:: 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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