chicken drumstick, rice and sauced vegatable -$3.50
its been three yrs since the uncle, who sells chicken rice, set up his stall a few blocks from my house.
for the last three yrs ive been patroniseing his stall regulary... after all when ive nothing better on the menu i usually settle for chicken rice...
today on one of my regular runs down for lunch, this chicken uncle told me that he will hav to close down his store due to bad busines as a cause of recent happenings. i guess all that hype abt bird flu and health matters took its toll on chicken businesses in singapore.
sidenote: my lecturer who jus gone to shanghai said that the pple of china still continue their regular consumption of chicken. kfc isnt slacking in business and restuarnts dont leave out chicken in their menu... so seriously the bird flu is dangerous but also given in to too much hype.
well it will be weird to hav no chicken rice stall to go to in the afternoons... and being a regular customer has ts perks too... better portions, more rice and discounts on every purchase. kinda hard to accept something that ive taken for granted to stick arnd for the next five yrs wld so suddenly be removed.
i will miss the chicken rice stall... the smiling uncle... his weird wife who always glares at pple... the fact that if im too lazy to cook or go out of lunch i cld jus settle for chicken rice... and most of all, that they were there for the duration of my poly yrs (which i love the most).
its isnt an important part of my life... its is however, a very big part of my everyday routine.
funny... all things good and bad has its time frame of exisitence. the end of this stall reminds me that i too wld be stepping into a new phase of my life. i can only think for to day cos the future is a constant nagger and the past is too heavy a burden to bear.
i only hav jesus to trust.
Saturday, February 28, 2004
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
pear flambee, serves 2 at The Tarven -$24.00
the is safety in the council of friends... how true...
in the recent happenings ive been very stressed... and pressured... kinda put me in touchy mode.
design and its issues hav always been close to heart. and not jus close to heart, also very misunderstood.
i was gonna blow my top... and go all out ona kamakazi rush to chide all liveing beings that made my life as a designer hell...
pukingcoldblood.
but after talking to a few pple... and lastly my care grp leader... i realised that being angry at my pple who dont noe anyhthing abt design really isnt gonna help my future.
im convinced that ignorance prevails among the larger part of non-designers.
to most, designers speak greek (or at least it has become a popular belief). besides, it wld also prolly result in more misunderstanding amongst designer and non-desginer. nobody wld truly understand a designer's pain. but in hope, they can see a difference in good work and crap. so i guess its really up to my God to change their minds; and im gonna stick arnd to see it happen, playing the low key.
all in all im glad that i finally hav a release in pressure. now i noe wat to do... its a risk but i feel a peace that comes wif the decision. ya... aii. between vengence and hope i choose the latter.
for better tmrs.
the is safety in the council of friends... how true...
in the recent happenings ive been very stressed... and pressured... kinda put me in touchy mode.
design and its issues hav always been close to heart. and not jus close to heart, also very misunderstood.
i was gonna blow my top... and go all out ona kamakazi rush to chide all liveing beings that made my life as a designer hell...
pukingcoldblood.
but after talking to a few pple... and lastly my care grp leader... i realised that being angry at my pple who dont noe anyhthing abt design really isnt gonna help my future.
im convinced that ignorance prevails among the larger part of non-designers.
to most, designers speak greek (or at least it has become a popular belief). besides, it wld also prolly result in more misunderstanding amongst designer and non-desginer. nobody wld truly understand a designer's pain. but in hope, they can see a difference in good work and crap. so i guess its really up to my God to change their minds; and im gonna stick arnd to see it happen, playing the low key.
all in all im glad that i finally hav a release in pressure. now i noe wat to do... its a risk but i feel a peace that comes wif the decision. ya... aii. between vengence and hope i choose the latter.
for better tmrs.
Saturday, February 14, 2004
muji's dried cuttlefish -$1.60
was gonna complain in my last enrty... so i decided not to.
its valentines day.
im up unusually early.
counting my days to national service, i feel like theres a rush a of things to be done... i do hope i complete them b4 i get called up.
haha! i coloured my hair on friday the thirteen. its was good. and so much more since i got and 30% taken off my total cost. haha im still smiling looking at the colour. sunny's great wif hair.
also ive found the song im looking for. lisa ono singing "La Vie En Rose". i think the rest of her work is fantastic too... jus that it seem like ive known the tune to this one since forever. i think its really good jazz, but thats jus my biased opinion, in the albumn "Lisa Ono Dans Mon Île".
well no dates today.
was gonna complain in my last enrty... so i decided not to.
its valentines day.
im up unusually early.
counting my days to national service, i feel like theres a rush a of things to be done... i do hope i complete them b4 i get called up.
haha! i coloured my hair on friday the thirteen. its was good. and so much more since i got and 30% taken off my total cost. haha im still smiling looking at the colour. sunny's great wif hair.
also ive found the song im looking for. lisa ono singing "La Vie En Rose". i think the rest of her work is fantastic too... jus that it seem like ive known the tune to this one since forever. i think its really good jazz, but thats jus my biased opinion, in the albumn "Lisa Ono Dans Mon Île".
well no dates today.
