Dr Grip Offroader (Pilot)

September 6th, 2008

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I’ve been using this pencil, the Dr Grip Offroader, for about half a year and I find it a really awesome pencil. It’s a very good purchase even though it’s priced at SGD $8 (approx) — it’s really worth the money.

Although marketed under Pilot’s famous Dr Grip brand, the grip isn’t really similar to Dr Grip’s other pencils. The grip is slightly more soft which makes it more comfortable to use and like what the name of the pencil says, you can really draw stuff with this.

This pencil is great for drawing graphs and sketches on your math examinations. The internal system doesn’t get clogged up very easily and it’s quite reliable.

So for those who want a good pencil but can’t find one, I suggest buying this pencil. A bit pricey but nonetheless worth it. I don’t think you can find this pencil in Popular (I can’t even find this product on Pilot’s Singapore website) so you’ll have to go to Kinokuniya @ Ngee Ann City or Takashimaya (same building, different floors) to get the pencil.

My hand’s itching to buy the new Symmetry pencil by Pilot too. Bleh.

Hausaufgaben

September 4th, 2008

I will not be online as often as before because of the upcoming promos. Ha ha.

Anyway, I realized that if I want to get over Tim Harford’s book quickly, I need to stop reading it in the studious sense — i.e., stop highlighting every important thing. Rather, I should read it in a relaxed manner, and then go back to highlighting the important bits that I remember. Hmmmmm.

Anyway super tired, plus there are zillions of lessons tomorrow. Good night.

Catz & Hamsterz

September 2nd, 2008

I caught one of the irritating cats hovering around Snuggles’s cage today.

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CAT SPOTTED!

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Snuggles eating nervously as Bim Bim gazes intensely at it…

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When Snuggles runs on the wheel, Bim bim’s position changes too…

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After the cat is caught on camera, it tries to claim innocence! ~ “Nooo I’m not looking at Snuggles~”

I wonder if it’s still staring at Snuggles.

Flyer Davidson

August 31st, 2008

Well apparently Jon had a surprise for me today and it happened to a trip on the Singapore Flyer! The experience was really different and I’m so glad I brought my D80 out today. Snapped a few shots and Jon originally promised me that he’ll bring me “somewhere over the rainbow”… well we saw a rainbow while in the ferris wheel!! Freaking awesome :D

After the wheel, we saw a Harley Davidson gathering or sorts. Damn awesome stuff — I WANT A BIKE NOW. Complete with torn jeans, a bandana and a leather jacket (a MUST). Plus lots of patches on my jacket. I love the biker look. Slightly punkish and it has a really cool feeling. I already have a bandana so only the torn jeans and leather jacket left!! *hint hint for my xmas prezzie hee hee :D*

PHOTOSPAMMAGE:

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Before we boarded the ferris wheel…

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& here’s the rainbow I’ve been talking about!

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Fellow cabin mates gazing out the windows

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Sky looking over the city

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Photo taken by dearest Jon… just that he focused on the cabin and not at me -_-

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Jon!

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After we got off the ferris wheel. Very scary the thing never stops moving.

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BIKER GANG. ULTRA COOL.

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Biker.

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One day I’m gonna join their ranks man. Catchya with my bandana.

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Heh heh heh heh heh. I like the “Iron Chariots” leather jacket better though. I’ll be going down soon to Takshimaya to check out the Harley Davidson store there and find out how much their leather jackets cost soon. I NEED ONE. Like seriously need.

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Took a photo with a biker! Yes bikers must wear sunglasses also. Yay at least I have sunglasses. Now I need torn jeans. Actually leather pants would be the most awesome, but $$$. :(

Anyway after Singapore Flyer + aweing at Harley Davidson shiny bikes, the both of us went to join my parents for dinner. Ate at Curry Flavour at Novena and the food there was quite good, especially the cheese katsu. We went to shop after that and I got a few books that I wanted… plus Ziv got a pair of boxing gloves. And a punching bag. Like wtf. He’s only 3? 4? I can’t remember but crap he’s damn young to box.

Well he’s also an amazing camwhorer. Poses well for the camera if he wants to. Heh heh I bet Melissa has to agree with me on this.

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Preparing to fightzzzzz

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He.is.damn.cute.right.I.cannot.stand.it.

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POWER RANGER. Omg he just did this random pose for me! DAMN CUTE AAAHHH!!!! But actually he’s a complete terror at home LOL. But still, his cuteness overrides it. Hope he doesn’t end up like someone *cough cough hints hints* (those who know me well enough should know whooo)

Anyway super tired now. Nearing 2am already and I woke up at 9am. Gosh. Super tired. Have fun bye.

