: kiathy. 9:11 pm [+] ::
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anyway wah lau does smu produce freaks or what.

i was just on a bus the other day, discussing with my friends about my university education and mentioned something like 'something holding me back from smu is blahblahblah'.

and this strange bald guy just tapped me on my shoulders and asked loudly like 'so what's holding you back from smu?'

like woah everyone beside him and me started looking at this one of a kind patriotic shit. i was thinking like 'oh i must have gotten into some shit.'

well turned out he wasn't confrontational or anything, just wanted to clarify some facts. so let me tell the rest of the world what he told me. smu will have a campus in 2005, and the students will be able to stay in campus and treat it like their own school compound rather than roam around the town, since smu will be a city campus from 2005 onwards. and some office in smu is in charge of making that happen, if not heads will roll. that's what i understood lah.

smu produces outspoken students? definitely. different? definitely. my kind of school? hmm. maybe.

:: kiathy. 12:28 am [+] ::
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today on the bus ride, a stupid worm was on the back of my neck for maybe 2 mins of the ride. and then i reached out for it thinking it was just an irritation, and flicked it onto the seat in front of me. and saw it like moving and writhing. with half its body totally messed up because i grabbed it. it totally sucked. used tissue paper to clean the back of my neck and all i saw on the paper was green. Y U C K S.

:: kiathy. 9:39 pm [+] ::
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oh yea. just to create a post with some things linked to me.

don't you guys surf around the web and develop a voyeur instinct when you're bored? because i do. like when i'm bored i'd type in my name in google and see pages that u'd never expect to see having your name and someone writing bout you and everything. and then i'd search for like 'vjc', 'vjchoir' etc etc. interesting reads some things turn out. try it. might work.

and in case anyone tries searching for vjc,vjchoir etc. i bet they'll find this place too. because i'm gonna type those words right here in this post.

vjc vjchoir weikiat wei kiat lim wei kiat limweikiat victoria junior college victoria chorale choir vjc choir muthu orangecow

i'm just too bored.

:: kiathy. 10:58 am [+] ::
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wah like what the hell i posted a whole chunk of stuff AND ONCE AGAIN IT DIDN'T APPEAR. this is what really puts me off blogging.

basically i mentioned a few things in the post which didn't get published. sigh.

1. since my blog is so stimulating i decided to blog again this morning i.e. now.

2. my blog is NOT provocative, but it still manages to stimulate some of my friends because we're all leading mundane lives now and getting entertained by stupid humour like those of Elf, the movie i caught.

3. my christmas-es the past 4 years have all been spent with vjchoir, and so year after year we get to know more and more pple and generally feel more obliged to buy presents for everyone new you meet and interact with for like, 20 days? so now with christmas around the corner i've not bought anything yet, i don't know what to buy, and who to buy for.

4. so i suggested everyone coming to my mum's shop to buy whatever they wanted and i'd subsidise them and that'd be their christmas present.

5. christmas carolling is getting more boring year on year. in 1999, we used to have to go from sembawang/tampines to orchard hotel. those were the days of mad rushing, of girls in gowns and mismatched sports shoes or bare foots running down orchard road trying to reach the next destination on time to spread the christmas cheer through our carols. but personally i guess the company mattered more than the carols durign carolling. but during performances the audience mattered more than anything else. it feels good to be appreciated even after singing what amounts to choral crap but mass entertainment ya.

6. one of the presents i could buy is a headbanger as shown in the previous post. but it costs too much i guess. 20 over bucks for a nodding toy. gee. why don't you guys look at me for a day instead.

7. i'm going to copy and paste this whole post, in case it doesn't get published again.

8. 16 days to christmas. ho ho ho everyone.

:: kiathy. 10:51 am [+] ::
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hmm. hmm. hmm.

headbangers.

:: kiathy. 8:12 pm [+] ::
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my friend. i updated my blog.

:: kiathy. 8:11 pm [+] ::
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24 days to 2004!!

and after that, 27(?) days to cny!!

:: kiathy. 8:11 pm [+] ::
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17 DAYS TO CHRISTMAS.

i'm a countdown freak.

:: kiathy. 8:10 pm [+] ::
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and i overslept on the train again today. i dozed off at the stop before the stop i was supposed to stop at. like i knew the next stop was IT and i still nodded my head and tried to sleep.

:: kiathy. 8:10 pm [+] ::
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hellooooooooooooooooooooo. actually i haven't been away for so long, but since my friend's only source of entertainment online currently is her own blog, i decided to update this pile of shit!

there're many things that come to me in my life and i go like 'hmm i wanna post this in my blog.' but everytime i get back the inspiration is lost ya. so there's no more inspiring stuff in this blog anymore. just boring mundane things in life, like me going back to school to conduct my choir again. okay not my choir anymore. and like me going to sentosa to sing with my alumni choir. that totally sucked because it was so hot and all and the only enthusiastic claps came from the mat brothers. well at least they tried to appreciate us and our christian carols and such. but nope i'm not christian i'm into carolling and christmas just because everyone acts nicer during that period of time.

well going back for choir prac felt kinda strange seriously. going back there and feeling all old and everything totally sucked ya. it's been a year and maybe now i'll start feeling i don't belong anymore! but hey hey things can change. i'm only nineteen afterall.

oh yea i caught elf recently. it was good yea i mean gets u all in the christmasy spirit and such, but me and my friend were the only idiots who were literally laughing out loud in the cinema, which was kinda empty. felt quite sad initially but once the show started it was great cause the humour was our type of humour. i don't like stupid shows but i guess this being december, i appreciated the show alot. the best way to spread christmas cheer is to sing out loud and clear. or something like that.

oh yea there's another show i wanna catch. master and commander. and the other show too. love actually. like i refused to watch it with my friend because i wanted to watch it with the one. haha like how crappy is that. as eugene said, by the time i find the one, the movie would have closed already. so i guess i'll just watch it with any lonely/nice friends out there. but not alone with eugene though. haha.

:: kiathy. 8:09 pm [+] ::
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hmm try this too! gets u all xmasy.

www.radiorudolph.com

:: kiathy. 10:59 pm [+] ::
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wow i'm in love with this netradio site. totally man. plays lounge music.

clickme to get a listen.

use the realplayer stream, it's provided the best quality so far.

