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a new home for my blog.

2007-07-09T22:00:00.000+08:00

i've moved!!!

from now on, (or at least for now), i will be here! so please visit me there. but i have no tagboard! :( boo hoo.. still figuring out how to use that thingy.. so bear with me.

see u there! :)

my new fur.

2007-07-08T22:56:00.000+08:00

ok. after much thought and determination, i finally decided that straightening my hair is the best way to go for my norway trip cuz it's much easier to manage. plus i wunt really have to cut it..

one last look at my (not-so-curly) curly hair.. i was so nervous, the hairdressers were so amused! haha.. ask joanne if you don't believe. sigh. haha. went to do this on friday so this post is kinda late but still! so yup. the 'before' shot.

in process. (they applied some ultra smelly cream thing to my hair and had this ufo thing swirling around my head. it was nice and warm. made me sleepier than i already was..)

ta-dah! after doing my hair, went out with joanne and her friends who brought us for supper. or at least wanted to go for supper but they took like 1 hour driving ard, only to decide to watch a movie in the end. so silly. so yup. this is the 'after' shot. not too bad i guess. normal right? haha! guess this would be my original hairstyle if i didn't perm it. but it is much softer with the treatment that i had too! :)

anyway, so this is just a short post to show off my new hair. still getting used to it. really like that it's softer. but kinda missing my messy hair. sigh. oh well. thinking if i shld cut it shorter. but shall leave it for a week or so for now then decide. :)

random zoo shots

2007-07-07T16:19:00.001+08:00

4 more weeks till the end of my internship at the zoo.
4 more weeks till i fly off for yet another long trip.

sigh.

about this trip to norway.. i have mixed feelings. my emotions have been messed up about alot of things lately. sigh. i need a clear sign where i shld go, what i shld do! ah, oh well. perhaps this trip will shed some light... hopefully. shall not get too emotional / drama. haha.. here's some photos. (though not great photos...) enjoy:

that's me, the limo (8-seater) buggy that i drive and will miss dearly when i leave.. *it's the same buggy i took my buggy test with.. * and 2 ah mengs on board! haha.. me and desiree had to transport these huge ah mengs back to the store. haha.. must have been a pretty funny sight cuz we were carrying it half-way round the zoo to get to the buggy then had them as passengers as we drove to the warehouse. :)

some scenic shots. nice right? makes me feel like i'm in korea or something. don't ask me why but i do. haha! that's upp seletar reservoir anyway, i think.

here's another attempt to take in the scenery. both man-made and natural. sighhh..

this poor field mouse was caught in the trap at our office. was walking to the toilet and saw it. poor thing. i seriously don't think it is a rat but everyone thinks it is. heard how they will exterminate it, contemplated with some female colleagues about releasing it, was 'warned' by ops not to, went for lunch, came back and it was not there anymore. heard that they were either going to ask Origin (our external pest exterminators) to kill it or they will drown it in HOT water. yikes. i don't wanna find out where it went to, what happened to it. sigh..

the first dinner outing with the rest of the interns. went to botak jones (ang mo kio). the food is not too bad. the menu is interesting. heard it's pretty famous too. had lamp chops with rosemary. not too bad but the lamb was so small.. yikes. the chicken wings (from the other stall) were not bad though.

took a picture of a nice flower there. my photography skills are not too bad huh! haha.. the flower is so clear! heh. actually there's a function on the casio that's for flowers so i used that! haha....

meet melvin, writer of men's health magazine. he came to the zoo cuz he was writing a column called "try-guy". basically, he goes round to try all the fun stuff (for free! and gets wonderful photos of it to keep.) and write a couple of pages on what he did and stuff like that. a pretty cool job for a pretty cool guy.

here's melvin with mahout ng (the guy who always asks me for coffee), the asst. head elephant keeper. both very nice guys. ng might not be friendly at the start. was pretty afraid of him at first but now, he's really nice. will miss him when i leave. together with all the elephant trainers. they are the nicest pple to me in the zoo! :)

melvin is so lucky to get to bathe the elephants. something i wish to do too. seems easy n fun but i think it's really dangerous! he's really damn lucky. sigh. i hope one day i will get the chance too!!!

had my first half-day off work last wed. went to run errands with lionel and saw this as we were leaving the bank. this must be a lady driver! hello kitty dude! quite cute.

there was this whole bunch of flowers near lionel's place. they were all so lovely i didn't know what or how to capture it. so i quickly snapped a shot and left. think the owner saw me. haha. i love frangipanis!! they're pretty.. i think i will have them if i have a nice big garden next time. sigh.

2 pink cars seen on the same day! what are the chances. this car is totally diff. nice too.. was parked outside some church. and this nun was staring at me as i took this picture. was it her car?!?!? hmmm.. haha.

photoshoot for sam (zoo curator), suria and leela. leela is the fat one. really fat and round. couldn't stop laughing when she walked out. haha. but she's really cute and old.

duncan felt like mac's yesterday. and so he bought for the whole finance department and all the interns.. such a sweetie.. but it must have been pretty expensive.. each had coffee and sausage mcmufiin.. nice.

2nd outing with the interns. from left to right: meiyen from HR, song jie from finance, desiree from sales. we went to the prata house at thomson i think. haha..

from left to right: xinyu from advertising and promotions, and duncan from finance. check out the amount of food that we ordered man..

i had kosong prata, bomb prata (which was really sweeeeet! like really sweet cuz it's all condensed milk..) and mushroom n onion prata (which was customed made.. haha. it was not on the menu but i ordered it like how u order an omelette at a hotel breakfast buffet.. haha!), mutton curry and teh peng!

duncan's plaster prata. not a particularly attractive sounding prata name but i think it looks pretty yummy. sunside up on top of ur kosong prata.. with mutton curry, that should be good!

a closer look at my mutton curry! i must say it's not the yummiest mutton curry in the whole wide world but it wasn't too bad at all!

yesterday, natalie (writer) came to interview Night Safari porcupine keeper. and had to take some photo shots too. that's the indian crested porcupine btw. we have the malayan porcupine and indian crested porcupine at the Night Safari. the malayan are the smaller of the 2. ai ping (keeper) was feeding them banana and sweet potato.. they are noisy eaters and would finish everything.. even the banana skin.. they are rodents, according to ai ping.

ok. i hope this post was not toooooooo confusing. it's a compilation of the different highlights for the past 2-3 weeks. haha..

ciao~

a little something.

2007-06-22T10:47:00.000+08:00

In the office right now... was checking my hotmail cuz it's super full and found this from a friend. haha. :)

Before the marriage:

He: Yes. At last, it was so hard to wait.
She: Do you want me to leave?
He: NO! Don't even think about it.
She: Do you love me?
He: Of course!
She: Have you ever cheated on me?
He: NO! Why you even asking?
She: Will you kiss me?
He: Yes!
She: Will you hit me?
He: No way! I'm not such kind of person!
She: Can I trust you?

Now after the marriage you can read it from bottom to the top !!!!

zoo - week 3,4,5,6

2007-06-09T21:21:00.000+08:00

OOPS.... i wanted to have a weekly journal thing on my internship.. BUT heh. OOPS..

anyway, not like everyone's interested in the animals that i like to post.. haha.. and i realise that i dun bring my camera ard that much anymore. sigh..

btw, the camera that i've been using for the last one year (i think.. or more than that.), is the casio exlim which i just bought from lionel for $150... yay!!! cheap cheap.. plus it has so much sentimental value since i've been using it so much more than lionel.. heee.. he got a new (really fat and heavy) camera that takes really good pictures that mine cant.. esp at night.. so it's good i suppose..

so anyway, here are some animals shot that i took that are pretty nice..

this shot is of the proboscis monkey.. duno what's up with them that day.. all looking downwards.. hmm..

a jaguar. some animal leg was hung there during their token feeding session and this silly jaguar bit onto the leg and refused to let go even when it couldn't get a bite out of it.. so it was dangling there for pretty long.. like 10-15 mins!!

white tiger.. i love them.
this one should be omar. the only male white tiger we have at the zoo.
baby rhino! jelani is its name.. if i'm not wrong.

the other day i witnessed rhinos fighting.. the next day when i went back, i saw that one had a wound. guess it lost the fight.. but luckily it's not too bad..

cotton-top tamarin? i think. haha.. these animals look like aliens.. their faces at least. haha. since they're free ranging, they can come quite close sometimes. :)
douc langurs or costume apes. they like to back face everyone when they're eating. they're really really pretty.. if u look at its eyes, u will be lost forever.. they have really pretty eyes..
white-faced saki monkeys. only the males have the white face. the other one is a female.. so it doesn't have that.
komali. our matriarch elephant. pretty huh. but she likes to take her own sweet time doing stuff.. like walking, lying down, etc.

baby orang utan!!
these two orang utans look damn bored during photography session. haha. looks like 2 old man..
baby orang utan will always hang on to its mom.. so it will keep pulling the fur of its mom to prevent from falling.. but being curious and mischevious, it was trying to reach for the plants too..
this particular orang utan always looks bored and hardly participates in the photography session. it will always move to another branch when it's time to take photos.
tree kangaroo! i'm really happy i got this shot.. cuz usually u hardly spot this animal. and when u do, u cant get any nice pictures.. it's always blocked by leaves and all..

baby baboon.
nice picture of a spider web.. :)
i really like this photo too.. it's really clear too.. i feel like a pro when i look at this photo.. haha! somehow..
my ride at the zoo!! this is the buggy i usually drive ard when i bring media pple around.. pretty nice huh.

me n my brother.....

the penguins are new!! but they look like robots.. haha.. too squarish i think.
2 of my intern friends.. we went to the night safari on thurs night. and i realise that i am pretty short!! yikes!.
haha... lastly.. i wanna show off.. MTV VJs May and Choy visited the zoo for a photoshoot.. and i asked to take a photo with them!! they're really very nice, very funny and really friendly!! plus they're really really pretty!! and May said she has the same jeans as me!! which is from pull n bear btw.. haha. May is the one in orange, Choy is in blue..
a closer look. haha. they were standing so close to me, i can feel the heat from their faces! and their arms were around me.. waaaaahhh.. haha!!

ok.. so anyway, i know my job looks damn fun but actually week 6 was a pretty depressing week.. but i shall not say anything here. haha.. i still have 8 more weeks to go... i dun wanna die yet.. just in case anyone reads this.. haha..

anyway, my supervisor is on leave since thurs till wed.. so till then, i'm pretty much independent and kinda lonely and kinda scary.. handling all the visits and all by myself.. i feel like a grown up.. haha. i just hope i dun screw anything up too badly.. yikes. wish me luck! :p

Zoo internship - week 2

2007-05-13T21:54:00.000+08:00

hmm.. second week's come and gone.. not too bad. the more interesting days i had last week was tues, thurs and sat. interesting becuz there was filming at the zoo and i can to bring them ard and watch them do their stuff.

On tues and thurs, this filming crew from Dua M Pte Ltd came. They were doing a show which is airing on kids central every Saturday at 1pm. It’s called ‘no problem bureau’.

At first when I saw them it was a little weird cuz it’s my first time bringing a filming crew ard so being the nervous sort, I was going a little crazy.. and plus I dun watch kids central so I din expect them to be dressed the way they were. Heh.. see photos to know what I mean. Anyway, it was not too bad. The crew was really friendly.

OH!! I almost forgot.. I just passed my buggy driving test on Tuesday morning!! Was supposed to drive this filming crew ard but I really wasn’t too confident. Haha.. and plus my supervisor wasn’t too sure I can drive yet.. so haha.. but anyway, the driving thing really made my day.. :):)

On thurs, the same crew came back to finish their filming.. so it was pretty nice too.. just watching them and laughing along. Haha..

Oh.. and apparently they’re quite a hit with the kids. Like they’ll be kindergarten kids walking pass them and shouting “Yugo or Yuko (name of girl) and Mego (name of guy), Saturday, kids central, 1pm.. No Problem…” haha.. so it was quite nice. Like they’re really famous.. haha..

they were filming and i was keeping myself busy, taking photos of them and the animals. :)

they keep having to stop their filming cuz the kids were shouting and waving at them. haha..

there was this scene with one of our zookeepers. he was so funny! he was telling me that he did national geographic and animal planet before but never kids central. so the producer was asking them to relax and be more animated. it was hilarious. haha.. i took quite a number of videos. but i dun think i'll upload. heee..

here are some picures of some animals that i took.. this is a picture of merkats. there're really quite cute. one of the animals i love.. hee.. they always stand up to keep a lookout for predators and all.. doing sentry duty. :)

common iguana. this was allowed to roam at the fragile forest exhibit. i was pretty close to it.. and it was pretty big..

2-toed sloths enjoying fruits. this was also taken at the fragile forest.

these are like fruit bats. there's a name for them but i cant rem. haha.. they pretty harmless..
smiggle. haha! it's actually a little baboon.. i took so many pictures of this little guy.. he's cute.
banded mongoose. they're quite similar to merkats i think. but these are pretty smelly.. cuz they like to use urine to mark out what's theirs.. and they use it pretty often too..
check this orang utan out.. it was so bored of pple lining up to take pictures with them.. it was just looking at its nails, puffing its cheeks, lying ard.. haha.

ring-tailed lemur.. this animal was jumping all ard.. freaked me out a bit actually but i realise it doesn't really attack unless u provoke it.. which is like most other animals.
rrrraaarrrr... tiger!! heee. nice picture huh!!
it's actually just a paper bag.. can u tell? haha.. there are only white tigers at the singapore zoo.. which are so so so so pretty.. i absolutely love them.. the orange ones are found at the night safari i think.

ok..that's the summary of my week 2 of internship at the zooo zoo zooo.. :) i'm actually blogging in the office because my supervisor is not in today and she din leave work for me.. hmm.. i should msg her later or something. oh well.. btw, can check out the "no problem bureau" show on sat.. think the one on the zoo is airing this coming sat..

ZOooOOOoooO - week one.

2007-05-06T19:10:00.000+08:00

The night before I started work, I was really really excited and worried. And my mind wondered a lot.. i purposely went to bed late so that hopefully I’ll just be too tired to think and just fall asleep but it din work at all. In the end, I only slept like 2 hrs before having to get up to get ready for work.

When I got there, I was kinda nervous just thinking of meeting pple and my supervisor. And when I got there, it seems like my supervisor decided not to meet me that day. She took that day off cuz tues was labor day so that she can have a long weekend. Great. And she left me a list of 3 things to do for that day with someone else.

1. walk around the park
2. watch the animal shows and feeding sessions
3. visit the night safari and zoo websites

so while the rest of the interns were introduced to the office pple and all, I was pretty much alone.. really lonely.. and I realized that corp comms.. (I’m in the corp cmms department btw, which is under marketing.) had only 2 pple. Me and my supervisor! Great. So anyway, I was kinda relieved that my first day was not too bad la. Just walking ard, take my time n all. And lionel came to accompany me in the afternoon to watch some animal shows and went for dinner with me. So first day was pretty great.

Wed, my second day at work. It was also the day I really get to meet my supervisor. Was still nervous although she was the one who interviewed me. Because on the first day of work, I heard that the previous intern under her left me a message, wishing me good luck and all cuz my supervisor is a pretty hard woman to work under. Hmm.. so far, not too bad I guess.

Anyway, I guess I’m not used to it yet but everyone pretty much communicates over email. Even my supervisor when she wants me to do something, she would inform me via email.

Let’s take this for example:
The first email I got from her asking me to do stuff was that wed. she had this email from ochre pictures or something to come to the zoo to do some interview. She conveniently told them to contact me when they are at the entrance and forwarded me the mail. Wahhhh.. when I saw the mail. I was like “HUH?!?! Like that also can??” and my heart was racing like mad after that. Haha. But it turned out pretty fun. One of them was my friend from work n travel. Haha. Small world. And it was nice just listening to them interview the keepers. The keepers are all pretty friendly and really interesting. I cant help but wonder why I’m not doing their job but stuck in an office. I envy them. Sigh.. oh well.

Thursday and Friday was pretty ok too. Replied to the public’s feedbacks, brought more media pple ard, read magazines on the zoo. Yup.

Oh.. and anyway, meals are provided for staff.. but I haven been having a great appetite. So as usual, the interns I eat with, they’re like “no wonder u’re so skinny..” argh.. to everyone who said that or want to say that to me.. “NO it’s not cuz I dun eat much. I dun eat a lot during main meals cuz I eat way too much junk. I cant help that my dad is skinny that’s why I’m skinny. And NO, I’m not on a diet. I just get sick of food easily so I cant finish my food. I need variety. Arghhhh!!” haha.. chill ya chill. :p

hmm.. let's see..
mon: had sweet n sour fish, 2 kinds of veg and rice.
wed: mee rebus (that i totally dun eat.)
thurs: chicken chop, veg, butter rice
fri: nasi lemak.
not toooo bad for now i guess.. monday is chicken rice!!! whooopeee..

anyway, i know this is a long post. haha. haven been blogging laa. anyway, here are some photos. enjoy...

this was taken on the first day.. i usually sleep on the bus but i was way too excited to be sleeping. i managed to take this as the bus was turning in to the zoo. the sbs bus felt like a staff bus for the zoo cuz at that time, pretty much everyone going there were going to work. i was 40 mins early on the first day..

this is the corporate office. a look behind the wooden door which separates the public from the office. haha. it's pretty cool. everything is glass.. i think it's cuz of the open concept that they have. and outside of the office is like a pond thing with huge trees. nice huh..

this is my table, my computer, my phone . and if u look carefully, to the left, i have my junk food. haha! not alot la.. but sufficient for now. i keep bringing stuff in.

like i said, i was walking alone in the park on monday morning. so i can only take photos of myself. haha. i look cock-eyed man..

crocodile!!! eeks. it was really near man.. scary.. one of the animals that i'm scared of most is the crocodile. i cant stand them.. they freak me out.. and this one was really really near. i felt like i can drop in anytime man..

that's lionel with paul.. haha.. check out the nose man..

OTTERS!! managed to catch the otters feeding. cute!! they had this bucket full of fish and each took turns to take one out then swim away to enjoy.. and they'll swim back to get more..

baboooooons. check out this dude out. check out what he's doing. compare this picture with the one following it. heh. i took a video actually. but not gonna put it up.

on thurs, i brought someone to take photos of the polar bears. and i regretted not taking my camera with me. so on friday, someone else wanted to see the polar bears.. so i decided to take the camera with me. so while the professional was snapping away, i was too!! haha. of cuz the photographer was a little amused but i just smiled and carried on. haha! oooooops. oh well. interns can be forgiven. heh!

so anyway, inuka is the son of sheba, who is bigger than her. and he just went through moulting and his new fur is growing back so he is a little blackish..

inuka enjoying his fish!
so that's abt it for now i guess. :) one week down.. 13 more weeks to goooo~~~ yikes. haha! i wish it was a little shorter actually. but oh well.

PS: i dunno what's up with the underlining at the front of this post.. i cant seem to get rid of it.. argh.

