WINDSTRUCK

windstruck was good man. i love it! i'm so glad that there are at least two good movies in the world - my sassy girl and windstruck. i've had enough of hollywood! :p i watched it at mingen's house this afternoon...a good start to my hols. but oh man i cried so much. i cried from the time the guy died all the way to the end of the movie (i remember that's what happened to lirong too). no happy ending though. i wanna sue them. anyway, i've borrowed lots of movies from mingen to watch during my hols. very excited... (and lirong! now i know how come you know about the animation thing on the top corner of the pages in a book... haha)

can i ever live without God in my life?

don't feel very productive this week. anyway, went to watch the match on sunday night and it was pretty good. it was nice to see the stadium filled with red. i'm really glad singapore won coz they'd worked so hard! and this is me outside the stadium looking rather ah soh with the handbag and handphone sigh...(i rather like the "wind in my hair" effect though. lol.)



and the answer is no.

even worse but at least there's shrek... 2

just when i thought the week was picking up... heh well as you all know i did a really bad speech today. i bet this will haunt me forever. i wished i had just turned around and flung myself onto the whiteboard hehe. but to give everyone credit, you were so encouraging and sweet about it.

the other irksome thing today was that i went on a wild goose chase for the tickets to this sunday's soccer match (gonna watch it with my friends from church). haha man...what a journey. first stop, west mall. then the 7 eleven right at the other end of the bus interchange. decide to take a train to bukit gombak. locate 7 eleven but cashier tells me the nearest s'pore pools outlet is at WEST MALL. decide to go home before i explode. haha. later i take a train down to bukit batok again, post letter to korean penpal, find out that there are outlets at the ntuc downstairs and outside of west mall (two chances!). ntuc turns out to be shop and save. !!?? tickets sold out at the outlet outside. feel very weird at the outlet where everybody is buying 4D and toto. finally return home and watch shrek 2 to cool off.

shrek 2 is super funny!! i enjoyed it a lot more than i did for the first one. and i love it when i think the movie has ended, but no wait there's more! a whole singing extravaganza and far far away idol. lol. the way they made the whole movie was really smart.

so yay i'm ok now... haha. i know i shouldn't habour all these negative feelings inside me and i'm trying not to. i'm trying to let go...and give it a break. because everything happens for a reason and God won't put me through anything more than i can bear! i can do this!! hahaha.

all bad but over

finally it's wednesday night and i'm feeling rather qing song. haha what's the english equivalent for that? i'm not sure. oh, it's relaxed. lol. today i was writing random chinese words on the back of my sab notes just for practice... i like to do that when i'm bored or want to be distracted. heh. and also coz i'm so scared i'll forget all the words i know (which ain't much, but...). that'll be such a waste after ten years of struggles!! but already i'm starting to forget. anyway, fel joined me and we started writing jap and thai words... heh she remembers so much of her jap even though she took it way earlier than me! i have wasted my parents' money. :( sigh... i must dig up all my notes and start revising! especially my thai, coz my friends from chiang mai are coming in april!! yay!!! haha.

well yeah the first part of this week was kinda bad but it's all over now. especially glad that the debate is over! that was a dark cloud hanging over my head since last week. :p and today for aerobics we did pilates! at first i was really glad and excited coz 1) it means we're just on the mat, no running/squatting/stretching/stepping/etc etc; 2) i don't even have to pay and i can learn pilates!; 3) pilates will help me get my flat stomach. well point 1 is no longer counted coz even though i did none of those things i still almost died. point 3 is also invalid coz i didn't work my ab muscles at all - they went MIA on me. only point 2 is the saving grace. haha...

what can i do

went out with the pumpkins (hee) yesterday and it was fun! i really enjoyed myself. we went jalan-ing around wisma, taka... oh man, so many good stuff at good prices! i had to literally DRAG myself out of the shops. in the end i just bought a lilac sleeveless top from U2 for $10. it's an investment ok. it'll last me for a long, long time. :) oh but we didn't get to take neoprints! we ought to! haha. sam and fel were in their kbox mood and went crazy singing songs... sent terence running across half of takashimaya... lol but they sing well.

this week felt longer than usual. guess that's because we spent more time in school. but i remember monday was nice. we had a good brunch at macs. i like it when we can all just relax and laugh a lot. tuesday after school my group did filming at ahhihh's void deck. that was quite an experience. and now the weekend has come...great...but i've got work to do. :( i feel like watching movies instead. heh.

