31 March 2008 @ 01:34 am
the bunch of meanos.  
it's amazing how we cultivated this culture of being such meanos. seriously.

went for vivien's little boy's first year old birthday party. actually we all went more for the sake of gathering the noise we used to have back in secondary school. there were 8 of us, hell noisy. some of us haven't seen each other for the past 2 years we've been stuck in the university.

but we didn't have small talk. no sign of oh so where are you now and what are you majoring in. and no oh wow you're so pretty now or hey heard you have a boyfriend.

I guess it was worse than small talk. to most people, at least.

but we probably laughed half of downtown east down.

and yes somehow we manage to sound like we hate each other so much. we call one another bones for the skinny bum and lard for the fatter one. and that lard wants to go be a regular in the army to see hot guys, and that she'll boost their performance because she threatens to lock them in her room alone with her and they'll definitely pass their quota of chin ups for the day.

and that now vicks is a raunchy girl who burps loudly. and sells herself for cake. only for angie the choice, because the prima deli ones aren't safe anymore.

and that we officially love wedges. (idiot guy who stole them! although apparently we stole them first.)

and honestly it was DEAD silence when we stopped laughing. after we laughed at a bad joke and evil bunch of comments, the laughter would eventually die down. then we would hear the silence. it was so drastic, the contrast. we burst out laughing again.

it was a good day. although now my eyes are half dropping out.

actually they've more or less dropped out and rolled away.

osashiminasai.
 
 
mood: sleepy
music: 杨宗纬 - 洋葱
 
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27 March 2008 @ 12:17 pm
because I didn't finish telling rin.  
plus I was like HURH this morning. basically the project scripts came back to us and after the tutors' numerous complaints about how our scripts were 'not deep', 'shallow', 'more like chatting rather than an interview', I was pretty curious as to how the damn script should go. 

in fact, after watching so many tv programmes, actually I don't see the problem with unrelated questions. I guess this only happens on tv, where the hosts usually have a whole list of topics they can shoot their guests with, and a lot of times these topics have a few related questions, and then we get on with it. 

I shall skip my rant about using teineigo.

so anyway, at the end of class, suzuki decided to pull a demo on us. and she chose me. yay. here's how it went:

(s for suzuki sensei, m for me)

s: 皆さん、こんにちは。今日のゲストはジーユンさんです。いまシンガポール国立大学に勉強しています。日本語を1年ぐらい勉強しました。はい、はじめまして。
m:はい、はじめまして。
s:ジーユンさんの趣味は何ですか。
m:日本の音楽を聞くことです。(I actually said neru koto but she said she tsuzukenai so I said this)
s:あ、そうですか。どのバンドか歌手が好きですか。
m: えと、ロック音楽が好きですから、ラルク・アン・シエルが好きです。(I figured they're popular enough for my sensei to know them. I'm tired of being asked who dir en grey is already.)
s:ああ、そうですか。じゃ、いちばん大好きのメンバはだれですか。

and at this point, she said "kore wa DEEP QUESTION desu."

I just died. 

but it went on.

m: ボーカリストはいどが大好きです。
s:あ、どうしてですか。
m:えーと、きれいだし、歌も上手ですから。
s:ああ そうですね。でも、makeupを使って多いと思いますか。
m:いいえ、makeupを使って少ないと思います。

these people. if they wanted us to ask more questions that required an opinion statement, SAY SO. if they needed more introduction in the front because the tutors wanted us to do a hajimemashite sort of interview, they should have said so in the first place. then people will write what they want. don't say things like our interviews are shallow. I sincerely believe all of us (or at least most) took the trouble to really think about what we could write so that we could use as much laj3 vocabulary and grammar patterns without using 200 new vocab words and without making ourselves sound stupid. 

although I don't know how michelle is going to settle this, since she's going to be paris hilton and paris' answers are kankeinai in the first place. 

plus I still think it's really odd to make reita speak teineigo throughout the entire interview. he speaks in a mix, and pure teineigo just sounds....weird of anybody I've ever seen interviewed on tv. buzzah. 

nihongo class is fun. but sometimes I give up too. 

in the nm lab researching for 3880. guh. sometimes I wonder why I took the module too. the books I see in the library catalogue belong to the law library. sheesh. and now I'm going through journal article after journal article and they're all LAW journals. but for some strange reason they're all printed in rather small sizes, so all the 34 page articles are probably really 17 pages. which is totally totally OKAY DESU. (in fact, it's good!) plus like half the page are footnotes. I feel like I'm reading shakespeare all over again man.

