Do you spend gross amount of time doing monotonous monster slaying just to level up your characters. And after you reached the highest level… start all over with a new character again?

Do you spend days and nights glued to the computer leveling and preparing for guild wars until flies start to obscure your line of vision? And still refuses to shower?

Do you own at least two personal computers, a workstation, a laptop, two phones, an ipod shuffle, an ipon nano, a PDA, a digital camera and a dead gadgets graveyard?

Do you spend most of your pre-exam holiday playing gunbound?

Do you consider fiddling with photoshop your leisure activity?

Did you wept at the sheer miracle of ipod nano and shiver with anticipation when you’re placing an order?

Is the best email you’ve ever receive all your life THE gmail invitation?

YES to all? But see this!

Got this from the gaming website. Muahahaha! I declare myself the geek queen! Fear me!

Oh but according to tomorrow.sg, I’m a whore! Hahaha!

Firstly, a big hi to people who surf on in from World Cyber Games. Hi!

Ok, now for some way overdue bitching!

Stop emailing me asking for codes to my layouts because that is bloody duh.

I’m not being a snob about this, I don’t mind helping people who are willing to help themselves. BUT thinking that a layout WITH images can magically appear because of a few lines of coding is beyond ignorant. It totally disregards the tedious amount of work that goes into every design. I’m not only talking about my own sloppy designs but also works of designers I pay utmost respect to.

Another typical question.
A:How do you do your layout?
Me: Photoshop
A: How do you photoshop?
Me: …

If you care enough to open photoshop and play around a tiny bit, you never would have ask a question like that. I learned photoshop, flash and 3ds Max by spending HOURS clicking on every tool to see what it does. Self teaching is immensely satisfying, why let me take that away from you.

Then the coding. Coding standards are dependent on blog engines. Example, Livejournal and Xanga are notoriously rigid, no sane designer enjoys building anything around them. Some even died trying. This means you have to figure how to code your blog yourself. I am not the omnipresent all knowing goddess of blogging. I don’t do xanga layouts because I DO NOT KNOW how to code a xanga layout, neither do I care.

In summary, you can’t have a personalised layout by being incredibly ignorant or lazy. My friggin clueless sister never ask me anything until she totally effed up her site.

So she’s dumb, but at least she’s respectably dumb. And for that, she earned herself a yummy layout. Go sister! Go WordPress!

Anyway, look at my delicious wallpaper! Did it in record breaking time so it’s very rough and messy but that’s ok, reflects how my real desktop looks like right now.

I love flickr API!

Attempted to do a Brady Bunch Kinda thing. It’ll look weird on his screen cuz I would have been on the top and him in the bottom. Because he drew a mirror image of me, I have to change my hair parting to imitate his picture. He did that picture in like 1 minute? *applause*

At 3 am, me and Paul ought to be dancing in Chinablack, but it happened to be not the case. What can two bored souls at different parts of Singapore do? Camwhore!!! Here are 4 pairs of shots, each pair screen captured at the exact time. This is merely a teaser, more shots later! By the way, I have no makeup on and you can see the mighty zit on my nose bridge. Yep that’s it, that’s the one. Her name is Lucy.

I posted those pictures with a nifty plugin call the Flickr Post Bar. How ingenious! It made posting pictures from flickr so unbelieveably easy. *heart*
Bloody awesome! I wanna download that nice little cut plugin that Reverie has too. Woohoo! I love wordpress!

Sooo….weekends are here again. Last weekend was wholely dedicated to the WCG so I think I deserve a little break. All these running around meeting new people have been fun but there must be time for solitude too. Plus, some shitheads are driving me wild with their juvenile tendencies and dealing with them can be emotionally wearisome. The rumours they spread are so childish and untrue I can’t decide if I should be frustrated or amused. Some people really have too much time on their hands. This weekend I just wanna lay among my mogus reading Narnia, occasionally indulging in rich sugary food. I need a long run too, feeling quite lethargic.

Speaking of food, I’m banned from drinking or eating papayas cuz my hands have turned yellow from eating too much of them. I’m not bullshiting you! You can’t make this shit up! It is REALLY yellowish. I tried to sneak a slice of papaya to my desk earlier and the media and sales people started nagging at me incessantly.

