whatever: September 2005

ridiculous descriptions

trying to find out where i'm supposed to alight. when i click on the link to see the location of the particular busstop i'm trying to alight at, the map above appeared. i'm supposed to alight at busstop 1. it's the tiny circle on the building called "capital tower".

descriptions by the bus provider's website to locate said busstop:

1. road name (where busstop is located) - shenton way
2. bus stop description - opp mas bldg
3. landmark - mas building

first of all, why does the map provided by the bus provider show a busstop in the middle of a building?
secondly, why is the said busstop not on shenton way? (shenton way is the road parallelly right of robinson road.)
thirdly, where is the mas building?

wah lau eh. seriously leh. description of busstop - opp mas building. landmark - mas building. and yet there's no mas building on the map?? seriously.

really feel like just walking there from my workplace instead. but according to the bus provider website, it's a 3.75km bus ride. so i guess it's probably as long a walk. don't think i can cover 3.75km on foot in half an hour. guess i'll risk getting lost.

sheesh

so-so day at work

today had to work with this other part-timer at my part-time workplace. it was a bloody pain.

usually we have minimal interaction with each other coz we would be doing our own work (data entry) which doesn’t require any interaction between the two of us. but when we are in a social circumstance (eg at lunch together with the other colleagues) it’s especially obvious that she is ignoring my presence. I’m not the only one to notice that she seems to have a blackface whenever I’m around.

I’d tried to make small talk with her in a cab before. but from the way she replied my smalltalkquesition, it seemed as if I had asked an extremely insulting question (which i didn't think i did). so from then on, I just stopped bothering to socialize with her.

had to work with her earlier in the morning (doing some packing). imagine, early in the morning and I’ve to work with littlemissblackface. damnit lah. does she suffer from ppms*?

worse still, had to lunch with her (and other people lah). biang eh.

as a result, I was somewhat stoning during lunch coz she just kinda blackened my day with her chao bin

so I decided to go for a walk since I managed to gorge down my lunch in half an hour.

walking brings make memories of my days of somewhat aimless wandering in new york.

sigh

also, I think walking is kind of useful when it comes to weight control. you just have to stupidly believe that everywhere is walkable (eg from 42nd Street to 79th Street) and just walk (then find out later that everywhere is not really that walkable).

walked to tiong bahru market. took me 10 minutes (strangely enough, think the walk back took only 5-7 min). and I bought this cup of 腐竹意米水. it’s damn nice lah (if you like 腐竹)!

the drink is actually cream-colored. looks kinda like soya bean drink. the taste of 腐竹 is quite strong. with a hint of 意米.

usually 腐竹意米 comes as a 糖水 rather than as a beverage. it was curiosity that led me to purchase this rather divine (imho) drink.

and this wonderful find has made my otherwise shitty day a little less shitty.

*ppms: permanent post menstrual syndrome. sheesh, I’ve actually coined a new term in honor of littlemissblackface.

google earth

google earth is cool! it's nice to be able to see nyc. sigh.

photos from my trip

just spent a damn hell long time uploading all the photos i took in the states into my comp. think there's roughly 2000+ photos. "p

i know it's shocking. i'm kinda shocked myself too. but hey, that's why we have digital cameras right? just shoot then delete later mah.

think there're a lot of repetitive photos (just waiting to be sifted through and deleted). there're also many photos of scenery, many dark photos as i attempted to take photos in the dark.

and for some reason, i can't get the photo uploading thing in blogger to work. nb. so i had to try flickr. argh. ley chey ley chey.

04 aug 2005

view out of sq22

first time i'm taking a long-haul flight. first time i'm flying all by myself. first time i'm going away for a relatively long time. of course i'll take a photo on my first flight.

05 aug 2005

attempt to capture nyc's skyline

landed in nj the night before (04 aug 2005). and today i take a bus to nyc from nj all by myself, to catch a bus to boston. all by myself again.

this is a photo i took while i was on the chinatown bus* heading to boston. was kinda foggy/smoggy. kinda disappointing.

attempt to capture some bridge of nyc

another attempt to capture nyc's skyline while on the chinatown bus. actually think i was trying to catch that bridge.

no, i don't know what bridge this is. think i've forgotten what all the bridges are called liao. sigh. oh wait. i do know the brooklyn bridge. think i can recognize the manhattan bridge too. but this, sorry.

