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2010-02-05T17:45:00.000+08:00

☞ -
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Migrating to justplainwaffles. Goodbye blogspot.

2009-11-01T22:00:00.002+08:00

☞ Full of Anticipation
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*Clears cobwebs*

It has been almost a year since I last blogged. Hah. Heck I don't really blog now. Working life is almost routine and there's nothing much to blog about anyways.

But I still do keep up the tradition of blogging about next year's resolution. Let's look back to last November's post:

1. Lesser 大小姐脾气 (-Well, I can't really help it.-)
2. Being back to 47 kg (-I'm still working on it-)
3. Take good care of myself when I'm sick (-I'm seldom sick now.-)
4. Drink more water (-A definite YES. I did it.-)
5. Tidy up my room as much as possible (-Erm.-)
6. Throw as many unwanted things as possible (really unwanted) (-And a lot more unwanted stuff comes in as well.-)
7. Do as much housework as I can (sweeping/mopping)
8. Treat myself better (-Yep.-)
9. Save money while spending wisely (-Hmm. Not sure whether I had did it.-)
0. Be better to everyone

Some of the things that I would like to do in the near future:

~~1. Lasik~~ (-Going for an eye assessment this Friday. Hopefully I'm suitable.-)
~~2. Eyebrow thingy~~ (-Yep.-)
3. Teeth whitening (-Blardy ex so I'll shelf this for now.-)
~~4. Proper pedicure packages~~
5. Taking good care of my skin (-Yep. But still have to continue doing so.-)
~~6. On tour with Mr Sim asap~~

Now let's look back on any major ~~deficit in cash~~ events that had happened this year till now:
Jan - None
Feb - Another operation; Pedicure package
Mar - 21st birthday; Eyebrow package; Start of 4 days work week
Apr - End of 4 days work week
May - None
Jun - Genting
Jul - Purchased my first burbs
Aug - JH 21st birthday
Sep - None
Oct - Korea

Events to happen in near future:
01a. Lasik eye assessment
01b. Lasik
02 . Overnight at Rasa Sentosa w/ M&S
03 . Christmas!
04 . 2010!
05 . Hokkaido!
06a. CNY
06b. Valentine's
07 . Major event X
08 . 22nd birthday
09 . Taiwan!

Well, this is it for now.

2009-04-20T14:58:00.000+08:00

☞ Happy
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2009-03-08T21:49:00.003+08:00

☞ Stomachache
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A picture a day keeps the virtual spider webs away.

Silly Dear. It would be my 21st birthday soon, and he bought me this.

2009-01-22T22:38:00.002+08:00

☞ Bitter
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I think I'm gonna add another item to my 'To do' list: Learn Driving!

I'm considering starting on it after my birthday. Well, why not, it's a skill after all. Better than waiting and waiting hopelessly for someone to drive me around.

Why, I'm not deciding on it because I'm bitter. Now that my family has a car, maybe learning to drive a car has a whole new purpose now.

Basic theory, here I come!

2008-12-21T19:20:00.002+08:00

☞ Hungry
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400th post! Lol.

I'm so hungry right now, and lots of food is going through my mind right now.

Egg with toast
Pizza
Ramen
BBQ chicken wings
Subway
Char kway teow
Fried hokkien mee
Salted fish fried rice
Curry chicken with rice
BBQ stingray
水晶包

Christmas' coming. Still dunno how to spend it and where to spend it. Every where will be crowded. Sigh.

Well JH's posted to lifeguard, quite worried because nothing's known about it, except that training is really xiong. But it's a stay out vocation and office hours, which is great. Hehe~

2 more days and ~~boss will be on vocation~~. Oops. Had my first Company ADND yesterday night. A bit disappointing, because tio any lucky draw. :( Overall was fun, but was really tired because I slept at around 5am the previous night because went to watch Ip man at 1.50am. Lots of movies coming out recently and I would like to watch Yes Man or Twilight next.

2008-12-14T23:03:00.004+08:00

☞ Unsleepy
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I'm... just beginning to feel tired what what I'm feeling right now.

Being ~~too~~ considerate, consistently thinking about what others feel, think and will do; it's just so... tiring.

And my decisions will always be based on them, not me, not how I feel, nor what the logical way should be.

I just wanna be alone right now; nothing; no one.

2008-11-21T23:18:00.003+08:00

☞ Tired
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Well it's the time of the year again. The last month of the year.

I think it's time to state some resolutions for the year 2009.

1. Lesser 大小姐脾气
2. Being back to 47 kg
3. Take good care of myself when I'm sick
4. Drink more water
5. Tidy up my room as much as possible
6. Throw as many unwanted things as possible (really unwanted)
7. Do as much housework as I can (sweeping/mopping)
8. Treat myself better
9. Save money while spending wisely
0. Be better to everyone

Some of the things that I would like to do in the near future:

1. Lasik
2. Eyebrow thingy
3. Teeth whitening
4. Proper pedicure packages (beacuse I mistreat my feet a lot)
5. Taking good care of my skin (goodness I have crow's feet and flaky skin)
6. On tour with Mr Sim asap

Events coming right up:
1. Nov month end closing (SIGH)
2. Bro's birthday
3. Hari Raya Haji
4. Mr Sim's POP
5. Outing with the girls (eh got a not?)
6. ADND 2008
7. X'mas
8. Boxing day
9. Dec month end closing (SIGH SIGH)
0. 2009!

2008-10-29T21:10:00.001+08:00

☞ Tired
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Guess where I have been to (again).

2008-09-02T19:08:00.002+08:00

☞ Drained
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Attended my first no-relative-related wedding on Sunday. It's my collegue Asabel getting married.

A bride is always the most beautiful woman on that day. She looked so lovely and happy.

Exchanged rings...

Took off the veil...

And you may kiss the bride.

It's just so touching seeing the whole process. Sigh, it's so dreamy.

People from TEA who went to the church wedding. Oops I wasn't looking at the camera.

Was trying to take a photo of us and the bride only. Haha!

Trying to act glam at the dinner place.

The empty tables.

Another photo with the bride! Damn I look like I'm falling asleep.

Clowning around with her accessories.

More clowning.

Clowning with the flowers.

2008-07-13T12:24:00.002+08:00

☞ 舍不得
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Well, it's going to be the middle of July; fast approaching September, and the dreaded day.

Sigh. I don't wish to start this topic all over again. All I can say is, I will feel sad, I will feel lonely, and I will miss him lots.

2008-07-06T15:45:00.004+08:00

☞ (Love)sick
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2nd July 2005. 3 years ago.

2nd July 2008. 3 years later...

Well, took leave on 4th July just to be with him. Woke up on Friday feeling pretty shiok hah.

We went on Darlene the duck. Well, Singaporeans will have a citizen discount if we flash our IC at the ticketing counter. Quite a bumpy ride on land actually.

I was really afraid that it would be a big splash when it enters the water. But I was wrong. The entrance into water was much smoother than the travelling on land.

The duck swam around the bay and we saw the temporary F1 pit stop, Singapore flyer, the floating platform and Merlion before turning back to land. The ride in water was only about 15 to 20 minutes.

Bonus: Yucky sign.

Then Darlene went around the memorials and important places such as the City Hall. The land ride is around 20 - 30 minutes.

11.20 pm. We went to watch Hancock. A little bit too fast paced but I didn't expect the plot to come out like this. But overall, it's a good movie.

The next day, we were walking in Suntec when we saw this:

And knew immediately that it's the NDP preview that day. And so went to sat down and wait.

3 hummingbirds.

Specks of dust? No.

It has been 4 years since I last opened my mouth and sang the National Anthem.

Roar.

Roar roar roar.

Rawr.

<3

Shaky hands. But I love this kind of shimmering fireworks.

The finale fireworks.

BIG.

Then we went off to the Singapore Flyer. Had to go through a couple of security checks before we can enter the flyer.

The place of boarding. Actually the flyer was moving quite fast. It doesn't stop for you to get on, you have to get on when it's still moving.

Tried to take a picture but obviously it's too dark.

Night scenes. The flyer is really pretty fast.

Well dear thought of an idea and we got a light from his handphone. But...

WARGHHHH >_<

Let's try again.

More night scenes.

Then went for Popeyes. Was pretty hungry since it's almost 11pm and we didn't really had a proper lunch that day. So I devoured the chicken straightaway once it was placed on the table. So no pictures. But I really like the biscuit and mashed potatoes.

Love ya. X)

2008-06-29T01:02:00.003+08:00

☞ Happy
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Long time no see. It's nearing July.

Anyways, this post is just a post of a not-so-normal Saturday.

Dear is torturing my Domo-kun. Look at his evil triumph smile.

Well. Went to Liang Court after that.

Where we bought our spanking new toy.

Excuse me. I mean, me!

Ramen for dinner. I ABSOLUTELY love the meat and eggs. <3

Stepped out to hear the jets roaring in the skies. Then, we see this (again). Love in the skies, just like in the Airshow.

Suspecting that there will be fireworks, we walked to Esplanade. True enough, there were fireworks, though it's only a few pops here and there.

Beautiful beautiful.

2008-06-15T09:56:00.001+08:00

☞ Tired
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Well well, yesterday was fun.

Don't you think my dear?

2008-06-08T10:58:00.001+08:00

☞ Happy
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Even after 2 years 11 months...

2008-05-25T21:39:00.003+08:00

☞ Sian
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Surprise surprise. A mini gathering happened today.

Went to City Hall today. Gosh, it seems like it has been a long time since I went there. Tried Out of the Pan.

Since dear wasn't feeling really hungry, he ordered a sweet crepe: Tiramisu. Quite nice actually.

I preferred a savoury one. So I ordered a peking duck crepe. Actually it's duck meat crepe.

Ok, after which we met Sheng Long and Michael. And we went to Suntec to find Evelyn.

*Posted without permission hah!* Evelyn was cosplaying as Leenalee of D.Gray Man.

A few minutes later, we saw Shu Jun, Eunice and Hui Mei making their way towards us. Then we saw Yulin and Syafiq serveral meters away from us. 10 people from DAC 05 at the same place ha!

Went to TCC for a cuppa and chat for a while. Went home soon after.

NOT looking forward to tomorrow.

2008-05-22T22:41:00.002+08:00

☞ Tired
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Nothing on food this time! But...

I finally made contacts! With 800 degree in each of both eyes, I am almost as blind as a bat with my glasses off.

I had wanted contacts since... well ages ago if I really had to say. Glasses are quite a hindrance, be it work or play. But, just thinking that having to wash the lenses after wearing puts me off, and hearing about discomfort when wearing contacts made it worse. So, I stick to my good old trustworthy glasses.

So why the decision to make now? I really had no idea. I only mentioned that I would like to make contacts some day to my aunts some days ago, then on Sunday, they suggested me going to a professional to have my eyes checked; whether they're suitable for contacts a not. And poof, here I am, at home, with 2 boxes of contacts and a bottle of saline solution.

Putting on the contacts for the first time just now, is really difficult. My eyes just couldn't stop blinking whenever the finger with the len came near. After I succeeded with the right eye, the left eye proved to be harder. But it got in after countless tries, AND getting it out is like x10 times more difficult that the right eye.

Can't wait for the day I officially use contacts. ;)

2008-05-18T13:12:00.002+08:00

☞ Bored
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Finally! The much awaited long weekend has arrived! Wasn't in a particularly good mood this week.

Went to eat some Thai food on Tuesday night at a coffeeshop like place opposite my workpalce. Forgotten what it is called. But it's near Villa Bali. Had the Thai platter. A bit too much for 2 persons. X_X

After which we went to the newly opened bridge which connects Mt Faber to Alexandar Road. Yep, we walked along the metal bridge above the forest. It was quite dark by the time we finished the food and I am not really enjoying the walk because it's dark and there are trees nearby the bridge. I do not like the trees one bit during night.

Was feeling really bored and stuffy at home so I decided to go to Vivo for a walk alone. But changed my mind after waiting for almost 20 minutes for 855 and 65. And when I started to walk towards the direction of Tiong Bahru Plaza, two bus 65 came. I'm sure this always happens to everybody. Whenever you want to take that particular bus, you'll have to wait a long time for the bus. But when you do not want to take that bus, it's arrivals became so frequent.

