oh.novacaine: August 2005

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Eighty One

My Granny's BD today.

She's 81 and that's her grand-sons, grand-daughters, grand-son in laws.
As usual, lots of 'em MIA.

First Look @ Pei Chun Annual '05 and all that jazz...

Click on the image to see a larger one.

(Straining your eyes or using a magnifying glass won't help.)

Don't be an idiot.

After 3 weeks working on thier annual, it seems that I'm probably getting "there" already. I hope they would like the concept I proposed to them. Sandra likes it so I presumed they would too! I'm left with a few more pages like thier niche CCAs, some events from the past year and all those irritating text.....even madarin ones! Arrghhh! Hate it!

I've got a really bad toothache now. In the course of 2 weeks, I kena again. Wad luck man! I reckon it's the gowth of my dumb wisdom tooth that's giving me the pain. I hope it'll subside ASAP! Fucking irritating.

Today I did a little painting over @ Teck Wee's house. At the end of it, I got myself stained with paint....at the sole of my damn feet!

Rejoice! WV has a new family! An Enzer brand mini Hi-fi!

With DVD function but wad's the use? Heh. No TV.

Hooray! At least it ain't boring working on designs nowadys.

Fucking bitch ain't goin to doze of again I'm sure.

That's the main reason why Dave brought this in!

Michelle should thank her lucky stars that she got me to do her flash movie trailer. Juz finished it. Simple one la, nothing faniciful. I always have problems in synchronising the sound fx to integrate into the clip. But as I've said, simple, nothing fanciful. She should be overjoyed that I finished it on time for her to hand in on Monday. I want my lamp chop!

Sunday, August 21, 2005

The Box

I was tidying up my room today and at my upmost cupboard where all my junk are mostly located, I found a box. A box that is filled with memories 5 years ago. A box that contained many photographs, letters and presents my ex gave me, when we were together. Lifting the cardboard lid, the first thing I saw was this TTS mascot teddy bear which she gave me so that it'll remind me of her when she wasn't physically around me, so that I can hug it every night when I went to bed. Putting that aside, I found 4 photo frames of her and myself. Nice. She looked so much better than the last time I met her half a year ago. Hmm...i reckon the word "YOUTH" really has a meaning after all. Means to say when we look back at photographs of ourselves, we will realise that we REALLY aged. And to say, it was a mere 5 yrs ago.

Saw more photographs...pictures of us at Carol's Place, Chinese New Year Celebrations at my home......heh..we were both wearing this typical chinese top i remember. (i know there's a name given to it, but juz simply too stupid today to remember or know wad's it called in mandarin so fuck it.) She looked so good in that my heart melted. You know...the feeling, the pounding of your heart when the person whom you love so much decides to wear something so stunning, you juz shake your head in disbelief and whisper to yourself.."God, I'm so blessed to have her...No one could replace her.." It was juz one of the many moments I remembered and embedded ever since.

An empty bottle of perfume which she used everytime we went out together was also inside. The smell was so distinctively recognisable. Kenzo. Unmistakable.

Then it came to the letters. Reading it juz puts a smile on my face. :) How much she expressed her feelings for me was just priceless. She loved me so much. I quote: "My mom doesn't really adore you as much as I do...maybe becos you're "Malay?"....but no matter how much people say about us, no one can come in between us, not even my mom. sign, lots of hus & kisses, love, elaine choo."

Elaine. Forever in my heart. Always.

Besides recovering some lost memories in my room today, I found huge stacks of music scores/tabs on the other side of my cardboard as well. Realising that I have an extra clear folder to store these sheets, I spend another hour to organise them. So now I've more songs to choose from to practice with, unlike last time where there were only radiohead, radiohead and radiohead tabs. Haha..

In the midst of arranging them, I found this song by The Beatles that me and my pals used to jam many donkey years ago. It's called "In My Life". It best describes the situation and the moment of my lost memories, 5 years ago,today.

In My Life - The Beatles

There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Being Smart

"...is sometimes about doing complicated math in our heads, or making difficult logical decisions, but an equally important measure of practical intelligence is our ability to assess - and respond appropriately - to other people's emotional signals."

- Steven Johnson
(Author, "Everything Bad Is Good For You.")

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Pei Chun Public School Magazine

I'm on the verge of creating a massive ho-ha on Pei Chun's Annual 2005. I'm so geared up for the magazine that'd I'd do anything to achieve what's supposed to be achieved. Fingers-crossed. When 2006 cometh, I really hope many more schools will opt for me to do theirs! Then we can let all those lamers do all those darn templates and layout! Haha... hey, quite an honourable job ok! Lim peh started from this, from scratch. So dun bloody complain!

Hmm, i grew so attached to this company now that I feel I'm gonna stay here for many a long time! No worries, I'm fine with it. I guess money simply talks...So far as I'm happy with what I'm doin, anything flows, anything goes. I can't see myself goin elsewhere and 'degrade' myself to a new environment and be under some stupid creativehead. My position now over here is fine. Can't ask for more... though I'd be glad to hit the 2K mark come next year, or hopefully end of the year? We shall see.

Look ahead. There's always prospects. Even this ah pek below:

Monday, August 15, 2005

Ubin Madness

The day can be best sumed up here.

Spoonfeeding is a bad word

I find that my assistant is a freaking bitch. I can't imagine her working for anybody if she ever decided to leave. Oh ya she wanted to leave last month after only 3 weeks of worktime. But much to Sandra's persuasion, she stayed. To wadever circumstances that i deemed to be reckoning, I simply want her out of this 'jeremy-made-"perfect" design corner'. Even if there's bulkload of work, I still can handle. No sweat.

Spoonfeeding her with work, I FUCKING DON"T LIKE! She has no initiative, too quiet, must lay red carpet for her to go for lunch EVERYDAY. Whether work has been done already also have to ask her. Fucking swine. She so fucking full of herself. Fucking giant bitch. She thinks she's loved by everyone in the office becos she thinks she so bloody demure. Fuck her. Fucking 50cent coin. Go home i also don't even know. There's no respect between me and her at all. I wonder wad the fuck is wrong with her. Sometimes she's juz so invisible. Fucking idiot. Go and die la!

Saturday, August 13, 2005

Wad people are thinking @ Singapore pools actually...

It's official.

I decided NOT to extend my personal homepage which was colour-blindz.com. Though it's only a mere $78 for an extension for another year, i'm left to ponder whether or not it's worth it. It's not like I'm making money out of it, u know, like some online business where I receive royalties for advertisements rights etc etc. Moreover, Blooger is FREE. Free stuff who don't want? Therefore, colour-blindz has from today - being wipe out from this face of the Earth. Sayonara!

Good riddance.

Today's the start of the new EPL season. Middlesbrough vs Liverpool. Needless to say, being a REDS fan for almost 2 decades, I sincerely hope they'd make the best out of this season where the championship league race is concern. Like every other season, I've pinned hopes that LFC will do well. They did awesomely last season where they won the Euro Champions League. (Some may say it's pure-luck but HEY! They won it in the end, didn't they?) So as for this season, though to win it again looks an uncertainty, at least for once make an impact in the title race... will they?

We juz gotta wait and see.

Been down with flu for the past fews days after that horrific nite at the karaoke. It wasn't that bad the day after. But on Wednesday it got bad! Thursday was the worst! I even slept in the office to recouperate lost energy. Todays Sat and i'm still recovering. Fucking nose giving me irritate moments i sometimes wish i can disconnect it from my face.

Jacko will be delighted!

Anyway here's some pics (fuck la, only 2) taken during karaoke at Gardens on Monday (8th Ausgust)

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