What a wonderful feeling...

~~Jie~~: okie i gotta go already... meeting youjin..

long time never go tampines

remember to have ur dinner later okie?

bye bye

paced: okie.. tok later.. have a great time.. buai...

paced: sob sob

~~Jie~~dun cry.. sayang.. *muak*

byebyeee

i feel so loved... What a wonderful feeling! Thanks Baby...

Lousy screenings...

acacia wasn't tt nice after all and the other movie tt was screening was cat in the hat. no wonder there were so little pple ystday at the screenings ystday. but there's something to mention abt acacia though... like almost all horror films, the cinematography n editing are the only salvage points of the film.

tired, sleepy... always happens at the end of the working week... feel like sleeping earlier tonight...

Updates yet again...

Its always easy to guess if u're gonna OT. guess i will tmr. another stack of export permits to clear wif another colleague gog on leave for a day. more will come my way... dun mind the OT, but i do mind not being able to get transport out. so far, its not too bad wif a colleague fetchin us to the nearest mrt. but, i rather "accumulate" the OTs. cos its only after 2 hours straight, i can claim meal n transport. if OT half an hour everyday a bit "bo hua" cos cant claim the meal n transport like tt. haiz...

man u got knocked out of the champs league by porto. i din manage to catch tt match...

both Baby n i have been working. i need to sleep early cos i gotta wake up by 6... Baby wakes up at 7.30. by the time he finishes his OT n reaches home, i'm already preparing to go to bed. On the days without sfs screenings or us meeting, i spend less then an hour with him. n on those days, i miss him soooo much tt i even smile to myself while looking at my phone's wallpaper (a photo of both of us). wht to do, he has to earn more in order to save more for his uni expenses... so i'll have to accomodate to his time. although i miss him so much, i'm really glad for tt minimal less then an hour we spend with each other which is at least betta thn not spending time together at all...

tt despo idiot still has yet to return me my ic n return my library book for me... grrr...

Mt. Ex(port per)mits...

a whole HILL of export permits to be done. doesn't help whn names of the products so similar to the last letter but catergorise under diff HS codes or of diff country origin. i need time to get familiarise. tt's not the only tiring thing. tiring is the calculation, making sure the weights are correct. soon, i think i'l give up lumping all the items with the same hs codes n country of origin n maybe start typing them one by one, 20 products in all if tt's what is shipped in one whole B/L. I really dunno which is more time wasting. calculating or typing. but i know i definately save paper...

it aso doesnt help whn the BIG boss comes down to sg. first, company lunch for almost 2 hours. then meeting for 2 hours. thn waiting ard here n there, the whole aftnn burned. OT till 7.30 but still cant clear even 1/4 of those permits. think i have to OT again tmr... haiz... earning money, good, but the pile doesnt look good on my work effectiveness. but, its damn... argh!!! mayb u guys shld try...

k, back to my emails, newspapers and other stuff...

2 good films...

This is the 2nd+ week at work. not much OT in the past cos not much for me to do as i havent learnt tt part of the job yet... wanted to OT just now, but it was raining very heavily, thus din OT cos(by experience frm those who OT often) hardly any cabs would wana come in even "on call".

caught 2 good movies in the past week. Core screening of In America and a free invite to My Girl (thailand). a good movie will bring u thru the characters' ups n down, tears n joys and these both movies done tt.

however, after watching In America, i dun think Samantha Morton derserved an oscar nominee nod at all for best actress for her just-pass acting. but i think she got the nod cos it was a very very good role to play, with a lot of space to develop and show her acting talents, or her lack of it. she played a mother, inspite of being ill, despraetely wantin to keep her unborn child, cos she has lost one and nvr could forgive herself. her husband too... whn the elder daughter sang desperado, tears just flowed. till now, while recalling, i'm still tryin hard to hold back my tears. it was kinda like a despo call to her parents, after a year plus, to forget the pain n just let go, embracing the new life tt thy have now, w/out their brother. i think the kids who played her daughters in the film betta deserve the oscar nominee nod. anyway, the film reminded me of Angela Ashes, all abt irish families moving to the US for hope of a betta life.

My Girl, funny, sweet, romantic, n sad at the same time. the film reminded us something tt we always forget. always tell the pple ard you how u feel. lert them know your true feelings n how u feel, esp if u like/love/have a crush on them. if u have said, who knows something good might have happened. but if you did not, who knows the next time u'll c her is 20 years later at his/her wedding...

its stilll rainingggg... nice weather to sleep... hopefully i dun oversleep tmr... hopefully it stops raining tmr nite so i can OT... hehe...

