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2010-11-18T00:59:00.000+01:00

I shall post in point form again :D

Went for a very very short jog with bro(1.6) and we got soaked and were also hit by hail. It was hailing in florence too.
Went for a 12km jog by myself in 1h 13min i think..
Had Alessandra and Carlo over for steamboat..
Went to Leornado Da Vinci museum. Very interesting. The view from the top was awesome.
We jogged 14km today, in 1h 50min. Our feet hurt.
Stefano and marco(dad's friends)came over today. The 2 of them like to poke fun at each other xD
the top 2 were on wed. 18-11-2010
Done. I want to go and sleep -.-

2010-11-02T23:15:00.001+01:00

We jogged 12km today. In 1.5h . Yay. Our legs hurt. First time jog so far, first time jog straight home w/o stopping at chin up bar, first time we jog so late :DDD
Darn the distance got cut off -.- was 12.47km i think..

Dad invited the girl from downstairs (Aurora I think) up as she said she liked piano. Mom was teaching her some simple song. Gave her elena's no. Mom also videoed her playing haha.. Passed them the cd..

I shall go sleep now. And dad passed the theory test. :)

2010-10-31T23:26:00.000+01:00

I shall type in point form, saves time and i can get more of my mind at once :)

Set all the clocks back by a hour today - the end of the DST.
Its a public holiday Tomorrow
Dad has been studying for the driving theory test for past whole week, whole sat too
Why is he studying? Cos some It. guy up there is epic fail, I mean seriously. He is gonna drive to the driving center to take a driving related test? O.O Told him tt if he doesn't pass the test, don't bother paying and trying again. Just pay the fine if he gets one, he has not been stopped for our whole year here -.-
I'm gonna have my piano exam in Rome on the 7th of decem. Must finish all my scales by this week. Need to memorize period definitions. Also need to TRY to improve the s.r. with the few books i have. Aunty Bee Ha helped us buy the new edition aural books. No major big change except that if I had done next year i don't need to learn the Ic-V progression -.-
Wind has been howling outside the house since yesterday night. We are afraid that the windows upstairs might break, there is relatively large space (3 meter by 1) upstairs that has glass facing all 4 sides. Good lighting but we don't know how strong the windows are. The acorn tree outside the sofa area (belonging to the landlord) is being tossed around. When is she going to cut it -.- the tree might fall any time and it is covering the top of a section of road
Gonna study through my supposed hols. Wasted so much time already. Don't know why I just cannot accomplish more in one day. A.D.D. maybe?
Jogging 10km with bro tmr, hopefully the weather will get better. Did 8km speed play on thurs. Not very intense though, more like a jog actually. :)
Reading a book called "I Kill". It was written in Italian by Giorgio Falettei (I memorised the name haha) but was translated to english. Got it frm Florence. And again, Florence has good kebabs. Want to go back and go see the supposed scenic areas and take photos. Don't know if i will have the money to go overseas next time. With my chinese 80% gone, it would be a miracle if I can get into a good jc. No cca points, no HCL points (higher chinese not hydrochloric acid haha), and worse I have to pass A-level chinese to go uni IF I get into JC. -.- Have myself to thank for slamming the JC door shut I guess -.- At least some ppl do well and can choose where they want to go.
Bleh its going to rain tomorrow (and next few days). Hopefully the weather forecast is wrong :) Autumn's like that I guess?
Oh we got some jogging stuff for Iain to go jog with me in this weather. some 3/4 jogging tights (that become full jogging tights on him) and a wind breaker. With both the same kind as mine. Now we will look like walking decathalon adverts xD His windbreaker is a different colour though. Mine is blue and his is yellow. Or is it orange. No idea. I bought a pullover and a pair of pyjama like pants (which was from some friday market). Oh we had pizza on friday when i went to do my permesso di sogiorno. I'm 14 so I had to get one. I did not have a signature. Hope it will be consistent when I go down to the questura ~~some time soon~~?(things here take nearly forever :)
Finished with maybe half or a third of the chem worksheets my school sent. Must finish all the maths we questions for the sec 3 e-math. I'm done but I don't think it stuck in my little mind :)
I shall go and sleep. I think thats all. Oh I have to reply hannah on fb. The wind outside is strong man. Its cold upstairs. 16 degs or less. House is a little drafty. Air is not completely still. It was warmer outside this morning. And.. ehh.. oh its Halloween today.
Happy Halloween :) neighbours did not come up for candy. We were approached for candy by some kids last year though :D

Done. I'm tired. Its 11.30 but its actually 12.30 in dst time which is no longer in use so its 11.30 and I will wake up at 7 tomorrow cos we have been waking up and 8 and thats now 7. Wow that was a long sentence completely devoid of sense. BYe :D

2010-10-26T23:54:00.000+02:00

woo its been nearly a year since coming here. We were packing like mad this time last year. Left on 27th oct..
Its very cold now.. And its only autumn.. Colder than when we arrived. Was so cold outside just now.. 10 degs or less O.O
Jogged 8km with bro last fri, 22nd oct.. His and my first 8km jog. At once :D thats pretty little actually xD
Went to Florence last week to get dads driving licence books in english (he has to convert his stupid licence to italian one. Irony of it is that he is driving to the test centre to take his test -.-). He has a week to study. There are 2 books. Like textbk and workbk xD
The store sells only english books. Interesting store. We bought 3 other books. One of which is a very interesting book entitled, "Italian without words" Its a picture book teaching you Italian gestures. Very hilarious. We bought it more as a souvenir then anything else. Other 2 were just storybooks. Is novel the word?
Went to the Ikea near to Florence and returned my bed. There was this bump on it that came from some layer below it. Full refund :D Bought a new bed and some other things and we had 2 refillable soft drink cups plus the ikea ice cream and fries at the food place.. Ikea looks the same everywhere. just bigger -.-
WE TRANSPORTED A BED HOME ON TOP OF OUR CAR WITH FREE NYLON STRING FROM IKEA :D THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN'T DO ANYMORE! xD
We only realised tt we could not transport the bed home after checking out. The pick-up place was comparatively far from the Ikea itself o.O Used lots of string from ikea o.O One at both sides, one in middle and 3 at corners (2 front and 1 back) (on roof rack) Good thing it did not rain.. Even tho there was plastic. Enough nylon can hold a bed in place against 80km/h drag.. lalala..
I'm gonna sleep now. Oh and daylight is getting short. Piano exam is coming. Better master the pieces real quick. first week of December actually. Having it in ROME(5 hrs south) and paid alr. Not cheap man. No it should be: "Expensive man" xD
bb

2010-10-07T00:09:00.000+02:00

Mummy, Iain's and my birthday have come and gone. We had steamboat on my b'day. Mum made a cake as well :) used icing and the rainbow sprinkles xD
Dad had gone to the hospital on sat after feeling discomfort in the chest for the past few days. He had his first ever hospital stay. Ever. x) Doctors had wanted to make sure nth was wrong. A doc told him on sat that he is 90% sure it has nothing to do with the heart, and said it might be something in the stomach(which always gives strange symptoms) The best part, he didn't pay a cent. He had a couple of ECG tests and dunno what else. Mom also took the bus home, first of us to take one here :D

Uncle Joseph passed away on 5th of October, which is also mum and Iain's birthday. He was so young, and he had 2 kids, one of which does not even know what is going on. Feel so sad for them, they will not have the father figure around... Gugu shared how sad she felt when she helped hang up the clothes. Sometimes when someone passes away you just are at a lost for words. It was so sudden.. The frailty of life. Treasure everyone around. Cos everyone is someone's close kin. Sigh..

Going to uncle Ugo's house for dinner tomorrow. Finished the first chap on graphs in the a-math tb.. I shall have to go revise all the chapters in the e math. Esp the last few.
Gonna sleep now. its late..

2010-09-23T21:57:00.000+02:00

-.- i am guessing i am never gonna complete that post about our trip huh.. xD
Ystd marked the start of autumn. Hmm facebook is down. It has been cold the past few days, sudden temperature plunge. It was 22 in my room yesterday. 26 high 10 low. o.O winter is coming.. lalala.. I have been feeling the morning coldness alot. Like wake up in the morning and feel super cold :D.. Only got that in winter.
Dad says that it yesterday there was excatly 12 hours day 12 hrs night. Which means 21 dec in the shortest day, 21 march is the same and then 21 june is the longest day? No idea actually haha. ohoh this page says it all..
Its fullmoon today. Its also ba yue shi wu. Mooncake festival day haha.. We finished the mooncakes our dads colleague brought up for us. Thinking of which i don't like the eggs yolks inside them o.O flaky salty thing inside something sweet is kinda strange.

Worrying about my standard of english.. I do not read many articles or even stories here. I was reading a model compo book just now, do not think that i can take an essay title and turn it into something very unexpected, i.e., not what the mind would come up with on reading the given title. Oh well..
found this on yahoo. pretty funny haha.. I like elmo.

I got 10.38mins for 2.4km. went online to calculate distance. Wahh.. finally from 12.27mins :D Dads advice works.
Need to shave off that extra minute. I can do 10 perfect chinups, just got back to 10. Don't know what happened. Aiming for 14 by the time my aunt comes in dec.. If my classmates can do 16.. I better train harder lol xD
Its coming to a year here. Why can't i just do more everyday.. getting fed up with the slow pace at which i do things. -.-
Piano exam coming.. Better start practising more.
Bye bye :)

2010-09-16T18:10:00.000+02:00

Raymond came up with some other people on sunday, we gave his wii back today(thurs/9/10).. Its been 5 mins. I'm missing the wii. Wii withdrawal syndrome. wws. Sounds strange hahaha.. I've not complete the post of the last 3 days of the dolomiti trip -.- epic slow.. Nvm haha..
Deba say she sending things till now no email reply o.O Hope next yr i can get notes and wksheets when they receive.. Otherwise for the humans subjects i'm lost. Esp Geo. I realised tt there are so many things to memorize for everything. Piano exam in nov.
shall go.. I've been wasting a lot of time.. ugh..

2010-08-20T22:02:00.000+02:00

Ugh I cannot connect to the internet. I’m typing from ms-word again. -.- The pillows here are huge o.O but they are very airy(maybe just be this places pillows) Still think Arabba place is nicer; More woody and comfy :) That place was more of a hotel though.

Sigh.. It is our last night here. Time flies so quickly, have not played any games or watch any movies yet. :( Going to Salzburg tmr, 2h40min drive, but probably will take longer hahaha. (we are 20km from Innsbruck currently, staying in Neustift.) Dad just said this whole region is called Stubatai, which is a valley. -.- so many different names. Confusing.

The weather for the past few days has been bad; cloudy and rain. The clouds have also been descending very low, which was what happened at in Arabba as well. The locals say that it is going to be clear and sunny tomorrow. We are really hoping that is going to be the case.

Scenery in Italy was nicer; in my opinion that is.. Maybe it is because we did not go on hikes like the one last Tuesday; did not go on that many hikes even though this place was advertised as the starting point of many hiking trails haha. Austria is more organised though(than mid italy)

We went hiking today though; the scenery downhill was very nice, lots of trees that look like Christmas trees :) Don’t know what the name of the mountain was. (took cable car up again as we have free rides daily with the card) Think it is Schlick (name). I may scan in the maps when we get back home haha.. NO the name is not schlock. The different peaks have different names so I have no idea which is which haha..

We missed a turn so we took an extra 2 hrs but as a “reward” we got to see a small lake and went through a mini adventure course. The landscaping done throughout the course was very nice, very good planning was employed. :D Saw many cows as well, whenever we looked at the cows we said,” LOOOOK. FOOD!” :) Just beside the lake after (and beside) the adventure course there were these comfortable wood chairs (large pieces of wood joined together to make a chair) there were some tables there as well, very nice place.. Also, I found the first chin-up bar in 1 ½ wks. So happy.. But I only can do 7 now.. Prob cos I was wearing boots and and jeans and 2 shirts -.- But then again that is not a lot of extra weight. Finally have my 6-pack back hahaha.. Had a little bit in p4 but is disappeared in p5/6.. That was random xD

Had a barbeque just now, had sausages, a (1 piece) piece of marinated beef which we shared, and some flank steak. It was so tough but the barbeque taste made it taste nice. I have been killing so many slugs xD. They are the Spanish slugs, one of the 100 most invasive species. Killed one with eggs inside. So I smashed all the eggs I could see. Smashing them up is therapeutic.(slugs) I’ve killed at least 30… Maybe(just maybe) I’m cruel but they are pests to farmers all around so why not kill them o.O they make squish squish noises when they are getting pounded. Shawn must have violent tendencies -.-"

Oh yes, realised that I’ve not posted for Sunday and Monday.. Going to do a quick summary, I hope. (heh it became a very long summary haha)

Sunday

Put quite a few slugs together in 3 piles, regret not flattening them xD(early in the morning)

We bought the Stubatai card which enables us to take the cable cars foc, each one once a day. Then we went up some mountain called Efersbitze. It rained up there and me and dad climbed up to a hotel with a restaurant below. All of us went up at first bit it started raining with very strong wind. There was this sign on a chair 7/8 way up about not stopping as the top is near or smth like tt..Was in Deutsch and we forgot to take a photo of it haha.. Met a family with a very fierce small dog haha.. We saw a very nice rainbow up there too :)

Then we went to a waterfall called Grawa. It was raining so it was very muddy.. But the photos were nice.. Saw some goats at the road leading to the waterfall. If we had walked a little further we would have seen the whole waterfall. There was cow poo everywhere(farm outside, whole of the Stubatai region has cows and lots of poo)

We had claypot rice for dinner. Listened to a message on sermonaudio and we all laughed when the guy said "pit pit" Whats a pit pit? It's the Pittiest of all pits xD

(going out now, continuing this later, its actually thursday now)

Tuesday

We took a cable car up to Tirol, the highest peak in Austria(thats what the brochure said although i saw peaks that are higher on the information plaques). Ride up took 1hr. Nice view up though. Think the elevation was 3200m plus.

It was cold up there, and it was very cloudy. Clouds had descended over the mountains below. There was a layer of fresh snow too. Glad i was wearing winter clothing haha.. Had a shirt, another long sleeve a sweater and my thinner winter jacket. Ears froze up quickly up there. Hands went pretty much frigid x) Walked into this restaurant place and had 2 apple strudels with (sugarless)cream and 4 hot chocolates(also with bland bland cream). The strudel was very nice.. But it cost 3.40 eu a piece though(if I remember correctly). The piece was about 18cm i think. The toilet there smelt like someone was boiling naphthalene inside. Went back out and i sat on the deck chair outside. It was this nice red chair :)

And then it started snowing; Snowing in the middle of summer; Snowing really hard. We could play with snow that built up from the previous night. Dad found the observation deck he had been looking for previously. All the stairs and hand rails were covered in snow. The view from the top of the deck was magnificent, although I really still think the dolomites were nicer. The plaques telling us which mountain were covered in 3cm thick snow. Which means it is one darn scary climate there. If it is sub-zero in the height of summer (okay that was with cloud cover) then winter must be extremely harsh right? But there were many ski lifts there. And it was a very big ski station. The carpark was HUGE. THINK FOOTBALL FIELDS.

