Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Found out I have to do this, so here we go..

Seven Things that scares me:
1. My own weight
2. Face-like stain on the ceiling of my room
3. My grandmother's naked body
4. Horror movies
5. Clementi Central's McDonalds toilet
6. The "Tissue Paper 1 Dollar" lady
7. Losing purpose in life

Seven Things that I like most:
1. Myself
2. My friends
3. My parents
4. You
5. Your sister
6. Walking in Orchard Road listening to music while eating food at night
7. Spending hours in front of computer doing rubbish things

Seven Important things in my room:
1. My bed
2. My clothes
3. Strange black object hidden deep inside my cupboard
4. A naked picture of female dodo
5. My dustbin
6. My desk
7. My laptop

Seven Random facts about me:
1. I fell from second storey bed and dislocated my shoulder before
2. I don't like cockroach in my bowl of noodle
3. If I had the choice of eating laksa or cleaning a toilet bowl, I would eat laksa (O_o?!)
4. I drink at least a glass of water everyday
5. My name is not Fransiscus Robert Joachim Albertus Freeman
6. I prefer xiao bian than da bian
7. I did this questions right after I woke up at 7 am in the morning

Seven Things I like to do before I die:
1. Become famous
2. Taste all the food around the world
3. Have a girlfriend, be forced to get married, have children, and spend my old days playing Maple Story
4. Lose weight
5. Get a good job
6. Go to your house and eat for free
7. Travel around the world

Seven Things I can't do:
1. Eat human waste
2. Swim from one end of Singapore River to another
3. Touch my forehead with my tongue
4. Put my forehead on my butt
5. Eat chair
6. Eat spaghetti from nose
7. Bungee jumping without rope from top of a cliff

Seven Things that attract me to opposite sex:
1. Nerdiness
2. Nice lips
3. Nice eyes
4. Smile
5. Not having a boyfriend
6. Not having a weird tattoo in dirty places
7. Didn't become a girl through sex change operation

Seven Things I say more:
1. Yo!
2. What the hell!
3. Hahahaha!
4. I want to wrestle you naked!
5. Oops!
6. If you put your finger inside my nose, you won't feel good.
7. Wah!

Seven Celebrity crushes:
1. Gurmit Singh
2. Rowan Atkinson
3. Fiona Xie
4. Toda Erika
5. Inoue Mao
6. Horikita Maki
7. Aragaki Yui

OK IM LATE FOR MY CLASS NOOOOOOOOO

bye~

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Lonely Taxi Driver...

Went to play football with friends yesterday at my old school. Played under the rain so it was quite fun. After that, went to a nearby coffee shop to drink lime juice there. O_o ordered a plate of Beef Fried rice lol.

After eating, I went to the side of the road to flag for a taxi. After getting on a taxi, as I was about to reach my home, the taxi driver started talking to me. At first, he asked me where I came from and why am I heading to NUS Staff's Housing (my father works for NUS so I live in the staff's housing) and after explaining to him, he started talking about many, many and MANY other things. o_O He asked,"You Singaporean?" "No, I'm actually Indonesian." I replied. "Oh," he said, looking at me through his mirror. Then he asked me whether I was studying here, and I told him that I am pursuing my Business Degree at SMU. "You must be careful," he said with a serious expression.

The taxi reached my home, and the driver stopped it's meter. After paying him and as I was about to get out from the taxi, he started talking.

"When you graduate and get a job, surely you will be posted in a high position. And when you are in high position, you will get higher pay but also you will have a lot of pressure." Wondering what he is trying to say, I asked him to explain to me what he meant. "You know, some people work for 10 to 15 years for a company, but they never get promoted. So when they see you starting at a higher position than them, they will try everything to sabo you." He then continued, "The person who is the most dangerous is the person closes to you." "They know all about you, from your weaknesses to bad things that you have done in the past. And when they have enough evidence against you, they will show it to the top people, and the top people will then come and find you.", he added.

With me still inside the taxi with my hand on the door handle, I was ready to thank him for his advice and I was about to get out, but to my horror, his mouth opened and he started talking again.

"You know, Singaporeans are cruel people.", he said. He then went on to talk about how Singaporean bosses ill treats their foreign workers, such as those Chinese lady working in Kopitiam, or those company owners who doesn't give any chance to any mistakes made by employees. "Singaporeans are lazy people. They want a lot of money, but they don't want to work for it. And when the foreigners get their job, they complain to the government.", he added with an angry tone. For the next 30 minutes, as I sat there wondering when he is going to stop talking, he continued his speech, covering various topics such as what jobs are good to take and what businesses should I venture into. Everytime he make pauses, my joy of possibly getting out of the taxi is destroyed, as soon as he started opening his mouth and talking about something else. I don't meant to be rude but, my legs were itchy and I was so tired from playing football and I was dying to have my shower and to sleep on my bed as soon as possible.

