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The Quarter Pounder Lie

2010-06-12T04:06:00.004+08:00

I'm watching france vs uruguay and wondering why my hair doesn't grow faster :( i totally should not have had it cut to save myself $40 when i dyed it this amazing color.

Also i've wanted to blog for the last three days but somehow the blogger interface has been megafailing on me in chrome. So i'm blogging from flock. I use flock for mousehunting *winks* hahahaha. Speaking of which LONGTAILLLLL!!!!! okay so anyway.

These past three days i've been prevented from blogging this amazing revelation on this certain lie mc donalds has been feeding us. Literally.
They lie that the quarter pounder (qp) is worth 237.5% the cost of the double cheeseburger(dcb) which is a NAWT, and i will present my case in an organised manner.

1. Patty to bun ratio:
According to wikipedia, the reason for the birth of the quarter pounder was to fill a "a void in our menu vis-à-vis the adult who wanted a higher ratio of meat to bun". And we all know wikipedia and fancy french words > the truth.
According to ME, qp has one patty and dcb has 2, therefore dcb wins this one
DCB 1 - 0 QP

2. Size

Spot the difference...
...
...
.. No srsly who are they trying to kid... With the qp costing double that of the dcb, i think i'll have to give the dcb this one.
From the top view, the qp and the dcb are almost the same size. They differ negligibly in diameter and the only bonus the qp has is sesame seeds. Which brings me to ...

3. Sesame seeds
Oh dangit, i guess i'll have to give the qp a point there, cuz you never know, sesame seeds may make it or break it for some ~~retarded psycho~~ sesameseedloving dude out there. Maybe he likes to see the seeds in his poopoo. Check the RWJ reference doood. I'm sure that's worth the SG$2.75 premium. mmhmm.

4. Cheese optimization
What does this mean? Well to me cheese is a very important part of the burger. It adds a richness, a lack of which would spell b-a-d b-u-r-g-e-r. Therefore i am particularly particular about the construction of burgers, for the sake of cheese optimisation.
Yes, we know that both the dcb and the qp have two glorious slices of cheese, however the placement of the components making up the burgers vary enough to warrant a certain judgment.
Please refer to my sophisticated diagram.

As you can see, the bottom slice of cheese in the qp is in direct contact with the bun. As for the dcb, the cheese is protected from contact with the bun by a patty. If you have not noticed, cheese melts, and when it melts, the bun absorbs its oily goodness. Yes it does. Totally.
As such, the direct contact of the bottom cheese in the qp is bad placement of a cheese, and i have no choice but to give this one to the dcb again. Go DCB!

5. Price
As I am no longer a JC student, i do not need to adhere to the "guideline" of putting my strongest point first. Uh huh. $2 vs $4.75. need i say more? wellll actually i think i've said enough in the 400ish words above.
For the extra $2.75, i'd be wanting something between a quadruple burger and a quintuple burger, and i'm not getting that from the quarter pounder with cheese.

Andddd that gives us a score of dcb 4 - 1 qp, so, NO MC DONALDS, i do not love beef or love cheese, I love the double cheeseburger and that is that.

[edit]today i did some further research on like mealdeals and the qp, and i found that with the lunchtime deal thingy from 12pm to 3pm u get the qp meal for 5.50, while the dcb meal is 4.50. Do you think it's worth the $1 more? I still think not....

Nyahahaha cheezburger pwnsjooo!

The longest day ever kinda feeling

2010-06-06T23:25:00.003+08:00

Have you ever experience such a day where you totally just feel that the day has 48 hrs? Instead of the usual 24 hours, it kinda felt like time stood still for a whole 24 hours, just to make you feel like your day's been dragged and prolonged!

Yeah. Tired and drained out days. You get my point.

And when the time is up for you to lie on your bed, you kinda wonder if this can get any longer.

Take today for example. I was in church the entire day today. Now that I'm at home blogging this entry, going to church in the morning felt like it was done yesterday, instead of today! WOW huh? Wow.

The wonders of the human brain. It leads you on sometimes to think of things that are way beyond your imagination. Heck it. Sometimes i still think of the dragons and the warriors with sword. How i slay the dragon and then it died at the tip of my sharpness.

Only to realise that everything was nothing but a thought. Yes. The Human brain.

Okay I think i need to sleep.

Random picture of the day!

Gecko phobia

2010-06-06T01:15:00.002+08:00

My mother may have a really loud voice, but she never actually raises it to scold me. So yesterday when she yelled my name really loudly, I thought i must have skrewed up something reallllll bad. Fortunately, i'm a good girl, and she was just politely letting me know that she had seen one of the resident fat geckos scurry across the ceiling.

Yes, my mum is terrified of geckos, but apparently not terrified enough to prevent her from attempting to murder each and every one that crosses her path in the most cruel ways. "As long as they're dead, it doesn't matter how they die", she says. Her method of choice: baygon. However, we all know that baygon is for insects, and unbeknownst to my mumma all it does to geckos is paralyze them for a while. +1 to the lizards.

I'll be the first to say i get upset whenever my mum tries to kill a gecko. Those beady eyed buggers are pretty cute, and they eat insects, so they actually have a purpose for existence, unlike cockroaches.. Speaking of which, i've seen geckos attempt to hunt down cockroaches larger than themselves. Usually they back down in the end, but i'll always give them an A for effort.

ISN'T IT CUTE? It hunts! Almost like a cat!
People even keep them as pets! They're so cute, I really do not understand how people can dislike them.:( BUT i tried to understand my mother's point of view, and asked her why she was so afraid of geckos.

She said... When she was young, a gecko fell into her pants when she put them on. And she was so afraid and didn't know what to do so she grabbed the gecko, still inside her pants, squeezed it and mashed it to a pulpy death, and that is why she is afraid of geckos. That don't make me understand why people would hate geckos, but it makes me see why geckos would be deathly afraid of people.....

Yuh.. so please stop the mindless killing. Geckos mean no harm!

On the other hand... In my opinion cockroaches and long beans deserve merciless extermination.

Many people will agree with cockroach killing, and for good reason. As it is, too few people even dare raise a slipper against those foul beings. Truth be told, i don't understand why i'm so fearful of them, but it is a burden i will have to bear out for the rest of my life. Same for many people out there too, whether they admit it or not.

Long beans may be a rather more unusual phobia, but i'll give you 3 reasons, then you make your own judgement about longbeans.

1. They're hollow and just big enough for a caterpillar or worm to nest inside.
2. Usually they're served chopped into segments
3. Would anyone bother to look down the middle of each one? In any case, the seeds would obscure the line of sight down the hollow.

Think about it and let me know your decision.

Okay. That was a rather choppy post, but it has been a rather choppy night.

Goodnight!

My love for Jason Mraz

2010-06-04T02:27:00.002+08:00

Everyday thousands of songs are being written, of which just a few make it into mainstream media, and out of those, even fewer make it as hits.

Ever so often it's not the quality of the song which gets it there, but simply good timing and luck.
Just think Justin Bieber's Baby. Ohmygee. How did something like that ever get so famous. Breaking it down,

1. Follow me here: Care, there. Heart, apart. Playing, saying.
If there were a Bieber school of songwriting*, the course would probably be about 15 minutes long, with a handout titled "predictable rhymes"

2. There are terribly few words in the song. The chorus has a grand total of 12 different words, if you count ohhhh as a word... And if i'm not wrong, the longest word in the song is playground. Not that it means anything of course.....

3. There is a black man rapping. Need I say more?

Seriously. I should try that formula out. But first i need to find the bieber school of songwriting. I'm guessing i should start by looking for this guy.

Other than that, too many celebrities nowadays rely on foxy ladies and handsome men to sell their videos. I'm sure you agree with me on that.

OKAY SO ANYWAY, as the title says
MY LOVE FOR JASON MRAZ.
It's not just because he breaks the Biebermold which so many other celebrities fit into, it's because .... well ACTUALLY YES IT'S DEFINITELY CUZ HE BREAKS THE MOLD. and it's so refreshing and sexayyyyy.

Seriously I've had enough of lyrics referring to sexytime in a none-too-subtle manner. It's like they walked out of the Bieber school of songwriting. For adults. Censored. They all want to get your lovin, get dirty, get withchu. Let me love you down down down down down.. DOOOOWWWNNNN.

Compare that to Mraz and his creative lyrics. For the sexythings, just take a look at Butterfly.
"butterfly, you landed on my mind
damn right you landed on my ear and crawled inside"
How cute is that?! I mean other than all the sexual references and everything which i totally do not get.
And you must love his wordplay. Pun intended. Mraz would be proud of me.

Above that Mraz is a swoonworthy performer. He sounds nice on cd and everything, but on youtube I just want to watch his videos over and over and over and over again. You must love a guy who wears a hat, plays the guitar and romances the microphone the way he does... :O

Yuh. Jason Mraz. Nothing new, but engaging as ever. I hate using that word, engaging, because it's what we always tell the youth performers to strive toward... But that's just what he is. Totally less than three.

GOODNIGHT.

* actually it's probably not bieber's fault. It's just his songwriter. But it's fun to blame it on the bieber, and hey! bieber school of songwriting has a nice ring to it.

Worship with Iphone.

2010-06-02T23:27:00.002+08:00

Thought it'll be nice to share it with the world. :)

Pretty darn cool huh. I'm so gonna be the drummer in this if I ever have a chance... to be in one. Haha.

Best of Youtube (imho)

2010-06-02T23:01:00.009+08:00

I've kind of just graduated from university and i have a BIG LONG BREAK till February next year when I start schooling again, but that's another story for another time...
It's been really boring and i should really get a job, however i have some other commitments which have been preventing me from uprooting myself from the couch and actually doing that... So I've been killing time watching endless youtube videos.
Here are a few of the best channels i've been watching.

RayWilliamJohnson:
http://www.youtube.com/user/RayWilliamJohnson
This guy posts videos twice a week, on mondays and thursdays. Essentially what he does is review videos which have gone viral on the internet.
Two things it does for you:
1. It's helluva funny to watch
2. You can pretend to be all in the know and everything because he'll keep you updated on all the new vids making the rounds on the social networking channels. And when friends say "HEY, DID YOU SEE THAT VIDEO" you'll be able to say with confidence "YES I DID" and then throw in a few jokes stolen from RWJ.

Remi Gaillard:
http://www.youtube.com/user/nqtv
Remi has got balls. He pulls insane pranks, often involving strange animal costumes and behaviour, on everyone from the unsuspecting elevator commuter to policemen on duty.
And he's got some mad football skills.
Just check his videos. They're like pringles. Once you pop, you can't stop. Seriously. Don't start watching it if you've got exams coming up in a while.

ANNOYING ORANGE:
http://www.youtube.com/user/realannoyingorange
Words cannot express how much I love annoying orange. Actually do I even need to introduce annoying orange?

He's an orange, and he's annoying. At least to apple and all the other fruit and veggie characters on the show. He is so dead punny, and i love his laugh. Gosh, i'd love to have an annoying orange as a pet. HAHAHA
KNIFE.

Schmoyoho (Autotune the news):
http://www.youtube.com/user/schmoyoho
This bunch of people autotune stuff. You know what autotune is right? Anyway, they chose to best material to autotune. The news. How can you take the news seriously anymore when they're singing it? LOL.
So anyway, here's one of my favourite autotunes.
You gotta admit, it's dang catchy.

There's probably a million other awesome youtube video channels out there, SHARE. BEFORE I GET SO BORED THAT I KILL MYSELF.

-EDIT-
Just had to add this one more in.
Initially i didn't want to add it in because it wasn't slapstick funny, the way I like it, but honestly it's really brilliant.
Mystery Guitar Man:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MysteryGuitarMan
He's a genius at stopmotion animation of music, and he has tonnes of creative ideas on making music in different ways.
Check this one out.
Impressive huh!

What NOT to do for your wedding kiss

2010-05-31T09:39:00.001+08:00

This won't be decent, and it won't impress your folks... nor your pastor :)

Revival

2010-05-22T10:12:00.000+08:00

After much blog hopping, I find myself coming back to this blog!

Read through all the previous entries and... Wow. It's really a good blog! Haha. Too bad it just faded away unknowingly. Perhaps a revival soon?

I'm for it. Who's in? :)

A video worth watching again.

2009-05-21T17:21:00.000+08:00

Project friday

2009-05-15T00:47:00.001+08:00

Alright everyone, listen up. I have an incredibly amazing idea for a blogging project. It's gonna be difficult if we're gonna put the effort into it, but it will pay off.
HOWEVER, i do realise we probably won't be able to put the effort into it, so lets just go on to describe the magnificently superlative idea.
Step 1: Prepare 2 boxes of random words.
Step 2: Every friday, we'll pick a word each from these boxes
Step 3: Dress according to the theme presented by the two random words.
Step 4: photo of completed look to be posted on the following friday
Repeat steps 2-4 ad nauseum.
I'm setting it weekly, coz daily would be way too hard, though it would be a heck lotta fun and probably get amazing traffic as well. BUT ah well. Life is real.
Kay. down to the practical.

