i like my new look so much i'm going to do something unprecedented and blog for the second time in two days! heh. i've always liked green. and i guess it's timely for a change since a new year is round the corner.
oh i've been stuffing myself with the marks and spencer's redcurrant puffs which we bought yesterday. they're fantastic! but i'm heading for an overdose. haha.
happy new year everybody!
how precious this week's holiday is! though rather short, but still a much-needed break from school and i'm more than happy to keep out all school-related thoughts for at least 7 days! ok, not all of them, still had some stuff to do and think about, but generally this is as good a holiday as we can get, right?
it's been 2 days but i'm still feeling surreal about it...that i actually passed my driving test! it was truly by God's grace, because i definitely was a shaky driver (still am) and didn't have much chance of passing on my first try. i guess i was just ok-prepared but not that confident. anyway, things didn't go so well during my warm-up but God gave me a kind tester (he was Ming'en's tester too! during the ballot when i knew i got him i felt so encouraged and hopeful) who actually let me pass!
throughout this whole thing i just thought about how good it was to have God by my side, calming me, encouraging me, helping me... it was so comforting. it wasn't nerve-wrecking anymore. i was just praying really hard about it the whole time and i was like, ok just hand everything over to God, all my worries and insecurities and nerves, and... drive like a snail! haha yes i really did. my tester even gave an audible sigh. he had to minus my points for driving too slowly. heehee! but it was worthwhile coz it kept me away from all the possible mistakes and trouble. so now i think the strategy is to drive slowly so that you don't chalk up too many points for all the mistakes but rather you earn lesser points for driving too slowly. yes...haha. and i was so touched by all the other drivers around me! they gave way to me! they let me change lanes smoothly! for so many days i was fretting about this coz i can't change lanes for nuts, but on that day everyone was so nice to me!
so all praise and glory be to God! i was wondering what was His will for me, whether i should pass or fail, but in the end i figured that even if i failed i'd be ok coz it's His will and i'm more than happy to do His will... coz even if the answer is 'no' right now, it just means that God has a better plan for us! Praise the Lord!
hello all! thanks for your concern. i'm doing well, under my trusty painkillers and antibiotics and what not. the pills have a really yucky taste. i'd drink bitter cough mixture anyday. hehe. and my face started getting quite swollen last night! now i look like a pancake sigh. anyway, i'm removing the stitches on tuesday. so hopefully things will get better from then on... tonight i drank homemade blended grape juice! it was surprisingly nice! :) coz i wanted to eat grapes but it was too painful to chew them, so my mum suggested blending them into a juice and it turned out to be sweet and yummy. yay. so i shall drink fruit juices more often from now on.
the happy thing about tonight is that i finally heard from my korean penpal!! yes i'm really happy that we've renewed contact.
ok happy weekend guys! :)
suddenly my internet is working again today. part of me feels happy to be connected to the world once again, with the ability to check my email, my school stuff, read my favourite blogs, and do research online. another part of me is horrified at how dependent i've become on the internet. so the question is, do i or do i not want to be connected? i think i just like the IDEA of knowing that i can be connected if i want to. it does provide convenience when i need it. but when the internet is not working, i end up feeling a little helpless, especially when i'm running to and fro between two computers with no thumbdrive to help.
anyway, the SEA Games is in full swing! i'm enjoying it so much. singapore is doing really well! :) can't wait for the day when we host it, i'll be even more excited! haha. but because school is very very hectic right now, i can't follow the games on TV so i just read the newspapers.
i'm going to extract my 4 wisdom teeth on wed. i met the anesthetist and he was very funny. he was measuring my blood pressure, and checking my heartbeat, and then he wrote down my weight as 58kg. i was like, huh you mean i'm 58kg??! how did you know??? (of course the crazy thought that my bp or hb could tell him that flashed past my mind...) turned out that he THOUGHT he heard me say my weight was that. well, i almost got a heart attack when i saw it anyway.
i like the national library very much! we were all like country bumpkins there yesterday because of all the new features haha...they were fascinated by the hand dryer in the toilet?!? lol. and the screen at the bookdrop that lets you see your books arriving safely at the book bin. but it's a good place to be at. plus the reference library occupies seven levels. so cool! i'm such a nerd. haha. ok i'd better get back to work... cannot waste time!!
technically this is the second week of school, but since last week consisted of two public holidays, there wasn't really much school. hmm i definitely miss the laidback holidays. school is getting progressively tougher by the semester. but i'll try to take it easy and focus on God yeah...
i watched monsoon wedding (the indian movie) and be with you (the jap tearjerker) this week on dvd. i loved them both! MW was so much fun and it was really well done. my dad kinda got inspired to do his own song-and-dance routine after that haha. and wah i cried my heart out for BWY last night... it was so so sad. but still very good.
have also been thinking of and praying for my poor o level and a level friends... hope everyone will stay strong!!
