the terminal

wow i'm in such a good mood today man. hahaha. i woke up all happy and sunshine. maybe it's got to do with the fact that today marks the first week of NO MORE CATS & IAC!!!! haha yeah, and that the proposal essay for writcomm is finally over. ahh... i've been released from all that worrying and stress of this term. it's ending... the rest of this week is really gonna be much better! coz our radio project that's due tomorrow is more or less done. terence came to record with me and all that's left on my part is the paperwork...WHICH i'm gonna be doing in chinese!! erm...

well last night was nice... i went to watch the terminal with my parents at cine! the movie wasn't that great at first but it got better by halftime. i don't know, many times i was like torn between feeling sorry for tom hanks and laughing at his, silliness? no lah but it was really really sad...his predicament. but then later he became so so cute and funny, so i was laughing whole-heartedly already. but then it got really sad again and i ended up crying lots and lots. :( anyway, gupta the cleaner was so cute! "do you have an appointment?" hahahaha... and he was so busy during the romantic dinner! doing all his circus tricks...lol. i also liked the part where tom hanks kept going to see the lady officer. did you see the way he walked?? soooo funny!! the kiasu walk. hey this is like one of those rare hollywood movies where the guy doesn't get the girl in the end right? you know when they kissed i was like, oh no, don't tell me the movie's gonna end here. :( but then haha, yay, there was more...

if you see a helpless person in the airport who doesn't know the local language and needs some kind of help, whether dialling the phone or whatever, you will help right? if you pick up a handphone anywhere, you'll return it to the owner right? if you see someone lying on the road like he's in trouble, you'll help right?

we must be more compassionate!! ok ok? :)

david tao is the best!!!

haha yes i'm listening to david tao again... he's really good you know. each time i listen to his songs i'm just so amazed at his talent. the music that he makes is great. there're so many layers to it, each time you just discover more and more. (haha i bet you people are dying already, but...wait...there's more...) i think later i'll watch his concert dvd again. hahaha... aiyah i just feel like relaxing today, it's been a tough week. i have been looking forward to this day for so so long, but i don't actually feel 100% liberated coz the writcomm essay that's due next week is lurking at the back of my head. ugh!! yeah i'm worried about that. but it's silly to just keep worrying and doing nothing about it. anyway, things at school are slowing down a bit... next week i won't have to go to school for three out of five days. after that i have a marketing exam on the 18th. and then i'm free! but like everyone's been saying, if this is not counted as busy, then i don't know what year two is gonna be like man.

may i say, NO MORE CATS AND IAC FOREVER!!! finally, after an excruciating 14 weeks, they are out of my life and will never come back again (they'd better not!!). this calls for a celebration man! haha no no. i dumped all my notes but my mum picked them up and she said i might need them for next time, and i was like, no way man!!! hahaha. yeah so on wednesday i was actually feeling quite lighthearted. plus my jap test was over. i think there'll be no more jap for me, though it's nice and my teacher is really good. but i just don't want to spend any more time in school if i don't have to. hehe. anyway, the japanese are really really creative man. the way she taught jap was so amazing. all those teaching aids she had were so good! and i don't mean like transparencies or powerpoints. i think they're already beyond that. hahaha.

on thursday i took a three-hour outing to citilink mall in a bid to use up my charles & keith coupon before it expired. but alas, NO MORE STOCK. it's always like that you know!!! don't tell me all the women in singapore has the same shoe size as me and the same good taste as me!!! :p ok i was just kidding about the last part of course. but sigh, all the way there and no 收获。haha oh but yesterday my classmate kailin and i bonded over the topic of shoes. haha i guess it's true man, that if there's anything that can get two girls to click, it must be the topic of shopping. (or maybe food, in lirong's case. hahaha.) anyway, she told me that espirit has very nice slippers and they're super comfortable and can walk long distances in them and they're cheap too! and she was so sweet, when she was shopping at the espirit in mandarin hotel yesterday evening, she saw them and called me just to tell me that i could find them there. plus she checked that they had my size! so nice right!!!

oh sorry about yesterday's post...i mean, there was no post. somehow my exact feeling at that point was just to be uncontactable. and then after that i didn't know what to write already. you know how you're so easily contactable through your handphone and msn? sometimes i just wish technology never existed. things would be much simpler then. yup, i just want a simple life!!

i want to be uncontactable.

officially sick of mooncake!!!

hehehe yup stuffed myself silly with mooncake yesterday and today... mooncake is officially out-of-bounds for me man... haha that's actually not too great a problem, since there's not much left, since i've practically eaten up everything... awwww. last night my relatives came over for dinner. lots of food man!! plus my favourite hockchew fishball soup!!! :-D then i took a ride on my cousin's bike, but it was my uncle who rode it lah. it felt so good! the wind blowing through my hair... so breezy! (haha yes i wasn't wearing a helmet.) but too bad my mum doesn't allow me to ride with my cousin like, for real, yeah. too dangerous. if not he could send me to school coz we go to the same school!! well my parents had an accident like one week before their wedding last time. yeah so the reality of it is pretty scary lah. but haha the first time i rode on a bike actually, was when i was in thailand. i was carrying so many things behind, and each time we made a turn, i was like so stiff! haha. but now i'm fine yeah. ^__^ i just don't know how to get down from a bike gracefully yet. hahaha :p i will master this art one day. and i'm also wondering, if i should ever get the chance to ride for real... how to wear the helmet ah? and how to take it off without messing up my hair? hehe... i need motorbike for dummies.

the moon wasn't very bright or round last night huh... the sky was rather cloudy. i didn't do much except to eat (what else) and watch TV... wanted to watch the beautiful mind vcd but my relatives were talking too loudly hehehe. that's my family. all of them talk so loudly that whoever wants to be heard has to talk louder than everyone else, so in the end... well you can guess yeah. hahaha. my cousins had like DORAMON lanterns!! i was like HUH?!? haha wow... gone are those lanterns with just flowers on them or something. and i finally found my snowskin lotus seed paste mooncakes, but with egg :( so i just dumped the egg :p heehee. apparently people pay more for the egg. but why???? hahaha. saw some weird mooncakes, like pandan, black bean, and durian. i almost died when i ate the durian one today but nvm. i like durian, but it should just stick to being a fruit don't you agree!!! haha. last week i ate durian wrapped in crepes. what is the world coming to...

Our hope is in the Lord!! :)

God hath not promised skies always blue,
Flower-strewn pathways all our lives through.
God hath not promised sun without rain,
Joy without sorrow, peace without pain.

But God hath promised strength for the day
Rest for the labour, light for the way
Grace for the trials, help from above
Unfailing kindness, undying love.

God hath not promised we shall not know,
Toils and temptations, trouble and woes;
He hath not told us we shall not bear
Many a burden, many a care.

But God hath promised strength for the day
Rest for the labour, light for the way
Grace for the trials, help from above
Unfailing kindness, undying love.

God hath not promised smooth roads and wide
Swift, easy travel, needing no guide;
Never a mountain, rocky and steep,
Never a river, turbid and deep.

tuesday, aka adventure day, was one big rainy lunchtime man. lots and lots of rain. and maybe you don't know this, i mean, of course you don't, coz you've never seen me doing it, but I'M REALLY BAD WITH UMBRELLAS. haha yeah, just like how i'm really bad at crossing roads. i can't hold on to an umbrella for nuts man. so anyway, we started off with a search for clementi avenue 5 since terence's really bad with the roads in clementi and i have a bad memory ok i admit that. had no idea how to get to fel's nice doctor's clinic. but don't worry we got there safe and sound in the end. then it started pouring. :( poor pumpkin was flooded with mud and fallen leaves. went to ginza for lunch. wah! so many cars lining up to enter the carpark. it was a dreary day... but hey fel, sam, deb, lirong (err, and terence??), i look forward to coming to school everyday because of you. :)

OKAY OKAY... haha :)

so the horror week came and left. got through the writcomm essay, socpsych test, etc... felt so liberated after that. this week was not as bad. heh ok actually, it was, but nvm, coz it's over. creation of alumni website, jap test, radio stereo project, marketing quiz... all over! :) we had like 5-6 hr breaks on monday and tuesday and we spent all of that time stuck in the school library or the alumni cafe doing work (sort of). couldn't go out for lunch in the pumpkin - not that i missed the pumpkin, i just missed the lunch ok - until yesterday. yesterday was so funny!! hahaha. really really nice. :) had the marketing quiz. it wasn't that bad after all, in fact i did quite well. (not to boast!!) but so happy!! coz like i'm so not used to getting good grades. hehe really!! and somemore i couldn't finish studying...and i was stressed about the template...but God carried me through... :) marketing teacher was of course being funny as usual, wanted to call sam coz she was late for class. he was like, "so where's the troubled one." hahaha. i was so afraid she'd roll down the slope if she picked up his call. hehe. but she was too blur to realised her phone was ringing. hahaha classic sam!! practised all those lines to suan him back but when the time came, speechless! hahaha. :p had prawn mee at adam road, then ice-cream at venezia gutherie house. so nice! i ate tartufo. then later at socpsych, we had to do role-play about assertiveness. haha very funny. had a great time.

later i'm going for hcjc's mid-autumn festival. 中秋节 is here!! i'm so happy. i lurve mooncakes. hehe. i like the bing pi (snowskin) kind, without egg, lotus seed paste. hahaha. like placing an order now like that. eh nowadays got so many weird variations, what PANDAN, GINSENG, LONGAN, huh?? mooncake is mooncake!!! heh.

my dad was out of town for most of this week so everyday we would come back and report how many times we had thought of him during the day. hahaha! sounds crazy right? haha just kidding lah. anyway, he's so cute. my mum missed all his nonsense. we didn't really lah. hahaha. she taped all the episodes of 三十风雨路 for him you know. so funny... she'd be so kan cheong, like "ehh!! start already!! press record!! press record!!" lol. oh last night the ah pa died!!! SO SAD. BUT!!! i didn't cry ok!! heh. i was calm and collected. haha yeah right. i was bawling my eyes out. haha NO LAH... so anyway, this week i've had the luxury of getting fetched around...really grateful!!! to my mum and my brother lah. heh. but i can take public transport ok! i am independent! hehehe. i love 151... going to school and coming home hasn't been this convenient. next time in yew tee or even blue horizon, it won't be the same anymore. sigh sigh sigh.

