My Idea Journal

NO LICKING!

2005-08-16T22:23:00.000+08:00

I wonder why the sudden interest in my love life... hmmm... a few people have been asking about me finding an other half... Does is matter to anyone if I DO have a boyfriend?

Well, after thinking for a few minutes... I have realized... I do not want a boyfriend because if I HAD wanted one... I would have came to Singapore with IN A RELATIONSHIP marked on my Friendster info. And I'll have plenty of sickeningly lovey dovey pictures and testimonials from XXX (I will not name him). I will not commit myself to anyone in Singapore because I NEVER planned to live here for long. I cannot commit myself to anyone in Malacca because I am so often not there... It won't be fair. If I had a boyfriend "for fun"... I might as well NOT have a boyfriend. I rather have boyfriends... So there...

Looking forward to the end of the semester... No more 8am classes... No more lectures... No more class... It's not that the lectures and classes are boring... It's just that... Just Because it is a lecture and class... It makes it so undesirable... wuahhaha...

And also coz I'm going crazy from a certain person. No I don't want to lick anything... And I don't care what you want to lick!!! Go AWAY!!!

Shheeehhh...

Yoko Sensei: Can you pass this to Joel and Aki? I will not see them.
Me: Iie... I cannot... Joel will be angry. He wants to see you.
Yoko Sensei: Demo I won't see them ne... Totemo troublesome desu ne...
Me: Don't worry, Joel will look for you. :D

He. He. He. Joel... Oh Joel... I have done you a big favour... Say thank you Danielle jie jie :P

I can just imagine ur adorable expression of mock horror when you read this. :P

Prawn Is Evil!

2005-01-23T15:47:00.000+08:00

Prawns have to one of the most delicious sea creature some people have ever tasted. People often tell me that I’m loosing out a lot in life by not eat prawns. Well, I beg to differ. For the benefit of all those people who think that I lost a little bit of life not eating prawns, you are very wrong. Those of you who adore prawns and eat prawns like there’s no tomorrow, you are the one losing life. Prawns are bad for you. It’s high in cholesterol and prawn eats fish poop!

Prawns may have certain nutrients which are beneficial to health, but it can be subsidized with plant products or other seafood. Not eating prawns is not a bad thing at all. In fact, not eating prawns have to be the healthiest thing to do. This way, when you discover your cholesterol level is high, you don’t have to kill yourself when you eat prawns or die of prawn craving.

So there I tell you, it is not essential to eat prawn in life. Prawns should be something you eat only if all the fish and squids in the world died. Prawns are like cigarettes. They can be addictive to the weak minded and can cause death in a long run. Stay Away From Prawns!

Bert Is Evil!

2005-01-23T13:07:00.000+08:00

I grew up watching Sesame Street. It must be the best educational programmes for any child to watch. Barney, Bananas In Pajamas, Hi-5, Teletubbies and all other children programmes cannot even be compared with Sesame Street. Sesame Street has taught me my ABCs and 1-2-3s. I learned many songs from watching it. Like the Sammy the worm song, and Sunny day..lalala.... I learn that cookies are delicious and I should eat my vegetables. I also learnt a bit of checkers watchign Bert and the pigeon play.

But after I started primary school, and stoppes watchign Sesame Streets, all the sweet memories of it were stashed away together with my "Monster At The End of The Book" book starring Grover the lovable monster.

When I was in Sec 3, McDonalds started giving away Sesame Street toys with their Happy Meals. The toys can also be bought for about $2 each. I started collecting them and ended up with the whole complete set. Then my love for Sesame Street was rekindled and i went online to search about my favourite characters again.

I typed Sesame Street into the Yahoo! search engine and I was greatly shocked by my findings.
the results that came out, some of them were exactly what I had expected. Sesame Street merchandise, the official site and so on. But there were other things together with those. Things i never thought of, that will never cross my mind.

That day, I found out, Elmo is a Transvestite, that's why he speaks like that. Bert is evil. i visited the sites. There were pictures of him holding guns. Killing other Sesame Street characters and also pornographic pictures of him. And I always thought that Bert and Ernie were the cutest housemate I've ever seen, but they are really gay! It's not brotherly between them. Cookie Monster has eating disorder and Big Bird, let's just say, he isn't what we thougt he was. There;s a darker side to Big Bird that no one can ever imagine.

