Sunday, August 23, 2009

Man's best predicament

Good predicaments are hard to come by these days. Predicaments that will really stay by your side and remind you that they're there when the going gets tough. And whenever they give you that malicious smile or a hug, you know that they've got your back! And that's what counts, for that is the badge of a true predicament.

Mmm... doesn't it just chill your heart?

I know that my best predicaments are always right there with me through the thick and the thin, 'cause they're my most loyal and untrustworthy companions.


So the next time you and your friends being chased down by a rolling boulder, just remember who are your predicaments and who are your friends.



(Oh, man, subversive much? I've confused even myself.)


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Thursday, August 13, 2009

flowing on

Achievement: did not fall asleep in any of my lectures today.

Whether or not I learnt anything from them is another story though.

Saw 'Public Enemies' on tuesday night with some 1st year friends. The movie was about...do you really want to know? Or do you just want to see it cause it's got johnny depp!?!? Cause that's apparently what half of the female audience was there to see. Giggling, losing their breath and they see him topless. *sigh. But the movie was good, I quite enjoyed it.

Me and lil ended up staying back waitin for her sister to finish work at pancake palour. It was awesome catching up with her. Did you know glenny is sooo foggy during midnight? Barely could see anything, even with fog lights on...but as soon as you clear glen waverley, it's all clear. Magic.

Ok yes, facebook is quite addictive...especially when you have free access on the phone =_= Hopefully I'll get bored of it soon (but the games are fun...)

Thinking whether or not I should quit thelooop and make my own blog. The other two have moved off, so I don't want to linger on like I can't bear to move on =[ Probably can't be bothered making a new blog for awhile though.

teoh,


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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Time Capsule

Dear reader,

How are you? I am well, thank you. I am sorry to have not written back any sooner than I have.

With the increased pressure to post on thelooop lately, I've been somewhat pensive. And over the last few months, David's been racking up more posts than either Tim or I can poke a stick at. So here I am writing to you now, eagerly tap-tappity-tapping away at my keyboard like a technology-familiar 'beaver'.

What I should reveal though, is that - I'm having an affair. Don't look at me like that. You knew all along. I didn't deny it or try to hide it. Wh- you never asked! Oh, come now. I'm sorry... Don't cry... ...W-Who is she? ... L-L-Livejournal... I-I said LIVEJOURNAL! ... ouch, that smarts. Don't call her that, she-- No! I love you both equally! ... It's not bullshit! ... Just calm down. Look, I'm stepping away... I'll just grab my keys and I'll be back at twelve when you've calmed down a bit ...and after you've put down the knife. ... Hey! How is this conversation even taking place in a letter?! You have driven me to schizophrenia, you nut job! ... I am not changing the subject!! Anyway, that's all I had to say for now. D-...digest it... please? Look, do our two years mean nothing to you? ... I'm trying!! -f***!

..........[And end scene!]

Okay, so I started writing a letter to the reader, and it turned into half of an imaginary conversation. Anyway, it's true, I've been pampering a livejournal and paying it half my attention for the last year. And yeah, I haven't purposely been hiding it either, I posted once around August of '08 saying that I would make a livejournal and make it a dumping ground so that my posts in 'thelooop' would be only those of a more passable quality.

I also put it in our links page back then, but never mentioned it after that. And until recently, it has never been intended for an audience, in fact, there were a few times I openly discouraged an audience in my posts, and I did in fact keep comments disabled up until about six months ago.

So why now? Why is it open now?

My livejournal has developed into a more serious relationship and only until Hong posted a comment about a week ago was I struck with the fact that maybe what I write there is worth sharing after all. Maybe people out there appreciate my compulsive obsession with semantics and formatting after all... I mean I always realised I had some readers because it would come up in conversation once in a while, but with somebody as random as Hong reading, it really hit me, you know?


Anyway, I'll keep a place in my heart for both 'thelooop' and my livejournal.



EDIT: oh yeah, my livejournal is found at readaboutling.livejournal.com


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Sunday, August 9, 2009

is it really such a bad thing?

i've decided to remove a few moles on my face.

now everyone is like
O.O?!?!

