Cheeky Thoughts

2009

December
November
October
August 8
July 2
June 18
May 46
April 66
March 104
February 117
January 160

2008

June 137
May 146
April 156
March
February
January
Warch Watch
LOL critique of ANTM 10 “Allison is nasty, like rotting vagina nasty”
May 31st
“If you care about something, you have to protect it; if...”
— John Irving (via...
May 30th

So...Europe

It’ll be known as 13 weeks east of Berlin. Too lazy to plan, hence the decision to buy a...
May 30th

Underachiever of the year award

People enter university with the intention to get straight As and top class honours. I will be...
May 29th
“Hu Jintao was in a taxi and when they reached a junction,...”
— Joke on China CCP (via oikono)
May 29th
danhacker: tightgrip: peterwknox: caro: “The...
May 29th
“I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t...”
— Thomas Edison (via hrrrthrrr)
May 29th
So I did the match your man quiz on the SATC webpage and I...
May 28th

A girl's guide to dealing with life

Look, I have always been critical towards women who settle, latch themselves to a man because 1)...
May 28th
“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with...”
— John Waters Amazing. (via...
May 28th
“Nice Guys don’t usually just ask a woman out and at least...”
— No More Mr. Nice Guy, a great...
May 28th
“I think being waken up prematurely is among one of the most...”
— xiaxue Hey, I agree with her...
May 27th
“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one...”
— John Adams  (via...
May 27th
“I am someone who is looking for love. Real love, ridiculous,...”
— Carrie Bradshaw If you ask...
May 27th
LOL moment. Me at 13 vs. now. I am finally going to have a...
May 27th
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing...”
—  Paulo Coehlo (via...
May 27th
confessionizer: My parents have been married for +25 years. I cannot recall a time when they kissed...
May 26th
“I hate myself a little for saying this but… it felt...”
— Carrie Bradshaw I feel like I...
May 26th
The boat was rocking back and forth before it started moving...
May 26th
Does Time Run Backward in Other Universes?
May 26th

The folders in my google reader is as...

City blogs and what-not, eg: Gawker, Dlisted Interesting shit, eg: Book Forum, Stuff white...
May 25th
Every time I look at ankle boots, I just think…Kate...
May 25th
“It’s human to make mistakes and some of us are more human...”
— Ashleigh Brilliant (via...
May 25th
“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not...”
— Pearls of Wisdom by Dave Barry...
May 25th

My father must be thinking how much of a...

me: I think I should camp in europe, it is so much cheaper (think 4 euros/person)
the father: no, you don't do that when you travel by yourself. what for? and why don't you find someone to go with you?
me: no one is ever interested in the places I visit, everyone I know who is going to europe are roaming around italy, france or spain. heck, they don't even bother themselves with portugal. in fact, if i can get someone to spend a few months in eastern europe and camp with me, I'll pay for their air ticket.
May 25th
Warch Watch
OMG this is actually funnier than I expect it to be. So I decided to check out the Chinese...
May 25th
The most delicious meal I had at Siem Reap was found in an...
May 25th
Fashion on a budget. This is such a cute skirt for summer...
May 24th
“The real fun of travelling can only be got by one who is...”
— Frank Tatchell, The Happy...
May 24th
When I was in Battambang, the “hotel” I...
May 24th
deadlybrad42: tightgrip: joelaz: The Biggest Drawing...
May 24th

Sad piece of internet news

All I want to know after reading this is - will there still be other episodes of Blogger’s...
May 24th
feistyred: Imagine someone walking around calling. Out...
May 24th
8 Types Of Annoying People You’ll Find Inside...
May 23rd

Things I "learn" at the end of my...

Children are expensive. They were already a liability when I was a kid, but seeing 13 year olds...
May 23rd
That is the world’s largest swimming pool in a resort...
May 23rd
Listen Listen
Other Side of the World by KT Tunstall And I love this song to death!
May 23rd

Comments on colleague A

me: --- have the NTU look
JS: I think he has the NS guy look
Basically, both are not "looks" anyone should go for, serious!
May 22nd
The one surrounding the racist blogger
May 22nd
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
— Peter Drucker (via hydeordie)
May 22nd
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition...”
— Isaac Asimov (via...
May 21st
“Now, remember to argue, even if you have nothing to say, or...”
— Paris, Gilmore Girls 4.11...
May 21st
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to...”
— C.S.Lewis (via mascarah)
May 21st
“All politics stink. Even democracy stinks. Imagine if our...”
— P.J. O’Rourke (via azspot)
May 20th
That’s srinidta, I know her for 10 years (already) and...
May 19th

I left the brain somewhere else

pervin: tudou is mourning too
me: oh, is that why china sites are in black and white?
pervin: yes, that too
me: omg, I thought it was my screen!
May 19th
“Truly strange people don’t know they’re strange. If you...”
— A girl sent this to me after i...
May 19th

