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One of the main reasons why I have not coloured my hair at a salon for the last 5 years at least....
Is that it never turns out nice to me.

The ones that somehow end up looking alright on my head...are those DIY packages which can be bought for 10% of the price you pay at the salon.

I did my hair yesterday. Permed it again. It fried my hair a little.
Considering I didn't give it enough rest since the last perm.

I highlighted it too. I should have insisted on a brownish colour. Safe colour for me considering that I'm tanned. The fella told me to try a deep magenta...a shade of red, in layman terms. I told her I prefer browns. She said to try something new..I thought ok lah. Fuck it and just do it.

So now I have red highlights.

I need to remind myself that whenever I say "fuck it and just do it" for hair colouring. It never does turn out right.

I don't like it.

Hell I'm considering if I should get a DIY pack and cover it all up.

I want my natural hair colour back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've got a friend

I've got a friend. A fun-loving 21-yr-old young girl prone to crazy shrieks and mad giggles.

She's listed as a Portugese in her identity card. But looks like a girl from China.
She was born in Hong Kong. But spent the latter half of her life in Singapore.
She speaks English like any Singaporean. But can't speak enough Mandarin to save her own ass (like alot of other Singaporeans haha).
She's petite at 1.58m. But her voicebox is a loudhailer in its own right.
She is learning French. But also intends to learn German and Korean.
She can kick any guys' ass flat with her jujitsu skills. But she's also into scrap-booking.
She loves food. But doesn't eat pork, can't take seafood, doesn't eat chicken, cannot take much spicy food and doesn't like vegetables.

If I were her, I'd be terribly confused by now.

blogging

I have not been writing in here very regularly. Interest is waning.

Even if I do write, it's on trivialities and mundane issues and uninteresting matters.

So really...why write? Why blog anymore when I've got nothing better to say?

Hmm....

There are times when I have a sudden inspiration during the day or when I'm on my way to work, or when I'm walking somewhere and I see something......I'll tell myself "Ok, I'll write on that!"

But when I sit in front of the PC hours later, I find that that moment of inspiration has come and gone. Lost to the wind. And I'll be sitting in front of the PC feeling empty again with nary a clue of what to write.

That's right. Emptiness. Not knowing what to write, to say, to feel, to think.
I wonder how an author feels when he/she gets writers' block.

Angry Birds vs Green Pigs

My throne in K-kingdom has been usurped by a bunch of angry birds... haha.
K has recently been somewhat addicted to this game called Angry Birds on his iphone...

Here's a cute excerpt.





And the following vid will explain to you..why the hell these birdies are all so angry at the pigs hahahahahhahahahhaa

Jigsaw

The pieces were there
All the while
It took time of course
But she had pieced together
Some of them

She felt elated
For a short while
But the more she
Fit them together
The more she had doubts

Colours and shapes
Don’t seem to
Match anymore
She felt confused
And lost

The pieces did not
Match anymore
All that time spent
She had to undo
Had to unlearn
Her previous steps

Start all over
Keep moving forward
In the hope that
The pieces will
All fall together
In place
Eventually

Le matin

Let’s see. How was my morning?

The negatives
Cut my elbow, yet another consequence of my clumsiness and silliness. Lost a patch of skin, lost a few drops of blood and now I’ve got a plaster across my right elbow.

Was glared at by a friggin’ taxi driver when he almost hit me when I crossing a zebra crossing. Zebra crossing leh. I don’t think I was at fault…I gave him ample time to stop.

Someone told me straight in my face that I should do something to the big open pores on my nose.

The pimple on my nose was an ugly purple.


The positives
I found two primary school friends through FB. Gosh…I lost touch with them 18 years ago after we went to different secondary schools.

Finally made some headway on a long-standing issue

The pimple is drying up, albeit slowly.

:(

Been making many silly careless mistakes for the last few weeks and months maybe.
I feel like as if I'm a fresh grad who just started working.

Angry & pissed.

I used to be a meticulous worker, especially during my editorial and proof-reading days.
What happened from then till now??

Argh.

Wingtips

好想飞

Peanut

I suddenly thought of Peanut today. One of my hamsters from all those years ago.

When he was a baby, his head and body were shaped like groundnuts. Hence the name Peanut. He wasn't a very pretty sight though when he grew older. Dull grey fur and pink feet. And he looked rather bedraggled all the time. Haha...But he was still loved by us together with his other 4 sisters.

He died a somewhat tragic death back in 2003 or 2004 and both my Dad and I felt guilty for it.
We caused his death due to our carelessness. We didn't check his water-bottle properly. It wasn't flowing well. I think he died of thirst, at the premature age of 1.5 years old.

Funny how I suddenly thought of him today. While at work somemore.

Bad Debts

Sometimes, you loan out things and never get to see them again...

• CD - Wu Bai
• Book - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Book - Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• Book – Notes from a Small Island by Neil Humphreys
• Book – Notes from an Even Smaller Island by Neil Humphreys
• $$$$

I return what I borrow, unless the other party tells me to keep it.

Depapepe

I discovered a new musical duo. Depapepe.
A Japanese duo who first launched their debut album in 2005. Enjoy...:)

...........zzz...............

How can something so fulfilling in some months become an utter source of boredom in other months?

The pendulum swings. The cycle begins.

I can taste the bittersweet grain of things. I can hear the churn of the machines.

Love-hate relationship.

With?

Work, of course.

OMG.

God, grant me the energy to keep my eyelids up for the rest of the afternoon......

Love It, Hate It?

I can't claim to be a music critic or be well-versed in any genre or forms of music..
But I seem to like this particular performance alot...

Pompeii

One of those songs in which you can imagne great and grand settings in some greek or roman empire building...

Last of the Mohicans

I’ve always liked this song. I don’t know what genre you call this. Celtic music? Hmm…yeah I think it is. I have a CD on Celtic music…think it’s time I dig it out from the cupboard. :)

What you would you....

If you had zero commitments and liabilities right now,
And were given the chance to drop everything,
And do something you want,
What would you do?

If you weren’t that afraid of the unknown,
And that comfortable with your current situation,
And that stubborn to stick to what you’re doing now,
What would you try?

If you had a lot more courage,
And a little bit more sense of adventure,
And perhaps a dash of impulse,
What would you endeavour?

What would you attempt?
What would you take a crack at?
What would you give a shot at?

*Breathe*

Had two dreams. One last night and one this morning on the train to work.
Both were the same dream.

I was in an underground cave which was almost full with water. I had to swim fully submerged underwater to get out. Paddled with the right hand and The left hand was held above my head feeling the roof of the cave for any potential cavities for pockets of air I could catch a few breaths from. I felt rather suffocated. My lungs were bursting.

And then I woke.

It was exactly the same for both dreams.

I'm not alone

I've never seen anyone else with triangular-shaped nostrils.

Till yesterday on the MRT, when I saw an auntie from China.

Voila. I'm not the only one with strangely-shaped nostrils.

*yum*

I have a perpetual love affair....

With chicken wings....

Grilled preferably.
Without batter.

Fresh Blood

A new colleague just came in.
Oh well, he's not entirely new. He was with my company previously but left about 3 years ago, had a stint outside but was still in the same industry and now he's back again.

New colleague, new dynamics again.

He's a smart smart guy..Hope he injects new directions to the way the compan is run.
And hope I can learn more things from him.