Lizard Woman

just got back from a dinner at the Bar & Billard Room and met a most astonishing lady whom I will refer to as the Lizard Woman. She was accompanied by this young man named Chris Chua, whom I overheard as he entered before us and another young lady who's name I did not manage to catch. However, this Lizard Woman's name is Grace, that much we know from her exchanged words. LW was seated beside us, thus we saw the entire story unfold.

Lets start with the way they went for the food at the buffet. They went for the sashimi first, followed by the oysters. They heaped oysters on their plates and sashimi in abundant amounts and went for the beef broth soup. After they finished their oysters and sashimi, they went for the alaskan crab and mud crab, though in much smaller amounts. All of a sudden, they made some noise, and got the floor manager to them and said there was a LIZARD on the table.

Now, we all know that the Bar & Billard Room is at the Raffles Hotel. It has an open dining concept, and there are gardens surrounding the place. Some nature might decide to be daring and venture into the place, which I seriously doubt, and if there was a lizard, I would want to see it for myself! However, LW and company didn't shout or scream when they saw this mysterious lizard and could calmly ask for the floor manager who had to attempt to explain the incident until he eventually offered to escalate the case to the manager which appeased LW. Even though the floor manager wasn't totally up to par with service standards as he went "huh?" a few times during the conversation and cut LW's words, you had to appreciate his calmness in the midst of such behaviour. Eventually, LW was appeased enough and the floor manager went to call his superior to inform of such an incident.

Miraculously, LW still had the appetite to walk and got bread and butter whilst the manager of the Bar & Billard Room came to the place to talk and find out what happened. Wow! (sense sarcasm here, in case you haven't gotten it) I mean, if you were really traumatised by this incident enough to report it, how would you even have the appetite to continue eating?

As the manager and LW talked, I only managed to catch bits and pieces of the conversation, and it eventually left talk about the lizard (whom I have no idea where it went to as I didn't see it at all) and became talk about the floor manager!

After awhile, they all left to go to the manager's office, and that was the end of the scene at the Bar & Billard room, with minimal disruption to the rest of the diners. The floor manager went around later and asked if everything was alright with the surrounding diners, ourselves included.

Now, we got to thinking. If you were really there for a buffet, with the full course around, you would normally go for starters, then the main course, and finally, the dessert, which would be expected if you went for a place like the Bar & Billard Room. Yet, LW and company went for sashimi and oysters (which weren't very fresh for the matter. Tasted weird to us.) and the other expensive stuff. There was no sight of the lizard at all, so where was the lizard? It is a 5-star hotel dining area, so what are the probabilities of lizards dropping onto tables?

Going by the usual service standards, I would presume that LW would get her dinner free along with some other compensation. But this whole scenario is so fishy!! LW had a diamond ring on, which bling-ed even in the lighting of the Bar & Billard room. was made up of smaller diamonds in a row set on a diamond band, so maybe it reflected a lot of light? I don't know. So what if you are wearing and using branded stuff and you do such ridiculous behaviour? My mom joked later during dinner that we should say that there's a tiger under our table and we would get our dinner free. -grin-

So friends, please, keep a lookout for LW and maybe one day you'll get lucky and spot her too!

死んだ

死んでの時、心は痛い。
でも、したかがない。
自分の心も、友達の心も。。

涙。。

決めた

コンサートが終わったの時、クレリネットを吹かない。時間がないだから、残念。もし時間があたら、もっと感慨する、続けるが欲しい。
しかし俺は今時間がない、それに疲れた。いつも寝たい、元気じゃない。

友達は外国で留学する時の写真はとてもきれいね。俺は頭が悪いだと思う、留学がでかない。

学生の時間は早くて、短くてだと思うだね。

誰が俺のクレリネットが欲しい？

眠い。。。。疲れちゃた。。。一人では寂しい。。。。

Uberest Rarest FREE DAY!

ok! finally after 3 semesters of NO free days, I FINALLY get a feel of how a free day feels like again. Then again, I'm supposed to be studying for 2 midterms tomorrow, so what am I doing online? Because I've been awake for half an hour, and nothing seems to be going into my silly brain even though I've been reading for the past 20 minutes (hey, I had to brush my teeth, wash my face and have breakfast right?) so I went to visit a few blogs, made a few comments and since its so EARLY (I don't know what is considered late anymore considering I slept at like 3am) no one is really online to chat to.

Enough of senseless rantings. I should get down to my studies.

the feeling of emptiness... will you fill it for me?

to someone who's blog i read

the path of life is filled with ups and downs.
when you do like someone, do tell the person.
friends are always around to support you, so do have faith and trust in them.

update on damages done by tenant

latest damage report by a Mr Kim Tae Hyeung aka Andy. Skinny guy aged about 50, divorced with shaggy hair and wears glasses.

public utility bills owed: $867

i mean.. wth?! you damage the house due to neglect and you even owe public utility bills and still have the nerve to ask to rent the house again?! just go somewhere where i won't see you until i want to find you and get the money you owe back. idiot.

in the middle of my exams and i have to get such idiotic news. urgh.