2007-04-29T16:54:00.000+08:00

sigh.

i realized that the last time i blogged, it was almost 3 weeks ago.. from studying for exams to playing around after exams..

tmr, i'll be starting work at the zoo. of cuz i'm happy and really excited. but also getting really nervous. plus of all days, i fell sick yesterday.. so kinda still recovering today. yikes.

nothing much to say in this entry. just to let everyone know i'm starting work! will not be as free anymore.. but can still find me for dinner! hopefully i can get some photos tmr at work.. :)

our little cocktail.

2007-04-09T11:19:00.000+08:00

i'm in the midst of studying for my stupid exams so i shall not spend too much time blogging.. here's some pictures of martine is the meantime..

in the first couple of days that martine was here, it was trying to find its spot. so it was experimenting sleeping everywhere.. in this picture, it was sleeping under come wooden box thing in my room.. see its paw?

this was taken yesterday.. after a day out having fun, it went straight to my bed and slept. haha. it was damn funny.

again, on my bed... it was staring at the maid when she was clearing the trash from my room.. martine gets excited when there's movements.. so she was staring pretty intensely at wiwin. haha.

ok... that's all for now.. martine is such a pretty cat.. :)

screwed.

2007-04-07T16:27:00.000+08:00

tragedy

2007-04-05T17:17:00.000+08:00

my immortal

2007-04-04T18:05:00.000+08:00

if you loved me, you would be here with me.
and if you have to leave, i wish that you would just leave.

good things come in 3s!

2007-04-01T10:30:00.000+08:00

i refuse to let other more joyous happenings be in the same post as the bad one. argh. (read the previous post to know what i am talking abt... )

anyway, as busy as i was, i went for my interview at the zoo on monday. i know most pple think it's crazy to wanna do an internship at the zoo.. i think because everyone wants a bank job nowadays, it's a little overwhelming.. i dun understand those pple, to me, banks are boring. and i dun think i will survive that. having said that, that's where the money is too. and if one day i am really in need of money, u might find me there! haha.. right.

anyway, on wed, i finally heard from them! I GOT THE JOB!!! :):):)

here's what the email said:

Hi Reina, I am pleased to inform you that you have been offered the internship with Zoo. Kindly log on to OnTRAC asap to 'accept' the offer, and drop me an email once you have done so. You would also be required to submit the completed Indemnity Form to me prior to your internship commencement. At the same time, please find attach the Internship Performance Appraisal form. Towards the end of your internship, please pass the form to your supervisor and request for him to complete the appraisal for you. The completed form can be emailed/mailed/faxed back to me (see my contact details below). Lastly, below is a note from Zoo. Pls take note: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please be informed that all trainees attached to the Singapore Zoological Gardens are required to be vaccinated against influenza as a form of protection. This is part of the precautionary measures against the threat of bird flu. The vaccination can usually last for a year. For trainees who have not taken flu jab within the past 12 months, they are advised to visit any clinics to get the vaccination at their own cost. Usually the cost range from $20 to $30+. The trainees will need to provide document proof to us within the first week of work. If they would like to go through our company doctor to get the flu jab, the rate is at $20. Please let me know in advance so that we can arrange for that.
when i saw i have to take a jab, i nearly fainted! haha.. but i'm really really excited to get this job so hopefully, i can overcome my fear this time.. yikes. (char, i can already hear u laughing at me.. )

anyway, yes yes yes! pls come find me at the zoo from 23/04/2007 to 03/08/07! and we can eat ben n jerry's! heee..

on other good news:

it was another email..
Hi Reina, Congratulations! Your initial application to Norwegian School of Management - BI is successful! Please let me know by 10 Apr (Tue), whether you'll like to accept this placement, so we can nominate you to our partner. Once they've accepted you as our nominee, more information regarding application procedures will be provided. Let's work closely together to make this exchange happen for you! Cheers! Ying

YAY YAY!! it's my first choice and lionel's going too! how exciting.. i can't wait! although i seriously hope i dun play so much that i dun even pass. haha.. and that means that i really have to save saving! norway is crazy expensive i heard.. BK meals are S$25!! sigh.. friends who are reading this, it's time to start treating me and showing me ur love for me by donating to my norway fund! haha! :p

ok.. so lastly, martine is here!

martine is the cat my sister had when she was in aussie. and she finally brought it back.. it's a really pretty cat. although i'm still pretty worried it will attack the rabbits.. sigh.
see pheebe hiding under my leg.. haha.. martine doesn't really bother about the rabbits and in fact, i think it's scared of derby and derby's sudden movements. haha..

forget pageone, move on with the story.

2007-04-01T10:17:00.000+08:00

for the past week that i haven been blogging, alot of things happen. mostly good. but just one really bad something.. so i'll start with the bad.

if u do not know what pageone is, let me tell u what it is. it is a small and really plain bookstore with overly priced books all in the name of art. believe me, those books can be found anywhere, just cuz they say we're targeting the arty farty people.. it's all bullshit. kino and borders have the same books at a lower price and at a better, more convenient location.

as written on lionel's blog:

"Okay basically this is an Advertising project for a real client: PageOne, a bookstore in VivoCity. They've quite well known in some countries like Hong Kong, but in Singapore there presence is BLAAATTT. That means nobody knows who the hell they are.

So the aim was to come up with a campaign for them to 1) Raise Awareness, 2) Increase Patronage , 3) Increase Sales. And it was to be feasible and stay within a budget of $15k / 3 months.

My group identified that the problem was mainly because they didn't have a brand image. So we proposed a campaign that would work around the 'Green Dot' in the O of the logo. Basically our objective is to have consumers immediate think of PageOne when they see a circle with that particular shade of green.

We also played with the idea of how books transport you to another world.

In summary, we came up with a series of strategies, I'm only going to put a couple up. One is an outdoor campaign at Raffles Place to raise awareness which would look like this:

Another is Outdoor floor stickers at the MRT which look like this:

Also a print ad which would look like this:kay you may not think it's impressive, but we thought it was and we were led to believe that it was because when we sent in the proposal, this is what the client said about it:

- "Clear strategies and potentially interesting concepts"
- "The team is a bit more advance in their ideas, but need to work on how they can gel all the fragments together"

So naturally, we assume we're going on the right track right!??!

Here's what the feedback after our presentation was:

1) It's been done before like 6 years ago in HK, it was a flop.

2) Idea is too simple. All the other groups probably thought of it but decided to be bolder and do more adventurous campaigns.

3) Disappointing we chose to do this simple campaign, and not think out of the box.

WTF!?!?!?

Firstly, if it's been done before, why didn't you say so in the feedback which was like a month ago!?

Secondly, it's not too simple. It's simple because they simply do not have a brand image. You have to establish THAT before you go into other bolder campaigns, or nobody will know who the hell you are!

Thirdly, we're not NOT thinking out of the box, we're just being realistic and sticking to the needs and budget of the client. So we look FEASIBLE.

And the worst part? She said this is an academic exercise and we should have explored the full range of our creativity. KNN!! The whole point of having a client is to try to replicate an actual scenario wat..If it's purely an "academic exercise" , why give a bloody budget in the first place?!

Wahlau...and this project is 40% of the final grade!! Even though the client only determines 30% of this and the prof determines 70%...it's still very significant!

Anyway, even the prof thinks the client is full of shit. When the client kept going on and on and wouldn't shut up, (see previous post) he actually took the TA's camera and snapped a picture of him. And They were both sitting beside the client..HAHA!

So after class a lot of us stayed back to bitch abt the client, this group came up with an ad slogan for an anti PageOne movement. It'll read:

"Forget Pageone, move on with the story."

Haha! I thought that was hilarious!

I'm ESPECIALLY bitter cos i was up ALL NIGHT doing the presentation, I didn't sleep a wink just doing it up. At least the prof said the presentation looked really nice. He also told us not to worry about the client..he said "some clients are just like that..."

Damn Mofos."

yup. as u should be able to tell, our whole grp was really pissed. so were the rest of the class. we spent so much effort on it, sacrificing sleep and food, taking cabs here and there to print this and that, rush to meetings, rush home to change and what not, only to have a client that is full of shit and who keeps contradicting herself. great.

a glimpse of my past.

2007-03-16T22:01:00.000+08:00

yesterday, after a long day at school having classes and meetings, lionel and i went to the jap rest. where i used to work for dinner.

before i went to uni, i was working as a waitress at shinryoku yakitori restaurant at purvis street. i haven't been back there for like 3 years i think. yup. basically i had 2 lady bosses and one of their husband. but, when i went back, the boss that i was closer to was in france! argh. so i said hi to the other 2.. but although they sorta recognized me, they din rem my name.. sigh. cant blame old people! haha. kidding. can't blame them cuz i only worked for like 2 mths at the most. and i haven't been keeping in touch.. haha.

but the food was great! had garlic fried rice, paper pot seafood soup, prawns with bacon and mint leaf, grilled onions, lamb chops and green tea ice cream! it was all so yummilicious! and after that, we went to liang seah street for some ah chew dessert... YUM-MY!! i had a great meal yesterday.. that's cuz i din do well for my FIIM mid-term. (even though i really studied for it).. so lionel wanted to cheer me up.. sigh.. i hate these tests.. make me feel stupid all the time! argh. i shall have to work harder. yikes. oh well. i din take pictures though. heh..

eh char! must go back with me to find shirleen soon ya. she'll be back on 17 april i think..

btw.. go watch freedom writers! i think it's a great show... really touching. my top was wet when i left the cinema... haha.. yup.

X-physique 2007. Xtreme, Xciting, Xperience it.

2007-03-12T19:59:00.000+08:00

yesterday, thanx to my 2 very good friends namely Meng Heng and Kenneth Fang, i was running around town during crazy stunts. at 10.30 am on a sunday, i met 3 other team mates, of all whom i do not know!! got to wear an over-sized free tee-shirt, which was not the usual big tees u get but the length was right, just that the sleeves were all over the place. anyway, at 12, we were flagged off from youth park to a series of "unfortunate events".... so here's what happened:

this was at youth park.. bright and early on a sunday morning. the stage was still clear.. and we were the 2nd batch to be flagged off yesterday. the 'open' category started at 8am (i think)..

at 11+.. just a little after 1130 i think, we saw the first team from the 'open' category running towards the finishing line.. damn cool la.. they all looked damn shagged.. but happy and really relieved. at least that would be how i felt. since i joined this competitor because ken fang and meng decided to pull out, i did not really know or bother them with my countless questions. so i did not know what this team would win.. although later in the race, i heard the 2nd place gets $2500 worth of prizes / vouchers.. which is a whole load more than NVM ever gave!! unfair. but oh well. this is more expensive. haha. $30 to join, phew ken says they pay for me! haha. yay!! free (ugly but still free!) tee-shirt and goodie bag!! <-- typical singaporean. heh. proud to be.

this is the team yesterday.. from left to right.. me!, yishun (? that's how they called him. and i asked julia if it was the place and she said yes.. so i assume the spelling is the same. heh.), hewbert (have not idea how to spell too.. haha.), and julia. yishun and julia and 2 years younger than me. odac juniors. hewbert is 3 yrs older.. he looks like derrick eh.. haha. maybe not here. but sometimes.

i almost forgot the most impt part of the story. before our race, we were already DISQUALIFIED. how encouraging.
1. did not know any of them.
2. i was damn busy.. i have no idea why i said ok to help them do this.
3. on sun itself they told me i was 'illegal' becuz we're registered under a NTU team.
4. then they say yishun is standing in for some guy called felix who is also an odac junior and he (for some whatever reason, totally not impt and irresponsible reason) decide to pull out at the very last min.
5. felix is indonesian who makes his ic number damn long. so poor yishun screwed it up. the pple registering us suspected, asked him for his full name, hall number, and his bday. he did not know his birth date! and that's when they said we were disqualified.

if we wanted to run, we could, but we're a 3 member team and will be unranked even if we are damn fast so we couldn't win. and yishun was allowed to run with us but now do any thing else. so anyway, we decided to go on for fun.

so after flag off, we had to run from youth park to marina bay mrt which was the first station of the day.. honestly at first, i tot they were kidding cuz i din know there was such a thing as marina bay mrt.. of cuz i went there to eat steamboat before la. not so sua ku.. just that i dun take train often enough to rem how i got there.. and my gosh.. it's damn farrrrrr... and like nearing havelock road, i was tired from not training and being old, i started walking.. haha. which became the pace for the rest of the race. heh.. i mean come on! the sun was all out to get us.. and i din have lunch.. and i din train and we wont win and running is just so not fun. haha. so many excuses eh. ok so at marina bay, when we finally get there, we were told to cycle 3 rounds round the whole of marina bay area. ok! cycling was pretty relaxing. heh.
station 2: after cycling, we made our way to another part of singapore i totally had not seen before in my life.. some pond at marina bay area? seeing the people in the pond was not too exciting. we had to do some river crossing.. basically get wet and dirty..
wearing the lifejackets made us dirty already. haha.. the only thing consoling abt the water was that it was a little more refreshing than the sun..
i had some fun.. couldn't stop laughing cuz we had to do it backwards and the lifejacket is working so well i was floating so much!! haha..
this pond is like full of rotting logs inside... really damn gross.. the water was grey and my white socks turned greyish black.. and the white tee-shirt we were wearing were greyish too..
making our way to our next station... on the sheares bridge... julia told me that there was one year , they made participants jump off the bridge.. it was pretty pretty high.. yishun, our cameraman, water-provider, map-reader and bag-carrier, checking out the next stop..
station 3: kayaking. when we first looked down from the bridge, the route looks quite long.. i never told it would be 5km! the longest i have to paddle.. considering i dun really enjoy kayaking cuz i'm quite lousy at it.. haha. after getting my one-star, i stopped kayaking. haha. this shall be a challenge.. poor hewbert had to kayak a double-kayak be himself.. but he was still faster than me and julia. haha.

that's us! dun we look like we know where we were going and we're quite synchronized? heh. the truth is we were zig-zagging alot.. and i blame the wind. heh! (if there's no one to blame, blame mother nature!!) btw, i'm in the pink lifejacket. heh.

station 4: after kayaking a horrendously long 5km, my arms nearly broke. haha. kidding. it was tiring but bearable. we went on to some lame game station.. had to transport this 125kg load from one end to another. hewbert pulled and me n julia took turns to switch the rollers.. and at the end, we had to turn the thing 180 degrees before removing all the rollers underneath. dun ask me why.. i think this is damn lame.

station 5: last and most interesting part of the race. abseiling at shaw towers. 6 storeys off the car park. i haven abseiled since i got out of jc.. that's 4 years now? we spent almost 2 hours just waiting at this station. by this time, the first few teams would have won and collected their prizes and are on their way home. haha. but we just wanted to try.. it's not always that u get to abseil down a building in town..!! looked pretty high huh.. see how small the people below areeee..

u have to sit on the ledge before u get into the abseil position. i was thinking what if the guy slips at this point? of cuz he wunt die cuz he has his safety rope already. but still.. i think he'll scream. aha.
when it finally got to our turn, it was already 6 pm.. julia was the first to abseil down.. look how small she is. she is comparable to teresa! haha..
then it was my turn... (for some reason, this photo appears sideways.. it's a bug!! ) anyway, this guy who hooked us up was apparently the 'boss' so i felt safer with him than any other student helper.. haha. check out his tattoos man..and the gloves look like the gloves they use at the birdpark for the eagle show. haha! i'm thankful for that.. otherwise will definitely get rope-burn!!
the boss was telling me: i'll be waiting for u upstairs.. looks and points to the sky.. great.
from this picture onwards, u will see clearly the many expressions and feelings i had before i started abseiling. haha. first picture: i just got off the ledge, was standing on a thin log.. not really a log.. but a branch like thing against the wall.. happy but hesitant.

picture 2: huh? so i must go down now? u sure? checks with the 'boss'.
picture 3: checks to see if the person belaying was there.. and also to check out the height. haha.
picture 4: i really dun wanna do this!! what did i get myself into??? so here goes.. bye~~
picture 5: ok.. so i'm off.. this is not so bad.. and i could still hear the 'boss' and my team mates.. and i hope that if i fall, hong chang would catch me!! haha.. if not, jem is there too! haha.
this is not a good picture! haha. my legs were straighter than that after this la.. haha. otherwise i would have scratched my knees against the wall.
lastly, mr 'derrick' abseiled down and we were off to youth park to finish the race.. at last.. it was funny cuz he had such a small harnest, his ass was like bursting out when we looked up from below..

yay! we made it to the end.. took a picture, collected our goodie bags and headed off to different directions. i went on to wash up and waited for hong chang and jem liew for dinner!
it has been a super long day.. hong chang was at his station (abseiling area - shaw towers) at like 5:40AM till we ended at 7+pm.. jem was there before 6am too.. and did not sleep the night before because of his own doing - mahjong.. and i was tired from being under the sun, in the water, kayaking, cycling, walking, jogging, waiting to abseil and abseiling.. it was a long day.. and after dinner while having coffee, jem fell asleep. haha.
overall, it was quite a nice experience. given a 2nd choice, i might still reconsider joining it.. it was really fun doing all the stunts but also really exhausting. my body is aching now.. and my face is all burnt. but! it beats studying.. haha. oh well. back to my pricing hw. yikes. :)

adobe photoshop 101

2007-03-09T23:43:00.000+08:00

attended a photoshop workshop held in school with lionel today. actually he wanted to go and i was just being nice, so i accompanied him. actually i must admit, it was not too bad. although i was seriously dead tired, i wasn't falling asleep at all. and managed to learn some stuff la. haha. although everything is very basic still. at least when i open photoshop now, i know what i can do. haha.. anyway, so here's the edited and unedited photo..

actually it's not obvious which is the photo-shoped one and which is not huh. haha. guess.
(*photo taken in end 2005. in australia. we've all grown up now. if u cant recognize, it's me in green, my sis and my bro.)

ok. the 2nd photo is the photo-shoped one. it's cropped, and sharpened. and errr there's another layer.. and i erased some clouds. haha.

"studying"

2007-03-02T23:40:00.000+08:00

on monday, i was studying with lionel in school for our pricing mid-term.. after awhile, we got a little bored and decided to draw a 'time line' purely to record each hour that passed.. so he suggested drawing a snake.

drawn by lionel. version 1. (dun ask me what the thing is... he said it was the snake's beard.. err.. i think it's double chin and facial hair.. but then again, snakes dun have hair.. do they? haha..)

drawn by me. lionel says it looks like a monk.. or a little bald boy.. haha. cuz it has a neck and the head is so round. hmm. fine. it is not perfect. but i still think it's nicer than his! :p

lionel's. version 2. he redrew his after seeing mine.. said the head should not be round.. and there's this extra flap thing on the head which i have no idea what it is. and the eye is bulging and the nose part is flat. haha.. looks like a monster..

lionel's. version 3. and so he redrew again. i think this is the best out of the 3 he drew. of cuz mine is the best out of the 4. haa.
a look at our board at the end of the day.. besides all the drawing which wasn't alot of time wasted, i would say it was a rather productive studying day.. i managed to cover my stuff and still had my bit of fun! :)

sigh. tmr is my last mid-term. i cant wait. cuz even CNY break, i din get to rest cuz at the back of my mind, i knew i had mid-terms.. tmr is the last of all of the horror.. (of cuz there's still projects to do.. ) but ahh.. i shall take a break tmr after my paper! plus tmr is animal day in school... :):)

NVM 2007.