We left top and came down to the second the cable car station from the bottom(4 in all, it goes from the bottom to the 3^rd station where you have to change) and walked out and took a few photos. Saw a deer hunter with a gun(and heard muffled gunshot sound later one) as well as sheep there. I got chased away by a male sheep -.- Can’t they recognise me as one of their kind? xD (shaun the sheep, you know, the cartoon. Diff spelling though -.-) Took a lunch of nice bread/bun with sausages(chipolata) and cheese we bought the previous Thursday. Played with some mini water locks(or were they dams) and saw this mini house model with a water wheel.

Later on we drove half an hour to another mountain with a much shorter cable car up. We had wanted to take the toboggan ride down but it was closed as it was going to rain. Horrible. It had not even started raining yet. It was a good half hour before it started raining. There had actually been a queue for the ride down. Since we had already made the ride up, my bro and me went to play on the see saw. Had a hard time balancing ourselves out.. Moments is harder to apply with only a 3m long board on each side. Dad bought us 2 cakes for 2.50eu each. The first was a cheese cake and the other was a chocolate cake. Both were moderately nice, I have tasted nicer ones before :) And I don’t eat a lot of cake so that says something haha. We did not go on a hike as the rain was getting heavier.

After that we went to Billa and bought quite a large trolley of things. Shawn bought 2 new packs of chips(the pringles extreme flavours which are not sold in Italy. I like the product packaging), 2 packs of 4 mini mars bars and a a pack of 6 mini bounty bars.

We went for a swim after that. Went in free due to the stubatai card. I was using the top of the cubicle to do chin-ups.. It was what my friends used to do in the toilet. Have not really talked to anyone. Never mind hahaha I’ve been forgotten liao xD Like who would remember. I wouldn’t haha.. xD

The changing room was very stuffy as the whole thing is heated. The pool area was so hot that it was hard to breathe. Went to the pool outside where I could see the water evaporating. I think these people are crazy o.O I mean it can be heated but it does not need to be heated to the extent that its stuffy and ultra humid right?? O.O There was this slide that was done very nicely, there were lights inside and the slide is done such that at the end the you(and the water) will move up the wall by 1/3. It is better than the water park in Garda. Oh about Garda, the Dolomites are nicer haha.. Although Garda is nice too. The slide was supposed to be used with a float but no one bothered as there was a shortage of floats.

Dinner(at the apartment) was very normal, but the desert was special. When we took it out of the fridge we thought it could be eaten cold. So we rolled it in the sugar and sesame seed coating. Someone remarked that it looked like tang yuan. Then mom(who speaks zit German) realised that it has to be cooked. Dad checked(with his 28 year ole German skill) and confirmed that it has to be boiled. So we boiled it and later on coated it in the coating, all along thinking it was tang yuan. Then I took a bite into it and said it tasted sour.. Dad and mom tasted it and then (I think) dad said it is cheese). Super funny hahaha…

Whee. I’m done. Its Friday now. Time passes so very quickly; this week especially. Our holiday is coming to an end. Today is the last day in Austria and tomorrow we go to venice for a night. Then its straight home. So sad, I was hoping it would last longer. We have just arrived at großglockner. It’s a glacier south of where we are staying; biggest in Europe. I shall type about it later, still have to type about Wednesday and Thursday o.O Now I have to type about 3 days. Past 3 days we went to a lot special places past few days. Oh well. I shall enjoy the scenery outside now. We paid 28eu “toll” to come in. Just hit 1924 words.

Bye bye:)

Hmm since its already so many words, why not make this 2000?? We have just left the second last stop of the place. Its 6.56 pm and we are driving out of this place now. Europe’s largest glacier seems to be very small o.O I think its because this is the height of summer although its 13degs outside -.- There are many stops in the place, we kept stopping to take photos. Saw a lot of smart cars just now. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ITS 2011 WORDS ALREADY (end of sentence).

Bye bye for real this time. :) Going to type abt Wednesday and hopefully Thursday in the car (yeah I have the com in the car, don’t know if I mentioned it previously up there..)
Oh i did not type abt anth. I sorted the photos and looked at scenery haha.. JUst reached home. Gonna have dinner soon even though its 10pm..

2010-08-16T00:33:00.002+02:00

Reached Austria on sat evening. We are near Innsbruck now, staying neustift. The 3 ppl we asked things on the way here(all austrian ppl) are all pretty unfriendly. The person who is in charge of this place seemed to have waited for a long time, we reached at 6pm. She spoke english though. Dad can still speak German.. Pwn, its been 28 yrs or so.. And he still says his memory is not good

Before coming here we hiked up this mountain (It did not have a name, multiple mountains). Took off my shirt for some time because the horrible sun came out. Free sun-tan hahaha. At least I'm now wasting time sitting there turning red -.-
Ate lunch at this restaurant (walked from elevation of 1602m to 2076m) called Rifugio Beć De Roces. Seems French hmm? Anw the lunch was very nice. No cover charge, no charge for bread(nice bread though) and the food was very nice. Was quite diferrent from Tuscan cuisine(tuscany is a region in middle Italy. Currently staying in Livorno, somewhere smack middle-west of Tuscany, i think? :)

I had "noodles" with game sauce but the "noodles" were flat, moderately long pieces of pasta. German word for it is better, bandnoodlen(smth like tt)It was nice..

Looks nice rite? I was nice haha
Iain's dish was some pasta with lotsa cheese, mushroom and ham. Very nice and nicely cheesy haha

We actually ate a little of that which explains the stain at the side of the plate
Clare had some soup with Tyrolian (Tiroy) dumplings. DUMPLINGS? Maybe its how i understand that word. anw,

Oh. Quoting wikipedia, "Dumplings are cooked balls of dough. They are based on flour, potatoes, bread" Well i was wrong.. hahaha
Dad and Mom shared some Self invented dish by the restaurant, the egg like stuff is actually polenta, boiled cornmeal. The meat was very nice. Not sure what it was.. Don't I'm going to ever find out haha. I'm not big on the idea of climbing up there xD

Oh there were 2 meats. Both were very nice though. Dad had a small glass of beer. He said it was nice. I tried a little bit but it had a bitter after taste. Maybe thats how it is supposed to taste o.O
Talked to an elderly Italian couple from Milano. Must remember that i'm typing english, not Italian haha. Nice people. Mom had offered the man a biscuit haha

We walked back to Arabba from some route down the mt. Dads knee actually hurt a little bit on the way down :( Was okay after that. We took sticks and made them into walking sticks haha.. Dad bought a pair of socks for clare cos she said her foot was painfull(WOW I SAID THE CORRECTLY! I USUALLY SAY, "cos her foot pain" HAHAHA)
The drive to austria took quite some time, longer than expected.. May be the way dad drives or how the GPS calculates timing.

The apartment is not as nice as the one in Arabba, that one is wood everywhere. this one is more of a normal hse. There is a garden outside that we have been poking slugs around on. (raining past few days) At least the internet here is whole day and it is in the apartment itself..

2010-08-15T10:13:00.000+02:00

Shawn hates fog. Shawn still hates the fog. Shawn can’t figure a use of fog besides it being a umbrella on ultra-hot places. But does it fog in those places, NO IT DOESN’T -.-

Today is our last day here. Typing this just before I go and sleep. We had pineapple-rice for dinner. Parents were packing up just now. Came back up for dinner (internet is only downstairs) aft I saw the ppl that were manning the place having dinner.. Not polite to watch ppl have dinner haha. Mom burnt her hand just now… Ouch.

We decided to go to Cortina today. Drive was supposed to be around 53 mins. The route we took to get there was very nice :) We kept stopping to take photos. I saw the really blue lake from some lookout point. Think that feeds the one we saw on Monday. I videoed some parts of the journey, at some parts holding the camera out of the window not knowing where it was pointing at. The whole area is so nice, I figured tt whatever I filmed would be good right? Well I was right hahaha.. :)

On the way to cortina we had actually turned into the base area of Cinque Torri. The skies had been very clear. We took this took that and when we finally bought our tickets and were on our way up, the stupid cloud had to descend. Sigh… Dad just figured out we were not actually on Cinque Torri. We were at nuvolau. Wth! The tickets were not cheap either. The ride up was quite long. When we reached the cloud was starting to descend. Let me repeat that more forcefully. WHEN WE REACHED THE !@#$ CLOUD STARTED TO DESCEND.

By the time we started to climb up the very high rock formation the cloud had totally descended. After much contemplation as were coming down, it started raining. Dad got completely soaked. All our pants got soaked. In fact, it more or less rained the whole day.

Sad day. The view would definitely have been good, I saw the view upwards. So the view down would HAVE BEEN EVEN BETTER!! Thats the second day in a row that the fog has totally ~~blocked~~ obliterated our view -.- Maybe it has got to do with today being Friday the 13^th haha..

The fog/cloud is starting to distort my perception of nice scenery. We went to Cortina d’Ampezzo and even though its surrounded by mountains, nth could be seen because off.. YEAH THE FOG. -.-

I’m going a little overboard here but.. sigh.

Waited for the tourist office to open at 3.30(what type of tourist office open only at 3.30 o.O) and bought some groceries at this supermarket. They were selling fresh salmon in containers I think. Oh they are smart. The fruit is picked by the staff to prevent people from choosing only the good ones. Good for them terrible for us. But still, the fruit seemed to be of good quality. We bought some cakes there too, 10eu’s for 3 slices. Have to treat eu as sgd here if not we won’t buy much stuff.

Iain and Clare went for swim again. I don’t fancy going into a pool that has an extremely high concentration of chlorine. I went into the room and actually choked for a while. So I opened the window for a short bit. Dad tried the sauna yesterday. He is going crazy haha. He stayed inside a 85-90 deg room and he came out perspiring all over... I went in for a while and when he poured the water containing menthol over the coals It became so hard to breathe. I just walked back out. They have a sunbed and a Turkish bath thing here as well. Keep seeing it on hotel adverstiments.

I shall stop here. MS word says I’ve typed 673 words and counting. 677. No, 680. Augh I’m going to sleep. My standard of English has totally deteriorated. I did not even spell that word correctly. The spelling suggestions are all wrong. Sigh. Have to start reading more. I have stopped doing essays for a long time. Blogposts are actually one of the only ways I’m keeping my English alive. I even forgot the opposite for steep (gentle) on Tuesday. And I just spelt Tuesday with a small “t”. Oh dear…

I’m going to sleep. Bouna notte tutti :)

2010-08-13T21:06:00.002+02:00

(post for thurs)
Went to see cheese making in the morning. Was raining and it was 12 degs outside.Had to wear caps and things on our feet. They were making some fresh cheese. Saw how they let the cheese curd and collect in cloth like bags while letting the water drain out. They actually used their teeth to hole on end of the cloth. Then they put in in moulds and soaked it in brine(salt solution)
Tried the cheese before it was put into the brine(i.e. just after curding). Tasted like tofu o.O Like totally like it. Was a bit nauseating. First time eating smth like tt. I have always eaten tofu with at least some salt. Cheese is really bland before you salt it.
The room tt they let it ferment in smelt like ammonia. horrible smell o.O Saw mould growing on the cheese. The room was cooled to the same temperature outside.
Saw them make the cottage cheese(which is boilt twice). Did not like it when i tried it in livorno.
Went to a cheese tasting session after tt. Liked the cheese there. Was not too strong. Bought some and 2 packs of sweets. Cheese was not too expensive. 7 eur for a reasonable amt(of cheese)

After lunch we went to take this train which turned out to not be a train but a tram -.- Paid 3 euros for adult and i dunno how much for iain. Clare was free i think. The ride in was awesome. Contemplated on whether or not to go up to a super foggy mountain which was at 6 degs. I was wearing bermudas and t-shirt w/ a jacket. Went up in the end.
Wahh that was one big mistake. Even though tt is the highest mountain in the rejion, the fog was so thick tt we could not see a thing. Visibility was abt 10-20m. Was soo cold up there. Met this Israeli family and talked for quite a bit.. Worst thing was the ticket up was 64 euros. Thats a lot of money. Stupid fog :( [i'm typing this on fri, the ppl at reception(family) are having dinner now. Oh dear. better move]
Dad took a piece of rock from the top of mountain and put it in Iain’s bag hahaha.
I believe if the fog was not there the view would have been really really really awesome. IT WAS THE HIGHEST PEAK IN THE REJION :( oh well.. maybe can go back up in december. Although it will be circa -5degs. sigh. On the way down the person manning the car was rushing us down. Horrible. Just to end his stupid shift. Hopeless. Thought tt only happens in mid and south Italy.

The walk out via a gorge called Serrai di sottoguda. Wahh it was very nice. Although i still think if the mountain was not foggy it would have been better. It is 2km long stream like thing. The signboard at the start indicated that the gorge was very dangerous. Apperently it will flood during winter and its very dangerous. They had to remove the bridges before the first snowfall otherwise when it flooded after winter the wood from the bridges would endanger the village below. See the board below :)

Not sure if fb compressed it. Hopefully not. I'll check later. Wait i'll prob forget. haha

Made a slight detour to Alleghe to see the place tt we will be staying in december w/ gugu(aunty esther).

Had chicken curry with rice for diner hahahaha. Then had apple strudel for dessert. Bought it on tues on the way here. It is different from the ones we ate before.

Shall go now.. 2nd last night :( Time goes by wayyyyyyy TOOOOOOOO fast.

Running downstairs to post this.. bye bye :)(internet swiches off at 9 wth)

2010-08-13T19:02:00.000+02:00

(Post for wed, did not get to post)

Took a cable car like thing up to a point called Portavescovo and walked to Passopordoi where we took It took 5 hrs as we stopped for lunch and walked slower while stopping to take pictures and veering way off course to see even more awesome scenery. We were supposed to take only 3 hrs hahaha.

The view was bellissimo. :) There was actually snow on the mountain opposite us. The road was very steep at the start (like 10 metres long, 50-60 degs? ) but became more or less very gentle after that. Saw some strange beaver like animal at the start. But there were much bigger O.o It was moving around eating grass and we only saw them once.

Dad, bro, sis and me climbed up this steep path to go as far up as possible (after lunch). Went up But could not go further cos the path was not very walked so it was not marked. The scenery up there was what one sees in postcards and those scheming travel brochures. But for real :) Thoroughly enjoyed it. Tickets were not exorbitantly expensive too haha..

Last part of the walk we took a wrong turn and then it started raining. Out came ponchos and we walked back up to the correct path to passopordoi which took us half hr. Took a bus home frm there. Mom nearly threw up on the bus. Bro and sis went for a swim and i stayed upstairs.

