the new narcissist

:(

2010-05-30T01:13:00.001+08:00

漫长的等候让人特别失落
锋锐寂寞把天空都割破
还有谁能够紧握着我的手
陪着我期待消失的彩虹

was said to be too slow in knowing this song, but wasn't given the opportunity to rectify this.

I really ought to stop listening to emo songs. they really make a normally cheerful me upset.

2010-05-27T11:39:00.001+08:00

i couldn't update my fb status coz it was simply too long. and I refuse to just let all my hard work at typing go to waste just like that so i'm pasting it here anyway:

"i just saw two motorcyclist sprawled in the middle of SLE, with one unconscious, and a policeman attempting to wake him.

and suddenly, i thought about the wife/mom/dad/gf who's gonna be so devastated at the news, who's gonna hurt so badly mentally, maybe as badly as how the guy is hurt physically, and who's gonna wish they stopped him from going out to work that day.

and here I am thinking, even if the guy doesn't get killed in the accident, he's gonna be so badly hurt. i.e. brain damage, paralysis, loss of limbs etc.

and I'm so affected by it that I actually stopped planning for the meeting that's gonna happen in 30mins to type this long status update.

:( "

- Posted on the go with my precious iPhone

Lost

2010-03-22T20:43:00.002+08:00

It's one of those rarest days in a month that I managed to get home so early (aka 7pm) that I actually had to luxury of feeling bored, when I realized I havent been blogging for the longest time. Whatever happened to the Kimberly who blogged practically everyday in the past?

She kinda disappeared I guess.

She disappeared into her work, often staying late at work such that she started feeling so utterly blessed when she gets to go home at 6pm. Like WTH happened to the girl who used to feel depressed at the thought of going home straight after work without any hot dates?

I feel like I have aged ten years in the 3 months that I changed job. Circumstances made me build this armour such that shit hurled at me wouldnt touch me. But I think the armour isnt that strong yet 'cause I still get affected at times. Circumstances also taught me that I need to cover my ass at all times, plus know my job well enough that I can justify for my actions. Plus the lesson that being the nice one usually ends up being the last one who gets all the shit.

Alot of things learnt in the course of 3 months huh. haha.

Anyhow, I am finally settling down in the job, and doesnt feel as lost. Job-wise that is.

On the other hand, I'm starting to feel aimless and lost in my personal life. I'm not utilizing my brains that much now, and am starting to fear that my brains would start to degenerate at the rate that I watch 2am and 2pm on youtube.

I. NEED. TO. DO. SOMETHING. CONSTRUCTIVE.

GAH.

In the narcissism news, I havent been posting up enough pictures of my zipais huh. I cant lose this part of me as well!

So here are some that I have taken while waiting for Xiang to dye her hair the other day. The similar poses are due to the fact that I was testing out the different apps on my iPhone. HA.

My fav of the lot. :)

Xiang thought that I was kinda mad to be constantly snapping away and checking the phone to see whether I'm chio enough not.

HAHA. Another similar one. But note the different color tones!!

I <3 my iPhone!

<3

Here's one with my nephew. :))

And one of me waiting for dinner that I dozed off on Grass' bed. Faked of course. Otherwise how to take the pic la.

And one final pic of me and Jas. During CNY.

I miss my lashies. =(

You are Beautiful

2010-02-01T01:33:00.003+08:00

It's been a long time since I have watched a Korean drama and gotten so totally hooked. And I so have to gush about it over here.

You are Beautiful consists of:

- All those damn hot kpop singers that have been making me swoon like a teenager once again.

- A damn fabulous OST.

- A member of the band that resembles TOP from Big Bang with his eyeliner (hot hot hot! But sometimes also resembling *archem* Adamn Lambert *archem*), who's mean on the surface but totally a softy at heart (like Rain in Full House).

- A member that resembles G Dragon with his blonde hair but the hilarity of the guy from Hana Kimi

- A member who is so charming and has the tenderness of Kim Hyun Joon from Boys over Flowers, who's always looking out for the girl.

- And finally, the female lead who's disguised as a guy to be in the band. This totally reminds me of Coffee Prince and Hana Kimi.

I'm seriously totally hooked, and I'm only at Ep 8.

And this show is the reason why I'm still awake at the unearthly hour of 1.40am when tomorrow's a working day. I feel young again! I'm no longer sleeping at 11pm. HAHA.

Can't understand

2010-01-26T08:01:00.000+08:00

Every single morning while walking to the LRT station, I would be perplexed by the people that attempt to take more than one set of the free newspapers.

They would take one set, then pretend to walk another round, to take another set. Then when the newspaper distributing auntie sees that, she would be scolding the greedy woman (oh. it's always a woman and seldom a man who's guilty of this).

The angry newspaper distributing auntie scoldings could not deter the greedy woman's want for more newspapers, and MORE newspapers, and even MORE newspapers as the greedy
woman would attempt to stuff the newspapers into her bag/ plastic bags/ kiap under her armpit/ whatever measures just to get MORE newspapers.

Like what the hell. Why do they need so many sets of newspapers for? To accumulate to sell to the karung guni man? Or do they need the newspapers to pick up their dog shit, or wrap vegetables, or what?

If it's for the karung guni man, I'll have to say, they would have to walk alot of times and try to collect free newspapers unabashedly to even earn a miserly 2bucks.

If it's for the picking up of dog shit, then I guess I have to pity the dog for having such weak intestines that it is perpetually shitting.

If it is for the wrapping of veg, well, I guess they consume alot of veg at home.

And I can't think of anymore reasons why they would need so many sets of newspapers as I won't believe that they are taking them for reading purposes.

Of the many traits that I detest in a human, greediness and stinginess beat all others to reign at the top of my billboard charts.

Stay tuned for the next post about stinginess in my cousin's friend. It's now time for me to sleep on my bus that is stuck in a jam. :))

and so..

2010-01-25T21:16:00.000+08:00

And so.. the new year has zoomed by, and it's now nearing the end of January.

Previously, I used to love January. After all, it's the month of my birthday, the month of the new year that spells new beginnings, and the month that gives me the most squishy feeling 'cause there's gonna be my birthday.

But this year, it has all changed. I can't exactly remember how the years went by so quickly. The uni years were all lumped together in one huge memory, with some distinct ones that can't exactly be placed into a specific year, but rather, I used the year that I worked with certain people to recall which year was that exactly.

This year, is also the year that I took quite some time to remember exactly how old am I. Is that a sign of impending old age? Or is that simply because I don't exactly have the luxury of time to think about how old am I, and how old am I gonna be soon. Gosh. I seriously feel damn old!!

But this year, I still count my blessings to have such a wonderful family (abeit some unhappiness that I'm pretty sure happens to every single family out there), wonderful cousins and friends and great colleagues (not that they would ever read this blog for obvious reasons).

And this is the year that I finally understood why people set new year's resolutions, and why people indulge in materialistic wants. The latter is just a way to reward oneself after working so damn hard all the time (or that's how I feel la huh).

In other news, I have gotten my iPhone, and I guess it's this reason why I'm perpetually on msn, but seldom have the time to chat, and use the lappy so infrequently that I only use it at
most once a week much to Erinna's annoyance. HA. I'm blogging from my iPhone fyi. HAHA. And I'm loving it. Gosh, the whole world should have an iPhone man. The world would be such a better place. HAHA.

To end off this post, here's my love:

Ok, so I'm back

2009-12-12T17:02:00.002+08:00

Okay, so I'm back from Beijing, spent a week in bed nursing a horrid cough that looked so green and lumpy that I grossed Allan out so badly. HA. Then I had the worst stomach pains that could never be menstrual cramps, with fever, diarrhea, and constant puking to boot. It was so bad that the doc actually suspected appendicitis. Scare the hell outta me.

But anyway, Beijing was so darn cold that I couldnt really enjoy it. I was busy hibernating the moment I wore my down jacket 'cause it felt so comfy. That resulted in me being really sleepy for most parts of the trip.

And no pics for the Beijing trip 'cause I looked really really terrible. I think only my Ah Gong loved holding my uber round face in his hands and chuckling that I looked so cute. Like omfgosh. I looked so damn disgusting. Thank goodness my face doesn't look as round now. Phew.

Anyhow, the 2 weeks that I was back at work, I had been busy juggling my current job and trying to learn all the ropes for the new job, panicking like crazy, and getting nightmares about my potential inability to handle all the stuff.

And so, I'm starting a new job this coming Monday. I'm hoping for the best. =)) But please bless me 'cause I think it's gonna be super demanding.

On a happier note, I'm so gonna get my iphone soon!! *HOLLERS*

Beijing!

2009-11-13T20:43:00.002+08:00

Am flying to Beijing in another 12hours' time!

So till then... oh wells, I don't even update that often.

BUT BUT BUT. Here's wishing:

XIAODI! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! <-- today!

ZHENWEI!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! <-- on Sat!

JAS!! <-- You are so gonna be with me on your birthday. HAHA.

And I realized, I am flying quite abit this year. And I'm getting so pro at packing my luggage that I have taken such a laidback attitude -- packing only on the day before flight. Ho ho ho.

I hope I don't freeze over in Beijing. =X

Double standards

2009-11-07T19:53:00.003+08:00

You know there are double standards when I perch over a plate of chilli crab and uttered some words about how I can eat crabs now, and that person said "EEYERS. You cant do this!!! ALL YOUR SALIVA ARE NOW ALL OVER THE CRABS!"

And she can happily perch over the plate of bloody crab to chat about her beautiful daughter, and how delicious the crabs are, and how the weather is perfect... while taking her own sweet time spraying countless droplets of her harmless and sweet saliva over the plate of crabs.

Really.

What's worse? Everyone gives in to her.

Why?

Besides the fact that everyone has been giving in to her all her life?

'cause she has the tendency of creating chaos. Like for example, pissing someone off so much that he gets a mild stroke, or threats of divorce, or you never know... making someone choke on the hock chew fishball?

I think I'm so bitchy. HA.

Updates updates!

2009-11-07T00:53:00.002+08:00

Updates updates!

The year's zooming by, and I realized we are already in the month of November (what happened to September and October??), and in no time, we are gonna be in 2010! This is kinda freaky.. in the way that it was 1999 back then, with the y2k bug and what's not (omgosh, I'm reminded of Tan Suet Mian's lectures suddenly, and me counting the number of times he repeat "What's not."), unable to imagine how we were gonna write the dates --"Are we gonna write the year as 00?".

But the thing is, a sudden realization hit me: I have not accomplished much stuff in the year 2009 besides the fact that I managed to graduate and am working now.

And I finally realized why do people make New Year's Resolutions.

I have always thought that New year's resolutions were kinda cheesy. Like yeah, I would make all those lofty new year's resolutions, remind myself and try to stick to them for one week or so, and forget about them on the second week of January.

But anyway, what I meant to say is this: For people that work, it's really easy to go on with life everyday monotonously, carrying on like a robot. And if we don't constantly remind ourselves of our goals (ok fine, this is sounding real cheesy), we would zoom past a whole year without accomplishing ANYTHING.

'cause this is how my week goes typically:

Sunday: Ahhhhhhhh... Why is it already at night??? What happened to the whole day??? Omgosh. It's time to sleep.. I still have gotta wake up at the ungodly hour of 6.30am to make bento tomorrow...

Monday: *make bento grudgingly* *nuaaaaa* Monday blues..... Ok.. Lunch!! Sadly it's only bento lunch...... Ahh.. Only 2pm... 3pm...... Ahh.. Why is it only 4pm???? Ooooh.. It's finally 5! Ah! 6pm! Time to go home!

Tuesday: *makes bento a little happier than on Monday* *repeat the lunch and time thing* 6pm! Time to go home/out for dinner!

Wednesday: *makes bento a little lazily* Mid week! Means 2 more days to weekend!

Thursday: No bento 'cause it's airport day! *happiness*

Friday: TGIF!

Saturday: Oooomhs. *enjoy the whole day nua'ing/going out/whatever comes up*

AND THE WHOLE CYCLE REPEATS ITSELF EVERY SINGLE WEEK!!!

And each week just flies by. I had been working for the past 4months plus, and it totally doesnt feel like 4months plus at all.

By the way, my contract got extended. That's why I'm still working now. =))

Oh ya, and I'm going to Beijing in a weeks' time! =)))

And I have a gazillion pimples on my face now. Plus loads of water retention on my face that I totally hate looking into the mirror 'cause I don't look like myself at all. argh. Meaning there isnt gonna be any zipais of me till I get rid of the water retention AND pimples.

Sigh.

Amazed

2009-10-20T22:51:00.002+08:00

I was left speechless just now. Like omfgosh stunned into speechlessness.

Oh what the hell.

But anyway, I cant stand those really practical people. Like if I am of no practical use to that person, the person won't even bother to keep up with the usual hi-byes. And even when that said person is my cousin.

Oh, did I mention that this particular cousin greets my parents with enthusiasm when he sees them around in shopping malls? "Oh.. What are you doing here? yada yada yada yada.." Really friendly guy, my parents would say. Ah. Married well, have a good job, have a cute kid.

But it's an entirely different thing when I bump into him and his family in the shopping mall. Friendly waves and smiles were greeted by a grunt of acknowledgement, without even a glance at me.

Friendly guy yeah. Friendly 'cause he's a financial consultant, and often call my parents up, telling them if they need financial advice, he can provide them. *money signs gleaming from his eyes* Friendly when he didnt have a car and needed to go for family dinner, and would call / sms me a gazillion times just to see if my dad can give him and his wife a ride. Friendlier still when he wants a ride back home. Friendly when he wants something from you, but not so friendly when I have nothing to offer you 'cause I'm young and oh, he didnt know? I have just started working.

Now he has a condo *gasped my aunt* (Ooooh wow. Like my ass would care.), a car *gasped gasped* (Ooooh wow. I think my fingernails are more interesting.), a cute kid (that is outgrowing his cuteness, really.), he doesnt really need anything from you anymore. So he could afford to grunt and disregard you.

Gone were the days when he got suicidal, and the whole family had to go talk to him, to get him down the ledge, to convince him not to jump. Gone were the days when my dad had to fork out money just to allow him to see a shrink and what's not.

Come CNY, he would be at his best PR'ing again -- flinging his son around, milking on the relatives' soft spot for toddlers, distributing his namecards, and telling people about financial consultation and what's not.

But I swear, gone are the days of me saying hi nicely. Maybe I will just flip my hair and walk past him like a stranger if I have the swayness of seeing him outside again.

Sorry for MIAing!

2009-10-09T00:12:00.002+08:00

Ooops. Sorry for MIA'ing! I have been busy being a domesticated Kimberly aka the Maria from Timbuktu. I clean, I pack, I wipe, and I do everything.

That is the ritual for moving house I guess.

The new house is great. I have been sleeping really well here. Except for the part where the water pressure for the shower isnt strong enough, there seems to be more bugs while living on the 10th level instead of the 6th level (I seriously don't know why this is the case. Do bugs fly higher and miss out the lower levels totally or something?), and the fact that I have to raise my voice to get heard, everything's really great.

While I am missing the old house, I think I have been kept too busy at the new house to miss it that badly. Packing away things in the kitchen and throwing away unwanted stuff gave me an odd sense of satisfaction. I seriously don't know what is wrong with me. Maybe I'm getting so domesticated that I like doing all these stuff recently? Oh wells.

Anyhow, while packing a few weeks back, I found some of my very first glasses that I ever wore when I was Primary 2!!!

Are you ready to check them out? They are so damn hip hop that I didnt even think it's possible to wear them on my face.

Ahhh.. Absolutely fugly.

And ready for how it looks like on my face????

Are you sure you are ready????

Alright.. Here it is!

!@#$%^&*()_ FUGLY!!! =XXXX

And the second pair I had.

I seriously wonder what overcame me to choose this disgusting pair of glasses. What's with the spots?!?!?!

Anyhow, this is so disgusting looking.

Gear yourself for the worst alright?

ARGHHHH.

Why didnt anyone stop me from choosing those horrid glasses?!?!?!? Argh argh argh.

Anyhow, please do be rest assured that I do not ever look like that now. Here's a normal chio pic of me that has rather swollen eyes with my favourite adorable Ah Gong.

=))

Ok, come back in a month's time for my next post ya? HAHA.

Moving

2009-09-23T17:37:00.002+08:00

With the upcoming move in just 3days' time, I cant help but think how much I would be missing my current house.

The luxury of space, the luxury of having lifts that arent coordinated so I can press both lifts at the same time, and both lifts would appear on my floor, the luxury of the wide open space outside my house that I can do cartwheels in (not that I have done so), and the luxury of having 67, 188 and 975 right at my door steps so on days that I feel lazy and wanna take a bus to the trains station, I could always hop onto one instead of walking over (esp when I'm wearing my 4 inches heels).

This house saw me through my PSLE. Not that I have loads of memories of me mugging for my PSLE. Just waking up real damn early just to make breakfast (sausages or ham with bread) before walking out with my Da Jie to take the train to school. The one memory that mattered the most of the freedom of being away from home, such that I could loiter before going home. i.e. going to Popular and start testing out all the cool pens that I could never afford; going to the library to borrow loads and loads of books, and reading while walking on the way home until my eyes couldnt take the glare of the sun reflecting on the pages of the novels.

This house saw me through my Nanyang days, of me waking up at 5.45am just to take the 6.15am bus to school, and often reaching at 6.45am -- even before the sun rises, and thus have to walk the long dark lonely road into Kings Road, scrambling up the stairs for fear of ghosts or the dogs suddenly pouncing on me. It then saw me through my burns in Sec 2, and my guiding days -- picking up twigs for firelighting but my twigs would never be good enough 'cause they arent of the right kind. Oh wells.

I could still remember the days of me surfing the net in the study room (when it was still a study room), connecting via the dial-up connection, which inevitably resulted in the house phone being unavailable. Those werent the days of handphone age yet, and so whenever somebody were to call home, they would need to possess the utter patience in trying to break the dial-up connection to get through (much to my frustrations in being disconnected from my IRC chats), or they could just call and hang up like what my Mom would do just to check if I'm using the net or not. Those were the days man.

However, I could never study in this house. I can either stay at home and study (and get distracted by the temptations of the laptop and bed) or I could go out and study for the sake of my grades. So all through my years of education (save for my Pri 6 year), I was perpetually studying outside of my house, at school, at the cc, at whereever, but never home.

Ohhhh.. Then came the appearance of the crows at the trees surrounding my block. They wake up at 3am (sometimes before I even sleep), and caused such a chaos with their relentless chirpings (or cawings whichever you prefer), till the town council or whatever got so pissed off at the number of complaints that they just cut off practically all trees in the carpark area. They even uprooted 2 trees, and replanted with 2 tiny little seedlings that are still trying to grow as I type. That, I wouldnt miss. But hey, I wouldnt know what would I face when I move over to the new place, would I?

I guess I would miss the strong water pressure from taps and showerheads, the serenity (when the crows didnt appear), the readily available provision shop (which has this auntie that made me so mad at her that I didnt frequent it for years now), the immense storage place, and the memories that I have of it. It is the longest ever that I have ever stayed in one area - exactly 12 years (and I'm only 23), so I guess, it's farewell my dear house.

And I shall chiong back to packing the remnants that are still scattered all around. =)

Flying... flying.... flying.....

2009-09-17T23:43:00.003+08:00

Been pretty busy. Resulting in the inactivity online, and over here at my blog.

Loads of people been flying: Fen for HK to work, Ninny for Boston for her PhD, Moon Star for Taiwan in pursuit of her dreams, Biatcho for Czech Republic for exchange, Wennie back to Switzerland, and Gauri back to London for studies.

Everyone's leaving me behind. =((

So in the weeks leading up to them flying off, been so crazily going out, meeting up, trying to squeeze more time! More time! And MORE TIME! with them.

