how can we ever say goodbye?

i just realised my sister's keeper is now a movie, the mother is played by cameron diaz -____-

another reason to further laugh at the incompetence of nus aki admin.

From: Seet Hee Ling Christina
Sent: 05 June 2009 12:39
To: Lim Hwee Lee
Subject: request for letter of verification

Dear Hwee Lee

I am trying to gain access into a few schools to do some studies for my dissertation. May I request for a letter from the office to verify that i am a NUS aki student doing some research? My supervisor is Dr Ong Boon Lay and he is aware of this matter.

Thank you,
Christina Seet
U054661U

and the reply....

Hi Christina

We have already informed library to extend your borrowing rights. We will notify you once the updates are done so you can continue to borrow books.

Best Regards

LIM Hwee Lee (Ms) :: Assistant Manager, Department of Architecture:: National University of Singapore :: 4 Architecture Drive Singapore 117566


what the...

FEDERER!!!! JIAYOU!!!!
PLS WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's june! and it's back to work again... :(

i really like my job, but i feel really terrible when i have someone like mr.meng as my boss. he preaches about love for being an architect, about recognising our responsibility to shape society... sigh. how can i bear to tell him that i don't think i'm really going to be a QP next time!??!?!?!?!!? i hope he doesn't get to read this.

btw me and 老婆 are discussing on msn now abt how our generation came up with the short phrases lingo... if you all have read sunday's papers, the "life" section did a write up on the youth's lingo that no adults seemed to understand. i recently came across the new phrase "imba" and i had a really hard time trying to figure out what it means. turns out it is "imbalance", where you will usually use it to say someone very zai, and his skills are "imbalanced" as compared to others. so you will say "wah your chinese very imba leh!" for example.

i think its full of BS lah. i think the younger generation are coming up with low standard words! as compared to ours:

enthu
zai
CMI
btw
nvm
wtf
lol
rofl
emo
cui
seh
sian
knn
saart saart!
noobie
glam
jelat
skill
power
diao
tml/tmr
nuah
sial lah!
cheebs
tmd
omg
piangz
kaoz
wah liews
in
don't bluff
rox my sox
sux/suxors
plus the ah beng/lian's 1314, 3344 etc.

we are the pioneers can? all these vocab are like how swee? i take pride in them loh.
"imba" is like wadever man seriously. LOUSY leh these youngsters! can you think of more that we came up in our generation? if you can, tag them on the board! :)

the following is a reflection of my days in aki as a mediocre student.

in most of my days in aki, i struggled with the fact that i was never really cut out to be an architect. while during some rare days i felt i could most definitely see myself designing a building from concept to construction.

truth be told, i never thought about this career path until i was choosing the nus courses. i never took art or AEP or had any artistic qualities. i wasn't good enough for law, neither did i want to take arts unless i really had no choice, and aki seemed like a fine choice because it was something different, and i was always interested in classical western architecture.

when i was in year 1, my civics tutor back in jc was surprised by my move and commented that i wasn't "architectish". back then i somehow knew he was right. i preferred writing, maybe reading, doing literature on movies or plays. totally lacking discipline, i entered a course which fundamentally required 85% of that (the other 25% i'll credit to talent, luck, artistic intuition).

in retrospect, i never regretted it. in fact, i believed i've actually spent the past 4 years was trying to make it up to myself by training self discipline and concentration. what could be better training then to cough up 6A1s every semester trying to contain succinct ideas of concept, intention, strategies, process, perspectives, plans, sections, elevations, details and physical models?

by the end of year 4 i guessed i only managed to achieve a year 2 standard of a someone who probably has much more discipline and the other 25% of previously listed qualities.

but i had already developed a guiding principle in life, which is to never regret whatever happens. you know those guilt pangs we usually feel when we are slacking instead of doing work? when it happens i'd always ask myself "do you want to continue slacking, or start doing your work?" if i chose the latter, i'd then make a pact with myself "if you get screwed in one way or another for this, you aren't allowed to lament or wallow".

so i wouldn't say life sucks, or bad things happen because it was never meant to be, but because the shitty things that happen usually occurs due to your own doing, or your own limitations.

but hey! besides being a QP, there are still so many other things to do with that same degree. i could still design buildings (or part of it, depending on how big the project is), do interior, i could still do stage design... but i don't think i can ever see myself as a QP, taking legal responsibilities for collapsing buildings. i still like my designing... and i think i can conveniently predict that in the next 5 to 10 years, only less than half of us would ever be a QP.

but i think the best thing that came out of all this, would still be the friends i've made :)

i finished my sister's keeper by jodi picoult. after stashing it away in the cupboard for the past 4 years, i finally picked up michelle's bdae gift for me.



it started out as a really engaging plot. a test tube baby conceived as a pre planned donor for her sister who's suffering from leukemia. when the baby turned 13 she decided to sue her parents for the legal rights to her own body, to prevent her parents from conveniently using her blood and marrow everytime her sister relapses.

it then turned really shitty when in the last chapter she won the case and immediately got into a car accident and was brain dead so her kidneys went to her sister who got well. worse was the writing style which named each chapter after each character in the story, where in the chapter would be told in the perspective of the character. i figured out in chapter Sara aka chapter 4 that the dying sister won't be featured in the book till the last chapter... and sure enough. i hate the predictability of the book. ughh.

managed to catch just a tiny part of the new show, the ultimatum. anyone saw miss felicia chin monkeying away? if you ask me, i wouldn't say she 丑化 herself. rather, i believe its the real her! without makeup. she's not acting, people! just being herself.



wait a minute. where were the boobies? where was the double eyelids? hmm.

ewan mcgregor in a tartan! oh my god.



i prefer him MUCH more in that pope's tailor, uh, tailor-made cassock!



a closer look...



seriously some of the comments from people who saw the photos made me LOL.

"OMG! that close up did unspeakable things to me. *is positively going to hell*"

"OMFG!!!!!!!(yes, I have to visit Father Ewan now and confess my basphamy...)"

"Hmmmm! I don't think that would work for me, I'm sure I'd commit more as soon as I'd set eyes on him! LOL"

"OMG! I don't think I can take much more myself, I'd better stop looking!"

"He's so gorgeous in the one where he's sitting at the desk, and, wow, I really, REALLY love that outfit. He's beautiful in it (as he would be out of it!!"

"He looks very sexy in black and adding the priest makes it not fair! I'm tempted to sin."

WTF! LOL.

i feel a mother huge sense of accomplishment cleaning up stacks of rubbish and sucking up tons of dust into the vacuum cleaner... only to find out that my mom took the filter to wash and hung it up to dry.

so there came the sickening sensation of realisation. the dust got sucked in and discongregated and was dancing right in the air once more in the form of minute particles.

ah fuck it.

老婆 comes back tomorrow! i'm not exactly sure if these few days were well spent doing things that i couldn't really do while he was around... maybe most things except k-ing!!! everybody! let's go k hao ma????