Saturday, November 15, 2003
10:18 p.m.
the past few days have been exhausting...
so much so it's wearying just typing it all down.
hence i shall just briefly gloss over a few things. :)
sarah, sab and i watched le divorce a couple of days back...
and what can i say?
it's chic and all things french...
very classy.
newae, the sec 1s and 3s collected report books yesterday...
and yes, i'm very disappointed with my results.
although happy with the few As...
i'm also quite gloomy about those expected Fs in maths.
i have tuition and still can't pass math!
anyhow, the amath retest is in jan and i hope to at least pass that.
i know i'm being greedy for taking 9 subjects, but that's because i can't afford to depend on math...
this, is clearly evident in my Fs for maths.
besides bucking up in math, i guess the only other important thing left for me to do (besides making my 7-month-due ic), is to pack my luggage.
we're flying off in 9hrs time and i haven't packed a single thing.
i can't stand packing...
unearthing all those long-abandoned drawstring bags (for laundry) and many, many other nonsensical things we hardly use on a daily basis.
i heard swei and the rest are bringing stuff like first-aid kits and other crazy knicknacks, so i'll probably just live off them for a bit! :)
ouch...the indian food i had for dinner is acting up.
dad brought the family down to holland village where we ate at this contemporary indian restaurant that was ever-so-cosy and nice.
very quaint with all their pretty lightings...
and the food was brilliant too!
which explains why i ate so much, getting myself all blaoted up...
and am now suffering the aftermath of a heavy dinner (indigestion).
but the place has fantastic food and a great ambience, so do check it out. :)
after dinner, i brought my sis to this quirky little shop called anthropology...
and we did a bit of shopping over there.
their stuff is great!
definitely one of my favourite shops...
anyhow, i spent the entire day out in town with sab today...
and wow, the buskers' festival and christmas festivities are in full swing!
however, i have done a very shameful thing today.
so shameful, in fact, that it could actually be deemed ignominious.
it's too long a story to post (since i'm supposed to be dead tired right now), so i shan't illustrate the details.
however, u can always ask me. :)
haha...okae, i think i'd better get down to packing.
i won't be able to post anything from tomorrow up to the 22nd...
and till then, take care everyone! :)
*swei chow tanny jan charm! :: i'm so excited! may the Lord bless everyone on this trip. :)
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
08:57 p.m.
i'm sorry but she's so hot i have to put her pic up again. :)
been having lessons the past 2 days...
and they've been surprisingly fun.
had elit yesterday and yes yes yes i love our sec4 lit text.
king of the castle is by far my favourite lit text in the past 3 years. :)
unpretentious gothic horror that isn't cloyingly mellifluous...
it's like the virgin suicides, frankenstein, and those other dark novels.
they're pretty scarce already...
don't really see many modern-day novels with such melancholic undertones anymore (that's why i love tim burton so much).
yesterday after lessons, swei, chow, charm, jan, tanny and i sat around to chit chat...
as always, yakking about our usual stuff.
if ever i were to miss something about my class, it would be these chit chatting sessions we have all the time. :)
newae, there was a batik workshop at the artroom this morning for the art girls.
oh it's fun alright...
although i got really irritated when the tjanting refused to cooperate with me.
but i guess the batik turned out fine...
and yeah, we had lotsa fun. :)
anyhow, i've kinda made my mind up about my o level art project for next year.
it'll either be costume design (if the ld funds will allow it), or a series of paintings.
i'm quite keen on the latter...
although of course, completing a whole series of paintings is quite possibly the most banal, tedious, exhausting and time-consuming project i could ever choose to tackle.
but i must persevere.
well, i've said it.
now let's see if i'll stick to it.
