Du grosses Gestirn! Was wäre dein Glück, wenn du nicht Die hättest, welchen du leuchtest! Oh great star! What would be your happiness if you had not those for whom you shine for? ― Friedrich Nietzsche
27.2.07
Retail therapy
I'm dead. I'm using/wasting/spending money as a self-therapy.
26.2.07
Today is a day....
... things do not go the way I wanted or wished
... I didn't get the calls I was waiting for (at work, arrghhh)
... I didn't get the emails (the same goes at work again, sighhh) which were supposed to come
... my sms-es got no reply
... my visit to British India sale was unfulfilling
... my lunch was kinda rushed
... work is finally busy but I still manage to leave on time
... freelance I did was called off without any notification
... my sister was sick, the other was sick of work
... I feel tired (had a nap at 930pm)
... I am not in the mood for my favourite reality show - Amazing Race
... I feel a little lifeless
... with a heavy downpour in the afternoon
... I feel I needed a bit of Love
... I miss Angela when she's not online
... I thought Will Smith looks a little like a monkey, but a very cute one
... I was having this funny explicit conversation with Syndy
... jokes aren't funny
... I had a company for lunch
... I feel awake at 12:46am
... I think I haven't seen Alex for weeks, I think I should travel alone
... I sat in front of the TV and watched Oscar Awards for at least 5 minutes
... I think my German still sucks
... I should sleep the bad "air" away and wake up refreshed
23.2.07
dodici

Another book I've got great interest in but not going to get it in SG (even after Borders' discount, it can't be compared to the discounted price in UK). I have browsed it in Borders, and it's such a colorful, attractive cookbook!! Even though I don't think I'm going to even try cooking italian yet, maybe it's worth a keep? Or best, get it as a gift... hehe. Guess what, this book got even the best rating (5 out of 5) in Amazon!! Guess it really rocks.... yummm.... I think I've a soft spot for cookbooks!
Tarts with Tops on

A price to pay... 0 * ; * O
Unexpectedly the usual old visitor came knocking on my door again! One week after the piercing, the pain started to visit. I felt my right earlobe swelled, and the constant nagging of my mum asking me to wear her "auntie style" gold earrings didn't help. On Chinese New Year's eve, I finally gave up fighting and had substituted with the gold ring. It didn't help, it was heavy and my poor ear was burdened. I slept the pain away the whole evening, only waking up 5 minutes before the countdown to PIG's year. First day of Chinese new year, mum offered her "lighter" version gold earrings to me, I tried but it didn't ease the pain at all. At long last, I didn't give a damn anymore... I decided to put a plastic ear-stick and go with it. (I was afraid, because the last time, I had stainless steel and plastic ear-stick and the infection worsened...)
On and off, I lubricate it with the disinfecting spirit and relieve the swelling with aloe vera gel... it somehow works!! It has been 2 weeks since the piercing, 4 days since the swelling... a few more weeks to go before it heals totally, and then I can start decorating my head like the Christmas tree! LOL. Anyway, I already bought a pair of RETRO (disco ball) earrings from Accessorize.
22.2.07
Wilkommen zu mein "Widgets" Blog
This is NEW! Widgets are so in now, even my boss has even requested me to look into them and do something for our project, so everyone in the team has a "PROJECT" theme widget on their desktop! I shall try!! Something exciting!
This new widget-style blog doesn't allow free users to customise or add in javascript. Not sure if I should consider moving this to somewhere else whom will give me that free feature! Widgets widgets widgets - they seem to do all the tricks and you can't customise literally anything or add in your own stuff.
I REALLY JUST WANT TO ADD A COUNTER!! THAT'S ALL!!
15.2.07
Can life not be too serious...
I have lost the power to bargain; the energy to stretch the smile across my face; the desire to participate in any activity; the motivation to send sms; the passion to plan my next holiday destination; the upbeat rhythm of my life; the ability to enjoy simple things in life; the appetite for chocolate; the fondness of that long walk to office; the patience to keep on waiting... even the enthusiasm to blog. Suddenly I feel the strain of life, how difficult life can be if one isn't content with the simplest things. I need to find back the trail of "sunshine" I have left behind on my way here.
Things are getting monotonous again, which is likely and definitely the reason why I'm feeling so dull and lifeless. I don't like it, everyday I'm looking out and seeking the slightest chance to make things a little special, a bit different. I need retail therapy. Chocolate (m&m) doesn't seem to help much anymore. I finished the pack of sour Skittles, does sugar (coke) help?