My i/c................

i've never sent mass mails for a long long time... sent out one today.. here is wht i sent...

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Dear all,

some perverted despo sicko took a old broken down bag belonging to jasmine shi
(in case u're wondering which jasmine.... mcss/ ngee ann fsv/ ngee ann softball/ taka cashier... if still dunno, pls email back n ask...). FAKE louis vuitton wallet (with ONLY $20 in it), keys, handphone, an old t-shirt with a bra (yes, a bra) and tampons (yes, u're reading right) were in it... sicko rite?! bra n tampons aso wana bring home...take the money n handphone n leave the blardi sim card n ic there lah! anyway, the above mentioned person, unfortunately, is waitin to get her money, thus = to no money to get replacements for anything at all.

by any chance, if you guys find an i/c with my name n tt fella look like me, pls call my house immediately. aso, if you find a library book titled "the art of hitting .300" lying around, its most prob mine. pls go to the nearest library n return it for me... thanks a mil...

should anyone has anything urgent to contact me, pls send an email to this address... if not, give a ring to my house, but i doubt i'll be home. since, i'm without my phone, pls dun waste your sms too... heh... once i have the precious vitamin M to get my replacement sim card, i'll send another email round to get your numbers again...

if u're free, pls just reply with your numbers. once i get back my phone, i'll just send an sms round to tell you all tt i can be contacted again... n i need ALL your numbers (including those whom i've know for eons...) cos since the "handphone-era" i nvr ever did used my brains to memorise tel numbers.

thank you all dearest for your kind attention...

jAS

p/s: my heart is not made of gold for the time being... if tt idiot dun send me back my i/c and sim card, hope he/she dies of some terminal illness... suffer like hell till he/she shuts his/her eyes... either tt, or mayb kena knock down by a car, whack by some retard or whtever tt would happen to haul him/her to the police post. n hopefully, the police will "discover" some lost items on him, like my i/c...

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honestly, bra n tampons.. oh man... damn sick... hygiene or not, luckily wasn't much a heavy flow, i had one "heavy flow tampon" in me, the whole day...

such a day, happening once in 4 years, happening to me...

Baby was the 60++ person left in the samsung olympic torchbearer challenge held at civic plaza since ystday. out of 219, not too bad.. hehe... quite an experience i must say...

i WANT my i/c back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2nd day of work at ExxonMobil JLT...

2nd day of work. not too bad. free one moment, busy the next. so far i'm just helping my colleagues prepare n consolidate documents like Purchase Orders Invoicing, Cert of Manufacturing (for local pdts), Cert of Origin and compiling the attachments (to be send together to submit to SICC). learning new stuff everyday but pay, haiz, a bit sucky, $6 an hour. but whr can i find a job that lets me learn so much, "bo ceng hu", letting you stretch 1 hour for lunch (by right, only 30 mins) and no one really rushes you to get back to work. i guess cos thy really treat u like adults, and trust you to have your own initiative.

Being in an environment where some colleagues know your parents can be good and bad. good: if thy have no other things to tok to you, thy tok abt your parents. bad: a bit stressful ah...

sleepy... been waking up at 5.45am. dad fetched me ystday. took the bus at jurong east mrt today. as the bus leaves at 7.34, i gotta be there slightly earlier. n to reach there in time, i gotta catch the 7pm bus at my place to clementi mrt n from there, to jurong east mrt. total trip is abt 20-25 mins. but it makes no sense for me to take the next bus at my place, which is 15 mins later cos i'll be late for the other bus.

k, i'm talking in a big round bush. not thinking clear too. cant think in a straight line... plus, i need to shit. after shit, wash up, no dinner, cos i need to sleep soon... dun wana zzz on a full stomach... gunbound? hmm... mayb tmr, too sleepy n tired...

