i just read the back of a doritos bag and realised that there're 7 grams of fat for every serving, each serving is approx. 11 chips (who stops at 11?! it's physically impossible), and since for every 100g of chips there are 25.9 grams of fat, each bag has 51.8 grams of total fat.
so that'll be like 207.2 grams of fat between monday and today.
i think the craving's wearing off anyway. i hope so.
unsliced bread - the greatest invention since bread.
i was grocering yesterday and i grabbed a loaf without turning it around to check it. i mean, i've never seen a cripps loaf with the sticker "U N S L I C E D" on it before. and i only found that out when i opened the bag and reached in to grab a slice, and felt the hard, whole loaf. btw, it's not really hard, just the outering was solid, something i've never felt before ahha. and that's why i'm encouraging everyone to try eating bread this way - U N S L I C E D. it's different.
ok, that was my random eating moment of the day.
plus i love the melting moments i got at the Kitchen Bakery just across the street from subway.
take a look and drool baby. and then die from the calories.
it's impossible to always keep the end in mind, much less stick to the gameplan, so i'm just gonna put this down here to remind me when i forget. which is really rational really, seeing how abysmal my memory is. ok - ENDGOAL.
and i dreamt of putting my gloves on inside out last night. what does that mean?
along with the gameplan there's also the mini-subplan to remember that i don't need to seek approval or dare i say it, affirmation, from everyone.. anyone? haha i am so full of myself.
and it's on the acareak blog but i'm gonna put it out here too: i'm gonna start a collegiate a cappella helpline thing. it'll be a one stop centre for group founding-forming, genre exposure, performance experience, improv-prac, body awareness.. and that's all i can throw out at the moment. it's not like i just realised it or anything, but it's hard to find and have a group of ppl to sing with, or that want to dabble in a cappella. not everyone has a bunch of friends to try out new stuff, or meet others cut from the same whatever, and have experience the pure joy of hearing your voice mesh and intertwine with others. and this web"help" thing is for those that just need a little help and reaffirming to jumpstart an amazing experience that'll change the way they think of music, making it and them-self.
it's all in the spirit of competition, and not the kind that's show-offy or to prove that they're betta than others. it should be inspiration to improve and better the group sound so that in the end, all you get are really good groups. sometimes i feel the good name of a cappella is going down the drain at home, so it'll be up to those that wanna break from the norm and make an effort to change this.
so - if there's anyone who's interested in collegiate-style a cappella and then some, feel free to drop me an email and/or pass the message along. you can ask me if you have any interest at all in what i have to sell or any queries abt how it's gonna work, what's gonna happen.
so, i've put out, and the ball's in your you know, whatever.
i was rushing that bit out(the call) so you guys could give it a try and i could take a listen if the style's ok, and then i could maybe change it to suit you guys. ahhhhhhhhhh nvm.
and this is the required text for rock rev. looks NOTHING like a textbook. how in the world would anyone lose it/want to steal it??! HAHAHAHAHA
I just saw the sun! Oh man.. I thought it was the moon or something, you know, seeing how late it actually gets light nowadays, but yeah, it's the sun. It's probably cos of the fog this morning - you wouldn't believe how bad the visibility is this morning. So, it sort of looks like what I'd imagine an eclipse to look like. By the time I pulled out my cam to snap a shot it had started to pierce the fog, so it got too bright. But still, how sweet was that?!
i think only daniel or fio might remember this, or maybe just daniel. HAHA. i'm just watching eps to pass the weekend, something i haven't done for weeks.. cos this is the first week with no major assignments. it's the sense and sensibility episode when they're interrogating the kazi demon - is that bad grammar or what?
so i need an update on what's happening now! chris you haven't replied so maybe if you see this you will hhaa, or anyone who knows. uk? so you finally made up your mind?? and how come chris is doing the baritone part? isn't that like mine?? hahahaha
and i've heard about all the buffet lunches and all that i've missed, so are there any new pictures of baby chris? ahha or at least upload them onto facebook, so i know how much he's changed. which hopefully isn't too much. HAHA
i haven't taken an after picture, but this was the state of my room when i moved in. i took the liberty to crop it so i don't look too much of a slob.
