livin' the oc

look man... _{Wednesday, August 4, 2004 at 12:38 a.m.}

Think You Are Having A Bad Day?

Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burned-out section of forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire.

The deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with scuba tanks on his back, flippers, and face mask.

A postmortem test revealed that the man died not from burns, but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive identification. Investigators then set about to determine how a fully clothed diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire.

It was revealed that on the day of the fire, the man went diving off the coast, some 20 miles from the forest. The fire fighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible, had called in a fleet of helicopters with very large dip buckets. Water was dipped from the ocean and emptied at the site of the forest fire.

You guessed it. One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the Pacific, the next, he was doing the breast stroke in a fire dip bucket 300 feet in the air. Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.

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Still think you're having a bad day?

A man was working on his motorcycle on the patio, his wife nearby in the kitchen. While racing the engine, the motorcycle accidentally slipped into gear. The man, still holding onto the handlebars, was dragged along as it burst through the glass patio doors.

His wife, hearing the crash, ran in the room to find her husband cut and bleeding, the motorcycle, and the shattered patio door. She called for an ambulance and, because the house sat on a fairly large hill, went down the several flights of stairs to meet the paramedics and escort them to her husband.

While the attendants were loading her husband, the wife managed to right the motorcycle and push it outside. She also quickly blotted up the spilled gasoline with some paper towels and tossed them into the toilet.

After being treated and released, the man returned home, looked at the shattered patio door and the damage done to his motorcycle. He went into the bathroom and consoled himself with a cigarette while attending to his business. About to stand, he flipped the butt between his legs.

The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard a loud explosion and her husband screaming. Finding him lying on the bathroom floor with his trousers blown away and burns on his buttocks, legs and groin, she once again phoned for an ambulance. The same paramedic crew was dispatched. As the paramedics carried the man down the stairs to the ambulance they asked the wife how he had come to burn himself. She told them. They started laughing so hard one slipped, letting go of the stretcher, and dumping the husband out. He fell down the remaining stairs, breaking his arm.

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Still having a bad day? Just remember, it could be worse...

The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were being released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers.

A minute later, in full view, a killer whale ate them both.

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Still think you are having a bad day?

A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen shaking frantically, almost in a dancing frenzy, with some kind of wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from what she though was a deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood, breaking his arm in two places.

Up to that moment, he had been happily listening to his Walkman.

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STILL think you're having a bad day?

Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn, Germany. Suddenly, all two thousand pigs broke loose and escaped through a broken fence, stampeding madly.

The two hopeless protesters were trampled to death.

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What?! STILL having a bad day??

Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.

There now, feeling better?

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Alexism _{Monday, August 2, 2004 at 10:46 p.m.}

the 21st hour of the monday seemed to be the most boring as it garnered me 12 visitors on this site in that hr. (that's a freakin' 1/5min!) today was a cool day man(weather-wise and otherwise), we've got half day. ended lessons at 11 though. anyway the highlight of the day was Connie and Carla! watched it with girlfriends Gerri, Beat and Missy! as well as dandougkhal. hahaha i have never enjoyed myself more in a comedy. laughed all the way from the beginning to the end. it almost made me breathless man. woohoO! go watch go watch if u r looking for something more alternative than the usual movie fare. lol. its definitely not a drag! (pun intended!)

i want to backpack in Europe.

i'll never get want to get married. this thought occurred to me as i was lying down on my bed juz listening to my mp3s. heck, i don't even think i'll want to get into any relationship! i mean.. the cons of being a couple with someone really does outweigh the pros.

ok, i bet initially the feeling of having a spouse will be nice. like companionship, attention, care etc. but all these is short term right? how can you expect it to last? it will just fade after the initial attraction wears off. attraction as in physical or otherwise.

then what do you get? a whole lot of trouble that is not worth the effort. imagine giving all ur heart to someone and that person carelessly drops it or callously throws it away. isn't that a very stupid thing to do? and you have to spend money and time together in a relationship. it just makes you broke and distracted. i'll rather spend the money on my friends. why concentrate on one person when you can spread the joy? what's more, getting into a relationship means compromising friendships. why devote your time and energy on someone who probably won't last when you can spread that love to all your friends? 3 words. not worth it.

haha. anyway i think i'll be bored if i have to be content with one guy for the rest of my life. if i can't do it, i'll not start it. after all courtships should end in marriage right? imagine living with a guy forever! *eww!* hahaha. erm, right, n did i mention i hate kids? those red squidges will fill out to become cute lil' angels that then turn around and become horrendous once your back is turned.

