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Sights and sounds in a lovely little town

2012-03-09T15:18:00.012+08:00

I'm really looking forward to Cambridge in the UK itinerary.

One of the places I'm psyched about visiting is the Cambridge University. It's 1) one of the oldest universities in the world (started in 1209), and 2) ranked first in the world in last year's QS World University Rankings. The campus grounds are probably brimming with history and intelligence.

I remember telling someone a while back that I HAD to take a boat ride down the River Cam one day, but I didn't think that that day would come so soon. Punting, they call it. The university also has all these museums and collections on their sprawling campus site with free admissions. I'm looking forward most to the Fitzwilliam Musuem because it seems to hold such a diverse range of artifacts from all sorts of cultures and eras. It'll be like walking back to a time zone of randomness. Or at least I hope it would be.

Then there's also attending the McFly concert on one of the days, and hopefully a visit to the beautiful Wimpole Estate, which is this huge country house with acres of parkland and farmland - basically grass. There's an event over a couple of weeks where you can witness the live birth of a lamb but sadly we missed that by 3 days (only! I would camp there for hours just on the promise of seeing sheep give birth ok.) Plans are to rent a bicycle and explore the estate on our own free time and breathe in the fine country air.

If it's really lovely I can propose to my parents to retire there and freelance as farmers.

I'm sure they'll love it.

Unreal

2012-02-23T00:54:00.000+08:00

Thank god for Youtube.

The End Is Nigh

2012-02-13T23:20:00.001+08:00

I dub this, the motivational channel. Oh, the things I have to tell myself so that I stay on track when I'm writing. It somewhat borders on pathetic but I guess it has its functions, because at this very point, I just submitted my last article and Am Done With AJ Forever!

Thank you motivational channel, you have served me well.

Life's too short to listen to music you don't like

2012-02-12T00:00:00.002+08:00

Mind-blown. This has got to be one of the coolest music videos out there. Like the jellybean video by Kina Grannis, I can't imagine how much work and manpower had to be invested to make something like this. Great artistic direction.

So here I am at this point of my life, trying to decide if I should do something I'm passionate about, or pick something more practical that will rake in money. Basically; passion vs money.

I've met people who absolutely hate their job, trudging to work purely for the sake of surviving. Then there are those who are in love their line of work, and it's rewarding in that sense.

What exactly am I looking for then? It'll be such an idealistic and somewhat passe way of thinking to say it's happiness. But the thing is, I don't want to live the next half of my life stuck in a rut, wondering what went wrong along the way either.

To take risks. To rebel. That all sounds very inviting.

Maybe I just...don't know how to.

Every photograph is a story

2012-02-05T16:22:00.006+08:00

On Friday, I finally got to sleep to my heart's content and then I spent the entire day alone at home updating my music playlist.

On Saturday, all my relatives came over for CNY steamboat and Minnie and I got to goof around like the good ole times.

On Sunday, a good half of the day was spent watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S reruns and pigging out on the leftovers of the steamboat and ice cream with my brother.

This weekend just felt right.

When we were young

2012-01-22T01:59:00.011+08:00

Look what I found, photos from my lil' brother's 10th birthday! Suddenly my mum unloads on me all these CDs she kept with photos taken over the years since I'm doing the family book. There's plenty more where that came from. And I've come to realise 2 things from the photos.

1) I used to dress like I owned only 3 pieces of clothing in my entire wardrobe.

2) My bros and I are pretty much still as dorky as we were 6 years ago.

Now we learn the hard way

2012-01-18T23:52:00.001+08:00

I don't know why I've been so distracted these past few days but it has to stop.

On the side note, I could really live by this song by Michael Tolcher.

"And nevermind if nothing makes sense

Cause it all works out in the end."

Drown

2012-01-17T12:02:00.003+08:00

20 odd articles to write.

15 odd interviews to do.

10 odd layouts to fill.

5 more weeks to go.

Heeeee yaahhhh this is going to be the most crammed final weeks ever.

Writing all day is kinda exhausting. I rather be doing all the creative layouts and given less articles to write. So at least there's no need to be running all over Singapore doing interviews and taking photographs. I'll just have to camp in my house and do funky stuff...with InDesign.

And I wonder if what I'm doing now has any relation to my future.

So Chinese

2012-01-06T19:56:00.002+08:00

Yesssss it's going to be my favourite time of the year soon!

I just love everything about the Chinese New Year.

Especially the part where we get to jiggle to xin-nian-kuai-le jingles!

#everything-red

#winning-at-mahjong

#steamboats-forever

#new-clothes

#ang-baos

#singing-songs-fervently

#many-goodies-to-last-the-year

#festive!!!!!!!!!

Worth a shot

2012-01-01T17:59:00.007+08:00

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS TIME!

1. Study hard. (and stop the procrastination gosh.)

2. Play harder. Before my teenage years are completely gone.

3. Exercise. The 5th time I've reused this resolution.

I think I might as well make it a permanent feature.

4. Pass my driving test. Refer to point 1 part II.

5. Learn to surf! (Live on a beach house! Eat ice cream everyday!)

6. Be this person. SMILE LIKE I MEAN IT.

7. Stop being afraid of failure.

8. Take chances. To do at least 5 new things this year.

But I'll probably tick off all during my

UK GRAD TRIP MUAHAHAHA so let's make it 10 instead.

Time capsule

2012-01-01T16:32:00.013+08:00

Wow, 2011 has definitely been memorable.

Thanks to my handy dandy Simpsons logbook I've got pretty much every event in 2011 recorded down. For reminiscing purposes. And because I have the memory of a 60 year old.

Ushered in 2011 with a BANG!

Chinese New Year, my favourite time of the year ^^

Sem 2.2 of school.

So far the favourite semester of mine because of these three.

And then a plan was born. We were going to be famous. Sorta.

BANGKOK WITH RACH!

My 20-plus cousins. *grins*

Friends whom I managed to drag with me to Pulau Ubin.

WESTLIFE LIVE. Defo one of the highlights of my year!!

Friends and family <3

The last day of a 6-month internship. That was only half of a year spent working, I still don't know how I'll manage settling down with a job for the rest of my life. Or maybe it'll be slightly better if I got x-10 of my internship pay.

My first F1 as a spectator with Charmaine!

Brothers.

I guess when you realise that nothing lasts forever,

you begin to appreciate all the moments, both the good and bad ones.

Closing Time

2011-12-24T01:34:00.002+08:00

8 more days till Year 2011 ends.

It all seems so fast, yet I'm excited to see what the New Year brings.

Merry Christmas!

a + b = c

2011-12-11T23:04:00.012+08:00

(a) When you haven't been exercising for months and you suddenly decide it's time to keep fit

(b) but then you majorly overestimate yourself and start running like an antelope wild and freeeee

(a) When there's a test tomorrow for some subject that you just can't see the purpose for it at all

(b) but procrastination - the big evil - gets in the way

The Universe always makes sense.

PS: Finally took the skyride and luge at Sentosa and IT WAS SUCH A THRILL. Screaming our heads off while imagining what would happen if we got stuck mid-air. Now I know who's more chicken than me.

Je suis GG

2011-12-07T18:10:00.007+08:00

Bonjour.

Je suis étudiante. J'ai un française examen demain.

And I'm an old dog la. I can't pick up new tricks so quickly anymore.

How to learn and grasp a language within the short time frame I have in between working on my core modules' assignments?! (Which is almost never. Even commuting is used for snooze time.)

