Etymology:
Middle English, from Old English pāl stake, pole, from Latin palus stake; akin to Latin pangere to fix — more at pact
Date:
Before 12th century
1: a long slender (not applicable here) usually cylindrical object; rod (most often metallic)
2: a sound effect made when you hit a goal post “thiang!~”
3: one who describes someone who strives on attention
4: a loose canon
Memory sealed at:
Sunday, June 28, 2009 Time: 4:19:00 AM
This was forbidden on my FB:
What hurts the most is when you realised you've been lied to after a wonderful night out by the same person, and he told you he's been trying to avoid/ignore you on a day you've been looking forward to greatly, waiting and suffering in misery.
There, I needed the outlet to rant.
NOTE: I do not want pity or attention. All I need is a solution and somebody to understand my agony. But yes, I'll still put on the pretty smile and I promise to not give attitude. But pardon my occasional silences for my mind is filled with thoughts of him, uncontrollably.
From Cousie's blog: Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, and forget about the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance; take it. If it changes your life; let it. Nobody said it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
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Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Memory sealed at:
Friday, June 26, 2009 Time: 4:18:00 AM
Woah, never thought I would actually find this song so close to heart. Go Google Elvis Presley's Are You Lonesome Tonight:
Are you lonesome tonight
do you miss me tonight
Are you sorry we drifted apart
Does your memory stray to a bright sunny day
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart
Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight Spoken:
I wonder if you're lonesome tonight
You know someone said that the world's a stage
And each must play a part
Fate had me playing in love you as my sweet heart
Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance
You read your line so cleverly and never missed a cue
Then came act two, you seemed to change and you acted strange
And why I'll never know
Honey, you lied when you said you loved me
And I had no cause to doubt you
But I'd rather go on hearing your lies
Than go on living without you
Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there
With emptiness all around
And if you won't come back to me
Then they can bring the curtain down Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight
Or you can call somebody's phone to hear the song as his byebyeringring... hahaha.
// Poor Fung, my best friend is being home quarantined!
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The Lovers' Card
Memory sealed at:
Thursday, June 25, 2009 Time: 3:12:00 PM
Is it possible to not feel your heart glow when the Tarots' reading said that you've drawn The Lovers' card, supposedly a good fortune, with a new relationship blossoming.?
Would you be upset about it? Would your first reaction be a revolting "huh.." when you said you're deeply in love with someone?
I always thought guys hate the wishy-washy part about girls. But this one prefer things to remain Complicated.
Oh why the man is so hard to understand?
But why???
I'm filled with questions with no answers. Yet again, I fear the answers that I'll may ot may not eventually know.
The Unknown is devouring me slowly, bit by bit.
UPDATE: I picked the Death card!!
A friend just reminded me something, this whole situation is like a dejavu, so familiar, like a repetition of THE incident years back... okay, I'm scared.
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Advertlets > Nuffnang
Memory sealed at:
Thursday, June 18, 2009 Time: 3:39:00 AM
Since the beginning of this year, you might have noticed I've switched the advertising blocks that I put all over my blog from Advertlets to Nuffnang.
When I made my mind to join Advertlets exclusively, I never thought of you know, switch to its competitor eventually after earning my first keep. However, for every action that I do there's a reason behind it (yes I have to justify for my actions and conscious).
What caused me to ditch Advertlets dates back to 2008...
But before that, in 2007 I won some competition from one if its contest and cashed out my first earning. I was very happy and satisfied (though the cheque came slightly later than expected).
Then, the second time came when it was eligible for me to cash out although it was lesser than the previous. Eager and wanting to get the money, I quickly click on the button. That was in June 2008. After some time, I still did not receive anything in my mail, thus I started emailing Advertlets. The staff reassured me that the cheque was still processing, and I would receive it shortly.
Two months passed, followed by another two, and I got irritated of waiting. Yes, I know it's a meagre sum of money but still! It's a promise your company gave me! By December, I persuaded myself to let it go and decided to go for Nuffnang instead. Eventually, Advertlets also stopped replying my emails. I got tired of chasing after the cheque, looking like a pathetic member.
Then one fine day on Plurk in January, one of the Plurkers started a thread about online advertising, the difference between them etc. and I voiced out my experience with Advertlets. Within 24 hours, Advertlets had added me as a fan and hijacked one of my Plurks. An email followed after that:
Since I am always on Gmail, so my reply to them were rather prompt. I thought it was quite weird actually, that they email me so quickly after the Plurk comment.
