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Thursday Pardon my ignorance ... Houshin Engi = Feng Shen Yan Yi in chinese right ... okies, we definitely have it here. Would you prefer: a) The more pricey but better quality Taiwanese print at about S$8.50 (with discount it should be 30% less thus about S$6) per book; or b) The cheaper but you know cheaper Singaporean print at about S$4.80 per book. No discount. I can't remember exactly but I think 20 over books are already out. Let me know. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Hey Lilack-san ... arigato. Actually I also like my present job but my new job affords more learning and travelling which is thus good. Uhm, I'll ask around for you. I'm not really familiar with the title but I'll check ... will try to get back to you before Fri evening ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Masako I roughly know what I want to do but it's a question of how to make his hair nice and fluffy ... Clamp hair is sooo impossible to achieve in real life *sigh* Also still looking for nice green beads. I know I really should hurry up ... *sweatdrops* I just signed my new contract today *neko neko* but it's like at least another month or so before I go on leave >_< ;; Should check out the travel fair on Saturday - decided it should be London, Praha, Vienna and back!!! Reins ahhh, how's the thingee on your side? April or June? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Gomen Tsu, didn't see your blog before posting. Okies, I've sent you my mobile no. and I'll pass your stuff to Wendy ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Masako arigato. Uhm, update on the plushies I am supposed to make for you, Reins and Leareth. Can't figure out how to do Subaru's hair and eyes ... ditto for Tsuzuki ... I can work out the bodies tho'. Seriously thinking of buying doll making guide book or something. As for Snape, his head is perfect ... trying to work out how to do his lordly robes and body tho' ... ^ ^;; Gomen to all 3 of you for the delay ... Starting to get tempted to change my trip to Japan ... hmmm ... Anyone in London out there? Is it difficult to buy internal tickets from London to Prague on the spot? Tsu sorries, but have replied to your email. Let me know if you want Seimaden 10 ... gorgeous, our dashing demon lord looks like a beautiful vampire on the cover. He's soooo pretty he gives Count D a run for his money!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Wednesday Tired ... dashed to comic connection and then to Macs to work. Did list of files to clear ... then realised am in trouble. A lot >_< ;;; help!!! Public service announcement - In addition to Hana Kimi 13 being out, Ganbette 8, Candidate for Goddess 5 (finally - I was afraid the rumour the series was discontinued was true) and Seimaden 10 is out. Call dealer if interested. Mind you, books are in Chinese. Really tired. Will bathe and sleep and TRY to wake up early. Boss rebuked me today with "it's not your holiday yet you know" ... I was only 30 minutes late *sweatdrops* Will social blog tomorrow I hope. ... imprisoned within my blood ... This is sooo cute!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... More pretty HP art from Wingy's site - thanks to Reins for the referral ^___^ ... imprisoned within my blood ... Fank yew for the links. Have a nice trip. And I do hope the translations are accurate ... Wow, your friends have good HP stuff there ... mmmm ... I want to draw like that ... is Jap blood a pre-requisite to good drawing??? *Jealous* ... imprisoned within my blood ... hey, I got Athena too.... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Noticed a link ... uhm hi hi ... unfortunately I can't read French ... do you happen to also blog in English like Em? Thanks for the link anyways. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Apparently, I got a tie ... except both goddess never married ... UGH!!! AM CONFIRMED OLD MAID!!! So that means I'll have to contend myself with being happy!!! According to the See which Greek Goddess you are I'm tied between Athena and Hestia. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Meia are you and Aine and Kaori going to ACJC's funorama this Sat? I'm planning on going in the morning with my cousins ... Call me? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Liz that's soo cooolll ... Wow!!! One of the bestest friends J is back. Having lunch with him. Wanted to tell him but his boss, my boss' wife beat me to it. I hate it when my friends find out from someone else rather than me coz it's my news to give afterall. Made reservations for lunch. It's funny coz he's been away for 6 months but to us, it's like he's never gone at all, he's still dear sweet old funny J ... However, I may need to rethink my holiday plans. Apparently Budapest isn't safe ... since mummy dearest has indicated she would like to join me I guess I should choose safer places for travel. Should I do Spain? But it's a little outta the way. Unless I do London since I probably have to do a transit there, or Paris or Berlin ... hmmm ... choices ... suggestions anyone? Actually I have no idea who the guy below is except his red hair is coool ... stole this off Eve-san's site.  Outwardly you are intimidating and standoffish, though inside you really feel confused and misunderstood... but since you're pretty good at hiding feelings when you want to, nobody would ever know. You believe that you really can't trust anybody, thus you tend to be a loner. The only other instance you show any emotion at all is when you're pissed off. brought to you by angel rising ... imprisoned within my blood ... Tuesday Reins sent translations back to you via email already ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Tsu it's just that I'm very sick of the fact people keep bugging me on my resignation. In fact, to dry up conversation I've resorted to giving a particular answer when asked why I'm leaving: 'because there are no good looking available men in this firm". That usually shuts them up pronto ... hahahaha!!! Anyhow, my boss is quite nice about the whole thing. His friends have been however, less than pleasant for the last 3 days. From a minor lecture in the library to hauling up my friends for questioning. It's like a bloody witch hunt and it's difficult for my friends coz if they sound too happy for me, they get branded as traitors but if they sound reproachful of my decision, they have to "condemn" my choice, which they won't do outta our friendship. I think it's so stupid. It's only a job for goodness sake. I'm just waiting for the fire to die down except it's spreading ... colleagues whom I am closer with have called up to express their surprise and best wishes ... but I'm pretty unnerved about the magnitude of reaction to this. I just hope it dies down quick *keeps fingers crossed* it's only a job ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... I agree with you that their latest layout is very good. ... imprisoned within my blood ... I just realised. My Harry Potter characters are usually rather similar to hers. ... imprisoned within my blood ...  ... imprisoned within my blood ... So it would appear that I would be Sirius Black or Madam Hooch if I wasn't Harry or James Potter. Would probably adore transfiguration followed by potions and would avoid muggle studies if I could. Hmmm ... what does this mean? ... imprisoned within my blood ... And just because ...  By Meeki  You're Harry Potter! Being the the boy who lived can get irritating at times, but hey, you've got great friends, and that makes it all for the better. By Britt  And ... # 1 Transfiguration # 2 Potions # 3 Arithmancy # 4 Astrology # 5 Divination # 6 HIstory of Magic # 7 Herbology # 8 Ancient Ruins # 9 Care of Magical Creatures # 10 Charms # 11 Defense Against the Dark Arts # 12 Flying # 13 Muggle Studies ... imprisoned within my blood ... Monday Hai Hai ... right on track. PS: Seriously have you considered your alternatives in practice. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Most interesting referrer of today's date: Oh I wish, actually I would rather have Legolas' address ... Mirkwood Tree number 259 anyone? ... imprisoned within my blood ...  You are a JAMES POTTER to Harry! The father he never had, the father he wishes he knew. You're more of a fatherly type to people. You're kind, loyal, unbiased and just an over all "gosh-golly-shucks" kind of guy. Everyone likes you, and you like ev- well, almost everyone. BUT! You are mischieveous at times and you do know how to party ;D ... imprisoned within my blood ... Mostly in agreement with you Leareth except I think strictly speaking, it is sufficient Lilack proves the compy was not of mercantible or loosely put "proper and satisfactory" quality expected of such compys when it was sold to her. She doesn't have to prove it is defective. As long as the compy when sold to her, is not of the quality that can be reasonably expected of it, and she had no reasonable manner of knowing that, there is prima facie a breach of the act. She will need to make sure she hasn't lost her rights to rescind and must comply with the notice requirements in the act. Lilack, you must also not have agreed with the shop to take the compy back in return for some extra feature etc. And as Leareth pointed out, you have to read your contract carefully for exemption clauses. Of course that being said, I don't practice Aus law and had a glance at the legislation in question only. However, Lilack from experience, just bring them the compy and tell them the problem first. If they try to be too smart for their own good, state nicely that you know your rights and if they try to be funny you'll make sure this gets out. As long as you don't threaten or embelish anything and convey to them the fact you are serious about your claim, the fear of bad press is usually sufficient to move them, or so we all hope. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Help - Does anyone know how to merge 2 separate word documents into one? Urgent tip needed by neko here ... got about 70 documents to merge into one nice long list ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... VIRUS ALERT Check it out. I have not verified it myself but it is worth looking out for. "New virus, W3/MYPARTTY@MM discovered on 27th Jan 02 This mass-mailing worm arrives in an email message containing the following information: Subject: new photos from my party! Body: Hello! My party... It was absolutely amazing! I have attached my web page with new photos! If you can please make color prints of my photos. Thanks! Attachment: www.myparty.yahoo.com (29,696 byte PE file) Running the attachment infects the local machine. The virus copies itself to C:\Recycled\regctrl.exe and executes that file. The users default SMTP server is retrieved from the registry. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager\Accounts\00000001 The virus uses this SMTP server to send itself out to all addresses found in the Windows Address Book and addresses found within .DBX files. DO NOT EXECUTE the above attachments. Currently, Mcafee has not release the latest data virus file yet." But as with always, beware of dubious emails ... Boss is a hoot ... so is Yeo. The 2 of them are so happy about their promotion. Dinner with Char was great ... she's still the chirpy Char I knew!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... I can't figure this out - Came to work with 30 chocolates (or daddy dearest brought them), offered 24 people ... am almost out of chocolates. Lucky I saved one for Char. Got more orders for CNY. Should I try to profit outta St. V's day? Am bored but must trudge on - boring submissions. Leareth, I can't remember if I ever asked you, but are you planning on doing general litigation, bankruptcy litigation, family litigation, construction litigation, conveyancing, financial loan documentation, corporate structuring documentation or corporate secretarial work? And Lilack, I hope your compy woes get solved. ---------- rants or sort of ---------- Get this, while I was stewing with guilt for the last week hoping my resignation didn't hurt my boss' chances of promotion to equity partnership this year, it transpires that he didn't tell me he was already made an equity partner at Christmas!!! UGH!!! I feel like strangling him for making me so worried. On the other hand, I'm so happy for him. I remember telling my best bud last year that I will try to stay until he gets equity, since that way I won't feel so bad about leaving him in the lurch. She of course said I was insane since once your boss makes equity life becomes easy and most people will not leave but that's how I feel about it. I'm quite really happy for him ^___^ but I want his friends to leave my friends alone!!! Lunch was a riot today. Spent it with friends talking about elegible bachelors and of the bunch who was best for me girlfriends. Nearly choked them to death as they couldn't stop laughing ... was this close to making B spit out the tea in her mouth onto W ... fun *evil grin*. I am so a distruptor of quiet eating. B used to complain in law school that I was making her laugh so much during lunch that if she got indigestion, she would kill me. Reins got my mail yet? It's just a suggestion but let me know how's okies? ... imprisoned within my blood ... This is bad. My friends have been called up for questioning even those not in my department on why me am doing what I'm doing ... O_o;; What the heck??? They better not be harassing my friends. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Hope you had a happy birthday Masako!!! Ahhh, I see ... congrats on that too. And Laine, you are a genius!!!  I recall taking some test on fruits last year ... so it appears I'm a confirmed banana. Which is weird coz my more traditional relatives call me a banana in the first place, i.e. Chinese on the outside (yellow) but not on the insider (not yellow) ... And more on the saga, apparently now the juniors have found out. Will is miffed I didn't inform him earlier, but as I explained telling a good friend such news the first day he's back from hols is not a good idea ... but it's getting unnerving how fast the news is going. I just hope I don't have to see any more partners on the thingee. Forgot my chocos, dad's bringing them!!! I-FEST overdue!!! Meeting Char tonite. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Sunday Murasaki is Lupin? I'm Sirius so *GLOMPS Murasaki* Arigato, I like the game very much!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Saturday  ... imprisoned within my blood ... I think I might want to do Prague, Budapest and Vienna. I was thinking of getting hotels only on arriving there (that's usually cheaper than over the net) but I'm thinking again. I don't really want to risk the streets ... Anyone with suggestions? Anyone been to Romania? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Hi Felicity thanks for the link. Will link back on Monday ... messing with the template at home on the imac usually crashes the template totally. Should I go to work today or goof off??? Hmmm ... Reins I'll mail you on Monday ok? ... imprisoned within my blood ... I'll do my best ... must speak to me folks but will let you know arrangements. However, as I said, if you can do April, it can be for as long as you want. After May it's a little uncertain, June I might or might not have some problems with the whole week ... but will do my best. ... imprisoned within my blood ... I wanna bum with you for a week. Is that okay... and pls no hotels. I wanna stay at your place so I can drool at your manga n stuff.... I can squeeze in anywhere, honest! Is June okay for you? April is kinda bad for me.... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Meta actually I haven't got the package yet but there's something happening in my country right now, nothing serious but security is up due to some foreign problems ... not surprising all foreign mail is scanned like crazy. Did you send anything too special for local security's taste? Anyhow, I'll still be at the firm for 3 more months. Boss not giving abridgement and I'm not going to push him ... but he's teasing me about leaving him in the lurch. No, I'm not. He's actually stolen someone else's pupil and that guy is damn good so I teased him about getting such a good deal back. Anyways, Bel will guard my stuff if it comes in. I'll let you have my new address once I settle in. Of course, all of you who have my office email, you know the one with my full name ... it won't work after April. So, send all mail to kit_mangaisgreat@yahoo.com after April until I contact you at my new place ^___^ ... imprisoned within my blood ... Cool new layout, btw Reins how many days are you coming to Singapore? I'm sorry but if it's in May I might not be able to bring you around coz I would be doing my probation month (April is really the best but I leave it to you, don't spoil your trip on my account) ... my mum was hilarious she told me "now you behave yourself and don't do anything stupid okay" ... which is the same speech she gave me before packing me off to my first day in elementary school ... all because I bit a teacher on the first day of kindergarden and then threatened to sue the pants off her. She was so worried she called my dad to make sure I wasn't serious ... pleasssuuzzeee, I was only 4 then ... 3 considering I'm an end of the year baby. MHAWHWHHAHHAHA!!! Anyhow Reins, you let me know when you're coming. If it's over the weekend, it may be easier but I can't guarantee. My friends at the new firm are trying to scare me with stories that they are going to recommend to their bosses to give me the most difficult and horrific files ... with friends like them who needs enemies. Speaking of which, my resignation saga continues. People have been talking it seems. According to Bel, her department's secretaries have gotten wind of it and the managing partner's secretary was asking her today in the lift why her best bud is quitting. Shessshhh, does anyone in the firm want to take out a full page ad in the newspaper as to why I quit and all? I mean if my department sec are talking, I may understand but what do these other departments have to do with me? These people do not have enuff work!!! Never thought I would say that ... You know, as I understand from my sis, my secondary school principal still has nightmares of the things I did in secondary school and my JC tutors stil remember me. Well, I do model myself after Fred and George ... imagine the things I could have done if I had a twin which was what I had been wishing my whole childhood. Two mes, can you imagine? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Oh yeah, book 5 ... Had Jap classes today. Quite fun. Lesson was a little fast but if you do your homework it should be okay. Was an irrascable Sirius Black today. My classmates appear to be very boring but nice students ... ah well, someone has to be the mischief maker *grins* The teacher or sensei kept calling Nic and me for most things, kept a close watch on my work the whole evening. Maybe she could sense mischief brewing in my veins. Not that she actually caught me being bad ... finished my assignment as quickly as I could so I could revell in the fact it's been a long time since I was a student again. It's fun sitting in a classroom with other students cramming away too while trying to cram your brain. Somehow it's more fun than cramming your brain with legal research, alone in the library. My teachers have sworn I'm a teacher's nightmare come thru, i.e. basically am a cheeky smart-ass idiot!!! In fact was relating my high school days to a friend today who agreed I am a teacher's nightmare *evil grin* So ... should I be a good little girl *smiles*? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Friday BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! BOOK 5!! I want book 5 now! ... imprisoned within my blood ... I believe we are agreed Fuuma and the Weasley twins are scrumptious!!! What's it with wizards nowadays. But while I like Bill's looks, I think Fred and George or Ged and Forge as they called themselves are absolutely wicked!!! *gleeful grin* And there's always Clow ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... 87% obsessed with Harry Potter MHWAHAHAHA!!! Verdict - "Very obsessed. You may be suffering from withdrawl symptoms while waiting for the fifth book to come out. " Uhm duh YES!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Lupin!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Reins uhm, can you come earlier please? I start my new job in May i.e. no leave ... I should be on leave (with my present firm) from 1 April until 21 April if you can come then, it'll be perfect. As for space, I'll check ... worse come to the worse, Watari and Tatsumi will have to you know ... get a hotel room together again. Tatsumi - HEY!!! SLANDER, LIES, DIE!!! kit - *dodges shadows and laughs evilly* ... imprisoned within my blood ... And since my interest in HP fanarts are rekindled - lookie here and here. More to come if I can find any. Otherwise, try the links here. ... imprisoned within my blood ... No wonder Fleux was staring at this Weasley brother... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Murasaki, did you see this one? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Way to go Murasaki! Me thinks we can very certainly dub you the Fuuma obsessed one i.e. the same way Val and Reins dubbed each other the PSH obsessed one and the Zoro-obssessed queen respectively, which somehow lead to this little thingee.  And this is nice. Reins had put up some cool HP fanart links ... must dig them out again, going to sieve thru your archives woman. Can't begin to imagine the drool on my compy when I was going newly thru my HP fanart craze phase.Am inspired to draw ... tee hee ... (and the rest of the sane world which appreciated good fanart quiverred in their shoes) Yeap Liz, the plot in HP book 1 is a little childish esp the manner in which Harry defeated you-know-who and Mr Q. For a show that was building momentum with the tests and all (love the chess game bit), I felt the ending was perhaps a little too convenient ie. he touches the guy and the evil that is threatening the world goes poof!!! But I guess this is coz the book was initially aimed at younger children. You can really see the way in which it slowly evolved into its present form which is more suitable for older children and adults. Oh grief, when will book 5 be out? Thinking of re-reading LOR, absolutely adore the elves. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Murasaki I dunno. I think I would like to befriend Muraki and you know, stay on his "do not kill or mutilate coz I rather like them" side. That being said, he is one interesting character. Say, have you ever considered setting up a Fuuma and other villians appreciation club tho? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Hmm, I concede ... I'm a big chicken. Redoing yesterday morning's post sans the rants - Lilack-san take care ne! Tsu you're right. Mas' idea of color coding to let people skip your rants is a good idea.  No, didn't run away from home. Couldn't even if I wanted to. My family has the policy you can leave if you don't like the policies here so the concept of running away has no application to my household. My parents run the ship like a company where we all get to vote on policies, except they have veto powers in cases of dire consequences and much larger shareholding power than me and my sis. They're kinda weird in a good way ... thanks to their unorthox methods, my sis and I learnt with our baby food that freedom always comes with a price so we havta think before we act. Jap classes start tomorrow, must ... read ... tonite. MOS party tomorrow, very excited. Today has been a damper compared ot yesterday ... I'm being escapist but I wish today would end, sigh. Hmm, I'm quite excited about the ACJC fair. Wonder if Char wants to go since it's near her place. Will ask on Monday. Am not in the mood to work after the thingee in the library. At times like this, I wish Clow was in the flesh, I could do with a big hug *winks*. BSS is the best!!!  I've got 20 days of leave, so should it be Austria, Australia or Osaka? Suggestions anyone? Hmmm, must check bank account balance. I'm going to tell Bel the bet is off.... imprisoned within my blood ... Thursday Ahh, a gallavant at Boon Lay helped. Onnichan is nice. No matter what, I have my friends. Anyway according to my dad, A's probably overconcerned and doesn't mean harm. True, but I'm going to sleep out the rest of today before working tonite. Nothing cures a bad mood or bad day like a nap!!! Ignore the long rant. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Going off for the day ... mhawahaha ... I know I shouldn't be wasting leave like this but ... Anyway, my boss is really okay about it. He's little disappointed but he'll live. No one is indispensible, least of all little me. Another partner whom I do work for is also okay about it. These 2 are okay altho they said they weren't exactly happy about the state of affairs. But that's all that matters. The rest that I don't work for can keep their noses out of my business!!! MHAWHAHAHAHAHA!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... I've decided. To compensate me-self for today, I'm going to the manga shop and making chocolates tonite ^___^ ... imprisoned within my blood ... She's got the 5th Harry Potter book? WOW!!! ME WANT!