I never thought I'll have to say this line from the movies but, I need a French tutor!

Half The World Away

2011-12-04T22:34:00.012+08:00

I've yet to graduate but there are already 3 graduation trips in talks.

I'll probably have to slog like an animal in school AND for money.

And since I have nothing to my name there's nothing I can mortgage.

I could offer valuable insight for money though.

Offer stands forever.

Then there's christmas presents (I can only afford hugs now) to get.

Birthdays to celebrate.

New year's to party.

Trips to save up for.

Food to eat on a daily basis.

Very trying, no doubt.

But me knows it's all going to be very, very worth it.

Because at least when I'm old I'll be a very interesting old person with all my worldly adventures.

And not just some old wrinkly prune.

The great questions

2011-11-26T18:07:00.004+08:00

How to earn a lot of money while balancing school?

How to lose a lot of weight without having to cut out eating?

How to make hair grow faster?

How to become musically-inclined?

How to tell if someone really mean what they say?

How to come up with a brilliant idea?

How to change someone else's impression of you?

Sometimes I'm confused if I want time to speed up or slow down.

不会讲华语的华人

2011-11-22T23:32:00.008+08:00

遗憾。我真的后悔中学时候没有好好听课，在高级华文课就没有认真，结果现在华语真么差劲。

我连读华文文章都有问题。

我原本是想stalk柯震东（那些年，我们一起追的女孩）在网上。

啊，谁知道，全部都是华语，我读不懂啦！

Google translate 也没有用, 乱乱给我translation. 我只能利用我的底华语标准来看。

死啦，真的很丢脸。

我学十年的华文和补习就这样拜拜浪费了。

看来我需要看多一点我猜，我猜，我猜猜猜。

Those days

2011-11-19T13:59:00.003+08:00

This movie brings back so many memories about my own secondary school days. The days of being young and carefree. When it didn't matter so much about the future because we were all content with the present. When anything was possible.

I think my mindset has changed a lot since. Yes, I've become more down-to-earth, realistic, pragmatic even. My dreams have all been downsized. But somewhere along the way I lost that childlike self, the part with the big imagination and foolhardiness.

Looking back is always easy; it's the part that has already been done.

The future, that part's still unwritten.

Irrrrrish, like how a pirate would say it

2011-11-13T21:11:00.001+08:00

For some reason I really like the silly last photo.

An Irish bar lurks hidden magic I swear.

The magic of the Irrrrrrish!

Oh, here comes the monsoon season.

The rain brings out the melancholy in some people.

But I like walking home after a rain.

The plants on my way home, at least, all look very happy and refreshed.

This is not a poem.

Although it could very well be.

Found my sensitivity

2011-11-07T22:59:00.002+08:00

I swear everything in that picture used to be my mantra a few years back. I kept to it, I really did. But then after a while, I don't know what happened, I think I got caught up in matters that seemed important then and naturally some other things took the backseat. But in retrospect I guess we all go through some off phases before we actually find our footing.

Every time I feel slightly off inside or the biggest loser on the planet all I have to do is think of my favourite songs and everything seems to be clearer. Such is the power of music to lift your soul.

Jellybean video!

2011-11-03T21:06:00.003+08:00

This is amazing! One of the cooler vids I've seen in a while. Prepare to have your jaw drop when you check out the behind-the-scenes video. I would have probably gone mental assembling the 280,000 jelly-beanies in the billions of scenes. Which makes it all the more commendable for the team at work.

The amount of talent on Youtube - be it singing, dancing, directing etc - is immense.

Makes one very jealous indeed.

Peace

2011-10-23T22:13:00.004+08:00

http://citynightskylight.tumblr.com/

OM OM OM MAY THIS SEMESTER BE FILLED WITH ALL OF THE GOOD.

A white affair

2011-10-09T23:27:00.015+08:00

I was watching Mama Mia on telly and then Amanda Seyfried came out in this wedding dress that was so fairy-tale like. The whole wedding itself was already something out of a rich man's world; the ceremony was taking place in this tiny chapel atop a cliff overlooking the sea and setting horizon. Talk about spoiling the market.

All the weddings I have attended follow traditional chinese customs - praying at the temple, serving of tea to the elders to collect ang baos etc. So from early afternoon the guests have to house-hop with the to-be-wedded couple, and everyone will be perspiring in their special outfits trying to stay alive in the heatwave. But it's all part of the fun. Then comes the dinner banquet in a fancy hotel/restaurant and a ball of merry-making. That's a chinese wedding for you.

Which is all very interesting but predictable and safe. What about whimsical? DIY? There is that sense of character in weddings held on the grounds of nature. The rustling of leaves in the wind or the calming motion of waves or just a big old shade tree in the garden - you cannot replicate these elements without coming across too trying. But again perfect is defined by individuals' terms. Just...make sure the bride and groom are on the same page.

In the process of finding Amanda Seyfried's dress on the internet I came across some other beautiful ones.

Tube wedding dresses usually trail the ground with lots of poof and air underneath (you can hide those huge thighs you have tried to lose for 5 years etc ), but this dress offers a different twist. Plus you get to show off your stilettos. Or boots! Getting married in boots would be so country.

But I think it's always safer to go for strapped dresses because you never know how eager your boobies are to make an appearance. The combination of lace plus low-backed plus big poofy bottoms is very appealing.

Although for all the oohs and aahs a poofy cinderella wedding dress receives, I think the simple white gown does it best for me. These are the ones without all that baggage and distractions. Anyone can rock a tube dress, but only a handful can look like a ravishing beauty in these understated dresses.

And this, is my favourite one.

I wanna marry this dress.

Mmmm you're like pelican fly

2011-10-08T15:22:00.010+08:00

Sigh. I look through my Westlife concert photos and then I sigh even more. 90% cannot make it even by my standards. Half the time I was blazing it up with my Irish boys I couldn't even be bothered (6th row from front, all thanks to Kelvin. W/o him I'll probably be stuck in row 3725). So here's the cream of the crop in my b/w series. ^^

Hello Shane, Mark, Nicky, Kian,

Year 1999 and you guys were 19/20 and I was 7. That's 12 years ago.

When I saw you live for the first time it was just like the good ole' times in the past.

And for that 1 and a half hours I was flying without wings.

With much love, J.

*****

Yesterday at Brenda's grilled bbq I had my biggest loss in mahjong to date and I was very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very sad.

But I guess like all games in life sometimes we win sometimes we lose.

The importance of being idle

2011-10-07T00:06:00.006+08:00

I'm positive I have acquired some level of zen-ness after staying at home recuperating. Not that I'm complaining. It's nice to finally have endless extensions of time after being stuck in a job for six months...yea I'm out of a job baby!

I know some people who hate going to the hospital. I don't mind it. In fact, not in a perverse sort of way like I enjoy being swamped with sickly people, I quite enjoy visits to the hospital. Or maybe not just any hospital but my own country's. I'm not claiming to know the specifics (in fact I know zilch) but I believe Singapore's healthcare system is top notch and would gladly put my life in their white slithery gloved hands.

Perhaps it is the environment, or the values that the system is built around. But my hospital visits wouldn't be the same if not for the doctors and nurses with me every step of the way. I like the sense of calmness (or palpable fear, some might say), like say that of a library, only you know that geniuses and life savers roam the very same grounds.

I do have the utmost respect for doctors. I was never cut out for medical studies, even with all the role playing I did saving countless imaginary patients, so when I see a doctor its hard for me not to feel admiration. Not only for all the brains they have, but for the very reason they entered the profession: To help people gain back their most prized possession, their health.

