em'z

2011-12-07T01:48:00.003+08:00

HI EVERYONE I'VE CHANGED MY BLOG URL:

emichok@blogspot.com

(:

Life Does Not Rewind.

2011-12-05T02:11:00.001+08:00

(sponsored post)

On 29 November 2011, I attended the media preview showcasing the launch of the anti-drug online gaming challenge with a group of bloggers at Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB). This challenge is jointly organised by The National Council Against Drug Abuse (NCADA) and CNB.

FYI
The NCADA (pronounced as nacada) was formed as an advisory to the Ministers on policies and measures necessary to curb drug abuse in Singapore, promote preventive drug education programmes to educate the public, organises and co-ordinates anti-drug activities, etc.

I've only stepped into CNB's compound once in my whole life and that's just because I got lost from chinatown. -_- In the midst of figuring my whereabouts this morning, I saw bongqiuqiu and I figured that she must be going to the event as well so I walked up to her and asked "are you bong qiu qiu?" Rly stupid qns *smacks forehead* And she said that Jayne's coming to pick her up so I tagged along!

While smiling for this photograph I was wondering if the people working there would think we're bimbos. Hur hur...

Received this file when we entered, inside containing posters, magazines and notes regarding this media preview.

3 online games - Jump Jump Rescue, The Right Choice, Escape From Drugs Land - would be launched on the Facebook fanpage (lifedoesnotrewind) every month from Dec 2011 and this media preview was to basically brief us on the games and the purpose of these games.

The media preview started with the chairman of NCADA addressing general enquiries regarding NCADA and gave a brief overview about the campaign. The campaign tagline is the title of my blogpost today: Life Does Not Rewind! Once on the path of drugs, as quoted from him, "Either drugs will get you, or the CNB will get you!"

Next, the representatives from each group gave a short briefing on how their game goes and what was their thought process into creating each game.

Jump Jump Rescue. "must be: 1. FUN 2. FUN 3. FUN"

If you're into story-based games, The Right Choice is the right game for you ;)

Escape From Drugs Land is an online board game. And the representative totally looks #likeaboss in this photo hahah.

Then we had the chance to try out these games on the laptops they've set up!

One of the new friends I've made - Valerie! She guessed that I was either year 1 or year 2 jc. Or year 3 poly LOL.

We were playing Escape From Drugs Land!

Tried out The Right Choice too.

Moving on to the next laptop...

Jump Jump Rescue! In my opinion, it's the most challenging game. Let me tell you how this game goes.

Instructions! Try to avoid the drugs or there'd be severe side effects!

This game shows how one may suffer due to drug abuse and this is how the game looks like while you're playing.

Snippets of drug information will appear for you to read while your character sits in the hot air balloon or in the rocket.

You'd reach outer space when you achieve a height of 25,000m or more! In outer space, you may encounter a drug quiz when you hit a qns mark. Getting a correct answer will boost the character upwards, while a wrong answer will push the character downwards.

In this manner, the game goes on until the character misses balloons to bounce off and ‘falls to death’. There are no 'undo' buttons, hence enforcing that "Life Does Not Rewind".

The challenge period for Jump Jump Rescue is from 5 Dec 2011 to 1 Jan 2012. Submit your scores within the challenge period and get a chance to win Resorts World Sentosa gift vouchers which can be used to purchase USS entry passes. The top scorer also gets him or herself an iPad 2!

Simply share about the challenge on your Twitter accounts or blogs and send in a screenshot or link to cnb_preventive_education_unit@cnb.gov.sg in a bid to win these prizes too!

Head down to their fb page to try Jump Jump Rescue now!

Btw the score earlier on wasn't my score. I got less than 400 hahahahah so paiseh, my character died with only one jump. But I think is the laptop got problem, serious!

The refreshments given after the media preview. And Evangeline taking her macaroni.

Ending off with a photo of us again!

photo credits to nuffnang team

A breather.

2011-12-04T04:13:00.000+08:00

I've been sending resumes to almost a dozen emails because I've been sacked from my job. To set the record straight, I'm jobless because the blogshop owner's original asst is back to help. It has nothing to do with poor performance or anything of that sort alright!!

And yesterday, I went for cellgroup finally!! Only Naomi, Cheryl, Edwin and Matthias turned up, and I went really late. In the end we headed to Katong after the rain stopped. Walked to Parkway with Cheryl and Edwin, got my double-sided tape, and both of them went back to Katong while I went to Berrylite to get yogurt. Oh, and I redeemed my free floss bun from BreadTalk! It tasted SO good. Probably because it was free. Hehe!

Then my handphone battery died on me while I was eating yogurt. So I had to take the bus home since dad's unreachable. Waiting for the bus in a crowded bus-stop in the rain felt surprisingly solitudinous.

My thoughts at 4:17 am...secret.

Taiwan (Part 6)

2011-12-03T23:05:00.008+08:00

(Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here!)

Was trying to smile without showing my teeth. Hate my eyebags btw. Anyw, us with our hot drinks from familymart cuz the wind is yehliu is freezing cold!!

In the yehliu market. Lol @ Tania.

And we're off to the beach!

I crossed the red line! The guard came to warn me afterthat LOL diu lian. Ooh and I just spotted a heart-shaped pothole on the top right corner!

You..looking like an elephant.

You..looking like pieces of ginger.

Got the wind in our hair lika cool only.

Us camwhoring down our grandfather's road.

This famous stone known as the Queen's Head. Had a long queue of people waiting to take photos with it. It's neck is getting narrower and narrower due to wind erosion etc. So come to yehliu soon if you want a picture with it while it's still there!

This rock looks like a hippo from one side and an elephant from the other side. You see it? :)

Hullo there, hippo.

Soon we left and went back to the market.

Free samples! *rubs palms in glee*

They could bbq these for you on the spot.

I wanted the squid but I don't eat the head and that's like quite a big portion of it so what's the point, right? So I tried the clam thingy instead. It's super bland I could only taste the sauce, which was not bad.

Lunch was microwaved packed food from 7-11! It was SUPER YUMMY. 65 yuan only=S$3+? And they have these bags for you to carry the hot microwaved food for takeaway!

I bought some beef+rice pack, made in Japan. Maybe that's why it tasted A LOT like yoshinoya.

Lianne and Zoey got curry rice which was yummy as well. (See the 7-11 in the background? That's where we bought our food!)

I was still hungry after the meal so I got myself choc waffles~ There were a couple of tourists who came up to me and asked me about the waffles (e.g. where to buy from, nice?, how much?) LOL

Passed by ahzongmianxian on the way back to our hotel room so ZiJun and I each bought a bowl back! It's super nice seriously, go to ximending MUST try!

In the hotel room waiting for zj to finish shitting if I'm not wrong.

Went to shilin night market with Lianne, Zoey and ZiJun. This was when we were buying 鸡扒 (very nice!) and when I was buying smelly tofu to try (tastes exactly the same as the ones in S'pore -.-). Gosh he's staring straight into my cam waaaa fierce. P.S. the guy right at the back is a cutie but I didn't get a picture of him.

No more photos of shilin, I was having difficulties even carrying my shopping bags! And look how messy our room is! (Do note that that was our last night in tw and yes, this would be my last post about our daily affairs in taiwan. *wipes tears*)

A portion of the shoes I bought. I still have 2 other pairs. Regretted not buying more! :( Most of them were only S$8+ can you believe it?!

The last breakfast we will have in taiwan before flying off, which thankfully was not too bad. I liked the fried dumplings.

Next we went to 7-11 to use up all the remaining money in our transport card because we can't exchange it for cash and THEN!! I found my most loved chocolate ever created on this entire universe!

TADAH!! (Photo from wiki)

It's THE black thunder. Woah seriously I never knew they sold it in Taiwan. If I knew I would have went down to 7-11 EVERYDAY to clear their stocks omg! :( Felt so pissed with myself but anyway I cleared all their stocks for that day. Hehe.

Was thirsty while we were waiting to board the plane and I bought this from the vending machine.

And turned out it wasn't a drink that tasted like peanut soup it was REALLY peanut soup. They even had a mini-spoon inside.

Sat with Tania on the plane back to hk and I got a window seat again! Everyone got the white I(heart)TW tee and I'm the only one who got black. Black's nicer what, no?

Lunch on the plane from hk to spore! We requested for more icecream and bread but the air stewardess never came back. :(

Sat with Lianne this time round and it was window seat again!! I've been getting window seats for every flight during this trip woohoo~ But the window of this plane had scratches so the photos taken weren't nice. :(

Alright, and that marks the end of our taiwan trip!

Learnt that going overseas with friends isn't always a 101% positive thing. Personalities may clash, arguments may occur, you may get to see their true colours (like how selfish and insensitive people can get but ok I understand, it's human nature) and at the end of the day rather than causing your friendship to be closer, things end up worse. During the trip, I've flared up, had my pms days and even thought of flying back to Singapore, so you can see how bad things got.

But in the end people always only remember the good, so I guess all the negative feelings I have towards the trip be erased after some time. Hopefully. ^^

Taiwan (Part 5)

2011-12-02T16:45:00.008+08:00

(Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here!)

The last time I ended off, I was at the zoo. Now, I'm still at the zoo. Ok starting off with a picture of humans.

Cute kindergarten kids! Alright now back to animals.

Entered some place where they kept nocturnal animals and this owl just stood there and stared at me as though I was a rat. T_T

A taiwanese woman walked past and asked her partner "它们是猪吗?". And her partner explained that they weren't, etc. Then a short while later she said, "我们不要再看猪了啦, 我肚子好饿哦!" hahahahahah

Zijun between the professionals. Taking pictures of orangutans.

Took a break and bought egg tarts :B

Zoey said the hippos looked like giant tea eggs.

..."steamed bread"...

Took a tram back to the entrance and check out the guy on the right yawning.

Crossing the road to WUFENPU!!! (No photos because I was too busy shopping and bargaining.) And Zoey's just acting candid.

Had dinner at a roadside stall in wufenpu - 1. Luroufan (the best I've eaten in tw but I still don't love it), 2. soup (with rly yummy meatballs), 3. noodles of idk what

A clearer picture of our room. Took this because we were shifting places AGAIN. To ximending this time round. :)

Before we shifted hotels I went to Cold Stone to get myself an icecream - Peanut Butter Cup Perfection. It's my favourite flavour. Like It=970 calories, Love It=1230 calories, Gotta Have It=1490 calories. Eat alrdy so xim tia but I'm still going to eat it in future. ^^

We were actually all late because we had to check out by a certain timing. So the girls went ahead to pack their luggage while I bought my icecream and RAN back to the hotel. Running through a crowded shopping centre in my t-shirt and shorts carrying a half-eaten ice cream cup (while others were wearing thick winter jackets) is cool. Felt like I was in the dramas you know, really.

臭臭锅 right below our new hotel room but I didn't get the chance to eat it :(

Walked over to ximending and tried this! It's the best I've ever eaten! *melts*

Added 3 spoonfuls of chilli and it was rly spicy. Choking kind of spicy. x_x But still yummy. Ate 2 bowls of this in the short span of time we stayed in ximending. I really wish they sold this in Singapore! :(

Check out the crowd. Statistics don't lie~

Next was shopping time all the way. ^^ (Us at a shoe shop.)

Bubbletea again. We got warm bubbletea because the weather was SO cold. There's cold, warm and hot bbt available, cool yea?

There was a crowd so kaypoh me went to find out what happened. Apparently they were all gathering around this huge dog.

Shiny lips cuz I had lip gloss on. *.*

While walking to a japanese restaurant where we'd have our dinner at.

T-shirt: wufenpu (about S$4); Shorts: F21 (can't remember); Geekspecs: wufenpu (about S$8 after bargaining); Stockings: yilan night market (less than S$4); Bracelet: chinatown (3 for S$10). hehe #proudtobecheapo.

Grumpy people waiting.

And more grumpy people waiting. Waited for at least half an hour in the cold.

Finally the door opens and the boss/cashier/waiter (?) walks out with a loud hailer.

Our dishes! The miso soup was really yummy, didn't taste like the usual salty kind. I mean, yes it was still saltish but it tasted different.

Tania wasn't in this picture because she'd alrdy crossed the road and was waiting for us on the other side LOL.

Roadside stall selling muachee for 30 yuan a portion, 50 yuan a box.

I bought a box! It's super yummy, sesame on the inside and peanut on the outside. Ate this twice in taiwan. I wish they sold this in Singapore too. :(

Bought this too while shopping. Chocolate flavour. The auntie looks buaysong.

This is a street called 电影街! Would have watched a movie if we had the time but we didn't.

Bought deepfried taukwa from this roadside food stall and saw this on display. O.O Would never dare to eat it cuz it looks so...crude (sorry I can't think of a better word).

While finding our way back to the hotel (it was almost 11pm then), we smelt fish porridge!! Totally smells like home. So Zoey and I each bought a bowl of porridge back to our hotel room for supper ^^

Lianne acting like a mother and helping us untie the plastic bags.

The porridge was really good because it tasted a lot like home-cooked ones. :') The name of the shop is called 丰收, its English name is "Good Food" lmao!

Lianne and I on the bus the next morning (on our way to yehliu/野柳)!

Jiang jiang jiang jiang! Zoey's complete makeover.

OK good news, my next blog post's going to be my last blog post regarding our daily affairs in tw! Meaning there'd be no more day1-day9 kind of sequence. (: I still have videos though I'm too lazy to upload them, haha!

Taiwan (Hot Springs)

2011-12-01T23:16:00.000+08:00

Still in the hotel room.

First up, we tried the fish spa.

It was quite scary initially because the fish came in large numbers and they were SUPER ticklish! But after awhile it became quite shiok.

At this point in time zj and zoey were still hesitating to enter the water cuz it was too hot rofl. (Note: it was 39 degree Celcius).

And they finally got in!!

The steam everywhere~~

Tania, Lianne and I entered the 42 degree Celcius one next to it too! I couldn't stay in there for too long cuz I'd get a headache. In the end I decided to just soak my feet in there.

There were cold springs indoors like around 21 degrees but it was too cold for us to enter, especially after we just came out from the hot spring. I tried placing my feet there but my hands started to numb, so I got scared and stayed away. We also tried out the saunas, went into one with a super strong mint smell and we all had difficulty even breathing properly after some time. Ended up barging out of the doors LOL.

And there was this area where you can only enter if you have swimming caps on. We didn't have them so we couldn't enter, but awhile later some guy working there offered us SHOWER CAPS. And we went in with shower caps. Super ugly seriously so I'm not uploading them in case one of them kills me and throws me into bedok reservoir.

Hi tania lianne zoey zijun! If you guys want the photos, drop me a message I can forward them to you! Feel free to upload them onto your blogs if you think they're okay.

Oh and actually they didn't allow phototaking lololol.

Ok zai jian!

Taiwan (Part 4)

2011-11-30T19:18:00.001+08:00

(Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here!)

Lunchtime at a thai restaurant! They had unlimited flow of drinks and we ordered A LOT of dishes. Wait to see all the food pictures if you wish, it's like never-ending.

Tried squid ink pasta which tasted surprisingly normal, I expected myself to either hate it or love it but it was...ok.

