Wednesday, April 27, 2005

hello, my fellow non-communist comrades.
i have shifted, again, to here.
apologies for the trouble. :)

Jasmine the Great (duh) at 9:13 PM

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Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Dish of the Day: Mr. Lonely- Akon

i like only that whiny voice. but it sorta reminds me of chucky. :S
anyway, work today has been good! i finally took a cake order WITHOUT mistakes.
applause, applause!!!
:D
and it turns out that my supervisor isn't really as ah lian as i thought. it's just that she was brought up in a hokkien environment and stuff. she didn't join gangs or anything like that.
the best part was when she told me about the old girls that used to work at the great world branch- some from those ang soon tong and 369 and stuff like that, and they end up squabbling and going "ta bu shuang wo ma!", and have it out in the kitchen.
tehehe, it must be have been quite comical.
"i shall put your head in the bread cutter!"
oops. sadist.
:P
i'm awaiting the first day of school. or my first spanish lesson!
jia you people of the o levels.
repeat after me: slacking is bad.
:D

Jasmine the Great (duh) at 9:18 PM

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Sunday, April 24, 2005

Dish of the Day: You Get Me- Michelle Branch

So I'm a little out of center
I'm a little out of tune
Some say i'm paranormal
So i just bend their spoon
Who wants to be ordinary
In a crazy mixed up world
I don't care what their saying
As long as I'm your girl

Hey you were on my side
and they... they just rolled their eyes

You get me
When nobody understands
You come and take a chance (baby)
You get me
You look inside my wild mind
Never knowin' what you'll find
Still you want me all the time
Yeah you do
Yeah you get me

So what if I see the sunshine
In the pourning rain
Some people think i'm crazy
But you say it's o kay
You've seen my secret garden
Where all my of flowers grow
In my imagination anything goes

I.. I am all you want
They.. they just read me wrong

You get me
When nobody understands
You come and hold my hand (baby)
You get me
You look inside my wild mind
Never knowin what you'll find
Still you want me all the time
Yeah you do
Cause you get me



yay i finally finished watching Zhan Shen! you know, the serial that stars zai zai and the shan cai person. oh yea, Big S.
it's nice!! it isn't like those typical taiwanese shows... something special yet scary about it. how often does a drama make you feel different?
something i caught from the psycho character of the show:

"our happiness is always built on someone's misery, isn't it?"

although it's suppose to come from the psycho character, this sentence did sort of strike me. after all, it's like our mums. they give us money to buy a certain something, making us happy, and yet because our mums want us to be happy they cannot buy what they want.
perhaps, that's what it means to have a balance. for someone to experience joy, another must experience pain. it isn't fair but i suppose that's how the world works.
anyhow, it's a great show. do catch it. :)
the old me would never have time for all these. but then again, it's the old me.
better relax while i still have the time eh.

i miss that smile.

Jasmine the Great (duh) at 11:26 PM

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Thursday, April 21, 2005

Dish of the Day: Goodbye- Air Supply

i am so irritated. i cant TAG.
to jane: aiyah, why leave!!! :( everybody's leaving.... anyway, i also think marcus looks like josh harnett. hahaha.
to everybody else: i cant tag and i'm irritated. :/ i've got loads of rubbish to leave at everybody's blog but i cant!!! AHHH!!!

oh, with the casinos and all, i cant help but feel like doomsday is approaching. at least, it's probably going to be in our era. i really think those politicians who assume building more mental institutions is going to help dont really know what it is like to be in real debt. gee.

Jasmine the Great (duh) at 9:52 PM

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Wednesday, April 20, 2005

i'm going to change my addy. after all, i'm no longer part of the SAJC soccer team.
:(
how about-
artificialpaintbrush?
poisongoober?
wifeofspongebob?
squarepants?
loveandhate?

i think poisongoober sounds nice. maybe poison-goober. mm.