As i am obviously too lazy to source out TWO hats, as well as prepare and cut out hundreds of little slips of paper to put into the two hats, i have turned to the internet for this example.
Step 1: Bookmark two metaphorical hats of words here and here.
Step 2: Today is thursday, but i shall pretend it is monday. I have picked out unctuous and ailurophile as my two words.
Step 3: Dress up as an unctuous ailurophile. Should there be ambiguities in the meaning of the word i.e. more than one meaning, you're at liberty to choose which definition you want. Today i intend unctuous to mean oily, and not smug, coz oily is so much more fun.
SO. our task for the week is to dress up as an oily cat-lover (or smug, it's up to you), photo to be in next week.

ARE WE GONNA DO ITTTT!!!!???

I is here.

2009-05-01T09:45:00.000+08:00

HELLO. THIS PLACE IS OFFICIALLY DEAD.

CAN THE REAL BLOGGERS PLEASE STAND UP? (:

Hah.

I HATE FLU JABS.

I HATE FLU JABS BECAUSE I HAVE TO GO BACK CAMP JUST FOR THE JAB TODAY.(LABOUR DAY!!!!)

HOLY.

there is always a reason to shop.

2008-11-05T01:10:00.004+08:00

These are what i've ordered off the inna netz in a matter of just 3 hours (while attempting to focus on a last minute rush for a project)
First, i ordered these 2 cheapies off one of the ubiquitous F21 sprees.
There are always at least 3 f21 sprees running at any time.

USD11.50

USD3.50

Then stuff from supplier sprees. I swear supplier sprees are my downfall, i buy so many cheap cosmetics that i don't even want to buy anymore. I even have another box of falsies around that i don't use.
These are like dramamamama scary, i dunno if i'll ever use them!

S$6.50

and of course something from nu ren wo zui da

Tummy wrap thing. Hahaha!
Keep my posture good, say byebye to my tumtum!
9.90! similar stuff selling for twice the price at watsons.

and i bought something off zipia, planning to give it away as a christmas present. No pics in case someone reading this thing is the person who gets it. Just can't decide which handsome to give it too. HAHA.

Yups, so there is always a reason to shop online, and there's always a good deal hiding somewhere. You just gotta stop getting in the malls, sit down on your ass and get clicking!

If i were ever to become a celebrity,

2008-10-18T00:31:00.002+08:00

i would jump at the chance to do this

Rant on mascara and people

2008-10-15T00:17:00.001+08:00

Let me begin by saying I think i have verynearly found my hg mascara.

I'll need to use up my three sample sized tubes of Diorshow mascara (Classic, Blackout and Iconic) before i allow myself to buy it though...
And i'm still not sure if it is the classic diorshow that i have, or it may be Diorshow Unlimited or waterproof. I dunno right now.
That coz Diorshow classic is like magic for your lashes, but it's just that tad bit too unwaterproof, and i do cry a fair bit. So perhaps the waterproof version is my HG mascara, i have to wait till i use up these to see.

Why i suddenly blog this is because yesterday night i decided to try putting on the diorshow (classic) mascara without first using an eyelash curler, to see if it would be any good.
Drugstore brands like loreal and revlon and even majolica simply do not work without an eyelash curler, and for the former 2, even if you've curled your eyelashes, they simply uncurl and go straight once you've applied the mascara. At least majolica holds a curl, if it cannot produce one.
BUT Diorshow was something else altogether.
It creates a curl.
Maybe you can blame me for being suaku since i'm just a kid and haven't exactly been able to afford luxe brands... But Diorshow really lives up to it's own hype.
Sure it doesn't claim to produce a "false lash effect" which so many brands do and fail, but Diorshow claims:

Diorshow Mascara is Dior's original, must-have mascara that delivers ultra-glam, catwalk-length lashes. Makeup artists all over the world use this product to create the longest, thickest, curviest lashes ever.

Sephora
Lol no lie.

Then again i see almost no difference between classic and blackout, and i actually prefer the classic.
But i do think i like the blackout description more.

From the catwalks to you. Lashy "doe eyes" are hot this season and Dior does it best with an intense, deep kohl black shade.

I think it's more accurate. Coz what on earth is a catwalk-length lash?

Excited to see the givenchy phenomen'eyes in the flesh at the end of this month, and hoping to somehow find the chanel inimitable somewhere...

Exciting Givenchy

and my rant on people is merely this.
What is it about "brand loyalty"? Is it just not seeing far enough to notice that other brands offer the same products, but better?
Maybe mac's fluidline is a really really good gel liner, and they have an awesome range of shadow colors, but their eyeliner is nowhere near the best, neither their mascara. In fact i think their only strength is range of colours and accessibility.
I'm sure though one chooses to stick to the brand, they'd find themselves complaining once in a while about something or other.
Ok, sure, maybe you're sticking with something you find safe, but there's a wealth of information out there to help you find something better.
Haha and this whole brain issue on people not ever stepping out of their familiar shop to find something better began coz of earphones.
I suppose brand loyalty is simply convenience.

I also believe i am begining to monopolise this blog with vapid postings on cosmetics and girly things.

New Season in Tekong

2008-10-08T13:00:00.002+08:00

Hello everyone!

Just decided to put up a post declaring that i'll be away for the next two weeks.

Because..

I'm going to serve the country in NS!! Wow i just got a revelation from God. To everyone else of the world, it may be counted as National Service. But i am of God and not of the world, and to God this simply is just a New Season for me; albeit mostly spent on the island of Tekong. With this New Season, God is ever so faithful and will be there with me every step of the way.

Just a few days ago, God said this to me from the Spirit;

My NS (including the BMT period in Tekong), is gonna be so good, not for any other reason except for the fact that God is good. Because God is good all the time, and because the Creator of the heavens and the earth loves me so much, my NS will be good.

So here goes! I'll see everyone else in two weeks time when i book out :)

Take care, world! And yes also take care, Celeste, Cherri and Wanhua!

Jesus loves you all!

Run baby run, don't ever look back

2008-10-03T01:34:00.002+08:00

This short film which is tagged, was directed by Wong Kar Wai and features Clive Owen, is one of the eight pieces from the online series of short films called "The Hire", and this is a series more popularly known as the BMW Films.

Basically, BMW gave the world's best directors and producers a bunch of BMW automobiles and gave them the free will to film whatever they want, however they want, and to do whatever story they want.

Just as long as the film features the BMW vehicles.

And what comes out of the hands of such famous geniuses such as Wong Kar Wai (as shown in the video), John Woo, Ang Lee, Ridley Scott + Tony Scott, Guy Ritchie and many more, is nothing short of being mindblowingingly awesome!!

Whilst most of the films features high speed chases and loud crashes, the one which i tagged above, is by far my favourite. Simply because WKW (as he likes to be known as), mixes the delicateness of the underlying story into the fast paced chase scene sequences so beautifully with the subtle use of slow music and racing shots.

As always, WKW's work is sheer brilliance.

And if you are interested to view the rest of the BMW films, you can search for "BMW Film" on Youtube and VOILA! :D

Enjoy!

I cut my hair.

2008-09-27T03:59:00.001+08:00

Hi. I cut my hair. Literally.

Before

Lots of hair on the floor

Byebye hair.

Done.

And my eye for the day. Bad pic, u can't see the blue. The pics where u can see the blue, my eyes were bloodshot. So. well. unless u like bloodshot eyes.

to be wed

2008-09-26T14:41:00.004+08:00

every girl dreams of walking down the aisle in her magnificent dream perfect white gown lookin gorgeous with perfect hair perfect teeth her perfect smile. yes?

quite afew of the people i know who have been goin out for awhile are finally gettin married. from the proposal, to the announcement, to the preparation of wedding gowns, location, photoshoots and whatnots.. its been an amazing journey to witness.

but witnessing this journey not only reminds me of how incredibly faithful my daddygod can be, it at the same time gives me this.. incredibly sweet warm feelin inside, gooey not because i am eager to marry anyone, but more because of what i see btween the bride and her girlfriends. the way the bride shares about her plans, the way her girlfriends respond in crazy excitement.. celebrating together, rejoicing for one another, just plain being happy that one has found 'ever ever after'.. just that pure tender sweet love between girls.

and then i think about my own wedding. again no, not of the groom, but of the people i know who will be standing there beside me. the girls who i know will screeeeeeaaaaammmm when i tell them i am finally engaged, oh but wait, maybe the fiance will include them in the proposal so they'll know even before me. but hmms. hahahaha you get my point. i know these girls will be the ones who tell me that no cherri, your wedding cake cannot be 10 stories high, no you cannot have 10 bridesmaids, no cherri i dont think you can get a 3 months break from work just to go on your honeymoon...
so yeah. i am all gooey and happy becus these girls would have witnessed my journey, and would be by my side on that special day of mine, just to celebrate me, love, and most imptly, the one who made it all possible.

(:

so while we're on the topic,
this is one of my favourite sites

http://www.gertrudeandmabel.com/

charles and keith

2008-09-26T13:37:00.005+08:00

remember back then when charles and keith was a local aunty brand that no normal teen would shop in?

well they've certainly been upping their game!

it used to be this place my mother would shop, and then it became the place to get nicer slippers (remember those incredibly noisy slippers/flats that everyone use to wear last time?!), and then nowwwww.. omigosh!
everytime i walk in i feel like grabbing something!
just now i popped by during lunch, saw 2 new pairs of sandals that i would love to see on my feet, saw the other 2 that i've been meaning to buy, saw a really cool lookin pair of thick strapped pointy mary-jane pair of black pumps with the cutest miumiu-esque kind of heel. and best of all, the heel wasnt too tall so i wouldnt be too much of a giant, and the pair of pumps are incredibly comfortable! gosh...

and everytime i go in, i seem to spot something new that i want to add to my not-too-large shoe collection! and not just the shoes, the bags! the shades! the belts even sometimes!

woahhhhhh

and and and, remember when charles and keith used to be that cheap place with shoes no more den 30 bucks... thats definitely changed. cus some of it can cost up to 79 bucks now!

these are all on discount already!!!

go out and get em.....

wahahaha.

and the more expensive stuff, just realiesed, is actually the newly launched 'charles and keith signature label'

according to AsiaOne,

This line, which was launched in June last year, costs 30 per cent more than the original Charles & Keith range. This is because genuine leather is used and more attention is paid to details.

the catalogue is amazing, you can view it here http://www.charleskeith.com/Signature/wallpaper.html

the pictures are really quite gorgeous, with a gorgeous model, in gorgeous clothes, at that gorgeous place, and definitely, gorgeous shoes. i wouldnt mind using those pictures as wallpaper. hahaha but i shall stick to my 'psalm 139'. very chic. i love them.

hmms. if only i had money now i could buy all those shoes. sigh. not yet topshop zara level, so we'll keep to charles and keith for the time being i suppose! they'll suffice!

Oh such a conspiracy!

2008-09-25T01:33:00.002+08:00

Remember this movie?

now compare that movie to this one......

can't find the link?

well... let me help you abit...

what if i told you that the title of this 2005 korean film is Jenny, Juno?

and what if i told you the plot centers around the relationship of a 15-year-old couple, Jenny (Park Min-ji) and Juno (Kim Hye-sung), who meet in school. And when Jenny discovers that she is pregnant, she and Juno decide against having an abortion, opting for parenthood instead?

sounds familiar?

how about.. if i add a comment made by the "screenwriter" of JUNO (the american film) Diablo Cody, regarding this coincidence in plot in October 2007, stating that she had been unaware of the existence of Jenny, Juno prior her own film's release. Plus, she said that, although she had not yet watched Jenny, Juno, she now is interested in seeing it.

Well.... a ripped off plot or not... its not up to me to decide.

Would you like to watch and be the judge?

Mama Mia.. here we go again

2008-09-22T17:35:00.002+08:00

i am attempting to write a movie review about this film....

and if you are a die-hard fan of Mama Mia or ABBA,

i would suggest you turn away from this site.

NOW!!!!!

i know the Mama Mia musical has been around since God knows when, and in no way am i being disrespectful to the craft that is of combining theater, dance and music together.

but OH MY GOODNESS, the Mama Mia really sucks!!

firstly, i am a great fan Meryl Streep and am a closet Pierce Brosnan fan as well. (cue gasps of unbelief)

whilst Meryl Streep does a mighty fine job at holding her tune and acting convincingly at the same time, the movie makes absolutely no sense at all!!

at some points in the movie, i found myself cringing at the cheesy dance choreography, crazy calefares who pop out of the blue and not to mention... the no-link inclusion of ABBA music at highly inappropriate moments.

Alright, let's be honest here. ABBA is highly enjoyable pop music from the 80's, but it does not make much sense at all!!

I mean, come on... what has a Super Trouper's blinding beams gotta do with someone's emotional status of being blue?!

the only thing i found mildly enjoyable in the movie was the gorgeous Greek scenery and the equally gorgeous sight of the aged Pierce Brosnan, who REEEEAAALLY looks damn hot with his grayed hair and slightly wrinkled face. but he really can't sing. i was praying throughout the entire movie that he would just continue speaking and not sing another note.

the other supporting casts were definitely not cast based on their singing prowesses as well, which was a BIG mistake because this movie is actually a remake of the musical!!!

ok. you can tell how disappointed i am with the film la.
i was really looking forward to watching the film because Meryl Streep's in it and plus the fact that Mama Mia has been around for so long!

alas, the movie is sorely disappointing.

BAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*cue the rolling of eyes*

Good and affordable cleansing oil

2008-09-18T00:40:00.000+08:00

Hi there,
I am a bit of a makeup junkie if you haven't realised by now, but though i'm a makeup junkie i've never really paid much attention to removal of makeup.
Once, not so long ago, i remember that i read an article stating that makeup isn't bad for your skin, it's neglecting to remove makeup properly that is.

I use this lousy chinabrand i got from bugis street for about $7.
It works quite badly. My trusty majolica majorca mascara takes alot of effort to remove with this remover ( i always lose eyelashes), and it also leaves a stubborn oily residue that remains even after washing my face.

So today i had a bit of time off for myself, and so i went watsons shopping and bought this!

Biore cleansing oil, as recommended by Kimoko.
It is affordable, at about 13 (i got it for 9.90, i don't quite know how...). Compared to shu uemura's cult fave at close to a billion dollars. Don't think the premium justifies the quality. Sure, the biore oil has no frills, but it does the job damn well.
So, i used the biore cleansing oil today, on a heck lot of eye makeup. I'm in some sort of emo phase right now, so think eyeliner on the entire lower eyelid, black eyeshadow on the middle eyelid and mascara, as well as eyeliner below the eye + eyeshadow there as well.

The bottle says "massage 4 pumps into the face until all makeup is dissolved" I used nothing near that. For me, about half a pump in total for both eyes and maybe another half pump for the rest of the face and all the makeup just melted away. Even the majolica majorca mascara which is soooo waterproof that even after walking through the rain, my eyelashes stay as curled as ever.
And it literally dissolved. Like now u see it, now you don't! Even the lower eye eyeliner which usually takes some effort to remove, just dissappeared. And one wash with my usual cleanser did the trick. Fresh clean makeupless skin! Best of all, no stinging at all. Not even one bit. I rubbed the oil right into my lower eye to get at the eyeliner there, and i accidentally touched my eye, but no pain! haha though i must admit i'm not one with sensitive eyes lar.

Wah. And it's only 9.90 at the guardian in millenia walk. Go get it go go go.
And if biore would like to pay me for endorsing their product in cash or kind, i'd be glad.
Actually kimoko and friends say the facial cleansing oil cotton sheets are better, and i got a pack of that too. But i don't feel like opening it today, so maybe i'll review it another day.

Oh. yah i happen to have a super ugly pic of my face today...
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BOOOO.
Scared ya. HAHAHHAHA

What 'sa matter with 'chu?

2008-09-15T17:11:00.001+08:00

this calls for some food for thought.
as well as some itchy fingers to do some calling up of old friends.

ha ha ha.

I think angmohs have a thing for bangs

2008-09-11T23:16:00.005+08:00

Bangs as in strong blunt straight fringes, in case you didn't know.
That coz, i've never gotten so much unwanted attention from angmohs before. Youngmohs, oldmohs... They're all suddenly deciding to talk to me in the street, on the bus.... Ohmigod i hate it it's so weird!
By the way.

So why would angmohs have a thing for asian girls with bangs.
I haven't the foggiest, but i remember something my lit teacher told me when i was in sec school which is, they find orientals exotic. And i suppose bangs make asian girls look even more asian.
Gosh. :(
I have failed in my quest for ugliness. Not that the opinion of angmohs matters much more to me.

Anyhow, the reason for this post. Today on bus 95, i was sitting there minding my business when this bunch of angmohs came up the bus. One angmoh guy sat on my left, and a girl on my right. The guy turned round and said "hi how are you doing today"
And i really should learn more about strangerdanger, coz i did the same thing i did last time and i replied :O. But then again, u have to forgive me coz it was a bus leh. It'd be rude not to, and anyway, his female friend was there....
So then he asked me lots of stuff.. Where i came from (school, NUS) What i was studying (lifescience) Whether i was one of the people who take lifescience coz i wanted to be a doctor but failed (No, i wanted to take biology when i was really young, and since biology is under life science.. But i've changed my mind about biology and i'm gonna do something else under life science)... Questions like that.
... Then i had to get off the bus, and surprise surprise, one of my friends was at the back of the bus. Haha he should have been in the front to save me lor, but then he got on at an earlier busstop i suppose......
Oh well. an interesting experience all in all, and nothing too dangerous this time.

Let go, just let go

2008-09-11T03:31:00.003+08:00

i'm sorry but i've been listening to this song umpteen times.
what started out as an audio obsession drove me to google for the lyrics and meaning behind this song by Frou Frou.

"it's alright. cause there's beauty in the breakdown..so let go, just let go"

i think this perfectly describes what makes people human.

when people "break down" or have a emotional breakdown it is usually over a tradgedy or sadness of some kind.

and there is a strange kind of beauty in this, because the heart of humanity is our emotions.

although it can seem like the world is ending.
when you feel like you cant sink any lower, just remember this: in order to feel that level of devastation, you have had experienced something very very wonderful before in order to know what devastation is like.

furthermore, as beloved children, we can always expect things to only get brighter and brighter.

so....be glad that whatever happened, happened.
cause there truly is beauty in that.

so let go.
just let go.

and let God

dreaming laputa

2008-09-10T02:07:00.005+08:00

what is it like to receive mystery flowers every 1st of the month, see shooting stars fly across the sky, ride a pony till ur butt hurt, swim from coast to coast in free style, laugh with no fear of tomorrow, share an intimate smile with someone, play the piano until ur heart sings, open your lips to reach perfect notes, remember the color of every flower you pass by, dance on bubble wrap with a tamberine, hold a baby in your arms and twirl, cry until joy overflows, watch a 6year old girl giggle, lie under the sun without getting burnt..

haha.

i dont know.

(:

but we'll dream, wont we.

quoting my sister:
"Gone are the ambitions. Just follow the rules, keep out of trouble and stay safe. Each of us.. Robots, slaves to what the world says.
Hey, put a smile on your face, you should be satisfied with what you have.
Don’t bother dreaming big, and all you get is a bruised ego and uneccessary trouble."

are you like that?
i dont want to be like that.

ambitions greater than this world, rules are meant to be broken, stay in trouble-it keeps god in the equation, why stay safe- just free fall and know he'll never let go.
we're not robots, we're children. little giggly silly kids that know the world is in their daddy's hands.
hey sweetie, put a smile on your face, because He gives you more than you have ever desired or even expected.
dream big darling, dream big and big and big, bigger and higher, larger than life, and then He who puts these dreams in you shall see that they come to pass by His power.

ahs.

who says its hard to dream?

Why oh why, Delilah?

2008-09-05T04:52:00.004+08:00

I am officially pissed off. ticked off. infuriated. exasperated. impossibly and undeniably irritated.

i cannot find rainboots anywhere.

the only ONE PAIR i found that ships to Singapore, is selling at a price of $55. and i am not about to spend that kinda money on a pair of rain boots. but still!!! argh!!

it is now 4:49am and i am still trying to look for rainboots.

why is it that Ebay.com has gabillion and one selections but Ebay.com.sg has, oh let me count.. ZERO! NADAH! ZILCH!

*garrrrrrrrr*

ok. calm down nicole loh wan hua.
you need to stop this rainboot obsession.

just so you know, i went shopping today and i almost bought a pair from Burberry. This is how severely desperate i am for rainboots.

AH LAU!! we need to get us some PCK ones, black spray paint and an assortment of buckles. PRONTO!

Look what i found cherri

2008-09-04T09:48:00.001+08:00

Buy for me?
Boots!

umbrellas & rainboots.

2008-09-02T13:57:00.004+08:00

its the monsoon season again.
is it??

somehow i dont remember it being so early, but since it is raining almost every single day, i've stopped questioning whether its monsoon season already or not and accepted the fact that whether i like it or not, the rain is here and is prolly gonna stay till the end of the year.

gah.

dont be mistaken. i love the rain. i love looking at the rain, i love the sound of the rain, i love laughing at people who are caught in the rain (?!), i love the way the air smells after it rains.. i like the rain. as long as i am nice and warmly cuddled inside, observing the rain, not drenched IN the rain.

especially, when i have my nice pumps on, or if im wearing my leather sandals. because then, my pretty black pumps would get soaked, and my feet will stink, same for the leather sandals. and piang eh, stinky feet in sandals is damn sad can.

so. i have come up with the perfect bimbotic solution.

1. get myself an, umbrella.
2. buy a pair of rainboots!!! *squeals

i dont ask much for an umbrella,
just so long as it UVprotectedwithprettyprintsmatchesallmyoutfitsnottooheavy and ofcus, fitintomytote. yeah! thats all i ask. not too much to ask what right?
haha joking.

from MNG and Target.

the MNG umbrellas are available in stores currently, the translucent one can be found at Daiso or Haji lane. the rainboots however, are all from Target.

thing is, will you actually wear a pair of rainboots out?

and how would you keep those happy looking boots? leave them at home or in the office? or buy 2 so one each?

hahaha

k. actually, much to love for the rainy season. means all the cardigans, thicker jackets, long skirts, boots even can come out to playyyyyyyyy

And now you're back... from outer space

2008-09-01T23:00:00.003+08:00

Hello people!

i am back from the land of a thousand smiles.
and i am definitely smiling, for sure.

omg. bang kok is the shizz for shopping.
i bought a whole crapload of clothes and other nonsensical stuff.
hahahha! *bliss*

anywho, i just arrived and sat my butt down to blog (see how committed i am??!!? you see??!)
so, i'm not really well-rested enough to coherently string a bunch of words together to sound witty or funny.

however!!!!!!!!!! i am very sure, the next clip would be fairly interesting.

so... enjoy!

*disclaimer*
the "ouch" you heard was the result of the EXTREMELY prickly cricket leg which latched onto the inside of my mouth. haha =D

Thank you for watching!
Kap-kun-krap!

Smashing Earphones!

2008-08-30T01:08:00.002+08:00

Nope, definitely not literally smashing them :P
I just purchased my first pair of "expensive earphones" today.

They're the Crossroads MylarOne sVi earphones! No idea what the sVi stands for, but what i do know is that these earphones are the ones with the clearest treble and most controlled bass in the Crossroads MylarOne series. Get them if they suit your purposes.

Here.

The shop is at level 4 of adelphi, opposite st andrews cathedral/funan.
The staff are really friendly and true audiophiles who know EXACTLY what they're doing. Uncle Wilson is the best lar. HAHA u can kinda say that this post is a "motivated" post, coz he gave me a free pair of earphones coz he found it really rare that a lady would buy the sVi.
The staff there ask all the right questions, like what kind of treble, bass, what kind of music u listen to, just so they can recommend u the best for ur preferences. I even overheard a conversation, where a lady was asking about the iTouch bundle, one of the staff immediately told her to get the iPod classic instead, coz the iTouch has worse sound quality; a hissing sound happens sometimes with good phones coz of bad output quality. They really LOVE sound as u can tell, coz which person in their right mind would reject the "cool" factor of an iTouch for sound quality?!
These are people to trust with ur listening needs mannnn!

Previously i used the bundled creative earphones, which i daresay are already pretty awesome. As good, if not better than iPod ones. I've been using them for like 2 years now. Doesn't help that stuff lasts quite long on me, so i used one pair almost to the death, then got another creative mp3, with earphones to go along, and continued using them.
So why the switch?

Haha i dunno man u really got to hear it to feel it. I listened to Nicole's Ultimate Ears earphones once ( no idea what model) and just fell in love with good sonic quality in earphones lor. I kinda swore off listening to my mp3 till i got some good phones.

Some people swear by their iPod ear phones and simply float along in life, replacing spoilt iPod earphones with iPod earphones. I think most people do that lar, coz who would bother to experiment with good earphones? iPod earbuds cost $50 right. Well, my Crossroads cost just slightly more than that(2days worth of allowance money for me), but eh man, the premium is a small price to pay for the increase in sound quality.

They're really sweeeee man. U can hear everything. Saliva in the artiste's mouth. Hhahahahaha ok fine, not quite but near enough. U can hear every drum, every snare, every whispered word, and in Nicole's words, the RAIN in the "how can u refuse Him now" track on the "songs for communion" album. Never knew it was there right? HAHHA! Win!
Crossroads MylarOne sVi WIN.
U can go ahead and try the more bassy ones if u want, just go to Jaben.
Real sonophiles sell u the best earphones lor.

We built this city on Rock and Roll

2008-08-29T14:17:00.006+08:00

Are your weekends uneventful?
Do you feel bored?
And you don't have any plans this weekend?

well... fret not..

because.....

BAYBEATS IS FINALLY HERE!!!!!!!!!!

yes my dear friends..
it starts tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*screams*

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(F.Y.I)
BAYBEATS is Singapore's own local annual alternative music festival at Esplanade. Since 2002, it has sought to showcase good local, regional and international indie bands, give them an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas, and bring to audiences a fun, free-for-all weekend celebration of great live alternative music in a variety of sounds such as post-rock, punk, emo, electro, indie-pop and hard rock.

