Hey guys and girls who read my blog, thanks for all the support you've given me so far, just to inform everyone, I've moved on to Tumblr. (uh-oh, poor blogger)
It's a lot more convenient and interesting (teehee) which is why I've moved, and I'm very comfortable there now.
Ma-chiam I move house sia.
If you like interesting pictures, and my occasional crazy rants, please head to: http://plebeianamanda.tumblr.com/ I promise, you won't be disappointed :)
love love,
manda
Friday, November 05, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
The same toilet bowl....
I went to the toilet today.
As I sat on the cold, cold porcelain and stared at the wooden door, i thought to myself, "why is it that i'm always in the same cubicle?"
Maybe it's just me, but as an intern in a big office, I have discovered that I always use the same toilet bowl.
Throne?
Chair-upon-which-I-Poop?
Whatever, don't you think it's weird.
Let me tell, i think it's cause it's awkward, if you sit on someone else's bowl, and it's warm, and then you realise, "OMG. You're shitting into the same bowl as someone else!"
But if you shit, or sit, on your own bowl, and it's cold, you know that no one has sat on it.
You're cheating yourself into believing that no one has sat on your throne before!
Clever right?
Ahahahaha, just kidding.
As I sat on the cold, cold porcelain and stared at the wooden door, i thought to myself, "why is it that i'm always in the same cubicle?"
Maybe it's just me, but as an intern in a big office, I have discovered that I always use the same toilet bowl.
Throne?
Chair-upon-which-I-Poop?
Whatever, don't you think it's weird.
Let me tell, i think it's cause it's awkward, if you sit on someone else's bowl, and it's warm, and then you realise, "OMG. You're shitting into the same bowl as someone else!"
But if you shit, or sit, on your own bowl, and it's cold, you know that no one has sat on it.
You're cheating yourself into believing that no one has sat on your throne before!
Clever right?
Ahahahaha, just kidding.
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Apple iPhone 4
The Monday blues have ridden over to Tuesday.
I'm feeling all sleepy, and it started drizzling as I walked to the office.
Alright, I'm sorry, aside from my complaining... Exciting news! the Apple iPhone 4 has been unveiled by Steve Jobs!
Yes Apple fans, we can start celebrating and start saving for the iPhone. I can imagine it's going to be over $800. Ouch.
But we're only gonna be given about a month to save cause this time, it's coming to Singapore by mid-July. (It was reported that it would be coming early July but - pffft - who are they kidding?)
I was reading an article about the new phone - read about it here. - and what caught my attention wasn't the detailed specs of the new iPhone, or the dates of availability, it was the write'rs obvious, very infectious, excitement.
I can imagine him clacking away on his Asus laptop, (it's tuned to perfection so as to farm his gold) red-bloodshot eyes peering over his glasses.
"iPhone 4G is the thinnest iPhone ever! It’s also made of stainless steel!" He (I'm guessing it's a he, cause gender-bias dictates that most nerds are male) mutters under his breathe about how the iPhone trumps the HTC. (btw, it's 4 not 4G right?)
WHAT?! Stainless STEEL? OMG! MY LIFE IS COMPLETE. is probably what he screamed as he caught the keynote video.
Cause, you know, stainless steel makes everything better.
Techno-geek over here start to hyperventilate over the new features Steve Jobs shares such as the "5 mega-pixel camera which can digitally zoom 5x." And of course "its speed is unmatched compared to the previous iPhone of course."
Then he hears the magic words, gyro-accelerometer, (for none-geeks it means more motion gestures and greater precision for an even better gaming experience.) Without fail our favourite geek types, "Another cool thing about iPhone 4G is it has a Gyro-accelerometer, which provides 6-axis motion sensing!" he adds, "Oh wow!"
Alright alright, I'll stop poking fun at Sir-aroused-by-a-phone.
In truth, the new iPhone is pretty awesome.
Some of my favourite features include:
- Improved battery life-span
- A front camera for iChat
- Multi-tasking capabilities (which means I can play Ninja fruit and download videos at the same time heeheehee)
- iMovie is also included in the iPhone!
Okay. I'm getting excited now.
I'm gonna stop.
Pre-orders for the iPhone 4G will start early next week and will be available in Singapore only in July.