Monday, November 10, 2003
11:45 p.m.
my monday was as monday always is...
terrestrial, draining, and wearisome in all its irksome little ways.
woke up unholiday-ishly early for the ever-debilitating ld in school...
which was followed by a meeting regarding the thailand trip.
i simply can't wait for that guilt-free week of no obligations...
great friends, great food, great mission work, great shopping.
what's not to like?
anyhow, the outing that we had long-organised finally came into play...
and tiff chua, tiff neo, lari, and i went out to scout for confirmation outfits.
althought we ended the day empty-handed (albeit stuffed in the tummies from lunch at sakae)...
we did see some great stuff that we might wanna get.
so it's been a productive day of window shopping i guess! :)
anyhow, too much of a good thing is not good.
i'm regretting those many plates of gyoza right now...
and coming home to a fridge-load of chocolates certainly does not bode well for a girl earnestly lacking in self-discipline.
that would be me.
newae, i saw *someone today!
crabbers bajeebers. :)
Sunday, November 9, 2003
11:54 p.m.
happy 15th birthday tiff!
(like finally u're as mature as me. :))
went down to e tp hub to watch our school's fire prevention skit this morning.
a school obligation on a sunday...absurd.
after that sarah, sab, mitch and i went down to orchard where we ate...walked...and shopped.
oh yes yes yes i'm very happy now...
bought a black zara pinstriped skirt (it's been a long search), pink dance tee (mitch bought the white!) and dkny sweater (that i love to bits).
sab bought a nice, flowy black skirt from zara...
so now everyone has great purchases.
all say hoorah!
my toes are blistery sore from walking so much...
newae, i really wanna get this pair of guess heels.
but sab will always be on-hand to remind me that they're...
a) ridiculously expensive
b) ridiculously high and unstable
and c) unnecessary.
but they're so nice and pretty!
and they'd be great as part of my confirmation outfit...
now is it me or is the whole world going to thailand?
almost everyone going on holiday goes to - you guessed it - thailand.
i can't wait to go there...the anticipation is killing me.
argh.
newae, i caught mr wong and ms jeya on e singapore's brainiest teacher show just now.
ms jeya looked so pretty...
and mr wong did quite well, huh.
i actually groaned when he didn't get e last question correct...
argh.
i thought it was entree too!
newae, i've been thinking abt those heels and i think i'm really gonna get them...
sorry for adding this senseless and bimbotic remark but i really do must get them.
alright, i'm gonna cuddle up in bed and read the free juice and e!culture mags i took from far east level one (lifestyle of the freeloader :)).
which reminds me, my sfx funfair coupons haven't been used!
tsk...i'd been tricked by uncle jim into buying them...
that conniving trickster. xP
anyhow, sleep well and get ready for more lessons next week, people. :)
Saturday, November 8, 2003
10:14 p.m.
just got back from the first communion mass in church...
those little p2 kids in white looked so angelic!
can't wait for my confirmation...
oh yeah, check this out.
vegetarians of the world, unite!
Friday, November 7, 2003
11:28 p.m.
hot hot hot hot hot!
the genes of a korean + german.
btw, new photos are uploaded. :)
Thursday, November 6, 2003
11:13 p.m.
3 ulcers planted left-right-centre in the mouth don't a happy girl make.
felt so annoyed today...
couldn't eat my fave crystal jade dim sum (tantart tantart!) or chew my ha gao decently or eat breadtalk's hotchic or drink my starbucks frapuccino without cringing from the piercing pain inflicted on those pesky bumps on my gums.
apparently, i have not learnt my lesson and am continuing to eat all that heaty stuff. :)
woke up bright and early this morning for a meeting in school...
then it was off to orchard.
did some towning with swei, chow, charm, tanny and meiyan.
we shopped, ate, and took some neoprints.
chow got orange, swei got red, charm got pink, tanny got grey, janice got green, and i got a turquoise nalgene 1 litre bottle to take along for the thailand trip. :)
we took photos of our multi-coloured bottles...haha.
photos will be uploaded under the outdoor album soon.
after meiyan and tanny left, we watched uptown girls.
i've wanted to watch it ever since den told me yesterday that she'd cried like crazy.
i think she should make friends with charm...
cos that dear girl cried just as badly. xP
uptown girls is a great chick flick that'll have u feeling ever so light and flighty...
yet energised enough to want to go on an extravagant shopping spree and buy all those pretty frocks and shoes and bags brittany murphy has.
ooh i looooove her stuff in the movie.
on an entirely different note, my family's trying to do some spring-cleaning around the house.
we're purging the rooms of all remnants of primary texts...
and kinda clearing out our other stuff.
i'm bringing some of my beanie babies up for the children in thailand...
and my sis is donating books and stuffed toys to the charity headquartered at her school.
anyone wanna donate stuff too?