What we do each time a dish is served - take photos like professionals!!

Hahah at Tania's face.

On the train to go to danshui (淡水) to take a ferry to lover's bridge (漁人碼頭)

Tea eggs from a shop right outside the train station!

Tania exchanging notes for coins with the neoprint shop owner so that we can take neo prints! ^^

Saw his own neoprints pasted around the shop hahahahah awkward poses

Candid shot of Tania when we just alighted from the ferry.

Us acting cool infront of Lover's Bridge. 有了友情, 还有谁管爱情?

Windy yet sunny at the same time.

Us putting on lip gloss on Lover's Bridge lmao @ our faces.

Look at the crowd of people there to see the sunset! Thank goodness we got ourselves a good spot.

Sat there enjoying the breeze+sunshine while waiting for the sun to set while Lianne insists that there's no difference between the zillions of photos she's taken of the sun (rofl) and in the meantime we were being pissed at that one guy who kept blocking our view of the sun. It was fun. (:

One last photo before the sun sets for the day!

While walking towards the bus-stop. Spot the Lovers' Bridge a distance away!

Zoey and I were leaning on each other at the bus-stop and I was trying to take a photo of her but idk how it ended up with a photo of myself with that spastic face instead.

On the bus back to danshui. Their seats are SO comfy I almost fell asleep during the trip.

Randomly settled dinner at a shop along the streets of danshui.

1. 铁蛋 (tea eggs that were overboiled I think? Anyw they are ultra chewy.), 2. 阿给 (taukwa with vermicelli inside?), 3. fishball soup

Walked past Macs so Lianne and I went in to order Mcnugget meal! She ate the nuggets, I ate the fries and we shared the drink. They didn't have chilli sauce but gave us this sauce instead. Didn't try it though.

Ice-cream bought by Lianne but shared among us because she bought it only for taking photos LOL.

I don't remember seeing this flavour sold in Spore..."猴子也想咬一口" lol.

I remember being angry with zijun at this point of time because she started giving me suggestions on what to do with my hair. E.g. I should let my hair grow out then cut off the rebonded parts. And I was saying that my hair's super thick plus I do have natural curls so I didn't like it, and rebonding was the only solution, because layering would make my hair puff up.

And she went on saying like no la ask the hair stylist layer a bit won't puff up one, or something like that. Then I got pissed because like, it's my hair, of course I know what my hair's like and what to do with it and I think for the first time in my life I openly flared up towards a friend.

So afterwards I felt SUPER awkward and bad, hence I apologised. Then she asked what was the apology for and I felt all the more awkward. In my awkwardness I went to Zoey and ranted about how awkward I felt, then zj said "talking bad about me right, I heard my name" and I felt pissed again LOL. I remember I rebutted "no, don't so self-conscious la" like gl max. So zj if you're reading this, I didn't talk bad about you that time.

My supper!

And my breakfast the next day. Which I didn't finish because I was late. In my opinion their beef-flavoured cup noodles, regardless of whatever brand, tastes the same. (Can't say for the other flavours because I didn't try those.)

The entrance ticket to sit on the cable car!

View from the window while waiting for our turn.

That's our cable car!

We got the crystal cabins (水晶车厢), hence the transparent bottom.

It wasn't as fun as expected because it was hot and stuffy inside the cabin (so wanted to kick open the door to enjoy the cool air outside) and the windows weren't exactly transparent they were more of translucent so you don't really feel like you're part of your surroundings (if you get what I mean).

There were food stalls at the last cable car station so we settled our lunch there before heading down again.

Yay to tw sausages!

1. Noodles (Zoey's), 2. 豆花 in peanut soup (which I love! It's insanely yummy. Zijun ordered ginger soup and Zoey ordered red bean soup if I didn't rmb wrongly.), 3. Deep-fried boneless chicken, 4. Korean green onion pancakes

Hi guys, this is Pudding. Pudding is a sausage dog who has an owner selling taiwan sausages. (Btw the dogs in Taiwan are super chio and well-behaved! Mentioned in Part 3 that there was a dog following me for my sausage right? I actually shook it off because I expected the dog to be aggressive but that one did not even bark it just silently stalked me! In the end I felt bad lor.)

On our return trip.

When we alighted we were deciding to either go to Taipei zoo or Taipei 101. Decided to go Taipei zoo instead because it was nearby. Entrance fee was less than S$1.50!! And the zoo isn't that bad. Took a zillion and one photos of animals which would bore you to death so I'm just going to pick a few special ones. ^^

2nd animal we saw upon stepping into the zoo. (1st were pretty flamingoes! Fyi.) Zoey said they look like the Horrifying. I agree.

There was no enclosure for these butterflies, one even landed on my bag! And they were huge ok. The brown leaf there is a butterfly too! Cool right. ;)

Do you think they were mating? Wait, butterflies mate in this way right?

Pretty blue butterfly... *.* I can imagine Christine screaming if she was next to me, but she's not. Hehe.

Okay time to end this post now because it's time for dinner ^^ Shall continue another time, and I'm about to finish blogging abt Taiwan alrdy! Yipee!

Taiwan (Part 3)

2011-11-29T16:31:00.000+08:00

(Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here!)

As I said, we had an accident while cycling around the lake. They were taking turns to be the driver because only one person could control the bike. (I didn't volunteer to be the driver because I knew I'd bang into something FOR SURE. I have horrendous driving skills.)

So it was Zoey's turn to be the driver and we were cycling down a very steep slope. Then 2 kids cycled towards us in the opposite direction so the only option was to (1) hit them or (2) turn the bike towards the lake. And Zoey decided to turn the bike towards the lake. Thank God we hit a tree if not we would have all fallen into the lake!!

Initially we were laughing it off but afterwards we realised the impact dislodged some parts of the bicycle. And it no longer became funny. Oh and the father of the kids just stood there and watched us moving the bike back to the track without even apologising or volunteering to help before cycling off again!!

He should have compensated the bike owner for the damages, but we had to pay for them instead because he was nowhere to be found. But what annoyed me the most was that he did not even apologise. Oh well, at least none of us were injured.

Went to our lodging for the night after cycling. It was an inn and we had a beautiful view of a lake outside our window. Yes our room's 2 storeys high. Slacked indoors for awhile before going to a night market nearby.

My favourite snack in taiwan!

It's grinded peanut sweet (I think?) + ice cream wrapped in popiah skin.

Biggest 鸡扒 I've ever eaten for only 60 yuan (less than S$3)!

There were 2 guys who took orders at the shop who asked zijun and I if we wanted to go 玩 with them afterwards and when they realised we weren't locals, they asked if we wanted to eat seafood (from their stall) and they'd treat us. We politely rejected, but in the end we had 2 鸡扒s even though we only ordered and paid for 1!

Had dinner at a road side stall in the rain.

I ordered sugarcane juice with milk. Tasted a lot like coleslaw sauce.

Back in the hotel room when we couldn't sleep.

Breakfast was yummy porridge with side dishes. (Cooked and delivered by the owners of the inn themselves!)

Huge bucket of porridge we couldn't finish. I ate 4 bowls of porridge!

Weather became VERY chilly. Us outside the inn!

At a cultural place in taiwan I guess?

The only place in Taiwan that sold this. Rock sugar+sesame+peanut wrapped in popiah skin? Weird combination but it tasted quite okay. Heard that it was sold in Spore in the early days but my mum didn't recognise what it was.

Caught Zoey entering the boys shower! :O

Bought taiwan sausages and the stall owner asked us to pose for a picture inside her shop. Haha she's so cute!

Bought a clog keychain with my chinese name carved on it. (淑贤的"淑", 智慧的"慧" yes I'm supposed to have these virtues).

And we went to look at waterfalls again. Apparently this mountain has a lot of hidden gold underground because the government wants to save the gold for future use.

We were having a heated debate about this thingy being a dog poo or a duck's head. I am still perplexed over it.

At the top of the mountain! See the sea with 2 colours? DID YOU KNOW that it's called the yinyang sea? *pushes up specs*

Crowded 老街 somewhere in the mountains!

Settled our lunch in a shop along the alley. Tania and ZiJun both tried stewed smelly tofu. According to Tania, it's unbearable.

Zijun trying and Zoey staring ahhahaha

She was super loud to attract customers so seeing how hardworking she was, Tania ZiJun and I bought snacks from her stall!

Tried tw sausage made from 山猪 meat. Tastes like normal only that it's tougher.

This dog followed me up 2 flight of stairs for the sausage. Got a mini heart-attack seeing such a huge dog right behind my ass. I managed to lose it in the end because I run fast. Teehee.

From a super famous dessert shop! You have to climb a few flight of stairs from the main alley to reach this shop and the queue is loooooong. As you can see they give generous portions of ingredients.

I ordered cold red bean soup which was really refreshing. There are a list of soups (hot or cold) to choose from!

Proceeded to make wishes upon a lantern!

Our wishes.

It disappeared from our sight in no time!

We also 放烟火!

Explosion observed in the air.

Zoey and I had no balls to set the fire crackers so we stood a safe distance away from the rest.

Snacks to munch on in the long car ride from yilan to taipei

Dinner at a restaurant

Milk+Guan dong zhu from 7-11 for my supper!

Photo of me and our new room while the others were at the balcony figuring how to use the washing machine. I'm holding a spoon in my left hand ready to start on supper.

Followed the locals and sat on the stairs to eat our Mcbreakfast meals! (Tania was still sleeping then.)

Pork burger!

After breakfast we took the train here!

Basically it's just a place with lots of huge grand buildings around. There are historical value to them but I don't know what.

View from the top. There were exhibitions of statues too.

Walked back to taipei main station and bought bbt on the way! Huge cup full of pearls! (In Taiwan, bubbletea was our plain water.)

And more roadside food stalls! These were as common as abc.

We were caught on camera in daiso. ^^ One of my fav pix of the trip because we all look so happy!

-to be continued-

first day of work

2011-11-28T22:03:00.002+08:00

I'm working for a blog shop, doing stuff like packing parcels, writing addresses on envelopes, pasting stamps, etcetc. It's quite interesting actually, and everything you do has got to be super fast and accurate so time zooms by without me realising! I do hope I wrote all the addresses and packed the parcels correctly.

And the office was REALLY messy I'm amazed at how the blog shop owner manages to remember where everything is placed. There are clothes everywhere and you have to like, throw them elsewhere to clear some space to sit.

There's no dress code (I wore t-shirt, shorts& slippers to work today hehe), the office's less than 10 minutes walk from my house, and there aren't fixed hours (worked from 12:30pm to 4:15pm today and I don't have to report to work tmr). Cool because I didn't want a stifling nine to five kind of job, but then again I'm quite worried because I really do want to earn money. And how much I earn depends on how much hours I work so...yah you get me.

Oh well I hope I get to work on Wednesday. $.$

Taiwan (Part 2)

2011-11-27T16:26:00.000+08:00

(Read Part 1 here!)

Oh by the way you guys know I cut my fringe myself and turned it into screwed up bangs right? Apparently most of the girls in Taiwan have my kind of fringe!! I totally blended in with them when I was in Taiwan hahahaha didn't feel zibei about my fringe at all ^^

Continuing from what we did in Part 1!

We were experiencing public hot springs for our feet! Apparently it's very normal among the locals in yilan. Quite relaxing except for the annoying fleas/flies buzzing around us.

Our 2nd hotel. The door you see is the door to the toilet. *cues "WOAAAAH"*

Presenting to you a jacuzzi. With a tv. *cues louder "WOAAAAH"*

A picture before I change into my swimsuit for my first ever hot spring experience with the girls!

After the hot springs. (There are photos of us in the hot springs in my waterproof cam but I haven't upload them so those will have to wait.)

Dinner buffet at the hotel!

This was raw baby octopus I think. Tried it. It was bland but ultra chewy.

Famous dessert in yilan! Think it's called 青蛙下蛋. Basically it's just sour lime juice with chewy thingies, wasn't to my liking.

Available in almost all their 7-11 stalls. One of my fav snacks in tw!

Went to a supermarket near our hotel and saw this. Thought their brand name was hilarious.

As you can see we could totally survive in shorts because the temperature was quite like Spore's when we first reached taiwan. Got cooler on the last few days.

And heard that it had been pouring for 10 days straight before we reached taiwan but it stopped when we arrived! Yeah we bring sunshine~ (totally no relevance to the picture above, I know)

Zoey's semi-laughing because I refused a picture with her bending down so I stood on my tippy toes. Not funny lor!

Had milk and tea egg from 7-11 for supper! Sis strongly recommended it but I thought it tasted ordinary. If you were wondering where's the milk, I finished it on the way back to the hotel. :P

Breakfast buffet in the hotel again! (Pix arranged in the order I ate.)

In the van again.

Tania was zipping up her bag but looks like she's dancing here.

Tried whiskey at the whiskey brewery! Legal age to drink in tw was 18 but we they didn't ask us for our age so... *shrugs* It tasted horrible btw.

Next, we went to an orchid exhibition!

I found the cactuses more interesting instead. If you want to see pretty orchids, google "orchids"!

And we went to a tea plantation high up in the mountains!

Ate tea jelly, peanuts, drank tea, and tried something cool with mother nature all round us.

Guess what's on the plate!

It's fried tea leaves!! Tasted really yummy although there some that were bitter.

This is a Taiwanese spider. Had many more smaller baby spiders around it. When we were leaving the table, a giant wasp came and we fled the table screaming our heads off! There were tourists around us too and I saw one of them laughing at us. Embarrassing max. T_T

A random photo of the restaurant we were in. Spotted anything weird about the photo??

Sneaky boy...

Lunch for the day.

Headed to a lake after lunch and decided to rent a 6-seater bike and cycle around the lake. We cycled 3 rounds=exhausted. It was really thrilling and fun except for the accident we had. Will talk about it in the next blog post.

Took this photo while standing on a bridge in the middle of the lake so this only shows half of the lake.

Ok kids that's all for this blog post! There's a lot more to come! (;

Taiwan (Part 1)

2011-11-26T02:06:00.006+08:00

Basically this Taiwan posts are going to be about Lianne, Tania, ZiJun, Zoey and I on a 9D8N trip at taiwan! Come to think of it, this trip was quite a last minute thing. Our original destination was korea but it's winter over there now so we decided to head to taiwan instead. Christine and KaiRong were supposed to come along too but...oh well, long story.

Took a total of 928 photos and 4 videos using my camera. Ha ha ha.

Alright here goes!

At the airport in the morning (7:30AM) waiting to get into the plane.

8:15AM. I got a window seat! *clap clap*

Breakfast on a plane served by a cute air steward named Alex.

Lianne took a picture of Alex while he was talking to a passenger but she didn't know the camera would first focus and this orangey light shone on his face!! Then he turned around and stared RIGHT at the camera when it took the picture. Got us laughing in embarrassment for quite awhile.

Since I was sitting at the window seat...

(Taken using aerial mode)

Snacks on the flight to Taiwan!

Them trying to take pictures of each other.

I had better things to do. Like watching Jamie Oliver cook turkey! (On a sidenote, I have never tried turkey meat.)