:: kiathy. 8:59 pm [+] ::
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quoteworthy: imperfection is the key to humanity.

today was my maiden voyage alone on the car. from the first moments of thrill, it became kinda boring after awhile. driving alone is seriously boring but it's rather therapeutic(?) if you have soothing music on. try emi fujita. i'm so bow(l)ed over but her, her voice's like woah. but the right word to describe her cd which i own is "dreamy". and that word's courtesy of joy.

anyway so i got lost in town. thank god i managed to find my way out before total fear crept into my system, for partial fear was already infiltrating my senses.

:: kiathy. 12:53 am [+] ::
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hey you guys out there. it's a tuesday evening but i'm here because i wanted to post about stuff that happened on saturday but never got around to it cause of pure laziness. the fact that my room has not yet been packed by me (tomorrow we'd have moved in for 3 weeks) just proves it. i have degenerated to being such a slob that i've already accepted it as my personality for now. but on we go anyway back to saturday..

saturday was vjchoir's annual tea party thing. just an event we have every year where all the sec 4 kids who signed up for choir are invited to come down to vj to basically know vjchoir a little better and see how stupid we are by playing games with us. so me being the super duper (busybody) senior that i am, went down to take a look. well actually one of them actually invited me to go down unknowingly, just because i signed up at the openhouse with a nice name - rachel. if you didn't understand that whole cunk of blabber it's okay.

so went down and sat in the girls' auditions for most of the time. actually had a conversation with my junior that extended into some smses. might sound normal to you but it really is amazing to me. but yea that left me feeling kinda glad.
the auditions went fine, just that there were some amazing personalities.
first of all was the male soprano which we found in a girl's body. i shall not reveal the school yea.
next up was the president's cringe-worthy friend. 'august~ why you never tell me need to prepare a piece??' - this was totally whined. yes TOTALLY. it was totally like oh-my-god kind of language. and i gotta say that i DID squirm in her presence. thank god she wasn't in my face, my tongue would have cringed.
another noteworthy kid was the little cute thing that actually sang a song when we requested for it. like woah she's good. but no i'm not mad over her and no she's not hot.
there was also of course jiahui's sister. i guess she lived up to her reputation/name and all. so well done to the 'dontthinkyouknowmysismeansigottaknowyou-look' girl you were really good.

but anyway. felt really old there although i probably was a nuisance again. i've always been telling myself before i go back for school events that yes. i am nineteen. i will be my age and not revert to my jc days behaviour when i go back to jc. but no. it never happens. i'm always the entertainer. it's like forever man.

actually i had alot of stuff to post right after tea party but now i can't remember my feelings there and then. will try more next time. oh yea. it's something about that cd shop.

:: kiathy. 9:56 pm [+] ::
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Aladdin!


What movie Do you Belong in?(many different outcomes!)
brought to you by Quizilla


gee. grim reminder of my sec 4 days. hahaha.

:: kiathy. 7:53 pm [+] ::
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and now's the time for blogpost #3. i feel so ripped off by singnet broadband, who got me to purchase an ethernet modem with a topup of $38 because 'if you wanna do routing/wireless surely need this'. and guess what? i have no ethernet port, and probably wireless can't be done by this ethernet router anyway. f up. but anyway i'm calling them to complain. ripped off.

3/4s of today was spent in anxiety and asking why things turn out the way they do, and cursing and swearing at something wishing it'd leave me alone. but wishing and hoping aren't gonna change things.

anyway. i now have a webcam. cool huh. alrites. that's all for now. see. matrix revolutions sucked, so does the end of my trilogy. ta da.

:: kiathy. 6:31 pm [+] ::
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and here's blogpost #2.

basically, saturday was a crossroads for me. and in case you think something really serious happened on that day, nothing did. i just had to decide between centro and embargo, both of which were virgin lands for me. so in the end the plan was to go to embargo earlier, and then decide whether to go to centro or not. well in the end i went to embargo and later on to holland v, because centro was told to be sucky. anyway i'm bored of this post already so signing off with a friendster bulletin now.

I am not: pretty.

I love: girls.

I hate: creepy crawlies.

I fear: heights.

I hope: i ord soon.

I hear: my thoughts.

I crave: durians.

I regret: people.

I cry: alone.

I care: too much.

I always: look happy.

I believe: in everything.

I feel alone: all the time.

I listen: to my thoughts.

I hide: under my underwear.

I drive: my dad's car.

I sing: too much.

I dance: too little.

I write: in english.

I play: the guitar.

I miss: my normal life.

I search: too little.

I learn: too fast.

I feel: depressed.

I know: i don't look depressed.

I say: that i am depressed.

I succeed: in not looking depressed.

I dream: too little.

I wonder: when 19 may 2005 will come. in 18 months actually.

I want: a car.

I have: a new flat. :)).

I give: when the charity workers do real charity and don't rip off commission.

I fell: over the low ramp and injured my ankle.

I fight: self demons.

I need: money.

that's all for now. hang on for the final part of my blogpost #3, the return of weikiat.

:: kiathy. 10:41 pm [+] ::
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that i would be good, even if blahblah.

great song by alanis morisette(?) that's suddenly come to mind, but that really has nothing to do with this post, just that i had to put it down to up the enthusiasm of this blog now that its dwindled somewhat.

looking at the headlines of the papers today, which i haven't read, singapore's economy seems to be picking up. but that's all the macro forecast and everything, how bout ground level pple like us? nothing good seems to be happening at all. my dad's still something like semi-retired, which translates into sort-of-out-of-a-job. though it's kinda scary, it looks good that he's finally taking a break after like. 30+ years of work? that's one hell of a motivation to earn money i tell you. pple keep telling me, that money isn't everything, and that 'you can't be a mecenary'. just because i'm into wanting a good job and wanting the big bucks that come with it doesn't make me any less human than anyone else, and if you tell me money isn't everything, let me tell you money is something that can bring you most of the everythings. and that includes making people around you happy. i guess my own endless fascination with the big bucks is that i want it to make myself and pple around me happy, not only ME MYSELF AND I. so to those who still think i'm a money-crazy asshole, please get real, and maybe get to know me better too.

but anyway that was rather irrelevant too. i started out logging onto blogger because i wanted to tell the world, which includes you, you and you, but not U, about the activities in my life.

well here goes the proper post, that was just a preface. and since making a trilogy is now hip and funking - just look at the matrix and lotr (lord of the rings, for those who don't make an effort to get sane), and to a more retro extent, the original star wars, i shall name the preface blogpost #1.