Had some salad for dinner. Cannot remember excatly haha(its friday now o.O)

2010-08-11T18:27:00.000+02:00

Its 10.42 here(in the dolomites) now, and outside was 9 degs and it snowed a short while back. The 5 r drive was pretty fun but the last half hr which became 1 hr was killer for dad. The road up had so many turns and the was snow on the road.
Then we saw this mass jam downhill. Dad was wondering whether there was some mass evacuation going on. SomeQuite a few of them actually had snow on top and on the bottom of the windscreen. It actually hailed during the last hr of journey, but i was drowsy drowsy (zzzzzzzzzz.......) so only saw a lil bit.
We had left all the snow stuff at home..(the scraper and snow chain) Had some problems fitting all the stuff into the car boot. we brought more or less everything here. o.O carried quite some things on our laps.

The scenery here is awesome. super awesome :DDDDDDDD Panoramic view is great. Loving the cold weather. We stopped by this lake which was very very very nice.. Although no one is allowed to go swim in it haha..
I guess we like mountains.

This hotel is much better than the garda one and the one back in abetone. Only thing is tt the internet can only be accessed frm the lobby area. They have a dish washer but no instruction manual.. Don't know which soap to use and how operate so i ended up washing it -.-
Apparently this is not the hotel with the gym :( should have just gone to jog ystd. Here no chinup bar no parallel bar -.- and i did not bring the exercise mat. So have to do on the floor which has been walked all over by shoes. -.- sigh.. oh well.. When i'm done i will go take a bath. Our room is at the top floor. Its cold outside. I'm typing this in the attic room upstairs and i shall run down and hit the publish button. :)

Shall go now.. getting late. slept at 1am thereabout ystd so i want to catch up on my sleep.
bye bye:) maybe i shall upload some pictures while i'm downstairs..

2010-08-10T00:39:00.000+02:00

Today is national day. converted the 1730hrs wrongly so missed half the show. -.-
1730 hrs = 5.30pm sg time = 11.30 ita time -.-

Watched iain and clare have a swim with the neighbours downstairs. (they have their own pool with barbeque pit and all.) Then we invited them up to play table soccer.. 2 boys(one neighbour, other his cousin) and the younger sis came up(clare's age ard there o.O i think?) Had just eaten lotsa watermelon so i sat there feeding stupid mozzies. Did not manage to kill any.. Was bored to i was blowing at the mosquito coils. The burning ones that go round and round and round..

Leaving for the dolomites tmr.5 hr drive. Gonna use the sour dried thing to keep dad awake
.. 2 wk holiday.. dled some songs for the long long drive.. i like long drives. its fun o.O
Have to go make sure the socks i'm bringing will not kill my feet with the shoes. Still have to go grab the books i'm bring along..

Shall go sleep now. its past 12.. :)

2010-07-31T00:25:00.000+02:00

past 2 days were raining and wind was blowing very strongly. Its finally raining after not raining for so long. 23degs or less outside not(night) Had not rained for over 1 mth. I think we are one pf the few pl here who like the rain lol.. Fancy playing moonlight sonata in the mid of a thunderstorm x)
Italians really love the sun. sun everything man.. all of them look brown o.O like they used those brown sugar machines haha.
i ate oreos x) nice. i want maggi mee and mc wings hahaha.. need to get the geo tb for sec1 and 2. only have the sec 3 one here. I still cubic factorisation is horrible. So long just to get the 3 brackets -.- ugh.
piano teacher wants me to start new song when i'm doing the grd 7 exam in late nov. -.- sigh...

2010-07-26T11:27:00.000+02:00

Past few weeks weather was the same as back home. But last 3 days was very windy and tempreture at home today is 24 degs again. YAY. Bad weather for the ppl here who love suntanning but god for us :D

Raymond left his wii with us.. :DDDDDDDDD(dad used to be his boss) He modded it with a chip so can play dled games hahaha.. if we ever get one i'll go ask him how to add the chip. But if i add the chip then the warranty is blown o.O.. don't know what software he has on the homebrew channel. But the confirmation for exiting to the menu is very funny.. "Are you sure you want to go back to the boring, boring wii menu?" very funny haha..
mario kart is fun hahaha.. The controller here costs 30 smth eur i think.. otherwise i would have ask dad whether can buy another then all 3 of us can play..

finished 3 a-math chapters.. sigh so slow..
ok shall go finish the questions..
-.-

2010-07-08T11:47:00.000+02:00

HAPPY B'DAY TO DAD HAHA
He's in naples now.. On the way back home soon i hope. He says naples is very dirty and all cars are damaged.. The more i stay near livorno(uh 5km-jogging distance) the more i think every other place we go to looks much better. Just 1/2 hr down south and the neighbourhoods look much more well off.
Have not posted in long long time.
Need to brush up on my vocab. Big time. Realised i only know abt 3/4 of the words -.- how am i supposed to learn all of them. The book is HUGE. not really. >.<
12.27 mins for 2.4km. 10 chin-ups.(YAY)muscles still aching fom the jog on tues(thurs now)
When I do sit ups my butt hurts. Ouch.
finished dling some piano lectures. Can't be bothered to pay 57x USD for 10+ yr old tapes -.- Don't even know if they actually help.
Teachers finally replied. yay :) at last. 1mth is a pretty awesome reaction time hmm?
I have so many movs sitting in the hdd. want to clear em out.
Don't really have ppl to talk to here.
went to 2 restaurants in the last mth.1st one had the best seafood i've eaten ever. mussles were very very fresh and fried squid was yum :D
trying to finish the chicken cubes. must finish soon. had to throw away 2 packs of tom yum cubes(the knorr ones)
its 25-28 degs in the hse now. Summer started on 21 june and Shawn could really do without the heat. Spring weather was nice. Winter only snowed one day(and floor was 1 degC so the moment the snow hit the ground it melted -.-) so no fun cos going out is a hassle to throw on jacket have to put on more than a layer of clothes. But jogging in winter was easier.
I shall go now. Not done with work.. bye :)

2010-06-04T14:12:00.000+02:00

Came back frm lago di garda 2 days ago.. forgot to post hahaha.. Did not have any internet there so could not do much with com. o.O
I like the lake. Scenery at monte baldo(why mount bold i have no idea hahaha) beats cinque terra. Like 1760m up and super panoramic view of the pre-alps(when you walk to the end of the path) and the end of the lake. The weather was so much colder up there. All of us were unprepared haha. So the sun for once made us happy xD Oh the sun at the place is terrible. 6 hrs and we all are burnt..
There was this huge chunk or earth sticking out of the ground. like a mini mountain :) can you see it?

I could get used to living there man hahaha. Really Really like the lake. Maybe its just cos i don't want to come home x) nahh cannot be. Much better than florence. Have not gone to to rome yet.. so cannot say haha
Last day we even saw fish coming near the shore. some of them beached themselves o.O I was contemplating whether or not to grab them but I had shoes on and we had returned the key alr..(check out)
But staying at the resort is expensive. 101 eu for a day. Killed 3 centipedes dad said they were small. If 8cm is small o.O whats big man..
We did not even go to all the places.. too many to go to haha.. I wan't to go back there sometime. But it is 3 hrs away.. Dad had to stop for cofee break. 3 hrs on the road takes some serious toll on your legs. Got out of the car and could not walk properly for a while.
Pics will be put on fb some time.. i think?
My chem wb (teacherss edition) came. YAY. bb i have to stop slacking -.-

2010-05-22T14:44:00.000+02:00

Dad is coming back from paris. He will reach at 6 hopefully.
me and bro broke the cupboard glass >.< so costly to replace.. oops.. :(
The workshop last week wasn't a workshop at all.. more like a gathering where ppl perform.. Hmm the ppl iain's age was playing stuff that he can sight-read. And Iain's s.r. more or less fail hahaha..
We are going to gardaland on tuesday. And dads boss is coming for dinner on mon.. stress. o.O
talked to jon for a while just now.. yay. :)
ciao..

2010-05-15T13:52:00.000+02:00

sigh i'm bored. Jon where are you :)
finished a 2.4 along the coast ystd. awesome scenery.. did not go try doing chin up cos could not do even 3 on staircase ystd(Yep the staircase can be used to do but harder)

nic is so.. ugh. send me virus still can crap sia. really hate these type of ~~ppl~~ dogs.
The virus hid itself in a file called autorun.inf on the hdd but the file is not accessible by opening. Need to force control otherwise it remains locked. Even avg could not access it. o.O I'm assuming the computer would open the autorun file(system access) as it would do with cd? Thus transmitting the virus?? o.O Gonna plug the Hdd into the desktop see if it is still there. (if the file appears.)
Jon i feel like sending you the file then you can help me see which process it starts -.- Do you know how to do tt? nah you shld know x)
either tt or its out already. I HATE NICOLE. Walau. I think i just got blocked by her again. hahahahaha barely 3 days lol xD

I can finally play the canon properly. after like 7-8 mths? -.- too long man. But my sight-reading improved significantly.. Cos i've been doing so many new pieces. yay. Really need to practice the hanon.
4th and 5th Fingers are still quite weak but better compared to back in Singapore. Finally properly utilizing how loud and soft a piano can go. yay again. But the sight reading still is the one that has improved :)

Gonna go finish the questions on exponential dunno wat now.. i'm only at the second chapter of a-math -.- so slow. sigh.. The must understand the log o.O loggyloglog. wth.
I can't draw a curved graph for nuts. even with the french curves(its was way worse before) the line is still not smooth. sad. but on the bright side, i got 5/8 for the graph question without drawing the graph. hahahaha.
The calculator comes with some functions that are pretty usefull o.O like the % and DMS function. I figured it out last yr when i was fiddling with the insert.

byebye:)

2010-05-13T15:55:00.000+02:00

-.-" nic send me trogan and it went into skype and sent links to everyone tt was online. Stupid girl sia -.- MY DADS BOSS WAS ONLINE OKAY. horrible.
I can do 6 pull ups. grats to mee. JOn kill joy lol
The laptop is coming back after 2½. Dad is going with mom to ikea to pick it up..
graph questions are awesome. I lost only 3 marks out of 8 when i did not even draw the graph. hahahaha Still cannot draw a super smooth graph. sad la
bored.. hmm

2010-05-06T21:36:00.000+02:00

Hmm things are weird. Its 12 degs outside. There was a light hail just now.. small pieces of ice. AND, ITS THE MIDDLE-END OF SPRING! hohoho.. My wish for cold weather is coming true hahaha. bad for the italians though.. They like the beach and swimming in the sea. Sea is like less than 500 m down frm my hse here x)
ME AND BRO KILLED 5 FLIES TODAY MUAHAHAHAHA. I can finally do 3 chin up. yay..

Hannah's card arrived. Faith wrote clare a card at least 2 wks before her b'day(trenta marzo) but it only just reached. Hannah's handwriting is awesomely neat. And anpang is taller than hannah? heh.. Not fair I am only ab as tall as my mom now. o.O

Have not talked to anyone is some time. Sigh.. becoming cooped up at home with no one to talk to :(
Jon looks the same. I am missing them.. hmm..
My bro is so cuddly x) you shld squish him tummy *Iain go away xD*
family worship now. bai bai :)

2010-05-03T14:05:00.000+02:00

Op was successful, dad said that it was some globule like thing inside the bump.. He was inside as I'm under 18 so parent has to be inside.
Very funny- they said local anaesthesia will be used but they didn't put any at all hahaha.. could feel the knife cutting. "grins"xP don't know why they used 2 diff colour for stitching, 5 stitches in all. But it was a small incision only haha
have not posted in some time hmm? Went to another place last Saturday, this town where there is a lot of alabaster. (kind of rock that light can shine thru)
Visited some small castle too. Not exactly a castle though. Smaller..
was supposed to have the piano workshop last sun afternoon but last minute the piano teacher was sick. Will be on the 16th instead. Must it always be a Sunday? -.-
i'm gonna do work liao o.O

2010-04-19T20:38:00.001+02:00

Don't buy Toshiba. Srsly don't -.-
We purposely bought a laptop with international warranty but the repair centre says it cannot repair it cos it is made in china and they do not want to courier it back even though the call center said to send it there. The Florence place is 1.5 hrs away. Warranty is now over AND, ITS BEEN SITTING THERE FOR OVER A MONTH.
Like what crap reason is tt?!.
Had lunch ystd with some church people. They liked the food. yay :)
But smth was wrong with the green curry. The milk curded. Badly. the curry became clear.
Oh oh on wednesday we had dinner with stefano and mauricio. I just found out tt my dad is sorta anti french. (ehh.. daddy if u want this taken out say so xP) Super funny sia hear the way they talk.. First time we had so much chinese food in a week HAHAHAHAHA.

2010-04-14T19:48:00.000+02:00

super funny..
Ok Stefano and mauricio are on their way up for dinner :)
its chinese food today haha. GuGu and GuZhang sent a huge parcel of titbits and condiments to us.

2010-04-13T20:09:00.101+02:00

How To Extract Audio From Youtube Videos.

Ok i am doing this on request from a friend.
*Disclaimer:Youtube contains millions of video files which contains audio tracks. It is at your own discretion to decide what is right and what is not. :)
**Youtube files are stored in flv , and this particular software downloads in mp4, which is a easier file format to work with.
***Youtube is used as the sole source of videos due to lack of downloading sources. Reason that i am using youtube downloader is because I have not tried out other programs yet.

I'm going to try to be as precise as possible. Anyone that can read should be able to follow thru easily

The only stuff that you are going to need:

Youtube downloader(The only software needed) Website Direct-download (The reason i put the website is for you to visit when you have some extra time.. The direct-download link should work fine though)

~~The little bit of tech knowledge that everyone should(in my opinion) have.~~

The ~ sign indicates this step only needs to be done once or 'for your information' only.(eg., settings or buttons), which means those whithout the symbol are the main steps.
Ok instructions..

Download the exe and then install it. Carefull, don't install the toolbars. (@ the 4th step of installation) Okay its just me. But unless you are not using chrome, Don't bother.(The awesomeness of chrome. hahaha. I really like this browser. Give up the ie and go chrome. Its linked.)
~The first time you run the software, this box will pop-up.
~Check the box and click: (If you want, that is)
This program will appear.

Downloading Video

Here on is how to download ONLY the video file. Extraction of audio or conversion will be shown lower down.

