Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Success!~
Hahah!!~ Can't believe that I really got to revamping this blog...I've been wanting to do so for ages but I just did not have the time or the know-how. Anyway, after being bugged by weiqi to get a move on this humongous project, I bravely took a plunge in the dark...hehe...that explains my new GORGEOUS picture =)
That picture was taken from a blogskin that featured it on the left side of the blog but since I don't fancy wasting valuable blogging space, I decided to resize the picture and fit it to my liking. Also, while searching for valuable templetes to model my blog after, I realised that there are SOOoooo many over-rated blogskins that I boggles the mind. WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND HAVE WORDS IN YELLOW?!?!?!? AND NOT EVEN ON A BLACK BACKGROUND...Also, what is the big idea about wasting space by shifting the whole templete to one side of the page and leaving the rest blank? HUH?
Okie, one day of fiddling with blog templetes and I become a blog snob. Oh well... but I am really so proud of myself...haha I had no help whatsoever and didn't read any how-to-html tutorials. Okie, granted this whole thing wasn't done from scratch and actually a fusion of 3 or more blog templetes,still, I had a hard time figuring out what things went where and what symbols meant what by sheer trial and error. And the end result is FANTABULOUS!~~~~~~
Woohoo!I even made it snow!!!! hahaha!!
OHOohoh check out the eye
....IT IS MINE! I TOOK THE PICTURE, I MADE THE SPECIAL EFFECTS AND I RESIZED IT TO FIT THIS SPACE EXACTLY...WAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!!!! So don't you there take it without permission or i will HUNT you down if i ever find out about it.
Damn I'm good...if I can manage this with paint and picasa...think about all the COOLER things I can do with PHOTOSHOP....I WANNNNNNNNNNNTTTTTTTT!
Anyway, this templete is still not done up to my liking yet...even geniuses have their limits...for example, I have yet to put up my radio blog...waiting for xyz...faster help me cuz I'm too lazy to figure it out by myself. I want a vertical line seperation between my main and the right sidebar but have no idea how to make that. The words in my posts are too squashed up for my liking...makes reading a pain...HELP....even geniuses can ask for help, no?
Anyway, comment about the improvements or suggest improvements...better yet, when u suggest them...create the html format for me so that i can just paste it in...Wahah!
CheeriO!~
Sunday, November 27, 2005
YES!! YES!! OHH YES!!
I'm back!! Went to
HELL and back again!~
EXAMS are O-V-E-R!!!!!~ Haha, had a few friends bugging me to go update my blog for a while but I kept my promise to myself that I wouldn't until after my exams...Although I can't tell you how many times I came back to this site planning what I would blog next. Hope you guys didn't miss me too much~ =P
Okie, my exams ended on Friday 25th Nov had my 9 a.m. General Physiology paper till 11ish then popped over to my spider lab for a MUCH needed cleaning and feeding session with my babies. Took me like FOUR freaking hours!! I was feeling quite apprehensive as I began my task because I knew I was going to come up with a high death toll figure. *SHAMED* Yes, I neglected my spiders for 2 weeks but but..I gave them alot of food and cleaned their cages before I left them to fate.
De min said I was evil...OoOpPsss
Yah, so anyway we are back on normal terms after my freak ice bitch act, which is a GOOD thing cuz I was agonizing over how mean I was to him. But anyway, he still hasn't properly thanked me for my sandwiches and that VERY IMPT wake-up call so I guess we're even.
Anyway, I only heaved a HUGE sigh all relief after I was done with the last spider..death toll was substantial but not high enough to warrant a panic attack from me. In fact, I was so proud of the surviving darlings that I OVERFED them. I hope nobody from the spider lab reads this blog because I almost obliterated the lab's store of fruit flies (mind you, it's alot) with this feeding. *Cross fingers and whistle* BUT MY SPIDERS DESERVED IT...honestly, i never knew spiders could lose weight and decrease in size because they are SUPPOSED to have HARD exoskeletons that are rigid enough to provide support in a not substantially buoyant medium, resist dessication and other what-nots (I love LSM3261 Life form and function)! BUT I SWEAR...the females' abdomens literally shrank to prepubescent dimensions.
Maybe the males will find them more attractive?
YEAHrite...
Oh and halfway through my feeding session, Prof Li came by and saw me hard at work (wahhaha yes...impressions matter my dears...SCORE!). So, we talked a little and then he asked me how was the Ecology paper (
actually, he teaches this module but for this semester because he had so many overseas trips, Darren Yeo n Hugh Tan were supposed to take over this module entirely. Sadly, an unfortunate thing happened to Prof Tan and I hope he is much better now =) So anyway, Prof Li along with Peter Todd had to teach Prof Tan's part of the module) then I said it should be alright and that his pdf readings on hotspots conservation were extremely useful. Not bootlicking, is truth.
