Office Obsessive

Seeing all this pretty office stuff makes me wanna go all Gollum and say "My preciousssss..." over and over again.


Cellophane tape, Erasers, Post-its


Folders, Ipod Speakers, Soft pinboard

Heehee...

Through the Mind’s Eye

I had a long (and way too loud) conversation with Nick about 5 minutes ago, we’re now rushing to blog/bitch about it.

Well… I guess the mind’s eye of some ought to wear prescription glasses.

Guided by what they think is logic/mathematical theories, people often trip in a haze of so-called rationality.

Of course some would be quick to say, “Oh… so and so is small minded etc.” in a “Phoebe-from-Friends” inspired tone.

I’d actually say, “I’m open but I’m not dim.”

So it started whilst we were watching an episode of The Big Bang Theory (love this show), and Nick made a comment about Star Trek, and how his friend had arguments with him over whether Star Trek could exist, in its exact replica somewhere out there.

I do not subscribe to this HYPOTHESIS.

Yes, I believe that anything could exist. Yes, I believe there could be alien life form. There could be ghosts. There could be whatever. There are things not yet proven.

I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING ANYONE IMAGINES CAN EXIST.

Therefore, I cannot believe that Star Trek, in its exact replica, with Captain Spock, in the form of actor Leonard Nimoy exists out there in some distant planet. Why? Because Star Trek with its dialogue and sets, are all the creation of someone’s imagination.

I thus told Nick to prove him wrong, “I now imagine ‘A Pink and Yellow Zebra Striped Elephant with Wings of Cotton Candy, flying out there whilst wearing Paul Frank boots’. Do you think this exists?”

He says “Yes, it’s possible.”

I can’t prove it doesn’t exist, but I know with absolute certainty that it doesn’t.

Why? Cause I imagined it. Simple.

No need for all the “16 dimensions have been discovered. There could be more… yaddi yaddi yadda” “Mathematical variations bla blab la…”

It doesn’t exist,Nick. It doesn’t.

Similarly, I asked Nick, “Are you saying its possible that “A Ghandi look-a-like, with 2 butt cheeks, each in fact the face of Osama and Saddam Hussein” could exist?”

He said “Yes, it could”.

Yup, he did. He says that this product of my imagination could exist.

He also says that it’s possible for Terminator, who looks like Arnie and events out of that script, as directed by James Cameron could exist out there, in a different dimension. A Bruce Willis ghost is also putting a little Haley Joel Osment’s sixth sense through its paces out there.

Well I’m sorry. I can’t say the same. If that’s being small minded, so be it.

How do you like your eggs in the morning?

I like mine with a kiss...

Heehee. I have this song in my head! Love oldies.

Anyway, I had a really fun night yesterday.

Met up with the lovely Tuesday Legal Aid-ers at Chilli's after work. We had a great time talking nonsense whilst planning the next get-togethers, which shall culminate in a trip to Angkor Wat... as well as scheming to get Tze Lin to take on the official mantle of "Chef for the Tuesday Legal Aid-ers" :)

Then, I went off to watch Batman: The Dark Knight, at GSC Signature at the Gardens. It was a real mini reunion, cause as Jason and I went upstairs to meet Steven and Nick, we bumped into Tsin Yue and Gooi. When we went in to wait at the lounge, we bumped into Boon Hong. Nick also told us that he bumped into Shirley.

Then, after the movie which was brill (Service at GSC Signature not so brill, and I now plot to write a letter of complaint... again. Hahaha.. I don't know what's up with my constant need to write letters of complaint.], I went over to Nick's house to sleep over and play (somewhat over-competitively Nintendo Wii. I am the reigning queen of Spicy Chicken.

Hmm.. backtrack a little. The movie was brill BUT what was with replacing the Katie Holmes with Maggie Gylenhaal? Yes, yes, she's a great actress, but honestly, she doesn't have the vulnerable likability factor that is so very crucial as a foil to the Superhero in this sorta movies! Plus, not being mean, but she's not really up to par in the looks department. Certainly not enough to get Batman to go batty or to get Harvey Dent to go all demented.

Ok, back to blogging. I've been receiving complaints (read Nick's been bitching) that my blog has lately been dedicated to Barney/DrHorrible/DougieHowser. So I should update more about myself.

