Read this from the papers today:

'Sleep Easy' (i forgot the actual name) is a youth-initiated campaign that aims to improve the quality of sleep. The idea is that with technology today such as TV, Internet, and Handphones, we are getting distracted and losing alot of quality sleep. This campaign aims to reduce the use of technology and improve the amount of quality sleep we get each day.
So far, it has been very popular, with its Facebook page already attracting 400 followers.

Am i the only one who doesn't miss the irony?

I just got a new phone! Like just, on wednesday.

Ugh i can't find other nicer pics.. and obviously i can't take a photo of it since i have no camera.

It's mad chio can!! i love the design and how the phone is like. Very sleek, thin, relatively light ( i think, for a smart phone) and the slide out keyboard is just freaking cool. I just like it!
It also has a 5MP Carl Zeiss lens.
The bad thing is, it's very pricey!! Cost me 598bucks with plan :S super broke now. sigh.

Well besides all the smartphone functions like wifi blabla, it has some nifty 'hidden' features that you may not even know. Like there's a proximity sensor on the phone that when ure talking on the phone, the screen is locked. So that your face wont go and press the buttons.
Then when you receive a msg, the button on the bottom left flashes so you know. cool stuff!

The bad thing is the battery life sucks! If i use it to purely msg and make occasional calls, it can last maybe 2 days? under 48 hours. But if i use stuff like camera, watch videos, wifi, it lasts only about 24 hours before it's low :S

And the camera flash thing is very annoying! even when flash is off, the bright xenon light still lights up very glaringly before every photo is taken.. so it's hard to take zilian photos! like cos you'll be blinded in the first few seconds and can't see the camera properly. not that i take zilian photos.

i really dont!

anyway, went for becky's 21st party yday! The theme was GEEK. lol. i dragged bestie along cos i don't know any of becky's friends, so i would be very lonely if i went alone. which proved to be true, lucky i had chris with me.











i'm leaving this photo rotated cos chris' face is quite freaky hahaha.



birthday girl!
I don't think she looks very geeky lor.. this outfit like.. normal? haha. but see how i sporting i am in my total geeky outfit. I originally wore my pants higher but too embarassing so i lowered it. And i even plastered my hair flat for this!


fail shot


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and my favourite pic with chris:


GEEKY BESTIES!!
lolol.


and on the way home we just camwhored abit more














HAHA SHE LOOKS RIDONCULOUS IN THIS HAHA.

alright, that's it ! chowz! i love my phone! hope it doesn't get stolen!

For those of you who are still following LOST (which I think i can count on one hand) , season 5 is coming soon! In feb .. something. early feb. Hence i've been rewatching S4 to refresh my memory on what has happened.

I love how the series is like.. every episode leaves you with jaw-dropping revelations and OMG moments and huhwtfisgoingon endings! hahaha. i just finished ep2 which ends with 'because i have a man on their boat!' omg! haha.
One overlooked part of the show is also the awesome soundtrack! Yes, even though it's not like Chuck or OC with nice indie songs and all, but the symphonic music which crescendoes at climaxes are just SUPER fitting and lends a huge part to the mood of the whole show.


ok i'll do a recap here about season 4.. for the benefit of.. any rare fan of LOST who is still watching .. and my stupid bestie who doesnt wanna marathon s4 with me.
I'm going to do this as i watch more episodes, so it's like bit by bit revealing things. haha.

Ok it's gonna be very broken and bad , i'm just retelling the key points of each ep k.


The season starts where the previous left off, the survivors of Oceanic 815 realise there is a team of people coming to their island, supposedly to rescue them. This team of 4 consist of the pilot Frank, Miles, Daniel, Charlotte.

Jack and the others formed a group to 'get ready to be rescued'. But Locke had other ideas and believed the people coming were bad, since Charlie in the previous season, in his dying moments, had told them that the boat coming was 'Not Penny's boat'.
Thus, Locke leads this other group of people consisting of Claire/Hurley/Sawyer and some others to move away deeper into the jungle to avoid contact with these newcomers.

However, Jack and the rest soon realise that these people coming were not coming for them, but for Benjamin Linus. However, Ben already knows this, as he had Michael planted as a spy on their boat.

Sayid leaves with Desmond and Frank on a helicopter for their boat to find answers to why they were there.
Up to now, 'flashforwards' ( ah yes, a characteristic of s4 is the flashforward, instead of the trademark flashbacks of LOST. It first occured in the season finale of s3 :) )
tell us about 6 survivors who managed to get back to the real world. Hurley is in a mental institution with some people trying to get answers about what happened to the other survivors from him. Jack is back, so is Sayid and Ben. Sayid is working for Ben as a hitman, to supposedly protect the rest of the survivors.

