| the humid weather's back! |
[Apr. 20th, 2009|12:45 am] |
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it's back again... the unbearable weather that is bad at night and worse in the day...
it's times like this that i think the air-conditioning companies should start advertising again. i would have succumbed to the temptations, if not for the "lack of order" in my room. (The technicians would not be able to install an air-con in my room.)
so perhaps keeping my room the way it is, saves me money?
but the heat's gonna kill me.
hmm... first, i gotta figure out where to start packing... ... |
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| let's all be nice people... |
[Mar. 25th, 2009|01:56 am] |
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In programming, you catch an exception and throw a statement.
At work, you catch a mistake and that person throws you a (nasty) statement.
but it's ok. i really shouldn't be angry. in fact i should be more understanding... for this person will one day realise it, feel guilty and change for the better. everyone goes through that...
(yes i'm trying to be positive)
*ZEN*
(like what PK says his House is doing. *laughs*) |
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| no angels please! |
[Feb. 11th, 2009|10:13 pm] |
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ok i don't know why I'd decided to stick to this topic instead.
it was supposed to be something else that made me pissed off today. and everything seems to have some kinda weird link that i don't really know how to explain and i don't think you get what i'm trying to say. SO... some random thoughts with regards to recent incidents that have happened to me and around me are that:
1. Everyone needs to learn how to read body language.
2. Never judge a friend. Always try to understand why a friend reacted the way he/she did.
3. Only be friends with people whom you think the friendship will last. Others will fit into the category of 'acquaintances'.
4. It is important to be friends with people in the same frequency band as you. Otherwise, they must at least be willing to tune in to your band when required.
and now i'm going to go into the main topic - "no angels please!". well basically i just want to say that i hate people who are goody two-shoes. i'm pretty sure in your life you'd have met at least one such person before... the kind who is 923,534,785,325,789,235 times more annoying than screaming children and rude uncles. and why so? because you can threaten screaming children to shut up and you can curse and swear at rude uncles. BUT...
YOU CAN NEVER FIND A GOOD REASON TO SCOLD ANNOYING GOODY TWO-SHOES AND STOP THEM FROM GETTING ON YOUR NERVES!!! *ROARRSSSS*
sad to say, they are usually females, although there are exceptions. they usually:
1. have unusually good enunciation when speaking
2. try so damn hard to be nice and polite all the time
3. probably believe that they don't fart and have never burped before
4. will never swear and possibly won't even admit that they've shitted before.
however, not all GTSes (abbreviation of Goody Two-Shoes) come in the above form because GTS genes might have undergone mutation, resulting in the new generation of GTS being able to accept the fact that they do fart, burp and shit. there are no hard and fast rules to spot one. but after communicating with GTSes, you should be able to feel the vibes.
so... i have decided to write a new song, to direct our common angst at these GT-ASSES!!#$%^*#)%@)%( |
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| Happy Chinese New Year~ *burps* |
[Jan. 26th, 2009|12:56 pm] |
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| | home | ] |
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| [ | music |
| | some guy singing 曹操 on meetoto | ] |
i'm back!
woahs... it's been 2 months plus since my last entry, haha! been wanting to update some stuff but haven't got to.. and now i can't remember what i'd wanted to update. ;op
soooo, it's a brand new lunar year! that's fast. and it's getting scarier every year cos im AGING. *roars* i think soon i'll belong to the AGING population in singapore. bah..
oh yes, totally random, but im picking up guitar right now... woohoo.. just got myself a Maestro jumbo and i'm practising hard so that it lives up to its purpose! it'll be so cool if i could play the guitar.. then i can bring it around and sing everywhere i go! yeah!~ :) and i hope one day i can play and sing like khalil fong! :D :D :D
other than trying to play the guitar, i've signed up on meetoto.com. it's cute! haha..u're a virtual person going around singing karaoke! (you can go fishing if u want la) and u earn money for that! :D hmm talking about fishing... i think i'm going to get a fishing rod and go fishing on my alternate friday off days. keke...
alright, here's wishing all of you a Happy Chinese New Year! hope u'll get flooded with ang pows~~ ;) |
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| I hate October 08! |
[Sep. 24th, 2008|12:11 pm] |
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I HATE OCTOBER 2008. it's a crazy month. everything that can clash, WILL clash in october. ARGH.
when i just wanted to take a weekend off to go KL and support zw laoshi's first solo performance at one utama on friday, i just had to have a car decal event on thursday evening and another roadshow on saturday late afternoon, which means i will need to go take the coach to KL on friday morning as early as possible and come back on friday night. and now i don't even know if there's a coach that comes back late at night. ARGH.
like it's not crazy enough, there's this station event on Sunday from 4pm - 7pm. and there's going to be Superband grandfinals that very night!!! and i was just told that latecomers will not be admitted, but the latest admission time has not been confirmed yet. ARGH.
