Random tots #29

lousy mood = lousy ber

have been in a super duper lousy mood these few days... lotsa problems to worry abt and lotsa minor issues that irked me... why should i make myself unhappy? sometimes i have issues that i need to think thru... that's why i need time to myself...

sometimes even before i can convince myself not to be so stubborn and make myself so unhappy... i will get scolding from someone out there... of cos.. that will make my mood reach rock bottom... and make myself feel that i'm the lousiest person on earth to have ever existed... i dread that feeling... maybe i should start learning not to be so stubborn and take things easier...

lappy is well dead... now even the motherboard has got problems... i presume it will be in intensive care for a long long time to come... meaning sporadic posts...

starting to have doubts abt myself... am i too skinny? not really mah... still within the healthy range for the BMI mah... and when i stand beside tax and vinc... i always feel like a pig... why do ppl around me kept asking me to eat more and gain some weight? do i really look that bad now? ( i need some feedback... thanx...) i know i look better during my birthday period last year... but now i'm happy with my weight now mah... though i do hope to shed another 3 to 4 kg...

my body have been lethargic since the absence of a swim on sat and a jog yesterday... exercise is good k... at least i heard it on tv news last night... heard that it can make the brain function better... i need exercise!!! but... the earliest i can spare time to jog is wednesday... haiz... but it simply means today will be a lousy day...

a f**king lousy day is one where u can walk into the toilet and realise that ur relative decided to drop u a surprise visit... as if my day today is not lousy enuff... getting scolded by the 1st person i talked to today... it's simply one of the sucky days...

what else can i complain abt? how abt the trojan horse in the home pc together with lotsa adwares and malwares? must have been my bro who was using the night before who got this mess into the pc... it's not the 1st time this happens already... kinda p*ss*d... and those who understand will know what shit my bro was downloading that led to those shitty stuff in the pc... and guess what... he never remove those shit and have to wait for ppl to clean up his mess for him... wtf...

and together with those shit is the presence of little roaches hanging ard the pc... ppl do know how much i hate and is afraid of those creepy crawlies... even dear lele, upon hearing the presence of the roaches will tell my mom in the middle of the night "po po ga ga" and climb up to the bed and sleep with my dad from his bed on the floor... but luckily mom caught and threw one out of the house yesterday... if not i wonder how many sleepless nights i will have to endure...

on a lighter note... tried a pokka italian lemonade that costs a good $2.30 for a 500ml bottle... read the ingredients and saw the presence of a vitamin P... me being a health freak have not even heard of the presence of that vitamin... have been asking ard but got answers like 'vitamin pig', 'vitamin pie' and whatever crap those ppl can think of.. but hey... me did some research and got the answers... told u guys that google is almighty... click here to read up on vitamin p...

and also... finally found the website that can provide very good star maps for those interested in star gazing... this site provides star maps for different locations on Earth and at different times too... and u can customerise the intensities of the stars so that the maps show those very bright stars only... (due to light pollution in s'pore... star gazing is only limited to very bright stars...)
a very good site... will be better if u know the exact latitude and longtitude of the location u r in... but since s'pore is so small... u can just set for the nearby city of singapore...

okie... the newspaper articles these few days drew some distubing conclusions on the use of plastics... 1stly... phthalates, commonly found in plastics, affects gential development in baby boys and make them more feminine... then the article in today's paper indicated that bisphenol-A or BPA (used in plastic food containers, cans and dental sealants), can make the mammary glands of female mice grow in a way that makes them more likely to develop breast cancer, as well as respond unusually to oestrogen, which fuels breast cancer in humans. This study also found a drop in the number of cells programmed for death, the natural defence mechanism by which the body gets rid of damaged cells that might become cancerous...
maybe we will have to cut down on the use of plastics... but where can we find a better and cheaper substitute?

one interesting article to share...


p.s.: sorry for the lack of photos... but photos are mostly in lappy's memory and i'm too lazy (and in a lousy mood too) to upload new photos recently... will include pix soon... provided i finish my IA report soon... anyway today's the last day of may so i hope all bad luck ends today...

