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Monday, November 29, 2004

long and possibly boring entry.

<WARNING: this is a super long entry.. read it only if you have nothing to do and have all the time in the world.>

i went to meet my HUBBING people tonight.
xiang and yiyi 1st, to cartel for a cheapolata meal. ordered 2 soup of the day (its cream of mushroom.. yummy!) and my fave potato wedges! add a free flow of bread to that = a very full us. we all had some plans to shed some fats. everyone's gaining exams fats. but i think we are look pretty much the same.. flabby more than tone maybe. oh.. the curry dip that comes with the wedges is so disappointing. it just didnt taste the same as before. it was better. argh.. we sat there, with our cheapskate spread, for about 1 hr, ignoring the long queue thats building up.
then met mich and angie after their work. they are still at starhub. working part time. and today happen to be mich last day since school's starting for her. sylvester came down too.. haha. we made him come all the way from the west just to meet for an hour since xiang and yiyi wanted to catch the last bus home. sorry dude, but he's got a bike.. so nvm la hor.
seeing these familiar faces, i miss the hubbing days.. went down to the shop today and see alot of unfamiliar faces. i miss the days where its only the few of us.. dorkie, xiang, yiyi, mich, sylvester, jonnie, nommie and me. i miss the days where we were all happy and thot starhub tampines was the best place to work. reality is that the world is always changing.. nothing remains at status quo. nothing. at least, i met true frens working at starhub.. i love you guys. =)

its funny how life has been for me so far.. its weird.. i cant explain.

back in TK, the 1st few days of school. we were having CCA orientation and this guy who is leading my class around came to me and asked me to join band. i said "dun wan, i die also dun wanna join." then we went to the hall to visit the band booth. the 1st time i saw shihui twirl the horn, the 1st time yvonne came up to me, showed me the horn and ask if i wanna try. funnily, there seems to be an affinity. in the end, i dunno how.. i joined band, became a horn player. and the person who asked me initially if i wanted to join band, became my band major. james chia. i nv look back.. being in band is the one of the best periods of my life. i love TKBand - the best band in the land.

sec 1: we took part in syf outdoor display band competition. we won! i cried. we all cried. an unexplainable kind of happiness that nv occur to me before. something we really work damn hard for. this marks the start of TKBand winning the Best Display Band Award for 4 consecutive SYF outdoor comp. still the defending champion. good one.
sec 2: indoor comp. played Symphonic Triptych. got another silver for the band. sad but i was feeling ok.
sec 3: became the secretary of the band. outdoor comp yr again. tagged TSG - the strict girl on the field. i admit i was too harsh on my juniors. heh. got our 2nd Best Display Band Award. i was happy. but i cldnt cry. just happy we made it again!!
sec 4: indoor comp again. comp piece was Armenian Dances I. we tried damn hard. we really did. but we got a silver again. devastated. the committees mbrs had a discussion prior the comp and we decided that if we din win, we shldnt cry. mux show example to the band right? i cldnt help it. i rmbr looking up at the ceiling of victoria concert hall.. trying to hold back my tears. i rmbr how bright the circular lamps were.. i cldnt not cry. we were so close. at least in our opinion. i think mr siao cried too. it was a dark moment for all of us.

i would say the 4 yrs in band carve the person that i am now. i owe alot to the band, the section and most of all mr siao. we are grateful to him. in our hearts, we always have and only had one band master. thats mr siao.. no matter what happens in the band now. i brought along with me.. for the next 3 yrs of my life many things he taught us (which is alot). my personal fave being "only listen to the comments made by people who matters to you!" of cos.. my fellow section mates.. suryani, lawrence eng, etc. all the nice people i met.

i went into TPJC for the 1st 3 months, great fun! but my O's results came out brillant and somewhat prompted me to move on to somewhere else. where? AJC. which i dread. wrong move made. perhaps not so wrong cos i met this wonderful group of ppl in 26/02. compared to TPJC where i only had jas and jas, only me. jas and i was again in the same class in AJ. dreadful days.. but the bonding part was great. the girls in the class was great. so was the guys. perhaps.. somehow, things are really predestinated. perhaps, we are all powerless in our lives, something we thot we had so much control of.