11 October we're having our SB chalet, and I have to go do a roadshow from 3pm - 5pm, and thus can only join them after that. ok this is still acceptable.. i can still bear with it.. BUT...
i could have gotten my first paid gig on 18 and 19 Oct, but a client's roadshow on 18 Oct and station event on 19 Oct just HAD to clash. TIMING ALSO ZUN ZUN MUST CLASH!! kaoz... they only needed me to be there for like 10 minutes to earn that little bit of money and IT JUST HAD TO CLASH!!! so, i had to give it up, and because of that, my WHOLE group had to give that gig a miss. ARGH.
and the whole freaking october has like a total of 7 roadshows, 2 station events, 5 car decal events!!! ARGH.
look, i'm trying to love what i'm doing all over again, but this is not helping me at all. really not helping at all.
AAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| this is what people who lead pathetic lives do on their birthdays... ;p |
[Sep. 15th, 2008|02:34 am] |
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it was my birthday yesterday (14 sept) and i had to work (boohoo). Alex, who is one year older but shares the same birthday as me, smsed me while I was working:
"Happy Birthday! Hope you're having a better one than me!"
i think people born on the same day have similar fates, because i found out that he also had to work on a Sunday. we then decided to meet for coffee / tea at VivoCity at 9+pm, after my bday dinner with shuhui, karen and huizhu.
so after dinner i went over to BK to meet Alex. he was having his dinner cos he'd just finished work. we were quite bored since there was really nothing much to do and suddenly i had a silly idea after seeing his black frame specs. i took out mine too and put it on... then asked him "eh, later we go buy a board and write 'it's our birthday today!' and walk around VivoCity lah... ons boh? then we see how many people wish us 'Happy Birthday' lah?"
he gave the "what?!" look, laughed and said "but then the shops are already closed, we won't be able to get boards." me being the kind who won't let go of a "brilliant" idea, suggested that we go get a paper bag, tear it into half so that each of us can hang the strings around our necks, such that it has the same effect as the "board" idea.
i rushed him to quickly gobble up his food and soon we were on our feet again walking around trying to find a shop that we can ask for paper bags. but most shops were closed and some probably don't have paper bags with long strings... so he suggested that we get a giant birthday card at precious thots instead and walk around to get people to sign on it! when we reached precious thots, it was already closed, so we went to action city instead. they didn't have giant birthday cards but had those normal sized ones. we couldn't stop laughing while choosing the cards and we got a birthday card each. after payment, we opened up the cards and decided to make the cashier our first "victim". ;p he was very nice and gave us each a koala bear thingie that you'd use to hit your aching shoulder. we then approached the other 2 staffs who were closing the store, and they were also very nice and signed on our cards!
that was like super encouraging for our big plan! after we stepped out of the shop, there was this group of about 4 people taking photos outside the store. we decided to approach them and get their well-wishes too..! they were rather amused by us and signed on our cards too! they even took photos with the 2 of us! haha!
after that we continued to walk around, meeting and interacting with many different people. we had wishes in english, chinese, japanese... we had gotten signatures from a german, a hebrew, a korean, 2 japanese, a few caucasians, a few malays and a few indians. one lovely indian lady even hugged us both and wished us happy birthday! :D surprisingly, no one rejected our requests! wahahaha...!
our end products after the whole session... PRICELESS!
2 tired siaolangs grinning happily after the successful birthday wishes solicitation session...
to those at VivoCity on 14 Sept (at around 10.15pm - 11pm), whom we had approached and have kindly agreed to sign on our cards wishing us "happy birthday"... thanks alot!!! you made our day, yeah! :D
and this is a quote from Alex: "My faith in humanity has been restored." because they were all so nice to us! :D :D :D
hmm next year should do what leh? ;p |
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| 我回来了。。。 |
[Sep. 4th, 2008|01:15 am] |
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不知道还有没有人读我的blog。哈哈！毕竟我已经很久没有更新了。
9月1号，我终于到了另一个里程碑了。前阵子的忙碌，也告了一个段落。现在得收拾好心情，继续努力工作了。
现在的感觉如何？累是肯定的，空虚也是必然的。忙的时候是非常厌烦的，可是放下重担之后才发现原来扛着它也是一种幸福。人啊，真是矛盾！
重点是：我尝试过了，也真的学到了很多很多！虽然现在还是有种曲终人散的感觉，可是我相信我是快乐的。:]
想念每个星期做的某些事物，忙的某些事，见的某些人。
（也庆幸不需要做某些事物，忙某些事，见某些人了。哈哈！）
该是时候回到现实了。
（期待下次再离开地球表面的时候，能和一群志同道合的太空人一起出发。:)） |
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| Over-reacting... the Singaporean way |
[Aug. 10th, 2008|12:45 pm] |
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it's amazing how a harmless statement can start a long thesis.
