Day #30: In The End

The last day of November, how fast the time flies.

NaBloPoMo: This would be the last entry for NaBloPoMo and I can't tell you much I'm happy that it'll be finally over. It's been hard trying to find things to write and most of the time, i've been going with the stream of conciousness thing and it makes me sound like a slightly insane person. I'm not sure if I'm planning to do this again next year (if there is one next year) but most probably I would since I like to torture myself and my mind like that.

Last year, I missed out on one day towards the end of the month but this year, not only did I not miss out, I even had double posts on some days. Though I would
credit that to the writing high. After today, I think I'm going to take a few days off from blogging and rest my brain. It is pickled with caffeine right now and I need to detox.

NaNoWriMo: Third times the charm! This year is my third year attempting to write a novel and I finally did it. I'm proud of myself that I finally made it. All I need to do now is to edit it so that the eyes won't bleed with the crudeness of it. Also, I might have to make a few changes here and there to make the story go smoother. I'm going to miss this novel. I guess I just have to find a new writing project then.

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Day #29: A Post Written During A Caffeine High

Today was the second time I went to Starbucks this week for coffee. As I'm writing this, my hands are shaking and I have a mild headache from the grande espresso I had about an hour ago. Why would a normal tea drinker like me be spending so much time at an overpriced coffee shop drinking large cups of coffee so often? I'll tell you why.

I'm actually trying to drown my sorrows in caffeine. I'm not depressed about anything, just that since I finished my NaNoWriMo novel, I've been trying to relive my writing high the only way I know, by having caffeine shots. Throughout the months of writing, I sustained myself with caffeine and sheer will power because I couldn't eat and write at the same time. It takes too much of my focus away from the writing, so I didn't eat. Or ate very, very little or too fast to even taste to food just so that I could go back to the writing as soon as possible. I miss it. I never thought that I would but I do, I really do.

I'm actually thinking of joining Script Frenzy next year. Though that thought most probably arrived right after I came crashing down from my writing high. Seriously, I don't have anything to look forward to when I come home. It feels so strange not to be thinking about where the story will go next and how I'm going to reach the next level in the word count. I wasn't kidding when I said I was feeling lost.

Oh well...

P/S: Does anyone else realise how this post doesn't really make sense? I love me some caffeine, especially before bed.

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Day #28: Coke or Pepsi?

I never understood this preferrance for either Coke or Pepsi. I know that they don't taste the same but hey, it still hits the spot no matter what. I used to be a die-hard Coke supporter until they didn't have it at the place I was having my meal. Now, I'm an equal opportunity drinker; either one will do.

There are days when only a Coke will do and there are other days where all I want is a can of Pepsi.

Mmmm... I'm just craving some soda right now...

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Day #27: Who Woulda Thunk It

I've mentioned before that I actually enjoy listening to Britney Spears' songs even if I would deny it if anyone asked. Her latest single Gimme More makes me want to boogie so much that it's a good thing that I don't really listen to the radio that much or people would be bleeding from the eyes at the sight of my shaking my ass to the beat.

I've also mentioned before that I'm a YouTube addict so when I was randomly surfing the Tube for music videos, I found an acoustic version of Gimme More. It was actually much better than the original and the girl who sang it had a beautiful voice and a beautiful face. I wish I could play the guitar like her.

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Day #27: I'm Finally A Novelist!

I finished it! I finished my novel last night, all fifty thousand words of it last night. I only managed to validate the word count this morning because my sister was being a jerk and screwed up my internet connection last night. I was close to tears because I couldn't validate my word count right after I finished my novel.

It was thr first thing I did when I woke up and I got my beautiful Purple bar! *points to the yellow badge on the left sidebar* See! It's all official, I'm a winner! Finally, after two years of abysmal failure, I did it! Though, now I don't have to rush home to write, to spend all my time in front of the computer typing until my wrists hurt. I feel, lost. Sigh....

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Day #26: So Close But Not Across The Finishing Line Yet

As of this afternoon, my word count is 48,203. It's so close to the finishing line. There is still some of the story left, seeing that now it's come to the climax of the story. After that, I still have the epilogue to write. I really, want my purple winners' bar this year and I aim to get it.

First order of business is dinner and then I'm going back to write. Just in case that this post seems a little too short for you, here's a video of my current favourite song from John Mayer, Slow Dancing In A Burning Room. Listen to the lyrics and I dare you to tell me that it's not the saddest breakup song.

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Day #25: Sam And Dean Always Make Things Better

I've been very violent and so, so angry today. I didn't want this to turn into an illogical, totally worthless rant post so in stead, I'm going to post up a video. This might seem like a cop out for the month of November posting thing but who cares. A post is a post right?

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Day #24: When I Said I Wanted To Spend Money, I Didn't Mean That Much

You remember when I said that I deserved to splurge on myself, I really did today. The initial plan was to make full use of the 20% off at Kinokuniya today and treat myself to a few new books, which I did. On top of that, I bought this phone and some DVDs and CDs.

I've been waiting for the phone to hit the stores for a while now since I love the 5 megapixel feature of the camera. I love taking pictures of myself so the phone would work very nicely for me. Besides, my mobile phone contract was up anyway and signing a new contract made getting the phone slightly cheaper. I have yet to name the phone. It's a tie between Overlord Of The Universe and Yoda Phone. Your input is greatly appreciated. Also, do you have any other suggestions for names?

I finally got a copy of Mein Kampf and the autobiography of Nelson Mandela. Apparently, I wasn't the only one within my group of friends who wanted the read both books, so that's really nice to know. I don't know why people are so afraid to read Hitler's book. Oh well, like I care what they think anyway.

To even out the non-fiction titles, I got Nora Robert's latest book, the first in a trilogy, titled Blood Brothers. As always, there's magic to use and evil to fight only this time around, the main characters involved with the magic are male. Too bad that the second book in the trilogy will only be released in May next year. That's a six months of waiting. Fortunately, there are a few books in between that I'm waiting for, to tie me over.

Actually, the main reason I was at Kinokuniya was to support the book reading for the NaNoWriMo book, So You Think You Can Write A Novel?. I attended the book launch last year and it was great. Too bad I didn't bring my copy with me today or I would have gotten one of the featured authors to autograph it for me. Some of the excerpts were really good and I hope that the authors would get to publish those novels. I would definitely get them if they do. Too bad there wasn't as much support for the event as I hoped there would be. They don't know what they're missing, so that's their loss.

I hit forty-two two thousand words while I hung out at Starbucks after the event and I'm glad that I made progress. There's still more to write and I really, really want that purple winner's bar this year. Wish me luck!

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Day #23: Because I Deserved It

After a week of craziness, more than a few weeks or writing, I deserve a treat. Nothing like splurging on yourself, especially when there's a sale going on. Like I've mentioned before, I love pretty undergarments. So there's nothing like a pick me up like pretty, sexy underwear. It doesn't matter that no one else is going to see the pretty, sexy underwear, because I know that I'm sexy underneath and that's all that matters. I'm now a proud member of Club Sloggi. I see more pretty, sexy underwear for me in the future.

NaBloPoMo is kicking my ass. It's hard trying to come up with posts every single day. How miss the days when I get a few days to think of what to post instead of coming up with something on the fly. I can't wait for the month to end.

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Day #22: 100 List, Redux

I was about to do a 10 Things You Never Knew About Me list when I realised that I'd done it before, early on in the beginning of this blog. As no one would actually take the time to go through my archives, I'd decided to bring the list here. Comments in italics are things that have changed since the time I did the list.:

1. At the age of 24, I still watch cartoons when I have the time. (I did this early last year, so I was still 24 back then. By the way, I still watch cartoons now too.)

2. I like Spongebob, Danny Phantom, anime, the old Warner Bros. cartoons.

3. I like to collect mugs because they come in so many different shapes, colours and sizes. I have 3 from the Starbucks city collection (Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bali), 1 from Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and a few from the different companies that sell stuff to my lab.

4. Colourful underwear always makes me happy. Everyone should wear colourful underwear. ;)

5. Music and books are the most important things to me besides my loved ones since they provide me with a source of escape from the trials and tribulations of life.

6. I have an eclectic taste in music. I listen to almost everything but with different degrees of tolerance. Currently, I'm listening to a lot more pop. I went through the rock & roll, heavy metal, dance and retro phase. I'll probably do a rotation of my music genres in a few months. (I'm on my Eric Clapton phase right now.)

7. The books I read are usually in the romance, sci-fi/fantasy and horror genre. Once in a while, I'd venture out to general fiction and thrillers but not that often. (Since then, I've read chef autobiographies and I love them!)

8. I used to go to the library almost every week since I usually finish all the books I'd borrowed in under a week. I stopped going to the library after I realised that I've read almost all the books by all the authors that I read and that it's hard to actually get the books at the libraries since people never put the books back to where their supposed to be.

9. To say that I'm a CSI fan would be an understatement. I'm an addict! I can't have enough of Nick Stokes, Greg Sanders, Warrick Brown, Sara Sidle, Gil Grissom, Horatio Caine!!!! them. I don't like Catherine Willows that much so she's not in my list. (This was before I discovered Supernatural.)

10. I would love to be a forensic scientist, if it wasn't for the fact that I can't stomach dead bodies in the various stages of decomposition and the gallons of blood. I'm more of a lab person than a field work kind of gal.

11. I've never gotten flowers from a guy before. All the flowers I've gotten were from my female friends. They were pretty roses too. (Lilies or tuber roses please, if anyone is planning to give me flowers. Roses are just cliched.)

12. I like to write and want to be a writer but I don't have the discipline and drive to stick through it. Not only that, I've been plagued by writer's block since November. (NaNoWriMo madness!)

13. I want to be a scientist for the love of science; to do science for the sake of science and not for getting as many publications as possible before I die. I wish people can understand that since you don't really make money in research anyway.

14. I don't have a drivers' license since it's took expensive to do it here but then, I don't think I have the patience for rude people on the road. I don't want to go to jail for road rage. (Hur hur. I signed up for it but have yet to finish.)

15. My friends say that I have a dirty mind. You tell sex jokes and make innuendos for one day and you're labelled forever.

16. I listen to more English than Malay songs because they don't write songs like they used to.

17. As much as I love being bilingual, I can't speak either language without mentally translating it into the other. That's why it takes me a while to say certain words because I'm not sure which to use some times.

18. I used to play the trumpet in the band and when I quit, it was like cutting away a part of me with a blunt knife but I had to leave since I couldn't stand the new instructor and he took away what joy I had for practice. I still dream about playing in the band some nights and I wake up crying. I'm such a band geek.

19. I tried to learn how to play the guitar but I never got further than a few chords since I don't have the patience or company to learn it. It's not the same as playing in the band.

20. I hope to be able to pick the guitar up again some day and be able to play it competently and play in a band again.

21. I hate swimming in the sea/lake/large bodies of water as I have this fear that there might be sharks/large fish/crocs that might bite/eat me.

22. After watching on TV about how a croc ended up in a swimming pool after a flood, I can't swim in a pool without making a thorough inspection of the pool to make certain that there aren't any animals, especially crocodiles, in it.

23. The amount of books that I own can almost rival a small bookshop. If there was a fire in my house, my room would be the first to go.

24. On the average, I buy about 2 - 3 CDs and DVDs a month since I started working. After all these years, I've lost track of how many of each that I have. I don't even remember what titles I have.

25. I can't count very well. I keep trying to number the list wrongly.

26. It's only been 26 points and I'm already tired. Sigh....

27. My enthusiasm for hobbies are usually half-baked. I lose interest very fast.

28. I love dangling earrings. I don't care if they're out of fashion. I like the feel of their weight on my ear lobes and the way they swing when I walk.

29. I need to stop by almost every single music and book store that I come across, just so that I can look at the titles they have.

30. I'm find musicians sexy. eg. John Mayer, Jason Mraz, Eric Clapton, the swimmer guy I liked in school, island boy.I haven't referred to The Significant Other as island boy in ages. He doesn't like it when I do that.)

31. I think that all babies are cute but some are cuter than others. Cute babies make me want bite their cheeks and gnaw at their limbs.

32. I love horror movies but I can't watch one without having something to cover my face in case of emergency. I don't like gore that much though. After watching the remake of Texas Chain Saw, I'm staying away from any horror movie that's rated R21.

33. Once when I was 6, I tried to teach a rampaging psycho rooster a lesson for frightening people. I stepped out of the house with a stick, ready to give it a whack but before I could raise the pathetic excuse of a stick, the rooster charged at me and chased me back into the house. I had fever the next day from shock.

34. Sometimes I wish that I can talk to animals, just so that life would be more interesting.

35. One of my favourite accomplishments was to finally able to donate blood. I've waited 8 years for my weight to reach 45kg and last month, I donate for the first time. It was a little scary but I didn't really hurt and I've got an orange-shaped stress ball and a needle scar to show for it. I can't wait for June/July to donate again. (I've donated a few more times since then and I have a nice collection of stress balls too)

36. I think that the Lord of The Rings movies are the best movies ever made but the books were such a bore. Though, not as boring as The Chronicles of Narnia.

37. My real name means the light of gentleness or fine light but those who know me find it a joke since I'm not fine or gentle. Sometimes anyway.

38. The thing I regretted most when I was in Australia was not travelling to different parts of WA. I hope to go back there one day and do some major travelling.

39. If given a chance, I want to move to New Zealand because I think that it's a nice place to live; beautiful scenery, cute and cuddly sheep, and that the LoTR movies were shot there.

40. I love clay-mation and animated sheep as they are cute and makes me want to hug them.

41. I have two sisters who are 7 and 9 years younger. They are make me want to strangle them half the time but I still love them anyway. I just wish they'd stop wearing my clothes though.

42. When travelling in Malaysia, the power lines never fail to remind me of the Ultraman episodes of old. He would be tripping over those power lines as he fights the monsters through Tokyo.

43. Smoking makes my gums bleed. Even after quitting for so long, just thinking about it makes my gums ache but there are days when all I want is a cup of coffee, a good book and a pack of cigarettes.

44. Milk should taste like milk not like chocolate strawberry or even honeydew. *pukes*

45. I have an on going war against acne. Most days I succeed but it's that one week in a month that is the hardest.(Damn you acne! Why won't you leave me a lone!)

46. When I removed my tonsils three years back, I lost 5kg as I couldn't have any solid food for a week. I lived on MILO and jelly during that time. It was hard but it didn't make me love MILO any less.

47. As a child, I wanted to be a doctor, a teacher or even a technician like my mum. Now, I can't decide if I want to be a scientist or a writer. Can I be both even though I'm not that great at being either.

48. The best kind stories are those with smart, witty dialogue, strong female characters and male characters who may not necessarily be all that smart. And of course sex. Lots and lots of sex. (Sounds exactly like the characters from all my stories)

49. When we went to visit my uncles in Kelantan when I was 4, my parents took me to the beach. It was during the monsoon season and the waves were strong. Even though my parents said not to play near the water, I couldn't resist (because I was such a stubborn child and all that). The waves were so strong that they pulled me into the water. Fortunately my dad was there to pick me up but I lost a slipper that day. I still mourn the lost of that slipper to this day.

50. Half way there.... Whew!

51. Why would the hospital give me tablets when they knew I had just had tonsillectomy and I couldn't swallow anything harder than water? That still puzzles me to this day.

52. Out of all of Winnie the Pooh's friends, I like Eeyore the best. He's so sad and melancholy all of the time. A lot like me in my teens. Though he didn't have the violent temper like I did.

53. I can be the biggest lab bitch anyone has ever known, especially when things are not placed back to their original spot or things are not done the way I want them to. To rectify this, I try to stay out of the lab as much as possible, going in only when I have to.

54. Stupid people make me angry and want to do bodily harm to them.

55. I'm a serial cactus killer because I can't seem to remember to water them at all. It'll be months and months before I remember that I have plants to take care of.

56. The only kinds of chocolate I love are dark chocolate and the ones with nuts. Dark chocolate with nuts are the BOMB!

57. This is hard......

58. I was the only one out of all of my friends who didn't gain weight when I was in Australia. Having to eat my own cooking does that to me. I don't cook so good.(Now I cook awesomely! Or at least I'd like to think so.)

59. Though I do bake somewhat good. I barter my cookies for free photography sessions and other stuff with my cousins.

60. I have strange cravings, like sausages, chicken and meat at random times of the month. My friends think I'm strange.

61. I used to love fan fiction with Harry Potter being my ultimate fandom and Draco/Ginny being my OTP(one true pairing). Over the years, the quality at FF.net had gone down so much that I lost interest and will only read fics that recommended. (What a snob right? ;)) (I've stopped reading fanfiction totally after the last sixth Harry Potter book. I Just could not stomach any of it anymore)

62. I've finally lost interest in the HP fandom and discovered a new one, CSI! Specifically Nick Stokes/Sara Sidle or Snickers fandom. (I don't read those fanfiction anymore either. Stupid CBS people destroying my ship.)

63. When I start reading, I get lost in my own world so most of the time I won't pay attention to anything else. I managed to miss my train stop twice so far this year.

64. I'm absolutely terrified of dogs, no matter what the size, even though I was never bitten by one.

65. What else can I talk about......

66. If I was going to be locked in a building overnight, I want it to be in a library (or a book store). At least they have more than enough books to keep my occupied until the re-open and find me the next day.

67. The most treasured thing I've ever received for my birthday is the ring that the boy gave me two years back. I can't wear it on my fingers since it gets in the way when I'm the lab so, I wear on a chain around my neck instead.

68. The other birthday present that I really, really like is the stuffed toy sheep that my aunt gave me for my 9th birthday. I know it's somewhere in the house, most probably in the black hole that is the store room. I'll find it again one day but for now, I'm happy with my stuffed Eeyore on my bed.

69. Sixty-nine. Such an interesting number. *wink wink nudge nudge* (And I asked why people say that I have a dirty mind.)

70. I never used to wear skirts at all until I started dating at the age of 20. Even then, it took me another three years before I actually went out and bought more than one skirt. I don't wear them often, only on special occasions.

71. I learned how to put on eyeliner from my 18 year-old sister.

72. She taught me how to put on my eyeshadow too. (Now, my eyeshadow collection can rival Mac's.)

73. I'm a pharmacy store junky.

74. My mum's chicken rice is the best I've ever tasted. (Until I had the one at Tanglin Halt, that is.)

75. I learned how to crochet just so that I can make baby blankets for my pregnant friends. They're not the best in the world but my friends seem to appreciate it.

76. My pinky toes on both feet are much shorter than the rest of the toes, making it look like it overlaps on the second last toe. My sisters like to make fun of me but they stopped after I thumped them on the head.

77. I can spend the whole day watching Card Captor Sakura over and over again. (Which I don't any more because who has the time?)

78. I can do the same with CSI, LoTR and Star Wars. (See above point)

79. The earliest memories I have were of staying at my grandparents' house in the village, before the urbanisation of Singapore. I would follow my grandmum to the pen to feed her chickens and her ducks. It was a novel experience, then and now. I don't think I'll ever get the chance to do that again.

80. Twenty more to go.....

81. This is really taking a long time huh?

82. If I was to get a tattoo (not that I ever will but if), I would get a dragon, curled up in sleep, on the shoulder blade and another dragon on the hip bone. Unlike other girls, I prefer dragons to butterflies.

83. My all time favourite song is More Than Words by Extreme. I hope to have it played at my wedding one day.

84. I'm a closet Britney Spears fan. Oh wait, I'm not in the closet anymore. (That was before she screwed up her life but her songs are still ear worms for me.)

85. Biostatistics isn't my strong point and it's just my luck to get a job that requires me to understand all the different statistical data (which I still have yet to manage).

86. I think that a woman can never have too many shoes, clothes, bags and makeup. You never know when you might need a certain combination for a special occasion.

87. I've been wearing glasses since the age of 9.

88. I've always wanted a pet cat. It will be a black cat with green eyes and a white patch of fur on it's chest.

89. I find the words penis and testicles absolutely hilarious. I don't know why but every time anyone says them, I have this insane urge to giggle.

90. Why do people always shorten the word testimony to testi? This always reminds me of testicles and it makes me giggle like a loony person.

91. The best oatmeal I've ever had was when I was in hospital after my tonsil surgery. Too bad I couldn't finish it because I couldn't swallow very well. It was tasty.

92. I know that I dream every night while I sleep but most of the time, I can't remember what I'd dreamt.

93. As a student way back when, I would stop by the bookshop every damn day just so I could lust after all the wonderful stationeries on sale.

94. It was during one of these trips that I found one of my favourite books, Redemption of Althulus by David and Leigh Eddings.

95. I only managed to read it a year later when I found it in the library. Now I read it at least once a year and I never get tired of it. (And that is why I named my Macbook Althulus)

96. I've taken to drinking milk everyday so that I can maintain my weight at at least 45kg. This way, I can always donate blood. (Don't drink milk anymore. Too much hassle and the taste that it leaves in your mouth...)

97. I never used to get dizzy when I stand at high up places or at the ledge until quite recently. I don't know what happened to change me so.

98. I think that pizza is not only a balanced meal but it is also a whole food group on it's own and should have it's own place in the food pyramid.

99. Almost done now....

100. I like fish. Preferably barbecued or fried and slathered with chilli.

So of you still here after reading that list, congratulations! I'm still not done yet.

I'd asked a few people, if they could have tea with anyone dead or alive, who would it be and what would they talk about. The answers range from Che Guevara, Brad Pitt, Martha Stewart, God and their late grandmother. Me personally, I'd like to have tea with Adolf Hitler and Ghandi, closely followed by Jensen Ackles. Actually, scratch that. Gimme Jensen Ackles and you can have the tea, Hitler and Ghandi. All I want is some time alone with his Hotness.

Before you say that I'm obsessed, I'm not. I just think intensely.


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NaNoWriMo Plug!

Come and join in the fun! Besides, there's 20% off storewide for members on that day. So what are you waiting for?

More details on the above come.

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Day #21: A Year Ago, Today

On this day last year, the day after I came back from Brisbane, I found that I had corneal ulcer, thanks to the dry weather there. Corneal ulcer usually affects contact lens users, so it pissed me off that as someone who wears glasses instead of contact lenses, I had the unfortunate bad luck to have this on me.

I hated the multiple trips to the hospital where I spent hours just waiting for my turn to see the doctor, which only lasted as long as fifteen minutes. Those steroid eyedrops were awful to use because you could taste the bitterness of the medicine right after you put a few drops of it in your eyes. Also, I had like three different eye drops to use in one day, at approximately at the same time. To say that it was not fun, was a gross understatement.

Last year, at around this time, I was barely scraping through my Nanovel and I had yet to reach my twenty thousand mark at this point. This year, it's better, as you can see by the bar. *points to the green bar on top* I have about a day's worth of writing as padding. I didn't get any writing done yesterday so I have to catch up tonight. I have about fifteen thousand words or so to go and within that time, I need to kill one other person, expose who the killer is and have the climax of the story happen. Then I'm thinking of ending it all with an epilogue. I just hope that once i validate my word count on the site, it'll be above fifty thousand words and I'll get my purple winner's bar! Woot!

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Day #20: Having Mr Crab For Dinner

I love having crabs; steamed, chilli crab, black pepper, you name it, I love it. So when my mum said, come home for dinner we're having crab, that's exactly what I did. No one makes chilli crab like my mother. It was awesome.

The only thing that I don't enjoy about the crab eating is not only biting through the shell but having the crab fly everywhere and spraying you with crab juice. I remember once, we were having crab for dinner and I'd just taken a shower. While prying the pincers open, it flew out of my hands and sprayed me with crab juice. I had to take another shower and shampoo my hair again after dinner.

Even so, I still love me some crab now and again.

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Day #19, Part 2: Because Everyone Needs A Little Randomness In Their Day

I forgot how much I hated the gym until I hit the treadmill and the weight machines. At least the shower afterwards made it all worth while. Those power shower heads shooting hot water down my aching shoulders blades was wonderful. I could have stayed in there forever.

Have you ever gone through your own blog archives and read through them? I do it periodically and it amazes me some of the stuff I write. It's like a totally different person. Seriously, I sound write like I was a snarky, funny person on crack sometimes. I have no idea where it all came from.

I have a craving for roast chicken with black pepper sauce.

Song of the day, Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton. He's the most awesome of guitar players. I wish someone would write a song about me. Sigh...

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Day #19: Exhausted On Monday Morning

It's early, well, not so early Monday morning and I can barely keep my eyes open in the office. I'm just so exhausted. Two days of lugging my computer around the island and writing for God knows how long, has taken it's toll. I woke up this morning when the alarm rang only to switch it off and go back to sleep. I woke up an hour later. Cool huh?

Anyway, I found this hilarious post this morning that would have made me spew all over the monitor if was drinking tea while reading it. You have got to read it:

Learn Chinese in 5 minutes.

PS: I'm so sleepy that I have to keep going back to correct my damn spelling every time I write a sentence. It's damn irritating.

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Day #18: Writing Sunday

Having a speed dating event at our normal write in venue really screwed things up but fortunately, Mother Mod opened her house to us writers, so that's where we spent the day. Also, it's the the 17th November Write-Thon for the San Francisco NaNoWriMo Chapter, so we decided to have a write-thon of our own.

I think we had the most number of people attending a write-in today. We had people in the living room and the study room upstairs. Everyone was fighting for power point plugs. Then, there was the food. We had everything that every writer needed; donuts, pizza, sushi, hot dogs and endless supply of soda. It's a good thing that I'll be going to the gym tomorrow. If I was to have that every day in November, I would be fat by the end of the month, but I digress.

Even though it was supposed to be a write-thon, I wasn't as productive as I wanted. I spent half the time there eating, staring out into the garden, staring into space and walking around. I only managed about 2k words in the time I was there but that's ok, I should writer more after this.

PS: You internets are so totally not helpful with the random question thing. Sheesh!

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Day #17: Guess Where I Am?

Does it surprise anyone that I'm Starbucks right now, drinking my Joy Tazo tea? I just finished my write-in and am currently waiting for the sis to drop by so that we can have dinner.

After a few false starts with the Wireless@SG access, I finally got through and so here I am, drinking my tea and updating my blog. Bing says that I rock. You're damn right I rock. Woot!

So anyway, I hit the 30k mark today and my main characters just got married. The wedding was somewhat cliched but I would say sweet. They have songs by Guns & Roses, Extreme, U2 and a few other rock bands playing at the wedding. I would say cool but then, I haven't been to that many weddings in the first place so what would I know about cool weddings.

I'm very tempted to get a coffee but I know that I would just react very badly to it. Though, I'm not known to learn my lesson in regards with coffee, so who knows. I might just end up buying a cup for myself and regretting it later.

The post is full of pointless drivel, no? This is what happens when you've spent the good portion of a day thinking and writing about someone else's wedding. It's like trying to re-write a script for a movie that you're watching in your head. You get the gist of it but most of the dialogue and the nuances don't really translate. So what I have written down is nothing but a pale imitation of the story that I have in my head. But like I've said before, NaNoWriMo is all about quantity, not quality so it doesn't really matter what I have as long as I have at least fifty thousand words by end of the month.

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Day #16: Ask Me Random Questions Day

It's half way through NaBloPoMo and I'm running out of things to write. It gets a little dull when all I talk about is writing for NaNoWrimo, so here is where I need help from the internets. Ask me any random question and I'll try to answer as truthfully and as honestly as I can, and I'll post the answers up on Sunday, 18th of November. How about that? So get the questions coming in.



It's write-in day at the Arts House tomorrow. Come on down and see the Singapore novelists at work. Just don't gawk at them like their exhibits in the zoo. I've had enough of that in the office as it is. See you there.


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Day #15: To The Hot TV Men In My Life

Dear Nick,

You had me at that first shirtless shot of you in season one. You were absolutely sexy. We've been through a lot together; through your first kidnapping in that second season, having a gun pointed at your head a few times, having the murder of that woman pinned on you, through all the horrible hairdos and facial hair mistakes, and all those times I went into withdrawal when the season ended I had yet to receive the next season on DVD. When you were kidnapped in that final two episodes of season five, it was very difficult for me to watch you in that ordeal. It was almost as hard as watching that moustache on you, but I digress.

We've been together for so long, so it's hard for me to break this to you. I'm sorry to tell you that you are no longer number one in my Hottest Men On TV list. Your place of honour has gone to someone else; someone who is totally different from you. Please don't think that you're no longer hot, because you are. He's just hotter. I'm sorry.

Love,
Me.

* * *

Dear Dean,

Even though we've only known each other for two seasons, you've managed to push yourself to the number one spot in my Hottest Men On TV list and I love you. You had me sitting up straight and pay attention to you since the very first episode of Supernatural, when you were caked in mud. To still be sexy even when you're covered in drying mud is a very big accomplishment in my book

With your rugged, boyish charm and your sexy smile, how could I resist? And your car, it's just sex on wheels. It's the sexiest piece of machinery I've ever seen on TV ever. Every single shirtless shot of you, and sometimes your brother, have been played and re-played so often that it might have scratched the DVD. All that 'warrior training' that your father did with your and your brother seemed to pay off very well.

I know that these two seasons have been hard on you. You know, with the death of your parents, your dad exchanging his life for yours, having to kill that poor girl just because she was a werewolf, and seeing your brother killed in front of you. If you ever need a shoulder boobs to cry on, I'll always be here. Just try not to get yourself or your brother killed. Again.

Much, much love,
Me.

* * *

Dear Flack,

I think you're hot. I just can't bring myself to call you by your first name because we barely know each other. Yes, it's been two season of CSI:NY but I rarely get to see you in action. The only time I got to see you shirtless was in the last episode of season two but that was not the best way since you were in hospital and they just patched up your chest and abdomen from the flying shrapnel. Maybe in the following seasons, I would be able to see more or you shirtless preferably. I hope that the bomb blast didn't leave you with any long lasting disability.

Love,
Me

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Day #14: Heavy Metal Love Sonnets

For the third day in a row, I woke up with a Helloween song stuck in my head. On Monday it was Kings Will Be Kings and Time of the Oath, yesterday was Keeper Of the 7 Keys and today, was Halloween. On top of that, I had various songs by Iron Maiden, Dio, Motorhead and Nightwish looping in my head the whole day. This is what happens when I play nothing but heavy metal for a month for my novel writing.

In writing for NaNovel and looking for good word padding, I've discovered some beautiful love sonnets. I've never been one for poetry and I blame my lack in poetry related interest entirely on my literature teacher for making it seem impossibly dry and absolutely dull. So, finding these sweet words of love was wonderful. Here's one by Alfred Tennyson titled Marriage Morning:

Light, so low upon earth,
You send a flash to the sun.
Here is the golden close of love,
All my wooing is done.
Oh, the woods and the meadows,
Woods where we hid from the wet,
Stiles where we stay'd to be kind,
Meadows in which we met!

Light, so low in the vale
You flash and lighten afar,
For this is the golden morning of love,
And you are his morning start.
Flash, I am coming, I come,
By meadow and stile and wood,
Oh, lighten into my eyes and heart,
Into my heart and my blood!

Heart, are you great enough
For a love that never tires?
O' heart, are you great enough for love?
I have heard of thorns and briers,
Over the meadow and stiles,
Over the world to the end of it
Flash for a million miles.

Isn't it sweet? *dreamy sigh*

Anyway, here's the stats for my NaNovel so far if anyone is interested:

Story so far: Female main character is pregnant and currently planning the wedding. Male main character DEAN! is hot and sexy and the baby's father.

Number of words: 24,082

Chapters: 14

Sex scenes: I lost count after the third one

Characters killed: 2 and 1 attempted murder

Cups of tea drank in the last 24hrs: 7 (that's one teabag per cup)

Caffeine overdose: 2





Random quiz of the day: If you're smart, where did this verse come from?

I left alone my mind was blank
I needed time to think to get the memories from my mind

What did I see can I believe that what I saw
that night was real and not just fantasy

Just what I saw in my old dreams were they
reflections of my warped mind staring back at me

'Cos in my dream it's always there the evil face that twists my mind
and brings me to despair

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Day #13: Of Heavy Metal, Classical Music And Starbucks

Did you know that heavy metal has roots in classical music, like those written by Bach and Wagner? Neither did I until I watched Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. I'm not a great fan of classical because I find that too many of them are so happy, so high pitched that it grates on my nerves and my eardrums. Some people would say that listening to classical music is soothing and relaxing. If I wanted something soothing and relaxing, there's always Justin Timberlake, but I digress. That's why I love heavy metal so much; it's heavy on the bass and mostly dark. I love the way, if you turn up the volume high enough, the bass reverberates through my chest. Aahh... it's like some kind of therapy I tell you.

Anyway, having no knowledge on where to start on looking for dark, classical music, so I turned to the 'dajie' of the lab. She is like the all-knowing for classical music. She's got some suggestions for me so she'll be bringing in some CDs for me and in return, I'll lend her some heavy metal stuff that shouldn't put you to sleep. Can you imagine it? She actually said that she fell asleep listening to Metallica but then, I don't listen to Metallica so I wouldn't know. I'm thinking Iron Maiden's Powerslave album would be good for her. I love that one.

In other things, my addiction, let me show you it:

Yeah, so not only did I get the tea bags, I even got the drink to go. I'm addicted. HELP!

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Day #12 Part Deux: Wrimo Update!

Do I get a prize for posting twice in a day for NaBloPoMo?

The weekend, had been really productive with all the writing I've been doing. Just over the weekend, I wrote of 8998 words and today, I finally caught up with the word count. If I maintain writing 1667 words for the rest of the month, I should be able to reach 50k just before the deadline.

Anyway, I want to bring your attention to the NaNoWriMo badge on the left side bar. Clicking on it brings you to the nanowrimo site where I'd posted an excerpt of my novel. I do have to tell you that it's in it's roughest form, totally not edited so be kind if you're leaving comments. Thank you.

Carry on.

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Day #12: The Evilness That Is Starbucks

I'm back at work Sigh. No more early morning tea/breakfast at Starbucks. No more writing in the trains. No more not going into the labs. Ah, how I miss those days already. The good thing though is that I'm back in my jeans, funny print t-shirts and especially my sneakers. Oh, my black and purple sneakers, how I've missed you! No more spending the whole day in heels that bite and squish my little toes. Aaah... Bliss!

During those few days away from the office, I've also re-discovered my Starbucks addiction, though this time isn't for the coffee. I'm addicted to their tea, especially their Earl Grey and their Christmas Blend Tazo tea. The thing that puzzles me most is that the teas aren't that great actually but there's something about them them makes me come back for more.

What is is about Starbucks that is so addictive? Please somebody enlighten me. If this addiction goes on I'm definitely most likely to spend all my money at Starbucks.

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NaBloPoMo Day #11: Children Of My Own

In general, I love babies and little children because they're cute and cuddly and oh so adorable. Most of the time, I love playing with them and then I would happily return them to their parents but there are the select few that make me feel more, much more than I normally would. These select few babies make my usually quietly ticking biological clock go crazy, urging me to go ahead and have babies of my own. One of these babies is the beloved Baby Mango, the son of my oldest and dearest friend.

The first time I met Baby Mango around this time last year and I fell in love with his cute little chubby cheeks, his love for Eeyore and the wonderful way he fit in my arms. Holding him made my womb clench and it made me yearn so badly to have a baby of my own that I almost cried when I had to leave him in Brisbane. I cried of course but more because I was leaving my best friend in another continent but that is another story for another time. He may have only been three months old at that time but he had my heart from the first moment I held him in my arms.

I hope that one day, when I have children of my own, they'll be smart, adorable children, just like Baby Mango. I hope to one day have four (that's right four. That's 4, empat, quatre, si4, cuatro) of them and I'll be able to raise them well. I know that at this moment I don't think I'm ready to be a mother but (though all the mothers I know said that you'll never be ready for motherhood) I hope that when the time comes, I will be ready. Until then, I have more than a number of nephews and nieces to play with.

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NaBloPoMo Day #10: 10k Words And Counting

I finally reached my first 10k words today during the write-in and I have about 40k left to go. The initial plan was to reach at least 17k by midnight but due to familial obligation, I only managed to get 11k words. It's frustrating but I'm hoping that that the story will go faster now, with almost all the back story already told. All I need is for the story to move forward to the next murder and it should go faster from there.

Aside from the writing, a quick visit to a music store made me $75 poorer but it's worth it. New music, new albums of old artists, how I love music.

Ok, time for more writing. Until later.

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NaBloPoMo Day #9: My Life, A Horror Movie

I saw a very interesting meme done by a colleague today:

What Type of Movie Would Your Life Be?
	Your life would be a Horror Film. You question the metaphysical and are curious about the supernatural. Your imagination lures you to the dark side. You play with the idea of spirituality, but have yet to reach any definitive and absolute conclusions. While your mind constantly toys with things that seem to transcend the laws of nature, there's a part of you that remains firmly grounded in the world around you.
Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com

So if my life would be a movie, it'll be a horror one? I love horror movies but to have my life as one, is not something I would really aspire to have. There's only so many times that your heart can take all the shocks and the chases by the evil being before it gives up and you'll keel over dead.

Anyway, at the music/video store earlier, they've just brought in a new stock of DVDs that make me want to whip out my credit card and start charging away but I only limited myself to just one, Harry Potter & the Order of The Phoenix. It's supposed to be released in December but who cares! I have it in my collection now. However, it's puzzling that as excited as I was when I picked it up at the store, I have lost all desire to watch it once I got home. I can hear my sisters watching it in the room but I'm just not interested right now.

Other than the HP & OoTP, I would have gotten the second season of Bones and Rise but maybe when my pay comes in. As happy as I was that they brought in Rise, it was the the censored version instead of the original, so I guess there wouldn't be the lesbian action between Carla Gugino and Lucy Liu. I'd rather they didn't bring it in than having the cut version on the shelves. Ah well, doesn't matter. I might just end up getting that version in the end.

I guess I should go and do something about that novel of mine if I want to hit at least 20k by Sunday. Damn words aren't flowing. Shit.


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NaBloPoMo Day #8: Catching Up

The hectic week that I've had totally threw my blog reading schedule out of whack. On a normal day, I would start my work day with a good cup of tea, email checking and reading of blogs. With all the activities I've had this past week, I couldn't catch up on my reading and when I checked my Google reader today, there's like a total of 113 posts, waiting for me to read them.

I finally managed to catch up on them but I cheated. I skimmed through most of them and only picking a few of the posts to read. Who has the time to read every single post like that when I still have so much more to write of the NaNovel.

Here's the stats so far:

Chapters : 5

Total Words (as of right now): 7616

Total Number of Pages: 21

Characters killed: 1

Sex scenes: 2


Everyone who knows about the novel keeps asking me how it's going. It would go a lot faster if you'd just stop asking me about it and let me write the damn thing! Sheesh!

Also, I've been watching Supernatural again since Dean is so fucking sexy. I dare you to say that he's not.



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NaBloPoMo Day #7: What's Worse Than Spending Thirteen Hours In Three and a Half Inch Heels?

Finally getting a seat on the train, only to discover that the dude sitting next to you stinks. If it wasn't for the fact that I needed to get off my feet badly, I would have got up and moved away. The dude stank like the worst bad breath and weeks of unwashed bodies. Totally, absolutely rank. I had to put up with the stench for most of the train ride back home. The dude is a walking biohazard.

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NaBloPoMo Day #6: Write On

It's day six of NaNoWriMo and I've only god 5200 words so far. The busy schedule this past few days have fucked wth my writing schedule. I had to resort to writing on the train this morning. As usual, there are nosy people who trying read what I wrote. It's a rather good thing that my handwriting is like chicken scratch and you can barely read what I wrote. It's a really good thing too since I was writing a sex scene I don't want some stranger on the public transport to think that I was a pervert or even worse, writing down my own experience.

Anyway, who ever thought of making women's court shoes to be tapered in the front should be shot! It's just unnatural to squish your pinky toe into the shoes like that. all you get at the end of the day are blisters and a swollen toe. Like I said, UNNATURAL!

