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2009-07-20T00:46:00.002+08:00

I've decided to make a switch over to wordpress!

seeyou there.
(:

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2009-07-19T17:19:00.013+08:00

It was yet another busy week.

What follows after Orientation camps are usually OG outings.
OG1 had their dinner outing at Fish and Co on wednesday night and some of the ex-cos went along as well. After dinner some of us went over to Zouk and some OG 5 members came. What was a small group initially became an extremely big group.

Shenchee brought Chivas and we finished it at a fitness corner nearby. I tried apple shooters for the first time and its nice. :D

OG 3 had their outing on Thursday at Timbre but I couldn't make it as I had a dinner appointment already. Dinner was Crystal Jade followed by desserts at 2am Dessert Bar. We tried their chef's special - Strawberry Sweet Milk. It was presented to us very prettily on a glass plate.

OG 5 and 6 had a combined outing to a KTV pub at Selegie on Friday but the heads can't make it as we had a meeting. The rest went prawning at Bishan while I went to Prive Bakery Cafe at Keppel Island after the meeting ended. It's got a nice view and very relaxing with live band over at the bar area but the service initially was very very bad.

Apparently they had alot of waiters/waitresses but they never seem to come to you.

Our order of : Hazelnut Praline Royale, Berries Milkshake and Steakcut fries with Truffle Oil.
The fries were nice but I feel that OverEasy's version is nicer.
-yums-

During the later part the service got a little better when we had more attention from the supervisor or something when he was more attentive to our empty glasses of iced water.

I met up with James and the rest for Dim Sum buffet at Peach Garden on Saturday afternoon. It's probably abit nicer than Zhou's kitchen and cheaper too. haha!

We went over to Junction 8 to shop for gifts that Malcolm needs to get, and went over to Tangs at Vivo to get the stuffs. We decided not to MJ after that and so we made way back separately.

SIM ODAC is having her annual Night Cycling event.
Date: 7th - 8th August
For interested parties, please click HERE for more details.
Event is open to public.
:D

2009-07-14T22:42:00.002+08:00

Oh no. seems like i had quite a bad fall.

:(

2009-07-13T23:28:00.000+08:00

Last week was one busy week packed to the brim!

It was the CCA recruitment drive on Monday and Tuesday, followed by a short meeting on Tuesday night till 10pm. The second day's recruitment drive saw loads of membership signups as well.

Finally Wednesday came and then it was contacting the freshies in the late morning and then down to Dairy Farm for a last dry run. Dinner was at CCK before we headed back to Dairy Farm to try out the nightwalk. Everything ended at about 1030pm and I went back home to shower before going over to Zouk to meet PJ and the rest. Celebrated Joanna's belated birthday and it's the first time everyone's there.

Woke up at 1030am on Thursday morning and I went down to Beach road to get my Teva sandals, and then over to Tampines One. I haven't been there before other than the short time I was there before Sundown. Dinner was at Sushi Tei and we ordered so much that our table was full. The soba I ordered taste like vodka? :(

I went back home to prepare abit before heading down to school to help load the stores to Dairy Farm. Everything was done by about 12plus am and we went for Teochew Porridge at Bukit Merah.

With less than 45 minutes of sleep, I went for FOC which lasted for 3 days.
For the entire camp, I had less than 10 hours of sleep other than catching some sleep in between car rides.

I reached home on Sunday at about 4pm and took a short nap till around 7pm before going down to Martin's chalet. I was too exhausted to play mahjong so I left the place at about 11plus.

Good Job 13th for the FOC! Time was short but we managed to put everything in place. (:

2009-07-03T23:59:00.005+08:00

FOC's going to carry on as planned and on Thursday night, I was told to go down to school on Friday for booth duty. Things are going to get bee-zee.

I think I still can't imagine who I met in school at the booth. It's so much of a coincidence! That's another story altogether. We then went over to Clementi NTUC to do grocery shopping and we bought a whopping $200 plus worth of food items, okay but divide that by the no. of participants.

I went home after that and changed and went down to One Fullerton. I took the longer route instead of the shortcut in my very blur state.

I ordered the cheesesteak burger (?) that's going for $1 each instead of the usual $16 for 4 because of some on-going promotion. Something to do with the stock market. Interesting. The burger is uber delicious.

Drinks were going for 1-for-1 as well, so I shared Erdinger with xiaoping.

We shared the maincourse - Steak with Fries in truffled oil (?). It's not a very big portion for the price we pay but the steak is really very tender and juicy. It's making me salivate as I think about it. The fries is nice as well! One of their specialty. Almost wanted to order the fries as a side dish but decided against it cos it's $14 just for fries!

We just chilled the night away, by the river with the slight breeze or did it come from the mini-flyer? haha! (okay, inside joke)

As an initiation for Teck Wei to join the 'club', Vanessa ordered a glass of Long Island Tea for him. He finished it at one go. Not bad! Apparently their L.I.T.'s more lemony.. It doesn't taste as bad but I still hate L.I.T.

Alas, one group picture before we left the place at 10pm. It's an early night for everyone I guess, compared to the last two friday nights.

The total bill for 6 of us was about $260 but the ambience, food and service made up for it.

:D

2009-07-01T23:59:00.001+08:00

As usual I was just slacking around at home and then Nathnl asked if I wanna have dinner. So I went down to Chinatown to meet him, JG and santono. He felt that I was picking on him the whole evening. hahahah!

but hello. it was just amusing. For example, him getting drunk on .. ******r ? Sometimes he goes one big round to shoot himself. =X

After Chinatown we walked over to Central Mall to get Raisin buns but they were sold out so we took a bus to Orchard and ... Bakerzin's July promotion includes Macarons at 95cents nett! :D

We went over to Paragon for Starbucks but because JG said that there's a tea room somewhere so we went over to take a look. I've always thought that there are two cafes at the back of Paragon and I know Vincent works there too and I saw him from afar when we walked towards there. :P

Instead of settling down at Starbucks, we took a walk round Marketplace and then decided to head for home.
As if i've not eaten enough for dinner, I went over to Ah Chews for desserts. Yes, Mango sago. yum yums.

2009-06-30T23:59:00.000+08:00

Due to H1N1, the FOC's being postponed till further notice. That being said, I find myself with lots of free time. There's good and bad towards the postponing of the camp. Oh wells.

So today Sheila, Samuel and Nelson came over to my place for some MJ. It's been a looong time since I've played it. We played till about 6plus and they left while I went to prepare myself to meet the girls at Vivo.

Dinner was at Sushi Tei.

The Golden Roll is oh-so-yummylicious. :D

Pauljean suggested going over to One ^o15 to chill. We settled at this place called Nebula and we chose to sit in the open space overlooking the dock where all the yachts are. Nice view.

Most of us had Mocktails while Elena ordered a cocktail. I was supposed to let my liver rest ya? haha!

There was a bunch of caucasians two tables away from us and I think the guy is drunk and he talks quite loudly. A group of chinese came later and sat at the table in between us. I dont know how but the two groups bonded quite well. Or rather, the caucasians were the ones talking most of the time, but they could sing rather well.

That provided free entertainment for us.

The toilet was ultra cool. Pardon me if I sounded like some mountain tortise.

the mirror area where there are neccessities like cotton wool, buds, deodorant and Gatsby.

The sofa area

The lockers

The girls. Like finally all of us can meet. It's been long. (:

2009-06-30T01:11:00.005+08:00

26th June, Friday

So, the friday arrived.

I made my way down to Zouk and met up with the rest; and we had some uninvited company. That's another story altogether.

There was some kind of fashion show going on. Met yu perng outside cos he was working at the fashion show.
They moved over from Phuture to Zouk at about 10plus and that's when the "free-flow" started.

Martell, Chivas, Redbull, Green Tea and Coke.

Absolut Mandarin! one of the ingredient in the making of Bombshell. (:

Someone stacked the glasses but we were told to unstack them by the waitress.

Our group's strength was about 12 or 14.
Initially we all thought 3 bottles were alot but end up they came in small sized bottles and all was gone in 2 hours ! The table was clear by the time I got back after disappearing to i-dont-know-where.

It was almost a smurfs gathering, other than the smurfs I went with, I saw Jasmine + gang outside queuing up to get in. One interesting thing to note was, I was with Peixuan; Teckwei and Timothy at the dancefloor when Peixuan saw Elton. I couldn't recognise him but PX kept pulling him to take picture but he refused. I thought he was PX's friend so i just helped her pull him for a photo. It was until the next day that I realised it was Elton. =X

We met Jerold as well.

I told you, almost half my batch of smurf were there! Overall, it was a fun night. Music's much better with Andrew Chow. It was another DJ spinning last friday when we were there.

27th June

Redbull proved itself really effective when I could not sleep until almost 8am in the morning despite feeling tired. My mind was especially alert. =X

I woke up at about 10plus 11 and headed down to Vivocity and met Peixuan and Annabel. We had high tea at Central, by then it was almost 3pm. Breakfast, lunch and tea rolled into one.
After that we took a walk around Tangs and in less than an hour, I created quite a bad damage to my pockets.

I went home after that and got the soap for the Dry-run.
Drove the car out and went over to Wheelock. Had dinner at Shimbashi Soba. My first time dining there but I wasn't exactly hungry after the late lunch, but the soba was good. Popped by Marina Barrage, my second time there and today the breeze was much stronger and the place was very cooling. :D

What was supposed to be a spin led us to Rocher Beancurd for desserts, and I'm back home at almost 3am.

28th June

I woke up at 830am and prepared myself for a day out at Dairy Farm. ODAC's FOC dry-run.

I reached school at 10am and walked round and round before Shu Hong told me how to get to the basement. =P

It was interesting as we then had our brunch that Sheila and JG got for us at the carpark. So it's called the Carpark Dining. We headed over to Dairy Farm in Sheila's car, Junren's lorry and Boon's van.

We started our activities and then had a short trek up the hill in two batches. It was a little challenging at the initial part and I always feel that i might slip and fall at certain points cos I can't get a firm grip on the ground. It's fun anyhow. :D

Some of us went back to the MOE Adventure camp and returned the logistics and we climbed over the gates to enter the place again for washing up cos the guy locked us out! =X
We went over to SP when the rest came back from the trek for washing up followed by dinner before going back to Dairy Farm for the night walk. I alighted at Clementi to pick my car before joining them at Bukit Batok for dinner. We had a feast and the food's really nice.

It was then that the Night walk was postponed and then the entire group of us went over to Mt Faber Safra for bowling but not everyone bowled. I picked up some tips from Ian as well. :D

This time round we only played one game and then we headed over to Ah Chews for desserts! We made it just in time before they closed and the Mango Sago with Pomelo is yummylicious. Home sweet home-d at about 1am after dropping Wanshan. I am totally exhausted from running around since two days back, and am very sunburnt.

2009-06-24T23:37:00.000+08:00

My crave for sashimi was satisfied today at Ichiban Boshi!

:D

2009-06-23T11:59:00.000+08:00

I realised I lost all my bangkok pictures cos I didnt back up when I went to exchange it. There's no time for me at all to do anything. I rushed from Jurong East and back home, and then to Parkway Parade at Marine Parade and then back home, have dinner and then rushed down to Zouk. All these within 4 hours.

Oh wells. But thankfully I wasn't really the main photographer so my camera only has some very random shots. =X

On Monday I could finally slack at home abit, have been soo busy running here and there over the last week. My initial idea was to go down to IMM's Daiso to pick up some cotton puffs when Santono asked me on Msn if i wanna go out.

So JG, Pearl, Santono and myself met up at Vivo for dinner - location was chosen as that cos i wanted to go Daiso! haha. We had dinner at Carl's Junior and then Wanting joined us halfway through. Headed over to Bakerzin and had their New York Cheesecake. I bought the whole cake back home! :D

We joined the rest later at Mount Faber safra for some bowling and I could finally use my ball! We hopped over to Spize later on for supper and I reached home at about 3.

The next day was another meeting day. Meeting was supposed to be at 1130am and I woke up at 1130. Nice, and when I reached school, lotsa people were late as well! hahaha. So we set down to do our planning stuffs and left school at about 7pm.

Some of us had dinner at Tiong Bahru Market and some at the Bak Kut Teh. Those two places - so familiar yet so strange. =X
Surprisingly my father ended work at about 8plus 9 and was in the vicinity so he picked me up and I drove the car out after that and went over to Mount Faber again. This time we had more people bowling and it's fun but my skills are getting lousier and lousier.
=(

Opel and Mazda left while the rest of us headed over for Yong Tau Foo. The standard of the food has dropped and it's not as nice as it used to be anymore. Sigh.

2009-06-21T22:24:00.004+08:00

Friday

My laptop was causing me much frustrations when the wireless signal keep activating and deactivating that I decided to bring it down to Acer for a checkup. Turns out that it's faulty and I had to bring it over to Harvey Norman at Parkway Parade for a one for one exchange as it's within the 7 day period. :D Minus the travelling part, I'm glad that I did it soon enough. hurhur!

I went back home to put the stuffs down and had a quick dinner before meeting Edmund to cab over to Zouk. It was an impromptu decision to go there. It was pretty empty by the time we reached at about 9pm. I guess a large crowd had hopped over to Butter Factory. If we went there at 9pm last year I dont suppose we will be able to enter Phuture anymore.

We got our chops and went over to the Prata shop just across the street. We saw a girl who wore a blue dress that was very short and it was almost see-through. At least we could see her black underwear. :P

The initial decision was to just use the drinks coupon that came along with the entrance fees and not get additional drinks. The decision was overturned when there's one-for-one till 12 midnight. lol.

Anyhow it got super packed by midnight and I had a hard time going back to the floor after the toilet break. =X
So coincidentally I met my friend whom I've not met for 23453443 years. Okay I was joking. About 4 years or more I suppose. He's the friend of dont know who's friend and the list goes on. So I say the world is damn small.
The place was packed with lots of officers who just finished their ball.

Saturday

Had a short meeting in school before we popped over Dairy Farm for a short recce, and saw the mini trek that we have to trek up so that we can do abseiling down the natural rock wall. It so happened that we saw the instructors there preparing for an abseiling activity for a church camp.

We left shortly after and headed home to shower and change before going town for dinner and movie.

I took the car and the rain got abit heavier when I reached the traffic junction before sunset way, and was intending to turn right. There was a lightning that lit the sky up and the next thing I know, the traffic lights were out of order ! The lights before the lightning were in my favour but when it's my turn to go, there were oncoming traffic but one car stopped. I didn't know whether to move or not and while deciding, one car just zoomed past in front of me!

I just inched my way forward hoping that theres no oncoming cars as one of the car blocked my vision. =X
It's definitely one very shocking experience especially I was driving alone at that time and it's a T-junction somemore.

I managed to reach The Cathay safely without encountering anymore difficulties. The queue for Astons was soooo long so we went over to Cafe Cartel instead for dinner before catching " I love you, Man". The show has got quite a meaningful storyline with funny scenes, so it's not too bad.
:D

2009-06-17T01:27:00.002+08:00

Had another day of meeting today again.

