Long time no see

I realised it has been eons since I last updated my blog. It looks so deserted... Can I blame Facebook for it? Keke

A lot of things happened recently, and I'm so tired of it.

I used to think that having a complete family in the early stage of your life is a very blissful thing. But I realised that a complete family is not enough - communications is damn important. And communications comes in as an even-more important role when the couples married for the sake of marrying - when there was not much love to start with.

That's why after what I've witnessed recently, I've decided that I would choose be single for the rest of my life rather than rushing into getting married - why treat this as a rat race and stress yourself to marry?

Ok, I know that at this age, I can have a super romantic relationship anymore since I'm not that young (but I'm still in my mid-twenties! =D), but at least I want to marry with love, and not for a purpose which may lead to a sad ending.

I'm quite glad that my parents are not putting pressure on me, but maybe they know that if they rush me, I'll flare up at them like my still-single cousins who did to their parents. But still, I've quite some kpo friends of parents, or relatives who ask "Why don't wanna look for a boyfriend?", really feel like telling them off, but being polite, I just smiled and say "No good men around". It's like marriage is a simple thing for the older generation you know - you were introduced to each other, then you get married, no matter you like it or not.

Anyway, it's my ramblings again. Haha.

But to make a note, I'm on my 15th lesson for driving, and 6th lesson for vocal class =D

I hope to see my blog soon again. My new resolution is not to abandon it. =X

ASAP or Asap (read as Ah-Sup)?

I've been so busy lately that I nearly forgot the existence of this blog =X

Anyway just to remember something funny that happened on Monday, Annie and I ordered delivery for dinner from Himawari. I told the lady on the line that I would like them to send the order now, and she told me that she'll send it ASAP, will take around 45min. Alright, sounds reasonable.

And 45min later, the deliveryman came, he called me, telling me that he's at the lobby. I reached the door and saw Sichuan coming in from the lobby. I saw the deliveryman, and took our dinner from him.

Later on Sichuan told Annie and I what happened at the door,

SC: Who are you looking for?
DM: *fishes out receipt* I'm looking for this person... *points to a word on the receipt* Ah-Sup
SC: *stunned* this is ASAP, as soon as possible...

I've a new nickname now. Haha

Falling asleep on the bus

I just saw this guy right in front of me who fell asleep, on the shoulder of the lady sitting beside him...

Then the lady shouted,"Excuse me!! Do u want to sleep elsewhere?!"

Wah, so fierce... The whole half of the bus turned around and looked at em.

Actually wat will u do if this happens to u? Hmmm...

Bus broke down

On bus 80 now cos bus 61 broke down... Not exactly wat I need but got a free ride to bugis and got a complimentary bus ticket from SMRT.

But guess wat? I was told by a bus 63 bus driver, "Oh u can't use this, we're different company"...

Luckily the bus ticket is valid for 1 month

I finally did things I've been wanting to do

I finally permed my hair (yes, again) today... After much contemplating.... I've actually always wanted to perm my hair back to how it was during my NUS final year, but nv had the courage to do it, and I finally did it today (Saturday to be exact)!

And I finally threw away 3 bags of old shoes with my sis and arranged them into boxes, and taped pictures of the shoes onto the boxes for easy identification

The mess during the packing up:

Forgot to take a photo of the neat shoe rack. Haha. Shall take it tomorrow

Welcoming myself to the mid-twenties club

Purposely took 2 days off cos I wanna rest during my bday, but didn't really tell anyone though, =P

Was kinda shocked at the first few people who wished me happy bday cos most of em are either not-that-close friends or friends who don't seem to remember ppl's bday. Haha

But well, I enjoyed my bday! =D

Thanks to the foursome who dropped by my house for the "surprise" donut giving ceremony, much appreciated although I really can't eat the donuts! (Maybe 1 for tomorrow's breakfast, haha)

Actually really, I'm not affected by close friends forgetting my bday cos I realise once we start working, we don't remember the dates anymore - everyday is just Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and TGIF. So in fact having people remembering my bday is a plus point, so thanks to all the wishes & pressies! =D

Singa the lion is sick?

Look wat I've found outside the tourist centre at Orchard?

Singa is a responsible citizen because he wore a mask! Heh heh

Something that I think I need

An alarm clock that RUNS!!

It can survive a drop of 3ft~90cm

Cheap DIY Netbook accessories

I think not everyone knows but I've sold off my 7" Eeepc that works on Linux cos I'm quite irritated by the limitations of the softwares I can use on it (eg: I can't check my company's email for urgent stuffs).

And then I bought a 8.9" Gateway netbook @ $688 with 3-years warranty a few weeks back. =X

I dun really like the glossy surface so I wanted to make a skin for it, and I found this webby: http://lappyskins.blogspot.com/ which I find that $18 for a laptop skin was alright, and the shop's very reputable with the users on HWZ

But they don't really have the kinda design I want -_-, and customised designs are at +$12, which means a skin for my small lappie cost a bloody $30!!