Now BAYBEATS is one of the most massive and looked-forward-to music festivals in Singapore, hosting bands from countries such as Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, USA, Australia and of course, our very own Singapore, and drawing a growing audience.

From 2002 till 2007, BAYBEATS was produced annually by Wake Me Up Music Productions, a not-for-profit enterprise, founded in 1998, that creates music and art platforms for artists, bands and DJs. Now, BAYBEATS is produced by its presenter, Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay.

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However, i'd be flying off to the land of a thousand smiles.. Thailand. so i'd only be able to catch the first day of this festival of pure awesomeness... which is TONIGHT!!!!! *evil laugh*

i'd be catching Leeson and Force Vomit tonight.
*toes wiggling with excitement*

Nokia 888

2008-08-29T09:55:00.001+08:00

Link
and
Link

Just came across this yesterday, the Nokia 888 concept. Yep, you read that right, it's a CONCEPT. still in the works. Pisses me off reading the comments in the 2nd link, coz every other person is asking "WHERE CAN I GET THIS?!!!!!111oneone" when it's already stated in the title of the thing that it's a concept!!! Some people have NO BRAINS. It was conceived by some dude Tamer Nakisci in some sort of design competition.
Anyway, thoughts on this.
It's really cool, but i guess it's still many years off. First of all, a paper thin phone? Don't think you're gonna get all the fancy schmancy features we're used to on something like that. Read, no camera. Definitely no camera. And i like my phones to have cameras, the more camerary the camera, the better. Also no detachable battery in all likelihood. how are u gonna detatch it? Peel off a layer from the phone? Anw, it's stated, liquid battery. That's gotta be hard to remove... Besides. I don't see how this thing's gonna be charged. Maybe they can make it partially solar powered. Could be practical coz the thing has a large surface area.
The shape changing function is awesome, but is it practical? Honestly i think it'd be really hard to sms on a phone like that. There's nothing to HOLD while pressing. No wonder they didn't exactly feature text messaging in the concept video.
Anyhow. Still many years off, and it probably won't come out exactly the way they've featured it.
Then again, if personal LED contact lenses are already in the prototype stage...............

remembering you

2008-08-27T11:45:00.003+08:00

I found You in the most unlikely way
But really it was You who found me
And I found myself in the gifts that You gave
You gave me so much

And I watch as the cold winter melts into spring
And I remember you
Oh and I'll smell the flowers and hear the birds sing
and I remember You

From the first moment when I heard Your name
Something in my heart came alive
You showed me love and no words could explain
A love with the power to
Open the door
To a world I was made for

The dark night, the hard fight
The long climb up the hill knowing the cost
The brave death, the last breathe
The silence whispering all hope was lost
The thunder, the wonder
A power that brings the dead back to life

And I'll watch as the sun fills a sky that was dark
And I remember you
And I'll think of the way that You fill up my heart
And I remember you

My peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you

2008-08-27T00:26:00.004+08:00

Ironically, one of the most notable anniversaries of the year seems to be slipping by almost unnoticed. The most notable pop culture sign and universally loved symbol of all times.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the peace symbol.

The iconic sign was developed in 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a professional designer, artist, and conscientious objector in Great Britain.   It was originally designed for Britain’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. (In fact, the symbol is a combination of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D" - standing for Nuclear Disarmament.)

However, it quickly spread worldwide, and has since become universally known to represent peace rather than simply nuclear disarmament.

After 50 years, though, the sign is as much a symbol of hope as any kind of realistic eventuality. Still, it's the hope that keeps us going.

Sadly for Gerald Holtom ...... the peace symbol was never copyrighted.

Peace Out!

finally home.

2008-08-26T18:29:00.005+08:00

yesterday was one of my best girl's birthday celebration, i've been with her for 10 years now, and counting on.

through primary school bus rides, to secondary school mugging/bugis shopping/moaning about how boring school is/crying over stupid boys who didnt want us..
i cannot imagine a life without friends like that.

i try to think of a future without this girl, and it is kind of weird...

but mainly. im just appreciative of the girls i have around me now.
whether close friends, or hi bye friends, or friends who live only in memories.. if i remember you, means something good happened there that made you live in my memories yes?

(: girlfriends are such precious things.
its not the spending almost everyday together, nor the thinking exactly alike, not even the agreeing on everything that makes the friendship work. its really just about how the 2 people have something to connect on, and in these cases, its my jesus.

its the underlying love thats not from us, that comes fr above. the love that takes shit even when it stinks. the love that rejoices even when they dont feel like it, the love the encourages and lifts up when gravity seems to pull it down.

sounds like the perfect friend doesnt it.. how can you be the perfect friend?
really easy actually, simply by not being. by just knowing that each doesnt need the other to pacify or be the emotional support all the time, because jesus is there.

im still on that journey, still walkin with jesus, fingers entwined, learning to live a life with no worries. in lookin at his beautiful face, everytime im afraid for a friend, i learn that its not about me or my worrying, its all about him and how he solves things by being himself, savior.

girlfriends are one of the most wonderful treasures i've got in my short little 20 years, and i expect that for the next 1oo years, they're gonna remain the most beautiful pearls in my life.

i proudly share, that i am so honored, i feel so priviledged, to be part of this girl's life, that i was given the opportunity to see her recieve christ, to see her grow in the lord. because really, whats a more life-changing gift than that?

and i am so happy, so very happy to celebrate her birthday this year. because finally, after 20 years of wandering, this is the first year that she's finally home for her birthday. this is home, home where daddygod is, home where acceptance is never wavering because of what jesus died to give. home where love has never, and will never fail.

babe, you're home. happy birthday.
all heaven rejoices, cus daddys babygirl is finally home.

(:

Your talk is all the talk, sister you've got it all

2008-08-26T15:59:00.002+08:00

ahhh.
am in love.

with Jason Mraz.
HAHA!

The female species have such a mighty power over the male species.
The female body form is said to be the most beautiful and mystifying thing in the entire universe.

Isn't it funny how Eve was created whilst Adam was asleep?
And isn't it funny how Eve's name mean "Meet - Help"?

The creation of Woman the final crescendo in the beautiful work of God's hands.

God created multitudes of glorious greenery and luscious flowers.
God created beautiful animals which filled the skies and spanned out to the ends of Earth.
God created Man and called him Adam. In his full masculinity and power, Adam was created.

Yet, God saw that it was not good enough.
Earth needed that final touch. The one last thing to make the Earth complete.

That is why, God created Woman... Eve.

Women, you are created beautifully by God.
Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

XOXO

Snails mating

2008-08-25T01:37:00.000+08:00

Today on my way home, i spotted 2 snails 50cm apart on top of a wall, at eye level. I stopped to watch, coz i sensed love in the air. HAHA. i so hum sup. Ok not really lar, i guess it's just an occupational hazard.
So i stopped and watched. I watched snail 1 crawl, ever so slowly toward snail 2 which was just sitting there like a lump. I suppose if snails weren't hermaphroditic, the sitting snail would be the female.
So i watched. And i watched, and i watched, as the snail inched ever closer to the other snail. Moving at about 5cm per minute, i must have watched for about 10 mins.
It was quite amazing looking at that snail, coz their beady little eyes at the tip of their eyestalks are something like the most primitive eyes. Just made me want to CUT IT OFF! irritating ! hahahahaha
anw
snail 1 crawled and crawled and crawled, got distracted by ants crawling onto it's eye, and crawled and crawled, and finally neared snail 2. Haha i hoped the "action" would start immediately, coz i've never seen snails mate live, and i really wondered what it's like.
But nooooo
they just....
i dunno man. communicated i supposed. and after another 10mins of waiting, i decided to leave.
Snail courtship is NOT INTERESTING. haha!

So anyway, if u really want to watch snails mating,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U09QrWV96wo

the shameless proposition

2008-08-23T17:44:00.000+08:00

this morning i was sick. so i went back to bed and slept some more till i didn't realise i had slept so late i missed half my meeting. Called yvonne, yvonne said it was alright, i didn't have to come. but i still felt like crap.
So i went on to do what i had decided to do today.
Walked up to wisma, discovered that i was right about the bits and pieces there being closed. So i set off to my 2nd errand, that is go to crumpler to check out prices. I'm gonna be buying mine tomorrow, but i'll hope to earn back the money from this blog soon... LOL!!
Anyway, after checking out the prices i crossed the road to shaw. As i was stepping under the shelter, this middle aged angmoh man casually said "Always raining in singapore"
So being the nice polite person i am i said "yes, it's the rainy season now"
Said man went on to talk. This is what i learnt about him from the thoroughly one sided conversation. This coz i really wanted to go get my errands done and get back home to sleep somemore, and also probably coz that man just wanted to talk.
His name is peter. He is a businessman from canada, going back in 2 days time. Yesterday he had a girlfriend, but today he doesn't (*alarmbells*). He brought her shopping, bought her a few dresses and a watch and she was very happy. She was 21, student in NUS. And he told her, she be his girlfriend for a few hours. No sex. Just accompany him shopping, he buy her stuff, both of them happy, life is short.
All i did was nod.
Then he repeated the whole story again.
And then he tried to put his hand on my back. I siamed the hand, said "woah i'm not that girl!"
and said BYE. He dissappeared very quickly into the shop on the left, and I went on to Far east plaza to shop a little.
Got my ring, a bottle of orange glittery nail polish, a fabric hairband and a pink top.

I have nothing more to say. Goodbye!

healer

2008-08-23T13:56:00.006+08:00

would i still sing healer?

yes.

because the song is anointed no matter who wrote it and why it was written
so what if it turned out to be a hoax,
did having a powerful story behind it make the song more anointed?
no it didnt, it shouldnt.

this song is about jesus,
about his love his grace his faithfulness.
and every word of it is the truth.

i admit i was a little hurt too at the beginning, mummuring to myself, why he like that, how come like that one.. wahlao i feel so cheated can!
until daddy corrected me. 'hey babe, since when was it ever about you?'

eh? he's right. since when was it about me.
since when was it about how i felt? since when was it about how i am reacting to it?

its not about me, not about you, not even about mike and his lie.
its about jesus.

so let it remain about jesus, and let all else fade away.

(:
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH YOU
YOU HOLD MY WORLD IN UR HANDS

I trust in You.. oh i trust in You

2008-08-23T00:43:00.003+08:00

I trust in You
I trust in You

I believe You're my Healer
I believe You are all I need
I believe You're my Portion
I believe You're more than enough for me
Jesus You're all I need

Nothing is impossible for You
You hold my world in Your hands

I don't see how this fake illness phenomena can stop this song from being as beautiful as it is.
That is all i have to say about the Mike issue.

It is undeniable.
This song is beautiful.
And it is full of God.
It is full of Jesus.

What more do we need to know or to ask from this song?

Let's just keep our eyes on Jesus and praise Him for who He is.

And let's pray for Mike as well.
It's true that what he did was wrong, but yep, who are we to judge?!

Mike Guggliemucci's faked illness?

2008-08-22T09:50:00.009+08:00

Hillsong - healer

Report

and someone's opinion

here
I don't know who's seen these reports yet, and if anybody will be stumbled... But here's my take.

I dunno if the status of this story is "under investigation" or "confirmed" but i'm supposing that since Mike came out himself, then the lie can't be a lie.
I guess it did indeed hurt that bit when i first heard it, coz u know his story seemed so touching when Darlene shared it at our church. The first time i ever heard that song. And I cried that little bit.
I love the song a lot, and i even spent the night before the news broke listening to it on the This is our God album on repeat till i fell asleep.
So of course it hurt that bit. And i'm sure many others feel the same. Cheated.
But I gave it some thought. Know. God is God is God. Man, on the other hand is man. Man and the world has this knack for corrupting any good thing. Think internet;porn. Medicinal drugs; abuse. Teletubbies; satanic.
HAHahaha. ok jokes aside. I dunno what Mike was thinking. Why would he choose to live a lie for those months/years of his life without even his family knowing.
And so perhaps even though God's image in the world's eyes takes a bit of a beating, God let him come out with the lie, coz it was probably killing him inside, even if there was no cancer in him.
And you know, aren't we all a bit vain, we're feeling angry that he has no cancer instead of being happy.
That's a lil ironic isn't it, and that's coz Healer is still a great anointed song, inspired by God even if mike decided he had to lie to "help" God to make the song popular. And that's why we feel so angry. Coz the song spoke to us. The song and the supposed backstory together. And for the hillsong conference people... Even worse.
I have no other conclusion than this, that God has a knack of glorifying Himself through man's falleness. And that's not for us to worry about.
Think King David. Who indeed had a nowhere near perfect record. Consider him as compared to Joseph or Daniel. King David fails. But. Look in the psalms. Look around in what David said. So much of it has been adapted into lyrics. Even now.. Just now i was reading 2 sam 22:20-30, somewhere there la, and David lied too.

21 “The LORD rewarded me according to my
righteousness; According to the cleanness of
my hands He has recompensed me.
22
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, And
have not wickedly departed from my God.
23 For all His judgments were
before me; And as for His statutes, I did not
depart from them.

