BORN TO BE WILD!

The Book of Mormon- controversial or simply entertainment

2012-01-27T08:51:00.002+08:00

Just finished listening to the whole soundtrack of The Book of Mormon. Gotta say its really well-written, i enjoyed all the musical numbers thoroughly. I wonder if it is going against my faith to watch it tho. My favorite song in the whole musical is Hasa Diga Eabowai, which simply is something completely and utterly inappropriate! But if I fine-tune the lyrics out, its beautifully composed.
I guess this is pretty much like Jesus Christ, Superstar, one of the most controversial musicals in the history of Christianity, yet so many people stream in to enjoy this classical creation of Andrew Llyod.
Perhaps it is all in the mind, and to appreciate such degree of compositional creativity, I guess its just drawing the line between what is truly going against one's faith vs. hedonism in such 'trashy' musicals as some may say.

The week is coming to a close, and I love everyday after Wednesday! :D My kindle arrived today, its lovely & I'm bubbling with excitement BUT the kindle doesn't allow me to connect to the school wifi which sucks. Gotta find somewhere else with wifi. :(
My virgin book on my kindle's gonna be The hunger games for sure!
Watched my first episode of Homeland, an amazing show! Can't wait to watch another episode today. Biz media has gotta be my favorite module this semester! everything to do with TV and movies, what more can students ask for?
Our first assignment is a paper on 1 out of 5 choices. I've picked Alcatraz, but fell asleep when watching the pilot for it last night, but perhaps that was because it was 3am in the morning rather than the show was boring.

If there's one reason to hate the cold, it gives me the worst cramps. Been suffering since yesterday, to the extent that I can barely concentrate during lessons. Skipped breakfast because my cramps were working up again at 8AM THIS MORNING. grrr...
TGIF tomorrow, but it will be a mad rush trying to complete all the assignments so my weekends will be free. Its difficult to manage studies here because it is more time-consuming than anything else.

Everyday I'm studying

2012-01-24T08:08:00.003+08:00

OMGGG people here are maddd hardworking. Spent my weekends doing readings, never used to do that in Singapore unless its near exam period. I guess that's the difference between the systems here and back home. Quite honestly, I prefer the ones back home. But then its all up to one's discipline to stay on track, here the systems force you to stay on track with weekly quizzes and papers that accumulate up to half your grades! The final exam here ain't important, but back home skip everything BUT the mid terms and final exams.

I'm just glad my timetable gives me lots of free time to read up before the lessons cos of the quiz. If there's one skill that I've perfected over the years, its procrastination. Perhaps its the thrill of completing an objective within such a short span of time! Hmm..

I'm still feeling sore over the fact that I'm missing CNY back home. I miss my grandmama's cooking. Its the one thing I look forward to every year, and within that lunch, I can spam myself with soooooo much foood because it is beyond delicious! I can't wait for CNY next year in that case. Many thanks to the ones who have been cheering me up while I'm so down and out about missing out, really means so much to me when I'm away from home!

Weather's here been pretty odd. Alternates between warm and cold, can't say I appreciate it being TOO cold, I like my weather just nice. :) I'm still hoping for snow this year although I know how highly unlikely that is. No matter, just don't rain this Saturday because I'm going to the carnival, the carnival! We never have such large-scale ones back home, pasar malam doesn't count. Its been twice that I've been watching from the outside of the gates, and finally we've got tickets to the rodeos which means a full day down at the carnival!
They have funnel cakes, hotdogs on a stick, all sorts of snacks, game stores piled high with prizes, everything! OH and even a petting zoo! I heard that there's a llama there, I've never petted a llama before, but ever since I've watched The Emperor's New Groove, they've always appeared adorable to me!

I can't wait to travel out of Dallas, school mood has set in all right, with all the deadlines and everything..grrr..

One short day in downtown Fort Worth.

2012-01-21T03:45:00.006+08:00

Headed down to watch the stockyard parades happening in downtown FW! Beautiful day to be out! Got really hot during the midday.

Everybody getting excited for the parades to start! It kicked off with the TCU band! YAY go tcu! and it was a whole long string of horse-drawn carriages, side-saddle riders, wagons and plenty of rodeos.
Never seen so many people in Fort Worth, and so much horse poop! Got really excited, but an hour into the three-hour long parade, we kinda got bored of it and the sun was scorching, so we took a walk down to sundance square.

Headed to a small little cafe where we could watch the parades from the windows. Had the yummiest carbonara with a ceasar salad side. The parade ended halfway during lunch and there were these big trucks that cleared all the poop on the ground but made the whole place soooo dusty!

Walked around after lunch but there was nothing much around, decided to head back to the main station where we decided to take a bus down to Hulen mall, which was a bigggg mistake because it took us 1.5hours before we arrive. Its soooo bad and I got so bus-sick.
Finally got off the bus and managed to take a quick tour of the mall, stopped at F21 where I finally found a pretty top! however, we were running soooo late that we literally had to run for the bus! I gave up running halfway when my knee started hurting so bad!
Managed to catch the bus back home, but definitely going back there again soon!

Finally the market square is open! And apart from having all my meals covered, there's also a $200 campus cash we could use for other restaurants around campus, including STARBUCKSSSS!
Breakfasts in the mornings are usually eggs and potatoes, with the occasional customized omelettes and WAFFLES!!

Loving the TCU logo across my waffles!

Headed down to Barnes & Noble after class today, and I spotted the most adorable plushies ever!!! Wanted to get the dendrite plushie but it was too pricey. :(

Dendrite plushie- there's a whole bunch of these geekish microbes which are super awesome!

This one's the black death virus. Its actually the cutest one of the lot!

& this one's the red blood cell! :D
Kids need these to make biology awesome to study!

And this concludes the first week at school! I'm in for full weeks of crazy reading assignment schedules and papers due, but its all new to me & i'm loving the whole experience of it all!

CNY weekend back in Singapore, so sad I have to miss the family trip to Genting. I know it sounds boring that we do the same thing every year, but I soooo look forward to the getaway everytime. Even though the theme park rides get a little crappy after awhile, even though I don't ever go to the indoor theme parks anymore, even though the shopping there is not the most fantastic, I just love it because I see the beautiful side of it.
Like my delicious, greasy plate of char kway teow, the BEST i've ever tasted before even though its madly overpriced. The fireworks and firecrackers that are displayed in FULL GLORY right above my head, the weather, and the reunion dinner. :)

if only supermarts back home were like this..

2012-01-13T21:10:00.003+08:00

Time flies! its been a week since I've moved into TCU and I can't wait for classes to start. What started out as a bad Tuesday because I couldn't get any classes that I wanted, turned out to be a blessed Wednesday as I've gotten nearly all the classes that I can foresee myself enjoying!
Apart from that, the week has been spent shopping and furbishing my room. Its worth it because I am going to be here for 6 months, and its nice to end a long hectic day with a room to look forward to!

Wednesday was heading down to supertarget again, changed the bedsheets to red (& the correct size), bought a whole lot of junk including a coffee machine ($10) because a water boiler was simply too expensive, table lamp, magnetic board, full length mirror and snacks to survive those late night hunger pangs!
Thursday was mostly just shopping at Krogers, and having take-out for dinners. Took a walk down the street to see if there was anything, but chose the worst day to have a stroll outdoors. Weather reports -4deg and the winds were painfully chilling!
Krogers is awesome to have near the school, its just across 2 roads, about a 10 minute walk.

I love how big their supermarts are and how they have take-out lunch and dinners that are actually non-microwavable food for once. US is truly a frozen food country, the aisle for frozen foods can stretch on and on and on. truly amazing.

Found a snack that must have been banished from Singapore's supermarts a long time ago because they're fats in a pack. But it still remains my all-time favs! Buying a huge bunch of these before I leave for home!

And check this out....

Is it a peanut dispenser? Is it a peanut grinder? NO.
It is a peanut BUTTER dispenser. They grind it up for you right on the spot, albeit crunchy-type peanut butter. I prefer mine smoooth & creamy. Still! its a cool machine, I wonder how good the peanut butter would taste like! at least it proves to be a healthier option with zero additives or preservatives!

Also found this treasure...

Combos are like the best midnight snack ever!! But I only see the cheddar cheese ones back home, here they have buffalo BLUE CHEESE!! *what up!*(Barney Stinson style)
I'm am gonna savor these babies so much, they'll never feel more loved in their entire lifetime!

Bought take-home lunch, potato salad!
Nothing like the ones back home, and they only cost $1.45 for 1-pound pack! Yummers!

Shopped for other stuffs like B&J Late Night Snack flavor, & mac&cheese boxes. Its awesome, i'm so gonna grow fat here.

The market square starts today, had a delicious breakfast of scrambled eggs and potato cubes, with a burrito! Awesome stuff.
Headed down for international orientation where I was almost put to sleep. They introduced the US school system as being participatory. that's where I'm gonna suffer like mad. If there's one thing I hate, I hate participating in classes. However, here that accounts for 20% of your grade, and goes to show how passionate you are about the class. Since I email-begged most of the professors to allow me into their classes, I am going to have to participate.. grrr... Gone were the days when you can just sit there for hours just listening, but never having to stress yourself out about speaking up in class.

heading out for dinner again at the market square, & a long weekend before school officially begins. Plans for the weekends so far: C's friends are visiting, so headed down to downtown Dallas. & that's all we've got so far!
Dallas is pretty much a quiet place to truly get away from the city, can't say I'm not enjoying this peace and laid-back pace of life!

TCU-home of the horned frogs

2012-01-11T07:00:00.002+08:00

I think horned frogs are kinda adorable, especially those that they used for the mascots, but more than that, I love the theme color here- purple!
Checked out of the hotel at 9.30am, and it was such a rainy day. Its shocking how much the temperature could have fallen by when it rains! It was painful to even step outside.
Still, we managed to carry all our luggages to check into our rooms!

First glance at TCU while we waited 30mins in the cold wind cos the assistant took soooo long to come. I tried out my heat pack, it really works although I can't seem to figure out how. Its powdery granules on the inside, and the first hour, it wouldn't heat up but once you leave it alone, it gradually gets hotter and hotter, and when you use it, it loses heat. Leave it alone and it gains heat. Very interesting indeed.

Had orientation but we skipped most of it, too sleepy and lazy to move around in the rain. Visited the TCU spirit shop after lunch, plenty of pretty things but nothing that I need now.

Headed back to my room and I realized what a COMPLETE WRECK that place was. It looked like the aftermath of a crazy and wild new year's party. At least it was out along the corridors, or so I thought, upon entering my room, dust balls were everywhere on the floor and the shelves were coated with dust. Didn't get any cleaning wipes the day before at Target so I spent the night at C's. The bed is huge but horribly uncomfortable because my legs practically dangled out along the sides. Its meant for one, not two but she was nice to share it with me given the state of my room!

Headed back to get changed in the morning and I walked past the fountain. Pretty in the morning, plus the rain had subsided! Really refreshing to be up in the morning and despite the cold, I still love it!

Skyping A when suddenly I saw a squirrel just right outside C's window! awwww the cute things!
If it were my room, I would have let one in already.

Today was day2 of orientation, but a more important one because its for academics. Spent the whole afternoon getting transferred between peoples because nobody could find our records.
Met really really nice coordinators that made us feel soooo welcomed! everyone is so friendly here I am so loving it. Something you can never find back home.
Managed to clinch 401 & 402, most important. But the rest of the courses are not the ones that I want. The jetlag must be getting to me because I sent a single professor 3 wrong emails asking to be in his class.. why do i feel pessimistic about my chances of getting in right now. However, the people here are really nice, and professors likewise. Surprise me please!!
I have until Monday before all my courses are confirmed so please let me take the courses that I will enjoy taking!

"But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you "
God has blessed me with getting the modules that I have always eyed for, and for granting me good grades, I pray once more to get these modules that I reallyreallyreallyreallyreally wanna take while I am here!

Heading out for dinner later with a couple of new friends which we will officially meet today after contacting via fb for the past 2 months! CHINESE FOOD!!!
I cannot tell you how much I miss chinese food, mommy i was wrong when I said I could survive everyday on burgers and pizzas. I do miss chinese food, and was craving so badly for something chinese last night, but my only option was McDonalds.
McD here serves really good breakfast burrito though, and it goes for only a buck. It comes with this tangy, spicy sauce that was love at first bite!
Cold cold day again today, and we didn't manage to get to Target in time so no cleaning wipes to wipe down my room. May have to bunk in with C again, I feel so bad tho, may just risk sleeping on my own bed tonight!
Till next time.

To Moscow then Houston, finally Fort Worth!

2012-01-09T12:48:00.005+08:00

Goodbye Singapore!

AND HELLO DALLAS!

Val got me a farewell gift on the night we left! Although I'm not a fan of winnie the pooh, its yellow and its a gift FROM HER, and that's saying something.
A came all the way to send me off too, and she got this whole bag of gifts! Sadly I couldn't bring the whole big book of Christmas Story, but she made me a beautiful diary with the most touching work of art I've ever seen! :) Love you A!

First stop was Moscow, prettiest first impression I've ever seen! Snow-topped cottages, yeah COTTAGES! or maybe that's what it looks like from the plane, and snow everywhere!!! Got so excited and wanted to snap a few photos but transit was very rushy, the luggage check was kinda intense- opening my bags up and examining my stuffs.
I had leftover water in my bottle and the Russian lady gave me this death stare and shook a single 'no-no' finger at me. Saw a really cool vending machine that dispenses freshly-squeezed orange juice, where it literally de-
juiced the orange in front of you! awesome stuff!

2nd half of the flight was plenty of turbulence, caught two great movies, Moneyball and What's your number! Enjoyed both very much! The first sight of Houston greeted me at 2pm local time, and its funny travelling alone because its DIY for everything. Didn't realize that I had to call the hotel for a shuttle, and spent 15 minutes dumbly waiting outside.
Comfort suites is a great place for a night's stay, I must have been a very troublesome guest though, kept ringing the operator because I didn't know how to turn on the AC and the showers! Then I came to realize that in the US, I had to use double to strength for everything! AC would only turn on if I JAM the button really hard. Showers were the same theory.
Had cup noodles for dinner because it was pitch black outside and the nearest food stop was kinda isolated, and went straight to bed!

Breakfast the next day was amazinggg! :D I just love the scrambled eggs and the waffle machine, although i burnt both my toast and waffle! :(( still getting the hang of it.
Internal flight was faster than I thought, it only took 45 minutes compared to the 1hr15mins estimated time, and I finally landed in Dallas!
C had a luggage problem because they sent hers for rechecking and we ended up waiting till 7pm at the airport, entertained myself by watching Underworld in preparation for the upcoming one!
Arrived at Residence Inn, 2km from TCU and we're happily settled!

Woke up to this at 8am this morning, looks even better in real.

Got awesome hotel room cards!!
It seems the whole community along S. University Drive is a huge fan of TCU, there's TCU flags flying from random stores, even in Target, they had TCU mascots and jackets!

Amazing Sunday morning! Took a long walk to the nearest target to shop for back-to-school stuffs! C & I seriously budget-shop all the way, cutting down to only the bare necessities, but my bill still amounted to USD68! ARGH! Saw the prettiest faux fur throw going at $18, but i can't bring it home anyways. :((

The walk along the park was such an eye-opener. Trees were bare due to winter season, and I kept spotting squirrels all over! awww the cute furry things! I love the way they run and their bushy tails fluff around behind them. Haven't had a chance to get up close to one yet though, and there are many dog people around here! All bringing their dogs for morning walks!
Saw a bunch of people urban fishing as well, signboard states 'Maximum 5 rainbow trouts per person." hahaha, it was freezing this morning, had on gloves & scarf & i was still cold!

Went GAGA over the B&J display! I wanna try so many different flavors but its all about the FATSFATSFATS!

Loot of the day.

& we have a FIREPLACE in the hotel! How awesome is that? But we never got to setting it up. Can't even handle a toaster, I am not going near a fireplace.
Occasionally we can hear the Trinity train through the fireplace, gave me a shock on the first night, but I've grown to like the cute choo-choo sound it makes!

Moving in to school tomorrow and then there's orientation! Hope the people are nice! :)
Goodnight!

Dad brought us to JB! :D

2011-12-29T22:55:00.003+08:00

Yesterday was a long time since I've been out till so late in the morning, BUT it was worth it! Met kate & krissy with her friends at butter around 11pm, never seen the queue so long, worst part was it didn't move. stuck outside for over an hour before we decided to head down to rebel.
Queue was equally long, but we got lucky! :D got in and saved plenty of time! Worst night to go out yesterday because of the crowd, according to sis it was the last ladies night of 2011, so that's why the whole world was out! omgggg.

Amazingly, managed to wake up at 9 this morning and even drove us to the Johor premium outlets. nothing much there, lots of brands but kinda overrated. Spent a couple of hours there, didn't get a single thing. Still! it was exciting because it was so new!

They had a serious housefly problem, and i was so excited queuing up to get a crepe when I realized the place was crawling with houseflies. Their explanation "We apologize for the large amount of houseflies due to farming issues nearby, we are trying our best to maintain the hygiene of the area." Nope, couldn't do it, gave up getting the crepe in the end. Settled for baskin robbins but gave up the cone as well because like at least 10 houseflies landed on the cone that was left in the open! :(

Lunch at the food court was bad, no matter how new the place looked. Food was overpriced as well, food courts in Singapore are cheaper than the one there, and had better food. AVOID AVOID AVOID for lunch! Saw a Thai place on the second level which had a queue, prolly that place was better.

Left for the next shopping mall an hour's drive away, got groceries and walked around a bit before heading for our final stop- city square.
Bought a new bag there, and had dinner at a Hk restaurant, food was alright, but much cheaper than the outlet in Singapore, amazing how the price differs by so much.
Paid Cathay cinemas a visit while we were there as well, and then it was home sweet home!

busy fishy day.

2011-12-27T18:38:00.004+08:00

Dad has the whole week off work so we decided on a fishing trip today.
Woke up bright and early this morning to head down to Keppel Bay for breakfast, before we try out our new secret fishing spot. Been seeing people fish there for ages, but that place is teeming with security cameras and 'No Fishing' signs, plus the fishes that were caught seemed like those coral fishes that were brightly colored or striped.

Prive was really empty this morning, apart from the Eggs Benedict and Eggs Royale, everything else was not yummy. :( Beginning to lose interest in that place. The sun came up right after breakfast, and that's when we grabbed our rods and eagerly started to fish. Dad caught the first fish which cia wanted to keep as a pet because of its pretty stripes, but it died an hour later. :( The guards came to shoo us off later on, and then we realized only those who lived there or owned a boat could actually fish there. Hardly any fishes anyways, mostly the same ones.

Had a whole list of chores for the whole day, but that didn't stop us from stopping by Ikea to grab lunch! It was the perfect lunch place, minus the crowd, and we even got a nice seat by the windows! Got caught in a bad jam later in the afternoon on the way back to school, motorbike got crushed under the wheels of a huge vehicle. ouch! Rounded up the day with duck rice from Katong and a new pair of specs! I'm beginning to miss singapore already, but its either deal with the missing, or deal with another new sem at school, i'll take the missing anyday! :)

an interesting read

2011-12-26T18:54:00.000+08:00

In late-2008, I was lucky enough to discover a book called, The Introvert Advantage (How To Thrive in an Extrovert World), by Marti Laney, Psy.D. It felt like someone had written an encyclopedia entry on a rare race of people to which I belong. Not only had it explained many of my eccentricities, it helped me to redefine my entire life in a new and productive context.

Sure, anyone who knows me would say, “Duh! Why did it take you so long to realize you’re an Introvert?” It’s not that simple. The problem is that labeling someone as an Introvert is a very shallow assessment, full of common misconceptions. It’s more complex than that.

A section of Laney’s book maps out the human brain and explains how neuro-transmitters follow different dominant paths in the nervous systems of Introverts and Extroverts. If the science behind the book is correct, it turns out that Introverts are people who are over-sensitive to Dopamine, so too much external stimulation overdoses and exhausts them. Conversely, Extroverts can’t get enough Dopamine, and they require Adrenaline for their brains to create it. Extroverts also have a shorter pathway and less blood-flow to the brain. The messages of an Extrovert’s nervous system mostly bypass the Broca’s area in the frontal lobe, which is where a large portion of contemplation takes place.

Unfortunately, according to the book, only about 25% of people are Introverts. There are even fewer that are as extreme as I am. This leads to a lot of misunderstandings, since society doesn’t have very much experience with my people. (I love being able to say that.)

So here are a few common misconceptions about Introverts (not taken directly from the book, but based on my own life experience):

Myth #1 – Introverts don’t like to talk.
This is not true. Introverts just don’t talk unless they have something to say. They hate small talk. Get an introvert talking about something they are interested in, and they won’t shut up for days.

Myth #2 – Introverts are shy.
Shyness has nothing to do with being an Introvert. Introverts are not necessarily afraid of people. What they need is a reason to interact. They don’t interact for the sake of interacting. If you want to talk to an Introvert, just start talking. Don’t worry about being polite.

Myth #3 – Introverts are rude.
Introverts often don’t see a reason for beating around the bush with social pleasantries. They want everyone to just be real and honest. Unfortunately, this is not acceptable in most settings, so Introverts can feel a lot of pressure to fit in, which they find exhausting.

Myth #4 – Introverts don’t like people.
On the contrary, Introverts intensely value the few friends they have. They can count their close friends on one hand. If you are lucky enough for an introvert to consider you a friend, you probably have a loyal ally for life. Once you have earned their respect as being a person of substance, you’re in.

Myth #5 – Introverts don’t like to go out in public.
Nonsense. Introverts just don’t like to go out in public FOR AS LONG. They also like to avoid the complications that are involved in public activities. They take in data and experiences very quickly, and as a result, don’t need to be there for long to “get it.” They’re ready to go home, recharge, and process it all. In fact, recharging is absolutely crucial for Introverts.

Myth #6 – Introverts always want to be alone.
Introverts are perfectly comfortable with their own thoughts. They think a lot. They daydream. They like to have problems to work on, puzzles to solve. But they can also get incredibly lonely if they don’t have anyone to share their discoveries with. They crave an authentic and sincere connection with ONE PERSON at a time.

Myth #7 – Introverts are weird.
Introverts are often individualists. They don’t follow the crowd. They’d prefer to be valued for their novel ways of living. They think for themselves and because of that, they often challenge the norm. They don’t make most decisions based on what is popular or trendy.

Myth #8 – Introverts are aloof nerds.
Introverts are people who primarily look inward, paying close attention to their thoughts and emotions. It’s not that they are incapable of paying attention to what is going on around them, it’s just that their inner world is much more stimulating and rewarding to them.

Myth #9 – Introverts don’t know how to relax and have fun.
Introverts typically relax at home or in nature, not in busy public places. Introverts are not thrill seekers and adrenaline junkies. If there is too much talking and noise going on, they shut down. Their brains are too sensitive to the neurotransmitter called Dopamine. Introverts and Extroverts have different dominant neuro-pathways. Just look it up.

Myth #10 – Introverts can fix themselves and become Extroverts.
A world without Introverts would be a world with few scientists, musicians, artists, poets, filmmakers, doctors, mathematicians, writers, and philosophers. That being said, there are still plenty of techniques an Extrovert can learn in order to interact with Introverts. (Yes, I reversed these two terms on purpose to show you how biased our society is.) Introverts cannot “fix themselves” and deserve respect for their natural temperament and contributions to the human race. In fact, one study (Silverman, 1986) showed that the percentage of Introverts increases with IQ.

