metrosexual: compliment or insult?

on one hand, when you're referred to as a metrosexual, it means you're an immaculate dresser, someone who isn't afraid to be coiffed and SNAGy.
on the other hand, it also means that you are a crowd follower and a homosexual without the sexual tendencies.
so how?

sex and the city

carrie shouldn't have chosen Big. that's one disaster waiting to happen. why'd she leave russian again?
smith and samantha make a cute couple.
charlotte's getting a chinese baby. to add to her collection of pets.
miranda...when will she realize that she's a lesbian?

now i've got to go find my testicles.

malaysian girl

idiot malaysian girl at messiah sees me browsing my blog and she says "oh! is that a website or a journal? what's the address?" then i say "secret" and she says "you really kiasu la". everything i do is "kiasu" just because i've studied in singapore. silly. oh well, if u are reading this, we're still friends right?

photography books

a few hours ago, mike my supervisor tells me that the circulation desk needs more space in the TR section. i ask him what the TR section is. he frowns then says "my young friend, the TR section is photography. and a word of advice, you don't want to go there." he winces and i give him the knowing smile and nod "oh i've been there. i've borrowed some photography books."
priceless moments like these is why i work here.

demon books

i promise you the books in the library are demon possessed. they're definitely evil...they drop off the shelves or my cart without my exerting a force on them.

new york, new york

on the spur of a moment, i decided to pay new york a visit this weekend, alone.

picture of the day

new room

did i tell you i moved for the summer? i'm now in a different dorm and i live by myself in a room meant for 2 people. i have died and gone to heaven. imagine going from a room with 3 people meant for 2 to a room to myself. wah, shiok. can do anything i want, whenever i want, except when i'm at work at the library of course.
and working at the library has its perks. since i'm working alone in the book stacks, i get to listen to my music and sing along like a lunatic, take numerous toilet breaks, and flip through books that i think i might like to read but probably won't. i have so many books to read for summer; if you remember me in VJ and how i'd borrow all these books from the library but i would never get to read them...it could happen again.
i miss malaysian food. and malaysian and singaporean friends. and malaysian arts scene.

reflection

i think i do like being in america.
i am cool.

in other news, i didn't do anything today. i was at the grocery store with a platonic girl friend and i was browsing the aisles for food when i thought of cooking dinner for the both of us and maybe an extra person. and she said "yeah, that sounds great" so we buy pasta and spaghetti sauce and have celery and bleu cheese dip as our vegetables. for dessert, we had godiva ice-cream. we invited the third person, the resident director of the building i'm living in now but he said he was going to a friend's for dinner.
the point of this story is: do you think i'm leading this said girl friend on? am i making her think that i'm romantically interested in her? because someone told me i was sending her wrong signals. yeah i did invite her to a dance last semester but only because she told a friend she wanted me to ask her. and yeah we did cook a dinner together for some friends before, on my suggestion, but she was the one who really pushed for it. and yeah, we did spend a couple of days in boston and new york. you think i'm leaving her hanging? i don't think so.

F-ing wildflowers

testing

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why do i even bother with titles now? i can barely string a gramatically correct sentence let alone title the gibberish. puki.
today went pretty well. i managed to play some tennis ... lost 7-5, kanina, and kayaking down the creek that runs through the college. now i bet nus, ntu and smu wouldn't have a creek running through their campus eh? and i just got off the phone with my rock star friend joshua of seventh day slumber. we were recalling our childhood and how much we've changed/grown. summer doesn't look too bad now: a week in nashville, tennessee lined up!
best part of the weekend is this guy walks into my room when i'm watching 'queer as folk' and he happens to walk in on a sequence where 2 men are about to copulate. i told him i was watching gay porn ;) . and i think he believed me because he promptly exited the room.
how has your weekend been?

pee
have you ever been snug in your bed after a brutal day of work and you feel like your bladder is about to burst with pee? it really sucks. i was prepared for a marathon nap but my urine factory told me to go or else. i had three options: i could get up and go to the bathroom but my body wasn't cooperating; i could go right there in my bed and make a huge mess; or i could pretend i don't feel it and go back to sleep (your body can trick you but you can't trick your body). i did one of the three.

remember this?

notworks blog

miserable
i can't stand my job - it's so routine and monotonous. and the geriatric who is my supervisor keeps making me redo things - there is no fulfilment in the employment.

the people here are driving me nuts.

i am nuts.

i am going to start work on a fabulous web page that will thrill all future employers.

my hair needs cutting.

some people do like me, yay.

i jogged to the grocery store today and bought a pint of haagen daz. net calorie gain: 200.

i will be rich by august.

better?

Albany, Boston, and everything in between
sigh, slightly gloomy. birthday went alright, i know i shouldn't complain. but i feel like it didn't go the way i wanted. it reflects my social life here at messiah. but the people i was with were really gracious and tried to remind me as often as possible that it was my big 21. i'm spoiled and used to being surrounded by friends in malaysia and singapore. i really shouldn't feel like i was shortchanged on a lifechanging moment. but here are some pictures for an otherwise gloomy post. thanks y'all for your birthday wishes!


birthday cake(s)

we helped the guy we lived with pick out a kitten at the animal shelter

uncle henry, some friend of a relative (it was a pretty awkward trip) who bought us dinner at a teppanyaki restaurant. did i mention that he's the cook in the picture.

fooling around at target, or tar-jay as we like to call it to sound uppity and French

in boston, we lived in our friend, loc/kim/mary (i swear that girl has a different name in every state)'s friend's house. it was a very vietnamese trip with lots of vietnamese relatives (many times removed) and food. and bad english.

but a good trip. it's over, time to earn some cash for another spending spree.

boston for my b-day
exams are over. school's out. summer's here. going to boston for a couple of days for my twenty-first. hope everyone's doing fine. will post often during the hols. take care.

forget-about-exams Malaysian Dinner


Preparing the food

Good company

Future roommates