my best friend made my day today. i found out that YouTube made my boring day again. haha.. he showed me this four very cute and funny Thai commercials for the "Smooth E" facial foam. the series is done in the format of four very mini episodes of a TV soap. all the ingredients were there: ugly duckling turned swan, pretty guy turned unsuitable jerk, best friend turned soul mate, transsexual aunt agony.. i found that some things spoken in thai accent can be so laughable. you pple enjoy this!
Smooth E Commercial 1
Smooth E Commercial 2
Smooth E Commercial 3
Smooth E Commercial 4
Monday, November 20, 2006
today was a randomly hectic day. realized that my plan for mugging whole day didn't work out at all after a sudden twist of events. gave Ben tuition in the morning. supposed to give him tuition on Saturday but i managed to postpone it till today. expected my day to kick start well in the morning. unfortunately the expressway had to be jammed in the late morning with several accidents on PIE although it wasn't even raining. so was kinda late for tuition. but it didn't matter much to my student coz his parents were not home and he was enjoying his sch holiday. after tuition i planned to go home for lunch and start studying but a twist of events happened.
one of my squash student from SMU ordered a new pair of shoes from me some time back and she was chiding me for not passing it sooner to her to try. i thought of maybe passing to her another day coz i wanted to be home to study. then suddenly Jason called me to tell me that he wanted to play squash in the evening with Brandon and that he needed his racket which he left with me for restringing. i didn't meet up with my sponsor yesterday coz he usually close shop on Sunday. eventually i decided to settle everything once and for all. so after tuition i met my brother who was on his way to a job interview at Bugis. intercepted him to get Jason's racket and my student's shoes which he brought out of the house for me. then brought him along Bras Basah to apply for his new ATM card and then left him for his interview. In the span of an hour, i managed to meet my student at SMU (she happily tried out her pair of shoes which fortunately fit her just comfortably) and went to find my sponsor (he managed to restring Jason's racket in 15 mins). after that i went back to find my brother at the place where he had his interview. glad that he was kinda selected to come back tomorrow for some confirmation of employment. so i brought him to nearby Bugis Junction to shop for some working attire. he just finished his O's and he doesn't even have a few nice clothes or casual wear. so bought a pair of nice jeans from Bossini and a polo tee for him. i was tempted to buy a pair of jeans for myself too coz i haven't bought any since more than 1 year ago. think i spent a significant amount of $ today. anyway the spending spree isn't over yet. my brother had no mobile phone. so i thought of getting him one to remain contactable since he's gonna be like working till he gets into Poly which is several months from now. remembered there was still my old LG phone which he could use although i dunno if it's still in good working condition. so i tried to enquire around to purchase a prepaid SIM card from Starhub. just found out that now 7-eleven stores are like selling prepaid SIM card instead of the service providers themselves. tried purchasing one but something was wrong with the purchase system in that store and they couldn't register with Starhub for any transactions. so gonna get one tmr morning from another outlet. coincidentally enquired about my MaxOnline contract status at one of the Starhub shops. found out that my 24-mth contract already expired and i could actually get my Dad to renew it. Starhub said they would be giving away a free Compaq laptop after we renew it for 28 mths! oh man what a great deal! could probably sell the new laptop for quite a reasonable amount and use the money to buy a new TV for my living room. the old 21" TV in my living room is kinda spoilt already. the screen has blurred badly for quite a few weeks and there's not enough cash flow to purchase a new TV at this time. i'm grateful that heaven is really kind enough to us. Go Starhub! haha..
tmr will be a day where i'll religiously mugging. i will get things done on time. yeah.