Well, I've officially finished chambering. I filed my papers on Monday and my long call date is 08.08.08. I hope this is like some sorta indication that bodes well for the future. Hahaha. Either that, or they wanted to make the fat fat fat me, get long called on fat.fat.fat.

Right, this entry is too long, I'm stopping here. :)

Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Act 3 Lyrics

SO THEY SAY

WORKMAN
So they say Captain Hammer's become a crusader
Political. He's cleaning up the streets.

WORKMAN 2
About time!

FANGIRL 1: So they say that it's real love.
FANS: So romantic!
FANGIRL 2: He signed this.

PENNY
So they say we'll have blankets and beds.
We can open by monday, thanks to you.

CAPTAIN HAMMER
Thanks to me.

ANCHORS: It's the perfect story.
MALE ANCHOR: So they say.
FEMALE ANCHOR: A hero leading the way.
ANCHORS: Hammer's call to glory.
FEMALE ANCHOR: Let's all be our best.
MALE ANCHOR: Next up, who's gay?

FANBOY: So they say he saved her life.
FANGIRL 1: They say she works with the homeless and doesn't eat meat.
FANGIRL 1: We have a-
FANS: -problem with her.
FANGIRL 2: This is his hair.

CAPTAIN HAMMER
This is so nice.
I just might sleep with the same girl twice.
They say it's better the second time.
They say you get to do the weird stuff.

FANS: We do the weird stuff!

PENNY
This is perfect for me, so they say.
I guess he's pretty okay
After years of stormy sailing
Have I've finally found the bay.

MOIST (spoken): He's still not picking up

PENNY & DR. HORRIBLE: There's no happy ending, so they say.
DR. HORRIBLE: Not for me anyway
PENNY & DR. HORRIBLE: Should I stop pretending

DR. HORRIBLE: Take the chance to build a brand new day
PENNY: That this is a brand new day.

FANGIRL 2: This is a dry cleaning bill.
FANS: Four sweater vests!

EVERYONE'S A HERO IN THEIR OWN WAY

CAPTAIN HAMMER
It may not feel too classy
Begging just to eat,
But you know who does that? Lassie,
But she always gets a treat.

So you wonder what your part is,
'Cause you're homeless and depressed,
But home is where the heart is,
So your real home's in your chest.

Everyone's a hero in their own way.
Everyone's got villains they must face.
They're not as cool as mine,
But folks you know it's fine
To know your place.

Everyone's a hero in their own way,
In their own not-that-heroic way.

So I thank my girlfriend, Penny.
Yeah, we totally had sex.
She showed me there's so many
different muscles i can flex.

There's the deltoids of compassion.
There's the abs of being kind.
It's not enough to bash in heads,
You've got to bash in minds.

Everyone's a hero in their own way.
Everyone's got something they can do
Get up, go out, and fly,
especially that guy,
who smells like poo.

Everyone's a hero in their own way.
You and you and mostly me and you.

I'm poverty's new sheriff,
And I'm bashing in the slums
A hero doesn't care if you're
a bunch of scary alcoholic bums.

Everybody!

Everyone's a hero in their own way.
Everyone can blaze a hero's trail.
Don't worry if it's hard.
If you're not a friggin' tard
You will prevail!

Everyone's a hero in their own way.
Everyone's a hero in the-

SLIPPING

DR HORRIBLE
Look at these people.
Amazing how sheep'll
Show up for the slaughter.
No one condemning
You lined up like lemmings
You led to the water.

Why can't they see what I see
Why can't they hear the lies
Maybe the fees too pricey
For them to realize
Your disguise is slipping.
I think you're slipping.

Now that your saviour
Is still as the grave you're
Beginning to fear me
Like cavemen fear thunder
I still have to wonder
Can you really hear me?

I bring you pain
The kind you can't suffer quietly
Fire up your brain
Remind you inside your rioting society
Is slipping
Everything's slipping away

So,

Go ahead, run away!
Say it was Horrible.
Spread the word, tell a friend.
Tell them the tale.

Get a pic. Do a blog.
Heroes are over it.
Look at him. Not a word.
Hammer meet nail!

Then i win, then I get
A great thing I ever...
All the cash, all the fame
And social change.