In any case I'm not dying anytime soon, so that's a relief. Although if there's one thing I'm suffering badly from it's a case of Westlife Withdrawal Symptom.

And unfortunately, there's nothing the doctors can do about this.

My Lighthouse

2011-10-04T00:58:00.002+08:00

WESTLIFE sneak peek pics. I should have recorded more videos so that I can replay Shane's voice over and over and over and over and over.

Top down in the summer sun

2011-10-02T22:50:00.004+08:00

More F1 pics with the Cuzzie <3

According to Urban Dictionary, Trolololol has something to do with a video of a Russian business man singing in different pitches or something along these lines. Hmm very intriguing. I've always assumed it was something straightforward like a equation: Troll + lol = trolololololololol.

I'm going to trololololololol like a Russian Business Boss because internship's over! I felt so much love from my colleagues during the last few days, what with all the sumptuous farewell lunches they were throwing for us. The whole thing was fruitful while it lasted but I cannot express how glad I am to have my nights and Saturdays back...

... Which was veryyyyy well-spent at Keith's house playing mahjong and earning 2 quick bucks for 4 hours straight. Do the math. If there was one thing I've really missed during the 6 months it would be good ole unadulterated fun with my friends, and yesterday's pizza party totally made up for it.

Can you believe these babies cost $120? Ok it's supposedly crystallized with Swarovski crystals by hand, so you're mostly paying for the labour and bling bling. (And technically, the next LMFAO video).

Who needs them when you can make your own anyway?

Time for crafty Jean to whip up something with glue, once I find some comfy white canvas shoes. ;)

The sun will set for you

2011-09-27T03:48:00.007+08:00

Formula 1 highlight: LINKIN PARK

I still can't believe Charmaine and I managed to sneak our way into the fanzone smack in front of Linkin Park's set. And how we sang our teenage hearts out with the songs we used to memorise in secondary school, and the exhilarating joy of hearing them live for the first time.

Mike Shinoda is DAAA MAN, guy was rappin' like bullets out a machine gun. Chester Bennington just wasn't born to disappoint, he was rocking it throughout the 20-song set list with hardly any sign of fatigue. (My throat was pretty much gone after I sang through the entire 'In The End'.)

That aside, watching the cars zoom pass was exciting for the first 5 laps. Not a F1 fanatic unfortunately. Although I do appreciate the intense amount of work put in by the entire crew, because the technical aspects of building a speeding car like that will probably burn the chords in my head. But you see, I attended the grand prix mainly for Linkin Park.

And I was blown away, just blown away.

Waiting for my real life to begin

2011-09-20T14:13:00.002+08:00

For 5 consecutive days I've been waking up to a thunderstorm. It feels good.

Everyday I come home I look forward to watching my 2 back to back episodes of Scrubs.

It's actually given me some stuff to think about.

All kinds of time

2011-09-15T23:58:00.005+08:00

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let them go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right. -Marilyn Monroe

Yesterday I had a pretty rough day (by my standards, I soon realised).

I'd blown my money on taxi fare to and fro to OCC and then, narrowly missed the second bus to work, which put me back by another 10 minutes. I was verging on a Bitch-Please-Life-Is-So-Unfair eruption, and wanting the world to hear my grievances, I started furiously typing on my phone.

And then I realised after a few attempts there was no way I could phrase my ranting without sounding like a total lame wussypants.

I swallowed the last of my hissy fit and tried a different approach: My version of Zen Mode. Which worked pretty well for me, in fact. With a detached mindset I could see there was really no point in all that flustering. And I got to work on time, by my standards, but who keeps track anyway? (No one, I pray with crossed fingers.)

It's really only a small incident but it gave me a epiphany. (I really like these things, it's like a light bulb going off in my head). That we whine at the first sign when things go wrong, and forget too easily the times when things were right. That I need to start looking at the bigger picture, because there are bigger things than me.

So with my brand new outlook, I'm beating out the odds in each day. Today I tripped and fell on my knee while climbing the stairs and the bruise hurts like a bitch, but you know, I won't sweat it, cause Raquel who's such a sweetie pie brought me a banana to eat at work.

See what I just did there?

Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face

2011-09-12T00:38:00.014+08:00

It's IMPOSSIBLE not to count down the days to the arrival of sweet honeyed well-deserved freedom. I'm not so much in awe that internship is finally ending but rather the fact that 6 months have come and gone just like that. And all the big dreams I had and vowed to do during this period ... well ok actually I think I did pretty good. To be truthful, sometimes it feels like I'm on a 6-month holiday holding a part-time job, what with all the time I have to play and the state of my well-rested mind. BUT. ONLY. SOMETIMES.

Here's to all the late nights, wild rides, good stuff and more.

Our Chinaman kite took the winds and beat every other kite in the sky. Ok not really but from far it looks like a giant centipede crawling and that itself is a win already.

Batam getaway with the family because everyone deserves a holiday once in a while. Family time is always therapeutic. And I got the best ever back rub from my oil message hurhur.

And the bunch of young adventurous us headed to Pulua Ubin for our kayaking and feeding the fishes with our feet gave me a tingling sensation but I liked it. One day I'm going back there to try biking on the terrain because I'm a survivor like that. And I can pretend I'm on the Amazing Race.

By all means, run, for you're young and free.

Ok boyfriends, that's cool too

2011-09-02T18:15:00.007+08:00

"I'm awesome because I am not afraid to fall nor ashamed to stumble. Because I never wanted to be beautiful, and I never pretended to be."
Gabe Saporta

And that's the (for a lack of better term) fuckyeah! quote for the month of September. Damn right he's the boss. Check out his kicks and jumps! If there's anyone living the life it's Mr Gabe.

Cause you make me feel so NA NA NA NA NA

You ain't ever gonna burn my heart out

2011-08-30T20:45:00.002+08:00

WHAT I'LL DO TO BE AT THEIR FREAKING SHOW.
I can already imagine myself, (6 years back during their world tour *sobs), crowd mobbed but that would be the last thing on my mind, and then when they start playing I'll sing till my voice goes.
I honestly feel I might just cry.

Bright lights and the big city

2011-08-26T22:38:00.006+08:00

Goldcoast:
Photos courtesy Tourism Queensland

My gosh I can feel spasms of electricity in my body by just looking at these pictures. I remember during my last visit to Goldcoast I stayed in an apartment exactly like the top photo, where the view was one overlooking the gorgeous undisturbed coast line. My bros and I would run down at every window of opportunity (in the middle of the night) to bury our feet deep, but mostly just to prance around in the chilling sand. And that waterfall ... I would die to be in it.

Yeah, Goldcoast was pretty much legend-bloodyhellawesome-dary.

All those pictorial tourism advertisements popping up everywhere because of the NATAS fair is NOT helping right now. Times like these provide the precise motivation for me to work hard to rake in the big notes. (I'm talking the S$10, 000 kind whoopee!)

I'm definitely trying out backpacking/couchsurfing.
THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS!
Will TLC please take me to be part of their programmes?!
Haiii at most I'll be an air stewardess...once I can fit into that Kebaya.

A present

2011-08-24T22:56:00.003+08:00

The world could use a little more love. I'll start with me then.

I've got time while you've got freedom

2011-08-23T01:50:00.004+08:00

I can't believe my brother's going to abandon me in Singapore while he takes off on some monster adventure trip to Cambodia with my cousins. No, it isn't the least fair at all.

Sometimes I feel like I'm watching the world from behind a window.