Ranting #31

Frustrated!!!

lemme vent a bit of my frustration 1st... been here for 21 mths and finally felt the need to vent my frustration... skip if u want... may sound vulgar in some parts...

okie... i know colleagues here are nice and they give me work to do when i'm bored... and teach me lots of stuff and give me lots of freedom (read: hack care me)... BUT....

i'm not their personal secretary k... i'm here as a safety asst and not a secretary hor... though both starts with the letter 'S' but surely they are not the same k... 'sex' and 'shit' both starts with 'S' and surely they are not the same right?
fancy making me call this call that for them... fax this fax that for them... hello... can't u do this simple stuff to dial a few numbers? BUSY... i might hear u say... but they can go play pool til late and can also play crimson room for the whole morning... surely they can dial a few numbers right? maybe they dunno how to use a phone... but wait... who was that that i saw chatting on the phone?

guess what... secretary are at least much better paid than me... and do i need to lap dance for them idiots?

think save for ordering flowers... i've done the shittest thing of helping them wrap presents... for their church and not for work hor... and i have to be a technician to lay cables when necessary (as the IT guy is not around) and be a waitress to carry food and drinks for them during seminars... and of cos... do the thing secretary do best... write minutes... even though once in my life i never wrote a single minutes before... and i doubt i need to do that too...

of cos... this lowly paid personal secretary can be made to look for info that they might not even lay their eyes on... and made to print things that they could jolly well print it themselves... (they can email it to u to ask u to print it out for them and put it on their table lor... what do u think?) and i think they do not know the existence of yahoo or google... one small thing they oso must come ask me... like where got what course... where can do this... where can do that... cannot just type a few words in google har? maybe they dunno how to use comp... only know how to go chiong at nite and go church...

and guess what... these few days i have been helping this person zap a card that tells of the company's medical service provider's details... simply becos there's not enuff for all the staff here... and i have to print it nicely... laminate it and cut them out one by one... (one A4 sized paper has got 8 cards...) and that person actually wanted 160 of them... what big idiot... another sane colleague tot it's actually a waste of time as people will just dump it away without taking a second glance and that idiot could have just requested more from the medical service provider... what a big a**hole...

why am i so nice to be tortured by these people? well... maybe becos i didn't know i can actually transfer to another company for IA at least til the 18th week... and i surely didn't wanna fail my IA... it could look bad on my CV next time... and sometimes i'm just this nice to help them do all these shitty work...

nvm... another 3 more weeks to go... another 13 more working days to go... since i still have 2 days of paid leave... hmmm... i still have got 5 days of medical leave... and this leaves me with 8 days of torture... let's hope i can get out of this hell pretty soon...

Advertisement #1

okie... this is an advert for mudpie k... cos he wanna advertise that his shop has got SALE during the GSS period...

btw he sells computer accessories and mp3 players... and oso samsung pdts like refrigerators, washing machines, tv, dvd player and handphones too...

his shop is in peninsula plaza #04-63... need anything just call him at 94565935 (update: to look for mark cos if u asked to look for mudpie... he will tell u to go NYDC...) and tell him u r my friend... maybe got special discount too...

here's something for all... the racy Paris Hilton Carl Jr's Spicy BBQ burger tvc... i've the clip too... if u need can ask me for it too...

Random tots #28

Great Singapore Sale

it's back... and on a greater scale and longer period... shopping queens' fantasy... it's the GREAT S'pore Sale (GSS)... from the 27th may to 24th july... think the word SALE will be everywhere in Singapore... including some heartlands too... with so many sales going around... there will definitely be grudgy boyfriends, smell of burnt plastics (due to heavy usage of credit/atm cards) and definitely... happy ladies...

but then... let's say something fair... guys do shop too... and there's times when i go out with guys and they shop while i watch...

luckily i'll be working during this period or else i dunno where i can find the money to shop all i want... think i can give my wardrobe an overhaul and charge most of the clothes since they can't fit me anymore... not that i got fatter... it's just the opposite k... and maybe i should get more feminine clothes and ditch my tee and jeans image...

many shopping centres are opening til late night too... i think wisma opens til 1 a.m and citylink til pretty late too... think the sale of concealers will be darn good as ladies will use lotsa them to cover their dark rings (esp if they shop til late)...

how wonderful is a GSS... i can buy what i want but i doubt they will have discount on Royce chocolates too right? okie... i should start drafting my shopping list and plan my schedule to invade the dark side of the shopping centres and attack Darth Taka first...

even with the all wonderful GSS... i still wanna go seirye's place to shop... and i'll be going to roll on a clean and white sandy beach with crystal clear water in rawa pretty soon... how i look forward to all the wonderful events in june... hopefully the bad luck of may will not follow til june...

btw... how come lately the dark horse always win? not to say they are not good but they are not really expected to win one mah... like Liverpool and Carrie from American Idol... think AC Milan and Bo shld have won instead... haiz... what a quirky world... maybe ms universe may have a dark horse emerging the winner too... shall wait and see...