Wednesday, November 5, 2003
04:16 p.m.
hakuna matata!
what a wonderful phrase
hakuna mmatata!
ain't no passing craze
it means no worries
for the rest of your days
it's our problem-free philosophy
hakuna matata!
best of luck to everyone studying for the o's. :)
*stacy! :: i heard abt e good news! we'll be classmates next year! yay! :)
Tuesday, November 4, 2003
10:35 p.m.
yay...
my temperature dropped from 38.8ēc to 37.8ēc overnight. :)
swei, tanny, chow and sab came over this afternoon.
i have so many bowls of beancurd in the house now...
including those tangyuan ones they bought and the sugar-free ones my parents bought.
haha...i successful fattened them up with chocolates!
finally got rid of all that junk food in the fridge.
newae they were great company...
cheered me up a lot. :)
thanks guys!
Monday, November 3, 2003
08:23 p.m.
i'm HOT!
i hate fevers.
they come like the wind, and *bam!*
u're lying in bed, barely able to open ur eyes, trying ur mightiest not to swallow too often, with ur head throbbing as if it's in the inside of a chinese drum.
worse of all, u can hardly talk or eat, which are like my favourite pastimes ever.
yes, now you understand my situation.
i feel like orsino...
self-pitying the hours away.
anyhow, i'll bet it was that kaya toast and spicy garlic fish rice ball i had for lunch.
but my fever's subsiding...
it's only 38.6ēc now.
i'm trying to swallow that disgusting syrup-free beancurd my dad bought.
argh...
newae, this also means i can't leave the house tmr.
and it's the skit competition and our first road-to-A1-for-the-elit-project meeting tmr morning!
i was so embarassed just now cos the doc made me wear a face mask...
and seriously, pple were avoiding me like a plague.
this sucks.
anyhow, i'm online now cos i'm vying for the place to interview claire chang!
and karmun just said i got it!
yes!
nice karmun...
okae, i'm off.
:)
Sunday, November 2, 2003
07:57 p.m.
after our last catechism lesson and the all souls' day mass this morning, dad brought the family down to serangoon garden for lunch.
when we reached the place, there was a tv crew setting their equipment up.
my sis saw patricia mok and my dad recognised a member of parliament there, so we presumed they were filming them or something.
but just as i was about to start on my hokkien mee, who should walk into the place but our dpm lee hsien loong.
it was quite a surprise...
he looks every bit like he does on tv.
following close behind was an entourage of his family members, a member of parliament, the tv crew, and curious onlookers wanting to catch a second glimpse of him.
dad said they were probably filming a typical weekend of dpm lee...
to showcase his simple lifestyle.
afterall, he is gonna be our prime minister.
and ministers in singapore always go on schemes to reach out to the heartlanders. :)
yada yada dee day da...
i don't wanna memorise the script and i don't wanna have to wake at 6.30am tmr.
argh...
Saturday, November 1, 2003
11:54 p.m.
as predicted, i got a slight thrashing because of the trip.
but it's worth it when the 6 of us are gonna have a blast in thailand!
let's bond with peanut face yeah?
we'll teach her bridge and communicate in chinese...it'll be fun.
xP
today was like blaaaahdy blah...
woke up at an inhumane hour for dad to send me down to school.
after 5 excruciating hours, mitch and i lunched and cabbed down to sarah's place.
anyway, i was just defragmenting my computer when i came across the cheesy poems i'd written in lower secondary.
this stanza stuck with me.
