Ever Seen a Mermaid?

If you recognized this at first glance you'll instantly know where I'm heading. These structures my lovelies help transport incredibly heavy trading goods that comes in massive steel containers that probably weighs a tonne? Also one of the main factors that contributes to Singapore's flourishing wealth is our sea port. When I was typing this out it reminded me of my geography and social study lessons, where we had to write about the diversity of the growing and ever evolving economy. It was a nightmare but it was fun to write, cause it was all basically bullshitting.

the eminent cable cars. i'm not sure if anyone still took them but they've been up there in mount faber since 1974 till 2005 they evolved into the the not that shiny jewel box they called it.

now if you're singaporean, you definitely know where this is. if you don't let me enlighten you, this particular weird alien like structure is known as vivo city and it has been designed by the amazing toyo ito. but too be honest i don't think it's that fantastic. it might be because they were on a tight budget or toyo ito didnt have time to fully maximize his design due to time constraints, whatever it isn't impressive.

that's one of the star cruises that people spend a lot of money for to be in a ship for a couple of days. why? beats me, i guess the voyage is awesome? might want to try it some day

no sentosa was not as crystal clear as this, how unfortunate right? i think i practically squealed when i entered underwater world. the last time since i've been to this fish haven? probably back in primary school when it was free and the government paid for trips like this using edusave. boy was it fun

the pool by the entrance was particularly shallow to allow you to touch the fishes (that's if you can catch them)

lucky for us we managed to make it just in time for the amazing dolphin shows. this dolphin lagoon is home to several intelligent indo pacific humpback dolphins. i forgot why they were pink=(

amazingly cute little fur seal paid with fish to entertain us all.

enlightening us about the difference between seals and sealions

even though they both look the same, they were built very much differently

firstly seals equipped with special tails enables them to walk flop about on land, while sealions can't because their tails aren't designed that way.

humor me please.

and but of course the magnificent humpbacked dolphins.

in order to measure the scale of the humongous crab, i asked matt to stand beside so you could understand the scale of it all

sea horses are always dainty to me. it's they way they float around like little ballerinas.

The Little Monster.

I'm gonna update you about a recent event that happened last week that'll explain this ridiculously hilarious video of us performing Lady Gaga's Bad Romance. So I implore you to watch it if you haven't, normally I couldn't bare to watch videos of myself fearing that I'll die of immense embarrassment. But I had to and I laughed so hard, I'm not the type that's got a face for videos, in fact my face freezes up and becomes ultimately spastic because I have to organize my thoughts and process how I should look on camera and it makes me look fucking weird every time.

This video was done 2 years ago in Seoul, now you must be wondering what was going through our minds when we wanted to recreate a this rather unique Lady Gaga experience. Essentially it was our last night in Seoul and we wanted to leave with a BANG. Of course the little monsters had to dedicate something to Mother Monster right? And fortunately for us it's one of the precious memories that we kept and share it with the rest of the world? So why not reenact Bad Romance? I mean we've sung it in class for about the 100th time and maybe a lot more? So we did

Logic behind the bra? There wasn't any, I just thought it would be hilarious to do so since a lot of Lady Gaga's costumes are down to her incredibly pimped out lingerie from studded bras to the all inspiring pantsless movement that hit the media and inspired so many fashionistas, celebrities and drag queens alike, so why not?

So why go down memory lane? BECAUSE my dear friend Hazima entered this competition to win Lady Gaga concert tickets and one of the medium was to take a video , so she used the one we videotaped in Korea. Good memories. AND GUESS WHAT? We got invited to the 98.7fm studio and we won the tickets. In fact we got to go live on radio singing the chorus of Bad Romance.

Plus Hazima made an amazing head piece literally made out of sticks. Add the drama to dramatic.

And we got to meet the fabulous Rozz and Bobby

It was an utterly incredible experience, like never before. I think I'm still in shock that we get to see Lady Gaga live. We're used to seeing her through an LCD screen for years and now seeing her get up close and personal might be too much for my faint heart to take.

But fuck yea, we're on our way to meet Mother Monsters. Can't believe our luck.

What's camwhoring without the glamorous toilet background eh?

Like a boss.

Have a glorious Sunday guys!

Oops Sorry? The Leap

I know it's been more then a month since my last update. Only those who are pretty close to me knows why I've been selfishly keeping myself to obviously my narcissistic self. In fact it's been so long that I forgot where I stopped.

Why now? I just feel compelled to all of a sudden, seemingly now I have that tiny bit of spare time to churn one out. I thought why not? Just wanted to share a little bit of my experience regardless how insignificant it may be but it mattered to me. Even the tiniest of details.

