Thursday, August 31, 2006 / 03:29 a.m.
I really think i'm a changed girl this semester!! Went for breakfast once already, did first tutorials and today i followed yiwen to the central library to do my management science tutorial! No more bad attitude from last semester ah. I'm going to minimize lecture skippings (excluding geisha and accounting) and webcast accumulation and undone tutorials and unprinted lecture notes. Wonder if being consistent will make me burnt out at the end though, since i'm really the last minute kind of person. Well, we'll see! Watch out for me!
I got into dance blast, fortunately along with yiwen and aprilyn! Plus the softball trainings that are about to start, i foresee myself getting busy already.
Love love love soulful R&B.
Monday, August 28, 2006 / 12:19 a.m.
The flurry of events zoomed past like that. Dance pracs and convocation night. Don't know why i kept forgetting my dance steps during actual performances these days but remembered everything so well during practises. Argghs. Dinner with jill min mei last friday night. Really miss that jillian girl! There's always so much laughter and fun with her around. :) Hall bash was over too. Didn't really felt like dancing at all, had some free drinks and took care and encountered many drunk people. The dance floor was practically left with a few seniors! Had casuarina prata and macs with meilin and siongqun and we talked from 10pm all the way till 8am in the morning.
You are right. Everybody's idea of perfection is different. So you can't expect everybody to share your vision and fit into your perfect ideal solution. What is Utopia to each and every one of us?
Take a look at history. Past leaders bear testimony to that.
Haha. Think i was inspired a little by Sophie Scholl. Watched it with zes and min one day after school. Finally got to catch a german film! It was very real and vivid, almost like you were there in her shoes.
Sometimes you don't have to get things that suit you because that's just what everybody see you in. Your social self. You should just get what you like because that's your true inner self.
Well, it's good to indulge in retail therapy and make yourself happy once in a while.
Tuesday was spent out with zes at bugis and orchard. We went with the hope of finding nice things to buy but hope slowly diminished as time went by. We ended up spending the most at NTUC! Our fridges are nicely filled now. Yayy. And we were quite a sight, laughing super hard all the way from the mrt to NTUC recalling our citibank jokes. Hahaha. Oh, finally had supper with yiwennn! :)
Had three hours of badminton and two hours of tennis today! Played mahjong at night with yaozhi jason meilin. Then xianhong weixian aaron jinfu joined us later to play Taboo! It's 69's favourite game ever! Hahaha. Had a lot of fun playing it just now.
Being in hall is like immersing myself in a little island, cut off from the outside world. Commitments and timelines can seem so important when you're in the situation, but once you take a little step back, you realize it's not so after all. It's amazing how much the environment can affect your thoughts and perceptions.
I think i sound incoherent these days.
And that pretty much wrapped up this year's rag. Kudos to people like natalie that kept me alive during rag dance practises, as well as my make-up attaches meilin and amelia, as well as those who sent me words of encouragement when i was tired and down, and those that gave me little things that kept me going. It's an unforgettable experience.
The luck i get is simply more than what i deserve.
Don't know why, just fell in love with the lyrics too. It's so powerful and forlorn and you could feel the words laced with pain when christina sings it the jazzy soulful style.
What do you do
One week of TH freshmen orientation was finally over, and it's rag week for now. Been really busy the past week and this week as well for orientation and rag dance. Much sleep has been stolen from me these three weeks, and people keep telling me i look really tired. Which i am, actually. I sleep like three to four hours almost everyday!
And a thousand apologies to everybody i didnt have time for. So many of you. Worse still, i don't have time for even friends in hall! I havent been home for two weeks either. But well, everything will be over this week. Let's just hope it ends with a bang on rag day. The pirouettes, the late night practices, the blue blacks, the muscle pulls and aches. Must make sure it's worth the effort!
The reason why i like councillor camp is because i get to see and talk and joke around and laugh with so many people. It's not like everyday that everybody can get out of their comfort zone, their cliques and their comfort zones in hall to gather and do work together. And the fun is always in doing something together!
Thinking about TH camp suddenly makes me miss Katanga a lot! Especially the few of us - yiwen, kwan aik, kevin, alvin.. In retrospect, i couldnt have made it through orientation with much memories to collect without these people! :) Will hang the cute blue monkey at my door!
For the lights that glisten in the distance, the balming night breeze that wafts through the room and the gentle jazz that soothes my soul, i think i can be easily lulled to sleep tonight. :)
My cherie amour, lovely as a summer day
I can't resist to food temptation AT ALL. AT ALL! Two nights in a row, i've been eating supper just because people around me are eating and i'm not even hungry. :(
When you finally get what you want, you realize actually you're fine without it. Let's just hope for the best.
Been really enjoying councillor camp so far, surrounded by good company and laughter and loving my new room in A4! Despite always complaining about the flights of stairs i have to climb la. It's really windy and the view's really pretty, with plenty of my favourite sky to gaze upon!