As a child, I used to draw,
In place of juvenile rants and raves.
Through my colouring of blemish and flaw
I learnt how to behave.
it still holds true...
though now i draw as an outlet.
powerful therapeutic stuff. :)
Friday, October 31, 2003
11:35 p.m.
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okae, so i'm dry.
happy halloween newae!
haha...these past 2 days have pretty much got a lot to do with cheesecake. :)
yesterday...my grandparents, aunt, and cousin came over to bake my grandma's kickass cheesecake.
i was made to tombok (pound) the biscuits, stir and measure out the ingredients...
all under my grandma's delegation.
she and i were chatting quite a bit...
and we both agree that my mum and greatgrandmother are really similar, both being as naggy as the other.
haha...and my grandma and i - we're both equally impatient and messy (evident in the state of the kitchen when we were done).
also, i realised my grandparents got invitations to andrea de cruz's wedding, but couldn't make it because they were in hongkong.
what a waste...
wish i'd gone.
newae, i brought 3-fourths of the cheesecake to sch this morning...
to fatten everybody up! :)
i hope it was considered a hit.
haha...not a morsel was left. :)
oh yes, i simply must mention this.
chow and i have got new class pets...
bat shit.
we found splatters of bat poo on our desks this morning (common, actually...it's quite a regular thing).
and because we didn't manage to wipe it off (we were lazy also), we stuck scotchtape over the blots, and they're now resting nicely on our desks.
haha...check them out in the class album. :)
today being the last day of sch, things were pretty much laidback...
and i guess we had fun.
during biology practical lesson today, jan, charm and i concluded that we're probably gonna fail the practical exam next year.
just doing simple things like conducting a water bath, collecting liquids, and using syringes eluded us.
and we squealed at everything...haha.
usually, lynette does the experiments for us see.
newae, the results of the election are out...congrats to our new heads. :)
assembly was almost bittersweet as we acknowledged the farewell of 2 brilliant teachers of the sch.
it's really very depressing that they have to leave...
anyhow, it was more bridge, followed by ld, then all saints' day mass with chow after sch.
my greatest worry now is whether or not i can make it for the mission trip to chiangrai, thailand.
i do so want to go!
but the return flight is only a couple of days before my confirmation camp, and i don't know (even doubt) if my cca will let me.
actually, i'm also worried about my ic.
got the 2nd warning letter 3 months ago...haven't done it yet.
and my bdae's in april!
i heard there's a fine or jail term...
eeps!
newae, i'm planning to steal all of swei's photos...
muahahahaha.
will upload them in the class album soon. :)
Thursday, October 28, 2003
11:24 p.m.
more bridge and roti prata at jalan kayu!
post-exams are always the most carefree. :)
*meracus! :: by that, i mean i believe i know what i want in life, which does include a family and kids and a particular career field etc etc. (i fantasize a lot :))...but it is ultimately god who decides whether or not it's the right thing for me, and whether i should take that path. i may want something badly, but if it isn't my calling, then there's nothing i can do about it. that's why i leave it up to the hands of the lord. :)
as for my being a catholic, that's what confirmation is about - a personal decision.
getting baptised as a baby and going through first confession and communion are only the basics, and i agree it was my family's decision. it's to allow us to be part of the many things catholics do in church, such that we may experience how beneficial (or alternatively, redundant) these acts are.
that's when confirmation comes in.
by this age, we are aware of what we are doing, and can decide for ourselves whether or not the catholic faith is something we choose to believe in. being born into a catholic family did pave the way for me, but it is now my decision to keep to the faith. :)
and wow thanks for your comment...i love hypothetical stuff like that. :)
Monday, October 27, 2003
11:02 p.m.
morning jog.
lessons.
bridge.
tiptop curry puffs.
that about sums up today...
but omg i haven't had this much fun over a game of cards in a looooong time! :)
swei, jan, chow and i played bridge after school for about 4hrs...
all those conniving shanghai-esque strategies!
i think it really exercises the brain in a most interesting way. :)
we took a bus down to amk central after that to let jan and swei try those yummy curry puffs...
and i went home after.
oh yes, vote for cheryl as head prefect!
