Farewell!

This time tomorrow I'd be at my favourite Changi Airport waiting to board the plane to JFK, before I hope onto the domestic flight to Providence.

Lots of people have offered their blessings, so many that it's quite impossible to name names here, but seriously a huge BOW and thank you to all who have helped me with my academic transcripts, encouraged me the past year and of course, those who bothered to turn up at gatherings to say byebye to me, even if they can't make it to the airport tomorrow.

And obviously thanks to all who are going tomorrow, all the way down to Changi, though up till now I don't quite know how many or who exactly will be coming.

I'm gonna miss everyone here, all the MG people, HC classmates, HC councilors etc, and my family obviously, SHIT MY OTHER HALF, my bed, my Sammi posters, CDs etc. so many things!!

But I think this is the beginning of a whole new experience, a whole new adventure, something I'd never dared dream of till recently. I just hope everything goes well!

And of course, to mark the commencement of my new life in university, I'm closing this blog and opening a new one, though Sammi IS still the queen alongside me heehee. Thanks if you have been remotely interested in all the silly and mundane things I have to say, but it's time to move on!!

And therefore, I declare this blog CLOSED. :)

32nd Gathering at Stef's 18/8

Haven't seen so many of these people in ages!!!! Thank God shushu was smart enough to organise this before anyone flew off, and she was pretty successful too! So many people turned up, like more than 30 people? And those who weren't there didn't turn up because they didn't.

And I took many pictures too! Unfortunately either my camera is weird or the people who took pictures for me didn't do it properly because I couldn't find some of my individual shots with people like gloree, zeze and bobbert even though I REALLY remember taking photos with them. Odd. If it's my camera maybe I should get a new, less bulky and cheaper one.

Anyhow, these are some of the photos I took, if you haven't seen them on facebook.

How do I rotate this image? Anyway we obviously had my Halfie Shit at the gathering. No gathering is fun without my Other Half!!

I don't like taking photo with Jamie because she's so skinny and hot I look so fat!! But of course I still look damn good can. Goodness my English.

Yay the LEP girls still love LEP even though none of us got As for it and it ruined our otherwise perfect scores. But it's ok we still love LEP!

Mindy and me taking a photo together (obviously). I actually think this photo is really nice because Mindy looked very pretty yesterday and this picture would have been perfect without peishan the ghost lurking at the back.

Of course we had to hug and pat the President's Scholar (the one who is following in her dad's footsteps) for good luck. LOOK EVERYONE STEPH IS MY FRIEND!!!

And of course all of Welco looks so hot!! And oops Haining our future TCM doctor is blocked in this photo. Sorry!

Helped Ecaco take this photo because somehow none (?) of them brought cameras. How intelligent! Yeowch looks super funny in this photo.

Meat the Peking girl with me. Won't see her till a year later I think, after we leave on the 29th and 30th.

Another photo in need of rotating. I feel like a hobbit next to Rong, but I choose to believe it's just the angle of the photograph.

Haha I love this photo even though the Steph isn't looking at the camera. Not very smart for a PS don't you think? HAHA!!

Had to do this three times to get it right because Cal's eyes were always closed!! But we managed to get a nice photo in the end.

Haha the she ying person took this photo for the xuan chuan people!

Paul has clearly changed his mind about who he loves most. Sorry Halfie!!

Why won't school start?

Though most people have already started school I'm still reduced to lying around waiting for things to happen. But hey I have been a busy body interfering in my darling Halfie Shit's NUS life, so life has been hip and happening as well!


Crashing KR's Star To Burst Concert
Since NUS has nothing to do with me technically there was no reason for me to hang around the campus at all, let alone the halls, but I found myself with chenjiadi on Tuesday night at Kent Ridge Hall looking lost, out of place and obviously an outsider. Well what can I do, my Halfie summoned me to come support her so I had to take 2 buses all the way down to foreign land to cheer and scream her name while she pranced around the stage doing her pirated dance moves. But ok la to be honest she was really pretty good eh and she's totally the best out of the group but like I told her it's only because I wasn't dancing next to her so she looked good. Theory of relativity, you know. Mindy should be proud.

But ok really a huge thanks and HUG to chenjiadi for accompanying me!!! She's DA BEST!


Crashing NUS Chinese Studies Lecture


And the very next day I woke up at 9am to wash the clothes and hang them dry so that I could make it to NUS yet again for a Chinese Studies Lecture. I know I am damn bored I met a lot of friends there who thought I was weird wasting my time but I think it's pretty cool to see what my friends and especially Shit will be doing in uni. Turns out the lecture was really pretty boring even though I thought his content was mildly interesting. But apparently he'll be testing things like dynasties and names of provinces which is pretty simple come to think of it but still I don't think I'd enjoy it, let only Shit. Hope she gets her alternative module then!

I'm currently watching the Japanese version of Hana Kimi now and I'm pretty impressed!! The girl Ashiya Mizuki is really pretty and Nakatsu is very adorable! Sorry I don't know the names of the actors I'm already having a hard time remembering what they are called in Japanese.

PoPo

Decided to visit my granny before I leave so my family dragged ourselves down to Kota Tinggi today. Wasn't too bad a trip, the entire journey to and fro was only about three hours unlike the usual 7-8 hour CNY trip so it was still bearable. But of course all this becomes worth it when I watch my granny beam in delight when we appeared at her doorstep.

We didn't stay for a very long time, a couple of hours or so, and we didn't do much either, just sat at the living room and chatted about the maid, school, the pains in her leg, her visits to the doctor and such. I was originally quite worried about her health when she told me she had difficulties walking but she looks in a better shape than I expected, thank God for that.

And it's so sweet of her to give me $200 for my trip because she's not normally the most generous person in the world, and frankly speaking $200 means so much to her for some reason, even though her sons are all pretty successful and she really doesn't need to scrimp or anything.

I know my granny is not the kindest soul in the world, but she really loves me a lot for some reason and I love her too. Hope she will be well!

Di's Farewell

Trekked down to Di's today for her farewell party, because she's taking the 2350 Singapore-Frankfurt-JKF-???-Indiana route to her new school, Indiana U! Indiana's supposedly an ultra party school but Di doesn't seem like the whee-let's-strip-topless type so I suppose she'll be ok. I'll miss that silly skinny bag of bones even though I seldom meet her, but I suppose I'll see her soon in December so it's not so bad.

And with Di's farewell it seems like it's only a matter of time before mindy and I leave in 2-3 weeks! I'm meeting up with as many people as I can and as frequently as possible, which is proving to be difficult since the NS people can only meet me during the weekends, and I am now forced to fit them into the breakfast slots. People like Shit and F5 are all starting school so I suppose I'll be seeing Mindy and Meat more often because only the three of us are still quite free.

I'm very excited! And yet the teeniest bit hesitant about leaving. Will I meet friends who are as indulgent towards me as the ones I have now? Will I get along with my roomie?

Cross my fingers and hope for the best!

Lunch with Wei, Dinner with Shit

Met darling Weiling who has just returned from volunteering in Japan and studying in the states today. She looked great! In her old beatles shirt and jeans and a lovely complexion. We went to Newton hawker centre because she's obviously so sick of non-Singaporean food haha so I don't think she'll be very happy since she's leaving for Columbia in 3 weeks. She invited me to her place in Seattle for thanksgiving but I told her I'll have to consider it because after asking me to join her she told me a horror story involving some turkey and chinese stuffing at her house which seriously wasn't very inviting.

I promptly dumped wei at a bookstore after inviting myself for free lunch at her house and met my Other Half Shit instead. OMG this is so cliched but WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS how much I have missed my darling cesspool!! Unfortunately she was so tired and having cramps of the female and bloody variety we were quite sedated most of the night but we concluded our meeting quite nicely with some ice-cream and spotting of someone whom I REALLY SUSPECT but cannot confirm is Sun Ho (at least I think it was her) who waiflike and was wearing a pair of shorts that LITERALLY showed half her ass and clunky platform heels and who was accompanied by an entourage of about 4 people (2 men in Ed Hardy and interesting hairdo, 1 bag woman who was carrying her bag and another that is presumably "Sun's" as well as a nanny who was running after a small boy). Well if she really was Sun Ho it really is puzzling because she was staring at the boy who must be her son (haha Sun's son) with such cold neglect and disinterest that it's chilling. Oh well maybe it's not her after all.