:: kiathy. 10:31 pm [+] ::
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hey. very good old song. thanks to charlene. is this a reflection? haha.

Frank Sinatra - Send in the clowns

Isn’t it rich, aren’t we a pair
Me here at last on the ground - and you in mid-air
Send in the clowns

Isn’t it bliss, don’t you approve
One who keeps tearing around - and one who can’t move
But where are the clowns - send in the clowns

Just when I stopped opening doors
Finally finding the one that I wanted - was yours
Making my entrance again with my usual flair
Sure of my lines - nobody there

Don’t you love a farce; my fault I fear
I thought that you’d want what I want - sorry my dear
But where are the clowns - send in the clowns
Don’t bother they’re here

Isn’t it rich, isn’t it queer
Losing my timing this late in my career
But where are the clowns - send in the clowns
Well maybe next year

:: kiathy. 12:03 am [+] ::
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hmmm. i think i need to talk.

it's a windy friday night, and once again miss ong has asked 'why're you not out on a friday night?'

i really have no other answers to that.

ended now! i'm feeling better already!

:: kiathy. 8:44 pm [+] ::
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touching video... courtesy of my cousin. enjoy it bah.

:: kiathy. 10:50 pm [+] ::
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catch this spoof of the matrix here. you might just decide to become a vegan.

:: kiathy. 1:08 am [+] ::
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check this out for a headline.

Dick stands firm on van Nistelrooy

punny.

:: kiathy. 11:43 pm [+] ::
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i'm posting this from my new room in my new home. it sucks to be back on dialup for probably the next 2 weeks or more, but at least i have a net connection. not sounding like a net addict now, am i? i seriously hope not. but well i just caught the matrix revolutions at zero hour supposedly. 10 pm singapore time. and just to let you in on a pooper, the ending sucks. seriously i felt cheated man, it still leaves some stuff hanging, like WHAT KIND OF ENDING WAS THAT?!

but anyway i'm at my new place will post some pics from my phone if i feel like it, it's just a very boxy place now. box box box. but windy and all. cool lah.

:: kiathy. 1:28 am [+] ::
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christmas is coming the goose is getting fat.
please put a penny in the old man's hat.
if you haven't got a penny then a ha' penny will do.
if you haven't got a ha' penny then god bless you!

oo don't you feel it already.

:: kiathy. 8:41 pm [+] ::
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clickme.found this on jimmy's blog! it's at http://cynics.info/laments won't link it lest he thinks i'm also like his other friend invading others' blogs!

just a random thought. with friendster so rampant nowadays, isn't it just a better alternative for net chatters to go 'got friendster?' instead of 'got pic?' food for thought eh.

:: kiathy. 11:28 pm [+] ::
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today on my way home, i saw 2 rainbows. one was intense while the other was sort of fading away, but it was cool that they were side by side. and honestly being someone who doesn't get obsessed with stuff, i was fascinated by my fascination with the rainbows. like i really enjoyed looking at them and trying to find out where they ended, for 'at the end of the rainbow lies a pot of gold'. well this is just get rich scheme #1. hahahaha. till next time.

:: kiathy. 10:01 pm [+] ::
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my driving test result. so i guess i passed. :)))).

:: kiathy. 6:42 pm [+] ::
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mayday rocksssssssss.

:: kiathy. 1:48 am [+] ::
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the bad one..

and the good one..



don't understand the analysis though. just that the results seem cool.

:: kiathy. 12:56 pm [+] ::
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when i came home on the cab last night, the cabbie started talking to us regarding the army, and told me his army stories all the way back, and about how our pm has already hinted to us to leave this place if we can, and where he lives, and that he's unmarried, so is his younger sis. end of the trip, he even charged me lesser than he was supposed to. i guess it just thats that it's true that singapore cab drivers are a great bunch of folks who really know all about our country and have great real life tales to tell. cool dudes. keep it up.

:: kiathy. 12:19 am [+] ::
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i am so damn bored. today's deepavali, so good day to all our comrades out there who're celebrating it. i don't know whether it's indians or hindus who celebrate it though.

so today's a public holiday, and it's day 1 without work. woke up around noon for brunch and have been online and also packing my home ever since. came across countless amounts of letters and birthday cards and christmas cards that i received the past years. it's not shocking that all these innocent little things have slipped me by as i grow older. previously, it was the norm to exchange birthday, christmas cards via snail mail. but now, nobody seems to bother. or is it just because i've drifted away from all those people that were once deemed as important to me?

or is it that as we grow older, we value those around us more than those not. out of sight, out of mind is the first phrase that comes to me. haha basically i miss those times that things were simply and more forthcoming, without having to think twice about doing things.

once again. happy deepavali. have a great festival of light.

:: kiathy. 3:21 pm [+] ::
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i'm back with a new nick. go figure out why i got it. but anyway just caught infernal affairs 2, and i think edison really looks alot like andy lau. but i think alot of people look alike anyway, so maybe my opinions on lookalikes don't really count.

the show was rather long and slow and everything, and in the words of eugene, "just a show about people dying!!"

i think that more or less sums it up for someone who didn't catch infernal affairs part I, as part II is supposed to be a prequel. and there's already a sequel in the works. what's with the movie world and making a trilogy(?) nowadays?! the 2 that will immediately come to mind are the matrix and lord of the rings, both of which have 2nd sequels that i'm dying to catch. but think a little bit further back, and there was the star wars trilogy. which outdid itself by having a star wars prequel, which i think is also a trilogy. so maybe infernal affairs is trying to incorporate a trilogy and the prequel concept to make some impact. but well i think infernal affairs part I was better, it just seemed more in depth, rather than just people dying here and there. there didn't seem much storyline to it either, just an attempt to explain the first show, which won't be much of an appeal to those who didn't catch it.

but all in all, i enjoyed watching a moderately late night movie from 9.35 pm to 11.45 am. felt really good, and relaxed, and everything. tomorrow will be the first day of my 6 day break from camp. i'm loving it. not the price of a mac's meal though, spent $6.50 on a mcChicken meal!! MAN.

