This has never happened before...

So I borrowed vol 14-16 of Kateikyoshi Hitman Reborn! manga from sur_fer13sg (vol 16 was the most recent publication here locally fyi) and I caught up with the last chapter of vol 16 while watching ep 76-77. I still have til ep 86 so that means by the time I finish watching ep 86, I would've gone beyond what was published--or rather, what was published locally. Pretty sure the jap Shonen Jump has more chapters out by now.

This is surreal! I've never had this happen before. Most of the time, the manga would've been published before the corresponding anime episode by at least 2 volumes out locally. And the amount of filler eps they stuck in between major story arcs to give the manga a bigger headstart practically killed my will to continue.

I spent the last couple of days catching up on the manga chapters that came after vol 16 and something interesting came up.
( Spoilers & Speculations of later eps )
...Ii data. *scribbles in notebook*

You do not wanna see me angry...
Coz when I'm angry, I will blog.
grrr...

I'd just spent 60 very vexing minutes trying to apply for a job with PSA. I gotta fill in their online application form and they require me to fill in every single subject I'd ever taken and what grade I got. And what else? The text fields they gave me to fill in the subject title are so damn limited! Half of my subject titles are long and winding to sound real important and all that so I can't even fill in the complete subject title at all. I had to resort to abbreviations. Abbreviations that I hope confounds them so utterly and completely that they'll have no idea what I'd studied. As deadpanman says, serves them right. :P

So okay, I filled in everything and saved at every page and when I'm done with the arduous task of filling in both my poly and uni subjects and grades, the bleedy session timed out! All those subjects and grades I'd entered during the past 30 minutes were all gone!!

a;slkfja;slkfja;slkfja;sldkfjsdl;fk!!!!!!!! *bleep*bleep*bleep*bleep*bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep*

*deep breath*
Fine. Stupid lil pieces of s***... Nothing I can do about it anyway coz that's how they do things around here. So I filled in my subjects and grades again--this time making sure that I saved after every section just in case they timed out on me again. And they decide to time out on me when I'm filling in my extra-curricular activities section. O_O *bleep*

*deep deep breath*
Okay. Fine. I'm used to your bloody session timed outs by now. Re-enter my ECA stuffs and submitted.

With a bellyful of grievances, I decided to "inform" the company about their idiotic application system and what did I get?
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ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
*wipes tears from eyes* Priceless!!!!!!!

There are some online ads that are nice--funny even... and then there are the annoying ones.

I'm really irritated by the www.bloodseason.com online ads by FOX Crime. I know what they're trying to show but that weird sound is just... irritating!

Will someone turn off the bloody sound!?!? Or at the very least give us the option of turning off the bloody sound? I don't wanna hafta listen to my mp3 on the computer and hafta hear that odd moaning sound in the background.

Gawd.

I'm gonna change the question up a lil and answer "What song lyrics would you love to have written *about*, and why?"

(  The song in question is Lifehouse's Breathing. )

I've been thinking of writing a songfic using this song since the first time I'd heard it. The imagery of the words coupled with the tune of the song makes for a mini movie--or at the very least would've made a great scene.

The setting of the scene would preferably be in a ballroom or theater. It'll open to the male and female protagonists dancing those twirling dances in period costumes (18th century has nice dresses) and the girl breaks off away from him at the start of the chorus. The guy gave a long drawn out chase across the ballroom, tripping over people and what not, out into the adjacent garden of the "Secret Garden" kind. He'll kinda catch a glimpse of her as she enters the garden labyrinth and he follows her obvious.

Second verse, he's in the labyrinth and trying to find his girl and with nothing but the light of the waning moon shining above him, he was making little progress. Every dark corner he turns, he thought he'd seen her from the corner of his eye. Finally he reached the center of the labyrinth and instead of meeting his love--or a minotaur, he sees hundreds of her reflection. A tentative touch tells him that they are mirrors and he does the dizzy dizzy spin of trying to find where she physically is amidst the many mirrors. As he got closer, she steps away and makes a run for it. Again.