Anyway Sun wasn't our main focus. It's GREAT to finally reunite with my horcrux after a WHOLE week and a day!!! It feels so weird without her, as if Mindy the Demented oh oops I meant Mindy the Dementor kissed half of my soul away and I don't mean that in a good way well I can't mean it in a good way anyway. I LOVE YOU SHIT and I don't know what I am gonna do without you.

And of course I am a bit early but here's an early Happy You-Know-What to You-Know-Who on this very special day!

I'm Moving Soon...

Hence the horrible blog template, so please bear with me for the moment. I'll give you guys the new address once I start using it in a month :)

I miss Shit

Wow it's been so long since I've been up here! Many things have happened, we've had our saco farewell getaway which was fun as usual and my maid has been sacked so now I'm the new housekeeper and Shit has gone off for her kent ridge hall orientation!

I do miss my old bag of poo, even though I just saw her on Sunday when Meat Calcal and I helped her with her moving in and cleaning up and we spoke briefly over the phone a couple of hours ago. She such a silly pile of dung and yet I can't help but wonder how I'm gonna survive without her for so many months!

I'm in charge of washing, drying and ironing the clothes, washing the dishes and getting dinner at home, because well I'm the only unemployed slacker now. It's very mundane work but it's fine because I blast some music from my macbook and sing at the top of my voice in the afternoon when I iron and stuff so it's not so boring. My mom was pleasantly surprised that my ironing so neat and my dad was so taken aback he was rendered speechless but truth be told I have no idea I could be that gifted at housework too haha considering I've never touched an iron in my life and I never want to ever again. The only really bad thing is that my hands really smell of dishwashing liquid now, and they have that scratchy, rough feel and my skin feels like old, stretched rubber. And guess what my bro's duties are? His job is to lock the door and draw the blinds everynight, and he doesn't even do it properly because he fell asleep early today and I had to do it for him -.- But ok la he did do the dishes yesterday.

I MISS YOU SHIT when will you escape so I can see your black and squashed in face?

Deathly Hallows

I've just finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the 7th and final installment of the phenomenal Harry Potter series.

I still remember reading the very first book, Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone when I was in Primary 5 eight years ago, because I thought it looked pretty interesting. Little did I know, that marked the beginning of my tiny contribution to the meteoric rise in the sales of this magical book.

To be honest I can't say what's so attractive, and what keeps us so hooked and interested that someone as lazy as I am would be motivated enough to wake up at 6am to queue up for the damn book. Perhaps it's because Rowling melded fantasy and reality so well, that readers feel included into the wizarding world, and seriously all those people who don't read Harry Potter, those who are not in the know, are just pathetic muggles.

Anyhow though I am rather sad that it's the end, I'm quite glad the ending went the way it did. I suppose I would never have expected anything less of Ms Rowling.

Yay!

2 Days More

A lot of counting down to do these days.

Nothing much to say, because well nothing much is happening in my life, except of course anticipating the End of Suffering in an office with nothing much to do except filing and other menial and hence boring activities. But the pay is good so I'll keep quiet even though I've spent most of it on food.

Next is of course the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I don't think harry will die because it will be too obvious an ending and I doubt dear Joanne Kathleen Rowling would wish to end the book in such a cliched manner, and I think Snape is a good guy because Dumbledore should and can be trusted! Ya but seriously who cares what I or anyone thinks, let's just wait for the damn book to arrive!!

And of course today's Wednesday, 17th July, and I am officially 6 weeks away from flying off. Need to settle my packing list and other little details like my summer reading and stuff even though information about my room mate has not arrived, but I'm really excited! People ask me why I'm excited and I honestly don't know how to answer that question. How can someone who's about to start life halfway round the earth not be excited???

Why do I always have nothing funny to say on my blog? Odd.

Aftermath

I've been trying to find a new blogskin to spice up my otherwise stagnant and exciting-as-tap-water life, but I can't find anything suitable.

I have two weeks more, and believe me I AM counting down. In the meantime PLEASE contact me if you have an hour or two to spare because I'd love to have some comapny in the busy CBD.

It's ironic how there are throngs of people everywhere in those few streets, but everyone's just as lonely. You can't walk to anywhere during lunchtime without having to dodge perhaps a young man in a G2000 suit, or bumping into a middle-aged secretary-type lady with her lunch buddy by her side, but you can detect that shred of longing in their faces. Longing for what, I do not know.

It's the same when everyone starts and/or ends work. People enter the MRT, buses, elevators with a blank look on their faces. Some read, the younger ones plug in their iPods, but most of them just stare into space, perhaps thinking about which restaurant they should visit tonight with their boyfriends, or wondering how their kids are doing in school. Glance at them and they will smile automatically back with a gentle nod of acknowledgement. Everyone's friendly to know your name, perhaps where you're from or where you're going, and yet distant enough to avoid anything private. It's as if all of these executives have been given a handbook when they started work about CBD ettiquette, and all of them have had every rule memorised to the T.

A very interesting experience this has been, not a very pleasant one for me because I can't stand sitting down for too long, but I know more about office life at least. Colleagues have been exceedingly kind and patient as well.

But let's just say if I were George Orwell, I'd have plenty to add to my great novels now.

Or maybe it's just me.

Bye Bye Nat

This week has been Bye Bye Nat week.

Bye Bye Nat started officially on Wednesday with a dinner at this steak and seafood restaurant near Thomson. It was quite a bittersweet experience, as we recollected our five years together as F5, laughed about those funny and stupid things we used to do school and in JC and as Bea started to tear mid-way. Incidentally, there was a group of five or six old ladies in the table next door celebrating a friend's birthday. I wonder we'd be like that 40 years down the road, but Ass said "hope not" because the didn't look very good. It's unbelievable how shallow that woman can be.

Bye Bye Nat part II took place on Sat at her place. She invited a whole lot of people (like around 30-40) almost all of whom were AC people, so frankly I felt quite out of place but I did a bit of socialising. Thank God people like Ass, Meixi, Clare, MEGAN BARKER, aliya etc (E had dance and Bea was in China) were there, so there was still the MG group to chat with.

Bye Bye Nat part III took place at Changi Airport obviously. We gave Nat a book of photos mostly comprising of unglamorous photos (there are PLENTY) and our notes and everything. We didn't cry, surprisingly, but it was pretty heartbreaking to see Nat's grandmother cry.

It's quite unbelievable that Nat, who has just boarded her plane to Melbourne as I type this, is gone. Just like that, a part of me has just flown away hahaha.

Hope she has a great time in Melbourne, and seriously, thank God for skype and email.

2nd day at work

It is but my second day at work today and my life is already in a mess.

The day didn’t start too well to begin with. I was woken up a few times in the night because people like Ass and Nat the stupid Nut chose to text me at 1 or 2am in the morning for no good reason.

So I woke up at 6.25am, took a bath, had my breakfast and left home 6.55 am. The road was damp so I decided to wear my birkies because I absolutely cannot walk fast in my flats. I also had to lift my pants up walking the entire way, so you can imagine how perfectly idiotic I looked.

Unfortunately my bus arrives at 7.05 and I reached the busstop at 7.06, so I had to wait for another 20 minutes for the nincompoop of a bus to arrive. I literally watched the first bus drive away in front of my very eyes! And because I took the later bus I had to squeeze with students and other white-collared executives who are on their way to work as well.

And of course my only companion, my beautiful (and might I mention brand new) iPod broke down on the way, and I was devoid of entertainment the entire ONE hour journey.

My phone also broke down YET again on the way because my mom gave me a call. I’mn actually quite surprised the bus didn’t break down, just to, you know, complete the equation.

So I decided to dedicate my lunch hour to cellphone buying, but I could not, for the life of me, locate the damn phone shop that was “opposite Amara Hotel”. I literally combed the place but the only phone shop I could find was one that was selling second hand phones. So fine, I give up.

