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2010-02-26T16:03:00.003+08:00

i am so inconsistent on blogging. i dun really remember my blogger password.

anyway i am not working anymore so life is back to boring, but peaceful times.. now that i have seriously spent an extented period of time working. i realise that studying is indeed much better than working!! no doubt you don't get your financial freedom.. but life as a student is more carefree and less complicated..

over the past month - i got to learn about alot of things at the work place and it seems that humans are really complexed creatures.. and trust... how much do u trust your friends and how much do you trust your own judgement?

hmmmm beneath the cheery surface, dark happenings are ongoing.. and the politics makes it very difficult to trust people. HAIZ. sometimes i am not quick enough to catch onto things.. oh well.. i think it's an important lifeskill and i am glad i have a chance to see what happens at work. so i shall concentrate on studying and enter the workforce.. maybe later. HAHAHHA

counting down to exams. in exactly 3 months time - I WILL NO LONGER BE A STUDENT!! final year! final paper on 26th May 2010!! gotta work really hard so that i can a decent hons. jiayou jiayou jiayou!!

72 days to first paper and counting!!

Sometimes i think too much

2010-02-12T00:28:00.004+08:00

HA. 6 months since my last entry...
tsk tsk tsk.. i am getting lazier and lazier..

hmmmmm.. just started on my serious revision before the prelims.. and as usual, the winning formula is to strategise the cramming period. let's see... slightly more than 1 month before the end of my prelim papers... presently with 2 modules left totally untouched and the other two modules; just half bucket full. my strategy this year is to... kill 3 birds and let the fourth bird fly away. HAHAHAH. i just realised - i am running short of time. but i have yet to feel the urgency..

anyway - i shall try to commit 8 serious hours of study each day and only 6 hours of sleep each day. the rest of my day - i hope god will bless me with the diligence to imprint more data into grey matter.. am i making sense? i dunno. i should seriously stop making sandwiches and start making sense....

Dear me. whatever happened to my promise to myself. that i'll sign that damn clearence form before the lunar new year? the last time i checked.. i was supposed to sign it before the arrival of 2010. oops.. valentines is already here...

FUCK!!

Somehow - thinking too much always makes me wanna smoke.. Maybe soon.. i will be sucking on a cancer stick.

2009-07-08T01:19:00.000+08:00

wah~! it's been a super long time since i last came to blog about anything. almost one and half months~!!

let's see what have i been up to since the last entry.

1. finished my last two papers.

damn sian because i screwed up the Financial Intermediation paper. i screwed up because i couldn't recall all the damn facts. the questions were straight forward and i had prepared the relevent notes prior to the examination so you can say the information were at the back of my mind. but somehow i just COULD NOT REMEMBER ANYTHING!! so my script has no names, no important figures and just some vague . sian - it's a can-score paper leh. urgh...

Corporate Finance paper was damn freaky because almost every question has a part related to efficient market theory. and people who studied it should be able to do decently while those who didn't, can just cry their hearts out. lol.

all in all, the general consenses is that all were GL papers except for Macroecons and ME.

2. after exams destress.

exams ended and i felt more lost than relief because i didn't know what i wanted to do now that exams were over. for the past few months, everyone singlemindedly worked towards preparing for exams ad when exams are over, life seems to be missing something... i did manage to catch half a korean drama and a movie. and life became a bit boring after one week. i think it partly has got something to do with me being very broke and everyone else was still having exams.. tsk tsk tsk..

and i needed funds to go travelling overseas. =(

3. getting a job.

actually i emailed alot of companies but there was no response from them but most companies were looking for a perm admin staff while i am only available for 3 months. sigh.. so i decided to move out of my comfort zone and interview for a job as a service crew in the F&B industry. it was one of the jobs that i kinda shunned in the past. and what do you know.. it's been more than a month since i got this job. i have to say this is my most enjoyable job thus far. because in the past - i never had the chance to talk to my collegues and i was almost always the youngest around.

but now i am happyily working.. and i am happy to work 7 days a week. maybe it's because it's fresh for me and time passes by very fast where i work.. the pay is not high but the people there are really fun~! so the decision to work in F&B had been right! and i was spending my leave in bed. just sleeping my day away. tomorrow is another day.. and i like it that my life is packed and with a purpose. hopefully such good things can last as long as possible.

soon soon

2009-05-15T22:49:00.003+08:00

YES AH - two papers left.
and 4 days to freefom~! i can't hardly wait!

Quite relieved because most of it is already over~! I think alot of people were really excited over the long questions in the macro paper because among them were some questions from last year's paper. i know i was quite excited - even if it was somewhat muted excitement. lol. The lack of sleep kinda made me emotionally numb. By the end of the paper, my eyes were ready to pop out of my head because I was so freaking tired~! didn't even manage to fall asleep that night~!

apparently, this was the only other paper that was reasonably easy. all other papers this year were KILLERS!! omg - i cannot imagine what CF and FI will be like. maybe calculations will be a bitch. sigh~! maybe i wun be able know what they wanted to ask~! just like PBF. omg - this year's exams are so scary..

anyway just to destress - i rewatched some of those japanese game shows. please note: the last one is quite disturbing. but i watched it anyway because the really funny and super disgusting part was near the back. LOL~!

Japanese marshmallow game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1Q3q2zp50w

tug of warhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qMt-FaZw3I

Don't hit me in the balls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLz6guCuWWw

japanese game show (censored - but can still be quite disturbing): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VUApF6jhQ

it is finally here!!

2009-05-07T23:28:00.003+08:00

it's been ages since i last blogged. anyway the day of our exams has finally arrived... so now i can start counting down to the end of exams!! woohoo 12 days to freedom whee~!!!

the next biggest headache is marketing and macroecons because they are both on the same day. so i am thinking of missing out on the marketing paper since my hand definitely can't handle another 3 hours of furious writing after macro... i don't wanna waste one mod when you can easily get a pretty high score. sigh. but i did study for a couple of chapters already. *moans*

wah - macroecons die die must pass this time round because syllbus will be changed next term to become 21 chapters worth of things to study.
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one paper down and four more to go. i shall not keep my hopes high just because being able to do the question doesn't means you are going to get it correct. but i think it's more managable than last year's paper. or maybe i was just too unprepared last year. hahahah this year's exams seems to be on a good start. anyway i think i will cry if i still don't pass POA. not that i am aiming to pass but as you know - the higher your hopes, then the harder you fall.

actually it seems that there is a shift in the university's approach to exams because they are including more short questions to test your knowledge on a wide range of topics rather than depth. maybe they figured out students don't really study and 'cheat' by studying pet topics. now you can't choose things to study - you just study EVERYTHING.

oh man - you know UOL is damn sneaky because i think alot of people where banking on cashflow statements in the POA exams and it didn't come out as a long question!! aiyo!! NPV and the P/L are quite standard so you should already secure 40% of the score. and unexpectedly, financial ratios were the focus this year!! and the cash budget question looked like it was phrased in greek! or maybe i didn't have enough time to read between the lines.

very long never blog arh - sudden;y there is so much that i wanna say. OH YESTERDAY I HAD THE MOST EXCITING BUSRIDE EVER!! i was on 190 from bukit panjang to town area. so it hits the highway and the bloody driver was half asleep. the bus was like snake on the lane. sometimes, the driver would unconciously exceed the borders of the lane, or miss going the wrong way my miliseconds. i was so freaking scared there would be an accident. so irresponsible!! hmppf.

My dream house

2009-04-22T22:20:00.003+08:00

Oh man - i just watched 'Departures' - no wonder the film won an Oscar. nice nice!! combine it with beautiful music and you get a perfect match! I am glad i decided to watch it and i think today was that last day of screening. hmmm. lucky me.

nearer the climax at the end - i was crying so damn hard to suppress my sobs.. the theater was puny so if i burst out crying everyone will know!! and the worst thing that could happen was that i forgot to bring me tissue paper so i had to use my jacket sleeve to wipe away the tears and bits of mucus. lol! disgusting - i know. i might have i cried too much because i am having a headache. oops.

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This is a random post but my blog is growing weeds and cobwebs. i suddenly had this urge to look at real estate and San Francisco seems like a nice place to start. lol. wah fantastic view man..
I am quite stupid to think that TWIN PEAKS, having an excellent paranoma view of the golden bridge etc, wouldn't have people living on it. naive me - that place is packed with villa, terraces and bungalos. some of these houses are so nice!! OMG!! but it's not like i will ever get to live in one. Fucking expensive. Do you have any idea how much one costs? the ones that i really, really liked costs about USD2.5-3.5 mil lah. thats like double the amount if you convert to sing dollars. ($_$)

Front door #1 or #2?

Two living rooms in the house?

Kitchen #1 or #2?

Bathrooms?

the balcony?

bedroom and library - SO NICE RIGHT!!

This is one of my favourites!! i like my house to have alot of windows!!

This is going to be my goal in life. Material goal at least. I wanna own a big house!!! =D

Happy Birthday.

2009-03-26T17:08:00.004+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YUHUA! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!

I shall stop moaning because of my reluctancy to accept that i am growing oldie moldie. *think happy thoughts* Now I blow the 23 candles and may all my wishes come true!!

#1. I wanna visit Japan's Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium (沖縄美ら海水族館, Okinawa Churaumi Suizokukan) with Mommy!!

#2. I wanna conquer Japan!! visit their osen! Eat their wonderful food! See beautiful people!! Wear winter wear!

#3. I wanna travel the world and eat glorious food.

#4. I wanna buy my own semi-detach and deco it anyway i want!

#5. Actually - I want to own many houses and deco them anyway I want and still be able to rent them out.

#6. I wish I were an investment whizkid make my money work for me!

#7. I wanna do community work.

#8. I want an enjoyable job that pays like super duper well. Be my own boss maybe?

#9. I want be like my brother - eat loads of good food and still not get fat.

#10. I wanna to start driving again.

#11-23: The usual goood health. good results. Happiness to friends and family. peace and harmony. be a better person.. find the love of my life... yada.. yada...

Okay - I know I have alot of wants that aren't feasible at the moment but I mean alot of them's possible if I had TONNES OF MONEY. The power of money.. wah... It's not possible for money to fall from the sky. So let me win all the top 3 prizes for TOTO, 4D and BIG SWEEP for the entire year!! muahahaha

I bet that's what everyone else wants. bleah.

Anyway I popped this question to my parents..
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF ONE DAY YOU FOUND A BAG FULL OF MONEY?!

Seriously. I bet you never really gave it much thought. I was thinking for a few nights and I couldn't come up with an answer. To take or not to take....

AGAINST 'JUST TAKE IT':
Reason 1:- Ransom money. A few million dollars that a family begged and borrowed to their kin and you took it. kidnapped person ends up dead. It's bad for Karma
Reason 2:- Drug trafficker's cash. you steal from us - we kill you.
Reason 3:- Drug trafficker's cash. The police might think you were one of them and arrest you. Then beat you into submission and give you the death penalty. What a way to die..
Reason 4:- You just ain't that lucky. What are the chances that God's being so nice to drop cash at your feet? You will probably have more luck trying to get knocked down by a car.

AGAINST 'NOT TO TAKE':
Reason 1:- Finders, Keepers. Whoever comes after you might take it and enjoy his newfound pot of gold.
Reason 2:- Greed's my middle name. I just can't bear the thought of leaving a pile of cash on the floor.
Reason 3:- Your parents are getting old. They could do with early retirement.
Reason 4:- Just think about the power of money. You can fulfil most of your birthday wishes this year.

So what is my final verdict. My mind tells me it is better not to take. But my heart wouldn't bear for me to part with the money. Maybe when that day comes when such a situation presents itself - I might be so filthy rich that that kinda money will be peanuts to me. So why would I wanna pick up peanuts off the streets? muahahaha

interesting book

2009-03-25T17:33:00.002+08:00

ooo. i chanced upon this article on the net and i think that i just might go buy this guy's book. lol. this book's called "Act like a lady, Think like a man" by Steve Harvey.

it's a book about adting advice for women but i think that it's quite an interesting read! this is my favourite part.. =)

Gone Fishin'
Steve says men are like fishermen — but women are actually the ones looking for a good catch. You won't be able to find one, though, until you up your standards. "You've got sports fishermen, and you've got guys out there fishing to eat. You've got guys that are fishing to keep the fish, and you've got guys that are fishing to catch them, unhook them and throw them back," Steve says. "You've got to determine along the way which one of the fish you're going to be."

Without ironclad standards, Steve says you'll always end up back in the dating pool. "You've got to quit lowering your standards," he says. "Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business."

And don't let the man set the pace of the relationship — Steve says it's always the woman who has total control. "With all that power, why do you suddenly relinquish this power just because you want a guy to accept you? That's stupid," he says. "Say: 'Look, if you want to be with me, this is what you got to do. This is what it takes to get to me.'"

Article on MSN Relationship
Book Excerpts from Oprah.com

Macau 2009 Day Three

2009-03-24T23:08:00.005+08:00

A good journey must start with a good meal. Our 1st breakfast was okay, abit boring. so our journey that day was also abit boring too. Hahaha this looks like a scene from old Chow Yun Fat movies - sitting puny chairs at road side stalls eating local breakfast. But they still serve wonderful Pork Chop Buns.

We crossed the border into Zhuhai (Pearl River) - that's part of China. I am not very brave so I we didn't eat food from the little shophouses. went to look at their wet markets though. and i have never seen so much vegetable and pork in my life.

But these are really the fresh food people. Even i being a nood at marketing can tell it's very fresh. But if you are looking for dried goods like dried scallop etc, it is still better to buy it Macau or HongKong. My dad was conned. HAHAHAHAH.

bird nest egg tarts, pastry, zhu chang fen fried in XO saucecream buns, har kwau, siew mai, porriage - hmmmm my favourite kind of breakfast. *big grin*

Sight seeing - for 30 cents i got to see this OLD, OLD, OLD temple. I love the architecture. I think China's littered with old temples. But it feels great stepping into one.

Plus, you get to see real monks there. not like the ones in singapore who carry iPhones and drive Merchedes.. Whatever happened to those humble Buddhist teachings to be frugal and have no desires?

Then for S$2, I got to see this White Elephant in some random part of Zhuhai after a 90 min bus ride. Developed claustropohia because I couldn't really move much in my cramped seat and my ass nearly glued itself to the chair.

but I got to saw a real life bottle-tree!! So cute!!

The white elephant mentioned above was an amusement park + spa and that was just one small part it. It's even bigger than our National Stadium multiplied by two!!!

oh i nearly forgot to add. If you intend to buy fake branded bags and pouch - Zhuhai is the place to go. just don't get caught on the way into Macau.

Dinner was back at that same resturant because we had no idea whereelse to eat. I know breakfast was not bad but dinner was super oishii leh!! Plus it's so darn cheap!!

Oh~! You have no idea how fast I inhaled the food!! It's almost disgusting!! hahahhaha. but what to do? Food must be eaten when it's hot. I am a masochist - I love to eat food that's pipping hot. And for two people so ALMOST finish so much food. it's quite an achievement. Ha!

2009-03-19T00:41:00.002+08:00

Hey people - i know this is damn random but i saw this vid and i think it's SUPER DUPER cute!

Little girl's watever

hope you enjoyed it.

Macau 2009 Day two

2009-03-07T20:46:00.002+08:00

氹仔 Taipa Island

--[[ Breakfast@Cafe Taipa ]]--
First stop - Taipa Gourmet village. It's an entire block of shophouses resturants and bakeries. Sigh - good food lah. *jealous*

small little cafe with alot of choices - 149 to be exact.

the juicy pork chop bun. everything straight from the pan!!

北帝古廟 - estimated 300 year old ancient temple. Taipa itself is pretty peaceful and since it was early in the morning - the serenity of the temple reaches all the way into your soul and suddenly you feel like you have stepped into another world. very at peace like you don't have anything to worry about. Wah~~ feeling the stress from the coming exams - i do wonder if i should become a nun.. but i am a carnivour with raging hormones so i will never last more than a week. HAHAHHAHA..

OH YA - my virgin lot picking (qiu qian) was done at this temple. i was DAMN FREAKING ANXIOUS THE WHOLE TIME. FLUSTERED as to how to ask and shake the container, and AFRAID - what kind of lot was i going to be given. EMBARRESSED that i couldn't do it despite my numerous attempts. well - they always a good horse does not turn back on the path that it has walked on but damn i wasn't going to give up after flying many, many miles to reach macau. i finally succeeded on my fourth attempt!! yes - you shall succeed if you persever lol. *happy*

--[[ Portugese egg tarts@ Lord Stow's ]]--
**Warning: Best portugese egg tarts in Macau**

HEAVENLY TARTS. busy eating lah.. forgot to take photo of the food.

--[[ lunch@法蘭度餐廳:- 路環黑沙海灘9號地下 ]]--

Important step - taking a walk to digest breakfast. old man sat at one of the beach bench to enjoy the ocean breeze. i went down to play with the sand. see - the sand in black. but i wouldn't go there a second time again though. nothing much there.

Restaurante Fernando - outside. recommended by a gourmet program.

Restaurante Fernando inside.

ang moh, ang moh. but too bad lah.. not cute.. =(

i decided to cam-whore abit before food came. actually i wanted to compare and see how round my face will become after this entire trip. now - you can still see my chin and jaw. hahahha i expected it to be SUPER round later.

yes - those buns are big but please do not overlook the innocent looking jug there. it costs more than MOP100 about S$20+. it is red wine mixed with alot of other stuff. quite nice. quite ex too. hmmm. and we didn't manage to finish it. *heart ache*

garlic prawns. sweet with the fragrance of garlic. not too bad

this isn't your usual roast suckling pig. i don't know what spices they used but the crispy skin has a great taste to it!

salt and pepper roasted pork ribs - sound nice right? so-so only lah. my dad the butcher reckons that they used frozen ribs rather than fresh ones - hence the lack of juices. so i conclude that this expensive meal is only so-so only. $100 for 2? not going back again.

can you guess which hotel is this?

this is only a small part of a big ass six star hotel

ans: The Venetian by Four Seasons.

in search of dinner - we came to the less glamourous part of macau. and finally i managed to find road side stores!! you don't see many in Hongkong anymore. they are going extinct.

i intend to go back there for dessert. =)

fishing port.

i know it's a see of red but you should have been there to see them slaughter the fish. you can still see the gills moving.. *shudders*

i like to visit these streets. i didn't see much of them in hongkong 3 years ago. it makes me feel like i am in another time dimension. lol. i think chinatown used to be like that too. maybe a lot dirtier.

i think Singapore is abit too clean and too new. lol. so everything loses it uniqueness. which is very sad. why can't we retain abit of the old culture leh?

never heard of the phrase - ''jia you ti lao, ru you yi bao"?

eh - our sight-seeing was much longer than intended. we walked for nearly an hour before we found this place. it is supposedly very good. eh - my picky tastebuds have reconfirmed that fact. it is good and worth every second of search.

--[[ dinner@六記粥:- 地址 : 新馬路沙梨頭仁慕巷1號D（29號碼頭對面) ]]--

prawn wanton in fish soup. wah~ the first of many good things to come.

chilli clams. OMG how come so nice!! it looks so normal!!

crab and chicken porriage. OMG OMG OMG O.M.G. it's so nice!!

another night of sight seeing.

after walking so much - we decided to retire to the hotel early. wrong move. we should have gone to the Fishermen's Wharf. damn.

Let's meet up

2009-03-03T19:17:00.000+08:00

wooo~! the first week of mock just ended. slacking after papers are a must for me. actually i am just getting lazier. ho ho ho...

anyway POA mock was an adrenaline rush during the 15 minutes reading time. ' too exicited' to seeing the questions and realising you forgot how to handle disposal etc - sian. It's not like it affects my final score so i don't even know why i was so excited. plus the format had alot more theory questions this time so for the real thing they are also going to that too. oh no~!!! BAD cuz i will have alot more things to remember but GOOD cuz theory also makes it easier to score. you either know it or you don't.

Macro today was done at OTOT. slowly see slowly do. end up not doing the short questions because i don't know how to do the short questions!! hahahah it's not like i am going to pass the mock. oh well~! but i am quite confident that i am more prepared for exams than i was last year. let's hope i do it well this year. =)

anyway this is a super delayed update. a few days before chinese new year - i had a date with 3 gorgeous women. plus me equal four.

the star of the day was our dinner. super oiishii. i am gg back for more!

me being the mountain tortise that i am - only recently realised that there were shops in haji lane that sell clothes and accessories. and almost all of them are freaking expensive. but really nice lah. if i were a rich man's daughter, i will go there regularly to shop instead of going to zara or F21. hahaha

did i mention that i love the way some of the shop houses were deco-ed inside? super sweet and some are really my style. simple and cosy =) i actually don't mind living in one of this shophouses again.. hee hee. i used to live in one. HAHAHA!!! how cool is that??

anyway can you recognise the book? wah~ super nostalgic lah. i think everyone had at least owned or read this book - exactly the same cover design.

anyway i think coming of age and having more cash has it perks. now i can go hang out with friends till late at night. go for a night movie marathon if i wanted to. have supper and maybe go overseas with friends.

cakes - not very nice tho. hmm..

posing

posing.

anyway mocks is ending soon. my birthday is coming too. and i wanna mambo..
should i? hmm...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEIN

2009-02-26T18:45:00.005+08:00

went off to celebrate weiying's 23rd birthday. sigh - everyone is refusing to come to terms with the fact that we are moving further and further away from being 21. aka turning OLDER. ok that's a TABOO word now..