You think? hahaha. I'm not so well versed in bibly stuff, but i seem to remember adultery somewhere in his story.......... HAHA But God still blessed him. So much. :)

Not that i'm saying i think mike was right to lie, coz it's definitely never right to deceive others, that's why he's facing the consequences now. But i believe there's grace in that, and know... don't stop listening to the song just coz there's a lie attached to it (unless it really hurts that much and it'll distract u from worshipping God). Coz undoubtedly, it's still a song that speaks to me in it's meaning. It's about Jesus not mike. the backstory was just a bonus.

alright.
hahaha call to prata bloggers... anything to say?

Shut up and Sit down for awhile

2008-08-20T14:43:00.000+08:00

The author of The Teenage Textbook (1988) - Adrian Tan, was the guest-of-honour at a recent NTU convocation ceremony. This was his speech to the graduating class of 2008.

Life and How to Survive It

I must say thank you to the faculty and staff of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information for inviting me to give your convocation address. It's a wonderful honour and a privilege for me to speak here for ten minutes without fear of contradiction, defamation or retaliation. I say this as a Singaporean and more so as a husband.

My wife is a wonderful person and perfect in every way except one. She is the editor of a magazine. She corrects people for a living. She has honed her expert skills over a quarter of a century, mostly by practising at home during conversations between her and me.

On the other hand, I am a litigator. Essentially, I spend my day telling people how wrong they are. I make my living being disagreeable.

Nevertheless, there is perfect harmony in our matrimonial home. That is because when an editor and a litigator have an argument, the one who triumphs is always the wife.

And so I want to start by giving one piece of advice to the men: when you've already won her heart, you don't need to win every argument.

Marriage is considered one milestone of life. Some of you may already be married. Some of you may never be married. Some of you will be married. Some of you will enjoy the experience so much, you will be married many, many times. Good for you.

The next big milestone in your life is today: your graduation. The end of education. You're done learning.

You've probably been told the big lie that "Learning is a lifelong process" and that therefore you will continue studying and taking masters' degrees and doctorates and professorships and so on. You know the sort of people who tell you that? Teachers. Don't you think there is some measure of conflict of interest? They are in the business of learning, after all. Where would they be without you? They need you to be repeat customers.

The good news is that they're wrong.

The bad news is that you don't need further education because your entire life is over. It is gone. That may come as a shock to some of you. You're in your teens or early twenties. People may tell you that you will live to be 70, 80, 90 years old. That is your life expectancy.

I love that term: life expectancy. We all understand the term to mean the average life span of a group of people. But I'm here to talk about a bigger idea, which is what you expect from your life.

You may be very happy to know that Singapore is currently ranked as the country with the third highest life expectancy. We are behind Andorra and Japan, and tied with San Marino. It seems quite clear why people in those countries, and ours, live so long. We share one thing in common: our football teams are all hopeless. There's very little danger of any of our citizens having their pulses raised by watching us play in the World Cup. Spectators are more likely to be lulled into a gentle and restful nap.

Singaporeans have a life expectancy of 81.8 years. Singapore men live to an average of 79.21 years, while Singapore women live more than five years longer, probably to take into account the additional time they need to spend in the bathroom.

So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.

Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.

I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.

After all, it's calculated based on an average. And you never, ever want to expect being average.

Revisit those expectations. You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that, as graduates, you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.

That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.

If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself. You will be living your life according to boundaries set by average people. I have nothing against average people. But no one should aspire to be them. And you don't need years of education by the best minds in Singapore to prepare you to be average.

What you should prepare for is mess. Life's a mess. You are not entitled to expect anything from it. Life is not fair. Everything does not balance out in the end. Life happens, and you have no control over it. Good and bad things happen to you day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. Your degree is a poor armour against fate.

Don't expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live. Your life is over as of today. At this point in time, you have grown as tall as you will ever be, you are physically the fittest you will ever be in your entire life and you are probably looking the best that you will ever look. This is as good as it gets. It is all downhill from here. Or up. No one knows.

What does this mean for you? It is good that your life is over.

Since your life is over, you are free. Let me tell you the many wonderful things that you can do when you are free.

The most important is this: do not work.

Work is anything that you are compelled to do. By its very nature, it is undesirable.

Work kills. The Japanese have a term "Karoshi", which means death from overwork. That's the most dramatic form of how work can kill. But it can also kill you in more subtle ways. If you work, then day by day, bit by bit, your soul is chipped away, disintegrating until there's nothing left. A rock has been ground into sand and dust.

There's a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are "making a living". No, they're not. They're dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful.

People will tell you that work ennobles you, that work lends you a certain dignity. Work makes you free. The slogan "Arbeit macht frei" was placed at the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps. Utter nonsense.

Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway.

Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.

I like arguing, and I love language. So, I became a litigator. I enjoy it and I would do it for free. If I didn't do that, I would've been in some other type of work that still involved writing fiction – probably a sports journalist.

So what should you do? You will find your own niche. I don't imagine you will need to look very hard. By this time in your life, you will have a very good idea of what you will want to do. In fact, I'll go further and say the ideal situation would be that you will not be able to stop yourself pursuing your passions. By this time you should know what your obsessions are. If you enjoy showing off your knowledge and feeling superior, you might become a teacher.

Find that pursuit that will energise you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

Most of you will end up in activities which involve communication. To those of you I have a second message: be wary of the truth. I'm not asking you to speak it, or write it, for there are times when it is dangerous or impossible to do those things. The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth. Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating. There is also great skill. Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought to the consequences. It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence.

In order to be wary of the truth, you must first know it. That requires great frankness to yourself. Never fool the person in the mirror.

I have told you that your life is over, that you should not work, and that you should avoid telling the truth. I now say this to you: be hated.

It's not as easy as it sounds. Do you know anyone who hates you? Yet every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but often by a great many. That hatred is so strong it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and in one famous instance, nailed to a cross.

One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it's often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one's own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself. Popularity is a sure sign that you are doing something wrong.

The other side of the coin is this: fall in love.

I didn't say "be loved". That requires too much compromise. If one changes one's looks, personality and values, one can be loved by anyone.

Rather, I exhort you to love another human being. It may seem odd for me to tell you this. You may expect it to happen naturally, without deliberation. That is false. Modern society is anti-love. We've taken a microscope to everyone to bring out their flaws and shortcomings. It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work – the only kind of work that I find palatable.

Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way. We learn the truth worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul.

Loving someone is therefore very important, and it is also important to choose the right person. Despite popular culture, love doesn't happen by chance, at first sight, across a crowded dance floor. It grows slowly, sinking roots first before branching and blossoming. It is not a silly weed, but a mighty tree that weathers every storm.

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.

Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don't, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.

Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.

You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.

am on a roll..

2008-08-20T01:17:00.002+08:00

of watching Disney classics!!! I think it's all thanks to that "Fairytales" service last Arrow; it's left me reeling for more. So, I watched The Little Mermaid today. I think everyone should re-watch those Disney cartoons when they get a lil' older cos it seems so much funnier, with all the intended puns and amazing song composition.

I can't believe I laughed so much watching The Little Mermaid today. The red crab fella (sebastian) is reaaaaaaaly funny. ahhaahhaha. Did anyone notice he was jamaican?

Da seaweed is always greenah, in someboday else's lake.
Yoo dream about goin up dare, but dat is a big mistake.
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.
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UNDA DA SEAAAA. UNDA DA SEAAAAAAA.

hahahahaha i love the way he sings that. awesome.

Storms in life.

2008-08-20T00:11:00.001+08:00

When times are tough, and i'm feeling down(ish),
There are songs which never fail to pick me up and remind me that i am indeed not under the weather, but above the weather, between the Lord's shoulders.
Here's one of my faves :)
Still - Hillsongs

Looking to invest in a pair of earphones?

2008-08-19T00:03:00.000+08:00

Check out iLounge.com
"the complete guide to earphones"
There's alot of reading and alot of research that should go into your decision to buy a pair of expensive earphones, and this is a good place to start.
Covers all the basics of what u should look for in a pair of earphones and has a checklist of your priorities. And then after ur done with the checklist u can go on and look at their 100+ reviews of earphones!
ULTIMATELY though, you never really know the earphones till u try them out for yourself. And there's not really anywhere u can try earphones....................................
SO.
FAIL.

D is for Dangerous

2008-08-18T01:18:00.011+08:00

I dubbed myself the (minimally) music junkie on this site, however so, here and there i like to bring the indie fashionista in me out for public display.

One of my weekly guilty pleasures, apart from visiting the ever-so-popular Sartorialist, i like to visit this other site by Hedi Slimane too!

Hedi Slimane is a French Designer who currently designs the Dior Homme label. However, like myself, he has an insatiable appetite for all things indie.

His interest for indie rock started a whole movement in fashion. So much so that his slim silhouette and aloof attitude have been adopted widely on a street level, especially in the UK. He also started a few british bands, among them Eight legs, and These New Puritans (TNP has real awesome stuff by the way, you guys should check them out on myspace)

Mainly, i check his blog/site/show-off gallery of awesomelicious pictures because i love using his photographs as computer wallpapers & screensavers. These images make awesome backdrops!!! (which is befitting of my awesome Macbook *sniggers*)

Apart from taking awesome pictures of indie rock concerts and as well as being chummy o' pals with controversial superstar singers like Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse...

He does numerous fashion shoots with fashion magazines as well! He is known for photographing high flying models, such as Kate Moss, in the buff. But due to self-censorship, i have only chosen the PG pictures to cater to our viewers. ha!

But the highlight of his carreer is definitely the fact that from 1992 to 1995 he worked for Jean-Jazques Picart on the centenary exhibition of Louis Vuitton's "LV" monogramme label.

Honestly, whatever it is, i don't really give a rip about what he has designed or who he has photographed. Because, i absolutely love him for his excellent eye for black and white photographs (which i totally adore!)

Be it taking pictures of rock gigs or... pictures of wasted rock stars and young punks, he does it well, and in using no colour at all.

Which leads me to think to myself, that it's about time i brush the dust of my photography fingers and start taking some mean-ass black and white pictures myself.

Peace Out!

SILVER MEDAL FOR SINGAPORE (at the very least)

2008-08-15T23:16:00.004+08:00

Leejiawei and ermmm.. honestly i don't know who that is.

Feng after winning the deciding set.

Lee jiawei. She's quite hot in my opinion leh.. Just not in this pic. and i don't think she actually performed well at all in the competition, but lets keep that quiet ok.

A jubilant Singapore bagged its first Olympic medal in 48 years on Friday when its women's table tennis team made into the final of the team event by beating South Korea 3-2.

Wowwww.. i had the privillege to watch the ending set of that fateful table tennis match, at the same time discovering the "maximum of 13 returns" rule in table-tennis games.
When i was watching it, i didn't know the grave importance of the match, but after my dad told me, i was totally astounded. This coz of the great job Feng Tianwei did. Funny how i've never heard of her before, but it was amazing watching her play. Even under that great pressure, she just cooly kept on doing what she was trained to do. She was so calm and collected that i really couldn't tell the enormity of what she was doing. As Feng said,

"I had to be patient and wait for opportunities to attack," said a relieved Feng. "When everyone was nervous at the last moment, staying calm was my advantage."

Woooohooo.
In my dad's words, it's singapore's first medal in "one thousand two hundred and twenty years"
YES. SINGAPORE IS IN THE RUNNING FOR A GOLD, AND GUARANTEED A SILVER AT LEAST!
The story here
YEAHHHHHHH SINGAPORE.
It'll be really nice if it's a gold right?
Then it'll be one silver one gold, shiny shiny together.
Wonder how the team'll split the reward from the singapore lao das.

And finally, a photo montage from a really quick acting singaporean fan. No vids yet, it's way too soon.

all quotes/pictures credit CNA.

Scandalous Grace by Pastor Joseph Prince?

2008-08-15T10:12:00.003+08:00

This morning as i was walking to school from the busstop, i was thinking about the million and one things i wanted to blog about. There was.. "Psychology vs Anatomy": which discipline has more basis in their assignment of brain sector functions. And there was this hoo-hah on at _spreee about a spreer who does her job, but profits more than 100%...
But when i logged on to the blogstats to check out the recent URLs that visitors came from, i found this.

Praise God that in the car this morning, i felt the spirit tell me to spend some time with the word, and to finish reading "a busy woman's guide to prayer" before turning on the computer, else i'd probably be hopping fuming mad. Oh. the 2nd last chapter in the book was about praying for your enemies. Like silly year 1s who talk at their normal voice volume (LOUD) in the library.
Right now though, all i can say to this dude is that he's missing out. Call it scandalous grace if you want to, but i call it radical grace. It's putting Jesus at the center, not man's focus on righteousness.
In His time, the way he went around forgiving sinners was also regarded as scandalous, and blasphemous by the pharisees who didn't recognise Him as God... So, Mr "Scandalous grace by Joseph prince"... That makes you a modern day.......
Sheep!
Baaaa.
To be led beside still waters, by our Shepherd.
:D
ok other pratabloggers, get to work! what do you guys think?

