15 November 2009 @ 10:39 am
The meeps was supposed to come home today (sunday), but cos of the pox, he'll be back Friday.

:(

I'm going to bake today to cheer meself up.
 
 

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14 November 2009 @ 11:58 pm
from true blood. Watched it for five hours straight stopping only for five mins to buy my dinner and now it's 11.56, 4 mins to download time whoohoo. I don't know what to download though, hmmmmmm
 
 
15 November 2009 @ 05:51 am



Veryyyyyyy happy!
And the best thing is, I don't feel the pinch.
I think something is seriously wrong with me.
Too many bag purchases this year...
Gonna save save save + save in 2010!!!!

Venice tomorrow!
Extremely relieved to be blessed with a wonderful set of crew :)

Oh yes, PARIS HERE I COME AGAIN!!!!!!
My hometown, my favourite city.

Ok, I better wash up and jump into bed.
Good night!
 
 
15 November 2009 @ 02:32 am
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14 November 2009 @ 03:41 pm
my mom bought egg tarts for tea break today. they sucked. ok to be fair, i judge every single egg tart i eat with those that i have tried in hongkong. and sadly, none in singapore really match up.
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i love the food in hongkong. i still remember my last trip to hk. armed with the food guide in one hand, hk map in the other. and we went abt the whole of hk looking for those highly recomemded stalls with awesome food. the egg tarts were one of our many conquers! i still remember walking into dubious alleys, asking directions in our broken cantonese and climbing those never ending staircases that hk is famous for... and in the end, the food never disappoints.

yesterday, i drew blood from a patient during night call. discounting harvey the dummy and hendrick the boyfriend, it was the very first time i did it. andrew was surprised that my hands did not shake. i surprised myself too. 20 weeks into clinical postings, i know its a bit late for yesterday to be my first time. subconciously, i kept resisting the idea because i wasnt confident enough. i was afraid to hurt the patients, especially those old lady with paper thin skin and minute veins whose tendency to bruise is like sky high. but i'm glad i plucked up the courage yesterday. better late than never.
 
 
feeling: hungry
 
 
14 November 2009 @ 11:06 pm
cute girls always think they're fat
 
 

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14 November 2009 @ 08:11 pm
When Constance spots a cockroach, she freezes, scream for Sherman and then grab the nearest chair and stand on it. Sherman grabs the insect spray and ruthlessly spray down the "enemy". Both leave the "enemy" to its own painful death.

(insert evil laughter) Hiak hiak hiak!

This is the second victim in two consecutive days. Are they coming back for revenge?
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feeling: scared
 
 
14 November 2009 @ 07:09 pm
two day self declared holiday:

wine and rain, eggs and coffee. my friends are blossoming like unnamed flowers. i find so much beauty in their speech and eyes and bones
 
 
14 November 2009 @ 07:14 am
What else is there to say. I'm feeling so much but i have nothing more, nothing new to add. Everything but my physical self is back in sg with you. It's like as though I never left. The truth remains, after all that has transpired and I've tried to do since I came back, I've not been back and forth; I've been standing still at the exact same spot in the departure hall hugging you goodbye, and I cannot frigging budge an inch
 
 
14 November 2009 @ 05:17 am
i never understood how pple can have hours and hours of conversation, especially one on one. an hour maybe. two is pushing it. three and above is just what the hell. i think there's something wrong with me 0.o omg the font and size and lack of paragraphing is killing me
 
 
14 November 2009 @ 05:08 am
and eating now. eh what happened to the text selection toolbar. now the font is too big and damn ugly why did i choose tonight of all nights to see that.. now i cant sleep and probably cant play tennis in the morning :/ ok nvm, put it out of your head! internet speed is tmd slow at like 30 kb/s. i think my house downloads and watches too many videos and so they have capped our internet speed. maybe thats why they took away the lj text selection toolbar too oh friggity frig frig my heater has been on 24/7 for the past one or two days, no wonder it was so hot just now. ooooh okay i know, if there's no tennis i shall go english breakfast at london bridge to cheer myself up :D
 
 
14 November 2009 @ 04:13 am
you've started blogging again. I love the way you write but then again I always have. Now I cant sleep or think straight. Hai I miss you so much it hurts ): and I'm starting to question this choice we made again. I feel like I'm dancing the waltz, going forward by inches, taking steps back, forcing myself to walk on, being thrown back against my will, clawing my way out of the pit just to be pulled back by your philosophing.. When will this shit end? I'm getting so tired

