Happy 25th Birthday!

Thanks to all those that remembered and wished me happy birthday. Love you guys!

Even bigger thanks to those that gave me something.

And without further ado, I present my presents. (Yes, I know I'm going to pun hell for that)


New Bag

Cupcakes. I can't bare to eat them. They're too pretty.

Soccer ball + Boots cupcake

Different angle

Liverpool cupcake

Liverpool European Cups sneakers

Note the 5 stars, each one for the each cup we won.

I can't bear to wear these either.. Too pretty.

Knights who say "Ni!"

T-shirt!

Happy me!

Tired

Beach volleyball then floorball.. Gah, I'm tired.

Wonders of makeup...

Before



After

I love to brag

You Scored an A

You got 10/10 questions correct. It's pretty obvious that you don't make basic grammatical errors. If anything, you're annoyed when people make simple mistakes on their blogs. As far as people with bad grammar go, you know they're only human. And it's humanity and its current condition that truly disturb you sometimes.

The It's Its There Their They're Quiz

Rainy day

The corridor outside my office will henceforth be christianed as Boulevard of Drying Umbrellas.

NERD!

Super Sunday

Crazy Sunday filled with fun.

Beach volleyball was a blast as usual. Think I'm finally getting slightly better. Maybe the new shades helped. :P

But I guess the highlight of the day was a floorball session. It was going to be my first time playing and I guess I was rather looking forward to it. A totally new game to play! Yay~!

I ended up, whacked on the knuckles by a stick, kicked in the quadriceps by someone, and stepped on my big right toe which reopened a new wound.

And I can't wait for the next session!

Pasir Ris to Boon Lay

Guess that for a blog entitled Life on One Wheel, I haven't really shown my life on one wheel. Guess that means I need to get off my sorry arse to blog about unicycling once in a while. It's not that unicycling is not fun, just that I tend to be too tired to blog about what I did after I have completed it.

Case in point: Pasir Ris to Boon Lay, an overnight ride I just completed this morning. We started at Pasir Ris MRT and set off at about 10.30pm. Cue crazed pedalling and madcap cycling, we managed to reach Boon Lay at 5am in the morning. Surprisingly, under then feeling extremely sleepy, I haven't really felt any ill effects of said ride. Total distance travelled > about 37 km.

Shouts out to JH, that crazy bitch actually did it on a 20" unicycle.
Felix and Minzhi for their virgin ride and actually completing it.
Aijia for bravely soldiering on.

Let's do this soon again!

New sunglasses

Oakley Livestrong Radar

So happy~ I'm starting to get an inkling of why girls like to buy stuff so much.

Big hole in my wallet though... :(

Never thought I would be this!

Your Score: Exclamation point

You scored 61% Sociability and 41% Sophistication!

Yes, you are fine around others. Fine. But you wish you could have just a *little* more alone time. Okay, well, a lot more alone time. In fact, you'd be happier if you didn't have to go out nearly as much. You get along very well with the period, who tries mightily to take up as much of the load as he can. But fools will not listen. You want to scream, "Cut it out, for the love of Safire!"

But, all of that notwithstanding, you do your duty. And, if sometimes you feel like a Chicago street hooker, you also remember that you really do have an important role to play. Your soul remains pure. Hold your head high!

Link: The Which Punctuation Mark Are You Test written by Gazda on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Hairspray

At it's heart, Hairspray is truly a feel good movie. Set in the 1960s, it's a musical that gets your feet tapping and your body grooving. I mean, seriously, who can resist good old 60's music (heres looking at your emo-punks, death metalists and hip-hoppers).

Portraying the fight of a young, short and rather stout girl, as she fights to dance in on a TV show, while at the same time championing the rights of African Americans. She eventually wins the day and gets her man. (Honestly, don't most stories end like that anyway?) Thus, at heart it's a feel good movie about a girl, rising against all odds to save the day.

But looking deeper and you realize that it was more then that. It was about not being afraid to be different. It was about daring to stand up for your rights as a human being. It was about equality among men and women.

Even then you could see some of the differences in thinking about then and now. In one scene, they were protesting against segregation and they held up ply-boards that read "Integration not segregation" and "TV is black and white".

I would like to point to the phrase "TV is black and white". I mean even the African Americans then were calling themselves black. They were in fact promoting the segregation by stating quite clearly that there is a difference. Compare this with the current situation, where people are increasingly working towards being color blind. We are Singaporeans. Not Chinese, Malay or Indian. In America, they are Americans, not black, whites or yellow. Even this segregation along international lines might be blurred in the future with the increasingly globalization of the planet.

Irrelevant aside:

Friend A : Why did they have to have John Travolta in there?!

Me : Probably to have a throw back to his days in Saturday Night Fever and the disco era

Friend A : Well, yah. But did he have to be that fat?!

Me : Well someone had to pass the genes to the daughter. The dad was too thin for that.

Friend A : Ok, I give you that, but why couldn't he have been cast as the father?!

Me : ...

Answers on the back of a hairspray bottle. :P

Han Shot First

Warning! For Star Wars geeks only.

Was read Star Wars: Legacy of the Force by Aaron Allston (why do so many people have names that practice alliteration?!) and came across this interesting easter egg.

On page 232, line 4, was this gem

"He's fine," Leia said. "Han shot first."

If you don't understand that, then you're not a Star Wars fan.

CUNT

I have truly experienced what it means to have xiao li chang dao (literaly translated from Chinese to daggers within smiles).

I hope that lying backstabbing cunt of a whore rots in Hell.

I'm that good?

I AM
64%
OPTIMUS PRIMETake the Transformers Quiz

Irrelevance 101

I was drinking 100 Plus after a particularly strenuous session of unicycle hockey when I burped.

It wasn't one of those long and satisfying burps, but rather one that was punctuated with numerous short (for lack of a better word), silence.

And then I realized that it sounded like the the mechanical sounds that Transformers make when they transform!

Subsequent attempts to reproduce said effect amounted to failure.

I love this house

It looks amazing. Minimalistic. Simple

I want one!

Murphy's Law

What can go wrong will go wrong..

Hur hur hur

I need more sleep

Some how I find myself with a lot less sleep these days.

Case in point. Last Friday night (well morning if you want to be pedantic), I slept at 5.30am, woke up at 6.30am and went to run my IPPT at 7.30am.

AND I STILL PASSED! WOO~!

Come to think of it, I should have spent the last 5 minutes taking a nap instead of blogging. Damm.

Japan vs Korea

Darwin's Nightmare

Darwin's Nightmare is a documentary. And like all documentaries, it is out to shock and educated the viewers on a certain issue. The issue in this case is on the introduction of the Nile Perch into Lake Victoria, Tanzania. The title refers to how the Nile Perch then raised to the top of the ecological food chain in the lake, causing it to become an ecological wasteland.

The issue being discussed is an important one. It opened my eyes to the many effects, both direct and indirect that was caused by the Nile Perch. However, this is where the documentary goes off the boil. Simply put, it travelled in every direction possible from there. There wasn't a focus to it. Compare this with "An Inconvenient Truth" which talks about global warming and "Born into Brothels" which focused on the situation in the red light district of Culcutta.

This documentary went on to explore issues such as the influx of European nations which wanted the highly prized fish but also at the same time bringing in weapons to increase their profits. It shows the poverty of the fishermen of the lake and how the survive on fish bones and heads while the good meat is exported. It shows the homeless kids having to make their own living and turning to drugs to get by. It was just trying to do too much at one time.

I loved the issues it raise and how it opened my eyes to it, but yet at the same time was underwhelmed by the many issues raised, unable to get a clear connection with each problem, before I was thrown into the next before being pulled back.