Thursday, January 6, 2005 09:58 p.m.

i wish i could scream into the ears of every sn girl that there is really no place like school...
or st nicks, for that matter.
don't ever complain!

anyway, i'm quite liking my class...
with our ratio of 17 girls to 4 boys.
we got trashed by a class of 19 boys (and 3 girls) in captain's ball (tall guys okay)...
but we did win in everything else (to do with coordination and teamwork what) so i guess all's well. :)
plus, i got the subject combination i wanted.

okay i'm beyond the point of "rosiness" at the moment and have entered the sunburnt stage.
if my rudolph nose doesn't subside...
i don't know what i'm going to do.
pretend i have a cold, maybe.

tomorrow is the day we select our ccas and i am clueless as to what to join!
i'll have to see.
for now, i'm off.

Saturday, January 1, 2005 09:46 p.m.

sab and i are in mitch's room now and no one else is home except mitch's brother and the maid. :D
once tanny, sarah, mitch and her parents reach home, we'll get down to a serious mahjong session.

anyway, false alarm.
sarah may be leaving tomorrow, but she'll be back in 6 weeks during spring break...
so yes, by then we'll see so much of her we may actually get bored of it.
haha.
kidding, sarah.

alright i should go now.

was i out of my head
was i out of my mind
how could i have ever been so blind
i was waiting for an indication
it was hard to find

fastball

Saturday, January 1, 2005 04:02 a.m.

i just got home 2 hours ago... enduring 11 hours of acute diarrhoea pangs and menstrual cramps on a pair of stilettos is no joke, trust me.
but really, i do bring these things upon myself.
diarrhoea was an onset of me guzzling down 14 ounces (that would be 1 jumbo cup, 1 medium cup, and 1 regular cup) of yami yoghurt with hearty toppings of strawberries - in a single seating.
goodness.
mich, you should have stopped me!
haha.
i think i'm swearing off yoghurt for quite some time now...
or until the lactose-intolerant demon in me leaves. :D
because i do love yoghurt.

okay, i doubt there is very much to celebrate around the world, what with all the eccentric things happening...
but it certainly didn't seem the case down at the esplanade.
crazy nutcases were going round spraying foam at innocent bystanders (me, me).
but i guess tanny was the worst hit. :)

oh, and we met lorraine, jiamein, huajia, denise and elsa in the crowd too so that was nice.
after the countdown of silence (it was a sudden round of cheering that signalled the entry of 2005), chow, grace, sab, tanny and i took a bus down to clarke quay to...
i can't remember what.
but i did have to rush home after that because it was getting too late.
i got a really jovial, chatty driver who discounted and charged me only 13 dollars...
so yes, it was a terrible (i was in menstrual and diarrhoea agony) but also nice cab ride. :)

okay i'm definitely looking forward to tomorrow when all 6 of us will have a day together again before sarah leaves for the states on sunday.
this time, i expect it'll be for a good number of months.
so you must remember to continue regularly updating wildthingg, yes sarah?

alright, i'd better stop staying awake at such odd hours.
school is starting soon, and as much as i dread the awful waking hours, i do anticipate the fun. :)

happy new year everyone!

Friday, December 31, 2004 03:01 a.m.

it's 3 in the morning, i haven't bathed, and i'm feeling quite lousy, actually, with what i've just heard on msn...
and it certainly isn't helping that my handphone screen is flickering away, leaving me the only option of shaking and pounding it in hope that the mechanics will somehow fall into place properly inside.

as i speak, i do believe the death toll of the tsunami floods has risen to 123000, and counting.
at this point, nothing seems to be going right, and...
and this is beginning to sound like a pretty depressing entry, aye.

on to brighter topics, i'm meeting up with sab, mitch, sarah, tanny and trish(?) tomorrow so i do hope it'll be a new year's eve well spent.
i really couldn't take another negative thought.

i'm quite certain the visit to martina's place in the morning will bring me much joy with the letters from the children so i'm definitely looking forward to that.
i guess a consolation would be the fact that the catholic mission home in the north isn't affected as the southern coastline is.
that is but a meagre spark of joy amidst all the gloom. isn't it.

what a way 2004 is ending.

edit: it's not pitas. it's my computer. only the entries i add on my own computer don't show until days later. updates made on the hotel computer were fine. oh bummer, oh drat.

Wednesday, December 29, 2004 05:20 p.m.

every morning now, i wake up to reports of tsunami and its many victims on cnn and in the newspapers.
quite depressing, really.
i just realised that even malaysia has had 180 deaths.
so now we've had the natural disaster, the epidemic of sars (and chicken influenza), and the terrorist attacks.
can't imagine what's next.

okay it's getting quite boring in the hotel, really.
i hear the singers in the bar next door and some caucasian guy laughing at his email in the booth opposite me.
our hotel room is on the topmost floor and my ears pop everytime we ascend or descend.
hate that.
i can't wait to get back to singapore and visit martina, open the letters from the thai kids, collect my orientation letter from the jc, shop a bit and maybe ride a cab with better smelling drivers.
i'm sorry to say this but the taxi drivers here seriously have bad body odour.

alright, my hour's almost up.
till then.

