And the story goes

Leaving for good

2008-10-03T19:07:00.005+08:00

I'm done with blogger.
As much as i can't bear to leave this blog behind, i think it's for the better to make a move.
I need a more private space.

This blog has been with me for nearly 4 years and it holds memories very, very close to my heart. So i won't delete it.
But my guess is that i won't be updating it anymore either.

So dear friends, if you really wanna, ask me for the new blog add.

As for the rest, all i can say is
Adios, farewell, goodbye.

Vices

2008-10-03T01:10:00.003+08:00

Bad habits' been accumulating these days.

TOO MUCH Gossip Girls.
TOO MUCH junk food.
TOO MANY late nights.
TOO MUCH slacking.

I'm gonna start sleeping earlier, stop eating so much (such an irony cos i was doing a 2208 assignment on 'Stop eating junk food' and here i am, stuffing my face with fatty junk.) and start working ! I still wanna watch gossip girls haha.

AND i'm not done with bugis yet. Girls, who wanna shop ?

Very happy with my purchases on tues after the test. Hm and i headed to bugis when i was supposed to go get indesign from johan. Sigh looks like i'm gonna be stuck in sch on a sat doing up my indesign newsletter. But, nevertheless, i've gotten two pair of new shorts ! Time for a replace ment cos i've been wearing my old shorts forever and they're wearing out.

And fake lashes haha, never thought i would try them out but they're actually kindda fun =D can't wait to wear them out somedaes. And a toner and moisturer from the face shop ! They seem to be working out fine. Am planning to get a few more masks from there...

And i baked brownies ! can hear the girls say yay haha...hope they'll like their comfort food tml =D

And now...while i was planning to get back to work. looks like i might be heading to mackers in a while =P Hope i can get my indesign haha. later !

Goodbye my lover, Goodbye my friend

2008-09-30T10:18:00.004+08:00

The 4 years with you, has been nothing short of sweet.
until the rude, cruel awakening.
It's almost like i've woken up from a beautiful dream.

My graceful exit from your life is, the last thing i can do for one whom i once loved so deeply.
不追究，不疑问，是我对你最后的温柔。

Do you know how it feels like to hug your first love for the very last time?
Do you know how it feels like to hug your first love goodbye?

But, time pass. people change. feeling subsides. memories fade.

I think, i'm ready to move on.

i need some ginkgo for cerebral dysfunction

2008-09-26T17:55:00.007+08:00

Recess is ending real soon. Doesn't even seem like a week has gone past.

Walas was not bad, i like the live band. and the lively atmosphere and crowd. Sangria. chocolate martini. Asahi. Corona extra. Budweisser. fries and calamari. Not bad at all. Place was relatively small and it's quite popular so we had to get in early to get a table. Felt really sleepy after the drinks though. But yeah i like how the music flooded the whole place. wld go back somedae again.

Am not in the condition to move ard much today. becos of SEVERE muscle ache from badminton in sch yesterday. Funny i never played in sch before until yesterday. It was fun, but being the only girl means i gotta try harder. I've forgotten how hilarious playing badminton can be. But in return, i'm aching all over today that it's not even funny. ha, body's complaining about the lack of exercise. it's a chore just standing up from my seat, and worse, sitting down.

On a more serious note, i don't know how the hell i'm gonna memorise all those herbs and medicine in time to regurgitate them out for tuesday's test. Bah.

when denial doesn't mean non-existence

2008-09-22T04:42:00.004+08:00

fuck. i hate memories sometimes.
They can be so painful.
i.don't.need.to.remember.a.single.thing.

but they keep coming back to haunt me.

lalala

2008-09-20T03:53:00.001+08:00

3.53am.

Reliving HK, room 309 and club 9 in my room.

=DDDDDDDD

Can we get more high ??

To the attention seeker

2008-09-16T18:42:00.010+08:00

If this is what you want, so be it.

Stop acting all pitiful and sad.
and like the whole world owes you something.

Sure you want people to treat you sincerely,
but hey, how about doing that yourself first?
You were never worth my time and concern anyway.

Oh and, continue living in your past, since you're happiest that way.

So much for being friends.

When matcha, almond, cheesecake, nutella and oreo comes together...

2008-09-15T19:48:00.008+08:00

Am at the sch library waiting for my DR to finish up her work so we can head home together so i decided to do a lil post of my baking creations lately.

Behold !

Matcha Cupcake with Green Tea Cream Cheese Frosting and a little sprinkle of matcha

Long looooooooooooooooong name haha but yeah actually it's just a green lil cupcake hahaha

Oh yes i noe it's half eaten, but this is to show u guys how both the inside & outside looks like =)

Pls pardon the splotches.

I know too well that i'm a messy baker =(

Love the green for some reason though
Was a lil disappointed cos the matcha taste went away after the first day !
Hmm i wonder why.

Nutella swirl Oreo Cheesecake !

Not exactly the prettiest thing but comments from my girls was that they are yummy ;)

It's very sinful though, when nutella, cheesecake and oreo collides haha.

Thanks to my dear mum, we finished baking these in about 2 hrs!

More to come next time...cos it's time to go home now haha.

Because tonight will be the night that i will fall for you over again

2008-09-09T14:28:00.020+08:00

Tuesday afternoon in the school library. Perfect spot with powerpoint(how rare!) and nice view. I should start work but not before i blog. The sudden urge to blog have not occur to me for quite a long, long while.

Am in love with "Fall in love" By Secondhand Serenade, along with a few other new songs johan sent me. Very nice. New songs, new feelings. Old songs only bring about unwanted memories. He told me to trash them, but i said no. Cos i still love some of them. They are, afterall part of my memories. I am finally ~~able~~ starting to listen to songs on my mp3 player again, without feeling so much of that ache inside me and with it, the familiar wetness in my eyes.

Been out, out and out. Caught Wall-E in the theatres with li and jimmy last week and err...i fell alsp halfway through (what's new). The way he pronounce walllllll eeeee and Evvva is really cute haha. But i guess after all the hype, my expectation for the movie was exceptionally high. I didn't mean to fall alsp though ! Serious. But somehow the darkness and soft comfty couch combines to make the perfect napping spot.

Had a mini meetup with the HK ppl after the movie at westmall, pity all were not there. Caught up a lil over coffeebean before we head back. Sigh, life here..so different from HK. HK, a place where we won't be happy unless we stay out till late hours of the night or wee hours of the morning. Ahh well, those days would always stay in my fond memories.

Peiwen's 21st birthday celebration at minds' cafe on saturday. Happy little affair sprinkled with mini surprises, i hope she likes it. I kindda miss playing board games though. The crazy laughters and noisy banter. It's kindda heartwarming to see everyone squeezing on couches playing games and enjoying each other's company even if it's a silly game.

Prettaye =)

The entourage of girls

Gluttony ! Look at them gluttons hahaha

Hiao !

Haven't got together with these girls for such a long while

Henedick came to pick me up after the celebration and we headed over to 2am: Dessert Bar at Holland V for some chilling out. Poor guy, must have gotten a shock when he came over to minds cos there was a whole entourage of girls trying to catch a glimpse of him through the car window. But it was an enjoyable night, despite my distracting him on the car so much so that he made a wrong turn lols. The desserts were delicate and very, very special with an artistic touch. I ordered the twix and would say i enjoyed it. His tiramisu was not bad as well...expresso ice cream haha, instant energy booster lols !

Twix - home made valrhona chocolate ice cream, caramel mousse and peanut crumble.

And so we talked a lot and shared things going on in our lives both past and present...can't believe i would find a good friend in a project mate. Someone whom i can talk and relate to. who understands, and gives me insights into matters at times.

Tiramisu - expresso ice-cream, kahlua jelly and...tiramisu ?

Chilling at 2am (literally and non-literally) is nice haha.

Had to wake up early on sunday though, for a relative lunch at Parkroyal hotel...sounds luxurious but it is really just fine. HK dimsum wins hands down anytime. Met the SGGA ppl in the evening for dinner and some catching-up. We ended up at Crystal Jade after walking for round the fountain of wealth. And NYDC for mudpies and chocolate cheesecake and elmer fudge ! The perfect finishing touch to a dinner.

Glad that everyone is doing well, cos we hardly even get to meet each other in school. And everyone is graduating soon, with the exception of yours truly. Not sure if i should feel happy or sad about that haha. Young, inexperienced and not earning any money. All the talks about weddings made me wonder if it's gonna be one of the major topic of interest among friends a few years down the road. But well, i guess we're still young lar, at least for my batch of people. So shall save it for later heh.

Piping hot steamboat dinner at the deck later, perfect just when i had the cravings for it yesterday =)

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Here's some goodies i baked after getting back to sg !

Winnie the Pooh butter cookies!
Awfully adorable. And they're all smiling.

Craving for any chocolate cupcakes ?

Oat scones with raisins
My first attempt at making scones !

I still enjoy baking a lot, but gotta find time for it now. Next up, matcha cupcakes =D

Hotcakes and maple syrup at 4am

2008-08-31T17:39:00.007+08:00

Late night movie. Supper. Last min clubbing plans. Late dinner. And now 4am breakfast at Macs?

That's so not my usual kind of lifestyle. so not me.
Yeah, i wonder what's up with me too sometimes.
~~But i love it.~~
I think i'm drawn to the spontaneousness of it all.
Maybe it is an attempt to break out of a pattern that i'm used to.

Japanese language is not a wise choice at all. And now i'm stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea. Help, anyone ?

A dream is a wish your heart makes

2008-08-29T20:53:00.040+08:00

Ok to all my friends who have nagged at me/waited/given up on my HK adventure updates, nah ! This is a super long post filled with colourful happy pictures ! Our lil disney escapade on a sunny day heh.

This is us, on our way there, bright and early in the morning. (Ok i must say that i went clubbing last night and it's a miracle that i cld drag myself up in the morning, thanks to my lovely rooooooomie teehee !)

Shortest =P

Adorable mickey windows

Sweet lil minnie on the train

A bunch of overage kids. hehe.

Love those mickey handles !

Why can't they have those on sg MRT.

At the station

Andddddddd......

We're finally HERE at HONG KONG DISNEYLAND !

YAYYYYYYYYYY =DDDDD

If only. Lols.

One of the many many souvenir shops on the Main Street along the way in...

First time in Disneyland =)

i heart winnie the poooooooh

Their pillar are darn cute.

Ok, actually EVERYTHING there makes you go aww...so cuuuuttte.

LOLS, honestly.

Fans of Disney will love this place to bits.

This is real cool lar, mickey is surfing on the water without any solid support !

I guess it must have something to do with physics.

Mimicking minnie in the background

Such a bright and cheery day.

First up was Adventureland !

Which was actually quite a dissappointment because the place itself was the exact opposite of what it's name suggested. In other words, not the least bit adventurous at all.

We went to Tarzan's Treehouse first and it was...quite crappy i would say.

Took a boat ride with a humorous boat guide and saw some random elephants/hippos popping out from the water and trees, fire on water and ehh i can't rmb haha. And after that, all we did was to queue up and take a raft ACROSS the river (and mind you the river is like not wide lor) Climb some steps up to Tarzan's Treehouse (yawn), took some pictures, and came back down to queue to take the raft BACK ACROSS again.

It's really pretty dumb if you asked me. They could have just built a path across or something, wld save so much time haha.

Tarzan and his beau (i forgot her name)

And then we moved on to Tomorrowland !

Where all the ~~exciting~~ rides are

Some space thingy ride...

Which we eventually didn't go on cos it was too kiddy lols.

Space mountain is cool. literally and non-literally.

My first time on an indoor in-the-dark roller coaster and it was quite an experience to feel the rush of aircon admist the high speed turns and see pretty lights twinkling like stars in the galaxy.

i like ;) esp when the weather is so SO HOT outside.

Wah and somebody keep faking screams to scare khus and me. Bo Liao. -_-"' but hilarious lar haha.

Over-priced ice cream, but happy us !

haha i told you we were over-age kids.

Nah...it's the weather lar.

Mine ! Chocolate-coated Vanilla Mickey =)

Fantasyland.

Castles like in the Fairytales.

Where is my prince charming on a white horse ?!?

My Dear Lovely Roomie, pls send me one via FB i Love Hong Kong app, and no i don't want the cute policeman nor the CUHK teacher larrrrrr ! i dun care !

Minnie is so sweet ! ~~So am i.~~ teehee

Chip 'N' Dale ! They're both so cuddly =D

We rushed ard taking pics with all the disney characters we can catch, other than Minnie, Chip 'N' Dale, we also snapped pics with Goofy, Mickey and a VERY VERY UNFRIENDLY Winnie the Pooh. He refuses to let ppl hug or even touch him ! We were shocked when we saw him refused a lil girl who was all excited and wanted to hug him.

Ridiculous. hmmph. I don't think Winnie is supposed to be anti-social right? The only thing i heard about him is...haha that he's obscene. Why? Go figure out yourself. =P

Oh and we went on the Carousel too !

It's like the mandatory ride everybody has to have a go at in Disneyland.

Beautiful light, charming horses, delightful music and we go round and round and round...

Me and my horse

He looks like a soulful lil fellow.

Winnie the Pooh ride !

We sat in hunny pots !

Ok that's they spell honey haha.

Everything there is just so irresistibly adorable

Plush toys in the souvenir store !
Boing boing Tigger. The ride was fun haha, cos when we were going through the part where Pooh met tigger, our hunny pot was bounching up and down all the way. The way tigger moves ard haha. And there was a part where our hunny pot felt like it's floating on water cos there was supposed to be a flood.

Minnie, Minnie, and i don't-know-what

This picture is so cute ! (I'm getting tired of this word but if i have to sum up the whole of disneyland with one word i would still say cute HAHAHA. so, get used to it yar.) I love those minnie ears !!!

We are such cheapos, nv buy just go into the store and take photos hehe. But i think the store assistants are used to it so nobody stopped us =) !

Pretty lights in the trees at night

Feels abit like christmas.

Mad Hatters' tea party ??

It's time for the twirling tea cups ride !

Us- Sober before the ride began.

Us - X_x when the ride ended.

Before we took this last parting shot, we ran to catch the fireworks at the castle. And they were honestly, the most beautiful fireworks i have seen in a long, long while. They're just different from those we see in Singapore. They're much softer and have a dreamy feel to it. I don't know how to describe fireworks but these really melt my heart.

Fireworks, beautiful things that only last for seconds. Picture would do them no justice so i'll just keep them in my memory. And that's where they will stay.

That's where many, many beautiful things will stay.

On the road

2008-08-17T16:26:00.004+08:00

The reason why my blog have been so neglected is because i don't know how to start updating. I think it's quite impossible to cover my HK summer sch day by day cos REAL sch has started. But i guess i'll do a "Best of HK" series haha...afterall it has been the best summer, ever.

But i most definitely need to sort out my photos first. Lazy, lazy me.

I haven't seen a late night movie for quite a long long while. I haven't been driven ard for such a long while too. I haven't had supper at such late hours in sg. But i had it all last night. My first time on a bike in the cooling sg night felt...liberating. I love the rush of wind on my face, though it tends to get a tad strong sometimes.

Strangely, i've never wondered about how people on bikes feel whenever i'm in a car. But now, i know how vast a difference it feels. To be inside a car, and to be on a bike. From not knowing how to get up a bike(yeah this one i mastered), to wearing the helmet(he had to tie it for me everytime) and getting down the bike(and i still don't know how to get down properly. i slide down lols), everything was a new experience.

He said girls hate having to wear the helmet, cos it messes up their hair. I said it was worth it. Despite the messy hair and fallen earrings haha. So from places to places we travelled, and i imagined those dramatic scences i have seen on tv/movies, of people on bikes. and i can't believe i'm on one that very moment. The wind on the road felt a lot colder than i expected. It was good that he reminded me to bring a jacket.

Haha actually come to think of it , i think it felt like typhoon 3 on the peak. Just that this was on the bike and that was standing on ground. If that was 100km/hr, i seriously can't imagine 140. Maybe it's the thrill in it.

Anyhow, it was funny how he only recalled he had a ball after we finished playing pool at like 4am plus. Hahaha. way too late.

It's really nice to have company at night.
Hey you, thanks a lot.

lesson learnt

2008-07-19T16:35:00.004+08:00

Bar-hopping

Cheers

Chilling out

Colourful liquids

Life's too short to be unhappy for too long.

And it keeps on spinning

2008-07-18T16:38:00.002+08:00

club. drink. dance. pub. drink. talk. club. drink. dance. drink. drink. cry. drink. dance.
The world is spinning as i cried on whoever's shoulder/lap.
and made everyone cry together.
Spinning, spinning world.
I think it's the drinks. and the music.
and all guys look the same to me.
Endless nights of senseless partying.
Getting wasted. without a single care.

I think i'll miss these crazy nights in HK.

爱。

2008-07-17T13:48:00.004+08:00

I can honestly say that i'm surprised to find a number of broken heart souls here. Here in HK, to escape, to have fun, to heal. It made me feel like i wasn't the only one nobody understood.

Long late night talks over msn, long talk in the girls' room. The more we talk, the more i realise it doesn't hurt that much to talk about it anymore. And it was good to hear friends share their feelings and thoughts. Each with their own bittersweet stories to share, and many, many different perspectives to it.

Do we really need a proper closure? I guess not. Sure, i have many many unanswered questions to whatever happened. But at the end of the day, it's not going to change anything. The moment it all ended was the moment you looked me in the eye and told me something i never, ever expected. Call it shock, call it anger, call it betrayal. But the most overwhelming feeling was that of disappointment. It swallowed me whole. alive. It turned my heart cold.