Second chorus has him running after her again. Through the labyrinth hedges and eventually caught up with her at the start of the third verse (bridge?). He grabs her wrist, she fights back, he tries again, she makes a run for it. (Damn the girl can run)

Last chorus bit, he goes after her and at the exit, he was met with this beautiful thick wooden door with intricate carvings and those big round brass knockers and try as he might, he could not open it. Exhausted, he finally gave up and sat with his back against the heavy door. As he sat there, he heard something from the other side of the door and pressed his ear to the door to listen. It was the girl, sitting at the exact place as he was with her back against the door, panting heavily. He gave a little smile and they stayed that way for the rest of the evening. Fade to black.

Damn... that reads like some MTV that I'd seen before. Lol!!

Accompanied granddad to the hospital for his eye checkup. Had yummy mutton briyani at Simei. The portions were huge but I was hungry from waiting around the CGH Specialist Clinic S the whole morning. We had to wait from 9am to about 2pm for the checkup to finish. WTF?!

Went back home with him and went to watch The Incredible Edward Norton Hulk with bro at The Cathay. The reason being the last time we were at The Cathay, we had Billy Bombers after watching Iron Robert Downey Jr. Man and they gave us 2 $15 off vouchers for use at that particular branch. The vouchers will expire 30 June and since we're going to watch the green guy anyway, bro said "what the heck, The Cathay it is". So we went, we ate and now I'm totally stuffed. I didn't even manage to finish all of my Ole Fish and Fries...

So he paid with the sub-card mom gave to us and we got 2 more $15 off vouchers--this time for Century Square (which is closer to home. Woohoo!). It was only then that we realized he did not use the $15 voucher to pay! ROTFLMAO!!! I literally LMAO right in the middle of the restaurant... loudly and clearly and with such a full stomach, I almost felt like puking. Hahaha...

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( On to the movie review! Warning: Spoilers for The Incredible Hulk )

( skirting the skirt )

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( wedding wedding malay wedding & blotched levi's warehouse sale )

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( mid-year pc show at suntec a.k.a. dressing down from mom )

I'm gonna go bathe, curl up in bed and stay that way until today is over. :(

...you realized Earl Hickey and Shawn Spencer wears the same type of flannel shirts. Different colors but of the same design.

Well, all flannel shirts looks about the same with its checkered pattern but I realized they're both wearing flannel shirts with silver diamond buttons and the breast pocket flaps is 2 inverted triangle instead of the usual 1. I wonder where'd they bought it.

...Yes, I know... creepy girl!3sa :P

mickey_stone, I couldn't resist either... :P

		I will marry megane.
		After a wild honeymoon, We will settle down in restaurant at the end of the universe in our fabulous Apartment.
		We will have 166 kid(s) together.
		Our family will zoom around in a blue mustang.
		I will spend my days as a lab rat, and live happily ever after.

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There are many types of drunks in this world. There is the talkative drunk, the confessional drunk, the silent drunk, the weepy drunk, the giggly drunk, the can't-tell-if-they're-drunk drunk, among others. And there's me--the merlion drunk.

Mom don't know this (SHH!!! =3) but it all happened yesterday, when I went drinking with lino_en_kuldes and vancula at Clarke Quay. Me and jess went to Gotham (Block A 3rd floor) to wait for shaf first coz she gets off work around 11 plus. There's a 1-for-1 offer on all jugs and so we got 2 jugs of bourbon coke to pass our time. There's also the lovely dance troupe Odyssey. They are hot =3

The thing is, before the Odyssey (heehee... The Odyssey...) started their performance, jess finished her jug and I drank like half a jug in 1 hour. I offered her my half-jug and she declined so I had to finish $11 worth of bourbon coke. Therefore, by the end of their short performance, I was totally tipsy and more than a lil high--more on the verge of being wasted, except I still know what's my name and where I am. Got groped repeatedly by jess too.

The clock struck midnight and shaf came. We got out of Gotham and went to meet her at the entrance of MoS. I stumbled out of there in a relatively straight line and less than 2m down, I threw up. Spectacularly. I prolly brought out both my lunch and dinner in that dustbin beside the fountain. I recall vague commentaries from people sitting around the fountain about how "that girl's puking her guts out". Way to go, Captain Obvious-es. Good thing they have a toilet nearby for me to wash my face and rinse my mouth.

