Robots in disguise!

Warning: for those who have not watched Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, there are possible spoilers ahead!

Caught the lo-ooong awaited movie earlier today. It was so exciting! I don’t deny that it was a little on the lengthy side though. Still, on the whole I was totally left in awe (what would we be without CGI?) It was so cool that they featured an Audi R8 as one of the Decepticons, despite that it got sliced in half by Ironhide within the first half and hour of the show. It was a little refreshing to see some cool robot action at the beginning of the show, it was like a warm up, or was it a way to make it up to the audiences for the long wait? Heh heh. Oh and that Mikaela rides such a nice looking bike was like… wow. There are still plenty of humour elements in the movie. I mostly liked how Bumblebee was so…. loyal! Bee says more things now but it’s still through the radio voices. As usual the legendary Optimus Prime gets the most dialogue, while the others don’t really get that much compared with the first movie. The Twins are funny though… in a little kind of annoying way. Haha! And yes, we get to see Megatron picking on Starscream every once a while, which is one of the original elements in the cartoon… haha. The little blue remote control monster truck is really cute too… Quite “guai lan” but still kind of cute!

All in all, I loved the movie very much despite and bad reviews I’ve seen or will see. Like the first Transformers movie, it’s definitely a show I would not mind watching again and again and again. I suppose if I were asked which is my favourite Transformer from the movie, I probably wouldn’t be able to decide!

Anyway just to share, this is without a doubt one of my favourite scenes:

For those who have not caught the show, what are you waiting for?! In the way that Sam Witwicky would say it, GOGOGOGOGO!

Oh, and pardon my Optimus Prime Red/Blue and Bumblebee yellow coloured text… Still feeling uber psyched over the movie =D

Wow, it’s been so long since I last updated… well, sort of.

The past couple of weeks have not exactly been eventful. Thanks to a super low budget, almost everyday has been spent indoors except for some weekends to JP or to town. Last week, I gave Milord a treat at Ichiban sushi at Suntec, sort of for his birthday. Very filling. The beef sukiyaki I ordered was not bad. Then on his birthday, I coincidentally had no lesson for the day, so we went to catch a movie that afternoon. Ghost Of Girlfriends Past. It was quite okay. You can’t expect much from rom-coms anyway. After the movie we went back to his place and had a nice (well, sort of) dinner with his Mum and uncle. Later that night I started to develop a sort throat…

The next morning my sore throat seemed to have gotten worse. I went to school anyway, then went to the nearby polyclinic after lesson. Whoa, they have special FLU section for patients who have any kind of FLU symptoms. For those who don’t have H1N1, it’s good because there’s not really a long queue (put into consideration that it’s a weekday) so I managed to finish reasonably fast. Less than one hour in fact =D

On Friday evening, Milord and I met up with Edmund, Astria, Zhihui and Reaper for steamboat dinner at Bugis. After the dinner, met up with Derrick and MY, and Jeff to catch a movie at Filmgarde, iluma. We caught Drag Me To Hell, which was ermm.. pretty typical of any horror film. Everyone found it kind of lame, cos the girl still dies in the end after all that. Haha. And what is with the whole wrong envelope thing? Oh my. Haha. The funny part was that a few times when there was gonna be some scary part coming, Astria would start laughing. Hahaha. After the movie we all went to have coffee, after much deliberation and discussion, we ended up at Breko just beside where we were doing all that discussion. Haha. It’s been quite a long time since we all met up like this and hang out like how we did months ago. After coffee we all headed back home.

It’s been a boring day so far today. Gonna meet Milord near his place where he will company me for my dinner, then I’ll probably buy back some Thai mango salad and Thai Papaya Salad from the pasar malam there =D  yum yum!

but I don’t like it…

I’ve been feeling very listless recently. The new term did not seem to take off that well. The lessons (and not to mention the lecturers) were very dry. It was apparent that the lecturer was just reading from the study book given and just spruce it up a little by adding a little examples here and there. It’s not as interactive as the modules I took last term. Communication is as good as 90-10, 90% being the lecturer’s and 10% being the students’ in general. Obviously I have to depend a lot on self study for these two modules.

Oh, and it didn’t help my already moodless feel when I was given a so-called verbal warning for wearing slippers to school today. I should have just said I’m not a student and I’m from another institute who is there to look around cos I was thinking of transferring. Ha.

