a conversation in the family.
Posted by: claudswu on: June 30, 2009
At 10.30pm, as the “Incredible Tales” music starts to play -
Brother: YES! Ah Shan (me) not at home can watch horror show!
Sister: *laughs*
Possible thought process of the parental unit then -
Mum: Heh. I will stay up and watch with them and wait for Ah Shan to come home. Might as well.
Dad: DARN! No excuse to ask them not to watch.
At 10.45pm, as I opened the door and stepped into the house. Here are probably the possible thoughts of the siblings -
Brother: DARN! Might have to stop watching already!
Sister: Ohwell.
Actual conversation of the parental units -
Mum: Ah Shan! LOOK! We are watching horror show!
Me: *whines to Dad* LAO PAAAA! They watch horror show!
Dad: SEE! Ah Shan is back! Later she scared ah! You better stop! Later electricity bill shoot up how?
It sounds funnier in my head somehow.
the perfumes(:
Posted by: claudswu on: June 26, 2009
remember the 5 small bottles of Lancome perfume I bought at the budget terminal while waiting to fly to KL?
The best of Lancome Fragrances(:
Well, I couldn’t figure out which fragrance is nicer or how they smell after a few hours. SO! Since I am working from home today, I decided to have a smell test -
using recycled paper!
So yes. If my nose is still working 1 hr later, I will go smell them and rate them. Will smell them again 2 hours and 3 hours later(:
Heh. Random.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Posted by: claudswu on: June 24, 2009
Was invited to a preview of the show by MediaCorp @ GV Marina and I brought Shuyun along since I had an extra ticket. However! The movie was interrupted and could not resume due to (and I quote), “…technical difficulties..” so we were told to go out and get our complimentary tickets. A few things got me a little irritated. Firstly, the announcements was poorly made and incoherent. You would think that they will have a standard script for this kind of situation. Pfft. Secondly, when we went out to collect our tickets, the person handling out the tickets did not apologised and looked downright pissed. Thirdly, no representative from MediaCorp was there to apologise. I mean, not their fault but you invited us so as the “host” you could have at least sent your representative to apologise. BAA! Whatever!
ANYWAYS! Luckily Shuyun was “on” enough and we decided to cabbed down to The Cathay to catch the 10.30pm show! (: I have to say, the both of us were more excited than we were the first time round!
SO! The graphics are still FANTABULOUS! The transformations of the robots are still pretty amazing. The cars are OH-SO-SEXY! And Bumblebee is still so darn cute and hot!
Storyline was not so fantabulous though. The whole “He-died-and-talked-to-the-ancestors” part was kind of “WHAT?!” but I guess it was the only way to end the movie. I have to say, the storyline was kind of expected. Basically, it’s really literally just “Revenge of the Fallen”. The usual works of fallen trying to get back, good guys try to stop them and BLAH BLAH. BUT! No worries! Remember how it was kind of emotional and sad when Bumblebee (or one of the good guys) died/almost died in the first movie? Well! There’s a few of that in this movie! I went “Awwww” and “Ohno!” quite a bit. Especially when Optimus Prime died. Oh, come on! If you are following me on Twitter/Plurk, you would have already known!
I have to say! When Bumblebee came out, I was like, “Bumblebee Bumblebee!” He is still my favorite! The scene in the garage with Sam was quite funny!
Some quotable quotes from the movie -
what you are abt to see is top secret. do not tell my mother!”
what if we leave, and you’re wrong?
AND! Some random stuff that I noticed during the movie -
- Robots can smell?!
- Cool shit! The robot is 1D so that it’s hard to shoot him!
- OHHH MY EYES! I did not need to see the butt and the crack!
- HEY! That’s the little person from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!
- OHHHH! That robot haz balls! And they swing!
- Hmm! That’s an LG phone and not an iPhone. No apple products !
- They are in the middle of the dessert, where in the world did they get the bandage?