Ranting #30

tots and feelings...

saturday has been a day with a roller coaster ride in my feelings... 1st... angry early in the morning... followed by sadness... and guilt... afternoon... feeling happier and excited... evening... feeling neutral yet tired and cold...

been to bugis guanyin temple to pray cos things have not been going smoothly lately... then went to swim at my area... rained during my 7th lap and eventually stopped at 8... went phone hunting with mudpie and this led us to the starhub shop at OUB centre... got me a new Samsung E720C... my 1st clam phone... mudpie signed a 2 yr contract and did a $300 trade-in... and i foot the difference... how nice to own a cheap yet new and nice phone...

gramophone has this warehouse sale over at Adelphi #04-36... lotsa CDs at very low prices... but me can't find any to buy... not much jazz CD but lotsa chinese ones...

took a one and a half hour ride from city hall to get home due to traffic congestion... very cold in the bus as it was raining outside... one of the lousiest ride ever...

sunday... spent the whole day trying to finish my book... never do much... those remaining time was spent watching tv... realised my bros are out late except me... realised i'm socially inactive...

monday... tuition... after which i went over to mudpie's shop to try to finish the book completely... realised i'm his good luck charm... lotsa people walked in to buy things when i was there... maybe it's becos of my short skirt? went home in the late evening... this time on the mrt... took only 40 minutes... much faster than bus...

ate a bit too much... have to go jog soon... realised how fragile friendships can be... used to have a grp of close girlfriends but seldom meet up... even if we do... the conversations are usually very shallow... used to go to each other during periods of unhappiness and happiness... but now just feel that each meeting is just as mundane as a meal together...

tot abt my grad trip... wondered who can i go with? but me haven even start my final year then start thinking abt the trip... not correct... but shall start saving soon...

dreamt abt my blue swatch last night... woke up feeling happy that it had found a new owner yet feeling a deep sense of loss...



p.s.: not that i dun wanna blog lately... but lappy's still sick and i'm too lazy to snatch the desktop from my bro... so can only blog in office...

Random tots #27

Bored... and nothing better to do...

i have been rotting in the office for the past 2 days... think people will only come over to my workstation if they smell a 'stench' due to me rotting in the office...

haiz... absolutely nothing to do...

today's TODAY is so wonderfuly bimbo-ish (if there's such a word)... cos there's a very big 4 page advert on FHM... haha... left it on my table facing up (yesh... the side showing pamela anderson's wonderful figure) and people kept coming over to take a look... me got 2 copies so donated one to my fellow colleague... after which i just used the supplement of plus with Darth Vader to cover Pam... no one came over thereafter... hahaha... no one like star wars...

having lotsa bad news recently... apparently my lappy has a hole in its stomach... wonder will a transplant save it? think must be my fault... haiz...

another lousy news is that mudpie might have lost his oakley juliet AGAIN... hopefully he just misplaced it and can find it again...
another not so lousy news is that mudpie's e800c has been 'smoking' for the past week and thus his mom bans him from using that phone... he's super financially challenged to get a new phone... so more trouble brews... haiz...

haha... realised really fulfill the title of random tots... really random... have been playing too much freecell and flash games... eye hurts... and swollen due to infection too... though it's not obvious... haiz...

sun'raisers from little jerry's cookies at west mall basement is very nice... along with double choc mint and many other flavours...
not to forget to advertise for my bro's friends' store at suntec basement #B1-005... bakin' boys... nice and big cookies... sinful but delicious...