Midnight hypothetical question

Where do people usually go for their grand tour in Europe? I have some ideas but find myself getting...
May 19th
“We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come...”
— Salman Rushdie, “At the...
May 18th
“No one on the train knew what time it was. Some people said...”
— Mary Morris, Wall to Wall:...
May 18th
Woman sat dead in front of TV for 42 years
May 18th
“On the one hand, vegetarianism is healthy and humane. On the...”
—  Gruber. (via thatguyben)
May 17th
5 Psychological Experiments That Prove...
May 17th
Kashgar in B/W. Looking at the sign, I only recognise the...
May 17th
And so the people at Cold Rock has kindly messed up my name...
May 17th

The Superficial

srinidta: can I tell you something?
me: is it something bitchy about someone we know?
May 17th

We are not heartless bitches…really

man walking towards us (a volunteer): would you like to help ex-convicts?
srinidta: no!
me: I think our brains are simply wired into saying "no" to everything that approaches us regardless of what it might be
May 17th

Keeping a mean and malicious personality...

So I gloat at people who are having relationship troubles, watch with glee at their eventual...
May 16th
“Some individuals have developed such strong internal...”
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (via...
May 16th
“I hate president Bush. He’s stupid and his face is too tiny...”
— Lorelai in Gilmore Girls 1.15...
May 16th
“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of...”
— Douglas Adams (via travors)
May 16th
“I forgot that pillows don’t have to smell like feet....”
— Lorelai in Gilmore Girls 4.01...
May 16th
Warch Watch
Brendan Fraser + terracotta warriors coming alive + one CGI Yeti = I want to watch senseless summer...
May 16th
“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and...”
— Frank Zappa (via enquotations)
May 16th
“The Head Hand Bag enables its (females) users to...
May 15th
“I just loved notebooks so much I would often want a new one...”
— i do the same! via my open...
May 15th
“I stopped having any interest in men after realizing that...”
— that’s me, JADED
May 15th
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of...”
— Claude McPillow (via laureola)
May 14th
Let’s just say the 3.1 Phillip Lim for Tatami - almost...
May 14th

PRC secondary school

It weren’t funny funny, but it really tickled me the entire time seeing potentially xenophobic...
May 14th
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because...”
— Dr. Seuss (via vinh)
May 14th
“mas selamat was seen lurking around NTU”
— as said by my collegue,...
May 14th
“The kind of people selected for a reality show are… well,...”
— Dr. Drew, about Tila Tequila’s...
May 13th
Warch Watch
mascarah: X Files Movie - new trailer. I can’t help but be super excited about this. Its funny, I...
May 13th
That’s my resume photo Caption - I am perfectly...
May 13th
“I only like kids when I can’t see them. And that is...”
— me and my profound disdain for...
May 13th
jessicagoldharalson: bellavita: desaturated And I am not...
May 13th
“Once you remove the pixie dust of female camaraderie,...”
— Writer Toby Young on Sex and...
May 13th
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should...”
— Lily Tomlin (via enquotations)
May 13th
“It always fascinated me how people go from loving you madly...”
— Marion (Julia Delphy) – ‘2...
May 12th

Overqualified

me: I was flipping through recruits and I realized that most of the jobs that interest me mildly are for diploma holders, wth!
jieqi: you can still apply and start from the bottom
me: the only reason why I would do something like that will be this - the company belongs to my father, and I know I'll be CEO someday
May 12th

SD2213 is shitty

I have a field trip on Wednesday, in fact, I have to participate in such nonsense for the next 6...
May 12th
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of...”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (via...
May 12th
Warch Watch
danhacker: Man vs. Wild - Eating Giant Larva -You cant stop this man, he will eat anything. This...
May 11th
“I know I’m an acquired taste - I’m anchovies. And not...”
— Tori Amos (via awais)
May 11th

Dear -----

And so I have mentioned that I was writing a letter to myself, I am still unsure what came out of it...
May 11th
How The Presidential Candidates Would Handle...
May 10th
nananincompoop: Giant weekender leather and printed cotton...
May 10th
Listen Listen
Reason Why by Rachael Yamagata Enjoy; this was on the playlist as I begin the task of writing a...
May 10th

my biggest fan

me: so you "found" my tumblr
jieqi: yeah, and I finished reading all your entries
me: omg!
May 10th
Empathy Quotient Test
May 10th
“Phone sex is the dumbest thing in the world. It’s not sex....”
— (via wwtdd.com) (via...
May 10th

Stereotyping

pervin: ---'s family is rich in the philippines
me: so are they corrupted?
May 9th
Because cute is epitomised in these colorful Dolce &...
May 9th
“Most people think life sucks and then you die. Not me. I beg...”
— Denis Leary (via...
May 9th
PRCs Cheating Blatantly in NUS Exams
May 9th
“……..Most of my friends, and most of my friends’ children,...”
— Paulo Coelho, excerpt from...
May 9th
What is it with the fashion industry’s fascination...
May 9th

