Queen Hairless Bear Shall Not Freeze!

It's been donkey years (don't believe u can take a look at my last posting date). Ok OK, I have also had many many other blogs as well, too many even I myself am confused. But I've decided to come back to my familiar sweet old blog and finally make some changes to it since I'm in the Sonic Blogs circle and pple must be so sianz by now coming into my blog everytime to find that time has stood still.

1st update! I've won my dream MY LITTL PONY on Ebay. It's so pretty... and very hard to find from the year 1983. Real Vintage stuff, with unique Butterfly wings which are different from the usual "Flutter Pony" series, which saw the other flutter ponies having normal looking, very fragile and breakable transparent wings. Here's the pic... Oooooo

Also in my wish list is the huge 18 inches tall Rainbow Brite Doll from Hallmark, year 1983, as seen here:

And now for the horrible part of the update. My Christmas morning was marred by horrible service at Golden Village Marina Square. Oh man, I don't feel like writing anymore about what happened, but here's the letter I wrote in to both the GV management and Straits Times forum... vomit blood...

My Christmas morning started out terrible from the very stroke of midnight, when I thought that I was going to finally "enjoy" watching the much-anticipated movie “The Chronicles of Narnia”, with my husband and friends at Golden Village Marina Square. To our horror, we discovered that our seats were at the very 1st row from the screen. I had specifically requested for middle row seats, far away from the screen and the Malay man at the counter had informed me that for the 9pm and 9.50pm slots, all the seats were filled up leaving only the 1st two rows of seats available. I then asked him if there were middle row seats for the midnight show and he told me that there were plenty of seats available for that slot and I would be able to get the middle row seats for 5 people, away from the screen. I was very specific in my instruction and I even told him that I did not want to get any tickets for the 9pm or 9.50pm slot because my husband and I suffered from very bad migraine and cannot view the movie at such a close proximity. We ever tried sitting at the front row in the past and ended up vomiting in the middle of the movie, due to the severe strain on our eyes.

Immediately when we entered the movie theatre and found our seats right at the front of the screen, I rushed out of the theatre to approach a Golden Village female staff, who brought me to see the manager. But before I could even get to see the manager, that lady staff kept on insisting that my seats were the middle seats, which made me even more furious. When I finally got to see the manager, a plump Chinese lady, she was no better. By now it was already 20 minutes past the movie and the lady manager did not even make any effort to apologize or offer any sort of compensation. She, like the junior lady staff, kept insisting that my seats were middle seats, middle block seats as a matter of fact. Very much angered by this, I shot back at them that I requested for middle row seats, not middle block seats and I was very specific and had even given the 9pm and 9.50pm shows a miss because I was told that only the 1st 2 rows of seats were available and I repeated what the man at the counter had told me. He told me that the midnight show had plenty of seats and that middle row seats were available. The manager made it look like it was my fault to begin with, and the man who served me at the counter denied what he had said.

Wondering why I took so long to settle the problem, my husband came down and joined me at the ticketing counter where the manager was still giving me her nonsense. My husband, upon seeing the unsightly situation, came to my defense and told the manager that we are both grassroots leaders serving in the CSC, and that he felt like making matters big, after seeing her ugly attitude. The manager suddenly changed her tone and started to sound nicer. However, she still did not show any initiative in offering any solution to the problem or any form of compensation. By now we had already missed more than 30 minutes of the show and she expected us to return to our seats in the theatre and continue watching the show like nothing had happened. It was not until my husband insisted that we get a new set of movie tickets for another day that she did something. But even so, she said that we had to return her the tickets if our friends in the theatre chose to stay on to watch and if we were to accompany them throughout the movie.