I told them I never receive any cheque/cash money even after 6 months. Their response was:
I felt stupid after giving my bank account number. In the meantime, I started a private Plurk:
If it involves your company giving out money to many bloggers both local and overseas, shouldn't you have a clear record?
I said I felt stupid because......
=,=" What am I to do???? You're based in Malaysia! I'm just a plain student blogger residing in Singapore, with no income or whatsoever to start a new bank account with HSBC, UOB or Citibank.
And I waited... for seven days before they let me know "oh okay, then we'll have to send you another cheque", which by the way did not reach me.
I suppose it's not really their business to make sure the second cheque they sent were properly delivered or not, due to them not keeping up with the status any more.
P.S. I just logged into my old Advertlets account and the status is still 'sent', not PAID in bold blue. Hahaha.
See why I join Nuffnang now? Besides, I feel so much better when I can actually attend the movie premieres, parties and events. Before this, Advertlets would ask me if I want to join the events, of course I would gladly want to! Then they would drop the bomb - okay, make your way to Petaling Jaya (Cathay Cineplex, Cineleisure Damansara; etc etc.) this weekend.
Erm, uhm, ah, err, okay. I'll try to persuade my mom I have to go Malaysia to watch a movie on a weekend!
But just so we're clear, it's not Advertlets fault that they're based in Malaysia. I'm just saying it's not my cup of tea since I don't reside there.
Speaking of Nuffnang, it brings me to the Flash Mob they did last weekend, the videos and pictures were nicely done - and fast (up on youtube, flickr already!) - very impressive. The event was in conjunction with the Singapore River Festival and the massive PJ party is going to happen this weekend at DXO after the bloggers' riverside tour!
It's such a great pity I won't be able to attend! *major sigh* Pyjamas party! How fun that would be!
Guess I'll have to try my luck next year (if I can get the invite that is).
Got to catch a flight in 3 hours' time, so it's ciao for now. :)
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Mind Games
Memory sealed at:
Monday, June 15, 2009 Time: 3:07:00 AM
I'm so sick of your mind games.
You and the mighty ego.
You made me feel like filth.
Just go and be your eccentric self.
Goodbye.
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A Little About Travelling...
Memory sealed at:
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Time: 4:00:00 PM
This year has been a fruitful year for me in terms of travelling. I think I'm just lucky I get to travel to three different countries within 3 months.
Other than the normal sighseeing (because we signed up with the tour package), I like to explore more than just the very "popular" and common things people do.
For example, I miss walking down the chilly street alongside my sister, hand-in-hand to a local bakery shop to see if we can pick a cake for daddy. However, since we're moving on to another location the following day, we did not get any birthday cake.
In the end, I bought the final tiramisu in the display shelf while Sis settled for the blueberry cake. We didn't bother about the melamine issue that was raging in China, we just indulge with our little snack. The feeling is so.....nice. It's like I blend into the surroundings at the moment.
On the way back, we also went by a convenience store, which I bought ice-cream (yayness, coz' they won't melt even if you leave it in the open for 15-30 mins!) and red wine potato chips. Yes, I like to try small things here and there that Singapore do not offer.
Also this time, I am of age to consume alcohol on flight! While looking through the dinner menu do I realise they offer a variety of drinks. Being the typical Singaporean that I am, I quickly think of making the full use of SIA. Hahaha. It was my first time drinking Bailey's in the air! Boy did that felt good. Heh. But the dinner sucked! *coughs* ahtiong feedback *coughs*
Then I began to miss 西湖, a place where it's full of history and culture, yet the essence of it still remain intact. The picturesque bridges were just like the illustrations of my Secondary school Higher Chinese textbook. Hahaha.
There's even litte shophouses that we can rent to spend the night, and proper tea shops to enjoy 吃茶。
I feel stupid to have the urge to start throwing out all the Chinese poems I learnt before as I stroll along the lake! What 李白 la, 杜甫la、白居易 la etc..
While doing my shopping, I do not only look at clothes (despite what you may think of me). At 7-11, I compare prices of condoms (it's like SGD10 for a pack of 3 over there, ex!). I also checked out the prices of film over there, which after conversion, cost about the same in Singapore. So it doesn't mean China = cheap okay! It depends on the items as well!
There were also these bun keychains that are selling at every corner of the streets. Out of curiosity (and because they look damn adorabel with the smiley faces and all), I went to touch it. It looked like it's made of those cheap plastic, but I tell you, THEY FEEL LIKE REAL BUNS, or even softer. They even smell like freshly-made bread. Very nice.