So that got me thinking. Is Sesame Street a healthy programme for children to watch? Have I been wrong with my judgements all these while? Was I brought up by a TV programme that really has hidden messages that are subconsciously hypnotizing us to be out of the norm.
I need to research.

Food, Glorious Food!!!

2005-01-17T01:14:00.000+08:00

Chinese New Year is around the corner! And I will be going back to Malacca. Malacca is truly a food paradise. For those of you who haven’t been there, or been there but haven’t eaten there, shame on you!!!
Let me tell you of all the wonderful things you can eat in Malacca. First of, lets start with the stuff that tourist get conned to eat. There’s the “ball” chicken rice. Most tourists go to the shop near Jonker Street, beside the bridge, that’s a bad choice! Even thought they have been around for the longest time, they only used to be the best. They aren’t anymore. They are slacking really badly because they are so over-confident with themselves, they don’t care to provide the best quality. And they don’t need to try to give the best, because people will just blindly go back to them, just because they were the so called “original”. For better “ball” chicken rice, I would strongly suggest Heng chicken rice which is situated along Melaka Raya (it’s beside a Public Bank branch).
Then there is the very famous satay celup. The “best” one is the Capitol Satay Celup at Bukit China, where people start queuing up even before the shop opens for business. Personally I don’t know what the fuss is about as I can’t imagine myself eating out of a pot, shared by like at least 100 different person in a night, and they don’t clean the pots everyday. Imagine the amount saliva in it. There are many other satay celups around Malacca, so go around trying the others, the Capitol one isn’t necessarily the best.
Speaking of satay...mmm..hmmm… the must eat satay in Malacca is the Jonker Street satay. They have a few branches around Malacca and they all taste about the same. So, it’s quite convenient to go to the one nearest to your hotel. Most people would choose to stay at the Century Mahkota Hotel or Equatorial, so the closest to this would be the one in Melaka Raya, situated at the rows of shops just beside Mahkota Shopping Centre.
Lim Kee Bak Khut Teh is also another must eat in Malacca. It is situated somewhere near foot of Bukit Cina. This bak khut teh is nothing like what you’d ever taste in Singapore. The soup is made of various herbs and spices. It is very tasty, not like the average pepper water you taste in Singapore. Then after your scrumptious meal, you can always proceed next door to the main Tan Kim Hock store to stock up on authentic Malaccan dodol and other Malaccan made titbits.
Then you must definitely try the Mee Hun Kueh here. Unlike those in Singapore, the flour is actually handmade and tasty! Because it isn’t cut into neat square piece by machines, there is a very nice texture to it and very pleasant to chew. Great mee hun kueh stalls in Malacca are not very easily accessible to tourists. There is one near Jonker Street, its on a little side road in a little coffee shop. Another good one quite far from town in a food court in Bukit Beruang. I could name more, probably write a whole thesis on mee hun kueh stalls in Malacca, but not in here.
There are also very famous yong tau fu in Malacca. The most renowned one would be the one behind the old Federal Theater. It maybe expensive but never go after 12, because by then, there would only be scraps of tau kees left. There is also a really tasty Ampang yong tau fu in Malim, which is too far away form town. But it’s worth the journey because the food is great and the hawker is so friendly, you’d feel right at home.
Malacca is also famous for Nyonya food. The best ones are situated all along Melaka Raya and are very easy to find. The old favourites used to be Nyonya Makko and Ole Sayang, but since Bibik Neo opened, the competition got even stronger.
Wow, I think I need to find a narrower subject to focus on. I can’t keep on writing like that. Well, till my next entry. Happy drooling at my blog!

