hey hoz.

haven't been up here to post for a day. feels weird to not go online at least once a day these days... yesterday was a great day. and today was better.

yesterday ah... hmm, feels like so long ago. basically, we [the whole family of fours living under the same roof under which i live] went off to the body worlds exhibition at expo. see once before le, but still very intriguing coz the last time i go i didn't read some of the stuff properly, and didn't notice some stuff. then took the train all the way back to orchard, then went to watch LOTR 3 with ne ne and ah tio [together with the family too]. still very nice, and i notices even more yaoi hints, like between merry and pippin, frodo and sam, legolas and aragorn, and god bless, legolas and gimli -- and gandalf and pippin... *sweat* then went yong he eat tau huey again... haha, then when we go eat tau huey, ma ma and gong gong joined us, so we have even more people then. then ah tio and daddy damn funny, coz want to show us how the prostitutes along geylang zhao sheng yi, then drove past some motel three times and went into all sorts of alleys... haiz... then my brother was like, "oh, zoo!!!" sigh, really got nothing to say man. in the end two something in the morning then reach home, three something four o'clock then sleep.

then this morning wake up at seven a.m., but didn't feel that tired coz very excited about the cosplay, which turned out better than i expected. the team didn't win any team or pair prizes, but we produced a best female cosplayer -- and that is yours truly. *kenna whacked for BHBness and egocentricity* but the prize, apart from the trophy and the certificate, was really damn cute. it's the chobits bunny, the pink one, at a height of approximately 30 cm and the ears at the length of approximately 40 to 50 cm... then the material so soft and smooth... very nice.

best male cosplayer this year is zeph. i thought it was weird why bright and rinka didn't get the prizes this year. they usually top the charts. but then again, it's by votes of the general audience this year... haha.

then took so many picutres; pity my cam went out of batt before the even ended, but managed to last me til almost the entire thing was over. and even without my cam, still left many pics in other people's cameras... call me an egomaniac, but when people come up with you and ask you for a picture, or when you're taking a picture, then crowds of cameramen come up, it's really very flattering, especially for cosplayers/people who put in effort into costumes/exhibitionists like me.

the team was very very zai oso. we had many many firsts, which i shall list in the Fallen.From.Heaven Prizewinners List later. they all so sporty and fun. granted, maybe we have the mo qi coz our ages are all very near, but then again, we had two major arguments and stuck right through, so we're a very closely bonded team. so to the AS team of 2003, people, you guys are the very best.

and the much awaited Fallen.From.Heaven Prizewinners List:

the first arakune in s'pore to have wings: LC
the first barbelo in s'pore: sevene
the first astarte to be so crazily hungry: astell
the first astaroth in s'pore: pyre
the first yaoi pairing of voice and lucifer: mingwei and dennis
the first katan to cheat on rociel so many times: leXis
the first rociel to pad around the entire convention barefooted: yuki-neechan
the first yaoi pairing of katan and raphael: leXis and shin
the first moonlil to have bright pink hair: moonlil

the most lame [lamest] as group:
'to sing a perverted version of "the twelve days of christmas" at burger king at the top of their voices twice, pretending to be innocently carolling'
the most hentai/slashy as group:
'to produce so many many hentai cosplayers'
the most hentai kurai ever produced:
'to attempt to strip a GGXX character and to cut the pants of another'

the as team with the most variations of chio bu's:
the evil chio: sevene
the nice-bod chio: LC and moonlil [or was it doll?]
the chio chio: chobitss
the hungry chio: astell
the very bishonen chio: leXis
the kawaii genki chio: yours truly
the bloody [literally] chio: calista and yuki-neechan

see? see? so cheng jiu... haha

then on monday maybe got photoshoot. hopefully got. then tomorrow [today] maybe going to meishi's place to have a gumi outing. then til now still haven't gotten much sleep. then feeling very tired.

haiz but quite sian oso, coz next sat i oso cannot make it down to PA prac, then so long nv see them. then suay suay next sat got two weddings to attend. one is ms michelle wong's wedding, the other is my cousin's wedding. end up i look forward to ms wong's wedding so much, but cannot go.

then another un-good thing is that the printer system screwed up, so daddy had to fall back on the september system, which does not have msn messenger 6.0. then the 5.0 screw up so many times, make me so freaking pissed. like, try to sign in oso cannot, then hang the whole comp. now cannot go on msn until i fix the damn problem. sucker.

well, the day's still good, and life goes on. wanted to put a pic of the plushie in but didn't manage to get it up... maybe i'll persuade yuki-neechan to plonk it on her page and i'll link it...






