One Liners

MJ Bollywood Style

2006-11-22T05:33:43Z

Some light-hearted stuff.

The downfall of Kramer

2006-11-22T05:26:44Z

In Michael Richard's defence, he has apologised via live satellite on the Letterman show. Still, it's sad to see Cosmo behave like this.

I'm back!

2006-05-21T14:58:39Z

And I will miss

Melbourne's

Italian Hot Chocolate & Tiramisu from Brunetti, Papa Gino's fresh oysters, pasta and pizza, Mekong, St Kilda's, Smith St, Bridge St, DFO, Swanton St, Chinatown, Fed Square, Cookie, Lounge, Hairy Canary, Bunker, Inkra, Bohemian Pilsner, Susan Curti's house, Casino War, Chapel St, QV, Vic Market, Mel Central, Lygon St, Great Ocean Road, Loft, (the backalley bar with the DJ spinning, hangout for designers, funky toilets, forgotten the name!), Cotton On, Zoo York, $2 Fish N Chips @ Crown, The Dessert House @ Chinatown, Mel Aquarium, China Bar, Taipan's Dim Sum, Chicken Schnitzel, Potato Cakes, Spuds, Jester's Beef Pies, Boost's Smoothies, Automatic, Greco, St. Ali, Lattes, Graffitti, Telsta Dome and of cos, the chilly weather!

Sydney's

Darling Harbour, Sydney Harbour, Opera House, St Mary's Cathedral, Krispy Kreme, Seafood, Wellbeing's Healthy food, Ali Baba's Mediterranean food, Meriton Service Apartments, Paddy's Market, Chinatown, Market City (where we caught Da Vinci Code!! HAHA), Blue Mountains, Koalas, KFC, Sydney Tower, splendid architecture, mish-mash of Victorian, modern and classic buildings, Egyptian themed War Memorial, LG Imax Theatre, Cockle Bay Wharf, Sydney Exhibition Center, Chinese Garden!!, Eucalyptus Trees and the beautiful nightscene.

I won't miss Mel's

Nova Stargate (awful stay), the sodding trams, AUD$50 seafood buffet @ Crown, cows, shops closing at 5-6pm sharp and A-Star's salty food!

Sydney's

Seagulls who were always after food, Star Bar, hard-to-find Hard Rock Cafe, Sydney's Observatory which closes at 5pm!!!!!! (how the heck do we see stars then?!), BBQ King's hefty portions of Char Siew & Shao Rou Rice and expensive shopping!

I wanted to go to Mel's Observatory, Zoo & Brunswick St!

And also Sydney's Aquarium, Fish Market & Observatory!

Gone till 20/5

2006-04-29T03:21:07Z

Hey kids, I'm off to my RMIT study trip later tonight until the 20th. DO TAKE CARE

I hate being sick

2006-04-18T04:24:22Z

I detest being on the sidelines, I WANT TO BE BACK IN ACTION!

Tiesto Fiesta

2006-04-15T18:21:37Z

He came, he rocked, he ruled.

Could've been better

2006-04-12T17:37:55Z

Today, I withstood gastric, stomachaches and fatigue to literally drag myself through a gym session. :(

It's good practice

2006-04-11T14:58:37Z

I've limited my entries to singles lines because in advertising, if you can't describe your product in one line, you're in a mess

You can hate me for sleepless nights later on

2006-04-11T04:43:16Z

Try this if you think you are brilliant enough

Indulge Yourselves

2006-02-09T15:03:15Z

So much has happened in 2006 and it's still February!

Had a decent CNY but didn't have the luck as i kept losing money to lucky red socks Sherwin. Went for an enjoyable 11-12km Bukit Timah - Treetop - MacRitchie hike with Grace and Sherwin. It's stuff like that that brings us back to nature. I'm gonna miss all these when Sherwin is back.

I've finally got out of my CNY hangover and really got started on my publication project. I've a good feeling about it.