I am touched at how he still tries so hard to remain friends after they're no longer together. despite her being so unreceptive. at how he wishes her only the best, that she will be happy and healthy, when she doesn't even want to have anything to do with him anymore. 那是多么真心的祝福。I don't think i'll be able to do that.

I feel sad that she is still doing so much for him, and breaking down everytime he contacts her, as a friend. To be so near yet so far. And how she got hurt, picked herself up, start loving and get hurt yet again. 心，不累吗？I don't think i'll be able to do that.

Maybe love is really just a game afterall. Just like musical chairs, we are constantly moving until the music stops. And it will eventually stop. Some end up at new places, other remain at theirs and as more chairs get removed after each round, people get left out. But then, there's always a new round. And everybody gets a chance to play all over again. Until you get tired of it, that is.

初恋，爱得很天真。爱得很深。爱得义无反顾。
虽然最后受伤的是自己，但我不后悔。如果一切从头再来，我还是会选择爱他。

亲爱的有你牵着我的那些日子真的好快乐
我舍不得可是时间回不去了
爱你很值得只是该停了

Day 2 and 3: Settling in and finding our way ard

2008-07-09T13:02:00.035+08:00

This is way outdated. I am uploading truckloads of photos everyday !! When i really should be studying. Anyway I have just dropped a module here cos it doesn't make sense if i hold on to it and NOT study for it. Anyway, am trying hard to recall what happen like 2 weeks ago so i can illustrate it here haha...

Steep, steep flight of stairs we have to climb up every morning.
Good exercise when ur not in a rush for time.
Waste of time + tiring when ur late for lessons =P

We get fantastic view here, almost anywhere
That's ronald, btw.

See what i told you?
This place looks like mount faber at night,
just that it's where we'll pass by everynight on our way back to hostel.
And that's kush.

I call this. Never looking back.

Love the tee they gave us !
It's so adorable we have gotta pose for it.

And this is the train station we're based at.
Pretty easy to remember huh.

Heading to Tsim sha tsui for dinner

Their MTR here is really similar to MRT in Singapore,
just that the platform gap is REALLY big sometimes.
like, 5 times that of S'pore? So we must always look where we're going heh.

This is how the inside of the MTR looks like, it's pretty similar to s'pore one

Some run-down building, somehow they remind me of those scenes in HK drama serial.
ehh like zhen qing? haha

HK street at night, complete with neon signboards.
Just like what we see in HK drama serials. (again)
And buildings here are really clustered together.

Dinner with the guys at tsim sha tsui !
And i realised i haven't been introducing ppl, tsk tsk.
So from right to left, front to back we have ish, ronald, chris, lix, kush and me
Anyway i hated my food cos the chicken is so fatty and full of bones.
I miss my sg chicken rice and chilli. They only have like, chilli oil here. Bleargh.

The die-die must try dessert store in HK

MANGO frenzy !

Lix, me and ronald macdonald

Xu Liu Shan
It's becoming my favourite dessert store

We walked to the Avenue of Stars too,
but pity it was raining then and we cldn't take a good picture.
Better pics next time !

We attended the briefing on the third day morning.

With khus in the lec theatre.
Nothing better to do? Take photos.

Group pic outside the lt
Those are the friendly girls living on our floor, thired level.
They're really nice =)

Lunchie before we embark on campus tour
HK luncheon meat is SO MUCH NICER than SG's one

I kindda like this wide pathway

Here you see the CUHK emblem. Reminds me of Hogwarts lols. Just some background info on the school, apparently it is the largest and greenest campus in HK. Well, i think we can tell lols. There is greenery EVERYWHERE we turn. and it is so large that we need to take shuttle bus just to find food/make our way to the MTR station. And it takes us like 15 mins to walk to class. And if we miss the last shuttle bus, which we did for two consequtive nights, the walk up takes minimum 20 mins and max 40 mins.

Mind you, it's upslope ALL THE WAY, like climbing mountain just to get back to hall sia. It is of course, really good exercise, but not when it's past midnight and we're carrying BAGS of shopping goods ! Was a scary experience for lix and me to make our way back alone one night. We had to run across this scary and dark corridor becos it's quite eerie. =x So now, it's either we come back earlier, or we cab, or we walk with a big grp of ppl back heh.

They said if you walk through this 'door',
you won't be able to graduate from cuhk.
Unless you roll down a nearby flight of stairs 3 times. Ouch.

All prepared for welcoming dinner
Check out the umbrellas hanging in the backgrd
Apparently it rains so often here, the girls have come up with a space-saving way to hang their umbrellas ! So yup, we have a whole stretch of umbrellas down the corridor. interesting.

12 course dinner
Lots of veggie. which is good lols.
I find that you hardly get enough veggies in HK.
All the meals are so meaty, tsk.

Suckling pig with cherries for its eyes
Ronald Macdonald ate the cherry eyes and started to hallucinate abt smiley face in his chinese tea lols. Ok fine, i cld see it too. haha

Group pic of ppl we shared the table with

So, Day 2 and 3 aren't exactly the most exciting days but there's more to come later ! Oh and we missed class today because we overslept. And even newer updates abt us oversleeping is that on the second consequetive day, we overslept again and only went for the later half of the class. And we had to sneak in during the break. Sigh, what's with us and alarm clocks ? We are such sleepyheads. =P

Anyway if u people want more detailed illustrations of the HK days, can refer to lix's blog cos i'm far too lazy to write abt everything lols. i highlight whatever i feel like highlighting haha. and my updates will not come as often heh. But i will try !!

Here's a line from a friend that i quite like, but cldn't rmb the exact words.

"You still have time to sort it out but do it soon,cos time flies and if you don't make a decision for yourself...time will."

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind =)

Day 1: Off to Hong Kong

2008-07-06T15:42:00.020+08:00

Finally, a day for us to take a proper break. and proper time for me to blog about our days in HK so far. It's been really fun and packed to the brim with activities. of ALL kinds. =) I shall attempt to share bits of interesting stuff here and there, by days.

At the airport with mum

She's the loveliest woman in the world.

I can't even begin to express how much i love her, for being my mum, for all the support she've given me and for all the things she've done for me.

Got all emotional at the airport before i left.

Hugged mum and cried.

I told her not to be worried, and that i'll be fine and happy over here =)

On the plane to HK with lix

My roomie for 6 weeks. Yay !

It's been great so far. I have my personal alarm clock =P

No lar kidding, but it's really nice living together.

Really nice having company, esp at night.

And i love the talks we share.

View from the plane

Clouds that look like fluffy marshmallows.

The first food we ate upon arriving at HK airport !

We are so so SO happy to see krispy kremes.
Was like a dream come true haha.
Okay lar, we sua ku can?
But i've always wanted to try out krispy kreme for myself.

They are simply. Out-Of-The-World DELICIOUS.
It's ridiculous how good their doughnuts tasted.
I'm gonna be really sad because they don't have krispy kreme back in s'pore !!!
I will bring some back for u guys if i can ;)

And here's our room before we cleaned up and arranged our stuff.
My bed's on the left, Lix's on the right.

And that's the after !
Everything looks neat huh? But it's really not how it looks like now.
It's just plain messy right now lols.

Range of products on the top shelf!

My cosy desktop with lotsa lotsa stuff on it.
I like my things to be colourful =)
And check out the whole tin of Julie's butter crackers !
They're life-savers.
I'm glad my parents got me to bring the whole tin over.

At HK airport with my luggage.
I was carrying freaking 29kg.
That's 1 kg away from the weight limit.

One last pic before we turned in for the night.
I have no idea why i looked so happy.
But i thought this picture looks kindda nice.

And that marks the start of our little adventure in HK =)

We don't know what to expect, but we are determined to have fun and try out every thing we have never tried before and can possibly try.

我要快乐。一定要。

2008-07-02T01:19:00.002+08:00

As much as i want to blog about all the interesting and fun things that have happened in Hong Kong, i just can't ignore the fact that i feel unhappy as an individual. Unhappy with myself, unhappy with just about everything ard me.

And i don't know why.

Nothing seems particularly funny. and nothing makes me want to laugh out loud, or even smile at times. Maybe the only time i can do all this is when i'm intoxicated. And i don't even know if that's for real.

So much of everything

2008-06-28T02:20:00.007+08:00

I promise to blog about HK soon.

Don't worry my dear friends, everything is fine over here.

2008-06-23T00:34:00.003+08:00

歌手：李圣杰
歌曲：最近

你最近不说话
怎麽了为什麽
是不是有什麽事让你不快乐
听说你最近很孤单
有点乱有点慌
可是我却不能够在你的身旁
你想要的我却不能够给你我全部
我能给的却又不是你想要拥有的
我们不适合也不想认输
好几次我们抱着彼此都是想要哭
你常解释这样的一切都只是开始
我觉得是所有的一切早就已结束
不想再约束
不要再痛苦
下一次会有更好的情路

爱我却不能给你我全部
我能给的却又不是你想要拥有的
我们不适合也不想认输
好几次我们抱着彼此都是想要哭
你常解释这样的一切都只是开始
我觉得是所有的一切早就已结束
不想再约束
不要再痛苦
下一次会有更好的情路
这一次我们都能很幸福

2008-06-21T18:49:00.001+08:00

When will i ever be happy again?

Food with Attitude

2008-06-20T00:38:00.015+08:00

This dinner deserves a post on its own cos we finally had a chance to go to...Hog's Breath Cafe ! The food is yum-yum good. And we had the entire place to ourselves for the earlier part of the evening, how cool is that. Love their ladies' night promo!

Warning: This is going to be a food-intensive post. So pls do yourself a favour and close this page if you're feeling reeeeeeeaally hungry aldry. Haha don't say i didn't warn you !

Can't wait Can't wait CAN'T WAIT

Mine - Jamaican Chicken
It's really good, cos i love chicken breast meat and these are done perfectly !
The creamy mango sauce complements the grilled chicken quite nicely.
Yummilicious Hogtail fries !

Mudslide.
This looks like a normal chocolate drink but actually is a cocktail in disguise !
Made with Bailey's, vodka, dark cocoa creme or something, milk and creammmmm
hmmmmm. Sinful indulgence.

Yee's - Text-Mex combo
This is actually the first time i tried steak done medium rare.
I always order it well-done and find that it sucks.
So it's a pleasant surprise when it actually taste good! Chewy and has this distinct grilled flavour.

Mango...something i can't rmb the name haha.
It taste kindda like margarita, it even looks like one !
Instead of salt crystals ard the brim, they replaced it with sugar. heh. nice.

Lovely.

I quite like the decor at Hog's Breath too, reminds me of Outback. The wooden benches and all. Oh but they were showing 'Da Chang jin' on one of the tvs...that seems a lil out of place though. If not for the cranes and construction sites outside, we would have had a fantastic view. There were lots of caucasians dining there though, in comparison.

I would definitely go back there again, someday. You guys should give it a try too ;) Oh and this is rather random, but i really like their plates hahaha.

This is for you, papa

2008-06-16T00:09:00.004+08:00

Happy Fathers' Day

I love you papa, though i never told you before.

Where are you

2008-06-14T02:45:00.003+08:00

The title shall remain but the secret will go. Posted it up twice but eventually removed it in the end. cos this is not it. I trust that you'll still trying your best. I just need to hear from you.

Spoke to a friend recently, regarding relationship problems. Sigh, things sure sounds familiar. I can only offer a listening ear and some personal thoughts. Well, the path of love never runs smooth. This funny, illogical thing we all get stumped by, at some point in time.

Went back for the pre-departure HK briefing in sch on wednesday. And while we were trying to find our way ard the engine fac, we stumbled upon Olive Cove ! What a pleasant surprise. I've always wanted to find it. but too lazy to venture too far. We had iced milo and i had some sandwiches too, makes for a simple and nice breakfast.

It was good that we met some of the people who will be travelling with us to CUHK. Lotsa enthu years 1 though, can literally see the sparkle in their eyes and feel their abundance of energy. Haha, very much unlike yours truly, year3 to-be.

I wonder how it'll be like over there, living on our own, and being able to do whatever we like. I'm not particularly excited about it, but as the day of departure draws closer, i guess i will be. Still have got some things to settle, like application for china visa, getting insurance, flu jab, travellor's plug and of course, more research on places we're planning to go to.

Our University is based in New Territories. An area which is, in comparison to others like HK islands and Kowloon, relatively...boring. Lotsa temples, museums and cultural stuff..in short, places of interest that we aren't really eager to explore heh. So i foresee we will be taking the MTR to venture out quite often haha !

Hmm i wonder if i'll miss home. Afterall, this is going to be the longest i've ever been away. But I certainely want this to be a most memorable and fruitful trip. I want to try things i have never tried before and experience for myself how it's like to be out there.

On a different note, caught two movies lately. Sex and the City and Narnia, i thought SATC's pretty good ! But it's a girly movie so...it's better to catch it with your girls haha. I'm quite woah-ed by the fashion in that movie. Narnia on the other hand, was just ok. I still think the first was better. It's just getting too predictable. and predictable movies aren't exactly the most exciting ones. I especially love those with an unexpected twist. But then i'm a sucker for happy endings...so, can i have HAPPY unexpected twists? =P

'Fated to love you' just made me teared just now. It's a not-so-typical taiwanese drama serial, but yet quite realistic. But they always have these dumb, as in REALLY dumb and kind-hearted girl as the main character and show her suffering and blah...maybe that's why the show sells haha. Cos they bank on that to create the touching scenes. The dumb kind-hearted/sweet girl and dao rich/intelligent and ALWAYS cute guy combi. The combi that always sell.

These days, i have been eating/sleeping/going out/baking/slacking a lot...
But then again, holidays are made for such mindless activities, ain't it ;) ?

Golden brown goodness

2008-06-09T16:00:00.014+08:00

Haha nothing new, just been baking again ! I ought to start a new blog just so i can post whatever i bake lols. This is the second time i'm making apple crumble, with my cousin this time round and i'm quite pleased with the results. The crumble is golden brown !

Fresh out of the oven.

Buttery, sugary crumbs on top. literally melt in your mouth.

Warm, soft, sweet and cinammony stewed apples in the middle.

Brown graham crackers crust makes the bottom.

Mouth-watering.

This muffin is supposed to be special.

Oreo nutella walnut muffins, we call it.

We threw in a whole jar of nutella, but the results were dissappointing.

So much so that after i had my first taste of the done muffins,

I didn't feel the need to take a picture.

Failed attempt.

Soft oatmeal cookies

Made them just yesterday with mum's help.

We cut the sugar, skipped the cinnamon and divided the dough into 3 batches.

One with semi-sweet choc chips, (for bro)

One with walnuts and almonds, (for mum and dad)

And one with raisins.

I'm fine with all haha.

Close-up

They are the prettiest cookies i've ever made - so far.

And taste pretty yummy too, just that they're a little on the soft side.

Made 45 cookies in total

Little round pieces of golden brown goodness.

Home-made cookies oozes love and warmth.

Don't ya think ?

Ahhhh the wonders of baking. I think baking holds a very special meaning to me. I can't explain it. But it just makes me happy, and at peace with myself. It makes me forget all unhappy things and focus on the task at hand. It's almost...therapeutic. Maybe cos there's always a start and end to it ? The whole feeling of anticipation in the process. of wondering how it would turn out.

Baking is especially fun when you have company. When you don't, it's still good. just that the in-between waiting time gets a lil boring and you take longer to complete cos there's only one pair of hands at work. And it can get really quiet.

Anyhow, i should stop being lazy and step up on research for HK !

2008-06-07T00:45:00.001+08:00

你是否会偶尔想起我。

Bake-a-Bake

2008-06-05T00:09:00.003+08:00

Work had ended so i'm slacking once again. Pop fair work is not that tiring, it's really the hours spent travelling. Lunch and dinner were at times ok, at times yucky. but well, as long as there's cheap food to fill the stomach haha.

Met some nice people here and there...and we actually heard Angela Zhang's concert rehearsal (which is just next door) from the cafe ! Coolness. Ks actually gave us a treat at macau express on our last day, so nice of him =)

Spent half the day sleeping after the last day of work and shopping today ! We had lotsa sinful food though. Carls Junior's chilli cheese beef fries yumyumyum, Coffee Bean's pure choc, chicago cheesecake and chocolate of a thousand leaves ! Wonder how many trips to the gym it wld take to burn those fats.

Anyway, baking tml ! Apple crumble and very special muffins heh. I still wanna bake my oatmeal cookies, maybe another day. And i wanna do cupcakes with pretty icing too haha. Ahh maybe a few more times before i leave for hk...

Of roses, choc fondants and a yummy lunch treat

2008-05-30T01:16:00.007+08:00

This is so very, very pretty. and really sweet =)

Love you girls.

一切尽在不言中。

Sorry for making you guys wait and hide at the stairwell hehe. But it was a lovely surprise! And something i have always wanted =D Happy happy happy. Rosewater makes me high lols.

Anyway, been having 12hrs work day for the past few days since 21st, so that explains the lack of updates. Have still got 4 more days to go! It's not too bad working at pop fair, cos you get to crap with funny people and slack a bit sometimes.

Also got some good buys, bought a book with cds enclosed to learn cantonese haha, only ard $5.50 after disc! Hope it's of use. I didn't waste my 2 off days too...both spent with dear yee heh. Besides getting ample rest, we gymed one day and baked the other.

Check out the number of choc fondants we made ! And i would say we did a pretty good job =) We had reviews that they were fabulous and yummy hehehe...yay ! More baking coming up after my work at pop fair ends.