Had sworn to buy some (new) foundation because it's GSS now; Wastons is having quite a sale. But when I got there, ZA 2-way is selling for 14 plus for 2 cakes. ZZZ! I want to try out some new brands and this happens. Then there were so many people that I was too embarrassed to try out the shades After having a mind battle in my brain, I gave up altogether and walked out without buying anything.

Then I went to the ground level where Subway is, there was a new pie shop named Pie Kia if I remembered correctly. Was having a suddenly craving for pie so I bought a small one to try it out. Er, not that bad if you are not a connoisseur of pies.

2008-05-11T10:12:00.006+08:00

☞ Ache
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Feels like I'm hosting a food blog now. *Laughs* Acutally this post is to make myself hungry. Well, life is almost a routine now, except for occasional eating outs or what not.

Had been OT-ing almost every day last week, except for Thursday. Fell sick on Wednesday with a runny nose and sore throat. Woke up on Thursday morning with a fever and cough. So opted against going to work and went to see a doctor in the morning. The feeling of not going to work is totally SHIOK hah. But, it's on the expense of a day's worth of pay.

Friday, luckily, I was released from OT early at 8 pm. Went straight to Vivo, where my aunts and mom were for dinner as a celebration of one of my aunt's birthday. They wanted dinner Pu Tian @ Food Republic. But when I arrived there, they had only just sat down in 1 little corner of the Pu Tian area, and there's 1 whole line waiting for seats. And the whole place is so squeezy and tiny. Wasn't a very comfortable and enjoyable eating experience.

First up is this fried sweet potato fritters. It's scalding hot. And I put it into my mouth just like that. You can imagine my expression afterwards when I realised the temperature of that thing.

Next is this 生煎包. Nothing special.

This is the 扣肉包's bun deep fried with 芝麻 on top. We are supposed to stuff the meat into the bun and eat it. Imagine the amount of oil being absorbed into the buns. I love the buns when it's steamed, not fried. But the meat's pretty good though, because it has lots of ONIONS, which is good for the health.

Kailan with beancurd skin. Nothing special too. Tasted a bit plain.

Chicken! Well, my mom forbade me to eat as many as I want because I'm sick, so I just ate a piece. I actually liked it. But my aunts and mom commented that it's too salty and left quite a bit. =(

Weird noodles. The noodles is actually the transparent like strands. Taste-wise, it's pretty normal.

The healthiest dish amongst all. Had a fishy smell though. X(

Deep fried pig trotters! Yup, it's as oily as it looks.

I did not touch this dish as I was busy talking to my cousin about her new phrase of life in polytechnic.

Saturday; went to Dear's home to slack and crash some cars in NFS. Wasn't having much of an appetite for rice or noodles and so he suggested for some dim sum eatery called 揾到食 in Sims Ave (actually in Geylang).

Woo hoo. Chinese tea.

Fried yam cake. Personally, I like yam cakes and carrot cakes very much, be it steamed or fried.

Chee cheong fun with char siew. Not that bad at all.

Crab meat siew mai. Warning, contains part of the crab. You know, the transparent 'bone' in the pincers.

Har gao. Woah so steamy. Better than most har gao I've eaten. The skin is superbly thin.

Steamed prawns with garlic. Try it, if you dare. The garlic doesn't cover the stinky smell of prawns. We suspect that the prawns were not fresh in the first place.

Mini meat buns. Very normal. At least the filling is not that oily.

After paying for the bill, we were giving 2 pandan chiffon cake by the staff, 1 person each, lah. She said that her boss made it for Mother's Day and is giving it out for free. Oh well, we just took it, though we felt bewildered.

Went to City Hall afterwards and I felt a mad urge to shop. But, I had to stop myself otherwise I'll be spending all of my planned savings. I'm in quite a dilemma now.

Sunday: Happy Mother's Day! Was planning to make my mom's favourite durian chessecake today morning BUT she declined. =( She claims that she couldn't finish the cake all by herself. It has been 5 months since I'd made my cake. I need some other excuse to make a cake now.

2008-05-04T16:50:00.003+08:00

☞ Sian
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I realised I've been mistreating my phone for the past 1 plus year.

2 deep scratches.

Scrapped edges.

More scratches on the screen...

... on buttons...

... corners.

And I realised I have a fetish for keep receipts, paper or plastic bags of my purchases.

2008-05-01T22:53:00.003+08:00

☞ Sian
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Dear and I wanted to try out the new McGriddles today.

But upon arriving MacDonald @ Geylang East today, I changed my mind. It was CROWDED with children and parents. And I mean REALLY CROWDED. Crap, I forgot it was a public holiday.

Right, if you have ever been to McD recently, you would have known that they changed their serving system. It used to be... well, when you order, you wait there until your order is ready, then you leave and the next person can order. Now is you order and you stand to the other side of the counter to wait for your order, then the next person orders and then he/she stands behind you to wait for her order. Gah, just go McD and order something and you'll get what I mean.

Well, with all the gan jiong parents standing in line and the BRATS running/crying/begging/jumping/etc EVERYWHERE, you can imagine how chaotic it is there. And I just want my McGriddles!!! Of course the service crew are stressed and got mixed up easily. I almost felt sorry for them, almost.

After 20 to 30 minutes I think, finally got the McGriddles we want. 打包-ed of course.

Well, it looks kinda crappy as compared to the ads.

Tasted kinda weird too. It's sweet yet salty. The sweetness comes from the pancakes and the saltiness comes from the sausage and cheese. The egg? Well no taste. But then I've gotten a bonus from the egg.

Egg shell.

2008-04-30T22:30:00.003+08:00

☞ Exhausted
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Well, had my first department dinner yesterday at Ah Yat Seafood Restaurant. It was so near to Dear's workplace! This department dinner was a kinda farewell cum welcoming dinner for our old and new GM, so had it together with the HR department, whom we are quite friendly with.

Well, I'm more friendly with these 2 xiao zha bor. Everytime we take photos they'll push me in front because if my face was beside them, their face would look bigger as I had a smaller face. Hah

The FOOD

Final photo of the day

2008-04-27T00:37:00.009+08:00

☞ Comfy
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Whew this blog is getting really dusty. How long has it been since I last blogged?

After getting my 1st (2.5 weeks) paycheck 2 weeks ago, I gave in to my 6 month-old desire of having a digital camera.

Firstly, we went to the newly opened T3.

I was fascinated by the waste of space in the ladies.

It's like a rainforest there!

A week later, we went to ichiban boshi for dinner. I guess the camera don't really work well with dim lights, or that I'm an idiot for not adjusting to the right settings for shooting in dim lights.

As usual, I had teriyaki chicken don. A tad bit salty.

Dear had this unagi and egg set. I preferred his.

We even had sake! But it was not to my liking. Dear commented that it tasted diluted.

And today, we had japanese food again! This time at netsu-retsu ichibantei.

I had ton ramen. Yum! I simply love the meat pieces and egg!

Dear had miso ramen. This time, he preferred mine hah!

Well, finally had a picture of my collegues. Wonder if it's safe to post...

That's all for now, till then!

2008-03-30T20:26:00.002+08:00

☞ Blue
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Monday blues are inevitable. I believe it applies to a lot of people too. For these people; like me, look forward to the weekends more than anything else, but only to find that the 2 days seem to be too short.

Suddenly, there seems like too many things that I want to do, like riding the Singapore Flyer at least once, taking photos, chill out at Esplanade Library reading 8Days magazines, stay at Esplanade rooftop garden till late, shopping, movies, napping, East Coast Park, Sentosa, cooking, etc etc.

Oh well.

2008-03-25T22:31:00.002+08:00

☞ Wide awake
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Well it has been 1 week since I started working. Not bad, the people there are friendly. I'm still at the adjusting stage though; still not quite used to the work there, after all it only has been like... 6 days?

The bad thing is that the food at the food court really sucks. I totally had no appetite when I see the food there. I'd rather eat cup noodles everyday, seriously.

Well as for time with Dear, sadly, it reduces to only Tuesday and Thursday night; subjected to OT, and Saturday, and of course public holidays. I'm not embarrassed to say that I missed him all the time at work, and even at home during Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights.

2008-03-16T00:04:00.003+08:00

☞ Sleepless
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I'll be working tomorrow as a Accounts Adminstrator, at a well-known Japanese MNC with a name which starts with a 'To' and ends with a 'ba'. Since I have totally no experience with part-time jobs, data entry and their accounting system, I will be serving a probationary period of x months or more at the company.

When did all this happened? Well, it happened last Wednesday. Boy, I was so nervous that I got there too early that Wednesday. First, the HR representative met me and went through my application form. Next, my would-be supervisior came and interviewed me. Then she left, and came back to say that the manager would be meeting me. After a few exchange of words with the manager, the interview ended.

They called me that very afternoon. Giddy with surprise, I agreed to take on the offer.

Hopefully I will happy there.

2008-03-11T22:18:00.002+08:00

☞ Sickly
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Thank you brother and Dear for the birthday presents! And thank those who remembered that it's my birthday today, all of which are my relatives.

Well, woke up feeling a bit sickly. But decided against seeing a doctor. Went out to Bugis quite early and walked around. Shared a plate of hokkien mee with Dear as I had not much appetite.

Walked to The Cathay and bought tickets to Meet the Spartans. It was a lame show, purely for laughs and entertainment. Went to Plaza Singapura and walked around. Really, there's nothing to do in Singapore!

Walked to The Central and ate dinner at Ma Maison. Great ambiance, pretty good food; except it's a bit too salty for my liking, limited menu. Walked around in Meidi-ya and went home shortly after.

Hope that I'll feel better tomorrow morning. I just ate some flu medicine.

2008-03-10T17:55:00.003+08:00

☞ Nervous
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Oh my god. Please wish me luck for this coming Wednesday and Thursday. I really need lots of it.

Everyone should know how badly I fared during CSB's job interview. Oh my gosh I'm so blardy nervous even as of right now!

2008-03-09T17:06:00.003+08:00

☞ Full
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Computer's fixed!

Rant: Day Two

12 midnight and it sets off. Explored from Deck 7 to Deck 13. Well, almost all of the facilities closed early, such as the pool, activity room (GAH), etc. Only the Oasis was opened throughout the night (well, you all know what it is don't you). Dear was stopped by the security guard, TWICE, for looking underage, when we went in later in the 'morning'. =S

So went to the sauna / steam room, since it's opened till 1 am. Eh, I don't like steam room one bit, because I cannot breathe properly in there. 1 am sharp, the lights went off.

Was feeling really sleepy because there was nothing to do. Went to bed at around 3 to 4 am. It was quite weird because the ship's vibrating. But still, I managed to sleep.

Later, we went to Deck 13 to 7 again. Played at the arcade for a few mintues. Then at Dec 8, we found that the whole of The Gallery is covered with photos, keychains and magnets of ALL passengers with mascots. No wonder it's called The Gallery. These souvenirs do not come cheap; it ranges from SGD 9.90 to SGD 29 (if you want the photos in frame). So I took only this:

Those 2 are really pros! Their facial expressions were the same for almost all the photos. And we agreed that we could have gotten away with all the souvenirs without paying since none of the crew were acting as surveillance. What more, they cannot do anything else with those souvenirs that are not being bought except to throw them away.

Got off the ship to KL at around 2 pm. More photos with mascots. 1 hour ride to KL, 2 hours plus 'shopping' and another 1 hour plus back to port. Zzz. Witnessed a terrible accident of 2 trucks and 2 cars on the way back to port, thus the traffic jam and delays.

Back on board. We went to check out the photos taken earlier. True enough, they were up already. They are so FAST! Skipped dinner, but went for supper. There were also quite a number of people having their supper. People on board the cruise sure gets hungry easily...

Zzz...

2008-03-07T15:14:00.002+08:00

☞ Tired
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Just came home from cruise; it's my first time going on board a cruise. Well, I cannot say that it is a very pleasant and relaxing trip. No pictures in this post, since my computer hasn't been fixed yet; so it's all words and paragraphs.

Rant: Day 1
At 7 pm, we travelled to Harbourfront so that we can check in at 8 pm. There were already many people there. Quite surprised actually; I thought that there weren't going to be a lot of people, but obviously I'm wrong. There were quite a number of big groups of people, company outing, class outing, friends outing (There was a HUGE group of Indians [clarification needed]) or what not.

Things were beginning to get ugly as the time slowly approaches 8. First, it's that company outing group. Well from what I observed, it seems that 1 person from that company had been in line aka 'book' place. Then the whole lot of them came in, wanting to cut the queue. It's not 1 or 2 persons, but 10 over persons, maybe 20. Luckily a personnel came and shooed them to the back of the line.