For the purpose of this guide, I will be using a video with the song, "Vanilla Twilight by Owl City".
Go to the page with the Video that you want to download, and COPY the link(the url) Its in the place you type the urls to go to web pages. This applies to ALL browsers universally. If you can't figure out this part, oh dear. you are missing the second thing required. x)
WARNING: The link(before copying) should look like this: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIz2K3ArrWk", And not like this: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIz2K3ArrWk&feature=channel"
Delete anything that looks like: &feature=channel It will get in the way of downloading the file.
Go to the program. The link should appear instantly appear in the first big white box(in the program), as it automatically pastes the link in the box(by accesing your clipboard) *If not, click on the box area and press the key combination "ctrl+v"
~Now, click on this box:.
~A box entitled "browse for folder" asking you where to save the file after download will appear. Click "desktop"(or what you like, but I recommend the desktop as its the easiest to get to and you can move the file anywhere you want after downloading anyway)
~click when done selecting the default folder
~The "Download options" need not be adjusted, as it adjusts itself to download the file in the highest quality. Don't change this as it will affect the audio quality.. (Eh I think at least? jon.. edit this part as necessary.) Don't bother checking the option that says: "show video file url"
Ok. we are finally going to download the file.. "YAY.."*applause*lotsa sarcasm implied hahaha
Click (in the main program box)
A "save as" box will appear:
You can change the file name, but don't change the file format. DON'T. it would give you 1 headache.(easy to fix headache but just don't)
Click "save"
File will start downloading(looks like this)
The file is now saved on your desktop:
~
~It is stored as format ".mp4", which is the format apple uses. Quicktime will be able to play this. Google it if you cannot open the file. Because I am too lazy to copy the download link.. Need to view the source code and copy directly from there and I am rushing to get this out..

Extracting audio
(getting the song track out)

click on the option: "Convert Video(previously downloaded) from file
(you do see what i mean right???)
click on thebutton and click on the file you want to convert, which in this case, for me, is the vanilla twilight file.
~It should now look something like this
~The button:simply plays the movie.
Ok now to extract the audio, or to convert the video file.
Click on this bar:
A list will appear:
Click on the one that says: "MPEG Audio Layer 3(MP3)"(for the purposes of this tutorial, you can convert to whatever else you like. Its self explainatory)
Click:.
This box appears.
Move the quality selection bar to max(highly recommended) and volume to max(this is optional).
Should look like this:
Click:.
The file will start converting and will be saved at the same location as the original file.(patience)
~Looks like this:
After 14 secs±. VIOLA. Your song.
~Comparison of the original file and the end result:
~You can convert it to other file formats that are in the dropdown list.
~About the manual conversion. Ehh.. Don't try lah.. Unless you are good at typing parameters. I have not tried before :) Go ahead and try if you would like. :)

The end.. sigh.. That took me 1 hr lol.
I HAVE DELETED THE SONG AND VIDEO TRACK.
The guide should be very very clear. questions, facebook. not the c-box. tyvm :)
Okay. I am going now.. bye x)

2010-04-06T20:47:00.000+02:00

hmm ppl 做恶梦 shawn 做饿梦 hahahahahaha xP
just had chicken rice for dinner. Got all the chem mcq in the tys right yayayayay.(for types of bonds)
Was supposed to skype jon but dunno why he disappear. sigh. gonna help him make the most of his cash now.. muahahahahaha
some random crap
cheesecake made with our only can of condensed milk

Orange face made by bro. sicily orange.

NASI LEMAK! The one i mentioned the last time.. hehehehe

Oh i dles the ac3 and divx codecs. So can watch movies yay

2010-04-05T14:43:00.002+02:00

Went to cinque terre(or is it terra) on saturday. Very nice place. Took a train there and back. First time we took Europe train.
We bought the pass tt lets us keep riding the train inside of cinque terre. Instead of walking for hrs. xD The museums are pathetic though. Shouldn't call it a museum at all. Ate dinner at this restaurant. And... paid 7eu for 2 cans of drink. walau. epic scam. sigh. Next time go out cannot order drink. tts 14 sgd leh. o.O
The train ride back was super comfortable. I love the seats. if you extend all of them, it can make a queen sized bed. But the cabin was over heated though. Little bit uncomfortable. Could not open the window -.-. cannot figure out how to do it.
Sigh the laptop still is not back. Need to update winrar and the divx player and the yt dler. prob the ipod softwares too. sigh.
Its easter monday. whats the story behind the bunny ah? i dont recall at all.
Had curry ystd. nice.
The water here is turning hard.(deposits after washing water)either that or when the landlord left for spain and forgot to add softener. but is the softener added by the distributors or wat?? o.O
Had quite a few things i wanted to add here. but.. i forgot.
oh sis is at my bro's nose now. bro is below my chin. i am slightly shorter than mom. And daylight is all the way to 8pm+-.
playing stupid jumping dog game on facebook. oh its a holiday for us today. shall go look at chem later..

2010-03-29T13:49:00.000+02:00

Went to a natural history museum on saturday. The bones of some creature are like uh.. i dunno how big o.O
Had nasi lemak on sunday.(ystd) Then we had this cake for dessert. yum hahaha
The laptop is still at the horrible place. Sigh. by the time they get round to repairing it, Windows is gonna have to sit there and update for hrs man -.-" Must go dl the new divx player on tt com. I want media center on the laptop. Any ideas???? It plays corrupted files very smoothly :D
good for watching dled movies. which reminds me.. hmm
We got fined. Some car fine. Stupid sia. next time (if you are someone who breaks lotsa fines), When renting a car, go get a sub card and don't give them obvious personal details. Then if u think u got fined, just cancel the card after you pay for the rental. Cos the fines take 6 mths to get thru. woohoo -.-
sigh.. chem is getting to me.

2010-03-21T21:12:00.001+01:00

my dad says i jia pa bo dai ji zo.(eat until full nothing to do)
But Then i said,"I NEVER jia pua one!" xPPPPPPPP
Then my mom was teaching us hokkien numbers. Bro went, "yi, di, sa, si, gor, lak, qi, pui(fat. not. puay), gao, zap(zhap, not zap zap that zap)" hahahahaha.. super funny.. imagine my grandma's surprise if she hears that hahahahaha.
oh we re-formatted the desktop again. He thinks is a software error. I think its the ram though -.-
Dad is going back to rome again. Oh in italy, all roads really do lead to roam. The aurelia or smth like really goes to roam in all cities. Cool eh.. Ohoh going at 130km'h although speed limit is 90 seems to be a norm.. If i am not wrong some do go at 200 hahaha...

we went to abertone again ystd(sat.) Oggi è il primo giorno di primavera. So we decided to go there before all the snow melts. And the snow was mostly ice anyway.. Was fun though.. Although there was a lot of fog we played at this place meant for snowboarders.. But no one went there until like 3 o'clock.. So we spent quite a lot of time there. One thing i find puzzling though. Why do my legs feel so tired and my heart beat so fast when i climb up the slope o.o Its not like its 60 degs or smth. But its steep enough to let me slide down whithout the bob sled. We bought 2 sleds some time back. :)
i am going to sleep. dunno why dad is so tired haha

2010-03-18T17:39:00.000+01:00

okay i managed to turn on the desktop. Sigh i hate how italians do things. srsly. The florence place says it cannot repair the laptop screen prob. LIKE WTH? ITS A SOFTWARE PROBLEM LEH!?!?!?!
Windows uac is pissing me off. Takes so long to get into a user's folder. walau. Bad technology day.
Could someone explain to me why the copying process starts at 21mb/sec for like 5 secs? THEN DROPS TO LIKE 7.52MB/SEC?!?!?!
sigh i am really hating this. we may go abertone on sat. dad is in rome.
Sigh.

2010-03-16T10:59:00.001+01:00

we are sending in the laptop today.. backup most usefull things liao.. A factory reset wouldn't do much harm. xD
deleting passwords and other crrap now.. backing up my dled programs.. cannot find one hahaha

2010-03-13T02:31:00.004+01:00

We had Dinner with the italian teacher and her husband.. Had a good chat.. learnt a lot of things and told them all abt singapore and lil bit of chinese.. Were able to talk with them both as they spoke english.. Sigh dad wants me to go and sleep.. -.-
Somehow the italians think we eat snakes, monkeys and dog -.- I was like HUH???
Can't remember all the things we talked abt off hand but it was more of a chat than when we had ugo's family over for dinner.. Actually its cos we don't speak italian.. otherwise we could have talked more. Sigh.. horrible language barrier.
They told us this joke.. it went smth like this..
What is 7.30 in Italy?
In Milan, its 7.30, no question(milan is a very busy area in italy)
In Florence, it might be 7.20 or 7.40 there-about(middle)
But in in sicily, there is no 7.30. There is only a 7.62(7.62caliber) (mafia)(bottom of italy)
super funny hahaha.. I don't know if i got it correct though..
augh i'm going to sleep bb

2010-03-12T15:38:00.000+01:00

.....................

TODAY WAS APPOINTMENT MAKING -.-

the op is on 3rd may zzz. My bro is being irritating -.- behave like a 2 yr old kid.

i'm bored. very bored. very very very bored.. Maybe i should try doing another skin? Can't say i've done tt before.. everyone else does it easily.. I mean kez could do it so yeah.. xP hohoho
jon is cutting on his com time or wat.. i don't see him online.
Jon when ur online can u just call my dads skype -.-
my bro wants to use the com. fine. heh.(cutting back on saying bb. I find it very irritating.)

2010-03-12T08:53:00.001+01:00

I'm going for op now.. whoohoo.. i'm going under an italian knife.. ahahahaha
ok bb i am going now..

2010-03-11T11:21:00.002+01:00

... the op is on vernerdi(fri.. not sure abt spelling)
and i have piano and the italian teacher is coming on tt day.
dad might bring the laptop to florence to fix it. And italians do things very slowly.. oh boy..
tt means like no com for 1-2 weeks. jialat. sigh so sian..

2010-03-09T22:00:00.002+01:00

i just came out frm the bath. i hate bath tubs. irritating. so hard to bathe, esp when you have to worry whether the water will burn u ur freeze you -.-" horrible. just horrible.
its stopped snowing.. And the vent cover upstairs dropped off. its freezing up there now. And the wind outside is JUST great. Its 17.8degs in the house downstairs.. Upstairs its like 6-8degs. Cos of the 2 horrible vents. It snowed all day and its not snowing at night. horrible weather sia.. It shld snow at night and not day. Cos daytime it hits the road and melts. Night time the temp plunges. So it would not melt.
I'm too lazy to upload the vids now. tmr i will.

I found this in readers digest.. super funny hahaha:

In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
And Earth was without form and void.
And God made a circular light in the heavens, and he called it the Sun.
And God saw that the light was good.
And the Devil made a smaller light, rectangular in shape,
and he called it TV. And the Devil saw that
the light was bad.
And God made springs which came out of the ground,
oozing fountains of pure, fresh water.
And God saw that the water was good.
And the Devil invented fizzy drink.
And saw that the fizzy drinks were bad.
And God said, Let the Earth bring forth vegetables,
and the herb of the field, that the children
may grow up healthy. And it was so.
And the Devil said, Let there be deep-fried potatoes.
And God said, Let the waters bring forth 10,000 varieties
of fish, that they may provide sustenance for the children.
And the Devil arranged that the fish be smothered
in batter, deep fried, and served with deep-fried potatoes.
And God created the cattle of the field, and said,
Behold, I have given you every living creature that moveth;
to you it shall be for meat.
And the Devil showed how the meat could be minced
and turned into burgers, and suggesteth that it be always
served with deep-fried potatoes.
And on the seventh day, God rested and asked that
his children rest too, and use the day to contemplate
the wonders of creation.
And the Devil created the all-day brunch, cartoon TV channels,
and Sunday newspapers filled with articles about
celebrities, that the minds of the children be filled with rubbish
and their bodies filled with yet more
deep-fried potatoes.
And God said to they boy, Take the girl and go forth
and multiply. And of your seed I shall make a great nation,
as numberless as the stars of the heavens.
And the Devil invented the computer and recruited 10,000
demons to fill it with online battles and images of top-heavy women.
And the boy did part with the girl and
did instead cleave to the computer.
And God pointed out to the girl that he had made her
with many attractive blandishments which she could use
whenever the boy was away from the computer.
And the Devil invented the Nintendo DS Lite so that the boy
will be able to take computer games with him wherever he goes.
Now the serpent was more subtle than any
of the animals that God had created. And the Devil did
enter into the serpent and cause him to say to the girl and the boy,
The tree in the middle of the garden the Lord hath told you not to touch.
But I say unto you, if you eat of the fruit of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, your eyes will be opened
and you shall be as gods.
And the boy and the girl looked at the serpent
and said unto him: No thanks. We liketh not fruit.
But hast thou any deep-fried potatoes?

note:the devil was not creating alongside god -.- the whole thing does not make any sense
its a JOKE. Don't memorize it. it'll mess up ur head big time.
its srsly funny hahahaha...

ok i need to go hang the clothes.. sian bb

2010-03-09T15:52:00.000+01:00

just came back frm the hospital. no i didn't get the op. tmr. yay.. i'm gonna get cut up whoohoo.. no not really hahaha..
Its one awesome day man.. The snowflakes are getting bigger and bigger. we took more pics and vids. will put em up later.. can hear me playing moonlight sonata in the background in one of them.. I am doing so many pieces now. sigh. want to do only those tt i like. WAIT. I LIKE ALL OF EM. HAHAH.
my exam piece, moonlight sonata , ballade pour adeline, et, entertainer(this and previous are easy version), canon, some stupid sonatina(i don't love this one to bits). That's all.. but.. I AM DOING GRD7 LEH WALAU. HOW TO LEARN ALL THE STUFF WHEN I'M DOING SO MUCH CRAP.

hahaha italian hamtaro song.. cannot find the one tt we like.. nvm i ripped it liao.. The teacher passed us the disc. She is coming on friday for dinner. Will make a vid with the song tt we like hahaha
i'll put up vids of all the snow later hahaha

2010-03-09T12:42:00.000+01:00

Its becoming a blizzard outside. Visibility is low. worse than up at the ski mountain. We saw the mist likt thing on the road.. so nice.. i like the misty things moving around hahaha..
the laptop screen have software error. when i close and open the backlight doesn't come on. but when i sleep and unsleep or i plug it into a screen that is not plugged into the wall, the lappy screen becomes the secondary desktop WITH the backlight turned on. Then when i plug it back out, the backlight turns back on.
lunch was awesome.. ok i'm gonna do a sys restore then I'll have to go to the hospital for the op... Think its gonna be a local anaesthetic. bb.. the snow outside is great.. we have been wishing for snow haha

2010-03-09T11:52:00.000+01:00

Just came back frm doctor. Gonna have minor op later to remove the lumpon my cheek. doc says its not fat. There is so much snow outside. YAY. SNOW MORE HAHAHA. JUst tt livorno does not have many snow clearing things o.o. i'll put come more pics and vid of the snow later on..
i've got to go do work now.. sigh..

2010-03-09T08:30:00.001+01:00

We're having pancakes for breakfast. Its 16.7 degs in the house, and.. ITS SNOWING OUTSIDE!!
this pic was taken in church hen my hair loooked okay. Don't really like it now. hahaha

Our window was covered in snow when we woke up. Lots of snow is blowing frm mountain direction.. YAY SNOW!

sigh it looks like its stopped snowin. not fair. why can't it snow super heavily like in Abertone. heh.
sigh.. snow leh. don't stop -.-

2010-03-08T20:17:00.000+01:00

JUst finished dinner.. Had smoked slamon(ugh its salted.. prefer the tasteless one) miso soup with seaweed, jap rice and sushi.. Sushi was sausage with rice and sushi seaweed. the rice have the vinegar thingy.

