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Met steph over dinner and she gave me a present. Very very awesome gift that I have no complaints about. Well maybe her bad handwriting. Hahas. Guess working women no longer care about their neat handwritings after they leave school.

( Enjoy* read the fine line )

Smoking a shisha gives off as much carbon monoxide as 15 to 52 cigarettes and as much tar as 27 to 102 cigarettes, said a French national laboratory report cited by the French anti-tobacco agency (OFT).

The report confirms that "shisha is a major source of air pollution in closed and covered areas," OFT said in a statement. If comparing the data to regular cigarette smoke, one shisha corresponds to an average of around 70 drags on a cigarette, OFT President Bertrand Dautzenberg said.

The tests were conducted by Laboratoire National d'Essais (LNE) on three types of shisha: shisha with self-lighting carbon used in small amounts, self-lighting carbon used in large amounts, and natural carbon shisha used in small volumes.

The laboratory used the three parameters that are measured when analysing smoke on a packet of cigarettes: the amount of tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide.

For 70 liters (16 gallons) of smoke produced by the shisha, the small amount self lighting carbon tar results were measured at 319 milligrams, 32 times the legal European limit for a cigarette, while the large amount self-lighting carbon measured at 266 milligrams, 27 times the cigarette limit, and the natural carbon measured at 1,023 milligrams, a whopping 102 times more than a cigarette.

Carbon monoxide measurements fared badly as well, as tests indicated that the carbon measurements from the three types of shisha came to 17 times the normal cigarette limit, 15 times, and 52 times the limit.

The self-lighting carbon in both large and small amounts for nicotine measured about one cigarette per shisha, while the natural carbon was the nicotine equivalent of smoking six cigarettes.

Lol, yesterday I decided on a whim to pull out my ps2 and try to see if I can finish off FF12. Don't know why I wanted to, but I think my completist streak kicked in. Can't remember why I stopped playing it, but trying to continue a RPG game that you have not touched in 2 years is a daunting task. You pretty much have to relearn everything and trace where u left off. Surprisingly I actually played quite far, and overgrinded my characters. I only needed to continue off 2 more acts.

Today I poked the final boss and completed the game. Not gonna gun for the optional quests because the ending was meh. I don't like happy endings. FFX's ending was still better, it made me cry lol.

Beating miss stephy ong to a day. Hah.

Amsoveryexcitedaboutseeingdcfclive.

I passed the harddisk filled with the final complete version of Fragments to Randall at BlackMagic Design today, and took a deep breath. Finally, I'm going to see it on DVD at last. This is taking forever, but as soon as I get the DVD, I'm going to dupe them and start handling them out to a list of people, like my talents, sponsors, parents, potential bosses, lol.

I grew to dislike it a few months back when we were forced to rush its completion. Today when i watched it, I actually enjoyed it and thought it wasn't so bad. Guess the long period of not seeing it helps with the self-criticism. The voice over overlays could have been better, but I'm just going to leave it like this as a learning lesson.

Randall says it's a good film, it just a little raw on the edges. That's the biggest compliment I can get already. I want to close it and start working on another. Even though I'm busy with the edits for the behind the scene for My Magic, I've been conking out a lot of ideas onto my moleskine.

And he completely owns the floor with his presentation. I thought that was a pretty smart and engaging one, and plus the trailer for it is awesome. I'm soooo going to buy the original, even though I would only have 4 days to play it before I get enlisted into the army.

Watch the video and be impressed!

I thought I was going to experience a prezzies-less birthday this year again, until Isaac pulled out something for me when we went for supper. It was a palm sized box wrapped with pictures of donald duck. Which by the way, is my least favorite disney character. I wished they named him fondle fuck or something.

Anyway, watch me as I painful open my present. Apparently he thought it was quite funny. Well wait till his birthday comes... I'll repay him in 10 folds!



( Opening up the fucking prezzie )

Oh fantastic. I received a letter from LASALLE informing me about my grad night. It just so perfect that it falls on the same day I get enlisted into the army. 12 Sept.

Fucking win liao lor. I think I should go buy 4D. 1211 will surely bag me a million dollars.

I can't believe it. Twenty-one years of surviving this bullshit.

From my birthday chalet. It was amazing and I love the people there to bits. In no order of favoritism (lol), Isaac and Angie, zq and Florence, Jiang Hao and Cheryl, Hui Yin, Chun Hui, Seng Cheng, Inez and my brother.

Here's the rundown:

- 4 days Chalet at HomeTeamNS, located in Sembawang, 5 mins walk from my house. I lived here for 8 years and I never knew its existence until zq brought it up. Package price: $160 for 4D/3N largest room, Executive Suite. CHEAP LIKE HELL- that's like paying 40 bucks a day.

- The room is huge. Bigger than any chalet in Pasir Ris. With the exception of Aranda one, but man Aranda is $240 a night. Comes with a king sized bed that fits 5 people on it. Pull the top mattress down and 10 people can sleep. Facilities include a lifeguard-less Swimming pool, Jacuzzi, Sauna, Arcade room, Jackpot room and a Gym. Oh and a restaurant too, which we are entitled 20% discount because of zq's membership card.

