i am so full

just came back from dinner with my parents and their friends at yacht club. they're still there...singing karaoke maybe haha. wow that place is so cool... i never knew there was such a beautiful place in singapore. lovely sea breeze, seafood, and outdoor dining experience. and this place is in west coast, not east coast! aha, so i do have some nice sea-related thing in west coast haha. over dinner, one of the aunties told me about her friend's son (who was from mcm) who did a short film about his mother dying, and his mum acted as herself! haha it's funny and interesting at the same time. not that his mother was really dying, it was just the storyline.

tonight is one of the times i miss having my oldest brother around. never knew what good company he could provide, until he came home this summer. in him i have an exercise/movie/tv partner, and just having him around is nice.

yes so i'm very full now... but i really rather be full spiritually than physically. this holiday is a good time for me to reflect on the person i have been and what i really ought to be, as a disciple of Jesus Christ. please forgive me if i haven't been as LOVING, CARING, FORGIVING, SHARING, THOUGHTFUL, HUMBLE, PATIENT, and SELF-CONTROLLED as i should be.

and for all that i have in my life right now, i want to give all the credit to God. i know i don't show this openly, but truly, my source of strength, my source of hope, is Christ alone. and i really yearn for all my friends and relatives to believe in God, so that they may have PEACE and JOY that are out of this world! really, being in God's family is the BEST thing in your life. i love you all because God loves me. and He loves you too!!! really, really.

smells like freedom

last paper tomorrow! and i'm already semi-planning my shopping route for tomorrow afternoon heh. haven't been to town for close to 2 months *beams* but who knows, i might just come home and sleep after all. since i don't think i'll meet any sales at this time of the year.

sigh, can't seem to study. and sigh, i've become a one-paper person. wonder what will i do if i had gone to JC? i'd be mugging for like ten papers now... so, my friends, i salute you!

i watched marie full of grace on DVD two nights ago, and it was a great movie. really well-made, and not the standard hollywood fare which you all know i'm so sick of heh. oh, and i just got a really NICE and witty email from my ex-piano teacher... ah, miss those days.

ok, i had a brainwave in the shower some days ago, hehehe. imagine if every car had a signboard at the back, like those electronic ones they place along the roads to warn you of traffic jams and give you the occasional "Happy New Year... and drive safely"? then let's say you happen to cut into somebody's lane coz you couldn't help it, or people are horning you because they can't see there's an accident in front, how do you communicate with them? aha, so if you have that electronic signboard at the back, you can just key in your message, like "Sorry!" or "Accident in front LAH" and flash it to the driver!

ok this doesn't sound so great now, and i can think of many ways drivers might misuse this. ok back to studying.

one more post

haha sam, this is for you :) one more post -

just had supper! my mum and brother bought back bedok 85 bar chor mee and grilled chicken wings. it was yum yum just now but now i'm like eew...die...and can't go to sleep. all my hard work at the gym (haha just kidding, what hard work) gone down the drain just like that *poof* (click mouse once now for poof effect).

so the trip to bmtc was this afternoon. endured the long and arduous journey from the west to the east, whereupon we arrived at the depressing ferry terminal with grey walls. somebody should make it more colourful so that the poor army boys won't have to suffer EVERY. STEP. OF. THE. WAY! even just before boarding the ferry, there's this billboard above us showing an ah bing ge (army boy) holding his girlfriend's face and the tagline goes something to the effect of "it's not what you lose, but how much you'll gain in the future". that's not very comforting. :p

anyway, term's ending once again, which essentially means nothing but... DEADLINES. four major projects, one pr assignment, and a radio test... i know i can do nothing without the strength that God gives me!! ok so it's very late now, so even though i'm still very full i think i'll just crash into bed. head's spinning already. was there wine in the bar chor mee? don't think so. haha.

hey, holiday

went to the metro 20% off storewide sale yesterday with huang shan, my friend all the way from primary school. it was pretty good, since i kinda like metro hehe. and paragon was having sales in a lot of shops too, but there was no time. turned out that most of orchard road was having national day sales!!! but glad i didn't shop everywhere or else i'd have bought more than i should. went home with a cooee skirt ($24.95) and a bossini top ($10).