“You cannot escape us, and to change us would lead to your demise.” <-- I made that up. I'm a screenwriter.

It can be terribly destructive for an Introvert to deny themselves in order to get along in an Extrovert-Dominant World. Like other minorities, Introverts can end up hating themselves and others because of the differences. If you think you are an Introvert, I recommend you research the topic and seek out other Introverts to compare notes. The burden is not entirely on Introverts to try and become "normal." Extroverts need to recognize and respect us, and we also need to respect ourselves.

Let me know your thoughts.

-Carl.

christmas christmas time is here!

2011-12-26T01:12:00.002+08:00

This has been an awesomely fun year of good ol' christmas traditions!
We've got the turkey dinner at home, albeit the microwave dying on us halfway, we've got the usual opening of one present ONLY on Christmas eve, and the Christmas mass (two of them this year), and another full Christmas dinner on the 25th Dec, and finally coming home to opening all the presents, and awaiting another holiday tomorrow! :D And now that its all over, I'll just have to look forward to next year for this wonderful day again!

Getting ready for bed and was about to load an episode of HIMYM when I get the error message "Servers are all full, try again later." WHAT IS EVERYBODY DOING HOME ON CHRISTMAS! you should be out (so that I can watch my episode in peace), i'm dead tired so its definitely an early night for me because of the late nights playing Spyro on Wii with baby. Its so addictive that game, we're already at the 50% mark and I really do hope to complete it before I leave.

My holiday is too short in Singapore, I can't bear to leave. I think I'm gonna be so homesick. Let everything stay the same when I get home!
A merry Christmas to one and all, and to all a good night!

and i thought all this was over last month

2011-12-22T08:49:00.002+08:00

omggg getting nervous jitters because the results are out, or have been out since 12mn. Bad mistake to be checking them at night, did that for last semester and the results were so disappointing that i couldn't sleep the entire night. But for this sem, I've learnt to check it only in the morning, which brings me to this point now.

I wanted to wait until after xmas, but dad encouraged me to check it now and get it over with. So I guess i'm gonna do it right after i write this, because if my results are all too disappointing once more, xmas will cheer me up and allow me to realize that exam results are not all I live for, there are so many more beautiful things in life to look forward to, and it will not ruin my favorite day of the year!

Anyways, done all my Christmas shopping! can't believe I actually completed before christmas itself, WITHOUT stepping into town this year! woooo, a lot gentler on my wallets. Having a Christmas lunch later at baby's. Bought a bottle of wine to bring over, but I'm so shit at wines that I just ask the person at wine connections to introduce me to one. I ended up with a south african fruity one, this is mental note that if the wine's not good to not go back there again!
gahhhhh its down to this moment! congrats to all who did well!
& its 3 days counting to xmas! :D

Holidays are awesome!

2011-12-16T13:59:00.005+08:00

T'was the happiest night of my life, after all these years I finally got to watch wicked!
Its awesome how those songs I've been listening to just comes to life, it was 3 hours of pure wicked goodness! How I dreaded when it came to the last song, but the cast was fantastic! I've heard rumors that the Australian cast was not as good, but I seriously beg to differ!
They were very good, although I do think some could be better, but it was overall a very good show!

Thanks babyboy for this musical! its been the most awesome yet!

Pre-wicked jitters! was soooo excited we headed in 15 minutes early!
Sadly, the seats we got were very bad, the bar was blocking our view the whole time, and it was 3 hours of leaning forward to overlook the bar. BUT as mesmerizing as the musical was, I pretty much forgot about the bar when the first song came on.

Managed a sneak photo of the finale! I would watch it over and over again.
Cannot wait to see how the Broadway version differs from this one, truly this is a musical that really puts a cherry on top of a beautiful 2011!

The past week, had 2 21st birthday parties as well, R and C had their birthdays back-to-back!

Happy 21st R! Hope you had a great one, food was awesome and turnout was great! Love your birthday cake!

C you're practically beaming! HAHA. I can tell you had an awesome time, love the muffins that I had for breakfast the next day! :D Special thanks to N.
awwww we're all 21! :')

Headed down to the science center for the dinosaur exhibit. I remember being terrified of this exhibit as a kid. So it must have been pretty awesomely terrifying. But to my slight disappointment, it wasn't. Perhaps over the years of growing up on Jurrassic Park movies and the recent Terra Nova craze, the dino exhibit was pretty blah.
I would pay if it had been probably $10, but not $20.

More the next time!

today my life begins.

2011-11-29T23:49:00.002+08:00

OOOOOOOHHHH YEAHHHH! end of year 2 sem 1!
For all future HP1000 students, it is indeed suicidal to take it as an elective, but one can easily do well if you mug hard enough for it. There are plenty of terms to remember, notes are definitely not enough though, textbooks are a must. & also note the steep bell curve because psych majors will be taking the mod, and there is the unlikely case of high S/U.
The final exam is manageable within the first 2 hours, the last half hour is really for extra checking and stuffs.
No past year papers because I think they repeat questions. Theories are very important, and lots of application during the actual exam itself!
But now all that is over! I have not prepared for the visa interview tomorrow at all, trying my best not to procrastinate, but I just have sooooo many things that I wanna do by tonight, yet i know i'm not gonna last long anymore!

happy holidays!

how steep a climb.

2011-11-29T06:14:00.002+08:00

Just realized that nobody could have S/U-ed this psychology module cos most of them are majors in it, and this is their core. No wonder its been said that this module is not easy.
But in another 2 hours, I'll be breezing through the last 2.5 hours of this semester! I love it how exams sometimes fly by, before you know it, you're rushing for time to finish the final essay and its over and done with! and that guilt doesn't set in till results time so its all good!

can't wait for dimsum lunch later @ Cathay! awh the bliss of post-exam enjoyments!

last official 24 hours of Y2S1

2011-11-28T12:56:00.002+08:00

Tomorrow this time, I cannot imagine what I will be feeling.
Obviously with all my papers nearly over, the mood to study for the final paper is close to zero.
My weekends were ineffective studying phases coupled with the yearning for tuesday morning to come quickly.
Now when I'm facing the final lap, I realized i know NOTHING of what my psych teacher has been talking about for the semester. Plus this is not going to be easy because there are short-essays involved, with application of theories that we have learnt!
sudden deja-vu of my B grade just flashed through my mind again.

Had intended to leave N's party after cake-cutting but we went on to games and such, only left at 1, and by the time my head hit the pillow, it was 3AM.
Woke up at 8AM this morning and have been feeling like a dead cow ever since. Already drank a full cuppa coffee, and chewing on plenty of ginseng slices, which will USUALLY work, but seems completely useless now.

You are going to get another B for psychology if you don't PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER NOW and get those theories into your mind. and then you can give up all hope of ever minoring in this field anymore! okay psychology theories, be nice to me, just let me understand you for the next 24 hours and that's all i'm asking. Be nice.

[[ the one that will never get away. ]]

often, you will regret the things you did not do, more than the things you did.

2011-11-24T11:38:00.003+08:00

BRING A CALCULATOR TO EVERY EXAM!!!
i spent 5 precious minutes trying to calculate how long i should take for each question, because the prof jumbled up the marks for this exam as compared to the past year papers!! arghhh...
Then i rushed straight in, because time was really a HUGE factor. I wish i could have transferred my spare time from astro paper to this one.
Rushed into some stupid question and ten minutes in, I realized I had no clue as to what I was writing. Damn, I looked at the other question and realized I could do that question better! but it was ten minutes left to write, and there goes 20marks.

NOTE TO SELF, PLEASE READ THROUGH AND PLAN, AND BRING A CALCULATOR SO YOU HAVE MORE TIME TO PLAN QUESTION RATHER THAN CALCULATE HOW MUCH TIME TO TAKE FOR EACH QUESTION!

dinner at 4.45PM

2011-11-23T12:08:00.003+08:00

Exams sure stress the FATS outta people. Never before have I felt so hungry for the whole entire day, just had a full dinner, and that means I'm definitely going for a second dinner later. Prolly just deal with hot chocolate from Starbucks instead of another full meal. :(

cannot wait for 9AM tomorrow. i'm THIS close to giving up. This exam is just the worst, not only does it have the most facts and figures to memorize, history truly and until today, never is my thing. I do not understand WHY we must understand the movement of communication studies through the various key people, through their 98127387214 researches and different names of research centers opened. Granted, some of these people are interesting to know, but having a 30M question on application of their areas of interests and thought process, urgh...

No amount of information is going into my head anymore, try as I might, my brain just refuses to absorb any further. But i know if i stop now, i'm going to think back after my exams tomorrow and regret not studying harder today. Not giving my mind that slightest chance of having that thought for the next semester while i'm away. back to studying...

p/s: special thanks to all those who've been there to listen to me complain about my exams, and giving me words of encouragement to push on during this trying period. really appreciate having you in my life! <3

will you look at that!

2011-11-23T12:08:00.002+08:00

its already 6 days left to my last paper!
Just completed Astro paper on Monday, that was the one which is actually the easiest, 50 MCQ. But easy does not mean ability to score, because most would have found it easy if they had studied the past year papers and memorized the answers as well. Doesn't help that they doubled the cohort this year, making the margin for error EVEN slimmer than all semesters before.

Tomorrow's the killer papers- -COM207 early in the morning at 9am, and then Asian Horror in the evening 5PM, and I'm finally heading home for my first home-cooked meal in 3 weeks. I am so going to enjoy my holidays this time, even if i did not do well, at least i know i gave it my best shot! this is the max i can do for this semester!

Parents and val are leaving for New York next Friday, so excited for them, wish I were leaving for NY too! :( Supposed to head down to Universal Studios that week with cia, but some problems with the ticket screwed up the whole trip! USS is always giving me these problems! Bah. this is why Singapore will destroy the image and goodwill that its parent company has spent years building up. Or maybe because they don't give two hoots about locals, mind you we're the one who will be recommending if its good or not! If the service sucks, you think we're gonna ask our friends to head there? I think not.
Its one thing to be smaller already, compensate it with something else like quality customer service, or soon you'll be in the league of HK Disneyland.

20 hours and counting.

didn't get to the 5th day...damn

2011-11-18T12:17:00.003+08:00

yup, i cracked. Didn't hear any alarm this morning, or i must have snoozed it unconsciously. Only woke up at 11am!! Funny, its not like I'm sleep-deprived, i ensure myself a minimal of 7 hours of sleep daily. Its a good thing I don't have any papers today, i'm bringing my hugeass alarm clock in next week! Phone alarm obviously has its flaws too.

But i had such a wonderful dream, about this mysterious shop tucked away under that weird brown christmas tree right outside Ion orchard. It was a Daiso shop, everything was going for $2, but nobody could find the location of this shop. And guess what they were selling, the biggest Tintin collection ever, books, figurines, everything going for $2!! A single figurine would usually cost $2-3k. A pity I bought everything only to realize it was a dream. BAH!! :(((

11 more days and counting.

The more routine, the less life

2011-11-17T15:28:00.002+08:00

This is day 4 and I'm still surviving, well just goes to show how strong the human willpower can be. Besides, been there done that before, just a matter of getting used to, and oh look at it! less than 15 days till all this will be over! :D

My biggest distraction however, is not facebook, not youtube, but those tintin comics lying in a folder on my desktop. Every chance I get, any break I have, every mealtime is just an opportunity and excuse to read them. I shouldn't have watched the movie.. Then again, it sparked off that part of me which remembered why i entered wkw in the first place- to pursue journalism. Just because basic media writing scared me off the track of journalism, doesn't mean i should completely rule out that possibility. Well i shall attempt at it once more at least before I graduate!

Had the longest breakfast with the roomie this morning, A is such a joy to talk to! Its definitely a refreshing break from that horrid routine, and makes me miss having long talks with friends.. I guess that's one thing good that comes out from this exam period, allowing you to re-adjust and shift your priorities to understand what is truly important, and to truly relish in all that free time after this exam period!

First paper is in 4 days, then after that everything will fly by, as it always does once the first paper kicks in. Can't wait for exchange next semester, because bbyogi's gonna be flying over to visit once my sem ends! :DDDDDDDD
& we're gonna go visit Universal Studios Orlando!! :DDDDDDD Harry Potter world!!!! :DDDDDDD Magic Kingdom :DDDDDDDDDD oh happy times! don't think I've ever looked forward to something so much before! :DDDDDDDDDDDD

and now back to the history of communications.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. - Ella Maillart

COM207 blues...

2011-11-16T15:22:00.002+08:00

after awhile, every single name sounds the name, everyone invented some theory, everyone has a PhD, everyone is Jew and got chased out of Europe during the war.
Its hard having to construct an entire history of communications from scratch and i'm not even halfway there, even after 2 days! :(

207 is really the bane of my life for this semester, and I honestly can't wait until the paper is over. I get the importance of studying it, at times it can seem quite interesting knowing who did what, or came up with what theory, but an exam on all these facts is just impossible.

PLEASE LET THIS BE OVER QUICK!

don't stop, never give up.

2011-11-15T15:51:00.003+08:00

thanks for the encouragement bby!
this will tide me thru the remaining 2 weeks and i can't wait to have fun with you from 29th Nov!
I am looking forward to Wicked, visiting xmas deco all around Singapore, trying out new places to eat, visiting Tintin exhibition, Universal Studios again, Christmas & New Year's!
thanks for always being there, now and always. :))

close of year 2 sem 1

2011-11-15T12:32:00.002+08:00

How time flies. My Sydney trip marks my first summer holiday, the end of my first year in University, and the beginning of my second year. and WHAM! I'm in the midst of study week. This sem is really too impossibly fast to believe!
Plenty has happened since then, but the looming one is just days away: my final exams.

As usual, brings back memories to exactly one year ago, when I was studying for my very first exam in University. In the first semesters, cores are assigned, so there isn't really much of a choice. But after a year here, your options are now more open. I'm happy to say I am only down to one core for this year, which I will be clearing in two weeks time! so that leaves the rest of the modules open for options. What's most important I feel, is the interest in the module.

After a year of lost orientation in which tracks to choose, it doesn't boil down to which module allows you to score, but whether you've taken something you really have interest in. I have chosen to go into the broadcast track, although personally I feel its something I cannot score in, but its the satisfaction of completing the project that gives you this extraordinary feeling that I cannot achieve from seeing an A on my degree audit.
This is especially the case for my third and final project in COM225 module, which is the first project that I've been so dedicated and determined, not to mention involved in the entire process from pre to post production. Having the most awesome groupmates with just the right dynamics was definitely the key. A was a very good director to work with, his precision and perfection for the composition and framing truly did justice to our idea, not to mention his chirpy self that really brought about positive energy to all our shoots. C was detailed in every aspect, and was always pushing us on and encouraging us! K was the start of a new friendship, since she was on exchange, and if not for this project, I don't think I would ever have the opportunity to get to know her.
I remember back to that evening at the benches, when we all proposed our individual ideas, and just like that, our random ideas sparked off into a true beauty, an idea that got all of us so excited to work on! Even though our shoot dragged on for 3 sleepless nights, the adrenaline rush from being able to see the final product just tided me through. It is an amazing experience, something which I never thought I'll ever experience this semester .truly the most memorable production to work on thus far.

Apart from that, I have finally decided to minor in Psychology. Even though i scored a B for my psych module last semester, which is truly enough to put anyone off from taking any future psych modules, I have decided to press on. Perhaps it is just my fascination with the whole subject itself, but being an arts student, with the mathematics and biology, we just don't see eye to eye, thus I know I will not be able to score in this. Nevertheless, it is something I would have gone into had I not gotten a place in WKW, so this is the only chance that I will ever have to study something of interest, and imma grab good hold of it!

The last thought that I have before this semester ends, is my final decision to take up a language module. Initially for my very first semester, my GPA shocked everyone and myself even, but last semester it took a really steep dip, and I am out of the playing field for high GPA score, so my priorities have switched to taking what I have interest in, and I had shunned the idea of language, because I know it is not my thing. Been there, tried that before, it just didn't work with me. But at least taking a module in school means I don't have to pay $99 to learn it at some community centre, and probably with the pressure of it being a school curriculum, i might even learn it better! So thanks to advice from K, I AM GOING TO TAKE LEVEL 1 SPANISH!
hola español!

Next sem also marks the temporary goodbye from NTU, and into the section of my uni life which I have been looking forward to the most- EXCHANGE!!!
Flying off to Houston on the 6th Jan 2012, and starting school at Texas Christian University on 15th Jan 2012! I hope the food's good, people are nice, lessons are fun and traveling experiences are aplenty, and I really really do hope i do not overspend before I return in June.

The countdown to finals are exactly 6 days away, and my last paper is on the 29th! I hope time flies by, and before I know it, I will be busy planning for my exchange trips, getting Christmas presents, and accomplishing my after-exams to-do list which I have been keeping track of since a month ago before I leave SG!

HURRICANES- RIBS THAT WILL BLOW YOU AWAY!

2011-07-19T19:27:00.003+08:00

Pardon the cheesy header, but i can't think of any reasons why they would name it hurricanes otherwise. This is LEGEN -wait for it- DARY BEYOND LEGENDARY!!
never in my life have I had more delicious ribs, but coming from me, the only other ribs I've had is tony romas, so maybe it doesn't take much to impress me. Butbutbut, from kate&krissy who have had tons of ribs before, if they say its good, trust them, its good!

Headed down to the Bondi Beach outlet! There is another one along Darling Harbor but this one is supposedly better? I couldn't really tell the difference, cept' the one in Darling Harbor had a rack which wasn't as good as the rest, so that one was just the slight bit of letdown!
Bondi beach was superrrr windy at night!! when we got outta the car, literally felt myself being lifted slightly off the ground- okay fine, not really off the ground, but nearly, just that little bit more!
Rushed indoors to duck the strong winds, and we were greeted by CROWDS OF PEOPLE, crowds, easily 20+ people in the waiting area with a full house. As expected, we waited nearly 45mins to an hour for our table.

The display of alcohols! I love it how the bottles shine and glimmer under the bright lights! Expensive upkeep to have this sorta displays in the house, sadly.

AWAITING THE RIBS!! the wait wasn't too long, and once you're seated, you feel satisfied with simply taking in wafts of grilled ribs with that special bbq sauce, it was so delightful, and wherever you turn your head, the other table seems to be digging it to what promises to be the most yummy ribs! you can tell easily, from the way they sink their teeth hungrily into the ribs, to mopping up the sauce on the plate with shreds of meat, oh gawd how i yearn for some hurricane's right now!! :(

ginormous knives used for cutting the ribs, nearly as big as our faces!

Starters: garlic bread!

Calamari in salt and pepper! I've grown to love the salt&pepper combination in food over there, combine two of the simplest seasonings you can find and make something taste sooo goood!

diggin' the bibs! :D for a messy eater like me! this saved me from splatters of bbq sauce!

wooooo. a moment to remember! my very first hurricanes rib!
we sure are HAPPY PEOPLE in hurricanes!

tata! we'll be back again soon! promise!
it was a reaaally enjoyable night at hurricanes! i had so much fun! not to mention a very satisfied stomach when i left the place!
hurricanes forever!

One Night at Vivid Sydney!

2011-07-19T18:51:00.006+08:00

Finally i am blogging about my fab 10-days long trip to Sydney!
I haven't gotten the time to sort through the photos, but since I am down with a very bad case of swollen eye, I might as well use this time to blog!

Sydney is a beautiful city, and the weather was perfect when I landed! Clear blue skies with the occasional cloud, and SUNSHINE!
Kate and krissy met me right on time, even though I landed and cleared customs earlier than expected. It was a smooth drive back to their place in the city.
It is an AMAZING apartment they have there! all that space, not to mention the convenience. It is surrounded by everything you can ever need, and nothing's more than a 15-min drive away!

Headed down to Vivid Sydney on a saturday night! vivid sydney is the single-most fantastic display of lights I've ever seen. I've caught the one in Singapore once, but it was nothing compared to the one in Sydney! it was beautiful!
The weather was kinda drizzly, but that was easily solved by a short stop @ Max Brenner!

only one place they churn their chocolates and transport them through pipes along the ceiling to the counters! Just like a mini willy wonka's chocolate factory, minus the chocolate waterfall.

Hot chocolate by the pot!
I had a dark chocolate drink to-go, and it truly warms you right up! Not to mention the additional delight you get from munching the mini marshmallows bobbing happily in my hot choc! YUMYUM!

There were many events during vivid sydney, one of which was the fire show!
Basically just fire dancing to tunes, there was a classical tune, and Katy Perry's fireworks! Awesome to watch! and the blast of fire just warms you right up, also provided really good lighting for my camera! :D

All lit up by the 'dancing' fires!

Some nice dude that offered to help us take a photograph, and we were so worried he'll just take off with the camera! he was nice though! he didn't run off as we had thought!
& kate's spinach&ricotta ravioli in the picture too!

Before Vivid sydney, we headed down to rows of stores that were selling food, or rather, street food. But street food is nothing like it is in Singapore or Taiwan (which is the only thing that comes to my mind when I say street food), its really REALLY yummy food!
i.e. Kate's ravioli for example, that was SOOOO GOOD!

Some random meatballs thing which is just the biggest pot of stewing meatballs I have ever seen in my life.

Can't remember the name of this one, but they had it in beef/potato, piping hot!
Something like a cross between a spring roll and a non-spicy curry puff, if you can imagine. This was really yummyyyyyyy!
I also had KEBAB! my first kebab since I stepped foot in Sydney.
If there is one thing i missed so much about aussie, its the KEBABS! :((((((( Its never as good anywhere else, never as nicely toasted, never bursting with sauces, sliced meats and veggies, just never as good!! I think I had kebabs for my meals any chance that I had during my 10 days there, and for my lunch as well just before I flew back to Singapore!

Funny cloud umbrella man & woman, everyone was rushing to take photos with them! Part of vivid sydney & I want one of those umbrellas! I bet i'll feel happy carrying them around in the rain, cept' i might run the risk of getting an electric shock cos they have mini lightbulbs fitted on the inside, so maybe not.

cool car display made out of lights and blue wire! So pretty in the dark, and sooo outstanding!

Sydney @ night!

And one last stop @ St. Mary's! Looks prettier in the day though, but this picture looks as though it is snowing! <3
Wet and rainy weather for the night, but it was sooo worth the walk down to catch Vivid Sydney!
If there ever was anyone going to Sydney for holidays, this is the one thing you do not wanna miss!!

How holidays fly by

2011-06-20T11:29:00.003+08:00

So soon, and i'm already on my last day here in Sydney.
This is the place to be. I can't say how much I love it here. The weather, the FOOD! the most AWESOME company one can ever wish for, and the whole atmosphere.
Over past ten days, I can only thank me lucky stars that kate and krissy know Sydney so well to have shown me the whole of Sydney, and bringing me to all the most yummiest places to dine!