SIGH.. wo lao le..

anyway we went to central for japanese food. it is like a jap-food lover's haven! there are alot of japanese resturants. we wanted to try Ma-Mansion but we were too hungry to wait. by the time we get to our food - it will already be 9 plus!! we will go there next time.. FOR MY BIRTHDAY! i will make reservations. =)

so we ended up at wakashachiya curry udon - i am going back for more. =)

unagi something. hahahha but it tastes really good.

katsu curry udon with cheese.

tori kar-something curry udon

my pork cutlet curry udon

posing abit while waiting for food.

i think it is franchised from japan - but it doesn't seem very authentic. lol. cuz my impression of Japanese curry is sweet and really not spicy. but this one has the smell of Indian curry powder! i mean sushi tei's curry is sickeningly sweet. so i actually prefer this one. perhaps wakashachiya's curry is more authentic than sushi tei. hmmm..

sigh - they are the ones whom i meet up the most apart from the softballers and people i see in sch. don't meet very frequently but i love it when we talk about everything under the sun. =D plus a big thank you to Sheena for treating us to dessert at SUN and MOON at central. eh - dessert wasn't nice though.

green tea tiramisu - my friend loves it. i think it's okay.

my favourite simply because i love sweet potatoes.

this was a bad choice.

was supposed to have supper and watch movies after that. no place to park the car, no seats for us to eat. and we had to wait 2 hours for any movie to start. plus i veto against watch slumdog millionaire. but it was a bad move!! i decided that i wanted to watch it the next day~!!! *gives myself a mental slap on the head*

Macau 2009 Day one

2009-02-24T11:33:00.012+08:00

PLACE: MACAU
DATE: EARLY FEB 2009
PURPOSE: VACCATION

Sigh~ nothing beats having a relaxing vaccation and enjoying fresh and delicious food. i wouldn't say the food is cheap though. it is roughly the same as sin but definitely nicer!

i know exams are coming but i think i have been studying since like the start of the year so why not? re-charge abit before sinking into the fiery hell of mugging... oh - i miss Macau already. i think i might have left my soul there, somewhere. hohoho!!

Macau is damn puny - but you need to be a cow if you wanna eat all the wonderful, wonderful food that the place has to offer. i might not have four stomachs but mine is sufficiently large enough to stomach five to six meals a day. muahahahhahahhaha.. *grinning gleefully*

but i realise something - you can hardly find any plump people there. i mean there were only skinny, skinny young people around. why arh? i mean that country has so much good food - how can one not grow fat there?

--[[ breakfast@梁慶記粥粉麵食:- 福隆新街 21 號 ]]--
anyway bumped round and wala~! my gourmet journey starts with a small shop.

my first meal upon touching down: pig liver and intestine porriage. YUMMMMM... never had congee so smooth.

that's 福隆新街 in the evening. White shophouses with red doors and windows. so nice~!! 雲吞 (wanton soup) and 蝦子撈竹昇麵 (shrimp roe noodles). wah~! can't find such springy noodles anywhere in singapore!! *sobs*

--[[ lunch@澳門米糙巷營地街市市政綜合大樓 ]]--

this is like chinatown's wet market many years back. i grew up in chinatown so this brings back memories~!!

boxes of live shrimp and fish!

Pork, lungs, liver head, tongue - all hooked up.

worst meal ever - never going to eat fried wanton ever again.

--[[sightseeing@Senada Square]]--

senado square in the day time. this is where you can find St Dominic Church - it's got a very church feeling, not like some of singapore's commericalised churchs. nice feeling =)

one of Macau's icons - Ruins of St Paul's. and the inside of Leal Senado Building

Sam Kai Vui Kun Temple

i LOVE the temples in Macau - you feel really, really peaceful the moment you step into one.

Casino Lisboa

Grand Lisboa hotel

found this inside the Grand Lisboa hotel.one word - WOAH.

--[[ dinner]]--
nothing fantastic about this but i love the noodles. i saw this african man eating there with his friend. i think he was conversing with the waitress in cantonese but i had NO IDEA what he was talking about. i bet he's a regular there. that's why the waitress was tuned to his frequency..

that plate of fish skin might look kinda gross but surprisingly crunchy!!

pig trotters' noodle

fish ball made from a special kind of fish. not a fan of it though.

--[[ dessert@杏香園 - 澳門清平直街13號 ]]--
hahahahah i think this place sells nice dessert~! i mean i don't see much dessert houses in Macau but this is over 140 different types.. so yes - you can go eat one every night and you have to stay in Macau for 3, 4 months.

my dad's chestnut something something with coconut milk i think.

my manga fruit, with coconut ice cream. totally sinful. endorphin-rush.

--[[ more sightseeing ]]--

Leal Senado Building at night

one of my dear hotel stays - Wynn Hotel

inside Wynn watching the 'lucky tree'

view from Macau Tower

that concludes the first day of my Macau tour! i was dog tired because i was walking every moment. i only sit when i am eating.

pimples pimples growing on my face.

2009-02-19T12:41:00.004+08:00

wah~! what a beautiful view.. i wish i could see this every morning.

Anyway i thoroughly enjoyed myself the 5 days i was in Macau. seriously! i was living the lifestyle of a pig because apart from the time when i woke up - there was never a moment that i am left hungry. please don't freak out if i tell you i had about 5 to 6 meals a day.

i wake up at 6 plus, have my 1st breakfast at 7.15am then my 2nd breakfast at 10am. 1st lunch at 1.30pm... but i mean there is nothing else to do but eat there mah. it's stil winter sale so i can't buy their stuff..

will blog about macau when i finish uploading the photos.. hee hee.. i think i gained 3 kg again. ARGHHH.. vaccations are always the death of my diet plans.. *sobs*
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wah~! exams period is here! and my laptop keeps crashing on me again!! i think this is fate's way of telling me i should just focus on studies and sleep whenever i have the time. sigh.. how can i live without my computer man.. i am already having withdrawal symptons. tsk tsk tsk..

anyway hormones, good food and stress is disfiguring my face. OMG.. small bumps are pimples, whiteheads, blackheads are SPROUTING all over my face lah~~~~~~ sobs.. how~ my beautiful face..i think i will reward myself with a face mask every three days for all the hare core studying.... hahahahahaha the government's money is all going to go to my face~!!!

yeah~! it's almost 1pm - i should go continue studying.. i haven't touched F.I yet.. i am so dead. 1st mock paper is on the 2nd of March!! OMFG!!

get drunk.. get drunk..

2009-02-04T21:22:00.003+08:00

ok - i have been lazy. not been blogging at all.. lol..
chinese new year was good. very good despite the lack of festive mood.

anyway last night was spent at arena. it has no cover charge!! i was so damn wasted yesterday - i couldn't even stay still. that was unprecedented for me because i normally stop when i think my head feels like tweety bird's. i left the club feeling damn high and bordering on drunk. everything was funny and people do stupid things together. plus i was talking alot of nonsense i think. i bet the whole lot of us looked damn ridiculous...

blame it on my misjudgement.. and lost of control - i totally lost control after playing the dice game. but i was turned into a merlion not due to the alcohol but the culpruit was actually the innocent-looking cup of hot chocolate that i drank before i went drinking. i am not supposed to consume too much milk but i had no idea starbuck's hot chocolate would be so potent! the ones sold at school were ok leh~!

so the ultimate victim was my poor stomach that had to handle the indigestable lactose and the alcohol. wah~! my stomach was burning the whole night.. the experience was extremely horrible and for a moment - i thought i was going to die. a terribly drunk person would clear up after 2, 3 throw ups. but i was throwing up bile, acid, alcohol and all sorts of unknown fluids for nearly 4 hours..

i am not kidding - it was a tortorous 4 hours. no wonder my throat is all sore plus my stomach still feels like it's still burning.

in future - i am not going to drink more than a glass next time.
if possible - i should even stop drinking. =S
end of entry.

lewd

2009-01-16T14:21:00.002+08:00

breast examination advert.

banned soccer commercial.

just bored when i was studying. hahahahaha i am quite sure people who read my blog are able to stomach a few lewd but funny commericals. =)

ponyo

2009-01-14T21:41:00.004+08:00

i think i had too much junk over a span of a few days. been having tummyaches these few days. was it the ma-la steamboat? the street food? chendol? curry fishball? tsk tsk tsk.. i hope tomorrow will be a happier toliet day.

but ma la steamboat with shuwen and many people that day was damn shiok lah! plus shuwen's sister was totally funny!! she punked kyoko so much it was hilarious!! i hope that we get to have another round of steamboat again soon. like soon soon cuz i am craving for ma-la steamboat. hahahha!! i am a steamboat-fanatic and i eat alot when it comes to steamboat!

i can't wait for chinese new year to come. steamboat. steamboat. ang bao. ang bao. ang bao... COME...

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eh - i watched PONYO some time ago. it's a weird show and i am quite sure it is targeted at the age group of 12 and below. my friend was left hanging and lost somewhere in between because the plot never really go a chance to develop. i just wanted to catch the cute graphics and i think that the hand-drawn graphics were really very nice. totally worth the money despite a dubious plot.

i went on monday and the small theater was actually full with about 30% of the crowd being school girls. for the first time in my life - i saw a angmoh otaku. there were two sitting near us. they were probably fans of STUDIO CHIBI because they pumped their hands in the air when the logo for the studio appeared.

you should have seen the immense aura of otaku-ness emitting from them. from sloppy hair, afro hair and their attire. plus they made themselves totally at home with pillows, blankets and they littered the floor with their rubbish. knn... who said singaporeans were ungracious. ang mohs are too!!

-spoiler alert-
there are funny, sweet and cute moments in the movie and they were enhanced by the beautiful drawings. but at some point a feel-happy show was turned into a horror movie for kids because the sea started possessing scary eyes and kidnapping people. Ponyo, the cute goldfish even mutated into a human and chicken hybrid!! i was mortified to see it.

but i suppose that is enough horror and suspense for a kid. i can't expect them to process complex adult emotions. but that is how fairytales are like - no logic. not possible to take place in real life. if fairytales were logical, then they wouldn't be called fairytales.

tattooooooo

2009-01-09T21:42:00.004+08:00

wah~! Expo is having a tattoo exibition! i wanna go actually but they are charging $18 for a ticket.. i am quite giam nowadays. i think i mentioned before that i wanted to get a tattoo but i have no idea what to get. and no idea where to put it too.. no idea whether i really, really want it..

but one thing i am very sure - i will be disowned if my parents ever found out i had a tattoo. hahaha i am still stuck at the same spot ya know. *sigh* come to think about it - a BARCODE tattoo is quite cool. but i have no idea what it might symbolise though.

i have short-listed a few place i want to have it on.

#1 - inside of the wrist

#1 - Palm

both spots tie at the first place because having the barcode anywhere on the hand/wrist really appeals to me. and i especially love the design of the tattoo on the right - minus the SLAVE.

But having a tattoo in either places also means that there will be alot of jobs that i can't do since the hand is one of the most prominant body part. and i am 100% sure no employer wants a female employee, with a tattoo on her hand, shaking hands with their potential clients.

the only acceptable situation is that i become a hip-hop artist. lol then i will have loads of chances to show off my tattoo when i do the 'PUT YOUR HANDS UP! PUT YOUR HANDS UP!' lol.

so the next three most likely places to put them is:

#3 - Nape of the neck

#4 - small of my back

#5 - somewhere on my thigh

and then need to think about the sign and what text to put with the barcode.. how about Y1043H? *pouts*

EXILE GA DAISUKI!!

2009-01-08T18:17:00.004+08:00

i am totally in love with this japanese band - EXILE. even though they look like they might be hip hop band - their lead singer's voices are really soothing.. Atsushi-san! Takahiro-san!! last year, they released three compilation albums! wah~! i want them!! i must go down to heeren soon~!!!

they have been around for quite a long time already. and one of their lead singers was replaced. Shun left EXILE, and in came Takahiro. well he has big shoes to fit. since they are THE MOST POPULAR band in Japan.

i mean - they are even bigger than Arashi. but i am kinda puzzled by the presence of performers/dancers in the band.

this is Takahiro and his bod is seriously has a damn hot ok. and he looks quite baby-faced.

i bet he can be their poster boy. *drooling over him*

apparently - alot of Japanese are not readily accepting him since he is still new in the band. hmmm... ok enough talking about them.

these are my favourite songs by them:

EXILE - I Believe

EXILE - Lovers Again

EXILE - Ti Amo

EXAMS ARE KNOCKING ON MY DOOR!!

2009-01-07T00:13:00.004+08:00

OH MAN..

i just looked at the preliminary examination timetable for this year and it kinda sucks lah!!

Princples of Accounting: 07th May, Thurs, 10am - 1.15pm
Macroeconomics: 13th May, Wed, 10am - 1pm
Princples of Marketing: 13th May, Wed, 2.30 - 5.30pm
Financial Intermediation: 20th May, wed, 10am - 1pm
Corporate Finance: 21th May, Thurs, 2.30 - 5.30pm

everything over in two weeks' time. this year's exams are going to end quite early for me. last year's exams ended in mid june for me... but Macro and Marketing together on the same day is just too much man!! i don't think my hand can make it to 4pm sia.... two essay-based exams in one day. knn.. from past experience - you need at least 1 1/2 days for your brain to recharge and function properly due to the mental and emotional exhaustion.

two papers in a day is enough to keep you nua for 2 days at least. 7 days to recouperate and mug for FI and CF. where got enough! HAIZ. both CF and FI are quite similar but i am scared i will jumble the two modules up. i am going to keep my fingers crossed and hope that the CF paper has essays that allows me to use FI materials.... urgh.. perhaps they might end up making changes to the timetable and spread my papers out abit. hahhaha perhaps, perhaps, perhaps...

my only consoliation is that i am that the one who has 5 papers in 5 days. *faints*

haiz. i am always feeling jittery around this time of the year. FUCK. 4 months to exams and i just started reading up for my FI module~! omg and my macroecons is like growing cobweds too!! omg. omg. omg. omg!!

on a lighter note: i am excited that Chinese New Year is coming! invited two new friends to join me for reunion dinner. lol. i am kinda at a loss as to how i am going to talk to them when they come over. we have abit of communication breakdown actually.. hahaha see how lah.

my first paper is exactly four months aaawwwaaayyy.. hhhhooowww...
*moans*

singapore drama

2009-01-05T23:22:00.000+08:00

wah~ i just watched the finale of little nyoya - nice nice!! it's been a long time since i sat in front of the TV to catch a drama... hee hee.

my fren - the queen of HKG dramas predicted the ending of yuenniang - up to 90% accuracy sia. *kowtow* anyway it is a good show lah. hopefully someone will buy the DVD, then i can borrow and watch! hahahhahahha. yeah!! i think qi yu wu is damn charming wor...

and they are filming perfect cut 2!! yeah! i think it is a great show. loved it!!

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One more Drink - Ludacris feat. T-pain

this is one song that i am very into at the moment. and it's MV is even more hilarious. anyway i think that i am officially an alcoholic because everyone is calling me that - but i am not!! seriously - but i haven't stepped into a bar/club in 3 months!!

Fish Leong - one on one

i love the dog in this MV by Fish Leong. it is sooo cute lah!! totally adorable. but i have a phobia of dogs. they totally freak me out - especially those hyperactive ones. i just scream and run and i don't even know why i am so scared of them!! sigh - but i can't deny that they are cute leh.

can someone teach me how to overcome my inner fear?

in 3 weeks time - chinese new year will be around the corner! yeah!!

2009-01-04T16:27:00.003+08:00

yesterday was RV2K's - 10th ANNIVERSARY DINNER@NYDC was damn disappointing lah. out of our class of 34 : 15 people confirmed their attendence at the facebook events page. on the actual event, only 8 people turned up. totally sad turnout but it was a wonderful dinner nonetheless. i mean i do have wonderful classmates. =)

The people who turned up: Junyue, Quentin, JinHsien, Weijian, Sheena, Adelene, and Adrian. Hopefully the next dinner will have more people showing up! =D

been looking at alot of funny/banned commericals recently. please enjoy. hahaha

Robbing a bank.

Mama said I could!!

banned commerical for glasses

hahahaha i love funny commericals. lol.

2009-01-01T00:00:00.000+08:00

HAPPY 2009!
start the new year with a laugh! the following video has alot of sex-related topics.
*you have been warned*

russel peters - hot cashier girl

hahaha it was damn funny!

NYE

2008-12-31T13:07:00.003+08:00

Wah~! i love love my new hairstyle.
it's been 5 years since i last had hair so short that i can't tie up.. so you can guess how short my hair is. hee hee hee.. but it's nice leh. hopefully it is not a hassel when it starts growing longer.

apparently everyone has been telling me that i look so refreshed with short hair. hmm. looks like i might stick with it. then i don't lose so much hair as well. and save money on shampoo too. HAHAHHAHA! what nonsense.

anyway i forgot to blog on xmas so i am going to blog on new year's eve.

exactly one year ago, i was highly anticipating a wonderful countdown in taipei. my 2008 literally started with a bang as i watched fireworks sprouting from taipei 101 at the stroke of midnight. but i can't say that i am anticipating anything this year since there isn't any festive mood this year. in short - 2008 was just miserable and it will be even more miserable in 2009. i pray that in the coming year - there will be less natural or man-made disasters while we battle to overcome this financial tsunami. i shall also pray for good health and good finances. hahahahahaha.

i shall not disclose new year resolution because they are too personal. but one of the most important things is - i am looking forward to the 10th anniverary dinner this weekend!! =)

PONYO! PONYO! PONYO~!

2008-12-29T00:06:00.003+08:00

i totally wanna watch this japanese animation - Ponyo on the Cliff By the Sea.

it's directed by the same director of Totoro and Howl's Moving Castle - Hayao Miyazaki . i was smitten by its cuteness when i watched its trailer on tv the other day. even the theme song is cute! PONYO PONYO PONYO~!

actually the plot plot centers on a baby fish in the sea named Ponyo who becomes a human girl. In pursuing her goal, she befriends a five-year-old human boy, Sōsuke.

it is supposed to be a love story i think and it doesn't sound very strong. hahahhaha. but i will watch it anyway since it's one of those feel happy movies - i think. it must have been quite popular because there is this whole range of movie related mercandise in japan. even the little girl who sang the theme song was on MusicStation's Super Live... wah! i wanna have a ponyo too! lol but it's a total waste of money. lol.

i intend to watch it sometime later in the week. woosh! on days whre they have student price.

Ponyo on the Cliff By the Sea trailer.

while we celebrated christmas not so many days ago - we are already preparing for chinese new year. wah so fast sia. less than 1 month to go! the 12 days of christmas aren't over yet. anyway - this year's xmas celebrations was quite sad since everyone was busy with work. sigh.. what to do. NC girls only half strength leh.

4 of 8:- Huibing, Yvonne, Fiona and me.

that is what i love about christmas - it is like an excuse to make it almost complusory for all the old buddies to meet. we only meet each other once a year but we love each other just as much and we never run out of things to say to each other. friends for life. =) loved~!

the almighty organiser. when will it be someone else's turn? anyway as suggested by a member - we shall switch from giving everyone presents to presents exchange.. less headaches.

one the same day - shuwen and i went to watch yukiko caroling at Plaza Sing.

hahahaha she was soo nervous!! her hands were clammy. lol. There were alot of groups caroling that day - all from different nations. so cool.

the weather has been superb so far. wonderful cool winds. too bad it is coming to an end because the sun is shining TOO BRIGHTLY these days.. bleah.

International BBQ

2008-12-28T21:50:00.004+08:00

wah! super long never update. been busy with christmas and looking at christmas sales. damn - i am poor again. and all the festive binge. arh.... anyway i was invited to a BBQ at west coast park with yukiko's classmates on one fine day.

everyone in! group photo!!

it was a very different experience since it was like an international meeting. hmm there were Japanese, Koreans, Americans, British, Chinese, Indonesians and singaporeans. how cool is that.

actually - ok only lah. i was expecting it to be super happening but i seems that most of them were older adults so they were all really rational people. totally not active. no balls to play, no funny jokes. they kept playing this game called - sharades?! i have no idea how to spell it but basically you are not allowed to talk and using body language - you have to express what you want others to guess. yesh i love guessing but i totally hate coming out to express using body language.

the only ones our age were these korean sisters. she is the younger one and seriously - she is damn cute lah. i have her number - you want?

her sister is more sassy. but both are pretty and skin is good. lol! i look like i am trying to advertise them!! but seriously ALL THE GIRLS in this photo are wonderful females lah. should meet up with them again before they all fly elsewhere. then next time if i wanna go korean, i have her!

