caffetteria

Word Press Blog

2006-05-30T14:09:00.000+08:00

HOOOO!!! got my wordpress blog! hahahaha still figuring out how everything works, but in the meantime, you can check it out:blog.studio-yng.com=D

designer with a soul

2006-05-24T00:33:00.000+08:00

i bot a book over the weekend (esp good wif the kino 20% disc for members) called 'How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul' and its currently like my bible... why? it answers (almost) all the questions in my head about how to get about being a designer in this world... how to do up portfolios.. how to get business.. how to set up your own business.. watever you can think of in

things that annoy me in the morning...

2006-05-17T18:54:00.000+08:00

all train rides should come with lovely pillows...1. rushing down to the bus stop only to realise that i've missed the bus...2. getting to the mrt station only to have TWO consecutive trains not allowing boarding passengers coz it's off-peak hours... tmd.. they shld extend the hours till 10am what.. end at 9am.. tsk...3. having REPEATED announcements of 'PLEASE STAND BEHIND YELLOW LINE' in FOUR

eight hours in ikea

2006-05-14T21:32:00.000+08:00

i spent eight hours in ikea yesterday... yup.. eight hours.. probably breaking the world record for longest-time-spent-in-an-ikea-store-by-a-non-ikea-employee... and if u think it was becoz we took our time walking and lookin at stuff... well... we were juz goin frm the bed dept to the wardrobe dept.. to the bed dept... to the cafe... back to wardrobe dept.. back to bed dept.. back to wardrobe

list of exciting things i did over the last two months...

2006-05-09T00:02:00.000+08:00

lookin at my sequence of photos uploaded onto flickr... for the past month or two i...- went for a pedicure (after one year of home-done pedis..)- went to the Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow (funny but not as funny as last year's tho i'll still go for next year's!)- saw a real life praying mantis in my room (and frantically tried to make it go away)- got two free pillows (thanks to ikea's

verily verbose but fantastic...

2006-03-29T13:43:00.000+08:00

V: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to

bridesmaid for rent...

2006-03-20T10:28:00.000+08:00

my friend got married yesterday... what i mean by married is that they went through the traditional chinese ceremony and stuff and threw a wedding dinner at night... they are actually 'officially' married in the eyes of the law already (since last year i think...)anyway... was part of the 'bridesmaids'/sisters gang... basically a tradition in singapore is to have friends of the bride (usually

my new 19" monitor!

2006-03-12T22:28:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } my new 19" monitor!, originally uploaded by i am yj. juz got a new Samsung 19" monitor today from the IT show for $429... which i think is a pretty good deal considering the 17" ones are goin for 350 on average... the previous

sunburnt... and merde!

2006-02-26T00:18:00.000+08:00

went east coast to cycle... in the mid-day sun... ended up with reddish arms and outlines of my watch on my left wrist and my sweat band on my right... my youngest sis and babe also has red skin.. and i believe outlines too!yupz... we din put sun block... =Pbot a book called 'merde actually' which is a sequel to the first book (which i also got) called 'a year in the merde'... merde is french for

happy lunar new year!

2006-01-29T00:47:00.000+08:00

its the year of the dog this year and here's wishing you a fantastic lunar year ahead... filled with much prosperity and good health too!if you are interested in finding out more about your chinese horoscope (and wat this year will bring...) here's a link you can visit!happy new year! =D

me: geek!

2006-01-12T23:14:00.000+08:00

hahahahahahah... took this test at innergeek and the results show that....ahhahahaha... i'm actually 15.97633% Geeky... hahahahahaha... so funny!!! go take the test and see what you score! some of the questions are like 'huh' to me.. so i'm surprised i'm still considered a geek... lol...innergeek link from lmd

2006!!

2006-01-01T20:00:00.000+08:00

happy new year! its 2006... another year's beginning with its own opportunities, disappointments and excitement... may it be as good as the last or even better! =Danyway... last week was quite fun... after xmas was spring cleaning due to the fact that chinese new year will be in a month's time... den on friday, my company had an end of year party where we ate, exchange super belated xmas pressies

of a trexi christmas...

2005-12-24T14:35:00.000+08:00

check out (the beginning of) my trexi collection! =D i got this yesterday at a 'toy' shop located at wheelock... hee... its one of the series one of the trexi toy... this particular one is called m13 by jeremey madi from usa... it comes wif a skateboard for it to stand on... hee... and this is the other one that i got... its frm series two... slightly different... this is by pinglet from

"make specs sexy"

2005-12-20T00:33:00.000+08:00

check out joie de vivre's blog where she has this make specs sexy meme happening...simply juz post an image (and trackback on that page itself) or tag your own spec wearing photo (instructions on the page itself) and you're part of the meme! =)as a spec wearing blogger... i'm spreading the word here... if you wan to see my full bespectacled glory, visit my flickr...hee...

post-weekend shennagins...