My sis found my mom's stuffed from nus day o.o huh? nus day's? this pink bunny.. like energizer bunny x) looks like?

Jon may be exempted frm ns. Sigh.. my poor cousin. Its a heart problem.. I've been so sticky to him since young.. hahaha

ohoh i know a way to kill ppl's internet.. make this blog redirect to a page which redirects back here. Constant loop. hahaha.

Macdonalds very ex here o.o and.. No mcwings as well. sigh. thats deprived.

Going for checkup tmr. erm.. From paris with love is srsly funny. The way the guy pwns the gangsters rocks.. If it happens to all the thieves on earth tt would be.. erm fun. But got big mess afterwards o.o nvm whats cremation for. i'm being gory. oh boy oh boy. haha...

have to go get used to typing in the dark.

2010-03-08T19:21:00.002+01:00

An earthquake has hit turkey.. wow.. so many earthquakes recently.. And watching 2012 doesn't help at all.. The part abt everyone getting left behind. We are near the sea.. Very near.. Imagine jogging 1 min to the sea.. less actually. Livorno is sea town? o.o not really.. I don't know.
there was an tsunami in livorno many many years back.. dad say one.. o.o
And.. its gotten colder suddenly?! huh? winter is supposed to be ending. Wind was howling outside last night.. was so cold in the morning. Its 3 degs outside now.. Ice cream anyone? :D
Going upstairs is akin to standing infront of the open fridge.
I have a lot of studying to do o.o hahaha so happy.. no cca. no seniors crapping away.
Read lots of horror stories abt thefts in italy o.o how? i'm here hahaha..
going for dinner.. bb.. oh go listen to the italian hamtaro song.. We like it hahaha.. italian teacher used it to teach us..
Xia mian you zi.. Bai se de. Yong ni de mouse qu kan. Bà shuo bu ying gai xie zhe zhong dong xi.
Bà says there is a crap load of corruption here.. The parliment barber or smth like tt earns a outrageous sum of 10 grand eu a month. The salaries of the politicians are also very high. A lot of projects were done halfway but cannot continue- no funds. A bridge outside dad's office took 15 yrs to complete! And the tax is literally sky high. 12% on purchases and 49% on salary. Policemen are unhelpful too. Not fair to the locals here. We should be happy abt singapore's state of affairs. Sigh..
ok . i'm going for my jap food dinner o.o

2010-03-06T21:37:00.002+01:00

Just came back frm Florence.. Wasn't well.. That pleasant.. There were a lot of ppl cos it was sunny today, last few days were rainy.
Met this guy who kept insisting tt we buy a copy of a painting.. dad bought it.. i was quite buay song cos he kept insisting that we buy it -.-
Oh then the most exciting part was when someone was arrested(put in handcuffs?) for theft.. I was so happy. Call me evil and mean but I was really pissed by how the previous guy(who tried to sell us the painting) was so insistent.(they were the frm the same place.. not indian but looked similar.. prob frm some neighbouring country)He put up a fight man. Whole steet gathered to spectate. There was prob plain-clothes policemen around.. Otherwise where did the handcuffs come frm..
Loving the ppl in Livorno who sell things at the market.. They are so much more pleasant. If they ask you to buy, and you say no, they would leave you alone.
BUT IN FLORENCE, IF PPL ASK U TO BUY THINGS, ESP IF THEY LOOK LIKE PPL FRM INDIA(i fail at races but nvm), AND U DON'T LIKE THE STUFF, SPEAK HOKKIEN AND JUST KEEP WALKING. Oh be surprised.. But florence is a tourist place and a lot of ppl speak eng, jap and prob chinese as well o.o
and be really careful with ur belongings. One man(my height) was walking so close to my dad.. So i went right behind him haha.. He grab i oso grab.(grab him lah not his wallet -.-) o.o actually tts dangerous but nvm hahaha.
Will upload pics onto fb another time.. i'm going for a bath now.. hahaha

Its sunday evening now.. we just ended evening worship.. Listened to the message abt the breastplate of righteousness.. i bet kezia was pretty stunned when yi-ba said: "i can see some of you sleeping." woohoo hahaha..
On the way back frm florence, the stars outside were awesome.. like a bowl of laksa with prawns.. maybe the cockles too but.. yeah u get what i'm trying to say.. We could(me at least) see the whole of pegasus including the great²(great square).. wow since when did i do stars.. well since i opened the telescope star map thing o.o.
After living here for a couple of month's, I have come to a conclusion. Most kids here behave like violent 1yr olds, the ppl my age behave like 5month olds, and the teenagers are just.. Lost of vocab. help-.-
they way they treat other's property is just awesome. And not just kids, ADULTS are "extremely" polite and courteous as well. Ppl having piano lesson he go bang on the piano. horrible. ok if it was nice music then its okay. but no! its horrible jazz that doesn't have any melody at all!! Oh and they treat cars very well too. new car can get scratched 2 times in 2 days o.o same area. There were 3 kids(my age) who said the japanese word for thank you to me and bro twice. idiots. they don't even have any idea what it means do they -.- then they give us smug look.. come singapore like tt confirm kenna hoot one -.- do we look jap?! wth
its 11 alr.. i'm going to sleep.. my neck hurts.. not excatly but yeah.. gonna see doctor on tuesday for the thing on my cheek..

2010-03-05T23:06:00.000+01:00

o.o my hair cut actually looks okay. we are going to florence tmr..
today's piano was sad. this idiot guy was playing shit jazz outside the piano room.. couldn't hear at all.. worst one was when i was playing the monchen sonaten.(super soft piece) couldn't hear wat i was playing at all.. he was improvising lor.. it wasn't even a structured piece.(are there 1 hr jazz pieces???) stupid italian fail guy -.- either tt or i really really hate jazz..
and i STILL HAVE NOT COMPLETED LAST LAST WEEKS POST. WALAU.
i'm just gonna do one line. cannot be bothered to do any more. -.-

2010-03-04T12:47:00.000+01:00

walao my mom JUST CUT THE BACK OF MY HAIR. So evil.. i removed the script frm the blog liao.. when i have time next time then i go figure out how to do it..

2010-03-04T12:35:00.000+01:00

augh i'm just gonna give up the idea abt using the high slide. can't find a host that i can do the directory myself. -.- so leychey.
my mom is trying to cut my hair. tts not happening. defenitely not.

2010-03-03T22:34:00.002+01:00

ok. i. am. lost. fell like just scrapping the idea of a very nice slide show and just giving a link to fb -.-"
sigh..

2010-03-03T20:52:00.000+01:00

ok i am in the process of adding the photo album to blogger now.. takes so long to figure out how to do it.. silly me.. haha
using google docs as the file host.. uploading now.. gonna change the config file's links when it is done.
dinner was great.. ok ciao.. i'm gonna try doing it now

2010-03-03T13:32:00.000+01:00

ahhhhhh.. i am really confused right now -.- HOW TO MAKE THE PICS APPEAR PROPERLY SIA WALAU.. augh.. sigh.. no one else seems to have probs with it o.o
jon.. help.. (highslide.com)

2010-03-03T11:47:00.002+01:00

sigh i am trying to figure out how to use highslide with blogger.. so.. ugh. hating it -.-
can't figure out how to put the body code in.. the pics all come out like i dunno wat o.o
OH I KNOW ALR.. WALAU.. SUPPOSED HOST URSELF LAH -.-

2010-03-02T20:56:00.001+01:00

just came back frm jog with my family.. wore a thin white shirt out. Bro was so tired.. Panting after a short while.. so me and dad didn't get much exercise.. -.-
When we were running in the small lane this group of wuliao italian teenagers were saying some crap.. wuliao..
go get rammed down by a italian driver if ur tt bored sia -.-(no offence to any good italian drivers around hahaha.. its just tt most drivers we meet can't drive for nuts.. esp the kids who get licenses at 14 -.- for moped's tt is.. The teens all look like gangsters.. And the amt of makeup used by most girls is awesome haha.. thought Singapore was bad..)
Then there was this kid(no not kid actually.. abt 17.. behaves more like 2) who was like racing around.. everyone was honking at him.. hopes he gets knocked down. serious. he was irritating the drivers..
My dad just said we lost 3000 SGD+− over the exchange rates.. its at a srs all time low now. but is it just me or is it going back up o.o

SEE?? ITS AWESOMELY LOW NOW O.O
this is the 5day chart

(note the scale scale thing.. i actually hate(drawing) graphs..
good time to transfer? o.o i don't actually understand market x)
Haven't typed abt this weekend. or the last. walau. not fair. i am going to type it all tonight. i don't care. heh.
ugh.

2010-03-01T20:05:00.005+01:00

We invited the italian teacher over for dinner with her husband.. Oh yeah the test today was easy. I beat my dad.. haha.. Talking to jonathan on skype now.. trying to play cs with him.. and.. i am a missing a file called "de_vegas.wad" sigh dad and mom keep asking me go to dining table for home sch.. simply cos we were doing italian whole morning. -.-"

There was a protest near the cathedral while we were having lesson.. big group.. first time i've seen a real life protest. cool. bunch of buaysong ppl ~~huddled together to keep warm~~

(edit)oh i found the de_vegas file alr.. its a map texture o.o dunno why the fy_iceworld map would even have anything thing to do with it. identical map??
ohoh i found out tt Livorno.. IS ACTUALLY LEGHORN! zzz now then i realise haha..
OH WE GOT THE CAR HAHAHA.. Mio papa e mama went to the place.. we got the car whoohoo.. no more super ex rental.. i don't if i posted tt alr though o.o

So on sat we took the car for a test drive to Siena.. and.. we got a little lost.. my dad says blame the gps.. hahaha.. well yeah la its really the gps's fault.. we can't turn into oncoming traffic rite? can we? o.o^{3(tt didn't make any sense)}(yesh we can but we'll all look like flies hitting the windscreen) We met this jehovah witness who spoke chinese. YES SPOKE CHINESE.
Dad says we all ought to be put to shame. I agree. She wasn't even struggling (u) know(its a phrase used by dad).. she was FLUENT jialat..
pics frm fb.. how to make them rollover then enlarge ah? o.o want to go learn some script for html hahaha..[there was supposed to be a slideshow thing but i can't for heck figure out how to do it -.-(i was typing this while my mom was cutting my hair so i cannot put the links to the pics

sunday we had lunch in church.. then we went to see the new location of the church..
we found this doghouse like thing behind the place.. the white one came over to us and we were scratching its chin hahaha... THen there were some eh gardening tols at the back of the place where the dogs were kept. o.o some were like torture tools o.O scary
the place used to be a car shop.. there were car parts at the place..
ok i am gonna go try link the pics.. mom is cutting my hair now.. ouch..(this part was written after the post somewhere up there abt cutting my hair. hahaha)

2010-02-26T00:37:00.000+01:00

Its 12 am now.. we are still wide awake. well maybe except clare.

Dad says, "finish that orange." I say,"dad says finish that orange"*type into com* -.- wuliao
I don't want to finish that orange dad. help me peel hahaha.. xP Bro says," shawn. finish that orange." I say, "dad help me peel." i am talking like the monkey thought translator(in cloudyand a chance of meatballs) "help me peel," i say. "fine. just eat it the orange. ~~It doesn't taste like me~~," says my bro.
Bro isin't peeling for me. oh man i nearly typed peeing for me. o.o

Dinner with the taranta's(uncle ugo's family) was good. We coocked too much food. had bread, appetizer(french loaf, kiwi slice, mozzarella~~(spell????)~~ and cherry tomato slice), kebab, chicken breast meat. 2 trays of shepherds pie(beef sauce with potato on top and cheese thing), apple streussel(which the awesome me forgot to take a pic of -.- home made. they liked it), ice cream(no gelato, mint, choclate, cookie and cream and vanilla) then we also served strawberries but no one took. so i happy happy go take and cream it. whipped cream is more like aerated fat. that tastes nice. We made too much food. Way too much haha.. Then when we were seeing them out the daughter(15 year old dancer.. she has like 25xx friends on fb o.o) was shocked when me and bro walked out into the cold night.(it wasn't cold xD) She finds it cold.. they've been to singapore before, so they would know how we have been suffering under the heat right? o.o
Our house is like 20.4 now. now its too warm sigh. Wouldn't mind it dropping a few degs. not gonna sleep with the yellow flowery quilt tonight. I like flowers. They are edible. Gonna air the room or will just use my bro as heater. Oops. he is right beside me.

haven't finished typing the previous previous post. and my legs still hurt frm the jog. want to go again. this time i go the full 2.4km(frm house to big junction) ohoh i have lost fat but not weight since coming here. arghh.. nvm i don't mind being well covered. :D

ciao. letting bro use com. we are supposed to go sleep though..
*thinking of sticking post-its to ppl. esp ones that say kick me xPPPPP hyper hyper whohoo*

2010-02-24T17:36:00.014+01:00

augh i'm still pretty angry tt everything tt i typed dissappeared.. augh.. Gonna type it later.. Dad and mom went to ipercoop ystd(hypermart. its not italian i think?) Used their 10%.. Bought so much things. Just finished replying joel. 2 months have passed so quickly. Spring is coming. ITs getting warmer. NOOO!! I like the weather the way it is. Well maybe a couple of degs up and it would be perfect. :D
Found out tt the average italian income isin't very high. How do they survive?! i mean 49% tax, 20% gst(smth like that) and then they have to get this card that card -.- wuliao.
Tmr ugo's family is coming to our house. They kids don't like asian food. walau like tt how can?!
My heads been feeling all muddled.. Oh the lump on my cheek.. Got a appointment on the 9th(march). sigh.
My desktop is getting cluttered. And my harddisk is running out of space. 30 gigs left. sigh.
Hannah's b'day is on sunday.. maybe i can send smth by ~~airpork~~ airmail.

steam boat dinner

Iain's chive plant.
(well its not excatly the species we eat in singapore but still... it counts :D)

Snow capped mountains further up north

(excatly north. the coast is facing the east so its 100% north :D)

Padre e sorella

scenery o.o I like the sun in the background

My awesome concoction. Soaked cocoa cereals on a piece of toast with peach yoghurt.. yum :D

Resorted to using fb as file host -.-

Pretty effective. dunno wat might go wrong o.o

Egg i made for brkfast when dad and mom were out to collect codis fiscale..

Potato with milk butter ham and dunno wat.. very nice :D

Wow. shld have figured tt out long ago.. set the album to private. Its called file host haha

Cannot think of any other things to post liao.. The viarregio carnival pics i'll add the pics to the post itself. fb uploads so much faster than blogger.

lol is so much more effective. i usually use it in replacement of:I don't have anything else to say and i'm actually not laughing. at all. not a tiny bit. i'm just putting lol to fill in the otherwise grammatical gap. wow wat a whole lot of crap lol. -.- see? see what using msn has done to me. haha

posted that to hannah's fb haha.. shall try my very utmost (not) best to not use lol..
wondering what to talk to the kids sbt tmr.. one is 15 while the other is my age o.o

2010-02-24T00:01:00.006+01:00

-.- haven't touched the com in like 36 hrs.. haha first thing i do is come here update my blog..
Last italian class is on thursday. Its both sad and happy at the same time.. happy cos no more going out.. sad cos no more lesson.. i mean.. learning another lingua can't be a bad thing right?

