; the perfect distance

2010-08-02T22:19:00.001-07:00

at the end of my rope, hanging on to every of your words

2010-07-13T08:14:00.000-07:00

So much has happened, so much thunderstorm. But everytime just right before i close my eyes to go to bed, i always tell myself that tomorrow is a brand new day and everything just reverts back to where it used to be

2010-06-27T10:11:00.000-07:00

miss the days in Ngee Ann

2010-06-03T07:20:00.000-07:00

A job cannot take care of you when you are sick.
Your family and friends will.

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!

2010-06-01T04:45:00.000-07:00

Sick and very sad

2010-05-23T01:02:00.000-07:00

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.

My sis with her tortoise shell

Everyone is all going overseas,
except me!

:(

♥ ♥ ♥

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.

The yummy cake with the quite wrongly placed candles

♥ ♥ ♥

小茏包 @ Holland V. Crystal Jade!

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

walking advertisement for Bonito Chico

Guys were not spared either heh heh

The damn nice Osmanthus jelly AKA soap! hahaha
(I hear Serene echoing os-man-twos)

Turned muscular after a heavy meal of 小干包s
Qianyu didn't eat enough to be as muscular as Carmen!

Next stop was at The Daily Scoop across the street.

Bailey's choc chip and Lychee Martini ♥

Greedy Carmen who wants the world

Can't help but to notice how sly Carmen looked!

This is damn funny hahaha.
I am trying to 'unblock' Qian Yu who'se running away from the camera.
but it looks like we're trying to run away from the poison Serene is trying to feed us!

Brothers
*slaps chest*

Ice cream gives us muscles!

Qian yu happily haunted by 4 ah piaos

Pregnant with 小干包!

Mad fun with the mad people :)) Serene, look forward to 9th June!
*strokes chin shakes leg*

♥ ♥ ♥

Minds cafe with John's saviours!

Shan's standard Fleming's left hand rule pose

and the imitations

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,

Caught Shan reading dirty magazines

and the dirtiest mind of all, oops.

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

hahaha

and Shan's the pro!

Then was dinner @ Everything with Fries.

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!

Before

no photo of after, yet. heh heh.

Then was supermarketing at NTUC which I have not done so for ages and it's damn fun! I used to hate it cause mummy used to shop at Sheng Siong where aunties enjoy stepping on people's feet in their rush to dash for items on offer. and i think mummy wouldn't want me to be around next time cause I loaded my basket with damn alot of food until I cannot stuff more food in it hahaha.

The end, finally!

2010-05-10T23:50:00.000-07:00

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.

All the serious faces

EXCEPT US

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.

And hence the embarrassment!

2010-05-04T09:23:00.000-07:00

Migrated back to blogspot! Home is still the best, haha.

I want to deafen everyone with a very lag statement, that is exams are over!

Last semester passed by particularly fast.

I never fail to have Moody mondays blues because of the early lessons, late dismissals and ALS. I dreaded Tiring tuesdays for the boring ICT lessons.
I liked Wonderful wednesdays for the short lessons
I was neutral about Thursdays
& I love Fantastic fridays because it's off off off!

Assignments drove people crazy as usual and exams were scarier. 4 days to finish reading Mt St Geogr Notes, 8 hours to revise for Finite Maths and the most classic one is Number Theory. Chiong till we drop @ 3am when the paper was 9am the next day. So I'm thankful that my 同包Serene 收留ed me so that I could have more time to study and rest instead of travelling.

It is always during the exam period when I find myself wanting to do a million things after the exams. But when exams are over, I find myself not doing any of those that I've fantasized even in my dreams.

Obstacle: my dear mommy.

Anyway, these are the little things I managed to do these days!

Indulged in sexy topless 5 with the girls,

Spent time with family during the long weekend,

Caught a violent show Kick-ass,

Had a good trip to the Helix bridge,

bbqed @ Nicole's place,

went singing,

AND finally de-lag myself and registered for btt
ha ha ha

The rest of the time was just tuition, home, nannying, auntieing and dramaing.

There are many things that I want to do this holiday cause I will not have the time for anything else when a new term starts. To go overseas with my friends, to learn more about Singapore, to spend some time with friends and family whom I have neglected during the term and to do what a girl should do, shopping! But mummy doesn't like me to go out and objects violently to the idea of going overseas with friends and it makes it hard to go ahead with what I want to do.

Sometimes I wonder, how far will this sheltered life get me to? While I appreciate and understand that they want to keep us away from all possible danger, I do hope that at times, I can be left on my own to learn how to stay safe on my own and to fend for myself.

I ever lost my bag once, and that became the convenient reason by my parents for not allowing me to go overseas without them, cause I will "definitely lose my passport overseas because I lost my bag"

News reports of Bali bombings, terrorist attacks at Bintan, Batam and instabilty at Bangkok were their justification for my deprivation of beautiful beaches and the busy night markets.

Possible attacks by rapists, robbers, dangerous people was the reason why I have to be home early.

Had a tuition kid who comes from a broken family with tattoos, who smoke and swear, and I was forced to give her up. This is their policy, to make me retreat at the first sign of danger.

These are what I want to say to them, but I know I will never have a chance to do so and convince them. So when will I be able to grow up on my own?

♥ ♥ ♥

To restrain the tongue, is probably to consign abhorrent thoughts to oblivion.
But we neglect that silence supports the accuser's charge.
That's from me, to you.

2010-01-17T02:56:00.000-08:00

blog's rusty again!!

:( :( :( :( :(

For (AT LEAST) 10 times, the very hardworking me would head for the "save now" option after attempting to type 5 sentences. I used to enjoy blogging about every single thing that happened because I have the habit of reading my archives and laugh at all the silly lovely things that ever happened in my life that helped me grow to who I am now. But thanks to Facebook, I've stopped uploading pictures to this space and I am someone who refuses to blog an entry without pictures. And hence this abandoned blog. I DON'T WANT! haha. Anyway, I feel very much like I am talking to myself, but I am determined to hit the "publish" option this time!

This term break has been a fruitful one (not a pleasant one to my mummy cause I've been going out almost everyday! :x). Never appreciated holidays this much before because term time was really horrible to the max. Not the friends of course. I'm referring to the non-living things (projects/reports/essays/tests/quizzes/exams/readings/........................ewwwwwwwwww X10) So how can I not make full use of the holidays!!!

So let me try recalling what I've done during this term break!

1) Went to Marina Barrage for the first time in my life
And many many many many times after that! Beautiful scenery + wonderful people, just that the weather can be quite uncooperative at times!

2) Went to the flyer for the first time as well
Damn exciting cause it's only $10! heh heh. Went at night and the view's great I would say. The lights, waters and roads, and how amazing things become so insignificant when you are up there. Nice experience, but I will never fork out $29.90 to try it out. No promotion, no go! hahah.

3) Celebrated Kylie's Birthday

Met up with all of the girls. Yay cause it's been sooooo long! :)
Picnic/kite-flying(in dresses ;p)/cake-cutting/photo-taking/HTHTed (With a classic moment of Kylie preaching while wearing her damn cool shades hahahaha) I feel so blessed whenever I recalled how we met as 9 naive and immature secondary school kiddos 7 years ago and the tight bond that we still share this very day. For 7 years, we celebrated every single one of our birthdays together, went house visiting on CNYs, counted down together on festive seasons, stayed over occasionally and so on and forth, despite us studying in different schools for the next few years after we grad from NASS. I'm so thankful for everything.

4) 2 days @ a Childcare centre

Was a preview of my life 4 years later! Rather terrorising, with hyperactive kids running around, trying to climb on you and testing your patience. But on the other hand, I've gained valuable experience handling these kids of different characters and temperament, and it's very rewarding and satisfying to know how much they love you and cherish your presence! Received hugs from the kids and small lil gifts from the thoughtful little ones and it further assures me that teaching is really the profession I want to be in next time. Not more than 5 people believe that my ambition since young is to be a teacher lor! hahaha :)

5) Meet up with the JC girls

A year since we met up! Have sort of neglected this friendship during my term time cause time's not on my side, didn't really meet up with them after the collection of our A level results :( Ate @ Popeye and caught up with one another. Glad that Joyce has successfully cleared her A's and Joanna's doing well now :)

6) Celebrated X'mas @ CHIJMES with the girls

The first time we broke free of our tradition and not camp at ECP playing Indian Poker hahaha! Was a cosy celebration, just Meiqi, Kylie, Huiying and yrs truly! haha. Gypsy's damn manly, she joined us a few hours after she touched down la!
Had cocktails, htht-ed, played cards and had a late/self-high/inaccurate countdown hahaha. Mini celebration with great fun!

7) Celebrated New Year with the girls

The first time we displayed "mo shui" and went to a museum for countdown! Went to F21 at 313 with gypsy first cause I heard that the outlet there is damn exciting. And it's true mansxz. Cheap for F21 stuff but still not very cheap for me. oops oops oops. But I bought a bag for school! Can tug all my barangs barangs to school liao. Then the very late us joined the rest at Asian Civilisation Museum cause there's some events going on there but we ended up doing something damn unglam at such a cultural-rich place. And the unglam thing is that we played "ji niu nai" there. HAHAHA. Can't blame us, the deejays were in their own world and we were done exploring the museum. Counted down and we were damn lucky cause we could see the fireworks clearly! :):):):):):) without having to squeeze with the crowd. heh heh X200. Played with sparklers and shared the love with some random kids who were drooling beside us hahaha. Stayed over @ Sher's new entertainment chalet, upgraded to a 4- storey private prop le lor! and her room's damn nice. Just short of a kitchen to be able to do everything in her room le. Slept for a lil while and had an impromptu housewarming buffet at her place where we gope-d quite alot of food oops!

8) K-ing with my GESL mates
It was a damn new experience for me because all the songs that they sang were English songs! :x
I've only tried singing Chinese songs whenever I go K-ing so I was quite shocked when I saw a whole list of English songs on the waiting list :/ But I still insist to choose Chinese songs and their reaction's damn funny whenever they see "Taiwan only" on the screen.

9) Kukup with my family
Pretty nice place to relax, it's a kampong-styled chalet. Damn big, just enough to house the 50 of us! (my mummy's pai du cao's friends + families + friends) Perfect view of sunset/sunrise/high tide/low tide

see, I'm not kidding! Not from google hor! heh :)

and when you are bored, just look out and the mudskippers will entertain you with their stunts. Not kidding mansxz, there're like 10000000 of them out there. damn fat also haha. Walked around to enjoy the scenery and air, highly appreciated cause I was going through a rough patch at that time. But the peace and serenity is probably all that's attractive, so I'll say it's a nice place to go to if you were to go for a day or two, once in every 8 years. BUT HYGIENE'S DAMN BAD! Was down with severe food poisoning and vomited like n times after dinner :(

10) Gentings with my family + sis's BF + sis's BF's friend

Was better than I imagined. Cause I am underaged (to get in casino) and I wasn't very optimistic about the attempt to smuggle me in since I've heard 101 stories about their tight security. But apparently my cao lao face + some sneaky techniques that I shall not reveal here got me in successfully! and i swear Da Xiao is damn fun! hahahaha. Made a new friend there- my sis's bf's friend. Because both of us don't quite enjoy cooping ourselves in the casino the whole day (unlike the rest of them who stayed there from 9am to 9pm! salute them srsly) and we had to settle our entertainment and meals ourselves. Poor us. and to make things worse, we had to eat cup noodles for dinner, with our hands somemore! Refer to evidence below. HAHAHA

11) Sentosa with the girls
This event can be added to my list of "My first time". Because it's the first time:-

- I stayed over at a chalet during term time. HAHAHA. and most of us had lessons the day after. - drinking so much
- drinking during a chalet
- seeing my girls drunk hahaha, don't deny!! I was rather sober i think, or i hope. haha, just that I can't walk straight anymore after Jasmine Lim Xin Yi tried to kill me with a cup of damn concentrated Chivas.
- falling down from a ladder and got myself 2 big and red 'souvenirs' on my legs

12) Many random outings with the girls!
Gym/ basketball/ shopping and many more!

And I was also a good daughter during the hols too k! I helped out with housework before I go out everyday. heh. I tend to neglect everything and everybody around me when I am studying, especially when time's often not on my side when I am schooling so I really love holidays when I can spend quality time with my friends and family. Now that a new semester has begun, it's time to go back to my books. This semester's crazier than sem 1 though I've lesser modules cause there are more essays, research paper, projects and presentations in store for me ): and I have 4 tuition kids this time. hope I won't die.

anyway, 2009 didn't end off beautifully for me, because something in my life has changed. I'm thankful that it has ever happened, sorry that it has ended. I don't know if I will ever regret taking this step but I will accept the consequences of my decision. It was a decision made with heartache, tears and sleepless nights and nobody knew what I went through because I spoke to none about it until I am stable enough to confide in the few whom I did so I don't wish to be judged about this issue when nobody knew what's going on. Didn't intend to type this out, just so happened that someone in my family pressed me for an answer about this issue when I'm blogging this entry. I know I have to update the people around me eventually, but to certain groups of people, the time's just not ripe, and it's not easy to make that move and what I really need is support, time and understanding. And my family's the one not doing it. :(

2009-12-30T05:06:00.000-08:00

"The reason people hold on to memories so tight is because memories are the only things that don't change when everything and everyone else does."

Very soon, we will be summing up 2009 and embracing 2010.

2009 has been great, been to work, been to uni, met new friends and kept in touch with old precious ones. There were times when things were hard and tough, and going on seemed so impossible but I overcame the impossible and moved on, and it wouldn't be possible without the help and support of my loved ones.

Thanks everyone for being the best part of 2009.
2010, PLEASE BE AMAZING!