post JC days.. i went for a few open houses. the moment i step into NUS. i go "eeks.. i will never come to this school." NUS then makes me feel so dirty and sticky. stained wall. ugly floor. dim lights. all things negative. hmm.. i dun mind SMU business or even better NTU Comm Studies (my dream course.) of course.. i screwed my As but am lucky enuf to land myself in NUS FASS. life has its funny way of making things goes. i shld have been more careful with words maybe.. knowing from past experiences how i always ended up with something i din want to go/do. at NUS, at least i met the CROEMIS ppl. and some very nice tutorial mates, like ruth and my sc project grps peepx. but i dunno if this is what i want......

maybe i shld just stay for good at NUS and hope like before, something will good comes out of it. so far, it always done. then again.. i feel that for 19 years of my life.. i nv seem to have defied destiny. if destiny even exist.. i use to take it all in a stride.. but i question myself now if this is what i want. maybe i'll do an appeal to SMU Business.. i can jolly well forget about my NTU Comm Studies. i hold my stand that they'll probably look at my results and laugh out loud, in tears asking me if i really wanted to appeal to Comm Studies. "WITH THIS KIND OF RESULTS?" wells.. i wont rack my brains too much for this.. in the wise words of mr gui, my ICM tutor, "whats the worse that can happen?"

i take his words for it.

Sunday, November 28, 2004

TOTAL FREEDOM! FREEDOM TOTAL!

its funny how this always happen. when i gotta study, i relish every moment to do something out of studying. surfing the net. blogging. packing my room. watching Tv. thinking of the things i wanna do after exams.
now that i have all the time in the world.. i am happily lazing around. suddenly no inspirations to write about anything. though many a times during those crazy exams period, i wanted so much to blog but had to resist myself from doing so.

yep! my exams are over. relief. happiness. i m FREE again! it has always a symbolic act to come home after the exam and chuck the relevant files/books/notes under my bed.. signifying that i'll nv had to touch those yucky things again. ah.. all 5 modules under my bed now. and it feels GOOD! life is GOOD again..! *smile*

suppose to go running today, after months of being sluggish. then i decided it'll be nicer to just stay at home and lie on my bed. and then it rained! aahh... good. so now, it is not my fault. not that i dun wanna run. but its raining rite? tmr ba.. maybe. heh.. procastinating forever. hey.. but it is still raining now eh..

but yes..!! i m meeting xiang and yiyi for dinner later!! at cartel!!! then i can have my wedges. with lotsa of the dip and parmesan. then the free flow of bread. with lotsa of cheese and maybe some olive oil. yummy!!! too bad the rest couldnt join us. its so difficult to arrange the meet up.. sian. since everyone is all over the place.. some working still. love to see you guys soon though.

i already have a rough schedule out for next week.
monday: help out at papa/mama's shop.
tuesday: meet up with 26/02 girls for KTV. lalala.. good response.. everyone is onx. i m in shock. except for weilin who is in MY and jas who is not keen. (pls come leh..)
wednesday: meet up with UG. yes.. with Geo too!!! so long nv see her already.
saturday: meet up with my dear cousins. yay~

gotta find a job soon. lemme noe if you have any lobang ok.. heh.

thats about it. gotta go prepare to meet my fave gals.. tata~ i'll blog more when the mood comes to me again. lalalalalalala..

Friday, November 26, 2004

last day tmr!!!!! wahahaha.

tmr is my LLLLAAAAASSSSSSSSTTTTTTTT, erhem.. last paper!!! yeah.. i m so glad it is over!!! eh.. ok.. almost over. when the clock strikes 3pm tmr.. it'll be over. finally!!! (i hereby apologies to those who are still having their papers. my deepest condolences. *wink*) to those who have finished theirs.. i m here to join da club!!! ole~ ole ole ole~..

so i screwed up my SS paper today. but nvm. doesnt matter. can i just get it over? wahaha. tmr is Econs. decided i shldnt procastinate, like what i did for my last 2 papers (and i screwed them up), and study till daybreak! haha.. i hope i do. i pray i would. cos i have darn lot to cover. i wanna end my SEM with a resounding BAM, er.. watever. so tata~ i m going to start studying now..

i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs.i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs. i love econs.


(argh.. wateva!)

oh.. collin called me from taiwan today!! talk for 00:04:06. yeah yeah..
i love you!!
awaiting your return!!!

and sind.. sorry i can't/din do much. i'll be here for you. just a phone call away k.. hugx.

