Friday, February 27, 2004 0 comments Post a Comment It has been quite a week for me. Firstly ma'am decided to intensify our physical training. It's crazy now. Absolutely unbearable. Monday - 3 600m rounds with timings to meet respectively : 3:30, 3:00, 3:00 Tuesday - Upslope runs x6 Wednesday - Rest day with games in e afternoon Thursday - 1800m run in 10:30 (easy but still...) Friday - 2.4km Saturday - Rest day with games before booking out My body is protesting wildly, with muscles aches and sore legs as their weapons of remonstrance and sleep is more necessary than ever now. But all these activities aren't really suited for me, cos i wanna lose weight and not gain speed in running (at least not at this stage) so they are ,in fact, working me away from my target, cos i get tired and hungry when i haven't even done that much of calorie-burning. Hmm. Discipline would come in handy now. Plus i'm preparing for some major vehicle inspection so i've been doing quite a bit of hard labour under e EXCRUCIATINGLY hot sun. It's BAD BAD weather. It's not only hot, it's glaring, e sun. So i never fail to get myself soaked in perspiration every time i work. The haze (damned those forest fires) doesn't help. Think they trap e heat...hmm.. geog knowledge. And cos of the heat, i've been lingering at the borders of my health: I know i'm gonna get sick but all my preventive measures are temporarily holding the illness back (advance consumption of my fav panadol, vitamin C tablets, lotsa water and lotsa rest). Hope i win this battle. Can't afford to get sick before March comes. March - my busiest month for my unit and thus my platoon. Well, as i do believe in earning ur own rewards,my hard work for this week paid off cos my ma'am allowed me to go for 1 and a half day off (dun be mistaken, i use my OWN off that i clocked last time) for fri and sat. So i get to rest. *** Just watched " In America " with Qisheng. Pretty good i must say. As good as Cold Mountain ,i thought aloud after e movie, but my fellow movie-goer promptly disagreed. Liked e emotional transitions, logical and well-developed but still not discounting its surprise factor, and a comfortable suspense that lingered throughout e movie, baiting the audience's attention. Great audience, think the turnouts inversely proportional to audience quality. Terrific acting from the leads, managed to grasp rather complex moods and deliver them as well. The Irish accent was a bit tricky at some points esp since there were quite a bit of hushed conversations. If u need to be touched or need to get over some things,events,ppl in ur life, go "In America". Nice. Concluded that it hasn't been a great week for my social life. Seems i keep offending ppl cos i'm a bit worn out by office work and my pc's persistent "hang"-ing, so i dun seem to say e right stuff. My apologies. Managed to call Mian to wish her happy bday. Great. And that's e last of my Feb bdays. Whew. Finally. *** Starting to recognise and even (a bit less reluctantly than i expected) accept the growing distance between my friends and myself. Some situations less controllable. Some more but i'm weary. It might be a passing phase. It might be for good. I wouldn't know. My heart has been a bit dormant lately. Probably its for e best. For if it renders great joys, it must bring e reverse as well. But its so scary when e closest of friends start to sound like mere penpals when we gradually depend (whether it can be helped or not) on virtual means of conversation (sms-es, msn, icq). But not scary in the sense of our fear of losing a friend, but how we suffer old expectations, old feelings, memories haunting us and then make do with such feeble means of contact and even act out of obligation sometimes. But i probably shouldn't think too much. It's probably jus a passing phase. Somehow it is so ridiculously simple to let go that I wonder why on earth i'm still holding on. But then I decided