Trash entry.

This is an entry of an old entry with a snippet of another older entry. Wrote the old entry last time I came back to Perth, about July.. BEFORE Jess went off to Queensland, so I know I’ve already posted her farewell but I’ll be harping on about how I didn’t later…


OLD ENTRY:

The car is MINE now. *laughs an evil laugh*. Ah who am I kidding.. Darn Echo. Small obnoxious vehicle. I want the CR-V dammit.

I’ve officially readapted myself to the wheel again.. The first week my speed fluctuated so badly.. From the extremes of 110 all the way down to an obscene 87 and anything but 100. But I’ve got that fixed after a few more trips to the city. But I realized that after a while you tend to drive subconsciously, like.. you don’t really pay attention to whether you’re going the right way cuz you’re kinda automatically exiting the freeway at the right time and making the right turns when you should to get home and it’s all in the name of habit... We all do that after a while. I realized this when I found myself contemplating the meaning of life and other nonsensical things while on the road, all the while trying to get the last bits of that jelly outta the damn bubble tea cup.. Cuz daz my favorite bits and I refuse to spare them.

The meaning of life? I found my answer in Ecclesiastes 1:2.

And Joy was right when it dawned upon her that our social life – and I hesitate on the pretense “social” – only revolves around Northbridge, Timezone coin games, Spot the Difference arcade gamebox, ice cream of any kind, and EZway bubble tea. <_

But we been shopping. That’s gotta count for something.

Well.. checked on one of my past blog documentations.. And it was a whole chunk on a string of movies I effortlessly put myself through.. But cuz they’re such OLD movies (like.. Happy Feet period) I refuse to post. Just cutting out a bit of the Casino Royale review I wuz going on about:


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SNIPPET OF ANOTHER OLDER ENTRY:

At least watch it for the first 10 minutes. The opening sequence was the prettiest thing.. all the card suits. ARGh pretty. So first you’re just sitting there staring at the pretty kaleidoscope of a screen… AND THEN. The African bomb carrier dude wuz the coolest thing I’ve ever seen on screen cuz ZOMGoodness just go see for yourself. I almost thought hE wuz Bond. You can just walk out after his screentime and feel satisfied.

:: Jellyjoii ™ :: says:
is casino royale good?
:: Jellyjoii ™ :: says:
i refused 2 watch it at the CINEMA
the distant mind says:
the first 10 mins were pretty good, if u can appreciate jackie chan action that is.
the distant mind says:
HAHA
:: Jellyjoii ™ :: says:
wadd
the distant mind says:
BUT whether its worth watching on cinematic screen, DUNNO
:: Jellyjoii ™ :: says:
has it got jackie chan in it?
the distant mind says:
O_O…
the distant mind says:
no..
the distant mind says:
ARGH.

Daz Joy for you. I’m just surrounded by intelligent beings. Yea but the rest of the film wuz pretty okay… really, the action was quite nice.
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CONTINUATION OF OLD ENTRY:

And is it me or is there this incursion of birthdays?? Like everyone came into the world in July. I feel like I’ve been to at least one every week.. and the Nellie/Cheryl/Chiyenn/Theo combined birthday bash?? o_o.. I’ve never been to a 4 in 1 before. Amazing.. Unconventional and efficient. This may be one of those once-in-a-lifetimes things..

And I still gotta blog about Jess’ farewell aye. Ehh people wit photos send em over when you can.. SIS COME BACK. I’ve got the Echo held hostage.. COME HOME IF YOU WANT IT BACK!!! T__T I needa look for someone else to annoy the heck outta me now. Ohh DaniEL~~

I’ve been dying for some good fanfics. I feel like the fandoms are slowly running out of decent material. And more fanart links are breaking.. I now understand how the world will feel the day this planet runs out of resources. Save the trees guys.. Or whales. Whatever. Otherwise yall gonna regret it one day. Gimme ficcc… I will hunt Liz down and make her feed me.


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BACK TO TRASH ENTRY:

Note: I didn't go for the 4-in-1, I've already posted the farewell blog, and I still can't find good fic.