Thursday, November 25, 2004

freedom in 2 days!! 3 papers down. 2 more to go!!!

I AM BAACCCKKKK!!!!!!

hey yo hey yo.. i m back!!!!!! yesh..!!! but exams arent over yet. -_-" wahaha. 27th Nov. thats 2 more days!!!! i cant take it already. in fact, i have already declared HOLIDAYS since my ICM paper last saturday. so basically trying hard to concentrate and not think of all the nice things i can do after the exams..


trying...

...

trying...

...


FAILED!!!


i wanna go SENTOSA! (wahaha.. the beach. the sea. the sun. babes and hunks.)
i wanna go KTV with 26/02 peepx! (eat tidbits only. pls dun force me to sing.)
i wanna go cafe cartel with starhub peepx! (potato wedges pls! can you bring me parmesan too? thank you.)
i wanna go Shopping! (no limits. heck the limit. i just wanna spend spend spend.)
i wanna go Swimming! (gotta learn how to swim before i turn 20. i have 3 more mths to learn.. urps.)
i wanna do Sports! (trim that flab. i want mine TONE!!!)
i wanna go register for my BASIC! (guilt. yesh.. after dragging like forever.. simply procastinating.)
i wanna be able to lie on my bed without thinking of what i have to do.. what i have not done.

i wanna meet up with my frens! yes.. i wanna see my frens. can we meet!? i m "up for grabs" - weekdays, *weekends*! just gimme a ring.. (if you are meet-up worthy. heh.)


actually.. you shld know who you are.. pls be a darling and ask me out cos collin is leaving for Taiwan in 4-5 hours time. *tick tick* what the hell, right? i'm studying my ass off and when i'm almost seeing the horizon.. he's leaving!!! he'll be back on the 16th Dec. so i m damn free!! yup.. weekends, weekdays, anyday.

right now.. probably ALL my frens are done with their exams.. and waiting for ME to finish off with MINE (which is like taking FOREVER!!) ok.. maybe xiang is not done yet. (jiayou!!) but i cant wait..!! gotta admit that my spirits' a lil dampen knowing collin wont be ard but i'll make the most out of my collin-less days! i gonna make pineapple tarts (CNY's coming!?), bake cookies (for me!), cook up potato dishes (for him), probably try out some new dishes from the recipes which me and xiang so shamelessly photocopied using STARHUB photocopier. its basically this one huge stack unravelled (yet). cant wait.. tralalalalala...

needless to say.. i screwed up my Sociology (SC) paper ytd. how do i answer the questions when i havent even read the damn readings? i only officially started studying again on tuesday night. and my SC paper's on wed evening. it struck me as i was bathing, preparing to go to school ytd afternoon that all i have to do is to read the blardy lecture notes, textbook and readings to score darn well. but did i do all these?
NO.. if only it struck me earlier. i was happily slacking away my saturday, sunday, monday. total disbelief. but do i care..? maybe a little.. i m just happy it is OVER!!! hopefully this happiness is not a short lived one. (i m prepared to be an average.. not so prepared for the worst. so.. wells.. HECK IT 1ST!! what done cannot be undone? cliche piece of sh*t.. but how true.)

i swear i was hard at work for my previous EL and ICM paper that ended last fri and sat.
lesson learnt: NEVER TAKE BREAKS IN BETWEEN.
1) i went out with collin after my ICM test on Sat. i need a break for my effort right? sounds reasonable. watched TAXI. and luff my head off. its so funny.. and most of all, the company's great.
2) then Sunday came.. he's going to Taiwan soon. i wanna see him!! maybe i can go out for half a day. right? (i m so wrong.. i came back late evening and simply slack the rest of the day away.)
3) come Monday.. i cant concentrate (after no studying for the past 2 days). woah.. this website/TV programme/pimple/ant (circle where appropriate or as-you-like) looks interesting. (monday came.. monday gone. wth..)

then i got darn stressed on tuesday. cos i cant seems to get started. and obviously cant finish within a day. for the whole day, i'm practically hugging my SC reading pack ard the hse and still at the 1st page. for the 2nd time this month, i broke down and cried. i wonder if i indeed became weaker. never had i cried for studies. who cries for studies!? *couNERDugh* but this time round, tears flow freely. i dun even know why i cry. for that moment, i just felt i cant take it. maybe I M WEAK.