Ranting #29

A series of unfortunate events

Things have been pretty lousy for me this May... maybe becos there's a Friday the 13th this month... whatever bad that can happen have happened to me... haiz...

the first bad thing to happen was that a very close friend actually 放我飞机... confirmed to go on the june island trip with me yet called a few days later to tell me she feel weird to go with 3 couples (which actually she will be going with another female friend too and we will not hang ard much with another 2 couple cos not close)... what to do... i cannot blame her... made me super disappointed though...

the next bad thing to happen to me is the loss of my lappy... apparently it was due to the fused power supply unit that made my lappy dead... okie... it was certainly bad for me cos lappy is like me and mudpie's 2nd child... (the 1st child is lele...) but luckily lappy can be saved... just need to spend money that's all... haiz... even though i might be financially challenged... but saving lappy is more important...

getting lectured by mudpie on the eventful friday the 13th cos my phone's dead and i didn call him much thru'out the 'class outing' with 3 guys from my JC class... (david, vinc and tax)... made him worried and was mostly my fault for not calling him... (so not really unfortunate i shld say...)

as mudpie was sick for the 2nd week last weekend... i brought lele to visit him... but kinda regret it cos i lost my beloved blue swatch... it was a watch that i bought for myself using the first pay i got from my first job (or actually just the 1st watch i got for myself using all my own pay)... haiz... this month i'm so financially challenged to buy myself another blue watch... but i guess i wouldn't buy back the same design cos 1stly... the design is no longer available... 2ndly... buying back the same watch has no meaning anymore as it's no longer the 1st watch i got for myself using the 1st pay i've got... so now i have to make do with my red watches... cos no more blue ones... (actually got lah... but all collector's edition cannot wear...) so if u see me in blue top and bottom yet wearing a red watch then u understand why...

i tot the month of may was sucky enuff after just these events in the 1st 15 days... apparently God (or whoever up there) thinks my life is still not sucky...

another friend of mine postponed a trip that i was super duper looking forward to since april citing work commitments... haiz... i have even changed the currency to go over and shop... haiz... cannot blame her too... actually tot of going alone with mudpie but think mom won't allow cos we are not familiar with that place... (my friend's parents has a house there...) haiz... another big disappointment...

on a lighter note... even though things are sucky... i still have lele, mudpie and my parents to brighten up my life... lele will be there to bring a smile to my face no matter what happens... mudpie to listen to all my woes (even though he's sick) and try to make me happy and share my burden... parents who seem to understand my unhappiness and try not to mention those unhappy stuff but still concerned abt how things are...

maybe things have to turn out this way so that i can appreciate the people around me... nevertheless... things will turn out fine one day... maybe i just have to wait...


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p.s: something i've learnt from lele yesterday... and it certainly made my day...

me: 'A' is for...
lele: ah-yee!
me: 'B' is for...
lele: ah yee!
me: 'C' is for...
lele: ah yee!!! (which mudpie actually taught him 'cock-eye ah yee' but he refused to say...)

it certainly made me happy since everything i ask him is ah yee... best part is he even know how to say 'cock-eye' (courtesy of my dad) meaning erm... unable to spot things that are very obvious? especially his super cute way of saying things... never fail to bring a smile to my face...

Random tots #26

How to pronounce sophomore

with respect to the post on Freshmen... Sophomore... Junior... Senior... CAP vs GPA..., here's how to pronounce the word sophomore cos a very lousy me dun really know the correct pronunciation... click here...

btw my lappy's still dead... and my beloved blue swatch's gone... think life's pretty sucky this may... I HATE MAY!!!

Ranting #28

Friday the 13th special

didn really wanna blog as my lappy's still in CCU... nevertheless... friday the 13th only happens once this yr so must blog...

did some research on wikipedia...

"Friday the 13th is considered to be a day of bad luck in many superstitions. The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia or paraskevidekatriaphobia, a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a phobia (fear) of the number thirteen."

Origin:
The origins of the Friday the 13th superstition has been linked to the fact there were 13 people at the last supper of Jesus, who was traditionally crucified on Good Friday, but it probably originated only in medieval times. It has also been linked to the fact that a lunisolar calendar must have 13 months in some years, while the solar Gregorian calendar and lunar Islamic calendar always have 12 months in a year. Another suggestion is that the belief originated in a Norse myth about twelve gods having a feast in Valhalla. The mischievous Loki gatecrashed the party as an uninvited 13th guest and arranged for Hod, the blind god of darkness, to shoot Baldur, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow. Baldur was killed and the Earth was plunged into darkness and mourning as a result.

Some also say that the arrest of Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and 60 of his senior knights on Friday, October 13, 1307 by King Philip IV of France is the origin of this superstition. That day thousands of Templars were arrested and subsequently tortured. They then 'confessed' and were executed. From that day on, Friday the 13th was considered by followers of the Templars as an evil and unlucky day.

