hiding behind the smile

2007-09-27T22:14:00.000+08:00

Present making!!!! been waking up early today, ok not that much earlier, just less lazing ard in bed... cos octa would come to my place to settle pictures and do the present! haha.... i must say we are pro!!!!!! finished the collage quick;ly and we're really proud of it.. it's.... damn damn nice.. ali, you better hang it up properly! and take good care of it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Settlers @ Clarke Quay
met the nus peeps today for some board games. heh. this is the first time i've been out with them!!!! yeah, aft two years plus plus. the last time that was nearest to an outing was put tog by glen, but only terence, glen and i went and terence left so early so it wasn't really an outing. heh. i still remember that we watched death note 2!!!!!!!!!! anw... settlers at clarke quay today! walked ard to look for the place cos we had no idea where it is!!!! heh. eh.. but we know clarke quay a teeny weeny bit better now! hahaha....

liqing is damn fast!! hahaha... she's always the first to get the stuff!! heh. i conclude that i have slow reflexes! :(

played some other games like bang and cash (which wasn't very fun. played it only cos there were guns involved! but too bad, the gun couldnt really shoot anything!) and then played another game that xiaokai taught us which was quite fun! hahah.. yishan got into a bad bad situation at the end! hahaha.. damn funny. xiaokai wanted to assasinate her, i wanted to steal from her. hahaha...

group shot without xiaokai cos he left early.. so yeap :) us girls! :) hahaha... fun fun!!!! next outing will prob be aft exams... kbox or maybe board-gaming again! heh.

2007-09-24T16:02:00.000+08:00

Mid Autumn Festival 2007 :)

we decided to resume our yearly MAF celebrations at khatib (cos khatib rocks).. so the engineers, mathematician and doctor (the lawyer was busy) decided to come together and join in the celebrations at octa's condo. but as usual, someone was late and we got there just in time to see the kids go back home. yeap! event had ended so we started our own play time!!!!!!! :)

xh brought lanterns but we used only one. had no chance to walk ard with it cos xh did not bring any sticks for us to carry the lanterns with!!!!!!! yes, the one who is supposed to have lots of compassion wanted to steal from kids!!!!!! ahh......... now now.. heh.people who were present..... xh and i! :) we were just settling down at this time. heh.octa and the bf! hahaha... sweetness... but i didnt know that we started a little fire there?!?!?!the three of us (with ali absent!!) we were along the path of illumination :p it's difficult lighting up all the candles cos there was wind. so we'd always get excited when there's no wind cos that means we have that little time to light all the candles and take all sorts of pictures we wanted! heh.
E.C.M. :) we still are exclusive. hahahaha... :pplaying ard with my camera's ISO. it's super fun!!!!!! "circles", "heart", "star", "infinity", "spirals", "g", "x", an attempted shooting star and a super nice double heart...and well, we had plenty of spastic pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's super funny looking at them. i really don't know what we were thinking at that point in time. hahaha.. but oh well....

xh still being a kid (well she is the youngest!) / SEXY octa / i really don't know what xh is doing in this one!!! / ummm and i don't know what i was doing either / looking at the moon, but in opposite directions! / spastic / super awkward position / we were running with sparklers (not that you can tell now) / a huge ass :p
and the people (and octa's gleaming ass :p ) behind the successful outing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) reliving our childhood days :p
and we've agreed to come together again next year to play!!!!!!!! :) and the year aft, and many many years aft..... northerners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and well, khatib power rocks!

2007-09-21T21:11:00.000+08:00

MID SEM BREAK IS HERE!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :)

time passes so quickly when we're having fun. hahaha... but really, half a sem is over so quickly. i don't even know what' i've learnt so far. but this break... not really a break. busy!! activities, appointments, dates, tuition, family...... and well, studying. hahahahhaa....

anw i was telling xinwei today, i lie without feeling any guilt or shame. hahahha.. yeah. i'm a good student. i know that. i love studying. i know that too. science library is my favourite hangout. that's definitely true! :) and yap, i dun understand why people would want to skip lectures. hai................ :p

tonight, no work is allowed to be done. i am entitled to this one night of good rest! :)

2007-09-19T09:55:00.000+08:00

free day today! but it's not that much of a free day for me. have to do my helpsheet for the test tmr. as usual, i'm so last minute. i told myself that i should be more hardworking every sem, but it never seemed possible. oh well. that can be my trademark :p

mid term break next week. but when has the mid term break ever been a real break. it's always a time to study for tests that come after that. checked out tickets to nz. can't believe that it costs more to go to nz than to go to london!!!! wth. sad.

tuition tonight. intensive tuition these few weeks. cos exams are coming. then i'll be free from tuition until prob next year!!! :) yeap. my slack student who doesn't believe in tuition during the hols. hmmm sth like me. hahaha... but i'm worse. when exam's coming, i'll tell my tutor not to come. hahahah.....

back to continuity of complex functions, differentiability, harmonic conjugates, etc. my lecturer just told us the questions for the test. how wonderful. now everybody is expected to score full marks. hahah..

2007-09-15T17:30:00.000+08:00

Mooncake buying time!!!!!!!!! :)

went down to raffles hotel to get the mooncakes that i love so much that i must get it every year!!!!!! :) so happy. was so excited when i found out that there is new stock today!!!!!!! went down specially to get it cos i was bored. hee. so yeap!!! dragged my mom down with me too. i'm one happy happy girl :)

opened up the box and the nice smell of freshly made mooncakes drifted up.... damn nice...

the usual packaging with the gu3 dian3 mei3 ren2 (ie ummm.. olden day beauty) in front

2007-09-15T10:23:00.000+08:00

ppl who can't sleep upright in the train shouldn't sleep in the train at all. why inconvenience people when you start leaning towards him/her, esp when the train is so crowded with early morning traffic. anw yah, i almost got squashed by this guy who kept leaning towards me. he's really heavy, i have to add. and i think my left arm developed some muscles as i kept pushing him away. i found out that jabbing him works the best cos he moved away quickly, which led me to wonder if he really was sleeping. argh!

yesterday was quite an ok day, even tho i had a bad start in the mrt. lectures went fine. meeting tat for lunch, where he tried to con me!!!! he told me that he needed to rush back to pgp to settle sth and wanted to pangseh me when i was already at engine canteen waiting for him!!!! argh! but he was lying. i almost wanted to skin him when i saw him. that ass!! then i rained and i had to climb up SO MANY flights of stairs to get to the walkway to walk to central lib! and when i got up there, the rain got slightly smaller, but i refuse to go down and take the short way. ha! stupid nus has SO MANY stairs!!!!!!

anw both kk and adrian misunderstood my 2nd level of the library!!! i forgot which level it is ma (it's the 5th) so i told them it's the 2nd level of the lib, like the place you enter is the first, then go up and it's the second level lor! but no... kk went down to look for the 2nd level only to find out that it's for staff only. made me laugh like crazy! hahaha.. then adrian was a little smarter (cos he made that mistake before) and he called me. hahaha.... so yap, studied with them and tat who joined us later.... :)

kk made me quite worried abt my calculus. i seem to have forgotten all of them!!!! i think it's the over reliance on help-sheets, i don't bother to remember. anw, my brain goes through some clearance after every sem. by the end of the holidays, nth remotely mathematics remains there :p anw it's impossible to intergrate sin(x^2) wrt x!!!!!!! (glen you can try it and tell me too) kk wanted to complain to math dpt!! ass!!! but i went back to ask wenhao, yishan, xinwei, huishan, their smart smart friends, all said no!! we just stopped short of asking wong yan loi. hee.

anw this weekend is for studying. got a test on thurs! argh. save me. i really don't know what's gg on for that test. and i still have hmkS to do and tuts to rush. darn. mid term break will be time for some catching up!!!

thankful for all my friends who never fail to make me smile even on my saddest of days. be it octz, xh/octa/ali, mary/bu, hc band peeps, saf buddies... you guys rock! and to glen, thanks for staying by my side (even tho not physically) and bearing w me even through my pms-y days :) love you all!!! being pms-y makes me emo.. hahah..

2007-09-13T21:30:00.000+08:00

and i am super restless. no focus. yet stressed at the same time. seeing the amt of work pile up. the lectures which i go for and yet have no clue abt what's gg on. that's a bad bad sign. plus ppl who keep asking what i'm gg to do aft i grad. this sucks. argh. i can't wait for end nov.

mary: hahaha... it's so true. anw i have test the next day. you kow i always study in advance. like.. umm one day in advance. sorry cant join you two. will meet up with you all again ok? have fun!!!

2007-09-12T19:59:00.001+08:00

service in sg sucks. i was so pissed today. still am irritated.

went to raffles hotel, wanted to buy mooncakes. then when i went to the booth, nobody wanted to serve me even tho there weren't a lot of customers. then i approached this guy to ask abt the mooncakes, all he could answer was "i dunno" and it got me irritated already.. his attitude already sucks.. and he seemed to impatient and unwilling to serve me.. then another woman (just some older woman) came and he immediately went to her without even hearing my enquiries like wth. i may be young and may not be buying 20boxes like some ppl, but i am still a customer.

i just don't understand what's with the service sector in sg. it's so based on looks. they just serve those who look like they are gg to spend a lot, otherwise they serve the tourists. students, definitely out of their "priority list". what's with this discrimination?! we are all customers no matter what. and in the service line, it's never supposed to be a practice to judge how a person looks before serving them! ok, there is this practice in singapore. in most of the luxury shops. this is not the only time i got such treatment in shops. there are several times when i enter a shop with the intention of buying things but ended up being snubbed by the staff and turn away to buy from another shop who's willing to treat me in a more respectable manner. sg is aiming to be a service hub. if the service staff can't even treat the locals in a decent manner, how is sg gg to reach it's goal??? oh but i forgot, the staff treat tourists differently. so maybe it's still possible.

on a happier note, glen might be back earlier!!!!!!!! :) :) :) i am one happy girl! hee. BUT that means he'll be back before my exams end. sad. i'm gg to have someone gloating at me when he's back. i shouldn't have laughed at him the past 3 sems. retribution now. :(

2007-09-10T21:20:00.000+08:00

this sem is one of the busiest sem ever, in terms of school work. the long tutorials, more homework, lots of lecture notes, lots of copying during lectures. it just sucks. it doesn't help that i'm taking five core and i'm boring myself to death. life got better with non linear but worse with ode. regression and stochastic have never looked too bright and complex has the worst workload. i hate it. thank goodness for time table clashes. almost wanted to take 6modules this sem (jap 2 qhich has a crazy workload too) argh!!!!! ok, enough complaints. i shall just accept it and try to be a good student.

6 mths and counting. my life has been so much happier since you came. thank you for everything. see you in dec.