BUT -- our outing wasn't just about shopping, of course! we had lunch at kobayashi (not very nice, unfortunately), brownies for dessert (and to make up for the sad lunch) at cafe cartel. btw, np students have 15% discount there! ok, and we talked and had a good time catching up. thanks shan :) it was a very good outing!

the only thing was that cineleisure was PACKED with students dressed in red. we turned claustrophobic and fled the place as soon as we could. :p but the place also made me feel like watching a movie. ah, charlie and the chocolate factory came out last week. bewitched's out today. well i signed up for hollywoodclicks.com last night (yeah, finally) so i think i won't be going to the cinemas for a long while actually. then again, this is a good chance for inviting friends over and watching (non-pirated) dvds!

happy birthday, singapore :)

pics from fullerton chocolate buffet

photos courtesy of erica!


the chocolate dragon and where you can make your own chocolate drink. i was too sick of chocolate by that time to try it. :p

the legendary chocolate fountain. i almost lost my strawberry in it.

update on my new room

so maybe it was time i added some pictures here to liven up the blog! this is my room...with the bare essentials. bed, shelf, table, chair, fan... yeah. looking for a picture to decorate the plain wall hopefully?? the extra mattress is coz my aunt from sydney stayed with us for 10 days.

i don't know what to say!!

checked my school mail and saw this email with the subject: "compulsary visit to bmtc on 17 aug..." i was like HUH?! bmtc is the basic military training centre at pulau tekong!!! where the army guys go!!

apparently my tutorial group is free on wed afternoons so we've been chosen to pay a visit to bmtc and for the ladies, it's a good chance to see what our future boyfriends/spouses go through. that's what the email said.

i can't believe it!!! for a moment i felt like emailing the person back to ask, "is this a JOKE?" hahaha ok i seriously don't know whether to laugh or what. i just can't believe such a thing is happening to me! in poly! i'll post about what happens when it happens. i seriously don't know what to think of this...hahaha.

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haha i almost forgot to talk about this, but today on the shuttle bus home with my mum, we saw this man dressed in red from top to toe. no kidding. red shirt, red track pants and red shoes. as if that was not enough, he held a red file in his hand as well. all were the same shade of bright red.

as he stood up to get off the bus, my mum whispered to me...

"better make sure the bull doesn't see him."

hahahahaha my mum is funny right?

home sweet home

attended a wedding today at the old parliament house. that whole area was road-blocked coz of the ndp preview so we had to make one big round to get inside the building. you seldom hear of people getting married inside the parliament house do you...haha me too! it was so different. but i'd definitely still want to get married in my church next time, no matter how exotic wedding locations can get. heh.

so glad to be home now... plus it's a cold night so it should make for a good sleep later. :) saturday night tv is pretty bad, did you ever notice that btw? haha... just a thought.

oh last night i had my p6 reunion and it was so so cool. it was definitely one of our best reunions. plus our teacher could make it!! we had a great time reminiscing and laughing like mad... thank God for a night like that.

to ming'en: WELCOME HOME!!! missed you.

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i don't understand why my double spacing is missing! like suddenly it went on strike. :( it makes reading so much harder, doesn't it? does anyone have the same problem? can anyone tell me how to fix it?

so many things on my mind

what a week it has been!! i'm exhausted from all the work coz it's the last week of the term so the deadlines decided to all appear at the same time suddenly. like so many things clouding my mind and giving me a perpetual headache. things in year 2 sure are different!! but i don't want to complain so i shall move on...

bigger things have happened. first, the IOC. i think it was really cool that it took place right here! but i think all the action was somewhere in the city; i didn't feel affected at all here in my little west coast, so i just followed the papers closely... it was really interesting. and i was rooting for PARIS! erica and i were so disappointed. we so wanted it to win!! and it has tried THREE times already!! they should let it win!! :( our second choice was madrid. at least these two cities had the spirit!

