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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.com

its 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 is very original anymore!! lol =P

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 how they feel… seeing all the customers still loitering around in their stores ‘just get out of hereeeeee!!!!!’) so we decided to pop by NTUC just like in aussie…

FYI: we used to shop at the supermarkets after the stores closed ard 5pm so tt inculcated a ‘grocery-shopping’ gene in us… favourites were woolworths and coles ;P walking up and down aisles of groceries are fun…

coz one of my friends have been coughing since the weekend… he decided to take a look at the selections of cough lozenges… which NTUC had a good variety of… but i was trying not to fall asleep amongst the cans of stuff in the middle of the wide wide aisle… anyway… the other friend suddenly noticed this realllllly ‘funky’ cough lozenges… check out the packaging!

aiyoh…………. this definitely made my day… ahhahaha what’s wif the guy’s face on the front.. and the green/turquoise stripes across the entire packaging… and and the waterfall at the back… -_-”" which made me wonder who would buy this brand and why and how in the world were they attracted to it in the first place? ‘ooo this looks funky and it uses traditional chinese stuff so perhaps it’s good for my throat!’ perhaps NTUC had this brand since its beginnings so long ago… it’s placed on the uppermost shelf so unless u tilt ur head up and look.. u would definitely miss it…

i get a headache juz looking at the psychedelic stripes… lol i’m sure there’re more of such funky packaged products out there in the market… i shall endeavour to dig out more the next time i pop by NTUC… ahahah…

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 was a good view… which got me to thinking.. wat do the bus drivers think about as they drive us around?

unlike cab drivers, they meet alot more people who mindlessly tap their transport card (EZ-link) before attempting to squeeezzze their way into the vehicle (if its crowded)… hrmmm at least they get to see different things… imagine the train driver…

had a busy weekend… and now its over!! >_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 many juz two ‘overs’ coz it wasn’t tt long a trip) and before i could contemplate further… i was at the bus stop… so put those nagging tots out of my mind… =P

after work… i met up wif my friend for a bout of lunch (i was on a tight schedule coz initially had to go for project discussion) at borders bistro… i ordered their value set lunch thingy (19.90 for starter, mains and coffee) and the salad was questionable… yeah the mayo was nice wif the veggie (i dun eat raw veggies mind u.. so the sauce has to be there) but the presentation was pretty lousy… it looked like the main item was missing.. like ‘nah here’s ur veggie’… nonetheless managed to finished it… =P hungry mah…

den my darling fren came and we yakked until the lunch at borders was over and we went over (upon his suggestion) to another small lil’ pl round the corner of shaw towers (opposite pacific plaza on the same side… u know where’s mango?) it’s next to ‘the canteen’ by les amis… and its a nice place to hv sandwiches and coffee and yak… =) go visit it sometime… hee reminds me of aussie…

and then went to kino where i met up wif my sisters (coz i cancelled my project meeting i could go wif them to my cousin’s daughter’s first bday) and in the course of travelling to pasir ris… saw this at city hall mrt (they were hving NDP preview i think?)

yeah sniffer dog! ahhaha i think the police officers were pretty amused by the amount of attention the dog (not them) got… =P

Sunday:

spent the whole day doing up my project… powerpoint… urgh =P

today is the presentation… 30%… i hope what we hv done is enuff.. it doesn’t seem so though.. oh well… i do until my eyes almost pop out.. rearranging… typing.. editing… all the best to my grp~! =D

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 process began… a tad messy so i didn’t take any pictures… but thanks to my sis’ trusty mixer… we soon had a cake in baking… =)

it took a good one hr to bake the cake… (yah dun think its small so dun need to take so long… =P) after which it was time to take it out to cool… and subsequently tip out of the tin…

and then it was time to eat… =P~ yumz…

so tah-dah~!!! my first baking attempt… ;)