No idea what title to put... cos this post is just about everything. hhhee..
WEnt to Toronto & Niagara Falls over the weekend. The falls just look awesome, especially at nite when it gets illumninated. WE kinda got a free shower cos the waters were jus too strong. hehe.. it was kinda funny taking a pic and having water splashing on ya face. N i finally got to sending some postcards back home. hhehe..
COuldn say that much about Toronto though, just that it looks like 10 times of Singapore and a place with a Chinatown population of 40,000 chinese. HAHah.. kinda like little china there. I got so excited at the authentic HK eateries there! 10 dumplings cost only CAD$5! haha...
Well, weather in Montreal is getting really cold. IT started out with flurry, followed by freezing rain and now, its raining hale. Basically they are all different versions of snow, which just doesn get to snow. The road gets all squishy and squashy with black and white snow alike. WEll, the white snow basically gets black when pple step on it. heheh.. Nevertheless, it just puts a smile on my face to see WHITE snow all around. Thank god i'll be back home by the time it gets REALLY Winter...
Oh, happy 21st to Si too! Glad that the album came to good use!
P.S. Looking forward to 20th December when i'll be in California!!!
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
FUNNY random blog...
I think i'm getting REALLY slow.... with my brain, hands and legs. i wonder whether its a good or bad thing. Well, probably cos weather's getting chilly, and i cant bring myself to walk too much in this weather... HAHa... which is a sign that i'll most prob get fat. I think its starting though, especially when i'm living with 2 hungry ghosts...
On a lighter note, i was randomly reading people's blogs when i came across this. Seriously, it was a random blog....
"The kids had an ice skating party on Weds. night. The place was mayhem - kids all over the place, pizza being served, drinks, sweets....I got on skates but my kids had to drag me around the rink...my skills leave something to be desired.
During one of our trips around the rink my son ran into his friend Shannon - a little Chinese girl. He told me that he wanted to marry her. He said the same to her. She replied, "I can't marry you, you're not Chinese."
He said, "Yes I am, I'm half chinese." I said, "No you're not!" He said, "Yes I am - I"m half Korean." I had to hold back the tears - it was hysterical."
P.S. The author is the boy's father and a fellow at Stanford uni. Interesting....
On a lighter note, i was randomly reading people's blogs when i came across this. Seriously, it was a random blog....
"The kids had an ice skating party on Weds. night. The place was mayhem - kids all over the place, pizza being served, drinks, sweets....I got on skates but my kids had to drag me around the rink...my skills leave something to be desired.
During one of our trips around the rink my son ran into his friend Shannon - a little Chinese girl. He told me that he wanted to marry her. He said the same to her. She replied, "I can't marry you, you're not Chinese."
He said, "Yes I am, I'm half chinese." I said, "No you're not!" He said, "Yes I am - I"m half Korean." I had to hold back the tears - it was hysterical."
P.S. The author is the boy's father and a fellow at Stanford uni. Interesting....
Thursday, November 8, 2007
SNOW!!!
I came out of the metro this morning to find it snowing!!! its juz so marvellous to see small white shiny stuff falling from the sky... and you get so amazed at how God made this world!!! HAHAha... i was practically smiling to everyone on the street... they probably think i'm crazy.... who cares... its snowing!!!
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Juz for Si!
Si was asking me on MSN lately, "why nothing on your blog lately?". So, being a nice fren, i decided to post something. Its funny why she asked that when she can tok to me directly on msn! hehee...
its been a while since i blogged.. i think. well, nothing up lately. Went through a really crazy week of 3 mid terms (well, take the word 'crazy' with a pinch of salt). After that, its juz slacking all the way man... hehe.. weather's been pretty cold lately. 'Someone' has totally turned down the temperature of this air-con. Could 'someone' pls tell that 'someone' to turn it up? that'd be really good! well, juz means BYE BYE to my beloved havaianas.... and hello to boots and shoes.
Its halloween week. Went to vieux port on saturdy to catch 'Le Grande Masquerade". Its this parade with people all dressed up parading all the way from mcgill till vieux port. Great stamina in this weather! hehe.. it was interesting to see them all dressed up and all. Well, i think its kinda like chingay, minus the gaudy costumes chingay people wear.. hehee.. and the weather of course.
It's been 2 months since i'm here... reflection time... hehe.. kinds fast... it feels like forever since i've been living here:$ its funny how i'm here for 2 months and taking the metro, walking on St Catherine street, going to Pool room for POUTINE @ 2am become so natural. Btw, POUTINE is my new fab food. heehe. totally sinful french fries with cheese and poutine sauce/gravy. Waking up and sleeping whenever i want to, on a 'single-event-a-day' kind of schedule unlike in singapore when i can do 1001 things in a day. How did i ever do that?! gosh...
oh! and its planning for eoy trip time!!! i'm TOTALLY excited for it! HAhaa.. been busy coordinating it with different people. Whoever said that working with people is easy... hehee. nah... i still love these peeps:D hehe.. its kinda settled and i need to source for flights and hostels n VEGAS hotels! the rates are juz creeping up every single day. its scary...
