Monday, June 29, 2009
things i couldn't say.
i've dropped my poor phone about five times in the span of three days!! why am i such a klutz. especially with this phone. and i'm particularly careful with it partly because it's a clamshell phone and everyone knows how fragile and prone to spoiling clamshell phones are, and also because i really like my present phone. it's almost everything i could want in a phone! the worst thing about dropping my phone is that it's always from a rather great height. it's already beginning to die on me slightly, what with its always being unable to access the network and its switching off randomly. maybe i should just send it in for repairs right now since it's still under warranty. okay! when i stop working and finally have more free time i'll send it in and see what they can do about it.
and i have got to correct my horrible habit of stupidly clapping my hands over my ears and not doing anything to stop something i drop from, uh, hitting the ground. but it's an ingrained habit and it's hard to break. i don't know when i started doing that when i dropped things anyway. it's as if i'm telling myself that as long as i don't hear the crash of whatever i dropped hitting the floor nothing really happened, when in fact it did and i'm just deluding myself.
speaking of hearing and not hearing, the other day i was having my dinner at suntec and you know how it is when you eat alone -- you just look all around you because there's nothing to distract you with. there was this table diagonally in front of me with three women, all deaf and communicating in sign language, and i was desperately trying not to stare because that'd seem very rude. but it was really interesting, because when they were "talking" to each other they really put full attention on whoever it was who was "speaking", and i just thought that it's so ironic that they're actually the best listeners of all. when other people are talking to us normally we'll avoid eye contact (okay that's what i do anyway, i'm just weird that way), or busy ourselves with other things as well. deaf people can't do that, because they have to look at the person to know what that other person is trying to communicate. seeing that really makes me want to do just that from now on, and really listen when people are talking to me. not that i don't listen to people talk, it's just that i'm guilty of tuning out sometimes especially when i have other stuff on my mind or when whatever is being said isn't exactly something i agree with. i'm selfish that way i guess.
and i've been so tired these couple of days it's almost weird. i feel tired the minute i open my eyes in the morning, and it just gets worse throughout the day. which is strange given that i do sleep adequate amounts i think. oh well.
anyway, had an off day today. was really looking forward to it initially but i think it wasn't a very nice off day after all. i went to vivo with all intention to shop because of all the sales i'd been hearing about, but there really wasn't anything worth buying in all the shops i went to. plus i was kind of tired the whole time, and that didn't help very much. i guess it was also because i realised i'd given too much of a discount a few days ago when wynne smsed me about it, presumably because mr tan discovered the mistake. and i was still so happy that we'd survived mr tan's being away without anything much happening. and he's apparently in quite a foul mood, so i'm really not anticipating work tomorrow at all. hopefully he'll be in a better mood by then!
my maid's back too, so i guess that makes me a little happier.
i was watching japanese variety shows for a while just now, and a korean game show on tv earlier as well, and watching them makes me feel like i really want to learn both languages and be proficient in them as fast as i can. hopefully i'll be able to take korean in nus. and japanese at the same time. i don't know if that's possible.
even if it is, what can i do when i graduate? maybe i'll just go be a tour guide then. i'll get to travel to japan and korea too. (:
okay i'm getting sleepy again. it's either because lydia's sleep disorder is contagious or because the weather nowadays is so warm and conducive to sleep.
oh yes, for lydia! http://community.livejournal.com/spreehouse/3611279.html#cutid1 (: sorry this took so long!
off to sleep!
music: wae naman; wheesung
tune out the world ; 11:14 PM
and i have got to correct my horrible habit of stupidly clapping my hands over my ears and not doing anything to stop something i drop from, uh, hitting the ground. but it's an ingrained habit and it's hard to break. i don't know when i started doing that when i dropped things anyway. it's as if i'm telling myself that as long as i don't hear the crash of whatever i dropped hitting the floor nothing really happened, when in fact it did and i'm just deluding myself.