2009-12-11T03:02:00.000-08:00

2009-12-11T02:52:00.001-08:00

You are my sunshine
My only sunshine.
You make me happy
When skies are grey.
You'll never know, dear,
How much I love you.
Please don't take my sunshine away

The kid at my house has been spamming this song from day to night from Mon to Fri
:/

2009-12-09T19:39:00.000-08:00

IT'S A GIRL'S THING

Once upon a 2 days ago, 4/9 of the girls met up, FINALLY!!!! The other 5 people better appear soon hor! (:

So the original plan was to meet at 12.30pm but some people suddenly have the chong dong to PLUCK THEIR EYEBROWS!! So the poor me with no eyebrows to pluck was stranded at home until they are done. Ate at Popeye with the 3 girls with freshly-plucked eyebrows, did lots of catching up and began our countless secondary-school-take-photo-from-mirror-and-think-we-are-damn-cool shots. This explains why we only reached town at 4pm!

I bet we look damn pretty here hahahah

Conclusion: Gypsy was the most conservative among us cause she had the longest bottom

Gypsy's qi yue ge tai's attire

That's what happens when all you do is eat all day long and don't exercise

& we finally decided to leave the mirror alone and head to town.

Went to 313 Somerset for the Uniqlo's opening sale, quite exciting cause the sale is really a sale, not those irritating ones that's only applicable to the 2nd item/filled with terms and conditions. But I didn't manage to find anything I like in the end ):

Then we saw this damn poor Santa who has 2/3 of his face hidden behind some artificial cottony beard.

=)

and we got a photo for free!
Freebie makes people happy HAHAHA!

Then we walked down the streets towards Orchard and got free apples from Starhub! Not bad, quite sweet, hahaha.

Still obsessed with the apple

Happy girls with their balloons that went missing and lost a petal

Then Jasmine's Eric came to join us.

While waiting for him we realised Jasmine's a niu fen.
Xian hua(s) cha zai niu fen (Jasmine) shang.
HAHAHA
inside joke

Upon Eric's grand arrival, we headed towards Far east but everyone was too tired to shop after a damn high afternoon. Then the couple left and and just when we were feeling restless, something caught our attention.....

GOURMET FOOD FAIR
HAHAHAHA
I like!

So the 3 hungry ghosts got high once again upon seeing the food and we got super alot of food
:/

Durian pancakes+Egg+Pekking smoked duck crepe+a drink+fish maw soup

on top of fries+ice cream that we had while waiting for Eric.

I see the return of my kingkong arms now ):
but i doubt I will ever stop eating hahahhahaah

Lee Kiang with the yummy fish maw soup that a weirdo doesn't like.
FISH SUCKS BUT FISH MAW SOUP ROCKS.
hahahah, I feel like I'm 15 once again.
The suck-rock-rulez lingo.

The Pekking Smoked Duck Crepe that is coldddddddd ):

And that's the end of our day!
But not our photos
hahaha

How someone who LOOKS demure

can become so terrorising the next moment.
Morale of the story: Do not judge a lee kiang by her cover.
You will be surprised!

The best place ever to propose to your girlfriend

1stly, it's free of charge
2ndly, you get to have many people to witness it and share the joy
3rdly, you can catch your girlfriend offguard
& you don't have to pay the photographers. Just get your photos from STOMP.

Really great to see the big gays again!
They are the ever biggest gays you can ever find in the whole wide world
Hopefully Gian Hui, Sherlin, Kylie, Hui Ying and Stacia can join us the next time round!

BEGGER ELMO SAYS GOODBYE!

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GYMMING WAS GREAT!

Ran 3.1km
Rowed 2km
Cycled 4km

:D

I know it's damn nothing for some people but to me it's like breaking the world record le la. Just think of all th calories and fat I've burnt hahahahah. I'm not obsessed with losing weight but I'm quite horrified + terrified by the rate I eat. and all the calories I lost was not even 1/5 of the immediate input after my gymming session hahaha. I am hopeless mansxz.

2009-12-07T05:39:00.000-08:00

When Shan returns to Happyland

So once upon a Friday after exams, Shan went back to his happy Sri Lanka land and we very fei-ly went to send him off although he will only be back for 2 weeks!! Can't be blamed, too high from post-exam mood.

John saviours

My damn gay 102 project mates!

A very blissful Shan with 4 pretty babes. I insist! haha. Just look at that damn zhuai face of Shan

Then he turned gay in a flash
"Come guys, we take gay photo!" (Shan, 2009)

After countless waves, Shan was finally in the departure hall and on his way to his happyland. He was damn excited la while the rest of us went off to Dhoby Ghaut.

No movie timings nothing to do and no place to go. so we went made a very weird decision to go to the arcade. It's weird cause we are all non-arcady people :/ But shooting hoops is really quite fun leh. All of us got quite high from throwing balls haha

The girls the girls the girls (:

Then we wanted to race against one another but the technical problems caused me to race against Daniel only and Shouting to race against CK then Daniel was damn xiao zhang la cause he drives everyday.

So the race began...

but look at his bittergourd face vs my determined face! hahahah. obviously his daily-driving experience is not applicable here

but someone caused me to crash towards the end and i lost!
): ):

Then we went to Alps Cafe to eat drink talk and headed home thereafter!

pretty great : D

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First picnic out of Lecture Theatre

We picniced in the LT all the time to keep ourselves awake with all the pig gummies, jellybeans, chocolates and what not but never been out together once! So I had the ever first outing with the geog girls once upon a Tuesday at Marina Barrage to celebrate Jean and Shir's belated birthday.

Food glorious food!

Apple crumble

Fruit Jelly

Then Shirlyn was in charge of getting the drinks and the yakult lover bought yakults! And got yakked at by everyone haha, especially Jasvir! Who claims that Yakult's for tongue-wetting and not quenching thirst hahah

"Yakult's good...."

"finished!?"

In the process of wetting tongue

and time to tuck in!

Then we played Taboo. Tell you, it's damn high de!

"what's 4 wheels and water? Fund raising!" "Wheelchair?" "YOU STUPID LA! 4 wheels!! with water! what you do for fund raising??"

and the answer is Carwash.

another classic one was

"If you don't scream you. ....?" "SHOUT!"

and the answer should be whisper!

thanks to my partner Shirlyn for making all of us laugh! hahahaha. and we were so desperate that we kept cheating and disturbing the other group.

Then was the kite-flying time!

We ran, we hopped, we jumped, we..... BUT THE KITE WOULDN'T WORK!! ):
2 emo kids with the unflyable kites

The naughty kite

Then we realised (veryvery long after, after super many attempts) that th kites wouldn't work cause we forgot to give them their backbones. We didn't fit th essential stick thing across into th structure! I think that's totally smart of us

Fly kite fly!

In the process of feeling fascinated cause the kite is finally up!

our low-not-high (more like high-not-low) feeling very pleased with herself

I swear it's soooooo tiring to fly kites!!
So we stopped and had our post birthday celebration for the 2 girls.

forever high girls with their birthday cupcakes!
: )

JEANNETTE

SHIRLYN

JASVIR

JASMINE

TOGETHERNESS
(:

1 missing

2 missing

The damn weird location we chose to lay our mat cause it's sooooo hot! So we hid at the semi-sheltered area haha

Beautiful sunset (:

=))

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Give Everybody Some Love

GESL PREPARATION

Went to Marina Barrage AGAIN! total madness haha. to prepare for the Gesl on Friday. Went to make kites and supposedly to test the fly-ability of the kites but the weather wasn't cooperative. Too much adiabatic cooling forming the towering cumulonimbus clouds and thus resulting in thunderstorms.

Just kidding. haha

Just some random pictures on that day, more on facebook!

Made a crayfish monster kite that I surely think cannot fly hahah. Was quite of a wasted trip cause I reached late and left soon after cause of the nasty weather ):

Went to bugis to eat and i really eat damn lot. not that it's surprising but it's really quite alot. lack of self-control and discipline!

eating in progress

and friday and today was the execution of the actual GESL plan. Went to a childcare centre at commonwealth and gave some love. We gave some love on Friday but we were all bullied, but the kids are damn nice today! Not say all are really nice la but thy are at least 10 times more angellic than they were on Friday. Look how bad that is!

More on that when i get all the photos.

Finally meeting some of my ngee ann girls tmr le!!
=)

2009-12-07T03:35:00.000-08:00

Semester one

Seems like a while ago since school started in august and now it's the long awaited term break. In these 3 months, I've covered almost everything I did in my 2 years of JC. In fact these months was about having long breaks, enduring the long journeys to the west, having late nights in schools and sleepless nights rushing projects and I guess it's about the same for everyone else. But I feel that I really enjoyed the few months there because most of my friends are damn nice and supportive and it made my life in NIE alot easier to go on despite the crazy workload.

The most memorable time I had in NIE is probably the entire course of my 102 project. Our meetings are often unproductive cause we always find ourselves laughing at everything no matter how hard we try to be serious. Seriously is over things that are damn fei one. So our presentation day was on a Thursday, and we found ourselves rushing our project till 1.40 am on Wed! This is damn sucky but my project mate bothered to sent me home at that unearthly hour and my other mates bothered to ensure that all of us got home safely and I felt that such gesture was very consoling in a situation like that. So i got home at 3+am, slept at 4 and got up at 7 and left for school for the presentation. and i'm very thankful that our closeness did not end with the module though our timetables do not really permit us to have much frequent interactions together.

Then was the post-projects-rushing-reports period. Once again, things was made less bitter w my friends going through it together with me. Can't imagine how bad it would be if I have to face them alone.

And finally! All the projects and reports were completed and it was the time to eat and digest our notes. There was totally no time for us to prepare for the exams during the term time cause of the projs and reports so we were only left with approx 1.5weeks to cover everyth and it was damn torturous to study for the subjects taught by the very fei lecturers and tutors ):

and now everything's over! so hectic and fast-paced that I can't believe it's only been 3 months + since school started. But anyway I would consider it a pretty great journey and I'm crossing my fingers and praying hard that I will still be blessed with such nice course and project mates next sem!

love you friends!

2009-11-30T09:32:00.001-08:00

I am officially a Semester One graduate!

:D

Which makes me busier than ever to blog now cause i am enjoying my well deserved break with my lovely friends!

2009-10-27T08:42:00.000-07:00

This is totally siao to the max cause I have 3 tests in a single day next week, with a graded assignment to hand in the day before and a report due on friday that week.

And I am down with the stupid flu now with my naughty nose running away when I am rushing my PBL with all my might and i just wish i can pluck off my nose now. Tomorrow gonna camp in school till 1030pm = reach home literally the next day at 12am + rush work = no need sleep when the next day lesson starts at 830am = wake up at 5+ and that is the day of my presentation which i think i will screw up at this rate. I am totally going crazy from this stupid workload with a report to do every other week and tests to revise for on top of the assignments and I have not started revising for my exams that are less than one month ago so i think i should go and die now. seriously.

2009-10-17T09:44:00.000-07:00

As at today,

~~AED 105 presentation~~
~~AED 105 essay~~
AED 102 PBL
AED 102 essay
AAG 102 essay
AAG 103 GPS
AAM 101 test
AAM 102 test
~~AED 102 e-learning~~
AAG 101 rocks lab test

GOGOGO!

2009-10-12T07:59:00.000-07:00

random random
cause i happy happy
cause today aed is over over!

The biggest load weighing on me is finally removed! (:(:

This is the hell week, come on let time pass faster!

~~AED 105 presentation~~
AED 105 essay
AED 102 PBL
AED 102 essay
AAG 102 essay
AAG 103 GPS
AAM 101 test
AAM 102 test
AED 102 e-learning
AAG 101 rocks lab

i can't wait to strike them off one by one, muahahahahhahahhahaha

2009-10-01T09:15:00.000-07:00

sudden urge to chop off my hair.
I think i look so old!
WEEEPS

=(

I'm not blogging proper again, rushing reports like a maniac.
I'm not going to teach my students what Confucius/socrates/montessori/blahblah said anyway,
whoever who came up with this idea to make us study that is so laaaaaame.

2009-09-26T08:45:00.000-07:00

What happened in a night:

1. Went for GESL pre-olympics training with 8 fellow mates.
very extremely glad that I went cause we had so much fun that we decided to stayover together.
After the games, the group decided to go to JP for dinner while I headed towards Dhoby to meet Wan Ching and co.

2. Wan Ching and I got married.
We realised we had feelings for each other after singing countless love songs and decided to marry to each other.
HAHA.
K stop the crap!
Happy Birthday Wan Ching! :D
Had her celebration at Alps Cafe and it was pretty fun singing and losing voices together.
Photos to be uploaded once I grab hold of them!

3. Headed towards Landy's place and got a lift from him to NTU and met up with the other fellow mates when everyone started having heart attacks and went on a killing spree.
With cards haha.
It's damn cute seeing those 21 year old guys trying so hard to not look like a killer when they obviously are,
and so fun to see everyone getting all stressed up to sentence the murderer to death.

Everything ended at 5 am when we all tried to get some sleep (but to no avail for Kim Fatt!) and got up at 7 to prepare for our big day!

Us during Tchukball, soccer and frisbee.
No photographer for the other games! ):

That's how Khyrul looks like in person

How 5 normal humans...

...Turn into monkeys in a flash.

3 musketeers

A very very very very very very burnt Landy

Girl players!

Degree 16's strength :D

Our nanny for the day
A very expensive Shu Rong with all our valuables hahaha

This's supposed to be candid
It's either the photographer is sucky or they are too skillful
But since I am the photographer, I shall insist it's the latter muahaha.

Then the results was revealed,

and we were totally shocked
cause we are the overall champs! :D

Being the champs has never crossed our minds! we were eliminated during the first round of captain's ball, tchukball and floorball :x And we didn't took part in BB. But everything just turned out super great for our final 2 games that we could stay alive in!

Other than the fact that we became 10 lobsters with multiple blueblacks, black noses and 2 shaded monster arms.

):

Deg 16 players unite

&

Jumps of joy!

Ending off with 2 enthusiastic people,

TOTALLY FAB.

