#363 can you understand this?/updates!

i feel like this sometimes but you don't seem to understand.

this is my last week at work, and i can't wait for the week to end! but that will also mean that holidays are drawing to end soon.. sigh. it's quite a bad start to the week, as i'm feeling sick.. seems like it's because both my parents are down with a flu bug too (my dad last week, my mum now)

i had a pretty good week last week! met Nick on tuesday and we had a simple dinner together and thereafter had the durian McFlurry from Macdonalds! walked around and all too..

then the next day derrick lixuan andrea alex and i met up to do the short video for hall's FOC! it was pretty hilarious cos we filmed it at a small room inside one of Ikea's showroom! we thought that it will be quiet but people kept walking past and alex found it so embarrassing cos he need to go topless for the video HAHAHA. it was all in all an amusing experience hehe. bon came over to take a look but we were done already, and yong yeh sat at the sofa right outside our room reading a book haha he's damn funny we thought that he was reading some random Ikea book at first!

our CGL looking cute in his headgear hahaha

met with Bao and Louis for dinner at the Cathay on thursday and we had cheap food at Saizeriya! :) after finishing we just hung around to chat and all.. although there was only the three of us, it was still damn fun talking about everything under the sun hehe ^^

friday was my course registration day.. the day i spent an entire afternoon trying to get a module with non-existent places :/ i had initially wanted to wake up really  late because i was super tired, but i awoke to messages that made me panic! i was told that i can't add modules that were not in the 'recommended track' for marketing students and that meant that i couldn't take accounting II this sem. i was seriously feeling extremely wth already because that meant that i had to change my schedule in the 2 hours right before registering for my course. but i changed my modules accordingly, replaced accounting with another marketing module.

however during the course registration itself, when i first clicked to add mods at 130PM exactly, the entire system lagged and i DIDN'T GET ANY OF MY MODULES. but it was a slight scare as over the next 10 minutes i got 2 of my core modules already. the last module was the freaking irritating one though. it was the module that i didn't want to take in the first place; service marketing, which i replaced accounting with. stupid module didn't have any spaces, and when i called NBS UPO, they told me that all the slots were filled up completely already. so tell me, why on earth does the school insist on us keeping to specific modules but not want to release more slots for it?! urgh.

so in summary, i didn't manage to get all my core modules :(

after registration, i went to meet Bao for dinner and we had the cheap Manhattan grilled fish meal along with their mud-pie which was damn good! then we just walked around looking at clothes and all hehe.

doesn't look too appetizing but the butter rice is the best. i usually hate rice, mind you ;)

MUD-PIEEEEE YUMZ! damn rich and just way too awesome! 

saturday was Beer Market flea day with yingjun! i didn't manage to buy much, just a dress, a second hand Mango denim jacket from the scarlet room's stall and pastel yellow shorts from Marching Daisy! (Joey's shop hehe) total loot only cost me $28 hehe was quite happy about it :) met Nick after his training and we went to Orchard Central for dinner! we went to this cafe called Dean & Deluca, which i absolutely love! the ambience was good and the mac and cheese which we had was damn yumz! we shared an apple strudel from Ritz too whoop.

i'm sorry about the bad lighting, didn't edit my photos :< 

yummy looking cakes and tarts! :)

occupied by a bun.

and then our food was done! mac and cheese with a small salad on the side! this was damn nice hehe i love it although it was a tad oily. but nonetheless it was still yummy cos the flavors were delish! :D

supper with the hallies on the same night at Geylang's frog porridge place hehe damn niceeee ^^ and it was a good time with them as always! oh, and it was the 3rd/4th consecutive day of seeing bao cos i saw her from sat night till sun the next day (after 12am) hehe.

then yesterday was spent chilling at home and ding came over for a run! we wanted to go for Gordon Ramsay but thankfully we didn't, otherwise we would have been mad squeezing with crowds!! hahaha.

so that sums up my previous week! my updates are pretty short cos i can't really think now.. my brain's kind of dead tired cos of my increasingly worsening flu too :(

{UPDATED}

i've added photos in, and some from the previous week too! the ones i took when i met up with michelle and yj, as well as dim sum from Sims Avenue 126 whoo ^^

its so cool how we all know one another ^^

we ate at a cheap Italian place called Saizeriya (which i had w Bao and Louis too) and spent only about $12 each despite ordering 2 desserts and one side dish to share, on top of our main dishes!

egg+potato+mushrooms+cheese+bacon. 3 out of my 4 favourite foods present! 