one of my squash student from SMU ordered a new pair of shoes from me some time back and she was chiding me for not passing it sooner to her to try. i thought of maybe passing to her another day coz i wanted to be home to study. then suddenly Jason called me to tell me that he wanted to play squash in the evening with Brandon and that he needed his racket which he left with me for restringing. i didn't meet up with my sponsor yesterday coz he usually close shop on Sunday. eventually i decided to settle everything once and for all. so after tuition i met my brother who was on his way to a job interview at Bugis. intercepted him to get Jason's racket and my student's shoes which he brought out of the house for me. then brought him along Bras Basah to apply for his new ATM card and then left him for his interview. In the span of an hour, i managed to meet my student at SMU (she happily tried out her pair of shoes which fortunately fit her just comfortably) and went to find my sponsor (he managed to restring Jason's racket in 15 mins). after that i went back to find my brother at the place where he had his interview. glad that he was kinda selected to come back tomorrow for some confirmation of employment. so i brought him to nearby Bugis Junction to shop for some working attire. he just finished his O's and he doesn't even have a few nice clothes or casual wear. so bought a pair of nice jeans from Bossini and a polo tee for him. i was tempted to buy a pair of jeans for myself too coz i haven't bought any since more than 1 year ago. think i spent a significant amount of $ today. anyway the spending spree isn't over yet. my brother had no mobile phone. so i thought of getting him one to remain contactable since he's gonna be like working till he gets into Poly which is several months from now. remembered there was still my old LG phone which he could use although i dunno if it's still in good working condition. so i tried to enquire around to purchase a prepaid SIM card from Starhub. just found out that now 7-eleven stores are like selling prepaid SIM card instead of the service providers themselves. tried purchasing one but something was wrong with the purchase system in that store and they couldn't register with Starhub for any transactions. so gonna get one tmr morning from another outlet. coincidentally enquired about my MaxOnline contract status at one of the Starhub shops. found out that my 24-mth contract already expired and i could actually get my Dad to renew it. Starhub said they would be giving away a free Compaq laptop after we renew it for 28 mths! oh man what a great deal! could probably sell the new laptop for quite a reasonable amount and use the money to buy a new TV for my living room. the old 21" TV in my living room is kinda spoilt already. the screen has blurred badly for quite a few weeks and there's not enough cash flow to purchase a new TV at this time. i'm grateful that heaven is really kind enough to us. Go Starhub! haha..
tmr will be a day where i'll religiously mugging. i will get things done on time. yeah.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
woke up quite late today coz watched the Newcastle vs Arsenal match and i slept late. was still thrilled at Dyer's goal after his injury lay off for 18 mths. it's like a new signing for Newcastle. rejuvenated. that's what they called him. he inspired everyone. what a player of tremendous ability he is. i really admire his capability. haha. motivated to blog about my Newcastle again. my support will never falter.
waited for my dad to come home from his usual badminton game on Sunday to have family lunch. rushed off to Kallang to catch inter-con squash finals. my old team was competiting for the 3rd and 4th placings after losing out to Gombak in the semis. Jason didn't even need to play coz the team already won all the 4 other ties. haha.. Huijuan played the ladies tie and won 3-1. her game was quite unpredictable and somehow inconsistent. luckily she made much less mistakes than her opponent and won comfortably. come to think of it she had been coming for NUS squash training quite often and although I only managed to conduct a handful of sessions, she still showed glimpses that she's capable of being consistent inside the court. i first knew her as my student and i gave her A level chem tuition. sounds long ago but it was only like last year when she was in JC2 and the year before last when she was in JC1. time really flies.
she's quite pretty i think. but do you know why she's not attached? haha.. coz she's quite violent and accident prone. Oops! but i think she's got quite a funny character. after her match ended she kept saying she's scared she got not enough time to study. had to pacify and reassure her that uni exam isn't that bad. haha. think she needs some focus to study more efficiently. anyway i guess i'm gonna need the same amount of focus to study well too.
waited for my dad to come home from his usual badminton game on Sunday to have family lunch. rushed off to Kallang to catch inter-con squash finals. my old team was competiting for the 3rd and 4th placings after losing out to Gombak in the semis. Jason didn't even need to play coz the team already won all the 4 other ties. haha.. Huijuan played the ladies tie and won 3-1. her game was quite unpredictable and somehow inconsistent. luckily she made much less mistakes than her opponent and won comfortably. come to think of it she had been coming for NUS squash training quite often and although I only managed to conduct a handful of sessions, she still showed glimpses that she's capable of being consistent inside the court. i first knew her as my student and i gave her A level chem tuition. sounds long ago but it was only like last year when she was in JC2 and the year before last when she was in JC1. time really flies.
she's quite pretty i think. but do you know why she's not attached? haha.. coz she's quite violent and accident prone. Oops! but i think she's got quite a funny character. after her match ended she kept saying she's scared she got not enough time to study. had to pacify and reassure her that uni exam isn't that bad. haha. think she needs some focus to study more efficiently. anyway i guess i'm gonna need the same amount of focus to study well too.