Me: Okok, last papaya!
A: Don’t bluff, you’ll eat during the weekends
B: You better stop eating or your face will turn yellow too
C: We will check your hands on Monday.

Shows

Received more photos from the world cyber games, I’m gonna just collect them all and do a collage. I’m still expecting the photos we took with Fiona Xie. The one I took with Ben Yeo sucks, I look like a frog devouring a juicy fly. Some of the girls think I look dollish but nah that is just their euphemism for Tweety, you know…big head, skinny frame.

More photos here

Oh, remember the audition I mentioned a few weeks back, all I have to say is, stay tune to MTV! *laughs*

A New Blog

My sister started blogging. Gosh she’s so smart academically but she’s a big idiot when it comes to anything IT. She totally screwed up her wordpress in ways nobody ever thought possible.

Me: *grumbles grumbles* Aiyo, what did you dooooo…
Sister keeps quiet, sheepish grin on her face
Me: grumbles grumbles
Me: You know what? I think you should just use blogspot
Sister: Yea I think so too.
Me: You see this folder here? *points to a mochafrappe.com folder in the server*
Sister: Ya?
Me: That’s yours.
Sister: Ok..
Me: And see this? *points to joy.nu*
Sister: ya?
Me: That’s mine. Do not touch it. Do. Not. Touch. It.
Sister: hehehe

Haha I’m mean. Everything’s fine now, visit my sista at Mochafrappe.com! My youngest sister is barred from blogging. I don’t know what kinda stupid school BPGH is but that girl has become super lame since studying there. I look at her friendster profile and it makes me wanna drop my name and move to Africa. I can forgive her language and her lousy taste of music but do we need more ALtErNaTe cAps In ThIs WoRLd? NO.

The entry on Harry Potter is protected because it contains spoilers for the book. If you haven’t read the book but plan to, you shouldn’t read it.

If you are not gonna read the book but is planning to watch the movie, I don’t think you’ll know what I’m talking about but maybe you shouldn’t read just to be safe.

If you’ve read the book, it doesn’t matter if you’ve watched the film or not.

Password: potter

Blogbites

• The street lightings in town really suck this year. Miles after miles of bad taste. The shopping centres are frigging lazy and cheapo too. I still remember how amazing Christmas decorations used to be. Is the best decoration contest not around anymore? I also remember how the roads are traditionally blocked off for wild street parties. I was still a kid but I can remember so vividly. *sighs*
• Stopped reading Lord of the Rings so that I can start with Narnia in preparation for the upcoming movie. I’ve only completed Fellowship of the Rings but good books are not meant to be rushed. By the way, Narnia is a very lovely read. Ahh I love fantasy stories!
• I saw technorati top keywords and thus conclude that Singaporeans have nothing better to do. My favourite singaporean blogger is Angela of blursotong but her blog went kaput one fine day. My ultimate favourite blog is dooce.com. These days, I don’t even have time to read it, lotsa catching up to do. Yikes.

World Cyber Games

• The samsung girls (9 of us) are all distinctively different. We have the broody, the cutesy, the pretty, the drop dead gorgeous, the stylish, the very sexy spg. Wide appeal! But they all have one thing in common, lovely personalities! The korean game developers for carom3d are very nice too, although I don’t know what they are talking about half the time. I think I’m gonna miss them all!
• Most gamers are really friendly too. Due to the effective coaching.of two gamers, I’ve become an expert at online billiard. My coaches turned out to be the world’s top players. *coughs*
• Caramel Macchiato from Starbucks is godsent when you’re so friggin cold, you can no longer feel your limbs. For you information, that is exactly what I imagine butterbeer to taste like.
• I feel that a little more effort and attention to your dressing and looks does make a whole lotta difference.
• Five days flew by in a wink.
• Fiona Xie was alright, just a little pretentious and self concious. Ben Yeo was quite nice and friendly!
• Timonthy Goh puts on more cosmetic on his face then us nine put together.