Still in search of a part-time job, sort of taking my time though. Sigh. Worry for Milord sometimes.

No ammo

I have this urge to go on a killing spree but I just don’t have the ammunition. Grrr..

Note: Replace “killing” with “shopping”, and “ammunition” with “Vitamin M”    =|

Note 2: Thanks Milord for keeping me away from the dark side. Haha.

relaxed

I feel less pressure now that I’ve “officially” stopped working at that place. I don’t feel like someone will call me out of the blue and ask me if I can work tomorrow, or someone will ask me if I can work on a day with a very undesirable timing, or if someone will come to me at work and nag at me about something I should be doing, shouldn’t be doing BLA BLA BLA. Anyway, I went to interview at an old workplace last week, but I never gave a confirmation on when I can actually start. I ended up thinking about it and felt that the working hours were also somewhat undesirable. I don’t think it’s all that good either. And I’m still procrastinating to give the Assistant Manager who interviewed me a courtesy call saying that the I cannot suit to their working hours. Oops? Went for another interview somewhere near home, but so far no news =\ Argh.

The new school term started, so far lessons are pretty damn boring. Very dry and all so theoretical. I can’t really focus on the lesson like this. Especially when the more than half of the class is also somewhat uninterested or half-hearted… Nevertheless some of them ended up being the usual monkeys and disturbed the lesson and even the lecturer. It was kinda funny at times though. Haha. I guess somehow I have to admit that it beats a totally quiet class. I would think it’d be difficult to keep myself awake if that were the case. Hopefully things still go well along the way. The good news is the lecturers briefed us that exam essay questions will only require about 3-quarter to 1 page per question. Haha. Something odd happened at school today though. Not really sure what happened, but curiosity led me to browsing the www and found from some of their blogs about some being suspended for a few days, no mention of why though. Came across other blogs mentioning about some particular person whom a certain clique or two seem to dislike. I hope it’s not me. Haha. Then again, they don’t even know me to dislike me, so I suppose that rules me out? -_-

Well well, seems like it’s been about a month since I last went to dbl O. Don’t really feel the mood to go there either. Most important is the fact I cannot really afford to be a regular anymore. It’s always nice to see familiar faces there especially the staff. I hope they don’t treat me less as a friend or regular because I can’t go there so often anymore. Haha.

Oh, so during the past week after exams and no school, I did some cooking with the help of Milord. My first attempt at Carbonara and Lasagna, took a total preparation and cooking time of about 3-4 hours. Darn… All thanks to the sauce I made for the lasagna cos the first time I did it, it was a failure =| Anyway I was not really happy with the end results, mainly because the top layer of lasagna sheet was too hard cos I should have put more sauce (or maybe pre-cooked the sheets a little). The Carbonara maybe was a little too rich, I probably should have removed 2 yolks from the 4 eggs I used for the cream sauce… I was tempted to re-try doing lasagna on Tuesday and it was better than the first attempt at least =P So here are the pictures I took to hao lian. Haha

Sunday Lasagna

Sunday Carbonara

Tuesday Lasagna

Well, the stuff we did on Sunday were actually supposed to be a form of celebrating our 6th month together. Yup… 6 months. From day one till now, every once in a while I will get the I-can’t-believe-I’m-with-him feeling. Haha, seriously. I guess a certain skeptical part of me feels like by this point of time in a typical r/s I am in, it would be more likely to consist of more quarrels and arguements rather than happiness. But nope. I am very content with what I have and what he has given me. Plus, what would he do without me? HAHA. Ok, that’s a lame joke but I suppose only he would understand =)

Alright, off to sleep soon. Left with only 2 hours of sleep. You do the math =\

moody and impatient, listless and bored

Have not been in the best of moods in during the past couple of days… not even sure what exactly is the reason. Hopefully it’s just another case of the monthly “disease”….

