so. the season for tv is in full swing right now. here're all the tv shows i'm following... i'm hard pressed for time to finish everything!
shows i'm watching now:
YAY TINA FEY'S BACK!!! AND JACK!! XD
a so-so season so far. not much happening, and not really rooting for anyone this time.
once i feel overwhelmed by too much tv, this is the first one i'd drop like a hot potato. it's just not getting anywhere. meander, meander. *yawn*
only because it's by JJ abrams. reminds me a little of alias (all the weird science going on without the espionage), and is getting more interesting. but i still can't hand how all the cases get solved so easily. it's too... easy.
HUGE visual pleasures, with the all filmography, gorgeous scenes and backdrops, and of course, chuck and olive's dresses. it's a lovely (but also heartwrenchingly sad) series.
barney is just damn hilarious.
ok this is The Big Bang Theory, and the most anticipated show of the week. i put up this screenshot instead of the usual cast picture because this show is really about 4 geeks who... are really geeky and awkward. i love sheldon, he's the life of the show. :D
and check out the lyrics to the intro! it's been 2 seasons but alvin and i have not stopped bopping to it everytime we watch this together.
The Barenaked Ladies "The Big Bang Theory"
"Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait... The Earth began to cool, The autotrophs began to drool, Neanderthals developed tools, We built a wall (we built the pyramids), Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries, That all started with the big bang!"
weekend updates are the best part!
my newest add-on (THANKS TO TIONG XINWEI) and it's really sooooo trashy. guilty pleasure. hehe.
shows i'm desperately trying to catch up with:
i'm still only at season 2! :(
alvin really likes this.
and this.
i'm intrigued by vampires... what can i say?
just wrapped up:
too short!! only 6 episodes!! :(
the violent plasticine figures and sometimes really geeky references make me laugh... or -_-"'.
is because the longer my hair grows, the more unwanted attention i get.
and i'm typing this out now because i got molested (i'm sure) on the train last week, and just got harrassed by another bugger on the train on my way home.
for the first case, it was rush hour and i was standing in the middle of the carriage, with one row of people behind me. i was busy catching up on Lost on my media player so it was only 5 minutes later when that corner nudging my butt irritated me enough to make me turn to see what it was.
it was not a corner of a book or laptop... IT WAS A PINKIE. i stared at that insulting finger, then looked up slowly with a really furious face. i stared at that man.
'Kallang.'
he ran for it. i stared at him all the way, and when he turned to check if i'd followed him, i confirmed he was guilty. dammit! i should've gone after him! *fume*
UGH I FELT SO GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!
and then just now after alvin left the train, i sat down next to this man reading the papers with his elbows sticking out. he was so seriously encroaching my personal space that even after i deliberately PUSHED HIS ELBOW AWAY FROM MY ARM (using both my hands, mind you)... within seconds he'd leaned his elbow out far enough to keep brushing my arm continuously, more than 20 times per minute. this elbow out, me push, elbows out again happened 3 times. and he always only stopped when there was contact. the train wasn't even shaking!
the boiling point was when he stopped reading his papers. i was glad, he doesn't have anymore excuse to stick his elbows out... hardly had that logical thought crossed my mind when i felt his elbow... creeping out till it found my skin... stop... AND BRUSH AND BRUSH AND BRUSH.
i had enough!! i just got molested last week - touch me again and you are dead!! i stared at the man long and hard, enough to make him uncomfortable.
“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.”- Psalm 19:14
no wonder i tripped after bad mouthing someone today. i guess no matter how bad things are i should never EVER make baseless accusations regardless how maligned i feel.
remember alvin and my failed attempt to go to escape theme park in may? we were leaving work last saturday when i suddenly decided we should go to escape theme park instead of going back to his place and catching up on all the tv shows we've been missing out on. coz we had free tickets, yay! i don't even know who blessed us with those. thank you! :DD
so the two of us dragged ourselves all the way to pasir ris, catching a nap on the 45 minute train ride down. alvin was being extremely hilarious as usual, and i was pretty excitable so i was easily amused. it was a great start, both of us laughing at everything, especially when we reached white sands and alvin couldn't get his ice cream.
he started by queuing at macs, but the queue was just taking too long, so he jumped over to ben and jerry's - which had an even longer queue; we headed back to macs. the queue still hasn't moved an inch and alvin started to fret. he was going to head back to b&j's when i laughed and demanded, 'eh wassup with you??!'
