jooseng teochew porriage: minced pork, crispy fish, kiam chye, stewed peanut, tou pok, juice -$14.00

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

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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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its been a while since ive loged... sux cos i cant see my own page and i wanted to change the layout and template for the new year... well until blogger does something to correct that glitch, ill be blogging blind...



recap...

birthday dinner was great, really... my mom did jus abt every thing... first time in years that i actually got presents, wraped up from so many at one go...



note abt the presents - all of u prolly when thro a mindboggleing time wilst tryin to get me somehting that i wld actually take a liking to... sorry abt being all skeptic and fussy, but i am... and some of u hav been asking me if i like ur presents... well its not easy to please edwin so dont worry abt that part... i appreciate the time put in to get my gifts... but im still fussy...





my mom sent me to israel so it really is the best gift.



my brother go me a tomy toy car. its a forklift wif moveable forks... cool. like it lots and my brother rocks.



fred got me the lighter/match thing and i love it... i jus keep striking it... so fun! actually he gave me this amano watercolour book, im not a big fann of amano but i wanna learn watercolour so its good timing.



alina came down all the way to pass me my present... its a book and suposed to be helpful and all but i really dun like reading... still i will try to read it! and she even gave me a boot! of chocolates that is...



linn gave me this bottle of issey miyake, which is abt the only perfume ild ever use... but i hardly use perfumes... gotta learn to start sprayin. she gave me chocolates too... which is like alot! man... i humbly accept and sorry u dint get cake.



to the 3pple who got me the totoro, meiyun, rina and bern... aii... wat were u thinking?... its a nice gesture and i noe u thought really hard but in truth, its not my kinda thing?... thanks for going thro the trouble, and its definately better than the water colours... but aii...



adel and jeremy gave me royce chocolates and a lasagne which was good cos i really like food... still i pref hard gifts to edibles but im really happy i requested for that lasagne. =)



my older couson gave me leonidas chocolates... that makes 4 boxes already... hohoho chocolate everyday!



zixi gave me a mug, i like the mug... ive been wanting a mug of this shape for a while. the print isnt somthing ild go crazy abt but it suits the mug fine.



haha mandy gave be a piggy bank... first ever! its sitting in my pc now rite beside the gundam wing. ive gotta learn to start saving... and yea its cool thanks.



janice gave me a tin of cookies... famous amos... really good and aromatic... but i dun like dried fruit.... ate em all anyway, jus this once.



edmund and jiamin gave me a tee... erm... if i scruntinised the tee edmund wld be offended. did jiamin pick it? kinda looks like jiamin's choice. well thnks i guess, but i like the starscream more.



cherly geve me a sketch book... its got this velvet cover! i tot i was like some travel cluedo or somthing but a sketch book is better. i jus hope i actually learn to draw soon.





alrite ive stepped on eunf toes.







actually it really is/was more imporatant that u all came down and to celebrate my birthday...

thank u all for takin the trouble and comming down even on such and important day of celebrations...

it was really crutial that u all came since i invited very little and there really wont be a birthday if u guy dint make it.

the presents were jus icing on the birthday cake and icing is always good.... i like all the gifts i got because in them is embedded wat u think of me and that i actually exist in ur lives... really that is most important... the above scrunity is base only upon the product and not the gifts so pls dun mix up the 2. i dint.



thanks, u all hav made this birthday most mermoriable.

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its 3am... my room is only half packed... im dead tired... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

man...



im lookin at a gift my brother gave me... first bday present. memoriable. its wraped in white paper. nothing fancy, but exactally as i taught him... memoriable. feeling nice and fuzzy.



my moms asleep now... jus. shes worked the hardest to make todae possible. memoriable. im very loved. she will be waking real early tmr. i love my mom. how can one not love the best mom in the world?



i was gonna bragg a little abt me... but im too tired... ill sleep now.



a week of parties and finally a clean room.

I’ve been thinking about design again.



In the even of floods and monsoons, I am reminded of this community of people in India. As I was told they live as a village by a river. Their houses, made from mud and wood provide shelter for their families, safe for their livestock and limited belongings.

Every year during the monsoon season these mud houses would be washed away. These inhabitants of the once life giving river would have to pack up and move up to higher ground to set up home again. After the monsoon season passes the Indians will once again move back down to the river. And theses resilient people do it every year, over and over.



I’ve never seen this place for myself, only heard of it from a distant source, however it sounds possible.



First thoughts were why would anyone want to repeat building their homes over and over, year after year. Doesn’t seem very smart. However, ill suppose the river brings about extremely fertile soil for farming and rearing livestock. And each year as these farmers have their homes washed away, the monsoons also carries away the old, nutrient depleted, soil. And along with it comes new grounds for tilling and ranching.



So lets suppose this is the reason for the Indians to keep returning to the river.



Now these city free Indians are now experts in mud house construction since they do it every year. I’m sure throughout the years they’ve improved in their methods of building mud houses. They must also have their own ways of transporting families, livestock and possessions. Maybe even building materials.

Don’t think any designer could match their knowledge in temporary and limited resource constructions.

Also these homes that they create would probably be in their simplest form – ‘minimalist design’.

And nothing’s stopping them from personalizing each home, wouldn’t you? I think, here in the city, we call it interior design. (I dun believe in interior design but that’s another issue for another time.)

How then would they device means to transport their annual move of homes, or their methods of recognizing the time to start moving? We have so much to learn.



Design problems, solved by solutions of non-designers, which are likely to prove themselves more efficient and effective than the produce of a pampered, city spoiled designer. Makes me wonder how any self respecting designer can feel happy producing rubbish on paper, which gets haggled down to rock bottom prices, sells it for peanuts and pat him/herself on the back and say “I also can design what” and eventually kill the market for design.



I once heard a comment that design was suited only for the rich. I’ve always thought it was flawed but could never find what was wrong with it since it had some truth in it.

With the short discussion above, I now think design is suited only for extreme circumstances, extreme poverty or extreme wealth – monomaniacal culture.

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a day past christmas, as week past my camp and a mth past the israel trip... still a big rush of assigments to do and parties to attend. bah too many.

planning a birthday something on the day itself... the fools town council are telling me i cant do one cos there isnt space open enuff to be grilling meat. well ill do it anyway... like i care if the pple in the oppsite blocks get to sniff my food.

but anyways christmas was good, the camp at trengannu was good and israel was super. so really ive got very little to complain... ive got a super yr end.



my little cousin's at my place, which explains y im here typing instead of hogging on the ps2 console...

any ideas wat to do on the party? im boggled. if u can think of anything leave a suggestion ya?



still have my war stricken abode to clear up

cockles frm boon tat st. bbq seafood -$5.00

its 3am and i was supposed to sleep at one... and i havent packed. aii. gotta wake at 10am in the mornin, hope i make it.



jus finished uploading the first set of pics i took in israel adn sending em out, i expected it to be easier... but well 540 pic aint easy to plough thro. i hope i dint make too many mistakes. anyway the link to the pics is here> "Galilean Times" u can also find it under the magazine rack.



ill be off to camp till the 22nd, not really exicited though... much like b4 the Israel trip. well im sure Jesus will bless this trip too. all in good time...



sleepy giddy and stiff frm sitting infront of the computer too long. will miss pokeing at the playstation and my blog...



still wondering if i shld bring my camera...