red sky morning ..

2009-11-04T14:48:00.002+08:00

almost forgot how stupid sabrina can be, dragging us to Daiso what the hell. haha! but we ended up enjoying ourselves especially in the food section and we always have fun anyway so i forgive her.

we had to use the lame trolley, and sabrina was very embarrassing about it

a very awkward moment

clearly, very very reluctant

we are cussing her under our breath, she wasn't aware

and then the food section

much better

got hungry and went to swensons (think we have to copyright the menu, so shall insert a disclaimer here: menu belongs to swensons)

and sabrina as usual kept snapping ugly shots

go to her blog for the really ugly shots lol

but how i've missed their lameness! :)))) cant wait for sabrina to drag us off to do something lame again.

2009-10-31T01:11:00.003+08:00

and im backkkk! feeling slightly claustrophobic cause of all the buildings and stuff, but really glad to be back. and super happy to see some of my peeps at the airport thanks guysss! -gigantic hug-

anyway pics from my last day in brissie with my girls. missing them already. kayla wanted to surprise me with a gold coast trip but fisher gave it away haha. it was still really great though, and phrases of the day consisted of stuff like:
" ... with the corset?? "
" caressed " and " manhood "
and the possibility of me buying the gold cutout super teeny-tiny swimsuit from Supre and working in condom kingdom.

and kayla being worried that her car was falling to bits and pieces of it were gonna fly off so we'd be left with just the steering wheel and our seats, and driving along to goldie just like that.

driving to goldie

and she rushed into my change room and said: steph HOLY, this skirt makes me look like i have MANHOOD

seriously it did

bought some underwear to hide her new manhood

getting ready at kayla's

she didnt slop on the foundation this time

beer is so much cheaper

was trying to do the cleavage thing chiara always does but failed miserably

just chillin

just couldnt get over the manhood

cut me outta the pic on purpose

missing my girls :(

2009-10-21T12:04:00.003+08:00

i am again in major panic mode. havent packed so much as half a peanut this time, and am flying back in a couple of days. still have to get through my last wave of assignments, my mind is drawing a complete blank. havent paid for my flight to europe next year and have yet to finalise plans with kayla cause i cant finish anything! at the moment, slightly hysterical. why am i blogging !?!

gulp.

psyched to be able to see everyone again, but really gonna miss millhouse and fisher. they are forbidden to go anywhere till i get back.

2009-10-11T10:59:00.005+08:00

went to logan on saturday with kayla to check out some potential backpacks for our europe trip and then did Oktoberfest with natalie, our other euro-buddy. Oktoberfest is like this german thing where everyone chugs lotsa beer, eats german food and stands on tables hollering at the band. yeah really fun until this massive guy fell off a table and clunked me with his beer mug.

met up with chiara round about 12 and did a little of the Re. then chiara and i valley-ed it at birdie num nums and bank. where someone spewed all over the toilet and i stepped in it *pause while i gag just recalling that* and chiara got yelled at for being a slut again (what else is new). i think its the overwhelming blondeness, cant be helped.

yeah super fun, went till about 5-ish and crashed at kayla's till about 8? and trained/bussed it back home. with abouttt no sleep.

so no sleep: just running on... umm, pretzels.

no voice: lets say man voice rather

no phone: no battery

no money: which was actually a major issue (this dude ran by us real quick and spilt $1.30 on the ground and chiara scrambled to pick it up, hahaha we were like yesss we have money! obviously a really low point)

no camera: it just spazzed out, so no pictures

anddd oh mann no dignity left.

cant get over how pathetic we were, trudging along barefeet in the freezing trying to get to kayla's, people chucking fries at us outside maccas, and unwilling to cab it cause we had no money.

yep! sounds like a great weekend to me. normanby tomorrow then? just gonna maybe go pass out for abit now.

2009-10-04T11:46:00.003+08:00

PLAN:
Backpack through Europe with kayla next winter

and i cant waitttt. super excited. gonna go to Ireland Dublin to visit Mandy. and then we're touring Venice Italy, France, Greece and Amsterdam England. at least thats the plan at the moment. we're in super saving money mode but its not really working out very well for me.

i am officially broke. yep. tried to buy something on friday and didnt have enough money on my card, had to put my stuff on hold, and fortunately (or unfortunately) bumped into jason and got him to loan me money. it was horrible. i just couldnt walk away from it. and then i still went into another store and of course couldnt buy anything cause i had no money! its mid season sale everywhere! the lights and the huge "Sale" signs. they're designed to lure you in and then you cant resist !

i think, i have a problem. i look at my wardrobe and i cant believe i bought all this stuff. i wasnt like this before! now i cant walk past a store without going in. its really bad. i think i need the shoppaholics annonymous thingy whatever it is. or im never gonna afford europe. helppp.

2009-09-26T16:08:00.004+08:00

im so excitedddd to watch Flash Forward. i think its gonna be so awesome. it sounds like a cross between Prison Break and Heroes sort of? but better?

"A mysterious global event causes everyone to black out simultaneously for two minutes and seventeen seconds, and each person sees a glimpse of their lives six months from now. When they wake up, everyone is left wondering if what they saw will actually happen."

and John Cho is in it and i loveeee John Cho i dont know whyyy. i think he rocked in harold and kumar. watch this showww!

2009-09-21T19:10:00.007+08:00

aww mannn we did it againn !! probably not a really good idea, but kayla said, and i quote:

"drink more it'll numb the pain!"

noooo it really didnt. haha! anyways it was basically a repeat of last weekend, dfo with kayla again and arghh spent more money that i didnt have. headed to kath's with something even cheaper than passionpop (can you believe it!) pleasant valley or some such and waited for chiara. caved and got red rooster while waiting (did not help the throat), and then cabbed it.

a tribute to our dumbness, we asked the driver if we could pay $12 flat and the ride turned out to be less than $12 how lame was thattt arghh.

headed to the fringe bar, the mustang and XY, anddd i dont know where else. while we were crossing the road these dudes in a cab went: hey girls hop in quick! we were like no?! and i think we were standing on a street corner or something and some asses asked us how much we cost?? hahaha. oh mann how dodgy was that, and by the end of the day i seriously sounded like a man my voice is so gone.

yeah thats passionpop in my hand there

had to climb this massive hill from kath's place hateeee

at mustang i think (check out the people making out behind us LOL)

must be at XY or somewhere

i must mention: kayla tried to climb a tree hahahaha can you say drunkkkk?

just something lame we did when we spotted this sign in school, its the hornery institute or something like that. it just deserved some sort of jibe so ...

yeah thats the horny institute now guys, whoo!

we had to do some serious acrobatics to get up those railings (we're standing on railings)

anyways another successful weekend. woke up with a serious headache and man voice but whoo! fun stuff ! should probably cut back on the alcohol though gakkk.

2009-09-16T12:52:00.002+08:00

my throatttt. it hurtssss. gakkk. time to self medicate i think.

couple other random shots from the toilet or wherever i'll just slap them in for the hell of it.

2009-09-15T15:51:00.002+08:00

alright del Potro !! fiii-naaa-lyyyy! words cant express how elated i am that juan martin del potro has beaten roger federer for the US Open chamionshippp. i dont even need to say anymore. im just gonna bask in this blissful feeling for a week. sighhhh. go del Potro!! he is the mannn.

2009-09-14T19:28:00.005+08:00

oh mannn im so exhausted. i think i havent partied in too long i need to get back into the swing of things. anyway i was gonna type like one paragraph but it woulda just gone on and on so i thought i'd do point form whoo!

saturday noon: DFO @ Jindalee with the girls
saturday evening: to Kayla's for Riverfire and really cheap drinks (Passionpop which tastes so cheap man but whatever we're broke)
saturday night: cabbed it to The Re and things're slightly hazy at this point
sunday noon: auntie cat's bday thingy whoohoo
sunday 10-ish: slopped on more makeup and fumbled about getting ready for kayla to come get me
sunday midnight: to Normanby and oh man i dont even wanna talk about it.
sunday sometime in the AM: crashed at kayla's (did not remove makeup)
monday morn: to school with the girls (still havent bathed) slopped on more makeup on top of existing makeup (at this point i dont even know how much makeup i have on)
monday noon: tute cancelled ?! chilled out on grass stinking like the beejezus
monday NOW: just returned from tute that ended at 8 and finally removed all the cakey makeup along with half my eyelashes omg man.

am really burnt out cause i've got a ton of school work to catch up on. but for some reason im not doing it. feeling abit delirious at the moment. everything seems sort of funny for some reason. anyway pics below. mostly from DFO and kayla's place before The Re, none from Normanby which sucks cause i had a ton more makeup (just kept slopping it on whoo!) and another dress (yeap i changedd). pics kinda cleavage-y and some really ghastly but what the hell i dont care right now, im just gonna put them all up and tomorrow i'll def regret doing that and take it all down.

on the way to DFO, kayla drove. thanks hun

i really like this photo man

the blonde chick is chiara

obviously photography skills still unimproved

kayla tryin smth onnnn

at kayla's getting ready

she just slopped the foundation on

this was a mistake dont even know how that position came about

thats kath

yeah obviously a few drinks later

and def more drinks later

she just had to show me up in the cleavage dept

i dont know what happened it really wasnt intentional

yeah i think we were aiming for this

the following pics were taken at the train station (i think) after The Re:

we really dont even know these guys. and are still trying to figure out who they are and why they are in our pictures

i dont know whats going on

yeah i really dont get why this picture is in my camera whats going on man?

its all sort of hazy now.

yeap, at this point i just really dont know whats happening anymore. im just going with it. there's so much crap on my shoes and everything smells rancid and got groped so many times, i cant imagine a repeat of this (mostly cause i have no money) but hell yeah lets go again next week?? lol. i think i need to get some sleep guys. im feeling like im starting to talk to myself. stop babbling on and on!

2009-09-08T21:07:00.005+08:00

went to see District 9 with kayla today. we were supposed to have been studying in school but we caved again. we always cave. urghh. did some healthy sandwiches (very proud of that, no more chocolates), and some non-shopping (cause we're broke and jobless duh), and then caught an evening movie.

i did not expect district 9 to be like that! the beginning mockumentary part was so blair witch projecty kinda gave me a headache but i thought it was so so good, really unexpected. i left the cinema not really knowing if i liked it or not cause i was kinda slightly revolted and a little grossed at parts, but i've come to the conclusion that i do like it. original!

i think maybe a lot of the feeling sick part had to do with us eating too much popcorn. i can still feel the popcorn gurgling about *belch*

2009-09-05T15:21:00.005+08:00

another one of my fav dances from the season. such an awesome season. really glad jeanine won, but evan totally ruined the entire finale for me. i think other dancers deserved to be there more than he. and it seemed like he was struggling to keep up with the other 3 throughout the finale. cant believe kayla is in fourth plc and he third! totally spoilt it. otherwise i thought jeanine and brandon were fantastic. so perfect.

2009-08-30T13:33:00.002+08:00

awesomeeeee. obviously i have a preference for the contemporary pieces. danced by kayla and brandon.

2009-08-27T20:30:00.004+08:00

my tutor showed us this in our tutorial today. we're doing court reporting this week (tediously boring). anyway i thought this was just hilarious.

the following questions from lawyers were taken from official court records nationwide:

1) Was that the same nose you broke as a child?

2) Now, doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, in most cases he just passes quietly away and doesn't know anything about it until the next morning?

3) Q: What happened then?

A: He told me, he says, 'I have to kill you because you can identify me.'

Q: Did he kill you?

4) Was it you or your brother that was killed in the war?

5) The youngest son, the 20-year-old, how old is he?

6) Were you alone or by yourself.

7) How long have you been a French Canadian?

8) Do you have any children or anything of that kind?

9) Q: I show you exhibit 3 and ask you if you recognize that picture.

A: That's me.

Q: Were you present when that picture was taken?

10) Were you present in court this morning when you were sworn in?

11) Q: Now, Mrs. Johnson, how was your first marriage terminated?

A: By death.

Q: And by whose death was it terminated?

12) Q: Do you know how far pregnant you are now?

A: I'll be three months on November 8.

Q: Apparently, then, the date of conception was August 8?

A: Yes.

Q: What were you doing at that time?

13) Q: Mrs. Jones, do you believe you are emotionally stable?

A: I used to be.