And in the meantime I started to get blisters on my feet because of my shoes, and so I limped all the way back to my office. I walked all the way to the clinic which was supposedly on the 9th floor. But when I reached the clinic there was a sign hanging outside that said that it was now located on 2nd floor instead. The funny thing about this building is, there are different elevators you have to take for different floors, so I had to go all the way to 1st floor again before I had to take an escalator up again to the 2nd floor. And guess what, when I reached the clinic, the nurses were going out for lunch and were reluctant to entertain my requests.

What a horrible, horrible, horrible day!!!!

OCS Delta Wing Social NIght 2007

22nd June was OCS Delta Wing Social Night 2007. Ordinarily that would have absolutely nothing to do with me, but I was CalCal's hot date that night, so yep, The Pines it was for me. And NO I DID NOT VOLUNTEER MYSELF as his date OMG I have no idea why this idiotic rumour got out. I didn't quite want to wear a gown, so I wore this suit thing. That was seriously a wrong idea in retrospect but my hot date didn't mind so oh never mind.

We met up at around 6pm at Orchard MRT and took a little walk around Orchard for like 15 minutes before walking to the busstop. And on the way we met my ex-teacher and his ex-teacher who are now both currently teaching at MGS and were out together. I must say those five minutes were the awkwardest moments in my life (and probably Cal's too) as we stood listening to Cal's teacher whom I actually know as well praise him about his being a genius and his 1.0 msg etc etc. And when the topic went on to "are you guys going out" I could tell that droplets of sweat were forming on Cal's forehead so we hurriedly said NO! and ended the conversation.

So then we took a bus 190 to The Pines and where because you know I am so popular we were stopped several times by groups of people like Shit and Mindy and her friend Yawen mid-way. My Half, of course, being the nosy parker like she is had to crash Social Night, even though she was in shorts and some embarrassing teeshirt. Then on the way up we met The Rong and his date Jamie who looked like some model with visible cleavage for once AHAHA and her blue-black hair. So we chatted for a while and finally made our way to our destination where we met Jiadi and made a lot of noise screaming and chattering. Eventually we took a few council photos with all the 32nd people who were present and Shit left in embarrassment even though Calcal offered to find her a date cos there were a couple of guys who turned up alone.

Before dinner was another period of awkwardness. Like Cal would introduce a friend or buddy and his date and we would be like hello, hello and left with nothing to say. And can you imagine my utter relief when I met NG MEIXI who was there with her darling Joshua and we screamed till the ceiling almost collapsed as we always do because we'd finally found Family. And we found 2 other MGS girls Jean Ong and Debo Ng who were both with their boyfriends obviously and took an MG photo while reciting the MGS motto To Master To Grow To Serve oh my goodness can you believe how much we love our school.

And between then till after dinner CalCal was like telling me who's going to Harvard, who's going to Stanford, who got some scholarship to go do law at Oxford etc etc. Seriously, if the guy wasn't outstanding (by which I mean he was a mere top scorer at A Levels) then his date probably is, because these guys are the elite, apparently. And do I have to mention how probably 60 or 70% of the people were from RJ. I suppose we then make a very ordinary pair since he's ONLY going to med school and I'm only going to Brown -.-

We saw a couple of, hmm, interesting pairs too which I am sure will arouse a lot of gossip and attention haha!

After dinner, games and award presentations started. I seriously tried my best to pay attention so Calcal wouldn't feel bad about me feeling bored but I saw him yawning so I gave up too. They had all sort of army related games like who can change their clothes the fastest, or who can kiwi (polish) their boots the fastest. But I guess the Army Jargon 101 lesson was pretty interesting, and their videos were great!! Even though all the guys were in green camouflage and you couldn't really tell who was who.

So then the night ended with some photo taking obviously and we went home in a cab. I could tell Calcal was in high spirits because every time he's reminded of some shitty army moment he'd look so triumphant because he's allowed to defer his NS for his studies. But well the guys look so happy together in their buddy-buddy world that I'm sure they'll miss each other.

Hello!

I have been jobless for a month now, and life has been, well, generally carefree and jolly. I either bum around at home doing nothing except convert oxygen into carbon dioxide or meet up with friends like Shit or F5 or Bobbert or shop.

Andrew insisted that I'd wanna go back to work once I've experienced what it's like to be a loafer but seriously no I don't think that's true. Maybe I'm not such a workaholic after all.

Nevertheless I will be starting work next week to gain a bit of corporate experience, see what working life is like and of course to earn a bit of extra cash. I won't be working for long though, only a little over a month, so I guess it won't be a lot of cash either. In fact it's quite dumb because I had to spend like a hundred and fifty bucks on working clothes since I don't have any. And since said workplace is at TANJONG PAGAR I'll have to wake up at 6.30am to reach there on time oh goodness!!!!

I don't have very much to say here, so I'll go goof off for now. Bye!

Mac and Cheese

My brother and I have been growing closer lately, a prospect that frightens me a little.

All along, ever since he was 3 months old, we have been fighting and fighting, calling each other stupid names with our exceedingly large vocabularies like "moron" or "stupid shit", sprinkling each other with water when we exit the lavatory (which we share) or hiding all the snacks in our "secret stashes" (my parents do that too).

But in a way we seem to have decreased - I wouldn't go to the extent of using the word stop - the number of instances in which we indulge in such childish behaviour. Maybe it's because we're older now, or maybe because I am leaving for the states and so will he in four years and we won't be spending much time together for at least the next eight years, but we've grown to live well with each other.

Now we spend most of our time cooking mac and cheese (he cooks, I pour out the ribena), playing Resistance, the new PS3 game he bought, and watching movies in his room together.

It's not much, but it's a start I suppose.

Climb Every Mountain

Climb Every Mountain

Climb every mountain, search high and low
Follow every by way, every path you know
Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream
A dream that will need, all the love you can give
Everyday of your life, for as long as you live
Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream
A dream that will need, all the love you can give
Everyday of your life, for as long as you live
Climb every mountain, ford every stream
Follow every rainbow, till you find your... dream...

Sound of Music

I think I must have watched The Sound of Music approximately 16000 times, but it's such a classic it's difficult not to love it.

It's such a wonderful film, so timeless and perfect. It's like George Orwell's Animal Farm, when you read or watch it for the first time in your childhood, it's just a book or film with fun and music, but as you grow older you start to realise that there're so many, many more levels to the book or movie to be explored.

The theme of love runs deep in The Sound of Music. The quality of emotion is strangely simplistic in modern terms, a governess falls for her impossible charges, then falls in love with their father, who strangely enough loves her too. But there's also patriotic love, because the story is set during the Nazi regime, and Captain von Trapp is dead loyal to his country, Austria.

But if I lived in a country as beautiful as Austria in those days I think I would be darn proud of her too.

I actually feel a little envious when I watch Captain von Trapp sing Edelweiss with such enormous emotion and affection. I know of course that he's just acting (he's Christopher Plummer by the way, and you might have caught him as Keanu Reeves' dad in The Lake House), but it makes me sad that I will probably never will have a national folk dance to be proud of, a beautiful national song that everyone can sing with pride and in unison, snowy mountains or luscious hills to remember my hometown by or even to have a ethnic costume boast of for that matter.

Not that there's anything about Singapore to complain about. In fact Singapore's a wonderful place. The roads are safe even at night, the air is fresh and clean (and I really do appreciate it after Hong Kong), and most people are innocent, kind and helpful.

Perhaps its because of globalisation - people can go anywhere they want to go, or disinterest, or even a greater disenchantment with life, people just don't feel all that charged with emotion when we talk about nationality anymore. t's sad, but I guess it's true to a certain that we'll probably never love our country as much as we love ourselves anymore.

Back from HK!

Yay I'm back frm Hong Kong!! It was a darn good trip and we had tons of fun laughing, shopping every single moment, immortalising every minute of the trip with our cameras and of course as the rest of F5 would know blocking the way.

Hong Kongers are a really impatient lot, and though we met tons of nice people on the trip who went out of their way to help us out, like the concierge at Cosmo Hotel, there were many people who probably thought we were too slow to be bothered about us. There was this waitress even who stormed off because we were too slow in ordering our food. People were also generally not as friendly as I imagined, like the guy who glared at me because I accidentally touched his foot on the MTR even though I apologised but ok that was probably not his fault.