Meanwhile, i gotta slog somemore...travelling to expo and back home everyday is no joke. The travelling time takes ard 2hrs+ each time. But at least i get to sleep on the train haha. Oh and i must say that i had a really yummy lunch today, yee's treat at malan la mian ;) It's v nice lar.

Maybe even more so cos the food they order in for us everyday is blah ~~most of the time~~ sometimes. Love ya girl ! It does kindda reminds me of how my boy wld come look for me during work and bring me for nice lunch though...ahhhh anyway.

I got to get to bed. Need my sleep to recharge for another full day of work tml! Till then =)

I like life this way

2008-05-19T01:55:00.006+08:00

This is by far, the most interesting and fulfilling week i had since the hols started =)

Btw, i rebonded my hair for the 4th time and it didn't turn out good. So now i'm showering lotsa TLC and lavishly applying hair treatments products to salvage my hair. AND cutting away those damage parts myself. Man, really not worth it lar, the amount of time u have to spent to take care of ur hair just becos you got it bleached. So ppl, never EVER bleach ur hair. I learnt the lesson the hard way. The bright highlights are simply not worth it. =(

Anyway how, we went to partyworld on tues ! It was a good deal, $14.40 for 4 hrs with titbits, fruits and drinks. But Klunch wld still have been the best though (if not for the fact that we cldn't make it cos gotta travel down to Ubi for the job briefing, more abt that later) We all enjoyed ourselves ! Pics pics !

Oh yeah, that's me with teeny weeny eyes.

As if my eyes not small enough haha.

Cosy! And i realised we all sport the same fringe now lols.

We had dinner at Kenny Rogers later on, cos i was craving for their sides ! Macaroni and cheese and garlic parsley potato ! My favourite at Kenny rogers, always. And we work out a friendship issue there too. ;) So nice to just sit there and talk and talk and talk. Aaahh the luxury we never had while mugging together.

Out with yee on wed ! So proud of myself cos i didn't spent ANY money at all on shopping. I is poor. Anyway, yee brought me to try out the famous chicken rice at far east plaza. Always heard of it, but never really got a chance to try it out. So...my final verdict is. It's not bad, but i think the one at cine foodcourt is better =P

The quantity at far east is also...well, it's kindda like a larger serving of an appetiser LOLS. But it was good for us cos we weren't really hungry. BUT we still went for some ya kun later on. Cos i just cldn't give it a miss. heh. We cabbed back together to my house soon after, cos we waited sooooooooooo long for the bus. and my sinus made me feel superbly tired and sick. Thanks yee for paying haha, glad my blazer fits u !

Thurs, was spent kayaking at macritchie with sihui and michele and their friends. It was a surprisingly fun experience although the area we were allow to kayak in is, i would say, akin to a baby pool in a swimming complex.

It was nice and kindda therapeutic to kayak for a while and laze on it, enjoying the morning sun and the cooling breeze. Though our pants got wet cos we keep getting water in while we kayak. Doesn't matter though haha. Anyway the most tiring part is not the kayaking but the carrying ! Wah i tell u lor, the kayak is damm heavy. There were 6 of us so we took 3 double seater kayak. I dun think i can move that thing alone.

It's kindda pricey though, so we only kayak for an hr before leaving for lunch. Poor sihui lose her hp just when we're abt to carry the kayak back. Sigh. But really, there was nothing much you can do the moment ur phone plonks in the water and starts sinking down. At least it's not new and too expensive.

Back to happier things, we took a bus to upper thomson road and got to the legendary prata shop ! It's still really really nice ;) We had mutton murtabak, chicken curry and all sorts of pratas. Cheese, egg and cheese, banana, chocolate...sinful. But yummy! Should have taken pics to tempt u guys. If not for the fact that it's kindda out of the way, i'll be sure to frequent the place. and try out every single special prata on their menu hehe.

So much fun stuff, but i haven't forgotten about work ! Went down to Bra basah for another job briefing on friday and later on shopping with mum for stuff at IMM.

Talking about jobs, the earlier one i mention at ubi is probably the BEST kindda temp job if you want fast money. Can you believe we earned $230 within 2 days ? That's quite a lot within a short period of time. We are actually working for an auction house and our job scope is just to take down of the winning bidder's paddle number and bid price. And we get $10/hr for doing that. Good deal hor? But it took us sometime to get used to the bidding process and tempo.

So Sat and Sun was spent fruitfully earning money hahaha. Must replenish after spending so much here and there on facial products, hair products, food...etc. We were required to be dressed i would say smart-formal so that means no jeans ! Sian man, i thought i cld pass off my skinnies at the briefing. But it's a no-no.

The auction is held at one of the ballrooms at suntec, so i guess we had to be decently dressed even though we're known as the "Floor staff" Such an ugly title. but who cares as long as we earn the money ;) ? Anyway my shoes nearly killed me on the first day. Was wearing my pointy white covered pumps to complement the whole formal look and my feets really suffered for the 'look'. Never have i felt SO tortured by my shoes that my feet threaten to give way. So i learnt and wore my flatest flats the second day haha, still pain but not as bad lar.

The auction's pretty interesting actually. And i was observing all the guests who were, obviously FREAKING rich ppl. While some were dressed casually, others were obviously decked in branded apparels and what-nots from head to toe. The way they bid is almost like $100,000(to them) is like $100 to us? haha ok maybe i'm exaggerating. But after seeing so many paintings go at $70K, $80K all the way to $420K (O_o'" no i didn't add in the zero by mistake) i am thoroughly convinced that those people are SUPER DUPER loaded. Like a few seconds to decide whether to throw in another $10,000? That might very well take some people a few months to earn.

Actually besides having to stand for really long hours and not being able to move ard, this is a GREAT job lobang. We had good free food for 2 days (like breakfast, lunch, tea break and dinner). No complaints abt that man. Save us some money heh heh. This is going to be so different from my next job.

I am so long winded today but nvm lar hor, make it a quality and quantity update. Today they actually had a painting up for bidding and the money wld go toward aiding the szechuan earthquake victims. What i saw made me feel ashamed even, to be in the same room. When the auctioner called for bids in a room full of people, hardly anybody stirred.

In fact out of the 5 bids that was made, 3 of them were made by the same person. And the final price ended below its market price. What turned my heart cold was the fact that these same people in the room, who cld fight over a painting and throw in $10k at each bid until it hits $100K and above didn't even cared about this. It's a practical world afterall, huh? I have to admit it was quite a disappointing sight though. And i thought the people there would be more supporting becos they have the means to. But i thought wrong. oh well.

So we're done with the first job and we're moving on the second one. This one is neither high-paying nor convenient. I guess the only reason i took it up is becos i reasoned that earning some money is still better than earning none or even worse, spending more. So do drop by popular fair between 23th May-1st June at expo to catch lix and me when u guys are free ;) ! A good 11 days of work will contribute towards our HK shopping fund. heehee. It's bit sian to think of those days when i have to wake up at 6+am and reach home at 12am...but that's for the money.

Chongqing steamboat tml! Looking forward to the eating and chatting and eating and chatting and eating and chatting. haha, the thing girls do. Rather wordy entry but i'm too lazy to bring my camera ard nowadays so no pics! Oh and i sure got lotsa comments on my previous entry in chinese. My dear friends, cannot neglect chinese lar aiyo ! I just think that somethings are better expressed that way. So meanwhile u guys have to suffer lols. But that's once in a blue blue moon lar.

Will be busy working next week, so doubt i'll be updating often, but when i do i'll make sure to share interesting stuff at work ! Enjoy ur hols people, earn lotsa money and have lotsa fun ;)

最重要的小事

2008-05-11T02:40:00.002+08:00

最近，发现有男朋友的朋友，特别难约。仔细想想，那时有男朋友在身边的我，可能也是这样吧。可能恋爱中的男女，往往都不会查觉到他们有时无意间会把对方排在第一位，而把朋友给冷落了。我并不觉得那是对或错的，因为那使终是个人的选择。

那天，她们问了我一个问题。这个问题我也有想过。她们问我，当他回来以后，会不会就把她们扔到一边去。必竟这个学段，我与她们相处的时间真的比以往多出很多。我想了想，终于回答了她们。我说，当他回来以后，我会花时间陪他，但是我一定不会冷落她们。

因为，这段日子让我深深地体会到朋友对我的重要。不是我从来没有觉得她们重要过，而是现在的我看得更清楚些。谁对我好，谁为我做了什么，谁真正关心过我，我都看得一清二楚。所以对我来说，朋友和男友，一样重要。缺一不可。（当然还包括我的家人啦。）

可能这是一种考验吧。对自己，对爱情，对友谊的一种考验。我觉得自己是幸福的。身旁都有爱护我，关心我的人。谢谢你们一直都在。时间真得过得很快，一转眼，都已经踏入5月了，我们也都考完试，在放假了。

在过多一个月十天，他就会回到我身边。好希望能尽快看见他，但却不想时间过得那么快。今年的5月12号将是我们在一起的第4年。没法一起庆祝，确实有点可惜。但想必最重要的还是我们心里有彼此，就好了。

漫长的假期，也不知该如何过才算精彩。朋友们不是在实习，就是在工作。幸运的，则在国外逍遥快活。总觉得没利用这假期来实习有点不踏实，可是能到香港留学，可是多难得的机会啊！6个星期也好！一生一次喔。自己也说过不能让大学生涯流白，所以更要牢牢的把握这个机会，好好见一见世面。

考完试真好。可以随心所欲地去做任何自己想做的事。星期五才刚烘了个起司蛋糕，那是送给妈妈的母亲节礼物! 不是从蛋糕店买的，而是亲手做的，多有成就感啊。这才叫做充满爱心与心意的礼物嘛。

味道是不错啦，可是我相信我能做得更好！就趁这难得的假期多练习练习吧！欢迎任何朋友来当我的guinea pig…哈哈哈，我不会亏待你们的啦！

I should be happy.

2008-05-07T17:56:00.008+08:00

One more paper. One more day.

I should be happy, but i'm not really sure if i'm looking forward to summer.

I don't seem to have much specific plans in mind, other than the CUHK Summer sch towards the end. Planning for it can't take a whole 1 and a half months right ??

Duh. I think i need a job. or something. to keep myself occupied. suddenly can't stand the thought of just doing NOTHING at all. no goals, no nothing.

Strange that i'm not particularly excited about ending this sem. hmm. I don't seem to want a break.

Anyway, pics of huiyun's belated 21st mini bdae surprise at marmalade pantry and bethes' 21st birthday party !

Day out hunting birthday presents for the two girls!

Got a Titus watch and Casio Baby G from city chain. Pretty things they were. =)

At Marmalade Pantry ! Yummy Brownie Cheesecake.

Bethes looked so pretty that night =)

It's gonna be the start of the long long summer holidays again...

The more i learn the more i love

2008-05-04T01:13:00.005+08:00

Sometime ago,

Me: I told you i would make plans for myself.

Him: I told you i'll make plans for us.

Seriously, i was caught speechless at that point in time.

Anyway thanks for making my afternoon (and night) love ! Although somebody got his ass kicked, eyed by the prof cos he's smiling at his laptop screen too much during class...and 'kindda like' the most unexpected things about a silly girl. a little whiny and mildly drunk ? ;) And laugh so hysterically that his roommate came over to check on him. HAHA.

'Cause every time I see your bubbly face,

I get the tingles in a silly place.

It starts in my toes,

And I crinkle my nose.

Wherever it goes I'll always know,

That you make me smile.

Please stay for a while now.

Just take your time,

Wherever you go.

It starts in my soul,

And I lose all control.

When you kiss my nose,

The feeling shows.

'Cause you make me smile.

Baby just take your time now,

Holding me tight.

Wherever, wherever, wherever you go.

Wherever you go,

Always know,

'Cause you make me smile even just for a while.

Live.Laugh.Love.

2008-04-30T00:20:00.003+08:00

This is something i took off the super wall on facebook...some of the rare things that is not spam and actually makes you stop to read. and think.

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

It's true. Or at least, some parts of it. So be happy, just be.

Mugging episodes

2008-04-27T22:24:00.006+08:00

One day while mugging with lix and sm, preparing to go for lunch...

Episode 1

Me: *looks at siewmay's slippers*
Me: Where you get ur slippers from one arh ?
Lix: NUS biz fac.
Me: ?? *turns to look at lix* ehh ?
Me: err. i not asking you leh.
Lix: O_o *turns red*
Me and Sm: HAHAHAHAHA
Lix: Grrrrrrrrrr >.< So paiseh. Aiya a lot of ppl also ask me mah...

Haha paiseh Lix ! ~~why so u BHB?~~ for misleading u haha. ur slippers is also nice lar lols.

Episode 2

Mugging and having our usual tuna sandwich dinner,

Me: *Cutting the sandwich and accidentally 'cut' the plate*
Lix: *Turns to look* aiyo what you doing ??
Me: Ge4 dao4. *and cont eating*
Lix: WAHAHAHAHAHA...ge dao LOLS
Me: *started laughing cos see lix laugh v funny* yar ge dao mah...v funny meh ? hahaha
Lix: Ha..ha..HAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
Lix and me then laugh and laugh until we had tears in our eyes and had to wipe away.

See what mugging does to you?

Tsk tsk tsk...

OH and eat more cancer-causing chips !!! =P (This is for u lix)

The prettiest gold box

2008-04-25T22:28:00.008+08:00

Look what arrived in my mailbox today.

A box-ful of love

Just when i need it most.

Although most of them melted in the box (so i cldn't really take a picture of what's inside. i think the heat killed them), i managed to save one of the rare few that survived.

So sweet.

I felt ur love, from thousands of miles away...

Dreaming of summer

2008-04-24T00:39:00.006+08:00

Right. So it's the mugging period now.

And i also realised there's WAY too many photos on my blog. So no more ! Until the exams has ended. (Nothing to take pictures of except piles of txtbks, notes and empty coffee cans anyway)

Strange that i'm not feeling as stressed as this sem. Although i have been staying up till 5am almost every night and waking up in the morning to go to the lib at 10+. But what's new, really.

Maybe it's the bf-less sem haha. So i'm always ALWAYS free to go out/do other things/mug during the weekends. Maybe it's the commitment-less sem. So there's no work, no group activities, no nothing. Good and bad in a sense. If i'd wished for a breather this sem, i think i've got it. =)

So yes, I think i'll be up and ready for more action come next sem.

Plans for the exciting summer. (AKA things to look forward to, motivation !!!)

- Learn photoshop, dreamweaver and indesign (so ambitious. is this EVEN possible?) in preparation for nm2208 and nm3217 next sem.

- Learn some basic cantonese, so won't get cheated in Hong Kong. =P

- Do really temp job, to earn some quick bucks.

- Make plans for travelling/shopping/touring for cuhk summer sch !!! =DDDDDDD

Ok and i'm here becos i jus realised there's 2 less chaps to mug for nm2102. yay ! More updates when i feel like it haha.

Happy Happy 21st

2008-04-18T20:04:00.043+08:00

Hello all ! This is one SUPER late entry...sorry to ppl who have been waiting hehe =P And photobucket slideshow doesn't work lar, lousy. So i painstakingly uploaded all the photos ONE by ONE okie haha, must appreciate hor. Ok lar kidding, this is a tribute to ALL the lovely lovely people ard me who planned surprises/had dinners together and made me v v happy indeed. Thank youuuuuuuuuuu for making my 21st a special one =)

Went out with yee the earliest but we didn't take any pics !! We had a really filling buffet at Suki Sushi and caught Sky of love. Thanks for the treat ;) and of cos the pressies ! Now we're as old aldry, can go catch some R21 movies heh.

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The used-to-be SGGA girls

Cindyyyyyy

Robbieeeee

Eileeeeeeen

Darrennnnnn

Gorgeous flowers, i love them so !

F21 gift vouchers for more SHOPPING !

All of us but chris' missing !

Anyway this is us at Thai express ! Many many thanks to cindy eileen robbie darren (and chris who is not here!) =) Been sometime since we met up and it was pretty fun chatting over dinner. Haha i'm of legal age now ok ? So my comment counts lols.

Thanks for the pretty PRETTY flowers (that my friends kept thinking is from my boy in switzerland haha) and i can't bear to throw them away even though they've kindda withered. =( and for 'encouraging me' to spend more at Forever21 huh lols...But then i don't mind cos it's one of my favourite store.

Meet up again after exams! Although all of you are graduating soon and then i won't be able to see you guys in sch anymore sigh. Haha if only we're all doing the same internship again...
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Yummy dinner at Kenny Rogers' =D

Meihui, Sihui and meeeee

Haha obviously this picture is not taken on the same day cos pw cldn't join us that day ! So only met her when the aj clique met =) Another bouquet of flowers !

These are really special and LONG-LASTING. haha ok lar, cos every flower represents a month and there is a date on every petals. and BEHIND every petals there's something to do for the day. So cute right !

And the swarovski crystal bracelet with a piggy !

It's been quite sometime since we've met up...and seems like quite a lot has happened to meihui. Just hope that she will be happy and strong. Planned to go kayaking with sihui oso one, but in the end was called off cos the Jurong lake is closed. Sian. Nvm think we'll go cycling after the exams ! i miss our reserviour days...and 'carefree' RV life.

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Teehee and this is SURPRISE No.1 on the day of my birthday. Ok actually i'm had a long day in sch on that day and the weather is super gloomy, rainy and cold. I keep thinking i should be somewhere else, and not in sch. So i guess my expression for the whole day was ._.

BUT BUT BUT...

NEVER did i expect such a pleasant surprise to be waiting for me half way through the gem lec =D ! I was like OMG and super shocked when i stepped out of megabites into the canteen and saw lin and lix at one of the tables with a special setup !

hahaha den i just like stopped there and gawked. and started grinning like a silly idiot. and laughing. SO SWEET lar you girls, came up with excuses to pon lec and actually went out of the way to buy my favourite food !