I also went through a funny experience of chatting with a masseuse while soaking my feet it 80 degrees hot herbal water. He just couldn't stop talking and went on and on about his hometown, class chairperson and Singapore.
I will also remember how my Sis and I bumped into a couple of dudes from Mumbai complaining about the poor service and attitude in China (and mainly because we can speak English), and eventually became our Facebook friend within 30 minutes. Hahaha.
Travelling is my favourite past time (literally man).
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All The Riches They Own...
Time: 4:00:00 AM
I never thought I would be stuck in a part-time job for so long. What was supposed to be a 1- or 2-month(s) job turned out to be 10 months and still counting. :(
Damn it sucks to be poor sometimes.
It's depressing times like these that I imagined how good it would be if I were one of the customers there. Money would never be an issue to them. Even the younger generation have the capacity to spend. And I'm not even talking about gatherings or birthday celebrations. The pub is like their second home, they spend four to five days a week here, for hours.
I must say, this pub isn't exactly the cheapest place. In fact, it's one of the most expensive bars I've ever come across. Anyway, just today I found a huge contrast between a Singaporean blue-collar worker VS foreign expatriates.
When the Singaporean buys a pint of Kilkenny, this will take place:
He will then reluctantly digs for his wallet and make sure that he gave the exact amount.
But when it somes to the fair-skinned, their reaction were complete opposites.
Most of the times, they will give $15, and nonchalently say, "it's okay". Either that, or frown when I return to them with the three dollars change. See, they're so used to tipping such that they find it insulting if I return them the spare coins!
Those foreigners who prefer to open a tab with their credit cards, if they're in good spirits, would proceed to buy rounds and rounds of booze, shooters and food for everybody present in that table (even when they're complete strangers). The bill at the end of the night can easily cough up to a few hundred dollars (the largest that I've handled was about $800+) and he'll still top up the bill to tip us $-- or $---.
Just how much richer are these foreign expatriates?!
Damn it, and yet I'm still struggling to find a job...
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Friendship VS Love
Memory sealed at:
Thursday, June 04, 2009 Time: 4:01:00 AM
Why is it impossible for me to have both the same time?
I hate to be ostracised this way every time I am emotionally attached to someone.
I need to wear my heart on my sleeves.
And stop procrastinating.
Bah.
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Forbidden On FB
Memory sealed at : Sunday, June 28, 2009 Time: 4:19:00 AM
This was forbidden on my FB:
What hurts the most is when you realised you've been lied to after a wonderful night out by the same person, and he told you he's been trying to avoid/ignore you on a day you've been looking forward to greatly, waiting and suffering in misery.
There, I needed the outlet to rant.
NOTE: I do not want pity or attention. All I need is a solution and somebody to understand my agony. But yes, I'll still put on the pretty smile and I promise to not give attitude. But pardon my occasional silences for my mind is filled with thoughts of him, uncontrollably.
From Cousie's blog: Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, and forget about the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance; take it. If it changes your life; let it. Nobody said it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
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Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Memory sealed at : Friday, June 26, 2009 Time: 4:18:00 AM
Woah, never thought I would actually find this song so close to heart. Go Google Elvis Presley's Are You Lonesome Tonight:
Are you lonesome tonight
do you miss me tonight
Are you sorry we drifted apart
Does your memory stray to a bright sunny day
When I kissed you and called you sweetheart
Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there
Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight Spoken:
I wonder if you're lonesome tonight
You know someone said that the world's a stage
And each must play a part
Fate had me playing in love you as my sweet heart
Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance
You read your line so cleverly and never missed a cue
Then came act two, you seemed to change and you acted strange
And why I'll never know
Honey, you lied when you said you loved me
And I had no cause to doubt you
But I'd rather go on hearing your lies
Than go on living without you
Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there
With emptiness all around
And if you won't come back to me
Then they can bring the curtain down Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again
Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight
Or you can call somebody's phone to hear the song as his byebyeringring... hahaha.
// Poor Fung, my best friend is being home quarantined!
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The Lovers' Card
Memory sealed at : Thursday, June 25, 2009 Time: 3:12:00 PM
Is it possible to not feel your heart glow when the Tarots' reading said that you've drawn The Lovers' card, supposedly a good fortune, with a new relationship blossoming.?
Would you be upset about it? Would your first reaction be a revolting "huh.." when you said you're deeply in love with someone?