2007-09-09T23:44:00.000+08:00

octa: hahaha... it's not us who are perverts! we are merely wondering abt the print on your top! so yeap!!! :) :) :) and eh.. you didn't scoop from your side.. that's why it toppled!! hahaha....

ali: eh.. i really want to go for lecture. it's just that ummm ppl like to place dates on fridays. it's really not my fault. hahaha... i will go for lecture. been rather guai this sem. i mean, compared to the past 4 sems that i've been in uni. hahaha... :p

it's almost midnight. i'm still doing my work. *claps. haha.. but umm that's cos i havent been doing anything this weekend. just super restless the past week, which resulted in this pile of work to be done!!!!!!!! help. and as you can tell, i'm super distracted!!!!!!!! and it's not helping. i'll prob sleep soon. haha... this is hopeless...

tmr.. long day. with 6hrs straight of lessons plus tuition after that. i've been invited for dinner at her place again. shall not eat before tuition. otherwise i'm gg to end up with 2 rounds of dinner (it's happened so many times cos her mom always forces me to eat) yeah. 2 rounds of dinner means byebye to diet plans. yah, her mom will either sit me at the dinner table or get the maid to serve dinner into the room, which always makes me damn paiseh!!!!

xh: i'll be ard semby!!!!! heehee.

2007-09-08T12:35:00.000+08:00

RGSSB ECMs (minus ali)

anw, i was a bad student. skipped two lectures on friday cos i was SO tired. went to school with barely 5hrs of sleep. stupid 8am classes. this sem's timetable sucks. oh well.

met xh and octa in town! it's been a long time since i've met them. but they are the kind of friends whom i don't meet often yet still have plenty to say! there are just some friends whom i may meet everyday, yet have nth to say. ah well. wonderful rgssb friends! 7yrs of friendship and counting. we are getting old!!! sorry xh, no raffles winds for me, i don't think i can even play a scale on the trumpet. hahaha...

crystal jade la mian xiao long bao :) had wonderful xiao long bao. hahah.. we shared a bowl of la mian and had some other side dishes and were surprisingly full!!! :) yay! save money! it's actually quite good gg with girl friends. we share, get to eat a variety of stuff without paying a lot :)
went to coffee club to satisfy our sugar fix. muddy mud pie!! umm gone. obviously we made a mess :)
all these landed on the table. hahaha.. there was no balance of forces from all three sides which resulted in a collapsed mudpie, all in octa's direction. so you all know who's the one who didnt contribute the force required to balance it! hahaha.. my physics suck.
coffee club in kino was surprisingly empty on a friday night. i think everybody went to the one outside cos it closes later. the kino one closes rather early i think..
walk around kino to look for stationery. some things never change. since rgs days, we've been heading to popular just to look at stationery and get all sorts of markers and pens and weird stuff. it's still the same now :)

digging their huge (fairer skinned) nose!!! hahaha.. it's a sharpener actually. hahaha...

big big ears!!!!!!!!! they are actually clips!!!! hahahah.... too bad, they didnt have lips! met octa's bf and went to his place to place board games!!! :) he has a collection of interesting games!! so fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) we played a dilbert game that was quite crappy, brainless actually. good for relaxing and laughing. hahahaha... no brains needed, just do what they tell you to. hahaha.. there's even a sexual harrassment card!!! which is damn funny. hahaha..

took a picture in the mirror. hahaha..

and xh is lost in paradise looking at octa's top! :) hahah..

it's fun to see them again after such a long while. next meeting should be either with ali's bday or mid autumn fest. hee. hopefully no sparkler will land on a merc again :p hahaha...

2007-09-07T13:55:00.000+08:00

this is for glen. hahahaha....

the school life that you are missing out on!!!!!

the indo food stall at engine (grilled chicken) / science faculty (this is S14, level 2) / LT31, stochastic lecture going on / the lights of the favourite hangout! :) :) :) hahahaha

2007-09-05T15:48:00.000+08:00

stupid zahid!!! eh, i knew that ali was gg long ago lah.. and pls!! not left out! gundusamipokznene!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha

mar: that was done by others! not me!!!! heh. and i dont find it that nice leh..

ok free day today. supposed to be studying but i find myself so restless :( just not in the mood to do anything. which is bad. i can't start not doing tutorials cos that would mean a downward spiral of neglecting all my other tutorials to come.

anw nus admin sucks. so much hype over the s/u options now. but thing is, i wonder if nus will really do anything. it's a stupid decision to change it. even more stupid to change it only for the new batch. stupid school.

i need to save. but i need retail therapy too. sigh. ok, i shall pick saving over retail therapy. all money shall go into my new-phone-fund. my phone is getting really screwed up. sigh. but i still love it.

2007-09-03T22:42:00.000+08:00

so tired. yet i can't complain. drained emotionally. well, nothing happened. it's just that feeling of loneliness. feeling alone here in sg. i wish you were here. but i wish you'd have lots of fun in nz too. pity i can't go over. thanks for all the little actions that make everyday so much better than it really is and making each day much more bearable.

2007-09-03T20:26:00.000+08:00

Happy Happy Birthday Eunice!!!!!!! :) :)

2007-09-02T15:02:00.000+08:00

Eunice's 21st Celebration

we met for dinner at clarke quay and made our way to robertson walk cos eunice had a craving for desserts and chocolates (she rejected the chocolate buffet idea cos supposedly it's bad for her throat) but we did end up at a chocolate place :p

dinner was at an italian restaurant where we had pasta. it wasn't fantastic. just normal. no surprises, no wow factor.

dessert was at chocolate factory!!! :) heavenly place for people like me cos i enjoy chocolates (i don't know how to start my diet like that) eunice had a blackforest drink which was recommended by her friends. i had boring chocolate milkshake which was so gao, not advisable for ppl with a bad throat. hahaha...

our passion fruit soffle that was.... so-so. i didn't particularly like it so i stuck to my chocolate truffle which was damn rich. the soffle looks like any ther cupcake in this pic. hahaha..

surprisingly, we didn't take that many pictures before/during/after dinner! hahaha... had someone to take for us at the mrt station but none turned out very good. i thought we all look rather ok here, but the person's hand was blocking the flash :( which resulted in this unintended effect.
using eunice's new samsung phone to take :)

we were trying to get jm to realise the magic of make up and heels. hahaha.. it's quite funny that we have all become like this. from ppl who really don't bother, to people who start to learn a little here and there. all to look better. for me, i think gg to japan was the wake-up call cos everyone there is so dressed up. but we are still considered the more bo chap ones in sg. hahaha... we were exchanging stories abt friends who spend so much time making up, dressing up, etc. we seem so lazy in comparison :p and.. i need to learn to use the eye liner! i'm paranoid when it comes to eyeliners. bleah. hahaha....

ok i have lots of work to do now. still have regression, stochastic and non linear prog. damn.

2007-09-01T12:01:00.000+08:00

Pammy's bday party

went there from school cos my wonderful time table says that fridays end at 8pm. but well, i skipped the 6-8pm lecture. cos i was so drained from school. 5.30am days are no joke. met jm at jurong east mrt cos she didn't dare to drive there alone. hee. traffic was madness. the usual peak hour traffic and crazy bukit timah. hahaha... relax jm.. you are just one of the many drivers on the road! :)

anw was so late. got to pammy's place only at almost 8pm. cos i couldn't get up 95, missed so many of them! and then traffic plus a missed turn (which was quickly corrected) :p but everybody was late. the party haven't started proper. saw so many hc-ians. they all look different. esp the one with the beard!!! oh my. couldn't even recognise him! i still don't know who that person is. hahaha....

pammy was busy entertaining. so we entertained ourselves sufficiently well. photo-whoring.

eunice, jm, me, kooifei, jan.. haven't seen jan since sec school i think. hahaha...
candid shot that jm took! but we look really happy!!!
a proper shot by the pool. the pool that we dunked someone in back in sec school. and this party was civilised. all grown up. no pushing ppl into the pool.. kf, me, jm. i realised that i tend to stand with my legs crossed. the ground was uneven.
this looks like we're at botanical gardens!!!!!!! and well, shot with the busy birthday girl who even managed to get a beer tap for her party! with cheongsum ladies who served only the males with their tight-fitting, see-every-curve-outfit.
and... spin photo yet again :p
at the 2nd floor balcony :) caught the bday girl before we left.
jm and kf wants to hold their wedding at her lawn. hahaha.. it's now a fight to see who's the highest bidder! hahahaha... and well, who gets married first! :p (we concluded that kf would be the first. hahaha)

and... i was (still am) super duper happy yesterday!!!!!!! :) heard the ever familiar voice, the deep low "hello" :) yah somehow the number was not reflected on my phone, so i thought some weird stalker was calling from a public phone. oh man!! still very surprised. haha... couldn't stop smiling to myself. a short 9 min conversation makes ginny a happy girl :)

2007-08-30T11:40:00.000+08:00

free day yest! so i went about town running errands, cutting my hair, meet up w mary, watch a movie. heh. yeap. went down to ttsh with my mom in the morn. there was some health event held there plus free health screening etc. oh well. and they had this dance item that probably got their inspiration from yoga/pilates.

so glad that my bro came to pick me from ttsh. and off to town!!! :) we both wanted to get a hair cut. so yap. told him to get a wang lihom hair cut instead of his usual ah-peh kind of look. hahaha.. yeap. but well.. let's se how he styles it without the help of stella! hahaha... i trimmed my hair. yet another, waste money kind of hair cut. then bought tickets for borne ultimatum. hahah.. even tho i didn't catch the first two parts of the series. but oh well, it doesnt really matter cos i still managed to know what's going on :) it's easy to understand lah. and it's so action packed. 1hr 50min of action. my bro joined mary and i for the movie. so amazed that he'd join us. hahaa.. sadly he didnt join us for dinner so i didnt manage to get a ride back from him :( did my brows!!!!!! so did mary. even tho supposedly her brows had some kind of problem. hahaha.. but oh well. dinner was at sakae. even tho i swore off jap food aft my trip to japan, i dun think i can manage to keep up with it since i really adore jap food. so yap, cheap jap food it is!

escalator at heeren :)

and this is zahid. eating THE salad on his eat healthy hour! :p

ok enough talk for now. i need to do a little bit of work before going off to school :( why do i still have to go to school? sigh. i wish i could be travelling now. it's not good to go travelling just before school starts. you end up with all sorts of withdrawal symptoms even after that and school does nothing to help :(

mandy: take your time :) -hugs-

2007-08-28T21:22:00.000+08:00

i'm having this terrible headache. i think my body is giving way to the horrible school hours and the serious lack of sleep and rest. the past few nights, i didn't sleep well, plagued by all sorts of weird dreams, waking up in the middle of the night cos of them. plus the stupid LT33 that's a giant freezer! it's sth like winter inside. and i didn't bring my jacket and nearly froze to death. it didnt help that it's raining outside. concluded that the colder the weather is, the colder LT33 is. sucks. being put thru lecture is bad enough. now i have to control my shivering and write properly on top of paying attn. wonderful.

had a pleasant surprise today. came in the form of a simple text but i guess that's enough to make me a teeny weeny bit warmer.

