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Friday, October 08, 2004
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I received this sms from my Aunt Jean two days ago, while i was watching (idly) my Meteor Garden VCD i borrowed from adele . all this during my office duty at my site.
It totally screwed me in and freaked me out :
" It is critical that mel (my cousin Melanie,4 ) pulls through the next few hours. "
If not for the severity of the situation, Aunts should be BANNED , in fact Uncles and Everyone , should be BANNED (i repeat) from dropping bombshells like these on me. At least building up the tension level systematically by sending a " Zy, i have bad news for you. It's bout melanie " or providing more details like WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO HER is better than giving me the "Drama Treatment".
Ok, from how i sound, u guys probably guessed that nothing irrevocably bad has happened to my cousin. And yes, i am extremely relieved. But as her life is still in danger for the next few days, I am taking a big emotional gamble to write a blog entry about anything concerning it, because i will look back and hate myself for writing a blog (which somehow assumes that nth is or will be going very wrong) about the situation if anything woodtouching(NEW WORD) happens.
She contracted a form of pneumonia which is said to be the deadliest of its kind. Her life was in imminent and real danger on wednesday where she was relying 90% on Oxygen support and her heartbeat/rate was going up to 224 (norm : 135 for kids). She's in CPU now, condition stabilised.
I jus saw her today and it breaks my heart to just see our little fair princess (we call her dat) with tubes all over and inside her. But even a broken heart is better than the frustration and helplessness i was experiencing when i was stuck at my stupid site duty , fearing a phonecall bearing ill news ,24 hrs a day and not being able to know how she's doing first-hand. It was so unbearable i even sms-ed meiling , not once but twice , to jus tell her how bad it felt. (It doesn't matter if u din reply ml, cos i jus needed to let it out.)
Well but now the family's praying hard.(and having fun camping outside the ICU too. its ridiculous: my Uncle Paul (36 with 1 kid Keanne,2)put on the face masks provided and played doctor in front of my mum and aunts, e ladies having tea flasks, mooncakes and even red wine tonight. My maternal family has family parties anytime, anywhere. it should be disgusting but its hilarious.)
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Jerry is still in.
Boon, correction. he's not iron man. he's an iron fishhead and i dun mean fish as in fish if u know wat i mean.
Well, i'm so tired of condemning him, he jus beats Sun Ho flat. I love u Sun. I'll buy ALL THREE OF YOUR ALBUMS IF U CAN GET JERRY ONG OUT OF SG IDOL. e clash of the titans.
On SG IDOL (ROCK N ROLL) :
David Yeo : haha. it was a funny performance. E knee banging , e frozen look of surprise and his classic Chekshire cat toothy smile. But i liked his hair. hmm.
Taufik : I think e judges are very very very encouraging towards him. i got a feeling they are sort of intimidated by e audience? cos like 30% of them are him? he's NORMAL. boyband voice. i'm not saying boyband voice is NOGOOD but it isn't GOOD ENOUGH.
Leandra : i jus heard fm mi bro she's e daughter of " The Drifters " who sang " Under the Broadwalk ". wow. GENE POWER. She's good. She's so good, she can tuck her hands into her pockets and do any genre and sound good. And Jerry ong can jus kiss the ass of her C notes and go roll ard.
Sly : MY SLY! haha. my no.1 choice. While the rest of e idols were busying themselves clowning around in outdated and e cheesiest moves i've ever seen, he was jus being cucumber cool (NEW TERM) with his urg-ish new gold hair (wah super beng) and superpower voice. Its e 1st time i am realli impressed with his vocal power. Simply good. Who says rock and roll requires you to make love with the mike stand? *throws a dirty look at jerry ong*
Jerry OHMYGODMYENTIRECHURCHISVOTINGFORME ong :
I mus admit i have been biased since day 1.
But even if i wasn't , yesterday's performance would set me in the same direction anyway.
He was going OFF TUNE. OFF BEAT. OFF EVERYTHING.
His moves could well have been picked up from Bozo the Clown - his arm swinging in circle shit and lamp-post-dog-rub on e mike stand.
His face. Oh my goodness me. I need holy acid to wipe off that GRIN.
And he got in. STILL got in. We have to unite people. We have to UNITE.
DUN VOTE NOW. EXHAUST THEIR RESOURCES.
WHEN WE'RE DOWN TO LEANDRA/SLY and E SCREWHEAD, WE SHALL THEN RISE.
AND
CRUSH
HIM.
I want him to be out so badly i wanna cry.
I should email Ken and ask him to start this new phoneline
" Call 1900 112 NO-JERRY to neutralise each vote casted for him , each call can cost any freaking amt cos i know u'll call. YAY. "
THE FORCE IS STRONG. AND EVIL. WE HAVE TO UNITE.
Maia and Olinda : oh no they're so unexciting i threw their descriptions together. well. i jus said it. Unexciting. But Maia should jus throw in a little more flesh (like she hasn't been doing dat already) to beat Jerry. It's worth it. Go Maia. And this girl's silly. i quote 8 days : it goes sth like "My pregnancy was planned. So people who dun know anything bout it, jus shut up " Maia maia. REEEALLY. I'm totally cool with single moms but hello, "planned"? She must think she can do alot at 18.