i long... to travel... all those budget airlines are really calling out to me man!

ok updating... :) i have decided to take leave from cats. :) not that i'm proud of it, but cats is really, sigh, it's really one module that is so worth ponning. anyway, i'm now at home trying to get the great big essay on third culture kids done. it was supposed to be due yesterday but thank God it got extended to friday. yesterday night i almost had a panic attack when i looked at my calendar and realised how much work i have. it's gonna be one tough month man...sigh. siannn. haha. that's like the most often word we use on msn nowadays. mingen's away in australia now...my editor is happily in japan...and i am going to yew tee in two months' time. hehehe. oh well. i'm still going to school later for jap though. there's a reading test next week. oh, surprisingly, though i thought i had really killed myself (and my partner) at the last test (oral), i actually did quite well! i still don't know why, but nevermind, still thank God. :)

friday was a busy busy day. had school till 3, then Bible study, then went to watch my cousin and his SCDF combo band, then went to the airport to send sarah off. tried to see if the lost and found office had my handphone but too bad they didn't. then left the airport at about 11 pm... then my brother picked me up halfway. my cousin's band was not bad, they played all those nice songs like this love, smooth, angel, ... i don't know what was the occasion, but the police band also played. think it's some kind of army/government thing. it was near wheelock place. on the way to the concert actually, my auntie was telling me the story about zhang wuji. you know the ch 8 show on weekends? okay even though this is like the fourth version of zhang wuji so far (according to her), i still have no idea what the story is about what. hehe. i was just concerned about who he ends up with. coz you know how many girls like him now?!?!?! yeah but i was disappointed to find out that he ends up with zhao min. eee... why... haha. :p

on monday, we had a 3hr break so lirong and i came home for lunch. it was a good time just relaxing and talking...laughed quite a bit too, as usual. :) but the poor girl has craters in her mouth. ouch!! very scary. the ulcers are so deep! can imagine the kind of pain she's going through. paiseh to make terence send us home, then after that still ask him to pick us up to go back to school... but actually, since lirong wasn't feeling good, then if he can give us a lift also good lor. but in the end we took a cab back coz too late already and they were still at jurong lib so i didn't want them to be even later if they came to pick us up. heard that jlo (marketing teacher) asked them why they were late, the car too slow ah? hahaha.

then had lunch at jurong point on tuesday. i like the foodcourt there. the claypot chicken rice was good. :) after eating, lirong and i walked around, and of course i couldn't resist checking out sembawang and TS again, just in case they had more good deals. hehehe. actually, they do. TS has lin junjie and nan quan mama for $9.90. but it's not like i really really like them. i just heard they're good, that's all. but if i walk past the shop a few more times, i think i'll really buy. haha. jurong point is like the place to be at man. it has ALL the fast food restaurants (macs, kfc, burger king, pizza hut, long john's silver), plus delifrance, famous amos, liberty market, seoul garden, espirit, bum equipment, this fashion, bossini, giordano, popular, SEMBAWANG, TS, music junction, coffee bean, levi's, and many more. and the post office and the cinema. hahaha. but it's in boon lay. and next time when i'm in yew tee i'll be closest to lot 1 shoppers' mall, which is also not bad at all. :) coz it has SEMBAWANG. hahaha. :p

last night i got into some sort of meh lang mood and my poor friend kena-ed all the caps from me online. hehe. all terence's fault. oh well. my brother's going to army at the end of the month. i seriously think that army is the saddest time of a singaporean boy's life. they become psychologically scarred. heh. ok lah not really lah. but it would be the MOST TRAGIC time of a girl's life if they ever make us go army too. :p

san shi feng yu lu is the saddest show ever. there's rarely a happy incident in an episode, not to mention a totally happy episode. i cry almost every night. such a depressing show... sigh. but now huang biren is going to have a new show on weekends so that means we have to see her all seven days of the week?! and the new show is a weepy one also. OH NOOOOOOOOOO... haha. back to the essay. end of update.

of all times, i'm blogging now! i was all ready to go to bed already. but the inspiration came so i thought that i should not waste it. but now i think it has left me. thanks a lot ah. haha.

well anyway, seems like there's a trend... tuesday lunches are always such big adventures! very reality tv material. haha the week before school closed, fel got intoxicated right in the middle of clementi central. what an experience. she went into the dreamy stage for about one hour in mcdonald's, declared that their water was toilet water, but good thing she didn't fall into their toilet bowl. next up she started laughing in the pumpkin for no reason at all. then she ran up the stairs to the classroom with sam chasing after her. and finally she woke up halfway through writcomm tut with no idea what she had done. :) this week was abit scarier. had to find a doctor during lunchtime for her, and terence punctured his tyre in his haste. haha he was so comical, valiantly trying to change his tyre... his clothes got so greasy and his hands...oh my... finally managed to get a kind doc from clementi, thanks to my youth pastor. haha think up till now terence still has no idea what was wrong with fel... :p but she's better now, right? heh. really thank auntie lee luang for her help. and thank God too! i was praying so hard that there would be a doctor available... really thank You for answering my prayers. :)

just realised that i haven't exactly eaten chicken or eggs for many meals now. by the way, is it too much chicken makes the teeth become yellow? i mean like, too much chicken and no vegetables? hehehe. i feel like setting aside one meal a day dedicated to vegetables. think it's time i started introducing veggies to my body. hey, meet kailan... and kangkong... hahaha.

ronald susilo popped the question to li jiawei and she agreed! he's getting married!!!

wednesdays are the most excruciating days ever!! why do we have to go through stuff like cats and iac... creativity can't be taught!

okok shall sleep now. tomorrow morning i gotta churn out my essay outline.

didn't go to the shop today after all but sandy and her two boys still came to my place and it was enough, ENOUGH exercise to last me for a week just handling them. hehehe. joel's 4 and jeremy's 1. ahhh cute but hard to handle. joel locked himself in the room hehehe. scared himself for a minute but thank goodness we found the ancient key to open the door. as you all know we've been in this ancient house for a good old 16 years so our entire key system is rather, well, ancient. anyway, jeremy's face looked quite battered from all the falls that he has had and also i guess coz his brother can be quite rough at times. hehehe. joel was so full of energy and kept wanting to climb the mountain (our staircase) with his belt (the hula hoop). erm. haha. ahh but he speaks really good english for a kid his age. i'm such a bad influence in fact. hahaha. i smell of jeremy now! :)

had bak kut teh for lunch! wahh so nice. gonna have it for dinner again later. hahaha abit overdone but never mind. sigh by the looks of it, term 2's gonna be a lot tougher. :( when i've moved to the new place i'll start going to the gym. i bought a tuorqoise pleated skirt and a dress this week. i think crystal jade is overpriced. i trimmed my hair! it was a good haircut this time. ok this has been the random paragraph. out.

term break's almost over. i don't really know what i did last week...not much i think. hmm but i expanded my little cd collection further with jay chou's 七里香 and FIR's 同名专辑...yeah yeah, another of those $9.90 deals. but from TS this time. :) then i went to wr's house on sunday to hang out and she lent me jason mraz and the beatles. so cool! jason mraz is good. heh. hmm what else... visited sandy and her two boys -so cute!-... played for chinese service... helped out at the spanish lady's shop outside my house. ate so many croissants! do you know how much butter goes into these things?!?! oh my... while i was horrified, they were still too good to resist. heh. oh, last week was quite sad coz of li jiawei's losses. poor girl... and why do people keep talking about the money?? it's not about the money!! she worked hard and she deserved to win. did you see how sad she was after her match. that picture of her crying was so so heartbreaking. sigh...

this week... oh i lost my handphone! ugh (for the person who took it). sigh (for everything else). went to the airport on monday morning... early morning, like 5 am... to send my brother off. while he was checking in and stuff, i went to one of those seats and tried to sleep. then later mum called us to go and...i guess i left my handphone on the seat! i was too sleepy to notice anything, until we were like halfway home. sighhhhh..... not that i can't live without a handphone. just that... the money... so wasted. and all my contacts and messages inside... why? why? if you picked up a handphone, you would return it, right? why wasn't that person like that too? but i'm ok lah. got the sim card from singtel. i just don't want my parents to spend anymore money on a new handphone.

oh, went to watch stepford wives with my mum on wednesday. it wasn't that good...even my mum said so. such a pity! and i don't know why, i was actually quite freaked at one point. must have been the robots lah. heh. that part was very disturbing...

last night i missed singapore idol coz i was at the shop again. how was it? anyway, the people at the shop were learning how to cook some kind of spanish food called paella. the chicken and fish were very nice but essentially....hehe...i'm a chinese food kind of person. oh well sigh... paiseh!! then she gave me a bowl of cold tomato and pepper soup. i almost died but don't tell her. heh. going back again tomorrow, kids baking birthday cakes. haha should be fun lah.

haha hey. wasn't actually planning to blog today but changed my mind after seeing mingen's tag. heh. yeah RONALD SUSILO...absolutely fantastic. he won again today! beat that german guy. now he's into the top 8. oh man this is so exciting. but i hope nothing bad happens!! sigh. tomorrow he plays the thai guy am i right? not sure. oh man hope he wins... i think he can. he's really good. haha yeah mingen what happened to wang nan eh? now it's "my thorpey"...haha :p the last time the olympics happened was when we were sec 2. hehe so fun then.

i didn't watch the match today coz i went to the library to get inspiration for my essay. haha. the jurong east community library is so nice! :p just renovated eh. nice nice. i chose third culture kids as my topic. hope it's ok... i think it's very interesting. heh. actually i woke up today not having the slightest idea as to what my topic should be, but thank God it all worked out in the end.