Q: How many times have you committed suicide?

14) So you were gone until you returned?

15) Q: She had three children, right?

A: Yes.

Q: How many were boys?

A: None.

Q: Were there girls?

16) You don't know what it was, and you didn't know what it looked like, but can you describe it?

17) Q: You say that the stairs went down to the basement?

A: Yes.

Q: And these stairs, did they go up also?

18) Q: Have you lived in this town all your life?

A: Not yet.

19) A Texas attorney, realizing he was on the verge of unleashing a stupid question, interrupted himself and said, "Your Honor, I'd like to strike the next question."

20) Q: Do you recall approximately the time that you examined the body of Mr. Edington at the rose Chapel?

A: It was in the evening. The autopsy started about 8:30 p.m.

Q: And Mr. Edington was dead at the time, is that correct?

A: No, you stupid, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy!

they just provoke a whipping-your-head-around-and-going "what the hell?" kind of reaction. I think alot of these are just classic, brilliant. but #8 is my absolute favourite hands down.

"Do you have any children or anything of that kind" whaa?? tuh! these are lawyers.

2009-08-23T11:03:00.004+08:00

ohmygoddd im loving this season of so you think you can dance so muchhhh. america's already shown all the eps im sure, but its so so good!

tyce deorio choreographed the first dance about breast cancer and everyone is weeping at the end. danced by melissa and ade, gotta watch that its superrrr.

the second danced by jeanine and jason, two of my favs this season, and choreographed by my all time fav season 2's travis wall ackkk! so fantastic. go travis!

i just think music is better heard danced.

p/s: guest judge ellen degeneres!

YouTube - SYTYCD 7_22_2009_ Melissa and Ade #2 - This Woman

2009-08-23T10:57:00.001+08:00

Jason and Jeanine Contemporary

2009-08-22T14:50:00.001+08:00

2009-07-28T19:36:00.002+08:00

needless to say, this is my new fav songgg gahhhh i've played it over a gazillion timesssss.

Jeanine and Phillip - Hip Hop

2009-07-28T19:35:00.001+08:00

2009-07-18T13:43:00.004+08:00

thought i'd better blog before term starts again. blearghh. so chewwei and i realised that we had not taken a single picture together in 5months, so here're some. and more soon:

hehheh. she wont thank me for this pic im sure.

my new fav food: caramel donuts

closeup of my caramel donut, i feel hungry just looking at it

thats us

trying to arrange all the stuff we bought.

as usual, my camera skills not the best

i think this doesnt show how cold i am. as usual im being a hero and not wearing very much inside my coat

i wanted to buy the middle outfit, but was too broke, so jus snapped a picture of it to remind myself that im broke so stop buying stuff! argh.

trying to show how chilly it is, obviously didnt work out

a random shot while waiting for the train

another random shot, again showing my non-existent photographic prowess

more soon!

2009-07-17T22:46:00.000+08:00

i sorta think of djs hamish and andy from b105 as the aussie versions of 98.7fm's muttons justin and vernon. hamish and andy are absolutely hilarious. this is an episode of rove where they put "freeating" to the test. please watch the video clip. i couldnt stop cracking up while watching this, they are absolutely desperate for food. and i cant believe some of the things they ate.

i love when rove gestures to hamish and andy and says:

"lets thank, Famished and Hungry!"

and this is an absolute classic from hamish:

"say you're weekly food budget was a million dollars. you eat for free that week, you're a millionaire!"

watch them diving for the burgers rove brings out.

Hamish and Andy - Free eating (Freeating) ROVE

2009-07-17T22:44:00.001+08:00

2009-07-06T14:20:00.004+08:00

WHAT ? NO ! WHAT ?!

i thought roddick was gonna win, i was so sure! he was playing so well ! loads better than he did the last time he played federer in wimbledon. i think he just buckled under the pressure. i cannot believe federer has won! is there no mercy?! why whyyyy??

please read / watch this: roddick too pained to discuss defeat

ohmygod i can almost see the pain coming off him in waves. seriously, after watching the match, i doubt hewitt coulda done a better job than roddick did. i can almost picture hewitt fighting like crazy, but i think roddick had the best shot at beating federer (which he didnt), and i am absolutely devastated. i cant even say any more. de-vas-ta-ted.

2009-07-04T11:50:00.002+08:00

ohmygod its roddick vs federer again! i didnt think roddick could edge out murray for the finals, what with the home crowd behind murray and all. but roddick is playing surprisingly well this wimbledon, i've seriously never seen him this good. if i weren't still sore from hewitt's loss i'd be such a huge roddick fan right now. as it is, im of course gonna be 100% rooting for roddick in the finals. he's been playing so well i think he might actually have a shot against federer. but then again, he's been unpredictable in the past, so.

federer just absolutely cannot win. i will kill myself ! i think alot of players are just awed when they go up against federer. maybe its his reputation thats keeping better players from ousting him. if so, then roddick stands an excellent chance cause he always seems like he doesnt give a crap about a lot. anyway, fingers crossed really tightly for roddick.

2009-07-02T12:46:00.002+08:00

holy crap lleyton hewitt is one hell of a fighter. i thought i'd have trouble deciding who to root for in his match against roddick, but 5 seconds into it and i knew i was totally for hewitt (and me being a staunch roddick supporter and all). hewitt is just amazing, that guy's got some serious heart. and the amount of aces from both! that was some match, cant believe it was only the quarter finals. i think they played for close to 4hours. it was so close! i think hewitt doesnt play well unless he's under pressure. but roddick was so on form, i've never seen him play like that. but why did he have to pick this match to do so! argh.

im absloutely devastated that hewitt lost. i think its gonna be really hard for me to shift my allegiance back to roddick for the next round of matches. sigh. i think im still reeling from hewitt's defeat, it hasn't quite sunk in yet. i was so sure he's make it to the finals.

2009-06-30T18:51:00.006+08:00

been really excited about wimbledon lately, and have been religiously watching at least one or two matches every night. i have to say, i will be deeply disappointed if federer wins. please god, let someone else win. anyone but federer.

i've always been a huge andy roddick fan, and am definitely rooting for him. but i cant help getting caught up in cheering on lleyton hewitt. i thought he was a goner yesterday, when he played stepanek. he was two sets down, and i thought no way. i could barely bring myself to keep watching, and then he sort of just picked himself up, brushed himself off, and breezed through the next 3 sets ! i am totally a hewitt fan now. but i think he's set to play roddick next, and that would seriously suck. it really annoys me the way stepanek always takes 4 balls from the ballboys and then discards two immediately. i mean, what? just take two then! its so annoying.

i have to say, the chinese dude who played federer on day1 seemed pretty good, think he coulda maybe gone pretty far if he had played someone else. and im really crushed tsonga got ousted by karlovic, it was so close too! i love watching tsonga play. i am beginning to think i might feel really lost once wimbledon is over.

2009-06-29T20:40:00.004+08:00

i think i've just read one of the most awesome novels ever, and that's saying something, given the rather astonishing amount i read. the book of lost things, by john connolly. i cant summarise the story, wouldnt do it any justice at all. its so moving on a whole other level, and just vastly different from a lot of other stuff i've read.

even the little note at the beginning of the book has a depth of meaning to it that made me just know this book was gonna be awesome:

An imaginative tribute to the journey we must all make through the loss of innocence into adulthood, ... a book for every adult who can recall the moment when childhood began to fade, and for every child about to face that moment.

before you dismiss this, no, it is not a kid's book about barbie-ish magic. i think an adult would appreciate this a whole lot more. everything about it is so poignantly moving, and seems to make so much sense. when i first began reading this, i immediately felt like it was a cross between the movie pan's labyrinth, and mark haddon's novel the curious incident of the dog in the night time (written from the point of view of an autistic boy, also a good read).

anyway, im aware of how geeky this makes me sound but i swear to god, one of the most awesome reads ever. the best books are always the ones where everything makes sense in the end, and you get that good feeling in your gut even though it wasnt the classic happy-ending. this is totally that book.

2009-06-15T12:18:00.002+08:00

mount coot-tha!

and lou went to the groomers and had a hydrobath and a haircut and arghhh! i cant get used to the difference. he looks so.. so.. ohmygod i cant even say it. look at the bow! its a friggin bow!? jane is very annoyed with me because i keep saying: good girl ! to lou. haha. well, at least he doesnt look so stunted all the time now and we can actually see his feet.

note: i shall change my blog address soon and inform everyone. tedious as it is i think it has to be done because my retarded cousin marcus just wont leave me alone! i've tried everything! his skull is just too thick and if i dont do something soon i will burst a few blood vessels. so. sigh. i just cant express in words how annoying it is to me. maybe something like that:

yeahh i'd say its pretty much exactly like that.

2009-06-13T10:47:00.005+08:00

i just wanted to make an official statement about how much and how intensely i dislike PINK, and the words "CUTSIE" and "PRINCESS".

* disclaimer: my opinion only. it just had to be said. i feel much better now.

i just noticed my blog is purple! holy crap, gotta do something about that soon.

2009-06-12T13:11:00.003+08:00

its officially the holidays! finally i have time to blog, and breathe. anyway a very happy belated 21st birthday to all the people i didnt or couldnt wish. im sorry! u must know how much i wish i could attend all your parties!

but well, how time flies. i've been here half a year or so and i gotta say i've never made a better decision in my entire life. i just think of myself stuck in singapore with noise pollution and kaisu-ness all around me and i feel suffocated. i also feel like i know who my friends really are after i left, and im glad to have a chance to sort of have another life and leave everything crappy behind. sometimes its like i dont exist in singapore anymore, it makes me feel like there's no point coming home.

but whatever, i dont do all that emo rubbish anymore. so my housemate jane and her boyfriend phillip and i had a little weekend trip to de-stress and it was so so awesome. we took lou (who is 4kg now) and fat, to sunshine coast. we went to mooloolaba where its all beaches and like this tiny seaside getaway. and then drove to mapleton in melaney which is my fav fav place! its so quaint! everything about it is so english. the cobblestones, the buildings. loved it.

so we popped lou in his box in the car and off we went...

got there two hours or so later, and the stupid fatty wouldnt walk so we had to pop him into a bag and carry him like paris hilton, you know how much i cant stand that!

so we're at mooloolaba (i do hope im spelling it right)

andd we climbed down to some sand dunes or whatever they're called. it was low tide.

thats jane and me and lou

i bet they could frame this little family picture. haha.

we tried to trim lou's fur but its like rapunzel or smth, its always so fluffy!

i just thought this was a real nice moment and got phil to take it. he was the photgrapher of the day

i think this picture is so homey.

aand after a nice walk, some lunch and juice...

... its mapleton!

thats me walking there, in case u didnt spot me

stuffing the fatty into the bag (which we just bought cos it looks cooler than the green bag) cause he wouldnt walk anymore. sigh.

argh! ugly moments aplenty even in aus.

how cute is everything eh?

doesnt lou's head sticking out make it look like a bag with a fake doggy head attached?

im saying let's go! cause phil is taking his own sweet time

we're searching for jane's fav pie shop that she claims has the bestest best pies in the world...

... which was closed dammit.

so we had dinner at this really nice cafe with a view of like, everything.

anddd horseback riding soon i hope! i love mucking about in the countryside. i have to say the getting there is almost better than getting there. the view is awesome, little sheep and cows and horses all over the place. aughh. how fun is that! and the lakes and mountains all shining in the sun.. -sighing dreamily- why does everywhere else seem way way better than singapore. well, its lucky we managed the trip before this cold spell hit. its winter. and 7 friggin degrees out. where did autumn go? seems like just yesterday i was complaining about summer. its the global warming, i swear the world is ending. its not like china cold, but its still cold !

2009-06-06T14:00:00.006+08:00

I just saw this german movie. yep german. and its so so awesome. i missed the beginning of the movie but i think it all plays out so well. and its super emo. its called Der Krieger und die Kaiserin and translates into the princess and the warrior, which is kind of not very catchy at all. it stars franka potente from the bourne movies, and benno furrman. but what really caught my attention was the ending song to the closing credits. its by Pale 3 featuring Skin, but is sung by Skunk Anansie. its so emo and yes i know! im eccentric! includes clips from the movie.

