s t a r m | s t May 31st, 2006
When the eyes fail, and contact lenses can never be worn again, what else could be done except this [though I’ll probably be going for Lasik when I have enough money]?
Funny signed conversation
Me [sulking]: I look very nerdy, right? I feel nerdy.
All started signing at the same time.
Percusso & Hina [interchangeably]: No lah where have remember I told you yesterday that you look tired the spectacles are nice the word nerdy has never crossed our minds
Saltybanana: Teacher, you look like a teacher [which I misinterpret as “attention” instead of “teacher” and got all confused]. Teacher, teacher.
Ah Dai: *slurps noodles hungrily*
Angie: Hee hee hee..
Me [trying to clarify]: I mean, the spectacles don’t look nerdy but I look nerdy in them…
All of them except Ah Dai [vehemently]: No!!
Me [taken aback]: !!
Ah Dai: *slurps*
Me [fingerspelling]: n-e-r-d-
Percusso: You’re not, you want to know what’s nerdy? Nerdy is
All of them immediately stretched out their hands in comically perfect unison and pointed at Ah Dai, who paused in mid-slurp: him!!
Hee hee. No offence, Ah Dai, I just thought the coordination of pointing was funny, not you who is the joke.
s t a r m | s t May 30th, 2006
you know, I really don’t understand.
why is it that with any step I take, I disappoint someone, people, anyone, even some whom I do not have to answer to.
how is it that I am made to feel like I am in the wrong, when all I do is to try to be less for you, you and you, and yet try to continue how it used to be because it has to be.
and suddenly, it doesn’t seem like I am living my life for myself and my loved ones anymore. that my life is actually others’; pieces of me are owned by them, yet what right do they have to demand and expect so much from me?
you know… I really don’t understand this.
s t a r m | s t May 28th, 2006
She is happy when surrounded by books books books.
And so she went traipsing down to Expo for the MPH sale which saw her grabbing some 30++ books and then realizing that they were too heavy for her to lug around [or pushed around in a box for that matter] and way over budget, thus she reluctantly gave up some of the more trashy romance-filled, less intellectual reads. Ahem.
Thereafter she was joined by her very tired overworked sweetie and it was shopping madness at Wisma where they raced against time to find the perfect “on sale” top; a twisted amazing race of sorts.
3 hours later and noticeably less cash in the wallets, it was home sweet home, the books in the car boot and the tops left untouched in pretty paper bags, and darkness gladly took over.
s t a r m | s t May 26th, 2006
A [unique] announcement in an office where everyone speaks good english, especially the therapists.
First it was the changing of a ‘lor’ to a ‘lah’.
After a couple of minutes and some discussion, there was an addition of ‘leh’.
A suggestion of ‘hor’ was given thereafter - a burst of inspiration.
And the final classic touch of ‘ah boh?’
Somehow this reminds me of Tinker Tailor’s whiteboard incident.
s t a r m | s t May 25th, 2006
Incident 3
Me: Yay, the GSS is coming, and pay is here! But urgh, no no, I need to save up for my macbook.
Colleague: ?? Why do you need maths books?
Incident 4
Colleague: *talking about Da Chang Jin*
Me: I don’t know what it’s about. I hardly watch television these days.
Colleague [abruptly]: Huh?
Me [startled]: Huh?
Colleague: What did you say?
Me: [tentatively]: I hardly watch any television these days?
Colleague: Ohhhhh…. *mutters* I thought you said there are no technicians today.
Me: >.
s t a r m | s t May 24th, 2006
what are we all but the sum of our yesterdays? i was wrong, maybe i could not, not yet, but wait. a thousand words, and none of which are important, breaking into upturned curves, the other half, an hour delayed drops, do they matter, will they could they, existing yet not meaning, meaning yet not of wanting, for things are different now like how they have been different then, i know it to be true yet i fight against reaching out.. if only there is understanding, to dare, to challenge, to say, but it may be too late to counsel or pray, i will never find out, and i will never know, and i can never see, so please, otherwise i..
s t a r m | s t May 24th, 2006
Incident 1
Caller: .. And I would like to make an appointment..
Staff: Ok, by the way, where [which country] are you calling from? [standard question to find out if caller is local or from overseas]
Caller: Uh….. home..?
Staff: *befuddled*
Incident 2
Me: I’m craving for Jap food.
Colleague: Ah, I’m craving for durians.
Me: ???
After a short while
Me: Do you know of anywhere near here which sells Jap food? I can only think of Honjin at Raffles Place.
Colleague: *gives me a really strange look* Never heard of Honjin..
Me: Quite a nice place, but I don’t want to go there. It’s expensive..
Colleague: *gives me an even stranger you-are-so-weird look*
Me: *feeling like I am so weird* What???
After another short while
Me: So do you know of any place?
Colleague: *frowns* I think Chinatown Market should have bah…
Me: *puzzled to hell and eternity* Chinatown market?? *attempts to imagine Sakae Sushi smacked in the middle of the market*
Colleague: *oblivious to my agonized confusion* Yah, Chinatown market, you know, where.. *trails off*
Short pause while colleague and I stared at each other wordlessly.
Me: *burst into laughter for eons*
Colleague: ????
Me: It’s Jap food, not Jackfruits!
s t a r m | s t May 23rd, 2006
Despite my cynical take on men and relationships in general, I oft find myself charmed by sweet sincere romantic gestures.
Today is a college friend’s birthday, and I hope she is having a wonderful blissful evening. A couple of chats with Dumbo, Beebs and me, her other half decided to fly over from Perth [where he resides] to surprise her. The plan was that we girls ask her out to celebrate her birthday, not show up and he will spring out of nowhere, all lovey-dovey hearts and pretty flowers and song and dance [alright alright, I’m exaggerating here lah, but still. bah].
Plane ticket - $700+
Hotel room - $240+
Chocolates, tealights and whatnots - $don’t know
Rushing around preparing for things - $also don’t know
Thinking up of this and actually doing it [and his exams are in what, 3 weeks’ time?]- Priceless
Just because the relationship started doesn’t mean the courtship has to end.
This is the sweetest thing I have ever seen anyone done in a long while.
s t a r m | s t May 21st, 2006
Woah.
Dumbo, your nemesis is on Sg Idol. Remember how she used to burst into song in class? In the toilets? Along the corridors? And sing for the entire college every morning?
s t a r m | s t May 17th, 2006
You don’t know whether to be amused or to feel under-appreciated when…
1) patients start crying upon seeing you,
2) they start running away upon seeing any of the [harmless] equipments,
3) they start yowling when they enter the premises, or when
4) the patients’ parents refer to the audiobooths as ‘torture chambers’.
laughs.
ok, I’m amused.
[on a side note, sister is in sweden now and I’m green with envy. bah.]