We bought brunch for some of the odac-ians and cabbed to school. It was a wise idea to cab to school as we were carrying alot of things and also brought my lappie to school.

The meeting ended at about 7pm and some of us headed to Clementi for dinner first before proceeding to Cine for movie. Ghost of Girlfriends' Past. I've watched it with the smurfs last friday but since the initial movie that we wanted to catch only have the first row seats left, and we found out only when Santono they all reached and told us when we were on the bus.

I haven't really been catching last trains as far as I can recall, more of catching last buses. It became even rarer since two years plus back when I've got my driving licence and when James got his car awhile after.

However last week when we caught Blood after our meeting and today I've been catching the last train although I still can board bus 14. There were more people on the train today. A lady almost couldn't make it just in time when the door was closing in front of her. I was wondering what she would do, since she would have to cab cos she missed the last train but she did something that just shocked alot of us. She used her arm to block the door from closing and tried to push the door open. Ever wonder what would happen if the door just closed with her arm stucked and the train just move on ? Of course, the door open la!

When I changed train at Raffles place, there's this tall guy who was soooooooooo fair/white decked out in skinny jeans and blazer, looked like he had makeup on with his oh-so-red lips and I think he put on female perfume as he sat beside me.

For a moment I thought he was some kind of Vampire. So coincidentally there was this guy sitting opposite us he kept mumbling and I thought he was praying or what. I would surely have freaked out if I caught the movie - Drag me to hell earlier on. LOL !

2009-06-16T02:25:00.004+08:00

I got this from the PC show over the weekend.
I was deciding between this and Toshiba's. Although I've heard many comments that Acer is cheap but the inner compartments are bad etc etc.

It's a pity that Martin wasn't around that day when I was down cos he was sick. Else I could have asked him to explain to me since all the different salesperson told me different things for the same model I was asking for.

I'm so in love with the colour of this laptop - it's got a very sleek look.
(:

2009-06-09T23:59:00.003+08:00

I'm back from Bangkok !

It was a wonderful 5 day shopping spree, we were all damn focused this time round, compared to the last trip.

I spent almost 700 on shopping, food and transport.
An irony that we had Japanese cuisine for most of our meals instead of local cuisine, but we had the one and only bowl of tomyum soup on the last day. lol.

Pictures will be up when I have the time to upload them. Currently all the laptops at home crashed except for my old trusty laptop that have been with me for the last 5 years and survived the China chill when bel brought it with her last year.

I miss the land of smiles !
I miss the feeling of almost free-spending. (Okay, at least its worth the buy)
I miss the bargaining where you go, "buy more cheaper?" or "wholesale price?"

The best bargain I felt was when we wanted to buy those Heineken, redbull singlets but was quoted about 190 baht. We bargained till about 150 baht but felt it was too expensive so we walked away and the lady shouted, okay 100 baht. We stopped in our tracks, smiled and turned back.
:P

More updates on bangkok soon.

In the meantime, I went to school today for ODAC meeting and for the next few months I am packed to the brim.

2009-06-02T22:22:00.002+08:00

This morning I woke up feeling very uncomfortable, something like indigestion and the food's stacked right up to my chest area and I couldn't sleep well at all.

Took two doses of "eno salts" with a 2 hour interval in between.
After I took my first dose, I felt a bit better but after awhile there's this urge to puke but nothing came out.

The porridge from Clementi central wasn't appetizing as well.

In the evening, I decided to visit the doctor's so that I won't jeopardize the bangkok trip. Turns out that I might be suffering from mild stomach flu.
:(

How nice, doctor says I must avoid spicy and oily foods and milk for about one or two days.
Bangkok; Tom Yum Goong ?!!!

2009-06-02T12:05:00.002+08:00

PJ just tagged me on FB.
totally a princessy day for her when she celebrated her birthday on 8th May at OneDegreeFifteen.

please ignore me in the picture cos I looked damn fat in there.
:(

2009-06-02T02:06:00.007+08:00

I COMPLETED SUNDOWN MARATHON ! (: (: (:
I have many people to thank for, for their encouragements before and during the race and most importantly, God. Through the first 21km I could only focus my mind on Him to bring me through.

Of course, I have people like ah boon to thank as well for accompanying me through the journey. I think I've in a way pulled him down as my stamina was damn bad.

One of the main reasons why I joined Sundown was because I wanted to complete a marathon this year as I "became" an adult. Before the race many have heard me complaining that I've regretted signing up for it etc etc. Some left encouraging comments though.

We truly lived up to ODAC's habit - late.
The race was supposed to start at 12am but we started running at about 12.45am. It was partly due to the bus but that's another story altogether. :P
The first few kms were alright, and I spotted a car key along the way! haha! I told the marshalls but I'm not sure if they did hear me right or do anything about it when I reached the first drink station.

when I was hitting the 5-6th km I had a stomach upset. It came on and off; I almost gave up but decided to just start walking first and see how it goes.

Thankfully it went off like after the 9th or 10th km, and that's where some blisters developed but I've got some blister plasters so yeaps. :)
I started to run again but it was really tiring, its either I couldn't catch my breath or my legs were not listening to me. Before I could hit the 21st km, my toes cramped. After that I started to walk almost all the way.

The journey seemed like the longest journey I've travelled on foot in my entire life at one go. My calf muscles and thighs ached, both threatening to cramp. I figured that I've used up almost a tube of deep heat probably. After the 26km or so my back ached (where the end of the spine is).

Thankfully, LiJing was nice enough to help me massage it when we were at Bedok reservoir with deep heat. I was almost void of energy and all that was in my mind was the ending point and silent prayers.

Usually for standard Chartered races, the metallic sensor strip would be placed at the end point and so when i was approaching the ending point and saw the rest who finished the run, they stretched out their hands for a high five and I ran towards the strip and was so happy that I stopped in my tracks, only to realise that I have yet to reach the ending point. I ran towards it and finally, I completed 42km. :D

It was a blunder made by me, as I didn't see where the clock that indicated the finishing point was.

An illustration by Mr Nathaniel Lee who was constantly reminding me of the blunder I made. The blue, red, blue strips were the metallic sensors on the ground. He wanted to tell whole of ODAC about this blunder but I volunteered to annouce this myself.

I was just too happy afterall. I've achieved my goals as well and indeed the finisher's tee didn't come easy. :D

During the race certain things came to my mind. I know that many things that I have now didn't come easily and I had went through a rough patch before and I shouldn't take things for granted. I admit that I've indeed taken some things for granted.

I need some time to re-adjust back, but I don't think it can be back to where I used to be. I might need to start from scratch again.

2009-06-02T01:36:00.003+08:00

I'm so due for an update!

During the exams little events like the ODAC April babies' celebration at Jr's place, playing with his cute puppy, attending Bobbi Brown workshop and spending $218 (of which $150 is paid for using the voucher) and Huiman's birthday celebration at Chris' lit up my otherwise mundane life.

Okay and so right after the CF paper on 21st May, I met up with some of the ODAC-ians who wanted to catch Angels and Demons. The timing for the show wasn't too right so I left after dinner and they proceeded for their movie. I went home, showered and settled down for awhile before heading to Karen brother's place for mj. (: It's been like almost two months since I last touched the tiles. I've been a good girl and stayed away from them k!

Reached home at about 6plus in the morning and went straight to bed. Totally exhausted for being awake for the last 24 hours. Woke up in the afternoon and slacked abit till night time when James' and the rest came over for another rd of mj. :D Due to unforeseen circumstances, we only played one round and ended the night, but I have yet another session in the aftnn with some of the ODAC-ians. I headed out to Vivo with my parents in the evening and when I reached home, my sister wanted to play with my cousin. I was also keen to play with her Hello Kitty Mj tiles so we went over.

Yes it obviously is another mj craze! Everyone wants to play and so do I. hahahaha.

I had a little training for sundown but that left me with a cramp for like 3 days. That basically mean that I had only 1 pathetic training before going for Sundown Marathon. :P

2009-05-20T23:52:00.000+08:00

CF is a killer.

am 17 hours away from liberation. (:
till then.

2009-04-29T00:36:00.002+08:00

let's just say I haven't felt like this for a loong while.

There are things which I wanna blog about but I don't have the time, neither the mood.
am just leaving a short post to let everyone know that i'm still alive, but very drained.

I'm keeping a very healthy lifestyle and have long abandoned my night owl traits. Sleeping at about 1am (or maybe i'm still half a night owl huh?) and waking up at about 9 am daily. The change is perhaps the waking up early part I suppose?

I shouldn't blame anyone. Poly has trained me well, to start studying last minute. In the past, i prepared one week before the paper.

In uni of course, I didn't. I started early, but my pace was too slow or, I think I kept thinking that I still have time to study. and obviously, time flew and now its exactly 8 more days to my first paper. thanks.

i think i've gone a little cranky.
goodnight.

2009-04-04T04:37:00.003+08:00

I kept reflecting over that sentence.
It caught me by surprise
and its my first time hearing that.

It quite aptly describes me to a certain extent.
I'm just wondering how I can change that.
Sometimes it's not that I don't care.
Rather, I don't know how to and
am afraid of saying the wrong things.

2009-04-03T00:17:00.009+08:00

Hello! I'm officially 21 and have sinced joined club 21.

As mentioned in the previous post, I met the smurfs for dinner at Villa Bali and then to dbl O on Saturday night.

Our food at villa bali.

On sunday, I had school and dinner with the extended family. The letter "M" was a gift from my cousin. (:
Loves loves.

On Monday, I met Elena and Pauljean at night at Tong Shui cafe - Thomson's branch. Elena arrived first and she walked over to where I parked the car. She was supposed to pass me some bday deco stuffs and I saw her holding a balloon too! (:
They bought a small oreo cheesecake for me from bakzerzin too, but the picture's not here. Thank you girls!

After supper, Elena and I headed over to Mustafa Centre. I was leading the way with the use of my GPS. My first time using it and it was quite fun.
Anyway, we spent a total of 3 hours shopping at Mustafa! Encountered an unhappy incident there, over two calculators and the lazy salesperson refused to give us our refunds and made us waste so much time there! I was tired and wanted to go home to sleep already! Oh wells, but we got back our refunds eventually.
What a way to spend the first few hours of me turning an adult right ?

Tuesday
I borrowed Serp's function room to hold a small party with the odac-ians.

I went over to Middle Road in the afternoon to get some stuffs before heading back home to get changed and down to Janice's place for awhile. I was supposed to meet Sheila and JG at 5pm at JE station but I was late. They reached at about 5.10pm while I cabbed over from Clementi at about 5.40pm or so. =X

There's so much stuff to carry that I had no choice but to cab.

The theme of the party is WHITE. I could finally wear that dress as i dont have much of a chance to wear it out anyway. They didn't allow me to go upstairs to the roof terrace. I just passed them my stuffs and told them roughly how it could be decorated.

When i went up there at night, It was so beautifully done. thank you peopleeeee. (:

They made a shape of a cake out of tealight candles! So prettyy..

John smashed a piece of cake right in my face when I was walking towards the pavillion. I was totally stunned and it stained part of the dress. I also didnt manage to escape the water parade eventually and ended up in the pool. Evil Ms VP didn't allow me to change out of my dress! oh wells, it's still an experience. hurhur!

13th batch exco together with rex and sebas got me a DKNY wallet and a Swatch watch. (:
Remember in my previous post I decided to get a Swatch watch? I told Sheila the model no. as she could get discounts for it. Elena plus the rest are getting it for me as a present. I later found out that the smurfs ordered a Swatch watch online and has yet to arrive. I decided not to get the watch anymore and texted Sheila on Sunday night.

When I opened the presents that the 13th batch got me and saw the Swatch box, I was sooo surprised! haha! Apparently they got the watch way before I made any decision and bought it based on my description to Sheila and she asked me for the model no. to double check. =X
haha. Thank you thank you.

I think i'm very much fated to own the watch. :P

12th batch got me a Guess Denim jacket and a cake. (:

group picture for the night. (:

I had an amazing experience turning 21.

I was served the customary coming-of-age drink(s) by the smurfs.
I had cake smashed in my face.
I was being thrown into the pool.

Many thanks to all who had been part of any of the celebrations to make my 21st a wonderful experience. Your presence was very much appreciated!
Many thanks to all who sent their well-wishes!

2009-03-29T17:14:00.002+08:00

The week was pretty chaotic and busy. There were like 101 things that needed my attention.

I had a short odac meeting on friday late morning, and we took our lunch at Clementi market. I went over to Jurong Point to look at Swatch watches because i cannot decide on which watch to get. Finally decided on one and I made my way down to Junxiang's place cos he's celebrating his 21st. I left the place at about 12plus since I had school the next day.

A full day class of CF. Pascal's a french and his accent is abit funny at times.
Class ended at about 4.20pm and I went home before heading out to meet the smurfs for dinner at Villa Bali.

It was full house that day, lucky i made reservations on Monday! haha. There's a girl celebrating her 18th Birthday and a Solemnisation event going on that day. Moreover, Villa Bali is taking part in the Earth Hour thingy, so they switched off the lights at 8.30 till 9.30pm. We had a candle light dinner, and I really mean it. It's quite dark still and sometimes we cannot see what we are eating too.

The smurfs gave me my present in two parts. Part ONE is a necklace with a key pendant from Perlini Silver. Part TWO has yet to come. Thanks. (:

I cannot recall who was the one who suggested going DBL O after dinner. I couldn't say no to going there either. I think Annabel wanted her revenge. =X
I drove my car home before heading down in Nic's car.

We opened a bottle of Johnnie Walker. I would prefer Martell to that but it's more expensive. I've got school the next day I can't drink so much so my shots are mixed. :D
And I bumped into Ashley and Thierry there too. In actual fact, I was quite happy to see him as I've not talked to him for a very long time. As the birthday girl, I wasn't quite spared despite having classes the next day.

We left for home at about 1plus and Nic dropped some of us back. Surprisingly, I still managed to wake up at 8plus for my CF class.
(:

2009-03-19T23:59:00.000+08:00

I tried putting everything aside and to study today. I was successful for about an hour or two, and managed to cover about 2 chapters.

I always put my computer on Hibernate mode instead of shutting it down, and today was no exception. I hibernated it when I wanted to take my shower and when I came back, I couldn't connect it to the internet anymore.

My dear laptop simply loves to play such tricks on me. It's not the first time anymore. :(
I took out my dusty old laptop which Annabel returned to me about 2 months back and switched it on, and am amazed to find it working on such fast speeds. Previously it took me like at least 10 minutes for it to startup. Apparently I cannot connect it to the internet too.

My last resort was to use my father's laptop, and here I am typing away. It shows how much I'm dependent on technology.

2009-03-18T01:26:00.009+08:00

I guess I've turned lazy again. :P

Friday

I met Elena at 3pm at Tangs cos she wanted the Hello Kitty Couture's compact casing but it was out of stock by the time we got there. We headed over to Suntec and I went for The Body Shop sale again and was amazed that there wasn't a queue at all. I bought the Strawberry Polish to stock up. :D I realised after I made my purchases that it was on sale at almost half price.