Here's a closer look:

BEN & JERRY'S =D

My favourite ice cream

ROYCE =DD
My favourite chocolate.

If i were to put a caption on this pic,

it will go "Hmmmm yumyum...all my favourite food heehee."

There was honey mustard pretzels and banana choc cake from Secret Recipe too ! *drools*

Come i feed you !

i look evil here hor? Why arh?
=P

So touched.

I want to cry lor, but paiseh lar haha.

BIG big hugs to my dearest girls.

Thank you =)

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And this is what is waiting for me at home !

Tiramisu cake from family !

In case you were wondering, no i'm NOT 36.

Still young ok, forever21 haha.

The left half is mine, the right half's my bro =)

Our birthdays are just one day apart.

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Surprise No. 2 - Birthday by the Esplanade

Delicious baked rice at NYDC !

Probably/maybe the only thing you should try there haha, based on reviews.

I look like some food host heh.

Our grp pic !

Thanks arh li, rest on my ah-hem still dare to smile until so plastic.

Anyway, after dinner huimin and siewmay claimed they had to leave earlier and i totally didn't suspect anything lar. Do you call that becoming blurer when you grow older? Haha. Then we went to change the havannas they've got me cos fickle-minded me can't make up my mind. And we soon head off to esplanade !

I am really super blur lar. Cos we were walking along the dark stretch of road with this noisy concert in the background and i was like looking looking on...and i noticed this area that's lit by candle light. Didn't really think much abt it and maybe tot somebody else celebrating bdae? THEN i saw siewmay and huimin faces ! hahaha then i was like OMG again...my dear friends arh, always like to use this method LOLS. but i like =D !

And the cake is SO pretty, love it.

Oh and it's yummy too !

Making a wish.

I look secretly pleased. teehee.

Happy girl

Undressing the cake

Anyway, we moved to esplanade rooftop, shared the cake and had silly fun + camwhore =)

I am a good photographer.

I am a good photographer. x 2

I love this red beanie u guys got me ! It's super comfty haha, can nua on it.

Finally, a beanie i can call my own.

And the HUGE adorable card.

Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu all =D !

Ta-dah !

Heehee still got somebody complain the picture ugly.

But ok mah, those were the days back in jc...

Even my dar dar in China managed to chup in her part through huimin haha !

The ladybug is the pair of havannas i took so long to choose =P

And the nike one is the pair my bro got me.

Haha wad's up with 21st and slippers?

I think maybe i'm a very slipper person lols. comfty mah.

Hugs to li !

Thanks for meeting me at aljunied and helping me to carry the beanie =)

Although i made u throw face at NUM HAHAHA. nvm lar hor? lols.

Anyway it looks like i'm gonna carry li up in the pic.

Hugs to peiwen !

Such a sweet sweet hug, but we both look pregnant. =P

Haha this is cute ! Cos siewmay is caught unaware !

See the look of glee on my face ?

ok lar v silly, but fun. =D

Love her new hairstyle, sophiscated !

With huimin !

I think we're supposed to look like we're dancing hahaha.

but huimin look v xin ku hehe, i think it must be my heels.

With bethes who is TALLER than me...cos she's standing on the ledge.

haha den i was like laughing and laughing when we posed for a pic and i touched something i shldn't have touched. Shhhhhhhhhh =P

Declared the Chio-est jumping pic

The happiest jumping pic =D ! Yay !

I HAVE to put this up cos it's hilarious.

The funniest jumping pic.

A BIG thank you to you girls. Really had a lot of fun that night =D And the beanie has been put to good use haha, though mugging on it is very, very sleep-inducing. Pity that the rest is not here, so we're not complete ! Ahhhhhhh more 21st among us soon !

Must also thank all friends who rmbed and send me birthday wishes, both sms and msn =) And my dear dear boy of cos, who spent $20 calling me for 5 mins, and got laughed at by his friends somemore. That's the sweetest (and most expensive) birthday song i have ever gotten. Love you, baby. Can't wait to see what'll arrive in my mail *winks*

Today's the last day of sch, hectic but at least all the projects, assignments and presentation stuff are over. So it's time for some mad mugging ! Endless night with books and junk food. and DARK eyecircles. Good luck to everybody, study hard !

twenty-one

2008-04-10T03:09:00.004+08:00

Many many MANY thanks to you lovely people(you know who you are) for making my birthday such a special day. the pre-birthday and the day itself. and all the msgs of well wishes.

I feel loved =)

A bdae post coming up soon. Although i didn't throw a big party or something, i guess sometimes it's really having people close to ur heart that matters.

And I don't need a party to know that.

Becos i miss you

2008-04-09T23:48:00.030+08:00

Becos i miss our saturdays together

Becos i miss the time we spent on cruise

Becos i miss our nua-nua sessions together

Becos i miss the dinners after sch

Becos i miss our KL trip

Becos i miss seeing you first thing in the morning

Becos i miss having you make me laugh

Becos i miss your hugs and kisses

Becos i miss celebrating your birthday

Becos i miss having you celebrate mine

Becos i miss movies with you(and falling alsp on your shoulder)

Becos i miss sharing good food with you

Becos i miss having you to hold my hand

Becos i miss doing silly things with you

Becos i miss not doing anything with you

Becos i miss falling asleep in your arms

Becos i miss you, that's why.

Why oh why

2008-03-31T23:21:00.003+08:00

Why do i have no motivation to do work at all.

All i want to do is to youtube/go out/have fun/play/bake

Why do work exist even.

Bahhhhh.

I want to fly to hong kong aldry.
~~just leave everything behind, and go.~~

And today i received something from Paris/Nice.

10 years down the road...is that a promise from you, love ?

Such an irony

2008-03-29T02:02:00.002+08:00

...that i'm playing such different roles in different project groups.
Some people are starting to turn me off. seriously.

Bread feast at Cartel

2008-03-27T03:18:00.014+08:00

Bread. glorious bread.

Glutton 1, Glutton 2

This is how GLEE looks like.

Glutton 3, Glutton 4

HKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHK !!!

Cheh why the cheesecake only come when we ordered the other cakes ?

bleah. =P

Anyway, we were supposed to go cartel after our tues 9pm lec(which ALWAYS end early) to snatch the after 9pm half priced cakes before they're gone. BUT, we end up eating so much more bread. We had like 4 baskets of bread with whatever sauce u can think of(butter and curry mayonnaise rocks), 2 slices of cakes ONLY and 1 basket of fried snacks.

Total Bill? You wouldn't believe your eyes. We had student discount even!

$10.70.

HAHAHA. can't help but love cartel sometimes, huh?

And this is my pretty laptop with a new skin !

The colours cheers me up =)

It's official

2008-03-26T01:37:00.002+08:00

We are going to HONG KONG for Summer School !!!

I'm so happy for you.
I'm so happy for us.

=D

This is going to be one exciting summer.

Baking, Drinking & Painting

2008-03-24T23:37:00.022+08:00

What a fulfilling good friday. *Looks at the title above* heh =) Way better than mugging right.

The ONLY decent pic of us taken.

Baking day = pretty pics of food, no pretty pics of us haha

And here we go !

Cooking the chunks of fuji apple with sugar and cinnamon sticks
Seriously, it's my first time cooking apples.

Making the crust

Before we threw all the crumbs on top and put it in the oven

Apple Crumble done =D !

Coating the cups with butter and cocoa powder

Beating the choc mixture
Btw, we used Cadbury DARK choc with 70% cocoa.

And threw the whole bar in.

can imagine how RICH it is.

Choc fondants fresh out of the oven =D !

The middle part looks kindda funny becos...

They're supposed to ooooooooooooozzzzzzeeeeeee choc when u cut the small cake open !!

The sweet taste of success. is indescribable. =)

*give ourselves a pat on the back for succeeding on the first try* hehe

Yay ! Waking up early is TOTALLY worth it.

And errrrr, to celebrate our success...
we had some drinks hahaha

Ok fine that was just an excuse to drink =P

And lix oso did pretty nails for me ! Happy =)))))

We must do this sometime again !

You girls should really join us lar...

Anyway, baking makes me really really happy lols. can get high one HAHAHA.

2008-03-21T02:39:00.002+08:00

Something arrived by post today, from vienna. =)

Come tomorrow, we'll be baking again.

Watch this space !

Off we go to the museum !

2008-03-19T20:03:00.023+08:00

Okae, this is late too, but better late than never right ;) ?

Our highlight of the day

The National Museum of Singapore

We were happy, happy girls.
cos we were given complimentary passes to all galleries !
becos it was international women's day! what a nice surprise =)

Angels?

The long, dim artsy corridor.
Filled with phrases and random displays.

Beautiful lights swinging.
Managed to catch them in motion.

Beautiful backdrop.

Fat legs. =P

Always thought the museum to be a dodgy, old place with musky smell and all.

But was proven very, VERY wrong.

Everything was very modern there, and i love the design of the place.

We were also given this electronic companion to illustrate to us things in the Singapore history galleries. woah. though admitedly we didn't use it much after a while heh.

Fashion section

One of the first few sights that greeted our eyes --- pompom dresses !

Listening to really retro music. cool.

i.must.open.my.eyes.big.big. HAHAHA.

The red light district. Literally.

Hehe, come on in...

Okae lar, we were at the theatre and film section.

i forgot what these are called, but they look like pretty parcels to me.

The food section made us both hungrrrrrrrrry.

See those little funnel things sticking out?

It's really interesting cos you can just pull a ring at the bottom and the smell of something will be emitted through the funnel. ur supposed to put ur nose there haha.

We passed by SMU animals' day too !

Though all we see are dogs of different shape and sizes...

we even saw them in clothings !

Really adorable.

But then they drooled all over the place lols.

Now, this one really tickled me.

hahaha so funny lar. dog in dress. got lace somemore leh, dun play play =P

New york New york

2008-03-19T16:05:00.013+08:00

Finally been to New york new york after passing by the place everytime we walk through citylink. Celebrate Wen's belated birthday ! Simple (Read: Sinful) dinner we had there, and we got purple cotton candy haha. I love cotton candy. I'm such a kid lar.

Ok i think i look better with long hair, ehh ?

Ussssssssss

Gold, gold hair

Cotton candy delight!

The person asked if we wanna try making it and lin was first up.

Hers got stuck in the middle. HAHAHA.

so in the end, he got the cotton candy expert to make for us lols.

The food was good, some of them actually haha. The mushroom cappuccino turned out to be quite a lovely, yummy surprise. definitely worth a try, though it wld be better if you share it with someone else. We had, on top of that, buffalo wings, seafood pizza, spagetti with giant meatballs and chicken thigh.

Gave wen a lil surprise and she was genuinely surprised lols. Hope it made her day ! Love ya girl =) Must rmb to take care even when ur sooooooooooooooooo busy with work okae ?

Ooh and the choc chip cookies i baked a week ago.

True to the recipe, they were big, fat and chewy (albeit kindda flat)

Made 22 cookies, and everyone who tried gave me thumbs up =) !

Happy haha, must thank my family for taking turns to help me beat the mixture together too lols. Gonna make cheesecake next if i have time ! Strawberry, oreo, chocolate or the plain old one? too many options haha...

What a rainy, rainy day.

Really good for curling up in bed and sleeping in.

2008-03-17T02:57:00.003+08:00

As it turned out, it was a stupid STUPID mistake.

对不起，我爱你。

i finally understand now.

Bittersweet

2008-03-14T02:24:00.008+08:00

From Postsecret.com

Peach vodka from the bottle actually taste kindda good.
Tint of sweetness, though it burns.
Drinking at this hour, makes me wonder how i'll get up for my 9am class tml.
But what the hell, as long as it makes me sleep.

Honestly, i really really do...

What more can i ask for ?

2008-03-10T02:58:00.005+08:00

I had fun this weekend. Enjoyed myself for 2 whole days so i guess i'm quite recharged by now ! these are what i have done:

Saturday ! Went to s'pore museum to check out the Greek masterpieces from the Louvre (we are so lucky cos it happened to be international women day(i think) and we had a complimentary pass each to all galleries !) Had fun exploring the place. heh, actually i think it might be the first time i've been to the s'pore museum lols.

Passed by SMU and we saw this bunch of cute dogs cos it was animal day haha. Super duper cute and funny cos some of those smaller dogs were dressed in clothes like tops and dresses, then they had the bigger dogs play frisbee too.

Then it was on to plaza sing, lime fleamarket and bugis for some shopping ! Got some great bargains ;) and we subwayed for lunch and soup spooned for dinner....Yummmmmmmy. All in all a niccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccce day, just that towards the end somebody had to spoil it =P

Sunday ! Was a super nua day and i just slept in till super late...but it was raining hehe. So all the better for sleeping in lols. Finally woke up, slacked and had a scrumptious dinner at a restaurant with my family and relatives later on.

And then i baked my big fat chewy chocolate chips cookies yay ! They were crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside, though they spread abit too much. But happy heh ! And i got to webcam with my boy after a whole week. =)

I'm one really happy girl now.

Photos to be up later ! Cos i really need to go prepare abit for my proj meeting tml =P

The 5am nights and (non-existent) 8am mornings.

2008-03-08T00:27:00.008+08:00

Ok having 3 midterm tests, 1 project and 1 term paper due during one week is no joke. It's not fun to sleep at 5am and set the hp alarm clock at 8am. Just to jolt awake, LATE with the hp ending up somewhere on the bed. And that is without realising that u have turned the alarm off and went back to bed (most of the time.)

I seriously dunnoe how i got through it lar, but i'm done with them so i don't really care anymore. So, i declare tonight the work free night. will absolutely refuse to do any work or even talk about it. =)

Anyway i realised Galilee's spaghetti and tuna sandwich are my so called mugging food. Since i prefer to mug at the je lib most of the time, they're kindda like my only source of convenient food. But their promotion are over, so. yar. anyway no more intensive mugging for the time being.

This is kindda abrupt but i jus wanna thank all my girlies who have been giving me advice and support when i'm emo and stuff. I really appreciate it *hugs*

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亲爱的，我们已经好久好久没有见面了。但是，我很庆幸因为你每天都会传短讯或打电话给我。至少我知道你有想着我，至少我知道你心里一直有我。没有你在我身旁的日子，我学会了照顾自己。我也会学着一天比一天坚强。

亲爱的，在那边冷了要多穿件衣服，累了要多休息，也别把自己给饿坏了。有空时，就多想想我。别为我担心，因为我答应你，我会好好的。

亲爱的，我期待着，你回到我身边的那一天。
不为什么，只因为我一直都想着你，爱着你。

Just for fun

2008-03-02T14:15:00.021+08:00

Am far too lazy to go into details =P Afterall these are super outdated photos from err last, LAST week? That's like 2 weeks ago. Haha warning: many, many, MANY silly pictures.

Caffeine fix !

Love this pic.

Enjoying our $2 Gloria Jean's coffee. Nice =)

My sweet model

Purple. Green. Black.

Dinner at Billy Bombers!

Retrolicious

i.can't.finish.my.food.

Their servings are humongous !

All together

The Mandatory toilet shot.

Anyway this was after Kbox heh.

Too high !!!

OhhhhHHHHH ?

Sweeeeeeeet.

Anyway dar's aldry in China on exchange,

Hope she's having fun !

Cross eyed.

Tu Bo Shu !!!!!!

Super identical to raine yang lar !

Porridge buffet at Quality Hotel. What a hotel name lols.

Reunion dinner style haha.

At the hotel lobby.

Teehee, charlie chaplin. (private joke)

who am i kidding

2008-03-01T21:23:00.003+08:00

It really sucks when you've feeling sick and tired and stressed, need a shoulder to lie on and you turn to an empty seat beside you. and knowing that nobody's coming to meet you for dinner. nobody to accompany you home, to kiss you goodbye on the forehead and tell you how he looks forward to seeing you again.

表现得再坚强，也会有脆弱的时候。

P.S. I Love You

2008-02-27T22:57:00.004+08:00

And so, we finally caught the movie. I have to admit it's good. Love movies that makes you laugh and cry, then laugh and cry again. No overkill with the teary scenes.

I cried a bit.
Li turned to me (15mins-30mins?) into the show and told me she's gonna cry.
Lin cried like shit.

'nuff said. Any movie that can even remotely make me tear shld be very touching for most lar. Afterall i watched Windstruck with my boy and we hardly felt a thing. ok lar, got lar but not till the extent of bawling our eyes out.

The scene when she ran to her mother, upon sudden realisation that she really, no longer have her husband by her side anymore, did me in. The way she cried 'I'm all alone..." is SUPER DUPER heartbreaking lar. And i have to quote what her mum said.

Patricia: I bet you've had a hard time walking into a room full of people on your own, right? Yeah. I know that. I know what it is not to feel like your in the room until he looks at you or touches your hand or even makes a joke at your expense, just to let everyone know... you're with him. You're his.

Patricia: So now, alone or not, you've got a walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.

It's all worth our $6(student price yay!), i wld say. A tad late in catching this, but we still did. I'm glad we did.

And i so wanna bake my big fat chewy chocolate chip cookies, if not for the fact that there's aldry not enough time to study. Spare time, anybody? I need a few days' worth of it...

I think i forgot to mention how lix and me ran all over the sch (8 freaking places) just to get some of our summer sch things sorted out on monday, and we met with all kindda obstacles you can imagine. After having a hard time finding where IRO is...

