Beauty In Simplicity

Friday, March 27, 2009

MOVIES

DEPARTURES definitely deserves the award for BEST FOREIGN FILM. excellent storyline which shows the art of embalming* a body in Japan. very touching and heartwarming show with a touch of humour in between. really enjoyed it very much and i totally have great respect for the profession now.

* the art and science of temporarily preserving human remains to forestall decomposition and to make them suitable for display at a funeral.

cool twist at the end of the show, but the horror scenes were very very predictable. wasn't as scary as 4bia or shutter. but i thought the storyline was rather cool overall.

Monday, March 23, 2009

KIDS KIDS AND MORE KIDS

okay here is the thing. i am totally addicted to jon and kate plus 8 now. those who have watched it must have realized how difficult it is for both jon and kate to raise 8 kids. all the laundry kate has to do, the meals she has to cook for them, the noise they have to tolerate.... its really not easy as it takes alott of patience and skills to not only raise 8 kids, but also ensure that every kid recieves equal amount of love and affectionate from both parents. parents on the other hand must also make sure that every kid is brought up the right way and that every child has a normal and happy childhood .

then there was the huge commotion of Nadya Suleman. Nadya went for a total of 6 IVF treatments since 2001 and resulted in four single births and 1 set of twins. She then went on to have another IVF treatment, this time implanting 6 embryos all at once! and her reason was because she did not want the 6 embryos which was left over from her previous IVF treatment to be destroyed. totally riduculous right? so the 6 embryos were implanted and two of the embryos split into twins, resulting in a total of eight embryos. In january 2009, Nadya gave birth to octuplets, making them the second full set of octuplets to be born alive in the United States.

yup so that left her with a total of 14 kids! all under the age of 7!! to make matters worse, shes a single mum, unemployed, living in her parents house, and living on the benefits she receives from the government. 14 kids leh!! imagine the amount of money she has to set aside per year for food, clothes, education and medical bills. it totals to a million dollars per year. and how is she as a single woman able to provide all 14 of her kids with adequate love and be there for every single one of them. have she ever taught of the consequences before she even went to attempt for her 6th pregnancy. super irresponsible woman. she even set up a website so that people could donate money for her kids. she was also hoping that they would film a reality show on her family (like jon and kate). luckily nobody wanted to do a series for her. thank god. just search her name on youtube and you can find all the interviews about her. see how she defends herself. totally outrageous

but thats not all, recently discovery home and health is showing a new reality show 18 kids and counting. dun think i need further explanation. yup, this couple has 18 kids. believe it or not. haven't start watching the show yet, but from what i know the family is quite well off. the house they live in is huge. just their living room is 2000sq feet! and the kids range from 21 to 1 year old. their situation is thousand times much better then nadya suleman.

18 kids and counting (the gosselin kids are still cuter )

this make me wonder, are there any more families in US with more than 18 kids??

Sunday, March 22, 2009

THE STORY OF TATTY TEDDY (ME TO YOU BEAR)

click on the link and turn the pages at the corner of the book (:

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

THANK YOU

i'm so grateful for my parents and words can't describe how much i love them. i never once told them straight in the face that i love them, but i hope they know that i really appreciate EVERYTHING they have done for me and i really do love them ALOTT.

MY MUM just SAVED MY ARSE yesterday. was supposed to have a presentation in the morning. as i was in charge of bringing the laptop, i had to reach school earlier then usual. so this meant having to wake up at 5.45am and leaving the house arnd 6.45am so i can reach class by 8.30am but guess what! when i woke up, it was freaking 7.30am. There was no way i could have reached class on time. THANK GOD for my mum who volunteered to fetch me to school. that meant having to take up 45 mins of her time to fetch me to school and drive to work.so grateful for her ((((: and to my surprise, shes so supportive for my grad trip to australia. she actually agreed to let me go and quarelled with my dad over it too.