R.I.P Spunky

August 29th, 2008

Anyway, I’m tired.

Spunky died. It died because it jumped out from the tank and jumped from the 2nd floor to the 1st floor. May it rest in peace in Heaven, where he will have his paradise filled with tomato clownfishes to eat.

He was a really, really good eel. A bit playful, but nonetheless, a great pet.

Thank you for having been such a wonderful pet.

I’ll miss you.

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Teacher’s day was great, but Spunky’s death masked it all. I’m just going to upload a picture that describes my feeling.

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I love you all Victorians and Dunmanians. <3

Thank you for blessing my life. (:

I rock. Big time.

August 27th, 2008

I felt awesome today, although I was dead tired. Awesome in that egoistic “I AM SHIT AWESOME YO” sort of awesome and physically dead tired. Well well well, I have enough bragging rights today to say…

I SLEPT IN BURGER KING!!!!!!

YES YES HOW MANY OF YOU CAN PULL OFF A FEAT LIKE THAT WITHOUT GETTING IRRITATED BY THE NOISE!

It’s a SKILL to be able to snooze undistracted in Burger King, okay. It’s not so easy — even one of the staff at BK admitted it. Apparently I was going to refill my hot tea and the employee said, “oh you’re still here? BK is not a very nice place to sleep actually, very noisy.” Actually quite paiseh lah omg the employees even saw me completely konked out and sleeping. -_- But it’s okay, BRAGGING RIGHTS beats the embarrassment heads down. Hee. :D

Anyway, since I’m in the bragging mood, I think I’ve managed to sleep in some of the most dangerous conditions — one of them being HAVING SLEPT IN THE FANG’S LESSONS.  Having a reputation of being ultra strict, it is not easy to pull of such a stunt in The Fang’s class… being caught will result in A Claw by The Fang. I have never received the ‘honour’ of The Claw, which means that I got off scot free. Bwahaha. I reckon I must have slept in her class at least twice, because I fondly remember having slept more than once in her class.

Besides that, I have slept on the bus before and missed VJC by 121894973913 stops that I actually had to -cab- back to school in order to reach in time. Not fun okay, my taxi bill hit $5.00+. Irritating. I usually sleep on the bus everytime I board it (if there is space, of course. The buses are so irritating. There’s usually no space to sit and everyone has to squeeze like sardines in order to get on), but I usually set an alarm nowadays so I won’t oversleep. Smart hor.

But I don’t think I’m the best snoozer. The honour still goes to my secondary 1 buddy (who owes me $50 for that matter, eh), who is none other than the one and only AGNES ONG. I SALUTE HER MAN. She has done the unbeatable, she has tried the impossible. I remember her standing outside class once… and she fell asleep while standing. HOW MANY OF YOU CAN SLEEP WHILE STANDING?!?!??!?! ohmygod. I don’t think *I* can, despite my bragging claims hah.

Her best stunt was when she slept in Mr Kiw’s class. Well maybe many people sleep in his class, I don’t know, but the best part was that… she SLEPT RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM, WITHOUT PUTTING HER HEAD ON HER DESK. Means she slept while sitting straight. Well sleeping while sitting upright isn’t a problem once you’ve taken enough 76 double decker buses and actually managed to fall asleep when you sit on the side seats, but the feat and the salute goes to sleeping in Mr Kiw’s class. I don’t think anyone has ever done that before right in his face. Kudos to you Agnes, I salute thee.

While of course, there must be an end to all good things. Hence, I am going to bid thee farewell and resume my irritating literature essay on a certain irritating character from a certain irritating book. -_- BYE.

Disillusioned.

August 26th, 2008

Here I am, feeling disillusioned.

I have seen how a person’s chances are being limited because of a counselling session ruined his/her life rather than actually help it.

I have seen how news are being twisted, twirled and manipulated just to achieve certain means — even if facts written in the news can be so easily obtained.

I have seen how assumptions of man have ruined others.

I have seen the Light.

As much as Light makes you grow, it blinds you.

It hurts me as much as in makes me mature.

Do I thank, or do I curse?

Blue Mouse

August 24th, 2008

I did a blue mouse design (honestly, I have no intention of doing a Marill-replica) in the pastel style, so there you go:

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Anyway, another photo that I just koped from my dad regarding summer festival~

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Alright dudes, back to the 6 irritating essays.

