Happy Birthday to...

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

The guy who slapped my sunburnt shoulders the other day. Yes, Daddy, you!

Don't know why but apparently it feels like this year every week there is someone's birthday around the corner. Been celebrating birthdays non-stop since Leon's!

And if you think I'm pro at acting blur at forgetting people's birthday, then I can now officially tell you that I inherited it from my mother.

As I came down, dressed and ready to go out today, my mother asked me, in front of my father "Today got noodles, do you want to eat in school, or do you want to eat at home?" She put in ALOT of emphasis on the word IN SCHOOL. It's easy to bluff my dad when TP has such an erratic school term schedule.

"In school." I replied carefully.

Then my mother went to the usual act of "Daddy, later fetch Ah Girl to school then we go see your garden sculptures ok?".. I think my Dad rolled his eyes at this part. She's so good at faking, I tell you. Did I mention .. ok nvm, I'd say this another day, about my stupid 17th birthday party, involving sanitary pads. I'd relate the entire story for another day's blog because today's blog is going to be long enough.

I had earlier suggested to mum that we celebrate Dad's birthday at Swenson's or something. Somewhere nice, neat, and most importantly AIR-CONDITIONED!

So what I roughly wore today was more suited to eating out at a shopping centre.




Guess where I went instead?




When Dad finally found out that me and my bro would actually be tagging along,it was on-the-spur-of-the-moment, decided that we would go to Sentosa.

Yes. Sen-frigging-tosa.

The exact same place that I got fried last Wednesday. In fact, also the place that I would be bringing Kilo to, tomorrow with Tinker the bitch, accompanied by Manda, Melia and of course, my good ol' bro, Geoffrey.

What is it with Cindy and Sentosa? Why is she always going there? Well I HAVE NO IDEA EITHER. I guess part of the fact that attributed to the decision was that my dad haven't been there for like a little over 20 years!. But hey, Sentosa's a great place to go; I'd show you why.

I have no idea why it costs a blardy expensive S$19.50 adult entrance fee. I guess most of it goes to the water bill, but yes, that is the price that they charge you to enter Underwater World. In one of our conversation of thinking where to go, my mum actually said "Let's go back to Underworld.".. now if you consider what particular MONTH it is according to the Chinese lunar calendar, it is not at all funny.

Behold, my first picture taken today at Sentosa:







Had actually wanted to capture a picture of that fish that greatly resembles Dory (in Finding Nemo) but somehow some XTRA fish blocked my view. Oh never mind!







Then there was this prehistoric-looking creature that absolutely stumps me because I can't tell which is the head which is the mouth, or WHETHER it has a head or a mouth to begin with. One of them even swam towards the glass tank's edge and knocked against it. It didn't hurt. There was a loud KOK sound since its shell is super hard ......

unlike those poor soft feeble fragile jellyfish (that unfortunately absolutely STINGS if you accidentally brush against one, so guess it's not THAT fragile after all).





Don't be fooled by the picture above. This jelly dude is actually HUGE! It could joly well hug my entire head and STILL have some allowance left! I quite like this photo because of its very strong contrast. No special effects needed! Just a picture taken by the humble Sony Ericsson S700i!

There were also a couple of weird creatures that I encountered in the Underwater World. It sort of made the $19.50 quite value for money, provided you are able to appreciate the creatures. I couldn't even keep a few goldfish alive for long, so I can understand the hardwork and effort that the staff at Underwater World had put in.


This.. fish.. is the LARGEST blardy creature I have EVER encountered in my entire life. This excludes dinosaurs that have appeared in my dreams before.



If I'm not wrong, I think some of these fishes are actually on loan from a South African aquarium or something. My goodness, how on earth do you loan such HUUUUUGE fishes without being afraid they would die from stress or something on the way over? Like, do they make them SWIM the sea over? or do they transport them by AIR over? Or do they put them in gigantic styrofoam boxes and put them on a cargo ship all the way to Singapore?


The fish isn't even near my hand so you can't see the actual comparison of how tiny weeny pweeny my hand is compared to the biiiiiiig biiiiiiiig fishy.



Did I also forgot to mention how extremely IMPOSSIBLE it is to take a clear photo of a fish with a handphone camera? Most of them are just.. blurred.





Aren't these two darlings sweet? Animals that go around in pairs always make me lean back and go "awwwwwww!" because it's such a sweet sight. However, these two fishes are actually quite irritated at being harressed by surgoen fishes. As dad explained, surgeon fishes are supposedly very helpful in getting rid of bacteria or either similar harmful parasites that are attacking their other fishy friends. These surgeon fishes would even swim around and help the sick fish by cleaning up its body slime.