Sadly, I didnt get to meet up with Gauri before she flew back to London. Sighs.

And I fell sick last week. Been coughing like a TB patient for the past few days. Sudden itch in the throat can render me tearing and choking back my coughs, which felt a gazillion times worse on a crowded train, and people trying to siam my coughs.

I do not appreciate being looked upon as a pot full of H1N1 germs, thank you very much, so you all can quit averting your eyes, but sneaking glares back at me in an attempt to glare my coughs into stopping. Eye power doesnt work this way my darlings.

The way eye power works is in a class of 17 Primary 6 kids that act more like monkeys than really twelve year old kids. Jumping around in class, the usual using of handphones/reading of books under the table, walking around in class, asking to go to the toilet after every 15mins, sitting at the table and banging the chair onto the fake wall partition in a rhythmic THUMP-THUMP-THUMP causing the tutor in the next class to come storming into my class to demand for it to stop, stealing pencil cases and throwing them into the bins, eating in class and throwing the damn chips at this other girl.

And the list can go on and on and on. A normal day of 1.5hours of tuition is normally conducted with approximately 45mins of screaming at this boy to stop blabbering to himself really loudly, stop chatting and do your damn maths!, can you please kindly sit down and stop moving around, do you wanna shut up or not?; 30mins of teaching; and 15mins of sitting there in exasperation.

So, on the day that I nearly torn my lungs out from coughing and wheezing with a non existent voice to boot, I used my eye power.

"Do you all wanna shut up and listen to me anot?" said in this really buay song way, with an utterly black face, and constant staring.

And apparently it worked so well that the normally noisy class became as quiet as church mice, to the extent that I was so uncomfortable in the silence as I went through the papers.

Oh wells, one cant have the best of both world, can she?

In other news, I'm 8days away from moving over to my new house, and I have my notes, shoes, bags, table, forgotten soft toys stuffed in this top cupboard, and more notes and crap unpacked. Needless to say, I'm panicking like crazy. I'm also cutting down on the number of times that I go out till I moved for fear of being nagged like crazy for "How much have you packed? You have so much unpacked and you are still going out every single day? Where will you find the time to pack then? We are moving in X days and you are still unpacked! You're always giving me the excuse that you don't have time, how will you find the time if you keep going out huh?" yada yada yada.

So it's really easier just to come home and nua instead of going out, only to come back to a string of naggings.

Sigh.

And I'm really sorry for no pictures. (Alright, not that sorry. Just a teeny weeny feeling of guilt.) But do pardon me till after my move k? =)

Singapore??

2009-08-20T00:15:00.004+08:00

Recently, work's been pretty challenging. And by challenging, I mean I have ALOT of things to do. And the things seem never ending.

Gone are the days that I could practically doze off as I have nothing much to do.

Gone are the days that I can bug my colleagues with randomness.

And Hello to the days that feel like 6pm when it's actually only 3pm. Only reason being I did so much stuff within a short period of time that it felt like I had been working for a damn long time.

Oh wells.

But anyway, was calling this Switzerland guy up regarding some problems when another Swiss guy answered the phone.

Me: "Hello, can I speak to XXX? This is Kimberly calling from Singapore."

Guy (in his German/French/dunno what mixed accent): "XXX? You calling from Singapore??"

Me: "Yes, I'm calling from Singapore, looking for XXX."

Guy (in his accent again) : "Singapore??"

Me: "Yes, Singapore. Are you Mr XXX? I'm calling regarding the..."

Guy (incredulous still): "SINGAPORE???"

Me: "Yes, Singapore..."

Guy: "Ah.. Mr XXX. Hang on.. Singapore???"

Me (buay tahan): "YES. SINGAPORE."

Guy: "Ah.. Hold on...."

=.=

I was torn between feeling exasperated and amused by his incredulous tone of repeating "Singapore" for the umpteem time. Goodness, why is it so surprising that we can speak English?

Or does he even know where Singapore is? Or is Singapore as exotic as what the Bahamas feels like to me? Oh wells.

Oops! I did it again!

2009-08-16T00:46:00.006+08:00

Oops! I did it again! I didnt blog for the longest time ever again.

And the only reason why I logged onto blogger is because there's this bug that is causing my blog to be redirected to some random site, and I had to change the blogskin, or people wouldnt be able to see my blog at all.

BTW, I just changed the skin, and am too lazy to update all the links. So please pardon me if your links are all gone. Hee.

Oh yeah, another reason why I logged on was 'cause I just came back from the PJ homecoming dinner, and am reminiscing like crazy. But that's for laters. =))

Have been going out like mad recently, meeting up with the guides, with my sec school mates "SHABU SHABU!!", meeting my biatch who's flying for czech republic soon, and going out with my colleagues.

Work's pretty alright. I like my colleagues. And what would I do to remain there on a permanent basis instead of a 4 months stint. Sigh. 2 months have already zoomed by, and with another 2 months to go before I bid them farewell.

Oh yeah, I had my convocation a few weeks back. And without anymore words, here are the pics!!

Firstly, I dedicate my degree to my lovely parents who have been trying their best to give us the best they can afford. They have brought me up to be who I am today, and I wouldnt be where I am without their support through all these years.

Daddy Mommy, I really love you two loads.

And there's my Da Jie who ran around with me like crazy on my convocation day, acting as my photographer, and giving me tonnes of brilliant pics.

Thanks Da Jie!!!

And there's my BFF of more than a decade: Xiang.

We have finally graduated!!!!!!! Thanks for being there for me through all the ups and downs for the past decade and so.

And so, I finally threw my mortar board.

I love love love love this pic!! =DD

And I threw it together with the rest!

Chio right? =DDD

And finally, one last pic of me in my gown.

Clutching the degree that I toiled 4 years for. With everything moving around so fast, and yet I was there, stationary, reminiscing.

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On a totally different note, I went to do eyelash extensions!!!

CHIO RIGHT! HAHA.

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We met up with the grad trippers to celebrate Xiang, Chao, Boon's belated birthday on a fine fine Thursday night.

Boon Chao Xiang with the amazing rock like BreadTalk cake. Note: DO NOT EVER BUY BREADTALK CAKE UNLESS YOU ARE LEFT WITH NO OTHER CHOICES!!

Blowing out the candles. =))

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Today, we went for our PJC Homecoming dinner. PJC is already 10 years old! OMGOSH. The time just flies man. I feel so old back there, with so many younger generations.

Walking down the Teck Whye lane arm in arm with Xiang, bickering, and laughing with the rest, made the past 5 years disappear, and I felt as if I was propelled back into the past.

Walking past the main gates, and we saw the durian head operations guy who used to scream at us if we were ever late for school, or chase after us if we attempt to leave the school early.. I could only smile at those memories.

The concourse was still as huge as ever, with the study corner filled with tables and chairs -- evidence of Mr Kwek's dedication to us students. When there wasnt enough tables and chairs to go round for us, he would order more. When we complained that the study corner was warm and stuffy, fans were installed within a week.

I could still remember the nights that we stayed back in school to mug. There would be food and drinks provided. Canned milo, Horlicks, coffee and tea. And Mr Kwek would be kiaping beehoon for us, telling us to eat more.

All through my education in Singapore, from primary school to secondary school, to JC and university, I have never known such a kind fatherly principal who made me respect him so much. I have to admit that I resented him from time to time for making us have a fixed sitting arrangement in the LTs, laughed along with the others when he said "kuku-jers" and "thunder strike", and imitated the way he said "Good morning Pioneers" every morning, or "I'm very troubled." when we have done something wrong.

But I admired him for his efficiency, for his genuine care for us students, and not just for the grades that would pull up the rank of our JC. We all felt like each and everyone of us really mattered to him, and not just any other student that was just passing through.

Because of him, (and of course the amazing teachers and great classmates) I have never regretted going to PJC. While a Nanyang girl going to PJC seems like such a disgrace when everyone else goes to Hwa Chong or Raffles or NJ, I can proudly say that I am a true blue Pioneer.

Alright, enough of my lengthy reminiscence. Here are some pictures from Sid and my cameras.

My dearest classmates!!

And we met Mrs Pat Khor who could only remember that I gave her some heart-shape pillow or something, which I really couldnt remember me giving.

And she said that I was the rebellious one when I went back a few years back!!!

Oh, and here's Sidney Wong.

I cant believe how we still chat/sms after all these years.

With Gavin! My fellow SIM! =))

And Xiang and I went over to the toilet. Even the toilet is filled with memories: toilet paper are found outside the cubicles!! Oh, and I remember stealing a toilet roll when I had a bout of runny nose. HAHA.

Camwhoring. =DD

The corridors that we used to laugh in as we walked from one place to another.

And the empty patch of grass was developed into such a pretty garden!

Damn pretty la!!

Oh, and me with my favourite 60s!!!

With her around, there will never be a day without laughters. =))

And finally, with my BFF.

I cant wait for the rest of the pictures to be sent to me!!! =))

Work + Harry + Photoshoot

2009-07-20T23:58:00.002+08:00

Wooo. I realized working life is not as easy as I thought it was. I finally understand why Yannie sleeps damn early. The feeling of utter tiredness, the feeling of exhaustion, the feeling of not wanting to do anything but sit and stone..

And I mean do nothing by: Not coming online, not reading, not watching tv or my fav drama serials. Just plain stoning.

Oh, and my colleague laughed at me for having no life. =XX

In order to prove that I have some sort of a life, I went to catch my Harry Potter just now after work. And I concluded that it's better to have read the book in the distant past as compared to having read it again and again till I could totally recite the events. The disappointment would be greater in the latter situation.

It's also better to have read it in the distant past as compared to having not read it at all, so that one would be able to know what the hell is going on. With no background knowledge on it, one would be totally lost at the fast turn of events, bewildered by the different characters' triumphs and schemes, and better off not watching it at all.

Enough about Harry Potter (I'm so gonna read the book again later.), recently I've been so damn freaking busy with work, and the renovation of the new house (I'm moving house, did I mention that?). Picking of lightings, floor tiles, toilet bowls, basins, sinks, interior design etc. The number of things that we looked at is enough to give me a migraine. =XX

At the same time, it's gonna be convocation soon! Friday peeps! =DD

Been to the free studio photoshoot on Sunday, and without further ado, there's some previews!

Putting on the gown rather clumsily results in a lop sided hood/sash/whatever that blue and green thing is called.

And zipai no. 1!

Both of us in gown!

Cant really see Jie's gown, so here's another!

Can see anot??? =))

With the mortar board.

I think I look not that good with the mortar board. =(

Anyhow, the photoshoot begun, and Chris managed to take this pic of us being stupid.

HAHA.

I cant wait for Friday!!!! =DDD

UPdatessss

2009-06-28T23:50:00.002+08:00

Ah. The past week has been an eventful one.

I started work, learnt quite alot of new stuff, sat beside my deputy, and diagonally across my boss. Ah. Stressful.

And this was also the week that MJ passed away.

I totally couldnt believe my ears when I heard on the radio that he died. I even went to get the My Paper just so that I could flip through it to find out about news of his passing. But apparently the news were too fast for the papers to publish them.

Disbelief turned into sadness, before I got angry at him for dying. How could he just die like that without warning? Before his heart stopped pounding, he ought to have thought of his fans, and stayed alive for a little longer, so that there would be time to prepare for his pending demise.

Oh well. Sigh.

Anyway, this was also the week that I realized that time passed damn fast. I was just hermiting during FYP, then in the blink of an eye, all the long hours that I had to endure disappeared, along with the thesis submission, poster presentation, and grad trip.

And 2009 is already half gone. =X

Anyhow, I know you guys missed me terribly. So here's a pic of me hugging my Andy Lau. Hot stuff alright! =DD

So utterly hot till my leg pop up while hugging him. =D

Job and Wedding =)

2009-06-22T00:13:00.002+08:00

Ah. I know I promised a taiwan post, but I think it's really quite impossible. The pictures come to a whooping 20GB (from the different cameras) and I'm seriously extremely daunted by the feat of resizing all the pics. =XX

And so, in the time that I havent been updating, I have:

1) Watched a gazillion of drama serials. Namely,

a) The greatness of a hero

b) Atashinchi no danshi (still showing in Japan. =XX)

c) Nodame Cantabile

d) Mei-chan no Shitsuji

e) We Got Married (numerous episodes, teared when Alex and Shinae left. =((( )

f) Absolute Boyfriend (cried and sobbed like crazy)

g) Delightful Girl Choon Hyang (halfway through)

That's quite alot huh. HAHA. Sometimes I'm really amazed by how fast I can watch shows.

2) Went out quite a few times on the budget of a ~~shoestring~~ thread.

Meeting up with JC mates, Yishi, going out with Grad Trippers, cousins, ktv'ing, nua'ing over at Ah Ma house etc.

3) Sent out so many resumes that I felt damn demoralized at how companies werent calling me up for interviews.

4) Received a call from a particular company and went down for interview the next day, got an offer that day, signed the contract 2 days later, and am starting work today (after 12am my dears)

It's been like a whirlwind after so many days of rotting at home watching drama serials happily. And suddenly I was overwhelmed at the things that I had to do: signing of contract, pre-employment medical checkup, buying of working clothes yada yada yada.

And yes, I'm extremely nervous but hopeful. =))

5) Sent my handphone for servicing. =X

So for the time being, I'm back to using the good old Sony Ericsson orange phone-that-I-cant-be-bothered-to-check-for-model-number. It cant read all of the SIM card contacts that I have, and so I'm currently living without alot of numbers. Pardon me if I call you back to ask who smsed.

6) Attended my good friend's wedding!!

Shaur Shaur has gotten married on Saturday, and I was one of the Jie Meis. =DD

Due to the busy nature of a jie mei, I couldnt take many pics, and so here are some that were taken when I had a little time on my hands. =))

The beautiful bride and me! Shaur shaur seriously looks ang moh'ish. =DD

After all the gatecrashing in the morn, visiting the new house, tea ceremony and all, we finally made it to the Legends at Fortcanning Park.

And this is the bride that was munching on rabbit food, feeling utterly hungry after everything in the morning.

And this is the groom that dagger stared me whenever he had the opportunity to, believing that I was the main culprit for the wasabi digestive tarts. I forgot that I was sitting in the bridal car to get around, and was utterly worried about my safety while in the car.

Camwhoring while Shaur's doing her makeup!

And another zipai. HAHA.

GSM and me! Hooohooo~~

GSM and the chio bride that didnt believe that she's chio. =D

Coffee table book. Damn pretty.

And the flower girls' baskets! The flower girls were absolutely adorable. Ahhh..

And the flower girl. HAHAHAHA.

Just kidding.

Oh oh oh. I'm absolutely in love with this polaroid. Damn pretty. But damn ex. $1.30 for that polaroid picture alone. Ahhh.. But damn chio! Ahh.. =XX

Alright, I had better sleep or I wouldnt be able to wake up tomorrow. =))

Plants and penises

2009-06-15T21:16:00.002+08:00

erinna エリナ says: but nth much to do until my plants have more sex and get babies
then omg. when that flowers next year.. im gg to be so damn busy la

©¿º« kÎmßÆ®£¥ »º¿© -- says: HAHAHA
wah lau
they dun have sex can
they get pollinated only

erinna エリナ says: porn!
PORN!
plant porn!!!!
flowers.. are the reproductive organs...

©¿º« kÎmßÆ®£¥ »º¿© -- says: erm

erinna エリナ says: so next time.. u admire a pretty flower.
u are actually looking at the vagina and penis
HAHAHAHA

I have this feeling that Erinna babe has gone a little nuts over her plants. Like seriously.

2009-06-12T23:23:00.003+08:00

And so, it's been 3 weeks since I gotten back from my grad trip. The missing of Taiwan + HongKong aint so bad now.

Anyhow, I found this on photobucket. Damn adorable.

Ahhhhh..

Back from grad trip and missing it so tremendously

2009-06-04T02:01:00.003+08:00

Oh yes, and so I'm back from my grad trip that lasted from 11th to 25th May.

And though the grad trip had some minor unhappiness going on, we all had a blast. We took LOADS of pics (mostly in taiwan), and ate loads of good food, and laughed through our 15days together.

After coming back for a week, I kept wanting to go back to taiwan and hongkong and shenzhen. And the feeling is that I wanna go back there with the same bunch of people, and nobody else but the same bunch of friends, to try the new food, explore new places, and bicker like crazy together.

For the first time in a week, we finally met up today (alright, yesterday) for lunch and ktv and dinner and drinks at StarBUCK si. The feeling that I get now, is a totally comfortable feeling. It's the eight of us, and just the eight of us. Just like how we were a week before.

And towards the end of the day, though we normally end it with a simple dinner after ktv, we decided to go for a more elaborate dinner this time. Followed by drinks at our favourite StarBUCK si. It's as though everyone's trying to hold on to more time together, though we have had a long day and everybody's tired and all. Just one more drink. Just a few minutes more, a few more bickers, and a few more laughters before we embark on our different lives, to pursue our futures with PhDs or jobs or whatever.

It finally ended with me yawning every few minutes, with Xiaodi being lost in all conversations, with Boon not having the energy to bicker with me anymore, before we bade farewell to each other, and a promise to meet on the 11th for our next movie together.

And even though this sounds really cheesy and cliche, I will really look back to those memories (NOT the other one.) that we had in Taiwan, Hongkong, Macau, and ShenZhen and smile to myself. Chuckling at the stealing of underwear, the spicy fishball that caused droplets of sweat to be formed on the nose, the cycling with 3 half naked dudes, the liang teh that we forced the guys to drink before they were allowed to drink their mango drink to fight the heatiness, the bargaining in ShenZhen with the stunned SJ, the trudging around in HK with soaking wet shoes, the late night gossipings till 3am, and multiple attempts to murder the Hor Sok Jing.

Not forgetting the laughters, and yeah, much to my unwillingness to say this: bottom of the food chain and yada yada yada. Yes, I know, I'm trying to force Hor Sok Jing to the bottom such that I can escape from the bottom you know. I'm trying my darnest!

I apologize to the people that don't get what the hell this post was about. I'll be back with pics soon I hope. And till the 11th of June, I'll be recalling the fun times we had, and pray that there's a time machine that could transport all of us back to the time in Taiwan and freeze us there for at least 2 more months, 'cause the time seem to fly when we are having so much fun.

GRAD TRIP!

2009-05-11T01:33:00.002+08:00

Alright alright. I know i havent been updating. I meant to update. I really do! Just that there simply wasnt enough time to do so.

So I guess I can only do it after 25th May. =DD

DnD was a blast. Poster day was stressful. And the packing of my luggage? Totally murderous.

I had better grab some sleep before the leaving for the airport, so till then dearies! =DD

RAIN!

2009-04-26T12:29:00.002+08:00

Omgosh it rained! I'm totally proud of the weather now, feeling like a triumphant mother who finally coaxed her constipated child into shitting. Ahhh..

The 5 reasons why I prefer the rain to the sun:

1. I can snuggle on my bed with a good book.

2. I can wear more layers to keep myself warm, but I cant strip my skin off to cool myself when the sun is crazy.

3. I love the feeling of thunder rumbling, rain pouring, wind howling, when I'm at home that is.

4. It's perfect for napping/sleeping.

5. I really really really hate the warmth.

Ho ho ho. Excuse me now. I'm gonna snuggle on my bed with Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. =D

Out for our 10th year of friendship!

2009-04-25T15:30:00.003+08:00

Ah. And so I finally submitted my thesis a week ago. It should be obvious from the frequency that I'm blogging right? When there's nothing to procrastinate about, I seldom blog. And the reason why I'm blogging again? I'm doing my poster. HA.

