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Saturday, January 22, 2005
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This is ridiculous.
ABSOLUTELY the LAST RETAIL BINGE.
I bought ANOTHER 2 cds.
*closes eyes and does a yoga posture*
"Determination Yi-san!"
"Hai!"
Ohhhmmmmm~
But they are both parallel imported so its another $12.50 for two albums - Chen Kun and Li Sen Jie.
So since my first CD purchase at chinatown two days before my birthday. (30th Dec 2004)
Till now : 22nd Jan 2005.
In less than a month,
i bought ...
6 Parallel Imported CDs
5 Original CDS
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11 Albums
A Grand Total of
130 dollars spent on Album purchase.
R-I-D-I-C-U-L-O-U-S-L-Y E-X-T-R-A-V-A-G-A-N-T
The only way to justify such incorrigible behaviour is that i've been pretty 'reclusive' and saved quite a bit of money by NOT going out. Er. And i earned some money recently too (not from gambling) plus my birthday ang paos. But still. *lowers head down in shame*
I SHALL RESTRICT MYSELF! I SHALL!
The next album i WILL allow myself to buy is either :
1) Sandy Lam's
2) Tori Amos'
3) Jiang Mei Qi's
4) Yang Nai Wen's
5) Damien Rice's
NO OTHER PERSON. I SWEAR! (er. unless of cos yanzi,jay, ken hirai or S.H.E. decides to come out with an album this soon.) (Orrrrr.... some totally mindblowing newcomer decides to come out with an album. BUT. BUT BUT BUT. (i know for a mmt there, all u people were thinking : "cheah. giving yourself a way out." to be FAIR, i can only buy it if junjie, dennis and paul all agree that its worth buying --> to make sure i dun happily talk myself into believing someone is really good jus so i can spend. *grumble* )
I'm terrible. I still haven't gotten my Peng Jing Hui and Huang Lie Chuan albums yet. No choice. You can't win. hmmrph.
SO NO MORE CHINATOWN FOR ME. NO MORE! *in anguish*
Well anyway, (zhao) Aurora isn't that bad. Pretty mainstream but hey, i must admit that among all the female pop singers that i have no special preferences for (which means omitting my usual golden girls) , she has the voice with most potential for development. She reminds me a little of Yanzi. Less unique but more power. There was this song in her album where she sang a "shan1 ge1" and she isn't too bad man. But the songs are really quite ... urg. but oh well. $4.90. what did you expect. But "Aurora" is a nice song. (shuddup qisheng)
Anyway i met up with qisheng today. After like 5 mths i think. haha. he jus decided to call me when i was borrowing my next batch of books fm bp library . The reason being , he realised he hasn't called me in ages. -_-* haha. he's quite funny. tickles me. den we met up in chinatown to buy cds. AND HEY. he's gonna be a CAMBRIDGE KID! haha. today we were discussing if he 'looked' cambridge and whether he 'can' be 'cambridge'. He thinks he's not cut out for the school life but we both felt cam is too prestigious to reject. >:) But oh well, i dun think anyone looks remotely cambridge if you're talking in the 'dictionary' sense. *smirk* Imagine adele's oxfordian. Hullo. They dun want nerds/muggertoads either. But qisheng , you're a bit too sao bao for cam too la. *sniggers*
I was telling qisheng that i REFUSE to let the word 'mug' ever appear in my list of vocabulary in uni life. That's such a LOCAL JC term. *sneers* I really want to have a fruitful studylife : where i ENJOY studying and i never have to stuff info down my throat like i used to in JC physics n F Maths. Although there will def. be tough times where there is information overload and you remember facts to cope with exams but i will ensure that i digest everything at the end of the day. I hope i'll have a brand new experience in my education. No more singapore jc system le. brr.
both jj and qisheng got jay's live concert album where he performed dao dai. The album includes a vcd with all the mtvs for Qi Li xiang and a calender poster of Jay. Not too bad but i never ever collect such stuff. A waste of money i feel. besides, i never liked live versions very much.
i have enough albums to last me 2 months of listening. good.
after i met the two, met dad n mom for dinner at honjin at raffles place. had a jap buffet. stuffed. but happily stuffed. pretty good quality today and i drank a few glasses of wine. (zhao : the place we went w yc)
Another reason why i dun wanna grow up : I dun ever wanna pay for my own meals or alcohol.
My mom was hiccuping for a good 15 min from the rest. all the way back home.