Gamers from Spain + Korean game developer we were helping out with (very cute)

Good long break! Back to real work and office politics! I was telling a samgung girl about it and she raised an eyebrow saying she’s not surprised cuz office politics are common, she elaborated that though different, each samsung girl has all the right gossip inducing attributes, she thinks that people probably likes gossiping about me because I look very high maintenance. True, I spend too much on food, but people can’t really see that can they.

Anyway, I’m gonna watch Harry Potter later but I don’t expect the movie to match up to the book, Goblet of Fire is my second favourite so far, l’m gonna be really anal about it.

Had Swiss Mushroom and Cheese Pasta from Swiss Culture. It might just be the best thing I’ve ever tasted. I tried it before and know how amazing it is. Today, it is absolutely divine.

WCG drawing to a close. I’m gonna miss it.

To the Kids: This post is rated NC-16. Go no further if you’re a kid.

I need a tall caucasian to play Santa Claus from 18-25 December. Paying $60 dollars an hour. Please inform me if there’s anybody willing to do this, spreading a little Xmas cheer by distributing candies in Parco Bugis Junction. Paddings will help with the rolly bolly look so Santa need not be plump, but he has to tall.

Ok anyway, I’m bloody tired now. I’m desperately deprived of sleep.

I’m currently working in WCG. WCG is bloody cool. Cute geeks are everywhere. Geeks heaven! Oh. my. gawd! I’m being particularly sociable these days so come say hi if you see me!

Oh and anyway, there are grafitti artists doing live demonstration there and we became friends. I was talking to one who was taking a break, asking if I can hire him to vandalise my room and he’s keen about it! I take a look at his hiphoppish grafitti, frown and said…

Me: Eh, you can like… draw girly stuff? Like flowers?
Him: Oh yea, let me show you. *Whips out his sketchbook*
Me: Wow, these are nice…Hey do you know Fafi?
Him: Yea the one from Germany?
Me: Yea yea! Can you draw her dolls?
Him: Yea can can.
Me: Ahhhh that’s so cool! Ok later give me your contact.

*GRIN* Fafinette in my rooom! Whahahahahahaaaaa! I think my mum will not be too happy about this.

Types of Beautiful People

• There are the snobbish beautiful people who are totally lacking in any other departments and you wonder what are they so snobbish about, that the only good thing they have is given?
• There are snobbish and beautiful and capable and smart and talented people. I guess it’s justifiable then.
• Then there are these bunch of beautiful people who thinks they are superior but act friendly to you so you won’t call them snobbish beautiful people. Never mind though, you can call them fake.
• There are also unfortunate cases of humble beautiful people who are born with snobbish face so people misjudged them as snobs. Poor Jaze, she kanna this all the time.
• There are beautiful bimbos who are nice and humble and they tend to be very adorable.
• And of cuz…there are fair folks who are beautiful, talented, smart, funny, down to earth etc.. You don’t know if you should love them or hate them and you often wonder if they are not the most evil ones of all.
• Last but not least. The snobbish deluded plain janes who think they are very beautiful and act like they are very beautiful. I like them most for their entertainment value, great subjects for mindless nattering.

Old Bloggers

Seen a few bloggers resurfacing, the blogging scene was very small back then and bloggers kinda know each other. Good old days. Pearlyn is definately one of the older ones. But of cuz the oldest blogger I know is Lauryn, followed by Reverie. Some people like Germaine kept journals in dairyland or livejournals but those weren’t considered blogs then, merely online journals. The term blog didn’t catch on till 2000 and even then, if you don’t use blogger, you’re not considered blogging.

Then other scripts surfaced and greymatter was the hottest one. It uses cgi, which was the rave then. I shall call that the elder days of blogging (I’m so obviously in Lord of the Rings mode.), the best days. I was damn addicted then. *sighs*

So glad to find people who remembers the old glory of blogging and understands. Ok, now I feel old.

With the whole Dawn Yang fiasco, I fear for the day where plastic surgery becomes accepted, even habitual. And you’ll see advertisements shoved in your face every single day ala the slimming ads of today. Not totally impossible when the general consensus over Dawn Yang goes “I don’t think plastic surgery is wrong but she shouldn’t lie about it.”.