holidays are ending in a week's time! hmm not sure how to feel about going back to school...sometimes i dread it (naturally), but sometimes i go to MeL to check if the course documents have been uploaded??? hahaha. but thank God for a pretty decent timetable. oh i've been going down to the driving centre almost every day this month. the licence is halfway in sight. may have more hope after this week. but i'm not very confident yet lah...and even if i get my licence, i think i'll be a road hazard. :( hehe...
yeah i watched the documentary about the national spelling bee in america. aiyoh it was so painful watching it sometimes. seriously it is like another form of child abuse (that's what somebody in the film said). i can't imagine how anyone, and what more a child, can go through such an intense competition like that... and now i'm so afraid of spelling a word wrongly! (incidentally i spelled "afraid" as "afriad" at first.)
exam results are coming out on thursday, if i'm not wrong. doing some part-time work this week as well...going with A.Hospital staff to a company in ang mo kio to do health check-ups. my job...should be registration.
hmm i had a bad driving lesson today but i guess things will get better... btw, ming'en's taking her test tomorrow! ALL THE BEST, MING'EN! she'll be the first of us to get her licence. :)
just came back from dinner with my parents and their friends at yacht club. they're still there...singing karaoke maybe haha. wow that place is so cool... i never knew there was such a beautiful place in singapore. lovely sea breeze, seafood, and outdoor dining experience. and this place is in west coast, not east coast! aha, so i do have some nice sea-related thing in west coast haha. over dinner, one of the aunties told me about her friend's son (who was from mcm) who did a short film about his mother dying, and his mum acted as herself! haha it's funny and interesting at the same time. not that his mother was really dying, it was just the storyline.
tonight is one of the times i miss having my oldest brother around. never knew what good company he could provide, until he came home this summer. in him i have an exercise/movie/tv partner, and just having him around is nice.
yes so i'm very full now... but i really rather be full spiritually than physically. this holiday is a good time for me to reflect on the person i have been and what i really ought to be, as a disciple of Jesus Christ. please forgive me if i haven't been as LOVING, CARING, FORGIVING, SHARING, THOUGHTFUL, HUMBLE, PATIENT, and SELF-CONTROLLED as i should be.
and for all that i have in my life right now, i want to give all the credit to God. i know i don't show this openly, but truly, my source of strength, my source of hope, is Christ alone. and i really yearn for all my friends and relatives to believe in God, so that they may have PEACE and JOY that are out of this world! really, being in God's family is the BEST thing in your life. i love you all because God loves me. and He loves you too!!! really, really.
last paper tomorrow! and i'm already semi-planning my shopping route for tomorrow afternoon heh. haven't been to town for close to 2 months *beams* but who knows, i might just come home and sleep after all. since i don't think i'll meet any sales at this time of the year.
sigh, can't seem to study. and sigh, i've become a one-paper person. wonder what will i do if i had gone to JC? i'd be mugging for like ten papers now... so, my friends, i salute you!
i watched marie full of grace on DVD two nights ago, and it was a great movie. really well-made, and not the standard hollywood fare which you all know i'm so sick of heh. oh, and i just got a really NICE and witty email from my ex-piano teacher... ah, miss those days.
ok, i had a brainwave in the shower some days ago, hehehe. imagine if every car had a signboard at the back, like those electronic ones they place along the roads to warn you of traffic jams and give you the occasional "Happy New Year... and drive safely"? then let's say you happen to cut into somebody's lane coz you couldn't help it, or people are horning you because they can't see there's an accident in front, how do you communicate with them? aha, so if you have that electronic signboard at the back, you can just key in your message, like "Sorry!" or "Accident in front LAH" and flash it to the driver!
ok this doesn't sound so great now, and i can think of many ways drivers might misuse this. ok back to studying.
haha sam, this is for you :) one more post -
just had supper! my mum and brother bought back bedok 85 bar chor mee and grilled chicken wings. it was yum yum just now but now i'm like eew...die...and can't go to sleep. all my hard work at the gym (haha just kidding, what hard work) gone down the drain just like that *poof* (click mouse once now for poof effect).
so the trip to bmtc was this afternoon. endured the long and arduous journey from the west to the east, whereupon we arrived at the depressing ferry terminal with grey walls. somebody should make it more colourful so that the poor army boys won't have to suffer EVERY. STEP. OF. THE. WAY! even just before boarding the ferry, there's this billboard above us showing an ah bing ge (army boy) holding his girlfriend's face and the tagline goes something to the effect of "it's not what you lose, but how much you'll gain in the future". that's not very comforting. :p
anyway, term's ending once again, which essentially means nothing but... DEADLINES. four major projects, one pr assignment, and a radio test... i know i can do nothing without the strength that God gives me!! ok so it's very late now, so even though i'm still very full i think i'll just crash into bed. head's spinning already. was there wine in the bar chor mee? don't think so. haha.
went to the metro 20% off storewide sale yesterday with huang shan, my friend all the way from primary school. it was pretty good, since i kinda like metro hehe. and paragon was having sales in a lot of shops too, but there was no time. turned out that most of orchard road was having national day sales!!! but glad i didn't shop everywhere or else i'd have bought more than i should. went home with a cooee skirt ($24.95) and a bossini top ($10).
