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I discovered with horror today that one of my old online diaries (note: I had many) was still very much alive. Diaryland hasn't deactivated it and I had posted some rubbish on the front page entry 2 years ago. Needless to say, I promptly removed all traces of the rubbishy entry.

Said diary can be considered to be my pioneer diary. I actually jumped on the online diary craze in the year 2000 which effectively means I have been babbling nonsense online for almost a decade. That is pretty incredible.

And of course the standard of my online writing/thoughts have dropped tremendously. I used to have so much to bitch/rant about and the language was urm, more flowery. I was a literature student then, these things come easy. Then my creativity died as my life degenerated. From a proper web-based diary, it became a substance-less blog. I couldn't care less also if I have a stream of loyal readers as half the time I'm ranting to myself, lol. I'm not as interesting as before and with that I mean the me many years ago. Or maybe there are still interesting entries but those are classified ones which are published elsewhere and private.

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The year is drawing to a close. I have no new year resolutions as I never keep to any of them. Reflections? No, I don't really want to reflect back on 2009 so I'll leave it at that. I hope for an uneventful and bland 2010.

my world is a fish bowl

My world is freaking small.

I just discovered today that my soon-to-be auditee is my primary school classmate whom I have not met in the last 14 years. That's really disgustingly long. And I never recalled seeing him turn up at any of our past primary school gatherings.

Personally I find it slightly awkward to audit somebody I know although I have lost touch with the person for so many years.

Oh well, I hope he's still nice and hasn't evolved into an asshole over the years.

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Today is the day I broke my 3 month self-imposed shopping (clothes) ban. Just 2 weeks shy of the 3 month mark.

I have been buying random not that expensive things during the period. Justifiable cos they were not clothes but I was getting so sick of my work wear! Although there isn't much motivation to dress up at work, haha!

Anyway, I'm still proud that the ban did work from early October till mid December. *gives myself a pat on the shoulder* However from now onwards, I'm going to stick strictly to my monthly clothes buying budget.

In other news, the resident certified ass in my ex-company tendered his resignation. How ironic that he'd be the next to go after me.

D-u-m-b

Lately I have been composing a few un-published entries but anyway they aren't important (as I didn't complete any of them).

What I want to say today is, facebook is really dumb with the whole privacy revamp. Previously we can restrict viewing for status updates, now I can't restrict that without sealing off my entire wall of posts. With the wall missing, won't the person know that he/she has been blocked?

How stupid can facebook get?

punctured heart, randomness

New Moon sucks.

Just like the book.

It was already a chore trying to finish that book because it had no plot cept for Bella's internal struggles and hallucinations. The action only picks up in Eclipse. New Moon was a total drag in my opinion. The 1.5 popcorn review was damn right.

Maybe Treasure Hunter is more interesting, lol. After all it stars Jay and Baron Chen. lol again.

I'm so sleepy.

thankgodit'sfridaybutihaven'tcompletemyworkshucks!

Sluggish friday afternoon, what I term as the post-lunch syndrome.

After yesterday night, I concluded that my judgment is impaired/terribly flawed. Sigh, I will not indulge in self-deluding no more.

They are all the same.

I should shut up

I over-reacted.

p.e.a.c.e for now

Life has been totally uneventful, even to the point of being boring.

This is the tradeoff I guess.

However I'm still grateful for everything.

this makes me smile

edit: Not anymore.

Stephen Gately

Boyzone star Stephen Gately dies in Majorca.

Oh my god.

All right, he's gay but I used to like him during his boyzone days (my primary school days). I used to think he was the cutest amongst the lot.

This is truly shocking. He was only 33.

Totally didn't know about this till someone posted the news link on facebook.

RIP Stephen. :\

Flirting, heroes, GG and vampires

I always enjoyed reading Sumiko Tan's articles. She always seemed to talk about topics that I can relate to, read: pending spinsterhood (and embracing it).

On yesterday's Sunday times' lifestyle, she talked about flirting with the bak chor mee man, as well as flirting on networking sites such as facebook, myspace etc. She thinks flirting is good but is it wrong to flirt when you are happily married/attached etc? Even on cyberspace. But that doesn't apply to me cos I'm happily/unhappily single (I can't decide). But I suck at the art of flirting IRL. I don't think I can ever excel in that in real life towards a guy I fancy. I won't even look straight at his eyes.