Beware this Love Calculator website

2008-08-14T23:40:00.004+08:00

Just now when i was surfing multiply.com, reading all my contacts blog posts, i came across an ad that caught my eye.
It was for this love calculator site (DON'T USE IT), and it looks like any other of those silly love calculator sites.

DO NOT GO TO THE SITE.
So i proceeded to fill in the blanks with the names. I'll let u see what i searched for later k.
But after entering first "my name" then the other party's name, the third page requested a mobile number. I didn't enter my number. Coz it was fishy. And call me stupid, but i hadn't read the fine print below the colourful box up till that moment.
When i finally read it, i realised what a cheat this website was. What an utter waste of money to spend on their service. Each "content sms" you receive from their service will cozt u $4, and they send these 3 times a week. That's $12 a week, enough to feed a very small african village for a year.
AND you can have the exact same fun and accuracy.. Or rather inaccuracy... of results from free sites like www.lovecalculator.com. In fact i am hoping lovecalculator.com has some kind of copyright on the name, then they can sue the pants off wixawin.
In fact, here's the results of my search on lovecalculator.com

Hehe. I get the warm fuzzies when i see that. 91% is quite possible eh?
But then again....

Nooooeeeezzzzz.
Ok ya so anyway, don't go to that site and pay for the results to be smsed to you when u can have them instantly on your screen without even having to reach ur arm out for ur phone.
Nights! I'll try my best not to post tomorrow :D

Smile like you mean it

2008-08-14T01:00:00.002+08:00

This is a small taste of what life is like as a communications student.

Being confined in small spaces, which smell like rotten paus and mouldy butts, and stuck doing endless hours of editing.... is not very good for one's sanity.

Hence, we come up with crazy videos such as these to delight our senses and salvage our minds.
(speaking of which, this video was edited & uploaded within a minute! *how geek is that*)

XOXO,
Nicole

Maggi-mee and me.

2008-08-14T00:10:00.002+08:00

See here, the time now is 12 am. Hence I shall tell you all 12 random things about instant noodles and me.

When i cook instant noodles, i like to boil them for a long time so they're all soggy, then add in one egg. Yolk must be intact but slightly runny.
So just now when i was cooking supper for myself, the thought crossed my mind. "If i leave my raw egg too near the fire for too long while the noodles are boiling, would i end up with a hard boiled egg?"
I concluded that the egg would explode. Yah, you guys are way too angelic to have attempted cooking a whole egg in a microwave... Or not.

I am eating Carrefour house brand prawn flavoured noodles. Surprisingly good for a cheap housebrand type noodle. Much better than Maggi Mee. Maggi mee doesn't fare verywell on my instant noodle of choice list, though Maggi is the brand i.e kleenex and hoover
frm wikipedia

i fails at drawing box
I cook my instant noodles with chopsticks.
I don't add ANYTHING other than an egg to my noodles, and it irks me quite alot when my mum tries to make instant noodles nutritious by putting loads of veggies in. Keep unhealthy food unhealthy i say! Someone should tell that to macdonalds, coz they fails in pretending to be healthy anyway.
I do not like mee goreng type instant noodles, coz i love soup.
I add salt to my instant noodles. Normally 2 teaspoons. That's already twice the recommended daily intake. But what the hey! Instant noodles can't be anything but salty.
I used to eat my instant noodles with lots and lots of chilli sauce. I'd have a dish of the stuff, and dip every chopstickful of noodles into the chilisauce. But honestly, that was when i was still eating maggi brand instant noodles, coz it was so BLAND!
Digressing a little, Super brand cup noodles in tomyam flavour, boiled in the microwave with 3/4 milk and 1/4 water is absolutely HEAVENLY.
After cooking, i'll put my pot of instant noodles under the fan so that i can eat them faster. I do not like hot food
I eat my instant noodles straight out from the pot. No point wasting the washing right....
BONUS: I mistyped and corrected myself everysingle time i had to type "instant noodles" coz instinctively i wrote maggimee instead. But i shall persevere. NO FREE ADVERTORIALS/ PRODUCT PLACEMENTS. NOT EVEN NEGATIVE ONES.

K night. maybe tomorrow i'll blog about something at 1pm, then i'll only have to write 1 point

The reason why Xiaxue is so popular

2008-08-13T19:27:00.001+08:00

I've been thinking about it.
The answer is, in all likelihood, personality.
That coz she has lots of pictures, but so do many other bloggers.
She blogs advertorials, stuff that interests her, lots of other things, but so do other bloggers.
The way she differs is in that she tints everything in her blog with that bit of irreverence. My favourite word huh. LOL
She's rude, but that just makes her personality shine through. NOT that i'm saying her personality is rude, but it makes such a difference in a world of bloggers who are all 1cent a piece.
Like dawn yang. Dawn is absolutely vapid.
Pretty pictures, advertorial type entries aplenty, but 0% interesting.
But look at this other blogger.
Valentina Chua
She doesn't even type in coherent sentences sometimes. But it's darned addictive.
Henceforth, i shall be myself.
No more miss niceblogger showing the rest of the world all the pretty sites and writing like i'm doing all paid advertorials when it's all just stuff that interests me.
Coz that's not what i'm gonna be paid to do.
LEARN.

supercalifragilisticwhattheheckistherestatrocious!

2008-08-13T15:26:00.003+08:00

The girls have covered it all, from fashion to books, from movie reviews to the olympics (fashion). Now it kinda leaves me with nothing 'current-affairish' to talk about.

I like fashion only in the sense when it concerns how I should or should not look. Funny how girls like ___ (insert fruit name) like to surf the web to find pictures and talk about how good the models in there look like. I think girls and guys, still different lah. Imagine a group of guys surrounding a laptop in school going;

"OH MY GOSH!! LOOK AT BRAD PITT HE LOOKS SO GOOD!!"

O_O. queer.

I don't really like to read novels! Kinda used to, until a certain part in my secondary school life when the itch in the leg to play soccer overpowered the itch in the mind to read. But then again, thank God, because my English never suffered! O level English A1 okay! Not bad seh. But I admit, last minute reading of random parts in ANY books helped alot. Can copy abit of style here and there.

But! Thank God also, cos now the only books I read are edifying! There's the bible, and a whole host of other Christian books to read. For me personally, I feel good after reading Christian books. My mind really cannot take other novels cos it might just 'dwell' in that scenario. I watch trailer of hollywood's "My Sassy Girl" already abit the.. affected. Hahah!

AHHHHH! Movies! I love to watch movies yes. I only love to write reviews (sometimes) to share with the world really really really good movies that are deserving of my time writing about them. Things like The Pianist, Hotel Rwanda, City of God, The Dark Knight... and the list goes on. But ah, Money No Enough 2 didn't really make the ranks. On a continuation to Cherri's review, my take that it was 'okay only'. Yes indeed, some of it was really touching, some of it was really humourous, but. But, but, but. I CANNOT STAND THE SPECIAL EFFECTS. Like ohmygosh. DID THEY JUST TRY MAKING A REAL F1 RACE IN CGI?!?!!? And the ERP thing. Overdone lah.

Now the Olympics. I didn't even watch the opening lor. The rest of the sports I've also lost touch with. No longer do I go 'wahhh' over them. HAH! I remember in year 2000, when I was in pri 6, the 2000 Sydney Olympics was on. Loved it so much that I went to buy the Olympics Computer game!!!! HAHAHAHAHA! Quite fun one. Can compete in running, swimming all that. I think I still have it omg. Imagine using like Ian Thorpe to swim, den to swim fast you must faster press the left and right arrow keys in alternate. Think I spoilt my dad's keyboard then.

So anyway, this post is really random. With random thoughts.

Till then. God bless!

Oh wait, I shall end with a song..

Yes, Jesus loves me.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
For the Bible tells me so.

Now im happy! :)

Interested in reading classics for free?

2008-08-12T23:09:00.003+08:00

1984 by George Orwell, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and The Odyssey by Homer.
These are just some of the classics, books that people from the English speaking world are sure to have heard of before. They are also books that have conveniently fallen out of copyright, just coz their authors have passed away more than 70 years ago.
(see American copyright law here [pdf])

A work that was created ... is automatically protected from the moment of its creation and is ordinarily given a term enduring for the author's life plus an additional 70 years after the author's death.
Works originally created before Jan 1, 1978, but not published or registered by that date: These works have been automatically brought under the statute and are now given federal copyright protection.

It was my good fortune to discover this site laaaate last night, just when i was about to go to sleep. In the end i had to delay bedtime by 2 hours coz i was downloading all the classics i ever wanted to read, but never had the money to buy. Totally free, and probably totally legal.

http://www.planetebook.com/

My parents don't believe in pampering me with books. They tell me to go to the library instead, where i rack up fines equivalent to the book's cost. JOKE'S ON THEM. lol.
And i suppose they're quite lucky that my english is decent enough though i was denied books. HAHA Parents please, bless ur children with books. As the oompa loompas in charlie and the chocolate factory said. They will thank you for it. I am also an avid anti-fan of television, but that's another story for another time.

Nahhh my parents are fine. They gave me lots of enid blyton... Then when i was sec 3 i discovered the joy that is Discworld. Terry Pratchett's writing style is quite influential, and though it's PROBABLY not the best, it was good enough for the O level examiners. AND it was entertaining. But enough about me.

Anw, this website is the solution to the "no money for books" problem lor.
No need to spend $8 per book on second-hand classics, heavily scribbled on 10 years ago by literature students of the time, and bought back by the 2ndhandbook sellers for about $0.50....
Now stop watching those animes and DOWNLOAD AWAY!

the tales of beedle the bard

2008-08-12T20:53:00.004+08:00

ooooh look at this!
i cannot remember where hermoine mentioned the beetle the bard,
anyone?

_

The Tales of Beedle the Bard is also a plot device in the seventh novel of the Harry Potter series, Deathly Hallows, in which it is bequeathed to Hermione Granger by Albus Dumbledore. The book is described as a popular collection of Wizarding children's fairy tales, thus while Ron Weasley is familiar with the stories, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger had not previously heard them due to their non-magical upbringing.[2]
The edition Hermione received in chapter seven in Dumbledore's will is a copy of the original edition of fictional books in the novel.[9] It is described as an ancient-looking small book with its binding "stained and peeling in places". In the novel it is also said the book has a title on its cover, written in embossed runic symbols.[2]
The book acts as the vehicle for introducing the Deathly Hallows.[6] Above the story The Tale of the Three Brothers, Hermione Granger finds a strange symbol which later is revealed by Xenophilius Lovegood to be the symbol of the Hallows. The triangle from the symbol represents the Invisibility Cloak, the circle inside the triangle symbolizes the Resurrection Stone, and the vertical line represents the Elder Wand.[9]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tales_of_Beedle_the_Bard

Fashion Olympics

2008-08-12T11:10:00.009+08:00

the olympics isnt much of a big event on my calendar, i wont rush home from work to watch it, or check the news everyday for updates. yes im sorry. im just not interested in it.
after hearing everyone squeal about how awesome the opening was, i took a little peak at it. and yeah, it is quite awesome.
i thought that my interest in the olympics ended there.
like, to me, its as if its already over. instead of dragging on and on and on, taking up my TV slots.

THENNNN...
I SAW THESE!

yay i love lucy liu.
especially love it that harpers decided to choose an Asian to model the feature.
she might not be the best model, her body might be in awkward angles and her eyes might not connect with the camera, but she looks fab. and definitely, better than all of us look in those positions in those outfits.

now THIS portion of the olympics.. i like....

can you guess what sports are they?
the glamorized versions. in gowns eh. the gowns themselves are gorgeous...

enjoy! click to enlarge, the details are marvelous.

gosh, now i really miss cashmere mafia. all 4 women looked so good in that show. gah!