today was a good day, except that my stomach was really giving me a lot of problems. ok it was a good day coz when i reached home with four books in tow, i found out that ronald susilo won :-D, and david tao was on tv!! hahaha. but this was back in the old days, when he looked a bit plump and the hair was bad. :p so my brother was dissing him like mad. ugh. but his girlfriend and my mum didn't dare to say anything. UNTIL...i went upstairs, then as i was coming down again, i heard my mum say, "yeah how come he so fat ah"... hahaha. she was in big trouble after that. hahahaha. no lah. but so funny. thought she was safe. :p

just finished sending out a friend's pw survey to some friends. so touched that they all said ok so willingly! ahh. :)

hey! this is so cool! i just downloaded the post-it software notes thing...you can leave notes on your desktop! hahaha very good. i'm gonna write down all my holiday homework so that i'll be constantly reminded of them and not have a happy holiday. :p

accompanied my friend to her casting for modelling jobs today. hmm. my first encounter with this industry... it was... i dunno. ok first we went to somewhere in outram. all those old *revamped* shophouses where the arty farty people do their stuff. then we went to somewhere near maxwell market. had to climb this very old staircase to get to the 3rd floor. i don't think i'm gonna describe what happened in detail lah... i'm going to talk about the weather. haha yes. it was HOT man! next i'm going to talk about lunch. we ate at maxwell market. :) but the famous chicken rice stall wasn't open. :( so in the end i ate fishball mee sua soup and the peanut ji zhou thing (sweet potato balls with peanuts?). and i ordered chin chow which came sealed in those bubble tea cups and with a handle! haha so innovative.

now we're hosts to two asean scholars, one from the phillipines (girl) and another from thailand (boy). i haven't met the boy yet but we brought the girl to a guitar concert at ucc last night.

ALMOST forgot to add - RONALD SUSILO WON!!!
haha ok, you must be thinking he won the olympics gold medal or something. he didn't, but he's close. he beat lin dan of china, who's like the world no. 1. i can't believe i missed that match man! it was last night. i didn't know! then i woke up this morning to yi lin's sms...what a great thing to wake up to! :D caught a bit of the match on tv mobile just now. think it'll be the highlight of the highlights later. yup.... haha. he's gonna get an olympic medal! ahh that's so cool.

wanna go watch dim sum dollies...... haha. [update: but it's over! argh. just checked - run ended on saturday. haiyoh.]

listening to jay chou's yeh hui mei now. it's so nice! hehehe. another good deal from sembawang! :) now i have david tao, mayday and jay chou in my comp. plus the temptations and michael w. smith. good stuff. really happy... after such a tiring day. glad to be back at home. glad it's the hols.

after grammer test (which went ok), took a bus to orchard with fel, deb and sam. was pretty high at first coz i hadn't been on serious town retail therapy for seven weeks! haha. no lah, felt happy coz no more school. though not exactly, but still... ate lunch at scotts. wow the last time i ate there was dunno when man haha. debbie and i liked the strings of little christmas lights hanging down from the ceiling. they reminded her of paris. haha... they reminded me of, aiyah, christmas lah. haha. fel ordered some super spicy soup thing, almost killed her nose. haha. and sam ordered some mushroom dish even though she doesn't eat mushrooms. just like how she doesn't eat the prawns in prawn mee. or the chicken in chicken rice. sigh this girl is one of a kind man. hahaha.

then we went to far east level one. couldn't really remember how to wear a belt (ha.) so deb had to help me. bought two coz i needed a belt and two for $10 was the deal. after shopping for about three (?) hours, they left, and i carried on at wisma/taka. saw a ch 8 actor. and the famous amos cookies were really calling out to me man haha. but i was strong. then i took a train to citilink coz i just couldn't wait anymore for my charles & keith slippers... the first time i laid my eyes on them was eons ago. they didn't have my size then, and the next time i checked, there was no stock. today the wisma outlet didn't have my size again, and i thought, i have to buy them!! grr. haha. so i went to the other outlet in citilink. and got them! haha so happy. they're black, so can match with a lot of things. plus, they were at a reasonable price. oh well, don't know why, but all the clothes and stuff didn't really interest me today. there were soooo many different designs! how to choose like that? hehe. plus, if i had to compare prices, i would just go crazy. so i decided to save my money instead. in the end i only bought the cd, belts and slippers. all good deals ok!! heh.

wanna watch fahrenheit 9/11........

today's officially the last day of term one! but it's so anti-climax coz we have a big grammer test tomorrow so i don't actually feel much joy in me right now. hehe sigh...anyway, WOW i survived my first term in poly. hehehe ok. it's been a pretty good first term. we get the next 2 weeks off but seriously, since when are holidays really holidays? the only times you get them for real are after your PSLE, O levels, A levels... haha. means you don't actually have holidays for most part of your schooling life. well we went to serangoon during lunchtime today coz debbie had to go home to get her laptop and print notes. oh man almost died in the pumpkin!! heh. the journey was seriously a bit too much for me to take. :p (but i still appreciate ter lah.) later we went to KAP for lunch. wow macs had never tasted this good. i even ate my fries plain! hahaha... oh, saw a cute little boy there. 小圆圆。haha! so round.

who watched the swearing-in last night? i felt so nervous watching it, coz lee hsien loong looked so nervous! heh. but you know, i kinda realised that last night's ceremony was a BIG thing for singapore. kinda like a momentous occasion yeah, changing our prime minister. it's just that, i was at home watching it alone, so the atmosphere wasn't really there. anyway, what was fann wong doing there?! haha i was quite shocked. but good to know that my dear zoe tay was invited too. hehe. saw their pic in the papers today. eh what's this about a girl who asked to be invited? and this rjc boy who also asked to be invited? i want to ask to be invited too! but it's over already lah. haha. but i didn't know you could do such a thing...sigh. haha today sam and i were bemoaning the fact that our dearest pm goh has stepped down. she's from marine parade, haha, so she's even more on than me. we love pm goh! right, sam? hahaha... this afternoon when my socpsych teacher said something like "our ex-prime minister goh...", i was like "no! no! we love pm goh!" hahahaha. :p aiyah but of course i'll support our new pm lee too. :)

maybe you know by now that every friday there'll be some funny story from marketing. haha well today i got fooled! big time. argh. i can't even describe how i got fooled coz it's a long story and i'm still seething from it. haha no lah but it was a good one man. my teacher is the ultimate. then he drove past me as i was walking out of school and he gave me one of his funny looks. ahh what a way to end my term. haha. "mental kid"...

hey singapore idol was surprisingly entertaining! haha...really not as cheesy as i feared it would be. in fact, it was so funny that i couldn't eat my papaya properly. hehehe... ok, every wednesday, 8:30 pm, right? must watch. :) the judges were ok...no fake american accents! haha...makes the show watchable. hey gurmit singh can sing! he should join the competition too, if he wasn't the host. ahh the contestants were so funny... the lemon tree guy, the guy who sang SO SOFTLY but just didn't let the judges off (i remember his number - 5569!)... but the stripper was horrible! ugh. :p anyway, there were some pretty good singers... so hope it gets better each week. :) is it mean to laugh at them? but i don't mean any harm... :( oh dear.

ndp isn't enjoyable if you aren't where the action is. :p and the only time i was at the national stadium was when i was p5, like everybody else. heh. and we got lost after that. but anyway, wah, what's with the music this year man. they made the national songs so hip-hop and pop and stuff...haha it was kinda weird. my aunties were like...huh? haha. anyway, i'm sooo sad that pm goh is stepping down. i like him very much! he is very fatherly. hehe. more fatherly than father lee. haha! did you get that? aiyah my brother was being very nonsense throughout the entire parade. :p and i overate again... :( national day weekend is as bad as chinese new year man. all that steamboat and muah chee, longan, durian, cake... haiyoh.

haha...osama bin tay tay...terence!!! :p

haha what nonsense is this man...on msn now with my classmates. they say siew sounds mongolian. and lim sounds like a terrorist (?!). and tan sounds like an orange. i'm cracking up...

oh, happy national day! :) haha it's tomorrow lah. tonight my mum's family is coming over for steamboat. it's gonna be so so fun! haha yeah my mum's family is very funky one. heh. eh not fair, the school people get tues off as well. how come we don't? we're students also what. sigh but nvm, my hols are next week! :-D i'm trying to convince my mum to change our holiday venue from yewtee to johor bahru. just shop there for a day lah...better than going to a condo 20 mins away from home right. hehehe.

last month we baked brownies, so we decided to cook something this time round. and ashley joined us, and even offered her kitchen, and even offered to pay for everything...but of course we had issues with that last one. heh. btw her parents are funky!! ok anyway before that, i took the mrt - and the last time i took a train was like more than a month ago coz i was happily using bus concession last month...but now i've decided it isn't very worth it. i dunno, still experimenting - to chua chu kang and decided to visit lot 1 shoppers' mall. wah! within like less than an hour, i bought a pair of black pants and a mayday cd. super good deals. very proud of myself. hahaha... been needing the black pants for a long time already. bossini is having a very good sale over there! how come i don't get such things in clementi. that's why moving to yew tee sounds much better to my ears now. :) but i can get giordano jeans at $19 in clementi. ahh... haha. ok so anyway, we made a whole mess of ashley's kitchen but somehow managed to come up with some palatable food by 8 pm. then we dug into ice-cream and dissed the bachelor bob. what kind of show is that?! haha my marketing teacher's favourite show..."we made a connection..." hahaha. yeah right. but seriously, you should have seen us. we were in utter disbelief at the fakeness of the show. i was just so annoyed that i kept eating the ice-cream.



please don't tell me you all are gonna cook dinner for me tonight...


oh yes we are...see - we went to ntuc already!


i'm gonna film this so that if i die tomorrow of food poisoning, the whole world will know why.


oh come on, it's fine!...(the potato chips are really nice!)


just look at that! (the water's just there...you won't be needing it.)


yeah yeah and we're all one big happy family. :)

is the weekend really here? gosh i waited like so long for it to come...bad week! ugh. heh...ok now going to ash's house for some culinary session :) wish us strong stomachs! cya.

ugh...when was the last time i cried man. now i'm feeling so blue. :( i just watched tonight's episode of double happiness. yeah, the happy fish show on ch 8. i mean my mum taped it and we watched it together later. tonight, jiaqi (edmund chen), who had gone to afghanistan to do volunteery medical work, was found dead in an accident. and to see how his whole family grieved...but then they still tried to keep the news from their mother... oh man my tears just flowed. i used up three pieces of tissue paper! now i feel so tired. really, to see all of them so sad...i was so sad too. we gotta love and cherish our families man. heh. oh well it may have just been a tv show, but still. the message is very true. ahh, the government will be very happy if they read this. :) family matters! hahaha. eek i always cry when i watch such things. that's why i stay away from those movies that i know will make me cry. like windstruck and brotherhood. (there's something about korean movies...haha ok never mind.) but that means i'm also missing out on the good stuff. haha sigh. i would watch them in the comfort of my own home, i guess...but i'm not a pirate, and i'm not rich either. in other words, i won't download stuff but i won't spend money buying them too. people like me just spoil the market huh? haha.

lastly, just a little observation here: pokka's ice lemon tea is much nicer than seasons'. :)

i did it!!!


that's ahhihh, sahra and fehuih. ahhihh's supposed to kill us but only fehuih looks the part (well, kinda) coz i got tired waiting for the pic to be taken and so i dropped the act. :D it's true!


this is manu. she does yoga...