doesn't really feel like 2005...heh

oh well i just got home...didn't sleep the whole night. let me start from yesterday. i went down to school around noon to hand up the graphcomm project... what a load off my shoulders! thank God for the last minute inspiration that came on thursday. oh before that, i almost got cheated by the photocopy auntie at bukit batok who wanted to charge me $3 for binding!!! :p haha. good thing i mustered up my courage to tell her "no, thank you" and walk away. the shop in school charges only $1.60!! i'd have been so gek if i'd really paid $3. heh.

yeah then after that i met mingen at suntec coz i wanted to buy some presents for my mum but in the end, couldn't find anything. (thanks mingen for accompanying me!) instead, i bought some necessities for myself, like a handphone pouch for my precious handphone (don't want anything to happen to it again) and socks for my aerobics. btw, dorothy perkins is/was having a very good sale! i was overcome with surprise and then joy haha. tried on quite a number of clothes but in the end, RESISTED entirely and walked out of the shop empty-handed and wallet still intact. nowadays shopping doesn't interest me that much anymore... :) there was a really cute handbag going for around $29 though. but it's ok. it's a matter of whether it's a NEED or a WANT!

then at night i went down to church for my masterlife (this Bible study) retreat. at 10:30 we went to the sanctuary for the watchnight service, which was just beautiful...i wish we'll have more of such services in future. just singing and praying to the Lord. so wonderful... i cried for the year that had just passed. so many things had happened to me and this was truly an extra special and meaningful year for me. after the service the masterlife group continued with the retreat in the form of card games like dutch blitz and phase 10. it was my first time playing these games, and blitz was really fun! apparently it's a game made up by missionaries(?) who didn't want their kids playing those kind of poker card games... :) smart idea! phase 10 required a lot more warming up heh. our brains weren't functioning too well by that time of the night. it was a while before the game got into momentum but after that it was ok. just prefer the adrenaline rush that blitz gives.

ok i better catch some sleep now... can't believe 2004 is over.

movie list 2004

lists!! i like lists!! did you see today's life!? there's the top 10 best & worst movies of 2004. unfortunately, i happen to have watched stepford wives. with my mother, no less. and now she's blaming me for taking her to one of the lousiest movies of 2004. hahaha no lah. we didn't like it after we watched it either.

managed to get the black laptop cover today from the computer supplies shop in my school. paid $19.50 for it. if you think i've overpaid, please don't tell me.

had aerobics today again, and we did mostly kickboxing. i was feeling so healthy...

and then i came home and indulged on ang ku kueh and fried chicken wings.

ferrero rocher overload

ferrero rocher is my absolute favourite chocolate. it's tastier than that tennis player ferrero. i eat it whenever we have it. we don't normally buy it, it's usually more like people give it to us, especially at Christmas and New Year. i eat it when i'm down, and i also eat it when i'm in a good mood. either way, i eat it a lot and i can just imagine all that fat. good thing i have aerobics tomorrow.

lugged my heavy laptop to school today and then to west mall after that. didn't manage to find a black cushion cover for it but got a black cardigan (for myself) from dano at least. been scouting for one for a long, long time. i've been hearing so much about the sales that are going on, i feel the lure of shopping malls, but i just can't bring myself to go on a full scale shopping spree. not when i've graphcomm to worry about, and other stuff... hmm.

... big sigh. i've never seen such a big tragedy before. 24 000 people dead and counting. so terribly sad!!! and the thai king's grandson was one of the casualties!! oh man that's so sad. i like the thai king you know, no matter what terence says. :p actually we have a lot to thank God for. singapore's safe from all these natural disasters. no earthquakes, volcanic erruptions, tsunamis... i feel really sad for these people. big big sigh.

anyway, check out today's life! section. there's a list of 10 good books to read. i love it when i get such lists. now i can go book hunting and hopefully end up with many good reads.

It's a Merry Christmas Eve

today was kinda a surprise! went to sch with kailin and only had like ONE HOUR of class when it should have been three. Christmas eve, that's why. but actually they shouldn't even have school on Christmas eve! :p anyway, went to check out the school bazaar and it was pretty interesting and cheap...bought two glam bracelets. thinking of who to give them to...

oh last night i watched shrek on my laptop. borrowed the vcds from my (ex) piano teacher. it was quite funny, in the intelligent way...but it wasn't SUPER funny...coz i guess i watched it too late. after i've heard all the gushes and praises from everybody. it was like that with finding nemo too! you know how you hear about how GOOD a movie is, and you end up having sky high expectations or something...anyway, somehow the movie just wouldn't feel as interesting, amusing, or wonderful. on a side note, right now the one movie that i wanna watch is nobody knows from japan. (mingen!! shall we go??)

