videographsky - birthday roadtrip (part ii)

part ii...

i especially love the audio after the 2:14 mark...see if you can figure out what i'm referring to. hehe...



cheers. =)

videographsky - birthday roadtrip (part i)

as promised...

this is how i spent the first day of my final year in the 20's...



part ii to come shortly. =)

what's passed and the present(s)

i'm not a really big fan of celebrating my own birthdays...i'm sure some of you can relate to that...especially those of you over 25 years of age. yes, you are in the LATE 20's already...

and yesterday, i initiated proceedings on my final year of that era...(private note: oh how i wish they had repeat exams for that module...for those of you who understand what that meant, ha ha.)

anyway, like i said, i'm not one to throw big parties and celebrate yet another year passed in my life...if given a choice, i'd remain 21 always. but...as time would have it, november 19th came...and so i took the day off work.

i actually did some stuff on my own...which i have on video, but that's gonna take some time to organise and put together...so i'll just post some pictures of what i did after those videos...

every year since i was born, i have always had dinner with my parents on my birthday. and this year, as tradition would have it, we ended up at michaelangelo's in holland village...





we've been going to michaelangelo's every year for at least one occasion (birthdays, mother's / father's day, etc)...so since it was the last opportunity this year for us to honour this tradition, i decided that we had to go there for dinner.





remember the qilin (骐麟) pendant i wanted for the skymobile? my mom brought one back from taiwan for my birthday present...i love it! =)))



but i couldn't take a very clear picture of it...even with flash...



so, you'll have to see it in person if you wanna know what it looks like. =)


speaking of presents, i received a call today from bestfrenem...aka owner of the em-mobile, who's the brother of the skymobile...

moby: hello?
em: happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you!
moby: you forgot one word.
em: what's that?
moby: "belated."
em: i'm sorry lah! time flies when you're in my line lah. i meant to call you yesterday, but the next thing i knew, it was the 20th already!
moby: yeah right.

em: look, i'll make it up to you.
moby: how?
em: are you free for lunch?
moby: yeah, should be...where you wanna go?
em: we're going to PERFORMANCE MOTORS!
moby: wow!
em: yes sir...you've earned it. a new BMW 3 SERIES...
moby: WOW!
em: keychain. *very, very softly*







thanks bestfrenem... =)

(history lesson...moby bought emril a 3 series key chain 6 years ago as a birthday present too...which is why emril's present was meaningful...well, kinda at least.)


the big 3-0 is coming next year...but i'll be waiting...come and get me! cheers. =)

a new face, a new year...

random updates

i went to get a haircut today at shunji matsuo @ wisma...but for the first time ever, the shampoo girl didn't massage my head...i think she's a newbie. =( my hairstylist is still good (and cute) though. so guys, look for caely (pronounced "kelly") if you go...just tell her that "jason" recommended you. don't ask, just do. haha.


i called my mom today...she went back to taiwan for a short trip...asked her to help me check out the qi lin pendants there. hehe.


the best song for driving in my mp3 cd now is "blurry" by puddle of mudd. a close second is "let's get rocked" by def leppard. "bullet with butterfly wings" by smashing pumpkins is good too. i can't help but pump it up when i hear these songs. =) (no wonder my fuel consumption has skyrocketed recently)

skymobile - the 麒麟 pendant search

i've been searching for some way to "personalize" the skymobile.

given her recent history, i wanted to get something like a protector-cum-watcher-over pendant of sorts for the skymobile...and i figured that the most personal i could go with this idea was to get a 骐麟 (or 麒麟 - qi2 lin2) pendant for my beloved.

for those of you who are not familiar with the term "qi lin", please refer to this and this.

and for those of you who are not familiar with why this is personal to me, "骐" is the "chi" in my chinese name. (moby sky is just a writer's name for your info...the history of which is somewhere in my archives which i cannot be bothered to link)

so anyway, the qi lin's got a head of a dragon and a body of a lion (in most accounts at least)...and, as you can see below, he's not much of a looker...





but come on, neither am i...so what better fit right?! =)


the thing is...just as mystical as they come, qi lins are almost impossible to find in pendant form!!! the one or two i've seen in feng shui shops are made of jade that's badly carved...much worse than the above-pictures of them...

does anyone know where i can find a nice looking qi lin pendant? please let me know...