14.2.07
It's Pig Year ~( * @ * )~
I found a very interesting site for having your 2007 chinese fortune read. That's only if you're superstitious, click here . Here is how Wikipedia defines CNY, I can't say how accurate or right they are, but it gives you a rough idea! I happened to find a more 'down-to-earth' and a closer description to how we celebrate CNY, actually written by an Ang Moh. Impressive huh. Click here , if you're also an Ang Moh curious in Chinese culture... hehe, it's an easy read I think. Here's a slight alteration of the origin of CNY.
The praying panda is a killer


I realised I had the MSN emoticon of that panda with joss-stick, immediately this morning I on my PC and deleted it away after my sister warned me of it. Actually, after reading about the virus, I think the MSN emoticon doesn't work like the virus, the virus only renders all the EXE files to that icon (panda).
Quoted from http://www.sophos.com
"The virus, known as Fujacks-I and Fujacks-J (also called worm.whboy in some media reports), was already detected proactively by Sophos's behavioral genotype technology as Mal/Packer.
Although the Shanghai Daily story reports that all infections have so far been on Chinese-language versions of Windows, this is not a limitation of Fujacks. The virus will run and spread on English language Windows, too. Indeed, Fujacks can spread rapidly across an infected PC because it is a parasitic virus, using existing EXE files as hosts to infect. This means that a single PC may end up with hundreds of copies of the virus on it.
Additionally, Fujacks spreads to network shares and onto removable disk devices such as USB keys, music players and cameras. Fujacks creates a hidden AUTORUN file on removable devices, in the hope of spreading the virus automatically when an infected device is inserted into another PC."
Read the full article about the virus on Sophos!
Read another article from China.org.cn - US$100,000 Offered to Crack Down on Computer Virus!
12.2.07
Feet itch...
11.2.07
Ouch, ouch... ouch!
The salesman (cum man-who-does-the-piercing) was very friendly, he talked the whole time so I didn't have to think about the process. Actually I wasn't afraid, having done it twice and having infections twice, finally I gathered up enough courage to go for the 3rd time. My 3rd time ear piercing! He recently bought a new bottle of anaesthesia, and I am his first customer to be tested on as they never done that in the past. So well, it did freeze my ear lobes for some seconds, then I didn't think it helps much anymore.
And...... he did it! My right ear hole was bit slanted (I think my last piercing was too, as he followed the same marking). But I couldn't care less, I just wanted a pair of presentable ear holes, ha... Ok, I forgive him... LOL. So now, yes, I have to keep the studs on for 3 months! I hope, no more infections. *fingers crossed*
During payment, he noted my name on my card and then he said,"So your name is Trixy, do you trick?" I said,"Yes, only on Halloween!!"
9.2.07
Boycott education fees
Education is a right isn't it. Sometimes I think about that too in Singapore. Though it is tried to make possible with government grant and bank loan, still how many of us are working to pay them off in future. Why is education not free! And why have the companies and government placed emphasis/favouritism on people with a degree education - whom will automatically be paid higher! Even if scholarships are provided, only the top students are getting them... University education should be made affordable without creating a financial burden to us or our parents, and even be a worrying issue for our future kids. Talking about this, I'm thinking of taking NSW when it's ready... but since it's an australian university, I'm not so sure how much SG government is subsidizing.
p/s: Please visit Marcus's blog for more related posts.
8.2.07
短暂还是永恒??你选那个?
There are things that can last you a lifetime, but the quality can be bad or so-so. But if there are a lot of things that are short-termed but filled with quality (i.e. a much happier time), would you rather take them?
I think I would and I will. Life can be short, how long is a lifetime?? It varies. If you look for someone who can be your life partner, and there's so much qualities you look for in him/her, you may never find that perfect person. I think life is imperfect. Maybe by the time you've found him, you've barely enough time to even make it last a lifetime, perhaps the last years of your life. So how about many good short-termed relationships with someone not as perfect as the life partner you're looking for?
Life should be that. Good fun. Imperfect but with someone nice making up for that.
I have changed my occupation in Friendster to 'Seasonal-serial-dater', some people thought it's true... Well, it can be. I'm open to dates as long as you are interesting and don't expect much (yes, I mean much... don't come to me with an intention, it never works). Somehow I'm a thrill-seeker in dating, I enjoy experiments, blind dates and unexpected events. More so, if there's something new I can learn from the person (like teach me a language, I'll be intrigued, even if its Cantonese). But well, it doesn't take a lot to keep my attention, just need to find the right way. Life is short, experiment it to the max!