Met the rest of the Odac-ians afterwards for dinner and then bowling. I seem to have a thing for bowling once again. (for leisure of course, i'm not into competitive bowling too) But i have to say, that the lanes Marina Square's real bad. I prefer the one at Safra Mount Faber.

Some of us had supper at Bukit Merah's Yong Tau Foo and Eric dropped us home after that. Thanks! (:

Saturday

It's the smurfs' outing to celebrate Annabel's 21st. It was dinner at this Italian cum Jap restaurant at Liang Court followed by Double O. The birthday girl was made to drink so much that Merlion shifted to double O that day. Pictures are up on facebook.

Sunday

I'm a happy girl when I laid my hands on the pair of River Island Jeans. (:
There's an ongoing promotion - 15% off your bill if you use NETS to pay when you spend above $100. After discount, my jeans cost $102.

Anyway, these two days I stayed home to study. I wouldn't say its fruitful neither would I deem it unproductive. My mind's preoccupied with much stuff, but I think they won't be as important if placed beside studies. Finally, I've settled on some stuff and hopefull everything will fall into place soon.

2009-03-12T01:21:00.005+08:00

Happy 21st Birthday, BEL.
You're an adult now.
May you rule the world,
Find your Raymond Lam soon.

Believe it or not, she used to be my "enemy" in sec 1. (:

So yesterday (11th March) I went for The Body Shop Sale at suntec with elena. I reached suntec alittle after 11.30 and when I went in, I saw a horrendously long queue that snaked around the centre of the exhibition hall. I was wondering what are people queuing for, and it was only after I met Elena and she told me they're queuing up to PAY. Nice.

The crowd was crazy, and I can't squeeze my way in to look at the stuffs because you really have to squeeze your way through. I was standing behind the crowd trying to figure a way to get in when this lady literally used her arms to push me away. I really cannot stand such crowds, and I'm a little afraid.

There were travel sized products going at 5 for $10. I was browsing through the selections when I heard this guy telling the salesgirl that he wanted all flavours in xx amount EACH. (xx amount because I cant remember what. But its definitely ALOT.)

While queuing up to pay, I saw that guy with another lady sitting on the floor in the centre counting their stocks. I wonder if they really need that huge amount of shower gels etc or they're going to sell outside. It's just my own assumptions anyway.

The best part of the whole sale is, I queued up for 2.5 hours just to pay for my purchases. Thus, you can imagine the crowd and the snaking queue. Somehow the goods seemed cheap to alot of customers as I looked around, everyone's shopping bag is very full. As though everything is free. I thought now recession ? hurhur!

I bought a total of $35 worth of goods and we headed to Soup Spoon for our lunch. It was 2.30pm when I left the hall. After lunch we went over to Esplanade Library to study and there was this weird guy who kept staring at us. When I stared back at him, he just walked away and after awhile turned back again. I continued staring at him until he went to hide behind some book shelves and appearing again pretending to read a book. I stared at him again but it doesn't work. After awhile he literally stared at us again and stood there with his hands on his hips, like a statue for quite some time.

We decided to ignore him and continued with our studying. He probably got tired after awhile and disappeared.

2009-03-10T23:59:00.002+08:00

I'm being bogged down by so many matters on hand. Something I've been pushing aside for quite some time and now I need to deal with it.

I was contemplating to skip CF paper today but I went in the end, despite knowing that I can probably do none of it and my predictions came true. I sat there looking at the questions for half an hr, and although i know what are they asking but I cannot recall the formulas. (Some i studied way back but it was too long ago that I've forgotten.) I spent the next half hr looking around and making some plans mentally.

When the digital clock turns 11, I think at the very least a good 1/10 of the entire hall left. I left subsequently and headed to the library to wait for the rest to finish and to check on my email. I left with Peifen to meet Elena in town to catch "He's just not that into you." It's a totally chick flick but I guess it's still nice in its own way.

I got the quotation from Essential Brew today and I was taken aback by the astronomical figure that was in the Excel Sheet. (Okay, I might be a little exaggerating here but the real figure is $2548.70) It is way out of my budget. Finally I narrowed my options down to the last two. We shall see how things go.

2009-03-09T20:39:00.004+08:00

I got a light bulb to hang at the window yesterday, so that my study area will be more brightly lit. I was all set and ready to study the whole of today at home. I used to study like that in Poly Year 1 and 2.

Early in the morning at about 9plus, the drilling sound woke me up and at the same time, i received an sms from ML if i'm going school to study today. I thought someone upstairs or downstairs was doing some short drilling so i replied him that I'm going to stay at home to study.
Then it dawned on me that my neighbour just sold his house and the drilling could be from the unit opposite mine doing renovations.

True enough, the drilling went on and on and on... I had no choice but to study in school. =X
Of all times, the renovations had to be done now. I'll need to seek somewhere else to study during the day now.

Great.

2009-03-08T16:37:00.003+08:00

(: (: (:

I got the Omnia Red yesterday and everything's going fine so far. I'm starting to adore certain shades of red now. I encountered some problems transferring my contacts from my old SE to Omnia. Thus I was at Starhub for a pretty long time trying to fix the problem. When everything's done I forgot to remove my memory card from the old phone as I traded in my phone. =(

There's no important documents there but I've lost all my pictures. I feel for the loss.

I caught Slumdog Millionaire on Friday night and I would say it's a pretty decent film but not one that makes me go "wow" after the show. I really liked the initial part of the film where they portray the living conditions in the slums.

AND I was browsing through River Island and saw a few pairs of Jeans that I liked. It's cheaper than Levis but still expensive. Sigh. So many wants! I'll need to start on a major saving project.

Off to study CF now!

2009-03-05T20:51:00.000+08:00

I have zilch motivation to study right now.

:(

2009-03-04T21:17:00.002+08:00

Well I was supposed to study at Woodlands Library today but decided not to in the end. Home has too much distractions to study. Besides since Poly Year 3 I somehow forgotten how to study, unlike those times when I was in Year 1 and 2.

I finally finished watching The Little Nyonya. (:
I shouldn't have started watching the show in the first place because then I cannot stop watching and it's a good thing that I've finished the show. Now i can concentrate on other things.

And yes you are right, I didn't study at home today afterall.

2009-03-04T00:56:00.004+08:00

I nearly got a Samsung Omnia last Sunday. I'm still contemplating whether to get it or not or wait for Starhub to release iPhone, of which the date is still unknown. I'm able to get the Omnia at 200plus but I know Samsung's resale value isn't very good. sooooooo. mmmm....

During the last weekend I was catching Little Nyonya online, the two whole days and didn't study much. I made a blunder on Monday during the POA prelims. I so much wanted to laugh at myself after I realised my mistake.

Today I was in school early in the morning to study for Macro paper in the afternoon when our VP led the pack to the entrance of the library and tempted me with movie/MJ. I was very tempted to do skip the paper but I didn't do so in the end. I wanted to see my own standard for those topics which I've studied for.

I wouldn't say I regretted going there but i could only do less than half the paper and I feel that my answers are all similar. I tried to write as much as I can, draw as big as I can so that I can fill more pages. An attempt for my paper to be marked. I don't wanna go for a paper and end up not being marked. That wastes more of my time.

I headed over to Jurong Point to look for them after I left the exam hall at 430, and then took a cab back home with the rest because of some miscommunications and they all came over to my place for mj/cards. They helped me "locate" the lucky spot in my house! It's a fun day home with the odac-ians and our much needed breaks in case we get burnt out from all the stardeee-ing. (:

After so much breaks, it's time to hit the books yet again. Now, I'm going to concentrate on Corporate Finance. AH and I've got no idea what to do for my birthday. HAHA.

2009-02-25T23:28:00.006+08:00

I have been waking up at 10plus everyday and studying till night time. Sounds very hardworking right? Yeah, but the progress is still slow and how much of it actually retains in my brain remains a mystery.

I have been busy ever since, dating my notes and books. The only entertainment is when night time comes and im in front of the computer. Ever wonder why time passes so fast when you're in front of the computer and surfing the net, only to realise two to three hours passed?

I kept tripping in school on Tuesday and I developed a sore tonsil and an ulcer on my lower gum. :( I went Tea Garden to study on Tuesday night and I saw David Lin and Weijie. So coincidental. (:

Anyway I was studying today and for some weird reason, I was reminded of that incident. Under normal circumstances I wouldn't think too much cos I wouldn't be hearing much from the person on weekdays. Today I actually wondered if the person is going to ever contact me again.

I really wonder. It kept me occupied the whole time after dinner.
There's so much that I want to type here but it's best not to. Even if things are resolved, its never going to be the same anymore. I still remember those days when it was much simpler. Our priorities have changed totally, which is a pity.

Perhaps I'm thinking too much, perhaps not. I'll wait and see for myself. Argh. I'm just trying to keep myself occupied to keep myself from thinking about it.

STARDEE.

2009-02-22T20:36:00.005+08:00

The weekend just slipped by and I didn't enjoy the weekend either.

I spent saturday studying at Woodlands library at about 12plus to 8plus. I realised that there's alot more to cover.

It just took a simple sentence which sparked off something unhappy. I don't feel good either. It was the first time such a thing happened and my heart just felt very heavy. Fullstop. I wished that things didn't have to turn out the way it did. I wrote a long post yesterday and was hesitating whether or not to post, but decided not to.

Enough said.

2009-02-21T01:02:00.002+08:00

S-T-A-R-D-E-E.
That's what i did for today, or rather for this whole week but as mentioned earlier on my progress was at the pace of a snail. For the past two days, we brought food into the room and had our brunch before we start studying. It's important to fill up the stomach before studying too. (:

Today was a rather much power-packed session, though the whole day i just managed to finish 5 macro tutorial questions and started abit on a new chapter. It takes time but I roughly get the idea and hopefully, I wont forget about it! ha.

One more week to prelims, as much as I know I probably cannot make it in time to finish studying but I really hope to cover as much as possible. =X
Most of my time will then be spent on stardee-ing from now on.

2009-02-19T00:21:00.002+08:00

Stardee-d in school today and my pace is still as slow as snail. I did 3 lectures of POA.
(:

As quoted from Santono, please intro Mr Motivation to me!
I need to STARDEE.
From now onwards, I think I will be seen very often in school.

2009-02-17T23:59:00.003+08:00

The eRev was yesterday and I was scheduled at 8am. I was expecting some technical problems to arise so I woke up at 8.30 when I can log in, like finally. Having just woke up, I'm still in a very sleepy mode and thus when I saw the schedule my first reaction was just one word. Wow.

I didn't know where to start from and is practically lost and, probably have got no idea how to choose. At the end of the day, I fitted my time tables nicely and choosing similar slots with Karen when I can, especially for FI. If I were to attend it alone, I think I might give it a miss. Some classes were full by the time I'm done with my selections and gotta re-choose again! This time, I was in a hurry as I was afraid that the classes might be full by the time I'm done. Hence, I made a wrong selection when I could have gotten a better timing. Sigh .. I don't wish to talk about it anymore!

Remember initially I wanted to book a chalet for my 21st with Jun Xiang? Well there were some problems along the way and I don't feel like opening a chalet anymore and just make do with dinners with different groups of friends on different days, at a nicer place of my choice - hopefully. I hope to be able to book / dine at OneRochester but i'm still waiting for them to get back to me with the quotations!

My decision to do away with the chalet was finalized when I selected Corporate Finance UOL (full day) revision class on the 28th and 29th March; Saturday and Sunday respectively. It was the only time slot for CF available anyway. My revision classes starts on the 20th March and extends all the way till 28th April. My first paper is on 7th May. Oh and I found out that I've got a few similar classes as Ming Long too, and probably some of the rest of the year 2s. (: (: At least I've got company for some classes like Macro Local revision class. yippeees.

And boy, my studying progress is definitely at a pace of a snail, or probably even slower. I don't pin much hopes on the prelims but I'm still glad that I made the effort to study the horrendous and scary Macroeconomics. I took like 2 study sessions just to understand the first two chapters. :( That's really bad! I'm going to study tmr and hopefully will be fruitful!

This entry's getting longer but before I end, just let me whine about my Ms Excel. I was doing some tabulations just now and it keeps on hanging! I hope it doesn't die on me else .... I've got no idea what to do except to fall back on my old acer with 97 Ms Excel. hurhur! Oh please Ms Excel, I need you. I really do.

Ah, I'm off to bed already! I'm going to study in school tmr. (: (:

2009-02-16T11:39:00.001+08:00

I think I am blind and I always make such mistakes which I really hate myself for!
CRAP.

2009-02-14T22:25:00.003+08:00

The technical error is still not solved yet. Yesterday morning they dropped me a message yesterday morning telling me that my eRev is scheduled at 3pm so I brought my laptop along with me to school.

All in all they texted me four times in a day. First was the schedule, and before 3pm they texted me telling me the system's down. Fine. So i waited and they texted me again telling me it was up and not very long after, they told me its down again. Thanks ah.

Met Jiajia in school and we went to the car boot sale at the Plaza in school and I got myself a top for $15. haha! So much for studying. I went home to put down my stuffs first before meeting Nat, Eunice and Angela for dinner at Holland. The rest didn't turn up. I walked past Crystal Jade and it was overly crowded (if there's such a word). Everywhere was full by about 9plus so we went over to Starbucks and was lucky to find a table when we reached there. (:

Btw this morning the school texted me to tell me that I'm scheduled for eRev at 8am on Monday. We'll see if they will text me again probably at 7.59am on Monday. (:

I've decided not to book Aranda because its way too expensive and will settle for Aloha Loyang's Garden Terrace and will be holding it on a Friday instead of a Saturday because they are fully booked on Saturday. Its better than having to pay so much anyway.

2009-02-13T02:44:00.005+08:00

JX just checked with Aloha Loyang, no more chalets available on a weekend. Now, we're left with Aranda but its approx $600. Should I/ We ? Its excluding food and, the essentials like extra tables and chairs.

The problem with procrastinating. I think I need to make a decision soon just in case even Aranda's occupied too! But when I think about it, 300 for just two nights and it's doing the usual stuff which is pretty common plus i've got other worries at the back of my head too. However I did entertain the thought of doing up the place into some cosy corner and making it look as grand as it can out of that place. haha!

ah wells.

2009-02-11T23:59:00.002+08:00

I was supposed to study at woodlands library but because we were late thus we did not manage to get a table. I was supposed to meet SY and JG at 10.30am at cck but I woke up at 10am. If you noticed there's like a pattern. Each time i'm supposed to meet early, I always wake up at 10am! I think I need a new alarm clock, because it seems that i'm quite "immuned" to my phone's alarm. I even set like 6 alarms in total. (3 different timing on each phone). That's really really, bad.

We did manage to find a place to settle down to study in the end. Time check: 1pm or so. We studied all the way till about 9pm, with breaks in between of course. I felt that I wasn't very productive yesterday though. :( I shall try harder again another time.