I’m sure the fairer folks feel kinda cheated cuz lasting good looks isn’t exclusive to good genes anymore. And people like myself is not happy cuz we certainly don’t need more ways to spend money… like macintosh vs nose job? What a headache it’s gonna be!

And seriously, I’m getting really paranoid now. I’m questioning everybody! Flower prints: gay? Big eyes: eye surgery? Loads of makeup: transvestite? Pretty girl: plastic surgery? Do you know we could track economic development by the gay index?

Disclaimer: I’m really not against any of these but to be honest, this thought ran through my mind as I wrote this entry. “What kinda screwed up world we live in?”

It is also kinda frightening how “being open-minded” is fast becoming a social conformity. I find myself saying I’m “okay” with things I’m not even sure about. I say I’m ok with gays but when I see guys kissing I get instant goosebumps all over, which reflects how I really feel… Ah whatever, the world is so screwed.

Don’t ask me stupid questions like “How you make your layout, I want a layout like that”, “Where you get your pictures” when I’m nursing a bigass headache because that just shows how friggin ignorant you are and honestly…. leave me outta it.

Why Headache????

Saturday

Morning: Meet up
Arvo: Haircut + Costume Fittings + Shopping
Evening: Birthday Party
Night: Gig + Chinablack
Morning: Talk cock session near my place with Kelvin and his friend till 7am in the morn. Literally saw the sun rising. Omg I haven’t seen Kelvin chap for more then a year and the first thing he said was. “You are fat!” Wtf.

And that, THAT is totally the reason why I’m having a headache.
Ok gonna go have Delifrance desserts for lunch now. Crepes and bread pudding! Yum!

New Hairstyle: Loads of layers which took loads of weight off my head. More volume at the crown, tapered drastically towards the ends. Saw Xinying in Cineleisure last night, she said it was different and nice. Yup I love it lots!

My collegue saw the kitty picture and now he kept saying I work in a nightclub even though I told him it is a decent club. Diao. I don’t blame him really and he reminded me how different peoples’ perception can be. Long ago, I would have considered club dancers slutty. But now, all I look out for are skills, showmanship, creativity etc. I’m really proud of my dance freelance cuz it really isn’t easy coming to where I am now, but I have to bear in mind that most people don’t see club dancing the same way as we do. And we get treated like some bimbo cheap sluts sometimes. Raur. Sacrifices…..

• Dawn Yang: Everyone are entitled to their opinions regarding the surgery but don’t have to be so merciless about it, like they are only too happy to know that she wasn’t born with the looks.
• Going to the costume shop everyone was talking about during Halloween tomorrow. I think it’s gonna be fun!
• Placed an order for a white ipod nano yesterday. My new baby will be nothing short of amazing, I just know it! I don’t think anyone is gonna buy my battered shuffle so I’ll just use it for my runs, don’t wanna get the nano all salty and icky ya?
• Disclaimer: Webdesigning is not my job. It’s a hobby which I happen to be good at so I’m charging. Same for dance, though I’m not really good at the latter.
• My real job is to control content dissemination through IT channels like the Internet, wap, sms technologies, imode etc and alliance with the different companies involved. That’s half of it, the other half is getting pissed off by various people and their silly antics.
• I love my colleagues and job. That’s why I’m staying. Er can’t say too much about anything else, check out the recent private posts to know more.

• Spent all monday night chatting with the Rainbow Club Members till 1 am. Didn’t jog! Argh…now I’m itching all over! But the RBC members were so funny! Would have took a screenshot but my lappie don’t have photoshop and my computer is still down. Boo.
• I wrote Haikus for the RBC members in friendster cuz I miss them so. Awww…
• Herman has been really ignoring the club since he got attached. We plan to
  drown his girlfriend then set fire on him if it isn’t too troublesome. But whatever it is, the girl has got to go.
• I’m getting a present from Mummy! AND it is much better than getting a
  Nano Ipod. MUCH MUCH Better! Patience patience.
• Aileen baby actually looks like the fafinettes. And she made fafinettes of
  the RBC people too! Tis moi!
  
