Thursday, January 26, 2006
happy chinese new year!
statutory memorandum was getting too boring. brain cells were rapidly deteriorating. hence, i took a night off from work and went out for dinner. and thereon to chinatown.now, in all honesty, while i have been to chinatown before, i've never, not in my entire 21 years of life, ever been there during the chinese new year period. reason being, i've always decided it was way too crowded, and there wouldn't be anything worth seeing. well. i was wrong on both counts tonight (thursday seems too early for the CNY crowd to set in, so it was only reasonably crowded, and there's a host of amusing stuff to entertain)
for example, a pack of 100 sparklers costs 5 bucks. a box of peanut cake CNY goodies costs 1. (get the picture?) not to mention those rather charming vendors and their endless sales pitches (don't they ever lose their voices?) well, i saw 3 different stalls selling a ladle specially calculated to scoop out only oil (i suspect the scooping method works better than the special filter of the ladle, but...) and a stall selling instant-freeze ice cream (although i stood there for 5 minutes watching a highly remarkable performance where the vendor vigorously shook a large tray immersed in ice-cold water, within which the ice cream sticks were placed, and wondered at my poor grasp of chemistry, such that kinetic energy from the vendor can be transferred into an endothermic reaction to quick-freeze the ice cream. well, after 5 minutes the ice cream was still unfrozen and i got bored, so i can't tell you how the performance ended...) and some vendor selling prawn paste cookies (it really puts me in mind of prawn rolls somehow), amidst many other wondrous things.
or maybe i was just bored of doing work. but the company was great. and i did bump into my understudy. (who was doing some obscure SMU assignment involving taking photos of chinatown for some creative thinking module...) but. i still haven't eaten my prawn rolls yet.
wen was dreaming at 11:23 PM
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
jared chen for law king
law ball is around the corner. you know, the time where you choose the hottest guy/girl pair and crown them law king. bored as we were during lecture one morning, we decided to push for our favourite nominee for law king. here is a brief extract of our conversations. (names have been left unchanged because i was simply too lazy)why. why me why. says:
i hate you all.
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
only 4?
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
we need more
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
disappointing
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
yah man
jared chen for law king!!!! says:
wtf is this
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
i have no idea who's talking
jared chen for law king!!!! says:
why all jared chen
why. why me why. says:
eh you all dont play la
why. why me why. says:
plspls
why. why me why. says:
PLS
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
check by e number of exclaimation marks
why. why me why. says:
i beg you all
why. why me why. says:
i beg
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
more MORE MORE!~!!!!!!
why. why me why. says:
see? i beg.
why. why me why. says:
this is me, begging.
why. why me why. says:
-begbeg-
* gé®mainé [jared chen for law king!!] has been added to the conversation.
Jared Chen for Law King!!! has been added to the conversation.
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
only 6...
* gé®mainé [jared chen for law king!!] says:
haha thats joel!
* gé®mainé [jared chen for law king!!] says:
i can tell from his picture
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
haha
Jared Chen for Law King!!! says:
eh?
jared chen for law king!!! says:
so many people want you to be law king!!!
* gé®mainé [jared chen for law king!!] says:
i have no idea who the heck is talking at all
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
we lubchu
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
deepdeep
why. why me why. says:
why la why
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
cos u are the cutest
why. why me why. says:
i hope you all get lice.
why. why me why. says:
shut up kooms
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
.
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
u better run after class
why. why me why. says:
come la
why. why me why. says:
coooome
jared chen for law king!!!! says:
hahaha
jared chen for law king!!!! says:
jared chen u are my heeeeeeeeeeerrooo
why. why me why. says:
shut up you malay
why. why me why. says:
pui
jared chen for law king!!!! says:
i lubchu muchie muchie
Nav-igator.....Jared Chen for king of the law has been added to the conversation.
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
run you fucking overripe banana
* gé®mainé [jared chen for law king!!] says:
hahahaha.. whenever jared says anything mean
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
run.
* gé®mainé [jared chen for law king!!] says:
we should just all chorus, 'JARED FOR LAW KING! WOOT, WOOT!"
jared chen for law king!!!! says:
MUAKks
Nav-igator.....Jared Chen for king of the law says:
yo
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
wheee
why. why me why. says:
fuck you think your indian neh big i scared la
jared chen for law king!!! says:
that's navin!!
why. why me why. says:
oh. my. god.
why. why me why. says:
not you too, nav
jared chen for law king!!!! says:
jared for law king
why. why me why. says:
FUCK LA YOU ALL
why. why me why. says:
DON'T PLAY CAN
jared chen for law king!!!! says:
wah this is some huge mass jared banging session
why. why me why. says:
NOT FUNNY
why. why me why. says:
CHEEEEEBYEEEEEEEE
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
not banging
Nav-igator.....Jared Chen for king of the law says:
this is hilarious
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
supporting
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
showing our love
Nav-igator.....Jared Chen for king of the law says:
jared the body chen
why. why me why. says:
navin, joel, boon kiat, khai, i know where you live.
jared chen for law king!!! says:
that's a great suggestion
why. why me why. says:
the rest of you, i will find out.