speaking of hearing and not hearing, the other day i was having my dinner at suntec and you know how it is when you eat alone -- you just look all around you because there's nothing to distract you with. there was this table diagonally in front of me with three women, all deaf and communicating in sign language, and i was desperately trying not to stare because that'd seem very rude. but it was really interesting, because when they were "talking" to each other they really put full attention on whoever it was who was "speaking", and i just thought that it's so ironic that they're actually the best listeners of all. when other people are talking to us normally we'll avoid eye contact (okay that's what i do anyway, i'm just weird that way), or busy ourselves with other things as well. deaf people can't do that, because they have to look at the person to know what that other person is trying to communicate. seeing that really makes me want to do just that from now on, and really listen when people are talking to me. not that i don't listen to people talk, it's just that i'm guilty of tuning out sometimes especially when i have other stuff on my mind or when whatever is being said isn't exactly something i agree with. i'm selfish that way i guess.
and i've been so tired these couple of days it's almost weird. i feel tired the minute i open my eyes in the morning, and it just gets worse throughout the day. which is strange given that i do sleep adequate amounts i think. oh well.
anyway, had an off day today. was really looking forward to it initially but i think it wasn't a very nice off day after all. i went to vivo with all intention to shop because of all the sales i'd been hearing about, but there really wasn't anything worth buying in all the shops i went to. plus i was kind of tired the whole time, and that didn't help very much. i guess it was also because i realised i'd given too much of a discount a few days ago when wynne smsed me about it, presumably because mr tan discovered the mistake. and i was still so happy that we'd survived mr tan's being away without anything much happening. and he's apparently in quite a foul mood, so i'm really not anticipating work tomorrow at all. hopefully he'll be in a better mood by then!
my maid's back too, so i guess that makes me a little happier.
i was watching japanese variety shows for a while just now, and a korean game show on tv earlier as well, and watching them makes me feel like i really want to learn both languages and be proficient in them as fast as i can. hopefully i'll be able to take korean in nus. and japanese at the same time. i don't know if that's possible.
even if it is, what can i do when i graduate? maybe i'll just go be a tour guide then. i'll get to travel to japan and korea too. (:
okay i'm getting sleepy again. it's either because lydia's sleep disorder is contagious or because the weather nowadays is so warm and conducive to sleep.
oh yes, for lydia! http://community.livejournal.com/spreehouse/3611279.html#cutid1 (: sorry this took so long!
off to sleep!
music: wae naman; wheesung
Labels: day-to-day, thoughts
tune out the world ; 11:14 PM
Thursday, June 25, 2009
time kept passing quickly, so i ended up breaking the clock .
why do off days always seem to pass by so fast?
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music: a year passed; wheesung
tune out the world ; 12:00 AM
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music: a year passed; wheesung
Labels: thoughts
tune out the world ; 12:00 AM
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
blue springs and white winters.
hmv lies! they told me last week that they'd have wheesung's 4th album in stock next week, which is this week but i've been there three times since and they still don't have it yet. i technically don't really need the actual cd, but i feel bad for (how do i put this in a way that doesn't legally implicate me) not having the cd. okay so that doesn't really make much sense. never mind! i just want to get the cd as soon as possible. and maybe i'll just go ahead and get the rest of his albums too then. might as well have a complete collection. i think his 6th album will be out in september. hopefully i won't have squandered all of my pay by then.
went out for lunch with wynne, lydia and estrina yesterday! we had a very nice lunch at ajisen. i don't really know why everyone complains about ajisen ramen being very bad and not authentic. it tastes quite alright to me! then again i'm not very picky about food when i'm hungry. and it was a very late lunch, so i was probably too hungry to tell whether the food was good or not. sadly we didn't get to meet up for very long at all, because wynne had to go off early for her mum's birthday dinner, and i needed to get food and go home for dinner. in the end we only had time to eat and walk around a little before wynne and i left. next time we'll go out longer! it was really funny anyway, because wynne was remarking how estrina's life was very dramatic and even though it'd only been a short while since we last met so many things had happened to her already. and wynne's mango stories. haha!
sigh i've been reading and re-reading all the module bidding and requirements for fass the past two days but i still don't really understand it. it's very complicated and confusing. hopefully the orientation talks on 27th and 28th clear things up. i want to learn both japanese and korean in uni! is that even possible?