For the past few days I've been having great food. It's been a long time since I've just pigged out until I can't stuff anything else in anymore. Coffee Club Taka is 10x better than the one outside California Fitness! And the food at June Live Seafood (except for Har Chiong Gai) is excellent!

until the next time peeps! Catch u at Franz Ferdinand next Thurs!

All rise The New Year

2006-01-11T13:55:06Z

The rain is ruining everything. Especially my new year's resolutions!

Mostly the previous year's resolution were made, except for the "learn diving" part, which I am still keen on, but I'm not counting on doing it this year, reason = lack of funds. Well at least i did learn wakeboarding.

Here's this year's:

1) Back to the gym, more tone, no more bulk please.

2) Running. Maintain long distance but train 2.4km

3) IPPT gold for next window. Improve on 2.4 and SBJ

4) Get a decent job when I graduate

5) Travel somewhere

6) LESS PROCRASTINATION PLEASE!!

7) Take my CDs out for a listen more often

Shouldn't be too hard except for 3 & 7!

I'm hooked on Courtney Love for some obscure reason. Though she's a major bitch, she's got something going on in her music.

The week's retrospective

2005-12-19T17:00:15Z

After a hectic packaging project and a tedious grid/typography brief, it's time to finally kick back and relax for the holidays.

2006 is coming you'all (like my slang?)!!

I shall recall what i did in point form.

- Bukit Timah Hill trek with Sherwin, Char & Rox. Monkeys, tau huay with tang yuan and steep slopes. Nuff said.

- Rediscovered the gym!

- Ministry of Sound. The music that opening nite was EXCELLENT! Nothing I have ever heard of. The old cliche that music is the only high u need, could be used.

- Great pre-X'mas dinner with Kym, Grace & Sherwin. Who said u needed to spend extravagantly to have a great time? Old school Monopoly!

- Upcoming: Kusu/St. John's Island visit! On Boxing Day.
More Bukit Timah Hill treks!
Pulau Ubin!

It's time to mourn, gayjason's LJ has been deleted. :(

They left out the bit about...

2005-12-08T19:21:13Z

...not having to sleep on eves of deadline!

...having to slice and dice 329234742 pieces of work

...having to strain my eyes cutting, pasting, aligning every bit of my work

...having to spend loads on printing and raw materials!!!

I'm almost halfway there...halfway there!

I must remind myself never to cut my fingernails when i have to use the bloody double sided tape!! I think I've wasted so much time trying to peel off the damn double sided tape!

Hiking peeps: Where and what time are we meeting? What are we gonna have to bring? THANKS. Been too busy to think! Or breathe.

AdAsia 05: The Fallout

2005-11-24T08:43:07Z

Best $150 (originally USD $1k!) I have spent on for a long while. It was mind blowing and informative, and it has opened my eyes to the big picture of advertising and made my interest in it grow.

The drawbacks were that I fell sick on the 2nd day and I missed AirAsia's Tony Fernandes and Jetstar Asia's CEO Ken Ryan's talk. Man I really wanted to go for that badly. Christopher Greaves, President of the PR Division Worldwide for Ogilvy stole the show, with his wit and his excellent insight in the scene, as well as Bhaskar Das, Executive President, Bennett, Coleman & Co, whose role as panelist in ONE talk turned into one man show. Mr Das really increased fanbase that day.

The 3 days were spent eating and eating, listening, and freezing my ass in the Suntec Convention Hall's Ballrooms. The nights were alrite and me & my classmates soaked up in the atmosphere, watching people all over Asia networking and even some, making a fool out of themselves. Ah well.

It's like the '80s never left

2005-11-24T08:01:28Z

Depeche Mode - Precious

Precious and fragile things
Need special handling
My God what have we done to You?

We always try to share
The tenderest of care
Now look what we have put You through...

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we managed
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

Angels with silver wings
Shouldn't know suffering
I wish I could take the pain for you

If God has a master plan
That only He understands
I hope it's your eyes He's seeing through

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we managed
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

I pray you learn to trust
Have faith in both of us
And keep room in your hearts for two

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we managed
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

This is a really short entry

2005-11-21T01:32:29Z

...just as to keep updated.