2007-08-26T20:06:00.000+08:00

cupcakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeap! these days, i've beenbaking. it's good therapy. the baking therapy. heh. and i've been successful today. even my mom says it's nice. hahaha.. nutella swirl cupcakes. today, was too lazy to do icing cos i had to rush over to my grandma's so just make do without the icing! hahaha... it's yummy! :) i shall perfect it so that i can bake a proper thing for glen when he's back! :) hee.

shall learn to bake more stuff! eclairs coming up sometime in sept! heehee. for now, cupcakes. one baby step at a time. i'm learning :)

and i shall get to regression aft painting my nails. ruined my nails just mere minutes aft finishing them. argh. shit. tutorials are starting this week! ok, at least i've done what is neded for tmr. aft regression, i'll be done w this week's tuts. don't faint people. make sure your eyes are intact. i really did my tutorials!! hahaha.. let's see how long i can actually keep up with this! :p

2007-08-22T17:43:00.000+08:00

wed = free day!!! yeap. wanted to go to town to get a dress that i tried yest, but i decided to save up the money and let that money got to the new-phone-fund. hahaha.. :)

yest, had 6hr break. met zahid in town! hahaha... it was so last min. i talked to him on msn at 6am and he said he'd meet me during my break. hahhaa.. didn't think he'd wake up to meet me but he did! hahaha.. aft running 3km, he almost died but stayed alive so that he could meet me in town! hahaha.... trying to stay healthy, he ate SALAD. i almost died laughing. never seen someone so tortured over eating salad. sigh. dragged him all over shopping (but i didnt get anything) and left him with "the famous xinyi" and went for more lessons in school :(

i think my time table is so screwed. hahaha.. but i planned the tuts properly. in case i want an early weekend or am already in the weekend mood, no tutorials on thurs and fri! hahaha.. ok, but i'll try my best to be a good girl this sem and go for MOST of my lessons! :)

mary: eh.. i didnt even know that my legs were crossed. hahaha....
zahid: what lah?! hahahaha....... i'm a nice best friend.. i know that.. hahaha

2007-08-20T20:26:00.001+08:00

i got all the tutorial slots i want!!!!! even though they aren't very ideal, but.... that was the best i could get...... here goes..

monday: 12noon - 6pm (no break)
tuesday: 8am - 8pm (random breaks in between)
wed: free day
thurs: 2pm - 6pm (no break)
friday: 8am - 8pm (6hr break from 10am to 4pm)

argh.. how to survive?! but oh well.. so all my tutorials are on mondays and tuesdays. that means.. i have to finish up my tutorials early :( that is if i even do them. argh. ok, this sem, i shall do my tutorials before each tutorial and not wait till mid term tests and exams to come before frantically trying to make sense out of them. hahaha.. i'll try my best lah :p

2007-08-19T14:28:00.000+08:00

and so it's been a boring weekend. w me resting at home most of the weekend.

friday was hectic. met bu in town for some shopping. hahaha.. i must say.. RETAIL THERAPY SUCCESSFUL!!!!!!!!!!! :) bought a dress from warehouse. totally love it. even my mom had to admit that it's nice!!! hahaha.... i'm at the age when i adore dresses. hahaha.. got a ring from a shop called ueno. bu and i decided that we had to check it out to see if it really sells nice stuff like ueno is japan. hahaha.. it's not too bad. hee. and then rushing to school with everyone wondering why i dress up for school. felt so odd. as you know, sci ppl rarely dress up!

at night, waited for sharon aft lessons to make our way to ritz for gordon's 21st. we were supposed to watch fireworks too, but the traffic jam, closed roads and walkways caused us to watch and walk at the same time. it's not too bad. saw some really nice ones. hee. and finally went up to the suite. first time in a suite in ritz man! it's spacious. very spacious. with a terrific view..

here's a photo with the bday boy!!! yesterday, had the sudden urge to bake! hee. so i baked.. cupcakes. first time trying it out. but the icing turned out not bad.. but the cake itself was a little hard. have to modify the recipe a little next time!!!

chocolate and peanut butter cupcakes with chocolate frosting!

yeap.. and it's my ah gong's bday celebrations today! have to go over soon!!!!!!!!!!!!! the good thing about staying in the next block! hahaha...

2007-08-16T20:26:00.001+08:00

i am so getting a new phone!!! hahah... my phone got some prob lah! it'll shut off suddenly, like when there's full batt the last time i checked it. and.. i sometimes don't receive msges!!!!!!!! and i have to switch off and on to get a whole load of it, only to realise the most important text is missing! bleah. now just waiting for the phone that i want to be out. then it's new phone time. my bro and i should be getting the same phone. hahaha.. first time ever. my mom almost flipped when she heard that i'm intending to get a new phone. but it's not my fault. phone got prob. hahaa.. but seriously. i love my e65. maybe i'm just looking for an excuse to get a new phone :p

and i'm amazed. i paid attention in class today. copying what is needed, reading the notes, knowing more or less what's gg on (but that's cos most of it is revision now) and i'm dreading stochastic processes. it seems like it's gg to get quite difficult towards the end.. for now, it's still managable. thank goodness i have shanshan taking it w me :)

oh and my complex lecturer is irritating. he thinking that we don't know even the simplest stuff!!! he actually TAUGHT us how to write the symbol for integers!!! as if we don't know!!!! and then he wrote the symbol for natural numbers and told us to GUESS what it stands for!!!!!!! and he even asked us if zero was included in natural numbers!!!!!!! hello!!!!!! we are math students, yr 3 already!!! how can we not know?!? we went through several modules of mathematical analysis, basics of math, etc. i nearly fainted. gg thru all the thing that we learnt in jc for complex. i guess that's good in a way. some of it might be tested in exams. i just dread all the proving and theorems that are coming up..

mandy: i saw cleo at nus sci canteen!!!!!!! hahaha...

2007-08-14T21:12:00.000+08:00

and so the first two days of school are over. and i look forward to a free day tmr! :) but. i have tuition, so not completely free. but oh well.. school has been.. BORING! as expected. with 5 core modules, what else should i expect right??? ok, here's the break dow n of the past two days...

monday 13 august 2007... went to school to sell my textbook, then went hunting for stupid lt33. never been there before, only know that it's on the computing side. it has become THE lt of the sem, cos i have 3 modules there!!!!!!!!!

MA3111 Complex Analysis was boring, with loads of revision, and NO notes cos the prof didn't publish the stupid workbin!!!!!!!! but oh well, i got more than i demanded when i got home. he uploaded ALL the lecture notes for the ENTIRE sem. all 209 pages of it. argh!!!!!!!!! he didn't seem to know how to use all the tech-y stuff. a yonnd man needed an old woman (those in nus sci fac will know who she is) to teach him how to use the mic!!!!!!!!!! oh my. and then he went on abt "lawn-zero" variables. he can pronounce "point" perfectly but he can't pronounce the "n" in "non-zero". strange.

ST3236 Stochastic Processes was worse. the lecturer started off by saying that he predicted that a lot of ppl will drop the module. so he wont request for a change of venue till next week. yeah, the lt was over flowing with ppl!!!!!! then he proceeded to "toast" the coin and "toast" the dice. he must be really hungry. oh my. but at least he let us go off early! ended within an hour. shiok!

met the guys and 2 girls aft that at botak jones. yes i finally know where it is. find out where it is only in my 3rd year! and nope, havent tried it cos i was so full!!!!!!! got a lift back to seletar where i took the familiar 854 back to yishun :)

today 14 august 2007 was a super early day! woke up at 5.30am!!!!!!! cos i had a lecture at 8am! MA3236 Non-Linear Programming: i kena cheated cos the prof wasnt even there! he sent a graduate student there! but granted, the grad student was pretty decent looking ;p and i could understand his english. a first from a prc! (besides shanshan lah) and he ended in 1 hr too. so i went home to have nice lunch then visit my ah ma and go for tuition. drove! and my stupid kid refused to believe that i can drive!!!!!!!!!!!! is it that hard to believe?!?!?!?!?!?! argh!!!!!!!!

ST3131 Regression Analysis totally cheated my feelings. i rushed from tuition to school cos i thot i didn't have time. BUT the bloody freaking damn lecture was CANCELLED cos the lecturer was still overseas at conference!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! couldn't he just announce it??? make us wait and wait and wait?!?!?!?!?!? shit! and make me rush like mad?!?!?!!? argh!!!!!!!! but i tried out MEGABITES. the infamous one from arts shifted to sci. it's diff from the one at arts.. it serves western fare, it's air conditioned even tho i recommend that you dont sit inside unless you want to smell of food by the time you get out!!! i guess it's edible lah :p

MA3220 Ordinary Differential Equations by wong yan loi. lecture was boring. i almost fell asleep. you can't blame me. i woke up at 5.30am! i was wondering halfway thru the lect, how the hell am i gg to drive back when i'm SO sleepy!!! but yah, it was introduction but he gave us examples of what we'd see and he had to give physics questions. oh. my favourite. it'll totally capture my attention. thank goodness he ended in 1hr. i would have kicked him for giving such a long intro.

and i made it back home in one piece. feeling tired but i have to watch csi and criminal minds. it's my tues tv fix :)

anw school feels empty without glen. i guess i'm so used to having him ard that i feel like i'm missing an arm now. someone i can always turn to when i am bored, have breaks, company for lunch, etc. but now school is just this place that i go to just for lessons and then back home. but i will make thru the sem even w glen far far away. i have ppl accompanying me for every lecture, that's a good thing. i don't really care abt tutorials, it's just an hour of stoning and hopefully learning sth. but i miss taking bus D. i miss taking 183. i miss that walk to KR. sigh.

i need retail therapy URGENTLY. school is making me depressed. ok, not that bad. but it'd help if the lectures were interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!! help me.

2007-08-12T22:42:00.000+08:00

my beautiful nails!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok.. it's a sign that school is starting. cos it just makes me feel better when i go to school with pretty nails. heh. i love my nails. pretty pretty!

2007-08-12T14:35:00.000+08:00

ok, a day before school starts. i have a sucky time table this sem. i have one less (very important) companion in school. i have terrible exam time table. i'm doing five core modules. someone tell me, why do i get a strange feeling that i'm not gg to enjoy this sem???

i should try to sound a little happier. school can still be fun despite all that right??? ummm right. hopefully tat, kk, adrian are gg to be of some help when it comes to company in school. at least i think i can count on tat to study with me :p yeah, guys fresh out of army will go crazy in school cos they've been deprived of two years of studying, they must let out all the pent up mugger-ness in them. heh.

was reading an article in the papers abt how teens spend so much money on clothes, make up and skincare.. and there's a girl who has five must-do facial regimes in the morn, and another time at night. oh my. where do these girls find the time and discipline to do all that??? and then go to school late as a result?? is it worth it???? ok, i never believed in the kind of girls are entitled to be late just cos they need to dress up. cos if you know you need to dress up or have all that facial stuff to do, you should then wake up earlier! same goes for the bf should wait for gf and the gf can be 1hr late. i just don't understand. ok, it's just me. i'm a freak when it comes to punctuality. bleah.

packed my table. all ready for the new sem. wish i could clear my shelf a little more. need more room for new textbooks and notes. i'll try my best not to buy any texts tho. they take up a lot of space. heh. and yeah, i rarely use them anyway! so oh well..

new sem resolution:
to not leave studying till reading week and cramming everything last min. ummmm ok i shall be more realistic. finish help sheets and tagging of notes (have open book exams this sem) before the exam day itself. last sem, i was still doing help sheets on the morning of the paper. hee.