hehe i have spent the entire day watching movies and random videos in between doing chores. i feel like such a hermit, but at least i've finally cleared stuff off my to-watch list! too bad i was also downloading toma videos in the background, so now i've got about seven new videos to watch. i'll leave those for my next off day i suppose.
eew an ant just crawled into the spaces between my keyboard keys and i can't get it out. now i have to watch what i type or there'll be squashed ant underneath my keyboard keys which is frankly just disgusting.
okay i don't know what this post was for. it seems very senseless!
music: luv shine; wheesung
tune out the world ; 8:45 PM
went out for lunch with wynne, lydia and estrina yesterday! we had a very nice lunch at ajisen. i don't really know why everyone complains about ajisen ramen being very bad and not authentic. it tastes quite alright to me! then again i'm not very picky about food when i'm hungry. and it was a very late lunch, so i was probably too hungry to tell whether the food was good or not. sadly we didn't get to meet up for very long at all, because wynne had to go off early for her mum's birthday dinner, and i needed to get food and go home for dinner. in the end we only had time to eat and walk around a little before wynne and i left. next time we'll go out longer! it was really funny anyway, because wynne was remarking how estrina's life was very dramatic and even though it'd only been a short while since we last met so many things had happened to her already. and wynne's mango stories. haha!
sigh i've been reading and re-reading all the module bidding and requirements for fass the past two days but i still don't really understand it. it's very complicated and confusing. hopefully the orientation talks on 27th and 28th clear things up. i want to learn both japanese and korean in uni! is that even possible?
hehe i have spent the entire day watching movies and random videos in between doing chores. i feel like such a hermit, but at least i've finally cleared stuff off my to-watch list! too bad i was also downloading toma videos in the background, so now i've got about seven new videos to watch. i'll leave those for my next off day i suppose.
eew an ant just crawled into the spaces between my keyboard keys and i can't get it out. now i have to watch what i type or there'll be squashed ant underneath my keyboard keys which is frankly just disgusting.
okay i don't know what this post was for. it seems very senseless!
music: luv shine; wheesung
Labels: day-to-day, wheesung
tune out the world ; 8:45 PM
Thursday, June 18, 2009
beats its way into my heart.
i've got three days off from work all in a row! finally some time to do things i've been wanting to do. like spend an entire day listening to wheesung. (:
speaking of which, look at what i chanced upon in hmv at the heeren!!
i wasn't even looking for his albums already, having given up all hope of ever finding them here after combing about five different stores. and then, when i wasn't even consciously looking for them, they appeared right in front of me. and his fifth album is really good! there's this song called chaan namnyon which i'm addicted to at the moment. wheesung's voice in the song makes me remember all over again exactly why i adore him so much. listen to it!! and google the lyrics. okay no wait, i'll make it easier for you and paste it here.
i'm going back next week to get his fourth album because they were out of stock that time. his fourth album has one of my favourite songs from him, so it's a must-get! i'm still deciding whether to get his second album and his mini-album. okay basically, i'm considering whether to get all of his albums. but i feel bad for splurging so much on things i don't really need (since i'm such a pirate anyway). okay i will see if i feel rich next week when i go back there!
i'm also wondering if i should get this official bleach character book thing. saw it the other day in kinokuniya, when we went out looking for peiyen's psp and ended up kind of shopping around in orchard. but i felt bad for spending so much. sigh this is why being rich will mean nothing to me because i'll just feel bad for spending no matter how much money i have. but it's really tempting! okay okay. i will save money for wheesung's cds first. and for birthday presents. and for all the things i need to get. then, i'll get the character book. maybe i'll drag yimean to go look at it when we go out tomorrow.