:: kiathy. 1:07 am [+] ::
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hmm. not that i'm a blog addict or anything. but added a new textbook on the left. go have a look.

:: kiathy. 10:27 pm [+] ::
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help. anyone uses paypal.com? drop me a msg or gimme a call or sms me? yea.

:: kiathy. 8:03 pm [+] ::
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it's nearly 4 am on a friday night, and i'm not asleep yet. i feel i've done myself a great wrong. i've robbed myself. just a note for the day. anyway, just a note to myself, stop it already. yes, i will.

so in a few hours' time it's the vjc open house 2003. as all who've read this pathetic space of a blog probably know, i'

OOPS MY DAD'S OUT. GDNIGHT.

:: kiathy. 3:56 am [+] ::
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times are getting bad, but is that an excuse for service to slacken?! man.
i sprained my ankle yet again.

:: kiathy. 6:32 pm [+] ::
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Hi, i applied for a debit card almost 2 months ago but it only got approved on 16th October 2003. This situation probably came about due to a few matters. Firstly, while applying for the card at DBS Bank, Suntec City, the counter staff told me that a signature was not required for my debit card application form since my bank account which was created with POSB was thumbprint operated. Quoting her words, "as long as we have your thumb print on this application form it is alright." This occured even though it was stated that a signature was required if the account was thumbprint operated, so as to allow the application of the debit card to go through. I was then directed to the customer service counter and the lady there did a check on the application form and approved of it, instructing me to leave the form with her and wait for 2 weeks to receive my debit card. However, after 2 weeks of waiting, i received the same application form through mail, and was instructed to fill up the application form with my signature, as it was required for the application. Having done this, i mailed the application form back to DBS as instructed. However, the card never arrived in the mail even after a few weeks. Upon checking with the DBS Hotline, i was told that due to the fact that my account was thumbprint activated, the application had been stalled, and this applied to all thumbprint activated accounts. I was told to change my thumbprint activated account to a signature activated one in order to speed up the application process. I did as instructed the next Monday, as i made the call on a Friday evening. I waited for another 2 weeks or so, and made a call to the DBS hotline today(17/10) to check on my application status since the card obviously had been delayed again. Only then did i find out that my card had been approved yesterday. My main grouses are firstly, why did the counter staff and customer service staff approve of my application form initially when i did not fill in the signature required, and even questioned them about it? Secondly, if i had not called the hotline myself, I'd not have known anything about the status of my card application and the problems that the bank was facing with thumbprint accounts. Shouldn't the bank inform its customers about such delays, instead of letting us wait unknowingly? Lastly, even after doing as instructed by changing my bank account from thumbprint to signature activiated as soon as was possible, my card still took about 2 weeks to be approved. Is it really right for the customer to act quickly in order to obtain a service long overdued, only for the service to be processed in a long period of time yet again?
Thank you.

:: kiathy. 6:31 pm [+] ::
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my house is finally done up with everything except the furniture and the water pipes. it looks good really. that's what i think. i cannot imagine how my mum actually managed to come up with all the ideas for it. but to think about it, it can be classified as just a few areas.

1. wall
2. doors
3. partitions

that's all. but the end result looks not bad. and all my friends will be invited to visit once we move in and our furniture come!

and i love the peace when everything's shut and the air con's on. woohoo. a home to call our own. finally.

:: kiathy. 11:05 pm [+] ::
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i figure one reason i like songs is because i can sing and play them with my guitar. haha maybe that's why i love the song so much.

:: kiathy. 11:13 pm [+] ::
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oh yea. anoter song i'm in love with. really makes me sound like a himbo but i think this song's stupid and simple but really lovely. that's the word for it. call me a wuss but yea that's the only word to describe it. adam sandler's grow old with you.

Good afternoon everyone,
We are flying at 26,000 feet,
And moving up to 30,000 feet
And we've got clear skies
All the way to Las Vegas
Right now we are bringing you
Some in-flight entertainment.
One of our first class passengers
would like to sing you a song
Inspired by one of our coach passengers.
And since we let our first class passengers do
Pretty much whatever they want,
Here he is....

I wanna make you smile
Whenever you're sad,
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad.
All I wanna do
Is grow old with you.

I'll get your medicine
When your tummy aches;
Build you a fire if the furnace breaks.
Oh, it could be so nice
Growin' old with you.

I'll miss you, kiss you,
Give you my coat when you are cold,
Need you, feed you,
Even let you hold the remote control.

So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink;
Put you to bed when you've had too much to drink.
Oh, I could be the man
Who grows old with you.
I wanna grow old with you.

:: kiathy. 11:12 pm [+] ::
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hey drowning's performing at the vjc open house this saturday. come watch us sing.

"Where Is The Love?"

What's wrong with the world, mama
People livin' like they ain't got no mamas
I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma
Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin'
In the USA, the big CIA
The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah
Badness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
N**, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all, y'all

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us
Send us some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)

Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love
The love, the love

It just ain't the same, always unchanged
New days are strange, is the world insane?
If love and peace is so strong
Why are there pieces of love that don't belong
Nations droppin' bombs
Chemical gasses fillin' lungs of little ones
With the ongoin' sufferin' as the youth die young
So ask yourself is the lovin' really gone
So I could ask myself really what is goin' wrong
In this world that we livin' in people keep on givin'
in
Makin' wrong decisions, only visions of them dividends
Not respectin' each other, deny thy brother
A war is goin' on but the reason's undercover
The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug
If you never know truth then you never know love
Where's the love, y'all, come on (I don't know)
Where's the truth, y'all, come on (I don't know)
Where's the love, y'all

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us
Send us some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)

Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love
The love, the love

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I'm gettin' older, y'all, people gets colder
Most of us only care about money makin'
Selfishness got us followin' our own direction
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria
Kids want to act like what they see in the cinema
Yo', whatever happened to the values of humanity
Whatever happened to the fairness in equality
Instead in spreading love we're spreading animosity
Lack of understanding, leading lives away from unity
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' under
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feelin' down
There's no wonder why sometimes I'm feelin' under
Gotta keep my faith alive till love is found

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us
Send us some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)

Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)

Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)

:: kiathy. 11:04 pm [+] ::
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a cockroach which was in the air con in the room i am now just dropped dead onto the ground. it's so stupid to have stayed in there. probably froze to death. but did you know these roaches can survive for days without their head? they can fly around and everything, but will eventually die due to lack of food cos it has no mouth to eat. grossly stupid. i hate roaches.