Famine in Niger

This is from yoke's blog and the clip just makes me feel nauseated as an economics major. How can such things be happening in this world that we live in? How can we substantiate the food that we are eating even, when such things are happening? We aren't talking about ten or twenty years ago, this is just -two-, i must emphasize, -two-, years ago.

So much for welfare economics, so much for public finance, so much for developmental economics, so much for economic theory, when they can't even -see- such atrocities happening. Its in the news, it may be just one side of the story, there's UN presence there, there's obvious monitoring from IMF and World Bank, there's international aid presence there, so why the heck are they ignoring the basic principle that people should sell off excess only after their basic needs are met?

isn't the right to food and drink for survival part of the basic rights of all human kinds as stated in the Genova convention? so is all that just plain talk and all fluff?

anyway, the video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw9OARpp-KI
just watch and form your own opinion.

mine: disgusted

cleaning up

it really sucks big time when your tenant runs away, without paying the rent, and leaving a hell of a mess behind.

1) aircon was spoilt
2) blinds were taken down w/o telling us
3) the refrigerator STINKS of kimchi (they are korean)
4) ALL the spotlights blew up. (some of them shattered in my face when i was changing them)
5) white walls turned YELLOW
6) the washing machine is spoilt
7) the PLUG of the cooking hood is COATED with OIL
8) the stove was so clogged we had to scrub it to clean it out
9) the shower heater was short circuited
10) a BED was stolen
11) ALL the remotes were spoilt

it was so bad that the boss of the cleaning agent we hired told us he will return us $100 to stop cleaning. horrible.

i'll post that horrible tenant's name later..

rants and raves

what's wrong with drivers these days?! or just today.
decided to take clementi road to hit the highway home. before clementi mrt, first up, a harrier posing as a lexus decided to swerve right into the middle lane when i was trying to filter in. i SIGNALLED and he didn't. and i had to swerve away. 20m away, a toyota wish had his front poking out from the left lane. that's so FREAKIN DANGEROUS can?

so never mind... filtering into PIE from clementi, someone (not going to mention make or even the license plate) CUT IN FRONT OF ME ACROSS DOUBLE WHITE LINES. naturally, it was really close so i horned him and guess what? he gave me the finger.

seriously, not my day.

got home and looking forward to relax, and i finally cooled off from the drive home. i turned into a blind corner into the carpark, and ta-da, a lady and her daughter were walking straight smack in the middle of the road. being nice, i highlighted her, and no response, so i horned to inform her that i was going through. her reply: the finger. URGH

just not my day to drive... should have just been late this morning and took the train. sigh

mid terms

got them all back...
pleasantly (not) pleased with myself (ie: i feel dumb and stupid)
mis-read instructions and answered out of point for my philo essay, though i still passed, i dont know how
missed vowel sounds for my japanese resulting in major loss in marks
misinterpreted and copied the critical values wrongly for metrics
drew graphs wrongly for micro

i need sleep. hate these careless mistakes.

da capo is tmr.. time flies~ hope it goes well and i'll at least have something to look forward to cheering myself up over the weekend.

something good to end the entry i guess: grade A for my EC2373 paper! my FIRST and ONLY A that i've received so far in NUS. >.< though the final grade is still murky right now...

Durian!

the below mentioned scenario is true and is to be believed at all costs to any readers. this is a classic example on how your senses will influence your mind, even when you are asleep.

*mom is sleeping soundly*
me: holds a durian puff to my mom's nose
*mom snores lightly and definitely smells the durian puff*
me to sis: eh.. sis, mom is asleep liao, don't think the smell of the durian will wake her up.
*mom wakes up*
mom: eh.. cut a piece from the durian crepe and share leh!
*me and sis burst out into laughter*
me and sis: mom definitely smelt the durian

contact lenses + cousin's bday

finally got around to getting my contacts and i have the bad luck of losing my right one when it dropped out. i'm typing this entry with only my left eye.

on the other hand, my baby cousin's 3 yr old bday party was amusing la. haha..
he made me carry him out, bought a police toy set, then made me carry him back. after i bought the toy for him, he hugged me so tightly leh... haha.. i know i got suckered, though for such a cute little baby, how can you feel bad for long right? hahah

omg

urgh.. gotten really fat these days after getting into the bad habit of munching on something whenever i'm stressed.
going to go running more often...

祸不单行

今天真的不是个好日子。
首先，测验没想像的那么难，结果没有把定义背下来，造成了一半的分数化为乌有。=（
其次，在路上，一不留神不小心撞上了别人的车。虽然不是很严重，但是，还是错在于我身上。4年级的学长，对不起！！
最后，去收租金时，不但被玩弄了又一番，不但没收到租金，车子的后望镜给人家撞了一下。

真的是祸不单行。。

LOL

bangun. to xianwei: you`re really efficient and scary.

i wish..

that the people around me can find love and happiness.

love transcends all boundaries, time, space, distance.

love is given freely and without any expectations in return.

love is something that everyone can give and receive.

happiness is when you feel that you have accomplished something.

boundaries are meant to be expanded, not pushed