Attending AdAsia 2005 for the next 3 days

Have projects lining up soon

Another week before intensive week begins

Cheers! Holidays' around the corner!

Out, damned spy-wares! out I say!

2005-11-13T09:11:21Z

Finally. I have rid my YO BRO's pc of his irritating search2web toolbar!! Pop-ups aplenty and a bloody search toolbar is GONE. My PC's Winfixer is also GONE! All gone in a day's work!

My hols is officially ending today and man how fast 3 weeks went by. After slogging away @ SFI, i will look back and miss these pple.

Zak - the 16 year old Indian boy who whined and complained and couldn't take criticism and quit on Thursday. BYE BYE

Uncle Rahim - After working for 5 days, u finally asked me where the toilet is ON FRIDAY. POWER! Can tahan until so long

Uncle Wong - I will never forget ur feud with Auntie Kiasi Ah Niam.

Auntie Kiasi Ah Niam - Thanks for being SO SO NAGGY. I think I've nver been nagged so much in my life before. I will miss ur "AH BOY, Careful ah!" "AH BOY, CANNOT LIKE THAT DO AH!". Wow, I was THIS close to just screaming back to her.

Uncle Chew - Thanks for the words of wisdom

All the aunties @ SFI - Thanks for treating me like their son. Thanks for all of u for asking where do i stay, have i gone thru army, where am i studying, stuff like that. Keep it up.

Now it's down to getting my dad's laptop to connect to our wireless connection.

SCHOOL'S BACK!

PEACE OUT

The Crow

2005-11-10T18:51:36Z

Moving on from ONG BAK, comes the Crow series. I think no one really knows that there's a latest installment of the The Crow (after the 1st one, City Of Angels and Salvation). The surprising element was that it actually stars Edward Furlong, the kid from American History X and Tara Reid. I guess they've had their 15mins of fame already.

Anyways, it's bloody hilarious how Edward Furlong looks like as The Crow

Well, at least THIS is much better. (From City of Angels)

Brandon Lee still looks the best. R.I.P

Have yet to watch Salvation, but he looks like THE JOKER

Moving on

2005-11-08T14:54:47Z

Just completed re-watching the LOTR series, this time, ALL EXTENDED versions, so that made the duration of the 3 movies as long as 6 movies! Each movie clocked 3.5hours each. POWER. 3rd time watching Fellowship of the Ring & The Two Towers, and the 2nd with Return of the King.

Time to move on with some ONG BAK & Tom Yam Goong. Apparently, the actor playing the leads is twice the man that Jackie Chan is and does most of his stunts w/o any wires or help. What a sick dude! So I was actually searching for an image of ONG BAK to post it up, but I found something better.

Hilarious, check out this site

Mind-numbing, back breaking experience

2005-11-05T07:10:26Z

Started temp work beginning on Halloween's, Wednesday and Friday @ SFI at Pandan Loop(near FOT's place, also near Hai Kim TER's old school, Tanglin Sec). Yes SFI, the wonderful pple who put food on ur plates during army days and of cos, provide our delicious field rations. (MENU 3 comes to mind, some CHESTNUT CHICKEN RICE shit)

Anyways, it's like working in a factory, and for $5.50/hr, they really squeeze out every ounce of effort out of u. On the 1st day itself, I was working from 8-8pm!! Wow...OT from 5:30pm-8:15pm just on the 1st day! We had to rush a shipment of those instant food packs. I still can't get the PINK packets of Saigon Red Curry Chicken, or the GREEN packets of Thai Green Curry Chicken, the RED packets of Malaysia Curry Rice, the YELLOW packets of Bali Coconut Curry Chicken, the LIGHT RED packets of Java Curry OUT OF MY MIND!

On Wednesday I was also doing the sealing of the packets and I was working non-stop except for the 1hr break! This time, OT was until 6:30pm...what a job huh.