New Eye-dea

2005-01-14T01:20:00.000+08:00

In my Social Psychology textbook, I read something about communications through the eyes. It turns out that, we communicate so much daily with our eyes and they are so many meanings to every little gesture we make with our eyes. Maybe I’m just a little slow at discovering this but since I discovered it, I find it extremely interesting. I was kind of wide eyed when I read it. It says in the book that if we are excited, our pupils actually dilate and probably when you are giving someone the steely stare, your pupils will shrink. They also said that avoiding eye contact doesn’t always mean that you don’t like a person. I’m sure you realize, couples usually kiss with their eyes close. But maybe this is just so they are not staring directly at the zit on their partner’s forehead, which can be a really big turn off if you ask me. And looking at someone for a long period of time does not always mean adoration. For example, two ah bengs from different clans are glaring at each other. This does not mean they are in love or are admiring the golden hair the other has. Even if one is admiring the other’s golden hair, it usually ends in a fight because it is unethical to an ah beng for someone to stare at them, especially un-chio girls and other boys.

Then again, I started wondering, is this all the same for a blind person? Can their pupils actually enlarge and shrink? I have not been face to face with a blind person before, so now I’m wondering, do blind people roll their eyes when they are being sarcastic? Is it possible to see a blind person’s expression through their eyes? In movies, blind people are often portrayed as glassy eyed people. They only look into the distance and don’t seem to be looking at anything at all. There is never much focus on their eye and expression. So it would be a challenge for me to go find out about this.

Hey Mr DJ, I Wanna Be Just Like You!!!

2005-01-06T01:53:00.000+08:00

Joseph Hahn is someone I am proud to call my idol. He can be a role model for all Asian teenagers who are interested in the media industry. I said media instead of music because, even though he is a musician and turn tablist for Nu Metal band Linkin Park, he is also their video director. There are also sources citing that he will be directing a movie next. If we take a closer look at the music industry today, I doubt we can actually see any Asian artist actually making any big splash anywhere in the English music scene. William Hung is a "legend" and Tata Young is only a trend, but Joe Hahn is different. In his 3 years of career in the music industry, he has already directed 9 music videos and won a number of awards for the videos he directed and co-directed. So what if he needed a few "ang-moh" band members to help him make the band, he still made it big. Not only that, he has been doing special effects for certain movies, drawing monsters for others. He is what I like to call multi-talented.
Why is he a good role model for Asian teenagers? First off, i think he has a relatively clean record. So far, I doubt there has ever been any reports on him getting in trouble with the law. Second off, he's Korean, which makes him Asian! So if he can do it, why can't we?! Before Linkin Park, I never thought an Asian could ever make it in the English music industry. Then there's his multi-talents. He is a DJ, a video director, he did comic art, he co-designed an album cover...the list goes on. How many people can actually do so many different things, and achieve close to excellence in all of them?
I think he's a genius in his own trade.

How Much Is That Doggy At The Window?

2005-01-06T01:40:00.000+08:00

I have a Shih Tzu at home. It is adorable, and also very interesting. I bought a book along time ago. It suppose to be an all-I-need-to-know book about Shih Tzus. So far, it has been of little help, as it turns out, my shih tzu is not like all regular shih tzus. She's a special breed of best friend. There are so many things about a shih tzu that is interesting to know, their origins, characteristics, etc. There are also so many things you can do with your shih tzu. Like many normal dogs, you can play fetch. Hide and seek is also a good game to play. It may not know how to count, but it sure knows how to find you. On a cold and rainy day, you can always cuddle up with the fluffy shih tzu in front of the tv to watch your favourite chick flick or horror movie, though the sound effects or voices of squeeling teenage girls might drive your shih tzu into a mad fit. Grooming and training your shih tzu can help you to bond with it. The shih tzu will know the difference between the person who like to torture it and the person who feeds it. It is also very relaxing to just sit back and watch you shih tzu playing on it's own, be it chasing a ball on its own, or tossing a little peanut around. Life would really be more meaningful having such an adorable dog like a Shih Tzu at home. It is a dog that some may call useless, because it is merely small, cute and fluffy, but it is also a very entertaining dog. You have no idea how much joy a little mop like a Shih Tzu can bring to your life.

London!

