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Joshua Hoong
06.09.92
Audiophile
Self-Proclaimed-Certified-iPod-Evangelist

Saturday, March 28, 2009 I fail at Mandarin, really. Gosh I served two china customers today who started speaking to me in their native language and I conversed back in Mandarin with English peppered in (or should I say, in English, with Mandarin peppered in) and gave up on the first asking the couple if I could explain in English to which they relented, and on the second customer, I felt more confident and prolonged my "rojak" explanation until one of them told me to speak in English if I felt right at home course she was getting confused if I kept at it.

(haha I hope Dad doesn't read this confession because he will totally disown me)

Dad was talking to me about the importance of Mandarin, in the car-ride home even though I had my iPod plugged in which was understood internationally as i'm-not-in-the-mood-to-talk-now and I even had a frown on but he simply droned on oblivious. He mentioned about how the chinese people were spawning and totally taking over the world (well at least he made it look like that way) and he was very proud and carried on jibing me in the side with "you should be as diligent as them in learning mandarin as they are in learning english" and "I read of this Londoner who loves chinese so much that he would pick paper up from the ground so long as there's chinese text on it and he would try to comprehend it" and I was like I don't care. I. Really. Don't. Care. ... Period.


Sunday, March 22, 2009

Jessica Claire's Blog Link.
She is simply amazing. Her pictures are so inspiring I wanna do wedding photography sometime. Her pictures radiate a warmth and love like no other. It's like I can weave a blanket out of her photos and curl up into them and keep myself warm and comfortable through the winter. It makes me want to be there to witness the whole process myself.


Friday, March 20, 2009

I'm writing this amidst battering eyelids and a furnace of a neck from the small dosage of bubbly I had awhile ago to relieve myself from the tight knot in my chest from the movie I saw this evening. I should have seen this coming from the very start that I would not enjoy the show but what I overlooked was the regret that overwhelmed me after.

Regret from the wasted money? or the lack of a better ending inspite of the shockingly good twist in the plot? or the possibility of rocking to the local indie-music scene with Shengyi? Oh help me decide.

A good number of the movie group were ready to hand over our tickets and jump onboard another movie because the anxiety build-up was a real turn-off. Yeah so we kind of didn't exchange our pre-ordered tickets out of inconvenience.

I don't do horror movies very well so this round was a confirmation rather than a revelation, really. Spoon's Japanese Cigarette Case, Jack Johnson and a trance piece Shengyi sent me held my hand through the movie when I bailed out midway and plugged on my iPod haha. I sought refuge under the cover of my fingers, letting them part intermittently and involuntarily to allow myself a bite of the movie so the money wouldn't look like a complete down-the-drain-errrrrrrr.

Oh btw, the movie's called "Coming Soon".


Wednesday, March 18, 2009 It's Raining in Athens, It's Hot as Hell here



It's bad enough that you're shaken from your afternoon slumber and your hair is a mess and even water can't subdue it and you have to rush to your gramp's place to get dinner for the family and you meet your childhood crush at the traffic light (with your hair still a mess) and you glance at her, beautiful as ever and you look away the moment she looks at you and you harden your chest and bulge your pathetic biceps and hold on to the last breath of dignity left and hope she only remembers you as a sweet past memory of the boy she used to sit with in class.


Tuesday, March 17, 2009


Wednesday, March 4, 2009

This youku video site is loading my Batman Begins movie at an irritably slow pace. Argh. Every time Christian Bale speaks, it'll stop and I'll have to let it load. I guess that's what you get when you're not paying for it.

The times have been lovely so far. Work's been good after I asked boss for the option of an alternate-day-work system on the account that I was having multiple sleepless nights and I didn't get to see my family throughout the week because I'd get home so late they'd already be asleep. It worked. Cuz I didn't lie.

Company's been good too because I'd go out with my lovelies on the days that I don't work and I'll get to see my family in the evening so yeah. But that means I'll be paid half of what I was supposed to earn and it'll take twice as long to get my 15" Mac Pro.

I want a cat. I just adore Sarah's tabby, Oscar. I WANT A CAT, NOW.