2007-02-26T10:59:00.000+08:00

After 2 months of "training", the day we were all anxiously waiting for finally arrived. Eeks.

At 9:30am, the team met at Raffles Place MRT. Changed into out "team jersey", and proceeded out of the train station. I never really knew how the building I was going to climb that day looked like.. and never really did bother to find out..

It was not hard to figure which one it was when we got there.. haha.. it was the one that seemed like it was touching the clouds.. EEEKS.

Replubic Plaza. 66 Storeys. Said to be the tallest building in Singapore. (really? i dunno.. haha).. look at it.. it's all nice, polished and shimmery under the morning sun.. it would have been nicer if i din have to climb it. haha! by this time.. i'm already feeling the adrenaline.. and also regretting.. "why? why? why did i ever think of doing this?"

While doing our warm-up run rond the Singapore River, I asked Eleanor "why did i do this to myself?" and she's like "we always say that but we still join.. year after year.."..haha.. i tot it was funny.. but it's so true too.. let's see if i join again next year! haha.. (lionel!! lover's challenge? da jie, daddy, aaron... family team???)

Took a couple of photos while doing our stretches since the river seemed like a nice place to chill.. esp sunday mornings cuz there's hardly anyone..
10:56. after reporting, we were escorted to the start line.... i need new shorts.. haha!
nearing the flag off line.. YIKES... oh.. we manage to take these photos only because Lek decided to bring his cam all the way up..

the clock that is there every year. between each team, there's a 2-min interval.. so that teams will not clash.. 11:12 was our flag off time.

ahhhh! finally at the top.. it seems so easy when u are looking at these photos.. one photo ago we were at level 1. the next photo and we are at the 60th storey. haha.. if u notice me, i am damn shagged.. haha.
more photos taken at the top. had to make use of the camera cuz lek took pains bringing it up there!!

the team and i with republic plaza at the background. (from left to right) ze bin, lek, meng heng, eleanor and me! we were all wearing the NVM 2007 shirt.. nicer compared to last year's.. meng is in yellow cuz he's extra! haha. no la. cuz he's in the sub-com. heh.
Kenneth is in black cuz he's extra too! never climb also take photo with us?!?! tsk! haha.. actually he did climb.. recce climb.. and he was pretty fast.. even without training.
When collecting our goodie bag, we manage to get a sneak peek at the prizes. and they were not too great.. if u can see, there's a hamper labeled men's open 1st i think.. and it has tomato ketchup, condensed milk, maggi mee, etc.. yikes.. first prize and that's what u get? no thanx. haha.. we were thinking if we really get something like that hamper, we would donate it to some old folk's home.
and so we left, not really anticipating a win.. went down to city hall for mos burger and then to smu to study.

one little joke that i wanna share. at mos burger, ze bin ordered for eleanor..
and halfway through the meal, eleanor asked zebin: what are u eating?
ze bin: mos burger
eleanor: i know mos burger.. what burger is that?
ze bin: mos burger!
(and this went on for quite some time)
then me: the burger he's eating is called mos burger. like what i'm eating, it's a plain hotdog.. but it's also called a mos dog.

heh. ok. so after mos, we went smu and was settling down before starting to study when meng called ze bin..

shouting through the hp loudspeaker, we heard him say "we got 4th!!!!! ok wait wait. i confirm then i call u back" and hung up.. anyway, it was confirmed and we had to rush back to claim our prizes.. haha.
this shows the times for the top 9 teams for team open category.. our team is "the fifth element"..
YAY!! medals.. haha..
Last year, we had medals, vouchers and 3 hampers of food and drinks.. and sigg bottles for each of us. this year. we had medals, vouchers and one plastic bottle. hmmm.

last year, we got 5th climbing 43 storeys. this year we got 4th climbing 60 storeys. and the prizes........ hmmm..

left: last year's medal. right: this year's medal..

So. NVM 2007 came to an end.. it'll be next year (if we join) that we meet and train again. This year, the climb was really really tiring. And i want to apologize to my team. Let me explain myself. at the start, i was chasing behind lek.. and by the 5th storey or so, i was really damn tired but still continued.. by the 11th storey.. i dramatically slowed down. i realized that i started out too fast.. totally not my pace and it was a big mistake. after that, i cant even walk fast enough.. the 3rd team's timing was a mere 1 min ahead of us. and i think i'm the cause of us losing that place. i could have done below 15 mins but i did 15:24.. i knew i could have done better. my legs did not ache. i was just out of breath.. i'm really sorry!! i'll train harder next year and learn form my mistake! i promise!!! sorry sorry...

CNY 2007

2007-02-24T13:50:00.000+08:00

The lunar new year has always been one of my favorite festivities. For my family, it is one of the biggest thing we celebrate because we hardly celebrate X'mas.

Usually, for our preparation for CNY, my dad would go places to get all the nicest new year goodies.. and the nicer bak kwa.. after reunion dinner, we would go to the nursery to get flowers for the house and then head to chinatown to squeeze with a million other people just for the fun of it.. and also to get stickers and more decorations..

every year, we would eat sashimi with wine.. (i rem uploading pictures of that last year).. because my dad knows this wholesaler guy.. so he gets it cheap..

this year.. my dad came back from overseas just 2-3 days before CNY.. so everything was rushed.. luckily his friend sent us orange plants and some flowers.. and we had decorative stuff from last year.. otherwise the house will look so sad..

we did not go to the nursery this year.. did not go to chinatown this year.. shopped for groceries the night before reunion dinner.. and we did not have sashimi.. argh.. but fortunately, things did not turn out as bad as it seemed.

thanks to me.. the statue had a very auspicious head band this year. haha..

i am actually very proud of this.. it's supposed to bring wealth or something.. last year my sister was the one hanging it.. this year it's me!! and i think i did a pretty good job.. i cleaned it, wiped it, trimmed the end and tied red ribbon to it.. haha!!
had a chance to open my new deak of cards.. tinkerbell!!! haha.. but cuz on the number side, there were picture of tinkerbell too.. my dad banned me from using it after one round cuz it's hard for my grandma to use.. haha
this evil piggy bank belongs to my sister.. it's where all my money went.. argh! stupid pig..
this light belongs to my home.. hee.. i think it looks pretty..
my dad trying to play nicholas's drums.. haha..
my dad and brother playing puzzle bubble while waiting for people to visit us at home..

i seldom put up pictures of relatives from my mom's side.. so here's a peek.. at first, we were sitting on the floor playing black jack but decided that it was too uncomfortable.. so they carried a table into the room.. but it was too small so my brilliant uncle put a mattress on the table.. and as i was taking the photo, my aunts tot it seemed like the room was like an illegal gambling den, which is why they are covering their faces.. so silly.
me and my sister.. we tried taking photos for ourselves but none came out very nice.. this is one of the better ones. haha..

family photo.. this shall replace last year's..

auntie ros's new place.. the field is huge right?!?!? the photo shows lionel and sam playing texas hodem (dunno how it's spelt).. using pistachio nuts as chips..

that's my brother and little jet.. they look like dr evil and mini me.. haha..

the guys of the family playing some soccer.. i was supposed to play.. but i really cant play soccer.. so i volunteered lionel.. haha.. he's quite good.. just that the rest of the family were much better. haha.

notice what lionel is doing.. haha.. who kicks a soccer ball like that?!?!! ok.. i can predict what lionel is going to say when he sees this.. he will say he's lousy at foot ball but i'm losuy with "hand ball" like i cant catch properly.. but in my defense. it's only cuz we were playing with those oval-shaped football kinda ball..

my dad tore his ligament while playing and is now wearing a leg guard.. it will take 4 weeks to heal.. sigh.. the other guy is my old uncle who tried to fit in with the young too. after 15 mins, both dudes sat out.

oh.. if any of u caught the chinese countdown program, my cousin was on tv!! haha.. he's the one who got married last october.. i din manage to catch it but i heard that they kept showing him cuz he was in the vip seats and cuz he's good looking.. haha.. i dunno how much of that is true. ahah!! oh well..

tmr is my NVM already.. 1380 steps = 86.25 HDB storeys. wish me luck!!

saturday well spent.

2007-02-11T15:35:00.000+08:00

after one year of "planning", i met the girls yesterday for our sleepover at swissotel, the stamford. i was really excited abt meeting the girls for dinner then head back to our room to talk the night away.. but then somehow, most of the girls had plans till pretty late at night.. and some of them tot it was a night affair... pretty strange but i kinda understand i guess. cuz we always meet for dinner only.. weird logic but still.. logical... i think.

anyway, we had a room on the 30th floor and had a great ocean and city view..

directly in front of the room was the esplanade and the sheares bridge.. but i like the picture of the buildings more.. and since i have so many more photos to show.. i cant upload all!! so here's one taken from the balcony from our room.

dinner was simple; at MOS burger's. it was just joanne, celine and me..after that, we went junk food shopping.. but bought us some fats.. basically we bought cup noodles for everyone (what's a hotel stay without my fave. cup noodles??? haha..), chips, sweets, drinks, beer, breakfast for the next day..

me, joanne,cheryl (from left to right).. i like cheryl's earrings!!!!!
me and cheryl.. the lighting looks nice and cosy huh..
bought a surprise cake for a couple of the girls.. cuz we din get to celebrate together last year since everyone was all over the world.. haha.. that's shufen, huixian, winnie (top: left to right) , cheryl, celine, me and joanne (bottom: left to right)..
when everyone got there, we had a game of cluedo.. haha.. ancient game right? but i tot it was really interesting.. it's different from how i played it when i was younger.. was pretty fun.. haha..

me and huixian!! it looks like a simple photo.. but actually we had to take a couple more times before this one cuz we screwed the hand crossing thing.haha.. damn stupid.

so after some beer, noodles and cluedo, we talked and talked and talked.. until joanne felt asleep.. (think it was 5am) then winnie.. then slowly cheryl and shufen too....... then it was just me, huixian and celine..

having to be quiet cuz the rest of the girls were sleeping, the 3 of us were busy taking pictures of the sunrise.. was pretty nice.. it's not all the time that u get to see the sunrise from the city.. so it was kinda cool..
after all the serious pictures, we kinda got bored.. so we were taking stupid pictures (which i will not upload.. haha! ) but anyway, this is me and the sun.. haha. i kinda like it.

trying to capture the sun in the wine glass..

doesn't it seem that the candle is being lit by the sun? haha..
sunrise..

celine.. looking like cyclops.. haha.. my bad.. actually was supposed to take her kissing the sun.. but the sun was too bright.. but anyway i like this picture too. haha..

us acting "man-and-blackish" haha.. was so silly cuz we were in pyjamas..

yes.. we were on the floor.. and what's even worse is this was outside of our room... like along the corridor, we just laid on the floor to take pictures.. we were like high on insomnia?

i think this picture makes me look like a giant! haha.. (getting bored of taking pictures at our balcony, we went to the pool side.. with pyjamas and bedroom slippers. was weird cuz there were ang mohs tanning.. and looking good... haha..
me and huixian were the only 2 that lasted the whole night without sleeping!! after getting back from the pool, celine sat down on the couch and fell asleep.. haha.. but she din sleep long.. haha..

morning view..

at ard 9 am.. we decided to wake the piggies up.. huixian rolled up newspapers and was doing the morning bird sound.. was really funny. haha. but they din wake up at all.. so we were playing our hp rings.. trying to irritate them out of their sleep.. but only cheryl got up..

so cheryl and i decided to jump on the bed to wake them up.. haha..
finally everyone woke up.. so we prepared breakfast to eat by the pool.. we had white bread with chilli tuna spread and salmon mayo spread.. heee..
but.. we din get to eat by the pool cuz the ang mohs totally flooded the pool.. and graeme bought mcdonald's breakfast for us all.. bought like 10 sets when there's 7 of us.. way too much food.. so in the end, we ate the mcdonald's...

a final toast.. to the sleepover, to breakfast and to good friends..

and so we parted after breakfast.. till the next sleepover.. or holiday.. sigh..... i will miss this day.. i can't believe we actually did it.. if only layshan could join us.. but i'm pretty sure we will do it again.. :)

Asean Football Championship 2007...

2007-02-04T22:20:00.000+08:00

YAY! Singapore won. :)

i would just like to say that number seven from thailand was a little too violent.. yikes.

first presentation of the sem!

2007-02-02T23:59:00.000+08:00

last friday i had my first individual presentation for this sem. actually it has been some time since i last had an individual presentation so i was kinda worried. plus also cuz it was 20% of my final grade.. and so for the whole week, i was busy preparing for my presentation.. haha.

oh! btw, i would like to share this picture.. see how lionel treats my laptop?? when i had my fujitsu, he scratched it, dropped it then lost it. now... look what he is doing!! argh.

that's me rehearsing and going through my slides..

i know i look really messy! haha.. but who cares? no one was in the seminar room except lionel. haha.. ooo and look at my pretty blackbook!! watch the apple glow!
my presentation was for my advertising module and i had to evaluate an online advertisement so i chose to do on nike+ (a partnership between nike and apple).. it's a chip that tracks your run! cool huh. haha.. ya of cuz!! i have it!! haha.. okok. i dun really wanna go too much into the details.. otherwise i will feel like i am doing my presentation here.. anyway, here are some of the pictures that i took.. the first one is of derby and the chip..
the second one is of pheebe with the chip! i brought derby to class for my presentation last friday since the prof likes fluff!! din bring pheebe cuz he was shedding fur and derby runs way faster.. but poor derby was trembling and din move an inch cuz there were too many pple and too much noise i think.. but anyway, it was really funny and the class was laughing. so i'm cool with that. haha.
so while i was busy rehearsing, look what lionel was doing.. taking stupid pictures of himself.. (i'm pretty sure lionel wunt be too pleased with me putting these up.. haha! who cares. heh! )
cute.. very cute. haha!

ASEAN Football Championship 2007!!!

2007-02-01T12:32:00.000+08:00

the night before last, i found out from my sister that they will be a match between Singapore and Thailand. although i'm not a soccer fan, i like to support singapore and love to see live games! and since i already missed the singapore vs malaysia game (cuz i went out with the girls for drinks which i will blog abt as soon as i get the photos from huixian!!! *hint*), i decided to go for this one.

i was so excited that night and decided that i shall wear red. (although according to my brother, cuz nike is sponsoring singapore team, our home colour is blueeeee.. bleargh. but oh well. i still wore red..)

so in class, since lionel decided to wear red with me, we looked like we coupled dresses.. haha. and we had fun going round taking pictures that matched my red tee cuz i dun usually wear red.. haha. so boh liao..

lionel says i look like the red phone. so i had to take a picture.. how silly.
that's us at the ishop at cine. the chairs were red.
there were 5 chairs there and we were sitting on the extreme left.. there was anoher couple sitting at the extreme right. and they were both wearing black. so it's was quite funny..but no one to help us take a picture. haha
taking a bus yesterday to the national stadium was like going to the national day parade. most pple getting off the bus were wearing red and were all very excited.. the crowd was crazy!
saw this guy with a singapore flag thing round his arm.. i tot it was cute..
we're all red and white. haha.. notice the drinks lionel were holding? yaaa those idiots at the stadium threw it away. bleah!
coincidentally, my sister was wearing white and carrying a red bag and i was wearing red and carried my white bag. haha.
obviously, that's my sister, sam and my bro.. and a million other people.
pictures of the stadium.. it was almost full house except the grandstand seats i think.. like only a few were not taken up.. it was so great sitting in the stadium... ahhh..
this picture was taken just before the kickoff. singapore is in blue! i kept forgetting. anyway, the match was funny. although i din really understand soccer and it's hard to spot the ball sometimes cuz it's so small, i still had fun. and the thai players kept falling down. it was funny. and sometimes someone in the crowd would play his horn and people would sound this malay word which meant "dickhead". haha. it was hilarious..

and when singapore got a free kick or something, the crowd would go "we want goal, we want goal" and clap and stomp and cheer. really fun to just anyhow shout. haha.
we bought these singapore bands thing.. haha.. i had no wear to tie.. oh.. and lionel bought a new samsung phone.. so he was showing off. haha.. it's the samsung D900.. which i like tooooooo...
me and my sis at the end of the match which singapore won 2:1~ we almost din get the 2 goal cuz it was a penalty kick and thailand went on strike. tsk.. but they came back after like 15 or 20 mins? in the meanwhile, the crowd was going crazy going the kallang wave.. and some were boo-ing the thai crowd..
according to lionel, this is one of the last official match at the national stadium before it gets torn down. so it's cool that we went. plus it was a big match!! yay!! that's me in the picture of cuz.. and i kinda like the headband idea.. keeps my hair neater! yay yay! maybe i shld wear more.. wahaha.
that's all of us who sat together. hard to sit stogether. sam had his friends who sat next to the thai pple. and i think my cousin was at the grandstand.. and my bro's friends were somewhere else.
the trash from the singapore crowd. think there was like 49 000 singapore supporters and like 1000 thai supporters? and when u compare just one portion where the singaporeans sat with the thai side, it was so so so so much dirtier! think singaporeans are too deprived of littering so yesterday was shiok for them! haha

check out the crowd that was trying to squeeze out of the stadium? tsk!!

instead of trying to squeeze up buses an trains with a million other people, we decided since we were near geylang, we went to eat supper! heee. think this is a famous place and most would come here for their beancurd. yesterday was really crowded. i guess we weren't that smart afterall. but anyway, we had some great food. had soya bean drink, beancurd, gyoza (which wasn't fantastic at all), xiao long bao, yu tiao(must try!) and taiwan noodles (which is a must try too!!)

my almost perfect sunday.