Anyhows, Xiang and I met up with Yannie the day after our poster! And as usual, the pics that are in Xiang's cam will never ever make it to my comp, much less my blog, so make do with what I have la huh.

I think we are getting old. We don't shop till that late anymore, preferring to go home earlier to rest and all. Maybe it's the fatigue that got accumulated throughout the FYP period (for Xiang and I), or the poor Yannie that work crazy hours as an auditor.

And so, we shopped, laughed, took neoprints (Yes! Neoprints! gonna upload these soon), and shopped, and rested, when we took these pics.

All three of us sitting down after feeling damn tired. We are old. =X

We had a damn hard time taking this pic together. My zipai skills have gone down the drains after the 4 months of FYP! =((((

Yannie and me. See, she's that tired that she had to find something/someone (aka me) to lean on.

Yannie and Xiang. Ah. I don't know why she wanted to lick Xiang. =DD

And and and!

I know you all are missing me and my zipais! The FYP period wasnt a good time to zipai 'cause of my lang bei look. Overgrown fringe + brows + perpetually tired look. And so, I did all the grooming needed, and tada!

Miss me right? =DD

And an attempt to make me look like I have a skinny face:

HAHA. Works hor? The fake lashies did their job too. Ho ho.

Alright, back to the poster before Xiang murders me. =)

argh. leave your bloody name!!

2009-04-14T12:01:00.004+08:00

This post is directed to the Passerby. If there's no desire to read my rants, please scroll on.

**************

I really hate it when people leaves tag on my tagboard and not state their name when they obviously know me and my friends.

It just annoys the hell outta me.

If you wanna say something, just leave your name. Is there a need to maintain the secrecy by withholding it back?

If you are a new reader, I would welcome you with open arms (unless it's some specific people that I would rather not read this blog). Just. Leave. Your. NAME!

argh.

By the way, I know who is the person that is hiding behind the mask of a passerby, who have been telling me how fortunate I am to have Xiang as my bff, or have been trying to defend her ages ago when the post was directed at someone else and not your beloved Xiang much to your disappointment huh?

If this accusation is wrong, then I'm so sorry. But I'm pretty sure my inkling is on the right tracks 'cause no one that I know would leave tags that state themselves as Passerbys yet talk about Xiang like they know her.

Just leave your name la!! Argh. And I know I am fortunate, or I wouldnt have blogged about it, would I?

Urgh.

2009-04-11T23:12:00.001+08:00

I really must blog about this:

燕菱 says:
everyday talk to you den i machiam feel like i also doing FYP

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Poor dear. She's already working and yet she feels like she's doing FYP too. HAHA.

The difference between a BFF and Good Friend

2009-04-11T01:45:00.003+08:00

You the difference between a BFF and a good friend?

The difference between a BFF and a good friend is how the BFF would sms to ask about how's my thesis writing getting along, or sms when there's no news of me for the entire day, or simply sms to ask me to jiayou!

The difference between a BFF and a good friend is how she knows exactly what my FYP is, and knows immediately when I talk about this antagonist, or the pre-contraction by this and by that, or the relaxation by this agonist or that agonist.

The difference is how she would listen to all my grumblings and complaints and frustrations about how the FYP is not going well, and how my life is sad, how my I'm so pissed off with how things are proceeding with the experiments.

The difference is how she would scold me awake 'cause she knows nobody else would jolt me awake.

It is how she would come over to school to accompany me while writing thesis, ask if I wanna stay over at her house to chiong thesis together 'cause she knows I won't have the motivation to write at home.

It is how she would sacrifice her monthly anniversary with her bf 'cause she wanted to allow me to stay at her house for one more day to finish up my first draft in order to be submitted by Friday morning.

It's also as simple as how she would know when I'm chatting with people on MSN and when I'm really writing my thesis just by listening to the sound of my typing and how she would get her parents to bring 3-in-1 coffee back 'cause she knew that I would need to stay awake to finish up the draft.

I'm really touched and grateful to my BFF Xiang for all these and more. And though we are not the type to hug or express how much we appreciate each other, I really wanna say this:

Thanks alot Xiang. (:

Cant breathe

2009-04-08T11:23:00.002+08:00

When I said I cant breathe 2 posts ago, I meant it literally.

It's now being a conscious effort to remember to breathe. Often I find myself holding my breath for too long and start feeling weird, before I tell myself, "Breathe girl, breathe."

Waking up to a congested chest and inability to breathe, I even dream about my thesis in my sleep, plus I'm often feeling hungry but don't feel like eating. Chocolates don't make my stomach churn hungrily, and there's no urge to tear open the wrapper though I'm putting a bar of kinder bueno beside me to motivate myself.

Even the pictures of sashimi cant make my stomach growl anymore.

=(

Peppermint!

2009-04-07T13:05:00.002+08:00

I left Erinna babe utterly exasperated just now:

Erinna says - did u know: that peppermint is a hybrid plant
Erinna says - its not a species =P

©¿º« kÎmßÆ®£¥ »º¿© -- sucking thumb says - hybrid from?
©¿º« kÎmßÆ®£¥ »º¿© -- sucking thumb says - pepper and mint?

Erinna says - spearmint and watermint
Erinna says - -___-

©¿º« kÎmßÆ®£¥ »º¿© -- sucking thumb says - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Paiseh girl. But it was logical! I swear!

Hair and Weather

2009-04-05T02:22:00.003+08:00

The extent of the warmth of the weather can be felt through the speed of my hair drying:

1 hour instead of the usual 2.

And the speed of getting sticky again after a shower.

Nasty mood

2009-04-03T19:27:00.002+08:00

Am in a totally bad mood these days. A tiny little thing that doesnt usually affect me piss me off big time. I get exasperated easily by miniscule matters. And the tears faucet need the least encouragement to roll.

Staring at my experiment today (yes, I'm back to doing experiments when I'm just 2 weeks away from the dateline) which had strangely abnormal results, I felt so totally helpless. Thinking about the amount of things that I have to do before next week, I nearly broke down right there and then in the lab.

Listening to my Dad's voice over the phone asking what happened to my experiment, the tears just threatened to roll again.

It was all I could do to swallow the lump that had formed in my throat and clear away all tears forming to put on a brave front for my PO. I don't wanna scare her twice in a week.

Stress piling, immense pressure building, expectations to live up to, the race against time.

I really cant breathe this time.

In continuation..

2009-04-02T12:33:00.004+08:00

In the continuation of the brunch that we had at Xiang's house, here's the dinner.

Fried rice with nuggets, drumlets, and zai er.

Don't be fooled by its amazing variety. Nuggets and drumlets and zai er leh! We totally cleared out the whole fridge.

But we are still amazed that we could dig out so many stuff to cook a decent dinner. And I was thinking we were gonna starve to our sad pathetic deaths 'cause I couldnt find a thing to eat in my hunger.

What's even more amazing was that we managed to finish cooking within 20mins. Or rather, Xiang managed to finish cooking, and I managed to finish washing EVERYTHING + add seasoning + throw in the food into the wok to cook + digging the rice outta the rice cooker.

Halfway through washing all the stuff, I was kinda thinking if that is how a maid feels. Bao'ing all the misc stuff.

But it was all worthwhile. The dinner was damn good. Or was it the hunger that made it so good? =XXXX

Anyway, going home, I found this new hp!

Omgosh. The feeling of a sleek new handphone practically made me drool.

It is a slide phone! *drool drool drool* (And yes, in the background is one of my gazillion graphs for my thesis)

But it isnt mine. =(

It is my Ah Gong's new handphone.

My AH GONG LEH!!! My 80++ years old Ah Gong having such a hip hop phone! Omgosh. It's totally amazing how hip hop my Ah Gong is la. He changes handphones at about the same rate as I change mine.

Looking at this phone, I'm totally reminded of Calvin's phones. Even my Ah Gong is more hip hop than him. HAHAHA. Ooops. =DD

Brunch

2009-04-01T12:25:00.005+08:00

The other day, I stayed in lab for 20hours, chionging an experiment for 19hours straight as I wanted to find out why there was a contradiction in my results.

The feeling of having to stay awake through the night really sucks. I blasted music, danced, sang, did jumping jacks, all in an attempt to keep myself awake. This is all due to the breaks in between being so short that I cant get a decent nap in, till the extent of my head feeling as if it's spinning whenever I close my eyes.

And knowing I have a tendency of making mistakes when I'm sleepy, I scrawled the steps on a piece of A4 paper and pasted them on the waterbath so that if I were to really make mistakes after all these efforts, I would really murder myself.

Oh, and the feeling of striking out each step gives me great satisfaction that one step is finally done.

My 2 sets of experiments that took so freaking long.

On Monday, I realized the contradictions were actually due to mistaking a graph's interpretation, and I nearly murdered myself in my frustrations.

I seriously felt like hurling myself outta the lab windows right at that moment as the disappointment in myself was so great.

It was only then that I realized that I had tremendous trust in myself, and that when I broke that trust I had, the disappointment that I received is so much greater as compared to someone else breaking the trust in me.

It was only after Yishi treated me to a strawberry Chupa Chup that I got over the frustration over my stupidity. =X

Yesterday, after going crazy doing all my results into nice graphs with coordinated headings, legends, and all those nonsense, I decided that staying over at Xiang's house is gonna be a much better choice as compared to going home.

This is simply because to me, Home = Rest. I never ever get any work done at home. NEVER.

I can never study/mug/or do whatever important stuff at home as the distractions of using the lappy to surf the net, watch shows, or sleep is so much greater at home than being away from home.

So I went to Xiang's house which has no food. =XX

All the plans to go out for breakfast at Bukit Panjang Plaza's Mac's by Xiang (which I cast aside 'cause I knew would never ever happen through the years of coming over to this house, we have only left here ONCE to get food.) didnt happen as expected.

And so we had this brunch that consisted of egg, crabsticks, meatballs, and instant Char Mee by Myojo.

Xiang's smashed up egg.

And MINE!

With a whole nice round sunny side up!

And together,

So pretty right? And I truly believe that it's my perfect sunny side up that made this picture look so fabulous. HAHA.

Alright, back to the thesis. =)

The number of pimples escalates as the dateline draws nearer

2009-03-30T23:26:00.003+08:00

Seriously, take a walk around SBS, and one would be able to easily distinguish between the final year students and the rest of the years.

Signs to watch out for?

1. The number of pimples appearing on the faces of the final year students escalates as 17th April draws nearer.

Normal exams are stressful enough. But with a thesis that is gonna be due so soon, the number of pimples escalates at a worryingly rate on the faces of the Year 4s.

2. The dark eye rims that seem to have increased in their diameter, and inevitably, circumference.

This is from the lack of sleep. Try doing 19hours of experiment non-stop without sleep, watching as the skies turn from bright blue to orange (evening), to pitch darkness, and bright again, all before your eyes.

Utterly depressing, really.

3. Zombie-like strides, stiff shoulders.

Once again, the stress and lack of sleep totally contributes to this. My perpetually stiff shoulders have grown rock hard.

4. Overgrown hair/fringe/brows.

There is seriously no time to visit the hair/beauty salon. =((

5. The gradual deterioration of the physical upkeep.

There's a gradual change from beauty to comfort. The abandoning of contacts for glasses (comfort for the eyes after long hours in lab), wearing more comfortable clothes. There's seriously no one to impress while doing lab, so who are we dressing up for? It's not as if the arteries would know how to appreciate how pretty you are.

I get real picky when choosing blogs to read. I lament about the good bloggers not updating frequently enough, and that friends seldom update. 'cause there is a decrease in good bloggers, and an exponential increase in the boring ones/blogs with heavily photoshopped narcissistic pictures/blogs without content at all.

I don't really care about the number of pictures there are just as long as there is a good content. I don't give a single damn about how pretty the photos are photoshopped. And for these 2 reasons, I blog without pictures pretty frequently, and even if I do put up pics, they wouldnt have been photoshopped.

Alright alright. I don't photoshop 'cause 1) I'm too lazy. Resizing is enough to kill me, if I were to photoshop the gazillion of pics I have in my comp, they would never get to see the daylights of this blog. 2) I don't have photoshop in my comp. And most importantly, 3) I cant photoshop. HAHAHA.

And seriously, people ought to type in good English when blogging. All those aLtErNaTe cApS just murders my eyes. Grammatical errors or spelling mistakes irks me endlessly. I don't dare to proclaim that I blog really well or have no grammatical errors or spelling mistakes, but I do try my best to minimize them.

I read, I vet, and I edit so many freaking times before and after I post an entry just to make sure that these errors don't happen.

And what's with posting a picture of food, and captioning it "Food. Yummy!" or whatever crap la. I know it's food. And I know that it's yummy, otherwise you wouldnt have ordered it, or even taken a picture of a disgusting plate of food right? Like so utterly, DUHZ.

People would say that it's their own blog, and they are free to blog about whatever they like. But what's the purpose of a blog if they don't cater to what the readers want? It's better if they were to write it with pen on paper and stash it under their pillows 'cause it's only for their eyes, and their eyes only.

If they don't really care about what their readers think, why do they wanna keep track of the number of people that visit their blogs by keeping a stat counter?

Even I, who prefer to blog with only words, cater to my readers by posting pics as I know people would just skip wordy posts and scroll on to the pictures.

I'm wondering if I am blogging for an entirely wrong set of audience here.

Argh. Ranting here feels like a waste of time as there wouldnt be anyone who would read this wordy post.

On a happier note, I found a blogger that blogs really well. Popagandhi, whom I originally thought was an old boring guy 'cause of the name "Popagandhi", and didnt bother to read back then is making me regret for my years of neglect. I'm catching up on lost time by reading her archives, and boy, she's a totally amazing blogger.

What to do when your bubble tea has ants

2009-03-27T12:53:00.002+08:00

And so, today started off erm, great I guess. I overslept, decided that since I'm not doing anymore experiments and there's no motivation to go to school early, I continued sleeping. I woke up refreshed, and everything was going pretty well until I happily went to buy bubble tea before going to school.

That's when I saw that the honey that the bubble tea auntie was pouring into the cups has loads of ants crawling all over.

Like ALOT ALOT ALOT.

I was stunned for a few seconds, and by the time I regained the ability to talk, the auntie has already started pouring the green tea into the cups.

Ahhhhh..

Having no alternatives, I started praying that the ants didnt die and get trapped inside the honey that the auntie was pouring, praying that the ants were just stupidly crawling outside the container and didnt manage to go inside the honey container at all.

I didnt even dare look at the 2 cups of bubble tea, but kept hoping for "No Ants! No Ants! No Ants!"

The cup that I was hoping for No Ants!

But all the hopes were all for nothing... 'cause I saw at least three drowned ants swirling around as I shook the cup. =((((

Looking at it, I was contemplating between feigning ignorance and drink everything down, but another part of me was so utterly grossed out by the thought of drinking ants down into my stomach when I KNOW that there are already ants.

After emo'ing for a damn long time, trying to scoop those ants up by the huge straw (useless attempt by the way), I decided to get this:

From the quad. =D

Thank goodness for the existence of the quad (+nanyang mart).

And I started fishing the drink for the ants.

And...

TADA!

Told ya there's 3 ants.

But my bubble tea didnt look too great after all the fishing.

=((

But at least I can drink it happily now. =D

Oh, and the most annoying thing? Xiang's bubble tea didnt have any ants at all! I should have just gave mine to her, and let her drink without knowing that there are ants instead. As people say, ignorance is bliss. HAHAHAHA.

2009-03-26T12:27:00.004+08:00

Listening to Buckcherry's Sorry is making me all emo. Like so wth.

Recently, with the crazy weather of heavy rain, then sunshine over and over again, there's been the appearance of rainbows everywhere.

My dad was picking me up from Xiang's house when he stopped the car and asked me to look at the longans on the tree.

But popping my head outta the window, all I saw was this:

And I immediately yelled "THERE'S A FREAKING HUGE RAINBOW LEH!!!"

Dad: =.=

Me: "Wah.. The rainbow super pretty leh!! Quick! Mommy! Look! Ahhh.. Super huge!!"

Dad: "Aiya, look at the longans!"

Me: "Where got longans???"

Dad: =___=

Dad: "There!! See? On the tree that has white bags protecting them!"

Me: "OH."

Ah.

And I went back to admiring the pretty window much to my dad's disappointment. HAHA.

And the evidence of how freaking huge the pretty rainbow was, even Weili saw it in AMK. And I was in CCK.

Ahhh.. So pretty. =))

On other matters, Xiang and I found the appearance of Tronkys again!

Our love.

It's freaking 1buck20 for ONE TINY LITTLE STICK! Which can be swallowed in 4 bites! =XXX

Xiang and I were like searching for the 6 in a box but couldnt find, so we had to settle for this wonderous little stick full of explosive goodness in it.

But the downside of it? It leaves you craving for more. And more! And MORE!

=XXXXXX

I'm so gonna go broke buying Tronkys.

I realized

2009-03-25T22:17:00.003+08:00

I realized that...

... more often than not, the people who ask for opinions are merely just seeking affirmation in their own opinions.

... ranting is just a way to get things outta the system. Ranting doesnt mean that we are searching for solutions. It also means that we feel much better after a rant, even if there isnt any solution.

... my eyes are on the verge of closing at 10.21pm, and I just wanna go home.

... some people cannot blog to save their lives.

... some blogs are just plain BORING.

... I'm just a week plus away from the dateline of my first draft.

OH!! I'm going homeeeeeeeeeeeeee! =DDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Ah Ma's 80th Bday

2009-03-23T14:26:00.003+08:00

2 weeks ago, we celebrated Ah Ma's 80th birthday!

Here's the glorious good food. *coughs*

And what's a gathering without loads of photos man.

As you can see, we tried to act cute, tried to kiss our niece, and even tried to dig something (nose/eye/ears/teeth etc). =DD

And here's some pics that I made into a collage. Am super proud of the collage can. HAHA.

Oh ya, and Grasso bought a bouquet of flowers for us to share for the bday girl.

It's super huge until it's bigger than my face!

Me and Grasso. HAHA. I know you arent gonna like this pic. *Ignores*

My family. =))

With our adorable Ah Gong. See how cute he is la.

And finally, with the birthday girl! Wooo..

Hmmm. I think I was attempting to act cute. Oops. HA.

Then I tried to dig Beannie's ears.

And she dug mine! Omgosh. See how I was enjoying it? HAHA.

And it's finally the time to cut cake!

P/S: I realize, they have been getting the same cake over and over again for years! O.O

I think Ah Ma's the happiest when she's with her hubby of 60++ years. 'cause no matter how many times we asked her to look at the camera and smile, she would forever be distracted by people behind us.

And this is the most natural shot of her laughing with her hubby. =)) Cute hor?

And here's their kids.

And kids with the kids-in-laws. HAHA.

And their grandkids along with a great-grandkid. Told ya reproduction is a wonderous thing. From 2 multiplied into SO MANY! Ho ho ho.

And individual family shots.

I think I <3 <3 <3 my family man.

And finally, a shot with my fav cousins. =))

p/s: The digging photos are seriously too unglam to be posted here. So admire in your own comps ok. And it was unfair 'cause Jas was acting cute instead of unglam!! *dagger stares*

Things that leaves me dumbfounded

2009-03-19T00:54:00.002+08:00

There are alot of things that leave me dumbfounded, and sometimes my head hurt from thinking why are they like that.

I wonder why some people cant live their lives with more responsibility.

Why cant the friend whom I was concerned about, who made use of my name without telling me in advance, cant tell me that things are already fine, leaving me to piece things together from the glimpses that I get occasionally.

I'm still upset about this, but he's already back in his happy world, making me wish that I wasnt even concerned in the very first place.

