30.07.2005

woo~
met up with my dear frens: bao yue, lily and jin qi @ orchard
long time no see, check each others' situations and talked lotsa crap

well, baoyue is as brilliant and lively as before. she almost become a traffic light today
yea, heard all the interviews experiences with diff airline companies. don't realli sounds easy to be aair stewardess...
hope she can get into emirates. and bring some dubai tycoons back for me hahaha
lily as usual, working... i think james cook can provide her a very well education which also suits her liking...
jin qi, still thinks she's fat all day... haha just enjoy life and enjoy food

NYDC is realli great. according to bao yue's terms me and lily are NYDC virgins
yea, ordered something called parsamen chicken pasta. woa, it's so nice and i luv the way we added our cheese!
hehehe it's realli good food. peeps u should go try this dish. it's realli worth ur money ok
serving quite big. it can u feel very full if u have the entire plate to urself. and prices.. this one is $13.95 if i'm not wrong
baoyue also recommanded some other nice and yummi from nydc. the mudpies and a drink called 'ele@!#&*$'
dunno how it's spelt like, just noe that it's a bit similar to the pronunciation of elephant
just go nydc and check it out. it's a drink from a cube.
ok, baoyue kept going on with food and then dessert and then mudpies.
"coffee club mudpie ..................................." ok let's go coffee club. hahaha yummmiii we had our dessert there...

quite alrite with the food. it can be better. maybe the quality goes hand in hand with its prices. it's cheaper over at coffee club

then there's this comotion over at the roadside. peeps were clottin up to watch something. ok, singaporeans are naturalli kay poh
so we went up and check it out. ok, it's an accident. 2 cars, one is a woman driver with 3 passengers who looked like her family. the other one is a young male driver.
light brown hair, and looked like a ah beng. with his gf in car. ok both sides talk talk talk point here point there. cuz it's a single lane road. these 2 lousy cars are jammin up the whole road. and then the cars behind started honkin. it's like soooooooooooooooooooooo loud! are they blind? dun they noe tat there's an accident in front? can't they wait a while for them to move to other places to argue out?

nvm after this stuff our gals gotta go home. returned money and stuff.... went on the train. shit i saw some one carryin the same bag as me. i told jqnot to move in any further, but god didn;t help us by giving us 2 empty seats right oppsite that person
ok, trying to act cool. ok he's off a few stops later.

back home, continue to mug on my NUS studies. i guess this 'nus orientation' can be compiled into a module. a proper module.
imagine not attending ani camps u gotta noe how this sch operates? as in academic wise. woo, it's realli a huge subject and my oli source of info is nus.edu.sg. ok lar, some senior tips from my bro.

thanks alot, kor kor. u did help me quite alot.

1/8 is comin. i'm going thru another brain cells massacre soon.

halo peeps~

realli realli busy in these few days... today, i;m able to blog again because 29.08.05 is over
yea, that's the stupid and idiotic cors. seriously i noe that such existence do has it's meaning and usage. but it does create lots of mental stress and some illogical consequences.
and i can tell u the mental stress is like.... taking an end-of-yr exam. it decides ur fate, course of studies and interest. u have to compromise ur interest with ur mod with ur bid pts.
ok enough of that think. i'm going to have another round on 1st aug. gotta charged up my brain cells now..

ok...
25.7 matriculation i admit tat i thought this word is spelt as 'maticulation' and i pronouced it tat way
26 & 27.7 FASS talk
28.7 Open bidding
29.7 medical checkup, see locker, close bidding

oh ya, i got myself a locker! it's so great but the location bit not good cuz it along a dark, hot and remote corridor... but aniway, i got this locker so tat i can out stuff when i hit the gym.
ok pple pls remind me to go to the gym everytime u see me k? i'm scare that i lose the enthusiasm
30.7 frens somerset

btw i just received a call while i was typing this blog. it's my chance and i think i', not letting it go like last time.

oh, i just did a ringtone for my fone yesterday~ it's the song by nic tse, tat one that i recommend in my previous blog entries heheh such a nice song, luv'it!