OH! and i got to eat the most delicious KIMCHI and YAKISOBA ever! i have eaten horrible kimchi so its a no no. and the kimchi they brought was really, really nice! anyone wants me to introduce? one of the japanese dudes was cooking the yaki soba. NICE! i ate a big bowl.

we had mussels (cooked in white wine), spare ribs, wings, german sauages, sotong and lots of other stuff. first time i have had such wonderful food at BBQ. what do we singaporeans eat? franks, fishballs, wings, otah and crab sticks. aiyo so un-atas man.

i totally stand out in this photo when everyone else is wearing grey. and i have no idea what came over me when i did that pose. by the way - me and my friend both agree that the guy in this photo has most of the characteristics that we want in our future husbands. and so - he is already happily married. DAMN.

the men - guess whose japanese? can't really tell right?! the two at the corners! the guy on the right is damn zhai ok. he speaks chinese, japanese and english FLUENTLY. plus he is only 25. totally single and available. i initially thought he was indonesian cuz he was talking to some indo. aiya - damn wasted. he is now somewhere in indonesia working. damn..

All with happy smiles! hahahha cute people. hope to meet them again soon. and i realised i forgot to wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

tour guiding.

2008-12-21T14:59:00.003+08:00

SIGH~!

my sister just came back from osaka. damn envious! i wanna go too! the food is so, so much nicer too! and its like natural air-con. the sun is sunny but the wind is cooling. wah!! my kinda weather sia! can wear multi layer clothings!! the most common thing in osaka was those vending machines. they vend everything and anything! woots! i am going gaga already.

ok - AUGUST!! i will go japan with shuwen!!
please make your kind donation to the ''SEND YUHUA TO JAPAN FUND!''

was talking to yukiko the other day and she commented that she had culture shock when she came here. reason being: it was rare to find a vending machine. and so when she was thirsty, she didn't know where to get a drink apart from convenient stores. HAHAHAHA! quite funny actually. never occurred to me that other people will feel lost without vending machines..

anyway was with this group of Osaka students.. tagged along with shuwen for her tourguiding.. no group photo available. anyway - it is scary how much they can eat. for starters - they have mac. then they have a main course at the food court. some guys even have a second main course. wah!!! young and energetic - can eat more!

at Macs. stomachs no longer growling = happy people.

at neoprint station. they love taking neoprints lah!

at sentosa. i didn't go with them to sentosa. so we parted ways here. =)

check out this guy's hair. when i first that he had half of his hair shaved off - i was like gangster!? but he is super friendly lah! a jolly good fello~!

apparently this is a hairstyle for men in Japan that gives the illusion of thinner but longer hair. some japanese male artists sport this style too.. example - yamapi?

but sadly - it is not acceptable in singapore. yup even for me - my first reaction of him was 'pai-kia'.

apparently - my sister's friend sported this same hairstyle in her school and the next day, the boy got kicked out. tsk tsk tsk... i bet he refused to do crew-cut so he got kicked out. hahahaha

ok i shall end off with vids. the boys wanted to ask this chio bu for a photo. hahahha and they were like so nervous! lol they kept practising - 'can i take a photo with you?'

amused - lol

i wanna go for a mind-blowing concert!!

2008-12-09T20:08:00.003+08:00

oh man - i was watching a namie amuro concert vid and i think that the concerts in japan are so cool! seriously! especially those johnny's concerts. all the fan girls there are super hard-core because everyone was moving in sync with the music. PRACTICALLY EVERYONE knows the song's signature dance handmoves.

serious the stadium was packed and it was probably 3 times bigger than the singapore indoor stadium!! then everyone is just moving to the music!! how come their concert is so high one!! OMG i wanna go for namie and johnny's concerts!

i wanna have a mind-blowing concert experience!!
where do u get that in singapore?! hmmm...
apart from zouk's mambo night? hmm that doesn't even classify i think.

oh yes - i read in the chinese papers that a couple are going to jail for having sex on the dubai beach. LIKE WTH - i mean i know people do that kinda things but.. to be caught for it and being brought to the world's attention is seriously.. the most embarressing thing in the world. i bet it was super exciting doing it in the open but.... hmmm.

some china woman and her lover were kissing too hard. so passionate was the kiss that it hurt her eardrums and she went DEAF. like WTF right? apparently, kissing does something to the pressure in the earsdrum. omg. does it mean that our body automatically drowns out noises when humans kiss and gives the illusion that time slows down and everything else dulls out when we smack our lips together and suck hard? OMG.. shock.... i learnt something new today...

anyway - i predict mock exams to be here at around mid Feb so i should have about 2 months left. and roughly 5 months before exams start. hmmm. absolutely fantastic. =) SIGH~ so dun feel like studying.

BASEBALL - SOFTBALL

2008-12-05T22:10:00.002+08:00

thanks to shuwen - i am now in lobe with a old old baseball drama - 'H2'. Super nice!! woots! i love all the baseball bits. =D lol. and it stars one of my favourite japanese actors! Yamada Takayuki!! wahahahaha~! happy happy!! watching the drama makes me remember the good old days when i was in softball.

ahhhh~ the sound of the bat coming in contact with a ball. the feel of the ball entering your glove.
NOSTALGIC

hey old buddies - if you are reading this. please let us meet up ASAP so that we hit some balls ok? i need a fix here.

anyway - wanna show you this power pitch. not power as in speed. but in style. lol and if i don't misinterpret: it was a strike. EMP'S RIGHT HAND UP IS A STRIKE RIGHT?

enjoy.

life is abit boring now - cuz i am studying. yeah - like finally.
oh well. and i have been spending money these days. all the in the name of xmas shopping for myself. tsk tsk tsk.. i need cash. anyone got quick-cash jobs? lol.

and so time runs by...

2008-12-04T22:32:00.000+08:00

i love Britney's new song - circus. watched her new MV and it is really good. totally shows that she is back in form. i am so glad the princess of pop is dancing again! but man - she is already 27?! it just seemed like yesterday when she was just 19! and singing baby one more time. now she is slimmer, sexy as ever - with a head full of hair.

oh yeah i think - smaller boobs? i think her bombasitic chest seriously shrunk. hmmm. did she get her implants removed? i wonder why?

anyway i have been doing alot of things lately. like teaching someone to play softball. travelling all over singapore etc etc. i bet you have never seen saurov with such long hair right? a dinner date with kuanie had us bumping into Saurov and his GIRLFRIEND. lol. his girlfriend is so nice! lol. anyway xmas is coming. we can meet up like soon. soon.

anyway wanna thank Kuanie for her treat! but i think the food at T3's Crystal Jade isn't great. and overpriced. hmmmm.. or maybe i just dun appreciated shanghai cuisine?

actually apart from meeting up with people to eat, i have been going on a voluntary 'free job trial' as a half day tour guide for japanese students. actually i just tag along with shuwen's group lah because i have zero confidence in my japanese. and not being able to talk properly in front of others is extremely stressful. i am normally a person who shots off whatever comes to my mind. so can you imagine the stress i felt when i wanted to talk but totally can't?! i think i only spoke less than 5 sentences in 4 hours.

anyway it was totally AWKWARD. poor dudes. they were damn nice and tried to talk to me but i was a damn anti-social cum rude singaporean to them i think. but yeah. but i think i improved with my second group. not so stressed. but i was still tensed and tongue tied. hahahaha at least can converse about something.

the group of 17, 18 year olds.

one looks like a bouncer. the other looks like snoopy lol! both are damn quiet

pardon my uber big face at the bottom right.

group photo 2!

group photo 3!

i think i will consider doing this tour guide job soon. when i catch up with my studies that is. ok i will upload the other group's photo soon. all these guys look damn meek and normal lah! and saw cute guys in this school. MUAHAHAHAHHA.

no - i didn't consider this job just because i wanted to see cute guys. yeah. too young daiyo~

nothing

2008-11-29T19:22:00.003+08:00

nothing much to blog about. cuz i am lazy to upload photos. but retail therapy so rocks my world. i love my new shoes! muahahaha happy!! ok i am going broke even before xmas is here. tsk tsk tsk. i need to get a tution job soon. hahaha or i just need to win the million dollar lotteries. lol.

yeah right - like i am the luckiest person around. wun win it in a million years man.. anyway i am so in love with this song right now.. hmmm.. thought it seems to have butchy undertones.

Beyonce - "If I Were A Boy"
If I were a boy
Even just for a day
I’d roll out of bed in the morning
And throw on what I wanted and go
Drink beer with the guys
And chase after girls
I’d kick it with who I wanted
And I’d never get confronted for it
Because they’d stick up for me

If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man
I’d listen to her
Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted
Cause he’s taken you for granted
And everything you had got destroyed

If I were a boy
I would turn off my phone
Tell everyone its broken
So they think
that I was sleeping alone
I’d put myself first
And make the rules as I go
Cause I know that she’d be faithful
Waiting for me to come home (to come home)

If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man
I’d listen to her
Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted (wanted)
Cause he’s taken you for granted (granted)
And everything you had got destroyed

It’s a little too late for you to come back
Say its just a mistake
Think I forgive you like that
If you thought I would wait for you
You thought wrong

But you're just a boy
You don’t understand (yea you don’t understand)
How it feels to love a girl
Someday you’ll wish you were a better man
You don’t listen to her
You don’t care how it hurts
Until you lose the one you wanted
Cause you've taken her for granted
And everything you had got destroyed
But you're just a boy…

seabass is back!

2008-11-15T00:55:00.004+08:00

YEAH! SEABASS IS BACK!!
our boy is back!! muahahhaha and with an accent too!! apparently - if he doesn't speak that way, those aussies can't understand him. =_="

anyway, jas, ray, bryan and i went to the airport to pick him up from the airport. it was going to be a surprise for him cuz we told him we were all busy and stuff.

we had a plan when we were T3's TCC. because the glass panels there made it possible for us to observe ppl collecting their bags from the converyor belt. our initial plan was to hide there then when sebas walks pass us after collecting his luggage; the four of us will wave frantically to attract his attention!

we looked totally comical because we were all damn freaking excited!! we were practically fusing our faces into the planes to have a better look. i tot my neck was going to break from the strain.

False alarm on the left. bloody hell - got us so excited. and the stupid thing was that we all agreed readily that he MUST BE SEBAS!! Do you spot a promising young man walking in the photo on the right? lol...

we spotted him!! at this point onwards - F*** those stupid curtains.

OI OI OI!! come back!! you are limping in the wrong direction!!

you can guess our disappointment when we spotted sebaz pulling his little suitcase and walking AWAY from us! we were like 'NO NO NO!! this way this way!!' the dishearted four of us had to abandon our perfect plan A and just walk up to him to surprise him. but he was very happy to see us lah. that poor boy was limping his way to the arrival hall lor. next time beware of oyster shells. those little devils.. tsk tsk tsk...

group photo!

then we went over to clementi to have to for supper. and gangyi was just in time to join us! the six of us fitted the round tables nicely lah!! its like family reunion! woots. sebas was hungry for loads of local food. the rest of us were hungry and so we ordered ALOT of food. yeah! happy happy!! talk talk talk. yak yak yak. laugh laugh laugh. *smiles*

chao kway tiao, BBQ sotong and stingray, hee mee, laska and our favourite beer!!

next up - mahjong!! beach! drinks! food! fun-filled activities!! muahahhaha =D

the past week was spent working and poking the pimples on my face. damn - they are sprouting like they own my face lah. they grow in all the weird places and it's those big, red bumps types.. urgh.. stupid pills.

i am going to work next week too! yeah!! more money rolling in to prepare for xmas season man!! i think i am going to go broke before chinese new year comes. lol. mahjong mahjong!! but we dun play for money de lah. and i think i forgot all my rules. die!

i shall also think happy thoughts when i am reading the depressing newspapers. =D and the best news of the day must probably be the part where it says that singapore is officially in recession. i am really happy that my life is as uneventful as always. not like the world around me. suicide by tiger's enclosure. stabbing other ppl to death. what brown cloud of death. wth

new found friends.

2008-11-09T00:56:00.000+08:00

i realised that blogging on a sat night is bad. internet traffic is clogging up so everything moves oh so slow.

haven't had the mood to photo blog in a long, long while. i wonder what i have been busy with. lol. anyway i finally uploaded the mambo and zouk photos!! and i shall continue to hound people who owe me photos. hahaha.

ZOUK - MAMBO

despite the mist - this isn't the halloween photos. lol. it's a old clubbing photo. but it seems that shuwen doesn't like to take photo. rather - she prefers to be the one taking photos. lol. with yukiko, kyoko, darren, desmond and shuwen - we went for mambo. hahaha i think next time i might wanna stay on level 2, rather than hit the dance floor. its damn screw up in the sea of people sometimes.

going in early always has its perks because you don't need to sqeeze with everyone for drinks or to use the washroom. =D and you get to enjoy music and play games.. haha..

shuwen looks damn cute here lah.

i was conviently left out of the picture. lol.

2nd take - someone's missing again

Take 3 - perfect.

i wanna club soon. i think this time i just need 2 glasses of long island tea before i head down to the dance floor. muahahaha. =D

HALLOWEEN

this was where i was on halloween night. muahaha. i love the pumpkins that light up the entrance! but what i don't like is the waves of people flooding night safari!! i was forever losing track of where my frens were. *faints* i think there was supposed to be a group photo for us at the entrance but it is lost - somewhere.. someone..

super scary man - i know he is human but when is staring at you with his blue mo-bing face, irregular teeth and bulging eyes - my heart accelerates when i see him close up. and it's not because he is a heart-trob.

waiting for the tram was painful. at some point - i was stoning because i was too tired and hot. but it is people like him that make life more fun. because they are mingling with the crowd and you never know at which moment - he will be poking his face next to yours.

there were alot of other really bloody and rotting displays walking around but no chance to take picture lah. so many ppl moving around and they need to move around so that they stay in character. lol.

i heard that there was this girl in red dress and pigtails. she was the best scarior. and yeah - even the way she walks is freaky. period. .

what do you do when you have alot of time and you are damn bored. you cam-whore. yeah. but i am lazy lah. just put one up - yi shi yi shi. lol.

this contains two japanese, two taiwanese and two singaporeans. who's who?

the ladies are off for the halloween tram! finally!! after waiting for nearly two hours. =) acutally i think it was a waste to spend 2 hours doing nothing but queue. then again i was going to see bryan's debut as a murderer... so as a good fren - i must be supportive! lol.

it was nice to see animals but there weren't alot of animals on my side of the tram. anyway, the ghosts who came to scare us were not all effective but because it as so bloody dark, a figure suddenly growling in your face does freak you out.

and some of them even climb onto the tram and violently shake it. lol. i know the girls at the last row had alot of fun. so wasted. i was seats to the last row too. tsk tsk tsk..

can you see bryan ripping someone's guts out? hahaha *evil laughter*

end of our trip

after this was another nightmare because we missed the last train and had to take cab. another 45 minutes spent doing nothing. lol. but it was my most interesting halloween so far. i don't think i will be going next year. NEXT YEAR - I AM GOING TO HEAD DOWN TO ZOUK. hahaha woots!! but i heard it was super boring this year. sigh~

more jdorama!

2008-11-03T18:23:00.000+08:00

been watching alot of jdramas these days. but no series is complete. i recommend the 2 below: but i think they are quite outdated already.

Nodame Cantabile
CAST: Ueno Juri & Tamaki Hiroshi

Megumi Noda, or “Nodame” is a piano student at Momogaoka College of Music. Shinichi Chiaki, is Momogaoka’s top student. They meet by accident and soon their relationship grows.

It is a fun-filled quirky romantic story of two very opposite people. Plus you get to hear alot of classical music. the cast is damn cute lah! totally funny. damn animated and kawaii lah!! can't wait to finish watching but i shall spread out my watching times. gotta study and work man..

hahaha - i love the leading actress! total comedy!! no wonder this drama is such a hit and you see so many people with that piano bag. woots!!

Kurosagi
CAST: Yamashita Tomohisa & Horikita Maki

Kurosaki is a young man whose family was destroyed by swindlers. Despite that, Kurosaki grows up to become a con artist known as Kurosagi. As Kurosagi, he swindles other con artists and returns the money to the original victim. He works with the master swindler Katsuragi Toshio even though Toshio had a hand in the destruction of Kurosaki’s family.

Interesting show! and you get to see Yamapi's serious side. i am going to watch the movie when it comes out!! =)

happy halloween

2008-11-01T01:54:00.003+08:00

Happy Halloween!!

I was at the night safari today for my first ever halloween night! it was damn scary lah! i think they hired professionals to play those walking scary people! damn tired now because everything was so crowded! and it was hot and humid!!

plus the taxi queue was damn long lah! but even with all these factors - i think i will return next year. =) i think it was a lot of fun! and i think that it being a friday and it happening to be halloween day itself makes the atmosphere super good! alot of people turned out in all sorts of masks and outfits. angels, ghouls, weird people all turned up.

some people were hired by night safari to scare people and they are seriously good!! their make-up! the way they act!! damn scary lah. saturday is the last day for this year's halloween scare. so i bet it is going to be super scary.

i wanna go again next year! =) pictures will be up when i get them. hahaha.

Movie Marathon

2008-10-31T10:48:00.003+08:00

The super long weekend was spent with my old pals man! one missing but it was still great fun! super long since we met up and i think when you grow older and have less time for each other; doing normal things together seems so much harder..

Dinner at Aston's
it's a the Grand Cathay and apparently this is a very popular western food place since the queue was crazy! the ambiance inside the resturant was not bad. but it's weird sitting outside. anyway the food is not bad but not say, super good. but definitely value for money.

me, my beer and my black pepper fish

The beef lovers: Sheena and Weiying.

Adelene with her Lemon Lime Chicken.

since its the long weekend, we can slack and rot all day long. our intended plan was to have dinner, then catch a movie and head down to bugis for KTV. when we leave KTV - we should be in time for some dim sum breakfast at Red Star Resturant. But sadly, age catches on pretty quickly.

in the end we only succeeded in reaching only stage 2 because we were tired. lol. i guess working does speed up the process of turning you into an old hag.

Movie Marathon
wah! 4 people and 8 tickets! lol. and all in the same theater! hoo hoo hoo!

i love how it is all in perfect 10s. lol.
it feels like you have a perfect score!

even though i love watching movies, this is still a first time i am watching 2 movies back to back at a cinema. but i must be getting old because sitting at the chair for so long makes me restless.

i can't really imagine myself planted to an airplane seat for more than 5 hours. i think i might die you know. i dunno how people can tahan those long-haul rides.. your butt will flatten sia.

i think it is more value for money to watch movies than to sing ktv because sunday's rates were damn expensive sia! $35 for a package!! that is equal to 4 movies man!! i hate it when things become so ex! i cannot imagine what it is going to be like during xmas - global financial crisis is scary shit.

since xmas is coming in less than 2 months time! i need to save money to buy presents and chill out with friends lor. i think this year - i am going to be on a budget. maybe i will use newspaper to make photoframe! hahahaha! or invite my friends over for a steamboat dinner! no service charge, no GST, no queuing and most importantly - guaranteed good food!!

lol. such a super duper good package - where to find!

{ Love Exposure }
it seems that this is actually quite an old movie. this poster says screened 2007 spring. for it to make its way into singapore's theaters, it must have been quite popular lor.

the movie was - totally not what i expected. i have watched other sex comedies from korea and i think they are funny in a kinky way, without being raunchy. when i skimmed through the synopsis - i assumed it was a sex comedy but it is nothing like that.

hahaha i can't say what i feel about this movie because it will totally give the plot away but i feel that it is worth a watch if you have the time and money. not a must-watch-kinda movie lah. and maybe after watching the movie - women will be better able to identify what they want in a partner and the approach towards marriage.

i give this movie a rating of 3.9 /5. lol.

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The House Bunny

pardon my language but The House Bunny was fucking funny! me and my friends were laughing our ass off man!! dumbass movie that is the funniest when you watch it the first time round.

Anna Faris plays Shelley Darlington and she is super hot can! good proportions, nice legs, slim waist as expected of a girl playing the role of a playboy bunny. and man is she dumb when she talks. lol. the main cast is also quite funny lah. but you really wouldn't remember what was so funny about the movie because you were too busy laughing. lol. and it is 10 times better than 'Scary Movie'. the jokes are not lame. its geniunely funny!

rating 4.5/5!! and they probably stopped screening by the time you read this.

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tropic thunder

Is anyone interested? i heard it is also very funny too. apparently having some army knowledge will up the funny factor. i wanna go watch it on weekdays so that i am entitled to the student rate! hahahha. =D anyone wanna go?

new drama to watch.

2008-10-26T01:30:00.002+08:00

you know what, i was surfing around for some of Haruma Miura's dramas and here is this drama about a girl who became pregnant at 14 years old. well - Haruma san plays the 15 year old boyfriend of that 14 year old girl.

it's called '14-sai no Haha: Aisuru tame ni Umaretekita' or 14 year old mother: Born to love.

i bet it is going to be a sad and tragic drama lah. hahaha i am only at the 3rd episode but i bet i am going to cry watching this. hopefully this will turn out to be a tear jerker minus all the korean-soap-opera-crap.

the show features a very, very young but very mature actress. i mean, how is a 13year old girl going to put herself into the shoes of this character? dealing with the stress of pregnancy; and the whole lot of shit that plague unwed mothers. also - the possibility that the 'love' that she shared with her boyfriend was all a mistake; simply because they were both too young to fall in love seriously. the story talks about how the two families try to come to terms with the result of their children's union of love.

beside it is educational since alot of school girl are already experimenting with sex. yeah - so i hope this drama does not disappoint. btw, do you know that the Brits are going to start sex ed at the age of 5 year old?! damn shocking. the number of pregnant girls below 16 is also equally shocking.

