Southeast Asian Music Uploads

One great thing about living with a Greek chef is that he fixes tons of delicious food, especially bready, desserty things. One bad thing about living with a Greek chef is that I'm constantly eating bready, desserty things.

UGH, my stomach. I'm gonna go lie down.

So, tonight's officially the beginning of The Semestral Break that I've been yearning for so long. It's not a good start, if I should say so, since the flow of this day's been an erratic up and down motion, with the down moments exceeding the up ones. It's still all good, though.As I was saying, it's THE awaited sembreak for me. So now what?

• I will sleep! Superduperuber sleep.
• I will read my books.
• I want to go on gimmicks... hopefully.
• Be active in my orgs.
• Learn more!

I'm actually very sleepy because lately, I've been awake for 24 hours quite often.
*Falls asleep, already in REM stage*

Let me just say that I hated that Psych test. It was the worst test I have taken in my life.

So I still have to figure out how I will celebrate Scott Peterson and Henry Earl's birthday this year. My current choices include going to an MC Pee Pants show or to "A Tribute to You" where Bobby Ritalin who we just saw at Don't Panic 3 last friday. I think that we should go to the MC Pee Pants show as I already plan on going to Freak Night XII for Halloween this year to get my twice a month dose of techno music.

So late last night I finally activated my work discounted gym membership at 24 hour fitness so instead of being able to train on my spinning bike and do my weight training at home I get to do it next to fat sweaty people. I also added Natalie to the membership so she could go swim laps at the pool and take yoga classes with me.

And lately I've became kinda annoyed by me being such no-life. Until now my antisocial attitude was something I was even proud of, but well l think I'm just getting bored, 'cause nothing really interesting happens lately @.@ And I regret that I didn't go on BAKA (polish manga and anime convention), I have strange urge to go on some convention lately, but well even if the occasion will occur, probably I will either resign or the other circumstances will refrain me from going.
Nah... [time for self-censoring] stop emoing.
I've got some things to share (I uploaded it for other people, but I don't want links to waste), so let's go: (sorry for not posting tracklist in osts, but I'm lazy)

One of the first korean bands I've known, definetly worth trying it out, especially if you're not familar with k-rock ^.^

Ok, that's all for now.

taken from classic_window 

1. Bold what is true about you.
2. Italicize what you wish were true about you.

General:
- I am 5'4 or shorter.
- I think I'm ugly.
- I have many scars.
- I tan easily.
- I wish my hair was a different colour. I wish my hair was brown.
- I have friends who have never seen my natural hair colour.
- I have a tattoo.
- I am self-conscious about my appearance.
- I have/I've had braces.
- I wear glasses.
- I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.
- I've been told I'm attractive by a complete stranger.
- I have had more than 2 piercings.
- I have had piercings in places besides my ears.
- I have freckles.

Family/Home Life:
-I've sworn at my parents.
- I've run away from home.
- I've been kicked out of the house.
- My biological parents are together.
-I have a sibling less than one year old.
-I want to have kids someday.
- I have children.
- I've lost a child.

Embarrassment:
- I've slipped out a "LOL" in a spoken conversation.
- Disney movies still make me cry.
- I've snorted while laughing.
- I've laughed so hard I've cried.
- I've glued my hand to something.
- I've laughed till some kind of beverage came out of my nose.
- I've had my trousers rip in public.

Health:
- I was born with a disease/impairment.
- I've had stitches.
- I've broken a bone.
- I've had my tonsils removed.
- I've sat in a doctor's office with a friend.
- I've had my wisdom teeth removed.
- I've had serious surgery.
- I've had chicken pox.

Traveling:
- I've driven over 200 miles in one day.
- I've been on a plane.
- I've been to North America.
- I've been to Niagara Falls.
- I've been to Japan.
- I've been to Europe.
- I've been to Africa.

Experiences:
- I've been lost in my city.
- I've seen a shooting star.
- I've wished on a shooting star.
- I've seen a meteor shower.
- I've gone out in public in my pajamas.
- I've pushed all the buttons in a elevator.
- I've been to a casino.
- I've been skydiving.
- I've gone skinny dipping.
- I've played spin the bottle.
- I've crashed a car.
- I've been skiing.
- I've been in a play.
- I've met someone in person from the Internet.
- I've caught a snowflake on my tongue.
- I've seen the Northern Lights.
- I've sat on a roof top at night.
- I've played chicken.
- I've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
- I've eaten sushi.
- I've been snowboarding.

Relationships:
- I'm single.
- I'm in a relationship.
- I'm available.
- I'm engaged.
- I'm married.
- I've gone on a blind date.
- I've been the dumpee more than the dumper.
- I have a fear of abandonment.
- I've been divorced.
- I've had feelings for someone who didn't have them back.
- I've told someone I loved them when I didn't.
- I've told someone I didn't love them when I did.
- I've kept something from a past relationship.