Skunk Anansie - You cant Find Peace

2009-06-06T13:58:00.001+08:00

2009-03-14T12:30:00.005+08:00

school is going okay. the only tough part is that australians like to make lotsa references to australian current affairs, which i know nothing about. and as im doing journalism, thats kinda unavoidable. but im getting there.

and my housemate jane has just gotten a puppy! its a bischon - i really dont know how to spell bischon, im sorry. and its the teensiest thing ever! he's called Louie, cause he's french. and only looks not so teensie cause of all his fluffy fur. i call him poopie, cause he poops an extreme amount for such a teeny thing, and it stinks to kingdom come. jane has to spray her chanel perfume to cover it, so now the house smells like chanel perfume all the time. Louie and tweety bird get along just fine. tweety is the boss of course. pics below show tweety just running rough-shod over lou.

im so glad for the poopie, its adorable. when jane and i went to the pet store i had to physically chain myself to the car or i woulda bought every damn dog in that place, they are so freaking cheap here i was just appalled. friends will know im a lover of huge dogs, and they were selling ridgeback and mastiff crossed puppies for $400. is that cheap or what?! they're like my dream dog, i swear im gonna get that puppy one day.

anyway louie sleeps alot cause he's only 8weeks old and just a baby. but he's the sweetest mildest tempered dog i've ever come across. never ever barks. makes me miss alphie so much!

back to classes. its so refreshing to be able to study something that doesnt bore me to tears. some units are super hard cause my classmates are all 3rd year or postgrad students, and are all supremely smart aussies. lectures are really different. instead of the total silence you would normally expect from students in singapore when the lecturer asks a question, here everyone like fights to answer questions and hands are going up left, right and centre. my speech communication class is really fun though. as its a speech class, we just sit around in a circle and talk. love it. aside from the heaps of assignments and mountains of stress for all the units, school is really okay as i dont have to study IT anymore thank god. more pics soon!

private note to laopos hui and sabbie: i saw the pics sabbie put up on facebook some time ago and i miss u guys loads!

private note to norman and prata: i really miss movie marathons and being very idiotic about it. love!

Naresh and i

2009-02-20T23:12:00.006+08:00

kinda getting used to life here. my housemate jane is super nice. she has a parakeet named tweety bird - holy hell. and is getting a dog soon. woohoo! school starts next week and my timetable was so screwed up for the longest time. most of you know im hopeless in spore as it is. but here, im worse! i get lost like all the time. its so ridiculous.

as you know, i sleep late and get up late. and nobody does that here. the most annoying thing is that every morning at precisely 530am - thats five-thirty AM, a load of stupid birds outside my window start cheep cheep cheep-ing non-stop like they are high on crack or something. i feel like throwing a shoe! apparently, this is true for a lot of people who live here. urgh.

anyway, met up with chew wei today and had a really really great time shopping our socks off and just getting to know each other. its so strange we never got close in sec school. but its so great seeing her. i mean, having new friends is fine and dandy and all but it makes such a difference to have an old familiar face. it just felt so good seeing her.

i would really rather stay with mark and jason as planned, but they're so far away. staying with jane is great, but she's seldom home. and having people to come home to is better than nothing but a tweety bird, even if mark and jason do annoy the hell outta me -if either of you read this, im just kidding-

but well, all in all, i think im really okay. people here are nice. im having fun. meeting new people. and strangely, doesnt feel quite that different being here after all :)

pics are of my first week here. my auntie catherine, and her place. and just random stuff.

auntie cat

my ma.

auntie cat's daughter priya. i think she looks like a bollywood star.

auntie cat's youngest son naresh. imagine that face with an aussie accent. damn cute.

photos of auntie cat's place. its huge! with a tennis court and indoor pool and stuff:

anddd some random pictures of scenery. its basically all like that in the suburbs:

will post more pics of my current place with jane and school soon. ta!

2009-02-15T16:31:00.003+08:00

please read my blog with an open mind. when i say this, i actually just mean: please ignore my imbecilic cousin marcus, who has made it his mission in life to be worthless and dumb, and to constantly criticize me. all tags he makes on my tagboard are ignored, as you can see. he needs to get a life, but oh well. i always suspected he had some psychological difficulties.

anyway brisbane's fun, weather's great etc etc.. really like hanging out with my mum's friend auntie cat and her kids. thanks to the peeps who came to send me off at the airport. i was really happy you guys all came! really.

will blog soon with pics!

2009-02-06T15:06:00.003+08:00

well, this is it i guess. i thought i'd better blog before i get caught up in a whirlwind of packing and forget all about it. yeah right. i havent packed so much as a peanut. im freaking out! anxiety attacks! -hysterical shrieking- oh my god, im not mature enough for this!

so, to brisbane it is. i promise not to let this blog stagnate, and to post a shocking amount of pictures of my time there. although, be forewarned, i dont like to talk about my life (as proven in all my previous posts about nonsensical rubbish).

anyway, i'll be back in no time! a couple of years isnt that long after all. -gulp-

Frasier has left the building!

2008-11-25T13:25:00.004+08:00

in yesterday's ch5 season 4 episode of grey's anatomy's crash into me pt1, a white paramedic who'd had an accident refused medical help from black doctors in the hospital. it turns out he had a swastika tattooed onto his stomach. which greatly offended the non-white doctors.

so what i want to know is, what is a swastika, and what does it represent? im aware of my glaring ignorance at this point, but am insanely curious.

now, if we dictionary.com this:

swas⋅ti⋅ka –noun

this figure is the official emblem of the Nazi party and the Third Reich.

which tells me absolutely nothing. again, ignorance.

so if we wikipedia.org that:

Among the key elements of Nazism were anti-parliamentarism, pan-germanism, racism, collectivism, eugenics, antisemitism, anti-communism, totalitarianism and opposition to economic liberalism and political liberalism.

which i pretty much only understood like, none, of.

anyway, my main point is this - there is a school here called red swastika primary. and correct me if im wrong but it sort of seems like a blatant invitation to like, get bombed or something. cause i've been to that school for courses, and i am so not stepping into it again if the school name means what i think it means. i've heard it has something to do with buddhism or whatever (the school name, i mean) but i have no idea. and i highly doubt it stands for nazism. so clue me in on this, anyone?

p/s: again, no offense. and if you're wondering what a swastika looks like, no way am i posting a picture of it here. go yahoo it !

2008-11-17T15:45:00.012+08:00

anyone who knows me at all knows im a certified bookworm. i read anything and everything, and thats my motto when it comes to books. i can plow through even the most dreary and long-winded books. i dont know why i do it, i just do. and it gives me a sense of accomplishment to have done so. especially if i've just read something through the night and completed it at 6am, which happens more often than not.

am currently smack in the middle of the menagerie. a series of four novels co-written by two of my favourite authors of this genre: christopher golden and thomas e. sniegoski. strangely, fantasy novels are not my thing but these are really exceptionally well-written.

the afore-mentioned menagerie novels. im only midway through the second but am loving it. its absolutely epic without going over the top, and the first few books still manage to hold some back so that you look forward to the next. the characters are a real revelation when u finally find out who they truly are. and then everything just clicks. i often gauge how good a book is by imagining its success level were it to be made into a movie. and this would be so completely twilight without all that heart-wrenching star-crossed lovers thing. think: stardust.

aethiests beware. one of my fav thomas sniegoski series, titled: the fallen. fallen angels. and that about sums it up. really makes you think.. about going back to church. haha. its already been a tv series in the US for some time, but the concept of the book is great. riveting, really couldnt set it down.

chris golden's newest book: soulless. looks really promising to me as i've a real thang for zombie stuff. freaks me out like hell, and thats probably the attraction. im a super chicken when it comes to zombies. -shudders-

and these are just to name a few. books such as these also often make us forget how good classics can be. having just completed emily bronte's wuthering heights and having found it surprisingly good, it makes me feel obligated to recommend pure classics i love such as black beauty, pride and prejudice, and twenty thousand leagues under the sea. all of which i managed to finish without getting too bored. do read the unabridged versions. the language is vastly different from the books of today. its what i like to call: pure english -grin-

p/s: sure beats reading soppy romance novels. and i always end up snivelling like an idiot when i read stuff like mitch albom, im such a sap. so these are a safe bet for people like me. action and adventure is the way to go!

2008-11-06T00:32:00.004+08:00

Win for Barack Obama

i just felt like it would be prudent to blog about this. so.. yay Obama! and his vp, whoever it is - Joe Biden, i think? its so strange that Sarah Palin is so much more in the limelight than McCain is. guess they were aiming for the soccer mom votes or smth. and we're sure gonna miss george bush. man, gonna be missing a lot of good laughs. and if anyone has ever seen the video of george bush falling off the segway.. *whistles* absolutely classic!

2008-10-19T15:44:00.004+08:00

today, after a two month hiatus, i have decided to blog about something close to my heart, something i feel very strongly about: kids.

be not mistaken, my passion for this subject is singularly negative. children! they are the bane of every woman's existence! wanna have kids? think thrice! now i dont say this from personal experience (no effing way), and this is solely my opinion only, so dont take my word for it and no offense. children and baby lovers, do leave now! that aside, let us discuss the nightmares that are children. i count it my civic duty to inform and educate the masses regarding the demon-like qualities of children before its too late (in this case, the masses = the people who read my blog - a grand total of about three. sigh)

how can anybody in their right minds tolerate such caterwauling and carrying-on so? the overwhelming stench of baby vomit and poop?! how they annoyingly manage to trip you up by being so midgety? how they always seem to know the exact wrong thing to say?

and then we move on to their older years - lets say, 5 to 7. now, has nobody noticed that kids these days are extremely rude and ill-behaved? why? because parents are having babies at such a young age! these mothers, they are still clubbing! thus the children, they club too! -slight hysteria- and we come to the main issue: the parents! now of course there are parents who are the epitome of knowledge and raise their kids the right way. however it seems like increasingly, the number of badly behaved children keep growing.

case file #1: the mrt train - why do these parents allow their children to run helter-skelter and annoy every commuter on board? because they dont know any better! they can only sit and gaze at their children proudly with adoration shining in their eyes. they are hynotised! they cannot see that their child has just kicked someone clambering onto a seat! as if that were cause to be proud.
case file #2: the successful careerwoman - if you were a working woman whose job required her to travel all over the world doing exceedingly dangerous things (think: crocodile huntress), how in the world would you lug your baby with you? how would you have a successful career? would you pull a steve irwin (bless his soul), and dangle your baby over a crocodile in the hopes that she would one day become the next crocodile huntress too?

now, having exhausted most that i can think of on the negativity of children (do email me if you've more to add, we can always form a fan club -raising eyebrows suggestively-), let us proceed to the pros..

..come on! you didnt really think there were pros to this did you?!

p/s: alright fine! i will grant you that they can be kinda, sort of, only a teeny-weeny itty-bitty bit cute (under 3 years old), but only like, this much! -holding my thumb and fore finger together tightly- and very rarely! also, they have certain useful qualities. for example, you may sell your baby for cash if you are hard up. im kidding! dont freak out! and when they grow up, you can sipphon loads of money off of them. on second thought, very useful. might want to consider having a kid then.

note: purely my opinion only.

2008-08-16T11:45:00.000+08:00

am extremely into jon mclaughlin right now. in case you dont know who he is, he sang the theme song for the movie enchanted, titled so close.

not only is he incredibly hot, he's an excellent painist. and his songs have just the right blend of blue-sy kinda pop, and emo-ness - which i look for in most of my songs. this is the music video of one my fav jon mclaughlin songs aside from so close, called beautiful disaster - not to be confused with kelly clarkson's beautiful disaster, which incidentally, is really good too. jon mclaughlin makes for easy listening, really soothing sorta songs. really wanna check him out.

also, punk-rockers try 30 seconds to mars, my ultimate fav band at the moment. fronted by jared leto, who can actually truly sing. their genre is more.. screamo? i think its called? people think bands are all like, simple plan and greenday, but 30 seconds are just so much better. of course, emo factor still there. absolutely loved their hit the kill. could listen to it all day. and jared leto's acoustic version on most of his songs is super.

note: do click on the highlighted names that link to their official websites to find out more, and click on song titles to watch the music videos on youtube.

