A grand hotel & a very big bird...

I just got the few obligatory tourist pics taken in S'pore...

Kiasu land's ..."my durian is bigger than yours...don't play-play"...( i call it kiasuism)

L-R: Mummy, me, Jin, Rebecca, Aunt Wai Leng & Uncle Peng Syn

The classy Fullerton Hotel where we had a scrumptious seafood dinner

Walking along Boat Quay with Jen

Had to take a pic with that one weird ass lookin bird

Paris-ee...Good luck on your first day! :) Don't forget to belanja!

La dee dum...

With too much caffeine in my system...i'm messin around and testing out stuff at nearly 5 am....

here's a song for Superman lovers ..

Waiting...waiting...waiting...

I used to think i had hell alot of patience when it comes to waiting....but i think i have grown rather impatient....since all i do now is wait...

waiting for calls

waiting for application replies

waiting for results

waiting for my phone......where's my new phoneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! :(

So....i guess i should go "loosen up my buttons" & continue waiting....

ps- Anyone interested in this year's Starlight cinema? Go try your luck & win tix here.

Lost in translation

I have a bad habit of reading subtitles due to growin up watchin Chinese serials durin dinner with my hopeless understanding of Cantonese or Mandarin. My grasp on the said language has improved slightly over the years but the habit remained. At least i get the jokes now instead of gettin really lost readin subtitles alone.

Some time back, Big-bad-bitchy Ben wanted to watch a Chinese movie. For those who don't know 3B-Ben, he's a Chinese dude who knows more Hindi than any Chinese dialect....so i was fairly surprised when he wanted to watch a Chinese movie. We chose some comedy, naturally he didn't get half the jokes as the subtitles really didn't quite make sense....even worse...the subtitles just disappeared durin the last half of the movie. Poor fella was really quite lost.

Anyways, here are a few examples of silly translations....

Friend watchin a war movie said

duck....came out as "itik" (quack quack duck)

& dum dum bomb... came out as "Bom bodoh-bodoh" (stupid-stupid bomb)

Mention pole dancing & any guy will pay attention....but when it comes out as "menari sambil pegang tiang besi" (dancing while holding a metal post)...that is just SO WRONG!!

Nowdays when i see crappy subtitles on a dvd...i blame Brandon. LOL cos he once did translations for dvds. He's too busy to read my blog these days...so i can tell the world he's gay here & he wouldn't know...right Brandy?

WOOHOO!!!!

Out of the usual daily bunch of e-mails....2 screamed at me today & made me bounce all around the house happy hapPY HAPPY!!

one said...

Dear Student

I am pleased to inform you that you have passed your Research and Analysis Project, and the Oxford Brookes University Examination Board held on 14 July 2006 has awarded you a B.Sc. (Honours) in Applied Accounting.

& another read...

Dear Ashlin Fong,

Congratulations, you are one of the selected 5 winners of the Nokia Get More, Do More quiz. Your correct and insightful answers to the quiz have won you a Nokia 6111! Your prize is now on its way to your preferred mailing address...

Excuse me while i go jump around somemore :) :) :) *woot*woot*

Back in BOLEH-land

Kiasu-land was fun...but it was a lot of walkin...& i'm not exactly the most fit person. Shopping was quite dissapointing...didn't buy much...but i had fun anyways.

I think i have developed a phobia with the mrt escalators... if i trip....it'll be a human domino!! unless i'm sandwiched between 2 hunks! LOL & i think Singaporeans must be meerkats in their past lives...their underground tunnels are very confusing....i had the sense of direction of a poodle when i was underground!

Anyways, i'm hungry...oh & anybody wants to give me a foot massage? :)

May - Thanx for taking me around *hugs*

Ewok - i couldn't find your pagoda tee...LOL

Across the border

It's been a tirin day here in the land of "kiasu-ness". First day of visitin the relatives, walkin around like the "jakun"tourist...taking pics . Shopped a lil...Had a fantastic seafood dinner at the Fullerton Hotel...roamed around the Boat Quay area..and now i'm bloggin from the hotel lobby. LOL!

Tomorrow i plan to meet up with May...then head down town to shop...shop...SHOP!!!

Got loads of ground to cover....and i had better find something of my liking!!! i didn't come to s'pore for nothin.LOL!

Have to snooze now...

Cartwheelin...

All my bags are packed

I'm ready to go

I'm standin here outside MY door...