yesterday's 9pm, i got my bidding results and i got all my 3 mods. hahaha luckily it's so esp with psychology cuz i spent 551 out of 600 pts biddin it
the other 2 are geography and south asian studies. 1st of aug i'm bidding on SEA region and another one which is something like the study of a woman'd life time.
it's a med mod and the classes are in NUH, cool huh hahah

sch's realli very busy. gotta deal with many things. forms, application, modules, ceremony, ccas+++

woo-hooo
went to sky's house fo r our jc steamboat cum gathering (cum birthday haha)
firstly, went to giant to shop for the food and ingredients then back to sky's house and prepare.
work till bout 8pm when almost all the others had arrived before we start the dinner
with a big oval table filled with old classmates and a boiling steaming boat in the middle, the scene looks so heart warming and bit touching
we chatted bout lotsa past events, teachers, classmates, rumours in our sch...sad, happy, gossipy, funny, curious ..
i think deep in our hearts, we're united...
the food was great... even better when the teppanyaki was up. when the black pepper chic was on the hot plate, the aroma was so.... ahhh
ok i had quite a bitz of that black black chic cuz it's so tasty,, i'm gonna buy that black pepper sauce...

after the dinner, the guys washed the plates and we back in the living room wanting more entertainment.
so it's cluedo time~!!! hah, yunling bought this travel pack which is a small small version of the original
me, yunling, ji en and sky... haha the four detectives at work. with foolscap paper and pen, we're busy taking down notes when a question was being asked and answered
sometimes, we even need 'pause' session to study and investigate. hahaha and u'll hear loud 'orh!' and 'no contribution!' and 'wo zhi dao le!'frequently by us
well, eventualli, i WON!!! btw warning to beginners to this game, cluedo is a super-brain-damaging game. so please bring along more brain cells when u're at this game
and also, dropping down notes DO help!!! so bring more foolscap and get an ink-full pen.

after that brain rackin game, it's relaxation time so we'd mahjong. hmm... this is the first time i'm playing with chips and becuz of that, i'd learnt bitz bourt 'tai'
ok.. won bit at first cuz i got sky as my 'behind-curtain' advisor. after a few rounds, he was on the player seat and i lost back my winnings...

the tv was playing an exciting scene frm 'the pacifier' and sky toned down the living room's lights. i thought it was to match the excitment.
then... a birthday cake popped out with litted candles. hahhah it's my birthday!!! hahha ok okplus pui suan. honestly i was surprise at that pt of time cuz i never thought there's a cake
hahaha and it's quite a big one this time. ok, sang the birthday song and blew the candels, made wishes and took soem fotos. cut the cake and distribute. the cake was nice...
received a very very interestig present. it's a green tea toothpaste and green tea whitenin facial masks. bitz outta ordinary but they'd put in some thots and effots indeed cuz they know that that i like green tea and prefer white complexion than dark

ok after the celebration, chun kit wanna watch the dvds i brought with and i'm so sorry that they're pirated... next time i'll buy some higher classs pirated hehehe

some internet surfing, tv watching, chit chattin, it's almost five six am. well, since the guys needa get home as they hav stuff on in the afternoon, we all get up and go home...

reached home at bout 7am and bathe and sleep.

then woke up at 5pm. chat with my ham ham and ask her where're are my parents and bro. she said she dunnoe...

ok mama papa back from a cck plants farm and got some new plants backs.

i was busy after tat with my tml's marticulation doc and stuff..

here's a foto of gigi with our very own president nathan. they were at the zpop concert. i wish i can go and see gigi...
btw my new bf's album is up. it was released on my birthday~!!!

hey~ guess wat? my brother is accompanying me to the marticulation fair tml~! haha wat a surprise and also it calms me bit larz... hahaha

hey hey~ it's racial harmony day
n i truly enjoy this day of every every single year~ haha

hmm... ok that's a JOKE by mdm meihui.... hope it's not realli a joke.... or else my heart will break... piag*

ok woke up at bout 2pm plus. oh, i meeting a online shop guy to do some secret dirty transaction... haha no lar, bought something. ya, then went to meet eden for my treat~ hahaha. going to marche. this is my first time there... it's bit different from wat i thought previously. it realli does look like a food court. and i dun like the food there... listen up, eden i dun realli like the food there... hmmm well but overall, the ambience is ok, service gd, price affordable, freshness gd and the deco are interestin too... there's a stupid sign there sayin 'no smoochin'
hmmm after eating, we took fotos here u go :


then gave him a big present hahah the secret transaction is actualli a present 4 him lar.