Jon McLaughlin - Beautiful Disaster

2008-08-16T11:37:00.001+08:00

2008-07-13T02:00:00.000+08:00

if anyone has watched the lord of the rings trilogy (which fyi, is one of my fav movies of all time), then you'll have heard and seen this. lord of the rings is one of the most emotional war movies in my book. love every aspect of it, special especially the huge war battles. but this part of the movie is undoubtedly my fav.

the steward of Gondor has sent his only surviving son and a handful of knights to battle, with extremely dismal odds. Here, we see the hobbit Pippin, aka billy boyd, at minas tirith, singing them into battle. absolutely heart wrenching. and kudos to billy boyd for coming up with the tune himself. this scene is one of the best in the movie. the build-up to it is crucial to the emo-factor but as i am stealing this from youtube, this is only a small portion and quality isnt the greatest. for full emo effect, do watch the entire movie. lol.

Great soundtrack in lord of the rings, including the ending theme song: into the west by annie lennox. one of my fave emo songs. im a huge emo sap, i know. damn.

All Shall Fade/Pippin's Song

2008-07-13T01:59:00.001+08:00

2008-07-05T15:23:00.000+08:00

really into the Kia X Games Asia lately. this year held in Shanghai, China. everything is held in China lately. the best of the best skateboarders, bladers, cyclists, climbers, etc.. man, they're amazing. some of these kids are barely 13 years old and they're real pros. never seen the likes. have to admit i dont know much bout stuff like this but its really great to watch. so blown away.

one of my favs in the competition: takeshi yasutoko. beats his older brother eito yasutoko by a mile. absolutely superb in the aggressive inline vert. this is footage from the LG Action Sports World Championship 2006. he scored a 97.75 for this run, can u believe it ! personally i think he's better this year, though his score isnt as high.

channel 5 used to show the kia x games but seems like they've stopped. you really wanna check this out. the skateboarders and BMX bikers are real fantastic too.

Takeshi Yasutoko's Winning Run!

2008-07-05T15:22:00.001+08:00

2008-06-20T00:32:00.003+08:00

oh the horror! the unfairness! im so depressed. why'd they have to put naruepol up against yodsaenklai? its such a waste! i think naruepol kinda gave up. he was so emotional about fighting his best friend he didnt have it in him to put some heart into the fight. yodsaenklai was totally pumelling him into a corner. won by a knockout. i bet all the other contender guys were kinda secretly feeling good that one of the two stronger fighters were gonna be out of it. sucks. naruepol shoulda made it further than this, no question.

again, check out the uber high pants! 'sup with that man?

2008-06-15T22:24:00.003+08:00

i do notice i am exceptionally remiss in the blogging department, but hey, gotta have a life eh? and people who actually read my blog because they care - and not just to take the opportunity to cuss me in my tagboard, say aye! right, i can distinctly hear the crickets chirping already. sigh.

hokay. i know i kinda freaked everyone out with my preference for that disturbed song (re: my previous post), so! going with the talkshow thang today! loadsa talkshows lately, with more popping up. you got the lame ones including oprah (no offense, just personal preference) and tyra banks (snorts). kinda okay ones like martha stewart and the rachel ray show. and then you get the oh-my-god-this-is-so-good kind like... *drumroll* you got it! the ellen degeneres show! is she really good or what huh huh?! -doing my excited jumping around thing-

wow, i mean i didnt even know who she was until her show! she doesnt just sit around and talk and then give away loads of free stuff cause she's uber rich. its like she actually cares! and has a brain! and the lesbian thing, well, no biggie! 20th century eh? you just have to try an episode of her show and you're hooked! she's got lots of great actors/singers/writers that people actually want to see and hear from, and her jokes are original and fresh. never fails to make me laugh. i mean, everything about the show is just so.. so lame! is it my kinda show or what!

those of you who dont know who ellen degeneres is, shame! and here, its a tiny clip off one of her shows. apparently she's a kaa person. she loves saying kaa? ookay confused expression, everyone. but its amazing how they actually made all the kaas into a song that sounded in pitch! the ellen show is a must-watch!

Ellen Degeneres Kaaaa clips

2008-06-15T22:21:00.001+08:00

2008-05-15T00:37:00.002+08:00

i am insane. i love this song, and i have no idea why. i am so not like this. metal music and loud drums give me a headache, but oh man! you gotta check this out.

its a song called down with the sickness, by disturbed. and yes, this is some seriously disturbed shit. whoa? the beginning and end of the song absolutely rocks my socks. the lead singer is awesome. he makes it sound like 3 people are singing the song. and the guitar and drums are fantastic. everything together really is kinda noisy? but individually, the band members are superb at their instruments.

ookay the music is scary and its kind of um.. demonic and stuff. and i totally cant hear the lyrics at all aside from some crap about an abusive mother? but its great music. i really mean, great music. insaneeee!

warning: parental guidance advised. dont freak out!

disturbed - down with the sickness

2008-05-15T00:36:00.001+08:00

2008-04-18T00:22:00.004+08:00

i just caught the premiere episode of the contender:asia and i am seriously blown away. is it just my ignorance, or did no one else know that all this was taking place in singapore and i had no idea at all?!

for the sake of clueless people like myself, the contender:asia takes place in singapore and is all about muay thai. 16 muay thai fighters from all over the world battle it out to be crowned the muay thai fighter of the world. each week two fighters tough it out in the ring, loser goes home.. the works.

first episode saw trevor smandych from canada going up against naruepol of thailand in the ring. personally, it was painfully clear that naruepol was vastly superior in skill. he was completely unfazed and totally calm while seemingly able to deftly avoid trevor's attacks. he didnt even seem to try very hard. but hey, what do i know about muay thai right? needless to say, naruepol had an easy victory that left me salivating for more. i just dont get the pants, does he have to pull it up so high? sheesh.

singapore's representative is muay thai fighter zach who took a hard spill in the first episode after he got tripped up in a sprint. im so completely into this show that i was so ready to buy tickets to catch the finales. until i realised that i was already 6 days too late! augh!

anyway, aside from the fact that jaymee ong is really lousy as a host, its muay thai plus drama and good queue music. sweaty men and six packs in the ring? you have got to check this show out.

warning: do not visit the contender:asia website unless fully prepared for major spoilers. it takes the excitement out of the fights. but detailed episode guides are provided and really help if u need to catch up.

2008-04-11T23:07:00.002+08:00

i'm so unspeakably angry. everybody should watch Planet Earth: the future on arts central wednesdays at 10. and see how everything is falling apart. i read, on national geographic, that a certain species of leopard is so endangered there are barely 12 of them left in the wild, with only 5 females amongst them, one of which had just been shot by a hunter - with a photo of the carcass to boot. and there is a certain species of wild horse with numbers under 30 and all of those are in captivity, for preservation purposes, of course. and thats barely the tip of the iceberg. its so heartbreaking. i feel so impossibly sad everytime i read something like this.

people scoff when i tell them i sign up for national geographic's newsletters and emails, but i feel that if you've the time and have the ability to click a mouse, then you should sign up and see for yourselves. before we entirely kill off and ruin these animals and cant see any of them again. its free by the way. we should try to create some awareness, and Planet Earth: the future really hits home. i cant believe the curelty some people are capable of. utterly despicable.

and think about roadkill and all that. and why crocodiles are more often than not being found in swimming pools. its because we're invading their space! their territories! they've nowhere else to go! its our fault, its totally our fault. the dolphin killings, and the whale beachings, and everything else! im really so unspeakably angry and everyone can laugh at me for all i care but i am totally going to be the crocodile huntress someday, and maybe i can do something then.

2008-02-18T16:47:00.004+08:00

yes i am updating my blog! haha. super busy. fish and i have been working at the spore airshow (recommended by jonathan, thanks very much), and his sister is kinda running the show. ohmygod its so fun! i love love love meeting all the pilots from all over the world, they're all so nice! especially the french! haha, i absolutely love their accent. anyway, extremely long hours involved but fun! and im only covering for fish for a couple of days, so im not dead yet. everyone, the spore airshow is on 19th - 24th, at changi exhibition centre. do have a look-see, its real worth it. -grins-

and time for photos from china part 2! at this rate it'll take me two years just to get all the fotos we have up - about two billion, i think. lol. these are shots from christmas in china! which seems eons ago now. this is our night out on the streets, where we counted down xmas on an absolutely empty street and spray-canned each other. pretty much like orchard road - only deserted. lol. you can tell we're being heroes cuase we're wearing so little and its -10 degrees! haha. after that we walked all the way around the shandong university and back to our hostel, where we started getting emo and missing spore. so we linked arms and occupies the whole street like gangsters and started singing "we are spore". haha! ahh, good times man:

stan was wearing his new jacket. haha!

xmas dinner

candy was very nervous about missing the time

all ready with our spray cans

and counting down!

yay! xmas and spray canning!

and here, a couple of xmas parties that we went to in china. nothing wild, you undertsand. haha. and keep in mind, everyone who went to china is a drama king/queen, so we have a lot of stupid shots. here goes:

p/s: sorry if the pics are too small. wouldnt fit into my blog otherwise.

2008-02-04T23:14:00.000+08:00

starting off round 1 of pictures. mostly of candy and i taking crazy pictures on stan's laptop in our hostel room - and in our pyjamas. the rest of hendy and stan joinging us and taking some wacky roller coaster rides! i know we look like idiots, but its a laugh. haha.

anyway i cant believe we were this retarded. more china pictures soon!

2008-02-01T00:16:00.000+08:00

aaand im back! back from my 2-month china stay, followed quickly by my 2-day malaysia stay. im so tired, i've never been this tired in my entire life. i could sleep till kingdom-come.

i cant believe i almost didnt go to cheena. it was the most amazing exprience of my entire life (except when you have to go to the toilet of course. i swear its so effingly cold that when you pee, you can see smoke). yes its that cold. some days i just wanna curl up in a ball and hide. but anyway candy tay! yes i miss you ohmygod. you are like the lousiest roommate in the world but i miss you anyway! haha! just kidding, dont start yelling! i miss china so muchhh. it all feels like a dream.

anyways, about cheena. people real polite, all very nice. aside from the occassional pushing and shoving - but hey, china population taken into account, its just the lack of space. but the driving? holy shit! everytime we take a cab i wanna pee my pants. there are seriously no rules. they just.. well, drive. and horn. sheesh. horning is like, compulsary.

so to everyone i went to cheena with, let me personalise this..

candy: im surprised we stayed together in the same goddamn room for 2mths and we didnt quarrel! wow! i must be a better person than i realised haha! ok just kidding!

fish: i cant say how much china woulda sucked without you, all those times we had diarrheoa together...

hendy: nanny, you are the world's most irritating person. please i beg you, no more jokes! haha.

stan: where are you man?! harold and kumar 2 is out! movieee.

gary: you are my favourite daughter. i'll helptch you. haha.

chris: i really really, desperately miss our cubicle! and guess what? even lelelele!!

shanwen: i love crazy lorries and crispy pratas! -indian accent-

joycelyn: its way too quiet without you, i dont get enough laughs. sobb.

chongjun: yes you! i dont miss you at all you are so noisy banging around upstairs i cant sleep at night! lol. im kidding k, kidding!

yongtye: cook porridge for ussss!

p/s: a flood of photos coming in soon. i dont even dare to upload them, there are so many. brace yourselves.

2007-11-18T14:30:00.000+08:00

thanks everyone who celebrated my bday with me!

had home-made pizza with my cousins and family on weds, pastamania with the bball team on my bday, billy bombers with the laopos on fri, and jack's place with the bitches on sat. it was like a four-day long celebration and i really enjoyed everything. thanks guys -sob-

hui and sabbie came down to redhill to surprise me after my work on thurs, but i have to say that i wasnt surprised because they are so lousy at planning these kinda things and i'd already guessed. haha! we went to the toilet and sabbie had a combo C, i had a combo B and hui had a few side dishes. lol. later, we tried our hand at fortune telling with a jar. shall not relate the results because it was quite upsetting for sabrina haha!

words of the day: 1.so lamb 2.very doubtful 3.most likely 4.why not?

we realised that you can answer almost any question with these few words. lol.

hasslich and spastisch

i really dont know what she's doing, she always seems to have very auntie fotos

sabbie got parkinsons again, all the fotos r so shaky

okay one of many ugly moments

another ugly moment. im yelling at her.. i think

the ugliest moment, i really dunno how she.. sigh

a normal photo!

my surf and turf with potato salad!

she looks like a ghost!

hui wanted to be in on the foto. haha.

and im telling her its very doubtful we can shrink our cheeks size.

i do not put lipgloss slowly, sabbie jus makes it seem so.

very doubtful, why not and most likely

2007-11-03T17:14:00.000+08:00

movie of the year: stardust.

its my fav movie of the moment. love claire danes. caught it with the linkin parkers, sheerah and amy on fri at PS after dinner. really missed them so muchhh. we had so much to catch up on we didnt stop talking at all. haha. poor amy got bullied by us so badly, and i dont know why i keep walking into walls and going in the wrong direction! everything seemed very reflective that day. heh. the movie is really fantastic, it made us want to glow. lol. and im dying to read the novel by neil gaiman that inspired it. its a definite must-see! neil's books are fantastic.

gorged on swensons with my bitches chokey and candy on sat. chokey's treat! i couldnt believe it! candy and i jokingly mentioned she should treat us since she's always, i mean always, so so late, and after much persuasion - she did! haha. anyway i really needed all this girl-time, was starting to get seriously emo from stress.

i ought to write a book though: "the 5 people you meet on the train to work every morning" of course, inspired by mitch albom's: "the 5 people you meet in heaven".