to recall 'us' and 'then', and with all these Past, I gave myself an answer : I'm holding on because we were and we had. And that scares me. Because what are we now then and what lies ahead for us? *** I concluded that my habit of constantly making resolutions and publicising them is breeded by my insecurity towards all e unknowns that shroud my present and my future. I will not explain why, but my future is especially hazy. I dun see where i'll be although plans have been made. Its like i can't see a future for myself. That's why i commit myself to ridiculous and extreme resolutions that allow me to make believe a future for myself and thus look forward to growing up. Self-delusion. But well, we have to get by the days, don't we? "They were right. Growing up really isn't fun. Thank god we're all in this shit together." - 2:10am 270204 2/27/2004 01:43:00 AM Monday, February 23, 2004 0 comments Post a Comment Met up with 'representatives' from every clique i am in last weekend. Friday - dinner n bday treat of choc with huili n' chris. back to good ol' max brenner's, and these two ladies have an alarming appetite for chocs. haha. and e 3 of us were rather put off by e ahem..rather vibe-costumed boss. only when we had a 3rd order, then he gave his veri precious 'service w a smile'. had a sugar knot in my head e following day, choc knockout man. Sat - Jap buffet and " Lost In " with chung n' zhao. we were very full. very VERY full. n zhao was realli an idiot. haha. kept repeating his order for papaya that it came in double serving (plus another one after that!). Which amounted to a very ghastly sum of 24 pieces of papaya after all that foodstuffing. He had to clean alot of those off since he stole mi first papaya. e movie was a bit too arty farty fer me. and e audience a tad too easily amused and VERY easily bored ( and VERY willing to express their boredom with e foulest- talking throughout e movie). Sat (midnight) - met muying, zzy n zqi for a "chillin' " session at e riverside. (i really dun understand wat 'chillin' ' means. a rather ostentatious word in my opinion. another one i hate - "cheong1". peeved.) felt a bit sad throughout this meeting. cos well, in a way, e mood and setting was set for sth melancholic. on top of that, i suddenly remembered we used to meet 10 hrs a day for a good TWO years. and now. e truest of sighs. sigh. Sun - met up w qisheng and jj for a mad fast march (thanks to qisheng's long legs) round town. haha. and after some distance, qisheng would NEED to faint and we'll all stop at some where for him to rest. his illness proves to be quite inconvenient for him. hope he recovers. and i was jus going round n round to look for LOTR posters (HMV) and browse thru some english cds. Kept bumping into some Asian pilots who were in suffocatingly tight white uniforms and armed with a huge head dress. Think its for Asian Aerospace. On such a hot day some more. A rather fruitful week in e social sense. i need to go learn sth new fast. 2/23/2004 08:34:00 PM 0 comments Post a Comment heyo ppl! did some drawing in e past week! only started again cos i got a sketchbook from kino to make up e balance for my book-swap. coincidences. happily drawing. go check mi link out! Under " Zheng Yi's Gallery ". Comments are welcomed. 2/23/2004 07:35:00 PM

yi A student (and maybe one always) / from Singapore in Shanghai / a hopefully chronic baking OCD / aborted mission Noble entirely / decided to stop believing in change and creation but work on succeeding heritages / food is culture. culture is heritage. / dreams of cooking classes in France where everything is white, light & shadows and old mastery - a typical Western enchantment/ wonders if Singaporean food will ever turn into haute cuisine/ will hump a madeleine more than anything else (for now)/ half-worried and half-proud that solid lava cakes distress him more than alot of things/ baking is my first (practical) skill/ believes that fine food can be found in the dodgiest alley after China/ will one day make his baking compulsion serve Charity / The Yi Cafe (a concept not a name)/ has the most pot-bellied father and a kitchen-prodigal mother (thus!)