Next, a very 'chio' auntie and her lover came out of nowhere and gek gek (fake fake)stood beside the young girl in front of me, RIGHT UNDER MY NOSE. Before she stood there, she said loudly to her lover: "Eh this line balcony class. Stand here ok liao." Well, I was getting a bit upset, since my illusion of having a jacuzzi pool or sauna room or steam room all to myself had already evaporated. So I said loudly, "Some people are just SOO buay zi dong." And I kept ranting and ranting. Then my mom told me to put my bag in front of me, since everyone from behind is like pushing and pushing. Good! I took my bag and PURPOSELY threw it infront of me, hitting that auntie's ankle. Well, I believed that my words and my actions stayed in her brain for the rest of the day, since I caught her starring at me during dinner buffet.

Then, the time to enter came. I was on the brink of saying **** and ####### when we started to enter. People suddenly came from the side of the queue! I presumed they waited there instead of waiting at the end of the line where they are suppose to be, looking for a chance to cut in. WTF! Why is this happening!

Travelled down the longggg hallway to the cruise, where mascots stood waiting. They pounced on us like meat and we were forced to take photos with them, twice! Nobody can escape their trap. Of course, this is for the souvenir which cost 10 bucks and above.

Well, that's it for Rant: Day 1. Rant: Day 2 will be posted up shortly.

2008-03-03T12:58:00.000+08:00

☞ Sian
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My computer died, yet again.

2008-03-02T18:02:00.002+08:00

☞ Fattened up
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Well, an entry just to sweep the ever-accumulating dust on the dashboard.

To tell the truth, I've been rotting away since the end of exams and I haven't found a job yet; and can't. I'll be going on a cruise in 3 days time, thus, resulting in a delay for searching for a job.

Time really is FLYING. I think I'd rambled on time in quite a couple of my posts already but DAMN! Exams, Chinese New Year, Valentine's, Singapore Airshow, SWOOSH just like that.

Ah right, Singapore Airshow. I think I'm 1 week late on this hah. We went to Singapore Airshow 2008 last week, JH and me, my brother and his GF. My brother had advised that we should take the shuttle bus as early as possible, to avoid the traffic and human jam. Up the bus, $5 gone. There was already a crowd when we arrive there. Took some photos or what not of the planes and army vehicles and freebies *cough*singaporeans*cough* and slack at the aircon tent thingy until 12 noon when the display starts.

It was SWELTERING HOT. There were tons of people armed with cameras which resembles a [what's that name!!!]. First part of the show, Black Knights display. People were still pretty enthusiastic, oohing and aahing. Then the finale, they formed a heart with their smoke thing. And suddenly, a guy in front of us kneeled down and proposed to his girlfriend.

After that were the solo displays. nothing much. Then the A380. Then final team display. We stood under the hot mid-noon sun for 1.5 hours.

Going home; CHAOS everywhere. People mountain people sea. Everyone had no idea where to queue up and which queue is to which bus. There were a lot of people grumbling and complaining and everyone wasn't in the best of mood (hot weather plays a part too).

Lucky us, found the shortest queue to Marina and poof, another $5 gone.

Ok end of stuff on Airshow.

I wonder if March is a rainy month. 三月里的小雨。

2008-02-20T23:34:00.003+08:00

☞ Happy
♪ -

Had been dying to try out cross process ever since the first time I saw a xpro one. So a few weeks ago, I spree-d for 5 slide films; 3 AGFA CT Precisa and 2 Elitechrome. Of course the best had to be saved for the best, so I gave 2 rolls of AGFA to Dear for his trip to Hokkaido.

Well, the effects of xpro is that the picture will come out more saturated; different types of film will have different effects. Since Dear brought along the AGFA ones, the effect is that the pictures will be blueish. If it's Elitechrome, the pictures will be greenish yellow.

That's right, Dear brought Vivitar and FE2 and made these shots. Kop-ed from him.

Vivitar

River. Dear says it's like Clarke Quay of Hokkaido.

I really like how Vivitar made the skies so... intimidating.

Is this an entrance to a shrine?

My favourite! I love pictures of the sky.

FE2

Signs? Directions?

Scary black wolf. Dear says that this wolf was free to run around the tourists.

Random trunk. My personal favourite.

Random footprints? Face? I've never ever seen snow in my whole life. =(

Creepy ningyo. Dear's favourite shot. The weird thing is, it's blue eyes are so vibrant in the picture.

You can say that I'm very very very VERY happy with the effects. Really pretty.

P.S: About the white dots on the pictures (if you see them); I do not really know why they appear on the pictures.

2008-02-16T10:49:00.003+08:00

☞ Refreshed
♪ -

Dear is finally back from Japan. Had a quiet day at Sentosa on Valentine's; feeling the breeze at the sea, walking along the beach and seeing the flowers at the 花会.

Bears with music box thingy. They sorta look like us heh.

Rose.

Goofy-looking me.

Er...

Don't they look alike??? :D

Flowers at 花会 2008.

Skipped lunch, because we ate a little too much Tokyo Banana as snack. Partly because of that, we had dinner early and missed the Valentine's Day dinner crowd. Couples are EVERYWHERE, holding soft toys, flowers or what not.

That's all for now.

2008-02-10T18:24:00.000+08:00

☞ Bored, with a capital B
♪ -

I'm bored, bored, bored! Well... It's not that I've nothing to do, it's just that I'm lazy to do something.

Today is the first day I stayed at home for the whole day. Watched the last few episodes of 花樣男子2 and watched some episodes of Ouran High for the XX times. Played Nintendogs too of course. For some reason, I'm addicted to this dog breeding game. X(

Well, initially I had no interest in this game. But my aunt, who loves dogs, played this on her console, and it seems intriguing. So I started on it and 'bought' the first dog (the one on the right) a shih tzu. It's relatively easy to play, except the commands part, which I failed miserably. So I started on a second dog, to earn 'money'.

I was hungry, and I'm alone. I rummaged the fridge and found some overnight rice, prawns, peas, eggs and etc. So I thought, why not? It's my first time cooking for myself only. Well, in the end, it's not that nice. Boo.

Oh, time for Spiderman.

2008-02-08T00:53:00.000+08:00

☞ Blue
♪ -

Well, Dear is overseas right now. I felt better than the time(s) I went to Hong Kong; at least I'm still in Singapore now. Just for the heck of it, and I do not really want to sleep right now, I'll just write an entry on... something.

Let's see... Aha. Dear went for the vocation assessment already. He said it's not that bad, just a lot of waiting and waiting and waiting.

What else... Oh, Chinese New Year. Nothing special actually; the atmosphere is getting quieter and quieter as the years go by. Perhaps that's because I'm gonna be 20 this year, excitement of a kid in me had vanished long ago.

I'll be seeing Dear on the 13th. Till then I'll occupy myself with... something.

2008-01-29T23:32:00.000+08:00

☞ Bored
♪ -

Because my AFA notes are not with me.

Idea stolen from all over the web.

16 stuff in my bag:

01. Fisheye II - Don't think. Just shoot!
02. Wallet - To keep notes and cards.
03. House keys - To open door.
04. Overstuffed tissue pouch - Always have 2 or more packets of tissue.
05. Coin pouch - Keep coins and misc stuff.
06. Handphone - Err, to call and message.
07. Vivitar ultra wide & slim - Don't know why.
08. NDS Lite - My only source of entertainment.
09. Palgantong powder - Just because.
10. Hair clip - To clip hair.
11. Silkygirl pressed powder - Because it's on sale.
12. Mirror - For self-reflection.
13. Ez-link card - For transport purpose.
14. Reusable bag - Because people say we must go Green.
15. Umbrella - Just in case.
16. Oil control film - To wipe off the shine on my nose.

Well, if I must say I have to choose an ideal bag for all these things, I would say that it would be this:

With a cover on top.

2008-01-20T09:21:00.000+08:00

☞ Sad & worried
♪ -

Dear had gotten a letter which says:

THE ENLISTMENT ACT(CHAPTER 93)
FURTHER REPORTING ORDER

1. You are hereby required under the Enlistment Act (Chapter 93) to report for
Vocation Assessment on 1/2/2008 at 7:30 AM.
Sembawang Naval Base.

Good or bad? ):

2008-01-17T23:04:00.000+08:00

☞ Excited
♪ -

Darn! Finally I'd developed my first roll of Vivitar and Fisheye2 and now photobucket is dying on me.

Well, only managed to upload a couple of shots and photobucket simply refused to upload the rest.

First, Vivitar; the $25 camera from a spree. Gotten this during November I think. And I only made a roll with this. Not photoshopped.

Well, this was taken by dear nearby Aljunied MRT.

T-junction shot. I like this a lot.

At Queenstown stadium. I like this too.

Stairway to 'Heaven'. Hah. Badly aligned.

Empty MRT cabin. WOOT.

Familiar?

Well, I am not really very sure of the difference between this and a normal camera. Shall experiment someday, by taking the same shots at the same places using a phone camera.

Now for Fisheye2. Dear bought me this for Chirstmas. It's sort of like the door thingy where you look through when someone knocks on your door.

Had wanted to capture that "Blind people" sign.

T-junction again. This time it's a junction near my home.

Well, the special thing about FE2 is that there's a double exposure button and bulb mode function. Can you spot a window? The squiggly lines are made by spotlights at the New Year Countdown at Marina.

偷偷拍的。

I'm tired.

2008-01-08T23:22:00.000+08:00

☞ Bloated
♪ -

New guardians of NDSL! They're camera shy hah.

Yep.

Went to eat this:

OoOoOOoOOOOoOtoro.

Dear and I had wanted to try this for a long long time because we're really curious how it'd taste like.

Dear can't wait to get his hands on it.

Anyways, it taste like meat and... blood??? The texture is those of fish texture of course but it's quite chewy at some parts but soft on the other parts. Gees, I don't really know how to describe food.

2008-01-01T23:24:00.000+08:00

☞ Blue
♪ -

~ Happy ~
~ 2008 ~

Though I'm not that sure of the 'happy' part.

2007-12-31T09:48:00.000+08:00

☞ Stomachache-y
♪ -

Nokia N73
Vs.
Sony Ericsson K800i

What a load of difference of quality between two 3.15 megapixels camera phone. I love N73 for its day shots and close ups, but for night shots, the quality faltered. But still, I find it difficult to focus using K800i, thus the blurry image.

Well, my mom and aunts went crazy yesterday night and we went for a cable car ride to Mount Faber; my very first cable car ride in Singapore *sua gu*. Of course I was excited and scared at the same time.

Leaving the station. Oh my gosh.

Bad bad bad shot. [N73]

The Jewel Box. For the first time! *sua gu*

Ultraman. Er, blown away hair.

My crazy aunts and mom, in toilet.

On the way back, we found that Santa had abandoned ship, err sleigh.

Happy New Year's Eve!

2007-12-27T22:56:00.000+08:00

☞ Full
♪ -

I swear that this would be the last cake of the year.

Chocolate mint.

2007-12-24T23:21:00.000+08:00

☞ Fat
♪ -

Went for a full-blown Korean BBQ meal with my family.

Lots of marinated side dishes, or were those appetizers? I don't really know much about korean meals. Practically all of those were sour. There were 2 types of sauces for the BBQ meat. Spot the korean pancake if you can

Lovely fresh vegetables sitting on a plate that is as long as the table width.

Round 1: Fatty pork and some shoulder rib thing of pig with onions and mushrooms.

BBQed. Well, the BBQ-ing and cutting was done by the staff there.

Round 2: Marinated chicken and pork.

BBQed. This tasted nicer than the first batch IMO. There were prawns after this but the shells were all chao da and the prawns tasted dry. =\

Cinnamon and honey drink to wash down the oiliness. Oops, overexposure. I hate the flash of the phone.

Watermelons. Boo, I don't like watermelon, even though it's cute of the restaurant to cut out the flesh as heart-shaped.

2007-12-18T22:15:00.000+08:00

☞ Speechless
♪ -

I'm scared. Sim Jia Hao, you've made me so scared.

You asked why did I cry. In between the mess of sobs and laughs, I said I don't know. I know, I did know. I'm scared. Call me silly. I'm scared that I'll have a future without you.