11 episodes end very quickly ne?

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did you realise - the newspaper's articles are getting more disgusting everyday? sorry i don't have a better word to describe but it turns me off. aviation industry in danger. my favourite cup noodles being poisoned. the buscuits i was eating two weeks ago are contanimated. shares prices going down down down.. tsk tsk tsk absolutely disgusting man.

i love my computer

2008-10-23T20:45:00.003+08:00

hmmm the weather is weird and i have developed a weird cough. everyone's falling sick because of the errectic weather. tsk tsk tsk. anyway the weather was all gloomy and cool today so i have been hiding in bed all day long. hmmmm. it feels good to just laze in bed and drift in and out of sleep during these cool days. it seems that i tend to drift in and out of sleep these few days. no wonder even my tution kids tell me i have dark eye rings.

hahaha i found alot of new jdramas to watch. i wanna BLOODY MONDAY simply because Haruma Miura is in it. haha and gokusen 1, 2 and 3. =D plus i have yet to finish 'rookies' and 'hana yori dango'. then catch some yamapi drama. there are alot of jap movies that i haven't watched yet. i think i will rewatch 'Crying out love, in the center of the world' aka Sekai no Chūshin de, Ai o Sakebu. thank god for the creation of the internet, youtube and mysoju.com. hahaha

hmmm but i should be studying and i do have some assignments due in early November. and i have yet to start revising my japanese. i have been wanting to continue but i am always slacking in front of my comp. tsk tsk tsk..

how now brown cow?

Arashi - Truth

Mr children - 旅立ちの唄 tabidachi no uta

sky of love

2008-10-23T01:15:00.002+08:00

i know i am damn lag but i just finished watching 'koizora - the movie' or better known as the 'sky of love' and i think it is damn, damn, damn nice!!!

i love these sappy and romantic kind. but it is one hell of a tragic movie ok! tragic beyond belief - i dunno which one is worse; one litre of tears or sky of love.

if i was in the cinema, i would be using boxes and boxes of tissue man. no wonder even my guy friends cried watching it. shit - why didn't i watch it in the cinema. omg i love jap emo stuff... but seriously - it was a really good tragic story - not like those silly korean drama. come to think about it, i must be a masochist. hahaha

i wonder if it is a real life story. if yes - then life is too tragic!!!

ARGGHHH - TRAGIC LOVE STORY.. IT IS SO SO SO SAD!!!
*goes off to cry some more*

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i know its a mood killer but hor. i think the leading actor, Haruma Miura, is quite cute. and then when i realise that he is so super young, like he is only 18, i feel like i fainting. I FEEL F***ING OLD OK! dang. someone get me botox man.

haircut

2008-10-20T23:30:00.002+08:00

i got a hair cut and i like it! i was thinking about where to get my hair cut since the lady whom i have been going to the past 2 years is no longer with the salon. i intented to keep my hair super duper long before i go eat it because i think its too layered and unkempt. then suddenly yueru and shuwen wanted to go cut hair and i tagged along. hahaha man - i have never felt so stressed going for a hair cut.

anyway thanks to Shuwen who intro-ed to us this place in Far East! yeah now i have nice hair! hahaha my mom comment that now i feel old - i am trying to make myself look younger by getting that haircut. lol. but i agree - this hairstyle does make me look younger and i am happy! and mommy is happy with the haircut too!

i am going to go back there for my haircut next time!
*beams*

Mambo Jumbo

2008-10-16T12:49:00.002+08:00

I LOVE RETAIL THERAPY!!

hahaha the chain of boutiques under WINGTAI are having mid-season sale!! i have the membership card so it entitles you an additional 10% off. damn happy cuz i got 2 bottoms and 1 top from DP for under $100 bucks! woots!! *pumps hand into the air*

i can't wait for their next sale. i hope it will be a thursday again cuz i am free that day.. then i can browse through leisurely and swagger into the changing room 4, 5 times - provided you are thick-skinned enough. lol. i think the sales girl was thinking: wah kao! the same girl again!! ^&%#$@

sigh - i love white tops but i hate people who put make-up and try the tops! there was one perfect white-with-cute-pearly-buttons top that i wanted but there was make-up on it!! pissed!! super pissed!!

Maybe next year i get to go hongkong or taiwan in the correct season. then can crash their after-summer-sale!! my uncle and his family is going hongkong is dec! my sister is going OSAKA IN DECEMBER FOR 7 DAYS!! i wanna go! i wanna wear winterwear!! i wanna be able to wear jackets and scarfs and boots!!

i am totally jealous!!

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last week was the much anticipated clubbing trip to Zouk with the sakura girls. lol.
[sakura girls=japanese girls]

the girls wanted to experience clubbing in singapore and what better than to bring them for MAMBO - a UNIQUELY SINGAPORE thingy. lol. i am absolutely love tourism slogans.

SPARKLING SEOUL. INCREDIBLE INDIA. YES TOKYO. WOW PHILIPPINES. MALAYSIA - TRULY ASIA. DYNAMIC KOREA. AMAZING THAILAND. YOKOSO! JAPAN.

ok - i digressed..

mambo is actually quite fun even for noobs cuz there are professionals mambo-ers whom you can mimic, so before you know it, you are mambo-ing! plus it is definitely not the acting-cool-crowd so you can totally let your hair down and dance!

oh ya - we bumped into two japanese guys but too bad - they were not good looking and short. shorter than me so i didn't bother to take photo with them. HAHAHAHHAHA. oops i just let the shallow huahua out.

initally, i wanted to wait till i have all the photos before i blog about it but things cock up - so i end up having these two photos that i took with my hp.

With shuwen and darren

i think yukiko and kyoko enjoyed themselves. i wanted to get into phuture but it was damn damn crowded. sigh. good thing we went early so we had alot of time to drink, enjoy an empty washroom, chit chat and play games before we were flooded by the crowd. i wanna club again!! but my clubbing khakis are already working! and not everyone is free like me!! sobs...

oh yea - angmohs who go hunting alone are quite scary when drunk. and guys stare at the mirror longer than girls. seriously! guys were hogging the mirror in the toliet touching their hair!! i dunno if they were too metrosexual or simply gay.

i wanna complain - again.

getting high is great fun but getting drunk - is a big no-no because drunkards have the unncanny ability to NOT keep their limbs to themselves. and it is damn inconsiderate to other clubbers in that small dance pool when the drunkard swings and shove his bodyweight around uncontrollably. it is even more embarressing when others have to tell the drunkard's friends to control him. tsk tsk tsk. getting drunk in a club is super unglam - especially when you can't keep your hands to yourself and get your legs to hold your weight.

sigh - oh well. anyway please watch 'I survived a japanese game show' on channel five. it is damn funny.

sexy lips muacks

2008-10-12T22:53:00.002+08:00

i totally love this picture because the balloon is damn huge and irresistably cute! of course i attracted alot of attention when i was carrying in around town. unfortunately - i wasn't the intended recipiant. .
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you know, when other people's bodies get too heaty - they grow pimples. when mine gets too heaty - my lips peel and its damn horrible.

the skin on lips are so thin now, i am damn scared that if i smile too happily, blood will start oozing from my mouth.. it's like i am all geared up for halloween. *shudders* so i am drowning myself with lots of water, fruits and herbal cooling tea.

please let my lips go back to its sext pink-ness asap...

for a moment i thought i was suffering from some skin disease or my lip gloss, lip stick or lip balm was made in china - but mommy dearest says it is just heatiness. and i think all the body cooling things are helping because my lips no longer feel like they are rotting. yeah! mommy knows best!!

my body's heatiness must be due to all the booze, late nights, snacking and my damn tution kids. so i am going to take it easy. and be less hard-core with my tution.

actually i have nothing much to do or blog about and i am feeling the blues. *pouts* i am blue because i am missing my friends since everyone is busy or working. and i haven't been able to meet many people these days. apart from school mates. when i have craving for steamboat or sushi - there is no one i to accompany me. =(

plus reading how old folks lost all their life savings, and how mother earth is in havoc, what evil humans can do to food is making me even more blue. sigh~~~

SIGH~~~

Marche with sballers!

2008-10-09T13:21:00.003+08:00

Look at the food! Look at food!

Hungry anot? hungry anot?

I had a dinner and movie outing over the weekend with bryan, jas and rayson!! so long never see them sia. i mean i met them for NUS freshie at St James about a month ago but it feels like i have not met them for a very long time. it's good to see that everyone is doing fine, abelit busy with school work.

miss those days where we were playing in the school field. *sobs*

Marche food looks damn good and hungry people will always order alot of food. when you order alot - you sometimes end up ordering too much... so we ended up wasting food because we were damn full. we didn't even have space for dessert!

a little pretty expensive but happy, cosy dinner.

cam-whoring outside Marche

where am i?

beer buddies

Posing with moo moo...
anyway we did some 'exercise' with the cows outside Marche. we pose and take photo. hahahaha!!

group photo with moo moo

bryan and rayson. hahaha this photo looks damn wrong lah.

rayson luvs moo moo too!

Is bryan holding the cow still so that jas can milk her?

i have no idea what i was trying to express here. lol.

i know i am very lacking in general knowledge but does a bull have tits? i mean i know cows can produce milk but bulls can't right? because i distinctly recall a friend telling me that he drank BULL's MILK before. is it BULLshit? lol. pun intended.

sigh - i am damn random these days lah.

we didn't take enough photos. but i think we are going to meet up soon again for more cam-whoring!! Jasmine was suggesting we go Sentosa for bryan's birthday celebration. i am torn between turning myself back into the healthy tanned girl. or the more, womanly white white girl. i prefer tanned girl without the sun damaged skin. lol

it has been a long time since i went to the beach and i think it will be a great chance to bring yukiko along. =D

anyway i finally have the most important photos for jasmine's birthday party! our group photos!

jas' cake photo

sexy man

SBALLERS AND F2OGLS BANZAI!

A trip down Haji Lane

2008-10-09T12:57:00.002+08:00

despite living in a district where there are more than 100 pubs and which, i nicknamed PhilipinoLand- it is the first time i have been in a pub. most of these pubs are in shophouses in bugis and chinatown area - chinatown being the ones with all the Philipino waitresses.

kawaii onna: Yukiko and Shuwen

kireii onna: Magdalene

That fine night after NYDC dinner - we decided to bring Yukiko to Haji Lane for a drink and we had an interesting night at one of the pubs. actually the one we wanted to go to was damn crowded so we randomly found one to sit in. it is the typical ones where you can sing KTV for everyone in the pub to hear. i am damn shy so i don't sing. hahahahaha.. quite dark.

but lo and behold - one of the regulars was holding his mini birthday party there and getting damn high on Chivas. and because we were sitting damn close to the counter where he was, he kept talking to us. end up we had to keep talking to him! no time to talk among ourselves. but it was interesting. cuz the guy was just those talkative kind; not aggressive...

overall, interesting but i don't think i will want to go into one again. the next one i want to conqure is a gay bar. whoosh!!

yak yak yak

2008-10-07T23:31:00.003+08:00

i love the colour red - but seeing all the shares go red is not funny. in fact it is pretty scary.
OMFG - it feels like D-Day in the financial world is coming soon. hope this was just a passing cloud. i still wanna go for Work & Travel USA 2009. if USA goes into a recession, then my pay in USD is going to very little cuz of the exchange rate!

but i am sure it is not the end of the world. because earth never stops revolving and people need to eat and people have savings. someone has to manage the money for them man. it's just that transition period is always difficult.

hopefully i have enough money for the W&T2009 even though i am still waiting for my mom's approval. i shall keep my fingers crossed. i calculate the total costs - should add up to 5k. cuz i am very sure fuel tax is expensive. tho fuel costs seems to be dropping recently.

i need ka-ching man. been giving HARDCORE tution. 5,6 days a week - 3 hours each session and it's the same two kids everyday. HARDCORE & INTENSIVE hor - i am damn, damn, damn shag lah. after this exam period, i am going to disappear for a few weeks so i can recuperate. i have only done 6 days of tutioning and i feel like i am going to fall apart. i am also part time nanny because i need to play with the kid after tution. lol. thank god the kids are still nice enough - if alittle naughty.

Gonna mambo after tution tmr. praying hard i still have energy to party. it is going to be madness cuz the people going with me hardly know each other! crazy - but that is what happens when your usual group of frens are all stuck with classes, tests and projects. hope it wouldn't be too akward. =) maybe i might bump into people i know.

watched painted skin with the softballers. wah~ the movie doesn't really make sense at some point. i will only give it a 6.5 out of 10. will blog about marche dinner later. ho ho ho. i am dog tired. i need to sleep.

nothing.

2008-10-04T00:09:00.002+08:00

btw - the videos below are not to be taken seriously.
they were created purely for entertainment purposes. no offence to japanese culture.

my week!

2008-10-03T21:37:00.004+08:00

what a week it has been. i am going crazy from tutoring kids, trying to keep a healthy lifestyle and meeting up with friends! and i am so sad that season one of D.Gray-man has ended. sobs. but i get to watch Junjou Romantica next week! season 2!! yeah..

sigh - you know kids in developing countries in africa are dying from hunger and struggling to stay alive and kids in developed countries are killing themselves and their friends around them.. there has been alot of news lately about the 15yr old girl that committed suicide and it is pretty disgusting how the chinese reporters were trying to dig out info on the girl. my sister was cornered and bombarded with questions. wth - the classmates are probably very shocked and depressed by the whole incident and all those damned reporters do was bombard them. pissing off.

anyway - the F1 Grand Prix is over and i realised that F1 racing is actually quite interesting! or maybe this particular race was interesting.

even though it was 61 laps, i didn't really find it boring because of all the action going on in the circuit. but you know what? whenever a car crashes, i think about how much each car costs, and my heart clenches? i don't even think that my 1/2 a year's earnings is enough to afford one of those wheels!

i am damn sad that Kimi Raikkonen crashed out of the race near the end!! i was rooting for him. even though his chances of winning were not very high. and i tot ferrari at least got one racer in... anyway it was an eye opener. maybe when i have more disposable income, i will go buy a ticket for myself next year! hee hee ANYONE INTERESTED?

i am damn happy and proud that this night race was such a success. cameras portrayed Singapore beautifully and i have never seen marina area so brightly lit up! can't wait for the race next year.

anway in marketing class - we watched some commercials and this was quite nice. hmm i am suddenly surfing for funny/lame stuff. i especially love those with sexual connotations. lol! perverted me!

peugeot commercial

Japanese Tradition - Nonsense clips.
please don't kill me if you think these clips are stupid. Watch and have a laugh!

The japanese tradition: sushi

The japanese tradition - Origami

The japanese tradition - Dating Vol1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPa2WIIaVY4 - The japanese tradition - Dating Vol2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dID_LZwQgmI - The japanese tradition: Dating Vol3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPrvWxittxY - The japanese tradition: Dating Vol4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqZcEwHBAk8

far east on a saturday

2008-09-27T15:43:00.001+08:00

yoohoo~! shopping shopping during the F1 season is crazy cuz the roads are packed with people. and it feels alittle weird when you are suddenly surrounded by alot more angmohs then usual. not that i am complaining cuz i see more cute angmoh guys walking ard. but it was alittle out of the ordinary i guess.

i normally avoid town on weekends unless i needed to... and orchard road was crowded as usual. anyway i spotted more luxury sport cars then usual. woots! not the first time see them but since they were so nicely parked there... i took photos of those beautiful cars!!

red ferrari. there were 2 - i wonder who its owner is.

lambo1 - reminds me of a bumblebee

lambo2 - black beauty. reminds me of batman's car. damn nice.

you know - the two lambos were parked outside the DFS building and i think the owner must be waiting for people to scratch his car lah. everyone was oggling and standing next to the cars to take photo like you would at motor shows. lol. everyone was crowding the car!! but like what they always say - "if you have it, flaunt it."

anyway there is a new shaved ice place at far east. they sell shaved ice just like the ones you saw on TV whenever they talk about Taiwan's Shilin Wet Market. eh - the shaved ice was not bad. but breakfast in bed was too sweet for my preference.

Shuwen's HolyMatrimony

My BreakfastinBed

Yueru's Summerfling

anyway i saw a damn chio girl at Far East today. and she is not other than Felicia Chin!!

chio anot? anyway she was glowing ok! wah her skin was flawless man!! jealous!! how can skin look like that in real life?!

anyway she was really nice and friendly! no wonder she is enjoying so high popularity now. but i heard that jessica liu is also very gorgegous. hopefully i will get a chance to see her too! and i want to snap a picture with elvin ng!!

Brother-Complex?

2008-09-23T22:41:00.003+08:00

i don't think i have a brother-complex.

but hor - my brother just enlisted last week and i am feeling very lonely at home leh..... zzzz. even though i technically still share the room with my sister but it jsut feels different. you know why - cuz all three of us live in the same room and technically my brother is always home 24/7 while i am the one who tends to be somewhere else but home. now i am guai guai at home and there is no one at home..

and hor. i alway talk to my brother.. like i tell him what i saw on the street, what stupid things this person was doing on the train etc. and he is like my strolling/makan buddy. haiz.. so sian leh. i am so lonely - it is unprecedented!! it's times like this that i wonder if i should start hunting for a boyfriend.. lol!!

my brother when he enlisted!

hee hee you know my brother called just now leh! hee hee!! happy happy!! he said that he is alot darker now! and he calls himself a neng ka bing(wobbly feet soldier)!

haiz. i think i am going to embark on the most happening time of my uni life.. i am going to engage in sports but not with the school. going to go swimming with kuanie every week and then play table tennis with shuwen or smth.

my virgin game of table tennis was given to the court in Waseda Shibuya! they had a booth for table tennis and i was playing with ShuWen, EK and Yukiko-san! its damn fun and i never realised it was so interesting! i am tempted to buy a table tennis racquet and play with shuwen. but hor shuwen told me to get a good one leh. but i am damn budget one. i think i will try sticking to swimming routine first. and if things go well, then i will expand my sports engagements!!

yeah!! i am on my way to become a sporty girl again! but i dun want the ugly tan lines!! and i am still waiting for photos for alot of birthday parties and drinking session. =D oh i was at suntec just now - the bright spotlights are making me excited!! i can't imagine what it is like to watch F1 racing!!

18th Seiransei at Waseda Shibuya Senior High

2008-09-22T10:12:00.003+08:00

today was the first time i went for a Japanese High School festival and i think that it totally rocks lor. seriously.. Love Fiesta? not even one-tenth lah.. it is so much nicer than the school's funfair because everyone is really into the mood! and everyone dresses up for it too! even the games stall is done up nicely.

you see guys in girls yukata and some guys actually look pretty in it!! bishounen!! i took a photo with one of the pretty guy in yukata. i think it was in someone else's camera.. hahaha i will definitely post it up!

oh i was actually at the 18th Seiransei at Waseda Shibuya Senior High School. Seiransei is supposed to mean Star Orchid Festival and it is also the first time i was in a japanese school.

based on my observations... japanese guys and girls are indeed better looking.

even though i didn't spot any heavenly-looking guys (think yamapi) - the students were still considered above average. i think genetically, their's is slightly superior i guess. hahaha. but the school has more pretty and kawaii girls than handsome guys! i think guys in that school are damn lucky. the girls were so pretty, i got jealous ok! pretty eyes and pearly white skin! i saw like more than 10 lor! tsk tsk tsk.. but i think alot of those good looking guys like to act cool leh. sigh~ acting cool is a turn off.

the above was a poster/theme of the festival so check out the little planes and balloons. btw, the big black mass somewhere in the middle is the queue for the haunted house. damn popular and i heard that it is damn freaky.

hahaha i bet the girls in the class loved the drama and so they created a play renamed: 'Hana Yori 3B returns'. i didn't catch it though. but the queue was long for this too!

there was another class where they remade the jdrama 'Rookies'. they even made the mug shots for their poster. funny! but too crowded for me to stay and take photos with the cast.you can really see that they put in alot of effort into the production.

the live band performing! the drummer and guitarist were good. the singer - i dunno. no comments. hahahaha!

tonpeyaki from ajite! oiishii!

Eunice, EK, Shuwen, Yukiko and me!

hopefully, i will be able to go for another school festival. even better if i can go to an authenic one in japan! hahaha!!

2008-09-19T19:36:00.000+08:00

oh man - my sister just told me things about her friends i think that kids these days are just C.R.A.Z.Y. i dunno but from what my sister tells me - i can't determine if they just wanna seek attention or they need professional help

Seriously - asking your friends what their height is so she can make coffins? bringing knife to school and asking your classmates "What would you do if i kill you tmr?" kids these days.. i really have no idea what they are doing man.. i am glad my friends around me are quite sane and they are only crazy when they play.

anyway i hope that none of my friends will end up needing professional help. but if you really do need help - please consult a doctor because it will bring along problems to the loved ones around you..

crisis

2008-09-17T10:07:00.003+08:00

oh man - the world is so, so, so messy. the newspapers are just brimming with news on which country is having natural disasters, political unrest and of course the financial crisis that seems to crazy.

sigh~ but i do wonder if the newspapers are exaggerating the whole situation or what. cuz i know journalists have a tendency to do just that. but no doubt the crisis is coming fast and hard.

i am just keeping my fingers crossed because if thousands of banks are going to collapse; just like what some people believe, then the world economy is going to go into shock or smth.

school has started and i feel... alot of mixed emotions. lol. HAIZ.

