My Cruise Trip

Hello! I'm back from my 3 Days 2 Nights cruise! Well, luckily it was such a short trip. I was bored 70% of my time due to the fact that I am not a gambler and..

Jackpot is such a STUPID GAME in which BRAINLESS people can pick up in 3 seconds flat!

I don understand the lure behind the game. Just press the computer button and wait for the computer technician/casino owner to decide the percentage of your win. So dumb...

And so, I spent most of my time wondering alone in the ship. There are nothing much to play for someone alone. But thanks to my 1G memory stick, Ha!, I spent a lot of my waking moments taking photographs.

Presenting you the ship, Starcruise Virgo!

It boasts of 13 stories with an ultra nice swimming pool.

We can get to eat for free at three of the restaurants, the Chinese restaurant, The Pavillion

Usually after our meals, we will go to the buffet restaurant, The Mediterranean Restaurant, for our desserts. Well, since it’s free... No doubt, we ate alot during these three days.

The western restaurant, Bella Vista We only visited here once since my relatives don’t favour western food. Pity.


Whenever I walked down this corrider, I was reminded of Titanic, the movie. Not a nice thought aboard the ship.
Tada! My room 09007!

There are three beds in the room with one that was attached to the wall and can be pulled down should the need arises. I shared the room with my mum and one of my cousins and I immediately aimed for the makeshift bed. *Laughs* An unique experience, though I could not sleep for the first night due to the fear of tumbling down. Look at my mum. *Laughs* I told her I'm doing Quality Control, QC, for the bed.

When I first boarded the ship, there are mascots lurking around, trying to grab hold of us for a photo shoot. They will then charge around $12 for a photograph! Robbery in broad daylight! Therefore, we decided beforehand to sneak pass them without taking any photographs. Due to my inexperience, I was caught! A penguin mascot grabbed hold of my shoulders in a tight grip and pulled down my off shoulder top before the camera flashed! STUPID PERVERTIC PENGUIN! I would like to have kicked his groin but it will be a futile attempt because the man is wearing such a thick costume. Let’s just hope his sperm count decrease due to the heat accumulated around that area. Yea? Anyway, I managed sneakily to take a shot of the photograph. *Cheers*

This trip brought us to Redang Island, the beach made popular by the movie, Summer MoMo or something like that. Long before we reached the island, I can already see the bottom of the sea! The water is that clear! Nice right, the view?

I was taking photographs when I spotted this rock I thought I could climb. Unfortunately, I cut my finger on some barnacles before i could even stepped on it! The cut is quite deep, I nearly thought I need stitches because the blood just won’t stop flowing. So, heck!, I wash my wound with the sea water. Surprisingly, it did not hurt much and my blood ceased to flow. Thank goodness! Ya, and that is the stupid piece of rock. I told my mum to include the whole rock in the picture but I guessed she must have detested the rock so much she decided to take only a small part of it. *Giggles*

I like this photo!

They have bars set up which sell not only alcohol but coconuts and ice kachang!

On the last day, I went to watch the sunrise with my mum. At first, I thought there will be a huge crowd of people on the sun deck but I was so wrong. There are only a few of us. It is so saddening. People can stay up late pressing buttons on the jackpot machines but will not wake up early to enjoy something as beautiful as a sunrise. The world is changing.





I love this picture best! It was taken before sunrise and the cresent is still in the sky. So nice!

The blogger doesn't allow me to upload any more pictures already! Do they have a limit for the number of photos uploaded in a day?? Nevermind, I'll upload my narcisstic photos another time. Wuahahaha!

She's the Man

It must be one of the funniest show I watched in the movies. Clever plot, the correct cast, guys with great bodies, all adds up to a great movie! I was going through the movie in my mind one night before I sleep and I was thinking how did the scriptwriter came up with such funny names for the characters. People don't exactly called their children "Duke", "Viola" or "Olivia" nowadays. The names seem to come straight of out Shakespeare's stories. And then, I slowly realised that the plot seems familiar, like one of ......... Shakespeare's tales! To tell the truth, I sat up immediately. They generate a new movie out of a Shakespeare's story! Quite clever, in fact. The central idea of the story is sure to be great, coming from a master of story writing, Shakespeare himself. Well, the play is called "Twelfth-Night: Or What You Will". Below is the tale from Shakespeare.