Magazine: Harper's Bazaar - August 2008
Model: Lucy Liu
Photographer: Peter Lindbergh
Fashion Editor: Rachel Zoe

money no enough 2

2008-08-11T23:24:00.007+08:00

caught money no enough 2 today. didnt think that i would actually catch it, because i had the impression that money no enough 1 was a lame movie.. but.. peer influence - everyone was gushing about how awesome it was and how they were crying and crying and crying in the movie..
i admit. im a sucker for cry-able movies.
so i went to watch. with fellow blogger mr lau and some friends.

before movie :
skeptical. 'do you think its really that good?'
' i have no expectations for it' hahahaha

after movie :
ok yes. admit. i did cry. cried quite abit infact.
i think the film was quite a decent peice of work, very jack neo-ish kind of predictable, singaporean-ish jokes, and lots of emotional scenes, nonetheless still not too bad. but thats not unexpected, considering his work with 'i not stupid'.
i did hate the tacky CGI (?) effects though, the ones of the ERP march and the F1 parts. the movie would have done better without those bits, because they werent really of relevance in the first place - obviously because they were put in specially to prove that 'we can do effects too!'
still, it was quite an enjoyable experience and i dont really regret paying 6 dollars for it. so thats got to mean something. i would recommend money no enough 2 if you have nothing much to do with 6 bucks to spare, its definitely better than wasting your money on the love guru, or like larry, wasting it in the arcade. :D

one thing though, it made me cherish my mummy. and it made me think.
the scenes that made me cry, those of the sons abandoning their mom in the old folks home, the one of them praying for their mom to move on.. basically scenes where the 3 sons mistreated their moms, i thought to myself ' i will never ever ever do that to my mommy. oh DaddyGod, please make sure that shavonne(my sister) and i never ever push mommy around like that. DaddyGod please make sure i dont ever even think of putting mommy into an old folks home. i dont want to be that kind of person, never!'
and as the movie moved on, during the parts where they were struggling whether to give the blood to the mom or to the daughter, i prayed in tongues, thinking in my head ' DaddyGod i never ever want to be in this situation, i never never want to be in this situation, DaddyGod you make sure mommy never has to be like that..'
i wanted to go home right away and hug my mommy that moment. heh.

i think for a person to watch the movie, to look at sons treat their mother that way, its normal for that person to think ' gosh what horrible kids they are. i would never do that'
and i dont deny,that for a moment i thought that too. but DaddyGod corrected me immediately, bringing to remembrance what gerry mentioned yesterday.
'if not for God's grace in your life today, you might just be that person that you are judging right now'
i was so humbled that moment. because truly DaddyGod, without your grace in my life, i might end up behaving like them, i might actually really behave like them! its so humbling, because without Jesus, we're all just man, we're all just sinners. only because of His sacrifice, we become who we are today by God's grace. mann.. its unthinkable to think of me now without gods grace with me thruout the years.

like the song says,
'But for Your grace I could not be saved
But for Your grace I would go my way
I'm forever grateful
That You have been faithful to me Lord
For Your amazing grace'
© 1998 Integrity's Hosanna! Music

gosh im so overwhelmed by how good God is.

a very grateful cherri signing off,
with a reminder for you to go hug your mommy tonight and tell her you love her.

(:

Wordless Wednesday.

2008-08-11T22:28:00.004+08:00

Lets do like this blog does and declare wordless wednesdays.
Pretty cool eh?
Set arh!

now now kids,

2008-08-11T15:41:00.003+08:00

hello. this is a girl writing again.

it makes me very proud to call New Creation Church (NCC) my home church and Pastor Joseph Prince my senior pastor. it really does. especially when i hear from friends who came back from the Hillsongs Conference who tell me that our pastor was one of the best speakers there, that whenever he spoke the presence of god just fell like a blanket over the congregation, so much so that he actually had to leave the stage during one session because the presence of god was just sooo strong.

in my opinon my pastor is the best pastor in the whole world, and my church is the best in the whole of singapore, the whole world actually. but ofcourse, thats just my own opinion, but then again, since you are reading my blog, and my entry, you are entitled to my opinion.
yes. my pastor is the best pastor ever.
which makes my church NCC, the best church ever.

my friends and i actually had the opportunity (praise the lord! thankyou jesus) to 'bump' in to pastor prince at adam road, have dinner and fellowship with him. the experience is more than awesome. its too awesome for words. you know how sometimes the person can be so incredibly anointed on stage, amazing and all, but off stage turn out to be a totally different person? i assure you pastor prince is not like that. he bought us nasi lemak, damn bloody good nasi lemak, joked around with us, asked us to eat with our hands even. it didnt feel like he was being a bible teacher to us that moment, more of a friend, like an older brother to us. he shared blonde jokes with us! hahahaa! *smiles fondly at memory

so back to my topic, i really thank god, for putting me in this church. not that there arnt any other good churches out there, im sure there are, just that to me, this is the best church ever, and i believe god suited me specifically for this church. there is no better place for feeding for me.

thankyou jesus. thankyou daddygod.

thankyou pastor (if you ever get to see this) - you are AWESOME!

anyone wants to argue with me about it?
随时奉陪。

yay! jesus loves you, loves me. (:

The Guy

2008-08-11T15:02:00.001+08:00

Hello world.

I am he, Terence.

Yes, I am the 'guy' in 'Three Girls, a Guy and a Prata Place!'.

So, yes I am Terence.

Terence Lau.

I am Chinese, and my dialect is Cantonese.

If you say 'one doh-lah!!' to me, I will ask you to go 'sek-si'.

More to come in the following posts.

Long live this blog!

A confession

2008-08-11T15:00:00.003+08:00

Last night i was attacked by a bout of anxiety.
Perhaps it was just the effects of the starbucks caramel idunnowhatpucchino that we had at 11pm.
I started to wonder if we would really make it to earning $200 a month like mr larryman. ($200 a month means $50 each. PRETTY GOOD EH. lol) Coz blogging is not as easy as it sounds. I think it only gets easy when u reach the place xiaxue is. She only needs to blog thrice a month, and people visit her blog everyday anyway, just to see if she's updated or not, and there are advertorials aplenty for her to pick and choose from. That means FREE stuff and money paid for her to write blogs about their stuff.
It's just not fair right?! *pouts*

I don't think we're gonna reach that place.
But i dunno where the anxiety came from, perhaps from the knowledge that in and of ourselves, there's no way we could have hit the 200 hits mark within the short 4 days of this blog's life, coz God's fingerprint was so apparent on what happened in the past 2 days.
First there was the *SOMEHOW* making it to the top 10 posts of the day in ping.sg, which helped pull in 100 hits, then there was being linked to this article, really randomly, since the post doesn't directly address that issue.... on a weekend no less, bringing in another 100. There's more, but i'm not gonna share now.
200 hits is nothing to some people, who get 1200 unique visitors a day.
But it worried me to think we may never get that kind of traffic again.
I had a fear that i'd need to match up to the number of hits per day, which has been increasing steadily since our inauguration, though the only reason it rose was because of the rightplace, righttime that God placed us in. And it annoyed me to be worried about such a silly thing, so i asked God.
I asked God why he blessed the blog. I asked God if we were going to hit the $200 a month mark. I asked God if we were (or rather I was) doing the right thing, being four children of God coming together, but not having Him as the center of our blog, and for me, in the belief that people would be more interested in random nonsense than honest blogging about Jesus. Which i suppose is true, coz this is the world afterall, we're not all angels in heaven singing and praising God all day long.... And of course i'm guilty of that too, i mean being more interested in random nonsense than people's testimonies about God.

Psalm 133
A Song of Ascents. Of David.
1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brethren to dwell together in unity!

2 It is like the precious oil upon the head,
Running down on the beard,
The beard of Aaron,
Running down on the edge of his garments.
3 It is like the dew of Hermon,
Descending upon the mountains of Zion;
For there the LORD commanded the blessing—
Life forevermore.

I'm going to let go now, and do what the life leads. God gave us blogging to enjoy, to praise Him. It's like singing i suppose. You can choose to shout His praise, or sing a happy but not God centered song. I enjoy both, albeit in different manners, though maybe the "holier" among us would frown upon that and cast me out, yelling "HEATHENNNN, THOU SHALT NOT DEFILE THE MOUTH GOD HAS GIVEN YOU BY SINGING N'SYNC SONGS".

Also, this is not Celeste's own personal blog.
And since school's starting, i suppose you'll be hearing less from me and more from the rest.
PEEEEZ OUTSSS

Sex sells?

2008-08-11T01:01:00.004+08:00

Attracted by the blog title?
Hahaha sorry, but there are only four pictures here.
Pictures from ping.sg.
None of them contain racy content at all, unless you're turned on by pictures of words lar.
So what makes me ask if sex sells. (at least on ping.sg)
Look here at the "popular in the last 24 hours" page of ping.sg
(Click to enlarge)

Count them. 4/7 of the listings visible in the screenshot at least HINT at happenings of the sort.
See. First there's the "Miss World Malaysia". Promise of possible pictures of a hot pretty young lady.
Next there's "Hot mama". Nuff' said.
Then there's "Partay like you've never done it before". About clubbing. And what do people associate clubbing with? Surely not mugs of hot tea, jazz music and games of chess.
Then lastly there's "The time for circumcision is now".
Lol. maybe i'm kinda stretching it with these examples, but lets move on to the "popular posts in the past week" page.

Wow. look at that! 5 out of 7. And this time the word itself (or variations of it) is mentioned in all 5 posts!
Kenny sia sex scandal proven
Taiwan's prettiest vet (very sexy too)
Sex in the car
She moans so loud.... (mentioned in the post excerpt, but this is so clearly about it)
and Hong Kong party girls (in the post excerpt as well, but it's clear from the post title as well)
And this is the WEEKLY popularity chart, meaning that these have definitely gathered more hits as well as pongs than those in the 24 hour rankings.
Moving on to the monthly, it becomes even more obvious

Again, 5/7, if u want to count the last, partially cut off one then it's 6/8.
Read them yourself, and see that my point is clearly proven.
And finally the monthly rankings chart.
This time it's 4/7, possibly 5/7 if you think the last post hints at it as well.

So you see my point? Sex does sell. Pictures of pretty girls, pictures of pretty girls zhaogenging, controversial stories involving sex.....
And for the remaining popular posts that aren't about sex, they're mostly about controversial happenings, e.g. krisando getting sued over a picture posted on the blog, or xiaxue getting flamed and dawnyang's plagarism scandal....
So it's true eh, sex sells, and any publicity is good publicity.
But then again, there are many posts about current events of interest that make people want to read as well. For example, the Beijing 2008 olympics is the hot topic of the moment, and i'm sure that when there are natural disasters or miraculous happenings that are widely reported in the newspapers, those topics would be attention grabbing as well.
All in all, I guess it's just the curious nature of man in general to want to see "nice pictures", read about other people's scandalous pursuits or just keep up to date on whatever is the coffee table topic of the moment.
We're all guilty of it, no?

And if my predictions are right (and they usually aren't), this post is gonna make it to the top 10 popular pings in the last 24 hours, just because of that word in the title.

Beautiful pics of the 2008 olympics opening ceremony and a bit of a fracas

2008-08-09T12:47:00.002+08:00

Beijing 2008 Olympics!

Click
Really pretty huh! China is beginning to make a name for itself, other than having citizens who spit in the streets... Don't think this will make much of a difference in how singaporeans see PRCs though, that'll need a real change.

And the not so good stuff here

click

Lee Jiawei carrying the national flag with less pride than the average olympic flagbearer shows. It's dragging on the floor.... According to the fuming blogger dude who posted this, some of the other flagbearers had their flags dragging on the floor as well, but at least those flagbearers showed real enthusiasm.
But does the fuming blogger have a real point there or is it just his personal prejudice coz she's not a true blue singaporean?
I didn't watch the opening ceremony so i can't really comment on the average enthusiasm of the flagbearers, but personally I don't have a good impression of lee jiawei after the ronald susilo saga. She struck me as a bit of a moneygrubber, with friends quoting her as saying "The relationship wasn't going to last anyway"...
What's your take?

And all I got was this stupid e-card.

2008-08-08T18:41:00.010+08:00

I Stumbled upon this site a while ago, and I'm sold. Good thing must share, so here you go!

www.someecards.com

It's website title, "ecards for when you care enough to hit send" is a perfect representation of the dry humor and blatant disregard for social sensibilities in the e-cards on this site.

There's something charming about presenting a totally honest truth unmarred by the delicate political correctness that colours everything in our world. And there's no denying it, it's funny.
These witty, irreverent statements, many of which address issues that only arose in recent years, (e.g. Facebook) coupled with slightly odd, kitschy old-fashioned drawings, make for entertaining e-cards.
It's quite difficult to make me smile when reading/looking at something, but these haven't failed to bring a smile to my face yet.

so true hor! There's no more quiet changing of status to be had with the advent of the facebook relationship status.

Here are a couple of my favourites so far, from the "courtesy hello", "Birthdays" and "sympathy" categories:

I don't really send e-cards, so this site is just entertainment for me.
But with 30 categories to choose from, one could definitely find an e-card to suit the occasion, if you care enough to click send.

Note to Self

2008-08-08T15:14:00.003+08:00

Me thinks aloud to self and my other 3 counterparts.

We should do photoshoot!! cause nobody knows what in the world we each look like!

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

2008-08-08T14:31:00.006+08:00

Alright, first and foremost, i was more or less dragged into this joint blogging venture by mere relation, since i am pretty much the other half of my dearly beloved Celeste Lau (no, we are not a couple but people tend to chuck us together as though we are an inseparable twin duo of some sorts, but THAT, is another story for another day)

but yes, the idea of potentially earning some decent amount of moolah from random blogging of thoughts does entice the soul abit.... enough to make me want to get off my laurels and actually start doing some decent blogging, for the first time in my life.

i personally have 2 other blogs - one's for serious Godly edifying posts, and the other's for logging down my random thoughts and various B*tch Fits i go through on a daily basis as a student.

oh! i forgot to introduce myself! sorry for being so insensitively rude, I am Nicole, 1/4 of Le Prata Place. (still don't really get the name of the blog though. makes absolutely no sense to me. but what gives? who cares?)

lemme' give you the low down on me..

as you would all know by now, i (like the rest of my fellow bloggers) am 20 this year and am one of those pesky little bratty buggers who enjoy proclaiming the fact that we are born in the year of the Dragon, hence that makes us a lil' teensy weensy bit cooler than the rest of you regular animal folks. haha! but yes, egotistical declarations aside, i am 20 this year.

and i am a Communications and Media Management student (pssst! it's mass comm, if you don't really geddit)

i enjoy music and fashion.
and when i say music, i mean a generally narrow selection of genres which include Rock, Indie, Alternative, Jazz, Gospel and (duh) Christian rock.
i do not like mandopop, nor do i appreciate Kpop (sorry laulau!).

yes. i favour Brit Rock over anything else. The likes of Arctic Monkeys...