2007-08-12T14:02:00.000+08:00

the many expressions of my best friend!!! hahaha...

ok i'm so gg to get killed for this. but i just uploaded all the pics from my hp to the comp. i couldn't resist. heh

2007-08-10T14:24:00.001+08:00

havent been blogging much cos there's nth really exciting gg on in my life except for the fact that school is starting. oh. that's really exciting.

went out w the guys and becky and janice on tues. playing board games. they got me hooked on board games. hahaha... and then on to dinner at thai express and then dessert at gelare cos it's tuesday! waffles at half price!!! :) wanted to watch a movie initially but there weren't any suitable time slots. so it's more board games. heh. cluedo at smu. and we played till like... 4plus!!!! didn't even realise that time passed SO quickly!!!!!!!!! got back only at about 5.45am. got a scare from my lift. it was stuck at the 10th level, door open, nobody going in but it refuses to go down!!!!!!! freaked out man!!!!!!!!!!!! so it's off to take another lift and running home and closing the door quickly. freaky. called glen to talk for a short while and it's off to bed...... for 4hrs of sleep...

met the hc ppl on wed!!! k box time! heh. it's fun. it's always fun togo k box w them. but i was really very tired. so felt a bit sian sian. but the guys are entertainiing. singing their signature songs... amigos para siempre, ben4 xiao3 hai2, etc... too bad.. not enough time to finish singing. went back early cos i was so tired.

9 august - national day. oh wow. the parade was so so.. first time that the navy could have their own showcase cos it's at marina bay. heh. but i guess they did put water to good use. prob ripped the stuff from the old musical fountain. hahaha...

today... another day of nua-ing at home before school starts. wanted to go shopping. but since students dont have to go to school, i have a strange feeling that orchard will be filled with ppl, so.. na... i can't shop w crowds. shall go back another weekday. bleah.

5 mths and counting!!!! :) :)
4 mths or less till glen comes back!!!!!!!!
3 days till school starts.....

2007-08-06T13:27:00.000+08:00

met mary on saturday. bu was supposed to come along but she had rock climbing with her sister! heh. anw caught secret with mary at cathay. i must say that jay chou's acting didn't improve at all, the start of the movie felt like any one of his mv, despite the twist at the end, it was unrealistic. hahaha.. but it's an ok movie.. watch-able. and mary kept holding on to me!!!! she claims that she's been conned cos supposedly (totally according to her only) the romance theme turned into horror for her. and i must emphasize, it is NOT horror. heh. it's damn funny. i think it's quite sad for smu students. even when you're away from school, you still see your school and get reminded of the numerous days that you're stuck there, rushing projects and presentations...
and dear mary is insistent on gg on a diet. hahah.. ganbatte!! and so we had a very healthy dinner!!!!!!!! look at MY dinner! salad!!!! prawn and fruit salad from swenson's. it even had the healthier choice logo next to it. i was SO proud of myself. hahaha.. healthiest meal ever in my entire life so far. glen should be proud of me. hahaha... :p
mary had caeser salad, minus the dressing, changed it to olive oil. how healthy is that! but she complained that the olive oil is not virgin enough, doesn't taste that nice. heh. and the huge utensils given to toss our salad!!!!!!!! it's fun :) hahaha
met ali and the guys yesterday. went to pepper lunch cos ali craved it. heh. and zg was 1.5hrs late!!!!!!!!!! argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how can ppl not bother to be more punctual????????? nvm. and then zahid dragged me to watch soccer with the rest of the guys at cheryl's place!!!!!!!! i nearly fainted. me? soccer? don't go. heh. it was the man u and chelsea match which man u won. the penalty shoot out was entertaining tho! heh. and cheryl had the biggest tub of gummies ever!!! 2.1kg worth of it! hahaha..

the ntu ppl had to go back cos they had school the next day. awww... and we went to KAP macs for supper. zahid was hungry, i was craving for sth salty. so we ate. and josh lay sleeping beside zahid. hahaha... wanted to leave zg behind when he was on the phone. but aiyah.. didn't work cos he hung up too early. heh.

and here's the guy.. pretending that he's some superstar. hahaha.. one of the 3 shitfriends. heh.more meet-ups before school starts! sigh. i don't want school to start................

2007-08-03T14:47:00.001+08:00

Mary shared this with me and i'm sharing it with all of you... it's damn lame but funny. hee.
Vege punny

2007-08-03T13:58:00.000+08:00

wang lihom's mv is damn sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :( but it's a superbly nice song!
Luo4 ye4 gui1 gen1

2007-08-02T00:24:00.000+08:00

Fujiyama Roller CoasterTrack layout: Out and Back
Height: 259 feet (78.9 m)
Drop: 229.67 feet (70 m)
Length: 6,708.67 feet (2,044.8 m)
Max speed: 80.8 miles per hour (130 km/h)
Duration: 3:36
Max Vertical Angle: 65 degrees
Max G force: 3.5

glen must be mad to get all excited about this roller coaster ride when i told him about it. and no way am i going up that thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you'd have to kill me first! argh!!!!!!!!!! i'll be nice and hold on to all your barang while you go ok???? :)

and i pity bu's future husband.. cos he's gg to have to go up this roller coaster with her! what a romantic ride it's going to be!!!!!!!

videos on you tube:
video one
Video Two

people, tell me.. why would you want to subject yourself to such torture???? but i guess roller coaster fanatics would say... ginny, how could you miss out on this?!?

2007-08-01T16:13:00.000+08:00

Day 11 - Hotel New Otani, Back to Singapore

this is the last day here. last day in japan, the place that i've always wanted to go. almost time to go back. got seats in the 12.50pm airport bus back to narita airport. one last look in the hotel and it's surroundings. view from our room, which was on the 35th level. in the bus. really really didn't want to go back to singapore. our last meals in tokyo. strawbery shortcake at the hotel and katsu curry at the airport. the food was delicious as usual even though it was a little ex. but food at airports and hotels are always over priced right?? heh.
could finally reach glen at the airport. felt better and all ready to hit tokyo all over again. hahaha.. told bu that all i need is a internet cafe visit once in a while and i'm ok with extending our stay in japan :) didn't want to go back. thought we'd do some last min shopping at the airport. luckily we shopped outside too, got nail polish again. when we went in, the only shops that greeted us were cartier, hermes, ralph lauren, ferragamo, etc. shops that we definitely wouldn't buy anything! bleah.

our fates were sealed when we boarded the plane. felt so miserable when the plane took off. made a mental note that i'll definitely be back :) next trip, kyoto, osaka, tokyo :) but now, it's back to saving money. spent every single cent that i brought there plus the usd that my mom gave me plus sign card. oh man! who told me that there's nothing to buy at tokyo?!? major saving money now!!!!!! so that i can travel more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

thinking about it, i want to go to nz. like asap! to see glen and amanda. but.... budget contraints. sorry dears, can't make it there anytime soon unless i strike lottery! hahaha....

places that i want to go... nz (asap), europe (prob not so soon, glen? hahaha), japan (yes, again), taiwan (bu makes it sound like a shopping heaven) i love travelling!!!!! now i know that it's possible to travel by yourselves even in a place where you don't really know their language. but.. well, know enough to survive!

2007-08-01T13:50:00.000+08:00

Day 10 - Ueno, Asakusa, Sumida River Fireworks

the daily papers were delivered to our doorstep every morning, brought in by housekeeping. and well, to appreciate all these, have to read a little right? so yeah, read the front page. haha.. the sincerity shone through. locals were given japanese papers, while people like us were given the english version!
and the wonderful du2 shu1 ramen!!!!!! it's special cos the eating place is divided into cubicles, like what you see at any library!!!!!! so people can just eat alone without feeling weird. and you order your food by buying a ticket from a vending machine! then you specify what you want your ramen to be like, how you want the meat to be, any garlic, etc. and the ramen did not disappoint!!! it's damn nice!!!!!!!!!!!!! not too ex too! only 750yen a bowl. that's about S$9.40. crystal jade price ba.. cheap by japan's standards.. heh.shopping continued at ABAB at ueno. and yah, tried random sunglasses! hahahaha.... damn toot. this is so reputation damaging lah! more earrings here. as you can tell, i totally love buying earrings. another thing we went crazy over... nail stickers and nail polish!!! they are so pretty!!!! and so much cheaper than those in singapore. saw one that singapore sells, same brand and all, sg sells it for S$13.90.. but it's only 500yen there, that's S$6.25!!! less than half the price!!! just grab! hahahah... continued by Blue Label again. bu got her capris there while i got my blouse. so pretty!!!!!!! besides, it's only available in japan!!! exclusive stuff! shiok. ppl, if you go to japan, you have to go to Burberry's Blue Label! wanted to buy for my bro but the store at ueno offered only ladies wear. too bad! :pmade our way to asakusa. it was damn crowded!!!!!!!!! went to the temple to get the fu2 for my grandma. and then to the tempura restaurant recommended by monica. it was real good. light and fluffy with excellent quality of ingredients used by the chefs. it was perfect. and i've never eaten such huge prawns in my life. it's jumbo tiger prawns. they were huge.sensoji temple against the setting sun. so pretty..we sat down at the temple to wait for the fireworks, following the many japanese camping there. it was really crowded. this time we went prepared. we brought our hotel laundry bags! hahaha.. water proof and big. heh.

it was more crowed than the adachi ward fireworks. the sumida river fireworks are supposedly the most famous in japan, held on the last saturday of july, i think the whole of tokyo was there. hahaha...
have you ever seen coca cola in a carton??????? i have!!! first time ever! please ignore that hairy leg, it's not mine lah... mine's definitely sexier. hahahahahah....
a kind and very pretty japanese girl took this photo for us. she was probably one of the rare japanese girls with very little make up on. she has such nice complexion and really pretty eyes. waited for the fireworks there, and then realised that we won't be able to see. somehow i have a strange feeling that the govt changed it this year such that ppl can't see from the temple! sneaky! so we walked down and got half a view. but it was so pretty!!!!!!!!!!! it's 1.5hrs long. the amount put into the air was like singapore's except that singapore's one lasts for only 15min max. there was more variety in the effects. and it's sth that everybody in japan enjoys.
put up some online. but my videos don't do the fireworks justice. they are so much better real life. the next time i go, i'll make sure that i book seats. even if they cost 12,000yen (S$150) at least we get a unblocked view, get to relax, don't have to squeeze with the crowd.

Fireworks One

Fireworks Two

Fireworks Three

so reluctant to go back that night. cos it'll be the last night in japan..... sigh....