Daphne : She's somewhere below Sly and Leandra and somewhere above David and Olinda. Daphne treatment is getting more and more attractive. I'm always looking forward to how she manages to inject her style into songs without making them something entirely unfamiliar and unacceptable. But there comes the problem of a very restricting voice type. Its too cute to do anything sad. Or wham-bam. She jus keeps daphning all the songs. And we begin to see Daphne as a sub-genre more than a voice type. But i think she has a very strong musical sense. And she's realli cute. So well, she's no.3 on mi list.
Christopher IREALLICANTSINGBUTIMCUTEASHELLSOSHOOTME Michael :
He keeps getting prettier but his singing is SO BAD.
Well well, the ONLY song he did well since day 1 was " Your Song " and hey!
After dat it jus kept going DOWN. DOWN. DOWN. DOWN.
And when he said he performed at dinners and parties, guess wat song he did ppl?
YOUR SONG.
His rock and roll performance left me cringing. I felt so embarrassed for him. And the judges cut him up. Which left me happy but still embarrassed for him. But well he's rich. He can go onstage and jus pass gas and STILL GET IN. If it wasn't fer Jerry Ong. I would have hated him instead.
Oh wait. i jus realised. the results are usually rigged right? yes. No Jerry. Rocks. I can save up on a few dollars too. COME ON SLY!
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someone said
" Drama is like Life without the boring bits. " or sth like dat.
But now i shall add a little more to the phrase
" Drama nowadays is like Life without the boring bits and where Emotions are singular and seldom diluted. "
Sad movies are always moving because people in sad scenes are always ONLY sad. They aren't "while thinking if they closed e windows at home in case it rains" kind of sad ; they aren't women mourning over dead husbands thinking whether she will ever be humped again in her life ; they aren't sad and also relieved that their cancer-stricken child passed away so they didn't have enough money in their medisave?
We avoid complications. We fear them. They make us fickle.But they are always around and we should never deny them.
A typical Ch8 introduction to a new show :
" This is a show about 3 brothers.... etc bla bla "
" the 1st brother is a hardworking. kind fella. the 2nd brother is the playboy type but meets a very innocent girl who he ... "
So u made a character.
Someone who is "hardworking and kind"
THE END.
Can there be something more 2Dimensional really?
Please. Appreciate the joys of multiplemotions. They are the only thing that distinguishes us from hamsters.
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I'm sleepy. night.
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Monday, October 04, 2004
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great i'm done clipping mi fingernails. i can't stand long nails. I dunno y gers keep them, unless they like to chew their nails (which is e only logical reason i see in keeping nails). Or u wanna like keep supper in ur nails after using ur hands at dinner. ew.
i'm jus blogging fer e sake of blogging. Cos i'm going on 3 day onsite duty tml. Eeps. I dread it. Altho its slack. I have no idea why i always look forward to duties when i'm done with them , i mean i dun really look forward to the DUTIES but like jus e feeling of getting OUT of the office jus rocks. Too many responsibilities and too much social interaction. sick.
Hey i like e feeling of nice 5 sentence paragraphs. They look neat and wordy at e same time. yay! Well, if u haven't already noticed i'm sounding very random, that's cos i'm feeling tired and not sleepy but i want to sleep (it's very complex). I'm sounding like meiling. terrible.
Okay, i was REALLY pissed this afternoon. I'm sure u all know i HATE driving. And i haven't realli explained why but basically its cos of my instructor. NO. "INSTRUCTORS". My previous instructor decided ONE DAY to tell me he won't be around on my TEST DATE cos he needs to go KL and so he THREW me to his fellow instructor. Ooh, and cos his car needs to be scraped, he informs me i will be using a new vehicle! WEEE! Jus 2 weeks before mi test date! I'm lucky i din have many lessons before this information came about, otherwise i'll feel seriously cheated cos i'll have to take a few more to get miself used to e new vehicle. Wat bloody shits.
Okay, and that's not e end. A week before, i happened to have to do Ops Cell Manning (some form of clerical duty) on a Thursday till 2am, so i decided to cancel my driving on the next day cos the driving lesson's at 8am. Well, cos i only knew it'll drag till 2am at bout 10 pm, i called my NEW instructor at 10pm to tell him bout it. Okay i do understand its not very fair to jus cancel a lesson with only 10 hrs notice BUT PLS, do TALK TO ME NICELY. In fact, i wouldn't mind if he ARGUED with me. This was how it went : (in mand.)
" Uncle, i can't do tomorrow cos my camp had some last min thingy. "
" Har.( nonchalantly) Cannot la. "
" Er. Uncle. really cannot. "
" Cannot la. "
" Uncle, like that what u want me to do? "
" I got to answer to my boss, cannot la. OK? Cannot like dat la. " (abt to hang up)
" Uncle, i'm serious. if u hang up, i'll jus NOT come. "
" Er. Er. Got get MC la hor. Okay ar? Okay hor. "
" Uncle, this is the ARMY. not school lei uncle. Dun tok nonsense (yes i said dat) "
" Cannot la hor. My time cannot change like dat one hor. Okay ar? " (totally missing e point. all e POINTS in fact)
HELLO. I can't take it when ppl jus treat me like MY problem isn't A problem. He assumes i can settle my side and jus DECIDES TO HANG UP. How barbaric. I got realli pissed and i demanded i dun want a change in instructor. That's when he got slightly serious and REFERRED me to mi old instructor. Who lectured me but solved e problem. I was fuming.