2009-09-19T09:22:00.000-07:00

one thing i never do is to blog about family matters online.
and i seriously can't hold myself back anymore!
Family problems have been going on for a very long time,
don't tell me things like every family has their own problems.
I really can tell you my family has all sorts of problems.

Because they are never satisfied with whatever they have!
We, as daughters, try not to upset them to our best ability.
So don't you think they as parents should stop pushing their limits?

It's not a case of growing up kids having problems with their parents because their parents are getting in their way of being stylo milo with all the curfews, restrictions etc.

We have a serious problem with them being unhappy about everything!
Who on earth throw keys/fork/random item they can find when they are angry?
Who on earth scream their lungs out even though they are at fault?
And there are damn many more who on earth that I can state.
If we don't do whatever they think it's correct, we are in the wrong.

I once had to submit something online for grading and as a student, of course I know the best way to do it.
But he insisted that I do it in the way he suggested that was not viable so I told him that it should be done another way, NICELY.
Then there came a booming voice yelling at the top of his lungs (and made him sound more ignorant than ever) and down came a flying fork.
Because he couldn't accept the fact that he is wrong.

This is just something small. but it ended in a sour way.

So I went to highlight my hair today, something that I have been wanting to do but did not go ahead because I don't want to upset them. But after so many incidents recently, I decided that I really should not let them go in their ways anymore.
There's a line between being filial and blindly submitting to them.
And obviously they got really upset.
So they asked (or yelled) why we insist on doing things that will upset them. If we are filial, we would have done such things only after they die!
Seriously what the dot!
In their mind, we are always wanting them to die.
Do they really have to talk about death!
Tell me if that's frustrating cause they never believe we care for them!
Is there a need for such hooha over some strands of hair of slightly different shade?
And they kicked a big fuss not because of that, but cause of the same old thing.
They simply don't want to be defied, whether or not the thing that we do is right/wrong/harmful/harmless!

Of course we know that they care for us and thus the anxiety.
My sis and I are not the clubber type, but sometimes we do wanna go to bond with our friends.
But we forgo it to avoid upsetting them.
Sometimes we feel like staying out alil later on a Saturday night after a long week,
But we cast aside that thought to avoid upsetting them.
We want to do what we really want,
but also, we can only dream about it cause we don't want to upset them.
And when we meet with things that we really want to do and went ahead with it,
they talk like the whole world has crashed and that we're the worst daughters of all.
BUT
SERIOUSLY,
THEY NEED TO OPEN THEIR EYES AND LOOK AROUND.

I am not saying we've done a good job, but i dare say we've been trying very hard and have compromised hell lots of things I really wish to do for them.

And it just irks me to hear them complaining about everything despite having everything.

And this whole thing is making me feel so lonely because they've just shaped me into somebody with low self-esteem and confidence cause everything that I do is wrong!

People who don't understand my family background will not understand a single thing. and hence I find it hard to make new friends because they've no idea of what's going on everyday in my family. So after a difficult night everyday, I would cry to sleep and turn up in school with a smile again.

I'm gonna go crazy if I don't do anything about all this shit.

2009-09-17T05:54:00.000-07:00

What happened once upon a last Thursday break..

... was a trip to Europe

and a ball game!

I think I'm in the middle trying to touch the ball beyond my reach hahaha

Aiming........and......

MISSED!

As usual though hahahhaa.

But i managed to shoot 2 hoops k!

Wan Ching in action.

It was daaaaamn pressurising cause all of them are so good at it la!

The physicists, chemist and geographer

***
and this Thursday..
was a happy day cause I reached home before the sky turns dark, FOR THE FIRST TIME!
that seriously feels good la.
& cause it's Thursday=tmr's Fri=WEEKENDS!
The days that I look forward to since monday.
hahaha very loserish to admit that I start to countdown to weekends on the first weekday.
And a random uncle chatted with me in the lift about his week and I don't know why it feels good to engage in small chats with my neighbours.

That's about it!
All the datelines drawing near.
oooommmmgeeee.

2009-09-16T01:46:00.000-07:00

Child talent Charice Pempengo.
I think I've repeated 150 times:/

You'll sink into depression for 5 days if you miss it.

2009-09-15T10:13:00.001-07:00

Nothing much to blog about today,
other than the fact that my eyebag is now symmetrical to my eyelids.
I feel sick today
:(:(:(
But went to school with that cause I don't wanna miss anything
But came home feeling as stupid as ever.
Understand nothing the cheena man's trying to teach.

so here I am,
still unable to sleep cause I'm trying to figure out what the man had taught earlier in the day.

:(

2009-09-13T21:45:00.000-07:00

Field studies last Fri

Enthusiasm to blog daily is still here!
Anyw, am blogging in the Lib now cause it's the time of the day when I have 5 hours break again.
I think I am enjoying Geography techniques lesson more now although that's the reason why I've to suffer 11 hours of long breaks weekly because the things that I learn is very applicable and practical.
And today's lesson was about Chek Jawa.
Went to Pulau Ubin earlier this year and I didn' realise there were so many geographical landforms and wildlife that I missed.
So one thing for sure, I'm going there again soon ;)

Back to books.

2009-09-13T06:35:00.000-07:00

I've decided to make it a point to blog daily about my final 4 years of studying life.

Though it's my N times making this empty promise ooopsxz.

Let's get started!
Thursday was a crazy day cause I only slept at 4am :(
Thus I overslept on Friday and had to cab from Boon Lay.
& it was super expensive loh for that distance!

When I finally reached school, my classmates were already doing the field studies!
Was a fun lesson cause we get to use the real instruments that geographers use to measure slope gradient.
but the fun excludes the report that follows haha.

Trained down to Tampines Mall to celebrate our dear Huiying's birthday.
The poor girl had to come with her injured arm in sling :/
All the tricks that we wanna pull on her failed terribly!

One classic one was that we bought Capital land vouchers for her and we gave her the receipt and told her that she has to collect her vouchers from the Information Counter with that (when there was no such thing lah). But after we're done with the meal, the info counter WAS ALREADY CLOSED!! That saved her from a major embarrassment la cause she really buy our story and was planning to do that!

Tuition on Saturday, study and met ZS at night!
Poor fella was stuck in camp till 9+pm :(
and it was Ah Niao's birthday today but he was another poor fella stuck in camp!
HAPPY BIRD DAY AH NIAO!
Though your bird wings have been removed by army and was confined on this day.
At least you'll be spending your day in your aircon bunk with TV ;p

Then it was Huiying's big day on Sunday!
But was unable to celebrate with her on the actual day :(
nevertheless, HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
May all yr wishes come true though I know you only have 1 wish now ;)

And also on Sunday, ZS and I are 11 months stronger :)
Didn't have much time to celebrate cause we have to rush home to celebrate for my sis birthday. So we went for sth we've never done before and that is...neoprints! hohoho.
That irritating fella kept psychoing me against the idea and he ended up being the happiest one decorating all the pictures.

Rushed home together thereafter for sissy's birthday celebration then ZS went back to his camp and I am here typing this post with a 10kg tummy after the feast haha.

And after tonight would be another hectic week in school.
:(

2009-09-11T10:39:00.000-07:00

Adaptation is the key to survival in school and that's why I am dying.
Had so much to blog but I am a poor chap who's robbed of time and sleep.
Missed my friends greatly but have no time to meet up.
Wanted to make more friends but have no energy to socialise.

September's a birthdaydy month and I have 4 people growing a year older just over this weekend. So happy to see them happy so happy birthday sept babies!

Gonna blog proper soon.
=)

2009-08-30T01:12:00.000-07:00

Every man dies but not every man really lives his life

2009-08-14T10:17:00.000-07:00

DAY 3

First stop- Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall

Day 3 was the day of the expensive complimentary tour.
SGD 15/pax of mandatory tips. It's actually alright if the tour guide does a great job but he...

1) Advertised for the commercialised areas that he's gonna bring us to on the bus instead of introducing landmarks.

2) Allowed us to spend only 5-30min on places of interest so that we can spend a longer time at the commercialised areas.

3) Pressured us to buy the goods at the commercialised places he brought us to.

3) Blatantly criticised those who did not buy or did not buy as much as he expected them to buy.

So it's quite a bad idea to spend $15 on a money minded tour guide.

ANYWAY,

At the memorial hall,

National Concert Hall

Behind us are 2 sets of white stairs, each with 89 steps that represented Chiang Kai Shek's age at his age of death.

The place was actually called 中正公园 but dear Mr Chen Sui Bian, having as many patterns as ever, decided to ban the use of "中正" (named after Chiang Kai Shek) and renamed it the 国立台湾民主纪念馆. The airport which was initially called the 中正国际机场 was subsequently renamed as the Taopei, Taoyuan Airport by the same dear man mentioned.

If i didn't remember wrongly, it's cause Chiang and Chen has different ideologies so the latter decided to do something so extreme.

Anyway, I'm going to say something that I've repeated in the past 2 entries and that is the weather is really super damn very extremely hot! Shot above 36 degree cel!

2nd stop - Ye Liu Geographic Park

It's a famous scenic location where you can find landforms as a result of wave erosion, weathering and the act of earth's crust. And those processed created fantastic rock formations like the ginger heads above! And the park is famous for the Queen's head, Candlesticks and Fairy's shoe.

Potholes! Finally seen them with my own eyes!

The guy who sacrificed his own life to save a drowning person

WOW WOW WOW

4 cute people.
hahahaha.
Kidding, wow to the scenery!

The Queen's Head

3rd stop - Some ancestor's land guarded by military soldiers

Surely come out lots of patterns just to change shift!
The soldiers on duty have to go through a 20-30minutes parade before they resume/end duty and their duty is to stone in front of the various entrances!

They have to guard the place like a stone, entertain the tourists like a robot and look like a stone even when a crowd (of hundreds!) take turns to take picture with them!

佩服佩服..take my hats, hands, legs, hair off them!

3rd stop - 九份 old town

The messy and narrow and crowded lanes.
Though it doesn't look crowded behind me hahaha.
And the tour guide started working on his plot to suck us dry by bringing us to shops selling local delicacies at skyhigh prices!

heh heh but at least we tried the famous 赖阿婆芋丸(yam balls)! Will be more exciting if it's not sooo sweet.

Discovered a place that's renovated to be old. Haha sounds so contradicting but it contains all the toys, food and tools that the older generations used. Like the above! But my mummy spoiled the whole back-to-the-past feeling hahahaha.

三公主 hahaha

And this one! Quite interesting, taken at a shop that sells LingZhi grown by 原住民.
Learnt some interesting facts and this is one of the princesses! Surely not very tall beside us/

and thats about it for Day 3! Boring post cause it was boring!

Day 4 to be continued...

2009-08-13T21:53:00.000-07:00

DAY TWO

Since my parents are anti shopping, the main itinerary for the trip was sight seeing. So our first destination for day 2 was to the 陽明山. It is 1 of the seven national parks in Taiwan and you can see volcanoes, hot springs, gardens etc.

The sight is spectacular but the weather is damn bad. It is about 36 degree celcius on ground level but as we go up the mountain, it started drizzling periodically so we were kept busy just from opening and keeping our umbrellas. And it just so happened that we met with a typhoon and my umbrella had a bad sprain and died eventually.

小油坑
The volcano!
Can see bright yellow sulphur crystals and the sulphur smell is very very very pungent.

Getting a closer look at the gases that's noisily spew out of the vent

The lush vegetation!
Green green green! :D

Here comes the rain..
And I look so out of place suddenly hahaha

Tolerating the smell...

Went to 冷水坑 which contains Taiwan's sole bed of precipitated sulfur for the foot spring and public bath but it was closed for cleaning and the foot spring has dried up! :( Our plans were to explore the different stops at 陽明山 like the 擎天崗 which is an undulating grassland surrounded on all sides by mountain peaks but the weather is so bad that we got to abort the plan.

classic photo while waiting for the bus

So we went down the mountain then once again, we were nearly roasted to our death once we reached ground level. You really can't imagine the great transition. We then headed to

Tamshui's Fisherman's Wharf and Lover's bridge

The Lover's Bridge

A loner who came to the bridge without a lover

That's how strong the wind was! I asked my sis to take a stupid picture of my flying hair to show the extent of the strong wind but it looked too stupid that i can't bear to upload hahahaha.

BUT. The weather is still so hot! Almost impossible to open your eyes without shades!

nice nice nice :D

awesome awesome awesome :DD

and i saw 3 rainbows in the sky! All together! But only 2 were captured :(

The place is well known by its beautiful sunset so how can we miss it. Walked around while waiting for the sun to set and we got ourselves the long long icecream! But it's not a good idea to eat it there at all cause the wind's surely causing the icecream to melt at an incredible speed.

2 cui people with their ice cream.
Still have time to pose when the icecream's melting away hahahaha.
& My fringe looks damn odd here, it's the doing of the wind!!

So we resorted to drinking ice-cream (from the bottom of the cone!) instead of licking it.
And my papa's having a good time snapping away our unglam moments.

Then we went for our all time favourite dessert: Mango paste shaved ice!

Super exciting

witnessed the beautiful sunset, left the place and headed for 淡水老街, another night market. Not very interesting, almost all the stores are selling the iron eggs and roasted cuttlefish.

Then we realised many shops are selling "阿給" too. And we were very curious what exactly that is! Never see before, never hear before, never smell before.

So we asked around and realised that it's what 淡水 is famous for. So obviously that sent us walking towards one out of the many many shops selling 阿給 and decided to give it a try.

This is my Sharkfin 阿給. Vegetarian sharkfin 阿給 to be exact hahaha.
And we finally know what 阿給 is all about! - toufu with vermicelli inside.
So what's the relevance to the name?
I don't know also hahahaha.

My papa's noodle

and the famous fishballs that has meat in it.

and what do these 3 food items have in common?
ALL taste equally horrible!

The 阿給 has a weird taste (seems like smelly toufu's sauce), the noodle is bland, the fishballs is simply weird. But at least we tried it!