2005-12-19T00:16:00.000+08:00

a wonderful sight in sunny singapore... gelatissimo juz opened over the weekend (albeit a pretty wet one...) and i couldn't resist and had to go down to check it out (you know.. make sure the taste was correct and all.. hahaha)considering i juz partied till two plus on friday (all i will say is that i don't like flaming lamboginis, and sex on the beach - the drink okay - long island tea and vodka

2005-12-12T18:06:00.000+08:00

from my fren who got it frm xenoflare. A lot has been said about how to prevent rape. Women should learn self-defense. Women should lock themselves in their houses after dark. Women shouldn't have long hair and women shouldn't wear short skirts. Women shouldn't leave drinks unattended. Fuck, they shouldn't dare to get drunk at all.Instead of that bullshit, how about:If a woman is drunk, don't

blot blog... super long post ahead...

2005-12-11T20:51:00.000+08:00

she's my company's resident "cutie"... well i think pork chop is a she lah.. but some of my colleagues feel its more of a 'he'... hahaha... i put this pic up coz now there's the voting for the weblog awards and all those nominated seemed to be doing some election campaigning wif cute or pretty photos of humans and animals... i know i'm not in anyway nominated but juz to play along.. ahahahah... ;

WCG was a blast (a bit scary...)

2005-11-22T00:15:00.000+08:00

was at WCG over the weekend to help out at my company's booth... it was fun... but super scary esp the last day coz everyone turned out to see the finals... and everyone wanted to join in my company's CS shootout... so i had a line that was almost frm my company's booth to the door (almost lah...) and crowd control was a bit wonky but we survived... now if u ask me to organize shootouts... i can.

from your friendly neighbourhood police

2005-10-29T08:54:00.000+08:00

from your friendly neighbourhood police, originally uploaded by i am yj. came home late last night and saw this on one of the many noticeboards around the void deck which i read wif interest while waiting for the lift...almost took ten steps backwards when i finished it... in case you can't read the words, here's what it said:"... To protect yourself, your family and your neighbour from any harm

is it better cold?

2005-10-28T14:22:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } is it better cold?, originally uploaded by i am yj. one of those days where u're shopping in your neighbourhood (okay this was near my office) supermarket when you discover something like this!i was seriously taken aback

don't really feeling like writing...

2005-10-12T22:01:00.000+08:00

hvn't written in this blog for a while.... dunno juz the tot of logging on to blogger and typing out wat i think... or perhaps its juz that in my current (new) job, its been like go office log on to comp and work... ahhahahaha...i've been collecting a few interesting images frm my everyday observations but yes once again.. hvnt been too bothered to upload it to flickr.. ahahha me bad.. very bad..

things u never tot u wld see...

2005-09-27T09:48:00.000+08:00

lazy ass me... never blogged for so long... hehehehe... however i must put this particular photo up... it was the mid-autumn festival here two weekends ago and besides the mooncakes (ngee ann city is THE place for that...) kids get to play wif lanterns... battery operated ones or the simple "light a candle and hope ur lantern dun burn" kind...so i was juz shopping around my place when i chanced

keeping clean...

2005-09-18T11:51:00.000+08:00

this has been something i've wanted to blog about for a while... but lazy lah.. ahhahaevery morning i would take the bus to the interchange to wait for my (ex)company transport... and every morning i would see various degrees of this:sometimes its pretty bad.. this was juz one of the better days i guess... styrofoam cups... containers... plastic bags.. everywhere u turn ur eyes.. u could see

frm my mailbox...

2005-09-15T11:26:00.000+08:00

juz saw this today in my emails...Your job search agent titled "Designer Jobs" matched new jobs based on your search criteria. Listed below are the top 1 match(es)... (Just click on the job title to view a job.)1. Sep 7, Microsoft Powerpoint Designer, ... well in my experience wif powerpt... they do need someone specialised to the job.. but to put a person to just do tt... hrmmm... so being

oh my god... i'm a south park character!

2005-09-13T09:03:00.000+08:00

check it out!! =D ahahah very fun man... i never tot i would be a south park character...go and customise your very own okay and post it up on ur blog... at South Park Studio (link via mr brown)thing is.. you can't just save the character so u've gotta do a print screen, stick it in a photo editing software (photoshop) and if you post it up online you just need to link back to his site... all

'waiter, there's a fly on my bread!'

2005-09-09T10:24:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 'waiter, there's a fly on my bread!', originally uploaded by i am yj. been wanting to blog this for a while.. juz hvn't found the motivation to do it... ahhahathis was taken at breadtalk in city link... u know they have the

weird products...

2005-09-02T12:31:00.000+08:00

there are weird packaging.. and there are weird products that seem to have not much of a use (or a funny purpose)...this particular product is a good example...wat in goodness gracious me is that?! specs wif holes?? supposedly helpful to short-sighted blah blah people? well i tried it on (it came in different sizes and designs and i chose the most ugly one.. ahahha) and i have no idea how it'll

hell...