I just can't see myself in it.

Walk to you

2011-08-18T23:20:00.008+08:00

I'm halfway out then I turn around
expecting you there but it's all black now
how did I come this far without you
Maybe you did call my name
left me signs or dropped some hints
but all I could remember
were the best times we lived

Has it all been in my mind
did I lose track of the time
I think I might have forgotten
who I was before you were mine

Now I'm falling down with a heart full of regret
for holding back all the things I should've said
that everything can stop, but your love can't wait
Don't you realise, the world is ours to take
I'll retrace my steps
and walk to you
I'll walk to you

She just couldn't imagine that you could love her that much. Nobody could.

****
Penning stuff like this does fill up spaces of free time in between work. Takes a load off my mind too. For the time being, that is.

Tragic, they say

2011-08-16T20:17:00.010+08:00

I met a boy
on a Saturday night
he quietly crept up
and took me by surprise
He was young, so I guess
he didn't think twice
that playing with a girl's heart
wasn't that wise
So I took out
my army swiss knife
stabbed him hard
made sure to twist his insides
Glad I was the
last on his mind
as his eyes rolled up
I watched him slowly die

Chasing the starlight

2011-08-14T12:40:00.008+08:00

photo somewhere from tumblr

I had this conversation with my brother once, we were discussing about the vastness of space. Like how incredibly small we are compared to our Earth, and similarly the tininess our Earth compared to the Universe. And there are theories suggesting the existence of many universe out there, that one could be within the other, and at that point in the conversation I just felt so very small. Microscopic small. Like it struck me that I was caught somewhere but didn't know where I stood in this big greatness.

And then everything just seemed so insignificant in that perspective. Not in the sense that I wanted to throw everything out and abandon it all, but how much more there was in the beauty of our world to experience. I wanted to venture out, to touch, feel and explore the unknown. Just like how our world is to the universe, our insecurities and self-doubt are only a tiny part of us. I knew that if I let it control my life I'll be stuck in a rut forever.

Go out and take a chance. Because everyone dies, but not everyone lives.

So let us live our lives without a doubt

2011-08-10T16:29:00.007+08:00

We all have those close friends that we sincerely love and cherish, and that you'll gladly give an arm for because you know they'll do the same.

And then there's always this other bunch that gets me wondering, 'What the hell am I keeping you for?'

I'm not trying to be some unappreciative high-nosed snob, but relationships for me work this way: You have to give to get. Friendship's not a one-way street. There's no point in reaching out once in a while when people have been trying nicely to keep connected and you just keep brushing them off.

Bottomline is, if you don't bother, then people won't either. You don't get more than you offer.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing

2011-08-04T21:51:00.006+08:00

I pretty much hit at least half of that on the list. Although it's probably due to my stress-free life right now, because I don't think I can continue my very healthy tea-drinking lifestyle when the school term starts again. It's easy to lose the little but important points of life to the flurry of my deadline-reaching activities.

I probably need to start working on number 7 though.

So this thought of mine goes on to number 10, then jumps to number 14, backtracks to number 3 (because a step outside the house is all you need!! Plus if you get your family member to lock you out you really have nothing else to do.), but of course I have to take number 6 into consideration (don't want to break my one neck in the name of ambition), and then I finally end up at number 19.

Which is a healthy mind and body.

My recent health-scare is giving me much to ponder about. Perhaps a little bit of life has to be taken away from us before we start to appreciate the whole of it.

Drops of Sunshine

2011-08-03T08:34:00.008+08:00

Cleared my memory cards and I found a ton of photos that I took but never reviewed them.

Deanna's birthday card that is PRICELESS. No seriously, it cost me my sleep, and that can never be returned back to me. Pssst, Deanna you hear thatttt??

The Christmas party of our lives and I adopted a kou rou bao in the process.

My 18th birthday and my mum baked me this cake :):):):):):)

Hello Sexy.

Trio Times. I'll always remember them.

I had the worst night ever. I woke up 8 BLOODY HOURS before my alarm clock was due (2PM!!) because I was dreaming about work and how I couldn't figure out the newspaper layout, and that actually woke me up. For the lack of better things to do I decided to clean the entire house.

Work-out baby.

In between the stops, I say hey

2011-08-02T04:04:00.008+08:00

Wow, look, am I a MEGA Westlife song or what?

Ok that, and plus I'm really lazy to download songs. I just happened to get all of Westlife's albums from a die-hard fan/friend of mine a long time ago and it's been hoarding the majority of my itunes space ever since.

BUT I'M IN DESPERATE NEED OF NEW SONGS. Because 90% of the songs belongs to Weslife, every other song that comes up on my iPod makes me feel like I'm in a sappy romantic song MV. Not. cool.

But I've been listening to the band that came up with the ingenius song Stacy's Mum, targeted at all pubescent boys worldwide - Fountains Of Wayne!

I stumbled upon their very positive review in TODAY's paper (5 stars baby) and then I've been hooked on their songs ever since. (Technically it's been 12 hours only. But I totally qualify as a fan.)

So I'm done choosing my ringtone, which is an extremely meticulous and thorough process of auditioning every possible song. It has to be perfect, duh, since my phone's constantly off the hook. I guess being well-received does have its banes.

I can already imagine how tomorrow will turn out. I'll wake up later than planned, curse myself for it, and then catch the latest bus that will get me to work on time. Then on the taxi trip home, I'll vow not to put a morsel of food into my mouth when I get home and promise that I'll sleep early, but still end up watching the late night Desperate Housewives on TV eating the next day's breakfast.

Life always has a plan.

I'm just going on a ramble

2011-07-27T01:43:00.008+08:00

Waiting for my Simpsons to load so that I can download, err, so that I can receive the video that my wonderful online friends have decided to share. Don't sue.

So one two three four,

we've got we've got we've got only two more...

months to the end of internship!!!

I've never been closer to the news. But that's not to say I'm actually very updated with it because only the T-section interests me. Especially when I tell the taxi uncles that I'm from the press, they very innocently ask me what's coming up in the news the next day, but hey, I'm just as clueless. So then I start breaking out in cold sweat and mumble incoherently... it's truly an embarrassment. But don't worry about me, I can live with the humiliation.

Moving on, I caught the final installation of Harry Potter. Naturally. How could I not? How could I live with people gushing about Potter and the final epic battle without being part of it! (Yeah, I need to feel like part of the community to feel safe) I went in with my fragmented memories of the past movies and the final movie brilliantly pieced everything together.

It spoke volumes about bravery, love, courage, fear, friendship and all that values about life. The one thing that stood consistent throughout was how all of the characters were willing to fight to the end to protect something they loved. It's admirable. And it was soo touching and beautiful!! I honestly wonder how many people I know would stand up for something they believe in when the occasion calls for it. More often than not I've seen people just accept and resign in the face of adversary, which is just sad.

Anyway, I would love to proudly declare myself a HUGE POTTER FAN if not for fear that I would receive horrible criticism from the real fans who actually read the books.

But that's not entirely true! I'm halfway through with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Which I borrowed from a friend in 2008 (true story, bro) and then assumed ownership of it. I hope that's not called stealing... The book's quite addictive honestly. I'm looking forward to reading the rest. If the movies could be this amazing, imagine the amount of goodness in the books (and it would probably explain a lot to me too).

We look at the Harry Potter cast and go like 'Oh how sweet, look at how much they've grown'. But look at ourselves! Look at how time flies! I can't believe this is my final year of being a teenager. Okay, make that less than a year. OH THE HORROR IS TOO MUCH TO BEAR. I better do all the kinds of shit out there so that I can blame it on my immaturity.