Sunday, October 26, 2003
11:35 p.m.
is there someone you know
you're loving them so
but taking them all for granted?
you may lose them one day
someone takes them away
and they don't hear the words you long to say.
.....
looooove that song.
newae, today was the 3rd last catechism lesson before confirmation...
and it was surprisingly different.
cos we'd finished the proposed syllabus...
and gerald was talking about philosophy instead; as a free-willed lesson.
i'm drawn to topics like that so it was interesting to listen to his views and stuff about the matrix.
"we are all here to do, what we are all here to do"
a line from the movie that speaks about purpose.
and that set me thinking...
what is it i really want?
frankly, i do know what i want to do in life.
where i wanna go...what i wanna be...
and i'm lucky to know where i'm headed (actually, it's by elimination. i can't do math and science for nuts so language and humans are apparent).
i know many people who don't know what they wanna pursue...
and it's nothing wrong, but they set out in directions not knowing where it'll lead them to.
and they just end up wasting precious time.
but what i'm afraid is the failure and rejection that's inevitable in any journey.
i mean, these are real stumbling blocks that could hinder the ongoing process...
and i don't know if i could handle that kind of setback.
ultimately, everyone's searching for happiness...
and i hope to find it by attaining my goals (there's so many things i want, gosh).
i've this new verve in me to pursue what i want in life...
all thanks to a nice looooong chat just now. :)
but whether i make it or not, i leave it up to God.
wow okae on an entirely different note...
i'm quite pleased with all the shopping i did today. :)
nothing gets me down when i'm in this mood...
had mass then off to town with the family.
lunched at nydc, bought toiletries and groceries...
more books (toilet reads...yes!) from borders...
went down to my cousin's place...
then back home again.
nothing much to say except i had this incessant diarrhoea thing going on...
and it sort of spoilt the better half of my day.
but then as i said, nothing gets me down when i've done shopping. :)
especially since i've started on christmas shopping.
i know it's early but i couldn't resist...
they were limited editions!
no telling what, but i just love this festive season. :)
gotta enjoy what i have left of this year...
since next year's the mugging year. =/
and to everyone out there, begin christmas shopping!
it's therapeutic! :)
Saturday, October 25, 2003
11:58 p.m.
3 escapades of the day...
davina and i caught a cockroach at 3am this morning.
it was still a nymph i think, cos it didn't appear to have any wings.
so newae, we managed to lure it to where it was easy to capture...
and cupped it over with the largest disposable plastic container we could find.
then we taped down the sides and left it crawling around the arena...haha.
dad killed it in the morning while we were asleep!
and i was actually thinking of keeping it as a pet...
this afternoon, charm and i went for our mani/pedicures.
i felt like a bimbo sitting there having my feet massaged and pampered and fussed over...
but the nail lady was so sweet and nice.
and the french pedicure turned out so pretty. :)
charm's nails looked great too!
so then as i stepped out of the building...
*boom*
thunder roared...and the mighty rain came crashing down.
of all things to happen.
so there i was, contemplating as to how i should make my way to sab's place...
and i finally decided to just take a bus and risk ruining the pedicure (omg, i feel so bimbo just saying this).
luckily, the rain stopped soon after.
though i had to wrestle my way through the whole crowd of babusengs on the bus. xP
i have made 2 resolutions today.
the first being a promise to myself to take better care of my nails...
no more opening stuff and working them to their death (although they're already dead cells...but that's inconsequential).
and the second that i must have oatmeal prawns the next time i go to sab's house.
i have a huge craving for it now...=\
Friday, October 24, 2003
10:18 p.m.
announcing a spanking new webpage...
a little piece of me :)
i'm so happy with it...took me hours to complete.
i've been working on it for quite some time now...
hope it interests u! :)
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