Had my exams last week. I am surprisingly more confident in my Accounts paper, as opposed to my Communication Skills paper. You would think that Communication Skills is more like an English essay/compo kind of thing, but then…… well, yeah there were essay questions. But the topics covered (tips from the lecturer aside), were quite rescrtictive. And I kind of assume that the lecturer expects us to write based on those notes that he gave us… which seems a little.. erm.. limited? Don’t know if I will be able to pass but I guess I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

Starting to get the sick-and-tired feeling about work again. Obviously this feeling will come intermittently as long as I continue there. And it’s only a matter of time before I really dread going to work, and not to mention have the dragging feeling, something I wonder if I already do. Despite the good location (near to school) and some nice colleagues, I’m finding less reasons to like working there. The environment is warm or hot most of the time, even at night and especially if/when I’m stationed at the outdoor dining area. The excessive humidity there does not help. Neither does the fact that I sweat quite easily. 95% my time there I feel hot and sticky. One more thing that does not help? The stingy bosses’ attempt to cut costs by wanting to switch off the air-cons when there is no customer. AND the fact that their doors are left 70% open, resulting in easy exit for the cool air. And obviously it’s not just about the air-con crap that peeves me about the bosses (or maybe it’s (still) just one of them…). Anyway, the other factor and most important one is of course the money. You’d probably be shocked to know that I’m earning an hourly rate of $5. You’d think sure, work more lor, then earn more. But I suppose I prefer to see it from another aspect. Just because some of them know that I don’t really do any other things beside school, doesn’t mean I have to commit the rest of my time and life to them. Don’t foeget I’m just a part timer. And if they think someone of my age is supposed to be responsible and know how to think, yup they’re right. I DO know how to think. Call me silly, but I’m not letting them have their way either. They think that just because they’ve asked me to extend my work hours a couple of times before and I’ve agreed, I’m gonna agree every other time. Well, it’s not gonna be like that anymore. So what if I get less money? I’m already working for the number of hours according to what I wanted my schedule to be. I’m just a cheap labour to them, of course they would want me to continue working there. I was told about a 3 month probation period I have to go thru before they review my pay. I doubt I can wait any more for that 3 month point…

School starts next Monday and my next day of work is this Thursday. Can you believe I am dreading Thursday more than Monday?

Time to flip the newspapers.

A minute of appreciation…

It’s a wonder how this one person can so endearingly tolerate the kind of tantrums that I throw.

What would I do without him?
And what would he do without me? =P

Unconditional love aplenty, tonnes of patience.
I feel I haven’t given much… Does wisdom count? Or road directions? Hahaha…

Hopes for forever…

Happy 6th month in advance milord.

the luck..

… or should I say lack of it.

Had a minor accident with him on his bike while travelling to his place earlier this week. I’m sick of going through the whole story about the woman who bloody U-turned illegally from the oncoming traffic and even dared to claim that she didn’t see us. Sigh. As a result of her stupidity, we somehow hit onto her right side and I ended up losing my left footing. I felt my slipper fly off my foot and the next thing I knew, I was half-clinging on to Garfield by his left, trying not to fall off the bike. While this happened, the bike wobbled from the impact while he slowed down to a stop. But I think my weight being mostly on the left must have brought down the bike to it’s left side. It further resulted in some damages, there were parts that broke and broke off.

The woman even had the guts to tell us not to claim insurance because she just recently got claimed against for a previous accident (obviously caused by her also). She obviously does not deserve to drive. I don’t know why Garfield is still so lenient to her. After all that talk about just going to claim if she tries to buy time or bargain, in the end he still wasted time listening to her trying to bargain and all that crap about her life story and bankruptcy act, and eventually gave her a chance she didn’t deserve. If every driver or rider she got into an accident pities her and feels that she deserves a chance, then ultimately to her, how many chances would/could she have gotten altogether? Rubbish. And the deadline given to her wasn’t even to fulfill the whole requirement. What the hell. Sometimes I don’t know if he really knows how to be selfish when the need arises. But then who am I to speak? I’ve said my piece but it wasn’t taken into consideration. Not sure how I sustained my injuries, but I got myself all on my left leg, a couple of bruises, one of which I only discovered yesterday, as well as a burn patch on the lower leg (somewhere a little above ankle), plus a cut or somewhat on the tip of my big toe.

Argh. Fed up.

Well, exams are next week and I have not even started on my revision. Thanks to the accident. Don’t really have the mood either.

I suppose the only thing that gets my eyes lit up is the latest trailer for Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. Heh heh heh.

Sigh. Sometimes I wonder if I’m being too self centered…