/ the second son with the less discerning tongue/ an aged interest in literature/ a perpetual weight issue / grams not pounds / measuring out my life with tbsps/ feeds the one with a sweeth tooth/ says, "my heart is stollen" homemade berry tart for the jaundice. SH culinary endeavours 1 : tang yuan in glutinuous rice wine SH culinary endeavours 2 : morbidly obese morning sandwich SH culinary endeavours 3 : herbal chicken soup YOU HEAR : Joni Mitchell - You Turn Me On I'm A Radio oh honey you turn me on i'm a radio i'm a country station i'm a little bit corny i'm a wild flower waiting for your broadcasting tower waiting for you fellow pebbles Archive Archives 10/12/2003 - 10/19/2003 10/19/2003 - 10/26/2003 10/26/2003 - 11/02/2003 11/02/2003 - 11/09/2003 11/09/2003 - 11/16/2003 11/16/2003 - 11/23/2003 11/30/2003 - 12/07/2003 12/07/2003 - 12/14/2003 12/28/2003 - 01/04/2004 01/04/2004 - 01/11/2004 01/11/2004 - 01/18/2004 01/25/2004 - 02/01/2004 02/01/2004 - 02/08/2004 02/08/2004 - 02/15/2004 02/15/2004 - 02/22/2004 02/22/2004 - 02/29/2004 02/29/2004 - 03/07/2004 03/07/2004 - 03/14/2004 03/14/2004 - 03/21/2004 03/21/2004 - 03/28/2004 03/28/2004 - 04/04/2004 04/04/2004 - 04/11/2004 04/11/2004 - 04/18/2004 04/18/2004 - 04/25/2004 05/02/2004 - 05/09/2004 05/09/2004 - 05/16/2004 05/16/2004 - 05/23/2004 05/23/2004 - 05/30/2004 05/30/2004 - 06/06/2004 06/06/2004 - 06/13/2004 06/20/2004 - 06/27/2004 06/27/2004 - 07/04/2004 07/04/2004 - 07/11/2004 07/11/2004 - 07/18/2004 07/18/2004 - 07/25/2004 08/01/2004 - 08/08/2004 08/08/2004 - 08/15/2004 08/15/2004 - 08/22/2004 08/22/2004 - 08/29/2004 08/29/2004 - 09/05/2004 09/05/2004 - 09/12/2004 09/12/2004 - 09/19/2004 09/19/2004 - 09/26/2004 09/26/2004 - 10/03/2004 10/03/2004 - 10/10/2004 10/10/2004 - 10/17/2004 10/17/2004 - 10/24/2004 10/24/2004 - 10/31/2004 11/07/2004 - 11/14/2004 11/14/2004 - 11/21/2004 12/05/2004 - 12/12/2004 12/12/2004 - 12/19/2004 12/19/2004 - 12/26/2004 12/26/2004 - 01/02/2005 01/02/2005 - 01/09/2005 01/09/2005 - 01/16/2005 01/16/2005 - 01/23/2005 01/23/2005 - 01/30/2005 01/30/2005 - 02/06/2005 02/13/2005 - 02/20/2005 02/20/2005 - 02/27/2005 02/27/2005 - 03/06/2005 03/06/2005 - 03/13/2005 03/13/2005 - 03/20/2005 03/20/2005 - 03/27/2005 03/27/2005 - 04/03/2005 04/17/2005 - 04/24/2005 05/08/2005 - 05/15/2005 05/22/2005 - 05/29/2005 05/29/2005 - 06/05/2005 06/05/2005 - 06/12/2005 06/19/2005 - 06/26/2005 07/03/2005 - 07/10/2005 07/10/2005 - 07/17/2005 07/17/2005 - 07/24/2005 07/24/2005 - 07/31/2005 07/31/2005 - 08/07/2005 08/07/2005 - 08/14/2005 08/14/2005 - 08/21/2005 08/21/2005 - 08/28/2005 08/28/2005 - 09/04/2005 09/25/2005 - 10/02/2005 11/06/2005 - 11/13/2005 12/11/2005 - 12/18/2005 01/22/2006 - 01/29/2006 02/05/2006 - 02/12/2006 02/26/2006 - 03/05/2006 03/05/2006 - 03/12/2006 03/12/2006 - 03/19/2006 05/14/2006 - 05/21/2006 06/11/2006 - 06/18/2006 06/25/2006 - 07/02/2006 09/17/2006 - 09/24/2006 10/15/2006 - 10/22/2006 11/26/2006 - 12/03/2006 12/17/2006 - 12/24/2006 06/03/2007 - 06/10/2007 08/26/2007 - 09/02/2007 11/04/2007 - 11/11/2007 09/07/2008 - 09/14/2008 12/14/2008 - 12/21/2008 12/28/2008 - 01/04/2009 01/04/2009 - 01/11/2009 01/18/2009 - 01/25/2009 01/25/2009 - 02/01/2009 02/01/2009 - 02/08/2009 02/08/2009 - 02/15/2009 02/15/2009 - 02/22/2009 02/22/2009 - 03/01/2009 03/15/2009 - 03/22/2009 & I want these Apron Stains! Madeleine Attempt 3 (with baking powder?!) ML's Stollen SY's Baked Almond and Marzipan (urgh) Peaches ZW's Ricotta Cream Cheese Pudding Citrus Delight 4 Lavas + 4 Purins for e Family replica of JG's FG with port gelee, candied pistachios and dried sour cranberries Upcoming Gastronomic Gorges Haiku by Hatsune Geylang Tze Char Pilgrimage Peranakan Food Liver @ Hong Long Xing