Sunday, February 8, 2004
raclette cheese@the Tarven -$8.50
-jus finished work wif publicity...
-tired.
-today i realised i dun really believe in healing.
-messed up.
-ive only recently realised that the colour tones, fabric/material makes alotta difference to a piece of clothing; esp when aged
-beautiful.
-ive also recently realised some skeletons in the closet that i always knew were there but never bothered to look.
-bleah!
-raclette cheese is a very good starter.
-ive been watching flcl, its nice.
-gotta get my md reapired. gotta compile an all ROCK md.
-X JAPAN!
-gotta get a hair cut... dye? bleach? highlight? choices.
-money.
-learnt that a sigh makes a good prayer.
-gotta rem to draw for publications.
-blazer's are nice... esp the ones wif the yellow toe caps.
-gotta get my jeans mend and modifyed.
-gotta get a new pair of jeans.
-FFX FFX FFX!!!
-jus finished work wif publicity...
-tired.
-today i realised i dun really believe in healing.
-messed up.
-ive only recently realised that the colour tones, fabric/material makes alotta difference to a piece of clothing; esp when aged
-beautiful.
-ive also recently realised some skeletons in the closet that i always knew were there but never bothered to look.
-bleah!
-raclette cheese is a very good starter.
-ive been watching flcl, its nice.
-gotta get my md reapired. gotta compile an all ROCK md.
-X JAPAN!
-gotta get a hair cut... dye? bleach? highlight? choices.
-money.
-learnt that a sigh makes a good prayer.
-gotta rem to draw for publications.
-blazer's are nice... esp the ones wif the yellow toe caps.
-gotta get my jeans mend and modifyed.
-gotta get a new pair of jeans.
-FFX FFX FFX!!!
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
jooseng teochew porriage: porriage/rice -$free
its the 9am in the morning... i was gonna wake up at 10am to do a drawing necessary as poster...
however once again im rudely awakened but some idoitic situation.
im very fustrated but things such as this...
today my brother was gonna be a few minutes late for sch and he refused to go. and u noe why? cos the school threatened that reciving four late records would grant a studet caning. im really bothered that my brother is afraid of sch...
wasnt the concept of secondary/primary school to have a child learn and develop necessary skills and find his/her passion in carreer? i dun think developing fear and a detest for studying is something a sch shld be offering...
maybe in defence the sch might say, being puntual is an attribute that every student shld aquire and have... and they might go on to say how necesary it is in the working world. but i say its crap... sure its important to be punctual... but more importantly, is for the sch to instill a desire to learn which im sure that superceeds wat ever mambo jumbo "mottos" the sch might want to hold on to... we go to sch to learn to learn and not learn to be the topdog...
i hate the society's systems... its rubbish.
and on the point of being punctual, im sure the members of the disciplinary committee who have so wilfully decided on such a "law" to be passed are most of the times late themselves... common, a singaporean never late? unheard of. i think its absolutely foolhardy... if any of u teachers of my brother dare pat urself on ur backs, let it be a pat to ur deaths.
jus dun think its right this way... ARGGGG! hell... jus not the right wat to live...
enuf said.
2 art lectures and ive gone thro impressionsm and modernism(expressionism, fauvism, cubism). indeed as the times turn cosmopolitan and metropolitan, the amount of pressure one recieves throughout a life time grows steadily. pent up fustration's and carefully conceled anger instilled with in many who dwell in the city...
i prefer the darker paintings... the ones that speak of a love of life yet wif morbid expectations...
wif impressionsm i think van gogh is fantastic... whilst his use of colour is often complementary and bright, he manages to evoke a sense of emptyness and loss of hope... turning brightness into a glare and the ability to put so much of his present feelings/thoughts in to his paintings is absolutely remarkable. i mean how does one concieve to do such?!
edvard munch during the times of expressionism fits the term "expression" accurately. his works are mostly characteristically dark and morbid, said to be a reflection of his less than fortunate childhood. "the scream", prolly his most popular piece, is one that effectively evokes a response in its audience. i think the ability to paint such takes much more than the ability to paint photolike pictures...