2007-01-21T23:20:00.001+08:00

it has been some time since my family wanted to do some farm visiting.. so today, with auntie cathie as our guide, we went to several farms. and they were all pretty interesting. too bad i din take enough photos..after the first farm we went to, i only had 20 shots left.. and i was thinking all the way that it's so impossible becuz i din really take that much at the first farm.. and then went i finally called home after all the farm visiting, lionel told me it's cuz i set it to 6megapixels. haha. how silly. and what a waste! i keep deleting all my photos to make space for more. argh!! oh well.. i did manage to put up quite a number of photos in this entry so be please patient, it should take some time to load this page. haha.. i'm just quite excited that i got the camera back in working condition. (*gasp* i realize i din blog about my thailand trip!! haha.. i shall do it sooon.)

anyway, so our day started bright and early, woke up at 830.. ate breakfast at home, met auntie cathie and drove down to our first farm.. it almost looked like another country.. not many cars, a nice sunny day, and there were quite a number of cyclists.. i wanna do that some time too! :)

farm number 1: goat farm .
we were there early enough to catch the milking.. very very interesting! haha.. i tot it would be done by hand though.. (btw, the milking is from 9 to 11 daily i think.. for those who wanna go.. ) see basically, they just put the machine thing and it will start squeezing the milk.. and they sell the milk.. although u must be prepared. it has a very unique taste! haha.. and if u absolutely hate goats, then please dun go there! cuz it's all goat's smell. haha..

check out the middle goat! hahahahahaha..

tsk. the guy keep touching the goat's balls. haha. my cousin was saying to his mom.. "mom, if i put that on my thing, i won't get milk, will get urine!"... he's silly.

that's where the milk goes. very obviously. hahah.

after being milked, the goats will return to their cages.. and the next batch will be sent out. hee.

this is where u can feed the goats. they sell alfafa hay which is what little bunnies eat! haha..
they have another sign that says "milking mothers" and as u can guess, it's where they keep the goats that can be milked. think they cant mix it cuz if a bunk and doe meets, then the milk will taste different. haha
feeding.. that's my brother, my dad and my uncle.. see my dad patting the old goat. haha. maybe their age gap is not that huge, the goat seems to like my dad and my dad likewise. haha.
that's me! feeding the young ones.. and my little cousin (jet) looking..
that's jet.. with the curly hair. he's so so so so cute! he was looking at the goats and said to his mom: "ma ma, that goat looks like dad!" and he was pointing to one particular goat. haha..

me again.. i like the blur shots.. oh! i have this photo taken with this goat biting my hair! haha. guess i was too close to it and my hair really looks like hay. damnit i knew it! haaa.
after feeding the goats, unable to pay for the hay that we used to feed the goats, my dad had to help them sell pineapples. sigh. haha.. no la. he was buying but he was so friendly with them that he was behind the counter!! the pineapples are really good.. and not too exensive too.. i think.

farm number 2: dragon fruit farm.
cuz of the heavy rain, there were not many fruits and by the time we got there, they sold all their fruits already. argh. but luckily i had some from there before.. the dragon fruit plants are like cactus.. it's funny.

me and my ultra spastic smile. i dunno what's up with me. haha. guess i was just really excited to see an unripe dragon fruit. haha.
they even have dragon fruit juice. but i din try.. think it would be too processed to be nice.

farm number 3: cow farm.
this farm was not as organized as the first 2.. it was kinda dirty.. the cows looked kinda dirty too.. and the pasturized milk is bleargh!
i think this cow is sick... it cant control its tongue!! it's everywhere! i took a video.. but dunno how to upload. haha!

farm number 4: frog farm.
before u first walk into this farm, u can already hear the frogs.. and they dun smell too good either. haha. but they're funny.

after seeing the live frogs, we bought some home.. haha. the look disgusting huh.. imagine just seeing them with skin a few moments before this.. eeks.
i helped choose frogs for my aunt and for ourselves to buy home!
when leaving, we saw this on the floor.. erm... (it's a frog's feet if u are wondering.. haha)

farm number 5: flowers farm.
had a really good lunch here.. had fish and chips, really yummy chicken wings, and chicken chops with mushroom sauce! it's a nice bistro called petals and leaves.. and there was a nice 9-hole golf thing there.. my cousins and i spent some time there.. and i got sunburnt! haha.. by this time, i hardly had photos cuz i had no memory left.. sigh. here's jet anyway, he's so cute!

after this, we went to a vegetable farm.. but then my camera died on me already.. sigh. so i din get any pictures! i sure hope i'm gonna go there again.. actually i think i will cuz it's just such a nice place.

after all the visiting, we went home, me n my brother went to the gym, showered and headed down to vivo city with my dad n sis. had some german food and beer at this place called brotzeit (?) pretty good food.. the beer is paulaner's.. so it's good. haha. but din get pictures too cuz the camera charger is with lionel and my dad's camera was flat from his trip too.. sigh.

so that's it. my almost perfect sunday.

unveiling my new laptop!

2007-01-18T10:34:00.000+08:00

on tuesday, i finally got my new laptop... and here it is!!!

tadaaaaa.... a fujitsu tablet pc!!

haha.. as u can see, it is not very nice nor very nice..

haha. right. i borrowed that "piece of junk" (i quote lionel) from SMU since i lost my laptop it has been my source of entertainment. but it had no external CD drive which meant i couldn't watch my many dvds.. and the school restricted me to download anything on it. i couldn't use msn properly, i had no music, no movies.. and when i put the laptop on standby, and i put the top down and it turns on for some reason. luckily i returned it already.

anyway.... my new laptop is a BLACKBOOK (according to lionel, a black macbook is called a blackbook and a white macbook is simply a macbook.. how common. haha)

i had to tell my blackbook that i was the boss of him. heh. that's me sitting on it on my brother's bed. the lightbulb in my room blew but things around my room move slowly.. it's been a week and we haven't told my dad. haha. anyway... yup..

opening it slowly.... ooooooo... haha..

and finally, my blackbook.. ignore the fact that i look horrid. haha. i just got home from school and haven even showered or changed.. although lionel made sure i washed my hands before touching my blackbook. haha. how lame. but isn't the blackbook pretty? well, i think so!

ignore the wallpaper too. haha. i din have photos and that was the best i had in the laptop. it made the black stand out. heee.

see.. compared to mine, dun u think lionel's laptop doesn't look too good afterall? haha.. kidding. i think it's still pretty.. (just that mine is MUCH prettier. haha and u can hardly see the apple sign on his! hahahahahah) that's for always putting my laptop down in the past.. this is karma for lionel and his laptop. haha.

on other news, i received a letter from NTU sports club to join NVM this year.. i think it's cool that they do that! haha.. makes me feel good that they want my team to join again (although of cuz they send this to everyone who participated i suppose.. haha)

and i just heard from lek that one of my team mates' CC might sponsor us this year.. YAY!! i will save 18 bucks and still get a free t-shirt... whooopee.. although we do have to represent them so our team name might have to be "teck ghee CC" (pronounced as tecky CC .. haha..) oh well.. sponsorship still makes me happy. haha.

suspense.

2007-01-14T21:46:00.000+08:00

i've been so stressed thinking which laptop i should get (if my dad allows)... haha.. the 2 chosen candidates so far are:

1. fujitsu tablet pc
2. black macbook

been thinking for the longest time.. the price, the weight, the hard disk space.. blah blah.. and now i think i've made my decision!! *grinz*

i shall reveal it if and when i get it.. haha.. :p

NVM 2007.

2007-01-12T00:00:00.000+08:00

if u read my blog last year around this time, i went for NVM 2006.. 43 storeys. suntect tower.

this year.. the organisers (aka kenneth n his fellow NTU peeps) decided to change venue.. guess what. 66 storeys. republic plaza. raffles place. greaaaaaattttt.. it's damn alot higher!

although i am excited, i am getting a littler freaked out too... imagine the training. plus last yr, 43 storeys and we kinda wanted to die already.. this year, i'm just gonna look forward to the newurban male dri fit shirt they are gonna give out. haha.. and hope that my knees dun give up on me.. haha..

one month+ to go... wish me luck. for now, i shall hit the gym as often as i can.. but with the work piling up already, i foresee a tough time ahead... :(

2007 cant be that bad.

2007-01-09T16:41:00.000+08:00

although i have nothing in particular to blog about today, i refuse to let my blog stay at the previous post.. it's depressing. haha.

actually, i'm kinda glad today becuz last night, i managed to chat with some "lost n found" friends.. kenneth was one of them. haha. we both agreed that we were being petty. but hey, i'm still really shocked at what u said. i think u know what i am refering to.. dun give me a shock like that ahhh..

regarding my laptop, i've decided to get a new one.. dunno what i will get but i'm thinking of fujitsu or apple. so we'll see...

oh! and derby finally has a new home. shall post up pictures when i get them. :)

i foresee a bad year for me.

2007-01-03T21:40:00.000+08:00

today is the first day of school for 2007 for me.
today is also the day i lost my laptop.

(a not so) happy new year's day.

2007-01-02T14:46:00.000+08:00

late last night as we touched down at changi airport, i felt a little relieved. relieved to be on home ground in one piece..

this was what happened:

on 31st december, new year's eve, my brother, marisa, lionel and i were happily watching 'the holiday' at one of the shopping malls in the heart of bangkok. about halfway through the movie, the girl sitting beside lionel starting having lots of calls.. and we got a little annoyedat first.. then they left.. then the people in front of us started to have calls too.. and throughout the cinema, u could see phones lighting up.. soon, the row of people in front of us left.. then more and more people left.. then my brother whispered to me saying "hey, marisa got a call from her friend that there are bombs in thailand.." my first reaction was "what? bomb? here? now? when? are u serious? then how? should we leave?"

then marisa left us inside the cinema to go make a call.. we started o get nervous.. really nervous.. because we see everyone leaving and we din know what to do or how to communicate with them.. soon, we left the cinema.. as we were trying to get out of the building, we see some shops pulling down their shutters while others are still laughing happily and eating.. weird but we din care. all we tot of was we wanna get the hell outta there...

on the streets, everyone was lined up at the sides of the road trying to flag for cabs.. then we called home.. i called my dad and i couldn't help it but cry. i was really really scared.. not knowing where the bombs could be, under sky train tracks, standing next to the road and in the middle of 4 shopping centres and with people all around me... i did not know what i could do. and it was so scary because at that time, i knew that i could really just die.. and then i realised how unprepared i am, how afraid of death i am.. but thank god i was not alone.. waiting for marisa's brother to come pick us felt like an eternity. on the streets, polices cars, ambulances flashed past.. we knew something happened somewhere down the road.. could we be next...

but thank god marisa's brother came after 30 mins.. and we went home.. at midnight, we were just glad to be alive.. really really glad. and we celeberated with wine n star wars.. but as we celebrated, unknown to us at that time, there were more bombs going off..

since we were flying back on the 1st. we stayed indoors, only leaving the house for a quick lunch. the streets of bangkok were unusually quiet.. there were fews cars on the road.. that made us really uncomtfortable and we quickly went home, leaving the house again later that day only to catch our flight home..

i spent last night thinking of how lucky i am. and about the thais who are feeling insecure at home. and then i felt depressed. now i know who my real friends are. who really cares for me n my safety. and who will not give a damn if i die or not. it's really depressing having to start my year this way, but even more so for the people who died from the bombs in thailand.

merry xmas!

2006-12-25T00:25:00.000+08:00

about a week ago, my thai friend, marisa came to singapore to visit. from a cool and sunny thailand, she came here only to find herself having to deal with the rain everyday. haha. but luckily she likes to shop so we brought her lots of places to shop! haha.

lately the tourism board started out this thing.. some lights out sightseeing thing on the hippo bus only for tourists.. so we signed marisa up for it. the bus left at 10 and me and lionel were "sending her off" and since it was the last bus and there were still spaces left on the bus, the captain allowed us to get on board too. seeing orchard road and all the christmas lights from the hippo bus is so much nicer than what we see on the streets. i think it's really pretty..

i think it was on friday that we took marisa to sentosa. was pretty cool too..took a cable car in and went to the underwater world. it used to be 24++ for underwater world i think but now it's 19.50 for tourists and 13.50 for singaproeans!! how cooool. hee. and it comes with a complimentary dolphin lagoon ticket. it was super fun... i love the touch pool and they have this new stingray tough pool. really really nice. the sting rays feel like tofu.. haha.

pretty sting rays... i dunno what its called. but it looks nice and pretty and translucent. weeee

we also saw lots and lots of interesting crabs.. but i tot the ugliest was this one called the coconut crab.. it looks too weird to be a crab man.. eeks.

saw this interesting thing. how to differentiate between male and female sharks. so marisa and i started to check the sharks out.. but we cant tell.. haha.

the weedy seadragon. no joke.
and the leafy seadragon. dun u think the names are damn lame? haha.

me checking out the shark. their teeth are seriously scary man.. eeks.

one of our nicer photos. haha.

this photo is so funny. i cant stop laughing when i put that hat on. and we kinda got scolded for taking this photo cuz we were standing next to the cashier and also next to the "no photography" sign. heh..

this photo is not about me n lionel.. but is about the pretty lights... oooOooOooOoOoooo.. haha

me n my brother.. waiting.. and playing around while marisa shopped at toys 'r' us... my spongebob has bunny ears.. haha.

hmm.. ok.. i guess this will be my last post of the year.. i'm heading off to bangkok tmr evening. and will be back after new year.. i hope i have fun and get to buy lots of stufff... bangkok here i coooomeeeee...

ps: merry xmas!! i know my post is really random. but cuz i wanna go sleep already. haha.

hellooooo

2006-12-17T19:52:00.000+08:00

it has been almost a month since i last blogged.. cant help it.. since after the exams i hardly feel like doing anything that requries me to use my brain. haha. not like blogging is very taxing on my little brain but i'm just that lazy. haha.

anyway, i have some exciting news! if u read lionel's blog, u would have heard abt the nike+ thing. recently, me n my brother tried ours out. it's kinda nice, makes running a little more interesting i guess..

another thing is my aunt's rabbit is staying at my place temporarily. till xmas. it's a cute little white dwarf rabbit. its nose is a little brown.. really cute. but it's female so it's a little troublesome cuz pheebe and derby are both male. but since derby is still young i tot it was ok to put jojo (my aunt's rabbit) with derby. i secretly put derby into jojo's cage while my aunt was out and for awhile, derby was happily exploring the cage.. then jojo humped derby twice!!! argh.. it's a girlll.... poor derby. always get bullied. hmmm.. oh well.. i think i shall have to sterilise pheebe soon so that derby and pheebe can share a cage. heh.

okie.. last of all, i just wanna announce that i am going to bangkok on xmas day!! will stay there till 1jan 2007! how exciting. aha... i cant wait. so far, it's me and my brother and maybe lionel.. weeeeee.. :)

cobwebs galore..

2006-11-21T01:10:00.000+08:00

i realize i haven been blogging. OOPS! i do still take pictures here n there for me to put up. but my finals are in a week and i still have like 2 reports and one presentation to go before that. tell me how do i study? hmmm. and my first paper is corp. reporting. even worse. i think i will not do well. (avoiding the F word. haha)

i shall blog again after my exams..

btw, i did something to myself again. the last time i permed my hair.. now... hmm.. haha! (*meet me and u shall find out.. haha! - kidding. will put pictures up when i am freee.. lalala..)

new toys for me!

2006-11-12T17:29:00.000+08:00

on saturday, i was out at the pool reading my CB lecture notes while lionel was in my room doing his stuff. then as usual, lionel checked the apple website (he's not a geek! really!! haaa.. :p) and found out that there's an ipod promotion at suntec.. so he called me back from the pool and i quickly put on my tee n shorts n rushed to get a cab to go down to suntec. it was pouring like nobody's business.. it was crazy. haha. and so we bought ourselves new ipods.. not the newest though. the first generation ipod nano. but still cool. and it looks nice.. classier than the second generation. of cuz i am bias.. haha.

me, my sister and lionel got one each.. heee :) never dreamt that i would own an ipod. other than my precious shuffle ( i still love my shuffle k. jus that i will use it when i run. cuz lighter and would spoil even when i drop it.. ).. it's so pretty.. me n lionel concluded that ipods are evil. long story. but haha!

look at that.. aren't they pretty? the pink one is mine. the white is lionel's. i think mine is nicer. heh. it's funny cuz the plastic case will also get scratched after some time i think. well, i guess at least the ipod doesn't get scratched. the most impt thing is that back doesn't get fingerprints. yes, it's the irritating ipod nano that has the sliver back.. stupid design. but nice la. heh.

although the ipod nano made me very happy.. i got another gift from lionel this weekend. which made me happier. it's this cow cup that i saw at coffe bean some time ago when i had dinner with my sis there. cant rem whether i blogged abt it or not. but ya. i tot it was really cute. but din buy it. cuz i already have a coffee cup. but now that he bought this for me, it will replace my older coffee cup. actually i kinda wished lionel din buy this uber cute cup. cuz the other cup means alot to me.. but then now that i have this cup. i cannot not use it too. and cuz it's jus so cute, i cant bear to leave it there to collect dust.. so ya lorr... haha! i sound like i dun like it right. actually i do love it alot. thanx lionel! :)

cute right? even when i am sipping my coffee, the cute cow is staring at me! and cuz i'm borned in the year of the ox.. it's even more meaningful (?).. haha.. no link. but haha! who cares. i think it's cute. they have a cat cup and a dog cup if i dun rem wrongly. *hint*. haha. right. i dun want ahhhh..

that's the end of yet another useless entry. ha! actually something not so pleasant happened at home. but i dun really wanna share this here. hmm. i am not quite as happy as i might sound. but it's all fineeee.. yup.

i still hear the wedding bells...

2006-10-31T23:18:00.000+08:00

ok. so i have some photos that i took at the wedding. funny how i took quite a number of photos but none of the bride n groom*. haha! (*ok.. i manage to steal some photos of my cousin n his bride from the groom's sister.. haha!!)

the wedding dinner was great except i wasn't feeling well. had a real bad headache from lack of sleep and puked n all. haha. but other than that, the wedding speech was good, the place looked nice. (it was at 4 seasons hotel).. and the food was pretty good too.. and the company was good. heee. overall, i had a good time. hhaa.. (so many "good"s..)

so here's the happy couple. my cousin is the guy.. winston. and the pretty lady is su. :) su wore this pretty red gown for the wedding dinner. i tot she looked really good. shall put the photo up when i get it! haha.

this is winston n elmo (the family dog) at their wedding photo shoot. hee. elmo has a bow tie!! elmo looks like an old man.. hee. in fact, he is very old already. think 77 in dog years..

that's me, my cute little cousin.. rem jet? he has hair now. and it's curly. veyr cute. and he's wearing a tux. he had a coat and a bow tie but he din wanna wear it. and on the right is my dad.

that's my sister, my bro n me! the dress is my sister's (obviously..) and it's marc jacobs! apparently.. it is kinda expensive. haha..

that's me, joanne (the groom's sister), my sister and my other cousin.. pei xuan.. she's damn smart!!

current news on me:
think i'm falling sick. in class now. jus had 2 quizzes (international economics and corporate reporting) back-to-back. and a meeting half an hour after my corp class. great! my nose is stuffy n runny and my head weighs a ton n my eyes are teary.. someone kill me now!
other than these, i'm fine. shouldn't be blogging very much from now on cuz i will be having my first final paper on 27 nov. so yup.... will blog if anything interesting pops up.. but i dun antipate anything to.. so haha!

back to the class.. revenue recognition.. bleargh.

here comes the bride.