BUT -- our outing wasn't just about shopping, of course! we had lunch at kobayashi (not very nice, unfortunately), brownies for dessert (and to make up for the sad lunch) at cafe cartel. btw, np students have 15% discount there! ok, and we talked and had a good time catching up. thanks shan :) it was a very good outing!
the only thing was that cineleisure was PACKED with students dressed in red. we turned claustrophobic and fled the place as soon as we could. :p but the place also made me feel like watching a movie. ah, charlie and the chocolate factory came out last week. bewitched's out today. well i signed up for hollywoodclicks.com last night (yeah, finally) so i think i won't be going to the cinemas for a long while actually. then again, this is a good chance for inviting friends over and watching (non-pirated) dvds!
happy birthday, singapore :)
photos courtesy of erica!
the chocolate dragon and where you can make your own chocolate drink. i was too sick of chocolate by that time to try it. :p
so maybe it was time i added some pictures here to liven up the blog! this is my room...with the bare essentials. bed, shelf, table, chair, fan... yeah. looking for a picture to decorate the plain wall hopefully?? the extra mattress is coz my aunt from sydney stayed with us for 10 days.
checked my school mail and saw this email with the subject: "compulsary visit to bmtc on 17 aug..." i was like HUH?! bmtc is the basic military training centre at pulau tekong!!! where the army guys go!!
apparently my tutorial group is free on wed afternoons so we've been chosen to pay a visit to bmtc and for the ladies, it's a good chance to see what our future boyfriends/spouses go through. that's what the email said.
i can't believe it!!! for a moment i felt like emailing the person back to ask, "is this a JOKE?" hahaha ok i seriously don't know whether to laugh or what. i just can't believe such a thing is happening to me! in poly! i'll post about what happens when it happens. i seriously don't know what to think of this...hahaha.
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haha i almost forgot to talk about this, but today on the shuttle bus home with my mum, we saw this man dressed in red from top to toe. no kidding. red shirt, red track pants and red shoes. as if that was not enough, he held a red file in his hand as well. all were the same shade of bright red.
as he stood up to get off the bus, my mum whispered to me...
"better make sure the bull doesn't see him."
hahahahaha my mum is funny right?
attended a wedding today at the old parliament house. that whole area was road-blocked coz of the ndp preview so we had to make one big round to get inside the building. you seldom hear of people getting married inside the parliament house do you...haha me too! it was so different. but i'd definitely still want to get married in my church next time, no matter how exotic wedding locations can get. heh.
so glad to be home now... plus it's a cold night so it should make for a good sleep later. :) saturday night tv is pretty bad, did you ever notice that btw? haha... just a thought.
oh last night i had my p6 reunion and it was so so cool. it was definitely one of our best reunions. plus our teacher could make it!! we had a great time reminiscing and laughing like mad... thank God for a night like that.
to ming'en: WELCOME HOME!!! missed you.
i don't understand why my double spacing is missing! like suddenly it went on strike. :( it makes reading so much harder, doesn't it? does anyone have the same problem? can anyone tell me how to fix it?
what a week it has been!! i'm exhausted from all the work coz it's the last week of the term so the deadlines decided to all appear at the same time suddenly. like so many things clouding my mind and giving me a perpetual headache. things in year 2 sure are different!! but i don't want to complain so i shall move on...
bigger things have happened. first, the IOC. i think it was really cool that it took place right here! but i think all the action was somewhere in the city; i didn't feel affected at all here in my little west coast, so i just followed the papers closely... it was really interesting. and i was rooting for PARIS! erica and i were so disappointed. we so wanted it to win!! and it has tried THREE times already!! they should let it win!! :( our second choice was madrid. at least these two cities had the spirit!
but oh man poor london! poor poor london! the shock and sadness of it all just gripped me there and then and, call me apathetic or what, but i can't really bear to follow the news coz it's just too sad... i remember when the tsunami happened i couldn't bear to know what was happening too... and all the other sad things that happened over the years. i think singapore is really blessed. well and another thing that hit me was that last time when such tragedies took place, it would make me think, "people are suffering over there, and here i am in school having to be concerned about HOMEWORK and GRADES??" that was one of the reasons why i wasn't happy in school. but i think now i'm in a better situation, in poly and all, so i feel like my life is not so unmeaningful anymore. well something like that lah. i don't really know how to express my feelings.
though school has been tough recently, it ended on a pretty good note for me today coz i can see that my friends are making an effort to curb their use of vulgarities. thank God for that!! i'm really thankful to God, my Saviour and my Provider. My refuge and strength.
and how true!