... one reason why i'm so tempted to get it is the very well-drawn ichigo on the cover. i mean, look at him! doesn't the cover just scream "buy me now"? alright maybe i'm just weird, i know. i'm sure yimean and rachel will understand. (:
i think i need to create a new fangirl label for my posts. pfft.
and i totally defeated the horrible yian kut-ku in monster hunter! after about twenty tries in all. that's how annoying it was. it took me two large barrel bombs, five small barrel bombs, two flash bombs, a pitfall trap and probably about fifty slashes using a bone kris before it went down. speaking of which, my bone kris looks like renji's zanpakutou. i'll show yimean tomorrow when i meet her. and i still feel like getting the bleach psp games! but i've been spending so much... ah well.
anyway, a very random photo we took the other day when we went for the tri-aktiline training! pity estrina's missing from the photo though. i look like a dork in my specs. oh well they are geek specs anyway. i'm going to miss all of them after i quit. which will be about a month from now, or even lesser.
meeting yimean tomorrow! i haven't seen her in a long, long time. there's driving early in the morning, and then i'll meet her in the afternoon. maybe i'll drag her to watch drag me to hell with me. hehehe. that's a confusing sentence isn't it.
music: chaan namnyon; wheesung
tune out the world ; 4:26 PM
speaking of which, look at what i chanced upon in hmv at the heeren!!
i wasn't even looking for his albums already, having given up all hope of ever finding them here after combing about five different stores. and then, when i wasn't even consciously looking for them, they appeared right in front of me. and his fifth album is really good! there's this song called chaan namnyon which i'm addicted to at the moment. wheesung's voice in the song makes me remember all over again exactly why i adore him so much. listen to it!! and google the lyrics. okay no wait, i'll make it easier for you and paste it here.please say you listened to it or i'll be really sad. ): i hate imeem now, anyway, since they started the whole 30-second sampling thing. go listen to the full song okay?inside a car, boy and girl
translation by: charlie (also credit: aheeyah.com)no, it must not be true, i don't believe it, your lies
stop, enough, i can't listen to this anymoreyou say you're leaving, your heart-breaking confession
even through the sound of the car, I can hear it
ra-ba-bah-ba your moving lips, "sorry, goodbye"
ra-ba-bah-ba the rain hitting the car window, beats its way into my heart, oh ohbeats its way in oh oh digs its way in oh oh
beats its way in oh oh digs its way in oh ohin the intimacy of the car, i lean over and hold your two hands
but only tears fallmy confession, lacking courage
barely heard through the sound of the carra-ba-bah-ba my lips barely moving, "don't go, please don't go"
ra-ba-bah-ba your reply, "sorry, goodbye"
ram-ba-bahm-ba this is what it means to break up, painful for both
ram-ba-ba-bahm-ba the rain hitting the car window
beats its way into my heart oh oh
into my heart oh ohin the car
the day passes by
and both boy and girl can't remember
where they were headed
차안남녀 - whee sung
i'm going back next week to get his fourth album because they were out of stock that time. his fourth album has one of my favourite songs from him, so it's a must-get! i'm still deciding whether to get his second album and his mini-album. okay basically, i'm considering whether to get all of his albums. but i feel bad for splurging so much on things i don't really need (since i'm such a pirate anyway). okay i will see if i feel rich next week when i go back there!
i'm also wondering if i should get this official bleach character book thing. saw it the other day in kinokuniya, when we went out looking for peiyen's psp and ended up kind of shopping around in orchard. but i felt bad for spending so much. sigh this is why being rich will mean nothing to me because i'll just feel bad for spending no matter how much money i have. but it's really tempting! okay okay. i will save money for wheesung's cds first. and for birthday presents. and for all the things i need to get. then, i'll get the character book. maybe i'll drag yimean to go look at it when we go out tomorrow.
... one reason why i'm so tempted to get it is the very well-drawn ichigo on the cover. i mean, look at him! doesn't the cover just scream "buy me now"? alright maybe i'm just weird, i know. i'm sure yimean and rachel will understand. (:i think i need to create a new fangirl label for my posts. pfft.
and i totally defeated the horrible yian kut-ku in monster hunter! after about twenty tries in all. that's how annoying it was. it took me two large barrel bombs, five small barrel bombs, two flash bombs, a pitfall trap and probably about fifty slashes using a bone kris before it went down. speaking of which, my bone kris looks like renji's zanpakutou. i'll show yimean tomorrow when i meet her. and i still feel like getting the bleach psp games! but i've been spending so much... ah well.
