:: bachelor's notepad. ::

:: Friday, October 31, 2003 ::

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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