WALAU I TYPED LIKE A LOT OF STUFF HERE THEN THE DAMN BROWSER HANGED AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

stupid auto save. Super angry now -.-" Just lost the will to type. Damn browser
>.<
gonna sleep now. Augh. 1 hr of typing. dammit. waste my time. no way to retrieve. chrome doesn't store a complete html image of the previous page. Hmm wonder if there are browser plugins tt do tt. But it would only work on text and not on java. tt would require capturing images of java areas. and text boxes tt do not appear in page source. So angry. -.- bouna notte tutto e mio(redundant)

Went to some place tt is 2 hrs away frm home.. Demonstrated how to get into the 50 cents eu toilet whithout paying. Kenna scolded by dad.. haha Me and bro had pizza. i had peperoni while he had some sausage thing.. Went to this shop where the guy makes his own bags. He was so excited to sell us the bag.. Bought a bottle of wine and some other stuff.

We were all telling Iain to keep well away frm the display :D

I grew thinner and taller.. yay.. went for jog ystd and now my legs hurt haha..

On sunday we went to the brethren church as usual, but we went to the pastors hse.. His name is Stefano..
Food was great..
(I typed this like 3 weeks after it happened, so my recollection is really hazy. really really hazy)

on monday dad collected his carta di identita. Its made of paper o.o
so many cards.. ok bb hahaha

2010-02-19T22:18:00.001+01:00

Today the policeman came.. didn't even come up.. -.-" yay can collect the codis fiscale(somehow they pronounce it as written(eng pronunciation) and not fis-ca-le.. italian pronunciation is every vowel pronounced) Tmr dad and mom going to the questura to collect it.. then can go buy the car.. yay.. no more money drinking car rental.. Italian class is ending.. 3 more hrs to go.. last lesson will have a test.. Taught(sorta) the italian teacher chinese numbers.. yay i can spell italian numbers.. see

1-uno
2-due
3-tre
4-quattro
5-cinque
6-sei
7-sette
8-otto
9-nove
10-dieci

haha pro rite.. xP lazy to put in ten onwards.. then again.. maybe i shall

11- undici
12-dodici
13-tredici
14-quattrodici
15-quindici
16-sedici
17-diciassette
18-diciotto
19-diciannove
20-venti

Shawn is definitely bored.. so bored tt he is now going to do it till 100.. hohohohoho
ok maybe not.. dad call me sellfish cos i dun let him use lol hahaha

Can't get the irritating front piece of the desktop keyboard off.. oh we moved the desktop screen(it dieded-ing(benissimo ingelese)hahaha) to the sofa table.. so fun.. i have the desktop mouse and keyboard with me now.. took the blue cable(forgot name.. help jon) and pluggered it into the laptop. my speakers are also plugged in.. nice surround effect..
gonna watch movie hohoho.. bouna notte xD

2010-02-18T19:53:00.000+01:00

mom gave bro his first home(hair)cut. looks terrible.. hole in front and at the back lol.. she cut the fringein the middle with the shaver.. so now can see the shaver marks at the front.. maybe i'll get a pic and put it here.. then next time i'll read this and laugh like how little monkeys appreciate oranges(lmao.. copyright jonathan xP)
we all had a good laugh abt the way my mom cut hahahaha.. Dad said 'no' in a VERY convicing way.. hahahahahaha
dad aint feeling well.. sigh.. hope its nothing.. :(
going for family worship now.. gonna watch movies later :D

2010-02-17T21:28:00.000+01:00

lol so cool i plugged in the laptop to the desktop.. so now me and bro are using com at once.. dunno if the graphics card supports it properly though.. hope it doesn't overheat.. :(
but on the bright side, now 2 ppl can use the computer at once.. but only one can type and use the mouse.. unless there are software to have 2 mouse and 2 keyboards(i using the spoilt desktop keyboard now)
list of wat to undo:(for me)
change the primary display device to laptop screen under graphics options(card)
ensure tt the windows disp option are correct.
ensure the desktop wiring is put back properly? unless dad likes the new arrangement.. unlikely though.. he hates messes..

i think tts it? lol..
oh doc say if dads pain come back go hospital straight away.. as for me.. appointment..
i just found out how crapping fast torrentis lol.. 300kbps? unheard speeds.. pwn..
hahaha playing with the way the mouse moves across the screens.. so fun lol.. I just installed teamplayer.. lets u use 2 mice at once.. but i only have 2 mice and 2 keyboards plugged in why they say 3 mice and 3 keyboards o.o
its a trail software though.. 30 days.. dads home.. gtg liao.. oh tmr ugo's family not coming.. just realised the software splits the mouse.. but doesn't allow multi program usage -.-" can't do that.. very hard.. eh bb lol xP gona see how the torrent is..

2010-02-17T16:59:00.000+01:00

ahh i can't think o.o sigh.. so tired.. Went to this carnival ystd.. music was so loud.. crazy ppl.. My mind is so cluttered. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
no tt didn't help. going to see doctor for this funny hard lump on my cheek bone and for dads chest.. pain i think :(
i hate graphs..
need to go download the things in the lists sitting on my desktop.. might put some pics frm the carnival up.. i can't think help ahhhh
bb i going to clinic haha(got the health card.. have personal doc and other dunno wat)

2010-02-12T15:58:00.000+01:00

ahhh me and bro's room have mould. lots of it. Cos I dun want to air the room. its cols enough whithout even opening the window(like 6-10degs?!) its not cos we don't on the heater. its cos the heater doesn't help. house is too big.. Yay its new on sunday.. this year it falls on the same day as valentines day. Might wake up at 4am to send our wishes to my grandma and the rest.. ahh its so cold.. sigh..
BATTERY IS 10% NOW AHH HAHA.
bb piano soon(its one cold friday hmm)

2010-02-06T14:46:00.001+01:00

dad and mom went to the florence ikea.. Bought a table and a tv shelf thing. set up the dining table at 11pm plus o.o.. Finished setting up the tv shelf this morning. Then oso got this hanger thing. China makes better furniture than (some eu country xP).. The quality of the furniture dropped.

My bro is complaining "wat use is a saturday if i don't get to do wat i want(the damn kamen rider)" noisy sia. irritating boy.
Dad shld just bring him out.
Dad is siding with him.
He just went up. YESH HAHAHA.
Dad is telling me not to disturb him(don't make him shout)
WTH SIA HE IS THE IRRITATING PIG WHO COME HOWLIAN.
walau i damn buaysong sia.
(my dad)still dare say u are not siding with him. rubbish.

still havent got round to getting the songs on the dl list. i am getting crap speeds. like 56.5kbps -.-

the piano place piano is the worst piano i have ever touched. Why can't the teacher just come to our place. I mean it getting double sounds (per key) and the control is terrible. either tt or its the way its meant to be o.O

crap my bro is coming down. Now he is crapping with me. say wat take com frm him. "anyhow say things abt me" or "WAT LA then *swing fat arm*" are just some of the irritating crap he says.

ugh so irked.

2010-02-03T17:56:00.000+01:00

Spent 1½ hrs on piano today. If ur asking wats tt smell.. I just farted. no way i'm gonna say excuse me. xP My bro made some bionicle creations.. uploaded em' to bionicle website but its 'pending approval'..

found a nice way to close cereal boxes.. got the idea frm the cornflakes packaging.. IAIN GO DO UR WORK.
so bored.. lalalalalala

2010-02-01T22:34:00.001+01:00

owch my dad fell on the trampoline. same as me last time.. but he walked right into it. ouch. hope he's okay.. Mom scolded me cos after we jump on it i did not keep it :(
Had beef stew today. mixture of recipes.. supposed cook for 3 hrs but we did with a pressure cooker. i love beef xP WOuld have been better if we had used rice instead of potato. ugh i don't like potatoes. only if it is baked.. or mashed with sauce. basically every way except served boiled whithout sauce and seasoning haha
ugh my itunes cannot start -.-" gonna reinstall. dl-ing now..
today pasta-land-language class.. ITALY DON'T BUY A 'CAMERA' camera means bedroom. camera in pasta-land-language is 'machina fotographia' don't even think of buying a camera. -.-" even though both originate frm latin. they both developed differently. and as you can see this is what happened.. after class we went for ice-cream. in the middle of winter. don't think us weird. think rather my dad weird. xP Anw there were quite a few ppl at the geleteria. ice cream was good..
walau my dad is taking the com away from me. now he is going to hurry me to give him the com. Were watching korean show now.. super old show.
yay itunes is done. eh i don't have anth left to crap xP
oh yeah its been 3 mths total. yay..
bouna notte. mi molto annio -.-"

2010-01-30T22:10:00.000+01:00

Dad and mom went to pisa today.. Dad is looking aat me as i type this. So we were playing.. then when dad and mom came back we did italian hmwk. augh irritating lol.. keep forgetting to finish the trip abt the trip. -.-" now mom is hurring me. heh.. eh.. good night lol

2010-01-27T23:25:00.004+01:00

Yay the permisso di soggiorno (how spell haha) was collected today.. Valid for a year.. The kids have 2. one with dads sig and one with mom's sig. I got zuma's revenge. Did up my desktop. Hahaha i made a proper shutdown script and a cancel shutdown script..

shutdown script(for my refrence not actually related to blog at all-.-" use if u want.. haha) :

Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
strMsg = "Enter the shutdown timeout period (in Seconds)"
iSec = trim(InputBox (strMsg,"Shutdown timeout value",750))
if iSec = "" then wscript.quit
if iSec > 600 then
     iSleep = int(iSec) - 600
     iSleep = iSleep * 1000
     WScript.Sleep iSleep
     objShell.Run "shutdown.exe /s /t 600"
else
     objShell.Run "shutdown.exe /s /t " & iSec
end If

save above as vbs script.(filenamehere.vbs)

cancel shutdown script:


@echo off
color 2
taskkill -im wscript.exe -f
shutdown -a
pause

save above as batch file.(filenamehere.bat)

put the codes in a notepad and save as written above..

eh the "color 2" line can change to wat color u like.. go cmd and type color -? to see color codes.. Experiment till u find a color u like x) Extremely usefull as the usual cmd does not allow more than 600 secs delay.. Esp when downloading things..
Sure u could create a shutdown task but have the kill code on hand at least.. later it shutsdown on u haha-.-"
OHOH after creating the file, save it in a place u don't visit super often(so the untidyness doesn't kill you) and create a shortcut(right click and create shotcut.. Its in the dropdown list) then drag it to either quicklaunch area or your desktop. Go to its properties(alt and then click on it) and under the shortcut place u can make a shortcut(like "ctrl+alt+c) btw it must be ctrl+alt before any letter or number..

I want to go get songs sometime.. Have this list sitting on the desktop. Have 4 notepad files sitting there to be exact. 2 of them are to download lists. -.-

Cannot play piano whenever i want to till end of the month -.-" neighbour having exam in jan.. He asked if we could all play only in the morning or afternoon.. Cos usually he comes home at night.. Got a couple of new scores, moonlight sonata's 2nd mvmnt and all 3 mvmnts of pathetique.. aunty beeha passed me the 3rd one before we came here.. Only reason i asked dad to print its first mvmnt is cos he was in US and had free printing at the hotel.. x) it doesn't sound nice. On the last page of the canon alr.. Piano teacher says not to use pedal cos it was written during the period in which piano wasn't even popular.. smth to tt extent. BUT IT SOUNDS SO FUNNY WHITHOUT. ALL YT VERSIONS HAVE(i think)

Ohoh, she has totally no idea what the abrsm grading means.. I mean she gave me clementi's sonatina hahahaha. MY BRO PLAYED THE 3RD MVMNT FOR GRADE 3. Aunty beeha's sightreading better than hers.. She say shld play the 3rd mvmnt much faster than how aunty beeha intepreted it.. Sure its vivace but.. if i were to go at the speed she suggests.. ?!@#^$#@!#$ Its messy enough o.o any faster i'd have to eat sugar to play it.(hyper hmm?) Need to go play the hanon exercises. Fingers are going nuts. cuckoo. bananas. laksa.(minus laksa. laksa is good.. hmm notice the 4 i used were food? cuckoo can be food.. why not.. quail is?xP )
AHH I STILL HAVEN'T FINISHED THE POST ABT THE SKI TRIP HAHA. Wow wat a long post o.o..
oh jon got into temasek.. IT.. he says he would be rejoicing except tt the travelling keels.. Dad asking me go sleep.. ugh its alr 11.30.. bb

2010-01-25T20:41:00.000+01:00

eh the laptop cable is dying-dead.. dad bought a new one frm us but there is a leak o.o
lamp test the bulb light up very nice -.-" anypart of the laptop tt is metal when i touch will zap me.. so cannot even put in my lap. So now its not laptop is sofatop -.-
adapter cost 100 sia. the earth not working. stupid US cable and its input is correct.. 100 to 240.. everything excatly the same as the cable.. eh i don't know nuts abt wiring stuff but will changing the fuse work? o.o no srsly i don't know. And its charging so slowly..
i want a piece of toast.. had frutti di mari for dinner..
want to go song hunting sometime.. in the forest where the songs where far and wide reside xD
oh and movie hunting too..
i found smth on yt tt only jon would really understand.. if his german is tt good xP

LOL ICH BIN DEIN GUMMIBäR
will go finish the post abt the trip to abertone soon i hope? oo
cannot type properly.. back pain. so hard to us com like this.. ugh bb

2010-01-22T15:13:00.000+01:00

hahahaha been playing with the html of the pccyouths blog xP but its so dead so.. -.-"
oh the desktop is working. yay.. i have chuzzle whee.. hahahaha

2010-01-19T22:44:00.005+01:00

Rule no.1: Do not steal shawn's food if not he'll get violent
Rule no.2: If shawn steals your food let him if not he will get violent
Rule no.3: stuff shawn's face xP
hahaha don't ask me wat it means.. I have no idea myself lol. It came to my head during brkfast cos my bro was stealing my bread cake like thing o.o miss curry and prata man.

Just finished doing some kamen rider thing with my bro.. spent total of 24 hrs doing it. First time playing with a editing software. Uploading on yt now.. whee. Took so long to find the files.. ooh the vid info is xml.. so actually can use movie maker whithout using movie maker? The editor doesn't have a multi point cut.. need to split then delete.. same lah i supppose.. Upload has 37 more mins to go.. may just set a system shutdown to take place at 11..
Yeah i'm gonna do that.
bb.

ok.. I created a system task to start at 11.30 but the thing only has 16 more mins to go.. don't even know if the task was created properly.. doesn't show up leh.. but i did the batch file correctly, settings all corect lol.. So i am just gonna wait. hahaha/\..
Kez broke up with her bf.. wow. Then on her fb she keeps saying things abt flirting. -.- wth is wrong with this girl. Is she that desperate to get attached? childish. bambina. Guess tt when i called her siao zhar bor at some church camp i was right. hahaha..

