Word Life

From Fun to Fuck

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:48:29 GMT

Just came back from 3 days and 2 nights at Batam!

Went with my mom and a friend's family. Though there were downsides to the trip like a)Staying at a 1 Star Hotel (My mom's friend wanted to budget) and it being a really short trip, I really enjoyed myself. The hotel was located right smack dab in the centre of town so there was easy access to shopping centres.... though I didn't shop much, cos other than bags for girls I didn't really find anything nice.

The food, though, was great. Ate at a traditional indonesian Restaurant for lunch on the first day which served SUPERB fish dishes; I think we ordered every fish dish on the menu. Dinner was at a seafood restaurant by the seaside. Not forgetting the numerous local kuehs, cakes, fried delicacies, bread throughout I think I've gained 6 million pounds.

Most of the second day was spent at Martha Tillar Day Spa, one of Indonesia's finest spas. It was my first actual spa experience, and it was AWESOME. We smelled like gardens after all the oils and fragrances that was applied on us. The massage was great too, I actually felt the after effects of it at night.

Although, at one point during the facial, the hot-air-blowing-thing made it difficult to breathe and I think I had a stupid expression on my face cos the woman stopped and asked me if I had asthma.

Argh, but how I HATE short holidays! It's like foreplay with no sex. I swear I'm going back to Batam again for a longer time period. Looking forward to Vietnam next year! :)

The first thing I heard when I got back, though, was the impending doom that is our next module. 4 days of classes per week INCLUDING A WHOLE SATURDAY for the next 2 weeks! Not to mention ASSIGNMENTS due on both these Saturdays. SO.MUCH.DRAMA.

WOW!

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:51:47 GMT

I've been listening to this on repeat for like the whole day.

I miss Amy Winehouse so much! Her live musicians were awesome too. :(

Exams are finally over!! Granted, there was only the one exam. And awesomely enough, our lecturer went through the exam questions before the exam. HA! WOW! -nods-

It's my favourite time of the year again! I really love November, with its daily offering of deluge. November justifies the purchase of scarfs, cardigans, ties and whatnot in Singapore. Looking forward to Batam next week!

Jossverse

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:26:24 GMT

I tell people that in my free time I like to read just to sound a little intelligent. But screw it, I love watching TV series' more than anything, would do it for the rest of my life if I could. I'm a sit-in-front-of-my-com-streaming-tv potato.

In between work and school and projects I've been re-watching all the eps of Buffy and Angel and I really have to say that they're the best television series' I've even seen on television. They're so timeless despite the fact that they were aired about 10 years ago. Joss Whedon is a genius. It's kind of like Friends, but with the added everyday demon slaying.

I never really get a lot of the dialogue when I watched it way back then but watching it now really makes the experience so much more enriching. The character development and depth is so well done and they are all just so relate-able to.

Maybe it's why I thought Twilight was such bullshit right from the start - I even made an attempt to read the book but couldn't get through the first chapter. When you've had such a good experience with Vampire TV, everything else just pales in comparison. Buffy and Angel > Those two people whose names I can't even remember in Twilight.

Love Poem

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:13:27 GMT

FUCK INDIAN PEOPLE AND THEIR PRAYERS. PRAY SO MUCH FOR FUCK. I BET THEY'D PRAY OVER THE OPENING OF A MAILBOX. WHY AM I INDIAN. WHY. CANNOT DO PROJECT, PRAYERS MORE IMPORTANT. PRAY NEED THE ENTIRE FAMILY TREE INVOLVED, IF NOT PRAYERS WILL FAIL AND THE DEITIES WILL SMITE YOUR INDIAN FACE WITH COCONUT OIL.

Relatives

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:31:04 GMT

My relationships with my relatives on my dad's side has been strained at best since I entered Polytechnic, and now with my grandmother's death and the subsequent prayers the relationships have become even more strained. Like, the more often I meet you, the worse it gets.

I don't hate or dislike any of them, but I just can't... click. They watch Tamil movies, sing Tamil songs, are active in the Indian community and so on. I get my kicks playing video games and watching TV series'. The feeling of attending a family gathering for me is equivalent to booking into camp on a Sunday evening.