In the van to our hotel.

The gayish pink wallpaper of our hotel corridor.

Taking the train to Shida night market.

A roadside food stall! Check out the Taiwanese dude staring at my camera. Maybe he thought I was taking a photo of him. *chuckles*

The night market's situated near Guting station and you've to walk quite a bit before reaching.

Wide array of clothes and food stalls there, we didn't have enough time to finish walking down the whole stretch!

There was a long queue for this stall selling 水煎包 and overheard locals saying that there were long queues EVERYDAY but it didn't taste nice to us. Could've done more shopping in the time we took to queue! :(

See the red+black dress hung up? I wanted that but no idea why I didn't get it! It only cost 250 yuan (less than S$12) and that was before bargaining! *regretting*

Back into our hotel room at night. (I slept with zijun and I got kicked. Twice.)

Instant noodles from 7-11 for supper. In Taiwan, there are convenient shops EVERYWHERE. Not kidding.

Breakfast in the van the next morn. I'm having xiaolongbao (in what way is it 小?) while zijun's having porridge (super worth it because there were a lot of ingredients inside).

We were on our way to have Mr. Brown (famous taiwanese brand) coffee in a "castle" on a mountain top! The scenery is SUPERB. Check it out yo.

Got sky got sea got tree.

Fine fine, I know I blocked off most of the scenery.

The castle where laoniang will have my coffee :)

And look at them acting like professional photographers.

Not a coffee lover so the coffee float (left) tasted yucky to me.

Lunchtime!

Tried foie gras and lu rou fan (not as nice as I expected)...

and duck's blood (which tasted rly okay!).

Walked up the mountain to see waterfalls. We couldn't go to the highest one because the authorities locked the gate to block off that area.

Some food and games stall and dogs in the middle of the mountain trail.

Corny pose with the waterfall.

We all look unglam. *shrugs*

Back in the van all wet and smelly.

I think we all fell asleep afterthat because it was really quite tiring climbing up all that stairs in the mountains. Woke up realising we're at...

...here! (some random place amongst the mountains)

No idea what this fruit is called so I'm gonna call it A. Tried A sweets, dried A, A wine, and I don't know what else I ate. Was quite groggy at that time.

Farmer that plucks A!

Alright that's all for Part 1. I'm too tired to continue typing. Time to sleep nights everyone!

cutesy pen

2011-11-24T09:34:00.000+08:00

Liberated. (In other words, the last day of O's.)

2011-11-23T21:35:00.001+08:00

Happy Christine who got my flower! The stalk of the flower smells like pangsai hehehe.

Check out my school compound behind mother pinyi.

A caucasian couple walked past and laughed at her. HAHAHAHA

Watched The Three Musketeers with KaiRong, ZiJun, Hannah, PinYi and the movie was quite good. Logan Lerman is so cute but I (still) can't get WHY did they make some a handsome dude put on such an ugly hairdo. I understand it's because of the context of the movie but if they were going to make him look so...not-so-good-looking, then why not hire another actor altogether? Wasted. :(

Had nachos and popcorn in the movie too! Sat in between zj (who had nachos) and kr (who had popcorn). Who said you can't have the best of both worlds? :P

Oh and the last paper of O's was bio paper 1. Which, in my opinion, was difficult. If I don't get an A for my bio, it'd be because of this paper. *sigh* But oh well it's over. Now looking forward to the holidays, and taking on jobs (which I've found thanks to my sister and friend, I am a blessed girl thank God), and christmas, and countdown, and...results.

Pre-Chers Day Celeb

2011-11-22T09:34:00.000+08:00

Again, it's another blog post I'm coughing up because of my recently uploaded photos from my camera.

Classmates lunching with us before heading to school tgt!

Got a huge bowl of noodles!

I meant like bigger-than-my-hand kind of huge.

By the way it was maggie noodles, supposedly high class maggie noodles because they were imported from korea. LOL. Well they didn't taste any much different to me *shrugs*

Blog post regarding teachers' day celebration right here: http://emilychok.blogspot.com/2011/09/teachers-day-2011.html

A trip to anywhere.

2011-11-20T20:43:00.000+08:00

(16 November 2011)

Upsized our meal and had an extra chicken each!! We eat like men.

Hehe. Caught her in the act of finding our sporks.

Guess where are we now??

Head down to Relax@757 for good frog porridge hahahahaha

If you still couldn't guess where were we, you NOOB!! We were at Geylang Road. We stepped into this pet shop (I know right, what's a pet shop doing there?) and stayed in the shop for quite awhile, staring at the dogs. They were SO cute. They all looked like puppies but the shop owner told us that they were special breeds imported from Taiwan and they were full grown ALREADY.

Initially we thought this was a Tibetan Mastiff. Some dude for China paid £945,000(S$1.92 million) to buy a puppy of that breed. Kuku man that dude. But the owner told us that it wasn't. Phew.

Of course there were other dogs like chihuahuas, poodles and I liked this dog that looked like a sausage dog but the shop assistant said it was not a sausage dog but it was a jksagfsgfhfjksfh dog. Sorry, I can't remember.

Met Moses Lim.

Someone once told me I hold my phone in a very complicated way. I've since realised.

We were finding Rocher Beancurd but we couldn't find it. Only after we had dinner+dessert elsewhere THEN we found the shop. On our way home. So disappointing!! :( But at least I've discovered a new place to eat yummy mee hoon kueh now! ^_^

p/s I chopped off my fringe the night before. I'm regretting and currently, living with the consequences.

Scraps and bits.

2011-11-19T18:10:00.000+08:00

Found these photos in the camera. I've long forgotten about them! But since I've found them...oh well. Photos were from a long time ago when I went to orchard with the girls before heading for class bbq (post about class bbq here!). The times when I still had hair that reached beyond my boobs. *sigh* I kind of miss my long hair! :(

Oh and while shopping, we decided to pick some ugly clothes for each other to try on. Things girls do when they're bored #101.

Honestly, I thought it looked okay without the top.

Check out all the cameras in the background.

On our way to class bbq!

Flying off.

2011-11-17T08:05:00.001+08:00

Hey kids! Currently sitting in the plane while typing this blog post. ^_^ Lucky me got a window seat and lucky Lianne got a seat next to me! The air steward is cute. He's going to serve us breakfast later!!! *excited*

If anything happens to me, just want to let all my loved ones know, I love you. :')

Don't say I lame ok. You'd never know what would happen.

Ok we're moving we're moving eeeeeek bye *waves*!
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Dinner with fam.

2011-11-16T10:56:00.003+08:00

Bought a new cam a few days back, Lumix DMC-LX5. So, the photos below are all taken by the new camera!

Had steamboat before we headed over to the coffeeshop opposite to get bread and coffee. (:

p/s O's are OVER!! And I'm heading to taiwan tomorrow with the girls. Don't worry I'd have scheduled posts lined up for youyouyouyouyou~

"Say Thanks, Make Someone's Day"

2011-11-14T16:29:00.004+08:00

(sponsored post)

DID YOU KNOW that it was World Kindness Day on 13th November 2011??

I was amongst the 10 to 12 bloggers invited for the media briefing and also, amongst the 500 volunteers that were part of the Singapore Kindness Movement Campaign 2011! (Basically, our role was to give out the flowers.) The other bloggers were Celine, Charlene, Eileen, Everscar, Peishi, Sofia, Stephen, Wendy.

I found their blogs by googling "Singapore Kindness Movement 2011 nuffnang" and linked to their blogs someway or another. I am a good stalker, I know. There were other bloggers too but I can't find their blogs so... *shrugs*

What is the Spore Kindness Movement all about?
Well... "Kindness is in everyone. The Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM) wants to encourage everyone to start, show and share kindness. We aspire to inspire graciousness one kind act at a time. By sparing a thought for the people around us, we hope to create a gracious society, and make life better for you and me." - kindness.sg

So, I was late for the event. (What's new?) But thankfully the event started much much later than the scheduled time, we even had time to grab lunch, take photos everywhere, look through our goodie bags and basically hung around the area.

Magnet badges :) And yes, I had chicken rice for lunch.

The flowers are REAL ok.

The media briefing was conducted by Dr
William Wan, General Secretary of the skm.

Check out the volunteers!

Oh gosh is the guy at the back smiling at my camera?!

Daniel Ong was the host for the event and he was pretty entertaining! Not too long later Dr Yaacob Ibrahim arrived and he had to pour water into this flower pot so that the plastic flower inside would rise up to signify the start of the event? I was standing right at the back of the stage so my view was blocked by everyone else infront. BUT I got to see something they don't!

Cute cheeky kids at the backstage. ^_^

And tadah!! The event officially starts. (And this is the view of the crowd from upstage.)

The whole crowd of blue then strutted down Orchard Road giving flowers to anyone and everyone that crossed their paths. I was standing near the back of the crowd with Celine and Eileen so most of the people that walked past us ALREADY had flowers. :( Oh and there was a tourist who approached me for a picture!

Group picture with our flower recipents outside taka! While taking this, a china woman came up to me and gave me a flower -_-

We gave out all our flowers within a really short period of time because we were smart enough to go inside taka...teehee.

Do go to makesomeonesday.sg and send a Thankyou message or a kindness story. It'd be nice if the whole Singapore map could be filled up with yellow daisies!

p/s I was kind of prepared to eat lunch alone because I was late and I thought everyone would've already made friends with each other, but Celine and Eileen were so nice to ask if I wanted to lunch with them! :') *heart melts*

Goodies in our tummies.

2011-11-13T17:41:00.000+08:00

I've FINALLY uploaded the photos from the time hannah, lianne and I went for the durian buffet at Goodwood Park Hotel. (Related posts here and here!) It was really a last minute thing that we decided to go to the buffet, and I'm really glad we did. I wouldn't mind going next year again!

my first plate :P

hannah and lianne!

The main purpose I went to the buffet - it's THE durian mousse cake

She's cooking the durian pancakes on the spot! (Bet she felt awkward when I was taking this picture.)

They even had dessert!

Dessert choice no.2 (I think I drank 5 bowls of this LOL)

Well, okay, I guess that's all the pictures I took. Sorry I was too busy eating to be taking pictures. The durian mousse cake at Goodwood Park is really reaally REAAAAALLY the best!

2011-11-12T17:40:00.000+08:00

You might hate him you might love him, whatever. I like this song, that's that.

Some days stay golden.

2011-11-11T13:52:00.005+08:00

Today's 11/11/11 (if it still hasn't struck you yet). Original plans for today were to borrow a book from the library and head down to starbucks, but it was pouring earlier on and now I feel really sleepy. :(

Headed down for a swim earlier on, a really short lessthanthirtyminutes swim. Because I was alone in the pool and I got quite scared. What happens if I drown or got pulled under water by some water demon? No one would be there to save me! Yup, so I went home. And thank goodness I did because it started pouring a short while later.

Yesterday after hmt paper, zj and I headed to hannah's house. Bought snacks from whitesands before heading there and had a big bowl of dumplings to ourselves at her house. Her little bro recognised me and remembered my name! Hehe. Not bad, he'd grow up to be a good man! ^_^ Planned on watching a horror movie but ended up stalking pretty girls and pretty boys (LOL) and lying on her bed talking about everything under the sun from fat thighs to primary school best friends to the bird shit outside her window.

I am...a little afraid of the unknown.

p.s. I saved a drowning ant while swimming. I am a hero.

geogpaperin16hours...

2011-11-08T16:19:00.004+08:00

I shouldn't be using the computer
I shouldn't be using the computer
I shouldn't be using the computer

I kind of want to give up on O's it's so frustrating. Whoever said it would pass in a flash should get a time check.

Melanie Iglesias is my fav angmoh as of today!!! (: I wanted to put a photo of her here but most of her photos look porno -_- sigh why liddaaaat

rants and ramblings

2011-11-08T02:24:00.001+08:00

It's so difficult to find someone I can trust these days. I know a bunch of people who are able to keep secrets and I know what I tell them would be safe between the two of us but a lot of times it's not just that trust element. It's knowing that someone is there simply because he or she is willing to and that trust doesn't surface out of duty, knowing that someone always would be there or at least try to be there during my lowest points in life, knowing that someone wouldn't make assumptions about my personality and character, etc. And such a person is really, really hard to find. So sick of jumping from person to person to pour out my troubles to because I really hate feeling so exposed to so many people at any one time.

Today, I really missed him. She asked me why, and I thought about it for awhile. I guess this is it - he was that someone whom I thought I could trust. I know he has his reasons but these reasons aren't excuses. As much as I try to empathize with his situation, I can't. And I have to admit, it was stupidity on my part to allow myself to trust knowing what he's into. Wish I could leave things hanging mid-air like this but I can't. So......what should I do now?

p/s don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about a bgr or anything of that sort.
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with kaykay

2011-11-07T21:58:00.000+08:00

After taking the photo I tweeted "just took a photo with @yankaykay outside frolick!! (as I'm tweeting this she's still standing right there-->)" and she RT-ed. As of now that photo has 9643 views (I just checked) omg....stress!! Aiya ya lah I know people not looking at me they just want see kaykay lah but still! Hey wait. That's worse. Means I not even worth looking at lah?! 讨厌.

The process to getting this photo was really quite funny and embarrassing hahahah ok must thank lianne for accompanying me to bugis and for taking this pix!!! 谢谢美女 ^_^

"To be any kind of deviant is to be hurt - always," she said.

2011-11-05T22:28:00.006+08:00

Yesterday marked the end of O level's week 2, which means that I'm only left with a few manageable papers! Therefore a few of us decided to give ourselves a break and head to town. We saw a few other groups of students (most probably sec4s) at town too. Not surprising.

If you were wondering how I did for my SS paper...well, I think I did okay, but not my best. Actually I've never did my best for ANY of the papers that I'd sat for so far. Never once did I walk out of the exam hall feeling like an A1 is guaranteed. For the first few days it made me worried, but after awhile I've gotten used to that disappointment. I mean, what's the use of getting upset when it's all over, right? Ok now back to my blog post.

Tried bean paste soup for my very first time! It always looks SO GOOD when the actors eat it in korean dramas but it tasted quite mediocre. Like how I described it to kr, "Not bad, but not VERY nice. I won't crave for it but I don't mind buying it again...like chicken rice."

But still, the highlight of the day was getting a pair of complimentary movie tix (GV) after taking a photo with Swoop's Mascot!!

Our first photo with the owl. We all look a little awkward, even the owl lol.

Screenshot from swoop.com.sg's fb page

Enlarged photo. See the movie tix in C's hand?! $.$ No wonder we all look happier.

Chilled at coldstone's for the rest of the day. Should've chosen a flavour with choc base instead. :(

Felt really tired the whole day because I only had about 3 hours of sleep the night before (Studied SS last minute. Rly last minute.) Any juniors reading this pls PLS don't follow my footsteps. Not a wise choice. Oh yah and the others got a Desigual bag each. They were giving them out but I refused to take one because it was so huge. C was very excited and went like "EHHH BRANDED LEH!!!" sigh. Why am I friends with her again? Hahahaha ok I'm kidding girl, kidding!!