Yay the vid finish uploading. But did not appear on my page AHHH DID I JUST WASTE TIME UPLOADING WTH.
[edit: next day]
oh i actually did the scheduled shutdown properly :D the com shuttedown on me -.-"
The vid does not appear when i search though.. dunno why.. but the vid is here haha

Whee.. ok bb i go do work liao xP

2010-01-15T23:54:00.001+01:00

Dad going to US tonight. was typing the ski post halfway but dad nids to bring the laptop there. office laptop cannot.
Sigh cannot go online for a week.. The desktop is half dead. keep getting bsod. -.-"
Walau i dun like html. so hard to move the pic whithout its attributes. see it took me so long to format tt underline -.-" maybe its just me. sigh..
bb i'm gonna sleep. maybe i can finish the ski post on the desktop if it doesn't die on me -.-"
bb.

2010-01-12T22:32:00.000+01:00

sigh.. haven't been able to even type abt the ski trip. -.-"
started homesch.. Quite ok so far :) just that its only been 2 days.. see how..
I LIKE KAMEN RIDER DOUBLE HAHAHA
the show crazy one.. got one camera tt boasts 5.0 terapixs -.-" [gigapix handheld cam hard enough to get(impossible so far is it not? o.o correct me if i am wrong)(superunlikely)]

sian have to go sleep now -.-" walau its only 10.30 lol.. tmr no italian class yay.. wheehee
bb

2010-01-09T16:17:00.000+01:00

lol i typing a post abt the abetone trip now.. was typing halfway then had to go for piano..
At the piano place there was some ppl singing to some song.. -.-" they sing english like.. wat the crap.. Sis b'day was ystd.. (8th) went to this restraunt.. the vongole(clams) spaghetti was super nice :P Then we went home and had the cake that tasted like bread. italian cake tastes like bread? o.o wth rite
was talking to my mom's side family just now.. showed them our trip the pics.. taught my bro how to download stuff frm yt x)
bb i go help my dad put up a bkshelf then go finish the post abt the trip lol..

2010-01-08T23:33:00.003+01:00

[very delayed post, date supposed to be 8th of jan]Came back frm abetone ystd(spelling correct this time hahaha... all previous spellings all wrong) First time i touched snow(not ice unlike china) stayed at this hotel called (eh i forgot name lol later i insert) and it didn't have a POWERPOINT?! LIKE WTH O.O?! But the food was awesome x)

was snowing on monday.. when we went there dad had to put on the snowchain.. oh we rented a bigger car.. At no extra charge.. Dad had to figure out how to put it on.. its like some curtain. We actually stopped infront of this big truck to put it on (wanted to ask the guy who was putting on) But then the 2 way lane became one vehicle lane.. Then one car was going up and 2 were going down then the car goin up went into the space between our car and the truck. Then the 2 coming down, one braked and the other crashed into the one infront(skid) Not tt hard a hit.. (whew wat a long sentance xP)
We had to move up some more..
Then the car had this burning smell O.O it DIED. Then after it skid and skid dad Stopped to put on snow chain..
After tt when we were negotiating a bend the car skidded VERY BADLY[WITH CHAINS]
It was just empty space below i think.. can't really remember.. [wth its been more than a week]
Reached the hotel.. Got out of the car and... played with snow for the first time. :D

I like The Sinister look on my bro's face hahaha..
Then we took our tobbagans(spelling?) and went to this place where there were no ppl skiing(some guy brought us to the place...) Then snow there was quite thick.. :)
was so tiring to climb up slope.. sigh..
Then we went back and had dinner.. YUM!
Made a cute small snow man.. haha

(this pic was taken next day in the mornin.. nice rite x)

The hotel rooms are sad. we paid like 8xx(x being two numbers, cannot remember amt) and there now powerpoints at all. I nearly forced open the box that the lamp was connected to.. Then i saw tt the tv was plugged in to a switch x) whee.. So could charge the camera and laptop.
Went to sleep and woke up cos.. it. was too... HOT. YEP HOT!! o.o
I don't blame anyone for finding me wierd. the heater was so effective. But then again the room is really small.
So i opened the window.. outside was such a nice temp. whee..

Second day..

Operator woke us up cos dad couldn't. -.-
Didn't realise i had a awesome hairdo until my dad took a photo of me -.-"
i look so.. just woken up (well i really was just woken up)

Aft brkfast all of us tried skiing.. Had lessons. so ex. paid like 70 eu was it? can't remember..
Mom and sis fell a lot haha..
me and bro went down the steepest slope cos we thought it was the med slope -.-
flew down.
i went into this trench like thing at the side.. took so long to get out.
Bro fell at the start so it wasn't tt bad.
italians are such !@#$%!@#$%^#$%@&#*&$#@
i went down the med slope's ramp like thing then he came right at me, made me fly like 3 metres, the ski came out, and he FREAKING HELL LAUGHED AND CARRIED ON WTH?!
Before going there i fell on the trampoline.. had this big big "2 become 1" blue black..
Then the ski boots are so VERY VERY HEAVY and the shin protector thing in the boots(made of metal) that after skiing for 1 day it became like 15cm+ across.. then got 2 dark red lines on it o.o(after coming back frm skiing
[fine it was edited a little but it looked worse than this. oh the blue black was the whole part shown.. it was c.r.o.p.p.e.d. ]
Was so pissed at the end of the day. Didn't wan't to go again -.-"
Can't think why anyone would pay so much to go fly down a slope. I know i wouldn't. Maybe its just me o.o
first time skiing with a blue black on the shin isin't a good idea at all. >.<
but the slope there (the one we went to) was the shorter ones i think
Dinner was good as usual..
towards the end there was this sort of erm festival thing.(can't think of a proper name oo) The waiteress pretended to be a white witch of some sort and went round giving sweets to the kids.. Then later the person who spoke english told us that on the 5th of jan this happens in a lot of places.. eateries mostly?

2010-01-04T04:21:00.000+01:00

*yawns*just woke up frm evening nap. yep evening nap. :D after some bible study ti,e i went to sleep. then dad had to wake me up for evening worship -.-"
going abertobne tmr.. the ski place.. gonna pack aft dinner. saw the camera photos of today @2 o'clock there(they have live cam feeds) i HATE THE CROWD -.-" I AMSOLUTELY HATE THE CROWD WALAU -.-" hope the crwod isint as bad as today. otherwise i'm gonna P-U-K-E (i'm a crowd hater. yeah antisocial if preffered.)
-.-" bb

2010-01-01T16:43:00.000+01:00

I AM FINALLY GETTING SONGS :D:D:D
so hard get. sigh.. got to do album art. then have to go format them one by one. -.-" then have to remove comments and all the stupid tags -.-" walau
AUGH I'M GOING CRAZY. bb

2010-01-01T00:25:00.000+01:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR :D

Today we all woke up very late. Cos last night we were watching korean show till very very late lol.. Its a very very funny show.. Called,"il ji mae" Then we went to florence Ikea. We wanted to eat there but it was closing.. Was supposed to go see Sad.. tmr may go france. 1 1/2 Hrs away. lol so fun we can run around europe haha..

Watching the korean show now. so much corruption o.o

WHOO HOO THERE ARE FIREWORKS OUTSIDE. THEY ARE CELEBATING NOW. :D

HAHAHA ITS EXCATLY 12 AM NOW. THE FIREWOOKS (YEAH HAHA FIREWOOKS) ARE NICE BUT THEY ARE NOOB COMPARED TO THOSE IN SINGAPORE LOL xP

o.o the firewooks are being lighted by civilians o.o and its like those light and run ones haha..

VERY NICE WHOOHOO MY ROOM THE CEILING WINDOW PWNS. Can smell the burning things. wah this display pro. better then singapore liao. its been like 1/2 hr.. whee

bb i go watch tv ler..

oh and.. HAPPY NEW YEAR AGAIN HAHA

2009-12-30T16:47:00.000+01:00

wow.. 09' ends in like 32 hrs.. fast lol
whoops.. i asked someone to read my blog and forgot tt i wrote smth. -.-" lol how dumb of me.. whoopsy oopsy.
i dont get some ppl. they complain their kids no friends (then want do smth) but then when their kids tell them smth bad abt another kid they go tell tt kids parents. NO THIS IS NOT TO ANYONE TT WOULD LIKELY READ THIS!!
sien. nothing to do. sigh.. ciao. boun anno

2009-12-28T19:54:00.002+01:00

just came back frm the mountain place.. nice place.. the road up there is like.. augh..
but its nice.. x) but got a lot of spiders o.o we killed at least 4 or 5..
walked up this mountain place.. fun lol.. dad will put pics on fb i think.. The food there was nice too haha.. I ATE RABBIT WHOOHOO!! The water did not taste funny.. talking to kez, hannah and deb now.. kezia is going to kou chuan sec.. anpang going acsi.. reminds me of acsii.. x)
i want to hack kez's blog. someone teach me how haha
there was half meter deep snow up till before christmas(2 days before we went there) but the thunderstorm on christmas day washed it away.. sad.. >.<
[having dinner now.. later i'll finish this x) ]
[lol now its 3.. just had piano(next day)]
my dad kept confusing pentaloni (which means pants) with penettone (the italian christmas cake)
damn funny. srsly damn funny lol.

we are going to abertone i think.. next week.. WHILE THE SAD LIFE PPL ARE HAVING SCH HAHA
the person who helped us find the place is coming for dinner at 7.. dad calling lol bb

2009-12-25T21:51:00.000+01:00

tmr the whole family is going to some mountain place.. 1 1/2 hrs away.. tmr got to wake up at 6. So have to go sleep now -.-
sian la the laptop cannot charge again. -.-" stupid com. i think its a com prob not a cable prob.
dad asking me go sleep zz sian diao nia
bb oh and merry christmas.. (for the 'joy')

2009-12-24T16:29:00.000+01:00

... walau past few days keep raining. dammit la. sigh.. snow leh.. the stupid rain come then the snow will become ice.. >.<" (wow.. been a long time since i used tt face)
had the first piano lesson today.. the teacher is good.. played a grand.. a BIG ONE..
lol this blog got so little hits. good.. at least i noe tt there are less than 300 no life ppl x)

[posted smth abt bro but parents asked me delete.] (tt super selfish and always right and noisy and irritating and selfish boy) maybe i'll put it in some where.. html can hide things :)

he was making some woodwork shit. i hope it breaks. hate him
WHOO HOO IT JUST BROKE HAHA IN YOUR FACE NOOB.
k bb i go watch movie ler.. we may be going to some place this holiday.. dad cannot decide.. cos the weather is wet and then go there i cannot see anything.

2009-12-23T17:45:00.000+01:00

yay i just disabled then damn uac. but this is only a temp solution. the advanced perms are still all deny for system entry. -.-" i hate this. dammit i hate this. -.-" then i still cannot move the files.. only can move them faster cos now no damn uac popup. yay..
walau la..
watched distict nine just now.. nice.. i like the part where the humans are vaporised.. nice. i'm such a sadist. muahahaha

2009-12-23T13:53:00.000+01:00

Great. Just Great.

I went to play with the system permissions for my movies cos i was trying to share the files. Then now 52 of them cannot do anth to it cos even the system cannot move the files. -.-"

so i have to go edit the advanced permissions ONE BY ONE WALAU. DAMMIT LA VISTA.

SEE?! DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO DISABLE THE FILE CONTROL(yeah i noe its dangerous but to heck with with)

2009-12-21T23:15:00.011+01:00

The weather here is getting hotter.. o.o yeah wth o.o Today was the first day of winter but on sat it was min neg 9 degs and max 9 degs.. and it snowed!! Then today its 8-6 degs..

AND ITS RAINING.. TT MEANS TT IF WE GO UP TO THE MOUNTAIN THEN THE SNOW WILL BECOME. ICE!! WALAU.. NOT FAIR
Dad say if go up need to get the snow chain.. if not no traction.. then his friend say must buy the good one..

butbutbut.. the italian teacher says that usually it snows in jan.. and its been 7 yrs since last snow. So we brought snow here? x)
[back frm 3 hrs of tv]
its 3 am.. gonna sleep now and finish up this post tmd bb

woke up this morning and it was SO WARM.. its like 7 degs.. walau... feels so warm. -.-"
my aunt injured her leg.. twisted her ligament i think.. owch.. was talking to her on skype just now..
[wat the crap the house just tripped. walau la the movie was like.. 488mb ler.. zzz dammit]
stupid power out.. walau.. feel like going out finding the person who caused it and scream in his face..[yeah.. i'm the new fred.]
its 11.45. haven't eaten brkfast.. zzz nvm i don't like brkfast.. theres always lunch and dinner to look out for..
ciao.. class later.. last one till jan x)

2009-12-21T14:23:00.000+01:00

woopeedoopeedoo. (wait. when do i say that?!)
today is the first day of winter. x)
snowed a little around livorno on sat..
we may be going to the ski resort x)
the piano teacher is coming on thurs.. yay.. or no yay? cos i only have 1 or 2 pieces that are presentable.. -.-" sian la i gonna chiong fingeringaling thingy liao..
bb gonna ave lunch.. bb lesson today at 4.. oh got the lappy to work.. nid fix the com before it dies again.. zzz bb
[jon help..]

2009-12-20T14:48:00.000+01:00

o.o my dad was trying to play the piano.. sad lah inside got rust.. -.-" who would like to get me a grand.. io want ta waky uppy the ole of antignano at 3 in the mornin x)
[jon.. i'm bored.]
sian lah the nearest com repair place is so far away.. i hate this keyboard.. so much easier to type on the laptop. -.-" sadd
went to but the ski things ystd.. whee got a new pair of gloves.. very comfortable. :D then oso got waterproof pants and 2 tobbagans and boots for everyone.. amt total was like.. 250eu..
...
oh the pic of the kaya toast..:

i spammed kaya.. then the weather here is so cold tt i had to put the bread back in the toaster to melt it..
oh the cable car was no cable car.. its a wat.. 10 min train? -.-
ok i'm going out for a walk.. ciao.. boun natale x)

2009-12-19T10:58:00.000+01:00

dammit la.. the laptop cannot charge.. prob cos of the files.. but i didn't touch the registry.. o.o or maybe its cos of the adapter.. But cannot be cos I was able to charge by plugging in and out(when i had tt prob 2 or 3 days ago) now the power (not batt) light just on and then turn off when i do tt.. think its the files.. but like tt how to fix the files.. nid to find smth to charge my batt -.-" walau..
suay sia i just got my songs... aughh..
was supposed to snow today but only have frost.. wake up the window was covered with frost.. x)
sian lah.. i am forced to use this slow comp ><
bb going for some cablesar ride thingy? o.o its cold out there.. very..