But overall it was a darn good trip. Even though our hotel was facing the cemetary (haha!) and we were dead tired (note the pun) most of the time, we still had tons of fun in the hotel room, celebrating beabea's birthday and listening to ass talking about her love life and watching Jackie Chan and his ridiculous Hollywood movie. I'm so gonna miss them all, especially when nat and E fly off and I fly off.

We bought tons of things too, like 1000 bags and shoes and stuff. We'd literally go to a store and buy like half of their goods away! Especially places that sold tidbits. We bought like 14 boxes of krispy kremes at Times Square, and we couldn't even fit into the cab, even though it was meant for 5 people.

Lots of memories to share, hope to upload the photos here when I get them! We took photos like every waking moment because we just love ourselves so much haha!! But I didn't take many photos cos I thought it'd be quite unnecessary to load 5 of the same photos. F5 if you're reading this quickly upload them to shutterfly!

Ms Wang's wedding tomorrow, looking forward to meeting Welco!

Spread the joy

I was offered something today by a very kind soul whom I don't even know that would have saved me about $70-$80 buying Sammi's new album but I just couldn't do it, for a few very silly reasons.

1. I'm sure there are much more than 3000 Sammi fans and I just cannot bring myself to own 2 of these precious box sets when so many people out there are hankering for them.
2. I made a promise to the CD guy.
3. I don't want to owe them any more favours.

Sounds damn silly to me and I don't know why I didn't just take the free box set when I want it so much, but I just couldn't do it.

I wouldn't say no to a free trip over to HK for her concert though :)

Packing

I spent a couple of hours packing my room today, but it looks even messier than before I packed it, simply because I grew bored of the whole idea and started dumping everything on my table so I can continue the tiresome business another time.

Anyway I realised I have many, many things on loan everywhere. And there are some of my Meg Cabots that I am so sure are just with some of you but I can't remember who!!!!! Please return to me asap!!!

But before that I finally went for my two jabs today at Tan Tock Seng hospital. One is called the Mantoux (pronounced man-toe) skin test to test for Tuberculosis and the other a Meningoccocal Vaccine which prevents Some Disease To Do With The Brain. It's a painful and tiring process because I have to return to said hospital to retrieve my results on Friday.

But I'm looking forward to tomorrow! That's because I will be seeing my dearest Half again. And we will be doing something silly...heehee!!

Check back for updates!

I have weird friends too...

Seriously this is wasting my time but since Jamie and Gloree both tagged me I shall follow orders obediently. But I mean how am I at all weird? I am the QUEEN OF THE WORLD MAN I definitely am allowed to do what I want hehheh.

Each player of this game starts off by giving 6 weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list thier names.

1. I think old guys are hot. I'd take Hugh Grant, Andy Lau, Chow Yun Fatt, Louis Koo etc over young punks like Ashton Kutcher, Justin Timberlake and other ANYDAY!!! But ok that may be because it's Ashton Kutcher and Justin Timberlake we're talking about.

2. I think S.H.E is a pretty cool pop group. Ella is so adorable, Hebe is SO COOL and Selina is, well, Selina. I KNOW I AM LOSING MY SENSES SOMEONE PLEASE KILL ME!!!!

3. I think women are much hotter than men. There's just this quality about women that makes them all so irresistible, even to girls. And I have their photos and posters all over my room and desktop. I can name countless number of women that are super hot and I'm sure you will all agree with me when I say people like Sammi, Keira Knightley, Angelina Jolie, Honyi and Shitty are all SO HOT I'll bet they accelerate global warming.

4. I have to trip on the carpeting or some sort of flooring at least once a week. This is not a personal choice.

5. I keep a notebook where I record who owes me money and how much. I also have a few pages where I list all the movies that I've watched because I've watched so many that I accidentally watch something again because I'd f0rgotten that I'd already watched it. And I rate these movies on a scale of ten.

6. I'm always wearing the huge 32nd jacket that I love even though it's too big for me and makes me look fat and sloppy. F5 hates it and they think it's ugly as hell but hey! It's the most comfortable thing ever and I am SO bringing it to Brown.

I'm not tagging anyone!! This has been so dumb goodness!

Pissed

Whoever wrote on my horoscope in the beginning of the year that I'll have a great career track this year ought to be shot dead.

Well now that I think about it, maybe it's precisely because my career track is great, that's why I'm going through all this ups and downs and heres and theres. Maybe I'm just meant for something else, something better!

All I know is, I'm going to wonderland (hopefully) in a couple of months, whatever happens.

Shit is right, you never know what we can do. in a couple of years, or in 10-20 years, we'll come back and sit on their faces. Step until all their faces become pulp.

(@&#(@*#&(@^#(*&^@*#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everybody needs a Sammi

Aunt May said in Spiderman 2: "Everybody needs a hero."

I think everybody needs a Sammi Cheng.

Have you ever had a Sammi Cheng? You most probably don't know him or her, but it's that voice, that special quality, that familiarity that makes know everything is all right.

No matter how popular we are, how many best friends who are always willing to listen to us and share our pain, how loving your family is, there are some things that are just better when left unsaid. At these times, you just need a familiar voice to tell you everything is ok, that you will pick yourself up again.

You don't necessarily have to listen to Sammi Cheng though, which is why I say people need a Sammi Cheng. Your Sammi may be Avril Lavigne, or Good Charlotte, or Kelly Clarkson - whoever. But it's just someone whom you're so used to listening to, so used to watching, that the first voice you'll look for is his or hers. Especially when you don't want to talk to anybody.

I'm not a loner, but there are times when I really want to be alone, and just submerge myself in a different world, in someone else's voice.

Umbrella

Friends who know me and the anatomy of my Warehouse bag well enough will recognise a sneaky but essential character - my little Elmo umbrella, Ernie.

Fate plays a huge part in many things in this world. I can never forget the moment we met at Narita Airport last June. I'd been walking aimlessly down the shops, waiting for our domestic flight back to Tokyo from Hokkaido, and I entered this shop full of girly accessories. I took a glance, and almost walked out when I saw the row of umbrellas gleaming in the sharp, bright light. As usual I looked out for my favourite character, the Orange-Boy-Friend-Of-Bert Ernie, but I guess not enough people like him. So I had to choose between the other monsters, like bluish Cookie Monster, yellow Big Bird and reddish Elmo.

To be honest I don't quite fancy Elmo. In my impression, Elmo is a stuck up little fella (he hides it well) who's so proud of his fame and popularity that he HAS to appear 90% of the time on the show, wheras the guys who are genuinely funny like Cookie Monster and Oscar and of course Ernie and Bert are left to share the rest of the screen time along with the annoying ABC and 123 learning bits. The only reason I picked him was because he's red, and it's my favourite colour.

And in order to make it up to my favourite cartoon character of all time, I named my umbrella Ernie.

Ernie has done a lot for me, especially in the past 5 months. He has kept me company in all my trips to different parts of Singapore, shielding me from both the murderous Singapore sun and the havoc-wrecking tropical rain.

And that's not all. Being a tiny little fella, Ernie is unable to shield more than one person at any time. As such, unless necessary, I do not have to share my precious Ernie with anyone else.

But don't think that this is a one-sided relationship. I do show my appreciation on occassion! Every time I board a bus after it rains, I refuse to lay it on the floor of the bus because it's so filled with grime and dirt I'm so worried it'll stain my poor Ernie. I'd rather hold it for the entire journey than lay it down! I'd also fold his sleeves gently, making sure everything is nice and straight before I tie him up and slot him back home, where he can stay dry and warm. I'm very loving towards my Ernie!

Ass

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASS!!!!!!!!!

Virginia Tech

I'm too tired these days to write essays on my blogs, and I'm a bit used to writing each sentence in separate paragraphs so it's easier for people to read.

Pausing the hot people thing because it's not in sync with today's mood.

First thing I wanna say today is: I'd be lying to say I'm not worried after seeing the Virginia Tech shooting incident.

Firstly, it has to happen in the country I'm going to in a couple of months, though THANKFULLY not the same state.