After it seemed that he has run out of things to talk about, he stretched his hand towards me and said, "I hope you have a good luck in your studies, and all the best to you." "Thank you for your advice. I hope you have a good night.", I said as I shook his hand, after which I opened the taxi door and let myself out of that car, earning my well deserved freedom.

Putting aside the fact that I had to endure his long speech, some things that came out from him are actually valuable. I learned things such as not to trust someone completely with everything you have because nobody is perfect and they can turn their backs on you anytime. I also learned not to be complacent and always starts from the bottom and work your way slowly to the top, so as to respect those who has been there longer than you have. Most importantly, I learned that if we want to be wealthy, it won't happen if we just sit around all day and do nothing. Those people who are earning millions were once as poor as many people around us. But through perseverence, determination, and some sheer luck, they made their way to the top and now lives comfortably in their lives.

If you choose to laze around now, sure, you will enjoy your current life more. But watch your back because Time ain't gonna wait for you. You might have your parents now to cover your back, but they aren't gonna be here forever. Before you know it, you've already fallen deep into the darkness, never be able to escape again.

Your future, is in your hands.

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Tomorrow is the start of another dreadful week. Hope I survive this one. haha..
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Joke of the Day:
A teacher asks her class, "If there are five birds sitting on a fence and you shoot one of them, how many will be left?" She calls on little Johnny. "None, they all fly away with the first gunshot."
The teacher replies, "The correct answer is four, but I like your thinking." Then Little Johnny says, "I have a question for YOU. There are three women sitting on a bench having ice cream. One is delicately licking the sides of the triple scoop of ice cream. The second is gobbling down the top and sucking the cone. The third is biting off the top of the ice cream. Which one is married?"
The teacher, blushing a great deal, replies, "Well I suppose the one that's gobbled down the top and sucked the cone."
"The correct answer is the one with the wedding ring on... but I like your thinking."

Saturday, January 12, 2008

She caught my eyes...

Just came home after playing FIFA 2008 in Cineleisure with friends. Quite tired because I had to endure 1 hour ride in the 143 bus all the way from Orchard to West Coast. Nonetheless, it was a nice break from what was quite a hectic day at school.

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*sharp pain in the heart*
...who... is she?
is she in my year? never seen her before.
what a nice smile she has. wonder what's her name.
*pretends not to look*
don't know why i've never noticed her before. *smile*
oh, she is packing her bag. she's leaving.
*pretends to type something in laptop*
hope i see her tomorrow.
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I have piano lesson tomorrow in the morning. Have to wake up early even though its Saturday =_=... Still many assignments to do for next week, and I just can't wait for holidays to come again, even though school has just barely started. Gonna have a football match tomorrow with friends so I guess tomorrow wouldn't be so bad afterall.. :D
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Joke of the Day:
There was an old man named Bozo, and all he had was a female donkey. One day he wins the lottery and gets $50,000. He doesn't know what to do with his money, so he decides to spend a night in a five star hotel. He asks for the finest room and starts going up the stairs with his female donkey. The manager sees him and asks where he's going with his donkey. "Anywhere I go, she goes." "I'm sorry, sir," said the manager, "but you can't take the donkey upstairs. Leave it down here with us and we'll take good care of her." So Bozo goes up to his room and opens the door. Everything is made of gold, there is a table full of food, and a huge television. He doesn't want to ruin anything so he takes his raggedy coat off and sleeps on the floor. The next morning the manager comes up to the room and asks how his night was. ''Great!'' replied Bozo. ''How much do I have to pay?'' he asks. ''One thousand dollars for the food.'' ''But I haven't touched the food." ''It was right there, so you should have. Two thousand dollars for the TV." ''But I didn't even know how to turn the damn thing on!'' ''It was there, so you should have. Five thousand for sleeping on the bed." ''But I slept on the floor!'' ''It was there. Your total is eight thousand dollars." ''You owe me ten thousand dollars for screwing my donkey.'' ''But sir, I didn't screw your donkey.'' ''It was there. You should have!''

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Happiness?