Why cant people turn off the lights when they leave the room, turn off the tv when it's not in use, refill the kimwipes when they have finished using it, refill the distilled water container when the container ran out of water, pour away the waste water in the beaker when it's full and not take it for granted that it's always empty.

Often, I have to turn off the lights, TV, refill the kimwipes, distilled water, pipette tips, pour away the waste water in the beaker 'cause it threatens to overflow, or in quite a number of cases, the water actually overflowed and made my bench so damn freaking wet, so I had to clean up the mess.

And these leave me totally annoyed. These arent my responsibility, but often you will be able to find me doing it 'cause I need the things that have ran out, or I couldnt take it anymore after waiting to see if the person will actually refill them/pour the waste water away.

But I have learnt something too: If they didnt do it for the first time, they won't do it no matter how long I wait for. It's useless. There's no point in being hopeful that "Hey! They might actually wake up from the bubble that they have been living in, and be responsible for the first time!"

If they are irresponsible, Kimberly, they will not metamorphize into responsible butterflies overnight, or in 2 months. There's no point in getting all annoyed or pissed off by your own optimism. <-- Something that I have to chant to myself to retain my sanity.

URGH.

Sigh.

Another thing is that I wonder why cant everybody live in peace. Why cant we forgive and forget. Why cant we all just let things go, and not harp on matters long gone.

Before anyone that reads this blog and think that I'm talking about them, don't worry, I'm just talking about things in general. There are alot of matters recently that ignited this feeling in me.

Anyway, isnt it better to live happily? Isnt it better to live a life without so much angst, so much anger?

And before I contradict myself, I know I might get annoyed (points to the stuff all above) at times, or get pissed off at other times, but the annoyance and anger just flows outta me once I get them outta my system, and I go back to my happy tralala world.

I forget stuff, and in time, I forgive as I forget. The different levels of annoyance/hurt/anger just takes different lengths of time to be forgotten.

My brain is already satuarated enough with an overflowing amount of stuff, important and mundane, facts and gossips. It seems that it takes alot of energy to be angry, to remember all the matters that made me so pissed off, and I get so tired of trying to remember why I got so annoyed, so I just let things go.

It's easier that way, you know? Just rant, and let go. Rant, and let go.

Fewer number of wrinkles added to your face too.

I know everyone's different, and I cant expect everyone to live their lives like how I live mine. And that's why I'm marvelling and wondering. =)

Bento and Friends!

2009-03-16T00:18:00.003+08:00

Ahhhhh.. I'm finally posting up pics of my bento!

But I'm a little sheepish to say, they don't look as good as Laoshi's ones. 'cause SERIOUSLY, HERS ROCKS.

Examples:

and

(Both pics are courtesy of Laoshi's blog!)

Super chio right?

Well, mine, in comparison................

Are you ready for it??

Really?

1....

2......

3.....!

TADA!

and

HAHAHAHA.

The annoying Yannie says that my bento looks like chap cai ber'ng. =((((((( But I swear, they taste damn good la.

But I keep thinking about her saying my bento looks like chap cai ber'ng.... =((((((((

Ah. I shall ignore Yannie and move on to happier stuff.

Here's me and Yishi! On the bus outta school when I decided that we should camwhore a little. =DD

And the damn pretty trees that are blooming like crazy now.

My love.

They are so pretty that they never fail to put a smile on my face whenever I see them around school. Especially when I look down on the grass beneath the tree and see loads of pink or white flowers scattered all around. Ahh.. The beauty of nature is totally unrivaled.

And today, I finally ended my cravings for sashimi.

*DROOLS*

Here's a happy me. See the smile? Totally beaming at the sight of sashimi. Ho ho ho.

And the Yannie who was licking her sashimi!

Then, our mains came.

Yannie's Double Niku Soba.

The soup, beef and meatballs are damn good. Especially the soup!

And my..

.. Chicken Katsu Don!

I kept thinking of the bowl of don that I had back in my Nanyang days where we ate at Cosy Corner, with scrambled eggs and sauce with onions and some meat. The meat wasnt that relevant to me as I kept thinking of the sauce with onions and eggs.

But anyway, this chicken katsu don is damn good! I seriously think Iciban Boshi is fantabulous. It made me fall in love with sashimi for the very first time years ago. At the exact same Suntec one. =DD

Which brings me to my next point: I don't like how the Suntec restaurants are located (in a circle). I can never remember whether to turn left or to turn right. Which restaurant is located on the left or on the right as they look totally the same to me.

And so, today, we took a gamble and took a left turn at Kenny Roger's in a bid to find Iciban Boshi. And Yannie asked:

"What if it's on the other side?"

To which I replied "Then we cry lo."

And the super mean Yannie declared, "Anyway, I'm okay with it. It's you who will cry 'cause you are the one in heels."

=((

And so we walked and walked and walked for one whole damn circle, and we couldnt find Iciban Boshi, to the extent that I was thinking that they have already closed down, when we finally found it.

Next to Kenny Roger's. Which was on the right side of Kenny Roger's. So we effectively walked ONE WHOLE HUGE FREAKING ROUND!

*stabs myself*

URGH.

Ok, moving on to happier matters.

We next went to MOF for our desserts!

Black sesame with waffle + soft swirl ice cream and black sesame sauce + cornflakes + jelly + gula melaka (correct spelling?) + (fake) cherry + peach + watermelon.

Weird combi hor?

BUT IT'S FREAKING NICE LA!!!

See our happy faces?

Yannie says that it's 'cause I'm so totally deprived for so long that's why I think that the food's so good today, to which I had no rebuttals as I'm really deprived for damn long.

Evidence?

My last movie was FOUR CHRISTMASES.

=((((

And now, it's back to reality. It's gonna be labby and analysis and thesis and 1st draft for the next 1 month plus. But with today's good company and food and laughters (besides the pair of heels that were murdering me), I hope I'll have enough motivation to chiong all the way.

=)))

Randomness

2009-03-13T13:58:00.004+08:00

I've changed my blogskin! SUPER CHIO NOW. I'm so darn proud of myself! Ho ho ho.

♥

I love the Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah song. It's just so cheery and happy and wonderful to sing to, and it fills me with immense happiness whenever I hear the song. =))

♥

I like those singers with sexy husky voices. Like Chris Daughtry, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Hinder, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Fall Out Boy. And to think Biatcho called it the voice that has eaten 100 bowls of laksa. =X

And reason for me bringing this up is 'cause I'm listening to Fall Out Boy's America's Suitehearts. HOT!!!!

♥

I'm super glad that Britney is back. "If You Seek Amy" rocks I tell ya.

And I seriously think that Britney leads a miserable life. All the fame came with the price tag of having no private life.

So as I told Xiang, be careful of what you wish for. =XX

♥

I'm supposed to be writing my Materials and Methods (YAAAA.. I KNOW... Still not done yet! =XX) but I'm procrastinating as usual. And I'm like changing the blog template and updating my blog but not writing the M&M.

And I realized that whenever I procrastinate real badly, I blog. Or change the blog template. If you noticed the pattern of me changing my template, it's always when I'm gonna have exams, or something huge is due, or whatever.

I know, my bad. =X

♥

I think I'm a damn good cook. HAHA.

I have been whipping up damn delicious dishes for my bentos every single morning that I'm so utterly impressed with myself. HAHAHA.

And Da Jie thinks that I ought to be more modest about it. But who will know that I'm a good cook if I don't announce it everywhere I go? No one else eats my bentos besides me and my Da Jie!

So I shall still stick by my annoucement: I think I'm damn good at cooking. Ho ho ho.

Oh ya, some pics of my bentos would be up soon. But they arent as pretty as Laoshi's as I havent been making the riceballs etc. They are just delicious hor. =DD

♥

I'm becoming a hermit.

My Project Officer's social life is going for movies, eating Japanese food (SASHIMI!!!!), going swimming, singing K etc etc.

And I have been getting excited about the prospects of going to Sheng Siong with my parents.

Yes, it's that bad. Trust me on it.

♥

I love chatting with Yannie on MSN during my lab. Then we would come up with crazy ideas. Or I would inform her about my bowel movements, or we would be reminicsing about our outdoor cooking days.

And we realized that we loved to sleep on the floor when we were children. Or rather, halfway through the night, I would run over to my parents' room and put the mattress on the floor to sleep. But I would end up sleeping on the floor anyway as the floor is cooler, and I would always roll over to the floor.

♥

I liked to play with LEGO as a kid. I built houses, then played with the tiny lego people, creating stories every single day. And I would get damn upset if I were to lose one lego brick, or flower, or window as I knew how many of each flower/window/long pieces of bricks there were.

My childhood's about Mary Poppins, Sound of Music, Home Alone, Bao Qing Tian going "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaay.... Ooooooooh.". I don't remember watching any cartoons at all so when people go "Captain Planet, he's the hero!", I don't know what the hell they are singing about.

But I do know how to sing the line "Captain Planet, he's the hero!" 'cause Xiang kept singing it to me back in secondary school. Don't ask me why she sang that to me, I really don't know.

Other memories include playing with Play Doh, sitting on the swing and singing all day long, clutching my doll which has eyes that can blink, learning Spelling (both Chinese and English) by writing them down repeatedly before asking my aunt to test me on it.

And I have always wanted a doll stroller to push my doll in, but that dream never ever came true and I was already all grown up before I knew it.

Oh, and I loved loved loved Enid Blyton, Famous Five, Secret Seven, Sweet Valley (High, Uni, ALL!), Fear Street, Christopher Pike, Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys.

♥

This entry is getting a tad too long, and people are gonna complain about all words and no pictures again. But hey! It's rather interesting what! Read it people!

Alrighty, I had better continue with my Materials and Methods before the day is over. =)

XOXO
Kimbo

This is what you do..

2009-03-12T20:10:00.003+08:00

This is what you do when you get bored:

Stick the empty aluminium foil for the ependorf tubes on your fingers in an attempt to make them look longer.

Then you camwhore with your newly elongated fingers that are fit for moisturizer ad:

=DD

Actually, this is inspired by Xiang who stuck those aluminium foil onto her fingers when she was bored of watching me add my drugs into the wells. =DD

Bored of reading

2009-03-07T19:51:00.002+08:00

Ahhh.. I'm currently stuck in school now, reading my journals till I'm going a little crazy as the more I read, the more things that I realize about why my experiments are going a little nuts.

And so, I got so bored that I started taking pics.

Here's the chocolate that my boss bought from Tokyo. The strawberry one is DAMN NICE!

And here's the pic of what my table looks like now:

The bubble tea bought by Xiang. HONEY GREEN TEA OK!!! *happy*

The bread is being murdered by Xiang currently as she chomps on it.

The digestive biscuits that kinda gave me indigestion. I don't know why after eating it, I feel so damn freaking full for so damn long. It ought to be called indigestive biscuits instead of digestive biscuits. The name totally leads people on man.

And of course, the disgusting journal papers that I was reading reluctantly as the first draft is gonna be due soon. I don't wish to be so stressed that I become the third victim in a week to end my life in NTU. People are already starting to call us the Virginia tech of Singapore.

Like what the hell man.

And so, I was reading happily when Xiang called me to her lab with a request:

"Quick! Come over to my lab now! Hurry!!!"

Thinking what the hell was the matter, I hurried over, only to discover that I was a contestant in a "Fill The TINY Pipette Tips Contest!!" organised by Xiang and Kelvin. The loser was to treat the winner an egg prata that cost 1 buck.

And yes, you guessed it right. I lost.

I have this feeling that the annoying Xiang purposely called me over to cheat me of a prata man.

!@#$%^&*()

Oh ya. Need I mention, she won.

That annoying irritating !@#$%^&*().

The middle ones are by me. =(((

The boxes that I filled till my hands were trembling in erm, excitement. Of which I happily dropped like 10 tips on the ground.

Poor Kelvin had to pick them up for me as I was still filling the boxes up when he and Xiang have long finished theirs.

And I just realised, I was HELPING THEM FILL TIPS AND YET I HAVE TO TREAT XIANG A PRATA LA!!!

Where got this kinda thing one!!!!!

Cheat my labour and my money!!! !@#$%^&*()

我好累

2009-03-03T11:22:00.003+08:00

我好累。

我真的非常累。

走在这个孤单的FYP的路上，只有能靠自己的力量来摸索，找寻答案，完成论文。

以往一直都有好友的帮助。一碰到难题，只需拿起手机，按8个号码，就能有救星来拯救我。只有到了现在我才发现我这一生走来的学业道路上，是有多么幸福。尤其是有湘在这10年来无限的帮助。

现在的我只能从大家的“加油！！”当中吸取力量叫自己要努力努力再努力！

很可怜hor？

哈哈。

hmmm.. 其实我还好啦。只是有点沮丧，所以借用这儿发发牢骚。也可能是看了吴老师所描述的雪糕，有了突如其来的灵感以中文来blog. =))

OH YA. 还有！大家！加油！加油！加油！

This is what happens..

2009-02-28T13:27:00.002+08:00

This is what happens when you are alone at the library doing analysis, and you have your lappy with you, and you need to pee rather urgently.

Get your friend over in Australia to do a video call. Or rather, watch your lappy when you are peeing. And to call immediately if someone attempts to grab your lappy so that you can run out of the toilet to save your lappy.

Brilliant idea no?

HAHA.

Thanks Erinna Paky babe. And HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Grateful

2009-02-28T11:52:00.002+08:00

I think it is a sign of growing up/old.

I welcome each and every birthday/CNY/Mid-Autumn/National Day/Christmas with gratitude.

I'm thankful for each and every celebration that we have that everyone's safe, healthy and happy. I know it's rare that families are as close as ours. And I think we are truly blessed to be able to meet up every weekend and have so much to chat about.

Arguments and unhappiness are always forgotten after a week, and I actually look forward to going to my Ah Ma house for some weird inexplainable reason.

It's like, when I was younger (yeah yeah, I'm old now. I admit it. Just for this post only.), I would disregard the weekly visits to my Ah Ma house. Going out with friends would be so much more important as Ah Ma house is always there for me every single week. My friends cant wait.

It's so much cooler to say that I'm out with friends instead of saying that "Oh, I was over at my gran's".

Ah. What was I thinking?

I must have been befuddled. I'm actually perplexed at my stupidity back then.

I'm really petrified at the thought that something would happen, or someone would leave, and this simple happiness would be taken away from me really soon.

We cant take things for granted that they would always be there for us, you know?

Sigh.

At moments like this, all anger and annoyance seem childish now.

And so, I'm grateful. Really. For being blessed with the good fortune of having each and everyone as my family.

=))

Enough of emo'ing!

2009-02-23T23:58:00.003+08:00

I'm getting so sick of being emo after a long day at lab (yeah, try subjecting yourself to 14hours of lab, and getting experiments screw up again and again, and the happiest clown can get emo can.) that I have decided to post up some zipais to cheer myself up.

If you have anything against my zipais, then click on that red cross at the upper right hand corner of the page ya?

Trying to take a pic of my colored contacts, but failing terribly.

Bean and me!

Doing the Karen Cheng.

Wait, you mean you don't know who's Karen Cheng? Check this out! She's the coolest Mommy blogger evar.

Da Jie and me at the place where I spent my youngest days. Childhood memories.

It felt peaceful, and.. strangely calming.

And.....

My fav pic of the CNY thus far.

Ahhh.. I feel so much better seeing my pics on my blog yet again. I have been neglecting this blog for too darn long, but I don't see myself updating it as frequently as before. Sigh. My bad.

Kill Me Please

2009-02-19T10:18:00.002+08:00

For 2 months now, I have been doing the exact same thing day after day.

The usual schedule of a day looks something like this:

7am - Wake up, prepare bento for lunch. Aka throw chicken into the toaster/throw the veg into the pot.

7.45am - Leave house for school

8.30am - Reach school to start experiments.

12.00pm - Eat bento lunch and go back to experiment.

9.00pm - Leave for home.

10.00pm - Reach home.

11.30pm - Sleep.

7am - Wake up.... and the cycle continues. Every single bloody day. And I suspect this kinda life will continue for the next 2 months till the FYP is finally over.

=((((((((((((((((((((

blogshop!

2009-02-06T13:15:00.005+08:00

Ooops. Sorry for disappearing for so long. hee.

I'm currently busy with a new endeavour: BLOGSHOP!

Please support me and xiang at Aurora Miracles!

Brought to you by Xiang and Kim of AuroraMiracles.

My 23rd

2009-01-28T23:34:00.002+08:00

I'm officially 23 today.

Note the lack of enthusiasm in that statement.

Anyway, though the actual age is 23, I'm still an 18 at heart, and a 16 in looks okay. HAHA. So, before the night is over, here's some pics!

My fav cake with a damn chio birthday well wishes made of sugar!

With my family + an Enya. <3 <3 <3

And my closest cousins! =DD

With the 23 tiny candles lit. Flames of hotness sia.

After they were done with their job. I just love how this picture turned out.

Cutting my fav cake! Hooohoooo..

And holding up my name.

How many people can proudly tell me that they have held up their birthday wishes in their hands before? huh huh huh? HAHA.

And finally,

Eating my raspberry. =D

Sorry for all the pictures with me inside. It's my birthday afterall ma. Next up! CNY pics! I hope. HAHA.

CNY Eve

2009-01-25T20:35:00.002+08:00

I think I have really grown up.

Past CNY eves were spent helping around here and there, but this year, I've been busy from the moment I woke up, till we finally sat down for our reunion dinner. Cutting onions, chilli, cooking rice, washing this and that.

And the evidence that I've grown up is the fact that while washing rice, I was not anticipating the ang paos that I'm gonna be receiving later at my ah ma house, and instead, was thankful that my family have had a relatively happy, and healthy 2008.

The moment that thought filled my mind, I was like "OMGOSH. I'm old. I'm freaking old. I'm thankful for the good 2008 we had and not thinking about the angpaos. Omgosh. Where did that thought come from?!?!"

Then I went back to washing the rice, and proceeded on to cutting onions, resigning to the fact that I'm indeed getting freaking old.

So! Here's to a very happy chinese new year everyone! Pics would be up as soon as I get them, and can get down to blogging them out.

HAPPY CNY!! =DDD

December outings

2009-01-15T12:22:00.004+08:00

Ho ho. I know I have so damn many freaking posts that I owe.. Thailand trip, JB trip, hell, even the Taiwan trip!

Can I just wave the white flag and say that I'm giving up on those posts? =X

Anyway, I'm rotting at lab right now, waiting for the arteries to be washed, and what better things to do than blog right. =D

So here's where I have been in my busy December. =))

1. Christmas Party with guides

The pretty Von and me. I miss her like crazy la.

We had BBQ at Melinda's house, and the food was damn good. We celebrated Yannie's bday that was on Boxing Day.

Paiseh girl. This is a little blur. Hee.

And I love this pic of her, throwing her head back laughing. =D

Then, Yannie didnt wanna cut her cake, and instead, used spoons to scoop huge mouthfuls of cake for everyone.

Here's Fen, Jaz and Qinghan looking all seductive.

And the gang of black: Ninny, Von, Yannie and Melinda, looing totally unglam here. Ha.

Vane who was in the vicinity pop by for awhile, and we seized the opportunity to take a group pic!

The NYGG'02 batch. Omgosh. We are getting freaking old. We have known each other for 10years now! O.O

And we found the Action City bread bun lying around on the sofa, and as expected with me, we camwhored with it.

Yannie and Me with BUNNNNNN.

Fen and Von wanted to devour it. =D

=DD

Oh.. And Ninny bought Christmas crackers instead of the normal cracker snacks that we asked her to buy, but it was just as well as we were already so darn full.

Camwhoring with the Christmas crackers No. 1

Camwhoring with the Christmas crackers No. 2

Camwhoring with the Christmas crackers No. 3

And we got a crown each!

Ho ho ho.