1. the perfume lady: whose perfume is so strong its wafting throughout the entire train and makes you wanna gag.

2. the makeup lady: who persists in applying her makeup on the train while swaying dangerously in every direction (she does this for a good 45 mins)

3. the im-so-cool-i-dont-need-to-hold-the-pole-guy: who thinks he's so cool and doesn't need to hold the pole for balance, thus leans heavily on everyone around him and trods on their toes. note: to recognise this guy, look for signs of maniacal gum-chewing, arm-crossing and super loud music emanating from earphones.

4. the guy with the humongous backpack: who carries a homongous backpack (duh) and swings it vigorously around, thus wacking everyone within a 2metre radius off their feet - at last count, 5 ppl toppled.

5. the ahma: whose life depends upon her getting a seat on the train. look out for vigorous handbag swinging, umbrella poking and swift seat-snatching action from her. warning: steer clear.

im sure everyone's met at least one of these 5 train-goers before. if you havent, then you dont live in singapore and you ought to count your lucky stars.

and this month's serious topic: dolphin killings. these people disgust me. its not as though i were vegeterian - in fact, im a certified meat-erterian. but this is taking it too far. i find that lately, i've developed a dislike for shark's fin soup as well. and thus, inspiration for my second book: "animal-meat disgusto-factor".

1. dog meat: eew? can anyone say pets?

2. dolphin meat: eew? can anyone say harmless and friendly?

3. shark's fin: eew? throwing the shark back into the water after taking its fin?

4. monkey's brains: eew? cutting off the top half of the monkey's head and scooping the brains right out while the monkey's still alive and kicking?

5. leather: is overrated and forbidden by this future crocodile huntress.

extinction and global warming people, come on!

2007-10-20T15:46:00.000+08:00

ch5 is showing America's got talent, which i've mentioned before. Check out this act from the Britain version: Britain's got talent. its pretty funny. judges include simon cowell of american idol and piers morgan of america's got talent.

this is damon scott and his monkey, bubbles. lol.

Britains got talent - Damon Scott and Bubbles

2007-10-20T15:45:00.001+08:00

2007-10-20T15:38:00.001+08:00

caught resident evil: extinction with the basketball team. again, that unfinished feeling. i've heard this is the last installment of the resident evil series but im praying for a fourth cause the ending was just way too abrupt. the frist resident evil movie was still the best, but the whole concept of the story appeals to me as its feasible (which is scary!) anyway, its still very worth watching. i always feel traumatised after watching zombie flicks.

dinner at cafe cartell with the mit peeps again! video says it all: hang on for it.

2007-10-03T21:37:00.000+08:00

internship is cheap slave labour and it sucks. i'm doing mindless tasks beneath my intelligence level. but i guess thats internship for you. although now, i have to try and remember all the different kinds of subscriptions and promotions we offer, including postage and free gifts and stuff of that sort for when people call. (reminder: i have short-term memory) its not too bad i guess, could be worse. but then again, could be better.

my boss is so wierd! she dislikes girls. she even mentioned to me that she feels girls are pretty useless - hello? girl over here! sheesh. anyway i was chatting with her about schools and whatnot, and she mentioned her daughter was in normal acad. so i had this sympathetic face ready. but apparently it doesnt bother her because - and i quote: "i dont care about girls. it is more important for a boy to have better education. girls can always grow up and get married." holy cow! what? whaat?

this goes against everything i believe in! which is that woman should have equal rights in everything and as good an education as they can get. why should we all act like dumb blondes and get married just for financial security? its so stupid. and i absolutely could not believe that, being a woman herself, she could say something like this. i mean. is this the 21st century or not?!

personally, i feel that marriage and children are extra baggage and added burden. of course, i am of this opinion because a future crocodile huntress (thats me), would not be able to chase crocodiles and such while lugging children around.

anyway, whatever, but: womens' independence ! lol. i feel strongly about this.

2007-09-29T19:26:00.000+08:00

ohmygod.. NERVOUS ! internship starts on monday. had lunch with my lesbians hui and sabbie, and then hui kindly accompanied me to scout out my future internship workplace. man, its in a totally ulu place? and the person in charge seems kinda fierce. i think she was kinda pissed that im a girl, cos she specifically said that she wanted boys - non-muslim! and i am totally opposite and look malay. haha! apparently they are moving their office to redhill soon and the interns are supposed to help with the moving, holy crap? im so gonna diee.

anyway i wanna thank xiuvee for going all the way there with me! so touched! i wanna tell her that: ngor hou huoy sum! - sorry i cant spell it! its "im very happy" in cantonese. haha! our latest craze is speaking cantonese.

had a steamboat dinner to celebrate shang en's super belated bday with some of the mit peeps at bugis. everything was kinda lup sup and i had some serious diarrhoea the next day but we had fun. we are all carnivoires - no veggie! except for nut i think, who's a panda and ate all the bamboo leaves. yuck. had some dao huey after that. mianmian made a video! haha!

i keep laughing when i see this!

this year's smit talentime was kinda disappointing i think. not many people, and not as good as when jonathan did it. but its jonathan anyway, so cant expect anything other than the best from him. haha. although there were quite a few good talents, i still think last year's contestants had more variety and were more entertaining. oh well.

xuejia, mianmian, me and candy at talentime!

i cant believe internship is gonna start already: nooooooooooooo! im gonna miss everybody in school so much! my parkers - sheerah and ehmee, my bitches - candy and chokey, and mianmian and fishie. i feel super emo right now. sob.

but prison break and heroes's next season episodes are out and im so excited man. although pepople keep trying to tell me spoilers, so far i have avoided the worst.

2007-09-24T13:23:00.000+08:00

amy and i have opened an online spree! cause we're sick of buying from other people. haha. we sell clothes, books and more. so if you're a friend of amy or me, you must support us! its called Cherry Autumns (www.cherry-autumns.blogspot.com) - for want of a better name. haha.

kboxed with the laopos again. we have a new name now. we're lesbian numbers 1, 2 and 3. haha.

our white shoes

while takin neoprints! - which is a total waste of money, in my opinion

she's always scared of me. i didnt do anything!

my laopos! really love them man.

i am putting lip gloss, sabbie starts snapping photos non-stop (like a machinegun)

still putting lip gloss

and still putting lip gloss

hui is very irritated that im so slow. its my special talent - irritating her. haha.

im done and sabbie is still snapping photos non-stop

and she's still snapping away! haha.

our "other mother" hui, nagging at us loudly

lesbians #1, 2 and 3. trying to do a very fake smile

xiuhui looks like a stranger in the corner who just happened to pop into our picture. haha

sabbie's fake smile doesnt look fake at all, she totally cant do it.

ok i really dunno what hui is doing here...

... and here...

... and here! haha!

sab started snapping photos again...

... and again ...

... and again ...

... and again! til i really dunno what other way there is to smile.

and hui was very pissed with us, which happens everyday so we just ignore her.

had a linkin park-er gathering with amy and sheerah. sheerah was late as usual. so amy and i had lunch at pastamania first. we watched no reservations at cine. pretty good. its a feel-good kinda movie and it made us feel good. haha. abigail breslin is really one of the better child actresses. shopped around after, had some starbucks.

shee-parker and me

my linkin parkers.

2007-09-12T14:16:00.000+08:00

my mum started watching 花样少年少女 and now she's a huuuuge fan. haha! she's crazy over wang dongcheng too. its so wierd to see her act like a teeny-bopper fanatic and chasing after all these taiwanese dramas (especially those with wang dongcheng in them). -grins-

i am sick again. i guess its unavoidable when you're working in a clinic and people cough all over you. but this clinic has a wider job scope than the one i used to work in. i have to do everything from ECGs to pouring, packaging and dispensing medicine! on my first day of work, my colleague gave me a 6-page long list of medications and asked me to memorise it. holy cow? i almost wanted to quit on the spot! knowing my extremely deteriorated memory, i panicked. how the hell was i supposed to remember all that medication?! but after a few days it gets kinda routine. basically its the doctor's handwriting thats the killer. man! it looks like a black blob on the paper. took me damn long to get used to the doc's handwriting. and now, just when i've gotten the hang of things, he's off on leave and the new doctor has handwriting that looks like he dislocated his wrist and broke every bone in every finger. totally illegible! argh.

anyway, i had to assist him when he had to put in some stitches for this construction worker. eew? the finger looked like it was sliced in half! man, it was so gross and the poor construction worker was in some serious pain. -shudders- luckily i have a relatively strong stomach. as long as there are no worms involved, i believe i can act real professional, like i see all this everyday. haha.

but its fun when the clinic isnt too crowded. my colleagues are all really nice people. abit wierd, but wierdness is what i appreciate most in a person. on the plus side, i can self-medicate when im sick. haha.

2007-08-31T21:06:00.000+08:00

Heroes World Tour !

ohmygod?! this is the most excited i have ever been in my entire life. i met up with the bitches chokey and candy and we had our lunch at vivo before we grabbed a pretty good spot at the side of the stage. we were so psyched man, especially choke. the heroes who came to singapore were niki/jessica sanders (ali larter), matt parkman (greg grunberg), mohinder suresh (sendhil ramamurthy) and hiro nakamura (masi oka). i cant believe neither peter petrelli (milo ventimiglia) or claire bennet (hayden panettiere) were here. but i woulda totally gone nuts if they had come. anyway i think my most used phrase throughout the entire time the heroes were on stage was "ohmygod ohmygod". i was totally hyperventilating, i've never been so excited in my entire life! they were standing only a few feet away from us! -swoons- matt parkman (greg grunberg) was the most jovial and friendly of the bunch. and he seems to be pretty good friends with hiro nakamura (masi oka), they seem to really get along. chokey is crazily into mohinder suresh (sendhil ramamurthy). and surprisingly, i realise that he's actually kinda hot. dont know how come i didnt notice before. i guess what alerted me to it were the numerous "marry me mohinder" and "we love sexy geneticists" signs scattered amongst the crowd. haha.

check out the crowd. way more peeps there than showable here

the stage

us. waiting anticipatingly

masi oka! leading the heroes cast up on stage

mohinder suresh's head is poking out at the left. haha.

matt parkman on the right!

couldnt get a shot of ali larter though

so into heroes right now. it beats prison break by a mile! its gonna start showing on channel 5 so you gotta watch it if you havent already.

as the heroes cast were leaving, chokey totally freaked out and morphed into super-stalker mode. she shrieked and disappeared so fast i thought she'd teleported. when we managed to locate her, she was so flustered she was wobbly at the knees. haha! apparently, she'd managed to get close enough to mohinder suresh and he talked to her! i supposed she attracted his attention by the vigorous waving she'd been doing (almost took my head off) and he said "hi how're you?" to her! -shrieeeks- im still really mad at her. she shoulda had the foresight to have at least pulled me along! and guess what the dumb bitch replied mohinder? she said "sexy". ugh! i guess her brain wasnt really functioning but oh come on! she's beginning to channel candy's bimbo-ness if that was all she could come up with.

we had some starbucks after that to calm ourselves down. -sighing reminiscingly- okay i am officially a stupid teeny-bopper fanatic and i dont give a damn! haha. and anyone who tells me they dont watch heroes is gonna get an earful from me about how effingly great the show is.

chokey shut her eyes on prupose! i know you did, dont deny

candy fell off the seat after we took this cos the chair was slippery and she's too short for her feet to touch the floor. haha!

words of the moment - 1. geneticist 2. ventimiglia

2007-08-19T21:13:00.000+08:00

i've been puking my guts out for the past two days. cant believe my luck man. just as hols have started i had to go get sick again. so i've gone off food again, cos it wont stay down anyway. -sigh- i hate not eating. especially when everyone else is. i think people who go on diets are ridiculous. trust me, when you can eat, just eat for god's sake. its terrible not being able to. sobb.

and i'd just gotten a new part-time job at another clinic too. i was supposed to start on monday but i had to push it back. i dont know whats with my obsession with clinics though. i just love working in a clinic. haha.

anyway sorry shee-parker and ehmee-parker! looks like i'll have to cancel on you! but i'll plan something soon ok? as soon as the body starts functioning again.

yeah.. SHE pics below! finally! -grin- thanks jean and terry.