our lava cake which was disappointing for me as the 'lava' didn't ooze out :(

truffle ice cream! not bad! :)

i think that the place serves really decent food at an extremely reasonable price! plus side would be that the restaurant is situated in town, and it's difficult to find a place that serves cheap food so this would be pretty ideal for those on a budget :) the choices of food are good too, they even offer escargots at $5.90 if i'm not mistaken? i don't want to eat snails so i didn't order that haha.

went to 126 dim sum last friday with Nick after work! i had a traumatizing experience before i met him :< couldn't get in contact with him cos his phone died and we were at different sides of Aljunied. i absolutely detest BB now. the battery life is practically non-existent-.- thankfully he managed to get hold of a phone to call me and the person probably gave him directions to the Geylang East library (where i was) i never ever want to go through that again it almost made me cry cos i was frantically and desperately searching for a red Mazda :'(

we took a trip down his memory lane and went to look at his child care/student care centers! hehe. then we headed to 126 to have a quick dinner before our haircuts!

fried prawn rolls. i absolutely loveeee these. if you love har kows as much as i do, this would be perfect for you too^^ soft shell crab was good too! hehe. i prefer the prawn rolls while nick likes the crab more!

chee cheong fan with charsiew, xiao long baos and har kows! only the chee cheong fan was good, trust me. do not order the other 2 when you are there. hahaha. even though i love har kow, this was.. meh. try the bao jin tian ones, those are THE BEST.

fried seaweed pork rolls!! these were good too! ^^

we were rushing back to Tampines for our haircut hence we only had these :( its only my second time there and i def want to go back again for the prawn rolls!!

okay that's all for my updates! shall blog more when i'm free :) for now i need sleep so that my flu (hopefully) will go away.

#362 Monsters University/World War Z

i've always LOOOOOVED Monsters' Inc so when i found out that there was a prequel, i was so happy! :D immediately made Nick promise to watch it with me, quite some time ago.

however i was a teensy bit sad, because this movie wouldn't have Boo who's my all time favorite character in Monsters Inc :( she's so absolutely adorable and funny even though she couldn't speak in the movie except for 'kitty' and 'mike vazaoski' and of course her signature phrase, 'BOO!'

my favorite scene of her! sooooo cute!

a few of her funny moments in the movie, hehe. she's just too cute to be true!

but anyway, back to Monsters University! i went into the movie without knowing the storyline, but i enjoyed every moment of it. even though the plot is really simple, i thought that it was executed well and it had cute elements in it which i absolutely love ^^

SPOILERS AHEAD! (a little)

the movie started off with (a very cute) baby mike! his voice was high pitched, he had retainers and he was so small compared to all his other monster classmates! it was a little sad though, because they outcasted him due to his size.

when they arrived for their class excursion to the Scream Factory

they had a class trip and Mike was 100% motivated by one of the scarers to enter MU's (Monsters University) Scare program!

after this, it gets fast forwarded to him entering university, where he meets his and Sully's future nemesis, Randall, who was also his room mate. however, Randall keeps wanting to be with the 'cool kids' while Mike just wants to excel in his studies.

a brawl between him and Sully during a class gets them kicked out of the scare program cos they broke the dean's 'souvenir from decades of scaring'.

eventually, Mike made a deal that if he could win the Scare Games, they were to be admitted back into the program. however, no one wanted to be a team with them, so they ended up with the Oozma Kappa fraternity!

they are a bunch of misfit monsters who were 'uncool' to the rest of the university students, and were also kicked out of the Scare program. thus this team was obviously deemed to be the first one to get kicked out of the Scare Games! they almost got eliminated but because another group cheated, they survived through and got through the rest of the stages too! :)

Mike was the one who taught them everything he knew, so that they were able to excel in the Games despite being the underdog. however, he was not scary enough and Sully knew it.

it was the final round between them and the 'obvious winners' of the Games. and this was the round where the animosity between Sully and Randall surfaced! they were competing against each other in separate scare simulators and because Sully roared super loudly, Randall fell from his hiding spot onto a heart-shaped print rug which caused his skin to take that print as well and he didn't quite scare the kid and scored a low point for the 'cool kids'. This made him not want to lose to Sully ever again!

ultimately, Mike scored a full score and OK won the championships! however, it was soon discovered by Mike that Sully had tampered with the simulator so that he could get a full score without much efforts at all. the entire OK team was disappointed in Sully too, and Mike was furious that Sully did not believe in him.