it didnt help that collin was so busy/tired with his preparations for the trip that he had no time to call me and me on the other hand, wanted so much for him to show me support. he probably had little idea what i m going thru anyway. so i called him and midway, (uncontrollably) i cried.. but he was there for me. i dun rmbr him saying this before but he told me,
"why dun you just tell me what's wrong and i'll lend you a listening ear."
no hiccups. i never knew he was capable of saying something like that.. sweet.
(for all u noe, i used to be chided by him when i cry. wat the.. right? or probably becos i tend to get emotional easily last time, sec sch days.)


i did feel so much better letting my pent up mood flows. literally. crying does do wonders.. sometimes. instant relief.. 2 more days to go. wish me luck!! will be there to join your fun soon.. very soon.


looking at you.. it just remind me of the reason why i fell in love with you in the 1st place..

Sunday, November 14, 2004

get me out of this.. looking forward to 27th Nov.

i promised (myself) not to blog till exams over, considering the amt of time i spend blogging each time. but things aint going smoothly these days.. i just gotta let it off my chest. else risk suffocating.. and becoming suicidal (heh.. kidz).

life is a total mess nowadays. never had school life ever.. EVER.. been so bad.. this is horrendous. not what i expected at all. exams are like next week.. i m so not ready. its driving me crazy..
the fact that its so bad is probably cos you dun even see your frens. i wanna see my frens!!! everyone's so busy. some studying.. some trying to study.. some on holidays (ting only!).. some slacking (and waiting for the rest of us to finish our exams.. weilin!)
time could be better spent doing some readings.. trying some questions.. somehow time passes without you doing much. then you get all stressed up for it means exams one day nearer and you are still at ground zero.. and this just goes on the following day.. and the next and the next.
perhaps its just me. y do i sometimes feel i cant take this anymore!? had 14 years of education not prepared me for this?

suddenly i realise how couples can break off when the guys enter army.. two person leading inherently different lives.. only to reconcile during the days the bf get to book out.. neither able to understand fully how the other party is leading his/her life. it is not as simple as it seems..
if i tell you i m on the verge on breaking down.. can mere words accurately portray the kind of life, the feelings i'm going thru now?


i m so.. so.. mentally drained.

on the brighter side.. i think i m prepared for next sem. i'll noe what to expect and what is expected of me. culture shock.. maybe. but y is this so bad? or did i just become weaker?


come 27th Nov 2004.. life will be good again.. i'll blog after my exams. i need to do something abt it 1st.. sure i do.

Thursday, November 11, 2004

17 more days.. go..

HAPPY DEEPAVALI!!
(being chinese, the only thing that makes me happy is becos it means its another PUBLIC HOLIDAY!! heh..)

collin booked out ytd night at bout 7 pm. went to Jurong Point to meet him to have dinner after my class and was treated to SWENSENS!! (his pay is in!!! wahaha.) yummy.. ordered fish and chips though my throat still hurts and my fever wont go away. but its fantastic..!! they got really good fish and chips.. juicy and succulent. forced to drink plenty of water (yucks) after that though. and no ice cream for me.. *sob* set off for home after that and i guess he got really tired out by his SCOC earlier in the day that he was sleeping almost thru out the whole trip (i think collin indirectly caused pengfeng to sprain his ankle. gosh.. haha.). but still has the basic courtesy to walk me (halfway) home even though i insisted that he didn't have to. thanks dearie.. i appreciate that.

its funny how things can go wrong when you thot nothing's already going right. getting sick at this point of time.. is one of the worse things possible. after 19 yrs, i now learn panadols make you drowsy, which probably explains why i have been slping so much these days. and according to ivan and zibin, there exists something called non-drowsy panadols. (wat?!)
2 nights ago.. i took another panadol and was feeling extremely sleepy (again!). was climbing onto my bed when my stupid hand hit the cup. i ended up spilling the whole FULL cup of WATER on my precious LAPTOP. anyone more clumsy than me, must be indeed very very clumsy. argh.. at least i din see smoke and sparks. instinctively i turn over the laptop. *drip drip* this sucks.. i still owe NUS $2000 for this damn thing. if it dies on me, i'll die with it. i tried to on the laptop, then i realise some keys aint working anymore. gosh..taking my wise brother's advice, i switch it off and left it upside down overnight.
i m so done with my blardy exams thats coming up and now this.. thankfully, i have supportive frens. heh.. (thanks sindy and xiang!!) without my frens, i think i would have gone haywired in all these mess.