Just came back from my Japanese Lesson from Bugis, which was quite a waste of time because I knew what was being taught in class beforehand. Took the 33 bus home and when I reached home, I was greeted by my parents who have just come back from Taiwan. They bought me a pair of new jeans (why jeans?! I have lots of jeans!) and some kind of tofu with bee hoon inside it, eaten with a sweet and sour sauce. O_o ate it straight away because I was so hungry haha..

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Umm... what's happiness?

Happiness to me can be many things, from something very simple to something very meaningful in my life.

Tired and hungry after a long day of school, happiness can just be one bowl of noodle away. Walking in Orchard Road with Old Chang Kee in my mouth and music in my ears on a windy afternoon is also one of the things that make me happy. Playing football with friends that I have not seen in ages can also bring me happiness. Pretty much, I am happy with most things that I come across in my life.

Of course, those happiness can be considered to be something trivial, and surely there is something that makes me much happier than a bowl of noodle on a hungry day. I kept thinking and thinking, trying to find out what actually makes me the happiest, but the longer the time I take to think, the more confused I was to find the true meaning of my happiness. "What is happiness to me?" I kept repeating in my mind, but I just can't seem to find the answer. So then, failing to find any answer in my mind, I decided to search somewhere else, and slowly, I started to look into my heart for an answer. Could my happiness lie in my heart? Before I realised, I was already taken two years back into time...

Two years ago, at the end of my high school year, I went for a trip with many friends to Bali, to celebrate the end of school, and to say our final goodbyes before some of us go abroad to continute with their studies. There were about 10 of us, and between the ten of them was one person that was very important to me. As we were walking around the city to find good food and to shop, each time I see her with a smile on her face, my whole body just started to be filled with a warm feeling. Each time she turns around to talk to me, my heart just started beating so quickly, making me nervous but nevertheless overflowed with joy. Certainly, those moments gave me much more happiness than a bowl of noodle.

So what is happiness to me? Well, I am not too sure if you guys agree with me, and I am sure happiness differes from person to person. Well, I am not really used to saying mushy things, but if I had to say what makes me the happiest...

It's the smile of the person I love.

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Weekend is coming soon, but I am really not looking forward to it. haha.. Lots of assignments and readings to be completed! Hate school, haha.. but Chinese New Year is just around the corner and I would be going to Macau for school trip soon, so at least I have something to look forward to o_O.
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Joke of the Day:

Little Mary was not the best student in Sunday School. Usually she slept through the class. One day the teacher called on her while she was napping, ''Tell me, Mary, who created the universe?'' When Mary didn't stir, little Johnny, an altruistic boy seated in the chair behind her, took a pin and jabbed her in the rear. ''God Almighty !'' shouted Mary and the teacher said, ''Very good'' and Mary fell back to sleep. A while later the teacher asked Mary, ''Who is our Lord and Savior?'' But Mary didn't even stir from her slumber. Once again, Johnny came to the rescue and stuck her again. ''Jesus Christ!'' shouted Mary and the teacher said, ''Very good,'' and Mary fell back to sleep. Then the teacher asked Mary a third question, ''What did Eve say to Adam after she had her twenty-third child?'' And again, Johnny jabbed her with the pin. This time Mary jumped up and shouted, ''If you stick that damn thing in me one more time, I'll break it in half!'' The Teacher fainted.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Funny lesson...

It's been 3 days since school started and I have no more class for the rest of the week. yay?

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Had an interesting lesson today. I left home and reached school at around 11:45 am to attend a class called Technology and World Change, and as I sat down in class waiting for the lecture to start, I looked at my professor and thought that he seemed like a serious looking guy. An Indian decent, his black formal suit and a matching tie gave an impression of a calm and serious man, who is strict and wants no nonsense from his students.

As students start to fill the class room, the professor asked us to settle down quickly, as he wanted to show us a video clip. I thought that it would be one of those videos that introduce the course to the class, since it was our first lesson. As he turned off the light and turned on the projector, he clicked on "Play" and started the video.

1st Video: A bunch of cave woman were walking from their cave towards a river, carrying pieces of clothes to be washed on the stream. As they were walking, a cave man was following them closely from behind. As the cave woman reached the river bank, they bent down, with their backside sticking out, and started washing the clothes. (the backside was fully exposed as those cave woman wore no pants) The cave guy got aroused, jumped out of the bush he was hiding in, and started running towards the woman, with a horny expression on his face. He let out a perverted scream, and as quick as a lightning, he jumped towards the backside of the woman, grabbing it, and started rubbing his "joystick" inside that woman's "golf hole", like a dog trying to reproduce.

As students stares in disbelief, I looked towards the professor who was standing at the back of the class, grinning with a horny smile on his face. Before I can believe what I just saw, the second video started.