Soon to get worse on Friday! I had to put on yellow PCK boots, those shower-cap like hair masks, and gloves for my next assignment! Next up was packing field rations...it was mind-numbing and everything seemed so....machine-liked. My body got so used to the tasks until my mind could go blank at times. I went home everyday with back aches and sore fingers!

Anyway i felt that if i were sufferring like that already, what about those uncles and aunties working like this everyday of the week? Here I am for only 2 weeks, making abit more than them. Who am I to complain when they are putting up with this crap for months, years?

Next time i think of bitching about not having a high enough pay, i will look back at this experience and remind myself how lucky i am sometimes. 5 more days of HELL @ SFI!!!

Persistance is NOT futile

2005-10-25T16:43:02Z

The monsoon season is here. Every morning I set my alarm at 9am just to look out of my window to check out the weather. It is either rainy, gloomy, or cloudy, sunless days. Today I woke up and saw sunlight. SALVATION!

I've been meaning to go sun tanning for the longest time and the chance for me to do so was TODAY. God knows when we will have bright sunny days until the end of the year! Ad I just couldn't wait until the NEXT year to get a tan!

So I packed my stuff and headed down to Sentosa (YES alone again!). The signs were ominous when I reached sentosa, the clouds gathered and lo and behold, when I had just set my mat on the sand, i felt a drizzle! $&!%#&^%!#, so i packed my stuff and headed to a shelter and waited the rain out. About 15 mins later, it stopped. And the sun came out again! I rushed to get as much of the sun as I could and tanned for nearly 2 hours before it drizzled again.

That was when I packed up again and waited it out. It was 5 mins before the sun came out AGAIN! So I went to tan AGAIN! This time, it was only half an hour's worth of suntanning before i looked up to the skies and saw BIG GREY CLOUDS blocking out the sun. The thunderstorm was about to arrive!

I was satisfied with today's session and decided to end the day and head back home, so I rushed to take a shower before the rain hit and to avoid a crowd at the toilet. Alas, it poured and rained heavily just as I was done with my shower. What bad luck! I was stuck at the washroom area with swarms of school kids and sec schoolers half my age, waiting the rain out/running from the rain.

The rain would not stop for a good hour++ so i waited for it to get lighter and wanted to make a dash to the nearest bus stop. To my horror, the bus stop was ACTUALLY no further than 10 feet away from the washroom area and I could have easily made it there w/o getting really wet much sooner!

Anyways, mission accomplished and home i went. What can i say. I love the beach!

Enjoy the moment

2005-10-24T17:29:00Z

Finally, no more pen-knifing and doing layouts in the wee hours of the morning. No more dragging my sleep deprived self to school. ALL THESE FOR 3 WEEKS ONLY!

I'm gonna chill, relax, exercise, and enjoy the moment.

A peculiar feeling

2005-10-21T15:07:34Z

A weird day today. I'm here updating my LJ with not a worry on my mind, and for once, projects aren't on the back of my mind. I'm usually doing my own stuff but subconciously, i am always reminding myself that I have to do my project abd causing guilt when i'm watching the t.v or just slacking ard.

School's out for 3 weeks and just one more project due on Monday, which is 90% done for me. It's time to kick back and relax. Anyone looking for a temp?

Good Day

2005-10-19T15:34:57Z

Quite a good day achieved today. Went for IPPT and YES got my silver.

Other things that went well at school would be

- Got to chat with other classmates other than my own clique, learning ALOT more going in class than we know.

- 2 more projects and we're done!

- 2 more days and we're done!

- Cleared some stuff with my lecturer and project is back on track

- Had some good char siew rice for dinner

- Did all my chores

Abit tired from all that...will sleep early...FOR ONCE

Beyond Concert

2005-10-19T15:28:44Z

The TICKETS

The Participants

The Concert

How close we got

It was a great concert, but abit rehearsed, not the best that I've seen. One of the best must be with Jiawei and Jason for Coldplay/Travis.