Went to MoS, danced more than I ever will (where'd all my inhibitions gone?). Got groped again by jess--she's just taking advantage of me in my drunken state. I knew it. =__= shaf got groped by jess too and she hasn't even had a sip of anything alcoholic yet. Puked again while shaf was getting herself something to drink. Vodka lime was it? I remember something pale and murky. They offered but I declined. Don't think I can handle any more alcohol that night. Don't think I can handle any more bobbing to hiphop tunes if it's gonna make me turn my stomach inside out like a frog can.

So we left MoS a lil later. Bought water at 7-11 and attempted to sober up at Liang Court's McD. That's like the 3rd McD I've been in within the last 24hrs. As much as the potato-flavored salt known as McD fries is loaded with carbohydrates that is useful in countering alcohol in my system, I couldn't bring myself to eat any--lest I puke again. I'm tempted to get dramamine the next time I go clubbing but fatboyho made a valid observation by pointing out how pills and alcohol don't really mix. Right. Got it.

Jess had fun messaging and calling people she know. I think her entire circle of friends now know that I upchucked after a jug of bourbon coke. =_________=

Caught a cab home and shaf commented how this is like the earliest she'd be home after clubbing. Sorry for being such a lousy drunk. Heehee... I really thought I could hold my liquor since I don't feel any buzz after like 2-3 glasses of the usual JD & coke. Well, apparently not. :P Think I'm gonna stick to 1 glass per club from now on.

Got home, bro complained how I stank of my poison and other unidentified odor that he'd rather not identify so I went to bathe. Asked him today how bad I smelt and he rated it 7 or 8 out of 10. Guh... I didn't smell a thing at all but he's been known to have a keener sense of smell than I do. Do alcohol screw with sense of smell? Which also means that I moshed in MoS smelling like bourbon and vomit. Guh... That's embarrassing. I'm really gonna stick to just 1 glass per club from now on. 1140ml of bourbon coke in less than 2 hours is pushing it upwards and outwards... from my stomach to my mouth. =__=

Didn't notice the message li_zhenzzz sent at midnight until I got home but couldn't be bothered to check my results before I have a good night's sleep. Slept around 3am praying I wouldn't get a hangover and got woken up at 9.30 to check. Woohoo! I got the best grades I'd gotten throughout my 3 years in NTU. Got a 2nd class (lower) honors for my trouble. Was expecting 3rd class or 2nd lower but would be happy to get away with a just pass, so I'm ok with what I'd gotten. lz was disappointed at not getting a 2nd upper despite having 3 A's this semester. Said she's gotten too many C's for her A's to cover. Well, I'd gotten more C's and D's and less A's and B's than her so I deserve to get a 2nd lower (or *pause* lower... sorry, bad pun :p).

Brought maid to wire money back home. Her younger bro's tuition fee for the semester is hanging in the balance. Turns out, Mary Grace is quite the talkative one. She's also rather inquisitive and isn't shy in asking question to satisfy her curiosity. Her birthday's 5 days after bro's and like him, she's terribly afraid of heights. Said she held onto the window grills so tightly when she first had to clean our windows (we live on the 7th floor). Squeezed her eyes shut equally tight too. Lol!

Went to Downtown East's new E!hub's Kbox for some quality song-butchering with aunt and cousins. 2 hours isn't really enough but I guess the opening promo and the giving out of FOC member cards are a rather good deal. Mom met up with us after our KTV session for dinner there. Food's not as yummy as I'd hoped but it's a decent filling meal so not really complaining. :P

And finally, I leave you with this. Not quite there yet--based solely on the fact that I remember enough to account for my night out yesterday. Hee...
You know you're a drunkard when...

Well... I got so far as to go to school on time, braving shiny heels and painful blisters. I even handed in my resume and got a queue number for the interview but in the span of 1 hour, they only managed to get 3 interviews done. And then, they've got this presentation thing on so they'll not be interviewing for at least an hour. By then, both

So I will be putting on my best game face on and my best foot forward to try to convince a panel of people from Singapore Press Holdings why I'm perfect for the job as a sub-editor even though I'm graduating with an Electrical and Electronic Engineering degree and no writing sample/portfolio to show for.

Seemed like a good idea at that time since I do the editing on the reports of almost every project I've ever been on, I spot punctuation mistakes a mile away, Google is my bitch, I can't help but sigh at how inversely proportional the popularity of the internet is with the usage of proper English, I like researching on random stuffs, I'm a spelling-Nazi and more often than not, I have this insane urge to correct people's work. Among other things.