after which, even a friendly expression is being picked upon, when everyone else was doing the same.
if that's the way you want to think and react, i think we should all quit complaining about how boring singapore is... because you're the cause of it.
how can things be interesting when there's only room for comformity and people have no sense of humour? |
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| 包小松好帅啊！ |
[Jul. 1st, 2008|01:54 am] |
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这么多年，松柏在新加坡也几乎无声无息了。。。
N年前听他们的歌，没有想到N年后，有机会遇见小松真人，而且他还是非常 Superband 2的评判！真人好帅啊！散发着成熟稳重型男人的帅气！~~ ;p
几天前，偶然打开了电脑文件箱，发现原来我前阵子竟然有把松柏的一个专辑从CD录进了电脑。听着他们的两首成名曲 - “觉得很快乐”还有“想你的爱”，让我眼眶有点湿湿的。那是一种回忆勾起的感动。。。特别是“想你的爱”！现在听松柏的歌声是那么的耐人寻味！！:~~
包小松真的很专业。虽然他说话是出了名的尖锐无比而且还蛮狠的，可是句句都能让我们获益不浅！应该是因为他是制作人的关系，所以对音乐的各个元素都很敏锐，让我非常佩服！希望有一天，我也能当上音乐制作人！（现在离这个梦想还很远咯。。。）:\
加油吧，小胖！在梦想还未达成之前，就继续默默的欣赏小松吧，哈哈哈！;PpPp |
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| i have so much to write, but so little time... |
[Jun. 3rd, 2008|01:06 am] |
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And now i just need to get this off my chest!!!
Can you imagine? A 41-year-old woman still throws tantrums by screaming late at night and throwing things onto the floor which nearly hurt other people. I have lost all respect for this person. And I really mean ALL. It's ok if she is not understanding and does not think in other people's shoes. It's ok if she thinks in this frequency that most people will find weird and totally off. It's ok that she still talks like a stubborn child albeit her age. BUT, it is NOT ok that she loses control of herself and start screaming in a shrill voice at late night because she is frustrated! It is NOT ok that she loses control of herself and start throwing magazine racks onto the floor! And it is definitely NOT ok when she still thinks she was NOT in the wrong for doing all that!!!
An anger management course is what you need, not a PhD! You can't expect to be respected just by being older, you have to EARN it!!! |
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| Black and White Scarf & a busy schedule! |
[Mar. 27th, 2008|12:20 am] |
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Ok I know I'm supposed to be updating the pix taken in HK and also the photos taken in Vietnam (omg that trip was like 3 months ago?!? hahaha)
BUT, before I update those... I just need to post my latest creation!
Presenting... THE BLACK AND WHITE SCARF~~
I LOVE it! As much as I want to keep it, I will be giving it to zigan dage~ *sobs* ;p 'Cos back in HK during the station retreat we saw this black & white scarf at the store window on a mannequin and I told him I could crochet one like that too. He asked if I could make one for him and I promised that I would.
[edit] p.s. I've lengthened it! And I'm gonna use it for my TQ finals wahaha... Rushing out another one for ZG. ;p
And now I like it so much that I am so going to make 1 more piece for myself! hahahaha! :P
Have gotten quite a lot of inspiration from the trip and I hope my ideas work out! :)))
Anyways, I'm running a busy schedule these few days albeit being on leave.