- Birthday celebration was held on saturday. Theme: Japanese sashimi/sushi buffet + sake. Bought 1kg worth of ultra fresh and delicious salmon sashimi and a spread of sushis from your typical maki to nigiri. Spent less than $150 on those. Amazingly 1kg of salmon only cost 90 bucks. 3 bottles of sake + a birthday of another sake bottle was downed too. I made cold soba too.

- All I did was eat chips, instant noodles, pizza and macdonalds for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Sinful.

- I didn't brush my teeth for 4 days because I forgot to bring my toothbrush, and I could have gone back home to take it but I couldn't be damned.

- Saturday afternoon was depressing because there were 3 couples in the room while I was sticking out like a sore thumb. Alone. Hahaha.

I'm definitely going back there again next time. Why go to Paris Ris when I have one chalet at the back of my house? I can always pop back home for more stuff if we need anything. Plus it's so cheap and nobody goes there. It's like paying for the whole place.

Pictures are with Florence and Angie. Will upload once they send me. mhhh.

And it's here again.YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. Last year's lineup was good, am hoping that with this year's theme, it will be better.

I hate dubs, but why does a Japanese dubbed Hannah Montana sounds so bloody awesome? I actually will sit down and watch the whole series for lulz. Hahahaha.

As someone on Digg pointed out, why are malay girls cheaper than the rest?

Don't answer. Potential racial shit to hit the fan if you ask me.

I went back to my movie watching spree, in an attempt to keep myself still attuned to films. Been spending too much time away from it and that's not good. I can't bring myself to write any more scripts these days, unlike in Lasalle when I would scribble treatments almost weekly on the trains home.

Recently watched these two awesome films:


Lord of War


There Will Be Blood

Both are nothing short of awesomeness. I love the driving message of Lord of War (the twist was awesome), and the intensity of Daniel Day Lewis's performance in There Will Be Blood. I was blown away by his acting when I saw Left Foot, and he has not failed again with There Will Be Blood. He's truly an intense actor. The film was 2hrs and 30mins long, but it didn't bother me one bit, so the pacing was well plotted.

Also, I made dinner today for the family. Cold Soba! And it was well received, so yay.

How do I explain to people when they ask me why they aren't invite to my birthday chalet?

It's not a big 21 year old bash at a some swanky chalet. It's just a small, simple gathering of my closest friends who have stuck with me all the way and in someway this is more like a deeper bonding session rather than a celebration.

My birthday comes in a week time, not that it's earth shattering news, but I figured out it might be for some... right? My materialistic wish list, simply because the things I really want cannot be bought with money. Like be able to speak 641 languages in the world fluently or be able to lick my elbows or the roll-your-eyes "someone special".

1. Psychedelic drugs, hahahaha.
2. Money, really.
3. 17" Macbook Pro with 4gb ram upgrade
4. Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens
5. Bags from Agnes B, Project Shop Blood Brother, Head Porter
6. Playstation 3 + 24" HDTV (see I'm not greedy, but a 32" would be nice)
7. Shitloads of IKEA vouchers
8. Printed obscure tees
9. Spare batteries for my elec bike
10. Truckloads of models for me to shoot my photographs
11. Special letter that says I'm fucking not fit for NS

Oh it would be nice if someone just fucks me senseless too. 12.

And I'm looping Caramell Dansen now, it's evil. I'm a closet techno fan.

Cosfest 2008 is over, didn't go because I was busy but wow, based on the photos that are showing up on the usual forums and blogs, the cosplay quality in Singapore seems to be getting better. Then again, there could be more fails and misses that people didn't take with their camera so that might give a skewered perspective of the actual quality of cosplay.

There's quite a number of really awesome ones like the Gundam EXIA or KOS MOS but the one that got me going "WAH SHE'S CUTE" would be this Haruhi cosplayer:



Hur hur hur. Cute right!

I am reading this book now, and enjoying every single bit of it. I bet I'll go to hell after finishing this book, but what the hell, if Heaven is exactly like what Crowley described it to be, than it may not exactly be such an ideal place after all, hahaha.

Now the best part about this book is that it was loaned to me 2 million years ago and I never wanted to read it because the cover looked odd. But by some chance in hell I decided to pick it up and right now my soul is burning in hell.

I hate you catatonic_cats for lending me this, because I have to keep re-reading certain bits (making me, for the first time, a fucking slow reader) and laugh over and over again like a retard on the train, bus, at home and at my relative's place; I'm officially branded a lunatic.

Back home at last.

Was out the last two days with my cousin from Australia. She stopped over Singapore before flying off on Monday for a 6 month backpacking slash working trip alone in England. She basically saved up and than drop everything back in Australia and left. Of course with permission and all. After talking to her, I kinda feel that my life is the shit. She's younger than me and she's already doing all of this by herself, everything from money straight down to planning.

This is like so cool, it makes us all look like brickheads. I feel like a kid beside her.

SIAN LIAO.

Been playing Diablo 2 with my guild mates for the past couple of days and I must say it's still as entertaining as ever. Because not all of them have the original (actually, just 2 of them), we are all playing on LAN via Hamachi and not b.net.

What's amazing is that Diablo 2 and Starcraft is having a revival right now and a lot of places are running out of stock for their battlechest sets. This 2 games are even one of the top seeded torrents as well.

But the graphic is shit, lol.

And regarding those people who are petitioning about how Diablo 3 graphics should be more darker and grimly looking, fuck you. I like the way it is. Thank God Blizzard isn't listening to them. This is what they want: