the tomato.

1/30/2006

Whenever those americans play wheel of fortune, they're always screaming away into the mike ,"MAKE MONEY MAKE MONEY!" or "BIG MONEY BIG MONEY!" Then they'll be clapping their hands frantically everytime they get to spin.

So tiring isn't it? Half an hour of show time, probably around 45 mins of actual filming and loads of editing.

Just picture yourself clapping your hands, hard against each other, for say 10 seconds non-stop. In case of those muscle-heads who spin too hard, lets make it 20 seconds of non-stop clapping. It won't be tiring at all probably for the first time.

Supposing this muscle dude guessed an alphabet correctly. So he spins again, so you get 20 seconds + 5 seconds rest followed by another 20 seconds.

So tiring indeed! But thinking about the rewards they reap at the end of it all, the hellish clapping won't matter at all!

Now this is a lifetime opportunity. You go once, if you do well, you get Ks of money.

Too bad americans don't have chinese new year.

Chinese new year is a time for reunions. Its a central time of gatherings, not some random family dinner......and needless to say its celebrated island/world-wide.

Nowadays, another reason to celebrate CNY is immerging. Practical people call it free money(I'm not married yet, the giving-out of money in future is in future and therefore isn't worth discussing). The others just don't want to say it out. I personally call it raining fish with red and orange scales.

In order to keep the young, excited kids from wanting to stay at home playing Dota/Barbie doll etc, money is handed out as an incentive. Better still, the younger you are, you prospectively recieve more money. In case you didn't get that last sentense, i'll give you an example.

Say a primary 1 kid gets 50 cents a day, everyday. So he gets around 15 bucks a month. He'll be so very much happier to recieve 200 bucks (imagine the number of siew mais he can buy to ta pao home!! My cousin Issac does just that!) than older ungrateful grits like NiCK. 200 bucks isn't much.....sufficiently happy.

Thank god my cousins on my dad's side are fun =D. Otherwise it'll just be just for the paper/plastics. Horrid isn't it? Whats happening to the values? I guess because of Singapore's speed of lifestyle, you can't afford the time to be too close to your family all the time. Your almost-immediate family would probably be less close to you.

In many families, this could result in people pretending to sleep on the sofa during visits. Maybe there would be slight age gaps. When you're young, you don't give a shit...you just continue sliding around and playing hide-and-seek: the screaming version. As you grow older, you mature and you realise that hide-and-seek isn't anymore that fun. The age gap proportionally decreases and so you should at least have some crap to crap around with won't it?

So to you people out there who think its hard to talk to your cousins who are probably some years older or younger......just bring yourself to their level and do some chat. It'll definitely be more fun than
"Hey whats your son with bombastic hair doing?"
"Oh, he fell asleep...nobody his age to play with him"

After playing half a round of dota at the first stop, and thereafter a long period of stoning at the 2nd stop with some free unprotected wireless network, we young "oldies" brought the kids to watch I not stupid too. OMG make me want to cry. But guys don't cry. So i didn't cry. Anyhow,I really liked the movie! Good! Good!

Me and some of my cousins. I'm kinda blessed to have cousins within all born within a 1 year gap. We're also all single and working on it.

Here are the 1987 babies. In order: 26 Oct, 13 march, 16 Oct.

Omg lah, so cute. Grow up sure damn chio!! WOoooo!

Pirated Lion King. Wonder why my dad loves to bring mickie all over the place. You know what was the best part? Mickie shat on the floor beside the food table during lunch prayer. Great lah, so we ate goodies for 5 mins before eating the real lunch.

OMG net net is super natural at funny faces.

1:10 AM

1/28/2006

On Thursday was the DTLE intermediate test. Its called that name not based on the level of difficult, but because its the 2nd major test the module has to offer. So i guess, the last and final test would have some cool name like the expert test.

I'm sure all you guys out there are dying to know what this DTLE is all about! Well, it stands for diagnostics, Therapeutic and laboratory Equipment. In case you're wondering what this long name actually means, its just learning how to kill your target via a proper excuse such as failure of medical equipment.

I lost my lecture notes on tuesday night, on the bus it stayed while i alighted. Must have been to tired. I guess when you get down from 157 after a long trip, you're more concern about the at-hand butt cramp(not pms) than "hey where is my DTLE lecture notes that?"

Whiles still on the bus, now that i look at it, i think i'm retarded. Instead of reading through the notes in supposed preparation for the test, i read the entire cover page thoroughly. Then i realised there was some problem with the title page.

Its kinda blur, cause i didn't really give a damn about the resolution used. Resolutions is the number of pixels in the area...something like that (who really cares? as long as the camera can be a camera).

It reads:
"Lectures: 060304 tues 3-4 am Every Acad Week"
"Lab: 080304 usually Mondays of Odd Acad Week"

I bet none of my bme friends realised it cause only idiots read the cover page.

This is officially the smallest toilet cubicle i've ever seen. Its so small you don't even have space to put ur legs. If some guy like yao ming sits here, he'll probably have his legs going upwards against the wall. The edge of the bowl is about 15 cm from the wall. This was found in a guy's toilet. Lucky us guys, we have the option to stand and piss. Too bad if you need to shit, i guess squarting wouldn't be too hard.

I dunnoe, this picture just looks damn nice. HAHAHAHA. Please don't kill me. LoLoLoLO

8:47 AM

1/22/2006

Chinese new year shopping seems to be getting easier as Singapore ages. Whiles on the cab towards my aunties house, the driver told me that Bufferlow Road was deserted. It was one week to chinese new year. I was shocked and questioned him doubtfully, so he replied that it was the sudden rain's fault.

Traditions seem to be disappearing. CNY no longer is about reunions......my large large family spends it watching teevee. Sad to say, when i grow old and we have an immediate family gathering, the total number would probably be Dad, Mom, Chaz and me & my wife & maybe some irritating squirks called kids. My sis wants to be single for her life, i won't scold her cause i won't need to give her kids any paper money, in future probably plastic notes or better, credit card transaction slips.

I remember, probably a decade ago, my sister got offended when i told her KFC stands for kentury fried charissa. She stopped eating chicken wings for some time. Guess as a kid, i loved to torture people already. My mom told me the worst fight with my sister ever was kinda terrible. I took a pencil and jabbed my sister's head. The pencil lead got stuck in her head for 1 week. Wonder why my sister didn't feel anything in her head while bathing. In retaliation, she took a ratan basket and knocked me out. I guess she won that fight, lucky her. Which also explains why i'm not good at memorizing stuff, while she is at least a level higher than me in that aspect and that Chaz is kinda slow at most of the stuff she learns. HAHA. So if you want your kids to be smart in future, don't stop them from fighting. Instead, give them inflatable hammers to practise. They'll get over that phrase of kiddishness rather quickly when they realise the it isn't as fun as taking real hammers and whacking people.

We're all growing older, I sometimes miss my previous kiddish self(ok fine, i'm still not mature yet) even though i don't like kids. All the fun stuff you did as a kid, like having peeing contest in the toilet or fighting to play hopscotch using your stupid looking kitty purse. Or fighting with your sitting partner in class of the opposite sex just because he/she crossed into your air space.

Now that you're old and you're more open-minded about the other sex, you realise the only true difference between the once unknown species are either the lacking or the extra organ/s. Some guys are sissies, some girls are transexual. So the different ways of spending times, such as cross-stitching for girls and computer games for guys, don't count as a differents.

No longer do you stare at the mirror in the morning looking at yourself. You realise there is more to it than your face. You've got to worry about the extra strends of hair that is growing perpendicular to your chin and upper gum-skin. You've got to attend to pimples. Or worst, your eyes ain't human ones anymore, they are gradually changing into ones of pandas.