2006-10-29T14:28:00.000+08:00

"here comes the bride,
here comes the bride,
here comes the bride with the big backside..."
and so nicholas sang as he saw winston and sue walk in..

today is my cousin's wedding.

it's amazing! he's the first of all my cousins to get married, signifying that my generation has reached the marriage age. eeks. isn't it scary? although now most of us are still in uni, soon we'll all be graduating n starting work and the next thing to look forward to would be our weddings.

still, i can't imagine. as i see my cousin and his bride dressed in bridal wear, i imagine myself in that situation.. and eeks. it's not a pretty sight. when will i start looking like a lady or a woman? when will i ever look ok in a wedding dress? i think that i still look too immature for a gown like that. sigh.

my cousin looked good today. and his bride was really pretty too. i must say they look good together. and it's a pity i don't really know her yet.

when i was in j1, i liked looking at bridal gowns. cuz they always look so pretty. and i tot i would want to get married early. before today, i was kinda sure i wanted to get married at 25 or 26. but today, i'm not so sure anymore. it seems too young.. it's crazy.

oh no! i jus realized that this means that i might be an aunt soon.. my gosh!! if my cousin has a kid, that makes me an aunt right? eeeeeeeks! i haven tot about that. woah. haha..

but i guess i'm happy for them. and i'm looking forward to the dinner later! heee. although i still haven found anything to wear. hahahaha...

are changes necessary?

2006-10-23T14:05:00.000+08:00

it's been a week since it happened. till now, i have mixed feelings. "why did i do it?" "but it's good to have a change once in awhile right?" "it's not that bad..." hmmm. to those who haven seen me recently, shame on u and shame on me. haha. i jus curled my hair.

scroll down to see me with my new hairdo!!! heee.

my sis, sam and lionel thinks i look korean. hmm. so i was jus acting korean. haha. (dun u think my cheeks are damn fat? it's fats that i've gained from US. eeks.)

it's such a HUGE change for me. and i'm really not used to it. curling it made my hair really dry.. but then it's also good, even if i dun comb, it's ok. cuz it looks messy anyway. heh. somehow, i'm still thinking, would it have been better if i straightened it rather than have it curled? hmmm. maybe i'll try that the next time. it's kinda fun to try something new. and i have been trying more stuff since my sis came back from aussie. but i'm glad that it's all a gradual change. and so far, i would not say i really hate anything that i'ver tried. all's been good. heee.

on other news, i was looking for a notebook in my drawer the other day and came across my journal that i had while i was in CJ. was looking at the photos i took, and then i came across something else. something that i received from one of my odac friends when we were in JC. and i dunno if she remembers.. although it was a mass email if i dun rem wrongly, it had quite a big impact on me. and it was really comforting when i received that in my mail, jus that i never said anything about it.

"Your Mother is always with you. She's the whisper of the leaves as you walk down that street, she's the smell of bleach in your freshly laundered socks, she's the cool hand on your brow when you're not well.
Your Mother lives inside your laughter. And she's crytallized in every tear drop. She's the palce you came from, your first home; and she's the map you follow with every step you take. She's your first love and your first heartbreak, and nothing on earth can separate you...
Not time... Not space... Not even death."

hmm.. i think it's nice. and really touching. i guess alot of pple do take their moms for granted, me included. and i think it's really sad that that's the reality and that we really dun appreciate what we have till we lose it. oh well. i dunno what's m point in all these. but ya.. haha.. i jus tot i'll share this little poem thing that i found la. heee.

2006-10-17T20:30:00.000+08:00

Aocdrnicg to a rsecareh at Cmbagrdie Uinervtisy, it denos't mtater waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

interesting.

hmmm. something's wrong with my tagboard. argh.

break week.

2006-10-15T16:21:00.000+08:00

break week came and is going soooooon.. BOO!
but i had a good week.

thinking back, i cant rem what i did. just a couple of things here n there.. let's see..

1. finish watching full house
2. watched the scoop. (which wasn't great)
3. had korean bbq at cha's place.
4. met hong chang for dinner n coffee
5. oh! celebrated lantern festival.
6. played fatal frame with my bro n lionel.
7. slacked. alot...
8. had a couple of meetings.
9. did focus group.

OMG!! i cant rem what i did this week.. haha.. doesn't seem much. but i guess the slacking made up for everything. heh..

back to reality. but also looking forward to 3sa's party (+ sleepover) on fridayyyy!!

zhong qiu jie!!

2006-10-08T12:23:00.000+08:00

friday was mid-autumn festival. usually, we celebrate every year. this year, it was more special cuz da jie is finally in singapore to celebrate with us. and lionel n sam too.. :)

but before looking at the photos, here are some exciting news at home. haha!

this is my new pillow. if u rem, i jus bought new pillows and new matress early this year. but then my dad decided to buy this.. the millennium pillow. it's damn ex. but then i dun like it. still using the older pillow. haha.. by right, u have to put ur head between the humps. haha!! but cuz i like to sleep on my back cuz of my backaches, my head will fall backwards. as u can see, the pillow slopes.. so i dun like it la. yong feng says it's more for side-sleepers. i guess so.... what a waste.

another something my dad bought. eye-massager with music.. haha.. it's so funny. i look like cyclops. and there are earphones connected to the thing and u can hear birds chirping and waterfalls and stuff. haha..

this is my sister and i at "the strip" doing pedicure. haha .. look at her reading magazine and drinking her latte.. i'm looking at that direction cuz the girl was massaging my feet and i was so tickled. haha...

at west coast park.. lionel n i (obviously). haha

my family.. a couple of my aunts and my uncle and my granny.. heee. notice i'm not there. and no, i'm not taking the photo. haha. poor lionel.. stuck there with my family. heh.. eating mooncakes and drinking tea.

there i am! haha. playing with fire at the playground. with my cousin, nicholas and my brother. i like this part of zhong qiu jie. burning lots of stuff , wasting candles, and burning leaves, paper, lanterns, tissue paper etc. haha.

my grandma with my hello kitty lantern. haha..

i asked my grandma to put the "peace" sign. heh..

alright. that's all for now folks. heh.. going to meet the work n travel pple later. weeee.. but i'm sleepy. it's my break week now.. and i really wanna have some fun. but at the back of my mind is work work n more work. haiz. studying in singapore is damn stressful ahhhhh...

my weekend of fun

2006-10-02T15:51:00.000+08:00

on friday and saturday, lionel n i had to do survey work and this time it was at the airport. hee. was kinda fun cuz we had visitor's pass and could go into the depature hall.. hee. so we decided to act like we were tourists and took some pictures!

haha. we even asked a real tourist (think japanese) to help us take this. heee.

on saturday, after doing survey at the airport, i met karen n isabel and decided to go try out the new restaurant "new york new york" to relive some US memories. heee. the place is nice.. the food is quite good too. but then, not like they have alot of stuff from the US leh.. like sauces and all. tot we could have american sauces.. bleah.

that's karen, isabel and me! (from left to right).. posing with the menu. heh. ahhh.. new york..
on saturday night:
this is taken at home.. my atm bank was full so i had to take the coins out to count.

this is my brother's artwork. heee. the theme is society. i think he draws really well.. hee. proud of him.. weee.. if only i can draw too..
after seeing my brother draw and all, i decided to draw too! haha.. but then i only can draw a simple rainbow and it isn't even nice. but oh well. it was kinda fun playing with crayons n paint again.
on sunday, went to eleanor's birthday party (happy birthday eleanor!). was fun and was really really sweet. esp when ze bin sang for eleanor. ahhh.. i would cry.. it's so so so so so so sweeeet. hee. eleanor, ze bin is not bad to u la. haha. i think he put in alot of effort into this party. hope u enjoyed urself! (photos will be up when i get it!)

on a more random note, i came across these photos while i was finding advertisements for one of my classes. haha. tot they're quite interesting. heh. so yup.

so this is why dogs hate their owners. haha. but it's funny.

toilet theme restaurant. dunno where this is though. but look at what they are eating out of. haha. it's damn cute. i wanna visit this place!! i have a feeling it's in taiwan or in china!!

although i have alot more other random photos, i shall save them for another day! heee.

no sense.

2006-09-29T00:30:00.000+08:00

and so i did, i survived the day. had not too bad a day in school, i would say.

but then it was after school that i realised that the things that can get u feeling down the most are the most trivial things said to u by important pple in ur life.

why do such trivial things make me cry when i could survive 14 hrs of sch?

this sucks.

ps: no. it's not him. he din make me cry.

dread.

2006-09-28T14:10:00.000+08:00

today has been the most dreaded day since school started.
i burnt my weekends cuz of today.
i lost my sleep cuz of today.
i lost my appetite cuz of today.
and very often, i ended up losing my temper at my brother or lionel.

today, i woke up at 6:15am.
slept at 1am yest.
had class at 8:30 till 11:45.
another class at 12 till 3:15. and had the most dreaded quiz.
meeting from 4 till 6:45.
another meeting from 6:45 till late late late...
research n proposal to be done by tmr.
morning class tmr. meaning i have to wake up at 6:15am again.

BUT! to today, this is for u!!

haha.

been wanting to upload some pictures i found online. really cute kids. somehow, i like to see kids in china, or tibet, in rags.. and of old pple. i like to see wrinkles on old pple. think it's nice. shall upload some other time. btw, i am beginning to have an interest in china and china's history. so any interesting facts, let me know! :)

back to class now....zzzzz

you and me

2006-09-25T15:41:00.000+08:00

as the song goes " 'cause it's you and me and all other people and i don't know why, i can't keep my eyes off of you.."

recently, i was reminded about how we got to know each other. how we struggled to be together because deep down it feels right and because we would regret if we never tried. i want to rem all the good times we had together and also to share it with the world. :)

there are no words to describe what we have, what we went through. so i hope that our pictures will be sufficient to remind us of us.

some memories of US (pun intended.. haha!)..

"u're the closest to heaven that i've been..."
let us put all our worries behind us and treasure what we have..

cuz i had a good day.

2006-09-24T09:43:00.000+08:00

as some might notice, i was feeling kinda depressed the last 2 weeks. with school and stuff. but i'm happy to say that although school is getting busier, my mood is also getting better. after having to study for my quizzed for 2 weeks, i had a break on friday and saturday.

on friday, went out with celine then went to meet eleanor, melissa and teresa. it's really a girl's day! haha. it was nice that i met celine cuz we could jus sit down n share our summer memories.. hee. looking thru each other's photos, which resulted in me being late in meeting the other girls. but it was all good. hmm. teresa, thanx for telling me what u told me. i hope u will see the rainbow after the rain sooooooon! and plus u can always come find me to eat lunch or go shopping k!

on saturday, yesterday, we went to sophia's party at chevrons. as usual, the odac pple were the majority. haha. so we had like one whole place to ourselves. the girls decided to take the room upstairs cuz there's a bed and have some girl's talk. until kenneth and lek decide to come take over the bed and sleep. what pigs! so in the end, cuz of that, we all had pillow fights n all. haha. and unlike in the movies, it was not all nice n fluffy, the guys were so so violent! and the girls too. haha. and i ACCIDENTALLY punched kenneth (apparently causing his lips to bleed) cuz he pinched my arm, and i have a bruise to prove it. haha. but anyway, it was all fun. i think i really needed to have fun like that. we were playing like kids and screaming like nobody's business. i feel sorry for the rest of the pple but we were really having so much fun. haha.

and after so much fun, i went for coffee with hong chang and like he said, it was "the best talk we had".. haha. yes i agreeeee.. maybe cuz we haven seen each other or talked so much for so long. thanx for having coffee. i sure hope we can meet up more often though. :)

oh well. but all good things must come to an end. i got home yesterday only to realise that i have 8 chapters of corp reporting to study for my quiz on thurs, i have 2 meetings later (yes, a sunday), and another meeting on thurs and another on friday. great! haha. but i'm also looking forward to spending a little more time with lionel cuz he doesn't have a quiz so he can buy me breakfast while i study!! haha. *HINT*.. and also maybe i can go swimming with my sister on monday. cuz if i'm not wrong, it's her off day!! yippeee!! cheeers to a good week ahead!! :):) cuz i know that at the end of this week, (er i mean sunday..) it's eleanor's party!! and i'm really looking forward to that. :):) more reason to be happy. life should be like this. heee.

turning 21.

2006-09-19T13:47:00.000+08:00

on 6th sept 2006, i turned 21. i tot it would be a big deal, becoming an "adult" as they say. but i did not feel any older. although i had great fun. lionel and i were to celebrate my birthday for a week. but haha!! it lasted for 4 days. which i think is good enough. it's probably the best birthday i had so far, and i thank-you for all ur effort. :)

(i know i should have posted an entry earlier. but i jus got the photos from lionel.. so haha!)

after class on wednesday (6 sept ), lionel reserved a place at JUMBO seafood at riverside.. cuz i wanted to eat yummy seafood! hee. but then we got mixed up and went to the wrong branch! haha. but oh well, it's the same la. the yummiest were the herbal prawns.. heee..
we also had chilli crab!! looks good huh.. yum!

hehe..me with a whole plate of prawn shells!! heee.. but i have to admit i din peel them myself la. haha. in fact, i din peel a single one! haha..
that's lionel peeling the prawns for me!! notice that he's wearing a "bib" haha..
the next day (thursday), we went to watch forbidden city. it was soooooooo good. i'm proud that it was a singapore production! yay~ although lionel thought that it would be a stupid show, he enjoyed it in the end.. kit chan has a really good voice man!
on friday, thanx to free tickets from smu, we went to watch "john tucker must die".. i wanted to watch this show in the US actually, but fortunately i din.. haha.. woohoo to free tickets! haha.. this show was pretty good.. i totally enjoy chick-flicks! heee..
finally, on saturday, i invited some of my friends to my place for a bbq~ it was a pretty normal bbq, except that i knew everyone!! haha.. it's the first time i had like a "party" thing or anything at all that was jus for me.. so it was a pretty big deal to me. although i should have organized some games, i had fun jus talking rubbish to pple.. :)

see, i have 2 name tags.. the one with the stars was designed by my sis and the other one is by my brother!! hee.. i love them both..
lionel's name tag was designed by me! haha.. it's supposed to be spongebob and patrick.. haha.
that's my brother, me and my sister playing around with balloons before my friends came. haha.. my brother wasn't too happy to be wearing a balloon hat outdoors. haha..
that's wei jia (chalene's bf), me and chalene! they left early cuz wei jia had a gig.. so yup. thanx for coming~!
that's keen, xin wei (paul's gf), paul, me and lionel!
that's sam, my sister's bf who was the chef for the night . look at him.. all sweaty.. eeks. but thanx for helping out!! heee..
that's my bday cakes! the brownie was made by my sis and sam. the other is an oreo cheesecake made by me and my sister.. and the decorations for both were done by my sis and sam. haha! thankew. the one on the cheesecake is supposed to be an alien farm.. i dunno why.. but haha. it's funny. i like it.
that's my family, plus sam and lionel and wiwin (my maid)! :) it's smoky cuz of the sparklers that all of us lighted when they brought out my cakes. heee.. it was pretty but really smoky.. haha..
took a picture with the odac pple. hee. jem, cannot see u at all!! haha..
this picture is taken with pple i worked with in the US. the skyride pple. haha.. karen ah, also cannot see u.. haha!!
this is with scgs girls and sylvia and flea! so sad cuz every year i will celebrate with the sc girls, except this year.. this year, most of them were not in singapore on my bday.. :(
charmaine!! haha.. haven seen her in such a long time.. glad that u can make it to the bbq!! heee..
yong feng.. hmmm.. so sad that u're not in singapore anymore.. but thanx for coming. hee.. i'll see u next year!!
and of cuz, with lionel. haha.. hmmm...
as u can all tell, my descriptions of the photos are really stupid. but haha.. i'm tired from reading international economics for my quiz on thurs, so forgive me. haha.. i really jus wanna thank my helpers for the bbq - my sister, sam, my brother, my dad, wiwin, and lionel.. and thankew all for coming. and also for the wonderful presents!! thankew. :):)

so with that bbq, it marked the end of my bday celebration.. boohooo.. haha. oh well.

the secret is out!!

2006-09-18T20:40:00.000+08:00

i got a new bunny!!

i jus got it a couple of days ago. he's a mixed breed; local and lion head. so his fur is different. very much softer and alot puffier. haha..

introducing derby!!! *drum roll*

his nose is white.. cute right? his colour is similar to pheebe.. brown and white and grey. except that derby has more grey and more white than pheebe. and also derby has 2 ears standing instead of one! hee. (lionel, pls dun "spoil" derby's ears.. i like them to be both standing up..)

i know that derby looks like it's in a very awkard position. but i think it's so cute. and hey! i wouldn't ill-treat it! that's my brother picking it up btw, not me! haha
obviously that's the retarded me! haha. derby looks bigger in this picture but actually it's really tiny.

some outdoor time for derby. and also to introduce it to pheebe. hee . the ears are kinda big for it don't u think so?
some more solo outdoor shots. hee.. i have a feeling it will grow up to be a fat bunny! dun be deceived by the fur.. the fur makes it puffy. so it looks fat now.. but actually it's not so i'm feeding it alot plus it can really eat alot.. keep eating all the time! haha.
of cuz pheebe isn't too friendly with derby now. it's like chasing it around the garden. trying to smell it and hump it.. not that it wants to reproduce but cuz it's to show dominance i think. yup. so it was a little rough with derby. like how it was with pherbe. but then pherbe and it got along very well after awhile so i'm not worried. will jus take some time. so for the time being, they stay in different cages.
alright. that's it for now!! although i'm really scared that something bad *choy* will happen to derby, i will take good care of it and love it and spend time with it. of cuz i will still love pheebe. but pheebe is a really strong bunny! so i'm not so worried. :):)

miss universe 2006

2006-09-16T12:41:00.000+08:00

i know this has been some time ago.. but i just happen to see an article on miss universe.. and OMG! i totally fell in love with miss japan! she is soooooooooooo hot! haha. i love her!! but then, although she got into final 10, final 5, final 2, she din win.. miss puerto rico won. bleargh.

less talking and more photos.. heee. here goes:

first of all, the crown!! ahhhh.. it's so so pretty. who wouldn't want a crown like that? damn it's nice... haaa.

some photos of the event. look at the final 5 photo.. miss japan stands out so much la. she's so so so so pretty. and she's so deserves the crown.

everyone's fave. part of the show. mine too.. haha. so this photo is miss puerto rico. ok la. she's hot too.. very latina. very exotic. and looks very normal kinda hot lor....

but check out miss japan!! she is ULTRA hot!! dun u agree that she looks so much better than miss puerto rico? i absolutely love her! i think there are alot of pretty and hot japanese girls but we dun get to see them often.. and this time, i think it's really a breath of fresh air among the rest of the contestants. wooooo~~

ok i'm bias. i have so many more photos of her than miss puerto rico.. cant help it if she looks so good right? heee.
this photo is not from the event. but someone took from her blog. if anyone can read japanese and is interested, click here. even without all the glam miss universe stuff, she's still cute. even though i dun really like the curls, i think it's ok on her cuz it makes her cute! and japanese girls always like to act cute right? wahaha.
i dunno where is this from. but sigh, she looks flawless.
back to the event, this is miss puerto rico in her evening gown. i must say she looks good. and i think her gown was nicer than miss japan.
i think this photo is damn funny! check out miss puerto rico! she looks like she expects now to win already.. giving the sian look! haha. and omg, miss japan.... sigggghhhhh.
but! eventually, miss puerto rico won and miss japan was first runner-up. although i think it's a great moment for asians to even get there but i still think she should have gotten the crown. accoring to the article, it has been mostly latin americans winning the crown and the writer feels that there is a latina bias. oh well.. although i dunno eventually who got the crown cuz i also heard that miss puerto rico fainted during some post-pageant news conference. so yup!

ps: before anyone think's i'm a damn pervert or a lesbian, i would like to say that i absolutely dun think of girls that way although i think everyone likes to look at girls cuz girls are made to be appreciated. hmmm..

love? friends? family?