E4- flashforwards show Kate back in the real world too, and she's being trialed for her many felonies. her trial eventually ends with her getting 10 years probation only. It is revealed that she has a 'son'.. which at the end she calls 'Aaron'. (Claire's baby!)

On the island, kate brings miles to talk to Ben. Miles tells Ben he will lie to his boat crew that Ben is dead if he gets 3.2 million dollars. Locke eventually finds out about this and 'banishes' Kate from them. Sawyer and kate spend the night together but in the morning Kate leaves for the beach.

e5 - the helicopter that left 1 day ago still hadn't reached the boat. Daniel tells the survivors it's because how much time has passed doesn't signify how long the helicopter has actually been flying.. due to some mystical effect the island has.

This ep is largely desmond centric.. while he's on the helicopter he keeps flashing to some unknown time when he's in the military. Then he suddenly flashes back to the island time. then back to the military time.
He speaks to Daniel on the island via the radio phone , who directs him to the 'present' Daniel (in the same military time) to tell him about the 'time travel' he's experiencing.

e6 is juliet centric.. just traces the life of juliet before oceanic 815, on and off the island. It is revealed that ben likes juliet, saying 'you are mine'. etc. boring ep. Miles and Charlotte break away from the group to find this gas station to deactivate the gas which they claim Ben may some day release to kill everyone on the island.

e7 is Sun-centric.
there are flash-forwards to present time to reveal Sun is one of the Oceanic six and about to give birth. on the island Jin finds out about Sun's affair and is pissed offfff. but later on he forgives her la.
Then on the boat desmond and sayid find out that ben's 'spy' on the boat is MICHAEL. shocking .

e08 is about michael, and how The Others recruited him to get on the freighter (which brought daniel farraday, miles, and the rest to the island. oh yea, if i didn't mention earlier, their purpose of coming is to find Benjamin Linus, and they were hired by Charles Whitmore, who bought a fake airplane and planted it at the bottom of the ocean to fake the whole world that that was Oceanic 815 (because he wants to exploit the island))

e09 is Ben centric.. which shows him time travelling around the world .
On the island, some people have came and found locke's group and have alex captive. (they killed karl and danielle) They tried to get Ben to come out in exchange for Alex but he didn't, so .. they killed her.

Ben manages to timetravel to the present day, when Oceanic Six are back. ben then recruits sayid for him by convincing him that someone charles whitmore hired killed his wife. Sayid becomes like, Ben's hitman.

On the island, Ben uses the smoke monster to kill off the people attacking them, then they head towards Jacob for answers for Locke.
Flashes to present day where Ben turns up in Charles bedroom, telling him he was going to kill his daughter, penelope.

OK sorry you know what i'm quite tired of updating every ep.. i'll refresh whoever wants to know about the last 5 eps k. yup, 14 eps in total.

kthanksbye

ok i'm actually quite tired but decided to come blog because i haven't written anything much in awhile. I'm actually on a one week break now, next thurs will be going back to cover another person at IBM in their accounts dept, then i'm hoping to get this more long term (6 months) computer technician job. ha. wish me luck.


On a random note, i'm v upset with the cheese fries price!
Cheese Fries used to be 90 cents upgrade for your sides, now it's $1.70?!? Like totally ridiculous? It's like paying for another side la! Can someone tell me where to buy nice microwave fries or sth? Then i'll just go buy some cheese dip or those bottle kind, then make my own!!


anw since i'm rather free now, (for the week)... i really feel like performing some street magic!! haha. i've been playing around with my cards alot and i think i got my routine pretty solid. Now i just gotta work on the actual delivery and impromptu reactions.
Cos yknow, different audiences react differently, so i have to adapt quickly to make the performance enjoyable and suited to them.

I've actually had this thought since after O levels!! i think that was the time i was really into magic and i learnt the bulk of my tricks (which i've forgotten half already)
But my own personalised routine i still do sporadically over the past 4 years la. (omg i dunno where the word came from it just flew out of my fingertips. it means 'randomly' btw.)

Ok i think i'm off to go practise my routine more. i shall leave you with this nice long performance by this funny old guy

after just a few days of work, i'm very annoyed by kiasu singaporeans. No, these people aren't found at work. at work they're polite, courteous people who hold doors open for others and smile and greet each other in the morning.

i think there's some toxin in the Singapore air. The Kiasu Poison. TKP. The moment these people step out of their offices and start heading home and inhale TKP, they transform and mutate into ugly abominations.