2009-12-18T12:42:00.000+01:00

Went to rachel's hse ystd(the person frm the church who translate for us).. VERY NICE PLACE x)
her place is this farmhouse place..
the gps brought us on this mountain road.. and.. WE SAW SNOW!! It was flying around outside..
winter is coming and tmr the msnbc weather thing says its gonna SNOW and temp range is neg1-neg9(i like the word neg.. neg neg neg) its 3 degs outside now..

this morning woke up and dad asked me go look for my mom.. she went out to buy groceries.. i threw on thermal pants and jeans and 2 shirt, got my knife(yes my knife.. serious.. i've been carrying one around for some time now.. later some african take me and use me as firewood xP) then i took my beanie and this srsly thick jacket(look it was like neg 3+- degs out there)
after putting on all those clothes i went downstairs and guess what.. I FLOZE!! YESH IO FLOZE.. -.-"""""
Then brkfast i had this kaya(yep we brought kaya here) and butter toast thing..

[will try to put the pic.. dunno why now cannot download]

piano was just tuned.. yay..
ciao x)

2009-12-16T14:29:00.000+01:00

just called boon to wish him happy b'day.. tried calling ystd but he not at home.. sian -.-"
going to some person frm the italian church tmr night.. then on fri got some christmas thing at the british place.. winter is coming.. The weather thing on my sidebar says that saturday is gonna be -8.. o.O wow.. minus 8.. awesome.. I went out to throw rubbish just now with only a jacket and a super thin shirt and some track pants and FrOzE. ooh..
got to do work now -.-" sian..

2009-12-13T23:21:00.000+01:00

its 7 o'clock on sunday.. Just played some game called truth and triumph. its a bible game.. Sister won. but heh me and dad helped her like dunno wat hahaha.

Went to the livorno market ystd.. walked around the city. went to this town half an hour away frm livorno.. its a furniture town.. but all the shops were closed so wasted our time.. -.-
we ate lunch in this square... mom so.. diao.. haha
my dad was like, " I hope no wass(the company he is working with) people drive by.. They would go 'KELVIN LIN. WAT ARE YOU DOING EATING LUNCH IN THE SQUARE?!'."(help me out on the punctuaion o.o) hahaha
Went for a jog with dad.. jogged for 17 mins. was not that cold haha.. This morning wake up leg so pain..
had spaghetti with lobster prawn thing. made me and bro's lips swell like dunno wat..
then i watched kiva(some kamen rider thing)till 2 am.. haha my parents watched some chinese show till 12 and they asked us to go sleep then we said we would go sleep but we watched for 2 hrs after tt lol..
i love cola gummies. (waow that was random x)
i like how jon says keel.. hahaha (kill)
i like the anti social me x)
(wait.)
when did this become my blog's like section.. it just did o.O
wat the crap smth is wrong with me. -.-"
getting back to the point we watched until very late..
dad is trying to get pics onto fb.. but for wat lol.. how many ppl would bother to go see.. no offence dad x) [i would]
just had evening service..
gonna sleep.. lost the will to continue this useless blabbling o.O
baibai x)

2009-12-10T11:52:00.000+01:00

sian lah i only have 2 hrs of com time everyday. sian sian sian sian sian.
lol have class later.. sian
doing the chem thing now. sian
sian bb (wat a sian post... sian)

2009-12-07T11:06:00.001+01:00

[morbidly disturbed.. shant talk :)]
went to pisa on sat.. 30 mins frm here i think.
it actually is not that big a deal.. but then again i prob dun really care cos i am gonna go back someday soon haha. Dun have the holliday kick of 'i am not coming back here ever. enjoy it shawn'
if u get what i mean.. haha
i am too lazy to get the camera.
or maybe not its right beside me :D here goes.. xP
[okay i have too many pics to put here go fb and see. -.-" either in me or dads fb.]
we also went to this church.. And there was a body of a saint inside. (was beside the leaning tower.) And i got a srs stomach ache in there lol.

worried for kez... cant say lol.. but getting x is absurd. hope she wakes up.
sigh..
talking to jon and hannah lol..
bye bye.. have to study the italian zzz

2009-12-03T14:23:00.000+01:00

WHEE JUST TALKED TO JON :DDDDD THE STUPID GUY SO MANY DAYS NO ONLINE HAHAHA! so happy :DDDDD
[JON DON'T EDIT THIS LOL xP]
Since young I hvae been the little bugger disturbing him lol.. Tt time i was looking thru the photo album then i came across this pic where he was carrying me a few hrs after i was born.. Then on sunday aft the youth meeting thing I said smth like,"Dun u wish when u carried me tt few hrs after i saw light.. u dropped me?" okay it was not exactly like tt but tt was wat i remember saying lol.. smth lik tt.. :D
then he was,"YEAH I WISH I DID!" haha he was kidding of course.. [hmm then again maybe not hahaha]
i could post a lot of other random crap but i'm lazy lol..

Have to go for class later. sian

oh i found the links for the singapore elearning thing. i have links for all o level sciences and other stuff.. the classes quite usefull.. anyone going to buy come find me first i can give u free hahaha. its actually $200 sing.. if ur have absolutely no idea wat i'm talking abt then say so in the c-box thingy :D

bye.. gonna do maths with mom[er yeah we started homesch alr.. oo yeah i noe its so fast haha]

2009-11-30T23:21:00.000+01:00

Florence was great. Highlights are the 30£ ikea dinner [:D yummy!!! but very ex..] and the drive 50min × 2 drive.. and this bridge called ponche vecchio.. which is overlooking this river called arno river.. Camera is downstairs and I'm lazy to go downstairs.. feet will get dirty.. hahaha..
OH AND THE ABSURD 0.60£ TOILET TRIP. -.-" epic scam..

Life here is hard.. Got 49% tax and Food is ex. very ex..
oh the bread tt is hard is from the supermarket. Those frm the bakeries are much nicer.
Today.. When i was taking the clothes out of da washing machine.. I got zapped.. It was like: touch the and then my hand become numb numb.. (when i moved my fingers it felt like there was a lot of friction between the joints.) I tried to touch the clothes but same thing happen..
Italian lesson today was only 1 hr. The room had to be used to teach the little italian kiddies english. -.-" if i speak italian i'll teach them ~~how to play maple~~ english. Then i dunno why the teacher looked a little lost and sad when we saw her on the street. IT WAS 10° OUT THERE. BRRRRR
when we came home aft the YUMMY CHICKEN RICE DINNER[YA CHICKEN RICE :D] my dad go test for leak the bulb lighted up.. whee.. Then he go transltion website and print out smth show downstairs.. Then they gave us a plug tt grounds the current.. ohh yay shawn got zappy :D
bb..i might go and sleep now.. its 11.. or maybe not? xP

2009-11-28T09:20:00.000+01:00

Going florence today.. go buy furniture and see here and there.. its 50mins frm here..
temp dropping.. its 10 degs in livorno area and 11 degs there.. having brkfast now.. why am i on the com at brkfast table hahaha.. dad haven't scold yet so i just continue typing until he scold me.. stupid bro go sabo me then my dad asking me get off the com..
florence got ppl tt will rob u.. sian.. Dad bought some red wine in a milk carton thing.. YES A CARTON. THe wine was so... weak.. If tts wat its called. o.O
bb.. nid go send the car back to renew the rental.. chalked up 600-700 plus alr.. euro.. bye.. ciao. arriverderla -.-" darn i'm speaking italian :D

2009-11-27T23:47:00.000+01:00

Happy first month here to me.. its been 1 mth.. so fast.. Another 25 more mths i'll have to go back to Singapore.. sigh.. dun want to go back into the singapore system ever.. its so lax here.. Although some things suck abt living here, its actually not that bad.. They have damn high taxes but they have free healthcare lol..

Ystd was not depersonalisation.. Dunno why but after the post my left eye very pain.. like a lot pressure on it frm behind like tt.. went to sleep then went away.. but when shake my head damn pain again.. then at 4 in the morning i suddenly wake up.. very very very pain.. dad brought me to hostipal..[Thank you Garmin u rock lol..] then waited for dunno how long.. the nurse gave me some panadol.. not sure if it helped though.. Went to see so many doctors lol..
some spoke a little english haha.. and actually italians do not sound tt retaded like the guy in the thing lol..

a&e doc.. sent me to eye doc.. said it was herpes.. or al least wat i heard? o.O
went to see eye doc.. clear.. no prob.. sent me to neurologist.. o.O
went to see neurologist.. he arranged ct scan(or they call tc lol)
ct scan machine very cool lol.. i want one.. then i can scan everything i see hahaha.. i am so very random..
ct scan clr.. went to another a&e doc.. sent me to dermatologist.. he say not related.. then the derma guy ask us go back to the a&e doc even though he say after seeing him can go ler..
went back.. the person said can go..
they don't dispense meds.. ppl suppose to go pharmacy and buy themselves..
Anyone gets all this done in 6 hrs in singapore u tell me.. It was free somemore. pwnage sia.. ct scan in sing is like wat? o.O 300 is it? or less.. then see all the specialist for free sia.. singapore u never get a ct done in a day.. unless u are dying or smth..

went home and had lunch.. then went for italian class.. then went to eat gelato.. its ice cream but its not aerated fat.. its milk and sugar.. then oso got another one tt is not icecrem but very nice.. :D
then went home..
lol bb

2009-11-26T13:17:00.000+01:00

sian i suddenly have the depersonalisation again.. wow i spelt tt word correctly on the first try.. The computer screen looks so dream like. and everything part of it is very blurred.. was playing mafia wars halfway then suddenly the words look a bit distorted then after while it became bad like now.. zzz is it cos of the cold weather or am i going nuts lol xP bb i gonna do the chem thing now..

2009-11-23T20:34:00.000+01:00

Dad just bought a wireless router.. had probs cos the STUPID SOFTWARE GO DO SMTH TO THE ENCRYPTION TYPE AND MADE IT OPEN.. -.-" ITS MEANT TO BE WPA -PERSONAL THEY GO PUT THE CONNECTION THING AS OPEN ZZZZ WASTE MY DADS TIME -.-"
bb gonna have dinner now.. its 8.30 alr man -.-"

2009-11-22T20:55:00.001+01:00

its 9 pm now.. just bathed.. wanted to go sleep before dinner but ended up no going to sleep.. then aft dinner me and bro go bathe then want go sleep but dad dun allow.. zzz sian why must have 2 message.. -.-"

2009-11-22T01:44:00.000+01:00

HAPPY 100TH POST TO ME :D HAHAHAHAHA YAYAYAYAYAY
if ur dun get the previous post, it was delayed by a full day..
today wake up arm and leg pain lol.. so tired.. its 0030hrs now..
Spent the whole day unpacking.. set up a table and set up the computer with dad..

oh do any of u have this prob? u connect a internet cable from a laptop to a pc.. (the laptop has internet..) but when i enable the ICS my laptop internet dies.. then i try again after restarting com but now when i try to enable the ICS they give me some error o.O HOW DO SIA STUPID MICROSOFT.. then i think cannot use my dads E51 Wlan thing as a modem oso.. how retarded

erm u did not see anything just go on.. basically i am having probs sharing the internet with 2 comps.. but not in tt simple a way.. -.-" Its late i'm gonna sleep.. sad this post is so short.. i'll come spam pics tmr..
bb :D

2009-11-21T01:30:00.062+01:00

[delayed post.. date and time: 20/11/09,0000 hrs..+- ]

Its 0018hrs now.. late.. but i'm wanna get this out :D gonna spam pics and vids.. next post shall be all the vids i owe myself -.-" no not to u silly :p[eh this refers to everyone dun go read between the lines..]
... i'm eating a banana and it was so hard to open. -.-"
got it open but it looks so funny hahaha.. the skin is like in 2 equal halves.. but the stalk and end are still connected together. o.o

I woke up at 0730.. earliest so far.. went to take the com but dad say go read smth.. so i go read my bro's enid blyton.. -.- BUT.. its actually quite interesting :D
Then i remembered tt the shipment was coming today.. yay.. Then mom called us all down for brkfast..
when parents went out we play com till 12.30.. then had lunch..
The shipment was supposed to come at 2..
so we waited..
and waited..
and waited somemore..
soon it was 4.30.. we heard the bell and celebrated.. me and dad went down..
it was the piano truck.. they had this really cool machine to transport it..:

cool eh.. ok may be not tt cool. -.-"
then we waited until like 5.30 for the truck carraying all our stuff to come..They were 2-3 hrs late sia.. And u noe wat was the best thing? THERE WERE ONLY 2 PPL IN THE TRUCK.. and the sun had already set(sets at 4.30+-)
The truck could not come in.. if the stupid tree was not blocking we would have been able to come in we would have finished the job much faster..
We had 90 boxes.. not all boxes though got bed and funny stuff.. [TT IS A LOT.. A LOT A LOT A LOT!!!]
lol i went out with a thin shirt and a bermudas..(dunno wat its called its not bermudas.. its as short but much thinner..) in like 15 degs.. was a bit cold.. :D
we spent 2-3 hrs moving the boxes up.. my arms feel so light now.. haha..
Then after running around moving the stuff, I started sweating.. k haha tt is not a big deal but its the first time i have sweated since coming here lol..
the smallest boxes was the heaviest boxes.. the big ones did not seem so heavy as they were already big hahaha..
mom brought a lot of food stuff frm singapore here.. lol really a lot.. we even bought rice.. :D yay rice..
my bro so unhelpful haha.. he cannot help me carry the small box up the stairs.. he cannot walk backwards then i turn around but he still come crap.. zz noob sia.. Selfish boy onli carry 2 things.. 1 is his damn bionicle and the other is this box tt had poles in it(very very light).. selfish pig.. only eat and be kao pei nia..
he cannot help me carry the small box up the stairs.. he cannot walk backwards then i turn around but he still come crap.. zz noob sia.. Selfish boy onli carry 2 things.. 1 is his damn bionicle and the other is this box tt had poles in it(very very light).. selfish pig.. only eat and be kao pei nia.. -.-"
I never want to see boxes ever again.. lol.. think i lost weight haha.. up down up down up down the stairs
dinner was sad.. the horrible bread and some zucchini thing.. -.-"
pics of the hse aft the been here to see boxes came:

lol doesn't look like a lot here.. ur shld havbeen here to see.. actually a lot of the boxes were hidden ion the pic..

Aft the boxes were moved.. looks more now rite? :D this is only 34 of the 90 boxes.. pwn hor :D

me and dad managed to bring the boxes up.. the box was like hugging the stair rim.. totally no space to carry the box by the side..
look how empty the place was 1 hr later.. we move fast ey? :D

ok its very late now.. i might upload the rest of the pics we took here on fb.. or not.. -.-" bb

[extra pics :D] me and bro room.. note the ceiling looking out to the sky..