The Central @ Clark Quay
Primarily for Long John Silvers breakfast, it’s very filling and they don’t charge extra for change of drinks
Japanese food when I get the craving (Kyumomoyama and Azabu Sabo are good lunch places)
The Market @ Central which serves my Farmland baked rice

Raffles City
The food court’s Olive Vine, flavor is on the heavy side but it’s filling and satisfying… I don’t think I eat anything else there
Soup Spoon
You’d think I’d frequent the basement more but I don’t really like to eat there, always feel confused by the maze-like surroundings

Occasionally Bugis and Orchard
Bugis for Kino and Orchard for Kino, ’nuff said

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My lunch places are the only places I go these days.

Bought a second shirt since I got compliments for dressing smarter. Haha, damn, I’m so going to become a corporate slave! I also got something from Zara which was mad expensive and I’d still need to find the right shirt but has great potential nonetheless. And it has pockets. This has become my new prerequisite, that my skirt needs to have pockets.

I also bought volumes 8-11 of To Aru Magetsu no Index light novels in Chinese. Haha… can’t believe I got hooked on it. Well at least the books will have a longer life, I read five times slower in Chinese.

My shopping sprees mildly horrifies me. Can’t believe I spent all that money at one go. That’s about 2 days’ worth of earnings?

Other than that, it’s very apparent I stopped exercising. I’m now growing a second chin. I notice that my face shape changes quite a bit. Ah well…

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I finished watching Ghost Hound. I saw it yesterday on some anime blog which ranked it as the top horror anime. It’s not really scary if you take away the sound and music. They really did a wonderful job in that department.

I don’t know but really not very happy with the ending, sigh. I still don’t understand what happened but it’s too much like… they slapped a happy ending at the end. Some off-character stuff too.

But it was quite gripping from about a few episodes in. Pacing is kind of slow and the image of the young Komori’s are kinda disturbing. There’s a feeling that there’s something disturbing about the whole thing too but in the end, it’s not really as disturbing as you thought.

I’m not sure why he rated it as the top horror anime. I saw Perfect Blue on the list and that is some freaky shit, much worse than Ghost Hound. I suppose that Ghost Hound can be disturbing in an intellectual way but there’s not much of that visceral horror going on.

Funny how I can’t stand horror films but read/watch horror anime and manga. Hahah. I wish they’d get on with publishing more Ghost Hunt books. Ghost Hunt has some real horrific shit. Maybe it’s because a lot of the horror stuff in anime and manga are based on supernatural/fantasy/folklore elements which I find incredibly gratifying to consume. Especially folklore, dig that. And they like to use the pseudo-scientific stuff… I guess it’s okay when it’s not realistic as animated things are.

Also on Perfect Blue: I first watched it when I took my Japanese film and anime course in NUS. It wasn’t part of the films we had to watch but I definitely milked my time at the library for all it’s worth. If you ever get the chance, do catch it because it’s quite the mind trip (mindfuck, really). If anyone’s in NUS now, man, they have some real classic anime, particularly films.

Well, no, not being single per se. But I think gaining some romance experience is good. Not to say I’m a know-it-all (hardly by far), but there are highs and lows to romance that isn’t replicated in other experiences in life. There is nothing quite like holding hands with someone, kissing, having sex, spending a late evening in a world made up of two.

I think that the longer one goes without it, the mythic qualities of romance become increasingly conspicuous. It’s best to live with a more down to earth view of things, I think. Getting to the point of “so it’s like that” is a good thing, in my view.

And anyway, I prefer to know what I like and what I don’t through actual experience than some nebulous half-formed expectation.

For me, what I learned is:

1) Maybe it hurts not to be reciprocated but there’s nothing like love to make you feel deeply and more alive.
2) Tactile encounters with another human being is very nice.
3) It’s beneficial to experience negative emotions just so you know how it feels. That way you don’t underestimate it as much in the future.
4) Minor but it helps you read poetry better. Hahah.

So what I want to say is, there are many enjoyable things you can do with another person. I don’t mean that one must be attached but at least go date someone, go out, have a great time together. It’s pretty fun and you have nice memories to look back on even if things don’t work out.

And he said one of the nicest thing ever which was that… You should not apologize for being cross-disciplinary and we have a lot to learn from viewing things from different perspectives.

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I stubbed my right toe this morning and it bled. But because I was rushing last minute changes to the slides, I really didn’t feel it until I was done and was in the toilet and suddenly stared at my feet.

I think I really do have amazing powers of concentration. Hahah.

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Sigh am I spineless or what. Why am I so non-confrontational? It explains my passive-aggressiveness though.

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Sometimes I have these little thoughts like: “Next time I see him, I will say that I like him.” But when the ‘next time’ comes, the words never make it past my mouth. Isn’t it annoying how one thinks things like that? You’re walking to the MRT gantry and suddenly you think “I should tell him about how I feel.” And you sigh a little inner sigh, know it’s something that won’t happen. “I really want to hug him. I wonder what he would think?”

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My colleague said that the old campus of LASALLE’s had this row of studios and apparently those were all makeout rooms. Hahah…

We don’t really have those in NUS… It’s way too open.

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Anyway, my life has narrowed down to work, eat and sleep these days. It kinda makes me happy to be occupied because when all you can think about is one thing, the desire for companionship never finds its way into the equation. But now that there’s one down, the slight relaxation I feel has come and so enter loneliness again.

Dwelling on things is never good.

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My eyes can’t open despite my consciousness’s attempt to do otherwise… Night…

KY not free again to makan and on the bus again when he reply. Haha is this what they call get a clue? Okay shalln’t disturb him anymore then.

It was very fun to hang out with small Jessie and Aaron and Kit and Stan the Man. I felt much more like a human being after that since the feeling that I was working mechanically for the past few weeks had a rather strong hold.

Still it’s getting more and more fun as the actual events draw near and the fruits of your work takes shape.

D-Day tomorrow, wish me luck.

She’s just lucky not to be there tomorrow as I may very well strangle her for saddling me with such shit work. As though I don’t have enough to do as it is.

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Ahaaaaaaaaa… First off and let me just get it off my chest, I love the male leads cute face!! OMG I totally feel like pinching his cheeks! He is so adorable!

And there are a MILLION great lines in it. And I totally identify with Tom but also with Summer but mostly with Tom AHAHAAH and he’s so cute, and the movie is pure awesome!

Rachel: Just because she’s likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn’t mean she’s your soul mate.

Tom: Darling…
[Summer looks up at him]
Tom: I don’t know how to tell you this, but… there’s a Chinese family in our bathroom.

Paul: Robin is better than the girl of my dreams. She’s real.

Tom: In college they called me perfectly adequate Hansen.
Summer: They used to call me anal girl.
[Tom spits out his drink]
Summer: I was very neat and organized.

Tom: I think it’s official. I’m in love with Summer. I love how she makes me feel.

Summer: One day I woke up and I just knew.
Tom: Knew what?
Summer: What I was never sure of when I was with you