Anarchy, that i run.
It's Dr. Horrible's turn.
You people all have to learn
This world is going to burn!
Burn!
spoken) Yeah, it's two r's, H-O-R-R, yeah, right.
Burn!

No sign of Penny.
Good, I would give anything
Not to have her see.
It's gonna be bloody.
Head up, Billy-Buddy.
There's no time for mercy.

Here goes no mercy!

DR. HORRIBLE IS HERE

DR HORRIBLE
Here lies everything
The world I wanted at my feet
My victory is complete
So hail to the king
(Everything you ever)
Arise and sing

So your world's benign
So you think justice has a voice
And we all have a choice
Now your world is mine
(Everything you ever)
And I am fine

Now the nightmare's real.
Now Dr. Horrible is here
To make you quake with fear,
To make the whole world kneel.

And i won't feel-
-a thing.

Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Act 2 Lyrics

ACT TWO

ON THE RISE

DR. HORRIBLE
Any dolt with half a brain
can see that human-kind has gone insane
to the point where I don't know
if I'll upset the status quo
if I throw poison in the water main.

Listen close to everybody's heart
and hear that breaking sound.
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart
and crashing to the ground.

I cannot believe my eyes
how the world's filled with filth and lies
but it's plain to see
evil inside of me
is on the rise.

PENNY
Look around
we're living with the lost and found.
Just when you feel you've almost drowned
you find yourself on solid ground

and you believe there's good in everybody's heart.
Keep it safe and sound.
With hope you can do your part
to turn a life around.

I cannot believe my eyes
is the world finally growing wise?
Cause it seems to me
some kind of harmony is on the rise.

PENNY
make it slow
DR. HORRIBLE
anyone with half a brain

PENNY
he looks at me and seems to know
DR HORRIBLE
could spend their whole life howling in pain

PENNY
the things that I'm afraid to show
DR HORRIBLE
is the darkness everywhere
and Penny doesn't seem to care that

PENNY
and suddenly I feel this glow
DR HORRIBLE
that soon the dark in me is all that will remain

PENNY
and i believe there's good in everybody's heart
keep it safe and sound
DR HORRIBLE
listen close to everybody's heart
and hear that breaking sound

PENNY
with hope you can do your part
to turn a life around
DR HORRIBLE
hopes and dreams are shattering apart
and crashing to the ground

DR HORRIBLE and PENNY
i cannot believe my eyes

PENNY
how the world's finally growing wise
DR HORRIBLE
how the world's filled with filth and lies

DR HORRIBLE
but it's plain to see

PENNY
and it's plain to see

DR HORRIBLE
evil inside of me

PENNY
rapture inside of me

DR HORRIBLE and PENNY
is on the rise

BAD HORSE PHONECALL

BAD HORSE HENCHMEN
He saw the operation
you tried to pull today
but your humiliation
means he still votes “neigh”!
And now assassination
is just the only way.
There will be blood,
it might be yours.
So go kill someone.
Signed, Bad Horse.

EVERYTHING HAPPENS

PENNY
Here's a story of a girl
who grew up lost and lonely,
thinking love was Fairy Tale
and trouble was made only for me.

Even in the darkness
every color can be found.
And every day of rain
brings water flowing
to things growing in the ground.

Grief replaced with pity
for a city barely coping.
Dreams are easy to achieve
if hopeful's all I'm hoping to be.

Anytime you're hurt
there's one who has it worse around.
And every drop of rain
will keep you growing
seeds you're sowing in the ground.

so keep your head up Billy, buddy.

BRAND NEW DAY

DR HORRIBLE
This appeared as a moral dilemma
'cause at first it was weird
though I swore to eliminate
the worst of the plague
that devoured humanity
it's true i was vague on the “how”
so how can it be that you
have shown me the light?

It's a brand new day
and the sun is high
all the birds are singing
that you're gonna die.
How I hesitated
now I wonder why.
It's a brand new day.

All the times that you beat me unconscious,
I forgive.
All the crimes incomplete, listen,
honestly I'll live.
Mr. Cool, Mr. Right, Mr. Know-it-all
is through.
Now the future's so bright
and I owe it all to you..
who showed me the light.

It's a brand new me,
I got no remorse.
Now the water's rising
but I know the course.
I'm gonna shock the world,
gonna show Bad Horse.
It's a brand new day.