Jasmine the Great (duh) at 9:25 PM

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i can't tag !!!! :/

Jasmine the Great (duh) at 8:11 PM

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Dish of the Day: Canon In D- Pachelbel

i love this piece. i think it's really peaceful... too bad i wasn't skilled enough to play it when i had the chance. hahaha.
anyhow, went out to jog. thought through lots of things. i was feeling quite lazy so i took a bus to clementi after that to buy contact lens holder. luckily i remembered the solution. otherwise i can soak my lenses in my tears.
bought a big gulp and walked home. i purposely chose the path that would lead me down new town... the path i always took to walk from school to eat mac. :P it feels so ironic walking backwards down the same road.
ex-student. grr. i feel so old. i wish i can go back into new town and moan and groan about how ugly my uniform is. i do not think i can ever stop reminiscing. i'm rather pathetic eh.
i wish i can wear my gola shoes and get caught by mr lau again.
i wish i can play chap teh like i did in sec 3. the fact that i sucked at it doesnt matter.
i wish i can talk to him like i used to; i remember him watching me and my clean cut friends, me watching him and his pai kia friends, passing each other. hahaa. at least i know how it feels to truly be in two completely different worlds, to be a good little scholarship girl, with him smoking and his head on my lap. can friendship really never last? how do you rely on a person so much that after a while it makes you cry, especially when you see the differences between the two of you cut that precious bond apart, literally once and for all?
does pain have to be explicitly explained before it can be understood? or is its notion enough?
i am asking too many questions. *cackles

P/S: remember to study, all you folks taking mid years. I AM WATCHING YOU. :P

Jasmine the Great (duh) at 7:15 PM

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Monday, April 18, 2005

Dish of the Day: Sunshine- Gabrielle

sunshine through my window
that's what you are
my shining star
sunshine
making me feel
like i'm on top of the world
telling me i'll go far


yes, i am a nutcase. i've finally finished watching Love At Dolphin Bay!
and yes, it is a taiwanese pop serial. but who cares. :P
most meaningful line i caught (translated):

in my heart there is a mountain, and i want to bring you to its peak, and sit you up there always.

sweeeeet. i was bawling like a baby through all those scenes.
must the love we imagine really be delusional?
hmm. thoughts.
and people, go read Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee! initially i was afraid it was gonna be some perverted book about old men and their lusts, but it turned out to be something unique. no wonder it won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
speaking of Nobel, poor guy. he needed to do something like that in order to clear his mistake of creating bombs. i mean, surely he didn't mean to kill loads of people with his invention, but he did.
sometimes, i guess we do not need to be the one to put our hands to an evil deed to be somehow deemed evil.
work has been a bore. sorta fell sick again.
oh, and roy left today. marcus gonna leave again, then jane too....
there is always so much leaving to be done. sigh.
and to all taking mid-years: you BETTER KICK BIG BUTTS WITH YOUR AWESOME RESULTS.
:D you do not have to be a nerd to be a winner. trust me, trust me!