then went shop shop. got one thing i wanna say.. but very difficult to say.. hai~

then went to carrefour and bought grocery bread choc and ah ha~ my green tea ice scream!!!! aaaaahhh

after that we went to a pet shop and all the bunnies adn hammies are sooooo cute~!!! hahaha oh when i'm happi, i hope my ham ham will be happi as well. so i picked some hamster food for her and i picked cheese and strawberry strips for her. woa looks delicious... realli lar!~

then went to eat cheese cake at secret recipe. there's a banner saying that they got an award winning cheesecake... ok so go try try. A' realli nice leh, and cheap also as in for a good and full cheesecake. yummi pui suan ah, muz take ur bf there and try leh~!!

then went to hmv and ther's a crazy sale going on. feng le feng le! bought a david bowie cd for myself and he got 2 other cds...

went home... so mani pple on the train... he sent me some stuff thru bluetooth... bluetooth is realli helpful...

hmmm, back home feed ah ham with the new food cuz u noe y, she's super choosy with her food. if she dun like it it means that my money is being wasted. but luckili she loves this stuff and ate the whole strip... i promise to give her one everyday. dunno whether she'll grow fat eating this...

then blogging time~ also thought of the 23rd party~ can't wait to go hahaha

ok lar.. gotta sleep...

to eden: though u didn't get me ani actual present, it's totalli alright and plz dun feel weird or strange bout tat and, plz wear the forum hor~ n love tat shirt.

Entertainment news~!!!

1. xiao zhu's papa passed away on the on the 18/07/05
due to liver prob.
中新网7月18日电据台湾媒体报道，罗志祥爸爸强撑多日，昨天下午病逝家中，罗志祥在爸爸身旁说着以前的事，允诺照顾妈妈，最后一句“我来生还要继续当你儿子”，罗爸爸落下一滴眼泪后，安详离开人世人。

hi pple~ hi mj
ya... been so lazy with my blog... mainly becuz i'm busy lar... realli.. everyday, i sleep at 5-6am and wake up at 2pm. my entire life is up side down.

well... finalli i'm totalli done with pinnacle. burn the last edited dvd and i'm deleting it off totalli from my com... and install another more trustable video editin prog...

hmm.... oh ya, guess wat am i doing throughout the whole nite leh, since i sleep at 6am?? hehehe actualli i'm.... doin up my new fone lar... stupid motorola, i'm going to burn the company down one day. the stupid cd-rom tat it comes with doesn't work~ wat connection with usc bluetooth and watever shit, all crap~! i tried all means and ways using the usb... ok doesn't work. force me to use my 'jue zhao' lethal weapon --- ask my kor kor to help me... then he tried and i was sitting on my bed listenin to the crisp and quick mouse clicking sound... woA~ he used the blue tooth and still, can't connect...

nvm, i USE MY WAY... the most simple and trad way... the card reader. hmmm plug in the sd card and transfer here and there... hmmm quite fun initialli... but comes to the later part... i realised that the stupid motorola prog is realli up to some use cuz it's prog to help us convert the data be it image or audio or video to a suitable size and btye for my fone to play it. ok... then i got enlightened but still cannot mar cuz tat prog dun wanna 'zo gan'.

then i use MY WAY again... go to paint brush to scale down big pic like photographs change some songs to real player format... then comes the diff part.. video... it must be: XXXXX.rm and the file type must be real player file... then i use the video editin prog (those for making dvds) to help me lor. can u see all these troubles needed just becuz tat stupid motorola prog can't work? and all these methods need time to think out... so... sob sob.. but overall i'm very happi with the fone cuz it's realli a grreat great machine. and also the method which i thought out do work. the fone's functions almost work the work i WANT it to be. like how i wish the fone got this and that,it got'em! ok lar, actualli motorola's boss is my father... hahaha

and trust me, motorola has improved alot... compared to it's stagnant stage in the past whereby we see nokia and sony ericsson throwin out more and more new and updated fones into the saturated market... and motorola, i love it!

lastly, wanna say..... cya guys in sky's house on the 23rd.

Pui suan:

"Haha! Guess what is my greatest want right now?! I want the chicken wings from ikea! The chicken wings from ikea was the best chicken wings that I had ate before. Plus the meat ball!! yUm yUm!!!"