And Penny will see the evil me,
not a joke, not a dork, not a failure.
And she may cry but her tears will dry
when I hand her the keys to a shiny new Australia.

It's a brand new day,
yeah the sun is high.
All the angels sing
because you're gonna die.
Go ahead and laugh,
yeah I'm a funny guy.

Tell everyone goodbye.

It's a brand new day.

Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Act 1 Lyrics

This is because I've got OCD.

I was googling the lyrics for Dr Horrible, just cause I have to know all the words, and it took forever to find them so here they are, for those who might stumble on my blog! :)

ACT ONE

LAUNDRY DAY

DR HORRIBLE
Laundry day, see you there,
underthings, tumbling.
Wanna say, “Love your hair”.
Here I go, mumbling.

With my freeze-ray I will, stop, the world.
With my freeze-ray I will,
find the time to,
find the words to…

Tell you how, how you make,
make me feel, what's the phrase?
Like a fool, kinda sick.
Special needs. Anyways…

With my freeze-ray I will, stop, the pain.

It's not a death-ray or an ice-beam,
that's all “Johnny Snow”.
I just think you need time to know

That I'm the guy to make it real,
the feelings you don't dare to feel.
I'll bend the world to our will
And we'll make time stand still.

That's the plan, rule the world,
you and me, any day.
Love your hair…

Anyway.

With my freeze-ray I will, stop...

BAD HORSE LETTER

BAD HORSE HENCHMEN
Bad Horse, Bad Horse, Bad Horse, Bad Horse!
He rides across the nation, the Thoroughbred of Sin.
He got the application, that you just sent in.
It needs evaluation, so let the games begin.
A heinous crime, a show of force,
a murder would be nice of course.
Bad Horse, Bad Horse, Bad Horse, he's bad!
The Evil League of Evil, is watching so beware.
The grade that you receivewill be your last, we swear.
So make the Bad Horse gleeful or he'll make you his mare…
You're saddled up, there's no recourse,
it's “hi-ho Silver!”
Signed, Bad Horse.

PENNY'S SONG

PENNY
Will you lend a caring hand
to shelter those who need it?
Only have to sign your name,
don't even have to read it.
Would you help?
No? How 'bout you?

WHAT A MAN'S GOTTA DO

DR HORRIBLE
A man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do.
Don't plan the plan, if you can't follow through.

All that matters, taking matters, into your own hands.
Soon I'll control everything, my wish is your command.

CAPTAIN HAMMER
Stand back everyone, nothing here to see.
Just imminent danger, in the middle of it: me!
Yes, Captain Hammer's here, hair blowing in the breeze!
The day needs my saving expertise.

A man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do.
Seems destiny ends with me saving you.
The only doom that's looming is you loving me to death.

I'll give you a sec to catch your breath.

PENNY
Thank you, Hammer Man,
I don't think I can
explain how important it was
that you stopped the van.
I would be splattered.
I'd be crushed into debris.
Thank you sir for saving me.

CAPTAIN HAMMER
Don't worry about it,
a man's gotta do
what a man's gotta do.

PENNY
You came from above.

DR HORRIBLE
Are you kidding?

CAPTAIN HAMMER
Seems destiny
ends with me saving you.

DR HORRIBLE
What heist were you watching?

PENNY
I wonder what you're Captain of.

DR HORRIBLE
Stop looking at her like that.

CAPTAIN HAMMER
When you're the best
you can't rest,
what's the use?

DR HORRIBLE
Did you notice that he threw you in the garbage?

PENNY
My heart is beating like a drum.

CAPTAIN HAMMER
There's ass
needs kicking,
some ticking bomb to diffuse.

DR HORRIBLE
I stopped the van.
The remote control was in my hand!

PENNY
... must be in shock.

CAPTAIN HAMMER
The only doom that's looming
is you loving me to death.

PENNY
Assuming I'm not loving you to death.

DR HORRIBLE
What-ever

CAPTAIN HAMMER and PENNY
So please give me a sec to catch my breath.

DR HORRIBLE
Balls

Overanalysis

I had a random conversation with my friends the other day, and someone said that in Indian Culture it was once considered alright for a girl to marry her mother's brother, i.e. her uncle. Eew right?