rum&raisin brownies can get you drunk

haha yeah i dunno HOW it happened but i think i got a little tipsy after gleefully gobbling down two yummy-looking brownies at somebody's house last night. the kids from my church went carolling and i decided to tag along halfway, and it was all really going quite well... i mean, the kids were singing really really WELL and the food at the homes were good... but somehow those brownies just didn't sit down too well with poor old me. all along i've preferred chocolatey fudge brownies, and now i know even better to steer clear of rum & raisin brownies!!! there was this funny thing going on in my head, but good thing i was sober enough to hold a decent conversation with the people who gave me a lift home after that. this is still a mystery to me. i can't figure out how i can get drunk on those brownies when i'm always fine after eating mee sua with dom...fa guo lang jiu. haha.

aerobics

AEROBICS. yes that's what i'm doing for s&w. sigh. what on earth did i get myself into... i thought i was so clever to pick a sport that just requires you to go "and 1, and 2..." with the lady on tv. aargh!! i was so wrong. hahaha man it was such a torture. i thought all my PE days were far behind me but no, they're BACK. :( i did all sorts of exercises in a blur, just kinda kept asking myself what had i been thinking...haha. the first hour was excruciating. the second part was better coz we finally got to sit/lie down on the exercise mat and do some yoga and pilates. but no spiritual stuff for the yoga lah. the teacher knows. heh. i like her...and the best part is, she's guaranteed us a flat stomach! my mother is happy for me. thanks.

i found a new route home! just take 61 from outside my school to bukit batok mrt and then take the train to yew tee. at least 1/3 faster than my [bus to clementi then mrt to yew tee] route. very happy now! :)

anyway, just got news that we're gonna be moving into the west coast condo next march. that's so soon! like we packed everything up just not too long ago, and now we have to do that again. and this time i really want to get my room right. the last time i decorated my room was when i was 5, and that was why i ended up with pink furniture. not that pink isn't nice.

3rd day of school

this morning was so nice to sleep in...nice and cooling. i was snug in my bed until about 9:30 and then i got up and went to eat rotiboy. haha my mum had been so excited to let us try it and finally i did but i detected butter in it! and she says she's the butter expert so if she says there's no butter that means no butter. anyway, i didn't finish it. i don't like butter. :(

yesterday there was no school so i met ahhihh at raffles place for lunch. she's having her law attachment somewhere there. i found out that OUB plaza is quite a cool shopping place! yay. i bought something from there.

later i have school from 1-5. really thank God that wednesdays are gonna be better from now on. i mean, nothing can beat cats and iac right? heh. this sem it's starting a business and sports & wellness. i wonder what sport i'll end up with! maybe ballroom dancing. haha. ok that's not a sport. maybe it's under the wellness category.

my last days

school's starting next week! tsk. haha. i love my bed man! this bed in yew tee is so nice that it makes me just want to sleep all day. for every morning now i've been waking up at embarrassing hours such as 10:45 am... so last night i thought that it'd be nice to catch the early morning sun just for once, so i set my handphone alarm to 8:30 but the bed was really too nice to resist and i woke up at 9:20, which is still an improvement, according to my mother. heh heh.

singapore idol finals! i was so torn between taufik and sylvester, right down to the last minute before the results were announced. then i realised that i had to make a decision as to who i was supporting or else i wouldn't know who to be happy/sad for when the results were (finally) announced! and my dear mother was happily supporting taufik and refused to sit next to me during the nerve-wrecking suspense gurmit's "i'm really gonna announce the results - soon" then commercial break then back to the show... unless i said i was gonna support taufik. so taufik it was! anyway he's really good and i'm so glad he won. i'm so glad that he and sylvester are buddies too. and sylvester is gonna make it big in the chinese market for sure so i'm glad for him too! yay yay yay! HAPPY ENDING!!! i love happy endings!

the wedding

haha hmm...was kinda anticipating my cousin's wedding for the entire year and it came and went...but it sure was memorable. and touching. and lovely. here are some pics:


me walking down the long...long...aisle


the whole wedding contingent

the changi project

hehe tues night i went to changi airport to play...haha it was a night out for the youths in my church. about 30 of us turned up and monopolised burger king while waiting for the game to start. haha ok no lah... but anyway then we launched into this fast and furious treasure hunt sort of game...whoa i don't think i've ever run so much in one night before. yeah i RAN! haha... it was really quite fun lah. but running around the airport is no joke. lol and one other team tried to form an alliance with us. hahaha they think what - we're in amazing race ah?

