PMS…?

I guess it’s that time of the month again…

I barely scraped through this week… Today was also the last day of Reko’s semester.  After he slogged his ass through the whole semester, I thought he had wanted to celebrate.  I even brought forward the dinner I had with my girlfriends to last evening, so that I can free myself for tonight.

Even though I was extremely tired, I was still quite excited about seeing him tonight for dinner because we hardly see each other nowadays, even on weekends.  Hence, when I sms-ed him to ask if we are having dinner together, I didn’t quite expect him to say he would be having dinner with his classmates instead…  simply because he usually wasn’t quite keen on such social activities, and he didn’t seem quite impressed with his classmates all along either.

It’s not like its their last day together as a class or anything like that, but… oh well.  I guess it’s good for him to mingle around socially… I can’t really stop him from going, anyway.

I sat in my office desk at 6pm, staring blankly at the monitor, too tired to even drag myself home, especially all the packing that we had done after lunch.  And when I finally did managed to drag myself out of the office, I felt so terribly lonely.

It’s weird, because I’m usually a loner.  I don’t mind being alone.  I didn’t mind today, either.  But the feeling was just … different.  Even when I know technically I’m not alone, I still have my parents, my sis and Reko… but I can’t really shake off the feeling that I’m alone.

I trudged my way through Citylink, wondering if I should head home.  In the end, I decided to make my way to the new shopping mall, Tampines One, instead.  I had wanted to go there since it opened, but Reko just didn’t seem keen to go with me, because he hated crowds.  So do I, but I like going to new malls just to take a look, even if they have the exact same shops as all other malls.  Since he’s enjoying himself over dinner with his classmates, I guess I could go to that new mall alone…

It wasn’t as crowded as I had expected, but the shops there were nothing different from the malls in Orchard Road, really.  I finished exploring the whole mall in about 30 minutes… after that, I just went straight home.  I didn’t really wanna spend my time at a busy place where I see couples or groups of friends together all the time.  Perhaps I was the only one alone there…

Maybe it’s just me having my monthly bout of PMS…

Just read in today’s newspapers that there’s a new kind of pills just for women who suffer from PMS.  You have to eat the pills for 24 days a month, and some women claimed that it worked, and they didn’t felt so emotional or depressed anymore.  Though, the side effects were similar to those of oral contraceptives – nausea and slight bleeding.

Wonder if I should get these pills prescribed… I don’t usually like to eat pills as a daily routine, but if this PMS is really affecting my moods and the people around me, maybe I should…

Safari 4.0 Beta

Downloaded the Safari browser just to test it out and see how it is.

So far, so good. I think I’ll try it for at least a week or more before I decide whether to stick to Firefox or make a permanent switch to Safari.

:D

Mentally Drained…

This is one of the very few times when I actually felt like resigning…

Someone whom I’ve defended and helped in her times of need actually talked bad about me behind my back, simply because I’m not so close to her anymore.

It’s awful to pretend that I don’t know about it and still had to talk to her normally about stuff, as if nothing had happened. It’s even more awful to see her treat me with the usual friendliness when I knew what she said behind my back.

I guess that’s the harsh reality of life…

A Rant

I’m absolutely disgusted by the English standard of some Singaporeans posting in international forums.

And by “international”, I meant forums that are not based in Singapore nor accessed mostly by Singaporeans.

International forums, meaning, there are people from all over the world coming to that board to post stuff.

I just went to one of those mobile phone forums, and incidentally saw a post with Singlish. I almost couldn’t believe my eyes when the person actually wrote that she “bought the phone from sg”.

What else did she say in her various posts?

“no… reason scare might damgs the phone”

“and sec if i go to nokia care it will use my warranty rite? like bo hua buy few day only then need to go down to nokia care sigh…”

No, I didn’t purposely mis-spelt the words. It was purely a copy-and-paste quote.

Oh for crying out loud, how would non-Singaporeans or non-Asians know what she’s typing?! And she actually wrote “bo hua”. What did she think that forum was? Mediacorp TV forums or something? Jeez.

I really had half a mind to send her a PM to remind her that this is NOT a local forum, before I stopped myself from being so nosy.

I’m not an English Nazi or anything. I know my standard of English is nowhere near good either. But at least I will try and use proper English whenever I post stuff in forums, no matter local or international ones.

You know, the good thing is that she actually wrote “sg”, because I believe there are not that many people out there who know what or where “sg” is. (I think she played too much Maplestory or something – “Wer you from?” “O, me frm sg” .) If she had typed “from Singapore”, then I shudder to even think about what others would have thought of us in terms of our linguistic capability.

PS: The forum’s address ends with a .se.  I think it’s pretty obvious that it’s not a local site?