You may say, leave it to fate and our own doings, and that I'm thinking too much. True, but this is what I feel now, that I'm scared. You've caused me to miss you prematurely, miss you when you've gone to Japan this coming February and miss you when you've gone to serve the army. To what Esther have said, that I'll slowly get used to it, I really do not wish that it'll happen. Or rather, I fear that'll happen. Not that it's a bad thing, but I just do not like the idea of not missing you. Well, I don't get it myself, but I have an irrational mindset.

Sigh.

2007-12-16T14:05:00.001+08:00

☞ Tired
♪ -

Well, this is going to be a 'random stuff' post since it has been a while since I posted last week.

First thing first. The long awaited holiday had descent upon us! And I have a feeling that these two weeks will be gone in a flash.

Though it's holiday, it had been an event-less Saturday and Sunday.

Got up pretty early on Saturday, and there's nothing to be done (besides cleaning up). So, made a skin on milk and oreo for Dear, which I've totally deleted off (by cutting and pasting) from my computer. While he's on an errand for me to buy some honey, I put on the skin.

Tried out a recipe for chawanmushi 〔茶碗蒸〕 which failed miserably. Then went off to Vivo because there's no place to go!

Though I slept at 2 am on Sunday morning, I woke up at 8. Sigh, biological alarm clock is doing it's work on me. Sat down and decided that I'll make a skin for myself too.

Credits to flickr and their respective photographers

Dear, how does it look?

Since there's still time, I've made another paper box figure from here.

Domo-kun sizing up unsuspecting green head-shaking thing.

It's 2.30 pm. Time to go.

2007-12-12T00:31:00.000+08:00

☞ Bloated & sleepy
♪ -

Santa's stuck in the chimney!

Ah, so sleepy.

2007-12-10T22:27:00.000+08:00

☞ Happy
♪ -

I'm making the weirdest thing that everybody will never thought of.

Papercraft! Well, it's an incomplete Santa.

Yeah, I took the template from here, printed it out and started cutting. Started out on something simpler of course. After 3 plus hours, it turned out like this. I'm so excited!

2007-12-09T22:01:00.000+08:00

☞ Cheerful
♪ -

Well, in summary, last week had been a hectic and unlucky week for us.

There was the Managerial Accounting project presentation, Understanding Cross Cultural Diversity report submission and project presentation on Wednesday and Friday respectively.

MA wasn't much of a problem, UCCD was. Was rushing to finish both the powerpoint, report and summary at the same time. Well, I'd rather not further discuss the rest of the details or name any names, let's just leave it to your imaginations shall we?

Just as '.' (I'm suspecting it's one of the guys) had said, yes his DS Lite was stolen.

It happened on Tuesday night. Gosh, I'm getting into composition-mode. After finishing our discussion for MA presentation, Dear and me caught the evening show for The Kingdom at Lido. After the show, neither of us had appetite for dinner. And so we strolled to Takashimaya for some Takopachi. There were a lot of people waiting for there orders to be processed and so Dear and me stood at the side to wait, both of us watching the takopachi people. Then 2 teenager boys came and stood behind us, commenting that it's the first time that they had to wait for takopachi.

After eating it, we decided to go home. We took 123 to my home, so that he could drop at Tiong Bahru MRT on the way. We sat, admiring the not-so-fascinating Christmas decoration lights passing by. When we're about to reach Tiong, Dear noticed that his bag zip was opened, and his DS Lite gone.

I was blardy shocked, so was he of course. Irrationally, I cried all the way home, while bathing, and speaking on the phone. Just imagining his sad face was so painful for me.

So I went for Wednesday presentation with bloated eyes.

This ends the whole episode:

In the end, my brother 'sponsered' one DS Lite.

So people, please do take good care of your belongings. Don't take the surrounding for granted.

2007-12-04T22:51:00.000+08:00

☞ Angry
♪ -

May death be bestow upon him whom did this despicable deed to Jia Hao.

2007-11-30T21:42:00.000+08:00

☞ Gloomy
♪ Fly to the Sky / 가벼운 사랑 (Feat. 현무 & TKO of Trespass)

I have the tendency to reflect on myself when I bath.

Be warned, this is not going to be a positive post.

Anyway, these few days had not been pleasant either. Received grim news on Wednesday. I'm not in the position to blog about it. Had a fright on that same night, by a creepy-looking doll that appeared by the stairs. And many more incidents.

I am always trying to keep in mind that I'm only his girlfriend, for now. I might not be in future. But there are many a time when I forgot and I let my imagination run. In the end, all I felt was disappointment and embarrassment with myself. I wonder whether I've been an embarrassment to JH too. I remembered that there were a lot of times when I've landed myself in awkward situations.

I want to withdraw this feeling. I want to not get myself too involved. I wish to stop wishing for the impossible. Afterall, I can't grasp the future in my own hands.

Women are really irrational. Well, at least it's true for me.

During Thursday, it was his NAFTA. As I watched him from afar, I felt really lonely. The coming 2 years will be tough for me, as well as for him of course.

I can't think straight. Ha, this post is in bits and pieces.

2007-11-25T17:21:00.000+08:00

☞ Fidgety
♪ Gackt / Secret Garden

Letter for Santa

Dear Santa,

I've been a good girl this year. This is the first time in 19 years I've written a letter to you. So I expect my 19 years worth of gifts ya?

001. An oven

Yes, I want an oven badly.

002. Full set of baking trays, tins or what not

To compliment the oven!

003. Electric beater

Otherwise my right arm will be as muscular as a bull.

004. Polaroid One600 + endless supply of Polaroid films

Two cameras are just not enough!

005. Fish eye II

Neither is three.

006. Lomo LC-A+

Nor four.

007. Canon Digital IXUS 850 IS

Nor five.

008. Endless supply of slide films + free processing

Because these things needs money.

009. White DS Lite

Eh, due to temptation. But give it to me after exams, Santa.

010. Apple Ipod Touch XX GB

Because it's sexy.

Thank you!

Yours sincerly
[signed]
Zhiping

P.S: Pictures taken from respective official websites.

P.P.S: Dear, don't you dare think about buying any of these for me for Christmas. NOT EVEN ONE SLIDE!

2007-11-23T22:11:00.000+08:00

☞ Tired
♪ -

Another failed attempt at making chilled cheesecake. Guess what flavour it is.

Another uneventful week had passed. Wasn't sleeping well for the past few days, especially on the days which I have 8 am classes. Stress might be the answer; UCCD project is going on horrendously on my part.

Was also feeling pretty down and quite depressed. Began thinking a lot on life more than a normal 19 year old should do.

Rain is not doing me any good either, though it's fine weather day both yesterday and today.

I'm losing my senses any moment now... $^@&*^(!#&$&&@

2007-11-18T22:01:00.000+08:00

☞ Sian
♪ -

This is the instant 龟苓膏 I made today, using the powder Dear gave me. I don't know why, but I enjoy making instant desserts like these; mango pudding or what not.

Sometimes I really wish I can whip up some special dishes for dinner for my family, instead of the usual steamed fish, stir-fry vegetables and soup. Wished that I could roast some stuffed bird or what not.

Time really flies. In a blink of an eye, it's already Sunday.

How nostalgic. I was going through all the photos I had taken since we were year 1. Some of us really changed a lot, in appearance, while the others remains the same.

Then suddenly, I received an email from Jia Yi concerning photo-taking and Christmas party. Come to think of it, the class was never ever completed.

This is already the last semester, hope that these 3 years can end in a more joyful manner.

I have no idea why I'm writing this.

I love you people anyway.

2007-11-14T20:42:00.000+08:00

☞ Sleepy
♪ -

I would wake up cursing when it's raining and when it's an eight a.m. class. Then I'd wish that I could just dive in that warm bed of mine and fall asleep again like nobody else's business. Then again, who wouldn't like to do that at 6.30 in the morning and it's raining cats and dogs?

The weather cleared up in the afternoon and we were released early for GEMs, partly because more than half the class was sleeping (including Dear and me). Went to City Hall and because the weather was so nice, I wanted to see the incomplete Singapore Flyer up close.

All taken with N73:

The sky is so blue! It makes me happy.

2007-11-12T21:41:00.000+08:00

☞ Bloated
♪ BEAT CRUSADERS / Tonight Tonight Tonight

Yep, an entry on fast food is what I'm gonna have today.

Personal ranking:
001. Superdog @ Vivo
002. MOS Burger
003. Carl's Jr
004. MacDonald
005. KFC
006. Burger King
007. Long John Silver

Superdog
Personal favourite: Fresh Chicken Burger w/ egg
Fries: Chili cheese fries is a MUST-HAVE. Plain fries is good too.

Well, this is at Vivo Basement 1, next to Kopitiam. Yes I know this is Superdog, but why is my personal favourite is a BURGER instead of a wiener on a bun? My answer is, I like MOS's Chili Dog better and also, those packets of sausage (IMO; i.e Kelly) from Fairprice taste better.

And don't forget the chili cheese fries. You'll see this on almost every table in the restaurant. It's fries, topped with some beef + chili sauce with melted cheese on top. Their fries are those thick kinds and the potato inside is fluffy; it's similar to MOS.

MOS Burger
Personal favourite: Teriyaki Chicken & Chili Dog
Fries: YEAH!

Ah, MOS has the smallest burger you had ever seen. But the taste makes up for it. Plus it's a healthier burger because you can see the fresh green piece of lettuce peeking out from underneath the bun. The hot dog from Chili Dog is juicy and ...crunchy!?!

Not recommended if you're really hungry. =(

Carl's JR
Personal favourite: ???
Fries: ???

Surprisingly, this came third considering that I've only ate it once. Yes, JUST ONCE, because their chicken burger is more expensive and it's the most expensive burger I ever had at $7 or $8 (burger only). But damn, THE CHICKEN BURGER I HAD TASTE SO GOOD and I think it's definitely worth the money. I remember that there's a mountain of vegetable atop the patty and WALAO &@*^#@&* it just taste good, la.

I'm getting hungry again!!!?

KFC
Personal favourite: Zinger (Soon to be ex-favourite)
Fries: Nah.

Ate this since I was a child. I loved Zinger for it's gigantic juicy thigh fillet. But ever since the GST rose to 7%, Zinger became a palm-sized MOS burger doppelganger, with buns as hard as rock and lettuce as yellow as my teeth. Bah, I'd rather eat at a foodcourt than ordering a Zinger meal.

MacDonald
Personal favourite: McSpicy
Fries: No thanks.

Alternative to KFC. Hope McSpicy hadn't shrunk too; have not eaten McSpicy for months.

Burger King
Personal favourite: NA
Fries: Nah.

UGH. No no no no.

Long John Silver
Personal favourite: NA
Fries: OILY

The only reason I don't eat Long John is that I'll get ulcer in my mouth when I chew too much on fried food.

2007-11-09T21:44:00.000+08:00

☞ Happy
♪ -

From my 3rd roll:

Needs improvement nonetheless. Love Cooking Mama lots, those it's a bit...

2007-11-07T14:38:00.000+08:00

☞ Heavy-hearted
♪ -

Sigh, why am I always so nervous during formal business activities? My brain would just lagged out and blanked, then I wouldn't have any idea on what to say.

Just came home from the CSB interview thing. I was so so so so nervous that I literally broke down after Ms Ann said end of interview. Ok, not broke down; I just got teary and very VERY relieved. My brain returned to normal when she said end of interview. My brain just wouldn't work during the interview, I think it froze or short-circuited. The first thing she commented was: why are you so nervous?!?! Then I said, 'I don't know! I just am!' Then she said, 'I was the same person a minute before yet now you can talk to me easily. Why?!?!'

I would like to ask myself the same question too. WHY? WHY? WHY? DAMN BRAIN.

I mean, I really could respond properly in my current state of mind (aka 'normal output'), but during interview, it became 'special order' and whenever it's 'special order', the output will be messy and not acceptable.

Sigh. I really thought I had already conquered this phobia, since I'm not that afraid of presentations, but I was wrong.

On to more cheery things, I do not want to live the rest of my week in despair.

Had always wanted a french manicure set. So bought this really cheap Silkygirl French Manicure and tried out yesterday:

My painting skill needs to be improved. PLEASE IGNORE THE FINE LINES ON MY HANDS. =(

Haven't process the 3rd roll of film. It's only a few exposeure left! But the weather's not so good these few days and I've been cooping up at home studying for MST. Hah.

Deepavali tomorrow!

2007-11-04T00:33:00.000+08:00

☞ Fat
♪ -

Here it is. Never had a chance to taste it.

