1st day of work

Heh. First day of work. Did nothing. I was so bored I started reading bash.

One day down, 22 more to go.

posted by CompulsiveShopper @ 7:52 PM 0 comments

Why I'm getting my fat ass outta here, Part II

Before we begin, do me a favor and reach for today's Home section. Flip to page H5 and read the part under Teen blogger counselled for "elitist" remarks(Why does elitist have to be quoted? Afraid of daddy, SPH? Oh, yeah. You were always G man's bitch.)

Done? If you wanna read what she-who-must-not-be-named(I don't want this post to be tracked)posted, go to technorati and look.

If you want to read what Derek Wee originally posted, here you go.

Now, slamming her now would be fashionable, I don't deny that. But I don't do things because everybody else is doing that. I do things because I want to. And this just plain pisses me off.

My parents always taught me how I behave is a reflection of them and how they brought me up. In my eyes, this little rant speaks volumes about the environment that shaped her psyche, namely, home. An environment her parents provide, one of whom sits in the puuurty building we call Parliament. If he was the MD of some company with no control over the laws that govern our lives, I wouldn't give a rat's ass about what she thinks about the proletariat.

And don't get me started on Daddy's pathetic attempt at apology. Actually, non-apology. Sounded more to me like he was justifying Princess's comments than saying sorry. Pui. Ang Mo Kio, what the hell were you doing when you let this guy in?

This is the country we live in, ladies and gentlemen.

I don't want to waste more time on this.

I'm getting my ass outta here. You comin'?

posted by CompulsiveShopper @ 11:28 PM 0 comments

Weird Al Rocks.

Heh. Surfing around again, saw this video by Weird Al that made me laugh till snot came out of my nose.

But first here's the video it was based on

Chamillionaire's Ridin'


Now here's Weird Al

Weird Al Yankovic's White and Nerdy

posted by CompulsiveShopper @ 12:37 PM 0 comments

Personal DNA

Discovered this little test while I was just surfing around and found it pretty accurate in its assessment of myself so I thought you guys might want to try it.

Here are my results if you guys wanna see.

posted by CompulsiveShopper @ 10:26 AM 0 comments

I Love Soh.

My mp3 player's dying.

It's served me faithfully for 4 years now, but the battery's running flat real fast, the audio jack's all staticky now, and sometimes, while playing a song, it would skip to another song, while the display insists that it's still playing the first song, and it sometimes refuses to work past the boot up screen, so I have for the battery to run flat before recharging it and being able to use it again.

And don't even make me mention the screwed up software Philips makes me use to input songs. Slow, buggy and it can only put songs in. It can't take them out. So when my old hdd went boom, I lost most of my mp3s. Ripping cds all over again is a pain in the ass, so I only rip those that I want to listen to.

But now, my dear platoon mate Soh has given my faithful mp3 a new lease of life, of sorts. He provided me with this. Silly me. If Philips' software sucked so much, there was bound to be people a hell lot more talented than I am at programming who were as frustrated as I was with the software. I should have thought of it and searched for this myself eons ago.

But that still won't alleviate the wear and tear I've inflicted on it over the years. So I've decided to relegate it to jogging duty and replace it with an Ipod. Waitaminute I hear you say. Where the hell am I gonna get the cash to do that? haven't I been complaining of being broke?

Well, I've just thought of my ERS. I got them about two years ago and haven't cashed them in yet. Totally forgot about them.

I'm gonna get a job too. Went to Chun Boon's office today to fill in some forms. He works for a temp agancy you see, so if you're in need of a part time job, call Recruit Express and look for Jason. He'll hook you up.

And thanks to Syah for introing me to Funeral for a Friend's History. Can't stop playing it now.

posted by CompulsiveShopper @ 9:05 PM 0 comments

Untitled

Didn't post much for past few days 'cause nothing's postworthy. Or rather nothing postworthy that doesn't need to be censored.

Bashing through Diablo again as a Barbarian to let of a little steam.



Driving's progressing. Instead of getting berated every minute, I'm now getting reprimanded every other minute.

posted by CompulsiveShopper @ 6:07 PM 0 comments

Me against the world

Seems like the world is conspiring against me these days. Nothing is going my way. Everything is pissing me off.

No acceptance letters yet. The haze. Buses and trains taking forever to arrive. Traffice lights that turn amber or red when I'm near. Liverpool drawing, AT HOME, to BLACKBURN. This damn cough. Dumbasses right in front of me in the queue taking forever to accomplish whatever they were queueing for. The computer acting up. Parents nagging ceaslessly and needlessly. The heat here. Prices. Bills that appear from nowhere. My fitness. Morons that block my light source when I'm reading on the bus. The list goes on.