Now Showing... 1st Cuts: Sweet Dream and Turtle Soup

i remembered sometime back i dissed a whole load abt sg's film industry. but i watched the first installment of 1st cuts just now, n it threw me back a little. 1st cuts is a series of 4 unrelated stories, shot in HD (high-def) in a kinda tele-movie style.

first, ms shi will tok on the HD thingy... its digital more thn digital if u get wht i mean. colours r slightly sharper, so r the pictures. n i watched it on a 14-inch tv w/ a (oopsy) portable antena which resulted in a bit of "double vision". still, the pics looks soooooo good. but to compare with film, film is of cos better. HD n digital dun give tt kinda "grainy" thingy.

now, i'll tok on the telemovie. script was good!!! in my sense sorta way. its abt a mother n daughter, discovering themselves n each other whn things happen. well, wht could be worse whn u're fatherless, yr granny's in hospital, u're preparing for your O's, yr best friend dun understand u, n u have to help out everyday at the stall, leaving no time to study, much less even for sleeping...

whn thy started to display a certain festival happening in sg's chinese community n the timeline (eg; 5 months to o levels), i tot it was to let viewers understand how much time was left for this gal to study. but its only till she asked her mum y she wans to celebrate all kinda festival, thn i really understood the meaning behind it. before her dad passed away, he would write all the festivals n the calender. n y the mum wanted to celebrate was i guess in remembrence of the dad...

it's a telemovie n i shouldn't cry, in a more common sense of way. but i did. whn both mum n daughter finally understood each other, it was shot/told in such a subtle way. it was touching n tugging at my heart...

eh, but i got something to comment on the lighting leh... maybe its the HD thingy, the "white" looks glaring, thus making those scenes which needed lights turned a bit fake, although the shadows aren't harsh. there was this shot whr the mum was at the stall, n the market behind her was closed. coudn't c much details in the backgrd, thus making the foreground (whr the mum was) a bit kinda "slapped" onto a black screen, mayb it was the contrast between black n white which was too much for me to take.

whn the credits rolled, i saw a familiar few names, like heard n seen their names somewhr out there before... but there was one, i was definate i knew him, m senthil... he was the grip for this telemovie n my coursemate! woohoo!

but overall the movie was good.... really good... if possible, (i might be thinking sfc, mda n raintree pix might read this...) send it for some film fest, digital section... might get back something...

cant wait for the 2nd one next week... btw, its on mediacorp channel 5, 11pm, right after survivor!

n, i missed luo shen's ending last 2 epis again.... damn it! for the 2nd time already! grr... mayb i should just borrow the tape back...

House of Sand and Fog

i'm supposed to be sleeping right now, waking up later at 5am for the england vs portugal friendly. I tossed n turned for over an hour n i simply give up trying to zzz... hope i'll be able to tahan till 7, tt's whn the match ends...

caught House of Sand and Fog just now... definately betta thn mystic river, except, the censored part... i hate censored movies!!! well, its adapted from a novel n its abt everyone making mistakes n losing everything in the end.

story goes like this: kathy (Jennifer Connelly) was wrongly evicted. her husband left her 8 months ago n for the past 8 months she did not check her mails frequently (mistake 1). she was billed a few hundred bucks worth of business tax n she doesn't have a biz at all. but she did seek help to get the taxman off her back. n as she doesn't check her mails frequently, she din know the case wasn't quite done over wif. so, the county decided to evict her cos she did not pay the taxes. but the county did not know she did not owned a biz (mistake 2).

then she met lester (Ron Eldard) on the day of eviction. he's a sherieff, policeman kinda n they fell in love. kathy sought legal assistance to get back the house n learnt tt it was already sold to a retired colonel behrani (Ben Kingsley), an iranian immigrant. behrani wanted to sell the house for 174K, 4 times the price he bought the house for.

when lester knew abt it, he threatened (mistake 3) colonel behrani, to sell the house back to the county, so the legal pple can sue the county n get the house back for kathy. however, behrani went to the internal affairs for help n identified lester.

meanwhile, lester n kathy stayed in a friend's log cabin kinda place. he told kathy tt he needed to go away for a few hours to explain matters wif his wife. (he had stopped loving her many years ago.) while at his home, explaining matters, the internal affairs guy called lester to the office. so lester had no choice but to go n did not tell kathy abt it (mistake 4).

kathy waited for a very long time n tot tt lester was gone for good, back to his wife's arms. so she went to a kiosk, bought drinks, ciggys, n petroleum as she wanted to kill herself. after she topped up the plastic container wif petroleum she opened the boot n found a pistol. she left the petroleum at the kiosk.

she drove back to he old house, drank n tried to shoot herself but the pistol was not loaded. behrani heard her crying outside n saw wht was happening. he carried her into the house n together wif his wife, thy took care of her. meanwhile, lester got back to the lag cabin place n found kathy missing. his next instinct was to go to the house to look for her.