'I WANT MY ICE CREAM NAOOOO!'
aiyoh, so petulant that face. *grin*
we moved away from the ice cream counter and into the main food queues which was so much faster (yeah, i really should've thought of this earlier, but i was kinda distracted with how alvin was behaving - which was just really damn cute, hahaha)...
and then i ordered the wrong ice cream for him.
'what's this?' 'berry mcflurry.' 'I WANTED PLAIIIIIIINNNNNNNN.' 'ah, crap. *laughs* i thought u wanted berries! u like berries! sorry dear!!!' *pout*
but it was all good. *phew* see, he did like berries!! (though it was more like a splotch of jam mixed in plain mcflurry) :D
then i insisted we take bus 12 to downtown east because 'i'm sure it goes there! so why take another bus?'
'eh but there's a bus that says downtown east... wanna try asking?'
'he's letting passengers alight dear...'
'that's true. ah, okay.'
when bus 12 FINALLY came, we sat down... then got off 2 stops later.
me: what the! we're here??!?! eh... we could've walked... alvin: good grief, that's what i kept trying to tell you! me: got meh? erm, anyway it's very hot la, hahaha. alvin: EVERY BUS FROM THE INTERCHANGE COMES HERE COZ IT'S RIGHT OUT THE INTERCHANGE. WOMAN!!! WE COULD'VE GOT HERE EONS AGO! me: heh heh. heh heh. alvin: -______-
we walked in... and got lost. we saw wild wild wet, and that resort place... but... where on earth is escape theme park??!?!
after trying our luck walking back and forth, we finally decided to leave the shade and cut through the carpark in the sun - AH THERE IT IS. ahhahahahahaha we're so stupid hahahaha...
after dumping our bags in the lockers, we strode in and alvin laughed his head off.
'wah lau eh! hahahaha fail man! all the rides so fail!!!' he was comparing it to six flags, which is by far the best amusement park he's been to. i just laughed and told him to give the place a chance.
you see, it's great that we both love amusement parks because escape was seriously so tiny and had so few good rides that u really need a lot of love in order to enjoy your time there. alvin decided for us that we should milk the rides for all they're worth, and i happily agreed.
our first ride: the tiny roller coaster -
check out our shiny happy faces! we were seating riiiiiight at the last carriage, so to have maximum fun we both faced the tracks behind so we won't be able to see when our turns were coming. i tried but i was so gleeful and excitable i started giggling uncontrollably and had to shift my body forward to laugh properly. man, it was so funny - everyone in the queue must've been weirded out by our bizarre method.
next: the space invader/galaxy back drop ride
oh my goodness so boring, really. REALLY.
after this we put the camera back in the locker because we wanted to take the flume!!!! YAY!!! 15m drop, woohoo!!! on the way up alvin started to yell like a banshee, 'no NOOOOO I'M SCARED NOOOOOO OH NO WHY AM I DOING THIS! HELP!!!! HELPPPP!!!'
i turned around and raised my eyebrows. alvin shut his mouth and gave me his scared face. like real you're afraid. his lips trembled... then he started yelling for help again. i gave up, turned around, and gave the cctv camera a happy wave, then DOWWWWWWWWWWWN WE FLEW!!!
and we totally planned this:
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
oh oh!! we also took the inverter and i was so scared that i clenched my feet to make sure my shoes wouldn't fly off and had an iron grip on the seat handle and alvin's hand. i yelled all the way while alvin bellowed. haha! it was shudderific.