So it's bout time to head back to our hotel. Was a long train journey back so we all were knocked out immediately after we washed up. Then in the middle of the night...

(EARTHQUAKE EXPERIENCE)

I felt my bed shaking from side to side and heard the loud knocking and creaking sound of wooden planks. I thought people were making babies then! So i asked my sister (in my half asleep mode) if she felt it too. And to my surprise she answered immediately! Apparently she was awoken by the vibrations too.

It wasn't long before we heard a commotion outside. Dashed out in our unglam pyjamas and realised that it's an earthquake! But the hotel has no plans evacuation. Vibrations stopped soon after but none of us could get back to sleep already cause we were all afraid that it's just th beginning of something disastrous! And my sleepyhead parents weren't aware of the whole thing till i called them -.-

Woke up the next day and watched the news and realised it was actually an earthquake of 3-4 magnitude! And the epicentre's (about 7 in magnitude) is not too far off from where we were.

Day 3 to be continued (:

2009-08-13T03:31:00.001-07:00

Lagger's back in action.
since I've more time today cause tutorial's cancelled hoho.
But not free enough to blog decently so just dumping the photos!

Taipei '09
[12 Jul - 16 Jul]

I was airsick for the full 5 hours and hugged a vomit bag to sleep on the first day.
I experienced an earthquake in the middle of the night on the second day.
I fell down randomly on the third day.
I enjoyed myself everyday.

That's about it!

Day ONE

Awesome Awesome Awesome! :D

Arrived in Taiwan at about 3 pm and it was SCORCHING AND PAINFULLY HOT!
and the bumpy ride to the hotel in the stuffy car surely didn't make me feel worse after the roller-coaster air journey.

Anyway something random. Was looking out for th agency's man to pick us up upon collection of our baggage but none of us could find him and we even laughed at a poster cause my name's on it together with 4 other random names.

We thought it's just some random person who had the same name until we had a closer look and it actually says

"Loo Huang Yi X 4"

Surely not very shortcut! And th guy insisted he chose the shortest name to write when my name's surely the longest one in my family!

Then after a torturous long bumpy ride, we finally reached our hotel! (Ulu to the extent that you've to climb the stairs before reaching th entrance hahaha). The kiasu people washed up and dashed off to try out the famous 阿宗面线.

Yum Yummy!
Until you must take many shots of the same people, same pose and same position then happy.

Took a ride on the train to our next stop,

龍山寺

Visited the temple, cheekeyed on the camera, prayed and went off to the street market just across, the Taiwan Hua Xi Night market.

Quite a well known night market but not very exciting. Quite disgusting actually cause it's flooded with shops selling snakes, snails, turtle food stuff and have snake performances to attract tourists. and it's very effective in bringing my legs out of the market.

4 gluttons in a food paradise = 10 meals a day

The dessert that you can't miss cause it's damn hot! Burning at 36 degree celcius!

had the 擔仔麵that's famous in Taiwan. Certainly looks mouth-watering but price's more exciting!

1 small small small small small bowl cost SGD 4.

but it tastes just as exciting as the price so it's not a bad spend!

Day 2 to be continued (:

2009-08-12T06:59:00.000-07:00

UPDATED

The 2 extra slots of lessons on Mon crept into the database and into my timetable secretly while I was asleep.

Now I rather travel 3 hours for the 1 hour lesson rather than waiting 5 hours for th next lesson!

11 hours lost just on the first 2 days of school. Damn gay.

2009-08-07T04:36:00.000-07:00

I am so traumatized that I got to post this.

CAUSE I GOT A CRAP TIMETABLE THAT'S GOING TO STAY WITH ME FOR GOD-KNOWS-HOW-LONG!

I got to travel for 3 hours to attend a ONE HOUR lesson on Mon.
I've a straight 6 hour in-between break on Tues which I've no idea how to survive through.
I've 7 lessons on Thurs and 6 of them are straight after the other.

This is the worst horror scene ever.

OH-M-GEE

2009-08-04T23:08:00.000-07:00

Restless, restless!
Gypsy's stuck in a 6D5N orientation so I'm stuck @ home as well.
No gym khaki.

:(

Anyway, July's a polluted month cause there're many candles going around!

The oldest July baby is Miss Joyce, on the 6th 6th 6th!

So once upon that Monday, I was planning to surprise her by turning up in the school,

WITHOUT KNOWING THAT IT WAS YOUTH DAY.

Blur block to the max. And luckily I was stopped before I really execute the plan else I would feel really sore to be greeted by locked gates instead of a surprised girl!

That explains why I've to 'recycle' the birthday picture hahaha. I'm really pathetic.

***

Then on the 8th was the semi-old sleeping pie's bday!

But she was a busy pie so we only met up on the 9th & went to lalala.

& I feel really really pathetic at this point of time to 'recycle' the second piece of bday photo! Cause I didn't manage to capture a decent smiling picture :(

I can't possibly use this right!

hahaha
She looks damn emo cause she was forced to sing 祝我生日快乐alone at the corner of the room.

and some random pictures taken by the crazy people.

we were asked to strike an emo pose.
But evidence has shown that we've failed miserably.

Tadah, Mad people unite
(:

and after terrorizing the mike, we headed for Astons for celebration part II where the 2nd lead joined in (:

They posed with the cake, tried on the hats unwillingly, discuss their birthday wishes, finally made up their mind and wished, blow blow, cut the wedding cake with joint hands

and time for presents!

with the cake lee kiang's mummy made :D

***

and on the 12th was the semi-young July baby, Miss Striking Lim's birthday!

Posing in her striking clothes with striking pancake :D

And the youngest July baby is here typing away!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL JULY BABIES!
Study hard, play hard, date hard and be a hardcore gay k!
(:

2009-07-30T23:10:00.000-07:00

A homebased telemarketer has the saddest life of all.

1) The poor fella call hundreds of people daily and get hung up on or scolded by half of the hundreds.

2) The remaining quarter of them are nice people who decided to make an appointment with her.

3) But the half of the remaining quarter decided to turn evil overnight and deny making any with her.

4) and the poor telemarketer ended up earning $0 after spending hours on phone and had her brain burnt by radiation from the phone.

5) and the poor telemarketer is me.

I was trying to stay alive after a struggle with tremendous boredom when I stumbled upon this useless job. and decided to take it up cause I was just too bored. and ended up with a lifetime of regrets. hahaha.

But I'm happy now cause I'm meeting my girls tonight (to camp :x) anddddd they're going to be with me on the first minute of my birthday! :D

2009-07-24T00:06:00.000-07:00

Today is not Friday
It is not-my-day.

woke up @ 6.30am to prepare to head to NIE for some administrative stuff and the weather just has to be so nice to sleep in when I've to get up early.

The train was crowded and then came a Mr Kiasu who die die has to squeeze into the crowd so that he could stand in front of the seats and his wish soon came true when someone got off the seat and he squeezeeeeeed and pussssssh his way for it.

The painfully long journey finally ended when I reached Boon Lay and I was running late. And 2 people insisted to stand on the right side of the escalator and refused to move down, blocking a whole row of people behind.

And the real agony came when I finally arrived @ NIE and realised the whole thing is CANCELLED! And what actually informed me about it was a notice pasted on a random wall in NIE. And the whole orientation thing in NIE is cancelled and we'll all just head for school on 11 August when the term officially starts.

And the turn-off thing is that I'm going to feel like a secondary sch kid all over again. Dress codes poster were pasted all over the walls because we're on payroll and we're a reputation to keep as teachers. No shorts, no tanks, no sleeveless, no slippers, no sandals. and the list goes on.

and the canteen tables are seriously of primary school layout.

Then on my way back, the train was full of irritants too. 3 people were not talking but shouting at one another in their very high pitch voice throughout the journey and the volume is really like...u turn on the volume of your PC to the max and that's how loud it is. NOT KIDDING.

The culture in Taiwan is just opposite. Everyone keeps to the lane they're supposed to stand and queue up behind a line while waiting for th train even if it's packed with people.

It's really not against the people but the level of consideration people have for one another on trains. Sometimes people really have to learn how to let people alight before dashing in in search of seats and learn to keep to the right lane of the escalator.

2009-07-23T07:12:00.000-07:00

It's been a month since I've blogged decently!

So last Sunday, I was randomly and suddenly struck by the fact that school is starting in ONE WEEK'S TIME. & that explained my eventful week cause I don't wanna let myself down by wasting my last week of freedom! :X

So I met gypsy for gym on Mon, shopping on Tues, badminton on Wed and met gypsy + gianhui + huiru + kylie for movie on Thurs!

clap clap, cause I enjoyed myself tremendously! And it's also why my bank is $xx hungrier. Not because everything's expensive but precisely cause everything's going at such a great and irresistible price!

Let's do abit of auntying.

1) I bought 3 tops, all plus minus 10 bucks when they used to go at 20 over bucks.

2) We tried cheesecakes @ Bakerzin cause they are going off at 60% cheaper and tell me who will not be tempted.

3) We shared a packet of Macarons cause we are sua gu people who have not tried it before and since it's having a discount....why not. hahaha. But both of us concluded that we hated them except for the choc flavour maracon.

4) Then we went for 1 for 1 Swensens Lunch Offer cause it sound really appealing..but it was horrid cause the portion's really not satisfying and worse still, BURNT. I was served baked rice with 2 burnt prawns stuck in the middle :(

5) After which, we bought perfumes! which we spent one whole afternoon smelling many different ones repeatedly cause we're irritating indecisive people.

& guess what, all these hard-earned money was spent

just
in
Tampines!

ever since I stopped working, I've been surviving on tuition fees and homebased telemarketing which is very do-not-try unless you're bored to the max and enjoy being fang ge zi.

& Actually all these started with our search for backpacks and we ended up buying all the you-de-mei-de instead of what we really wanted. :x

***

k enough of unhealthy shopping craze, we had healthier activities too!
Gym was effective despite the fact that both of us have bad broken wound on our knees! And it was so effective that we ended up with aches shoulders down and the butt's really the worst victim.

Then badminton was even more effective cause my dear gypsy made me run from left to right then front to back then left to right again just to catch that sacred shuttlecock. And we were deadbeat just in the 1st hour! Very lousy I know! Then sth more interesting happened during the 2nd hour.

I SPRAINED MY LEG.
NOT DURING THE GAME
BUT WHILE STONING WHEN GYPSY WENT TO PICK UP THE SHUTTLECOCK

As sick as ever, photos are available!

My normal and healthy left ankle

& the pig trotters right leg. WHERE'S MY ANKLE!!

How on earth can anyone injure themselves for no reason? ya..other than me! And it's not my first time.

I fell a week ago in Taiwan while walking down an unbelievably even pavement.

So before I headed out for badminton, my mummy warned me to be careful and not come back with a missing toe or sprained leg. and urgh, can't believe I hit the jackpot and I had to keep it to myself to save myself from a nasty scolding :(

anyone knows if it's possible to go tie da without having to bandage the leg?

***

then today, went out with the girls, with the ever weird name called The CO Gathering.
hahaha. cause all of us were very close classmates/schoolmates rather than CO mates. Went Iluma to watch The Murderer and it was pretty good! I mean the starting. The plot was good, the characters were cute/hunky/gorgeous (xcept for the victims urgh) but the ending was totally weird!

But it can't be more weird than the pei pei who was snoring aloud throughout the show beside us while watching a rather thrilling show and the C people behind us who were happily and loudly munching and discussing their tidbits.

Blog bout the dinner with CPF mates, Joycelyn/Jasmine/Sherlin's Bday & Taiwan trip another time cause it's super late & time to sleeeeeep :D

Goodnight!

2009-07-19T07:30:00.000-07:00

Bitten by lazy bug everytime I wanna blog.
Ouch

2009-07-02T21:35:00.001-07:00

I LOVE FLEA MARKETS!!
BUT I HATE FLEAS!!
YAY!!

2009-06-29T01:06:00.000-07:00

Yoyo girls, am planning for an outing this week/ next week, tentatively a dinner @ ECP. Will put it after Sher's quarantine, so text me your days of availability! (:

***

How lousy can it be?

this weekend: I'm back to M'sia
Next week: ZS's Field camp
Next weekend + week: I'm going for a Taiwan trip
Next next week: ZS's Field camp
Next next weekend: ZS single day book-out

5 consecutive weeks. Worse than OCS confinement. urgh.

2009-06-28T07:44:00.000-07:00

LOST
STUCK
HELPLESS
AND
SICK

URGH

2009-06-25T23:00:00.000-07:00

SUCCEEDED

FINALLY!

ever since my hair grew beyond my mid-waist, I've been trying to bun up all of my hair but obviously to no avail. Either it looks too circular and solid or too auntie with the remains of the unbunnable hair shooting out in all directions. And shout hooray, i did it! (:

This should mark the end of my unkempt hair everytime I go out...if I don't go into lazy mode haha. For the past __ years since I have hair (or rather ever since I know the strings growing on my head are hair), I've been letting it down without even combing it.

Actually I did, in primary school when I am very adamant about drawing my hair up into a ponytail and making sure that every single strand of hair is GELLED and glued to the head.

See, the hairstyle is so horrible that I can't even google a picture that is similar to what I had for 6 years on my head. I seriously don't know how my parents can stand looking at me for another minute! :X

So I had a stiff head stuck on my body that looked the same from morning assembly to the dismissal of school, regardless of rain or shine. Even the wind can't make any changes to my heavily gelled head. And the long ponytail is probably the only thing on my head that can move, and that became a convenient "tool". Whenever people want to call me, they just have to give a hard tug on my ponytail and they'll get me.

SO I CHOPPED OFF THE CONVENIENT TOOL.

and hence the evolution from an error stiff head to a mushroom head- the longest strand is probably 1 cm down my ears. urgh. I can't bear to recall.