Being a 22 year-old having issues like these only makes you look like a whiner. I doubt any of my family members (and most people) will ever truly get the way I feel, because it would seem like a lack of effort on my part. It's easy for them to to say, "Go hang out with the rest of the boys". But not so easy when you don't smoke, drink, club, gamble, play football, know the latest tamil songs. You know, Straight Indian stuff.

But I suppose the one thing that I hate the most would be the traditions and beliefs that come with them. I can't wear Black to family gatherings. I can't watch TV for 16 days when someone dies (Like, what?). I have to greet every single person when I enter a room, and say goodbye to every single one when I leave. I have to attend this prayer, that prayer for some unknown reason. I can't cut my nails at night. Some of these beliefs don't even have practical reasoning, they don't have to. Questioning them is like suggesting we don't be Indians anymore. Being an adult doesn't spare you from these either, doesn't matter if you're 40 even I suppose.

So when my grandma died, I didn't feel grief. Maybe relief, because a frail old lady's suffering had ended. Horrible, but true.

To end off a rather uncharacteristically non-bitchy non-slutty rant, the bitch below is the luckiest woman in the world.

The cute guy in the photo was my OC back when I was a recce trooper. He was really nice and more importantly a friend when I was about to down PES. I remember my last month in M.I Battalion when he would call me into his office to have long talks about "life". Lol. And he even met me in Macdonald's for lunch once. Now which OC would do that? He left the army not long after I went to my new unit. I think he's the best officer in the world. Not to mention best looking in my eyes.

To his wife: Laugh it up, sweetie. You struck gold.

Whateverl!

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:29:09 GMT

Isn't it true that people treat you in a certain way because you behave in a way that results in them treating you that way?

So why does it still come as such a shock to people when other people treat them in a certain way because they've been behaving in a way that merits that treatment?

If you're cold to someone, eventually they'll be cold to you too.

If you lose someone's trust, they're sure to lose faith in you.

If you forget about someone, eventually they'll forget about you too.

The world doesn't revolve around you, and it isn't presented to you on a silver platter. The people around you have feelings too, foreign and vague as that might seem. Don't start bitching when people suddenly don't treat you the way you want them to. Chances are, you're the one who screwed up and are too afraid to admit it.

While you're there indulging your denial, the rest of us are left going WTF. It's so much easier to blame others for your own mistakes, isn't it.

Juon

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:18:38 GMT

Himbo

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:32:10 GMT

Darren says:
erm

Darren says:
give me 15 mins can

Darren says:
i go toilet and eat something

Darren says:
later i msn u again

Thiru says:
??

Darren says:
hee

Thiru says:
toilet and eat??

The one with Extroverts and Introverts

Wed, 06 May 2009 11:52:38 GMT

"They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts, and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are." -The Witch of Portobello

Is this true? Granted, it is sad and pathetic to listen to people go on and on about what ZOMG AWESOME lives they lead and think people are too dumb to see that they're sugar coating it just a tad bit.

Over the years I think I've improved somewhat in this area with the bitchy tirades and all, but I still get the occasional "Why are you so quiet?" Yeah, like a person's going to have a straight answer with supporting documents for that question.

I think most of us are just in between. We're extroverted at times and introverted at times, with perhaps just a slight inclination to one side.

20 working days to ORD! :) But why am I still doing work. :(

Fuckers

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:08:55 GMT

I'll be the first to admit that I don't like children (and please, spare me the "You were a child once shtick". I KNOW). The words spawn and toyol come to mind when I see a little kid running around and blocking my way.

But dislikes aside, get this - parents who would abandon their 2 year-old kids in front of an NTUC. What, you think NTUC sells children now? What's worse is that you WOULD THINK that with all the supposed child-lovers in the world someone would stop and notice a crying toddler IN FRONT OF A SUPERMARKET asking for his mother.

I love you, mom.

Secrets

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:00:50 GMT

Love's memory has traced our outline in this place... But will the spider remember, or the sun?
Did the water capture our faces in permanence?

Our secret has been revealed by the locust.... Yet I have told no other.... I write these words in silence, in mute testimony... To what once was.... But our image remains alive in this place together with the ladybugs.... It cannot be removed...