2004-12-31T01:41:00.000+08:00

I went to the UK when I was 16. We spent almost a week in London and visited many interesting places too. We went to the Natural History Museum and saw this dinosaur exhibition. There was this dinosaur which was tall and had such short hands; it could have never enjoyed KFC if it had lived till today because it could not lick its fingers.
Then we went to Hyde Park, which is HUUUUUUGEEE! There were many trees, squirrels, flowers and a nice big pond. So much beautiful nature in a big city.
Next we hopped onto one of those famous red double-deckers and toured the city. Passing most of the places you see on the monopoly board like Piccadilly, Park Lane, Mayfair, Leicester Square, and many, many more! It was exciting to me as when I played the game, I never thought that such places existed!
We also went to Harrods, the departmental store owned by Mohamed Al-Fayed. On the surface, it was a posh shopping centre with ridiculously priced items. But I watched a documentary once called “Harrods’ Secrets” Wow! There were so many other interesting things other than the bombastic numbers on the price tags. It seems that the Sphinx and other sculptures that decorates the Harrods’ interiors are models of Mohamed Al-Fayed’s face. There is also a pillar with his children’s handprints mould into it. There are still old fashioned toilets in Harrods from the when it was first built and they keep an eagle on the roof top to scare pigeons away.
London is a beautiful place to visit. There are so many things to discover. Maybe I can write a piece on London to help those people who cannot afford to fly there, to enjoy London from the comfort of home. I could highlight only the major attractions there so that it would be a more intriguing read.

Music Videos Killed My Beauty Sleep.

2004-12-30T22:43:00.000+08:00

I have been spending so many sleepless nights watching music videos on Yahoo! Launch.
Music videos play a big part in making the music work to me. Some songs are just, not much of a humdinger without these excellent videos enhancing them. In other instances, if the band just can’t sing or make music, all they need are a few drop dead gorgeous members for silly little teenage girls or slobbery men to swoon at them. With these eye candies, anything would be music to the ears, or perhaps these people are deafened by beauty.

Music videos also gives FSV graduates like me dreams. I never knew what I wanted to do after my O'levels. Then one day when I was watching Joe Hahn from Linkin Park doing his stuff on the turntable, I thought, "I wanna be just like him!" Then suddenly, the song titles came on, with the band name, composer and director of the video's name displayed below it. WhenI saw the name Joe Hahn, I thought, "That could be my name! I just have to have dreams and work my way to it!"

So back to staying up with Music Videos as my drug, I started wondering, who was the genius who thought, “Oh, what if I put the music on a video, so people can listen to music and watch their favourite artists at the same time?” I’d like to find out more about this person. It would be interesting to know what drove this person to do such a thing. Who was the first artist to have a music video and what was the video about, how it differs from the music videos we have today?

My, won’t this be a fun thing to research about.

An MC A Day Keeps The Doctors Paid.

2004-12-24T01:16:00.000+08:00

I had to be absent from certain classes this week due to events happening at home. First, my parents were moving and therefore I had to go back to my hometown to help them. Next, I have to skip one class to attend a family member’s wedding ceremony.
These events may seem unimportant to some people, but to a very traditional and family-oriented grandmother like mine, missing such events would consider you being not filial and disrespectful. So because I just cannot miss these family events, I had to miss a few classes.
I spoke to my advisor about my reason for not coming to class and I was told that unless I am sick with a Medical Certificate, I have no valid reason to skip school. In my opinion if that’s the case, then a Medical Certificate should not even be a valid reason to miss school unless you are admitted in the hospital.
This is because some people are not even sick and they go to polyclinics to “buy” MCs so they can skip school. This maybe wrong, but it happens. So if an MC is a “valid” excuse to miss school, I feel that some other reasons should also be accepted like major family events and other personal issues that make it really inconvenient for a student to go to school.
Sometimes things just happen and we just can’t go to school. Not every student can afford to go out and buy an MC so it would be very unfair for them to be blacklisted for their misfortune.
So, MCs should not be the only reason to miss class.
Why can’t other reasons be accepted?
Maybe the school’s policies on absenteeism should be revised.
What brought them to this conclusion in the first place?
Why are they so harsh about it and wont give any allowance?