An example:







Big dude seemingly opened up his gills so that the surgeons have easier access to his infected um.. gills? Hahaha...!

Before you go crazy over the blurness of my photos, I shall throw them all together so you would only suffer one MASSIVE headache instead of several seperate little headaches.




Pretty-looking fish. Is it just me? Or does it really have the 'caught-
redhanded' look?







This fish is rather common. Could be found in many fish-shops around Singapore, but I doubt you can find one for sale that is of THAT size..

I cannot deny but I did ONCE-upon-a-time wanted to keep one. However, I thought it was emotionally safer to keep a group of fishes rather than ONE single one because I would develop so much feelings for that single fish that if it dies *touch wood!* I would be so blardy upset.


Talking about keeping fishes, do you know they also do have ONE SINGLE PATHETIC pufferfish? I'm specifically referring to the type that I kept before. It's quite tiny from the photo so you gotta look closer. It's the one that is staring sexily at the camera (body half-turned.. acting all shy and all.. the silly little bugger).




Just in case you STILL don't know which one it is (WOLS!), it's the one with the super white belly!






Thought I'd share with all of you this rare find. A unicorn fish!

I walked past this big tank when suddenly, out of a hiding hole popped a .. THING.. that resembled a hand puppet. It was looking at me and opening and closing its mouth, almost like it's talking.

So I thought it was only polite that I looked at it and nodded my head every now and then, pretending that I am paying attention to it. . .










DUH! What were you thinking!? Of course I didn't do that!

What weird creatures we've been seeing so far. How about I bring the photo subjects a little closer to 'home'. There WERE actually piranhas there. But they were too fast and what I ended up taking was 10 simultaneous pictures of BLURNESS (they were attacking some dead fish that was thrown into the tank). Ok, PART of the reason why I didn't bother taking the piranhas some more was because.. hey, they are viciously attacking a poor dead fish! *hint: read title of this blog page*

So, since there are no piranhas, I turned to the other tank available. A tank filled with...... yummy... my favourite food... CUTTLEFISH!






Is that disgusting or what!? I didn't know cuttlefish looks like this! I thought it was more of a .. sotong apearance. Straight, blur, unsightly. This is not only just unsightly, this is disgusting! I shall now resolve to NOT eat cuttlefish for the next... 5 hours.

Well, after much thought, my guess is that the one featured at Underworld is not the type that we usually eat elsewhere, thus my 5 hours ban of cuttlefish consumption has been retracted.

Have you ever wondered about dragons? Mystical creatures they are. The weird thing is, in the East, dragons are often associated with grand splendid things. Like the way the dragon and phoenix are embroidered everywhere with everything associated with royalty or good luck. Heck, even the Chinese bridal gown (I don't think it's called Chinese Bridal Gown, but oh well, as long as you get it!).

However in the West, their version of the stories are always the brave knights slaying the dragon, dragon is big bada$$ and must die. Hero is the one who kills it.

But have you ever wondered, despite such different views of the dragon, it somehow existed in both worlds? I think I just found the inspiration for the mythical fictitious creature. . . It's called.. a sea dragon.....




A weedy sea dragon to be exact. But beautiful, it is!

I also found out that there is ANOTHER sea dragon called the Leafy Sea Dragon. If I were the one to name it, I would have called weedy leafy, and leafy flowery. You can see why...






Stare a little longer and you would realise where its head and hands are. They're like hugging each other. Or.. entangled with each other by accident? LOL!

To be continued (in seperate blog post).

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If you think Kilo is big...

Monday, August 29, 2005

Then you ought to check out THIS VIDEO.

CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 11:53 pm

Peeling in Progress

I spent the whole night twisting around in bed. It was incredibly itchy and I was beginning to suspect maybe Chubby had deposited some parasites on me or something.

When I woke up, the bed was filled with crumpled dead skin, rolled into weird shapes due to the previous night's tossing and turning.

As such, being horribly-looking right now, I decided to stay locked in my room today so as not to terrorise anyone else who will see me.

And when I stay locked in my room, there is only one thing I can do: blog.

And since I did not step out and thus, have nothing interesting to write, I shall do changes to the skin (pun unintended). Away goes the Initial D pictures. It's time for um, miscellaneous pics. Thrown/jumbled/resized together.