One post is not enough to sum up my whole trip, so i'm only going to do it when i get home!
& i'm soooo excited, going to Hurricanes for dinner tonight!! I seriously feel so upset that they do not have hurricanes back hoome! >:(
tony romas pales in comparison to Hurricanes so badly! I can't imagine not being able to have Hurricanes after tonight. :(
But what a lovely city Sydney is. The people here are awesome, all so friendly and welcoming!
Chocolate here is soooo good, i will always remember my very first cuppa Max Brenner dark chocolate on that cold night down to vivid sydney!
Also, i saw the sunset @ Opera house which is just lovely!
I will be back!
Till we meet again!

many thanks to kate & krissy for being the two most awesome people for showing me around Sydney and putting up with all my odd living habits over the past 10 days! love you two! :D

chocolate oatmeal

2011-06-06T17:01:00.003+08:00

nothing like a bowl of thick oatmeal with a dollop of nutella on a drizzly evening!
Just gotten back from Vietnam last thursday, and i'm loving every bit of Vietnam! one can really dine and live like royalty there! everything's so expensive now that i'm back in Singapore again!

Leaving for Sydney in 3 more days! can't wait! Since K has been studying there, there were many plans to travel down to Sydney, but none of them materialized sadly. But this holiday, everything's planned and arranged and I'm heading down for 10 days! Woohoo! \o/

There's sooo many pictures that I've yet to upload onto my laptop, but i'm too lazy to get to it. Having to sieve thru all the photos and select the ones that are keepers always carries an element of procrastination to it.

Weather's all weird nowadays, one minute its melting hot, the next minute it rains non stop. K says the weather in Aus is getting nicer these few days, I wouldn't say no to a chance to escape this tropical climate for awhile.

either half full or half empty

2011-05-19T15:20:00.002+08:00

ohman. the whole world's on holiday mood, its rubbing off on me. :(
but seeing it another way, at least i don't have a back-to-back paper today! after last sem, back-to-back was crossed off the list already.
Next on my list is aiming to end exam earlier/at least on the same day as everyone. The same thing with EAR801 last sem, and i was all holiday mood a week before.

Just woke up from a longgggg nap even though i didn't really need one, but it feels good!
Had lontong, and i discovered some weird pellet-like thingy in my soup. Due to my self-diagnosed mild hypochondria, I have determined it to be some sort of 'extra' ingredient that will not sit well with my stomach. At times it becomes self-fulfilling such as today, and I already feel a tummyache working up. :((((
I need a personal doctor which can identify if i am really sick or not, all I need is someone qualified to tell me, no you're not sick, this is perfectly normal, without costing me $25 consultation fees.
I called B to ask him what that thingy was in my soup, he told me it was heibee, the dried prawn thingy, but in a pellet shape?? But I don't think so.. the last time I called him up over a real emergency he told me I was too stressed. :((

This time tomorrow, I will be one hour in my exam, and then I get to head down to Changi to buy my headphones, go for dinner and skype with Eunice & Chia!!
I am loving the Fabulous Friday deals down at Changi, and the deal tomorrow is an Adidas Sennheiser headphone set going for $50 (U.P $90) when purchasing $30 worth of products at T3 with visa. The next one I'm eyeing is the Disney plush toy going for $3, vintage Mickey and Minnie pair, but i'm still contemplating about that one cos i'm gonna have to spend another $30. This one is so justified cos i'm gonna need a pair of headphones to run with, IF i successfully manage to get back on my regular workout routine.

AHH taaaa back to studying for my final paper! come on come on last lap last lap!

[80% of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn’t read.]

My life would suck without you, iphone

2011-05-17T21:51:00.002+08:00

This is the last time that i'm gonna be here at the airport for the purpose of studying until late october when year 2 sem 1 begins. And Changi's offering free shuttle bus service hourly every weekend and public holidays to sengkang and amk! So i get a free ride home! But only after i stupidly missed the first one, leaving me stranded at the airport for another hour. I wonder how fast it would take though.

I can't say how much I love TBBT. Sheldon is epic awesome, i wanna be friends with him even if he's gonna drown me in intelligent insults all day long i wouldn't mind!!! Hahaha sheldon is just so sheldon and its gonna be so hard to ever forget such person exist once you get hooked onto TBBT. I am already thinking of collecting the seasons, and 30 years down the road, i would still be able to watch it and remember sheldon! Okay, fine, initially it started off with only loving TBBT for sheldon, but i've grown to love the other characters too! Raj is just stupidly funny with his 'huh' expression, always cracks me up! Wolowitz just has to pull off his sexy voice and i'll be laughing at whatever he says, he's seriously got such a sexaay voice omg. Bet he uses that to charm girls all the time in real life. Haha.
And Now thanks to my trusty iphone, im not gonna continue typing anymore as the bus has set off and i'm extremely prone to motion sickness, i shall revel in TBBT episodes on youtube! :DD

Bazinga baby!

i love the airport because..

2011-05-17T09:24:00.003+08:00

Everytime I get so bored of studying, I can just allow my mind to wonder about the possibilities of spending my entire savings booking an air ticket out of here to anywhere random, anywhere outta here.

Two weeks later, this place will hold a completely different meaning, I will be here not for the purpose of studying for my finals, but here to sit an actual plane outta singapore! WOOPS! \o/
But somehow its always different from how I imagined it, the impromptu daydream that I've always had sparks off this adrenaline rush so tempting it is beyond description. You have to be here for a purpose other than flying, but somehow, a complete 180 degrees turn, and BAM! you're on the next plane outta here.
its crazy really, perhaps in my year 4 when I'm so close to graduating and wanna dare myself to do something like that just for the kicks!

From a total of 5 papers, I have painfully slashed my way thru down to 2 more papers. The battle's more than half done, but the 2nd half is always the worst.
Loss of motivation, fatigue bubbling, not to mention the uneven allocation of time spent of my first 3 papers, hence the negligence of the last two.
This exam period has caused me the loss of 3 public holidays, all of which occurred WITHIN the past 3 weeks. What are the odds yo, its a conspiracy I tell you.

But the best benchmark ever was having to take 3 papers in a row within a day. Seriously, if you want to provide any form of consolation for yourself during the exam periods, just sign yourself up for 3 exams on a single day for your first sem. After that, no exams will seem as sucky as that one, and everything will seem better when compared to that. It truly sets things in proportion for you.

justin lim kwan ting!

2011-04-06T18:00:00.001+08:00

The Movie of Our Life

In the movie of our life,
starring you and me.
Hollywood is in for a treat,
wait until they see.

The stage is all ours,
so let's put on a good show.
We act these roles so well,
but they will never know.

Shakespeare seems out of date,
Romeo and Juliet got old.
Baby they have nothing on us,
so let our story be told.

We write romance scenes,
like forever had no end.
It all comes so natural,
with an amazing girlfriend.

We've only gotten started,
the end is far from now.
Nothing can break us up,
not even a broken vow.

People watch the notebook,
is that all Hollywood's got?
Girl, you and me alone,
make those scenes look hot.

They'll write a story one day,
and a movie to go with it.
Just get us to act it out,
It would be the greatest hit.

We may never be Hollywood's hottest,
Brad and Angelina will be in the past.
It will last as long as their careers,
but baby you and I will forever last.

credits: Darien

NANDOS really really good chicken!

2011-01-24T18:25:00.018+08:00

Yes, i was made to sing that jingle ON AIR last year around June,

when the Muttons were hosting their Muttons to Midnight programme, I was jogging in the gym, listening to them, and just decided to test my luck to win this Nandos Hamper.

Moreover, I've never eaten @ Nandos. I always felt it was overrated, but thanks to 987FM,

i got a chance to discover Nandos & fall in love with it!

Bless you, 987! :D

collected the Nandos pack: inclusive of one meal for 6, my own Nandos badge(in red) & a bottle of my very own Extra Hot Peri-Peri Sauce!

If there's one thing that mattered in Nandos, its the sauce. Without the sauce, the chicken wouldn't be that great, but with the sauce, this chicken rules any other!

Headed down to the outlet @ Plaza Singapura, cos the one at Bugis is ALWAYS packed.

We came an hour early before the dinner crowd, and arrived at around 6pm.

We managed to get a table without having to wait! SCORE!

already rather crowded, Happy people enjoying their Nandos!

We were minutes away from enjoying Nandos too!! :D

I love our little corner, my dad said it represented a chicken cage, as you can see from the metal bars around our table, and the lamp is supposed to be the top of the cage.

HAHA. i felt the lamp looked more like a campfire, giving you the feeling of eating freshly roasted chicken, just like how you'd do roasting it out in the wild.

anyhow, chicken was still good, with or without the deco.

What should we get! The voucher entitled us to a meal of 6, more than enough to go around for us 6 people!

THE SAUCE!!!!!!!!

LOVE YOU MUTTONS!

*kaching!* The meal was worth $118 & we just saved that amount!

Dad: "Finally a meal that doesn't require me to take out my wallet at all! "

HOHOHO. look at that, a true-blue genuine feast!

The 4 flavours of chicken that they had.

Thinking of ordering some extra sides.

THE FAMOUS 4. <3

Extra Hot: LOVES!, HOT: for those who are unable to handle Chilli, Tomato Sauce: BORING when you're in Nandos, Garlic Peri-Peri: LOVESS!!!!!! this is not too spicy & i love anything garlic! its soooo yummy! i mixed this with extra-hot peri peri. OMG. ORGASMIC.

Chilli is my life! i can't imagine it without anything spicy!!! :D

Close-up of lamp that is over-interpreted by yours truly & dad.

YUMMERS!!!!!!

Nandos=good chicken=nice family meal.

My mom, who really isn't up for all this 'ang moh' food, or so she calls it, surprisingly finished a large portion of the chicken.

She doesn't really like Chilis, says it makes her tummy feel funny. She orders Chinese Food @ Swensens/Jack's Place. So for Nandos to actually win over a customer like my mom, congrats & 5 thumbs-up!! :D

Lemon Juice! this really quells the spicy-ness of the chicken & is so refreshing!

Its not too diluted, yet not too concentrated, mixed just well so that the zesty-ness whets up a voracious appetite, & a nice drink to settle the spicy chicken after a full meal! Yums!

Nandos obviously has done some serious food pairing! :)

First Dish that arrived: Petisco ($21.90)

its some cousin of the egg tart, albeit a sweeter, thicker & crustier version. It doesn't slice nicely apart like a hot knife thru butter as with normal egg tarts, but it has a chocolate fudge texture to it. Stiff & sticky.

Perhaps we didn't do it justice because we only consumed these after a FULL meal, so we were too full to properly enjoy its taste, but found it too sweet for our liking.

Funny thing is this dish is listed under Starters but we just presumed it to be dessert.

The second dish that arrived: Peri Hummus & Novo Pita.

My ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE DISH! my dad said he had this in Dubai every single day,

& it was like their staple. WHY CAN'T I HAVE THIS AS MY STAPLE??? *whines*

I completely fell in love with this when i took a bite.

Pita bread that has been nicely toasted in a coriander-ish garnish.

I am no food expert, but it definitely had garlic! garlic makes everything yummy!! :D

Served with hummus & olive oil, it was absolute loves to bite into one of this crispy slice.

It also had a serving of olives, but i wasn't a fan of that.

Just gimme the pita & hummus/olive oil mix & i'll be satisfied!!

I finished 3/4 of it on my own, even fighting for the last slice!

I couldn't get enough of it. This was such a winner.

The main dish: Nandos Chicken!

Personally, i loved the extra-hot one the most, it was spicy & tangy, yet not too spicy such that you have to gulp down glass after glass of water, it was just right!

That is the spicy-ness I'm lovin'

But once you get tired of it being a tad TOO spicy, switch to the HOT one, that one's just fine for chilli-lovers like me, if not stick to the mild one. Lemon & Herb tasted like plain chicken without any sauce, not a very strong tinge of lemon/herb.

oooooh look at all that sauce!! they served it steaming hot!

Even when I was on my 2nd piece, the chicken was still warm to enjoy! :D

i really love Nandos. I wish i could eat it everyday.

This really tops Kenny Rogers, but don't get me wrong!

I still adore Kenny Rogers with its mac n'cheese/pasta salad,

just that i like my chickens spicy! :D

Last Dish: Grilled Veggies! (red/green capsicums, mushrooms, carrots, onions, cucumbers grilled to perfection!)

This was LOVES, but my mom termed this 'ang moh vegetables', just because it wasn't cooked in oyster sauce like the Chinese love to cook it.

But i was a sucker for this dish. Nobody touched it, they just nibbled a piece or two, and if it weren't for the chicken there, I could have easily finished this on my own.

Still, yours truly managed to clear 3/4 the dish alongside my Nandos Chicken!!

Nandos, thanks for the FABBBBB dining experience. (plenty of credits to 98.7FM!!)

I will definitely be back, even if its not for the meal for 6!

meanwhile, i have my own bottle of peri-peri sauce which I trust will complement my meals perfectly! :D

Outing with 0720 because dear Eunice is leaving for Queensland!! *CRIES*

She is gonna have sooo much fun, but we're all gonna miss her badly! :(

Don't worry bout e crocs/floods!

S.V.E always & forever! :D

This isn't goodbye man, this is just a see-you-really-real-soon!

[[ baby, you're a firework. ]]

My Sansa is Dead.

2011-01-18T16:52:00.001+08:00

It was working perfectly fine this morning,
I was happily listening to my familiar tunes, and then it shut down, and now it refuses to turn on/charge! :((((((((
No Mp3 is fated to be with me.
i loved it soo much, i just hope the guy can fix it now.
i spent 3 hours that night putting songs into it & now this...

EARLY VALENTINE'S DAY PRESENT! :D

2011-01-14T20:05:00.007+08:00

woopedooo! TGIF!

this is my latest addiction, little puppy + mommy doggy from 7-11,

costs $3.95 for one of these, and i'm still aiming for the Japanese Spitz. So far I've got golden retriever, great dane and toy poodle!

Baby bought all 3 for me, & even bought one after my driving lesson to cheer me up cos i was having a horrible migraine. :)

Wonder how much more $$$ have to be wasted before i can get my spitz puppy. :(

anyways, baby gave me a surprise todayy!!

its a great Friday, today!!

He considered long and hard after I mentioned that I needed an mp3 cos I figured i really needed music in my life, & relying on my hp is barely enough.

so, he showed me this video...

the suspense of it all! :D

and then we went down to meet a guy who was going to sell baby this mp3!

the SANSA CLIP PLUS! was what baby was gonna get me!!

we passed the guy the cash, got my present and tadaaa!!

ohhh i adore it so much! it looks even cuter than it is on the web, and the functions are so great.

Baby told me the sound produced by this mp3 is clearer than the ipod nano itself!

& the ipod nano has tendency to falter few months after using.

plus, its not even sold in Singapore, the guy got it off Amazon. *squeals!*

anddd the last feature which is AWESOME i must say, as it solves the problem of me having to constantly delete songs when my memory is full.

The microSD slot at the corner of my sansa allows for added memory space! how cool is that!?!!

I am soooo loving my sansa clip plus! altho the name is a tad troublesome to pronounce,

i've called it 'salsa', 'sanso' or sometimes just stuck at 'san...'

my baby no. 2! :D

ima proud owner of the sansa clip plus (black) !

Baby: Take good care of it now! I hope it doesn't end up with a cracked screen after 3 months!!

Cutting open the box, it is sealed so tightly, this one is definitely BNIN for sure!

ooooh loving the sound of it!!! :D

Sansa Clip: push all me buttons!

with love! Thanks baby! I'm loving my new mp3 soooo much!!

baby 1 in foreground, baby 2 in the background!

soooo tiny it fits comfortably in the palm of my hand!

also, he had to give it to me first cos he wanted me to have it when my school starts in 2 weeks & also to use it on my 6-hour long drive up to Genting in 3 weeks time! :D

he's the sweetest! ^^

thanks for my early early valentine's day present, baby!

me loves it very much! <3

Today is also a fabb day cos i only have half day of work!

so after work i went off to 313 to meet style for lunch!!

It was raining so heavily the whole afternoon,

had lunch @ Bao Jin Tian (Bao Today) & spent the time catching up with each other!!

i loveee meeting style for lunch!

how I wish our workplace was like 5 mins away from each other instead of 3 stops away cos it will take me a full 20mins to get to somerset, so its only on rare occasions like this that we can have lunch together. :(

chit-chat, complained, laughed, gossip & enjoyed good food! :)

she even showed me a completely sheltered link from Orchard Central to Centrepoint!!

amazing. i never even knew it existed!!

& Orchard Central is seriously under-appreciated by people.

Its always so empty but so much effort has been put into designing it!

I would spend the time to wander through those confusing pathways, and appreciate all that arty farty stuff within it. The interiors of this building holds a certain style that is both quaint and refreshing(perhaps beause of all the greens).

Let the pictures do the talking. I have yet uncovered another area of orchard central, tis really a mysterious building.

dreamt about this once!! its sooo pretty especially if it were really out in a garden with the maze and all.

ooooo what's the fluffy, white bunny looking at??

carrot!!

been a rainy & wet afternoon today.

Regretted not bringing my umbrella out although i stared at it for 30sec today considering whether or not to bring it! :(

headed down to 987fm to collect my Nando's pack!

Ohhh its love!! & the guy who helped me was really friendly & all!

felt so damn awesome to just step in that studio!

But all that for another time!

[[ if perfect is what you're searching for, then just stay the same. ]]

Saturday of sun, camwhore & ROCK N ROLL!

2011-01-10T20:52:00.008+08:00

Its a Monday once more, & my weekends was just fab! :)
i wish every weekend could be so carefree rather than being laden down with schoolwork. :(
Headed to baby's camp first thing in the morning, we were all late. Snoozed the alarm many times!
Still, we made it! The weather was soooo hot,
& there were just the usual popcorn & candy stand, drink stall, & a stall which sold laksa in a cute styroafoam cup! I just liked the cup, laksa ain't that good! :(

first time we get to go in.

& this one game they had which i have never seen before but its super hilarious & entertaining!
The Bullride.

It was really funny to see guys hanging on for dear life!
Most of them usually fall off after 3 full spins, and some attempt to cheat by hooking their foot under the horns, thinking that the whole world was blind or something. Obviously everyone can see you doing that.
BUT there was this one guy, he must be like some major there or something, he looked well over 60 years old, & the guy handling the bullride didn't dare to increase the speed in case he fell off and broke a neck or something, but he held on for pretty long, and even after the guy increased the speed, he still held on! Like some true blue cowboy just popped out of the blue.
After he gracefully fell off the bull, gracefully, he just slid off when he lost his balance, he even bounced all the way off the bouncy area. Such energy at such age. :)
But it was so entertaining seeing the bull fling the guys off the ride, or see their faces scrunch up & turn red with concentration of having to hang on! funny!
They should have this at EVERY carnival/event! :)

We left at around 11+ and headed down to Sentosa soon after!
With my trust sony camera, we camwhored for hours & hours, the three of us!
It was pure fun! :)

discovered this mysterious cave out of nowhere, it is like some zone off the map of Resorts World, beyond the seafood restaurant.
& then we discovered this scenic spot to capture very pretty photographs along a mini boardwalk, and the best part? Nobody even knows of its existence!
We made a playground out of it, nobody was even there, that whole place was ours for that few glorious hours!

superwoman! He weighs a ton!

Superman! I don't weigh a ton! :D

aww. show some sister one.

MIIIIIINE!!!
In the mini shopaholic book which i'm reading now, minnie brandon is always yelling 'miiiiine' & i somehow always imagine this exact image of her hogging some item! HAHA!

:D don't ask how we did it.

wooooo do the moonwalk, baby!

<3

Contortionist. Except since when did he have such smooooth legs? :D

yes so that marks our very hot yet enjoyable afternoon, we waited at the lobby of Festive Hotel,
had chocolate gelato which was the best except the service there wasn't really good.
Finally had access to the room @ around 4pm, ahh aircon! what will i do without you?
Brings back great memories to be back in that room, had a nice longggg shower before heading off for the Rocky Horror Show!

we made it just in time for it! Cia waited for us at the esplanade library and the cafe people there were real sweet! They knew she was waiting for us and offered to keep the cafe open till our show ended! I always knew they were a nice bunch of people!
the owner of the cafe (not sure if its still the same one) is a woman with a very strong american accent, but she's the sweetest! :)
i could spend my entire afternoon there anyday.

the turnout was fantastic, and OMG people really do get dressed up for the show!!
before we went in, we saw a guy in the scottish skirt, girls wearing corset tops & fishnet stockings, men dressed as characters in the show (which i only noticed later on).
They had torchlights & light sticks and some guy in front of me even wore pink gloves (for reasons which I was to realise only halfway through the show)

There, this is the guy with the pink gloves! the whole row of them in front of us dressed up for it!
they were pretty enthusiastic about it, but when they started getting too excited in the middle of the show, they got told off by a couple sitting beside us, they toned down a lot after.
But that didn't stop them from doing the whole time warp dance with the crew at the end!
it was soooo adorable! :)

the show was great, a real eye opener.
the ending was kinda sad though.. :(
i prefer happy endings. I loved it when the song 'there's a light' came on & all those lightsticks & torchlight came up, the whole audience was sooo supportive & enthusiastic!
Hossan was great too! Nice to see a familiar face! I was soooo impressed by dr frank n furter's vocals. He can really sing!
awww i'm kinda sad its over! I do wanna go again!
Now i'm looking forward to my next one, the Lion King! :D

i've put my mind to learn how to do the time warp in my free time.
Watched Shan & Ross doing it, they were sooo cute! hahahaha!

During the 20 minutes interval. Nearly full house i would say.

Thanks for a great performance Rocky Horror Show, you guys deserve 100% of the standing ovation you received that night!!
Till we meet again!

I'm finally done with The Pupil, and season 2's not gonna be out till end of the year.
Well, at least i finally found my Harry Potter & the deathly Hallows with the cover i wanted! :)
that should keep me occupied for a bit!

Law can be interesting @ times.

2011-01-07T14:38:00.002+08:00

Over the holidays, apart from swtiching on to HBO everytime i got a chance near my TV, I've also been up to date with this local TV series which I never paid any attention to when it was airing on TV; The Pupil.

The title sounds weird, & it seems all draggy & boring, but its far from that.
The storyline rotates around a law firm, and the pupil is this girl who is to be trained as a lawyer.
Law has always been categorised under my 'boring' category, but it all started from touching a bit of media law last sem. The case studies which we had to read were quite interesting, minus the fact that we were all trying to cram it in for a quiz. Still I have to give it credit for not putting me to sleep! Then again, I thought it was only interesting because was within the context of media, hence it was relatively less dry and draggy.

But i was wrong, normal law can be interesting as well, and I have a new found admiration for lawyers! Boy they are really brilliantly smart people!
I now wish I had the brains of a lawyer, being able to see things from more than just one or two pathetic perspective, whenever they put forth their case, all that runs through my mind is "OMG how did they even think of that?"

On the way to work this morning, my dad was telling me all about lawyers and court cases,
funny stories too of how he went to court once for illegally driving a motorcycle up & down the hill behind his old house when he was younger! LOL what a reason to go to court for.
& he planted this idea or suggestion in me that never would have surfaced although i knew of its existence. That is to go attend a real court hearing just for the fun of it!
it could be fun although i'm pretty sure the me that wasn't so interested in this a few months back would have thought of that is the last thing that i wanna waste a day doing.