Both Dear and me love going to Golden Mile Food Centre for dinner. We don't know why, but we had went there for 3 consecutive saturdays. Now, why do I feel hungry again? (。┰ω┰。)

2007-11-02T23:47:00.000+08:00

☞ Excited
♪ -

Right, it's that time of the semester again; "e-learning", which is an additional week of break for us. Anyway, haven't been doing anything related to school lately, except completing the so-called e-learning online quizes.

So what have I been doing then?

For the past few weeks, I've been chionging through the whole 220 episodes of Naruto, 32 episodes of Naruto: Shippūden and 145 episodes of Bleach. Why? Because I was only curious why these 2 animes are so popular. So I've spent 7940 minutes watching these 2 animes. Now, how many hours would that be?

I borrowed a recipe book of baked and chilled cheesecakes. I would love to make some real cakes, but I don't have an oven. *Rambles on about not having an oven* I want an oven damnit!

So I made a banana chilled cheesecake on Monday and it turned out pretty well (as in it doesn't look gross or like a lump of brown mess), except that the base is too thick and crumbles easily. But my mom likes it, and ate the remainder cake I'd saved for myself. Today she made me make a durian cheesecake for her and I had no idea how it'll turn out. A reminder to post a picture tomorrow.

Thirdly, I bought a second camera for myself! Or rather, spree-ed for one. The camera is Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim. Boy, I can't wait. I can predict for myself that I would have a collection of cameras (though I'm only buying due to pure fascination of the outcome of the photos processed), I am seriously considering a Lomo LC-A+ which cost... $200? $300? $400?

MybrotherboughtWii. And... dearboughtDSL. Guys and their gadget-oriented brains. Tsk.

*Innocent-faced*

2007-10-21T11:04:00.000+08:00

☞ Relaxed
♪ -

*Image heavy*

Went to the Hindu Temple in Chinatown last Thursday to do UCCD project. For this project we have to take photos of the temple with ourselves in it to prove that we've really gone there. Well, Dear and I really felt like a tourist there. But in order to have the 'permission' to take photos, we have to pay $3. So we took around a hundred pictures, with a digicam of course.

The gigantic entrance with bananas tree + fruits + flowers which symbolises something.

'Musicians' of some ceremony.

The outside structure.

Blown up Santa. *sniggers* He was facing the temple.

After visiting the temple, we still have quite a few hours left to our ITFD lecture at 3 pm. So we visited the new Chinese temple down the road. Cacam tourist!

Everything smelt of new furniture.

The structure so ~~bloody~~ grand.

And we left for lunch. Along the way we took photos of Chinatown

This reminds me of Hong Kong.

Which reminds me. I went to HK last month.

Busy HK street. So many people!

Weird stairs.

The Peak @ night.

Back to SG. After lecture, we snucked to Esplanade for some actionsampling!

Dear calls it 'plastic toy camera'. >:(

-_- Don't I look idiotic?

And not to mention, FAT. I look like a sick pig.

Continued doing the UCCD project, damn it's so hard to compress all the infomation into less than 6 pages for the research part. Anyway, went to Expo after that because there's no where else to go in SG. Stayed there for less than half an hour before proceeding to Golden Mile Hawker.

Blue skies and half moon. Can you see it?

Fine weather = shadows.

75 Peanut Ahborleng.

Caypot rice. Niceeeee.

Both Dear and I concluded that we have the stomach and taste buds of a 50 years old.

2007-10-16T19:55:00.000+08:00

☞ Sick of rain
♪ -

It's the rainy season again. I don't like rain.

Tried out the Actionsampler again, this time mostly at Tiong Bahru Park playground. Note that the pictures are only resized and sharpened at one level.

Idiotic is my middle name.

Watch out, fatty thighs.

And of course, he gets a go at the swing.

And the rocking horse.

Shadows.

This is why there was a cat chase in the previous post. Gorgeous.

Matching umbrella and shirt.

Projects are coming in. Sigh. But I think I dislike the rain more than projects.

2007-10-09T22:01:00.001+08:00

☞ Happy
♪ -

Had wanted a digital camera, but it's wayyyy too out of my budget for now, and normal pictures seem so... normal. And so, I had my eyes laid on Holga. But, the thought of having to either buy a 35mm adapter or buy 110 flim, I became more and more reluctant to buy a Holga camera, plus also, you need to know and experiment how to make different effects, and so I gave it up altogether (for now).

And so I bought an actionsampler last week. Yep, remember the nice pictures Ken Kwan showed us during his first lesson of IDEA?

And so I experimented with the free film that comes together with the camera itself. Out of 24 exposures, the photo uncle only managed (he only wanted to) process 8 pictures which are more 'normal coloured'.

Jump jump jump.

The kitty hates me. =(

Isn't it nice? *Beams* Never mind the weird yellow stuff, I think it's suppose to be like that.

Hope that this current roll of flim I'm working on is not giving me the same problem as the last roll of film.

Side note: I'm lazy to work on the template.

2007-09-29T23:59:00.000+08:00

☞ Bored
♪ -

I was walking along Clarke Quay last Friday when a sweaty man in a black suit approached me with this flower. I was shocked and at a loss whether to accept it because (1) he just stuck out his hand when he 'gave' me the flower and (2) who the hell is he. Then he opened his mouth which said the magic words which will drive all cheapskate Singaporeans like me into frenzy: "Don't worry, it's free." Great, do I really look that cheapskate? [Yeah of course I do.]

I blushed and took the flower from his hand. He passed me a card at the same time. It turns out that this was PROJECT: WOMEN AGAINST AIDS and the agenda of that card and free flower is to make women realise that "he loves you when he respect you".

And so today I went to Clarke Quay again (this time with Dear), and they were giving the flowers again. I was sitting at the stone steps somewhere near The Central and I observe them unpacking the flowers and giving out the flowers. Initially, they gave out some to women (aunties). Then suddenly, these guys were surrounded with aunties, children and uncles. A few emerged with 2 - 5 stalks in their hands. I overheard an auntie telling a young kid to take 'the pink one' from the 'distribution centre' though she already had a yellow one in her hand. Then she went there herself to exchange a pink one and she took another pink flower. So in the end I believe she have 3 stalks.

Then it became more outrageous. The flowers that are not being distributed by the guys are placed on top of the cardboard box they are packed in. Some of the people began CHOOSING flowers from there and taking it themselves, entirely replicating the scene where aunties are buying flowers in the wet market. And within 20 minutes, the flowers are all gone.

Yeah fine, it's free and I myself had taken 1 after hearing the magic words (last Friday). But I find that it's ridiculous when people took more than needed, especially when it's for a campaign like this. I don't think those aunties and uncles will actually read the card (if they hadn't throw it away or something).

Much to my exasperation, 2 young girls (like the age of 14 - 16), sat beside us with 2 stalks in each of their hands.

2007-09-25T23:09:00.001+08:00

U N D E R
C O N S T R U C T I O N

2007-09-24T22:03:00.000+08:00

H I A T U S

To be back after my room is cleared up. Sigh.

2007-09-10T23:23:00.000+08:00

☞ Fat
♪ -

Tried to make a non-bake oreo cheesecake from a recipe gotten online. But the results was... a bit too unpleasant-looking.

Taste-wise, it's not as bad as it looks.

For lunch today, we went to PASTA de WARAKU @ Marina. It's hidden at the other end of Marina Square, people seldom walk there, but then, you can't really miss it since the exterior of the restaurant is so eye-catching; there are rows and rows of plastic-made pastas, pizzas, soups, rice and desserts on the windows, and all of them look so good that I even wanted to take some close-up pictures of plastic pasta I would like to eat.

But sadly, the quality of food there disappoint me, a lot.

Dear ordered this:

and I ordered this:

Looks great eh? I was waiting in anticipation. The accompanying salad tasted great. But when the main dish came, I was thinking: did I order this?

A handful chunks of salmon approximately 1.5 cm x 1.5 cm x 2 cm and a few stalks of spinach on top of a plate of spaghetti. That's all I've got. If compared with the one on the menu, I believe the poportion of salmon and spinach is barely half as that in the picture shown in the menu.

Then Dear's pasta came. It was all a mass of black! I couldn't really differentiate the squid rings from the pasta. It's just BLACK! Since I couldn't really see which is the squid and which is the spaghetti noodle, I have no idea whether they gave him 3 rings or 5 rings of squid.

Anyway, the food taste fine, though the salmon chunks are too salty for my liking and they're so dry. *COMPLAINS COMPLAINS* So we chomp it down quietly and left.

Yes yes I know this kind of thing happens all around Singapore. Foodcourt, kopitiam, you name it, the real deal is not shown on the picture at all. Instead of a nice set of mouthwatering kuay chap, all we get is a lot of dao pok, a very small egg, a few small piece of dua deng and a few piece san zam ba, and that's not all; after eating it, I will wonder whether the chef used water from the Dead Sea to cook it.

Anyway, I thought that eating at PASTA de WARAKU would be a a more pleasant experience. Boy, I was wrong. I'd rather eat at Ajisan, though their standards have been dropping for the past few months.

2007-09-03T21:02:00.000+08:00

☞ Fat
♪ -

Went to join the queue line at the infamous Donut Factory @ Raffles City. Dear was already there at 10 am but I was late. So he went and queued first. He was the 4th person there. When I arrived at 10.30 am, there were a couple of people standing behind him.

The shutters opened at 12 and the staff beckoned us forward. Since this is our first time buying donuts, we wanted to try everything regardless of any reviews. There were 16 flavours in all there. Dear bought 12 + 12 + 6 donuts. We had agreed to eat a dozen together.

We ate the 2nd box. Personally, I like Peanut Dark Chocolate, Spicy Cheese and Apple Cinnamon. I'm not a fan of white chocolate so I do not prefer those white chocolate donuts. Blueberry Glazed is actually not bad, but it's a tinny bit too sweet for my liking.

So for today, my breakfast + lunch + dinner = 6 donuts.

2007-09-02T23:22:00.000+08:00

☞ Sleepy, yet awake
♪ -

Oh well, I know I hadn't been posting seriously for quite a while, just adding pictures randomly and calls it a post.

Had an eventful week last week, it's school holidays this week. And next week, I'm off to HK. Then it's back to Singapore for the last week of holidays. It seemed so fast.

Hadn't been spreeing much, my account had depreciated a lot. Hence, had been biting my lips and will myself not to buy anything whenever I surf those darn LiveJournals. I even ignored the $10 threadless sale.

... er huh?

2007-09-02T12:38:00.000+08:00

☞ Sian jit bua
♪ -

I tried, but...

=(

2007-08-31T13:12:00.000+08:00

☞ Sleepy
♪ -

Well Eunice, here it is:

It wasn't the course I was expecting it to be. We were given a few PLASTIC beads and some wire things and earings things and fastener things and she taught us how to bend the wires so that they link together.

What I wanted was like this: http://edynae.livejournal.com/.

2007-08-27T10:59:00.000+08:00

☞ Excited
♪ -

2007-08-26T22:10:00.000+08:00

☞ Excited
♪ -

I was going to attend a certain Basic DIY Wire Accessories Workshop as Personal Development Programme.

Due to my pure excitement, I went to borrow some books on DIY wire accessories from the library.I think the last time I borrowed a book from the library was 7 years ago? The result? I became too excited and wanted to try out one of the projects in the book.

Damn, I was so excited that I bought the pilers and wires today even though I had told myself to do so when the workshop ends (and it's to my liking of course).

During my past hour of struggling with the pilers and wire and following the bracelet project in the library book, I ended up with this:

Which is supposed to link up like this:

Big pictures because I'm lazy to shrink it.

And of course, a painful right hand for gripping the pilers too hard while trying to twist the damn wire. I HAD NO IDEA THAT THESE TYPES OF WIRES WERE THAT RIGID!

Oh well, I have the time anyways, since I gave up the Popular part time.

2007-08-25T21:42:00.000+08:00

☞ Bought something... again.
♪ -

Bought Crocs again, at Queensway Shopping Centre again, discounted again, paid $48 for it instead of $53. This time, it's named Cleo.

this hip, modern flop mixes style with comfort

• slender footbed profile with elevated heel constructed specifically for women’s feet

• strap pivots for customized fit and added support

• double cushioned comfort supports and performs all day

• circulation nubs stimulate blood flow

• footbed conforms to foot creating a custom fit

• colorful two-tone combinations

Bought Chocolate and Cotton Candy colour. Sounds yummy? I'm stepping on chocolate and cotton candy. Ha.