Anyway, may I add that there is another avenue for flirting. Evony. Hah. Recently I engaged in some harmless flirting with this brit from my alliance. Recent as in 2 weeks ago. He kind of started it first and I played along. Words are perhaps easier as typed out on screen vs actual flirting done in person. BUT due to our timezone difference, it's hard to catch him online and thus I haven't been able to catch him online for the last 2 weeks (anw 1 week I was away in Japan). Kinda missing his humor. Hmm. The Americans are always around. Due to our 12 hours' difference, i.e. their 9am is our 9pm, hence they are always around to chat with. And some of them sleep crazy hours. However, my nameless brit loves to log on at 12am London time which is like 7am SG time...so bleah. Oh and he's kinda cute as seen on the profile pic posted on our alliance forum. ;)

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Back to Heroes S4. It sucks. The first 3 episodes couldn't redeem themselves from S3's shitty ending. The storyline was sloppily done. There don't seem to be a focus unlike S1 and S2 where we know there is THE COMPANY/Pinehurst behind all the crap. But now I don't even know who's pulling the strings. The mysterious carnival guy doesn't interest me much. Did Claire's roomie really commit suicide? Not explained. Sorry, Claire Bennett's free fall test doesn't explain why she didn't see the suicide note earlier. Syler has become an irritant who's always hovering in the background. Not to mention, Nathan Petrelli (who's actually Syler) seems redundant at this point in time. Come on writers, save the show!

Gossip Girl Season 3. Un-interesting too. The only reason why I watch GG is cos of Blair Waldolf's fashion. Which is the only saving grace at the moment. I used to watch GG also because Chace Crawford is cute BUT Nathaniel Archibald is............I'm speechless. All he does is hook up with girls and doesn't contribute even to the teeniest of the plot. Totally irrelevant and out-of-point casting.

The Vampire Diaries 3 is too teen angst-ridden. The brooding good vampire vs the evil vampire. And the heroine who couldn't decide which brother she prefers. I think I'll take Twilight any day even though twilight sucks too. Okay I think the best vamp movie I saw so far has to be The Interview with the Vampire. Love the book too and Brad Pitt kicks ass as Louis although Tom Cruise came across as a little short for the role of Lestat.

I'm still watching the above cos I'm bored, I need entertainment......hope Taiwan comes up with some good dramas soon as I enjoyed the previous 败犬女王.

An invisible thread

The season finale of Heroes Season 3 left me deeply unsatisfied.

Season 1 and 2 finales had better closures and ended their respective volumes nicely. NYC was spared of the explosion in S1 and the Shanti virus was destroyed in S2. Season 3 finale chose not to end on a cliff hanger but instead had Syler taking on the form of Nathan Patrelli. It was not revealed how Nathan's body was disposed off either. Peter Petrelli was the one who jabbed the tranquilizer which could kill an elephant into Syler's throat so as to knock him out. However, it was not explained subsequently why Peter was not present when Angela Patrelli engaged Matt Parkman's help in removing Syler's memories and replacing it with Nathan's. Syler shape shifted into Nathan but we are not sure if this is permanent. So it seemed then that Peter and Claire Bennett were both kept in the dark of Nathan's death.

Claire's blood can be used to revive the dead where it was used to revive Noah Bennett when he was shot in the eye by Mohinder Suresh. So why did Angela Petrelli not chose this alternative? Why have Syler replace her dead son when there is this possibility of bringing the real Nathan back from the dead? Furthermore, Noah was present when Syler was brainwashed by Matt in the second last scene but no suggestions were made by him, assuming that Angela might be unaware that her granddaughter's blood had healing abilities (highly unlikely).

I don't really like the twist at the end. To have Syler take Nathan's shoes. Perhaps the writer wasn't sure if he wants to keep Syler or Nathan in the story and it is best to end it this way. Like Nicki Sanders being written off to make way for Tracy Strauss. But I can't imagine the show without the resident psychotic killer - Syler (Zachary Quinto). So he should be back as himself pretty soon.

Season 4 starts next Monday. All the unanswered queries about to be revealed, hopefully.

Don't wake me up when September ends

This has got to be the best month of 2009.

New toy.
New drama seasons.
Last week of September to look forward to. :)

Before it all ends....oh well.

get well soon

This is terrible.

I was talking to this girl from the same alliance on evony yesterday. She was telling me that she plans to attack this nearby hostile city after she's back from church. And the next thing I'm hearing today is that she was involved in a serious car accident on the way back from church. Barely conscious now and can only move her right arm. The stupid driver fled.

She is sort of like my neighbour on the strategy game, about 5.7 miles away from me on the game and possibly zillions of miles away in terms of actual physical distance. I think she's american. What shocked me was that I was just talking to her yesterday and then everyone was asking about her this morning and I was wondering why. She was really nice to me, all giggly on the game and sending me resources when I first started on the game. Sweet girl.

It's just a game. These people are nicknames, probably won't ever get to know their real names or know how they look like but it still got to me.

Hope you get well soon dear neighbour.

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.