Jr dropped us off at Yishun and I met Elena. I went home to bring my baby lancer over to tea garden. I parked infront of some bush or whatever and when I went back to the car, I see ants all over my boot area. It was a really sickening sight! I cannot stand it so I went for a car wash. I will never ever park in front of some bush or whatever anymore, especially at night! (oh, I forgot I only can drive at night)

:(

2009-02-10T21:55:00.004+08:00

NP's Canteen one is going to close soon and the stalls are moving over to Makan Place. That's pretty sad because canteen one has played a rather significant part during my days in NP. :( Anyhow, I ate Yong Tau Foo today. It's been two years since I ate from that stall because of a bad experience.

Remember two years back I was driving to school on a rainy morning and my tyre was punctured. Thankfully Malcolm and James was with me in the car too, and for some reason I totally forgot all about Blk 72's sheltered area at Level 3. They end up helping me change the tyre under the rain! Imagine that. Somemore, we're pretty new to such things. We had a pretty hard time.. After everything was done, we had breakfast at Canteen 1 and I ordered my usual Yong Tau Foo but the food that day didn't taste as good. I couldn't even finish half of my food and I felt like puking with each bite.

I didn't bring my notes to school to study thus, when I reached home I don't feel like going back to school to study anymore. I chose to stay home and studied instead. I also scrapped the plan of going for a jog. Sighs. But I did clear one chapter at the end of the day.

2009-02-10T11:59:00.000+08:00

The weekend passed by idly and so did I.

If it was me previously, I guess I would have felt upset seeing that you had to leave. Thank you for the wonderful memories that you left behind and the not-so-fine ones but it doesn't matter anymore. Goodbye my friend.

I am one satisfied student today after completing two chapters. (: No big deal you say, but to me it is a rather big deal. hurhur!

Aston's for dinner was nice. I had a special drink to go along with, rootbeer with small amount of chilla sauce. Anyone tried before? For this, I have "sbpos" to thank. :P

2009-02-07T22:05:00.003+08:00

Thursday - 5th Feb

We had a meeting on Thursday morning with the Student care officers.. I left with louis to Clementi to get more chocolates for the fondue. On our way to look for the rest at Lot1 after that, Louis' bike got a nail in the tyre. Thankfully we were nearby sheila's place when he realised that his tyre was punctured. We went to grab a quick bite while waiting for them to go back.

Some of us got down to writing messages and all at her place. We started preparing the food at about 4plus 5, and I melted the chocolates. (:

Anyhow, the event's a blast and although some parts didn't go as planned but it's alright. I think and hope everyone enjoyed themselves! They threw nesh into the pool later on cos we celebrated his birthday in advanced for him, and nesh wanted daven to be into the pool too. Daven knew he had no choice so he walked there himself instead of being carried there.

We've estimated wrongly the amount of chocolate needed, thus there's about half a pot of it left. The seniors started playing with the chocolate first on Roy, and at the end of the day, Sheila, Junren, Daven and Rex were all "painted" with chocolate.

As usual, we camwhored and this time, Nesh's friend Andrew helped us take pictures with his SLR. We left the function room at 10plus and some of us headed to 302 for some food. It's a really enjoyable day.

Wang Junren, the 13th batch President made a speech and his last sentence was;
" The correct Pronunciation of SIM O.D.A.C. is Family." (:

Friday - 6th Feb

Today, I was supposed to meet Elena at 12pm to study at Woodlands Library. But I woke up at 11am instead. Anyhow, We went over to study at about 2pm after lunch and studied all the way till 8pm. I'm so proud of myself despite the fact that I took so long just to finish one chapter.

More study sessions please! (:

2009-02-04T23:59:00.001+08:00

I was supposed to meet Elena and Pauljean at 11am at YCK today but I woke up at 10.05am. How nice. I dropped them a message and went about preparing and left house at 11plus. Anyhow, I reached YCK and took a cab to her place but Pauljean's not home! She went over to her sister's place. She asked me to ask her maid to let her in but I felt paiseh just in case her parents are home so I waited for her outside standing under the tree. Thankfully her sister's place like a 5-10 minutes drive away kinda thing so she came back fast enough. (:

We took our lunch and started playing cards. The initial idea was to play mj but because there's 5 of us so we played cards instead. It was fun and exciting. It's also like a "last meetup" before Daisy flies over to Aussieland to study. Jia you! We'll see you in June. hehe! =P

We left at about 6pm and I went over to chomp chomp for dinner with the odacians. Dinner was the usual fare and then we hopped over to Ice cube.

We were ordering and santono wanted " Very Berry Strawberry" and some of us cannot get it right at the first try and it was really funny. Subsequently, it became "Fairly Smelly Strawberry"; credits to Mr boon Wee. hahahah!

It's a happy day meeting all the peeps. Odac COC's tmr evening! I hope everything will run smoothly. Anyhow, I'm off to board my flight to lala land.

2009-02-03T23:59:00.000+08:00

I was late for POA class today and something embarassing happened. There's an empty seat beside Karen so I made my way there and the girl beside told me that the seat's occupied. But she didn't even put her bag or anything to indicate that the seat is taken. OH WELLS. So i had to make my way to look for another seat. grr.

Anyways I met up with Santono and Yi an for a "quick lunch" at the canteen and we all headed down to sheila yeo's place. Well, by the time we reached there they've already completed what's needed to be done and have already started playing and so we joined in and played all the way till about 8. The intial study plan was long forgotten/ scrapped. =X

We ordered Canadian pizza for dinner cos they had one for one; so we ordered 2 which makes it 4 pizzas. We had leftovers which make up a whole pizza. Next up was bowling session. Her condo has a bowling alley! How cool is that but the bowling balls and the lane is pretty much cannot-make-it. That explains why not alot of people use it and probably, cheap? But it's good when you've got nothing to do and just wanna hit some pins.

Anyhow, it's been a fun day. Everyone who were present today except for Wanshan are from UOL. We all looked as if we've just finished our prelims eh? hurhur.

2009-02-02T21:28:00.003+08:00

I think I'm a klutz. This morning I was packing my bag getting ready for school and I can't find my organiser. I was running late, thus I went to school first but I was feeling so upset because of it. I keep trying to recall where I left it and all and was feeling uneasy the whole day. I thought I took it out the other day but forgot to put back into my bag.

I even thought of getting a new organiser and went around searching for a nice one but they are all so expensive. At night, when I got home I saw it lying among a pile of magazine on the floor. =X

Elena told me about this optician located at Chong Pang that sells cheap contact lens. I think i'm going there to get my supply when it runs out. Anyhow, I might have to get my degree checked again because I can't see the board clearly in class anymore. :( Just hope that it doesnt increase drastically; the degree is already very steep. sighs.

Anyhow, on a lighter note, I received my MAC stuff today! AND AND AND, I got my loots from Karen who got them for me in Korea.

Skinfood Rice Mask wash off at only S$8. It's retailing for $25.50 sgd in Singapore!
Skinfood Cucumber Soothing Wash Off at only s$8; also retailing at $25.50 in Singapore.
Etude House BB cream also at only $8.

I'm seriously very excited. It's so much cheaper to buy in Korea. I'm going to make Korea my next dream destination and when i'm there I'm going to really stock them up!

Plus, I got myself Fancl's Mild Cleansing Oil and Toner. All in all, I spent quite a bomb today (excluding MAC). But at least it makes me a bit happier considering the fact that all along I thought that I lost my organiser.

My loots for the day..

(:

2009-02-01T16:52:00.006+08:00

Saturday - 31st January 09

I actually managed to wake up to go sentosa. The initial meeting time was 1030 at harbourfront but I woke up at 10 instead. I reached harbourfront at 11.45am and it's not much of a surprise that they're still there. (:

We made our way to sentosa and honestly speaking, it's been ages since i stepped foot on that island, and even more so for the beach. Besides, I've been adviced by the doctor not to go under the sun for prolonged periods since I'm on medication (and that's why I have yet to go for any treks organised by ODAC!) Oh wells. I slapped on sunblock in order not to get sunburnt. Anyway, the possibility of me getting tanned is pretty low cos I'll just turn red and get burnt instead.

Anyhow we played the usual beach games like volleyball, frisbee and soccer. The sun was pretty good, hot then not so hot .. some of us left at about 330 to wash up and when we're done it was drizzling. (: Lucky we went off first else the shower area will be filled with lots of people waiting to wash up.

I lost my new tube of Banana Boat sunblock with SPF50! :( Uh oh. I couldn't find it in my bag. Could have probably left it behind at the mats or something. argh.

I wanted to get MAC's primer but they were out of stock at the Vivo's mac counter. :(
My supply's running out soon so I hope to get it asap. They will arrive only next week! On another note, the MAC cosmetics I ordered online cos they had a sale arrived! I can't wait to collect it from Elena soon. Initially I thought they would arrive before CNY but oh wells. My $80 worth of MAC. (:

I can't wait, I can't wait.

It's FIRST of FEBRUARY already. How fast. 31 days passed just like that? I don't think I've achieved much. Anyway, I have a craving for japanese buffet. I wanna eat salmon sashimi, snow crab etc.. okay, that's very random!

2009-01-31T02:03:00.005+08:00

30th January 2009.

Happy Belated Birthday, Kylie.
Happy Birthday, Louis.

Today I woke up pretty early at about 830am; and it had been a busy day thereafter. Headed down to the photoshop to develop some photos. On my way back, I bought subway breakfast home. I don't know what offer do they have but I was given a complimentary cup of coffee. (:

I watched some hk drama while having my breakfast; and waiting for the photos to be developed. I recieved a call at about 1030 telling me that there's something wrong with the photos and I made another trip there to check things out. Came home and prepared everything before heading back to the photoshop yet again to collect the photos.

Headed to school and was busy all the way till about 4plus pm. Slacked around in school for awhile and then we made our way to Marina Square. It was raining cats and dogs when we left school. But thankfully we're well sheltered. (:

We had our dinner at Sakae Sushi - Louis' and Kylie's birthday celebration. We made reservation and thus was given a corner that's meant for people who wants to have bbq; but eventually it became our little corner that we occupied the entire night. I bet we made alot of noise and camwhored after dinner. There were a couple of people standing outside and shaking their heads while looking at us - for what reasons we do not know.

We all proceeded to Liquid Gold at Prinsep Place after dinner and had some drinks. It's been a really long time since i last drank. Probably about 29 days? The last time i had alcohol was in Kukup. For some weird reason I dont know why I offered to help Louis drink half of his cup of martell which eventually led to me feeling very heavy in the head thereafter. Sheila's bf came and fetched some of us home. Thank You! :P

Alot of you knew me when I wasn't really behaving myself. However so far I'm still keeping to my new year resolutions pretty well. You'll notice them soon enough, if you haven't noticed it by now. I came home and downed a glass of chinese tea; hoping that the throbbing headache that I am going through will clear. Anyway, sentosa outing's tmr and I wonder if i can wake up.

Pictures will be up another time. I'm feeling tired and sleepy.

P.S. Michelle it's time to stop dreaming, so please wake up right now.

2009-01-30T00:24:00.004+08:00

Hellooo world.

I've finally updated my blogskin and changed it to a lighter background. Am in the mood for white now. (:

The long weekend was pretty much hectic for me and I'm pretty much worn out from the visitings, mj sessions and such. But it was fun nonetheless, with each passing day. Caught All's well Ends well 2009 on Tuesday night with the odac-ers and supper-ed at Lavender Food Centre and played abit of pool at Hougang plaza. I think I can't aim well now or whatever reason it is, I can't play as well anymore. Oh wells. Reached home at 6am and headed to bed.

When I woke up at 2pm, I received a text asking me if I wanna play mj. I was still feeling groggy and tired but I went; in my stony mode but somehow I was pretty lucky that day.

(:

The festive celebrations should stop soon and it's now time to concentrate on the prelims after the odac event. ANYHOW, i managed to get myself back into SIM's portal. I shall not be such a dork anymore and therefore, changed my password to something that i am able to remember and not some funny password, which i used previously! lol.

And, a primary school friend just tagged me on facebook and I think i looked so toot when I was younger. I nearly couldn't recognise myself and when I did, I nearly died. lol!

2009-01-22T13:56:00.011+08:00

two-oh-oh-nine.

This year is an exceptionally exciting year. It's only January now and with so many ideas/plans going around I just can't wait too see them unfold itself. Some are happy occasions worth celebrating, some are periods that requires studying, some requires much planning but it always leaves me feel so satisfied with event end smoothly, and some requires sweat and more sweat!

Yesterday I just did something unbelieveable and that was to sign myself up for the adidas sundown marathon - 42km. I'm so very sure that I cannot commit much time to train because of the exams and its my first time running a full marathon. I almost died during standard chartered's 21km already. But probably let this 42km be a challenge for me the conquer as I turn 21 this year :P

After Chinese New year, it's time to study. Prelims are in end feb/early march and my exams start on 7th of May and end on the 21st of May. Till then!

Anyway I did something really stupid two days back and that was to lock myself out of SIM's portal. I can't remember my password and then I clicked forget password but I set my primary email to SIM's student mail which; I can't log in too. Great. Now i'll have to go to school and look for help.

2009-01-19T22:08:00.006+08:00

Corporate Finance class was exceptionally crowded today for what reasons I am not sure. The funny thing was, the lecturer actually told the class before she let us off for break that there's going to be a spot check after that, and students who were not from that class should leave. The reason for it is that students who are from that class deserved to have a proper seat.

She's probably being kind because I think you've to pay a fine of $50plus if you are caught crashing other classes.

But i really wonder, why choose her class if you wanna crash for Corporate Finance? I would rather go for Johnny's.

Anyhow, recently i just downloaded Photoscape and am having fun experimenting it. (:

hurhurhur.

Exams are coming btw!

2009-01-18T23:21:00.012+08:00

On Sunday, 18th January ...

We celebrated Joy's Birthday at Henderson Wave. It's my first time on that bridge but i've seen the bridge a couple of times before. It's really very windy and cool up there, considering how windy Singapore has been recently.

Had food, and much to odac's influence we cam-whored.

I personally like this peekture. (:

Anyway, wishing ALL JANUARY BABIES, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

2009-01-17T23:59:00.000+08:00

So far, I've made deliberate attempts to study but I would say they are pretty fruitless at the end of the day. It's that bad. To be frank, i'm not having much of the festive season mood. I'm probably just looking forward to the money and the expected mahjong sessions.

Anyhow, Daryl celebrated his 21st birthday on 17th January at Aranda. As always, i have difficulty finding parking lots there when my friends are having a chalet. This time round, i chose to park at Ehub. To my surprise, the parking only costs me $3plus. There's once i parked on a friday night for about 3 hours plus and i was charged $7plus, much to my horror.

After that, headed over to Changi Airport to pick bel cos she's coming back after 4.5months being in China. And her loots took up 2 back passenger seats and Tian Xi squeezed with the barang barangs back to Bukit Merah View.