2006-09-15T10:37:00.000+08:00

i feel lost although i'm in a familiar place. where i am at now, i feel helpless and i feel tired. i no longer know what is wrong or right, whether i am just numb or i just don't care. tell me then, how do i start feeling things again? when did i lose all my feelings, all my courage, all my love and all my friends, all at the same time?

a special friend said to me that she's sick of life. and although i am trying very hard to be happier now, it's hard and i find myself agreeing with her. that life sucks and i'm sick of life too.

maybe i will be ok tmr. maybe i wouldn't. maybe i would wake up to see the sunrise again. maybe i would wake up to darkness.

back to the starting point. back to the time before complications. back to the time where i have to be there for myself again. back to where my only comfort are the toys on my bed.

i need to rediscover myself. i have become someone i hardly know, someone i've learnt to hate. one day, i shall like the person i see in the mirror.

the purpose of this entry is unknown. and these are jus random stuff. but if i seem like i am feeling down, ya i am. feeling really down. but like always, i will be ok.

thunderstorm

2006-09-11T20:46:00.000+08:00

i almost wanted to put these photos up with my earlier post but was a little lazy. but since lionel mentioned, here they are. the thunderstorm at cedarpoint. it was really scary.. with the damn heavy rain and hurricane warnings, roads being flooded n all.. eeks.

the thunderstorm clouds. from where we were staying. scary huh.. so dark..
lionel insisted on taking a photo in the rain. so silly. that's the cedarpoint track suit. we were only allowed to wear this when necessary.. to work. that's my room.. and we're playing 'operation'.. some board game la. heee..

rain rain go away..

2006-09-11T15:18:00.000+08:00

i like to sit by the window sometimes to jus watch the rain but haven had the chance to until just. it's such a nice feeling. jus watching the rain.. and the smell of rain. i love it.

but. some say that it rains when a couple breaks up. seeing that it's raining so heavily and knowing that me n lionel are doing good together makes me feel a little better. although i believe that somewhere out there, someone's heart might be broken. hmmm.

SIGH!

2006-08-26T22:15:00.000+08:00

school only jus started and i already dun feel too good. school sucks. i'm doing this module on corporate reporting now.. and according to paul.. it is the hardest module in SMU. not only paul that is saying that.. the prof is saying that too!! great. and that will be the first module that i bidded and that i won't be doing with lionel cuz we have different majors.. and what's even greater is i bidded ALONE!!! cuz i was in the states and hardly had the time to use the internet.. and had to bid within like one week. so i tot it's easier to bid alone.. it was such a bad idea. now going to class is dreadful!! i wanna drop it. but then again, i shld do it cuz i'm only taking 4 mods this sem.. but i need some company!! what shld i do?? ahhhh...

besides that, it is great to be back. but i've yet to eat chicken rice, kway chap, laksa, poh pian, and my fave yu sheng. so yup.. who's free? haha.

home sweet home

2006-08-21T10:13:00.000+08:00

I"M BACK!! hee.. i was really excited when i looked out the window as the plane touched down on singapore soil.. suddenly, i tot about all the pple here i love, and of cuz my little rabbit.. the familiar smell, pple and enviornment. i am home.

as i looked ard my room, i realized my maid, wiwin, re-arranged my table.. and i hate it. i hate anyone to touch my things. if it's messy, let me do the cleaning. but yesterday, i simply made a little remark n let it pass.. i miss my room. although i wish my sister were here to unpack with me.. and so i can share the things i bought with her... but it's nice that my brother was there with me. and it's really heartwarming to see that he's so excited abt all the things i bought for him. and he likes them all.. cooooool. :):) i miss my family.. and now i am home..

to lek, ze bin n eleanor, thanx so much for coming down to the airport to see me yest.. thankew thankew. i really did not expect that. esp after ur run in the morning.. xie xie ni men.. heee.. eleanor!! i cant wait to go out with u and the girls!! haven seen u all for so long.. ze bin, congrats for winning.. and lek!! u've been the nicest.. sending me off and welcoming me home. thankew so much.

and i know i shld be posting my photos up BUT.. the photos are still with lionel. stupid lionel la.. always upload the photos from his camera then he deletes them so i dun get to upload most of the time. but also cuz when we are travelling, i'm lazy to use the comp la.. heee. oops. i'll upload asap!! haha.

school's starting on wed.. and i sorta miss school but i dun wanna go back to studying!! ahhh.. thinking of all the case studies that i have to do.. eeks! not the most pleasant thought. hmm.. oh well. i have today n tmr to slack ard.. hee..

san fran

2006-08-10T01:49:00.000+08:00

hello hello.. i'm in san fransico now. i'm officially done with the work part of my "work n travel" program and now.. it's time for me to jus enjoy myself in the US. but of cuz i have to watch my money. haha.. almost running out i think. argh. anyway, i went to new york before this. and did not have time to blog. so yup. and of cuz, although i have internet now, i wont have the time to update my blog too cuz of the travelling.. so so so.. lionel n i decided to put up our photos on a website.. and everyone can see!! heee.. okok..

so if anyone's interested to see what we've been up to, click here!

heh.

2006-07-25T10:01:00.000+08:00

i'm such a bum. but i had so much fun here. and my sis is complaining that i dun put photos anymore. so pls pls read lionel's blog. haha.. for the latest photos.

i'm lovin' it.

2006-07-10T10:09:00.000+08:00

i got a new skin again. yipeeee... the other one was nice until the butterfly disappeared from the blog.. haha. i guess it happens when since i'm using another person's blog skin.. yup. i hope this lasts.. i really like this. and to the pple who dunno, i like polka dots!! (shame on my friends who dunno!!) haha. anyway.. yup. and i think marilyn monroe is really damn cool. so yup. i'm lovin' my new skin.

what the bleep is happening to me?!?!

2006-07-10T08:34:00.000+08:00

i've been getting really used to the life here that i have fun and i dun blog abt it. i totally left out lionel's party celebration!! and that we went parasailing....!! which cost a bomb la.

before that, i hafta to mention this:
the other day we were walking to walmart n lionel was complaining that his bag is damn heavy. and he was like saying that his bag "weighs a bomb"!! haha. ok. not funny. but it was damn hilarious when i first heard it. and he din even realize he was wrong. silly silly. ok. anyway...

must check out lionel's blog for photos!! must must!! although the photos of me are not very flattering. but oh well. at least my sis can see "how fat i am now".. she's damn mean la. cant wait for me to put on weight only.

that aside, i jus wanna apologize to lionel. "i'm sorry".. for always being so controlling. i realize that, like u, i wanna have some fun too. like when he went to watch da vinci code with me, i got really really pissed. he tried to contact me but i was in wal-mart n i din get his calls cuz stupid wal-mart has no reception.. and by the time i called him back, he was in the cinema already. i was really pissed that night cuz i wanted to watch that with him. and it was the first movie that i would watch here. and his too.. and i wanna watch it with him! like i'm really into all these "first times" thing. i like to ride my first rollercoaster in cedarpoint with lionel, eat my first cotton candy with him, etc. i know... i'm pyscho.. anyway. for that, i am really sorry cuz when i was walking home jus now, i saw 2 friends going out to watch movie and i was tempted to go with them. and i realize that it must be like this for lionel too. like he would want to have that freedom to watch whatever movie he wants with whoever, and whenever.. so yup. i'll try to not be so controlling. i promise!! haha. i know this must be really boring to everyone else. but i'm sure lionel will appreciate this.. :p (that is if he even reads this la)..

OH! and i realize something else too.. americans like to drink pop (soft drinks). they will let their babies drink too. like each person will have one cup. and it's not small la. and sometimes they buy the souvenir cups and the kid will want water in it but the mom will insist on them filling it with pop. haha.. and normally, the parents will drink diet pepsi and the kids will drink regular pepsi. i wonder.. is it cuz they are like older so diet is supposed to be a little healthier? weird.

oh oh!! happy 21st to ira!! i wish i was there... but i'm sure u had a grrrreeeaaat time!! i'll see u sooooooon. :)

inspired.

2006-07-08T09:24:00.000+08:00

miss the days where i hang out with the girls in my house, to watch taiwanese serials and we ill share our days. for some time now, it seems like work is getting to us and we are restless by the time we get back. and although we still hang out, we seldom watch anything together anymore. we do still watch the same show but most of the time at our own timings. which is kinda sad. haha. but i guess we make do with what we got la. and i'm glad that at least we still share gossips and all bout work. kinda nice.

anyway, been watching "one litre of tears" - japanese serial. think some of u might know cuz i think they showed on channel 8 or something. anyway, i think it's a really good show. and what makes it really sad n touching is that it's based on a true story. when i watched the show, i cried my eyes out.. and the girls din allow me to sleep right away cuz they say my eyes will be really puffy the next day at work so we had to talk.. haha.. which was really nice. with some of the taiwanese.. yup. now. i'm almost done with the show. could have finish watching it yesterday but karen's laptop hibernated when the show was at its last few minutes. what a pain. haha. :p so till now, i haven gotten the chance to watch the ending.

so. after watching the show, i'm inspired to keep a diary. i think it's really cool. and not something to show off.. but i think it will help me be a little more disciplined. at least with one thing in my life. heh. what crap.

and not that i am hinting anything to anyone (even lionel) but i think i wanna get myself a dog if i can afford it when i get back. maybe for my 21st bday. i really really would want a dog. but i think it would be a really big responsibility and i must know i can afford all the food and the medical stuff and all. and now, my priority would be pheebe. so i must know i can keep both happy n well-fed and all. hmm.. and i guess other things that i am thinking about would be to buy myself a keyboard n pherhaps pick up piano lessons n all. my mom used to make us take piano lessons and since i've been so lazy all my life, i hated it. and so i quit without even taking grade one or anything. so yup. and now, i kinda wished i had continued. it would be nice. hmm.. or i think i will get a digital camera. one that belongs to me only. then i can take pictures all the time!!.. and i really wanna learn horseback riding. it would be nice..

i miss the LA days..

karaoke night!

2006-07-06T12:02:00.000+08:00

was kinda excited at first cuz it's the first time i'm here when they have karaoke nights here.. haha. it's funny.. cuz some of them really cant sing.. but they still are having so much fun.. haha.. i wouldn't dare sing in front of these pple! haha.. and there was one girl who was singing "can't get you out of my mind" by kylie minogue and it was kinda bad so this girl from the audience was asking her to "shut up!!!" haha.. then everyone cheered.. then she stopped and more pple cheered.. haha.. poor girl. but she was still smiling. so everything's cool. hee..

so anyway, i jus bidded for my classes.. hopefully i get them. will have wed, thurs n fri classes.. and will be doing double major.. marketing n finance. eeks. hopefully i can pass... i'm so screwed la. i dun even know what i wanna do when i come out to work. dun think i will do finance stuff eventually too. jus that i'm not interested in the rest of the stuff too. so yup. wish me luck!

4 July.

2006-07-06T01:48:00.000+08:00

Independence day came and gone.

i was so looking forward to 4 july cuz i heard cedarpoint will be super busy and alot of pple will wear like shirts with flags or like the national colours. but it was a little bit disappointing.

1. there were so little pple at the park. there were no lines at where i work so i was sent to help out at another place which had lines but i think it was the only place in the park that had lines. and i even heard this lady say (when i was queuing to use the restroom) that the toilet line is the only line in the park yesterday. how sad. hm..

2. tot everyone.. well almost everyone would wear something american but not really.. like i see the supervisors wearing ties with american flag print. and some girls had like red, white n blue ribbons on their hair.. and that's abt it! i even bought a pair of earrings jus for 4 july but i'm damn stupid la. forgot to wear. haha! :p

but then there was the fireworks. and it lasted for freaking 20 mins la.. it's super super long.. and it was quite awesome. i cant imagine. the fireworks at cedarpoint is already 20 mins long.. imagine the amount of money they spent and what other places might spend.. i mean like they're national stadium or something leh? it's crazy.. really crazy.

oh oh.. and i won the lottery. i bought this lottery: scratch n win thing from the supermarket the other day when i was waiting for the cab with lionel and when we got bored. and the lottery only cost me a dollar.. haha. and i won!!! a whole DOLLAR!! ( that is if i go online n register and all) haaaa.. damn funny la. but i decided i wunt bother la. all the trouble for one dollar.. haha.. but it was funny.

i'm jus talking to lek now and he's saying that i seem to be having fun here. it's true i guess. i have alot of freedom here. not from work la. work is crazily uptight and inflexible. but i mean if i wanna go to a pub or a gay club i can la. like my dad is not here to nag or something. but it also means i have to be that much more responsible for what i decide to do here la. haha.. anyway, i guess it's jus a differet kind of fun, like what i tell lek. at home, i have fun being with friends n all. enjoying the security and the familiarity at home. but here, i guess i enjoy doing things i wanna do. new things n crazy things that i can do. like if i wanna go shop for groceries at night, i can. if i wanna watch a movie i can. if i wanna hang out n drink with pple, i can jus go to lionel's room n drink with the guys n girls.. and it's different. i mean i'm not good with socialising but when i do get to know pple. i enjoy that. it's that kinda fun. it's hard to put it to words. but yup.

i've been really lazy so i haven been taking photos or taking the rides. i have 3 and a half more weeks till m contract ends. i will certainly miss this place. i miss the thais that left. i miss nokyoong. i miss working with her. and i think i will miss the taiwanese. i think i am getting to talk to them more. and they are really nice girls.

excuses excuses... AGAIN!

2006-06-24T02:35:00.000+08:00

i know i haven been blogging. i know i know. haha.
(hello auntie nora.. it's cool that u are reading this.. hee.. )

anyway.. the reason i have this time is tha ti've been sick for a week now.

started since last week. had fever and the whole package .. and for the first time in my life, i lost my voice on tuesday morning when i got to work so i was sent home. haha. haven been working much cuz of this.. and also cuz the weather here is kinda bad lately.

it was the start of summer n we had a tornado warning n flash flood warning in ohio.. scary la.. and it's getting cold n wet and no one's going to the park.. so we all dun get to work... (no work = no money = no presents for everyone! :p)

anyway. nothing much happened recently.. eh.. oh.. i got new housemates. after the thais left, we had some peace for one week. and then we had one taiwan girl.. and yest, another. so yup. i think the place will be flooded with tiawanesessssss.. yup! i dun wannnntttt.. cuz now, i have a room to myself.. it's only 5 weeks more.. let me have my own roooom!! haha.. (not really likely man. sianz)..

ok. i'm going back to do some stuff.. btw.. it's lionel's bday tmr. so yup! we'll be celebrating on sunday instead. cuz i cant take off on his bday!! boooo.. :(

my sups.

2006-06-16T10:59:00.000+08:00

hmm.. as i take the employee bus home after work today, i tot abt work n all. and i tot to myself, it has been 6 weeks since i started working at cedarpoint. and i have another 6 weeks more. and i can already feel how much i will miss this place. and all my friends that i've made here n perhaps i will miss my supervisors the most. they have been so nice to us all!!

so far, i had 4 supervisors. i shall take photos of them when i can.. without them, i dun think i will enjoy my work as much. and i might have asked for a transfer (to another department).. or i might quit!! haha.. i dunno. there's this 2 singaporean girls (chun-li and angela) who worked for 2 weeks and quit. haha! i think it's such a waste that they din enjoy it here. i mean of cuz sometimes it sux and i curse the system.. but it's also so so much fun. like when i have my off days, and i go back to the park, i will definitely still visit them. haha.. so lame right. but ya.

anyway, it's so overdue.. but here are the niagara falls photos. enjoy...
this is the first sight of the falls. if i dun rem wrongly, i think it's called american falls. haha. okok. ya. but it was cold and wet!!! argh. but it's so amazing to see the falls.. it's huge!!
this is all of us. all of the singaporeans who went for the trip that day.. heee.. but the person who helped us take the photo did not take the background.. so it's a pity.. but oh well at least we got a group picture!that's us again.. taking the maid of the mist boat ride.. so cool la.. the falls was jus beside us! me n lionel. (duh).. haha.. i look silly in the raincoat.. but it was fun. this was taken when we got to horse-shoe falls. it feels like it's raining damn heavily when we get inside and we were all wet n cold and we couldn't take photos... but lionel managed to take one for me!! heee.. look how wet it is!! but it was fun.. and really really cold. esp when the win blew.. after the wet ride. heee.. stupid lionel is spoiling the photo again.. wiht his wet tissue. look at the moss!! it has long hair la.. damn cute.. hee. imagine how long has it been there man! under the falls. the falls is quite strong man.. a little painful. the flowers are nice.. and ya. (ahhh.. the rec center is closing. so i only have 5 minutes left to use the internet!)this is some other falls. but i cant rem the name. haha. it's pretty and the water is greenish.. but din manage to take a good picture of that. we ended the day with this sunny picture. the sun finally came out as we were leaving so we ran to the falls to take another photo and catch one last glimpse of the falls. it was so cool. but it would have been better if it was a sunny day cuz then we would be able to catch alot of rainbows.. niagara falls is known as the rainbow maker afteralll... oh well. i believe that i will visit it again. maybe from the canada side. okok.. i gotta goooooo... gonna be chased out!!! eeks.

to everyone i know: i love n miss u guys!!!

feeling a lil' blue..

2006-06-01T00:13:00.000+08:00

i've been working with a bunch of singaporeans n malaysians, some ang mohs, and one thai girl. now, the thai girl will be leaving in 2 week's time.. and she will be applying off as much as she can to go shop n all. i will miss her. she's been such a nice friend n working buddy. she stays above my dorm n will sometimes come over to my dorm to find the thai girls or sleepover. it's a pity she cant really speak english. but it's cool. i'm her translator. hee. i am feeling a little depressed cuz she is leaving. and it will be such a long time before i see her again if i even do. but she's so sweet. working with her has been a blast. haiz. i hate this kinda feeling. lke when u made a new good friend n it's time to part. and it has only going to be one short month that i know her.. before she leaves. argh. i wonder how depressed i will be feeling when i finally have to leave cedarpoint. i think i will try to cherish each horrible working day. heee...that's a picture of her. she's in the marron coloured sweatshirt. eating cooton candy. heee.. her name is nokyoong btw. heee.. it means peacock in thai i think. and just some happy photos that i took with lionel n eugene before eugene left too.. haiz.. ok. i have to upload the niagara photos some other time again cuz it's in lionel's room n it's locked so i cant access it. yup.

blah blah.