Thy lecturer shalt always be, aye? Nay!

2004-12-22T18:15:00.000+08:00

Just last week, a classmate of mine, X, did not bring his textbook to a certain tutorial. He was then asked to write his name and leave the classroom. I feel that what the lecturer has done is wrong. She said that the textbook was essential in this tutorial (but we barely looked at it), and it was her ground rule that if you do not bring the textbook, you cannot attend the class. This is very unfair in my opinion. It has not only hurt X’s self-esteem to be shamed like that in front of the whole class, but it is a very childish punishment that should be bestowed upon a primary school child, not a polytechnic student.
We pay a great deal amount of school fees to be schooled here and I feel that missing a class is wasting our parents’ money. X did not bring his book but had a valid excuse. His excuse, however, was not taken into consideration. It was also only the second tutorial, so a warning should suffice, and action should only be taken the second time round.
In fact, I believe polytechnic students should not even be punished for mistakes such as this one. We should be treated like grown ups that are responsible for our own action. If a student should choose not to pay attention in class, a lecturer should not reprimand him/her because as a young adult, the student is responsible of his/her own action. The student can choose to waste his/her parents money by paying fees but not bothering to learn and that is entirely his/her own business. I may be contradicting what I said in the paragraph above about wasting our parents money but the student can choose to waste his/her parents money. A lecturer should never be responsible for wasting parent's money, because parents pay fees to pay the school to pay lecturers! At the end of the day, you can fail the student for poor results but the student should never be sent away and marked absent for something as minor as forgetting a textbook. The lecturer should only take action if the student who is not paying attention is disrupting the class causing commotions. If the student is just seated alone not affecting the class, he should be left alone as it is the student’s choice not to learn. In the end of the day, s/he will suffer the consequences.
So after babbling on so much, what am I getting on to?
I only want to know, what exactly are lecturers thinking?
Some go as far as asking us to call them by their given names, instead of Mr.T or Mrs.P , chatting with us as if they are our peers, making friends with us. Others are so strict, showing us they are seemingly a class higher than us student. I find that for today’s society, the I-Lecturer You-Student mentality is all wrong and not working anymore. Students do not necessarily, respect lecturers who have this kind of mentality. Students learn better and respect lecturers much more when lecturers put themselves at our level to understand us.
Lecturers should threat students in tertiary education like young adults instead of primary school children.
Lecturers should show respect to their students first if they expect the student to respect them.
Students are much more willing to respect and learn from a lecturer who approaches them as a lecturer-friend rather than a lecturer-superior.
These are possible thesis statements, right?
Or am I going to be expelled for writing this?

Are You A Slave to Fashion?

2004-12-16T01:19:00.000+08:00

Today, I was brainstorming with my IAC classmates. We had some pretty interesting ideas, but there’s one particular idea I wanted to steal. Then we decided to use that idea. So I’m thinking that, if I use this topic for my thesis, I wouldn’t have to do as much research on my own. But will this be unfair to my group members? Maybe if I have their permission to use some of our research materials, then it won’t be a wrong thing to do, right? I hope so.
Anyway, the topic is fashion. Yeah, the statement should go something like: Are teenagers slave to trends?
I could cover sub-topics like; how the fashion world evolved, what influences a teenager’s dressing, how much a teenager spends buying clothes on average per month, so on and so forth.
This would definitely be something I would enjoy writing about and if I write it good enough, people would definitely want to read it even if they aren’t the most fashionable person around.. This is merely because we are all slaves to fashion. Everyone wants to look good, whether they admit it or not. The world is vain.
Hmmm…..

Smells Like Human B.O.