anyway, a very random photo we took the other day when we went for the tri-aktiline training! pity estrina's missing from the photo though. i look like a dork in my specs. oh well they are geek specs anyway. i'm going to miss all of them after i quit. which will be about a month from now, or even lesser.
meeting yimean tomorrow! i haven't seen her in a long, long time. there's driving early in the morning, and then i'll meet her in the afternoon. maybe i'll drag her to watch drag me to hell with me. hehehe. that's a confusing sentence isn't it.music: chaan namnyon; wheesung
Labels: bleach, photos, psp, wheesung
tune out the world ; 4:26 PM
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
only where i need begin.
haven't been blogging for a while, mainly because i haven't really had the time to come online and also because there really isn't too much to blog about since i'm working almost all the time anyway. but i finally have time to come online now!
usp hasn't told me anything, so i suppose the interview didn't sit too well with them. ): never mind! it'd be crazy trying to keep my grades good enough in order to be within the five selected for the double degree programme anyway. see, there's a silver lining in every cloud if you look hard enough. not that i'm not disappointed over not being selected, it's just that getting all upset over it isn't likely to help matters anyway. i'll just go ahead with japanese studies and make sure i get into the exchange programmes at least. those are easier to get into i think.
and i passed my elementary 2 test! even though i really didn't study much for the test because i was working consecutively the week leading up to the test and didn't have time, i still managed to pass it. 95/100 for the written portion, and 8/10 for the oral! okay, my oral was really a fluke because i got massive hints from the sekizawa sensei haha. he kept giving me meaningful looks and asking me to repeat my answers. he's a really nice teacher! i don't mind having him again for the intermediate courses. which reminds me, i need to go register for them soon, before all the available dates are taken up.
driving's been pretty okay, i think i just need to really brush up on my braking and my coordination. i don't feel comfortable with booking my driving test just yet though, even though one instructor told me to go ahead and do so. my most recent instructor told me to wait anyway! i think the earliest i'll be able to get my license will be in october. or late september if i'm lucky. wynne's going to have her driving test soon. i hope she passes on her first time, because that's going to do alot to make me feel less nervous about it. everytime i drive pass someone on their test i mentally wish them good luck! i'm hoping that accumulates good karma for me for my test, haha. no seriously, i really do hope they pass. because that also means less people booking lessons and test dates which would make it tons easier for me to actually get lessons.
anyway, worked with wynne the whole day yesterday! mr tan was really nice and agreed to our request to work together once for the month. time passes extra fast when i'm working with wynne. before you even realise it you're doing closing already. estrina took leave for the entire month! i hope her eye is better now. everyone's been getting eye infections and the like. must be the dusty shop.
speaking of eye infections, a few days ago my eye infection got worse because it actually started to hurt. so my mum and i went to this 24-hour clinic to get it looked at, and we paid $75 for about five minutes of consultation with the doctor, who shined a torch into my eye and prodded it a little before saying "you should go to a hospital". and he made it worse, because after that my entire eye turned really red, like a blood vessel had burst inside my eye or something. so after that my mum got worried, and took me to cgh's a&e. okay sidetracking a little, but if ever you have to go to a&e, DO NOT go to cgh. it's horrible. really. if you're dying when you go there, by the time you actually get to see a doctor i think you'd be dead already. we waited 3 whole hours before we finally decided to just go home and sleep. i know they sort patients according to priority and everything, but it's just really annoying being constantly pushed back in the queue. and when my mum went to ask if we could just leave, the doctor on duty gave her contradictory answers. she told my mum that patients were sorted according to whether whatever their affliction was urgent or not, so my mum asked if we could just go off since evidently they didn't think my eye infection was that serious. to which the doctor said "oh, i can only tell if it's serious or not after i do a check up on it." which is just dumb really, because if it really was a serious infection by the time they let me in to see her i'd probably be blind already.