Prices are $199 USD for the 16GB model, and $299 USD for the 32GB model.
- A dork is the actual name for a whale's penis. :) -
I'm feeling all sleepy, and it started drizzling as I walked to the office.
Alright, I'm sorry, aside from my complaining... Exciting news! the Apple iPhone 4 has been unveiled by Steve Jobs!
Yes Apple fans, we can start celebrating and start saving for the iPhone. I can imagine it's going to be over $800. Ouch.
But we're only gonna be given about a month to save cause this time, it's coming to Singapore by mid-July. (It was reported that it would be coming early July but - pffft - who are they kidding?)
I was reading an article about the new phone - read about it here. - and what caught my attention wasn't the detailed specs of the new iPhone, or the dates of availability, it was the write'rs obvious, very infectious, excitement.
I can imagine him clacking away on his Asus laptop, (it's tuned to perfection so as to farm his gold) red-bloodshot eyes peering over his glasses.
"iPhone 4G is the thinnest iPhone ever! It’s also made of stainless steel!" He (I'm guessing it's a he, cause gender-bias dictates that most nerds are male) mutters under his breathe about how the iPhone trumps the HTC. (btw, it's 4 not 4G right?)
WHAT?! Stainless STEEL? OMG! MY LIFE IS COMPLETE. is probably what he screamed as he caught the keynote video.
Cause, you know, stainless steel makes everything better.
Techno-geek over here start to hyperventilate over the new features Steve Jobs shares such as the "5 mega-pixel camera which can digitally zoom 5x." And of course "its speed is unmatched compared to the previous iPhone of course."
Then he hears the magic words, gyro-accelerometer, (for none-geeks it means more motion gestures and greater precision for an even better gaming experience.) Without fail our favourite geek types, "Another cool thing about iPhone 4G is it has a Gyro-accelerometer, which provides 6-axis motion sensing!" he adds, "Oh wow!"
Alright alright, I'll stop poking fun at Sir-aroused-by-a-phone.
In truth, the new iPhone is pretty awesome.
Some of my favourite features include:
- Improved battery life-span
- A front camera for iChat
- Multi-tasking capabilities (which means I can play Ninja fruit and download videos at the same time heeheehee)
- iMovie is also included in the iPhone!
Okay. I'm getting excited now.
I'm gonna stop.
Pre-orders for the iPhone 4G will start early next week and will be available in Singapore only in July.
Prices are $199 USD for the 16GB model, and $299 USD for the 32GB model.
- A dork is the actual name for a whale's penis. :) -
Thursday, May 13, 2010
oh the curses of time.
I don't wanna grow old.
Even now as I'm typing this, I'm trying to deny the fact that I'm turning 20. For you Gen-x people, you're probably cursing me now. "20's freaking young!" you're probably yelling.
To you maybe, but to me, it's a step closer to responsibility. Who doesn't want to avoid it right?
The day I realised that I might one day have to be accountable to myself, was when a friend died.
His name was Samuel.
He... wasn't a perfect person. He wasn't my best friend. He was a close friend in Secondary 1 and drifted in Secondary 2 and onwards.
In fact, the clearest memory I have of him, was when he was chasing a younger girl down the school corridor. Hands out-stretched, waiting to grab her by the waist as she tilted her head coyly towards him, dashing away.
Not the best memory.
But the freshest.
Then I move backwards. I look back at the times when he smiled, he laughed, he held the door open and was a perfect gentleman. Then I think of all the potential he had and how far he could have gone. And I feel broken.
I feel guilty.
Why did he die when there were so many people should have died instead.
Then I remember a phrase, "Only the good die young and the wicked last forever."
And it pains me inside.
His wake was uncomfortable. With weeping people, people, whom I knew were not as close to him as they wanted to be.
They wanted a piece of the misery-pie.
When I saw him, his shell, lying in that brown box with a glass-pane revealing his face I thought of how empty he looked. He was gone.
I realised that we're moving forward everyday. As people die. We live. We move forward, we grow old.
That day, when I realised he was gone, I realised that we only have one moment to live. My life, is insignificant, small, compared to heaven's eternity. Our life - a seeming forever - is mere seconds to God.
I am growing old.
It will happen fast, and creep up without me knowing. In a moment, I will die.
I'd better do right with my life.