2007-08-16T19:57:00.000+08:00

final exam paper today. alot of maniacal hysteria after that involving wedges and mayo. it wasnt even funny. its just cause we're linkin parkers. well, you now how it is. haha! probably another huge load off our minds. but we still have another presentation for ida to go, so we're not totally off the hook yet.

warning: this is a rather random post. im totally talking rubbish. but unlike ehmee-parker, i do not wish my blog to deteriorate into such a sad, dusty state. -grin- so tolerate my constant updates about nonsense.

All about music and movies today. No idea how the topic came about. but apparently amy's favourite movie is kingkong. -snickers- oh alright, its good i guess. mine is the mummy. im just too into all that egypt stuff.

contrary to what people might think, my favourite song is not umbrella. i have a love/hate relationship with umbrella. just cant figure out my feelings toward that song. loveeee justin timberlake though. i think he's redefining music. especially with his future sex/love sounds album. my current fav: love stoned/i think she knows. please listen to it ( sheerah i mean you! no more elliot yamin-ing! ) haha.

and i would be remiss not to mention my all-time favourite damien rice. alot of people dont appreciate his music - emo music. lol. but thank god for chokey - who adores damien rice. in my opinion, try 9 crimes or the blower's daughter if you feel up to weeping.

switching back to the harry potter category: aarrghh ! i finished it in like a couple of hours, read till i started tearing, my eyes were so dry. i feel so unsatisfied with it. i cant really pinpoint what it is, but i felt like it ended too abruptly. shall say no more! suffice it to say that it wasnt as great as i thought it would be. two words for it: dark and emo. lol.

2007-08-13T23:56:00.000+08:00

fyp is overrrr. what a load off my mind. this post is specially dedicated to my linkin parkers sheerah and ehmee:

"we tried so hard, and come so far. in the end, it doesnt even matter" lol. well, it does matter. and im glad that in the end, at least we 3 still had each other to rely on. elliot yamin would be so proud. haha.

it just pisses me off so bad that we almost killed ourselves doing this. i mean, im sure every group has their difficulties, but it really felt like we bit off more than we could chew. i still cant believe we pulled it off. we've been in panic mode for the past month. sigh. i just wish people would grow a sense of responsibility. is guilt not in their vocabulary? sheesh. i keep telling myself to forget about it cos its over and we did manage to do it after all, but still. come on man. the unfairness of it all. rrr.

SHE concert ! i cant remember how long ago it was. time seems to merge together for me these days. but we coolcats/aliens had a blast there! we were so high ohmygodd. we woke up so goddamn early to queue since it was free seating and all. i dont believe i've ever woken up that early since i graduated from secondary school. haha. and it rained too! but it was worth it. definitely caught the SHE bug after that!

hui and i huddling under the umberrellaa.

cfc was the most excited person there. lol.

the crowd!

cfc was waving frantically at this point. lol.

sabbie's teenage icon finals are over. sabbie was so close to winning! i totally thought she would! argh! we were all clutching each other when the results were announced. i cannot believe that this guy (who has the voice of a toad) won second place. man! his supporters must be all deaf or have too much money to spend voting for him. he totally did not deserve it. baobao wanted to murder him. haha. i was trying very hard to cheer for sabbie when she was singing but her hairdressers unloaded like a cartonful of glitter on me and i think i inhaled about half and swallowed the other half.

sabbie singinggg~

backstage with momo, hasslich and baobao

sabbie took off her shoes. look at how she's standing! tsk tsk

sabbie's parents treated us to kfc! so touched.

i missed my laopos

hui felt like being an octopus but she failed miserably. haha.

aaand doing some ugly stuff

more ugly stuff

to sabbie momo laopo: i'll always be your tou hao fans ! -doing the tou hao fans action- yeah!

2007-07-24T16:49:00.000+08:00

oh god. panic paniccc! fyp is coming to a close and there's still so much to do! sigh. and our supervisor tony had to go abandon us for two weeks to god knows where. although i must say that fyp is punctuated with its moments of fun hysteria.

to the people who care: the final harry potter book is out! now i know why everyone wants to preorder it. the astounding number of people who have been yelling spoilers at me! there was this stupid girl on the radio who actually told the dj (and about a million other people listening in) about the book's plot! man, if i ever find her she's so dead. so a warning: do not mention harry potter to me, i will shriek hysterically and run for the door. sheerah told me that her boyfriend yan had an idea, that if he booked out of army early, he would be the first queueing for the harry potter book. and upon receiving it, would quickly flip through to the ending and yell to everyone else in the queue, "harry potter died!" haha! i think he would be beaten up badly.

note: i do not know if harry potter died. that was just an example.

Keeping to the theme of books, i highly recommend one title "everything men know about women". its priced at S$10.40 and its pages are absolutely blank. yup, the entire book is empty! haha. meaning men know absolutely zero and zilch about women. what i dont get is why its 10 bucks. i guess it makes a really cool notebook? dont know who the author is though.

and i am green and seething with jealousy and rage. amy and sheerah have their itp interviews with.. none other: mtv asia ! oh my effing god? i totally dont want to go to cheena anymore, what was i thinking?! -wail- i wanna work at mtv asia toooo. think! they might even get to see UTT and i would absolutely die. i couldnt think of a better place to be for internship. -moannn- why do i always make the stupidest decisions?!

2007-07-17T21:08:00.000+08:00

happy birthday to fishiee!

another birthday again. haha! went to have a bday dinner for her with felix, qiu, mian, jon, sq and shang en at central's manhatten fish market. yummy man! seriously cant believe the way shang en eats, like his food is gonna run away if he doesnt shovel it all in real quick. tsk tsk. walked around after that and had a good time doing childish stuff like hiding from each other behind the bushes and pillars. lol. had some ice cream at mac after that while prank calling a few people. felix managed to convince people that shang en was in jail and needed some bail money contribution. haha! and i cant get over how much jonathan looks like my brother. its really creepy. heh.

me, fishie, mian and ah tu.

mian mian and me!

sabbie is now in the teenage icon finals! woohoo~

she's in this month's issue of teenage (the one with the S.H.E. cover). and teenage icon finals are on the 12th august at suntec city!

sabbie on stage with the rest of the semi-finalists!

sabbie on stage!

singing yong qi

had an ugly moment captured on camera. sigh

reunited laopos.

2007-07-13T22:16:00.000+08:00

birthdays seem to be the only thing im doing for fun nowadays. the rest of my life is just assignments i guess. haha. we had little fan's bday dinner at this thai place, where was it? i forgot. saw a lot of jessie's "gang" around. lol. jolinna and pris came with ju, captie, sis, fan, prata jess and me. i missed my jojo so much! she hasnt grown any taller. haha.

alot of shrieking went on at our table cause there were cats around - which i couldnt understand by the way, its just a cat. haha. but the food was great. jo's dieting plan went down the drain and she grabbed at everything. jess and i are gonna make sure our prata shop becomes as successful as this place. lol.

note: wait for the pics

very emo day today for amy and sheerah. seems like everything came pouring out. felt so emo for them! - although im cold and have no feelings, haha! just hope everything works out for them. sigh. i'll have to start doing seriously ugly things to make them laugh. haha.

2007-07-06T20:47:00.000+08:00

sabbie's birthday wasn't too much of a failure. hui and i planned it for like, a month i think. and everything went wrong at the last minute. hui was going hysterical on me, shrieking all over the place. haha. we'd booked the function room at hui's condo to surprise sabbie but some indian had her prayers in there awhile ago (no offense), and the room stank?! the aircon broke down too. that sucked man. initially, we'd wanted to cater from miss clarity cafe, but they don't cater for less than 30 people. so we switched to steamboat at hui's place. i dont know if sabbie was pretending to be surprised (i sure hope not, but she's kinda stupid so i dont think she caught on), lol. joking sabbie, joking! hui and i pretended to go meet yati and sab for dinner, and i (bungler that i am), left my handphone at hui's house (on purpose of course, i am always the villian), thus persuaded everyone to accompany me back to hui's place to get it where jeanie, terry, kelroy, cfc and shawn were waiting to surprise sabbie. she was rather surprised i think. and we all had a nice family steamboat, where i got bullied a lot, and everyone refused to say anything after i spoke. thus, an awkward silence on purpose. cant stand it. argh.

we all wore pink for sabbie. -shudders- lol

our present for sabbie: pink DS Light. had to pry it away from yati momo

hui and i baked 19 pink cupcakes for sabbie! it was rather good i think.

singings sabbie a bday song

our steamboat, with hardly anything left in it, we ate so fast. haha.

the guys developed a sudden fascination for meatballs and started fighting for it.

sabbie and i trying hard to find meatballs. lol.

cfc is late late late. forever late! and getting a good scolding for it.

so anyway Happy Birthday Momo! we love you! (on 30th June)

and Happy Birthday to Jasmine my little fan too! she's a big fan today. haha.

congratulations to sabbie for making it to the semi-finals of teenage icon! i think hui, baoyu and i were more nervous than sabbie was. haha. but she pulled it off effortlessly, as usual. no problemo. totally gonna win this thing. grins.

Note: Head down to Suntec on the 15th July to catch the semi-finals of Teenage Icon 2007!

Shee-rah reminded me that i wanted to complain about the increase in GST again, dammit? hasn't the government anything better to do than suck us poor student's money? man. im so broke im gonna have to start eating at kopitiams soon and everyone knows i cant eat there! its low class! lol. okay kidding! heh. but i really dislike eating at kopitiams, except for the prata of course, prata is god's gift to humans.

Absolutely cant wait for the simpson's movie! its gonna be so great. Catch the trailer below:

2007-06-18T20:39:00.000+08:00

i just had my second driving lesson today, and its now official: i suck. im so bad at driving! i guess amy and sheerah were right after all, i do need warning lights and hazard signs on my car. oh man.. i cant believe the incredible number of times i managed to stall the goddamn car. my current record is 6 times in a row. in a row! not even counting in the seperate stalling occurences when i try to shift gear or start up. -screams- im never gonna pass. this will take forever.

my favourite niece sammie just turned one year old! went to her birthday party after my cousin eric's wedding ceremony. sammie looks exactly like a "mini-me" version of homer simpson. haha! the beer belly (her's is huge!) and the receding hairline (cant blame her, as yet, not very much hair). but the resemblance is uncanny. her mum, my cousin carol, was so mad when i mentioned it. hee. my cuz natalie loaned me a book titled the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom. i'd heard that this book was pretty good but i hadnt really thought that i'd like it. well, i love it! it gives me the chills at every chapter! haha. everyone should definitely get themselves a copy. and im only at like, chapter 4.

and before i say anything more, please know that i was forced to post this. haha. no not really. candy tay has a new blog. everyone do visit as she's currently selling a couple of bags. they're really sweet looking so take a look! (rollover for link) there, did the obligatory friendship thingy. also, she has a link in her blog thats for a youtube video. its a spoof of a heroes' episode from madtv.com and its super hilarious.

Heroes Spoof

sabbie momo laopo is away in malaysia! sob. hope she gets back soon.