Hungry. I'm going to eat my troubles away
 
 
14 November 2009 @ 11:18 am
I've been up since 4.30 am with nary a thing to dooo. Meh.

Stumbled home from KPO last night, shamefully defeated by 10 pm after 3 pints. Met a pretty interesting bunch of new people, finally managed to put a face to the nicknames of those I interact with during our daily skype conversations. It was like an IRC meeting, 10 years later. These people are long time friends of my shifu, all similarly addicted to trading the market. The 5 of them are your typical mid-40s sharp shooters who have made it in life somewhat, shown by their penchant for IWCs, croc leather shoes and floral themed shirts.

Our little space at the bar was filled with plates of sausages, some sort of payment in kind for a lost bet made during one of the lewd conversations in skype. Conversation was wrapped around cars, trading and girls, and then cars. I had a surprisingly enjoyable night.

At 9.30 pm, I told everyone I had to head home to call my boy. They put a pint of Blanc between me and the door, and that really was my waterloo. One taxi ride in an awful Toyota Crown later, I threw up. Bleah.

They should really phase out the Crowns soon.
 
 

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14 November 2009 @ 11:10 am
I got rather excited when i saw this image on Tualobang (yes for all of you who have been asking me where i get my deals and event updates, it's there). But after awhile i think, Dempsey is damn out-of-the-way for me lah, even though i love Hollister, Abercrombie & Fitch and Victoria's Secret. And $33 for Hollister or A&F is still expensive, what if all they have are past seasoned clothes in humongous sizes? I don't have much faith in factory outlet sales actually.

Anyway, do update me if anyone of you are going! If i feel like it or if i have time, i might drop by. If it proves to be disappointing, at least i can have some Ben & Jerry's nearby. :/


[running around feeling: nerdy]

 
 
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14 November 2009 @ 08:16 am
for the ones who were so patient and so generous with their love for me
who hung around till they could finally say it again
im so glad you're happy now

yea i know
thank you
and so am i.

: )

 
 
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14 November 2009 @ 12:31 am

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Jurong Point branch


Argh, just so tempted by all the desserts~

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13 November 2009 @ 11:13 pm
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13 November 2009 @ 10:54 pm




on a wet, cold and gloomy day,
this is just what i need (:
and yes, you know it,
a bowl of hot kimchi soup beats any posh restaurant <3

i'm still craving for my toffee-nut latte,
and XLB come quickly please.

today saw the last day of school for my 1st semester as a year 3,
and yet again we lament on how time passes us by.
and on this last day,
i've learnt a painful lesson.

it's not about complaining, pushing the blame to the class structure,
thinking you're just unlucky to get yours graded by the prof himself,
nor telling yourself you just don't like this,
i need,
to take responsibility.

i didn't cover my research thoroughly enough,
and for someone who is so well-versed with the literature,
the errors are just so salient they can't be ignored.
50%, learn, accept, and now, WORK.


it may just be a rut,
but i'm not giving up.



and for this sem, there are a few people/things i really must be thankful for:

1. my fruit family - patty, sanjie, kli, jazzy (:
i'm glad i got to meet you people more, and for accepting all my flaws & absence,
thank you.

2. jurie row
sadly ritchell couldn't be with us, but dear julie, thank you for all your advice as a senior,
and for being the awesomest fellow EL classmate (:

3. lau ying
a new found friend, who's tided me over random 1-hr breaks on friday evenings,
making what i dislike a lot more bearable (:

4. cooperative groupmates
for the many many projects and reports,
thank goodness i had great people to work with.
and yes, that includes you, zhijun (:

5. everyone who wished me happy birthday, & spent my birthday with me
just because it really meant alot to me, and it happened within this semester,
thank you (:

6. my dslite & new ipod touch
that kept me entertained when i didn't feel like doing work,
keeping me happy (:

7. my ever supportive family <3

and

8. my ever-loving boyfriend (:
thank you.


taken day30 - michigan'09. just outside 1021 east uni.
taken day 30, michigan'09 - outside 1021 east uni.


i will,
take this lesson and move forward.



today, 13th november,
also marks the birthday of my treasured red-half (:

so HAPPY BIRTHDAY MABES,
i hope you enjoyed our little surprise <3

tomorrow will be KIDDY DAY for JURIE ROW!
it's time to get back in touch with our childhood innocence (:






