That's Just Being KatsignerThat's Just Being KatsignerAn aspiring independent self-respected individual, with a mind of a feminist, trying to seize every new day to lead an ideal lifestyle of her own... Articles
Reconciliation....
2008-06-08 16:08:00 "Life has so many options, to merely choose one requires a whole life itself... Don't go where the path may lead... Go instead where there is no path and have a trail..."Something I've read somewhere which I can't remember where and noted it down... The journey of being lost and finding oneself back brought me back to where I'm supposed to be... Via entering a relationship made me understand more on my shortcomings... It's a refusal to admit or trying to shield myself from harm, I'm yet to conclude... More About: Reflection , Reconciliation
Days That I Started to Turn Mature
2008-06-06 14:56:00 As I was doing my probational evaluation with my boss today to finalise everything and get me as a confirmed staff in the Lab, I realised how much patience I had towards my alleged problematic superior... I don't see myself feeling vexed and angry on what she has commented about my performance... I just listened and take whatever she has got to say about me, no matter how untrue her words are...Irony or funny as circumstances are, I started to see the humble and tolerant self in me... From once having a prospectus and bright scientific career when I was in Hopkins, till being "banished" to A-star to work as a high class laboratory administrator where my title was supposed to be in the lab doing experiments... and right now in a new Lab with my new boss expecting me to be an in-house technician developing kits based on my past experiences to reduce the cost to purchase commercial kits and doing some other ad hoc experiments which I had no idea whose project I was running for... When... More About: Life , Days , Reflection , Turn , Mature
It's Been A Long Long Time...
2008-06-04 16:19:00 It's really been a long long time I ever since declared of my very last resolution early this year... Wonder... Perhaps so, there're some people out there being my faithful readers, or whoever drops by here by accident, by purpose, by luck (whatever) actually reads my latest long wait entry...Life been never be the same again... As agreed, and as much as I remembered, I know I'm supposed to flash a series of my transition phase of my hair... Oh yes, I gotten my hair cut short since what the readers had read since then... Definitely, not the one that's shown on your left... That was in the 2001... Hot haircut though... Well, this is what I'm gonna to show... Just one... Here...For the love of God, this was just right after I snipped my mane to this short... It's pretty ugly in a way as my hair hasn't "settle down" right after the major ordeal...My hair just got better after a few weeks of adjusting.... That's right, this photo was taken with someone... Just as my hair was onl... More About: Lifestyle , Time , Long
New Year Resoultion
2008-01-03 12:10:00 Wow wow wow... A year has passed... Pardon me for being late for this Merry New Year ... It's just 356 days round a year, and every day runs for approximately 24hours till one day it just hit the beginning of a brand new year... Year 2008... It's just a day, like every other normal day...Well... it's still better to think about how I should get a head start for this new year... In actual fact, I shouldn't hold on till every new year and come up with this resolution thingy... We should be improving everyday... Nonetheless, I would like to pen my thoughts down... Under my denial, some events happened and for the past months... someone has somehow or somewhat entered my life and I need to make some adjustments in my life, both minor and major ones... My brain cells are actively working their asses off since then till now... It's not a real bad thing though... It's something pretty positive...As I expected my life would be stagnant for the next 4 years back in late quarter of 2005,... More About: Life , Reflection
Bite My Tongue