2007-06-12T21:29:00.000+08:00

happy belated birthday cfc !

celebrated it on friday with jean, terry, hui, sabbie, weisin and sockying. cfc was late.. for his own birthday dinner! i cant believe it. its impossible for him to be early for anything at all, not even if its his own birthday. haha. so we dined at terra cafe where auntie xiuhui had a discount card (she has a discount card for everything). lol. auntie hui laughed so loud im sure the entire cafe was staring at us.

we spotted a kinda fish roadshow? this is the ugliest fish i've ever seen in my entire life. it looks like a brain! gross. *sabrina was on the other side of the tank. haha.

terry ate the entire scoop of ice-cream in a single mouth! after that he teared for 15minutes. lol

cfc's bag. thank god we coolcats got him a new one. im sure we all had a lovely time in the garden together and everything in the garden is lovely. lol! thats what it says on his bag!

went to kbox again with my hasslich and momo and jeanie. sabrina and i kept doing ugly stuff. like shaking our heads vigorously side to side to emulate a jolin dance. haha! and me trying to sing a duet all by myself! that was exhausting. lol.

the toilet mirror is so dirty.

trying to eat the mike! lol.

my head always looks so big compared to sabbie's.

thanks sabbie momo laopo for accompanying me to bbdc to get my pdl today. yeah! im so nervous about starting to drive. i got this really bad gut feeling that i wont pass until i have an accident. augh! sabbie was saying that sometimes the bbdc bus can be so slow till you can count the trees on both sides of the road. haha!

so after having an impromptu eye check-up at bbdc (perfect eyesight of course), we went down to marina. havent been there in ages. i finally managed to get heels my size phew! but even then the shop lady had to put some padding in the shoe to make it tight enough to fit me. argh. shopped around for my neice sammie's first year birthday present! but its kinda hard cos although she's only a year old, sammie is a confirmed tomboy and will refuse to wear girlish stuff. haha! finally got her a cute sleeping beauty top, since sleeping beauty is my fav disney character too. haha. the shop lady was peering suspiciously at my stomach, i think she thought i was pregnant thus buying baby clothes. so quickly got the hell outta there.

random pics

sabbie is holding a medium sized carrier! haha.

resting our feet

trying my shoesss.

at starbucks!

made a mess as usual

walked to starbucks at raffles city to pass sabrina's teenage icon song cd to the organisers. her first round of heats is on 1july at tampines mall. everyone had better support her thanks. haha. after satisfying my sudden caffeine-craving at starbucks, we headed back. on the mrt, the usual announcement to "stand behind the yellow line" came on. sabrina gave me a really puzzled look and asked, "did they just say for your own safety, please keep your shirts down?" and i was like.. whaaaat? HAHA.

2007-06-03T21:34:00.000+08:00

congrats sabbie momo !

she auditioned for teenage icon and she's in ! so excited for her. went down to cine with hui, xinyueh and yati to support her. but i totally knew she'd get in. haha. after that we had lunch and went kboxing again. i hope she wins teenage icon. it'd be so cool.

i totally forgot that my final theory test is tomorrow until like, yesterday. now im panicking. i desperately dont wanna fail and become desmond part2. -sigh-

check out "live from abbey road". tuesdays at 11pm on central. love it. stay away if you're not fond of emo-ness and folk songs. lol.

2007-05-24T23:50:00.000+08:00

the end of heroes: season 1. sigh. i cant believe it! is this the best show ever or what! i dont know why so few people watch heroes, its such a sad waste.

for the last time.. sobb.

did a little baking again with the bitches on tuesday. almost blew up my kitchen. haha. all chokey is good for is stirring the batter. its what i like to call manual labour and nothing else. heh. it went pretty well i think. i mean, nothing caught fire. and all the cookies were edible, if not a little crumbly.

went clubbing with jess and ju yesterday. juliet desperately wanted to check out the clinic. so we had dinner at fisherman's wharf then headed over there. but they only opened at 10pm. so we had a couple of drinks outside the clinic while we waited. no thanks to chalk, who should know what time the clinic opens since he works there! how unhelpful. anyway, it wasn't as crowded as we thought it would be, and there were hardly any people dancing. its quite small actually. so since it was ladies night, we guzzled all our free drinks and then headed to ministry of sound (free admission) to let off some steam. jess kept trodding on my toes. haha! ohmygod i love it there. and after we left, jess realised that she couldn't see very well, ju couldnt speak very well (she was yelling real loud), and i couldnt hear very well. lol. and we kept denying that our hair smelt like crap.

C is for Clinic ! lol.

if you look close enough, you can see the drip on the right. haha

jess always seems to be struggling

was telling a story. jess does not seem to be listening!

jessie, still struggling. lol.

jessie is so redd ! lol. please don kill me when you see this

this time, I am struggling

became crazy and took a shitload of photos in the cab home. please endure. lol.

we're puking!?

i was deaf, ju was mute and jess was blind. haha

failed photos.

im emo-ing in the corner

dedicated to sabrina: my poor momo is sick ! but still struggling with her load of assignments. hope she gets better soon. according to her, her voice sounds like elvis pasley lol. note, she said pasley. haha! everyone knows its elvis presley. she made it sound like parsley(as in, the vegetable garnish, parsley?) and she absolutely forbade me to blog about it. well who needs a better invitation than that? hence, im blogging now. sorry sabbie. -grins-

2007-05-20T21:54:00.000+08:00

first presentation over and done with! gonna go into hybernation for a week or so to get over the terror of it. but overall it went pretty well i think. no unanswerable questions or serious problems. and miracle of miracles, our known-to-be-extremely-critical supervisor, mr tony, actually helped us out a lot. phew!

so anyway, in the spirit of relaxation, might want to take a look at this youtube clip. again, i cant post it in my blog dammit. basically its an NTU lecturer reading a couple of surveys that he received (in regard to his teaching) to some of his students. nothing interesting for about a minute of this clip, start watching it from 1minute or so. not as hilarious as daniel chesterfield, but still brought on a couple of laughs.

NTU Lecturer Feedback

sneak preview. my favourite survey from one of the students was:

"is your mostache the source of your knowledge? if it is, then please dont set such difficult questions as most of us dont have mostache."

-grins- it helps that the lecturer has an extremely funny accent and reads the surveys very entertainingly.

had dinner again with momo sabbie, hasslich hui and bigfoot xinYUEH aka miss nicole ritchie -haha- some random pictures again:

nicole ritchie on the left

she just wouldnt stop bugging me

happy very-belated birthday to my prata jessie!

that was on 3rd may. but we celebrated yesterday at clarke quey's the mind cafe. its kinda like settler's cafe (where you can play board/card games while you eat), but a little more sphisticated i think, probably cos of the plush sofas. but it makes eating a little difficult. still very comfy though. hope muthu aka jess enjoyed herself.

eating the gobi chocs we got for jess

gobi chocs rock

the hamburger choc

still eating the chocs

and still eating the chocs

ju, captie and me

the "who's an idiot" game

nothing beats good ol' jenga

ju, the "clinic" fan

2007-05-16T20:37:00.000+08:00

THE next david copperfield: Daniel Chesterfield
click for link

gotta see this! unfortunately i cant upload the video in my blog cause.. actually i have no idea why. and its not like i can ask youtube about it. so please click on the link above and go watch it ! i laughed so hard for half an hour straight. this guy is good! -grins- shee-rah and i cant stop imitating his "powers". haha.

check out the way he crosses his arms over his chest and stands there like a stud after every "stunt".

sabrina and hui: Stop It. apparently hui's colleague used to be my primary school mate and they've found out that i took higher mother tongue in school. both of them are having a fit laughing at me. is it so hard to believe that my chinese may not actually be all that bad! i cant understand what about me amuses people so much. i wish i had the chance to laugh at someone other than myself. -sigh- have to start living up to my higher mother tongue standards. wait till i start spouting idioms. we'll see who has the last laugh! haha.

FYP presentaion tomorrow! -shaking in my boots-

2007-05-06T21:53:00.000+08:00

oh. my. god. heroes rocks! i cant believe how good the show is. the prison break era is definitely over. heroes is the show right now. -dreamy expression on face-

finally met up with sabbie and hui on friday. sab and i wanted to collect our spree stuff. but we were so tired all 3 of us were plodding along like drunken sailors. had our dinner at woodlands and suddenly developed an extremely strong urge for cheng teng. so we rushed down to cck before the cheng teng store closed. everyone was staring at the way our plastic bags were flying all over the place as we ran. -grins- i missed them so much man. i seem to have like, no life right now. sigh.

2007-04-29T21:06:00.000+08:00

give me a break! if i get any more stressed i wont have black hair left and thats saying something since my hair is so black. -sigh-

happy birthday to my hasslich xiaovee!

that was on friday. i hope hui had a good time.. even though our plan didnt carry out very well thanks to shawn lee fengjie ! i cannot begin to express how angry i am with him. he gave the whole game away! -humpf- or mayb hui is just too perceptive for her own good. she always manages to guess surprises before they occur. anyway, sab and i stressed ourselves silly planning everything.

things that went wrong:
1. hui guessed what her present was thanks to shawn.
2. hui guessed we were gonna surprise her thanks to shawn.
3. hui guessed we would all be waiting in swenson's thanks to shawn.
4. hui guessed her sister was gonna show up and surprise her.
5. swenson's claimed that i didn't book any table when i clearly did. i almost had a fit when the manager told me there was no booking. luckily yati argued our way in.

still. we had a good time. haha. after our swenson's dinner, we all (consisting of jeanie, terry, cfc, yati, sabbie, shawn, hui's sis, myself and hui) went down to hui's place where we sat around the bbq pit (our usual meeting spot) and chatted about old times again. shawn got bullied pretty badly so sabrina and i decided to forgive him his stupidity. -hee-

hui's ice-cream firehouse thingy. forgot what its called.

us! the guys were at pasar-malam -groans-

hui's tweety cake. we were aiming for mickey but there was none. hee.

hui's sis and the momos!

to hui: next time, please at least pretend to be surprised. -grins-

i've finally understood how boring travelling with sabrina can be. when we went down to get hui's present, all she did was sleep (and in a very undignified and hasslich position too). haha. but hardly ever have a chance to have a good chat with my sabbie momo. usually we just laugh a lot. hee. so really glad that we could spend time together that day. -sobb-

she fell asleep immediately after we took this. just dropped dead. i was so worried.

happy birthday to ah mian too!

her bday was on saturday. same day as our freshman reunion bbq. met up with candy, qiu, mian, felix and frendy and had dinner before cabbing down to east coast. it mighta been the most boring bbq i've ever been to. haha. this just proves that we're getting old, cant mingle well with the freshies anymore. too much of a generation gap! surprised main with the cake derrick bought (hope she was surprised) and 100plus people sang her a birthday song! haha. highlight of the month man. hope we can meet up again soon, really miss spending time with the old "honchos" gang. hee.

now that all the excitement is over.. back to stressing out. -sigh-

2007-04-19T23:16:00.000+08:00

just had piggie xinyue over for dinner. she bought begawan solo kuehs for my family! so touched. sobb. thanks pig! had a good time chatting and nua-ing with her. and watching the mummy returns for the umpteenth time. haha. recalled the good old days of how everyday after school we would go to her house and catch movies, and eat carrot cake with slurpee. and she would always always fall asleep halfway through. god, such a lousy companion. haha!

anyway i have this absurd craving for campbell soup lately. i've finished the entire cupboard-full of campbell soup. man i just love it. i can have campbell soup for breakfast lunch and dinner its so yummy. the craving hit again while i was in school today for fyp. i got so desperate for it i even yahoo-ed "campbell soup" haha! i found out there's even a campbell soup website! delicious.

story: was pee-ing in the toilet (yes pee-ing story again). suddenly i heard a dull knocking sound coming from the cubicle next to mine. immediately, scenes from the movie "scream" flashed through my mind. damn, i thought to myself, im finally gonna have an adventure! someone trying to stab me through the cubicle wall? the knock came again, louder this time. i was prepared to do some serious karate when i heard muted giggling. and then it hit me: amy. as usual. apparently it gives her great joy to disrupt people peeing. what is it with her and toilet cubicles? i cant understand it, she's always doing wierd stuff like this in the toilet. well, there went the adventure of my life. might have been the only exciting thing to happen to me in a long while. the end. -sigh-

2007-04-14T22:39:00.000+08:00

kboxed again with sabbie and hui at marina. i didnt know the kbox at marina stretched so far in? we took like 15mins weaving through the labyrinthian/maze-like corridors just to get to the room. fortunately nothing disasterous occurred, besides embarrassing ourselves to take pics with the gigantic 花样少年少女 poster on the wall of kbox:

wang dongcheng is looking at meeee! lol.

shopped around after kboxing. note to self: remember to never ever tease xinyue again about her big feet. i wanted those pair of pumps so so badd. why do i have to have such small feet? was so desperate for those shoes. as you can guess: they didnt have that small a size. sigh. had a high class tea at secret recipe again. haha. ohmygod i keep forgetting how huge the portions are. again, we almost puked trying to finish everything. marina's becoming my fav place to go to! headed over to suntec after that in search of sabbie's jacket (still no size though). so dragged ourselves back home. wow almost died man. so goddamn tired. hui damn pissed with the screaming babies on the train. which was surprising since im the baby hater. heh.

momo and i at secret recipe.

my cornish pie that looks like a humongous pufferfish

and my affegatto? damn i cant spell it. basically: ice cream and expresso

enjoying foood as usual

rong momo and gui momo

got the sleepy look on our faces

had a movie marathon (finally!) at hui's place on thurs. managed to squeeze in 3 movies before stupid woman had to go. hee. date movie, night at the museum and john tucker must die. we were aiming for a fun-and-laughter kinda theme, hence the movie choices. stupid woman wanted to watch v for vendetta. i wont say its not a good movie (cos it is), but come on. it just reeks of emo-ness. had a good nua-ing time with them. if only we had little mermaid to watch too. -grins-

p/s: stupid woman = sabrina -hee-

school starts on monday! wont be the same without my 3 idiots, who chose itp first. sigh. and i'll miss hui so much too! sobb. so wierd not being able to see the usual faces around school.