夏 Festival~!

August 24th, 2008

Yesterday was supposed to be a mugging day, but I attended the Japanese Festival with Melissa instead. :D

Melissa dropped by my place earlier in the day at around 2pm to try on the 浴衣 and wheeee it was a perfect fit! We wanted to leave my place by 4pm, but erh, because of certain crop ups (i.e. Melissa’s obi), we couldn’t. Anyway, by the time we left, it was RAINING so badly that my dad called a cab for us to get to Expo.

We reached Expo at around 5.30pm and saw Jon lingering around there. Mel’s friend, Lynn, came slightly later and we helped fix Melissa’s obi that was poked by zillions of safety pins. Managed to catch the shuttle bus and we zooooooomed all the way to the Japanese school.

IT WAS SUPER CROWDED THERE OMG. Especially the ヨーヨーゲーム at the ゲームコーナ。It was supposed to be super fun, but unfortunately luck wasn’t on our side. :( When I was trying to hook up the ‘yo-yo’, the HOOK DROPPED OFF!!! Argh! Very very sad. The guy in charge told me nicely that I could just choose one yo-yo. Yay! I managed to kop Jon’s hook also and I tried to fish for another yo-yo… but the hook dropped off. -_- wah lau. So the guy just smiled sheepishly and told me to choose and take another yo-yo. Very sad lah. Everyone managed to fish 12345678910 yo-yos but poor me only got 2. Bad luck seriously.

Other than that, we tried some Japanese food such as the Japanese curry there. Not bad lah. The 蛸焼き was also not bad, but it cost $5. x_x I spent at least $50 there man. Completely bonkers… luckily my dad gave me $50 before I left. Roar. I removed my makeup halfway during the festival because the mascara was getting a bit heavy (Mel lah, tell me to put make up zzz). I think we left at around 9pm and we went to Paya Lebar to grab another burger.

WAH SUPER SCARY. When I was removing my contact lenses, they BROKE. Like, this is the second time within a year that my contact lenses broke — same brand some more! Argh I knew it, I shouldn’t have trusted this brand of contact lenses even though the salesgirl said that there was no reported problems so far. It’s damn freaky when the lense breaks because there may be some fragments left in the eye. Damn scary. Sadly that is the only brand that has daily contact lenses that are gray in colour. Freak man. Why doesn’t Johnson&Johnson produce anymore coloured contacts? Their contact lenses are the most awesome man.

In any case, Japanese festival was rather thrilling. I’m looking forward to my scuba diving next month! It’s less than a month already actually — September 14th~! I’ve yet to source for a housing to rent because I plan to take some photos while diving. I think I’ll be renting some strobes too to go along with the housing. Hmm, gotta call up Underwater World to check if I can bring in my D80 to take. By the way, those who go to support me and Mel will get 20% off for Underwater World, yay! :D Anyone who wants to tag along can ask me, though it’s subject to first-come-first serve basis. :)

Anywaaaay, pictures of Japanese Summer Festival!

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Many other people were also wearing their  浴衣 at the festival. I saw this really cute white kid donning one too!

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Me and Jon at the festival, with a balloon flower that he bought for me.

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Cos it was raining so heavily before, the chairs and tables were all wet. Many camped inside to eat instead, clogging up pathways and everything else.

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Me with the wonderful fan that the sponsors provided for the festival. Taken outside the Sports hall where a mass dance was conducted.

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ヨーヨー!Really damn cute right! Ahaha it’s even more funky when you loop it around your finger and play it like a yo-yo. Look at the MacDonalds reflection :D

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Me after removing the freaky contact lenses. Anyway when I came here to get my meal, everyone was looking at me with a weird stare cos I was wearing my  浴衣. A very interesting experience, nonetheless.

I’ve been listening to quite a lot of ballads lately, for some strange reason or another. Good ones include Hotel California by Eagles, American Pie by Don McLean and Say Anything by X Japan. By the way, NO ONE should call themselves a Japanese fanatic/freak/fan if they have not heard Say Anything. It is a very powerful ballad (and yes, it is also defined as a power ballad) and the lyrics are nice too. It’s Japanese by the way, so you may need to find the English translation if you want to find out the meaning.

Alright, I think that’s enough writing for today. Off to do my work. Lalala.

Wheee

August 23rd, 2008

Does this look like Jon in any case?


Details taken into account:
Screwed up hair
Glasses
Big nose

heeeeeee : D