2009-01-17T02:57:00.006+08:00

Angela's 21st

Pictures are up on Facebook. (:

Celebrated her birthday on the 4th - Sunday at Bukit Merah Macdonald's. It's a Macdonald's party! It definitely brings back memories when i was a child, I celebrated my 7th bday at macdonald's at the then ginza plaza.

I commented that this has got to be one of the easier parties the host had cos we're not like the rowdy kids where she might have to fight to get their attention.

Frog Porridge @ Geylang - 6th January; Tuesday

After class at 3pm, met up with some of the odac-ers to go RELC to pay school fees. A hefty $1752 for exam fees. =X
We headed over to Starbucks at Wheelock after that to do some "studying" cos there's still time before meeting the rest for frog porridge at geylang. The food was nice, but it's pretty expensive too. Odac outings are never cheap! Also met quite a few new faces at the dinner table.

Zhiren's 21st - 9th January

Caught Red Cliff 2 at The Cathay at 12.35am with Zhiren and gang. Zhiren - because it's to celebrate his 21st! haha. It's a really nice show, compared to part 1 where i remember almost the whole of OG2 fell asleep in the theatre because we were too tired out. We went there after we break camp at Ubin.

The show ended at about 3 and I left for home at about 3.30am. On the way home, unfortunate events happened which i shall not mention here, ask me if you want. (:

Hurried to bed, and woke up at 7am and made my way down to Yishun Safra for the Safra AvVentura volunteers briefing. The briefing ended unexpectedly earlier and thus, the odac-ers wanted to catch RED CLIFF 2 !!

So in the end, within a timespan of 24 hours, i caught RED CLIFF 2 twice. There's not much reception at Yishun GV. When we came out of the theatre, minglong and I received a text message from Junren that goes - "Hey, when is our Chi Bi outing ? " We all laughed, and replied him that " The war has ended". lol.

I went home and took a 2 hour nap. At night, met some of them at yishun to go Alvin's place cos we all had to be at yishun safra at 3.40am !

At the end of the Safra AvVentura, we were each given a GV movie money and a $10 world of sports voucher. Having not slept much, i slept at 9plus all the way till 1145am the next day. Was late for my class. -.-

2009-01-17T02:42:00.005+08:00

Kukup - 31st dec; 1st Jan

Well, to start off Kukup was a really nice place. The fireworks was the main highlight. Other than that, it's good place for a short getaway. You stay in kelong styled cemented houses. However, there's no sewage so whatever that is discharged from the house goes straight to the sea (when it is high tide) and seabed (when it is low tide.)

We were greeted by a fishy stench once we alighted the bus but after awhile, you just get used to the smell. Tons and tons of housefly greeted us as we walked through the open spaced restaurant and we had special guest "diners" at our lunch.

On the first day of the year, we headed to City Square for some shopping after our lunch at Kukup and had our dinner at Kim Gary. I reached home at about 930pm that day.

Our Bungalow's entrance

our bungalow.

the walkway..

sunrise. (:

2008-12-31T03:04:00.007+08:00

off to kukup in a few hours time!

It's 3.05am now and ive got to be at woodlands at 9am tomorrow. (:

WOW.

Well, it was a really last minute decision to go. Didn't want to go initially cos i've alot of other concerns in my mind; but at 10pm i decided i want to go. Until i get over the reservations i have; I know I won't be able to enjoy in peace. Since i've made the decision and there's definitely no way i can turn back, I hope things will turn out all fine.

Luckily, my friend still has leftover ringgit; so i changed with him else at this hour i wouldn't know which money changer i can go to.

Afterall, i'm leaving on 31st and coming back on 1st Jan. lol.

I'm getting kinda excited over it. Listed on the first day's itinerary was :

1) Sing k, MJ ..
2) SEAFOOD Lunch
3) SEAFOOD BBQ BUFFET dinner.

on the second day there's a kelong tour; can visit mangrove swamp. haha.

lalala. plus, can fish at the kelong (?) I hope it will be fun. But the highlight should be the fireworks at night. Can set your own fireworks. Something new i suppose. Till then, when i'm back.

It all sound so relaxing. I wish it is how i picture it to be. I think i really need a short break to get away from the city. Not to mention, when i'm back i gotta mug really hard. Exams start 7th May 2009.

Here's to wish everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Goodbye 2008, hello 2009.

(I remember clearly saying hello to 2008 early this year. Mr Time can you please slow down? )

2008-12-30T21:10:00.000+08:00

OH GREAT.

Those decisions were made by me and I should not regret it. I'll try.

2008-12-26T18:01:00.001+08:00

absolutely lack of updates!!

First of all, I visited Jurong Point a couple of weeks back and the new extension was ready and opened for business. My first impression of it was.. " Wow". Lotsa new shops around like The Face Shop, Skinfood, Chapt 2 etc etc; so is the crowd. I went there on a friday night. You can imagine the crowd? There's also fairprice xtra which is 24hours! Great for night owls like me. There's also Ji De Chi dessert shop!

Great.

Supper cum Supermarket cart race

Last Sunday, I went for supper with some of the odacians at Geylang - Dim Sum. A total of 13 pax ordered $150 worth of food. That day, I ran out of my contact lens solution and I thought that Fairprice Xtra would carry the solutions so i made my way there with some of those staying in the West at 2am in the morning after dim sum. But no, they don't sell it but a bunch of monkeys (us) were having much fun in the supermarket. Refer to pictures of Facebook. I'm so lazy. (haha!) On the way back to the car (we parked at the empty space opp JP), we saw a couple making out in the car. hurhur!

Christmas

Well, this year has gotta be one of the quieter years around. On the 22nd had an early xmas dinner with the girls at Ichiban Boshi. The sashimi there's like superbly yummylicious. On the eve itself, I had steamboat at James' with Sharon and TX. We headed down to Town because there's nothing to do while TX went to attend mass. It was awfully crowded and thankfully, i made a left turn at the junction and parked the vehicle at the open spaced car park opposite wheelock because orchard road is jam packed to the max.

Tried to escape the snow spraying crowd so we stayed at the side. I recalled that last year we were saying that we wanted to have fun by wearing rain coats and start spraying the snow spray. Afterall, we're protected in a way by the rain coat. But of course, it didn't come true. I saw someone holding an umbrella walking the crowd. That's amusing.

After that, headed back home for some mj. It ended around 7plus am.

On Xmas itself, i met the odacians at Marina Square for dinner at Waraku de Pasta and movie - Bedtime story. My stomach has been acting weirdly since morning so my appetite wasn't entirely great. The movie was funny, and the entire theatre was packed that first row seats were even occupied !

2008-12-16T23:53:00.001+08:00

I am still me.

2008-12-14T22:12:00.004+08:00

I'm tired and exhausted. It's been awhile since i feel this way. It's been awhile since I wake up early in the morning; despite sleeping at unearthly hours.

Saturday and Sunday was Extreme Challenge. I'm the game master so I literally sat there waiting for teams to arrive. Thank God for the psp i managed to borrow at the eleventh hour. Absolutely glad, because it accompanied me for two whole days!

Today was stationed at Queenstown; Vertical Marathon. Teams came early in the morning and after that no one came. I played my PSP while the two others were watching HK drama on my ipod. I took a short nap cos i was sleepy, plus the wind was blowing and it's drizzling. Imagine the nice weather but i'm sitting on a bench outside. :(

I fell asleep; heard someone called my name. I turned and stared at the person. I couldn't recognise him at all. I tried hard to recall who he is. Until he said. "Eddie la."

It was Eddie. I didn't know he shifted there ! hahah. Okay, this is a very very random post! haha.

2008-12-08T17:03:00.005+08:00

STANDARD CHARTERED HALF MARATHON.

Yesterday, I took part in the 21km race category. Actually halfway the run I felt pretty disappointed and demoralised cos I cannot run as before but really glad that I managed to crawl myself back to the ending point without giving up.

I nearly died on my way running and so so so so much wanted to give up before the 8km mark because of blisters and not enough stamina to carry on. I developed like four blisters on my toes and was so painful that I went to the medic for plasters. I even had a gauze placed under the ball of my right foot to cushion it cos there's one blister there.

Really thankful because, when i was at the medic Karen was there waiting for me. Usually I won't drink too much fluids when running but this time round i was so thirsty that almost every water point after the 8km mark, i had to take a drink. That of course gave me a little stitches. I couldn't catch up with Karen so I let her go ahead first, dont wanna pull her back too.

By the 13 km mark, i couldn't take it so i started walking already. Was like walking and running but i walked more - all the way to the finishing point. I also took drinks at each stop and the banana since im not running much anymore.

I think i didn't do proper warm up and warm down cos the joints on my right leg hurts like hell when i try to walk after the whole run. I can only stand on my left leg.

I've done it last year too and managed to achieve a timing of 2hours 58 minutes; I did it this year too with a timing of 3hour 18min (that's the time shown on the clock when i arrived at the finishing point) but the only difference is that i didn't train for it this year.

Its about 20 minutes difference when i didn't stop running last year compared to me walking this year. Two possibilities; I read the clock wrongly or I must have been a snail last year. ha!

Headed down to expo after showering. After service while waiting for the rest of the guys I took a walk at the John little sale. Nothing much except for some good buys at the bedlinen section. Had dinner at katong - nasi lemak. The chicken wing is fantastic. Yums. Btw, that was my meal of the entire day.

Slacked around for awhile till about 11 plus and went over to TX's for MJ. Ended around 6plus in the morning, came home and slept.

I THOUGHT MY LEGS COULDN'T MOVE ANYMORE. They felt so heavy that when i wanted to turn around on the bed, it wouldn't budge ! Took me so much effort just to move it a little. Now, i can only walk super slowly. My right ankle hurts very badly.

=(

Next year, i make sure i will put in more effort to train if i'm going to run again.

2008-12-05T01:17:00.005+08:00

Just a small rant, if you don't mind me. (:

You denied everything that you said to me the other day. You said that you dont recall saying it; those were said in a drunken stupor. Oh yes. Who knows if you're lying; or not. But whatever it is. I couldn't care less anymore.

Woke up for school at 1.50pm today, macroeconomics lesson. There's an upcoming macro test next week; CF assignment 2 weeks later.. anyway i think i must study my POA more. I've kinda forgotten so much about it. study study study;

today's so weird. I made a damn big detour just to get to Clementi.
From school > town > holland > clementi.

Nice huh? No, i do not enjoy wasting money on bus fares like that; not when i do not have the concession pass. That is something i could/would have done in the past when I had concession! All wells.

oh, it doesnt help that hotmail's down on me. :( I can't check my mails.

2008-12-01T21:10:00.002+08:00

i think probably from today onwards i might try to get a little more sleep, on weekdays to start with. Got this article off Cozycot.

**********

As much as many of us are claiming that our busy lives aren't allowing us to get that adequate amount of sleep that we need-not getting enough sleep can result in some undesirable consequences in the long run.

1) Deterioration in Memory

Research has shown that sleep plays a key role in preserving memory. Not getting enough sleep affects the brain’s ability to recall certain things especially if they are recently learned.

2) Gaining Weight

Research has suggested that inadequate sleep decreases the level of Leptin, a hormone that suppresses hunger. You may find yourself eating more to satisfy your hunger during the day and gaining weight overtime.

3) Increased Risk of Disease

Your risk of getting diseases like breast cancer and heart attack could be increase. This is due to the fact that a deprivation of sleep causes estrogen and cortisol levels to rise- which increases your risk of contracting these diseases.

The amount of sleep needed may differ for every individual; however experts say that most people need between seven to nine hours of sleep.

**********

2008-11-30T14:50:00.009+08:00

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY !! CHEEYOUNG, BRYAN AND PEARL !

Yes, 3 different people's birthday fell on the same day! Anyhow, pearl's chalet was nice, alot of people and even her parents were sporting enough to turn up in her HATS theme. (:

left at about 12, headed to Malcolm's place for mj. I already felt uncomfortable with my throat. It hurts when you swallow something. I wanted some herbal tea of sorts, but at 12am which shop's gonna open for me huh! Don't know what's wrong with me too, I made three wrong turns at different places when obviously i should know how to get to where I wanna go.

We started the game, and I didn't feel too well. We also took like a damn long time to play, one "fong" we took like almost 2 hours. Something's definitely not right la! lol. Anyhow, in the midst of playing i felt something biting me but i just brushed it off, i thought it's some kind of sudden twitch of the muscle or something. After awhile later i felt yet another bite, this time more painful so i literally jumped up.

I went to the toilet to check what's the thing that is biting me but i can find nothing. I just saw two lumps (the area where the thing bit me) Meanwhile, i heard malcolm spraying something, i suppose insecticide and i didn't think too much. When i came out and they told me it was a BABY COCKROACH. eeeeks. Thankfully I didn't see it else i would freak out even more. The thought of the cockroach biting me is already sick enough to the core. If its an adult baby i might just faint. ha but it's so weird, i don't feel anything.

Anyway, we stopped playing at the nan "fong" cos i was feeling too sick to carry on playing. My temperature shot up to 38.7deg when I got home.

Now that i'm sick, how should i study for the POA test on Tues? HURHUR.

2008-11-29T18:30:00.005+08:00

I have been reading forums, coming across countless of products that makes me really feel like buying. I didn't used to step into Watsons very often in the past. If i do, that's probably to get some drugstore stuff.

Now, i step into Watsons every now and then. Seems like as thought it became my favourite drugstore shop. Anyways, I got a box of Watsons Bird Nest mask at $9.95 the other day, it was on offer and heard of countless reviews about it.

and when i was surfing the forum, i came across this site that offers free samples of different products. You can sign up here.

Yesterday I was asked a question that I didn't know how to reply so the answer I gave was in fact, the total opposite of how I felt. Something that is so delicate yet complicated. I don't know why did you ask me the next question but all I know was, it didn't feel good. In fact, the whole topic was something that I tried running away from. As much as I was so curious to know, I wished you didn't tell me because then it crashes all hope. Then again, I need to say goodbye to this hope; something which I knew ages ago but I just can't bear to do so.

2008-11-26T16:02:00.003+08:00

i'm so ANGRY!

Yesterday I went over to FEP as i wanted to alter a top I ordered from F21 online but it doesn't fit me. It's too big. When i was younger in secondary school i brough my skirts to that place to alter it. I didn't expect the alteration fees to be above $10. Probably i don't know the current market price but whatever it is.

I got there, changed and she started pinning up the places to be altered. Then I went to change out of it and when i got out, she already wrote the invoice and such. She told me that alteration fees is $30. I was shocked, so expensive but i paid $10 as downpayment first. Then my friend told me its quite expensive. On second thoughts, it really is VERY expensive. Almost the price of my top, so if i were to alter it means the top cost me $60plus.

So i told the lady that I decided not to alter it anymore. Anyway, i was hoping it could be altered within a day or so but she say need about a week. and she can tell me that since she already keyed the cash into the register and opened an invoice, it will cost me $3 if i don't wanna do the alteration!