Suggested going home when C had to go home but I decided to go bugis afterthat with goodflen. And I'm glad I did! Bought myself a dress hehe...I am one step closer to becoming a GIRL.

Took quite a few rubbish photos here and there during the exam period (not that it isn't the exam period now but aiya, whatever lah) so I'm going to compile it all into a gif file. Photos were from...

1) Study session with kr xtine zj at starbucks
2) Study session at teadot
3) Study session with the girls at canteen before our chem paper

redshoesblueshoes

2011-11-02T15:30:00.002+08:00

In Japan, 2010.

10 weird things about me

2011-11-01T18:56:00.000+08:00

1. When I cook maggie mee I like to turn the fire to the fullest and count down for 10 seconds before turning it off. (I really think it'd taste nicer that way.)

2. I don't like being the only person in the swimming pool because I'd always imagine a demon or a sea monster catching up behind me.

3. I smile at myself in the mirror every morning when I brush my teeth. Started a few years back when I read an article in a magazine that smiling makes you happy subconsciously and then it became a habit.

4. I eat my subway cookies before starting on the bread.

5. I like to pinch my nose bridge. Initially I wanted to see if my nose will become sharper that way, after that it became a habit too. (Psst...I think it works...)

6. If you reply my messages late by 5 minutes I will wait for 6 minutes before sending my reply. (LOL ok lame I know, don't judge me!!)

7. I like to wriggle my toes. A LOT. E.g. If a catchy tune is playing over the radio I'd wriggle my toes to the beat. True story.

8. When I'm on a double-decker bus alone I'd imagine I'm in an MV.

9. I get scared when someone comes too near me. (There was once kr or mm scare me on purpose and I think I nearly cried LOL zz.)

10. I'd make sure the lift door's closed before pressing the floor I want to go to because...I'd think that if a ghost wants to spy on me from outside the lift, it wouldn't know which floor I stay on. I know this is rly stupid HAHAHAHA.

ok this post is so random ahhahahahaha getting so sick of exams starting at 8am. I neeeeeed my sleeeeeep TT
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if this was a movie, you'd be here right now.

2011-10-29T15:55:00.000+08:00

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mugging in process

2011-10-26T16:38:00.001+08:00

Went to find donovan at nex yesterday and had a bad experience (it was my first, hopefully my last too) of getting chased out of starbucks. The staff came over to tell us "no studying during peak periods" THRICE and for the last time, they even brought their "no studying" board over to shove it into our faces (I don't mean literally).

It was pretty offensive because (1) I'd just bought my cup of Caramel Frappuccino and sat for not even 5 minutes (it was a Grande, not even a Tall), (2) there were empty seats around and it's not like we're taking up all the seats, (3) there were other people studying too, why only us?

I believe they find students like us annoying. It's okay I find them annoying too.

Finished my coffee in a hurry (side note: I've only $1.60 left in my starbucks card and I've got a bad feeling the next time I go to starbucks, I'd be cashless, thinking there's still loads of $$ in the card, and end up embarrassing myself. Well, it happened before.) Met up with kr afterwards and we continued studying at macs - no one chased us away. I love mcdonalds soooo much if not for its overpriced nuggets and corn it'd be perfect! ^_^

Had dinner with kr at menmendondon!! Wanted to try the udon there (thx to my sister's never-ending praises about it) but I can't get over the fact that they make me imagine that I'm eating earthworms...so I ordered currydon instead. I know I'm weird, I know.
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o's update #1

2011-10-25T02:43:00.000+08:00

It was the first O level paper of 2011 today - English. I didn't felt nervous at all the night before or even the day itself. Anxiety only started setting in while I was starting on the paper. I remember under lining the title for sit writing and I saw that my hands were shaking uncontrollably. Real scary. I had no idea I was that scared before.

Met Mrs Mohan before the paper began and I learnt how simple words of encouragement (or seeing another person freaking out, by that, I mean Christine) could really boost one's level of confidence. And reading lists of good vocabulary before an exam has no help at all, because nothing goes in. (Words of wisdom, really.)

I screwed up my essay, wrote an argumentative essay and it was my worst one ever written. I predict a b3, or perhaps even a b4 - not exaggerating. The other sections were pretty...ok, I thought. Overall, an A2 maybe? We'll see.

Studied with rong at singpost after the paper and met koalabear....LOL. Kr being such an ass these days she keep trying to give me panic attacks by suddenly getting ultra close to me. (I am afraid of being in close proximity with people. I'm serious. ULTRA afraid. And I don't like skinship.) Smelly thinks I won't get a boyfriend. Wow what good friends I have!!! -_-
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x

2011-10-23T11:01:00.001+08:00

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Friday, I received a card from Mrs Mohan (aww), handed my completed lit and chinese essays to the respective subject teachers (pz looked really happy, I guess no one bothered practising chinese...), had some class bonding time with the few of us, and it was my 2nd time back at school after GDay.

O levels officially starts in 1 day and 2 hours (just checked the countdown) but even though it's SO near, it's still unreal. I can still recall the period of time when it was still "40+ days to O levels" and I actually felt more nervous then than now. Lol.

Discussed about our realistic plans and predictions of our results with the girls (while we were studying at starbucks) on Friday and I really can't imagine. Deep down I really wish and hope with all my heart that I'd get 6 points and do my parents, my teachers (and myself) proud but I keep mentally preparing myself for a disappointing score because...I hate falling short of my expectations. :( Oh well, at this juncture, there's really nothing much more to say or do. I've did what I could and now, I'd leave the rest to God's hands. :)

So, this is it, I guess.

All the best to all taking their O's, x

countdown

2011-10-21T13:30:00.000+08:00

O LEVELS

IN EXACTLY 72 HOURS.

你怕不怕?

Because I am better off without you. Just saying.

2011-10-18T01:51:00.000+08:00

"Excuse me, do you take amath?"
"No, emath."
"Oh. Okay. Thank you."

That earned me $1.50 today HAHAHAHAHA. Spent $1 on a nice smelling pink lacy bra (ok xuan you know i know) hehe.

Today I did 3 situational writing and 1 compo and 1 emath paper. Not very productive, I'd say. Probably I'd stay up to complete some chem papers and read up some geog. Yes, I'm studying and I won't deny it unlike *ahem* some people *ahem*.

I really don't like silent muggers, especially those who keep emphasizing that "oh I didn't study" or worse still, "wa you study so much..." while they themselves are like studying for what, 27 hours a day? I mean like, WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO PROVE? That you are a natural born genius and can get A1s even without studying? You waiting for people to envy you and shower you with praises and make those people who truly study their ass off feel like a worthless piece of junk? Two words for you: GROW UP.

If you felt guilty reading that paragraph up there...I DON'T LIKE YOU.

Spent my weekends studying too. #muggermode

Saturday was spent studying with Lianne and WeiTai at Orchard and we went shopping! (I bought a cute BLUE top yay yay my first step to becoming more colourful.) Ok to be exact, Lianne and I went shopping, while WeiTai spent most of the time standing outside the shops waiting for us. A cute top caught my eye but it was $78 and BRANDLESS. Reason? It's imported from korea, yada yada yada...walao sit first class here meh?

Mum's birthday celebration at siglap after that. I wanted to cab there from Orchard but Lianne and WeiTai were like giving me the awkward and "save me" expression HAHAHAHA so me, being the usual nice me, decided to accompany them on the mrt to somewhere near siglap, then take cab from there. By the time I've reached, my family had finished eating already but they left me 5 pizza slices and some bits and pieces of the snack platter and chicken wings! And I ordered an extra cream of chicken. Yumyum!

Ok so I was looking through my hard disc drive (again) and I saw a photo of me taken last year!!! I LOOKED SO...ok, you see and you tell me.

last year (left) and this year (right)

Don't tell me no difference hor I'd shave off your eyebrows while you're sleeping.

p/s On second thoughts, forget it. Don't tell me.

zesta

2011-10-16T00:57:00.000+08:00

Another photo I found in my hard disc for your entertainment. Posing with free drinks we got while walking down Orchard Road!

cletz+k

2011-10-15T00:09:00.003+08:00

haha ok candid shot

Just came back from studying with the laopengyou and saw these old photos in my hard disk! In order to make me look like i've got a life, I uploaded them hahahaha. Ok they were taken reaaaally long ago, while we were slacking in some empty shot unit in Orchard Central playing 海南鸡饭 (...LOL). It was th day Christine went to ask for a guy's number because she lost the game, and he rly gave his number to her. Blogged about it a few months/weeks (can't remember sorry) back.

OK YAY I'VE UPDATED MY BLOG. Done for today byebye!

photo credits to lianne

"from this day forward until death do us part"

2011-10-11T01:07:00.001+08:00

It was my cousin's wedding about a week ago. Just a few months back we attended her elder sis's wedding, and this time it's her turn! Instead of the typical wedding dinners at hotels, she held her wedding at some restaurant in the morning.

I'm not close to my maternal side relatives at all and I have poor PR skills unlike my sister (yes that was sarcasm hmph), so I just sat there and stoned. Well...weddings aren't really my kind of thing. I'm not the type of girls who would "awwww" *wipes tears* after hearing the couple exchange their vows. So, yup. The wedding was, well, same old same old. A lot of seafood was served during the buffet lunch..yums!

all our wishes for the couple!

wedding gift for the guests - kaya and fan to fan satay hahahaha

during exchange of wedding vows

grandpa looking bored with his cup of beer...LOL

ooooh just realised my grandma has ultra big ears

mum (carrying the bride's bouquet) and dad...hehe so sweet ♥

recap of this week

2011-10-10T10:36:00.003+08:00

I've skipped school for this entire week. And except for the first 2 days the rest of the days are really not deliberate!! I just couldn't get out of bed. Like seriously I can just nua there and stone instead of getting ready for school. And then a few seconds later I'd go back to sleep. Lolol.

So, on Monday I had dinner with fam at crystal jade korean bbq and ginseng chicken (haochi max), before meeting zijun for the screening of Mural at orchard cathay! It was a nuffnang G+ event and once again, I was late. Amanda from nuffnang even called me to ask if I was reaching. Seriously, I have been constantly late for nuffnang events. But then again, I am constantly late for ANY event. *smacks forehead*

On Tuesday, I studied with hannah at 313! Proceeded to study alone at starbucks after she left and tried their cloudy apple...tastes so sour omg. Never going to order it ever again! But the bottle's pretty, so I guess it makes up for it.

On Wednesday, studied with kairong at coffeebean in KLP. It was my first time ordering from coffeebean (really) and tried their banana chocolate ice blended. It tasted like...banana chocolate cake - in liquid form. Kairong and reuben kept saying it was weird ordering banana choc. Sounds nice what, no? LOL whatever, I have exquisite tastebuds.

On Thursday, I had korean prawn flavoured maggie mee with a boiled egg for dinner...lol.

On Friday, I went to study with Joni and Tzi Wah at macs and met many familiar faces!! "Eh you eat finish already ah?" "Ya...want smell my breath?" LOL.

Stayed at home like what a good kid will do during the weekends. Teehee.

After Graduation

2011-10-09T00:21:00.001+08:00

Met them at bugis for dinner after receiving hannah's message. I've never went out with xy or zt before and expected it to be quite awkward but it wasn't!! It was quite fun actually. Walked around with zt trying to fit caps on everyone's head and finding a place to have dinner at and we even went to bugis street. LOL.

Asked zt what was his motivation for being so filial and he replied "总有一天, 你会了解你父母为你做的一切...明白吗?" :') 我不明白 (yet) but I hope my kids in future will understand ASAP. *grins*

I think th pictures are very orangey, btw.

zt and py tried their best to take a nice candid shot of me eating and this was the best one. (maybe cause it covered 3/4 of my face? LOL)

at bugis street!

leng lui

group photo (which zhitao refused to join in)

photo credits to pinyi

Graduation Day (30Sept'11)

2011-10-08T21:43:00.002+08:00

I didn't take as much photos as I usually will. Furthermore, it's GDAY!! Everyone was going around taking photos and I remember sitting with nat and pam in class stoning. I was in a bad mood that day because the weather was KILLING and my sim card died on me. Went straight home after school and met mum at raffles to fix my phone. My mood totally changed for the better after that so I went to meet hannah and others (will blog abt it in the next post)!

Actually, graduation day didn't feel like any big occasion. I remember feeling quite nervous before going on stage to collect my results. Thoughts about me tripping over a step or falling off the stage really did flash across my mind HAHAHAHA. None of that happened and it was pretty...ordinary? Didn't even pay attention to other batchmates going on stage because it was boring.

Oh and prayer was really quick this year!! And for once, I sang the school song out loud with pride. :') Yes, yes I couldn't hit the high parts at the end but at least I tried. Food served this year was meesiam and fish ball and popiah and I don't know what else. The girls in my class were feasting and the guys were like slacking at the side HAHAHAHA we rly ah.....lose face.

class girlzzz

only reason why i uploaded it - cnt see my face. muahahahaa x)

one of my best friends in sec1 but somehow we stopped hanging out

hopefully this won't be our last photo tgt

with mother pinyi

photo credits: pinyi, kairong

p.s. got flowers thanks to christine hehe! :D

사랑을몰라

2011-10-07T22:19:00.002+08:00

"So, how's life?"

I felt really horrible inside when you asked me that question today. Since when did we become like...this? So, how's life? Well, I don't know where to start. You've been missing out on so much. And so have I. I really miss you^infinity. But truth be told, I'm starting to feel like it's okay even if you're not in my life right now. And I hate feeling this way. But...I really don't know how to change the way things are now.

Bumped into Gregory while walking home after sending Joni to the mrt station. I've been constantly hoping to see him since the last time we've met last year and he was just right there, walking next to me!! But I didn't even say hi. I guess it felt...different. Like you know the feeling you get when you meet up with a long lost friend, and you want to tell her how much you miss her and all that but in the end you realise it's not really her now that you miss, it was her then.

"P.G. Don't forget, I don't love Daryl and you are my best friend." (note from bff 9 years ago) Chanced upon the note while rummaging my drawers a few days ago. We don't even talk anymore.

"时间是友谊的证明" SO, SO TRUE.

p.s. suddenly thought abt that song while walking home, rly weird bcuz the last time i heard it was in 07...currently replaying it for th 10th time!!

CIP @ SIMEI

2011-09-30T21:53:00.003+08:00

We had our CIP at simei on Tuesday! Our class were divided into groups of 3 and each group was in charge of a HDB block. Had to collect newspapers, clothes, magazines, and other recyclable items from each household individually. It was TIRING. Super tiring!!!

I was in the same group as Hannah and Zhi Tao and honestly speaking...I think I did the least work. :P I couldn't lift the huge stacks of newspapers up at one go! Could only move them slowly stacks by stacks. So most of the time they just ended up helping me LOL.

I went to this household and knocked on the door to ask if there's any recyclable items they would like to donate. And the person asked "who are you" without opening the door. She sounded like those old scary old women you see in horror shows. Can imagine her going back to her underground chamber to continue her torture on her victim after I left. HAHAHAHAHA ok nvm ignore me.

