Appassionato

My life is complete

Categorised as Personal, School, Work & tagged with beauty, body, fitness, health, love, relationships, uni, work.

At least for the next few years.

Aca­dem­ic­ally, my grades have improved a whole lot over the past year since I started dating Stephen. I totally disproved the traditional-Asian-parents theory that boyfriend = dis­trac­tion = fail grades. I’ve also sorted out the rest of my papers in uni and will graduate in just half a year!

After gradu­ation, I have a job lined up for me. I’ve worked part time there for the past two years and did not want to leave. For­tu­nately, my boss did not want me to either.

For years I hoped and hoped for a long-term rela­tion­ship that would last for at least a year. I’ve reached that goal and just based on the fact that Stephen has gotten me an iPod and a Wii so far for these two Christ­mases I think I made an awesome choice.

And now… just one most chal­len­ging goal: sexy body.

It’s so easy to gain weight working full time in an office with a boss that loves food just as much as I do. So what I’m starting to do now is:

• Working out or going swimming just about once every other day;
• Home exercises almost every night; and
• Reduce con­sump­tion of fatty, oily and sugary foods.

I have to look good for my sister’s wedding in November next year! Any tips from anyone who has been there and done that?

My friend’s boyfriend is a cocky asshole

Categorised as Rants & tagged with friends, law, relationships.

And if it wasn’t for him being my friend’s boyfriend, I might have been arrested for physical assault today (smashing his nuts). Sorry for the violence, but I’ll explain. (Warning: language used below is unsuit­able for young readers. Lol.)

One of my best friends, S, is a nice and modest girl, so I simply did not expect her boyfriend to be such an arrogant nuthead.

When S first intro­duced me to her boyfriend, I said, “Hi I’m Cheryl.” He looked around, avoided eye contact with me; in summary, he ignored me. I didn’t think much at the time, as I was genuinely quite excited to meet my friend’s new boyfriend, so I wished my friend a fun time with him and left them alone.

Before today, I had pretty much left that bit of memory behind me.

S invited a few friends (including me) and her boyfriend over to her place today. Due to the crappy first meeting between me and S‘s boyfriend, I held my hand out along with the others for a handshake greeting. Great, ‘sif refuse to shake my hand and leave me holding it out awkwardly in the air. I felt a little miffed but shrugged past it, I’m used to awkward situations.

During lunchtime, he babbled on with an arrogant tone. What offended me the most was a claim relating to my chosen career path. It went along the lines of:

Anyone can be a lawyer. I can be a lawyer from reading a book.

Sure, perhaps you can be a lawyer after reading a book of at least 100,000 pages of cases, statute law and textbook explan­a­tions (good luck finding such a pub­lic­a­tion), but there are pro­fes­sional legal training courses to go through before admission to the bar. Perhaps you can do all that, but you also need to get your cocky ass past job inter­views. Perhaps if you can do that too, I don’t know what kind of lawyer you’re gonna be, but surely no more than one hell of a dumb fucking blood sucking parasite. Go stick with your Engin­eer­ing and English. If you’re so great, why don’t you add a Law degree to your CV? It’s only one book away.

He knew that both S and myself are law students. Wasn’t that an incred­ibly rude remark against his own girl­friend that shows he’s always looked down on her?

S, if you ever come across this post, I swear I have nothing against you per­son­ally. But a cocky asshole is no match for a nice girl like yourself, and me and Stephen are def­in­itely not the only ones who think that.

One blog post for the past year

Categorised as Design, Personal, Romance, School, Site-Related & tagged with gaming, Internet, maplestory, relationships, uni, wow.

In the last post, I said that the business card design was the first step in getting to this version 20 design. Guess what? I lied. I almost forgot that I had ever designed what I should now refer to as Appas­sionato Version 19.5. Indeed, this is the reason I once blamed Sheng Han for using a header back­ground image similar to mine:

Appas­sionato Version 19.5 (Click above image to see the live version)

All my guy friends thought this was the best design I’ve ever came up with, totally un-Rilla style, and it’s actually the first photo manip­u­la­tion I’ve done. Reasons why I didn’t go through with it:

• It looked perfect on my 1024 x 768 screen, but when I switched to a laptop with 1280 x 800 screen I realised that it was too small.
• The file size of all the images was too big for a blog.
• No one ever notices my favourite part of the design: the hanging wire aka “skip to footer” link.

Main crux of this blog post however: summary of the past year of my life.
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