You worry about stress, you worry about projects, you worry about school, you worry about what you look like. As a result of worrying, you worry about failing to worry about something as you're thinking, "Hey! What did i forget to worry about? OMG i'm so worried!!"

Yesterday, my project group had a meeting, which wasn't fruitful at all. Partially cause i didn't bring my laptop, mainly cause i haven't started on my presentation. So Nanda started getting frantic, even though he didn't say anything I could tell. He kept repeating the plan and confirming it over and over again. I'm so sorry Nanda! Don't worry, its already completed......and properly too!

Don't forget your past as you grow up! One day your kids(I HATE KIDS) will ask you, "DAD WHICH DUSTBIN DID YOU PICK ME UP FROM?" or "MOM, WHY I GOT BIRD BIRD YOU DUN HAVE?" Thats when you'll have to recall your past when you yourself asked your parents the same question. Then you'll churn out the answer your mom gave you.

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Alright, now onto new year shoppping

I went shopping with my little sis shandy yesterday and got this bloody mirror. Now its stuffed in the wall cause its suppposedly damn ugly looking to be seen on the cupboard. My mom tells me its a bathroom mirror. I didn't realise it until she told me. Is it really that ugly?

Cute little boy's EZ-link card i found in Shandy's wallet.

Coincidentally, i took a picture on the bus of this woman who didn't look like one

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I suddenly gained fondness for milk/tea/coffee. No idea why.

I, _______________ (insert name)
promise to drink dairy products starting with the letter "M" in place of carbonated waters with or without flavourings of any kind.
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ha hahahah milk milk milk!!!!! Goooood for health.

7:22 PM

1/21/2006

A little fun constructed from limited boredom variables. I "love" my school so much, i feel the obligation to tear the walls of the classroom down.

Too bad i thought of a more innovative way before the Foo suggested his bright plastic bag idea.
Foo, the one high up there in the lists of hierachies, the one who doesn't want to release 4 pupils to another teacher-in-charge for final-year-project.

I guess Foo will just be Foo. Either he doesn't want his image of not knowing his stuff before teaching to change, or else he wants his image to retain.

Chua Tji Leng commented that i should use my brain to better use, rather than waste it on computer games during class time. Kinda haven't got any interest in physics, no luck with bio either......a combination isn't very delicious.

1:25 AM

1/17/2006

I feel proud of myself today, for i paid some attention during DTLE class. =)

I hate getting bullied in class. Its kinda fustrating everytime when they run out of topics, i get tortured.

Tomorrow, me and my IS group dudes, we're gonna head down to Concern & Care to talk to the person-in-charge to talk about the construction of the website. Yay! *with much needed enthusiaism*

This week is gonna be a long one. Its a wonder i haven't gone mad yet.

What is wrong with this picture?

Haha, my favourite text on the shirt. Too bad its grey colour, thus limiting much of the colour combination issues.

11:33 PM

Chinese New year is arriving in 3 weeks. What are you going to do about it? Are you going to sit back and wait for the red packets to flow in? Or are you gonna visit everbody and grab as many as you can?

As much as it sounds cheapskate, i rather grab as many as i can. I know you'll say the same thing after seeing my daring statement. Therefore, grabbing as many as you can isn't cheapskate.

I hope my money density isn't small. Rather get 1 $100 than 10 $10s. HAHA, I think i'm gonna enjoy my chinese new year very much this year, especially since i'm no longer spending money...more like splashing it around like water.

The food prices in my school is a daylight robbery that isn't illegal. Its sickening sometimes. There isn't much choice, there isn't much price(its always high and never low) and the best part is the food sucks.

Now that the open house is coming, i'll tell everybody to clear away from ngee ann poly. I HATE IT! Rich & stingy, thats the only 2 words to describe them. No longer do you get subsidy for overseas attachments, except to SE-asia countries. Essentially, you pay to go overseas to work. Clever isn't it? Then the school gets to keep some pay.

So heres how it really is: You pay the school, which uses the money to find you an attachment program where you work your sorry ass off, which then keeps some of your attachment money, which then laughs are the fool you are. Ngee Ann Polytechnic Job agency sure does a good job.