2007-04-09T20:47:00.000+08:00

BACK from camp !

not as fun as last year, but probably cos im too old and senior and not involved in the organising. hee. but was really happy to be able to spend time with the old crowd. learnt a lot about jews (no offense to shupang). -grins- i skipped the sentosa outing (cos i was lazy and i have like, dinosaur skin) and finished watching season 2 of prison break on leon's laptop! what a fantastic show. -sigh- now i have to wait such a long time for season 3. i also managed to squeeze in the first two episodes of heroes. thats almost as good man.

anyway didnt really mingle much with the freshies this year but they look a promising bunch (besides the fact that they are always hungry and quite sissy). going to camp makes me miss last year's camp so muchhh. had such a good time with my girls. really feel like im getting old now man.

getting tortured

doing our very "favourite" half-squat waiting for terry to arrive

mian showing her half-boiled skin. lol

note: check back soon for more camp photos

headed down to suntec today with my group to meet with the IDA people about our final year project. apparently there was a screw up and the proposal they produced wasn't ours. still, we decided that we could make do with it so we're gonna go forward. so nervous about fyp. gonna be two goons joining our group. hope that works out fine as well.

missing my momo and my hasslich so much! cant wait to see them soon!

2007-04-03T21:50:00.000+08:00

dedicated to sabbie momo and hasslich vee! :

after eons of not being able to meet up with them, we went down to tampines -gasps- to have lunch at billy bombers. ohman.. it was like eating little pieces of heaven. mmm. but the food portions are so huuuge i almost choked trying to finish everything. trying my best to forgive hui but am still very very angry. nah just kidding. haha. but i am doing my best to make her feel as guilty as possible. humpf. missed them so muchhh. during the ride back i tried to peel off a little more of my horribly disgusting sun-burnt skin. sabbie spotted me and said i could only peel my skin once every hour. what kinda twisted logic is that? haha. we went back to sabbie's place for sabbox! unfortunately her mum was being her usual.. well, mum-ish self and refused to allow us to use the karaoke machine. dammit. so disappointed. so we nua-ed for a bit. okay we nua-ed for a lot. heh.

momos on the train

hui and her new boyfriend. haha!

waiting for our foood

just in case you're swagu and have never seen billy bombers. heh.

my humongous plate pf fish and fries

my heavenly cookies and cream shake. mmm

i have terrible skill. i cut both of them out of the picture (actually it was on purpose haha)

i love sabbieee

hui telling me my skin is disgusting whilst i am peeling it. if u look closely, the guy beside us is flinching at my skin too. sigh.

sabbie has just told me all about america's got talent. its kinda like american idol but its not restricted to singing only. any talents you have can be shown. the winner of this show is an 11 year old named bianca ryan. ohmygod? she rocks man. she puts all the american idols to shame. the president's wife even cried when she heard bianca sing! check out a few of these videos.

her first appearance on the show. the judges look amazed. lol.

christmas song from her album. album already! titled: why couldn't it be christmas everyday

gotta hear this. bianca singing at disney world parade.

im sure the videos say it all. phew! 11 years old. 11 !

anyway im off to camp again tomorrow! hope my skin is a little more resistant to the sun and mosquitoes this time round.

hang on for the videos.

2007-04-02T21:36:00.000+08:00

woke up today after a 14 hour sleep. camp can do that to you. i've a record breaking number of mosquito bites. haha. had a good time at prep camp as usual (keyword prep, meaning there is still the actual camp to go), though not much for us to do this time round as we seniors are getting old. basically we just sat around and played cards. heh. loved watching the new batch of GLs going through what we did last year (though i think they had it a little easier), brought back good old memories of torture and fun. -grins-

i've quit my job! sob. was so emo. the doc and assistant in rm16 (they do the blood tests) gave me a little farewell gift: vanilla-coated munchies! yum! was so touched. i miss everyone already. hope i'll be back there again soon.

one of my colleagues, jieying

the new staff nurse yanjun, me and jieying

where i do the resulting after the patients have gone

miss them already! sobb.

2007-03-28T21:51:00.000+08:00

just back from catching mr. bean's holiday with jess ! its so full of lameness man. but it is kinda a little too short. very much like just watching the revised television edition? hee. but enjoyed it all the same. im sure its very stng.

quitting my job tomorrow. -sobs- i've enjoyed working at the clinic. everyone is really nice there. im so gonna miss it. hope i dont get too emo tomorrow. heh.

on another note. i had no idea that wang dongcheng and the rest of farenheight have blogs! damn, am i swagu or what man. my colleague jieying just told me today. she was appalled that i didn't know. haha. she is the absolute expert on farenheight (having been to their autograph sessions and touched their hands! -shrieks- which she constantly reminds me everyday on purpose). anyway, do visit wang dongcheng and wuzhun's blogs (rollover for link). just to salivate over the pictures, if for nothing else. -grins- however be reminded it is in chinese so reading it might be abit of a struggle for people like me.

2007-03-25T15:09:00.000+08:00

sabrina i am gonna kill you. tagging game my ass! -grins-

* this is what you are supposed to cut and paste if you decide to participate in the tagging game. people who get tagged need to write in their blog of their 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. After you do that, leave them each a comment letting them know you tagged them and to read your blog. *

6 wierd things (that people may or may not already know about me):
1. i am such an avid reader that if i dont finish a book within the day i will not fall asleep. there have been times when i've read all through the night until daybreak.
2. ever since watching the movie resident evil, i am extremely paranoid about zombies and anyone that looks sleepy or has an expressionless face seems like a zombie to me. i might accidentally scream if i mistake you for one.
3. i like to eat peanut butter out of the jar. i just take a spoon and scoop it out. yummy! dont spread it on anything! it tastes better without. i can finish a whole jar on my own.
4. cheese! i try to eat as much cheese as i can. and i try to put cheese into everything i eat. i cannot live without cheese. people are disgusted by the amount of cheese i put into my food but i just never tire of cheese.
5. i am deathly afraid of heights. if the railings are made of see-through glass i will not walk past them. even when i am taking the escalators i have the dreaded feeling that i am gonna fall.
6. erm. i have the entire collection of famous five books and i love reading the berenstain bears? ohgod so embarrassing. haha.

i have no idea if these count as wierd. i like to think of myself as normal. however thanks to sabrina, it seems i have no choice in this. i hope the 6 people i name do not hate me. hee.

6 people i've chosen to sabotage into playing the tagging game -hee- :
1. amy (but dont get your hopes up, her blog has such a thick layer of dust i doubt you'll get through)
2. eileen
3. xingzhao
4. cara
5. shermian
6. junze

have fun ! maybe if you think hard enough you'll discover some weird things about yourself you weren't aware of before. -grins-

and Happy Birthday Eileen !

celebrated it with her, hui and sabbie yesterday at settler's cafe. man, its a great place to go to. you can play board or card games while you eat, and the ambience is great. although its in a kinda deserted place. we were quite hesitant to go in at first, since we like to go to high class places and it seemed abit low class. haha. kidding! anyway, the address for the cafe was on level 2. seeing no staircase in sight, eileen spotted a ladder leaning aginst the wall and thought that we were supposed to climb that to the second story. sigh. i rest my case. our new favourite game of the moment is tabboo. i am sure sabrina's is dragon delta. -laughs- felt so taitai that day. we were taking cabs everywhere. refused to walk. haha. highly highly recommend settlers if you're just looking for a place to relax.

sifting through the "bullets" and the "lives". haha.

our foooood

somehow hui managed to get her fingers in the picture

see hui struggling to get into the picture. check out the hysterical expression. haha!

suddenly it got dark

suddenly it got bright

cab uncle took this. he was abit pissed i think.

2007-03-22T22:00:00.000+08:00

special thanks to hui and sabbie for coming down and having lunch with me during my breaks from work the past few days. im so touced. sob.

aaand i passed my basic thoery test ! im so relieved. now i can carry on laughing at others who failed without that nagging feeling of self doubt. haha. im kidding. kidding! barmy i wasnt referring to you, i swear. hee.

2007-03-18T21:34:00.000+08:00

had lunch with my mum after work on saturday. yes i work on saturdays as well. sigh. i feel like i have such a lack of time man. working round the clock really sucks. anyway forced my mum to lunch at pastamania where she complained loudly when my portion was bigger than hers. tsk tsk. she claims she saw wentworth miller, i repeat wentworth miller!! at plaza hotel yesterday! -shrieks and chews fingernails- i cant believe it man! i mean, he cant possibly be in singapore right? riiigghtt? she says he was with another black guy and she's absolutely positive its him. -shrugs-

aand happy birthday to juliet !

celebrated it with her and the rest of the old bball team. little fan couldnt make it, her granny just turned 100! phew! headed to fisherman's village for dinner. the food and ambience there was great except that just as we finished our dinner we realised there were cockroaches! jess and ju started freaking out so we switched tables. felt so disgusted after that. eew. -shudders- anyway, had a great time with them as usual. fatty gong is no longer fat. probably because she goes clubbing and vibrating around to the music helped her to shed a few pounds. have to think of a new nickname for her. haha. learnt 2 new words from jessie. pung and stng. apparently pung was a referral to gong, meaning she looked very punk. however i heard it as pung and felt that this was cooler. haha. stng is when a young pung drives by in his car and blares the music so loudly you can hear the vibration of the music from far away going stng stng stng stng. jess feels that fisherman's village is a very stng place. -grins-

favourite and most irritable song of the moment: smack that ! haha.

being the organiser of juliet's birthday this time round (captie is still in aussie), i have to say it went pretty well (i prefer not to brood over the cockroaches issue). hope the steamboat dinner cum mahjong session gong is planning will come through as well although i hold no high expectations since it is gong organising it after all. oops. -hee-

taking my basic theory test tomorrow! i hope to god i pass or i'll never live it down.

2007-03-11T22:12:00.000+08:00

things that go wrong when you're working in a clinic:
1. the patients bring you their urine samples when they were only supposed to bring you the tab that they were meant to pee on.
2. they insist that they have perfect eyesight and force you to do the eye test multiple times to ensure 100% accuracy.
3. they insist they do not have high blood pressure even though you have tested it three times.
4. they refuse to admit that there might be something wrong with them.
5. you are always afraid that you might contract an incurable illness working there.
6. they yell at you.
7. you yell at them.

check out the sashimi post in felix's blog. ohmygod ! i've never liked sushi but now im definitely never eating sushi again ! especially if its topped with raw fish. i could hardly believe my eyes! you've gotta see this man. its so darn cruel. i felt so traumatised. now i cant bear to look at fish.

p/s: viewer discretion is advised. not for the faint of heart (its not too bad actually. just plain cruel).