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    Freshly Salted Wounds

    “Let the salt flow, feel my coil unwind..”

    Dreary

    I bought my PMX-60’s about a week ago and I have to say they really provide awesome audio clarity. Also I got it at a really good bargain. But I’m not going to mention the price. just because it’ll make me look like a cheapskate.

    Circumstances these days are becoming more gritty and depressing. There just seems to be no end to the levels that a person can disappoint you and further bring down your expectations of humanity. Especially when these people come from a location where everyone is expected to have high moral values. There will probably be no bottom in the pit that is humanity.

    I have again felt very little inspiration to write anything in the past few weeks. As you may have noticed, (you little stalker), the frequency of my posts have been steadily declining and will probably do so until that period of the year where a sudden shitload of things happen and life becomes slightly more interesting again.

    Also this monitor makes me feel that I’m writing way too little because it is able to display longer lines of words and therefore I have less rows of words. Gah.

    I’m going to go ahead and continue to watch Glee. It’s quite a witty, entertaining comedy. Huzzah.

    8 March 2010 at 17:15 - Comments

    decent results

    Finally, a few distinctions scored for an examination. Can’t remember the last time this happened. Bio, Chem, Physics, English. I don’t feel like elaborating further because posting stuff about results on blogs just depresses and bores me.

    Also, I realise I haven’t posted in a long time. I’ve shifted house, to a condominium less than two kilometres away, which is not much of an actual change. And according to my mum, we’re shifting again soon, latest by November. How fun.

    I’m trying to acquire this pair of budget headphones:

    PMX-60

    PMX-60

    User and professional reviews have praised it endlessly, but apparently it has bad sound isolation and leaks sound. bah. tiny budget = compromises.

    Also, taken from my recent facebook status: “I laughed my ass off and then felt guilty when I saw “International Round up the Women and Herd Them to the Kitchen Day

    Sexism is pretty funny.

    disclaimer: i don't support sexism. maybe.

    disclaimer: i don't support sexism. maybe.

    2 March 2010 at 15:40 - Comments
    N
    Hahaha! PMX60 I see. Don't go all loud on yourself and damaging your ears. We compete with the bad isolation ...
    7 March 10 at 21:35
    Dylan
    true. but it's really the first time I own a pair of headphones with decent audio quality :D
    8 March 10 at 16:58

    I have a new monitor.

    Kind of a random time to buy it, but yeah. Got a new 20″ HD monitor. 1600 x 900 resolution. Model: HP 2009m. My desktop has never looked more sexy and appealing. I’d marry it if only I could afford the dowry. (but in actual fact, the monitor was parallel imported, and came at the cheapass price of $185. no kidding. it’s even new, with warranty.)

    I’m going to put a picture of it here like with every new thing I purchase. Just to show off.

    Ta da

    Ta da

    Also, I noticed I haven’t updated this rusty old site in a while. I’ve been planning to revamp the theme again, because Facebook has changed its layout one too many times. So any day(or week)(or month)(or year) now, expect a sudden change in this site. It’ll probably be the most exciting thing in your entire life. I mean, literally, your life will change. I am Oprah Winfrey. I AM THAT ANNOYING AND FULL OF MYSELF.

    On an unrelated note, I’m awesome.

    On a further unrelated note, examinations ended today. This gives me a whole.. one.. week to celebrate before going back to studying.

    In summary,

    i’m awesome

    22 February 2010 at 18:51 - Comments
    N
    LG sucks. Don't buy it.
    7 March 10 at 21:37
    Dylan
    I never mentioned LG in this post, did I?
    8 March 10 at 16:59

    Ken Lee

    Bulgarian Idol.

    ORIGINAL LYRICS:

    No, I can’t forget this evening
    Or your face as you were leaving
    But I guess that’s just the way this story goes,
    You always smile….
    But in you eyes your sorrow shows
    Yes it shows

    No I can’t forget tomorrow
    When I think of all my sorrows
    When I had you there but then I let you go
    And now it’s only fair that I should let you know
    What you should know

    I cant live
    If living is without you
    I can’t live
    I can’t give anymore
    Can’t live
    If living is without you
    can’t give,
    I can’t give anymore

    Well, I can’t forget this evening
    Or your face as you were leaving
    But I guess that’s just the way this story goes,
    You always smile
    But in you eyes your sorrow shows
    Yes it shows

    can’t live
    If living is without you
    I can’t live
    I can’t give anymore
    Can’t live
    If living is without you
    I can’t live,
    I can’t give anymore

    Ohhhhhh(No can’t live)
    No no no (No I can’t live)
    I can’t live (No can’t live)
    If living is without (No I can’t live)
    I can’t live (No can’t live)
    I can’t give anymore (No I can’t live)

    pure unadulterated hilarity

    17 February 2010 at 00:11 - Comments

    Shouting

    Today I went to Queensway shopping center for the billionth time in my life to shop for tennis shoes for the millionth time in my life. Yep. Not very interesting, but the journey there was quite memorable. Mostly due to all the shouting.

    First off, after school ended, I got a chance to wear my sexy awesome threadless shirt.

    "Rock out with your cock out"

    "Rock out with your cock out"

    Mmhmm. It’s a band, with a cock on the right side.

    Anyway-

    As luck would have it, I had yet ANOTHER bad experience involving public transport today. I’m sure you remember(or maybe you don’t)(but you probably do)(..you do, don’t you?)(I hope you do.)(those were really interesting posts.)(brackets.)(..I love brackets.) my posts about encountering shit and urine on the bus. This time, it was the system that screwed me over.