things are looking up!!
and viola! today.. my laptop working again!! aha. i'm blogging from my laptop now. and every keys' working!! hopefully it stays like this forever.
and my sore throat feeling better (despite the fish and chips i had last night.. strange. yi du gong du? haha. maybe?) my temperature dropped by another 0.2 degree celsius.

after all these things that happen.. i guess things can only be looking up from now on. 17 more days.. i'll reclaim my FREEDOM. to hell with all the stupid books.. what concepts, what theories. happy days will come my way when i am done with all these shit..

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

i miss you all. *sob*

Out of all times.. I m running a fever now. wth..
just a slight fever.. 37.2 degree celsius. but enuf to make me feel s0 deep down in the dumps. feeling so warm all over.. add that to an agonising sore throat. actually it started off with the sore throat.. and with all the tidbits, milo and chocolates which i hecked and ate.. good! its now back with a revenge. argh.. of all times.

i was frantically searching for a thermometer just now to confirm that i'm running a temperature. then i found the thermometer we all bought (forced to) during the SARS period.

ah.. how sweet the memories now. though we always dread sitting at assembly area or what we'll affectionately call, AJ Square. taking out our log books, jotting down the temperature and letting someone verify and sign. then my form teacher, miss lim will go down the row checking, like we are some primary school kids. she took it very seriously, but i think it is.. SARS was quite a terror then.
sometimes, you'll see weilin not with us during assembly cos she forgot to bring her thermometer. to have her attendance taken, we will then have to lie to miss lim that she's "in the toilet, stomachache." yeah right.. but its half the truth.. she was in the toilet.. but hiding there!! haha..
midway, it was rather sad that yongfeng was put under quarantine, then jasmine also (for going to meet yongfeng. duh?!). jasmyn came back after 10 days. but yongfeng contracted SARS and was made to stay at TTS for a few months i think. it was rather a dark period of time for me and the rest of 26/02 i would say.. uncertainty about what will happen to your frens.

yongfeng recovered and came back for his As even missing so many, so many lessons. but darn.. he did well!! (me: pangs of guilt. what happen to me? haha.) but he's intelligent i would say and hardworking too. in fact, when we went back AJ for the release of the results, some chinese newspaper (lian he zao bao i think) came to report about his SUCCESS story. heard they wanted to take a class picture. but the gals were all gone by then.. i was gone by then.. needless to say. my results.. it sucks. but i m happy for them. saw the picture that was published on the paper, the guys look happy. and jae chia (our physics teacher-cum-friend-cum-GPJ) was in the picture too. we owe it to him.. he was the only one pushing us hard.. believing in us. i nv went back to tell him how appreciative i m for all that he has done for us.. with my physics grade, he'll probably think he din do enuf. so nvm.. haha.

one day during physics lessons, just before the big As. mr chia (or aspiring Great Principal Jae) brought everyone a shell, each attached a pearl.

we are all like the pearl in the shell.. oozing with potential.
and the slide shows he did for us..
"there can be miracles, when you believe... you can when you believe".
some teachers come and go in your schooling life.. but some of them left an indelible mark that will never leaves. and deep down, we appreciate that.


i miss 26/02.

Sunday, November 07, 2004

the notion of being fat.

its funny how girls can keep rattling on on how fat they are or are getting.. have you ever met a girl who never once in the whole entire life complained she's fat? not for me at least.. thats *rarity*.

everytime someone comes along and complains that she's getting fatter and fatter, i'll have the tendency to go, "ok what.. you look the same. where got fat!!?" but then i will sneak a peek at my own reflection and mentally go "eeks.. i m fat."

1stly, the issue of being fat is not being literally grossly overweight. but having flabs around the most undesirable areas, like the THIGHS, WAIST (think: love handles.), arms, BUTT, face and TUMMY. so perhaps, you shldn't go "you are not fat!" cos when girls say FAT, we don't really mean it literally so. that is possibly the reason behind why girls always think they are fat.