We had to arrive at 1.05pm at university hall to enquire abt our transcript WHEN lunch hour is between 1pm-2pm. While waiting we had lunch at Spinelli, it was good but expensive though! Lady then having us leave our contacts so she'll call us back regarding the transcript.(Which i doubt she will but it doesn't matter cos we've aldry applied for it online. duhx.)

And then there are things like oh we cannot tell you whether this module can be mapped over until it's been allocated to you. (??! Then what's the point??)

Soci lecturer is on leave, so we have to email him to ask question. Then we also realised we cannot map canto, which means we can't map or do any credit transfer at all cos we can only take up to a max of 2 mods(worth 3mc each) =(

BUT it's ok, everything will be fine, if we get it. *prays very hard*

P.S. I love you

P.P.S. Must remember to smile for me !

but i don't want to spend my life like this.

2008-02-23T03:50:00.003+08:00

*Lola* says:
haha i think i'm innately social, yet anti-social at the same time
*Lola* says:
i resent big, noisy, crazy grp
*Lola* says:
though sometimes i like being part of them
*Lola* says:
i like have a few close friends
*Lola* says:
but sometimes i feel like my social circle is too small
*Lola* says:
then when i start to get to noe more ppl
*Lola* says:
den i realise that only few are really close to my heart, so i dunnoe why i'm trying so hard
*Lola* says:
then, i jus stop trying.
★£ixin says:
same here.. tat's y i always say i give up trying to make new frens
★£ixin says:
i would always choose the old frens i have in the end and i feel tat im satisfied
*Lola* says:
like u can really be urself then right?
★£ixin says:
sometimes i wonder if is it cos im not giving ppl chance so tat i can be good frens with the new ppl too.. cos i always jus feel tat we cannot click
★£ixin says:
yeah.. be myself, being comfortable
★£ixin says:
when im with new frens, i always look forward to being with my closer frens in the end.. haha
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★£ixin says:
i guess it's jus the way we lead our lives.. we were brought up in simple families
★£ixin says:
and socialised over the yrs to become the kind of person we are today
★£ixin says:
not those super adventurous, super outgoing etc.. and i guess tat's y we always prefer our comfort zone
*Lola* says:
but i dunwan to spend my life like this. it's so...predictable. and un-exciting, in a sense. i have tried, to take up challenges and go for opportunites, but somehow i feel like i go a big round just to end up at the same spot. or like, 1 step ahead.

just another bout of 'i'm-emo-and-thinking-about-my-pathetic-life' night.
But i really do hope we can go for summer sch together. i wonder how living away from home will be like. i wonder how does it feel like to take charge of my own life.
cos so many many things that i do, are aldry planned out nicely and properly for me.

So...yup i guess it's time to take another step out.

I think i am mad

2008-02-21T03:09:00.007+08:00

...because i spent my time baking instead of mugging. Was browsing through allrecipes.com this afternoon and got sucked in accidentally. Then i knew i cldn't get out of it cos i was hit by a v strong urge to bake, AGAIN.

Seriously, if recipes are my readings and baking are the exams, i'll make sure i pass with flying colours. Yup, at the rate i'm poring over recipes. i must have seen some hundreds todae lols.

Anyway, this is what i have come up with

Yeah, i know it's not the prettiest sight with them looking brown and out of shape,

BUT take a look on the inside !

Banana muffins with choc chips ! They taste great warm. Love the oozing choc...

Banana muffins with walnut !

Added a bit of personal touch to the recipe cos i thought it was a lil plain. and they turned out great ! Wished i threw in more choc chips though. Melting choc chips so totally do the trick.

It's a pity i cldn't have them golden brown. But they turned golden brown too quickly ! And i had to wait for them to be thoroughly cooked, so by that time they have aldry turned brown =(

Then they end up looking more like chocolate muffins than banana muffins haha. But they taste quite good, cos it was kindda crispy on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside ! It was a nice surprise, cos they were not dry like the premix cake i made the first time. Another one from scratch ! Oh and do visit allrecipes.com, they do have some wonderful stuff in there.

I give myself 7.5/10 hahaha =)

Anyway i think i nearly drove my boy crazy today with the 'baking talk'. He can verify it lols. But i just feel so excited and happy each time i bake lar.

Sorry for tempting u though, and making u feel hungry =P But you must understand that I'm in the midst of perfecting my skills, for u ! hehehe, so bear with it first ok?

if i cld, i really wld have mail it over to u lols.

Of the people i love, to the people i love.

2008-02-17T15:58:00.059+08:00

Ok, i'm being really ambitious here. There are 51 photos...so bear with me ! haha. I think i'm obsessesed with my new cam. but it's great for capturing memories =)

The girl i'm secretly in love with.

Thank you.
There's a lot captured within these two simple words, but i guess u understand.

Al-natural

On the train!

This photo super got 'feel' lor, don't you think ?

But lix was a great model too ;)

We were at the bus interchange.

My get-up for the day.
The belt forces me to eat less. hahaha.

Boring lec. but i forgot to act bored ! Opps.

They call me Rockstar.
I love tuesdays because of them.

Lunch at Xin Wang on eve of vdae!

Woots ! The lighting is so nice. i like.

Bestie.
Hope you like the Anna sui perfume + Dreamcatcher + Cookies !
Happy belated 21st birthday !

Dinner at Ramen ten...what a spread ;)

We spent a whole day shopping

...but in the end spend more on food than purchases LOLS.

And thanks for your thoughtful vdae gift,

That's a really sweet gesture.

But we did get our second pair of identical shoes !

They're really special...let me show you why heh.

They're pretty comfty.

i adore the gold buckle too...

but that is not the main point

Look! they have my name on it !

Lola. me. my shoes.

Valentine's day at The Marmalade Pantry.

It's an unforgettable night.

Here's my hot date. Jealous aldry hor ?
Stupid uncle in the background keep looking at us and spoil our pics. hmmph.

This is from my hot date.

For you to see baby, and in case you can't read it...

Pig on the left(supposed to be you): I love you darling ! Spend a nice night with pretty jiajia

Pig on the right(supposed to be me): Aww! I love you too! But i love my dardar more

HAHAHA. that was a good one.

I swear she was trying to look at me lovingly.

We both had no idea why it turned out MURDEROUS.

Aaaaahhh...this is much better.

Endearing.

Her grilled chicken and bacon club

We didn't know club meant sandwich. =P

My Risotto of Portebello with Aspararus of lemon zest.

Most of the item on their menu has super long name, for dunnoe what reason.

It was special, though i cldn't finish it.

Our Brownie cheesecake.

Really nice. 'nuff said.

Gosh i look pregnant here.

*Makes a mental note to self never to wear this top again if we're gonna take pictures.

Anyway, it has been a great night. She is so hilarious lar, totally make me laugh until pengz.

But yeah, we talked quite a lot about things. Must take care when you go for exchange ok ? I'll miss you, we'll all miss you ! and ur funny antics lols. Must rmb to use my scarf to keep yourself warm wor !

Oh but there's one thing i really don't understand. I don't get why some restaurant only serve the Vdae menu on Valentine's day itself and nothing else but the special and EXTRAVAGANT-CAN-MAKE-YOU-PUKE-BLOOD-AND-BURN-A-BIG-HOLE-IN-YOUR-POCKET set meal. I think it's just plain stupid lar. But well, i can see it from the business point of view too.

As a consumer though, i think it's just super unfair. V dae being v dae, was flooded with people. So when we reach holland v, we went from restaurant to restaurant cos they're all filled and have super long waiting list ! But that's fine cos it's a special occasion. But it's not fine to shut ppl out because you only serve one set meal so ppl have no choice. Bleargh.

But it's lucky that we ended up at The Marmalade Pantry. They have really good service, and i truly appreciate that. For i have worked in areas of customer service before and know how important that is in making the whole customer experience a fulfiling one. Thumbs up for Marmalade pantry ! Their cakes are really good too. I'll definitely go back again =)

Next up, sihui's 21st birthday party on saturday!

This is some last min pia-ing at the void deck near her block haha.

Pretty glittery stickers!

With the birthday girl at her house !

This is totally classic.

I love this shot lar.

Though we MADE her pose for it LOLS.

We came earlier to help her with the decorations

And...this is what we came up with ! Flowers made of balloons, pretty huh ;) ?

Aww...this is so sweeeeeeeeeeet.

Pose pose pose. hehehe.

And the four of us !

With shuhui !

ehh my eyes very small hor?

Next time must put eyeliner LOLS.

Then it was balloon-drawing time !

Time to show off our artistic talents haha

Mengni and Pearlyn with their pieces of art !

Haven't seen them for the longest time, so was pleasantly surprised when they turned up

Mengni arh...still as auntie. wahahhaha, but super funny lar she.

Peiwen with her super cute balloon.

Like person, like balloon sia.

And of cos, mine !

Hello ! I'm Lola =)

The buffet spread.

Food, glorious food !

We all had our fill and were happy people.

The Rvians.

Sigh, can't believe just a few years back,

we were all in nurse-y uniforms and sported short and unbelievably TOOT hairdos.

Those were the days. and I feel old already.

Times like these always make me feel like turning back the clock a few years.

The Adorable Birthday cake

It's in a lovely shade of baby blue, very very sweet.

Somebody commented it looks like those kindda baby man3 yue4 cake though! haha.

The Birthday girl opening her pile of presents, exciting !

This is part of the present we got her

A special candle light holder that has stars and the moon 'dancing' when it's lighted !

Really pretty, cos the patterns are always flickering and moving.

In addition to another unique lil box,

We also got her this 'Friends' photoframe =)

The photos are totally... hahaha man, to be honest some were hideous lar, but v funny when we look at them now. Most of them were taken back when we're young and innocent in RV hehe.

Thanks to peiwen for all the efforts !

Made our rushing ard on chu2 xi1 in a mad search for the presents all worthwhile !

Hope sihui loves all of them.

Her very own birthday troop.

It was a great party filled with laughter, food and company.

Happy 21st Birthday my dear girl and cheers to our 6 years of friendship!

Thanks for organising the party and having all of us there to share ur joy =)

I'm sure everybody enjoyed it tremenously.

And yay! I'm finally done. Think this took like 2hrs+ sia, but they're finally all up ! Now i can excuse myself from blogging for a while hahaha...until there's more pictures ! This is starting to like become my photo log lar. But it captures bits and pieces of my life, and of cos, the people i love. So, all's great. Till later !

Oh and they were giving out this magazine at the engine fac? The one which says 'Naked' and satisfaction guaranteed. I think some of the articles are quite worth a read. and i have to post this up cos i really like it.

"Because, when two people have sealed their commitment to each other, when they agreed to share their lives for better or worse, when their love doesn't depend on how amazing they look or how great they are in bed, then sex isn't just 'sex' anymore - it's making love."

So true.

2008-02-12T12:31:00.000+08:00

Sometimes When We Touch

You ask me if I love you
And I choke on my reply
I'd rather hurt you honestly
Than mislead you with a lie
And who am I to judge you
On what you say or do?
I'm only just beginning to see the real you

And sometimes when we touch
The honesty's too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Till we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

Romance and all its strategy
Leaves me battling with my pride
But through the insecurity
Some tenderness survives
I'm just another writer
Still trapped within my truth
A hesitant prize fighter
Still trapped within my youth

And sometimes when we touch
The honesty's too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Till we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

At times I'd like to break you
And drive you to your knees
At times I'd like to break through
And hold you endlessly

At times I understand you
And I know how hard you've tried
I've watched while love commands you
And I've watched love pass you by

At times I think we're drifters
Still searching for a friend
A brother or a sister
But then the passion flares again

And sometimes when we touch
The honesty's too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Till we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

Heard this song on robbie's blog. and it honestly, honestly made my heart ache. Some parts of it is just so apt..in describing my feelings. I hardly post lyrics on my blog, unless they mean something to me.

This is, for you, my love.
Happy 45th months together.

We've come a long way, but we still have a lot more to go. A lot more to understand abt each other, a lot more to just being together.

But you know i made you my choice forever too. So i will stick by you, no matter what happens.

Of big hearts and lil stars =)

2008-02-11T21:39:00.000+08:00

It's baking time again !

Phoon Huat is officially my best baking buddy.

Love that shop lar.

Dough. Flour. and my baking kaki, shilei =D

Thanks for your company...makes baking more fun haha.

Let's do this together again next time !

The Before

Check out my pretty white oven !

The During

And...The After !!!

Only now did i realise the importance of an electric mixer. The result of not having one = aching arms. and of stirring in ONE direction only. One batch was also burnt on the bottom cos we tried using the lower level.

But i love the immense satisfaction of watching the cookies turn golden brown in the oven. And the aroma of buttery goodness! Ok this is gonna make me sound like a kid but i had fun cutting out the cookies with the cookies cutter too lols.

Makes all the measuring, mixing, chilling, rolling and cutting all worth while. ~~Not the washing though =P~~ And also knowing that we made it all from scratch ! No more premix ! haha.

The cookies turned out ok lar, wldn't say it's superb cos it's abit hard and on the dry side. Wonder what i can do to make them more crispy and song1 ? I rate our cookies...7/10. We did great, but definitely can do better !

Bintannnnnnnnnnnnn

2008-02-09T21:20:00.000+08:00

Ok if ur one who dislike looking at greenery and stuff, you'll probably not enjoy this entry. But for the rest, yes, Bintan is not an awfully exciting place and neither have i brought back really interesting or fun pics.

It is, essentially a laidback, nice little hideout spot. Great for those who want to rest their tired feets (or hearts), and take a short peaceful break to recharge.

Really blue pool.

Took this pic cos i thought it's really cute.

The beach. reminds me of Redang.

One of my cousins, caught lazing in a hammock. heh.

It's amazing how the fallen coconut tree in the distance is being propped up by another broken trunk(?).

Them kids playing with the sand

This is, my favourit-est spot in the whole of Bintan.
Spent my happiest and saddest moments on it.

The view, taken lying on the hammock.

Narcissm at work. But i just love the feel of this photo.

One of the feet

Love this in black and white. Some pics just look better in black and white. Don't you think so?

The view, taken sitting on the hammock. I told you it's my favourite spot. It's almost like i can hide there and nobody would find me. So it's just me, myself and my thoughts. Love the sun, the strong breeze that never seem to cease, the blue sea, the white sand and being surrounded by all the greenery.

Our little balcony at the villa. I wanted to sit out there but never got to. Cos it's either too hot in the day or too dark at night haha. what a waste.

Hmm...Rip Curl ?

Anyway, this is Pasar Oleh-oleh. Lotsa souvenirs and handcraft shops ard. But business seems bleak. We had dinner here on the second night but it wasn't nice =( Dinner at the Kelong on the first night was fab.

A little something for my baby.

Wanna see what's inside? haha wait till you get it by snail mail... =P

And finally, a bottle of absolu peach at duty free. Now i can drink all i want.

I have never seen such a beautiful star lit night sky before.

It took my breath away.

Although i was bored most of the time during the trip,

Bintan is amazing for some of its simplest things.

Not quite the same

2008-02-07T02:29:00.000+08:00

This year's new year, will not be quite the same as those in the past years. No visting relatives' place, no collecting of angbaos, no gorging on new year goodies(except those at home)...cos we're going to Bintan ! Little getaway with the family =)

Gonna board the super early 8+am ferry cos all the other better timings were aldry taken. That leaves me with a few hrs of sleep before we set off...hope it'll be all sunny and nice there. Will take lotsa pics to share.

Oh and those crazy pics we took in the lt after the gem lec, i'll upload and send them to u gals when i get back ok ?

Really missing you. Still not used to u being so far, far away from me. Keep the calls and msgs coming okie. They're so important to me.

Yup, and a very happy Chinese New Year to all you people ! Have fun !

One of the things i got better at

2008-02-04T16:21:00.001+08:00

Did i ever mention how i love going through my past entries and reliving the memories? Well if i haven't, i think i really do. I'm glad i have been blogging things down, so even if i've forgotten somethings in my life, i can still browse through the archive.

Have a couple of dates, events up this week and the next. Happy to have things to look forward to, instead of mugging and guess it helps to take my mind off some things too. Am going to look for work, so if u guys got any lobang pls let me know !

I feel like drinking though. The last time i drank was at my boy's house, when we finished a whole bottle of dessert wine. Sweet and fizzy with a hint of alcohol. Reckon i drank more than him but doesn't matter since the alcoholic content is not that high.

Psy lec at 6pm. It's chore to drag myself to sch for a stupid evening lecture. Especially when i don't even bother to read past the first chapter of the textbook.

It's funny how the more unoccupied i am, the less productive i am. Whereas when my schedule is all packed, i get things done much faster.

One of the things i got better at over the years, is wasting time. and procastinating.

Clean and uncluttered

2008-02-03T20:41:00.001+08:00

Happy with my new layout ! Seriously don't know why i spent so much time on my blog when i should be doing my readings, really. hmm there's still a problem with the header...everything will be good with photoshop !! But i don't have. Would any kind souls out there lend me plsssss?

Will be off to Bintan next week during CNY...first time out of Singapore during the new year, wonder how it'll be like. Hope there'll be some nice views so i can take pics and share with u guys. I'm expecting it to be something like Redang. Would be great if it's as nice.

This is a crap entry lar but i feel like there's too many photos on my blog right now so just plonk in one with words to balance it out hahaha. But finally, a personalised layout, i like.

Before we said goodbye...

2008-02-03T15:34:00.000+08:00

The best way to wake him up: snap lotsa pictures. with FLASH.

He's gonna kill me for putting this up.
but i'll put this up anyway cos he looks so cute, even when he's aslp.

It's blurred, but i don't really care.

This has got to be my favourit-est photo of the lot. Taken by my boy.

It's an amazingly beautiful shot.