2006-05-29T10:23:00.000+08:00

the other time i managed to squeeze in an entry, i was in such a rush.. and i had so many things i wanna tell the world. but now that i have time, i dunno what to write. haha.

hmm.. i guess i can talk abit abt my life here:
every week, i have different schedules. basically, i'm scheduled to work like 60 hrs a week with one day off. and last week, alot of pple were sent home alot cuz the park was not busy.. but this week, the park operates from 10am to 10pm.. and there are alot more pple coming to the park cuz it's getting warmer and the hols are almost here. so it's damn busy now.. i worked for 8 hrs yest. and 10 hours today. will have to work for 13 hrs tmr. it's crazy...

oh. and i work at the fryers. like i will fry chicken fingers, fries, make hambrgers, double burgers, cheeseburgers, double cheese, chicken sandwich.. heee.. and sometimes i have to do cash register too.. but i dun really like that. cuz when pple dun get their food fast, they will make alot of noise. heee..

oh oh!! and i went to niagara falls on thurs!! it's damn nice. but i wished it was sunnier. it's supposed to be a rainbow maker. hee.. but we din manage to see any.. so sad. but the falls are amazing!! but i dun have photos now.. so haha! ok la. this entry is damn boring. i shall stop all this nonsense.

hello hello.. i'm alive!!

2006-05-22T02:38:00.000+08:00

i know i haven been updating my blog at all.. hee. oopsy. i have reasons k.
1. the park closes late sometimes n i have to work till park close most of the time. and the rec center (it's at the dorm.. and it's the nearest place i can use internet around here)
2. it has been raining for one week+++ so it's really cold to work to the rec center!! really really cold.. and i'm so so silly. i only brought one jacket to the US la.. i'm gonna die from the cold.. the wind is horribly strong!!!
3. the connection here SUCKS!! haha..

ok.. anyway, i'm gonna put up as many photos as i can for now.. i haven been taking alot of photos too.. so yup.. i'm really lazy to type so much.. but i'm really fine here.. except i keep eating!! and guess what? i'm almost 50!! i know.. i'm damn shocked too.. but oh well.. i blame the cold. haha..ok.. this is my apartment.. there's like 5 rooms altogether.. and 2 toilets... i stay at room B.. hee.. my rooooooom!!!!! haha.. isn't it pretty n oh-so-cosy? haha.. i have the flower tooo!! bought from meijers.. (a supermart.. like wal-mart).. heee.. nice right? haha.. but i'm jus kidding. it's not my room.. haha..this is my room. haha.. i know it's messy! but it's not my fault. haha. i have all my things n i dun have any proper shelves to put all of my things!! argh.. haha.. so yup.. this is where i get my beauty sleep.. i love my bed.. see shrek.. he accompanies me.. yipeeee..this is the kitchen place.. heee.. eugene usually cooks for us.. hee. i'll post a picture of him later.. if i have time. haha.. but so sad, he's leaving to work at california instead.. sooooon. boohooo.. yup. the thai girls ( i live with 4 toher singaporeans n 10 thais girls) usually dun wash their dishes till they need to use it.. haha. so it's really messy.. and they can be really really nosiy.. they are like shouting n all till 1 or 2 am everymorning.. argh. but i'm getting used to it.. plus they are really friendly la.. so i'm ok.. hee..sometimes we cook pancakes.. hee.. nice right?had baileys the other night... the one in white is eugene the cook.. hee.. the one in yellow is obviously lionel la.. if u dun recognize him.. haha.. we are fatter now..this is where i hang out at night.. witht eh singaporean girls... hee.. i usually watch some taiwan show before i sleep.. heee.. how interesting right. but every night i'm like so tired after work. so i jus eat, watch show then sleep.. oh ya.. of cuz i'll shower la. haha..
ok.. this is me now. in my uniform.. i know i know.. i look like a vietnam boy..haha.. but usually, the uniform is short sleeved.. but i'm wearign the cedarpoint sweatshirt cuz it's really cold when the wind blows.. seriously cold la......... i know it looks sunny but it's usually not warm.. hee.. the background is my room.. heee.. yup. ok.. i'm runnign out of time.. got to type faster!!! ahhh...this was taken jus now.. like one our ago.. haha. at the park.. nice right? so sunny! and we are all wearing diff coloured sweatshirts.. heee... we are all working at skyride... i'll talk abt that some other time. that's us eating cotton candy.. one of the attractions at cedarpoint is the 25 cents cotton candy.. haha. but we are not allowed to eat along the way.. haha... oh wellllll...
had a day off the other day so i went to do some stuff.. haha.. it was a nice sunny day.. yip.lionel is alwyas spoiling the photo..argh.finally.. wal-mart!! but it's nothing much la.. i think i like target better. hee.. okok.. no time. had real chinese foood.. and it was goooooooooood. but so not worth it for me cuz it's buffet and i can only eat one plate of rice n dishes.. this is outside toy 'r us.. ok... i gotta run for the bus to go to work now.. leave me more emails k!! thankew thankew.. take care everyone.. bye bye!!!! i love u allll.....

i miss my family so much.. n pheebe.. and my friends.. and the food... and the weather.. !! haha.. ok.. bye bye..

los angeles - day 7 & 8

2006-05-03T16:51:00.000+08:00

*for this post, day 8 is on top of day 7.. so i sugeest reading from day 7 then to day 8. but honestly speaking, it doesn't make a difference so yup. this is bullshit. haha.*

Day 8: went to hollywood boulevard again.
that's the hot dog n i! haha. actually it's lionel's hot dog la. i only wanted a bite. look at the hot dog carefully. he eats mustard, ketchup but i like it with ketchup n mayo. so the front bit where i'm supposed to bite, there's mayo n ketchup with no mustard for me! haha. cute right? ya i know. heh. celine! this is for u! it's antonio banderas! haha. seee the empty star shape in the tile? lionel n i are suspecting that someone is gonna get a star soooon. we waited for a while near this star cuz there were tv crew. but like no stars came so we left la. it's prob the pre-star event news. argh. oh well.
that's me n the mann's chinese theatre. we went there to watch silent hill today. it was a pretty cool show. not sure whether they have it in singapore but it's a cool n rather violent show but the ending was not too good. so i din really like it. but the cinema was coool so wayang. heh. but the seats at the cinemas here are crap man. cuz they dun incline. like singapore's cinemas, the seat will lean backwards when u sit but not here man. the seats are spacious but stiff. gives me a headahce when i watch a movie.

so far, i watched scary movie 4 - which is funny but not worth the money. jus download it or something. and i watched united 93 - which made me puke 3 times during the show!! the movie was so shaky i cant take it man. argh. and the third movie i watched would be silent hill today. yupz. this was our dinner. (in-and-out burger) it's cheeseburger meal, animal style. haha. ya. they jus put shit on ur fries. haha. it's pretty good la. they put some fressing n cheese n fried onions on the fries which is definitely better than plain fries. haha.

Day 7: universal studios.
this was taken before we went in to universal studios. it was another sun-shiny day. so i wore my shades (btw, i bought the pair of shades here in LA). *jie, i know u dun like black. i mean u prefer brown but i like this pair. dun u think it's not a bad pair? considering it's not expensive. heee.. * anyway ya. and i wore my new marilyn monroe tee-shirt. i bought it here too. i love it! cuz i think marilyn monroe's so pretty. it's in her eyes! oh! and if u click on the picture and see the enlarged version, u will see that i'm not smiling. and i look a little pissed but actually i'm not la. it's jus cuz i cant smile with that pair of shades cuz then my cheeks will press against the shades and my cheeks will look fat. haha. so yup. one of the first things i saw inside universal studios was the madagascar lion. haha. i had to take a picture with him! heee. he looks so happy!!and then there was spongebob!! he's so so cute. i flicked his nose. haha. but that was before the photo was taken so haha. the person inside is not very tall huh. haha. he's abt our height!! look at shrek! he looks like lionel's friend!! and i have a small shrek in my arms! lionel won that for me! but i won another one after that so we exchanged for a bigger shrek! haha. shrek is so cute. i love him!. and frankestein was freaky!! he put his hand on my neck. eeeks! and he's so so tall.. i almost din wana go so close to him. this hollywood sign is damn nice huh. like real one huh. haha. it's jus a fake board behind us but it look so real. coooool.

oh.. we went for the universal studio tour. and at the back of me if the war of the worlds movie set. it's really damn freaky cuz they really took a boeing 747 (i think) and destroyed it for the movie. and u can really see the damage n all.. it's seriously scary cuz u know that might happen to anyone of us who flies. eeks. i'm scared. but ya i still smiled for the camera. what a camera whore. haha. that's me n the apollo 13 pple. all they need is their helmet n all i need is mini shrek! heh. nvm. not funny. haha. one of those photos that i take to entertain myseld cuz lionel was on the phone with kamil. heee. i like this photo. makes me laugh. shrek is alive!! haha. it's like in a bollywood movie where it's hiding behind the tree. hahahahahahaa. ok. not so funny too. i make bad photo jokes. heh.

LA - day 4, 5 & 6

2006-05-01T16:56:00.000+08:00

*this entry was supposed to posted 2 nghts ago but there were some errors. so yup. it's a late post. and it's quite a long post cuz of the photos. so... have fun! haha. :p

Day 4: pretty much shopped at melros then went to meet kamil's friend - victoria. then we went to try sheesha (is that how u spell it?) anyway. ya. before that, went to rodeo drive n took lots of stupid photos. but i'm so lazy to upload them. i did day 5 n day 6 photos before this. so yup. enjoy those photos.. i dun think i'll upload day 4 photos. i'm really tired today. and getting a headache cuz i'm toooo sleepy. so good night pple.

Day 5: we went to visit celebrities' houses and went to santa monica pier.
apparently, this is paris hilton's house when she was staying with her fiance paris latsis. hmm.. doesn't seem like a very impressive house. hmmmm.. of cuz they're not staying there anymore.
this is halle berry's house. it is actually pretty huge. and it's nice n clean too! and there's security cameras. haha. and lionel actually got a response from halle berry when he shouted .. heee.. funny. this is me at the back of the car, bored. haha. cuz it's a convertible or something? or jus a really weird car, i cant really hear them at the back. so i was entertaining myself once in awhile n popped my head to the front to hear what kamil n lionel were talking abt once in awhile too. haha. this is leonardo's house. it's a damn damn nice view la. and can see he has like a swimming pool n all. argh. but it's under renovation too..
this is taken outside britney n ferderline's house. but they moved out already and it's not brittany murphy's house. i know we only took the gate but it's cuz the house was like under some renovation or something. and it was pretty high up the slope. so ya.this is the gate leading to the loooooooooong driveway that leads in to madonna's huuuuuuuuge house. haha. so we couldn't see anything cuz the driveway was damn long. haha. this is elvis presley's house. like the last house he stayed at in LA.. yup. it's a pretty pretty huge house.
and this is the front of elvis' house. that's me n kamil!this is the highlight of my day!!.. we went to jennifer aniston n brad pitt's house.. like where they used to stay when they were together... and since the gate was so high, lionel tried to peek through the gates.. and he saw someone walking to the car so he handed me the camera (btw, our car was parked right in front of their gate!) and i was holding on to it. and i saw a car turn towards us n at first i only saw a male driver .. then i saw jennifer aniston!! her hair is sooooo soooo nice la. and she was wearing black. and she was like looking down alot cuz i think she thinks we're the paparazzi. haha. but oh man. my heart was beating so damn dast after that la. and i din manage to take a photo cuz i was star struck!! damn me. argh. i will never forgive myself! i saw my first lemon tree. and got a first hollywood lemon. haha. i still have it with me at home!! it smells citrus. this is taken at the apple store at santa monica. hee. lionel n his apples! argh.
this is taken on the famous ferris wheel at santa monica pier. it's a fast ferris wheel and it's sooooo pretty at night. and the wind n the night view. ahhhh.. it was amazing. see. that's the ferris wheel we were on. it's not a big ferris wheel but it's a ncie ferris wheel. heee. apparently, this is forrest gump's father's shop? or son's shop? i dunno. haha. but look at my shoes!! haha. damn cute huh.

Day 6:
this is the day we went to six flags. it's a theme park at LA. also known as the magic mountain. it's a really coooool place. heee. more stuff is up at lionel's blog. (like the videos and all i think)..
when we first got to six flags. we were all a little nervous but excited. and it was such a nice sunny day... it was actually feeling hot today. haha. luckily i wore spag tops! heee.
this is taken after our first ride - the X. according to kamil n friends, it's the scariest ride at six flags. like there were parts when we dropped down a really steep slope which was 215 feet high (which is , according to kamil, 20 storeys high ) and the worse thing is, we dropped down backwards!! haha. and there were parts where we were spinning in our seats. u really got to be there to experience it. really scary but fun. haha. this was also after the first ride. hmm. jus of the view. like a tiny part of six flags.
this is the worst ride at the place. but it's over in like 10 secs at the most. it jus accelerates up and falls backwards.. haha. it's called the superman. and right at the top, there's a superman figurine. heee.
this was taken on the batman ride. we were not supposed to bring the camera with us but kamil was holding it throughout the ride. so we got the ride on video. haha.
this is a scary ride too.. cuz unlike most of the rides, it is the olden kind. and they dn have the "harness" thing.. they only have this pathetic bar thing to hold u in ur seat while u drop like 12 storeys n spin here n there. it was a pretty fast ride...!!
let me end off with this artistic photo taken by lionel. haha. i was jus sitting by the fountain at six flags. and it looked like it's snowing! haha. cool huh. anyway. ya.

i think in total, we took 8 rollercoaster rides today. it was a fun day n a sunny day (thank god). how coool. we conquered six flags. hahaaa.. ok. be sure to check out lionel's blog. not sure when he'll put up videos though. but shld be sooooon!!

day 3 (los angeles)

2006-04-28T15:39:00.000+08:00

so today, we woke up and had to rush to get out of the house so that we can catch kamil's class. it was quite cool cuz we sat in for his class and he acted a short scene. cooool. then after that they had like people go up to do their monologues and stuff.. damn interesting. and the prof will point out stuff and give them ideas on how to do it then they'll do it again. damn cool la.

anyway, after touring the lee stransberg institute (which is kamil's school), we went for lunch at the grove. and it's a nice sunny day!
had burgers again. i had mushroom burger with onions and cheese.. damn nice. and hot chocolate! yum.
took this open-roof tram/bus thing. nice. it was sunnny!
still at the grove. at the fountain place. look at how huge kamil is. he has his arm ard me n lionel! and u know what? the people are all this tall here! and girls tooo! it's freaking scary. i feel so small... seee. i bought 4 tops, 2 were from forever 21!! and i bought 2 necklaces and 2 pairs of shades. heee. i shouldn't be spending too much man. this is crap. argh.
these are kamil's friends. they're from america, london, and turkey. the turkey dude is damn damn funny! haha. it was nice hanging out with them!.

ok. i guess that's it for today. we pretty much shopped and ate. that's all. haha. i'm so sleepy every night i settle down to blog.. i'm so sleepy n lazy. so pls be contended with the photos. haha.

day 1 & day 2 (LA)

2006-04-27T18:45:00.000+08:00

so here are some pictures as promised. heee. this is the first time me n lionel took a flight tog. was not exactly perfect.. and it's only cuz i was having a super bad headache, puked n all. and it doesn't help because i am a little scared of flying. hmm.. okay. so the picture above is taken on the plane of cuz. hee. i got the window seat! weee.. 4 hrs later, we arrived at taiwan.. in transit. bleargh.
at taiwan, we were hungry. and we actually wanted to eat the famous chicken cutlet thing but it will be expensive considering we would have to take a cab there n back.. and it's not cheap. and we really have to rush.. so in the end, we end at the airport. ate the taiwan noodle set. it's ok only la.

this is me eating my apple chips that we brought from singapore. man.. less than one day and i'm already eating junk from singapore. how will i last for 4 mths? argh. anyway, this picture is taken outside where i am staying now. at lionel's friend, kamil's, place. it's a decent place with internet n a pretty safe neighbour! yep. and according to kamil, marilyn monroe stayed here before!! how cool is that?!?!?!
this is taken at mel's burger place. it's a good place to pple watch but damn were we unlucky. din see anyone famous so far. argh. and the olsen twins are at new york! i hope i bump into them when i get there! for now, i hope to see paris hilton n lindsay lohan n jennifer aniston n all the pretty n hot celebrities! haha.. i'm going mad. anyway, mel's really great. the interior is damn retro. hee. nice. i like!

day 2: hollywood boulevard. this was taken at the hollywood subway station. it's so cute. and there are more than one design. hmm.. damn cute la.the famous hollywood sign!! it's things like that that make it unbelieveable that i'm actully at HOLLYWOOD!!! OMG... haha.. the first star that i took with today. it's elizabeth taylor's star. took with winnie the pooh, disneyland, bruce lee and michael jackson today! hee.. of cuz lionel took with some too! we're so touristcy.. heee then we went to the ripley's.. how nice. these are some things that we saw la. the things were really interesting but u would really have to be there to read it n experience it la. this lady freaked me out. i mean the statue of queen elizabeth. i have no idea why they would have to make it so scary man.. eeks. this is a real life baby skeleton.. two-headed man!! freaky!!. and some other pictures hollywood... it was cold man.. was drizzling.
and us taking with the hollywood sign. it's right at the back if u look carefully. it's the white thin line on the hills. haha. that's me n spiderman! haha. he's balancing on the dustbin. cool huh. after that, we met kamil and his switzerland friend and we went for dinner. had nice fried chicken with waffles. was goooooood.. followed by scary movie 4 at the cinemas. they wanted to watch "hard candy" which is an interesting show but it was rated "R" so i cant watch. haha. ok.. that's all of us having supper. from left to right, that's lionel, me, switzerland guy, natalia (kamil's friend), and kamil. the 3 are like actors.. so it's cooool. we had like milkshakes n mushroom omelette n rosti-like thing n bagel. heee. was goooood tooo..

now it's like 4.30 am.. argh. i'm so so tired. will be heading out again tmr.. i had better sleep sooooon..

unbelieveable.

2006-04-26T13:00:00.000+08:00

OMG OMG!! i cant believe that i'm actually in US, in LA!! i mean i always see US on tv, and now, i'm actually here. i get to see what i've seen on tv all these years. i get to see the hollywood sign n all. it's so amazing. obviously, this is my first time here. so wooohoooo!! heee :) but i'm really tired so i wunt be typing much or posting photos yet..

yup. this post is jus to let my friends know that i've reached here in one piece. a few more days to go then off to work i go. eeeeks.

my last sunday.

2006-04-23T12:02:00.000+08:00

there's so much i wanna say but i dunno where to start. although i think i've said this alot, i'm gonna say it again; i'm really gonna miss this place. miss the familiarity, the people, the food, my family, my pheebe, my sweets...

i've been feeling more excited than anything until yest. yest while showering, i suddenly realize that i'm going for 4 MONTHS!! that means i'll be GONE FOR 4 FREAKING LONG MONTHS!! that's a really scary tot. i mean i know i was going away.. but hey!! not that long.. damn... i'm really relieved that at least i have lionel though. hmmm...

and it's also a little sad cuz i haven met all the people that i wanna meet. i mean i wanna meet them but it's also not like a huge thing that i'm leaving so i kinda dun wanna disturb those that are studying. hmm.. but i guess i should have. damn. now i dun have anymore time.. :(

it's really damn scary la!!

private emtions

2006-04-19T00:51:00.000+08:00

i wanted to post an entry on some feelings i had over these past few days. and then i think again. and it doesn't matter.

no matter how i feel, what i do, who i meet or not meet up with, i'm leaving soon.

this is: extremely taxing on my little brain.