and my DAD!! though hes like overseas, hes always calling home and asking about my studies and whether i have found a job already. and i knew hes like busy looking around and asking his friends for help. on the other hand, it makes me really guilty cause hes constantly looking around for jobs for me, while i'm like slacking around at home watching my newly favorite drama serial: CHUCK! (i'll get back to that). and although i know that he objects to the idea of me going for my grad trip, he still agrees ultimately in the end.

but still i'm so happy to have parents like them.

and CHUCK is the most awesome show right now! finished the entire season 1 in three days and i'm halfway thru season 2 alr. lol

Chuck Promo

Saturday, March 14, 2009

THE MAD RUSH

and yesterday was the last time we will ever see or touch it again. i can't believe that we finally submitted our FYP! 13 march 2009 marks the end of any disgusting project you can imagine in ntu. 50 pages, 7000 words report! it was definitely the most hectic period in the last 2 weeks. meetings meetings and more meetings so as to finish the report. we even stayed in school until 9pm for the past 2 days. thank god for the ice milos to last me through the day

as usual, there were alott of problems along the way. lack of time, resources and definitely the limited vocabulary we had. lol. think we spent half the time trying to think of better ways how to phrase our sentences so that people could understand what we were trying to say. the worst was trying to think of reasons why our hypothesis got rejected. we actually started on our discussion (which was the most important part of the report) three days before the deadline.

i admit we were very last minute, but who isn't right?? we met super early yest morning hoping to quickly finish our project and submit it before our prof goes home. worst was we haven't even started on our limitations, future research and conclusion yet! when we were done with the whole report, it was 5pm in the evening alr. went to the prof office, but she wasn't there. so we placed the report through the air vents and that was the last we will ever see of it ((((:

bidding FYP goodbye meant that i will be graduating and starting work soon. whether i will love not having to do project ever again or i'll miss doing it.. i really have no idea. we'll see as time past ba. but i know i'll definitely miss the times doing fyp with my two lovely project mates sinli and xiuwen. those moments when we will get 'drunk' from an overdose of fyp and start laughing and saying things which don't make sense at all. not forgetting out superb supervising prof who was always patient with us. and i mean really patient. shes really really a very nice teacher. so glad we manage to get her as our supervising prof ((:

but still, i'm glad that its finally over. post fyp celebration next week lol

Friday, March 13, 2009

FRONTIN with JAMIE CULLUM

love it the first time i heard it. its way much better than pharell's original version. check out his piano solo at 2:38

super awesome!!

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

it just gotta be CHUCK ((:

The Robert Downey Jr CRAZE

still lovin the gosselin kids

Arrow Service @ NCC

and the most irritating and horrible and disgusting thing on earth... FYP!!

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

SURF N SWEAT

We did not surf, neither did we sweat. what was suppose to be an intense game of captain's ball ended up with only one match and lots of cam whoring. hockey babes signed up to participate in this year surf n sweat captain's ball. its been a long time since we played together as a team, so what could be a better chance for us to come tgt and play a game of captain's ball. little did we know that all of us had really lousy stamina. and i mean really lousy. gone were the days when we could complete running around the entire macritchie in less than 20 mins and followed by those strenous exercise up the slope. the days when we could play one whole full hockey match till the very last min were gone too.

we were suppose to play a total of 4 matches, 2 halfs of 5mins each. but after playing only one match, the looks on all our face just said it all. we decided to quit and just head to vivo for lunch! so yup, we only played for 10 mins and that was the max alr. talk about being in the hockey team before! probably it was also because the other competitors in our group were very strong and we sort of knew what the outcome would be like already. thankfully ching's bf was in our team and he helped to defend quite a number of goals for our first match. (can't believe what the scores would be like without him) but still, we definitely had lots of fun under the sun ((:

PAO PAO CHA (that was the name of our group, obviously decided by aud)

hockey babes

BCG4

perfect jump

lunch at vivo