i used to think that photo quality paintings were the most dfficult to achive and absolutely fantstic (prolly cos my father expeced me to learn such when my mother enrolled me into drawing class). now i think they are difficult to do and not worth the effort... after all if one paints, its shld speak more than wat a mechanised box wif a pinhole can do.
last, but certainly not least is cubism... in the lecture we were only introduced to pablo picasso and his works that fit into cubism. i think cubism is awesome and very fun to do... i feel its alot like deconstrution or atleast the process is rather similliar. drawing more than one facard of a subject in one's painting is intersting and since the paintings ride on a concept rather than a style, i like it so much more.
yup i love art class... wish my brother loves his class too.
its the 9am in the morning... i was gonna wake up at 10am to do a drawing necessary as poster...
however once again im rudely awakened but some idoitic situation.
im very fustrated but things such as this...
today my brother was gonna be a few minutes late for sch and he refused to go. and u noe why? cos the school threatened that reciving four late records would grant a studet caning. im really bothered that my brother is afraid of sch...
wasnt the concept of secondary/primary school to have a child learn and develop necessary skills and find his/her passion in carreer? i dun think developing fear and a detest for studying is something a sch shld be offering...
maybe in defence the sch might say, being puntual is an attribute that every student shld aquire and have... and they might go on to say how necesary it is in the working world. but i say its crap... sure its important to be punctual... but more importantly, is for the sch to instill a desire to learn which im sure that superceeds wat ever mambo jumbo "mottos" the sch might want to hold on to... we go to sch to learn to learn and not learn to be the topdog...
i hate the society's systems... its rubbish.
and on the point of being punctual, im sure the members of the disciplinary committee who have so wilfully decided on such a "law" to be passed are most of the times late themselves... common, a singaporean never late? unheard of. i think its absolutely foolhardy... if any of u teachers of my brother dare pat urself on ur backs, let it be a pat to ur deaths.
jus dun think its right this way... ARGGGG! hell... jus not the right wat to live...
enuf said.
2 art lectures and ive gone thro impressionsm and modernism(expressionism, fauvism, cubism). indeed as the times turn cosmopolitan and metropolitan, the amount of pressure one recieves throughout a life time grows steadily. pent up fustration's and carefully conceled anger instilled with in many who dwell in the city...
i prefer the darker paintings... the ones that speak of a love of life yet wif morbid expectations...
wif impressionsm i think van gogh is fantastic... whilst his use of colour is often complementary and bright, he manages to evoke a sense of emptyness and loss of hope... turning brightness into a glare and the ability to put so much of his present feelings/thoughts in to his paintings is absolutely remarkable. i mean how does one concieve to do such?!
edvard munch during the times of expressionism fits the term "expression" accurately. his works are mostly characteristically dark and morbid, said to be a reflection of his less than fortunate childhood. "the scream", prolly his most popular piece, is one that effectively evokes a response in its audience. i think the ability to paint such takes much more than the ability to paint photolike pictures...
i used to think that photo quality paintings were the most dfficult to achive and absolutely fantstic (prolly cos my father expeced me to learn such when my mother enrolled me into drawing class). now i think they are difficult to do and not worth the effort... after all if one paints, its shld speak more than wat a mechanised box wif a pinhole can do.
last, but certainly not least is cubism... in the lecture we were only introduced to pablo picasso and his works that fit into cubism. i think cubism is awesome and very fun to do... i feel its alot like deconstrution or atleast the process is rather similliar. drawing more than one facard of a subject in one's painting is intersting and since the paintings ride on a concept rather than a style, i like it so much more.
yup i love art class... wish my brother loves his class too.
Monday, January 26, 2004
jooseng teochew porriage:
havent touched blogger in a while... actually i have put quite a bit of things to do on hold... theres jus so many thing i wanna do b4 i get stuck doing national service.
ive got to do pics of jerusalem but not b4 i finish up wif the 2 sets of assignments i hav to do for church. then theres my rpgs that i wanna complete... on top of that are countless festivals along wif shopping needs. which is not all since i still wanna attend a class in sch and redo my html template.
well... its not wat a working person wld deem busy... and indeed im not at all tied up, jus that i wanna enjoy doing every one of these things ive put up for myself to do... and yea i almost forgot ive got to catch up on quite a bit of sleep...
havent felt like blogging very much either. in refrence to my penultimate entry, turns out that most pple either dint read it or were fine wif wat i said... all but one of my "frnds" who got really offended when he read between the lines and found something offensive in my writeing that i did not intend to leave... well even after confrontation he's still givin me the cold shlder... and yea, its a he im refering to. is my english that bad? really this isnt the first time ive encountered such a misunderstanding frm wat i typed... but never on my blog... jus make me feel reluctant to refresh the page sometimes... well i guess since toes have already been crushed, theres not much turnig back now... weird how pple can be angry wif u but not dare to explain their reasons for it, while all the time saying how important ur frndship is to them... weird... or isit jus me. aii...