Jasmine the Great (duh) at 11:17 PM

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

i am stunned by what people type on the New Paper Blogs, with regards to the casino issue.
they say that having a casino is not going to be problem since we already have lee ways like 4D, TOTO, stock market and such. and he claimed that he knew 2 people who commited suicide because of their losses at the stock market.
oh ok, so we build the casino so that more people can jump off and die because more people get involved in gambling and cause themselves financial problems that they are inept to handle?
goodness.
singapore is too small to be a sin city. we do not even have a capital.
so the news said that the government predicts only 2.3% of the population will become or already are compulsive gamblers.
let's see. that's 92000 people, on a rough estimate that the population is about 4 million.
why, it's 92000. only 92000 people will cause the people around them to suffer and accumulate debts and face the risks of bankruptcy, not because they failed in businesses or stuff like that, but because of GAMBLING.
that is just so comforting. gee.
let's assume that half that number have families; say one spouse and a kid. then the number would be..
46000x2(people they affect) + 92000(since the gamblers themselves are affected)= 184000. that is for one year.
so the government thinks they are that good? i mean, aren't we suppose to be far-sighted people that put down the problem before it catches up with us? must we really have the 'minority' kill themselves, destroy their families even further (look how many happy homes we have now), have our newspapers filled with "BANKRUPTCY RATE INCREASED DRAMATICALLY", and have our lives be turned into the Las Vegas tv serial, practice unsafe sex like them and done on those famous leopard print shirts like loan sharks before we try to salvage the social situation of the country? if that many people can be affected, what will also become of the productiveness of the people? i lost a dad because of money problems; even then there wasn't a casino in singapore to tempt him and add on to his credit card woes. he incurred a few thousand here and there, now and then in macau already anyway. i just do not want to see more and more people ending up with a broken home like i did. i mean, not everybody is rich enough to support gambling craves, and certainly, not everybody is rich enough to pay off the debts that come when lady luck stops smiling on them at the roulette table. i'm not implying that everybody is going to become compulsive gamblers, but really, do we all think we are able to exercise that self-control and not go beyond limits we cannot push? after all, everything starts out as fun. let's have sex. everybody's doing it. it won't hurt a bit.
so is that it? do we really just go have sex, have fun and get high, keep doin it? after all, i'm young, i won't die. neither will i get pregnant. oh, and i won't get addicted to drugs either. young people just do not suffer that way. is that it? wait till we get into trouble before we cry and wait to die?
the same principle applies to gambling, don't you think?
sometimes, i think adults are even more blinded than we kids are. that's not good news.
184000: that's more than half of the number who died or went missing in the tsunami. i think the fate of these 184000 will be worse than death. i kinda see why my dad wanted to kill himself now. desperate people do stupid things, so why create all the opportunites for more people to become more desperate? it will somehow annihilate us in the long run.
i hope i didn't offend anyone. i hope it speaks to those who pushed for the casino to be built. <-- PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE THAT SINGAPORE IS NOT PLEASANTVILLE.
no casinos for singapore!!!

Jasmine the Great (duh) at 10:56 PM

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Dish of the Day: One Last Cry- Brian McKnight

oh geez those mosquitoes are buzzing everywhere. :/
but anyhow, i'm really happy that the guys won!! 3rd in the nationals. WOW. :D
apparently, new town achieved the same feat 15 years ago. hahaha! yay. hopefully it's a cycle. :P
i'm a happy person today; with all that literally inexhaustible amount of sleep. took a look at the lappies and i think i'm gonna get the Acer one over the Mac. mac is waaay too incompatible; i'll have to spend like a fortune on the software alone. and that darn windows simulator is like, 500 bucks. just for one stupid Visual Basics. grrr. *spoil my mac dream
i'm watching disney channel right now. what an entertainment, along with another sad song. :)
how's my new layout by the way?? nice?? i've come to realize that my skins tend to be quite dark. hmm.


My shattered dreams and broken heart
Are mending on the shelf
I saw you holding hands
Standing close to someone else
Now I sit all alone
Wishing all my feeling was gone
I gave my best to you
Nothing for me to do
But have one last cry

One last cry
Before I leave it all behind
I've gotta put you out of my mind this time
Stop living a lie
I guess I'm down to my last cry

I was here, you were there
Guess we never could agree
While the sun shines on you
I need some love to rain on me
Still I sit all alone
Wishing all my feeling was gone
Gotta get over you
Nothing for me to do
But have one last cry

One last cry
Before I leave it all behind
I've gotta put you out of my mind this time
Stop living a lie

I know I gotta be strong
Cause round me life goes on and on and on and on

I'm gonna dry my eyes
Right after I end my one last cry

One last cry
Before I leave it all behind
I've gotta put you out of my mind for the very last time
Been living a lie
I guess I'm down
I guess I'm down
I guess I'm down...
to my last cry

Jasmine the Great (duh) at 9:12 PM

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