Despite feeling as nua as a tofu, it was a really fulfilling CIP. :))))))

briefing by our form cher before we started!

christine being gay, as usual

bet they've got huge biceps/triceps whatever ceps

HAHAHAHAHA...look out for them in th class pix

class photos after CIP ^_^

lianne making her eyes look like christine's LOL

me buying LJS...tania took this while trying to act like a paparazzi

photo credits to pinyi

:(

2011-09-27T23:24:00.000+08:00

I think age is catching up with me. I feel like I'm getting more and more BORING with each passing day. The jokes I crack are getting lamer too (only kairong will laugh at them bcuz she laughs at everything?). Oh noooooo!!!!! :'(
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random update

2011-09-26T00:24:00.005+08:00

clothes i've cleared from my closet yesterday. usually i'd feel like a part of me is gone and throw some of them back into my closet, but surprisingly i didn't feel anything this time round! didn't even take a second look at them. gone with th old, and yesss now i've got more space for th new!

zijun's buying my cap for $7.15!! *squeals* hehe. i've only worn th cap once, for elit skit. -___- LOL

so, yesterday was my grandma's birthday celebration at th multi-purpose hall. spent less than an hour downstairs because really, i can't entertain guests and i'm not close to my maternal relatives AT ALL. i felt so awkward sitting there and eating dinner alone while trying to look like it's okay. (i'm okay with eating alone, i'm just not okay eating alone in th midst of people i know...you get what i mean?)

got quite pissed after that cause sis said her pr skills were better than mine. LOL. okok no, i'm not that childish, i'd explain th whole story. mum was complimenting that sis had good pr skills and her immediate response was "ya better than emily's" (or something that meant that). and i was like...whaaat? i mean, when someone compliments you, you don't go compare with someone else right? and i was standing right next to her somemore.

my immediate response was.. "lame la who want compare with you". ok that was a lame comeback. FINE. i got offended after that so i went upstairs to watch nigahiga videos to Laugh My Ass Off and didn't went down after that.

camwhored with my maid too! (she has a facebook. i tagged her on facebook. yea she's cool like that.)

teehee

:)

2011-09-25T23:24:00.004+08:00

I really prefer listening to people who compose songs on youtube rather than listening to justin bieber (and other similar artistes). Their songs are a lot more genuine and REAL, I feel.

Th first song is sooo cute..."eat some cucumbers" hahahahaa!!

Thylane Loubry Blondeau

2011-09-23T18:31:00.000+08:00

"Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau has appeared in numerous campaigns and her image is all over the internet. To date she has an impressive portfolio – the French girl has graced the cover of Vogue Enfants and posed for high-end editorials."

And she's only 10 this year!!

Oh, and while googling for her photos I came across photos of the vietnam model I've been telling everyone about. She's 13 this year. But the photos below were taken last year when she was 12.

Oh my goodnessssss what is wrong with all these people!!! People their age should look like...

...that!! (p5 class pix that my cher just uploaded on fb LOL)

p.s. skipped school today

3rd last week before graduation

2011-09-20T20:58:00.001+08:00

(this is a scheduled post i actually posted it on Sunday night teehee)

nomz
Headed to town with Hannah after school on Friday~ It feels like it's been so long since I've stepped out of the house (for reasons other than school and church) but in actual fact it's only been less than a week... x)

We spent most of our time camping at Cold Stone's. Spent really long deciding which flavour to try because they all look equally yummy!! Luckily it took quite awhile to reach our turn. (As I'm typing this, I'm craving for more of their icecream omggg going to try th strawberry blonde th next round.) Got myself a top from F21 before heading over to starbucks to study. ^_^!

Ok, brief recap of other events that happened this week! :)

1) watched The Cat with Alina, Christine, Hannah, Lianne, Tania and ZiJun on Tuesday
2) found out that my tuition cher has a girlfriend (i am grossed out, really.)
3) Tania's birthday "celebration" on Thursday at Astons with Christine, Lianne, Tania, ZiJun and Zoey
4) combined cell with 5.1 on sat
5) 4 hours of unproductive studying at nex on Sunday *fuming with anger*

p.s. edited the post, original one was too lengthy and wordy even i got bored reading it

下雨天

2011-09-19T12:02:00.006+08:00

Currently in school's comp lab. (Who knows, this might be the last time I can blog using the school's computer. *sobs.) Oh just a random fact, I realised that despite my 4 years in AHS, I still have no idea exactly where is the autumn lab, summer lab, spring lab, etcetc. I just blindly follow the people infront. HAHAHAHA

Today was the start of Prelim IV. Chemistry for first paper and we did Victoria School's paper. It was rly difficult, in my opinion. And apparently I'm the only one who thinks that way so...I am prepared to get a C. Or a D. Lol.

Sigh okay I'm getting annoyed thinking about it and I have a magazine article to do so toodles!

“一个人好累...”

heartwarming moments #101

2011-09-18T22:58:00.006+08:00

Found these photos while I was looking through my handphone pix.

It was the night before my birthday, while kc and I were slacking at cafe cartel. Totally didn't expect cheryl and julie to surprise me with th cupcake and Woody (th name of th bear)!!

And while they were talking to me, kc bought me a new york cheese cake! It was supposed to be a surprise but she didn't plan with them beforehand so we were waiting for her to come over and saw her buying th cake at th counter LOLOL.

Ahhhh good times. :')

first day of school

2011-09-13T02:01:00.000+08:00

Now's 1:45am so by right the first day of school was yesterday. Had only 3 hours of sleep last night and I don't think tonight's going to be any better. I suspect I've got mild insomnia.

Pam was th first person who said hi to me. Nat was th first (k lah k lah...and only) person who said she missed me. Reached class this morn to find kitkat (omg that reminds me, I have one still in my bag! probably melted and inedible by now...oops), seaweed and pocky on my table!!! Turns out Jerome bought them for the class to make up for giving away th twisties on chers' day. Actually, I forgot abt th matter alrdy. LOL, oh well. I had 5 kitkat bars in th end thx to generous ppl around me hehe.

Got back some exam papers and I scored pretty badly. C5 for chem, A2 for combined humanities, A1 for emath. Once again, I fell short of my expectations. This is th 3rd prelim, 3rd time I'm disappointed with myself. Aiya ok lah whatever, I'm sick of th emo talk.

Had a lot of fun with th girls today, during recess (christine: "pounce like a tiger" whatdaaa hahahah) and after school. Camped at popeyes for a few hours rly buay paiseh. While walking to th mrt station with zijun I got a lil high~ "eh ,这个这个, 穿红色 hor, 代表他内心其实很......WILD!" rly don't know what talking me. wah thank God she still wants to be my friend. ^^

This post is so disorganized and random like how I'm feeling right now ok wtv it's my blog too bad good night.

Mind over matter, mind over matter...and mind over heart.
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幸福

2011-09-10T03:14:00.002+08:00

Love In Space was a pretty average movie. It's the kind of movie that makes no logic, and the story line's not exactly interesting, but after all the laughter and tears, I walked out of the theatre feeling a lil more blissful than I was. Besides, angelababy's one of the main characters!!

During the scenes I cried, I kept turning over to spy if kairong's crying. But I couldn't see anything, neither could I hear any sobbing noises. So I tried to cry as soft as possible HAHAHAHA. So paiseh you know!!! After the movie, we had dinner at 313 and walked around Orchard (getting bored of it alrdy...time to find a new hangout place?). We were THIS close to entering H&M! :(

"爱情就像赶火车。错过一班，也许觉得无所谓，可站在月台上一直等啊等，但是却不知道刚才那已是最后一班。所以，遇上了就请珍惜，不要错过。"

谁说自己一个人走，不能同样的到达目的地？

was right behind lianne but she didn't notice us despite turning back a few times. LOL

And btw, I would have said yes if you asked. I really wanted to talk to you today.
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cold, hard truth

2011-09-09T14:05:00.002+08:00

I've been spending most of my time this sept hols meeting up with primary school friends. Time well-spent, I'd say.

Just had a gym session with Allson, Joni, TziWah (now when I think of him, I think of 药材鸡 lol) and Wilson about 4 hours ago. 2.5km on the treadmill+a few km on th stationary bike. Not much, I know. I was expecting the guys to start training like mad once they got into the gym, but no leh. "Got girl here you shy ah" lol hilarious! Met my neighbour in the gym and instinctively I ranaway....真丢脸.

Studied with the same bunch of people yesterday. Halfway through, Edgar, ZaiHou and co. appeared at th table next to us. It felt like a family reunion, especially when they started cracking jokes and all that. After their basketball session and fixing Allson's PUMA slipper session (it was quite the entertainment, rly) they all went home. Later, ZaiHou came back and he, Joni and Wesley were chatting away while waiting for me to finish revision.

When I went home yesterday, I felt really happy. Probably because they were really...warm? genuine? human? haha i don't know how to put a word to that feeling. It just felt good. It was one of the days when I REALLY missed primary school. I used to think that it was because we were still young and there were few boundaries between us at that time and it is just part and parcel of life that people change, become hypocritical, judgemental, etcetc. Well, apparently not.

Sometimes I feel like I'd have been waaaay happier if I had went to GM instead of AHS. But then again, who knows?

joni's definition of a nice drawing LOL (and it's my drawing!)

photos taken on monday during our study session with tziwah :) photo credits to joni

p.s. found out one of our ex-classmates in p6 got depression omg
p.p.s. i feel like i'm getting uglier these days. (not being emo or anything just...being honest. omg that sounded emo. NO, I DON'T FEEL EMO.)

8-)

2011-09-07T01:20:00.001+08:00

Studied with joni and tziwah the day before, studied with johnson and koekching yesterday, studying with cheryl before going to find mr tristan (LOLOLOL) with kairong tomorrow.

I'm okay with studying, rly. I enjoy studying actually. But I CANNOT stand unproductive study sessions!!! *agitated* They leave me feeling like a loser because I can't help but blame myself for wasting the precious time I have left. 47 days to O's, and that's not very long to go. And apparently, all the study sessions I have so far aren't exactly productive.

And no, I'm not stressed out for O's at all. Not that it's a good thing. Adequate stress is good, I feel. It's just...For once, I want to be able to tell myself that "it's okay you did your best. Now, leave the rest to God". Just for once.

p.s. I'm so so so sorry...
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picture perfect memories, scattered all around the floor

2011-09-05T05:05:00.007+08:00

Memories of 2010, to be exact. Feeling nostalgic for no reason, but I feel the need to combine some of the most memorable photos I have. This post is just picture-filled soooo...yup.

First day of school. And hating it. (4 January 2010)

Buying fourleaves at tm with Joni, KoekChing (13 January 2010)

@ Clementi (16 January 2010)

LOVEUs outing @ Pulau Ubin (17 January 2010)

One of the times Joni and I missed school together. And met Gregory! (29 January 2010)

CNY celebration @ AHS (12 February 2010)

CNY with the family and my first attempt carrying a baby (2010)

Dinner at 18chefs after AHBand sec1 welcome party (19 February 2010)

One of our camwhore days (22 February 2010)

Walking downhill after AHBand concert with Daphne, Ian, Jaime, Joni (2010)

Nuffnang event to Alice In Wonderland premiere with KaiRong (2 March 2010)

Ryan's birthday celebration with MinMing (14 March 2010)

Sis's birthday + mum and dad's wedding anniversary + first time at USS (18 March 2010)

Nuffnang event to When In Rome premiere with MinMing (22 March 2010)

AHBand handover (27 March 2010)

Musart concert (28 March 2010)

Blogger symposium @ SMU with Lianne, Tania (3 April 2010)

Taken by the ex on one of our dates at Tiong Bahru (11 April 2010)

On the beach after 2.4km run with Joni, KoekChing (28 April 2010)

Study and gym with MaoYong (13 May 2010)

The day after the ex and I broke up (14 May 2010)

Class CIP to old folks' home (21 May 2010)

Shopping trip with Lianne, Tania + first time trying on a wig (23 May 2010)

First time on a plane. To Japan. (24 May 2010)

Representing the students from AHS to give a thank you speech to the Japanese students (26 May 2010)

One of the random nights in Japan (26 May 2010)

Vivo with Jeremy, Lianne, WeiTai (6 June 2010)

Elit project with Lianne, Tania (18 June 2010)

AHBand games day (21 June 2010)

Teoheng with Joni (22 June 2010)

Movie at Joni's with KoekChing (24 June 2010)

Random photo during lesson time (29 June 2010)

On the bus to band exchange @ NanHuaHigh with Melissa (2 July 2010)

Eclipse and Marina Barrage with MaoYong (5 July 2010)

HaiXin's present for Jaime. And us. (8 July 2010)

NBC (10 July 2010)

Keli's 21st birthday (11 July 2010)

My first attempt of baking cookies at KoekChing's house with Joni (17 July 2010)

Taken outside Joni's church on her birthday (18 July 2010)

HaiXin's birthday surprise (22 July 2010)

Trip to Jaime's house with Daphne (23 July 2010)

Social Enterprise Day (28 July 2010)

Horror movie at KoekChing's house with Joni (24 July 2010)

Last NDP with AHBand @ AHS (6 August 2010)

Teachers' Day (31 August 2010)

1st attempt at pool (31 August 2010)

Step Up 3 with KaiRong, KoekChing (6 September 2010)

Mid-Autumn celebration @ AHS (17 September 2010)

Last cell at KhoonSeng's house before splitting cells (18 September 2010)

Studying with Allson, Joni, TziWah @ Aljunied library (21 September 2010)

Lost in SengKang (24 September 2010)

Studying @ SengKang (24 September 2010)

Grandma's 80th birthday (3 October 2010)

BK breakfast with KaiRong after exams (15 October 2010)

Breakfast with KoekChing @ 85 (19 October 2010)

AFAX with Christine, ZiJun and the trip to butler cafe (13 November 2010)

Recording of band skit for farewell (16 November 2010)

AHBand farewell (18 November 2010)

Neoprints with HaiXin, Jaime (22 November 2010)

Eating spree with mum (23 November 2010)

Cheryl's concert (December 2010)

Early xmas celebration with Jaime's parents' cellgroup (20 December 2010)

Slacking with saxies outside Huiyi's workplace after Marina Barrage outing (27 December 2010)

So there. This post basically summarised my life in 2010. Think I did a post similar to this some time ago actually LOL.

31 july 2011

2011-09-04T16:54:00.001+08:00

Another clique outing to scape.

Was studying at 313's starbucks in the morning and met up with the clique at noon just when the flea started. Didn't get anything from the flea, unless the bear I bought for charity is counted? Was quite bored and the weather was so hot it was annoying. I remember my eyeliner smudging like $%%&^$%&^*& -_-

Oh yah there was some lucky draw thing going on and Tania and I got some ugly pouch (the kind to put coins when you go malaysia) while ZiJun got vouchers!! Annoying x2

In the end we decided to nua in a shop and get snow ice and KaiRong reached just when the others were leaving LOL. Continued to shop around with her until dinnertime, and I went to eat dintaifung alone to satisfy my cravings. I didn't felt awkward at all UNTIL I got a seat.