2007-12-13 13:43:00 Something to note myself... "One of the main reasons we gossip or complain is to make ourselves look better by comparision... When I point out your faults, then I'm implying that I have no such faults so I'm better than you are. Complaining is bragging. And nobody likes a braggart. Here's another bit of sobering news: You wouldn't notice the faults in the other person if there were not also in you."Will Bowen, in Complaint Free World: How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted (Doubleday)Despite the ugly facts that I'm pretty upset with the people I interact in my everyday life, Life is still not that bad afterall... It's very irresistable to bitch about people whom poked onto your ass... Nonetheless, we still bitch the hell lot out of it... We might be excusing ourselves that it's a kind of emotional release, especially when we're seriously very upset over something or at someone... Nothing wrong with that, but I seriously would like to keep that ... More About: Reflection , Tongue , Bite
Customers, customers, customers
2007-11-26 16:30:00 These few days seems rather tough... and I don't feel so much to provide my service to the customers who patronised my store... Different facades of people, and somehow I seriously wonder do these people bother to give a damn to think that even Sales Assistants on the sales floor are humans as well... It's so unkind of seeing a human treating another human not in a humane way...Truly enough, if I were to seriously bitch about it... Yes, those people are sucky and shallow, even they've huge bunches of monies inside their pocket who can afford to buy my thousand over dollars worth of handbags... Recalled what Ivan used to tell me, "They simply don't have the charisma to carry our handbags 'cos they are low class... So what they have the money!!!" Oh well, I completely agree with him...I'm a customer as well, when I'm off duty to shop around... However, at times I just simply can't put my shoes in some of my customer's position... They can be so unreasonable that they can keep... More About: Customers
Mr Candid Shot
2007-11-24 17:17:00 I've gotten a candid shot from Lionel... I was talking with Varence over the phone at Invitrogen ... It looks like I'm at my own home... Lying real comfortably on the sofa... Indeed the sofa is really that comfortable...When Lionel told me he took a picture of my butt, I wondered what exactly the hell is he trying to do... So this is what he took... Oh well, it seems like my legs are really long even I'm on ultra low hipster jeans... Nonetheless, I do feel very comfortable lying at the sofa... =)Alright, the toad was not on Labour, the shot is misleading I should say... Ernest, I know he's laughing his way off... Lionel has the same thought... Hmm, you guys are really possessing the same thought...Lionel, pardon me for that scratch over your upper lip area which makes shaving sucks... Ernest, thanks for saying I'm that catty... Didn't I notice that, anyway... More About: Shot
Toady Demo
2007-11-20 16:05:00 Oh yes... the next unit has started and today was the first practical demo - controlling the heart beat by using a toad...This is something very interesting... I'm so excited about it that I'm the one who sat right next to the entire demo set, staring and watching so closely when the lecturer started to dissect the toad... The most interesting part was to watch how the toad was being pithed which destroyed the toad's central nervous system so that we can observe the toad's heart alive... Basically, the toad was brain dead...That's where the all the toads were lying... Its heart was being lifted, and the heart was still beating...Well, well, well... This was the exposed chest of one of the toads... Isn't it cool and amazing??? More About: Demo
Handsome Warning!
2007-11-18 16:56:00 As I was walking in the middle of Orchard Road... Ernest and I noticed there's a bunch of cool, handsome looking guys wearing red T-shirts with Warning ! together with some words printed below on their chest... They were distributing some red packages to ladies on streets...So this is exactly what's printed onto their bright red T-shirts... and this is what they were distributing on streets...As I guess what was inside by reading what was printed on the package, it was so obvious...It's sanitary pads.. Innovative and interesting idea of getting handsome guys to get sanitary pads away... Kotex really has it's way in advertising and marketing the product... More About: Some
It's Party Time!!!