Secondly, ya he HAS to be Asian, thank you very much.

Seriously, what kind of sick guy would take a gun and go around shooting random people?????? And how many thousand lives are you gonna affect just because of a moment of selfishness.

And I just saw that this Columbia girl was raped etc etc and almost got murdered or something.

Not making it easier to convince my parents and grandparents. What's with all the mad people!! Are they all emerging at the same time or is it because I'm starting to pay attention to the country I'm going to be living in for the next four years?

And boy, does four years sound long.

I can't wait!! I seriously can. I haven't read a SINGLE bad comment about Brown and everyone seriously sounds really positive and excited and everything.

And yet on the other hand I really feel sorry for my parents.

You know on one hand they've been like the PARENTS, the strongest people in the world forever. And then suddenly you look back and you realise they're just ordinary people, leaning on each other for support.

I know they want me to go have fun and experience life at Brown and everything, but I know at the same time they can't bear for me to leave at all. Like my dad who keeps asking me to re-consider NUS or HKU. Or my mom who keeps asking me to go home for dinner because I'm flying off soon.

And to be honest, it's every bit as difficult as it is for me.

I'm tearing as I type this for some reason, maybe because it's an emotional period and my menses is coming (it definitely is).

Oh goodness I'm gonna cry buckets at the airport.

And then there's Shit. I cannot even leave her for more than 2-3 days!!! I HAVE to see this tiny lump every week at least.

And like SO MANY other people I don't want to start listing here.

But seriously my family really gets me. I guess I never really realised how important they are to me. They are the few people who really matter, the last things or people in the world I'd ever give up.

And yet now I'll be leaving them, for the first time in my life.

Never knew Honyi could be so emotional ya?

Bye Bye Bobbert!

Hot Stuff #4: Robbie Williams

Xun introduced him more than a year ago and though I don't really think he's THAT hot physically (the immense amounts of hair he has on his body is kind of off-putting for me) I've been in love with him ever since. How can anyone be so talented!!!!

Brilliance is always sexy :p

I've nothing much I want to say here, except:

Bye Bye Bobbert and Quarter! You will be sorely missed :)

Eleco 2007

Hotstuff #3: Michelle Yeoh.

How can anyone look so SMOKIN' HOT at 40+++???! She's my favourite Bond girl, and I think one of the rare few who actually didn't sleep with Bond!! How amazing is that!! But yes she's HOT and an ass-kickin lady so I love her!

I've become so inarticulate.

Eleco 2007 was great!! I didn't know how much I missed the 32nd until Saturday! All along I've been meeting up with SACO, Welco and other random people like Jamie and Bobbert but (random because we weren't all that close in school), but hey! I miss all those times I had with people like zeze whom I was pretty chummy with and etc etc etc. It's just weird not to see all these people walking down the corridor anymore. Not that work is not fun just that when I go back for school things like these I remember all these people and all the fun we had.

Ok I'm bored. Back to msn.

Today's girl:
Sandra Bullock.

I can't say why I like her so much, but like Hugh Grant and Sammi Cheng I've watched almost every single one of her films. Needless to say Two Weeks Notice starring Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock is one of favourite movies all-time.

She looked fabulous when she was skinny, but exudes a mature womanliness even though she has gained a bit of weight. Very sexy, very attractive, very seductive :)

But back to today.

Finally got our decisions!! Got what I really, really wanted, so I've been elated the entire day. Skipping to work, dancing here and there, hugging random people HAHA!

But now I have other problems. Does anyone wish to give me $350k and put me out of my misery?

I Like my Life

Hmm I resolve to post a picture of someone I like very much here regularly. Since I already posted a picture of Sammi yesterday, and here's one of Hugh Grant.



This man is 47 years old, just 3 youngers than my dad, and yet I find him inexcusably, irresistably attractive.

Just look at his eyes! How can anyone say he's not the sexiest man alive?

Everything about him - his flopsie hairdo, his thin, kissable lips, his sad, puppy eyes that make you want to run up to him, give him big hug and pledge your eternal devotion, his pure wit and intelligence, his very English accent...EVERYTHING!

And you know, those lines on his foreheads and his crow's feet? Just makes him even sexier.

I have this thing for older men :p

Admittedly, I have no life.

Sometimes, I get reminded that I live in a highly protected world. My life, as well as everyone surrounding me, lead clean, almost pristine lives. All of us went to good primary schools, got reasonable (or even excellent) scores and went to top secondary schools. We progressed from there, worked hard like our parents and our minds told us too, and made it to top junior colleges. From there, we made the most of our time, found valuable friends, joined all sorts of healthy activities like Students' Council or choir, did things that would only add to our portfolio. At the end of everything, we got our As and we're moving on to universities. The only difficulty is just which university. Harvard? Yale? or Oxford? PSC or SPH? Should I stay in NUS and move on to grad school?

To be honest, when I look back at my spotless, almost shining track record, I feel a sudden pang of claustrophobia. Do I want to be someone who, at my deathbed, remember life as just like that? Am I so afraid of making the wrong decisions now that I've turned into one of the clones whose sole purpose is to churn money for the economy?

Do we realise that there are people out there who don't lead the lives that we do? People our age who drop out of school and do all sorts of funny things, rather than study and "reach for their potential".

It's odd, because I like to read about them. They lead lives that are so different, I can never believe we belong to the same era, or even the same space.

They say funny people are actually really solemn and depressed inside. From the looks of it, I'm turning into one of them.

Influence

Haven't written about her in ages, I think, but she's still someone very close to my heart.




HC people probably don't know that I'm THAT crazy about her, but I really, really, really am. People I'm close to will know my room and my desk at TNP are like Sammi Shrines. I erected these poster holder things (cost me $100) just to place her posters! Her photos and posters are just pasted everywhere and placed all over my desk, her CDs placed chronologically in my cupboard. I even have a photo of her in my wallet!

In fact I was completely prepared to fly over to watch her in HK during May, but because the rest of F5 can't make it during those dates, I'll just have to settle with the DVD.

And I think I have been influenced by her over the 7 years. Her thoughts about life, her dressing and her simplistic sense of style. I just realised I have the face of a 16 year old and the taste of a 30 year old. Which is probably why I don't go to fareast and heeren, because everything's just too young!!

Took me pretty long to realise what kind of influence Ms Cheng has on me.

Well she managed to lose like 15-20kg to become what she is now, wonder if I'll ever do it.

Weekend

Weekend is over, and the army guys are back where they are, mostly in ocs, some in sispec and etc., so it's gonna be some time before we're gonna see all beloved friends again.

But I had the bestest weekend!

Had dinner on Friday night with The Dysfunctional One, The Ming, The Yan and The Qi. Technically I wasn't invited to that dinner, but I was too bored so I invited myself to it HAHA!! Anyway it was fun, because I hadn't seen them in AGES though I used to spend every day with them. We went to this pub place in Chinatown which is, apparently, quite famous and popular but because we went at about 7plus, the place was pretty empty. I had a mocktail while everyone else had alcohol, like Screaming Orgasm or some other shit, and Huiyan acty got a bit lightheaded HAHA!! That silly girl.

Saturday was great! I spent the entire afternoon with Shit after I had this hideous haircut. Because we shop at different places (Shit prefers the younger places), we had this whole stupid route planned out. We started at Far East where Shit could do her shopping, before moving to Taka for me, and then crossing over to the Paragon for me again and then going to the Heeren for her. But it was good! Despite all the waiting and compromising, it actually turned out to be a pretty productive trip! Shit bought a top and we both bought the same amazing sweaters from the same shop!! I love it so much I just can't bear to peel it off my skin heehee!!!