"i want to crawl under the bed and cover myself with blankets in that dark little cave and stay there for ever. instead, i shrink inot the wall and huddle there like an idiot."

listening to my new jay chou album... goodness, none of his lyrics are happy. and some are super attitude... haha, my parents can't stand it. i'm sure they prefer eminem over jay, since eminem can articulate properly and jay can't... or so they say. he's quite fine lah; i don't see why some people can go so crazy over him. i mean, he's good, yeah, i like him, yeah, but definitely not worth going crazy over.

here's my little opinion on him...

1. his music is nice, but he can't articulate words properly.
2. his singing style is unique and worth mimicking, but only the ones in the know understand.
3. he's got a nice versatile voice, but he can't sing high notes proper.
4. he's got an awesome sense of rhythm... oh my goodnesses, yesh.
5. he's not that bad looking, but not that good looking either
6. he produces and writes his own songs [lyrics excluded]; not many do that
7. nice lyrics, too bad he doesn't write them himself.

all in all, i'd prefer savage garden over him any other day. in fact, everyday.

i got the CD with some of the christmas cash i got... this month very poor, spent so much money on gifts... then still got cosplay coming up. i never knew scented candles could be so costly... and worse still, i won't be seeing those receiving my gifts until the 10th January 2004... headache man... and throatache, and stomachache...

haha.

recently, i realised that my talking skills are deteriorating... too many times, with too many people, i realise that awkward silences are growing. feel quite weird. didn't use to have this problem. or maybe i'm just getting too concious of topics to speak of... but basically, conversations with people nowadays have limited topics, and are very superficial... this is really bugging me man. i hate hate hate awkward silences. i'm starting to be reminded of a line in "So Much to Tell You"...

"...i wondered what they talked about all afternoon, these daughters and sisters, with their families. was it a strain to think of topics of conversation? were there uncomfortable pauses as people think of things to say?..."

sure, there are some people you can share sweet silence with... but not many, yeah. but of course, that quote was a little extreme... the girl has some serious family problems. well, hope this wind blows over soon.

btw, it's a nice book. got a lot of very nice quotes... maybe that's why we were made to read it for lit in sec 1.




"we are all so curiously alone, but it's important to keep making signals through the glass... but there is so much glass; very thick -- but no matter how thick it is, it's still transparent."

merry christmas, dearest all.

woke up at noon today. and slept at four in the morning. haha, yesterday happened like what i mentioned in the last blog, and then i headed down to marina south to work lorh. andi had apparently forgotten about the stress and crowd last christmas eve.

last evening and night and early this morning was hell. imagine having so many customers that the supply of stoves, LPG tanks, hot plates, basic cutlery and crockery could not meet the demands of customers. there were so many people who had to wait before a stove could be put on their table so that they could start eating. and hot plate supplies ran so low that whenever we clinched a deal with a customer, we had to go search the grounds for a newly emptied table so that we could take the hot plates personally to wash and re-wrap. and as such, the hot plates, when passed on to the new customer, was still warm... goodness, the crowd.

it was like, hard on everyone, so, GOOD JOB, everyone who toiled last night. [imagine, there were still patroners at 3 am in the morning...] but it's good. so many customers, so much profit.

oh oh... and xiao yi came down to eat as well. haha, heard that it was his mother who wanted to come down. that's it man, we'll see the makings of yet another regular. he apparently had praises for our food. [am4 chio3 am4 chio3].

we popped some sparkling juice to celebrate, but ended up only tua gu, ne ne, wei wei and i drank it. haha, at twelve, there were still a number of customers. but we missed the countdown by half a minute. haiz. well, there's another countdown for new year's eve, which will be, if it's like last year, busier than christmas. haha. well, if we're not busy for these two days in a year, we prolly won't be much busier anytime else. these are like, the busiest days of a year. yay. it's just... why do they have to be so close together? haiz... nvm.

prepping to get busy again tonight. we'd better be busy. coz it's christmas, if we ain't busy, something's not right. haha.

it christmas today, and a countdown of two days to the grand MAC day.