And yayyy i have new pretty Creative speakers too! :D Now i can totally immerse myself in all kinds of music and relax in my little cosy corner.
Ten more hours and i'll be back in hall, scurrying around like a busy bee and having no time for friends nor family. Had to work for five full days at fullerton hotel for the nomura asia equity conference right after coming back from bangkok and working hour was like 7am till 10pm?! and this supposed rest-at-home week was spent celebrating mohd zes' birthday, going bugis with meilin zes kevin, having rag dance practises, dinner with alan ber, meeting up with lilian (FINALLY), seowhong, ber, alan and sin, shifting stuff back to hall, swimming with sinhui and all. I just hope i'll be able to go home on weekends to make up for not being at home!
Meet up soon boon and chel!
This is the first time that i'd rather be hopeless than hopeful.
Hahaha.
People come and go in various stages of your life, and i always thought you should always hold on to those that you can truly connect with and are thankful for. And then i lament, when I realize they are hard to keep throughout the whole journey ahead. For life is short and time is late. We have too many things in our hands and too little chances to grab upon. But come to think of it, maybe they are just little angels that guide you along for that particular phase in your path. And then life goes on. For you, and for them who go on to touch the lives of others that same way they touch yours.
But i'll still try to hold on.
On another note, today is my grandfather's death anniversary. I feel funny praying to his spirit and hence acknowledging his death when i'd been seeing him often, alive and kicking for the past nineteen years of my life. Feels this tinge of sadness everytime i try to convince myself that he's gone.
On a much lighter note, councillor camp starts on monday! I have known my friends in temasek hall for one year already, and still counting! In retrospect, it's really great meeting people like yiwen, alvin and many more. I just hope things pretty much remain the way they are, and the freshies will be fun and enthusiastic! Got huge blue blacks on my knees and muscle aches EVERYWHERE from rag dance, but the choreos and songs are really nice. Will be looking forward to rag and orientation!
Hi all! Bangkok had been fun with great company and though shopping wasn’t highly up to my expectations, everything went well and good! Thanks to char, bernard, alan, zes, adeline, gabriel and cheong hua!
First day was spent shopping at Ma Boon Kong and hmmm, nothing much to buy there!
Evening was spent at Siam Square and Siam Centre with char going crazy over the whole year round Mambo sales! The items were mostly on 50% to 60% sale and we couldn’t quite tell whether we were shopping in Bangkok or Singapore after all. Lunch was at Black Canyon and dinner at Sizzler! Alan went to learn how to say three coconuts in thai from bernard’s pocket dictionary and he tried it on the food court auntie. It really worked! Hahaha super hilarious. By the way, I really love our hotel breakfast buffet and I wish TH had such breakfast too! We had them at the huge function room every morning and look, I had such a heavy breakfast on the second day! So much so that everybody laughed at me and took photo of my plate! Wahaha.
There were colourful taxis decorating the busy roads of Bangkok and my favourite is the hot pink one!
We all got hyped up on the second day, with the sun all bright and shiny, and shades aplenty. We first visited the old and dusty streets of Chinatown, where familiar Chinese signboards lined the boulevards.
We tried some roadside stalls along the way and they were pretty bad. Went to this market with a lot of warehouse sales and one packet of say, 200 hairbands was sold at around 2 SGD! I bought quite a lot of voodoo dolls. They were cute! After several attempts by the guys to prevent ade from entering accessories shops (coz she’d stay there for long), we reached the terminal and took the river taxi down the Chao Phraya River. Alan called it the River Teh Bing with Vegetables coz of its colour and seaweed-looking rubbish. Hahaha!
We finally took tuk-tuks and zes was so happy! Four had to squeeze into one though, and the two tuk-tuk drivers had this conspiracy to drive us into this expensive seafood restaurant. Fortunately we were firm to reject there and headed our way to Pratunam, where we enjoyed Thai or foot massage at cheap cheap prices!
Look at cheong hua and char enjoying their massages! Next up was Suan Lum Night Bazaar, my ultimate favourite place! The prices there are obviously overpriced and the items probably a fraction of Chatuchak but I love the ambience, the organized array of shops and the pretty iridescent lights that add a lovely touch to the cool night air.
We had dinner at this pub/restaurant place that was pretty cool and posh. And good Singha beer, good food, and good singers, along with good company! Third night – we found our way back to Suan Lum again for dinner after a day’s shopping at the hot and crowded Chatuchak! Suan Lum had this really huge international open food court and lively beer garden, complemented with two huge tv screens at both ends where performances were going on.
I really wished there’s a place like that in Singapore! I’ll definitely visit there for the World Cup matches to soak in the atmosphere with such a huge crowd! The food there was not bad too!
And then we started taking a lot of crazy photos, laughed, made a lot of noise, attracted a lot of attention, so much so that this tourist came to take photos with us!
Then it was Ferris Wheel time! I thought I took pretty nice and artistic shots of the Ferris Wheel. Hahaha..