...or so we thought.


nothing better to do.


we are tall and we have a problem with your shoes.


the moon and us!


self-explanatory...

wild night at eve's! haha had sooo much fun tonight. went crazy seeing all my old friends and we took a whole lot of pics with crazy poses which i'll try to upload later. ashley has a hilarious video of us. must get a copy from her!!! i was laughing so hard till my sides ached. i ate lots of chocolate fondue also. i think that's what it's called. at first i was like making sure i was 10 feet away from it but in the end i succumbed to temptation and ate a whole lot of it. ugh i kinda feel sick now heh. i ate it with strawberries at first but later there were bananas and i liked that one better. :) haven't seen my friends in ages!!! we made soooo much noise at the clubhouse haha. then of course there was an attempt at the traditional dunking but it didn't work out so never mind. i was kinda feeling scared for ahhihh. heh. only because she was wearing a skirt that cost (a whole lot of money). :p kidding. miss my friends sooo much. all that craziness that we had back in school...WE REALLY DID A LOT OF CRAZY STUFF. if not for them i wouldn't have gotten through sec 4!!! thought maybe we'd play mafia tonight but don't think we did. haha they got eve a present from blush! trust them to do something like that. hahaha. yeah i think ahhihh's real proud of her idea hehe. whatever dear. tonight was basically eve's farewell party but i don't think we did a very good job of it hehe. well hopefully we can all go down to the airport. mingen, yi lin and i were trying to shoot some pics that had us and the moon. but it's like if you off the flash you can see the moon and not us. and if you turn it on you can't see the moon. so finally mingen came up with a pretty good idea to take the pics by some lamps but she made me squat here, bend there, ahh so many awkward poses haha. you can see the results later. what else did we do ah. think we basically took a lot of pics the whole night hahaha. i also got to catch up a bit with the3ofthem. sorry guys, didn't spend that much time with you all. next time ok? then i went home with ahhihh. we had so much to talk about but the journey was just too short heh. came home and ate an ang ku kueh. bad idea!!! now i feel like eating instant noodles. argh. well i really really missed my friends. :D thank God for tonight!

back again. think i'm in the blogging mood this weekend again. haha. so we're not going to malacca for holiday anymore. guess where we're going!! YEW TEE!!! what kind of holiday is that?! we're living in singapore, not malaysia leh! going to yew tee for holiday when you live in west coast is...kinda ridiculous. heh. i am still incredulous. aiyah coz that's where we're gonna move to in october and that's actually my uncle's condo apt and my family can't take enough days off to go to malacca so we're gonna treat the yew tee condo as our holiday resort. i don't know whether to be amused or disappointed. haha. granted, we have not lived in that part of singapore before and we also have not lived in a condo before. so it's still something new. but but but...ahh i need to blow some air. heh.

and i'm also not gonna do pilates anymore. :( why why why. the class is full. argh now how am i gonna get my flat stomach and slim arms. hehehe. ok next resort is SHAPE, the mag. courtesy of my brother's girlfriend's mother. hahaha. though i thought the cover of the first issue seemed to SPEAK to me, u know with all those things like "zap trouble zones: abs, arms & thighs"...but it was $5 - too ex. and a bit ridiculous to buy this kind of mag. i'm actually not that serious about slimming down. no i'm serious. i may act as it's the end of the world but actually, it doesn't bother me that much really. i just wish i could look better but it's nothing more than that. why be so miserable over this kind of thing in the first place? my mum always tries to remind me that i should be grateful for what i have. and i am!! count your blessings and you'll probably run out of numbers. hehehe.

tomorrow got lecture at 8 am!!! :( but i took a nap just now so i'm still up. then for dinner i ate my mum's famous chicken wings heh. super nice. ate like A LOT. oops. oh...but IT'S OK! NEVER MIND! I'M GRATEFUL FOR WHAT I HAVE! hehehe. goodnight~

haha wow, first time i'm home so early... like before noon i reached already. later can get to watch showbiz. finally!! haven't watched it since school started. i don't know why i like it haha. the guys are funny but sometimes their show is so lame. :p

so the quiz today was fine. thank God i didn't fall asleep during it or something, coz this morning i woke up at 7+ to mug. but in fact i was feeling quite energised. hehe. kept shaking my legs. hahaha. and i was trying to use my common sense to do the quiz. HAHAHA. my teacher kept smiling mysteriously each time he walked to my desk and looked down at my paper. haiyoh!! was that meant to be reverse psychology or intimidation or something?? hehe. marketing is always interesting and fun. oh my teacher claimed that he wasn't trying to race us last week. it was terence who was endangering our lives. haha. and all he could see was the girls squashed at the back with their mouths wide open and gesturing wildly. haha we were indeed screaming. haha ok maybe it was just me.

oops past 2:30 already...time for showbiz. heh.

isn't that song meaningful... :) this place is not our home, we're just passing through... things on earth are temporal, here today and gone tomorrow. so don't hang on so tightly to them... and when you're having so many conflicting, negative feelings inside you, God will calm them. He will catch you when you're falling. ahh i just feel so secure and loved. this song spoke to me... i hope it speaks to you. :)

this week has been the most taxing so far. like, four assignments due or something. plus a marketing quiz tomorrow. the word 'quiz' is so misleading. it sounds like something easy. we all know it won't be. haha. i haven't started studying yet. i think my study mode only kicks in after 10 pm or something. horrible right? no wonder pimples are appearing on my forehead again. what happened to olay? how come it doesn't work wonders for me anymore... :( this morning i woke up real early to rush my radio assignment. thank God the inspiration came. :) i ate a lot of milo puffs for breakfast. then i had lunch with my friend and her husband at the south buona vista duck rice stall. not bad eh! but how come everything famous always has 2 of it? like katong laksa, jalan kayu roti prata, and this duck rice thing.

hols in like 2 weeks' time! i can't wait. :) we'll be going to malacca for a few days. i'm looking forward to it because our last holiday to rompin was so relaxing. but then this time i think i'll want to do some shopping so... hehe. i also wanna visit my friend, i miss her boys so much. they're so cute! but the older one keeps dao-ing me. argh. and the younger one fell down the stairs in my house. wahhh. hahaha. i have a lot of friends with kids already huh? hehe. you should see the pic of the thai baby boy i have on my desktop. you'll love him. i love kids. :)

this week's 8 days is pretty good. :) jacelyn tay, daniel ong and beatrice chia. beatrice chia is always so funny! she's so outrageous. i still remember cracking up over her email interview with the sunday times months ago. but i'm still waiting for david tao to appear on the cover!! :p oh last week was kinda like penpal week. hehe. received stuff from my swedish, german, korean and french penpals!! so cool!! but i haven't written back yet. :( oops. it's just that the right mood hasn't come along yet... my korean penpal sent me earrings and an anklet even though she was busy mugging! still is. you know how we always think we're suffering over here? apparently the south koreans have got it worse! those poor things. my french penpal sent me a tape full of tori amos' songs. she's such a great fan of tori amos. heh. well i always appreciate truly talented musicians. just like you know who... haha.

is the great singapore sale ending this week?! the end of the sale is usually very good!! that's when they really slash the prices, i think. maybe i'll make one last mad rush for it after school on friday. hehe. yesterday at my school's bazaar's last day i bought a bag and a t-shirt! half-impulsive and half-paiseh coz i stood there for so long. i walked away from the stall with the strange feeling that i got cheated. :( true enough, my mum thought my buys weren't worth it. sigh. but anyway, can't do much about it now. except to stop spending from now on. i must be a good steward of my money. :) things on earth are here today and gone tomorrow... you can only have so many clothes and shoes and bags and accessories... but you won't die without them. so just live. :)

Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth

Would care to know my name

Would care to feel my hurt

Whom am I, that the bright and morning star

Would choose to light the way

For my ever wandering heart

 

Not because of who I am

But because of what You've done

Not because of what I've done

But because of who You are

 

I am a flower quickly fading

Here today and gone tomorrow

A wave tossed in the ocean

A vapour in the wind

Still You hear me when I'm calling

Lord, You catch me when I'm falling

And You've told me who I am

I am Yours

 

Who am I, that the eyes that see my sin

Would look on me with love

And watch me rise again

Who am I, that the voice that calmed the sea

Would call out through the rain

And calm the storm in me

 

Not because of who I am

But because of what You've done

Not because of what I've done

But because of who You are

 