but oh man poor london! poor poor london! the shock and sadness of it all just gripped me there and then and, call me apathetic or what, but i can't really bear to follow the news coz it's just too sad... i remember when the tsunami happened i couldn't bear to know what was happening too... and all the other sad things that happened over the years. i think singapore is really blessed. well and another thing that hit me was that last time when such tragedies took place, it would make me think, "people are suffering over there, and here i am in school having to be concerned about HOMEWORK and GRADES??" that was one of the reasons why i wasn't happy in school. but i think now i'm in a better situation, in poly and all, so i feel like my life is not so unmeaningful anymore. well something like that lah. i don't really know how to express my feelings.

though school has been tough recently, it ended on a pretty good note for me today coz i can see that my friends are making an effort to curb their use of vulgarities. thank God for that!! i'm really thankful to God, my Saviour and my Provider. My refuge and strength.

and how true!

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring. He sends you a sunrise every morning. Whenever you want to talk, He listens. He can live anywhere in the universe, but He chose your heart.

God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

fullerton chocolate buffet

ok the chocolate buffet was pretty nice at the start. the ambience was super good... everywhere was dimly lit, and we sat on these amazingly comfy couches, not chairs. there was this chocolate fountain thing, where you put your fruits and stuff in and get them all chocolatey. i tried that first. and then i ate a chocolate tart and some other small chocolates. i also tried the fullerton chocolate cake. and that was it. i was gone by one and a half rounds. i couldn't even finish the cakes on my second plate!! i was feeling sick and i was seriously missing my bar chor mee by then. hehe ok so i think it's not very wise to bring me to a chocolate buffet... though i DID enjoy it in the general sense... like lazing around and leaning back on the couch and just talking... it felt very holiday-ish. oh what would i give to live in fullerton for one night... hahaha.

i just thought...

maybe i should blog. since i'm kinda tired of always seeing the same old post here. haha. time flies and i'll be having my term break in a week's time. life seems so great during term break... i can just imagine all the rest i'll take, the DVDs i'll rent, the shopping i'll do... but until then, it is sad. :( nobody likes deadlines. haha but aiyah in the end everything will turn out ok lah, as it always does. i'm not so worried about things, i'm just sian about the work i have to do. but having God beside you is a real comfort. in Your presence, that's where I am strong. i just have to focus on Him and not let worry take over me. the things of this world seem so small compared to You, O God. God is in control!! how wonderful is that. :)

some of my primary school classmates are coming back from overseas and we're gonna have a reunion! looking forward to that. and tonight i'm going to fullerton for chocolate buffet with some of my sec 4 friends. pay $28 to GET FAT! tsk. haha. but i'm quite excited about going inside fullerton, and of course meeting up with my friends. ok back to work.

comm issues

haha ok just a quick one. comm issues lect today was a blast. at first the lecturer said we were going to have a quiz but aiyah he couldn't conceal his excitement very well lah haha. we all guessed that it was a hoax, and true enough the "quiz" was slides and slides of pictures of "american pop culture" i.e. friends, oc, spiderman, titanic, austin powers, lord of the rings, etc etc... and as we screamed out their names, he threw packets of snacks to us, as well as american idol t-shirts i think, and oc posters!! the whole thing was quite wild and haha he sure woke us up man, after such a long day. he likes to give us "commercial breaks" and play music videos or clips or commercials... haha quite fun lah. the relevance isn't very great but he insists they're all for "academic purposes". hahaha...

tomorrow i'm going for church camp and i'll be back on sunday. update again then. take care!

new room

my future room...you all (pumpkins) must come on one of the tuesdays where we have a two-hour break! i shall COOK for you!!! hehehehe.

to my grand total of 5 (plus mingen) readers: everybody come!!

