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posted by jeremyz @ 9:30 PM

DesiGn MulFunction

When Justin Timberlake stripped Janet on stage at a half time performance in a SuperBowl match to reveal her danggling black nipple, they call it wadrobe mulfunction. When Jeremy looses his inspiration to come up with fresh new creative ideas, he calls it DESIGN MULFUNCTION.

I'm dead to the bone. PeiChun annual's 80% done. YuyingSec annual's 95% done. Between the 2, Yuying's the most terok one. Why? 110 fucking pages. That's why. All planning, concept, colour adjustments done by me, me and me. Medusa's the only one providing me the push and throwing me flames of documents for the inclusion of text into the annual. Chinese ones included.

Moreover, I'm gonna have a huge gigantic problem with my printer! I'm convincingly prepared that in the next few days to come, he's gonna call me and tell me something like this," Jeremy, your pages for 2 colours printing are not 2 colours printing at all. Your black has all 4 colour elements in it!" Then I will answer him,"Ya I know, I've checked a millions times. But the steps I take to do them in 2 colours is the exact same way I did when doing a 2 colour school folder!" In between, if you have magical God-giving superficial powers then you'd probably hear me saying this in my heart," Fucking swine, you're a fucking printer, can't you jolly well just do your fucking colour-sep and just bring it back down for proof? No eyes or knowledge to judge on the screen for urself how many percentage of magenta is that izzit? Basket."

With that said, I'm getting quite aggitated. Probably I really need a well deserved rest tonight. Sleep early, be fresh, get down to work tomorrow and finish off that God damn YuyingSec cover... but quite interestingly, my best friend's calling.


Meet Mr.Heineken. Or Miss? Whichever you prefer!

posted by jeremyz @ 9:26 PM 3 comments

Losing My Religion

Perry and Vincent came over for a breather and left not a while ago. What surprised me today wasn't becos Vincent played his favourite Dyanasty Warriors 5 on the playstation or knowing Sandra is in a real mad rush to clear my magazines but my dear bro Perry who actually went online to search for a course that he wants to undertake. Psychology, in fact. Amongst a thousand over courses available in the world today, he could think of stuying psychology? My gawd! I almost thought for an instant he was joking! I quickly shrugged off this dumb, unlogical idea. I told him to go for MIS instead and study something more sensible like animation, mobile gaming which I was also very much interested. We're 26 goin on 30 for goodness sake, why the sudden crave to enrich our already enriched minds like studying psychology? From my understanding, a diploma for psychology isn't gonna take you far. As far as I'm concern for my bro, and relating this from my cousin whom she's a degree holder in psychology, she's only doing part-time counseling to some dumb nutwits in a primary school. I'm pretty sure people nowadays are getting smarter and probably think they could tackle life in a way it deemed fit for them, no need to waste their precious time listening to these counsellors. Well, unless otherwise circumstances surfaced...but even then we would normally consult our close friends first, our lover or sometimes our mum, or sometimes our dad, our brother, or our whinny sister, or maybe even your pet dog/fish whichever you feel comfortable with. Some may turn to God and just pray...

Hmm...pray...

posted by jeremyz @ 10:45 PM

Daysleeper?

posted by jeremyz @ 9:22 PM

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posted by jeremyz @ 11:00 PM

The Black & White Issue #2

posted by jeremyz @ 8:00 PM

Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side.

It's been nearly a week since I sprained my back and i'm quickly recovering! In fact I reckoned by the next day or two, I'll be good as new! Thank God it wasn't as bad i first thought it'd be. I swear this shall never happen again!

I'm thinking about what lies ahead of me in the years to come. There're always questions in life you can never avoid.

Will I stick to this job for another year or look forward to next year in such belief that i'd go independent? Meaning I'll go head hunting for projects, work as freelance. I'm deeply thinking of quitting and carry on what I do best. To design and publish magazines. School magazines, by myself. Solo. Independently. Or whatever forms of publication that I know will be appreciated comprehensively in print.

But I doubt I'll have the guts to go solo. I dunno, I always see things in mono. Grey. Dull. I can speak of beautiful, positive things. But to gather these thoughts and let it happen is a whole new perspective, I dare say I cringed in fear to even put my best feet forward. There're many greater uncertainties out there. So why don't I juz play it safe?