okay sorry for the rant. anyway, i got urgent leave from work the next day and went straight to the specialist i always see. the whole consultation and payment took half an hour, and it cost way less than what the hospital would have (unfairly) charged. little wonder why cgh is always ranked bottom amongst all the hospitals. don't ever go there, if you can help it. this is why you need to be rich enough to afford private medical care. the public hospitals (okay maybe it's just cgh) suck.
anyway, while working with wynne yesterday we were talking about songs. it's really interesting how different people think of different things when they hear the same piece of music. some people think of colours and shapes and stuff like that. wynne says she associates music with places! i'm somewhat like that too i think, just that more often than not i think of a scenario rather than just a place. i'll add people and a story to the place i'm thinking of, if that actually makes sense. like if i'm listening to the script's the man who can't be moved, i think of a street corner. the kind you find in europe or something, complete with the cobblestone pavements and green and white street signs and all. there aren't any people for this song though. i'm not making sense again. never mind.
i know where my next paycheck is going anyway!! it's been a while since there've been new games i really want to get. but these three, i'm definitely getting.
anyway, the games!
aren't you just itching to get your hands on them after watching the videos? especially assassin's creed 2! hidden blades on BOTH hands. i wonder how we survived the first assassin's creed with just one. the only thing i don't really get is, why are all his fingers intact? i loved that altair in the first assassin's creed had to chop off his ring finger to make way for the hidden blade. adds a whole dimension of reality to the game. the new assassin (i couldn't catch his name) has all five fingers on both hands. splinter cell conviction looks amazing too. the mark and execute function i really want to try out as soon as possible, because it looks so awesome! sam fisher and altair are like my all-time favourite video game characters. and master chief too, but since i haven't been playing halo much at all my obsession for him has kind of subsided. but altair! and sam fisher! i love love love them. they're amazing.
and l4d 2 just looks AMAZING. the trailer is AMAZING. the fact that you get to use a chainsaw is frigging AWESOME. that split second the screen was black and you hear the revving of the chainsaw i really started grinning to myself in anticipation. reminds me of doom3 all over again hahaha. I CAN'T WAIT FOR ITS RELEASE. and to think i nearly missed this. i only went to look for it after wj told me about it. and i'm so glad i took time out to watch the trailer. it's exceptional. i don't care if you've never thought a video i posted was interesting enough to watch, but you have to have to have to watch at least the l4d one. it's THAT good. i do wish they'd kept the old characters though. i really like the old four survivors.
and there's still starcraft 2 and diablo 3 to look forward to. why are all the good stuff only coming out so late this year? ):
music: luv shine; wheesung
tune out the world ; 4:36 PM
usp hasn't told me anything, so i suppose the interview didn't sit too well with them. ): never mind! it'd be crazy trying to keep my grades good enough in order to be within the five selected for the double degree programme anyway. see, there's a silver lining in every cloud if you look hard enough. not that i'm not disappointed over not being selected, it's just that getting all upset over it isn't likely to help matters anyway. i'll just go ahead with japanese studies and make sure i get into the exchange programmes at least. those are easier to get into i think.
and i passed my elementary 2 test! even though i really didn't study much for the test because i was working consecutively the week leading up to the test and didn't have time, i still managed to pass it. 95/100 for the written portion, and 8/10 for the oral! okay, my oral was really a fluke because i got massive hints from the sekizawa sensei haha. he kept giving me meaningful looks and asking me to repeat my answers. he's a really nice teacher! i don't mind having him again for the intermediate courses. which reminds me, i need to go register for them soon, before all the available dates are taken up.
driving's been pretty okay, i think i just need to really brush up on my braking and my coordination. i don't feel comfortable with booking my driving test just yet though, even though one instructor told me to go ahead and do so. my most recent instructor told me to wait anyway! i think the earliest i'll be able to get my license will be in october. or late september if i'm lucky. wynne's going to have her driving test soon. i hope she passes on her first time, because that's going to do alot to make me feel less nervous about it. everytime i drive pass someone on their test i mentally wish them good luck! i'm hoping that accumulates good karma for me for my test, haha. no seriously, i really do hope they pass. because that also means less people booking lessons and test dates which would make it tons easier for me to actually get lessons.