2007-08-01T12:44:00.000+08:00

Day Nine - Sanrio Puroland, Shibuya

taking pictures in the train. got o try the different types of trains today. th train we took was the express one, there were local ones and rapid ones. and i realised that i always look so tired in pictures!!!!!!!!!! bleah. seriously, i wasn't that tired. hahaha... and the amazing trains in japan had blinds!!!!!!!!!! so that we don't get any glaring sun in our faces. hahaha.... wonderful!arrived at sanrio puroland very quickly. it's like a child's dream. ok, i liked sanrio stuff when i was a kid, all the hello kitty, little twin stars, my melody, etc. so coming here was like satisfying the inner child in me :) went crazy in the shops. there were so many things!!!!!!! everything was hello kitty and her other friends. hahaha.. it was amazing. they had hello kitty plasters, crockery, bags, jewellery, food, make up, etc. just anything that you can think of..

watched the hello kitty version of the nutcracker. the music was really nice, even tho i didn't understand a single word of it :p wonderful entertainment value. hahaha... and they had a hello kitty house!!! everything inside was hello kitty!!!! the doorbell, dressing table, bed, bathtub, television, dining table, fireplace, computer, etc. hahaha... the amout of effort put into every tiny detail was amazing.
and how can one go to sanrio puroland and not take any pictures with hello kitty?!? kawaii!!!we had time so we dropped by shibuya again. there are so many things to buy there, so many shops to go into!!!!!! we went to 109 - 2.. and there were even more things to buy. stocked up on earrings again. we didn't even realise that we shopped for that long. before we knew it, it was already past 8pm!!! hahaha.. and i had my second regret, not buying THAT cap. bleah. was thinking that i don't really need a cap (which is true) and i won't actually put on a cap in singapore (so true) but the cap was really cheap!!!!!!!! about S$25 only!!! and it was so bling bling!!! i like!!! ok, i should stop thinking about it. i'll prob bang my head against the wall for hesitating. bleah.
and we had the best curry rice and hamburger there!!!!!!!! the minced meat that made up the hamburger was so yummy! and the curry, oishi!!!! got the set, so it came with salad for our vege fix and a drink.. only 570yen (approx S$7) which is cheap by japan's standards. and we ate like the locals, at the counter. heh. shiok.

a relatively relaxing day :) for once. hahaha.... we did not over estimate our abilities. hahaha... :p

2007-08-01T11:56:00.000+08:00

Day Eight - Tsukiji Fish Market, Ginza, Nikkei Stock Exchange, Yasukuni Shrine, Imperial Palace Garden, Adachi Ward Fireworks

first stop of the day..... Tsukiji Fish Market!!! where the freshest seafood is. restaurant owners come early in the morning to bid for the freshest seafood that they can lay their hands on. too bad we didn't make it down early enough. missed all the action. but still, we got to see so many fish, some in boxes, ready to be shipped to other parts of japan. and they have weird looking vehicles zooming around. you really got to watch out for traffic there..

and what is going to a fish market without trying any of the sushi bars around right??? with some help from the very very helpful locals, we found ourselves in front of this sushi bar. it's wonderful!!!!!!! the seafood is so fresh, you can taste the sweetness of it. we both got the set which costs 3500yen (about S$43) each and it's totally worth every single cent. the best ever sushi i've ever tasted. wonderful service as usual :) but it's the kind where you have to eat and go cos there's a freaking long queue outside!!! luckily we went early. heh. die die must try.
the tokyo metro has become our favourite mode of transport. it's fast and relatively cheap. and it's comfortable and clean too!!!!!!!!! tho at times, there are a couple of weird posters of almost naked women. heh. off to Ginza!!!!!!!! where we were looking for our Burberry's (it's a 7-storey high store!!!) and Shiseido Beauty Parlor and whatever shopping we could find. but we were too early! got there even before 11am and all the shops were still closed. so we roamed the streets and came across this! a vending machine of a different kind. you buy things like toys, gifts and other raunchy stuff here.. hahaha.... interesting..was actually planning to do my hair at Shiseido but the salon was not open yet. too early to start work. so, too bad, couldn't come back with a funky hair cut! then it was just random shopping. zara was huge. it's like... 3storeys high?!? tried on some clothes there and bu got a rude shock from a little spoilt brat. then swatch!!!!! the lift was amazing!!! it was surrounded by swatch watches!!!!!!! every little corner of the lift!!! and at that building, the show rooms of the different brands of watches had private lifts!!!!!! and each lift was like a mini show case of their products!!
we had loads of time left so we decided to bring forward some plans. so off to nikkei stock exchange! but as technology improves, it's no longer the noisy shouting and violent activities. everything is computerised so we just walked around to take a look. it's was interesting in it's own way. good for ppl going into this line!
next up...... Yasukuni Shrine. felt like we were betraying our ancesters by going there cos this shrine is built for the world war 2 "war heroes" of japan. lots of controvesy when the former PM of japan went to visit and paid his respects. i guess everybody has different views. but from my point of view, they can do whatever they want, cos it's still their ancesters after all. and don't everyone want their ancestors to have a peaceful resting place, regardless of all the wrong-doing? we were probably the only chinese there..
we were so damn tired after that! but we made our way down to the imperial palace. bu was damn grumpy already cos her feet were giving way. hahaha... went in and ummm was quite disappointed due to the lack of things. maybe we were too tired to walk all the way in but from what we saw, it's was just walls, grass, roads. no wonder they say that it's boring to be royalty. took a break at the palace hotel. just sat in their couches, checked with them if the fireworks were still on cos it was drizzling. had to settle dinner. so we went to macs!!!!!! and it ws damn good!!!!!!!!!!!! i had ebi burger, while bu had the teriyaki chicken burger. you can see whole prawns in the ebi filet!!!!! and it was damn shiok!!!!!!!! they had ppl to show you to your seats too!!!!! it's crazy. hahaha... there, we ppl watched cos there were so many ppl dressing up, in preparation for the fireworks later..we were so unprepared for this round of fireworks. the japanese went with mats, food, etc. all ready for a picnic. so we umm.. made do with our maps and plastic bags from our shopping. really. we were in quite a sad state :( the fireworks were ok, 1.5hrs long.. it's crazy. the amount of money that went into the air.. japan is rich. and well, guys would be happy to go too.. cos there were so many girls, dressed in their favourite yukatas, did their hair and make up, just for 1.5 hours of fireworks...
by the end of the day, we were SO tired. legs felt like they were going to fall off. my poor legs, they have worked hard. konked out totally.

2007-07-31T21:12:00.000+08:00

Day Seven - The Beginning of Crazy Chiong-ing Ard Tokyo

it's time to say goodbye to the rest of the group. while they make their way back to singapore, we embark on our trip in tokyo. yes! the tour leader who is just 3yrs older than me and this is his holiday job! i want this kind of holiday job too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! even though i'd probably spend more than i earn, but still!!!!!!!!!! it's travelling!!!!!!!!! argh. for the remaining 4 nights in tokyo, our accomodation was hotel new otani. it's a wonderful hotel, wonderful service, wonderful location, wonderful everything. we were given the option to check in early but it was to a smoking room. so we left our luggage with the hotel and left for a very exciting trip :)

first up. satisfy our growling stomachs. off to shibuya for the rotating sushi place. it's reputed to be cheap and good. and they did not disappoint. each plate (like those in sakae sushi) cost only 105yen (S$1.25). and the seafood was SO fresh!!!!!!!!! the chef was really nice too. we were like two blur ppl, speaking a language foreign to him, not knowing what to take. so he'd make stuff specially for us. and all the things were SO nice!!!!!! totemo oishi desu!!!!!!! i think he got the sense of satisfaction to see us to happy with the food and we kept going like.. oishi!!!! yummy!!! etc... hahaha... think ppl at the other side weren't too happy that we were getting the extra attn cos they had to order what they wanted while he served us without us saying anything :p

shopping at shibuya was wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 109 building is a must go for the young crowd. bu bought clothes while i attacked the earrings. their earrings are SO nice!!! and it's not that ex too... about $15-$24 per pair of pretty, good quality earrings. totally shiok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! saw a couple of tops but the no-trying-of-tops rule stopped me from buying. i need to know the cutting and see if it fits lah... one regret there, didn't buy THAT dress. it was very pretty, but what stopped me... the price (it was S$70. actually come to think about it, that wasn't expensive!!!!!!) and i had to wear it with tights cos it was very very short and i.. am too lazy to wear tights...

off to harajuku!!!!!! to go to the Burberry's Blue Label flagship store. bought a tee of my dad there. it's so nice!!!!!!!!! and not too ex considering that it's Burberry's. walked around a little. went to gap but decided it was stupid to go there and buy sth from gap even though their range is alot better than what we have in sg!

and then had an early dinner!!!!!! off to Apple Tree for omurice. it's supposedly a famours store. it's really small. we had to go down a narrow flight of stairs to get to the very very small shop. it's only had about 9 two-seater tables and barely any walking space. but it was really nice. not too ex too... only 870yen each (S$11). it's cheap by japan's standards. the quality of food was superb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pity it's not demiglace sauce (like what was shown in lunch queen. heh) but the tomato and dunno what the other sauce is... was really good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

okonomiyaki-omurice. hahaha.. this was really good. and there were little treasures inside. with rice, octopus, veg..... wonderful. the sauce, yummy!

a very satisfied customer :)

off to roppongi hills to have a wonderful view of tokyo at night and of cos.. the tokyo tower. tallest structure in tokyo. the city view :)

and we had our most not-worth-the-money drink at a cafe on the top level. it was 1000yen per person just to enter and we both had drinks of about 700yen. so it was about S$21 just to sit there for non-alcoholic drinks. yeah.. we both had juice. we need to be sober to get back to the hotel in one piece.and back to our hotel by their very confusing train system. actually it wasn't that bad. they just have many many lives that's all. the sign boards were very helpful!!!!!!!!! the wonderful-est thing happened. our luggage was already in our rooms by the time we got back to check in. their service, immaculate. oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the day passed too quickly. but we were all damn tired after walking around so much........ :p that's why japanese are so slim. they walk a lot.

2007-07-31T20:09:00.000+08:00

Day Six - Back to Tokyo!

took the domestic flight back. but not before buying this famous cheesecake at chitose airport. recommended by monica, it did not disappoint!!!!!!! this makes fiesta cheesecake taste worse than crap. so we had nice cheesecake on board the plane! for three small cheesecakes like this, 1050yen. which is about S$12.50. totally worth it!landed in tokyo and stupid narita airport is SO big!!!!!!!! had to walk damn far just to get to immigrations then walk again to collect baggage!!!!!!!!!! whoa, exercise man.

asahi beer building that we passed by. the gold thing in front is supposed to be the flame that keeps them going. the building is supposed to be like a glass of beer. gold color is the beer, the white part on top is the foam on top :p cool huh..

next up! asakusa! went to the famous sensoji. it's a very old temple and there were little shop houses there. there was even freshly-made wang4 wang4!!!!!!! the old man was making them. hahaha.... fresh ones leh! and there, bu and i bought the best ever red bean bun!!!! it's so soft, so fresh. yummy!!!!!!!! i must say, the bakeries there are wonderful. they are all so nice and soft, fresh from the oven! well, prayed for the well-being of family and left feeling peaceful at heart. realised that that's what you feel when you go to temples or places of worship. you tend to feel at peace no matter how crowded or noisy the surroundings are. and then...... SHOPPING!!!!!!!!! frst to ueno :) totally no time lah! no time to shop at all. i mean, more like.. not enough. there were so many shops. ABAB alone was filled with so many things, plus Burberry's Blue Label to plan what to buy in the next few days. oh my.......... ueno became a must come back to visit place during our F&E days.... :p

traffic was a killer there. but the ppl are strangely well mannered. you don't usually hear honks from cars. they just wait patiently. so unlike singapore. impatient bunch. (well, i must admit, i am a little impatient too. heh)
night out at shinjuku!!!!!!!!! underground mall. couldn't find anything that i particularly like.. but monica (the tour guide) busted about 40,000 yen there. that's about S$500. the amazing shopping power of females :p

last night with the group. dreaming about the wonderful tokyo that awaits me. all the shopping out there. yeah!