27 March, 5.02pm : ABRSM Grade 2 Piano Exam (and i now regret giving piano up at grade 2/3 when I was young)
27 March, 7.30pm : Practice session for TalentQuest vocal group category
28 March, 8pm : Lessons @ TMC (TBC)
29 March, 10am : Helping out at Marriage Convention @ Suntec
29 March, 3pm - 5pm : Performance at IMM for FSYK presentation
[edit] 29 March, 5.30pm - 7.30pm : Practice at TMC for TQ
30 March, 10.30am : Hair styling at Parkway Parade REDS gonna skip the hairstyling! Rather be sleeping ;p
[edit] 30 March, 2.30pm - late: TalentQuest 08 Vocal Solo and Group Finals @ Singapore Polytechnic Convention Hall
ppffftt... so busy! |
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| "Like a Rose..." (i said this a couple of times today lol) |
[Feb. 14th, 2008|02:57 am] |
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This yellow rose is made specially for Biyu 姐 as a V-day gift! I promised I would make her one 'cos she says Marcus would definitely not buy a rose for her. HAHAHA! Gonna be passing it to her later so took a pic (bad lighting... it's actually a nicer yellow) before giving it to her.
And I watched Death Note 3 preview just now! I'm so in love with "L"... he's damn cute can???? :D~ |
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| new toy in the neighbourhood & "the pau business" |
[Feb. 12th, 2008|11:34 pm] |
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Went downstairs to have my dinner today 'cos there were only some leftovers which weren't exactly very appetising. My mum offered to accompany me because she was probably a little guilty that she didn't have any proper food for me.
After dinner, we decided to go to the Shop n' Save in my neighbourhood. We walked pass this shop that sells lots of random items with part of the shop being converted into a counter selling handphones / accessories. There were 2 new game machines which I'd actually noticed them like last week, as they were new additions to the shop (the shop never had game machines). I've this addiction to game machines and those "put-in-money-and-turn-the-knob" kinda machines so I'm always very curious to find out how they work, so I stopped by to take a closer look at it. Then the auntie tending the shop came over and told me abit more about the machines. One machine required some skill, whereby you need to press the button at the right time in order to win something; while the other machine probably only required luck. The latter didn't look very interesting, so I decided to try my hand at the first machine. And it's only 20 cents per try!
Spent about $3.20 (the first $2 was spent trying to get used to the speed of the whole thing... i.e. wasted :P) and won these prizes!
After getting the hang of it, it wasn't exactly that hard to win.
Then we decided that that was enough, so went over to Shop n' Save. Walked around and was at this area selling flour. Saw this (pic below) and said to my mum jokingly, "妈... 不然以后我学做包, 然后开一家 "蓝记包点" 啦?" Then she laughed and then I emphasized to her "好像粗话hor? LAN JI... wahaha" :P
I was thinking, aiseh... can u imagine, someone buy my PAUs and then let's say my buns are like BIGGER than other brands... will some auntie say this in hokkien to her friend who bought the PAUs?
"WAH! LE BUEY EH LAN JI SIBEI DUA LIAP!"
LOL!
Lol...
lol.
lol?
:x
Umm ok... sorry! just a joke! In real life i'm really very much more DEMURE. my friends and colleagues can VOUCH for that. ;p |
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| Dau Sar Pau Junior |
[Feb. 7th, 2008|10:09 pm] |
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And I just made a Xiao DSP for my mum!
I'm getting obsessed with PAUs! omg. |
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| Momo's in love! |
[Feb. 7th, 2008|06:55 am] |
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FINALLY!!! Momo has found the love of his life!
Introducing D.S. PAUline~!
Their first photo taken together...
:D :D :D
About Kwee Sin Mo, Momo:
For the benefit of those who don't know how Momo came about... I knitted him (yes, he's made of yarn!) last year, on the 25th of April. His dialect (hokkien) name is actually Kwee Sin Mo - for an obvious reason - and he is affectionately known as Momo.
About Dau Sar PAUline:
This lady's born TODAY, on 7 Feb 08 (Chinese New Year)! While I'm on leave, I haven't been wasting my time being a couch poato or bumming around. I've been doing research and experiments, and I have managed to pick up basic crocheting woohoo! Dau Sar PAUline is a crocheted female Dau Sar Pau who is BORN TO BE TOGETHER WITH MOMO. Hahaha!
Now I gotta think of a way to keep PAUline clean. She's white and will definitely get dirty easily. If I were to take her to the laundry shop for dry cleaning, I think the laundry auntie's gonna laugh her head off. Hmmmzz... |
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| I went to the arcade and hit Jackpot! |
[Feb. 5th, 2008|02:12 am] |
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I went IKEA to grab a bite (hotdog) just now and then decided to walk over to Queensway's arcade - Circus Circus. Unless you are at the staircase which leads down to the arcade, or if you are observant enough to notice it while walking along the outside of Queensway shopping centre, you might not even realise its existence.