This is simply ridiculous. By then we had already missed a good 45 minutes of the movie, and our friends might not have been able to make it on another day to watch the movie together with us. Even if they chose to stay on to watch the movie, we should be entitled to the complimentary ticket even if we stayed on to watch the remaining of whatever that is left of the movie. Instead, this horrible lady manager insisted that we had to return her back the tickets if we waited for our friends to finish watching the movie even though we had missed out on so much. The manager did suggest that my husband and I try to find empty pockets of seats in the theatre but left us there to grope about aimlessly in the dark, looking for any available empty seats (separate single seats) at the back rows. The manager did not even bother to help us to check to see which seats are available according to tickets sales records. We ended up having to ask people if their seats were taken and embarrassingly took our place, where people looked at us strangely, wondering why these rude people suddenly came out from nowhere during the middle of the show and disrupted their viewing.

I want to get this straight; this whole incident was not my fault to begin with but the staff of Golden Village. Not only was I accused of being a liar, the staff and management of Golden Village Marina Square shirked their responsibility and blamed everything on the customer. I paid a good $45 or more only to get such horrible treatment from the “service” staff. Furthermore, I had purchased the tickets early, many hours before the movie timing and they made it look like I had purchased the tickets at the very last minute and that it was my fault and not theirs if they did not have anymore seats available, whereas in actual fact, that was not the case. I would like to know, is this what Golden Village calls good service? I do not even think this deserves a mediocre rating. It is now the 29th of December and my husband and I still cannot get over this incident. The rest of our Christmas day turned out horrible as a result of this very unpleasant incident. I hope I can get a satisfactory SOLUTION and answer from the Golden Village management.

Jacqueline - 6:09 PM

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

MY NEW BLOG AND POETRY SITE

It's been a while since I last updated my blog. I have a new blog now : http://www.hairless2.blogspot.com

I've also done up my new poetry flash site which includes a chatroom, guestbook and games. Over here, I've compiled poems that I've written these past years, and there are some dark, twisted and grossly humourous ones. Do pay my site a visit at : http://piecesoflife.bigbig.com

As most of you already know, I've had this fascination about shit and fart gas and similar stuff since my childhood days, so it's not surprising that u'll find these traits in the poems. I am constantly working on my site to improve its look and interactivity, hoping and aiming to make it a global thing where pple from all over the world come and interact and discuss poetry and contribute their original works.

Jacqueline - 10:44 AM

Friday, October 15, 2004

(You will never look at a cup of coffee the same
way again.)

A young woman went to her mother and told her
about her life, and How things were so hard for
her. She did not know how she was going to
make it, and wnted to give up. She was tired of
fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem
was solved a new one arose.

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three
pots with water.

In the first pot, she placed carrots, in the second
she placed eggs and the last she placed ground
coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without
saying a word. In about twenty minutes, she turned
off the burners.

She fished the carrots out and placed them in a
bowl. She pulled the Eggs out and placed them in
a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed
it in a bowl.Turning to her daughter, she
asked, "Tell me what do you see?"

"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied. She
brought her closer and asked her to feel the
carrots. She did and noted that they got soft. She
then asked her to take the egg and break it. After
pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled
egg.

Finally, she asked her to smell and sip the
coffee. The daughter smiled, as she smelled and
tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then, "What's
the point, mother?" Her mother explained that
each of these objects had faced the same
adversity- boiling water-but each reacted
differently. Thecarrot went in strong, hard and
unrelenting.

However, after being subjected to the boiling
water, it softened and became weak. The egg
had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected
its liquid interior. But, after sitting through the
boiling water, its inside became hardened.

The ground coffee beans were unique, however.
After they were in the boiling water they had
changed the water."Which are you?" she asked
her daughter. "When trials and adversity knock
on your door, how do you respond? Are you a
carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?"

Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that
seems strong, but with pain and adversity, do wilt
and become soft and lose my strength? Am I the
egg that starts with a passive heart, but changes
with the heat?

Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a
financial hardship or some other trial, have I
become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look
the same, but on the inside, am I bitter and tough
with a stiff spirit and a hardened heart?

Or, am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually
changes the hot water; the very circumstance that
brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it
releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are
like the bean, when things are at their worst, you
become better and change the situation around
you.

When the hours are the darkest and trials are
their greatest do you elevate to another level?
How do you handle adversity? Like the CARROT,
the EGG, OR the COFFEE BEANS?

Don't tell GOD how big your storm is. Tell the
storm how big your GOD is!