WTH right? AND she only refunded me $7. I dont know what kind of rule is it and she said alot of rubbish, shop's policy but i dont see where it is. OMG.

2008-11-15T04:39:00.002+08:00

I was at coffeebean earlier on, and I ordered banana CHOCOLATE cos i know i won't be able to sleep if i take in caffeine. This guy made my drink and when he served it to me, it was yellow. I didn't think too much about it. When i sipped it, all i tasted was banana and no chocolate. I asked nat to try it and she also said its more of banana, no chocolate.

So, i took it back to the counter with me.

Me: Excuse me, may i know what does banana chocolate consist of?
Her: banana and chocolate powder.
Me: (showed her my cup) but this doesnt taste like ...
Her: (cuts in before i can finish my sentence) Oh.. i'll get you a new one.
- turns to her colleague and said "this one is just pure banana..." -
Her: what size did you order?
Me: Small.
Her: i'll serve it to you at your seat later..

when she brought the new drink over, it's one size bigger. =)
and this time round, the drink is brown in colour.
obviously the guy must be dreaming when he's making my drink!

2008-11-14T01:06:00.004+08:00

they're gone.
and i believe they won't be back anytime soon,
or maybe forever.

i don't understand i get reminded
when each weekend arrive.
the memories keep flooding back.

time to say the last goodbye?
probably. when the time comes.

okay, let's not get there.
Have been on a mask craze recently. I got some when I was in Taiwan, in fact i was the reluctant one who wasn't that interested in getting the masks. It was my sister who kept going to look for My Beauty Diary Masks at Cosmed. Our mask loot amounted to no less than 100 SGD.

Fast forward 5 months later, i still have a heap of it left, and after reading a forum I got into a whole masks craze. I started putting masks diligently and i've got a good offer at getting some masks at $1 each from one of the cotter. Blogshops are selling them at $1.30 each - the lowest i can find. :)

Watsons was having sale, and I went down to IMM with Elena on monday. We got more masks. ha! headed to Daiso after that and got ourselves a container to contain all my masks.

My masks collection !~

My Beauty Diary Masks.

My recent buys. :)
My Beauty Diary masks; Watson's Eye Masks and watson's cucumber and rose water masks.

I've got about 89 eye and face masks altogether by far. Yet to be included in the collection is the WYT Bird Nest masks which is still with Elena cos she saw it on offer at $9.90 instead of the usual $30 plus.

There's a bad thing though, sometimes i forget to take my medicine for my acne. :(

2008-11-07T16:55:00.002+08:00

it's really eating me inside out.

this feeling sucks.
i'm talking about two diff scenarios here.

2008-11-06T22:18:00.003+08:00

Say that I'm so sensitive, take things so hard, that you're just kidding, for fun and whatsoever. WHATEVER. I don't care. I just wish to drill this straight into your damn thick skull-head that the world doesn't revolve just around you and WE ARE NOT OBLIDGED TO TAKE YOUR DAMN FREAKING NONSENSE.

Good for you if so far all your friends are so peace-loving with you, but DO NOT TEST MY LIMIT. Take it that i might have read too much but i really cannot stand it. Don't assume that everyone can take it, and that's also because you yourself CANNOT TAKE IT.

Get that in.

I'm so angry that no words can describe the feeling.

2008-11-01T04:33:00.002+08:00

It haven't been a very eventful week so to speak. Efforts were made to study, and I was successful. =) That is, to study for an optional macro test that was held last thursday.. Eventually, i opted to take the paper home because I haven't managed to finish studying. When i look at the question, i knew i couldn't do it. I saw that section in the notes but i didn't study. Actually i just copied the notes over to my own notebook.

Anyway, I bade "little grey" goodbye on 30th October 2008 and welcomed "Little white" into my family. It's my new baby, so gleaming white. Everything so smooth, and so new. -grins- When it first came, i took it to the nearby hawker centre, and the second day I took it to Night Safari and then to Geylang for Dim Sum.

I must say, the trip to night safari alone was pretty scary when I had to pass by a small stretch of road where there's no lampost. It was really dark, and nearby was the columbarium. But i'd remember I travelled along that stretch of road with James and Annabel before, and that was my only other comfort that I had with me, at that point of time. There wasn't anyone else around as i travelled, except that when i reached the end of the lampost-less road, i saw a taxi who didn't switch on his headlights. -.-

Just to say, I love my baby.

2008-10-25T03:10:00.003+08:00

I see the lack of updates..

School has been treating us/me fine so far. Just that the workload (or should i say study load) is increasing with each passing week. I've yet to start on the books. Last thursday, the macro lecturer announced that we're going to have a test next week on Lecture 1 and 2. Goodness me. I missed those two lectures and tutorial. How am i going to sit for the test. The only saving grace is I have my senior's macro notes with all the necessary graphs and whatnot that he copied from lecture last year. I hope that will help me, though the test is not compulsory. Should i give myself some credits? I attempted to study, by copying my senior's notes unto a book i specially bought for macro notes. I have tons to copy over, and i only copied two pages worth before i decided to call it a day.

There's pretty much updates/news from the girls recently. Congratulations to all lovebirds out there. People getting married (utterly surprised/shocked...), people getting attached, getting their confirmation or whatnot. (J&J)

The life's getting pretty mundane with the same routine over and over, as the year's coming to an end with a few more weeks left.

2008-10-03T22:35:00.005+08:00

i've FINALLY managed to switch my units. (: (:

Well I have yet to receive any replies from them on thursday so I had no choice but to attend micro lecture at 330. During breaktime, I went up to look for the UOL prog. head and told her of my situation. At last someone entertained me. She handed my case to someone else. I think it is the woman whom i spoke to the other time.

The best thing? I'm given the choice to choose which lecture class I want to attend and I opted to go for Mr Seet's class because Clare doesn't seem to be able to make me understand much things from the one lecture i attended.

After doing all the procedures, she told me. "Since i've already helped you switch unit, I won't reply to your email already." -.-

I've ever said that I can't dance to save my life. Can i take back my words? I went mambo for the first time on Wednesday (PH) and boy, it's good. No doubt that it can be quite retarded sometimes when you see some people dance and doing all the moves but I cannot really be too bothered with it. As long as i'm enjoying the music it's fine. We'll just laugh over it and probably not talk about it until the next mambo.. Now, i can't wait for the next mambo !!

And that's probably because of the booze i've taken. Since it's one for one before 12, I had one flaming lambo and one blowjob. After that we utilised the drink coupons and got Heineken. I had initially wanted Corona but they don't have.. Plopped ourselves down on wine bar's sofa and slurped malibu mango while watching Liverpool match. My first time watching soccer match at a club eh?!

Cabbed home at about 4plus and it's the first time i ever heard/saw police stopping a cab at a roadblock. The most they will take a quick look inside the passenger seats and all. This time round, the police asked the cabby to pull over by the side and asked the passengers to get down to get their particulars. Im not too sure what's the reason for doing that. The passengers on that day happened to be me and my friends. -.-

It's like so rare. I seldom get stopped at roadblocks. The only time was when the police woman came over and asked where i came from and if I took any alcohol before this. Like obviously even if i did, i won't say yes right? But she just wants to smell if my breathe reeks of alcohol. Ha! But no police ever asked for my ID. What's worst is that neither of us are driving that day! It's a cab for goodness sake. Anyhow, it's still quite a cool experience. haa.

It's a cool night afterall. (:

2008-09-29T22:33:00.003+08:00

I am so so so .. upset/pissed/angry with one of the admin people in school.

I kinda overslept and woke up at 1130 this morning. Obviously i couldn't make it for the 12pm class. So i decided that i will attend the 3.30 Corporate Finance class instead, and not go for FI. Well, i think that going FI is like wasting my time there anyway too..

So when i was on my way to school Karen told me she's going to change her unit from micro to macro. So i called her. She asked me to call the admin people and let them know, and then she's going to make payment for the change of unit. So i called. But no one picked up. I thought she was busy so i went for class first and tried calling during the break.

Still, no one picked the call. So i went up to the admin office and still no answer. Decided to call another person since both of them are in charge. And this is what went between .. Let's call her A.

Me: Hi, I'm a UOL student and I am calling because i want to change one of my units.
A: Sorry we don't entertain request to change modules from this week onwards.
Me: Oh but my friends came earlier to look for xxx today and she approved it.
A: Did your friends email us? Last week?
Me: Yes they did. I emailed you guys too but up till now I have yet to receive a reply from you guys.
A: Who did you email?
Me: The admin people ...
A: What is your name
Me: Michelle.
A: Okay, you wait for our reply.
Me: But then how come my friends who came earlier can change ...
A: Since you have already emailed us, wait for our reply. We are in the process of checking the mails.
Me: ok.

She didn't even give me a chance to like finish what i wanna say.. HELLO. (!!)
Am really so so so so pissed off la. Just giving me a whole load of bullshit to wait for the email reply. So I wait until when ? Tomorrow's macro class first lesson leh. So now, should i attend it first or not in case i cannot catch up in the event that i can switch over.

And i really don't like the tone that she used, sounded so aloof. Yes i know i need your help but still.. ? Even if everything is okay, i also have to pay for the services right? Sigh.

Anyhow, after class i went for my tuition. After tuition, the little girl asked if i have time to stay behind and watch one episode of a korean drama with her. It's those chinese kung fu shows. ha. So i stayed behind for awhile and chatted with her mother.
My chinese has kinda deproved a little considering the fact that i don't use it very often.. So i had quite a little difficulty in talking to her at times. ha. But i realised, she came over to Singapore after the Sichuan's earthquake. She's from Sichuan. The little girl's doing quite well in school in China too. Over in singapore, she's to brush up alot on her English.

2008-09-28T06:06:00.003+08:00

I don't know if its just too much thinking on my part, but I feel that it's so unfair that I might be kicked out even before I knew i was in it.

It isn't fair right? Everyone do get second chances, even though it may mean that I may never get in again. But at least i can still stay by the side. I don't think I was even given that chance.

I don't know what went wrong, and wasn't given any chance to say anything.

2008-09-27T20:31:00.004+08:00

Once again, i haven't been actively updating this blog.

Well, i have been pretty busy with quite a bit of things. Actually i'm not that quite busy. On some days i have school, and the rest of the days i don't know what i have been doing.

I tried to study, my brain seems to have configured itself such that whenever i look at the notes, i will feel tired and sleepy when in actual fact i just woke up like 2 hours ago. So i will go and take a nap, and there goes one day.

I accepted one tuition assignment teaching a china girl English. I accepted it for a few reasons. I wanna earn extra money, and also I wanna do something besides just studying now.She is sitting for her entrance exam on the 13th oct and her mother wants tuition 5 days a week for the next two weeks. But that's pretty time consuming on my part because i am already 2-3 weeks lagging behind in terms of the readings and self study that i'm supposed to do.

Poly is definitely a far cry from university, although both are tertiary levels. I always feel that we are still being spoonfed in poly. We're always given clues on what to study during revision lectures in poly.. and that's because the paper are set by the lecturers themselves. My friend told me, "I got by poly exams through the exam tips.."

I don't know if i have got myself drunk. Yesterday night (friday) I was out drinking with my friends at wala wala. However, the band EIC wasn't playing today cos they were playing at the F1. So, some other band took over. Compared to other visits, we didn't order alot of drinks this time round but this is the only time that I drank till i puked.

I had 2 coronas as they were going 1 for 1, 1 Asahi and 1 white wine. I guess i probably drank a tad too fast, and i wasn't feeling very comfortable with the band playing and all so I went downstairs to take a breather.. and my friend asked if i wanna puke it out, and i would feel better.

I did feel better after inducing the puke. ha! So i went upstairs and took abit of water. I still felt uncomfortable upstairs, so i stayed downstairs for quite abit. There's one time i was upstairs and this time i really feel like puking, and couldn't wait till I'm downstairs so i just rushed to the toilet. But after everything, I'm much better. Yes, I can still walk.

I was feeling happy all along, until something just hit me that made me really upset. I wanted to cry so much but no tears could come out. They said that alcohol will magnify the state the person is. If you're happy, you'll be really happy. If you're upset, you will more upset.

2008-09-17T03:04:00.002+08:00

It's been a pretty long while since i've last updated. Been pretty busy / lazy.

I've been wanting to go for a swim for the longest time ever, probably last year. I finally managed to get myself down to the pool sometime two weeks back at Safra Mount Faber. The pool is nice i would say, but it is rather disgusting to swim and see two mats lying on the floor of the pool. It looked quite dirty too. I wonder what on earth is the mat doing there! But i love the shower area, not only is the design nice they have hot water showers too! (:

I caught the show 4bia two weeks back. I wouldn't say its a fantastic show but at some point it can be quite funny, just not worth the $8 price tag. We concluded that there's a moral to each of the four short stories.

Last week was one busy week. There were many late nights too. I enjoy the times having green tea and just talking about almost everything. Thankfully the classes have yet to start. (:

Last monday had dinner with the peeps once again, before Annabel flew. We had a 7 course meal, and we had 7 people at the table.

I tried the high tea buffet at Lao Beijing. The bill came up to about $13 per pax after gst and service charge, but i feel that the food isn't that fantastic that i'll go back there.

And Friday was the day that Annabel had to leave for China. Sent her off at the airport at 5am. James and I agreed that it feels weird without you around. ha!

2008-09-01T22:45:00.004+08:00

29th August
Friday

I went out at about 1plus to meet Annabel at Suntec for the Comex. Even in the afternoon, there's already quite alot of people. This round's comex they have more stuffs but i'm not really looking for anything to buy so i just walked around abit. Annabel bought a webcam to bring over to china. hoho. So after that, I was craving for salmon sashimi so i wanted to just go sakae sushi for a few plates of sushi and that's all as i haven't had my lunch and i'm going to meet the rest for dinner before the night cycling.

Who knows, when we got there we saw the buffet still on. So we took the buffet package. As the seats by the conveyor belts are all occupied, we took the seats outside and ordered from the menu. In order not to waste time, we just ordered all at one shot. We ordered so much that the waitress told us that there will be charges for food wastage. She probably thought two girls couldnt't possibly finish so much food.

Boy, we did finish all the food but after that i really feel like puking. We even didn't take the complimentary udon and desserts.

I went home and got changed, went to meet kelvin and timo at the bus stop and we took a bus over to SIM and met bryan there.. Brought them over to Megabites.

Went over to the plaza where the rest are there. Played some games and i shall let the pictures do the talking ...

OG 6 .. my og !

OG 2 !!

Well, getting ready to do the classic jump ..

Then more people joined in ..

And yes, there you go! our classic OG 2 jump, but i covered Pearl's face..

OG 2 always come up with new poses, so this is our new pose. the gate shot.

And it ended up with us climbing further up the gate. And there you have Andy from OG 5 ... peeping at Minglong and Leo?

This shot taken after our first pit-stop at Adam road..

Taken at Esplanade!