I am a flower quickly fading

Here today and gone tomorrow

A wave tossed in the ocean

A vapour in the wind

Still You hear me when I'm calling

Lord, You catch me when I'm falling

And You've told me who I am

I am Yours

hey!! i really really like this new design!!! hehehe. took me a long while man, to figure out how come everyone with new blogs had such nice templates!! then i finally realised that blogger put in more stuff. haha. i love the spots!!:) and now i got a chatterbox! seems like that is what everyone is having on their blogs nowadays. looks nice anyway. i'm fine with anything. took out the song though. just didn't work with the template. hmm. this html thing drove me crazy this afternoon man. i came home at 3+ and wasted my time on it. sigh. i was hoping i would do some work lor. tomorrow morning must wake up early and do. coz this weekend i'll be very busy, with Youth Sunday!! haha i think i've been influenced by the pumpkin gang's blogs. now i write more singlish... not that it's bad (lah)! haha. anyway, i STILL need you, mingen!! heh. i need you to help me figure out a whole lot of html stuff. :)

today was fun, coz of marketing tut. we kena suaned again hehehe. i seriously freaked out coz i thought my teacher was poking my precious screen. :p heh oops. it has already suffered from the grape juice. let nothing more happen to it... haha. then later we squeezed into terence's nissan (which made us appreciate the pumpkin a whole lot more) to go to adam road hawker centre for lunch. along bukit timah road, my teacher came along and i screamed. haha. think i really gave fel a heart attack (sorry). anyway, he was so funny. wanted to race terence. hello, we were all packed like sardines (5 girls at the back) lor!! i screamed for our lives. hahaha. all the way down bukit timah road. then terence got lost and we ended up at thomson!! haiyoh. hahaha. that's why it's always an adventure. actually wanted to go to PS after lunch but no time. yesterday went to ebase and the clothes there very nice, but not me, right? hehe. their budget corner quite exciting. hahaha guess why....

i couldn't believe that there wouldn't be any socpsyh tut next week until i think i drove the teacher mad. hehe. that means that next fri school will only be from 9-11 you know. isn't that rather unbelievable?? haha. but next 2 weeks really got a lot of things due. sigh. to think that i still haven't found my motivation to do any of the work yet... heh.

wednesday was boring. i missed the pumpkin gang a lot. haha. sorry, just came up with the name. thursday was better coz we had radio. haha the buggys/buggies are like our fixed spot for recording already. was very thirsty but then i couldn't get the water cooler to work!! it was very embarrassing coz the guy in front of me could. humph. then at night it was my last thai class. my teacher gave me the thai keyboard sticker coz i just realised that i can install the thai font (and others, like jap and korean) into my comp. heh. so happy!!!

i've eaten 4 different kinds of pau's in like two weeks! can u believe it??? tiong bahru, ho kee, clementi, and another one. ahhhh i'm gonna stay away from them for as long as i can. heh. tomorrow me and the firefly gang are gonna bake brownies for the youths. :) i'm gonna learn pilates in august! haha yes, for real! believe me!

well it just seems like ever since i started school i haven't been in the mood to blog... maybe coz sch is routine and nothing like the freedom i had for the last 7 months. now i don't really have anything i want to say...hmm...but i guess some of the interesting stuff i've done this week is going to ghim moh market for lunch (where i met 2 of my old classmates!), then -this is funny- getting a sudden flash of inspiration to go down to holland v for a mad spot of shopping. glad my friends enjoyed themselves. i'm the so-called F&B manager of my group of friends hahaha... coz i live in the west while all of them live in the east. so i have to think of where to eat and stuff... but it's great to have a friend who drives. really appreciate it. but most of the time we have to rush back to school hehe. always an adventure... anyway today i carried my dictionary, laptop and textbook to school but had to go eat ice-cream with friends after that. so i passed my dictionary and txtbk to him hehe. will probably get them back tomorrow or thursday... oh but something really really embarrassing happened after that. i got down from the bus and was crossing the road when suddenly my right slipper flew off my foot and landed quite a distance in front of me. i could have died!!! imagine all the drivers in their cars laughing at me!! :( my worst nightmare came true!! and that is why i've never liked crossing roads. hehehehe. sigh. grrr... i'm wearing sandals from now on! oh yeah, x:odus (is that how it's written?) is having a sale and their slippers are like $19.90! the designs are not bad too. but i tried them on and they kinda came off while i walked around. so GOOD THING I DIDN'T BUY AH. heh. if not i'll never cross a road again. anyway, decided to wait for the black charles & keith slippers to come back again. plus now got vocher from nkf...hehe. well that's it for now i suppose. dunno when i'll write again. oh tomorrow i'm going for the showcase of best tv commercials from 03/04 at fort canning green. they'll be showing royston tan's censorship-satire "Cut" too! i think it's a really good deal. can't wait! plus will be meeting bern they all... will be fun man. haha. yeah yeah, today ate ice-cream after lunch, then venezia ice-cream after school, then honey glazed chicken for dinner. die!!! heh. now suddenly i feel like blogging more. haha. but i gotta do my marketing project...so cya.

ohh...i wish that i had blogged more regularly. haven't done so since school started. now i have lots to write and it's daunting. anyway, school has been great on many counts. this really amazes me. i actually like all my modules and lecturers!!! haha. i don't think i've ever been this happy in a school before. not that i'm SUPER happy or anything, coz how happy can you be in school right. but comparatively...yeah. i'm so glad that i'm here now. to think that seven months ago...things were so uncertain for me and i even came to the point where i didn't really care if i studied anymore or not. because i'll probably end up as a housewife one fine day!!! why do i need to study so much?? hehe. ok anyway, i'm really thankful for the way my life has turned out. it sure looks different from what it was a year ago. i've done everything: bummed, worked, shopped, watched TV, slept at unearthly hours... in these seven months. and now, here i am, doing mass comm...which is really very interesting indeed. i can safely say that learning seems much more meaningful to me now, which was what i was looking for in the very first place. i can't believe i've really found it!!!

ok so let me tell you what i'm doing in school. there's marketing, which probably is my favourite subject. plus, the teacher's SUPER FUNNY. how do i describe it? i think it's called deadpan humour. i don't know. but the thing is, he's soooo funny. and he teaches well too. i really like marketing. maybe i'll be a businesswoman next time. heh. and strategise the whole day long on how to kick away all my competitors. all my teachers teach well actually. my writ comm teacher is also a rather witty guy and his style of teaching is so clear. he's got to be my best english teacher. at least now we're dealing with real stuff and the real world, and not writing essays to prepare for the exam. everything was geared towards the exams, wasn't it? and he plays movie clips (finding nemo) and MTVs (kylie minogue, ahem) during lectures so SCORE! for him. radio production is probably the most practical module this sem. i'm actually quite intimidated by it. heh. coz it's practical stuff! you gotta DO stuff! that involves...machines! i'm so bad at that kind of thing. i still am not even sure how to use the MD player. hehe. but at least radio has opened my eyes...to things like, you can listen to radio on the internet. ha ha. how swakoo have i been man??? i really had no idea i could do that! until i had to do an assignment which required me to breath and dream radio. then i found out. and started tuning in to 933. i like chinese music! nothing wrong with that. i tuned in for less than a week which was suicidal since i was so unfamiliar with it but thank God for sending my ex-Sunday School teacher who listens to it like everyday. the whole day. heh. moving on, there's web design & comp graphics. i like that too except for the fact that it's 3 hours long. but anyway, i'm just real glad that i'm learning how to utilise my comp to a greater extent after spending so much on it. which by the way! the other night, i almost killed it in the most tragic manner. grape juice. sounds innocent enough but it isn't. i was happily eating my grapes and everything was going fine until my. last. grape. i was already down to my last one!!! but it had to happen. it had to... i bit into it, and the juice SPLURTED ALL OVER my keyboard and onto my beloved screen which incidentally, i wipe faithfully everyday like someone who's just bought a BMW. i almost sent my family into operation laptop CPR mode or something. out came the hairdryer (my brother's idea) and the spectacles cloth. but up till this day, i still get my heart in my mouth whenever i hear some crackling coming from my dear speakers. i would love to think that it's just the radio transmission...the poor radio transmission...sigh. ok anyway back to webgra. we are learning photoshop and next it's dreamweaver. i think there's html too. so i'm really seeing the value of this module. heh. lastly, there's social psychology & communication. the thing is, the lecture is first thing in the morning on Mondays, and the tutorial is the last thing in the afternoon on Fridays. so i don't think i've actually grasped much. just bits and pieces here and there about self-perception and stuff. so someone please buy me those special coloured glasses which would make me think that i look like a million bucks in the mirror. :)

yeah so that's my modules. the timetable isn't so bad after all. my lunch breaks are two hours long, and i have a classmate who drives this orange thing which we all affectionately (of course) call the Pumpkin, so that means we head out of school for lunch. just that he's a dangerous driver driving a dangerous car. we'll need helmets and insurance next. haha.

i don't dress up at all but i do love the freedom of wearing my own clothes and not uniform... it's just so much more comfortable to be clad in jeans and t-shirt for school. oh yeah but i've bought like 4 tops within 3 days. BUT i got them at like $6 and $10 so DON'T say i'm a spendthrift! but anyway, most of the time i'm in my jacket coz i get cold so so easily. heh.

what am i so thankful to God for? i can't really remember specific examples but i can remember that He took real good care of me when school started. still is. you know how it's like when you are in a new environment and chances of things going wrong are so so high... but it hasn't happened to me. and little things just keep coming my way to help make school much more bearable and can i even say this, enjoyable. haha. but well for one i'm thankful for the laptop. at first i wasn't thankful enough but now i am. especially after the grape juice incident. i'm thankful that my parents have the ability and the willingness to get me this laptop. the same goes for my handphone. and clothes. and shoes. basically, everything. i really feel so fortunate! but all these are just TEMPORAL things, you know? i think what's most important to me is that these things reflect God's and my family's and my friends' love for me.