That is the end of my old old old entries I never ever post up. When will I ever learn.

And this holiday I am proud to announce that I got back on the highway without any fluctuation whatsoever. I dreamt of driving every night in Singapore, I imagined the wheel whenever I was in a bus or train, I cursed every vehicle in the uni... It is in my blood. They say it's like riding a bike.. You never forget.

I think I forgot how to ride a bike. o__o

I'M BACK.

Back in Perth that is.

I realize I only blog when I'm back home and it's probably cuz I do nothing but hibernate in my bedroom all day and night.

BUT this is the entry I had been wanting to post for the longest time and NOW I'm getting the chance to. Been hell of a busy school semester... Damn animation. Scary things shaking my firm decisions like Prof Davide saying: "OoooHHhhh... you want to be a 2D animator? Well you're going to live in poverty!" He gave me this happy smile and I laughed tentatively along. And that time all of us animators were sitting in that 2D room like worker clones and Davier suddenly stands up, looks around and says, "Guys, can you imagine doing this for the rest of your life?"
I swear some of us snapped and broke down that night. (XD nah not really.. But it WAS demoralizing..)

And been sick for the pass three weeks. Who knew a flu could last that long? Assignment week and exam week were like some kinda sick, slow death. I was living in that confounded ADM building. You know something's definitely wrong when you walk into the toilets and discover the Dean's got heated showers installed. Heated showers. Go up another level and I saw a blow up bed in the 3D animation lab. Further down and you'd see 5 to 7 people sleeping in the lounge. But it was all kinda fun... I got by by pretending it was a high school camp. It was Yy, Sel, Haoster and myself... We slept in the meeting room - Great thanks to jackets, Yanying's sleeping bags, and beanbags from the lounge - and we feasted on packet noodles every night. Yea it was pretty enjoyable in some strange, exhausting way...

And Chinese word of the day: Mei Ren Yu actually means Pretty Mermaid and not No One's Fishing.

Thanks yy... XD


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BUT anyway... Like I said, I've been wanting to post this entry for a pretty long time, so here it is. Earlier this year when I was back during the summer break, Mainyy, Joy, Grace, Sherlz, Gavin, Dave and Rob decided to scare the heck outta me.

It all started with Mainyy saying we should go out sometime and she said HeY let's go out for dinner my dear wifeey! And I said yea sure why not and so she made a plan on some date which I can't remember now and it was on.

Drove down to her place and parked outside her joint, got down and rang the doorbell. I felt like some highschool jock taking a date out. Flowers flowers, i forgot th flowers!! -__- wth..

Mainy kinda bounced out, and called me in to look at the entertainment book before we went off. "Mmmkay...." I bounced in after her.

“OHHh.. Sam!! Look my, umn, mOM is cooking!”
“Where’s your mom?”
“Ehh… not… here……”*sweats*
“Oh. You helping her??”
“YEAA!! I aM! LoooooK!”
“Ehh you ruined anything yet?”


Mainy u idiot. XD



Was just a little bit frightening to see 5 people simultaneously jump out from behind the table. So I screamed I laughed I tried to run away… and then the question hits me: WHAT are they doing here??? This was supposed to be a romantic dinner with wifey.. Wuts the occasion? Did I do something? Ehh hold up did I lock the car just now?

Yea the whole surprise was really awesome. Strange cuz we just stood there laughing for a while and then

Me: “Eh wut is this for?”
Sherlz: “… Your farewell/birthday…” *quietly snatches a card and a packet of candles off the table*
Me: “Ohh yea… HAHA…”
Joy: “EHh SHERMAINE you should have told Sam! She doesn’t even know it’s her birthday!!”
Shermaine: “EHh then it won’t be a surprise anymore RIGHT?”