:: kiathy. 9:25 am [+] ::
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more entertainment: clickme.

:: kiathy. 9:23 am [+] ::
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entertainment: clickme.

:: kiathy. 9:26 pm [+] ::
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hello monday. i'm not suffering from any monday blues because i spent the whole day at home! to me it seems like a well deserved break from the monotony of work, but to others it'll simply be treated as a bluff, for i took an mc today.

the mc wasn't as pleasant as i'd thought though. i went to the doc's in the late afternoon cos i was slacking through the day, and he was this filippino(?) guy who got quite suspect at my intentions. like 'you need an mc right? so next time come earlier in the day.' i read this as 'if you'd come earlier i wouldn't have given you an mc.' but wellwell. i got my mc and my one day break. so there.

and i've officially completed my driving lessons. the only thing that's holding me back from booking the test is my advanced theory result, which is supposed to be out within 2 weeks. if it doesn't come soon/or i don't pass, it's really going to be a blow cos i won't be able to take my tests some days in december, and the test date has crept into december already. sigh. really really dumb of me.

:: kiathy. 8:29 pm [+] ::
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i need to update my blog.

:: kiathy. 12:07 pm [+] ::
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as quoted,



"haha. anyway. my point is. friendster looks dumb. haha."

"its like a matchmaking service"

"'make new friends!'"



i'm removing the friendster link.

:: kiathy. 10:52 pm [+] ::
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the dog just asked to buy breakfast. i hate the dog.

:: kiathy. 9:15 am [+] ::
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mysteries of the military. #1.

hmm. why do they rear handicapped dogs in the military?

animals who can't move around once their shoulders get too heavy for their bods? animals who need humans to bring food to them at their whim and fancy just with a bark? even when that food proves to be more accessible to them rather than hapless humans who have to serve such beasts? all the dogs in the mil., put yr paws up in the air. oops i forgot your limbs grow shorter with every passing year as you get higher in rank. oops i forgot you don't remember how to ask nicely. oops i forgot you've forgotten how to talk, not to bark. oops i forgot you've forgotten how to walk. actually you can't cos your limbs are kinda useless eh. oops i forgot you've forgotten it's humans who made you what you are.

once again. why do they rear handicapped dogs in the military?

i really wonder.

:: kiathy. 10:05 pm [+] ::
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oh ya the craze about friendster. in case you're a hapless follower like me, i'm kiat lim on the usersearch. my email above with the 'contact' link is seldom checked. and as far as i know, there're only two kiat lim s on the network so far. i.e. first name = kiat; last name = lim. yupyup.

but just in case you aren't a hapless follower yet, clickme. it can also be reached via 'doiknowyou?' on my links. tata again.

:: kiathy. 8:07 pm [+] ::
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i think music has a great profound effect on people. personally i really feel it, like sad music makes me feel a little down cos u think of the sad things in (your) life, while happy songs like Don't Worry, Be Happy by Boby Mc. Fery never fails to make me smile, laugh even.

but i guess the question is this, do sad songs make people sadder? as in, do you listen to a sad song when you're sad, and thus u end up just being sad, or do you listen to a sad song that makes u sad, and u end up sad when you weren't before. personally it works both ways. i don't have a tendancy to cheer myself up with happy songs when i'm feeling down, even though it'll probably work. but i'd just listen to sad songs and get even sadder and just get into the whole emotional thing. it's like pride in wallowing in self-pity. like i've always believed in, sadness is more of an emotion than happiness. when you're happy you're just happy. doesn't feel much does it? but while u're sad, u probably think more and thus invoke more emotions in you. nobody ever thinks of 'hey why am i happy!?' but the opposite instead. 'what's wrong with this world/me' is probably more likely than the former.

thought about this whole load of bull again cos i was going thru someone's blog and he had this sad song going on in the background, while his posts included some not too positive ones. even though there were happy posts in there, the whole mood was totally affected by that background song. woah.

just some post to kickoff my monday with. and middlesborough(?) didn't deserve to lose to chelski. urgh. 2-1 was the final score. bolten - aston villa ended 1-1 with angel missing a penalty. i guess this is all alien language to most of the female species. tata.

:: kiathy. 8:05 pm [+] ::
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woo so it's monday again tomorrow! time seems to fly by damn fast over the weekends especially. but it's good that the year end's approaching, seriously it's difficult to believe that it's october already and 2003 has only 2 months plus to run. i still feel in a daze, like my life's remained stagnant/nent over the past few months and school was but a few weeks ago. the truth is that i've been away from school for a year now if exams aren't taken into account. soon it'll be year end 2003 and hello 2004! unofficially i'm regarded as a year 3, and the tag of year 4 seems a tad too old. it's like when i was just a puny(pls don't take it literally)year 1 and all the old people were year 4 and such. it seems like a huge jump from year 3 man. but well well. time waits for no man. and i'm man not no man. so there.

so does time past by or pass by? this is one of the great mysteries of the english language for me. that's why time always flies by for me instead of the above.

oo ahh.

:: kiathy. 9:54 pm [+] ::
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today i'm taking my advanced theory lesson. and there's no work today cause i had a medical appointment with my specialist, who just gave me an open date for my surgery and nothing else cos he probably doesn't like me for wanting to be excused boots. probably thinks it's crap cos he keeps telling me boots protect my ankle and not harm it, but the exact opposite is happening to me. REALLY.

:: kiathy. 5:23 pm [+] ::
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today's driving was a disaster. my instructor is either 1. on andropause or 2. having pms. but well i'm not too sure. either that or he hates me, my face or maybe my race. not being racist here but one of the thoughts was seriously that.
so yea i hit the kerb a few times doing the narrow courses today, so what. he still passed me and i still learnt. but that was only after things like 'why did you mount the kerb?' like what kind of question is that. 'because i went too fast.' 'then?'
geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. i paid you to teach me not to be a horrible man.
but anyway he made me realise something. that i don't know my basics. like moving off whichever lane on the road you gotta use the right signal. and my slack, nice instructor didn't teach me any of that! he didn't even teach me how to change tyres, how to control my speed with clutch control!
i feel cheated.