and then I still have to churn out the kanji application tomorrow. now I remember what I forgot to bring. I forgot to bring main textbook. so now I can't memorise my tc passage. I rock. and then I bought a pair of slippers because smiling sushi with the huge ITADAKIMASU is irresistable. =))

I'm being kankeinai myself here. 

perhaps after this pile of journal articles I'll go look for a pc or a 2209 article. and get somewhat started. before I go crazy with 3217 deadlines and yanqing going cuckoo on me for not starting on universe term paper. 

makes you think why I'm still on lj. in fact I still have a good mind to turn imeem on. 

and I am super sleepy. you know I told myself I'm swearing off everything 8am since my very first semester here. it's nearly the end of my 4th semester and somehow I'll get something freaking early every semester. my first sem had an 8am lecture. I almost died on the spot. the next sem I had a 9am tutorial. that was worse than I thought, because the jam to get to my class at 9 is worse than the jam to get to class by 8. then last sem I had two 8am lectures. I was late for every 2102 lecture and kept missing the laj lecture quizzes. fantastic. 

and then I had to register for an 8am tb this sem. and I am so sleepy. indeed no universe tutorial today which equals to 6 hours of break time but hey hey I'm ranting on lj. in fact I'm typing so fast I'm beginning to understand why my entries are kankeinai.

I think I should rename this entry as kankeinai. the word appears sporadically.  

and this room is freezing. and there's no pipe music today. yes you heard that right. occasionally for some strange reason this lab has pipe music. now and then. sometimes I wondered if the lady sitting in the little security guard looking office just decided to turn her music on louder or something. but then I really think it's coming out from the ceiling speaker or something.

but then there's no speaker in the lab besides the inbuilt computer ones.

hearing things? no idea. I'm bored. and somehow I don't really feel like looking at journal articles anymore. but look I must. must. zettai ni miru. 

SAMUI. which polar bear set the temperature. grrr. oh should be brrr right.

I should get back to work. I've ranted enough. I suppose.
 
 
place: nm lab
mood: bored
 
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25 March 2008 @ 11:47 pm
何をやってんだろう。  
everyone who crows zero wo miru tsumori ga aru, go and watch it.

the story is RUBBISH (more rubbishy than L, can you believe it?) but never mind, it's FUNNY.

different sort of hilarious from pink crepe trucks, but still funny.

and er yes it's more or less just for watching oguri shun (sheesh sat next to a bunch of fangirls who melted into a bucket when he appeared onscreen) and perhaps just to watch a badass (but still spastic) yamada takayuki.

and spotlight is having sale. seeing cloth makes me happy. I wish I could upload the pictures of the amazing pieces of cloth I took, but I can't because I fail at getting a cable to connect my phone to the computer. and no I do not intend to get a cable thanks.

I have nothing more to write.

I should sleep because my eyelids are dying.

darou ne.
 
mood: tired
 
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22 March 2008 @ 11:25 pm
mail mail mail.  
another slip came under the door. another slip. this is the biggest reason why I dislike spree items being distributed by mail. the item may not come in -- only a slip will. so now I will have to call them and get it directed to a post office across the island for my own convenience.

and then I went to check out po boxes. like oh MY gosh the rates are powerful. hey I'm just renting a locker from the post office man. so difficult? I'd rather call the post office to run about the island with my package instead. it's not as if it costs me any extra to make them get the package across the island anyway. besides my phone bill that is. (and listening to their sickening answering machine voice.)

I know sometimes organisers don't have all the time on earth to do meetups or even have self collections because sometimes they're only home late at night and it's not nice to have people coming or going, for that matter. but the mail option can be such a pain in the ass.

bleagh.

watched the tsuchiya anna special on bs tv and SHE ROCKS. she's replaced ju-ken though. her band isn't permanent but I think her guitarists are the same. never noticed her drummer. oops. partly because the other concert lighting is pretty dark. and ju-ken was annoyingly jumping about. this new bassist is quite active too, but he keeps to his territory most of the time. not so bad. whatever, she just rocks to pieces. amazing girl. while nakashima mika may look like nana, tsuchiya anna is more like the real nana, or at least my perception of her.

I constantly forget today is saturday. stop forgetting. it's saturday today and sunday tomorrow. that's that. gosh. I feel like sleeping. in fact I've felt like that the entire day already. it's bad bad bad.