Still, I've been checking up on the upcoming hearings, but nothing seemed to catch me attention yet, mostly about property rights, custody, and the few odd drug smuggling cases, one rape case & some financial issues between companies.
Hmm.. wondering if i could take a day off from work to go to one of those. Maybe it'll be totally different from TV & I'll probably end up dozing off or something. Its worth giving a chance! :)

& yay I've just received the greatest news from USS that they are gonna change my tickets to the 29th! which means i get to go to the Hollywood After Park Hours after all!
If i do have an enjoyable day, I'll write an email to thank that guy from the feedback section who's been such a star to help me out, rather than the useless enquiries service people who has done nothing but to make my blood boil & waste my phone bills. hmpf!

This whole incident has done well to push my patience to its limits. First we took the time & effort to go ALL the way down to get the tickets, paying $6 JUST to get into Sentosa to get the tickets, we specifically asked the person if there was gonna be the After Park Hours available on the 22nd Jan and was assured that there will be.
& can you believe it, a week later, when i checked on their website, the after park hours were NOT available on that day due to a private event!
Who wouldn't fume? Seriously. I called them & the entire incident was pushed around for days before I finally got a satisfactory response.. My trip to USS had better be great, or all that effort just wasn't worth it & it simply proves that Singapore's USS may have been built here, but the experience is incomparable to that in the States, and its simply destroying universal's studio's brand image. I really am expecting quite a lot from it, even from the beginning. I just hope i'm not too disappointed.

The entire incident was screwed up the minute i started calling them to get them to change my tickets for me.
I had one guy yelling at me 'HELLO?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!?! HELLO????" I was in the office, its really silent & there can't have been a problem with my phone, obviously he just didn't wanna entertain me.
The second time another dude picked up, and this time he kept insisting that I needed a ticket to get into the Hollywood after hours, and I had to repeat it 5 times that I have already bought the tickets, then he went on to insist that the 22nd jan had NO hollywood after hours. I gave up after that. He didn't even understand simple english and had ZERO idea of what i was talking about, or he was doing a pretty good job of pissing me off.
The third time a lady answered, but that wasn't the end of my problems. She insisted that the tickets had stated that "No Refunds Or Cancellations Allowed." and no matter what I said, she just stuck to giving me that reply. ooohhh just talking about it makes me sooo mad..

Its a Friday once more, & if there's one thing I've come to realise about school is that it makes your holidays more enjoyable.
Its like being stretched under all that stress and tension, and the holidays you're just released and relaxed. everyday of my holiday feels like a friday to me.
I can go home and pick up the remote & happily watch tv till late at night, I have no late sleep-in due to work but it doesn't matter!
Going to work is just clearing things for that day and then going home worry-free & being able to enjoy the rest of the night off!
During the school term, you have to worry about upcoming quizzes, presentations, readings (TONS AND TONS OF THEM), essays, homework... urk... :(

I have a long long but exciting day tomorrow!
The family day @ baby's camp tomorrow first thing in the morning, then afternoon we have a date with RWS, val's birthday & she's got a rooom there! <3
Later that night is Rocky Horror Show & after that its back to RWS again.
I can't wait to use the swimming pool there!! The last time we went it was still closed as it wasn't finished yet.
I just adore that place, seems like we're not in Singapore at all, yeah, in a way i guess.
See, that's why i have such high hopes of USS!!

My room's undergone this mini renovation over the holidays. I said mini because we've just done additions to it. Now we have a dressing table! Ah FINALLY!
New chest of drawers which is still so new it still smells of Ikea.
Brand new lights around the room with fluorescent bulbs that gives it that warm feel, it looks even better when the light blends right in with my wall colour. I knew we could never go wrong with choose yellow! :D
I've packed my room as well, i have too many things, I need more space to put em.
My dad said i got this from my mom which i never noticed before.
No wonder our house is full of stuff from every single holiday we've been on.
Its genes man, I'm a hogger, but proud of it! :D

When is the Rainforest Cafe going to re-open in Singapore?

jolly ol' christmas & a brand new year2011!

2011-01-06T21:55:00.001+08:00

whoo lots of backlog pictures because something's wrong with my camera's battery, it wouldn't charge & my camera needs to be turned on for me to upload my pictures on my com.
sooo its been a great christmas! great food, great presents, holidays- couldn't ask for anything more!
Dinner on 24th dec was @ Earle Swensens T3, a different choice from the normal Swensens restaurant. The menu's pretty much the same except they include a buffet salad bar which really served up a real good variety!
had to wait real long for it though, 45 mins wait! :((
I prefer it to the normal Swensens, this one's great!
Picked a different choice rather than my usual fish&chips, & the must-have sticky chewy chocolate to top it all off nicely!

25th Dec was another xmas meal with baby's family @ Parkroyal Hotel!
brings back great memories!

and after an exhausting yet rewarding night of cycling, we fought off spider webs, long stretches of ominous dark paths, abandoned spooky areas, and yet amidst that, i learnt how to appreciate the beauty within these situations, like finding a nice toilet @ the NSRCC, taking a short nap @ the food centre, lying down on the cold sand waiting for the sunrise, awaiting breakfast!!
oh the simple joys in life! :)

Finally waited for sunrise @ 8.30am,
just a tiny blob in the sky, nothing like you see in the movies, bah!

style & nicole both fell asleep & had it not been my eagerness to see the sunrise, i would have fallen asleep right there! with the sound of waves crashing against the shore, windy breeze and the cold sand to lay upon, ahhh such peace! :)

still, i knocked out the whole day, it was just a series of deep sleep, then waking up and falling back asleep again.
New year's dinner with the family @ casurina!
mom ordered a whole 8-course meal, we were soooo full!
started off with a cold plate, then a whole fish (which i did eat a teeeny little bit), soup wasn't that great, but chili crab was loves! no, i'm not into the crab, just crazy over the sauce!
its a great year end but a fab year ahead!
Hello 2011!

Started work & will be working all the way till school starts again, & once school starts,
its a week till chinese new year so my holidays actually feel like its more than just a month! :)
Had tickets for universal studios on the 22nd but things screwed up real bad, pissed me off so badly & i do hope everything's gonna turn out fine or i'm gonna have another fit about this whole thing. Date changed to 29th jan, the week that school starts! :(

Rocky horror show this Saturday! Blew my entire savings on 4 tickets but i'm positive that its gonna be GREAT!
Heard about the dressing up & stuff but i'm just gonna be looking at how others dress.
Its Singapore after all, don't think the audience are gonna be that keen on dressing up too. well, we shall see.

Dinner tonight was great, mom went the extra mile! :)
she's been cooking a lot often & i do miss home-cooked food a lot!

Baby's exhausted this week, must be hell at camp. :(
He got himself a new organiser & is so into it! :)
i always like an organised person! :D

another day at work tomorrow!
off to bed!

i am still tired.

2010-12-24T10:46:00.003+08:00

All those last minute christmas shopping was super draining!
I've been to town 3 days in a row, my feet are so sore from all that walking.
It was fulfilling, cos i got everybody's presents now! :D accomplishment.
nevertheless, i still hate last minute christmas shopping! i'd rather shop with LESS people, MORE space, LESS out of stock/last piece items, LESS queues.
But the sales are ALWAYS the best during last-min shopping.

still hesitating if i should go back to get that dress I've been eyeing, but all i wanna do is just slackkk my butt off at home.. I don't want to move no more. :(
I wanna read Harry Potter & the deathly hallows but can you believe it, the original version which i wanted to buy is gone! both at borders & prologue! :<
now all they have is some other edition which doesn't even look like harry potter.

Caught Gulliver's travel yesterday, it was great!
Jack Black never fails to disappoint! Still, i am not convinced that the bermuda triangle is as harmless as they make it sound. I have read countless of articles & watched many documentaries on the bermuda triangle and it is FREAKY! almost as freaky as cryonics which i can never understand what compels people to put themselves through that. urkk... shudders.
Hate all the sci-fi stuff! oh gawd! reminds me of that time i went to watch that thriller sci-fi movie with kate! couldn't sleep for weeks!!! :(((((

But, no time to get all ruffled up, its after all Christmas eve! :D
its all snow&candies&feasting, this the season to be merry, yo.
& i just realized i can get a lift back if i head to town now to get my dress!
tata!

merry christmas eve everyone!

the end of a first sem.

2010-12-20T20:05:00.003+08:00

Hurray hurry! I feel like that little kitty cat over there! whooping for joy!!
its the start of my month-break, though short, its better than none.
Have already packed my hall room, and waiting for the car to come pick me and my junkload of stuffs that i have to bring back!
it amazes me how much things i have in hall, when i came with just so little.

yayyyy! christmas is this weekend! & i'm done for my exams! yayy yayy!
well, i was more or less in the after exam mood last wed! :)

i can't wait to watch YOGI BEAR!
but until then, i feel as greedy as yogi! :)

Finally got my hands on this ice cream pancake in Ajisen!
They're always outta stock, but not at the nex outlet! had dinner with baby & his mom&aunt!
Ajisen Ramen ftw! :)
Preferred the matcha feeling to the redbean one! but both were good!! :)

Went to best denki @ J8 on saturday,
had amazing deals & with every $18 spent, you get this whole goodie bag with a hotpot,pack of pokka tea, 1 ream of paper & batteries! lols. finally a goodiebag that is useful!
got a brand new epilator! glee!
& strawberry tea was in the goodie bag, never seen this flavor before but it is good! :)

& my favourite find over the weekend.
Jalapeno peppers!! available @ texas chicken! :))
feels so good to bite into one of these.

Had an early xmas dinner @ baby's aunt's place just yesterday.
had lotsa great food! & presents all round! <3
check out Rika's xmas presents!

stack of 3 doggie doughnuts!

mini pastries! wonder how they taste like though.
it was gone in a split second! hahaha.

short post. more tomorrow!

last exam put on hold.

2010-12-16T13:45:00.002+08:00

WHOO! last paper was yesterday @11.15am.
been up since 4am trying to mug for 201 ever since the 3 papers left my head in a mess.
I usually sort out my mind, like chucking out all those info from those papers that were over, so i'll mentally feel that my brain is like empty. But after those 3 papers, my mind was in a whirl.
All the info were just jumbled up together.

Roomie came to meet me for dinner after my 3 papers,
had fish&chips @ cant 1. her exams are over and she's loving every bit of it! hahaha.
stick to your holiday-to-do list, A! you can do it! :)
let's go check out that pompeii thing too! :)
after dinner, took a stroll to find out where The Grocer @ Sterling was, near the nanyang exec centre. omg. that place is surreal man.
professors sure have the life, with their own little oasis in ulu-NTU, they have everything they need, felt pretty much like a condo in that area.

had a rough night before my last paper, sooo brain-shagged with no confidence to do the paper.
Drank 2 cups of coffee, didn't work, went down to get breakfast @ 6 in the morning, additional cup of coffee (kate verifies that there is such thing as immunity to caffeine and suggest i go decaf for a while. haha!)
damn, its never a good idea to wake up so early in the morning.
there were like millions of winged insects dead all over the floor. I'm not exaggerating, tons of them. near the vending machine was yet another million of these. its sick!
but air was really good in the morning, just a short 5-minute walk really helped me clear my brain!
I paused for awhile the look at the forest, hoping to see a wild boar, but nope, no wild boars. :(
Just plenty of mist and weird animal/insect noises.

My last paper was screwed up though, there goes my 30m, but its all over!
rushed back to hall to meet roomie & packed to leave. Her ASOS package finally arrived! hahaha. just in time before she left hall as well. she's so cute to deliver it all the way to NTU! I don't think anyone does that. lols.

the MRT ride was long and sleepy..had to stand all the way too.
Finally reached & met kate for lunch @ nex!
PRATA FTW! :D i had naan though, but close enough.
satasfied my cravings! :)
headed down to My Fat Lady to collect Shir's cake for tonight,
we got lost trying to find the cake shop, but managed to find it in a shorter time, last time it took me half an hour to find it!
The cake looked soooo good, a 6'' square cube cake with polka dots and a rainbow on the top!
While the outside looked pretty, like i could hear everyone gasping when kate brought the cake out, the inside was even prettier!

Pretty cake for the pretty birthday girl! <3

Timbre was fab! :)
Good food, favourite was the roasted duck pizza. loved my apple martini!! (new experience!)
good company & good evening!
headed to butter after, but i was too tired&dead to enjoy myself. alcohol made me even sleepier. did nothing to give me that adrenaline boost. maybe immunity to coffee=immunity to alcohol as well. crashed the minute i got back. bed sweet bed!

slept all the way till 12. not enough to make up for the past few weeks!
i still have EAR and yet i'm planning my post-holiday activities already.
having a haircut today & catching Rapunzel with mousey-cia & baby.

FINALLY!
I can't wait! :)
i promise i will mug for EAR tomorrow!

[[ everyday's a special day. ]]

FIRING UP!

2010-12-13T09:00:00.002+08:00

woke up this morning with such optimism i felt like singing! :)
i guess its been all the reflections & praying that kept me up the whole of last night,
but my miracle potion: coffee, did me proud once more, as it always has for the past few weeks!
this is the last lap, in 72 hours, this will (officially) be over!!

give it this one last shot, so that i won't regret even if i don't do well!
tried my best!!
thanks for all the encouragement i've been receiving over the past few days.
Been a real jerk over the whole school & grades stuff. meh. its so silly.
life needs to be full of rainbows&sunshine&candies! :D

A new experience everyday! i want myself to really encompass the true meaning of this!!
ah just in time as well, 2011's arriving in no more than 2 weeks.
a good new year resolution. :)

stomach flu @ the worst of times..

2010-11-30T12:55:00.002+08:00

this sucks. everything about being sick sucks.
exams are in a week. let this be over and done with!
till after my exams.
i really really can't wait. :(

he's back!

2010-11-25T09:32:00.003+08:00

like finally. hahaha my baby's back from HK!! :D

ohh loves! & to think yesterday was like my worst day ever. i hate wednesdays that end so late. :(

its sooo draining!

anyways, baby returned as santa claus! literally.

maybe the food in HK was too great! hahaha i'm sure he tried his best to sustain from overeating. :)

but the TONS of presents that i received! aww LOVED!

not only from baby, but his aunts all bought me stuffs from there as well. :))

i feel too spoilt.

what baby's mom got me was beyond shocking;

i am now the proud owner of a bottle of Absolut Glimmer!! <3

& baby's best buy was a whole bunch of Kapi toys from the capsule machine,

&&&& LEATHER BOOTS!!! OMGLOVES!

hahaha i laughed so hard when he said he had to try the boots on to see if they were my size!

(we have the same feet size anyway. haha no, his feet is not small, mine is gigantic)

& the shopkeeper nearly thought he was getting them from himself!

HAHAHA love you bby! :D you're the funniest!

received a whole bunch of clothes as well. Leggings that are wayyy overpriced in Singapore,

a super light&portable brolly (that had laces along the trims),

and cat-related things (lovable pouch & like this huuuge stack of kitten bookmarks),

& from his aunt: a wood carving of Johnny Depp!! it was hand made, & is the uncanny resemblance of Capt' Jack Sparrow! awesome!

Finally caught Harry Potter on Tuesday!

it was sooo awesome! the first thing on my Holiday To-Do List is to read the last book one more time! This movie did the book so much justice, in comparison to the previous 6 movies.

I enjoyed it thoroughly! i love it how movies can drag on for so long, & lucky for me, all those movies dragging on for 2-3 hours are my favourites; POTC, LOTR, HP, we-ll maybe not really King Kong. that one was abit TOO draggy.

Have a long day ahead once again.

I'm kinda happy next week's last week of school, then again, its an ironical kinda happy, cos that also marks the start of my finals. Boo. can't wait for it to be over.

Kate's coming back in a week! Or less than that actually.

Like in 4 days! same day as the family! :D

double happiness! :)))

[[ sun shining, clear blue skies. ]]

a quickie!

2010-11-23T08:03:00.002+08:00

yay! i think i managed to switch my biological clock back!
no more late nights for me! :)

com201 mid term today! then its down to one last quiz before our finals!
oh can't wait!
catching Harry Potter tonight as well!
<3

one more day

& the glamour don't stop.

2010-11-22T10:42:00.003+08:00

The Limited Edition for this festive season, in line with Absolut Disco, Absolut Masquerade & Absolut Rock edition!
ohhh aint it a beauty!

For once, they actually did modification to the bottle itself, which is a rare thing!
This time we wanted to create something truly different. For the first time ever, we challenged the bottle shape by modifying the finish of the glass. ABSOLUT GLIMMER is a glimmering version of our iconic bottle, re-designed to dazzle people in any place and happening where it is present”, says Anna Malmhake, Vice President, Global Marketing.

When i first bought Masquerade, you can imagine the disappointment when i realized the red-sequin exterior was MERELY a sleeve. :(
inside, it was just the same old original Absolut.
But not this time! :))
it is such a keeper, this one!

ABSOLUT GLIMMER is a stylish design concept that challenges the norm of the traditional gift pack. With its glimmering design and crystallic facets, it is a definite eye-catcher. It does not only look stunning. By its mere presence, ABSOLUT GLIMMER inspires people to dress up, shine and always look for those small but precious indulgences.

“With ABSOLUT GLIMMER, we want to encourage people to make the present exceptional. The idea that any moment anywhere can turn out to be a memory for life – bringing inspiration and excitement to any event – is what this bottle is all about”

Very true indeed! i just wiped away a tear. ^^
Its just the right thing for this holiday season!!

The family just left for Taiwan this morning!
awww..envious.. :(( i could have been on that plane if it weren't for YOG! :(
i want my slice of an overseas holiday too! >:(

Kapi Mouse!

2010-11-21T01:02:00.002+08:00

OMG just saw this on some blogshop! going for $35!
should i get it??
i'm so tempted!!

Kapibara-san - カピバラさん

2010-11-21T00:04:00.010+08:00

Kapibara-san is a character created by Banpresto.
At the beginning you could only get a Kapibara-san from toy crane vending machines.
But people wanted it so much that they started selling it everywhere,
different sizes, different colors, T-shirts, books and all kinds of merchandising.
It is interesting how they managed to create a phenomenon just from a boring and simple animal (A capybara).

A Capybara! omg worlds apart from my kawaii Kapibarasan, or what i nicknamed 'Tingly"

I first fell in love with it at a claw toy machine in DTE,
and its soo adorable i felt i had to have it!
it was really by chance that baby caught it for me!
we had spent $6 at the machine, and on our last dollar, the claw caught my very first tingly by the scarf!!

BIG white one with the pink scarf (2 from the left, last row) was my very first kapi!
then we 'rescued' her boyfriend, the one in blue scarf beside her a few weeks later.
I like to term it 'rescue' cos its like saving them from the cold, lonely interiors of the toy machine, and showering them with love and care!

This is my collection thus far!
& i'm proud to say, all has been caught by my baby! yep! each and every single one.
whenever we walk past an arcade, the first thing he'll do is to check out if there's any kapi available, cos i'll be soo excited if they're carrying any, and he'll really spend every single $ trying to catch it for me! <3

this is my biggest kapi so far!
its not caught though, baby bought it for me at action city!
first time i've seen kapi on sale! the other annoying thing is that you can't ever buy kapi merchandises, you can only CATCH them/win them. :(

just last monday, baby blew $30 trying to catch a kapi pouch for me, but failed very badly. :(
what a waste of money.. :((
sometimes i wish i wouldn't like it so much, as i know its really a waste of money!
but there's no other way i can get it unless i travel all the way to Japan, and stock up on their merchandises.
caught this bear that day, while attempting to catch a halloween kapi draped in a ghostly costume! failed to win it, and its gone from the machine already! :(

recently, i discovered the FB page for Kapi!
& i found TONS of cool stuff there, things i've never even seen before!!

walking Kapi. baby attempted before but failed. :(

nomnom Kapi! this is the cutest!!!
i love the nomnom kapi! <3

Kapi Mug Warmer. don't talk about this one.
machine was totally rigged! blew $20 on this one for nothing! :/
don't ever go the outlet @ PS.

BATH SET! with its very own kapi sponge!! ^^

Kapi tissue holder!!
i need one of this!

& Kapi even invaded the food industry!
whole range of Kapi Sushi (or whatever the proper name is for it)

haha i don't mind getting paper cuts if it gives me the chance to put one of these on!

cute Kapi Puppy bed! probably the doggy/kitty won't appreciate it, but it looks so soft and squishy!
who wouldn't love cuddling up to it!

& this is one of my favourites!!!
would kill for one of these.
A Kapi Chocolate Fondue Pot!! with matching Kapi toothpicks! <3 style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DLACMUy7uvw/TOfzn51o15I/AAAAAAAACmI/iWiNzKwu7Kk/s400/kapi%2Bwedding" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541665733368928146" border="0">
This is gonna be in front of my wedding car on my wedding day!!
People may have mickey/minnie mouse, i want Kapi at the front of the car!!
Kapi holds a very special place in my heart! <3>:(

just got a call from baby!
he bought a hi-card there! yay! :D
if only he'd call last night, i'd have been able to sleep so soundly.
he's immersing himself with all the great steals & smelly tofu, the last i heard (15 mins ago)
& he got a kapi for me from the capsule machine there! only thing its purple! hahaha.
purple, pink, yellow, welcome to my kapi family still! :D

lost all motivation to study for com201. :(
shall rest early & get up bright & early tmr!
baby's heading off the Disneyland tmr. just pain me green.
OMG i forgot to warn him bout the birdflu thing!! arghh!
damn, hate my short term memory @ times! >:(

nothing like REAL breakfast to start my day!

2010-11-20T11:36:00.005+08:00

to cheer me up on last night's whole alone-in-the-hall fiasco,

i headed out bright & early to have breakfast @ The Palate, if you count 11am as early. got woken up in the middle of the night @5am cos xr left her room key in the toilet!

spent another whole 20mins trying to get back to sleep. :((

anyways, I heard they serve up really affordable American breakfast!

and true enough to what i've heard, they do!

& luckily i made it in time before they ran outta breakfast stuffs.

yes, finally some QUALITY breakfast around here.

my breakfast for the past few months has been bread/yam pau at cant 14. :((

its so rare that i actually have the chance to come all the way to N. Spine.

ahhh~ nothing better than this! & they even had cuppuccino!

of course, its nothing compared to Starbucks, but it works for me.

its so empty here on sat, & the last time i've been here on a weekend was 2 Sundays back,

and it was dominated by China people.

its nice to enjoy some peace in N. Spine when its always packed full with people!

& i survived my first night alone! woohoo! :D

Late Update/

Alice's birthday cake! (done by My Fat Lady- owners are real sweet about the whole thing!)

ain't it a beauty!! & i was so lucky to be able to find that quote frm coco chanel like a few hours before i had to confirm the order! <3

it was definitely a surprise!

& thank gawd for baby who drove me all the way down to pick the cake up,

if not i'd have to train down all the way to Bukit dunno-where(i forgot the name) to pick it up & train back again!

& i don't think the cake would have been able to survive the train/bus rides.

MY LATEST ADDICTION

hohoho this is some sinful treat!

already tried the cheese flavor which was fab! (or maybe all midnight snacks taste great!)

They have it in Sour Cream & Onion (which is this one), and the Original.

I need to find new snacks to tide me thru those hungry nights in hall!

PASTA IS LOVE!

completely forgot about these pasta mania vouchers that i'd won few months back!

Together with a Letters to Juliet stamp set & a poster (hanging on baby's wall now cos of his obsession for Amanda Seyfried)

Their vouchers look so pretty i can't bear to use them!