cheer up

ok this is the first week of school so i guess everybody has been feeling a little down...but cheer up! things will get better! plus you have the GSS to take your mind off the unpleasant stuff! hehe. yeah it's very important to maintain an outside-of-school life, you know what i mean...then you'll always have little things to look forward to. :) right. so here are some cheers for everybody (hahaha):

fel fel you're so swell
in our hearts you'll always dwell
go go you'll do well
[last line contributed by sam]

sammo hung! sammo hung!
who's bigger than sammo hung!
s...a...m...samantha CHOUSIMRYANTANLEEWONGOLIVERSIEW.....

right. that was nonsense. haha.
now one for debbie...

deb deb you're so fab
don't feel lonely don't feel sad
just give us a call and we'll be there!

ah...lirong, you need one? ask ernest to compose for you lah. :p hahaha.
ok ok here goes...

lirong lirong we miss you
you're always a support you're always cool
next time bring us on the cruise too! (hahaha)

ok i think i should give sam a better one...

sam sam tall and tanned
in all things you must think you can
s...a...m...samantha CHOUSIMRYANTANLEEWONGOLIVERSIEW!!!

hahaha


cheer up everybody

hair, hair, grow again

i cut my hair and now i look like a rectangle. :'(

when i tie my hair up i look like a coconut. :'((

i won't put up the sad rectangle pic but i would put up this:



anyway, can you guess where i took this picture?? hehe.

gonna get a homecooked meal tonight!

we can't move into the new place yet because of some defects that need to be corrected, so we're stuck in yew tee till the end of this month. when my big brother comes back next week, he may have to sleep in the kitchen hahaha. my mum and i went to the salvation army at potong pasir (never been there before) yesterday but it was quite run-down and we didn't find anything there. after that we went to ikea. it was a dreary day yesterday, wasn't it? the sky was dark, the roads were wet... if only we had stayed home, then we could have taken a nice cosy nap. :)

this morning i went for my first basic theory lesson. yeah i finally signed up for my driving lessons haha. next time when i pass then we'll take out the ba zhang (dumpling) plate and paste on the car, front and back, for one year...then hopefully nobody will bully me on the road if not i wouldn't know what to do!!

other news... we got the letter telling us we can collect the digi cam already! yay!
plus... we've been out all day for so many days, the last time we ate at home was DAYS ago. finally mum's cooking my favourite soup tonight. :O)
and finally... i've started on this book called "the heavenly man". really powerful book. i seldom read Christian books somehow, but i can't seem to find any novels these days that don't have sex/vulgarities in them at all...so i think it's about time i helped my dad read some books in his library haha. he doesn't actually have a library, but he has a lot of books. and at the new place, we're gonna store them in the bomb shelter. yeah felicia you can sleep with the books!!! :)

shopaholic blue horizon

to fel: haha the bomb shelter. anyway your new haircult looks really nice.
to lirong: no digital camera yet. :( my mother is going to call up the insurance guy tmr. haha.

i'm down to the last book in the shopaholic series. feels a bit like i've been living in london these few days haha. does anyone here know a real shopaholic? a shopaholic sounds scary, just spending money like that. i guess i know someone who's something like that...i get some of the clothes that she passes down. haha.

so we went to blue horizon today. it still feels a bit surrel, finally getting the keys after so long. or rather, it doesn't feel as exhilarating as it should probably be because it's just like when i was waiting for my first paycheck but it came two days late so by that time i wasn't excited anymore. haha. but nonetheless, it's still GREAT that we're finally another step closer to living in a proper nice home.

the last episode of the jap show "good luck" on channel u was today... i really liked that show!

david tao / enter the phoenix

thanks to sam, i got to go to david tao's showcase at expo on sat night. opening act by wild was painful :P ah tao was wonderful, as usual. his voice is really very, very good. AND he might have a concert here again at the end of the year! that's certainly something to look forward to. :) plus he might have a new album out at the beginning of next year. things are looking good!!

watched enter the phoenix last night on channel u. it was surprisingly good. i mean when it first came out i wasn't interested in it at all coz...never mind. but yeah it was pretty good!! now if i have to, i don't mind watching house of fury. heh! yeah stephen fung is a director to look out for.

we are getting the keys on tuesday...