the week's finally over: oh my gawd it was crazy the first half in, but after the bio presentation it got a lot better. cos i finished the legal and the assass by monday; the assass got to verity by tues and the legal the next, just after the presentation, and i think brita really liked the ppt, if i do say so myself, ahahaha. when she asked i told her it was a group effort anyway. i can't even begin to explain how hard it is to do it with four non-english speaking girls. i think i'll leave here at the end of the year with better mandarin. and you know how i really feel about that. HAHA. i can't believe how incredibly stressful it was just to do all the group tasks - maybe i'll take a picture of the the strands of white/silver hair i've begun to cultivate. it's only on one side but when i saw them i was like ? ! ? i haven't seen that on my head since forever!!
so that nightmare's finally over, i'm at the Con now. i think i prefer weekdays, cos it's just slightly depressing when it gets to the weekends. i know someone who's gone over to sydney for the long weekend.. long live the queen. i'll prob be online - NESS - if you come on early enough. okok, last night i just turned in earlier than usual ahhahhaha, but it's the daylight thing - it gets dark so early your body's clock tells you it's 9 or 10 when it's barely 8. i'd love to rant/bitch at the girls and teaching staff over here, but i'm on a bitch-fast, and in the spirit of building good karma i'm gonna refrain from doing it. or at least on this.
i'm being tested this week - there's an english assignment that they've given to the classes, but verity told me that this is how they're going to assess me. i honestly don't know how it's going to turn out, seeing how i've only gotten Bs the past few times, and i'm not sure if they expect an A this time. if you've been following, it's very tiring trying to anticipate what they want and be all of it. until recently, i've constantly been trying to do that, and i'm not saying i'm all cavalier now, but still getting Bs.
so the past week and the one before'sbeen dead. actually, more stifling than deadening. doesn't help that i'm getting updates on equivox or tone via email, no more, haha. and recordings of pracs. the sgh's timings are better than the last time, esp at the start, so whoever changed it yay! haha. i dled the latest ones yesterday and they were extremely singable/karaokeable, so i'll try to get in to the Con tmr if i finish the ass essay.
i've finished up to where i lent jevon the disks for friends again - haha, lucky i brought them. and ivy watches them too, so there's something to talk about at least with one of them.
i'm gonna finish the legal essays which i've been procastinating for 2 weeks now. at least the bio presentation's out of the way, i think. and the psych's only due on the 11, so the next week should be a breath of fresh air, if i finish it all by tmr.
i will try to come online at night, so see you guys then=)
i wish i'd saved the weather forecast i went to check on this morning. at 5.30. i was freezing in bed, so i got up to turn my heater on, and this is the first time i've done that, so i thought something was diff. i went online, checked the current weather conditions, and it was 1.3 degrees outside, but they approximated -3.7 as how it felt like. i dunno why i didn't get it, but it only me hit me later how funny that was. cos this is how it looked like:
Current temp: 1.3▫ What it feels like:-3.7▫
THAT'S WHAT THEY PUT ON THE WEBSITE!
haha, so after i got my jollies at the bus stop in town, i did my usual glance at the temperature/clock above the mercury newsbuilding. it was 1▫, and it switched to 2▫ for a second, i swear, and changed back to 1. OMG am i the only one who thinks this was hilarious!?!? cos ppl walking on the streets were all exhaling plumes, and ppl were staring sullenly at the clock, or the sun, (couldn't tell cos the sun was just rising behind it) and i could even see it when i breathed out through my nose.
on a completely bipolar note, today i was just reminded why i get pissed by the FSP. half the time i have to repeat when talking to some of the students, some of the staff there is excruciatingly passiva-condescenda et homo superior at the same time. just cos they're native speakers. back where i came from, the staff would have died before they showed their vulnerability in front of students, not that they would actually, or in similar manner, where they're suffering from the delusion that it's incredibly endearing or mateship-ey. wth, come to s'pore, mates. they think we look like chinese nationals so must be deng suah or something.
the only good thing right now is Psych Lady, and not just cos it feels good that she's empathetic (go figure) or some of the stuff she said, but i'm pretty sure she means it. plus now i know they've had ppl from england before, and she says she didn't understand why they had to go through what the rest had. i'm not hoping for anything at this point in time already, cos it'll be harder when it doesn't, you know? and i'm gonna try to not let it bother me so much. cos right now i constantly feel the need to make sure they know i know, you know? and if i don't have high blood pressure already i'm prob going to, cos it's starting to feel more and more frequently like it did with kelly. who btw, is still doing her thang.