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring. He sends you a sunrise every morning. Whenever you want to talk, He listens. He can live anywhere in the universe, but He chose your heart.
ok the chocolate buffet was pretty nice at the start. the ambience was super good... everywhere was dimly lit, and we sat on these amazingly comfy couches, not chairs. there was this chocolate fountain thing, where you put your fruits and stuff in and get them all chocolatey. i tried that first. and then i ate a chocolate tart and some other small chocolates. i also tried the fullerton chocolate cake. and that was it. i was gone by one and a half rounds. i couldn't even finish the cakes on my second plate!! i was feeling sick and i was seriously missing my bar chor mee by then. hehe ok so i think it's not very wise to bring me to a chocolate buffet... though i DID enjoy it in the general sense... like lazing around and leaning back on the couch and just talking... it felt very holiday-ish. oh what would i give to live in fullerton for one night... hahaha.
maybe i should blog. since i'm kinda tired of always seeing the same old post here. haha. time flies and i'll be having my term break in a week's time. life seems so great during term break... i can just imagine all the rest i'll take, the DVDs i'll rent, the shopping i'll do... but until then, it is sad. :( nobody likes deadlines. haha but aiyah in the end everything will turn out ok lah, as it always does. i'm not so worried about things, i'm just sian about the work i have to do. but having God beside you is a real comfort. in Your presence, that's where I am strong. i just have to focus on Him and not let worry take over me. the things of this world seem so small compared to You, O God. God is in control!! how wonderful is that. :)
some of my primary school classmates are coming back from overseas and we're gonna have a reunion! looking forward to that. and tonight i'm going to fullerton for chocolate buffet with some of my sec 4 friends. pay $28 to GET FAT! tsk. haha. but i'm quite excited about going inside fullerton, and of course meeting up with my friends. ok back to work.
haha ok just a quick one. comm issues lect today was a blast. at first the lecturer said we were going to have a quiz but aiyah he couldn't conceal his excitement very well lah haha. we all guessed that it was a hoax, and true enough the "quiz" was slides and slides of pictures of "american pop culture" i.e. friends, oc, spiderman, titanic, austin powers, lord of the rings, etc etc... and as we screamed out their names, he threw packets of snacks to us, as well as american idol t-shirts i think, and oc posters!! the whole thing was quite wild and haha he sure woke us up man, after such a long day. he likes to give us "commercial breaks" and play music videos or clips or commercials... haha quite fun lah. the relevance isn't very great but he insists they're all for "academic purposes". hahaha...
tomorrow i'm going for church camp and i'll be back on sunday. update again then. take care!
my future room...you all (pumpkins) must come on one of the tuesdays where we have a two-hour break! i shall COOK for you!!! hehehehe.
to my grand total of 5 (plus mingen) readers: everybody come!!
ok this is the first week of school so i guess everybody has been feeling a little down...but cheer up! things will get better! plus you have the GSS to take your mind off the unpleasant stuff! hehe. yeah it's very important to maintain an outside-of-school life, you know what i mean...then you'll always have little things to look forward to. :) right. so here are some cheers for everybody (hahaha):
fel fel you're so swell
in our hearts you'll always dwell
go go you'll do well
[last line contributed by sam]
sammo hung! sammo hung!
who's bigger than sammo hung!
s...a...m...samantha CHOUSIMRYANTANLEEWONGOLIVERSIEW.....
right. that was nonsense. haha.
now one for debbie...
deb deb you're so fab
don't feel lonely don't feel sad
just give us a call and we'll be there!
ah...lirong, you need one? ask ernest to compose for you lah. :p hahaha.
ok ok here goes...
lirong lirong we miss you
you're always a support you're always cool
next time bring us on the cruise too! (hahaha)
ok i think i should give sam a better one...
sam sam tall and tanned
in all things you must think you can
s...a...m...samantha CHOUSIMRYANTANLEEWONGOLIVERSIEW!!!
hahaha
cheer up everybody
i cut my hair and now i look like a rectangle. :'(
when i tie my hair up i look like a coconut. :'((
i won't put up the sad rectangle pic but i would put up this:
anyway, can you guess where i took this picture?? hehe.
we can't move into the new place yet because of some defects that need to be corrected, so we're stuck in yew tee till the end of this month. when my big brother comes back next week, he may have to sleep in the kitchen hahaha. my mum and i went to the salvation army at potong pasir (never been there before) yesterday but it was quite run-down and we didn't find anything there. after that we went to ikea. it was a dreary day yesterday, wasn't it? the sky was dark, the roads were wet... if only we had stayed home, then we could have taken a nice cosy nap. :)
this morning i went for my first basic theory lesson. yeah i finally signed up for my driving lessons haha. next time when i pass then we'll take out the ba zhang (dumpling) plate and paste on the car, front and back, for one year...then hopefully nobody will bully me on the road if not i wouldn't know what to do!!