...I'm leavin, on a double decker coach...LOL

Yes, i am lame... but at least i'm happy! :) Will be away to S'pore for the weekend! Whoopee!!

I was "semangat-ly" modifyin/makin earrings all afternoon & now my right hand hurts like crap :( ...but at least i have "new" earrings :)

Did 3 other pairs...but i like this green one the most :)

Alrites...i need to sleep...

U-turn

Nice start to the week....my depression from last weekend was cured by...

...all the way from the U-S- of A!! Jonny is FABULOUS!!! *hugs* Thanx Jonny!! :)

The World Cup is finally over! Forza Azzuri!! i didn't jinx the team this time :p & the whole bunch of us (All guys including the anti Italy fellas) were even happier that the French-supporting-chair-jumping-butt-shakin-shakira-wannabe-BIMBO sittin in front of us didn't get to do her dance when Italy won! lol & Adly will definitely be glad that i won't be around to do anymore player-celebrity comparisons... but since it's MY blog a last 2 wouldn't hurt...

head-buttin Zidane....

reminds me of Patrick Steward as Prof X...

& Franck Ribery....

reminds me of Tom Green...

lol! til the next World Cup...out!

Dilemma...

On gettin a job

I'm not gonna get one... heck, they probably won't even call me for an interview :( career fairs are depressin :( :( :(

On the World Cup Finals

Italy or France?...ok i'm choosin Italy...but what the heck colours are which teams wearing tomoro? isit blue-white or white-blue? sigh...

On DVDs to watch

First, my blur dad brought home Lost....damn happy...then i realised it was Season 2!! & i didn't exactly finish season 1.... when i finally got season 1 from Adly-Badly, i realised my so called complete season 2....is NOT complete!!! Now i have to search for the 2nd half :( anyone has the 2nd season? my usual DVD shop only sells the complete season :(

Sentimental Post

I walked into one of the many colourful shops in town, looking and poking at the range of fake LVs, Pradas & Guccis the shop carried. There was something different about this shop, I told myself…but it wasn’t what they were selling…heck almost everyshop was almost identical…or at least to me it was.

Then I realised my ears were pretty happy with the music playin…

Back in the days when we first met

those time we had I'm never gonna forget

long summer nights and lazy days

we knew our love was not a passing phase

suntan lotion that familiar smell

I made you a necklace from a chain of shells

the sand on my feet and the warm sea breeze

a kind of romance that's hard to believe

Our bodies together beneath the palm

We had our first kiss I melted in your arms

Chorus: I'll give you my love an eternal love

from me to you if you return

A token of love an eternal love

from you to me i'll give my love

OMG!!! It’s PJ & Duncan’s Eternal Love!!! The shop wasn’t playin some Ah-Beng “feng tow” music!! It was playin old school ballads. That one song got me so sentimental….i went searchin for my old tapes when I got home…Debbie Gibson, NKOTB, Roxette, Wilson Philips, Belinda Carlisle… but none of the cassette players in the house works anymore…. :( at least I found something that works….the NKOTB’s No.1’s CD I bought last year!! & the rest I happily downloaded.

Haha you can call me sentimental but at least I’m not a guy who gets sentimental when he hears Backstreet Boys’ All I Have To Give! :p

Tonite's game...Italy or Germany..i say Germany :p

Ashlin talkin footie?

Yes, u read correctly....i said footie...NOT footsie!

I was pretty enthusiastic about last night's Germany-Argentina match & i almost didn't get to watch it! Being a football idiot, that was the first match i actually truly enjoyed....except the fact that i have forgotten what the offside rule is (hehehe Adly will have to RE-explain it tru icq AGAIN! :P)

Anyways...before the match, i told Willy-pooh and a few other football mad ppl this...

"i think Germany will win...but i hope Argentina will kick ass!"

Not a bad comment huh? I was told it actually makes sense! especially when it's comin from me! I was actually quite dissapointed that Germany won in the end....i think winning through penalty shootouts are sheer luck...but what would "i" know right?

Throughout the match i noticed all the small things like the orange ppl (the crowd control) ... i think they must really hate football....how else can u stand having the world cup goin on right behind you and stare at the crowd??? ok there are screens, but wouldn't that be a distraction to the job? Oh and the mascot looks really spas prancing around...oh oh and one more thing....

Don't u agree that this fella....
looks like....

LOL! My predictions for tonite...

England-Portugal....
England's been playin pretty lousy, or at least that was what i was told....but i say England will probably get lucky and get tru again.

Brazil-France...
Brazil la!