2nd Video: A white guy went to a land of Eskimos (those people who lives in South Pole in an igloo) to spread words about Christianity. As he enters an igloo owned by an Eskimo, he was welcomed by an Eskimo couple, and in accordance with an Eskimo costumes, the couple offered the white guy a bowl of seal intestine with life worms and some yellow looking food that looked very disgusting. The white man refused and said that he can't eat those food. Then, the white man said, "The Lord wants you to love your wife." and the Eskimo misunderstood what the white man said and offered him to make love to his wife. The white man, again refused, but this time it angered the Eskimo man. He grabbed the white man by his shirt, lifted him up, and started smashing his head on the wall of his igloo. His head cracked, his brain oozed out and blood started squirting out of his head.

Again, the whole class stared in disbelief, and again, the professor was giggling on his own at the back of the class. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PROFESSOR?! =_=

But luckily, he explained how that video was relevant to Technology and World Change, and he turned out to be a quite interesting professor, so I guess he is not as bad as I thought. haha.

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Met with the girl, and she looks prettier than ever.
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A lot of assignments, homeworks, and projects to be handed in, and it's only the first week of school! ARGH!!
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Joke of the Day:

A man was riding in the back of his limousine when he saw a man eating grass by the roadside. He ordered his driver to stop and he got out to investigate.
"Why are you eating grass?" he asked the man.
"I don't have any money for food," the poor man replied.
"Oh, please come to my house!"
"But sir, I have a wife and four children..."
"Bring them along!" the rich man said.
They all climbed into the limo. Once underway, the poor fellow said, "Sir, you are too kind. Thank you for taking all of us in."
The rich man replied, "No, you don't understand. The grass at my house is over three feet tall!"

Saturday, January 5, 2008

Cockroach madness...

Two more days till my school restarts, and I feel like a anus-less guy with a stomach ache. This term is going to be a busy one, with a school event to organize, and many projects deadlines to meet. Gotta attend two briefings during the first week for internship and exchange program, and I have a Japanese lesson to attend to twice a week on top of my school obligations. =_=
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Went to Chinatown today with my uncle and his family for some sight-seeing. My uncle wanted to buy Ba kwa to bring home to Indonesia. After walking around aimlessly around Chinatown, went to Vivo City to have some kaya toast with teh si. o_O And I bought 200 grams of chocolate from Candy Empire and finished it all while drinking tea =_=... *new year resolution not going well* haha..
On the way home, we took bus number 188 and the first thing that I saw as soon as I got onto the bus was a tiny cockroach on the floor. So I thought, "What the heck, it's just one tiny cockroach...", and I stepped on it and sat down. I was wrong. THE WHOLE BUS WAS INFECTED WITH COCKROACH! Omg, I swear that was the dirtiest bus I have ever been into. There were swarms of cockroach on the sides and the floor of the bus, and they were running all over the place. I SWEAR THERE WERE MORE THAN 10 OF THEM O_O! so we got off the bus and took 143 home..haha..

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Joke of the Day:

The Shiny-Walled Box Thingie


An Amish boy and his father were visiting a nearby mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny silver walls that moved apart and back together again by themselves.

The lad asked, "What is this, father?"

The father, having never seen an elevator, responded, "I have no idea what it is."
While the boy and his father were watching wide-eyed, an old lady in a wheelchair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room. The walls closed and the boy and his father watched as small circles lit up above the walls.

The walls opened up again and a beautiful twenty-four-year-old woman stepped out.

The father looked at his son anxiously and said, "Go get your mother."

Thursday, January 3, 2008

A day at East Coast...

Went to East Coast Park today with my cousins to rollerblade and cycle. Drizzled a bit when we arrived there but the rain subsided after a while so we managed to play in a quite nice cool weather. o_O

While cycling, my cousin who was rollerblading wanted to hold on to me while I am cycling so that she could go faster. At first, I was going slowly just to make sure that she does not fall... then the devil inside me was telling me in my head: "GO FASTER!!! GO FASTER!!!"... which is exactly what I did... and... lol... my cousin slipped and fell to the floor, hitting her butt and scratching her arm. o_O Lucky there were no serious injuries =_= what was I thinking?! O_O

Last year, we went to the same place with them and kinda did the same thing to her o_O... We were cycling and she was right behind me following my bike... then the devil spoke yet again in my head: "BRAKE THE BIKE SUDDENLY! BRAKE THE BIKE SUDDENLY!"... so I stopped the bike suddenly and this caused her bike to crash into mine, hitting her on the leg, and gave her a bruise o_O... *thinks needs a way to get rid of this mischievous devil in my head*

Anyway, went home straight away after that and on the way, ate some Japanese food in Clementi. Went grocery shopping with my mother and returned home. What a tiring day. Haha.