2005-08-30T21:54:00.000+08:00

what's hell? not being able to access MSN MESSENGER, INTERNET and COMPANY EMAIL!!! -_-" which was what happened to me today... my present company's email/net server decided to go on leave.. without warning... so spent the entire day disconnected from reality of the WWW and all my friends on msn... sigh...goes to show how important the internet has become... i couldn't send nor receive nor read my

weekend...

2005-08-29T15:02:00.000+08:00

went to zouk last friday for their 'very xotic' theme party... i must say it's the first time i saw:1. so many men (given the opportunity to oogle)basically it was a naughty party, filled wif wigs, makeup, mani-pedicures, chocolate, bacardi-redbull and women in lingerie dancing in cages, modelling the lingerie as well as doing a few exotic, lap dances... u shld hv seen the area ard the catwalk..

leopards never change their spots...

2005-08-22T13:30:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } leopards never change their spots..., originally uploaded by i am yj. sometimes packagin designs can be funny... take this for example...its actually a brand of breakfast cereals that's targeted for children.. so there's the

seah street deli

2005-08-20T09:26:00.000+08:00

went to seah street deli yesterday night to celebrate an occasion... =) actually it was a tussle btwn menotti and seah street... which obviously the latter won... it's my second time there (yah lah i suah koo can...) and becoz we were there during dinner hours... the diner was a lil' packed...so while sitting and waiting for our table to be readied... my friends saw this really funny thing:yupz..

Erdin-cino?

2005-08-17T09:37:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Erdin-cino?, originally uploaded by i am yj. went to marche yesterday night after watching 'charlie and choc factory' (which is a brilliant show... johnny depp is now my all time fav actor... =D)had a mini rosti and my dear

it's official! sheep have best friends!

2005-08-16T12:31:00.000+08:00

was looking at the articles posted at tomorrow, surfed onto one of them... went on clicking and discovered this delightfully funny research that was done on sheep, cows etc... =Pjuz tot i'll share the news that YES.. sheep have friends... and they get depressed and cranky and horny too... lolactually that website... the register.. is also filled wif many nonsensical information... ahahha

lazy ass of me

2005-08-14T12:58:00.000+08:00

i've been a lazy ass this past week.. din update AT ALL... haha but did took some interesting fotos to share wif u... plus a game tt might make u addicted to it... ;)first up.. the photos... went to orchard on wednesday wif d intention of watching willy wonka (charlie and choc factory lah) but it was sold out... ended up walking ard cineleisure and heeren area juz to while away the opportunity of

the pressures of being a trolley

2005-08-08T10:25:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } the pressures of being a trolley, originally uploaded by i am yj. i'm a trolley... my daily routine includes being pushed up and down asisles at supermarkets... or being herded around into rows... my greatest joy in life is

seafood crispy noodle

2005-08-07T16:51:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } seafood crispy noodle, originally uploaded by i am yj. yesterday after a hard (half) day's work... i went to eat lunch wif my colleague... and this was wat i ate... it's four bucks... BRIMMING wif gravy and seafood

tis d weekend again...

2005-08-06T08:25:00.000+08:00

woke up this morning in a relatively 'nua' mood... ten minutes later than i usually would and tt's all thanks to my mum coz i din hear my phone at all (yes tt's how konked out i was)...switched on the tv as per my normal routine and after watching a bit of discovery n nat geo... turned to star world for a bit of newsy news... which was all of 5 mins (doh) but after tt they showed 'friends'...

wat the...

2005-08-05T10:18:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } a weird thing for a simple function..., originally uploaded by i am yj. walking past jurong east yesterday (had a half day to run some errands) i saw the weirdest thing in the world...these are not masks... they are......

check out this website!

2005-08-04T08:38:00.000+08:00

no photos today at the moment.. instead i'll share an interesting site =)if u're in the advertising industry or intending to be in there.. take a look at this particular website tt my fren has kindly shared wif me... =)coloribus.comits like a repository of all ads according to themes... so u can see how many visual ideas have been repeated over and over again all over the world... i guess nothing

cough cough oh my god...

2005-08-03T09:27:00.000+08:00

had an interesting evening yesterday night... went out for dinner with my friends at tampines mall (yes i stay in the west and my friends are in the east... tt makes for loads of travelling and interesting things to see mah...)anyway... after dinner we went back to TM for a short bout of 'shopping'... being 9.30pm... all the stores were eager to close and shut their doors for the night (i know

what does the bus driver think?

2005-08-02T14:32:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } what does the bus driver think?, originally uploaded by i am yj. this morning as i went on my way to work (rather to the bus stop for my company transport) i happened to sit right at the front behind the bus driver... and it

weekend's over...