But these could buy me a pretty good meal @ pasta mania.

i miss outside food so much, missed home cooked food even more.

mommy made curry last wed, cos she knew i rarely had the chance to eat @ home.

im so sick of school food already. cooking is not an option for me as well. argh...

Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle,

rather a beautiful realisation of just how strong true love can be.

having troubles sleeping though i'm dead tired.

2010-11-20T01:03:00.003+08:00

the air-con smells stuffy & weird! :((

i haven't gotten around to finishing my 201 readings which i planned to complete by tonight.

such a failure.

& cos its past 12, i'm super hungry!

i really really wanna go for exchange badly,

but given the current grades i'm scoring, how to make it? :(

uni life's no piece of cake. how i wish it were all rainbows & sunshine.

just get involved in all the activities you can, don't give a hoot about your exams cos its alright!

all you need is just a pass!

keep dreaming. might come true one day.

Disney princesses are getting prettier as the years go by.

& more independent, Rapunzel is supposed to be helpless & all,

but she looks wild & fierce in the posters, the prince looks kinda wimpy. :(

hahaha say goodbye to those days of Prince Charming on a White Horse.

sleep sleep sleep...

com204 SUBMITTED; sucks to be in hall on friday night! :((

2010-11-19T22:38:00.007+08:00

fridays are always good stuff.

today marks the completion of our com204 assignment 2!

we had to come up with a brochure to market a completely new idea.

& i have to say, we did fantabulous!!

credits to Rem & ZY for being such great team members!

our efficiency is really ttm! :))

for all the times we got so hungry while working on this brochure at ungawdly hours in the night!

its making me sooo hungry right now, i'd kill for some quality German FOOD!!

staying in hall on a friday night's sad!!

roomie, i know how you feel right now! *GUILTY FACE*

i promise i'll not leave hall unnecessarily anymore! :(((

no wonderland without alice around. deadly silence!

i'm blaring music off my mac right now as i type this,

maybe i'll leave my music on for the whole night as well.

wonder how i'm gonna get any sleep tonight..

maybe it wasn't such a good idea to stay tonight :/

raining summore!!!! omg classic case of a.. :(((

don't think about it. don't think about it. don't think about it.

JADED! this is only the beginning.

2010-11-18T23:27:00.002+08:00

thank gawd for my wednesday off!
if not i wouldn't know how i'd have the time to work on 204 & start on 205! :((
school's over for now, the day's drawing to an end.
was super productive with the 204 project!
i have great groupmates, what can i say? :D
we're nearly done, down to the last editing, i'm sooo impressed!
shall upload a copy probably tomorrow.
i think our idea could really work! but sadly, we're not gonna be marked based on that,
but rather, based on how we play around with the language to get people interested..
no early night for me with essays to rush!

bloody red ants are infesting my table again, i have no idea what i do sometimes.
there's completely NO food around! :((
i need to bring in ant poison soon...

its a friday, but why don't i seem happy about it?
baby's flyingg of to HK tomorrow on a family vacation, maybe that's why. :((
gonna miss him sooo badly.. can't wait till he's back.
can't wait for exams to be over!!
i'm so damn demoralised by EAR801! :((

take care of yourself, Y. bear!
i'm gonna miss you very very much!

i'll huff & i'll puff and i'll blow EAR FAR FAR AWAYYY!!!!!

2010-11-16T19:35:00.004+08:00

damn, screwed this mid term up as well..
despite studying so hard, was confident i'll be able to do better than my last,
which i only put in like 50% effort as compared to this time round.
argh!! what am i to do? should i s/u it?
i can already predict my final grade...
:((((((((((((((

where's my only source of comfort?

melancholy monday..

2010-11-15T14:09:00.002+08:00

SO what if i get a day off from school today cos of e-learning,
i still have 4 essays due!! :(( i'm tearing my hair out trying to figure each of them!
but i'm still grateful for the late wednesday lessons that i've been 'pardoned' from for the past two weeks! last week was e-learning as well, so no 4.30-6.30 lessons.
This week's a public holiday on wednesday! score!

i just wish i didn't have so much work on hand to complete...
baby's going to HK this fridayyy already, and the family's going to taiwan this monday! :((
which leaves me alone and stranded in singapore... :((
uni sucks for eating into my dec holidays! i end the term on 20th dec! 5 days before xmas!
there goes my xmas shopping for this year! & that's my favorite time of the year!! :((

My saturday is over! :((

2010-11-13T21:45:00.002+08:00

this cheers my mood up a lot,
a poster at Bvlgari, featuring this feline! :))

<3

& yet another, long time ago @ bishan prawning area.

spent my evening at MOF.
food there sucks! the pasta was horrible...
but desserts were still yums!
guess that's the only good thing about them.

<3

bought a pair of jeans @ FOX yesterday night!
best buy in months!! i'm so in love with them!
the last time i actually bought any jeans was 3 years ago cos its so hard to find anything that fits me nicely.
or maybe it fits me nicely but i didn't like the colour/cutting.
best $60 spent! plus i won a $20 voucher & lifetime membership! <3
i'm so tempted to go back shopping again! :))

cia loved her chocolatepotatochips from Royce!
i love it as well! she's got me hooked onto this spicy seaweed!
50cents a piece! expensive but oh-so-good!
can't wait till she gets her 2nd present! she's gonna love it more!

leave my baby yogi bear alone! >:(

this made me laugh!

2010-11-11T17:09:00.001+08:00

Santa Singh's wife was expecting and the baby was due any day. Santa was very confident it would be a boy and was looking forward to the delivery day. As fate would have it, he was transferred to another city and had to join office immediately. Before going, he asked his father-in-law to send a telegram confirming the birth of his son.

But in order to avoid giving party to his office colleagues he asks his father-in-law to write "the clock has arrived" and he will understand that the son is born..

The D-day arrived. His wife delivered a cute little baby girl.
Now Santa's father-in-law didn't know what to do. If he writes "the clock has arrived" Santa will think he has got a Son. If he writes "the clock has not arrived" Santa will get worried that something serious has happened. But being a very intelligent person, he finds a solution and sends the telegram.

Just read below, you will love it

Santa received the telegram opened it eagerly and reads

"The clock has arrived, but the "pendulum" is missing".

GARHH!!don't ever skip lecture.

2010-11-10T17:34:00.003+08:00

EAR801 is ended for now! don't have to touch it till after all my core exams! =D
just cos the lot of us skipped one lecture to mug for our com201 mid terms,
the lecturer showed a video about some Mayon volcano which we missed!!

even common sense didn't save me this time.
how was i supposed to know the volcano was even named after some princess that died a tragic death? i picked the most logical answer (It was named after a volcano with similar characteristics)
WRONG!

And i thought the most logical reason why the villagers chose to stay around the volcano was because I suspected the volcano was located in some 3rd world country,
so the answer must have been 'They were forced to stay there by the government."
Or even if its not that, it could have been 'They were afraid that if they left the area, a curse would befall them."
Because that is what happened to that recent tribe leader right?
He refused to move from the mountain to show his devotion? Something along that line?
but NO!
the answer was 'The people LIKED it there, and they had nowhere else to move'
WHO WOULD LIKE STAYING NEAR A VOLCANO!?! omg..
granted its scenic and all, but we're learning about hazards!
damn, luck and common sense were useless today.

one exam down, millions of assignments to clear...bah!
can't wait for the holidays to arrive! and XMAS!!!
*jingle bells, jingle bells*

cheer up yogi bear! don't be so moody anymore!
i'm here for you! :)

EAR801 is killing me!

2010-11-09T11:53:00.002+08:00

there's still 4 more chapters left unread,
not to mention the previous 8 chapters that needs revision on.
This is so much harder than i thought. :((

ilovegeography.ilovegeography.ilovegeography.

com205 speech! ENDED!

2010-11-08T17:58:00.002+08:00

Finally, I am nearly cleared with public speaking!
of the 4 graded speeches:
- 2 individuals (completed)
- 1 group (JUST COMPLETED!)
- 1 impromptu (no way you can prepare for it!)

Had such a headache after sleeping only at 2.30am last night!
Was supposed to get up at 8 today to prepare, but i overslept!
2 alarms didn't help! me&roomie both overslept!

baby panicked as he knew i had this speech today,
and he thought i overslept and missed lessons!
I only got woken up by his 13th call! (12 missed xD)
was 9+ by the time he woke me up,
and i had to rush through everything!

many thanks to rooomie who helped me pick out the perfect outfit! <3
what will i do without her sometimes. :)

Got to school in time for the practice speech, had tutorials (longest 2 hours ever)!
rushed through lunch just in time to squeeze in one more speech.
then.. Paul walked into the LT! =O
we were all a hundred times more nervous than before he came in! sheesh!
PLUS, we were the first group presenting..

our product: iDunno, supplies you with all your study materials for physics, english, econs, chem ON THE GO!

Nobody gave us any hard Q&A, phew.
and then it was over for us! =D
com205: public speaking is >50% over! yayy!

But on hand now, I've still got:
- EAR801 mid term (Wed)
- COM204 assignment (Fri)
*CRIES*

[[ one down, another 981237283718 more to go! ADD OIL ADD OIL! ]]

We are family!

2010-11-07T23:07:00.002+08:00

Its school once again, and mommy knew how much i dreaded going back to school on a Sunday.
Sunday just doesn't feel right for school, yes call me traditional and old,
i still draw a VERY clear line between weekdays and weekends. HAHA.

baby came out from camp this morning while i was still snoozing in bed,
headed down to Macs for breakfast!! :D
only on these rare days that we get up before 12 on a Sunday.

By 11.45am, I had all my stuffs geared up to face another week of school.
I know its gonna be a tough one this week, so I readied photoframes, extra pillows and my fav nightshirts!
Alice was already back in hall by the time I got there,
dad helped me set up my printer which is in full gear now!
He specially rushed to get me one just this morning. :))
now i can print things from the comfort of my room! <3

On the way to school, i kept whining how its unfair that I had to go back to school on a Sunday, and yes, i know its an important presentation on Monday,
but Sunday & School just doesn't sound right to me. :(
mom&papa promised to meet me for dinner tonight with cia (finally she's back from church camp! I can almost visualise her with the halo & them angel wings! xD)
spent the entire afternoon working on our 205 speech for tomorrow!
I'm kinda proud of our creation!
Initally, I thought it was gonna be a pretty boring speech.
but no, i'm confident we'll NOT put our audience to sleep tomorrow!
Just hope that we'll all be able to present well like we've practiced and ACE THIS THING! =D our product really rules!

Then, headed back to hall to dump the stuffs, and waited for them to arrive for dinner.
Roomie joined us for dinner! =D
Was raining pretty heavily by the time mom&dad&cia arrived.
When i got onto the car, they started bombarding me with questions about baby.

Cia:When i called Justin, he said he didn't wanna come because he didn't wanna see you! He says his sleep is more important than you!

Me: really? haiyah he's always that mean!! *pretend to frown!*

Mum: You really like Justin meh????

Me: YES!!!! I LIKE!!!!! (wide-eyed look that she's questioning this only now!)

Dad: So what is it that you like about Justin?

Me: I like it that he knows I like dogs, and found a dog for me to play with! *SMILES*

Mum: What you don't like about Justin huh???

Me: haha he's getting fat!! So I have to pull him to go exercise every weekend!

Suddenly, a pair of hands grabs me form the back of the car, giving me the shock of my life!
and there he was!
it was cia's little surprise for me, to invite baby along for dinner!
I was so happy to see him!!! I thought i could only meet him on next friday,
but nope! wish granted! haha i can last this week.

Seeing mom&dad so welcoming towards him made me feel so so happy!
I JUST LOVE ALL OF THEM SO MUCH! hahaha.
I know i do let them worry sometimes, but I'm trying my best not to.
They've been the most understanding parents any lucky girl could ever ask for,
so i buried all my unhappiness and stress from schoolwork deep down!
I am a happy girl today! =D
There's nothing more that I want, I have everything i need right now. :)

Had dinner at Thai Express!
Thai food on a rainy day! <3

waiting for the food.
cia got soooo pissed off at the lady who was attending to us, haha! long story.

mom&dad <3
The world's most understanding&loving reward goes to them.

My dinner!
decided to give their green curry a try, it was good! just the right amount of creaminess! I LIKE!
but i still prefer my spicy hot noodles! :( cravingggss unsatisfied!!

shopped for about an hour after,
got all my stuffs for hall, den mom&dad drove us back to hall!
I can sleep happy tonight even though i'm not in my own bed on a Sunday night! :D
loveyoumom&dad&cia&justin&roomie! thanks for making my night!

BELATED POSTS:

dinner @ handburger with baby! <3

i LOVE their calamari! feel like going back for more!
hahaha! i only posted this cos i'm feeling hungry nowwww!!

And my mini surprise from baby,
who popped up with this just a few weeks back!
NAMA CHOCS (CHAMPAGNE)
these babies are absolute BLISS!!!
they really melt in your mouth! I finished them within a week. :((
baby promised me a lifetime of unlimited supplies, wonder if I'll grow fat from this kinda frequent indulgence? lols.
<3 you & your chocs baby!
Thanks for always cheering me up & making my day with such sweet things!

[[ SMILE! ]]]

MOF: comforting afternoon

2010-11-06T16:41:00.002+08:00

My obsession with MOF led to this crazy idea of spending the afternoon at their Bugis outlet. Besides, I will be meeting aud&kwai here later at night!

Can't tell which one i prefer, the MOF that serves main entrees, or the Sweets & Cafe version @ AMK hub.
My teapot came with a candle burning to keep it warm, while my teapot yesterday turned cold after a few hours.
Had mango&salmon sushi for lunch! yummers!

it feels funny to be here alone, perhaps I've forgotten that feeling already. :(
i am still working on my dine-out article for my CCA!
I always thought it was easy work to write a food article,
but it is a completely different affair from blogging.
you need to maintain this air of formality and professionalism! :(
food articles are harder than I thought!
no progress at all.. :((

this weekend is kinda dull, I can't wait for holidays to be here again!
at least i know i'll enjoy my holidays better this time!
but i made a big mistake while setting my timetable,
now i'm stuck with 3 papers on a single day, with 2-hour intervals between each!
AND a morning paper the next day morning!
if i survive that, omg, if i survive that, i can survive anything else!

The people here are so nice, I get my teapot refilled the minute its emptied,
and they're all so smiley! :)
MOF is <3!

[[ i miss that lovable teddybear look when you said you wanted pepper lunch for dinner! <3 ]]

this long weekend's a gloomy one.

2010-11-06T08:49:00.002+08:00

morning, i'm so not ready to get outta bed today.
but i've got too much to do in so little time! :(

baby's at armceg duty today, which means staying a night over. boo.
and i gotta be back in school by tomorrow afternoon, MAJOR BOO! :((

let's see, there's driving, and then tons of homework to complete,
only thing great about today is dinner with aud&kwai! missed you guys! :D

[[ that clock never stops ticking! ]]

its been a long time..

2010-11-06T00:13:00.002+08:00

and i'm still back to blogger.
after trying to figure out tumblr the whole of last night (well, not exactly, but felt that long to me)
i gave up.
blogger may screw up on me at times, but i still love you <3!

Life's been maddd hectic, and i dunno how much more of this i can handle.
week after week, its mid terms after mid terms.
Another upcoming one on wed on natural hazards! spent 2 hours stuck on volcanoes!!
and that would be only 1 out of 8 chapters complete.
not to mention that group speech on Monday. someone just kill me.

Checked out MOF today! hahaha don't laugh at me.
its a really great place, been around for like gazillion years, and yet i've never gotten round to trying it. I really regret so.
MOF was chanced upon, baby decided that we should go to NEBO cafe because its near and (hopefully) less crowded.
But we realized that there were seats at MOF, so why not?
and i needed a powerpoint badly, and that friendly waitress pointed me in the direction of a seat that had it! score!
the wi-fi was down though. boo. stuck without internet for the entire day.

but i must say, their desserts are HEAVENLY!! *sings-in-angelic-voice!*
or perhaps I wasn't full from lunch! :D
My first Hokkaido Red Bean with matcha gelato and mochi balls!!
it was barely enough, I could have downed 3 bowls effortlessly!
i will MOST definitely be going back for more!

later tonight, we decided to figure out where the queue for KOI bubble tea was so damn long all the time!
And Baby's virgin KOI cafe bubble tea! <3
We wanted to debunk that KOI cafe craze, to find out who would spend 20 mins queueing for some bubble tea.
Yeah, for once, we were those idiots. and like wide-eyed 5-year-olds, we stood there the entire time seeing how the entire shop works!
they need 7 people preparing the drinks, and even so, we had to wait 10mins before we could get ours. speechless.

I've tried KOI when it first came out, like 1.5 years ago, never had it since then, my stomach didn't handle milk tea well.
Surprisingly, KOI was just fine. I loved the taste though!
baby said their trick was to follow Taiwan's bubble milk tea, and that I didn't have to fly to Taiwan to drink it anymore, I could just go to KOI.
lovable and sweet treat. not sure if i'm willing to queue for it again though!

caught Adele: Rise of The Mummy tonight!
it was such a good watch! <3
baby's in love with the lead character, she's awesomely beautiful!
too bad they have a communication barrier! teehee! the whole movie was translated into english, so I doubt she'll even know how to speak english.
She is one helluva character though! It was hilarious, for some weird reason.
i expected more of like The Mummy/Mummy Returns kinda storyline.
hmm! oh well, was a great show!
The next 3 days looks good to watch as well, and MEGAMIND!

i'm sleeping all alone tonight, one of those rare occasions.
sis is at church camp. :( not used to the silence at all, i kinda miss her noise!
and here comes the call i've been waiting for! :D

Goodnight! happy friday for me!

Sentosa with baby, cia, dad & me!
FUN IN THE SUN! :D

[[ you'll never be alone mentally. :)) ]]

FML!

2010-09-17T16:54:00.002+08:00

Straight after lunch today, took me a whole 1 hour 15 mins to get back from hall 15 to home,
all this rush just so that i can have enough time to get ready for wkw D&D tonight.
guess i'm not fated to be there man, only upon reaching my doorstep did i realise that i had left my keys in my hall!!!!
and i have to wait patiently till my mom gets home at 5.30, which leaves me.. oh yeah, NO TIME TO PREPARE AT ALL!
i have to shower, change, make-up, dry my hair, take a cab down, i foresee the earliest time that i'll be arriving will be around 8pm, IF I REALLY RUSH.
how unlucky...can't believe my luck...seriously.

And yes, its times like this when i'm stuck outside my own doorstep- talk about being so close yet so far- that i can find the time to blog.
yeah, i might be stuck with a whole stack of notes for my weekend reading, but i'm in no mood at all to do anything but blog.
its been a long time since i've been in this situation, locked outside my own house cos i forgot my own keys, but i do not miss it one bit, especially not when i'm rushing for something.
ah, oh well, i can only console myself that i will only have missed dinner and one performance by the time i arrive there, not to mention blowing off another $20 for my cab fare. argh..

its been the longest since i've blogged, and ever since school's started, its been one heck of a mess! Readings upon readings to read, com205 tutorials to worry about, the many activities that i'm involved in.. its really one BIG headache.
and because NTU is so far away, most of the week i feel as if i'm not even in Singapore anymore, its like doing an exchange somewhere far away, and the weekly going-home part does really make me miss home even more!
At least i now know how to treasure my weekends well, except for the homework part.

Apart from that, what's new is that i'm in a rather interesting CCA known as the Deli Aprecio Club! sounds so sophisticated isn't it? well, its basically just a food club, and i ran for one of the main comm. positions. We had to give a one-minute speech yesterday, which i was so nervous about.

sidenote: That's why i'm so stressed about my com205 tutorial every Monday morning!(double whammy!)
com205 is this core module known as Public Speaking and Argumentation. Public speaking is something i really try to avoid AT ALL COSTS! :(( class participation is really difficult as well. boo.

So you can imagine how worried and frantic i was when i knew i had to give this one minute speech, but i took the time to actually draft out a speech, and practice. I had memorised it so well, I could read it without even pausing.
But, ever so typically, whenever I stand in front of an audience, the entire speech which I had so painstakenly burnt into my memory simply gets wiped out by this mysterious force, which i do suspect, is known as stage fright.

I ended up reading from the piece of paper i had scribbled on, and I couldn't even manage looking at the crowd. I was staring straight at an empty chair, but I could already feel the blood rushing up to my face, and that funny feeling you get in your tummy.
What am i gonna do about this whole speech thing? Anyone's got a cure, pray do tell me! I'd really really appreciate it! sincerely!

Ah, 5.11pm now. Whenever i want time to slow down, it speeds up. When i want time to speed up, it slows down! >:(
the tension is killing me! More than anything right now, i wish i had the magical power to walk through solid things! that way, i can walk through my own door, and everything would be fine.

just received a call from Mr. J that he's cabbing right down now.
although he doesn't have a spare key to my home, his company could provide me some comfort at least. sweetness! <3

[[ What's the point of going to a ball when you know your Romeo's not gonna be there ? ]]

Last one before another camp!

2010-08-16T08:13:00.005+08:00

been wayy to long before i last wrote anything, but that's cos i dun have anything to share.
BUT, now that school's starting, TOO many things have been happening,
and things that i never wanna forget. this is my only outlet whereby i can look back on these events and relish in each piece of memory anytime i want to!

Hot Tub Time Machine Movie Preview

Managed to get tickets for this show as a mini surprise for Mr J since i've been so caught up with work & school stuff - and feeling guilty about it.
Although it was just a simple movie, we managed to catch it weeks before anyone else,
and it was such a good laugh-out-loud movie!!
can't remember when we laughed so hard over all the stupid scenes! i just adore movies like this.
stupidly funny!! =D couple more coming our way as well i.e Grown Ups
Along with it we had free flow popcorn & drinks PLUS a $25 resorts world voucher which we haven't got around to spending it yet.. not a bad deal in fact! hee!