Yeapyeap...hee anyway I was DEAD tired after the marathon session but before you think that I'm SUCH a loSER for working RIGHT after my last paper, READ ON and WEEP u PEASANTS!!!
I watched RENT starring Karen Mok at the Kallang Theatre that SAME night which also happens to be its OPENING NIGHT. Oh I feel so cultured...*Smug*
*Again, another educational update for the uninformed, RENT was having its 10th anniversary stage production since it started in Broadway and Singapore is the first pit stop for the world premiere of this musical tour extraveganza. And I, had the most expensive tickets! Valued at $148, my exclusive circle seat placed me right smack with the other aluminaries of the night. Though these stars weren't all that bright, I still managed to recognise some talent from Singapore's art and acting scene. Hahah, and top it all off, I did not have to pay a SINGLE cent for the ticket!!~ Weiqi's brother, YOU ARE GREAT. Oh yar, and weiqi, you too.*
RENT is an amazing and widely acclaimed musical documenting the lives of friends living in bohemian New York. Wit and heart ruled the staged and it was abound with little twists and turns to titillate, shock and amuse. Might I add, the sets were incredibly detailed and oh my god...I will never look at a table the same way again. Ditto for railings...
The singing was superb, acting was amazing and the dancing and choreography was faultless. Big thumbs up!~ So what quirky characters did we get to add the extra punch...*hrm a starving documentary maker and his ex-gf turned lesbian with her black butch ala Ross Geller
predicament...check...a down and out guitarist waiting for inspiration for that one song who has a hot hot chick called Mimi who wants him to 'light her candle'...check...a drag queen with his..er..her significant other in tow...check...a Pheobe Buffay classic act by a ditzy chick who loves singing about the cow jumping over the mooon...'Nuff said.
Okie...it was just great and if u can afford it, GO WATCH IT!
Ohoh and did I mention that we got to see Karen Mok up close and personal?????!!! ahah we were in the same room as her right after the musical where there was free beer and red wine too i might add =P...there was some interviewing tv station too. Enjoy the pictures...she is really pretty in person... Byt the way, if they are blur its not MY fault..haha
HEEZZZzz....she sang sooooooooooo well..
By the way, I don't think I really explained how I landed my hands on those tickets...they were complimentary tickets given to the art house company that weiqi's enterprising opportunistic (bless him) brother works at. So, her bro and his gf went together while Weiqi, weitzer and yuan wei plus moi went on our own. SHIOOOOKKSssssss!~ Add the fact that weitzer and yuanwei had also just finished their last paper that day too and weiqi finshed hers ages ago, we were in a GREAAAT mood the whole day. Ahaha...weitzer is losing his touch such that me n yw got quite a few 'suans' in...hai my advice to wt...if u gonna buy the ipod just get that goddamn thing already and stop telling us about how we ALL have ipods.
NEXT.
I'm so proud of myself *SMUG x100* It's my mom's birthday soon....same as ASN...anyway, I laboured over her present for 2 days...pouring over albums to put my *exam creativity overdrive to good use (I get brilliant ideas while studying for my exams...i guess the time when i can't do something is the time when i most want to do it! So typical!~).
I chose one photo that i took had potential and just started to do some touch-ups first. Then I just felt like doing some popart stuff and just came up with this templete. I know it may not be much for those who are really into art but cut me some slack cuz i don't even have photoshop...just Picasa and my hp printer. =P
The original
The touched-up
The templete
The product
Oh!~ I think I rock!!~ haha =P
Friday, November 11, 2005
Stressed?? I think so.
Okie...I just said that I won't blog until after the exams but i just had to write this here just in case....
You KNOW you are stressed when:
1) Your adrenaline is in overdrive to prepare your body physically for what we call the 'flight or fight' syndrome. Butironically, it's for a mentally demanding task.
2)When your brain keeps telling you not to get to strung up because there is still time before the exams but you have this really overwhelming cloud of negativity hovering over you: WTF!! SHIT SHIT SHIT WHY DIDN'T I START EARLIER.
3)When relaxation time is that 15 mins bathtime away from books
4)When you set the alarm for 4 a.m. everyday knowing that you CAN'T wake that earlier (mainly cuz you are not that stressed and desperate yet) and but persist in doing so just because it's a security blanket...
Obviously I get some sort of sick sadistic pleasuring from torturing myself into waking up just to slam down the alarm button.
5)When you become prehypertensive. No joking matter. Dizzy whole day. What worries me is that normally I'm have low bp but mine just SOARED...and my heartbeats normally a textbook perfect 70 increased to 85 beats....I didn't even do anything strenous except study.
6)When you feel like your body just feels weird and flighty.
7)When you fall asleep halfway while brushing. This morning I did. While brushing, I laid to rest on my bed. Big mistake. I really conked out....even had time to dream in that half hour of extra sleep.
Okie......ciao
I need to calm down....meditate and do that 'Omm' shit before i burst a blood vessel.
10:15 AM