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.