Insidious: Chapter 2

Caught the horror film insidious: chapter 2 just now. I like how they linked the story, so it's not just a pay money to scare yourself kind of movie. Good story line good plot, although I'd recommend you to watch chapter 1 first. Either I'm too engrossed in the movie or a frightening woman in a particular scene scared me so much that I forgot to eat my salted popcorn, totally wasted. I've always had a question: why do they always use females as the main character in horror films? Are females supposed to be more scary? Does it have a greater impact? The main character in this film isn't a female although I've to admit, I find a particular woman in this movie quite frightening, got scared a few times when she appeared. I'm getting more and more timid. Still prefer the seats in cathay than shaw's, it's more comfy, shaw's one is too hard. Saw the huge mockingjay statue outside the cathay, I want to watch the hunger games: catching fire.

Saw a dead cockroach lying on its back in the lift, even though it's dead but that doesn't stop me from being scared. As long as I see one, I'll be very scared, doesn't matter if it's dead or alive. 胆小鬼，就是怕啊没办法 :(

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Won a pair of free movie tickets to "Rhythm of the rain" premiere directed by vincent fang (Jay's lyricist). I wasn't too interested in the movie but since it's free, why waste it? Last minute asked yx to accompany me, luckily she's free. First time stepping into jcube, basically I've no reason to be there cause it's far from my house and my friends wouldn't meet me there either. Dinner at kungfu paradise, walked around and watched people skating at the ice rink. Don't ever ask me to go cause I can't balance, don't want to have anymore injuries. Received "goodie bag" with made-in-taiwan 凤梨酥, movie poster, sweets and magazines. The movie was all right, not much surprises, story line's normal, don't really have high expectations for it. I like the theme song, composed by my favourite guy haha.

Went for a play "Unseen" to show support for boonie's friends, it's about poverty, the "hidden poor". There's also an exhibition with pictures showing the social workers paying a visit to their house, their living room is also their bedroom due to lack of space. Sometimes we might see homeless people lying on streets/void decks or people begging for money but what we don't see is how they struggled to keep themselves alive. Maybe they deserve a chance to be treated equally like us instead of being judged. We don't know their stories, we don't even know them so who are we to judge? The play was great and meaningful, made me more aware of how they felt, what they really wanted and how much they needed our help.

Singing at teoheng just now, can never get enough of singing but I've run out of songs. 看到你让我觉得很开心。First time going to star vista but didn't walk around, just went for dinner at mfm, realized that I seldom, or should I say never, eat fish when I'm out with my friends nowadays.

有点不开心，但又能怎样呢？:((

Timbre

Friday night chilling at timbre with mel, boonie & hoonie, haven't been there for quite some time. I love their half-half pizzas with the thin crust meaning we can have 2 different flavours in a pizza. Ordered 2 of them - 1 with pepperoni & smoked salmon, the other was seafood & meat lover, had their buffalo wings and vodka too. Drank 2 cups of vodka mixed - citron & lime, citron & orange. As you can tell, from my choice of drink, that I like citrus flavour. I've no idea what's my tolerance level for alcohol since I seldom drink. I tend to avoid drinking if I can help it. Ambience is good, their food is still as nice as ever, the live band is great and the service crew is friendly too. Queue is always long and I think they don't allow reservations on fri-sun, but it's worth the wait. One of my favourite places, love the pizzas there, it's a must-have! If you order 1 drink during happy hour (they have promotion for their drinks during happy hour), total bill per person is about $20+, without drinks is just $10+ near to $20. Of course it also depends on how much you order and how many people are there in your group to split the cost.

I was walking home when I saw a huge dog coming towards me, wanted to walk past it when it suddenly stopped in its tracks. I turned to the left and noticed that there's 2 more huge dogs standing behind me. It totally gave me a shock since I haven't seen such huge dogs around my area anymore, there used to be a few when there are fewer people living around here. I thought they were going to bite me or what but luckily they steered clear of my path.

Currently been reading on the hunger games novels, finally managed to borrow all 3 books from the library. Wanted to borrow the mortal instruments: city of bones but it's too popular, every single book is on loan. Guess I'll just have to wait. I've just finished reading book 1 of the hunger games, story line isn't so bad but since I haven't finished reading all, I can't comment too much on it either. Wait till I finished the book, currently I'd recommend it to people who wants to read it.

DBA01 batam trip

Lepak batam trip with DBA01, it's my 2nd overseas trip with some of them. Going overseas with different people give you different experience.