I wanted to say something else and now I've forgotten.

anyway I realised that hidezou dearest has been gracing my blog head for like the past 2.5 months. thereabout. maybe it's time to do my L layout. I've got a few ideas, and after listening to hyde for the past few days I've had a couple of inspirations. although actually I was supposed to do an amazing icon post but arrr never mind for now I'll do that another day. mainly because I have an overload of D icons and I just need 5 more alice nine icons and a pile of gazette ones to justify my posting on like 3 more communities. and a pile of meev would help too. but I'm not getting any new pictures of meev to work with. mostly because I can't really stand his present look, which has been sticking around for just too long. too long. meev can you move on? I don't hate the kabuki boyz but that single with sugizo meant something different and I hope you'll move that way.

back to the topic of mail. anybody nice enough to open their addresses to me? haha will be greatly appreciated. or you could donate to the whopping annual fee of S$107/annum for my own PO box. or we could share...I don't mind that either. or you could rent it if you have spree mail coming your way. I'm open.  =D oh and the 107 bucks is to have a PO box at the kent ridge branch. it'll be another $53 if you want it at clementi. or basically everywhere else that isn't considered ulu-ated.

need to sleep. =(
 
 
mood: bored
 
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20 March 2008 @ 12:59 am
つもり。  
リンとレイと食べるつもりだ。
だから、高校の友達と行かないつもりだ。
ひどい友達か?
でも私達は本当に友達か?
ちょっとおかしい友達だと思う。
しゃべらないし、帰る時嬉しくないし、
真実の話がない。
全然ない。
どうして会えないと。
意味がないだろう。
そうなんだ。

それに、関係ないだけど、
あのかばんを買ってつもりだ。

そして、寝るつもりだ。
明日8時始めるんだ。

じゃまた。
 
 
mood: tired
 
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17 March 2008 @ 03:20 pm
sometimes.  
sometimes I don't hate my friends. I just don't like where they go.

I don't see why we can't just sit down and eat and talk.

unless of course, it's because there's nothing to talk about in the first place. 

then why go, right?

sometimes, sometimes. 
 
 
mood: tired
15 March 2008 @ 01:51 am
足が痛い。  
we popped by soda club and found out how lousy we all were. I suppose jinx was the most steady already. nore and I totally felt like we were going to roll down the stairs after that. we knelt for so long it felt like an eternity. later they taught us some er, secrets of kneeling for long hours. besides just freaking getting used to it, that is.

and the tea is not bitter lah. that weng.

in fact, it's nice! and nore says that it tastes like the 1 litre of green tea she buys from daiso. power. if it tastes like that, we'll be buying 2 litres of green tea from daiso. one day we will buy 1 lorry of green tea okay? hahaha.

buzzah. I think I can't get out of bed tomorrow. we should do warm ups before sado club next time. seriously. like stretch your legs properly before deciding to kneel for 3 hours. but partly because the sensei came to teach us. otherwise we wouldn't be so bothered about it. the last time we popped by we were sitting in any fashion we fancied man.

and now I know why the sado room is full of smooth tatami mats, and why you need to wear socks and slide your feet on the mats. it's because by the time you're done kneeling and getting up and kneeling again, you can't really lift your feet up anymore. they probably either hurt or are numb or there's pins and needles. hahahaha so sliding your feet with socks on smooth mats totally help.

bad theory.

whatever. I need to sleep. it's like 2am. and it seems none of us actually know the name of our sado sempai. so poor thing. weng never introduce properly. and I couldn't catch his name from the sensei. olivia was easy enough, and after tripping over jiaxin so many times, I knew the other girl's name too. and olivia inspires me to continue laj man. eh the sensei talk so fast and she can understand. I'm like just catching some phrases here and there and trying to make sense out of them.

bahhh. I still need to think of something for my laj project. GRAH. should I really be a jrocker? hahaha

and eunice can be her merlion. wonderful. we will rock the class.

we had sashimi today. I like raw fish. nore we will have sashimi party for our birthdays okay. we go buy a few blocks of stuff and slice ourselves and eat with vinegar rice and oden and whatever strange odds and ends we want.

yay.

wah lao now I'm hungry also.
 
 
mood: sleepy
 
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12 March 2008 @ 12:00 am
I was a lightbulb.  
although not the brightest I've ever been. *will cling onto tsuma-san for her dear life* oh and somebody can go jump into the river. I think that situation's worse than a train wreck dear. train wrecks are more or less accidents. this is JISATSU. so it's like watching someone wander dangerously in an emo fashion at the yellow line.

and I actually took the same bus as yanye just now. but she was sitting too faraway from me and I was lazy to move. so I only waved when I was alighting. well yanye lives like a few bus stops away from me but I've never seen her on the 151 before. despite her taking the 151 all this while.