2ndly, it didnt help that guys (ok.. some guys) enjoy making fun of girls on such issue. (like they are very skinny themselves. untone abs and all.) for example,
"hey.. wave your hands!" --> read: i wanna see the flabs on your arms tremble.
obviously guys like these lack tremendous amt of SENSITIVITY and ought to be kicked (and preferably locked up) in etiquette schools. ah.. save the trouble, just hang them all, get it over and done with.
i know of at least 2 girls who are victimised by such arseholes and lose some confidence since (though they look perfectly fine to be flaunting their bods). frankly speaking, it is a reflection of immaturity and if you think it's funny, IT'S NOT!!! so it's funny if we luff at how unsatisfactory you are down south? yes.. it's that serious.

media portrayal of curvy woman as "acceptable/truly woman" didnt help either. busty and full at the right areas. and slim and tone at all the right areas again. perhaps the only condolence is to think of the amount of time and money they spend at Marie France Bodyline and at the plastic surgeon's. so wells.. at least i m real. (and fat. imperfection is perfection. er.. ya?)

so did this help reassure us?
no. nothing will..

not that we dun like our bods.. (in fact, i think a woman's body is very beautiful. not sexually pls..)
just that there is always somewhere we could improve on. right gers?

get over with dieting (realise how dieting makes you fatter and fatter?) and move your bum off that couch to do some exercise. exercise? maybe tmr.. yes.. there's always a tmr. haha.

happy days will come my way

sometimes i cant stand myself. i m unbelievably lack of self discipline and focus. (focus? what focus?) argh.. hopefully i rise to the ocassion. and i better.. wells..

whenever i got impt matters at hand,
i feel like organsing my closet.
i feel like surfing the net for interesting stuffs (i visited straits times, time magazine and national geographic webbies so far..).
i feel like eating something (sore throat now..).
i succumb to ppl asking me out (a "short" break from work? yeah right.. been having multiple "short" breaks every now and then..).
i do anything irrelevant, time wasting and feel so guilty after that, that i din do work!!!

this seriously has to changed!! i need some time.. but thats what i m running out of. but nvm.. i'll figure.

looking forward to the happy days ahead.. when i m done with all these shit!
*i'll go shopping.
*i'll do more exercise and bring up my metabolism rate once again.
*i'll visit a dermatologist.
*i'll go sentosa with my friends.
*i'll engage in mindless girls' tok.. and tok and tok and tok all day all night long.
*i'll do more shopping. and shopping and shopping.
*i'll then work, work and work myself to death to get the bucks.
*so that i can do more shopping and shopping and shopping.

argh.. going slightly bonkers (and bimbotic as a matter of fact.). but if this keeps me going.. why not? if i have said this before, i'm saying it again..


THIS SUCKS!! (big time.)

Thursday, November 04, 2004

happy birthday HUILING!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HUILING!!!
you will always be my DA N**..! heh.
-big hugx-
i'm in the central lib now. came here to commemorate my beloved da n**!!!
gtg.. cannot slack le. argh.. this sucks.
poof!!

Tuesday, November 02, 2004

bubble tea. death. studies. life.

**HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEIQI!!!!**
finally 19.. congrats!

i was reading someone else's blog and she mentioned bubble tea. hmm.. which reminded me that i havent had one for a long time! haha. had to satisfy my craving. so i went out immediately and bought myself a GREEN TEA DOUBLE PEARL (my fave!!). heh. that was 10 minutes ago. i'm now back home!! savouring the bouncy chewy 'pearls'.. *yummy* the bubble tea joint near my hse has the best pearls in SG! furthermore, it's dirt cheap. all drinks are at $1. add pearls $0.30. best of all, its only across the road. wahaha. less than a 5 minutes walk to get there.
problem is: i have to cross this wide road which consists of a sharp turn. at that very same area, there's construction going on (circle line!! yes!!) which 'strategically' locates itself in a way that it blocks 99% of jaywalkers' view of the oncoming traffic. darn.. thats dangerous. my heart pops each time i see elderly ppl crossing that road. the fact that the nearest pedestrian crossing is so far/outta da way doesn't help the situation at all.
when i was on walking there, i was wondering what if i miscalculated, get knocked down by a car and die! *touch wood, no doubt.* but shit happens as we have seen on news many times. die all for a cup of BUBBLE TEA?? thats sad. look.. if that happens, it means i din even die for a worthy cause, like trying to save a small kid from being knock down. then perhaps i would have lived this life in vain.