There's a story I want to show with all of you. By Ajahn Brahm (AGAIN!).

I can't stop talking about the stories that he mentioned lah. It's so interesting and meaningful at the same time.

And according to him, he claimed that this took place in Singapore:

This couple got married. And at the end of the wedding, the bride's father pulled his new son-in-law aside and said to him "You love my daughter and feel she's perfect, don't you?"..

"Yes!" said the son-in-law, in a dreamy state.

"See, you're still in the early stages. Now that you're married, you're going to live with her and slowly start to see her faults and realise that she's not perfect. And when that happens, I want you to bear in mind that if she does not have these weaknesses, she would have married someone much better than you."

CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 8:11 pm

Sentosa Aftermath...

Sunday, August 28, 2005

It's a Sunday now. Sentosa was 4 days ago. But right now I'm still suffering from the sunburns.

PS: Sentosa photos are officially 100% uploaded. Click HERE to access.

I have now realised the importance of GOOD Sunblock.

It's weird, cos everyone used the same bottle of Sun Tanning lotion (the rest did not bring theirs), and yet the effects on each of us are all so different. From mildly boiled Ling, to fried Huat, to not-affected-at-all Crystal.

Whereas for me? I am simply as red as a lobster.

In case you STILL haven't added my ciin_dee email address to your MSN contact list, you wouldn't be able to view my current display picture, that is supposedly giving many people nightmares (or so they claim).






If you are wow-ed by the redness, I can assure you that you will be also wow-ed by the pain if you were able to experience it. Everytime you even MOVE, you would be rudely awakened by the searing pain that is especially concentrated around the shoulders.

And when you bathe, even the impact of water splashing onto your shoulder from the showerhead would also be painful. Then comes the towel-drying part. It's like bringing a cloth in contact with your raw skin, I tell you.

Come to think of it, ever since I started this blog, I had not experienced a sunburn. That is a pretty long time, and I also hope this would be the blardy last time I have a sunburn. I'd just get a super high SPF block lotion for my next trip to Sentosa.

Now the stupid thing is when you have sunburns, you become much more sensitive to everything. Like I remember I wore super baggy long-sleeves to school for Friday's Marketing debrief. I took a bus to school that day.

And when we were getting off, one of the girl students accidentally touched my back since she stood abit too close. 'Touch' would be an overstatement. She merely brushed against my bag with her file.

Instinctively, the pain made me JUMP away from her like she was trying to molest me or something. Quite embarrassing. I'm hoping she didn't see my face.

Speaking of which, remember how whenever you have sunburns, there are always one or two irritants? And I mean HUMAN irritants who always threaten to whack your sunburns or, at times, REALLY whack your burn just to grin with glee whenever they see you wincing in pain?

I told myself that if anyone ever did that intentionally to me, I would give such a kick to that person's head that my dogs would play with it as a new toy.

Unfortunately.. I couldn't. Because the only person who actually hit my shoulders like that on purpose was none other than my dad himself.

CiiN Sniffed Her Pillow At 3:41 pm

Happy (belated) Birthday to CK!

Friday, August 26, 2005

To the old man of T10: Happy Birthday!


I swear over my dead body that I had seriously always thought it was on August 27th. I swear that T10 DID NOT forget your birthday. We just got it on the wrong date (some of us figured out at the very last minute).

Anywayz, I clearly remembered that when I asked you for your birthdate ten thousand years ago, you clearly stated 27. Maybe you typed wrong because '7' is right above '4' on the number pad of the keyboard. It's ok, bro, I forgive you. We all forgive you for making us get the dates wrong.

*generous & magnanimous smile*



Earlier on we had planned to celebrate CK's birthday at Sentosa, but since WE THOUGHT it was on the 27th, we postponed it to Friday where we were all going to school anyway for Marketing Debrief (yes, Marketing holidays have officially started, excluding Calculus students).

At Sentosa on 24th (which is CK's REAL birthday), Nur, Huat, CK, Ling and I were walking to Seven-Eleven to get drinks for the rest of the lazy *toots* who preferred playing then going to buy their own drinks *scoffs, haha, just kidding*.

Nur was asking me when was MY birthdate. Since CK was standing between us, CK thought Nur was asking him, so he replied "Today."

Now everyone's natural reaction would be to say "Really? Happy Birthday CK!"... But oh, no... Nur retorted "No lah! I asking Cindy! Not you!"...

CK was like "oh... o...k...." and the look on his face that followed was so extremely hilarious, I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time.