• I’m gonna buy Sims 2 and their expansions soon. If I’m not using Tiger os, I
  need all the justifications I can find. And Nightlife!? Hey, that’s the world I thrive!
• The new dance drama in channel 8 is so stupid can?
• I think I need a new haircut. My hair looks boring…but I think I oughta wait till I’m done with my assignments.
• Oh and finally, I found this in Chinablack’s site. *hides*

Last Monday seems like eons ago. I know it’s inevitable, the mood have to peak somewhere…and now it seems like there’s nowhere else to go but down. Unless you know, I could like… win something. And by something I mean an award. And by award I mean an Oscar. Maybe that would make me happier. Maybe..

Now there’s only the drudgery of backlogged work ahead. OT tonight. Boo.

Anyway, congrats to Hermy! One fishie has finally bit the long awaiting almost rusted off but apparently still working bait.

I was heartbroken, Aileen became insane at the break of news and Paul commited suicide. But I’m okay in the end cuz a good many people were concern…

°Pu®ple Orchid° says:
and. yer nick makes me xin tong. i hope u are ok. i shan’t disturb u liao.
ghost of Priscilla, died of a broken heart says:
no la…its supposed to be a funny thing hahahaaaa
°Pu®ple Orchid° says:
it iS?
ghost of Priscilla, died of a broken heart says:
cuz my friend got attached and told me not to be sad
°Pu®ple Orchid° says:
………………………………
ghost of Priscilla, died of a broken heart says:
tot i’d never say this to you but Jane….you are so cute.
ghost of Priscilla, died of a broken heart says:
AHAHAHA
°Pu®ple Orchid° says:
U GO AND DIE LAH
°Pu®ple Orchid° says:
PIAN WO GAN QING.

Haha so KE AI!

Oh more prezzies today! Someone said the presents I get in a year can last me a few birthdays. Oh and forgot to mention that Meimin gave me some cookies on Saturday along with the book. So nice! I wanted to bring some home to share with my sisters but I thought what they didn’t know can’t possibly hurt them so I finished the cookies and threw away any tell tale signs of their past existence. Heh.

Quote of the Day: Imitation is the best form of flattery. True.
But cashing in on people’s creativity is uncalled for. Check out the real deal: Pinc.ws

Okok….back to work.

Argh this week feels like it is never ever gonna end. Besides being super duper busy with work and play (obviously), the neat holiday interuptions makes you lost sense of time.

But the mood is great, like being caught in a good breeze. Uplifted, carefree. Happy.

Cuz firstly, the company received some publicity, being a part of a major marketing programme. All because of me! This is out of my jobscope cuz I’m not the marketing people but it felt nice nevertheles. Although very awful office politics has been going on here, a job is ultimately about the job and I do love my job. But…it’s a shame really….nevermind a private entry this shall be.

There there was the casting… instead of selecting 12 girls according to plan, they chose only 5 outta the girls there, I think there will be a second casting or something. But anyway I got it. Heh. I think it was because of my height. I was wearing very high heels!

More birthday prezzies today! Books! Ipod Fan book (really pretty), Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Jordi Labanda Notebook! I love you all! Mwah!

Oh and finally…I have a silly sugar rush crush on somebodeeeeee and it’s making feel like some sTuPid GIgLy t3eNyB0op3R aGa1n! Kekeke! At the grand age of twenty three too! Oh the shame!!! How am I ever gonna live this down? And seriously it’s not my fault, how can I resist when he’s too unwittingly cute? Oh my gawd..I’ve gone over the edge…

Anyways, was talking to the party animal Rikard.
Tink ·.·* says:
we dun have pictures together damn
Blubb says:
hey we have one!!
Blubb says:
last day of project roof top garden stuff
Blubb says:
but need a new one..
Tink ·.·* says:
maybe I should photoshop one hahaha
Blubb says:
yea it’ll be cheaper

Not bad lah… considering how swiftly done this is. I look like a mighty pleased SPG that has just scored something big. Haha.