But here's the kicker. I will be up against the entire mass-comm school and even other crazies like myself from other faculties. The employers--they're not gonna just take my word for it and they'll definitely not hire me based on my degree coz my degree is "not relevant". It's happened before. Back when I was applying for my degree, I couldn't get into a Chemistry program coz my poly diploma wasn't relevant. It's all about relevance here. I hate that about our society.

The thing is, I really wanna go in, do the interview and succeed but chances are I'm gonna be rejected right there and then. So seeing how I already know I'll fail, I'm having second thoughts about going for the interview in the first place coz, c'mon, who sets themselves up for failure anyway? Who sticks their necks out for the other party to slap the other cheek after slapping themselves on one already?

Everyone's telling me to go in and try even though everyone knows that I wouldn't be successful. Why? It's not like they really believe me to be capable of being the sub-editor of the biggest newspaper publishing company there is anyway.

The most I'm gonna get out of that interview is an experience--of rejection.

...a lot of the new TV series that premiered last fall feature non-American actors/actresses in mostly title roles.

Bionic Woman--Michelle Ryan (UK)
Chuck--Yvonne Strahovski (Australia)
Damages--Rose Byrne (Australia)
Eli Stone--Jonny Lee Miller (UK)
Life--Damian Lewis (UK)
Pushing Daisies--Anna Friel (UK)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicle--Lena Headey (UK)

Hmm... Curious...

Edit: I wonder if the success of Hugh Laurie and Jesse Spencer in House had anything to do with it. :P

Helped my aunt out at TPJC bookstore coz her inventory day is on monday and she'll be moving the bookstore to another location in the school. Broke my right pinkie nail a lil too deep into the nailbed. It's a lil bleedy but it fucking hurts. T_T

Went to my grandma house for dinner and as I tried to maneuver the coffee mug right-side-up, my hand kinda slipped and in an attempt to save the mug from a certain horribly broken death, I tried to make a grab for it and ended with the mug falling on my left ring finger. Ouch. Hope it wouldn't bruise tomorrow. T_T

Passed up on a chance to make a key pouch for dad coz I sure as hell don't wanna get a Strike 3 and lose my finger. Any of it. T_T

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Got home, took a shower and almost slipped in the bathroom. Almost slipped again as I got out. Wtf... Are they trying to get me seriously injured? Or just badly wounded?

Hope I wouldn't slip and crack my head open on my 3rd trip to the bathroom. *fingers crossed*

Turns out, my secondary school... well, sorta friend--not really classmate nor were we very close but we got along ok I guess--Li Ching. She's going to Taipei too. She's going on 14-18 May with her bf while I'll be there from 15-21 May with li_zhenzzz. What a coincidence! So I got all excited and planned a lil dinner get-together at Ding Tai Feng in Taipei the night before she flies back to Singapore. Hope the plan goes through. I haven't seen the girl since my first year in poly, almost 6 years ago.

Oh and, I was just talking about names with my mom earlier today (before finding out that my friend is going to Taipei too) and the topic of my father side cousins' name came up. I have 2 cousins called Li Zhen and Li Ching. ...yes, I know. I'm fucking psychic. Lol!

Oh and and, my crazy aunt Zena called me up on Friday last week and asked if li_zhenzzz minded if she joined us in Taipei for the weekend. She'll fly to Taipei on her own on 16 May (Fri), stay for the weekend and fly back on Sunday. So I was like--whuh?? By the time she touch down, it'll prolly be like Fri evening and she'll only have a full day on Saturday before flying back on Sunday--most probably afternoon. And then I found out that the following Monday is Vesak Day--which is a valid public holiday--so that means she can stay for another day and fly home on Monday. How cool is that?? Lmao... li_zhenzzz said she's fine with the arrangement so I gave my aunt the go-ahead. Wonder if she'd gotten round to booking her plane tickets yet. Lol... She's a procrastinator like me. Or rather, I'm a procrastinator like her. She's been procrastinating for at least 18 years before me.

Now the only problem would be if the Ding Tai Feng dinner actually comes to fruition, would Li Ching mind my aunt joining us? I can't confirm with her coz my aunt haven't confirm her tickets yet.

Saw this on Yahoo frontpage just now.
Mother's diet can help determine sex of child

If this study is anything to go by, I think I know why the celebrity babies are mostly girls.