Thursday, December 30, 2004 0 comments Post a Comment After reading a few blog entries dedicated to 2004, i find it quite fun to recap the last year. The 5 Most Significant Individuals: 1) Tori Amos 2) Zhi Wei 3) V 4) Su Tong 5) Mom The 3 Movies I Would/Did Watch Again : 1) 2046 2) Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind 3) Nicholas Nickleby The 5 Activities (whether it is the amount of time spent or the significance of the activity itself) : 1) Reading 2) Writing 3) Baking 4) Internet-ing (Blogging/Chatting/Literati-ing) 5) Running The 5 Books I CAN Recommend (but will they read it? NooOOOooo.) : 1) Zai4 Xi4 Yu3 Zhong1 Na4 Han3 - Yu2 Hua2 2) Xun4 Zi3 Ji4 - Su1 Tong2 3) Nie4 Zi3 - Bai2 Xian1 Yong3 4) The Entire Sandman Series 5) 41 Pao4 - Mo4 Yan2 The 5 Albums I Will Recommend for 2004: 1) Damien's Rice '0' 2) Tori Amos' 'Tales Of A Librarian' (extended DVD edition) 3) Ken Hirai's 'SentimentaLovers' 4) Jiang Mei Qi's 'Peng You De Peng You' 5) S.H.E.'s 'Encore' (heehee. *snaps* WAT.) My 8 Most Significant Songs of the Year: 1) Gigi Leung - Gui Shu Gan (heard it 1000 times on my player) 2) Ah Sang - Ye Zi 3) S.H.E. - Bo Si Mao (the only song i sang 3 times in 1 ktv session.) 4) Zhou Hua Jian - Shang Xin De Ge (the track i never ever skip. ~piano intro~) 5) F.I.R. - Lydia 6) Tori Amos - Cooling 7) Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl (orgasmic) 8) B.A.D. - Wo De Cuo The 5 Events that made the Headlines of my life: 1) S2 being removed as a faculty from HCJC 2) Getting My Driving License 3) My Knee Problem (which i'm bringing over to 2005. fcuk.) 4) The Start of the 5 Day Work Week 5) Borders Incident and what it eventually led to The 5 Days I Can Remember: 1) Borders 2) Night at Adele's Playground with Zhaowei 3) Orientation Night - Saying goodbye to S2 4) On the Roof till Sunrise with ZZY n Mu 5) With Junjie sitting on the floor in this quiet corner in town The 5 things I Did that make me PROUD : 1) Running to Esplanade from Home 2) Cheesecakes!! 3) Finished recording for "QC" (which isn't out yet. er. sorry lau) 4) Survived as the I/C in camp without getting into deep shit or becoming mr. unpopular 5) Getting my License ( hurray! im still happy!) The 5 things i rather didn't happen: 1) my knee problem (growl) 2) gain weight (heehaw) 3) Excessive Internet-ing (how much time wasted just stoning with MSN on. brrr.) 4) suicide threats and thoughts 5) Jerry Ong and He Yao Shan The 5 things i'm most thankful for: 1) Music 2) Money 3) Books and WORDS 4) Family 5) Friends JJ, hmm, this year is quite a breakthru year for our friendship, probably doesn't get more jing4 bao4. haha. (hope not) I am as always, strengthened by the very thought of having you ard. more SHE,more yanzi, more jay next yr! Boon, my wise friend who can give advice so sincere yet so rational always: i demand a literati rematch! lili, my lao po, who would have thought we would ou3 duan4 si1 lian2? this yr hasn't been e best for us both but nxt yr its gonna be jus fine alright? thanks for being ard all the time. kurisutein-san, koibito o yapari sagashita. omedetou. demo bokutachi wo wasurenaidekudasai. *grin* u have been such a great friend. Muileng, haha, we never change do we? despite all the changes that have happened. u're e ever-constant in my equation. and always in my heart. ah zhao! had such a good time when adele n lau were back but c'mon, we dun need them to be ard to remain good buds do we? a few more mths n u can stop ur longsleeves,black pants look, so stop feeling sian. =) adele, u piece of crap, nv fly back so guess we're not gonna see each other for ages n ages THEN! (spiteful look) i do miss u! lauren, haha, with you, everything jus gets crappier n crappier. n i love it. OSM miandy! dun be stressed okay! i know u hate wat u're doing n all dat but be strong, hang on, get it over n done with, become a rich tai tai and feed me. (n ben) lihui, hmm, we are usual ruo4 qin1 ruo4 yuan3, but i will always remember wat a good confidante(is dat e word?) u were/are. stay funky n hip as always! paul,well recording, den ahem..."busking", maybe e latter was jus some fate shit meant to let us meet up more n rekindle e recording flame. :) aniwae lau tey wants to record phantom songs. but she's flying off soon. BAO BEI!!! dun know if u read this but u know WO SHI AI NI DE (saying this with a straight face). (in cyndi fashion) AI NI!!! mumu! bet u dun read mi blog now le. SOOOOO bz. gee. wanna kick u sometimes. but haha, always glad to know u're leng n stupid n ever concerned. mus spare more time for us n not onli for scissors-paper-stone. zzy, so glad this yr gave u so much opportunities, grab e chance to realise ur dreams! i'm always here to qie1 cuo1 n hear ur demos! louistan, louisiana,louie,guowei, my fellow wei-ge, thanks for driving us! (hahah im so random)bobby, friend-of-lihui (in LOTR fashion), u have been a very good listening ear and i hope we get to go out someday okay! jia you for chi studies! zhen-mei! ni zhen tao yan, online den always away one, later i go si1 ben1 w fang-jie den u know, *grin* jeron, oi stupid clueless person, u better work on ur comic, or i'll disown u as my.... 'stupid clueless friend'. thanks for all e nights of crapping. :) jolene! its funny how e hamama trip was like 6 yrs ago n we suddenly get closer now isn't it? ;) u're a lovely girl with a lovely voice and music for us all forever. :) thank god for 2004. and thank god its over. :) 12/30/2004 08:15:00 PM 0 comments Post a Comment I cannot tolerate mediocrity. But that is precisely what i've been perpetuating in my life. No style. No attitude. No character. Struggling for acceptance. Subjecting myself to the whims of people who should not even deserve my attention. Letting people affect my life. There is so much to do. You guys know me, zheng yi, always making resolutions as if they determined anything at all. And for 2005, I swear life will be different. I will be different. I have been living like i was lost. No more. No more. No more. I'm so happy for you zheng yi. 12/30/2004 11:41:00 AM Monday, December 27, 2004 0 comments Post a Comment "Chestnuts roasting on a open fire, Jack Frost sniffing at your nose... " - Nat King Cole and the Nat King Cole Trio i love this version of 'The Christmas Song'. You can hear the crackling of burning firewood in the background. Its just leaves me all fuzzed up. And Nat my man has this unbelivably sexy voice. I know christmas is over. Well and christmas has just been christmas to me. Nothing much. Worked as Santa on xmas and xmas eve. Good money good money. But xmas eve was quite yummy. Yes. "Yummy". i've got this really good photo of the dining room all set before my dad's birthday/ our xmas dinner. It looks Old English Cottage and woody and warm. Here it is : 12/27/2004 05:44:00 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