:: kiathy. 11:38 pm [+] ::
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it's almost october. and so it's almost the end of the year. well today's 28th september, and my dad has just nearly turned 50. nearly. so his age is probably around 50. but i won't reveal it lest someone use it to find out my mum's age. hahaha.

and my friend turned 19 today. it's his birthday too. so happy birthday to everyone else who became a year older today.

i realise that i still have an affection for school. haha. more of an affection for the college rather than school itself i guess. and well i guess it's a long and winding road to university, after which i can catch up on studying and stuff, but then junior college is a part that i've missed and never will experience again. so maybe college was all about choir for me. but i don't think so, being an active idiot being an orientation leader and such, i guess it means more than the choir to me. it's kinda dumb but yea after nearly a year away, i still miss school. alot! sigh.

open house is coming yet again. oct 18 this year. i'll be there i guess. like the past 3 years i've been there already. hohoho. merry x'mas is here soon too! maybe it's only because i've been singing carols for the alumni choir ( victoria chorale a.k.a. vc) i just joined. so it's a false sense of happiness. but it's a good distraction. i love christmas. totally love it. don't know why. not a christian or another, but i guess the joy's in the air. the spirit of giving. oh well. 2 mths and counting.

:: kiathy. 2:59 pm [+] ::
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i feel. deflated. i've tried too hard.

:: kiathy. 12:01 am [+] ::
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SEPT 24, 2003
'Teechr, why do we nee spling lsons?'
By Alfred Lee
STRAITS TIMES EUROPE BUREAU

LNDOON - It deosn't mttaer in waht odrer the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny ipmoertnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteres are in the rghit pclae, aoccdrnig to Birtsih rscheerechs.

The ltteres 'inside' the wrod can be jmulbed up, but you can siltl raed it wouthit a porbelm.

The reason: the amazing agility of the human brain to decipher jumbled letters inside a word.

As shown in the first two sentences, once the first and last letters are in place, the brain is able to speedily decode the mess based on words it is familiar with.

It appears the brain does not read every letter by itself, in order. It reads a word as a whole and then, faster than any computer, tells the reader what the word is, or should be.

This particular form of mental gymnastics is the latest craze to hit the Internet. Examples of what appears initially to be just gobbledygook are hitting websites, and are being sent in thousands of e-mail messages.

Nobody knows how it started although it is not a new discovery. A British psychology student wrote a PhD thesis on it 27 years ago.

Dr Graham Rawlinson, now aged 54, said: 'I am amazed that findings from my thesis have come up after all these years...

'My findings indicate that people have some kind of computer processor in their brains which can pick up letters in a word and sort them out in the proper order instantly, to conform with words they have seen before.'

Dr Rosaleen McCarthy, a neuro-psychology lecturer at Britain's Cambridge University, attributes this ability to the fusiform gyrus, which lies in the left part of the brain.

She said: 'Our brains are probably even better and more adept and more sophisticated than Dr Rawlinson has found.

'It may not be even absolutely critical that the first and last letters are in place and certainly, the brain can figure out words even if letters are missing.

'The brain wants to find the meaning of a sentence, not its phonetics.'

So, students may ask: 'Teechr, why do we nee spling lsons if you can make sesne of tehse wdros?'

Headmistress Enid Gillespie of Bevenden English College told The Straits Times: 'The need for classical English will never disappear.

'Would William Shakespeare ever have written, 'I cmoe to bruy Cesaar, not to parsie him?' '


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Copyright @ 2003 Singapore Press Holdings. All rights reserved.

:: kiathy. 9:40 pm [+] ::
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hiho world. so i haven't posted in a long time besides all those crap listed below. and i'll start today.

it just happens that saturday wasn't a feel good day. so nothing much to post about there. and so wasn't sunday, monday, etc etc etc. just that etc's not a good thing to do cos today's only tuesday. but well my boss wasn't in today so i left camp at 3 pm. which really sounds early, but i only left boon lay mrt, the nearest mrt station to my camp, at 350 pm. what kind of world class transport system do we have, when after walking for 10 mins to the bus stop, i wait 20 mins for the bus, and 15 mins for the ride to the train station? what a torment. 50 mins just to leave that part of singapore. urgh.

and so i'm taking driving lessons. i'm going well except for checking of blind spots. if everything goes smoothly, i'll complete my lessons in 3 weeks. which is way too soon, because i haven't taken nor passed my advance theory test, and i have to go through all the lessons crap within the centre before i can take it. like man can't i just pay 6 bucks and have my test?

:: kiathy. 9:44 pm [+] ::
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My inner child is sixteen years old!

Life's not fair! It's never been fair, but while
adults might just accept that, I know
something's gotta change. And it's gonna
change, just as soon as I become an adult and
get some power of my own.


How Old is Your Inner Child?
brought to you by Quizilla



why the hell am i only 16.

:: kiathy. 9:30 pm [+] ::
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i like this. thanks to thetabworld.com.


Coldplay - We never change

Intro:
F#m E F#m E

F#m E
I wanna live life and never be cruel,
F#m E
I wanna live life and be good to you.

Bm F#m E
I wanna fly, and never come down,
Bm F#m E
And live my life, and have friends around.

CHORUS:
Asus2 C#m7
We never change, do we? No, no.
Asus2 C#m7
We never learn, do we?
Bm F#m E
So I wanna live, in a wooden house,

F#m E
I wanna live life and always be true,
F#m E
I wanna live life and be good to you,
Bm F#m E
And I wanna fly, and never come down,
Bm F#m E
And live my life, and have friends around.

Asus2 C#m7
We never change, do we? No, no.
Asus2 C#m7
We never learn, do we?
Bm F#m E
So I wanna live, in a wooden house,
Bm F#m E
Where making more friends would be easy.

Bm E
Oh and I don't have a soul to save,
Bm E
Yes, and I sin every single day,
Bm F#m E
We never change, do we?
Bm F#m E
We never learned do we?

Bm F#m E Bm
So, I wanna live in a wooden house,
Bm F#m Dsus2 Bsus2
Where making more friends would be ea - sy,
Bm F#m E Bm
I wanna live where the sun comes out.