was pondering on solitary life, and it definitely looks good. then again, that's probably because i am not lonely. even though i shut myself in my room most of the time i can hear my family outside, pottering about their lives. i cannot imagine living alone in an empty house. i'll probably got mad within a week.

so i was thinking what would happen if people lead solitary lives but r embedded within a network of friends and family. they won't be lonely then right? so by right there's no need for a spouse. but there is a logical fallacy cos if they were to remain single there will be no families. what would happen to humankind if the social fabric of a community, the family, was to break down? what if the government generated babies from test tubes? why do humans then, need companionship and a spouse? it is scripted in our genes, they say. why are we so..predictable then? just breed and die like giddyflies? isn't that kinda disappointing? surely we can stave off our physical wants, not needs.

erm, i have no idea where all that barrage comes from. if i were you, i'll take all i said with a pinch of salt and consider v.v. carefully if you should suscribe to my school of thought, or simply, Alexism. *muahahaha*

sorry i think i'm going mad. its a transition see. when you have scraped thru the bottom of the barrel, the only way left to go is up.

those who support my theory, say aye!
oh oh i have another gd theory but shall expend on that at another leisurely time :P

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miscellaneous _{Monday, August 2, 2004 at 01:13 a.m.}

oh my gosh my entry just got "refreshed" before i got the chance to upload it. argh. ok anyway this teaches me to summarise my main points.. went out wif wen and enjoyed shopping wif her for sher's bdae prezent(which is v.nice). always good to catch up with old friends. and hey, new template can't get enuff of o.c. rox rite!

nj canoeing got double champ, again! cheers and congratulations. v.proud of sharon! our dear boy did us proud man. and can always rely on canoeists to get us that stingy half day. hope its tmr though any day is no good since i have things on after everyday cept fri cos that's national day half day.

marissa and ryan on the poster of Lime!

with paris hilton on the cover, it warranted an immediate purchase!

interesting link of the day - Pencilmation!

oh by the way, did i mention this layout rock? i did? oh.

it rocks!

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wey hey hey! _{Friday, July 30, 2004 at 07:58 p.m.}

...and let us welcome alexis back with a big sigh of relief and a warm hug! she wants to tell everyone thru me that she's alright already. getting thru a rough patch emotionally but the happy hormones are seeping into her bones man! she can't possibly stay sad that long after that fantastic episode of O.C. right? plus a bunch of friends who wrote lil' notes of encouragement and friendship. Thanks to wing, faith, eileen, veron, jun and of course zq, especially for lending alexis her Bond album. heh. one pink album deserves another.

bond cd

and gawd she's like so buried underneath a whole bunch of books waiting for her to caress. doug lent her The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian. she says its interesting. that guy in the story really is fucked up. hm. she's hoping to clear wallflower by tonight. there's simply not enough time these days to read a decent passage. by the weekend she'll wanna clear philip jeyaretnam's First Love, catherine lim's the shadow of a shadow of a dream and try one flew over the cuckoo's nest by ken kesey. woah this is one ambitious reader yeah? if she feels like superhuman maybe she'll even attempt the short stories by Faulkner and O'Conner. woohoo.

current texts, not including Hamlet and The Glass Menagerie!

the problem, see, is that though the heart is willing the eyes are failing. her eyes get tired easily these days and her right eyeball is screwed. needs a new prescription. so its really straining to read for a long period, something she used to do at lengths when young. (maybe that's why now liddat).

oh, caught Mean Girls wif girlfriends gerri and beat. hahahahahahaha. give it a 3/5 for a pay-money-laugh/enjoy-it-then-forget type of movie. lindsay lohan's watchable lah. typical chick-flick and we all need that sometimes.

oh guess what. she skipped dinner for 4 consecutive days before finally eating a plateful of food today. guess she's not the type that binges when unhappy but instead loses her appetite. well at least that's one benefit of being discontent.

and on the menu for tonight's dinner..

a mouthful, anyone? looks uncomfortably yummy!

