Today is 'Stupid Day'

The rain drizzled abit
then stopped
drizzled abit
& stopped again
Davis & I wanna go out to the jetty
But was delayed by the rain
Sick of it fooling us
We went ahead
When we were on the way back
Heavy downpour

Duhz

Handphone lent to friend to use
Whole day handphone-free
DarDar notified me that I have an interview in Malaysia
Said my brother recieved call at home
Asked for the name of company
Who to contact
It was not stated

Huh, how am I supposed to know what it is?
I didnt intend to work since I'd decided to study

Head for Farmart for dinner
Damn full

Back home
I looked at the note that Brother left for me
No head no tail
Just told me to call back
Yah... call who at where?
Asked him what time the person called
He said 3pm

3PM MIND YOU!
& I was only notified by DarDar at 6pm

I scolded him
Why didnt he notify me

'I dont want to waste my time on your issue'

KANNINA
I WAS FUCKING PISSED
WHAT IS WASTE TIME?

'You lanjiao... A lot of time wasted meh? You whole day play computer. Phone just beside you & you dont bother to call me!!!!!!!'

'I already not bad liao... help you take note'

CHEEBYEEEE
I RATHER YOU DONT EVEN BOTHER AT ALL
HELP HALF IGNORE HALF

I cant imagine such stupid people
What is waste time?
Ask him be receptionist the company sure die liao
Ask him be secretary also die
Notes all no head no tail

I just cannot stand stupid people

It just popped out in my mind

I always walked pass 'Goldfish Street' after school when I was in Hong Kong
The sight of fishes relaxed me from stress
& I usually go there alone
Mingling with smelly men in the shop admiring the fishes

I thought:'It is very beautiful. I wanna get one when I have a home'

When I came back Singapore
Joined WIldFilms
Involved myself with environmental conservation voluntary groups
I realised that what I'd seen on the street are seen on the shore
Plus my new sport - Diving - allowed me to almost touch them naturally
"You think you really can touch me meh?"

Recently
I went to help out my friend who is working in the aquarium trade
It was just an excursion where I just wanna spend my time knowing new things before school pack me with notes
Anyway
I was introduced at the farm
Understanding abit how the aquarium trade works
& I am pretty sad about it
& all thanks to Disney's film - Nemo

That day had a large import of anemonefish
It looked cute, really
But it had more than hundreds
I was told they came from Australia

Huh? Aussie?
But isnt Aussie very environmentally concern on conservation?
Friend told me they are captive bred
Really?
I stopped asking & kept quiet in doubt

I looked around the tanks where corals are kept
Nice bunch but not in the tank
I still prefer it in the water
Just then
A van came
The driver carried 2 big boxes of corals
Boss looked in it for a while & handed him some cash

Friend pulled me aside & told me it was an illegal deal
She hates that man who keeps bringing illegally dug corals to workplace & also hates her boss for doing such a deal
Instead of demand & supply
It is supply & acceptance

I quickly told friend that we could do something about it
Like reporting to AVA or sorts
But she said it will be a very difficult position to do so

I realised what she meant
It's her job

When there's no sale, there's no income
When there's no stock, there's no sale
When there's no supply, there's no stock
When there's no provider, there's no supply

It's a vicous cycle
I bet she is also feeling kinda guilty earning money from such means

I guess it's an ethical issue
We all want to save the environment
We raised public awareness so more people know what we are losing
But greed stole their mindset away & wanting to own it
Thus leading to a growth of aquarium trade

Although authorites are there to approve import & export of trade
The reinforcement is not strong

Let's skip to the recent issue - development of natural park
When I read that headline
I was like 'Hur?'
A natural landscape was turned into an urban area & now turning it back to natural park?

Do you know that restoration takes years?
Probably decades
& in the first place
Who was there to assess what animal species were present before it was scrapped?
Who was there to assess what tree species?
Who was there to assess if it's a primary or secondary forest?
Who was there to assess the density of animal present?

When a place that had changed is to be transformed back to original
It will never happen at its ease

We, humans, had been taking nature for granted
Remember how we love to camp in the forest on dirt & grass?
Now we sleep in tent that sits on concrete ground

I cant think of how Earth will be like in another few years
The rate of destruction is faster than anyone could predict
When Al Gore showed 'The inconvenient truth'
No one believes him
When global warming occurs
Scientist said human is not the cause
When Yangtze River dolphin extinct
We realised it's happening in front of our eyes
When polar bears are struggling to stay on ice
NOW WE PANIC!

