Monday, May 28, 2007

Pirates... Whatever.

Those who're going to watch Pirates 3, stay till the credits finish rolling. Cuz there's a snippet of "10 years later".

Guys, we missed it.

It's embarrassing. I haven't dozed off in the cinema for a long long time, and I dozed off twice watching Pirates 3. And it wasn't even a night show. I remember dozing off watching Pirates 1.. Think I was watching in Jerm's room in when we were in Year 1.

Lots of funny parts in the show. I love Johnny Depp. He's so quirky and weird and he's damn good. I got to get my hands on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Anyway, I really didn't like Will Turner cuz he keeps switching sides. The focus seemed to be Bloom and Knightly instead on Depp, which I wish wasn't the case.

2/5 coco crunches.

By the way, I tried "whatever" today. It costs $1.30 from 7-11 and guess what I got. Chrysanthemum tea. Yucks. My colleague bought "anything" and she got the cola. Double yucks. Cuz it ain't Coca Cola.

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janet at 11:52 PM

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Generation 5.5

I've always wanted an iPod cuz the stupid 128mb Creative Muvo player isn't enough anymore. From the wanting of a Nano when it first came out, to wanting a U2 iPod, to wanting the red iPod Mini (for every red iPod purchased some money goes to support HIV victims) and today, I finally own a U2 iPod.

They should have the discography all loaded in the iPod. But they don't. Or at least, they should have some U2 videos. But they don't. I'm still happy anyway.


GSS just started. Looks like I won't have enough money to last me the entire month. Payday just came and I'm already needing the next payday to come.

Going to have to eat cheap food (lau pa sat = yucks) for lunch for the month. For now, at least I'm happy. =)

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janet at 10:02 PM

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Waterspout

It's times like this that I love working in a tall building with a great sea view. The waterspout that we thought was a hurricane was above a ship and it moved slowly inland. As it shifted inland, the waterspout loses it's strength and became shorter and urm.. became nothing but a piece of tiny cloud. WAY COOL.








I thought it looked like a dick that's peeing. Then at some point, it looked like the plant-watering thingy.

Wish I had my camera with me.

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janet at 1:01 AM

Thursday, May 24, 2007

It's Over. She's free.

Grey's Anatomy is so fucking good.

There're so many episodes that I love so much and the latest episode totally blows. It feels like a finale. It probably is. And not to mention the soundtracks are as good as the O.C.'s.

The drama in Grey's is never-ending. Every single episode is so damn dramatic (and I'm not even talking about the disgusting and gory surgeries) and emo and it just keeps getting better and better.

AAHHH... damn high now.

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janet at 1:54 AM

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Batam

4 of us went for a short weekend getaway at Batam. Yuxin couldn't go cuz she has to study for her upcoming CFA exams. We stayed at KTM Resort where Cindy's family friend is a regular customer and going with him made us feel like VIPs cuz we skipped the checking-in, had personal chauffeur to drive us around the city and picking us up whenever we wanted, get great seafood meals etc etc.

Here's us on the ferry to Batam. Cindy can sleep everywhere. We stayed in this "house". It has 2 bedrooms with air-conditioning, 2 bathrooms, a very spacious living room with dining area and slacking area, and also a mini-cooking area. Very comfortable for 4.
Our last meal. 8-course lunch for 6. The manager seems like a generous man. But then again, we were treated like VIP thanks to cindy's family friend, uncle Toh.

Mellie & the jacuzzi. We paid sgd38 each and enjoyed 20 min of jacuzzi, a foot scrub and an hour of full body massage. Really pampered ourselves that day. Went for hair wash for sgd4. Mani/Pedicure for sgd20. Cheap cheap! The spa villa has a seaview. We had our massage at night so it wasn't much of a view. But hearing the waves crashing while being massaged was nice. It was the first time I had a fully body massage and all I can say was that it was quite an - experience. Batam has Hello Panda dips!!! Like Yan Yan like that! And flavours that are not available in Singapore I think. Cookies & Cream Hello Panda, have you eaten that before?! Salmon Teriyaki Lays too! I didn't like that. Tasted like salmon.
Donuts from J.Co. KK is still better. This is probably comparable with the Donut Factory in Singapore. Though the chocolate isn't that good. Cuz I heard that Indo/Malaysia's manufactured chocolates lack a certain ingredient so it's not that tasty. The glazed donut smells like KK's original glaze. The dough is not as great. Certain flavours are pretty good. Cheap cheap. sgd9 for a dozen. This is the wrecked Sentosa. Looks so.. sad.