2004-12-16T01:17:00.000+08:00

Some time ago, I did a piece of descriptive writing entitled “Perfume”. Since I said descriptive writing, you’d get the idea that it is hardly a factual essay. So you’d be expecting a story about a girl getting a bottle of perfume from her boyfriend, or how a little boy misses the smell of his dead mummy’s perfume. But actually, my essay wasn’t on “perfume” at all. Okay, it is some form of scent, but you’d hardly call it “perfume”.
Right, so my story was about body odour. Yeah, body odour. “Yuck”, you say?
Actually, I keep hearing that, humans are attracted to other humans first and foremost by their scents, but it is unconscious to the mind.
I think that this is a really interesting discovery. I mean, who would have thought we civilized homo-sapiens, would ever be attracted to natural scents emitted by the human body. In my opinion, any form of scent emitting from the human body, if it isn’t fart, it is body odour. Eek! We humans are attracted to B.O.! Gets me feeling like an ape.
So let’s go back to my story. It was about this girl who was attracted to her boyfriend’s scent, not cologne, mind you. When they broke up, she was devastated and she smelled that scent everywhere. It was driving her to the brink of insanity. She killed herself in the end.
If this is my thesis topic, I would like to find out, just how true this theory about the human scent is, and would my story ever come true, though I hope it wouldn’t. But there are so many possibilities in life.

Bite Me!

2004-12-08T23:00:00.000+08:00

Okay, this should be a wee bit more serious...
I have always had this fascination about vampires. I don’t quite know why, but I’m really drawn to them. I was thinking about writing a piece on them, but what am I supposed to write about? The whole vampire scope is far too wide and there aren’t many reliable sources about them. This is because they are supposed to be “supernatural” and therefore have no hard facts to support this topic, scientifically. So “facts” about vampires are usually handed down from generations to generations since the beginning of time from grandparents to children just to get them peeing in their pants at night because they have been “naughty” or “disobedient”.

People from different countries and cultures might have their own definition of what makes a vampire. For instance, a Chinese vampire is usually the one you see in dynasty dramas. They are those pale faced human looking “thing” wearing court clothes with the Chinese hat and a feather stuck in it, hopping around landing on both legs with their hands held out parallel to the ground in front of them. They suck blood, like what almost everyone expects vampires to do but they are relatively easy to stop. Just stick a talisman on their forehead and they would stop like an Energizer Bunny with zero amount of energy left. But let us not be fooled. Like how Chinese humans have traded in Chinese traditional costumes for Western get ups like trench coats ala the Matrix and jeans, our Chinese vampires have also evolved and westernized. Now they look like western vampires. They wear trench coats ala the Matrix and jeans.

Now, just how do Western vampires look like? Well... I'm not quite sure. I used to think they were all porcelain skinned, all beautiful and mesmerizing like in Queen of The Damned or Interview With The Vampire, until I saw Nosferatu. I had to really rething alot about how much I liked vampires after i watched Nosferatu.

Vampires, nice. This could be a great topic. So I shouldn't blabber on too much here and go do some research about them. Hopefully, I'll get to do my thesis on them... YAY! I could write about all the different species of vampires from all the different cultures. Cool....

LifeStyle of the Rich and Famous... Maybe We Should Rob Them.

2004-12-08T22:10:00.000+08:00

So we were told in the first day of class that we had to get this "Idea Journal" for class. Either write it in a plain boring "so yesterday" paperback book or we can, WOW, blog it! (So in!) Lecturers are so cool these days, huh? And school is making us so Tech savvy. Wow... amazing stuff. So anyway, this journal is supposed to help us get ideas for some thesis we have to write, interesting... We can do any topic we want... Interesting...
So then I was paying full attention to my lecturer, trying to make up for being late.

"Hmm..." I thought, "Maybe I should do one about tardiness among Poly students..."

Then again, could there be a topic more boring than that? I don't think so.
So I put on my thinking cap again.

"Maybe I could write a piece about a hamster my boyfriend gave to me..."

Oh, such a bad idea because then I would have to do a research, like what they did for Finding Nemo. No, I don't have to go diving, but I do have to go find a boyfriend and make him buy me a hamster. So no, too much trouble.

So I think I'm going to write about Bon Jovi, because they ROCK!
But suddenly, I hear Mr.Wong's voice echoing in my ears... "Go away..... Go away...."
Eerie...

I guess for now, I'd like to write about Rock Culture. Write about rockstars like Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Rolling Stones, etc. I could write about their lifestyles. Are their lives really as cool as it seems? What are the things they go through? How did they get where they are today?
Yeah, I guess that's a thought.