6 hours of lessons without food does bad things to my stomach. very bad things.

I unfortunately started this entry late, so it's 12th march now. crap. but still, happy birthday to deming.

laj midterm tomorrow. I will perish. okay I will try not to, but there aren't enough guarantees that I won't.

and yessss nore I want raw fish rice cake. more fish than rice okay thanks.

so as to complete the randomness of this entry, I've finally decided to do the meme.

list 7 habits/ quirks/ facts about yourself.

1. I am like the worst compass in the world. I used to take the bus the wrong direction frequently, board the train in the wrong direction, and I turn maps around to find out how I should walk. therefore I hate all maps that can't be turned (like those lighted boards at mrt stations) and I tend to follow the exact same route all the time, because otherwise I may lose my sense of direction and wander goodness knows where to.

2. I have a slight bump on my right forehead (I fell and my head hit concrete floor and my skull cracked), 2 dark patches on my right leg (from tripping over the steps while boarding the bus), 1 keloid tissue on my left arm (from being childish and running around and grazing myself). also I have a spoilt left ankle (it didn't heal properly after I sprained and now I can twist it and twist it back), a strangely jointed elbow (it doesn't move normally, and apparently I can't do cartwheels because of that), and ingrown toenails (but they're not very severe). I used to be lactose intolerant but I've more or less outgrown that.

3. I used to be able to cry below 20 seconds. good band training. haha but now I need more time. I've concluded that there are no real or fake tears. it's just whether they're worth anything.

4. movies about the war make me cry. or at least those I watched. hotaru no haka, downfall, life is beautiful. it doesn't matter what language it's in, I cry after that. it's just so pathos you know. and then it's so nice to listen to dir en grey's hotarubi (about WW2) and larc's hoshizora (about iraq war).

5. I am a sucker for 6/8 songs. miyavi's itoshii hito, shibasaki kou's kage, gazette's saraba. absolutely. plus songs in minor keys. and probably the only jazz I really really like is big band sort. spare me the norah jones thanks. I still prefer the brass sound over the rest of the orchestra, and no that doesn't have anything to do with my trombone experience. and yes I am perfectly fine with chinese orchestra, and even gagaku. (CO is generally preferred because sometimes traditional japanese music can get boring.)

6. I always prefer books with bad endings. more or less. it doesn't have to be tragic tragic, but generally there's this sense that it didn't end happily ever after. except ubik, I suppose. that one wasn't too bad an ending. slightly bleak but not bad. but of course in the course of the story there was quite a lot of drama and deaths. there are days I wonder if my cynicism is caused by my environment, or I've fuelled it all my life.

7. this is getting harder and harder. I like slippers not just because they're cheap, convenient and has good ventilation. also because they make my feet look less retarded. my feet are generally small for my height and it gets obvious when I wear round toe shoes. slippers need not be fitting and are open toed, so not so bad. pointed toe shoes make up for the length more or less but they hurt more than round toe shoes. my fingernails make up for my small hands, but my toenails can't make up for my little feet, as mentioned in point 2.

plooey done. anyone who's bored can snitch it.

time to sleep. my mum's like why are you still awake.
 
 
mood: sleepy
 
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10 March 2008 @ 12:15 am
random statements again II.  
according to my subject title history, I have a 'random statements again', so now it's random statements again II. I rock at this. but anyway back to random statements, because I haven't had an update since thursday, when I randomly also decided to put up the lyrics of ryoujoku no ame (which is like one of my favourite dir en grey songs of all time) and I was feeling a little emo and a little like a wanderer.

1. I went for my science tutorial after posting ryoujoku no ame. I nearly fell asleep. but God was kind to me and stopped the rain when I left the computer lab. for that matter, the rain stopped after that. if I'm not wrong.

2. between tutorial and lecture I picked up my pen, opened my foolscap and wrote to my buddy. again. that generally doesn't bode too well but we'll see how it goes. buddy are you still reading this shit? you will have handwritten crap to read probably in a few months. do you need me to send a new magnifying glass over?

