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!!

dizzy woozy

heh due to my latest diet plan, i was in a state of dizziness yesterday but totally clueless as to why...thought the world was coming to an end or something...until my mother realised and then it hit me too! aha lack of carbo... oops. anyways, been sleeping in everyday and the weather's been perfectly accommodating! it rains every night, there's cool breeze, mm so nice to sleep. ok let me see, the last time i went shopping was sunday night, bought a pair of slippers only. i'm thinking of revamping my wardrobe. haha and i announced it to my mother over supper at maxwell market on sunday night, and sought her utmost support. lol. think she almost choked on her porridge... ahh once i move to yew tee, i'm gonna check out all the shopping malls in the north-south mrt line man. causeway point, junction 8, toa payoh, leave no stone unturned. lol. time to visit all the places i stayed away from when i was tucked away in my little west coast abode. hehe... well surprisingly i was just having a rather meaningful conversation with terence and it was helpful...haha. ok going to yew tee later. my library books are overdue. oops. yay lot 1 shopping mall has a library! next time do research would be very convenient. actually, moving to yew tee is good coz it's near everything. but moving out of my dear old house is heartbreaking. yeah so anyway, happy holidays!

suntec all night

today we sent my brother back to army and then my parents had a concert to attend so since i didn't want to be alone at home again, they dropped me off at suntec, where i walked the whole night until now i'm positive my feet are drawing up a lawsuit against me. sigh...but it's ok, coz i bought them new slippers! hehe :) just that these are the exact slippers that fly all over the place each time it rains. but i still like them! so i bought back the maroon/brown (egyptian) ones. which in case you didn't know, died on me as i was on my way to the post office some weeks ago. haha yeah...maybe i really shouldn't wear slippers. anyway, guess what - the suntec ebase doesn't have my size for that top anymore! whoa so fast!?! i better hurry... i shall not hesistate anymore. haha yeah right. sometimes it's fun shopping alone but sometimes it's not. it depends... oh i had roast beef for lunch and i almost died. i know what you all are gonna say but sigh, i just cannot make it when it comes to all this funny angmoh food... :p i shall stick to asia from now on. asia! asia! asia! be it fashion, food, or education. haha. sigh my poor brother in army... i don't remember it being this tough!! this was his last weekend at this house. think we're all pretty sad about it. and we DON'T want to talk about it. lol. i've been video camera-ing stuff this past week and it's been quite funny! my mum got into this whole singing and line dancing mood, like she was giving a concert every night... lol. and when my brother came back for the weekend he too was rather hilarious. so we shall await my wonderful piece of work with abated breath!! haha goodnight!

rj open house and singapore idol

dropped by rjc today to catch up with all my friends and it was pretty good! nice to see all of them again. i miss my sec 4 classroom life. and aiyah today's a rainy day lah. :( but very good to sleep too. anyway, after Bible study i was on my way to the bus stop when it started pouring! kinda like a scene out of a chinese gongfu movie. i heard the rustling of the trees, and i looked up, and the next thing i knew, it was raining cats and dogs. so i decided to forgo my pride and i broke into a clumsy jog which was disrupted by my lousy slipper. yes it slipped off my right foot again. hrrrumph. the bus stop never seemed so far away as it was today. are SLIPpers meant to be SLIPpery and cause unsuspecting people like me to SLIP??? this is the third time in my memory that it has happened to me already. why me... poor me... sniff sniff. ok on to singapore idol... i really think sylvester's good. but how come he's always in the unsafe group? poor guy... looks like i gotta whip out my handphone and start voting for him... and that'll break my record of not voting for anybody at all ever since such a thing came about. i shall wrap this up with a nice smile :) and say goodnight everybody! sleep happily on this cool rainy night... yum yum.

sky captain and the world of tomorrow

whoa lots of things happened today man.. i'm so tired now. anyway, the main thing was i met ahhihh at lido and we watched the abovementioned movie. it was quite *silly*.. sorry! heh. but the whole retro feel was quite cool lah. haha i don't know why but they gave gwyneth paltrow such silly lines! oh and i was glad we got the new seats! the last time i watched at lido my seat was rocking back and forth :( you know how it is with me and rocky chairs... i get groggy. hehe. ok then we went shopping for a while and i saw this really nice top from ebase but it's $19 so i'm still thinking about it... btw charles and keith is having a sale! you should go down now if you need shoes. lastly, i really love mangoes! heh. just ate it. we have a mango tree outside my house yeah so according to my mum, they taste the nicest when they've just landed on the ground and we immediately pick them up. so means i gotta hang around my dear old tree and wait for my lovely mangoes to drop down... sigh...

lost in freedom

wassupppp...heh. first day of freedom but i dunno, just sitting here feeling kinda lost. all the things that i said i would do AFTER THE EXAM...suddenly my mind is blank. hahaha. anyways the disastrous exam is good and gone, no it was bad but now gone, and school's ended for real now. no more miserable holidays disguised in the form of study break. i mean last week was meant for studying yet there were no classes so means holidays right? i was totally confused man. ahaha ok what am i talking about... yeah tmr i'm meeting ahhihh for shopping and movie! maybe my liberation will come then. what movie is good?

thank you God!! and i love wr!!

hey man...just gotta testify of God's goodness to me! only last night i was languishing in a pool of utter helplessness, wondering how on earth was i gonna come up with an interactive map for pulau ubin zoological gardens. lol. sigh... seemed that all hope was gone, i had no one to turn to, my deadline was friday, and i had a marketing exam to mug for... terence gave me phil 4:13 "I can do everything through Him who gives me strength." and i was like, yeah i know... but... haha o me of little faith. i even quoted joshua 1:9 back to him! "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go." but yup. and my kind thai friend was "analyzing" the assignment for me, in his words. haha he was so nice, but i guess i felt that there was a limit to how much he could help me. i saw wanjun's one and wow, her stuff was flying all over the place. i was like, oh man, how am i gonna do that?! seriously, last night i was down in the dumps. then fast forward to this morning, i decided to message wr, coz somehow i had this feeling in me that she might be able to help. turns out that she's DA PRO at flash mx. yeah in fact award-winning flash mx expert. lol. praise the Lord man... she's gonna come over and help me tmr. she kept saying, don't worry, i'm the pro, very easy one, sure can. hahaha i love her man. i'll cook you lunch tmr!! hahaha kidding, kidding, still must come ah! and once again, thank you, Father, for showing me Your grace in time of my need.

Psalm 100

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.

Worship the Lord with gladness; come before Him with joyful songs.

Know that the Lord is God.

It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, the sheep of His pasture.

Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise;

give thanks to Him and praise His name.

For the Lord is good and His love endures forever;

His faithfulness continues through all generations.