What a week..

2008-09-09T21:31:00.003+08:00

oh - i am damn broke man. shit. i am still waiting for my pay cheque!! money money!! where is my money!! oh and i realised that Ajisen Resturant is STILL hiring people. they are posting adverts in ST Classifieds like every other week! either they are expanding their resturants or their turnout is damn. i am actually interested to try out though - then everyday i can get free ramen!! but the pay is $6/hr.. how? i think tution would be better right?

anyway next week marks the start of a new school term - new plans. new approach.

---

hmm. my reflection on the past few days: it was just one hell of a F**ked up week.

the terrible examination results. screwed up eCR2 registration. so many decisions to make, so many things that needed to be done within such a short period of time. of course it is just my luck that all bad things come clashing together. so everyday, my emotions take me on a roller coaster ride. but at least i managed to settle school related stuff by today. more things to do by next week. tsk tsk tsk..

i was reading a booklet that i was given and the first advice given was "Health is wealth. Therefore guard your health like your wealth". which is very true. i know i am not the most health conscious person around, given the fact that i love going to sleep at the wee hours of the morning and i love drinking! both of which are things health magazines always preach us not to do. i get depressed and paranoid at times when i come across articles where seemingly healthy people are dropping dead out of the blue. but seriously, i am not adopting any healthy habits yet.

i went for an examination yesterday gynaecological clinic and even though it was just the first visit - i was so paranoid about what the doctor's diagnosis might be... what if he detected cancerous growth or something. and at some point i was on the brink of tears simply because i was freaking myself out. but the doctor seemed optimisitic and everything so i am feeling much relieved.

at the crowded clinic and i was the only 'girl' because all the other females there were either pregnant and accompanied by their husbands or ladies in their 30s and above. i have never felt so self-conscious before. but it is not like i did anything wrong cuz i was there for a check-up. but i think i am just self-conscious about how they judged me. did they think i was there with my mom because i was a single mom?

if it wasn't because i think there was a high probability something was wrong and that i was afraid i might die if i don't get it treated - i wouldn't have told my mom to let me see the doctor. because i am quite sure the gynaecological examination would be quite... intimate. and i am very very shy about it. but i think i am one step more matured after this because such check-ups is something women should do. and having a habit of keeping track of menstrual days is very important for a female too! because in times of problems - the doctor would definitely need info on it.

actually when i laid down to be examined, i can only empathise with those teen girls who secretly went for a check-up or went for an abortion. because it feels damn scary lying on that chair. it was 10 times worse than a dental appointment. but check up is still important since small problems that are left untreated can still lead to bigger problems.

i know some girl (i don't directly know her) who had her whole womb removed when she was in her early early 20s. and imagine the emotional traumur she had to undergo - not being able to conceive. and the fact that she has to eat hormone pills everyday. those pills have their side effects and they lead to possible future diseases. wouldn't she have have to worry, for the next 40 years of her life, whether she might have developed heart diease or something? so like what you read in the papers all the time - early detection is key!

random

2008-09-07T15:46:00.003+08:00

after watching 'Boys over FLowers' aka Hana Yori Dango final - i am so in love this these two songs. =D so nice!!

aiko - KissHug

Arashi - One Love

i wonder if i have finally caught on the Arashi bug. hahaha oh well. i was listening to this song i think i they are good, just that i dunno why - i just don't go crazy over them. oh well. nothing to do. and i am broke. pay cheque is nowhere in sight.

i am stuck in a bumper car

2008-09-04T23:23:00.003+08:00

HAIZ - eCR2 was a total disaster!!

i got kicked out of the system thrice and when i finally got things right; the classes that i selected are suddenly full! urgh. damn sian. damn sian. damn damn damn sian. i am wanna sprout endless strings of vulgarities. and the help hotlines are even hotter than pancake lor. i need help and i am not getting any!

so sian. i am feeling so blue ok.

so i went out for a while to get myself some fresh air and watched 'Boys over Flowers - The Movie'. those cute guys did make my day - i prefer Rui to Domyoji but i am not a big fan of the show. I was in a cinema theater packed full of fan girls - 99% girls.

i went in to watch even though i hadn't finished the drama. i never got pass episode 4 in the 1st season but i still enjoyed the movie. i think all those fan girls should go watch together because it is more fun that way! imagine not needing to hide your emotions and enjoy the movie to your fullest because everyone is just as absorbed as you!

the girls will be like gushing and sighing whenever Matsumoto Jun makes his declaration of love to Makino; oogling over Rui and Domyoji; whimpering why they were not the leading lady among the F4 and not forgetting the screaming at every inch of fan service. of course there is no need to worry that people next to you is not laughing at something funny. almost everyone is a fan so they will laugh together with you at the habitual funny things that the characters do. hahahaha amazing. the first time i am doing such a thing but i do hope that i get to do something like that again in the future.

overall: not a bad movie, but very good either. some parts might seem random but because it is a movie for fan of the drama so 'outsiders' will not be able to understand much of the storyline. and i love the scenery. totally nice and i think the producers of the movie were damn rich can! everything spells L-U-X-U-R-Y!!

i wanna watch more movies! i wanna watch yamapi's movie!! =) but movies aside - i am still stuck with my degree issues. i am going crazy because i can't make up my mind regarding the switch of degrees. i am scared that i will regret it later on!

i know finance is not my cup of tea and i will not do well in finance. because even though all the information is really interesting - how banks work and how finance works etc; but all the finer details are killing me. most importantly, i don't want to work in a bank and this might be a timely switch, given the financial instability!! switching degree is probably the right thing to do but i am scared. i am afraid that i will regret later!! and it is holding me back! and all the money involved! omg - the stress is driving me crazy!!

i feel like i am stuck in a bumper car. i feel like i am sinking deeper and deeper into this shit hole. and i feel like a immature kid without a sense of direction. totally hating this 'lost' feeling!! URGH.. wth - i am already approaching 23! what am i doing!!

oops. i did it again

2008-09-03T16:04:00.003+08:00

oops.

results are out and it is utterly depressing...

yeah - i was prepared for the worst but it is still shocking when it hits. I actually felt abit better when i realise i wasn't the only one. to all the teachers who had been telling me, since secondary school, that uni exams were easy - please go bang your head on the wall.

i guess it's a chance for me to change degree because finance is not my cup of tea. =S
now all that is left is to open my mouth and tell my dad.

to all my friends stuck in the same situation: - lets work hard together ok! no time to be lost and depressed because with the blink of an eye, exams would be coming again in May 2009! jiayou~

Food and Alcohol = alot of money

2008-08-31T15:15:00.004+08:00

today is the last day of AUGUST~! omg time is flying man!

time always seem to fast forward whenever you are working cuz your life revolves around your work. that is quite a scary thought actually. SIGH~ I AM SO00 LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING MAN....

anyway i met up with some ex-colleagues at DXO the other day and man, i am glad that i left my company already. =D hahaha its actually quite interesting to hear about the on-goings of the department. sigh - i think part of me is kinda bitter about being traumatised in there and having to leave my beloved colleagues. oh well. it's all in the past...

my colleagues! *heart*

my first graveyard. oh man - it tastes yucky and its really strong because i was slurring alittle after i finished it. hahaha when i asked the waitress if it was strong. she said some people just collapse after drinking! OMG how embarressing is that? but 7 types of hard liqure/stout is not everyone's cup of tea and it is freaking expensive ok. an experience none the less. i am still contemplating if i wanna try bloody mary. everyone tells me it sucks though.

nothing to blog about except food. actually i have been squandering money on food and alcohol. a trip to Fairprice and i can chock up almost $100 bucks worth of food!!! seriously - it is bad on my pocket especially since everything is rising.. but what to do? i have cravings to satisfy~!!!

CRAVING: RAMEN and XIAOLONGBAO

i had this major craving for ramen for quite sometime already and my favourite ramen place is actually not crystal jade. i think their ramen is a little overpriced and not really nice. hee hee.

this ramen shop in chinatown has really chewy ramen. yum yum! i love their zha jiang mian! their porkchop ramen isn't bad either! i forgot to take a picture of my food. too hungry to wait. but i did manage to take the side dishes!

Their homemade egg tofu is to die for ok. it like eating pudding. the texture is super good and smooth - even better than conventional tofu. woots! actually this LAN ZHOU LA MIAN has been featured in alot of magazines but mostly Japanese tourist mags.

the place is in one of the shophouses along Chinatown's food street. it is kinda crazy to see all the walls with pictures of the chef taken with his customers.

CRAVING: SPAGETTI
i love spagetti and my favourite spagetti is at new york new york and spageddies! Had spagetti with Junyi and Shuwen at Shokudo. hahaha i like the way they cook the spagetti but damn - the potatoe croqutte was damn blend. i could only taste pepper. tsk tsk tsk.. i would be damn pissed if it had been very expensive!

oh their waffel is not bad. i like it. maybe i will go back again for waffels.

CRAVING: STEAMBOAT

did i tell you i love steamboat? the one at marina closed down so i am actually at a lost as to where to eat nice and cheap steamboat. shuwen intro me this ma la steamboat place and their soup base is damn spicy!! $15 for a steamboat buffet is pretty ok. i might go there again! i didn't take food table because our table was damn messy and unglam. and it is next to tian tian. hahaha. we didn't try tian tian because there are alot of bad reviews about that place. i don't want roaches in my food man.

FREE FOOD
hahaha you know what, i love my present company because i always end up eating free food! ok that sounds damn cheapo but yeah. i get treated to lunch quite often.

fish and co - i forgot what this was called but it didn't taste good. was it because it was one of those healthier choices? man - no wonder they say that only sinful food tastes good. healthier choices are bland!! i am going to stick to fish and chip next time!

ended up having dinner at Marriot last week because of a seminar that the company was holding there. this is named rosemary marinated spring chicken. and it was from Marriot hotels' diner. sounds good right? and it was described as a healthy main course. but marinated my foot! it tastes so bland and knn it costs $24 ok!! it is like cheating people's money. why do i always end up ordering bland food! *grumble* *grumble*

thank god the meal was courtesy of the company. my colleagues are quite funny. they went to bother the waiter because everybody's food was bland. hahahaha! the waiter could only smile smile.

sinful and delicious. this was the only other thing i ate the day of seminar. yummy!

i have craving for steamboat at vivo. its is only $13.90 and it has ma lah too. anyone wanna try?

rant

2008-08-28T18:00:00.004+08:00

woots. been so long since i last blogged.

nothing much happening these days other than work. been busy with work lately but i am a happy worker! it feels good to be working again and in a more comfortable environment plus better pay = happy yuhua. hohohoho and i hope to be able to earn more money while it is still the holidays. i have one year to save up for my grad trip to japan and maybe more?

if i graduate next year that is... *bitter laughter* sigh~

exam results should be out next week. latest, latest - our results should be out by 15th of Sept. unlike in year 1, i am not even concerned about the results yet. i totally freaked myself out everyday, after the exams last year but aiya - everything is out of my control anyway.. of course i worry about i failing every paper... so i have been thinking - if i really fail this year's exams then i might drop this degree and pursue something that i am really interested in. or i have to purse a second degree after this UOL one. sigh~

i seldom regret something and i sometimes feel that finance is seriously not my cup of tea. so i DID REGRET taking this major. but its too late to say anything now. dad already spent so much on uni fees. i feel so bad when i don't do well cuz its like i wasted dad's hard earned money....

but i have to confess - i am absolutely a lousy friend too! i am guilty of neglecting people's birthdays! cuz i realised that over the last 2 weeks, i have either been forgetting people's birthdays and their parties or not been able to attend at all. so sorry!! my bad, my bad.

hmmm. i am such a lousy friend.. tsk tsk tsk..

Job Offer

2008-08-16T23:09:00.002+08:00

Job offer: part time admin, dhoby ghaut, $500/mth, 24hrs/wk
working hrs are 3-7 for week days, then 11-7 for sat.
website: http://www.theartofmusic.com.sg/

Job description: Admin work plus events planning. Need to call up students if there is a change in schedule; coordinate new students with instructors; find new students via the net and coordinate with other organisations which want to work with the school

TEAMSINGAPORE

2008-08-16T01:03:00.000+08:00

oh my god~! this is something worth celebrating for~!

SINGAPORE FINALLY GOT A MEDAL AFTER SO MANY YEARS!!
48 YEARS SINCE OUR BRONZE IN 1960!!

oh man.. being able to get a silver medal was great. but if they do get a gold medal, then it will be a wonderful bonus. but i am wishing singapore good luck in the finals!!

WOOHOO. i can't wait to read the headlines later. hahaha

i love food.

2008-08-15T21:01:00.002+08:00

THIS IS THE BEST SHEPHARD'S PIE I HAVE EVER EVER EATEN AND IT ONLY COSTS SGD5 AND IT COMES TOGETHER WITH A CAN OF DRINK! EVEN MORE WORTH IT THAN MACDONALDS!!!!

*endorphins in my bloodstream because of the good food*

i suppose i should have touched up on the photo alittle by putting some stars and fairy dust because it is so fabulous. I AM SUPER LOVING THIS. totally made my day. its roughly 15cm in diameter and i finished half myself. HAHAHHAHA yes i am a glutton but it was too good to resist! seriously. i wonder if the chef makes any money from selling this.

generous amounts pork, topped topped with a thick layer of potatoe - sprinkle some cheese and there, you have a wonderful smelling, drool-worthy shephard's pie!

oh mama mia~! my dear friends! lets go eat when you come down to eat!! hahahaha!!

ok. this entry is quite pointless. OKTOBER FEST will be featured on ST tmr, i think. woo~ knowing singaporeans, i think i might have to call to book my shephard's pie, pork knuckles and chicken the next time i go chinatown.

WATERBOYS!

2008-08-11T20:20:00.005+08:00

Recently, i think that life has become quite boring - i dun really have a life.

i know i don't really have a life when i start working cuz i always end up doing OT, but i am not into the slacker's lifestyle either. i am slacking at home now but i am not happy so i have no idea what i am supposed to do now. URGH.. i must be being emo again.

anyway i just realised that i forgot to blog about ah tam's farewell party. sigh~ the softball alumni is shrinking because our third base man has gone to join our fellow second base man, Sebez, in aussie to study. sigh.. so sad right..

so the F2 ogls and softballers jointly organised a potluck farewell party for him! we had pasta, fried chicken, BOOBOO cake from NYDC, durian puff, sushi etc. we had so much food that we ended up playing games to force people to eat up the leftovers. while we were not trying to force people to eat two pieces of chicken when they are already bursting at their seams; our 'food fusion' dishes are really a cross between several types of food. lol. i think the food photos are with someone else. oh well..

durian puff+salmon sushi+duck sauce+mushroom sauce+mash potatoe anyone?

friends who attended include: bryan, rayson, jasmine, yingxiang, yongshen, fabius, desmond, gangyi, me, kangwei, derek and ah tam of course! We had the whole tent to ourselves... and thank god could accommodate our two tables of food because it was raining!

the F2 ogls and softballers all love to cam-whore. hee hee hee

yingxiang and jasmine

group photo 1: wooo~ what a dreamy looking photo~! lol.

group photo2: we have david copperfield amongst us cuz ah tam can fly~!!

and what do we do when we have the pool next to us...?

we dunk people. and when we dunk people, it means all the guys will get it. hahaha.

it was damn funny to see them struggling when the guys decide it would be fun to dunk people. i know it's ah tam's farewell party but Yongshen was the first one to hit the water. hahaha and unfortunately, he was wearing white pants that day. *BLUSH* on our way to the 2nd pool, everyone was on high alert and ready to run at the first sign of trouble! its is kinda funny to can see everyone trying to avoid the inevitable. hahahaha.

amongst the guests, only jas, yingxiang and i were dry. hohoho. girls dun usually get dunked.

we were chased out of the 1st poolside because the residents complained about us, even when we were already whispering and trying to supress our giggles. aiyo~ it was only 10.30pm you know? i don't think singaporeans sleep so early lor.

the video below is roughly the summary of the people dunked that day. damn funny when i viewed it. thanks yongshen for the hard work! lol. everyone was so high because of the adrenaline running in their blood.

hopefully when everyone comes back for, we can have a gathering again. =D i miss hanging out with the softballers!

the water boys were so high - they just went trigger happy.

the first 5 in the water

all smiles for the water boys

put your hands in the air baby~!

OMG - bryan knows how to do qi gong! walk on water!!

by the way, does anyone know if xxxHoLic is nice? its a anime/manga and i have no idea if it is nice even though i am watching its anime. it looks interesting and i noticed that Kino has alot of their manga. hee hee. does anyone have have their manga?

sheena's 22nd

2008-08-10T19:51:00.004+08:00

i am already on my way to turning 23 next year and i realised that i detest the idea of getting old. oops.

well, i think i still look young enough to pass of as 20. HAHAHAHA!

today, someone offically leaves the league of 21! hahaha. sigh.. and when you start working, you don't really have a life because after work, you are too tired to move your ass. haha i try to get a life lah.. singapore is boring enough. no point making it worse.

anyway as we mature, we decide on ways on more money-saving ways of celebrating birthdays. stay home and celebrate lah~! eat steamboat~! saves money and its healtier too!

so we spend the entire day lazing around together and end of the celebration with the birthday cake from NYDC - BOOBOO! it is really a very sinful but absolutely delicious chocolate cake. so heavenly - totally worth its price tag.

our very happy pictures. too busy eating the steamboat to take photo. only remembered when eating cake.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHEENA!

the present, with our card.

cam-whoring

anyway i finally got my mahjong fix yesterday but we played only played for a while. i think we have finally moved on from mahjong to other forms of games. UNO stacko, poker, shit daidee.. what else can we play?

after that, was a trip down to geylang for supper. we had beancurd and guo tie. but i think its not nice leh, even though everyone says its quite famous in geylang. but we were alittle scared that we might bump into the wrong people there.

this is us in the car. hee hee. no worries - we took the photo when the car stopped for the traffic lights. hahaha..

i left geylang quite full and happy. and i think i am going to gain all the weight i lost while working. hahaha...

NDP preview 08

2008-08-08T09:35:00.001+08:00

Woohoo~! it's national day tomorrow.

i always liked national days because i liked

the atmosphere at the parade. so i was really excited when i suddenly got the tickets to this year's NDP preview. i went for the one held last saturday. and it is probably the 2nd or 3rd NDP parade that i have been to.

i went to watch with my sister - the first time i am watching it out of the national stadium.

eh - i think the NDP this year lacks abit of something. i dunno, i didn't like the performances much so i was practically stoning because i was bored. it could have been because of the heat too.

but being able to see a sea of people wearing red is quite nice! at least they are sporting enough to wear red for a preview. =)

i took some of the photos from the NDP website because i realised that their photos were nicer. hee hee. especially the ones of fireworks. anyway i need to thank Uncle kong's friend for giving me those tickets. but i have to say the view from marina bay really is very nice. but the construction going on behind the stage was quite an eyesore.

this is one of my favourite shots of the day - a heart in the sky! actually the theme for this year's parade was 'celebrating the singapore spirit'.

no doubt the performance was a whole lot of in-your-face-propagenda so that might have been another reason why i just tuned out. the moment 'propagenda' comes to mind, i switch off. seriously, i think they should have performance that were less brain-washing. i can't help flinching when i hear words like, 'we are creative people'.

but i know everyone really really liked the fighter jet displays and the jet boats. the '08' was done by f3000 powerboats! me included! haha i even took videos too! but my camera is quite lousy so all of them turned out grainy. so not nice!

the bay birds - yup, these balloons are supposed to be birds. i personally think they look very cute. their shape reminds me of some anime character. hahaha.

the best part of the national day parade is of course the fireworks! all photos below were courtesy of the NDP website. and i think that was the part where everyone was really high. though at the back of my mind, i was thinking about how much money was being 'BOOM' into the air like that. sigh~

the funny thing about this year's national day was the DJ from St James powerhouse. i liked the music and i didn't think that St James Powerhouse would have nice music after that one horrible experience there. there wasn't a DJ when i went there, they were playing normal tracks from a CD. so what the hell. so after that last saturday, i might get give St James another shot someday.

and i am looking forward to the olympics opening ceremony later! but the saddest thing is that my TV is abit spoilt - no sound.