- AND! When, how and where did they get the change of clothes?! Megan Fox changed from heels to boots! HMM!
All in all! A pretty good movie to watch! Not as nice as Transformers 1 but STILL a good movie to watch! A must-watch for this season of movies(:
Tip: If you have short attention span like me and Shuyun, please bring along your 3G phone. The movie is not boring but having a 3G phone helps. A little plurk break can help you concentrate better. Trust me!
when i fly…
Posted by: claudswu on: June 21, 2009
serene(:
I’ve flown a total of 4 times (including return flights) but I am very much in love with flying.
The adrenaline rush I get when the plane starts speeding up. The flight of the heart when the plane finally takes off. I don’t mind turbulence that much either. Heh.
And of course, the proximity to the clouds and the bird’s eye view of everything.
peaceful and calming(:
I didn’t want the plane to land 
But all good things come to an end, yes?
Will save up and fly further the next time! (: And I am tempted to try out for the job again. HMM.
sometimes you dont see what’s behind.
Posted by: claudswu on: June 6, 2009
been cabbing to work quite a bit this week. 3 times out of 5. stopped only when someone went, “why are you always taking cabs these days?!” and that’s that.
ANYWAYS! While I was sulking about going to work, I looked at the rear view mirror and saw this -
pretty.
and I went, “Wow”. I did look at the sky on my way out but it was nothing like that. I guess I was just too busy walking forward that I didn’t turn around and look at the sky behind me.
what's behind.
Not exactly the same as the cab moved before I can take a proper picture. But yups.
*ahem* let me try to describe what I was feeling then. I guess, sometimes we are just so focused on moving forward and so sure of what we want, that we forgot our past. and sometimes, we get so caught up in the rat race that we forgot to stop and take a look around. Imagine all the nice things that we have missed? Heh.
But yeah, after seeing that scene, I felt better(: Still sulking but probably 10% of the original amount(:
OH! Here’s how the sky look like while I was on my way to Timbre with Grace and gang on Thursday -
pretty colors.
yups. anyways, omny is at it again. lumping pools of light tgth. zz..
ok, Z monster has arrved. off to bed.
i dont care if this borders on the TMI scale.
but I am losing quite a fair amount of blood via the period that my lips are drained of colour and i am feeling tired constantly.
and the hormones is wrecking havoc on my mood.
this teaches us a lesson. don’t anyhow take your “sunolut”. if it comes, it comes. don’t attempt to alter it. you will mess up your own body clock.
bedtime. hopefully it’ll stop by tomorrow. anymore blood loss and i will start feeling giddy.
RT and #followfriday.
Posted by: claudswu on: May 29, 2009
I guess if you are on my Twitter list, you will know that I don’t really like RT and detest #followfriday.
RT: Re-Tweeting
While I do understand that sometimes, there are certain quotes or articles shared by someone in your list and you think people in your list will enjoy it, I think if the MAJORITY of your tweets are RTs, then I’m sorry – Twittering FAIL.
Posted this up for Twitter Tees by Threadless.
Okay, let me attempt to explain why. Twitter (and I quote), “..is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time..” Therefore, if you are just purely RT, how are you staying connected?
NEXT! If you are RT-ing say on one consistent topic all the time then I think that is still acceptable, because it shows that you are interested in one topic and wants to share it with other people. It shows/reveals that you have a personality. BUT! If you are just RT-ing a jumble of stuff on different topics, then it’s irritating and reveals nothing about you.
BESIDES! By consistently RT-ing about one topic, it works in your advantage. For example, when people are looking for someone to follow on that certain topic, your name might just pop up in their mind/recommendation because you have consistently showed your interest and that you have interesting articles to share. Remember, Twitter is actually blogging in micro form. Think of it like a blog. If you are constantly blogging about one topic, people are more likely to recommend your blog for that topic. You know like uniquefrequency, who constantly blogs about social media. So yups! Use that blogging analogy and apply it to Twitter. (Of course, your credibility will increase in Twitter if you share your personal thoughts ON TOP of RT-ing.)