You'd better do right with yours.
- live life. -
Even now as I'm typing this, I'm trying to deny the fact that I'm turning 20. For you Gen-x people, you're probably cursing me now. "20's freaking young!" you're probably yelling.
To you maybe, but to me, it's a step closer to responsibility. Who doesn't want to avoid it right?
The day I realised that I might one day have to be accountable to myself, was when a friend died.
His name was Samuel.
He... wasn't a perfect person. He wasn't my best friend. He was a close friend in Secondary 1 and drifted in Secondary 2 and onwards.
In fact, the clearest memory I have of him, was when he was chasing a younger girl down the school corridor. Hands out-stretched, waiting to grab her by the waist as she tilted her head coyly towards him, dashing away.
Not the best memory.
But the freshest.
Then I move backwards. I look back at the times when he smiled, he laughed, he held the door open and was a perfect gentleman. Then I think of all the potential he had and how far he could have gone. And I feel broken.
I feel guilty.
Why did he die when there were so many people should have died instead.
Then I remember a phrase, "Only the good die young and the wicked last forever."
And it pains me inside.
His wake was uncomfortable. With weeping people, people, whom I knew were not as close to him as they wanted to be.
They wanted a piece of the misery-pie.
When I saw him, his shell, lying in that brown box with a glass-pane revealing his face I thought of how empty he looked. He was gone.
I realised that we're moving forward everyday. As people die. We live. We move forward, we grow old.
That day, when I realised he was gone, I realised that we only have one moment to live. My life, is insignificant, small, compared to heaven's eternity. Our life - a seeming forever - is mere seconds to God.
I am growing old.
It will happen fast, and creep up without me knowing. In a moment, I will die.
I'd better do right with my life.
You'd better do right with yours.
- live life. -
The origin of love
Feeling quite sappy today.
I met up with a girlfriend of mine and we had a long long chat. (she's such a sweetheart!)
We spoke of love, and how relationships sometimes makes people a little wacky. But that's the beautiful truth right?
You're so blind with happiness and love you lose sight of what's important. Your love becomes the most important thing to you.
Then another friend of mine posted up a link of "The Origin of Love"
Have you seen it before?
It's based on Plato's Symposium:
Aristophanes (the greatest comic poet of Athens) tells the story of the origin of love. Humans were once creatures with two faces, two pairs of arms and two pairs of legs.
Man-man were from the sun, woman-woman were from the Earth and man-woman were from the moon. They were powerful and decided to overthrow the gods.
They were supposed to be destroyed, but in a moment of weakness and care, Zeus decided to cripple them by splitting them into half instead.
Their skins were pulled to hide the tear and made into a little scar now known as our belly buttons.
Ever since then, we've run around looking for our other halves.
If this were true, I'd be wondering where my half was. Do I have a soulmate? Was I half of a whole?
Well Mr. Halfway, if you're out there, I'm waiting.
- Mr. Halfway -
I met up with a girlfriend of mine and we had a long long chat. (she's such a sweetheart!)
We spoke of love, and how relationships sometimes makes people a little wacky. But that's the beautiful truth right?
You're so blind with happiness and love you lose sight of what's important. Your love becomes the most important thing to you.
Then another friend of mine posted up a link of "The Origin of Love"
Have you seen it before?
It's based on Plato's Symposium:
Aristophanes (the greatest comic poet of Athens) tells the story of the origin of love. Humans were once creatures with two faces, two pairs of arms and two pairs of legs.
Man-man were from the sun, woman-woman were from the Earth and man-woman were from the moon. They were powerful and decided to overthrow the gods.
They were supposed to be destroyed, but in a moment of weakness and care, Zeus decided to cripple them by splitting them into half instead.
Their skins were pulled to hide the tear and made into a little scar now known as our belly buttons.
Ever since then, we've run around looking for our other halves.
If this were true, I'd be wondering where my half was. Do I have a soulmate? Was I half of a whole?
Well Mr. Halfway, if you're out there, I'm waiting.
The Origin of Love
When the earth was still flat
And the clouds made of fire
And mountains stretched up to the sky
Sometimes higher
Folks roamed the earth
Like big rolling kegs
They had two sets of arms
They had two sets of legs
They had two faces peering
Out of one giant head
So they could watch all around them
As they talked while they read
And they never knew nothing of love
It was before...