anyway, worked with wynne the whole day yesterday! mr tan was really nice and agreed to our request to work together once for the month. time passes extra fast when i'm working with wynne. before you even realise it you're doing closing already. estrina took leave for the entire month! i hope her eye is better now. everyone's been getting eye infections and the like. must be the dusty shop.
speaking of eye infections, a few days ago my eye infection got worse because it actually started to hurt. so my mum and i went to this 24-hour clinic to get it looked at, and we paid $75 for about five minutes of consultation with the doctor, who shined a torch into my eye and prodded it a little before saying "you should go to a hospital". and he made it worse, because after that my entire eye turned really red, like a blood vessel had burst inside my eye or something. so after that my mum got worried, and took me to cgh's a&e. okay sidetracking a little, but if ever you have to go to a&e, DO NOT go to cgh. it's horrible. really. if you're dying when you go there, by the time you actually get to see a doctor i think you'd be dead already. we waited 3 whole hours before we finally decided to just go home and sleep. i know they sort patients according to priority and everything, but it's just really annoying being constantly pushed back in the queue. and when my mum went to ask if we could just leave, the doctor on duty gave her contradictory answers. she told my mum that patients were sorted according to whether whatever their affliction was urgent or not, so my mum asked if we could just go off since evidently they didn't think my eye infection was that serious. to which the doctor said "oh, i can only tell if it's serious or not after i do a check up on it." which is just dumb really, because if it really was a serious infection by the time they let me in to see her i'd probably be blind already.
okay sorry for the rant. anyway, i got urgent leave from work the next day and went straight to the specialist i always see. the whole consultation and payment took half an hour, and it cost way less than what the hospital would have (unfairly) charged. little wonder why cgh is always ranked bottom amongst all the hospitals. don't ever go there, if you can help it. this is why you need to be rich enough to afford private medical care. the public hospitals (okay maybe it's just cgh) suck.
anyway, while working with wynne yesterday we were talking about songs. it's really interesting how different people think of different things when they hear the same piece of music. some people think of colours and shapes and stuff like that. wynne says she associates music with places! i'm somewhat like that too i think, just that more often than not i think of a scenario rather than just a place. i'll add people and a story to the place i'm thinking of, if that actually makes sense. like if i'm listening to the script's the man who can't be moved, i think of a street corner. the kind you find in europe or something, complete with the cobblestone pavements and green and white street signs and all. there aren't any people for this song though. i'm not making sense again. never mind.
i know where my next paycheck is going anyway!! it's been a while since there've been new games i really want to get. but these three, i'm definitely getting.
anyway, the games!
aren't you just itching to get your hands on them after watching the videos? especially assassin's creed 2! hidden blades on BOTH hands. i wonder how we survived the first assassin's creed with just one. the only thing i don't really get is, why are all his fingers intact? i loved that altair in the first assassin's creed had to chop off his ring finger to make way for the hidden blade. adds a whole dimension of reality to the game. the new assassin (i couldn't catch his name) has all five fingers on both hands. splinter cell conviction looks amazing too. the mark and execute function i really want to try out as soon as possible, because it looks so awesome! sam fisher and altair are like my all-time favourite video game characters. and master chief too, but since i haven't been playing halo much at all my obsession for him has kind of subsided. but altair! and sam fisher! i love love love them. they're amazing.
and l4d 2 just looks AMAZING. the trailer is AMAZING. the fact that you get to use a chainsaw is frigging AWESOME. that split second the screen was black and you hear the revving of the chainsaw i really started grinning to myself in anticipation. reminds me of doom3 all over again hahaha. I CAN'T WAIT FOR ITS RELEASE. and to think i nearly missed this. i only went to look for it after wj told me about it. and i'm so glad i took time out to watch the trailer. it's exceptional. i don't care if you've never thought a video i posted was interesting enough to watch, but you have to have to have to watch at least the l4d one. it's THAT good. i do wish they'd kept the old characters though. i really like the old four survivors.
and there's still starcraft 2 and diablo 3 to look forward to. why are all the good stuff only coming out so late this year? ):
music: luv shine; wheesung
Labels: amusements, day-to-day, thoughts, xbox
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