She's RIDICULOUS. hahhaha. she kept insisting she can't stop.
I was trying to SAVE her by asking her to hold her breath but u know how AUNTIE-MOMS are like.
* Mom pinches her nose and takes in the hugest breath ever*
* 7 sec *
* EXHALES FORCEFULLY AND WHINES "CANNOT LE CANNOT LE. TAI4 XING1 KU3 LE." *
....
So i told her " Mom, you've gotta hold on A BIT LONGER LA "
And she tried again. But this time she was SINGING.
Then i asked her
" Er Mom. Why are u singing in such a voice ? "
" Cos i'm holding my breath. "
Right. So she was singing and holding her breath at the same time. Its funny how she thinks pinching her nose means she is holding her breath.
So she stubbornly refused to try cos the "HOLDING HER BREATH" didn't work. But kept complaining thruout the car ride as her hiccuping continued. So i got really exasperated when we were about to reach home and i grabbed her from behind, one hand pinching her nose and one hand covering her mouth.
She tried.
1-2-3.........17
She started whacking me.
1-2-3...5
I let go.
" WAH! NI YAO MOU SHA WO RIGHT! SO XING KU! " *coughs and tries desperately to take in breaths"
Then i explained to her , " AIYO MA, holding breath doesn't mean hold till you need breath but holding until you feel tortured so it works against hiccup la "
And VOILA. her hiccups went away.
tsk tsk. mums.
haha. my dad was demanding i write a xiu1 qi1 shu1 for him in japanese (jus cos we ate at a japanese restaurant. *roll eyes* ) cos my mum said sth like " aiyah, best if you can come sweden with us mah...." den adding behind in a whisper " otherwise no money to spend ". heheh. and later when we reached home, he asked for a xiu1 qi1 shu1 again. cos my mom was asking him why he took e initiative to remove the curtains to wash (cos she was afraid he would spoil the washing machine by washing both at e same time) den my dad started yelping : "WAH! help u wash still get scolded ar! wah! Zheng yi zheng yi , qu4 xie3 xiu1 qi1 shu1 (go write a divorce-your-wife letter)"
My dad and mom are real silly. On the car this morning, they had this debate over some hokkien phrase i couldn't really get . Sth about their friends (this couple) being "young wife old husband" and my dad was saying stuff like
" Why I go laser my eyes ? Cos I know OBVIOUSLY i look better with specs so i try to tu1 chu1 ur beauty by lasering my eyes! Why I go cut my hair so short until i look old (real ugly. urg) ? Cos i can make you look prettier! "
Den my mom was doubling in laughter and adding,
" ya lor ya lor. Like how you purposely mismatch your clothing la, how you cut your fingers so their so short and ugly la , how you make your toes all rotten n smelly la "
Den my dad said very magnanimously,
" no no . Wo men zuo4 ren2 must jiang3 liang2 xin1 (must answer to our conscience). those are inborn one, not i purposely do one. "
haha. full of crap. like watching xiang4 sheng1. i adore the 2 of them.
our family is always either trying to suan1 one another or be sarcastic. like how my mom will say (in e way where she is fishing for compliments) : " Aiyo, some people house one person also take so long to do spring cleaning, if clean our house i dunno how le " and den my dad will hold my mom's wrist and raise her hand up high in the air and shout " HOORAY! " followed by " PECK JOON! (mom's name) " followed by " BEST HOUSEWIFE! " haha. den i will be cheering for her by the side. and my mom will have this half-irritated, half-amused look while trying to look all smug and arrogant. haha. we're always bullying my mom cos she's e least sarcastic one in e family.
isn't it getting more understandable why i turned out like that? *hurhur*
~
4 new books : 3 novels and 1 biography on Deng Xiao Ping by her daughter on his experiences during the Cultural Revolution.
Reading the biography now. Its a bit tough. Cos the appointment names are so confusing. Like district chief secretary and central chief secretary (very blunt translations). But at the same time, its rather interesting to see how Mao gradually turned the party towards extreme left-wing-ism and finally start the C.R.
Politik.
And it didn't help that junjie was asking if Shanghai was in China when i was reading my book at BK today.
No it didn't help either when i told him bout how poets, writers, musicians etc were forced to work in farms for corrective service and he asked " oh no. what about Li Bai ? "
OR when he later tried again , " What about Na Ying ? "
*takes a deep breath with eyes closed*
*weak smile*
it's okay. i'll be fine.
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