I swear the black puppy that you just saw is one of the cutest dogs in the world!!! The head is the size of my fist and it’s soo soo cuuuute! We surprised char back in the hotel after she bathed for her birthday! The Happy Birthday candles were so pretty huh! And my purchases and the collection of voodoo dolls.. I had a really great time in Bangkok!
gotham penthouse with key and meilin!
Quite sad.. our last time dancing Boom Boom Boom after like five times...
and i looked mad.
Block A at convo night!
Monday, August 21, 2006 / 02:26 a.m.
retail therapy
The adidas Candy Digital Watch. My new love. I think it's the new series. Hee, i should slap myself for being a spendthrift, but i promise to scrimp and save. Jess and i were contemplating really hard whether to get the red or turqoise one. In the end she chose the red i chose the turqoise, though i think the red really suits me more.
Thursday, August 17, 2006 / 02:37 a.m.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 / 03:27 a.m.
the shutter and the memories
our councillor's dance was retro! and jessica looked really cute and retro and polka dottie
with alvin and cheong hua!
a miniature size of our TH float 06/07
the dancers in despair
natalie and me!
trying to bring across the despair with our lyrical jazz moves
and then the guys joined in..
partner work. that's me!
the salsa dip. neatly done!
the angel of death captures the girl in despair
the girl breaks away and colours come back into her world
and then the finale.
Friday, August 11, 2006 / 04:17 a.m.
i keep going right back
to the one thing i need to walk away from
When you know something's bad for you
And you still can't let go?
I was naive
Your love was like candy
Artificially sweet
I was deceived by the wrapping
Got caught in your web
And I learned how to bleed
I was prey in your bed
And devoured completely
Oh, oh
And it hurts my soul
'Cause I can't let go
All these walls are caving in
I can't stop my suffering
I hate to show that I've lost control
'Cause I, I keep going right back
To the one thing that I need to walk away from
I need to get away from ya
Need to walk away from ya
Get away, walk away, walk away
I should have known
I was used for amusement (for amusement, no)
Couldn't see through the smoke
It was all an illusion
Now I've been licking my wounds (licking my wounds)
But the venom seeps deeper (deeper, deeper)
We both can seduce
But darling you hold me prisoner (prisoner)
Oh, oh
I'm about to break
I can’t stop this ache
I'm addicted to your allure
And I'm fiendin' for a cure
Every step I take
Leads to one mistake
I keep going right back
To the one thing that I need, oh
I can't mend
This torn state I'm in
Getting nothing in return
What did I do to deserve
The pain of this slow burn
And everywhere I turn
I keep going right back
To the one thing that I need to walk away from
I need to get away from ya
I need to walk away from ya
Everytime I try to grasp for air
I get smothered in despair,
It's never over, over, oh
Seems I'll never wake from this nightmare
I let out a silent prayer
Let it be over, over, ooh
Inside I'm screaming,
Begging, pleading, no more
I don't know what to do
My heart has been bruised
So sad but it's true
Each beat reminds me of you
It hurts my soul
'Cause I can't let go
All these walls are caving in
I can't stop my suffering
I hate to show that I’ve lost control
'Cause I
I keep going right back
To the one thing that I need, oh
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 / 02:15 a.m.
dancer in despair
Friday, July 28, 2006 / 11:29 p.m.
my cherie amour
My cherie amour, distant as a milky way
My cherie amour, pretty little one that I adore
You're the only girl my heart beats for
How I wish that you were mine
In the cafe or sometimes on a crowded street
I've been near you, but you never noticed me
My cherie amour, won't you tell me how could you ignore
That behind that little smile I wore
How I wish that you were mine
Maybe someday, you'll see my face amoung the crowd
Maybe someday, I'll share your little distant cloud
Oh, cherie amour, pretty little one that I adore
You're the only girl my heart beats for
How I wish that you were mine
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 / 01:51 a.m.
pretty little things
the view at night..
my room!! bought the lights hanging at the window from bangkok..
.. looks really lovely at night but the photo doesnt do justice to it
Monday, July 24, 2006 / 12:28 a.m.
a sidenote
Sunday, July 23, 2006 / 12:51 a.m.
hold on to me like i do
Monday, July 17, 2006 / 02:14 a.m.
a trip to bangkok
The doughnuts were really cuuute! I missed the Dunkin’ Doughtnuts though, and here’s alan looking proud and happy with his ALAN shop haha!
We had fried mussels with egg..
our favourite Pad Thai..
tasty roasted chicken..
traditional green curry..
as well as spicy sour Tom Yam!
don’t you agree?
the wheel is so pretty..
it glistened and glowed in the velvet night sky!
And this is the breathtaking view when you are
right on top of the Wheel..
when you’re all high and above..
watching the world in its motion.
And then it was time to go.. with heavy luggages and light pockets.
The girls definitely shopped till the guys dropped..
Bye Bangkok! May we see you again!