its rather fustrating, prolly the reason y i like rock music so much... kinda beat the fustration in to tunes...
i havent talked abt this matter in a while... somtimes jus feel like bustring out curses and swears... but i suppose time will tell wat the hell is going on... i think i need to talk to God... aii...
well at least a journal is meant for writeing watever's on my mind... rite? if u think its offensive dun read it. it really was meant to be a personal thing. im not hollywood and i dun always write nice and crownd pleasing entries... yea and forgive the typos im in no mood to spell check.
i hope ill hav less entries like this one
havent touched blogger in a while... actually i have put quite a bit of things to do on hold... theres jus so many thing i wanna do b4 i get stuck doing national service.
ive got to do pics of jerusalem but not b4 i finish up wif the 2 sets of assignments i hav to do for church. then theres my rpgs that i wanna complete... on top of that are countless festivals along wif shopping needs. which is not all since i still wanna attend a class in sch and redo my html template.
well... its not wat a working person wld deem busy... and indeed im not at all tied up, jus that i wanna enjoy doing every one of these things ive put up for myself to do... and yea i almost forgot ive got to catch up on quite a bit of sleep...
havent felt like blogging very much either. in refrence to my penultimate entry, turns out that most pple either dint read it or were fine wif wat i said... all but one of my "frnds" who got really offended when he read between the lines and found something offensive in my writeing that i did not intend to leave... well even after confrontation he's still givin me the cold shlder... and yea, its a he im refering to. is my english that bad? really this isnt the first time ive encountered such a misunderstanding frm wat i typed... but never on my blog... jus make me feel reluctant to refresh the page sometimes... well i guess since toes have already been crushed, theres not much turnig back now... weird how pple can be angry wif u but not dare to explain their reasons for it, while all the time saying how important ur frndship is to them... weird... or isit jus me. aii...
its rather fustrating, prolly the reason y i like rock music so much... kinda beat the fustration in to tunes...
i havent talked abt this matter in a while... somtimes jus feel like bustring out curses and swears... but i suppose time will tell wat the hell is going on... i think i need to talk to God... aii...
well at least a journal is meant for writeing watever's on my mind... rite? if u think its offensive dun read it. it really was meant to be a personal thing. im not hollywood and i dun always write nice and crownd pleasing entries... yea and forgive the typos im in no mood to spell check.
i hope ill hav less entries like this one
Sunday, January 25, 2004
ideboku fresh milk, 900ml air-flown -$9.80
never heard drums like yoshiki's... i mean hav u heard the beats on his drum?! its mind blowing!... never heard anything close to such devotion in music... hav u heard it? hav u?!!!!!!
im sooo hooked on X-japan, jus found out today how fantastic they were... haha im alittle late in finding out, but stilll im very hooked... its 3:40am, its raining outside, cool inside but i cant sleep! rusty nail and blue blood are jus too addictive... up till now ive heard that pair 3times over...
really gets ur adrenaline pumping... the drums are jus out of this world.
and yoshiki, the guy who plays the drums, is not the only one who give their music a cutting edge... toshi, on vocals, is jus utterly unique... his voice, a gift... simply fantstic! very sonorous, makes him sound like a choir rather than jus one man... guitarists pata and hide are a unbeatable pair... and the sound of the eletric-guitar is ever-beautiful. their solos never dissapoint.
its jus that the drumer, being so unique and matchless, steals most of the limelight...
u never heard j-rock till uve had X japan.
never heard drums like yoshiki's... i mean hav u heard the beats on his drum?! its mind blowing!... never heard anything close to such devotion in music... hav u heard it? hav u?!!!!!!
im sooo hooked on X-japan, jus found out today how fantastic they were... haha im alittle late in finding out, but stilll im very hooked... its 3:40am, its raining outside, cool inside but i cant sleep! rusty nail and blue blood are jus too addictive... up till now ive heard that pair 3times over...
really gets ur adrenaline pumping... the drums are jus out of this world.
and yoshiki, the guy who plays the drums, is not the only one who give their music a cutting edge... toshi, on vocals, is jus utterly unique... his voice, a gift... simply fantstic! very sonorous, makes him sound like a choir rather than jus one man... guitarists pata and hide are a unbeatable pair... and the sound of the eletric-guitar is ever-beautiful. their solos never dissapoint.
its jus that the drumer, being so unique and matchless, steals most of the limelight...
u never heard j-rock till uve had X japan.
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