I buay gam wan, and started to look for cheaper alternatives and I don't know how, but I managed to find it!!

Notefashion.com...

Ok, I admit, I'm also trying to get referrals, haha, but this is really quite cheap! Once u register, u can get anywhere between US$1 to US$5 of deposit, and the skin ranges from US$10.90 to US$15.90, depending on the type of skin u want (I bought the "Finest Vinyl" material which cost US$11.90). The skin even comes with 2 smaller skins for ur wristpad. U can also upload any picture u want, and when people buys ur design, u get US$1 in ur account.

I found a nice design online, resize it to fit my netbook's resolution, and uploaded it, and ta-dah! It's uploaded! http://www.notefashion.com/product.aspx?pid=20090415090312068

Anyway, the website really looks a bit dodgy, cos it looks like some Chinese scam site with all the description in poor English, which looks obviously being translated from Chinese. But I was thinking since it's not like hundreds of $, I gave it a try, and made my order on 15th Apr.

The skin arrived on Wed by registered mail, packed safely (it's not nicely packed though, I had a hard time tearing the envelope apart) between 2 blocks of styrofoam. The bad point is some parts of the skin was folded =( But all in all it was good. Anyway here's the pix of my lappie after I carefully cut and paste the skin (ignore the mess behind pls)!

Quite easy to apply, and took 30min of my time to cut and apply the skin.

Btw, not sure if u can see it from Photo 2, but I've also pasted a screen protector, and guess how much is it?

US$3.80

And where did I get such a good deal? From dealextreme.com of cos! And the item is here: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.19968

This is another website that looks dodgy, I mean, free shipping for ALL items? Sounds to good to be true... But anyway, must thank Jiali for introducing this website... It all started out when the 2 of us bought DS Lite, and were looking at the DS Lite accessories, and her bf gave her this website. So to try out, I bought a set of 4 extendable stylus while Ah Li bought a set 3 USB charging cable. We really did receive the items.

Since then I've been buying quite a lot of stuffs from dealextreme.com. haha

But anyway back to the topic, applying a screen protector is so much harder cos it's affected by any small speck of dust... The trick is to have a roll of tape with u, and if u see bubbles that u can't seem to get rid off at all, use the sticky portion of tape, stick it on the sticky side of the screen protector (on the bubbled spot), and lift it away to remove the dust. But I've to say I didn't apply it perfectly cos it isn't positioned nicely, and somehow I made a dent on the screen protector. Haha

Oh, and not to forget I needed a pouch to contain my lappie cos the one that comes with the lappie sucks. Tried to look for something on dealextreme.com and this caught my eye: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.15379

But neh, I've got even better deals. I went to Daiso, and got a B5 size cushioned pouch for my lappie. $2. U can roughly see it in Photo 2, placed under my lappie. It doesn't fit perfectly, but at least it's suitable.

So anyway the damage for a cheapo person like me...

Skin for cover + skin for wrist pad - $18 + 30min
Screen protector - $6 + 30min
Pouch - $2
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Total - $26 + 1h

As compared to paying $30 for a customised skin right from the start!

But anyway, not saying that lappyskins.blogspot is not good. If u find a nice design that u like on their site, why not? $18 to protect ur laptop that costs so much, I think it's worth it

Now I know...

how my mum feels like when I give her black face whenever she comments that I'm fat and getting fatter, and nags at me to exercise to slim down.

Now I'm glad I've strict parents who taught me the right things since young, and having parents that nags at me when I sleep late, cos it just shows that they care about me.

I shall not say more, but nevertheless, I'll still continue to nag at other ppl like my sis (u jiayou ah, ur year 1's ending soon!). Muahahaha!

But does it make me more auntie?! Argh. The other day in the lift again!!

Saga 1, 1 year ago in the lift, I still had permed hair at that time... Boy A pressed the lift button, but his mum wasn't ready yet so he asked me to go down 1st. Mum A then ran over and both of em joined me in the lift. Mum A tells Boy A, "U know, that's very good of u to ask auntie to go down 1st b'cos u thought Ma couldn't make it to the lift in time." ARGHHH. So I take it that it was my hair that made me looked old.

Saga 2 some work day during the past wk (although I've been working 7 days straight for the past week): Mum A & Mum B with Boy A & Boy B1 & B2 walks in on 6th floor. Boy B1 keep jumping about and jee siao B2. Mum B to B1, "Aye! Stop it! There's someone else in the lift! See! There's another auntie in the lift"

WAT THE HELL!! Stupid mums. Cannot see properly is it?! I nearly wanted to say "JIE JIE LAH! WAT AUNTIE?!"

I digressed but I just wanna complain that these mums are blind. Grrrr