National Good Looking Person Day

bahaahaaaaaa! on a side note it's hail/sleeting here.

minor update

sorry guys.. perhaps i spoke too soon.

im afraid.. not everyone can make it for tmr's dinner.
our dear kelly will be absent with apologies because her dad is back frm a trip and wants ta spend some family time.
so sorry dear!!

minor update!!
we are changing the venue of the get-together.

AMUA has kindly offered their place for dinner! :D
yummy yummy yummy.

so.. everybody.. we are to meet at 35 sunset square at 7pm.
looking forward to yummy food and plenty of laughs.
see you all sooooooon.

love,
-cher

happy new year ALIVE!!! :D

heys everybody!!!

HAPPPY 2007 ALIVE!!
[okay.. so this is a slightly late greeting. haha.. but better late than never man!]

so sorry i was awol while away on holiday.. and it's taken me some time to get back here to blog. hadta settle bidding for this semester's modules. glad ta have that out of the way now.
i do hope everyone's been okay.
kel and sonia are now back!!.. yipee.. great ta have you gals back!! :):)

a few of us came together for a get-together the other day.. but not all of you could make it. we had fun and all.. but smehow.. it's not the same effect as when everybody's gathered together.
soo... im soooo glad to announce..
i've finally managed to get a day when everybody can make it. and at a location and time which i hope is convenient for everybody.

so listen up.. here are the details:

7th of jan, SUNDAY
dinner at Holland Village
Jeremy's suggested that we eat at this place called Cafe 211.
it's in the cold storage building, up on the 4th floor.
let's meet at 7pm. just gimme a call when u're at holland v. :)
and hopefully.. we'll have drinks at Baden's after dinner. hehe.. :]

okies.. can't wait to see you all!!
im so glad. dame's right.. it's realli a miracle.
i can barely believe that we managed to get everybody.
now.. nobody's allowed to forget abt the outing!
or i'll skin you alive. hahas..

BRING!!!
-yourself lah
-your wonderful sense of humour
-gossip, stories, juicy tidbits to share
-cameras!! [grp pic grp pic!!!]

okay. here's wishing you all a very blessed and special year.
never forget god's never far.. no matter what happens. :)

love,
cher

p.s.: i've changed the blogger account thingy to use the new version.. as in w/o beta or smth. i hope you guys won't have probs switching and adding entries. lemme noe if you do.. and i'll try to help. tho err.. im not sure how yet. hahs
cheerios! :]

MERRY CHRISTMAS ALIVE!

hope to see all of you soon. especially since many who were abroad are now back.

midnight mass was magical last night.

one more day of rest and its back to hammering tomorrow.

- damien

newspeak

oooh! just to note: it's 10.43pm on finals night and i have a russian lit paper due tomorrow and i have spanish to memorise that i haven't started and i have ir and gods i'm so dead but anyways my russian lit paper is on doublespeak during the soviet era (which by the way is not the same as newspeak and was not coined by orwell but certainly owes influences to it) and i just wasted one hour of my life on texttwist (but i got a high score of 140,980 aha beat that so maybe not all so bad who am i kidding) andandand ooh isn't that interesting.

i am NOT freaking out.


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHOAMITRYINGTOKID.

TAK CHI SIBEI KANA SAI

so yes, i have finals. and that is the name of a facebook group for people who run out of interesting expletives before running out of homework.

on the bright side, once this ends on monday i swear i'll head into ny or something. catch up with people, and all. and yeah, what do you guys want from the us of a?

i am back with more linguistic gems from the green service.

i have pondered over two more words. doublejob and paperplay. those who have read 1984 will notice how they seem to be words out of a Newspeak dictionary.

doublejob implies an action or set of actions that increase one's workload redundantly. the same outcome/output can be achieved through a subset of that action or set of actions alone. it must be noted that the solution to the problem is contained within the action or set of actions in the doublejob, just that it is mixed with needless excesses.

paperplay refers to the alteration of paper work to suit the situation. this can mean either backdating a document, or forging certain details to paint a picture prematurely, et cetera. it must be noted that paperplay is not forgery in the incriminating sense of the word. paperplay is done to give flexibility to situations, thereby cutting down the wastage of time and unnecessary burdens which are an unfortunate product of red tape.

- damien

quotable quote of the week by one of my instructors - "educated people like to use pen to kill people".

hey how about doing something after cher's dinner? or maybe even staying over somewhere? what do you guys think? we havent caught up as a group in ages... this idea came out of my conversation with leon a couple of days back.

- damien