Speaking of money, kiddies in secondary schools have branded bags and pencil boxes......a luxury we oldies didn't get to enjoy. Some toddlers in primary school have sophisticated phones the level of a PDA, as if they know how to use it. Soon, Kindergarden kids will be using cashcards to buy breakfast. Maybe they won't, they're too dumb to not share their password with others and probably haven't thought of a variation for their signature.

OMG enough shit. NiCK need to get maximum sleep before tomorrow's lesson which is in 7 hours.

12:12 AM

1/16/2006

Alright. The skin isn't original but who cares, its not too bad.

12:09 AM

1/15/2006

Hi ya buddies, I'm migrating my blog here. Its kinda boring typing in the on.to/dark3n url isn't it? Especially since there are popups, which totally sucks. I appologise for having made you view those colourful rubbish.

So here you go, the new NiCK blog, daily-life issues kept to a bare minimum(who honestly wants to read about what i ate last week on a certain day? No insults to those who do...just not what i prefer) and more eye-candy.

Firdaus didn't win SoE superstars. I guess it can't be prevented when most people enjoy strippers more than proper singers. My gosh, so that means if i go up and strike some sexy pose i'll get more voters!

The winner's high notes were seriously out of tune and rather shaky(in my opinion), so he claimed to be sick. I believe he is genuinely sick, therefore he shouldn't win. People say he usually sings better. Like i really care.

The only person who deserved her rightful place is Grace.

SoE Superstar should be renamed SoE Celebrity, for the winner is the one with the most ~~fans~~ friends.

I'm sorry Sharon or any of you guys who organised SoE Superstar, its not your fault at all.

Whats the best part of it all? I myself voted for my friend Firdaus even though i prefered the MDE idol guy.

Why is Singapore like that?

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4 days ago

Tomorrow, the freshies are coming to Ngee Ann Band. Thats lovely, i guess...the band is awfully small and unbalanced. I don't like its musical standard. The only thing sustaining me not to leave is the people inside. Hope the new kids change my view, even though i've been disappointed every single time.

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Scenario: You and your soulmate is seating side by side at the bus-stop cossily waiting for your bus to arrive. There are no other avaliable ones, so you feel very lucky indeed. Suddenly you feel a spit in your throat. So you stand up and go to the bin to spit. When you get back, you realised your soulmate didn't save the seat for you: its been taken by some inconsiderate person. So you crap with your soulmate, hoping to confirm that that person accidentally took your spot and he would then stand up and give it back to you.

But no, that inconsiderate person just remains rooted and covers his eyes pretending not to hear anything. Oh my gawd! You're so glad when his bus comes soon after and you then reoccupy your rightful place on the metal bench.

Ok, you get to stone NiCK for a while. I'm that badass dude. But hey, i've got an excuse: my whole body is aching, so please pray for me. Thanks!

11:53 PM

1/13/2006

Hey hey, my blog will be migrating soon. But i haven't finished with the skin and stuff. Oh well.

1:15 AM

1/11/2006

Its been so much of fun & laughter after the common test era, i'm almost forgotten i'm a poor student with no financial capabilities. Guess its time to settle down. Too many ups, need some downs to get NiCK seated and into the pondering mode.

In the mean time, this sat was a jolly day. After listening to the NP percussion band, i got to feast my eyes on magnum force. Ok, i didn't really enjoy it that much. No, silly its not a shooting club, its a cheerleading club. Hey, at least they did some flips that didn't end badly. If only it ended badly, so much more fun.

My gosh, that daniel ong can really bullshit well. He came to advertise sylvester sim and a 12-inch teevee,a radio(i tink) that really is just a shirt. Bet Daniel Ong is soo jealous of Sly, cause he ain't got that many fans that would go woooooing around and following him all over the place.