And the rest joined us. =DD

Last but not least, I spotted this damn adorable gingerbread house at Mel's house!

Freak la. So uber cute!! How can anyone bear to eat it?

2. Boxing Day Lunch with JC mates

It was the first time that we met up with Laoshi after all these years! (4 years to be exact.) Went over to IMM's Secret Recipe. =))

And as usual, we were camwhoring like mad after not seeing each other for so long.

Hongyi, Sid and Me. This pic is uber nice la. =D

Mariam and Me. Gosh. She's leaving for Brazil for her FYP soon. *envious*

Take care k girl? And goodlucks for your 30+++hours plane ride!

And as usual, the class manager was trying to organise stuff while the rest of us were happily yakking away, or in this case, taking picture of him.

I think he cant run away from leading the class even after so long. HAHA.

Anyway, here's laoshi with the guys!

All the guys except Edwin were present lo.

And us girls with laoshi! =))

And the whole bunch of us! Think the turnout was darn good.

Thanks Calvin for organising! =))

Then, some of us decided to not waste the day, and go prawning after the lunch.

At the prawn pond at Taman Jurong.

Erinna, who was so nice as to drive us all there! =))

Xiang and I.

Despite my smile here, I was feeling utterly sian as I didnt catch a single bloody prawn. Urgh.

Anna! Omgosh. She's forever looking so cute.

And Xiang with Momo chan.

The catch for the day was super pathetic, till I started mumbling nonsense when I saw this uncle throwing the prawn back into the pond as it was too small.

"Uncle.. Don't throw it back ma... Donate to us la...." <-- really softly!

Who knows, I think he heard my mumbles that the next puny prawn he caught, he asked us whether we want it anot.

We excitedly accepted it.

And we started talking to the uncle, asking him how come he seemed to be able to catch a prawn every 10seconds, when we waited for practically hours, and the rest only caught one or 2 prawns each, and I caught NONE.

Evidence of our pathetic catch for the day.

Apparently, the prawns prefer earthworms, and not the chicken liver that we were provided with. And I suspect our line couldnt reach the bottom of the pond where all the prawns were crawling, or whichever movement they use to move around.

I think the uncle was super amused by this bunch of youngsters that didnt manage to even catch 10prawns between them, that he gave us his catch from that particular morning.

Originally, he wanted to give us the whole load full. But we only took half of it, and it already weighed 2.8kg, which came up to 70 over prawns!

O.O

But it was a day filled with fun despite our dismal prawn catching skills. =)))

3. New Year's Day with my Morning Glorians.

We decided to share the first day of 2009 together, having a potluck at Ming's house, and I crawled outta bed at 8am just to fry beehoon which someone complained was full of soy sauce. *ARCHEMS*

'Feasting' at Ming's condo's function room.

We were feasting on my soy sauce beehoon + Ming's seaweed/beancurd skin chicken + Jiehui's wine + Weijie's jelly that has penguins + Wen's cha ye eggs + Ninny's drinks and chips.

Oh ya, we had this really impromptu gathering as Wen was back from Switzerland for the Xmas break!

This pretty girl was only back for such a short period of time =((

Legs caressing each other. Namely, mine, Ming's and Ninny's. HA

And through all the chats, they never ever fail to remind me of how I always add MSG into outdoor cooking food, and how I terrified Wen and Ming when they were in Sec1. Ahhhhh... My past is forever coming to haunt me.

Anyway, to end things off, here's a pic of my beloved MGians.

Loves.

Emo

2009-01-11T00:56:00.001+08:00

I'm in an utterly emo mood tonight.

I think it has something to do with this song:

Save You

Biatch, this is for you. (:

FYP'ing

2009-01-08T12:24:00.002+08:00

FYP's turning out to be utterly stressful.

After starting for 4 days (4th day today), I have stayed frpm 9+am till 10pm, had 2 different nightmares on FYP, and basically, burnt out mind everyday after lab.

First nightmare was on Sunday, whereby I dreamt that Xiang has already finished her thesis, and in the dream, I was panicking: "SHIT. Xiang has already finished her thesis and I have not even started on my FYP!"

And for someone who seldom remembers her dreams, it goes to show how traumatising that dream was.

Then, it was yesterday when I had recurring nightmares on not being able to add the drug in time, thus having to re-do the whole experiment. I had this nightmare 4 freaking times, and each time I sat up wide awake, in cold sweat.

After 2 times of the nightmare, I nearly smsed Xiang at 4.30am to tell her about the horrid nightmare, but I decided not to, and went out to the couch to sleep instead.

And that's when I had the subsequent 2 nightmares. All of me not being able to add the drug in time, or the drug I added was of the wrong concentration, or the antagonist being too strong etc etc.

OMFREAKINGGOSH LA.

I suspect that I didnt even sleep at all as I woke up being more tired than ever. I think my subconscious was working the whole damn time, resulting in me having the same nightmare again and again non stop.

I have a sad life.

=((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2009-01-03T15:52:00.003+08:00

I filled a post full of reflections on 2008 on 29th Dec, but stopped short of posting them up. 'cause, what's there to reflect anyway?

I realized the importance of family, finished the last exams in NTU, saw through quite a number of people, gotten tired of the hypocritical stuff, managed to get stranded in thailand, enjoyed myself through the year, and I guess, I have nothing much to be sorry about in 2008.

Of course, there were periods of sadness, but they werent as much as compared to the happiness, so I should be content, no?

It's now 2009, I'm gonna be freaking old soon -- 23. Like omfreakinggosh, I have never thought of myself as being 22, and now I'm gonna be 23 soon. The days are simply zooming past too quickly for my liking.

I still stand by the notion that I often say to Xiang: "In no time, we are gonna be 80 years old.", freaking her out every single time I say so.

Anyway, I don't understand why everyone's saying "Happy new year!" when there's nothing much to be happy about with all the global recession, upcoming graduation that has me worrying what the hell am I gonna work as, and I'm gonna age another year. It's another year closer to me losing my teeth, getting white hair, organs failing, etc etc.

Ahhh.. I sound disgustingly depressed huh?

But anyway, I believe the reason that everyone's wishing "Happy New Year!" is:

1. By habit. It's a new year, and how can anyone not wish one happy new year, right?

OR

2. Trying to convince themselves that it's gonna be a happy year despite the gloomy news that have been headlining the newspapers constantly since the Lehman Bros decided to collapse.

OR

3. Both.

I think I'm in Category 3. HA.

I cant believe how utterly demoralizing this blog entry is turning out to be. Where are all the pictures? Where are all the reflections and new year's resolutions? Where are all the "I wanna lose weight" or "I wanna get first class honours" resolutions?

I attribute this feeling to reading science journals for my FYP on a saturday. 11 journals. And a proposal to be submitted on Monday.

Kill me please.

But anyway, HAPPY 2009 yeah? =p

2008-12-25T12:29:00.003+08:00

Merry Christmas to all my blog readers!! Yes, those 3 of you reading.. =DDD

Moose hat from Toy'R'Us!

And my favourite Xmas song of all time!

My Only Wish This Year - Britney Spears

i hate this

2008-12-18T01:01:00.003+08:00

Thanks Belly for sending the song!!! <3 <3 <3!!

I hate it when my Dad works late. First he was to work till 3am. So I made myself stay awake to wait for him though I had lab today.

Then at 2+am, I smsed him to wake me when he's back, only to realize that he's working till 8am. Freaking 8am. From 8am to 8am. Freaking hell. Since when there's 24hours shift one??

I don't know which urge was greater: the urge to scream at the boss, or the urge to report to MOM.

Argh.

I fell asleep after much tossing and turning around on the sofa, in hope that I would be able to make sure he managed to drive home safely, only to wake up so many freaking times wondering if he's home yet.

In the end, I woke up at 8am for lab, to find that he's not home yet. His 24hours shift came true.

Freak.

Looking at my Dad's rosy face just now, I cant help but wonder if he's face's so red 'cause he's glowing in the pink of health, or if he's been in the sun for too long, or it's his high blood pressure causing the redness in the face.

I'm so filled with URGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH that I don't know what else to type now. Just know, URGHHHHHHHHH!

2008-12-17T01:36:00.001+08:00

Ok, i'm obsessed with this song right now.

I Hate This Part - Pussycat Dolls

Please send me if you have it k? THANKS!

2008-12-16T22:53:00.002+08:00

Oops. I have been neglecting here again. Been seriously freakingly busy. Either with lab, or pet society (yes, i know i know..), or facebooking, or just simply catching up with my sleep.

But fret not, I'm back again! HAHA.

I've been freakingly busy with lab, going out with my fav people, going to Malaysia, etc etc.

Lab's tiring. One whole day there can just tire me out so thoroughly that all I wanna do is concuss when I get home. Been killing alot of rat arter1es 'cause I'm either too rough on them, or I didnt add the correct medium.

So for the past few times I was in lab, I was rather depressed as I can get the stupid arter1es to respond to my drugs.

But oh well, I found out about my mistakes, and they finally survived today! Ho ho ho.

I went out with my favourite people recently!

First, was out with my favourite cousins!

Grass and I walked from my house (CCK) to Bukit Timah within an hour plus. Stopping only when the skies threatened to pour on us (but didnt. Grrr..). We are qiang zhe ok!!

Then went on to Cine to meet Jas and Beannie for Four Christmases.

As the show was only at 9.40pm, we rotted around Orchard, doing silly stuff like camwhoring along the streets of Orchard, and neoprinting!

HAHA. I miss taking neoprints!! It's freakingly ex now, 11bucks! To think it was just 4bucks back then, increasing dollar by dollar till now. Argh.

Then, I went out with Xiang the next day, shopping without much success in Bugis, only to face a heavy downpour and having no choice but to continue our shopping at Vivo, where we spent like a bomb.

Or rather, I spent a bomb.

On La Senza no less. =X

Next day, I went over to Msia! (okay, I promise a full fledge post, so make do with the few pics here now k?)

With Xiaodi and Ant on the train towards Kranji. Their faces are cut off, but nevertheless, the focus is on me!! =DDD

Boon was super nice to host us at his house that is darn huge with 5 cars!! And the super lotsa 24hours coffeeshops around that sell great pratas, watching shows on his huge lcd tv, and driving us around in the Toyota Fortuner (Ok, I promise pics soon k!).

So here are some pics. =D

Camwhoring in the car

At Kukup, while waiting to board the boat/ferry/whatever you call that boat-like-thing that ferries us around.

On board!

Camwhoring in neoprint machine. HA.

Msia's super fun with Boon around, 'cause he knows all the best places to eat, places to go, buses to take, and he drives super zai'ly. My idol. Seriously.

--

Oh, and I know I promised a BKK post. But the pics are simply too many. Sigh. Next week or so la k? Next week my lab is closed! Ho ho ho.

For now, please make do with this!

Being wrapped by the elephant's nose.

There's this super tingly special feeling of being wrapped by such a huge, strong animal. Got xin fu de gan jue wor! =D

Finally back in Singapore

2008-12-01T09:53:00.003+08:00

I am finally back in Singapore. =))

The way home was a nightmare. And words cant even describe the horror I felt. Whatever I say here gotta be multiplied by at least 100 times worse.

People say the conditions at blah blah country's airport's terrible. I would say, try U-tapao (the Thai military airbase that we used to get out of Bangkok), and you would think that the rest of the world's airports are luxurious.

Woke up at 3am on Saturday to make our way to the U-tapao airport that is located at Pattaya, a few hours away.

The roads to the airport was surprisingly smooth. The day was freezing (yeah, freezing in Thailand), while we all dozed on the bus.

Reached the airport at 630am, in order to check in for a 11am flight. More than sufficient time one would say.

Wrong.

We were only allowed to start checking in our stuff at 9am for the 11am flight. Normal, one would say.

Wrong.

Starting to queue at 9am, and the people just suddenly started piling into the airport. A tiny airport that is about the size of the SBS lobby, with only one X-ray machine and 4 counters. One counter for the Malaysian Air flight that we were on. One for Cathay Pacific to Hong Kong. And another two to who knows where.

And so, started the pushing, the shoving, the cutting queue, tempers flaring as the Ah Tiongs, Indian nationals, ang mohs tried to cut our queue, luggage being rolled over our toes, air gotten increasingly stagnant as thousands are breathing out carbon dioxide.

There we were, trying to prevent people from cutting queue, yelling at those that attempt to do so, hungry 'cause we didnt have anything since 4am, protecting our decency, and looking after our luggage as we queued for the check-in.

11am came and past. We only moved less than 3metres towards the check in counter, thanks to those Ah Tiongs, Indian nationals, and ang mohs that cut our queue.

You would expact an ang moh to be more civilized. Singaporeans? Supposed to be kiasu right? But hell no. In that kinda situations, Singaporeans are the ones that were civilized. The Ah Tiongs and Indian nationals just barge their way through using force. Ang Mohs? They bluffed their way through, pretending to direct traffic, while in actual fact, they were cutting queue.

This is such a long dreary post, and everytime I retell this to someone, I'm like reliving the terror of being squashed by so many people. The stuffiness, the angry, the hunger, the shock at how barbaric people can get.

And so, finally, at 3pm, we finally managed to check our luggage in.

Rested for awhile, before the shoving began again as we tried to make our way to the immigrations.

It was so utterly packed. It's worse than Singapore MRT during peak hours, Japan's packed bullet trains and Bangalore trains with people overflooding outta the train combined.

The Myanmar people didnt care who they were shoving, be it old, or young, or whatever. The Arabs too.

Ay, no matter how much I type, it's just gonna be the repeated shovings, stuffiness, lack of oxygen, uncivilized people, etc etc.

And so, we tried to get through to the immigrations. You know the part where the police officer at Changi airport would check your passport and boarding pass at the glass doors before letting you through to the immigrations where someone would be sitting at the pink tall counter, stamping your passport, as your family and friends wiped away tears of reluctance of seeing you leave etc?

Yeah, we were stuck at the place where the family and relatives would be standing. Trying to get pass the glass door. Instead of police officers, there were some females from the airport, shoving against the crowd, only letting those whose flights are gonna take off soon through the gates.

I got through the gates via trickery.

Or rather, I faked lost.

Going towards the gates (as some kind Malaysian guy shoved me and Grass to the glass door to help us get through), the stupid woman stopped me saying that my flight isnt due to take off yet.

Her: "No no. Your flight not yet. LTU ONLY!! LTU ONLY!!" (LTU is some flight to God knows where)

Me: "But I'm stranded here! My Mom has gone through and I'm still here!!"

She didnt get it. This happened like 5 times with her repeating that "LTU ONLY!! LTU ONLY!!" and me yelling that "I'M STRANDED HERE!! MY MOM HAS GONE THROUGH THE GATES!!" when it finally penetrated through her skull and asked:

"You alone?"

And so I grabbed Grass' arm and yelled: "No! With my sister!!!"

And she finally relented and let me and Grass through.

Phew.

But apparently my Dad, Jo Yee, Jas, Allan they all were still stuck behind the gates, and they were smashed against the glass walls so badly that the glass walls were crackling under the stress, as if they were ready to shatter anytime.

Sigh.

Anyway, Grass and I cleared the immigrations without any events. It was only till the part after the immigration whereby one has to put the bags through the X-ray machine, and walk under the sensor whereby this guy stopped us yet again.

"LTU ONLY!! LTU ONLY!!"

So I tried the trick of my Mom's pass the immigrations already blah blah.

But it didnt work.

Freak.

Having to change strategy, I yelled that my bags have already gone through, and I'm still stuck here without my stuff, before me and Grass finally made it through again.

It was really that terrible.

And so, we waited for our flight. Seeing people board SIA plane, going back to Singapore straight while we have to wait for our Malaysian Airline plane. We finally boarded the plane at 6.30pm. And the plane only took off at 8pm.

Thus leading to us missing the connecting flight from KL to SG at 10.30pm.

=((

Spent the night sleeping on the lounge chair in the KL international airport, before taking the 8.05am flight back to Singapore.

Sigh.

It was such a trauma. The second major incident of my life. And I had doubts of seeing my bed, cuddling my pillows again.

But well, it's over. And I'm just thankful to be back in Singapore again.

Stuck in BKK Day 3

2008-11-28T11:51:00.002+08:00

It's the third day that we are stuck in bangkok. The novelty of being on an adventure is wearing off. Behind the cheerful facade, I'm actually very worried.

With road blocks, chaos on the streets, we actually have no idea what we could do. 2 airports closed and flight suspended, it's really no joke.

Grandparents have ran out of medication for their high bloody pressure. Thankfully my Mom and Dad have enough for at least 10 days. Cant meet Prof Heese today at 2pm, and I have this feeling that he's getting pissed off with me.

My Dad has no more leave, my Mom has gotta go back to work 'cause her other colleague had already left for Beijing and there's no one to handle her work at all. Jie has art lessons to cancel, and leave to take.

I sit in the hotel all day, napping, eating, swimming, going for massage at the Osim chair at The Retreat, and updating my travel diary. The travel diary is the only thing that is keeping me occupied besides coming online periodically.

Thank goodness for Jas' lappy. And the wifi.

At other times, it would be filled with listening to the adults plan how to get outta here.

Yesterday night, it was trying to get a coach to send us to Penang, then from Penang, we would take a flight back to SG. But this morning, we heard news that the southern borders are having chaos too.

Then came to plan this morning to take the train from Thailand to Malaysia (I think it's Penang too), easier in the sense that the train would have toilets, and my gran would be more comfortable as compared to taking a coach with no toilet breaks.

Then came the sms from 5th kaima that there's a chartered flight from the military airbase straight back to SG, 12 seaters, S$4500. Thank God for kaima over at Singapore, handling all the calls to the Singapore embassy, giving us all the relevant numbers to call, contacting the airlines etc, and arranging for the extension of the travel insurance.

But that 12 seater is only one plane. And there are 21 of us over here.

So the plan changed yet again.

The plan is now to take a bus to the military airbase tomorrow morning, and to take the 11.15am plane to KL, before we settle for a bus back to SG, or to take a flight back to SG.

It's stressful, really. Listening to the adults plan, make phone calls, making sure that the roads to the places are safe.

Now all I wanna do is go back to Singapore safe and sound.

Just pray for us k?

Am super touched with all the concerned smses, comments on facebook, wall posts, and msn msges. I'm okay. Will stay safe. Just watch this space, will update when there's any changes.

Thanks everyone. =)

Stuck in BKK 2

2008-11-27T22:20:00.002+08:00

I am still stuck in BKK.. For the second day running.

All I do all day is sleep, wake up, go for breakfast, go sit the massage chair, go up to the room, erm, rot around, nap, go swimming (or rather, soak water coz I don't have my goggles.. =(( ), chat, watch the news, nap, lunch, watch the news.. and the cycle continues.

The second airport in Bangkok is now taken over too, and the streets are unsafe as reports of foreigners getting clubbed by golf clubs are making the news. Rather freaky really. So all we are allowed to do is stay in the hotel..

And the airport will only open on Saturday. Means I cant go for the bbq on Saturday!! =(((((((((

So pray for me ya.

I know you all miss me. So here's a pic of me in happier times in BKK.

Eating the 3 baht ice cream in Chatuchak. =))

I WANNA GO HOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE =((((((

Stuck in BKK

2008-11-26T11:49:00.002+08:00

I'm currently stuck in Bangkok. =S

Protesters stormed the international airport, bomb blast, flights suspended, airport closed, state of emergency.

Ahhhhh...

And I'm supposed to be meeting Prof Heese on Friday. omg.

How sway can I get man.

But on the other hand, I shopped like crazy. Camwhored like mad. Got wrapped by an elephant's nose. Got a mani and pedi that looked a little tranny-like. Went to the red light district and saw loads of pros, and tons of bikini-clad babes dancing on the damn crowded bar top. Got offered to watch a ping pong show. And acquired a Thai accent.