Tuesday, December 28, 2004 05:45 p.m.

i'm in the business centre of our hotel now!
haha...
so much for wanting to "work out in the gym".
i've been eating like a pig and doing nothing but shop and sleep.

anyway, about coincidences.
in shanghai, we met charm's family at xin tian di.
in thailand, i met a girl (martina) who lives just opposite my home.
we can practically look out our windows and wave at each other!
she's back from thailand now and says she has letters from the kids to pass to me.
can't wait to get back to singapore and collect them. :)
anyway, here in kuala lumpur, i met charlotte and her family checking in on the same day as us.
such coincidences!

i'm beyond amused by our small world.
okay, i'm off to chat.
:D

Saturday, December 25, 2004 11:47 p.m.

i'm slightly groggy and absolutely bloated right now but i do think this place needs a little update after a full week of abandonment so here goes.

i left off from...monday.
sab, mitch, sarah, tanny, tricia and i had our annual christmas party from monday through to tuesday and it was awesome to say the least.
we've not been together since september so it was great having everyone reunited - post-o levels and with sarah back in singapore.
we exchanged presents (i love evita peroni!), took goofy pictures, visited people, ate well, hung out and basically had fun.
this is one tradition i never want broken. :)

charm, tanny and i went christmas shopping on wednesday afterwhich we met trish and bertrand at far east.
attended a costume party at xiao an's place in the evening and got home at 1am.
that's as far as i can remember of that night.

thursday was my grandmother's birthday celebration so we had an fantastic peranakan dinner at the restaurant where my parents had catered food during their wedding.
that's eons back, by the way; 20 years i should think. :)

friday, yesterday, was christmas eve...
and as the 24th of december always is, it was filled with anticipation, joy and a whole lot of love. :D
sab, tanny and i met up at mitch's place for dinner and mahjong before heading off to st ignatius for the christmas midnight mass.
i liked the choir that night.
supper at newton circus was good as we got to try the common favourites like sambal stingray and hokkien mee and carrot cake and stuff...
interesting way to spend the first few hours of christmas.
haha.
4 of us slept over at mitch's place that night.

christmas this year has been a big and mighty bloat fest for me.
i started off with chocolate mousse cake and orange juice for breakfast at home, christmas lunch at charm's place (her mum catered for 50 people!), more christmas lunch at my aunt's place (meat galore), and an indian dinner of curry and other spicy dishes along with a plate of spaghetti bolognaise.
those meals were accompanied by multiple servings of cake (chocolate, fruit, etc) and numerous glasses of beverages ranging from shandy to cocktails to english tea - not forgetting small bites of candy cane and mint chocolate here and there - so it was really a humungous christmas feast we had.
gosh, i must spend the rest of my holidays working this binge fest off.

anyway, my cousins sure have grown since i last saw them.
they actually understand complex sentences and satire!
at 7 years of age!
haha.
i can't wait for all of us to take the huge family portrait during the chinese new year season next year.
there are a great many new additions to the family. :)

i'll be away in kuala lumpur from the 27th to the 30th of december so let's hope the shopping sprees and gym use in the hotel will pay off.
right now, i really don't want to think too much about next year because the prospect of change frightens me slightly.
at least i'll be with familiar faces.
a large number of them, actually. :)

okay, a very merry christmas everybody.

Sunday, December 19, 2004 11:10 p.m.

the thing about pitas is that it publishes and updates a page only 48 long hours after i click 'done'.
that's an incredibly long time...
so much so i don't even feel like writing entries at all.
but here i go again. :)

sarah just came back from the states this morning, and despite our failed attempt at surprising her in the airport, i guess we did manage to achieve that in her house.
at 7 in the morning.
feels so good having everyone back together again...
especially during this season. :)
we stayed over at mitch's place yesterday night and tomorrow's going to be our annual christmas party at tricia's house, so that'll be another sleepover to look forward to.
i've been caught up with christmas shopping the past few days and i must say, the vibe at orchard road this year is pretty fantastic as compared to previous years.
i'm so happy to have more or less completed my checklist of people to buy gifts for.
that'd include presents for my cousins too - which, i might add, are surprisingly difficult to shop for.
i for one can't remember what sort of stuff i wanted at age 11.

and i just found out this morning that i'll be lectoring for the children's mass on christmas day.
wow.
and it's a pretty dry passage i'm reading.
just imagine the restless kids. :)

oh and i got my hair trimmed today along with mitch, sab, tanny and sarah (with her new purple hairstreak).
charm, swei and dropped by the hair salon too.
jan's back in singapore till tuesday before flying off.
i can't believe she came all the way back here just to appeal for the junior college of her choice.
sheesh.
too much money to spend.
i do hope she gets temasek though.
then you'll get your japan trip, yes jan.

today's somewhat like a 'booking day' over at our household, with my dad finalising our hotel accommodation in kuala lumpur (shopping trip after christmas) and booking tickets for the swan lake ballet in june next year.
i just hope we don't forget about the performance or something.
i can totally see myself forgetting we'd ever ordered tickets for a show just one month down the road.
hmmm.
alright i'll end here.
long day tomorrow...
and just 5 days to go. :)

Sunday, December 12, 2004 12:48 a.m.

shanghai was awesome...
every single one of the 8 days of pure fun that went by way too fast.
i already miss janice.
i'll go into detail another day once the photos are up.
for now, i'm going to have to wash up and get ready for mass tomorrow (i haven't been to ihm in quite awhile).
charm and i are also going to do a bit of shopping and a whole lot of catching up.

i miss the shopping in singapore so bad...
at least here, we don't have to think about whether a purchase is original or an imitation.
i'm pretty much broke though so i'm looking forward to the job over at mitch's dad's company.
hopefully hard work pays off and i can officially sign up for the classes i registered for...
i've only placed a deposit since.
hmmm.
i can only take up 2 out of 3 classes that i would like to join though.
now i can't decide which.

alright, i am groggy-headed and jet-lagged (well not really - the time zones in shanghai and singapore are identical but considering the fact that i'm keeping the hours of a resident of someone in, say, the united states of america, it's fair to say that my body clock is more or less screwed).

well then, i'm off.