06 aug 2005

r&j

a scene from the r&j performance X and i caught at.. erm.. a park? shit. forgot the name of the park. will update when i find out.

slimer! slimy? eeh.. worm.

a worm was crawling on the chair of this lady sitting in front of X and i. X was damn amused by it. and so we attempted to photo it in action.

my arm

a wall that i thought was rather photogenic. took a few photos of it. this is one the ones X took. spot my arm?

weird photo

a photo of my te chiu and X's slim hand/arm. X thought the color of our arm accessories and the blue sky made a nice photo.

prey & predator

spotted this bird that looked awfully like a predatory bird, stalking a squirrel. never see before in my life! in the end, the squirrel ran into this column and hid within it. and the bird eventually flew away. exciting!

i'm so easily impressed.

a view of prudential building

drove by the downtown area? thought the prudential building's kinda funky looking. rather 60's-ish.

happening harvard yard

and we went to the harvard yard at night for dinner and a stroll. and you have these buskers there jamming, and this guy dragging people to join in and dance. X was not really impressed but i was. i just wish the streets in sg is as happening.

*chinatown bus - how a lot of people refer to the buses that run from chinatown, nyc. there's quite a number of bus companies that are based in chinatown. mainly run by -- chinese. the bus company i took is called fung wah. it's a pretty reliable bus company according to the net.

from my experience, it's not bad lah. definitely very reliable if you compare it to greyhound.

think i miss ny.

csi:ny has never captured my attention so raptly before. it’s the same with friends. i can’t help but pay more attention to these ny-based shows hoping to catch something, anything that i am able to recognize.

places like Brooklyn, queens actually makes a little sense to me now. though i haven’t been to these places, but at least now i know they’re all parts of nyc. and that manhattan is only a part of nyc.

and every time i get reminded about ny from the papers, the telly, the net.. i just feel a little empty. and going to work at my part-time place just feels a little bit more xian than before.

i question if i’d actually missed sg while i was away. i wonder what is it exactly that i’d missed about sg.

perhaps it’s the familiarity of things. maybe it’s my friends. maybe it’s my family.

but it seems like i miss ny way more.

when i was there, i found myself rediscovering who i am, who i can be. true, at times i felt that i was falling back into the mold that i’m trying to break out of, but more often than not i was just experiencing new things and reacting to them. i was being forced to adapt to a new environment, a new culture, a new society.

because it’s so foreign and new, my reactions are more in sync with who i am right now. in sg, i do what i do coz it’s what i’ve always been doing. it’s a more habitual thing. and because of that, it seems like i haven’t changed at all all these years. this stagnating feeling bothers me.

i want to leave.

back in sg

it's my third day back in sg.

when i first got back home, everything just felt a little weird. the flat felt small. my room felt small. my dressing table felt awfully low. but otherwise, it's nice to get back to the things i'm used to. like my bed. my pillow. though my blanket did smelt kinda funny. hmmm. from lack of use?

i haven't finish unpacking yet. coz my room's still in a mess. my mom kinda dusted things a little. so now, some of my things are not where they were when i left. a slight irritant, but not really much of a bother. considering the mess i live in, a little bit more disorder doesn't really matter much.

think i bought quite a bit of things during my stay. and i need to get rid of stuff in order to store these stuff. and hence, most of my new clothes are still in my luggage. i have to dig and claw to get somethinganything out. i really need to donate some of my stuff away. darn.

it doesn't help that after i got back i've been playing chauffeur to my brother and my mother. unpacked a little on sun (arrived in sg at 5+am on sunday), drove my brother to ikea on mon and we shopped for.. $4.73 worth of parking hours. and today, i'd just taken my mom to the hospital for some checkup. and the parking came up to $12!!!! what the..

basically i've no time to clear stuff and store my stuff. (har. excuses)

there's really quite a lot to do. impending (friends') birthdays. departing friend. catching up with friends. getting a freaking job. tidying up my room/my life.

will try to update the blog somewhat regularly. but my cpu has just been sent for repairs yesterday. and i would rather wait for it to return rather than upload my pictures into my brother's comp. couldn't resist blogging.

damn sad lah. come back to a computer which refuses to connect to the net. i miss my broadband. i miss my messy comp. i miss my mp3s.

in less than another 24 hours' time, i would be gone. away. on my way back home.

it's amazing how one month just flew past.

it still feels like a dream.

am i sad to go back? am i reluctant to leave? do i miss home? where is home? if home is where the heart is, where's my home?

whatever

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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

ridiculous descriptions

Monday, September 26, 2005

so-so day at work

Sunday, September 25, 2005

google earth

Saturday, September 24, 2005

photos from my trip

Monday, September 19, 2005

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

back in sg

Friday, September 09, 2005