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a pink fibreglass cylinder _{Thursday, July 29, 2004 at 09:09 p.m.}

i don't think it is the prelims
i just don't think academic stress has anything to do with it.
maybe its cos i'm a lit student
doing practical criticism on myself.
dissecting and serving a huge dose of self-pity along with it.
its just like my headaches
a constant dull ache.

i just find it hard to present me.
forgive me if i'm bad company these days.
try to see the real me beneath the extremities, ya?
that mad hyper overly cheerful girl is not me.
that's just a instinctive reaction to the situation
(to be cheerful to everything and anything)
but even more human than that
can you sense the discontent, the
implicit sadness.

gratefulness to my friends and people around me
telling me to chill relax let go.
it warms my heart sufficiently for a stray ray to break thru sometimes.
you all have done enough already.
i just have to deal with this, this irrational emotion.
i'll just hide it away
i'm alright, really.

i think.

Perhaps escapism is the solution.
(Eureka! Escapism!)
why would you face up to the harsh reality
when you can build a pane of fibreglass illusions to blur the
sharp edges?
perhaps its easier to tint our world into a simplistic bubblegum pink.
(i never said mankind is brave)
foolish art thou who stand against the ravages of life
when you can delude yourself
so easily, oh so easily
and fall into a comfort nest of self-beliefs.

maybe spiritual fulfillment is the answer
yet i got the sneaky suspicion that that is
not gonna change things.
God no, it will still be the same
circular cylinder seemingly perfect yet
concentrically hollow.

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poetic license _{Tuesday, July 27, 2004 at 11:08 p.m.}

as of now, 40 people have visited my blog
i wonder what they think of it
having just snatched a glimpse into my life
i am not trying to write a poem,
just wanna break out of the prose form.

it happens sometimes
but it feels particularly bad this time
going back to the awful place.
it is dark deep desolate
i find it hard to smile laugh cry
but i will bounce back, perhaps it will take longer.
i wonder what is wrong with me
or is it?
what is wrong with the rest of the world.

in the midst of The Perks of Being a Wallflower
awfully funny yet tinged with saccharine pathos
its very easy read though, nothing like
Hard Times which took forever.
reminds me of the book The Diary of Adrian Mole
if i can remember correctly.

i find a kind of poetic meaning in all this
but baby, i don't intend for it to be.
nevermind what i am going to allude life to
cos right now i don't find any significance in it at all.
maybe i'll just be a wallflower.

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i've tried my best, but i have my regrets _{Sunday, July 25, 2004 at 05:07 p.m.}

went to school at 11 on friday because nobody woke me up for school. actually, my mum said she did and i told her "i'll wake up myself" (though i can't remember!) so she must have thought i am doing the going-to-sch-late-cos-i-don't-have-lessons-in-the-morning routine for fridays too. that, i clarify, is only on thurs when i don't feel like waking up at 6.30 to wait for one free period, PE, free period, then break before lesson start. but not friday! woke up feeling extremely disorientated by the brightness of my room. first thought was "today is sunday? saturday? holiday? OH SHIT its FRIDAY!". i hate it when i wake up with horrible realisations. there's nothing i can do though and i don't wanna go to sch in the middle of maths lec so i skipped that all together and had toast with coffee while reading the papers. hah.

p.geog was bad. did not do much for global warming essay though i tried to prepare for it. in the end her irritation was incurred. whateva, i shall not try and defend myself on that anymore. BUT.. i hate it when she wrongs me. the consultation period with her was disgusting. like, the whole room suddenly became a pressure cooker with her incessant nagging and even her voicing that she felt like committing suicide if we don't cos our results are so bad and how our batch sux because we are like so much dumber than the previous. it really doesn't help if you pile so much stress on us already, din you realise? juz try to help us along the best u could in a genial manner, it would really save a lot of time. did you realise u spend 50% of the time scolding us? that's like how efficient rite?

anyway its like she told me she's very disappointed with me and all because of my "potential". right. she did realise that i've been doing human geog since sec3 and only started on phy geog last yr? and guess what, surprises of surprises, did she know that i tried the hardest for her paper? that i studied her notes the most compared to others during the hols? i've only flipped thru h.geog notes the night before, yet the results did not correlate. but the thing is, i tried. *giant sigh* it just turns me off that subject even more. all she could do is at least encourage. why are the two teachers so different?

on a lighter note, others do share similar sentiments regarding her. hahaha i almost wanted to confront her when she was accusing me but i took a deep breath, and resisted the urge. jerry too told of how an insane thought went across his mind about what will happen if the bell rings, then he'll jump on the table and start acting like a monkey. haha i wonder what will her reaction be then. sometimes you just have to control the urge to throw a book at her or something. particularly, a heavy book on Meteorology etc. that she is always recommending.

ok, giant rant over. oh and its official. got FAB for CT2. funny how the subjects i spend the most time/money on is the worst i.e. maths and p.geog. erm, yesterday was Vnite. very fun very tiring. went to sch for lit lect from 8-10 then all the way till 8.30 was Vnite. photos are currently being pooled in a album, will post bout it soon.

cherishing my sunday. tmr is the start of a long long grind again. *sigh*

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A muse? Out-spired. _{Thursday, July 22, 2004 at 10:30 p.m.}

lol. am very much amused by my previous entry every time i read it. kinda reflects the style of a certain online personality. haha the amount of comments generated also made it to the all-time high. that's quite sad actually, right? (hinting that pple should comment more)

anyway, bored and waiting for o.c. to start, so..

