To Cut the Long Story Short

While I was out for a jog one day, I was thinking, if I were to keep writing, would I one day run out of things to write about? Well if I don’t have anything to write about, I can do something so I can write about it! But it has to be something write-worthy. I can’t possibly be writing about my attempt jog/ walking-in-a-slightly-faster-pace-activity, or about my dinner last night. Too boring. I concluded to not give too much pressure on myself,...

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When my bathroom light fused the other day, I just realized that I’ve always had guys around me who would help me with changing fused light-bulbs and taming my computers that decide to bail on me when moody. Here’s a tribute to my computer doctors: Primary school: Goh Goh my cousin bro High school: Goh Goh and sometimes Shua or Horny my gay friends College: Alwyn Yap my CF president, sometimes Liz Lau my classmate Uni: Uncle Sam and sometimes Ming, both my housemates’ boyfriends Now: Timo, my man! Well, it is actually a privilege to have...

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Discrimination in iPhone app

I downloaded a free game on iPhone called tap tap revenge 3 and b4 I could start playing, I've to set up my game profile. I was required to key in a user name and select my avatar. And that's exactly what I did. I typed "Jez" as name and picked a sassy looking girl to represent my rocker chick gaming attitude. But before I could proceed, a note popped up to my dismay saying "too short".For a moment I was really offended, and then worried how this new app knew so much about me! I later found out that it meant my keyed-in name was too short.Well...

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Of my orange brellie

I once had this conversation with Stanley Tan, who had one front tooth missing when I met him.Stan: your umbrella is so small it can only keep my hair dry! (do also bear in mind that he's bald)Me: well it will if u have any. Maybe ur eyebrows. They may be well protected with this umbrella.Stan: Yeah I think so. But U're so small anyway, u should be alright with it, that's why u bought it right?Me: it's a gift from a friend who I once said that black umbrellas make rainy days sadder, so she got me a bright orange one to cheer my rainy days up.Stan:...

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Super post

I don’t know how to put this more simply… I’ve been encountering a few ‘super’s these days.My dad birthday wasn’t too long ago, and my sis childishly suggested to get dad a Superman costume as a gift. I foolishly said ok, and went on to threadless.com to hunt some cool Superman prints. But to my disappointment, there weren’t any. B4 I could start looking into e-bay, mom snapped me out of it and reminded me about getting dad a GPS instead. (hope he doesn’t read my blog cuz it’s not bought yet)While I was in the bus one day, Ps Bobbie Houston’s podcast...

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Rain (not the Korean guy)

Experiencing rain in the windiest city in Australia (says Google) is rather unique. When it rains in Perth, especially when it’s windy, you can literally see the rain drop “fall” from the left to the right. Imagine water gushing diagonally, easily defeating the frail and temporary shelters by singing “no use now my umbrella, ella, ella, eh eh eh…”. You might as well just chuck the umbrella away and start dancing like Rain (now this would be the Korean...

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Eavesdropping (not the smelly type)

Little girl (so little that she still needs the baby chair at the restaurant): Mommy look! Grandpa has noodles on his head. HA-HA!Grandma turns to little girl’s mom: where did she learn the HA-HA from?Little girl’s mom: there’s this kid in the Simpsons that does that. Maybe it’s from there.Grandma blinks and turns to grandpa to remove the noodles from his he...

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My 1st call to the police

Last Sunday night, when I was opening the door to my house, I heard Addielle’s voice from inside, “Jez, is that you?” “ya?” She quickly opened the door, frantically motioned for me to enter quickly, and Jade was standing next to her with an unusually pale face. She then shut the door behind me, and asked “Are you alone?” “No, Tim is outside. He went to check why the back door is opened.” She opened the door, “eh Tim! Faster come in! faster!” With her shivering voice, Jade explained that while she was in her room skyping, she heard a knock...

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A series of unfortunate bus events

Well… it was actually just one unfortunate event which caused a whole lot of other disastrous events to happen. I left my house at 9am to catch the 9.06am bus to work which starts at 10am (yes it takes me that long to get there). Knowing that it’ll be an hour, I started my usual routine of reading a few chapters of my book (I’m surprised this is my 4th book since mid feb!). Since the rain this morning, the traffic was quite heavy so I know it’ll take longer than usual. Once a while I’d scan the bus and look outside to rest my eyes from the pages....