Which isn't that suprising because the people i've told so far have given me pretty negative comments about it but i couldn't really care less. People now been saying i'm going in for plastic/cosmetic surgery and it kinda makes me angry because im not sure if it's true or not.

okay i admit im a pretty vain person but honestly i believe everyone is a vain person just that some people are better at it then others.

and so what if im vain?

it still doesn't give people any right to call me that. It's just like how if someone is fat you can't run up to them and go 'OMG ur so fkn fat!' it's just uncalled for yeah?

Essentially i'm just looking at it as something im just correcting. And even though people may tell me it's fine and theres nothing wrong with it, i personally think it's damn ulgy. And if you ever had braces you would know exactly what im saying. Why did you bother correcting your teeth? because you didn't like it right, and basically it's to improve your overall appearance yeah? and if your justifying it because my dentist told me i need to as screwed up teeth leads to problems in the future, well moles are also a risk to human health as they are potentially cancerous. (btw i had braces too ^^)

Furthermore removing moles cost about 200 dollars, but im fortunate enough to beable to get it for free as my aunty loves me =) Just think... if you were a burn victim and one of your family members could help you regenerate healthy skin again to better your appearance what would be your reason to reject such an offer? (that example was pretty bad i hope you get what i mean)

Im just soo sad sometimes how people really are quick to judge you and if it really really awfully disturbs people then i guess just don't talk to me? plastic/cosmetic surgery isn't such a bad thing, and i think they should be respected more. btw my aunt isn't a plastic surgeon, shes a dermatologist. I just wish people would just relax about the whole thing..

it sounds like im angry but im not, im actually really happy and excited about it! i know theres going to be a bit of pain and soreness for 2 weeks and then a scar is going to be there and it's going to take at lease 1 year before my skin turns back to normal but i rather remove them now then in the future. I also have a lot of other reasons for it but i don't feel like i need to justify them here.

i know people are entitled to their own opinion and they are right ^^ however, i just can't help but feel really judged and attacked, and even though it may be all such a joke it's not really that funny. It just kinda makes me more insecure about the whole thing, and when did friendship turn so ulgy? =(

AHAHHAH anywayss just though i shall let my fellow looop members knoww so in the nearby future people aren't asking me why i've got bandaids on my face ahha :)


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party!

Went to Nick Woon's, a baker friend, 21st party last night.

It was held at Kingston Link Golf Course/Function Centre, just off Wellington Rd in Rowville. It's a very impressive place, especially after you drive over the bridge and into a estate looking area, complete with gate walls and lovely lawns. The function room itself wasn't very huge, but big enough to accomodate for 50 - 100 people comfortably. There was catering for fingerfood and the bar had a tab for lots of beer and soft drinks, so it was really good. It looked expensive, but it's not a bad place to keep in mind for your own 21st.

Night started out nice and awkward. Besides my baker's crew, I didn't really know anyone else. I was also driving, so I wasn't able to drink to boost up with fake confidence. I actually planned to leave early, since I had work at 7AM (actually at work now, and thought I started at 730AM so I was late...), but the night ended up being lots of fun, and I stayed til the end at 1AM with my friends. I was really glad I got an invite, cause it was strict numbers, and even some people working at baker's didn't get one =]

lol I also met Nick's sister, May (think it was shortened from seomthing-May), just a hi while she took my photo with Nick. But she was really pretty, wore a nice dress, and I have a feeling I've seen her before at uni, maybe at the bus stop. I didn't have the courage to try and strike up a conversation with her after though =[ maybe I can facebook her...I'm considering joining tonight to grab some of the photos that my friends took at the party.

ah joining facebook..I thought I saw the sun explode this morning.

teoh,

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Thursday, August 6, 2009

the bottle speaks.