* gé®mainé [jared chen for law king!!] says:
ohoho
why. why me why. says:
EH DONT FUCKING PLAY AH ALINA CHIA
* gé®mainé [jared chen for law king!!] says:
no problem
jared chen for law king!!! says:
look up look up
* gé®mainé [jared chen for law king!!] says:
come all the way to sengkang if you like
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
change to jared the body chen?
jared chen for law king!!! says:
oei look up lah
Nav-igator.....Jared Chen for king of the law says:
or yishun
Nav-igator.....Jared Chen for king of the law says:
ok
why. why me why. says:
nav i'll just burn down your hall rm when you're in it
jared chen for law king!!! says:
jared chen law king, please look up
Nav-igator.....Jared 'ze body' Chen for king of the law says:
!
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
jared rocks
why. why me why. says:
oh god.
jaredchen for law king!!! says:
wheeee
Nav-igator.....Jared 'ze body' Chen for king of the law says:
i love jared!
why. why me why. says:
make it stop.
Jared Chen for Law King!!! says:
jared we love u
* gé®mainé [jared chen for law king!!] has left the conversation.
Nav-igator.....Jared 'ze body' Chen for king of the law says:
muacks!
Nav-igator.....Jared 'ze body' Chen for king of the law has left the conversation.
Jared Chen for Law King!!! has left the conversation.
jared chen for law king!!!! has left the conversation.
why. why me why. has left the conversation.
jaredchen for law king!!! has left the conversation.
jaredchen for law king!!! has left the conversation.
in case you were confused, at last count there were at least 8 different 'jared chen for law kings'. and counting.
wen was dreaming at 12:58 PM
Thursday, January 05, 2006
what pretty colours!
warning: scenery post up ahead. skip if you're sick of sunsets.i'm only doing this because i'm bored. and because holidays are almost over and something had to be done to mark its passing. so here it is, sunsets at sentosa, amidst other random scenery shots...
a family out watching the sunset as a boat speeds past
this photo's only lacking one thing to complete it: people
a purple sunset!
sunrays through the clouds
jared in action! actually, i was just taking a shot of the rainbow...for best effects, view the pictures in fullscreen...
moving on, here are the random pictures of sentosa:
jared & me
a bunch of bored people in a storm
what lovely scenery! oh, and the people in the foreground too. *grin*well, hope you enjoyed it. back to school soon!
wen was dreaming at 10:30 PM
freezing cold, dripping wet, and totally happy
that basically sums up the 4th of January 2006. the day i went sailing in a storm. not the most brilliant of ideas, but after a 6 month hiatus and all the trouble waking up early and travelling down, i wasn't about to let some minor setback prevent me from sailing.it was odd though. bright and sunny, and awfully windy when i was rigging up. then the moment i launched, a huge grey cloud settled overhead and the wind died.
needless to say, when the storm began i had 2 choices, return to shore and cancel, or outsail the storm (almost impossible). sometimes i can be such an idiot. but with the thunderstorm came strong winds, and life was good. (despite being drenched to the skin and shivering to the bone)
although the thought did occur to me. i was out in the middle of the sea with a very tall mast in the midst of a thunderstorm and with lightning everywhere. (but a friend has reassured me in that matter, it being more likely that i'd capsize, get pulled under by the currents or tangled and strangled by the ropes, and drown, rather than get struck by lightning)
a day spent sailing. what more could a guy ask for?
(well, a pretty girl to spend it sailing with, but hey, you can't have everything right...)
sailing
takes me away
to where i've always heard it could be
just a dream and the wind to carry me
and if the wind is right you can sail away
and find tranquility
and if the wind is right you can find the joy
of innocence again
and when the wind is right you can sail away
and find serenity
takes me away
to where i've always heard it could be
just a dream and the wind to carry me
and if the wind is right you can sail away
and find tranquility
and if the wind is right you can find the joy
of innocence again
and when the wind is right you can sail away
and find serenity
wen was dreaming at 1:37 AM
Monday, January 02, 2006
stranger things have happened
i find myself up and awake at 7am, for the first time in a long long while.maybe i've spent too many late nights in the dark to remember the beauty of the morning dew.
it was...refreshing.
i was reminded of a question a dear friend once asked me: do you prefer sunrises or sunsets? and why?
i think, my answer to that has changed since then.
wen was dreaming at 7:22 AM