I played lots of badminton today. Haha. It was great exercise. I love badminton. I think I might even choose it as my CCA. Haha yes you heard me right. I'm going to be in a SPORTS CCA. Hahaha... Not many people turned up today but it's ok lah, since there were only two courts. We have some badminton pros and they're scary man. When we played doubles, they were just shooting really fast and furious balls (ok, take it in the badminton sense ok? I don't know how to describe sports action) so I was like telling my fellow nothing-to-do at the other side of the net, Ok, let's go take a water break now... Haha. But it was cool lah. Had a good time. Hopefully we'll have it more often. The CC also has karaoke, haha. Maybe next time we'll do that. Then I went to Clementi Central with my two little sisters for dinner and to collect photos haha. Good thing I walked past Giordano! Coz I saw that they finally had ladies' jeans going at $19!!! You don't know how long I've waited to see that big red $19 sign go up. Heh. Made the girls hold my stuff for me so that my hands could be free - I was just so excited - to check out the jeans. Turned out that they only had one design for size 26 so I went to try that on. It was called hiphugger bootcut (which I like), but there was no lycra. Aiyah. The colour was also not super nice, just ok. Haha but I just couldn't pass up that chance to get my jeans at nineteen bucks! Ok why am I typing all these now...haha maybe coz I feel guilty about making such a fast purchase. Really, I was just like, eh $19! Got size 26? Only one design? Nevermind! I go try! Ok not bad! Need to alter length! Ok pay now, collect tomorrow! And it was all over. Haiyah, I hope it turns out well tomorrow!!! Baleno has 50% sale storewide, by the way. Samuel & Kevin looks good too. Tomorrow will see further. Today didn't have time to check them out. Went to KFC for dinner and ordered the Chicky Meal haha! Got the dunno-what Spiderman toy. See at church which cute boy to give it to... haha. Today Jeremy (the baby) came over for a short while and he fell down the stairs!!! I felt so terrible. Sigh. Ok and the Portugal vs England match? I just felt sad for England lah.

We sold the house! AND bought Blue Horizon! TODAY! Wow... God really is amazing, you know. Really thank Him for giving my parents the wisdom to make all these big decisions. Imagine buying and selling in the same day. When we have been trying to sell for the past two years... Ok, actually I think we have had the intention of selling since like ten years ago but it only got very active (and desperate) about eight years after that, and now, it sure is hard to believe that the house has finally been sold. Am I dreaming? I really can't believe this is happening! I came home from orientation to this good news but it only sunk in after my Thai class. In fact, wait, has it even sunk in yet? Haha. After so long...my mum is finally getting her dream fulfilled. All these years of her having to take care of us and the house, as much feelings as I have for this house, I also want to move out because this is what she deserves. Blue Horizon! We got the third floor unit, by the way. :) But we can't move straight into the apartment. We got to rent a flat somewhere and hold out for a few months first. But as my parents say, good things are worth waiting for, and what's a year when compared to ten? Those are all true, I guess. And I'm also glad for my mum that she doesn't have to keep cleaning up the whole house anymore just because there's going to be another viewing.

Wore all black tonight for Thai class and my teacher thought I'd slimmed down. Haha I wish! Ate fried chicken wings just now, so I know this won't be very possible anyway. Orientation was fine. I woke up this morning feeling ok because I knew that it would all be in God's hands and I had nothing to worry about. It turned out to be true. Nothing embarrassing or difficult or rudely annoying happened. Heh. My class is pretty nice. In fact I'm feeling excited about starting school on Monday...well I'm just curious to see what it's like lah. Everything would be so new. We have to bring our laptops on Monday but I don't want to carry it in that backpack! Heh. Anyway, Mondays are the worst. 8 am to 5 pm. Sigh. At least no classes on Wed and Thur mornings. But everyone (seniors and lecturers) says that Mass Comm is gonna be A LOT of hard work. Why did they have to emphasise that. If it really is true, then I won't be having much of an outside life anymore... and that's precious to me. Like my weekends are precious to me. Ok what am I talking about... I should get some sleep.

Had retail therapy yesterday! Was good. Bought slippers and crop pants. The crop pants from 37degrees only cost $15! So don't need to buy from Giordano already. Heh very good. Oh I sure will miss Flowers in the Attic. I love hanging around in the shop. Yesterday, I went through their stuff so many times because my friend was busy and I had to look like I was doing something...oh I don't know why...probably because I got all nervous with the boss around. I'm afraid of the boss! Haha. Oh anyway, two of their dresses are featured in this week's 8 Days. The rose print black tube dress is nice. Just that I have too many rose print stuff already, and I don't wear tubes. Haha now did that sound right... Ah, it's not that I can't go to the shop anymore just because my friend won't be there. But it'll just be different, you know what I mean right? Oh, but I gotta tell you about the arm-chair they have in the shop. It's so comfortable that the moment you sink yourself into it you never want to get up. :)

Ahhihh and I did some stupid stuff in the bookstore yesterday a la our RGS days ha ha ha. I don't know how to explain the game that we have but it sure is fun. It takes a lot of intellect to play that game too! So don't say we are...ah, whatever. But she was the better player yesterday. Oh why am I even admitting this here... Anyway, then we chanced upon the complete works of Shakespeare and that came at just the right time because before that we were trying to recall one very interesting passage from Julius Caesar. "touch thy instrument a strain or two"... Hahaha. Classic literature moment. I bet we'll all still remember this passage and quote it flawlessly and (ahem) passionately even when we've long forgotten the petty quarrel between what's-his-name and Brutus, the funeral speeches in Act 3, and uh, what else ah... heh. I never really liked JC actually. Just that passage because it never fails to make me laugh.

Viewed Blue Horizon today! It's cool. I'm really excited to be moving there. Ok, I shouldn't talk as if everything's been confirmed. But yeah, I think it's like 90%... Anyway, the bedrooms are really small. The moment I walked into one, I knew that all my dreams about how I wanted to do up my room had to be revised immediately. Haha sigh... No wonder my mum said that if I really wanted a walk-in wardrobe, I could just hang all my clothes in my room and walk in lor. Haha. And I was thinking of having a changing room corner, but now that doesn't seem possible either. Aiyah, I just gotta draw up new plans again lah. Haha. Before I saw the showroom, I was just taking my cousin's room as the example you know. Coz they live in a condo and oh, I don't know how my brain works...haha. The kitchen floor is so tiny too! Haha my auntie was saying that my mum would be like "oh, I finished mopping it already, now what...mop again! then..." hahaha. We had to hold this extended family conference about which floor and which unit we wanted our home to be and it was like such a major thing. So incredible. Haha. Coz my dad likes the high floor where there'd supposedly be breeze. But we've been living in landed property for 16 years and have survived without a breeze what. And we could save the money from not buying a high floor apartment and use it to buy fans or even air-cons for him! Heh. I like the third floor unit. High ceiling, private space, pool view, much much cheaper, same floor as the carpark, not to high up if the lift breaks down......

Tomorrow's orientation!!! I'm really nervous. Sigh. Oh, I finally realised that I did actually have the login ID and password to enter npal (some student web dunno-what) so I found out my timetable. Bad timetable! Will fill you in another time. Better rest and get ready for O tomorrow. Sigh.

Hey!! Now got music har?? So cool right!!! Haha ok so I'm repeating whatever I said on the tagboard but that's because I'm still in the same state. As in the "wow! got music!" state. Heh. Yes, I haven't gotten over it yet. (Thanks, Nic.) Well I've seen other blogs and I'm just so AMAZED at their designs. How do these people do it??? I'm so bad at html and stuff. My blog looks so boring compared to theirs. But, now, I've got music. Hehehe.

Baked today!!! Ok, ok, yes Erica, it was my MUM who baked and I was her diligent, enthusiastic, hardworking, attentive, helpful, full of initiative, assistant. The (mostly walnut and very few choc chips) cookies turned out pretty good!! Just that they're very, uh, fair. I mean, in terms of cookie colours (golden brown is ideal), they're very fair. Yeah, yeah, just like the one who helped to bake them right. I was actually quite tickled at the similarity. Heh. We started out with a mixing bowl and a wooden spoon and the butter was so hard! Then my Mum suddenly said, "Ok, let me get out the electric mixer." And I was like, what??? We have an electric mixer??!!! Hahaha. But the electric mixer wasn't any better!! Haha can you believe it. The two mixing things just stayed there. As in they didn't move around the bowl. So how much can you mix like that?? So we went back to the manual method. At first we thought the cookies weren't going to turn out well but thank God, everything was ok. Just the colour. Yeah. I wanted to dye the cookies red in the first place!! I think red cookies would be cool. No?? Or violet!!! Heh. Anyway, will be giving away the cookies to my friend at Flowers-Attic, Erica (so that she'll get so fat that I'll look skinny next to her heh!)...yup that's about it.

You know, I was telling my mum about how I think I should form my own gang. Haha. As in there're like a few funny gangs in church...the Butterfly Gang, the Firefly Gang, the Dragonfly Gang, the Honey Boys, the Waterboys... yeah, so I'm the honourary member (yes, Nic) of the Butterfly Gang. It's basically pink, butterflies, and short skirts. So you can see why. Haha.. But anyway...yah my mum was saying that I could be the Dragon Girl Gang. Hahaha. And she would be the only other member. I would be Xiao3 Long2 Nu3 (Dragon Girl) and she would be, uh, Lao3 Long2 Ma1 (Old Dragon Mother) or Lao3 Long2 Sao3 (Old Dragon Ah-Soh). We were all getting very nonsense then haha...but then she changed her mind and wanted a cooler name coz, just last night, we'd given our dad the very you3 sha1 qi4 (killer) name of CAPTAIN ONE-CHOICE. Haha big family joke there. Think I've mentioned it before? Yeah. It's about how he always says things like "You can choose where you want to go for dinner but I'll only go to Tiong Bahru." Like how we always seem to have more than one (his) choice but we don't. Hahaha... Captain One-Choice. I'm so tickled!! My brother came up with it. It's reminiscent of the Superheroes game in Whose Line is it Anyway? don't you think. Haha so yeah, Captain One-Choice, here to bring democracy to the world...hehe. My dad's so cute. He was so proud of the Father's Day card I gave him. I think that will give me a year of favours from him till the next card comes. Heh! Already during dinner when I couldn't finish my noodles and wanted him to help me finish it, I could execute the "You got a card today hor???" so successfully.

So I'm going shopping tomorrow! It's been more than 3 weeks!!! Yes, yes, very proud of myself. I'm gonna visit my friend at Flowers- (yes! just killed the irritating mosquito!) Attic. Her last day is 1 July. :( That's so sad. I don't know whether I can go down next week coz I don't know what my timetable is like... But I guess the first week of school is always uncertain, unfamiliar, unfriendly, uncomfortable, hehehe...