the last ride was the go-kart which was definitely the highlight of escape. we queued for the beginners track first... then i realized hey the carts are two seaters! i turned to alvin, 'hey can you sit with me? you'll have the chance to torment me back after all the times i've been a passenger seat driver. hahahahaha.'
i was rather disappointed because the go kart peeps let the ang moh family go first; i was third on the release. bleh. but once the lady gave me the green light, alvin shouted, 'GO GO GO!!!' while i stamped my feet hard on the gas. i almost flew out of the car because there was a sharp turn right after the grid and i swerved wildly. both of us remained unnerved, and alvin continued egging me on while i put on my psycho game face on with one aim - to catch up with the ang mohs who took pole position when it was rightfully mine@!!@!! grahhhh!!!
the tires squealed up the slope while i laughed like a maniac, blatantly ignoring the 'no racing; no bumping' notices that had flashed over the safety video. alvin kept shouting, 'faster faster! eh eh there they are!!!'
i think i really drove like a psycho, full throttle most of the time until i caught up with the first car. then i did something terrible. i tried to cut him on the inside, but my kart scraped the sides so i lost a little control (eh no power steering la) AND BUMPED INTO THE SIDE OF THE 2ND KART WHERE HIS KID WAS SITTING.
i really felt bad. really.
but once i yelled sorry, alvin was completely oblivious and kept me going by shouting and shouting. he's INSANE i tell you.
we never caught up with the 1st car coz alvin reasoned: he had too much of a lead, and he had no passenger.
which reminds me: when both of us settled into the kart, alvin totally squashed me to a corner. i laughed so hard coz he was so cramped and looked so poor thing while i had to lean a little out of the kart to give him some shoulder space; he was so big in such a little car. i couldn't steer properly half the time coz my elbows were pinned to my sides HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! alvin just looked sad :(
awww!!!
anyway, once the beginners track was done, we headed towards the actual track. with my reckless driving i crashed into one guy as i flew down the steep slope and gave alvin an opening to cut me. BLEH. then i couldn't catch up anymore coz he was really good at the curly fries slopes while i struggled to keep my tired arms in place just to turn properly.
gosh go-karting was super awesome man. hehehe.
by then the park was going to close, and we took a couple more rides on the roller coaster and inverter before we left. my entire body was aching by then, and i could hardly walk. but it was such a great day!
one day, alvin and i decided to go to the museum after work. we sped down in a cab (they close at 8pm) and we were initially confused about which museum we wanted but then we made it! (i'm still not too sure which one we went to. hehe.)
the sudden urge came about when alvin told me that his parents' wedding photos were up for display because they had a traditional Peranakan wedding.
so here begins our trip to the museum:
this was the reason why i love my green dress so much. i so adore poofy skirts. :)
beauty tips in the 70s; how vintage!! alvin lost me for a moment while i went around starry-eyed.
retro curlers!! i remember those!
circles @_@
listening to old records
and jiving to them!
that is one weird pose:
next we went to materials and how they were made!
once we stepped out of the room (still in search of the elusive photos), we saw these lantern-chandeliers. pretty! :)
we followed a staircase to the upper floors... then suddenly we exited the musuem already. and gasp! gigantic dried fruit! not sure if it's capsicum? chili padi? a cherry? but ok. picture time. :D
that sign is huge.
on the way back in, we passed by some huge vents!
on with the search. WHERE ARE THE PHOTOS??! which gallery??
here?
um, here?
let's try downstairs.
ooh the lanterns are swinging... really... hypnotically... @_@
okok, focus!
OMG ALVIN IT'S HERE!!!!!!
we both had quite a good time going through all that history of wedding photos. :)
i like this portrait.
*sniff* alvin i smell food... where is it coming from?
woohoo!! my kinda thing!
cute kueh molds:
traditional foods; I WAS REALLY GETTING HUNGRY BY THIS TIME.
alvin's favorite: laksa!
traditional cup designs:
i was totally enjoying this short video - check it out:
oh we also saw this: MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE - HE-MAN!!!!! wow, the memories... hahaha!