Ok just imagine. The whole restaurant's packed with families and friends laughing and happily chatting about their lives. Then you, ALONE, in the corner seat, with a plate of fried rice and a basket of 6 xiao long baos. Enjoying them ALONE while watching everyone else sharing their baskets of 10 xiao long baos. Sigh...#foreveralone

I'm never going to dintaifung alone ever again. (!!)

zijun's

this one's th nicest!!! and it's MINE. muahahahaha

tania's

photo credits to tania

teachers' day 2011

2011-09-03T00:40:00.014+08:00

Hullo everyone!! *waves*

This year's celebration in AHS was pretty interesting (surprisingly) and they even added balloons on stage! Christine mentioned something about stealing th heart-shaped balloons, tsk AUNTIE hahahahah. Ok I admit, I wanted one of it too...th big pink one. Not being gay or whatsoever, but it's cute what!! So everyone was having fun until the last programme - some inter-class game. Not sure what was the game about because I was slacking at a corner. And I am not guilty. x)

4J won in the end, and got a hamper full of twisties! So proud of you kids!! Went back to our classrooms to have free time with our form and co-form teachers and we found out that Jerome (our class chairperson, in simpler terms - monitor), gave away our prize to 4H. Christine got mad because initially we heard that 4H snatched the prize away, and she went to confront them. Not sure of the details but in the end Jerome apologised to the class and said sorry to everyone (except Christine) individually.

I did not comment on anything at that time but I really felt angry. Firstly, why did he even give the twisties to another class without first consulting our opinions? Sure, probably the few packets of twisties didn't mean anything to him, but it was through everyone's efforts that we won that seemingly worthless, few packets of twisties...isn't it quite rude and inconsiderate to just give it away like that? And that aside, since he gave it away ALREADY, he should've just admitted that he gave it away and apologize to everyone. Yes he did admit it, but not from the start. Initially he said that 4H snatched it away, hence Christine went to confront them. And later, when he apologised, he intentionally left Christine out. Isn't she part of the class? Didn't she participate, too? So why should she be left out? AND btw, as a class chairperson, he did not even take the initiative to help out during the competition. It was in fact Pinyi who volunteered. If he felt that he had the right to make decisions for the class as a chairperson, shouldn't he first earn that right?

(Ok I'm just ranting and I didn't say this to anyone except on my blog so in case if any of his friends or he himself read this and thought that I only have the guts to talk about people behind their backs, no, that isn't the case.)

Alright enough words, pictures!

celebration!

mr hamdan sneaky ah...

juniors from AHBand hahah they got guts (like me)...not bad

us slackers at th side doing what we do best - slacking.

enthu hahahah!

our class's balloons!! :')

hilary with her presents she looks so cute!!

our form and co-form cher hahahah it's an unglam. i like.

our cake for th chers! there wasn't a photo with th complete cake so..ha ha.

pinyi and his macro shots -___-

he should've taken art. wasted.

class peekcha

candid shot of us peeping at other cher's presents LOL *guilty*

now let's zoom in on kairong's face....

sian x2

sian x4

our food! jiang jiang jiang jiang~

i look happy enjoying my food despite my eyebags and pimples so...it's blog-worthy

pinyi looks sad...somehow. LOL

I didn't intend to go back to my primary school at all. Until BoonKeng called me to nag at me and Darrell messaged me "walao cheat my feeling good job thanks" then I started to feel guilty and went to find them afterthat. They were playing grounded (our childhood game hehe) at 3pm under the hot sun...CRAZY. BoonKeng and I were slacking in the shade like ahguas hahahahahah.

People who went back were - cheongjin, weimin, jiamin, priscilla, eugene, joelyeo, edgar, yuandeng, brandon, esther, boonkeng, darrell, tziwah, weimin! Esther is still as bubbly and crazy, boonkeng is still...boonkeng (even after 4 years, I can STILL argue with him like no tmr LOL), and everyone else's somewhat th same too! To think 4 years have passed just like that.... :')

Slacked awhile at macs with them before going home because I felt kind of awkward there. Surprising huh. I never thought that I'd ever feel awkward with them. But I did. And no one asked "huh why so early!!" when I was leaving so... *shrugs* There's always next year! (I guess.)

Ok I'm going to show you guys my current handphone wallpaper. Wait for it, wait for it....

hahahahahahahahahahaha...

photo credits to pinyi and poh yi

p.s. when i went to find my pri school friends i mistook a bunch of girls as them and waved! and th girls were like.."oi 她是谁?" OMG SUPER PAISEH

what i did today (sorry i can't think of a better blog title)

2011-09-02T23:30:00.005+08:00

I slept for a total of 15 hours last night BUT still feeling sleepy. Goes to show how much sleep debt I've incurred over the months/years, sigh....eyebags plz go awaaaaaay!

Had a productive study session with Joni and TziWah at Aljunied's Macs today! Before meeting them I read an article about how burgers and french fries from macdonalds don't decompose, so I got freaked out and refused to have my lunch there LOLOL. In the end I gave in to temptation and ate fries. And got myself a chocolate waffle!

Met up with Lianne at night and wanted to check out the queue at H&M before deciding if we should go there early tmr morning around 5am to queue just for th fun of it (th $20 voucher is just a bonus, rly). On th way there we found out that there was ALREADY a queue (thank God for twitter!) so we decided to go Chinatown and act like tourists instead.

posing with our $1 drinks like tourists!

posing with lanterns like tourists!

Th above 3 photos were taken by 3 different people. -__- We still did not get th perfect photo but I think th 2nd one not bad. Lianne looks like she's as tall as me in th photos...walao. Walked around aimlessly while finding the dessert shop that koek brought me to the other time and we found a shop selling German sausages, and German bread, and all things German. In Chinatown street. And there was a long queue for it. THE IRONY.

the bread looks more atas now because it's got the German style LOL

found the shop in the end! and we ordered glutinous rice balls+yam cake+mango sago pomelo!!

yummy goodness

her distracting shiny forehead hahahahah!

After dessert, we went to find Ann Siang Hill. Ended up in a place with a lot of pubs and posh cars (BMW convertible, sports cars of idk what brands, Merc, etcetc) and I've never been to that place before so I was quite scared. We wanted to continue walking straight and a black cat ran across our path and according to superstitious beliefs, if you cross its path=9 years of bad luck (I think?) so I took it as a sign for us to turn back and walk another way.

As we turned back I saw a man with a black shirt staring at us and I was SUPER scared felt like he could easily carry us using his pinkie and throw us into a van and kidnap us to faraway Alaska or something like that. In the end he just walked away but I continued feeling scared after that incident. Lianne didn't see him so...for once she was braver than me LOL.

Was lost for awhile but we found our way back to civilised land THANK GOD!! Btw I'm going back to Chinatown tmr morn hahahahah.

photo credits to lianne

baby and me part 1

2011-08-31T15:42:00.002+08:00

Enjoying life by rewatching this movie while my classmates are having some school excursion at OCS awwww. ^^ This movie is one of my favourite movie of all time. Because Jang Geun Suk is the male lead hahahahahah. At times when I see his cf/movies, I feel like quitting school, learning korean and japanese and flying over to korea to stalk him until he marries me.

Start from 0:59!

I kind of secretly hope that he's gay. Or that he's dating Park Shin Hye. LOLOL I feel like some crazy kpop fan now muahahahaa.

2011-08-30T18:02:00.000+08:00

That was a photo taken around march-may. I can't remember exactly when was it tho. Was supposed to go out with her today but I'm down with rashes. :( the doctor said it could be triggered off by anything - food, bedbugs (ew), change in surrounding temperature, etc. So basically I have no idea what to do to get rid of the rash. Feels like there are ants all over my skin and I can't scratch because it'd get worse. >:(

I've got an MC for tmr too, and duh I'm not going to school heheheheheh.

Went to 和记包 with mum and sis earlier on today because I was craving for dimsum. It was my 2nd time at the main brunch despite me living here for about a decade already. First time there was with cheryl and her dad, and that was when I was labeled as "fatty bom bom". Gone are the days, good. What we ordered added up to about $23, a lil too expensive if you ask me. But it was yummy!

Bumped into wilson wang on the way home. Sigh...why do I always see my friends when I'm in my cui-est moments. :(

to you

2011-08-29T23:52:00.001+08:00

Life isn't going to get better by constantly comparing yourself to others or wishing that you were someone else. No one's perfect by the world's standards, but everyone's perfect just the way they are. You too. There is always someone better, but there would never be someone like you.

Well, that was something I wanted to say to a certain someone for a very long time but...I guess such things said out loud face-to-face makes the situation pretty weird. I mean, how do you expect me to say "you are perfect the way you are" in real life without bursting out in awkward laughter!?! Ha ha ha ha.... Hmmm not too sure if that certain someone reads my blog but I hope so! (:

A short side note: Dr Tony Tan is Singapore's new (and 7th) president.
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museum trip with 5.6!

2011-08-29T03:30:00.001+08:00

I'm so bored now omg. It's 3:28AM and I've been playing Cory's Money Maze on disney website for idk how many hours straight. Got into top 41 for hall of fame and top 5 positions in daily high scores. LOL. But there's no school tmr so... ^^

Ok since I'm free now I'm gonna blog abt cell outing on Saturday. We went to Singapore Art Museum, National Museum of Singapore, and Asian Civilisations Museum! ACM was th most interesting one (in my opinion). So I've realised...it's not as fun going to museums in BIG groups. And especially not during weekdays when there are a lot of people bringing their kids there.

I like th quiet and serene ambience museums have. With huge crowds, that ambience is gone. No ambience=no mood=no fun. :( Moreover I was super tired that day, felt all th more sleepy with th dim lightings in th museum. I guess everyone was tired too. We were all more interested in th chops we have to collect than th exhibits itself (I think). Sigh...no class. Hahahahahah ok I'm kidding!!

sticker we had to paste to get into Singapore Art Museum!

laoniang and laojie

look like president and president's wife photo LOL

domo look-alike! they were holding huge pink balloons hahah really cute!

laojie and laoniang's 2nd appearance

matthias collecting chops

us queueing to collect chops...i am ashamed of myself LOLOL

they have headphones heheheh

th only photo with all of us inside *.*

photos from eons ago

2011-08-28T23:28:00.002+08:00

awkward yong standing by th side LOL

half of 5.6!

These were taken during The Hangout's open house, which was uploaded on (ok i just went to fb to check) 6 June this year!! Wow it's been only 2 months, but it feels like it's been years ago.

I've been in cornerstone for a little more than a year now. It's amazing how a year ago, my cell and I were mere strangers, but now...they are a group of people I can't live without. I really, genuinely, deep down from the bottom of my heart thank God for each and single person in the cell. Even though we only meet up twice a week (cell and church service) and we're not exactly very buddy-close, but this group of people have really changed me and impacted my life, someway or another.

Haha omg so cool...was just typing this paragraph when someone just dropped me a rly sweet msg (ok girl, you know yourself *wink*).

Over the past one year I've been in this church and in this cell, I guess (and I hope) I've changed quite a bit - in my thinking, actions, priorities, etc. From someone who did not even have the courage to say Grace infront of the cell, I've grown. And I am thankful, really.

So to anyone from 5.6 who's reading this, thank YOU! Don't ever think your existence don't matter because your existence makes a difference, every single one of you. You are as amazing and as special as how God created you, so don't ever short-change yourself!

p.s. sorry if I'm overly mushy because I'm overwhelmed with gratitude right now LOL. I don't feel like myself, at all. LOL

clique outing #98231570984

2011-08-27T20:15:00.005+08:00

during lunch teehee

Impromptu trip to town yesterday with the girls - christine, kairong, lianne, tania, zijun - after our chem paper 1. ☺

The paper ended at 9am so we had TONS of time together. Did not catch any movies because the movies showing are either 1) meh or 2) no timeslots. We had lunch at pastamania before walking over to orchard central! Found a place to lepak, talk about life (yada yada yada) and ended up playing 海南鸡饭.

The loser had to ask a guy (picked by the others) for his number. Initially we wanted to use th pick-up line "hey I lost my number, can I have yours?" but I guess it was too much. Guess who lost??

....CHRISTINE!! *bursts out into laughter*

We chose someone working at orchard cineleisure's basement LOL. Perfect candidate because he can't runaway, and he was smack right at the perfect place for us to take pix/video. We all expected the guy to reject her but he really gave his number!! Imagine if they really get together...omg *激动*

Shopped A LOT afterthat before going to dintaifung with Lianne and ZiJun. It was abt 5pm at that time? Legs were aching like $#&*$$%(*%^&^ by then. Continued walking around and visited a mooncake foodfair at taka basement (bad experience, rly) before slacking at the stairs outside ion. There was this group of tourists shouting their heads off and waving around while they were on the tourbus hahahahaha super entertaining.

Then we continued sitting there doing nothing in particular and decided to go home before we miss the last train. It was awkward taking the MRT at that timing when we were (still) in our school uniforms, kept getting weird stares from the adults. Zz zz zzzzzzzz.

p.s. oh ya I forgot abt th cups we saw at orchard central LOLOLOL disturbing

p.p.s. can't wait for taiwan!! omg.

motivation quote #2

2011-08-23T23:55:00.000+08:00

"It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Together forever, never apart. Maybe in distance, but never in heart."

2011-08-21T16:04:00.003+08:00

HIHI I KNOW YOU ALL LOVE US *gives huge grin*

i love my face. rly.

ok....now i'm just trying too hard to look sexy hahahahaa

omg hannah is so cute

woohoo christine with a sexy v-shaped jawline!

I remember how we couldn't stop laughing at ourselves laughing. hahah

this photo's my personal favourite!!

Photos taken at apple shop at tampines. We must have looked like deprived students in our own world hahah! Had A LOT of fun laughing at our faces (esp Christine's)!

Today, mum told me that dad actually gave his approval regarding me going to taiwan with th girls. I was like woaaaah, "dad you sure?" We should totally book th airplane tix right now! Y'know, just in case..? Haha ok I'm kidding but I was really, REALLY shocked. I was already 101% prepared that dad would say "no", and then later, try to cheer me up with all th "you so pretty...later get kidnap how" talk. Well, surprise surprise.

Hope everything goes well for th others too!

Ok...ending this post with a more "normal" photo...

see ya kids another time!

just trust †

2011-08-20T21:03:00.008+08:00

Once again, here comes that feeling I know too well.

"That is why no other love but You will satisfy." So, so true. People tend to disappoint, but I know Daddy wouldn't.

And guess what. I did not get my chocolate tarts in th end!! :'( I was really craving for them during cell, so I thought if they decided to have dinner at parkway, I'd drop by katong shopping centre to buy a few to munch. You have no idea how elated/jubilant/exultant I was when Cheryl suggested going to katong for dinner! AND THEN. My sister said she was craving for fishball noodles at th kopitiam infront. Sigh......there goes my choc tarts.

I had plans to finish chemistry by today. It didn't work out, as usual.

p.s. photo up there was taken sometime at th start of th year, during one of our spam pix days. haha good times :)

thoughts at 1am

2011-08-19T01:21:00.001+08:00

Today, I've finally felt like I rly WANT something.

Like what I told mum just now...I've never put in my 100% best for anything before. All I've ever felt was "I could've done better" and never "I did my best". But today...I thought, why not? Like rly, why limit myself when I know I CAN do better?

As you all (or most of you) know, O's are nearing. To be exact, it starts in 66 days. If you exclude th time taken to eat, sleep, take th mrt, pangsai, etc etc...how many days are there left? Not much. Am I fully prepared and geared up for O's? Not at all.

It's not easy getting into th scholarship, I know. Heard from a vs guy sitting at our table that rgs girls are willing to leave their IP programmes to get into th scholarship at hwachong. That's scary. Moreover, I'm aiming for th humanities scholarship that rjc is offering. Now, that's insane. But if I give it my best shot, maybe...? Well, even if I don't make it in th end, at least that won't leave any regrets, right? (:

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
- Louisa May Alcott

大家...加油吧!!
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last PE

2011-08-18T19:17:00.001+08:00

our very own *cough* ronaldo

machiam 1960's ahbengs

best female soccer player in our class!!

we were running on th spot LOL

this was candid hahahaha don't know what were we all doing

look at pinyi's face HAHAHAH

I've been so uninvolved with class activities during PE, except for that day. I actually went onto the field and ran after the ball. Even managed to kick it twice! *cues crowd to cheer* Believe it or not, I became darker after that day!! Sigh..was probably in the sun for about half an hour only.

"B-I-M-B-O, B-I-M-B-O, BIMBO BIMBO, GO GO!"

Some cheer Natalie made up on the spot (for Christine) hahah. Got us all laughing and cheering along. Hm, actually, PE's not that bad... ^^

photo credits to cerys

typical

2011-08-17T17:10:00.003+08:00

So......hello (:

Life's been good, basically it revolves around prelim 3 (for now). Out of all the prelims, I think I'd get the worst grades for this one. Leaving the details out because 1) you won't bother and 2) it's upsetting.

Had lunch with Lianne, Tania, ZiJun, KaiRong, PinYi, and Zoey at 18chefs just now!! It's been AGES since the last time I've went to 18chefs, apparently they've added dishes to the menu and it feels a lot like Swensens. I prefer the old 18chefs tho...used to be AHS students' paradise. Now it feels a little, unwelcoming? And the cheese baked rice isn't as yummy anymore. Oh well.

Tania: What's yours?
PinYi: Creamy white.
Tania: Is it nice?
Lianne: Wait for it, wait for it...
*silence*
Tania: When someone asks if it's nice, you're supposed to ask "you want try?"!!

LOL.

And I skipped tuition today, again.

motivation quote #1

2011-08-14T18:03:00.000+08:00

"You're only as tall as your heart will let you be and you're only as small as the world will make you seem."

- Christofer Drew Ingle (On the Brightside).

out with th xiaomeimei

2011-08-12T23:11:00.000+08:00

Once again, these are photos from ancient times....

this was a genuine candid shot

in a heartbeat

2011-08-10T00:15:00.000+08:00

hey kids...HAPPY NATIONAL DAY!!!!!!!!!

today I did a lot of stupid stuff like super high and gay. got my complementary starbucks! and I did study a little.... (:

"it's in our blood lah, discontinuous variation, y'know, inside one of our 44 chromosomes (excluding sex chromosomes), in th gene loci, ya y'know...what to do??" *shrugs*

HAHAHAHA omg like...deprived kids. we went outside, asked a passerby and realised we missed th fireworks by 10 minutes!! :( think it happened while we were laughing over our nerdy conversation LOLOL wasted...gone like that.

walked around after dinner amongst th crowd and laughed a lot at "sorry ah girl, cannot go in" but now to think of it actually not vry funny hahahaaha. laughed at th army guy who was pulling up his pants too. oh and also laughed at th kid who caught a candyfloss in th air and conveniently put it into his mouth. super cute ah buay tahan, totally burst out laughing! in th end his mum stared at me :(

watched a concert at esplanade's outdoor theatre! I think andy chua vry cool...and th emcee's voice vry man, vry sexy, I like. -^^- felt that nice warm fuzzy feeling while watching their performance, could tell they rly enjoyed what they were doing...awwwww

and and and...ok I lazy type alrdy byebye!

p/s yesterday night I dreamt of a tall, faceless woman who came into my bedroom and started strangling me. woke up from my nightmare in th middle of th night feeling my heartbeat go x9999999 faster than usual. for that moment, I thought it was all real....sigh...not a good feeling
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4J BBQ

2011-08-07T23:18:00.000+08:00

haha finally i have th patience to sit down and blog about my class bbq! *gives self-pat on back* ok there were a lot of photos to upload.....didn't bother checking which photos i missed out. too lazy. x)

"帅哥帅哥别生气,
我们带你去看戏.
你坐椅子我坐地,
你吃香焦我吃皮."

thinking abt how 3 of us walked around th condo hooked arm to arm while trying to find them, and in th end? it was..."1, 2, 3!" *silence* LOL.

this year's bbq was pretty fun! i guess it was because i've grew closer to more people, like peixuan, hannah, natalie, alina, pinyi, zhitao, etcetc, and this time round almost th whole class turned up. when our whole class came tgt and took photos it felt really....warm? hehe ^^

enjoyed th truth or dare session at th end of th bbq th most. but at that time most people left alrdy, so it was left with only a few of us....LIKE ALWAYS. haha wish we could have truth or dare sessions as a class but then again, th "mood" only comes if you're in a small group. th qns are always th same old, "if you had to date a guy/girl from our class, who'd you choose?"..."shoot shag marry"..."who do you like now?" y'know, that kinda thing. but i think it rly bonds people tgt!

i think i look cool here...bet you're thinking "cool meh?" YES IT'S COOL.

hannah called us th "strip brothers" HAHAHAHA stripe*

yeah cuz we're cool like that

coolioz

our chefs!

like in some 1980s vampire movie LOL

th background looks so photoshopped LOL

x)

our class girls! featuring MAMA OF 3J/4J

LOL @ eugene

photo credits to pinyi

xoxo

2011-08-06T22:45:00.000+08:00

哎哟我的天啊我们怎么那么可爱!!!! 哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈

iphone frenzy

2011-08-05T21:17:00.000+08:00

can't help but smile while uploading all these photos. we look really happy, don't we? ^^ really thankful for this bunch of people! although my secondary school life as a whole is really disappointing, but th friendships i've made with th individuals there are ones i really cherish! :) xoxo

starfish turns 16

2011-08-03T00:19:00.002+08:00

so as th title says, celebrated starfish's birthday with saxies! :) great excuse to meet up with them again teehee. arranged to meet with them at 7:30 because everyone thought haixin would be super late (as per normal) but surprisingly he wasn't! when he called me i was still on th way there with th cake i bought for him all th way from awfully choc @ ion.

in th end jaime told him to queue up at pizza hut first while she and daphne tried to stick th bling onto th iphone cover we bought as his bday present as fast as possible. and because th cake was a surprise, i had to wait till they entered pizza hut before i could secretly go in after them and pass th cake to th staff. haixin didn't suspect a thing because i had a record of being late too! (see, being late has its benefits at times hahahahaha)

after our dinner i had to cue th staff to bring in th cake so i left my seat saying i needed to go to th washroom. and then after telling th staff, i came back and coughed out an excuse saying i was afraid to go to th washroom alone. AND HAIXIN BELIEVED IT. *facepalm*

so well, cut th long story short, th surprise was a success. th pizza hut staff sang him a birthday song (with a guitar somemore) and it was kinda funny seeing haixin being awkward hahaha i bet he 暗爽 only. hope we can all celebrate our birthdays tgt in future even after we graduate and go different schools..... ^^

haixin wearing th shirt we bought for him for his last year's birthday awwwww

photo credits to jaime. i've got photos too but it'd be quite awhile before th next time i upload my photos from my camera :D

muggers@marineparade

2011-08-02T18:33:00.000+08:00

(during prelim2 period)

realised we ALWAYS end up taking pictures during mugging sessions. haha plain studying's too boring...have to find ways to entertain ourselves someway or another. ;)

racial harmony day'11

2011-07-31T21:53:00.000+08:00

racial harmony day this year was pretty unique :) never in my 16 years was i ever spontaneous enough to wear an ethnic costume during racial harmony day celebration. but this year, since it's th last time we're gonna celebrate racial harmony day in this school, my whole class (with an exceptional few) decided to go with th malay ethnic costume! it was nice seeing th whole sec4 batch in colourful ethnic costumes during morning assembly.

intially my class wanted indian but most classes in our batch already bought indian costumes, so we did a last minute change. headed down to tampines with joscelin, angeline, christine, hannah and pinyi th day before to get th costumes for th whole class! it was only $15 per outfit, a super cheap deal compared to other shops! th auntie even gave us a free brooch each. i tried on a few baju kurungs before deciding on a grey one...th other nicer ones only came in size L or XL which were too big for me. :(

looked like a real, authentic malay when i wore th baju kurung. even wore slippers to go with th look!! somehow i felt like those malay aunties at th market, and th guys in my class called me "fatimah" -.- LOL. th baju kurung was huge and i had to pull up th skirt like, all th time, because it felt like i was dragging it along th floor. when i wore it i felt like i was in my pyjamas, except that it was really stuffy and hot inside.

got my henna done by hannah! (teehee it rhymes) it's really pretty!! altho it STINKS like mad. i chose th guy's design btw, don't think it makes a difference...does it? O.O sigh but anyw now, *looks at hand* th henna's fading alrdy :(

took this while she was using th dslr as a mirror to put her bindi HAHAHAHA

while she was trying to seduce me with her scarf T___T

sher's cool henna!

class photo!

in english class :)

while hannah and i were changing in class LOL @ christine's expression

this was when hannah and i were hopping our way back to class from th toilet cuz she didn't bring her slippers there so i lent her one of mine LOL

our fake candid laugh again hehe

henna done by hannah!

henna i did for pam ;)

photo credits to pinyi

my favourite song as of today :>

2011-07-30T17:39:00.000+08:00

Because it’s not a rainbow after rain
Because I’m one step closer compared to yesterday

Fist Of Dragon《龙拳》gala premiere

2011-07-29T19:56:00.001+08:00

(sponsored post)

thanks to nuffnang, i had th honour of attending Fist of Dragon's gala premiere! made an appointment to get a haircut before th movie but it ended later than i expected so kairong and i went straight to cathay cineplex in our school uniforms LOLOL. it was really awkward being in school uniform cuz most of th female there were in dresses....felt like a noob.

didn't had time to get home and grab my camera either, so had to take photos using my phone instead. forgive me for th lousy quality photos! :( and we totally missed th cocktail session. had only time for one cup of fruit punch before th movie started! oh well at least th fruit punch was nice. i never knew cathay had a preview lounge till that day.

*TADAH* my bangs are back!

tried my best to make th glasses look classy but sigh....this is th maximum a bb camera can do

th director giving a speech before th movie

ok first up....take a look at th plot outline and movie trailer!

“Fist of Dragon” tells the story of Li, who comes to South East Asia by the request of his father to help out his uncle who has been facing financial difficulties. Li, upon arriving in the town, feels out of place due to the differences in cultures of the people here. When he discovers that his uncle has been facing many hardships posed by the local mobsters, Li decided to stay and to help his uncle and get rid of them. However, Li encounter numerous resistances from the locals as Li’s action brings the wrath of the triad and drags the whole town into turmoil. Moreover, his uncle’s daughter, Lily is on the triad side, and their relationship is badly affected when the confrontation between the two groups reach its peak.

Lily is none other than FIONA XIE!! ^^

saw him at th premiere! when i saw him th first word that came into my mind was "jolly" LOL ok sorry no link

Fist Of Dragon is a $1 million co-production between Singapore and China, and as seen in th trailer, th movie's from th producer of IP MAN2 and 14BLADES. oh, guess what.....ALL th martial art moves were choreographed by th director cum main lead, Michael Chuah, (who is a seasoned martial arts practitioner himself) and his stunt team! kudos to them!

this movie is a must-watch for those who LOVE seeing martial arts combat..trust me, it has tons of such scenes. i like how th movie is set in th 70s/80s and th tiny comical details (which i'd leave you to discover) and most importantly.....fiona xie!!! it's her last movie and i was hoping she would be at th premiere but she wasn't. :(

oh, and i find th villian really funny HAHAHAH.

IN CINEMAS ON 4AUGUST2011....don't miss it!

muggertoadz_95

2011-07-29T10:25:00.001+08:00

gave school a miss today...spent th time at home painting my nails, catching on some dramas, and I'm planning to study a few chapters of bio later 8-)

prelim3's in about 2 weeks time and only now, i'm uploading photos while i was studying for prelim2. hahahahaah hopeless. well if you were wondering, nope we did not get to studying! ended up walking to singapore river again LOL.

ok all photos below!

HAHAHAHA

flirtaaaye

esther's wedding

2011-07-28T21:48:00.004+08:00

helped out at naomi's sis's wedding a few weeks ago....BEING USHERS. had to standardize our attire so we decided on wearing white formal top and black bottoms. finally wore my white formal top again, it has been rotting in my wardrobe ever since syf. x) woke up really early (for me, that is) and had to take a long mrt ride to toa payoh. as usual, i was late BUT i wasn't th latest!

it was fun being ushers although it started off really awkward. we were supposed to inform th guests that th bride's guests were to sit on th right and th groom's, on th left. but i kept mixing them up! :( anyw in th end naomi told us it didn't matter so wellll....i guess things worked out.

it was my first time being an usher at a wedding and my first time attending a church wedding so everything was new to me. when th couple exchanged vows and rings, they were beaming from ear to ear, and i think th groom cried HAHAHAHA super cute. in my opinion, th best part of th wedding was (ok i'd be totally honest with you) th food! not sure where they catered their food from but it was awesome! there was laksa (cooked on th spot), sushi, dessert of all kinds (even icecream!), fried rice, herbal chicken, etcetc.

watched Treasure Inn and had dinner with blake cheryl kc! and i realised....not everyone laugh to themselves when faced with an awkward situation.

with pretty naomi and ruth!

with johnson (he is really....really....tall) and ruth!

kc's attempt to take a tumblr-worthy photo LOL

awesome dinner with awesome people :)

zouk II

2011-07-27T19:54:00.001+08:00

guess what......these photos were taken approximately 2 months ago. HAHAHAHA congratulate me i've finally decided to upload photos from my camera! im such a lazy and inconsistent blogger i know, i know.

blogged about this some time before but oh well just a recap! went to zouk with th girls for sogurt's 1st anniversary! if i didn't remember wrongly....there was some sogurt eating competition (had no idea abt it, if not i might have joined), performance by StellaStory, and runway shows by 2 blog shops.