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List of Lists

1. Wake up 2. End snooze 3. Make a mental list of what to do today starting from now until I get back to bed tonight I’m a big list fan. I think it’s highly influenced by *ahem* some influential people in my life (especially this one person who writes lists for others to follow!!!). Knowing that I can be as random as marshmallow in your left sock, I think lists are quite useful to get things going. Since the subliminal conversion to organized listings, I’ve been having A6 sized (quarter of A4) papers on a mini clipboard ready...

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Meet Russell

Having a physio student as my house mate is quite fun. Other than having to pretend I’m her comma patient, I get to watch her toy with her skeleton from the closet. Not sure whose closet, but his name is Russell. Jade thinks he's a handsome skeleton....Raaaarrr...

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unbounced

For as long as I could remember, I have to always bring my passport if I were to enter a casino, club or places that have anything to do with adult stuff. Not that I’m too annoyed by it as I don’t really go to such places, but it just has been a bit of a hassle. A few weeks ago, Tim and I had a chance to have a free buffet dinner at Burswood Casino. So with our passports ready, we walked to the entrance, only to find out that WE NOW LOOK OLD ENOUGH...

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Short Sharp Shiny

Here’s another moment that I realize (again) that I can’t have everything I want at once. Things are not the same anymore. Heading to Adelaide is not ‘heading back there again’ anymore. And flying in to Perth means returning. Reality is starting to sink in when I returned from my trip to Adelaide for the weekend. I knew I couldn’t miss Sam and Ruby’s wedding for anything. I would regret it for life if I didn’t witness the both of them say ‘I do’ on the beach. The weather was great. Everything turned out well that day. When both Hong Kong and...

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unfinished thoughts

I dreamt I swallowed a chewing gum yesterday… and I woke up with the feeling that I have something stuck in my throat. Maybe I swallowed a bug in my sleep. Dreaming has caused me quite a lot of hassle lately. Some of you may like the activity of dreaming because it is highly associated with sleeping. But not for my case. I’m deprived from sleep because of my dreams. I remember reading somewhere that babies have nightmares more often than adults...

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Tacky Bluez

Tony bought me a cheap Reject Shop clock for me as a Welcome-to-Perth gift. But I accidentally broke it. We’re not allowed to put nails in walls, so I ingeniously stuck the clock to the wall with blue tack. I was THAT eager to have a clock on my wall. Later that afternoon, surprise surprise... I found it broken on the floor. Blue tack still stuck to the wall. Disappointed that I broke my welcoming gift, I almost threw the whole clock away... until......

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moving

I killed the first cockroach in my new place yesterday. Tim had the honours of smacking it with my sandals while I quickened the dying process by spraying multi-purposed cleaner on it. I’m going to be moving the huge stuff in on Saturday. Blessed by landlady and friends who generously offered their white good and furniture. Gonna miss Kristi when I’m there, but will surely come back for late-nite movies and pure lazing around. Moving to a new place is fun. I could remember how badly Huey Chi hates moving. But this time, I quite like it. Expensive,...

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seek and you shall find?

It’s not a good sign if your most frequently visited site is Seek.com.au. I feel that I’m caught in a generation that’s desperate for direction—commonly known as quarter life crisis. They say everyone has to go through this, but they didn’t say that it’ll take this long, or it’ll be this hard. I’m sorry to say this but sometimes it’s a little comforting to know that there are others going through the same thing as I am too; but as much as I wish for a job for my fellow comrades fighting this same war, I also wished I still have the FAMA’s financial...

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the apologizing sport

I noticed that the most common time when people would always apologize (and I, too, for that matter) the most is when I play tennis. “oh sorry sorry sorry” (say that in less than 1 second), would be what I’d hear the most when playing tennis. I’m hoping that my skills would get better so that I can say that too. Well, people only say that when they make a bad shot (which is not so often). But for me, it’s more like… “oh that’s a good shot!” (which is not so often). So to save my apologies, I’d say my sorries at the beginning and end of every...

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I went home

The twin figures left me amazed at how they lift KL to a a higher level of chic city design. So magnificent.Felt so good to be looking at the Jalur Gemilang in Malaysia.Went to watch High School Musical- the musical, with the fanatic sister (she's showing off her HSM top)The dancers actually do look like the real actors and actresses.sooooooooooarin' fllaaaaaaaaayin'~We're all in this together~ahhh... the lovely scene of the convenient dump sites...

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