That's it for the Batam trip update. Did lots of catching up with the girls and it was just great hanging out together. =) Let's go it again sometime. Batam View next? Yuxin, your attendance will be compulsary then.

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janet at 9:18 PM

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Hi

Just dropping by to say hi and sorry for the lack of updates.

PC's under repair and I'm really tired from begging my brother to use for 15 min everyday to check my emails and facebook.

So I guess I'm not going to update for a while unless I really have things to blog about. Maybe after this weekend of relaxation.

Btw, I think Spiderman 3 is worth 2/5 coco crunches. If you disagree and think it's worth more than 2 coco crunches, you must be a guy.

Btw, I've finally realised that money is easy to spend, and really tough to earn.

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janet at 10:26 PM

Saturday, May 05, 2007

My name is Ja-nerd.

Some people call me Ja-NERD, some call me Ja-NET. And other people just call me other names.

So here's a very nice poem about Ja-nerd from the poet-master-pageant-king-soccer-star-history-lover-heavenly-hunk.

hh... says (4:01 AM):
jarrod and janet
sharing a carrot
he looks like a parrot
but at least he aint a faggot

hh... says (4:03 AM):
if i tink of a NET version i'll tell u

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janet at 4:06 AM

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Sian

Dear Pandora listener,


Today we have some extremely disappointing news to share with you. Due to international licensing constraints, we are deeply, deeply sorry to say that we must begin proactively preventing access to Pandora's streaming service for most countries outside of the U.S.


It is difficult to convey just how disappointing this is for us. Our vision remains to eventually make Pandora a truly global service, but for the time being, we can no longer continue as we have been. As a small company, the best chance we have of realizing our dream of Pandora all around the world is to grow as the licensing landscape allows.


We show your IP address is '165.21.xxx.xx', which indicates you are listening from Singapore. If you believe you are seeing this by mistake, we offer our sincere apologies and ask that you please reply to this email.


Delivery of Pandora is based on proper licensing from the people who created the music - we have always believed in honoring the guidelines as determined by legislators and regulators, artists and songwriters, and the labels and publishers they work with. In the U.S. there is a federal statute that provides this license for all the music streamed on Pandora. Unfortunately, there is no equivalent license outside the U.S. and there is no global licensing organization to enable us to legitimately offer Pandora around the world. Other than in the U.K., we have not yet been able to make significant progress in our efforts to obtain a sufficient number of international licenses at terms that would enable us to run a viable business. The volume of listening on Pandora makes it a very expensive service to run. Streaming costs are very high, and since our inception, we have been making publishing and performance royalty payments for every song we play.


Until now, we have not been able to tell where a listener is based, relying only on zip code information provided upon registration. We are now able to recognize a listener's country of origin based on the IP address from which they are accessing the service. Consequently, on May 3rd, we will begin blocking access to Pandora to listeners from your country. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.


We will be posting updates on our blog regarding our ongoing effort to launch in other countries, so please stay in touch. We will keep a record of your existing stations and bookmarked artists and songs, so that when we are able to launch in your country, they will be waiting for you. We deeply share your sense of disappointment and greatly appreciate your understanding.

Tim Westergren
(Pandora founder)

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janet at 10:46 AM

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Here are the photos for those who went Carnivore on a Saturday (was it 2 weeks ago?).. http://download.yousendit.com/519F269C630AC0DB
Download this within 7 days of this post or the file will be removed.

I'm participating in the JP Morgan run tomorrow. 5.6km. I don't know what to expect. I haven't exercised for awhile now so I guess I'll end up walking most of the distance. You might be wondering why would Janet join a run like this. Cuz my team leader asked us to. And when you're new in a job, you're not supposed to say no. Well ok lar, it's not like he's asking us to come back to work on weekends. Lol.

Looking forward to the weekends to come! Lots of activities lined up which includes pigging out and a beach holiday =) YAAAY. It's going to be a great May.

And it'll be June soon. Time passes so quickly, it'll be a year soon. Let's go visit Lena next month ok?

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janet at 12:25 AM