P.S. feet TOTALLY hurts from walking for almost an hour on my freaking high-heeled boots... i cant even bear to walk up the hill to Stewart Bio...:(
P.S. sorry si, cant make it for ya party! and i wont get to see ya when i go back!!! no worries, we'll have cake when you come back!
its been a while since i blogged.. i think. well, nothing up lately. Went through a really crazy week of 3 mid terms (well, take the word 'crazy' with a pinch of salt). After that, its juz slacking all the way man... hehe.. weather's been pretty cold lately. 'Someone' has totally turned down the temperature of this air-con. Could 'someone' pls tell that 'someone' to turn it up? that'd be really good! well, juz means BYE BYE to my beloved havaianas.... and hello to boots and shoes.
Its halloween week. Went to vieux port on saturdy to catch 'Le Grande Masquerade". Its this parade with people all dressed up parading all the way from mcgill till vieux port. Great stamina in this weather! hehe.. it was interesting to see them all dressed up and all. Well, i think its kinda like chingay, minus the gaudy costumes chingay people wear.. hehee.. and the weather of course.
It's been 2 months since i'm here... reflection time... hehe.. kinds fast... it feels like forever since i've been living here:$ its funny how i'm here for 2 months and taking the metro, walking on St Catherine street, going to Pool room for POUTINE @ 2am become so natural. Btw, POUTINE is my new fab food. heehe. totally sinful french fries with cheese and poutine sauce/gravy. Waking up and sleeping whenever i want to, on a 'single-event-a-day' kind of schedule unlike in singapore when i can do 1001 things in a day. How did i ever do that?! gosh...
oh! and its planning for eoy trip time!!! i'm TOTALLY excited for it! HAhaa.. been busy coordinating it with different people. Whoever said that working with people is easy... hehee. nah... i still love these peeps:D hehe.. its kinda settled and i need to source for flights and hostels n VEGAS hotels! the rates are juz creeping up every single day. its scary...
P.S. feet TOTALLY hurts from walking for almost an hour on my freaking high-heeled boots... i cant even bear to walk up the hill to Stewart Bio...:(
P.S. sorry si, cant make it for ya party! and i wont get to see ya when i go back!!! no worries, we'll have cake when you come back!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
randomness...
145am... and i cant sleep. Brain's juz thumping away with random thoughts... it's one of those nites when i'm sooo tired i can sleep 24 hrs straight, but my brain refuses to give me a rest. Is this a good sign that i have an active brain? probably not at this moment....
so... here goes my randomness...: 'human behavior in blogs or the action of blogging'
I've always wondered, what's the rationale behind blogging? the efforts to set up a blog: rack ya brains for an ULTRA cool but not so cheesy blog address, choose a way... cool skin that gets people asking you where you got it, create a playlist with ya fav songs which, the definition of fav probably changes faster than you can say 'blog', create a tag board for pple to write TOTALLY short and curt comments, create a list of links to ya frens' blogs to possibly LINK you up with the whole world, upload pics/videos which always seem to take forever, thinking of the title for ya blog post while you're doing something totally out of this world even before you get to post about it... fine, i admit that thats me. But dun lie through ya teeth that you didn go through all these...
Psychology: the study of human behavior. IT's cynical how i study it, yet i dun understand human behavior. The more i understand, the more i get disgusted by it. ok. sorry, disgusted is probably too strong a word... let's try... 'bewildered'. and yes, i know that i'm part of the human race. I've kinda concluded that you can TOTALLY get to know a person through a blog. I dun mean the individual, but the general human race in this case.
I could probably interview a thousand pple and ask them the qn,"why do you blog". And i think i'd probably get a fifteenth (dun ask why 15th, randomness remember) of that number of answers. It could be to boast/announce to the whole world that they DO exist as an individual and not merely a drop in the ocean of billions of people; it could be to announce to the world their impeccable technological skills or artistic flair as they compete to see who creates the most advanced blog eliciting the most 'ooooh-aaaah'; it could be b'cos they are TOTALLY bored out such that they need to be expressing their thoughts while mumbling to themselves and typing on an 8 inch keyboard; it could be to flaunt that picture-perfect portrait you took at a latest club on a friday nite with a shooter in hand and your face is juz all the over the place, only difference it's with different pple. Photoshop could have done a better job.
I guess this applies to every other modes of 'networking' (so they call it) that we have now: friendster, facebook, a system that lets you send SMS to every single fren what you are doing that VERY/at EVERY instant! gosh..... can you even sue that fren for harassment? I guess it definitely goes beyond blogging. Or probably, see it beyond the individual, and you see a psycho-social perspective. Beyond that, its a Vygotsky-perspective of the 'larger environment'. Voila! A tripartite model of you, ya social circle and ya 'larger environment'.