STYLE'S 20th!

style, some people still dunno why we call each other that, but its a very meaningful name! hahaha imagine 30 years down the road, and we'll be like 50, and still calling each other STYLE!
sure gonna be super funny!! =DD
style, we've been frens since we first met in netball as two super ultimate slackers + excuse queens, that was why we clique so well!! hahaha.
dunno why we 3 times a week always at 3pm during warm-up session will always have stomachache one! HAHA! xD
and those stayovers at school cos of netball camps, your fully loaded phone with all the songs,
those late-night chats on the phone along the hall staircase, the chalet which we both dreaded cos we had to sing some silly graduation song! and finally, our 16th birthdays, o levels, all through till poly, our 17th,18th,19th birthday. & now we're both in uni, & our 20th birthday! =D
although along the way, we may have times that we weren't so close, just casual frens, only catching up during one of our birthday celebrations, but ultimately, you've always been there for me style!!
from the times we feel sian at work,
from the times the boyfriends always giving us problems,
from the times we ourselves face our own set of problems,
and from all our PMS MODES! hahaha.
its been so so nice to have a listening pair of ears, & more importantly, an iphone to sms!!
so style, thanks for the many years of friendship & the many funny memories that we can look back to!! its just too many, and its all damn memorable!
tell me, which two crazy people will try to chase Fiona Xie all the way from orchard to bugis? with no guarantee she's even there? which two people will always stop by the community club toilet after lunch? or sit at the 7-11's entrance to their storeroom & cause inconvenience for them while we enjoy our cup noodles! - sit for 3 hours summore!

so while we're adding to the many memories that us STYLES & our good friends nicole & HM have helped to create, here's just one more to add to that growing pile:

after style's lesson on thurs,
nicole & I had this amazing plan to surprise her by hiding at her place till she got home.
the surprise was nearly ruined when she got on the bus earlier than we planned.
so even with a car at hand, we had limited time to get there.
thank gawd we made it there before she did, with the cake & all, and surprised her right in her own living room!
as small as our group was, i believe it meant as much to her as well!
the cake bought by nicole was damn delicious!
after which, dunno why the mahjong set came into the picture, & ms nicole had 4 highly experienced SHIFUs to impart the skill of mahjong to her.
she played her virgin mahjong game at approximately 2.15am that night. =D

& as always, mahjong ALWAYS leaves you craving for supper, especially in the middle of the night, so we headed down for porridge which was still opened at amk ave 10.
had such a satisfying supper~
sat there & decided where to head after that cos we decided NO SLEEP for us all, despite us having camp, work & driving lesson respectively the next morning.
finally decided on prawning cos as per claimed by style & glen, prawns are most awake at 4am,
so our chances of hooking them up are higher.
so it was off to prawning!

after supper~!

we decided to get 3 rods, an hour each, but style casually asked if there was any discount on her birthday, and OMG! WE HAD AN EXTRA ROD FOR FREE!!!!!
not only that, the uncle didn't stop us at exactly an hour after, but gave us an additional half hour~! oh loves that uncle ttm! sucha sweetie!!
he sure knows how to make us oh-so-happy & gave style sucha good birthday present! haha!

it was a competition that night, DUDES vs BABES!
2 rods for each team, winning team = the one that catches the most prawns.
although the guys caught bigger prawns, while we caught shrimp-like prawns, ours amounted to so much more than theirs! it was a clear win! =D

i love catching prawn, but hate hooking the bait, taking the prawn out of the hook, washing the prawn, BBQ-ing the prawn & eating the prawn. LOLS!
quite a useless prawner.

Nicole was queen of prawners that night, every single time she touched a rod, a prawn got hooked! hahaha! she's was our tactic to winning!

after 1.5 hours, 4 rods, 5 prawning enthusiasts, we ended up with a GRAND TOTAL of 25 prawns! OWNAGE!

BBQ-ing in progress.
2 mega-ginormous PRAWNS for the day, and plenty other medium& small prawns!
pity that me & baby had to rush off earlier cos the car needed to be back by 6.30.
but it was such a great night!
its been too long since we went impromptu on something,
but the thrill in hecking care about any consequences the next day, the rush of having these late-night outings, i feel young once again! mwahahaha!

oh, & an extremely lovable kitty cat at the prawning place that really knew how to suck up to strangers!! guess it pretty much figured that would get it free BBQ-ed prawns! heh, clever kitty!
& that pretty much sums up the night,
i went to work zombie-fied the next day.
dozed off countless of times in front of the computer without knowing, and right when i hit the bed at 7pm that night, i slept through till morning!!

BOWLING EVENT with ZEBRA:

yeah, zebra here meaning the name of the company that i have been working in for the past 6 months, not the animal.

the welfare for this company is really power.
bowling even for team bonding~!
after months of preparation, it finally ended with sweet success, with many actually having more fun than they had expected.

9 teams, average of 4/5 per team, 2 bowling games.
as much as i really hate bowling cos i feel it is one sport which i can never get hold of,
i actually managed to hit quite a few pins down during the two games, when i started off rolling every single ball into the bloody longang!
chipped off 3 of my nails that night - painful!
but surrounded by strong teams on the left & right of us, we never failed to carry on & encourage each other. it was such good team effort!! so proud to have you guys in my team! =))

surprisingly, we managed to clinch 3rd place for the first round of games, but came in 5th in the final score tabulation, which was the average of two games!

it was a great event that night, but a busy night as well as i had to rush down to style's place immediately after.

Jieying, this amazing & clever girl that i got to know while working at zebra, left one week before me :((
as a SMU business student, she was interning at zebra under HR, & an extremely hardworking & funny person! sweet in nature too! hahaha yes JY, talking about you!
my favourite lunch buddy & a good friend in years to come!

Her last day of work fell on national day weekend!
we were all so patriotic that day, sporting red tops (& white bottoms for some of us)
it was such a funny sight when the whole group of us went out for lunch that day! hee!

Weili, part of the finance team and an avid camwhorer!
camwhoring is her speciality, and the entire bowling event, she spent most of her time snapping away at her camera than bowling! but if it weren't for her, we wouldn't have such fab pictures to remember the night! =D

Cat, another member of the finance team & lunch budy too!

All of us in red + sherol & thomas(marketing team)

My last day was on a friday,
and as i finished up all the final updatings that i was supposed to do at 4.30pm,
i started clearing all my stuffs and realised how much rubbish i've accumulated over the past 6 months!
newspapers, brochures, lots of snacks lying around, documents & papers.
My entire hour was just sorting, packing, chucking & shredding.
but as i cleared each and every thing from my table, it was like packing up 6 months worth of work.
all the caterings that i had done, all the quotations for the bowling event, courier slips & PR forms, telephone lists & visa applications, all packed up in a single file.
i know i'm gonna miss working here, its not only provided me with a stable income for the past few months, enabling me to splurge on good food & birthdays, even the rare holiday.
but i enjoy what i've been doing, from helping the team to providing the odd help here and there.
i've learnt so much over the past 6 months, and i thank my lucky stars that i was able to be selected as a part-time admin there in feb!
here's to meeting all the FAB people at zebra, and to having a job that i looked forward to going every morning- no matter how much i complain sometimes :)

nearly 3/4 cleared, imagine it if it were full!
i have so much junks..
had to bring home 2 bags of stuff that day!

and i'm running late.
heading for hall FOC today! starts at 6pm and i cannot say how happy i am that alice is gonna be in my og! if it weren't for that, i dun even think i'll be going for this one!
she fought hard for us to be in the same og while i was in malacca, and its so great we're gonna be in the same group! =D

oh, and this babe is like the COOLEST!
she got us tickets to watch the click five at marina bay promenade last night!
THEY SO ROCK OUR LIVES RIGHT NOW! CLICK FIVE FEVER IS STILL ON!!!
more on that the next time when i get the pictures from her! xD

p/s: goodbye my beloved bed. i'll be missing you badly for the next 5 days! :(

[[ make this a positively beautiful day. ]]

insomnia. (first timer)

2010-08-06T00:06:00.003+08:00

no wonder i have such dark eye rings.
stayed up glued to my stupid computer screen, doing useless stuff and fretting about pointless issues.
Is there a switch-off mode for useless, irrational thoughts?

this is the part i hate about at night,
when you know you have to up the next morning,
and you can't get any sleep! .f.

busy weekend ahead! i have never had my priorities more tried and tested before.
uncertainties, insecurities, blah. this is not the way i work.
i need a break, a haven away from reality, a sanctuary from all these bull..
and then, then i'll be rejuvenated once again!
oh boy, how i yearn for it now!!
can't wait a minute longer!

[[ who made you king of anything. ]]

late nights & shitty korean food.

2010-07-12T17:03:00.004+08:00

This monday, the 12th July, is an exceptionally blue monday.
if there was such thing as the world's most-utilised off day, it would have been today.
after the match between spain and holland that took place at 2.30AM(i repeat, AM!!!!!) last night, i stared at my clock in pure horror as its cheeky hands pointed to reflect the time 5.30AM!
it was less than an hour of sleep only!
i drag myself outta bed each and every morning, but none was as hard as getting up this morning!!
plus the weather was cold and windy, all i wanted to do was to snuggle deeper into the warmths of my blanket!
but alas, i still came to work, and although time has sorta flown past today,
i'm still extremely sleep-deprived, working up a sleep debt that could actually rival that of the US National Debt!

as i had work the next day, i didn't head down to sentosa to watch the match live, and it was only at 3.30am that i was thankful that my parents had warned me against going out that night.
Throughout the entire match, there was no action at all!
i didn't feel like they were playing for the championship, but rather for the opening match! they had so little drive yesterday night that i seriously fell asleep in between!
when i woke up, all i saw was players cheering and hugging each other.
i had missed the winning goal.
Still, Spain won, but i lost all my bets since they scored outside the 90 minutes.
and baby who actually placed bets on all the impossible, including a draw match actually won!!! hahaha. one in a million.

and to add on to my already exhausted and fatigue self,
i had korean hotplate for lunch at lao pa sat,
and to think i was praising the food for being so extremely yummy!
no seriously, it really is, i finished every last morsel of the chicken & beef although i went there half full.
and that kimchi, it must have been the kimchi, i should have spat it out when i tasted something wrong, it was way too sour, but how was i to know! hello, we're in a food court, not some grand korean restaurant where the kimchi taste heavenly.
so i thought it was perfectly normal, and ate every single bit of it!
went back to the office feeling really bloated, then i realised that i was beginning to develop a stomachache of the weirdest kind, but i acccounted it to my having had too much to eat during lunch.
and within the next hour, it has been trips to the toilet non-stop.
4 times and counting...
damn the korean food!! like my monday isn't bad enough already,
and putting a new word that i have learnt recently to good use - FML!

i'm going home to home-cooked food and my bed, and the person that i've been missing so badly this whole entire day! xD

[[ changes for the bettter ]]

BELATED!!!

2010-07-07T16:13:00.014+08:00

AT LONG LAST!!!
i finally managed to empty my camera of the 900+ pictures that's been clogging up my memory space! and guess what? of the many photos, i've only chosen 20+ to blog about!
its a really bad habit of mine to snap 3-4 of the exact same picture in a bid to capture the perfect one! But no matter how i view it on the computer later on, it just looks to same to me. I don't deny the lightings/colours are better a particular picture, but its such a waste of space.
Note to self: you shall only take one shot everytime and not multiple-shoot it!

OK, here goes. In no random order:

Dinner with kate at OOTOYA:

finally met up with kate after she's gone for so long!!
went for dinner at this jap place called ootoya in somerset 313.
so we had to wait for about 20 minutes for our seats, and we decided to wander around abit, seeing that none of us has actually explorer orchard central that well.
Her reason: looks empty from outside
My reason: terrified of the freakishly long & never-ending escalators.

But, after much winding & turning, and attempting to get onto the rooftop garden,
we finnally made our way there and BOY wasn't it such a discovery!
i honestly felt that it had a better view than that from the singapore flyer(although i haven't been on the singapore flyer before). But this is like out in the open air!! not in an air-conditioned capsule, and i love the open air more!
it was amazing!!

nearly taller than all the buildings in the vicinity!!
it was sunset already, and our first picture in years!(guilty!)

check out the beautiful view!
i'm not much of a photographer, so it looks better in real-life than in this picture!

you know, they should seriusly advertise more for that place!
its a really great place to just stand there, taking in the view around you, good place to calm the frustrated or heartbrokened.(or maybe not, who knows what suicidal thoughts could run through your mind at such a height)
anyways, itsjustareallyreallygreatplace!!

dinner was great! although the dish i had was a tad too salty, but their rice choices were real interesting. we chose the seaweed and taro ones, which were so unlike anything i've even imagined.
the seaweed was perfectly infused with the fragrance of the rice, and the taro had this layer of curd over it! sweeeeeeeet!
desserts at fruit paradise with yummy tarts to end off the day~! <3>DADDY'S DAY 2010:

So, we headed down to Din Tai Fung for dinner that day,
the very place that me & cia founded our love for xiao long baos~
been there like seriously 9812638173817 times already,
and we always leave feeling so bloated and full, with promises that we will never return there for the whole of the year, but we somehow always find ourselves turning back to Din Tai Fung whenever we crave for some good ol' xiao long baos.

Dad: "*muacks* thanks for giving me such lovely, beautiful, smart, talented, funny, thoughful daughters!!!! "

then, my sis gave my dad the most creative person anyone could ever think of.
sometimes i think she's a cyborg in disguise? she has such lengths of creativity, one really wonders where she gets them from?
maybe its from the long hours of tv programmes and computer games that has harnessed such creative juices within her brains. (she's hopeless in studies, but any other aspects, clever ttm! )
even the mini toons salesperson was saying that this is seriously a one-in-a-kind present that she's never seen before. haha.

His very own World Cup Kit - comprising of peanuts, green peas, mixed nuts, cashew nuts, beer nuts, and a bottle of Heineken!
where she gets her inspiration was probably from the number of times she's seen him munching on them to stay awake during the match. so she got him enough supplies to last till the finals!
clever girl!

A family that watches the world cup together, stays together!

HM's 20th birthday:

And the time of the year comes again, when all us 1990 babies turn one year older, into our twenties. That's a BIG two-0 okay! its not a small deal. we all feel old!
old yet not old enough! everything should be legal at 20! why 21?
i hate the transition state..

anywayyyys, headed down to pasta de waraku for dinner!
and since HM was meeting her frens at Play that night, we decided to tag along!
so style & me made our way down to Maxwell food centre where Play was located, and met up with a whole bunch of her frens!
nicole already bought the cake and was planning to surprise HM that very night, and what would we do without the help of her frens!
they enthusiastically offered to help us surprise her and it wouldn't have been such fun without them that night! great people they are! hopefully we'll have a chance to hang out again in the near future!

classic!

HAPPY 20TH HM DEAREST!!!! <3

MBS:
What i find beautiful about it is neither the helix bridge leading to it, nor it quizzical structure. Rather, it is the infinity pool!!
from all the pictures, it looks really pretty! and i often wonder what it feels like to be leaning out against the edge of it! it is bound to be absolutely breathtaking!!
but alas, unless i'm rich enough to afford to pay $400 a night for a room, i can only leave it up to imagination for now.

The place was only renovating when we decided to check it out, wrong choice.
What we saw was ALOT of dust, cemented floors with no pretty tiles, an empty canal- a half-done river that was supposed to cruise sampan boats, and like a handful of shops opened...
maybe i wouldn't mind going there again, now that its at least in operation mode, rather than construction-mode.

its a heart shape, in case you couldn't tell.

prettay prettay~!!
do you really believe that everything about the structure of the building has to do
with feng shui? Like even the way that the tip of the 'boat-shaped' thingy on top is facing?

fooling around with the 'Under Construction' signboard! xDD

isn't she just the cutest!
seriously she reminds me of a small cuddly DOORMOUSE!!
(no reference to the fact that she's born in the year of a rat)
rats are like cousins to mouse anyways.

JBP with baby's family:
Isn't it amazing how many times i've visited jurong bird park in a single year?
like the last time i went before this year was when i was like primary 4 or something. But twice in a single year??
Ok, the first time this year wasn't really counted, cos it was for some dinosaur exhibition that was a TOTAL rip-off! i felt like i wasted 11bucks!
i'm even contemplating going for the 'walking with dinosaurs' show that is set to feature end of this year at the indoor stadium, although i've read the reviews and they ARE GOOD!! still, tickets are really pricey!

so this is the second time i'm going to the bird park, for real this time!
managed to see alot of birds, including me ever-most-favourite-since-i-was-a-little-girl- the World Of Darkness!!!
Snowy owls, barn owls, owls of all types!! LOVES LOVES LOVES!!!

parrots that will flock to you when you you buy a cup of their treats for $2 per cup!

greedy parrots.

WOTCHA LOOKIN AT!

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EH?
(p/s: this is not found on the internet, i seriously waited 10 whole minutes for it to give me such a pose! )

DINNER AT AL DENTE TRATTORIA:

what can i say, overpriced on a weekend.
never ever go there, without their $10 wood-fired pizza,
it really isn't worth it for dinner.

Beef Lasagne, costs $38. i'd rather go to pasta mania for more yummy & cheaper ones!
there was no melted cheese, the beef and pasta didn't fuse together perfectly.
surprised at the lousy standard for lasagne despite their yummy pizzas.
i always thought the mastery of lasagne & pizza came together.

but this was orgasmic!!
calamari~ totally worth it!!! love these babies!!

my fav form of dining: al fresco~!
as memorable as that dinner was, it is only gonna be a one-off thing.
nothing there appeals much to me for me to pay it another visit. (except the calamari)
there's so many other new places i have to try anyway.
i have this list that i'm keeping of all the places where i would like to go to,
the count's at 30 for now, and its still growing!

Cousin natalie's 21st:

seriously random, but i haven't had a picture with my cousins since... i was in primary school, i think.
anyways, it was good to meet them again, and to have a picture taken too

left to right: cia, me, grandma, benjamin, stephanie, michelle

[[ sex on the beach. ]]

i hate making changes by myself.

2010-07-02T16:23:00.002+08:00

everytime i am in the mood for a change of blogskin, i get stuck.
i hate dealing with all those weird weird symbols and words in my 'Edit HTML' page.
So after i changed from my cinderella story theme to this current one ( my 2nd change so far ONLY), i daren't change anymore!
it took me half a freakin day!!
so i thought, since i couldn't get down to changing my entire blogskin, why not just change at least the font type which i am using!
but guess what, super noob me couldn't even get that done!
damn, i hate computer language, as much as i do Mandarin.

But! nothing can dampen my mood today!!
The reasons why:

1. Freebies always make my day! -in an hours time, i will be going down to Dhoby Ghaut to collect my sample package from Kiehl's, wonder how good they are. Well, i should know after today.

2. Getting a lift home by dad- No long MRT journeys that are mad crowded, and getting so damn annoyed when people don't MAKE THE LEAST EFFORT to move into the centre area, but simply hog the MRT doors. worst part? i need to transfer at the next freakin` stop! imagine how irritating that gets.

3. Sale at Zara - need i say more?

4. Catching the quarter finals between Brazil and Netherlands tonight at 10pm at Resorts World! - only went there before, without the intention of watching WC, but i happened to realise how many screens there are, and the number of people watching! nothing better than to watch an exiciting match with a whole bunch of hyped-up supporters (regardless of which team). you can scream and shout all you want, and nobody's gonna think you as a retard, nahh. your voice would probably blend just right in with the rest of the crowd!
(plus, my mom is like some football fanatic, my neighbour, poor you. she'd be the ONLY one yelling and screaming in the wee hours of the night - thanks to 2am matches! dunno how many times we got woken up thinking what the hell is going on, only to realise she's screaming over football.. so not only do i get to watch the match, i get to spend some quality time with her as well! killing two birds with one stone! =D )

5. 3rd July is what i've been looking forward to weeks ago! (PENDING)

so yes, i am in such a good mood, that i didn't mind waking up so early in the morning for work, i didn't mind that i had to take my horrible, irksome antibiotics.

Sidenote: thanks to my phobia of pills(totally irrational, 100% psychological problem) i HAD to cut my antibiotic tablet into quarters, plop them into boiling water, stir and smash it up well, watch it turn into a murky yellowish mixture with the most pungent smell,( yeah WAYYY worse than anything, a mere whiff of it made me gag like hell!) and i gulp it down while holding my breath.

TO ALL YOUNG KIDS OUT THERE, LEARN TO SWALLOW YOUR PILLS FROM YOUNG, OR EXPECT TO SUFFER THE SAME TERRIBLE FATE AS ME!*

so, every time i'm done with that, i will still have this lingering medicin-ey taste in my mouth, which unfortunately is exactly as bad as how it smells, and i need to ransack my entire fridge just to find a sweet! only ones left however, were a bottle of sticky's. (iknow everyone's crazy obsession with sticky's, but to me, its just another frolick fad - cute at first, boring after awhile.)

This was until yesterday, when my sister told me to grab a sweet from her table, sometimes i feel she has like a mini sweet factory in her room, i'm always finding packs of sweets littered across her notes, all of different shapes and sizes. But some seems pretty dubious to me, like how i never ever eat sweets that she got from mama shops. (ever since the melamine case in China, i suspect they put plastic in sweets as well).
So, she introduced me to this sweet which i'm sure 'the whole world knows about it but me - as claimed by my sis' . its just sour plum coated with Maltose Candy. familiar?
well, i've neither seen nor heard about them before until yesterday, but aren't they just SO GOOD! why didn't anybody introduce this to me earlier??
its like a soul mate to my tongue!

Still, it was close to my bedtime, so i didn't eat the entire thing as it took TOO long. (30 mins for only 1/2 of the candy)
i secretly snitched 4 more from my sis's stash to relish during work! i get really sleepy too and i need my sugar rush!
pop one of these babies into your mouth, and it will really put a smile on your face! now that's one heck of a candy!

but one annoying thing that i realised is that the maltose candy gets abit too sweet towards the end, and all i wanna do is to pry the sour plum away from the half-eaten maltose candy, but i never succeed. i can't bite it cos it gets stuck on my teeth, and waiting for it to melt completely takes WAYYYY too long.
But yes, that is my new OBSESSION! (apart from facebook's treasure isle)
i'm gonna grab a pack of them from the nearest store i can find next time!!

OH LOOK! its time for me to go!
have a good weekend!!
enjoyin` mine already~ oh how i loooooove fridayyyyyyssssss!!!

[[ would you choose normal, or extraordinary ? ]]

sunny isle....

2010-06-28T15:13:00.006+08:00

IS WHAT I WANT TO BE ON NOW!
now, this means anywhere where i can get a nice tan, clean beach, calming waves, good food, cocktails all day long, ZERO workload and ZERO worries!
sounds all too good to be true, but i believe such place actually exist,
and that will be my next holiday destination in the (extremely) near future!
it sounds reasonable, i don't need to have an extravagant amount in my account to travel, i need not pay for overpriced hotels in big cities, fine dining comes in the form of exotic dinners al fresco style, and away from all the technology and city life! seems perfect to me.

hmm..this is rather attractive!
maybe this..

OOOO..i like this even more!!
but will the grass somehow appear greener on the other side?
these pictures were taken straight of the official website(how official i am not too certain), the monsoon season might be in, so no sun. stuck indoors all day, bunking in with free-loading mosquitoes that infest these tiny islands, creepy crawlies of all sorts, maybe even snakes.
sigh, i do love being in the city when i think of these, but i really really need somewhere AWAY!

boo..to think i'm imagining all these nice exotic getaways when i'm still stuck in singapore, held back by my tight budget constraint. bo-ring.

anyhows, this has been weeks ago.
we went to celebrate baby's little cousin's birthday, (not exactly little, but still little to me.) at this mad awesome place!

little bali~
and whoever knew sucha place existed!
upon stepping in, you'd be greeted by loads and loads of lush greenery, you have no idea how fresh and crisp the air was! my lungs felt instantly cleared of all the polluted air i breathe in everyday.
and because it was hidden among all the trees, it was surprisingly cool, not the normal humid and sticky feeling you get (urgh, hate those kind)

we were all led to this little 'hut', where we maintained our own private space apart from other guests, such exclusivity never fails to please me!
after getting our seats, we wandered around, and realised that the place was pretty gigantic! like it could fit the saturday night crowd, PLUS a 21st birthday party! awesome! =DD

my favourite part of the entire place!!
somehow it has this like..tribal feeling, i feel like i'm in a real-life Survivor village! Like, this is how they must have felt!! so close to nature, complemented with all the torches,totems, and MOSQUITOES!

then again, they have this miraculous incense that you can request for,
and when they start burning it, not only does it not emit those usual incense-ey smell, it is odourless, and HIGHLY effective!!
ZERO mosquito bites! and i am extremely prone to mosquito bites, these damn bloodsuckers really LOVE my blood!!
i wonder if i could actually get my hands on some of those 'mosquito-repellent'. Well, they definitely work and smell better than those from Watsons!

and after a long wait.....