2006-04-16T23:17:00.000+08:00

1. My ex is: in melbourne. (i think...)

2. Maybe I should: start stuffing myself with all the yummy food (esp yu sheng n tea eggs) here before i leave for US!!

3. I love: to cook n not have to wash. and of cuz i love pheebe, my family, my friends, lionel, sweets. i also love to talk rubbish (at times).

4. I don't understand: how the 4D works.

5. I lose: hair easily but it's all good cuz i have so much hair.

6. People say I'm: shy? (heh)

7. Love is: a strong feeling that i cant justify with words.

8. Somewhere, someone is: dying

9. I will always: try to collect all the one dollar coins so i can put them in my piggy bank.

10. Forever is: something that exists in la la land.

11. I never want to: see pheebe die.

12. I think the current US President: looks like a chimp.

13. When I wake up in the morning: i check my sms-es n grab a cuppa coffee as i feed pheebe.

14. My past was: wonderfulous!!

15. I get annoyed when: i'm feeling hot or having to study with a bad headache.

16. Parties are for: everyone.

17. My dog is: hopefully coming soon!!

18. My cat is: the fat cat that i sometimes feed at lionel's place.

19. Kisses are the best when: both parties are not sweaty?

20. Tomorrow: i'm gonna cut my hair.

21. I really want: to eat yu sheng and zuuchini now.

22. I have low tolerance for people who: shout at me.

23. I am tagging: the odac pple!!

B.I.N.K.Y

2006-04-15T22:04:00.000+08:00

btw, for those who dunno what the heck a "binky" is..

i read this in a little pets magazine i got when i went to the vet the other day.. it reads:

"some rabbits will do something called a "binky" when it is extremely happy. it jumps into the air and twists its head and body in different directions. it can be done while running or while standing in one place. a variation of this is a ear flick or a head flick. this is like a fast version of an indiand dance head tilt movement."

HAHAHAHAHAHA.. i tot that was extremely funny. haha..

who's stressed?

2006-04-15T19:37:00.000+08:00

heee.. my exams are over!! cooooooooooooooooool... :):)

met up with the girls after exams today.. went to purvis street to eat western food.. the lamb chop i ate was yummy! hee. kinda sad that i wunt be seeing the girls anymore.. at least till i come back again i think. celine took time out from studying (she has a paper on monday).. and layshan & winnie too... they're all gonna have exams or are having exams.. and joanne n shufen took their rest time from work to come out so i can see them... thankew thankew so so so so much. i will miss u all when i'm there. :(

anyway.. something funny happened after that..we wanted to take a grp picture beside this poster before me, joanne and shuff went bugis and layshan, winnie n celine went towards smu.. hee. so layshan was desperately looking for pple to help us take photo.. there's like no one ard at that time man.. anyway, we saw this bunch of japanese so we were gonna ask them to help. but they approached ur and asked us for directions.. and they cant really speak english.. haha. so we said we were going where they're going and we'll show them the way but they must help us take photo first. haha..

ok. so it was weird. we got a bunch of tourists to help us take the photo.. heh. and then layshan's camera had no batt. haha! so had to use joanne's hp. damn lame. and the jap guy used his camera and said he will post to us and asked for our address. haha.. damn funny. ok it was funnier when it happened.

anyway, i headed to bugis intending to buy a pair of slippers. my straw slippers are wearing out. haha. i din manage to get any slippers... :( what happened to all the slipper shops?? damnit!

BUT!!! i did get 2 new denim skirts which i lurve and one top which i couldn't try and now that i did, it's too short.. and i think i wunt ever wear it.. and i bought a necklace.. heee.. i wanted to buy earrings and a belt but i din ok.. bleah.. anyway i din spend alot cuz stuff at bugis is cheeeeeeeaaaapppp.. hee.. i'm happppyyy.. haha. okok.. i always write so much rubbish. hee.

now to watch scrubs with my bro.... my life is how happening. haha. right.

my little way of saying thanx.

2006-04-14T09:35:00.000+08:00

i really appreciate all my friends who msged me n all. thankew so so much. it's nice to know that i'm not alone.. maybe this is not a big deal to some of u.. it's only a rabbit some might say... but it's that and so much more.

anyway, the previous post was a little tribute or remembrance entry.. jus for pherbe mainly. becuz he was such a wonderful little bunny.

and to the pple who msged me. i know that u all said u will buy me a bunny for my bday. thanx. but i cant afford a bunny farm yet. :)

yest night, my dad asked: "so i heard ur little bunny died.." and i said ya, and told him the whole story. i think he knew i was sad.. and he said i must be prepared. becuz bunnies dun live very long and once they get sick, they will die very fast.. and ya. he said i shld be prepared that pheebe might die soon too. i felt a little sadder. i kinda hoped pheebe will live on forever.. although i know that it wouldn't. i jus din need him to remind me of that yest..

but then he also asked if i were gonna get another one. and i said i prob will but not now. i'm jus not really for one more now. besides i have to leave for US soon... and he was saying that he might prefer me having a dog.. cuz they will live longer and they dun die so easily. that made me happy cuz i always wanted another dog.. jus that he din allow.

i'm really glad that he's ok with me having a dog now.. and i might jus consider getting myself one after i get back from the US. i cant wait!! i jus hope pheebe wunt get jealous. i feel a little guilty for being happy. but i'm happy!! :):)i named this little doggy "bunny".. haha.. it's my friend's dog.. but i had it for a week and i loved him.. heee.. isn't he cute? but i'm thinking of getting a king charles if i were to get. sam thinks king charles looks like aliens.. hahaha!! the one in the photo is a cairn terrier. hee..

and there it went.

2006-04-13T11:34:00.000+08:00

it's been awhile. i've been busy studying for my exams.

and then pherbe had a cold on tuesday. i noticed something was wrong with him cuz he din eat his food when i put it in the cage. usually, he would be the first to eat all the food up. but instead, he sat there looking upwards. i had to rush. rushed to my exam in the morning. the first thing i did when i got home was to check on him. he was still sitting at one corner n looking up. i tot maybe it was a little bored so i let the rabbits out in the garden. and i sat outside watching them. pherbe would usually run all around n start eating the plants. but instead, it sat behind me and looked upwards. my bro n i joked. maybe his cage is a little smelly so he looked upwards. so i decided fine, i'll change the bedding, wash the cage and bathe him. and so i did. but while i was bathing him, he was struggling to climb to my shoulder.. and looked upwards. he was struggling to breathe. i was freaked out and rushed him to the vet. the vet scolded me for bathing for him cuz he had a cold. she said "rabbits can die of respiratory problems..." and how was i to know? i wouldn't be there if i knew he had a cold. i would jus buy the medicine. hearing her say that cost me 35 bucks.

so that night, i kept it in my room and placed a towel over the cage so it wouldn't be so cold. and since it wasn't eating, i had to force feed it or it will really die. i had to do it every hour.. but it looked a little stressed so i fed it less frequent. that's what they ask me to do. and on the third time, it was 1am. and i was about to sleep cuz i had a paper at9 which meant i had to wake up at 7.. and i promised to be in sch at 815. which meant i had to wake up at 615. and so i tot, i better feed it before i sleep otherwise it wunt have food the whole night. so i fed like one quarter of what i'm supposed to.. and it was not breathing very well. i tot maybe i'll try what the vet suggested n put a little bit of vicks to help the congestion. so i sat at my table. placed pherbe on the table so i can get the vicks. but as soon as i did that, it flopped on my table. it scrambled on the table, flopped to the side and was twitching. i helped it on its paws but it jus flopped. after 3 secs, it stopped breathing.

i called the emergency line. (thinking they can help) i was seriously lost. i din expect it at all. and it happened all too quickly. and so i said "help! my rabbit is gonna stop breathing. what do i do now?" and the guy said "may i know what's ur name, what's ur contact number, which clinic do u go to? what's the name of the vet u saw? i'll get a doctor to call u back?" GREAT. trust him to do that.

and then he got an overseas doctor to call me back. like what can he do. and this doc asked me "so which vet did u see? dun cry. call the emergency line back n tell them u're looking for dr nathan." fine.

i did that and the same guy picked up. and he asked "what's ur name, who are u looking for? what happened? which clinic did u go to?" and i said get me dr nathan now. and he "ok.. what's ur contact number, i'll msg her and get her to call u back asap?" bloody asshole!

and then after a million years, dr nathan called back. but it din matter anymore.

Pherbe died.

there it laid.. still on my table. its eyes were wide open. its mouth was sligthly open. and it was looking upwards. its paws were all soft. and then its head became cold.

i refuse to admit it. but i guess i have to. thanx to lionel n sam who helped my bury it. and to my sis, thanx for being there for me at that time. even though u were so tired n all. and i wunt be seeing u for 4.5mths.. i'm sorry that the last time we see each other till aug will be on such a sad note.

and to pherbe. i hope u will be happy in rabbit heaven. i love u so much and i miss u dearly. i will never forget the happy times u spent doing "binky"s in the garden, trying to snuggle under pheebe. and sprinting ard the garden.

i only wish that while it was alive, it was a happy bunny. that's all i can hope for.

My study song..

2006-04-03T18:45:00.000+08:00

i'm one of those who likes to listen to songs while studying. and i'm falling in love with this song all over again.. maybe it's the weather.. haha.. i love james blunt.. his voice.. husky and boyish and just kinda cute!! haha..

James Blunt - Tears and Rain
How I wish I could surrender my soul;
Shed the clothes that become my skin;
See the liar that burns within my needing.
How I wish I'd chosen darkness from cold.
How I wish I had screamed out loud,
Instead I've found no meaning.

I guess it's time I run far, far away; find comfort in pain,
All pleasure's the same: it just keeps me from trouble.
Hides my true shape, like Dorian Gray.
I've heard what they say, but I'm not here for trouble.
It's more than just words: it's just tears and rain.

How I wish I could walk through the doors of my mind;
Hold memory close at hand,
Help me understand the years.
How I wish I could choose between Heaven and Hell.
How I wish I would save my soul.
I'm so cold from fear.

I guess it's time I run far, far away; find comfort in pain,
All pleasure's the same: it just keeps me from trouble.
Hides my true shape, like Dorian Gray.
I've heard what they say, but I'm not here for trouble.
Far, far away; find comfort in pain.
All pleasure's the same: it just keeps me from trouble.
It's more than just words: it's just tears and rain.

Mt Panti and Pelepah Falls!! (long entry)

2006-04-02T13:18:00.000+08:00

yest, on april fool's day, i went to malaysia with my odac pple. hee.. i finally got a chance too. although i have alot of studying to do since it is study break week and i have exams the week after... but i still decided to go la.. and i sure din regret! it was so much fun. yum! yup. so we met at 7am at kranji mrt before heading to johor together. took a bus from there to kota tinggi and then a cab to the start of the trail. and so we started our journey. heee.. there were damn alot of mozzies (according to tv, it's called mozzies.. not mosquitoes man.. yay.. i'm how cool. haha). anyway, there were seriously alot of them and i had the most following me la. even the mosquito patch din work!! i concluded that my brother is smelly cuz he was the one using the bag i carried yest. haha. according to the pple behind me, (think lek n meng heng.. and verified by eleanor) there were a few dozen? they guessed 40. haha cant u imagine that. gross!!! anyway after that, i got my first leech bite for the trip. i used to love leeches. i mean i dun mind them at all. cuz they're not painful. unless it's tiger leech or something. but anyway. yup. we mange to catch a few and i brought it home with me. (think there's abt 10 inside the bottle).. and they're still alive!! shall make lionel feed them later. heeee.... anyway, panti was fine.. everything was usual.. and the view was pretty good too!!

some photos taken on mount panti. this was taken before we started climbing. all look happy n relaxed. :)this funny toadstool thing was taken on the way up panti. damn cute la. they look like mini towers cuz the base is so fat!this was near the summit. we had to climb this cliff part. was fun. like rock climbing. i prefer climbing rocks then on jungle trails actually. but all's fun!this is at the summit. there's only 5 of us at this trip. lek (with his borrowed cam), placed the cam on a tripod and put it on some braches of a tree.. haha.. this is the first injury in all my years as a odac member. i mean of cuz i got scratched n blisters before. but i knew really bled. hmm.. it was quite interesting. and the thing is i got poked by this part sticking out from a fallen trunk (the one i'm stepping on). and it's not even sharp! but i got a hole in my knee now. eleanor helped me cover the wound. heee.. it's not painful at all.... weeee.... this is a red (heart-shaped) leaf i found while trekking.. heee.. i'm gonna give it to lionel. weee..we found this dead snake on the road. haha. so lek decided to pick it up to take a photo.. and look at him (he's in the yellow shirt).. he has his biscuits in the other hand. haha. gross!!

after that, we walked 3km down to pelepah falls. it is actually part of a plantation. can u believe it? someone owns the waterfall? damn cool la. anyway, we told the workers to let us in, promising them that we'll be out in 3 hrs' time. heee. so the next chapter of our journey started. weee... we got lost somewhere and climbed this damn damn damn damn damn damn damn steep slope.. it's unbelieveable.. and jus when u think it's ending, u turn to ur right and it's another steep slope. haha. after climbing it, we felt it was wrong so we turned back. and going down the steeep slope was damn challenging. hah. ya. after that was pretty smooth sailing. manage to see a few cascades.. and as we were descending, it started to drizzle, then rain. it's nice walking in e rain, cuz i dun feel as smelly, and the rain water is refreshing! yup.
the scary part is that it's pretty dangerous to trek a waterfall when it rains cuz the rocks that we walk on will be super slippery n at some parts, if u slip n fall, u're more or less dead. and there were parts that we fell. but luckily, no one fell all the way.. phew. and the worst part was meng heng was at the same place 5 years ago, trekking with the AJ odac pple and some others. and the AJ vice-president died. apparently, she slipped and fell. most likely knock her head a few times, get tossed in the river as the water gushed. cuz it was drizzling and the water level was high. and it was late so they din manage to find her. till the next morning, the police/ rangers found her body. it was all stiff and her fingers were clenched up. she probably died from hypothermia even if she survived the fall. it was super scary. i mean there's surely someone who died at every mountain. even ophir. but it's scarier this time cuz meng knew her. and it makes us feel closer to her. hmmm... scary..

some photos at pelepah falls (lombong waterfalls)at the first resting point at pelepah. before crossing any rivers. hee. (me n eleanor acting cute.) at the first 'waterfall'.. haha.. notice there's a guy at the back.we dunno where he came from la. but he's quite skillful in climbing. haha. look at the mossy rocks!! that's what we hafta climb!! (that's me at the bottm right desperately trying to shorten my bag straps so it wunt get wet so soon. haha meng heng was trying to splash some water to get the water effect in the photo.. but that's us trying to slowly inch our way to the center. the log is damn damn slippery!! we could have fallen and seriously injure ourselves. but for the sake of the photo. haha! (lek's bright idea) hee.. the end product.. quite nice huh.. after that everything was a little blurry cuz it is taken from a ziplock bag.. (that's me!) anyway, after that, we all had some fun at the last river crossing. thanx to meng heng who filled his shoe with river water n splash at me. of cuz i splashed them back. haha. gross but so so fun!that's us posing iwth our weapons. i'm holding my shoe and my dirty sock! haha..i think this was the third or fourth cascade. it looks good. but like what lek said, the camera cant entirely capture what we saw there. it's so much better when u are there la. that's us at marrybrown. the chicken there is actually quite nice!! we felt so happy cuz we were dry n there was food. (we din had lunch :(.. haha) both eleanor n i had food in our foods.. haha. i look constipated. on the bus to larkin... (on the way home).. heee.

i'm thankful for this trip becaus i know the next time they trek, i will be in US. and the next time i trek with them would prob be at least 6 mths later.

End of week 13.

2006-03-31T13:51:00.000+08:00

Finally! still in my finance class now. but i'm finally finnaly done iwht both presentatios for the day. and i'm kinda pleased with the presentations. i mst admit that they are not great but i've managed to present without cue cards... hee.. (for those who were never in my class before, i'm really quiet in my classes and i hate presentations cuz i jus cant present. haha.. seriously.) but these 3 presentations were kinda great for me..

for now, my main concern would be pheebe. if i din mention, pheebe's left front paw has fungal infection and the right paw seems to be infected too.. so today, after this class, i'll be bringing pheebe to the vet again.. i really hope it wont take too long to recover.. it will definitely be a financial strain on me! and i'm not working, and i'm paying for everything and i dun even get much pocket money!! (to lionel: *GRINZ*) haha..

oh well, i'm also really excited abt tmr cuz 1) it's april fool's day and 2) i'm going for a one-0day expedition to malaysia with a few of the odac pple.. weee.. we're gonna go to 2 places. mt panti and perlepah waterfalls (lombong waterfalls)... yay!! fun fun...

ok.. back to my class presentations! (it's like the 13th presentation that i've sat thru today.. )

blog undergoing cosmetic surgery

a new home for my blog.

my new fur.

random zoo shots

a little something.

zoo - week 3,4,5,6

Zoo internship - week 2

ZOooOOOoooO - week one.

our little cocktail.

screwed.

tragedy

my immortal

good things come in 3s!

forget pageone, move on with the story.

a glimpse of my past.

X-physique 2007. Xtreme, Xciting, Xperience it.

adobe photoshop 101

"studying"

NVM 2007.

CNY 2007

saturday well spent.

Asean Football Championship 2007...

first presentation of the sem!

ASEAN Football Championship 2007!!!

my almost perfect sunday.

unveiling my new laptop!

suspense.

NVM 2007.

2007 cant be that bad.

i foresee a bad year for me.

(a not so) happy new year's day.

merry xmas!

hellooooo

cobwebs galore..

new toys for me!

i still hear the wedding bells...

here comes the bride.

are changes necessary?

break week.

zhong qiu jie!!

my weekend of fun

no sense.

dread.

you and me

cuz i had a good day.

turning 21.

the secret is out!!

miss universe 2006

love? friends? family?

thunderstorm

rain rain go away..

SIGH!

home sweet home

san fran

heh.

i'm lovin' it.

what the *bleep* is happening to me?!?!

inspired.

karaoke night!

4 July.

excuses excuses... AGAIN!

my sups.

feeling a lil' blue..

blah blah.

hello hello.. i'm alive!!

los angeles - day 7 & 8

LA - day 4, 5 & 6

day 3 (los angeles)

day 1 & day 2 (LA)

unbelieveable.

my last sunday.

private emtions

this is: extremely taxing on my little brain.

B.I.N.K.Y

who's stressed?

my little way of saying thanx.

and there it went.

My study song..

Mt Panti and Pelepah Falls!! (long entry)

End of week 13.

what the bleep is happening to me?!?!