I just visited a fish forum
So funny I giggled
The people were discussing about captive breeding
& one person spoke
"Let's ask Disney what fish film they're gonna produce soon"

I think that's a very good idea
When Nemo showed
Anemonefish trade increased
But how come I dont see it happening when Lion King showed?

Anyway
I didnt regret that I'd chosen my Bachelor course
Although it was pretty 'cold' (i.e not a hot topic in society)
& making me demoralised at times for not getting a perfect dream job
It allowed me to understand what is going on behind the curtains
& made me more determined to shoot those idiots down

I told my friend that I want to open an environmental consultancy firm when I finished my Masters
I told my friend that I cant stand seeing beautiful corals in the aquarium which are actually chizeled from rocks and sold illegally
I told my friend that I hate fish dealers who just sell fish for money
I told my friend that I cant understand how government can allow environment impacting development just by browsing the EIA, which are not even revealed to the public
I told my friend that I also cant understand why we're forbided to comment on unagreeable points
I told my friend that I dont even notice what mitigation plans they had prior to operation
I told my friend that saving corals at Labrador Park need not put artifical growth platforms that squash corals underneath

I still remember seeing a baby chinese sturgeon packed in plastic bag hanging for sale
Chinese sturgeon - CITES endangered species in China, spawned once every 30 years
I hesitated to notify AFCD
One month later
Someone reported

I guess
Knowing the truth is easy
But telling the truth is hard

I did something new for the New Year 2008

I ate Burger King breakfast for the first time in my 24 years!!!!

I shall try Long John's breakfast next time

3 hours ago
It was 2007
2 hours 59 mins & 59 seconds ago
It was 2008

Happy New Year?

Anyway
I spent my eve rather ... indecisively
Maybe coz the New Year's atmosphere is not as strong as previous
I was working
So I guess I'd missed out alot of celebrations like those at Sentosa?
But nevermind about that

I went to watch movie with Ashley
The Warlords
From the beginning till the end of the show
It was all about killing
Mainly stressing how one become successful by betraying brotherhood

Cant really catch the storyline
But I wouldnt say it's a good nor a bad show
So much for the blood scene today

After work
I rushed down to Holland Village to meet Nafe & Todd
Todd stole the decoration from the Xmas tree behind Nafe & played it like he's Dragonball
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
Buddy Power!
Frankly speaking
It'd been an year since we last met
I missed them sooooooooooo much

We counted down together
Well
Didnt really went '5.. 4..3..2..1'
But sorta like
'Oh. 12am le. Happy New Year' *shakes hand*

Hahaha

Whatever la
We all hope to earn BIG money

After a short while
We went to have supper at Mac
I dont think we look funny
But everyone in Mac were looking at us
Either people think that Nafe is too handsome
Todd too artistic
Me too beautiful *BWHAHAAHHAHAAHHA*
Or there's something white behind us

LOL

Anyway
Happy 2008!

It's gonna be 2008 at the strike of twelve tonight
& I dont really have the mood for it
Probably coz I am working
& that DarDar is not counting down with me
So I jioed my friends out but no replies yet
I'm out of the dive trip tomorrow coz still sick

Sigh

Gradually
I dont see the point of celebration as days pass
Why are you actually happy when you grow old every year?
Why are you actually happy when the new year come?

I dont see any difference

Anyway
I shall ponder what I should do tonight

Finally!
I got to go to labrador park to collect my echinolittorinids to do some preliminary measurement
Hmmm... but they're still in my plastic bag

Hah!
Think die liao

Opps


**** 20 minutes later****

Alright
Kill procrastination
Data collection

Shit la, my snails so small, donno can do my proposed experiment or not

Hey hey!
My snail escaped!

>_<

I hope it's over

My eyes hurt
I wonder why...

This year's Christmas wasnt really anything special
But at least
It gave me an opportunity to try something new

On Xmas' eve
We had dinner at Dean's house
Got 2 roasted chicken, salad, mashed potato, donuts & lotsa alcohol
The guys played mahjong, poker & guessing game
& DarDar got himself dead drunk
Which he fell asleep for an hour before I kicked him awake to go home
& I just watched TV for the whole damn period the guys were playing

I just got back from Orchard

It was damn crowded
Was it like this last year?
Not too sure, was in Hong Kong
Was surprised that Orchard Road was closed for the parade
Got performance too!
We had dinner with DarDar's friends @ Paragon
& did things we had never done before!