:: kiathy. 9:10 pm [+] ::
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actually i posted alot of shit but it didn't get saved. i wonder how this blogger save thing works cos apparently it doesn't.

:: kiathy. 8:30 pm [+] ::
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well i haven't had work for the past 4 days. like i've been on off since friday, and friday night-saturday afternoon was spent at my classmate's house, while sunday was spent at the adidas warehouse sale where i got great wears like the red shoes pictured below.

a friend's leaving today, and it feels kinda weird. like she'll be the first of the people that i talk to who'll leave this land for a long time. i wonder who's next. i know eugene's going in 2 years' time. and then whoever to wherever. maybe it's finally getting to reality, where people travel elsewhere in search of better fortunes and better lives, just like we studied where in the good old days people travelled to improve their lives, and that resulted in the formation of this little red dot of singapore.

so i guess reality hurts. some day people around me will stay, some will go. that's the reality of life i guess, all in the name of seeking supposedly better lives. the grass is always greener on the other side. so where does that leave this side? hmm.

:: kiathy. 10:49 pm [+] ::
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my new red shoes!

:: kiathy. 10:30 pm [+] ::
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hmmm. what's happened to blogger. it's changed again.

hello hello. actually i've had quite alot of stuff happenin the past week. today's friday already, and the last post was monday. so i guess within this space of about 4 days, alot of stuff should have happened. but i don't exactly remember alot of them. oh i've started my driving lessons already. spent 100 mins turning left the other day, and another 100 minutes turning right 2 days later. today i'm gonna spend 100 minutes doing slopes. it's so irritatingly slow now. urgh.

:: kiathy. 1:35 pm [+] ::
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for all the sick kids in the world - brainrape.

haha ok it's just a cartoon brainrape's too strong a word for it. all thanks to evelyn. she's so sick.

brainrape's the saf. oops.

:: kiathy. 10:33 pm [+] ::
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who draws the crowds who plays so loud baby it's the dooberman.

:: kiathy. 9:38 pm [+] ::
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guess who's back. back again. doober's back. be afraid.

i'm so self amusing!

:: kiathy. 9:36 pm [+] ::
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White Christmas - Bing Cosby

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know.
Where the tree-tops glisten,
And children listen
To hear sleighbells in the snow.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
With every Christmas card I write,
"May your days be merry and bright,
And may all your Christmases be white".

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know.
Where the tree-tops glisten,
And children listen
To hear sleighbells in the snow.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
With every Christmas card I write,
"May your days be merry and bright,
And may all your Christmases be white".

:: kiathy. 9:05 pm [+] ::
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hmm i got the stupid blaster worm thing recently, but it didn't make my computer reboot on its own, just slowed it down alot. for those who're not developed enough to purchase a full original copy of some antivirus programme, i recommend this.

just wondering. is opening a new window everytime someone clicks on a link on my blog irritating? cos i've set it such that all links will open in a new window. yeaps. comments comments comments pls.

:: kiathy. 2:54 pm [+] ::
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hmm. wonder why most of my friends' blogs have headings before every post. but i'll do away with them.

oh well i think blogger went kinda down yesterday because attempts to access blogs were redirected to sirsearch.com. kinda irritating but it got back to normal after awhile.

i caught pirates of the caribbean yesterday. it was a really good movie, recommended for all. okay i don't know what to write about it but yea it's good go watch it if you can.

:: kiathy. 2:48 pm [+] ::
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i like this song.

Hey Jude
Don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better

Hey Jude
Don't be afraid
You were made to go out and get her
The minute you let her under your skin
Then you'll begin to make it better

And anytime you feel the pain
Hey Jude refrain
Don't carry the world upon your shoulders
For well you know that it's a fool
Who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder
La Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na

Hey Jude
Don't let me down
You have found her
Now go and get her
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better
So let it out and let it in
Hey Jude begin
You're waiting for someone to perform with
And don't you know that it's just you
Hey Jude you do
The movement you need is on your shoulders
La Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na yeah

Hey Jude
Don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her under your skin
Then you begin to make it better, better, better, better, better, better, better
(Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Hey Jude) X18

:: kiathy. 7:59 pm [+] ::
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hmm got this from an email. food for thought i guess.

A PERSPECTIVE.......WORTH PONDERING !!!

 

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100
people, with all the existing human
ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:

There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans

52 would be female
48 would be male

70 would be non-white
30 would be white

70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian

89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth.

80 would live in substandard housing

70 would be unable to read

50 would suffer from malnutrition

1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth

1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education

1 would own a computer

When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need
for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.

The following is also something to ponder...

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...  you are more
blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of
imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation. You are
ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest,
torture, or death...you are more
blessed than three billion people in the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead
and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.

G>If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish
someplace you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare

If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that
someone was thinking of you,
and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the
world that cannot read at
all.

Someone once said: What goes around comes around.

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like no-one's watching.
Sing like no-one's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

Pass this on, and brighten someone's day. Nothing will happen if you do not decide to pass it along.
The only thing that will happen, if you DO pass it on, is that someone might smile because of you.

:: kiathy. 6:50 pm [+] ::
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i 've updated my links. well actually i renamed them. i like my new names really!

:: kiathy. 9:46 pm [+] ::
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woah. it's good.

You're an ESFP
ESFP
You're a fun-loving outgoing person and are naturally drawn to people...you are quite enthusiastic and exuberant...and usually well-liked by others.. you're good at meeting people and helping them enjoy themselves...you are sympathetic towards people and generous with your time and money. You wanna be where the action is and will see things in your own special way...

You're aware what is going on around you and notice stuff that others miss. You're popular and gregarious and are often busy in social stuff...you are instigators of activity and like to be "where the action is..."...you like laughing at yourself and others....you like to help others and often join organizations that letcha do that..if you work as a teenager, chances are that you'll take a job that lets you interact with others (gift shop, waiter, anywhere you can charm or shmooze)....you're "on stage" often...

You're the eternal optimist, and always seem to land on your feet, somehow. (gee, all this stuff shows you might be good in the Storm Palace pubs..) you can interact with people of all ages, backgrounds or types with no problem.. you learn best when you can interact with others and DO things, not just observe or listen about 'em... Teachers are the key to your success.. they have to care about you for you to want to do well..