i just froze my butt off going out for a jog with golf. i swear, when i first went out i thought my nose was gonna fall off my face haha. should have called it off anyway. i think it's about 2 degrees now, feels like it. ended up not running much in the end, i have a feeling she just wanted to get out of the hostel to talk or something. and i almost didn't wanna come out at all, cos i was finishing up umass dynamics' such great heights. again, kudos to daniel! for finding it. and ALL the parts are fun lol. hit me up the next time you come online and i'll send it over=)
HAHAHA i can't believe it's here. though the feeling's quickly wearing off, lol. see, i decided to email baraka may when the whole period of depression/oppression set in last week, at least on some blogs (not daniel's, not alethea's formal dinner affair, and definitely not maylyn's mandarin heavy, jump concert-obsessive, or entire post of chinese lyrics hahaha) that doesn't leave us with many others does it? hahaha
so i just asked baraka may if she was selling it, you know, and she replied the next day the following, and said yeah, that she charged 150 bucks an arr., but since this one was already arr.ed, she put it at 75. and i don't think anyone but mom knew that i had the uob tx deficit tirade (with myself) i really shouldn't have topped up my hello card that one time. so i was trying to find out how to put money into the tx, asking mom if she could check my account balance for me, etc etc, but i didn't know my account no and everything, and there was no easy way to check, and then put in more money, so i thought: hm, maybe if it was cheaper i could fit it in?
so i emailed baraka may (we'll call her baraka from here on) to ask if there was any chance she could go below that price, and she said, yeah, and basically she cut it down to 60, which i dunno if it wasn't her first price from the start, but i don't care, and i don't think she's that kind of person, haha.
turned out, it still wasn't enough, cos i was thick enough to confirm/link the tx to my paypal account just a few days before, which involved temporary deduction of S$3(they return it when it's confirmed)that's when i decided to just get the anz everyday debit, which - i will never forget - has this as it's first transaction record. HAHAHAHAHAH
and on friday i got back home, asked mick if any anz mail came for me, cos it was 2 days since i signed up for the ED, and he said yes, i threw my bag and books down, and literally raced down to the anz bank cos banks here close ridonculously early. i got to the bank, and the lady there was NICE enough to make the activation call for me (i was breathless by then) and here's the convo i had with the teller when i was putting the money in:
me: hi. can i put this in asian lady(diff from activator lady): hello how much balance do you have in your account? me: huh?.. err there isn't any money in it yet, i just got the card, just. asian lady: yeah, but now (gives me self-appreciative-humour face) there's a hundred in there. i needed to be sure you were the owner of the card. (i just activated it with your colleague but ok.) me: -. (i didn't really get it, but i think i smiled or tried, cos she was putting money into the card which would have THE SCROLL/SCORE as it's first transaction record and i wasn't gonna count the eggs till i sent the money over to baraka) asian lady: ok, here you go (and i get back the card and receipt, not transaction record) gives me what i can only describe as a kind of i-think-you're-satisfied face) thank you chee tiong.
HELLO. what was that about??
but she's one of factors that led to the deliverance ofTHE SCROLL/SCORE, so let's just stop there.
actually, it's prob cos my card reads that, BUT when i did the card, the guy who was processing my application asked me what my given name was, though it was in my passport, and he kept looking back to my passport, as if it would change or something, and he must have put down the asian sounding name in the end. and on a completely diff and ditzy note, i wanted the blue card, should have gotten it, not the black design, dunno what came over me
anyway, you'll prob know that getting the score is just.. hohoho, but i spoke to THE baraka may. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAA. that was the closest i could get to gold - hope it shows against the black.
okay, imagine my face NOW.
p.s. i realise that i've been saying that a lot more recently, but it's TOTALLY VALID. blogger should have that webcam function- take your face at that point in time, and publish along with to the post.
ness i'm not sure if you got tried the link from daniel's shoutbox, cos it's the only one you can link stuff from, but in case you see this first, http://youtube.com/watch?v=XDs2lek_XIo. i found it the same day you posted that morose post, but it was in the morning and you blogged that post later on. coincidence or divine providence? i think it's d.p.