And fortunately I didn't get addicted to the mushroom head and allowed it to grow- with a centre parting though. Till sec 3. When I first had a more normal looking hairstyle. So moral of the story is I really have no luck with hair, even till now whenever I go for a haircut, i will end up looking like a very error production of my parents.

ANYWAY, the above story is very out of topic haha. Getting back on track, I finally stepped out of my house yesterday for the first time of the week and went out with my anti-shell food Gypsy. Poor gypsy was sick so we didn't get to meet up for gymming therapy this week and went for retail therapy. and it was rewarding, damaging and auntifying. TO THE MAX. hahaha. & I bet gypsy has recovered from the loots that she's ripped together with me, yes keyword: Together with me (:

Have not been to shopping for ages and as quoted from ZS, I've made a comeback hahaha.

so to prove my appreciation to my gypsy for today....

specially and just for you ;p

2009-06-25T08:22:00.000-07:00

HATE THE THING THAT STARTS WITH AN A AND ENDS WITH A Y

2009-06-24T08:02:00.000-07:00

Goodbye, PHS

This is a very very very outdated post! Posting individual events up one by one now that I've the time...not. actually I feel like sleeping now but I am determined to complete an entry! (:

and this entry will come first cause I've lots to say!

5th June marks the end of my working life before I resume my role as a student. Prior to that, I was always fantasizing about how great it will be if there's only 3 days a week, if Friday could come earlier etc. But nothing of that sort came to my mind on that day, afterall it's going to be last day I would be there, doing things that I've been doing for the past 5 months. The 5 months of joy, happiness, frustration and anger will all be history after that day.

But of course, friends that I've made will never "expire"!

Let's move on to the jolly jolly part of the post (:

I was attached to the Application Team from Jan to Apr and subsequently transferred to the Correspondence Team for the remaining months.

& on 3rd of June, something happened. I went to the toilet and went back to my seat just to see a huge huge huge plastic bag resting on my chair. (I was only away for 5minutes!) I opened it up and saw a huge huge huge Love Rabbit staring at me!

That's Love Rabbit by the way, and the one I got is at least 10 times bigger! and it's my favourite character! I'm so crazy over it that I've 3 pouches, a coinbank, a plushie, many keychains, & an ornament- all of the Love Rabbit's shape hohohoho.

I shan't elaborate on how I found out who the 'secret admirers' are- They are my application teamers! (: And I was totally in lalaland after that. I always thought I'll leave..."silently". Hmmm, as if it's just another day. But no, people do bother. They bother to lunch with me even after I've changed team, to make my last week a memorable one by bringing me to different places to eat, to understand me and worked out that I am a diehard crazy and childish fan of that rabbit.

and they bother to fork time out for a pre-farewell dinner with me! (:
So we headed down to Cathay and had Astons for dinner. And the queue was caterpillar long and had to wait for an hour plus. Our chats, chocolates and jokes didn't manage to defeat the constant reminders by our growling stomach and FINALLY WE GOT A SEAT!

really good to see everyone relaxed in their after-work mode, laughing heartily together. and I finally found out the trick behind "Black magic" and "Bang bang who died"!!! Hahaha I know It's super outdated but still...it's an achievement! I've been dying to know the trick behind "Black magic" since secondary sch urgh. and I've been going around and disturbing curious souls now that I'm enlightened hahaha.

and thanks to them, I had a wonderful time! (:

and after work on Thursday, I rushed down to get my baking ingredients and get started!

Double chocolate chips cookie :D

& everybody in my teams got a packet on top of a personalised card! But it's a semi failure la.. caue it's as hard as a rock! But at least it tasted nice, I HOPE. hahahaa : )

and soon came friday. Was a day to pack& rush my cases. Had lunch with all my application teamers and the boss and the day zoomed to the end, like that.

and it wouldn't end off without me pestering them to smile to my camera.

with my Application mates (all present!!):

With my application mates + Jovia:

With my Correspondence mates:

& thanks to the correspondence mates for the vouchers!

Cleared of my barangbarangs

My original card's with the thief. and this cost me $20. hahaha but I'm no longer at that! Just super paranoid about leaving bags unattended now.

And the door I'll never forget (:

Ending off with a random photo of the glutton pestering me for my cookie and posing it with a stiff face! (:

Night!

2009-06-23T04:51:00.001-07:00

THE MOST FEARED ANIMAL

When a bear, a lion and a pig meet.

Bear says: "if I roar in the forest, the entire forest is shivering with fear."

Lion says: "if I roar in the jungle, the entire jungle is afraid of me."

Pig says: "Big deal .... I only have to cough, and the entire planet lives in fear."

2009-06-21T20:45:00.000-07:00

Goodbye Singapore,

& Hello Malacca!

went on a 2-day short trip to Malacca with my family & mummy's paidu exercise friends last weekend. wasn't too keen on the trip cause I'll be going with a bunch of strangers on the final 2 days of ZS's block leave! :( But I didn't have much of a choice but to tag along and luckily luckily it wasn't that bad!

So we set off at 4+ AM on Saturday morning & met up with my mummy's friends and their families and that makes the attendance a scary figure of 21 people! An invincible combination of nan nv lao shao.

& finally we arrived @ the first destination - Mini M'sia and ASEAN village

There're 13 houses inside the village and each house represents a state in M'sia. Anyway we are supposed to pay for the entrance fees so the aunties suggested looking around at the entrance only since there's nothing much in there but they ventured deeper and deeper and more followed suit and we considered ourselves official visitors eventually haha.

introducing you to the....houses! =) I officially declare that I can't remember a single name at all.

The signboard says pulau pinang (: and my face says I need more sleep!

The unique decoration

This is how easy it is to sneak in. Look @ the attendance! + sis the cameraman.

Then we headed down to a small eatery that was featured on TV, selling Nonya dishes. Everyone went in with anticipation but left with utter disappointment. Not nice at all!!

I ordered Nonya laksa. Didn't even bother to take picture at all! 50 thumbs down.

my mummy's nasi something. So-so only.

But the chendol is yummy!

My mummy & her paidu friends

Then we headed along the streets towards the Malacca's must-go Red Buildings. But precisely cause it's a must-go, it's super boring now cause we go there everytime we go Malacca.

on the way there. Wanted to take the boat ride but some are not interested.. so plan aborted.

Our invincible nan nv lao shao combination

The guys figuring the way to the Red buildings

and here we are!

@ the museum

This engine was used way in the past in Singapore during the war times but was transferred back to Malacca by the Japanese. And I forgot what happened to it thereafter :X

Then went to a shopping mall where I had my ever first....foot reflexology!
Hesitated for VERY long because I can't stand itch and I seriously can kick the masseur back to Thailand if she touches my sole! But I was psychoed by the aunties and my curiosity got better of me so there I was, in the hands of the masseur.

My mummy was expecting a scream and my sister was ready to capture any laughable scenes. But I survived through the session without providing them with the scenes they wish to capture hoho.

Feeling tensed as she made her first attack on my soles. And I was in lalaland after that. Relaxing! and now i am addicted to it hahahaha but it's so hard to get a good and cheap massage in SG! Any recommendations? (:

After a trip to the heaven, we went to some random area where there're wartime display.

At the don't-know-what area. seriously can't believe I am conscious as I am typing this entry, I seemed to have forgotten everything!

The full view of the don-t know-what area

The cannon

I thought he was striking some show-muscle pose from the corner of my eye so I followed suit so it turned out....extraordinary.

Some police (?) riding on horses randomly across. Actually I am not too sure if they really are police or they're part of the exhibition :x

& that's it for the town area. Headed towards my mummy's friend's village and that's when the fun started! It was a very very very long and bumpy car ride into the rural area and it was very deep inside the village. and finally we arrived!

Village/kampong/rural are very telling words. The first image that came to my mind was a rundown area with a hut in the middle, surrounded by vegetation that's poorly maintained.

but... take that!

are your jaws dropping like how mine dropped! that's not all lor. It was very well furnished with aircon in the living room and in all 5 rooms with a plasma TV and modern furniture :x The only kampong-alike factor would be the whizzing mosquitoes that the world would be better off without their presence. Luckily I am well equipped with the repellent and mopiko that ZS got for me hoho (:

Then we went to the rubber plantation owned by my mummy's friend's mummy.

& the plantation. Couldn't venture deeper cause it's getting dark and the mosquitoes were asking for a beating.

Then we went for dinner and had a durian session @ night! The durian crave crept into my secretly and this session came just at the right time heheh and the worker taught us the way to get rid of the durian smell on our hands

& that is using water that runs off the durian shell. DON'T KNOW WHY EITHER! It's said to be yi du gong du (using poison to treat the poison) and I was totally amazed! Only to find myself feeling so cheated because the smell came back 10 minutes later! =( But it's still amazing and even google doesn't provide a scientific answer to this. If you want to get rid of the durian smell in your mouth, it's not just enough to drink salt water. The water must run off the durian shell too! Not sure how accurate that is so just fyi!

The digested durian in our tummy now

went back to the kampong @ midnight, bathed, chatted and that's the end of day one.

Woke up early in the morning and went for some bakuteh that's known to be famous.

Jia Jia bah kuteh!
Food that attracts houseflies taste the best, seriously! hahaha. We were busy fanning away those flies to prevent them from kissing our food.

Then went back to the kampong and 'harvested' rambutans and coconuts, fresh from the trees!

mummy's friend's hubby laying his hands on the coconuts

the aunties making the first attack on the coconuts

& huang yi says good! cooling water and chewy flesh, don't drool! (:

after raping the coconuts

Then we lay our hands on the rambutans!

papa engrossed in his rambutan world

Random:

After a fruity session, everyone got changed and prepared themselves for the trip to the waterfall!

& arrived!

The lower course of the waterfall is very dirty and crowded so we went up up up and up to the upper course of the falls and I swear it's not easy at all! The steps were rocky, pointy, jagged and steep. and that's alot of steps and kids to take care of.

The lower course

middle course - we're still on our way up!

& the successful conquerors! we were panting so hard and perspiring so profusely that we had to cool for a looong looooong time.

& finally, we land our feet on the sandy ground and chilly water!

the aunties

can you spot us? (: I am rather prominent hahahhaa

this is a better test. Can you even see us? (:

& here we are! enjoying the water gushing down on our backs (:(: But we got to make our way down soon after we adapted to the water cause the elderly are at the lower course of the falls waiting for us.

Walked the same terrorising steps down, dried ourselves and went back to the kampong. The rest of the day was spent bathing, packing, eating and back we are in singapore, and thanks to the crazy jam, I only reached home @ 12+ AM!

So overall it was not bad...cause my mummy's friends and their families are entertaining and there's lots of outdoor rural activities to explore. I would seriously die there if I'm thrown there alone to leave, I'll probably suffocate from cobwebs in my lungs but such an experience once in a while does feels fresh!

And then today is ZS's first day after his block leave. His new vocation was made known to him on Friday, 10am so the usual kiasu me keyed in all the necessary particulars and standby by the "submit" button and pressed my mouse the moment th clock strikes 10. But urg, the whole Singapore is as kiasu as me and I experienced a severe lag!

Anyway, he's posted to Sispec and the camp is located at Pasir laba and it's waaaaay over at boon lay! It's just a word different from Pasir ris and it's all the way to the other end of the green line. and he just told me he was posted to Foxtrot Company and I did a quick research and i was greeted by an unfriendly line that says "Foxtrot is the legendary hiong company". But more research then revealed more hiong companies la. Every company will insist that their company is hiong, but 'legendary' sound really intimidating. He had his 4km run on his first day, 4km run every morning, soc tomorrow, IPPT on wed and remedial on Sat if he fails. urg.

Anyway I came across some funny abbreviations as I went through the forums like

Sispec- Suffer In Silence Plus Extra Confinement
OCS- Only Clowns Stay
OETI - Only eat talk idle/ Officially Entitled to Idle

No offence! Just find it cute. Updating previous entries soon, bye!

2009-06-01T06:39:00.000-07:00

I wish I can put it across to people that I chose to leave not without a reason, more so not because I cannot take the hardship.

2009-05-28T04:56:00.000-07:00

Okay- Here comes the very "expired" post. =)

Life has been pretty mundane.

I can sum up my day for the past few weeks/months in 10 sentences.

1. Wake up in the morn to catch ZS's morning msg before he fall in & go back to sleep.

2. Wake up again & get ready for work

3. Walk towards train station, be a public nuisance with MQ/sleep, alight.

4. Walk to office, sit down, work, lunch, work, knock off

5. Reach home, laze, bully Megan, laze, laze, laze

6. Dinnertime

7. Bathe

8. Wait for soldier's call

9. Walk to the switch, press it

10. and Goodnight.

I'm desperately trying to lengthen the whole list cause my day is simply hopelessly boring. Okay, on some days I give tuition. HA HA. and that's it. Nothing special ever happens.. So I've submitted my resignation request and it was approved last week. Decided that it's time to take a break and smell the roses.

This job really brings me through a roller coaster of emotions. I feel irritated when certain things happened beyond my control, very happy with the friends I made in the office, very satisfied when I helped the people in need and very glad that I've gained something out of this whole thing. So when my resignation was approved, I felt alil...I feel that I really will miss this place where I went through so much. But there's always an end to everything, It's time for me to spare some time for myself and do some things that I like before school starts on 28th July. Can't believe it's coming really fast! On one hand I am really excited to resume my role as a student, seriously nothing beats being a carefree student, I regret so much for dying to graduate and abandon my books in the past. But on the other hand...I dread meeting new people :/ socialising is a really tiring thing for someone antisocial like me. urg.

K anyway back to history. Ranting on will only lead to more expired posts. I've decided to stop bullying Megan one day and brought her to th playground one day after work. This lil devil can really be a darling at times (:

Look at their size, can you believe they're BOTH 3 yrs old? That's my active Megan for you. She hardly walks. She hops/jumps/runs/rolls/do stunts in replacement.

Her new found friend was jealous that I kept snapping pictures of Megan and insisted that I take a picture of him too. Then the cheeky boy did that.