Sexuality:
- I've had a crush on someone of the same gender.
- I've kissed a member of the same gender.
- I've had sex with someone of the opposite gender.
- I've had sex with someone of the same gender.
- I've had sex with more than one person at the same time.
- I am a cuddler.
- I've been kissed in the rain.
- I've had sex outdoors.
- I've hugged a stranger.
- I have kissed a stranger.
- I have had sex with a stranger.

Honesty/Crime:
- I've done something I promised someone else I wouldn't.
- I've done something I promised myself I wouldn't.
- I have lied to my parents about where I am.
- I am keeping a secret from the world.
- I've cheated while playing a game.
- I've cheated on a test.
- I've driven through a red light.
- I've been suspended from school.
- I've witnessed a crime.
- I've been in a fist fight.
- I've been arrested.
- I've shoplifted.

Drugs/Alcohol:
- I've consumed alcohol.
- I smoke cigarettes.
- I smoke pot.
- I regularly drink.
- I've taken painkillers when I didn't need them.
- I take cough medication when I'm not sick.
- I've done hard drugs.
- I've been addicted to an illegal substance.
- I can't swallow pills.
- I can swallow about 5 pills at a time no problem.

Mental health:
- I have been diagnosed with depression.
- I shut others out when I'm depressed.
- I take anti-depressants.
- I have an eating disorder.
- I've slept an entire day when I didn't need it.
- I've hurt myself on purpose.
- I'm addicted to self harm
- I've woken up crying.

Death:
- I'm afraid of dying.
- I hate funerals.
- I've seen someone dying.
- I have attempted suicide.
- Someone close to me has attempted suicide.
- Someone close to me has committed suicide.

Random:
- I can sing well.
- I've stolen a tray from a fast food restaurant.
- I open up to others too easily.
- I watch the news.
- I don't kill bugs.
- I hate hearing songs that sacrifice meaning for sake of being able to rhyme.
- I fucking swear regularly.
- I sing in the shower.
- I am a morning person.
- I'm a snob about grammar.
- I am a sports fanatic.
- I play with my hair.
- I have/had "x"s in my screen name.
- I love being neat.
- I love Spam.
- I've copied more than 30 CD's in a day.
- I bake well.
- My favorite color is either white, yellow, pink, red or blue.
- I don't know how to shoot a gun.
- I am in love with love.
- I am guilty of tYpInG lIkE tHiS.
- I laugh at my own jokes.
- I eat fast food weekly.
- I believe in ghosts.
- I am online 24/7, even as an away message.
- I can't sleep if there is a spider in the room.
- I am really ticklish.
- I love white chocolate.
- I bite my nails.
- I play video games.
- I'm good at remembering faces.
- I'm good at remembering names.
- I'm good at remembering dates.
- I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.
- My answers are totally honest.

I had resigned myself to it. Any further studies would have to take place after I've worked for some time. Financial issues make a good excuse for not needing to make the decision on whether to continue studying. And then I recieved a letter asking me to consider taking honours. Having "achieved a high overall standard", I apparently have the "capability to undertake an honours year". And the drop in the value of the Australian dollar might make it possible with an educational loan.

The cards are all spread out on the table even though I stacked them up neatly last month.

What is the point of doing honours? Honours is important and really helps pave the way if you want to go into academia. After all, honours is about choosing a research topic and adding to the knowledge of that field. But at the moment, I am not particularly interested in academia as a career.

So honours is not exactly practical for someone who doesn't want to go into academia. This is the general mindset of a student in Australia. Fair enough. However, while I might be a student in Australia, I want to go back to Singapore to work. And in Singapore, the mindset is different.

The "paper chase". A result of the meritocracy that our city-state is based on. The better the quality of your paper, the better job you can get. Regardless of the practicality of that piece of paper you hold. Am I at a disadvantage because I feel that honours is impractical for me and the path that I would like to take? Probably.

It's not that I gave no ambition. I would like to get a Masters in the future. I've already bookmarked several programs that are of interest to me. But at the moment, an honours in the field of Asian Studies does notseem like something that I want to do right now.
The coincidental playing of this song and this line puts it all into perspective for me.
"Are you born in a ***ing barn or what?
Baaaaaah!"

I don't want to be a sheep.

Merb 1.0 is coming soon! RC1 is expected to ship this weekend at Merbcamp!

I have been writing a getting started tutorial.

Okay, so here I am in the office, on a Saturday, working. Amaaazing. Long story, but it's about the project that's causing 90% of the ruckus here in the office.

It's been such a long week, I'm not going to talk about it =___= But I'm starting to pick up the pieces from breaking down last Tuesday (and oh, what a major breakdown it was, I just bawled at the fire exit XD), and I'm still reaping the fruits of the messups I made the past few months...so, yeah, I'm regrouping. x_x

I'll just browse around for 15 more minutes (lunch break, yes?) then resume to calling candidates to schedule them for the reshoot of their video interviews. @___@

I don't know how long I'll be in here.

AND COMPLETELY FAILING AT CONVEYING INTO WORDS HOW AWESOME STARCRAFT 2 IS. OH. MY. GOD. I'M JUST GONNA BABBLE CAUSE I CAN'T BE COHERENT.