Occurence:
The following months have a Friday the 13th:
2000 October
2001, 2007, 2018, 2029 April, July
2002, 2013, 2019, 2024 September, December
2003, 2008, 2014, 2025 June
2004 February, August
2005, 2011, 2016, 2022 May
2006, 2017, 2023 January, October
2009, 2015, 2026 February, March, November
2010, 2021, 2027 August
2012 January, April, July
2020 March, November

okie... enuff of friday the 13th... hopefully nothing bad happens to me today... realised Jacky Cheung's Snow.Wolf.Lake will be coming to S'pore on the 16th and 17th of Sept... but the tix are super ex... best seats at $228 and cheapest at $98... lidat how to afford to go... haiz...

Ranting #27

My laptop, thereafter to be called lappy... died on me last night while i was sending email halfway... cannot even power on no matter how hard i tried... think something must have fused inside... have to send it to hospital already... poor lappy...

was super duper sad of the sudden loss of lappy... do not have the mood to blog until lappy recovers... haiz... help me pray for lappy's speedy recovery will ya?

Random tots #25

Naked Truth




saw this article in today's TODAY... think this couple must have seen too much pornography to actually try this... and imagine cars passing by them can actually see the naked couple... it might have resulted in a bigger and more serious traffic accident...
wonder does this happen in Singapore? haha... if it does... then the couple should be charged with indecent exposure bah...
but how come three people needed medical help after the crash?

Random tots #24

Disappointment

just received a call and that dampened my mood... suddenly i wasn't at all looking forward to june... haiz... i kinda hate dislike things to be different from what i expected them to turn out... sometimes things just happen out of my control and eventually lead to more problems at a later stage... talk about chain reaction... haiz...

i'm not trying to blame anyone in particular but maybe life is just lidat... when u have higher expectations... your disappointment will be greater... i wish i could no longer have any hopes or expectations...

everything happens for a reason... some reasons i understand... but some... i have yet to fathom them... i like to ask why things happen in such a manner... but maybe some things cannot be expained with just words itself...

now... i'm disappointed... utterly disappointed...

Ranting #26

Pain Part II

Today is a day when the person in pain is not me but mudpie... poor mudpie has this tummyache, fever and headache all at once... and had been torturing him since thursday... he, being a workaholic finally took a day off today to see doc and rest at home... and me being his gf, have to go look after him...

went to his place early in the morning to accompany him to doc... saw the doc give him injection in his butt... poor mudpie... and guess what... the doc actually ask him not to eat anything for the next 24 hours... what kind of doc is that? poor mudpie...

the giant in my life actually fell sick and was in such great pain... really pains me to see him suffer and yet, unable to share his pain... the only thing i could do is to help him send sms when needed and give him my support by staying beside him... poor mudpie...
my main job scope today is to feed him medicine at specified times and buying gatorade for him as that's the only thing he can consume... and to be his bolster so that can help him relieve some pain too...

haiz... why do people have pain? i was in pain just a few weeks back... now it's mudpie... maybe God (or whoever out there) wants us to have pain to make us realise that we are still alive...

Random tots #23

Guilty

feeling real guilty now cos i din attend my uni class outing today even though i had the intention of going... even dressed for the occasion... din even make the effort to email my class abt me going/not going... haiz... felt real bad after reading the emails sent by the class...
why didn't i go u might ask... think one of the lamest reason i can give was that i was supposed to visit mudpie at his shop then go over to join them for dinner... but mudpie last minute had tummyache and wanted to go home so me never go his shop and went back home straight... lame i know... but that's what really happened... cos their meeting time was 7 plus but i can reach the meeting place at 5.30 and i didn wanna go shop ard... haiz... guilty...

come to think of it... i had never really attended any one of their gatherings... think that time i was working part time and not able to go for any... i'm really not close with the class... maybe i shld make an effort to go for gatherings in future... be more onz and get to know the class better...

realised i'm becoming more and more like a hermit ever since JC... lost the ability to make friends... or at least to have a big bunch of friends like the others... haiz... maybe i should not keep to myself anymore... haiz... can anyone bring me out of my shell?

really guilty today... regret... haiz...