After our splurge/shopping trip, Shit and I went on to meet some people from Welco (omg I miss them so much although half of us are already in SACO) like Siqi (whom Daen still insists on calling boss-m'am), Daen, Haining (go ask him why he has a bandage thing on his chin!!), Gum, Mindy and Fuzzy Rong. Sadly Yunxiao didn't turn up, because he was going to!! We went to watch Bean, my favouritest guy in the world. And I thought it was hilarious!! Gloree thinks the jokes are too deliberate, but seriously it's BEAN!!!! Isn't the name BEAN deliberate enough?! But then again there were times when only Shit and I were laughing in the theatre, so perhaps we're just easily amused -.-

Sunday was interesting. I shopped arnd Marina from abt 2pm and crashed Bazhang's end-of-lunch at 3.30pm because I was bored out of my wits. Escorted Alice out to the taxi stand because she was feeling ill and her face was drained of colour. Had a 1.5 hour chat with Calcal after the rest of bazhang left before I met F5 for E's ballet Coppelia. It was pretty good!!! E was the Coppelia doll, so she had to stay real straight the whole time, and I thought she looked pretty freaky, but hey! She was a convincing doll heehee!!! But I kinda noticed something. When the male ballet dancer stopped, he'd clench his butt. Don't blame me!! Because I was sitting near the stage. Was he supposed to do that??? And I ALWAYS wonder, don't they feel self conscious wearing those suit things? Like exposing your entire, uhm, shape to the world. OK it seems watching endless ballets and arts performances has not made me more cultured -.-

Whee!

Whee!!!!

Saco Getaway was all fun and great, and I really, really wanted to blog about it, but I'm a bit lazy now. So those who want to read all about it should just go to Half's blog. Though of course it's not an accurate representation of what we did, since she so conveniently left out all the stupid things she did, like lean on the elevator buttons in the hotel, causing the idiotic lift to stop at every level before we reached -gasp- Level 16.

But since she is my favourite Half I won't expose her any further.

OK time for my hot date. Will be back in a bit.

I Love Mindy!

SACO Getaway countdown: 2 more days!!!!!!!

Excitement!

Ironically, now that exams are REALLY over, and we don't have to mug 24/7 anymore, everyone is busier than ever. What with all the work and all that, people can't find the time to meet anymore. Even blogs seem a bit quiet these days, so maybe the dude on ST was right, about blogs dying off this year. But maybe that's just us.

I shouldn't blog in the morning, it makes me slightly melancholic. Because I actually came online to say I'm super excited about this weekend! Finally, some sort of getaway!! Even if it isn't actually to anywhere, I'm gonna spend an entire weekend with 5 of my favourite people!!!! But we should think of how we're going to spend this holiday well. NO SHIT we CANNOT GO TO SENTOSA ON BOTH DAYS!!!

Applications for local universities have begun, and like Gloree said, it seems most people are ditching their plans to go overseas. I am one fine example. I applied to about 10 unis but I'm throwing all that away because I think I might be more suitable for Law than Lit.

God is one amazing, well, God, because He/She really moves in unpredictable patterns. It's like how I chose MG over NY last minute after my PSLE results, HC over AC after O Levels, and nwo Law over Lit after my A Levels, everything was done last minute. God may be trying to tell me something here haha, but I know He/She will always give me surprises. Unfortunately Law school is insanely competitive, so I'll just see what happens. Looking very much forward to attending Law School with Shit!!!!

Like Jiadi and I were saying yesterday, if everything works out well, we can very well open our own SACO Holdings, with a SACO Law Firm (Shit and I), SACO Hospital (with Jiadi and Cal at the helm), SACO Hotel (with Meat Low) and SACO Airlines (Rong). We can even have strong links to the Goverment because we will have Mindy HAHA and I don't know what Paul wants to do yet but maybe he can co-ordinate everything hehheh!!

Ang is so gonna froth at the mouth if that ever happens. HAHA!!

OK enough fantasizing during lunch time. Back to work.

A few days after

Despite my D for Dreadful I think I still did pretty ok. At least, since I've never gotten more than a single A! And yay I think my results are enough to get my anywhere I want (unless I screw the writing tests and interviews), except that I can no longer hope to get a scholarship.

But I am considering this other scholarship board.

I wonder how many unis I can get into though. So far I've applied to (excluding NUS) 10 universities oh my goodness!! And it's not the end because as I speak now I'm applying to NUS. I'm terribly sorry to all the teachers if I actually stay in NUS because they really spent a lot of time and effort writing all the recommendations and what not.

I've been considerably frustrated these days, because I really don't know what I want. It happens everytime, like when I was waiting to get into Secondary school I changed my mind last minute and went to MG instead, which turned out great. Then after dying to get into ACJC for 4 years I changed my mind AGAIN and got into HC, which also turned out to be an excellent experience, albeit different. Now even though I've been so set on journalism this whole while I'm starting to think if Law may be more suitable for me.

So basically I'm just plodding along, waiting to see what happens. Oh well.

The Day Before

It's always frightening The Day Before.

I was planning to go home early, take a hot warm bath and just sleep all the way tomorrow.

So I won't have to think of anything.

And now, because I've just finished writing 100cms (go buy on Sunday) and arranged 3 photoshoots, I'm so tired my eyeballs are about to fall out, and my head feels a bit heavier than the rest of my body, which is quite an achievement I must say, considering the amount of weight I have been putting on lately.

But I'm still in the office, because my story is still being cleared. Thank God everyone is really patient with me, because I think I wrote a pretty screwy story.

There're things to celebrate about though. For example, Sammi's new song is out!! It's called Long Live Love! And I've already downloaded a radio cap of the song, and I've been listening to it on repeat in the office. I'll so definitely buy the single or the mp3 when it's released because she has most definitely improved. It's not an easy song to sing.

Feels slightly surreal hearing her voice in a different song after 3 years though. It's pretty amazing, because when I heard her song was to be released on Wednesday (28/2) I immediately turned the HK radio on, and lo and behold, her voice came flooding in.

And I was like oh my is that Sammi! But her voice is unmistakable, not like some kiddy singers I might mention.

Her concert dates have also been confirmed, so I'm planning my trip down with F5 immediately! And Sammi is sweet enough to send her assistant Elinor to help fans buy tickets, so I'm pretty excited!!!! Have to order the tickets quickly :)

It's 1920 now. How many more hours?

But actually though I'm worried, I feel an odd sense of serenity inside. Like Bobbert and KennethKenneth said, I've already done all that I can. Of course, secretly I still hope for 3As, plus a B3 for GP, but what's the probability of THAT happening!

And I really hope all of us does well!! God bless all of you!

Whining

I decide to whine about busy friends on one entry and I get scolded by my cousin and friend!!!!

OK not scolded, but you know.

And I'm not talking abt being single!! I relish being single!!!

OK I think I yue miao yue hei.

But whatever, this weekend will be quite...different I think. For once I cannot anticipate what will happen during the weekend. Will I hole myself up in my room or will I go on a whole series of parties? Hahahaha.

Anyway I'm back at work!

See you HC guys this Friday.

No Lifeness

It's the long-awaited and anticipated weekend but I can't seem to find anything to do, other than play Sammi's CNY song in loop. Either that or Sammi and Liza Wang's song.

I'll bet no one reading this blog knows who Liza Wang is.

But since my beloved Half has requested that I write something to fill this empty void of a space then I will think of something to write.

This week has been fun though! I went out quite a few times with different people, and like Bobbert said on his blog (which I have put a link to over here) there have been a lot of firsts this week.

I'm quite lazy to write about it though, because as I said a couple of weeks ago I have a not-so-private journal thing now, plus it's my JOB TO WRITE EVERYDAY but there are some pretty nice photos (I look nice at least HAHAHA) on Bob's blog so go read and see if you want to.

But in short I think Bob Shit and I are an unusual but really compatible trio!!! HAHA mainly because we're really full of bullshit! The three of us really click and it's really amazing how we've never really gone out like this before!! And it took us like what, 8 months after council ended to realise?! So now we've formed this lame Triangle of Trust (TOT) thing HAHAHAHAHAHAAH which amuses me to no end.

And Bob when you read this pls send me the photos HAHA!!!

But now that it's weekend I have nothing to do!! Will someone PLEASE DATE ME!!!!!! I don't want to be stuck home watching Friends every weekend until I'm 80 and dead!!!

And oh my goodness. 6 days. I'm so freaking freaking dead.

Bobbert

I am eternally grateful to...

BOBBERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Won't say why here, but seriously,

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Birthday

Yay! It's Minsi's birthday! Happy birthday Minsi!!