and the vid's just to reminisce, .... and realise how ooold they are now.. HAHAHA (ness ignore this)
actually i wanted to blog about something, esp with the trend in your posts ppl , but i didn't want to do it until it's actualised you know? it's not a depressed blogpost. ahh it should be in soon. maybe tmr night, depends on when she reads the msg and unless my anz everday debit comes in next week or something..! i shouldn't've used the tx to top my hello card!! ARGHH
melia if you're thinking of trying the continental pasta/rice go for the pasta. i think they're safer=) i'm not sure if we're on the same woolworth schedule, but the offer's 3 for 300 cents. until the 16th i think. the 4 cheeses looks good, and it can't be worse than the curry chicken pasta one, which was pretty decent i guess. GO GO GO
and that was the segment "Students Abroad ad Looking Out for Good Deals". i make a pretty good housewife if i do say so myself. melia i missed the last of the safcols @ woolworths a couple of days ago =[
i met my phoebe buffayat the police station. she was the cop on duty tonight.
and i had to resist asking if she still met up with the rest of the cast.
and this morning, on the way to school, OH MAN this girl stepped out of her car, and she looked like a normal chinese girl, you know, with her hair worn in a bunch down one shoulder, on the front. i wasn't even really paying attention, but what she did next was like!!?!? cos she flipped her hair over her shoulder, and this long thing just came flicking over and out. it was all the way until her knees or something. and this was in the carpark behind the tuu building, which is where the cafeteria and post office and stuff is located, and i was just looking to see if anyone noticed the it just swishing around her ass.
i don't think anyone did, but i was staring at the great thing until she went inside. it was actually kind of creepy - plus she was wearing jeans. jeans and that kind of hair moving about your knees?!?!?!!? AHHHH
plus when i saw the hair i thought she was prob not chinese, cos no self-respecting chinese girl i know has that kind of thing. (except for kelly, who according to her used to have something like that larh - not that i was listening; i was telling carina i was resisting using her hands to choke kelly today). HEY - ness, did you mean for it to be pun-ny? as in kali? HAHA sweet. let's use them interchangeably.
she was chinese, as it turned out, cos i caught a glimpse of her face.
i'm home now anyway, when there's a pasar malam at the tuu refectory now, with fried kway teow going at A$5/plate for S$2 portions, and bandung and muah chee @ 2 bucks. way to make money singaporean student society.
melia's right, the temperature's dropping, and it's not even winter proper yet. my fingers are frozen as i'm typing this. do you get headaches when there's a change in weather? ness? nothing to do with her real area of expertise, but seems like if you've got something to whine about you can go to her. ot gurl to the reskew.
speaking of which, ness! my bio test was.. enlightening. you know how you anticipate too much during the first test, and you're just adding chunks to the questions at the start of the paper and when you go further on you realise later's the time you actually unload? oh man.. anyway i ended up going back and striking out a lot of extra stuff. ehh ATP - adenosine triphosphate lehh. and autophagy - wth MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA i hope adding all this bits of stuff makes brita read my essays a little more leniently. HAHAHAHAHHHAHA
so now i can go back to my normal routine. i'm suffering from withdrawal syndrome now.. no friends for 1 night and morning already.
AMELIA HUANG THE SAFCOL THAI GREEN CURRY TUNA'S GOING AT 99 CENTS A CAN YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE HOW MANY I BOUGHT. when i missed the coles offer i was like shit but 2 days back or something i was grabbing my usual tuna from the tuna aisle - and i had to pass it like twice before i saw the ginormous tag - when i spotted it. AHHHHHHH
anyway when i was done there were about 8 cans left.
before you say anything melia there weren't that many in the first place. HOHO
and ness, the girl i told you about? it finally blew. can't say here in case. remind me to tell you when we're both online. and to pass you a holly jolly xmas. i swear i didn't mean to but i chanced onto the tone blog sometime -
ness, i'm dying inside cos i can't laugh out, my roommate's asleep, but try to visualize my reaction now.
- and just clicked on youknowwhich, just for old times sake, and bam! holly jolly, holly jolly (interspersed with baritone/tenor canon) it was awakening.
the autumn awakening.
anyway, i decided to try and find it online, you know, just to hear if it's as nice as they rendered it.
it's the most xmassy thing i've heard since xmas. ahahah ya i know it doesn't say much but i can imagine the thanksgiving chicken, the sparkling juice and the cheese strips and lumpy mash with garlic or something.
p.s. it's nothing like the one on the blog. and now because of them whenever i hear the song i think of theirs. hohox. and speaking of youknowwhos, i don't think previous participants, much less finalists, are allowed to enter again. are they?
ok i'm off to complete(start on) my loverly australian animal essay for australian studies. i'm squirming with anticipation and excitement.