he stormed up to the lab where the students engineered doors to kids' rooms, and entered hastily. he tried to scare, but to no avail! alas, it was a camp dorm and there were at least a dozen kids in bunks! they all started moving towards him and then Mike escaped! Sully came through the door and found Mike. they started talking about their feelings and then ran away because humans were approaching.

on the other side, the dean had turned off the power to the door! but quick thinking Mike knew that if they could generate enough energy on their side, they could power up the door to return. so they began a plan to get the adults to scream enough and it worked! albeit too much because all the canisters were filled and some overfilled and exploded. they managed to return but got expelled :(

though this, the dean felt that they were special monsters.

and the both of them went on to working at Monsters Inc which leads to the movie! they worked as mail men, cafeteria helpers, cleaners etc. eventually, Sully became a scarer and Mike remains as his coach and they both remained best friends :)

the movie tells a tale of remaining true to yourselves, and to pursue what you want the most.

after the movie, we went to catch another one:

starring Brad Pitt, this was quite a typical zombie movie i guess?

my friend commented (on fb and he also told me on WA) that this movie was like playing L4D, what with the same types of weapons and also the way the movie progressed!

i didn't think anything much about the movie because it was so similar to what i've seen before previously! there isn't much storyline to this movie as well so.. i've got nothing much to say about it already.

if you like action and zombie films, then obviously you should watch it. but if you care for the storyline in movies, please do not watch it. there's isn't much storyline to watch for. the ending wasn't really great either (so you inject lethal viruses into humans as vaccines? wouldn't the people fall ill and die?)

Brad Pitt mentioned "This isn't the end. Not even close."

i have no idea why he said that haha. cos besides that phrase, it didn't seem to me that there was going to be any sequel..

oh there was one hilarious scene in the show though. after injecting himself with some lethal virus, Brad Pitt walked coolly past all the zombies who liked to make weird noises like chattering their teeth ALOT, and suddenly switched over to filming an advertorial.

seriously.

he headed over to a Pepsi vending machine and grabbed a can of Pepsi, drank it, and went 'ahhh'. omg it was totally funny because before he went 'ahhh' me and Nick already made that sound haha it was super dumb.

okay well that's all i have to say about the movies i caught!

is Man of Steel any good to watch by the way? please tell me!

#360 quick updates on my life; TGIF!

so, i've been watching quite a lot of running man while i'm working.. am on episode 40 already and i just started last week only (i only watch at work). i can't really laugh out when there are others around so that's the downside.. it's so super difficult to suppress the laughter!

how to not laugh while watching this?! HAHAHA. too funny already seriously!

anyway, its FRIDAY FRIDAY WHOOOOO. TGIF soonz, i'm gonna meet the hall people for a good dinner at Blooie's (skipper and raq say that it's damn yumz hehe) and tomorrow will be Pulau Ubin with Euge and Ding! love those two kids to itsy bits ^^

i shall update more when i have time (hopefully before hall senior camp) about Mr Tam's wedding (awwhh), random dates with people and a very special event :)

oh, i had korean bbq at Ssikkek yesterday! hehe with bao and der! those 2 are damn free cos they don't wanna work FnB anymore.. and der got an accountant internship for one month, which starts next week. lucky dude has high pay!!!

okay back to doing work/watching Goong/running man. haha i think that Song Ji Hyo is damn pretty so i want to rewatch Goong! didn't know that the other girl was her until recently hehe.

TGIF EVERYONEEEE! 

#359 on a hot summer night

i absolutely enjoy simple nights out with the people i love. though short they might be, within those few hours, i feel a warmth that never ceases to put a smile, a laugh on my face :) thank you for all of these, you know who you are.

“And then one student said that happiness is what happens when you go to bed on the hottest night of the summer, a night so hot you can’t even wear a tee-shirt and you sleep on top of the sheets instead of under them, although try to sleep is probably more accurate. And then at some point late, late, late at night, say just a bit before dawn, the heat finally breaks and the night turns into cool and when you briefly wake up, you notice that you’re almost chilly, and in your groggy, half-consciousness, you reach over and pull the sheet around you and just that flimsy sheet makes it warm enough and you drift back off into a deep sleep. And it’s that reaching, that gesture, that reflex we have to pull what’s warm - whether it’s something or someone - toward us, that feeling we get when we do that, that feeling of being sad in the world and ready for sleep, that’s happiness.”

Paul Schmidtberger, Design Flaws of the Human Condition