You, me
We, then
Were here

We saw the day and hoped for tomorrow.... We caught a brief glimpse of love's promise.... We were not liars... But thieves of time.... For now time has now forgotten us... Yet our memory lingers, and love remembers.... This place that was ours

Things I love about army

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:35:39 GMT

Some people are just too pathetic. Really.

Anyway.

Since I'll be ord-ing in like two months, I thought I'd make a list of things I'll miss in army.

- Cheap haircut of $4.50
- Hot army guys at the swimming pool
- Hot army guys during Life runs

Well, that's about it. Seems like my two years here was really fruitful and enriching.

Can't wait for Friday and Saturday! :)

His

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:13:26 GMT

And we wonder why the roses are dying.

Funny when things never change even when he says they will. But while he's off screwing him my life is standing still.

Somewhere beyond the flossy clouds Cupid has lost his romancing arrows. He plays sad sonorous tunes on his bow dedicated to all weepy lonely hearts.

Every night I talk to the stars pretending its him, and it acts just like him too.. far away and never replying to my questions.

Borsses!

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:08:42 GMT

Hello everybody!

Today I'm here to talk to you about how to get your borsses to treat you betterl, that's right! You know, cos there are some borsses, especially in the national service or ns or arrmy, who think their rank is very higher and you owe it to them to do all their work and they get all the credit and even then they still treat you very terriberly, ya?

So recently after this eveant last week where I was the emcee and my borss kept changing my script at the last minute and did a lot of things very last minute and I had to sufferl because of it, I had this idea that if I ignore him and avoid him and don't laugh when he makes his useless jokes he would get the hint that he was being terriber! And guess what, I was right!

I think he was a little fearing because I am a little bit more close to a few of my officerls and they also might start ignoring him too, because this is a seecret, but they dislike him too! I'm so powerfool, ya! I'm so powerfool, like the Energizer!

Tanks!

You can't fake love, ya?

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:10:49 GMT

This was originally meant to be an emotional entry.

But, oh well.

I'm a little bit dreading going to the Hospiter tomorrow to see my grandmotherl because I really don't feel like going, and it's a Sunday and I can be playing the bitch volleyboar, ya? Because number one thing, is that I am not very close to herl, and yet everyone expects me to feel something when they say thing like, "She doesn't have long to lives" and "Her condition is quite serial".

I may sounds like a bitch for saying these thing but I really don't want to be fake, ya? I don't want to leave a life of fake love and false affections. I don't want to be forced to care for someone I don't feel much love for. I don't want to growing up like these, ya? I'm sorry, am I being too eever and cold-hearted? Life is too short, ya?

And all my sisterls feel the same ways too. But I guess that is why we are sisterls! Why should we fake the love ya? Like my love for Chanel is rear, so if my Chanel bag were to tearing, I would feel really sad, ya?

Tanks!

Porky

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:00:19 GMT

No!!!

I was really meant to be a kind, patient person! I'm supposed to be a polite, sincere, considerate and classy human being like Beyonce or Grace Kelly! I was never meant to be like this!

*Elsen laughs at a joke*

Me: *snorts like a pig and smiles sweetly at Elsen* That's how you laugh.

I think my understudy hates me now. Maybe I should be a nicer person from now on. Like seriously.

Persona

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:07:29 GMT

Imagine you had like, magical beings living within you, like Hindu Goddess Parvathi here.

These beings - or personas - would share the same characteristics as you. Like say, if you were a natural-born leader (or an egomaniac) an "Emperor" type persona (aka Arcana) would suit you. Or if you were really into reading and knowledge and stuff, the Magician. Or if you were a passionate person, the Lover.... and so on.

And the best part of it all, these personas are actually from lore or even derived from religion so they're not something straight out of a gaming geek's mind.

Shin Megami Tensei Persona 3 (it's a game if you haven't already guessed it) is my favourite so far in the Shin Megami Tensei series! I absolutely love how they've classified the personas (read: demons/deities/mythical creatures) such that they correspond to a person's personality.