Oh right, I spotted a few never before seen colours of Prima (the ballet pumps like version of Crocs which I had in gold). The colours are Grape, Peacock and Ruby Red.

Dear bought his Crocs too, Beach in Khaki. Yeah, the exact same model and colour as his previous one.

So decided to slip Cleo since it's raining and I was wearing my already-worn-off slippery slippers (oh I get it! No wonder it's called slippers). It's definitely more comfy than Prima.

When I got home and slipped off Cleo, my mom exclaimed ：“哇又买新的靴！” I just shrugged and went to my room. She slipped it on and exclaimed again ：“哇这个好耶。好轻。多少？” I told her the price and she gasped and say ：“哇那么贵。但是很好穿。不会跌倒。可以穿去香港。”

Lol.

2007-08-23T23:53:00.000+08:00

☞ Because I'm bored: random stuff 002
♪ -

Heavily distortion.

2007-08-23T00:21:00.000+08:00

☞ Because I'm bored: random stuff
♪ -

I've only started walking to and fro home and Tiong Bahru MRT station 2 years ago. It'd changed quite a bit now, with new blocks of flats rising. These flats seem to be built so narrowly that I doubt any gust of wind to enter into a flat.

This is the type of flowers planted beneath my block every since the upgrading program. I dislike such flowers, because they ain't pretty at all.

My family (my mom and aunts to be precise) just love TCC. They meet up in TCC when every they can, and I just tag along for a cuppa.

This is nothing special. It came from those machines where you insert a dollar coin and turn the crank so that those plastic ball containers would come out. Got this 2 at a very different place; one outside Cheers, and the other outside Shop & Save. What luck.

2007-08-19T10:37:00.001+08:00

☞ Lazy
♪ -

And so, we went for the much anticipated fireworks display show on Friday night 9 pm and Saturday night 9 pm despite the rain. However, the clouds cleared on Saturday evening. Accompanied the Merlion for 2 days from 6 pm to 9.30 pm. Yes you can imagine how badly our butts hurt from sitting on the cold rock steps for three and a half hours. But it was worth it, since we didn't have to squeeze with other people on the bridge, view-blockage by hundreds of tripods and have a full view of the display without having to tip-toe or even stand up.

Friday evening VS Saturday evening.

People mountain people sea.

Drying our feet. Hah.

Hah?

Really beautiful skies on Saturday.

2007-08-13T23:08:00.000+08:00

☞ Fat & Full
♪ -

What a day to have your birthday on.

今天是沈佳豪大爷的十九岁‘大’寿。 And this year, unfortunately, it falls on an exam day; a Corporate Finance paper. Of course, who'd have the mood to study for the damn paper on your birthday.

Neither do I. But nevertheless, I went to his place while it was still bright and early, insisting that we must study, though I myself do not have to mood to study.

Initially, I wanted to place his present in the cupboard where he places his collection of hair waxes and let him spot it for himself. But to do so, I have to lead him to the outside of his room where he can't see me. To me, it was a tedious task. So in the end, I gave it to him upfront.

And yes, we still didn't have to mood to study till the end. So went to school for the exam. And we found out that we are so DOOMED.

"YOU CAN DO IT."

And after that, went to Bugis for Ajisan ramen despite the fact that it was already 9 when we reach there.

This explains why I put Full & Fat in the beginning.

2007-08-06T23:59:00.000+08:00

☞ Bored
♪ -

I'm gonna make all of you blind with this:

*Cackles hysterically and runs off*

2007-08-05T23:10:00.000+08:00

☞ Yada yada
♪ -

Nowadays, drivers seldom use signal lights eh? This is one trend I observed, or was I oblivious of it?

Key:
Checkered red square - The Other Car / Motorbike
Red X - Me
Blue arrow - Direction I was going
Black arrows - Arrows On the Road

Scenario 1

I am at the position of X at the road. I want to cross the road (obviously). I see a car coming towards my direction. The car displayed no signal of any sorts so I assumed it's going straight. Being a safe (and nice) road crosser, I decided to wait for the car to pass before I cross the road. Suddenly, the car slowed down and turned to its left, leaving me feeling like an idiot.

Scenario 2

I am at the position of X at the road. I want to cross the road (again). I see a car approaching the intersection. The car displayed no signal of any sorts so I assumed it's going straight. And so I crossed the road. But the car turned to its left, and I ran for my life.

Scenario 3

I am in my father's lorry when this happened just now. We were on the right-turn lane. We were speeding up a bit because it's a green on the right-turn; didn't want to miss it. Then we notice this motorbike hovering beside us and I was wondering what the hell is the biker doing. He had lots of space in front of him, why didn't he speed up and go (bike vs lorry)? My dad, being having 30 years experience on the road, slowed down a bit. And guess what, the bike cut into the lane and his next action infuriated me: his head turned back and stared at us (come to which, I don't really remember him wearing a helmet??!?!). I wished I could throw a couple of middle fingers at him. He was the one who didn't signal that he wanted to get into the lane, what rights did he have to stare at us. PUNK!

Ok I assume that for the first 2 scenarios the driver decide not to signal because there's no car in front or behind him or anywhere, but what about 3?

Please people, if you're reading this, if you drive (in future), please signal for the sake of poor pedestrians like me. I don't want to feel like an idiot or keep running for my life across the road for the rest of my life.

+++
P.S: Sorry for my fugly illustrations.

2007-08-03T19:00:00.000+08:00

☞ Shocked
♪

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/viewPost4617.aspx

Who will reach for my sinking hand?? No one?? says:
haha i was there at the fire too :D

Zhiping says:
lol you live here?

Who will reach for my sinking hand?? No one?? says:
as a response team
simple terms firefighter

Zhiping says:
O_O
you're a fireman?

Who will reach for my sinking hand?? No one?? says:
something like that
did u see it happen?
or just from stomp?

Zhiping says:
nah... i was fast asleep
then when i woke up
and went out for breakfast
everyone was talking about it

Who will reach for my sinking hand?? No one?? says:
haha!
expected la
whole block evacuated lo

Zhiping says:
omg terrible sia
i'm watching news now

Who will reach for my sinking hand?? No one?? says:
what news?
oh ah i missed it
lol
what they say?

Zhiping says:
omg
they say window grills flew out

Who will reach for my sinking hand?? No one?? says:
not only that
alot of other things flew out

Zhiping says:
including chunks of wall O_O

Who will reach for my sinking hand?? No one?? says:
ya
it was chipping and dropping away the whole time

Zhiping says:
damn
how's the man
elderly man

Who will reach for my sinking hand?? No one?? says:
when i brought him down
he was kinda in shock
burnt all over
blood too
then i have no idea what happen after pass him to paramedics

Zhiping says:
it might be someone i know sia!

Who will reach for my sinking hand?? No one?? says:
u know him ??
kinda old
balding
white hair

Zhiping says:
i dunno whether i know ah
i grew up here

Who will reach for my sinking hand?? No one?? says:
ya probably would have seen him before

Zhiping says:
so will see uncles aunties familiar

Who will reach for my sinking hand?? No one?? says:
but 80% burn is pretty bad
dont think he will survive it

Zhiping says:
haiz
god bless

Who will reach for my sinking hand?? No one?? says:
ya, can only hope for miracle lo

Zhiping says:
yeah...

My primary school classmate is a (NS) fireman. COOL!

2007-07-27T20:27:00.001+08:00

☞ Calm
♪ -

Just finished watching NANA episode 45.

Other than Ouran High School Host Club, NANA is the other anime I recommend.

[Quote Wiki]Nana Osaki is a punk singer who wants to debut as soon as possible to leave her ex-boyfriend, Ren Honjo, behind. Nana was the lead vocalist in their old band with Ren, and they lived together as lovers. When Ren was offered a chance to debut in Tokyo as a replacement member of the popular band TRAPNEST (TRANES for short), Nana chooses to cultivate her own band, BLACK STONES (BLAST for short) instead.

Nana Komatsu, the other Nana, is called Hachi as she has strong mental characteristics that resemble a little puppy. ("Hachikō" is the name of a famous dog in Japan, while, appropriately, "hachi" is the word for "eight" in Japanese, while "nana" is the word for "seven".) With a habit of falling in love at first sight, Hachi has always depended on other people to help her. When her friends and then boyfriend leave for Tokyo, she decide to join them a year later after she saved enough money.

Nana and Hachi meet in a train by chance, both on their way to Tokyo, and after a string of coincidences, they come to live together in an apartment numbered 707. Despite having contrasting characters and ideals, the Nanas like and respect each other.

While the BLACK STONES begin to gain popularity at live gigs, other issues need resolving, especially in the areas of romance. The story of Nana revolves heavily on the romance and relationships of the two characters as one seeks fame & recognition while the other seeks love and happiness. [/Quote Wiki]

The plot twists as the episodes proceed; it's awfully realistic, about bands and relationships between friends and lovers.

And not to forget, this is (self)rated NC16, yes it's a bit sexual but... Anyways, I recommend it. 50 episodes, and I've only seen 45. Still waiting for the remaining 5 be avaliable.

+++

Skipped C-Law tutorial today. Went to try out Tiong's Nail Palace since I always walk past it almost everyday and it's always full of customers. Opted for express medicure just to try out.

Ok I know I'm being unfair because I'm comparing Nail Palace with the one I went to Vivo during my birthday. And the type of treatment I want is different too; express vs classical. But some of the process are similar, like nail cutting and buffing.

Anyways, I just want to say the quality of service is pretty far apart between these 2. My nails are poorly finished with a lot of 'nail shavings' from the buffing, and the person attending to me don't even try to converse with me! Really really prefer the service at Vivo (forgotten the name) though it's much more expensive. But the person is friendlier and will keep conversing with you. Plus, the interior is much more grand and you are entitled to sit at a spacious station, unlike Nail Palace, you have to squeeze in with other people. I will go back to [name of shop] for a classic pedicure one day. ONE DAY.

Really wish it won't be raining tomorrow.

+++

Right, I'll post whatever-I'm-gonna-post-after-this-sentence here, in case I forgot (again).

Things to buy:
- Shampoo
- Thirsty Hippo

2007-07-26T01:45:00.000+08:00

☞ Cold
♪ -

Had a cup of coffee with my mom and her sisters just now, which explains why I'm as awake as a goldfish now, typing whatever nonsensical topics that is coming into my mind.

Time really flies doesn't it? We're already edging towards the end of semester 1 of year 3. As compared to the 2 months of ITP, this 3 months semester seems like 3 weeks to me.

And of course, exams are coming. After exams comes the long-awaited short holiday; then it's school again. I have a feeling I'm gonna miss polytechnic life after I graduate, just like I'm missing secondary school life now.

When I graduate, I'm gonna be 20. I'm getting old. I'm seeing my cousins growing up, the male ones are taller than me now; they were puny a few years back!

And anyways, this coming Friday is the end of all projects.

Come to think of it, I don't know whether I should welcome holidays or not. You know, holidays pass by EVEN MUCH faster. I really wish I could slow down the time or something.

I actually think I'm growing up too fast, when 10 years ago I wished I'm grown up. How I regret that.

Ahh~ I can still remember what happened 10 years ago, when I was in primary 3. These were the times when teachers still read aloud from a huge story book; pointing word by word with a retractable pointer while she recite, or doing the PETS worksheets for english periods; I still remember PETS worksheet for primary 4 is the rabbit. I remember I hated tearing those out, because I'll always do a bad job of it and ended up tearing some of the edges.

One of my cousins is in primary 3 now. I don't remember seeing her with any thing like the PETS worksheet. Sometimes she would come over to my home and ask me some questions regarding her homework. Woah, seriously, I wonder what are they teaching in school nowadays. I need to ponder over the questions for quite awhile before I can answer.

For example, for one of her english class, she is given a list of 'riddles' and she has to solve them as homework. One such question is something like "There is a prisoner and a piano in the prison. One day the prisoner escaped. How did he do it?" Yeah, this is the simplest riddle out of the whole list.

Kids are being forced to use their brains eh? I'm lucky that I was born earlier.

Ok, I'm getting sleepy. Good night.

2007-07-22T22:19:00.001+08:00

☞ Irritated
♪ -

To lecturers of SB:

GIVE US A BREAK! LET US REST BEFORE YOU GIVE ANOTHER PROJECT CAN?