haha was quite excited when stellastory was performing cuz one of them was my eyecandy! -^^- spotted him even before he went on stage. im not gonna tell you who, too baaaad teehee

centre parting ohmaaitian

our last dinner

2011-07-26T21:21:00.005+08:00

this was during may.......it was my fattest period, ate everything that appeared infront of me and gained like 6 kg or something. LOL. quite pro lah, gaining 6kg's not an easy thing to do ok? *self-console* i look fat in all th photos sigh DONT JUDGE ME. jaime has been nagging at me to blog and upload these photos since may. and i'm finally doing it *cues audience to applaud*

this was when we had dinner with our saxophone tutor (during syf period) for th last time at bugis's Fish&Co! really, truly, appreciative for everything he has done for us, coming down all th way from Jurong to our school regardless if it's early in th morning or late at night for sectionals, patiently teaching us despite us being so sian and dead almost all th time, fetching us to simpang for lunch after sectionals, etc. oh, and his LV tissue box is something i'd NEVER forget. (like, seriously, i didn't even knew LV produced tissue boxes.)

after that dinner we shooked hands with him before saying bye and honestly, i didn't thought that would be th last time we'd meet up. but i guess it was. oh well at least we're still friends on facebook. LOL.

told her that th guy on th right looks like th Pringles dude and she started laughing LIKE MAD...funny meh?

this can easily win th corniest photo of th year LOL

2011-07-25T02:28:00.000+08:00

it's 2am and I'm sitting alone in my living room, just thinking and reflecting through stuff. had been experiencing and feeling a lot lately, and I am thankful. (:

yesterday was *thumbs up*...finally decided to trash things out and I'm glad it turned out alright. I guess people tend to overthink at times. 其实, 事情就是那么简单! study session with edwin marcus and wesley was kinda productive, and I bought yummy tuna puffs for breakfast!! ^_^ slacked with hpy and had supper tgt (fine...I ate, he stared) before going home and I was quite shocked to see my name as "emily bff" in his phone.....so awww right!!! :')

and I realized how willing I am in going all th way out just to get what I am craving for. like yesterday, I ran all around bedok just to find a bakery that sells chocolate waffles and on wednesday, I went all th way to bugis street (alone) to get my choconana crepes. sigh.....if only th same applied to my studies.

if everyone was cautious and built walls around their hearts, who then, would be the one to break them down?
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under ribbon-shaped clouds

2011-07-20T21:14:00.000+08:00

a few days ago, i was sitting in th living room watching tv and suddenly i thought abt how i allowed those who understood me best drift away. and i cried LOLOL.

picked up my phone and messaged my childhood bestie of 7 years, confessing how much i miss her and what we used to be. it's so unlike me....being so mushy and all that. now to think of it, rly don't know what was wrong with me that day hahahahahaha!

we went out th next day (after so long LOL) and caught up a little. sat under th stars with our yoguru cups, and talked....abt everything - from her shirt with th orgasm face to reminiscing shared memories to th present! (: to think that 7 good years have passed, just like that. sigh....... *wipes tears*
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& when a heart breaks no it don't break even

2011-07-18T11:57:00.000+08:00

what am i supposed to do when the best part of me was always you
what am I supposed to say when i'm all choked up and you're ok
i'm falling to pieces
i'm falling to pieces

photos from hannah

2011-07-17T12:50:00.000+08:00

glorious food

2011-07-16T11:56:00.000+08:00

i think my "on hiatus" post was bullshit hahahahahha

was in class checking out my twitter timeline when i came across a photo uploaded by someone i followed - a photo of th durian buffet spread at goodwood park hotel. went to th hotel's website (LUV MY BB!), called to make some enquiries, and th next thing y'know, we were there!

as usual, i was late. so they went ahead first since we made a reservation alrdy. i've never went to that hotel before, and when i reached there, i couldn't find th main door. walked around for quite a bit before (finally) finding it.

in my opinion th best part of th buffet was still th durian mousse cake. helped myself to 3 slices of it. would have preferred it if th cake was colder and harder...like how it'd taste 10 minutes after removing it from th freezer. tried almost everything - their icecream, choc fudge, durian desserts, pulut hitam, barley with ginko nuts and quail eggs (this was good...had 2 big bowls of it ^^), trio berries verrine, bread&butter pudding, etc.

camped there for 3 hours filling our tummies with dessert goodness. i think no one can ever get full of dessert...maybe just sick of it? haha but i think i'd stay away from durian for awhile now.

she's lika cute puffed up hamster!! *.*

woman at th back....LOL

ps: photos from hannah and lianne :)

^_^

2011-07-06T10:07:00.002+08:00

at school's computer lab having english lessons now and 4 more minutes to recess! haha just a short update.

^ taken while we were at th great wall of china (ok we weren't but when i tried checking in from facebook th option "beijing,china,great wall" appeared LOL). checked into that location and some girl replied "so late alrdy still climbing?".....LOL HILARIOUS.

prelim2 this week and last week, made my life a lot more meaningful cuz at least everyday when i wake up there's something i have to do. picked up swimming and buying fruits from cold storage (im serious) as my new hobbies!

YAY LIFE'S GUD!!!!!!

events in June

2011-06-28T01:41:00.003+08:00

sooo....I'm gna list down what happened (other than school) during th whole June holidays, inclusive of th 2 weeks sec4 have to go back for extra lessons. just ignore this whole long chunk cuz it's boring, just for my future reference in future ^^

- sakae buffet with christine lianne ruxin zijun
- bugis with super7, orchard+toastbox with christine+zijun!
- dessert and cafe cartel with kc and cheryl, saw xiaxue sophia willocq and bongqiuqiu!! met a nice taxi uncle
- cafe cartel with kc
- haji lane+children's museum with kc, then steamboat with joni and kc at chinatown (♥)
- trip to orchard with zijun and christine. later kc came to find me and had dimsum at th back of her dad's car LOL
- zouk with lianne and zijun
- t1 with christine zijun shermaine+english chess
- kc zijun and I pissed th hershey bar at tm and he chased after us HAHAHAHA (♥)
- cafe cartel with kc then cheryl and julie came to surprise me with a cake+teddy. never expected it at all!! (♥)
- my birthday (♥♥) kairong bought me cake (wow!! hahahaha)+found out lianne zijun and i were on stomp+lunch with christine kairong zijun tania at cafe cartel
- celebrated Pinyi's birthday with da girlz (refer to some blog post before) at astons!!! (♥)
- caught Insidious (first official NC16 movie!) with joni and kc, then went for my bday surprise from th cell at cafe cartel. I knew abt it during th movie alrdy cuz naomi texted me sorry she couldn't turn up hahahaha!!
- watched X-Men with lianne and zijun (♥)
- maid's birthday and had Awfully Chocolate for a few days
- bought new goggles+swimming costume and met my future husband in th swimming pool teehee..just sayin'
- english seminar and The Soup Spoon with christine lianne zijun(♥)
- watched Kungfu Panda2 with jaime and my nacho cheese!
- finally had subway with th subway khaki (hannah and pinyi, to be exact)!!! (♥) btw it was th same day christine realised mangoes had seeds.
- caught Dylan Dog with lianne and zijun, and slacked at th korean bbq shop till it closed and we were chased out (♥)
- Chem Camp
- bbq with cletzz and tania's fam (♥)
- gym with minming, actually more like slacking at th aerobics room, lying on yoga mats till th security guard came hahahaha (♥)
- study session with lianne tania zijun zoey followed by dinner at swensens (th salmon portion was so small!!!! felt so cheated.)
- missed th moon eclipse T_____T
- fb got hacked by someone in taiwan. my ex-password was "ahgongma", how can anyone think of that?! it was such a genius password.
- seoul garden with daphne haixin jaime followed by Something Borrowed - where I kept laughing at jaime's reaction to some parts of th movie haha! (♥)
- steamboat with cell
- went to Udders for my first time (for supper)
- celebrated Father's Day with th fam at msia (refer to previous post) and gave up on my diet
- met up for dinner w cheryl minming at manpuku (btw I saw terence lam and his family there, it was SO awkward) and we designed yaoyi's cake at the icing room+surprised him (♥)
- played WII for th first time in my life (and got last for every race...cui)
- Green Lantern w zijun and lianne
- dintaifung+shopping with jaime that qt (♥)
- study session with kc instead of going to choir concert cuz someone *ahem* pangseh (♥)
- one love conference (♥) I woke up late for both days...sigh.
- another study session with kc and banmian @ roxy with matthias and his friend
- supper w jeremy and my sis after service at th wanton mee stall (been like forever since I've last went there, standard still there!!) and got my mcflurry!

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first day of schoolz

2011-06-28T01:40:00.000+08:00

awesome lah, duh? haha met christine in th morning at canteen and we went high. sooo happy I got to meet my girlfriends after so long!!! (esp kairong!! didn't go out with her during th hols cuz we always end up being lazy!) even my plain water today tasted nice. (:

finally got my shoes from jaime too. yay I've been missing it!! mdm sim confiscated my sweetie cards and threw them away..sigh th cards were so cute but they are so readily available. ohwellz. ate at bedok hawker centre with th super 7 (without zoey) after school...haha so cute our first time eating at a hawker centre together!

anyw one love night service on friday and saturday last week was wow. as usual, when God's presence in da house, no other word to describe it than...wow. it's amazing how God can bring us back again and again...it's like, He's forever there with open arms, just waiting for us to turn back to Him.

"Break my heart for what breaks Yours." - Hosanna
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Happy Father's Day.

2011-06-20T13:48:00.000+08:00

Headed to Malaysia with th family right after service yesterday. It's been quite awhile since we last went out tgt. And dad was in a super good mood!

He suggested eating pizza (mum's fav) for dinner which was so unlike him cuz he doesn't like western food. On usual occasions I would go with pizza, but since it was Father's Day, we went to th tzechar stall he recommended. Did a little shopping around Jusco and dad surprisingly tagged along (usually he'd just hang around some food stall hahahahaha) and as usual, we did grocery shopping and bought papparoti (wo de zui ai!!!!). Then sis suggested having supper so we went to macs before heading home.

Oh and dad kept asking where's his angbao hahahahahaha. 等久就有.
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children little museum

2011-06-13T14:22:00.004+08:00

paid $2 for a haunting experience.

we were exploring th museum our own when suddenly th uncle (i guess he's th person who opened th museum?) came upstairs and volunteered to help us take photos. initially we were ok with it, tho' kinda awkward, but it started to get rly weird when he kept asking us to take photos w random stuff in specific locations and positions.

honestly speaking, when th uncle was up there with us i thought of th storyplots in american horror movies...like y'know, some weirdo kidnaps 2 girls and dresses them in dolly clothes+make up and ends up murdering them in some gruesome way. *shudders*

met up with enni afterthat for steamboat. kairong didn't come so we 三缺一 again. usually we go to bugis but this time we gave chinatown a shot. ate till super shiok..didn't try th crab tho, hate getting my hands dirty.

my plate

joni's plate

and koek's plate. LOL

woohoo table full of food

personally i prefer chinatown. at least never laosai after th meal!! hahahaha but th people working there are scary...somehow similar to 冤鬼, keep haunting you till you enter their shop. annoying to a certain extent.

xx

2011-06-08T12:58:00.003+08:00

It takes both hands to clap. Similarly, nothing will change if I'm not willing. And I kinda like things th way they are now.

mother of 4J + da galz

2011-06-07T01:18:00.000+08:00

went out w a bunch of people on pinyi's birthday!! :) initially it was only hannah, me and him (usual subway kaki hehe) but don't know how it ended up into a big group. wanted to buy a cake but he didn't want because "paiseh". che! craving for bengawan solo's kuehkueh now after seeing th photos, ugh.

my soup of th day..yummilicious

spot me and christine!

you like?? *winks*

#sosingaporean

#sosingaporean x2

what guys do when girls go shopping...LOL

watched insidious with joni+kc after they all went home. my first LEGAL NC16 movie! no more sneaking into NC16 movies!! felt superb walking into th cinema openly with no fear muahahaha. oh and th movie's not bad too!

zouk

2011-06-06T23:17:00.005+08:00

this is so long ago but i shall still blog abt it. lucky you!

zouk th other day but i wasn't in th mood to take photos. had eyeliner on th whole night! i think make up rly makes a person feel more...pretty, confident...overall, better abt yourself? :) th last time i had eyeliner on was sooo long ago - my ahlian days hahaha.

honestly, it was quite a disappointing night. oh well, at least i've managed to see quite a number of my favourite models in person (they are SUPER, i repeat, SUPER, skinny). anyw i still don't understand why ppl love clubbing so much...people there are so, idk how to put it, judgemental? it feels like when you walk past a group of ppl they are all mentally giving you grades. scary.

ok maybe i'd only understand when i reach th legal age and can start hanging out at th VIP bar (LOL).

glad i wasn't standing next to 2 hot babes muahaha

frolick after zouk!

these photos were taken from lianne, there're still a couple of photos in my camera but...ok those will have to wait.

to be honest

2011-06-05T12:02:00.000+08:00

Sometimes it's better leaving things th way they are. I'd rather remember th good times rather than try to make things go back to those days 'cause it'd never be th same. Missing out on each other's lives, especially during th difficult and trying times, it's hard to fully accept you th way I used to. Occasionally, a "how's life?" sms is heartwarming - at least you bother. But we'd never become like what we were. We know but we've never faced up to it. All th time we were pretending, our conversation topics circulating that of th past, and laughing over th same old jokes (on th surface). Sometimes you'd suggest to hang out and I'd reply yeah, sure. But we never do. When was th last time we've felt really happy just enjoying each other's presence? Eating sushi under th void deck, going to random places whenever we felt like it, our trip to hougang - those times were moments worth remembering, not now. This morning I woke up, saw your message and I felt...(surprisingly,) awkward. Gave it some thought and I've realised how much things have changed. We can keep talking abt how we used to be this and that and how fun those days were but trying so hard to maintain this friendship won't change things. Perhaps it's just me, but I don't want to keep up with th pretence anymore.
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post-exam

2011-05-19T21:08:00.000+08:00

Prelims r over! But to be honest, I don't feel any difference. Th stress level's still there, somehow. And it's not like I can "heck care" till end of years. Today I just realized I'd be having SPA on my birthday. T__T

Caught Beastly w th clique after school ended! Th story plot was so predictable but I guess people would still watch it cause th leads are good-looking. I like Alex Pettyfer's arms. *.* Christine was squealing away in th cinema like "hehehehehe". I was 3 seats away and could still hear her "hehe"s vividly. Girl ah maintain a bit plz hahaha!! Chilled (like literally) at j.co and frolick for HOURS. Girls have a natural-born talent for wasting time kekekex.

And yesterday I caught Thor *pronounces it w accurate "Th" sound* w kairong! It's been sooooo long since I went out w her, like only th 2 of us. Bought my long-awaited nacho cheese finaaaaally, shiok. :')

"eh am I chewing very loud?"
"nope"
"okay"
*CRUUUUNCHHHHH*
"actually ya quite loud"
"oops hahahahahah"

Think my maid was right abt me chewing like a goat. Went to Toys'R'Us afterwards to relive our (deprived) childhood. Kids nowadays...so high-tech alrdy. *thinks of past and wallows in self-pity*
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17may2011

2011-05-18T17:03:00.004+08:00

y'know how much i luv blogging w pictures...so there.

I LOOK LIKE A BOY. SO HANDSOME, i know.

"if i was a nyonya...i think i'd be a fat one" HAHAHA

got muscles...i likey~

*laughs*

i should rly go get a haircut soooon T____T