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It’s just emotions…

May 15, 2009 · Filed under Amusings, Random Babblings

After sending off JY to the airport 4 times, being apart from him for 5 semesters and perservering through a long distance relationship for 2 and a half years, you’d think  it would be a piece of cake seeing him off again as he travels to Spain for a mere 2 and a half weeks.

Strangely, but perhaps not that surprisingly, it isn’t any easier.

Granted my days to countdown (as some of you might have noticed in my msn personal message) are a whole lot lesser, it no doubt is not that long a daunting wait for him to touchdown on home ground again.

But nonetheless, the emotions and feelings are the same.

I guess it will be hard, no matter how long or how far away, because it’s the person you’re missing, regardless of the time factor.

What makes it even harder is that my best friend, confidant, encourager and giver of assuring hugs is leaving poor lil me behind.

But hey, at least I’ll be getting my long-awaited (after 2 years of saving very very very hard) bag and namecard holder! (of both which details I shall at present withhold…)

And so, with a heavy heart (so dramatic…), I shall trudge through the week, start my new job on Monday (oh hoorah….) and pray the next 17 days whizz past like the pesky mini-hornets that have been invading my house these past few rainy days!

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Update on my previous post:

If anyone guessed, I was actually talking about HDB balloting. My and JY put in our application for the April 2009 Half Yearly Sale sometime back and the results came out on Wednesday.

Unfortunately, our wonderful queue number is 7053 out of 10,000 over applicants and about 483 units in total.

Considering there is only ONE particular unit we like, the chances of us getting it is close to zilch.

Tsk tsk tsk.

It’s time to start thinking of Plan B!

(:

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Saving the world…One bag at a time!

April 7, 2009 · Filed under Amusings, Shopping

(pic credit to coquette)

I suppose, just as the celebrities have been wearing tshirts with the slogan “Green is the new black”, being environmentally conscious is increasingly becoming popular and tres chic.

I’ve blogged about the first Anya Hindmarch enviro-bag (way before the whole shebang and hoo-haa and not forgetting all the fakes which exploded and infiltrated the pasar malams) and then about my lovely Cole Haan market bag, and most recently the really cute ones by Marc Jacobs.

Today, here’s another one (or a few, its really a series) by our dear Anya Hindmarch who started the entire craze. The whole collection of 6 (as shown above) is the latest and, in my humble and not particularly fashionable opinion, is a lot prettier than the one that proudly proclaimed it ain’t a plastic bag.

The clean  design of the off-white canvas bag matched with sturdy leather handles embellished with pale gold hardware and the enduringly simple printed graphics in front makes it a timeless and practical bag for everything from your NTUC groceries to household items from Ikea.

But after all that praise and raving about the bag, one thing that really annoys me is the price. Retailing at £55 on the website, plus £10 for delivery, the final bill comes up to about a hefty SGD$145. However, given that fact that I paid about $109 for my bag from Cole Haan, perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised at the digits on the price-tag.

Oh well. Looks like my groceries won’t be having the privillege of riding home in a luxury bag anytime soon!

(:

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Groove, Sing and Dance like a Teenybopper!

March 31, 2009 · Filed under Amusings, Personal Quirks

There are a gazillion things I love about the internet and finding songs long forgotten is one of them.

All thanks to imeem.com I’m able to search and listen to all my favourite pop hits from the 90’s and early years of 2000.

I still remember listening to these songs on the radio, on 98.7 fm, and pretending to be a pop star too…in the comfort of my room of course.

And then my dad decided to sign up for cable tv (which we pestered him to, saying the discovery channel would be oh-so-educational) which gave me access to mtv!

That spawned a whole new interest in not only the songs but the dance moves and I suppose, the fashion (which is, well, questionable. hurhur.).

Anyway, here are just some of the songs I found, a lot of which I still fondly remember the lyrics!

– Gotta Tell You, Samantha Mumba
– He Loves You Not, Dream
– Finally Found, Honeyz
– Waterfall, TLC
– Sway, Big Runga
– Torn, Natalie Imbruglia
– All Cried Out, Allure featuring 112
– When the Lights Go Out, 5ive
– Show Me Love, Robyn

(:

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A Lit Student watching Cartoons

February 10, 2009 · Filed under Amusings, Kids, Personal Quirks, Random Babblings

Out of all the cartoons on Disney Channel (yes, I do have and watch Disney Channel), the one I enjoy the most is Phineas and Ferb.