=D

But I'm stuck in the hotel room today. Sigh.

I guess I shall go make use of the sauna, swimming pool, massage, and pool table for the whole of today.

Please pray for the airport to reopen. I'm starting to miss the peace in SG. =((

2008-11-22T02:30:00.004+08:00

Today's the last day of the exams!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or rather, yesterday. But hell, it's today!!!! It's the first time that our exams ended so quickly as compared to previous years of us starting the first paper on the first day, and ending on the very last day.

But anyway, YAYYYYYY!!!

The sad thing was that the viro paper was super disgusting. =(

Anyway, enough with all the words. Everyone had enough of so many words for so many posts recently. It's time for pics!!! woooooo..

So today, we were at Exam Hall C.

Taken hurriedly just seconds before the door opened. Thus the blurred pic. Hee.

And for those standing outside of the hall, this is what one would see:

A door with a tiny window showing all the rows and rows of tables and chairs.

Peering closer, one would see

Tables with exam papers all ready for us! =S

And so, everyone settled down..

With only me taking pics just seconds before I turned off the phone. HA.

And we went through 2.5 hours of misery.... before it all ended.

I was damn happy that the disgusting paper was over. =D

While Xiang's super sad that the paper's so damn tough.

So tough that she decided to tear up her paper.

And I managed to catch her tearing the paper in action! O.O

See her shocked expression. She only meant to pose with her tearing up the paper, but it really happened. HAHA.

Her poor torn up BS411 Virology exam question paper.

I decided to ignore the sad Xiang and camwhore instead.

Last paper leh! Must camwhore ma!!!

And Jas and Charles were ever ready for my cam. =D

After that, Xiang and I decided to go for Waraku pasta!

Camwhoring while waiting for our table.. and most importantly, the yannie who mistakened Cine for Heeren!!! O.O

I like the greeny pasta with tofu!!

And I like the big tomatoes on the Menu! So pweeeeeeeeeeety!

But Xiang preferred the pasta inside the menu. =D

And finally, Yannie appeared with her 200bucks worth of clothes and shoes. =)))

This time round, we chop chop ordered our food 'cause we were starving like crazy.

My carbonara soup pasta! (plus the Yannie who loves to poke my egg yolk.)

Xiang with her carbonara fettucini and Yannie with her carbonara soup pasta

And as usual, both Xiang and Yannie were like fighting over the pepper grounder.

Tsk.

After that, we managed to come up with a new dish.

New dish: Yannie de pasta

Which is made up of.....

My half eaten bacon fats, Xiang's fettucini, Yannie's spaghetti, Tomato from the pizza, veg from the salad, Penne from the gratin. Everything were leftovers save for the red peppers added for asthetic value.

Delicious ba.

Even the waitress were like "Is there anything wrong with the pasta? No soup?"

HAHAHA..

Yannie posing with her creation.

And how can Xiang and I resist a chance to camwhore? =D

After that, we were walking around Heeren in search of our neoprint machines which have disappeared! =((( Heeren is no longer the 'in' place for the young. I think it was just our generation that hung out at Heeren, like how our parents hung out at Centrepoint or something.

And so, we came across this:

I cannot resist la. Finally, something short enough for me to rest my arms on it with ease! HAHAHAHA..

After wandering around for abit, I had to rush home to pack for my BKK trip.

And I discovered someone took my shampoo!!! =XXXXX

Here's some of the stuff that gotta be packed in. Money, medicine, concealer, glasses, camera.. Ahhh..

And my half packed luggage.

But from years of training as a guide, I managed to throw in everything within an hour. Not bad ba. Don't understand why my Mom kept asking me pack in advance.

=S

Anyway, it's 2.57am right now, and I have this feeling that my parents are gonna be waking up soon, mad that I didnt even sleep, and then start rushing like mad.

I'm so gonna concuss later. =S

And before I end this post to pretend to sleep on my bed, let me do this:

To BEANNIE JEANNIE BABIEEEEEEEE,

HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY!!!!! I LOVEEEEEE YOUUUUUUU!!! So gonna miss you in Thailand. =(((( JIAYOU K!!!!

To the rest of the people (Monday: Weibin's Structural; Tuesday: Jianzhong, Zhenwei and Peggy's Genetics; Thursday: Xiaodi, Anthony, Jiehui's System Bio)

JIAYOU AND GOODLUCKS!!!!!!

Ok, my Mom just woke up. =S

Off I fly!

Packed packed

2008-11-19T11:22:00.002+08:00

And so, my schedule for the next week or so is gonna be packed like sardines. Or sushi.. Or whatever la huh.

With Cell Bio on Thursday, and Viro ending at 5pm on Friday, I'm left with practically no time to pack for my trip.

So it's gonna be like this on Friday:

5pm -- FINISH EXAMS!! Go out for a long deserved shopping trip that has been deprived from me for the longest time ever.

11pm -- Reach home and pack.

And the rest of the schedule was planned by my Mom:

2am -- Wake up. (O.O Sleep? Who talked about sleeping when I'm gonna start packing at 11pm??)

3am - 3.30am -- Leave house for Ah Ma house

3.30am - 4.30am -- Reach Ah Ma house to nua for abit.

4.30am - 5am -- Travel to airport

5am -- Check in of luggages

7am -- Flight departs for BKK.

Congrats to me.

Grass: Get your mom to make the potent coffee for me!!!

Dream #1

2008-11-17T17:35:00.003+08:00

I realized that if I were to start blogging about the dreams I get everynight, I can publish books like Enid Blyton -- Short Stories: Kim's Adventures... in her dreams.

But anyway, I was back at Science Park working at Reuters, (I blame this on Jie's starting to work at Science Park recently, and my futile attempt of getting the Provence choco wassant yesterday), when I had to take the shuttlebus to the MRT after work.

In this dream, the shuttle is those kinda small schoolbus kinda vans, with very few seats and sliding doors that need some violence before they can be slid shut.

Anyway, I was seated next to the door when the bus jerked to a stop, and terrorists suddenly slid the doors open, and started shooting at us with machine guns.

Yes. Machine guns.

And I, being seated next to the door got most of the shots. And in the dream, my body was vibrating with every single shot that hit my body.

But surprisingly, I didnt die?

Somehow, I was rushed to the hospital with all the bullets stuck inside me, and they could bloody hell move around in my body. So I could see the shape of a bullet travelling underneath my skin, along with my blood.

Utterly freaky.

Ok, I don't know how to end this, but I woke up after watching all the stupid bullets travelling around my legs, and the stupid dream felt so damn long to me, and I need to get back to my immuno, like now.

=(((

p/s: And I realized I suck at narrating my dreams in a blog post. I can do it better in person. HAHA.

2008-11-15T23:45:00.002+08:00

I was so stressed and depressed over the 3 papers over 4 days thing when Grass drew this:

HAHAHAHAHA..

Thanks grasso~

It's 6 more days to the end! And 6 more days and a few more hours to my BKK trip!! Ahhhhh...

My Mom and My Expensive taste

2008-11-13T16:53:00.003+08:00

Apparently my mom has this idea of me:

Me: "What? You went to Holland V? Eeyer, should have gone and buy the Provence bread ma!"

Mom: "Don't want la. Very expensive."

Me: "Huh? How you know expensive? You buy before ar?"

Mom: "No la. Your taste very expensive one lo. So the bread must be expensive too."

Me: *speechless*

***

To all: The provence Choco and Cream wassants are absolutely divine!!! It's like an omgosh, freakingly delicious. And I havent eaten it in 4 years after I left Reuters. =((

Exams..

2008-11-11T16:28:00.002+08:00

Exams exams exams.

Horrid exams. It's the last exams of my uni life, and yet I don't have the motivation to study. It's weird, really.

Loads of pics to be blogged about, luggages to be packed for my thailand trip, the want to go shopping, go for manicures and pedicure (yes, I'm very taitai. =D), the want to sing kbox, eat sashimi...

.. and yet I cant do them right now. =((

So I shall end this post with an emo pic. *emo*

Credits to Boon for this pic! =)

Emo'ing

2008-11-04T02:27:00.002+08:00

Emo'ing.

Goong OST - Im a fool: dang shin eun.. na neun ba bo ib ni da - Stay

I'm a genius

2008-11-02T16:03:00.001+08:00

After fretting for 4 hours, I ignored the warning, shut down the lappy, and started my phone.

And ta-da!

It's all well again!!

I'm such a genius.

WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO..

Phone. Dead.

2008-11-02T12:36:00.002+08:00

My stupid phone has been cranky for the past 1 week: Able to send sms, but not receive sms unless I turn it off and on again.

Which is utterly annoying as I don't know when there are smses coming in, and when there isnt. So I have to keep turning it off and on like a mad woman. I got so mad at it that I decided to turn it off entirely.

Calls were made to Singtel and Sony Ericsson, and the only conclusion I got was that my phone needed a software update, and I could either go down to the service center, or do it myself by online update.

Like a sane Kimberly I was, I decided to do it myself.

And guess what? It's now stuck at the "DO NOT DISCONNECT PHONE UNTIL UPDATE IS COMPLETE!" of 99%.

And it has been 99% for the past 1 hour.

Great. Just great.

Now I don't know whether to unplug it or not. If the phone would go mad if it isnt finished, or I would go mad first from waiting for the 1% to finish.

ARGH.

I lub you my darling

2008-10-31T01:30:00.003+08:00

My Ah Gong proudly declared this to my Ah Ma the other day:

"I lub you my darling. <3"

.. in his hokkien accented English.

And my Ah Ma blushed.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.. I think I have the cutest pair of grandparents on earth. =D

Idealism

2008-10-28T01:44:00.004+08:00

I realized I'm a pretty idealistic kinda person, wanting everything to be perfect.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a perfectionist when it comes to not so relevant stuff like getting all the words aligned to a certain line in an assignment kinda perfectionist. But rather, the want for things to remain the way they are, or change for the better.

If something changes for the worse, I would get pretty upset.

As I discussed the topic of death in a rather incoherent manner at 5am a few days ago, I kept thinking of the situation of losing someone dear to me, and I got pretty upset at the fact that no one would stay alive forever, and it's only a matter of time that someone dear would leave.

So I try to grasp onto everyone dear, trying to spend as much quality time as possible with them, before the helplessness sets in, realizing that there's only one of me, and I cant split myself into a few Kimberlys so as to better make use of the time.

Senseless worrying I know.

As Yishi said, "Don't worry about things that you cant control." (a quote from her prof), which is really true, but sometimes, you just cant help but worry you know?

And so with this post, I apologize to everyone dear that I had been mean to, that I had said some nasty stuff to and hurt their feelings. I don't mean it (unless I detest you, like a particular someone that just render me speechless with the absurd stuff that she does).

Hurtful stuff are usually said in the heat of the moment that makes me regret my words like crazy. And it's usually the dearest and the closest that gets the most of it. And it really kills me that I cant bring myself to apologize when the things have already blown over yet the guilt still ravages me like crazy.

I blame the pride in me that is stopping me from apologizing.

Sigh.

Fish killer

2008-10-26T17:01:00.002+08:00

Don't know why, but I have been spending more time at my Ah Ma house than at home lately. Maybe it's the want to be near my ah gong and ah ma. And Ah Gong seems really delighted to have us (i.e. his grandkids) around, so... ya. Reason for my 离家出走'ing recently. Ha.

And I realized, I have this tendency to feed the fishes at my ah ma house. I don't know if they are perpetually hungry, or they forgot that they have eaten or what, but whenever I walk near them, they would rush towards me like a school of hungry.. well, fishes.

The tank of fishies

Rushing towards me.

Eh, while taking this pic, I felt like I was playing the K800i game of capturing the most no. of fishes underwater again. HAHA.

Yeah, Xiaodi, the one that you set the high score in my phone, and I had a terrible time trying to top that score. =S

But anyway, I digressed.

I have this feeling that at the rate that I'm feeding them. READ: every few hours when I walk past the fish tank, and feeling darn sad that those fishies are starving; I would kill them real soon.

HAHA.

OH ya. I just have to blog this.

I HAVE A DAMN HIP HOP AH MA!!!!

She plays DS LITE OK!!!

HAHAHA..

Don't believe me?

Concentrating so hard on the game, yet smiling ocassionally.

Hip hop ba? =DDDD

Oh yeah, and here's my beloved Jay Chou's album.

So hot!

And it includes this damn cool deck of poker cards, with his face on it!!

Hohoho.

Anyway, was studying with Jas and Grass the other day.

Grass Jas Me

When we decided to take some cool photos.

=))

With a peace sign

And another peace sign

And a sad photo of my hp hanging. =(((

Jas tried to get a pic of my cleavage...

Which I hid. HA.

And let me introduce 2 of my favourite food.

1. CLODHOPPERS

It is typed in caps. CLODHOPPERS. HAHA.

It's super nice la. But eating such a big pack alone can kill, so it's recommended to share with someone. i.e. GRASS. =D

2) I-Scream

Remember this ice cream that used to come over to Can A? It has disappeared from NTU totally! Or rather, I don't know where it's hiding whenever it comes over to NTU now, so I havent been eating it for a darn long time.

But I found it again at SIM!

吃了有个幸福的感觉哦！

And we cant resist taking a pic with our 幸福的感觉.

=)))

5am

2008-10-25T05:04:00.002+08:00

It's freakingly 5 in the morning and I cant sleep.

I cant sleep, yet I cant study 'cause of this damn bloated feeling in my head as I NEED to sleep, but I cant sleep.

Argh.

I should stop drinking potent coffees that keep me awake for the whole night, then I would have to wake up darn late next morning.

Even the standard of my posts drops with the inability to sleep.

Now, I don't even know what the hell am I going on about.. Omgosh. It's all the potent coffee's doing. My brain is dead while my eyes are wide open. I've been playing the brainless Zookeeper on my DS for the past few hours before deciding to blog.

Ohhhh ohhhh ohhhh.. I should blog about life and death. Something that I had thought about long ago, yet havent had a thought about in recent years till the other day when Grass and I were talking about it.

And I realize, I don't have a definite view about life and death now.

I used to believe in life after death, whereby the good ones would go to heaven, and the nasty ones would go to hell. That was before my friend told me about God saving only those who are Christians at the end of world, whereas the ones that arent Christians would be left to die.

And I was like, "Damn. I guess I'm the last one to be saved 'cause I don't believe in any religion."

Then it got me thinking, what about those that are murderers/rapists/kidnappers that are Christians? You mean God will save them, and leave kind hearted non-Christians to die? Like abit not right, right?

I know I might look back at this post in years to come, and might regret whatever I posted today at 5 in the morn, or I might laugh at this childish thought, or whatever. But whatever la huh. I'm just expressing my POV.

Then came the notion about heaven and hell. And reincarnation. If there's no reincarnation, and everyone goes to heaven, won't the heaven explode with the number of souls there?

And if there's no reincarnation, where do all the souls come from? Do we have a soul? How does it appear from the moment that we are born? Or from the moment the sperm fertilize the egg? If there's no souls, or rather, if from the moment we die, the soul will fizz out into nothing, why are there ghosts/spirits?

And IF there is no reincarnation, does it mean that God has to make a new soul for each new baby born? Is that why there is a decline in birth rates now? 'cause there's like simply too many new souls to be made?

Omgosh. Loads of questions, with no definite answers. I'm still in the midst of searching, and being a person of science, it's easy to forget this side of life while being caught up in the search for scientific evidences, like what I have been doing for the past few years.

And I guess I shall sleep, or I wouldnt be able to wake up till 3pm tomorrow morn.

2008-10-23T10:10:00.002+08:00

It's about 4 hours away from my immuno quiz, and here I am, blogging.

I seriously need to get my priorties right. But after all the studying of immuno, the T cells, B cells, plasma cells, T reg cells, Th1 cells, Th2 cells, Th17 cells, cytokines and chemokines (that is seriously killing all my brain cells, and trying to comprehend the latest lect is sufficient to murder me.

And in a summary of my nearly 3.5 years as a uni student, I think the French accented english ranks the highest in my "Accent that kills my brain cells while trying to decipher what's he saying". Closely followed by German accented ones.

Like omgosh, I'm supposed to decipher what's he rattling off at such a high speed while trying to understand the new stuff before I copy down on my notes? There seems to be a blockage somewhere, usually stuck at the understanding of what's he saying at all 'cause the accent is too thick.

Universities worldwide should consider having Understanding Accents 101 course to aid the students in understanding all the stuff man. Otherwise I'm paying so much yet I don't understand at all, which is so URGH.

Oh well, whatever. I had better continue with the immuno. =S

2008-10-20T00:57:00.002+08:00

After much procrastination, I finally went to make the Photofunia pics.

Don't go crazy after seeing all my chio pics ok? =D

Blue eyes. Woooo.. Not mine though.

I'm selling fruit juice ok!

I think the guy is stunned to see me so happily clutching a piece of tissue paper. HA.

Chio.

Hee. I like this.

My side view must be so pretty that so many people are scruntinizing it.

This is so fun sia. Ha.

Grass, I don't have as many as yours la. My zipai really damn few can!! =DDDD

2008-10-17T00:50:00.003+08:00

There's something about spending money that makes me feel damn happy.

Seems like the act of taking money outta my wallet to pay for something secretes endorphins in me, making me go super high.

So far, for today, I spent on:

1) Shoe Bag (yes SJ, I finally got it. HAHAHA.)

2) Jay Chou's 魔杰座 album. It's sooooooooo good that I just had to get it. So, Jianzhong, I never 支持盗版 k!!! HAHAHA..

3) Manicure. I just love the way my nails sparkle in the light. I gotta find out what top coat the manicurist use man. Ahhhhhhhhhhh..

4) Having my brows done

5) Cutting hair

All these in a short day! And all within 4 hours!! But the release of endorphins is so high till I am still feeling high after so long.

Or maybe it's just listening to Jay Chou's latest album is putting me into such a good mood. Ho ho ho.

And one final thing:

HAPPY 22nd BIRTHDAY JAS MY HUGS HUGGER!!!!!

Happy birthday my dear~ =)))

2008-10-15T01:22:00.003+08:00

I just went to the hospital to visit my Ah Gong.

Seeing him so pale, and weak, so unlike his robust rosy grinning self just filled me with so much pain.

=(

Ah Gong, though you'll never read this, but please recover soon. I love you.

2008-10-11T01:42:00.002+08:00

Ok, I'm not a huge fan of posting videos on my blog 'cause I don't like to read blogs with only videos and videos and videos (no offence to anyone out there! Just my personal preference.), so I refrain from posting any videos at all.

One reason is that I might not share the same taste as the blogger on their choice of music, so clicking on it would just be a waste of my 3minutes or so that can be better spent watching 3 minuts of Ugly Betty.

Another reason is 'cause... I don't know. I just don't click on those videos la. Unless the blogger happen to write what's the video is about to pique my interest etc, then I would click on the "PLAY" oh so curiously.

Obviously this rule doesnt apply to me when I'm embedding some song on my blog 'cause they would always play automatically as I WANT YOU to hear the song that I lurrrrve so much. Yeah, I'm annoying that way. Ha.

But today isnt about me criticizing other people's blogging style. Rather, it's about me going to break one of my self-made rules on blogging. (Another day, another post!).

Here's a favourite video of all time!

Love situation by Arashi

I have been watching this exact same video for a few months now, and I still havent gotten sick of it yet. Yes, I'm a little nuts, thank you very much.

And I know nobody would gush about how cute Arashi is, or how amazing the dance stage is, or how the 2min 58secs part is the start of my favourite portion of the song, or how 3min 11sec is like the hottest/cutest/most amazing part 'cause Matsumoto Jun is soooooooooooo cute unless:

1) They have watched Gokusen 1.

