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Friday, June 2, 2006 10:21 p.m.

recently, i've been productivity personified;
resuming tuition classes, replacing my ez-link card (yes i know, finally), getting my film rolls developed, tracking down crazy/beautiful (and buying it, whoop!), making some headway with the scrapbook, finishing up sophie's world, reintroducing myself to john sloman, attending make-up lectures, handing in overdue homework, completing the 2 neil gaiman graphic novels mitchel gave me (they are awesome by the way - sent chills down my spine at 4 in the morning), watching movies, catching up with friends...
among other things.
the weekend is here and there is a whole new list of things to do!

siping, genius behind works such as these, reminds me of very fond memories in art class;
like when louie and the both of us once planned to hide in the art room and get locked in during our exam period so that we could stayover secretly and complete our projects;
how we'd planned on eluding mr foo, peeing into plastic bags and surviving on packet food;
how we bunked at louie's place in the end and where i stayed up for close to 48 hours (then later slept through part of my art paper 3 exam and almost didn't complete it).

haha, the crazy st nicks days.
deadlines and i still don't go very well i'm afraid.

Thursday, June 1, 2006 10:33 p.m.

over roti prata breakfast (courtesy of ms giam) today.

mg: karina, actually you look more beefed up now.
me: huh really? yeah lah, i put on weight.
mg: no as in, you don't look as delicate as before.

hahahahaha, i've missed her.

Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:38 p.m.

"What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."
- Jack Kerouac

Tuesday, May 30, 2006 04:15 p.m.

my growling tummy is preventing me from sleeping, and if last night's steamboat was any indication of one's culinary skills going into the negative value (guess who had wall-thumping diarrhoea at 6am in the hotel bathroom), i had better banish any notion of cooking my own noodles.

the hockey people met up for the unglam business of steamboat-ing down at marina bay and close to imploded our cameras with the number of photos taken.
also, jien and i realised that the guys cook better than us (although they are no more brave than we are when confronted with jumping prawns - consolation!).
9 of us sardined ourselves into jess' car all the way back to our hotel suite at meritus mandarin and had crazy-fun all night;
talking, mostly, just 12 girls, no-holds-barred, picking apart any topic (and person) that came to mind.
hotcakes at 4am never tasted so good and we messed the place up quite a bit (think random wet carpet splotches, oil stains and maple syrup on the sheets).
i think i'll miss all this, not least because the cruel 'a' levels is going to suck me dry of time to just hang out.

there's a mos party tonight, grace's departure tomorrow, charlotte's birthday party on wednesday evening, tuition on thursday morning - and i am too lazy to budge for anything at all.
sarah fungus is coming back over the weekend though so yay!

lychees are my favourite fruits (second only to mango) and my aunt just brought a whole bunch of them back from taiwan - woohoo!
i have a whole arsenal of lychee recipes prepared (presuming nothing can go wrong with ice, syrup and a blender).

Sunday, May 28, 2006 11:48 p.m.

going out with the family means free meals free haircut free grocery shopping free transport, and today was just that!
town was packed with people of all shapes and sizes, for a moment i just sat there people-watching.

anyway, i'm quite curious about who reads this blog because my statcounter records an average of 150 unique visitors a day but i can only think of roughly 50 names.
hmmm.

i've been reading a lot recently, whether on the bus or in a cab, in bed or on the toilet bowl, and i find that reading is really only a slight notch higher than being a couch potato because the intrinsic characteristics of
a) reposing and b) enjoyment of recreation are present in both cases;
albeit reading does make you think slightly harder, i suppose, and reflect more.

i made friends with a new shopkeeper at mandarin hotel arcade today and she's freakin' lovable!
she got me all motivated to set up my very own shop next time (which is one of my lifetime goals) so remember our pact, girls.
co-ownership of a lifestyle shop once we start earning money. :)

oh shucks you know what, all the coldplay tickets are sold out save for the free standing ones.
there goes our concert date, tanessa.
serves me right for procrastinating.

Friday, May 26, 2006 11:52 p.m.

edit: just uploaded a whole bunch of hockey photos from wednesday's farewell here.

found this link - it's especially for graceee!

today was as sweet an end to the school term as i could hope for;

prize presentation during which i was trying my hardest not to laugh in front of the assembly;
smashing-fun with badminton (and looking quite silly while we were at it);
impromptu lunch with michelle, tricia and tanessa in good ol' crowded orchard;
catching up on gossip and the going-ons of term 2, now suitably put away as 'history';
shopping at stamford house and chitchatting with the familiar salespeople;
dinner and sweet dessert with jo, mal and cheryl;
watching the canterbury tales (i love!) with my dearest classmates;
being pulled up stage for an embarrassing moment and having my name woven into a little rhyme;
coming home to my favourite kahlua-drenched dessert from tiramisutra (die-die-must-try);
but most delightfully, all the meeting and bumping into old friends and acquaintances throughout the day.

i think i could remain like this, in transition, where obligations are lifted, expectations are present but without haste, a sort of temporary emancipation before the clock starts ticking in tune with our 'a' levels.
i'll relish this time and make the best out of it. :)

ciao bella.