Eileen:

"ME TOO!!!!!!"

didn't blog for bout 6 days... ok let me recall...

these few day's i'm busy readin up uni stuff cuz they're realli very ma fan and foreign to me. and i was also crazy with my game boy. currently playing the sims bustin' out. great game and it's not boring at all cuz it got a series of missions and goals to accomplish. then earlier on i was busy with my whipped cream. now, i'm bored with it, cuz u noe, cream, u'll get bored of it after a few bites... there's one last cube of mousse in my fridge and i got not feeling of consumin it.

15/07/05

received the marticulation package... hmmm... lots of forms and all must diy. realli very ma fan!

mmm... 16/07/05

met up with jin qi at cafe cartel for dinner. great food at affordable prices. the serving is also big. then i told jq tat i'm so scared going to the u alone and i'll be a loner there. then she brought me to her church frens (the uni grp) somewhere in orchard. the atmosphere was good and i could blend in quite well with all the people and conversation... met lots of good pple and we chatted for bout quite a long time before we left the place at 10.30pm. i was realli happy tat day and i dun feel so scared now. :)

17/07/05 super early at bout 2-3am - fateful incident

still awake and busy with computer. went out to chat and play with ham ham while i was carrying her and walkin to the kitchen she fell out of my hand. i stuck out my the other hand immediately, hoping to catch her midway but instead, i knocked into her and she fell harder on the floor. trust me, i heard a big loud and clear 'thump'...................
my heart cracked, realli cracked cuz she fell backwards down that means her skull and spine must be painful. after the thump, her four limbs were like sticking out motionlessly and tummy facin up. not movin. i picked her up and ask her how's she.... slowly, she opened her eyes and replied "ouch! y do u have 7 heads? " then i massage her back and temple. also feelin whether there's any crack or dislocated bones... luckily,,after a few mins, she was back to normal.... feeling so so so so so guilty, i prepared her a sumptous meal in the middle or the night... got bread, dried food, wolfberry (her fav) and my kisses...

17/07/05 noon. hello moto i luv ya

woke up at bout 2pm cuz my mama said something in the ear while i was still asleep. she said "papa say there should be one line that is available for upgrade" then i think think, ok it's time to get a fone. haha cuz previously i'd done some price comparation and the conclusion is i can buy it at aniwhere except starhub (cuz i hate it) and m1 (cuz it's ex larz!) then went to causeway pt's hello shop and got my dream phone. woa~ white and silver yummi! my hamster will love it!!! hahah quickly brought it home and show my honey. true enough tat she agreed it's a beauty! then i promise her to let her use the fone on weekends. then she thanked me.

now still charging it... muz wait till it turns green. i got a free blue tooth and i looked like an idiot when i put it on. the ear pieces are like man tou. but it's useful... not presentable. it's alien wear.

the instruction book is like super thick and i think i should go and read it now....

11.07.06 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO UNCLE!
carrying heavy and fragile stuff. Cycled to his house. first thing, eat~! Cuz I went out og house after I woke up. Reached eden’s house at mid noon… ! Stomach is totally nothing and HCL is gobbling fast. Had lunch and raspberry vodka. I love the vege, aunty grace
And the soup and fish cakes tasted great! Thanks~!

Then the haircutting starts. I still didn’t cut his fringe cuz I wanted to be like boy’z kenny. Keep on complaining and I won’t cut it away.

Watched the dvd and rushed out @ bout 3.35pm cuz gotta get to the back. While walking towards the bus stop, a car stopped beside us. It’s his mum~ haha hopped on and we get to the bank in less than 10min! his mama also asked y his fringe is not cut~ haha had bit of chat…

Finally, I had made my debit card. Everything done~ and after bout 2-3 weeks, I’ll get my first signature-required card. Get into west mall.

Shop and save’s things aren’t really cheap. I bought some ingredients for strawberry mousse… 4 things and they cost me 15 bucks. Well, some are more expensive but what I mean is relatively... then while walking out of west mall, we saw hui ling~ hahaha I’m not really sure if there’s another person accompanying her. Maybe that person is Ian but u guys noe, I dun noe how that guy looks like lehz… talked bout the nus checkup and yar, that’s bout all and we parted.