Ranting #25

Bored?

seems like some ppl out there are super duper free after their exams... reminds me so much of my past 2 yrs when i got super duper long holidays... but then this time round me only got slightly more than one month... haiz...

lemme recall what i did for the past 2 yrs...
think 1st yr was spent doing temp jobs.. maybe like only once or twice a week... sometimes was so free i can tour around s'pore with my new found bf then (which is my mudpie now)... no $$$ go overseas so rot in s'pore... not enthu enuff to join those freshman welcome camp... so actually was super bored... only some chalets once in a while...

2nd year was better... cos i found a job just a day after my exams... but it's like only working for 2 days but felt it was better than rotting at home... after sleeping at home for like 4 days... i got myself a job thru some connections from my previous temp jobs... was an admin job that lasted for more than 3 months... but pay was good (anything that's better than my IA pay now is good!) and i was happy working there... that holiday only included chalets other than work... go work everyday and weekends, tuition... haiz... but at least i dun feel bored... cos 2 days after finishing work was back to school again...

so hopefully i can get myself a job this coming holiday but then i'm scared all the other uni students grabbed most of them even before i have my holiday... haiz... but i oso wanna go out of s'pore... anywhere also good... haha... so maybe just give tuition then rot at home... hahaha... 钱是永远赚不完的... better still is other ppl go work then treat me to meals and drive me around s'pore... 意思浅浅啦... aiya... maybe 走一步，看一步吧... since my holiday not here yet...

received an email from this JP Organization in my school mail... the 1st sentence made me laugh my teeth off...

You have achieved good results in your school and you have now been short listed for our overseas attachments and careers.

super funny... when did i have good results in school? and what's that JP Organization? dunno... mudpie say it might be some affiliate of JP Morgan Chase Bank and will require me to go Papua New Guinea to sweep the streets and clear nightsoil... anyway... i haven graduate so oso cannot apply... if not i'll sure go... cos After undergoing 6 months of training, you will be sent to various countries for posting... too bad...

Ranting #24

你是正版美女吗？

was browsing the net then came across an article on 正版美女... let me share with everyone how to determine whether a lady is beautiful...

retrieved from Sina, 新浪伊人风采

正版美女的7大指标 文/李洋

正确的站姿是：沿中心线(从头部中心延伸经过颈、肩、臀、膝及脚底)平衡分身体重量于双脚，达到体重与姿态的平衡。此外，还应抬头，下巴与地面保持水平；挺胸，肩部放松；小腹内收。美的站姿能体现一个人积极乐观的健康精神，还能预防疲劳发生和身体变形。

不正确的站姿包括：僵直，胸部过分凸起；弯腰驼背，躯体肌肉紧张度不够；背部下凹或脊柱前凸，腹部鼓起；垂肩，脊柱后凸、背部下凹及垂肩，脊柱侧凸。

胸部美：医学美学认为，女性的曲线美是世界上最美的事物。而人体的曲线最重要的是三围，三围中第一围便是“胸围”。在人们对美越来越苛刻的今天，胸部的美丽与否显得那么重要。

乳房健美的标准包括：本身形态和乳房与形态关系两部分内容。前者有乳房的弹性、充实饱满状态、颜色光泽、局部皮肤平整性、乳头状态等；后者主要指乳房位置、大小与形体关系符合一定美学规律。

常见乳房缺陷：小乳症、乳房肥大、巨乳症、乳房下垂、乳房下垂分度、不对称乳房、男子女性型乳房、锥状牛乳形乳房、乳头内陷等。

腰部美：女性的腰部从正面看明显比胯部窄，形成胸大腰细胯部大。而从侧面看后腰与臀部又形成明显的曲线。女性的腰腹按照审美观点应当是女性三围当中最细的一围，它的粗细直接影响着女性的曲线美、体形美。

腰部美主要体现在：上下呈圆滑的曲线，以及上接肩部和胸部，下延丰满隆起的臀部的优美曲线。该曲线像数学中的单叶双曲线。躯体之所以美，是因为上腰身部有凹点，下腰部又柔和的向臀部扩张，正是这种变化，使人的曲线有了美感。而“水桶腰”则显得呆板。