A twisting Megan

Then she decided to be a copycat and made me snap a picture of air.

& tadah! The hunk and babe.

Megan is the hunk. haha.
Just look at their legs! My jaw dropped when the boy's grandpa told me he's 3. And his jaws dropped when I replied she's 3 too :/

Just watching them play, running after them, holding their little hands and wiping their sweat made me happier than ever. Sometimes when you feel that nobody can make you happy, they do the job neatly. =)

Then then.. I went back to TPJCO couple of weeks ago to get my qin back and to see how's their preparation for their upcoming SYF. & as expected, I feel so nostalgic. The same place but everything & everybody's different.

2007 with my kuku hair, fellow LQers & fans! (who forgot to bring flowers. I STILL RMB!!!)

2008 during the exco meeting

and in 2009, I became the history of TPJCO.

The TBYs (:

the...speechless? hahahhaa.

& the visitors (:

and I finally brought my qin back!! I totally neglected my qin after the NAS alumni concert hahaha. And I enthuly practised for a few hours after I got home and I got red monkey ass swollen fingers again!I wish I am not that pervertic.. but I am. I still enjoy taking pictures of my injuries! haha. Don't ask me, I don't have the answer either.

The juniors look promising.. They've many more performers, and are dilligent. Wanted to meet up with them since SCH is only behind the CPF building and I was totally like spamming Simin's phone to get news of their arrival. But they didn't reach by lunch time.. Anyway they've got a silver award and I heard that some broke down. But I think that it's not bad at all! considering the fact that some only learn for as short as 2- 3 months. So I'll say... WELL DONE! (:

Then

Ladies night once upon a Friday! :D went out with my girls, supposedly to a pub cause we've not been to one before! (sua gu alert :/)

But we were all a little disappointed cause it turned out to be just a bistro. But we still had fun in the end, I would say it's all about the company afterall (:

was a lil out of place initially cause we don't really know the people there but being very us, we warmed up and progressed from a quiet corner, to the middle, then to right in front of the stage HAHA. and we the self-entertainers got high somehow by eating countless éclairs, popcorn chicken and listening to some live band.

Jasmine eating ~~soil~~ chocolate ;p

Began to get alil noisy and boring so we decided to do something a little naughty! Headed down to 7-11 to get some M18 drink hahaha.

Seeing is believing. We don't drink, only Jasmine does!

The un-drunk

The tipsy + act-tipsy

Part of us (:

& On his 1st bookout! :D

When someone who's always with you left you physically all of a sudden, every single minute that you can see him really become more significant than ever.

I used to go in circles and refused to accept the fact that he can no longer be available as and when I need him. But life doesn't leave us with many choices, it's either we stay strong and accept it, or cry all day and still have to accept it. It's time to let him go and do what a man should do. And from a whiny girl complaining about how army keeps us apart, I began to feel proud of him. No longer complaining about his aches & flat foot but talking about what he aspires to do and achieve out of the whole thing (:

&&

on a Saturday many many many many many weeks ago, we had another girls outing
@ our ever favourite place- Sherlin's place! Very homely and comfortable (:

Met in the evening and it was one of the best outings we ever had. We gathered together on her bigbig comfortable bed, each hugging a resident from her bed, catch up and gossip. oops. Then... we decided to have an impromptu stayover!

We decided to chat till we fall asleep and we did.. till we started blabbering nonsense subconsciously and the last person fell asleep.

The lucky bear that spent the night with me...and invited complaints and glares from Kylie who was unwilling to share our already-limited space with the human-sized thing hahaha

Met these girls 7+ years ago when we were all toot-toot with round specs, centre parting, high waist knee length skirts and soccer socks. and now they're all beautiful blooming flowers but with the same gay personality.

Gonna end it with th ever cliche.....Time really flies.. But how beautifully and meaningfully it flew (:

2009-05-16T01:16:00.000-07:00

A short lil update before I post the entry about the history...that has been stuck in my draft folder for weeks! I've yet completed that entry and to be honest, I don't know when lazybum loo will get back to it hahahaa..

Went gymming for the first time in my life last week, sad to say but yes, my virgin visit to the gym! Poor Zs is stuck in camp again and poor me has nothing to do, so I went to gym together with leekiang to sweat it out! I've only exercised 3 times ever since I stopped having PE lessons last August.

1. A random jog after work in January
2. Intensive stairs-climbing during the flyer distribution in February. And my toenail came off, and it conveniently became the excuse for my laziness muahaha, till
3. gym last week!

And during this period of no output, my input of food remains large. Please tell me I am still healthy.

& to make things worse... I MET PETER. Not that meeting him is bad haha.. but can I not have anyone whom I know to be around when I obviously will appear very frog-in-the-well in the gym later on.. haha. Okay and he could tell than I was new.

Tried the cycling machine and it's comforting to have Lee Kiang beside me (: She soon abandoned me for the threadmill while I continued cause the threadmills are all occupied and...I actually felt intimidated by those "old birds".

Warmed up and soon I resumed my usual self, meddling with every equipment though I embarrassed myself a couple of times. urg. And it's time to stop and bathe! and... camwhore. haha I can't believe I am saying this.

Fresh after working out!
We were saying that it feels physically tired but mentally refreshing! Sound like broken english haha. Okay it is but that's the best we can think of!

& we thought we might want to capture some "memories" of my first! with all the sweat that's evaporated, the towel that smells and the hair that still looks messy. Pardon the suagu frog.

Until our mental problem started acting up again..

Leekiang is very...professional. HAHA. Pleases don't come after me after you see this!

Please just look and forget. Just for fun!

I'm possessed by Chung Ying. HAHA (:

Maybe you can help to think of a caption for this? ;p

The manly duo. Somehow I look like I'm just airing my armpit :(

& I told you we can be decent too. (:

Went pasarmalaming/shopping/blahblahing and Chung Ying soon joined us. They went for midnight movie while the poor lonely soul wandered back home alone.

I used to feel sore over his lousy schedule. Everything seems to take place during the weekends but after reading the blog of girl whose bf passed away in army last year, I feel that I really should have nothing else to complain as long as he's safe and sound. I'm not being cliche, I'm just being truthful to myself (: So all army man, please stay safe for your families, friends and girlfriends! (:

2009-04-16T07:55:00.000-07:00

SOME KIND SOUL FOUND MY I/C !! =)

2009-04-15T07:30:00.000-07:00

okay...I am here to talk about some things. With regards to one of my entry about what happened at work, I've received an indirect reply from someone's blog.

I just got to say...I was rather shocked, cause the person who actually responded to that entry was someone I really wasn't referring to at all.

And I've nothing against the things I mentioned in the previous entry, I'm just a small fry and not the one who gives out salary to the people so it doesn't really matter to me what people do. What I meant in the entry was that one should practise what he preach. If they expect people to not so and so, then they themselves should not so and so. I've no idea who is the one or the ones who have been stabbing us from the back, but what I see was people doing the so and so that we were complained about. So i was just typing the entry as a general issue, of course, with some suspects that my team has came up with.

We admit that we are really free at times when we finished our work and did some net surfing or chatting. but ever since we received our first complaint, we started helping out with housekeeping so that the perms do not have to stay back even later after they complete their work. We've already stopped our nonsense and are really serious about gaining trust back from those who have lost their faith in us.

And finally, I have no intentions of getting involved in the politics. My blog entry was typed out of exasperation cause we are condemned and under scrutiny because of the past events despite our attempts to live up to the standard. And also, I've never mentioned that whoever is free before. I quote, "I believe everyone has equal workload". I am not saying on the level of temps and perms, there's obviously a difference cause we are inexperienced and cannot handle the tougher cases. I am saying on the level of the perms cause the perm in my team often get targeted too.

So i clarify once again, the previous entry was really not aimed at anyone in particular, more so not aimed at the one who responded to it. And that's the end of the whole thing, I don't wish to affect myself or anyone's personal life with office work.

Goodnight.

2009-04-12T01:19:00.000-07:00

Sent my soldier in yesterday. It's never easy to say goodbye all the time and things are really going to be different. Everything around me seem to be reminding me of his absence and I really had a hard time coping with the change yesterday. But I believe with a little more time, courage and support from each other, we can adapt to the brand new life.

Since yesterday, I've been very tempted to tell my parents about him but I am very sure they will object. Especially when he is in army now. My parents expect me to get a financially stable man, in other words, a man who's already working. It's not that I don't know where they are coming from, which parents wouldn't want the best for their kid? In parents' opinions, we are all young ignorant kids who know nuts about love. Yes of course I know I am still young and immature and may know nuts about it, but at least I know when someone is treating me well from the bottom of his heart. Even if the relationship does not take off far, at least I did ever try to maintain it. I feel that every relationship is a precious lesson learnt and it doesn't hurt to entrust my heart to someone whom I think is capable of guarding it as long as I am discerning and love myself enough.

I've observed long enough before making a decision. I've met guys older than me and supposedly, better partners than him in my parents' opinions. But I don't see them being more capable of taking care of me and being more serious about relationships. This is what I mean by there is no standard qualities that my parents should expect from my boyfriend.

Yes love cannot put bread on the table. But is a guy who can do so yet cannot take care of me psychologically going to make my life any better or easier? It's not like I am or going to be financially dependent on my boyfriend. I strongly believe in staying financially independent even after marriage cause we're really living in an age of uncertainty. And I don't need a life of luxury and a shake-legs life. Wouldn't that put my 12 years of education and counting on to waste?

My parents are those who feel that even 22 years old is TOO young to get involved, what more a 19 year old teen. It's gonna cause a quarrel but I rather that to happen now than to hide things from them and do things sneakily. So should I or should I not tell my parents about it?

2009-04-11T00:54:00.000-07:00

Tonight I write the saddest lines.

Be back with more entries another time.

2009-03-28T23:35:00.000-07:00

I'm finally able to complete a decent post. This entry has been in my draft folder for AGES.

once upon a many Saturdays ago, I went to Pulau Ubin with my girls, Zhisheng and Wei Chong. Beauties and the beasts. hee.

Before I met up with the girls, I had 2 classes. & my 2nd class kids were mischievous that day. Primary 4 kids talking about sex? refused to take down notes, called names, walked out of the room to buy food when i was teaching, took my HP and read my msges, stuck their tongues out at me & video me when i'm teaching.

I wouldnt mind what they do in class as long as they listen and do their work cause I want my kids to enjoy their learning. Walking around, listening to music or eating is definitely fine with me. but what they did really crossed the line.

I've asked my sister before- will she prefer a less academically inclined but hardworking kid or a smart but complacent one. As a tutor, nothing satisfies me more than seeing someone diligently taking down notes and doing their best to try the questions whether or not their answers are correct, no? My P1, 5& 6 kids make me look forward to their lessons cause we can chat, have fun and still get things done. Some Singaporeans are really living in their own comfort zone, too comfortable for their own good. My 2 most hardworking students are from Korea, trying so hard to understand the foreign language that I am teaching. They might take a lil more effort to teach but if they are willing to learn, I am equally willing to teach.

then finally, my blood vomiting session ended at 1.30pm and I dashed down to Changi to find the girls who've decomposed from waiting for me. haha. Finally reached there at 2.30, had lunch and off to the jetty into the arms of the mosquitoes.

On the bumpy boat, heading towards the land of happy mosquitoes!

On the boat (: Gonna get killed for posting this up muahhaha

Anyway I wanted to wear shorts initially cause it was stiffing hot but Gypsy managed to psycho me out of it. Comfort VS mosquitoes harassment. And i chose to give up the former so i turned up looking like a farmer going to gen1 tian2, thanks to my great friends who pointed that out to me hahaha..

Sneak preview of my gen1 tian2 pants

& we arrived at Pulau Ubin 5 minutes later. Rented a bike and headed towards Chek Jawa Wetlands. And not long after, I FELL OFF MY BIKE!!! On an incredibly safe road. The angle of slope is less than 15 degrees haha. And the culprit was non other than a fly that zoomed into my eye at top speed. and the next moment i was "AH!! boomed. HAHA"

I screamed, I fell, and i cannot stop laughing. I DONT KNOW WHY. hahaha.

that planted me 10 blueblacks on my knees, thighs, elbow and ribcage. Internal injury ahha. cause the bike crashed onto my body and caused me to be entangled in a mess at an awkward position. In short it was unglam to the max hahaha.

K moving on... I started avoiding all the slopes. Very kia si... haha. and finally arrived at Chek Jawa! The long tedious and mosquitoy journey was all worth it.

Climbed up the viewing tower and the gap between each step was horrifying big. and that scare the hell out of Lee Kiang and I who were super scared of heights! So that took us twice the time to wobble up. but the scenery was rewarding. Breathtaking much! = ) and....mosquitoless hees. so we comfortably took out our mats, food and refused to get our butts going haha.

Top of the world

As we were looking around, a random couple came up to us and said "Sherlin, can you help us take a picture?" and we thought they were Sherlin's relatives or what. and wonder how they know her name and finally we had the answer.

Yes her shirt!!!

and when we tried very hard not to call the couple "Carribean" when we need help in photo-taking cause that's what printed on the guy's shirt haha.

5 cute girls. hahaha. Meiqi's not cute enough to make it to the picture hahah

By paparazzi Loo. Everyone so at ease without mosquito harrassment

lush green forest. wanna capture the beautiful sight but this dirty green picture seriously doesn't do the real version justice :(

We were trying to look like vampires...but.....the "fangs" failed to look like fangs haha

& Finally we took a decent one =)

Finally, with much reluctance, we restarted our engine and went ahead with the boardwalk along the sea.. At this time, Gypsy and her nan ren arrived. We get to see different creatures on the marshy land, weird mutilated mini crabs, mudskippers, barnacles, mangrove etc =) BUT.. i didnt get to see the starfish that everyone saw!

Pollution. YEEKS

I love how close i am to mother nature (: except the whizzing mosquitoes..