Freaking Expensive

2008-08-04T22:57:00.005+08:00

I WANT MY PAYCHECK SO I CAN BUY CDs.
i am already rock bottom so i need to get my paycheck like by the end of the week.

i went CD browsing because i have been itching for some new CDs to spin. anyway i have decided that i will stop buying chinese CDs and seriously invest in Japanese CDs. but they are so freaking expensive!! total maddness... tsk tsk tsk. so right now, on top of my to-buy-list is Misia's "Decimo X Aniversario De Misia" album.
MISIA / Decimo X Aniversario De Misia

MISIA IS HAVING A CONCERT AND I WANNA GO! but i am very sure it will be freaking expensive too. i really like her songs ok - her voice is unique, her fast-tempo tracks are fabulous and her more emotional songs just make you feel sappy. i was spinning the above CD at HMV just now and i like practically every song on the track. OMG! so i think i am going to buy her latest CD. but i haven't bought any of her albums before though. but it doesn't matter. MISIA ROCKS!!

hee hee. and i have alot alot of CDs i want. like the ALICE NINE albums. but i have no idea why they price it so high. their 'ALPHA' album costs $72 and that other album in the picture costs $68. *faints*

Ayaka's album! i realised that like Koda Kumi and Ayumi Hamasaki, they release mutliple singles and some of them have overlapping songs. so i must be smart when buying CDs.

i guess i will probably buy Utada Hikaru's 'Heart Station' and if i am feeling really loaded - Aoyama thermal's 'Diary'. i think she is practically unknown in singapore but her songs are quite nice leh.

HMV does not have Salyu's 'TERMINAL' album so if i truly, very much want that album, i might have to buy from ebay or get HMV to import it. oh man, i shudder at the thought of how much it will cost. sigh - can't they price Japanese albums a little lower?

i wanted to buy Koda Kumi's 'Kingdom' album too! her 'Black Cherry' album met my expectations so 'Kingdom' should be equally good. and i have yet to buy her previous albums too! sigh - if i do manage to buy all these CDs, i think i would have spent roughly about $350? that is even more expensive than a DS Lite.

and please guess how much the single below costs? it contains the opening track for an immensely popular BL manga/anime - Junjou Romantica.

it costs SGD$30.00. yes - it actually costs $30.00. *speechless*

i might follow the series faithfully since the boys in the anime are lovely enough. but i am just not crazy enough to purchase that one single for $30. i think the anime/manga fanatics would probably buy lah but if i buy, my heart will break. sigh. i need money.

oh i think i am finally going to watch 'DARK KNIGHT' tomorrow. Finally!!

Freebird

2008-07-31T22:12:00.002+08:00

today marks the last day of work at that company but the funny thing is that my work isn't going to end because they are going to call me about things. hmm. oh well.. and i haven't received my cheque yet. but firstly, i would like to thank everyone for the presents and the free lunches. hee hee! = D

i have mixed feelings about leaving the company lah. as much i can't stand working there anymore, i am going to miss all the friends that i made dearly and i am going to miss everyone that i have worked with this far. *sobs* i really wished i could stay longer. and i really wished that everything would work out fine. but today, all these would remain forever as wishes because i know i cannot work in that environment. maybe i was in the right place at the wrong time. oh well..

Haiz. actually i think that in HR there are alot of things that you can do, and that you have to come in contact with alot of people. it is actually very nice working with people and stuff but i think you need the right mix of personality. i am not firm enough with people and my manager is alittle on the hard side. so it's a clash lah. hopefully she will be able to find people whom can match well with her personality. and there are alot of things happening and yada yada yada.. my blunders make more work to be done.

this freebird is missing the friends she left behind at the cage.

Pauline, Mui Huan, Hazel and their 'prizes'

Allan and his prize

Kat

lunch at nihon mura

anyway there was a company function at DXO today and well, this is the first time i was in DXO - eh, it doesn't really have the club feeling leh. it is more like a pub. lol. nothing much there. just very boring stuff. haha but i like the overall interior design of DXO. =)

ok - i am going to go to bed and start slacking tmr!! hee hee.

Rayson's 21st + zouk

2008-07-28T10:12:00.006+08:00

Date: 26 July 2008
Venue: Timbre@Arthouse
Occasion: Rayson's belated 21st birthday party

Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to Rayson!
Happy birthday to you!

Yeah the softballers and F2 ogls meet again! people who turned up include Jasmine and Rayson, Bryan, Junhan, Pearl, Yongshen and I!

our favourite place to meet is TIMBRE~! music - ok. pizza - not bad. ambience - pretty nice. company - absolutely wonderful!

prize presentation. hmm i wonder who is the shy girl hiding her face with her hands??

Rayson wants to eat his present?! tsk tsk tsk... bad boy!! i know it looks absolutely lovely but it's wood lah. cannot eat!

timbre's many many nice thin crust pizza is a better choice! eat pizza with loads of cheese!

the waiter who had been serving us the whole nite. good job dude.

*Cheers*

let's toast to many more years of friendship!

this is probably only other normal looking photo that we took that nice. taken near the entrance of its bar because it was drizzling alittle outside. hahahaha. oh well. anyway we all had abit more to drink and happy tipsy people love cam-whoring away!!!

cam-whore. cam-whore. cam-whore. lol. i think only people like us make ugly/funny faces when we cam-whore. hur hur hur.

take 1 - *chu* oops.

take 2 - *chuu* yeah!

Date: 27 July 2008
Venue: Zouk
Occasion: nothing much

We left Timbre feeling really high and haha i think we were alittle gong-gong already. Yongshen jioed for a zouk session and i was very excited about it becuz it has been ages since i last clubbed. and the fact that i was going to club with YS's friends whom i totally don't know was really something. i don't normally club with people i don't know. anyway initially it was only jas, me and yongshen going to zouk.

even after 12am, it seems quite impossible to flag a cab. 15 minutes of desperate flagging and our mood was dampened but we have our ways. hahaha and off we go to zouk! reached zouk around 12.30am but jasmine had to pull out last minute so it was only me and yongshen with his other two friends, nic and yanren.

four straws and a drink.

anyway i was quite disappointed with the music that night because i wasn't familiar with indie rock/pop and the music sucked. i am not saying indie rock/pop sucked but i am sure there were better songs to play than those spinned that night to hype the atmosphere. so we left shortly after 2am because it was no point dancing music that doesn't make you high. i typed a msg:

"i am 50% pissed with the music. the other 50% why i am not pissed is because of the alcohol."

perhaps the alcohol might have amplified my negative feelings. hur hur hur. but at least i did loosen up alittle. i hope the next clubbing session will be better and more friends can come along! or we can make new friends or something. =D sometimes i wish my alcohol threshold was alittle lower. bleah. but one must always be careful what you wish for.. anyway i think i had too much to drink that day/night plus the buffalo wings gave me a throat inflammation..

oh no work for me today. oh no no no..

Resignation

2008-07-25T21:16:00.003+08:00

when i first heard that i got the job offer, i was simply overjoyed and i immediately called my friend to inform her of the good news. now 7 weeks after that fateful day, i am fighting tears when smsing her my decision to resign.

i never really believed that there were things you couldn't do if you put your heart to it but now i know - some things will still end up failing miserably no matter how hard you try. i failed to meet my own expectations and my manager's; hearing about my carelessness, blunders and inefficiency were the only things i hear.

i can say that i am at the lowest of my life because i have never been so unhappy in my life. these emotions were so strong that there were days that i cried the moment i leave the office. i don't like to cry because i see it as a form of weakness. but over the last two weeks, my entire being was so upset that i couldn't hold it in once i stepped out of the office. so in the past weeks, i have much cried more than i ever had in the past 5 years. and i lost 2kg working there.

thankfully, i have colleagues who are always there to help and support me when i needed it. i am really grateful for them for being there for me when i was at my lowest. if it wasn't for them, i don't think i could have last more than a month. Specifically, i really need to thank Pauline who sits behind me because she was really my pillar of support. i am reallt grateful for her advices and support...

despite the unhappiness, i don't regret joining the company because i still learnt many valueable lessons and more importantly, i got to met a bunch of great people like Hazel and Mui Huan. the only regret i would have is that i can't stay longer to work with these wonderful people.

hopefully we will keep in contact and tomorrow will be a better day.

I love to rant.

2008-07-22T10:39:00.001+08:00

hahaha i just went down to Kino the other day and was just looking around when i spotted TACTICS manga Vol 10!! wahahaha so happy because it was totally unexpected! i had no idea they released it in Japan! i thought they stopped publishing because the mangaka was sick. hee hee. anyway i am quite happy the way the story is heading. but if i am not wrong, the next vol might be the last one. unless they intend to add new spices to the plot.

i also picked up D.GRAY-MAN manga Vol 14. this is also the singapore published one. hahaha i was waiting and waiting and when i least expected it! i am quite into manga and animes nowadays. and D.GRAY-MAN is getting very exciting! i cannot wait till friday evenings to view the online scanlations. the storyline might not be as emo as FMA but it is still a pretty good anime/manga.

i think i might be heading down to kino again to get something. i seriously think that kino should consider importing japanese CDs. they already have mangas, animes and japanese books. just add CDs to the list man! because i don't know where to get Salyu and Ayaka's albums in singapore, apart from eBAY. i am quite traditonal because i like buying albums physically. not through the net.

haiz. and i am quite bored of the songs on my MP3 already. anyone has nice songs to send me?

anyway i was talking to my girlfriends the other day and i really think we are getting old. shopping for a while and we feel nua. and to think that we are already only 22! NB. the other day i happened to talk about my age. i am ~~already~~ only 22. and my sister made this comment: "What so old arh". KNN leh!! anyway i am not the only one with a 2 in front of my age. my bro is already 20. hmpf.

to rub salt into the injury, i am now officially the shortest in the family, not including my grandparents. my mom used to be taller but old age made her alittle shorter. even my sister is taller than me. sianz. i am not actually short for my height but i am just the shortest in my family. if i go US or something, i might even end up being petite. HAHAHAHA! OMG!

oh i went for my sister's school's funfair. bumped into felicia and well. this is felicia posing with 'KL's Twin Towers' hahaha.

my brother just watched 'the dark knight' and he gave it a perfect 10! Heath Ledger was fabulous as the joker - totally pyscotic and evil. no wonder he slipped into depression. my brother says the character is cursed. Jack Nickalous nearly died filming that batman film too because he was on the same drug that Ledger took while playing the same character. how freaky is that. sigh.. perhaps he was too immersed in his character. the world lost a great actor.

so people who intend to watch the film online rather than in the cinemas. SHAME ON YOU.

EMO.

2008-07-20T09:15:00.004+08:00

HA! i am blogging again.

anyway i met up with ade, sheena and weiying just now. sigh. i think my life is getting very boring so i had nothing much to say also. everything i am doing now just revolves around my work. or maybe i am just plain tired - jaded. and i have come to realise that you have to be careful what you wish for. really.

sigh - i am totally regretting this decision that i made but what can i do? seriously - i never expected paperwork to be such a killer because i am practically dying. sigh. maybe i am just not merticulous enough. maybe this line of job is just not my cup of tea. maybe the problem lies with me.

i have never felt so screwed up before. my previous work experiences were pretty ok. but i am seriously struggling to stay afloat on this job. i have never tried so desperately to do something and still end up failing. so i am finally understanding what shuwen meant when she said she had a horrible experience in admin work. i might just be unlucky lah. but what can i do? clench my teeth and continue lor.

even though i am already 22, i know i am quite naive sometimes because i still view the world in rosy colours. but my rosy picture is starting to fade and turn black and white. whatever the case, i will still stive to do my best and make the best out of everything. if i totally screw up, they can fire me because i really tried my best. it's just that this form of work, their management style is not what i can adapt to.

i need someone, something to colour my world again.

Adeline Tan's birthday.

2008-07-19T10:07:00.000+08:00

attended Adeline Tan's 21st birthday party today! she looked really happy and excited. but she was all over the place like all birthday party hosts are. i didn't know what to get her cuz i am buying alone so i have a budget. i ended up getting her a notebook. sigh~! oh well.

the very radiant and happy birthday girl, taking a photo with me! welcome to the club!

oops. does he look familiar? yeah - the very elusive andre. i only bump into him, once in a blue blue moon. we should have a class gathering really really soon. because when he asked me where everyone else is - i have no idea. anyway all the boys should be out of army by now so yeah. it's about time for a class outing. we could go yu chong's house again or something. hahaha!

aiya - this woman was sick. she was with all the councilors so i was there too. funny seeing the way they interact with each other. seeing all the councilors makes me think about jj. oh well. i am long out of that environment already.

yup - i have been to a few parties and everyone is lazy to send photos leh. who arh? ah tam's farewell party. jasmine's birthday, baoyue's birthday *hint hint*

oh ya, ah tam flew on thursday morning. hee hee i was tempted to switch train at tahna merah interchange but oh well. come back often ok!

I love good food.

2008-07-18T09:39:00.000+08:00

Went for our family dinner in chinatown. hee hee. that is because my siblings and i were very interested to have our pork knuckles and roast chicken. i have talked about their food before but they have upped their standards by importing a very expensive oven. 5 digits price tag. *gulps*

anyway this is the exterior of the shop

our draft beer. pardon my lack of skills in serving beer. too much foam.

the name of our beer - i think. hee hee.

this potato salad kicks ass ok! its a bit sour and sweet at the same time. this is not your tyical mayo potato salad! nice!

our pork knuckle - they had this really sour radish thingy. it tastes weird the first time you eat it but it complements the knuckle. anyway we finished the whole dish so yeah. TWO THUMBS UP!

first we had pork, now we have chicken. italian rice was stuffed into the chicken and yes - we finished it all too. we meaning my siblings and my dad.

and the whole meal only costed less than $70! woohoo~! my brother paid this round. and i am paying the next round.

anyway the biggest joke happened just minutes after dinner. my siblings and i plus my mom wanted to walk to People's Park OG to walk around abit and then buy the buns that were on sale. but when we reached OG, my dad called to say that HE LOST GRANDPA IN THE CROWD! chinatown was really crowded that day!

my grandpa walks really really slow and sometimes he like to stop suddenly to look at things. so my dad turned away to look at something while waiting for him to catch up with us. when my dad turned around, grandpa was gone! then all of us were like siao liao. how to find! how to find!

hahaha but my grandpa is abit forgetful, he is still quite smart. he walked himself to somewhere near the car and so we finally found him. HAIZ.... drama drama. that i why we always have to drive when we go out to eat. no more drama in my life because it is scary.

didn't go to work today because my stomach is giving me problems again. sigh. so i am damn free to blog. hee hee.

Entertainment

2008-07-13T12:59:00.003+08:00

Hey does anyone have any idea if Red Cliff is good? i have already booked people to watch with me but since it is about the Three Kingdoms, i will probably catch no ball. hahaha i have practically zero knowledge on china's history. but anyway, I am still hyped up over the movie. and there are so many movies i wanna watch!

1. Red Cliff
2. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
3. X-Files Movie: I want to Believe
4. Batman: The Dark Knight
5. Hancock
6. 10 Promises To My Dog

i noticed there is a R21 movie called "Help Me Eros". It's a taiwanese movie starring the F4 girls. er.. kinda weird i think. Even its synopsis was a one-liner. wth lah...

i have been trying for sometime but i can't seem get rid of my CDs. i wanna sell it to a second hand CD shop - not the cash converters kind. is there one in Marina Square? i have like 15 odd CDs to sell. and probably the same amount of CDs that i have been waiting to buy. tsk tsk tsk.

Where to sell CDs arh?

I have alot of Japanese CDs i wanna buy and they are all freaking expensive lah!! and some of them are not even available in little Singapore! maybe someone can suggest to Kinokuniya to import Japanese CDs too! *pouts*

21st birthdays.

2008-07-12T14:48:00.002+08:00

EVENT: JASMINE'S 21ST BIRTHDAY PARTY!
THEME: HAWAII!
VENUE: COSTA SANDS RESORTS SENTOSA
DATE: 28 June 08

yuyin and the birthday girl!! woohoo! very tanned and pink! woots!

softballers and f2 ogls were present. i wanted to put more pictures but then the group photos were with someone else. tsk tsk tsk. why never send arh? anyway, since the theme was hawaii! lets see who was the most hawaii-ish?

these two flower boys. lol. this is the pink-iest i have ever seen rayson. lol. but what to do? its her pink princess's birthday!

actually bryan was the 'star' of the night because of a special reason. everyone present should know!

hahaha i haven't gotten his permission to put up the photos so i will leave it out first. lol. everyone was laughing at his manly abs. tsk tsk tsk. more guys should have manly abs like him! hee hee..

anyway i was a great chance for everyone to meet up and man, its been quite some time since we met up. everyone is just B.U.S.Y. we don't even go timbre together anymore. tsk tsk tsk.

on the topic of timbre.. what is a 21st birthday party without some alcohol?

hahaha no lah. alcohol is not a must - just that there happened to be alchol around. anyway - this is really really nice! all of us were like drinking and drinking! coffee layered liqueur. we ran out of cups, so we used bowls. that was so wu-xia. and after you drink, you are supposed to those the bowl behind.

the event ended with everyone toasting to jasmine. eh - i personally don't really like jim beam but never mixed jim bean with green tea. it is just WEIRD!

ZOO. ZOO. ZOO.

2008-07-11T12:06:00.000+08:00

woohoo~! finally!! i got to touch a computer during my free time.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KUANIE!
actually today the softballers and f2 ogls met today for a small farewell party for Tam. hahaha damn funny! i am waiting for photos!! =d yongshen was very sexy that night. hee hee..

OK i am going to write as much as i can about what has been happening! there were photos that were lost in my laptop. i think all the money i earned from my current job will be used to buy myself a new laptop. does that mean i can say sayoonara to my ticket to japan? hmmm.. sigh....

anyway i went to the zoo on 14th june because it was BLOOD DONOR'S DAY. and i got two free tickets to the singapore zoo. this is me posing with some african statues.

this was the only photo with human in it. zoo doesn't really have anything to pose with. unless you go hug an orang utan or something. i am alittle angry because i lost half of my photos taken that day - all in the lappie. there was a big-ass orang utan in one of the enclosures leh! seriously it was bigger than two of me combined!

went with adelene but the weather was quite a spoiler because it was hot, humid, crowded and a rush. i think if you wanna visit the zoo, must walk leisurely and read those interesting facts etc.

sigh - i think i will go there someday again when i have nothing better to do. haha!! but the zoo was super crowded. so i think it was quite a wasted trip. i didn't even get to see the animal shows! *grumbles* but i did see alot of animals and the zoo's different too. =) i am a supporter of domestic tourism.

hopefully, i get to grab the singapore flyer soon! i wanna go in the evening when the sun sets! i wanna photograph the pink and golden clouds!

seriously! this pygmy hippo is just too cute for its own good! hahaha its like a shiny pig! i bet its putting its best asset for everyone to see! hahaha. i overheard one auntie commenting "Wah! what a big and round butt!" - she must be envious! lol.

this is a life-size comparison between a nile hippo and a pygmy hippo. small print reads 'one nile hippo can weigh up to 20 pygmy hippos'

a kangaroo. my first time being so freaking close to one. all kangaroos are free to bounce around in the Australian Outback section but i didn't know. i totally freaked out when this kangaroo bounced past me. i should have touched it! damn.

i know not its name - but it's definitely not a kangaroo.

the sideview of that same animal. but please do not ask me what is dangling from underneath it. there were alot of animals with weird things dangling in weird places. tsk tsk tsk. what is a mother going to answer when her child asks "Mommy - what that?"

baboons - they really liven up the zoo. they were really active and quite violent. scary scary. i just hope that i never get a change to be attacked by one. i will just die.

cheeta - i don't know if i spelled it correctly but it only appeared when the zoo was closing. hee hee . my camera has a sever time lag problem so i didn't manage to photograph its face.

sigh - i had better photos but these are all that's left. After that we went over to sheena's place for mahjong! hahaha we bought alot of junk food. seriously we were eating junk and laugh at each other because we kept taking turns to screw up the game. hahaha i don't know. i think in future, we will be having more of these games. =)

and then i learnt how to plat Texas poker =D quite fun. but it is really no point to play when money is not involved. hahaha i don't have alot of skill so i can only depend on luck. hee hee. this is what sheena's living room looks like. super messy and it seriously looks like a gambling den. lol.

We went to somewhere near beauty world for prata supper. i don't really dare to eat prata actually - because of a very horrible experience. but the prata there was good. quite nice. and we had their chicken murtabak or something like that. haha.

after a very full supper, we went back for monopoly. haha monopoly is very funny when you are trying to convince people to sell you property that you want. and then when you are almighty, you don't really have a point in playing because nobody can pay your rent. hur hur hur.

i think i am going to invest in a monopoly set soon. hee hee. and a poker set too!

time time time

2008-06-29T23:00:00.003+08:00

i have so many things u wanna blog about. jas' party, kby's party, drinking out, eating out, mahjong but i have no time or the energy to do anything these days. seriously - work/travelling is tiring and expensive.

these days - i crave for the bed by 10.30pm and my bio clock makes me wake up by 6.40am. sigh - can i dun dare laze in bed because i might end up going to work late. zzz. oh well. see how lah. i hope i can have more time by thr end of the week. =)

working!