4 stages of learning from a bad lecturer:

boring/not understanding - either he speaks with a heavy accent, stutters alot, doesn't know what he's teaching, or you start to count er's and um's instead of sheep.

sleeping - cause you're tired of a) lecturer b) lack of sleep last night c) uni d) wearing weak glasses

frustrating - cause you know you're not going to be able to do the weekly prac work, never ending assignments, difficult tests and the dreaded exams.

failing. yup.

now to struggle to do this assignment for the subject I was drawing the above in.

teoh,

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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

selling thelooop

Being bored at work:

The estimated value of thelooop.blogspot.com is: $2
This value is represents the approximate value of the website entered. Of course, this value does NOT include the worth of the company behind the website but rather is an estimated value of the website itself. Some of these valuation factors include: PageRank, traffic, backlinks, age of the domain, directory listings, and other items not shown in the summary above.
Courtesy of sitevaluecalculator.com. Pretty sure that I'm not allowed to sell a blog that isn't even hosted by me though =[ shame, I could use a coke from the vending machine right now... Let's aim for $5 by the end of the year, ey?

Today was my day off, but I went into uni anyway for some group work at 10AM. After some boring work, went off to wander around uni. Pretty exciting to see who you'll bump into, as I'm not usually at uni at this time.

Ran into esther and samantha, so we had a chat at the campus center. Then met up with Lillian and her friends Suki and Karen. Funny thing happened, after spending about 40 minutes in their company...

Suki: Do you have a brother by any chance?
me: *nods yup.
Suki: Is his name Anthony?
me: o.O how do you know that?
Suki: I go to the same church...you remind me alot of him.

Now, I'm told me and my brother don't look that simliar...sound alike, but not look. Scary how we might act like each other. =S

But hey. What a small world huh?

teoh,

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Monday, August 3, 2009

sound of fantasy


On september 26th sat, eminence will be flying down to sydney to perform A Night of Fantasia 09 in the Sydney Entertainment Center. For anyone who likes gaming arrangement, anime or orchestral music, it's definitely having a look.

Me and marco plan to fly down for the weekend, see the performance at night, then explore sydney a little in morning before flying back here. Tiger is selling cheap tickets at $40 one way, so now is a good time to book. Tickets for concert go on sale tomorrow. Let me know if anyone goes so we can say hi to them while we're there !

Also, you'll notice a new tab 'List' that I've made. I was bored on the weekend, so I've started making a list of star wars books I've read/own/need for myself, and thought I'd save here. Not like ling and tim post here anymore... =P

also,
TWO YEARS AROUND THE LOOOP
so ling hardly posts, tim rarely, but we're all still here and we all see each other still. I'd say it's successfully alive. hurrah!

edit: I'd actually like to leave a small verbal snapshot of how I'm doing at this point of time, for future reference (last one year post didn't have anything)

self: feeling slightly lost, trying to re-establish independence. trying to improve on self.
friends and family: Feeling closer and loving them more than ever. Made a regretful mistake and paying the price for it.
uni: grades dropped, subjects are mediocre in enjoyment. look forward to weekends a lot.
overall: more or less content. financially stable. sick of apartment.

prediction: by 2010, teoh has implemented Order 66, killed ling and tim, and taken over the looop as the new Emperor.

teoh,

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Saturday, August 1, 2009

melon paaaan

my results of today's baking:


Got up around 9 to get things started. Failed first bowl of yeast by having not-so-warm water. So threw that out, and started another. Happily read off the recipe:

7/8 cups of water

'Oh yeah,' I thought to myself. '7 or 8 cups of water...'

Only by my 2nd cup of water did it strike me something was wrong. My bowl was overflowing already and I hadn't even reached the fourth cup. doh david, doh. *tips contents away* my mum had a good laugh about that one.

So third time lucky, managed to get up to the kneading part this time. This part was the most enjoyable. For fun, I ran my hands under hot water to try and get the famous SOLAR HANDS! Unfortunately, my hands went cold after a few seconds =[

After that, things went pretty smoothly. my sister helped me with the cookiee dough (she's the baker of the family) and I passed 2 hours of fermentation by reading my star wars books and watching naruto.

end result: salty melon bread.
why? Cause I realised I accidentally doubled the amount of salt in the dough. LOL. I'm so hopeless.

But besides that, it tasted like it should I guess. My parents actually went into the city and found it at Bread Top and brought home some. Tastes pretty much the same, but better bread ;D

It was pretty fun cooking though! Haven't done that in awhile.

teoh,

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