*Protest protest*

Thank you.

2007-07-19T00:33:00.001+08:00

☞ Pretty nervous
♪ -

Skipped CF tutorial and Audit lecture this morning, and my excuse was: "To do Audit project".

And so I woke up at 8.30 am, after having a dream of thunderstorm and graveyard. Told myself to get my ass off the chair and travel to his home by 10. And so at 9.15 am, I went to bath and yada yada. I looked at my hair curler, which I'd only used twice since the day I bought it, and said, "why not?".

And so I picked up the hair curler; still a bit skeptical because my previous 2 attempts made me looked like a mad woman on the loose. Trying to remember the steps in Lucido-L's website, I turned on the curler's highest heat and began to... curl.

Ok so all looked nice and neat after I finished with the last lock of already diminishing hair. Time check: 10.25am. And once I stepped out of the area of my flat, WHOOSH! The wind came.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!

And once again, for the third time, I looked like a xiao zha bor.

So it's not my fault that I looked like one, it's the wind. =\

Sigh! And so I was considering banishing the hair curler to the cold palace (storage cupboard).

When I stepped onto the platform of the MRT and stared at the glass doors (you know those underground MRT station's glass doors) and couldn't believe my eyes.

My hair looked like the effect that popcorn would have after heat is being apply to it but to a mop. It was... PONG!

AHH! Cannot have this kind of hair and step into the train!! I looked like a poodle.

I began flattening and twisting my hair towards the direction of the curls frantically. The train would be arriving in 2 minutes.

Hey, wait a minute.

Maybe I can discard the idea of banishing the curler to the storage (or sell) afterall.

2007-07-13T22:08:00.000+08:00

☞ Bored
♪ -

Am sick and tired of Audit. I don't even understand what I'm doing and whether it's correctly done or not anyways. So just let me blog on something to lighten up my mood.

I was introduced to online shopping by Eunice Lim Hui Bing. Ha, yes you. Intially I just got to knew of papergirlsshop, but was still not daring enough to try out this kind of buying and selling. And so Eunice skipped along and told me about this livejournal called sgsale where people sell their stuffs like clothes or what not, worn and not worn before. It was very tempting, to buy something from someone from there but I was (and stiil am) skeptical about buying 2nd-hand clothes. So she sorta gave me the green light to try out 'online shopping' and so, why not, since so many people are doing so nowadays. And I bought 3 tops/skirt from papergirlsshop.

Waiting for it to come is exciting, even though I knew it'll come 3 days later. But still, I feel happy when I open my mail box and see a large package in it.

Happily, I bought 3 more apparel from them. Each averages out to be $30.

I was still browsing through sgsale when suddenly, I stumbled across this livejournal. And I see the word 'spree' on her every entries. I explored more and found out this 'spree' is sort of like calling for more orders from the 'public' from a particular website so as not to incur (more) shipping charges.

And so I frequented sgspree and _spreee. I love Taiwan sprees the most. Their bags and apparels are so easy on the pocket and nice. But have to wait for quite long, for about either 2 to 3 weeks or 2 to 3 months depending on the situation. I absolutely love the bags!

Around $17.

Around $15.

Around $20.

Around $10. (Gasp. Forgotten it cost this much.) From Japan.

Other than website sprees, there's also such spree called the supplier spree. Which means the spree organiser have contacts with the local supplier of some stuff that can be bought in Singapore, then we'll be only paying for the supplier price (no markups).

Currently, I'm trying out this:

Mandarine
- Minimizes Pores
- Stimulate Cell Growth
- Healthy Tissue Formation
- Retain Moisture
- Smoother & Suppler look

Vitamin C
- Improves the quality and appearance of the skin
- Strengthens skin elasticity
- Helps to prevent premature aging caused by UV exposure.

Purifying
- Gently and effectively hydrate
- Soothe irritation
- Restructure and restore the skin.
- For Acne / Pimples / Blemish
- Anti-Inflammatory

DNA
- To improve uneven skin texture, dilated pores and scars.
- Firming, Lifting, Wrinkles

It is said to be: "Retails at store for $7 each vial and $49.90 for a set of 10" at GLO (have no idea where's that) and "Trying asking for ampoules in the beauty salon, and they charge you for $15- $25 for each vial".

So bought a couple from this particular spree. $3.50 for each vial, $32 for a set of 10. I bought 10 and am using the DNA one everyday, twice daily. Am still using the first vial even though one and a half weeks had passed, didn't know that my face is so small.

The effects are not bad at all, I can visibly see that my skin's texture is even out quite a bit. I'm dying to finish this current vial and the 2nd vial so that I can go on to try the other vial. =(

Geez, it's 11 pm already.

2007-07-12T20:07:00.000+08:00

☞ Tired
♪ -

@ SPOILERS @ Don't read if you are going to watch.

Order of the Phoenix is such a disappointment.

Went to watch the 5th installment of the Harry Potter movie today at GVmax.

1st complain: TOO FREAKING COLD! It was freezing throughout the whole movie. It was a bad decision to wear a skirt afterall. Anyways, my feet were half-numbed and I couldn't feel my touch when I touched my feet.

I was expecting much more from the Aurors (SP? lazy to take book out to check), especially Tonks (again, SP?). I believe that is was only a mere 10 - 20 minutes at Sirius's home during the movie (before going back to Hogwarts).

Dementors had changed. No more human-like figure with a black cloth drapped over. They've become like something out of... what's that game called again? House of Death? Yikes.

I was hoping for more new charms or what not (like the locomotor curse or something, or anything, the charm which one of the Aurors put on Harry's chest when they flew through the sky to Sirius's home; which reminds me, Sirius's home has a name hasn't it? didn't hear it in the movie), but nooo, the same old dis-wanding curse and forbidden curses. Maybe the curse Ginny conjunctured in the movie was new don't really remember anyone using it before.

Not much of that Charms teacher either (Macgonalla or something SPSPSPSP!!!) and Snape. SIGH. It's mostly on Harry and Umbridge (SP?). Her character is satisfactory portrayed. Sigh. She's suppose to be utterly disgusting.

And I was hoping to see the taking of OWLs. I was hoping to see more mischief from Weasly twins. I was hoping to see Snape revealing more of his past. I DIDN'T want to see Harry kissing Cho because it's just so darn lame. And who the hell though of having mistletoe suddenly GROWING above them. And what the hell, their kiss is longer than Sirius's death.

The storyline is getting weaker and weaker as the installments progress. Sigh.

2007-07-04T19:20:00.000+08:00

☞ Waiting for food
♪ -

Went to watch Transformer yesterday evening at Vivo and we were forced to deposit our box of 豆沙饼 at the counter in exchange for this:

This is the first time this had happened to me.

OK OK! I admit that we were OPENLY smuggling food in. We were pretty sick of popcorn and nachos so we bought a box of 豆沙饼. If the staff asked, we'd just say that we're taking this home for my great grandmother who suddenly have a craving for 豆沙饼. Never did we expect that we would be asked to step aside and asked "what is inside". I just stood there, dumbfounded, partly because I was struggling to translate 豆沙饼 into english. Then this smart alec said, "里面是什么？" like I'm those *censor censor* who don't understand a simple word of english. F#ck.

At the same time, another couple (working adults) were in the same situation as us, but because of a slab of chocolate bought from Chocolate Factory. They argued back. Have no idea what they were saying as we (I was) were stomping into the cinema already.

Ok I know that it's the house rules that no outside food and drinks were allowed. But who the hell made up such a rule? Is it just to increase sales at the over-priced chow box counter (whatever)? Totally moneyminded. It's like if we, normal consumers, want to snack during movies, we only can buy stuff from their OVER PRICED food selling station, and increase their profits even more?

Heck, Orange Julius' popcorns are wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better than theirs and it's much cheaper.

*Fumes*

2007-07-02T22:28:00.000+08:00

☞ ♥ x 10^∞
♪ -

♥ Happy 2nd Anniversary my Dear. ♥

Woke up today in a rather foul mood, partly because school's starting again. But my mood slowly picked up as his cheerful mood rubbed off me.

And so, went for 1/2 GBE lecture and skipped out of the remaining half, went to his home at 12. He said he'll be cooking for me.

Dear never cook this kind of dishes before, though he did whip up some pasta for me before. And so I stood by him throughout the whole process, with my camera (handphone) in my hand. Yeah, I did took some pictures and videos BUT they're for my personal viewing only. MUAHAHAHAHA.

Well, maybe I'll show just one or two.

Before. Yeah, long vegetables and 2 eggs. Lol.

After. The other dish is chicken wings.

My opinion? It's nice, really not bad at all. It's already a very good attempt despite the fact that it's only his second attempt at this. And we finished everything.

Dear, it has been hard on you for these 2 years, enduring my moodswings, crazy shopping tactics or what not. You're so good to me. Really hope that out feelings for each other will stay for long. Though we'll have little fights and some internal conflict thing going on (you know what I mean),

I love you so much.

2007-07-01T19:46:00.000+08:00

☞ Bored
♪ -

Took this test. Click 'Give me more' to go on.

Personality Test

Your view on yourself:
You are intelligent, honest and sweet. You are friendly to everybody and don't like conflict. Because you're so cheerful and fun people are naturally attracted to you and like to talk to you.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.

The seriousness of your love:
Your have very sensible tactics when approaching the opposite sex. In many ways people find your straightforwardness attractive, so you will find yourself with plenty of dates.

Your views on education
You may not like to study but you have many practical ideas. You listen to your own instincts and tend to follow your heart, so you will probably end up with an unusual job.

The right job for you:
You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.

How do you view success:
You are confident that you will be successful in your chosen career and nothing will stop you from trying.

What are you most afraid of:
You are afraid of having no one to rely on in times of trouble. You don't ever want to be unable to take care of yourself. Independence is important to you.

Who is your true self:
You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.

The Real You

You've got great self-confidence and you're full of charm. Most guys who get to know you will be attracted to you. You are far from sweet and proper; your intriguing personality fascinates them. Most guys find it easy to fall for a girl like you.
You really care about other people's feelings and are quite serious about the issues that affect your life. You are sincere, and your concern for the well-being of others makes many people want to be your friend.

You strictly follow rules, and you expect other people to be the same as well. People can get tired of you easily, as you can make them feel a little guilty about themselves. You always make decisions on your own, and can be dismissive of other people's advice. You like to be the leader in groups, but can forget to be concerned about the people you are with.

Guys see you as being a thinker and a careful person. They will be really attracted to this quality in you, but you need to learn to speak your mind, otherwise people will find you too shy and quiet. Learn to relax and lighten up--it's okay to have fun sometimes. When you learn to develop your fun-loving side, guys are going to flock to your side.

Your boyfriend believes that you are a strong and independent person. Your confidence and cheerfulness make you an attractive person to be around, but sometimes you need to pay more attention to what other people, including your boyfriend, are thinking.

What's your personality love style?

You desire a love that will last forever. You are quite serious about finding this type of love, and that's why you think carefully about the men that you meet before deciding whether you could really love them. You don't just develop a crush on someone overnight: you look at a person's personality and other aspects of their life before deciding to form an attachment. If a guy doesn't meet your expectations, you would rather be alone. Your love has to be perfect. Be careful though, you could be missing out on some worthy relationships because your standards are so high.

What type of personality do you have?

Kind and Gentle
Your kindness is your charm - you are also gentle and sweet. Everybody likes to be around people with your personality. Like a psychologist, people like to talk to you to discuss their problems because you are proper and discrete, as well as confident. You look mature and people respect you. People with this kind of character are few and far between.

Lazy to copy and paste anymore.

EDIT:

Who is your dream guy?

According to your answers; if you are not kidding, you are too complicated. Sorry, we are unable to offer the analysis. Press Back button on you browser, check ONE question that you were not completely sure and try again with a different answer that you think it would be correct.

LOL.

2007-06-30T23:56:00.000+08:00

☞ Sian (Because it's back to school after tomorrow)
♪ -

Went to 2nd combined rehearsal of NDP 2007 this evening. YES IT'S PHOTO BLOGGING AGAIN.

Brollies brollies everywhere.

Goodie plastic bag.

Another nice view of brollies.

5 red lions

Smoking! *The way The Mask would say* (Ok I'm being lame.)

Can anyone see NDP 07?

Seems so squeezy

The skies were beautiful this evening.

Time to stand and sing.