2007-11-17 16:10:00 Exam is OVER!!!! Yeah!!! Finally, the tough 2hour time is over... Instead of getting back home to catch up the lost night sleep, it's Party ing time... I was being invited by Stanc for his sweet 21st Birthday over at Zouk last night, together with a few of us... He's actually more than 21 in fact; humans somehow got to convince themselves age doesn't depicts aging...The Glasses and Jugs and a bottle of Chivas... Indeed, we drank quite a lot...That's Cadbury Chocolate, a gift that has a package that somehow looks like it's has been wrapped... Given by Vanessa to Stanc... Well, in hope that the chocolates will not melt while placed near the candle, I placed them inside the ice bucket... Never did I expected (or somehow expected it), the plastic wrapping is not really waterproof, it gotten soak... Oh No... Naughty me...Chivas Live!!!... A solo glass drank by a solemn guy who seems not very happy... Well, I think so... Anyway, he left after that...Well, music was not that bad... Spu... More About: Time
Resisting Entertaining Temptations
2007-11-16 16:50:00 Have been studying for the past days, trying real hard to get everything within my means to reach my understanding, for the exam this evening...Seriously, studying at Home is very distracting... my bed is just behind me, my Mac is in front of me, my DVDs are just beside my Mac!!! With itunes and those entertaining applications, it's real darn distracting... Plus, my mum's bathroom was under renovation... Too noisy and irritating... And to escape from that, I got myself up to set off to Biopolis... to a much conducive scientific environment to study... And yes, I was at Invitrogen , as permitted by Angela to use her territory to study... With free-flow of coffee and cookies, and no restrictions, it's indeed a very conducive environment to study...Cappuccino... freshly brewed from the coffee machine...WNT Signalling Pathway... Thank God it's not within the context of study for the exam...Yes, I've gotten someone to get me some potato chips... Having some cravings after studying f... More About: Study , Exam , Entertaining , Temptations
2 Cents Worth
2007-11-12 16:35:00 Pre-exam stress is still ongoing... I don't really have the mood to work, not even want to serve and talk to any customers...Monday morning was real quiet, and when my colleague Aggie came in to the store, she got this 2 little figurines out from the drawer... Hoping there'd be good sales today...From the shower of "their blessings", I went back home without having any sales under my name... Seriously, I don't understand how much our advice to customer actually worth... worth less that 2 cents??? Somehow or rather, I feel so much like not giving any advice to them, it's just not worth it... More About: Cents , Worth , Wort
My Juicy Type
2007-11-09 16:33:00 As time goes by, Exam is drawing near... For last night I only covered one lecture out of all the lectures I've been missing... I'm seriously in deep shit if I'm not gonna get my butts moving...Best of all, I was on duty today till next Monday before I've got real time off for study... Well, well, well... At the glimpse of the corner of my eye, while I had to get myself ready for work for the day... I passed by the TV, which my mum left it on while chatting with her friend, Jenny in the Kitchen... Oh My God!!! This is the type of guy that I fancy!!! Seriously making me feel so much like drooling over it... Healthy sunshine appearances!!! Always my kind, my type of juicy treat... Haha... Oh No... He's just a guest appearance on a Taiwanese Variety Food Show... and he's a Chef!!! I'm trying to catch a good shot of him over the TV, but gotten his charming laughter instead...His name is Duncan by the way... Introducing healthy diet recipe over the show... He's doing Japanese c... More About: Life , Lifestyle , Type
A Day for A Lecture
2007-11-08 16:59:00 Exam is coming... and for this public holiday, I chose to study as I'm yet to touch a single thing... Moreover, I didn't actually attend most of the lectures and next Friday is the BIG day...I was at Orchard this afternoon and I slept like a pig last night... I was real dead tire last night... It's has been a long long day for me... My original plan is to wake up early and head off to my office in Scotts, get myself into the mood to study before my lunch appointment with my friend... However, I was real way behind the plan and this do shows it's best not to plan anything in advance... Oh yeah... I was giving myself an excuse I think... Being in Orchard is very distracting where everyone is shopping around everywhere during this off day... I was distracted... Here it is... the pictures I've taken...Pondering where this place is... It should be easy... I did at least cover up one lecture for the day despite I'm distracted...It's about 930pm at the point of the time I was actual... More About: Life , Exam
Interestingly Weird Combo
2007-10-30 16:11:00 I'm starting to fall sick - congested and sensitive running nose are getting onto my nerves... Nonetheless, as I didn't get to smell, it could be the best time to try something different... The Best food I ever had today; for the end of the day... Plain white bread with duck tongue and a cup of ginger tea... Oh yeah... weird combo... doesn't seems usual but interesting... I need to take some food before I pop any medicine into my mouth... Those duck tongues have been lying around in the kitchen and no one is touching them... So, I ate them... and that's the food I can see within my naked eye on the table...Isoyaki Duck Tongue... I had 3 of them... There's only 3, so I ate them all... Brought back by my sister...White bread... just plain white bread...My ginger tea... in my Hopkins cup...I yearned for HL strawberry milk, but it just too bad that I didn't buy any back home... Well, my sister was trying to be disturbing... Running to me in the kitchen and ask me who should she ca... More About: Weird , Combo , Comb , Eres
I'm A Beautiful Girl...