Ehh felt kinda stupid after a while cuz I KNOW my birthday’s coming cuz like who doesn’t know when their own birthdays are, and so I could afford to be a little more wary or at least suspicious about things… but I keep forgetting about it and I am SO slow and admittedly unobservant cuz I can’t believe I missed Joy’s big blue ball of a Beetle. (You sold it! How could you do that??!) The only thing I thought about was if it was just dinner, WHY go into Mainy’s house first instead of just driving off to the restaurant already? But she said look in the Entertainment Book so I happily skipped along behind her…

Joy: SAM are u surprised?? BE MORE SURPRISED!!!
Me: I AM. *showed how surprised I was* (no no i really was)
Joy: EEHHHH..
Grace: Sam Sam! Look at the apples! I helped peeled them!! *proudly shows me an apple*
Me: Oh. Umn. AHhh, very pretty! How sweet of you Grace!! Thank you SO much for peeling those apples till they were skinless-
Grace: And I dropped one into the bin while I was peeling it! The whole thing dropped in.
Me: o__o;; Ohh.. haha.. that’s very nice!! Keep… practicing.



This is Mainyy's mom?? o_O


Three course meal folks... XD

But yea.. the food wuz great (thanks Chef Gav!) and the company was exceptional.. Just sitting there with them, talking about the dumbest things - whether tomatoes were a fruit or a vegetable and how were a certain minority of people gonna fit into those Evo/Daytona racing chairs and how to carry plates waiter-style..

Yea. I missed em.

All the while the nostalgia lingering way above me like a cloud and it felt pretty good. I’ve got good friends and I guess that’s what made the whole thing so fun. Was hilarious when someone said something about Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien and stuff being classified under Chinese and Joy said no, Chinese was Chinese and Cantonese etc. were dialects which wasn’t Chinese. And honestly, I’ll admit to knowing nothing about this – hence I was unusually silent at that moment – and if anything, I thought dialects weren’t Chinese and so I would have actually agreed with Joy, if the opposition hadn’t consisted of like, EVERYONE ELSE. So yea, girl you’re on your own this time. XD

Sherlz: Cantonese IS Chinese. Mandarin’s Chinese as well.
Joy: No!!! Sam HELP ME.
Me: . . . *mumbles incoherently* . . .
Rob: Man Joy would never admit she’s wrong aye!
Maine: No she did.. like when she didn’t know Jesus died at 3:00…
Joy: Yea yea I said sorry! But that’s like, who knows these kinda things?
Grace: Yea it’s like asking what’s the 50th word in Harry Potter.
Joy: But like if you ask like, what did Jonah* get swallowed by, we all know these kinda stuff.
Sherlz: Well DO you know what he got swallowed by?
Joy & Mainy: *with amazing pride and confidence* A whale!!
Sherlz: It was a big FISH.
Joy: OH REALLY?
Rob: Ehh Isn’t a whale a fish?
Everyone: . . .
Me: A whale’s a mammal. (David Attenborough suddenly comes in handy)
Rob: Oh.
Joy: Ehh… well I only didn’t know that cuz I didn’t really listen in Sunday school.. Oops.
Dave (the former Sunday school teacher): I’m gonna pretend I didn’t hear that.


And

Joy: A tomato is a vegetable!
Sherlz: It’s a fruit!!
Joy: Sam HELP me!!
Me: . . .*mumbles incoherently*
Auntie Sok Hwa: Oh it’s not a vegetable??
Sherlz: It’s a FRUIT!!! How can you all not know this? Okay Joy do you know what a mushroom is?
Joy: It’s a vegetable.
Me: (AHH this I KNOW.) It’s a funghi! ^_______^
Joy: Ohh. Then what is a fungheee??
Auntie Sok Hwa: Umn.. Just another way to say funghi…
Joy: Oh.


My best friend’s a geniusSs..

But yea.. It was all really fun… THANKS you guys… *HUGS* The il’ gelato cake tastes a lot sweeter with your guys around… ^__^




Oh and this for the vis commers... Arnotts TimTam did something very discreetly sweet with thier packaging..


Sweet. ^__^



*I said Noah. When it should be Jonah. No better than the fish/whale thing. T_T
Thanks Jap. XD