the skymobile would be very grateful. =)

skymobile - spa treatment

the skymobile has been undergoing a lot of stress recently...

and you know how girls are when they can't handle the pressure...all grumpy and cranky...with you eventually being burdened with their grief (no lah, i'm not making any references to my boss...none at all...zip...).

so anyway, i decided to indulge the skymobile today with a little spa treatment...









a little waxing here...



a little blowing there...



along with a good rubdown...



purrrrrr.... =)))

they even cleaned her rims real nice! well done...



the folks at the shell car wash along ang mo kio avenue 8 really know how to pamper my girl...so much so that i told them to keep the change from the $10 bill...ok lah, not say big $$$ lah...but come on...how many of you actually tip 66.67% of the bill...

the skymobile's beaming now... =)


(now all i gotta do is to get that cranky lock fixed tomorrow...)

papadums

the day started innocuously enough...

i was happily on facebook at about midnight, surfing around as usual...when *bam!*, everything shot straight to "error while loading page from...". nevermind. i decided to go to sleep.


i woke up this morning with aches all over my body from yesterday's bruising football game...so i decided to take half day leave to sleep it off. no sooner had i put down the phone to inform my boss, a customer calls...and then another 10 minutes later...and then yet one more phone call 2 hours into my morning slumber. nevermind. i decided to wake up.


after washing up, i excitedly turned on my computer...i had dreamt that gerrard scored one, and mascherano the other in a 2-0 victory for the reds. so i checked livescore.com first...then soccernet.com just to double check...and then liverpoolfc.tv to confirm. i think my neighbours nearly called the police after hearing my scream. nevermind. i decided to get ready for my job interview.


i put on my lucky ck tie, my clinique happy cologne, brought along all the documents requested, and arrived at the venue 15 minutes early...common courtesy. so anyway, i waited...and waited...and waited for 45 long minutes...before the receptionist suddenly remembered that i had to fill in some admin forms. great!

and then, as positive as i was about this interview, you can imagine my ecstasy when the hr girl asked me why i didn't bring my original degree scroll "for confirmation". wow...red tape at the starting line already. i patiently (and politely) answered that i would bring it the next time, if i actually do join.

so...almost 1 hour after the scheduled time, a lady in her early-30's waltzes in, shakes my hand with absolutely no authority, and proceeds to quiz me on how much i know about their company. come on...grow up already. i'm not a fresh grad waiting to grab at any job that feeds the hamsters at home. in my opinion, an interview at my stage should be a sharing of ideas and concepts...about whether i fit the organisation, and whether the organisation fits me.

30 minutes later, i still had no clue what the job scope was for the position that they were interviewing me for. add that together with a bad cup of coffee from their machine, and you have a complete waste of time. not to mention the $4.12 parking fee at their cramped carpark with only one exit and a faulty cashcard reader.

needless to say, i will politely decline a second interview...that is, if they mistakenly perceive that i'm somehow still interested in the job. nevermind. i decided to go back to the office.


"hey! wanna go for a stick?!" asked the irritating 'social-smoker' colleague who never has a stick of his own, and thinks it's ok to sponge off moby thrice a day.
"nah...i'm busy now." says moby.
"oh ok...why? what you doing?" asked the irritant *peeps over moby's shoulder to see the screen*
"work lah." says moby...sounding irritated.
"your numbers how?? can meet target or not? how, how?"
*blank stare back from moby that screamed a million "wtf you want?!"*
"haha...relax lah!" *proceeds to irritatingly massage moby's shoulders with much vigour*
"eh, i need to go to the toilet." *walks off...goes for a smoke outside...alone*

nevermind. i go home.


dinner time. after the long day, i decided to treat myself to a pork rib king rice with egg (排骨王饭加蛋). while waiting for them to prepare the food, i trotted over to the indian stall and bought a bag of papadums for a snack. then before going over to 7-11 just behind the food centre to buy a drink, i decided to leave the chips with the auntie...

"eh auntie ah, i leave this here first hor." *puts bag of papadums on auntie's shelf*
"ok."

*5 minutes later...*

"eh auntie ah, where're the chips ah?"
"huh? they were there what..."

i accepted my fate, slowly walked over to the indian stall, and resignedly asked for another bag of papadums...

nevermind. it's another day tomorrow...

(p.s. - happy birthday finicky feline...*snort*)