Too bad it was kinda raining, thus killing the mood. So we went to Jack's place to lighten up the mood, especially when i told them the student meal rocks, its a 4 course meal (drink,main course,desert and appetizer). And it only cost $6.50. After seating down and almost ordering, we noticed a sign that goes something like this: "Only avaliable on weekdays between 12-5". Its not very nice to stand up and walk off. So i ordered this gigantic piece of steak the size of my palms combined, medium rare 25% cooked. Then i decided not to buy this ever again. It was more red than it was brown.

The freshest beef to eat isn't rare(not even considered cooked), it is raw. You get a cow into the room, then u just bite its ass straight away.

Ok, so we went pooling(a little bit of a drag) and ate dinner.

On your left, your eyes should be zooming onto the kfc statue of liberty, not the girl in the background.

Anyhow, it was a nice day.

I like esplanade. After it was built, people no longer hang around void decks. They hang around the esplanade.

Going home wasn't really that bad. I slept all the way, excluding the moments i had to board 3 different buses home from esplanade.

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A barren, circular desert with no escape from the hungry vultures. I love the chicken rice stall near by, its really delicious. The vegetable, the soup(that tasted like the fish slice soup's soup) and the juicy lemon chicken dripping with saurce. OMG typing this out really does have an effect on me. I'm feeling hungry now. Tomorrow gonna buy that for lunch. Yum!!!!

In preparation for National Service, i had my phone painted green. Hope i don't lose it in the grass. Now that its got scratch protection, i can start spinning the phone on its cover.

Kinda expensive. The lady at the stall even cut her hand whiles doing it. Its a double protection, if a potential thief isn't scared of the law, then the pattern will become active and scare away thiefs afraid of pest.

Too much bridge kills. Its fine lah, ter ivan and dan are nice people =D=D=D

12:26 AM

1/04/2006

I'm kinda impressed with my phoney. So i thought i'll share my alarm clock ring-tone and i'm sure it will help you get out of bed. You don't even need to set it loudly. And i assure you, its very very irritating. Even worst than your wife's nagging voice, that is if you even have a wife.

1 thing about it though, you need a phone that can play mp3 and a working sound system.

Well, here it is. Click ---> HERE <---

So here it is. Enjoy and have fun waking up.

10:29 PM

1/03/2006

Its this super terrifying feeling that kinda engulfed me before the paper. I was forced to sit down and stare into the air for sometime before entering the examination hall.

It felt like a mini-sauna in there. Row after row of seemingly tortured students and the scratchinng sounds of the hundreds of different colour pens against the white paper .

Its such a relief walking out of the Diagnostic, therapeutic & laboratory equipment test. Sounds very sophisticated doesn't it? Well, it is...you get to learn about hospital equipment, how it works and why its useful to your life.

I want to kill Eithoven and Wilson, 2 idiots who go around inventing laws of science, dig up their grave, pour coffee into their throat so they can't sleep in peace, then rip their heart out using a string through the nostrils.

Sounds sick isn't it? Well, imagine an endoscope(a flexible,controllable wire) digging into your body through the nose, entering your organs looking for tape worms.

Its not that bad yet. We also learnt that a catheter(who cares what it is now that i've taught you so much your brain is gonna explode) can be stuffed into your heart to test your blood velocity and pressure. What they didn't teach us is how to kill the patient without being discovered.

One day, i'll get a phD, then help the terrorist build a heart bomb. All it does is pump up your heart to the extend that it'll explode. Fresh Meat! Wah hahaha.

Alright, so much for the exergerated facts.

And many thanks Apple for the calculator(i forgot to bring pencil,ruler,calculator.)

Had to bring my dog down for a walk, he wouldn't follow my sis. If you're wondering where the leash, we don't own one. Mickie just follows us wherever we bring him. The problem isn't the walk walk, its the wash wash thats kinda challenging.

Not a bad picture, especially when mickie happens to be running kinda fast and i digitally zoomed 2x hoping to get a glimpse on the phone. Now i love my new phone so much. Ok, i'll think of a nice name for my phone.