2007-07-31T19:48:00.000+08:00

Day Five - Winery, Outlet Shopping!

the daily photo whoring :p i look so tired!!!!!!!!! but that was before i heard that today was outlet-shopping day. hahaha.. when i realised that, eyes sparkled, fatigue wore off immediately, preparation for lots of shopping began :pwent to the winery that was SO boring. it had nothing there. just trying the different wine, not many pictures to take too! and the thing about japan is.. they seem to love ferris wheels! they have ferris wheels everywhere, even at the winery!!! the outside of the winery looked like a very cold, uninviting castle :( and there were grape wines outside! but the grapes were not ripe yet. they were all still very small. pity pity. and it was such a long bus ride to the outlet mall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well, prices weren't that cheap too. coach was still more expensive than the prices in us. adidas, nike were about the same price as that in sg. warcoal, triumph didn't have anything exceptionally nice, no pjs to get too!!! a number of random brands that were ok price.. didn't buy any clothes there and was very very grumpy until i bought my earrings and kipling bag. argh. disappointing outlet shoppng trip :(
and my luggage is full even before i got to tokyo!!!!!!!!! tragic!!!!!!!!! i foresee lots of squeezing and stuffing when packing the luggage!!!
that night, it was dreaming about tokyo, about my dear, about all things good... :)

2007-07-31T19:23:00.000+08:00

Day Four - the day of many flowers

less stops today, more travelling. saw many many flowers. and amazingly, i saw sunflowers!!!!!! so happy :) think the sunflower is a very happy flower :) even though they are not in full bloom, but it's satisfying to see a whole field of yellow happy pretty flowers! oh for ppl who want to see sunflowers, go in august, they are in season then! played with my color accent too! heh. of cos on yellow color. it's damn cool! heh. i love my camera. pity the sky was a little gloomy then and there was a slight drizzle..
then on to the lavender farm! purple flowers now and you are surrounded by a light smell of lavender. heh. you feel all relaxed suddenly, instant aroma therapy. and thank goodness for clear blue skies, making the pictures so lovely. and luckily i saw another part of the farm from the bus, so we didn't miss out the prettiest part of the farm. there were quite a lot of aunties on board the bus who didn't catch it. ha! some were already cut off, going to be sold off..
walking past the pretty flowers, thinking abt my dear..
spent so much time sleeping in the bus cos we always had to be up early and i was tired. plus the bus ride was really long! oh, but monica (the tour guide) switched on the karaoke system in the bus and so there was a little singing session in the bus. hahaha.... but the songs were quite old. well, but we didn't expect to hear jay chou or wang lihom there.. :p but you know, wang lihom is supposedly very popular there!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ahh.. but it's understandable right, he's so talented and so good looking. it'll be a sin to not like him. but... well, i think guys would be jealous of him. i understand. hahaha..... if there's someone as good looking and talented as wang lihom in school, i'll go everyday. if he's in my class, better still, won't skip any lessons! hahahahaha..

2007-07-31T18:37:00.000+08:00

Day Three - Sapporo Beer Brewery, Sake Brewery, Ice Pavilion, Onsen

the day started with a nice breakfast and i made myself udon! (ok, i just assembled the already cooked ingredients)

and then it was yet another long day.. lots of stops and some travelling.. first up, sapporo beer! just walk around to see how it was made, how it came about, etc. the beer museum was quite nicely put together. no trying though, not that it mattered cos i don't like beer! hahaha... but there was a beer vending machine there. haha... so interesting. i wonder what would happen if singapore had a vending machine like that. think there'd be many more drunkards roaming the streets!

there was a phone booth in a huge barrel! haha.. gimmick.. we got there early, so we had lots of time to take photos outside. and when we went in, we were 2min early and they refused to let us in till the clock reaches 9am sharp. they are really rigid. oh! there was this tree where ppl hang their dreams and wishes. of cos i wrote and hopefully it'll come true :p it was a day of alcohol! went to sake brewery/museum. and... free sake testing for all! i drank a bit only cos i didn't want to test my limits. then bu bought a glass of sake that won the gold medal at the world wine and spirits competition 30 times in a row. drank a sip too. it's really smooth!!!!! you can finish it in one gulp, which bu did and ended up a little ditzy (luckily it was only for a short while.. hahaha)

the award winning sake!water fountain! and if you drink the water here, you'd suppoesdly live a long long life! well, we all had a bottle of that water! :) so i guess it's a long long long long life for us! ice pavilion where i experienced -20 degree c. it's craziness in there. i felt like my toes were going to fall off should i move them a little. yeah, me, try to act smart and not wear covered shoes (well, me sneakers didn't match my outfit!) there was this place that was -40 degree c. didn't dare to enter cos i felt that my toes would really drop off inside!!!!!! but thank goodness for the warm cup of tea after that. warmed up my insides that seemed to have frozen upthen to our hotel where there was an onsen which i couldn't try due to unforeseen circumstances.. but, we still wore the yukata, went for dinner in it, slept on tatami mats. and i tell you.. tatami beds are so comfy!!!!!!!! i was huddled up comfortably in it while waitin for bu to finish packing, quietly enjoying the comforts of the bed. hahaha..
and so, yet another comfortable night, konked out totally.. :) wishing that time would pass slowly so that i could spend more time in japan..

2007-07-30T11:55:00.000+08:00

back from japan!!!!! :) oh i had so much so much fun.. i really didn't want to come back. i told bu.. all i need is a visit to the internet cafe and i'm all set to lengthen my stay in japan!!! it was fun-filled, relaxing (except on some days when we over estimated ourselves) and shopping was fun!!!!!!!!!! even tho i have some regrets that i didn't buy some stuff that i saw, i still got a whole new collection of earrings, bags, nail polish, nail art, etc. yeap as you can tell, i hit the accessories while bu hits the clothes.

Day One - leaves on NH112 for Narita Airport

arrived at the airport freaking early - 6.30am - cos the flight was at 8.30am. yeap, morning flight. thank you zahid, josh, ws, zg who came to see me off :) it was nice seeing you crazy guys who were more concerned abt your breakfast. hahaha.. was so sleepy. the 7hrs was spent sleeping and eating.. heh. ANA serves ice-cream!!!! was pleased of cos.. who could say no to ice cream?!

bu and i waiting to board the plane

view from the plane, leaving singapore far far behind, embarking on the trip that i've been looking forward to since a long long time ago!

we arrived at narita and met out crazy ditzy tour guide. and then on to take the domestic flight to chitose, hokkaido :p it was so late and the domestic flight didn't serve any food. so we survived on soup served in the plane which was really good anyway. managed to have dinner only at 8.30pm.. note that lunch was at 10.30am... so yeah.. you can imagine why we were so hungry.

Day 2 - Otaru, Cherry-Picking, Ishiya Choc Factory, TV Tower

woke up bright and early. had our first breakfast in japan which wasn't very amazing aside from the fact that their melons are real sweet. the sweetness beats the sweetest of all honeydews/rock melons that you find here in singapore! yummy stuff! and well, it's also the beginning of lots of miso soups, miso based stuff, anything to do w miso food stuff..
went to otaru for the music box museum, glass museum, cream puffs and other pretty and yummy food stuff. the weather was nice and cool, no glaring sun and just a light breeze to keep you cool..

the over-hyped otaru canal. really, if you went, you'd know what i mean. it looks good on pictures but when you see it up close, it's like some long-gang.. heh.our first lunch in japan. kani-nabe. not anything vulgar lah.. it just means crab hotpot in japanese. hahaha... weird right? what is delicacy to them is actually some hokkien vulgarity to us. heh.

cherry picking time!!!!!!!!!! there were damn a lot of cherries! ripe and waiting to be picked. while some were a little too squishy for my liking, there were plenty that were so sweet!!!on to my little heaven at ishiya chocolate factory. from the moment you step in, you'd smell a faint hint of chocolate in the air, making you instantly hungry and craving for some chocolate. here, they are making the one biscuit that made them so famous - bai2 se4 lian4 ren2, which means white lover. it's a thin wafer biscuit with either white or milk chocolate inside. it was damn nice!!! yummy.little tiny paw prints show you where to go / huge ass wedding cake / chocolate figurines :p

the outside of the chocolate factory looked nothing like a typical japanese architecture. it's so colonial style! but it's pretty and interesting. a tourist trap and it captures the hearts of both kids and adults with mini houses and pretty flowers..next up.. tax-free shopping. singaporeans being singaporeans, rushed to buy souveniors for family and friends. some bought boxes of food!!!!! it's so amazing. the rate at which they shop was damn scary cos they just grab!!! the shop owner must have been very happy. it didn't help that the shop was so small and there was a long long queue waiting to be served. i just bought one box of wafer biscuit and i had to join in the disgustingly long queue and watch the others lug huge boxes filled with food out.last stop of the day before dinner. some underground shopping mall that was boring and the sapporo tv tower that looked like the rip-off of the tokyo tower.

dinner was bbq. the highlight was actually the kobe beef which is very very ex if you want to order it (more than $50 for one small slab of it). bu and i were contented with what we had... hahaha... but most of the cooking was done by her. even though i did try a little after we finished eating. bu said i passed. hahahahah... :) chef ginny in the making.

the end of the second day. dropped dead after packing. really konked out!!! i didn't know that touring could be so tiring. but i guess that's cos we had quite a number of stops that day :p

2007-07-18T23:13:00.000+08:00

bye singapore!!! off to japan for 11 days!!! will be back with many pictures, many stuff, no money, no improvements to weight loss scheme. shit :) enjoy yourselves here on this hot hot island! :)

2007-07-17T14:27:00.000+08:00

yay!!!!!!! i got my wang lihom cd!!!!!!! :) haven't listened to it actually. but i hope it'll be good. hahah.. it'll be good. it's wang li hom. heh. as usual, he's looking damn freaking good.

2007-07-16T16:54:00.001+08:00

i'm now on skype with mr glen tan!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) happy. hahaha.... he is finally up on the internet! i'm one happy girl now. hee.

last night out w the guys, minus zahid who couldn't get the car. at bukit timah eating prata. heh. nice. supper is unhealthy but it's good food therapy. and the guys were funny as usual. couple quarrelling. nope the couple doesn't refer to brian and janice or josh and becky. more like zg and and weiliang. hahaha.. the guys ar..... terrible.