I'm stucked to the system.

Or have I not?

Should I defragged from the system and gather more confidence and tell myself I can do it?

Hmm...only time can tell.

posted by jeremyz @ 10:55 PM 4 comments

Problem!

The problem with me now is not about work but about my freaking backbone that I strained last night while I was @ Delifrance with Chin.

I thought I was goin to be paralysed.

So scary!

What I did was juz to cough and all i knew after that, i had this electrical sensation around my waist and I froozed. Dumbfounded. Fuck fuck fuck!

Just a mere cough, ya know?

Hmm...probably it's the way I cough and my body posture that triggered the sprained?

I knew when I wake up the next morning, it's gonna be worst, and obviously, it was so freaking pain I intended to vist a chinese sinseh for him to perform some magical massage or watsoever on my back but I chicken out. Heh what's new? I'm still so stubborn to even visit the dentist for the removal of my useless tooth. But that's besides the point.

The point is, the pain was so bad I couldn't even wear my boxer this monring! Have to struggle. Instead of the norm, i placed the boxer nicely on the floor, put my two feet through the holes, squad slightly and swiftly pull it up to my waist. Surprisingly I wore my jeans without any sweat. But that wasn't all. The biggest problem was wearing my socks! Wah lau eh! I nearly gave up! Wear slipper can already! But becos of my determination :P and most importantly the bengish look when I'm gonna wear slippers to work forced me to try harder. With rapid reflexes, I somehow got them in. Yay!

My back was irritating me the whole of today at work and back home as well. My mum and sis were helpful enough to honourably massage my back with this cool gadget called iPamper. Fantastic gadget I should say, but if you know me I get tickled quite easily so after 5 mins of slient giggling, I gave up went back to my room and carry on with my lonely life.

Pain pain la. Probably I'll just monitor for a few days then see how. Fuck, getting old...

Saturday's tomorrow. No plans. Was supposed to bid a farewell to Zouk today but 'cos of this problem I had to pass. Keith says maybe we'd go Devil's tomorrow and finish the other bottle but....

posted by jeremyz @ 9:45 PM

The Black & White Issue #1

I've decided to skip my e-trial test today

WHY?

Cos i'm so bloody lazy.

And according to Chin, we still could go for the actual test even though we didn't sit for the trial.

So that reassures myself not to go.

That's only $5.25. So it's money well-wasted. Haha.

That's my new Adidas wrist band I bought on Friday @ The Heeren. $10. Many other colours available but I chose white cos it compliments my white adidas watch. Available in 2 kinds. Normal one like the one i'm using now or a glow-in-the-dark one. Good for clubbing. But not for me. Heh.

The usual suspects. Wednesday. Mdm Wong.






Friday. Joanne's 26th Birthday. Devil's Bar. 2 gals, 3 guys and a 750ml Johnnie Walker Black Label. Keep Walking.






This issue will not be possible with my brothers and sisters, namely, Roger, Keith, Steve, Freddie, Kenneth, Ah Sim, Joanne & Michelle.

These people made the 38th week of 2005 another awesome one to remember.

Thank You!

And.................Sophie's 4 months!
This cute little thing just make me wanna 'chu-bit' her...

posted by jeremyz @ 2:01 PM

Tong Hua (Guang Liang) MTV

Now, being a sentimental person like me can be tough when you simply detest all things mainstream.

Sometimes, you just gotta put that 'pride' aside and juz relish the simplicity of things around you. By embracing it wholeheartedly.

What would make this little change in me has got to be the massive influence and hype surrounding the recently concluded 'Project Superstar'. 'Tong Hua' was being sung by the eventual winner; Weilian, aka Blind Man (think of Aerosmith's single.) Haha.

That's when I first heard the song. And I learnt later that the song was 'a few months old' already! Ok fine, no worries. It's nice anyway so what's the fuss. I'm even listening to Radiohead's 1997 album till now. Good music lasts forever eh.

Listening to 'Tong Hua' was just the beginning. Watching the MTV was an icing on the cake.