other news... we got the letter telling us we can collect the digi cam already! yay!
plus... we've been out all day for so many days, the last time we ate at home was DAYS ago. finally mum's cooking my favourite soup tonight. :O)
and finally... i've started on this book called "the heavenly man". really powerful book. i seldom read Christian books somehow, but i can't seem to find any novels these days that don't have sex/vulgarities in them at all...so i think it's about time i helped my dad read some books in his library haha. he doesn't actually have a library, but he has a lot of books. and at the new place, we're gonna store them in the bomb shelter. yeah felicia you can sleep with the books!!! :)
to fel: haha the bomb shelter. anyway your new haircult looks really nice.
to lirong: no digital camera yet. :( my mother is going to call up the insurance guy tmr. haha.
i'm down to the last book in the shopaholic series. feels a bit like i've been living in london these few days haha. does anyone here know a real shopaholic? a shopaholic sounds scary, just spending money like that. i guess i know someone who's something like that...i get some of the clothes that she passes down. haha.
so we went to blue horizon today. it still feels a bit surrel, finally getting the keys after so long. or rather, it doesn't feel as exhilarating as it should probably be because it's just like when i was waiting for my first paycheck but it came two days late so by that time i wasn't excited anymore. haha. but nonetheless, it's still GREAT that we're finally another step closer to living in a proper nice home.
the last episode of the jap show "good luck" on channel u was today... i really liked that show!
thanks to sam, i got to go to david tao's showcase at expo on sat night. opening act by wild was painful :P ah tao was wonderful, as usual. his voice is really very, very good. AND he might have a concert here again at the end of the year! that's certainly something to look forward to. :) plus he might have a new album out at the beginning of next year. things are looking good!!
watched enter the phoenix last night on channel u. it was surprisingly good. i mean when it first came out i wasn't interested in it at all coz...never mind. but yeah it was pretty good!! now if i have to, i don't mind watching house of fury. heh! yeah stephen fung is a director to look out for.
we are getting the keys on tuesday...
REALLY went to sentosa today with sam and fel! but i was late!! so sorry!!! well, of the three days that they were free, i thought today sounded the best since i have a case of monday blues sometimes (so lame right) and friday = almost weekend = more people = not what sarah wants.
so we first laid our mat out under the shade, but then we realised that our whole purpose in going there was to tan so we moved the mat out into the sun after a while hehe. then we flopped around the mat turning here and there like sea cows (ok i'm actually really just talking about me, the other two are as slim as ikan bilis). finally we went into the sea (?) where we soaked for 3+ hours until i felt like kiam chye. tried swimming a bit with me calling out "small strokes, ok, small strokes!!" due to sam's long arms and legs that threatened to get in our way hahaha. after becoming dried prunes we got out and washed up, then proceeded to sakae sushi by bumpy tram/foot. my first time there, and i liked my teriyaki chicken don pretty much.
when i reached home my parents said i looked "very healthy". indeed i am much a changed person, burnt in all areas that could possibly be burnt, including my pocket. very grumpy about that. as my parents said, SENTOSA = SO EXPENSIVE NOTHING TO SEE ACTUALLY.
blogging is like cooking. i'm not good at it. hahaha. today my mum asked me incredulously, "you mean you don't know that you've got to add the mushrooms in last??!" she was the one doing the cooking lah, i was just checking in on her. mugging is like cooking too. i'm not good at it either. hahaha. got my results today, thank God for everything good and not so good... i mean maybe to others a D+ and C+ is bad news but for me it's just great. i mean it's like all my grades were as expected, as deserved. i'm pleased with them. though i think i'd better put in more effort in year 2??
went to ikea yesterday and finally ate at their cafe. fell in love with the decor!! i mean like duh it's in ikea it'd better look good right hehe. went to rjc today and it was my best trip there ever. i think next week i'm going sentosa with the pumpkins. gotta even out my (pathetic) tan left over from long long time ago.
hi how's everybody :)
wooohooo!! did my exam yesterday and now i'm officially out of school until may 24th. i've waited so long for this day to come man. it's been an interesting first year, though quite tough sometimes. feels good to finally get a break from everything school. yesterday we went to kbox and stayed there for more than 5 hours. haha if you remember, this is only my second time at kbox. we sang 99% of jay chou's songs, some david tao (guess why), etc etc. we sang love potion no. 9 too! haha. and bon jovi's it's my life and s.h.e.'s superstar. those 2 songs were great fun. after fel left, debbie and kai-lin went into cutesy overkill and sang cyndi wang's ai ni. sam and i preferred to gush over wang lee hom and david tao hahaha. it was fun lah. thanks guys :) [but we forgot to take pics. with the pumpkin!!]