Unknown to him, the rest of us had earlier made a pact that we would all 'act blur' and pretend to forget his birthday. Unfortunately some chicken mcnuggets in T10 broke it and went on to wish him happy birthday.. grrr....

Oh never mind.

So everyone came over to my place today. since after eating at Pastamania, no one could decide where to go next. Huat and Leon, the spoilers for the day, absolutley REFUSED to go karaoke.

When we first stepped into the room, Ling and Crystal, like excited small kids, were huddling around my lobster containers, trying to check out my lobsters. Ok, 'lobsters', since they are actually blue freshwater crayfish (real lobsters are all salt-water types).

There, in Cody's tank, lay the partially rotten body of my dead Cody.

"Why the fug did you die!?" was the only reaction I could give. Sure, the rest could always look at Fugtard if they wanted to see a blue 'lobster' but now my Cody is gone!!!!

At this moment in time, Fugtard, (Xiang's 'lobster' that is MIRACULOUSLY still at my place despite me having gotten it FOR HIS FREAKING BIRTHDAY) was being absolutely uncooperative.

You know lobsters like to hide in dark places. And I had only two to offer. One was a grey normal looking pipe (that was stolen from my old vacuum-cleaner), the other was this super beautiful fibreglass type material that (costed me 10 freaking dollars),was a really fancy fishtank ornament and is really big, spacious and all.

I had given the very nice fibreglass cave to Fugtard. It's like... um... difference between Hotel81 Grey Pipe and Ritz Carlton Fancy Cave you know.

Apparently, Fugtard found his Ritz Carlton TOO comfortable and refused to come out despite me holding the cave upside down and shaking it violently, he clung on tightly to the walls of the cave and REFUSED to come out.

And, just for the record, Didi did not attempt to wank on anyone today. Except Huat. But his lust for Huat lasted for merely 5 minutes. Huat, that is an insult to you, you know. Didi's other targets (Janet ar... Cheryl ar.. Joshua ar...) lasted for the entire day!

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Have you forgotten...

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Warning: Photo Blog

Have you forgotten how BEAUTIFUL Sentosa beaches are? Yes, Sunset Bay used to be so affected since they had the place blocked up to build some structures but now that the stupid renovation has finished, Sunset Bay is back, much better than before.



In fact, here's some pics I had taken whlie the dudes were in the toilet:











This is even more beautiful. You could see a very small-looking Rasa Sentosa in the pic.







This is the hut that we camped at. All we did was to pay $5 per person and for the rest of the frigging day, we could play volleyball, kayak, soccer (goal posts included!) and WHATEVER facilities! Only catch: Seven-11 is situated like ten thousand miles away.






Nur was HALF AN HOUR LATE that day. Resulting in 5 very late North East Line people.










The Late One.





We ate before we went over to the little island of Sentosa. The poor East Side people were starving like crazy after waiting for us. It wasn't THAT long anyway. We were just merely 20 minutes late.







I had to include this pic above because Zixiang looked so serious, it was almost funny. Anyway, these happen to be the gay(gay as in HAPPY) boys of T10.


While waiting for the bus, Crystal kept taking photos and we had to KEEP smiling for it that you can see who are the ones really tired out from all that facial muscle control business.















Below photo taken by Yours Truly. Nice right? Not blur though its on a moving vehicle. Am I Pro Or am I Pro?






These are examples of photos taken by Not-Pros (I don't know who).







Ok. The next few THOUSAND photos were taken at Sunset Bay. I shan't add any comments because if I do, this blog post is gonna take like ten million years to post. So there you go, PHOTOS, ladies and gentleman:





















































Huat wanted to take an 'ACT COOL' photo alone. What he didn't realise was what we were trying to do in the background.


Eventually he DID realise, and asked us to !@#$% *censored contents*. So, ok, MOST of them left him alone... except..










The first signs of SERIOUS SUPER DUPER sunburns are appearing in this photo. Check out all their skin already...










A bunch of VERY RED people at a VERY RED fast-food restaurant. Remember they used to have this commercial with a kid singing: "At Macdonald's, we'll do it all for you... "....Do what??






Waiting for the train...






Sometimes, candid shots ARE VERY NICE. Look very natural and everything....








However, sometimes, candid shots are also NOT VERY NICE...







And this is one of the problem you encounter when you have two cameras on the same outing: Everyone looks at DIFFERENT cameras...







Our beach models, Zixiang & Leon:

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