He said red roses stands for passionate love.

Ring and Roses

At the airport

Goodbye, my love.

It's hard to do this without feeling sad all over again.

it's snowing !

2008-02-02T15:38:00.000+08:00

My boy just called me and told me that it's snowing at switzerland ! And they're going to build a snowman later. So cool lar ! I'm so jealous =P Told him must pack snow back for me haha...

Can't believe the weather is like so normal here and it's snowing over there. gosh, i wanna be there tooooooooooo.

We haven't webcamed yet, cos the internet connection is quite unstable over his side. So been using pfingo, the internet sms service and msging. At least we can hear each other's voice.

i wanna see snow too.

wish i was there.

When will they ever get it?

2008-01-30T00:02:00.000+08:00

There is this particular type of guys in uni that pisses me to no end.

The kind who ask you questions after question. Stupid questions at that. Call you every other day to still(ask you even more questions). Face-to-face, msn...you name it.

Pester you for lecture notes becos they miss out on i dunnoe, a single point? and they just dun give up. it doesn't get to them that you're tired of entertaining them.

Their one most important concern is their CAP score and it shows very obviously (ok maybe they didn't mean to but i can like TOTALLY imply that from their actions)

And WORST of all, try to act cool/funny/friendly with you. Oh wait, i forgot to mention that they often end up getting the highest grade or A+ for the module.

I'm done with being nice.

Happy, really.

2008-01-27T23:23:00.000+08:00

I'm here because i can't concentrate on my readings. albeit i am so laggin behind. sigh, nvm.

My boy brought me to outback for very, very delicious food (reminds me of the days in KL)

No, i'm not looking at the menu.

Cheese fries with bacon bits

Mushroooooooooms ! Love them.

The last mushroom...Mine ! Muahahaha

And we got our second pair of couple rings from Mintmark & Co. Stainless steel, not cheap.

Apparently it won't tarnish or get scratches as easily when compared to silver. And they're comfit fit rings, cos of the contours on the inner side. Simple design. We like.

We were both trying to pose with the ring, but he was better at it haha

Gonna get the engraving done tml, and oso going down to get my camera (which is a steal, though the colours are not ideal. Raspberry red, which looks like a funny shade of pink. Mocha brown, abit man hor? And silver. BORING silver.)

*Update: We have just got our engraving done, and it's just beautiful. Near perfect, i would say. Quite happy.

And just to highlight something,

This.is.the.best.ice.cream.in.the.world.

Despite the doubtful expression on my face, it still is. Trust me.

Anyway, made my way down to clementi sports hall in the morning to watch him complete in Fencing. First time in the near 4 years we've been together heh.

I'm really proud of him, My knight in white armour.

He won for me.

=)

my baking dream

2008-01-24T12:42:00.000+08:00

In the few days that i have not updated,

I got myself an oven (my baking dream),

got my hair dyed and highlighted (i wanted brown with blond streaks, but turn out more gold, so i look like a juvenile delinquent now. but it was CHEAP, considering my hair length),

and had chongqing ma la steamboat for the very last time (the price increase is ridiculous. $18 ?!).

Next up is my cam !! Eyeing this...

Fujifilm Finepix Z5fd

After i get this, i'm sure gonna be broke as hell. But actually my parents got me the oven and my boy paid quite a lot for my share of steamboat, so i only paid for doing my hair hehe.

Ok, it's off to sch for rp and lecture now !

P.S. i can't wait for saturday =)

Foodie day

2008-01-20T23:09:00.000+08:00

Had fun making sushi and double chocolate chip cookies todae =D They are yummmmyyyyyy ! Love those baking sessions with the girls...didn't take any pics though, ahh shld really get a camera otherwise i'm missing out on all those lil moments.

About 4 years back, we did this together for 4J class chalet too. Plain old fun, but just the way i like it. i'm sure we all do. =)

RP is so troublesome !! PL1101E better be worth it.

My lappy is finally ok, with ms office, happy =). Just that the internet connection seem a lil unstable at times.

Haven't got down to ANY readings yet...cos i'm in too much of a slack mood. Rather spend my free time doing some other stuff than to read the books/coursepack. Hopefully i get all my tutorial slots allocated ! What a headache, trying to coordinate with friends.

Actually i haven't got much to blog abt today, just to announce that we cooked ! hahaha i'm so bo liao.

Oh and we went for siewmay's 21st birthday dinner at her place, it was a simple affair but hope she enjoyed it ! We all contributed to getting her an ipod touch, which is SUPER expensive. And so we were all sitting ard, munching on food and discussing abt our own 21st.

Anyway, the theme was stripes. So we all went stripey !

Can somebody rich pls hold it at Kbox? hahaha i'm sure it'll be super fun. ~~and expensive~~ And more exciting themes ! hehe...2 more 21st in february ! Time to start presents-hunting.

grumpy. and thinking abt things.

2008-01-18T02:48:00.000+08:00

My newly reformated laptop refuses to connnect to the internet. and it's making me very VERY irritated. so much so that i ended up whining, complaining and screaming to my boy. tsk. when will i ever curb this bad habit?

So. I'm sitting right in front of my pc now. Honestly, i've have SO gotten used to my laptop that i don't really like the feeling of surfing net and doing my stuff using the ancient pc. But yeah, i have no choice.

Accompanied my boy to terminal 3 to send his bro off for exchange. T3 is big, spacious and nice in a stylish way. Although we all wonder what the big rotating flower is for, seems a lil out of place. His other bro tried to act the PI and sneak 'sweet' pics of us by catching us off guard. BUT. he forgot to put in the SD card. hahaha, funny lar that guy. Bring camera in the end cannot even take pictures.

And i'm just feeling...glad that you're not the one whose flying off that night. As the day of departure draws closer, it just seem kindda surreal that for the first time, we'll be apart from each other for such a long period of time.

Slowly but surely though, i'm coming to terms with it and u know, accepting how things are gonna be for the next 4 months plus. Now u know why i keep bringing the issue up from time to time --- it's my way of bracing myself up for it.

I don't see the need to pretend to be strong in front of you cos i'm not afraid to let you see how i really feel. Not like when i'm talking to some friends and i just shrug it off with a smile, or sigh and say 'it's ok'.

But, like i promised you, i won't tear when i send you off cos' i'm happy for you. cos' you're doing something you really want to. cos' i think i would have done the same thing too if i were u.

I'm really, really happy that we both took time off and spent quality and quantity time with each other during dec and jan. Every date seems like the first, cos it's so filled with laughter and silly fun and...love.

Hahaha i can go on forever, but those are meant only for your eyes, so i shall not.

Anyway, i meant to blog a lil abt the first week of sch, so let's get back on track heh. Actually, it's more like first 3 days of sch, cos i had my free day on wed. Just been rushing ard pretty much to get things done, laptop, textbks, coursepacks, lectures, bidding, balloting (in a few hrs' time), catching up...and i'm still up at this hour when i have to wake up early for my lec tml ! (Read: i.am.hopeless.)

Going for sm's 21st bdae celeb tml, the first to start off a whole series to come this year, exciting ! Looking forward to the weekend as well, more time with my boy and baking session with the girls, whee !

Time for bed too, so i can stop thinking.
Didn't know my mood can fluctuate so much within an entry. all jumbled up.

amazing.

A picture speaks a thousand words

2008-01-14T05:06:00.001+08:00

School is starting again.

This is quite apt, no ?

Let the vicious cycle begin.

Some things are better left unsaid

2008-01-11T20:22:00.000+08:00

I've been lazy lately, too lazy to blog.

But i've been busy with something. something, heh. I hope it turns out nice.

First attempt at making non-bake oreo cheesecake with hm and lix ! Pretty ok for our first try, just that it take very VERY long to set. Should be cos we substituted cream cheese with the spreadable version =P I like the oreo crust though ! But it's not easy to ground them into a fine powder mixture lar. They look like chawanmushi though hahaha. When i get a microwave + oven, i'll bake a proper one !

Celebrated mum's bdae on the very same day with an ice-cream cake from Swenson's, didn't noe they pack dry ice in together in the box, cool. Frozen delight =)

Emotional night at Acid bar. Dark rum, Vodka, I will survive, tears, phonecall, cab. You will survive girl, rmb we'll always be there for you, ok ? *hugs*

Caught Alvin and the Chipmunks and also National Treasure. Alvin was cute but a little too long and u'll think u're watching kids central in the cinema. National treasure was ok, actually i dun understand what's with those "It's very nice" comments abt it. It reminds me of the Da vinci code. I wanna catch Le Grand Chef !

Nice, cosy afternoon at Fosters'. We are back again, and tried out the Devonshire cream tea set. Real afternoon tea done the English style, with sandwiches, scones and banana walnut bread served with butter, home-made strawberry jam and cream.Coffee and earl grey tea.

Their scones are golden brown, crispy on the outside yet soft and buttery on the inside. Having butter melt on the warm scones and adding on some strawberry jam and cream, was like a taste of heaven.

The ambience was great. It feel absolutely soothing to be immersed in dim orange lights, with comfty couches to sink into. Sipping on tea, nibbling on delicious fragrant scones and chatting a lil. Very, very nice. I just wished i could mute the chatter over the long table beside us though. It shall be our new hideout.

Got this picture off the net, pretty close to how it looks but i think the one my boy took was better. Need to get it from him first though, so can make do with this in the meanwhile !

Met up with yee after a looooooooooooong while, cos she's finally back from India. We settled down at NYDC and she shared photos and her experience, sounds really enriching. And some things...that are better left unsaid. heh heh. Got lotsa gifts from her and i really like the soft blue shawl. Thanks girl ! And jiayou for the next sem yeah and hope we can meet up more often.

My first time at NYDC actually, and i have to say that i'm quite impressed with their food. We had hot chocolate earlier and it was deliciously rich and chocolately, served in a tall glass with whipped cream and adorable heart-shaped marshmallows. Dinner was baked rice with beef meatballs, pepperoni and ham...yum yum yum. It was superb, one of the nicest baked rice ard. And dessert !!

Their dessert drove us crazy, i really should have captured yee's expression when she savoured it. So funny ! It's like she closed her eyes and had that hmmmmmmmmmmm it's so so so nice expression. We shared the boney cake - Elmer fudge (aka ugly cake) with double choc chip ice-cream and whipped cream. A must-try !

The warm choc cake tasted SO GOOD, i don't even feel sinful eating it. hahaha but after we finished the cake then it's an entirely different story lar. Now you see why my diets never work.

Actually i really have no idea what i want to blog about...just wonder if my body clock will ever adjust itself back to normal. Been sleeping at 4, 5am and waking at 1, 2 pm? but i have always been nocturnal heh.

Hmm, when i get my oven, i will try to bake chocolate fondant (melts when u cut the small cake open!), delicious scones like that of fosters', all types of cookies, muffins, cupcakes, and real cakes. Like cheesecake, chocolate cake, butter cake and even macarons...i wanna try out everything hehe. And i promise to share it with u guys =) !

2007 to 2008

2007-12-31T03:13:00.000+08:00

I looked through my past entries for year 2007, and decided to do a round up. It's has truly been, an exciting and fun-filled year. Year 2006 had been good, but i know that 2007 is going to be better still. That's what i wrote in january 2007. and it did come true =)

Year 2007,
I worked at Settler's Cafe for a few months. Cleaning, taking orders, teaching games. a bit of cooking. Sometimes one task at a time, other times all at once. Tiring but still v v fun, love the perpetually 'high' atmosphere (though it always tend to get too LOUD)

Year 2007,
I was part of the organising commitee for Race5. Designed lotsa stuff, went on recce and the day of actual event was hectic but it was largely a success. Actually, i dun think i'm too much of an outdoorsy person haha.

Year 2007,
I set up my very own blogstore, to clear clothes that i no longer wear. And sell them off i did, with some swapping here and there. It doesn't exist now already haha.

Year 2007,
I got drunk. Very drunk. on several occasions. MOS. Swissotel. Chalet. Yes, i know i'm a really bad drinker. but on one of the worst night when i could barely walk, make sense of things and puke umpteenth times (read: in my WORST state ever), i had 3 years of love and 8 years of friendship to see me through. I know i'm lucky.

Year 2007,
I went cruising with my frens and my boy. It was short, but fun ! We pigged out ALOT. I still love the view and breeze at the deck. Redang is BEAUTIFUL, clear blue skies and soft white sand. First time being with my boy for 3 days. It was pure bliss.

Year 2007,
I interned at Singapore Gamers' association. I really, really learnt a lot. I learnt about responsibility and things that i don't know how to put in words here. But it did give me some insights into work life. Big events, small events, 'my' event. All i can say is, What an experience. (although i can safely say that i will not venture into the gaming industry)

Year 2007,
I worked at the natas fair for a day. Make me so wanna travel. The Natas uniform is quite errrghhh though. Bright yellow and blue. heh.

Year 2007,
was all about projects, presentations and exams. But glad that i made some new friends, and had a particularly crappy kaki to see me through. we slogged, complained and slogged. but we made it through.

Year 2007,
I managed to hit my aim. I am very, very happy. All the mugging, coffee and late nights paid off.

Year 2007,
I went on a Genting/KL trip with my boy. It was simple but so wonderful it made us feel like going back for more. We learnt more about each other and I was touched by how much he loves and took care of me. I love you, baby.

Year 2007,
We worked as surveyors for Singapore Pools for 3 days. Immersed in a sea of uncles, ah peks, and the occasional young guys. Disgustingly amusing lols. We slacked and slacked until we didn't know what to do. But now we're very familiar with the clementi central area haha.

Year 2007,
I was emo, unsure of myself and doubt my capability.

Year 2008,
It's hard not to be emo, but i will be stronger. much stronger than before.

Year 2008,
I will eat less. I know i will look better thinner haha.

Year 2008,
I will work hard and earn as much money as i can. to make up for the amount i spent this holiday. to save up to fly over to switzerland. to get a new camera.

Year 2008,
I must learn to cheer myself up and be less pessimistic.

Year 2008,
I must STOP BEING LATE. AND STOP OVERSLEEPING. i'm such a lazy bum.

But i dun think i can ever stop sleeping late. Like, it's 4.21am now. Sigh, i'm hopelessly nocturnal.

Year 2008,
I wish that everybody can be happier with their lives, and learn to treasure simple things in life. They usually bring you the greatest joy.

Portraits of Love

2007-12-30T02:50:00.000+08:00

Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh. tang zhi. heh heh heh.

Mr. Snowman

Our super niccccccce and comfty room in KL

Christmas decor in Pavillion, one of the uber BIG malls in KL

The average size of a mall in KL is comparable to that of Vivo. lols.

Little Miss Late and Little Miss Late

Tcc-ing

Love

Lovelove

Lovelovelove

Playing with his hp cam

Reflection

Sneaking a picture hehe

Cosy Bay at night is breezy, quiet and romantic. Nice.

Dunked !

2007-12-29T03:41:00.001+08:00

Time for an entry with photos =D !

This is how we spent christmas eve...

The Cosy two

Sigh, she's at it again

The huge salad we had

This is VERY yummy. heh.

Give me macaroni and CHEESE, anytime =)

The Christmas lights

It's just a simple evening spent in a corner of a hidden tcc. Having coffee, chatting, sharing food, but it's nice. I think we stayed there for like 3hrs+ ? We both agreed that Christmas seem to have really lost its meaning, so there weren't really much to it.

Christmas just seems like one of the many occassions in which you share love, make ppl happy(with gifts?) and what nots. Really. Can't you do that on any normal day ? haha must not be too cynical lar. But i do love the christmas songs though, they still make me feel warm inside.

BUT we certainely did not feel christmas-y at all when squeezing through the crowd at orchard. I think the whole world is there. And so we left for home sweet home before all the crazy (spraying)parties started. Maybe we're growing old aldry, hor?

And this is how we spent christmas, in a childishly fun way =)

The group at jj dar's house

The presents. pinkpinkpink.

Dunnoe what's up with us lols

Girls in the pool. So colourful haha.

Now, this is when the fun began.

Dunking (or rather dragging) ppl into the pool =D !

The 4 who eventually

got dunked,

dunked each other and

tried to dunk the others

without success. LOLS.

We feasted on KFC, potato chips, jolly shandy and sparkling juice. I tried to spray sparkling juice(by shaking it alot before opening it) on those ppl who are dry but it only POP. so sian haha. We were supposed to get KFC delivery but it turned out that they're are too busy with many, many orders ! So ej and jj dar had to walked to a nearby kfc to get the chickens. so yay !

After we have had our fill, it was on to silly card games ! So funny, we just kept laughing and exclaiming all the way through. The drinking game made everybody go to the toilet after some rounds cos nobody could go unless they had the toilet card. and we had to drink for every mistake we made. would have been more fun if we had REAL drinks heh heh. =P

Then we went crazy and started dunking ppl into the pool...it was quite silly but we certainely had fun getting wet ! but hor, sadly only half the group went crazy coz the other half managed to remain sane and safe. err but going home in dripping wet clothes not v fun lar. hahaha, but who cares ? As long as we had fun =)

Ok that's it for today...it's be off to Beach Road, Haji Lane and Cosy Bay with my boy tml ! And that's after spending one whole day at home today backing up stuff in my com(cos i tot it was going bonkers but in the end my boy laughed at me becos it was a silly mistake), planning modules for next sem(what a headache, as usual) and tidying up my room.

Oh and results for this sem was really, really good. I am really glad i managed to achieve my aim, must and will continue working hard ! Congrats to ppl who did well too and jiayou to those who didn't do as well, we have just gotta work harder every sem.

qin ai de ni zhe me bu zai shen bian

2007-12-24T04:55:00.001+08:00

Perhaps it's time for an update heh. as suggested by lin. So what have i been doing? Been working at Singapore Pools' clementi outlet for 2 days (1 more to go!) and going out lots before that.