P.S: Ok I might sound temporarily nuts right now with all this fanboying but Persona 3 is LIFE, LIKE SERIOUSLY. ~~It totally makes up for being broke and homebound most of the time.~~

For Marcus

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:25:14 GMT

FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE WEIGHT GAIN

1. Not getting 8 hours of sleep

2. Stress

3. Medication

4. Illness - Hypothyroidism

5. Menopause - Irrelevant to us so that means 4 factors only!!

So the key to staying thin is to

1. Sleep a lot

2. Stay clear of work

3. Don't get sick. Even if you do, don't take medication. There is a chance you might lose weight because of sickness anyway, especially if you get a fever. But if its Hypothyroidism, you must cure it immediately, explained further below.

4. Hypothyroidism - The most common medical condition that causes weight gain is hypothyroidism. A deficiency of thyroid hormone can decrease metabolism, causing appetite loss and weight gain.

"If you are feeling fatigued, lethargic, swelling, hoarse voice, intolerance to cold, sleeping too much, or headaches, you should see your doctor for an easy test to determine if you have hypothyroidism."

JANG CHEOL-SU!

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:45:23 GMT

I watched my first Korean Drama in the form of Couple or Trouble today. (And no, I just COULDN'T LJ-CUT this).

It's about a totally mean rich bitch (of course, I love her) who loses her memory and is tricked into being a nanny for this really hot guy whose hatred she earns before the amnesia, played by Oh Ji-ho below (cue swoon).

And Han ye-seul's Cho Anna could totally be a Blair Waldorf albeit older and married.

I thought Korean Dramas would be sad and weepy but that hasn't been the case so far for this one. I WAS HOOKED FROM THE FIRST EPISODE HOMG THIS SHIT IS ADDICTIVE.

The 5-day long weekend was great. I got so used to it that camp seems so foreign now.

December

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:39:06 GMT

Finally.

The useless month known as November is done with. Hong Kong, here we come!

Women are from Mars

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:27:36 GMT

I love Veronica Mars!!!

Anybody who wants the 3 seasons of it lemme know!

Rainy days

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:37:12 GMT

It's that time of the year again.

http://gthiru.livejournal.com/28090.html

Green Cardigan

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:33:09 GMT

There is a God.

I was whining to everyone last week on how no one created dark green cardigans for guys and lo and behold, I found one in Topman's latest stock this week! It was love at first sight, I tell you. I was shopping for a jacket for Hong Kong with Marcus but everything else paled in comparison. Marc Humphrey bought a dark grey cardigan from Esprit as well.

I can't believe all the shopping for these past few weeks. I'm down to my last 17 bucks and I've never felt happier.

Clerk

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:08:58 GMT

If there's one misconception about clerks in the army, it's that our life is more relaxed. Going home everyday is great, but since we have that entitlement we're expected to work our butts off from the 8 to 5+ pm that we're there.

My typical day goes like this now:

1. Come to camp earlier than everyone and draw the keys to the office
2. Send Parade State
3. Get ready the classroom for lessons
4. Return to office, attempt to work on long-term project
5. Get sidelined for a "small job"
6. Get sidelined from that small job with another small job
7. Get sidelined from those small jobs with yet another small job
8. Return from completing small jobs to long-time project, and then get questioned on how it's getting along
9. Be told that you have to stay back for an event and close up thereafter
10. Miss the Camp Bus
11. Close up after event
12. Return office keys
13. Emo on the bus and train ride home

On top of all that you have to include the liaising with construction workers and telling them where to place furniture and whatnot, deciding on the layout of how the new office should be, booking medical appointments for my superiors, calling up and people and finding out whether they're going to be in camp blah blah blah the list goes on longer than a dreary Monday. I feel like an underpaid PA for 10+ people who need being taken care of like little toddlers. Of course, they're nice, which means you can't hold it against them.

I suppose I should be grateful that I'm trusted enough to do these tasks. Yet all I feel like doing is screaming and some part of me knows that I can never really talk this out with anyone, because it's not even a real job and besides, I got myself into this by declaring 302. Uni is locked far away in the back of my mind now and all I want to do everyday is go home and read a book or watch Gossip Girl.

Right. I've ignored my phone long enough.

Emoing

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:26:16 GMT

This song makes me sad.