2005-08-01T15:14:00.000+08:00

had a busy weekend... and now its over!! >_< let's see what i discovered...Saturday:relatively busy day coz i had work in the morning... took a cab to the bus stop to wait for the company transport (i am lazy and the bus stop isn't very near my house...) in the cab.. i saw this advertisement which got me thinking;i was just staring at the ad thinking to myself over and over and over again (okay

bake-a-cake-day

2005-07-30T09:03:00.000+08:00

to make up for the missed photo opportunities yesterday... i baked a cake... hahaha no... i was juz seized wif an urge to bake this really simple cake recipe tt i hv baked before (last week to be precise... wif my fren, i assisted him)so i went down to grab ingredients namely castor sugar, eggs, butter, plain and self-raising flour and the loaf tin plus a (lousy) zester... and thus the baking

a day without my phone...

2005-07-29T15:42:00.000+08:00

left my phone at home this morning in a 'dazed-out' rush... feeling weird tt i'm not weird abt it.. u know how dependent we all are on technology... and my phone is definitely one of them... which means no pictures today... sigh...actually tt phone is not even mine (no i din steal it).. i borrowed it until such time tt i would need to return... and during these few months of using it... it has

how ads at MRT stations are made...

2005-07-28T09:03:00.000+08:00

saw this yesterday night after macdonalds supper at raffles pl... taken ard 11pmbrought to mind the beautiful silkair station ads (ambient/outdoor) at cityhall and the trains, which was all over the place... which must hv taken a while... alignment etc etc... i took some photos at the station... juz gotta find where they are...anyhow... this was the ad that they're sticking up... i'm thinking

its a slow n sleepy day...

2005-07-27T15:56:00.000+08:00

mmm title says it all.. methinks me shld try to post a photo once a day... =P

NLB: big and new!

2005-07-26T09:24:00.000+08:00

i went to the library on sunday... the newly opened national library located next to bras brasah building.. dun ask me wat road it is located at.. i dunno...there were adults and kids all over the place... we were all tourists in a new environment... ahahah everyone took the lifts up and down to the various floors to check out the new building.. and equally there were many who checked out the '

walnut paste tau huay

2005-07-22T22:05:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } walnut paste tau huay, originally uploaded by i am yj. okay i gotta explain this... i know it looks bleh.. but i tell u the walnut paste is goooooodddd.... juz tt the soft beancurd (tau huay) was a tad weird when mixed wif

straw included...

2005-07-22T22:03:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } most convienent soy bean drink ever!, originally uploaded by i am yj. saw this in a local supermarket... its pretty funny... coz the straw comes included wif the drink... so its okay if u r craving for soy bean drink in d

things to do wif ur satay sticks

2005-07-22T21:51:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } things to do wif ur satay sticks, originally uploaded by i am yj. this is wat happens when u are eating satay and drinking coconut juice/water and u dun wanna dirty the table wif ur satay sticks... stick them into the shell

wahhh i wanna go aussie again!! >_<

2005-07-22T21:34:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } plane05, originally uploaded by i am yj. this was taken in my second yr of studies in aussieland (a couple yrs back.. sigh) didn't realise how it would turn out.. but was really pleasantly surprised with the colours of the

we are not afraid

2005-07-22T08:38:00.000+08:00

can't believe it... a few weeks ago, london was the target of a terror attack and they were once again under attack... =/ wat sort of 'world' are we living in?my friend sent me this link yesterday to we are not afraid - a blog (?) to "show the world we're not afraid of what happened in London and that the world is a better place without fear"right now i think that's what we all need... a dose of

oz koalas

2005-07-20T23:26:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } oz koalas, originally uploaded by i am yj. took this during a day trip around the gold coast hinterland... in an aboriginal art shop... felt it sorta (simplistically) wrap up aussie in a photo...

lavender tea at bakerzin

2005-07-19T09:24:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } lavender tea at bakerzin, originally uploaded by i am yj. purple tea!! ahahha first time i saw something that's so interesting... made me feel a bit weird drinking it... lol

travel on a train

2005-07-19T09:21:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } travel on a train, originally uploaded by i am yj. exotic trip! hehe m in a train tt has vines on d handles n stone floors... silkair's ambient ads in action... makes travellin so much more interestin... advertisers should

beautiful wallpaper

2005-07-19T09:15:00.000+08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } beautiful wallpaper, originally uploaded by i am yj. was at barang barang marina sq sometime last week and they had an 'ikea' concept goin on... sections of the store was decorated to give shoppers an idea of what to do wif

neil french's site....

2005-04-03T10:22:00.000+08:00

absolutely love his writing... and its all for ads... http://www.neilfrench.com

grand opening of the caffetteria

2005-02-17T01:59:00.000+08:00

first post in a brand new blog... love the name.. it means coffee shop in italian... =)