DINNER IS SERVED!
many different types of cuisine to choose from, loads of combination!
but i'm not gonna spoil the fun.
its so exciting when you get to see the menu for yourself for the first time,
i hate looking at menus online, and know what i'm gonna expect for dinner.
But sometimes, due to special circumstances(like budget/ cravings), one is left with no choice but to turn to online menus.

food was REAL yums, but it started pouring towards the end of dinner, so we sought shelter deeper into the villa, and that was when the mosquitoes started attacking me like crazy..
but, minus the mozzies part, it was sucha good dinner!
and i am so definitely going back again!!
I HAVE EVEN THOUGHT OF THE OCCASION!! =D

its already the end of june, school's in for all you secondary school students!
oh, stop the whining, i went through it as well, so i feel you.
think of JC students, they have exams going on right now?
how's that for complaining, it sucks even more, having to waste an entire month studying. :(

school's starting really real soon for me, and i'm missing my 8-month holiday break already. just down to the last 2 months.
Still, i have FOC to look forward to! i hope there are plenty of great people! and i have a good feeling about this.
Just last saturday, i got surprise visit, and a special delivery of an FOC package + a goodie bag!
i presume those were my seniors, but they made so much effort of coming down specially that i was shocked.
i mean, who does that? after attending years after years of orientation, all i got was a phone call the night before telling me which group i belong to, and what to bring the next day.
At most it would be an email, but not a personalised delivery straight to my doorstep!
hahaha, feeling excited about this already!!
Great people to last me through 4 years in uni~ awesome!!

[[ nothing will change something so definite ]]

Wild Honey

2010-06-25T16:28:00.004+08:00

Over the last weekend, baby had discovered a new food haunt,
which turned out to be even more fabulous than i had expected.
When he told me that we'll be going to someplace that serves All Day Breakfast,
you can imagine the excitement brewing up in me!
Like my all-time favourite meal! well, okay, breakfast IS my favourite meal depending on my mood, sometimes i do love dinner too, like how all the work's ended, and this is a nice treat for working so hard all day long!
But breakfast! oh, i would give up sleeping in for a BIG huge plate of waffles drenched in maple syrup!

So we headed down to town, in the early hours of 11am(its early considering its a saturday!), and made our way to Wild Honey.
Boasting an all-day-long international breakfast menu, this cosy cafe situated in the heart of Orchard Road, was surprisingly crowded!!
and i thought we were early.
we gave our names & contact, and was promised a seat in 'approximately 45 minutes'.
To our utmost disappointment, when we went back after 45 minutes, with appetites huge enough to down every single breakfast set they offered, we were told that there were still 4 couples in front of us.
Right there and then, it was already close to lunch-time.
We were thinking of an alternative place to head to for lunch, considering that we had to wait another 30 minutes(which i pretty much believed was going to be yet another inaccurate prediction).
Just then, i stared through a tiny glass panel which wasn't boarded up like the other areas, and saw couples, friends, families enjoying what looked like breakfast that was worth waiting for.
The servings were HUGE, as if they were meant to feed GIANTS!
but we could easily handle that, given the famished state we were in.
But what i noticed was that despite chairs and tables being placed quite closely to each other, they were all in their own little worlds, oblivious to their surroundings. There was this homely feeling you get, whereby you could just enjoy breakfast, in such a lively atmosphere that isn't interrupting.
That was when i decided the wait was worth it, with baby backing my idea up.

Surprisingly, we were led to a table in less than 10 minutes after,
probably cos we had no more energy to walk around, so we just waited at the entrance.
i presume that if you wait there, you get shown to a table quicker! =D Just a guess!

Ours wasn't a table, but more of a sofa, with a table in front.
We were in the middle of the entire cafe, other tables surrounding us, and in such an awkward position, such that both of us faced the counter when we were seated.
Nevertheless, everyone was oblivious to us, so the sense of awkwardness disappeared after awhile.
I was kinda spoilt for choices at the breakfast menu, but not particularly attracted to anyone, all of them looked fab and i finally ended up with the Scandinavian.
Baby chose the classic English breakfast.

the wait wasn't too long, with our strawberry doughnut(which didn't look or taste anything like it) to sustain our hungry stomachs.

My Scandinavian Breakfast.
I have to say, i thought i read it as 'smoked salmon', and was disappointed when poached salmon arrived in its place, but it was nonetheless equally yummyy!!!
the rosti tasted like potato chips rather than rosti! =DD loves!! <3

Baby's English Breakfast.
Now this is what i call a good ol' breakfast, nothing like that to make your day!
half the time, i ate more from his plate than mine because everything, EVERYTHING, was so yummy! from the buttered mushrooms to the chunked potatoes and sausages! HEAVENLY!!!!

Pretty interior!!

waiting for the food, trying to capture a shot of the layout,
but..it was abit tricky cos of the sofa seat. :(

at least mine turned out better! =DD
crowded crowded crowded!!!

it is no wonder the wait for tables looked so long, because everyone just wanted to stay there longer!
i don't blame them, because we were one of the guilty fews who sat there for longer than we needed! I didn't wanna leave, i could sit there all day long!!!
The poor waiters had no choice but to repeatedly try to clear our plates, in the hope of getting us to leave, which i am guessing is due to the lunch crowd, but i repeatedly declined again and again. (Guiltily!!)

we finally gave up trying to sit there any longer, and our bloated selves could do with some walking.
i left contented and determined to make my second trip there once again!
Good food are always costly! we can't make this a frequent habit, as much as we want to!

Thanks baby for the wonderful trip to wild honey!! <3
i love it SOOOOOOOO MUCH!!! =DD

till next time!!
I'm finally meeting kate again after soooo long!
and after so many years, i will have pictures of US to post!
i dunno why we never snap photos whenever we meet!
haha either its slipped our mind, or we plain forgotten!!
BAIBYES!

[[ cheeky cheeky boom boom. ]]

portugal vs Korea

2010-06-21T21:24:00.003+08:00

portugal just set world record for world cup 2010,
portugal 7-0!
by the 5th goal, the coaches stopped cheering after each goal,
the players were stunned by their luck.
the goal by christiano put a total 'omg-i-can't-believe-my-luck' expression on his charming face.
poor korea. they tried..
Portugal was just legend tonight.

Thanks to sg pools kinda screwed-up machines that jammed the entire betting system at 7.15pm, just as i was queueing to place the bets!
had i gone ahead to bet with 2-0 or total goal 3, my $$$ would be long gone!
but its still snugly nestled within my wallet! teehee!
and i could still happily cheer for portugal as they scored continuous goals all night!! =D

told you it won't be long till i find something interesting again..

2010-06-14T16:10:00.005+08:00

and there i have it!!
every girl's (or guy's) dream! A whole REALISTIC world of Harry Potter!!
yes, you didn't hear wrong, its HARRY POTTER, not Helicopter.
The world of magic and adventure, Hogwarts, DiagonAlley, all the streets and bars that we once read in the book or watch in the movies a longlong time ago.

it felt like forever since i first brandished my imaginary 'wand'(a broken cane) at my sis going 'Wingardium Leviosa! WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA!! WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA!!!!' willing her to be lifted up in the air!
alas, she didn't, and i blamed it on her physical state, seeing that as the reason why she couldn't be lifted by my lifting spell! don't be critical, i was only 10 years old then!
Also, my many nights of repeated dreaming of Platform 9 and 3/4, which kept appearing in my dreams as 2 stations to the left of Paddington Station.(yes, i know very well in the book it was stated Kings Cross Station). A kid can dream.
Along with my looking out of the window, hoping to see an owl flying towards me with my very own Hogwarts letter when i was 12! the age when wizards will be chosen to enter Hogwarts. Yeah, but of course, no owls came, plenty of magpies and crows though, sometimes even sparrows, but nope, no owls. and yes, i still HAD to sit for my PSLE that year. hmpf...

so, i gave up any hope that i could actually experience all that magic in this lifetime! butbutbut, that is when Universal Studios, revered upon by millions, is actually going to make my dream come true!
they are(bless them!) going to build a Harry Potter theme park right in the middle of Universal Studios Orlando, and i know, I KNOW that it is my very next dream destination!! forget Japan, this is WAYYYY COOOLER!!!
and i will never underestimate the EXTENT that Universal Studios would go to, to actually make it as realistic as possible. For years, i've heard of their attractions from many. And i know this is gonna be the best attraction they will ever come up with!
every harry potter fan, with their childhood dream of ever experiencing the wizard world, can finally free their surpressed disappointment by paying a visit to USO!! =DDD

i've spent the entire morning reading up on it, and managed to snitch(SNITCH!) a few pictures from a fan site.
CHECK THIS OUT! :

majestic entrance!!! i can almost taste the atmosphere from where i am!
the mystery of it all!!! oooo lala!

The Three Broomsticks! the famous pub which boasts their ever-famous Butterbeers!
And i told you, that you could expect it to be as realistic as possible, they do even serve Butterbeers!!! i can't wait to down a whole jug of it, and experience the warm, buttery feeling as it slides down your throat! even if its gonna cost me 50bucks a mug!

check out this ride!!! ON A HIPPOGRIFF!!! im betting they have a broomstick ride too! but this is awesome, the way they sculpture the roller coaster to actually mimick a hippogriff itself! =DD oh im getting too excited..calm down calm down..

The wizard shop that sells everything! Dervish and Banges!
i will buy down the entire shop! well, depends on how good their products are. if its like those really cheapskate invisible ink, or squishy gooey toys. real genuine movie-like memorabilia are what i want to lay my greedy hands on!

HONEYDUKES!!! MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE STORE WHEN I READ ABOUT IT!!!
the way rowling writes about this shop, its like they have 1.5 million varieties of different chocolates and sweets!! yes, they do boast chocolate frogs and Bertie Botts every flavoured beans, but i don't think there's any way of actually making the chocolate frogs move. neither do i think they have puking pastiles or fainting fancies! although if they'd really do have, they'll make a really good prank souvenir! mwahahahas! >:D

and so...this is my next destination! =D
The magical world of Harry Potter, HERE I COME!!!!!!!!!

[[ i wish upon a star ]]

and its all sadly over...

2010-06-14T15:41:00.004+08:00

Back from my long and fulfilling weekend!
after a fabulous(but overpriced) dinner at al dente trattoria, we were running late and entered the auditorium only 5 minutes before the play started, and only managed to get corner seats! but they weren't too bad.
Then, the lights dimmed out and spotlights shone at the narrator, as he began:
"Tilly loved telling tales, however, the tales she often told, happened to be terribly untrue....'

the terrible infants was, as i expected, FABULOUS!
you could see how much hard work and effort they put into making the play both captivating and hilarious!!
the audience held on to their every action, every word, clapping at all the short breaks, and i could hear 'ooohs' and 'ahhhhs' throughout!
it was a pleasant watch which such a responsive audience!
when the show ended, i don't think i've heard any crowd clap and cheer any louder!
they deserved it! ALL THUMBS UP for the terrible infants and their tragic tales of children with such oddities.
My personal favourite was Thingummy Boy, who was so blended in to his surroundings because he didn't dare voice out anything due to his extreme shyness, that even his own mother didn't recognise him in the end, and he simply disappeared, wiped from his very existence! :( sad, but WAY AWESOME!

he enjoyed it sooo sooo much! haha finally an appreciation for such dark humour.

Vivienne's reviews gives them 9123218783827 stars!

a very common characteristic in human is fear.
my fears include a huge assortment of many things, such as the dark, pills & tablets, insects(all sorts), paranormal beings, fear of heights, fear of being ill, fear of even.. the vast deep, dark ocean, where you have no idea what lurks beneath you should you be stranded afloat after a shipwreak.

So, even though i have plenty of fears, i still hope to one day, lay my hands on The Book of Fears.
it is a pop-up book, but the frightfully realistic illustration leaves you perhaps a little daunted at flipping the pages, yet one can actually learn to appreciate the fine artwork put into doing this book! way cool!

Okay, i have no idea what this is, but.. well, seems like a contract.
the pop-ups look pretty amazing in this one though.

The fear of death. Imagine being buried alive *shudders*

and, the fear of heights! isn't it cool! i actually feel scared looking at the picture alone! imagine if i was reading from the book itself!!

i guess its been in the market for pretty long already, i just happened to chance upon it that day! i feel that my general knowledge is increasing ever so slightly every single day! =DD
tata! till i find something else interesting again!!

Prawning.

2010-06-13T00:50:00.003+08:00

Just yesterday,style was mentioning about prawning, and that's right where I am now. If not for the lack of sleep catching up with me, i'd have enjoyed it much more. It's been coming to a year since I went prawnin, and what was supposed to be late night movies changed into an impromptu prawning session at bottletree with baby and D. And since baby and I are sharin a rod, its luckybibhave his iPhone to entertain me. Blogging with a computer is the easiest, followed by blackberry then iPhone. Butbim not comlplainin! I'm finally beginning to understand the convenience of having an iPhone with you. and omg,you'd be surprised at the number of people who are prawning at this timing. The entire pool's full of prawners! I can easily bet there are more peolple than prawns cos the frequency of prawns are extremely low. Either that,or there are no professionals here. Oh their very first prawn! Haha. World cup is on here as well. Must be a Saturday night that's givin all these people insomnia.

animal oddities~

2010-06-11T17:12:00.002+08:00

many may think this is weird, but this baby is so awesomely CUTE TO ME!!

a two-faced kitten, discovered in perth.
A rare case, but nonetheless, lucky owners!!

and some silly things that people do with their pets:

ushering in the year of the tiger!
this golden looked better in its original shade!

Chow chows turned into pandas!
These are cute! if i ever had one, this is what i'll do too! =DD

24-hour memory!! scary yet blessed!

2010-06-11T16:46:00.003+08:00

OMG remember that show 50 First Dates starring Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler,
where she had a 24-hour memory, and every day, she'd keep thinking it was her dad's birthday, and her family had to play along with her everyday?
it was a pretty cool show cos of the refreshing storyline, plus the fact that i watched it nearly 40 times on the plane ride to London when i was in sec 2.

I had always thought it fictional until i heard Ross mention that there is such a person existing!

The woman who wakes up thinking its 1994 every morning and then forgets everything the next day due to car crash injury:
Every day, Michelle Philpots wakes up next to a man who has to convince her they are married.
When she expresses doubt, he takes out a photo album and shows her pictures of their wedding 13 years ago.
Only then does amnesiac Mrs Philpots accept she is talking to her husband, Ian, and that everything he has told her is true.

Her case echoes 50 First Dates, the 2004 movie in which Adam Sandler tries to woo Drew Barrymore, who has no day-to-day memory following a car crash.

And it is not just loved ones Mrs Philpots struggles with. She uses hundreds of Post-It notes and reminders on her mobile phone's calendar to keep her informed of appointments and everyday duties.

Anything she has done or anyone she has met must be logged for future reference. And on the rare occasions she ventures out of her home in Spalding, Lincolnshire, she goes armed with sat-nav programmed with her address.

There are some benefits, however. There is no such thing as a repeat on TV and every joke is funny because it's the first time she's heard it.

'It's like I am living the same day, day after day,' said Mrs Philpots, who does voluntary work at a charity for people with disabilities three days a week.
'I love to watch EastEnders but I can't remember the characters or any story lines.' Her husband, a 46-year-old fencer, said the secret of the success of their marriage was patience.

'It can be very frustrating for me but I have to be patient and understand. I have to keep calm because I love her,' he said.

'I've known her for 25 years so I am lucky we met before she had the accidents because she can remember me. Luckily we have lots of photos to remind her, otherwise she would forget it all.'

awww!!! her husband is so sweet, and still chooses to be with her, reminding her that she's married every single day!
So storylines in movies can be true in real life after all!
well this one's real sweet,
but i still feel sad for the guy in the movie who had a 10-second memory and kept introducing himself every 10 seconds. :(

[[ wouldn't it be nice if we could wake up, in the morning when the day is new! ]]

mistaken..

2010-06-11T15:47:00.003+08:00

just today, i was wondering how on earth do i wear a ring,
and not get mistaken for being engaged/married.
turns out i found some interesting info nuggets bout wedding rings and how to wear em!
check this out!

It is an ancient belief that the vein in the fourth finger of the left hand went straight to the heart. This is one reason why the wedding ring is usually worn on the fourth finger of the left hand and symbolizes strong everlasting love and fidelity.

awww isn't that just sweet! i never knew the true meaning until today!!
also, if you wanna kill anyone, you know where the vital point is now. (:

it has been a rather slow moving week, BUT, its a friday so i shall not complain.
will be going out to celebrate hm's birthday tonight, and i'm pretty sure she won't be able to read this in time, so...haha!!
Off to Pasta de Waraku for dinner! oh-so-yums!
i have missed my wafu pasta dearly.

Had an interesting new food haunt today with JY, my bestest lunch buddy!
always have new thins to try! don't forget our date at Fou de Fafa! :)
So, we had The Soup Spoon today for lunch! awesome place, not so awesome crowd,
but hey! that goes to show that its good!
i tried their Velvety Mushroom Stroganoff and it was so yummy!!
apart from the mushroom soup they serve at Marche,
this one had full mushroom chunks, but being cream base, i got kinda sick of it towards the end..
JY had Meatless Minestrone with Gremolata which is wayy more delish than the one they serve at Pasta Mania & Pizza Hut(which by far happens to be the only two places i've tried em.
But DUH! its THE soup spoon, they are supposed to be professional in their soups! :D
i'm going to try all the flavours they have there! I'm working my way to be a true blue souperholic now!
next up on the menu for me: Beef Goulash, and their Spicy Wedges!
you'd be surprised at how SOUP can actually fill you up! I've never felt more bloated in my entire life!

Anyway, i had a nightmare just last night about my wisdom tooth growing, and then of having shaky molars! Then i was involved in this robbery, i'm the one stealing the jewellery, and i was being chased by CIA and guarddogs! Then it switched to me being on a ship, that was stranded in a storm in the middle of the ocean, AT NIGHT! pitch dark!
BAD BAD night, did NOT have a good night sleep at all! Damn!
(and i believe YOU know why.)

I'm in for a very very busy weekend ahead!
i can dream about having late sleep-in on my saturday/sunday mornings~!

[[ sturdy as a rock we hold, wishing every moment froze ` ]]

MUNCH = YUMMY LUNCH

2010-06-09T19:15:00.002+08:00

Just two days back, when the weather was really bad,
dark ominous clouds and strong winds, impending thunderstorm and all,
me & JY chanced upon a new lunch bistro, MUNCH.
its so near yet so far. i've easily walked past it 30 times since i've started working in robinson road, and yet i've never gotten down to actually trying it.

So, thanks to the rain, we were forced to go somewhere sheltered, and what better place to go to than munch? just 10 steps from the front of our building, seriously 10 steps, and we're there!
upon entering, we were greeting by a vast selection of salads!
the menu looked like it would never end.
it was like finding a chocolate egg during an easter hunt!! the joy & thrill i get from finally finding a place that spells LUNCH for me!
although i have to admit one lunch at munch could easily cover 2.5 days worth of lunch, BUT it is oh-so-worth-it!

basically, they are famous for their salads which i have yet to try! GINORMOUS servings, but all at a reasonable price! i nipped some from JY, and the chicken tasted so yummy! bacon n potatoes were absolute loves!!
but what i had made me yearn to go back for more!
actually, the only reason that made me decide i would ever try munch was when i walked past it one lunch, and saw someone having rosti. YES! rosti!
like the only place i'll ever have that would be in Marche, and that's either too out of the way, or out of my budget to eat on a regular basis.
So guess how delighted yours truly was when she discovered a place that actually served rosti, a stone throw away from her office! HEEHEEHEE!

i had rosti with sour cream, absolutely gobsmackinly DEYUMMILICIOUS!!
i am SO going back for more, and while i was busy scanning the menu, i found a new breakfast item to add on my list.
months of Mr Bean / Polar that i always pick up at the MRT in the morning has seriously left me rather sick of them.
so lucky for me, i discovered they served bagels~!! YAY YAY!
bagels with cream cheese even~ *drools*

so that was my fruitful trip to MUNCH which i had always considered an overpriced and high-end place, only to discover that i have yet to learn my lesson - never judge a book by its cover!

off to dinner now~!! and hopefully, KILLERS! ashton kutcher i love you! xDD

[[ the one thing i never lost sight of, you! =D ]]

Random thoughts the whole day...PLUS! outing with vak! xD

2010-06-04T00:18:00.002+08:00

While working today, i chanced upon my entire collection of Disney soundtracks,
which made me thought of the happiest place on earth, Disneyland.
words simply can't describe the feeling you get when you step through those gates you paid $100 for! i'd willingly pay another $100 to go again!

such a welcoming sight! i bet entering disneyland could solve any problem!!
no matter how upset, how angry you are at something, this is THE place to go to!
honestly, its magical powers are beyond words.

One of my favourite attraction, the Haunted Mansion, based on The Nightmare Before Christmas!! all my favourite tunes and characters in one place!

This also reminded me of all the attractions there, including a very cute one named The Tiki Room! It had the most tiki songs i've ever heard!! until today, i still remember its tune without youtube-ing it!! in fact, i pretty much remembered everything about disneyland, from the way the rides went, to the way the layout is. How i wish i had another chance to go there right now~!!

Ohwell, i know its impossible. But i have something else to look forward to!
My 'Le Enfant Terribles' play coming up next saturday!!

I'm trying my very best to not search anything from youtube so as to let everything remain a surprise. its really difficult!

the odd crew! told you it was a mix between Tim Burton & Doctor Parnassus.

I hope it'll be really good.

On a more surprising tone, i accidentally saw this korean babe a few days back.

Kim Tae Yeon.

Baby was all eyes on her when she walked past,

but i thought she was nothing more than another pretty korean girl on holiday with her family(and her awesomely HOT brother whom i suspect has undergone plastic surgery too)

she was all donned in sunglasses, and had like the fairest smoothest skin i've ever seen!

it was not until today that i realised it was her after baby told me about her!

if i had known, i'd have taken pictures with her already!

Just went out for dinner with aud and kwai! no pics with me, all with them!

had wood fired pizza at Al Dente Trattoria! Hawaiian, Al Funghi and Parmesan!

dinner was yums, the catch up session was much needed!

i hate feeling so distanced away from you guys, we need to meet up more often!

next time, aud's gonna drive! teehee!! train your driving at night, and upslope more!

our next destination: Dempsey Hill! xD

early night for me! goodnight! its a fridaee~!!!!

[[ you're the most thoughtful ever, and you thought i'd never realise. i've known it all along! =D and never once will i take it for granted~ <3 ]]

THE GETAWAY.

2010-06-02T21:04:00.009+08:00

finally i had the chance to get outta SINGAPORE!
to our friendly neighbour country, malaysia.
a 3-day-2-night to Genting really helped me get some fabulous R&R. ahhh~
didn't come cheap, but wayy cheaper than all the other trips i had planned.
realised that Genting is really lowering their standards,
expensive yet not worth it, both in terms of food and souvenirs,
i had a really hard time souvenir-shopping there, all they had worth buying were foodstuff.