Got home and was 10 min late for my happy hour. While watching the show, I was making the mousse and everything’s like stupid cuz that stupid whipped cream never get fluffed or bubbled or wat. Btw I’m whipping the cream manually cuz I got no $ to buy the egg beater machine. IF U OWN ONE, PLEASE LEND IT TO ME PLEASE! THANKS~ u’ll noe y later.

After all the ingredients are dropped in and mix and done, it gotta sleep in the fridge for 40min. I went to bathe and when the time is up, the thing looks normal. Stir it, it doesn’t feel right cuz it’s supposed to be like something harder than cream. Taste it, god! I dunnoe how to describe my failure. Tears,will do? The stuff is bad not saying the freshness. The cream becomes beady. I use my tongue to press against the beads in order to form them into a bigger body. Analsye for a moment I think these beads are fats from the cream. Dun noe why they got parted and stayed individually. Maybe it’s cuz I put a bit of water in where it’s not stated to be added??? Hahaha anyway I’m sad.

In the end it’s too disgusting to be edible and I gotta throw it away. My heart ached.
Then back to my room, the thumb drive hunt begun. It’s a long and stupid story. Summary: I lost my thumb drive. Search the entire place and nowhere to be seen. At last it’s on the chair I’m sitting on.

http://www.wretch.cc/album/album.php?id=mings&book=1 ---> this person is very familiar
http://cqmtv.com/mtv/mtv/jay-yLxb.wmv ---> yi lu xiang bei MV

8/7/05
woke up at almost 3pm and found some sms and unanswered calls on my fone.
opps, i have a limp kopi session with jin qi after her exam~! ok ok... quickly call her and finally we met out @ lot one...
had coffee bean and chit chat chit chat.. she's attending a great degree course now and i think her future looks beautiful...

reminisced about the old days, we're realli a pair of good fren doing stupid stuuuupid things since primary sch... stupid yet memorable

back home, saw my bro's gf's sandal on the floor...

i decided to burn the holiday video into a mpeg. this time it takes 5 hours. better than the previous attempt, it's faster and eventualli successful...
but it's a bit blur and motion is not realli smooth either.
well, at least it's a complete and watchable clip.

planned to wake up early today and visit the bank to make my debit card. but i woke up @ 1.30pm. so monday lor. then wait for another 2 weeks before i can get my card.

7/7/05
i can't get into sleepin mode the nite before... i tried all sorts of methods except knocking myself out.
ok going out early in the mornin 6.45am
went to meet eden for breakfast... saw lots of interesting and new things (to me) along the trai ride to tampines.

after a dissapointing breakfast by delifrance, meet up with meihui and we headed to east coast park. a long bus ride and walk to the actual place. but renting the bike is such a good experience cuz it's sooooo cheap and the service is good. locker is also provided for free! the park was not crowded and it's just the place for some quiet sun-tanning...
mh had an accident with a small stone pillar while we're entering bedok jetty. saw blood. hope her wound will recover fast.
tired after a 1hr40+min of cycling, sat down on a stone stool and talk crap and see pple. after tat back to tampines mall, cuz mh is buyin a new fone! Hehe and I got my chance to get toucjy with my dream fone e680i. but they just got the e680. touch touch press press tap tap see see… great!
Taught eden some math on the way home

Back home. Realized that my arms are bit red. Nice colour compared to those brown complexion…. Can’t ta han anymore after having more than 24h lack of sleep… force my mum to make a promise with me, so that I’ll be awake at 12midnite for my happy hour. Went to sleep at mama’s room. Woke up at 12, feeling that the sleep was very comfortable. Just a sudden good feel, hahaha. Went to on th tv and it’s that show bout culture playing still. Watched and realized it’s very bad. Cuz it seems that lots of attention and scenes are placed on that host (4got her name). and it’s disgusting to keep seeing her large and up-close portraying of her face. Eventually it should be a culture-knowledge program, and pple duun wanna see the host’s face more than the features of cultures.

Watched my fav prog and found ceci quite diff from my perceptions. Some plus pt for her lor.

Online and saw my bro’s new entry. It’s strange that pple will blog bout such content but sometimes I do find him full of wisdom….