Oh yes more stories about the low-tech Sarah! My friends (they're twins) in NZ have had been trying to have audio conversations with me for the longest time ever but it always didn't work out. And then yesterday, one of them decided to try again. Unwavering spirit of a guy. I told him that I didn't have a mic but he could talk and I would type. And FINALLY, I heard his voice for the first time in 3 years. He sounded so different! All grown-up and all. Haha. Oh, at first he was just talking and I was typing in reply. Then he kept saying that he could "hear me type". And I seriously DID NOT connect anything for the first few minutes. Until it finally hit me (!) and so, yeah, ok big boo-boo there. It was hilarious. He had a cool accent and there I was talking in Singlish (as if Singlish really is a language haha) and sounding ah-lian...heh. Ah, the silly things that happen to me.

Exciting news! We could very well be selling the house TODAY! Wow...after so many years of waiting and longing and dreaming...this could all end today. And after 16 years of living in this house, I've finally understood once and for all what type of house it is. It's an intermediate terrace, not a semi-d, maisonette or something else. I could never get it right before!! But I sure will miss our mango tree, the space we have, the convenience brought by living in this location...ok but moving to Blue Horizon will be just as convenient too. Ever closer to church, market, Ginza, the park (!)... Just that I GREW UP in this house. So many feelings attached to it already. But I guess I can look forward to doing up my new room...and using the facilities in the condo... OHHHH but it's so sad now to think of really moving.

The speakers in this laptop are really really fantastic. Makes my Ah Tao (David Tao) sound even better! Not that he needs any help, of course. Heh. But anyway, yeah, they're really wonderful. Just that LOW-TECH SARAH did some boo-boo and now there's something not quite right with Microsoft Office and my brother says I may have to re-install everything BOOOO......

My shoulders got burnt from learning roller-blading on Wed!! Yes, come and see the new dark Sarah. Once you thought she can never get tanned, but you were wrong. Ahhh ok...I'm not actually darker than before but at least this has proven that it isn't impossible for me to have two-toned skin, like my skin can actually be other than white. Heh.

Giordano has nice stuff!!! I wanna buy the crop pants, white tee, black sleeveless lycra top, and dry-tech top maybe. Do you think OG Giordano will be cheaper??? Because the crop pants looks like it's already on sale at $29... But OG is always 20% off. $29 for a pair of pants that isn't even full length is too much when I can get jeans for $19. Anyway, the white tee and black lycra top, you can surely get at 20% off if you go to OG. Coz OG wants to attract costumers, so they got Giordano to go there and then they absorb the 20% discount. Haha auntie-speak!

I've orientation next Thursday!! Argh I hate orientations. Be positive! Positive! OK I'll be getting my timetable. That part is the most attractive, other than meeting my classmates. I'm in tutorial group T109... And I hope the timetable is super slack.

Just to show you that we don't just no action talk only, wr and I went to the park today! For Real! Haha. But before we set off, my mum and I gave her a dress for her birthday. Nice dress! Just right for French summer. She was one of the two people in Singapore who was selected to go to France on an all-expenses paid trip for 2 weeks! So proud of that girl. :) Anyway, had to cross some big roads to get to the park (I hate crossing roads). Then we talked and walked for quite some time until we saw the sign that said that the bicycle kiosk was actually back at where we came from. Argh. So we walked back. But then it was closed! How can it be closed? Now's school holidays! If you aren't open at 11 in the morning then when are you open??? And so we had to walk back. Again. Then we came to McDonald's. Nice place! And just opposite Blue Horizon only. Another good reason to move there. :)

Back from church camp! It was really good. Such a meaningful 5 days spent. Our youth speaker was so, so good. Now I can't wait for next year's camp to come. The kids were all so lovely too. I had such a good time babysitting them. My parents were even more crazy over this baby. They missed him so much over the weekend and good thing we saw him in church today. Haha. Oh I even went swimming! Yeah, very suicidal. I haven't swam or even exercised since...PE last year?! Haha. And I had to swim ACROSS the pool. Coz we had water games. OK, just the breadth of it. But still. When I reached the other end, I thought I was ready to die. Haha. Good thing nothing embarrassing happened. Just maybe I shocked everyone coz I looked so white. Sigh.

Just watched Bend it like Beckham. Nice show! And so funny...Keira Knightly's mum thought she wasn't straight! That was really so, so funny. And the lump-in-the-throat moment was, of course, when Jess' (sp?) dad let her go to America. So touching...the love of her dad and the rest of her family.

There's just like 2 weeks more before school starts. Sigh. It's hard to imagine starting school again after being on leave for 6 months. So I'll probably just slack in school? Haha dunno. On the brighter side, I'll be collecting the laptop this Wed. And maybe I'll be learning Japanese...though now that I think of it, it'll be quite a struggle juggling Thai and Japanese. I think I've learnt not to have so much on my plate. Should bear that in mind next time. I know my JC friends are struggling with the heavy workload now, especially with exams right after this hols (what a horrible thing, by the way!!!) and maybe some of them think that I'm going to have a better life in poly...but I'm not so sure about that. But I guess at least, for one, I'm spared ultimately from the A levels...which was something I wanted to avoid in the first place. So no regrets so far about not going to JC. There are many other reasons why I chose poly over JC but all these aren't that important now...

Well, ok, it hasn't been all that bad leaving work. I've plunged full force into the Great Singapore Sale and retail therapy is working wonderfully. Heh.

So who went for the Singapore Idol auditions? I know of two people who did/are going to. I think they're still queuing. The queue, I'm sure, is super long! I read the reporter's first-hand account of her audition. The panel of judges sounds quite friendly?? I wonder what kind of criticisms they'll come up with. But it'll be quite unexciting if they follow Simon's style, don't you think. So unoriginal too. Oh well. I hope the show will be watchable.

Today, a Nigerian lady and her two little girls came to our church. Their hair is fascinating!!! It's really a whole different kind of...hair. Reminded me of a freshly mowed lawn. Heh! Don't know why. And their names are so cute! One's called Ti Ti and the other's called Su Su (but pronounced "Chu Chu").

Tomorrow I'll be off to Malaysia for church camp and won't be back until Friday. Hope the sale can wait for me. Haha... Take care everybody.

Oh, what sweet, sad, sad, sad, freedom... There's this routine that I have? Like, wake up at 7:15am because of my handphone alarm, shut it off, switch on the phone, go back to sleep, wake up at 7:45 thereabouts, wash up, think of what to wear, what earrings/bag/shoes to match, pack breakfast to eat in the office, rush out of the house, wear shoes in the car, listen to David Tao, reach workplace, climb 4 storeys worth of stairs (!), check reflection in the mirror, enter office, wear my jacket, fill up my cup with hot water, then it's another day's work! Physics journals, Clinical Approach, Zebrafish... My whole desk would be covered with papers and stationary, so much so that people would probably think: how much work I have, when actually it's all just due to very bad organisation and the lack of a stationary holder. Lunchtime comes and we all head down to the bus that's waiting. And lunchtime conversations are always so much fun and I always learn a lot. How I will miss my colleagues!!!

I really have much to thank God for. For getting such a good first-time job that lets me into the world of publishing, for having such nice colleagues who keep the job from being too boring, for the lifts I get from my dad every morning which make going to work something that is not quite dreaded, for all the little things at the end of each day that I look forward to...Mon: Channel U's Ready, Steady, Go; Tues: Dad can fetch; Wed: 8 DAYS and American Idol; Thur: Dad can fetch and American Idol; and Fri: Arrival of the weekend! So you see, it really is not that hard working from Monday to Friday. And that is why I'm so thankful!!!

My last day of work gave me this very warm feeling inside. I went around dishing out yummy Ferrero Rochers to everyone and then for lunch, two of my colleagues treated me to a meal at a Chinese restaurant at JEC. Then we took a cab back. Saw on my table a little bouquet of sunflowers from another two of my colleagues!!! Was super touched. Even got a present from another colleague whom I wasn't particularly close to or anything like that. Then went to the warehouse for the first time because we had to stick the correct serial number onto the books (which were about dissection, by the way). The warehouse is HUGE! And filled with so many, many, many books. It's interesting to be working in a place that actually, in a sense, makes books, after one has been reading books for so many years...When I was younger, my own amateurish attempts at "publishing" were simply just stapling the books. And now, it's professional binding and real book covers. Just incredible to me. And lastly, I ended the day fittingly with a physics journal, complete with lines of numbers and words that completely don't make sense, as usual! Heh.

Sad, sad, sad! Major withdrawal symptoms now. Went for retail therapy today though, and bought a sling bag from 37 Degrees, the one with a rainbow sling. I like! Walked past one pink shop after another, it does seem like nowadays one can find a pink shop at every turn. After a while, it gets very, very scary.

So many things to write! But it was hard to find the right time and right mood to write...and now that it's finally a Friday night once again...I'm so glad that it's finally a Friday night once again! Weekends are precious.

Office has been strangely very cold of late. What a distraction, especially since I'm rushing the work now. My last day is next Tuesday. I smell Freedom! Sweet Freedom! My fellow temp-er's last day was today, so I brought the camera and we took pictures and rested on the nice sofas outside the office. I think they're from the Life shop. They're super nice! The other day, I got bored and went to try out all the different sofas. The two lady editors who walked past me were pretty amused. Too bad one of them told me that such sofas have to be in air-conned rooms because of their (very nice to touch!) material. Just today, my parents went to check out Blue Horizon and promptly fell in love with it. It'll be ready in about a year's time. I guess there's a high chance we'll be moving there...Will it be the 3rd floor with the pool view or 13th floor with the sea view? Something like that. The three of us are going to view it one day too.