2007-10-27 17:59:00 Didn't I know (or remember or recall) I've been keeping my baby self pictures in soft copy... Interesting as it is, this is how I look like... like Tweety Duck - hybrid of Tweety Bird and Donald Duck... Puffy cheeks with huge iris that made my eyes almost without sclera... and a forehead of a Donald Duck... Lionel commented I look far more like a boy than a girl... It's my shortest hair of my entire life!!! But that doesn't mean this will make me a boy...Seems like I'm playing with my iris by pushing them to the centre, trying to view the side of my nose bridge... I can still do that now, as a grown up... Babies hardly look that cool without smiling... and I had those days... More About: Beautiful , Girl , Beautiful Girl
Wearing the Pink Ribbon
2007-10-25 18:15:00 I've finally worn the ribbon... On my left chest... More About: Pink , Ribbon
Sinful Days...
2007-10-25 17:45:00 This is not truly very healthy... Such an unhealthy bitch life I'm living in... I'm having something high in cholesterol after a trial Hot Yoga session this Monday's afternoon... While I'm perspiring all the sweat out in the warm room studio, I "repowered" the fuels by having this deadly sinful food... Hormonal chaos within my human body, I'm having an estrogen hike few days back, and as of Monday as my first day of my uterine lining breakage, I felt dropped dead during Yoga... With all the sweat I'm simply not doing fine... Bad plan, bad planing...This is the deadly food I'm having... to satisfy my craving... The Prawn Mee... I've seen the entire cooking process, it's not healthy... Pork lard and such...Close up view... Gravy of the Mee... Seen that black little thing floating around??? That's from the Wok... Don't really seems good... But at the point of time... Craving.... drives me crazy... I finished them all...Tea with milk from the Indian stall... Relatively high i... More About: Days
The Pink Ribbon
2007-10-16 17:55:00 Something I've been wanting to get... Finally, I got it after seeing and eying it for the past weeks... I got myself a Bustier from Wacoal... Camisole-like... In support of the Breast Cancer Foundation, I donated 2bucks and got this pink ribbon pin... In return with a $5 cash voucher which I can use as a rebate for the bustier I bought... in actual fact, it's $3... It's Breast Cancer Awareness month... the pink ribbon is in... More About: Pink , Ribbon
Thursday Soba
2007-10-11 17:35:00 It's a dinner treat by Lionel... back to the Soba Restaurant at Paragon... As always, I'm there solely for their seiru... Just that the limited seasonal soba is not available, which made my choice of soba kind of harder... Nonetheless, it's still a worthwhile dinner... Something different for tonight... There's Deserts!!!I really love the layout; the cups, the instructions, bamboos, and everything else...The food of amazement...Interesting tool...Green tea cheese cake... It does taste great though...The deserts!!! Oh Yes, this made the dinner complete... More About: Dinner , Thursday
Life is Good
2007-10-10 17:45:00 Life is Good for me... and I seriously know how to pamper myself... to a certain extend; mentally... Physically, I'm still working hard on this... but it's not gonna be much too far ahead... For my very last Lunch with my fellow colleagues on my last day in Biopolis... I nearly forgotten I've actually taken some pictures... and here it is... at Holland Village Cha Cha Cha, Mexican food... Yum yum... Tasty tasty...Margarita with a rim of salt... Unique taste though...And this is what I had!!!With a day off, Life seems rather amazing and also interesting... I'm glad I'm feeling grateful for each new day... Carpe Diem!!! As planned within my head, a week ago, I went for a haircut this afternoon... and it's my best hair day of my entire Life!!! Walking out the salon with stress-less mane... Hmm... I like the feel of endorphins...That's my newly cut mane... Oh yes, that's without any make-up on... The focus is the Mane actually... Hmm...And here's another take... My mane... Hmm... More About: Life , Lifestyle
New Life Reconstruction