2008-06-22T22:25:00.003+08:00

i actually intended to blog a long long time ago but my sister managed to crash my lappie. and one of the original entry that i wanted to post is probably still in my laptop..

anyway the first week of work has passed and i think the working environment at my office is really friendly. i am still getting used to everything so i am adjusting. just that i think i feel very dumb when my supervisor is explaining stuff about insurance to me. sigh~! i seriously feel stupid when she has to explain it to me so many times. tsk tsk tsk. maybe i am too used to having notes and just jotting down points so when someone just tells me things verbally, i get really confused. i need brain supplements.

but everyone in my department has been super nice to me as in treating me to dessert/lunch over the week so i think its about time that i do something about it. hee hee. i think i might have to treat them to the famous muffins on tuesday.

come to think about it - i have been lucky whenever i got job hunting. firstly i get interesting jobs and secondly, everyone in the office is really nice. most importantly, i get to learn alot of things! the best part would be the money lah. hahahaha.

back at HH, it was a small company with less than 10 people working. everyone was alot older than me and it was my first proper admin job. i took a long time trying to fit into the environment. and despite my expensive mistakes, they still want me to work with them. so i am really honored. having staff discount when i book with them is another incentive!

the new work place is much bigger and i am in the HR department so i presume i will be meeting the other colleagues that i don't even know yet. and i think 60% of them wouldn't remember me anyway. being a contract worker in the company does feel alittle weird because i will be gone two months from now so i have mixed feelings developing friendship in the office. i don't mean the people there are not nice - they are very nice! they talk to me to help me ease into the whole environment but its just that it will be difficult to maintain it after i leave... or i might feel sad to leave the place when i end the work stint.

but i am thinking too much anyway! i still more days to spend in the office! tomorrow will be another day! hahaha btw, i am bringing lunchbox to work because it is just too expensive to eat there! and i pray hard that i don't screw up!

What i have been up to?

2008-06-17T21:05:00.002+08:00

the week before i started working was a mad dash to enjoy as much as i could. the most important thing for me was to eat alot of yummy yummy food. so i was practically food hunting lah. that week - i did gain abit bit of weight. hahaha. how can i not when i am eating unhealthy food for every meal of the day.

let me see, what i have been eating..
090608 - chinatown

Cordon Bleu - $8

the inside - cheese oozing out. *drools*

i think i remembered talking about a German foodstall in Chinatown market. went on monday to try and this is what we ordered!! quite nice!! ham sandwiched between pork fillet and cheese. woo~ chewy, juicy meat and the oozing cheese oozing!! happy happy!! it's not mind blowing fantastic but i would love to eat it again!

i tried their pork knuckles ytd. quite good - they grill the knuckle so it is cooked using its own fats and the sauce is superb lor. i wanna go there and try more of their stuff! =) no pictures because by the time i reached home after work, it was already half eaten. hur hur.. anyone interested for some beer and knuckles?

'eight treasure porriage'

btw, i went to eat with my parents and after that, we went people's park for dessert! so we had this 'eight treasure porriage' so it's supposed to be made up of 8 different kinds of nuts and beans - like ginko nuts, lotus seeds, red bean etc. quite nice when eaten warm and its pretty cheap too! i saw alot of people eating! its not alot of flavour like chendol but at least its the healtiest thing on that list. hahaha.

120608 - bugis foodcourt opp national lib

vegetarian oyster omelette and goza

i bet everyone is doing a double take at the words 'vegetarian oyster omelette'. yes - i actually ate that. its 90% like the normal oyster omelette with the dough etc, but the only difference is that they replace oyster with mushroom. quite healthy lah. you wouldn't get hep A/B. hahahaha

actually we meet up with PC, zoobooth and tay shu shu because zoobooth is finally back from US and back her for her internship. yeah! her 2,3 month long internship is the only time we get to see her lah. and guess what she brought us?!

victoria's secret! my first 'secret'

these are ULTRA-moisturizing hand and body cream. and they come in PURE SEDUCTION/ MY DESIRE/ LOVE SPELL/ PEAR GLACE. haha sorry for being such a mountain turtle but i am pretty excited to recieve this present. my first victoria's secret!!

130608 - chinatown

claypot rice

this claypot rice is very near to the famous ikan bilis yong tau foo stall. anyway i wanna recommand this stall because its not bad. the vendors use chinese sausages, la rou (wax meat?), salted fish and alot of chicken. and for $15, you get 9 bowls of rice. the whole pot is pracitcally overflowing with rice lor! see the picture!! seeing is believing!!

$15 is more than enough to fill 3 adults. i went with dad and sis - in the end we were stuffing ourselves so that we don't waste rice. rice is super expensive these days so to be able to eat so much rice for only $15 quite worth it. thumbs up! i actually dragged my sister and dad to go eat with me because i cannot possibly finish one myself! hee hee~! i am so mean!!

the rest of the meals are like everything pimple-inducing! that's why i have one big red lump of pimple on my forehead. sigh~ pimple pimple go away!! ok - i am tired after typing all these. i am already doing data entry and letter typing at work. hahaha i can't be bothered to blog properly! i am still trying to upload my photos to the zoo. sobs. what is wrong with my camera!! pissed lah. and my mahjong kaki's photos!!

i got the job ~!

2008-06-14T12:44:00.001+08:00

hahaha

I GOT THE JOB I WANTED! =d
and i got higher pay then expected. ho ho ho..
*dances around the room*

ok - i am going to the zoo now. i am a supporter of domestic tourism.

Nothing Much

2008-06-12T11:35:00.004+08:00

i have decided to get my lazy ass blogging again. enough of being a maid already. i haven't been going out much because i am so used to staying at home already. oh no - i think i am becoming a himo-onna. eeks!

anyway i have been job hunting this few days and i found at great job offer. even though it is at pasir ris, its an admin job at a big company's HR department so i think the exposure will be good. the lady said she will call me today but its almost 2pm so i think i didn't make the cut. hahaha i am back to square one! oh well. maybe i should find one closer to CBD i guess. gotta beef up my resume before i graduate!!

alot of things happened during the exam period and i didn't get to blog all of them down. they include:

Event: Loreal Brandstorm
Date: 14/05/08
Venue: Asian Civilisation Muesum

Loreal Brandstorm

All the 8 finalist teams.

my snack

the event was small and everyone was really nervous. i wasn't a contestant because it is only opened to NUS, NTU & SMU students. 6 months of hard work, and the competition results is to be announced at the event! i know there were people who were really disappointed when they found out they weren't chosen to represent singapore for the international competition - but who wouldn't?

i really hope that the singapore team would do us proud. i have no idea who won because the international competition ended and i haven't gotten news of it yet..

Event: Brother's graduation
Date: 21/05/08
Venue: Nanyang Polytechnic

prize presentation - 3rd place

with family

Me and my bro

for this special occasion, i wore my highest heel so that i don't look too short. but its not like i am short or anything cuz i am still 6cm above the national average. my brother is just too tall.

maybe if i graduate next year, then it will be my turn to wear the robe and my square hat!! hee hee.

Event: Baggage Deposit
Date: 08/06/08
Venue: East Coast Park

went for this one-off event to earn $50.

i have done this before so i know what i was in for: the job scope is simple but its damn tiring! anyway it was fun! it was really fun because it was an all-girls team!! girl power! *Roars*

we took a photo before work started and some after work ended. hee hee every different because everyone was just plain shagged.

the organisers of the marathon provided tents for us to sleep in but some of the co-habitants of the tent were super inconsiderate. so i couldn't get any sleep. sleep-deprived people can get really high - so we ended up doing stupid things while working so that we don't fall asleep.

hahah i hope there will be one soon! hee hee i would love to do it! again!

ok - i think that is what i remembered to blog about. hee hee. i wanna go overseas because school starts on 15th sept and i wanna really enjoy. oh well. i don't think i can go anywhere. everytime i watch news, there isn't a single happy event taking place. it's times like this that i am thankful for being able to live in singapore!

JUNE PROMO @ CHUN KEE!

2008-06-08T14:03:00.001+08:00

oh man - i must tell this to all my food buddies..

HONGKONG STREET CHUN KEE
Add: 120 Lower Delta Road #01-15 Singapore 169208
Tel: 6276 8484

special promotion for the month of june!! only at the above outlet.
ALL THE DISHED BELOW FOR 8-10 PAX AT ONLY SGD$159.00

Dish #1: Starters

Dish #2: Sharkfins(fake mixed with real) soup

Dish #3: Brocalli and mushroom

Dish #4: Braised pig trotters

Dish #5: Mysterious but delicious fried prawn

Dish #6: Herbal Chicken

Dish #7: REAL Abalone and veg

Dish #8: Thai-style steamed fish

super worth the money can - restaurant fare at food court! oh the serving is quite big - my family of 7 barely finished the dishes! so i think it will feed 10 people comfortably if you order rice. $159 for 8 dishes leh!! how to get that kind of quality food, at such prices, at resturants!? their yam basket is super good! but you have to wait very long for that and their fish meat/head beehoon is the best lor. so you go and try looking for it ok?

Chun Kee is one of my favourite eating outlets because of all their nice food. yummy yummy!

my drink named: 3-in-1

i dunno anywhere else that sells this drink so maybe its only available there. it actually has sourplum, lime and lemon juice mixed together. most people think this is a really weird combi but it is nice! not very sour but rather it is sweet with a tinge of citrus sourness.

i can't elaborate more because i am still tired from the ECP baggage deposit activity and i just had a very filling dinner. will update about ECP another day.

OH today is GANG's 21st!! happy birthday dude!

i want food!

2008-06-07T14:03:00.003+08:00

THE MAID IS IN THE HOUSE YO~

holidays are here so now i decided to shift gear from STUDENT to MAID. haha i spent my whole day seriously cleaning my room and vacuuming dust bunnies. 6 months since i last spring-cleaned and it actually looks like i haven't been cleaning for nearly 2 years! seriously the air quality in my area is bad. must be all the construction *sigh* i bet it will be even worse when the new hotel just opposite starts construction. oh my tian...

ANYWAY - i think i am turning this into a food blog because i have been going around eating and eating!!

went chinatown for my duck rice and porriage again! i went with dad to eat! and i ate about 2 dumplings today - i don't usually eat them but i totally love those salty dumpings!! damn - this is bad because dumplings are quite fattening.. and i forgot to take picture. hee hee i shall eat another 2 tmr and take photo! HAHAHAHAHA. actually the dumpling stall is between the duck rice and vegetarian stall but they dun have zhao pai. more importantly, their dumplings are superb! seriously it's bursting with ingrediants. i heart their dumplings. =D

my favourite duck rice stall #02-140

duck rice & porriage

xiao long bao - ok only lah.

sigh - i suddenly have cravings for la mian and xiao long bao. LAN ZHOU LA MIAN's stuff is damn good ok! their stuff has been featured in quite a few japanese magazines. i want to eat their FRIED TOFU! serious - their tofu is DA BEST!!

there is a place selling german beer and pork knuckles in Chinatown wet market so i gotta try that out too!! #02-38 and this is their menu! i want to eat their german pork knuckles because it looks good!!

i think this is a branch out from another german resturant called WINE KAFFEHAUS? eh eh anyone who feels like coming down can call me and we can go eat ok?

i wanna go shopping but i have no money leh. shit. exams are over and the floodgates have been opened!! i have so many cravings to satisfy!! i am looking forward to the funfilled activities next week!

OI ADEHO &YYR!! when shall we go out to eat?!

oh man! i just finished watching the anime and seriously - Allen walker is power lah; as expected of the proteganist of this series. woohoo~! plus Allen is looking more like a bishounen with each passing day. hee hee. the way he is now - our beloved moyashi can officially join Lavi and Kanda in the bishounen league. hur hur hur ..

anyway i wanna rant about Art Central's D.gray-man episodes. the subs technically aren't wrong in their translation but sometimes it doesn't fit the situation. if not the sentence structure is abit awkward so you can't process the properly before the next set of subs come in. extra attention given to deciphering meaning from subs makes it very annoying to watch. *grumbles*

WHICH ONE?!

2008-06-06T00:55:00.004+08:00

WOOHOOO!

exams are over! i am totally loving it!

i was reading through my previous posts and i am horrified by how bad my english becomes when i am stressed with all those stupid facts. sigh~! mahjong was supposed to be on tmr but sadly it had to be postponed to next saturday. and i am going to the zoo next sat too! ureshi!!

holidays are here so i am going to spring clean and get myself a job or two. maybe i can buy a new jigsaw puzzle? i am going to chiong this year to earn money man. cuz i wanna save up for grad trip or if anything happens - another year in SIM? *touch wood* no harm having more money eh? though it means i can't go for any of the EASON/GARY concerts. sobs.. no DS either. urgh..

anyway - i went shopping for a new fragrance just now!

i have three at the moment now - one was a gift, one almost used up and another one will be sold to my sister! so i am going to get a new one soon! the one i am currently using now is swiss army for ladies. (red one)

i like the burberry summer and diesel series! but i dun really like the design of the burberry bottle though. anyway i have shortlisted a few. at least these are the few that i remembered.

BURBERRY - SUMMER SERIES

BURBERRY - SUMMER SERIES LADIES

BURBERRY - SUMMER SERIES MENS

haha i have lobang to buy Burberry-100ml at $70. i know a place to buy perfume at lower prices. i think its cheaper by 20, 30 bucks? damn shiok. and i like both perfumes but i think i prefer the MENS one.

DIESEL - FUEL FOR LIFE

DIESEL - FUEL FOR LIFE LADIES

DIESEL - FUEL FOR LIFE LADIES and MENS

i love the diesel series - the design and everything but it is $109 for ladies and $90 for mens i think. more expensive than burberry wor. i prefer DIESEL's mens to BURBERRY so i am lost as to which one to buy. scarly i go into SASA and end up buying a totally different fragrance. haha which is totally possible since it's me you are talking about.

i realise that i prefer the men's fragrance because it is less flowery/citrus though i am not into musky ones either. sigh - why it is so hard to find a decent one! *grumbles*

sigh - i am pmsing again i think.

shit!!

2008-06-04T18:56:00.004+08:00

AH!! I AM SUPER NOT PREPARED FOR FI!!

NB!! WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FINANCIAL JARGONS TO REMEMBER!! sigh - i am taking a finance degree; of course its financial jargons. why am i so stupid to take finance!! *pouts* and my migrain is not helping either. why does it feel so sucky to be a girl?! i swear i am going to buy that evening primrose oil pill to eat everyday!! i dun like PMSing!!

oh i found this cute picture online. hahapicture taken from The-Dog-Star(Deviant art)

LESS THAN 24 HOURS TO FREEDOM~! I CAN'T HARDLY WAIT... =D

Over... soon.

2008-06-03T11:16:00.002+08:00

WOOTS!! ONE MORE DAY!
AND EXAMS WILL BE OVER!!

MAHJONG!! WAIT FOR ME!!

but then my mom has no intention to leave the country for a holidays since natural disasters seems to be the IN thing now. disasters popping up at every corner is very scary and now oil is USD$130+ a barrel. i cannot imagine the fuel surcharge for flights. i don't even think my mom is going to let my brother go HKG with his friends. sigh - there goes my much awaited family trip to Japan. oh well. next year! next year will be better!! *fingers crossed*

i have a sudden urge to go for community overseas or maybe part of my grad trip? lol. damnit. i must be out of my mind - pampered Hua going on community service overseas...

蕭敬騰 - 收藏

2008-06-01T16:09:00.003+08:00

this is not the full song.

full song on youtube

for some reason - this video was not available for embeding. but i am very happy that his highly-anticipated album is finally out! 16 june!! i am really looking forward to getting it! hopefuly he comes over for promotional activities, though i am very sure that by the time he arrives, 2008 would be almost over~! lol. but he hardly does any talking so... hur hur hur.. i am happy if he just sings from the start of the promo-activity till the end! lol.

i think i am abit not up-to-date with my e-news. haha i only heard this song this morning. at first i was trying to guess who sang the song!! yeah!! i can't wait. produced by the Li brothers, with song contributions from Ashin, qing feng, and alot of other c-pop heavyweights. how can i not be excited?!

i bet everyone is going to compare his sales figures with those of Aska and Yoga but Jam is NO.1 in my heart! jam xiao's debut album!! ok i am off to mug again!

MY FAVOURITE DUCK RICE!

2008-05-29T10:10:00.003+08:00

OH~! 3RD PAPER DOWN! ONE MORE TO GO~!
WOOTS!!

i am damn happy that the 3rd paper was down, even though i am still confined to exam-lifestyle for another week. anyway it was a horrible paper again. Mission: complete 8 short questions and 3 long questions in 3 hours. the 3 long questions comprises of 3 smallers questions each; so technically we had to do 8+(3x3)=17 short questions in 3 hours. 10 min 30 secs to read and attempt each short question. *faints*

after 2 hours, the crown of my head was already aching. tsk tsk tsk. my brain was on the verge of mal-functioning when 'please drop your pens' was announced. oh well. the paper's over! nothing can be done! and what better way to recover from exam trumor than to have a good sleep.

i went to bed at 11pm last night and i actually managed to fall asleep! that says a lot about how shagged my brain was. i NEVER sleep earlier than 2am and i had a wonderful sleep last night! i guess it because i am pretty relaxed over the next paper since it starts one week later! totally madness!! i am going to slack for 2 days before i start mugging. it feels good to push exam stress to the back of your mind.

this is a very funny poster that i found. it just one of those WTF posters

Ah- i wanna recommand this mega-delicious duck rice/porriage in chinatown runned by a old couple. you go chinatown wet market, take the esclator up to the 2nd floor and you will see the duck rice stall. if you are still lost - try looking for a long queue. lol. i forgot to take a photo of the stall because i was too excited to know that i finally got to eat my duck rice.

why am i so excited? they went on a 3 year hiatus when the whole chinatown market shifted to the outram park temp market so now they are FINALLY BACK! my 3 attempts to buy the duck rice failed because i went too late! not even noon and ALL DUCKS SOLD OUT! so when i woke up at 9am today, i swiftly made my way down to chinatown market and yes! i am now a very full and contented girl. *big grinz* so if you intend to try the rice, you have to go early like me. normally the ducks don't last till 1pm. so you can imagine how popular the duck rice is.

yeah! happy happy! and i have nothing else to blog about! i am going to watch some videos and rot around the house.

PLANS FOR AFTER EXAMS.

1. MAHJONG EVERY FRIDAY!
2. MAMBO EVERY WEDNESDAY! till i find a job
3. Get a job
4. Start working on my fanfics again
5. Start exercising
6. Play softball with the folks
7. Play somemore mahjong after softball.
8. Movies? Jdorama?
9. Vaccation overseas? Japan? Hongkong? Taiwan?
10. Attend birthday parties.
11. SHOPPING! CDs, BAGS, ACCESORIES, CLOTHES when i have more money
12. SAVE SOME MONEY? is that even possible?
13. Start filling my brain with more intellegent facts other than what are the latest anime/drama to watch.
14. Make the library my best friend again.
15. Pick up Japanese again.

vesak day eve

2008-05-24T10:27:00.004+08:00

guess what - the papers are undergoing a major revamp.

corporate finance paper made me feel like i was playing mix and match because they can incorporate 2, 3 chapters into a single question! and there wasn't too much of those calculation/theory questions that students normally banked on. super surprising! but it doesn't mean the theory questions were easy. so i am 101% sure that the Macro paper will involve combining of topics. absolutely great! i can hardly wait!!

sigh - 2 more papers. just 2 more papers..

you know when you talk to your family members, you learn things you knew knew. i never knew my granddad was a excellent cook in disguise. he's those old school hawker guys. his best recipe is lu ya and i have no idea how to translate that into english. brew duck? stew duck? the point is - the old folks that used to live in chinatown would bring stuff to him to lu(boil/brew). and my dad knows how to make pig's blood cake. and alot of those weird pig collegent jelly and what not. yucks. i don't eat that stuff. and when the oreo siblings cook - my brother does the seasoning and adding flavour. the men in the house can actually cook!

frankly the men in the house don't step into the kitchen to cook at all, even though they know how to. what to do? my family comprises of 3 very traditional guys - they let womenfolk do all the housework. i do consider my brother semi-traditional. lol. the only memory of my dad cooking was black bean hor fun; MANY, MANY, MANY years ago. i think i was still in primary school then. wah - so long ago! but why didn't i inherit the talent to cook. i only know how to eat. lol. i am a fussy eater, my grandma always says.

and i conclude that the guys i share a roof with all have the same traits - impatient. or maybe it's a common trait among guys - guys can't wait! and all of us, with the exception of my mom and grandma have nasty temper. tsk tsk tsk.. feisty family we are.

eve of vesak day was spent at sakae sushi. the older folks still prefer chinese food so it is just the oreo siblings at sakae. the one at Icon Village has tabanyaki. so we got to eat the japanese pizza(da ban shao) and fried rice. and some other stuff.

ba ban shao - super filling and not really nice. taiwan has nicer ones!

cheesy chicken chop. not too bad.

a very pretty corridor in Icon Village

the lights - close up. so pretty!

we haven't really explored the mini shopping mall near our place. so this is a first. they have this really expensive Japanese restaurant that was featured on Life! just a month ago. i feel like trying but i think i can only try after i start working.

i seriously love those lights leh! i wish i was living in the Icon Village. it is one of those condos i think - complete with a gym on the 30th level. there are windows surrounding the gym so you can get a birdeye's view of CBD/suntec area when you go jogging at night - i think. i haven't gotten a chance to go up there!! sobs.... i am jealous. i wanna a apartment in Icon and i don't care if its puny.

one big box of big strawberries

big strawberries in proportion to my big palm

dad bought strawberries home and they taste so good. it's like eating strawberry jam. Adelene said the strawberries in Italy were very, very sweet too. hmm. so if i close my eyes and savour these US strawberries, maybe i might be able to transport myself to wonderful Italy's farmlands enjoying freshly plucked, and very ripe strawberries. yah right.. hm.