Oh! Fantasia's the new American Idol! I'm super delighted. This is like when Mawar won the 8 Days Bachelor contest and Ronald Susilo won the Japan Open finals. Fantasia's cool. But I think she does better with quick songs than slow numbers, although her Summertime was fantastic. Anyway, she's got a good sense of rhythm, great energy, superb showmanship. Oh, I had no idea how dangerous it was to be working in an office on days like this! I was happily and busily being a good proof-reader when suddenly, I heard my very-free-and-nothing-to-do colleague asking somebody else, "Eh do you know who won Americal Idol or not?" And then I remembered that the results were out in America already!!! I got into such a frenzy that I shot out of my cubicle and went to take refuge with another colleague, but then she said in her very endearing Indian accent, "Oh you got the wrong person, I already know who won." Argh!!! And finally I went to hide at my editor's cubicle. She doesn't have a TV at home, so you can be sure that she knows nothing about American Idol. The ironic thing was, just during lunchtime I had agreed along with her that I would read spoilers. But this is different you know! It is! Anyway really, being in an office where everybody (except me) is well connected to the Internet, radio, telephone is very dangerous!!! I spent the rest of my time in the office with my hands in the ready-to-cover-the-ears position. I came home and stayed far away from the Internet, checked my smses at a safe angle, didn't tune in to the news...Everything went smoothly and my mum and I were kept in great suspense just as the producers would have liked it. It got to the point where my mum said, "If they're not going to announce the results after this commercial I'm going to strangle him!" Him, being the host with the most annoying line, Ryan Seacrest.

To all the readers who have been faithfully tracking the progress of Clinical Approach, you would be pleased to know that I've completed Chapter 70, which is a nice 20 chapters away from the end of the epic medical volume. Did some more physics journals last week. It's things like this that make me appreciate Clinical Approach and Zebrafish more. It was the same case with blueprint checking. Oh that one! I dread it.

I feel really privileged to have gotten this job on my first try at working. It's really quite interesting to be working in a publishing company. My colleague brought me on a tour of the 2nd floor where the artists, marketing people and printers were. The artists use Apple computers! Ok that's quite duh right. Level 3 is the warehouse. And I found out how a book gets published...the whole process...It's really cool lah. To think that I'm part of an organisation that publishes books that are taken so seriously by the intellectual community.

Oh, in the end, Fide didn't come. She chose Sakae Sushi over us. Told you she was pretty smart...hehehe...Saw her in church today and she told us in her little girlish voice that she went to "Sakae Sushi"...Irresistably cute!

I think I have about 2 weeks more at work. The thing is, now that the time to leave is drawing near, I can't quite bear to leave!

We think our mum can be one of the Singapore Idol judges. Other choices include Dick Lee...and, uh...

Finally put David Tao back into the car. Just didn't feel right anymore without his music when we're in the car. His music is great while...yeah...in the car! Haha...

Played the piano for Chinese Service today. Thought it was pretty disastrous. :p The notes, I mean, there are no notes. It's the number kind you know? Do-re-mi-fa-so... So beyond me. Heh.

WELL I went to watch TROY last night! I was in the worst seat ever - first row, right at the corner. I was thinking how wasted it was coz 1)the ticket cost me $8.50, 2)we skipped our dinner to catch the 7:45 show, 3)it's supposed to be an epic and a 5-star movie, 4)the people in it are supposed to be super hot...but I was seeing them at awkward angles and they looked so disproportionate! :p But of course, I didn't watch the movie because of the supposedly hot people (by the way, there was too much nudity!). I didn't even want to watch it in the first place! I had to... And since I had to, I felt that it was most wasted that I didn't managed to get all that the movie was worth. You know, the feeling of watching an epic... with vast sets, larger-than-life characters, grand battles, rich emotional scenes...I was so not interested in the love section though in the end I got very touched by the relationship between Achilles and Briseis, which I'm trying hard to forget right now. Anyway, I guess I managed to capture two-thirds of that feeling, just at awkward angles.

Woke up early in the morning today just to go to CCAB. Didn't exactly realise what a crucial match it was between RJ and ACJC but now it's no wonder why we were all recruited to go down and lend Whui some moral support. Heh. Even her mum was roped in! But it was cool lah. Can see why she's so passionate about hockey. I would be too, if I had a shread of ball sense in me.

As for work, I've just finished Chapter 66 of Clinical Approach and now doing some journals that are making me very, very sleepy in the afternoons. :p I have no idea what they are talking about! There's just A LOT of numbers and symbols...Mind-boggling and the most effective way to make opticians richer. I'm splitting my days between them and dear old Zebrafish. Have confirmed with my editor that zebrafish are indeed fish, and was told that they're the darlings of life sciences researchers because of their thin semi-transparent skin that gives these people a fantastic view of their gut.

One thing I can't understand is why people choose to be scientists. Imagine a life...I mean, you would have no life. Heh. Spend all your life doing research and experiments...But that's of course just a personal opinion coming from a self-confessed science-and-me-just-don't-go-together person. Then how ironic that my first job is science-related! But I can understand that if a person has the passion and curiosity for exploring the way things work in the scientific sense, then......

Fide is coming tonight! I'm simply overjoyed. She's this absolutely lovely little girl I know from church who happens also to be extremely clever. We're gonna babysit her! The first time she came, I was not at home! It was devastating. But I sure am looking forward to tonight. :)

I got a parcel from my Korean penpal!!! There was a notebook, a diary, an address book, a CD of 76 Korean pop songs, lots of stickers, lip gloss, candy...... How delightful it is to get a present like that!!!

Oh, how could I forget to mention this. The most unfair thing happened on American Idol! La Toya got voted off! She was tipped to be THE American Idol. Now my mum says that she won't watch the show anymore since her idol is already out. Heh. But yeah, I seriously feel that there was a great injustice done to La Toya. Do the voters have ears??! Ugh.

OK time for lunch! :)

Started going out for lunch with my colleagues since last Friday. Really thank God for the friends that I've made in the office...like my fellow temp-er, my editor, her friend (girl), her other friend (guy)... It's hard to believe that I spent the whole of my first month in the office hardly knowing anybody, then suddenly, things just started picking up and now I'm going out for lunch with them almost everyday. Haha this really makes working so much more fun. Spent quite some time on Monday listening to one of them talk about how she's preparing for her wedding and it was scary. All those things that you have to do when you want to get married. Heh. But then again, of course it won't be special anymore if you just sign the marriage cert and that's it. Just don't go over the top either. Haha... She has FIVE dresses!!! And she's not even the kind who likes to dress up. Listening to her describe the whole preparation was entertaining! Then later my editor came to pass me a copy of the book that was featured in Sunday Lifestyle last week - the one about society's obsession with slimness...I saw that it was published by them so I just asked her about it. So sweet of her to get me that book from its editor. And then the two of them started telling me about how they were dating three and seven guys, respectively, during their younger days. Hahaha...and I was like, what??? The one with seven guys was seriously way over the limit, don't you think... :p hahaha~

Anyway, tomorrow is the book forum (or something like that) at Tiong Bahru Plaza. Well actually I've been hearing my colleague talk about it for quite some time already. I mean, he's always on the phone planning for it and stuff. Poor guy...you can literally hear how stressed he is through his telephone conversations. And today, he gave me a long description of his sufferings. Heh... The way he told his story was really funny too. Anyway, one of the things he said was that Moses Lim called him to reserve a parking lot for him tomorow. And usually, he wouldn't bother to do such a troublesome thing, but because Moses Lim was so nice, he quickly went to call up Tiong Bahru Plaza. LOL.

Today I didn't have any work to do at first coz the lady who's like in-charge of me was on MC and I'd already finished all that she'd given me. So I went to help my friend do the directory thing. Like, search for Australian manufacturers of therapeutic goods on the internet, key into Excel their address, contact numbers, email, website address, description of core business, etc. Quite an eye-killer job as well. But a nice change from proof-reading. At least now I've been given a computer and a phone (but still no dustbin :p haha), but they're just all at another cubicle.

Haha do you know that there's People magazine in my office...ok actually there're lots of magazines in my office but I was quite surprised to see People there. And the Chinese pub has i-weekly. Next time can borrow from them. :)

Oh this morning I went out of the house with a horribly mismatched outfit!!! :( I almost didn't want to go out for lunch but then my colleagues all thought it was ok. It wasn't!!! :p But anyway, today was the day of the taiti competition in my office. Hahaha... Supposed to start at 6 o'clock this evening. I'd already heard them talking about it since two weeks ago because an email was sent out to everyone...everyone who had a computer lah, haha. But I didn't realise that today was THE day! Saw the organiser explaining the rules to my friend before lunch. There were TWO PAGES of rules!!!?? I had no idea that you could come up with so many rules for a card game haha. But I think it's cool that there're such things lah!!! I would have joined in too if I had known how to play taiti haha. :p Could be a great way to get to know more office people. Haha and over lunch, they were suggesting a mahjong competition next time. Haha that'd be cool too! But then somebody else told me that one round of mahjong would take at least two hours so it's not very possible to organise one in the office. Anyway, took the lift up to level 5 before leaving just to see what it was all about, but it hadn't started yet. Just saw quite a few tables set up. Haha... should be fun lah.

Went with my friend to Clementi Central just to walk-walk and like de-stress after a week of work. Feel really good at the end of each week. :) Did that last Friday too, and we bought the same blouse from Baleno. Wore on Wednesday and went to show Dr. Y haha...that's the funny guy who likes to talk to himself. But he's very nice and helpful lah haha. He saw the both of us and his reaction was so funny. Do you know that he cuts his hair himself??? The back part was uneven and he was trying to explain to me that his hand suddenly got very tired at that time...hahahaha!!! So cute...

Shopped at Heeren last Saturday because my friend from Flowers in the Attic told me about the sale they were having. Such a good thing to have a friend who works there huh! :) Heh. And she's real good to me. I bought a skirt (very nice!!! haha) and a pair of silver lace butterfly earrings. But it wasn't very fun shopping alone lah. :p Anyway, I think fashion merchandising is quite interesting. The bosses travel overseas often and get nice pieces of clothing and accessories to sell in their shop...it's nice.

Last night was the start of Thai Basic 2. Now we're learning how to write the Thai script as well. Felt like I was back in primary school doing penmanship exercises again haha. But it's very very interesting lah. I'm so glad that my mum agreed to let me continue learning Thai. :) And I really really hope that I get accepted into the Japanese course at NP!!! :)