Britain’s Got Talent – Susan Boyle

Amazing. There’s only one word to describe her. And that’s – Amazing.

I stumbled across this article while surfing around:-

“American Idol” isn’t the only launching pad for aspiring singers. Across the pond, “Britain’s Got Talent” scored a huge boost in the Buzz after an unassuming contestant gave an amazing performance.

Susan Boyle (remember that name) became a Web phenomenon after singing “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables. The performance brought the audience to its feet and left the judges (including Simon Cowell) either speechless or in tears.

Before going on stage, Ms. Boyle admitted some self-deprecating facts about herself (she’s never been kissed and lives alone with her cat, Pebbles). For those reasons and more, audiences were expecting the female William Hung. They were wrong.

Lookups on the sudden star posted huge gains. A no-name just the other day, Ms. Boyle quickly surged into our top 5,000 overall searches. Blogs and gossip rags went wild. The Mirror jumped on the story, reporting that while Ms. Boyle thought she “looked like a garage” on TV, she received a standing ovation when she showed up at her local church.

Other sources write that as a child, Ms. Boyle was the target of bullies because of a disability. But, with her newfound fame, she is getting the last laugh. In fact, she’s already meeting with officials from Mr. Cowell’s Sony BMG label. This may have been the first you’ve heard of her, but it certainly won’t be the last.

That article had a short video of Susan Boyle’s audition, but I knew it was not the full version. So, I went to Youtube to search, and viola, I found this video that was being viewed 2,721,614 (at point of writing) and counting. Of course, that couldn’t be compared to Paul Pott’s (Year 2007 BGT winner) video performance during his BGT finals (42,890,148 views – wow!), but hey, the video had been there for 2 years. And Susan Boyle’s video has only been up for less than a week.

Her stunning performance brought tears to my eyes the moment she opened her mouth to sing. At the end of her performance, when she sang the last line, I was smiling and crying at the same time. It was totally unexpected – it was absolutely brilliant. And it’s just totally amazing to see the audience, who initially laughed at her, ended up gaving her a standing ovation after her performance.

I hope she wins.

Most of the full-length videos of her audition disabled embedding, so I’m giving you the raw link here:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

Never judge a book by its cover – this phrase has, again and again, proven itself right and this time, it’s been proven once more again, in the case of Susan Boyle.

R.I.P 阿桑

我想大家都知道著名台湾女歌手阿桑在昨日早晨患乳癌而过世了。

虽然我知道有这位歌手的存在,可是对她却不是很熟悉。直到听到了她逝世的新闻以后,搜查了一下互联网, 才发现原来那首很好听的《叶子》就是阿桑唱的。

她的声音很甜美,很清纯,而她每一首歌都唱得很有感觉。 我真的觉得很惋惜,为什么她离开了人间以后,我才发现有一位这么出色的女歌手。

就在这里让大家欣赏她的(算是代表作吧?)《叶子》,也希望阿桑一路好走。

Rest in peace, 阿桑。

阿桑 – 叶子
作词:陈晓娟 作曲:陈晓娟

叶子 是不会飞翔的翅膀
翅膀 是落在天上的叶子
天堂 原来应该不是妄想
只是我早已经遗忘
当初怎么开始飞翔
孤单 是一个人的狂欢
狂欢 是一群人的孤单
爱情 原来的开始是陪伴
但我也渐渐地遗忘
当时是怎样有人陪伴
我一个人吃饭 旅行 到处走走停停
也一个人看书 写信 自己对话谈心
只是心又飘到了哪里
就连自己看也看不清
我想我不仅仅是失去你

看了<<愛宅>>, 我哭了…

看了今天的<<愛就宅一起>>, 後半個小時的戲竟讓我哭的像個淚人似的.  真的, 我哭了整半個小時.

從Mars回想起他小時後看著媽媽煮面那一刻, 直到他撥電話給已在列車上的媽媽的那一橋段, 我的淚幾乎都沒停過.

我覺得<<愛宅>>的演員全部都是超有實力的, 即使是那討人厭的公主幫, 她們也是演得超好的.

糟了啦, 都是因為汪東城, 明天我的眼睛一定又紅又腫的啦… >_<

New Layout!

Because I feel girly.

Because I’m bored of the old, simple layout.

Because this looks nice.

But I think the calendar looks a little squished…

Edit:  Removed the Calendar widget… because it looked odd.  Really.

I’m Being Cheated…

It’s the first day of 清明節 today.  My dad had instructed me to wake up at 6am in the morning so that we can make our way down to the temple earlier, as there’s bound to be plenty of people later in the morning.

And guess what?  I woke up at 6am, and waited for an hour (it’s 7am now), and my dad is still not awake yet.

Sigh…  I feel cheated…

I needed my beauty sleep!!!!  Bleh.