Think along the line of @photoschool who tweets and RTs things that are related to photography. (Sorry, I don’t follow alot of people on Twitter so this example may or may not be ideal.)
Still on RT: RT-ing yourself
I understand that there are some people who holds multiple accounts like @photoschool and @socialmediadude are all by @willyfoo (sorry, dude! have to use you as an example!). The aim or objective is so that you can tweet/RT about specific topics in specific accounts. For example, things about photography goes to @photoschool while things about social media goes to @socialmediadude. Totally make sense and in sync with what I’ve said above. Totally cool and dainty!
HOWEVER! When you start RT-ing yourself, like first, you RT on one account (in this example, @willyfoo) then you RT yourself again on the other related acoount (either @photoschool or @socialmediadude), it’s gets a little irritating. Imagine people who follows you on all three accounts. They will be flooded! Kinda. And if they do want to make a reply, which one do they reply to? To some extent, you are actually defeating the purpose of setting up the respective account because you are mixing everything up.
And IF! You only RT some articles about one topic in both accounts and some articles about that topic in only one account, people will get confused! Who do they follow? Just @socialmediadude or both @socialmediadude and @willyfoo (Sorry again! Using you as an example!)
Bringing it back to ‘generally speaking’, I understand that by RT-ing yourself, you are just ensuring that all your target audience will be reached (since not everyone follow you on all 3 account) BUT! Wouldn’t it be better if you just direct people to ONE account in your profile? And perhaps, add a byline in your profile to let people know that you have seperate accounts about <insert topic> and if they are interested, they should follow you over there.
In this way, your ‘direction’ is clear and you don’t flood people.
Moving on.
#followfriday
I was on a Twitter break for about a year. Okay, fine! I was hooked onto Plurk for a year. But the first Friday that I returned to Twitter, I was pretty impressed with the whole idea of #followfriday.
Basically, #followfriday invites people to recommend interesting Twitters to follow. Mashable probbaly has a better explanation – #followfriday and if you are on Twitter, you probably know how #followfriday works.
But after awhile, #followfriday got really irritating. It seems like people are recommending everyone on their list! Like everyone and anyone is interesting. And for some, the same people keeps getting re-recommended by the same people. If that person is really interesting, we would have followed him! You don’t have to recommend him over and over again. If you are afraid that some of your new followers will miss out, then perhaps you can re-recommend that person a month later and not every week.
Oh, and there are some we recommend other people in the hopes of getting recommended. Like heh?
I quite like this article about #followfriday - Followfriday is Sabotaging Your Twitter Experience. It summarizes my thoughts quite neatly and nicely. I quite like their suggestion of not recommending more than 3 person in a day and giving a reason why the person recommended is interesting and has follow-value.
However, I’ve noticed that even this seemingly useful suggestion is being abused (*gasps*) and it’s now even more irritating. Instead of getting on Twit with a list of people to follow, I get multiple (more than 5) tweets in one blast over several periods. Gah.
#followfriday#followself-promotionfriday?
I’ve noticed that some people will recommend themselves every week. What’s up with that?
Add the byline that you have other accounts and then maybe recommend yourself on every other #followfriday.
You will sound less irritating and probably won’t appear like you are over-promoting yourself.
the deadly combination: RT-ing #followfriday
This is a relatively new observation I made. Someone will do several #followfriday tweets and then sometime later, someone will RT ALL those #followfriday tweets.
I mean, gee! Maybe you guys are recommending the same person for the same reason, but perhaps, you would like to paraphrase or come up with BETTER reasons that will probably entice people to follow the person that you are recommending. I guess I should say, “RT-ing #followfriday is not #followfriday, you parrot!”.
But I guess a few RTs of #followfriday is allowed. Just not ALL.
the end.
the office is really conducive for blogging! of course not during office hours where everyone is walking around and flooding your emails. right. heading home now.