I always thought guys hate the wishy-washy part about girls. But this one prefer things to remain Complicated.
Oh why the man is so hard to understand?
But why???
I'm filled with questions with no answers. Yet again, I fear the answers that I'll may ot may not eventually know.
The Unknown is devouring me slowly, bit by bit.
UPDATE: I picked the Death card!!
A friend just reminded me something, this whole situation is like a dejavu, so familiar, like a repetition of THE incident years back... okay, I'm scared.
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Advertlets > Nuffnang
Memory sealed at : Thursday, June 18, 2009 Time: 3:39:00 AM
Since the beginning of this year, you might have noticed I've switched the advertising blocks that I put all over my blog from Advertlets to Nuffnang.
When I made my mind to join Advertlets exclusively, I never thought of you know, switch to its competitor eventually after earning my first keep. However, for every action that I do there's a reason behind it (yes I have to justify for my actions and conscious).
What caused me to ditch Advertlets dates back to 2008...
But before that, in 2007 I won some competition from one if its contest and cashed out my first earning. I was very happy and satisfied (though the cheque came slightly later than expected).
Then, the second time came when it was eligible for me to cash out although it was lesser than the previous. Eager and wanting to get the money, I quickly click on the button. That was in June 2008. After some time, I still did not receive anything in my mail, thus I started emailing Advertlets. The staff reassured me that the cheque was still processing, and I would receive it shortly.
Two months passed, followed by another two, and I got irritated of waiting. Yes, I know it's a meagre sum of money but still! It's a promise your company gave me! By December, I persuaded myself to let it go and decided to go for Nuffnang instead. Eventually, Advertlets also stopped replying my emails. I got tired of chasing after the cheque, looking like a pathetic member.
Then one fine day on Plurk in January, one of the Plurkers started a thread about online advertising, the difference between them etc. and I voiced out my experience with Advertlets. Within 24 hours, Advertlets had added me as a fan and hijacked one of my Plurks. An email followed after that:
Since I am always on Gmail, so my reply to them were rather prompt. I thought it was quite weird actually, that they email me so quickly after the Plurk comment.
I told them I never receive any cheque/cash money even after 6 months. Their response was:
I felt stupid after giving my bank account number. In the meantime, I started a private Plurk:
If it involves your company giving out money to many bloggers both local and overseas, shouldn't you have a clear record?
I said I felt stupid because......
=,=" What am I to do???? You're based in Malaysia! I'm just a plain student blogger residing in Singapore, with no income or whatsoever to start a new bank account with HSBC, UOB or Citibank.
And I waited... for seven days before they let me know "oh okay, then we'll have to send you another cheque", which by the way did not reach me.
I suppose it's not really their business to make sure the second cheque they sent were properly delivered or not, due to them not keeping up with the status any more.
P.S. I just logged into my old Advertlets account and the status is still 'sent', not PAID in bold blue. Hahaha.
See why I join Nuffnang now? Besides, I feel so much better when I can actually attend the movie premieres, parties and events. Before this, Advertlets would ask me if I want to join the events, of course I would gladly want to! Then they would drop the bomb - okay, make your way to Petaling Jaya (Cathay Cineplex, Cineleisure Damansara; etc etc.) this weekend.
Erm, uhm, ah, err, okay. I'll try to persuade my mom I have to go Malaysia to watch a movie on a weekend!
But just so we're clear, it's not Advertlets fault that they're based in Malaysia. I'm just saying it's not my cup of tea since I don't reside there.
Speaking of Nuffnang, it brings me to the Flash Mob they did last weekend, the videos and pictures were nicely done - and fast (up on youtube, flickr already!) - very impressive. The event was in conjunction with the Singapore River Festival and the massive PJ party is going to happen this weekend at DXO after the bloggers' riverside tour!
It's such a great pity I won't be able to attend! *major sigh* Pyjamas party! How fun that would be!
Guess I'll have to try my luck next year (if I can get the invite that is).
Got to catch a flight in 3 hours' time, so it's ciao for now. :)
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Mind Games
Memory sealed at : Monday, June 15, 2009 Time: 3:07:00 AM
I'm so sick of your mind games.
You and the mighty ego.
You made me feel like filth.
Just go and be your eccentric self.
Goodbye.
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A Little About Travelling...
Memory sealed at : Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Time: 4:00:00 PM
This year has been a fruitful year for me in terms of travelling. I think I'm just lucky I get to travel to three different countries within 3 months.