3 days to japan! yay!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :)

2007-07-14T13:22:00.000+08:00

went out w the hc ppl yesterday. went to mind cafe to fulfill tat's wish of gg to a board game cafe. hahaha... and we were damn enthu lah! got there before 2pm, before the cafe was even open!!!! and so there we were standing in the freaking hot sun, waiting for them to open up. argh. but yah, loads of stupid brainless games that involved violent sudden outbursts.. not advisable for the weak hearted.

the guys. gordon sat between tat and kk and made them lean towards him so that he won't look so fat. hahaha...
the girls :)
and we moved on to lau pa sat for food!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gordon seemed to be deprived of food for a really long time, gg crazy ordering food!!! haha... but we had quite a lot of food. totally stuffed to the brim by the time we finished.
and the guys are getting old. they can't take it when a place is too noisy and gordon giang kept wanting to sleep at mind cafe. haha... but aiyah, the next table was really very very very noisy. think they went a little over board lah.. but it's fun meeting up with them again. even tho having gordon there mean kena suan like crazy! but oh well, i got my chance to get back at him. heh. they said i was fierce. siao!

and another highlight!!!! called glen! yay!!!!!! hahaha... havent talked to him in a long while thanks to the "ancient procedures" over in nz, internet is still not up. argh. yeah mandy, i finally know how slow nz can be.. hahaha...

eunice: don't worry abt it, we'll be back sooner than you think. and eh...... you went abroad at the beginning of the hols leh..

5 days to departure :) time to start getting all the things that i'll be needing!

2007-07-12T21:05:00.000+08:00

so disappointing!!! the internet over in nz is not fixed up yet!!! hai! wonderful. how advanced are they man???

ok, finished watching GTO. ok, ancient i know. but this is my first time watching it! ok, i'm living in stone age. hahah.. bleah. two jap dramas in two weeks. argh! all thanks to the wonderful scandal - joshua and the extremely exceptionally wonderful bf - glen - who got me surfing for dramas online to kill time!!!!! bleah.

tmr it's more board games! yes! out w the hc ppl. hahha.. tat finally got his wish of gg to a board games cafe :p

jm: will be going from 19 july till 29 july. will be back by the time you leave for japan lah!! why going there all of a sudden?? hahaha.. which part will you be gg???

ok i need to get off the comp. been facing it all day. going to get a headache. and my bad back is acting up again. it's getting worse these days. sign of old age. shit.

2007-07-11T22:52:00.000+08:00

oh yes! got the call from my tour leader!!! yipee! i'll be leaving on 19 July 2007 to far away japan!!!! yes! hokkaido! tokyo! yipee!!!!!! but i must be up freaking early. cos it's a morning flight. so i have to be there at 6.30am!!! nvm, for japan, i'll sacrifice some sleep! hahaha!!!

did some preparations for japan today. changing currency, getting my boring black luggage (bu don't worry. heh. mine not the kawaii kind even tho they had the same luggage in green and hot pink!!!!!! but na.. boring me went for black), then getting this call from the tour leader! oh yes! just 8 days away. soon soon.. 8 days later, at this time, i'll be in hokkaido!!! yes! and yah! ok i bought my luggage at tangs and my bro came to town to pick me so he parked the car at marriot hotel. damn! as we were making our way thru the lobby to get to the carpark, my bro kept poking fun at me, asking me to go check in and get someone to handle my luggage. shit. but i don't think the staff thought that way lah! there was this guy who kept walking behind us, i think he prob thought we were some terrorists or pranksters lah!!! shit.

anw sth scary happened today. i thought i lost my contact lens!!!!! cos i was trying to put them on and i rememebered picking it up and clumsy me "dropped" it. so i was searching all over the basin and floor of my bathroom and i couldn't find it!!!!! freaked out naturally cos i'm so not gg to town in spectacles(yeah vain, whatever you call it)!!!!! and in the end, i found it still in my contact lens case. i really wonder whether i'm really that blur or is it just tt it dropped back into my lens case without me knowing. hmmm..

today is generally a happy day. heh. got msges from glen. those have been the only thing that's keeping me going since he left on sat. the early morning msges. it just makes him seem a little closer. and i'm so happy when i got the msg that he's gg to finally get internet access tmr that i did an embarrassing little jump at tangs. argh!! reputation damaging!!!!!! :( happy for those little msges. i'm so easily satisfied right? but yah, i enjoy these little things that make my heart skip a beat and make each day seem so much brighter :)

2007-07-09T22:01:00.000+08:00

woke up this morning to a very nice msg :) left me in a better mood the whole of today! haha.. was seriously surprised. and very happy. heh

anw spent most of today watching jap drama - lunch queen. hahaha.. bu got me hooked on it. but i have self discipline. i stopped aft epi 4 cos need to stagger it over a few days. yeah. not in the going out mood lately. so just stay at home lor. heh.

i didnt know that my trip was coming so soon!!!!! i'm leaving next thurs!!!!!!! i didn't even realise!!! yay!!!!!!!!!!

2007-07-08T12:38:00.000+08:00

ok, i'm not exactly in the best of moods now, which explains my msn nick. sorry guys. i just need some quiet time alone.

ok, so glen boarded qf6 at 7.50pm. ok, he went in at about 7.15pm, leaving me in a terribly embarrassing state :( it doesn't help that his mom, bro and friends saw it. bleah. i guess i just have to get used to life without seeing him almost everyday. sigh. really miss you a lot. you should have landed, probably at university hall now, settling in and stuff..

left for town to meet josh and becky.. thanks for coming to accompany me! even though you all were rushing from different places. thanks for the planning and all.. we waited at the 24hr coffee club for zahid and ws and i had iced mocha. it tasted like super gao chocolate milk shake with a hint of coffee. but i don't really mind considering that i'm such a fan of chocolate.

becky and josh at coffee club. josh was showing me all sorts of videos on youtube. some are really quite funny. the whatever baby was damn cute! and the sg aunties were just violent lah! i really hope i won't grow up to be like that in future! it's such embarrassing, gross behaviour. oh and becky got to watch superslut. darn. till this day, i still laugh at our ability to actually think of such a script and actually acting it out. maybe you all will catch it at eng wah cinemas some day. hee. for now, i'm glad that glen won't be able to see it. yet. hee.
becky and i! :) she was teaching me how to do highlights for our hair!!! i didn't know that there was a procedure to it! i always thought it was random. ahah.. anw, she suggested gg to play board games!!! so we called up mind, settlers and pitstop. ended up at pitstop cos the other two were fully booked till very late.. and yah.. she got me rather hooked on playing board games.. want to try more!
game of life. ws was the overall winner! he had 1.1million at the end!!!!! i was the miserable loser.. had half of what he had lah :( so sad. but i had fun. loads of fun. thanks to them, i forgot about my misery temporarily. i guess i'll be meeting up with them a lot more! yeah, i guess with them ard, i will be more or less well taken care of..
havent had much appetite these two days. yest, i had only half a plate of fried rice, half a plate of duck rice and some finger food. today, i couldn't finish my lunch again. maybe i'll be able to lose weight after all!!!!!!

cors is finally updated. i already know what i'm going to take and i have a rubbish sem ahead. with long breaks and late exams. bleah. complex analysis, ordinary differential eqn, non-linear prog, stochastic processes and regression analysis. 5 math and stats modules. i think i'm so dead. exams will be on 26/11, 27/11, 28/11 and then 4/12. darn. why cant they all be tog and i can end on 30/11??????????????

anw now all i'm looking forward to is japan. i need to get away.

2007-07-05T19:31:00.000+08:00

been meeting mary and bu quite a bit. two days in a row. hahaha... but what to do.. both just came back from far away land..

monday was meeting bu at raffles place to settle payment for our trip. i am so broke. i'm not gg to spend anymore until during my trip!!!!!!!! ok, i just got new contact lens today but that's a necessity. i don't plan to go ard japan with dry eyes. yap... and then down to ichiban boshi at wisma to satisfy some jap cravings. after that, we resolved not to have anymore jap food until our trip! hahaha... but the food at ichiban was good. hee. bu met glen for the first time :) hee. and then off to meet mary who came from TUAS! damn far. and guess what! we had ajisen. hahah.. but bu and i were so full after a filling lunch plus tea break, we ate only side dishes. heh.

bu and i at ichiban boshi :)

tuesday was meeting glen for lunch (sorry york, dunno why you pull out of it also. hahaha.. just lunch ma.. scared he punch you for being my drinking kaki?? hee) and then off to orchard AGAIN. shaped brows, walked ard, met bu for our movie.. "the girl who leapt through time" - a jap anime - was rather nice.. though draggy at some parts. we were famished aft the movie! and had to wait for mary who was caught in a jam.. so three hungry girls went to crystal jade for nice korean dinner!!!!!! this time, we tried the bbq stuff. interesting! bu was teaching us the correct way of eating it and wa lau! damn unglam lah!!!!!!!!!!!! :p but it was nice satisfying dinner.. hee

anyway, spot the similarities!!! hahaha.. bu and i turned up in the exact same mango skirt!!! well, bought at diff places.. i bought in sg, she bought in london and we didnt know that we had the same skirt and we wore the same skirt out on the same day! first time.. to make matters worse, we were both in black tops! we looked like we were working in some shop tog lah! like some uniform! hahaha....

bu and mary after the satisfying korean dinner

yeap and we just love taking pictures in toilets...

this picture was taken when i met mary just after she came back! hahaha.. couldnt put it up last time cos she was lied to her bf abt her arrival date.. hee. sneaky girl... hahaha..

and with my two favourite friends, we somehow love going for korean cuisine!!!!! went with mary to the korean place at suntec. heh. nice good food.. yummy stuff.. i think it was after the korea trip that the three of us enjoy going for korean food even though i must say we got rather sick of fish hotpots back then :p and also running away from that hum sup ah ken...... :(

and so it's just 2 days to departure. not my departure but glen's. mine's in.. 16 days. but anyway, feeling very excited for him, sad for myself. hahaha... i mean, i bet he's damn excited abt going to nz by himself for 5mths and all the travelling that he must be looking forward to.. oh man! exciting lah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i want to go too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but i'm looking forward to my japan trip too! first time gg f&e. excited but a little scared too! i'm not a risk taker but i trust my bu :p i'm sure she won't get lost in japan, even though she knows much more korean than jap!!! everytime i speak to her in jap, she replies in korean. hahahahaha.... it's gg to be FUN!!! but for now, i dunno how i'm gg to be like 2 days later.. sigh.............

2007-07-02T23:48:00.000+08:00

yay! found someone to watch transformers with me!!!!!!!! so happy!!!!!

anw met up with bu and mary today :) happy. finally finally get to meet bu. and got a pretty pretty bag from her!!!!! yay!!!! and we just realised that our trip is in 2.5 weeks!!!!!! exciting!!!!!! can't wait. hahaha.. we havent planned anything. shit. just shopping. that's all. hahaha.. i'm gg to come back broke. then it's big time saving!!!

tmr, more meeting up with friends. heh :) and collecting my shoes. yeah, bought a new pair that is super pretty! bringing them to japan along w a pair of slippers. heh. need to match my clothes. nice weather in japan means bringing pretty clothes. no wrapped up in thick layers!!!!!!!!!