the funniest thing was when we were all looking for the name of a coffee blend and suddenly i realised it was spelled out on the poster right in front of this boy from another group, but i wasn't sure if he'd seen it... turned out he hadn't (so blur) and my group quickly covered up the poster while his group started to realise what was going on and so it ensued in some scuffling around the poor starbucks poster... no the FUNNIEST thing was when the same group was engrossed in this other poster and we stole their trolley and ran with it right to the other end of terminal 2. running with a trolley is no joke either. and we had like so many strategies to like avoid them lol... we hid behind walls, acted as the telephone operator when they called, sent out scouts... but in the end they didn't catch us or else it'd have been more fun.

we reached changi village at about 11:45 and had supper there. i saw the roti tissue which looked like a party hat hehe... and i saw milo dinosaur for the first time too... hehe yah i've been living in the jungle. anyway we left at past midnight and travelled home on this hired bus. the uncle was really nice, didn't complain at all. coz we had to send people off to their homes and in total we made about 7 (?) stops around singapore. some people bunked in with others, or else we'd have had to make more stops. my mum picked me up at bukit batok and we reached home at about 3+, slept at 4... woke up at 1:15 pm the next day. heh.

so that's yesterday already. late afternoon, we collected the gown from chinatown and bought a pair of white heels from charles & keith at citilink, but last night at the church rehearsal i was like wobbling down the aisle in those heels so i think i might have to go change them... yay charles & keith has an exchange policy! as long as you have the receipt, the shoes are still like in original condition, and best of all, i can go to any branch i want... so that means causeway point, which is just 3 mrt stops away. :)

weddings

it takes a lot of work to get a wedding going, don't you think. the amount of planning you have to do is...enough to make me think twice about getting married early. i see how much my cousin is doing for her wedding and i'm like aiyoh... poor thing. hehe i mean yah lah i don't mind getting married early coz all that stuff about waiting till both are financially secure or something doesn't really bother me...coz money is not important to me in that sense...as long as you're contented. but since i haven't even found anybody yet there's no point thinking about this NOW.

my point is, at first i thought it'd really be a mammoth task to get married. but then, after spending so many days shopping for my bridesmaid gown, all that wedding dreams are filling my head again hahaha. the gowns are really nice you know! i'm not talking about those obiang ones with lots of beads and sequins and dunno what else, i'm talking about those gowns which are really sophisticated and classy and beautiful!

sigh so you know my mum and i walked up and down orchard road till the poor lady was about to drop...the next day we hit chinatown and though the results were more encouraging we were nowhere nearer to getting a gown... but we did make a lot of friends with the shop ladies who were all so friendly and helpful... it was like, "ok ok next time when i get married i'll come to you" so yeah that's how this whole wedding thing started. i wish i could help them, like give them business, you know.

but anyway, you can only get married once. i mean, you SHOULD get married only once. and i've still got so many more years before it's my turn. dunno if they'll still be at the same place anot. haha ok back to my story. then just as we were about to join my dad for dinner, we actually came out of the shopping centre through the wrong door, but then we decided to walk on to see what's ahead, and lo and behold.... a bridal boutique was just across the road! although it looked a little upmarket (one of our most oftenly used words this week), it turned out to be the best deal we'd ever got. so thank God! just when you think you won't get what you're looking for, it turns up at the most unlikely place. must trust in God to provide.

hey i wish all of you a good week ahead. :) don't hesitate to call me up or something if you ever need a listening ear or a shopping buddy! or an exercise partner, or a movie date.... ok ok. haha.

i'm loving it!

heh yes i'm loving my new place. it's small (read: cluttered) but cosy. and breezy too! plus, no more rats or lizards. and i love sitting in my room listening to david tao, mayday, jay chou, fir, fish leong, and the korean singers. the only thing that's a little more undesirable is the toilet. people outside can hear me when i'm shouting to my mum or somebody from the toilet!! haiyoh. and you know usually the stuff that you'll say when you're in the toilet aren't that kind that you want other people to hear. hahaha.

yesterday i played badminton! wow it was good exercise. and last night i met some of my friends from dcg (the youth version of sunday school in church) together with my teacher and we had dinner at spizza at habourfront. it was soooo funny!! when my teacher went up to order dessert (and he dances salsa), the waitress shook her hips (later she said she ate too much cheese) and my teacher spontaneously wiggled his butt. there and then. yes. we just cracked up and i forbade him to come back to our table but he's capable of anything. haha sigh...but i like such dinners. and i hope it'll be like a regular thing.

anyway, probably going out with my mum later for more gown hunting. mingen and ahhihh are going to japan today! ahh.. i feel it in my fingers, i feel it in my toes... WANDERLUST. take care everybody. there's enough love in the world to go around. and believe in God.

today's my mum's birthday!