I hope I'm not sounding like I'm hinting you to ask me out on a date. It's just my thoughts... I've enough to occupy for now!
Cash-eating Cashcard
1st. Okay, you pay a refundable deposit and get a cashcard with $5 in it. Then if you want to top it up, you need to pay extra 50cents at any participating retail outlet. If you choose to top-up on AXS, you pay 10cents per top-up and then 20cents to review your past transaction. It's all about service charge here and there, what's the real use of a cashcard??
6.2.07
The cat gets the fish it wanted, and it's happy...


My little sister is turning 21, no longer I can call her "little" anymore. It reminds me that I'm about 4.5 years older than her, sigh. But it is good, she has learned a lot from me I think... haha. She has part of my western influences (she's taking French and thus I've been listening to a lot of her French music), she is slightly more independent than my other sister and well she has started to manage her money too! This Saturday, she'll hold her birthday party in advance (yes, we kiasu Singaporeans). I've sponsored a big cake which I hope it'll be decorated nicely, and going get her a small party game.
I hope everyone will have a fat catch like the cat... ~meow~
2.2.07
Schon gut
A slow week plagued with boring tasks at work just makes me wish the week goes by faster... and now, its finally Friday. I can't be happier. I have been retyping a 11 pages pdf into word document (argghh, even though I enjoy typing, this can led to premature brain-dead), updating the list of new wireless hotspot locations (aha, now I know where to go to surf for free!), and printing out tonnes and tonnes of emails, copying and pasting (collating) the content into a word document. How boring can things get, even though all these seem like minor stuff, I know they are important resources I'll be providing to the others. Anyway, enough nagging!
I learned a new German phrase yesterday - "Schon gut". My sister has a virtual German friend, I was so bored last night I decided to try out my German on him. It was quite entertaining, he actually enjoyed speaking to me in German. And then in the end, I ended up teaching him some mandarin. What a language exchange!!
Boredom really encourages me to spend money, because I couldn't find any way to utilise those creative cells, I'd often end up browsing in the shopping malls, making rounds, walking into shops with a "SALE" poster on its display window. I just needed to get some form of retail therapy, luckily the damage wasn't that bad. I spent 10 bucks yesterday and it satisfied me.
And the Sebastian turned out to be an "uncle" whom is slightly balding... Well, we did introduce ourselves but I heard he's shifting to a new desk closer to his team members. Ha, looks like I still will have my own space for a while more.
It's lunch time soon, the lunches past two days cost more than my lunches for a whole week, oh my, sometimes I can't help it when it's a lunch appointment. You gotta spend what you gotta. I think it's time I should start a diet, a healthy one... I don't know why I've expanded horizontally by one inch, think it was those beer I had over the Dragonboating/parties.
Syndy is back for over a week, very nice to see her again... a few times in a month! And next, Angela will be back... to do our post X'mas exchange also. Yes, very late but should be still fun! I'm also looking forward to dear joy's visit later this year!
1.2.07
Ms. Discwoman
I have been skipping the shuttle bus to and fro work. Somehow, I've gotten back into the walk-a-lot mode especially since my knee doesn't hurt or act as funny anymore. I wonder if pilates helped, but was only 2 lessons! This week, I'll switch to BODYROLLING, can't wait, but need to pay $66 for the "exercise balls". Not the big GYM ball, mind you, that one I already have one collecting dust at home. LOL. Weather is cranky, sometimes it rained for a few days and it was sunny again... I especially love to go out of the air-con now, no underpass (through the air-conditioned City Link), no shelter... I need to see the trees, breathe the air, watch the traffic goes by.
Some days ago, in the train, I bumped into someone who totally looks like Alex. I was horrified for a minute, but as usual, I'm not the kinda eye-contact person. I usually don't go watching at him and smile!
I am about to get a bit lonely at work, especially when no one else (in my team) is sitting near me... But today, I'll have a new companion. He's called Sebastian and will sit next to me, but he works for the other project. So far, I haven't met him yet, wonder if he'll eventually become my lunch buddy (it often happened). LOL.
By the way, I just finished doing up the corner of my room with the last being the new red curtains I bought. I have it up now, my sister says its pretty. Haha, not her side of the room, only mine. I hope she gets a wardrobe to put all her 'trash' so our shared cupboard is not collapsing with her stuff.
Currently, Alegria is on my discman... have been playing it for dayssssssss.... not sick of it yet.