Evony-ing

I think I'm addicted to Evony. An idiot plundered my city twice yesterday and got robbed of his thousands of armies instead, thanks to my traps and archer towers. Unfortunately, he got one of his stronger freaking alliance members and my city was almost, completely raided.

I was feeling miserable as I had to rebuild all the shit. Then I joined a powerful and helpful alliance and my city has been left alone (so far) for me to rebuild my stuff, so yay. The helpful alliance transported loads of resources to aid me in the rebuilding. Sigh, looks like I can't play this game on my own without some strong backings.

Anyway the game isn't really that interesting as there is a lot of waiting time. It can take hours to build something but I get satisfaction from seeing my city grow. And the prestige rises too.

Sleepy now, having KTV-ed till wee hours of morning yesterday and woke up involuntarily by alarm this morning to brunch with a longtime friend. I haven't seen her for years! My goodness....

Apple in hot water in France over 'exploding iPhones'

Is this the reason why Singtel is taking ages to replenish its iPhone stock?

Early this year, my colleagues happily snapped up China's version of iPhone (known as the Aphone) in Shanghai. Despite its incredibly attractive price, I had my reservations about purchasing it, which I didn't urm for fear of it exploding. I mean it's always better to get the real thing...and now look what's happening?

Oh well, my 2 year old iPod hasn't burst into flames yet..

The Proposal

Caught The Proposal today and it's your typical feel-good predictable comedy. I even read the spoiler ending on the web before watching but anyway no surprises.

And then, there is Ryan Reynolds.













He has the cutest puppy dog eyes. Of course, the japanese spitz in the movie was a real darling as well. After Reynolds, haha.

Not only that.



His body is smoking hot as well. The only unfortunate thing is he's married to bombshell Scarlett Johansson. LOL.

I need to go re-watch the 2009 MTV movie awards for him and Sandra Bullock's segment.

Thoughts run

It is so difficult to find a travelling kaki nowadays. I envy friends who have a fixed travelling mate to tour the world with. You know, those you can call upon to arrange the annual or bi-annual trip without worrying that they will backout on you or choose their boyfriends over you. I can't count on my family either as they are not really into travelling and they hate long haul flights.

Of course, the ideal solution would be to find myself a boyfriend (who enjoys travelling too), but haha the likelihood of that ever happening is close to zero at the moment. Or maybe not at all in this lifetime as I resign myself to becoming a 败犬.

Once upon a time, I thought I found a fun travelling mate. That was before she got attached and her boyfriend decided to object to our future expeditions. He objected during my lowest emotional point this year. I thought I could steal a breather, sort out of thoughts on this long awaited getaway and he had to say 'no' to her and even picked a fight with her. I think he's a complete moron but I'll leave it at that.

Alternatively, I'll be a lone traveller from now onwards. A lot of people go on trips on their own...it's really no big deal. Except maybe there will be fewer solo shots if I can't find anyone to take pic of me and some scenery, haha.

Yeah, no big deal. I just need to rant. I'm semi-depressed today.

why did I register my interest? For fun?

I gushed about the blackberry in a previous post but I went to register my interest in the iPhone on the Singtel website. I didn't know iPhone 3G (whatever) was exclusive to Singtel. Neither did I know it was just launched in July. I thought it was out since ages ago...yeah probably the 2G version. I don't keep track of phones.

Anyway registering my interest doesn't mean I need to buy. I still don't understand how the iPhone plan works and not forgetting the cost is much higher than my current plan.

And I really don't need a phone at the moment....despite my 'T' alphabet soft touch keypad giving me problems.

I need some sort of retail therapy.

why have you changed?

This is not how my stupid blog should look like. I have resorted to using one of their pre-made templates as I couldn't figure out how the hell to get those tags to work on the new template I have chosen.

Argh. I'll have all the time in the world to fiddle with this next week. Or dump blogspot for xanga, movable type? Anything that allows me to modify my template freely without getting a headache from all the technical jargon? But I can't bear to dump chocolate-rain. After all I've been here for the past 3 years.

Time for bed, stayed up way too late last night for my nonsense surfing.

NDP random ramblings

Happy birthday Singapore.

Google has a really cute logo specially for NDP. I like saving and collecting their cute logos.

Some random things:

Kristen Stewart has a pink blackberry! I didn't know blackberries come in pink. Came across the below picture while having my daily dosage of Rob Pattinson papz moments.

Click to see the high resolution/HQ version. The pink berry is nice!

Sumiko Tan wrote a column on meeting her jc crush some 29 years later. Cute article. I always enjoyed reading her columns.

I can't imagine meeting a jc crush (in person) almost 30 years later. It has been close to a decade since my last serious crush in jc and he is my non-interactive friend on facebook. I still get to see his updates once in a while. Facebook, twitter whatever has made the world smaller and you can basically be updated on all your ex-crushes, lovers, bfs/gfs if you cared enough for them to still exist within your virtual network. At least Sumiko went on that one date with him, sadly I didn't, ha. Did deliberately turning up at one of his usual haunts count as meeting? lol. I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with that if the chance ever popped up. If we weren't exactly friends to begin with....

The weather sucks today.

Bummer

I must be one of the rare few in Sg who's not enjoying her long weekend and hoping for it to be over asap.

Hopeless

I suspect I have blogged about this JJ Lin song before. But hell, I'm feeling every single freaking word in the lyrics. Okay, most of it anyway.

Black Warrior
作詞：五月天 阿信 作曲：林俊傑

有了天空 為何世界 還有 地心引力
有了希望 為何絕望 還是 如影隨形
有了勇氣 就讓哭泣 埋葬過去
去寫一種歷史 名字叫奇蹟
如果恐懼就像火炬 那就讓它沸騰我血液 帶我到絕地
喔 我才能完全 覺醒
在黑暗 的對面 是光明 光明 後面 是陰影
正義 邪惡 是誰 有權 定義
在命運 的前面 我懷疑
在面具 後面 鐵一般決心 光榮的犧牲 也是種榮譽
不怕人說 不要人懂 我要證明 明天我的姓名 將會是傳奇
如果恐懼就像火炬 那就讓它沸騰我血液 帶我到絕地
喔 我才能完全 覺醒
在黑暗 的對面 是光明 光明 後面 是陰影
正義 邪惡 是誰 有權 定義
在命運 的前面 我懷疑
在面具 後面 鐵一般決心 光榮的犧牲 也是種榮譽
失敗會設下陷阱 沒有勝利會發出邀請
只有我自己 喔 能夠還我自己 公平 還我自己 公平
在黑暗 的對面 是光明 光明 後面 是陰影
正義 邪惡 是誰 有權 定義
在命運 的前面 我懷疑 在面具 後面 鐵一般決心
要扭轉命運最後的反擊

For this moment, I love JJ Lin (Mayday's 阿信, whoever wrote this song). Move aside Jay.

Is my self-constructed bubble of hope about to burst? As my mood declines to its worst on a Friday.

I still have 2 fat files to clear with the manager later, yeah what a fantastic end to this week. The long weekend is non-appealing. My life stinks too much for anything to appeal to me.