hi there. this is supposed to be a very random entry. i'm just waiting for 8 o'clock to come so that i can watch my tv show and kill time in a better way. channel 8 for two hours should be good. it's the last episode of you are the one! seriously i think channel 8 should work on their drama show titles. they sound all the same. but anyway i like their 9 o'clock shows so far, like my mighty in-laws, my lucky charm, and this one now.
life's been very happening i guess. like i didn't expect to fall so sick. i mean all along i was secretly hoping to be sick so that i could lose some weight the easy way out. but i wasn't THAT serious about it, it was just a thought. and when it really happened, haha my mum and i couldn't help but laugh about it. but i should have thought more specificially about what kind of sickness i wanted. something like fever would be just nice. not food poisoning and fever and a really infected boil that needed to be operated on. i chose LA instead of GA and so i was conscious throughout the operation. this whole thing was really quite an experience... but the doctors and nurses were all so nice that i don't mind going back. though of course i hope this never happens to me again. but i mean they're really nice. (they're from alexandra hospital, in case you wanted to know!)
so it's been more than two weeks of really bad sleeping postures and stuff. but at least now the boil's gone so i can walk properly and it doesn't hurt so much to sit again. haven't used my ez-link card since last monday though. while it's good to save that money, i sometimes wish i can go outside for a while. next week maybe. read a book, wrote a letter, and watched the third harry potter movie today so all in all it was a good day of rest. which was what i've been needing.
can't believe that i've endured one year of mass comm poly life. what a year. it's almost over, just gotta edit the film, take a make-up test, one exam on the 29th, and i'll be freeeee. then you'll see me at ikea everyday shopping for the new house! haha. it's soooo near... it's coming soon... our very own little NEAT COSY HOUSE! i already know the new address so i'm gonna inform my penpals soon. ask me if you wanna write to me at the new address too! :)
alright then, it's 7:51 pm. time to get ready! till my next wave of inspiration hits me and i blog. cya!
the school year's coming to an end, there're less classes now, but i still have two hurdles to cross. final speech with sam ryan chou sim (do you still want to be mrs chou now that... ?) and bauhaus, another graphic design project. bauhaus was an unconventional german school of art & design way back in the early 1900s. you can see its influence in a lot ikea designs. incidentally, i was flipping through the ikea catalogue today with my mum, dreaming about our new house. sigh, so near yet so far.
anyway, i've been thinking about the bag design for bauhaus. and i've just come back from asking my mum about bag designs in the past. she had launched into an enthusiastic description of a brown paper bag but that was 1960s. i wanted 1920s. so she said, "oh that time they didn't have bags lah. they just took a piece of cloth..." i said, "mum, i meant in ang moh countries lah." haha so cute.
the chatterbox is perpetually down and the blogger comments are too lay chey. sigh.
hi all,
heh, kinda got tired of the chatterbox always being down, so i decided to make use of the blogger pop-up comments. hopefully this works better. post some comments, guys!
i thought i'd better just update a little bit. just came back from my youth group's post-vday event, called the philos project. philos is greek for brotherly and sisterly love. the door gift (actually they only gave it out at the end) was homemade brownies and i just ate them, at approximately 11 pm, which isn't good. but it did taste pretty good... haven't had brownies for a while. and chocolate is always good when you're down. or even when you're up.
and today my dream came true when i finally got to see my favourite boys, jeremy and joel, again. haven't seen them for weeks!! i kept missing them at church. yesterday i called their mum up for a chat and i got to hear joel sing "He's Able" in the background. i've never heard him sing before! it was amazing. and i was told he was holding the Bible while singing. heh that's so cute!
this week ended well coz i handed in my graphcomm project and did my persuasive speech. 6 more weeks to go! we can do it!
two weekends in a row to west coast park and i've achieved a respectable tan (any kind of tan is respectable for me lah) which has left a healthy glow on my face and i'm positively radiant all day long...lol yeah right. ;) basically my church youths had games yesterday afternoon, very fun games indeed, and i was looking at blue horizon and thinking, next time i'm just gonna this close to the park. this close to macs. this close to a healthy lifestyle. ok the middle one is kinda out of place hehe. but yeah we're this close to getting our dream home... just a little bit more...
last week we rearranged the entire living room at 11:30pm (inspiration comes at odd times) so as to give me a proper work table near the window. it worked pretty well, just that the table's also our dining table and where you dump basically everything else. so some four days later i'm back here at my mini japanese table, squatting down and typing away on my laptop to bring you guys my monthly update hehe. the good news is, my graphic design project deadline has been extended from this friday to next monday!!! thank God for answered prayers. :)
two consecutive days spent with kids have left me burnt out. literally. yesterday we did filming at west coast park with four kids and it was like a zoo with lots of melting ice-cream and mood swings. but it had its good moments lah. and i still love my kids. well i got burnt! this is quite a phenomenon and something new to me. haha check it out man, while it lasts.