腰部缺陷：最典型的就是腰部脂肪堆积过多，从而使整个躯体没有了曲线之美。另外，腰部不对称也是严重影响美观的。

腹部美：现时代，美丽与肥胖似乎是两个具有血海深仇的词语，肥胖的人为了得到美丽青睐，不惜一切代价减肥。肥胖最容易胖哪里？腹。大腹便便，中年男人还可以用“富态”遮羞，女人呢？还是一个平坦的腹部才能留住美丽。

被多数男女接受的标准：从正面看，肚脐两边应有两个对称的凹陷，与肚脐凹陷共同将腹部分成两个部分。乳房处的胸围和腰线处的臀围应大致相等，使腰部期限柔和。以侧面看，腹部应与乳房的前突部分和臀部的后突部分对称，形成“S”形。

影响美观的腹部类型：脂肪堆积沉积在下腹部和肚脐周围形成悬垂形腹壁；腹壁较膨胀、皮下组织的厚度不尽相同习惯形成的圆球形腹壁；缺乏皮下脂肪，而在肚脐周围有过多的皮肤和皱纹，使腹部肌肤松弛。

背部形态美：西方的女性后背充分裸露，露出大半个背部甚至整个背部，以此表现后背的魅力。东方女性的后背也越露越多，但即使在着装的情况下，后背美由于其面积较大仍然是女性美的重要部位。

背部美：主要是曲线和肌肉起伏的美，也是侧面和正面不同角度观察时的轮廓美。女性后背美的标准一般是指背部宽窄适中，与臀部的比例适当，肌肉丰满、腰部起伏、弯曲明显，脊柱沟比较明显、肩下骨不太突出。

背部缺陷主要指：驼背，又分为少年性驼背、职业性驼背、老年性驼背和病理性驼背；凹背、平背、圆背、脊柱后凸、脊柱侧弯等。

臀部美：臀部在女性人体美当中由于其性感特点突出而占有重要地位。许多服装设计、舞蹈动作、健美表演、艺术创作等都有意地夸大臀部，以强调女性的曲线和性感魅力。

臀部美的要求主要是：臀围明显比腰围大。从侧面看臀部与腰部腿部的连接处曲线明显弯曲。从背面看臀部成两个完善的圆形，臀部向后突起而无下垂，皮肤光滑坚韧富有弹性感，女性着紧身裤、着裙、穿高跟鞋，对体现臀部美十分有效，而臀部美对健美锻炼的依赖性也很大。

影响形体美的臀部类型：脂肪沉积集中向髂骨嵴部，使腰显得粗大；脂肪沉着集中于大转子附近，故被称为大转子部脂肪异常堆积；臀裂两端有较多脂肪堆积，臀部向后伸展。

美腿：玉腿美无论在着装的情况下还是在裸露的情况下都对异性产生很大的诱惑力，同时对于女性整体美的身材、轮廓、曲线等都很重要。

标准的玉腿美一般包括：整体长度是身高的一半以上，骨骼正直、外形圆润，无松弛肌肉和皮肤，粗细适当，皮肤有弹性，膝盖外形圆润，骨骼纤细。大腿和小腿笔直伸展，小腿较长，是大腿长度的四分之三以上，两腿合拢时其间隙不超过2厘米。足裸纤细 、圆润、无脂肪聚集和皮肤松弛现象，围长较小。这些标准不仅使玉腿美本身有很高的审美价值，而且使女性的整个体型显得修长、苗条、挺拔，并对女性的动态风度气质有很大影响 。

常见的腿部缺陷包括：双膝靠拢时，两脚分开超过1.5厘米的X型腿、O型腿、侏儒症。

i seriously doubt i'm a 美女... haiz... a 美女 has got so many requirements...
sorry for the chinese words... haha... even me took a very long time to read... haven been reading so much chinese words since sec school...

Ranting #23

For mudpie...

putting the whole article here so that when they delete it from their site then it will still be available here...

from www.telegraph.co.uk
ISSUE 1274
Friday 20 November 1998

Julie Andrews 'might never sing again'
By David Sapsted

THE actress Julie Andrews - the voice of Eliza Doolittle, Mary Poppins and Maria von Trapp - may never sing again, Blake Edwards, her husband, has disclosed to an American magazine.

More than a year after she quit her lead role on Broadway in the musical Victor/Victoria to have surgery for the removal of non-cancerous nodules in her throat, 63-year-old Andrews has lost her crystal singing voice.