Ok after checking mails and stuff, I’m ready to recharge my exhausted body again

5/7/05 PJC + BUFFET

met up with mh, yl and ps to take our cert in pj...so sorry tat i'm late :P
but happy meeting up with frens esp pui suan... it's been quite a long time we didn't see her...
in pj, went to look 4 sky and then we went to the staff room area and saw miss leong... she was with another teacher sitting outside the staff room... went up to her... so sad that the conversation did not last 4 long and the content was like just perfunctory...
aniway, it's good to see her eventualli.
ozzy was busy while we were looking 4 him. quite happy that he still keep our mobile no. and he's the same old caring osman.
we can't find our class mother... :(
had a hearty chat with lin lao shi... who was yl and ps's chinese teacher...
oh, about to 4get our most discussible teacher: mr siraj hahaha he still look sharp haha
after the sch visit, we went to sakae to have our buffet... we ate till our pants unbuckled, no lar, just tat our stomach skin to stretching hard...
overall i love the green tea ice cream @ the end. i ate two cups, hehehe

then yl went home and ps gotta go off during the buffet. me and mh walked home from lot one to blk 607. it's an hour's walk. quite hot but it made our stomach less uncomfortable...
mh in the house and i intoduce my ah ham to this gal and my ham ham was petrified! haha
after burnin some stuff, she went home and i started to tell my dad bout the stupid pinnacle thing. he said he has to reinstall pinnacle. then i went bathing. suddenly i realised that my dad will be deletin the final saved file which is the done-ed video of our holiday and this is wat i spend days and nite completing. halfway of the shower i shouted to my mum to tell my papa to stop doing anithing to my com com. then after the shower,i went to check the com and the project file. strangely, it's not the final one which i'd complete. it's the halfway work. ok i was so mad that i swear i can kill... but after a call, i was better off... sucky time, i hav to redo the remaining un-edit audio portion. XXXX redoing and u guys noe how much much much much effort time and attention is required~!!!!

hmm i think most pple are not interested in the above incident nvm... sob sob

6/7/05 HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEAT SAN AND XUE LING

went online to do a lot of checking up. the laptops, properties and yahoo auctionhaha met ps on msn just now and she told me stuff bout yahoo auction. all sounded simple and real cool so i went there and signed an account. started looking up for cool deals... but when i found one, they required me to verify some shitty credit cards~ i dun hav leh, wat to do?? ps say can use nets lehz... dunno, guess i need to visit her one day and get a tutorial from her... if nets is usable, that's damn cool cuz i found lots of super-wanted stuff on yahoo hk auction....hahahahahhah

ok for now i gotta go prepare, going to lot 1 to collect fancl 'bird' and have dinner.

to eden: best of luck to ur math paper on fri. can't go to ur house tml cuz fun is waiting 4 me on the other side... hahaha sorry. try ur best and dun be a careless koo koo!

stupid pinnacle! after putting together and editing all the video clips, i'm ready to burn it into a dvd. and i press on the create button... the process started... burning one sec of video takes 6.9 sec... so i do my math... it means that the whole burning process will take 12hours. never mind, left it to work overnite, next morning... dunno wat happened the dvd is not done and the system was restart...
ok this time my papa say try using dvd-r ok.. same timing 1sec video = 6.9sec... let's see wat happen in tml's 10am...
this is the last chance i'm giving to pinnacle...
tml, i gettin my cert back in pj and after that a sushi buffet~ yummy...
Read bout the nus notebook ownership thingy... but still,i'm not sure on how bout doin it...
now, i'm very busy with sneezes... nothing seems to work on my nose...mama say cut it down...

SIMPLY THE BEST

i'm certain that i'd made the right choice, to submit my entire life to my beloved Edison Chen.

is bout to reveal something....

hello~! long time didn't blog liaoz.... getting more lazy to update this thingy... but i'll keep going....

well these few days, i'm living like a pig... staying in a super messy room with my spoilt aircon (now ok liaoz) and things are all thrown around... bed forever not tidy up... table forever messy... u noe y???

cuz i'm busy with pinnacle... editing the holiday video can realli make a person go bonkers...

oh, got some mp3 from eden and the initial d's songs are great~~~ yi lu xiang bei is nice esp with the recollection of the scenes frrom the movie... so sad... sob sob..

and ya, ever since the winning from cadbury, i'm getting super interested when there's a contest... hahah from mag, supermarket, newspapers blah blah blah...
hoping to get more and more FREE!!! wish me luck i hope to win a holiday to UK this time...tat's y i need more luck...