Things not been going very well. Feel my band is falling apart...politics, stuff....put down and all.....sigh....my only glint of hope in life....gone....ok....only hope in this mortal earth....

Just wrote a song "Indifference". It's about people being so selfish and not caring about others or bothering to help when they see someone in need of help. And by not doing anything to help someone it's also a sin.

INDIFFERENT – Sin of Omission (Jacqueline)

Intro: Bridge melody line comes in with a haunting effect

(1st Stanza)
C B
If we see someone struggling
Am B
Gasping for dear life in the water
Am
Do we just turn our heads
B
And walk the other way?
C
Do we just turn our heads?
D
And be indifferent?

** (Chorus)
C D Em
Why oh why? Why are we indifferent?
C D Em
Do we see ourselves as the only ones?
C D Em
Who live, live, live in this world?
B Am Bm
Is it just you…….you? And no one else?

(Bridge) à layered melody line and talking

Em Am C Bm à(2X)
Em

Em A Em
A sin of omission is worse than a sin of commission (possibility to be layered over “lalala” melody) - 3X

(2nd Stanza)
C B
There’s a frail old lady crossing the streets
Am B
And she falls in the middle of the busy street
Am B
People rushing, people running, people walking
C
Oblivious…. No one’s helping…..
D
Are we indifferent?

Jacqueline - 11:33 AM

Wednesday, September 08, 2004

I'm now sick....down with the nasty flu, and cough...for the 4TH TIME within 6 mths! Arrrgh....lost my voice again. Just did recording on Monday for my band's songs at SAE. I already lost a bit of my voice then...now it's worse. Bz as ever at work, super bz, no time for frens, no time for myself....sigh....

Managed to find some precious time to revamp my band site (tho not completed), at least it's something with some workable links and at least 1 part of the photo album can navigate. The characters will animate when u mouse-over them (so far only I am animated), am also working on the mouseover-trail effect soon. "Photos", "THE GROUP" is working. Rather sad to see it remain as that pathetic index page for so long. Here's the link:

QUANTUM SPRING'S SITE

Jacqueline - 5:59 PM

Monday, August 09, 2004

I just came back from KL. Took the chance to get my hair done for a really good rate ($100Rm for cut, and ultra bright highlights).

Jacqueline - 10:30 PM

Wednesday, April 07, 2004

My PET TOADY & ROOSTER! Mwahahaha!

Here lie my newest pets..... a cute little Toady and a Japanese Rooster which wears feathery cow boy boots! Yeah.....

My poor baby puffer fish just mysteriously disappeared.....its body couldn't be found...I know I have weird yamamoto prawns that constantly climb out of my tank and crawl to the kitchen and out to the common corridor and end up dried PRAWN BILIS.....but this is totally weird.....the rapture...i guess.....

I also just created a ringtone for my band Quantum Spring. THe song title is "Falling" and here's the link to the midi file. If the URL is inaccessible, u can download the file by right-clicking the link and "save target as".

FALLING RINGTONE

"HOLDING ON" RINGTONE

Jacqueline - 4:42 PM

Sunday, March 28, 2004

These are Photos of my band, taken at last Sunday's gig, Spread The Love:

Jacqueline - 3:52 PM

Saturday, March 13, 2004

Quantum Spring Performing 21 March>

Kinda excited......gonna perform at SOUL ENTERTAINMENT (mohd sultan rd) this 21 March, at 7.20pm. Heard that the organisers will be recording the bands' songs live into MD, mp3s.....yeah....just what we need (lack of recordings for now).....kekeke....

Here's the website for more info: http://www.spreadthelove.cjb.net/

My latest look for my band site is also up.....but there's some prob with the short url masking, therefore my site is now separated into mirrors (splash page and main index pg is separated into 2 links). U can go to here:

http://quantum-spring.funurl.com or http://www.geocities.com/aikawa_00

Jacqueline - 3:56 PM

Friday, February 20, 2004

My Quest To Build up My Band Site, QUANTUM SPRING

Oh man.....been really trying so hard to build up a site for practice, and I have decided to start with my band's site for Quantum Spring. Here's the image layout of what I've come up with.....will try to do the button linking soon....

