December 2008
50 posts
“Jo, a chinchilla is a rodent. Not a dog. What the fuck is wrong with you? First...”
– Josh
Yes, I do question my intellect too.
No test runs
Rave: Give me a morning call tomorrow.
Josh: Okay.No problem
Rave: And please, no test runs at 3 in the morning.
Josh: (laughs) Okay okay.
Ho ho ho
For the time being, I will be writing from here. I think it’s been awhile since I’ve done some proper writing.
Merry Christmas and I hope you’re having a ball, because I know I am.
Movies I need to watch
1. Shawshank Redemption (I owe this to Mo)
2. Malcolm X ( Mo again)
3. Farenheit 451 (because it’s been a long time since I last watched it)
4. The Talented Mr. Ripley (same as the above reason)
5. The Goddess of 1967 (Because Myanmar says it’s a good movie and I trust his taste)
6. Children of Heaven (I’ve heard so much about it but never quite got a around to watch it)
7....
the sickeningly sweet life
high excitement for the jaded nerves.
surfeited.
where do i go from here?
how can this be?
somehow, my version of tender is the night has the first and second book interchanged.
how can this be?
now i have to reprocess everything i’ve just read in reverse order.
how can this be?
I got the place i got the place i got the place in st. john’s.
which also means i’m completely broke.
i wanna go as far away as possible from...
no i don’t want to come back for winter, if possible.
it’s too soon to leave in february and come home in june.
that’s comfort. that’s familiarity.
i’m not going to be able to grow like that.
no, i don’t want to come back for winter. it’s not that i don’t want to see Daddy, i just don’t want to create a dependcy towards coming home, and...
“L.H.C does not directly affect people.
Scientific knowledge has brought changes...”
– That Japanese Nobel Laureate whose name I cannot recall
what have I been doing?
the books that were begging to be read are still begging to be read.
Dear Santa
Apart from the few misdemeanour this year, I must say I’ve been rather good. Here’s the list of things I would like to find under my tree this year:
1. Fahrenheit 451 (The 1966 movie with Oskar Werner and Julie Christie in it)
2. BlowUp (The 1966 movie by Michelangelo Antonioni)
3. Collected Stories: D.H Lawrence
4. Lolita (Both the 1962 and 1997 movie)
6. Anna Karenina (Both the...
“You know for the summary of personal assets you own, you should write charm and...”
– CC, advising me on how to fill up my scholarship application form.
like magnet
I don’t know what it is,
but I know I want to see you I want to see you I want to see you again.
“You think abs are hot? Okay, now I’m motivated to work out even more.”
– CC
the older he gets, the vainer he becomes
“Oh don’t worry. Things will work out for you. You fulfill the Caucasian...”
– CC
The rubbish-talker and my soon-to-be partner in crime once I arrive in Sydney
an option
Me: So, she's your gf?
CC: No, she's not.
Me: Then?
CC: She's an option.
Me: What do you mean?
CC: She's an option that has yet to be utilized. When I need her, I'll exercise my option. It's nice to have an option you know.
“She’s not as hot as her dad. Her dad is the director of DPS and has a...”
– CC
who’s in it for the money and not for love.
“Over and over and over again, I will tell you Japanese porn is the bomb.”
– Blue
I see a patent
CC: So, who is it now? Mr. Cambridge, Mr. Morgan Stanley, Mr. Financial Analyst or Mr. Big House?
Me: Shut up.
CC: I see a patern.
Me: Shut up.
staring into the screen during the early hours of the morning has become a modus vivendi.
oh transgenders scare the shit out of me
somebody left a comment on my flickr, on one of the transgender pictures i took. out of curiousity, innocent curiousity i must say, i clicked on the username to see the owner’s collection of pictures, only to be bombarded by the most disturbing images ever.
no, it was not gay porn or animal porn, it was transvestite porn.
it’s just wrong/unnatural/repulsive to see a really pretty...
“I’ll see you somewhere, somehow.”
– R
How very mysterious of him.
“I like your bling. It’s big but you carry it very well. I couldn’t...”
– R
i demand a rebate on my sleep
JAN
it’s all your fault. i was gonna go back to sleep and then the next thing i know i’m wasting 15 minutes of my shut-eye time to give you a full explanation why i want to live in st john’s for the next three years.
bloody hell.
and i know you’re not sorry, ‘cause if you were, you wouldn’t have called at 11 in the morning. nobody wakes up at 11 except for...
from uni to accommodation (to boys)
call me paranoid, but the truth is you need a plan, a contingency plan and a contingency plan for your contingency plan, and lastly, you still need a final plan should all else fails.
basically, you need plan A, plan B, plan C and plan D.
one more adventure.
i have caught the traveling bug.
i was thinking of returning to thailand before leaving for uni, but with the blockade they recently caused in the airport, the ongoing protests and the onset of their election, Daddy would go beserk over that idea.
i need a plan B.
Sasha: *nonchalantly* I do not experience sexual tension. I do not have the need.
Everyone: *very very surprised* What?
Mac: You're weird. I'm not talking to you anymore.
apart from handbags, i have a fixation for good... →
You know you're an ungrateful bitch
when you realize that your Morrocan friend who studies in Paris has to work four jobs in order to pay the rent.
ah the smell of genuine leather.
today i bought one jimmy choo without a button, one vintage louis fontaine, one louis quatorze missing one button too and one YSL with a replacement zipper, all these for rm 90.
i heart junkyard sales. i heart them.
on the contrary, i hate hate hate hate truth or dare games. i had to snog a girl, which was alright considering i’ve done it before, but then i had to the whole britney spears...
Today's lesson in euphemism
1. “I’m sure when he looks in the mirror he will regret the way he looks.”
means
“He’s so ugly, even he himself can’t take it.”
2. “You are an irritating specimen.”
means
“You annyoing bitch.”
3. “You think with his specs he can see Mars?”
means
“He has very big glasses.”
“You have a stomach ache? I think it’s because you’re excited about...”
– Mum, being subtlely sarcastic about my choice of accommodation.
Correction: I just learned from Wikipedia that all nouns and noun-like words in that language are capitalized, and not because the heart is special.
“Kuss: Preisgabe des Herzens wenn es nicht mehr allein ist.”
– the little message i found in my chocolate today.
I wonder why H is capitalized. Maybe because every heart, like a personal name, is unique in itself.
you know you don't have a life
when you start rejoicing over the rector’s email.
'tis the season
i really should start putting up the christmas tree. i have yet to do any christmas shopping.
christmas is delayed this year in the Tan household.
My head was spinning wild this afternoon, like how it does when I imbibe more than what is considered innocuous.
I am pretty convinced it was the result of two tablespoon worth of cough mixture.
Where do I begin? →
My head seems to be rocking back and forth, when in fact I’m sitting still in front of my laptop. Could it be the cough mixture that I took or was it the extra pill for running nose?
“May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the...”
– said with much sincerity by the Irish Bishop
Even though this happens to be a famous Irish blessing, they are the most beautiful words anyone has ever said to me.
This post is meant for the potato eater
Actually you can do just as much with rice as you can do with potatoes. You can fry your rice Chinese style, or Thai style, or you can steam plain rice and have it with other dishes, you can put it in your soup, you can have glutinous rice with durian, you can have glutinous rice with pork and mushroom (which is oh so heavenly, it’s called Loh Mai Kai), you can cook it with ginger and...
I'm only one sheet in the wind, not three
I was watching one of those pub-crawl/travelogue television series called Three Sheets two hours ago and now I’m craving Schnapps.
While watching the show, I noticed that the roast chicken they served during Oktoberfest looked really good. So for tomorrow, I have decided to have roast chicken for lunch.
At the end of the show, the host Zane Lamprey said that sausage skins are made out of...
“Some things you don’t have to try in order to know.”
– Jan on turning gay.
November 2008
26 posts
“By the way, what do you do apart from traveling, photographing and partying?”
– Myanmar
I’m painted in such a decadent light. Well, if you should know, I write, read and go for plays and film festivals. I think too.
The most cantankerous award for 2008 goes to
*drum roll*
DADDY!!!!!!
I don’t know anybody else who would find fault over brakes.
“In actuality, you do not like rich guys. You like cultured, refined, artistic...”
– :-)