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Orsino, the Duke of Illyria, was in love with a fair lady, by the name of Olivia. However, Olivia, having lost a brother whom she loved dearly, was in mourning and had refused to even see the Duke.
One day, out in the sea, a ship encountered a fierce storm and the crew was shipwrecked. A sister and brother thus was seperated. Viola, the sister, reached the shores of Illyria safely with the ship's captain but Sebastian, her twin brother, was lost. Viola was devastated. When she heard about Olivia from the ship's captain, she felt a connection between them - both had lost their brothers. She felt a sudden longing to live with that lady, to comfort each other over the lost of their brothers. She came up with a plan and that was to dress up as a page (messenger boy), get close to the Duke and hopefully, the Duke will send her to Olivia to express his love for her.
Cesario, Viola's new identity, spent long hours listened to the Duke, who poured out all his feelings for Olivia to his faithful page. Over time, Cesario began to developed feelings for the sentimental Duke.
One day, the Duke commanded Cesario to go to Olivia's house to plead his love. Cesario was very troubled but she was a loyal page and thus, made her way to Olivia's house. Cesario was very insistent in meeting Olivia and would not take no for an answer from the servants. Olivia, curious at the noise, agreed to see Cesario. Upon seeing someone with such a elegant air, Olivia became more and more attracted to the young "man", as Cesario went on about how much the Duke loved her.
On her second visit, Olivia poured out her real feelings for Cesario. Cesario, shocked, rejected her love, saying that she could never love a woman, and went out as fast as she could. Not soon after, she was challenged to a duel by a Sir Andrew, a former suitor of Olivia. Cesario is afterall a girl and thus she went weak at knees at the thought of a duel. However, just as she was pulling out her sword, someone yelled to Sir Andrew, saying that he would be fighting on behalf of this gentleman. Cesario turned and saw a stranger. She wondered why would a stranger want to fight on her behalf. Suddenly, two officers came up and arrested the stranger for a past offence he committed. The stranger then turned to Cesario and said," This comes from looking for you, my friend. Still, I must now answer for my offence. Please returned me the purse that I had given you."
Cesario was confused beyond doubt at the moment and she insisted she did not recieved any purse from the stranger and even offered him some of her money. The man, enraged, turned to the crowd and cried out that Cesario was ungrateful, ending with a sentence that shocked Viola, " O Sebastian, how you have deceived me!" Sebastian, Viola's twin brother, had survived the shipwrecked and the stranger is Antonio, a sea captain, who saved his life.
Meanwhile, Sebastian was walking around town when he was attacked by Sir Andrew, who had mistaken him for Cesario. The noise brought out Olivia and she ordered them to stop fighting. She brought Sebastian into her home and showered him with attention. Sebastian was delighted by the care and concern from Olivia, who also mistook him for Cesario. The lady, afraid the he might pushed her away again, proposed that they should get married immediately. Sebastian, happy but bewildered, accept the proposal and they were married right there and then. He then went off, looking for Antonio to share the good news.
Antonio was then brought to Olivia's house by the two officers. The Duke had also arrived. Antonio pointed at Viola and said that she was the reason he returned back to Illyria and risked getting caught. However, the Duke said that Viola had been with him for the past 3 months. Olivia then arrived and called Viola her "husband". Viola was shocked. The Duke was more hurt than shocked. He could not imagine his faithful page betraying him. Suddenly, Sir Andrew arrived, claiming that he had been attacked by Cesario. Viola, bewildered, said that she had never fought Sir Andrew.
At this moment, Sebastian appeared. The group became silent and they stared at both Viola and Sebastian. They had the same features, the same complexion, the same height, in fact, they were identical. Finally Antonio spoke up and asked who is the real Sebastian. Viola stepped forward and told Sebastian that she was, in fact, Viola. It was a happy reunion for the siblings. The Duke, realising the Cesario was actually a girl, began to look at Viola with new eyes. Olivia, seeing the look the Duke gave Viola, proposed that the priest who wedded her and Sebastian, performed another wedding as well. And they lived happily ever after.



That's the end of the story. I added in the last sentence myself, to make the story end nicely. Hee! *Pants* I hope you all enjoyed the story, it is not easy to summarise until like this, you know! Maybe people won't even look at the story. Though I hope I did a good job summarising, this story is too simplified to be enjoyable. So maybe peeps out there may want to borrow the play to read. One last thing, anybody see the similarities up there?