I wasn't even looking forward to SC2 that much. I wanted to play Diablo 3 more.

But yeah, the beginning. I took 3 hours of my day today to attend Blizzcon (5 midterms next week, 3 precious hours, BUT SO WORTH IT. SO WORTH IT AFTER ALL!)

SC2 is going to be amazingly interactive and customizable. Lots of cinematics (that even interests me, and I fucking HATE cinematics, I fast forward through cinematics usually), new characters, totally interactable settings and backgrounds. No more 30 second briefings in between campaigns, it's all interactive. But not so much that it's completely annoying. Screw Diablo 3, OMG RELEASE SC2 ALREADY.

OH YEAH DID I MENTION THAT IT'S SO MASSIVE THAT IT'S GOING TO BE A TRILOGY? ONLY DOWNSIDE = TERRAN FIRST, ZERG 2ND, PROTOSS 3RD. I DON'T WANNA HAVE TO WAIT 5 YEARS TO PLAY TOSS

D:

Sorry, just really excited.

OH YEAH AND THE BETA KEY! FREE BETA KEY FOR SC2 (whichiwillebaycauseiwantmoneys) *COUGH*.

I swear, it seemed like a good idea at the time.   Don't click on this expecting great and awe inspiring things, okay?  I'm allowed to drabble how (and on what) I want!

( battle fandom, what? )

a bishie heaven community-n nézelődtem, amiről kiderült, hogy fenn van az iwiw-en...
erre mit találok még az iwiw-en?
na mit?
oké, megmondom. A JE sok-sok tagját... [na ennyit arról, hogy megszüntetik a fiktív adatlapokat!] HAHAHAHAHAHA
( a felhozatal or HERE COME THE BOYS I mean MEN )

I told my dad I wanted to go get my check and then go buy myself an ipod nano.
He asked me if I had to work tonight and I said yes but I'm calling in because I have other stuff I'd rather be doing.

He then proceeds to bitch at me saying you don't need an ipod and that it's wrong of me to call into work when I'm not even sick.

Okay. I work far more than I'm supposed to most of the time and I cover for people a lot.
Besides, Cali wants more hours. Let her do it.

OKAY.

So we got transfer students from Germany that are staying with the kids taking German and James has one. And he's in my Geometry class.

And his German guy?
unfunfunfunfunf 8D
His name is Alex, and he's so cute. dsfhka
Our teacher randomly goes, "So Alex. Do you have smartboards in Germany?" and he was like, "...no 8D?"
So she was all COME UP HERE and he wrote his name and stuff and she drew a heart and was all :D and he was like ... 8D;;
it was funny.
but cute.
he's cute.
ahhhhhh too bad the teacher moved the desks so I'm now far away from James and Alex. :(

Barely two weeks have passed and I am here writing another memoriam for one of our beloved dogs. When will it stop???

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To my beloved Fiji,

Your passing away was a shock. You were still energetic last night when I got home and you gave me a kiss. Earlier today, before I left for the gym, I checked up on you because Michelle said you don't look well, shaking and wheezing. You were lying on your stomach, melancholy. I lifted your head and kissed you; you didn't kiss me back. You even looked away. Was that a sign? Was that your goodbye for me? Why didn't I know? Before I left I even asked you to come with me and you wouldn't move. Why didn't I see it coming, Fiji?

When Mark texted me, I was at a loss. Shock. Frustration. Disbelief.

I didn't even get to see you one last time. Or thanked you for the years we've shared, for being my first baby, for being my first pet, for being there for me, loving me unconditionally. I wish I could have taken care of you better. I wish I knew what caused your death, was it something you ate, your asthma, your age? I wish I had the power to cure you and Oso.

When I got home today, as I stood outside waiting for someone to open the gate, I was still expecting to see you on the roof, barking. But there was just silence and an empty roof. No more Fiji on the roof. No more.

Fiji, thank you for being a wonderful baby.  I will always carry you with me, I still have the scar from the bite you gave me a few years ago. You will always be a part of me. I know you're with Midget and Oso now, watching over us. Be happy, Ji boy, fijimoto. I love you. So so so much. I can't even remember when you weren't here.

I love you, Fiji. Rest in Peace.

Love,

Mama

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Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20

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A/N: So I went with my cousin to David's Bridal one day so she could try on some wedding dresses for her upcoming wedding. Apparently, you really have to register before you try on any dresses since the consultants get commission from each gown sold. *shrugs* Thus, that experience inspired that scene, which may or may not foreshadow what's to come. *smiles secretly*

I haven't been to NYC, but Dean and Deluca is a well-known coffee shop there.

One lone nihongo: betsuni-nothing

Ja ne. Until next time.

PREVIOUSLY

Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10

Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19

CURRENTLY
( Chapter 20 )


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Nihongo alert:
bento- boxed lunch
ittadakimasu- what they usually say before eating
nande- why?

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Chapter 21

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