Forgot to blog on and about my own birthday! Which was on the 4th February hahaha. Haven't done anything THAT exciting or radical this year, but it was fun while it lasted!!

And of course, I like to thank the people who messaged me to wish me happy birthday!! These are the people (in chronological order):

1. PAN HUIYAN MY FAVOURITE NEIGHBOUR WHO HAS BIG B**BS AND WHO WAS ONLY 2 MINS LATE!!
2. TAN WAN KAI MY FAVOURITE COLLEAGUE WHOM I KNOW HAS A SECRET CRUSH ON ME
3. SHITTY CHEN MY FAVOURITE OTHER HALF WHO SPENT THE ENTIRE BIRTHDAY WEEKEND INCLUDING FRIDAY WITH ME!!
4. PAUL CHENG MY OTHER QUARTER WHO STILL OWES ME MONEY
5. CHOONG XUN YU MY IDIOT BEST FRIEND WHO WAS SWEET ENOUGH TO REMEMBER MY BIRTHDAY BUT APPARENTLY NOT MY PRESENT
6. TAN LITING MY FAVORUITE CLASSMATE WHO WAS A WAITRESS
7. MINSI ALSO MY FAVOURITE CLASSMATE BECAUSE SHE IS DAMN FUNNY AND ALSO AN AQUARIUS BABY
8. MEAT LOW THE UGLY THING WHO IS CRAZY ABOUT WU ZUN
9. MINDY ONG THE EVEN UGLIER THING WHO IS NOT CRAZY ABOUT ANYTHING EXCEPT SAVING MONEY
10. SI HUA MY PREFECT FRIEND FROM MG WHOM I HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO IN YEARS
11. CHEN JIADI WHO IS STILL JOBLESS AND WHO STILL HAS MY MOM'S DVDS
12. CLARE POH WHO IS LIKE GONNA GET TEN THOUSAND As FOR HER A-LEVELS AND IS GONNA STUDY SOMETHING BORING LIKE PHYSICS
13. DELL THE BELL WHO IS MY HOTTEST CLASSMATE FROM B3 AND WHO US ALSO AN AQUARIUS BABY
14. ELAINE HENG MY F5 SWEETIE WHO WAS NICE ENOUGH TO TEXT ME EVEN THOUGH I SAW HER THAT NIGHT TOO
15. WEIQI MY SKINNIEST AND ALSO FAVOURITE CLASSMATE WHO LIKES NAN XUE ZHANG EVEN THOUGH HE IS QT DISGUSTING IN THE SHOW HAHA
16. SUZ ALSO ANOTHER SKINNY PERSON WHO'S LIKE ONE OF THE HOTTEST PEOPLE FROM B3 OTHER THAN MYSELF OF COURSE
17. BEATRICE LAU MY F5 MAMA WHO'S GETTING MORE AND MORE SEXY AS SHE GROWS OLDER
18. XINYU FROM HUANG CHENG

And I think that's about it!!
I had dinner with my family on Saturday at our favourite Russian place, before going home. We had a great time playing carems and poker the whole night till 2am HAHA my dad was so super excited he kept laughing and chuckling to himself. And though I lost $6 to my dad in the end I still had tons of fun!!!!

Dinner with F5 was great!! Well technically it was dinner with F3 since Nat and E came like uber late as per normal but it was still good!! They gave me the loveliest surprise - a cake!! They actually met up the day before to bake the cake for me!! Though of course it came out slightly dodgy it was still edible HAHA! But it was really touching!! Love them lots!! And of course the toy elmo-in-diapers that they gave me was just adorable. It's lying on my bed next to Ernie and Cookie Monster now!!!! My sesame street collection always makes me feel happy!

Hello

I've been keeping a written journal, so actually it doesn't make sense for me to blog anymore, since only a few people read this?

Actually my "journal" wasn't meant to be a journal, I was intending to write more interesting things to keep CalCal alive in NS, so he has something to read/do before he goes to bed or something, since he sounded like he was about to die when he gave me a call.

OK fine it's just me being selfish because I'm always feeling bored on buses and I just needed something to do. Plus it'll save me $$ because I'll just use it as his birthday present.

Oh goodness I'm a horrible person, even to my bestest friends! HAHA!

But now all the stuff that's in the million pages I've written is slightly mundane so I think he might feel worse than he already is reading it HAHA! I keep repeating how Wu Zun and Ella are cute I think I might go into fits reading it if I were him.

So maybe I should keep it as a private journal and just buy him a wallet.

Which reminds me, RONG RONG!!!!!! Shit!!!!

I went for Ella and Wu Zun's thing yesterday, and got some posters. I rolled it/them up and carried it/them home, and saw a few teenage girls who didn't manage to get the poster. They were seriously GLARING at me, and I was thinking to myself, if any one of them were nice and gracious enough to just smile at me, I'll give her my poster, since I don't like them that much anyway. But since no one did, I brought it all the way home.

But well young girls nowadays are just beyond me, and I feel as if I'm already from another generation. I watch the little girls in tiny minis and tight, unsuitable tops at Far East and I think, forget about bringing Sexy back, just bring Normalcy or Class.

OK I agree wearing jeans and polo tee 24/7 isn't very classy either.

And what is with the skipping school and glaring at other people because of a few good-looking and talented (? Open to debate). I simply cannot comprehend!!

I really am getting on in years!!

S.H.E Perfect 3 Concert

I've just got home from my first concert this year - S.H.E Perfect 3 World Tour!!!!!!

I got the tickets from mediacorp haha! I just emailed them on Meat (who was eager to watch Wu Zun from Farenheit)'s request and actually got the tickets HAHA!!

Though we sat like 100000 miles away from the stage and each performer was like the size of my last finger nail, it was still really really good. Meat and I were like so high throughout the entire show!! And because they were smart/nice enough to put the lyrics on the screens we could actually sing along!!!!

There's really nothing much to pick about the 3 girls. They were friendly and adorable, and you could tell they have put in tons of effort for this concert. Almost every song was like a dance song, so there were like 94793824 dance steps they had to memorise, and I don't remember any mistakes from any of them. Really impressive!! Their singing is not impeccable, but their vocals were strong and powerful. They're very, very good singers I'd say!! And they sound fabulous together!!!

Response was superb too!! Especially in the $148 region, everyone was standing from the first song to the last!! And even in the $98 region (ours) people like us were bouncing and screaming (ok only us, but still!) so it was totally high HIGH HIGH!!!!! They didn't have to try very hard to get us high though, the occassional burst of fireworks or just their appearance was good enough to get us screaming.

The highest point for me was when Stef Sun appeared. I think I just went into a frenzy and Meat and I just screamed through all of her 3 songs HAHA so embarrassing!! Her voice sounded a bit odd though, not Stef Sun-ish!! But it was ok, because she was so hot everyone was literally shouting along so couldn't really hear her HAHA!!

Farenheit was, well, ok. Hmm. I mean they're more known for their good looks than anything, but I was sitting too far away. But Wu Zun is definitely HOT among the girls!! Even I screamed when he came out HAHAHA!! How degrading!!

I wouldn't admit this, but I'm like a converted S.H.E fan now!! At least a fan enough to get me screaming S.H.E!!!!! S.H.E!!!!! at their encore which is something I refuse to do unless it's Sammi then obviously, different story. They're a really GREAT TEAM though I still think it's a pity they don't have better songs. But I guess those weird electronic songs like Superstar REALLY come to great use during concerts, because even though I think it's a pretty dumb song I totally lost my head and shouted along during the encore HAHA! Ni Shi Dian, Ni Shi Guang, Ni Shi Wei Yi De Shen Hua, Wo Zhi Ai Ni, YOU ARE MY SUPERSTAR!!! Like uhm, eww. But it was great!!

Invasion

OK I'll bet some people have already noticed but there are weird people invading my tagboard!!!

Turns out these "weird people" are actually my cousins! HAHA! Meet ShuEn, 18-19, who's currently in the University of Michigan studying some Science thing (bio-something) and ShuQian, 16-17, who has just graduated from ZhongHua.

And it's quite disconcerting that they've found my blog all of a sudden and subsequently started talking to me on msn because we don't normally say more than ten sentences to each other every year?? And the last time I called and said hello this is JingYi one of them said WHO?? So I guess you can't say we're really chummy or anything.