Day 1
Had McDonald's breakfast together, collected our boarding pass and boarded the ferry to batam. Had to reach 90 minutes earlier than the allocated time, lack of sleep. Went for our package tour with the massage place as our first stop, it's located behind the souvenir shop with only a glass door separating them. The full body massage was rather painful for me and ticklish at the sensitive area near my thigh. The head massage was the most painful, I'll never go for a massage again. I wonder why some people enjoy it so much while I'm just suffering. After that was going to different shops to look at clothes. The shops are having discounts and we will have additional 15% discount with the sticker given to us by the tour guide. It seems as though they are encouraging us to spend. Had 7-course seafood lunch with prawns, crabs, sotong, bird nest etc. Some went to play go-kart while some shopped for clothes, the go-kart was located just outside the shop. One of the go-kart service crew had a little accident, a kid bumped into a go-kart when he came back and it knocked the guy off his feet. Poor thing. Visited the chocolate house, temple, places selling otah and kueh lapis. Didn't buy kueh lapis from that place cause bib's friend said there's a cheaper one at Nagoya shopping mall. Last stop was at a shopping mall, some went to play bowling and we bought kfc back. Road near our hotel was quite bumpy, checked in at pacific palace hotel. Some went for supper, was too full to eat already so me & boonie stayed in our hotel rooms watching channel 5.

The place where we had our seafood lunch

Picture taken with our tour guide

Day 2
Was awakened by mel knocking on our door the next morning, gave them a shock with my 'ghostly' appearance with my hair all messy. Whole body was aching because of the massage yesterday. Breakfast with them, bib's friend helped us to hire a van to bring us to the places we want to go. Cancelled our plans for the beach cause it's raining. We had to pay to visit the beach, but the nice one was too far away, we could only go to the not-so-nice beach and it's quite dirty, nobody wants to pay to go to that beach. Saw haunted house in shopping mall, don't dare to go in. One thing I don't like about batam is there's no toilet paper in their toilets plus it's dirty and people don't really queue, they just stood outside the cubicle. I didn't know about that the first time I went and I was so angry when people kept cutting my queue. Went to barelang bridge, there's traffic on the bridge and walkway for people to take pictures. The sea view was awesome, took many nice shots there, we have our own "Ji-dragon" too haha. Had lunch at some unknown place, ordered nasi goreng while the rest ate bakso. Went to Nagoya shopping mall to watch the movie frozen ground, front part was too boring with all the talking, I just fell asleep. Their movie theatre was big, it's comparable to ours. Didn't get a chance to sing karaoke with them, not even sure if there are any chinese songs there. A&W for dinner, their A&W was nice with spicy chicken, fries and root beer float. Collected our kueh lapis, bought prune flavour for my cousin, she loves it ever since the last time I bought for her. The guys kept us waiting cause they were buying clothes, they shopped more than the girls. Last stop was to buy pancakes for supper, the driver was very friendly and nice to us the whole day and we gave him extra tips. Gathered at mel's room to play heads-up, an iPhone app which requires the person who's guessing to put the phone near his forehead and people will act out/say whatever hints to let the person guess the word that appears. Joke of the day: "Jeff, what are you?" "I'm a dog!" Hahahaha. Laughed a lot because of all the stupid answers & responses, played till 2am before we went back to sleep.

Casper, the friendly ghost

Barelang bridge

Proudly presents to you our "Ji-dragon"!

Lunch

Heads-up!

Day 3
Breakfast with the girls only cause the guys couldn't wake up, had a heavy breakfast. Gathered at lobby to wait for the bus to send us to the ferry terminal, skipped lunch cause I'm too full. Had to queue 1 hour earlier before departure time, took us 30 minutes to get past the custom and it's very crowded, some people just cut our queue again. Reached Singapore at 5pm, I'm really tired but I really enjoyed this trip. They are suggesting another overseas trip next year. It's not a matter of what you did there but who you spend it with that makes this trip fun and enjoyable.

Horror movies/dinner

Watched "The Conjuring" & "Last Summer" with hk & my cousin, 1 week 1 horror movie each. They are planning to watch "Insidious 2" which I think is going to be scary. Although I always watch horror movies but I'm quite timid actually. I'll be scared but I'll still watch it. I think they are trying to kill me by watching it on a frequent basis. Whenever we walked past the movie posters, hk will see if there's any horror movies and she will want to watch it. That night after watching the conjuring, I'm afraid that I'll feel someone pulling my legs. Just woke up in the middle of the night and this scene came to my mind. I really hate people screaming in theatres, a sudden loud scream in the quiet theatre will terrify me more than what's being shown in the movie. Still prefer thai movies because they have a story line and not just to scare people. I get scared by the loud sound effects very easily. Love salted popcorn, it has become a habit for me nowadays to order popcorn even if I just had my dinner a few minutes ago.