It starts with some slaves dragging a piano centerstage. Guang Liang appears, bowing to the audience. They clapped. An errie voiceover eclipses this scene. A whisper '加油'. Then he places his 2.5G phone on the piano top and starts playing the intro. It stops short and the scene flashes back to earlier days when his lover was actually doing this swine a favour by playing the next tune on his piano. She makes it with one attempt and Wala! We got a mando-pop hit! She's a wizard I tell you.


Then she gets paranoid. She wants a favour back. This part's kinda cute. She says,"幫我般家!' This, she asked not once but twice. The 2nd time she shouted. Bo bian, he had to help her. And so as you can see from the 3rd frame above, that she's relaxing at the back of the van on the sofa while pityful him's driving her to her new home.


After moving only the sofa to the living room, they were both perspiring. Wet to be precised. He looks down at her whooping breasts. Not enough, he looks again. This time he was caught red-handed. Heh. From the 3rd to 6th frame, as all soapy teary jap love story goes, she starts to get emotional and cry. Shocked, he stared at her. (her eyes this time) 看什墨看? Wad attitude! I like! But at a turn of event, they kissed. And kissed. Then suddenly, i saw red! Lousy brand lipstick? No! Her pretty pretty nose bleed! Nose bleed! KaoZ!


She wipes his face smerge with her blood. She happily sees the doctor and all's not well. She suffering from some illness that will bed-ridden her in the later frames that you'll see. The song stops here allowing this scene to be the climax. He decides to play her the tune. She listens a few notes and then collapses! All hell breaks loose!

Touching scenes here. *Sob* The doctor realises from the lightbox neg scans that her left breast has a lump. Ermm...that's wad i presume la. I'm not an expert but in the first 2 neg scans, it shows her brain? So brain damage? This is a confusing situation. To put it in simple terms, it's a deadly illness. She asked for a replica 2.5G phone so that she could listen to his actual performance 'live' on stage.


Tears flow down from her eyes as she listens to his performance. That's almost the end. Well, that's the end! The next few scenes wasn't detailed enough. So did she survive? Ah...that's the way it should be! Make people like you and me ponder. Ponder what's gonna happen next... make people 'thirst'.

The trick in selling. Touches your emotional side.

Nice sweet love story. Goes perfectly well with the song too. I like.

Info on video: Downloaded pirately from Ares within 5mins. Video's almost 8mins long. The longest chinese MTV I've come across. It's also in my N6680. Cool.

posted by jeremyz @ 11:18 PM

We Smiled

As it being a Saturday today, I woke up 10mins later than the usual 7:35am for work. Did my normal stuff then I boarded bus22 which instinctively arrived the moment i extinguished my fag.

Cool.

I sat at the far left end side.

Normally, the 3rd bus stop after I board, they'll be a massive surged of passengers. Like a freaking magnet attracting its allies. This happens only on weekdays. For a weekend like today, seats will be aplenty. Well, probably not for single deck buses.

I see familar faces. Some lucky bastards who escaped working on Saturdays were of cos having their extra hours of beauty sleep. But not for her.

As elegant as she is, she pondered for a second before deciding that seats below were a better option. And so she sat. Not very far away from me. Maybe a flick of a rolled bus-ticket throw away.

30mins

A few more stops and we'll be alighting together. But not until this irritating bus ticket attendent comes to us for checks. My check was a quickie. No questions asked cos paying $1.30 was my honesty. Which is always my policy. (Heh, it rhymes! Duh!)

The BTA (bus ticket attendent) tried to be funny with her. And I found it ridiculously uncouth for. She was clearly using an EZLink card and that motherfucking BTA still asked her where she's alighting.

I suddenly realised when she spoke, her accent wasn't a pleasurable one to the ear. It sounded very foreign. She must be a Malaysian. But definately not from China. Her tone wasn't that crude. At least I understood what she was telling the BTA so it's not so bad.

The BTA realised his stupidity and made a dash for the upper deck. Idiot.

8:47am

This is a priceless moment that money cannot buy. I'll say this as sweet and short as possible.

She turned to me. I smiled at her. She smiled back.

We were the familar faces every morning. Mondays through Saturdays.

The regret from not allowing her first to the ATM machine where we accidently bump into each other few months ago was quickly subsided.

Alleluia.

posted by jeremyz @ 4:35 PM

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posted by jeremyz @ 11:29 PM