heh yup...so cool right. i gave her a card and a photo of the two of us which she has to return to me later so that i can put it back into my photo album hahaha. my brother and his girlfriend bought her a nokia handphone and a swensens cake. so we all know who's gonna get a bigger share of the inheritance sigh.... haha no lah.

and today i woke up at like 7 to swim! aha i almost died. haven't swum since church camp in june if you remember...hehehe. i went with my dad and we did 10 laps. my arms were like lead after that. sigh...i really need to work out more. did i tell you, i went to the gym on sunday night! whee...i'm finally on the path to a healthier body! :)

yesterday i went to queensway with mingen and sigh i think i spent a bit too much. not good. oh i saw daniel ong and jean danker and after that i saw joanne peh. all my life i haven't seen any celebrities and suddenly just in one day i see three. hey sam's in taiwan now right?? happy holidays sam!! say hi to ah tao for me! ahaha.

tomorrow is my korean penpal's university entrance exam. did you read about it in the papers two days ago or something? it's serious stuff man! everyone goes to work an hour later than usual in order not to cause traffic congestion, the police are there to control the traffic, candidates who are late hitch rides in ambulances or are escorted by the police to the exam venue, planes can't take off or land during the listening tests, the military can't be noisy.... and those who set the papers have already spent dunno how many days in confinement, so have the people who printed the papers... wow.

where is capitol building??

yesterday was a very happening day but i don't want to go into details coz it was too happening already hahaha. anyway, the main thing was i went out with ahhihh again. and we shopped till we dropped but didn't buy anything. for me at least. i must have tried on a dozen daniel yam gowns coz of my cousin's wedding. if anyone knows where i can get a nice, cheap, full length white gown, other than at daniel yam, please let me know asap thank you very much! and then we went on a long exhaustive search for capitol building because of felt. you know the new shop that sells australian wear that was featured in urban that is straits times new fashion magazine? yeah. we combed capitol CENTRE and peninsula plaza, but no capitol BUILDING. actually it was right next to capitol centre but nvm.

and then i visited sandy and her boys at night. her boys are getting cuter by the minute! jeremy the baby laughs so easily it's such a joy to look at him. we had teriyaki pizza (not bad!) and green tea. haha ok.. and i watched the champion! very sad! i think jeanette aw acted really really well last night. oh! and i FORGOT to watch singapore idol last night!! i don't know what i was thinking!! and i heard sylvester sang david tao and jay chou!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what was i thinking.

oh last sunday was nice. i attended the main service with my mum and it's been a long time since i got to do that coz usually i attend the youth service. and the worship was good, and the message was good too, it was about husbands and wives haha. and later all the old couples were like giving their own interpretations of the message lol. "the pastor said husbands should not lead their wives into temptation so from now on we shall not bring them to shopping centres!" haha...

aiyoh don't know what i'm gonna have for lunch man...
me: what's for lunch? got chicken? fish? pork?
mum: no....
me: then what kind of meat you have?
mum: human meat....
sometimes i think my mum should start her own blog. she has a lot of nonsense inside her dying to get out hahaha. and if my dad co-blogs with her it's gonna be even more hilarious!!! oh btw he passed his fire safety exam! now he's officially the fire safety manager of his company! lol...... what was his boss thinking, subjecting an old man to a round of courses and exams on fire safety........

moving house...going, going, gone

hey, so sorry for not BLOGGING on my humble BLOG at BLOGspot for so long. hahaha eh wr... now i dunno if i still wanna BLOG anot. :( see lah you... haha. but anyway, better update yah. i was busy moving house and i tried to stay away from the laptop hehehe... i was pretty successful!! sigh moving house was a nightmare. and it hasn't even come to an end yet...one last lap to go! well due to the lack of MANpower, with one brother overseas and another suffering in army, my mum and i had to do a yang men nu jiang and take care of everything. and my mum kept telling my dad not to make me carry all the stuff -- "i don't want our daughter to become muscle-woman!" hahaha. but anyway, i think i got muscle already leh. :) i dunno, i haven't had time to grief over this whole thing yet, coz very sian with all the packing and stress and messiness. my new house feels like some hong kong hotel room hehe. if we keep the curtains drawn and the air-con on lah, but this won't last for long i know. soon i'll have to face reality and go AHH!!! I HAVE MOVED. heh. well so i think i shall post this pic of me with my beloved bolster, which i've had with me since i was just a bay-bee. see how it has shrunk to nothing more than just a piece of cloth. haha no lah not so bad lah...i love my zu zu! i guess when i was a baby it served truly as a bolster but over the years it has become more like a... neck-warmer. hehe. oh well i don't think i can keep it any longer, it's time to let go. i can do this!!