I'm supposed to be too young to feel old. Which reminds me, I had this nice conversation in a cab with this taxi driver who lived around my area. (Thumbs up for nice taxi drivers!) This 40-something block neighbour of mine can run 42km marathons without a sweat, whereas my seizures mostly start kicking in at the 2km mark. It's not fair.

I've written down my goals for the rest of the year and getting a gold for NAPFA's one of them. It's really hard trying to be motivated to run, especially when the big angry sun is purposely trying to get me to combust into flames, I think. But I'll have to keep trying, won't I? Nothing worth having comes easy.

Oh look, my Simpsons videos are ready. Not sure who I'm saying goodbye to here, (it's easier on my mental state to assume I have readers), but I hope you stay gold. And it's getting kinda late, (I'm not supposed to sleep past 3am uh oh).

And also because my mac battery is dying. Gotta hurry post this!!!

But you and I will never die

2011-05-26T03:27:00.003+08:00

'How many special people change,

how many lives are living strange,

where were you while we were getting high?'

Omgaz I love my mac la!!! The tippy tappy of the keyboard, the smoothness, the speed...I haven't touched it in a longgggg time. I miss watching my tv shows. I miss bumming around at night. I miss disturbing my family.

OH WELL LIFE'S LIKE THIS whatcha gonna do bout it.

Wrapped around my head

2011-05-15T21:49:00.002+08:00

I did it.

I finally climbed over the ladder bar.

\m/ There's nothing you can't do now.

Can't take the dark into the light

2011-05-12T10:41:00.000+08:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elizabethgadd/5233138763/in/photostream

Funny how 6 months seemed to be such a long period a while ago, but now that it's actually here the days are ticking off pretty fast. Or perhaps its just me, since my days begin at such an late hour.

So make the best of the days ahead.

Make it count.

Don't look back and say I should have done this instead.

Neon headbands

2011-05-02T23:09:00.002+08:00

Hurhurhur we were so cool that they just realised that.

With my favourite little bean!

I actually settling very nicely into my work mode, save for the terrible sleeping hours I've adopted. And I still need to get that tumbler so I can drink hot green tea at work. peace out.

BAM!

2011-04-23T22:20:00.008+08:00

So I've never been much of a photobooth whore compared to some people I know (you know who you are *wriggles eyebrows), but then while waiting around I decided to play with the mirror effect to see if I could come up with a face with parallel features because that supposedly makes people look gorgeous right? And it did! It really highlighted some of my amazingly sculpted facial features and I couldn't be more pleased with the results.

This is the normal, a very ordinary and almost boring picture...

..and these are my fantastic alter egos.

Well hi there, one-nostril woman! (it's harder to form that than it looks).

Ookok a last one that I did....SCORE!!

My undisputed beauty astounds me.

All my troubles aside

2011-04-23T01:10:00.002+08:00

The only contact I had with the outside world was through texting and it's been too lonnggggggg since I've seen them. I guess I understood more about Christianity through the play and the message was conveyed very well, so a Good Friday very well spent.

Next holiday: Labour Day! Gotta catch em all

Be Brave.

2011-04-18T23:39:00.004+08:00

First day of work.

New Environments.

New Impressions.

New Commitments.

New Rules.

I hope I get through with a little bit more adventure...

We don't remember days, we remember moments

2011-03-22T20:26:00.007+08:00

Well after that bout of unlucky patch I've to say things have been picking up pretty quickly and it's been awesome. Picnic at Marina Barrage again, and this time there was no time wasted in starting the games. Tough rough rugby must be the most intense game I've played, especially since we get to make up the rules, and did I mention Mr Cloudy was present? I still miss those days where we spent every Friday hanging out doing REAL COOL stuff; those were the best times. ;)

And I finally made good my word - I got to go on my holiday in Bangkok with Rachel and her family! It was a stroke of luck, and long story short, I have fletched my eager wings (and now I'm really broke too). It was supposed to be a get-away, but I'm not sure now considering the stress we were under to get shopping done and the impossible task of getting gifts for everyone? So when you get your gifts now, SMILE AND SAY THANK YOU REGARDLESS.

Ok but it was actually really good, especially since Aunty and Uncle knows Bkk like the back of their hands and we got to explore various shopping venues, even the secret undergrounds ones, and the 4 face buddha temple! A visit there and my life is set to be awesome for the rest of the year. ^^

Things I'll miss (or already have):

Being chauffeured on the tuk tuks and taxis like a Queen on a mission

Acting all tourist-sy and forking out money like I'm so rich

Hanging out with Rachel (our hotel room moments, >;D)

Eating and eating and eating and....

MASSAGES!

Thanks for bringing me, R! ;-) Of course, and your family too, for the food and everything else.

So Life in Singapore has resumed with me facing little monsters in the early morning when I can only perform the minimum body functions but somehow they all seem to be on a high sugar rush?

I wonder what they eat in the morning.

Chasing your starlight

2011-03-11T23:54:00.003+08:00

Finally a piece of good news. I let myself be bitter about what I've sorely missed out, but I promise it was only for a while. If you focus on the past you forget the future, so I'm setting my sights on the present and I'm going to strive to make the best out of this lovely opportunity.

There's so much worth fighting for, so much more to believe in. It's going to be good.

Dancing Crazy

2011-03-08T22:12:00.002+08:00

I've got a feeling that it's gonna be alright,
We don't know where we're goin' and I don't know where I'm at,
I'm kinda thinkin' I don't like nobody else,
You know whatever happens, I will be right by your side,

You, me in the spotlight,
Running around till the end of the night,
Hot, hot keep it comin',
We can rock out till the early morning,

There's really nothing better I love about holidays than the care-free spirit that we adopt. It doesn't matter if there's nothing to do for some days; listening to the radio and reading a book does finely for me anyway.

My holistic plan is going well, I think.

Bite

2011-03-07T13:44:00.002+08:00

Prata, Swensen's, the awesomest black pepper crab in town, McDonald's.

The best junk I've been eating.

No job for the day. Perhaps I should go out and ride a bike or something.

1, 2, 3 Go

2011-03-04T00:09:00.003+08:00

"Alright now fellas,

Now what's cooler than bein' cool?

(ICE COLD!) I can't hear ya'

I say what's cooler than being' cool?

(ICE COLD!) whooo...."

HEYYYYYAAAAAA

A little late on the notice here.... but officially done with school!!

Had my dimsum plans carried out and ALMOST ALMOST ALMOST won Cluedo at Mel's house.

Full force ahead in the upcoming weeks.............I better get that internship.

Free-Spirited

2011-02-27T23:13:00.005+08:00

Only momentarily free till I get the news. Until then, I can pretend I have everything else in the world.

5 things on my mind

2011-02-13T01:57:00.005+08:00

-thenotebookdoodles

1) The sweet taste of freedom on the tip of my tongue with only 1 week left to school. How brill has this semester been with the things I've learnt.

2) Once you start using hair conditioner, you don't go back.

3) There are plenty of things in life worth celebrating. Like huge reunion dinners, or good friends who buy you lunch so that you'll cheer up.

4) I decided my favourite colour for the month is Cream, the kind where it has just the slightest hint of gold.

5) I really wouldn't mind investing in a new music album that doesn't blast loud bass music in my ears.

And hello, February.