 
 
13 November 2009 @ 10:08 pm
today was a rainy day, and it totally had the potential to have become a horrid nasty day but it didn't:)

at 7.50am this morning, my dad came into my room and asked if i was going to sch that day because joshua was at my door. i jumped out of bed shouting that i had a physics test at 8.30am and oh shit! then i hurricaned through my shower and dressing up and then jumped into joshua's car with uncombed and dripping wet hair. by that time, there was a jam on the expressway and the slight rain didn't help. i reached school at 8.47am and there was sm other girl sitting at my designated seat but i quickly got myself another and then completed the test in 20mins. jiaying was just leaving when i arrived! that's how easy the test was.. i guess its because we have the advantage of biology background. after the test i went to find JT in the canteen and we basically just sat around talking, playing games on his laptop. he had lunch and then we went for my lecture which ended early. went to meet kangya for abit (<3!) and then i went to get lunch. then we trudged up to the sci lib where i photocopied textbook parts to study during his seminar. throughout all this, the weather was always wet wet and i think that's why i started developing a slight chill. had a mild headache, probably because i tied my hair while it was damp :( then his lecture ended early as well and hoorah! its the end of the last lessons of the term!

we drove down to parkway for dinner at crystal jade. and i was supposed to go for CG but i was tired and headache was still in tow so i decided to head on home and get some shut eye. i slept really late last night because i couldn't sleep (probably explaining why i woke up late). throw in the weather and you have fall-sick conditions. so we wandered around parkway for abit, i got sucked in by cotton on and the shoe section. ended up buying a pair of bright yellow (!!!) and another pink shoes! haha seriously. i dun think i ever would have gotten the yellow one if not for JT. and then we headed home:)

so, today had every potential to be horrid. i was late. i had cramps. it was wet and dreary. i had a headache. i was tired.
but!
i also had JT:)
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13 November 2009 @ 04:08 pm
omfg, I was surfing stomp (thanks to my shifu) and I came across this picture.

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Frick! the girl on the left looks like ME!
omg.

I am not even freaked out when i see photos of my twin sister, cos we do look a tad different, but the photo above just takes the cake!
omg.
 
 
13 November 2009 @ 01:17 pm
i want to marry the rain, to merge with the sounds of falling. Gravity, pull me nosedived and free, there is only one way to go.

i will save this moment. thin water lines rolling down painted walls, thunder competing with the drilling above. the twenty second scent of wet grass the only warning before the sky lights up. i will save it for a day when it is raining where you are-- then i'll open this box and we can watch the storm together.

that time we lay below a reflective roof and watched raindrops fall in slow motion we should have stuck out our tongues and tasted it, consumed it whole.
 
 
13 November 2009 @ 12:52 pm


time for sleep and leisure reading, arundhati roy and satyajit ray and dalit poetry. i'm declaring a two day holiday before studying begins. no more falling asleep writing essays in bed!

just completed my last essay of the year. i don't know why i treat this space like an academic progress report. all i want to do is sleep, undisturbed. last night i was kept awake with thoughts of kings of convenience coming back to singapore (just a rumour...) and with strange dreams of fear, familiarity, cinemas i used to frequent. running across grass patches away from fearsome mothers and old lovers. i hate dreams, they either unsettle you, or leave you overly happy coming slowly down to reality. my mother says dreams occur when you eat within the hour you fall asleep. food and sleep, i wish you got along better under these sheets
 
 
13 November 2009 @ 12:30 am
good day today. woke up before 2pm for the first time in two weeks, brunch bowl-ed, tennis-ed, waitrose-d, youtube-d, msn-ed, laugh-ed until stomach hurts

but there was always a little twinge of sadness cos i really miss you ): but vally says its all part of the process and i think so too. i just gotta tide it out ):
 
 
13 November 2009 @ 07:53 am


sorry Uncle I tried.
and 610, i miss you immeasurably.
 
 
13 November 2009 @ 09:06 am
=)  

:) Yesterday might be one of the awesomest day of my life over here! Hahah, I have been going to the gym and I have noticed this cutie during my workout sessions there. It was kinda obvious we were checking each other out because he would look in my direction and smile. I never had the chance to talk to him previously because everytime he looks in my direction I am always running on the treadmill.