This show is damn freaking nice!

2) They have fell in love with Sawada Shin in Gokusen acted by Matsumoto Jun.

Ahh.. The moody broody look.

3) They then went to wiki Matsumoto Jun and read every single word of that article.

4) And they then watched Hana Yori Dango (for the sake of MatsuJun) and fell in love with Domyouji Tsukasa acted by Matsumoto Jun again.

Ok, I know the curls can go. Blame it on the guy that wrote this comic!

5) They then spent hours gushing about Matsu Jun with Erinna babe, who passed them LOADS of youtube links to watch about Arashi.

6) And the obsession started to spread from MatsuJun to the rest of the members of Arashi that MatsuJun is part of, and that marked the start of watching other Jap dramas that have other members of Arashi.

or

7) They simply share the same taste in music as me and have bothered to click on the "PLAY" button.

Ay, just click on the damn button and listen to the damn song la. I typed so much crap! That alone should have some credit right?

p/s: They can really dance! *swoons*

2008-10-10T23:19:00.002+08:00

Have I ever mentioned that I love the Carpenters? Like really love love love love them.

They are so ever soothing, so calming for my soul. But not everybody knows how to appreciate it. So.. whatever la huh. But here's one of my favs. High up on the list with "There's a Kind of Hush", "Mr Postman", "Only Yesterday" and "So Close"

Goodbye To Love - 1972 - Carpenters

Goodbye to Love

Kinda sad really.

Moving onto happier stuff.

The other time when Jas and Grass came over to PS to look for me (yeah, I know.. it's eons ago..), I went over to her house to stay. And we took quite a number of nutty pics.

The not ready pose

The Kim is constipated and Jas laughing like nuts pose

The Kim is trying to lick Jas' arm while Jas is still laughing pose

The Kim is next, trying to bite Jas' arm and she is still laughing pose

After Jas' arm got bitten by me (yeah, I'm a biter!), she gave up and went into recluse and I decided to rest for abit...

Resting Kim pose

Before we came back for a final laugh

Oooh. I love love love this pic. So candid and natural. =D

Okok. I'm not that natural. But who cares.

So Jas retired for the night, and I continued with the zi high'ness.

Biting

Bleh

And my fav of all time...

Showing off my pearly whites.

Don't know who so brilliant only took my beautiful teeth. Ha.

Ahhh.. How I wish exams would never come between us having fun. I miss going nuts with Jas.

From the very beginning..

2008-09-30T22:23:00.002+08:00

Ah, my apologies for having a dead blog. But seriously, at the rate that the pics are coming in? I'm never gonna finish uploading them. So selective update la k? =)

Anyhow, was mentioning to Weibin today that I think I looked my most horrid from upper sec to JC period. (Forgot what led to this comment, but anyhow...)

So, I decided to do a blog post on the transition that I have been through, and would still be going through.

Hold your breath, ladies and gentlemen, friends and teacher, stalkers and taggers, cousins and.. everyone. Please don't gasp at the horrifying looking me ya?

Here we go!

When I was born, I was so utterly adorable.

Chubby young little kid that looked more like a boy than a girl. I guess it's all from my dad wishing that I was a boy, a boy, a boy, a boy, but ended up with a girl instead. So the higher beings decided to make half his wish come true by making me look more like a boy.

Even when I wore a dress, people still called me a boy la. So what the hell.

Everything was still going uphill.. and I grew out my hair, looked more like a girl, and even looked quite cute.

At Genting with Jie and Grass

I'm the one on the right.

Not clear right? Further evidence that I was cute.

Quite sweet looking right? *feeling the pride in my cuteness*

Then, at the age of 8, I got struck by myopia.

And I wore humongous glasses like this:

Disgusting glasses sia.

And so begun the ugly period of my life.

Through primary school.

Try spotting me. Ha.

To secondary school.

Sec 2. Omgosh. My horrid hair. And Xiang's beside me too. HAHA.

Till Sec 4.

Again, try spotting!

Anyhow, since I'm revisiting my memories, shall post my guides pics as well.

Sec 1, with my Morning Glory seniors!

Having mad debriefings at night for camp.

These crazy debriefings can last till 3am, and we had to bathe after that without water heater. I can still remember Vane Ho playing chopsticks with me underneath the table, and sleeptalking about boobs. Ha.

Then, my batch when we went back to help for the camp.

Guanzhen, Jiali, Von, Fen, Me and Ninny

And they tried to grab my boobs.

Yeah, center parting is unkind on my face. Omgosh. Horrid hair. Horrid glasses. Uneven teeth before braces.

Now, compare the after pics.

Top row: Xiaomin, Yingjia, Von, Me, Melinda, Guanzhen
Bottom row: Fen, Yannie, Jaz and Ms Ng

Meeting up for lunch 2 weeks back. =)

Anyhow, back to the pics.

With my beloved Wennie and Ming.

Again, horrid hair. Omgosh. I'm so disgusted by center parting and tied up hair. OMGOSH.

With my darling Morning Glorians!! I feel like a mother hen. =D

Now, compare the after pic!

From left: Gracia, Ming, Me, Wennie, Jaslyn, Weijie

Meeting at the beginning of this yr! =D We have all turned chio! =))

Okok, enough about sec school. Proceed onto Jc. Went to PJ with my horrid prelims results, and ended up falling in love with the people.

First 3 months with Anna and Amanda. =)

Jennifer and Erinna babe

Eve and PP

Oooh, cute PP. He was like so utterly cute when he was teaching the mass dance "shimmy shimmy shimmy..." HA.

First 3 months class excluding me

First 3 months was craziness. Biatch, saw someone familiar? =DDDD

So, after first 3 months, I decided to stay on in PJ, and Xiang transferred back from SAJC.

Me Xiang and yq after 1st 3 mths when we have gotten our respective uniforms

I think it was the first time in my life that I enjoyed school life. NY was too damn stressful as I kept failing my tests. And people there were hugely competitive. Whereas PJ had a nice relaxed environment, and for once, I didnt keep failing everything except for chemistry.

The narccissistic queen in the making.

Even during chemistry lecture also can pose for photo. =D

And we did alot of random stuff, like me buying a sari and getting Priya to teach me how to wear it.

Complicated sia!

Finally worn properly!

But I cant remember how to get it on now. =S

Some stuff that I would always remember, like...

Our class mural

The chio notice board in the front.

The chio spiderweb that says 03S03, made by me and Xiang.

Brilliant, no?

Class pic in front of the chio spidey noticeboard.

I think Xiang and I really gave alot to our JC class.

Now defunct bowling alley in marina bay for class outing

Me Xiang and Momo chan

Class supper at Science Center Mac's

I think my JC class had the nicest people. We celebrated practically everyone's birthday.

Here's my birthday pigs from Yishi, Jeannie, and twins!

See how happy Yishi is with my pig.

Xiang's surprised birthday celebrations, planned by me!

OMGOSH. Horrid hair. Sigh.

Then came graduation.

Sigh.

For graduation, Xiang and I skipped the disgusting tong's chemistry class to hide in the ** room to make this for the class:

S03

Super duper chio.

All the way down from the 3rd level ** room, we were like balancing this cardboard so carefully for fear of the candles toppling over, and burning the cardboard, and praying that there wouldnt be any wind.

Oh, and we bought this for the class.

=))

Last class pic together

Those were the days man.

But anyhow, the point is, I still think the upper primary to jc days marks one of the ugliest days of my life with horrid hairstyle choices and huge glasses.

Contacts and fringe saved my life man.

So, to end things off, once again, no more glasses, no more center parting, no more hair sticking out at weird angles,

=)

Janet Jackson - Doesnt really matter

2008-09-16T23:21:00.000+08:00

This song never fail to make me feel better

Doesnt Really Matter - Janet Jackson

=)

Stress

2008-09-16T21:43:00.002+08:00

I cant believe how easily offended people can be.

And cant they tell that I'm already super stressed and busy, why the hell am I always asked to do this, do that, do everything? Do they really wanna see me breaking down before they are satisfied?

They think of MSN as a form of slacking, but cant they just think out of the box, and think of MSN as a form of communication, for meeting, for destressing, for loads of stuff?

They think that they are the only ones stressed, cant they tell that I'm extremely stressed, and am already at the point of breaking now?

No time to blog

2008-09-04T23:12:00.002+08:00

I have no time to blog.

Oh man. As the days zoom by, the pictures accumulate day by day. I now have loads of pics unblogged, a meme undone, and loads of things to catch up on.

I'm getting stressed.

And there's a presentation tomorrow. I hope I won't freak out. Going nuts in public, bring it on. But speaking in public, oh man. Just murder me. I hate presentations!

Anyhow, I did a limbo rock the other day!

(If not for the fact that Jie's blog is locked, I would have linked her posts here. She does great updates! I, on the other hand, suck at updating blog posts. Pics just get forgotten. =((((( )

Jie did a post on it. And created this pic!

And this is the reason why I love Multi-shots

So, now you know the reason, stop asking me why I love taking multi shots, or deleting away pics in my camera 'cause of the multi shots. I want it that way.

Anyhow, I know you guys missed me and my zi pais. Looking at Kimberly, means the pro at zi pai.

So here's one for you guys!

Neck-breaking shot

Till I'm not so busy ya? *muacks!*

National Day Jumps!

2008-08-24T16:02:00.002+08:00

Oh man, laziness to blog.

But fret not, I've just made a collage of the National Day jumps at East Coast Park!

Oh, have you noticed that all of us were wearing various shades of red? 'cause it was National Day! And everybody wore red to show our love for Singapore!

Introducing how united our family is:

Patriotic huh? All at East Coast Park!!!

Oh, and time for a not so serious pic...

I think only the cousins were nutty. HA.

But still, this doesnt refute the fact that I have a cool family! =DDD

Stabbings

2008-08-05T22:59:00.003+08:00

I wonder if I blogged about this before, stabbings.

And yeah, wordy post.

I'm quite disgusted by the amount of backstabbings that goes on in reality. Stab, to get promoted. Stab, to spread rumours. Stab, just for the fun of it. Stab, without meaning to, but it's stabbing all the same.

And the worst of all? Stabbing the person behind the back, while smiling all the while in the person's presence. This is the worst of the worst 'cause the person would never know that the smiling tiger is actually planning on devouring him.

Oh man, how I hate this kinda things and back stabbers.

The scariest thing is when one doesnt know that the backstabber is actually stabbing one, and might even sing praise of the backstabber. The gullible, innocent, dumb one, only to realize too late, realizing how dumb one have been.

Personally, I hate these kinda 2 faced people. For me, if I were to like someone, I would be damn nice to them.

If I were to not like someone, you wouldnt see me singing praise of them, or even be nice to them. Civil, maybe. But it would be damn obvious who I like, and who I don't. The difference in attitude is so vast that even a bystander would be able to tell.

That's the reason why I'm not all that popular. Some might even detest me in school.

At least I'm not hypocritical, or backstabbing behind one's back, or pretending to be nice to someone while all the while stabbing non stop.

And I guess, I take pride in being frank and straightforward instead of something detestable.

So, backstabbers, scram! Go as far away as possible. I'm utterly disgusted by these kinda scums in life.

Working at J8

2008-07-28T17:50:00.008+08:00

Oh my goodness, I think I have been blogging real damn often recently. Think boredom at work's the main culprit in making me blog like a few times a week (a rarity). Ha.

Anyhow, am nua'ing at J8. It's only the first day, and we have only sold 1 pathetic lappy. ONE. By xiang. Oh well.

But with xiang and me around, things never get bored. (Story telling time!)

While setting up the booth earlier in the day, I spotted this damn huge thing landing on my Sony booth.

Can you spot the thing that landed?

Still cannot see? It's so damn bloody huge!!

Ok, for those who gave up, here's a yellow arrow to aid you in the identification of the thing that landed on our booth.

And yesh, I squashed it with a price stand by smacking it so damn hard in one smack.

Needless to say, it got utterly squashed.

Close up view of the huge fly that landed. And yes, it's a fly. The largest fly I ever spotted in Singapore. Normally Singaporean flies are small insects. the normal sized kind that you see in hawker centres and wet markets.

But this guy here was super huge. It's about twice the size of a normal fly. And I bet that this humongous fly must have lived for damn long, ate damn loads of stuff, and was too retarded in its sensing of movements that it didnt outlive Kimberly's smack.

One single smack sia. I'm still damn amazed after like 7 hours. Ha.

Anyhow, upclose image of the fly.

"Ahh... I'm squashed... But my red eyes are still alright! Argh. I see that bitch that just squashed me prancing around in happiness, wielding her camera at me like I'm some specimen. Argh argh argh. Someone get me outta here!"

Ok, lame.

Oooh, this is the underside of the fly. Even the hair on the ass of the fly is visible la! I'm so amazed at my K800i camera even after one year. =D

Oh, then after some time, in the lull period of around 3++pm, I had the sudden inspiration of doing this:

HAHA.

Hard at work, playing with the froggy thing.

The auntie manning that station even gave me a sweet!

I think I look very young. Ha.

I tried to bite it into half for xiang, but about halfway through, I gave up on trying to bite 'cause it was so damn hard, and swallow it down instead. =))

And here's my finished product!!! Couldnt remember the colour of the clothes so I just coloured it with yellow.

And it's supposed to stick on like windows, or mirrors, or any smooth surface. So xiang and I did a demonstration on how good it is at sticking to smooth surfaces.

Like for example, this:

Froggy and my pink vaio!

Froggy and my vaio booth

Then the Sony guy ask me to stop insulting his vaio with my froggy, so I stopped. =((((

Then, we got bored and decided to take pics with the vaio webcam.

Doing a nice pose yesterday at PS when Xiang came down and gave me a surprise visit!

=))))

Then, came all the weird pics.

Extremely close-together eyeballs Xiang

4 -eyed Xiang and Kim

Omgosh. My head's super round la. Like super duper round.

Then I kissed her to show her my ever lasting love.

I don't know what was my purpose in this. And I look extremely constipated la.

I think I look extremely scary here. Eeks. Slit eyes. And loads of eye whites! Eeks.

Then I tried to make my ever small mouth as big as possible!

And achieve an even rounder head than before as Xiang's parents (who came to visit) looked extremely amused. =D

And finally....

Guess who is this? Me or Xiang? =)))

Working at PS

2008-07-25T15:41:00.008+08:00

Omgosh. It's so utterly boring at work that I have surfed my facebook a million times, tagged loads of people, laughed at unglam queen's photos, walked around aimlessly, and everything there is to be done in hope that the time would pass faster.

Anyway, I'm working with my Po!

Goodness, my hair's a mess. But I'm just gonna ignore, and ignore.

Oh, then various people came down to help us kill our boredom. On tuesday, Yishi came down and looked for me! And she was wearing heels and skirt! Ahhh! Super chio!!!

Then in the evening, Jay came down to accompany me and Shuling for dinner.

It was Tuesday! Gelare Day!!!! =DDDD

Xiang, Kelvin and Chao came down to visit as well. That Xiang shocked me la, suddenly smacking me on my back while I was serving a customer (I think), and I jumped in shock. Like literally jumped la. =S

But they left so quickly that I didnt get the chance to take pictures with them. =(((

On Wednesday, Yueh-Hsin came down to visit me!

And we went to eat Ajisen. Wooooo!

But as Shuling was waiting to go for her dinner, and it wasnt nice to stay for long. So we chop chop finished the ramen, and left.

And the bimbotic Pulau Ubin was so nice as to stay with us till we closed to entertain us la. =D

Here's some pics of the unglam queen aka pulau ubin aka Yueh-Hsin. =))

For fear of having another unglam pic, she decided to...

... cover her face to lessen the chance of beoming unglam.

Look at her huge bowl or ramen!!!

And we tried to take pics of ourselves in the restaurant as sneakily as possible, so that other people cant see that we were obviously zi pai'ing. Ha.

Then another one before we left.

We stood in front of the entrance of PS (near the Starhub there) to take, and so many people were staring at us la. *ignore* *ignore*

This pic is nice!!!! =))))

Yesterday (Thursday), Yiroe, Roy, Zhenwei (and friends) came! Plus the KhengBoon who betrayed Horae to go for Acrux outing, if you count us (me and Shuling) going down to Carls Junior to meet him as visiting us.

Oh well.

Anyhow, today, there's this special promo going on, and with every laptop that the customer buy, they would get this!

ERm, a rather ugly bag.

So me and Po decided to go crazy and did this:

Demonstrating how the bag should be carried.

Super unglam la!

=D

And us with the lappy bag 'cause we were so utterly bored.

May there be more sale to kill our boredom! =))))

2008-07-20T22:06:00.002+08:00

Omgosh. I think I just got hooked onto blogging.

Maybe it's just a pictures thing. When I have pics, it's more fun to blog.

Anyhow, just a pic for all before I disappear for 2 weeks! Working!

Delicious Satay! Hor Xiaodi? waahah..

Belated bimbo cheers

2008-07-20T01:23:00.002+08:00

Decided to risk getting killed by Jay and post this post after all!

Know this is damn belated (one year in fact!), but here's some Takhent videos from last year.

Introducing, the real deal of bimbo cheer.

Lanpei rock!!!!

And then introducing my favourite bimbo cheer of all time!

*drum roll*

Jay's bimbo cheer!

Note the bulging muscles while doing the "Like duhz, for sure.."

Talking about bulging muscles, here's Jay's bulging muscles from his pull ups.

Check out how easily he was doing the pull ups la. Man anot? His facebook pic is flooded with comments about his firm NN!

As compared this this pair of NN that was shoved into my face at Sentosa.

Omgosh.

Ah. Better move on to happier stuff.

And here's yixia's kena ayam chickened by us on the train last year. Poor thing. hahaha..

Ah. Must get videos from tee seng soon!

2008-07-18T23:19:00.002+08:00

FOC 2008 just ended today, and once again, I'm gonna miss FOC like crazy.

The damn adorable Horae (minus the Zen that was taking the pic) that I'm gonna miss.

Actually this camp, it felt more like the seniors zi high'ing camp than a freshies camp. 'cause the seniors were forever zi high'ing whereas the freshies just smile at us.

Sophia Simin Xiaohui and TeeSeng

Got to know more seniors, and more freshies during this camp I guess. I didnt even realize that there's the super cute Simin around, and damn funny TeeSeng alive in SBS. TeeSeng can just stand there and do nothing and still make people laugh.

Oh well.

Let me start from the first day.

Horae playing games

First day was a little awkward. 'cause I wasnt supposed to be there, and I know I didnt pay the money and all, but oh well. I just thickened my face and ignored everything.

Chao and Xiaohui

Jas and Me

Oh, have I mentioned, that Horae are a sadist bunch of freshies? Of course, I say the word "sadistic" lovingly ya.

They love anything violent, especially slapping of thighs.

Here's Jasmine's bruised thigh after a game of Ouch Ouch Orbi Orbi.

Yellow arrow pointing at the blue black

Which was caused by...

Jun Hao.

Wah lau. Freshies never give seniors face one lo. Ha.

But anyway, this was just the tip of the ice berg. They started playing the MRT game that resulted in them all getting blue black thighs. From far, the people that arent in the know would think that we are all a bunch of people with a weird disease on the thighs as ALL of them have got bruised thighs.

Goodness.

Anyhow, continuing with the first day, met up with the Ah Boon. =))

The Ah Boon that was too busy pao'ing mei mei to rem about me! =(( Ha.

And how can I forget my fav Hathor freshies.

Jenric and Stella.

and..

Yixia and Jay along with Jas and Me

Anyhow, I was lazy to take pics during the Amazing race and Fright night, so the next pics up are that at the Sentosa.