Forgive and forget

2011-02-07T01:16:00.002+08:00

Some things are said in the heat of anger, while some actions are carried out in a moment of folly. The intention to hurt doesn't last, so calm down and think before you say something hurtful. You might not have meant it, or with the power of time it slips your memory, but you can never erase the hurt you caused to that person.

Fortunate

2011-02-03T20:40:00.004+08:00

Bedok 85....where you still have to pay 10cents to use the toilet.

Eating has become a social activity more than anything else; you talk, bond, laugh, gossip, cry, vent, over meals. Why can't exercising be the same?

It should play out something like this instead.

A: "Hey wanna meet up?"

B: "Ok, whatcha wanna do?"

A: "I know this damn good place near my house."

B: "Shopping center?"

A: "Newly renovated exercise corner for the elderly! Let's go! Woo hoo!"

Choo

2011-01-26T01:09:00.009+08:00

Wow. It's when you start celebrating another round of birthdays that you see how quickly time has zoomed by, and here comes another year of greatness worth celebrating.

Rachel Cho, Happy 19th birthday! And to toast that we have a special round of (old/new) embarrassing photos that we secretly take pride in.

On your birthday exactly a year ago. Look at the timeless classy deco behind.

Colourful day, with Stef's Topshop dress that we all never saw again.

The day we witnessed you and Stef's (and mine) amazing vocals.

No Glory Dogs, our non-existant band.

Yep, our future husbands' all lined up nicely behind.

My favourite photo. :>

Looking upon these photos I've come to the realization that:

1) I've been through almost every single significant event with you. WOW.

2) I kinda miss my long hair.

3) My skin is really really really really dark against your fair tone. I need to use the umbrella more.

4) We are TALL. We've been called giants on too many occasions.

5) I might do badly for multi-cam quiz...oh no.

Lots of Love, Jean.

Teen Spirit

2011-01-19T22:00:00.004+08:00

This is my life, since 1999. Every year "Eliminate Procrastination" has been on my new year resolution list but then I'll just procrastinate meeting it. In some weird force kinda way EVERYTHING else is a million times more interesting when you need to do work. Including finding a desktop background for your laptop.

So I'm in a dilemma now. Is it better go out regularly (which means spending money regularly) or staying at home, saving money so that you can splurge it on more extravagant outings? Although I don't like the idea of my money dwindling at such extreme speed.

One of the best feelings in the world.

Once your parents say yes, you go like "Oh...ah...ha.. ok can ah...."

THEN YOU GET THE FREAKING HELL OUTTA THERE BEFORE THEY CHANGE THEIR MIND.

I gawk

2011-01-16T19:01:00.002+08:00

Everybody's changing and I don't feel the same.

-Keane

Circumstances change, environments change, emotions change,

how can we possibly still remain who we used to be?

You can't point out the changes in someone without noticing a few in yourself.

Forever Alone

2011-01-13T19:13:00.002+08:00

The stuff on Tumblr can get you cracking up at 1am when you have work to do but you really don't want to do it so you end up scrolling through endless pages laughing to yourself.

Or that's what I do anyway.

Geez I need to stop bingeing on biscuits.

Fleeting thoughts

2011-01-08T17:21:00.006+08:00

I firmly believe that when one door closes, another opens.

There is no way in this time and age you can survive without having an open mind.

On a totally irrelevant note, Autumn Concerto must be one of the best Taiwanese dramas I've watched in my entire life, not that there's a lot on the list, but you have no idea how ridiculously inane the script can get in some of the dramas I've seen. At least this time the way the story unfolds feels more grounded and real, and the dialogue doesn't induce a hair-ripping session. It's quite nice, actually. :)

Or that's just me.

Appreciate the people who appreciates you.

2011-01-06T16:11:00.007+08:00

Really, when I attempt to do this I just look more like a bloated pig than anything else. But I'll keep trying till I get it like Mr Tom. Is it the lips or.....

Love the above few pics. You know who to call whenever you're in need of some fun.

Beauty

2011-01-04T23:35:00.003+08:00

The World's a beautiful place.

The inspiring sights,

the cacophony of sounds,

the rich smells,

the bittersweet tastes,

and the sensory touch on skin.

You just got to find the right people to enjoy the amazing experience with.

I've got my map so I won't get lost

2011-01-03T23:45:00.005+08:00

2010:

2011:
So it's been a great year, nevertheless.

But I don't know if I'm getting closer or further away from my dreams.

I'm not even sure what I want anymore.

The thought is a gift itself

2010-12-31T14:54:00.002+08:00

30 DECEMBER, awesome people, dry throats, cramping stomachs, great gifts, dougie dancing, cold food, soft pillows, silly games, spilled drinks, and great venue....

Merry Christmas everyone ;-)

But now it's sleep first and then HELLLOOOOOO 2011. I still got that bottle & chips in my bag. ;-)

AM/PM

2010-12-23T02:54:00.008+08:00

If it's true that computer screens emit harmful radioactive rays then my face would be so burnt and damaged and I wouldn't even know it. 12 hours of sleep and 12 hours of work, that's what you call a balanced lifestyle....and a sad sad hermit one at that too.

Everyone's going/gone Christmas shopping and buying all kinds of gifts, while I've got 3 Christmas parties on my list I haven't even bought anything yet. Actually I haven't stepped out of the 100km radius of my house, not that that's important anyway.

Sooo guys, in case you counted your presents over and over again but still can't figure out why you're short of a gift......it's cause tis season Santa was busy doing homework.

Damn.

Weird dreams

2010-12-21T13:31:00.003+08:00

I had a dream...........

...and it was the weirdest dream ever.

It's official; I dream weird! It's been going on for 3 consecutively days, but today takes the cake for the most..awkwardly disturbing dream. There was a period of time where I keep dreaming about the Perth people all the time. It was a tad annoying after a while because, well, some variations in my dreams would be nice.

An interesting fact about dreams: you only dream of faces that you already know. So even though you have no idea who they are or you think your smart brain conjured up the features of that person, they're actually real people that you've encountered at some point of your life.

Which explained why I swear I knew that guy from the day-1-dream, why my family was in day-2-dream, and.....the characters in day-3-dream. Ackkk. :/ Whatever happened to sweet dreams?!

PS Hammocks are cool.

PSSSS Today's my mum's birrthday and it's gonna be fun!

Dear Eudora,

2010-12-18T01:39:00.011+08:00

This was exactly one year ago when you turned 17 and a collection of photos from that time before and since. Seems like a long time ago, when you look back at these photos and wondered where all the time went past when you weren't looking.

So Happy birthday grandma! Now that you're my alliance, we're gonna rule the world (when they're not looking)!!

Someday when we're 60 and our bodies are wrinkled we'll look back on these photos and go..."WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING THAT I WAZ LOOKING COOL????"

But till then, let's keep doing our gangsta pose.

Beat

2010-12-12T01:03:00.000+08:00

Ok wow now let me pick up my jaw and clamp it shut. Honestly, the immense amount of talent these people on Youtube have can be disheartening at times, when you can never imagine yourself being as good.

But as Mr Genius Thomas Edison once said' , "1% inspiration, 99% perspiration", I'm not going to be afraid.

Parenting for dummies

2010-12-09T21:15:00.005+08:00

hur hur hur I just pulled the 'I have exams' line. Parents, whenever the exams are near they fret and freak out so bad to the point of insanity every time you're doing something else other than studying.

The "Why are you not studying??" sentence applies for parents when you are:

1) watching TV

2) using the computer

3) snipping your toenails (true story)

4) brushing teeth

5) even when you are hiding in your room with the door close they periodically knock on your door... JUST IN CASE.