Macdonaldssss...! After the night cycling we're all famished.

The night cycling was fun, although tiring. We cycled from SIM to Adam Road for supper, then to Upper Thomson's Devil's Bend, then to Esplanade via Bishan and lastly, ECP. So happy that I made it through. Especially the slopes. They are the killer. Usually when you drive, you think nothing of them. But not when you are cycling !

2008-08-28T23:46:00.007+08:00

I received a text message this morning from yao quan, og 6's ogl. So, i'm in og 6 !! Apparently, most of us are separated but og 5's like saturated with people i know! As if everyone else is in og 5... But one thing to note, i feel that the people in og 6 are a bunch of fun-loving peeps.. will see for myself tmr! (:

It's my third day taking the pills and overall i'm still feeling alright. Obviously, it takes time for the medicine to work too. It ain't no magical pill.

It was really sunny when i made my way down to town area to get some stuffs. Initially when i got the pills, i texted Jacqueline to ask her some stuff. One of her replies included: "You'll run away from the sun."

How true. Although I have yet to try what's going to happen to me (probably the skin gets red and irritated..) I didn't want to try to know it. I really ran away from the sun, by taking bigger and faster steps. haha!

After getting the stuffs, I met the ntss peeps for dinner at Tiong. We have a new addition to the ntss dinner kakis; Edmund. The dinner's as usual - amusing and laden with loads of laughter..

I cannot wait for night cycling tomorrow night! I will remember to take extra care because I never know when i will have decreased night vision. lol.

2008-08-27T22:28:00.002+08:00

The post i posted yesterday made it sound alittle as if I contracted some kind of disease or cancer and is undergoing treatment, according to annabel.

It is another one of these days that I stayed home. I realised that after yesterday's class, I won't be having anymore classes till 15th Sept.. Does that mean 2 weeks of holidays? POA lecture is going to resume only on the 14th of Oct!

The timetable kinda made me wonder why is this so. So weird.. Anyway I cannot wait for Friday's night cycling to come. :)

2008-08-26T23:03:00.009+08:00

26th August
Tuesday

I went to bed at almost 5am this morning, got up at about 10.30 and had cereal for breakfast. Since when does Michelle start having breakfast, you ask.

I have to eat something so that i can start on my medication. It's the first time I'm swallowing that pill. Anyway, the doctor did ask me if I am planning on any pregnancy because if I am, I cannot take the medicine cos it causes the baby to be deformed. Seemed quite serious to me.. there's even a slip of paper that the doctor gave me yesterday. I saw the side that warns females against pregancy while on that course of medication..

Headed to Popular when i reached school to get my calculator. Finally i brought a non-scientific calculator to class, but I don't really like it! I prefer the calculator the guy sitting beside me was using..

Class was okay, but was feeling a little sleepy at times. I think it could be because i slept late last night. Met up with friend after class and had a late lunch at Megabites. Stayed in school to study. Yes yes you didn't read wrongly. I was in the library studying okay! Doing some reading from the textbook that i borrowed from the library.

Felt very sleepy halfway through because i couldn't highlight the book and i can do nothing except to read and its causing me to fall asleep! So i decided to read the slip of paper that the doctor gave me yesterday and i was taken aback.

Just reading the side effects alone is enough to wake me up, it is rather half entertaining yet at the same time, scary! The highlighted parts are where i put it in bold. Of course i didnt type everything out!

Here's some of it..

Side Effects:

Some of the most common side effects are:

Dryness of the skin, lips, mouth, and lining of the nose. Some other reactions that may occur include: facial or body rash, flaking of the skin, itching, peeling of the palms and soles, increased sensitivity to the sun, inflammation of the lips, mild nose bleed, bleeding and inflammation of the gums, aches and pains in joints, easily injured skin and increased fatigue (is that why i'm feeling so tired today ..? ). You may experience some redness, dryness, irritation of the eyes or decreased night vision. These side effects are generally temporary and disappear when NIMEGEN treatment is stopped.
If you wear contact lenses, you may find them uncomfortable during treatment because NIMEGEN may cause dry eyes. This may continue after treatment has stopped. (no wonder my eyes felt quite dry today .... i thought it was because the air con was too strong at first. )
In some patients thinning of hair has occurred. In rare cases this hair loss persisted. (oh no oh no!! Hair loss ?! my hair thin enough ehh... !? )

Special Precautions to take:

A number of patients on NIMEGEN have experienced decreased night vision. Onset can be sudden. Be careful when driving or operating any vehicle at night. (oh.. driving at night.. but i only can drive at night ?! )

Special Symptoms you should tell your doctor about:

Tell your doctor if you experience any of the following symptoms

Headaches, nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, other visual problems, change in mood, mental depression. ( Mental depression !!?? so serious ah.. )
Persistent feeling of dry eyes, decrease in night vision
Yellowing of the skin or eyes and/or dark urine

So that's what little scary yet interesting information that helped bring some entertainment to us while studying.. Oh and i have to add, I will have breakouts during the first few weeks of my treatment.. :(

2008-08-25T23:59:00.000+08:00

25th August
Monday

HAPPY 20TH TIANXI !! (this may be a lil late. haha!)

Anyways, made a trip down to Doctor Steven Ang's clinic today. With regards to my skin condition and after seeing real life examples of how their skin got so well, I have to give it a try. Moreover, it isn't that expensive as compared to the other dermatologist I went to in the past.

The doctor put me on a course of medication and gave me a cleansing gel and a cream to apply. and the sad thing is, while i'm on that medication I am to stay away from the sun! SO HOW AM I GOING FOR OUTDOOR ACTIVTITIES !!? I have to eat the medicine for about 4-6 months, depending on the skin condition..

The doctor's pretty funny too. I asked him a question.. and this is his reply..

Me: Doctor, what if i have to go on a trekking trip and i'm still on medication?
Doctor: If you really have to go, it's best that you wear long sleeve to cover up.
Me: -rolls eyes- oh okay...

Who wears long sleeve and goes on a trekking trip? Isn't he amusing. Haha!

and then..

Me: doctor, is there anything that i have to avoid while on medication? (Wanted to know if i can still take alcohol)
Doctor: mm alcohol .. ?
Me: -wah really ah?- But what if i still take them ?
Doctor: How much do you drink?
Me: Okay la not alot ..
Doctor: If you drink abit still okay, but not abit everyday..
Me: So, means still can drink and won't have any side effects or anything?
Doctor: .. but its best not to drink as alcohol will toxify your liver..

he didn't answer my question.. !!

Headed out to Bugis after that as Annabel wanted to get pouches. I was in a total state of un-glamness. We saw Edmund there too.. so coincidental right..

2008-08-25T01:09:00.003+08:00

24th August
Sunday

I went to bed at 6am early this morning as i was typing that really long post. Took almost 2-3 hours and i'm not yet done with it. It became a little too personal as i typed so i think i won't be posting it for the public eye. I would probably do something else i guess, so just wait! haha!

I am quite happy in a way now actually, because I have actually came to terms with myself and some of the issues that i used to struggle with. A lot of changes took place over the past few months. It's good and bad in a way. I made alot of new friends over the past few months!

I do have to admit, there's once when I really felt like a fish out of water when I was out with some friends. I just feel very out of place. The relationships are so very complex so i shall not try to explain it here.

I think i found the answers to what i have been searching for all these while, for all the worries that have been bugging me way back..

To my dear friends (you know who you are):

thank you for staying by my side even though the past few months i have been acting quite cranky. I may have flared up easily during those times, but you still stood by me. Sometimes you'll ask me to cool down and not get upset, and tried to explain things to me patiently.

When I am feeling unhappy with the things around me, you asked me not to give up and close myself up even though you feel the same way i do. Thank you for that encouragement..

And thank you also for the occasional reminders, although I didn't really take it in well initially but when I reflect back, I am so ever thankful for them. I know you mean well.

I really miss you people..

This isn't supposed to be an emo entry, but a happy one!

2008-08-24T02:19:00.008+08:00

23rd August.
Saturday

I woke up at around 1pm in the afternoon. Had cereal with milk. (Yes i know that it's more of a breakfast food.) Caught the episode of the tv drama i missed last night on the repeat channel of scv, and my BOOKS from arrived finally.! They were airflown okay, all the way from UK.

I was so excited.. Like a primary one kid who gingerly cut the top of the plastic package which revealed a water/tearproof kind of envelope which contains my study guide. I tore the openings of it and, there it is! Haha.

I flipped through the study guide and read abit, before its time for me to get ready to head out to Tianxi's place for his birthday celebration. I'm kinda eager to receive my study guides because i always hear my friends from other universities like Deakin, ACCA, SMU saying that they have readings to read, while I thought to myself, I dont seem to have anything to read. (reminder to self: I'm only doing one module now! the rest of the modules have yet to start !! )

Ah anyways, i'm quite puzzled cos they only sent me two study guides out of the four modules i'm taking this year. So what happens to the remaining two ?? Karen says she also received two modules.

Anyway, the whole day its either pouring or drizzling. Made Singapore felt like she turned on the air con for the entire nation. Met bel at Tiong bahru and headed to TX's place in a cab. Yummy food next. Told ya, I'm such a glutton man.. After eating, he opened the mj table and his place turned into a mini gambling den, but without money involved that is.

Mj, dai dee, chinese and english chess, tv, internet, PS3 ... haha, Obviously, i'm with the MJ! James and Malcolm came along at almost 10 cos of late bookout. We (James, Malcolm, Annabel and I) left his place at about 1135 and headed to Chomp chomp.

So coincidentally, Kelvin's meeting ed and the rest at chompchomp for supper too.. So the united met the united(s). haha! After our desserts, we went home. I dropped Malcolm and myself home with James' car as he slept.

Halfway through our desserts just now at chomp chomp, a sudden wave of emotions ran through me. I miss those days when we would hang out freely as and when we wanted.

It could really be the simplest things we do like sitting at the void deck drinking iced Lemon Tea from the market at Bukit Merah View, renting DVDs and going to someone's place to watch, watching football matches together, having the favourite Yong Tau foo supper, cooking pasta at 1am in the morning ..

Initially I wasn't really into soccer, but James is a Man U fan and when there's a man u match, he'll come over to my place with Annabel to watch it during last season's BPL. I remember once last year, you all came over for a match but i'm in my room studying for a major exam. Ha! I know I used to "hide" in the room doing my things while you all are watching the match and probably Annabel just come along to watch until one day, he said that he's always watching alone even though he's here. - sorry about that! - So from then on, i started to sit outside to watch the match together with them. To a point that i somehow became a united "fan"..

With that, I got to know that my dad and maid is a man u fan. yes, the maid. Once, they came over to watch a man u match and all present in the hall who are united fans (James, my dad, me, maid, annabel - who supports man u when they are not playing against arsenal right ?! CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG! HAHAHA!) were like 'screaming' during the match.. Interesting scene to behold huh? Somehow i always remember this.

It's with you guys that doing crazy things seem normal at that point of time. Who would travel all the way from the west to the east just to chill out of Terminal 3's coffee club in the wee hours (at least after 12 am cos of parking fees!) when there's the 24/7 coffee club in town? Or some other chill-out places that are opened till late. Mind you, we have people staying in the west, central and south.. and for a short period of time, that was our fav hangout until prawning took over.

The first time we prawned, we felt so elated when we felt the first bite.. It became a weekly routine for about a month plus, until I went on a holiday trip with my family to Taiwan the week before James' enlistment and he had to report to camp the very next day i touched down in Singapore.

There's just so much that i wanted to say to you guys that i actually typed a post specially for it.Some of what i wanted to say is actually posted here.
Read it later ok? I have yet to decide if i wanna post it here or somewhere else but I promise, it's going to be very long. lol.

and, ANNABEL LIM JIN XIA if you read this, FASTER GO AND COME BACK FROM CHINA OKAY! ( okay, okay, i know you haven't even leave for china. lol. )

2008-08-24T02:00:00.004+08:00

22nd August.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACQ!
The friday night was great.

The drinks, the company and all. They got the drinks at cold storage first. Heineken and abor mist. Drank at the poolside, chatting and stuff and was introduced to the group BnB. (Blackie and Bana). Those who i met that day who also met Tim will know what i'm saying.

Abor mist was nice. It tasted like Ribena or something. heh. Zong Ming came after that, and we headed out to west coast for some Nasi Lemak.. hehe. Funny memories of how some drunks stole their friend's egg. (that's another story altogether) haha! Ate and after that, went down to Zouk.

Time check: 12.30 when we left West Coast.

Cannot remember the time we got there but Phuture's full already. So only entrance to Zouk. Trance music. Oh and i must say i met so many people. I met Denny who later on told me that Ashley, king and gang's inside too! Saw them inside Zouk.

While just waiting around, saw Caleb, who's celebrating his birthday in advance. Pamela's with him too..

So we had some drinks and stuff, headed to the dance floor but really did some stupid and funny actions which just made me laugh.

Went with them to the smoking area and the high and drunk Tim who's so very friendly when he's in that state, went to strike a conversation with a gay. Interesting. We just stood there and listened and laughed along. haha.

Went back to Zouk and stood by some empty spot and saw two girls kissing. Nothing peculiar in a club i suppose.

Hung around abit and went out later, where i saw mun kiat who told me that he's here with jac and the rest, cos its her birthday. But they're inside phuture so i cannot go in and say hi...

Hopped over to the prata place opp zouk after that .. as we cannot settle on a place to go for the supper fix, and headed home thereafter, With ZM being the safe driver, we all feel safe..

2008-08-22T01:25:00.003+08:00

I wonder if it's my stomach capacity grew or, I'm just being greedy man.

LOL. Just take a brief look at what i had for my "dinner" on wednesday. I had my usual dinner followed by cornflakes. I poured it out onto a paper plate and i had two plates of it (without the milk). After that i opened a packet of potato chips, and had a prune after that. All these within 2.5 hours.

I actually craved for tom yum soup at 12plus am! And the next best option was the tom yum seafood flavoured instant noodles. Thankfully, i managed to stop myself from even boiling the water. haha. I settled for the less filling option - milk.

omg omg omg!!

Imagine with me. I think i definitely grew sideways!

Will post the pics i took at Shokudo another day. Celebrated Daisy's 21st. Though a pretty short one. hee hee.

2008-08-19T18:37:00.000+08:00

I made an effort to wake up earlier at about 9am this morning, so that i can go downstairs and get myself my breakfast. My fav breakfast food has got to be fried bee hoon with either egg or fish cake. I thought that all fried bee hoon would taste about the same, and the diff would be whether its oily or dry.

The stall that i always buy from already sold all their stuff and has closed for the day when i got to the coffeeshop. So i walked to the other coffeeshop and decided to try this new stall. (also cos since they are the only one i know that sells FBH.)