    What happened was, I was at the MRT gate, tapped my ez-link card, and some asshole tried to tap his card and push past me into the barrier even before I had walked into it. Of course, the machine refused his card, and the barrier slammed into his sides, but he pushed straight into it anyway and got through. Filthy jackass.

    I had to get my classmates to walk back and help me tap my card at the exit before I could re-tap and enter. Waste of forty cents. I expect the guy got screwed over late when he discovered that his card wasn’t detected at the entrance and he couldn’t get out.

    Screw you, Sir.

    Screw you very very much.

    When I entered the station finally, me and the two classmates(Dennis and Timothy) who were tagging along to Queensway suddenly realised we had no idea how to get there by train. So we got out and took a bus. Yet another 40 cents down the drain. I was wasting my money very productively.

    On the bus, as usual, we kept questioning whether we were heading in the right direction and habitually blaming each other in advance in case it was the wrong way. We ended up somewhere, I don’t know where, I wasn’t paying attention, and found a McDonalds to eat at. I ate a prosperity burger. I didn’t feel so prosperous after that because I wasted seven dollars on it.

    Also, that McDonalds is the best one in Singapore. Apparently there are a crapload of girls schools around the area. Either that or it was a girls-only mcdonalds and we blended in.

    Yeah.

    We then realised we had wasted almost an hour and a half and decided we should haul ass to Queensway immediately. We ended up at another bus stop, which had a really long waiting time. So me and Dennis had a shouting competition(like, REAL shouting. as loud as we could. people stared at us.) and we sang songs by Bon Jovi and Journey. While Timothy pretended not to know us. :(

    Sooner or later, we got to Queensway. Wasted about two hours walking around aimlessly while Timothy kept complaining about how “plain” all the white canvas shoes were. Eventually I suggested he got a plain white one and do a Jackson Pollock on it. He agreed.

    *if you don’t know what type of artwork jackson pollock did, play around with the flash file I put at the bottom of the page.*

    Gah, this post is way too long.

    blah blah blagarg, something happened, I bought a new pair of Adidas tennis shoes for $78,

    ta-da

    ta-da

    my dad bought some other Adidas tennis shoes,

    and we gtf-outta there.

    BELOW IS THE JACKSON POLLOCK THINGY. REQUIRES FLASH TO PLAY. (just mouse over the space in between)

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    12 February 2010 at 20:46 - Comments
    Bethia
    I really think you are such a genius to come up the jackson pollock thingy. either that or i am ...
    21 February 10 at 22:34
    Dylan
    if by genius, you mean random, then yeah, I am a total genius :P
    22 February 10 at 18:22

    I’m trying to study.

    Stop visiting my blog and distracting me.

    I CAN FEEL YOU.

    *continues scratching and muttering to self*

    8 February 2010 at 22:12 - Comments

    Performance

    Today, I was mostly a nervous wreck. Performing in a band setting for the first time was a scary thing. We ended up doing a lot of things wrong, but it all turned out sort of fine in the end.  Some voices cracked, some went out of sing, we had the wrong guitar tone here and there, wrong lyrics, wrong song sheets, but mostly no one noticed.

    What I learnt? Trust in God and things have a way of working themselves out.

    ..also make sure to fake perfection when you screw up on stage :P

    Happy Valentine’s.

    6 February 2010 at 23:31 - Comments

    life..

    ..is giving me a whole lot of shit right now.

    3 February 2010 at 22:45 - Comments

    Apparently..

    ..someone in SMRT or something took an interest to my previous post and forwarded the link to a certain ngmeilin[at]smrt[dot]com[dot]sg.

    However, it was a local IP address (192.165. something) and I can’t access and view the message.

    :(

    28 January 2010 at 21:24 - Comments

    Upcoming trains for Singapore’s MRT.

    I was reading up on Singapore’s transport system in Wikipedia (don’t ask me why, I have no idea either) and found out a few interesting things. First of all, two people have committed suicide and had their video recordings leaked onto the internet, at Yishun and Admiralty, by crawling out underneath and jumping ahead of the train respectively. morbid. but interesting. Read here and here.

    On to less sickening stuff. Further down the line, I read that the majority of our train cars have been  operating since 1987, which is a pretty long time, and that the original batch of them have been refurbished between 2006-2009, with a completion on the 2nd of January 2009. Not bad. Also, Singapore boasts the largest rail depot, the Kim Chuan Depot, which costed $297 million and reaches a depth of up to 24m, with a holding capacity of 77 trains and employs 300 staff.

    Also, the Circle Line that is currently in place has 31 stations planned, although currently only 5 are operational (which is Stage 3 of the line). It will also be the world’s longest fully automated metro line. I see the government sure likes to break records.

    Finally, the most interesting bit(for me, at least), is that Singapore has ordered a newer model of trains, the Bombardier MOVIA, which is scheduled to start arriving in the last quarter of 2012 and they should all be operating on the Downtown line in 2013. The cool thing about the new model is that it will feature a dynamic route map display, which ought to be quite pointless but fun to stare at while you do nothing in the MRT. Also notable is that it has a new design of straphangers to replace the shitty unstable ones we have right now.

    This article has been all words and chock full of pointless information, so it’s definitely time for some images of the new train I stole from Google and local forums. Hurray.

    Outside View

    Outside View

    New straphangers

    New straphangers

    Sexay route display

    Sexay route display

    End seats

    End seats

    ..wow. I feel all patriotic and shit, while at the same time also guilty for wasting away hours I should’ve spent studying.

    You ought to be grateful.

    27 January 2010 at 20:58 - Comments
    Reginald
    Are you advertising for SMRT?
    1 February 10 at 07:00
    Dylan
    no.
    2 February 10 at 15:04