Really hope I can solve all the technical probs soon.....the earlier site I did up is here: QUANTUM SPRING INTITIAL STAGE

Jacqueline - 4:04 PM

Tuesday, February 03, 2004

Just came up with another song last Tuesday....trying not to write too depressing ones..... now most of my songs sound Gothic... my drummer Joshua is really into Evanscence and he's very happy with the idea that my songs are heading in that direction (to him it seems). Well, thing is, I would like to have more variety in styles, but he thinks that our songs should stick to a theme and style. Oh well, for now that is...

Anyway, I came out with this hairstyle suggestion for Ruth. Would like to try it out myself cos Ruth told me her hair wasen't thick enough to go for that cut. Wonder how her new haircut looks now....hmm.....

My Guiding Light - Jacqueline

Am Em
Silently... speaking words of wisdom in my mind
Am Em
Suddenly... revelation shows itself through time
Am F Em7
Painfully... having gone the hard way now I know...

*(Bridge)
Dm Am (3x)
Em7
Aaaah....

*(Chorous)
Am Em7
Fighting for a living
F C
I don?t know the answers
Dm Am
Only you can tell me
B Em7
What do I do now?
Am Em7
Trudging in the darkness
F C
Gasping for survival
Dm Am
Only you can save me
Em7 Am
You?re the one, my guiding light?

Am Em
Helplessly?. No where else to turn to but your word
Am Em
In between?. all the things that I have seen and heard
Am F Em7
In your eyes? every blockade crumbles at your might?

Jacqueline - 4:02 PM

Tuesday, January 06, 2004

My Life A Stand Still....

I've been attending a few wakes of late, & also many things have happened in my life, mostly bad....this has set me thinking about a lot of things...I know that God is there, but I can't help thinking this way...I hope I will get out of this....soon....

My thoughts and feelings at this moment:

Now I lie in desolate silence,
Life has reached its ultimatum
Nothing more, nothing gained...
Perhaps pessimism has gnawed its way...
Burrowing deep into my heart
I wished I never had a part,
In this stage, a masquerade...
Exhaustion paces when I display...
My changing mask of cracking clay,
Who am I? I do not know...
I can never seem to please
Idealism I cannot achieve
No matter what I try to do
I end up looking like a fool...
People think I'm omipotent
I question my very existance
Can everything be done 1 time?
My true self I cannot find...
Different faces for different people
But to myself, I hold no clue...
What am I supposed to do?
My Changing mask of cracking clay

Jacqueline - 1:59 PM

Friday, January 02, 2004

CYNICISM
Had a great time with Zhen Fang last nite at her Birthday party (on New Year's day). Some friends are still the same old they, but a few have grown distant. Since the time before Xmas, till the party, I've been hurt by pple whom I've known for a long time. Pple just don't seem real anymore. Am I not of any worth to them anymore? Has my disappearance from the SE scene wiped away my existance?

A few days before Xmas Eve, my long time poly friend Justin called me up, asking if my band could play for the opening of the old Element pub on Xmas Eve. I agreed to help, and also agreed to help him and the pub's boss Lawrence rope in more bands to help play for the opening. Sigh, what happened? I was made to look like an idiot and not a word of thanks. How was I to know that Sonic Edge was managing the pub? Is it wrong for me to ask around to see who could help? So, if that was the case, since my band is still considered under Sonic Edge, should I then be involved in the opening? I asked and asked, but got no reply, only this "We are managing the pub". What's this? And when I said that my fren's fren Lawrence was managing it and asked if there was a partnership, again, no reply. Just straight-forwardly as if to tell me, "you shouldn't be involved in this" kind of tone. And when I see some pple whom I've supposedly known for like 4 years, not even a word of "bye" even when I went up to the door to say bye.

All this really makes me sad, and wonder to myself....y do pple keep doing things to turn me away from my parent church? All the more I'm drifting further and further away from COOS, from Sonic Edge....I never wanted things to turn up this way....but pple don't see your worth, so y bother?