And I am both -

nadia (introducing me to her friends): and she is my legendary friend
me: hey, I thought I was the toxic friend
May 9th
“I think I’ve discovered the secret of life - you just hang...”
— Charles M. Schulz (via...
May 8th
Ahhh….a colorful Danshui during the dragon boat...
May 8th
“I like telling jieqi I love her because everytime I say it,...”
— Me explaining to peiru why...
May 8th
Peiru standing next to a scary table of books aka her...
May 8th

This is how not to form an opinion

me: I like this movie (pointing to figurine of Howl's moving castle)
jieqi: what's the story?
me: I forgot, I only remember how thought-provoking it is
May 8th
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no...”
— Mark Twain (via jackarcher)
May 8th
This is NOT art; but it sure is a visual cue of that bloody...
May 7th
SeenON!
May 7th
Vang Vieng; the “real” mountain biking accident;...
May 6th

And so you say I don't have a pleasant...

If I am a guy, I will be damn turn off by girls who call themselves angels, princess or...
May 6th
“What sort of man wants to be propositioned on a first date?...”
— The Age Blogs: Ask Sam Sigh....
May 6th
(via postsecret) I stop believing that love of any kind...
May 6th
“Now I am still a student, that’s my...”
— Me freaking out to pervin on...
May 6th

And we are...students of politics

pervin: I launch a preemptive attack before people can even start putting me down verbally
me: so you are america?
May 6th
nananincompoop: The most feminine Oxfords ever, for women of...
May 6th
“The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up...”
— Slappy White (via...
May 6th
The reason fat people find it hard to lose...
May 5th
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy...”
— Albert Einstein (via vinh)
May 5th

(Joseph) de Maistre is my hero

‘Christianity…rests entirely on an enlargement of [the] dogma of innocence paying for...
May 5th
Bumped into Nadia at the forum, she has an open book exam,...
May 5th
On a sugar high, jelly beans + red bull; 2 things I am...
May 5th

The things we do to ourselves.

gettingoutoftheroom: tumblinas: I find myself wondering why I can’t be satisfied with regular...
May 5th
“fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to...”
— oscar wilde (via sarazucker)
May 5th

someone will always be...worse off

jieqi (to me): I have graduated
me (pointing to peiru): she still has 2 more years to go
May 5th
Warch Watch
Oh yes, that’s me 2 years ago pretending to “dance” in a confined space
May 5th
Warch Watch
marco: Facebook in real life. (via canadianbeauty) This definitely makes Facebook look like a...
May 4th
dirtnow: This shall be our album cover since the P wasnt...
May 3rd

Blame it on the weather

Do you know why is it such an impossible task to reduce traffic aka cars in Singapore? Because our...
May 3rd
jessicagoldharalson: johnnyfive: whateverlolawants: ...
May 3rd
The Louis Vuitton Watercolor Speedy 35 looks dreamily...
May 3rd
Warch Watch
dirtnow: Singers : KUTU AND SAMMY LIGHTING MANAGER : PERVIN DIRECTOR + CAMERA...
May 3rd
Lice are art, apparently
May 3rd
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;...”
— Segoyewatha (via vinh)
May 3rd
Peloponnesian War
May 2nd
Forming a girlband; this will be our album cover, we will...
May 2nd

Of education and babies

I think the problem with education is, people see it as the solution to get a better...
May 2nd
Pervin is hungry and chewing the baguette with gusto. We...
May 2nd
“Victory belongs to the most persevering”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
May 2nd
“The Singapore Flyer is retarded. If I want a view, I just go...”
— me giving nadia the 411 on how...
May 2nd

My secret social life

me: I was there with my friends the other day
nadia: who are your friends?
me: omg! you have the same reaction as peiru. point to note, I do have other friends other than the 3 of you
nadia: its just that you make yourself sound so sad all the time
May 2nd
“All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that...”
—  Marilyn Monroe (via...
May 1st
“I don’t want to spend the rest of my life explaining myself....”
— Frank Zappa (via hydeordie)
May 1st

Regimes in SEA

The way they put it is (eh…) interesting Malaysia - stable semi democracy Thailand -...
May 1st

Can you feel my pain?

Shitty academic papers I need to read (like now) Rethinking Thailand’s Southern Violence Beyond...
May 1st
Warch Watch
betterthancupcakes: Social Networking Wars from Current TV I seriously don’t think I’ve laughed...
May 1st
“Or does this confirm, at last, that American Idol is fixed?...”
— Either ‘American Idol’ Is...
Apr 30th
“Nobody is passionate about things they suck at.”
— Kathy Sierra, on The Web 2.0...
Apr 30th
“In my country (philippines), today, crossing over from one...”
— Aquilino Pimentel Jr; more...
Apr 30th
(via postsecret) OMG! I have this problem too, its like I...
Apr 30th

5 Things...

mascarah: 5 Things found in my bag: Vaseline, 2 ballpoint pens, old-school Creative zen mp3 player...
Apr 30th
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is...”
— Bill Cosby (via hydeordie)
Apr 30th
“It’s awful not to be loved. It’s the worst thing in the...”
— East of Eden (via whokilled)
Apr 30th