Dinner at pique nique with ei8ht, some food was too bland, some was too salty, the standard is different even though some ordered the same food. Accompanied them to buy mooncakes, I didn't get any cause I don't eat mooncakes. 挑食。

Currently watching the walking dead drama, it's pretty gruesome so don't watch it if you can't stand gruesome stuff. Some parts are quite sad when you see people dying. I don't think I can survive a zombie apocalypse, especially not when they are flesh-eating zombies. Discovered a small scratch mark near my cheekbone just below my right eye when I woke up, it hurts when I'm washing my face. Didn't know how I get it. Starting school next week with only 2 day week and going batam this friday.

farewell

Working ot for the last 5 days and eating dinner at around 10/11pm, handing some stuff over to the new temp, so basically I've been doing nothing during normal office hours. I'm just sitting there and looking at him do his work and checking to make sure it's correct. I've completed most of the work already so he doesn't need to work ot either. Really think that I'm getting better in organising my time haha. Helping colleague during ot hours even though I'm not supposed to do it. I just helped with whatever I can since I've done it before. It's not that boring when you have colleagues accompanying you in the office, although it's stressed but the office is always filled with laughter. That's the only time when we can talk and laugh out loud with lesser people around, felt more restricted during normal office hours with everyone being so serious. Worked ot still have free rides home :)

Ended my last day with much laughter, had farewell lunch on thurs & fri with the same group. 同事说我很贴心，很细心，很有耐心，不会发脾气不会不耐烦，可以去当老师。One bad thing is I tend to teach people everything that I know in one go. I always give them lots of information, don't think they can absorb either haha.

Colleague wanted to treat me twice cause I helped her, but I insisted on returning her money. No one can stand my stubbornness, 不喜欢欠人情。I like to help people but I don't do it because I want something in return, I don't accept any special treats because I don't want it to feel like I'm being nice to you because I expect something in return. That defeats the purpose of me helping you. 我只是纯粹想帮你，就这么简单。要别人请，我会不好意思。I always tell people I can be nice to them but they cannot be nice to me haha. 很多人会觉得是歪理，受不了我这么固执。

少了我这么欠打的人，可能会比较无聊吧，没人会说话刺激你，真的挺欠打的，皮很痒 :D Went airport after ot to fulfill our agreement, eat mcspicy on my last day. Eyes felt like closing when eating, felt like I'm in dreamland already. Not sure if it's the mcspicy being too spicy or is it my tired eyes causing tears to form. First time eat until want to sleep and cry, it's really unforgettable. Kept drinking coke, too full/bloated but can't burp, ended up wanting to vomit, felt better after burping. Caught the last bus home, love empty buses. 难忘的最后一天。

I know that people who gets left behind are always the saddest, but I always leave people behind. 是有点不舍，几乎每天朝夕相处，一起努力工作一起加班，我觉得蛮开心的。都是同事在照顾我，可能我看起来比较需要别人照顾吧。贪睡的我不用这么早起床了！脱离苦海了！

因为想你，所以想见你，可是又觉得不见面也许会比较好，矛盾。觉得没必要浪费时间和金钱重复看第二遍同样的电影，又不是说很好看，也没有非要看第二遍的理由。我。。。好像很容易吃醋。

心情不好

Having mixed emotions, feeling glad that I passed all but also sad that I didn't get the results I wanted even after putting in so much effort and hard work. It's always a different story when I go into the exam hall. Disappointed with such bad results, feeling sad not so much for audit but mm. Didn't have time to complete that 8 marks question, what's even more sad is that I knew how to do it. It can make so much difference, at least I'll get what I want. 大概是觉得不甘心吧，有点遗憾。I should just let it go. Thank you people for all the encouragements, consolations & motivating me to work harder, 感受到你们的爱和关心了！还好这次这座冰山没哭！

我很怕凶的人，他们只要稍微提高音量喊我，我就想哭了。今天的我心情不好，有人误解我的意思，稍微对我凶了一点。强忍着泪水，想想可能因为说的方式容易让人误解，所以后来有道歉。

陪你听你喜欢听的歌，陪你去演唱会的人却永远都不是我。心情差的我想跟你聊天又怕打扰到你，所以每次只能等到你有空，你好像很忙 :( 等你有空的时候，我却不想聊了。我好像在自言自语，在跟空气说话 :( 不要一直去烦别人，人家都不理你，这样很讨人厌。或许我只不过是个呼之即来挥之即去的人 :(