(they who are extremely drool-worthy and musical geniuses)

Plus, The Beatles and The Kooks tickle my musical senses and makes my DNA bubble.

And noooooooooo...i am not some wannabe emo rocker chick decked out in uniformly black, skin tights leggings and chest-hugging tops. I simply enjoy this forms of music and my sense of fashion, may or may not reflect the style of music i enjoy.

oh! and about my sense of fashion... hmmm... *me thinks* my fashion motto is the same as Carrie Bradshaw's, who is in fact, my fashion idol.

my motto is this: Anything goes in fashion. If it looks good, wear it!

yeah. i enjoy being able to dress indie one day and girly the next. and yeah, i hate above all else, to restrict myself to only one style of dressing.

and as you'd most probably know by now, i am a self-confessed shopaholic and fashionaholic.

alright, my brain juice is out at the moment, no thanks to the gamillion and one projects i have lined up before me.

so that's it from me for now..

TOODLES!!
Peace Out

Spending money: As told by Laulau Part I

2008-08-07T22:57:00.010+08:00

I thought it would be appropriate to justify the "girls who spend alot of money" part of my post last night by showing you guys why I'm just so awesome at spending lots of money. Perhaps cherri can address her side of the story later, but mine comes first.

To be honest, I don't really spend alot of money on clothes in retail shops, shopping centers and the like. Sure, it's nice to look at the clothes, feel the materials, maybe venture into the changing rooms to try on an item or 2. However, more often than not I find the clothes either just that bit too costly or of a quality inferior to what i expect, even when the price is low. Topshop/bysi/mango are examples of the former, and bugis street embodies the latter.

I'm a cosmetics junkie, and though i don't really plaster the stuff on my face, i have loads of it sitting around in my house. Meet 30% of my mineral eyeshadow collection....

There's another 70% waiting to meet you, as well as 100% of my non-mineral cosmetics.
But if you must know, the amount of money i spent on all the eyeshadows u see in the pic was about S$20? Not too shabby eh?

Wanna know my shopping secret?
It's the internet! But not just any site.... I have my own not-so-well kept secrets!

I'm sure you've all heard of online auction sites like e-bay and yahoo auctions, and the virtual conterparts of well known stores such as SaSa and Forever21, but one would be reluctant to buy from them, coz though u may save a couple of dollars on the selling price, shipping would kill the savings, and then some.
So now I introduce to you, the spree.
This is what the OED says about them:

Fails at cutting out white space
Of interest:

spree v. intr., to have or take part in a spree; also with it and trans., to spend (money) recklessly

What an apt description. Sprees do really assist me in spending money recklessly.

So after all that irrelevant background information, what exactly is a spree?
Sprees in my context are when lots of people pool and place their collective orders with these online retailers, so that when the package is shipped over, the shipping cost can be pretty dramatically reduced. Especially significant when retailers offer free shipping on orders exceeding certain values. For example in Benefits recently concluded promotion, orders in excess of US$100 were entitled to free international shipping. It was pretty darn great, considering that Benefit cosmetics are so grossly overpriced when bought over the counter here in Singapore.
Other than these "save on shipping" website sprees, there are also supplier sprees, where exceeding a certain number of orders allows one to enjoy a massively reduced price on items, coz the suppliers benefit by saving on overheads they would incurr if they'd set up a physical store instead of dealing through email and website listings.
What's not to love about sprees?!

Website sprees vs Supplier sprees

You get quality assurance when u order from websites, coz established companies have their proper QCs in place. When it comes to clothes one can never be completely sure about supplier sprees unless the spree organiser has already dealt with the supplier. For other stuff like cosmetics, as long as it's certified genuine, it's probably fine.
Supplier sprees offer dirt cheap prices, and i mean dirt cheap. Especially popular are the "Nu Ren Wo Zui Da" sprees, which carry beauty products recommended on the tv programme of the same name.

I have no explanation for why the stuff is so cheap, but honestly, WHO CARES?!
Website spree order formats are usually more complicated. The spree organisers may ask you to save a picture of the item u want and post it on your own photobucket, and include the link in your order, for their cross reference.... TOO MUCH WORK. Ordering from supplier sprees can be as simple as just typing in the quantity of the product you want, and your contact/payment details and POST. DONE.
Website sprees tend to take longer to complete, but it varies widely from site to site. Some supplier sprees take really long as well, especially when it comes to clothes from taiwan.

Some of my frequented sites + comments (all livejournal):

Sgspree: This spree site only has website sprees. I think it's the most well established, well moderated site. But overall i don't really like it coz i'm more a supplier spree person. This site also usually does not have many sprees open at any one time, coz website sprees are so popular that they can sometimes close within 6 hours.
_spreee: This site is good for supplier sprees, as well as website sprees. However the number of sprees open at a time is also quite low.
spreehouse: My personal favourite. Good amount of supplier and website sprees open at any one time. Usually more supplier>website. However, recently all those local young female fashion entre..entrepr... entrepre... i can't spell it ... have taken to posting their offerings on the site. Very annoying coz most of them are overpriced and UGLY. Would you rather buy the banal, expensive offerings here or the nice, assorted, economical offerings here. Honestly, spreehouse is rather poorly moderated, but the wealth of supplier sprees kinda makes up for it.
sprees_sg: This is approximately the same as _spreee, but with a nicer blog skin.
joinspree: Ditto above, but no supplier sprees here. I don't go to these as frequently as _spreee and spreehouse.
spreesgalore: Recently discovered this one, and it seems to have alot of potential. Seems to have the same kind of offerings as spreehouse, but with better moderation, hence cutting out the annoying, lousy entrepreneur sprees.
7spree: The most pathetic of all. The sprees offered so far are pretty decent, but the community owners are not doing enough to promote the spree site, so it's FAILing. This is the only site of those i've mentioned that i'm registered as a spree organiser, but due to the lack of members, there's not much use in that.

There are even more spreesites out there, but these are the ones i'm familiar with.
And special for you! Here are some great supplier sprees for u to check out :D

Designer inspired bags
Candies
Leggings
Mascara
Masks
Clothes
Clothes
More clothes
Jap style better quality clothes
And for good measure, a Nu Ren Wo Zui Da spree!

Here's a small selection from the stuff i've bought off nurenwozuida sprees.

Clockwise from top left: Nail polish protectors. Double eyelid stickers. Charming cat mascara. Glitter eyeliner. Da S brush. Palgantong loose powder. JoJo brush set. Shiseido blackhead removal masks.

Guess how much?
Nail polish protectors. $3
Double eyelid stickers. $2
Charming cat mascara. $3
Glitter eyeliner. $2
Da S brush. $4
Palgantong loose powder. $5
JoJo brush set. $8
Shiseido blackhead removal masks. $0.85 each.

And if you're worried about errant spree organisers running off with your money, don't be!
I've only ever encountered one in my life, and she returned the money after a few threats of reporting her to the police anyway! Just be smart and avoid the dodgy looking sprees.

Now go forth and set your money free!!

read romans 8:32 (the message)

2008-08-07T09:50:00.006+08:00

oh gosh!
friends im so sorry, i apologize for my fellow blogger/sisterinchrist/1988werockcuswe'redragonbabies/spendmoneylikemad- friend.
usually in this case i would try to deny that we're mad and say that usually we're not this crazy, that we dont word vomit like that most of the time, but thats not really true. because.. truth is, we are like that most of the time.

shucks.

oh. right.
im cherriann. cherri, call me cherri. (i, not y. i. not the fruit one. not the nauseatingly sweet name, because i am not nauseatingly sweet) because you cannot pronounce my name properly if you're a singaporean. nono, im not saying singaporeans cannot pronounce properly, just that they tend to either slur my name. i end up becoming charmaine sometimes. tellme, in what way does cherriann look like charmaine?!?
but nevermind.

and yes. back to why this blog was birthed.
i was really irritated flabbergasted shocked amused that our friend larry could earn 200 bucks a month by just blogging. both celeste (laulau) and i blog regularly at our own blogs, but yet we dont earn 200 bucks a month! why is that so?! and i assure you. we are more interesting than him :D
and so therefore. this was birthed. originally so we can each earn more than a hundred to buy a crumpler bag, the big version. (crumpler, just so in case someday you see this and wanna give us a bag for free ((thebigone)) because we're already terribly popular and famous and you realise we're actually givin you free advertising, please send me an email.)
but somehow, it ended up becomin 4 of us like celeste mentioned. sigh. divided by 4.

heh. i would like to show you pictures and stuff about me, but im currently at work, blogging illegally and hiding from my very nice boss.
so i'll do that later.

and...
oh yah. let me tell you my version of why leprataplace.
cus.. 'machiam atas but not'
eh eh. 2 malay words in a sentence. i cool.
and, look. its even biblical. we break bread everytime we blog! we're feedin on our jesusman. i tell you jesusman is the coolest man you'll ever meet, you can trust me on that!

...

okbye (to end of adruptly)

[and yes. read romans 8:32 the message version please]

The Inauguration

2008-08-07T02:48:00.008+08:00

As you can tell, this is the very first post in a spanking new blog. At the moment, I am the sole contributer/owner of this blog, but i am expecting my fellow prata placers to do the right thing soon.

Hmm I'd say that if you were to strictly sort first posts on blogs into only 2 categories, you'd end up with a diagram that looks something like this.

FAILS AT CHART.

I just wonder why some people don't just delete their "testing!" posts, but instead prefer to leave their initial noobyness for all to see.
ANYWAY, as i was going to say before i interrupted myself, this initial post falls into the proper introductions category. I have two things to introduce in this post:

The backstory
Myself
My fellow bloggers
No i'm not gonna put in the lame joke about there being three kinds of people on earth.

So HI AGAIN. The backstory begins a mere 34 hours (or so) ago, at the Mc Cafe at shaw center. Our friend Larry was asked how much he earned through his blog every month. He said $200. $200 is quite a lot of money to earn by blogging, and Cherriann and I are girls who SPEND alot of money.
Fast forward 24hours, and at 7.30pm today, the pieces finally fell into place in our brains.
Yes, i am being brutally and blatantly honest here, which may not be the wisest thing, but the whole story is simple. We want to earn money doing this thing we like alot, which is blogging. Not that bad an idea eh? However, i haven't the foggiest how it became that our 50-50 share in this -pun intended- blogadventure became a 25-25-25-25 with 2 others, but it happened. So i guess poor cherri and i will have to live with it. awwwwwww... :(
As for the name, it's simple really. We have three girls and a guy on the team here, so in the usual fashion of random conversations, Terence suggested we parody Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place, hence birthing our locally flavoured Three Girls, a Guy and a Prata Place.
Our initial instinct to name the blog The Prata Place was a semi-fail, because there's a rather well known eatery known simply as The Prata Place... Copyright infringement is NOT COOL.
Hence the name. Le Prata Place. Yup, we're french poseur wannabes, just like all the other D'nouns sprouting up all over the place.
The difference: We might not be phony enough to lose the wannabe tag and be real posers, but at least we've got the brains to know that "the" in french is le/la, not De.
That's about it regarding the blog, now on to more important matters. ME.

I'm Celeste Lau. Clau. Laulau. Ah Lau. Whatever. No relation to Terence, other than brother in christ i suppose.... Born in boring 1988, currently in the NU of S B.Sc majoring in Life Science. Yup, I tend to annoy people with interjections such as "Caterpillars only have 6 legs!!! The rest of them are false legs!"
I'll admit it, I like shiny objects. Like
my handphone...

My nails...

My laptop...

I have quite a lot of pets, but i only have pictures of my mouse handy, so that's all there is for now. And yes, you read that right, mouse, not hamster. And if you've been paying attention, there's no way i could possibly make that mistake. I'm a life science major, well acquainted with Mus Musculus. Gimme some credit mannn.

Even mice know how to ham it up for the camera.
I make a decent amount of noise, enough to make the adults stare.
I refuse to admit I'm on the brink of adulthood, and I cling on to every dreg of childishness I can afford, especially apparent in my clothing of choice: Baggy man jeans and t-shirts. Not particularly comely for a lady, but good enough for me.
I've got inner alter-egos aplenty; there's inner lian, inner hermit, inner snob, inner emo, inner vampire, inner skinny biatch and a whole host of other "inners" i suppose you'll get acquainted with in time.

3) my fellow bloggers.
Cherriann
Terence
Wan Hua a.k.a Nicole... All born in boring 1988.
And that's all i'm gonna say about them, coz actually i dunno who they are and what they do for livings.

Guess that's about it for this self absorbed post. Hope someone else will blog tomorrow...... or at least sometime this week. LOL. bbbuuuhhhbuy!