Then we went and analysed, what would it be like if we did?

First awful analysis:

You and your kids will call the same people "Grandpa" and "Grandma"!

Second gross analysis:

Your grandmother would become your mother-in-law!

Third killer analysis:

Your mother would be your sister-in-law!

Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog

Just loveeeeeee the concept - shows being shown on the internet for FREE and only for 24 hours!

What could make this more brilliant?

When the show is a musical about a lovable villain who's always thwarted by a dumb ass hero! :)

Hug your parents and grandparents people!

Dammit. I have real issues. As my closest dearest friends all know, I have this weak spot for the elderly. I hate Reality TV shows (read Survivor and Amazing Race) for putting them in their shows without giving them a headstart at all. I mean come on people... give them a break lest they break a hip.

Anyway I saw this poem today, which is making the always busy junk mail circuit. Sometimes there's a jewel amongst the trash.

See Me

What do you see, nurses, what do you see?
Are you thinking, when you look at me --
A crabby old woman, not very wise,
Uncertain of habit, with far-away eyes,
Who dribbles her food and makes no reply,
When you say in a loud voice -- "I do wish you'd try."

Who seems not to notice the things that you do,
And forever is losing a stocking or shoe,
Who unresisting or not, lets you do as you will,
With bathing and feeding, the long day to fill.

Is that what you're thinking, is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse, you're looking at ME...
I'll tell you who I am, as I sit here so still;
As I rise at your bidding, as I eat at your will.

I'm a small child of ten with a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters, who love one another,
A young girl of sixteen with wings on her feet.
Dreaming that soon now a lover she'll meet;
A bride soon at twenty -- my heart gives a leap,
Remembering the vows that I promised to keep;
At twenty-five now I have young of my own,
Who need me to build a secure, happy home;
A woman of thirty, my young now grow fast,
Bound to each other with ties that should last;
At forty, my young sons have grown and are gone,
But my man's beside me to see I don't mourn;
At fifty once more babies play 'round my knee,
Again we know children, my loved one and me.

Dark days are upon me, my husband is dead,
I look at the future, I shudder with dread,
For my young are all rearing young of their own,
And I think of the years and the love that I've known;
I'm an old woman now and nature is cruel --
'Tis her jest to make old age look like a fool.

The body is crumbled, grace and vigor depart,
There is now a stone where once I had a heart,
But inside this old carcass a young girl still dwells,
And now and again my battered heart swells.

I remember the joys, I remember the pain,
And I'm loving and living life over again,
I think of the years, all too few -- gone too fast,
And accept the stark fact that nothing can last --
So I open your eyes, nurses, open and see,
Not a crabby old woman, look closer, nurses -- see ME!

Doodle dee doo

Create your own family sticker graphic at pYzam.com

Is there really such a thing as karma?

I'm a believer in

"if you do crappy things, crappy things happen to you."

It seems to me however, that I'm a much stronger believer in

"if you do crappy things, crappy things ought to happen to you."

It'd be much more realistic to believe in

"crappy people will do crappy things to you, and crappy things won't necessarily happen to them."

Some recommend believing that

"when crappy people do crappy things to you, do crappy things to them in return."

Tempting. But...

I just don't think I can do it, I'd very likely end up just like those crappy people.

Gotta borrow part of a line from Ms Austen, cause I'm pretty sure that

"It's a universal truth that many crappy people do crappy things to those they think did crappy things to them (when they didn't at all)."

Krabi Baby!

I'm soooooooooooooooo unbelievably excited. We got the tickets last week. Don't know why the delayed reaction. Picking hotels/resorts etc probably spurred this on.

Just can't wait to gooooooooo... I'm even excited about the train ride there! So what if its 14 hours? I'll have Mr Teoh, and hopefully someone's IPOD. :)

Plus its a symbol of my yummy delicious 1 month break from work!!!

Looking at pictures differently.

On Mothers Day this year, I had looked at this picture and thought that it was morbid.

Just a couple of days after Fathers Day this year however, this picture has become something that has not only brought comfort to me, but clarity as well.

Only one thing left to say, Nick, I was wrong. :)

Our dads really have the same vibe.

To balance the chi in my blog

Evil is as evil does...

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