In the Movies

It is funny how some thoughts strike me when I'm in the middle of doing something totally irrelevant. I was in the movie the other day with a guy friend and that experience crumbled one of the theory I formed when I was in the movies with Him.
I recalled the day when we watched a comedy together. He was sitting beside me and throughout the show, we were sitting near to each other. At that very moment, I'm embarrassed to say it now, I wanted his arms around me. (Gosh, I sound like some desperate spinster.) "I need a guy", this voice kept swimming in my head. I prided myself on staying single and being independent from guys and that feeling was new to me. But then, I also realised that I only want him physically. I never found the need to talk to him, to talk about our ideas, to tell him my feelings, to click with him and yet I can only think of snuggling into his arms. It hit me then, I do not need someone to connect with me in terms of thinking, I just need a guy, any guy, to be there when I need a shoulder to cry on, to hold my hand, to hug me when I'm feeling down... Sounds kind of weird, ain't it? Like I just want a body. (Please do not think of the sexual way.)
So that was the theory I formed that explains why I alternate between cold and hot to Him. But after the movie with one of my guy friend, my theory was busted. We were also sitting together and suddenly I thought of trying out my theory. Since it was dark and he is a guy, I tried to imagine, imagine ok!, him putting his arms around me. And I SHUDDERED. He just do not appeal to me. I thought, " Hey, didn't you say any guy will do? What happened"? So, after the experiment, my theory does not stand.
So what are my true feelings for Him? Only physical attraction? It cannot be, as to say the truth, he does not have a great bod. I don't know. Time will tell.'

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It is the law of nature. Meet a predator, fight or flight. I've been fighting for some time, sometimes against Him, sometimes against me. Maybe it is time for me to flight.

National Day Parade 2006

I've got a ticket to the National Day Parade Family Day 2006!! Though it is not the actual thing, it is better than not having the chance to go. I've been yearning for a chance to take part again so of course I jumped at this opportunity!


Gwen and Chelsia who are my NDP kakis.


Like the usual parade, they start off with the marching contingent. The unusual thing about this year's parade is that there was no marching! The supporting contingent ran in! Maybe the organisers gave up on their marching . *Laughs* But when the Guard of Honour came marching in, I was so hyped up. I wanna join them! *Whines*




We managed to get VIP tickets so needless to say, we got the BEST view! Woohoo! Plus we were in the shade whereas the others were melting in the blaring hot sun. Managed to get some lousy shots of the fireworks. Since this was only family day, I can say that the fireworks were not nice at all. I think it will be different on the actual day. After all, this is the last year the stadium is holding the NDP as it will be tore down after this year.



Then came the grand finale. Well, throughout the show, there was some cock up here and there. But considering this is their first public performance, I think it is not bad. They have to practise more though.



Anyway, the day ended with a long wait for some of the performers.



And we were off to have our dinner - Tian Ji Zhou! Claypot "frog" porridge! I don't know what is Tian Ji in english.. Hee! No photos though, because we were too busy devouring our food.

Lastly, I love you, Singapore!! Hope you will have a fun filled birthday this year!

Last Day of Work

Finally, the last day of work has arrived. Time really flew. I had been working in the same company for 6 months! When I first started, I had to really learn everything from scratch since this was the first time I worked in an office. I didn't even know how to pay bills and to deposit money! So I had to called my friends for help when I ran into problems. You see, I was trying my best not to look stupid in front of my colleages. =P
Then as time goes by, before I know it, I had settled into a routine. Things are not as tough as they appeared to be when I first started work. Though I still have to do phone calls, I am more relaxed and not as tense. (Tell ya a secret, in the beginning, I used to write down EVERY single word I planned to say on a piece of paper and practised once before making the call).
Needless to say, i had my colleages, namely Maggie and Gwen, for helping me along the way. Maggie is my shi-fu, teaching me everything patiently. She believes in arming us with the skills to survive in the working world. Thus, whenever I met a problem, I can always count on her to guide and teach me. I am utterly grateful to her. On the other hand, there is Gwen for entertainment. She likes to blast my eardrums with her loud laughter! I believe I'm quite deaf after my stint in the company. Anyway, she's my source of gossip juicy news and we spent hours making jokes and laughing our heads off. She is just like my normal couple, a term we used to introduce ourselves. *Giggles*
Now, it is time to leave the company. Damn, I really missed them! I remember Birdie once said, " How I wish I can go to the office without working." Yea, my sentiments exactly.
Anyway, we went to the restaurant Desire at Scarlet Hotel for my farewell lunch. Did I mentioned that I have great and generous bosses as well?



Wei Ying, Me, Gwen and Jasmine aka Ba Jie



Maggie on the far left





Well, goodbye Straits Advisors Pte Ltd! Thank you for the beautiful memories for the past 6 months! I will cherish them.....

Two Crazy KTV Sessions~!

KTV with my secondary school mates

Although there are only four of us, i'm glad we managed to shatter some glass with our powerful voices.



It starts to get a little weird as the day goes on.



Decided to end the day with the classic shoot.




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KTV with my colleages

We went to this cheap ktv place which cost $10+++ per person. Scream our way through 5 hours of KTV. Damn, it's fun!


Our dinner at Chinatown

Songs

A good song is one that tells you a story.

It seems to be telling you your life story.

It stir up something deep inside you.

It open doors which you have closed before.

Suddenly, things seem clearer to you.

Suddenly, you feel more confused.