I know I sound like I need to take a chill pill, but I don't wanna.

Anger... drives me.

posted by CompulsiveShopper @ 12:05 AM 0 comments

*coughcough*

Haven't been posting because I've been lazy/nothing to post about.

It's been same old same old these past coupla days. Humiliating myself during driving lessons, running when the air is not too bad, waking up at funny hours and either forcing myself to go back to sleep or watching the sky as the sun creeps up.

Everyone keeps asking me when I'm going over. I haven't even been accepted to any Unis yet. Sure hope I do, so that I can get out of this rut I find myself stuck in. Seem like everyone around me is making plans and getting on with life and me, I'm still dicking around.

posted by CompulsiveShopper @ 9:30 PM 0 comments

Whoop Dee Doo

Got my first rejection letter from Texas A&M coupla days back. One down, three more to go. I think I'm gonna get stuck here for one more year as I re-apply for less competitive Unis.

Got another letter from MINDEF asking for $54 for a medical appointment I went for. Seems that although I had my 11B when I went, you have to get a referral from your camp MO to get free treatment from government institutions.

Been going for my long overdue driving lessons (No, GJ, this is not a veiled dig at you.) these few days. Keep stalling the damn car. Malu sial.

Busted my left knee from daily running. I don't know how the Gurkhas run everyday. Actually I'm not sure they do. They all look the same. Brown and fit as hell. Plus the damn Indonesians are making our little Lee-empire a smokers' Paradise, so I switched to swimming today. It sucked.

Firstly, it took so long to swim. I left home about 1730 and only got back about 1930. It takes me half an hour, tops, to run my regular route, warmup included.

Second, half the damn pool was taken up by some kiddie lesson. 15 kids! Half the damn pool! So the rest of us suckers got crammed into the other half. Which had other kids diving in from all over the place too. And people crowding the edges, just talking cock. GET THE HELL OUT OF THE DAMN POOL IF YOU DON'T SWIM! Why the hell can't you talk at the empty viewing galleries? I was in the pool for more than an hour, I think, and I saw people stick to their little spot the whole time, yakking away. Can't wait till my knee get better and some rain to clear up the skies again so that I can get back to running again.

Pfffft. Days like these, they drag on forever.

posted by CompulsiveShopper @ 7:56 PM 1 comments

Are you there, Mah Mah? It's me, Ah Boy

It's been a year since you left us.

A year ago today I got the phone call I've been dreading and bracing myself for the past few years.

A year since I watched helplessly as your life ebbed away.

A year since I kissed your clammy forehead, weeping and thanking you for all you've done for me.

I still miss you, Grams. I always will.

posted by CompulsiveShopper @ 6:40 PM 0 comments

Still broke

Happy Belated Birthday to De Hua.

Boring couple of days, nothing to post about, but since here I am awake in the middle of the friggin night for no reason again, figured might as well pass time by doing one now.

Collected my specs on Saturday, you know, my favourite ones that got smashed, and a couple my dad said to make in preparation of me leaving(specs are pretty expensive there). But the cockanathan lab techs screwed up the left lens on one of them, so I'll have to rush down to Queensway one of these days after driving to collect it.

Meifang invited me to go out with her and Syah Saturday (I took it that she meant clubbing as it was pretty late), but I guess she doesn't read this blog much because I'm still pretty much broke. My bank account was real close, within the breadth of a chihuahua's butt hair close, of running dry, if not for the paycheck I received for working at Comex. Just a hundred, plus change, but I guess it'll be enough to tide me over this month. Would've more if I worked harder, but I spent COMEX bioing Toshiba Girl instead of selling. Now I have an emptier bank account and a headful of TiVoed images and video(in HD!) I can't get rid of. Har har. Serves me right.

Have you ever experienced the booger that wouldn't leave? You know the type you dig in public, not really dry yet with a small glob of snot still at one corner, and lacking a Kleenex or a rubbish bin, surreptitiously try to flick to some corner for the poor cleaners to sweep up? But no matter how hard you flick your fingers or whole hand, it just won't obey your edict of banishment and fly to some corner to live a hermit's life? And when you thought you'd gotten rid of it and continued on you way and when you got home, you discovered why people had been giving you all those funny looks: the booger had clung on for dear life on some loose thread on your sleeve, and, now a little older and drier, was swinging in merry defiance of your quest to be rid of it? That's... kind of a metaphor of I'm experiencing now.

posted by CompulsiveShopper @ 3:37 AM 0 comments