But like a coin and everything else in this world, there're 2 sides and when-you-have-exams, it's like automatic exemption from any form of household duties. (sadly so that you can spend every waking moment studying) So there. This explains why I'm here on the computer surfing while my dad is scrubbing dishes in the kitchen hur hur.

And I watered the plants for today. My life so happening right. Oh and by the way,

Based on a Psychological Study, CRUSH only lasts for a minimum of 4 months. If it exceeds, you are already inlove.

Chec chec check checkit out.

Wednesday

2010-12-08T20:17:00.005+08:00

My mum's gone overseas so now I'm like the new mum at home and my grandma's gone back to Malaysia too... and my status from 'offspring' has been upped to 'laborer'. This is not cool.

When I'm bored I start to pace the kitchen and open the fridge over and over again. By the way SPH called!!!!!! All this resume and interviews and writing tests are making me feel so grown up-ish. If gardening pays well I wouldn't mind taking care of plants for a living. I've had some practice watering and (kinda) nurturing the plants outside the house while my mum's away.

Good job to me.

Double Rainbow

2010-12-02T22:34:00.003+08:00

Nothing like good old music to lift up my spirits. Whatever will I do without music dee dum dee.

I want fish eye lenzzz. Someone help me take a picture like Mr Tom Fletcher too plzzz??

Someone just tried this...

2010-11-21T19:10:00.002+08:00

Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere in the world, there is a duck watching you.

-omgfacts

I would love to meet someone who has this. Btw, did you know you can't hum while holding your nose closed?

Stay The Night - James Blunt

2010-11-16T23:36:00.007+08:00

I remember doing this twice....both in Malaysia. The first one was at a small waterfall, and the second time it was at this river outside some caves. The cold water would hit us like a brick, but we kept jumping in over and over and over again.

It's the adrenaline and the same cold splash that made us feel alive. Can't find anything close to this in Singapore. I wish I had this at the back of my house.

tumbling

2010-11-15T23:07:00.004+08:00

"It's very easy to keep doing the same thing, day in day out. When you do that, when you don't make mistakes, when you don't take risks, you don't make a lot of mistakes. Making mistakes...it's a sign of moving forward, trying something new."

- How To Be Cool by Johanna Edwards

You know what's worst than losing? That feeling of defeat even before the fight has started. Never ever ever ever want to feel this way again. Making mistakes. It's very trying, but at least I'm going somewhere here.

Gonna be real, can you do it?

2010-11-14T18:01:00.008+08:00

There's something comforting about drinking slurpy orange jelly joy and using the computer while the radio's on in the background.

Not that this is a representation of my usual Sunday, I'm just doing this for my radio assignment. I have like 4 radios at home but EVERY ONE of them seems to be defected in some sort of way.

Radio #1: Sound crackles in some witchy sort of way. Ends up as an alarm for my mum.

Radio #2: Sound comes out from one speaker only.

Radio #3: Almost perfect, except it can't play CDs which is really annoying.

Radio #4: Hmm. For sound to come out we have to strategically place a large STONE on the CD player opener. NOT JOKING. Not that the stone is magic, any ordinary stone will do.

Well 3/4 of the radios at home were free anyway, my dad kept winning radios from his company's year end lucky draw (Now all he wins are mugs. -_-) Electronic products doesn't seem to last really long in this residence....

Well on the other hand you know what's lasting? MY WALLER DIET PROGRAMME. I have 5 registered members and our progresses are commendable. Longest member is me of course (I came up with it so yeah) and for 2 weeks, apart from my $88 splurge which if you look at it from a different perspective doesn't really count because it should last for say, 1 year? So that's less than a dollar a day, more specifically $0.24 a day. Rach's doing a good job too, keith...well we'll see.

I'm going to fill up my condom-emergency-savings-box given by kinky charmaine and jf with lots of ccccccoins. ;)

You Tube, I click

2010-11-10T21:34:00.006+08:00

Who would have thought the day would come where I'll splurge a staggering $88 on a jar of face cream. (well, not me!!!) Taking note that the jar was roughly the size of a large char siu bao I was prepared to haunt down the Watsons saleswoman who leeched me and critisized me till I felt that it was either buy-the-cream-and-improve-face or wear-paper-bag-over-head-FOREVER.

Thank goodness for Ms Saleswoman, there has been significant improvement and so me the customer has felt that she got her every cent's worth. Although when I say improvement sadly I didn't wake up one morning and transformed into mega foxy Megan Fox, so I'm still me with less pimples, that's all.

Youtube has provided me with endless entertainment and to add to the list, educational biology tutorials on how to make......HOMEMADE FACIALS! (Go ahead and laugh you know who you are. hmph) I have an olive oil-honey-sugar facial waiting for me in the kitchen, and I'm going to try yogurt and egg and tomato next!

I am never never never going to buy another facial mask ever again.

Never to walk in anyone's shadows

2010-11-01T02:00:00.003+08:00

I try to be thankful for everything in my life, especially when people do favours for me that I don't even think I deserve them doing it for. I don't take it for granted. Sometimes its not that clear-cut, but I always try to return the favour.

Today's the first of November....which means 4 more months to the next holiday. Yikes.

The stars, they know!!!

2010-10-28T15:09:00.003+08:00

Today's Gemini Horoscope:

Your generous nature has stretched you thinly. For now, you need to keep your wallet sewn shut. This phase should not last long and might help you develop more sustainable habits.

It's true it's true! I bought a bowl of noodles yesterday and I had to dig up all my coins just to pay for it. Yessssss this is a very very very strong sign given out by the oh mighty gods above for me to be stingy and play Mr Scrooge.

Totally gonna pay heed to this hahaha!

She's so lovely

2010-10-26T20:26:00.003+08:00

Dear char is finally 18!!! The ones who matter loves you ok! Thanks to her awesome bf she had a wonderful time at Hogsbreath Cafe and her birthday chocolate cake is really awfully delicious. And I hoped you enjoyed the ah pek activity at the banks of the Singapore River... >;) More to come after your A levels, which both you and JF are going to top the entire nation.

Look, happy girl ttm!

hur hur hur

nom nom chomp chomp

2010-10-23T22:20:00.004+08:00

I think it's crazily mad how much I'm going to miss my floor-mies and my roomies in 05-08 esp. Look at Mr enormous shark!! Imagine if we didn't have any assignments to do........we're be wreaking HAVOC. ^^

Chompchomp + dessert bowl yesterday to end off everyyything AND I MISS THEM ALREADY!

K so I'm not going to complain about school starting because I had the most enriching/entertaining/productive/longest/well spent holiday ever in my 18 yrs of living. Come on, 3 months to do everything/anything I wanted; I think it's been more than fulfilling really.

The ONLY thing that I would complain about would be..... the damn bloody long ride that I'll be soon taking for the next 3/4 months ughhhh I hate the journey to school i hate it i hate it!!!!

We need a shuttle bus service provided by TP!!! Why is my area neglected hellloooooooo we are part of Singapore too!!

20.10 2010

2010-10-20T20:56:00.004+08:00

What's up with the photobooth pics right. Convenient la.....room mate bonding. ^^

Waaah this group project plus reflection journals getting on my nerves. Searching for the info for the past few days ughhhhhhhhhh. IM SO BORED DOING THIS -_-

THIS PHOTO IS EPIC.

TNS

2010-10-15T17:10:00.003+08:00

we gna dance dance dance dance.......HAHAHA can't stand Mel's face!!!