You don't like conflict or intellectual arguments...you don't like learning by sitting quietly by yourself and reading some boring abstract stuff..."how does it relate to my day-to-day life?!" You know how to motivate others to get the job done...you can link together people and resources...you'd probably be happy being a coach or a receptionist or a therapist...anywhere you could help people and be responsive to 'em...you don't impose your will.

You like teamwork...you can get caught up in others' emotions.. your style is inclusive and allowing others to participate in the decisions..you don't need to suck up all the glory...you like to take breaks and relax..you love being active and going out and doing things with friends...

You're fun to be with and bring enjoyment to situations...you find fun in the moment...your friends are VERY important to you, and I'll bet you tell 'em so and let 'em know it somehow...you like to reach out and touch the lives of others...you like to share your values with those you love... you might move in or out of a relationship depending if it "feels" comfortable..you get kinda hampered with disapproval.. you can overwhelm your partner with all this affection and stuff...when there's a breakup, you can move on and get over it quickly, surrounding yourself with your friends...

Be careful on these: don't spend too much time socializing and not enough on the task at hand. You'll probably talk on the phone rather than work. Also, don't forget to finish what you start..get some planning skills and time management...don't ignore the logical facts, as much as you'd rather go by subjective stuff...finally, don't be so action-oriented that you forget to plan ahead...

ESFP: "Extra Special Friendly Person"

:: kiathy. 11:19 pm [+] ::
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you've been punked.

can the real world be reel life? hmm. of course it can. but u'll need a giant roll of film to finish filming your whole life. and nobody would watch it cos it'd be too long to finish and they'd spend probably their whole life watching yr reel life. hmm.

:: kiathy. 7:20 pm [+] ::
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hello world. today i was out and some things just struck me as i was snailing around city hall while waiting for friends. and so i noted them down on my mobile so as to post about them here. kinda dumb ya but i really forgot what i was thinking of like 5 mins after i saved it in my phone. and so it was there to save me.

1stly. i used the word fickle to remember what i thought of. so fickle. yep people are so fickle, maybe i am fickle minded. but i went out feeling good and happy and maybe more self confident. but as the minutes went by and things happen, you begin to immerse yourself in your own imagination. things like 'what's that person there thinking bout when he/she saw me, is there anything wrong with my shirt, my hair, my pants? etc etc.' so self consciousness sets in. and when that happens, one usually succumbs to paranoia. don't ask me why can't i think of the good things that pple are maybe thinking bout me, simply because that's too good to be true.

2ndly. i think at this age of mine, i'm beginning to try to guess people's age. as in the older pple, not the kids, because nobody seems to be too old to be appreciated aesthetically anymore. wonder if anyone got that. but yea when i look at pple nowadays, it's looking at someone and wondering 'hmm is the person older than me?', while in the past we mostly just paid attention to kids in uniform which meant a same age kinda thing. maybe i've grown too old for my own good.

so those are my 2 thoughts of the day. i think this post is damn bad though. i sound like a chinaman writing a mini essay. oops.

:: kiathy. 11:49 pm [+] ::
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so wow. today we had a gathering. but we do have a gathering almost every week. we planned for a bbq without having a bbq pit at all. really really felt kinda stupid but in the end it worked out so it was okay.

so we had time to slowly buy our food and then take a cab to start setting up our pit and everything and we finally had food at around 6. which was kinda amazing too considering we had such a small pit and everything. so i had a few cold sausages and uncooked pork chop for starters, but everything was ok cos we felt so free. i wish we were always so free. just lie there do nothing, talk alot, sing alot, and watch the stars and mars. and oo mars was moving upwards really quick, by the end of the day it was like way up in the sky.

and so i was thinking aloud, 'wish the weekends were longer, like 5 days weekends and 2 days weekends.' but my great friend pointed out wisely that we'd then be working on weekends and resting on weekdays, which kinda makes alot of sense. but yup it felt good really though pple walked by us and pointed and laughed at our puny pit. it was really puny. i guess they were both amazed and amused by us.

so we started singing again. and we sang this song from the burger king outlet last year where we studied for our a's. and like woah it's been a year already. or almost. time flies. i hope it flies faster really.

:: kiathy. 1:32 am [+] ::
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Judging by the above drawing, it is pretty obvious that I am truly lacking in the drawing department. However, that has never stopped me from turning to art, drawing simple pictures like the one above, for simple reasons like relieving stress and entertainment. A simple picture like the one above could just cheer a person up and cause a laugh or two, and that is how I feel life should be lived, light-heartedly and happily. That is why I still indulge in the art of drawing simple pictures, just for the sake of giving a laugh to those around me. The above is all about me, someone who tries to make life better for those around me.



just something for buibuibird. come read. the pic's appeared before already.

:: kiathy. 10:54 pm [+] ::
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toilet.

so officially 'toilet' is the first word my my post today. it might be totally irrelevant, but i just wanted to try it cos i borrowed this book where it boasted that it was the only book with toilet as its first word.

ok that was for starters, just to get those uninterested in reading further to just click their browser close or to go elsewhere more interesting. haha but anyway for a start i'm not feeling agitated or what. just normal.

today was teacher's day celebrations back in school. teacher's day is celebrated on the 1st September every year, and this year's fell on a monday, so they held celebrations on a friday, which is today. yupyup. but well i went back to school today to catch the celebrations. and it's kinda sad, cos nobody else went back. seriously like nobody i know from my batch went back, either cos they were busy serving the nation or busy in school. as a matter of fact, most pple didn't even know today was the celebrations. which brings me to this, do we not bother bout those pple anymore? no matter how lousy they were, there must have been some other good ones out there. and so i didn't give a card to mr kan but gave one to ms choo instead, though both are my choir teachers-in-charge. but that's another story.

but yea. so i'm wondering. was i just being a fool, a sentimental idiot while others just get on with life and everything? hmm. think i was. but i enjoy it. so there.

anyway celebrations kinda sucked this year compared to last year's. and both my main tutors have left the school already, so a minor disappointment there, though it was great when you feel appreciated that you're back. so today was kinda worth it really.

another point. i feel like a wet blanket today. sorry.

:: kiathy. 9:58 pm [+] ::
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