[and since it's christmas, and it's a season for sharing, do share your comments on the tagboard...]

yay, managed to get my tagboard up... took me quite some time to figure out how to customise it. do drop by and leave a comment or two when you're free.

the day's been good so far, just got my piano tuned. the chords sound awesome now... oh my goodnesses, it's like, suddenly the sound of the piano is so touching. well, i missed one tuning session, so my piano is way out, i think. then it's new sommore, only got it last august. so the yin haven't kai yet. and already so xiang le. can't wait til two years down the road, when the piano is more matured.

going down to marina south today to help out. christmas eve ne. meaning very very busy... haha. it's time i got my lazy ass out to work anyway, been too busy with cosplay, CO and stuff nowadays.

countdown of one day to christmas and three days to the big MAC day.

yay, so finally, it decides to work for me. *pats little compy*. so here goes what i tried to post last night.

hello, minna...

this is my new blog. the old one has gone to waste. and if you people are looking to an intrduction, here's a short [maybe not so] one.

the name you are trying to locate is angela. or you can call me maei, as most of my netFriends call me. or if you know me better, you can call me WC[pronounced as darbleyoosi]. i don't use brackets often. i prefer braces.

and i be 16 as of 18th August 2003. i'm cheerful, mostly, and down at times. and when i'm down, or when i have a particularly strong urge to post a blog, i will do so. so do NOT expect a regular blog. i'm pretty lazy to blog, mostly, but i promise i'll try to keep this one up.

so ta-ta for now.

so, here it is. finally out on my system. decided to change to blogger, coz they give you a choice of sub-domain names, and the xanga templates are so limited.

so, let's start with today first. tessie came over to make her costume, of which the point is to look quite "lok"... it's supposed to be rociel uner decomposition. so he wears something that looks like a piece of long flowy cloth that has a big hole for the head and two holes for the arms. so, we pieced six rectangular pieces of cloth together to give something of a similar effect. turned out very well, if i would say. then halfway though making it, mingwei dropped by to pass me my top. and unexpectedly, a christmas gift. the top was very well done, and not too ex... only 20 - 30 bucks for a nice nice top. and guess what, he bought me the Slim Shady LP... which is banned from sale in Singapore... realised that it was purchased from Malaysia. oh man, i've always wanted that CD, but like, i dunno what i can do to return that gift for Christmas... i bought scented candles for everyone, which i am currently trying to personalise. ah... feel a bit uneasy taking that gift. and of course, feel even more uneasy after seeing that pic on his handphone wallpaper... well, what can i say. then after he left, tess and i finished up her costume and we did a mini-photoshoot. just the two of us, slightly less than an hour and we managed to take 30 over pictures. haha, so nice, like checkerboard like that, one black one white. and the finished gown looks so so good. arigatou, mingwei no oba-san.

then yesterday was like, early wake up, early sleep. early sleep as in, early this morning. not that i'm complaining about waking early, it was for the cause of sending yan liang off. haiz, he's left for canada. that's one sms-mate gone. and of course lah, a good friend. but i believe we can keep in contact over msn. but still. i'm quite worried if jing qi can take over smoothly as concert master, i mean, lao shi trained him too late, but then again, he'll get better with experience. cheers and let's look forward to the makings of a successful concert master. then yan liang leh, dunno what lah, yesterday when we saw him off, approx twenty people turned up. not that it was unexpected. and the girls mostly cried. like, even serina did. [conscience: you mean, you did as well? *kenna slapped*] yeah, so i did. then felt quite down. like i suddenly lost a friend like that. then onthe other hand, i didn't have that much of a right to be so sad, since i believe i'm not his closest friend yet, who must feel worse, and i'm not him, who must feel the worst of all. imagine leaving for a country and parting from your family and friends. but he's going to study lah, so i still feel happy for him.

then went home, had lunch, slept, woke up, went online, went out with aunt and uncle, had dinner at edo sushi... wah, never eat jap food for a long time, suddenly felt so nice, then i saw the bill... like, what the, we hardly ever hit bills of fifty dollars for four people, and they're telling me that our bill was what, eighty bucks... then instead of having our movie, we went and shopped for jon's christmas gift. and then we picked up mummy and went to yong he to eat supper. haven't had their tau huey in a long time...

came online with the intention of uploading the photoshoot pics on the cosplay ML. then wanted to check see if yan liang had the time to go online to update his blog. apparently not. well, the time diff is about 11 - 13 hours before S'pore time if i'm not wrong, so he alighted at about nine plus or eleven plus at night. let's hope that after a good night's sleep, he'll decide to blog.

countdown of one day to Christmas Eve, two days to Christmas and four days to the MAC convention.

[btw, this is the fifth time i published the same post, since everytime i republish my blog after i alter my template settings, this one single post disappears... if it reappears tomorrow, i don't know what i'm going to do.]

wah, cannot take it man. obscenely huge font... must change... let's experiment.

i posted an introductory post last night... *wonders why it never got posted* if it still refuses to show, i'm gonna hantam someone... or bug some blogger users until they tell me what's up with my blog... haiz... got stuff to say, but it'll seem stupid if i say it so long after events happen, ne?