while lester was driving up to the house, kathy went to the bathroom to vomit due to the drinks. behrani's wife, nadi (Shohreh Aghdashloo) told kathy to take a bath to relax. in there, kathy found nadi's pills (mistake 5, nadi, knowing she is disturbed should have taken out the pills). she swallowed 20 tabs. nadi went on the check on her n found her unconcious. she forced kathy to empty her stomach. wif help from her husband, thy were trying to help kathy to the room while lester arrived. he loaded the gun n saw kathy very weak. he tot the family was trying to harm her.

he locked the family in the toilet while kathy rested in the room. the next morning, he made a deal wif behrani which would c them getting a sum of money while behrani gets to keep the house. thy drove to the county to sign papers. as he turned behrani against a wall (mistake 6), he remind him of wht he should do, behrani's son, Esmail (Jonathan Ahdout) took lester's gun for self defence (mistake 7). police arrived n shot esmail as he refused to drop the gun.

esmail died n behrani killed his wife n himself. meanwhile, lester was locked up for threats (i guess) n kathy was all alone again.

for the mistakes behrani made, he lost his life, his wife n his son n the 174K. issit a mistake for behrani wanting a good life for his family?

lester, in bid to help kathy, lost his freedom. kathy, in the quest to get back the house her dad left her, lost her bf n i guess, a bit of her "liang zhi", almost her life n her senses. issit a mistake for kathy, for being so insistent tt she wants to get back a house which her dad paid for 30 years?

this novel tells us something: in order to get something u want, u may directly or indirectly do hurt to another. n at the end of it, issit worth all that trouble?

Romantic pizza night...

Date: 16th Feb 2004, Monday...

Time: 12.46pm

Venue: library @ orchard

i was sms-ing the gals, suggesting jap buffet for dinner tonite to celebrate winn's bday. when i was sms-ing, this sudden urge of emotions, feelings swarmed upon me. It's been a good 9 years we've known each other and coming to a decade now. yet, we still keep in contact n meet up once in a while. it's tt kinda very warm, sappy kinda feeling. i can imagine us in our 30's, 40's, smsing or calling each other out for a gals-nite dinner or even a sunday outing wif our kids in tow. at this moment, i tried hard to fight back my tears. at the same time, i feel so happy and fortunate to have known them. cheers n kudos to our everlasting friendship! love ya gals! *hugzzZZ*

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Date: 16th Feb 2004, Monday...

Time: 9ish

Venue: cafe cartel, plaza singapura

i pictured myself as an outsider, looking at us 5... these gals r planning for a wedding. plannig wht to wear, whn to shop, how to go thru the clothes changes during the big day n a rough timeline for the next 9-10 months... all of the sudden, i felt "grown-up". mayb to me, getting married is a grown up thing. n helping out someone close to me is a feeling tt i cant put words to.

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Date: 18th Feb 2004, Wednesday...

Time: 2.27am

Venue: home

had to type out the above first b4 i continue wif today's entry... hence the time diff...

went for an interview just now. advertising admin asst. not my excate dream job, but close enuff. hope it can help me pave a way into advertising. will only know the results 2 weeks later... aft tt i went home. got a call later saying thr was a temp position for me, starting next wed, doing data entry. so now my plan is to work there first, n c the result 2 weeks later. unsuccessful, resumes sending time again. successful, 3 days notice n off i go...

how i celebrate my v's day? to many others v's day is a day whr candlelight dinner n roses r a must. for me? as long as i get to spend the day wif my Baby, i call it "celebrating". he popped by n we ordered pizza, watched lost in translation (d/led... hehe...) n soccer together. for me, eating pizza n watching soccer together is kinda romatic, i was actually smiling to myself.. hehe... even though my parents were ard, but it felt as though we were alone, quiet n peaceful...

this year's mtv asia awards was held on v's day. n i guess the best present for A*mei was tt she won the most popular taiwan astist! so happy for her!

wow, long entry today, but i still got things to say. well, there's some electrical rewiring gog on at my block n tmr's electricity will be cut... n i hate bathing in cold water n gog out wif oily hair (after abt 20 hours of not washing my hair, eeks....). so to get myself fresh n to avoid cold water, i'm bathing soon, wait for hair to dry n then sleep... wake up ard noon, look for angie to buy foundation, thn make my way to library@espanade n rot out till Baby knocks off. then its dinner time n House of Sand and Fog time wif him... using the "pre-paid" card of cos... heh...

kk, bathing soon cos sleeping soon... *poof*