So yesterday, we saw each other at the gym again. He flashed me a smile while I was running and it was a great motivation for me. :D we happened to do our stretching/ mat exercises at the same time and we were facing each other and we smiled at each other. and as I was returning some equipment, he struck up a conversation!! Hahaha :) seems like he noticed that I have been going to the gym and I found out he's from brisbane and he's studying at the other campus.

So... Hopefully the next time I see him, I will be able to find out more about him, and that we will hang out some time outside the gym! Hahaha :)

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12 November 2009 @ 01:40 pm
Today is...

Not Beauty Related Thursday!

.::applauds::.

So tell me, did you guys get yourselves vaccinated or are going to?

I've decided that I will not be getting it for myself or my kids. And I told my fiance not to get it either. I just feel that it hasn't been around long enough and no one can say exactly what the side effects are in the long run. I don't know, I feel like the vaccine was made in a rush without thorough research.

As for the H1N1 virus itself, I am also not sure if it is as malignant as the media have made it to. I mean, people die from the regular flu all the time and those are usually the same people that have died from the H1N1 already — people who have underlying health issues. I think if you are not in the high risk category, just taking the extra precautions to protect yourself such as washing/sanitizing your hands regularly, coughing into your sleeves, and eating healthy will be a good way to abstain from the virus.

What do you think? I'd like to hear (read) your opinions. And pls, no flaming! I know, no one ever does that here, but just saying.
 
 
13 November 2009 @ 02:15 am

I am still emotionally silly.

The idea of spending the evening with Michelle, Clara and Sophia helped. Have not cried today, a record on its own.

I actually felt hungry for the first day in many days (lost count), finished almost everything on my order list at Cartel. Even managed to share a slice of cake and drink with Michelle and Clara at Coffeebean thereafter. It's good as I have lost 5kg, all because of him.

Maybe I forgot what it used to be like, to spend time with others without him.

Maybe I simply forgot about myself.

Thank you babes, for talking to me on the phone, text and msn thereafter. Much as I can't recall every single thing we talked about, you've been my rock.
 
 
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13 November 2009 @ 01:36 am

This may sound utterly superficial but prison officers are really good looking. At least a group of those whom I saw today. Ha!

On a more serious note. Looking at the cell of prisoners today shook me up a tad. They were all serving long sentences. And with > 6 strokes of the cane. They were asked to face the wall when officers like ourselves walked passed. Really, I hope our boys were shaken up too and not reoffend, ever again.

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13 November 2009 @ 01:15 am
aisle sir
 
 
13 November 2009 @ 12:24 am
i find i do not like tagore's poetry: it reads too much like the bible to me.
 
 
13 November 2009 @ 12:01 am
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12 November 2009 @ 10:03 pm



becoming sloppy with words. i mean to write on buses, on margins and hands, but these days it never feels quite right. either that, or i fall asleep holding my pen and paper and some kind stranger always picks it up and places it gingerly in my sleeping lap, ignoring my open mouth. this week alone precious people celebrated their existence and i joined them in bits and pieces where i could. i always wish i could have arrived earlier, stayed later. surreal is saturday barefoot on the sand in the water at three am watching friends stare at the cosmos, feet wet in circular motion, drunk girls carried out one by one. bellies lolling. lovely is the picture above, everyone in exodus in a second of a sunday evening, and the cake uneaten.

uneaten cake moments are the best moments because there is that fragment of greed and wholeness just before it is shoved unceremoniously into a mouth. i am speaking like this because i'm thinking about december again. wzhen has a countdown board in the hall currently at 28 (more for her exams, and also to make fun of me) and i want it to freeze at 1. before arrival, before change, when i can anticipate without it being a countdown to departure-- almost perfection? it's always better to be on the brink of something.

--
oh i also had a real vegetarian day for the first time. it was great, but i think my temporary insanity is over. i can't do it. i don't know enough, am lacking real motivation, and am possibly too much of a barbarian. ended up stuffing my face with meepok pork lard tonight. might try again next week, hopefully with more success.
 
 
12 November 2009 @ 09:11 pm

 
Just realised how long i haven't updated this space. Life's been good, especially since i'm done with exams and the first sem in school. Nothing beats having a nice & long holiday :) And plus, i'm really looking forward to December cos 1) BKK with shi & bel, 2) Korea with mom & shan, 3) Christmas, 4) JL's, bel's, piggy's & matty's birthday 5) New year! So many things to look forward to in the month of December.. can't wait!