When the train comes, (or even if it isn't) they begin to move strategically towards the yellow markings that indicate the different entrances. Those with some level of resistance to TKP just stand behind the demarketed line, but inch as close as possible.

Those who are badly infected stand in the MIDDLE of the freaking zone, desperate to be the first one to board the train. Are they stupid or blind? People need to come out right. Oh yea but wait, TKP neutralizes the senses, it just makes you want to be first, to be comfortable, to be selfish.

When the door opens, they RUN in. I've seen some ppl LITERALLY run for the seat, it's almost comical. Then as they sit there snug and comfortable, TKP surges, making them blind too. It doesn't matter if there are elderly people or ladies standing near them. No, they need to be comfortable what! standing on the train is VERY tiring , especially with TKP weakening the body.

I think we are in need of some antidote. Legend has said that a particular curly-haired man with yellow boots holds some antidote in his Repelling Anti Poison formula. I think the government actually released some of this R.A.P at MRTs all day long for a period of time, and i think it actually helped the situation abit.

But as all bio students know, virus (or bacteria?) develop a resistance to such things over time. So i guess now, TKP is immune to the R.A.P and still plagues all commuters.

So i guess i'm stuck with having to stand on trains for my commuting, since I've actually a strong resistance to TKP due to my inoculation of Caustic Orange UV Rays Through Enormous Sharp Yawns when i was a little boy so i don't behave in such an embarassing manner as the infected.

Ok, time to go and start mentally preparing myself for work tomorrow and plan all my activities and make ample calculations so that i can finish my work fast tomorrow.

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what?

ah sorry i've been rather inactive lately.. (who am i saying sorry to? i think i know who read my blog.. about 5 ppl? ha i dunoooooooooo)

just started work this week! I'm working at IBM @ Expo .. yes, freaking far, 1 hour journey everyday. maybe i should try taking a bus.. heard it's faster. but then i'm scared i'll be late. hmm.

i'm covering for some person.. i think her job is 'accounts assistant' or something like that. there is ALOT of things to do. I understudied her for 2 days, and i already have 7 pages of notes of what to do for this and that. AND i'm not entirely confident of doing everything by myself. cos it' s very complicated!!

need to cash in cheques (have to remember which banks for which cheques.. not easy), prepare various forms.. respond to emails .. etc. literally a dozen different things that can and will happen.

AHHHH.

hope i dont screw up (too badly) this week.. when i'm on my own.


-shudder-.

ah, finally got the photos from becks. these were from last year! i think about.. ok i really can't remember when this was but it was close to the end of the year.

This is just a photo spam so.. if you don't like photos for some reason.. skip this !

Lunch was at Ajisen!


Hers was obviously the Volcano ramen one.. you see the big clump of chili they give!! mine was.. charsiew i think. i LOVE the ramen and the soup la!! super nice.



i'm rather impatient cos my food came first and had to wait awhile for hers.. then she still wanna take pictures of the food! gah. drooling already.


happy after meal =)





Dessert! FRIED MARS BALLS! These are damn good ok! can be bought from this little booth @ B2 of PS. Raffles City also got! Try asking for more icecream, you need it to balance out the super sweetness of the MARS balls =)


Ok, the real camwhore begins:




Ok at this point i was starting to get impatient.. the icecream melting already!! cannot let the ice cream melt one!! if not the MARS balls taste will get too 'gao' then not nice already. need the more bland and cold ice cream to blend.


cannot wait already must eat.

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ok daniel called me at this point to ask about some movie thing at night, then becky went to snap a pic! so unglam ! i kept trying to make her delete it but she refused.


act sad.






see that stupidmonkey trying to snap another candid shot of me !!


i'm more alert now so she tries to attack from a different angle.






-lookinginrandomdirections-shot fails.


i dunno why i look so weird here i think i was saying something then she go snap already.



she ask me button my shirt. but too hot!



we try playing with perspective now.



she looks fat right!





ok this was the last shot at our seat..

then as we stood to leave she took my bowl of icecream to help me throw away.. so i kindly help her pick up her handbag to pass to her. then when she turned and saw me she just laugh and ask me take photo?!? wth?!

being the sport i am..


sorry la, no modelling training, dunno how to pose.


fail, chop off my head.


haha too short must tiptoe.





aight, that's all folks!

time to get ready for pewi's bday party. tho it isn't really a PARTY. well ok should be bday celebration.
chowz~