To quickly run through the whole theme of the cartoon series, its basically about two stepbrothers (obviously Phineas and Ferb) on their summer vacation. Everyday, they would think of what to do and then build/construct/design outrageously impossible and over-the-top extraordinary inventions to help them achieve their goal for the day. Inevitably, they would annoy their sister Candace whose only goal seems to be to expose their unbelievable inventions to their mum. But, somehow or another, the inventions would disappear before their mum can get to see it. This is in part , most unintentionally, thanks to their undercover agent and pet platypus Perry  (a.k.a Agent P) and his enemy Dr. Doofensmirthz.

Ok, now that all the obligatory introductions are out of the way, here is one of the songs Dr. Doofensmirthz sings (one of many in every episode) that was particularly hilarious:

What I find so funny about it are the little quirky details – like the fact that Perry becomes unsuspectingly clasped to the seemingly harmless and ordinary looking chair, Dr. Doofensmirthz telling Perry “No Pressure”, how Perry effortlessly slides out of the clasp and picks up a musical programme sheet, how the round hat manages to stay/fits on Dr. Doofensmirthz’s cone-shaped head, how Perry claps at the end of the show and puts his arms back into the clasp, and the fact that Dr. Doofensmirthz has to pay his dancers at the end of his show (unfortunately, I couldn’t find a video on YouTube that captured this part).

I suppose I like how this cartoon is rather intelligent, in a sense, that compared to other cartoons  (popeye, road runner, power puff girls etc. etc.), this one has its almost grown-up jokes of irony and satire whilst others are just about fighting bad guys and well, more fighting of bad guys.

Heehee.

I’ll put up more when I do remember to find them on YouTube.

Looks like cartoons, even on Disney Channel, aren’t exactly for kids anymore.

(:

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the delicious taste of snail mail

January 28, 2009 · Filed under Amusings, Personal Quirks, Random Babblings

Sms, instant messaging, email… let’s face it, with technology heavily ingrained in our everyday routine, we have been accustomed to the concept of having things happening in an instant.

The minute we click “send”, your client receives an email reply with all the necessary attachments. The minute we press enter, your friend receives details of a 21st birthday party and almost immediately replies with a “Yes, I’m going!”. The minute you click “confirm transfer”, $25.99 leaves your bank account and goes into the account of a blogshop owner.

But interestingly and oddly enough, the very last example exhibits how the fast pace of technology, or more specifically the Internet, collides with the archaic and traditional way of communication – that is the use of snail mail.

Take for example, (based on the humble experience of yours truly) an order of a year’s subscription of drool-worthy Aussie magazine Delicious from Amazon.com. With a few simple clicks of the mouse, the subscription was added to the basket, checked out and paid for. All this happened within a few minutes in December 2008.

But only today, on 28 January 2009, did the first magazine arrive at my doorstep and into my outstretched and excited arms (courtesy of my dad. Of course, like all mail, it ended up in the mailbox first.)

Personally, as much as it was painful waiting in eager anticipation for the magazine to reach sunny Singapore, it is a much welcomed feeling amidst all the constant bombardment of “Now! Now! Now!” and “I want to see it in 5 minutes.” It also reconnects (if I may use a technology related verb) us to the oft-forgotten trait of patience, something I’m very sure our parents had a lot more chances to cultivate than we do now.

In that period of time that that the waiting game took place, it also created a silent hype around that particular item we’ve been anxiously looking out for and ultimately, making us treasure it fully when its finally within our reach. Trust me on this one, I’ve already read the magazine twice and I still want to flip through its mouth-watering pages another time.

Well, now that I’ve given you a little lesson on life (and a blog post which has been long overdue), if you would so kindly excuse me, I’m going to feast my eyes (pun intended) on the luscious pictures of rib-eye steaks with wasabi butter and hotcakes with orange ricotta all over again.

Yum.

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While job hunting, I came across this…

September 26, 2008 · Filed under Amusings

I hope they find one really soon!

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