BAH HUMBUG!!!

20,000 limited edition copies of Shinhwa's 9th album released

[Extracts of the article]

In the repackaged album, previously unreleased photos will be included, together with a new song 흔적 Heun Cheok(Destiny of Love). The repackaged album will be released on 3 July.

Like the Special Limited Edition, this White Edition will also feature a serialised hologram from 1 to 20,000, making it yet another collectible.

credits: strawberry16 @ soompi forums

I was already set on NOT getting it (I am spending way too much money on them and I am allocating $ resources for the 10th anniversary concert DVD) but... a new song and new photos... and that damn hologram thing... is tempting me...

I am a weak, weak person when it comes to Shinhwa...

OKAY I WILL NOT GET THIS. I am going to distract myself by watching We Got Married now.

Well! Even the best laid plans goes to moot sometimes. Supposed to be on leave next Monday (my attempt to beat the Monday Blues) but something cropped up on Monday and I unfortunately have to be present so I have no choice but to go on leave today!

But still, long weekend! :)

Can't quite decide what to do today. Bum around at home? Iron the clothes? Catch up on Grey's Anatomy? Pack my messy table? Ahhhhh. Whatever it is, I must gain maximum utilization from today!


My Impressive Bruise! This was taken a few days ago so the bruise isn't as impressive now. This is what you get after having a needle stuck in your veins for 10 mins.


Heh a little something to cheer myself up at work! I won this photo mousepad from participating in the company's IT survey. A little wasted to have the mouse covering Shinhwa's face most of the time though ahahahaha. :D

This is my favourite song of the moment:-

Tae Yeon - If
from the Hong Gil Dong OST


Such a pensive song. I've been hunting for this song for ages ever since I heard it on 96.3FM. I'm not a So Nyeo Shi Dae (SNSD, or Girls' Generation) fan, but I'm quite surprised that Tae Yeon can sing decently well. It sounds better when you plug into your earphones and listen to it quietly, intently.

The poor girls have been garnering lots of bad publicity lately though (read: Dream Concert fiasco). I usually dismiss them as another wannabe girl group and I still can't differentiate between the 9 members but okay, I shall not be too harsh to judge.

I had the most wonderful Sunday afternoon watching We Got Married and Change. Hahahahaha I kept cracking up while watching Dongwan and Junjin in Change! It's super hilarious!!! LOL!!! Now that's my idea of a relaxing weekend... brainless, feel-good activities that make me crack up. :D

18 June marks the 4th month of me slogging at my job! More accurately, I've suffered through 18 weeks of work liao!

That's 1/3 of the one year limit that I am giving myself. I'm 1/3 of my way through! Aja aja!

When you think back, 4 months seems to whiz by, but when you think forward, it feels VERY LONG. i.e. thinking about the 8 months ahead makes me uber sian.

Ms Tortoise is taking leave tomorrow! :) It's gonna be a relaxing day tomorrow. No irritating phone calls and such. Today there was this email war between Ms Tortoise and Ms K. Each of them HAD to have the last say to prove that they're right, and they kept ding-donging to and fro with not so subtle jibes at each other. And the cc list kept growing with every reply. Silly. -___-"

I donated blood today! :) My first time donating blood. The mobile blood bank was at our company today so I thought, why not?

The whole process wasn't too bad, I think the part where they pricked my finger to test my haemoglobin level was even more painful that the blood donation. I got a glimpse of the needle in my arm - wah it's quite a thick needle! The hole left by the needle in my arm now is quite big by needle standards. But I feel positively normal, I don't feel like I just lost a unit of blood! The only bad thing from the whole event was me finding out that I gained so much weight during the health screening!!! @___@


A sticker for first time donors! :)


My orange smiley face bandage! The lady was going to give me a purple one but I specially requested for an orange bandage LOL.

My fabulous extended weekend was way too short for me! Hahaha. Well, weekends can never be long enough.

It really takes 4 months of working life to appreciate the free afternoons I used to enjoy. Not that I didn't appreciate all that flexibility with my time when I was a student, but now I'm doubly more appreciative of a wonderful free day ahead. It's like a luxury, a rare commodity! Haha, planning my next day off now. Target: 30 June!

Blew major cash at the Robinsons no-GST sale and on a new MP3 player at the PC Show. The Creative Zen is all lovely and sleek, and I was trying not to get fingerprints all over it, but it sadly does not come in orange. And I think it can't play most, if not all, of the videos I have in my possession. Sigh. But I still love my new toy! :)

Also slept the entire Saturday away, thanks to our all night mahjong session. In fact I have been so busy tottering around this weekend, plus parents are away so had to do household chores like vacuuming and watering the plants, I had no time to watch Grey's Anatomy! Oh, the travesty!!!