Sophia Jas ZhaoLiang and Me

Sam drinking the disgusting Zhong Ji Mi Ma game drink

Poor Sam.

Oh, before I forget, during the Sentosa games, it felt more like we were visiting Sentosa than playing games 'cause..

We kept taking pics like tourists

Sophia Shining and Jas

Sophia and Me

ZhaoLiang and Me

Side note: It was my first time at the Merlion! Goes to show how often I go to Sentosa. Ha.

And more pics like tourists. =D

Alicia Shining Jas Yawen and Yuning

Tee Seng even did this:

Wooo!

After that, I got lazy with the camera again, and once more, no more pics. Ha. But Horae got the SBS King (Kelvin!), and my beloved Pulau Ubin (Yueh-Hsin) nearly won the Popularity vote but missed by one vote. Ah... Oh well.

Anyhow, am contemplating whether to post up Jay's bimbo cheer up. Last year's Hathor's FOC wasnt blogged yet. Shite. Till the next time I guess. =)

Long long post!

2008-07-10T00:39:00.003+08:00

To all: Check out my new template! =)) Click replay if you missed the animation k? =D

Anyhow, long long post ahead.

The content for today's post includes:

1. Birthdays
a) Anthony's 24th surprise birthday celebrations
b) Mei's 11th birthday

2. Kuishin-bo

3. New York New York + Pig Organ Mian Xian + Avocado drink!

4. Prawn fishing at Bishan Park

I still have MG's outing + KTV with the couz not done yet. Till the next post (I hope!) ya? So, here we go!

1a. Ant's bday!

It was Ant's bday on 17th June, that we decided to spring him a surprise on the 16th!

The main for the day

Chao, Xiang and I went back to school with a cake, while Xiaodi coordinated with the people at lab, getting them to come down and stuff, and also, most importantly, to trick Ant down without making him suspicious of the plans.

And I guess Xiaodi's so brilliant at it (tricking I mean), talking to Ant all the way down from lab that Ant didnt even notice our presence at the benches!

A very surprised and happy Anthony with us singing the birthday song

We attempted to take alot of multiple shots with the timer, balancing my precious pink t20 on Jianzhong's text and I forgot what, but in the end, only Xiang and I managed to get all the different shots while the rest laughed.

Hais.

Must practise ok people? Practice makes perfect! =D

Anyhow, here's one of the nicest shot of us all.

=)))

And not forgetting the present!

Crumpler!

After missing last year's present, we decided to go ahead and get him a crumpler this year. And Ant loves it.

So, thanks to Chao and Xiang for getting the cake! And thanks to Xiaodi for getting the crumpler!

Next up!

1b. Mei's 11th birthday!

We just celebrated Mei's 11th birthday on the Saturday that just passed.

And freak, she's already 11!

How did the days of her looking so uber cute in her tiny little doll dresses fly by so quickly? Where did that little girl go to?

In no time, she's gonna take her PSLE, go into secondary school, and yada yada.

I was her age when she just got born. A tiny little baby with the tiniest yet longest slender-est looking fingers ever. To think I used to change her diapers, make formula milk for her, and clean up her drool with a hanky. Freak, I feel old. =(

Anyhow, here's pics!

Birthday girl with the cousins

And..

Our family

Boy, if I have that birthday wish on that day? I wish that everything would be alright again.

2. Kuishin-bo!

Jie, Grass, and I went to Kuishin-bo on the 24th of June!

We had... (WARNING! SKIP THIS WHOLE PART IF 1) YOU ARE STARVING. 2) YOU LOVE JAPANESE FOOD. 3) YOU LOVE JAPANESE FOOD AND YOU ARE STARVING.)

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SASHIMI!

Tempura!!!!

Chawanmunshi!!! (can never get this spelling right.)

Paper steamboat!!!!

TOGETHER!!!!

Both Grass and Jie had this snail thing that I felt utterly grossed out by. Especially when they say the sai sai part is the best part, I nearly died.

Omgosh. Look at the sai sai!

Then, Jie and Grass were so happy in picking all the tiny cute little desserts for.. well, desserts.

A very happy Grass

While I got them to count me out for the desserts and concentrated on only..

The fondue

and

My perfect Coca-cola float. Chio right? =D

In the end, they were both disgusted by the desserts and learnt to pick up hints from Kimberly when she decided to forgo something. Ha.

And we left feeling very satisfied.

But before I end this part, THANK YOU AH MA for treating us to Kuishin-bo!! Love you!

3. New York New York + Pig Organ Mian Xian + Avocado drink!

Guess where I'm at!

Got it yet?

We were at New York New York biatches!

Much to my embarrassment, it was my first time there. After walking by it like dozens of times at the Citylink, till even Lot1 also has a New York New York branch, I went there for the first time on 27th June.

Erm, Grass too. So I don't feel THAT bad. Ha.

My ribs

And grass' roast chicken!

We walked about suntec looking for the tong tong before deciding to return home to get my lappy and clothes to stay at Ah Ma house.

My nicest and dearest Kaima and Kaiye were so sweet as to pick both me and Grass up at my house (CCK) to go to Ah Ma house (Paya Lebar). On the way to picking Godma up from work though. =DDD

Godma decided to treat us to the Pig Organ Mian Xian + Avocado drink at Alexandra Village!!!!!!

My Pig Liver + Kidney Mian Xian!!!!!!!

Ah. I know loads of you all are disgusted by it. Derrick especially. But I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this! This is my childhood memories, a delicacy that I thought I would never have again.

Oh, and how can I forget...

... the damn nice Avocado drink!

Allan that drank Durian. Which tasted DAMN GOOD too.

Grass with her Avocado

Me with my Avocado

And of course,

Me with my Pig Liver + Kidney Mian Xian!

Yummilicious!

And so, Allan and I both stayed at Ah Ma house.

And Allan did something really dumb yet hilarious yet.. I don't know. I guess I shall let the picture speak for itself.

Climbing 6 steps in a stride.

Alright, his legs are really long.

4. Prawn Fishing!

Yesterday, Xiang and I went Prawn fishing with Wensheng, Eric, Lily, Colin and Pipi at Bishan Park!

Seriously, for most part of it, Xiang and I were doing this.

Sitting there rotting.

Erm, and willing the buoy to sink.

The buoy is speck of red thing that the yellow arrow is pointing at.

The principle behind the buoy sinking is that when the prawn wanna eat the bait, it would kiap the bait with it's pincers to put into its mouth. So when it is kiaping, there would be pressure exerted, thus leading to the buoy sinking.

So, for most part of the night, Xiang and I were both willing the buoy to sink.

A typical conversation went like this:

Me (peering at the buoy): "Is it sinking?"

Xiang: "No."

Me (sad): "Ok."

And I alternated between peering at the buoy and our surroundings.

The sight that I was looking at.

-5 secs later-

Me (peering at the buoy): "Is it sinking?"

Xiang: "No."

Me (sad): "Ok."

-10 secs later-

Me (peering at the buoy): "Is it sinking?"

Xiang: "No."

Me (sad): "Ok."

Erm. Yeah. I started having hallucinations about the buoy sinking, and Xiang starting singing "Sink sink sink.." or "Come over to me prawnie, uh huh uh huh."

BUT.

When we got our first prawn, we were both so excited and exhilarated that my chair toppled over (without me in it).

Bait. Chicken liver.

Eric that we always run to to get him to get the hook outta the prawn

Eric's damn pro la. He and Lily caught so many prawns!

The basket that we threw the prawns (yellow arrows) into.

There was one point of time that our basket dropped into the pond, and Wensheng and Colin had to use their fishing rods to try get the basket up.

But the most brilliant thing have got to be Wensheng. He managed to catch a prawn at the very same time that he rescued the basket. DAMN PRO.

And here's the first one that I caught that was so damn huge!

HUGE ASS PRAWNIE!!!

Xiang with the huge ass prawnie too!!

But in the end, whether they are huge ass prawnies or small hei bee, they end up looking like this:

Skewered.

Smothered with butter.

And

BBQed.

And when everything's bbqed,

Everybody's happy.

Lily ran away from the pic

Happy Xiang with a plate full of prawns

And finally, to end off this uber long post, a pic of me with the huge ass cooked prawnie!

=)))

Expo seminar

2008-07-04T01:08:00.000+08:00

I know I'm a terrible blogger. I havent been updating for more than 2 weeks. So here's a flood of pics to make up for the absence k! =))

Was working at Expo last week for a seminar when Xiang and I nearly died...

... from the lack of sleep (me), and lack of entertainment (me and Xiang).

We were staring into blank space for the longest time ever.

The place that we were rotting at

The cards that I was staring at for 2 and a half days

We tried to drink tea to kill the time

For some weird reason, this tea tasted damn good.

I suspect 'cause we were so deprived there that a simple tea with sugar and creamer tasted so good.

And 'cause I kept falling asleep, I bought the mocha ice blended (twice!) from Coffee Bean when all the while I was craving for Starbucks' Dark Mocha Frappucino.

Oh well.

Drinking tea and mocha ice blended (yeah, I know. Boring.) can only kill so much of our 11 hours there that we decided to..

.. erm. compare our nails.

And I discovered that Xiang's thumb nail is as big as my big toe nail!

I'm serious!

But her nails are damn nice la. She has got such huge and long nails that they look like they are made of acrylic. She's saving so much on the acrylic nails.

And here's the evidence.

Irritatingly beautiful nails. Bleh.

Anyhow, due to our boredom, we were searching for entertainment like crazy without any success until we spotted this:

Guess what is this?

Yeah, an innocent lump of blue tack, which started off our play-doh frenzy.

Xiang started off doing food.

Curry pok (xiang)

Dumpling (xiang)

Seriously, the both of them look similar la. Only that the curry pok used nails to poke the waves of the curry pok. I requested for folded ones instead of nails-poked ones, but oh well. She says the folded one is a dumpling. OH WELL.

Pretzel (xiang)

Carrot (xiang)

I laughed like crazy at the tufts of grass-like leaves on the carrot.

Then came the easiest of all time.

Roti prata (xiang)

She just flattened a ball of blue tack and got this roti prata. I can flatten a ball of blue tack and call it the pizza base la. Or popiah skin. But oh well.

Then she folded this:

Siew Mai (xiang)

She's so proud of it that she took the top view of it:

Top view of Siew Mai (xiang)

I suspect that she's really hungry.

Who knows, the tea break that we had an hour later had this!

A real siew mai!!

O.O

Anyway continue with our food frenzy..

Lamian (xiang)

Eh, reason for my lack of contribution was due to me trying to read my novel under the table. But anyway, I started contributing to the food items with:

Baos! (Me)

Breakfast set with sausages + egg + bacon (Me)

Made this 'cause I was starving like crazy and was craving for breakfast.

Then Kelvin made this:

Bento set (Kel)

Cabbage (xiang)

Seriously, her cabbage looked exactly like her

Rose (xiang)

Just that the cabbage is bigger than the rose. =.=

Top view of rose

I rest my case. =)

I did one of my favourite food

Mushroom (Me)

And

A live prawn swimming (Me)

Which got cooked into

A cooked prawn albeit abit blue instead of red (Me)

And so the trend towards animals started..

Xiang made a damn cute

Mouse! (xiang)

Spidey and Bee (Me)

Wormy (Me)

Xiang thought that this looked like the pokemon thingy. Oh well. I think I know which pokemon she was referring to but murder me if you will, I don't know the name of that pokemon.

And from then on, it got a little monstery.

Xiang's damn proud of this monster with a horrid eye. (xiang)

The monster has got a nice tail somemore!

Tail

I suspect that it's meant to be a cat. But 'cause of her accidental pulling out of the eye, it turned into a monster instead. =))

Then Xiang spotted something inside our fishbowl.

What the hell is that?!

原来 Kel made another monster too.

Without eyes or mouth. (kel)

Oh, nearly forgot to introduce our lovely fishbowl

Supposed to be used for namecards.

But...

We did this to it instead

HAHAHA (xiang)

Of which the nose was made of this:

Some finger entension thing that I don't have had what purpose in existing (xiang)

I chup in too!

Then I made this:

Smiley face! (Me)

Smiley boy face! (Me)

Smiley girl face! (Me)

Xiang insisted that I'm cheating. But I don't care la. I like can liao. =DDD

Anyhow, xiang made a damn cute phone

Resembles our Samsung sia! =))) (xiang)

And something that looks utterly weird

Guess what's this! (xiang)

It is.....

*drum roll*

... this!

PruShield that we stared at for the 2 and a half days. =S

Anyhow, continuing..

Tree (Me)

Glass (xiang)

Psst: Note the glass in the background. Supposed to look like that.

Anyway, the top's too heavy that it..

.. drooped like a withered morning glory. ha.

Watch (me)

Fork and Spoon (me)

Please pardon the horrid looking fork. It's really freaking hard to handle such sticky blue tack la.

Badminton racket + shuttlecork (Me)

Car (me)

Fighter jet + Submarine + Tanker + rocket (Kel)

House (Me)

I think the chimmney is uber cute. Xiang thinks it's ugly though. = S

3D (Me)

'cause that Xiang kept insisting that I have no creativity in me, and kept making 2D stuff. Bleh.

The two main culprits =))

The other culprit with his 龙须糖

I got so sian of moulding blue tack that I started drawing instead.

I pasted the sticker in front of my wallet!

Happy!

Who knows Xiang went to write my name and pasted it behind my wallet.

Not happy. Bleh.

Kelvin got inspired and drew this:

Which embarrassed me in front of this participant 'cause he saw it and went "Woah. Doraemon eh?"

Of which I replied with an awkward smile "Erm, yeah. =)"

Super paiseh.

Anyway, I kept drawing.

Little furballs!

And

Flowers

Which I gave xiang.

Oh well, this concludes my uber long post that nearly killed me in the process of blogging. Hope this is worth the wait. =D

Love AV!

2008-07-03T23:09:00.002+08:00

Oops. Been missing again. Hehe.

Actually, I have a damn long post in the making. Just that it's murdering me as there's like tons of pics to be posted that I just gave up halfway. Man, my determination just simply rocks la.

From last year's taiwan trip to loads of birthdays that I'm supposed to blog about, I think I have sorta given up on trying to keep up with the no. of pics taken last year.

But anyhow, I have tamed down alot this year. (Note the lack of pics, to the extent that I cant find a single zipai to post here la.) Sigh.

Note to self: I better start bringing my beloved pink camera around and snap loads of pics to post here. But then again, I'm very lazy to resize the pics leh. HAHA.

Anyway, I traumatised the poor Derrick today by eating pig's liver + kidney + small intestine soup from Alexandra Village in front of him. Should have caught that on my camera man. Erinna wasnt that traumatised in the sense that she eats the liver and kidneys too. Ha.

I <3 Alexandra Village's Pig Liver + Kidneys + Small Intestines soup! Love love love!

=))))

To end things off, I managed to dig out a super rare zipai. All those narcissist out there would be so ashamed of me.

Wait for my uber long post ya? =))

2008-06-11T01:34:00.002+08:00

On the eve of my astro paper, or rather, about 11 hours and a half away from my astro paper, I'm actually sitting in front of my lappy blogging.

Maybe it's the nice old songs that got me into such a good mood. Maybe it's 'cause I'm so sick of looking at the astro notes. I don't know.

Anyhow, decided to start on post on my favourites!

On my favourite friend,

Xiang!

Okay, there's no need to guess actually. On the account that every single one of you who knows me would know her too.

But a litte introduction is necessary for the uninitiated ya?

We have been through the same primary school (jps!), to same secondary school (ny!), to the same jc (pj!), and finally to the same uni (ntu!), and the same course (sbs!).

Enough of the exclaimation marks there.

But anyway, she's freaky in the sense that I can just walk along a particular path and just say "You know..", and she would say "Ya. blah blah blah. yada yada yada.", talking about exactly what I wanna mention. She leaves me speechless at times at the telepathy that we share. Really no joke alright.

And through so many years, it's no wonder why she's my favourite and best friend. It's true that we squabble on a daily basis, we hit each other (yeah, I know. We are 22. I know. I know.), we get pissed off with each other all the time...

... but she's still my best buddy. =D

I think I shall stop here la huh. I can go on forever. =)

Next up! On my favourite cousins!

In no ascending or descending order, (it's just I found whichever pic first.)

Grasso!

Apparently a certain someone saw this pic and thought that she's utterly pretty and kept bugging me to put this pic on.

And another certain somebody saw this pic and thought that the person beside me was a guy, and my bf at that. HA.

Anyway, Grasso, besides being my cousin, she's technically my godsis as well, on the account that her parents are my godmom and god-dad. But erm, calling her Gan-Mei! is enough to put goosebumps on anyone's arms. So let's just stick to calling her Grasso!

She's the life of any party (when she's feeling up to it and not too stressed out.), a really kind soul (who might get bullied), and has a damn infectious laughter till our 1 year old niece will just chup in and laugh a damn loud yet cute laughter upon hearing Grass laugh.

Oh, she loves sunnies and huge earrings, with a different fashion taste as compared to any other girl on the street. And did I mention, she's pretty? =)

Next up, Jasmin! (I would prefer to call her Jasso, but I'm kinda worried that she would murder me. So let's just stick to Jas!)

She's real pretty too huh? Oh! The one beside her is real pretty too! =D

This girl here is the one with the most up to date fashion sense. She would be the one who has an eye for great looking clothes, accessories, shoes.

And the both of us love the chicken wings fried by our dearest Ah Gong, sitting at the table eating chicken wings when we were supposed to eat loads of other stuff instead of focusing on the chicken wings.

Typical conversation when we are eating chicken wings goes like this:-

Me: "Eh Jas, pass me some tissue leh. I wanna put bones."

Jas: *passes 2 pieces of tissue paper with a chicken wing in her hand*

Me: *busy myself with putting the chicken bones on the tissue paper*

Jas: *Eh. Lend me put the bones too.." *squeezes bone onto my pathetic looking tissue*

Me: "Die! Only got so few chicken wings left!"

Jas: *laughs in her characteristic laugh* "Oops. I ate 3! You?"

Me: "Eh. I only ate 2 lo!" (when in reality I ate 3 too. HA!)

In essence, we would be eating chicken wings, snatching chicken wings, snatching tissue paper, sharing tissue paper, laughing at each other.

Gosh, I miss eating chicken wings with her. And shopping of course. =)

And this girl is having her As this year la. Jiayou man!!! I've absolute faith in you. =)Let's go eat subway after your exams! And shopping!! And cycling!! And KTVing!!!

And how can I forget Jeanno?

Jeanno, Beanno, Jeannieeeeee!

This girl is turning out to be a huge beauty. With her long legs that I would kill for. Her skinniness that I would kill for too. And her megawatt smile, I bet she's turning heads as we speak.

Jeanno is the one who shares my love for playing all the DS Lite games (Zelda! Phoenix Wright! Trauma Centre! Life Signs!), and LocoRoco (however you spell it.)

Oh, and she loves soggy fries like me la. We would be snatching for the soggy fries at 3 in the morn at the Mac's. We once mug (she mug. I play ds/psp/read reader's digest) from 12am till 6.40am at the Mac's before. Absolute craziness.

And how can I forget to mention how she went round Thailand looking for dog shit for me. As in the gow sai pork floss, getting stares from her classmates when she asked them if they knew where to get gow sai. =D

She's crazy, spontaneous, hilarious and absolutely fun to be with.

Actually, I think I have such wonderful cousins that I love to hang out with. To think that I'm at the age of 22 yet still loving every single moment that I spend with them. The fact that we have endless topics to chat about, find amusement in the stupidest things, and laugh at everything helps too.

I hope we would be yelling "Pai kwar! Pai kwar! Pai kwar!" 30 years down the road. =)

Alright, I better get some sleep before the astro paper tomorrow. Jya ne!