The Pros of XX's blog.
1. its in pink. that's like the most agreeable colour on earth, no?
2. everything screams of mass media attention. even the blog address is v.memorable and easy to mention.
3. she scatters her blog entries with photos. very useful to pple who get needs visual stimulation when reading.
4. blog content vascillates across the spectrum, with highly attention/controversial seeking posts about sex etc. boldly being ventured into, making up about 50% of her entries.
5. the tone of her writing. can't describe it, but it tickles pple!

The Cons of it
1. sometimes i think she just overly does it. a good thing? but it can come off too strongly.
2. the blog is highly addictive. argh.
3. highly narcissistic
4. highly critical of society and people
5. she's good and she knows it

right. haha the Cons of it are probably make it to the Pros list but yeah wateva. am farting it off my brain anyway. the weather is becoming typically singapore! nooo.. i want my chilly breezes back. yucks have not done a teeny bit of my geog essay.

pic of the day! something i drew.

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fudgey fudge _{Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 12:05 a.m.}

good day at school. rare for mondays but yeah, it was a'ight man, as randy would put it. haha started off with the undelightful few lessons, then it was all the racial harmony day fare with the yr1s doing all the festive shitzmitz again. i remembered doing those last year... this year was henna! haha stole some henna paste from 'em and decorated for fun on my hands. nice!

and of course not missing out on the arrival of FuDgE! my new baby hamster courtesy of mr dio :D i think its a boy. He's so cute!!! hahaha. yep. settled him in his new home after being handled and bothered in school. lol. i think that's the only day he'll get the attention from so many pple. from now on its only me for company. still can't get enuff of hamsters after the past 6. all dearly missed.

he's all balled up in his cosy house

what else? today's weather kept up to my prayers of course and continued being perfectly pleasant. Good job, weatherman! Good hair days rules!

you know something is not right in the world....

when a tomato is the same size as an apple!

save the world!

the power is in your hands.

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decomposing _{Sunday, July 18, 2004 at 03:28 p.m.}

new template up! right. trying to see how it turns out so i'm gonna crap some junk in here. typical sunday, if you know what i mean. pleasant weather though i hope it keeps up forever. was bored to death yesterday. nearly saved from the same fate today but alas the gods would not have it. so here i am, rotting at home like the apple core i discarded. wateva. filler text.

oh ya, why i chose tis template? cos its a pic of the piano. after the As i'm gonna learn it man! really liked it. as well as french.. yeah.

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heaven _{Friday, July 16, 2004 at 09:01 p.m.}

Your Icecream Flavour is...
Choc-Chip Cookie Dough!

You are fancy shmancy! You have all the bells and whistles and you attract the most gluttonous of ice-cream shop patrons. You are fattening and intensely rich. That being said, you are very tasty and have a huge fanbase! Good for you!

What is your Icecream Flavour?
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You Are a Dolce & Gabbana Blue Leather Hobo Bag Whew! This bag is barely big enough to hold your credit cards. You're a fashionista, who loves buying the latest trends. In fact, as cute as this bag is - it will barely last you a week. Then it's on to the next cute bag you see, at 19% APR!
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You've Been Bit By the Shopping Bug! You're constantly adding to your wardrobe - and it shows. However, you can show some restraint. You love good deals. Your love of the clearance rack has paid off... You probably have only maxed out card or two, if at all!
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help i'm bored out of my mind. yucks. got home disgustingly early today. the weather is v.nice. did u see this morning's cumulus clouds? unbelievable towering and fluffy and humongous. ryyte.

taken at 6.50am. looks gigantic.

p.geog today was super funny la. lol Alavi! u have no idea. hm wat else. the usual stuffs i guess. wow i juz realised that the baby pic on this blog has huge ears. That's so sad! haha she'll grow up ugly. aww. OH! and i can't wait to get my hammie on monday!!! YAY.

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