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Lilack-san take care ne! Tsu you're right. Mas' idea of color coding to let people skip your rants is a good idea. No, didn't run away from home. Couldn't even if I wanted to. My family has the policy you can leave if you don't like the policies here so the concept of running away has no application to my household. My parents run the ship like a company where we all get to vote on policies, except they have veto powers in cases of dire consequences and much larger shareholding power than me and my sis. They're kinda weird in a good way ... thanks to their unorthox methods, my sis and I learnt with our baby food that freedom always comes with a price so we havta think before we act.-------------------- rants ------------------------ Rant #1 - Damn, I was in the library minding my own business when A, a partner and my boss' good friend comes in and announces I'm leaving. Right in front of the pupils!!! I don't want to let people who are not involved know. I've only told my boss and my close friends and my sec of course. Don't appreciate the leak by my boss altho I do understand he was prob reporting the matter as a matter of course to the board of partners. Okay, maybe A's insensitive. Fine ... so I try to dry up the conversation but no, he goes on and on about why I resigned to go join - - - and then when I again try to fobble if off in the least non-personal way possible by saying it's about international work and the opportunity to travel, he turns to his pupil and goes on about how this firm here is accomodating etc. etc. how I could have learnt more here and how I will regret travel etc. Hey A is usually a nice guy but this cheeses me like hell. What the f---? My boss is okay about the whole thing tho' he has a twinge of disappointment in me which I already feel bad about and that's why altho I asked for shorter notice I promised him not to insist ... this firm has an unprecendented 3 months notice requirement which is more than the market's requirements!!! If my boss's ok, what's it to his buds? Anyhow, A goes on and on. To shut him up nicely I pretended to be slightly contrite and said "yeah, I don't know, I might regret and I don't know ... etc. etc" and other insincere but polite cop-out lines. He then says that once a person leaves the firm to join a rival, the firm will never take them back. Grief, I don't mean to come back. As the Chinese say, a good horse never turns round to eat the grass he has left. I'm NOT coming back. If I move again, it will of course be to another place again and preferably out of Singapore ... but NO, this guy has to give me that line. I'm trying to be nice but I'm not good natured and this is too much. What does he want? Me to go down on my knees and beg for forgiveness for being such an ungrateful little LA? My friends are actually happy for me. I take it as an indication I made the right move. I understand if my boss screamed, it's him whose affected but if I get any more flak from his friends in the library or in the lift, I'm going to bug him for an abridgment. Rant #2 - Was a little insensitive to M in discussing BY's problems last nite forgetting she was in the position I was warning BY not to fall into ... mean insensitive me *kicks self* maybe I should make chocolates tomorrow to apologise. --------------- end of rants ------------------- Jap classes start tomorrow, must ... read ... tonite. MOS party tomorrow, very excited. Today has been a damper compared ot yesterday ... I'm being escapist but I wish today would end, sigh. Hmm, I'm quite excited about the ACJC fair. Wonder if Char wants to go since it's near her place. Will ask on Monday. Am not in the mood to work after the thingee in the library. At times like this, I wish Clow was in the flesh, I could do with a big hug *winks*. Postscript - BUT BSS is such a dear, he came in halfway thru me blogging about the above unhappily and chatted with me, and told me not to worry about the idiots here, how to deal with them and proceeded to cheer me up with stories of his trips around the world, especially my holiday destination plans ... now I feel soo much more happy ... arigato BSS kor kor! I'm going to think happy thoughts ... I know about clearing my 20 days of leave, so should it be Austria, Australia or Osaka? Suggestions anyone? Hmmm, must check bank account balance. I'm going to tell Bel the bet is off.... imprisoned within my blood ... Wednesday Ganbette ne to you and glad you are back. Thank you for your encouragement imoto-chan I'll do my best but I'm not sure that I'm as grand as you made me out to be. I'm rather Neville Longbottom most of the time ^ ^;; Depending on who I work for at the new joint, I should be a regular visitor of either KL (cheap and good food) or HK (lots of cheap and well drawn manga - HK manga is of a better quality than Taiwanese manga, closest to the Jap manga in quality but usually twice the price of Taiwanese manga in Singapore due to the shops here making a rather crazy mark up on HK manga). Met' do you want me to get books for you or is it cheaper for you to get them in London? Wild Adaptor for example cost S$14. If one thing is nice about being in Singapore, it's easy to get manga and anime (okay for anime we run the risk the censorship board actually sits down and watches the show but touch wood!!!). This is weird but I'm starting to miss my closer colleagues at this firm already. Despite it's irritating qualities at time, my boss' team is one of the closest and nicest teams here. I feel rather sad about the whole thing ... Heck, there's something about construction work I think. The construction legal team at the new place is reputed to be a close family too. They even interviewed my friends right after my first interview before the big bosses sat down to see me for the 2nd and 3rd interview. Except, one thing I can't figure out - my friends' versions of their interviews were very different from mine. They said once you survived the first interview with the junior partners, the 2nd and 3rd were merely meetings with the head honchoes. Except in my case, my 2nd and 3rd meetings were back to back, for a total of an hour whereby I was quizzed on everything under the sun, ending with a mini legal debate *sweatdrops* Is it my strange luck or what? I've got the strangest luck as Harry Potter can catch a snitch. Odd things happen to me all the time. Ahhh, that makes life interesting right? Oh well. Must try to pack up neatly over here. Trying to get a replacement for my position too. It's the least I can do. I'm pretty nervous about the whole thing. And that's the little problem of meeting an "old" friend again ... *panics mildly* Jap classes start in 2 days time *ugh* ... imprisoned within my blood ... I know, I was trying to be corny ... or perhaps cheesy is more appropriate? Anyway my resignation went well. A little too well ... my boss took it easy and said okay after worming it out of me where I was going. He guessed as much ... sigh ... I'm going to miss him despite my ranting at his indiosyncracies at times. Sigh, I feel like I am running away from home for the first time. Going to meet my best buds for lunch. Tee heee ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Congrats Kittie!!! *throws confetti* And for the record... I wasn't gonna eat rats! I was cursing.. as in "Rats!" ... imprisoned within my blood ... I've got it!!! I've got what I wanted!!! I've got my new job which involves international construction project legal work!!! And they're willing to consider some of the odd terms I have asked for. That is good enuff for me!!! YIPPEEE!!! The only damper is what do I tell my boss now. We're pretty close and I get the feeling he treats me like his own kid right from when I started pupillage. Telling him about this is like telling your dad you're marrying the boy he hates with a vengence since my present firm does NOT like this new firm. I'm really sad to leave my friends but the opportunites at this new place is not easy to come by especially in the economic climate now. But I'm still reeling from the euphoria of it all at this moment!!! Save the little problem mentioned yesterday. ... imprisoned within my blood ...  Yeap Lemmy-san me drew the layout coz I couldn't find any good Clow pics (not that this layout is good ... but I was bored with the old one). Thinking of drawing more layouts if I can't find any good Clow pics, been rummaging thru the net and books to no avail recently and splicing pictures are a bit difficult coz Clow is this shade of "I never see sunlight" so he is a lot fairer than most bish that match his size.Yes Murasaki weirdness or a certain amount of less than perfect characteristics in a bish is a rather refreshing change from the nice pretty bish that most people prefer. I think save for the overly dramatic evil bish without much purpose as Liz has pointed out, the goody 2 shoes hero bish tends to get boring. They always are out to save the world, save the girl they love etc. etc. and look somewhat the same physically. Cute large eyes, short whispy hair ... after some time, only their antics are vaguely entertaining. I guess that is why fangurls who want a little more than eye candy start noticing the weird bish ... there's something about mystery and bad-assness that attracts fangurls *grin* I tend to agree with what Liz said, when they're bad for no good reason, it feels like the mangaka just ran out of inspiration for story line but delved into the old used bag of tricks - an insane evil character with no purpose but to destroy or a venegence consumed franatic. However, that being said, I still would like to see what Muraki is up to. Granted he is a little flat in the anime, the manga Muraki is more complex ... or so I feel. Maskao look at her blog layout!!! Yuna!!! I saw a Yuna doll at Comic Connection. $100!!! Am waiting for the price to drop. I like the other doll of this woman who is carrying a mog (sorrie don't know her name - no PS 2 *pouts*) but am so broke this year. UGH!!! By the way, for anyone who is interested, I think I won this month ... not exactly outright win but nice win nonetheless. Happy birthday in advance Euph!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Tuesday I want a laptop ... hate this compy at home. Saw what was probably my lifetime's chance of seeing a real victoria life doll. There was this woman who boarded the bus with an Asian man yesterday. She was extremely fair with rosy cheeks, large blue eyes with lashes and curly blonde tresses. She wore a pink dress with a bow on her head. It was like seeing one of Muraki's dolls in the flesh. She was so beautiful but the experience is a little disturbing. Guess what, met my old best bud Char again. At a ladies at Macs no less. Wow ... here we were, lost touch for 3 years and suddenly, wham!!! Going to have dinner with her on Mon. Lots of catching up. No wonder I couldn't get her in Oz, woman doesn't read her mail. And I thought something happened. Seems she still lives near me. Planning to hang out together again ... yipeee!!! Crack service announcement - am going to Liang Court this Sat for books. Anyone wants anything? Darn my moulds cost twice the original amount thanks to postage ... grrr ... starting to winch at the price they cost but hey, it's a hobby. Speaking of hobbies, my photography bug is biting again. Saw the silouhettes of trees at nite and am tempted to grab my camera. Stared at them so long I think some people thought I was a crackpot. I love trees. Really do ... probably would have been a DOE given the chance ... MHAHWHAHAHA!!! But anyone doing photography? Give me a tip on nite photography. I hate push processing coz it makes the film grainy but otherwise I can't compensate for the low light conditions. This always happens on the walk home from Macs when I move my office there. The walk home is so breezy and beautiful. Ahhh, photography, another disgustingly expensive hobby. What's with me? Such a spendthrift. Tatsumi-san would not be pleased (what am I babbling about ... sigh ...) Ahh ... problem of the day. Ignore me please I just need to rant: If I get what I have been hankering after these few days, if I get it in the first place, I will be in contact with a girl that used to be my very good friend but with whom I had broken off contact with after a bad bout of unhappiness. You see, we were close in school with a few other girls and the 7 of us were as thick as theives. Actually think James Potter, Black, Lupin and Peter. No names tho since this is a little sensitive altho why the heck I'm blogging about it is a mystery even to me. Anyhows, there was this boy who followed us possessively in 2nd year of school. The only time he did not force his company on us was when we were in the ladies. He would just plonk himself in the middle of our company regardless of whether he had been invited relentlessly and kept butting into our conversations regardless of how intimate they were. Once or twice is so mewhat tolerable but when it happens all the time and to the extent he would without even asking, take the last seat at the lunch/tea/dinner table, leaving one of the gang without a seat was freaky. I like to think I was young and impetuous then but I must admit I am not a nice person. Having been thru some less than