Okay. Dat's dat. Despite being seriously turned off by all this nonsense i have to undertake jus to get a bloody Class 3, I tried to book a lesson fer today 5-7pm. Cool. My new instructor (i din manage to get a change in e end) threw me a hp no. to call to book timings which is cool cos i can't tok to ppl who sound like dey dun give a damn on e phone --> it's 3rd on mi list of things i can't stand for now.. So i booked it. Cool. E guy i/c was cool n speaks mandarin fm mi side of e planet.
THEN TODAY. I waited for a freaking 15 min outside. Decided it was too long a wait, called mi inst. up , he jus asked me to call e AGENT. WHO TELLS ME I DIN BOOK TODAY. I "BOOKED" TOMORROW. ooooooooh. bastards. E conversation:
" hello. can i check why my inst. isn't here? I'm zy . "
" yah? okay. When u book? "
" (slit-eyed look) today. 5-7. "
" Oh. No . U book tomorrow right? "
" NO. Today. I called u last sat remember? "
" Yah i remember , u Uncle Foo's right? Cashew Road there right? ya ya. 5th wat. Tomorrow. "
" No uncle. I SAID BAI4 YI1 (MONDAY). "
" ORH. Our here (wo men zhe li, loosely translated) dun use wat BAI4 YI1 BAI4 ER4 one. We use dates. "
YEAH RIGHT. WAT DO U USE THEN? BAI A BAI B BAI C right? Please, at least attempt to pull of a more logical argument on me. Even if u did forget , i wouldn't have been pissed cos i must say i'm VERY forgiving to faults due to negligence (it's jus too tiring to blame ppl for forgetting sometimes). I was damned pissed. And he hung up on me. He's pretty damned lucky my inst. had a slot fm 8-9.30 which i could take or else i'll be on my way to get voodoo doll materials. WAT IS WRONG WIF ALL THESE PPL.
Anyway, i met my new inst. fer e 1st time. He's okay. Can teach well altho he talks so bloody much i can't even conc. on e road. (scenario : him asking me about some prawn mee stall near mi house while helping me do a semi-emergency brake when some lorry swerved out fm e side) gee. But i'm glad he's better than e prev. one. and he concentrates on driving more than parking. GOOD. But i still hate driving (a bit less now) and i realli hope i pass or get a new inst. / agent / system soon)
I slept at 4am yesterday! haha. cos i was downloading songs ( it happens everytime i ktv, i'll have all these retro classics i jus need to get). And i was super tormented cos i realli needed to sleep off e pounding in my head but mi file transfer needed another 10 min. So i wanted to blog to like stop me fm sleeping. but then hey hey hey! MEILING popped out on my MSN! haha. Chatted fer 5 min maybe. got a few photos. hehe but yeah. pleasant surprise. Was feeling quite smiley even tho mi head was falling off.
i admit, i'm a PC addict. Fer e past 2 (issit 2 already?! abt la.) years in NS, i've spent more than 30% of my life in frt of e PC , waiting fer ppl to come online, blogging ,downloading music, chatting. Which is a COMPLETE waste of time, in mi opinion. U guys must have realised how often i'm online. It's unhealthy and it's a habit hard to kick. So once i'm clearing leave fer ORD, i'm going to start cleansing mi body of e stench of internet access i have all over me. I'll start doing calligraphy and practising mi flute soon. It's terrible, to want to start e PC to jus see who's online when i only have bout 10 min on my hands before i leave home. I hate being addicted to anything. But i suspect the addiction will return (if it even leaves ) when i'm in shanghai and bored stiff in my hostel or when i'm sick of 'playing with bells on e cows' neck ' (i quote mi stupid campmate who overheard my shanghainese platoon sergeant say how rural Fudan Uni is, hee hee.)
Dele left yesterday. Last one.
Well i sent her a mandarin sms as a bye bye yesterday. And after typing it i realised how much fun we've had in e last 3 mths. It's like slackers-intensive.
The sms went ,
" In the past few mths, we baked pancakes, ate tang yuans, slept over at my place n urs, watched Infernal Affairs, read Jin Yung together, went to Jin Qu Jiang, played with frisbees,candles,sparklers and lanterns, threw dice ( pua pia! ) , made spaghetti, listened to F.I.R., ran Nike real run , strolled down town barefooted, stuffed ourselves at buffets, watched VCDS and went crazy over "Under a Roof" together. "
zhao : zhen de wan le hao duo dong xi ye! n u know wat? i think adele n lau's jiao zi are actually better than my mom's !
life will be quiet after this hols, for e good n e bad. (they're hols are alot like my hols cos all of them come back at e same time).
my blog is so dry tonight. i'm too sleepy la. *snarls*
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