Oh - rolling love 翻滾吧！蛋炒飯 started airing in taiwan early this may and i didn't even know! i managed to catch half an episode and i think this is a more intelligent idol drama compared to X-family but still pretty fun. the animations are cute and the colour concept in the drama's lovely. warm colours. =) i like! but i will only watch it after exams. i am still stuck at episode 2 of Absolute Boyfriend. tsk tsk tsk.

k - i am really hungry now because i haven't had breakfast and all my siblings are still snoring away. i do wish that i could sleep so much as them. but sadly, i never clock more than 9 hours. i must sleep more after my exams end because sleep is good for your skin! 2 more papers and freedom awaits! oh wait. some people have already gained their freedom at 1pm yesterday afternoon. damnit. *pouts*

A great, big bout of depression

2008-05-22T01:10:00.003+08:00

12 hours before my paper i am really, really depressed.
i am seriously depressed and i wanna crying!!

i have been studying my finance stuff for so long! i already know over 80% of the stuff and i already understand the concepts - even those stupid, confusing long put; long call; short put; short call but i just cannot remember my formulas because they make no sense to me!

what the fuck is the point of knowing concepts when you cannot remember/use formulas when sitting for exams. and all the stupid theories, conditions, proxys, assumptions are killing me. it's like dejavu again! i can never understand logarithums and differentiation.. they don't make sense!! so i cannot remember! O levels, A levels - no matter how hard i try - i never pass for any test on log and diff!!

yuhua cannot imagine herself if she graduates and goes into the finance sector.. how was she to know stocks had so many complexed theories behind them. reading about them on the newspapers seem so simple.

now - i just wanna crawl six foot under and close the lid.

nothing much

2008-05-20T17:48:00.005+08:00

oh what a day. the weather is hot - super hot. i feel like a snowman stuck in africa. tsk tsk tsk..

btw - does anyone know if there are places that sell Salyu's album? Salyu is a Japanese singer and i totally love her songs!! her songs are more indie rock i think; or maybe alternative. i can't believe my friend sent me such a fabulous album and i left it to rot in my lappie.

when i first heard her songs, i thought: who the hell is she? why does she keep wailing in her songs? the songs may not to be your liking the first time you hear it but it just grows on you. i love the first five songs very, very much. enjoy. =)

i know i am supposed to be studying but i happened to be watching the taiwan news and i had to urge to blog. today marks an important day for taiwan since it's Ma Ying Jiu's official first day as president of taiwan. the people of taiwan are really, really happy about ex-President Chen leaving the office.

Singaporeans are really lucky that our presidents have all been great. so its still important to select your presidents properly. if not, the country's economy will be in shables and nobody will wanna be your friend. it's sad that the china-taiwan issue got africa to severe relations with taiwan.

hopefully Ma will really be the sun that will cast away all the gloom that has loomed over taiwan for the past 8 years. keyword: HOPEFULLY - not because i don't trust him or his capabilities. but it will be a uphill task to bring about the changes he wants.

there are so many things i wanna blog about. the giantic strawberries that daddy bought. they were so sweet, i think i was eating strawberry jam. the vesak day lunch at sushi tei. Loreal brandstorm finals. sigh~! no time no time. i didn't even get to go suling's 21st party. and tomorrow's my brother's poly graduation ceremony. the whole family's gotta be present =D

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there have been ALOT of media coverage on the Myammar and Sichuan disasters and i think alot of people are blogging about it. but i am kinda avoiding all media articles on them because i am very emo. Reading these articles will just make me depressed to no end. watching snippets on the news, especially the earthquake footages at dinner already makes me tear and my heart wrench.

but i applaud the saviours. 'a human body cannot survive without food and water for more than 3 days' they say but even after 160 hours, survivors have been rescued.

the chinese have strong faith in the determination to live and willpower of their fellow countrymen. it is this faith that keeps them going; to reach out to those trapped. and it is also the faith the trapped victims have in the rescuers, that they will use whatever means to save them, that keeps them alive. would YOU be able to survive 160 hours in the dark, alone and with no food and water? would you drink your own urine to keep yourself alive? without a clock or daylight to tell time - 1 hour might seem like 10.

i wouldn't have survived more than a day, buried alive.

My favourite family routine

2008-05-18T00:34:00.000+08:00

oh man. the weather is so hot these days all i wanna do in coop up in my room!! but the oreo siblings are always on the go every sunday!

we call ourselves oreo siblings because there are three of us and most of the time, we wear white/black tops. so sometimes we look like a normal oreo(2 black + 1 white) but sometimes we look like reverse oreo(two white +1 black). am i making sense? hur hur hur.

anyway the oreo siblings are not only good at strolling and spending money at roadside stalls. we also know how to maintain our family car because our sundays are normal spent time with baby - the family car.

baby - the family car

OH I HAVE SOMETHING VERY GOOD TO DECLARE! i finally have enough courage to drive again! super happy! i didn't leave the carpark but i did move out of the parking lot and up to the rooftop. i know it's no biggie for many drivers but hey, i developed the phobia when i dented my dad's car in the carpark the other time. and i haven't been behind the wheel for more than 10 months!

maybe. just maybe - i will have the courage to go on the roads. =D

mr bear for the car's mat. i bought it at daiso! super efficient!

my brother is very tall and skinny hor. damn his high metabolism.

my brother is in charge of the car's exterior, i am in charge of the interior and my sister; the four wheels. we do the car washing so as to cut cost on outsourcing and its like a free gym and spa. cleaning the interior actually becomes part of my sauna regime. then beating the dust out of the mats is my gym for my butterfly arms.

we always end off with drying the windows with newspaper. it is super good because your arms get exercise and windows get really clean! maybe next time we will learn how to wax the car properly. =D after maintaining baby, we go home to bathe and have dinner. i love it when we go out to eat! Yatta!

on top of that you get to see the sun setting. so the sky and the clouds are really nice - golden, with hues of pink. i hope my photo did justice to the sky's colours.

anyway an early happy vesak day everyone. what a long weekend~! and what better way to spend it then with my notes, books and study desk! hohoho

Accuracy of Death

2008-05-17T00:34:00.005+08:00

oh. today's paper was...

WONDERFUL.
SIMPLY WONDERFUL.

i can only pray that i pass. if not, i would have to retake this pre-requist module and delay taking a core module. the end result would be me taking a "special sem" - doing an extra year. oh well. anyway, exams at expo are always chaotic. everyone was fighting their way around the list of candiates to see where they were seated. SIGH. damn stupid thing i have to say.

when paper started - i could only say that my hands were shaking with adrenaline and cold. my fingers were already purple less than 30 minutes into the paper! anyway there were so many components that i couldn't do - i think.. i think its hopeless to think anymore. hopefully they have moderation. on top of that - i can only moan at the stressed induced skin problems. *sobs*

3 more papers to go!
Aja! Aja! Fighting!

On a lighter note, i caught 'Accuracy of Death'.

Frankly, it is not too bad - provided you go in without too much expectations. totally not an emo or depressing movie when a topic like death is involved; instead it uses light humor. i might even catergorise it under comedy!

the deathgod's tagline "What do you think about death?". when things start turning cliche, it turns out a little differently. of course, midway through the movie, you end up criticising the deathgod's decisions to proceed with a person's death or to suspend the death - hence the title 'Accuracy of death'.

Kinda of interesting so i might grab the book that this movie was based on. oh by the way, the translation of the movie was alittle funny i think. and sometimes wrong i think. hmmm. gotta ask my sensei about it.

Most importantly, it is a must catch for any takeshi fan simply because this is a once in a lifetime chance to see the godly Takeshi behave so.. adorably.

i don't usually use that word on males but Chiba (the name of Takeshi's character) is rather niave and childish. especially when he listening to music. HE IS DAMN CUTE! how can a full grown man act so childish and ridiclous and yet remain natural. Takeshi really portrayed his character very well.

maybe he portrayed him too well to the point that it shifted the focus of the movie alittle. or maybe my brain was just too tired to comprehend the movie at a more indept level. hur hur hur. incidentally, my friend and i were talking about how Takashi's movies are always so serious. and i agree! apart from those idol flicks made during his early years in showbiz - all were pretty serious. so this is definitely a first for him!

haha by the way this is not the reaction of a fangirl. the entire theater was laughing at his childish antics and naive reactions! just the kind of movie to help relax my stressed and taxed brain - not too much thinking needed. i think it was worth the $10 because i really enjoyed it and i can actually start studying again!

taken from a Accuracy of death movie review from some other place.

With the pretty images in place, the next thing that works well in this movie is its well articulated themes about life. What defines happiness? What does it take to give up on happiness? What makes one faithful in what he believes in? What makes one’s life fulfilling and complete at the end of the day? Sure, these are romanticized notions that some cynics may consider a waste of constructive time, but we’d think that these are the finer details of life which busy urbanites like us should slow down and take note of. These three tales bring together these messages and make you look at the big picture of things in a lyrical manner.

ok. end of entry.
i am going to dream about adorable Takeshi and forget about the nightmare this afternoon.

Chinatown walker

2008-05-14T00:34:00.001+08:00

haha just the other day - i went on a stroll with my siblings to destress. yeah i need some exercise or else i will go flabby all over.

even though we went after dinner, we still snacked along the way. so i finally tried the austrian sausages at the roadside stalls in chinatown! yummy yummy! and i love their pretzels too! nice nice!

our brawurst sausage and smoked chicken sausage. oiishi desu ne~!

a very nice ferrai

i would have done a better job taking a picture of the car if it wasn't so close to the road. sigh. but i still prefer a bmw. lol.

so we ended up walking all over chinatown and the newly renovated Chinatown market. frankly, i think the renovation really wasn't as well done as i hoped. i was looking forward to a more vibrantly coloured design - something a bit more chinese like black, gold, red to complement the temple and the shophouses. i wasn't expecting white, bright orange, green and pastel grey + pink.

the wet market at the basement doesn't even resemble a wet market - only raw fish and vegetables give me clues. from the tiles, to the roof and the measurements of each stall; even the customers are complaining about the poor ventilation. sometimes i just wonder if the architect or people in charge of the renovation have ever been to chinatown or traditional wet markets before. but they clearly don't understand what a wet market needs.

if they intended to have the market built very clean and very spacious to welcome tourists then i think they have the wrong concept already. wet markets are supposed to be wet and alittle messy but there definitely will be some kind of order within the messy. that is the beauty of a wet market. now everything is in 'order', it feels like everything is in a messy. what an oxymoron.

furthermore the 2nd floor looked really messy. some parts looked like a maze to me. sigh. or maybe i am too used to the old layout? sigh. i dunno. and we can't turn back time because everything is already done.

Meet-ups!

2008-05-13T00:31:00.002+08:00

i am totally a hermit during exam periods and finally i get to leave my shell/cell last week. i got so excited talking about Forbidden Kingdom that i actually forgot to talk about peigeok's birthday celebration. *slap myself*

our meals at Kim Gary - our milo, holics and milk tea plus my korean noodles, the soup noodles and mushroom rice. i love Kim Gary's dishes becuz they are all nice! =D i wanted to eat my "typhoon shelter" noodles initially but i eat that everytime i go there. halfway thru my meal i realised i ordered too much. anyway, comparing korean noodles and typhoon - i think the typhoon noodles taste better.

my devil's fudge cake and wein's ruby strawberry cheesecake

old friends. 14, 18 years?

finally gave peigeok her Angbao because Adel and Sheena are still somewhere in Europe. but hor.. later she secretly sms me to tell me i misplaced a $5 instead of a $50 note! how paiseh is that! hahahaha. truth be told - we only managed to get her angbao ready behind her back when we were at the movie theater. i have no intention to cheat ppl's money. luckily she is my best friend. if not, i am going to feel so paiseh lah!

the previous day - i met up with A2 girls. hahaha the reason for our meet up was because Zhuying is migrating to canada and she is going to start on a different chapter in her life. and i think she is being very brave because she has to manage alot of changes in her life.

almost full strength

Zhuying with jiaxin and sarah

zhuying with FB - Eileen, Felicia and Eu yee

zhuying with FB2 - personally i like this photo better. lol.

with zhuying

with jiaxin and eileen

group photo - missing huiyu.

bon voyage Zhuying! she is flying on my first paper. sigh.. flight to a new life. and i am still stuck in singapore. sigh.. 3 weeks and i am going to taste freedom!! anyone wants to play mahjong? hahaha

movies

2008-05-10T00:47:00.002+08:00

finally caught Forbidden Kingdom today and i love the fight scenes. as expected of the bigshot kungfu cheorographers and directors. haha i think i would have appreciated it better if my brain wasn't half asleep. slept less than 3 hours cuz my insomia is acting up again.. tsk tsk tsk.

anyway fighting aside - it was pretty much a comedy with the whole theater laughing heartily.. i love the scene where the two Js (Jackie Chan and Jet Li) were fighting over the seeker. but i think there were several scenes where the change of scene and atmosphere was really abrupt. super weird. lol. and of course the very cliche stuff is present too.

oh yes - for those who watched and were clueless, Jackie Chan was Hop in the Lu Yan's Shop and Jet Li was Monkey King. I love the way Jet Li fought as Monkey King. and i did notice a number of flaws in the storyline at the ending. even the evil and cold white haired demonress was reduced to a shrieking girl. makes you think that they did the movie just to have the double Js fight it out in a movie so who cares how the plot and the storyline goes.

so it is still worth watching even though the chinese to english translation is horrible. at least better than 'dance of the dragon'. from what my friends say - 'over her dead body' was not bad, pretty funny. and 'what happens in vegas' is cliche but still funny. 'made of honour' looks promising ! but on top of my must-watch-list is Red Cliff. i saw the tralier today and i am really excited! yeah! i can't wait to start working to earn money! then watch movie!

Please ignore this last section if you don't watch d.gray-man.

Anyway i just finished watching Episode 82 of d.gray-man! woohoo! This is a must watch for all Lavi fans because he is totally amazing there! frankly, i used to think his growing hammer was quite a useless tool. but with Kanda temporary out of the picture, all's left of the main cst is Lavi and Allen. i am super happy that there were 3 heavenly episodes of Kanda fighting previously.

hahaha this arc of the anime really makes all the fan girls really happy since thre is alot of room for different exorcists to showcase their skills and powers. i read the manga so i know there are more fabulous stuff ahead. *cheers*

less than a week to my first paper but some people are already approaching their 2nd last paper. *faints*. i am seriously inching my way to a slow and painful death. urgh.

thou shall not tattoo

2008-05-08T02:12:00.001+08:00

oh yar - there was this article about tattoo-ing.

yeah - have been thinking of ging for body modification for a very very long time now. getting a tattoo is just one of the items on my lifetime wishlist. but now i don't even dare go for an extra piercing because i am 110% sure my mom will kill me - my friends think so too. anywya tattoo are permanent, plus they hurt and itch like hell. risk factor is pretty high.. i guess.

maybe part of me wants to push my body's pain treshold and just be rebellious. hmm maybe i am masochistic hur hur... part of me is damn scared that i will screw it up or i will get sick of the tattoo. or the tattoo artist might screw it up! either way its hard to remove and i am very sure my dad will disown me and if any life-threatening complications arise, my dad will probably not care. in the event that happens, my mom will be devastated cuz i know she loves me most!!

i recall daphane ang's blog saying she used clingwrap and vaseline etc to help prevent infection. bascially it is a whole load of follow up to do. i just lack the discipline to do it lah. so i probably will not be getting my tatto done. or maybe i will get one when i already married and with children. i will tattoo my child's name on myself - that's better right?

lol. sigh.

personality test

2008-05-07T23:43:00.003+08:00

anyway i was eating at Food Republic at vivo today and i tasted the nicest fried dumpling ever! actually its my first fried dumpling but its super nice but damn oily!! they have it at wista's Food Republic too. i forgot to take a photo of it though. lol. there was another javaness chicken rice. eh - i think ok lah. but super overpriced! the drumstick in the pictures are really deceiving!

anyway i have been snacking so much these days. and i only snack at night.. (T _ T) oh tummy... grow grow grow! Studying makes me hungry. and i can't concentrate when i am hungry. bleah

damn bored with corporate finance. i feel like banging my head whenever i look at my notes. so i decided to blog surf alittle and i did a personality test! you can try it out. My test results:

TEST1

Your view on yourself:
You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You are a true romantic. When you are in love, you will do anything and everything to keep your love true.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.

The seriousness of your love:
You are very serious about relationships and aren't interested in wasting time with people you don't really like. If you meet the right person, you will fall deeply and beautifully in love.

Your views on education
Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.

The right job for you:
You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.

How do you view success:
You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.

What are you most afraid of:
You are afraid of things that you cannot control. Sometimes you show your anger to cover up how you feel.

Who is your true self:
You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.

TEST2

You are a very serious person. You tend to be quiet and well behaved, and you don't have a great deal of self-confidence. You prefer to be alone rather than with friends and that could make you a little less interesting to certain types of guys. You are very attractive in an individual kind of way, and this means it can take people a little while to get to like you.

You really care about other people's feelings and are quite serious about the issues that affect your life. You are sincere, and your concern for the well-being of others makes many people want to be your friend.

You are a bright, cheerful and bubbly person. You are thoughtful and considerate, and like to have fun. Everybody feels comfortable around you because of your pleasant nature. When you walk into a room, people's eyes are likely to be drawn to you because of your charm.

Guys see you as being a thinker and a careful person. They will be really attracted to this quality in you, but you need to learn to speak your mind, otherwise people will find you too shy and quiet. Learn to relax and lighten up--it's okay to have fun sometimes. When you learn to develop your fun-loving side, guys are going to flock to your side.

Your boyfriend believes that you are a strong and independent person. Your confidence and cheerfulness make you an attractive person to be around, but sometimes you need to pay more attention to what other people, including your boyfriend, are thinking.

ok end of entry. hur hur hur.

rice rice rice.

2008-05-05T16:27:00.004+08:00

OMFG! I KNOW I SOUND VERY AUNTIE-ISH..

HOW COME RICE PRICES CAN RISE SO FAST!?
seriously? i went NTUC Fairprice with mom just now for stocking up of groceries. and we looked at the rice prices. over a span of 1 month - rice prices of the brand we eat rose by SGD$6 for a pack of 10kg rice. knn!!

before the whole rice shortage incident - rice costs $13.80 then later one month later it was $20.30. now its a f***ing $26.30. so it almost 100% increase leh!! siao! seasme oil is up by $2 a bottle. and mom wanted to buy oyster sauce but they dun have it on the shelves so i suspect they are holding stock till they decide on how much they are going to up the prices. *faints*

maybe when i am 30 years old, cost of a pack of 10kg rice will cost $50!! by that time i would have decided to turn myself into a cow that eats only greens. i don't think i can afford rice.. or maybe i should turn myself into some Indian mediating guru. i have seen a documentry where this boy's body can sustain itself for 2 years with just air. seriously. i think that would be nice..

anyway i decided! Red Star Dimsum Resturant will probably be very, very packed. last year was madness. people queuing even before the the doors are opened. so this year, Mother's day dinner will be at Vivo City's sushi tei! =D i know they don't do reservations.. so everyone - please don't fight with me for tables. hur hur hur..

end of entry. yeah i know its pointless entry.

ABSOLUTE BOYFRIEND

2008-05-04T03:05:00.004+08:00

woohoo~! there is a new jdrama in town! super nice! woohoo!! finally, a nice jdrama to watch i only caught one episode but i like it very very much! lol.

its called 'ABSOLUTE BOYFRIEND' - a manga turned live drama series. data taken from wikipedia:

Riiko Izawa is an office lady in search of a boyfriend, and she ends up in possession of a "robot" known as Night Tenjo, who is programmed to be the perfect boyfriend. However, this creates a love triangle with a distinguished young man at her company who also has feelings for her. Riiko will be played by Saki Aibu, Night will be played by Mokomichi Hayami, and Soshi Asamoto will be played by Hiro Mizushima.

the robot - Night.

he reminds you of Dlyan Guo, that lanky model/actor. i seriously think they are two peas in a pod. both their faces - so small but their bodies are so long!

anyway this robot that is soley dedicated to love and you can customise the setting of the robot. lol. you can even set their sex drive: 1. very Adventurous. 2. slightly Adventurous 3. -forgot 3rd option- 4. Not interested. wth..

then you see how the robot tries to win the girl's heart! so sweet lah. but you can't really comment on robot's acting but i am expecting it to change in the near future.

the humans - Riiko & Soshi.

i love the leading lady! she is damn cute. the other leading male was from jap version of Hana Kimi. looking forward to his performance though. it seems he has more room to showcase his talents this time round. no big names in this jdorama but i think it will be great!

hmm it started airing in Japan on 15 April so it should be episode 4 by next week! i wanna watch honey and clover too =) Ikota Toma is in it but i think this time round his character is less lively. bleah. i love nakatsu!!