2007-10-08 18:54:00 YES Yes yes... It's like been weeks I've been missing in action... Things changed within these days and I should say I'm suppose to be rather free... Anticipating myself to have more time to Blog and spend time with myself, it seems that being a freeman doesn't mean I'll have more time... I'm getting busier but with more Life ... Hmm... I do sound I had once a bad real Life... Anyway, that's History...I've left my French Lab, bade goodbye to redundancy and a great toast to my "New Life Reconstruction "... It has been a week over since I left, but I felt as if years has passed... Not it's just 'cos I'm getting busier with the free time I've got, but rather, my days are getting richer that I feel I'm advancing... Out of the days, I only got a day of not feeling good, the rest are happy days... Yeah!!!! This seriously proved leaving my Lab job is a darn real right choice... I'm happier now without a job!!! That's the best thing I can ever get in my Life...Seriously missin... More About: Lifestyle
Loving the Fool in Me
2007-09-23 18:40:00 While travelling back home on bus last night, I recalled a specific clear silly (or rather stupid as I considered) incident, along the way with my earplugs bursting with Michael Buble's jazzy sexy voice through my ipod... Of all the foolish things I've done - confessing my Love voluntarily in an impetus manner to a man of my Life ...Upon "reviewing" it from the back of my head, I simply can't stop thinking why would something foolish but yet dramatic happened... Haha... As I reflected, I seriously had no idea where did I even gotten such a courage to do so... Kinda of funny and indeed I'm laughing about it on my bus seat... Commuters must be thinking I must be crazy...When I was in Secondary 2, I used to have a very very closed classmate or perhaps soulmate I should say... We were so closed to the extend, I was by his side when his then girlfriend ditched him for another handsome boy scout she got to know in a campfire... Poor him, being ditched for such a reason... Since then, w... More About: Fool , Loving , Reflection
Diamonds Diamonds
2007-09-21 17:20:00 For the past 2 nights, I was trapped in the world of blood diamonds... Not physically present in Africa, but watching the movie "Blood Diamond", cast by Leonardo DiCaprio and Dijimon Hounsou...Well, my plan and intention was to watch the movie for an hour and then rest early for the day, but ended up I watched the entire show and slept in 3am on Thursday morning... Barely less than 4 hours sleep, I was off to work... My eyes were basically "attracted" to the show, hence I completed the entire 2hour plus movie... The following night was the night I followed up with extra features and documentary on conflict diamonds...Apparently, as I truly believe... for the shit out of my Life, not even more than 1 people in Singapore who bought their diamond rings know about blood diamonds and the Kimberley Process... As ignorant as it is, perhaps I may be completely wrong... for Singapore is pretty well-known for a lot of areas in safety aspects and stringent controls... However, the most scary p... More About: Diamonds
The Sayings
2007-09-20 17:45:00 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric...Bertrand Russell 1872 - 1970What the "old" people are saying... proven true since past till now, perhaps it becomes a fact in near future to come; with a rich history to follow... Does it really matter what the people say??? I'd rather choose not to be bothered by others, 'cos no matter what you think and what you do, there'd be at least 1 person who will disagree... Discouraging as it is... before the real thing get started, you never know how the future will change this person's point of view... It could be "Yes"... It could be "No... Even it may be a "No", there could be a starting increase in positive acceptance... So, why not take the risk??? Be daring for once and for all... You only get to live once... More About: Life , Reflection
Beautiful Facts of Poo and Gas
2007-09-19 17:30:00 I was reading on Oprah.com via my subscribed newsletter in my inbox this afternoon, and one article led me to another - all about health; food myths, legends and embarrassing issues like those farts and shits...Hmm... and in my very personal insight thoughts and opinions... I do LOVE reading these interesting Beautiful facts... Beauty in Disgust in a factual way... It's what all humans are doing it everyday... Eat, shit, fart and poo... no matter how freaking busy you are... Even in days you're suffering in constipation, you still release potent perfumes out from your digestive tract... "An average person - for both men and women - passes gas 14 times a day"... Hmm, beautiful farty-arty fact indeed... so basically the whole world is farting everyday, perhaps good enough to generate an atomic bomb collectively (a myth adopted by the mythbusters on discovery)...I had a rather silly unproven theory while I'm working as a part-time dental nurse during my Poly days... One of the reaso... More About: Life , Lifestyle , Facts , Oprah Winfrey