BEST FLATMATES/CLASS EVER........!!!!

Best food I had for the week was Stef's Grandma's Chicken laksa.

TNS everyday wake up at 9am, go for intensive brain training like military, then play card eat drink play game eat drink play poker eat drink till 4++ am. Repeat cycle. FUN ONLY.

So now I'm going to make up for the 48+ hours of lack of sleep. See u on monday.

Fireworks

2010-10-05T01:03:00.003+08:00

Oh how I laughed my heart out during the picnic on Saturday at Marina Barrage with GC. The Idiot's Game might be the best game invented everrrr. Relieving old times by playing captain's ball, and then realising everyone's groaning for a break after 5 scores. Happy and sweaty. And next time, we gonna get awesome kick-ass huge kites to fight with all the others (and actually make it fly this time). <3

Today I had 2 green tea/vanilla ice cream, shio ramen, and a very very very nice strawberry fruit tart which I shared with Melodi. Then I played air hockey for the first time in my sad life and it was fantastically fun although I lost dreadfully to Mich the reigning champion. And I can't can't can't wait to bunk in with the whole lot of them for the campus stay becuz we gna be rockin like this.

Yeah, I say a word 3 times when I want to emphasize something.

Identity

2010-10-01T01:28:00.006+08:00

F1 Joy. Damn I had free tixs to see Adam Lambert and could have witnessed Mariah Carey's graceful fall, but I guess I didn't miss out much either with my own experiences. And the whole merchandising crew, hardcore XXX!!! Heartening to see such enthusiasm, really (although to be specific it was more of crazy).

Today was a bundle of fun at Keith's house with our improvised games, although I'm still persistent on hunting down that person who called me Fatty Jean. Well proves you don't need alcohol, ciggs and dirty dancing to have fun.

oh poor you, what a foolish way to live,

has anyone told you there's more to life than this?

Sneak peek

2010-09-16T20:10:00.005+08:00

DID YOU KNOW PHOTOBOOTH COULD DO THIS? Yes amazing but true!!!!

I honestly honestly, honestly honestly think i look like the uglier version of Deanna below. No kidding. I mean with the long hair and all?!

Ahhhh after a hard day's work, nothing beats the massage chair plus TV.

And speaking of work!! Yeah all work and too little play makes me...sad. Doesn't help that my friends are either working their bones out too or studying their brains out.

yea... I need a haircut.

You've got a dream.

2010-09-04T13:41:00.003+08:00

Going to the Comex fair, pick up some cool gadgets, maybe if I'm lucky I'll get a indestructible thumbdrive that wouldn't die and swallow all my documents and hard work into that tunnel of death.

And I found out that cereal (those with raisins give that soft chewy bite) with cold chocolate milk from the carton makes one of the BEST comfort foods ever.

High Cuts

2010-08-14T02:33:00.003+08:00

fystreetstyle; I like this.

I realised it's becoming increasingly hard for me to pour my thoughts out into proper sentences. Stupid MSN and SMS and all that lingo I've been using. Dammit.

'Mind Blasting!'

2010-08-12T22:10:00.002+08:00

In AudioSuite waiting for my files to transfer. Hard at work, I know. Creativity...so important.

Work/training starts tomorrow. Oh, joy.

Catch your wave

2010-08-11T14:03:00.006+08:00

YOG torch came to TP yesterday, didn't exactly feel like a historical moment, (probably because I was blasted with screams and vuvzelas half the time), but it was nice being part of it, especially when I get to wear....A MEDIA PASS!!! Hahaha another cheap thrill.

Best part was when Mich helped me win 2 invites to catch The Click Five @ Marina Bay. Brilliant!!! So now my calendar is jammed packed, there are days when I have more than one activity going on and I'm so sureeee I'll be complaining of exhaustion soon enough but once my good ole friend money starts rolling in, it'll be all worth in. Yes all in the good name of money.

IT'S THE CLICK FIVE BABIESSSSSS!!!!!! ok i realllllly need to start on my script now.

We can do anything, we can be anything

2010-08-08T17:02:00.014+08:00

Meet my now semi-bald brother. He likes his new hair and I like touching his new hair, so we're cool.

I made it to Singfest'10!! Ok so it was the hiphop night with Kanye and Lupe Fiasco and half the time it was rap and crank and yo mama, but it was still fun when we jumped to the songs that we actually knew. Thank Jianfan and Char for everything. Before that I attended my first media conference with Nava, it was the PCK movie media event. I swear everyone looks larger than life, in real life. Like they look so...big.

Its....... ZERO days to holidays (I'll just look past that 1 last assignment due), the possibilities are endless for usssss!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe I'll finally finish that book I've been putting off reading for the last 1/2 year.

Badang drama done, Alpha and Beta done, BMR done (FOR GOOD

UGH). When you're fighting to finish the assignments to meet the datelines it really feels like hell, but when all the gripping has passed and gone, you'll only remember the good stuff and that accomplishment that comes along with it.

Yup this year has been nothing short of a roller coaster ride.

I swear I will tick off at least half of the items on the holiday-to-do list. Which includes fishing kite flying exercising. I went for a swim with my bros a while ago, that counts too, ^^

90 days of summer

2010-08-03T21:59:00.003+08:00

1) I've finally watched Inception, I need to watch it another time to catch the parts I missed heh

2) My brother shaved his head today for the CCF, deserves a pat on the back

3) 3 more days to school, I'm counting down every single hour down trust me

4) My holidays are as such:

August: YOG

September: F1

October: Transnational Studies

But I'll tick off as much as I can from the TO-DO-DURING-THE-HOLIDAYS list that we've planned. Oh you have no idea.

Keep me on the hold with your remote control

2010-08-01T15:00:00.004+08:00

I practically live by this mantra because Life taught me nothing is impossible. Cliche, but its true to the deepest context.

11 hours of solid sleep since a month ago. Now that's bliss.

Ok bye I'm off to read my book, then I'll go watch some TV for maybe 5 hours? ^^

Take 1, 2, 3, 4

2010-07-29T10:12:00.002+08:00

Badang's gna be a success. All the money time money sleep money food money invested into the 5 min film. MAKE IT HAPPEN TEAM!

Music Hysteria

2010-07-28T20:34:00.005+08:00

This morning I had a really scary nightmare that I was late for school and there was nothing I could do. Then I woke up and realised I was really late for school.

Scary how school even invades me in my dreams. BUT IT IZ OKAY BECUZ ONLY 10 MORE DAYZ LEFT THEN I IZ FREE. (kinda :/ )

//////////////// Universal Studios on Sunday!!

The last time I was on a roller coaster I still hadn't hit puberty, so you can imagine how many donkey years ago that was. I used to be ssoooooo terrified of any ride that went up and then down but I think I outgrew my fear or something.....but thrilling eh.

The special effects and live shows were the main attractions for me since we have singcam and all. I think being on an actual set for a movie would be such an eye opener. And...I fell in love with all the merchandise!!! We'll buy all the pins and stick it up everywhere, won't we char? ^^

big thanks to my aunt who brought me along w Char & family. I cannot express how much I love free tixs. Cheap thrill, so what. I shoot you instead ahhaha :>

AND AHHHHYE I WANT TO GO TO SINGFEST SO BADLY.

urghbleh

2010-07-23T22:01:00.003+08:00

Eating fav fish porridge after so long while doing script.

Filming for the 3rd timeee, 7am. NOT FUNNEHHHH