What's more saddening was the arcade area, whereby we discovered a game that kept malfunctioning so they kept giving out free games, and if you had mastered the skill, you'd easily get hold of 100 tickets per game.

In the end, all i found worth changing for my tickets was a golden coin keychain with the words 'My Lucky Gold Coin' across it, which is now happily hanging from my bunch of keys. Its getting heavier every time i have a new addition to it.

I NEED MY HOLIDAY!

did many things too. like this, fish spa!

Before you actually can stick your leg in, the guy had to like use this foot scrub, which i presume was to actually scrub out some dead skin to entice them little fishies to nibble at my feet.
Before i actually put in my leg, i had 0% fear whatsoever of this fish spa, but upon dipping my feet halfway into the water, one single brave fish actually swam towards my foot and took its first bite, and that's when i freaked out!

Damn, they really nibble hard! totally unlike how i imagined it, well i imagined myself in a calm and composed manner, enjoying the fish spa while getting a shoulder massage,
instead, i was screaming and yelping my head off everytime a bloody fish sunk its 'claimed' painless set of teeth into my foot. i drew alot of attention, no doubt, and its not in a good way.
i would never do that again, thank you very much! their nibble is more than mere massaging, it actually hurts pretty bad, but i have to say, i had baby smooth foot skin after that! a pleasant reward for my bravery!

enjoying the few hours of sun before the rain came. it rained non-stop, and its no joke when you're stuck on a mountain, amidst clouds that rub against each other, generating millions of volts of electricity. I've never seen brighter and scarier lightnings than the one i saw there!

even with the curtains drawn in the hotel room, the flashes were obvious.

wouldn't wanna be outdoors, its a good thing everywhere's sheltered!

the only chance to camwhore outdoors, and making good use of it.

waiting for the 4D show to start, a far cry from Disneyland's version of 4D but a good effort.

was included in the tickets we bought anyway, i thought the haunted house was pretty good.

That's cos i've watched the older version when i was just a wee kid of 13 years old, and that was really lousy. Now they've improved much, i actually got pretty spooked out by the 'alive' toys in the nursery! not too bad.

Went to catch a magic show 'Dazzle' as well, they were selling it at a promotional price,

and that was well worth every cent!

A total of 5 illusionists/magicians performed, in between the intervals were dances by pretty ang moh girls(vegas style), and even audience participation, which made the whole thing really entertaining! Truly a cherry on top of a sundae, just what i need to end of a long day.

Of course, we gave the buffet there a try, a real disappointment for the amount we paid! :(

the one that would not have disappointed us would be the steakhouse location INSIDE the casino, which i was denied entry to. BAH! wait till i'm 21, i'll throw my passport at any guard that tries to stop me then.

A short but enjoyable and memorable trip, now to save up for my next trip, and a real GOODIE that i wanna get this GSS season! xD

SAVE SAVE SAVE!!!!!

i hate it the way i wanna save, and i feel that something i need to buy comes along.

Like just today, i received an email on a play titled 'The Terrible Infants', a fusion of Roald Dahl and Tim Burton, although personally i feel its more of Tim Burton meets The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. haha.

got the tickets this very afternoon, costs me a whopping $30!

(that could have been my lunch for a week....)

but its not everyday they come to Singapore, shall see if it is really worth my $30, but from the short trailer clip that i watched, i know its gonna be worth it! =D

BELATED POST:

NYJC College Day.

went back to get my cert!

love how they make it look so professional! haha.

=DDD

its gonna be the weekends soon again!

and another week has gone by.

i hope my holiday never ends... i'm not sick of it yet! :(

attended a wedding dinner, a cousin of mine which i have actually... never seen before in my life until his wedding day. ohwell.

at least dinner was yummy!

and the couple seemed pretty sweet together!

[[ that's when i love you. ]]

i have decided...

2010-04-10T11:18:00.002+08:00

to get new ear piercings.
after ALL 5 of mine closed up,
i never bothered anymore. felt it was a complete waste of money, time & effort.
look at this, i must have spent at least $40 previously!
one of em was also with SVE, rather memorable,
i really didn't want that one to close up,
but i had no choice.

then, i began noticing earrings all over the place.
when i walk past shops, my eyes just seem to be naturally attracted.
shiny ones, small ones, huge big loopy ones..

then the problem comes.
i'm now scared of the pain.
i used to kinda love it, the feeling of getting my ears pierced.
weird and strange, but the initial impact just give me this adrenaline rush!
i felt it was awesome!
but now i've gone back to chickenhearted. =(
forget it, i shall look past that and get my ears pierced TODAY!

[[its now or never ]]

thank gawd the weekends are here.

2010-04-09T20:35:00.002+08:00

not that work isn't fun, i really find it okay for me.
but its always nice to have time off, to do things that i like.
its a friday night and i'm too tired to even get my ass outta the house.
the minute i got home, a nice hot bath was all it took to make me rooted at home.
i just want my comfy t-shirt and shorts,
maybe some tv, my computer.
it dreads me to think i have to be outside now, having to walk..
my legs are stiff at the very thought.

while listening to 987FM today,
i happened to listen to Jesse Mccartney's-Beautiful Soul.
And a realization struck me.
this would be the perfect song for The Host by Stephanie Meyers.
haven't got a clue what i'm talking about?

so little people know about this book,
or at least less than those who know about the twilight series although they're both by the same authors.
Its so not doing it justice.
Seriously a good author is a good author, you should trust that all the books written by her are good. In my honest opinion, The Host is way better than twilight.
maybe twilight has lost its novelty after awhile,
but The Host is such a good read.

anyways, i thought that Beautiful Soul would have fit the scenes of Wanda and Ian perfectly.
if they ever do produce the movie(i hope they do), i kinda can imagine the song being fitted in.
non-readers of The Host would think i'm spouting gibberish.

After i had bought the book 'The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and other stories' last week,
i took a single night to finish reading the book!
i can't believe it, and such a book doesn't come cheap,
and its only a paperback. hmpf...
anws, whoever created the toys did a good job of portraying these tragic children.
take a look at them.

from left to right: Toxic Boy, The-famous Oyster Boy, and Stain Boy.

I thought the story of oyster boy was real tragic.
the others were still okay, like kinda short, but meaningful.
its a really weird book and weird me likes it!

While i was shopping at Watsons today, i happened to chance upon this ang moh family which comprises of a mom, and her two girls, no older than 10 years old.
they were browsing the nail polish section when ang moh mummy picked out a glittery green nail polish and handed it to the elder of the two girls.

"How about this honey?" she asked
"No. I already have that color, besides, i don't want that color on my finger nails!" She retorted, giving a slight pout.

I pretended to be checking out something on the shelf while eavesdropping on this interesting conversation. How odd.
I only got to know about nail polish when i was in primary 5. And boy was i fascinated!
kate was the darling who introduced it to me, and i love the cooling effect it left on your nails when you applied it. i love how your nails suddenly don't look the same old boring plain pink,
but you can decide the color you want it to be, you could mood-match it.
and i definitely didn't have my mom choosing colors for me,
no, it was the opposite, she was yelling it me how it would destroy my nails, and my nails would fall off, all kinds of nasty stuff.
Imagine her reaction when i tried black nail polish, i didn't hear the end of it from her. haha.
How different are we, i realised, a far cry in fact.
did your mom pick out nail polish for you when you were the tender age of say, 8?

long day tomorrow, i'd better rest early tonight. goodnight.

[[ i don't want to walk this earth if i gotta do it solo. ]]

ME LIKES IT!

2010-04-04T13:35:00.006+08:00

my addiction is back.
i googled for absolut images and now i can't get them off my mind.
why do they have to be so pretty and unattainable??!?!?!
check out my pretties!

this one's REAL sexy.

on sale RIGHT NOW at changi airport,
question is, how do i get it without having to pay for an air ticket?

just another want.
maybe i should be planning a short trip somewhere near very very soon.
bangkok or hong kong sounds appealing! =D

its freezing today.. i got up bright and early to bus down to baby's camp.
the weather sucked, it rained and i had to trod through rainwater for 15 minutes before i reached the interior. it was so deep in! big mistake to wear leggings as well,
i swear it soaked up more water than spongebob!
pfft.. even up till now my toes still feel like ice cubes.

xiao zhu's new song is very delightful!

i lurvee the jazzy jazzy feel it gives,
not that i'm into jazz or anything,
but kinda suits him! awesome! =D
pleasant to listen!
he's soooooo seductive in this mv! xDD

check out his hilarious dance!

so funny to see him doing this without his mushroom hair and funky dress code!!
xiaozhu can really act! *thumbs up*

aww, my fingers are too frozen to continue typing.
cousin's 21st tonight, believe it or not, this is the first time i'm attending any of my cousin's birthday party. gawd, i'm a horrid cousin, aren't i? its complicated. :)

[[ absolut-ly loves ]]

lonely weekend.

2010-04-03T09:24:00.003+08:00

not used to not meeting baby on a weekend.
he's gone for armceg duty again, TWICE in a row. >=(
April fool's day is over! the biggest trick was that stupid ris low one.
obvious yet highly dubious.
who would have thought the directors would allow someone to tarnish their image for even 2 days!
987Fm received enough negative feedbacks to last them forever already.
its not really that amusing, just relieved that finally my fav djs are back on air,
and everything is perfect as before ris low came.
pfft. wasted my entire night writing that long post about her.
but anyway, thanks to that, baby and I got to have the angry whopper for seriously only S$1!
but at a condition that we have to buy a med. drink,
which totals the bill to about $3.20, still cheap,
but the burger is totally worth only S$1 in value.
cut chillis doesn't go well with burgers at all...
i'd rather pay $7 for my mushroom swiss burger.

anws, i pulled the same prank on everyone,
and to think i woke up 15 mins earlier, hoping that when they receive a morning msg,
they wouldn't suspect its the 1st apr yet!
unfortunately, only a few fell for it.
alice called me up about half a minute after my msg was sent out!
PROMPT! hahahas.
and desmond is the Mr. April's Fool this year. he fell for my prank all the way until 10pm that day! teehee.
baby pulled a small prank on me, which i totally fell for. too bad its only a titchy one! xD

Yesterday was a really lazy morning, i finally finished a book that i've been dying to know the ending to.
i bought a book called 'shadows of sherlock holmes' but i have nearly given up reading it.
as interested as i am in the storyline, powerful vocab words pepper every single page! i can't go further than 2 lines without having to dictionary.com a word! Gah!
after a while, i begin to lose track of the story. :(
and i'm still thinking about buying pride and prejudice cos there's a really cute parody to it.
Maybe i should give up that book, might be too hard for me to digest.
nothing much to blog already, signing off!

[[ TLC ]]

call me childish...

2010-03-31T22:38:00.002+08:00

i couldn't care less when the person who is the least worthy of joining 987FM is IN 987FM,
with my second fav duo! :((
yes, 987's done it big this time. RIS LOW as a local DJ, co-hosting with shan and ross.
yup, THE very same shan and ross!!
i can't believe it, damn, so many good potentials outside, and it goes to her?
hmpf... if this goes on any longer, i'm gonna stop tuning in.
with all due respect to ross and my beloved shan, i really can't stand ris.
some may love her(no idea why), i was neutral, now i really can't stand the fact she's intruding into my favourite source of entertainment.
its one thing to dominate blogs, televisions, newspapers, magazines, now the radio too?
come on, you've got to be seriously joking!!

this is gonna ruin 987FM. i just know it.
you know its a lucky thing my muttons till midnight is still intact!
but i wouldn't be surprised if sooner or later she'll be the 3rd mutton to the show.
i will literally kill that woman if she does that. gawd, why does she have to ruin everything?
she is NOT funny, does NOT have a unique personality, and will MOST DEFINITELY NOT make a good DJ.
sometimes i half wish she did join muttons till midnight, maybe then justin and vernon will come up with a whole new batch of Ris Low jokes, and she might not be able to take the humiliation, and may even quit the whole DJ thing.
then again, i'm forgetting that i'm talking about a girl with -97827138728723% of humiliation.
i'm beginning to suspect it doesn't even exist in her dictionary.
look at all the things she's done, ZERO embarrassment coming from her,
in fact she really loves the attention. *SHUDDERS*
she's a weirdo.

arh, piss it. i just can't stand her being part of the 987 family.
i don't care how narrow-minded i am, i don't care how good she is,
she's ruining everything, dammit.
and the worst part, woah trying to take over ross.
ross is the single most coolest female DJ to ever make her name on 987Fm,
and Ris thinks she's even capable of taking away 1% of that personality that Ross has?
bah, fat hope. Ris is nobody, no character, no style, no flair. plenty of flops perhaps.
she's too imperfect that the public's paying so much attention to her,
she's so tragic sometimes, i don't know to feel sorry or what.
sheesh, some ex-beauty queen is seriously wasting too much of my time.
why can't she be interested in other stuff huh?
she could be like on those kinda tv shows, i'm perfectly fine with her on razortv,
its like i can totally skip that episode, but on radio. i have no choice.
she's practically FORCING that horrible voice of hers through my unwilling listening ears!
i don't wanna hear any more crap from her.
is anyone gonna set up some petition to fire Ris Low, PLEASEE i'm begging you,
keep me informed. i'll be the first to petition.
damn, ris low sucks.

p/s: keep your chin up Ross, you'll always be the 987FM DJ.

FAIRY TAIL; OYSTER BOY & other tragic toys.

2010-03-30T23:41:00.002+08:00

damn, i better stop making monthly-blogging a habit.
but seriously, i've done everything online, everything that i need to and have to do.
i've checked my mails, updated fb(abit), checked out the new movies, read some news, blog-hopping, and my hair is still not dry.
just came back from dinner at baby's place. poor baby must be so tired after last night's duty,
so i shall be a good gf and not bother him for the rest of the night.

recently, baby introduced to me an anime, which i've fallen in love with.
yep. none other than FAIRY TAIL~ =DD
just makes me shine to hear its very name.
currently waiting for new episodes to come out,
and can you believe it. for this anime, i BOUGHT MY VERY FIRST COMIC.
yepp, and even signed on with comics connections membership that gives 30% discount cos i'm pretty sure we're gonna get the entire series as well! teehee.
one down side, its all in CHINESE!
grr... its really kinda hard, whenever i see a familiar name, i just skip trying to read it in chinese totally, and just understand it as its english name.
my favourite character, is of course the cutest character.
like since when is my favourite character not the most adorable?
my dearest blue flying kitty, HAPPY! xD
i'm no otaku here ok, but this anime is seriously LOVES TTM!
aiya, you guys won't understand until you've actually watched it.

aside from that, my treasured find today is a new book which i never knew existed!
but its a MUST HAVE FOR ME!
the melancholy death of oyster boy and other stories!
i chanced upon it on yahoo, and that's when i realised where the oyster boy figurine came from.
i keep seeing those tragic toys by tim burton in those toy stores,
but i have no idea why.
now i finally understand, and i've even sourced down probably the last few copies of the book.
its on reservation and i really do hope the condition is worth its price.
it may be just another storybook to others,
but this is a work of art by tim burton!
i gotta have it!

more next time. low batt...>.

its no wonder..

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

now it makes perfect sense why only students/teenagers are avid bloggers.
you hardly see any working adults blogging with the exception of those who do blogging for a living.
and i can perfectly understand why now.
By the time work ends, you drag your already-heavy feet to the nearest MRT,
you have to fight the sardine-squeezed crowd to get a space in the train,
stand the entire journey in high heels(for ladies), and by the time your key inserts the door,
all you wanna do is to have a nice warm bath, get dinner, and rest.
However, rest will never comprise of blogging to at least 99% of the working adults.
Having spent the entire 8 working hours in front of a computer already,
its only unless there's uncompleted work, or else the computer would seem like a deadly enemy.
Maybe some fb, google gossips, and slam. That's it. end of com usage for the day.

weird thing is, i really miss blogging, but my internet is screwed up, and i'm always too lazy to actually turn on my computer.
so why i can actually blog now is cos im at baby's house waiting for Mr Late,
and thankfully, his computer is super speedy and only takes 10 secs to set up once its been turned on.
(Proven: he counted till 10 secs in front of my eyes)

Last friday was a terror, but everything turned out to be fine in the end.
I now believe that 'A' Level results is really unexpected.
however, the unexpected can be in a good way or in a bad way,
and how blessed am i to have it in a good way.
Nevertheless, having done badly doesn't mark the end of the world,
one only needs the determination to try and succeed once more,
and success only goes to those who really give it their all.
Nobody stays a failure forever, if anyone really is, i'd really like to meet that someone.

But what i enjoy more than ever, and what i realised from the path i have chosen is that one can never really enjoy studying unless they are studying what they truly genuinely like.
Look what H2 math did to me, i hated math to the core.
every night i fall sleep wondering who the hell was that asshole who invented the subject Maths.
But when geog came into the picture, i was fascinated by it, and sheer interest led me to want to learn more about it, i practically craved for the knowledge i gained from this subject.
so in any case, i now know that loving what you study is most important of all.

but anyway, i now know for sure that i do have the time to finally take my driving license.
But what's the use of having time when i know its gonna take me longer than usual to learn.
i think i kinda suck at driving. its the phobia thing that the stupid go-kart gave me.
but i am determined to learn driving for some very special reasons. :)

went for dinner at chilis yesterday, my parents treat to congratulate me for performing well.
Headed down to the outlet at Sentosa so that we could check out how much it has developed from the last time we saw it.
it was packed full by the time we arrived, luckily we managed to get a seat pretty quickly.
The food was as usual, madd fabulous, with the serving portions as huge as i remembered.
However, the buffalo wings weren't as fantastic as i thought. Jerry's still hold the champion for Authentic American Buffalo Wings! xD
While we were eating, we could see shows going on outside, and a cute Hershey chocolate bar mascot walking around. I so wanted to snap a picture with it, but it was long gone by the time we were done with dinner.
Managed to take a look at the newly opened Hersheys shop, which sells everything related to Hersheys, and like some other stuff. Still, they sell the most interesting things at a rather pricey cost. :(
i dunno how i can be working, yet feeling so broke all the time.
People who work should feel like they are able to buy anything they want whenever they want it!
lols, keep dreaming huh.

joined this sony competition that could get me tickets to Alice in Wonderland 3D, if they're not gonna announce me as one of their 250 winners by next week, i'm paying for the ticket already.
i'm not risking to miss that show.

[[ drenched in vanilla twilight ]]

please please please please don't...

2010-02-10T11:15:00.002+08:00

don't let me fall sick during my greediest holiday!!
its CNY, dammit!!!
i'm feeling a sore throat creeping up on me. :(
i don't know what i do, i had a perfectly non-heaty dinner,
i only munched on a couple of custard cremes from M&S for breakfast,
and i've downed two bottles of water since i've woken up!
how is it that i can still fall sick??
its impossible...

yesterday night, had dinner at baby's place. <3
rushed down to town straight after dinner, as both baby and his fren had to get their new year clothes. i'm secretly happy i've already gotten mine.
sometimes, rushy shopping can be quite bothersome.
got a tiny bit lost in taka looking for armani exchange,
by the time we actually reached there, it was closed already.
most of the shops were closing around that time as well,
even at far east.
someone should set a rule that shopping malls should not close so early when people need to do last minute shopping for their clothes, esp approching like CNY, xmas..
then again, living in Singapore is already not too bad.
when you go to places like Australia, London, shops closes at 5pm.
people practically HAVE to go home after work,
there's nothing to do outside, no shopping, nothing.

i have a whole list of things to do before tonight.
i have to pack my bag for m'sia,
i have to get my photos printed, post some mails,
deliver oranges to baby's house cos he won't be home today at all,
i'm like errand girl for today.
meeting up with Alice tonight as well!
hahaha haven't seen her since the time we met on the MRT.
busy day, i better get started.
toodles~

[[ the spaces between my fingers is right where yours fits perfectly. ]]

happy birthday mummy

2010-02-08T18:20:00.003+08:00

lols. the first time i'm not at Cathay working on a monday,
but instead, i'm spending the day relaxing with my parents! muahahs.
today's mummy's birthday, so decided to bring her to sentosa to check out the IR!
man, its so much more completed, within a matter of months!
(once again no pics, put the blame on blogger)
this time, i got to catch a glimpse of the Universal Studios Singapore!!
hahah i saw it! its hidden in sucha sneaky corner,
until my mom chanced upon it suddenly.
and there it was, the beautiful big blue rotating globe with the golden prints 'UNIVERSAL'
emblazed on it! such a pretty sight!
only thing that was still lacking was the crowd, still pretty ghost town in that place,
with the occasional tourists here and there.
andd i saw my beloved chilis!! right outside USS,
everybody's gonna love going there for dinner,
so i guess the next time i dine there, we'd be queueing for hours before we actually get a table.
and the worst part it, i wouldn't mind queueing to eat at chilis.

went for lunch at vivo, before we went shopping for cny clothes!
yay me, i got myself two new tops and an ultra cute pencil skirt(for work) from joop!
all sponsored by the birthday mum herself! xDD loves loves loves!
well, she's gonna receive nice presents tonight and a birthday cake,
so that should make her happy! =D

then, we headed down to the far east flora thingy at upper thompson road where my mom went on this mad crazy hunt for the most prettiest flowers!
she ended up buying 3 pots of them.
i didn't actually plan on getting anything until i chanced upon a whole shelf full of packets of seeds!
then, i got the most brilliant idea to start my own mini garden!
okay, i have to admit i'm not much of a garden person.
greens are just greens to me, in fact, my favourite food is greens!
and the only plant i've ever kept is a cactus, which somehow died on me when i was in primary school.
who the hell is capable of killing cactuses right? they're like the major survivor plants but they died under my tender loving care.
fine, that was years ago, shall not bring up the past.
the 19 year old me now is perfectly capable of ensuring that her seeds grow up into healthy blossoming plants!
hello, i even bought my beloved seeds quality soil! it costs me more okay.

so, the packs of seeds i picked out were ground nuts, cos they indicated that freshly grown ground nuts were the freshest when they are harvested and roasted immediately, which sounds pretty yum to me. second pack was ladys finger~! my all-time fav! xDD
don't laugh first, when my plants grow, i'm gonna be the one laughing!
i was supposed to seed them tonight when i forgotten that i am going to Genting in 3 days,
and who's gonna take care of my babies while i'm away, especially in their infant stage?
they need proper caring, like constant watering and all.
I was considering putting this ultimately heavy responsibility on baby, but what if he suddenly forgot? hahaha that darling of mine has a memory of a goldfish! (and looks a little bit like one too.)
so the best plan is to wait till i return before i start on this magnificent planting plan of mine!
its gonna be tons of fun, like Barn Buddy comes to life!! =DD

the second piece of delight i had today was a confirmed job position!
its gonna be at Zebra! yepp, the marker company, but they do so much more!
my new working place is gonna be in the heart of the CBD area,
i hope i don't get lost again! once is enough.
its great to know that i am able to start work once i get back, instead of having to try so hard to look for a job once again.

oh, and i finally i got my hair cut. no comment on it.

i need to do abit of soul searching,
and work hard on my carelessness.
I need to learn how to prioritize, what is important.
i need to learn to be a neater person, and to not be so forgetful,
i need to be more organised or i am gonna lose out on alot of things,
and maybe even lose out on great opportunities.
once bitten twice shy.
i don't need another lesson to punish me again.
i need an organiser badly.(and a pretty one at that)

[[ trust that He has plans for all of us ]]