miss the days in Ngee Ann

Had a bad sore throat 2 nights ago that caused me to wake up to a fever the next day. Though I didn't behave like a sick person at all (hahaha 过来人 will know!), I'm so blessed to have lovely people who took great care of me and nursed me back to health in such a short while. So look after your kinship and friendships!

Talking about friendships, there are some friends whom I tried so hard to keep but fate has it that they just have to leave. On a lighter note, there are also friends who stick with me through thick and thin though I did not do a good job at maintaining the friendships. I've been doing a lot of "I'm sorry but I really have no time to ... because I am rushing my ..." last semester. But friends and family members who are understanding enough to my crazy schedule, despite my persistent absence in their lives, made me guilty and of course, thankful. And I've learnt that nobody is too busy for anything, so I am going to make the effort to be there for these people as far as I can.

I guess the reason why people are always so busy is because we are often judged by how fast we can get something done, how fast we can go, how much we can do, how many things we can at the same time, how fast ..., how much ..., how far ... . The society seems like it can't and will not slow down and because of this, we are unable to slow down as individuals. Life goes by fast enough, we really need to slow down and smell the roses, if life permits us to.

Anyway, life can't get any better now that it's holidays (say yay to 4 months!) and I get to spend more time with my friends and family. Sunday is the official family day and I love how we spend time together as a family without having to worry about incomplete assignments/revision. Volunteered for some event that's happening this Sunday with my mummy. heh. Ages since I've done something meaningful. Then weekdays are spent catching up with my friends and nannying for mum.

Had a good outing @ the Mind Cafe with my JC friends, the Brewerkz with the girls, Cafe Cartel with part of the girls and accompanied Joyce to pursue her dreams with Ah niao. Appreciate so much the time that I have to do what I want now :) Photos up soon, goodnight world!

Time to blog history again!

Back to Malaysia 2 weeks ago with my family for Mother's day! Did the usual stuff, like having 1000 meals a day and catching up with my relatives, and my (sec 2) cousin's taller than me A-L-R-E-A-D-Y! I kept laughing at how she's taller than mum and sis and now she's caught up with me. not that it's something very difficult given my height hahaha but still so sad. Anyway, I did my nails!!

I know it's not something very wow wow wow but i have to talk about it cause it was a really different experience. My first time was done in Singapore at $15 if I'm not wrong. I opted for express manicure and the service was really 'express' cause it was done hastily (and horribly) by a C lady who only had eyes for the rich tai tais.

I opted for express again this time cause I wanted to do my hands and legs and it's damn cheap. only RM15 he he. and they use O.P.I nail polish. and I super like how attentive they were although there were many people. Okay, end of bimboness haha.


Then parents headed for their Genting trip the following weekend and sis went for her graduation trip on the Tuesday my parents returned to SG. So my Tuesday was spent fussing over my sister, having a good dinner together and sending her to the airport.


Then Gabriel turned 23 a week earlier than he should hahaha. Cause we got the dates wrong and he will be overseas on the actual day. so here's the happy birthday boy with his forklickin'good durian cake @ Big O.



blogshopaholics decided to put our loots to good use and came up with a checkered theme for the day!













Seriously laughed my head off that day. Our first game was Taboo and Xiao Ting was damn RA!
So that prompted us to play our next game,




Then we had Co Co Crazy which drove Xiao Ting and Shan crazy, and I have evidence!



Heard good reviews of that place so went to check it out. Ordered the salt and vinegar fries and it was wayyy too overpowering. You can see the big big balls of powder coated on my fries that stung my tongue if you look at the picture carefully. And to make things worse, a baby cockroach dined with us! So it wasn't exactly a pleasant experience there!

Glad to be able to spend time with my wonderful sem 1 project mates though,
and Bon Voyage Xiaoting! :)


Spent some quality time with my family today! :))

My attempt to get up earlier to exercise failed. Got up just in time to have breakfast with my parents. Went to a kopitiam near my old house and reminisce about the past where our family of 4 would squeeze together in our 1 room rented flat. and the noodles there cheap cheap, $2 for a big plate only hahaha

Went to check out the beauty centre on our way back cause Mum has been thinking hard and long about going for eyebrow embroidery. She has 0 strands of hair on her eyebrow so sis and I have been trying to convince her to go for it but she insists that she will end up with moustache eyebrows. then guess what, the lady boss managed to convince her to go for it in just a minute lor!

The process is damn scary. First, the beautician used a little knife to "cut' lines on her eyebrows and blood just oozed out like that! so i went into hiding when the beautician cut her other side of the brows. Then she applied the colour and cut her brows 2 more times. my mummy nearly went mad from the pain and everything's finally over in 2+ hours (that means I've stared into the space doing nothing for 2+ hours!) and I think it's quite nice, just need time to 'adapt' to the extra 2 blackies sitting on top of her eyes after seeing her without it for 20 years!

Alumni concert 2010.

Will be held in July.
On the 31st.
On my birthday!

So I was struggling to make a decision on whether or not to join this concert. Then Gypsy ma came along and successfully conned me into agreeing to perform for the concert. So that explains our reappearance in nas yesterday! It was good to see the people I missed, and to play the instrument I love.




because we stayed in silent mode when we were supposed to play and played like a hero when we shouldn't!

and the source of the trouble came from the tuning of our instruments. Tuning has always been the fear factor and we lost the courage to do it after so long. Should have taken a picture of how freaked out gypsy was that she stood at the other end of the room when I was tuning lor! So we took damn long to tune and missed out on the changes the conductor made to the scores.