Also had my surgery this morning to remove the metal inplants in my collarbone. Op was at around 10am and i was up and awake by 11ish. One of the nurses actually said it's her first time seeing someone so cheerful right after an op cos i was under general anesthesia. She was also really nice when i told her i wanted to be discharged early. So am still home after taking a longggg nap earlier on.

I really wanna go to Mustafa to get jelly cups later, any takers?
 
 
 
12 November 2009 @ 05:41 pm

all i wanna do now is to roll around in bed, or just do something unconstructive.. like spacing out. sigh. this happens every freaking semester. am thinking twice about doing honours now, because i'm just so sick of having to force myself to sit down, slog my days away and subject my brain to mental torture.

keeping fingers crossed that everything's going to turn out fine. i don't wanna go to hongkong feeling heavy hearted...

and thinking about all the pending essays that i've yet to get back and the upcoming papers are filling me with dread (and horror that i've so much to complete)

the next couple of weeks are gonna feel like eternity. i want to go to hongkong now :(

oh, and my mum was telling me about this smu student who got robbed and stabbed when she was on her way home at around midnight. she was crying and saying that she stayed back in school to do some project/assignment... thus her going home at that hour. super poor thing la... not like she was hanging out late for fun :|

 
 
feeling: sian
 
 
12 November 2009 @ 03:07 pm
After a not-so-hearty Jap dinner at Cuppage yesterday, we headed to Rouge cafe to conquer their 9 deadly sins - a cocktail of 9 heavenly ice-cream scoops topped off with marshmellow, M&Ms and other suspicious nibbly bits.

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5 of us polished off 18 scoops of ice cream! Eighteen! In record time as well.
It wasn't prohibitively expensive at $25 - we would even have gone for a third serving if not for that niggering iota of self restraint.

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L-R: Marcus, Me, Dianne, Samantha, Daniel.

We left the beer buddies in the corner.

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L-R: Jeremy, Yifeng

This is even better than lo hei...

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It was so good Daniel slurped up the milkshake. Yucks. 
 
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We laughed about all the sleazy places in Singapore. Brix, Archipelago, Orchard towers - I was too shy to admit that I used to push beer in all those places! Eh, money was good and nothing sleazy happened ok. For whatever it was worth, being a beer ambassador opened my eyes and made me see the world as it really was. I still have all the hot uniforms!

The highlight of the night - and I thought nothing could beat the ice cream - was when we all climbed into the back of Daniel's lorry. I L-O-V-E lorry rides. Even in my short Zara silk dress.

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We drove through Orchard and saw the beoooootiful lights, alfresco-style. It was an awesome renegade kinda moment to feel the bumps in the road and hair slapping my face, smell exhaust fumes and fresh green grass one second and then curry the next. My hair was completely tangled by the time I was carted home. Spent 30 minutes in the shower and tonnes of conditioner trying to comb it out!

It was a grrrrreat night.

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I'm real busy losing money in the market now. Laters!
 
 
12 November 2009 @ 01:39 pm
It sneaks up on you like a little shadow, like the fuzz that appears on your chin the next morning despite having shaven just a day before and lasting the whole day being smooth and hair-free. It's just impossible to keep doubt of my mind.
 
 
11 November 2009 @ 10:57 pm
 
i am empty ):
 
 
feeling: empty
 
 
11 November 2009 @ 09:32 pm
 
at the beyonce knowles "thriller" obsessed. it's totally predictable and really stupid, to the point of funny. and the trying-to-be-suspenseful background music that played for 99% of the movie was just annoying. it was quite funny when they couldn't find the baby in the crib and went from room to room and even outside looking for it, like as though the one year old agilely climbed down from his high crib, crawled out of his room, tumbled down the stairs, opened the door and hid in the barn. i lol-ed when the father said "he couldn't have gone far" and went into his car. ya im sure the baby managed to leave his crib by himself, let alone crawl to the main road. omg so so stupid what a waste of my time

on the other hand, the office is FREAKING funny. lol-ed at the parkouring and halloween warehouse and "on a scale of 1 to gisele" hahahaha im going to finish ep9 after this and then tmr ep10 will come out :D:D:D and while i wait for my weekly episodes to be released on sidereel i'll have to make do with bbt or satc or gg or sthg. and then i'll try the new series on sunday, the prisoner. ooh lala fun times ahead