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Joke of the Day:
A few months ago, there was an opening with the CIA for an assassin. These highly classified positions are hard to fill, and there's a lot of testing and background checks involved before you can even be considered for the position. After sending some applicants through the background checks, training and testing, they narrowed the possible choices down to two men and a woman, but only one position was available.
The day came for the final test to see which peson would get the extremely secretive job. The CIA men administering the test took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun. "We must know that you will follow our instructions whatever the circumstances," they explained. "Inside this room, you will find your wife sitting in a chair. Take this gun and kill her." The man looked horrified and said, "You can't be serious! I could never shoot my wife!" "Well," said the CIA man, "you're definitely not the right man for this job then."
So they brought the second man to the same door and handed him a gun. "We must know that you will follow instructions no matter what the circumstances," they explained to the second man. "Inside you will find your wife sitting in a chair. Take this gun and kill her." The second man looked a bit shocked, but nevertheless took the gun and went in the room. All was quiet for about 5 minutes; then the door opened. The man came out of the room with tears in his eyes. "I tried to shoot her; I just couldn't pull the trigger and shoot my wife. I guess I'm not the right man for the job."
"No," the CIA man replied, "You don't have what it takes. Take your wife and go home."
Now they only had the woman left to test. They led her to the same door to the same room and handed her the same gun. "We must be sure that you will follow instructions no matter what the circumstances; this is your final test. Inside you will find your husband sitting in a chair. Take this gun and kill him." The woman took the gun and opened the door. Before the door even closed all the way, the CIA men heard the gun start firing, one shot after another for 13 shots. Then all hell broke loose in the room. They heard screaming, rashing, and banging on the walls. This went on for several minutes; then all went quiet.
The door opened slowly, and there stood the woman. She wiped the sweat from her brow and said, "You guys didn't tell me the gun was loaded with blanks. I had to beat the son of a bitch to death with the chair!"

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Goodbye 2007, Hello 2008!

Happy new year!

Well, I think it would be appropriate to start with some new year resolutions that I have came up with for the year 2008... here goes:
  1. Being alive till 2009.
  2. Get GPA of at least 3.4 this sem.
  3. Learn to spend less and save up more.
  4. Accepts the love that's gone, forget about it, and find a new one.
  5. Play less and concentrate more on studies.
  6. Lose weight, grow muscle, and keep weight at below 75kg.
  7. Eat less

The last time I made any resolutions were last year, and I gave up on them exactly one week after making them, so I hope this time I would stick to my resolutions for at least a longer time.. haha.. =_=

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Last night, dreamt of someone I thought I've forgotten, and it kinda disturbed me quite a bit. Does a dream really tells one's true desire? She was sitting beside me with a smile on her face, and we were joking around with each other while sitting on a windy grassland.

One year ago, I promised myself that I would completely forget about her, and I spent each day trying to occupy my mind with something else so that I don't think about her all the time. I thought I was doing pretty well, didn't really think about her much anymore, and in fact, I was interested with another girl at school few months back. Slowly, I told myself that she hold no significance in my life, and I tried carrying out my life as normally as I could.

When Christmas came, I knew that my friends would be coming from overseas to meet each other at Singapore, and I also knew that she would be coming back as well. Strangely enough, my efforts for the past year seemed to have been futile, because just by having a thought of possibly meeting her again gave me the same feeling that I had three years ago, the feeling of when I fell in love with her.

I started asking myself questions: Am I really useless against my past, so much so that I am doing myself no good for my future? How long would I continue to think about someone that I cannot obtain? Would this cycle keep repeating as the year pass? What do I really want?

First Love is a strange thing that binds its victim for decades to come. Failure to obtain the First Love translates to a lifetime of pain and a longing for a false hope that will never knock on the doorstep. I asked myself once again, Does a dream really tells one's desire? Seems like I would just have to live my life to find the answer to that question.

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Cooked mapo tofu today for lunch. My uncle said it was nice, but my little cousins didnt like it too much cuz it was spicy.. haha.. =_= Gonna cook them something nice tomorrow I guess :)

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Joke of the Day:
A little boy wrote to Santa ...


One day, a little boy wrote to Santa Clause, "Please send me a sister." Santa Clause wrote him back, "Ok, send me your mother."