i dun tink i m that fearful of death itself. but more of what will happen to my loved ones when i die. probably the things i always wanted to do but have yet to. the things i wanted to say but never said it or even never had a chance to say. i rmbr once i thot i was going to die (ha! for a rather lame reason that i wont say why to save embarrassment.) and i quietly sobbed in my room. it was then perhaps, i start thinking for the impt things in life. so i survived.. (of cos i did. argh.. i m so stupid then. =X) and life took on a new dimension from then on. i rmbr asking collin then, is he fearful of death? he said he is. his argument is more of what will become of him when he dies. his response pissed me off then cos he didn't even think what will become of me!! and when i thot of death, he was one of my foremost concerns (amgst my family, some relatives and close frens of cos..). now.. thats ok. ha. we just view death differently. for now, its great to be alive so treasure every living moment. *in case i sound suicidal, i m NOT!! dun worry. ;) *

yesterday when i was on my way home with jacqueline, we were tokking about how parents nowadays stress their children so much when it comes to their studies. which reminds me of the time i went to my stef's (my niece-cum-childhood pal) 21st birthday chalet. and we brought all my younger nieces and nephews (all in lower primary school and below) to the nearby playground. when we were heading back, i was holding the hand of one of my nieces and she looked at me and asked, "can we come back and play with the sand again?" i said yes. then she said, "why is it that i am feeling so happy just now and i m not now?" speechless. it broke my heart instantly. how could that come out of the mouth of a kid that young? apparently, her mum stresses her alot in her studies and she is in kindergarten, mind you. i vouched i'll never be parents like that. or at least i will try to. i was given full autonomy over my studies since young. my parents dun interfere with my studies or perhaps becos they dunno much about the system anyway. (i told my mum i went into NUS and she told my auntie i went into NTU. well.. nvm.) but i think, i turn out well. at least, i had a fruitful childhood. and each time i look back, i smile. i'm let to fall and pick myself up. not some stressed up kid whose studies=life. or perhaps, parenthood isnt that easy. the world has radically changed from my time. gosh.. i realise i m tokking like my parents now. tokking about the past when it is no longer applicable to the generation today. perhaps.. then, the education system indeed need a thorough revision.

tokking bout education system, i m right now a victim of it. hell.. going back to hit the books!! ciao peepx.

Monday, November 01, 2004

exams.. argh.

PS: notice my font size shrunk again!? sorry ppl, esp. mq and weilin. wahaha. i still prefer this font size. the bigger one puts me off blogging. like.. so unglam? haha.

exams are near. i m trying hard to do more work. but at this point in time and with my snail pace, i think i will never finish what i have to. but i m trying. trying to be more focus. more self disciplined. trying not to fall asleep. wahaha. argh.. but i'll make it thru, by hook or by crook. everybody, jiayou ba!!

came out of my hse today.. feeling terribly grouchy. life is so dull now.. its all about school. no fun. no shopping. little sleep. little of all the nice things in this world. somebody paint my world!! which is otherwise shades of black, white and grey now. =(
i took a train from Paya Lebar and by the time i reach Buona Vista, i decided to cheer up a little. like what i always say, "whether you smile or frown, life goes on as usual."
i choose to make my life easier. so =) !!

suppose to reach school at 10am and i reached at 11.36am (again!). by the time i reach school, the lecture is near to an end. but heck.. the lecturer himself provides me with a more than ample reason for not turning up. so i am on my own now.. gotta catch up with whatever he says. and hopefully.. do a good job at it!

love you guys. sorry for the dull entry. cant help it.. cos thats what my life is all bout now. *knock head on the wall*

maybe i end with something stupid here: one thing you may not know i am thinking.
-- i think i am a sea animal my previous life.
-- guess that explains why i dun eat seafood, esp. crab, prawn, you-name-it.
-- i used to eat seafood when i was young, maybe till age 5,6,7?.
-- yesterday, i lift up the cover of a bowl and saw crab+vemicillin inside. i dunno why but i feel like vomitting then. really..
-- like i said:
i think i am a sea animal my previous life, PREFERABLY a mermaid. wahaha.
-- but my brother told me that mermaids are supposedly evil. its disney that makes them good and desirable (rmbr The Little Mermaid?).
-- so well.. urps... heh.