"If you heard it, you'd weep," Edwards, her husband of 29 years, tells this weekend's issue of Parade magazine. "I don't think she'll sing again - it's an absolute tragedy."

Andrews had hoped that the operation would cure the throat problems she was encountering during her Broadway run. "She was told she'd be OK in six weeks and that the voice would actually be better," says Edwards. "It's over a year now [and] there isn't a day when her voice doesn't get weak."

Gene Schwam, her spokesman, said yesterday that the actress, who lives in Manhattan with her husband, was "very saddened" about the loss of her voice.
"The doctor who did the surgery said they didn't know when it might heal," he added. "There's a 50-50 chance it won't. Julie has always considered herself a singer who acts rather than an actor who sings. Music and singing has always been an important part of her life."

Her condition has meant that she has had to scrap plans to appear in a musical comedy, The Big Rosemary, written by her husband, and her only recent stage appearance came last month when she hosted a Carnegie Hall concert.

"She can talk, she can narrate, she just can't use her vocal cords for hitting notes," Mr Schwam said. He added that she would probably not have had the surgery had she known she would lose her famed voice.

Edwards is now developing a show based on a magic act, that will feature the actress in a non-singing role with her friend, the comedienne Carol Burnett.

Ranting #22

Sound of Music

went for the matinee show for sound of music yesterday... was supposed to blog last night but was studying til i fell asleep... haha...

was the first musical that i went to watch with mudpie... so was actually looking forward to it... anyway... the seats that i got wasn't exactly the ones that could enable me to see the face of the actors and actresses (which was like the 3rd or 4th row from the stage in the case for Oliver!) but was pretty good as they were from the middle stall so still quite alright... but then after the first half of the show... i had this bad headache... mudpie had it too... think it's all becos of someone out there who wore so much perfume (which was so disgusting sweet) that made both of us had this bad headache... haiz...

anyway... the show pretty good... though i prefer the hollywood movie version with julie andrews... the musical version is also shorter... think it left out most of the parts about the training of the von Trapp children in the house... esp the part of singing on the mountains... but generally still quite enjoyable...

some of the more memorable stuff are:
mother abbess (beth kirkpatrick) is such a soprano that whenever she sang so high-pitched that i really think that any glass in the theatre will break...

captain Georg von Trapp has a chinese name that is the translation of george... (yesh... they have chinese OVERhead titles...) and the actor Jim Ballard playing him is a Basso... deep manly voice...

i think Maria played by jennifer semrick is very dramatic... her acting is quite exaggerating in some parts... and she is not very tall and as tall as Lisel... von Trapp eldest daughter...

i like the part when the executive officer of the house (housekeeper) was asked why they never fly the Nazi flag then one the von Trapp daughters described the flag as 'the red flag with the black spider'... haha... but then the spider only have 4 legs...

well... read thru the program only at night... kinda regret buying it cos it costs a good 10 bucks... but anyway... read thru the cast and the timeline of the real von Trapp family... i think they are the most well-loved family in the whole history...

here are some interesting facts that i read... Baron Georg von Trapp was born in 1880 and Maria Augusta Kutschera was born in 1905... a bit of math will tell us that Georg was 25 years older than Maria... hmmm... and they met in the year 1926 when maria was 21... not the same as in the musical/movie when they met pretty near 1938... effectively Georg was 46 when they met... hmmm... no comments... period.
the couple married in 1927 and maria gave birth to their 1st child in 1931 before they fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938... by that account... the muscial did not really reflect the real von Trapp history (which everyone knows...)
In 1939 they migrate to U.S and 1956 marks the year of the final von Trapp family singers concert in U.S... the Sound of Music first open on Broadway in 1959 while the von Trapp family concentrates on lodging business... the Sound of Music movie premieres in 1965....

the von Trapp family has their lodging business in U.S and it's supposedly one of the top locations for skiing at winter time... this is their site...

well... mudpie kept reminding me that miss saigon is still his favorite musical... having watched miss saigon at the darkest moment in my life... i do not share the same thought until a little while ago when i listened to the songs and read thru the story again... i recalled the scenes and do think that they are touching... yesh... that's after 4 years then i feel touched by that musical... maybe if they ever come back to s'pore or if i ever happen to go Broadway... i'll watch it again... but i still love oliver! for their nice songs... looking forward to more musicals being brought to s'pore... hopefully Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera will come back to s'pore soon...