today after church i spent the afternoon helping to take care of some 17 hyper kids that left me feeling very old indeed. this care group has an amazing number of kids (17 is not their full strength) and now they're serious about starting a kids programme while the parents do Bible study. so i'm in for the long haul. i like the idea actually and it helps that the kids are so cute, though they ask me questions like "are you married?" and once they know my age they classify me, like "oh, so you're still a teenager". haha.
and guess what. i've gotten addicted to solitaire showdown and i've dragged fel unwittingly into playing this with me till our eyes pop out and fingers drop off. but it's fun. please play with me. haha thank you. no no please don't play with me. i got work to do. haha sorry.
david tao has a website!!! i had no idea. heehee ok it's not so bad coz he just launched it on dec 22 last year only. the website's really cool! you should all go check it out. i wanted to register as a "david's club member" (lol) but my mother told me not to be silly. ok... and he has a diary! again my mother said it was written by his secretary. sigh, she forgets who brought her to his concert in 2003. haha. anyway, the most important thing is that he's got a new album! i had no idea as well. where have i been??? it's called "The Great Leap" or 太平盛世. i bet it'll be a fantastic album, as usual. hehe. I CAN'T WAIT!
"Outstanding singer/song writer David Tao has not released a major album for over 2 years, but now he's back and guarantees to attract the attention of music devotees everywhere all over again. The acclaimed Asian R&B expert teamed up with Li Zhuo Xiong to offer you the phobic lyrics of his latest principal track Ghost that describes a person's fears among a mass media driven society that is getting too close for comfort. Also watch out for Susan Says that skillfully combines Beijing Opera sounds with David's exceptional contemporary music style. Continuing to offer you his usual high-quality work, David's new long player presents his first installment in a new musical trilogy that should not be missing in your collection."
-yesasia.com
(i cited my source)
haha i do like to cook but i think i shall only seriously try it out after we move to blue horizon. the kitchen now is really small and cluttered. not enough room to take any kind of disaster from me. and you know where's our microwave oven? in the STOREROOM. don't think you know of anybody who cooks in the storeroom right. :p hahaha.
you can get valentine's day gifts at budget prices here. forever friends bears and roses and chocolates and what not. though i think most of you who will read this are girls...but um, just spread the word for me. support mingen's bro's enterprising effort. thanks. :)
another pic from the tiger cup experience... that's a lot of us! haha. we entered the stadium very early, like 5:40pm. the match was supposed to start at 7:30 pm. people over there were practising the kallang wave many many times... then jai the singer came on and sang a few songs, like knockin' on heaven's door (the song in windstruck too heh). the national anthem was weird. never heard that kind of version before heh. the newspaper said it was too folksy and something else. people booed the indonesians. so bad. :( talk about a gracious society...
one of the girls fell in love with lionel lewis and it was hilarious. while everyone was cheering for him for yet another good save, she was shouting "i love you lionel!!" lol. my hero was indra. when he scored in the sixth minute i was overcome with joy. then someone fouled him and i almost fainted. i also got to see agu's famous back flips. flip, flip, flip. heh.
after the match we went to al ameen for supper. now i finally know what a milo dinosaur is all about. but it's so ex...$2... i can make at home myself ah. hehe.
windstruck was good man. i love it! i'm so glad that there are at least two good movies in the world - my sassy girl and windstruck. i've had enough of hollywood! :p i watched it at mingen's house this afternoon...a good start to my hols. but oh man i cried so much. i cried from the time the guy died all the way to the end of the movie (i remember that's what happened to lirong too). no happy ending though. i wanna sue them. anyway, i've borrowed lots of movies from mingen to watch during my hols. very excited... (and lirong! now i know how come you know about the animation thing on the top corner of the pages in a book... haha)
don't feel very productive this week. anyway, went to watch the match on sunday night and it was pretty good. it was nice to see the stadium filled with red. i'm really glad singapore won coz they'd worked so hard! and this is me outside the stadium looking rather ah soh with the handbag and handphone sigh...(i rather like the "wind in my hair" effect though. lol.)
and the answer is no.
just when i thought the week was picking up... heh well as you all know i did a really bad speech today. i bet this will haunt me forever. i wished i had just turned around and flung myself onto the whiteboard hehe. but to give everyone credit, you were so encouraging and sweet about it.