Ok. Back to the writing now.

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NaBloPoMo Day #5: Gah! x2

Please bear with me if this turns out to be an incoherent rant for I am PMSing and usually, thoughts aren't so well put together during this time.

I love taking SBS buses from the city back to the interchange in the west, especially if the buses are double decked since it makes me feel like I'm on top of the world. I'm somewhat easy to please like that. However, the problem I have with those buses are the TV Mobile thing on board. It's always too loud, forcing me to listen to all the shit stuff that they have on it. They keep showing the same shitty sitcoms and the same old shitty gags, which I abhor like no other.

So imagine this scenario, I'm tired and the afternoon sun streaming into the bus was giving me an eye strain. The TV Mobile thing was irritating me and but there's no volume control so I couldn't do anything about that. Then, three teenage boys from a good high school boarded the bus and sat down a few seats behind me at the opposite aisle. Not only were they talking very loudly, they were paying their music player loud enough for me to hear every single bass drum beat of the fucking faux punk song that they were listening to. Then the discussion on how they did for the paper they just took, began.

Let me add that the only thing I hate more than the gag shows is discussing an exam paper after the fact. The idiots don't seem to realise that there's nothing you can do after you hand it in, so shut the fuck up already. If you pass, you pass. If you fail, you fail. Let me also remind you that I have a short temper and PMS makes my hold on that short temper very tenuous. So all that noise just made my temper rise with every damn stop we had to make on the way to the bus interchange.

Fortunately for those idiots (fucking slurring morons who can't even speak English properly even though those fuckers are in a so-called SAP school. Fucking moronic idiots. Makes me want to fucking stab them in the eye with my stilettos, but that means I have to touch them and it'll just dirty my shoes) by the time I was ready to blow, the bus turned into the bus bay and I could make my escape before I bloodied the top deck of the bus with the blood of pimply, hairy boys. The didn't know how close they came to death, those fuckers. Stupid fucks.

In other non-fucking-morons related things, I have a random question to ask the all knowledgeable Internets:

Why do women like men to cum on them? Inquiring minds would like to know.

That is all. Carry on.


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NaBloPoMo Day #4: An Open Letter To The People I Saw Today

Dear Mr Minister,

I know that you're the guest-of-honour and I'm sorry that you had that technical difficulty earlier, but did your speech have to be that dry? It's drier than reading a scientific journal article. You should take some lessons from the speakers after you. Be more passionate when you talk and tell a few jokes now and then, but you've got to make sure that it's good jokes too. Also, you should be reading your speech off the paper. It makes you sound rather monotonous and very dull. I hope that my suggestions will help you to be a better speech person.

Regards,
Me.

* * *

Dear conference organisers,

what do yo mean I can't have my conference package? What do you mean that 'due to logistical problems', there weren't enough bags to give out. What the fuck! If you knew that a few hundred people were going to attend the meeting, wouldn't you have brought in more? I better get that bag tomorrow or heads will roll. Fucking morons.

Absolutely no love,
Me

* * *

Dear The Couple on the escalator in front of me,

Please don't discuss how badly you treat each other in public, especially you, the guy. You stupid comment about how your girlfriend should just accept tte treatment and shouldn't treat you the same way you treated her, makes me want to ram your head against the wall. And you, the girl, if you're willing to stick with the guy if he treats you very badly, then you deserve him. Fucking idiots.

You don't deserve love.

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NaBloPoMo Day #3: What I Learnt Today

1. Cervical cancer is a sexual transmitted disease. Get your vaccines now!

2. Chemotherapy therapy only helps 30% of the patients receiving the treatment.

3. Having a child before the age of thirty and lactating for at least a year, reduces the chances of breast cancer significantly. Having a child below the age of twenty reduces the risk even more.

4. Islets of Langerhans sounds like a place in a fantasy novel.

5. Cancer tumors are fucking disgusting to look at.

6. Formalin stinks.

7. It's hard to concentrate on histology lessons after a heavy tea break in the afternoon.

8. Pathobiology of cancer is an interesting field.

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NaBloPoMo Day #2: Fucking Exhausted

The first NaNoWriMo write-in is tomorrow. Please refer to the poster *points to right* for more details. Don't forget your name tags for the discounts at Earshot Cafe. Go here if you have not downloaded your name tag yet.

Now that we're gotten that out of the way, let me tell you why I'm so fucking exhausted. It's all those microscopes, man. If you've spent seven and a half hours of staring into the microscope, looking at slides, you'd be tired too. There are breaks in between of course, but I still had eye strain after the last session. After a while, all the slides started to look the same. I've got another full day of microscope work tomorrow and I hope that it wouldn't be as gruelling.

There's writing to be done, dinner to be eaten and a bath to be taken. Until the next post.

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NaBloPoMo Day #1: The Start Of It All

It's first of November so it's time for the madness that are NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo.

I'm not really sure why I packed Althie into my work bag today but I'm glad I did. I managed to get some writing done while waiting for the idotic poster printing person to get back to me. So far, I've got a chapter told in third person and another in first person, told from the main character's point of view.

The female main character is feisty, strong, foul-mouthed, snarky and I have named her Toni, with an I. Her live-in boyfriend is actually inspired by Dean (OMG! DEAN!) Winchester from Supernatural. Sexy time will be had but it won't be the whole point of the novel. I do NOT want a repeat of last year's novel where ... uh... well, I don't want to talk about it. So anyway, wish me luck and I really, really want to finish the novel this year. I want that purple bar! I want my 50,000 words! I want to be a NaNoWriMo Winner dammit!

As for NabloPoMo, it's a post a day, every day for the whole month. I don't have a blogging theme or anything like that but what I'll do is make all my posts be at least 50 words. No cheating with posting up a video or anything like that. So yeah, wish me luck!

Now back to writing that novel.

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