Work is...boring. As i told li, the men at the betting outlets look the same. just ugly, or uglier. AND lup sup. Uncles are crappy, noisy and some smells. and a particular one talks WAY TOO MUCH. Just goes on and on when we don't really feel like listening to him. But long breaks are good haha. It's all for the money lar !! A rare few was nice enough though. rare. Most men just hate to be disturbed, but then that's understandable. So we just go there and mai4 xiao4 + geng + gossip. hahahaa..

But i guess maybe we're better off then jj dar and fren who is stationed at people's park which is filled with weird uncles. One even told jj the following, xiao mei, i have wife aldry ! -_-"' funny lols. Lix and fren at paradiz seem quite sian coz not much ppl there. Aaaahhh, like i said, it's for the money ! So, it's fine =)

Anyway, my sweet boy drove down to yishun to fetch me for dinner on thurs...and i finally got to try the legendary prata at upper thomson road. It was gooooooood *thumbs up* He's in china with his family now, have not gotten any msgs from him for the past 2 days. =( Maybe the msgs can't reach him or his hp batt is flat and he didn't bring charger. Anyway i can't believe i teared talking abt him to li whilst we were working todae. I am so THE EMO lar.

Sigh nvm. Christmas shopping with lin tml ! See, my entry starts and ends with ur name leh, must feel honoured hor hahaha. Christmas dinner with the girls on 25th !

It's 5.18am. Why am i not asleep yet ?

H-O-L-I-D-A-Y-S

2007-12-15T04:16:00.000+08:00

Heh, for me it feels like the holidays have only just started =D !

Reason being i ran off after exams for the trip and only returned like 2 days before. But it has been fun back in s'pore.

We managed to surprise lin with a biggg bdae cake at wen's house on thursday night ! Haha was in a super mad rush to buy the cake and rush to wen's hse coz lin was going to leave aldry lols. And wen had to resort to teh-ing to keep lin at her hse until i sneak in with the cake haha. But it was a successful surprise, glad lin loved it hehe. Poor poor wen though, can't walk properly coz of her injury. Recover soon ok ? Love the girls !

After reaching home my family celebrated dad's bdae, so i had bdae cake twice on thurs night haha. Birthdays are happy occasions =D

Today was spent shoppinggggggg with li and hm haha, we've all got shou hou ! Li and me gotten the bucket bag, which is all the trend now heh. Can't wait to start using it =) I subway-ed for lunch and we soup spoon-ed for dinner, yummy !

Am loving the hols, cos it's time to enjoy.

dabefc

2007-12-13T03:24:00.000+08:00

The trip, only made me fall in love with my boy over all again.

He does the sweetest things for me, and we learnt more about each other during the days spent together. We did everything together and it was just really, really nice.

We didn't take many pictures during this trip, in fact, only a few. but i would say, let this beautiful trip stay in our memories forever and ever more. Like my boy said, best trip of his life. mine too.

There's nothing like travelling with your beloved coz it just makes you treasure him more and re-confirm him as the one you'll be with for life. at least it did for me.

I will always wait for you coz i just love you so so much.

can't wait !!

2007-12-07T02:16:00.001+08:00

Hmm in about 2 and a half hr more i'll be getting up and preparing to cab to golden mile ! to meet my boy and we'll be off to Genting/KL =D Can hardly believe it's just a few hours away...will be back on the 12th, whoots 6 days 5 nights of fun ! Yay !

I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait !!

Wonder how long i'm gonna take to fall alsp haha, so exciting. =) =) More updates when i'm back !

One-more-day

2007-12-04T18:12:00.000+08:00

One more day to liberation. One last paper.
And then it would be off to Genting and KL !
Crazy, crazy paper todae. haven't been writing so much ever since i stopped taking history.
Anyhow, maybe i should take a nap first before pia-ing for the last...
and end this torture.
*make a mental note not to torture myself again next sem with 5 modules which equate to 5 projects, 4 presentations, 1 term paper, numerous assignments and 5 exams.
Seriously was i trying to kill myself or something?

Last night, was pure sweetness. =)

It makes me happy to see you happy

2007-12-01T15:35:00.000+08:00

3 papers down, 2 more to go. I reckon it's okay to take a breather and blog for a while. Especially since i haven't blog for 2 weeks. and i can see dust gathering.

Anyhow, it suddenly dawned on me today that i don't have many friends. Friends as in real, true friends...take accquaintances out of the picture(which i'm sure everybody has MANY) and it became clearer to me that i really ain't got much ppl i can truely-honestly-from-the-bottom-of-my-heart, call friends.

Maybe it has gotta do with my narrow definition of friends, or maybe i just don't know how to make true friends anymore. I seem to have lose the ability to develop relationships and further them with people in my current social circle. The more i think of it, the more i see the connection and similarity between them and me as work. That's kindda sad.

I dunnoe where i went wrong. Is it become i lack initiative in keeping contact? Or don't put in enough effort? Or the anti-social streak in me? Maybe i'm too focused on work at times? Or maybe, just maybe i got my definition of friends all wrong. Maybe i'm expecting too much.
Gonna end this on an abrupt note coz i have no answers to it. yet.

Cabbed to sch today for my advertising paper coz i dun wanna risk being late for the paper...and the taxi uncle was v nice and tried to make some friendly conversation. Although I'm not great at maintaining conversation with taxi uncles, and hate the awkward silence inbetween convi sometimes, i thought he was a great guy. =) and it only cost $6.80. heh. The good thing about living near sch.

The TR paper, no time to finish. The media writing paper, no time to check. The advertising paper, finished and left early. I wonder how the last two papers will turn out.

Backtracking to the week before last, a birthday surprise and celebration for my boy.

After some research and opinions from friends(sounds strangely like some project/assignment) , i finally settled on Fosters. at Holland Village.

My favourite-st picture.

Such nice, cosy ambience.

The food.
The mushroom soup and grilled mushrooms were fantastic.
The main course was so-so.
Conclusion? do ur research homework ;)

The darling boy.
It's funny to watch his reaction when he said he'll pengz if the live singer starts singing him a birthday song. and a while later, he heard it. together with the birthday cake.
and of coz, the "I love you more than words can express" ;)

Would have been a beautiful picture if it ain't blur.

The night has a warm and fuzzy feel to it.

Okay i look damm shag. shag but happy, so it's alrite =)

And you casually asked me that night what made me love you,

i dunnoe.

But i do know that you're worth it.

Happy Birthday, my love.

fast forward ?

2007-11-17T22:21:00.000+08:00

Just caught the Bee Movie today and it was good ! Surprisingly hilarious, u guys should catch it. A breather from the mug-a-thon. Still, i'm not making v much progress.

10 more days to the first paper ! Cannot.stay.at.home.and.slack. Thus, my plan is to be out everyday (be in at the sch lib or je lib) to MUG till late. It's gonna be reaaaaaaal tough but it'll be over in let's see...18 days. must keep myself motivated. and stop getting distracted by every little thing.

if only i can fast forward time though...hmm but i guess i wldn't really do it even if i cld. haha. =)

One of motivation

2007-11-09T17:45:00.000+08:00

Yay ! Something to look forward to in dec !

My boy and i have finally settled our 6D5N trip to Genting and KL...can't wait =) Almost a week's worth of pigging out, shopping and precious, precious time together. This shall be my main motivation to finish up this horrible sem and mug super hard for the remaining 1 month.

2 papers, 1 newsletter and 1 presentation up next week. 1 more presentation up next next week. Exams starts in 18 days' time. Let the mug-a-thon begin...

5th Dec

2007-11-05T00:51:00.000+08:00

I know i haven't been updating for so long. 2 weeks to be exact. But with so much going on, it's hard to find time to blog. Most of the time when i'm not doing proper work, i'm either slacking or going out.

Been out the entire day from wed to sat...can totally feel my money depleting and even worse, growing fatter. it's high time to embark on a diet plan. i know i know, diet plans are bound to fail but at least this make sure i dun overeat anymore ! Like i had for the past few days last week, tsk tsk. it's horrible. ~~but food really makes me happy.~~

This is gonna be an awfully boring entry. November bids the start of the mugging month. Very soon, everyone will morph into muggers and hide in libraries. Supplies of coffee and red bull will start running low in vending machines. And muggers start to camp over at the YIH study room. Bleah. What a sucky month.

I'm already looking forward to the end of exams. 5th Dec, marks freedom.

frowny

2007-10-22T01:16:00.001+08:00

Alrite, i'm not supposed to be here but just a short post !

We saw the cutest shar-pei ever at the pet safari on saturday and i couldn't stop laughing. Then this guy came over, took a look at the shar-pei and went 'ehh why you so sadddd?' I swear i was going to double over and laugh out loud lor...

It is just so frowny and wrinkled and all, was telling my boy that's how dogs look like after liposuction =P And we were trying to imagine how it wld look like when it's happy. It's so funny yet adorable and it was all i wanted to look at in the pet safari that day. ah-hem, apart from some pair of pointy boobs...

Saturdays are always one of the nicest days of the week. Coz everything seem to be in slow mo and we can just take our time to bum around, sit down and talk, and laugh over the silliest things you can ever imagine.

numbbb

2007-10-17T23:57:00.000+08:00

I'm in the mood whereby i could just watch the world go by. Not caring about anything at all. Nor talk to people, and just hide in my corner and stare into space..

Give me a reason to laugh. Give me a reason to cry. i just don't feel anything now.

Work is making me feel v numb. so strange.

Mind-blowing fun

2007-10-13T04:02:00.000+08:00

my 200th entry. heh. That's not a lot considering that i started blogging in 2004. Next month would be my 3rd year on blogger. But blogging and me, we go wayyyyy back. Back then in lower sec, we OD (aka Open diary), but it's really old school now. So yeah, we have a 7 year affair aldry, and i still love to blog.

Anyway, that's not the point lols. This has been a pretty slack week for me, i slept and bum ard a lot. I am such a procastinator. Bah.

BUT can i just say i love boardgaming cafes so !! Our grp's been down to minds' cafe in the evening and i think we laughed/screamed the house down or something. It's so much like the crazy, out of the world but silly kind of fun. It just feels like orientation all over again. i love it =D

After that, i left a bit early to meet the girls to chill...but it's such a pity to have found out that the can cafe has been closed down aldry ! That has been a cosy and quaint lil chill-out spot. So we ended up at starbucks instead.

I had this UGLY chicken puff haha, the name's so funny right? But i thought it tasted good and didn't look ugly at all lols. Girls' talk are just so much more entertaining and fun than guys' talk. seriously ! and so we stayed till ard 1130 before starting to make our way home...

Oh man I can't believe i forgot to hand in my project peer evaluation form !! And i only just realised after checking my email...arrgh my memory is failing me.

I'm going to sleep anyway. 4.31am. Nowadays i only seem to go to bed in the wee hours of the morning. badddddddd.

Many many things

2007-10-06T03:58:00.000+08:00

Been down to Settlers' during our mid term break, not purely for fun, but to get some 'footages' for our nm2201 project. It has been a fun night though, and we got pretty high playing charoodles coz it was so hilarious to see everybody act out words.

AND how they were going on abt mocca lols.

The time spent discussing our project is not fun. bleargh. I was half stoning through, given that earlier half of the day was spent on TR fieldwork as well.

But there were things that have changed ever since i left about 5 months ago.

The 'Boardgame' Menu

Impromptu but funny shot of part of the group

The Games rack.
Hmm what games should i bring up for us?

The food.

The familiar stairs.

And me trying to run away but end up still getting caught in the pic.

It still feels weird to go to settlers' as a customer. It doesn't feel right to have ppl take our orders, so i took it for them. I didn't want them to press the bell coz i feel i dunnoe, funny? It's almost like i knew the place so well, i could do everything myself.

Yet, i'm looking at things from a very different point of view. When i see them carrying the piles of unwashed dishes up, see them rush ard attending to customers, i was thinking that was me. That used to be me.

But i no longer am.

If that's me a few years ago, i know i probably would have stayed on. But me being me now, it's really quite impossible. Seriously, how do u measure how much happiness is worth? and similarly how much the amount of work and time spent is worthwhile?

You shi hou de wo, jue de wo bian de xian shi de hen ke pa.

If this is what growing up is about, i'm not sure i want it.

Sometimes i think about it, and i think you may be right lin. Coz I can't remember who i used to be anymore. Sometimes, when you become so focused on what you want to achieve, you bypass and forget things, things that might be once important to you, but not anymore.

But often, life doesn't give u much choices. You just have to make the most out of it.

And so i moved on. and on. and on. Maybe the more you do this, the more numb you will get. Maybe the more numb you get, the more right it will seem to be. hahaha who am i kidding.

Yup, but anyhow, we had fun that night.

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Presentation for TR on Tues went pretty well i would say, though i was a tad nervous when i was presenting. It's an all guys team again, with the exception of yours truly. But i really think our concept rocks. Just that we gotta go deeper into it, as Andrew said.

And apparently my style of formal wear is quite masculine. Girl power whoots !!

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Went down to *scape for darren's film screening, together with cindy robbie eileen and chris on friday evening. I was awfully late, coz i was rushing the "make-up" assignment for the geisha samurai mod, which i have CLEANLY forgotten about until lin reminded me of it at 4+ pm. And i had to rush home before the stoke of midnight(which is the deadline) to finish up and submit the assignment. Now i know how Cinderella feels, poor girl. hahaha.

The film, silent, was good. And there was a lot of supporters ! Ahh the amount of work that goes on behind this 30 mins on screen...i guess is something we will never truly understand. But i thought the storyline was good and the song was nice too. Support local productions !

We had a nice dinner together after that. Sting ray, kangkong, prawn rolls and onion omelette!! Yummy yum. I love meeting up with them coz it reminds me of the 3 months we slogged/slacked and spent together during the summer hols. They're a great bunch of people =)

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And it's 4.51am now. Need some beauty sleep, can't wait to catch the chuck and larry movie tomorrow with my(very unwilling but have no choice) boy after hearing/reading about the good reviews !

And i wanna go shopping. really.

You say it best when you say nothing at all

2007-10-02T02:16:00.000+08:00

When you held me in ur arms, and told me it's not gonna take long, i didn't say anything, for everything feels so surreal...but real at the same time. And i wonder what i'm going to do on nights without you.

Yet you could sense everything, despite my few words and attempts to brush it off. Such is how we understand each other. Such is love.

4 months can't be that long, can it ?

Mid-Term "Break"

2007-09-23T16:38:00.000+08:00

It's the start of the mid term break ! But actually nothing much to be happy about, heh. Getting sick of sending out surveys and collating results. I cannot emphasis enough on how much i hate staring at numbers. ROWS of them.

Saturday out with my boy was more like travelling ard to get my things done =P Collect complimentary mooncakes, check out the Substation/Timbre, dinner at Fisherman's Wharf, shopping at central, finding a coffee place to rest our tired feets and a final rush to allson hotels to get brochures for advertising strag proj...coz i suddenly rmb that when we were having our java chip. And, after which, he sent me all the way home. Sigh, what wldn't i do for a boy like you. *hugs*

Friday, my free day, was spent slacking. i nv seem to get enough of slacking. Guess the only constructive thing i did was to get ppl to help me with my survey. Thanks to all who helped =) ! I know i must have been a bother the past weeks, bugging ppl with my surveys lols.

Anyway, something random

One day work stint at Natas Fair last friday ! Their uniform was like super small sized and short ! Dunnoe if it was meant to look cute or what lols. And it's bright yellow and blue. Ugh. But i guess it's still ABIT better than that of CTC's beside us. Their uniform were lime green and orange. Seriously, i dunnoe wad's up with these travel agencies. Hmm can be stylish and attention-grabbing at the same time? hahaha...i felt like a lightbulb walking ard the exhibition hall.

Haven't quite decide on where to go during dec for our getaway but everything seems so expensive. Okay, to be exact, those that seem FUN are the expensive ones... =(

Hmm wonder how i can earn money and have time to mug hard at the same time. Time's really = Money. And i'm not v willing to exchange my time for money this sem haha. Oh wells, we'll see how it goes ! Am going out for dinner with family now, more updates later..

Love tears me apart

2007-09-16T22:22:00.000+08:00

That's one of the captions i got off when threadless' website. It just happen to catch my eye.

For all the pain love brings with it, just why is it that some are caught in an endless search for it? Some, who are lucky, finds their other half and settles down. Whereas others in the pursuit of it, suffers heartbreaks one after another, just to end up back at the same spot.

Some say love doubles the joy, i say love doubles the pain.

Why not be single? be carefree? to do whatever you like and be answerable to no one but urself? Why give your heart away just to have it being broken carelessly?

But then again, you have no one to share ur joy with, no one to share ur sorrows with, no one whom you can turn to at the end of the day for the comfort you so yearn for. No words required, just a hug will do. A hug which conveys more meaning than anything.

Nothing is right or wrong, coz it all boils down to what you want.

To be in love means to share yourself with another person, so much so that you do not belong to yourself entirely. To be in love means to be affected by how the other person feels, so much so that his/her mood become yours as well. To be in love is to take into consideration 'we', instead of 'I'. And the list can go on forever. But i guess you get the point.

To be in love is neither good or bad, coz it all depends on what you're searching for. To fall in love is easy, to stay in love is not. Love can be a wonderful experience, but it too can be a tiresome one, again it's how you make it out to be. But it takes two hands to clap, and this applies to love too.