For example:
Stand inside the yellow box


Under the ERP
Hahaha

After that we went Hard Rock Cafe for a drink
The live band was cool!

Not bad la
I hope there're better things to do next year
=)

Brought the car to workshop on Friday
Bonnet, boot, bumper
All under that suay guy's account
But we had to leave the car for them to do the job
& so we had to take public transport back JB

Nothing much happened in JB
Other than a meal with his family
& coz I had work today
I came out early
So i could fetch the car too

Custom was packed
Cars jammed up to the middle of the causeway
But luckily the bus lane was moving
& it didnt take long for me to reach Singapore

Thanks to the biometric passport
I skipped the hassle to queue
Heehee

Within an hour
I managed to reach Bugis by the Causeway Link bus

Damnit
Was pouring at bugis
& it was hard to fetch a cab
When I finally got onto one
The uncle was weird...

'Uncle, Ubi Road 1... '
'Industrial Estate wor...'
'Yah ah... got get my car'
'You no need to show off your car once you got up my car...'
'But Ubi there all do car parts one what...no meh?'

Uncle kept quiet
& I didnt bother to talk more

Car wasnt ready when I reached there
So gotta wait for 30mins
& I was late for work too, obviously

When the car came
It was so reflective!
As compared to the side of the car, which was not polished
It looks kinda funny
It's like... head & backside is sparkling clean but body dirty
Ha!
But at least those parts that are needed to be done were fixed properly
& so I headed off

I couldnt catch the biting point as I moved out of the garage
Slippers slippery
So it jerked violently
Sia suay myself in front of the mechanics
Sigh

I told myself to turn left once out of the estate
But I cant remember which junction
& so I turned at the 1st one
Which didnt look too familiar
Thinking that turning back right will be the correct direction
It seemed that I was heading north!

The roadsigns read 'Upper Paya Lebar Road'
'Upper Serangoon Road'
'Bartley Road'
& I knew I hor-laned in the instance
I knew I could get onto the PIE at Braddell but I donno how
So I kept heading straight

My eyebrows raised at every roadsign I passed
All looked unfamiliar
But at least I knew I wasnt heading the right way
I quickly sipped into a small road & head towards city
At then I realised I was at Whampoa

Whampoa
Hmmm... that's south
Probably heading straight will get me back home
I quickly searched at the street directory
PIE ahead
Great!

I saw a PIE sign, indeed
& so I turned
But it came out to a road which I entered
Which really puzzled me
If I go ahead
I'll be back north
& so I quickly turned back in
Made a loop
& back to the original road

Grrrr
Conned by a roadsign

Then I read 'Rangoon Road'
Hmmmmmmmm....
& then I saw ahead
IT"S LITTLE INDIA!!!!
Wooohoooo
I'm out I'm out!

Guess I was too excited
I forgot to change back to Gear 1 as I stopped at red light
& stalled
I started again
& I still didnt change gear
I stalled again
Geeezzzzz
Abit panicky
I quickly grab my gear stick to 1
& sped off

Luckily Little India wasnt crowded
I drove as slow as 40km/hr coz those Ah Peks on scooter never signaled
ZZZZZZZZZZ
As I saw Sim Lim Tower neon sign in front of me
I smiled to myself
Just a right turn & I will be back
I followed Bus 66
So no cars can cut my lane
^^

Once I exit Little India
I went all the way to clinic
Parked my car in the dark carpark
Luckily also safely parked

It was a big experience to me
Kinda scary though
DarDar was worried that I'll be squashed by big trucks & lorries at Ubi
But it seemed that Ubi was empty
& neighbourhood roads was busy like fuck

My 1st hor-lan trip
Donno if I should be proud of or not

Selamat Hari Haji!

Yah, so much for the holiday mode
It was indeed very fulfiling
Running here & there

Slept all the way till noon
& headed to Sim Lim to check out my FLUKE machine
Which I'll need it for my research project
So we went to Burlington Square for parking

The carpark was packed with cars
& the path was so narrow
& it didnt stated whether it's gonna be a deadend or not
So at this particular deadend
The Yaris in front of us stopped
Gave way to a lorry which is coming out from the lot
BUT
The Yaris didnt check his rear mirror
& reversed hard on us!

BOOM!