The Break
2007-09-18 07:30:00 Hmm... well, the way of Life ... Errm... I mean my Life actually... Reminiscing, recalling, remembering those stupid silly decisions and things I've done in the past... Hmm... worth pondering, and also worth laughing... Sound rather irony and perhaps it provides no sense to the reader who reads this...Well, I'm kinda of in a mood that's weird to describe today... Hmm... not seriously unhappy but I do feel unpleased, with a little bit of depressing to know my existing insignificant presence in my current Lab, yet I'm gonna say goodbye to redundancy soon... Feeling happy in real advance, and when I saw my dad this morning, knowing my sister is off from her work, I feel so much like staying at Home... Nostalgia... I'm starting to miss Home.. *sob sob*... Homesick... Given a chance if no one knows what the Hell I'm doing, I'd like to fly myself back home and watch DVDs on my Mac... Oops!!! Seems this is the actual reason why I'm feeling Homesick... Seems DUH ah...I always tell my... More About: Lifestyle , Break , Brea
My Sensical Way to Dental Care and Hygiene
2007-09-14 16:30:00 Till date, I bet there're still a number of people, including my family and close friends didn't know I'll never brush my teeth before Breakfast ... Well, it's just simply DON'T make much sense to me... This is not so Me for the first thing in the morning, especially when I'm at Home...It's not really about laziness, neither it's a hassle, it's all about oral hygiene... I brush my teeth twice a day (in the day after breakfast and in the night before sleep after all food), sometimes 3 times and that's the maximum... Usually for every night I floss, brush and finished it with an alcohol-free fluoride mouth rinse... Except for those constant flowing of saliva within my oral cavity, my oral is basically quite well-protected and cleaned during the entire night while sleeping... Kinda of wasting of toothpaste and effort to double-brush your teeth early in the next morning...Origin and formation of the word "Breakfast" comes from 1463, from break (v.) + fast (n.). Cf. Fr. déjeuner... More About: Health , Dental , Hygiene , Care
Those Graphical Days... I Miss Them Much...
2007-09-07 17:30:00 Oh well... I'm reminiscing... My past... of those Graph ical days when I was a Graphic Design student... I'm a drop out anyway... Past past past... It's the past... I'm kinda missing them much... bursting my head out for extreme creativity, it's really fun especially when some real stupid funny ideas strike my mind... I just can't help it but to burst into laughter... then the next thing is to draw them all out and laugh at it... This is what I meant by... Flip flip flip... those pages of my sketch books during my 6 months course of study... Can't help it but to recall how extreme those thoughts of mine are... One of them is the "Mona Lisa" I've created... Well, it's a project as a class - to train on our creativity... We were given a story of the Little Red Riding Hood... With all the free and will of minds, we distorted the story and presented them in drawings in canvas, all by using our own original creation... and this was a sketch of the story we created... Little Fat R... More About: Miss , Days
Tough Real Sketch
More articles from this author:2007-09-05 17:59:00 I was pretty curious what my sister is doing in front of her computer for so long... Hah... so she's trying hard to draw her flute... She's like taking for more that half an hour... and this was what she produced...I probed... and teach her a little by showing her the basic techniques in still-life drawing... She was all over jealous by how fast I can sketch it out...Oh ya... these are for fun... She asked me for a toilet bowl... and I showed her a sketch of a cartoon character I created which I did for my Graphic Design Identity project years back... Shroom in Black... hybrid of a fungi and the movie "Men in Black"... More About: Drawing , Real , Tough , Sketch , Etch 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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