I mean I don't even have enough time to touch Mass Effect =(, how am I supposed to save the universe from intergalactic mass destruction? I don't, but here I am on a Saturday contemplating about how I'm gonna spend my weekends. I might have a hint.

SO I have a question for you lovely people out there reading my blog, how do you spend your beloved weekends? Shopping? Clubbing? Chilling? Family? Being a maid? Twit me your answers, or don't! @theeunicechung

Alright, I have changed my life in a sense it was a drastic change that was necessary. No I didn't pop out from rehab allegedly for coke abuse. In fact, I decided to get a new job as a design consultant for a legit design firm and knowing me I don't think it was necessary for everyone to know then. I hate shoving things in people's faces. Just not my style. And KY if you're reading this don't you dare snigger (an inside joke).

At that moment I wasn't exactly too happy with myself, still not happy but this I could live with . Matt said that I was suffering from first world syndrome. When you have everything and it's not enough, you're never satisfied, you begin breaking down the tiniest of things and over analyzing situations to suit your idealistic plan of what you wanted do in life.

We're conditioned to believe that everything should be perfect, especially Singaporeans cause it's drilled into us that we NEED to achieve something, whatever it may be because if we don't, we might as well just kill ourselves because we'd be hopeless bums. People would look down on you. Nobody wants to be a loser right? We were brought up to be competitive, and independent. So much so we lose who we really are, and we conform into that society norm.

That's why there's this massive underlying pressure to succeed in life. I read once that the general public view on achieving happiness is that you have to be successful, but the truth is it's the other way round, you need to be happy then you truly succeed in life.

Moreover it got depressing a lot of the time, where I'd easily fall into this pit of despair because my life isn't the way I want it to be and at that time it seemed like it was never gonna happen.

Like any paranoid bitch, I panicked and freaked out, I nearly gave up trying to pull off a paradigm shift. And it took a lot to take that very first step, and it has always been the hardest but I promise you that you'll never regret taking that risk. Because if you don't you'll blame yourself for not taking that leap.

Fear is a touchable thing, it could save you and ruin your life all the same. But you should never let fear stop you from achieving happiness. You owe it to yourself to pull yourself up and try again, no matter how many times you failed. I still do have a fear of failure, I thought sitting in my comfort zone could make me happy, but it comes down to asking yourself  'Are you settling down, or are you just settling?'. What do you have to lose really?

A New Beginning

Recently I've been away for awhile because I was busy contemplating the point of our existence, that's not even  the half of it. Also busy juggling with 2 jobs and jogging a lot to cope with all this stress. Lack of sleep is beginning to take detrimental effects already. However it's not all done in vain because I can't wait to get my new laptop so I could finally release my design potential from it's constant restraint due to my laptop being inadequate to perform basic tasks without consuming a huge amount of time, my beloved laptop lifespan is meeting it's end soon.

Not that I want my laptop to die, because if it did I would be incredibly devastated, it being my very own first laptop that I earned by working hard and it has never let me down. Not for 4 years and I don't want it to end here or anytime soon, because once I get my new laptop I can finally lift the heavy burden of design work responsibilities to the monster of a laptop it'll be getting to do the heavy duty.

Hence my laptop can finally retire from all the hard work and resort to light weight tasks like watching videos. Wouldn't know what I would do without my beloved laptop, probably weep in a secluded corner? My laptop has become a part of me, an extension of me, of who I am, it molded me to who I am today. Strange isn't it? My laptop isn't just a laptop.

I would never have thought I needed a new laptop, because you know naively I thought my laptop would last forever, in fact I still think my laptop would last forever. Never thought about buying a new laptop till I realize my laptops getting really slow and is deteriorating away, which is really depressing when you think about it. I'm very sentimental about my possessions, like my phone which unfortunately died an unnatural death caused by leaking soya sauce into it's charging input and it's all gone to hell. I don't like saying good byes, in fact I think they're the hardest thing to deal with, but very necessary. Because it's part of life.

Departing with an all inspiring quote from Ugly Betty (Yes, I know I'm an Ugly Betty freak) that helps me cope with saying good byes and makes it a little less harder to say good bye.

"I've had to say good-bye more times then I may have liked, but everyone can say that. And no matter how many times we have do it, even if it's for the greater good, it still stings. And although we will never forget what we've given up, we owe it to ourselves to keep moving forward. What we can't do is live our lives afraid of the next good-bye because chances are they are not going to stop. The trick is to recognize when a good-bye can be a good thing - when it's a chance to start again."