Ho sey!
Left side of bumper was shaking
Right side of bumper looked detached
Right side of bonnet was dented
Left side of bonnet was scratched
Car plate cracked into half

Abit of negotiation for the compensation
$500 for the entire repair
& the guy transferred the money to us immediately

After that
We left Burlington Square
& parked somewhere else

DarDar said the carpark there suay

At Sim Lim
My FLUKE shop was closed
So we shopped for a laptop
Which I'll also need for my school

Got an Acer Aspire 4520 at $1414
Cheap worrrrr
DarDar ran through the specs for me
Which I think it's more than enough
& after the purchase
We were entitled to 20 lucky draw coupons!
MY GOD!
This is the most number of coupons I'd ever filled
Wrote until hand damn tired

As we didnt had any food after we woke up
We went to Turf City for Sol playground cafe again

The staffs surprisingly remembered us
DarDar said it was all because of the melted ice-cream cake that he himself wasnt even aware of
Haha
& we were entitled to 10% discount even though we didnt have the membership card
But I signed up for one already
Now an official member!

Dean, DarDar & I went to have supper at Bukit Gombak
& then surprisingly Michelle & friend (Alvin) were also on the way there
So we had supper together
DarDar & Dean had found a new fishing kaki!

Brother is going for night cycling tomorrow
& he wanted to borrow DarDar's bike
We went back home to collect & realised it's too big to fit into the car even after dismantling it
So DarDar cycled back & I drove back
While having lotsa pitstop at bus stops waiting for DarDar to catch up

Amazingly
I parked the car with ease
Ha!

DarDar said it's a tiring day today
Maybe coz he was physically drain after the bike ride
I saod it's a fun day
So many events happened

When I first stepped into Prof's office
She said that she's confident to get me into the conference

I looked at her & smiled

She continued saying that with my previous background
Nothing is impossible
(Wah, so Adidas!)

Then I discussed my proposal with her
She agreed with what I proposed
& is willing to get me some devices & equipments that I will need

'I would prefer you to work on the datas for the 1st semester so by Jun, your abstract can be sent in to the conference & we can head to Spain'
'Spain?'
'Yah! Didnt you know I was talking about it just now? We'll present your project there! I'll get you sponsored for that trip'
'Um.. yah, but I thought just those normal conference in the campus...
'No no no.. SPAIN!'

My god
I heard Spain!

There's this upcoming international conference on snails in Spain Sept 2008
Both my Prof & I are working on this topic
& she's encouraging me to go for it
Allow me to present my preliminary findings
Meet professors from worldwide
Establish connection over the world

WAHHHHHHH

I'm very grateful to my Prof
She's very kind to me
Gave me alot of opportunities to strive

Ah..
I dont feel that demoralised anymore

I think
Really
I'm more suitable in research field
I'm happy where I am

Just stay this way

It's time to learn Espanol~

I didnt want to speak a word

Someone ever said
Marriage is women's biggest gamble

I think that is true
For everything that we do
One step wrong
We could start afresh
However when a woman gets married
Hoping to get all the happiness she is supposed to get & spend her life with
But never does
She has to decide if she is to risk more ahead
or go back and find a new guy whom can provide her with happiness

I guess I'm just blabbering
It's only 1 month since our marriage
But I'm most of the time alone
When I finally have free time and hope to spend time with my man

He's always out with this particular friend
Whom I'm starting to get sick of
As he's always asking him out when HE is free

He doesnt need to accompany his family
But that also doesnt mean my man doesnt need to accompany me too

I am very pissed off and confronted my man
'Is there a need to go out whenever he asks you too? Why is it that we never go out whenever I ask you to?'

Pinch of jealousy there
Over another man
But that's not the point

Point is:
Why is a friend more important than wife?

Every now and then
We will argue over this
& I'm very sick of it
He said I'm restricting him from going out with his friends

I bet to differ

Before we married
He's always there around me
So intimate that I barely meet my friends

Now we're married
He's finding excuses to go out
Leaving me behind struggling with extra work
Just to keep my future family alive

But what for so hardworking when efforts are not appreciated?
I still bought him a handphone coz I saw that his current one is so old
& somemore it's my favourite handphone model in the current market

Fine

I dont think he'll understand how I feel
I dont want a nice meal once in the blue moon to make me feel good & forgive his sins
I dont want anything such as LV bag or whatever to make me happy
I dont want short minutes of meetup such as driving me to & fro work & during sleep


I just want to feel the same as we were sweet couple before

Woooo hoooo
Today is another happy Friday
A post-birthday celebration

After work
We rushed all the way to Vivocity for our night
The carpark queue is fucking long
It is also full
But as it works on one-car-out-one-car-in system
We just couldnt find a lot
& anyhow park
Ha!