Not only its expensive, $2.20 for bee hoon and egg (!!), it tasted super weird so much so that halfway through i cannot bring myself to eat another mouth cos .. its so peppery, oily and... just weird. I think i would puke if i still carry on eating it. :(

Had POA lecture in the afternoon. i think i'm one of the few who still doesn't own a simple calculator despite it being the third lecture. We can't use our scientific calculator. The lecturer seems to be quite ignorant of the fact that in Singapore, all secondary school students needs a scientific calculator. That explains why ~~almost~~ all of us brought a scientific calculator to class the first lesson. He asked why of us brought a scientific calculator.

No one told us that we cannot use a scientific calculator. Cambridge allowed us. Okay sadly, UOL doesn't permit. Ah anyways, i opened my inbox earlier today and saw an email notifying me that my parcel had been sent out and my books should reach me within 2-5 days. haha i'm waiting excitedly for it. lol.

2008-08-17T18:33:00.000+08:00

Saturday, 16th Aug

noon was spent at home slacking till about 7. Headed out to Parkway for dinner, to celebrate Suvenna's 21st. I arrived pretty late because i was waiting for my dad to come home so that i can bring the car out. Had steamboat, and halfway through my dad called and asked if i wanted to get a phone. Actually i'm pretty contented with my two current phones, but he said that he had a $100 voucher and it expires on Sunday. I reckoned that Sunday we would not be free to go to the telco shop to get any phones so i settled for SE G900. I wanted Diamond/Omnia at first but heard bad reviews about them.

After the dinner, headed over to Joy's, did the celebratory stuff and talked a little before we left her place. I went over to kelvin's. That's where my down luck started pouring in. I met him and Cheryl at the mrt station and drove over to the car park which was just behind. He got out of the car to answer a phone call and didn't shut the door tight. The two of us subsequently got out and i tried to lock the door with the remote control but it didn't work. So i just locked it manually. I told my dad about it when icalled him and asked if he got the phone. He said the alarm will go off when i unlock the door later but i told him it won't. Actually it did ring when i locked and unlocked for the first time but the second time, it didn't. So i assumed everything would be fine. He told me to come back earlier whatever it is so that he got time to settle things before he start work if there's any problem.

When i went back to retrieve the car at like 5plus in the morning the alarm went off! man. I switched off the engine and turned it on again and it's fine. So i drove off. I just got out of the car park and the alarm went off again. I called my dad and got a scolding for not going home earlier.. cos he's going to start at 7.30 and its already 5plus.

But after awhile i realised it's the door's fault. So i called him to say it's alright already and i went home..

Sunday 17th Aug
woke up at almost 1pm. Already in a not-so-good mood cos i was in a mad rush, i realised there's something wrong with the phone because the longer i charged my phone, the battery life span got shorter. What absurdity! To top it off, my dad told me i got a summon of $50 last night. I didn't knew about the existence of that summon all along! sighs.

Rushed out and went for service. After service, headed to Westmall to change my phone.

Man Utd vs Newcastle at 11pm and it's a draw. 1-1. After the game, had green tea with a friend and we went to see the sad state of a car. The damage was caused by a person in a state of drunkardness. Disclaimer: It's not done by me.

2008-08-15T18:30:00.000+08:00

I was so certain i almost broke into tears earlier this morning when i realised that there are things that i've missed out studying for.

I reached school and went to look for Karen and her bro. Got my morning breakfast of Siew Mai and a pau. Went back to the table and saw what Karen wrote and, Shit! How come some of her notes are different from what i learnt.

Only then i realised, i missed out on one graph. Even though i wrote it down as part of the tips already. I must be so blind.. I never felt so paranoid before.. ha. Because of that bad experience that i went through on Wednesday, it's left a very bad impression already. AH.

But it turned out that the paper's pretty alright. Manfred is so much nicer compared to Bernard. Whatever he gave as tips, really came out. :)

I know, Manfred's spoiling us actually. That's called spoon feeding right .. ? Shall worry about UOL exams another time! Now i'm just going to relax first, and i have a long wishlist of things to do.

1) Swimming
2) Buffet at Himawari
3) Visit the dim sum eatery at Geylang someday
4) Wala's
5) Utilise the free red/white wine voucher at Amici.
6) hopefully, get a suntan

and the list goes on ....

Was talking to my friend. Cos he likes to call my SIM friends "Simply Friends." Thus, i tried to correct him and told him that its S-I-M not Simply..

Friend: So, what does SIM stands for?
Me: SIM, S-I-M la! Singapore Insititute of Management
Friend: No lor. Wrong. change the m to something else.
Me: Change to what?
Friend: Mj.

Thus, he now calls it singapore institute of mahjong. Thanks eh?

Because, alot of students from SIM plays mahjong! lol. Ranges from the beginners to the pro and to the very pro. The mj craze started since odac foc, and extends all the way to some of the dragonboaters. Actually, anybody, everybody.... hahaha.

2008-08-12T21:50:00.003+08:00

im having a paper tomorrow. spent the entire day in school studying.

i dont know if i can say that i was productive. because at the end of the day, it feels like i'm still so unsure of whatever i have studied for. or is this the so called cold feet that i'm having before the exams tmr?

i need to pass this. yes, all i need is 34 marks.

im so tired. the double espresso coffee is taking its effect on me. im kept awake while the brain is pretty much drained. So what am i supposed to do ? I cannot sleep yet i cannot take it if i were to do anymore maths question! Sighs.

anyway, i have already signed myself up for the night cycling. heh!

2008-08-06T23:32:00.003+08:00

First thing first:

Sunday: Was at Punggol Marina Country Club. My first time trying out Wakeboarding. It was fun just that i think i need to train more on my arm strength first because after awhile, i dont have much energy to pull the stunt and it ended up slipping of my hands. Pics will have to wait till cheeyoung's friend send it to him! yay..

Tuesday: My first official lesson as an undergrad with University of London. haha. was POA. But then imagine sitting through a 3 hour lecture with only one person talking non-stop. i nearly fell asleep.

Plus, it's all introductory stuff and i've came across such stuff in my poly days. oh wells. anyhow, studied in school after that before heading down to changing apetites with the rest of the OG peeps. ah, it wasn't really studying to me lah.. but nevermind about that.

Had dinner. It seemed to be more like an OG 2 outing with the seniors.. without the OGLs. heh. Headed over to Esplanade's roof top terrace after that to chill awhile before going home. Was tired out at the end of the day...

Wednesday: Went back to school to study. Actually im kinda growing to love SIM's library. I finally see a library that's more like a library. The one in Ngee Ann isn't very conducive for studying even though its a library eh ? and, now i'm feeling ever so studious that .. i like the thought of being an undergrad mugging all day. Haha, talk to me after a month or two to see if i have the same sentiments.

Headed to class at Management House after that and boy, the jam was horrible.. Something funny happened in class. The two people sitting beside me are quite funny. There's this girl who asked me to sit back at the same place tmr so that she can "know us" or sth. i can't really recall what she said. But funny thing is that according to Nixi, she feels that the girl's like ordering us to sit back at the same spot at our next lesson. heh.

2008-08-02T19:02:00.001+08:00

im so excited !

Im going to wakeboard for the first time tomorrow at Punggol !

2008-07-29T02:32:00.003+08:00

Can you believe it !?

I missed three buses today when i was on my way to school. First, came 184, 154 and 52. I don't understand why the sudden crowd, i just couldn't get onto the bus! Managed to get onto the fourth bus. Thankfully. And i saw my "enemy" from OG1, who is also taking the night bridging class..

Anyhow, had a sudden craving for macdonalds'. I seriously wonder why.. I haven't had my dinner anyway so i decided that i wanna call for mac at about 11plus, and the operator told me over the phone that it would take about 1hr 15 mins to arrive.

1 hr 15 minutes!! That's an uber long time can. I'm so hungry and craving for the fries already.. And sadly, the macdonalds at Clementi Central closed down already, and the nearest Macs would be either KAP or at West Coast. So i decided to drive out to get my dinner/supper. haha. the crazy thing to do. Am glad that there's something called Drive-thru so i didnt have to get out of the car..

today's so boring. i wanna go wakeboarding!

2008-07-26T23:59:00.000+08:00

what why what ... !

Exams are coming soon. Will start studying like really soooooon. Trying to start the engine.. hmm..
I think OG2's the best OG ever. Like we're organising activities like .. joining the SMRT challenge, having mj sessions, bowling, gg johor for seafood? Haha! I totally dig it. It's so fun coming home everyday to check your mails now, something will be there. Seems like we've changed from mass conversations to sending emails. Amusing. =)

Anyway, went to Ben's place for his Bday celebration. The big boy is turning 21. Though not the actual day... but HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY, BEN!

I love the balloons ...

The lightings made the ambience so cool...

With the bday boy ...

Doing a makeover for him ....

and it resulted in this. (Doesnt it remind you of the joker in dark knight? heh)

Big baby needs his milk! (erm, red wine you mean?)

Drinking gleefully. (Like real!)

Good boy finished his "milk".

and that's about it.. i'm so sure he must be so drunk at the end of the day. haha.

2008-07-24T22:44:00.006+08:00

OG 2 outing on tuesday was great !

was supposed to be OG 2's outing, but somehow we've more people joining us. But its alright. Still fun anyhow... hurhur.

We met at 7pm at Clarke Quay Station ...

Santono (aka Ms ubin)

On our way to Waraku .. !
They must have felt so happy/overloaded with work. because apparently, we've booked seats for 20 people but because there's also other ogs joining in.. so we need more than 20 seats. Plus, that day was the SRC bash so there's also the SRC gang too.

The restaurant's quite full. and Noisy, with our presence. Odac took up a row of almost 10 tables, while SRC took up another row of .. i dont know how many tables.

With some of the seniors...

Oh, and ... and ... ! Guess what?! I saw keelin.. he's working at the branch that we went to... ! So... after our meal, and we were really full by then, he served us desserts to share ! I didn't take the drink he gave us though. but it's really nice...

Girls in the toilet, as usual.

OG 2 with seniors.

Headed over to Brewerkz while some of them went to butter factory for the SRC bash. Ordered four towers.. and played games...

and we have Santono (Ms Ubin) with his punishment. Bottoms up!

after brewerkz, some of us went over to Rocher for beancurd. hurhur.. and i saw Christina! SMU's having their orientation camp and they took turns to go for beancurd. heh.

2008-07-17T16:21:00.004+08:00

i'm back from camp at ubin! It's totally fun, and i didn't regret going for it.

Initially was all nervous cos i'm going there alone without knowing anyone .. but so glad that my OG's such a bunch of lovely people. We're known to the other OGs as the quietest OG on the first day, but we've emerged the top OG at the end of the camp.

and each of us got a bottle of perfume/cologne as the prize for that.

OG 2!

2008-07-03T02:47:00.000+08:00

i saw this somewhere and thought that i'd share this ...

Years ago I asked God to send me a wife, for the Bible says “you have not because you ask not“. I told the Lord not just that I wanted a wife but even explained to him the kind of wife I was looking for.

I told him I wanted someone who is kind, tender, gentle, compassionate, loving, sincere, peaceful, generous, affectionate, understanding, passionate, warm, intelligent, humorous, sensual, and trustful. I even mentioned things I wanted her to be physically. And as time passed, I would add more things to this list of my heart desire for a wife.

Then one night in prayer God spoke to my heart and said... “Son I can not give you what you've asked me for.“ I said, “Why not Lord?“ He replied, “For I am a just God and a God of righteousness and all I do is just and right.“ I said, “Lord, I don't understand why I cannot have what I have asked you for.“

He replied, “Then I will explain. It would not be just and right for me to grant to you your wish for I cannot give unto you something that you are not yourself. It would not be fair for me to grant unto you a person that is loving if you can sometimes be hateful, or someone that is kind if you can also be mean, someone that is a forgiver and yet you can still carry a grudge, someone that is sensitive and you are yet so insensitive... etc.

He said unto me, “Instead of wasting time trying to find someone or hoping that I will give you someone with all these qualities you seek, you should rather allow me to take this time to allow you to become all it is that you are looking for. For I cannot give to you that which you are not.“

“And if you allow me to work up on your spirit and to shape and mold your heart as I choose then when you see the one I have for you, you will be able to say like Adam said... “She is bone of my bone and she is flesh of my flesh“ for you will see yourself in her for you both will be one flesh.“

Keep this in mind.
This is for all:
the recently married;
the ones who have been married;
the soon to get married;
and the ones that are still looking.

God made woman from man's rib --
not from his head to top him,
nor from his feet to be walked upon;
but from his side to be his partner in life,
from under his arm to be protected by him,
and from near his heart to be loved by him.

Whether or not you believe in God, much of the above still applies.

2008-07-02T20:24:00.002+08:00

If you recall, my 3 years in poly was .. as plain as water, save for some activities i joined to make poly life more interesting.

So today, i was supposed to go for orientation but i didn't. Heard from someone else yesterday who attended the orientation, its just all about ice breakers and all. haha. Woke up at about 1plus and decided that i'll make a trip down to SIM to take a look at the CCAs available.

Just wanted to see what each cca offers. Was deciding between Windsurfing and ODAC but ended up, i joined ODAC. although it isnt a very commitment-requiring cca. Signed up for their orientation camp at Pulau Ubin. Saw the packing list..

1.5 litre water bottles, track shoes, sleeping back, insect repellant ... etc etc. It all seemed so familiar yet all so strange. Used to love all these outdoor stuffs when i was in sec school.. girlguides camp, outdoor activities blah blah. I feel so out of touch suddenly, with the outdoors. LOL.

I don't want my next two years to be boring. Hopefully, it's where i'll enjoy myself the most. * hopes...*

2008-07-01T03:16:00.007+08:00

Oh sheesh.

I've been putting on the calories. I have indeed lived by my own philosophy of eating first, decide later. Yet, i have not been living out the other philosophy of as long as i exercise, i still can eat what i like to eat.

The reason? I realised from the pictures that i've grown horizontally. You may say that "ah no la, you so thin can afford to be fat" Oh but no, it doesn't work exactly this way. I might even have to up a size when buying clothes! ha. just kidding, i have YET to. (:

To further prove this, i met up with my once-in-a-while meetup friend for my dinner/supper after class.

Friend: Eh seriously, i think you have grown fatter.
Me: * shocked over that sentence, despite the fact that i already know it * mm ya la! have been eating alot..

actually i really didn't mind hearing that from my friend's mouth. At least it's the truth luhh. And it's a known fact to me. People who see me often could probably not tell, less observant to it but ... It's such a terrible fact.

I need to get on my feet, and get my butt out onto that track! Which reminds me of this time Nat and i were supposed to go jogging. She didn't want to run the usual route which is by the canal, while i wanted to. We played three rounds of scissors paper stone, and i lost. So we are going to run along the pavements by the road.

I suggested this route, from clementi round SP and back. Well, we completed the journey, and taking twice the time we should have took because we literally walked the entire journey.

With respect to an entirely different matter, Special thanks to Denny! Because he listened/read my grandma story.. =D I think i just needed somewhere to rant.. At least now i kind of feel that the stone's been lifted up in my heart.. I know there's still the wonderful and fun-filled uni days ahead of me. No worries, no worries...