2007-07-02T10:06:00.000+08:00

i have a bloody screwed up time table!!!!!!!! :( sob.

firstly, i have 8am classes, all thanks to non linear prog which i'll prob be taking alone cos everyone else took last sem and the person who havent taken prob wont drag himself to school at 8am!!!

next, on tues and fri, i have bloody 8hour breaks!!!!!!!!!!!!!! one lecture 8-10am. second lecture 4-6pm followed by a 6-8pm lecture!!!!!!!!!!! someone tell me why i should be skipping the 8am lecture.

and to top it off (it's like an icing on the cake) MY FREAKING EXAMS END ON 4 DECEMBER!!!! i never ever had exams that ended so late. NEVER. now i'm contemplating whether or not to take it. bleah. sucks. this whole thing just sucks.

this totally spoilt my week. argh!

2007-06-30T22:52:00.000+08:00

i think my life is boring. nothing to blog abt. just living life as each day comes. nights have been spent working. i shouted at some guy over the phone today, shocking my colleagues. that guy deserved it lah. he just kept going "huh? har?" over the phone even though i was talking very loudly, so i just shouted at him lah. it felt good :) last day today. reached the quota. so they told us not to go tmr. wth. my double pay :( they cheat money one lor!

days have been spent....... umm.. most of the time with glen. make the most of time before he leaves for nz. sigh. stupid zahid. said he didn't dare to go to the airport along with me. claimed that he wouldnt have enough tissue paper. shit. ok, i won't cry. i'll try. so embarassing to cry outside! i've never done that before except during farewell in rg. i just hate it when ppl see me cry. argh.

so tmr i don't have to work. yay. can go to my grandma's place (yeah, i go every sunday). spend some quality time with my relatives. maybe i'll get to cook some other stuff there tmr! crap with my cousins and aunts and grandaunt. i'm glad i have family like that. people whom i can joke ard, play ard with, without fearing that they'd theink yu're gg over the line cos there is no line between the elders and myself cos they just talk to me at my level, just treat me like an equal. ok, maybe it's cos they all want to stay forever young. ha.. oh well..

i have a sudden urge to watch transformers. i don't know why. maybe it's the lack of shows now. maybe it's stupid glen's influence. argh. i don't even watch the cartoon! wondering if it's a good movie. anybody?

7 days till d-day. i wish this week will pass slowly. as slowly as possible. so going to miss you. thanks for making me feel special. it's going to be a long five months.

2007-06-26T12:20:00.000+08:00

i got a shock yesterday. saw my dear scandal - josh - on tv mobile. some advert abt hipfriends.org.com or sth like that. him talking there. oh my. glen was the one who pointed it out and i was like.. oh my. yah and i've been called a lousy scandal for being so slow. shit. i dun take a lot of buses ma..

anw happy. i should be meeting the guys on thurs aft work. late night again!

next week, will be meeting my dear bu!!!!!!!!! yes! finally! hahahaha!!!!!!!! she's so busy aft coming back, cannot take it ar.. hahaha..

anw i've been called crazy for wanting to lose weight. and mr glen has been worried that i may resort to some methods that's not too healthy for the body (think sec 4) i have yet to decide. hahaha... but yap. 48kg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and i AM serious abt cooking! cooked at my grandma's place on sunday. heh. simple dishes lah. nth exotic. and with my mom beside me as usual lah. can pass lah :) i dun understand some ppl, why they don't bother to make an effort to cook or bring sth there when it's a rule that's been established since things happened. they just complain and say that they are SO busy. oh, like they are the only ones with things to do. argh. and they call themselves family. even I cooked! hmph.

11 days till d-day. my best friend has been kind to gather his men to back me up on that day in case i can't take it and go crazy :( dread that day. sigh.

2007-06-24T13:49:00.000+08:00

MARY!!!!!! you bugger! those pictures are damn damn ugly!!!!! bleah!!!!!!

ok i'm gg over to my grandma's place in a moment. just go there and slack and talk to my grandma and aunts and cousins. but shall blog a little..

anw york, i believe i can cook some decent rice already :) so don't need you to teach. hahaha.. on my way to learning to cook proper and be a person who can cook a decent meal for some impt ppl. hee. wa.. he'd better be honoured! i never ever wanted to learn to cook specially for someone. ha!

eunice, glad that you're starting to eat prawns. i don't see how you can reject prawns (unless you're allergic to them) hahaha... good thing we started you off w tempura. that yummilicious prawn tempura at sun and moon. i love seafood! (i'll be in heaven in japan)

i'm so bored today. i have nth to blog abt. was watching japan hour and realised that i have to pay up the rest of the money for my trip, brush up on my japanese, finalise what we're gg to do during the f&e part at tokyo, book our hotel, prepare what we need, go crazy planning and waiting. but actually, i want the japan trip to come yet, i wish it'll come slowly. cos when the trip comes, it would mean that glen would be away on exchange for 5mths and school would be starting. yeah. bidding for modules start the day after i come back and the very efficient nus hasn't put up the new time table for the coming sem. it's still stuck in last sem's time table. i need to know when my exams will end so that i'll know how many days of torture i'll be getting from glen when he's back! darn.

anw happy happy!!!! mandy will be back in nov/dec!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) happy!!

2007-06-23T23:38:00.000+08:00

ok first i must say that i'm not complaining or grumbling. just.. mentioning. hahaa.. so sad. supposed to meet glen tmr but he's down with ummm diahroea (i really cant spell) anw, yap mr glen is sick and so i cant meet him. and nope, he doesnt want me to go to his place and see him looking sick and umm.. nah.. his mom will be there, i'll be extra cos i won't exactly know what to do for the sick boy. sigh. so yes, tmr so nan2 de2 that i have a break from work and i cant meet him. bleah. but yap, get well soon, you toot!!!

anw i got a very happy msg today! BU IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ooh lah lah!!!! back on sunny island! hahaha.. we HAVE TO meet up soon! okokok???? yeah, i get rather high at that thought. oh well. my bu ma.. :)

worked today. ppl slamming phones down on me, saying mean stuff but oh well, i can handle. i just scold back aft they hang up. hahaha.. so bad right? hee.

anw i have a goal. when school starts or aft glen leaves for nz (whichever motivates me more), i'm gg to start my weight loss plan. my aim? 48kg. that's my sec4 weight. not at the beginning of sec4. maybe mid-sec4. hahaha.. why that weight? i just like it. unhealthy or not. hee. what i'm going to do, i havent planned yet. but yap. i got my aim! hee.

and big news! i cooked my first dinner on fri! ok, with the help from my mom of cos. she standing there and teaching me what to do. hahaha.. stupid woman never warn me abt the oil and the deadly fish. hahahaha.. shall not say what happened but at least my face is still intact. haha.. yap! my family is not encouraging at all!!!!!!!!!!!!! mean ppl! even my dad!!! hmph. yap. so i'm starting to learn to cook. so hopefully by end nov, i'll be able to cook a whole dinner without the help of anybody :) so that i can prepare nice homecooked dinner! :) :)

2007-06-21T13:06:00.000+08:00

irritated. ppl can accuse me of anything in the world, but they can NEVER accuse me of being late. that's sth i rarely (almost never, unless in unforeseen circumstances) am and for work, i'm definitely never ever late. but here.. dearly beloved SPH is accusing me of being late. and how do they judge? all based on a guy called Edward. you see, Edward went down on 31 May 2007 and claimed that he did not see any staff working. well, i'd give a few reasons:

(1) it was bloody freaking crowded cos it was Vesak Day and it was the first day of PC fair. Anybody who went down to suntec convention centre that day would know what i mean.
(2) out of the 9 people who are usually working, dear SPH told 6 to not go! so the 3 people who were working went to the booth outside Hall 404 (the most popular booth over the first 6 days)
(3) dear Mr Edward did not even walk to Hall 404, even though he insisted he did, which is damn crap cos not one of the 3 ppl saw him.
(4) Besides, Edward can't say that he didn't see anybody on that day cos he saw ME! well, he even came up to talk to me! and that was slightly before 11am (the time when we were supposed to start work) it was then that he found out that 6 out of the 9 did not have to come down that day (shows how efficient SPH is)

so in short, Edward is a bloody liar and SPH is being freaking dumb, unreasonable and plain stingy. you don't try to cut cost like that. and hell, you print papers for the entire Singapore, i'm sure you have money to spare and not pick on us like that! Use your brains (if you have any) and think before acting. Don't make yourselves so charitable by deducting only half of what YOU THINK you should be deducting, cos you SHOULD NOT and have NO RIGHT to be deducting any of our pay.

work starts tmr.

2007-06-20T13:16:00.001+08:00

sad. i'm going to say bye bye to sitting at home and shaking legs life. about to start work tmr! save me! i'm so used to slacking, going out as and when i like that i kind of dread working. even tho i know that i really need the money. haha.. i'm getting lazy.

anw my new comp is kind of retarded. it has NO microcsoft WORD, POWERPOINT, EXCEL, etc cos my bro did not install them!!! that bugger. what a brother i have. he's wonderful! argh! i want to kick his bloody ass!

sunday - kbox w mary, zm and glen. i raelised that i do know a lot of retreo chinese songs. i'm amazed! and so was mary and glen. damn. they kept laughing lah! basket. those songs were damn liu2 xing2 la!!! those two dunno only. only yishun ppl keep up with times, even from a young age. ha! it was fun fun! got to sing a lot of songs that i wanted to sing and a lot of rubbish songs. sang the "no no yeah yeah" song hahaha.... good company, good songs. happy :) mary, i want photos! and the video is not gg to be seen by anyone else! argh! damn paiseh lah!

anw met up w ali, shien, yy on monday. had lunch at pizza walker. hahah.. first time there. the prices are reasonable. had two lunch specials and ate till we were rather full. been a long time since i met shien.. that guy is in taiwan most of the time. haha.. i wonder how his gf handles it. amazing. anw wanted to shape my brows but the person i was looking for was on leave. so i went down to heeren to get a pair of jeans! hahaha.. had to use the $50 voucher that ali/xh/octa gave me what! it was gg to expire soon. bought the usual square cut "eve" in a new wash. it's damn damn comfortable!!!!!!! liked it when i tried it on. hahaa.. wanted to get a cheaper pair but the material was a little weird, uncomfortable. bleah. then rushed back to yishun to meet glen for dinner.

and so.. last day of slacking at home. bleah. so boring. but i dun feel like gg out to spend money. cos i'm so so broke. maybe hit the shops only after pri/sec/jc ppl have started school. when there are less ppl in town. i'm beginning to dread gg to town. shit! i'm getting old!!!!!!!!!!!

new

2007-06-19T18:59:00.000+08:00

yap here i am at my new blog. testing out the stuff. got my new template up too! hahaha.. -pats myself on the back- having a terrible headache now. i think it's the weather. makes my head go crazy :( or maybe it's just me staring at my comp all day long, makes my head go wonky. settling my ipod stuff (it's empty again. deleted all the songs), doing my blog stuff, playing spider solitaire..

it's csi night tonight! yay! and then it's criminal minds! yay yay!!!! but actually i should sleep early with my crazy headache. but.. nah.. it's more impt for me to watch tv. hahah..

ppl, don't kill me for changing my blog address so frequently. hahaha...

new blog again

2007-06-19T17:36:00.001+08:00

hahah.. and so i have a new blog again! don't faint. hahaha... find wordpress a little weird when it comes to posting photos. the comp idiot in me has failed me yet again and i couldn't figure out what's wrong. so good old blogger yet again for me!