March pass.

Scary guys who pop out of nowhere.

Heli with some special ability?

The finale.

Didn't post up much pictures because everything happened too fast la. Didn't take much pictures during the Mass Display segment too because my phone is on standby multiple shots for any big fireworks. MUCH TO MY DISSAPOINTMENT, there were no fireworks display tonight. BOO!

Ok I'm trying out whether posting of videos are abled.

2007-06-25T22:08:00.000+08:00

☞ Fat
♪ -

I seriously need solutions.

Here I am, in this 2m by 3m by 2m facility room attached to the kitchen which I call my working room or changing room or storage room, for whatever reasons I use it for. I was supposed to call this room my bedroom. I was supposed to sleep in this room. However, because my dad wakes up early in the morning and smokes while he's in the toliet, and everyday without fail I'll end up with a blocked nose whenever I wake up. And there's this secondhand smoking thing. The smoke travel upwards and because I close my windows when I sleep, the smoke will get stuck in my room. And so after 1 year or so, I moved to my parents' room to sleep.

Situation 1:
And so, the place where the mattress is placed becomes a storage space. Luggage and soft toys are placed there, along with some miscellaneous gadgets I bought (ie curler), taking up about 3/5 of the avaliable space. It's such an eyesore.

Situation 2:
My cupboard is 35" by 45" by 38". And my collection of clothes increase drastically after I discovered the goodness of online shopping, so this tinny weeny cupboard is exploding with clothes. I don't wear 80% of the clothes. And its really a hassle trying to pull out a tee from a stack of tees and all the tees will just... topple. And it gets pretty frustrating when this happen all the time I want to change clothes.

Situation 3:
Not only the number of clothing increase, my collection of bags and shoes increased too, but not as much as clothes. But I can't find a space to store my bags, so I just left them lying around. Another eyesore. As for shoes, I slotted them in gaps.

Situation 4:
I have more than 10 copies of Seventeen which I can't bear to throw away.

Situation 5:
I just bought 2 foam stools and it's lying on the floor right now.

5 situations for now. More to come.

2007-06-25T01:16:00.000+08:00

☞ BOYS KEEP OUT. =)
♪ -

http://www.flowerpod.com.sg/forums/index.php?showtopic=4207

Yeah I know it's the wee hours of morning and I'll be having CF MST in less than 13 hours. But I can't sleep somehow. So I browsed through this forum.

'Trouble with big boobs' is the title. Intially, I imagined the posters would just list down their woes of having... big assets. But posts such as 'I-cannot-imagine-because-I-have-small-boobs' and 'how-I-wish-I-have-bigger-boobs came in.

Ahem, I'm not being hentai or something. I browsed through this topic because I just had a brassiere shopping spree ~~this~~ yesterday afternoon.

Two weeks ago, a sales promotor at OG made me realise that I have been wearing the wrong size brassiere for quite a couple of months or maybe years. And my mom is exceptionally against me wearing wired bra due to [refer to Archieve December 2004] and of course her belief that wired brassiere are hazards to the BB themselves. So since then (or maybe even before that) I never really had a proper measurement of the bust. So I just stick with 36B (previous proper measurement). Non-wired brassiere are mostly for A and B (correct me if I'm wrong; I assumed this because I don't really see any C or D for the non-wired ones). So she insisted that I'm 36B (for quite a couple of years) and bought those wire-free brassiere whenever she sees that the old ones are getting kinda... loose.

And so, I've been wearing 36B brassiere since secondary school, without considering the factor that I'll shrink or grow (hopefully hopefully; hey, I want bigger boobs to compensate for my ugly face) in size.

I was the guai guai nu during secondary school. So I wore anything she bought me. No objections from me. But as I enter polytechnic life, I have to be more aware of my image (not that I have any). I realised that my BB are looking kinda... weird, but still, I don't say anything.

After ITP, my weight plummets to 48kg (now 49kg boo hoo, maybe 50). And so I was thinking, did my size decrease? And so I decided to wait for the GSS to buy tons of correct sized brassiere, like a hunter waiting for its prey. Heh.

The result of measurement? 32F.

Nah. I'm joking. I'm only 34C (Hopefully someone can get me a nice set after I published this). When I tried the 34C brassiere, damn, how did I wear these 36B bra so many years?! The middle part doesn't hurt (for wired) and it looked really... nice? Ha. =X Yes, a wire-bra newbie is born! I'm so excited that I had bought some really exotic colours i.e. maroon, pink, purple and a lovely shade of blue.

However, 34C is good enough for me. Why? Because it's getting in the way and a nuisance somehow if it gets bigger. Go read the posts from the forums to see illustrations, I shan't elaborate.

Ok lah, truthfully, B is really the just-nice size. Not too mountainous, not too airport-y. =(

2007-06-24T00:17:00.000+08:00

☞ If Tan Can Cook So Can You! @ Image heavy @
♪ -

Today's is Miss Tan's second attempt at simple home cooked meal for two. After the previous disaster with the kan chia mee, she realised it's easier to cook side dishes for rice or beh.

First, Miss Tan cuts up the vegetable and throws away the spoiled ones (of course). The vegetable of the day is 小白菜 because Miss Tan just loves 小白菜.

Miss Tan then chops up a large clove of garlic,

Slices the large onion,

And slices 3 shitake mushrooms.

Because Miss Tan had rather sensitive skin on her hands, she hired a male chilli chopper as chilli will make her hands painful and red.

And so, these are the ingredients for the day,

And the chilli the male chopper chopped of course!

You should never ever forget to wash the vegetables Miss Tan!

And it's time to cook. Miss Tan added the oil.

Not too much of course.

Miss Tan fried the garlic, ikan bilis and mushroom in hot oil.

When the mushrooms are partially cooked, Miss Tan added the vegetables with salt and a tinny bit of MSG.

And she cooked until the whole wok of vegetables was bubbling.

When Miss Tan saw that the wok of vegetables was bubbling, she scooped them into a serving plate.

For the next dish, Miss Tan added another dash of oil,

And she tossed the onions in oil.

Miss Tan added a can of sardines and a canful of water.

Miss Tan added chilli and scooped the sardines out and into the serving bowl when it bubbled like the vegetables.

And so you have it; 沙丁鱼 and 小白菜炒蘑菇.

Final product.

And sadly, male chopper ate up most of the vegetables, Miss Tan hadn't have the chance to eat more vegetables.

2007-06-22T18:34:00.000+08:00

☞ Fat
♪ -

*Beams* My man-whore.

Tried Miso chicken from KFC today. It was extremely salty. But I liked the taste of seaweed with the chicken though.

It's almost the end of *so-called* holidays. And I'm totally in no mood to study for next week's MST. Bleah.

2007-06-14T16:43:00.000+08:00

☞ Carefree (No, not the pad.)
♪ H.O.T. / You Got Gun

Guess whose hand was this.

Yep, I'm getting old and wrinkly. I'm aging faster than my aunts.

It's retribution; retribution for not drinking water religiously.

I don't like the taste of water. It tastes like... plain water. I don't like the taste of plain water. So, I seldom drink water.

Why not those carbonated drinks? Or flavoured drinks? Nah. The 10-tea(table?)spoons-of-sugar-in-coke scared me. So I seldom drink those junk food too.

So the only liquified matter (I like) that goes into my immune system are:
1. Tea in morning
2. Liquid in food
3. Occasion cup of milo or tea

Which adds to to about 4 cups or less per day. You could say I'm a little bit ahpek-fied; drinking only those warm cups of tea or milo.

This process has taken its toil and produced marvellous results. My hands now look like 40 years old, maybe 50.

And I need a medicure badly, but I don't dare to step into those medicure palours.

So guys, drink water if you don't want hands like mine.

Audit project 2 is horrendous. I don't really like how Ms Cha Cha Cha phrases her... narrative of the project. I guess I'll be getting a 3 page flowchart with lots of ASSUMED filing. Sigh.

It's already Thursday.

2007-06-14T00:16:00.000+08:00

☞ Happy
♪ -

Went to Jurong Bird Park with Dear today!

King penguins. Their calls were VERY loud.

~~Long~~ Tall birdy.

The poster girl / boy.

They posed for us.

Their poo stinks.

His and Her Royal Highness. One of them slipped out of the cage soon after.

Noisy bird.

Noisy birds.

Giant turkey.

The Swan Lake.

Their throats kept vibrating. I wonder why.

Lovely pink parrot.

Flavoured rainforest 'mist'.

The sun's so hot.

Didn't take anymore pictures because I was feeling pure lazy. The King of the Skies show was great though. The hawks and vultures flew so low that I sworn their feathers did touched my head.

Made our way back to Boon Lay and back to Tiong Bahru. Dear and me talked again, this time, more positively. Communication is a great thing; he changed me on that aspect too. I hope that this kind of communication can happen within my family too.

2007-06-06T22:46:00.000+08:00

☞ Skeptical
♪ -

Today, Dear and me talked about breaking up.

Hold your horses, we were just talking on the topic of breaking up.

He is right and so was I, can we possibly have a future together? I know this is too young an age to talk about ...marrying (I'm very reluctant to use this word here), we weren't that ready to wait for each other for 6 years or so; we couldn't possibly really commit ourselves (emotionally) to each other at such a young age.

Even if we do, we cannot rule out the possibility that The One is someone else and is hovering near us during these few years. If we tie overselves together due to the factors called time and sentiment, it would be the most stupid thing to do so.

And so he asked, "If we knew that we weren't going to end up with each other in the future, is it better to break up now?"

"Yeah," my little inner mind would say, "if we knew, or if everybody else knew, then what is the meaning to dating? Everyone would get married straight away if they knew that the person standing beside them is his or her other halves."

He added, "If we're going to drag this relationship on if we knew this wasn't going to work, I'm afraid that we'll continue to go on because 会舍不得。"

That really sounded like something that I would do.

I pondered over it and said, "Hm, maybe. So let's break up?" Note: it wasn't meant to be a serious statement but I teared anyway. Just saying these two words is too much for a person made out of water like me. =\

"No lah!" He exclaimed.

But he continued, "What's the difference between good friend and boyfriend girlfriend? Not much difference right?"

"Yeah, not much. So let's just be good friends then." Was my reply. I refused (jokingly) to hold his hands afterwards.

After the lengthly conversation from Aljunied MRT to my home, we (or rather, I) concluded that this relationship of ours swings between good friend and boyfriend girlfriend, aka companionship. And of course, we are not going to part our ways after this conversation because we still care for each other quite a bit.

Currently, we're walking on a long stretch of path. I believe soon enough, a fork road will appear. We just have to decide whether we should take the same path together or we part at the fork. Even if we do went our seperate ways, we wouldn't be sure that the roads do not meet again.

Alright, I admit that I'm shortening this entry because my brain simply refuses to think about this matter. Till then.

2007-06-02T17:46:00.000+08:00

☞ Lonely
♪ 유미 / 별

Alone, in this flat, I had spent 9 hours on my computer.

It has been a long time since i spend more than 5 continuous hours on my computer. Boy, I could really kill my mouse right now. It's having a loose spring and I have to click at something several times before it really click at that something. REMINDER: BUY A MOUSE.

Anyways. 2 weeks vocation is coming! THAT is something I'm really looking forward to.

Ok now I'm really fed up with this mouse.

Don't mind me. I think I'm the one who caused the loose spring anyway.

I'm so bored that I'm downloading Hana Yori Dango anime right now, better known as 流星花园.

Argh. KILLMOUSE.

2007-05-26T09:46:00.000+08:00

☞ Sian
♪ -

一眨眼之间，一个礼拜又过去了。假期过得真快！拜一又有测验。五点的，又得留在学校了。好不想去 GBE 啊。又闷又无聊，也不知道那个老师在讲什么。

好不期待下来的这两个礼拜啊！因为将会有一个 company law project，是一个很头疼的东东。真不想提到它...

这个礼拜做了好少东西啊！拜一去了他的家玩羽毛球和看电视。拜二也是去他，但是也有 Sheng Long 和 Michael，是去做 audit project 的。又吃皮萨又玩车。男生啊！拜三他来我家，也没做什么。拜四我们到了圣淘沙的海边，晒一晒太阳，然后去 Vivo 看 Pirates of the Carribean，看到快十二点了。幸好赶得上最后一坛巴士。拜五又去他的家了，又是去那里看电视。

今天就打算温习来领拜一的测验，说实在的，我真不想！