It's about late evening by the time we are done with the trail. cycled back and off we are on a bumpy ride back to the main land.

went to Changi Village and had a seafood feast. but was very cheated cause the portion was pathetic for big eaters.

We were all sticky + smelly and very very lang bei at the end of the day, so we put off our plans to go sherlin house.

It was a fantastic day and.. I finally get to go to Pulau Ubin! A very strong sense of suakuism :D

2009-03-26T20:55:00.000-07:00

Happiness is short-lived.

DON'T YOU AGREE?

Weekends have never been so precious in my life till i started working.
It's the only time i get to do what i really like after a nasty office week but unfortunately and sadly time flies when you're having fun, no?

well anyway, happy stuff in this entry only = )

Once upon a last week, Bee Leng brought her camera to work and we started "trying" it out.

You've just seen 5 cute people.
haha.
objections are not allowed.

The camera can make us...

...become kawaii nehsxz....but the function somehow doesn't work on zhiwei..

....or become james bond/sexy lips/a flower without pot/pervert kissing away

They are the reason why i can persist on till today =)

***

And on Saturday, I went to ICA to make a replacement of my I/C. My I/C photo is unfortunately still as hideous as the one on my previous I/C. They should do away with the no-fringe-covering-eyebrow rule. That makes me look like an alien's twin. k but that's not important... cause what's important is that after the interview with the officer, they waive the replacement fee by $40! keke. it's really hard to keep the auntieness in me under wraps..

Then went to teach my 2 classes of kids... then went to temple... then went out with my parents..then home sweet home. (:

***

On Sunday, my parents went back to Malaysia for a day. Then I had my first class with the Korean kid! Teaching someone without chinese background at all Chinese...is certainly no easy feat haha.. i was croaking like a frog at the end of the lesson.

After my lesson with her on sunday, i went "under the scissors". Wanna abandon my long dull fringe and give short fringe a shot...and as usual, experiment PHAILZ.

I told the hairdresser to cut till my brows. but it ended up way way way above. I don't know la, maybe I subconsciously raised my brows? haha. and that's the start of my kiddy fringe once again. :(( but my fringe made so many laugh. xi sheng siao wo, wan cheng da wo..

It's not that i wanna practise censorship and deliberately choose a blur one.. a bit ghostly also. i merely chose the one that's safest for your eyes..keke..

then when i met the girls after that, Ng Lee Kiang burst out into laughter after seeing the sparse weed on my hair. Thanks leh!! hahaa...

Put a group of gossip mongers + Huiying and it'll create a chemical reaction of top speed and volume chatters.

Gossip mongers (s) + Huiying (s) ---> Noise pollution (g) + H20 (saliva) (l)

K IGNORE ME.

We started off normal. I mean with normal topics...then we moved on to our usual gay topics and finally some artistic topics. hahaha I swear it's always Jasmine who started being very R.A lor..

Took lots of photos and alot will be censored due to hair that's desperately calling for a wig. haha KIDDING. Uploading them when i got the photos (:

***

My last visitor sticker cause I finally got my CPF pass! after paying $20.30 for something I can't keep after I leave the place :(

No more borrowing of pass whenever i need to go toilet/fill bottle etc. I'm almost totally confined to the office for the whole week. Wanted to take pictures of all my visitor stickers but being very me, I lost all of them obviously muahaha.. except for that survivor one.

looking forward to the next weekend now, will be off to Pulau Ubin with the girls, finally! I've been begging them to go since sec school. and they'll always reject me and make it sound as though i'm asking them to swim there. I hope that i wont roll down the slope and have my limps cut off.

CHOY.

Bye!

2009-03-26T01:36:00.000-07:00

i don't understand why some people can talk about efficiency when their cases are piled up as high as mount everest and they are busy petting their pets in pet society.

Neither do i understand why some people can talk as loud as thunder, laugh like hyenah and eat like they're at an eat-all-you-can competition and can get away with it and when we do so occasionally, we get the "i've heard from others that you all.... " kind of crap. It's not as if i've not heard louder chattering in this place. Well, different mouth has got different privilege. Maybe the quickest mouth to do the ratting gets the special treatment.

Finally, I don't understand why we must be the toiletbowls of those who can't keep these shit to themselves.

There are more things that happened that i do not understand. I just cannot type out every single thing that happened. Reading is not believing. Nobody else will understand this better than the 5 of us who go through this like a routine.

All the things arrowed towards us just because we have 3 temps in the team (but that only makes us a small team of 5) and perceived to be very free. I believe the amount of workload regardless of whichever team is equal. Why do some people complain and whine endlessly about having no time to finish their work and yet have so much time on hand to spy on how free others are and do some ratting?

Then are we to say that the Gate of Hell open especially early this year and the good friends finish up the work for us?

I might understand their underhand behaviour if there's a payrise or award of commendation for it. But no. perhaps some secret desire to get promoted for that. Psychologists are not here for nothing.

The 1st time i heard of this kind of unconstructive comments was 20 days after i started working there. How hard it is for these people to keep their foul mouth shut. Subsequently, every few weeks. Never before in my 19 years of life have I talked in this manner. It's quite a cruel truth to recall how cheery i used to be and how i allow these unworthy people to take the smile off. I thank them for discovering this side of me and enlightening me. Just when i thought I should start blogging about happy issues like before.

Thank goodness today is thursday. tmr is friday. and the day after is saturday.
Now I am counting down to weekends. I'm now holding 3 jobs, working 7 days/week. But none tires me out more than this.

Soon I'll resort to counting down to my days left in this no-transparency, no-democracy company.

2009-03-15T19:13:00.000-07:00

if someone ever need money then work for them PLEASE. just put your hands, brains and legs to work, not just your hands to take something that doesn't belong to you.

like anyone else, i don't get money from the sky and neither do i get any from my parents. i hold 2 jobs and work from day to night to support myself and I have to contribute to my family allowance too. shame on the person. very very shameful. even my students know how shameful stealing is.

still lots of unerupted anger in me. but i'm working on the after-matters already. HP, house& tuition centre's keys settled. CPF pass settling.. and i'm left with the i/c and my kids' work to account. i can only rest my mind when all these are settled. right now, everything is still weighing hard on me. so sorry to all whom i am not very friendly to these days

2009-03-15T07:02:00.000-07:00

THEFT (/edited)

That was the word i knew since primary school. and it remained merely a word to me till yesterday.

because of what happened last night, my only identification now is a police report.

I managed to fall asleep only @ 5am that night.

when i first realised my bag was missing, i can't believe it was stolen. I was convinced that it was taken away by mistake because i seriously can't imagine how one human being can bear to put another through such agony. but the truth soon struck me when i was unable to call through my handphone lines.

i'm angry at the thief, but even more so at those staff who were supposed to render help to helpless people like me. 1 popeye staff reluctantly gave in to my repeated frantic pleas to rewind the cctv. A security guard with shiny badges all over his uniform shrug his shoulders and walk off hastily before i can even complete my sentence. how undeserving. So much for the tight security in the mighty Changi Airport, now we know how pretentious these people are when the film's rolling.

what i lost is not just my treasured belongings but also things that cannot be recovered with money- my family's safety (my keys& i/c in my bag), my kids' work and notes that they diligently took down during my lessons and the trust and faith in human beings. I help whenever i can, I return things that do not belong to me. but none of these happen to me when i needed them most.

I will not curse and swear at the fella who brought such agony to me. cause i know that the torture that i went through, the pain that i am put through, all the tears i shed, all the stress I'm under will be paid back thrice to the culprit.

I had a really bad fright last night. and I'm really extremely touched and grateful to those who cared for me in one way or another, particularly meiqi, weichong and zhisheng who stayed by my side throughout the whole incident and supported me when I'm on the verge of breaking down, my entire application team mates, Gianhui and Yock Kin for showering me with concern and helping out as much as they can.

I've retrieved my SIM card today but all my contacts are gone. do help me out by sending in your numbers okay.. and to those who sent me msges of concern, thanks and sorry for not replying cause i'm just worn out from everything. really greatly appreciated.

guys and girls, take care of your belongings. this certainly doesn't feel good.

2009-03-10T23:52:00.000-07:00

i only realised today is the 11th 1 hour before i knock off.

and i've acknowledged hundreds of forms as the 10th of March.

OOOPZ.

huangyi is buried in her sea of thoughts.

she really should stop thinking so much.

2009-03-10T19:35:00.000-07:00

7 years later with the man of my life (:

2009-03-09T20:36:00.000-07:00

revamping in process

till then! = )

2009-02-20T19:05:00.000-08:00

My mummy came home all excited after her paidu exercise, telling me that there is a caterpillar queue @ eastpoint cause s.h.e's coming.

then she told me about she and her paidu friends' analysis (they're talking about it the whole morning la. and my mummy spread it to all whoever she met that day. So If you ever wanna spread any word, let my mummy know and you can trust her to do the work efficiently)

Long queue of aunties: Freebies
Long queue of teenagers: starchase

but one thing for sure is that you'll be more likely to see me in the queue of aunties rather than in the midst of the teenagers! i seriously think that it's more worth it to be an auntie in such circumstances.. the event is @ 2.30 pm today and the queue started last night, gosh! I guess that's the ever first time eastpoint is so popular haha.

anyway back to huang yi's weekly review. The week has been pretty good, except for the limping but it's been neutralised by her special privileges so it's really not bad haha. Talking about limping, I'm going to talk about what happened last saturday.

So on last saturday, i went to the ntu talk @ suntec convention hall with zhisheng & joycelyn. saw a fair bit of tpjcians, nasians and some friend's friends. ya I'm very kaypoh one. friend's friend also my friend. but i didn't attend any talk cause of time constraint. so walked around the booth and it's really quite informative i must say. and i sort of made up my mind about which course i wanna take. (:

left @ 1plus and headed towards pasir ris for the horrifying job.

The area circled in red is the area to be covered. & it's not all k! technical problem so unable to show the whole area.

So the map plus my calculation in the previous entries = limping legs plus....

or chea-ed toe!!

actually i didn't notice this until yesterday. i was already celebrating the recovery of my legs when i noticed 1/6 of my toe was bluish in the day. then i itchy hand go massage it until it became that shade at night! that's not all..

let's look @ the latest update of my toes.. still as fat but look what happened miraculously in 5minutes!

Before:
& just a mere 300 seconds later it became like this!!!!

the difference between my left and right toes. It's really healthy pink vs (poisoned?)black!

the toes really look fatter each time i look @ the pictures gees. I was secretly happy that it turned black cause according to the normal blueblack theory, it means that it's on the way to recovery but my mummy said that means my nail is dead and will fall off! so can anyone tell me if darkening is actually good or bad?

can't believe i actually dedicated an entry to my toes haha.

anyway on a side note, i'm feeling very excited from head to my black toes then back to head cause i've 2 interviews @ tuition centres tmr! I'm finally going to do something i like (:

&& to my ngee ann girls, everyone has been busy with work/studies/whatnot and hasn't been meeting up alot. So hope that everyone is doing as fine as ever and drop me a msg whenever possible k! (:

Alright my bed's calling me, bye!

2009-02-16T00:41:00.000-08:00

Doing a short update on v' day!

while most spent the day with their friends/boyfriends/resting @ home, yours truly was busy distributing flyers door to door!! don't ask me why i did that haha..

The last time i distributed flyers was when i was in sec 2. I probably have already forgotten how tough it was cause i was actually feeling very excited over it...

my excitement soon became exit-ment. I've absolutely no idea how many blocks i've 'conquered'. I only remember taking the lift to the highest level then walked down the stairs as i distribute the flyers and this cycle goes on and on then on and on and....

There are 13 storeys in each block. Assuming there are 10 flight of steps on each level, that will be 130 steps per block. multiply it by ______. + time spent on each block was approx 8minutes.

so the result of the mathematics above is = my 3rd day limping around with swollen legs, muscle ache, blistered toes and whatnot. i'm sure it's sth more than muscle ache yet sth lesser than anything serious. kill me please, the pain is beyond words, trust me!!!! So i came to office limping away and my legs suddenly became the main lead of the day. i was given some special privilege so i was at my desk the whole day instead of my usual routine of going up and down the building. in that case i shall continue to limp even when i've recovered hahhaa...kidding la, thank you people!

anyway back to v' day and the main point of the entry. wanna wish all my lovely friends from nass, tpjc and workplace a very happy friendship day. My world has become a better place from the smiles on your faces (", )

***

2009-02-13T05:24:00.000-08:00

it's friday once again!

very busy with work this week cause my temp mate was happily holidaying in taiwan, but it's pleasantly busy cause it feels rather satisfying completing so many tasks! so kevin, don't come back to work anymore hahaha... k i'm kidding of course.

anyway, it's pre-valentine's day today! kind of miss having the teachers getting all angry and irritated over us fussing over our presents during lecture and lessons. Every year on this day, the lecture hall will be filled with heart-shaped balloons and it really irritates the hell out of our teachers. every single one of them haha.

and i really do miss making presents for my dear friends and receive their small token of love. those were really the days la (:

and also inter-school flower exchange with ma mei qi. My favourite flower is the pink gerbera that cost $1.50 while hers is sunflower that cost $2 and i'll always refuse to buy her that as a result haha!! and on one year, both of us coincidently forgot to make payment after ordering the flowers and ended up waiting foolishly at the flowers that wouldn't arrive!

so what did i do this year?

for my team mates(: i swear wrapping those up wasn't easy cause i've butter fingers. is very buttery de!

& in return.. (:

Happy valentine's day to all!

***

at work today...

I emailed a hdb officer yesterday about some issues and i received her reply today and it goes:

mr loo huang yi leh!! very manly name meh...

so i purposely addressed myself as ms loo when i usually just type "regards, huang yi" haha

***

i always love meals on the next few days right after cny cause we'll open up the hampers and get the hao liao out to cook! is seriously mouth watering de. take that!

the "pen cai" whipped up by yours truly!!!! 's mum of course.