Nowadays the big arcades use stored value cards, so you don't get to use tokens anymore. But this arcade is the old school kind whereby you exchange for tokens, and you play and get tickets in exchange for prizes. It reminds me of the good ol' days when I used to go to the arcade with a primary school friend of mine during lower secondary school days. I've been patronising this arcade now and then for the past year. Although it's a small place and don't have many fanciful machines to choose from, unlike other chain-store arcades, it's quite a nice place to go for nostalgia's sake.
Anyway, as I was saying, I went there today... spent $5 trying to catch a white lamb soft toy, but failed. *bleah* The I decided to change $10 of tokens and started playing this machine which has a spinwheel...
Not really sure of what's going on... all I know was that I kept pressing the spin button, and there was this once that the yellow light landed at the "mystery" portion of the spinwheel and I went into this "randomised mode" and I managed to get FREE TIME, like 1 minute or something. How it works is that within the time limit, you can spin as many times as you can. In one of my spins, I managed to get into the "randomised mode" again and this time, I managed to hit JACKPOT. The next thing I know, all the lights were blinking and I think I won like 1400+ tickets. Sweeeeet! Perhaps this doesn't happen so frequently, the machine kept running out of tickets / tickets were stuck, and the guy from the counter had to restart the machine a couple of times in order for me to get all my tix. Check out my arcade tix below!
Tried a couple of other machines after that, which gave me a pathetic number of tickets... as little as 4 with 1 token. What a waste of my money! After depleting all my tokens, I went over to the redemption counter and my tix were counted using a machine. Total was 1507 and the lady at the counter topped up another 3 to make it 1510. At first the lady issued me a receipt, saying that I could keep and redeem in future, but I thought since I won't be going down very frequently, I might as well exchange for something on the spot. Was deciding between this mickey mouse's head thingie and this neat glass chess set. The lady told me that the mickey mouse thingie was a bag and so I decided to choose the glass chess set instead. Here's it!
But the ironic thing is... I don't know how to play English Chess.
:P
(anyway, i'm currently on leave and will only go back to office on 12 feb 08. which explains my chirpy mood and why i'm so free to go to the arcade. lol.) |
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| second lou hei session in 2008! |
[Feb. 2nd, 2008|11:24 pm] |
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it's not even CNY yet and Monday was my second lou hei session already! lol.
zw laoshi's going to his hometown on 3 Feb and so i'd hastily arranged a session on monday to lou hei.
food's good. :P~ we had 鱼生, chilli crabs, water chestnut tofu, asparagus & yam ring~
who needs plastic surgery when you can switch from single eyelids to double eyelids when you feel like it? lol. i still think single eyelids suits him better tho. keke.
And as usual, we just had to monkey around... hehe...
No... the crab didn't come like this. It ENDED UP like this! Wahahaha... We decided to let it die "beautifully" by placing the pincers and legs back on the plate, adding the flowers, parsley and last piece of uneaten water chestnut tofu to glorify its death. lol.
And that's the 3 of us flaunting the Mickey Mouse 4-clover leaf handphone chains that we've gotten as Christmas presents from zw laoshi. |
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| Filming for 抢摊大行动 |
[Feb. 2nd, 2008|11:04 pm] |
Was on leave last Monday and coincidentally, my friend from TV side asked if I were free to go be part of 抢摊大行动 filming. I get to eat FREE muffins! Of course, being yao kwee (literally a hungry ghost), I couldn't reject it, could i? :P Was asking around for other friends who might be able to make it but somehow everyone's busy on a Monday - either working or studying. Got my mum to go with me for this. But we really waited for quite a long time, just to eat the muffins! Fortunately they're not bad afterall...
Let me just give a brief introduction of this variety show. Basically, the TV people will locate a store that is doing very badly, and then get experts to help and save their business. For example, teach the store owner how to improve on their sucky food / bad decor etc. In this case, the arrangement of the interior of the stall was changed, the recipe was changed, and the stall name was changed too.
So basically they started using the new recipe on the day we went down, and apparently they sold like 5 boxes of muffins in the morning already. (Previously business was sooooooooooo bad that the worst they did was to sell only 2 muffins a day, and each muffin only costs $1!)
The filming took place at Amoy Street Food Centre Level 2 - Missy Muffins (previously the store's called "Ali Ba Ba" or something... can't really recall. lol.)
抢救成功!
You *might* be able to catch the gluttony me on TV on 1 April 08.
p.s. I hope I'm not the April Fool's Joke? like ya know maybe words like "GLUTTON EYEING THE MUFFINS" will appear on screen when the camera shoots me. lol. |
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