All my true prized pocessions have been named.

Clara the Clarinet. In Bb key, bought her in 2004 for 3.4k. OMG. thank god i wasn't the one who paid.
Lara the Laptop. Stupid M30 that is sort of my slave everyday. 3.1k. Once again, i didn't pay for it.

Ok thats all i really have that fits the word prized.

10:01 PM

1/02/2006 The red note monster

I just recieved 2 red notes for new year shopping. Wow, thats not much but thanks anyway! But honestly, what can it fetch?

Ah, i know! I'll buy material to make clothes. Red rocks, but hate pink even though they are just different shades. Sounds like a damn good idea..... before i saw this picture...

Not a good idea. Maybe i could go Queenstown and pretend to want to buy new shoes. Since i'm kinda short, a pair of heels should do the trick.

Which retard will buy this type of shoes? Might as well get stiltes. Sure, it helps your self-confidence and allows you with a new level of visual temporarily...

Ah, i can't think of what other new pocessions i want for new year, apart from new pants,shirts,hats,deoxderizors,pens,pillows,blankets,floor mats,chocs,sweets,mentos and money.

There are things money can't buy. But for those which money can, i can't help but want it...though the bible always tells its reader not to indulge in materialistic property. I'm no perfect guy, and you definitely ain't either. Don't bluff yourself by telling others you don't need and/or want them.

My dad loves cheap stuff. Take slippers for example. Good slippers cost $10, expensive slippers cost $15, regardless of how long they last. Guess what he said when i bought a $45 adidas one last year?

Maybe I should be more concern with the emptyness of the piggy bank and join his rank. Or maybe i should maintain and suck my thumb, like i did since the start of my life. Some kids suck their thumb so bad, their fingers get distorted or even deformed. Smokers suck, then they cough, later they die.

11:31 PM

1/01/2006

I woke up at 930 to go help Shandy with her bookmarks. Guess it turned out pretty fine. Her newby french toast actually tasted like toast. Thats good......i ate at least 6 of them for breakfast, tea and tea 2. Thanks for the foods!!!

Thats adobe photoshop editing, not done properly. The chinese words are inserted by first writing the words in microsoft word using language bar. Then a screenshot is taken and pasted into the picture. HAHA, the superman and stupid strawberry super cute LoL. No, those ain't hot cross buns, they are tao sa paus. :/

We accidentally stumbled on porn when searching for paus. Cool, now pau and porn has something in common.

Omg.

------PART 2------

Its this study feel that really spoils the New Year. Or issit the new year celebration that spoils the study sessions? I don't really know and i sincerely doubt you do either.

For me, this school semester offers the longest study break i've ever had. Then, right in the middle of it all comes slabs of festivals. First, there was christmas, now its the dawn of a new year. Study holiday i guess.

So mentally disturbing, sometimes don't you just wish you were in paradise? No exams, no work......and you get free food,entertainment and sleep-overs without parents nagging. Then again, in paradise you'll soon get pretty bored.

If sleeping at 4am during the for consecutive days, resulting in lack of sleep causes permanent damage, I'm gonna die a few years earlier that the week before.

And my burnt skin is peeling really grusomely. Best part is i enjoy chipping the skin away and putting it on the table.

Isn't it fun to complain!?

------PART 3------

Recently went for Yuhua/River Valley combined alumni concert. Balance totally out. EEK!

After the scammers left, me cindy and wenwei(confusing family tree) chatted in JEC till around 2am++. Then i stupidly suggested walking home, which we did in the end. The bus graveyard at Jurong East provided substancial fun for a while. One bus driver left his door open. So we just fooled around the bus for a while then walked towards our various destinations.

Heres the guys in my class. Study hard dudes, just a little more to the end. Stop playing dota, even though its sort of good for health. FIR is missing, he already went to sing song

I look like a midget......not that its that big a deal.

Not forgetting the girls! Siyan missing, silly goondo went to meet her boyfriend.

6:48 PM