Other than the normal sighseeing (because we signed up with the tour package), I like to explore more than just the very "popular" and common things people do.
For example, I miss walking down the chilly street alongside my sister, hand-in-hand to a local bakery shop to see if we can pick a cake for daddy. However, since we're moving on to another location the following day, we did not get any birthday cake.
In the end, I bought the final tiramisu in the display shelf while Sis settled for the blueberry cake. We didn't bother about the melamine issue that was raging in China, we just indulge with our little snack. The feeling is so.....nice. It's like I blend into the surroundings at the moment.
On the way back, we also went by a convenience store, which I bought ice-cream (yayness, coz' they won't melt even if you leave it in the open for 15-30 mins!) and red wine potato chips. Yes, I like to try small things here and there that Singapore do not offer.
Also this time, I am of age to consume alcohol on flight! While looking through the dinner menu do I realise they offer a variety of drinks. Being the typical Singaporean that I am, I quickly think of making the full use of SIA. Hahaha. It was my first time drinking Bailey's in the air! Boy did that felt good. Heh. But the dinner sucked! *coughs* ahtiong feedback *coughs*
Then I began to miss 西湖, a place where it's full of history and culture, yet the essence of it still remain intact. The picturesque bridges were just like the illustrations of my Secondary school Higher Chinese textbook. Hahaha.
There's even litte shophouses that we can rent to spend the night, and proper tea shops to enjoy 吃茶。
I feel stupid to have the urge to start throwing out all the Chinese poems I learnt before as I stroll along the lake! What 李白 la, 杜甫la、白居易 la etc..
While doing my shopping, I do not only look at clothes (despite what you may think of me). At 7-11, I compare prices of condoms (it's like SGD10 for a pack of 3 over there, ex!). I also checked out the prices of film over there, which after conversion, cost about the same in Singapore. So it doesn't mean China = cheap okay! It depends on the items as well!
There were also these bun keychains that are selling at every corner of the streets. Out of curiosity (and because they look damn adorabel with the smiley faces and all), I went to touch it. It looked like it's made of those cheap plastic, but I tell you, THEY FEEL LIKE REAL BUNS, or even softer. They even smell like freshly-made bread. Very nice.
I also went through a funny experience of chatting with a masseuse while soaking my feet it 80 degrees hot herbal water. He just couldn't stop talking and went on and on about his hometown, class chairperson and Singapore.
I will also remember how my Sis and I bumped into a couple of dudes from Mumbai complaining about the poor service and attitude in China (and mainly because we can speak English), and eventually became our Facebook friend within 30 minutes. Hahaha.
Travelling is my favourite past time (literally man).
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All The Riches They Own...
Time: 4:00:00 AM
I never thought I would be stuck in a part-time job for so long. What was supposed to be a 1- or 2-month(s) job turned out to be 10 months and still counting. :(
Damn it sucks to be poor sometimes.
It's depressing times like these that I imagined how good it would be if I were one of the customers there. Money would never be an issue to them. Even the younger generation have the capacity to spend. And I'm not even talking about gatherings or birthday celebrations. The pub is like their second home, they spend four to five days a week here, for hours.
I must say, this pub isn't exactly the cheapest place. In fact, it's one of the most expensive bars I've ever come across. Anyway, just today I found a huge contrast between a Singaporean blue-collar worker VS foreign expatriates.
When the Singaporean buys a pint of Kilkenny, this will take place:
He will then reluctantly digs for his wallet and make sure that he gave the exact amount.
But when it somes to the fair-skinned, their reaction were complete opposites.
Most of the times, they will give $15, and nonchalently say, "it's okay". Either that, or frown when I return to them with the three dollars change. See, they're so used to tipping such that they find it insulting if I return them the spare coins!
Those foreigners who prefer to open a tab with their credit cards, if they're in good spirits, would proceed to buy rounds and rounds of booze, shooters and food for everybody present in that table (even when they're complete strangers). The bill at the end of the night can easily cough up to a few hundred dollars (the largest that I've handled was about $800+) and he'll still top up the bill to tip us $-- or $---.
Just how much richer are these foreign expatriates?!
Damn it, and yet I'm still struggling to find a job...
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Friendship VS Love
Memory sealed at : Thursday, June 04, 2009 Time: 4:01:00 AM
Why is it impossible for me to have both the same time?
I hate to be ostracised this way every time I am emotionally attached to someone.
I need to wear my heart on my sleeves.
And stop procrastinating.
Bah.
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