But they're my cousins after all, hahaha, so HELLO!! It's really nice to hear from you all!!

and yes,

SAMMI IS SO BACK OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!

Long time no see

It's been quite some time since I've written anything substantial. Well obviously it's because I stare at a computer screen at work typing typing typing and one does not want to continue doing that at home.

Life as a journalist in TNP (The New Paper) can be quite typical, but it's still interesting to me. I meet different people everyday- people of different races, from completely different backgrounds, men and women from all walks of life. It's really getting out of your comfort zone, talking to people who may be wary of you, talking to people who are three times older, talking to people who don't want to talk to you at all. It's challenging, but there's something new almost everyday.

And of course, the late nights. Journalists must be real hermits, because we have no social life. Firstly, you go to work every day not knowing when you can knock off and what you might be doing that day (unless you're like you know, doing your own story or continuing yesterday's work). Admittedly, that's very exciting for me, but it also means we can't arrange for any dinner dates. Not like F5 or SACO's very free anyway so that's fine.

That's why I've taken to renting DVDs every Sunday, because it's my source of very fulfilling entertainment. On a nice cold night it's pretty nice to lie alone on the couch outside with my pillow and warm blanket watching Sandra Bullock tell Keanu Reeves how much she loves him. Or Superman with his really hot bod. I think one can never have enough of movies. It's just the sustenance for life.

I wonder how Shit is doing! Haven't spoken to her in a couple of days. Of course she left a tag here to tell me she's finally quitting her dreaded job but still! I miss you babe!!

And of course ASS working happily in MG as a teacher heehee and who's always me randomly and always at the wrong hours to talk rubbish to me for 2 seconds and then hang up.

I wonder how the NS guys are!! I kinda miss talking to Xun, obviously, because I used to like talk to him every night. And Calcal and RongRong and lucky enough to be bed pals so I'll bet they're gaying around happily inside HAHA!

It's Friday!! WEEKEND!! Like finally!!! Work's fun, but obviously no work is still better. Call me people!! At 63194093 at my work place if you see anything suspicious or something to complain about. Or if you're just very bored like Ass always is hahaha!

Fatigue

I'm overworked, tired, smelly and I look like shit.

But seriously, I love my job.

Though I still haven't gotten the hang of things yet, I'm sure I will soon.

Jiayou honyi!! And wankai!!!

THANK God for Wankai.

HEEHEE!

Your Celebrity Boob Twin:

Angelina Jolie

Who's Your Celebrity Boob Twin?

You Are Lara Croft

"Everything lost is meant to be found."

What Superheroine Are You?

HAHA!

I admit I like her, but these results are like totally unintentional!!

I really need to get a life -.-

10 things

10 things you need to lug around everywhere you go as a "news correspondent"
1. At least 1 working pen
2. A "reporter's shorthand notebook" (specifically)
3. A UV-Ray blocking and Rain-Shielding i.e. Multi-purpose Umbrella (V. V. Important!!)
4. Cellphone (duh)
5. An ez-link card with a lot of money
6. Tissue for wiping sweat and rain
7. A working camera (because photogs can't always follow you around)
8. A jacket (V. V. Important for hiding in the freezing office, rainy days and for shielding camera if from tabloid)
9. Work Pass, for DEE-ing in and out of every single freaking door in the centre (which is acty damn fun to do HAHA!).
10. Extra socks especially when it's raining because you might have to trek around in water-logged areas and mud.

NOW you know why I had to buy the huge Warehouse bag and lug it everywhere!!

Just to explain myself

Sorry for the obsession with P&P but I think it rocks!!

And I know this blogskin is a bit suggestive but no! I just like how Keira Knightley is just ooozing with hotness in this picture! Hope you guys like it though!

Being bored.

I got this from Xingyan!! Does she even read my blog heehee.

Start off with 100% and minus off 1% for each thing that has happened to you.
RED= yes.

Smoked.
Drank alcohol.
Cried when someone died.
Been drunk.
Had sex.
Been to a concert.
Given a handjob/gotten a handjob.
Given a blowjob/gotten a blowjob.
Been verbally sexually harassed.
Verbally sexually harassed somebody.
Felt someone up and/or been felt up.
Laughed so hard something came out of your nose.
Cheated on a boyfriend/girlfriend before.
Been cheated on by a boyfriend/girlfriend.
Been to prom.
Cried at school.
Gotten lost in a WalMart or a department store.
Went streaking.
Given a lap dance.
Had someone of the opposite sex in your room.
Had someone of the opposite sex sleep over.
Slept over at someone of the opposite sex's house.
Kissed a stranger.
Hugged a stranger.
Went scuba diving.
Driven a car.
Gotten an xray.
Hit by a car.
Had a party.
Done drugs.
Played strip poker.
Got paid to strip for someone.
Ran away from home.
Broken a bone.
Eaten sushi.
Bought porn.
Watched porn.
Made porn.
Had a crush on someone of the same sex.
Been in love.
French kissed.
Laughed so hard you cried.
Cried yourself to sleep.
Laughed yourself to sleep.
Stabbed yourself.
Shot a gun.
Trash talked someone and then acted like their best friend the next day.
Watched TV for 9 consecutive hours.
Been online for 9 consecutive hours.
Watched an animal die.
Watched a person die.
Had sex and/or messed around somewhere with at least 1 person present.
Pranked somebody.
Put somebody in the hospital.
Snuck into someone's room and/or your own room after being out.
Kissed somebody of the same sex. (my teacher -.-)
Dressed punk.
Dressed goth.
Dressed preppy.
Been to a motocross race.
Avoided somebody.
Been stalked.
Stalked someone.
Met a celebrity. (duh)
Played an instrument.
Ridden a horse.
Cut yourself.
Bungee jumped.
Ding dong ditched somebody.
Been to a wild party.
Got caught stealing something.
Kicked a guy in the balls.
Stolen a boyfriend/girlfriend from a friend.
Went out with your friend's crush. (ok not went out went out but like you know, went out)
Got arrested.
Been pregnant.
Babysat.
Been to another country.
Started your house on fire.
Had an encounter with a ghost.
Donated your hair to cancer patients.
Been asked out by someone that you never thought you'd be asked out by.
Cried over a member of the opposite sex.
Had a boyfriend/girlfriend for over 3 months.
Sat on your ass all day.
Ate a whole carton of ice cream all by yourself.
Had a job.
Gotten cut from a sports team.
Been called a whore.
Danced like a whore.
Been mistaken for a celebrity.
Been in a car accident.
Been told you have beautiful eyes.
Been told you have beautiful hair.
Raped somebody.
Danced in the rain.
Been rejected.
Walked out of a restaurant without paying.
Punched someone/slapped someone in the face.

Final score: 76 :)

Why did I just spend 5 mins on this thing???

2nd Jan

Happy new year!! But oops I'm slightly late. Never mind, a little procrastination never hurt anyone.

Like I was discussing with my favourite Ass today, this year's really full of uncertainty. Though my horoscope in 8-days says that I'll have a great year this year with many peaks (which I will choose to believe) it's really the first time I have no idea where at all my life will be heading from this moment on. I guess things will be more or less clearer after March when our you-know-what come back, but even then we won't be sure. Would I be going to the US? UK? HK? Or will I stay in Singapore?

But life is more exciting that way, because it's so unpredicatable, so all you have to do is to really know what you want and go all the way! As such let me introduce my New Year Resoulutions for this year:

Honyi's New Year Resolutions for Jan-June
1. Stop dressing like a slob. (IMPT) (Like really, seriously impt)
2. Read more classics and famous stuff so I won't sound like an idiot in college
3. Try my very best to get a scholarship.
4. Work hard in SPH
5. Seriously, go to HK with F5.

I can't think of anymore resolutions because all those things like lose ten pounds is totally impossible and anyway I'd ignore it. But I think it's quite important that I stop dressing like a slob because I think I've passed that age where I can just wear jeans and tee and everyone will forgive me.

I start work tomorrow. Hope it's a lot of fun!! I don't know what to wear bleh.