I think humans are all lonely creatures. Needy of love and company. knowing the fact that there's somebody who understand how you feel and who will always be there for you, well it just seems to make everything better. But sometimes i wonder if that's an illusion. so what if the someone choose to walk away someday, won't you be alone, like you always used to be?

We have all been single at some point in time, and led a complete and i would even say, happy life. Why is it that once we have experience love that we become so needy? That only someone else can fill up that missing piece of your life. That missing piece haven't been there all along has it? Now, i'm not being cynical about love. i'm just questioning the need for it.

Maybe it've got a lot to do with growing up. and realising that it's a 'cold, cruel world' out there. That nobody really care about anyone more than themselves. So people seek refuge in love, love like that in the fairytales we've grown up with, love that make two people live happily ever after. It's something genuine that warms your heart, even if it doesn't last forever.

There's so much to love, yet so little one can understand about it.

I don't know how to end this off, but yes, I believe in love, still. even the happily-ever-afters.

Busy bumble bee

2007-09-09T21:46:00.000+08:00

I'm so in love with my new blogskin, that i can just look at it over and over again. It's not so much the theme but the style and colour combi. Credits to fedora girl on blogskins, she makes one of the nicest blogskins ard !

Am going to have a busy week ahead.
Monday- Proj meeting, tutorial, proj meeting, tutorial. in sch till 8.
Tuesday- Lecture, Seminar, Lecture. in sch till 8. Dinner with the girls.
Wednesday- Tutorial, short (mugging)break, proj meeting. in sch till 6? Dinner with my boy.
Thursday- Tutorial, long (mugging)break, Lecture, Lecture. in sch till 6.
Friday- Work at natas fair at Expo. 9am to 9pm?
Saturday- Work at natas fair at Expo. 9am to 9pm?
Sunday- Finally, day with my boy and family.

I guess that totally justify why i had to keep myself at home yesterday and today. Not that i did a lot, but it's the least i cld have done. It didn't feel that bad to be at home on a weekend. But then again, it cld be all the projs and sickening readings that made me think otherwise.

Less depressing things aside, we caught 2 movies recently, Ratatouille and 881 ! The former was really yummy-good (literally and non-literally) whilst the former was more on the artsy side. Hmm was talking to darren(he's a filmmaker himself) last night and he thought it was a brilliant production. Well, in a sense, it's a refreshing change from Jack Neo's movies but i cldn't really relate to it coz i dun watch getais. Prob didn't catch some of the hokkien too coz i was reading the subtitles most of the time haha. But, it was good on the overall i think =)

Hmm after i've earned enough money, i might consider getting myself a sony T100, in red. Muahahahahaha.

On second thoughts, that's still a far far far far far far far far x infinity way off...Bleargh.

Shepherd's Pie

2007-09-05T01:27:00.000+08:00

Sometimes i'm SO bad with directions i scare myself. A trip to the hairdresser which cld have taken 15 mins or so had me travelling for an hour plus. I wonder what i'll do with my car license when i finally get down to it haha.

Anyway, my hair's back to brown. Well it's supposed to be ash brown but i can't really tell the diff coz lotsa brown looks the same to me. Didn't do any highlights in the end, jus covered up the blacks, disappointing. But the hairdresser chopped off some of my damaged hair and for once i didn't feel sad abt losing those bits. Oh and silkpro's improvised range of shampoo smells good. Mine smells like apple for some reason.

But i still remember the day when i tried out this strawberry milkshake flavoured shampoo back in AJ after PE lesson and for the whole day, i felt like i cld eat my hair. So, so sweet. Candy sweet.

A supposed mugging trip to bugis on sat (at this starbucks in shaw tower opposite Chong Qing steamboat) morphed into a full-blown shopping trip. My partner in crime:

Conclusion: NEVER, EVER attempt to mug in town. Coz you will never succeed.

I missed those days when we baked Shepherd's Pie during home econs lessons back in secondary school (Although nobody dared to give it a try when i brought it home in a tupperware heh)This Shepherd's Pie wasn't particularly good. but i just love potatoes. potatoes in any form.

Anyway, if i were to spend money like i do on every shopping trip, i'll be broke in no time. Yes, my boy, i know, i know.

i shld probably try to sleep earlier tonite. Another packed day in sch tml ! Tutorial, lunch, mugging, proj meeting and hitting Vivo in the evening with girls i haven't met up with in a long long while...

Hmm, feels nice to be on the phone/skypeeeeee every night. Or maybe it's just you =)

For reasons i know not of

2007-08-24T02:52:00.000+08:00

These days i just feel like blogging more than ever. For reasons i know not of. Maybe coz it's a lot more enjoyable than doing the readings. Those readings that are piling up by the day. We're well into the midst of week 2 now !

Feeling so restless nowadays that i could do anything but sit down and read properly. Having a short attention span is not helping either.

Oh but i got my craving satisfied ! Ben and Jerry has the tastiest ice-cream on earth. Pls do yourself a favour and go try out their Phish Food, Mint Choc and Strawberry Cheesecake. Throw in the waffle bowl ("Ooooohh it's piping hot!" chirps the ~~bimbo~~ girl behind the counter) as well. Highly recommended by yours truly. It will be $12.50 well spent =) Although the waffle bowl is NOT piping hot.

Today somebody said i look like a chipmunk. The other time another fren said i look like a kitten (?). I think my boy looks at me and sees a pig. Great, so i look anything but human. Lols. But nvm, they're all ~~supposed to be~~ adorable creatures. hahaha.

Timetable for this sem is terribly screwed up. But i'm still glad i'll be seeing more of the girls this sem, our weekly tues dinner =) ! That's when we get together and bitch about boys. evil evil boys. mine carries me away when i try to shop, tsk tsk. But it's okay coz he doesn't get to check out his oakleys as well. *triumphant grin

3.12am. Can't believe i'm still SO awake at this unearthly hours.

and my readings lay undone. well done.

B & J

2007-08-20T02:15:00.001+08:00

Rainy mornings are made for sleeping in. I have been indulging in the soft, warm comfort of my bed for the past 2 days, so much so that i only wake up after noon. Such a waste of time, sleeping half the day away, but it just feels great.

Finally, FINALLY gotten my 5 modules settled for this sem. And i absolutely love some of them, esp Advertising Strategies. I hope Entreprenuerial Marketing, the module that i fought damm hard for before getting it in the last round of bidding, will be good. The Geisha Samurai mod seems quite interesting to me. But i have no comments for Media Writing and Intercultural Communication. What can i say? My grammar totally sucks and it seems like a chore having to keep up with the weekly culture journal.

It's always hard to get the mug-mentum started...esp so when you're still in this slacky, and really quite nua kindda mood. You know that kindda lazy mood when your speech is slurred and you mumble when you talk ? I'm so not ready for sch yet. Ready for the fun, NOT ready for the mugging. yet.

It's boring to talk about work, let's digress haha. We caught the fireworks last friday and to our disappointment it wasn't WOW-fabulous. It was, fair. The poor boy kept trying to let me have his slippers coz my shoes were being a bother, but i refused to =P The price of vanity, tsk.

Kept getting bouts of emo-ness of late, it's really kindda ridiculous, but i can't help it. They just come and go. They make me feel so needy. uggghh.

I'm not earning any money now. So, i guess i should stop splurging and start saving. Resist ~~all~~ most temptations. Or start finding other sources of income.

I think it's absurd how i have to consider whether to say certain things here on my blog becoz i know there are people reading this and there are some things i wouldn't like them to know. So much for privacy.

But what's the point of a blog if you choose to keep it private? To me, that's abt the same as writing in your diary. Except the point that somebody might STILL stumble on ur blog. So, it's just pointless.

i'm bored. i want some B & J's pfish food.

Little Miss Late

2007-08-14T23:52:00.000+08:00

First day of the sem is good =) It just feels great to be back in school, almost like a refreshing change of lifestyle after 3 months of work. Managed to sell off/gave away/lend 4 outta of 5 txtbks from last sem, space-clearing and some money for my new bks this sem !

Gonna get this authentic junk food tee from an online seller tml

Convenient to pull on when i'm late(which is like, most of the time) hehe. The PERFECT excuse to be late. heh heh, just thought it's a really bright, cheery and cute tee, love !

I'm still hoping v hard to get the TR module. Went for the first lec todae and it seems pretty interesting, lecturer is an entrepreneur himself, and he is certainely engaging in the way he presents his course.

Sigh...Don't make me hate cors.

Burst of good, crazy fun

2007-08-13T01:59:00.000+08:00

Monday's the official start of the new sch term...and the best thing about it is that i have no lessons tml ! heh. It's been a really fun week, just had to have some good crazy fun before starting to work hard for the next sem =)

Monday's been an enjoyable day with my boy ! We caught paprika --- really good movie with chim concept. Wanted to catch it coz reuben mention that it was like our Dream Machine, isn't that interesting? Later on we tried out ice cream chef, which is a store located at some ulu place where they allow you to make your own ice-cream ! How cool is that ? haha...but not literally make them yourself like those in yuki-yaki. It works in such a way that u indicate the ingredients, and they make. Great that he had the car that night, kallang bridge is certainely a nice, breezy place to be at night...

Tuesday was shopping + steamboat day with the jc clique ! Cldn't rmb what i bought but i do rmb how much we ate during the steamboat ! Here's some evidence hahaha

I bet u guys are horrified at the amt of food we can consume, but but...Chongqing steamboat at Bugis totally rocks !! Love the ma la can...very very shiok.

3 of the gluttons...heh heh heh...that's half of the group ! So fun to pig out with the girls coz nobody cares how you look like and we just eat and chat and laugh and eat and chat and laugh and multipy that by infinity lols. Great time spent with them!

Wednesday, earlier half of the day was spent slackinggg and i dunnoe, looking at bidding stuff? And to digress abit, i still ONLY have 4 mods for the new sem !!! I can't get my TR mod =( And that's after henedick agreed to take it with me and now he managed to get the mod but pathetic me end up being outbidded. Okay, that's enough...later half of the day was spent at K-ster at Chinatown with cindy eileen robbie and chris !

We had fun but it was so bloody expensive at night. Can you believe that they actually have this old sch system whereby you flip thru a whole list of songs manually and there's a remote for you to key in codes of the song you want? *smacks forehead* I guess the only better thing abt them(as compared to kbox) is that they seem to have a larger and newer collection of english songs, coz afterall ah-hem...someone only sings eng songs hahaha. Had a short supper after that and we all cabbed home, ahhhhhhh the money spent =P

Thursday, with my girls ! We were supposed to go suntanning but i overslept lols...but then again, the weather was really not good so we had to change our plans last min. Quite sian to carry the big bag of suntanning stuff ard though. But we're good at self-entertainment ! Can't believe we ended up spending the WHOLE day at vivo and still had tons of fun heh.

One, two, three...let's go =D !

Wen and me

Girlies. in the toilet. haha.

The Chao Mugger

The Fuzzy Bunny

The Horrifed Captured

'Alone' Poster version XXX

Wen is so man can. Lols !

Spiderman, Ultraman, Superman! Okok i know we're crazy haha

N-U-S !

I'm pretty sure the people ard us are very much entertained by us and all our funny antics. Thank you. *takes a bow* But we had silly fun, tons of it.

Friday, was triple three buffet at meritus mandarin, boss's treat ! The food was fabulous, they even had a five tier chocolate fountain ! I was totally awed by it. mannnnn and their deserts are superb. Chocolate overload. After all the good food, we went back to the very familiar not-so-messy-now office to settle some admin stuff and transfer the spare cash over to chris...now i dun feel so rich anymore =(

Met lijie lixin and lin for dinner at subway later in the evening and splurged on two cardigans !! I give up on myself, coz i think 50% of my pay goes to new clothes ?! Just cleared out 50 pieces from my wardrobe recently, just to find that i STILL have 60+ pieces left. Yeah, say WOAH. That's how much clothes i have, and don't wear. =P But it was good to see lixin(whom i haven't seen in ages and who now sports a really stylish hairstyle!) and nice to have subway which i have been craving for, like forever haha.

Saturday, half day with my boy and we caught The Simpsons Movie ! Short one but funny lar lols...felt like i had to watch it coz of the reviews frens gave lols. Heh, and we had the Suki Buffet...err i know i've been eating ALOT this hols. But i promise to not binge like that when sch starts. haha. Really nice to just sit there and take our time to order and share the food though =) Parted in the evening coz he gotta go off for fencing dinner and i met lijie and lixin again for shopping ! haha...girls. you know how we are. new things for a new sem ;)

Sunday, finally a stay home day ! Spent some time with family and had dinner together...That's how a sunday should be like. Slack, lazy and warm. heh.

Hmm...I think i'm actually kindda looking forward to sch reopening. Yup, i wanna be a chao mugger again haha. and that spells the end of my picture galore entries...uploaded so many pictures recently i scare myself lols. 3.05am now, and it's time for bed i guess...

A place where i call home for 3 months

2007-08-12T15:48:00.000+08:00

Finally, an entry dedicated wholly to my 3 months internship...haha as my title suggest, my second home for the whole of this hols...

Stalker tournament - very first event which we helped out at

Caught in action !

Warfront...we have absoutely no idea why Robbie looks so high though lols

I love this pic! So funny haha, the extreme opposites of expression...It's as if we know something hilarious that boss and cindy don't hahaha

Everyone

And of course, S'pore-China networking event

Look at the amount of lanyards we prepared !!

Shine Festival --- with this funny man

Rayman at our office door ! Check out cindy's expression..really funny girl lols.

Us with the blue dragon

This is why the poor dragon looked like it was going to collapse later on.

The girls

The boys with transformer

Quan jia fu =)

We all look normal but actually...we form the DDG aka Daidee Gang wahahahhaha, you'll see.

Chris, The King of spades

Cindy, The Ace of Spades

Yours truly, The Ace of Hearts

Eileen, The Queen of Spades

Robbie, The...ermmm, Joker? lols

Light moment at work

Random pics are so pretty =) !

Welcome to our messy office !

The many many pigeon holes

How can i forget spidey ??

Wilbur, who have faithfully stood by me these 3 months heh.

Our usual formation in office, heh.

All Hands

All feets

Psst...we've got a secret to share, hehe...

Waraku Rocks =D !

Now you see them...

Now you don't ! =P

This look like an advert for Shan Dong peanuts, no ? haha

All-stars.

It has truly been a wonderful 3 months. 3 months in which i've learnt so many new things that i never knew before...I'll miss our cosy albeit messy office, a place where we work together, laughed ourselves silly, have occasional take-away lunch and everything. I'll miss our popular trips, i'll miss cindy's "What are we gonna have for lunch?", i'll miss going off work early together, i'll miss our daily stop at Cheers, i'll miss our crazy giggling about silly stuff, i'll miss 18 jing bu jing, i'll miss our standard dabao - Chicken rice...

i'll miss just about anything and everything we've all done together.

This internship may not be what i'm looking for in my future career, but i'm really glad i was given this chance to experience proper work. It's very, very different from the past temp jobs i've done in the past. It's afterall, the very first time i tried out event managment. Exhuasting, but definitely satisfying when you see everything fall in place =)

It has been, what i would call, a fulfilling holiday.

Race 5

2007-08-05T23:53:00.000+08:00

Belated entry yes, but still, this is an event worth remembering =)

NUS ODAC Race 5 --- Look within, Go beyond.

First pitstop of the day: West Coast Park !

Race 5 commitee =)

First picture in 23 years, he said. lols.

It's kindda cool to see your own design all over the place.
Race 5 Logo, Banner, Mat, T-shirt, Puzzle... =)

To see it blown up this BIG, is pure sweetness.

Race 5 is, truthfully speaking, not an event i would call my own. Reason being i kindda neglected it due to my internship, and so you know the rest of the story. I'm sorry i didn't give Race 5 my all. Like i promised hq n pw that i wld when i agreed to join.

But it did gave me a chance to work with people i've never worked with before, a chance to really design, a chance to liase with people. Designing is tough, but it gives me a sense of satisfaction, really.

And for all this, i'm grateful.
Many thanks to the Race 5 commitee, for making this a great success.

I love candid pictures. There's a certain beauty within them, if you ever noticed. Everything's just more genuine than when you properly pose for a picture. The feelings captured at that moment is so natural.

P.S. Now i know never to camp at changi beach without wearing long pants n jacket. Trust me, to wake up with your teeth chattering is not a very nice experience. Sleeping on ground sheet and covering ourselves with ground sheet. haha, that's my very first time. Lols. But yeah, no matter how muddy, dirty, smelly, tiring, hectic, cold, rainy and all, we made it through =)

Cruise to Redang !

2007-08-02T22:58:00.000+08:00

Warning: Picture Intensive !! =)

All excited and ready to set off !

Dressed nicely for dinner at Bella Vista

At Hm and james' balcony room haha!

Yum.

Double yum.

Baby and me

All on Board =D !

Artistic ;) ?

We wanna fly ~~

Coolness. I love the feeling of this pic. Totally random.

Having fun climbing the tread wall

The usual 'mirror' pic lols =P

Us at the sunny, gorgeous Redang =D !

Al-Natural ;)

Breath-taking scenery

Look, we did a National Day Edition! So patriotic huh hehehe...

I Love Redang !!!

So do all of us wheeeeee !

Blue, blue sky

We didn't exactly catch the sunrise, but i guess this was good enough =)

I don't know how to express my love, that's why i always hold your hand, and hold you so close to me.
There are things i don't dare to say to you, so i tell them to you when ur asleep. If there are days when you wake up feeling happy for no reason, you know why =)

I'll always always remember what you told me.
Just like i'll always remember how it feels like to have tears falling when i'm kissing you.