I think I haven't watched Grey's for about 5 days already!!!

I have so many things to catch up on... Lost, that Ch U 10pm show, blog reading, We Got Married, Korean variety shows, blah blah... I need more extended weekends!

There's a niggling pain in my back. Hope it'll disappear tomorrow.

Oh~~ Happy Friday the 13th! :)


I am at home on this glorious, glorious Friday afternoon! Not doing shitty work in front of the office computer! I love days when I can 睡觉睡到自然醒. :)

I love this song! It's my song of the moment. :) Such a breezy, lighthearted song. Never mind that I don't understand what the song is about - music has no boundaries! LOL!

V.O.S - Beautiful Life

GARH! I dunno what my dad did to the PC, but he definitely did something - short of reformatting the computer - and now I've lost all the programs that were installed and the files on my desktop, including my post-it notes and Rainlendar. GRRRR. Good thing I backed up most of my stuff and I exported my bookmarks sometime back. If lost all my bookmarks I would be majorly pissed. :\ I have 4-5 years of stuff accumulated in this PC! Now I have to reinstall all the programs and redo all my settings. So very leh chey.

First thing I did was to reinstall Clubbox. I cannot live without Clubbox haha. And the good thing about this "reformat" is that whatever problem I had with Firefox has now resolved itself.

Parents and little sis are going to Chiangmai for a holiday tomorrow! 5 days of housework awaits... I want to go on a holiday too. :(

2 more days to my long weekend! :) Thinking of popping down to the PC show to check out the MP3 players.

I ran today - as opposed to doing that slow trot that I lamely call a jog every week. Well, it didn't start off as a run, since I was trotting along andante as per normal and taking laborious breaths and nursing a stitch halfway through. Decided to take an extra loop and subsequently picked up speed.

Woo, it felt good doing the run thing. Felt like I was moving along like the wind. In fact I think it's less laborious running than shuffling along like a tortoise. The latter seems to take up a lot more energy.

Uncharacteristically sleepy now, so imma go sleep. The weekend is officially over. :(

Just an update to state that I am still alive and thriving. I sat through 8 episodes of Grey's Anatomy today and I'm suffering from some Grey's fatigue right now, so I figured that there's no better time to blog. Hahaha.

Recently I've got this big oozing pimple growing on my right hip. It was a big, bad pimple which hurt and made the whole area swell. Maybe pimple is putting it too mildly. It's more like an angry, inflamed boil. Don't know what it is about my body but it's like a pimple/boil/cyst/keloid attracting magnet. All these annoying pimples are making very regular appearances of late, and it's leaving all these ugly red scars all over my body.

So anyway I went to see the doc about it and also got an update about the lump under my arm. Saw the doc about the lump 2 weeks ago and went on a course of antibiotics but it's still there. The lump's a harmless, non-cancerous one so I'm not going to bother too much about it, though I could go have it removed if I wanted to. So now I'm on another round of antibiotics for the hip-pimple. I guess I'm just one of those unfortunate people who are prone to these random growths. It's not really life-threatening but it sure is not aesthetically pleasing. I mean, who doesn't want to have nice smooth skin?

Haha I remember blogging about my keloid episode long ago. Gosh, it's been 3 years since then! Has it been so long?! The keloids are still there, dammit.

And since I am having a Moment here complaining about my dysfunctional body, can I also state that I hate my oily face. My oil glands are probably the Middle East equivalent of oil production in face-oil-land.

Sigh. Don't we all hate our bodies in some way or another. The Too Skinnys will want to be fatter, the Too Fats will want to be skinny, the Just Rights will still hate their hair or eyes or nose or short legs etc etc...

Half the weekend is over. :( I was telling Fresh From France Angie and Fresh From Interview Gillian about my great love for Friday evenings - 6pm on Friday to be specific. But in other news, I AM TAKING LEAVE NEXT FRIDAY! On a very auspicious date - Friday the 13th! My first time taking leave! Super looking forward to it. It's going to be my motivation from Monday through Thursday. :) :) :)

Need some KTV. I've had 5 months of non-KTV days! WOW.

Firefox is being very annoying. I dunno what's wrong but my homepage is now some gibberish URL and my settings are all screwed up. I have to re-configure it everytime I start Firefox. Lousy Firefox.

Caught Sex and The City today! It was like watching 5 episodes of the drama consecutively. 2.5 hours!!! I think it's a bit too long. And Charlotte's story was boring. But the clothes were fab.

And I got my first credit card a couple of days ago. Citibank's clear card with a $500 credit limit haha but no matter, cheap thrill for me! LOL. But I won't be getting my UOB Mini Debit card back and they're terminating the Campus Debit card and replacing it with an ugly card with no NETS function. Boo UOB.