3. science canteen has proper confectionary buns. not too bad. but they don't have my nice large bottle of lemon tea. arts speciality, that one.

4. went for sado club after class on friday. totally hilarious. so now I can fold a hanky by always starting from the WA side of the cloth, smell green tea powder and arrange things on a tray. oh and clean sticks and bowls. hurrahs for chashakus and chawans. plus roy's little whore transformed from ero-iro-weng to eugene. kowai. if there's one thing you can't really laugh at weng about, that's sado. although nore and I took a few shots of him and his apron, plus a 3.5min video of his house-husband-ness. I mean, when he wears an apron, tucks in a purple hanky, kneels down meekly at the tea cauldron thingy and makes tea, it er, gives us a glimpse into the future shows us a different side of him altogether.

5. after that we went to watch L. I shan't fangirl here. but somehow I half felt like my sister on that day when we didn't get to watch howl's moving castle. but that's an old and bad story I won't rake up here. and I think I was feeling pretty mean at that point of time from boarding the 174 to ps. so sorry to the girls. anyhow we ate salty popcorn and watched sweet tooth boy skewer marshmallows and waffles to no avail. plus the priceless pink truck. AW MAN I LOVE L. oops I promised not to fangirl. anyway nore's sending the photobook scans over. and I have suddenly decided that the next time I change my layout it shall be L. I'm sorry to araki, but hey he can take the next round. XD

6. went for dinner with jinx rin rae nore and jinx's sister after the movie. I think if not for the fact that jiatian's half zonked from carrying the amazingly huge shopping bag about, she would have fled the scene. the hokkaido seafood ramen rocked. nore spotted it. hurrahs for tsuma-san. she knows what I would like to eat. =D although yes we are going to be bankrupt together. and don't sutete me!!! I am not a piece of dirty cutlery. heh.

7. on saturday I figured that I love to use the chopping style paper cutter, but I suck at it. I suppose I should go back to using the slide type. this executioner style doesn't seem to do me good. I just ruin copies and waste paper. tsk to myself.

8. went for the bbq and God was nice again and gave us good weather. powerful wind man. so powerful I heard roger had problems starting his pit's fire because his pit didn't have anything blocking the wind at all. and I turned into a babysitter overnight. honestly when a bunch of sec 1s are entertained by kin leong, it shows that these sec 1s aren't of very much more maturity than the primary 3s and primary 5s he teaches. kaplooey. angeline and I nearly died. but super thanks to nancy, we are alive. and hopefully we'll come out more than alive this saturday when we go see them again. I hope they'll come. because this bunch has a herd mentality, so one come all come. we'll see. I need a lot of patience and need to throw away some face and complacency when it comes to this.

9. after bbq went to eat with sam xinying and sister. it was a joke. absolutely hilarious. I guess we were all hot, tired and crazy by then. so we spouted so much gomi and nearly died laughing. all because xinying wanted to call mcdelivery to the macs we were in. tsk. and somehow auntie samuel coughed up a coupon sheet. somehow.

10. went for double service today. don't know which goondoo polar bear set the aircons to this amazing temperature in the auditorium. and as if that weren't enough, I went downstairs for the youth service to find that the aircon was equally cold. I ran to look for the remote control and found it at maximum fan speed, 16 degrees. excuse me, while it's true that I'm not particularly sensitive to cold, I'm not covered in fur. if it's that polar bear fraser's doing, I tell you I'm going to guard that remote control from next week onwards.

11. had meeting with nore and fuzzy at macs (again). at least we choked up something. I think this looks better? I have no idea. I'm just hoping elizabeth will take it. I prefer this to creative commons but that's personal opinion. for some reason I'm really quite sick of 3880. it's like the late night session I don't seem to give two shits about and I'm doomed from now on sort of thing. I have a damn bad attitude. some days I kick myself and try to boot the bad attitude along with it but it doesn't really seem to work somehow.

12. I suddenly realise that lj isn't saving my entry periodically. again. it does this now and then. I think the transfer of L's photobook scans is screwing my internet connection. all because silly me didn't put the thumbdrives back into my pencil case this morning. otherwise we wouldn't have to go through this pain.

13. I am doomed for laj midterms. nore is right. we should start eating drinking dreaming LIVING laj NOW. I need to look through the entire vocab list again. I'm so sure more than half of it has already gone to some strange level of hell by now. crap.