The origin of love
The origin of love
And there were three sexes then
One that looked like two men
Glued up back to back
Called the children of the sun
And similar in shape and girth
Were the children of the earth
They looked like
Two girls rolled up in one
And the children of the moon
Was like a fork shoved on a spoon
They were part sun, part earth
Part daughter, part son
The origin of love
Now the gods grew quite scared
Of our strength and defiance
And Thor said,
"I'm gonna kill them all with my hammer,
Like I killed the giants"
But Zeus said, "No-
You better let me
Use my lightning like scissors
Like I cut the legs off the whales
Dinosaurs into lizards"
Then he grabbed up some bolts
He let out a laugh
Said, "I'll split them right down the middle
Gonna cut them right up in half"
And then storm clouds gathered above
Into great balls of fire
And then fire shot down
From the sky in bolts
Like shining blades of a knife
And it ripped right through the flesh
Of the children of the sun and the moon and the earth
And some Indian god
Sewed the up into a hole
Pulled it round to our belly
To remind us of the price we pay
And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
Gathered up a big storm
To blow a hurricane
To scatter us away
In a flood of wind and rain
A sea of tidal waves
To wash us all away
And if we don't behave
They'll cut us down again
And we'll be hopping 'round on one foot
And looking through one eye
Last time I saw you
We had just split in two
You were looking at me
I was looking at you
You had a way so familiar
But I could not recognize
'Cause you had blood on your face
I had blood in my eyes
But I could swear by your expression
That the pain down in your soul
Was the same as the one down in mine
That's the pain
That cuts a straight line down through the heart
We call it love
We wrapped our arms around each other
Tried to shove ourselves back together
We were making love
Making love
It was a cold, dark evening
Such a long time ago
When by the mighty hand of Jove
It was the sad story how we became
Lonely two-legged creatures
It's the story of the origin of love
That's the origin of love
The origin of love
The origin of love
The origin of love
And the clouds made of fire
And mountains stretched up to the sky
Sometimes higher
Folks roamed the earth
Like big rolling kegs
They had two sets of arms
They had two sets of legs
They had two faces peering
Out of one giant head
So they could watch all around them
As they talked while they read
And they never knew nothing of love
It was before...
The origin of love
The origin of love
And there were three sexes then
One that looked like two men
Glued up back to back
Called the children of the sun
And similar in shape and girth
Were the children of the earth
They looked like
Two girls rolled up in one
And the children of the moon
Was like a fork shoved on a spoon
They were part sun, part earth
Part daughter, part son
The origin of love
Now the gods grew quite scared
Of our strength and defiance
And Thor said,
"I'm gonna kill them all with my hammer,
Like I killed the giants"
But Zeus said, "No-
You better let me
Use my lightning like scissors
Like I cut the legs off the whales
Dinosaurs into lizards"
Then he grabbed up some bolts
He let out a laugh
Said, "I'll split them right down the middle
Gonna cut them right up in half"
And then storm clouds gathered above
Into great balls of fire
And then fire shot down
From the sky in bolts
Like shining blades of a knife
And it ripped right through the flesh
Of the children of the sun and the moon and the earth
And some Indian god
Sewed the up into a hole
Pulled it round to our belly
To remind us of the price we pay
And Osiris and the gods of the Nile
Gathered up a big storm
To blow a hurricane
To scatter us away
In a flood of wind and rain
A sea of tidal waves
To wash us all away
And if we don't behave
They'll cut us down again
And we'll be hopping 'round on one foot
And looking through one eye
Last time I saw you
We had just split in two
You were looking at me
I was looking at you
You had a way so familiar
But I could not recognize
'Cause you had blood on your face
I had blood in my eyes
But I could swear by your expression
That the pain down in your soul
Was the same as the one down in mine
That's the pain
That cuts a straight line down through the heart
We call it love
We wrapped our arms around each other
Tried to shove ourselves back together
We were making love
Making love
It was a cold, dark evening
Such a long time ago
When by the mighty hand of Jove
It was the sad story how we became
Lonely two-legged creatures
It's the story of the origin of love
That's the origin of love
The origin of love
The origin of love
The origin of love
- Mr. Halfway -
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