ANyway, had a great time with Euphemia. She's always the same sweet girl I've known since childhood. So true, so genuine... she's one person I'll always keep in contact with. I am also so touched by Liana's and Marcus' lovely card....At least not all is bad....

Another positive thing that's happened is when I got to know a new friend on ICQ, from Yugoslavia. He's a Serbian writer and chanced upon my online poetry website and is insterested in making a movie from my poems. He works for the Belgrade movie production house and seems even more excited than me to get this project going...I dunno man...whether to step in...whether this is a positive or a bad thing.....I just have to pray over this. The movie will be about this Schizo girl who appears happy and normal on the outside, but is filled with hurt and bitterness on the inside and goes thru a character flip in different scenarios. She experienced lots of trauma in a life and views life in a dark and humorous way. U can visit my not so fantasticly designed site here for the poems : PIECES OF LIFE

I'm currently working on the script and hope something comes out of this.....they're thinking of putting in animation for the parts where she experiences her dark thoughts (the poetry bit)......dunno.see how 1st....

Jacqueline - 3:33 PM

Tuesday, December 09, 2003

I found this really cool quiz site on my EVERYONESCONNECTED community board. I thought I'll like to share it with all you guys and gals out there. Test your knowledge of Christmas traditions and history/culture. Here's the site to go:
Christmas Quiz

There are a few things I'm looking forward to. The 1st is the 2 deck keyboard that my guitarist Alvin's friend is selling. It comes with a sound sequeancer as well. Really look forward to the day I can finally call it mine....hehehe. Lotsa thanks to Alvin for helping me out!

Another thing is, after I have the keyboard, I'm gonna move the band into a higher level. I was thinking of moving on to something like Icelandic band "GUS GUS" and "BANG GANG". They experiment with lotsa sound effects and mix together ambient, break beats, goth and rock. Cool stuff.....wanna try that out!

Jacqueline - 6:03 PM

Monday, November 24, 2003

Jacqueline - 6:44 PM

Tuesday, November 04, 2003

It's been a long time since I last updated my blog. Been really busy with work, rushing out 8 weeks' work in 1 week etc..... Marriage life has been ok. Getting used to the new responsibilties, chores and all that. Rueben & I have also increased our Puffer fish collection. Now we have 11 mouths to feed! I mean, 14 mouths, if we include the 2 sucker fishes, and my new betta (Fighting fish).

We went to the Aquarama exhibition at Expo during the weekend (sat, 1 Nov). Sadly, they did not have a single puffer there. However I saw many beautiful betta/ fighting fishes! I bought a beautiful full fin breed, a Half moon. It's body is blue, and fins are yellow with dark blue outlines. I love it! Now it's living in my round disco light tank (a bowl actually, which has flashing colorful disco lights).

This is the fish that I bought at the exhibition. I just realized that its breed is called "Chocolate".

I'm going crazy over bettas! Here are some which I fancy!

A Double-tail Opaque White Male

A Half-Moon Butterfly Male

A Beautiful Long-finned Iridiscent Male

A White & Blue Marbled Betta

Blue Half-Moon Marble

Special Thai Flag Male

Special Thai Flag Female

Another Blue-White Butterfly

My Betta At Home is Something Like This, But Blue Bodied, with its yellow fins outlined in blue

Now Do You Find Me Charming?

Let me just settle my house 1st, and let my little fella adjust to the new environment. Can't wait to do up the house!

Jacqueline - 5:21 PM

Thursday, September 18, 2003

Wedding Ceremony Photos-13 September 2003

Many BIG THANKS to John Chiong & Shaun for taking the photographs! Also thanks to Joshua from my band who videotaped the event!

Here are also pages of a collecition of the actual day wedding photos taken by my good ah-yee LITIN! THANKS a lot Litin!

: : WEDDING DAY PAGE 1 : :

: : WEDDING DAY PAGE 2 : :

: : WEDDING DINNER PAGE : :

Introducing the Blythe Doll Crazy "AH-YEES" Team!"