the other irksome thing today was that i went on a wild goose chase for the tickets to this sunday's soccer match (gonna watch it with my friends from church). haha man...what a journey. first stop, west mall. then the 7 eleven right at the other end of the bus interchange. decide to take a train to bukit gombak. locate 7 eleven but cashier tells me the nearest s'pore pools outlet is at WEST MALL. decide to go home before i explode. haha. later i take a train down to bukit batok again, post letter to korean penpal, find out that there are outlets at the ntuc downstairs and outside of west mall (two chances!). ntuc turns out to be shop and save. !!?? tickets sold out at the outlet outside. feel very weird at the outlet where everybody is buying 4D and toto. finally return home and watch shrek 2 to cool off.
shrek 2 is super funny!! i enjoyed it a lot more than i did for the first one. and i love it when i think the movie has ended, but no wait there's more! a whole singing extravaganza and far far away idol. lol. the way they made the whole movie was really smart.
so yay i'm ok now... haha. i know i shouldn't habour all these negative feelings inside me and i'm trying not to. i'm trying to let go...and give it a break. because everything happens for a reason and God won't put me through anything more than i can bear! i can do this!! hahaha.
finally it's wednesday night and i'm feeling rather qing song. haha what's the english equivalent for that? i'm not sure. oh, it's relaxed. lol. today i was writing random chinese words on the back of my sab notes just for practice... i like to do that when i'm bored or want to be distracted. heh. and also coz i'm so scared i'll forget all the words i know (which ain't much, but...). that'll be such a waste after ten years of struggles!! but already i'm starting to forget. anyway, fel joined me and we started writing jap and thai words... heh she remembers so much of her jap even though she took it way earlier than me! i have wasted my parents' money. :( sigh... i must dig up all my notes and start revising! especially my thai, coz my friends from chiang mai are coming in april!! yay!!! haha.
well yeah the first part of this week was kinda bad but it's all over now. especially glad that the debate is over! that was a dark cloud hanging over my head since last week. :p and today for aerobics we did pilates! at first i was really glad and excited coz 1) it means we're just on the mat, no running/squatting/stretching/stepping/etc etc; 2) i don't even have to pay and i can learn pilates!; 3) pilates will help me get my flat stomach. well point 1 is no longer counted coz even though i did none of those things i still almost died. point 3 is also invalid coz i didn't work my ab muscles at all - they went MIA on me. only point 2 is the saving grace. haha...
went out with the pumpkins (hee) yesterday and it was fun! i really enjoyed myself. we went jalan-ing around wisma, taka... oh man, so many good stuff at good prices! i had to literally DRAG myself out of the shops. in the end i just bought a lilac sleeveless top from U2 for $10. it's an investment ok. it'll last me for a long, long time. :) oh but we didn't get to take neoprints! we ought to! haha. sam and fel were in their kbox mood and went crazy singing songs... sent terence running across half of takashimaya... lol but they sing well.
this week felt longer than usual. guess that's because we spent more time in school. but i remember monday was nice. we had a good brunch at macs. i like it when we can all just relax and laugh a lot. tuesday after school my group did filming at ahhihh's void deck. that was quite an experience. and now the weekend has come...great...but i've got work to do. :( i feel like watching movies instead. heh.
oh well i just got home...didn't sleep the whole night. let me start from yesterday. i went down to school around noon to hand up the graphcomm project... what a load off my shoulders! thank God for the last minute inspiration that came on thursday. oh before that, i almost got cheated by the photocopy auntie at bukit batok who wanted to charge me $3 for binding!!! :p haha. good thing i mustered up my courage to tell her "no, thank you" and walk away. the shop in school charges only $1.60!! i'd have been so gek if i'd really paid $3. heh.
yeah then after that i met mingen at suntec coz i wanted to buy some presents for my mum but in the end, couldn't find anything. (thanks mingen for accompanying me!) instead, i bought some necessities for myself, like a handphone pouch for my precious handphone (don't want anything to happen to it again) and socks for my aerobics. btw, dorothy perkins is/was having a very good sale! i was overcome with surprise and then joy haha. tried on quite a number of clothes but in the end, RESISTED entirely and walked out of the shop empty-handed and wallet still intact. nowadays shopping doesn't interest me that much anymore... :) there was a really cute handbag going for around $29 though. but it's ok. it's a matter of whether it's a NEED or a WANT!
then at night i went down to church for my masterlife (this Bible study) retreat. at 10:30 we went to the sanctuary for the watchnight service, which was just beautiful...i wish we'll have more of such services in future. just singing and praying to the Lord. so wonderful... i cried for the year that had just passed. so many things had happened to me and this was truly an extra special and meaningful year for me. after the service the masterlife group continued with the retreat in the form of card games like dutch blitz and phase 10. it was my first time playing these games, and blitz was really fun! apparently it's a game made up by missionaries(?) who didn't want their kids playing those kind of poker card games... :) smart idea! phase 10 required a lot more warming up heh. our brains weren't functioning too well by that time of the night. it was a while before the game got into momentum but after that it was ok. just prefer the adrenaline rush that blitz gives.
ok i better catch some sleep now... can't believe 2004 is over.