So what caused this human behavior? The evolution of human race (probably an evolution of increasing self-satiation/growing egoism?) OR a widening social circle such that it makes you SOOO hard to keep communicate, you need all these gimmicks? For goodness sake, we've survived an age without computers, phones, Blackberry, the Internet. Probably all you need is some psychologist to teach you some social/communication skills. OR the 'larger information' of infotechnology 'forces/compels' you to adhere to such behavior. Or it could simply be the 'larger environment' of culture which advocates such a mode of communication. or it's the physical sense of a 'larger environment' where you start to know a bigger world (beyond ya little island where you live on) out there actually exists. Probably due to a phenomemon called 'gloablisation'.
So probably the next time you wanna type ya status in ya facebook account, y not juz try visiting (calling if that person if halfway around the globe) that fren/enemy and tell them in their face how ya doing. You'd either be exhilarated to see ya fren's happiness for you; or get a kick to see the look on ya enemy's face (btw, god says love ya enemy as ya neightbour....... along those lines)
P.S. dun be offended if you can identify yourself with whatever i'm saying. Trust me, i WASNT referring to you. I understand that i'm blogging at this very moment. So if anyone shld identify with this the most, it has to be me.
so... here goes my randomness...: 'human behavior in blogs or the action of blogging'
I've always wondered, what's the rationale behind blogging? the efforts to set up a blog: rack ya brains for an ULTRA cool but not so cheesy blog address, choose a way... cool skin that gets people asking you where you got it, create a playlist with ya fav songs which, the definition of fav probably changes faster than you can say 'blog', create a tag board for pple to write TOTALLY short and curt comments, create a list of links to ya frens' blogs to possibly LINK you up with the whole world, upload pics/videos which always seem to take forever, thinking of the title for ya blog post while you're doing something totally out of this world even before you get to post about it... fine, i admit that thats me. But dun lie through ya teeth that you didn go through all these...
Psychology: the study of human behavior. IT's cynical how i study it, yet i dun understand human behavior. The more i understand, the more i get disgusted by it. ok. sorry, disgusted is probably too strong a word... let's try... 'bewildered'. and yes, i know that i'm part of the human race. I've kinda concluded that you can TOTALLY get to know a person through a blog. I dun mean the individual, but the general human race in this case.
I could probably interview a thousand pple and ask them the qn,"why do you blog". And i think i'd probably get a fifteenth (dun ask why 15th, randomness remember) of that number of answers. It could be to boast/announce to the whole world that they DO exist as an individual and not merely a drop in the ocean of billions of people; it could be to announce to the world their impeccable technological skills or artistic flair as they compete to see who creates the most advanced blog eliciting the most 'ooooh-aaaah'; it could be b'cos they are TOTALLY bored out such that they need to be expressing their thoughts while mumbling to themselves and typing on an 8 inch keyboard; it could be to flaunt that picture-perfect portrait you took at a latest club on a friday nite with a shooter in hand and your face is juz all the over the place, only difference it's with different pple. Photoshop could have done a better job.
I guess this applies to every other modes of 'networking' (so they call it) that we have now: friendster, facebook, a system that lets you send SMS to every single fren what you are doing that VERY/at EVERY instant! gosh..... can you even sue that fren for harassment? I guess it definitely goes beyond blogging. Or probably, see it beyond the individual, and you see a psycho-social perspective. Beyond that, its a Vygotsky-perspective of the 'larger environment'. Voila! A tripartite model of you, ya social circle and ya 'larger environment'.
So what caused this human behavior? The evolution of human race (probably an evolution of increasing self-satiation/growing egoism?) OR a widening social circle such that it makes you SOOO hard to keep communicate, you need all these gimmicks? For goodness sake, we've survived an age without computers, phones, Blackberry, the Internet. Probably all you need is some psychologist to teach you some social/communication skills. OR the 'larger information' of infotechnology 'forces/compels' you to adhere to such behavior. Or it could simply be the 'larger environment' of culture which advocates such a mode of communication. or it's the physical sense of a 'larger environment' where you start to know a bigger world (beyond ya little island where you live on) out there actually exists. Probably due to a phenomemon called 'gloablisation'.
So probably the next time you wanna type ya status in ya facebook account, y not juz try visiting (calling if that person if halfway around the globe) that fren/enemy and tell them in their face how ya doing. You'd either be exhilarated to see ya fren's happiness for you; or get a kick to see the look on ya enemy's face (btw, god says love ya enemy as ya neightbour....... along those lines)
P.S. dun be offended if you can identify yourself with whatever i'm saying. Trust me, i WASNT referring to you. I understand that i'm blogging at this very moment. So if anyone shld identify with this the most, it has to be me.
rainbow:D
there's a rainbow in the sky
on the green grass i lie
with the wind blowing in my hair
and Krispy Kreme in my hand
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