14. my aircon is WORKING now. I'm so glad it's all up and done. we didn't want to wait till the seriously hot season struck us before repairing that decade old system. so at least now it's all working, and we can use it anytime we wish to. at a decent temperature. my previous one worked, but the temperature seemed stuck at 26 degrees. don't know why anyone should want an aircon that only runs at 26. we'll die of suffocation or something. so warm.

15. I smell a kareshi monogatari from jinxiepoo. but if the monogatari is as how nore and I say it is, somebody we know will jump the river soon. not very good idea.

16. the ferrets kame is playing with in the video ARE SO CUTE. I don't want to be a ferret -- I want the ferret. they're so cute! a little squeaky but oh so lovable. but I'm too lazy to complete the rest. another day perhaps, when I remember it. nore fuzzy and I were watching the japanese tradition videos after project meeting ended and we all nearly died laughing, even though it was the goodness knows what time we were watching it. or at least myself. it's just hilarious, some of them. and you don't really need to have the subtitles to laugh at it.

17. there is a designer bag imitation spree AGAIN. and the loewe nappa bag is up for sale again. any kind soul wants to get it for meee because I have this weird feeling someday my big black bag is so going to break. haha.

and I need to sleep, because I am constantly late for linda's lecture. constantly. but there's still another 20mb to go! pouts. oh and I burnt off a small pile of dvds and now I have 45gb of free space. lovely. absolutely lovely. ganbatte L san! oh and the lotte advertisements are hilarious. like hello asatte tenisu wo shimasenka is just priceless. like angel crepes. HAHAHA

yay L is done. SLEEP.
 
 
mood: sleepy
 
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06 March 2008 @ 12:28 pm
ryoujoku no ame.  

「凌辱の雨」


罪無き人さえも
生温い雨に打たれ根づく傷

嘘が今生まれ
どこかで嘘ではなくなって

いつしか言葉もこの日さえ全て
あやまちに埋もれてゆく
青く汚れない記憶抱きしめ

激情の涙に希望さえ滲んでゆき
今を生きてゆく強ささえ…
激情に狂い嘆き
祈りを夕日にかかげ

burning from the inside
crying with pain.
アナタニハスクエナイ

激情の涙に失った優しさとは
生まれここに与えられた愛
失った心の理由
自分の弱さだろ…?

It is then the proof of sadness, caused by absolute justice
In the lukewarm rain which does not stop...

the constant fall of rain just made me think of this song. not that I'm this emo today. but it is a terribly depressing day, with school beginning at 8 and then now I have to travel to science when it's raining. if I didn't have a tutorial today I tell you science can forget about seeing me appear there.

iku tsumori da.
 
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04 March 2008 @ 10:51 pm
very randomly speaking.  

email from NUSSU:

NUSSU SBS 151 discussion forum is now closed. (since when was there one?!) Thank you for your active participation in the NUSSU SBS 151 discussion forum. The steady stream of constructive suggestions and material concerns has helped NUSSU to identify problematic issues. This paths (isn't it supposed to be paves) the way for a more concrete framework in the problem's solution.

This is a summary of the primary concerns identified:

1)      Gross over-congestion in buses, especially along Bukit Timah Road, during peak hours (okay)

2)      Irregularity of bus arrival timings and frequencies (okay too)

3)      The redundancy of SBS 151E (express) service (nooooo there are few people but I LIKE IT it gets me home faster)

4)      The lack of air-conditioned buses (well who asked them to provide non aircon buses at like 3pm. hot lah stupid)

5)      The possibility of introducing a NUS shuttle service to ferry students across passenger-congested bus routes (that's not really necessary. if you really want, take BTC from the 151/153 bus stop outside law campus.)

6)      The possibility of re-routing SBS 151 within Kent-Ridge Campus to allow for double-decker, or longer buses (NO. N-O no. because that would mean that 151 will probably not go through kent ridge crescent, because the roundabout at YIH will kill everyone onboard. but I WANT IT TO GO THROUGH KENT RIDGE CRESCENT.)

7)      The possibility of educating students on the courtesy of moving to the back of the bus when boarding, and to take other bus services if possible. (HA I like this one.)