We rushed to the cinema to buy movie ticket
Alvin & the Chipmunks!
& then go Starhub take queue number for handset upgrade
& had a quick bite at Superdog

Back at Starhub
I waited for 15mins before it was my turn
But when it was 2 numbers before me
It was damn longgggggggg
& it was only 10mins before my show started!!
I panic siaaaaaa
Anyway
Bought my SGH-U700 =)

Brisk-walked all the way to the cinema
Luckily they're still showing advertisement
& the chipmunks are sooooooooooooo cute!!!!!!
>_<

I managed to complete 2 out of 3 tasks that I'd set today
Just didnt make it to Daiso to grab a file

Back home
I gave DarDar my SGH-U700 as a surprise gift
=)

Oh well
Just an excuse to get better gift next time..
Haha!

I'm desperately squeezing my brain juice for some ideas on my proposal
I know what I'm supposed to do
But I donno how to put it nicely in the full whole picture
Because I'm having bits & pieces everywhere due to lack of resources

I'm meeting Boss on Monday
Will she screw me up?

*shivers*

Biggest joke of the century:

DarDar recieved a summon yesterday
Said no valid season parking
But we bought one for 1 month!
So he confronted the Minah
But Minah showed no record in her portable scanner

As I'm writing the appeal letter
I noticed the difference of venue of parking offence
I questioned DarDar
He insisted he bought correctly
& showed me the carpark map

'You sure you bought my carpark?'
'Confirmed...'
'My carpark is AA01 wor but your reciept wrote AA05'

DarDar stared at the map for 10 seconds

FUCKING STUPID LOH!
DarDar had bought the WRONG season parking coupon
& had always been parking on the WRONG carpark!!

I wanna faint.....................

Sigh...
Burnt my day again
My mood was back when I saw the sun
Its rays shone on my back and instantly, my inspiration came
But as DarDar is around
His procrastination sucked me in as well
& so I also procrastinate
Sigh

I then went to buy groceries
Then vaccum and mop floor
Cleaned toilet
Prepare ingredients for dinner
& then rest for a while for DVD
Which was already 5pm

Sighhhh
Now my inspiration had gone
I'm so demoralised

Shit
I purposely didnt wanna go work today so I could start working up my research proposal
But I was too distracted with slacking at home
& I didnt do anything!!!
I cant even think how I am gonna work on it
Not sure what I'm going to investigate on either
& here I am surfing the net for Christmas pressie for DarDar

Shucks

Went back to Malaysia on Saturday
& damnit
Our car broke down again!
This time, the air con pumped spoilt
& the conveyer belt was jammed
So when we were driving half-way
The car started to smoke!

We were somewhere near the Malaysian Railway track
& at the same time it is a merging lane
So traffic was retarded by mainly by KPO drivers who slowed down to see what's up
While DarDar & I were figuring out what to do
The gate for the traffic dropped down
THE TRAIN IS COMING!
As there's no cars coming at us
We pushed the car to the very left side
DarDar went up the car to steer while I pushed
Many cars were on the other side of the road
Looking at such a petite me pushing the car
Amazingly the car moved in centimetres
At least not so bad & I still have my pride back

DarDar cut off the coveyer belt
& we drove all the way to the workshop instantly
which cost us $110 for the repair
*sob sob*

After the fixing up
We fetch his aunt, uncle, brother & Isaac back to Malaysia
Smooth journey in
Reached at about 8pm
& they celebrated my birthday with me =)

My Mumy-in-law beside me =)

Isaac & I blowing the candles
It was a nice mocha cake
& I was so full after my dinner + dessert!

There were alot of people at the house over the weekend coz everyone was back to visit Grandpa who just came back from his operation
I rarely encounter crowded family
So most of the time I was in the KTV room watching DVD =p
Well... only for that day

Oh anyway
I'd celebrated my birthday thrice this year
For the very first time ever
I love mine with my girls & DarDar
& am glad DarDar's family did it for me too
I'd also recieved birthday wishes via SMS & MSN
Now that it's over
Thank you all of you