***

anyway results'll be out real soon. so will dreams really turn out to be opposite of what's going to happen in reality or are dreams preview of the future?

can half half not!! cause i dreamt that i got 2 "c"s for my h2 subjects and failed the other one- which i do not want it to come true!

and that i got "a" for gp- which i desperately hope would happen miraculously!!

no wonder singapore kids look so pathetic. when they are schooling, they can't sleep well cause of school work and load. when they've graduated, they lose their sleep, worrying for their results. I know no point worrying over things that's already happened but honestly who can not worry..

pray hard guys, see ya all back in school real soon, smiling when we get back our results k? (:

byebye!

***

2009-02-11T05:37:00.000-08:00

So on saturday was tulip's last day in singapore before she heads off to australia
for further studies.
reached the airport @ 9pm and nobody's in sight! so i walked towards a
crowd only to realise later that it's a large group of indians.


finally met up with hweeling and kwanyee and headed towards t3 and
after 10minutes of aimless wandering, we finally found tulip surrounded
by her fanclub. no wonder cannot see her..

eyelids gonna collapse in 3seconds time so i'll just let the pictures do the talking!

that's us and two-lip (:

I commented that he stood very very (& it's really very!) straight when taking photos. you should have seen his full body!

then he did this.

very happening over at hweeling's side!

our tall babe. but she still wear heels!!!

see how much she needs to bend even beside gianhui. you should have seen how 90degree she was when she took picture with me!! :(:(

and the whole tulip's fanclub.
actually half of the people there don't know the other half!

....
not sure if u're going to see the entry but tulip, study hard and miss us hard k! don't naughty naughty bring an australia hunk back next time ah... & all the best in whatever you do! (:

2009-01-30T21:13:00.000-08:00

Loobumbum is finally willing to give a magical golden touch to her grey neglected site..
....
anyway it's already the 2nd last day of cny le and i've yet even to blog about new year!!
...................
Have been spending 90% of the time when the sky is bright in the office and 100% of the time when sky is dark in my bed. sometimes sofa. I always plop dead on anywhere sleepable after work!!
......
and when finally I am free... lazybumbum is too lazy to update.
but since boredom > laziness now, i shall do some updates!
.....
Have been feeling very blue since the start of this year. I don't know how to put this feeling to words, i've just became a very sian and gloomy person overnight. Looking back at the entries in my old blog, i can't believe i was such an active lame gay! I feel like an empty shell without life and drive in me and even became very quiet. It irks me But i just don't know and don't want to talk at times. Just a very something seems to be missing in my life but i don't know what that is but as i blog hop, I realised i am not the only one and i guess what we are lacking in common is a goal in our life.

" Yi tian guo yi tian", I'm just waiting for time to pass! Ironic as it is, maybe plus abit of qian da, I somehow miss the hectic lifestyle, trying to complete assignments, ace in the exams and mug for A levels together with my peers. Maybe too hardworking already. haha joking la!
....

***

let me start on some cny updates..

Though very super and extremely very overused, i must still say "happy niu year to all"!! =)

the pussy willow decorated by my papa and yours truly! I swear the picture doesn't do the decoration justice hahaha.. But however nice as it is... it has invited many irritating bloodsuckers!!!

The above: home to a swarm of mosquitoes.

So one fine night after i came back from malaysia, i was scratching myself from head to toes then back to head while sleeping and i thought i was dreaming (cause i got an mosquito attack at malaysia so bad that i was traumatised!) but it soon got unbearable and i switched on the lights to find 8 big swells on my face, fingers, legs and arms! i think 2 at each part, equally distributed somemore. So i woke up the next morning feeling grouchy, told mummy about it and asked if she did change the water daily and guess what..

mummy in chinese : "I only never change water for 5 days"

hahaha, keyword is "only"! and that gave me the answer to my poor swells.

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ningning's parents came to my house a few days before cny to pass us some new year goodies and they brought their 3 kids over!
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Ningning is the lil girl my mummy took care of previously if you guys don't know. And she's my favourite! my bad friends called zhisheng and yancheng always call her "xiao jing teng" cause of her curly hair and will always start laughing when they imagine a mole on her face.

picture spam! :
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She is very gay de. I used to ask her what's her favourite food and she will answer "strawberry"very sweetly. Such a sweet kid. Now i ask her the same question and it became "sweets!", very excitedly! but that's good, cause i can bribe her easily with sweets haha. she did her "chan mali chan" dance that she performed in school previously when i promised her sweets!
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and her newborn mei mei, zixuan! Actually not newborn le la. The last time i visited them was when she's a month old. now already 8 months!

Her standard face throughout the visit! okay i admit, except 3 times when i made her cry!! :(
I didn't mean it la, of course. She agreed to let me carry her then she cried when she saw her mummy! but i did manage to make her smile also k!

doing her stunts after bullying me

The happy family: (+ one curious one on the sofa looking out)

ningning playing with her sister and her bored brother in the background!

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the 3 cutie pies really cracks me up, I always love a family with more kids around!

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Went back to malaysia on saturday (cny's eve's eve). It was quite a dramatic decision la. My parents said to go back on sat initially, then changed their minds cause they're afraid of the jam at the custom. When papa came home, he suddenly ordered us to pack& leave for malaysia. so we did as he said and after we are done... he changed his mind again!! then my uncle from m'sia called and once again my parents decided to go back on saturday, and how glad i am that it is the final decision already!
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So very last minutely, we headed back to m'sia and luckily the jam wasn't that bad. reached there @ about 6 plus 7pm.

My lil cousin and I

and my lil cousin& sis

pretending only!!!

with my cousins and popo. see my lil cousin pretend again!!

cny's eve:

my ahyi came over to join us and we played blackjack. but being a non-gambler (pls believe me haha!), we bet with peanut shells.

The ultimate losers!! :

Actually i had more. but they dropped when i kept laughing!! and spare the face!! bad-face-day. hahaha. i was sick, yes at the wrong time again!!

First 1st 3 days of o level exams, then a level practicals, then prom night, then cny!!! very well done..

My ahyi:

and lil cousin:

& people in pain!! :

(haha i was the one who kiaped all on the same side for her!!) She tried to get revenge by being the banker but she ended up getting more! see my another cousin at the background, not spared either!

My sis who's 10 times more blackhearted than me kiaped it on my ahyi's eyebrow!

my ahyi's penpal

and some random photos taken out of randomness:

Spot the extra

not that i wanna say she's full of pattern la!

and my saviour for the 4 days! I name it the mosquito racket cause its identity is unknown hhaha. I only know it's used to electric-shock the nasty bloodsuckers. I was bitten very very badly that i woke up in the middle of every night to smack them! And on one night, 12 was killed but i was still bitten very badly! and the unfair thing is... only i got the bites! why like this!!
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had reunion dinner on chu xi night with everyone present. we had to open 2 tables and i really enjoy sucha session when everyone is present! =) i love big families too! and at 12pm, there are fireworks! not by government but normal civilians like you and i. And it's new year countdown that kind! But there were more last year. plus i wasn't in the mood to watch cause i was busy watching out for potential bloodsuckers! too traumatised le!
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Chu yi was the same, having big family meals and activities. more peanut kiaping and moneyless mahjong. playing mahjong with my popo is very fun la, she kept trying to cheat haha! come out many pattern to cheat but the weird thing is... she's cheating when there's no money involved la ahahah

Then we left malaysia on chu er and we headed to gugu house to lao yu sheng. Very crowded as well but this time with people i don't know. =( played blackjack and i won $3! hahaha. achievement already k.

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Was supposed to go to work today but I took leave cause there was visiting at lao wu's house. But my senior beeleng fell sick and yet was drowned in her pile of work.. Was really guilty after hearing it so i sincerely wish that you'll get well soon k! =)

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caught "the wedding game" in the day. was a not-bad movie, the whole session was enjoyable =) My favourite movie so far was still pirates of Caribbean 2 that sent me chuckling and laughing very loudly and nonstop-ly throughout the show! even the credits made meiqi and i laugh cause the names were all "short headless guy", "headless number 1" etc.
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k back on track! then met the rest at bedok interchange and headed towards lao wu house. Her house is pretty and her husband is super cute de! Very funny person.
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we ******* and drank **** . haha! I promised mdm goh to censor certain parts on my blog haha! I kept my promise k =p
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So as it was my virgin try, i became ***** immediately! and tried to dilute it with packets of chyrs tea! zhisheng wasn't spared as well... he turned as *** as a ****** ! hahaha very irritating post i know! So i shall stop talking about that part.

our group shot with our favourite teacher mdm goh aka mdm gohst aka mdm ghost aka lao wu aka......... =)

Let me do some introduction about her!

She is a really nice and patient chemistry teacher who helped many of us lay a firm foundation in the subject. She always goes out of her way to help us even if it meant staying in school till very late hours and her dedication really made us love the subject and cause us to be determined to do well in the subject so as to not fail and disappoint her. I didn't blog it cause u read my blog but cause i know every of us feel this way and we ought to let you know how we feel =) Thanks mdm goh!
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Left her house at 7pm cause she had a dinner to attend to. Headed to ding long house which is 12 blocks away and we played wii at his house. Everyone got very excited and high during the game la. played tennis, boxing and bowling

and the results..... :

haha!!! yes, something that is very opposite from my real life! I usually "throw my money into the drain" when i bowl. The ball either goes into the drain or goes backwards towards my friends haha. Anyway, a very sore joycelyn coloured someone's name in red because that someone was very xiao zhang and kept teasing joycelyn at first for her booboos and having the lowest points initially (=p)

But in the end, that very someone ended up being the lousiest and the very someone was very sore!

a very sore man pointing very sorely at the sore points.
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Headed to bedok 85 for dinner with joycelyn, dinglong& zhisheng while joanna went to meet her friends. Chatted about the taboo issue- a level results! talking about that really makes my blood boil. How sore that feels when everyone studied so hard and in fact know their stuff but was played by cambridge's twisted questions :( don't wanna talk about that anymore.

Chatted and waited and bused home! Fun day out with the lovely people =)

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Took leave again on friday cause i had visiting with my girls! (: Glad to see them all again but didn't get to see sherlin again. Better turn up next time or else..... haha kidding la, i'm so harmless. (you got to trust me..)

everyone was late and kylie was the earliest of the late! we weren't that late initially k! It's the upgraded lift's fault that led us to another block. But in the end, it's actually all meiqi's fault for living there haha!

after everyone has arrived, we started preparing the cake for gian's belated birthday.

When i told them to give a professional face......

how would u rate them haha! 100 marks for sincerity la =)

The end product. The candles form a heart shape <3>

& the grand arrival of the female lead:

The heartbroken cake

The best cake cutting girl in the group. No i must say cause the cake's solid and not wobbly lor haha

everyone hard at work + kylie and huiying clinging on to their angbao =p

the pretty april babies

cannot sit properly!!

and the weirdest cow ever haha! i couldn't stop laughing at its tail. But i ought to give it some credit la, it's very nice to hug!

out group shot @ ma mei house. (plus a missing huiying who went back to school and sherlin)

kylie doing stunts

Yummy tarts that leekiang's mummy made!

Very pleasant looking and delicious. I had 3 ooops. Her mummy should really start her own shop! We always buy cakes from her mummy for celebrations in our group =)

Lee kiang and her mummy's tarts

So we went to meiqi's leekiang's huiying's and stacia's house on that day for visiting. Had hell lot of fun playing blackjack, daidee, mafia and eating! Their parents played really good host and are very hospitable!

and our version of mafia is super gay. the game is supposed to go like this:

"everyone close your eyes"
"murderer wake up, who do u wanna kill"
"prophet wake up"
"everyone wake up"
and narrator will announce "... is dead"
"Do you think .... is the murderer?"

Then the kiasu and superstitious us decided that "killed" and "dead" is taboo for cny and we changed to

"everyone close your eyes"
"busifier wake up, who do you want to busy"
"prophet wake up"
"everyone wake up"
"... is busified/out of town"
"do you think .... is the busifier?"

Okay la it's very much an inside joke so i doubt anyone will understand what i've just typed! and leekiang kept pronouncing prophet(sacred) as promphet(a kind of fish) and meiqi and i can't stop laughing everytime we say the statement "prophet wake up". we kept imagining the fish waking up! is very fei de haha.

yet another great day with the girls!

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My other days were dedicated to work. Work is getting better though there's still lots to learn and adapt. Don't know why i am always so sian at work and lazy to talk, really sorry to my colleagues! It must be the early mornings fault haha, 1 month has passed since i started work le and i am still always reluctant to wake up!
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Lao "fruits" sheng at home a few days ago. We decided to do sth really weird which is to slice fruits into strips. But trust me it tastes better than the authentic yu sheng! don't know what's with those green and not chewy and not tasty green strips that you always see in yu sheng.

our masterpiece!

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went for nike sales @ expo yesterday. The queue was horrifying! It is 2 halls long plus a 20minute wait when u are inside the hall! like a caterpillar. joined the queue since I'm already there and i waited for a total of 45minutes alone!! i can't believe i had the patience to do so haha.
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Many things were already sold out by the time i was 'let in'. saw the scary scene of singaporeans stretching their hands from right behind towards the counter and being vertically challenged, i was often attacked on my head! So i bought a pair of running shoes for my mummy's pai du exercise and 2 tops for myself! and passed to zhisheng who's working there and is entitled to 50% staff discount! Sorry that i am so auntie haha, but who can resist 50%! So it saved me $45 and a long waiting time at the cashier!

walked home from expo, had dinner and set off to airport to Send tulip off for further studies @ Australia.

My classmates (: it's not always good to be tall, look at jasmine haha! When She bend down real lot and i have to tiptoe, i was still not even anywhere near her height! :(

almighty ngee ann ppl haha

very weird that these photos did not have tulip's face inside! she was busy entertaining her other friends. posting more when i get them from jasmine.

till then! happy 2nd last day of xin nian to all!