nice times in elementary, I thought I would have learnt not to hurt others having borne the brunt before. However, I am ashamed to say tho' that I can be extremely cruel when in the mood and have sent boys crying with one or two words and a sneer Snape would have shirked away from. I hope I remember this the next time I am tempted to be a total evil bitch how it felt like to be on the receiving end. Anyhow, we finally got rid of this gentleman no thanks to my cruel streak and an outright inquisition as to why he was stalking us. I admit I was perhaps going overboard but we were being stalked the whole day at school for 2 weeks at that time and it was scary and his constant attempts to "take over" our group activities made us very upset too. Of course being the "spokesperson" I bore the brunt of his anger. I did apologise subsequently albeit a lot less contrite than I would if he had been more civil and got a lot of bitching from the said person. Nevertheless, I do believe it was my retribution for being totally bitchy and for acting without thinking thru the consequences. The fact he tried to turn the whole school against me makes me feel less guilty - not that he succeeded. Nevertheless I was not too happy then and was wondering why I had to stand up for my friends like some bravo idiot (since he was stalking them more ... the guy was actually a little afraid of me coz I had a rep for being hard nosed and left me largely alone). I also felt stupid and immature and did regret being so unkind even if I didn't feel particularly friendly towards him. Unfortunately, this girl who was actually one of the masterplanners of confronting him actually turned her back on me and accused me of being unkind. We found out on retrospect that this guy did have problems but that he was actually stalking groups of girls and freaking them out until their BFs stepped in but his condition was worthy of more kindness than we did show him. Un fortunately, none of us had bfs in school except this girl whose bf didn't do anything about the problem so we did have the unpleasant task of "defending" ourselves. I hurt very deeply as she was supposedly a very close friend. To a certain extent, I felt I had taken the fall for the group including her. I didn't really dare to ask for anyone to support me in case the attempts to turn the school against me worked but to be treated in this way by this girl, a close friend and fellow conspirator amounted to betray al to me then. The other girls didn't say anything as I didn't tell them but one girl in the group who found out stood by me thru the whole thing. She agreed that we had perhaps gone overboard but indicated as she was part of this as much as I was, she would stand by me. I cannot tell you how much that meant to me then and even now. Unfortunately, the relationship between me and my once very good friend has gone totally cold ... we are civil but I cannot treat her as I used to. Coupled with what I thought was rather insensitive remarks to the girl who stood by me, I feel I never really want to see her again. It's not the incident per se. I admit I was wrong but the "betrayal" was and is too much to live with. I don't know what to do. I know I should forgive her really and altho to a certain extent I think I don't hate her "betrayal" anymore I still cannot accept her actions even if to a certain extent she might have been trying to right my wrong out of morality. For better or worse, I cannot see her as a f riend again and I know she is rather upset with me for that. What should I do? If I get my "desire" I will be in constant contact with her. I really should grow up too and be more gracious (I was in the wrong in the first place) but I hurt. I really do. I don't know what to make of this whole matter. Somehow, even if I lose this very special thingee, deep down I am a little relieved I can escape from the problem even if I have not solved it. I don't know. I really don't know what to do anymore. End of rant, please ignore me ... I'm turning a little too emotional these days for my own good but this is an old wound that I might have to deal with soon. I wish I had an older sibling. My parents know only a bit of the problem when they realised my once good friend was hardly being mentioned by me after the incident but they don't know the whole story. Am I being too sensitive? Am I being too righteous? Perhaps I should just grow up? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Ah, forgot to bore you guys with the story of Leon at the fastfood joint there below *points* Wrote to Val asking for the codes for the drop down menus. Happened to tell her about the weird effect my cough mixture had on me. Ended up seeing Leon or thinking I saw him at a few places. Promised to sketch them. Well, below was one of them. For a moment I thought the MOS burger guy was our hot shot blonde. Ahhh ... only 20 ml of that illegal bish-halluc-inducing cough mixture left. Been dreaming of Clow every nite. I love that cough mixture, unless I have purposeful things to do for the day of course. Call me dangit!!! UGH!!! *tears hair* Going home to watch Kare no Kashi ... I love it. I have the Jap version which I adore but the Cantonese dubbed is not bad too. However, I am never buying the Chinese dubbed ones, they make the girls sound so airheaded and stupid. At least the Cantonese ones are passable altho the original Jap ones are the best. My sis loves the soundtrack. I do too. Maybe I should buy one of them VCD discman players. That way, I can hear the show tho' I can't so blatantly watch it at work. *thumps self on head* UGHHH!!! BACK TO WORK YOU LAZY OAF!!! *SIGH* ... imprisoned within my blood ... No Reins, don't eat the lab mice parts!!! Just joking. Is the canteen still open? Grab a bun or something? I finished the prelim skeletal sketches for the thingee involving fastfood trays and the shopping cart. Now to finalise the sketches and torture the world!!! HAHAHAHA!!! Blipppp ... just finished a meeting ... BORING!!! except for the fact my boss called up the partner (T) I was seeing to complain about his boxes blocking his door which led to a flurry of calls among the partners to find out who instructed who to move T's files in the pupil's room to my boss' filing cabinets. Men, to get so riled up about such trivial things. Anyhow, the problem is somewhat solved. Storage is always a pain in firms. It's expensive to keep our files in the office and it's impractical to have them warehoused until we are sure the file is deader than a dodo. Ah say, better get back to work before I get into trouble. Have to do an affidavit soon. Think I'll draft at Mac's tonite. Hey, maybe I'll do my sketches there too. They still haven't called me ... I'm getting more depressed by the nanosecond!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... I'm hungry... RATS. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Oh by the way, is anyone familiar with the concept of corporate universal succession and classification under conflict of law rules. Email me if you do ... need some help on it!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Congrats Liz!!! Laine this is hilarious!!! New layout at Lilack's. Take care Met', why are your neighbours pounding in the mid of the nite, not making spices are they? OOh Merill this looks interesting ... HP and the DS Potion ... wow. And I know I'm not supposed to bug her about this until she gets back but I'm a big show-off so here goes:  It's a rough sketch, I'll try to clean it up asap. I'm quite bad at hands as you can see. Drew it as MOS yesterday while waiting for my "thingee". Sigh, they haven't called me back. Perhaps I've really blown it this time? Dunno *shrugs* I feel disappointed and a little anxious but I think I'll be alright. I did wish they would quickly call and give me their answer - good or bad altho my pessimism is mounting by the second of delay.On a good point, I found an excellent book in the library on Delays in Construction Contracts and their Effects. Gem of a book really. I might as well study harder. My friends told me no questions on law would be asked but guess what, with my rotten luck ... it was. Might have goofed up there. Sigh, I'm going to snap out of this, wallowing never did anyone good and the conclusion is not fixed yet.  Oh I'm going to have a roomie ... this colleague of mine asked to share my room. Seems she couldn't stand her present roomie. Never roomed with a girl before. For some reason HR keeps putting me in room with guys. Oh well, it should be OK, I am relatively harmless right? Gulp, I hope it works out altho I'm having a headache wondering where all the extra files in my room should go to make space for her. I never did realise how much stuff I have until I have to move it ... gulp ...I still feel disappointed but I better go warm up my lunch before I get too hungry. Darn, and I forgot to bring my medicine to work today rats!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ...  Hey hey, I think you're back tho'. Anyway, you're free to rant here until you get your blog back. So, how's it going missy?Edward, got my email? ^____~ ... imprisoned within my blood ... aiiiiyaaaa.... host is down. :( Me is sad.... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Monday Leareth take care of yourself. Don't get gastrics!!! Liz you sure? Uhm, I'll let you know if I see it in English or subbed in English. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Hmm ... I did it!!! Hopefully the results come up in a day or 2's time. I'm still not really very hopeful but I hope for the best.  Public announcement service: Contact - X is out in stores. Wildadaptor and Bus Gamer and Stigmata are back in stock. There's ES the continued series and lots of other great books. Yami no Matsuei 11 is out but I'm waiting for the Chinese series. Anyone who wants books, e-mail me.And I ordered choco moulds online. Looks nice. Spent the evening at Kino and Daimaru at Liang Court. Of all the days to leave my Daimaru card in the office ... grrrr ... bought Love Revolution and anime. Lots of fun, guess I'm trying to be happy if the results tomorrow don't turn out as expected. Sigh, I really want it and for good measure, a Clow plushie too!!! Bought Jap apples for mummy. Rather overpriced but smells great. Bought gummies for Bel and myself *grin* Please ... let me get it *keeps fingers crossed* Reins got my email? The tattoo people say they charge anything from S$50 to S$1000 depending on design. Doddled at MOS, drew Leon, and Clow (twice) *GRINS* ... imprisoned within my blood ... Really? Oh thank you ... thank you ... must call tattoo parlour for you asap too. Am bored. Am feeling destructive. Think I'll spend my half day at the cafes dooddling ... but hmmm ... there is a bit of work to clear really ... maybe I'll doddle tonite. Got 2 new inspirations - involving a shopping cart and a MacDonalds's serving tray. Be afraid world, be very afraid!!! MAHAHHWHAHAHHAHAAA!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... hehaha! Lyn got her package!! YAATTA! Thou art forgiven... XDDD ... imprisoned within my blood ... Sunday Is it legal what they're putting in cough mixture? I'm starting to wonder. Anyway, I've decided. No medicine on Monday, I need all my wits about me. Played a spate of basketball today but kept missing trying to aim no thanks to the cough mixture. Actually made more shots by not looking at the basket and aiming. Sheesssh... any how, anyone wants manga delivered anywhere? Turns out the slight delay wasn't all my fault, most of it is but not all *weak grin*So am I forgiven dear crack customer? About your tattoo prices, I'll try calling them on Monday okies? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Saturday Heard from her that you were complaining about the dearth of manga lovers in JC. Well, take it from me, most people deny reading manga once they hit JC. When asked if they read manga, they give you the blankest look then waylay you when they think no one's looking to ask if they can borrow issue xx of xxx from you.Shessh, like it's illegal crack we're dealing with but trust me, it happens to me a lot every time I declare I like manga. So are you guys going to the ACJC funfair on 2 Feb? Can I go with you guys? Have a happy holiday Val!!! Should get the thingee to you by the time you come back ... hee hee ^__^ And Tsu I got the code from Val but I think it should be OK to pass to you ... (it's okay right Val?) ... uhm, and because you shouldn't be having popups to worry about, you should remove this part of the code - ' width =640 , height= 480 , scrollbars= yes ' (it should be at the 25th line or so of the source code)And Murasaki the Secret Diary of Legolas is hilarious ... thanks for pointing it out ... Laine have you come across it yet? ^__^ I'm still feeling sick but at least I'm not wheezing like a TB patient anymore. Problem is I think the cough mixture is too strong. I'm dizzy half the time and I can't focus my eyesight ... see Jo-chan that's why I had to call you out of Coca today, I couldn't trust myself not to bump into the waiters with hot steamboats if I went in to look for you ... gomen to you and your family for disrupting your lunch. I'm starting to hallucinate. As I told Val, I'm starting to see Leon here and there ... and guess what, yeap ... I'm hallucinating about seeing Clow around every corner too. I don't know about that cough mixture ... hmm, I better not take it on Monday when I need all my sense to clinch what I sooooo badly wanted 2 years ago and more so now!!! Tooo doo ... back to work and then home to sleep ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Friday Gomen ... Edward dear, have you posted the thing off yet? Sorry about the whole thing Reins. I used the address you gave me so it's probably just a matter of when the package went out. Laine, Orlando is sooo funny. But me being shallow me still likes him looking Legolas-y more than in real life, but he seems to have a good sense of humour ... and your line "hurry about my lembas is burning in the oven" is rich!!! Write a LOR from Legolas' point of view, comic style with odd quirks and I'll be your all time fan!!! My health sucks big time recently. The flu is still bugging me so I went to see the doctor. Besides, all the coughing was making me lay off food so gastric was looming in the horizion ... the last time I had a flu this long, me got a touch of bronchitis so I decided to visit the doctor again. Fortunately, the infection hasn't reach the lungs yet but I hate being sick. Then again I'm starting to get irresponsible and lazy ... sigh!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Kitty! Lyn said that she still hasn't got the package. Would ya mind asking your pal where and when did he post it? She says she is gonna try to track it down.... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Ahhh should be sleeping soon. Tried out the HP adult selector ... can't remember the link now but you can find it at Meril's blog ... got Black ^__^ Unfortunately I am not a handsome, tall and thin wizard but it's good to dream I'll get one with glasses and a weird attiude no *winks* Got a call from my bud but my cell phone died after I said hi so I called her place and asked her mum to ask her to give me a tinker when she got back (since she was on her way home) ... that was 5 hours ago. Wonder what she wanted to tell me ... ahhh, I'll speak to her later today. I start Jap classes next week, a bit nervous ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Thursday So tired ... going home to make chocolates and sleep ^___^ ... imprisoned within my blood ... Hmm ... I can maximise the window on my side. Anyone else being unable to maximise the window (other than Reins)? I am loathe to make the window any larger than 640 x 480. Of course if anyone has the code to solve this problem totally, I would be so grateful. Wow, the package sure got there fast this time, I just sent it out on Monday ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... And if I were a guy ... 50% Apollo 20% Hades 10% Hermes 10% Dionysus 10% Poseidon 0% Zeus 0% Hephaestus 0% Ares Hmm ... sounds like my understanding of you-know-who *winks*. ... imprisoned within my blood ... I'm no goddess, but then again coz the online test looked fun enuff: 33.3% Artemis 25% Athena 16.7% Hera 8.3% Hestia 8.3% Aphrodite 8.3% Persephone 0% Demeter ... imprisoned within my blood ... y0. The window has gotten bigger now. But you can't maximise the window *shrugs* I got your package kit.... FANK YEW!!!!!... imprisoned within my blood ...  Masako ... you sure that's a self potrait? Uhm ... coz it definitely wasn't the original intention ... okies, so has anyone seen anyone in real life who looks like the gentleman on my blog? Suddenly, I feel like grinning. Got lunches with 2 dear friends, pity the other 3 couldn't go but better than nothing? And my little plans are in motion, it all appears to turn on my begging performance on Monday. I think I'll grovel. I really want it ... but no, it's not a meeting with Clow to beg him to let me glomp him but close ... wish me luck!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Meril has got a new layout ... nice. Better news on last nite's posts. I still feel like the stupidest person to have passed the bar so I better study but fortunately, last nite's meeting wasn't as bad as I thought, it wasn't a total loss (altho it was 2 years back when I was asking for the same thing from the same people). Now to get what I want, I have to ask one (hopefully) more time ... wish me luck. I really want this "thing" but it's rather hard to get, especially now. Rats, I still can't read the latest version of blogs for some of you. If anyone wants me to get info pronto, mail me ... *kicks pacific net, begs compy to work* My compy isn't telling me wrong time at least ... but sis was doing homework last nite and I fell asleep waiting for her to finish so I could surf ... hmmm, slept like a log from 10 or so I think until 9 today when I woke up screeching blue murder at the time. On an interesting note, Jing my sis has taken a liking to Harry Potter ... wonder if she'll like to look at fanart ... which reminds me, where were my pathetic earlier attempts? And Val, I'll send you the Leon pics as soon as I can put them on paper. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Wednesday Bored, pointless whining: kit-ten feels stupid. Feels really really stupid. Conclusion: Must study more, especially iffy stuff kitten once taught was a waste of time like jurisprudence. kitten still feels stupid but will feel dumber if she merely wallows. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Murasaki I strongly suspect Jap genes carry something to make you draw well. Say do you think injecting blood into our system will help? Just joking ... now Masako is going to kill me ... PS: Sorry for replying so late. For some reason, my cache is not refreshing and I only saw that post 5 minutes ago tho' in reality I'm one week late. I'm starting to wonder about this compy. For one, it has been telling me for the last one hour that the time is 4:30 pm. Rats, better blog at home (altho the system is a bit whoozy too) to see if I've been reading everybody's blog one week late. Sigh, did something silly. It didn't succeed 2 years ago, what make me think it'll work now ... at least I tried. And no, in case anyone is wondering ... I was not meeting my ex. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Reins what are you planning to do? Uhm, yeah there are tattoo parlours in Singapore. I don't know about the price tho'. I could try to see if I see any ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Hmm I see Reins, but you can maximise the window yes no? Okay, how's this now? Made it 640 by 480 ... better? ... imprisoned within my blood ... um... Kit. The new code does produce scrollbars for the new windows. BUT, the new window is SO SMALL 400x350 pixels. Sorry to be bearer of bad news... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Okies, I've tinkered with the code to see if the newly inserted pop up windows code overrides the Tripod code to at least allow for scrollbars. Since there's no way I can check it in the office with the server here only refreshing twice a day, can someone do a dry run for me and let me know if the problem has been somewhat solved. The new links from the menu are still opening as pop ups instead of new windows which is what I prefer, but at least you have a scrollbar now, I think ... someone confirm this please? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Thanks babe. I figured that was the problem ... can't figure the solution tho' ... thanks for the link. I don't really want no new windows. I have a solution tho' ... just need to figure if it'll work - basically if I can input the command for new windows such that it ignores Tripod's code for the pop ups. Okies, then I'll see you another time then? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Dun look at me... I can't even do them yet. Basically, the problem is with the pop up ad. Tripod programmes the pop up windows and when you pop up a link from your menu, it will follow the Tripod pop up code. That's why the no scroll bar window comes up.... I think the only option is the links will come out in your own window instead of a new one... Anyway, here's a primer for it. Check out tip #38 - #40 I think... yah, I'm not sure whether I can make it for the afternoon meet. Sorry! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Darn ... still doesn't work ... maybe it's the javascripting ... Clow do me a fav and fix this with your magic!!! Someone help with this silly effect of Tripod's ad-ing messing up my pull down menus? How do I adjust it so at least there're scrollbars for the links in the pull down menus? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Tuesday Balmy, darn tripod code is messing up my layout ... waiiii HELP!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... I realised one problem ... due to the pop up source code on my page (inserted by my sponsors Tripod), the menu pop ups are weird too. Can someone tell me how to fix this problem, if not I'll have to use non pop up ads ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... If the page is funny, tell me hor. My computer is all weird so I can't tell if I made any mistakes with the blog. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Heh heh ... Val gave me quite a lot of help too. ... imprisoned within my blood ... very SHwayyy.... wah, you even put them pull-down menus. I still can't do that crap.... Good job XDDDDD ... imprisoned within my blood ... Monday I know I am an egomaniac ... I know ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... "There's a yearning in your soul, isn't there? Like the littlest Hobo, like Legolas the elf, there's something that compels you to keep searching. You're looking for spiritual fulfilment and like most long-term wanderers through life you have a "travel light" sensibility. More interested in mystical than material things, you live closer to Heaven than most dead people. Which doesn't always go down famously with the living. If you could just disguise your disgust at their more earthy habits. Not that you're all floaty and whimsical. Not at all. In fact, your rejection of worldly things makes you fearless and strong. You recognise that the important things in life are carried around inside you and not on your back. In the face of danger, hardship and despair, you are a rock. But being the restless type that you are, you find that you sometimes fall prey to a certain sorrow. When the quarters of the moon and the tides of the sea pull you away, you find you leave behind people who matter. And there is some regret." Duh huh? Not fabulously liked by the living is understandable but fearless and strong? Uhhh ... yeah but am restless. I see Reins is confirmed Legolas. I waver between Eowyn and Legolas. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Compy crashed so redoing post. Had fried rice for lunch ... not too bad. My cooking skills are alright, not fantastic but OK ... Jo chan what are we going to do about the tickets? Can I call you tonite to arrange for me to pick them up ... before I fritter away all my monies. Public Service Announcement - ES5 is cool, thanks Meia. I've also bought the film books for Spirited Away ... SUGGOI!!! Sorry Val, no luck with PSH sequels, oniichan hasn't a clue where to get them and he pops by Japan from time to time to get books for the store. Got my Stigmata back last nite, silly oniichan wrapped it up like a book on sale and I almost didn't recognise it. My first response on being passed the book was "what's this about" and he goes "no, no, it's your book. I'm returning it." and I go "oh" *slaps forehead*. Masako, thanks for the offer. I would love being pampered like that but it's okay. You want more pencil boards? Okies, I've got piano classes this Sat so I can go see if there are more pencil boards ... X ... right. Laine, I bought the movie guide to LOR ... nice glossy page of Legolas looking cool!!! But more pages of the fairie boy would have been nice. Hi Lemmy, I like your blog when I started reading it too so I linked back ... Kaori, they still haven't fixed those silly tables at LT1? Hmm, I liked the RJ library but for the fact you're not allowed to sleep or talk in the front wing. Yeah, the librarians there are a little too strict. But you'll like the law library ... sleeping, chatting, surfing and eating is allowed (not bowls of soupy noodles but discreet sandwiches and chocolate bars were OK during my time). Anyway got thrown out of the library for sleeping so often I ended up sleeping in the adjourning photostating room. I wonder if my old friends there are still working there ... there was this lady Jenny for whom I drew sketches so her daughter could color them. She would sometimes plastered the photocoyping room with sketches by students. They was a guy one year my senior who did really cool stuff. At one point, the teachers were teasing that I was not getting enuff homework.And Reins I liked your Sirius and Lupin sketch. Your friend Aimo draws really nice too!!! But Tsu and Reins, Sat's post is not a self potrait. I had this nice CK Eternity postcard and decided to sketch it, obviously inserting Clow for the guy model. But I followed the female model rather closely, except now on hindsight, I think I subconsciously modelled her on my niece. I dunno why I did it, I just did ... but it doesn't look like me coz me am a lot fatter and uglier ... you guys should know, you've seen me ugly mug before. I'm sure Leareth and Masako would agree as would Meia, Kaori, Aine and Jo. I do adore Clow but I'm not that obsessed ... I think. And a final note on the docile women saga: 1. One woman wrote in to respond to Sumitomo's article, saying she was a graduate but loved to peel the prawns for her husband, not talk to him until asked to and pamper him with foot baths. She then went on to say that unfortunately, all nice women like her were already married but "encouraged" guys not to give up. I dunno, is this a real woman? I can't help suspect either this letter is a joke or the woman really should be given a pat for being sooo "outstanding" while the rest of us normal ladies will go back to being the way we are. 2. One guy wrote in to say to each their own and not all guys wanted docile women etc. ... pretty PC if you ask me. 3. Some letters by wives protesting their husbands liked them the way they are. 4. Some PC letters on "you can't have it all" 5. One guy actually wrote in to say that peeling prawns in public for your husband was a show of power over him actually ^ ^;; But the final letter was the best. A lady wrote in to say that guys shouldn't be so petty and those insisting on down trodding women were just plain insecure. She ended off by saying "and by the way, all women know you don't peel prawns, you shell them." LOL!!! PS: The Jap fair at Carefour is good. Apple juice is superb!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... KIT!!! PRETTY PICTURE, THAT IS XDDD GUwahahahaha... someone is REALLY that obsessed. ;) Hey, you captured yourself pretty good. Heeheheheh.... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Saturday Went to the Jap food fair at Carefour with mum, dad and Bel. Conveniently blamed the fact we were disgustingly late on Bel ... my mum didn't believe me tho'. Heee heee ... ate grilled scallops and all. The ramen looked good but Bel and I didn't buy it coz we didn't want to carry the hot steaming bowl around. Had yoghurt (yum) and red bean cakes as well. Bought gummies to eat at the office. Mum bought a bottle of the special apple juice coz she said I needed the vitamins. Bel suggested I sleep the whole of tommorow and see if I can get well that way. I feel awful ... my flu is not getting better. I guess I should go see the doctor again. The second flu is getting really bad ... Bel and I won a free set of stuff ... going to be splitting up the loot on Monday. It has been a fun evening ^___^ ... imprisoned within my blood ... Yes Meia, Spirited Away is always good but some guys said they wished it had more fighting scenes ... hmmm ... can't please everyone I guess. Watched Princess M today in English ... good ... now to get the Jap version!!! Anyone wants it off me? Only $10 ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Pitas, are you dead? I want to read my friends' blogs. Please get back into health, the world has only enuff space for one sick puppy!!! AHHHHH ... the flu's got my brain!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... okies the hands need more work but it's just a rough sketch ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Must bitch briefly before going back to work. Was trying to get on train today before doors closed. Silly girls in front of me stepped into the train and remained at the door area while door about to slam and kill poor neko stuck behind them ... grrrr ... luckily this couple standing near the door also took time off staring into each other's eyes long enuff to save poor neko by dragging her into train into their side ... I blame the flu but for a moment I was uncharacteristically blur or maybe not uncharacteristically blur >_< ;; but THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN ... arigato. Oh well, the Jap classes starting next week are fully booked ... so I got one for next next Fri instead ... better than nothing. Now to finish work and go home and read the stuff a little ... I'm no Herminone but a little sneak preview into things never hurt anyone no? And reins, you don't remember what I did last year? Okay then don't coz Met' and I have a surprise for all of you ... it's just a question of time. Hahahahahahaha!!! And Jo chan can I meet you near AC before you start school to collect the tickets or something? And lookie what a bored sick neko drew yesterday:  ... imprisoned within my blood ... Friday Yes Met' it'll be our little secret. Speak again soon, especially nearer the date in question. This probably beats the stunt I pulled last year which earned me a thump on the head (not physically) from Reins. ... imprisoned within my blood ... And because I'm such a sucker for online tests  You will marry DICKIE (played by Jude Law) from The Talented Mr. Ripley, live on a seaside resort home on the coast of Italy, and spend your days riding on motorskooters and sailboats and mooching off daddy's money. What's YOUR M * A * S * H future? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Reins don't tell me Sanji has taken over your blog too? OOOhh coz he literally took over OP douj 9. ^___^ And take care of the back. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Met check your mail. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Thursday Oh boy I forgot the reason why I even started blogging ... Reins I bought OP douj no. 9 for you already ... coming soon!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Laine, the pix is hilarious and ARIGATO FOR THE SOUP *drinks soup and glomps Clow Laine kindly sent over* You know, I would consider marrying Clow if he existed in this plane. Hee hee ... there must be non MCP guys who want women as equals and not lapdogs. Imagine the benefits of being Mrs Clow Read. For one, since the bubble card will take care of all your washing needs, the utilities bill and hand cream bill will be suspiciously low no? Of course hubby is a little weird but he cooks and cares *grin* I WANT A CLOW READ!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Yeah Meia, almost better. You know, I could give you words 2 a day ... if you want. But I'm going to stumped to find words that would stuperfy you. And I'm feeling awful physically but am feeling strangely fab thanks to the hilariousness of Shotgun Marriage. Are you watching it? Anyway, your assignment smacks of Charlotte's Web - so your teachers are not going to make you weave the words out in front of the whole class are they? Shucks, I laughed so hard I've got blood in my mouth. I think I have to take it easy for the next few days except being in a law firm is hard for someone who can't talk whatsoever until about 3 pm when she has drunk at least 1 1 litre bottle of water. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Rats, coughed blood again. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Hmmm ... overspent at Boon Lay awiiiii ...And oniichan wasn't even there so I didn't buy some of the manga as I want his opinion on them first. But Ludwig by You Higuri was hard to resist (Tsu - you want?). Bought Princess Mononoke and Ayumi Hamasaki's new CD I Am. Woooo ... fabulous music!!! Am pissed, am perpetuating libel here but I don't care. Remember that colleague whom I had to work with and whom a close friend warned me about. Well, get this. The files in the matter number 100 and his boss' secretary didn't know about the files on our floor. Her eyes popped when I asked her about the other files and on discussion, we discovered there are 3 sets of files going around. I suggested we caterlogue everything which she agreed ... she did however, ask me in my room privately 15 mins after if she could co-ordinate the admin matters instead. Apparently our friend is unhappy I'm taking charge of things. Well ninny head, I don't want to. Things like this are back breaking. I rather draft affidavits and research the law then brown nose the partners with my "great" library skills. Grrr ... but he's an idiot and I don't have to waste me time on this. It's just a job. I'll do my work. I'll even help him if I can so he won't drag me down but I'm going to make sure I don't work with him again after this. I like my work and I'm not going to bomb it even if I have to work with pain in the butts like this ... But maybe I'm being too hard. Afterall, I was once an arrogant rookie too. Relax, will be nice ... but will NOT be a sucker. Oooo, Jap drama Shotgun marriage looks good. I might get this and Love Revolution as well.AND I've got plans. Big plans. Keeping my fingers crossed they work. Val, gomen. Oniichan wasn't in. The assistant taking over told me "new one coming soon". Sounds great? Except I don't know if his "new one" means new stock of the existing PSH or new titles from the mangaka or new volumes of PSH i.e. the sequel you're looking for. Will check for you again when oniichan is in. Jo, call me at home please? Call my HP at nite or mail me. And happiness is bandung in one hand, wind blowing like crazy in your face, Ayumi crooning in your ear, your knapsack on your back ... and a whole bag of manga ... *cackles* Shotgun marriage has started and yes, it looks GREAT!!! Bye bye for now ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Oh no, evidence I was goofing off when I owe boss, Reins and Tatsumi san stuff but presenting The Marauder's Map Union. Enjoy!!! PS: Nic's back and we're signing up for classes next Tues!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Kaori, is physics still in LT 1 (?) aka the huge one at the foyer? Ahh, the fond memories of running there from the bigger classrooms where they have the double Chinese periods. :P Then again, the LTs at the fencing areas were darn cold! Nearly froze my nose off at those LTs. ... imprisoned within my blood ... You're sick too ... Meril? Uhm, I still remember your first post on my site where you said if I liked HP too, I would be something like your evil twin ... well guess what, I have taken a great liking to HP ... and now we're both down at the same time too? I didn't pass it to you did I, thru my evil telephatic waves? Just joking, I sure hope we both get well soon ... and same for Lilack too. Met' something with your coding? I can't read your blog properly. Aiiiii, Masako ... enjoy school!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Laine, the sketch is BEAUTIFUL!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Lilack, you're not well too? Take care. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Yeah, Val's back. You want the sequel to PSH? Hate to sound like a wet blanket but isn't that like virtually impossible to get? As it is, it's getting harder to get the first complete set of 1 to 10 already. Uhm, I could ask onii-chan, i.e. my supplier of manga if he knows where to get them since I'm going to the manga shop tonite but no guarantees. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Reins, don't think it's food poisoning, I've been careful I think ... it's flu, the flu bug. BTW, what's the Reye's syndrome? Apparently, while adults can take the asprin to combat headaches brought on my flu, kids should not do so without medical orders since they are at risk from the Reye's syndrome. PS: Gomen, wanted to put Snape's head back where it belongs. He saw Potter that day and lost it. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Still no voice in the mornings *sulk*. Hopefully I'll get it back coz speaking in hoarsed whispers is not my idea of fun. And my throat hurts like crazy. A partner walking by my room was amused by the number of files in the room but I couldn't tell him they are finished files about to go to the warehouse, so I just grinned moanfully until someone told him I got no voice. There was a nite market near my house last week and I decided to go for a stroll with my folks. After stuffing my face with a lovely but unhealthy Taiwanese sausage, I turn to go home. Suddenly, this girl walks pass and she looks really familiar, she turns and ... it's my long lost Sunday brunch bud' Char ... I thought she had settled down in Aus for good after her studies and we lost touch for the longest of times ... *it's so surreal it's like a movie plot*She's working for a bank who has relatively close ties with the firm I'm working at ... trying to fix lunch or dinner soon. Heck, maybe we can start the Sunday brunch thingee all over again. Jo, I got your SMS, how many tickets do you want me to buy? I used to buy some from my ACJC friends until my sister went there ... then I had to buy from her ... as my cousins have decided to go against family tradition of going to either RJ or AC, I was wondering for a moment from whom should I get my tickets ... no probs, I'll buy from you. Hmmm should I give my JC bud a call? The monkey (and I say this with affection and not anger) hasn't called me for years since he met his girlfriend ... guy friends are rather undependable at times. The saying in Chinese zong se qing you is soooo applicable to them, i.e. value their girlfriend/boyfriend more than their friends >_< Hmmm but since I'm feeling generous, maybe I'll make a courtesy call at least so we don't loose touch completely ... once I get my voice back that is. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Wednesday Aiyooo..... what happened lah? Poison yourself again? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Contrary to yesterday's mistaken belief, I felt worse this morning ... So took the day off to stay at home and sulk. But you know what? Milling around at hope nursing a cold is quite fun afterall. ... Excuse me, I must be sicker than I realise. Met' I'll take care of myself but you make sure you get adequate sleep too no? I lurve the Saiyuki layout ... hmmm, sounds dangerous. But we've got the sheriff to take care of everything *beams*. Reins, I already asked Ed to hand carry the package to UK and mail it there. He should have arrived on Thurs nite or so. Let me know if Lyn doesn't get it soon, coz then I'll have to bug Ed about it. Oohhh, Umeda-sensei *glomp* I don't care if you're gay, you're absolutely beautiful *glomp* Yeah, saw the thingees at ODFM. But was knocked out cold and dragged out by you-know-who. Silly possessive bish. Don't worry about me Leareth, should be OK soon. You've got more to worry about at the moment tho' *points thumb at Leareth's suitors eyeing each other* Tsu and Lilack dearies, I've no doubt Chinese women are not quite the Lin Daiyu as foreign men believe them to be but hey, guys and their dreams ... and Tsu, what alternative lifestyle I'm a very respectable person no *winks*. Just joking, but yeah, you guys keep me sane. Tsu, all the best for the driving exam. About the cursor code and all, it's in the code in my page. Choose view source and you'll see the code for cursors and scrollbars, it's the info entered in between < style > and < /style >. And Leareth, don't freak out, as I said, lawyering is especially ridiculous in Asia due to the fact people don't want to pay their solicitors much but demand 24 hours services. If you're going to be practicising in Australia, it shouldn't be that bad. Really, I'll feel bad if you freak out coz of me. But then again, look at it this way, it's better you don't start work with the hopes that life is good no? *Ducks rotten tomatoes thrown her way* Laine, you're Mrs Legolas? Wow ... uhm, sorry to hear about your art being stiffed. Could you send them a complaint email in English? Ahh, today's Wed. Happy birthday Meril. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Tuesday Ahhh, Rein's new layout is suggoi!!! And Meril, happy birthday in advance ^__^. Laine, I don't think all guys in Singapore are like the interviewee but there is no denying that there is a phenomenon in Singapore that more guys are preferring more docile women and are thinking they can find it in foreign women. Like Tsu pointed out, I don't think their "understanding" of foreign women is accurate, it's just misconceived wishing on their part ... Anyhow, feeling a little better now. Woke up with a dreadful headache and a scratchy throat this morning. Felt a little weird while watching Spirited Away with Euph yesterday. No actually already felt whacked during dinner but thought it was merely fatigue. Went to see the doctor this morning and got the day off. Slept until 3 in the afternoon when I woke up to practice a little on the piano so I feel much better, at least the room has stopped spinning. Guess I should be well enuff to get back to work tomorrow but need to make sure I drink lots of water. I don't fall sick that often, but when I do it's not too good. Me doctor gave me a blood pressure check after dispensing my medicine. Everytime I visit him, he insists on giving me a bp check coz he suspects my job will cause my blood pressure to be on the unhealthily high side. Doesn't charge me too. Feel rather guilty. Anyway, what do you know, my bp turned out to be still healthy. In fact, it's a little on the low side. It's pretty weird considering most of my classmates actually get high blood pressure from the profession less than 2 years in practice. Does this mean I'm not taking my work seriously enuff? Anyway, as there were no other patients yet, we started chatting ... Tend to yak like crazy everytime I visit the clinic. Suddenly, his nurse impatiently tapped on the door and passed him 3 patient cards. Decided to get out before she murdered me. According to my dad who had kindly accompanied me to the clinic, she had been looking at her watch rather anxiously for the last 10 minutes as a good number of patients turned up after I went in *oops* Oh well, didn't get to do as many things as I wanted to but today was a good break. Going back to sleep now. Goodnite. And Masako, don't worry ... we can work something out about the schedule. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Monday Well glad you found it amusing Tsu but no, I'm not saying Chinese women peel the prawns, it was just quoted by the interviewee of the article as one of the reasons why he preferred Chinese women to local ones. I don't mind Chinese women, got some friends from China, except it is rather amusing to hear the local male population exhort their virtues. If they think they'll going to get the local gals submissive, they've got another thought coming.Poor boy with the prawn thingee must either have problems co-ordinating his digits, or he took a hard whack in the brain and is suffering from permenant delusion. Uhh, I'll try to send the wallpaper again. Rats? Just an expression I guess ... what I mean to say is that with a $300 budget and dad's birthday round the corner, I am going have to either hit the calculator or find some provision in our bet to say that gifts to parent's don't count as expenditure. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Tsu I can't seem to send the wallpaper to you. Is your hotmail account working? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Sunday Ugh, one of my speakers broke down *sigh* Must try to fix it ... oh why couldn't this have happened 2 weeks back before the "bet" came in place? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Wasn't going to blog today but this article in the papers today started me thinking: There is this Singaporean Jap journalist, Sumitomo (I think, must check the spelling again) whose writings and articles I enjoy. Today, her article was on the phenomenon of local men preferring to marry Chinese (as in from China) and other SE Asian countryside women as compared to local gals. These were the reasons cited by some of her Singaporean guy friends and their friends for choosing the foreign lasses - 1. Chinese and other Asian women are sweeter and more feminine 2. They read Chinese poetry and play a "mean" guzheng 3. They are not argumentative 4. They are prettier 5. They will peel the prawns for you without fawning 6. They are willing to be homemakers Reasons for avoiding Singaporean women - 1. They are more materialistic and money minded 2. They can't get pass the first 2 words in Chinese poetry 3. They are argumentative 4. They are not as pretty 5. They will NOT peel the prawns for you in public 6. They are NOT willing to be homemakers While Miss Sumitomo had more than adequately dealt with these reasons in her article, I just have a few more of my own views to express. 1. Foreign women are generally taught to be supportive of their man, to be the quiet wife in the background. Singaporean women are taught to be a help and a partner to their spouse. We have our own views and are proud of the fact. True, I do suppose at the end of the day it is grand to come home to a wife who wants to massage your shoulders and bring you tea and hear all about your day but in Singapore, expenses are pretty high. It's a choice between slogging your guts out and having someone pamper you in the evenings and working in partnership with your wife but taking into account the fact she is probably tired at the end of her working day too. While I do not advocate marrying for money, it is perhaps too much to accuse Singaporean women of being materialistic. In this regard, foreign women here have perhaps too been unfairly accused of the same although the fact a good number of foreign lasses had blatantly married for money in the early 90s still sticks at the back of my head. Life in Singapore is not cheap. A working girl who is used to a certain lifestyle would be stumped if she was courted by a guy with much less of a salary than her. For one, Singaporean women are not so liberal as to be able to accept the idea of her husband being too much lower on the economic ladder than she is. For another, while money does not make a happy marriage, many otherwise happy marriages have been ruined by the lack of money. A lass used to Starbucks once a day is not going to be extremely pleased if after marriage, Macs once a week is a luxury. Add in the fact having kids and raising them is not cheap and the other fact society as a whole (not just the women) still sneer if a husband does not excel in the economic field, you can't blame women for thinking carefully about a man's economic health before deciding to settle down. I mean it sounds callous, but no matter how much you love him, how many women can truly remain happy and NOT resentful as time goes by if as her friends and their children have a comfy life, she has to count pennies? 2. As for the accusation of Singaporean women being "without" Asian culture, let us say Singaporean women are amazingly "Westernized" in comparison with their Asian counterparts. You ostracizing Western culture? In any case, I don't think Singaporean men are that cultured themselves. I would love a guy who plays a mean violin and remembers all Shakespeare's plays, but I'm not laughing at someone who cannot. 3. As for the unhappiness that Singaporean women are argumentative, all I will say is if you count expressing your view as being argumentative, I'll keep my character and pass on a date thank you. If anything, may I remind you that it is the X gene that carries the intelligence data for the baby. Accordingly, sons depend solely on the mother for their intelligence and daughters have a 50%-50% chance of getting daddy's or mummy's brain. I like speaking my mind. If you want a wife who doesn’t' converses but merely nods and smiles, it's your choice. 4. So our men think foreign women are prettier? Yeah, it's generally quite true, but then again, we'll have better skin if the weather here was more forgiving and if we didn't have to stress about bringing home our share of the bacon. Want a trophy wife? Sure, go ahead … just make sure you can keep her. Besides, technically there is very little plastic surgery can't create these days if you have the money … 5. Foreign women will peel the prawns for you without fawning = better wives? As pointed out in Miss Sumitomo's article, what the heck is wrong with your fingers that you need such help in public? Singaporean women might peel your prawns if you drafted so many documents you can't move them or if you're fooling around at home. I wouldn't make my household help do such things so why do you expect that of your partner? 6. So Singaporean women are not good wives coz they're not willing to be homemakers? I'm sure a lot of Singaporean women won't mind staying at home and doing homemaking if hubby dear could afford the nice little Singaporean dream on his salary. As for those women who actually prefer work, do their hubbies remember how they had to go to work even when they didn't feel well so that the family could have the nice little New Zealand farmstay without worrying about penny pinching? That ends my take. I must emphasize that I do not believe women are superior to men … I believe they were created to compliment and assist each other. Oh well, look at the time, got to work, adios!!! PS: Masako dearie *glomp* … I WANT CLOW!!! Oh, I might be able to give the bet with my bud' a shot afterall - 350g tomatoes = 70 cents 60 g mushrooms = 60 cents Bread = 1 dollar 3 apples = 1 dollar Cheese = I'm cheating, I'm taking what's in the fridge = foc Rice = Still got 500g from what was bought last week = foc Mirin and soya sauce = Still got some from what was bought for Christmas = foc Result? Cheese and tomato sandwiches, apples and mushroom fried rice for one whole week? Hopefully this means I lose some weight and win the bet ^__^;; wish me luck. This month is particularly painful coz I had to pay my member fees else I can't renew my license in April ... sigh, that is $130 off my meagre budget of $300. Rats and dad's birthday is next month *groan* ... imprisoned within my blood ... Saturday UGH!!! I realised what me new budget means ... no pubbing!!! No booze or overpriced bar snacks!!! I'm dead. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Uhm Liz, I'm afraid it's in Cantonese or Mandarin with Chinese subtitles so let me know if you still want it. And Tsu, I've sent the wallpaper to you already. I could tell you who Eowyn is, but it's like mega spoiler ...Mervis, I think I saw the shot where Legolas grabbed an arrow and stuffed it into the face of an orc when Aragon was attacked (before they found Boromir dead). I was commenting to my friend Ming that I wondered when he would start recycling arrows coz he was running short and "wHaM" one arrow courtesy of elf boy being smashed into one ugly orc mug! Went for bowling yesterday ... missed for the first 2 strikes coz talking to a partner of the firm on mobile while trying to bowl ... not a good idea but subsequent tries were more satisfactory tho' improvements are needed. Uh, it is hot today ... hiding in my office with the lights off and the soundtrack from Love Revolution turned up full blast while trying to finish work. BTW, I love the show so am going to hunt down the VCD (subject to the problem blogged about below). I saw some ACJC students near my house on my way home from basketball (I live quite near RJ and AC) chatting happily about the mass dance ... I suppose tonite is the "campfire" nite for all JC orientations. Well for their sake, I hope it cools down. I hate sun-headaches so I don't wish it on anyone. Piano class today was fun, managed to memorise like a whole ton of stuff. Gosh I really need to practice seriously again ^__^ ;; Had a rather good day except that on my way here, I had a look at a block of garishly colored public flats and the new art theatre thingee they're building near Clifford Pier and did a double-take. If there's one thing that makes living in Singapore unpleasant (other than the weather and the ban on chewing gum) is the fact our buildings are UGLY!!! The only nice buildings are generally thingees the Brits left us (and our local guys try to spruce it at nite with red, yellow and blue lighting - making the once elegant design like PUKE worthy). I don't understand the Singaporean building concepts. The builders here are either building thingees which indicate that the designer was totally color-blind or copying blindly from other people, which by itself is not really that bad, but they just have to totally go ruin it with tacky additions. They got a bit of what was coming to them recently tho'. The papers ran an article in which the "man on the street" lamblasted Singaporean builders in general calling our public housing designs a "nursery's nightmare" and the aforementioned art theatre "an ugly hedgehog" and "a pair of flies' eyes". I mean it's dreadfully hot in Singapore, building a glass dome is stupid to say the least. Then you try to salvage the situation by inserting ugly as hell sunshades? Way to go ... GRRR ... if I ever need to confirm I'm a sucker for pain, this is it. I made a bet with my best friend to spend only $1,200 a month for the whole of 2002. In a fit of madness we had the agreement signed and sealed before New Year's day until I realised that leaves me with only $0 for the month. $1,200 after taking away contribution to the family expenses and my insurance payments = 0. Thus, I was exceedingly elated when my bud indicated she would like to raise the amount to $1,500. Except that leaves me only with $300 a month really while she has $500 to fool around with ... oh rats. I don't really want to call off the bet or ask for a further modification to the base sum since I hate losing or appearing to need a concession. I know, I'm nuts ... I hate losing anything, including stupid macho bets that I sometimes pull with her. But then again, I might be able to do it. Afterall, I lived on $250 a month in law school ... maybe I can do it, just more selective manga purchasing and cutting down on fine dining and cabbing so just maybe. San' did give me some pointers on how to spend less than $300 a month but it sounds PAINFUL ... I could do it for 2 months but 12? UGH!!! I am an idiot!!! Well, back to work now ... *SIGH* ... imprisoned within my blood ... Friday Hehehe... I did tell her about the package from A&G. So, I think she has a general idea.... I do hope it reaches to her in time.. The 6th is her birthday. ... imprisoned within my blood ... New layout at Murasaki-san's! And it was your birthday on Wed Jen? Uhm, happy belated birthday. Yeah Kaori that sounds like RJ orientation. Mud and gore ... well if you hate that stuff law school's orientation (during me time) was more O_O;; Hmm, then again orientation is usually something that seems more amusing on hindsight. Liz ... do you want Spirted Away? I'm supposed to be sending something to Tsukineko soon so I could always send Spirted Away to you via Tsu. Oh yes, it's pretty dark and quite scary esp the first time one watches it but after 2 rounds, I adore it!!! Okies, I'm being slightly mean here but I'm going to watch it this weekend again ... I've watched it in Chinese, Cantonese and now I'm going for the Jap one. UGH!!! I've got so many "late" parcels to send out ... and I still haven't quite done my work properly ;_; and horrors of horrors ... no manga this week coz it's new year *pouts* Ohhh boy, better get back to work, had been relatively good this morning ^__^ must stick to my new year resolution to work hard and save up more $$$ *cackles in glee* Oh, Reins did you tell Lyn about the package coz she is going to be pretty surprised to get a package from this weirdo called kit. My friend should already been in London, so pending hailstorm or a strike by the London postal service or the likes, it should get to her pretty soon. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Thursday  Ah, I got Eowyn again ... it would appear that the only difference between Eowyn and Legolas is the choice of weapon ... don't believe me, this is evidence:Eowyn If I were a character in The Lord of the Rings, I would be Eowyn, Woman of Rohan, niece of King Theoden and sister of Eomer. In the movie, I am played by Miranda Otto. Who would you be? ... imprisoned within my blood ...  ... imprisoned within my blood ... Nani? Beer? Mhwahahahaha ... this is wicked!!! ... imprisoned within my blood ... Yeah, I know you have exams this week, I was just hoping the others whom we have not seen for a while would turn up *keeps fingers crossed* Ah well, we have been rather dead for a while no? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Kora! I told you guys that I will be busy the first week of Jan. So, I couldn't make it this morning. Sorry. ... imprisoned within my blood ... Masako but I was there i.e. the Meifu, at 8am (woke up at 7 for this)!!! UGH!!! Waited until 9:15 when I had to start work. Hey, where are the rest of the Meifu people? Are we starting up soon? People have expressed their suspicion that the blog has died and we have gone onto something else ... ;_; Ahhhh about the tom riddle + Masako search, maybe someone is your fan Mas'. But seriously, do you want the Cantonese Spirited Away, I could send it to you. Flaws notwithstanding, it's quite good. And don't tempt me about Clow coz if you're related to Clow, I'll bug you every minute for the rest of your life ^__^ All the best for school Laine. I rather be in school than at work, not that the idea of a masters in law and a year of slacking off has not been popping up in the brain (or sorry excuse of a brain) of mine. And yes, Legolas is cute but I don't think I'm so endamoured over Bloom without the wig. UGH!!! UGLY SHIRT!!! I'm being nosy and am snooping around for orientation comments. Let's see, Meia seems to be okay. No news from Jo and Kaori yet ... Ahhh, Aine posted ... yipee. Hey, that sounds like what we also did in my time, except we did the Arthurian legends instead so we were named after the knights. Hope things improve ... well, look on the bright side, this might be the last time you have to put up with orientation coz at least in NUS (unless you do medicine or law), orientation is not compulsory. I have a nagging suspicions that only a few JCs are that "on" about orientation. It used to be that those JCs provided most of the law and medicine students, esp law (not too sure about the situation now, can someone update me?). Hmmm, does that explain why law fac's orientation came as 2 whalloping, full day planned out weeks when every other faculty settles for a simple one day afternoon tea thingee? But then again, law camp and matric were absolutely fabulous and I would not have missed them despite mud, insults and all ^__^ I'm depressed. I feel stupid ... I wanna go back to school *wails* Heh heh, don't mind me really *sweatdrops* ... imprisoned within my blood ... Got Eowyn in the last test ... but today's results are different:  Legolas GreenleafIf I were a character in The Lord of the Rings, I would be Legolas, Elf, a son of the King of Mirkwood. In the movie, I am played by Orlando Bloom. Who would you be? ... imprisoned within my blood ... Wednesday Kawaii ne!!! Em's new layout is nice. Now I'm inspired to bring work home so I can go to the manga shop ... should I ... should I not? Anyhow, a funny story Bel knows ... someone called me on Mon afternoon all the way from Malaysia to ask what I was doing. The someone then proceeded to ask me if I was getting a life ... and lamented the fact he would have to visit his in-laws ... and ended off by saying he would sleep before midnite, at which I finally opened my mouth in the conversation and said "loser" ... So the other party goes, oh yeah I guess ... byes, Happy New Year ... and hangs up. Bel is quizzed and I can't stop laughing ... THIS IS WEIRD ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Oh I forgot ... Meia I asked the people at HV whether they had what you wanted that day ... and they said yes so you can go get your games there ... 2nd floor HV, can't miss it. ... imprisoned within my blood ... How was the first day of JC kiddos? Despite your apprehensions let me reassure you I had fun with mine, mud, eggs and all. Congrats Masako!!! And yes, Reins I also got a goggle search for Masako and Tom Riddle ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... LOR quiz - me got 73200 coz a little slow ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... 43% evil ... ... imprisoned within my blood ... Ah, the 2nd day of the New year. Finally finished updates for practice directions. Hmmm, Liz has got a new layout and I love the new look for Spent Casings. I realised I spelt movie as moive below but am a little too lazy to change it ^ ^;; Ah well ... Reins, your package will be a little delayed sorry, Snape's head came loose *sweatdrops* I got Eowyn in the LOR character test. Go to Jo chan's page for the link. I like that woman coz she ... oh well, better not spoil it for everyone ... and Jo, Clow's eyes are black ^___^ Goodnite, I need to sleep very soon. Managed to pack the house back into some semblance of human habitation ... except my room, it still looks like a typhoon had just gone thru. Watched the Spirited Away VCD with cousins while cuddling cups of home made latte laced with chocolate liq. They said it (the show) was weird but beautiful. My uncle who joined us about halfway actually found it amusing enuff to sit down and finish the show ... ah well, going to catch it again in Jap with Euph and Bel I found out how to adjust the thing so I get it in Cantonese only (thanks to my Uncle). My gran was initially amused by the whole thing but fell asleep halfway thru but you know what, Masako since the VCD can be adjusted so only Cantonese is heard, this means that if you really want the show I could send it to you ... but it has a few flaws tho' ... you know, basically the same flaws Reins had with her initial copy of HP ^ ^;; Going to check a few more blogs before sleeping ... I see the 3 kitties had fun ... sigh ... all the best to Jo, Aine, Kaori and Meia and all who will be starting JC tomorrow. Had tea with Bel and Ming yesterday ... am resolved to keep to our joint new year resolution ... but Bel was right. I should have finished everything I was supposed to do on Monday coz I wasted the whole of today just lazing around and not applying my mind or limbs. ... imprisoned within my blood ... ... how long will it be before I lose control ... how long will it be before he finds me? ... oh preserve my soul, preserve my pride Preserve my sanity thru this nite ... |