Last Wednesday, representatives from the NUSSU Exco, together with the Office of Estate and Development ("OED"), met up with the SBS Transit Ltd Director of Service Development and his team to surface these issues, drawing attention to the jams along Dunearn Road causing bunching of buses during peak hours, as well as the resulting decrease in comfort especially in non-air conditioned buses. (they finally decided to do this, 6 years after my sister started school and wrote letters to the forum about this.)

SBS has since decreased the number of non-air conditioned buses to 1 in its fleet of 24 serving this route. Also, 8 brand new Scania buses, which have more standing space, will be included in this fleet serving the 151 route. (oh so the wheelchair friendly buses are actually advertised to have more standing space, eh? guess what? we prefer more seats kthxbai.)

The Union is very pleased that SBS Transit Ltd is committed to ensuring the comfort and efficiency of the service. We are working with them to solve the other problems facing this route as soon as possible. Your continued support in voicing out your concerns is immensely valuable.

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and that, came in the nus mail earlier today. which is half crappy. oh well.

plus, the father signed the form waaaay more readily than I thought. wooohoo. 

time to sleep, time to sleep.

I still haven't transferred blacklist into my player. I want to hear yasu. for some strange reason. and I has copyright midterm tomorrow and I'm in deep shit. I'm half whatever already, but then I think this is probably the best time to save whatever I can, because by the time it hits like final exams, it's too late already. oh and crys your potter box thingy rocks man. and 2209 shouldn't die. I suppose nothing powerful will come out of it but at least won't fail. but vocab test DIE. but heck. it's all over. 3880!

bleagh.

 
 
mood: cold
 
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03 March 2008 @ 01:04 am
吸血鬼 (笑)  
I am fairly sick of vampires by now.

to cut long story short, I brought a fangirl to see a vampire.

I brought a half squealing excited self proclaimed stalker who overslept on the train and came late to watch a under nourished pale and sadistic vampire who can act cute (and is a direct descendant of three rukis, two uruhas and one hitsugi).

*is shot*

on the way home I heard venus, chinese version. I was trying so very hard not to laugh out loud on the bus, because at that hour, laughing on the bus is seriously loud. so while I can't 'pay tribute to ueda' with a dangling earring, here's kudos to johnny's two clowns, tackey and tsubasa, for attempting such mandarin.

Venus - tackey and tsubasa

KISS中睜開雙眼 CHA CHA的節奏狂野
曖昧的甜蜜午夜 Midnight
挑逗著心不在焉 偽裝著天真無邪
遙遠的異國明月 Moonlight

似曾相識夢中的世界
命中注定重演的輪回
眼花撩亂之間 一切瞬息萬變
誘惑在 光影間 若隱若現

熱情的VENUS 燃燒吧VENUS
你眼神中的美 讓我的心撒野
絲路漫長蜿蜒 愛情沒有終點
不確定的徘徊 現在就告別

熱情的VENUS 感動吧VENUS
你的魅力蔓延 像暴風般侵略
最後的答案你最暸解
愛的誘惑光線 好耀眼

危險的紅唇滋味 喝下了一口就醉
突襲的沖動刀劍 傷了誰
戀愛的瘋狂表現 赤裸的自我呈現
遙遠的異國之約 Rendezvous

五彩繽紛珍珠的光輝
身不由己是愛在作祟
透明呼吸之間 一切瞬間消滅
像沙漠的欲念 渴望無限

熱情的VENUS 燃燒吧VENUS
你眼神中的美 讓我的心撒野
絲路漫長蜿蜒 愛情沒有終點
不確定的徘徊 現在就告別

熱情的VENUS 感動吧VENUS
你的魅力蔓延 像暴風般侵略
最後的答案你最暸解
愛的誘惑光線 好耀眼

NEVER MIND THE TRANSLATION. the vocab per se isn't difficult -- it's the juxtaposition of the words and some of these phrases should prove rather difficult to the non mandarin speaker. somehow the word native doesn't really fit. because I don't consider myself a real native speaker.

I'll do memes when I have more energy and when it isn't half past 1 in the morning after a long day.

tomorrow need to cram some more. my gosh. I realised that when I want to read my readings, I can freaking really read readings. it's like 1.5 readings per hour. okay I admit some of my readings aren't hard to read. as in they write in short simple sentences under a bunch of subheadings. it beats 19th century english, at least.

and if I don't go to bed now, I will be late for 3217 AGAIN. it's my 12pm first lecture of the day. I'm not late for 8am tutorial, why am I late for 12 noon lecture. guh SLEEP.
 
 
mood: tired
 
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